(Wind whistling)
Do you want the radio?
You can't get Capital down here.
Verity, I wish you'd make an effort.
Won't you get sick reading?
- I haven't been carsick for ages. - OK.
(Tractor rattling and rumbling)
Daddy doesn't see that much of you during the week.
Sunday's my birthday.
Exactly. Oh, I know that you and your friends...
Charlotte had the tickets and everything.
Darling... You'll still only be 13.
(Katharine) Hey'.
(Tractor rattling)
(Engine noise)
(Engine quietens)
(Inaudible speech)
- (Engine off) - What's this for?
Oh, that. We uncovered all the Yorkstone yesterday.
- We found this underneath it. - Oh. What a nuisance.
Why can't you leave it there?
Your dad wants the lawn to go down to the end.
Be a bugger to move that. Moving the gate too?
- Down to the end. - Looks nice there.
Hmm. It'll spoil the lawn, though.
Ah, well. Still, I wouldn't move it.
(Winding clock)
(Chiming)
(Clock chiming)
(Chiming stops)
(Workman) Hey.
Anybody at home?
(Radio) 'Other space missions in the future.
'This is a unique opportunity
'which we must take when the time arises.'
(Presenter) 'Gary Hunt on the last phase of the Voyager mission.
'And the very fact that Voyager will by this time
'have left earth so far behind
'offers us, according to David Hughes, one more unique opportunity.'
(Hughes) 'What we will mainly see when we look back at the earth
'is the man-made radiation coming from us,
'and this will give us a better hope of interpreting
'the peculiar radiations that we see
'from the planets around the stars that might have civilisations.
'Quite a few people have been looking with large radio telescopes
'to see if they can pick up signals from other civilisations.
'We don't even know what's coming up from the earth yet,
'so we don't really know what to look for coming from other places.'
(Presenter) 'I find the idea of life elsewhere in the universe
'rather comforting,
'so let's hope David Hughes is right
'and Voyager can in some small way actually be finding it.
'Incidentally, on the off chance that the Voyager craft itself...'
- Come on. - (Katharine) Verity'.
Verity.
Darling, trot down to the shop for me, will you?
- We're out of sugar. - Oh, in a minute.
- Come on, they'll be closing soon. - Well, bye.
- See you. - Bye.
(Pouring water)
I don't know if you'd like some tea.
- Oh, thanks very much, Mrs Delgado. - Mrs Delgado.
- Oh, that's it. - Ah, soon have this out.
- Must be awfully heavy. - Yeah.
(Tractor starts)
(Tractor rumbling)
Go ahead'.
Keep coming'.
Forward'.
Whoa'.
Down, down!
Whoa, whoa!
Up a bit'. Up a bit'.
Up a bit'.
It's all yours'. Go on, take it up'.
That's it! Go on!
Right, go on, up!
(Engine straining)
(Tractor engine straining)
(Engine stops)
(Grunts)
Ah, well, some fell on stony ground.
(Chuckles) Yeah, good night.
Watch your fingers.
(Phone ringing)
Hello?
No. No, it's me. Oh, hang on, I'll just get her.
Mummy?
Mummy'.
Mummy?
Dad's on the phone.
The phone.
Didn't you hear it ringing?
Hullo?
Hullo, Peter. I was in the garden.
No. I'm fine.
We'll see you about eight, then.
No, nothing.
I'm fine.
(Creaking)
(Low rumbling)
(Creaking and banging)
(Cracking)
(Wind stops)
They can't move it.
- The stone. - What are they going to do, then?
They're coming back tomorrow with a bigger crane thing.
Do I get any change?
- What time's Dad coming? - About eight. He's still at the office.
I've got to start thinking about dinner.
- Is beef all right? - Eurgh.
If you knew the price of beef...
That doesn't mean I have to like it.
(Tractor rumbling outside)
(? ROLLING STONES: "Mother's Little Helper")
? "Kids are different today," I hear every mother say
? Mother needs something today To calm her down
? And though she's not really ill There's a little yellow pill
? She goes running for the shelter Of a mother's little helper
? And it helps her on her way Gets her through her busy day
? "Things are different today," I hear every mother say
? Cooking fresh food For her husband's just a drag
? So she buys an instant cake And she burns her frozen steak
? And goes running for the shelter Of a mother's little helper
? And two helps her on her way Get her through her busy day
? "Doctor, please, Some more of these"
? Outside the door she took four more
? What a drag it is getting old
? "Men just aren't the same today," I hear every mother say... ?
(Panting)
(Breathing heavily)
(Gasping)
(Panting)
(Sounds horn)
Captain'.
(Peter) Right, we're here.
(Footsteps)
(Verity) Come on'.
- (Giggling) - Come here.
(Door opens)
(Gasping)
- Oh, don't smoke. - I didn't smoke on the drive down.
I should hope not, the speed you drive.
Do all those figures they have about people dying from smoking
include the ones who have crashes on the motorway
while trying to light the cigarette?
Must be worse with a pipe'.
Well, that was really delicious. Where did you get the beef?
The place I always get the beef.
What I say is, never trust a woman to open a bottle.
- What's that got to do with it? - You spilt the wine on your dress.
Oh, God. Well, I'd better sponge it with some cold water.
Clear the things, will you, Verity?
(Sighs)
(Laughs nervously)
(Dripping)
(He sighs)
(Banging and laughing)
(Slower banging)
(Scraping)
(Stairs creaking)
(He sighs)
(Clears throat) Verity?
(Grunts)
(Stairs squeaking)
(Whispers) Verity?
(He sighs)
(Dripping)
(Sighs)
(Pen scratching paper)
(Tractor engine)
(Man) Whoa'.
(Tractor whines and squeaks)
(Man) Right'.
(Engine revs)
(Chains clinking)
Katharine.
(Engine straining)
Kathy.
Dad'.
(Engine stops)
(Peter) Yes, is Dr Hall there, please? It's very urgent.
Oh, when will he be back? It's my...my wife.
She's...she's bleeding.
I don't know'. No, I can't wake her'.
- Dad, they've found a skeleton'. - Get an ambulance.
- What for? - Get an ambulance'.
- Why? - It's Mum. She bleeding. Dial 999'.
She's lost pints!
- Kathy. - (Verity) Ambulance, please.
Oh, dear God!
- I don't know. - Police?
- Think we ought to go for the police? - I don't know.
- It's been here a good time. - Well, you can't tell that.
Oh, God.
- Dad'. What is it? - I don't know!
- Is the ambulance coming? - Yes.
- But has she cut herself or what? - I can't see anything!
- Did they say how long it would be? - No, they didn't say...
Perhaps I ought to take her in the car.
- (Knock at door) - That can't be them.
My wife told me. I'm Dr Hall.
- Your wife? - There's a Mrs Delgado?
Oh, yes, come in, come in.
She's upstairs. She's bleeding terribly'. Oh'.
Er...
(Peter) It's starting again.
- The pulse is very thready. - Look!
Hey, look at this.
It's a coin or something. It's hard to tell.
It's a coin, all right.
- There's more of 'em there. - You best leave 'em there.
(Sighs) I don't know.
- We must get her to a hospital. - (Verity) There's an ambulance coming.
- What is it? - I don't know.
Bruising I could understand. I don't think we'll wait for the ambulance.
- What did they say in there? - I don't know. There's a flap on.
Mrs Delgado's taken bad.
Bring another blanket, Verity!
- Hey, look at that. - What?
That there.
- What is it? - Well, search me.
Looks like a... a knitting needle gone rusty.
There's one of those over there.
- Like a knife. - Funny sort of knife.
Oh, keys!
- Dad'. - Verity?
There is, one in each corner.
They must've been put there.
On purpose, I mean.
Well, they are knives. All rusted away, but that's what they are.
And one's stuck between his ribs.
So it must be...someone killed him.
(Man #2) We'll have to go to the police now.
That stone's been there... This was my auntie's house.
That stone's been there before her time.
Look at 'em. Look at that.
Murder, we reckon.
These knives, all over the shop.
- Pull in. - What?
Pull in to the side.
Oh, no!
(Tyres screech)
It's the old religion.
I read about it in a book.
They used to bury them under big stones.
- They thought they were witches. - (Man #2) I never heard that.
I read about it in a book.
(Wind blowing)