1 00:00:02,767 --> 00:00:06,237 If you think a banana is a banana, 2 00:00:06,407 --> 00:00:08,841 try unzipping a Tonga. 3 00:00:09,927 --> 00:00:13,522 They are firm, but not too firm. 4 00:00:15,367 --> 00:00:16,800 ARGH! 5 00:00:19,767 --> 00:00:22,235 Ripe, but not too ripe. 6 00:00:26,167 --> 00:00:28,158 Delicious... 7 00:00:28,327 --> 00:00:30,682 but not too ripe. 8 00:00:31,847 --> 00:00:34,839 In fact, so tasty down to the last bite... 9 00:00:36,487 --> 00:00:39,797 ...you'll see why they're everyone's top banana. 10 00:00:39,967 --> 00:00:42,117 Well, almost everyone's. 11 00:00:46,967 --> 00:00:50,676 What can I say? There isn't a laugh in the show! 12 00:00:50,847 --> 00:00:53,042 For a start, I'm barely on the screen. 13 00:00:53,207 --> 00:00:58,804 Four close-ups And there's no trigger points because you never cut in for the joke! 14 00:00:58,967 --> 00:01:02,243 Jack, I don't have time for one of these lectures. 15 00:01:02,407 --> 00:01:04,284 L want to watch my son growing up. 16 00:01:04,447 --> 00:01:08,918 Plus, the funniest sight gag we seem to have lost, for some reason! 17 00:01:09,087 --> 00:01:15,526 Jack, jokes that were acceptable 20-30 years ago, today we have to be more sensitive. 18 00:01:15,687 --> 00:01:20,363 And the image of a man parking his bike between a girl's buttocks, 19 00:01:20,527 --> 00:01:23,121 - in the current climate... - Isn't PC? 20 00:01:23,287 --> 00:01:26,245 Is that what you're telling me? But this is? 21 00:01:26,407 --> 00:01:28,443 Scott, it's a pile of crap! 22 00:01:28,607 --> 00:01:32,646 To me, comedy is about truth! It's about reality! 23 00:01:32,807 --> 00:01:36,959 In reality, there's no way a bicycle would slip on a banana skin! 24 00:01:37,127 --> 00:01:38,958 You lose your audience! 25 00:01:39,127 --> 00:01:43,006 L disagree. They'll buy into that because it's surreal. 26 00:01:43,167 --> 00:01:48,366 The essence of the campaign is that we take Jack Holiday, legendary king of slapstick, 27 00:01:48,527 --> 00:01:51,041 subvert the form that made you famous... 28 00:01:51,207 --> 00:01:55,723 This whole discussion is academic because the client will hack it to shreds. 29 00:01:55,887 --> 00:01:59,482 Stop worrying about it and bank the cheques. L gotta go. 30 00:01:59,647 --> 00:02:02,878 L'll call you next week. Goodbye, Jack. 31 00:02:20,487 --> 00:02:23,479 "DANSE MACABRE" BY SAINT-SAËNS) 32 00:02:54,407 --> 00:02:55,920 Good morning, Kirsten. 33 00:02:57,767 --> 00:03:00,964 - How's it looking? - Ask your husband. 34 00:03:15,847 --> 00:03:17,997 Dare I ask how it went? 35 00:03:24,087 --> 00:03:25,566 Not good. 36 00:03:26,887 --> 00:03:29,720 Well... it gets worse, I'm afraid. 37 00:03:30,807 --> 00:03:33,924 They're releasing Rokesmith at noon tomorrow. 38 00:03:44,607 --> 00:03:49,397 Finally, I... I want to thank my sister Rachel... 39 00:03:50,487 --> 00:03:53,843 who never for one second doubted my innocence. 40 00:03:54,007 --> 00:03:59,081 And everyone who has campaigned for my release. Miss Magellan in particular, 41 00:03:59,247 --> 00:04:02,637 for bringing this whole case back to national attention. 42 00:04:02,807 --> 00:04:06,800 L think it's worth remembering, if there was a death penalty, 43 00:04:06,967 --> 00:04:09,322 Alan Rokesmith would have hanged. 44 00:04:09,487 --> 00:04:12,479 And if he had been hanged nine years ago, 45 00:04:12,647 --> 00:04:16,401 it's safe to say he wouldn't look too good in these photos. 46 00:04:16,567 --> 00:04:20,845 Such was the media's obsession with Jennifer Holiday's murder, 47 00:04:21,007 --> 00:04:25,637 Mr Rokesmith was tried, convicted and sentenced by the tabloid press, 48 00:04:25,807 --> 00:04:29,880 who, as usual, proved as inaccurate as they are illiterate. 49 00:04:30,047 --> 00:04:32,561 Can you spell that? 50 00:04:32,727 --> 00:04:37,323 Right. And I find it hard to credit that even as we arrived today, 51 00:04:37,487 --> 00:04:42,003 this cheque was pressed into my hands for £150,000, 52 00:04:42,167 --> 00:04:45,204 to be divided between us for my brother's story. 53 00:04:45,367 --> 00:04:48,962 This from the very people who helped to put him away. 54 00:04:49,127 --> 00:04:52,199 Do you think any of us is interested in money?! 55 00:04:58,167 --> 00:05:01,443 Money can't restore nine years of a man's life. 56 00:05:02,327 --> 00:05:09,199 All I ask now is the peace and privacy to go away and rebuild my self-respect. 57 00:05:27,047 --> 00:05:29,038 Anyone at home? 58 00:05:29,207 --> 00:05:30,526 Mum? 59 00:05:31,287 --> 00:05:33,278 There's someone to see you. 60 00:06:09,807 --> 00:06:13,117 So, Alan... where to from here? 61 00:06:14,087 --> 00:06:16,043 L've got it all planned. 62 00:06:16,207 --> 00:06:19,199 L'll rent a little cottage on the Welsh coast. 63 00:06:19,367 --> 00:06:22,165 Away from the press and the media 64 00:06:22,327 --> 00:06:24,522 and the locks and keys. 65 00:06:25,487 --> 00:06:29,196 Take a boat out, maybe. Do a bit of fishing. 66 00:06:29,367 --> 00:06:33,121 Just... breathe in the freedom. 67 00:06:36,487 --> 00:06:41,515 It's funny, nine years staring at a wall, 68 00:06:41,687 --> 00:06:43,803 you do a lot of thinking. 69 00:06:44,767 --> 00:06:48,396 About guilt... and innocence... 70 00:06:49,607 --> 00:06:51,325 ...about your life. 71 00:06:52,167 --> 00:06:56,080 In a strange way, it helps you to find yourself. 72 00:07:02,207 --> 00:07:04,960 It's affected him, there's no question. 73 00:07:05,127 --> 00:07:08,802 These last two weeks since they let that man out! 74 00:07:09,807 --> 00:07:12,719 He blames himself. He always has done. 75 00:07:12,887 --> 00:07:18,757 It happened. If he'd been here that weekend, if he hadn't gone to LA for that casting? 76 00:07:18,927 --> 00:07:20,599 Lf... IF! 77 00:07:20,767 --> 00:07:22,280 Lf. 78 00:07:23,327 --> 00:07:26,239 When I rang him up to break the news, 79 00:07:26,407 --> 00:07:30,161 God help me if I ever have to live through that again! 80 00:07:31,727 --> 00:07:33,718 He's not in the house anywhere. 81 00:07:33,887 --> 00:07:35,639 - The terrace? - No. 82 00:07:35,807 --> 00:07:39,880 - Maybe he's gone for a walk? - Not alone. Something's happened! 83 00:08:06,847 --> 00:08:10,157 We've picked up something by a locked door. 84 00:08:10,327 --> 00:08:14,400 That's the nuclear shelter. No one's been down there in years! 85 00:08:18,407 --> 00:08:21,240 Locked on the other side. Can we get a crowbar? 86 00:08:57,727 --> 00:09:00,082 How will we get inside this thing? 87 00:09:00,247 --> 00:09:02,238 It won't be easy. 88 00:09:43,887 --> 00:09:46,401 Right, nobody touch anything. 89 00:10:05,367 --> 00:10:08,837 - Who's done this? - L'm afraid it was self-inflicted. 90 00:10:09,007 --> 00:10:10,360 He can't have! 91 00:10:10,527 --> 00:10:12,836 Look, perhaps it's best if you just... 92 00:10:13,007 --> 00:10:17,319 For God's sake, Jack didn't shoot himself, he couldn't have! 93 00:10:17,487 --> 00:10:21,526 He had crippling arthritis. Someone has set this up! 94 00:10:21,687 --> 00:10:25,521 Mrs Holiday, we are 30 feet underground. 95 00:10:26,687 --> 00:10:31,556 You saw how the doors were bolted. It's a simple physical fact. 96 00:10:31,727 --> 00:10:36,596 Nobody could possibly have killed your husband and then left this room. 97 00:11:06,367 --> 00:11:08,119 Jonathan Creek. 98 00:11:08,967 --> 00:11:11,845 Oh, hi. How are you? 99 00:11:13,247 --> 00:11:16,637 Oh, you know, bits and pieces. Usual nonsense. 100 00:11:17,687 --> 00:11:20,520 No, I'm not. The show's not on at the moment. 101 00:11:20,687 --> 00:11:23,121 Adam's got a disease of the inner ear. 102 00:11:23,287 --> 00:11:27,758 What do you call that thing where you lose your balance? Labyrinthitis? 103 00:11:27,927 --> 00:11:33,320 It suddenly came on. Walked onstage, round of applause, fell in the orchestra pit. 104 00:11:33,487 --> 00:11:36,524 Had to carry him to the ambulance on a xylophone. 105 00:11:36,687 --> 00:11:38,643 It was a right old performance. 106 00:11:39,487 --> 00:11:43,605 Took him to hospital, gave him a brain scan, didn't find anything! 107 00:11:44,527 --> 00:11:47,041 So he's got to stay in bed and rest. 108 00:11:47,207 --> 00:11:49,437 So, what have you been up to? 109 00:11:50,327 --> 00:11:51,646 Sorry? 110 00:11:52,487 --> 00:11:54,398 Tomorrow? What time? 111 00:11:55,487 --> 00:11:57,478 L'll just look at the diary. 112 00:11:59,527 --> 00:12:01,358 No, that's fine. 113 00:12:02,007 --> 00:12:03,326 Yeah. 114 00:12:03,487 --> 00:12:05,284 Sounds great. 115 00:12:07,047 --> 00:12:09,402 OK, see you then. 116 00:12:10,207 --> 00:12:11,560 Bye. 117 00:12:48,287 --> 00:12:51,916 Morning. You're useful to have around. 118 00:12:52,087 --> 00:12:55,841 This is illegal. L'm just curious to see how it... 119 00:12:56,007 --> 00:12:57,326 Ah. 120 00:12:57,487 --> 00:12:59,557 L see what you're about. 121 00:12:59,727 --> 00:13:03,197 So how are things in investigative journalism? 122 00:13:03,367 --> 00:13:06,120 Yeah, still earning a crust here and there. 123 00:13:06,287 --> 00:13:07,606 And Trevor? 124 00:13:07,767 --> 00:13:10,156 Trevor and I were annoying each other, 125 00:13:10,327 --> 00:13:13,478 so I did the mature thing and burnt his underpants. 126 00:13:13,647 --> 00:13:16,719 Listen, since we spoke, I've had a thought. 127 00:13:16,887 --> 00:13:22,166 How do you fancy a drive to the coast? Flush out the carbon monoxide with sea air? 128 00:13:22,327 --> 00:13:26,286 It's tempting, but I'll have to put this back on once I've... 129 00:13:26,447 --> 00:13:28,722 ...unlocked it. 130 00:13:30,967 --> 00:13:32,844 42 seconds. 131 00:13:36,007 --> 00:13:37,804 - Interesting. - Yeah. 132 00:13:37,967 --> 00:13:39,844 L'm very impressed. 133 00:13:40,007 --> 00:13:43,716 - Takes me that long with the key. - L can imagine. 134 00:13:44,687 --> 00:13:46,678 Where did you get this? 135 00:13:46,847 --> 00:13:51,125 Sorry, good journalist. L have to protect my sources. 136 00:13:51,287 --> 00:13:56,156 They're brilliant. You can park anywhere in London. Pop it in the boot for me. 137 00:14:00,967 --> 00:14:03,197 L nearly rang you. 138 00:14:04,687 --> 00:14:08,885 L'd get as far as the last digit and something would stop me. 139 00:14:09,047 --> 00:14:14,280 L think it was the thought of being sucked into another grisly murder investigation. 140 00:14:15,287 --> 00:14:17,562 You know how you always fear the worst? 141 00:14:21,367 --> 00:14:23,403 - Stop this car. - Jonathan... 142 00:14:23,567 --> 00:14:26,240 Flush out the carbon monoxide 143 00:14:26,407 --> 00:14:30,923 Just hear me out, then if you're not interested, I'll forget it, OK? 144 00:14:31,927 --> 00:14:34,236 You know Jack Holiday shot himself? 145 00:14:34,407 --> 00:14:38,002 - Yes. Only thing he did that made me laugh! - The man's dead! 146 00:14:38,167 --> 00:14:39,964 Won't stop him overacting! 147 00:14:40,127 --> 00:14:45,326 At one of his homes, down on the south coast, where he'd had a nuclear bunker put in, 148 00:14:45,487 --> 00:14:50,003 around the time of Afghanistan. No suicide note, but he was depressed. 149 00:14:50,167 --> 00:14:55,685 Due to the man who strangled his first wife being released from prison with your assistance. 150 00:14:55,847 --> 00:14:59,203 Alan Rokesmith didn't strangle Jennifer Holiday. 151 00:14:59,367 --> 00:15:02,404 He was the victim of a miscarriage of justice. 152 00:15:02,567 --> 00:15:08,278 He was found leaning over the corpse, in an alley, with a length of cord in his hands. 153 00:15:08,447 --> 00:15:12,406 Exactly! On that flimsy evidence, they put him away! 154 00:15:12,567 --> 00:15:15,400 Right, a brief history lesson. 155 00:15:15,567 --> 00:15:21,915 The night she's murdered, Rokesmith is in the next street with a prostitute. 156 00:15:22,087 --> 00:15:27,525 They hear a scream. Rokesmith runs to see what's happened, the slapper hops it. 157 00:15:27,687 --> 00:15:31,919 Rokesmith is at the body untying a rope from her neck, 158 00:15:32,087 --> 00:15:34,885 when the coppers arrive to nick him. 159 00:15:35,047 --> 00:15:39,484 Circumstantial evidence! He's put away for a crime he didn't commit! 160 00:15:39,647 --> 00:15:45,005 It's taken his sister five years to find that prostitute and get her to come forward. 161 00:15:46,127 --> 00:15:50,484 She showed me the evidence and I kept pestering and publicising 162 00:15:50,647 --> 00:15:54,799 until the Home Office finally saw sense and granted a reprieve. 163 00:15:54,967 --> 00:15:58,164 All right. Can I ask where all this is leading? 164 00:15:59,087 --> 00:16:01,078 To the glove compartment. 165 00:16:03,327 --> 00:16:08,720 It came yesterday from Holiday's second wife, who blames me for his death! 166 00:16:08,887 --> 00:16:15,156 As far as she is concerned, Rokesmith was guilty and I set him free to kill again. 167 00:16:15,327 --> 00:16:17,716 "You meddling misguided cow. 168 00:16:18,767 --> 00:16:24,080 "Thanks to your 'liberal' pamphleteering, my husband is dead. 169 00:16:24,247 --> 00:16:29,321 "You're no more than scum, like all reporters, an oily egotistical parasite... " 170 00:16:29,487 --> 00:16:32,923 Yes, all right! You needn't read it with such relish! 171 00:16:33,087 --> 00:16:35,123 It's the last bit. 172 00:16:36,327 --> 00:16:41,606 "L know Jack was murdered and I intend to find out how, no matter how long it takes. 173 00:16:41,767 --> 00:16:44,918 "May you rot in... Hull Kingston Rovers?" 174 00:16:45,087 --> 00:16:47,078 Kirsten Rogers. 175 00:16:47,247 --> 00:16:49,636 She used to be his secretary. 176 00:16:50,567 --> 00:16:54,719 They got married about a year after the death of his first wife. 177 00:16:54,887 --> 00:16:58,516 Look, Jack Holiday killed himself. 178 00:16:58,687 --> 00:17:03,124 The whole thing is self-evident, but I just need to confirm it. 179 00:17:03,287 --> 00:17:06,404 To prove there's no other possible explanation. 180 00:17:07,327 --> 00:17:09,522 How come I get roped into this? 181 00:17:09,687 --> 00:17:13,646 Because there's no way she'll let me start poking round. 182 00:17:13,807 --> 00:17:16,446 Besides, this is your specialist field. 183 00:17:16,607 --> 00:17:18,802 A body in a locked room. 184 00:17:18,967 --> 00:17:20,286 Please! 185 00:17:20,447 --> 00:17:23,803 - For my integrity and peace of mind? - L don't think so. 186 00:17:23,967 --> 00:17:25,878 - For £100? - Stop this car. 187 00:17:26,047 --> 00:17:28,686 Jonathan, where's your sense of justice? 188 00:17:28,847 --> 00:17:31,884 Stop the car. L demand you stop the car now! 189 00:17:56,607 --> 00:17:58,438 Where do we start? 190 00:17:58,607 --> 00:18:00,438 OK, here's the script. 191 00:18:00,607 --> 00:18:05,727 L give Kirsten a ring on your behalf, explaining who you are, etc, etc. 192 00:18:05,887 --> 00:18:11,120 You've read about the case, offering your professional services, if she's interested, 193 00:18:11,287 --> 00:18:14,006 in checking out that underground chamber. 194 00:18:14,167 --> 00:18:17,079 - What if she's not interested? - She was. 195 00:18:26,847 --> 00:18:29,236 Welcome to the House of Fun 196 00:18:30,047 --> 00:18:34,916 Good luck. If you need me, I'll be talking to a builder. 197 00:18:35,967 --> 00:18:37,923 Lovely thing about my husband, 198 00:18:38,087 --> 00:18:42,956 even now, no one can say the name Jack Holiday without breaking into a smile. 199 00:18:44,527 --> 00:18:49,396 One of the obituaries said, "He left behind a legacy of laughter. " 200 00:18:50,727 --> 00:18:54,879 A heritage of hilarity that will survive us all, Mrs Holiday. 201 00:18:57,927 --> 00:19:03,126 This is the outfit he wore in "Jack the Lad", 1967. 202 00:19:04,087 --> 00:19:06,237 The actual outfit! 203 00:19:06,407 --> 00:19:07,726 Wow! 204 00:19:09,047 --> 00:19:12,278 The trousers were weighted round the waistband 205 00:19:12,447 --> 00:19:16,281 to make sure they fell down to the ankles in one movement. 206 00:19:16,447 --> 00:19:20,725 If they stopped halfway, or bunched round the knees, it wasn't funny! 207 00:19:21,647 --> 00:19:27,005 Amazing! You don't realise the scientific precision that's involved. 208 00:19:40,527 --> 00:19:45,521 That was with his first wife, Jennifer, on the set of "Jack to a King". 209 00:19:45,687 --> 00:19:47,359 1962. 210 00:19:47,527 --> 00:19:49,643 There was a slight age difference. 211 00:19:50,527 --> 00:19:54,281 He proposed to her when she was seven. She accepted. 212 00:19:54,847 --> 00:19:58,840 He moved to America for 15 years and, when he came back, 213 00:19:59,007 --> 00:20:01,043 he kept his promise! 214 00:20:02,727 --> 00:20:04,957 The stuff of fairy tales. 215 00:20:07,167 --> 00:20:09,681 L was on the payroll then as his secretary. 216 00:20:09,847 --> 00:20:13,635 There wasn't a happier marriage in show business, until... 217 00:20:14,527 --> 00:20:17,166 He started getting cranky phone calls. 218 00:20:17,487 --> 00:20:21,878 Death threats and what have you. Jack was scared out of his wits! 219 00:20:22,047 --> 00:20:25,164 He was a mass of neuroses at the best of times. 220 00:20:25,327 --> 00:20:29,605 One minute it was the collapsing universe, the next, nuclear war. 221 00:20:29,767 --> 00:20:31,598 L remember when he went to LA, 222 00:20:31,767 --> 00:20:37,046 his last words to Jennifer were begging her to take care, leave nothing to chance! 223 00:20:37,207 --> 00:20:42,918 Three days later, she'd been to the theatre, she was taking a shortcut back to her car... 224 00:20:49,447 --> 00:20:56,319 Through the grief and the pain... we became closer. 225 00:20:59,367 --> 00:21:03,326 By the mid '80s, his career was all but over. The body had seized up. 226 00:21:03,487 --> 00:21:07,366 He'd lost the use of his hands, the fingers wouldn't even bend! 227 00:21:07,527 --> 00:21:10,724 That's how I know he couldn't have fired that gun! 228 00:21:10,887 --> 00:21:15,642 And why would this happen now, just after that man's released, unless... 229 00:21:21,567 --> 00:21:26,561 Any light you can shed on the possible mechanics of this, I'd be grateful. 230 00:21:26,727 --> 00:21:31,323 L'll get Oliver to take you down. He's been with Jack longer than anyone. 231 00:21:31,487 --> 00:21:34,399 L can't face that room again just yet. 232 00:21:37,367 --> 00:21:41,440 Access to the shelter is down a stairwell 12 metres deep. 233 00:21:41,607 --> 00:21:46,158 That's the minimum for any protection from a thermo-nuclear blast. 234 00:21:46,607 --> 00:21:50,043 The contractors have built several round the country. 235 00:21:50,207 --> 00:21:52,641 It's based loosely on the Swiss model. 236 00:21:52,807 --> 00:21:57,722 Mr Holiday's would have been more robust, because it's set inside the cliff rock. 237 00:21:57,887 --> 00:22:02,642 It had to be hollowed out with jack hammers and God knows what else! 238 00:22:02,807 --> 00:22:05,082 It was an 18-month job. 239 00:22:05,247 --> 00:22:11,117 So, the chances of someone tunnelling or breaking into it...? 240 00:22:11,287 --> 00:22:14,040 Are absolutely nil, believe me. 241 00:22:14,207 --> 00:22:16,801 You're looking at an impenetrable cube, 242 00:22:16,967 --> 00:22:22,041 floors, walls, ceiling, all cast from reinforced concrete 50 cms thick, 243 00:22:22,207 --> 00:22:26,041 lined with bricks and mortar, and a single door, 244 00:22:26,207 --> 00:22:28,675 lined with solid armour plate, 245 00:22:28,847 --> 00:22:31,805 with bolts and deadlocks all on the inside. 246 00:22:58,287 --> 00:22:59,606 Hmm. 247 00:23:10,807 --> 00:23:12,798 When did you say it was built? 248 00:23:12,967 --> 00:23:18,883 Early '80s, when the Soviets went into Kabul. Everyone thought the lot was going up. 249 00:23:19,047 --> 00:23:23,757 By the time they'd finished the basic construction, it'd all cooled off. 250 00:23:23,927 --> 00:23:25,724 Jack told them to forget it. 251 00:23:25,887 --> 00:23:29,038 - They hadn't even put the doors in. - Or the lavatory. 252 00:23:30,647 --> 00:23:33,480 His body was just through here. 253 00:23:36,927 --> 00:23:40,556 Head pointing that way, gun in his right hand. 254 00:24:04,207 --> 00:24:09,327 That would have been the toilet. Got as far as the pipework and that was it. 255 00:24:27,927 --> 00:24:30,680 Quite a majestic lavatory. 256 00:24:30,847 --> 00:24:32,838 That was Jack. 257 00:24:46,127 --> 00:24:47,446 Odd. 258 00:24:47,607 --> 00:24:51,236 Box says 40 watt, bulb inside is 100. 259 00:24:54,727 --> 00:24:57,400 Anyone else know about this shelter? 260 00:24:57,567 --> 00:25:00,843 Can't be many who didn't. He loved showing it off. 261 00:25:01,007 --> 00:25:05,046 He was like a big boy... a boy with a train set sometimes. 262 00:25:13,247 --> 00:25:15,522 So, what do we think? 263 00:25:15,687 --> 00:25:18,485 It's something to do with the door, isn't it? 264 00:25:18,647 --> 00:25:21,081 Cards on the table, Mrs Holiday, 265 00:25:21,247 --> 00:25:23,397 that door is as solid as a rock. 266 00:25:23,567 --> 00:25:28,561 From the way it's locked, nothing could have passed through afterwards. 267 00:25:30,807 --> 00:25:32,684 Seven messages. 268 00:25:32,847 --> 00:25:35,281 Six of them fax signals! 269 00:25:36,687 --> 00:25:41,158 How do you get this thing to fast forward? Is it Star... 0...? 270 00:25:41,327 --> 00:25:46,242 Could you glance at the road now and then, so we keep all our limbs and organs?! 271 00:25:46,407 --> 00:25:50,525 All right! Stop panicking. L'm in control! 272 00:25:53,367 --> 00:25:56,165 Oh, a message from Rokesmith. 273 00:25:57,887 --> 00:26:00,799 Asking me to get in touch ASAP. 274 00:26:00,967 --> 00:26:03,083 Wonder what he wants. 275 00:26:03,247 --> 00:26:07,843 - Can you fish out his number for me? - Yes, I've got it! L've got it! 276 00:26:08,007 --> 00:26:11,079 You drive, I'll dial, OK? 277 00:26:13,487 --> 00:26:17,526 God, you're a twitchy passenger! 278 00:26:18,327 --> 00:26:21,876 It's making me nervous being in the car with you! 279 00:26:22,727 --> 00:26:25,446 No reply from Mr Rokesmith. 280 00:26:26,727 --> 00:26:31,403 'Course, he won't be there. He's rented a cottage for the week. 281 00:26:31,567 --> 00:26:34,559 Going away to relish his freedom. 282 00:26:35,647 --> 00:26:38,207 Wonder why he didn't leave a number. 283 00:26:39,447 --> 00:26:43,998 Anyway, I think it's been a very useful session. 284 00:26:44,167 --> 00:26:50,515 We've put paid to that murder theory, for which I owe you a very large drink! 285 00:26:50,687 --> 00:26:52,006 Mmm. 286 00:26:52,167 --> 00:26:53,486 What? 287 00:26:54,527 --> 00:26:55,846 What? 288 00:26:56,487 --> 00:26:59,797 - Sorry? - What's with the "Mmm"? 289 00:26:59,967 --> 00:27:04,916 And that crinkled look that says, "There's more to this than meets the eye"? 290 00:27:05,087 --> 00:27:08,875 Holiday was the only one who could lock the door behind him. 291 00:27:09,047 --> 00:27:11,720 Depending how bad his hands really were. 292 00:27:11,887 --> 00:27:15,562 According to his wife, he couldn't turn on a tap. 293 00:27:15,727 --> 00:27:19,800 But he'd just starred in a TV commercial for bananas. 294 00:27:19,967 --> 00:27:22,322 There you are, that doesn't square. 295 00:27:22,487 --> 00:27:24,637 Something doesn't square here. 296 00:27:25,887 --> 00:27:31,996 L've seen it with my own eyes, but I can't for the life of me tell you what it is. 297 00:27:33,487 --> 00:27:37,196 Paul Garrick to edit suite three, please. 298 00:27:37,367 --> 00:27:42,316 Hi, Scott Reisner? Maddy Magellan. L rang last night about Jack Holiday. 299 00:27:42,487 --> 00:27:44,955 This morning, but let's not be picky. 300 00:27:45,127 --> 00:27:50,485 It was never after 12! You should do the same as me and unplug the phone! 301 00:27:50,647 --> 00:27:54,686 You'll see why they are everyone's top banana. 302 00:27:54,847 --> 00:27:56,280 Almost everyone's. 303 00:27:57,407 --> 00:27:59,204 Astonishing! 304 00:27:59,367 --> 00:28:02,359 You think so? It was all done with doubles. 305 00:28:02,527 --> 00:28:04,802 Jack's pratfall days were over. 306 00:28:04,967 --> 00:28:08,562 He was all rusted up, like walking rigor mortis. 307 00:28:08,727 --> 00:28:10,718 Let me show you something. 308 00:28:11,967 --> 00:28:14,003 Shot 29, take 13. 309 00:28:14,167 --> 00:28:15,839 And... actionl 310 00:28:23,047 --> 00:28:26,164 Can we go again? Someone's in front of the monitor. 311 00:28:26,327 --> 00:28:29,842 Chris, don't worry if you're in shot. We can matt round it. 312 00:28:31,287 --> 00:28:38,079 That is... What are you saying? Jack Holiday needed a stunt man to peel a banana? 313 00:28:38,247 --> 00:28:40,807 He couldn't do anything with his hands? 314 00:28:40,967 --> 00:28:45,324 And if you're asking me if he could turn a key in a lock, 315 00:28:45,487 --> 00:28:48,320 load a gun and empty it into his head, 316 00:28:48,487 --> 00:28:52,844 I'd say not unless a miracle happened in the last two weeks of his life! 317 00:29:09,807 --> 00:29:11,126 Alan? 318 00:29:11,287 --> 00:29:13,278 Are you here? 319 00:30:20,487 --> 00:30:22,364 What is it? 320 00:30:22,527 --> 00:30:26,315 This cottage is being rented by Mr Alan Rokesmith? 321 00:30:26,487 --> 00:30:28,125 Yes, my brother. 322 00:30:28,287 --> 00:30:29,925 Where is he? 323 00:30:30,807 --> 00:30:32,320 What's happened? 324 00:30:32,487 --> 00:30:36,275 L'm afraid they've just found the remains of his boat. 325 00:30:36,447 --> 00:30:38,597 L'm very sorry. 326 00:30:44,487 --> 00:30:47,877 So, what do they think? It hit some rocks? 327 00:30:48,047 --> 00:30:50,402 They said it was in pieces. 328 00:30:51,807 --> 00:30:55,880 L don't know why I thought he could manage a fishing boat. 329 00:30:56,047 --> 00:30:58,163 L don't know what possessed him. 330 00:30:58,327 --> 00:31:03,003 He just had this thing in his head about getting right out... 331 00:31:03,167 --> 00:31:07,922 into the open... as far as possible. 332 00:31:13,487 --> 00:31:17,116 What nine years in a steel cage do for you! 333 00:31:18,327 --> 00:31:23,242 And they think it happened when? Some time on Thursday? 334 00:31:24,527 --> 00:31:26,802 That's where his diary finished. 335 00:31:26,967 --> 00:31:29,401 First thing Thursday morning. 336 00:31:29,567 --> 00:31:33,526 He left a message on my machine on Monday afternoon. 337 00:31:33,687 --> 00:31:38,966 It sounded fairly urgent, but... I didn't have a number for him. 338 00:31:40,567 --> 00:31:46,085 He didn't happen to root out those old letters for me? If not, it's no problem. 339 00:31:46,247 --> 00:31:48,477 No, they're here somewhere. 340 00:31:48,647 --> 00:31:54,404 Great, because when I come to write all this up, it'll give me chapter and verse. 341 00:31:54,567 --> 00:31:55,886 Thanks. 342 00:31:56,047 --> 00:31:59,801 That's everything he brought with him when he came out. 343 00:32:00,727 --> 00:32:02,718 Stuff from the solicitor. 344 00:32:02,887 --> 00:32:04,843 All your letters. 345 00:32:05,887 --> 00:32:07,843 And mine. 346 00:32:08,687 --> 00:32:12,726 Letters from some confectionary company, it looks like... 347 00:32:12,887 --> 00:32:15,924 about an order he placed for some fudge. 348 00:32:17,287 --> 00:32:20,006 L'm afraid I haven't had time to sort it. 349 00:32:20,807 --> 00:32:23,719 Weird that, when he always hated fudge. 350 00:32:23,887 --> 00:32:26,606 You must be gutted. 351 00:32:28,087 --> 00:32:31,921 That the whole thing should end like this with all we've... 352 00:32:33,687 --> 00:32:37,123 - What did you say? - Sorry? 353 00:32:38,047 --> 00:32:41,084 You said he hated fudge? 354 00:32:46,647 --> 00:32:51,004 Oh, not the old wreckage of a boat with no sign of a body?! 355 00:32:51,167 --> 00:32:55,399 Just what you don't need - another murder disguised as an accident. 356 00:32:55,567 --> 00:32:56,886 Sorry? 357 00:32:57,047 --> 00:33:00,437 Oh, a sort of mushroomy thing with cheese. 358 00:33:00,607 --> 00:33:04,395 Cross and Blackwell, I think. When did all this happen? 359 00:33:04,567 --> 00:33:09,163 Thursday some time, we presume. Nothing in his diary for yesterday. 360 00:33:09,327 --> 00:33:13,559 Just when I was starting to believe Holiday's death was suicide, 361 00:33:13,727 --> 00:33:15,843 everything skews the other way. 362 00:33:17,327 --> 00:33:19,397 L don't know what to think. 363 00:33:19,567 --> 00:33:23,799 L've got a list of things which make no sense whatsoever. 364 00:33:29,367 --> 00:33:33,280 All I can say is, if it was a trick, it's a bloody good one. 365 00:33:33,447 --> 00:33:36,803 Not only have you got a locked room no one can leave, 366 00:33:36,967 --> 00:33:39,435 even if you did get out, you're in a cliff! 367 00:33:39,607 --> 00:33:42,758 So... it must have been a suicide. 368 00:33:42,927 --> 00:33:46,283 Except... it wasn't. 369 00:33:47,327 --> 00:33:52,355 Because... Look, do you mind if I just lie down here for a minute and die?! 370 00:33:56,647 --> 00:33:59,445 You were the one who wanted to come back here. 371 00:33:59,607 --> 00:34:01,245 Yes, all right! 372 00:34:04,807 --> 00:34:09,085 Holiday locked himself in the bunker using some sort of... lever, 373 00:34:09,247 --> 00:34:12,523 or a device he could operate with his crippled hands. 374 00:34:12,967 --> 00:34:17,643 Which he then dropped down the hole where the loo was going to go. 375 00:34:17,807 --> 00:34:23,916 He had some special tool that enabled him to pull the trigger. 376 00:34:24,087 --> 00:34:27,363 Like an arthritic suicide aid? 377 00:34:27,527 --> 00:34:29,643 Which was on elastic! 378 00:34:29,807 --> 00:34:34,517 So that when he collapsed, it also disappeared down the hole! 379 00:34:34,687 --> 00:34:38,919 Making it look like a suicide that wasn't quite convincing enough 380 00:34:39,087 --> 00:34:41,760 to really be suicide. 381 00:34:43,567 --> 00:34:44,886 Amazing. 382 00:34:45,087 --> 00:34:46,679 Yes? 383 00:34:48,367 --> 00:34:49,686 Why? 384 00:34:50,487 --> 00:34:51,806 Sorry? 385 00:34:52,687 --> 00:34:56,202 Why did he do that eccentric thing you described, 386 00:34:56,367 --> 00:34:59,484 as opposed to shooting himself in the sitting room? 387 00:35:04,487 --> 00:35:08,241 Those letters of Rokesmith's, can I have another squint? 388 00:35:08,407 --> 00:35:13,606 All they say is, "Thank you for ordering our quality fudge. " 389 00:35:13,767 --> 00:35:18,682 Stuff like that. "We have had some difficulty acquiring supplies. " 390 00:35:18,847 --> 00:35:24,365 Maybe it's me, but I thought it was odd to keep something like that for nine years! 391 00:35:24,527 --> 00:35:29,203 The postmarks are all from around the time he was first arrested. 392 00:35:29,367 --> 00:35:34,077 Fudge? Which, according to his sister, he absolutely detested, even as a boy. 393 00:35:34,247 --> 00:35:36,477 That is odd. 394 00:35:37,527 --> 00:35:39,916 One for your lateral brain. 395 00:35:41,127 --> 00:35:42,446 Mmm. 396 00:35:45,647 --> 00:35:48,161 Well, time's getting on. 397 00:35:48,327 --> 00:35:50,966 L think we'd better get back to the car. 398 00:35:52,327 --> 00:35:55,080 Oh, right, that's it, is it?! 399 00:35:56,407 --> 00:36:01,640 Well, so far, you have been a great help, I must say 400 00:36:01,807 --> 00:36:03,798 Can I get one thing straight? 401 00:36:03,967 --> 00:36:07,801 You are convinced that Jack Holiday wasn't murdered? 402 00:36:09,367 --> 00:36:13,155 No, I'm convinced he was murdered. 403 00:36:14,207 --> 00:36:16,118 The only question is how. 404 00:36:18,967 --> 00:36:24,121 Suppose someone had a reason to kill Jack and Jennifer Holiday in the first place. 405 00:36:24,287 --> 00:36:27,757 They set up death threats to make it look like a crank. 406 00:36:27,927 --> 00:36:30,487 Jennifer is strangled in an alleyway. 407 00:36:30,647 --> 00:36:33,957 Alan Rokesmith happens to be around at the time, 408 00:36:34,127 --> 00:36:36,322 goes to jail accused of the murder. 409 00:36:37,287 --> 00:36:40,006 The real killer has got away with it. 410 00:36:40,167 --> 00:36:43,523 Nine years later, Rokesmith is released. 411 00:36:43,687 --> 00:36:48,681 Now's their chance to kill Jack Holiday, and everyone will think it's Rokesmith. 412 00:36:48,847 --> 00:36:54,285 Just to make sure Rokesmith can't come up with an alibi, he's disposed of as well. 413 00:36:54,447 --> 00:36:59,999 L buy that much, but it still doesn't tell us how the killer left after shooting Holiday. 414 00:37:00,167 --> 00:37:05,480 No, and it doesn't explain why a 100 watt light bulb is in a 40 watt packet. 415 00:37:06,727 --> 00:37:10,561 Or why that bloody lavatory keeps coming back to haunt me! 416 00:37:12,527 --> 00:37:14,643 Come on, I'm getting soaked here! 417 00:37:14,807 --> 00:37:18,117 L can't find the keys! For goodness' sake, I... 418 00:37:19,167 --> 00:37:21,635 - Oh. - What? 419 00:37:22,767 --> 00:37:27,761 When I emptied my bag out up there, I'll bet I accidentally... 420 00:37:34,207 --> 00:37:35,686 Thanks. 421 00:37:36,767 --> 00:37:39,804 Any preference for a sea view? 422 00:37:41,447 --> 00:37:43,085 Airing cupboard? 423 00:37:55,527 --> 00:37:57,916 Tell me about Rokesmith. 424 00:37:58,087 --> 00:38:00,760 Before he went to jail, where did he work? 425 00:38:01,847 --> 00:38:05,635 Telecommunications. Sales rep of some sort. 426 00:38:05,807 --> 00:38:09,800 Not averse to the odd back hander, a few dodgy deals. 427 00:38:09,967 --> 00:38:14,040 We never said he was a saint, but it doesn't mean he was a murderer. 428 00:38:14,207 --> 00:38:21,238 As far as we know, the only women in his life were his sister and mother, who he adored. 429 00:38:21,407 --> 00:38:24,240 - There you go. Simple. - What have you found? 430 00:38:24,407 --> 00:38:25,886 Nothing. 431 00:38:26,047 --> 00:38:28,436 It's taken me two hours. 432 00:38:28,607 --> 00:38:33,920 L've been staring at these words, looking for hidden codes and there aren't any! 433 00:38:34,087 --> 00:38:39,286 The fudge is just an excuse someone has made up to write to him. 434 00:38:39,447 --> 00:38:42,917 It's not in the letters. It's on the envelopes, look. 435 00:38:50,287 --> 00:38:51,606 What? 436 00:38:51,767 --> 00:38:53,678 It's screaming at you. 437 00:38:59,207 --> 00:39:00,526 Sorry. 438 00:39:01,527 --> 00:39:03,483 Let's go upstairs. 439 00:39:17,567 --> 00:39:22,038 See the break in the franking mark where it's not perfectly aligned? 440 00:39:22,207 --> 00:39:23,526 No. 441 00:39:25,127 --> 00:39:27,277 Oh, yeah, just about. 442 00:39:27,447 --> 00:39:30,644 That shows that the stamps on these envelopes 443 00:39:30,807 --> 00:39:33,765 have been removed and stuck back on again. 444 00:39:33,927 --> 00:39:35,519 Why do that? 445 00:39:35,687 --> 00:39:40,807 Suppose you want to write to someone in prison without the authorities reading it? 446 00:39:40,967 --> 00:39:42,844 Give it here! 447 00:39:45,247 --> 00:39:47,238 What, you mean like... 448 00:39:48,927 --> 00:39:54,126 ...if he was having a secret affair? He was at it with someone he shouldn't have been? 449 00:39:54,287 --> 00:39:59,919 They sent each other messages underneath the stamps? Hey, presto! 450 00:40:00,087 --> 00:40:01,998 L see writing! 451 00:40:03,247 --> 00:40:05,477 You do this a bit too well. 452 00:40:05,647 --> 00:40:07,558 Just improvising. 453 00:40:09,487 --> 00:40:12,047 "L'm so sorry about what's happened. 454 00:40:12,207 --> 00:40:15,279 "L pray it will yet be resolved somehow. 455 00:40:15,447 --> 00:40:18,200 "We must try to be patient. " 456 00:40:19,327 --> 00:40:22,478 "L know things are looking bad right now, 457 00:40:22,647 --> 00:40:27,880 "but if the truth comes out, it would be the end of everything. 458 00:40:28,047 --> 00:40:30,356 "Don't give up hope. " 459 00:40:30,527 --> 00:40:33,724 "These are dark times. 460 00:40:33,887 --> 00:40:37,721 "L appreciate your silence and you have my word 461 00:40:37,887 --> 00:40:41,323 "I'll stand by my pledge to you come what may. " 462 00:40:44,487 --> 00:40:47,877 Sounds like a pretty heavy relationship. 463 00:40:48,807 --> 00:40:51,196 With a married woman, maybe? 464 00:40:51,367 --> 00:40:56,282 Makes sense that he kept them. Helped see him through, probably. 465 00:40:56,447 --> 00:40:59,200 Don't quite see how they help us, though. 466 00:40:59,367 --> 00:41:00,686 No. 467 00:41:05,647 --> 00:41:07,683 You did well tonight. 468 00:41:07,847 --> 00:41:09,838 Going back for those keys. 469 00:41:10,967 --> 00:41:12,320 Right. 470 00:41:12,487 --> 00:41:14,478 Scored a lot of points. 471 00:41:15,887 --> 00:41:17,206 Mmm-hmm. 472 00:41:19,847 --> 00:41:22,202 L'll say goodnight, then. 473 00:41:23,247 --> 00:41:24,600 Yep. 474 00:41:32,647 --> 00:41:35,081 See you downstairs about eight? 475 00:43:18,207 --> 00:43:19,799 Yup? 476 00:43:19,967 --> 00:43:23,357 Did you put a melon on my pillow with a knife through it? 477 00:43:25,727 --> 00:43:30,755 Drunk? How can I be drunk at 8.30 am? You were the one knocking back the Chianti! 478 00:43:30,927 --> 00:43:35,523 - You did everything but suck the corks! - Three glasses, small ones. 479 00:43:35,687 --> 00:43:37,917 My giddy aunt! 480 00:43:38,927 --> 00:43:41,885 - Who put that there? - You didn't?! 481 00:43:42,047 --> 00:43:46,837 Yeah, I'll get up in the middle of the night and muck about in your bedroom 482 00:43:47,007 --> 00:43:48,725 There's a note. 483 00:43:59,607 --> 00:44:04,203 L could have come in here and found you with your throat slit! 484 00:44:04,367 --> 00:44:05,686 Yeah. 485 00:44:05,847 --> 00:44:10,716 L think I saw a sewing kit in the bathroom for just such an emergency. 486 00:44:10,887 --> 00:44:15,563 Somebody must have slipped upstairs and into my room. 487 00:44:15,727 --> 00:44:18,480 Someone who wants us off this story. 488 00:44:19,007 --> 00:44:24,445 Someone who is worried we're getting too close to the truth. 489 00:44:31,487 --> 00:44:33,682 Too close. 490 00:44:34,967 --> 00:44:37,845 There is something in the lavatory. 491 00:44:38,887 --> 00:44:40,286 What? 492 00:44:40,447 --> 00:44:45,567 - It's been hounding me from Day One. - What? What has? 493 00:44:45,727 --> 00:44:47,922 Am I supposed to guess now? 494 00:44:48,087 --> 00:44:50,726 - No time to lose. - Where are we going? 495 00:44:50,887 --> 00:44:54,641 Anywhere far away from here! That could be my head! 496 00:44:54,807 --> 00:45:00,200 Hang about. You can't tell me you've unravelled it and then just bugger off! 497 00:45:00,367 --> 00:45:03,962 - What kind of spineless cretin are you? - No special kind. 498 00:45:04,127 --> 00:45:07,517 Just your average cretin with a train to catch! 499 00:45:08,927 --> 00:45:12,078 Deep breaths now, Jonathan. 500 00:45:13,047 --> 00:45:15,686 Then you're going to tell me everything. 501 00:45:15,847 --> 00:45:18,839 Then we'll do whatever is necessary to see this through. 502 00:45:29,447 --> 00:45:32,120 Morning. Is Mrs Holiday around? 503 00:45:32,287 --> 00:45:37,361 She is... but I don't imagine she's in the mood for visitors. 504 00:45:39,207 --> 00:45:43,086 Mr Creek. L wasn't expecting... 505 00:45:43,247 --> 00:45:45,807 Good morning, Mrs Holiday. 506 00:45:46,167 --> 00:45:47,759 Maddy Magellan. 507 00:45:47,927 --> 00:45:49,963 L got your letter. 508 00:45:50,687 --> 00:45:52,200 What is this? 509 00:45:54,407 --> 00:45:59,527 You've come back to tell me it was impossible, like the police and everyone. 510 00:45:59,687 --> 00:46:03,316 Whoever did this managed to fool the lot of you. 511 00:46:03,487 --> 00:46:08,720 Certainly fooled me. Even in my darkest dreams, I never saw it coming. 512 00:46:09,847 --> 00:46:11,326 With your permission, 513 00:46:11,487 --> 00:46:15,526 we'd like to go down to the shelter to carry out an experiment. 514 00:46:29,007 --> 00:46:31,999 When I first checked this place out, 515 00:46:32,167 --> 00:46:36,001 I couldn't, for the life of me, spot the chink in the armour. 516 00:46:36,167 --> 00:46:40,479 We're inside a room, inside a block of concrete, inside a cliff. 517 00:46:40,647 --> 00:46:44,276 The only way in or out is through this door. 518 00:46:44,447 --> 00:46:49,760 A door that can only be locked the way it was by someone inside the room. 519 00:46:50,767 --> 00:46:53,281 But there was no one else in the room. 520 00:46:53,447 --> 00:46:54,960 Only Jack Holiday. 521 00:46:55,127 --> 00:46:58,756 To all intents, he had to have killed himself. 522 00:46:58,927 --> 00:47:01,566 He couldn't! Why won't anyone believe me? 523 00:47:01,727 --> 00:47:05,083 Because what you're suggesting is impossible. 524 00:47:05,247 --> 00:47:10,367 We mustn't confuse what's impossible with what's implausible. 525 00:47:10,527 --> 00:47:16,238 What I do for a living relies on stuff that's implausible. That's why it's hard to work out. 526 00:47:16,407 --> 00:47:20,685 No one ever thinks you'd go to that much trouble to fool an audience. 527 00:47:22,247 --> 00:47:24,841 But if we hack away at it long enough, 528 00:47:25,007 --> 00:47:29,637 there's a way, an elaborate way, this crime could have been carried out. 529 00:47:29,807 --> 00:47:34,119 Only, to follow the method, we have to look at the motive. 530 00:47:36,327 --> 00:47:40,240 Yes, have a seat, Mrs Holiday. Not a bad-sized lavatory, is it? 531 00:47:42,287 --> 00:47:45,597 When Alan Rokesmith's conviction was quashed, 532 00:47:45,767 --> 00:47:48,281 it opened up the whole question again. 533 00:47:48,447 --> 00:47:53,043 Who was responsible for strangling Jennifer Holiday and why? 534 00:47:53,207 --> 00:47:58,759 Someone wanted her dead and it's now obvious who that person was. 535 00:48:01,167 --> 00:48:03,158 It was Jack Holiday himself. 536 00:48:05,887 --> 00:48:10,119 Oh, that's just sheer ignorance of the facts! 537 00:48:10,287 --> 00:48:14,758 Jack was on the other side of the world in a restaurant in West Hollywood! 538 00:48:14,927 --> 00:48:16,360 How could he...? 539 00:48:16,527 --> 00:48:21,362 You can be responsible for a murder without actually carrying it out. 540 00:48:21,527 --> 00:48:22,846 Well... 541 00:48:24,167 --> 00:48:26,237 You're not sugges... 542 00:48:27,367 --> 00:48:29,562 He paid someone? 543 00:48:29,727 --> 00:48:33,197 And I think that's exactly why he left the country. 544 00:48:33,367 --> 00:48:37,519 To be as far away as possible while someone else did the job for him. 545 00:48:37,687 --> 00:48:41,362 Someone who finally couldn't live with what had happened 546 00:48:41,527 --> 00:48:45,315 and decided that Jack Holiday should pay for what he'd done. 547 00:48:59,927 --> 00:49:02,600 Wait! Wait! Listen to me! 548 00:49:22,207 --> 00:49:24,675 But now came the problem. 549 00:49:24,847 --> 00:49:27,919 The gun was put in his hand to suggest suicide, 550 00:49:28,087 --> 00:49:32,239 a hand we all know was incapable of squeezing the trigger. 551 00:49:32,407 --> 00:49:37,527 The conclusion is that the killer didn't know about Jack's arthritis. 552 00:49:46,847 --> 00:49:48,599 You were right. 553 00:49:48,767 --> 00:49:50,564 L was wrong. 554 00:49:51,807 --> 00:49:54,367 L believed in Alan Rokesmith. 555 00:49:55,367 --> 00:49:58,484 His sister did. We all did. 556 00:50:00,807 --> 00:50:05,483 L'm only just beginning to see how he did it from behind bars, 557 00:50:05,647 --> 00:50:09,481 manipulated, paid off witnesses... 558 00:50:10,767 --> 00:50:14,680 paid that prostitute to say she'd been with him, 559 00:50:15,847 --> 00:50:19,635 literally... bought his way out of there. 560 00:50:20,007 --> 00:50:24,558 You haven't anything to connect Jack with that evil man! 561 00:50:24,727 --> 00:50:26,957 He'd kept these, Mrs Holiday. 562 00:50:28,247 --> 00:50:33,446 L don't think you'll argue that it's your husband's writing, even in capitals. 563 00:50:33,607 --> 00:50:40,001 The Greek Es and tails on the Rs are all over that script you showed me upstairs. 564 00:50:40,167 --> 00:50:42,397 We thought they were from a lover. 565 00:50:42,567 --> 00:50:46,355 If the truth came out, it would be the end of everything. 566 00:50:46,527 --> 00:50:49,439 He was telling Rokesmith to keep his mouth shut. 567 00:50:49,607 --> 00:50:54,840 In exchange for which, he'd stand by his pledge - 568 00:50:56,527 --> 00:50:59,917 make sure the money came through as they'd arranged. 569 00:51:01,687 --> 00:51:04,963 This is some sort of malicious hoax! 570 00:51:05,127 --> 00:51:09,200 - And it's time I called the police. - No, Kirsten. 571 00:51:10,127 --> 00:51:15,121 You... knew about this?! 572 00:51:16,927 --> 00:51:21,955 Couple of years ago, one of his dark days, the whole world was against him, 573 00:51:22,127 --> 00:51:25,756 he got well oiled up and poured it all out. 574 00:51:25,927 --> 00:51:28,487 Like the plot of one of his films. 575 00:51:28,647 --> 00:51:30,638 Sad little clown. 576 00:51:31,887 --> 00:51:35,880 Everyone thought Jack and Jennifer were the business. 577 00:51:36,047 --> 00:51:38,720 Behind the lovey-dovey it was a disaster! 578 00:51:39,807 --> 00:51:41,798 She was just a kid still. 579 00:51:41,967 --> 00:51:45,755 Spent his money, slept with a cast of thousands. 580 00:51:46,767 --> 00:51:51,557 Any sniff of divorce, she'd have filleted him like a kipper! 581 00:51:53,367 --> 00:51:55,517 He knew a lot of villains. 582 00:51:55,687 --> 00:51:59,282 It wasn't hard for him to find somebody like Rokesmith. 583 00:52:01,607 --> 00:52:07,159 Every day after that, he was terrified Rokesmith would talk, but he never did. 584 00:52:08,167 --> 00:52:12,763 Jack left the world a lot of happy memories. 585 00:52:14,287 --> 00:52:16,847 The thought of all this destroying that... 586 00:52:18,407 --> 00:52:20,398 ...didn't seem right. 587 00:52:22,807 --> 00:52:26,766 - L suppose the knife in the melon was... - Faintly childish? 588 00:52:27,687 --> 00:52:32,078 You're telling me it was Rokesmith, but how did he get out of this room?! 589 00:52:33,967 --> 00:52:36,356 A lavatory and a light bulb held the key. 590 00:52:37,887 --> 00:52:40,526 This is how I think it happened. 591 00:52:42,327 --> 00:52:46,559 Several days before the murder, I can't say how long it took him, 592 00:52:46,727 --> 00:52:52,404 Rokesmith was systematically dismantling the end wall in what was to have been the toilet. 593 00:52:54,607 --> 00:52:58,919 Brick by brick, he exposed the outer wall of reinforced concrete. 594 00:52:59,087 --> 00:53:01,681 No chance of escaping through that. 595 00:53:01,847 --> 00:53:05,237 But the point was, he had no intention of escaping. 596 00:53:05,407 --> 00:53:11,004 If I'm right, Alan Rokesmith's purpose when he brought your husband down here 597 00:53:11,167 --> 00:53:12,646 wasn't murder, 598 00:53:12,807 --> 00:53:14,843 but a double execution. 599 00:53:16,687 --> 00:53:20,123 Looking back, it was all there in his eyes. 600 00:53:20,287 --> 00:53:22,755 A kind of hollow calm. 601 00:53:22,927 --> 00:53:26,317 All that creepy talk about guilt and innocence. 602 00:53:26,487 --> 00:53:31,766 He'd made peace with his conscience because he knew what he had to do. 603 00:53:31,927 --> 00:53:34,919 He was going and taking Holiday with him. 604 00:53:35,087 --> 00:53:40,286 But he had to do it in a way that his mother and sister would never find out the truth. 605 00:53:40,447 --> 00:53:42,722 He set up a fake trip to Wales. 606 00:53:42,887 --> 00:53:48,359 Wrote stuff in his diary days beforehand to make it look like he was there till Thursday. 607 00:53:48,527 --> 00:53:53,681 Wrecked his own boat, so eventually they'd find the bits and assume he'd drowned. 608 00:53:54,887 --> 00:53:58,004 But, in fact, he was here. 609 00:54:00,167 --> 00:54:05,480 He now rebuilds the wall, this time deeper inside the room, 610 00:54:05,647 --> 00:54:10,118 leaving a narrow recess between the new wall and the concrete behind. 611 00:54:11,407 --> 00:54:16,527 My guess is he swallows a bottle of something - pills, paracetamol, 612 00:54:16,687 --> 00:54:21,442 and with his last half hour or so, seals himself up. 613 00:54:57,367 --> 00:55:03,602 If you look at this hole in the floor, you assume the lavatory would go here. 614 00:55:05,247 --> 00:55:09,638 With the pan facing out towards the door. 615 00:55:10,847 --> 00:55:16,001 Problem is, it couldn't. With the pan hard against this wall, where will the cistern go? 616 00:55:16,167 --> 00:55:18,237 There's no room behind it. 617 00:55:20,367 --> 00:55:24,121 And if the plan was for the lavatory to go against this wall, 618 00:55:26,087 --> 00:55:28,647 That's where your cistern will go. 619 00:55:33,007 --> 00:55:35,885 Now, you've got a wall in the way. 620 00:55:36,927 --> 00:55:38,918 It won't fit. 621 00:55:39,087 --> 00:55:44,161 The reason being that this wall is further out now than it used to be. 622 00:55:47,327 --> 00:55:52,685 You wouldn't notice the different brickwork because Rokesmith switched bulbs, 623 00:55:52,847 --> 00:55:55,156 so the light in here would be dimmer. 624 00:56:00,447 --> 00:56:02,244 Do you want to do this? 625 00:56:30,847 --> 00:56:33,884 Now, let me see if I've got this. 626 00:56:41,567 --> 00:56:45,526 You know what, that's crap if you actually try it. 627 00:56:47,407 --> 00:56:51,195 It's totally impossible to slip on a banana skin. 628 00:56:51,367 --> 00:56:55,076 Seaweed, no problem. Dog's mess, piece of cake. 629 00:56:55,247 --> 00:56:56,919 You try a banana peel! 630 00:57:01,687 --> 00:57:05,680 Yes, brilliant! That is utterly baffling. 631 00:57:05,847 --> 00:57:09,283 - No, it doesn't work. - What do you mean? 632 00:57:09,447 --> 00:57:13,486 There's not enough scope for the imagination. 633 00:57:13,647 --> 00:57:19,085 There's only one explanation - the matches stay in the box and another drawer comes out. 634 00:57:19,247 --> 00:57:24,879 Like the killer had to be in that room because there's no way he could get out. 635 00:57:25,447 --> 00:57:28,041 Maybe if I took a run at it. 636 00:57:29,647 --> 00:57:35,165 Though how it was Rokesmith, who had apparently called me two days before...? 637 00:57:35,327 --> 00:57:41,243 How often does that happen? You play back an old message and think it's just come in. 638 00:57:42,247 --> 00:57:43,680 OK. 639 00:57:43,847 --> 00:57:45,678 Here we go. 640 00:57:47,967 --> 00:57:49,480 AHHHH! 641 00:57:51,527 --> 00:57:53,119 Well done! 642 00:57:54,087 --> 00:57:57,841 You proved your point about the dog's mess! One more go with the banana peel?