1 00:00:04,606 --> 00:00:09,805 Reding Rock Festival 1979 is deliriously thrilled and delighted to welcome 2 00:00:09,966 --> 00:00:13,003 The Holy Trinity of Edwin Drood. 3 00:00:18,806 --> 00:00:22,435 On electric pill -- the legendary Roy Pilgrim! 4 00:02:28,406 --> 00:02:32,035 - Are you sure you know where you're going? - I'll be fine! 5 00:03:10,006 --> 00:03:12,201 HELP! 6 00:04:11,446 --> 00:04:15,564 You're listening to Classic FM. Coming next, Vivaldi. 7 00:05:47,846 --> 00:05:50,838 Good morning. Is there a problem? What's happening? 8 00:05:51,006 --> 00:05:54,601 Do you know this Mr. Roy Pilgrim? We're not getting any reply. 9 00:05:54,766 --> 00:05:58,805 I'm his fiancee. He should be in. He's expecting me at nine. 10 00:05:58,966 --> 00:06:01,002 What's this all about? 11 00:06:02,366 --> 00:06:03,685 Roy? 12 00:06:06,406 --> 00:06:07,725 Roy? 13 00:06:07,886 --> 00:06:09,683 In here! 14 00:06:15,886 --> 00:06:18,400 What the hell's happened to you? 15 00:06:19,566 --> 00:06:24,720 Crack in the back of the head. Thought they're gone, and... One had caught me from behind. 16 00:06:24,886 --> 00:06:29,596 They rifled the safe, and then cuffed me to this thing 17 00:06:29,766 --> 00:06:32,155 So I couln't raise the alarm. 18 00:06:32,326 --> 00:06:34,886 Think you're gonna need a hacksaw. 19 00:06:37,046 --> 00:06:39,958 Before we get on to this, there's another matter I have to ask you about 20 00:06:40,126 --> 00:06:41,479 ...concerning a young lady... - Sergeant... 21 00:06:45,566 --> 00:06:49,036 -- What kind of sick game have you been playing here?! 22 00:06:49,526 --> 00:06:51,596 -- How many of you saw this girl? 23 00:06:51,766 --> 00:06:53,722 -- We all, sir. 24 00:06:53,886 --> 00:06:57,117 -- And where is she now? Her mother is out of her mind with worry! 25 00:06:57,286 --> 00:06:58,639 -- Where who? 26 00:06:58,806 --> 00:07:02,560 -- The pretty little thing you invited round for tea and crumpets! 27 00:07:03,246 --> 00:07:08,400 -- Don't put on that innocent routine! Why do you think the police are here? 28 00:07:08,566 --> 00:07:10,682 -- Francine, I don't have the faintest clue... 29 00:07:10,846 --> 00:07:15,761 -- Mr. Pilgrim, can you tell us where you were at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon? 30 00:07:17,326 --> 00:07:19,044 -- Is this a joke? 31 00:07:20,646 --> 00:07:23,683 I couldn't leave from this spot for twenty hours! 32 00:07:23,846 --> 00:07:27,839 I'm not Harry Houdini! Someone trying to be funny? 33 00:07:28,006 --> 00:07:31,237 There's nothing funny about a missing person, Mr. Pilgrim. 34 00:07:32,486 --> 00:07:36,001 We know she left home yesterday morning for this address. 35 00:07:36,166 --> 00:07:41,843 It appears she were seen by six eyewitnesses entering your house through this door 36 00:07:42,006 --> 00:07:45,043 at four o'clock, as the school bus was arriving. 37 00:07:47,406 --> 00:07:51,399 -- Mr. Pilgrim, a straight answer to the question, please! 38 00:07:51,566 --> 00:07:57,755 Did you let a sixteen-year old girl named Tracy Cook into this house yesterday afternoon? 39 00:07:57,926 --> 00:08:02,044 Look, I don't know what you guys plan at, but let's lay this to rest now. 40 00:08:02,206 --> 00:08:07,234 I've been sacked here, staring at these four walls, since midday yesterday 41 00:08:07,406 --> 00:08:09,317 till the moment you just arrived. 42 00:08:09,486 --> 00:08:15,482 And on my granny's grave, noone was coming through those French doors. 43 00:08:23,046 --> 00:08:28,439 -- Okay, so if your friend in the back would just stick an old sock in it this time, 44 00:08:28,606 --> 00:08:33,157 perhaps we try and break this little one just to give you illusion that we have a brain between us! 45 00:08:33,326 --> 00:08:35,123 Ok... go? 46 00:08:35,286 --> 00:08:41,122 "Up postbox. Look fore and aft, To see the sea. What year does it appear to be?" 47 00:08:41,286 --> 00:08:44,517 - Fore and aft... - So in front of us and behind us. 48 00:08:44,686 --> 00:08:48,315 - To see the sea... - Tough one. 49 00:08:50,286 --> 00:08:54,996 To see the sea. What year does it appear to be? Fore and aft... 50 00:08:56,686 --> 00:08:59,325 -- There's a sea on this pub sign! 51 00:09:01,486 --> 00:09:04,364 "What year does it appear to be?" 52 00:09:04,526 --> 00:09:08,644 Something Jacobian. When was that? Early 17th century? 53 00:09:09,406 --> 00:09:14,161 Too vague. Anyway, it's sideways on, so this doesn't work. 54 00:09:14,326 --> 00:09:16,999 Well. Um. What seas are there then? 55 00:09:17,166 --> 00:09:19,555 - Um. Red Sea, Black Sea... - Black Sea... 56 00:09:19,726 --> 00:09:22,843 - Black Sea... Dead Sea - Irish Sea... 57 00:09:23,006 --> 00:09:26,157 - "What year does it appear to be?" 58 00:09:30,686 --> 00:09:32,756 -- All right, what's the answer? 59 00:09:33,456 --> 00:09:34,876 1983. 60 00:09:35,166 --> 00:09:36,519 -- But why?! 61 00:09:36,686 --> 00:09:40,235 -- See that old Vauxhall back there? 62 00:09:42,086 --> 00:09:46,204 -- And how do you look forwards and backwards at the same time? 63 00:09:54,892 --> 00:09:55,892 TH3 S3A 64 00:09:55,886 --> 00:09:57,604 Ohh! 65 00:09:57,766 --> 00:10:01,361 RH 1983. 66 00:10:01,526 --> 00:10:07,123 How can they expect absolutely anybody in the whole wide world to get that?! 67 00:10:07,286 --> 00:10:11,120 -- Another miracle! And you see -- it's all done with mirrors! 68 00:10:11,286 --> 00:10:18,203 Greg, if you're planning to open your legs any wider, will you let me know? I'll just get out of the car. 69 00:10:37,286 --> 00:10:38,639 Hello? 70 00:10:38,806 --> 00:10:42,481 Yes, just done 24. 71 00:10:42,646 --> 00:10:45,240 Yes, I know, it's desperately boring. 72 00:10:45,406 --> 00:10:49,319 Thanks to Abracadabra in the back, we finished at half-past. 73 00:10:49,486 --> 00:10:52,125 All right, see you in the pub. Bye bye! 74 00:10:52,286 --> 00:10:56,279 I've been bottomed by ... Pull back, you bi---! 75 00:11:02,446 --> 00:11:05,836 Stupid pig-headed! 76 00:11:20,366 --> 00:11:25,156 If she calls me Abracadabra once more, I may go berserk with that emery board. 77 00:11:25,326 --> 00:11:28,159 File down her face until it was a hard boiled egg. 78 00:11:28,326 --> 00:11:31,636 That would be right into Sheena's way. She quite likes you, actually. 79 00:11:31,806 --> 00:11:36,038 I can't share how much I enjoyed sharing the backseat with Mr. Biceps, 80 00:11:36,206 --> 00:11:38,595 who expands like a gas to fill any available space. 81 00:11:38,766 --> 00:11:41,644 I could feel the pulse in his thigh right through my trousers! 82 00:11:41,806 --> 00:11:45,435 ... and make the effort! She's my best friend! 83 00:11:49,166 --> 00:11:53,523 So basically that's what you do? Sit at home all day and think up conjuring tricks? 84 00:11:55,446 --> 00:11:58,677 -- Amazingly pointless! -- Thank you. 85 00:11:58,846 --> 00:12:01,280 What's the deal between you and Madeline? 86 00:12:01,446 --> 00:12:04,882 I mean, is it like, serious passion down here? 87 00:12:06,126 --> 00:12:09,198 How far into your world does she allowed to go? 88 00:12:09,366 --> 00:12:12,164 I mean, have you showed her your magic wand yet? Or... 89 00:12:12,326 --> 00:12:13,645 -- Wedding?! 90 00:12:13,806 --> 00:12:17,799 -- You got some nerve, Roy! You're just not real! This whole thing is not real! 91 00:12:18,246 --> 00:12:20,555 What that, lovers' tiff? 92 00:12:20,726 --> 00:12:22,478 -- Thanks. 93 00:12:22,646 --> 00:12:25,206 -- That's the little cow that carved me up on the bend! 94 00:12:25,366 --> 00:12:28,005 -- Got other things on her mind, obviously. 95 00:12:28,166 --> 00:12:30,680 -- Ok, you want me to believe you've changed? 96 00:12:32,046 --> 00:12:34,401 You'll never change, Roy! 97 00:12:34,566 --> 00:12:38,275 -- I don't get a chance?! I'm condemned before I start?! 98 00:12:38,446 --> 00:12:41,518 -- Six eyewitnesses watched her walk into your house! 99 00:12:41,686 --> 00:12:44,644 -- It's a conspiracy! I don't know... They all were bought off! 100 00:12:44,806 --> 00:12:46,922 Six schoolboys, Roy?! 101 00:12:47,086 --> 00:12:50,965 -- Francine, I've nothing to do with that! I never touched her! I never saw her! 102 00:12:51,126 --> 00:12:55,324 -- Could you just leave! Don't contaminate my life! 103 00:12:56,526 --> 00:12:59,245 -- Oops-a-daisy! 104 00:13:03,686 --> 00:13:08,123 -- Go on, take it down the drain, show what you think of her! 105 00:13:10,286 --> 00:13:12,880 -- He still loves her, see? 106 00:13:13,046 --> 00:13:15,480 -- Perhaps just wants to get the money back. 107 00:13:17,566 --> 00:13:20,922 -- Are you all blind? -- What's your problem? 108 00:13:21,926 --> 00:13:24,235 -- Can't you see who is that guy? 109 00:13:25,126 --> 00:13:26,878 -- Who? 110 00:13:27,046 --> 00:13:29,765 -- Who? Great Roy Pilgrim! 111 00:13:31,406 --> 00:13:35,365 -- You are kidding me! 112 00:13:35,526 --> 00:13:38,324 - No. -- Who's Roy Pilgrim? 113 00:13:38,486 --> 00:13:40,044 -- Roy Pilgrim? 114 00:13:42,486 --> 00:13:44,283 -- Edwin Drood? 115 00:13:48,166 --> 00:13:50,839 -- You probably know them, don't you? 116 00:13:51,006 --> 00:13:55,238 -- They were in the vanguard of progressive rock right through the 70s and the 80s! 117 00:13:55,406 --> 00:13:59,365 -- They did do some seminal stuff! -- That's polite way of describing them. 118 00:13:59,526 --> 00:14:01,562 -- I suppose you were into Percy Sledge. 119 00:14:01,726 --> 00:14:04,286 - Ah, yes! Now you're talking -- Yes, Percy! 120 00:14:04,446 --> 00:14:07,677 -- We loved Percy! -- We loved Percy! 121 00:14:07,846 --> 00:14:13,955 We loved him not quite as much as we loved Otis! 122 00:14:33,766 --> 00:14:35,916 -- I know, I've just seen it. 123 00:14:38,166 --> 00:14:44,275 -- Kids will tell you anything to be a part of the story. Maybe they saw... I don't know what they saw. 124 00:14:44,446 --> 00:14:46,562 -- Appearances can be deceptive. 125 00:14:46,726 --> 00:14:52,676 -- Right enough, Mr. Pilgrim. Despite the appearance of something in those trousers, you have no leg to stay on. 126 00:14:52,846 --> 00:14:57,522 -- And you haven't got a case. I can't help noticing you've taken my house to find big fat zero. 127 00:14:57,686 --> 00:14:59,961 -- Mr. Pilgrim, you... 128 00:15:00,606 --> 00:15:02,676 -- ...? 129 00:15:04,526 --> 00:15:08,838 -- You say that you never left the room from about midday onwards ? 130 00:15:09,006 --> 00:15:11,395 -- Sure, when I'm plumbed into the central heating system! 131 00:15:11,566 --> 00:15:14,763 -- Don't think you could have passed out for a minute? 132 00:15:14,926 --> 00:15:16,484 -- Fall asleep? 133 00:15:16,646 --> 00:15:17,965 -- Thanks. 134 00:15:18,126 --> 00:15:21,562 -- I didn't pass out. I was wide awake for the next eight-nine hours. 135 00:15:21,726 --> 00:15:26,561 I knew I was stuck there till Francine arrived in the morning. So I used the time. 136 00:15:26,726 --> 00:15:30,401 I wrote three songs just to get my mind off my bladder. 137 00:15:30,566 --> 00:15:32,238 And four o'clock? 138 00:15:32,406 --> 00:15:36,445 From three to four I listened to Classic FM, so that definitely fixes the time. 139 00:15:36,606 --> 00:15:40,394 Four o'clock they went into Vivaldi, so I switched it off, went back to the words. 140 00:15:40,566 --> 00:15:44,684 I mean, what'd you do? I'm staring right at the window where she's supposed to have come in. 141 00:15:44,846 --> 00:15:49,078 Did you write a letter to this girl inviting her to come and meet you on Monday afternoon? 142 00:15:49,246 --> 00:15:52,841 -- Why were I gonna do that? -- She was young, attractive. 143 00:15:53,006 --> 00:15:54,724 She sent you photoes in the fanmail. 144 00:15:54,886 --> 00:15:58,003 -- You're sick. And what you're suggesting is sick. 145 00:15:58,166 --> 00:16:00,600 Oh, and what am I suggesting, Mr. Pilgrim? 146 00:16:00,766 --> 00:16:05,203 That Tracy Cook came to meet a lifelong hero and found him wanting to give her more than an autograph? 147 00:16:05,366 --> 00:16:07,402 And it all got very nasty 148 00:16:07,566 --> 00:16:09,636 in ways I don't like to think about. 149 00:16:09,806 --> 00:16:15,005 And then afterwards to give yourself an alibi, you cooked up all this stuff about burglars and radiators! 150 00:16:15,166 --> 00:16:18,078 -- For God's sake, like I told your colleague before you arrived 151 00:16:18,246 --> 00:16:22,444 the only thing that came in through those French windows was a frog. 152 00:16:22,606 --> 00:16:24,642 -- Now if I noticed that, I could hardly have-- -- What do you mean? 153 00:16:24,806 --> 00:16:29,243 -- Little green frog with a red belly. 154 00:16:29,406 --> 00:16:32,364 What do you mean, "told our colleague before we arrived"? 155 00:16:34,006 --> 00:16:35,485 I... 156 00:16:37,886 --> 00:16:40,639 ...never said I was the police. 157 00:16:40,806 --> 00:16:44,355 -- I just said I'd like some help with my enquiries. 158 00:16:45,766 --> 00:16:47,996 -- You're not this gentleman's legal advisor? 159 00:16:48,166 --> 00:16:50,043 -- Legal advisor? 160 00:17:38,526 --> 00:17:39,845 -- Hi? 161 00:17:40,006 --> 00:17:41,883 -- In here. Cooking. 162 00:17:45,766 --> 00:17:47,802 -- How are you? 163 00:17:47,966 --> 00:17:51,481 -- I'm just reminded that quote by Robert Oppenheimer: 164 00:17:51,646 --> 00:17:54,399 "I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." 165 00:17:54,566 --> 00:17:56,636 -- Overdid croutons slightly, not that funny. 166 00:17:56,806 --> 00:17:59,764 -- Overdid croutons slightly?! It's like Ghandi's funeral pyre in here! 167 00:17:59,926 --> 00:18:03,362 -- Yes! Now you've put the gas out, thank you very much. 168 00:18:03,526 --> 00:18:05,881 I'd get along fine till you arrived! 169 00:18:10,166 --> 00:18:14,478 -- This lightness of touch you have in the kitchen is a joy to behold! 170 00:18:14,646 --> 00:18:18,002 -- So, tell me about Pilgrim. Is he capable of murder? 171 00:18:18,166 --> 00:18:20,316 ... obviously. 172 00:18:20,486 --> 00:18:25,879 -- I don't get it. Got six witnesses, all saw her going in at four o'clock. 173 00:18:26,046 --> 00:18:29,163 Now if that's right, he hasn't got a .... 174 00:18:29,326 --> 00:18:35,356 And he swears plight he was in the room all afternoon fully conscious -- and saw noone! 175 00:18:35,526 --> 00:18:38,086 It's either very stupid or very devious. 176 00:18:38,246 --> 00:18:40,237 -- Or neither. -- What do you mean? 177 00:18:40,406 --> 00:18:43,000 Well maybe there is no sticking to his story because it's true. 178 00:18:43,166 --> 00:18:45,361 Is it supposed to be doing that? 179 00:18:50,086 --> 00:18:52,884 -- Two more minutes. What do you mean 'true'? 180 00:18:53,046 --> 00:18:57,801 -- A girl can't vanish into thin air while walking through a pair of French... 181 00:18:57,966 --> 00:19:03,086 Do you know -- I never know when you're winding me up, that's the trouble 182 00:19:03,246 --> 00:19:06,397 Now, gonna pick us out a bottle of something 183 00:19:08,286 --> 00:19:10,436 Any particular one? 184 00:19:11,566 --> 00:19:12,999 What's this? 185 00:19:13,766 --> 00:19:15,324 -- Oh, petrol. 186 00:19:16,086 --> 00:19:17,439 -- Petrol?! 187 00:19:17,606 --> 00:19:21,360 -- I can't leave it in the car overnight! Things get nicked! 188 00:19:21,526 --> 00:19:23,562 -- I'm gonna put it out in the hall, shouldn't I? 189 00:19:25,126 --> 00:19:27,845 Near the canisters of napalm. 190 00:19:30,206 --> 00:19:34,643 So this is the guy, you reckon, Jacob Flowers, who stuck a note under my wiper. 191 00:19:34,806 --> 00:19:37,036 What's his connection with Pilgrim? 192 00:19:37,206 --> 00:19:39,640 -- Have you heard of American cult "The Creed of Eden"? 193 00:19:39,806 --> 00:19:41,125 -- .... 194 00:19:41,286 --> 00:19:44,278 -- Well, don't ask me what they're into -- some kind of eco-religious thing. 195 00:19:44,446 --> 00:19:47,836 -- The word is God's garden, all life is sacred. 196 00:19:48,006 --> 00:19:51,794 It's easier for a rich man to enter a camel if he stands on a box. 197 00:19:51,966 --> 00:19:55,720 Well this character is their Grand Prophet and founding father. 198 00:19:55,886 --> 00:19:58,878 -- And if you know the history of rock music... -- Intimately. 199 00:19:59,046 --> 00:20:03,005 You know that it was during Edwin Drood's tour of the States, in July '87, 200 00:20:03,166 --> 00:20:06,317 that Roy Pilgrim became disciple of the Order 201 00:20:06,486 --> 00:20:09,284 leading effectively to the breakup of the group 202 00:20:09,446 --> 00:20:13,803 and some fairly ... solo albums about rainforests and dolphins. 203 00:20:15,086 --> 00:20:19,364 So Flowers is gonna stick out with Pilgrim 'cause they're buddies. 204 00:20:19,526 --> 00:20:23,121 or maybe he knows something else about Order that we don't-- 205 00:20:23,286 --> 00:20:29,361 Don't scrape that off! It's meant to be that colour -- it's cajun, blackened catfish. 206 00:20:29,526 --> 00:20:31,756 Looks more like halibut to me. 207 00:20:31,926 --> 00:20:35,441 Well, blackened halibut. I had to improvise. 208 00:20:35,606 --> 00:20:38,359 Less of the pedanticism and just eat? 209 00:20:42,326 --> 00:20:44,317 The word is 'pedantry'. 210 00:20:51,406 --> 00:20:54,159 -- No, Mr. Danziger, a 'trifle baffling' won't do. 211 00:20:54,326 --> 00:20:56,715 A 'trifle baffling' doesn't get near it! 212 00:20:56,886 --> 00:21:01,357 My bride-to-be has flushed me down the toilet! I'm looking at charges of abduction and possibly murder 213 00:21:01,526 --> 00:21:04,404 all because I'm not smart enough to lie my way out of this thing when it really matters! 214 00:21:04,566 --> 00:21:07,922 They can put the entire cast of 'Goodbye Mr. Chips' in the witness stand 215 00:21:08,086 --> 00:21:10,600 but it doesn't change what I saw! 216 00:21:10,766 --> 00:21:13,678 If you're any kind of lawyer, you'd better start getting your-- 217 00:21:13,846 --> 00:21:16,314 Look, I'll call you back. 218 00:21:18,446 --> 00:21:22,155 -- That's the one, then. Can hardly miss it from here. 219 00:21:23,246 --> 00:21:26,477 So, when she pressed this bell, 220 00:21:26,646 --> 00:21:28,364 someone 221 00:21:28,526 --> 00:21:30,642 must've let her in. 222 00:21:30,806 --> 00:21:34,082 -- What are you doing? -- At least check it out. 223 00:21:34,246 --> 00:21:37,044 -- I can't go in there! -- Why not? 224 00:21:37,206 --> 00:21:39,197 -- Roy Pilgrim! 225 00:21:39,366 --> 00:21:41,436 I can't meet Roy Pilg... 226 00:21:42,086 --> 00:21:44,316 You're talking about mythology! 227 00:21:44,486 --> 00:21:50,482 You reduce someone like this to flesh and blood, the whole thing's destroyed! The whole... icon. 228 00:21:50,646 --> 00:21:54,002 -- Jonathan, you're beginning to sound like a prat. 229 00:21:54,166 --> 00:21:55,519 -- Sorry. 230 00:21:55,686 --> 00:21:58,200 What does it take to make you go away? 231 00:21:58,366 --> 00:22:03,121 Look, I'm sorry about yesterday, but I'm really quite inclined to help you actually. 232 00:22:03,286 --> 00:22:05,754 If you'd just take a minute to let us in. 233 00:22:05,926 --> 00:22:07,439 -- What are you? 234 00:22:07,606 --> 00:22:12,122 Right now, Mr. Pilgrim, we're the only hope you've got. 235 00:22:16,126 --> 00:22:21,246 The White Room. I am standing in the White Room! 236 00:22:21,406 --> 00:22:23,442 The White Room! 237 00:22:23,606 --> 00:22:27,485 Well, it's... certainly white all right, no question. 238 00:22:27,646 --> 00:22:31,321 -- The White Room's like... chamber of contemplation 239 00:22:31,486 --> 00:22:33,602 -- It's where I transcend to myself creatively. 240 00:22:39,646 --> 00:22:43,116 And the actual Bandawi Bush Cats! 241 00:22:43,926 --> 00:22:46,281 Utterly amazing! 242 00:22:47,606 --> 00:22:53,078 -- Hand-carved speaker cabinets presented by Gambian percussionist John Bandawi in... 243 00:22:53,246 --> 00:22:57,319 -- What year were you going there? -- 1973. 244 00:22:57,486 --> 00:23:00,523 -- I think you'll find it was '76. 245 00:23:00,686 --> 00:23:07,444 Because "Tribal Jam" didn't hit the charts till early '77. 246 00:23:07,606 --> 00:23:10,518 -- We were in Zaire in '76. 247 00:23:10,686 --> 00:23:16,158 -- No. You were deported from Zaire in May '75. 248 00:23:16,326 --> 00:23:20,604 After Martin Crowe rode into the president's jacuzzi on a wilderbeest. 249 00:23:21,446 --> 00:23:23,198 -- Mad as a lark. 250 00:23:24,166 --> 00:23:28,398 Yeah. Um... I don't suppose you see much of the others now, do you? 251 00:23:28,566 --> 00:23:30,636 Since your friends split up? 252 00:23:31,446 --> 00:23:34,916 -- The band was always riven by petty factionism. 253 00:23:35,086 --> 00:23:37,122 I lived with those guys for fifteen years. 254 00:23:37,286 --> 00:23:39,481 That's fifteen years too long. 255 00:23:39,646 --> 00:23:44,037 -- And then came "The Creed of Eden". That was like a crusade for you? 256 00:23:44,206 --> 00:23:46,674 -- Try to follow my conscience. 257 00:23:47,806 --> 00:23:50,639 -- Jacob Flowers seems to be on your side. 258 00:23:50,806 --> 00:23:53,445 He left a little note on my windscreen. 259 00:23:53,606 --> 00:23:58,122 -- Well, they have a commune about twenty minutes away. Hog's Belly farm. 260 00:23:58,286 --> 00:24:01,801 I've been... a kind of a patron for them. 261 00:24:01,966 --> 00:24:06,517 I guess he's as riled about all this as I am. Hey, is it one o'clock? 262 00:24:06,686 --> 00:24:09,280 I've gotta record "The Waltons". 263 00:24:09,806 --> 00:24:11,683 "The Waltons"? 264 00:24:13,326 --> 00:24:15,317 It'll be two seconds. 265 00:24:15,486 --> 00:24:16,805 Say... 266 00:24:19,886 --> 00:24:21,956 What've you found? Something clever? 267 00:24:22,846 --> 00:24:25,235 The gateway to a parallel dimension? 268 00:24:26,326 --> 00:24:27,918 "The Waltons"? 269 00:24:29,326 --> 00:24:30,805 Jonathan! 270 00:24:30,966 --> 00:24:33,958 -- The French windows. -- What? 271 00:24:35,286 --> 00:24:40,758 What do you want me to say -- they're French windows the people walk in and out of! 272 00:24:42,086 --> 00:24:45,920 The blinds are venetian blinds, and the floor is just a... 273 00:24:51,686 --> 00:24:53,005 -- What? 274 00:24:55,606 --> 00:24:59,281 -- No, it's just how these figures are slightly faded. 275 00:24:59,446 --> 00:25:01,721 You see, down here. 276 00:25:03,366 --> 00:25:06,039 And down here. 277 00:25:09,846 --> 00:25:13,122 They're faded on the wrong side, surely? 278 00:25:14,326 --> 00:25:18,604 -- This pair of speakers, Mr. Pilgrim, they get moved about very often? -- Never. 279 00:25:18,766 --> 00:25:22,918 -- They been positioned like that for perfect balance fifteen years ago. Why do you ask? 280 00:25:24,406 --> 00:25:26,237 -- I could be wrong, 281 00:25:26,406 --> 00:25:30,558 but looks to me is that someone recently swapped them round. 282 00:25:35,726 --> 00:25:37,682 -- Well, I don't know. 283 00:25:37,846 --> 00:25:40,440 I mean, it's just too incredible for words. 284 00:25:41,446 --> 00:25:44,836 Roy Pilgrim watches "The Waltons". 285 00:25:45,006 --> 00:25:47,395 -- Does that make him a murderer? 286 00:25:47,566 --> 00:25:49,841 Here, you can navigate. 287 00:25:50,006 --> 00:25:51,519 -- Where? 288 00:25:51,686 --> 00:25:54,519 --I thought we pay a visit to the Hog's Belly farm. 289 00:26:16,286 --> 00:26:18,197 -- Good day. 290 00:26:18,366 --> 00:26:22,723 -- Hi, my name's... -- Madelin, right? We've been expecting you. 291 00:26:23,806 --> 00:26:25,637 Toby Flowers. 292 00:26:25,806 --> 00:26:28,445 Guess you got the note from my uncle, huh? 293 00:26:28,606 --> 00:26:30,597 -- Well, it did intrigue me. 294 00:26:30,766 --> 00:26:32,961 Oh, this is my friend Jonathan. 295 00:26:33,126 --> 00:26:35,321 -- Oh, Jonathan, hi. Are you a journalist, too? 296 00:26:35,486 --> 00:26:39,365 -- More in the way of a technical advisor, aren't you? 297 00:26:39,526 --> 00:26:41,881 On this business with the missing girl. 298 00:26:42,046 --> 00:26:44,241 -- The weirdest thing, isn't it? 299 00:26:44,406 --> 00:26:49,400 She could've walked in through that window and then somehow never arrived at the other side. 300 00:26:49,566 --> 00:26:51,955 Spooky kind of, wouldn't you say? 301 00:26:53,286 --> 00:26:55,720 Now, you wanna come with me? 302 00:26:55,886 --> 00:26:59,640 I think my uncle Jacob and aunt Polly are keen to see you. 303 00:26:59,806 --> 00:27:02,764 They're just up ahead, bonding with the trees. 304 00:27:02,926 --> 00:27:04,996 -- And up... 305 00:27:06,726 --> 00:27:08,762 ...and down. 306 00:27:08,926 --> 00:27:14,842 Circling and carressing the trunk with your trunk. 307 00:27:20,326 --> 00:27:24,956 And if you feel you want to lick or nibble the bark, don't be afraid to do that. 308 00:27:25,126 --> 00:27:28,243 Let the love flow from your body 309 00:27:28,406 --> 00:27:31,159 rhythmically into the tree. 310 00:27:31,326 --> 00:27:33,362 Down through the roots, 311 00:27:33,526 --> 00:27:35,517 into the earth. 312 00:27:35,686 --> 00:27:39,884 Remember, the tree will get as much pleasure from this as you. 313 00:27:40,046 --> 00:27:44,164 Are you in this often? 314 00:27:44,326 --> 00:27:49,081 -- Since I met Jacob eighteen years ago now. It's a really liberating experience. 315 00:27:49,246 --> 00:27:52,204 -- Especially for Polly, who grew up in East London. 316 00:27:52,366 --> 00:27:56,120 -- Really? Which part? Barking or... -- Mile End, Quite next. 317 00:27:56,286 --> 00:28:01,758 -- I never seen anyone that friendly with a knothole before. It's almost grounds for divorce. 318 00:28:01,926 --> 00:28:05,123 -- You ever been up in the oak tree, Jonathan? 319 00:28:05,446 --> 00:28:09,724 It's true. We all owe a tremendous debt to Roy Pilgrim. 320 00:28:09,886 --> 00:28:14,323 This whole estate, everything you see here, is down to his support 321 00:28:14,486 --> 00:28:16,522 and generosity. 322 00:28:16,686 --> 00:28:21,077 He was the greatest benefactor you could ask for. 323 00:28:21,246 --> 00:28:23,521 -- What do you mean 'was'? 324 00:28:23,686 --> 00:28:28,521 -- I won't pretend this new fiancee of his was devoted to our cause. 325 00:28:28,686 --> 00:28:30,802 Francine Faraday. 326 00:28:30,966 --> 00:28:34,276 She runs a small investment consultancy somewhere, 327 00:28:34,446 --> 00:28:39,156 so she's probably in need of spiritual enlightenment. 328 00:28:39,966 --> 00:28:43,276 -- So what're you saying, she was leading him off the straight and narrow? 329 00:28:43,446 --> 00:28:46,199 -- It's for Roy to choose his own destiny. 330 00:28:46,366 --> 00:28:51,804 We were just glad that he found a relationship that works for him, but now, with all these rumours lying around... 331 00:28:51,966 --> 00:28:57,040 -- If you can shed any light on all this, Madeline, to clear Roy's name, 332 00:28:57,206 --> 00:29:02,644 believe me, your efforts won't go unrewarded. And we're not talking about money here. 333 00:29:02,806 --> 00:29:06,276 Come with me. I wanna show you something. 334 00:29:31,846 --> 00:29:35,077 There're four more on the way back home. 335 00:29:35,246 --> 00:29:40,161 In Utah, Wyoming, Maine and New Mexico. 336 00:29:40,766 --> 00:29:44,805 Because the day will come, make no mistake about that. 337 00:29:45,766 --> 00:29:47,757 And I'll make you a promice. 338 00:29:47,926 --> 00:29:52,681 Help Roy, and there'll be two seats waiting for you 339 00:29:52,846 --> 00:29:55,360 on the journey to the New World. 340 00:29:59,726 --> 00:30:01,398 -- No way! 341 00:30:01,566 --> 00:30:03,557 What, like an Ark as in Noah? 342 00:30:03,726 --> 00:30:07,162 -- Sorry, I don't believe you. -- I don't believe me, and I was there! 343 00:30:07,326 --> 00:30:10,204 I mean, seriously potty people, can't tell you! 344 00:30:10,366 --> 00:30:16,077 -- So what do the police think? ... And he's just gonna bluff it out before they found the body. 345 00:30:16,246 --> 00:30:17,998 If they found the body. 346 00:30:18,166 --> 00:30:21,715 I think it's all down to Marvo the Mystic here. 347 00:30:23,646 --> 00:30:27,082 What happened? Your special powers deserted you all of a sudden? 348 00:30:27,246 --> 00:30:32,718 -- He did find something actually, didn't he? These two funny speaker cabinets just inside the door 349 00:30:32,886 --> 00:30:34,763 have been switched round, he reckon. 350 00:30:34,926 --> 00:30:39,204 -- Because that's where he'd hidden her! After he sawed her in half. 351 00:30:40,046 --> 00:30:41,479 No? 352 00:30:41,646 --> 00:30:45,605 Alright then, why would you swap round the hi-fi speakers? 353 00:30:45,766 --> 00:30:49,554 -- That's the question. -- That's not the question. 354 00:30:49,726 --> 00:30:51,364 -- What d'you mean? 355 00:30:51,526 --> 00:30:54,882 -- Well fairly obviously you woudn't. -- So? What's the point? 356 00:30:55,046 --> 00:30:58,163 -- None whatsoever, I shouild think. 357 00:30:58,326 --> 00:31:00,601 -- Alright, you've lost me. 358 00:31:00,766 --> 00:31:06,602 -- I think, what he's saying is it could be accidental. 359 00:31:07,086 --> 00:31:11,443 Consider this variant. Someone comes into Pilgrim's house 360 00:31:11,606 --> 00:31:16,077 and for whatever reasons moves a pair of identical-looking speakers from the White Room. 361 00:31:16,246 --> 00:31:22,242 Later on they return them and because they're very much the same as one another they put them up the wrong way around. 362 00:31:24,246 --> 00:31:29,274 -- But who would steal a pair of speakers just to put them back again? 363 00:31:31,126 --> 00:31:33,765 -- A very honest burglar? 364 00:31:38,006 --> 00:31:41,885 Better split, I think. Adam said he might call later from Vegas. 365 00:31:42,446 --> 00:31:46,405 -- I thought I'd check out other band members tomorrow. 366 00:31:46,566 --> 00:31:48,716 If I get anything, I'll ring you. 367 00:31:48,886 --> 00:31:50,524 -- See you around, Sheena. 368 00:32:55,926 --> 00:33:01,683 Glen, I'd ... if you got a minute to talk to this journalist about Roy Pilgrim? 369 00:33:01,846 --> 00:33:04,838 -- From... which magazine did you say? -- I didn't, I'm freelance -- Madeline Magellan. 370 00:33:05,006 --> 00:33:11,559 Mr. McArthur! Can't believe I just shook the hand that played rhythm guitar on 'Hoodoo Woman'! 371 00:33:11,726 --> 00:33:16,595 Now I can die happy! And no, I was just after a bit of background actually on your ex-colleague. 372 00:33:16,766 --> 00:33:22,716 -- Now what do you want me to say? That I loathe the money-grabbing son of a bitch with a vengeance? 373 00:33:22,886 --> 00:33:24,444 -- It's starting point. 374 00:33:24,606 --> 00:33:29,316 -- We were young! We just wanted to play the best rock-n-roll in the world! We weren't businessmen! 375 00:33:29,486 --> 00:33:34,355 'Edwin Drood' became a fundraising charity for our management and record companies! 376 00:33:34,526 --> 00:33:37,677 Roy, because he wrote all the songs, got on a sponsorship! 377 00:33:37,846 --> 00:33:40,406 And he was the one who ... 378 00:33:40,566 --> 00:33:43,876 Don't ask me how he did it. I spent last eight years trying to forget. 379 00:33:44,046 --> 00:33:48,756 ... double anchovies? 'Cause I couldn't remember. Max said he did but I could have sworn he's just asked for... 380 00:33:48,926 --> 00:33:50,837 What's this? What's going on? 381 00:33:51,006 --> 00:33:54,203 -- Look, Tex, I'm really sorry, but... -- Jerry? 382 00:33:54,366 --> 00:33:56,084 Who are these chaps? What's up, man? 383 00:33:56,246 --> 00:33:59,841 -- Listen, there comes a time for the greater good of the band when... 384 00:34:00,006 --> 00:34:03,237 -- 'You've been replaced' is what he's trying to say, guys! 385 00:34:03,406 --> 00:34:06,204 -- These things happen. -- Replaced?! But we've been gone for twenty minutes! 386 00:34:06,366 --> 00:34:10,359 -- Blimey, life moves on, you know. Can't we all stay cool about this? 387 00:34:10,526 --> 00:34:14,314 -- Stay cool?! You put together another line-up while we were out for the pizza?! 388 00:34:14,486 --> 00:34:15,999 This is unreal! 389 00:34:16,166 --> 00:34:18,157 -- Jerry, can you handle it for me? 390 00:34:18,326 --> 00:34:20,317 -- It was a tough decision! We needed fresh blood! 391 00:34:20,486 --> 00:34:23,444 -- Yeah, and you're gonna get it, right on these walls! 392 00:34:30,206 --> 00:34:34,563 -- So, do you know about this fiancee of his? 393 00:34:34,726 --> 00:34:39,163 -- Francine Faraday? -- I'd say she struck me as Roy's type at all! 394 00:34:39,326 --> 00:34:41,282 More like a future mother-in-law. 395 00:34:41,446 --> 00:34:43,562 -- What do you mean by that? 396 00:34:43,726 --> 00:34:45,796 -- Who do you say you work for? 397 00:34:45,966 --> 00:34:52,155 -- I'm putting a book together about major cases that the police got horribly wrong! 398 00:34:54,006 --> 00:34:57,919 -- Well, if you want my opinion, you're wasting your time with this one. 399 00:35:01,006 --> 00:35:02,997 -- Thanks for your help. 400 00:35:18,366 --> 00:35:23,315 -- And give her one of these a day. Quite soon she'll be up and running. 401 00:35:23,486 --> 00:35:28,082 -- Anywhere I could wash my hands? -- Sure, right inside, in the kitchen. 402 00:35:47,326 --> 00:35:50,682 -- Toby? Oh my God, what's happened? 403 00:35:50,846 --> 00:35:54,839 -- He appears to have been suffocated or choked or something... 404 00:35:55,006 --> 00:35:57,520 You'd better call the police. 405 00:36:00,646 --> 00:36:02,796 -- There's something in there. 406 00:36:19,126 --> 00:36:21,117 The hell's it? 407 00:36:29,126 --> 00:36:34,678 ...damage. Reason for such vandalism is still a mystery. 408 00:36:34,846 --> 00:36:39,795 The detectives are investigating a bizarre "Silence of the Lambs"-style murder 409 00:36:39,966 --> 00:36:42,526 on Hog's Belly farm, near Wittlingford, 410 00:36:42,686 --> 00:36:46,599 after the victim was found with a dead frog inside of his windpipe. 411 00:36:46,766 --> 00:36:51,715 38-year old Toby Flowers was a member of an American religious sect "The Creed of Eden", 412 00:36:51,886 --> 00:36:54,958 whose members include the rock star Roy Pilgrim, 413 00:36:55,126 --> 00:37:00,359 himself in the news this week in connection with a disappearance of teenager Tracy Cook. 414 00:37:10,286 --> 00:37:11,605 -- Hi. 415 00:37:13,446 --> 00:37:16,358 It's a bit of a night out there. 416 00:37:18,446 --> 00:37:21,756 Before I became a puppet, I was a gynecologist! 417 00:37:21,926 --> 00:37:25,521 I wanted to be a brain surgeon, but I wasn't tall enough! 418 00:37:25,686 --> 00:37:27,358 Here's another one. 419 00:37:27,526 --> 00:37:33,681 What's long and thin and sticky? 420 00:37:35,246 --> 00:37:36,964 A stick! 421 00:37:39,766 --> 00:37:43,441 -- Behold the impecunious rock legend. 422 00:37:44,846 --> 00:37:49,442 As you can see, performing is still my major source of income. 423 00:37:49,606 --> 00:37:55,954 I've got this reputation for instability which I could never get my head around. 424 00:37:56,126 --> 00:37:59,163 No Marty Crow, no way! 425 00:38:01,486 --> 00:38:06,037 Don't want a drummer, who urinates on the audience. Why not? 426 00:38:06,206 --> 00:38:10,085 Personal contact with the public -- very important. 427 00:38:10,246 --> 00:38:16,003 -- Roy Pilgrim. What type of women did he go for, would you say? 428 00:38:16,166 --> 00:38:20,523 -- Let's just say he wouldn't look at you if he'd thought you had too many... 429 00:38:21,686 --> 00:38:24,280 -- Drinks? -- Birthdays. 430 00:38:24,446 --> 00:38:28,997 Closer they were to the legal limit, better he liked them. Good old Roy. 431 00:38:29,166 --> 00:38:33,045 And those days there was plenty around to like, believe me! 432 00:38:33,566 --> 00:38:34,999 But that was then. 433 00:38:35,926 --> 00:38:38,394 His tastes could've changed. 434 00:38:40,126 --> 00:38:41,605 -- Right. 435 00:38:55,526 --> 00:38:57,915 "Hocus Pocus Junior"! 436 00:38:58,086 --> 00:39:02,523 -- I saw it in some bookshop. I thought "What the hell, 437 00:39:02,686 --> 00:39:04,517 I'll pop it round." 438 00:39:04,686 --> 00:39:08,645 -- You thought "pop it round" and drove thirty five miles from London to bring it here? 439 00:39:08,806 --> 00:39:12,082 -- Well, you weren't exactly hard to find. 440 00:39:13,406 --> 00:39:15,397 -- I mean, if it's no good to you... 441 00:39:15,566 --> 00:39:18,922 -- It's one of a classic texts on medieval magic. 442 00:39:19,086 --> 00:39:21,236 What do I owe you? 443 00:39:22,446 --> 00:39:24,721 -- What you can give me? 444 00:39:28,646 --> 00:39:31,160 -- Where's your other half tonight? 445 00:39:31,326 --> 00:39:33,237 -- I shudder to think. 446 00:39:34,406 --> 00:39:36,636 Whoever she is, she's got my sympathy. 447 00:39:36,806 --> 00:39:40,321 Sex for Greg is someone to talk to while he's doing pushups. 448 00:39:40,486 --> 00:39:45,719 If they could invent the exercise bike that says "God, that was wonderful!", I think he'll propose! I really do! 449 00:39:45,886 --> 00:39:50,243 Yes, I've never met a man before whose IQ is the same as his prow size. 450 00:39:50,406 --> 00:39:52,442 It's an nteresting combina... 451 00:39:53,566 --> 00:39:56,922 -- Help yourself to a sherry, by the way. -- Thanks. 452 00:40:00,846 --> 00:40:02,677 I've got a theory. 453 00:40:02,846 --> 00:40:06,964 About those speakers. Why would someone take them out of the room. 454 00:40:07,126 --> 00:40:08,718 -- Go on. 455 00:40:09,766 --> 00:40:11,358 -- He was hypnotized, right? 456 00:40:12,726 --> 00:40:17,197 Someone took the speakers away, rigged them up to play some recording, 457 00:40:17,366 --> 00:40:21,564 that made him forget he'd seen the girl coming through the window. 458 00:40:25,246 --> 00:40:26,759 -- Right. 459 00:40:28,086 --> 00:40:29,804 Involuntary hypnosis? 460 00:40:29,966 --> 00:40:31,445 -- Uh-huh. 461 00:40:31,606 --> 00:40:35,884 -- Not quite sure Roy Pilgrim is the man to go under without a fight. 462 00:40:36,046 --> 00:40:40,995 And why would anyone do all that if they supposed to just dangle the watch chain before his nose? 463 00:40:41,166 --> 00:40:42,645 -- Because... 464 00:40:42,806 --> 00:40:44,319 they... 465 00:40:46,086 --> 00:40:48,077 ...didn't do that at all. 466 00:40:48,766 --> 00:40:52,998 -- So what did they do? -- Why have you come here? 467 00:40:55,446 --> 00:40:57,243 -- 'Cause I like you. 468 00:40:58,566 --> 00:41:00,716 Can't resist the puzzle. 469 00:41:05,486 --> 00:41:08,637 -- Let me into your mind. -- Sorry? 470 00:41:14,886 --> 00:41:16,877 -- Lecture me. 471 00:41:20,246 --> 00:41:21,884 -- Right. 472 00:41:22,886 --> 00:41:24,444 Let's recap. 473 00:41:25,566 --> 00:41:29,275 Last Monday, sixteen-year old girl, 474 00:41:30,846 --> 00:41:32,802 ...Tracy Cook... 475 00:41:32,966 --> 00:41:37,039 goes round to visit her hero, rock star Roy Pilgrim. 476 00:41:37,206 --> 00:41:42,564 Half a dozen schoolboys see her walking through the French windows in the back of the house 477 00:41:42,726 --> 00:41:44,364 into the White Room. 478 00:41:44,526 --> 00:41:47,165 That's proven fact. Beyond dispute. 479 00:41:47,326 --> 00:41:50,045 Exact same time, four o'clock, 480 00:41:50,206 --> 00:41:55,121 Pilgrim swears he was in the room, fully conscious, handcuffed to the radiator 481 00:41:55,286 --> 00:41:57,197 and saw noone come in. 482 00:41:57,366 --> 00:41:58,924 -- His watch was wrong. 483 00:42:00,686 --> 00:42:04,725 -- He knew the time 'cause he was listening to the radio. That's not the point. 484 00:42:04,886 --> 00:42:07,480 He says he was awake all afternoon. 485 00:42:07,646 --> 00:42:11,719 The only time he grabbed any sleep is during the night. 486 00:42:11,886 --> 00:42:15,765 -- So he has to be lying. Nothing else makes sense. 487 00:42:15,926 --> 00:42:18,679 -- But what he says makes even less sense. 488 00:42:18,846 --> 00:42:21,440 Why would he go to all that trouble making up a story like that? 489 00:42:21,606 --> 00:42:26,202 He could easily have said he wasn't in the house at all, or he was in the room, but he was still unconscious. 490 00:42:26,366 --> 00:42:28,277 Noone could prove otherwise. 491 00:42:28,446 --> 00:42:33,042 No, instead of that, he says the one thing that no jury in the world is gonna believe, 492 00:42:33,206 --> 00:42:37,245 that noone came in through the door. Why? Because it's true. 493 00:42:37,406 --> 00:42:39,601 -- Both stories can't be true. 494 00:42:39,766 --> 00:42:41,085 It's impossible. 495 00:42:41,766 --> 00:42:44,997 -- Is it? -- Yes, it is! 496 00:42:45,166 --> 00:42:50,081 You've been there. You've inspected it. The police have inspected it. 497 00:42:50,246 --> 00:42:54,034 How can she just've vanished into... into the ether?! 498 00:42:54,206 --> 00:42:57,562 Like some... some phantom, or... 499 00:43:02,326 --> 00:43:04,840 -- What's the matter, you got a frog in your throat? 500 00:43:24,926 --> 00:43:26,757 -- I'll get it. 501 00:43:56,046 --> 00:43:57,843 -- Jonathan Creek. 502 00:43:59,286 --> 00:44:02,323 -- Sorry, I know it's early. 503 00:44:02,486 --> 00:44:06,638 -- Did I wake you? -- Uh... No, that's fine. 504 00:44:07,846 --> 00:44:09,438 You well? 505 00:44:09,606 --> 00:44:12,723 Wanted to bring you up today on yesterday. 506 00:44:12,886 --> 00:44:14,365 I got my reaction now. 507 00:44:15,326 --> 00:44:16,918 He did it. 508 00:44:17,086 --> 00:44:22,763 And this thing about young girls seems to check out. 509 00:44:22,926 --> 00:44:26,521 And both his erstwhile buddies had said the same thing. 510 00:44:26,686 --> 00:44:31,760 So... I know it looked promising, but... 511 00:44:31,926 --> 00:44:36,556 I've got a feeling we should ditch it, probably. We're barking up the wrong tree. 512 00:44:37,726 --> 00:44:42,163 Funnily enough, I've just come to the exact opposite conclusion. 513 00:44:42,326 --> 00:44:48,356 I draw you attention at page 197 of the "Observer's Book of Frogs". 514 00:44:58,006 --> 00:44:59,325 ...?! 515 00:44:59,486 --> 00:45:03,718 -- He's done nothing wrong! -- You've got no evidence! Nothing! 516 00:45:03,886 --> 00:45:07,435 -- Roy, trust the Lord! -- Vindictive bastards! 517 00:45:07,606 --> 00:45:11,155 -- He's done nothing wrong! -- You go straight to Hell! 518 00:45:11,326 --> 00:45:16,844 -- And you go straight down the nick ... this! Sergeant, get those bloody lunatics down from there! 519 00:45:31,806 --> 00:45:33,637 -- What's happening? 520 00:45:33,806 --> 00:45:35,683 Has he been charged? 521 00:45:35,846 --> 00:45:39,725 -- Well, he's not there to keep the seat warm! You wanna speak to him? 522 00:45:39,886 --> 00:45:44,402 -- No, I just came to collect one or two things. Would that still be possible? 523 00:45:44,566 --> 00:45:46,557 -- The house is all yours. 524 00:46:03,446 --> 00:46:06,722 -- They've taken him! As we knew they would. 525 00:46:06,886 --> 00:46:10,515 -- God Help him! -- Without a shred of proof, of course! 526 00:46:10,686 --> 00:46:15,237 -- Where do we go from here? -- I think, the back gate is the place he's in. 527 00:46:59,766 --> 00:47:03,884 -- Yes, Ms. Faraday? -- I was... looking for my hairbrush. 528 00:47:04,046 --> 00:47:05,638 I used to keep... 529 00:47:05,806 --> 00:47:08,366 -- What's this? I thought you've... -- Not quite, Ms. Faraday. 530 00:47:08,526 --> 00:47:11,882 But fear not, the arrest will be made very shortly. 531 00:47:12,046 --> 00:47:16,164 Though it sticks in the craw to admit the Press had any hand in this, 532 00:47:16,326 --> 00:47:21,480 I'm afraid it's down to our friend here that I started seeing this business in a new light. 533 00:47:24,486 --> 00:47:27,842 -- Go on, you're dying to tell them. -- Is she? 534 00:47:28,006 --> 00:47:31,362 Well, you can all stay to listen, I'm off! 535 00:47:31,526 --> 00:47:34,438 -- Yes, you don't have to hang about, do you, Francine? 536 00:47:34,606 --> 00:47:38,758 Same as when your husband ... suspected of murder. You were off like a bullet! 537 00:47:38,926 --> 00:47:41,838 So wonderful to have faith in the one you love! 538 00:47:42,006 --> 00:47:47,364 -- Oh please. You think any woman and I ... take his word for it? 539 00:47:47,526 --> 00:47:52,122 -- But course they wouldn't, and that's exactly what you were banking on... 540 00:47:52,286 --> 00:47:56,598 Mr. and Mrs. Flowers, when you engineered this whole affair. 541 00:47:56,766 --> 00:47:58,882 -- I beg your pardon?! 542 00:47:59,046 --> 00:48:01,480 -- Not mine to grant, unfortunately. 543 00:48:01,646 --> 00:48:04,877 I don't imagine the judge will be too lenient either after what you've done. 544 00:48:05,046 --> 00:48:08,561 -- We've stood full square behind Rou from the word go. 545 00:48:08,726 --> 00:48:13,117 -- Yes, I don't think believing in someone's innocence 546 00:48:13,286 --> 00:48:16,676 when you were the one who framed him, quite counts as loyalty, does it? 547 00:48:16,846 --> 00:48:19,155 -- Why on Earth would we frame Roy? 548 00:48:19,326 --> 00:48:23,285 -- To get rid of the one person who was a threat to your income. 549 00:48:24,406 --> 00:48:29,241 The logic of shelling out millions of pounds every year to people who have sex with trees, 550 00:48:29,406 --> 00:48:31,397 was a bit lost on you, wasn't it? 551 00:48:31,566 --> 00:48:34,603 Roy's interest in Creed was on the wane. 552 00:48:34,766 --> 00:48:38,042 'Course, if you would've married... Oh dear! 553 00:48:38,206 --> 00:48:40,879 Serious cash flow problems. 554 00:48:41,046 --> 00:48:43,196 So, she'd to be scared off. 555 00:48:43,366 --> 00:48:44,799 Sharpish. 556 00:48:44,966 --> 00:48:48,800 -- You're saying it was like a trick? To set me up? 557 00:48:48,966 --> 00:48:53,642 -- Like all the best tricks, it was blindingly simple in theory 558 00:48:53,806 --> 00:48:56,684 and fantasticly elaborated in practice. 559 00:48:56,846 --> 00:49:02,523 But then, to a bunch of people building an Ark in their back garden, all things were possible. 560 00:49:07,486 --> 00:49:11,320 Staging the breaking and putting him out were the easy bit. 561 00:49:18,206 --> 00:49:20,595 An hour later, he comes round 562 00:49:20,766 --> 00:49:23,838 to find he's trapped inside the White Room. 563 00:49:24,006 --> 00:49:25,803 -- HEEEEEEELP! 564 00:49:28,326 --> 00:49:31,443 He remains fully conscious for the rest of the day. 565 00:49:31,606 --> 00:49:36,157 During which the only thing that comes through the door is a small red-bellied frog. 566 00:49:43,566 --> 00:49:49,596 -- At the same time a teenage girl, not noted for a froglike appearance, 567 00:49:49,766 --> 00:49:54,840 is seen entering the door from the outside by a bunch of boys at the back gate. 568 00:49:55,006 --> 00:49:57,474 There's no ... answer. 569 00:49:57,646 --> 00:50:02,037 Until you realise the whole thing was a classic piece of misdirection. 570 00:50:02,206 --> 00:50:05,915 which relied on us all making one very false assumption. 571 00:50:06,086 --> 00:50:11,319 That in both versions of events, we were talking about the same door. 572 00:50:17,126 --> 00:50:20,402 A shame you couldn't have followed that frog, Roy, 573 00:50:20,566 --> 00:50:23,080 as it hopped back outside 574 00:50:33,526 --> 00:50:38,316 I think you would've been impressed by the handiwork of the drones down the Hog's Belly farm. 575 00:50:38,486 --> 00:50:44,243 God knows how long it took them to carpent the exact replica of the room down to every last detail 576 00:50:44,406 --> 00:50:49,526 But I think we can assume months of planning and careful preparation when you weren't around, 577 00:50:56,726 --> 00:51:00,162 sifting through the fanmail for a suitable candidate 578 00:51:00,326 --> 00:51:03,796 and forging a letter that would bring her here. 579 00:51:15,406 --> 00:51:19,445 Tracy Cook is instructed to call at the back gate at four o'clock, 580 00:51:19,606 --> 00:51:23,963 because you knew there'd be plenty of witnesses then to watch her going in. 581 00:51:26,206 --> 00:51:30,518 Inside, I don't know, she's told of some change of plan. 582 00:51:30,686 --> 00:51:32,483 Roy's gonna meet her at the farm. 583 00:51:32,646 --> 00:51:36,798 Whatever, she's whisked about the front to be hidden away somewhere. 584 00:51:36,966 --> 00:51:42,518 All this time, Roy's been sitting in what he thinks is his own back room, jotting down songs. 585 00:51:42,686 --> 00:51:47,202 Of course, the one thing you couldn't replicate was the hand-carved speakers from Africa. 586 00:51:47,366 --> 00:51:49,926 But that's not problem -- you just took them with you. 587 00:51:51,806 --> 00:51:54,764 Finally it gets dark, Roy nods off. 588 00:51:54,926 --> 00:51:57,918 And that's when you pull a second switch, 589 00:51:58,086 --> 00:52:00,680 making sure he won't wake up on the way. 590 00:52:13,126 --> 00:52:15,003 And back he goes into his own room. 591 00:52:15,166 --> 00:52:19,876 Along with the speaker cabinets which we know ended up the wrong way around. 592 00:52:21,966 --> 00:52:25,641 -- As compromising setups go, it was a gem! 593 00:52:27,086 --> 00:52:30,237 The man's convicted by his own honesty. 594 00:52:30,406 --> 00:52:34,558 While you lot leap about in his defense to keep the handouts coming. 595 00:52:34,726 --> 00:52:37,763 -- Well, you got a colourful imagination. 596 00:52:37,926 --> 00:52:40,963 -- And you've got a colourful frog. 597 00:52:41,126 --> 00:52:43,845 Lots of them, you reckon? 598 00:52:44,006 --> 00:52:46,440 Where's your little book? 599 00:52:48,566 --> 00:52:50,238 -- Look familiar? 600 00:52:51,726 --> 00:52:55,002 The Anasazi river toad. 601 00:52:57,166 --> 00:53:01,284 Much prized by the indians of New Mexico and many others, 602 00:53:01,446 --> 00:53:04,119 for its narcotic secretions. 603 00:53:04,286 --> 00:53:07,244 Quickest way to get a fix, basically, 604 00:53:07,406 --> 00:53:09,601 is you put it in your mouth and suck. 605 00:53:09,766 --> 00:53:14,123 -- Being careful not to overdo it, or you'll end up like poor old Toby. 606 00:53:16,206 --> 00:53:19,039 -- That's what joined it all up, I have to say. 607 00:53:19,206 --> 00:53:22,994 If these frogs are being bred on a commune at Hog's Belly farm, 608 00:53:23,166 --> 00:53:27,637 how the hell did one of them appeared at these French windows nearly fifteen miles away? 609 00:53:27,806 --> 00:53:31,276 Unless it'd gone for a really long walk or hitched a lift, 610 00:53:31,446 --> 00:53:36,236 there was only one explanation -- that it never left the farm in the first place. 611 00:53:36,406 --> 00:53:41,196 And as ludicrous as it sounds, the window and the room 612 00:53:41,366 --> 00:53:43,243 and Roy Pilgrim... 613 00:53:46,726 --> 00:53:49,399 had to be there as well. 614 00:53:51,286 --> 00:53:54,722 I'm sorry, I think my head ... I can't take this in. 615 00:53:56,846 --> 00:54:01,158 -- The lads are turning your place over even as we speak. 616 00:54:01,326 --> 00:54:04,602 You could save them time by telling where she is. 617 00:54:07,246 --> 00:54:09,806 What the hell, let them have fun. 618 00:54:29,606 --> 00:54:31,597 -- Cor, look at this! 619 00:54:59,726 --> 00:55:01,557 -- Down the steps. 620 00:55:25,966 --> 00:55:28,116 -- Can we turn this down a bit? 621 00:55:36,806 --> 00:55:40,879 So what they were going to do, what you think? Just keep her locked up there indefinitely? 622 00:55:41,046 --> 00:55:46,120 -- Or work on her mind. Couple of years of brainwashing, and she'd be one of them. 623 00:55:46,286 --> 00:55:48,117 Wouldn't be the first time. 624 00:55:48,286 --> 00:55:50,402 Anyway, thanks. 625 00:55:50,566 --> 00:55:55,594 Again. I'll talk to Barry about cutting you in on this book, when it's done. 626 00:55:55,766 --> 00:55:58,838 -- What for? -- I don't ... nothing. 627 00:56:00,646 --> 00:56:02,318 -- Fair enough, then. 628 00:56:05,126 --> 00:56:08,516 -- You'd take it as well, wouldn't you, penny-pinching bastard! 629 00:56:08,686 --> 00:56:11,962 Do you know how much I make in the end of the day from all this? Not very much, 630 00:56:12,126 --> 00:56:15,880 compared to some people, that to say, a prostitute or something! 631 00:56:16,046 --> 00:56:19,083 But I'd rather have something I believe in, actually. And if you want my opinion, I think 632 00:56:19,246 --> 00:56:23,842 casual sex is a sign of a very shallow personality, but there we are! 633 00:56:25,766 --> 00:56:27,802 -- Have you've been sucking a frog? 634 00:56:28,926 --> 00:56:30,996 -- I beg your pardon?! 635 00:56:48,766 --> 00:56:51,724 You'd better hurry, and you won't miss a train. 636 00:56:51,886 --> 00:56:54,958 "I'd better hurry or I won't miss my train"! What sort of gibberish is that? 637 00:56:55,126 --> 00:56:58,641 -- Oh Jonathan, stop being clever! For once! 638 00:56:58,806 --> 00:57:00,159 And just go! 639 00:57:02,806 --> 00:57:07,675 -- Ah, I get it. That phone call you made to Sheena just before we got in the car. 640 00:57:07,846 --> 00:57:12,317 She told you that she spent last night in my place and now you've got the hump. 641 00:57:12,486 --> 00:57:16,081 -- Who's got the hump?! -- Because you think we slept together! 642 00:57:17,286 --> 00:57:22,519 -- Whether or not you and Sheena slept together, 643 00:57:22,686 --> 00:57:25,246 is your business and her business. 644 00:57:25,406 --> 00:57:28,159 It's certainly none of my business. 645 00:57:28,326 --> 00:57:31,682 Quite frankly, I have no desire to even discuss the matter. 646 00:57:31,846 --> 00:57:35,805 -- So if I say: "I'd rather poke red-hot needles down my fingernails than poke Sheena---" 647 00:57:35,966 --> 00:57:39,402 -- It would be a matter of no consequence to me whatsoever. 648 00:57:39,566 --> 00:57:46,165 In fact, I find it extremely offensive and highly insulting to my best friend! 649 00:57:47,046 --> 00:57:48,559 -- Right. 650 00:57:48,726 --> 00:57:51,194 I'll see you around, then. 651 00:57:51,366 --> 00:57:52,685 -- Yes! 652 00:58:13,646 --> 00:58:15,477 YES!!