1 00:00:01,942 --> 00:00:05,821 I'm sorry. Were you praying? I heard the words "Oh, God" several times. 2 00:00:05,982 --> 00:00:07,779 Duncan, please... 3 00:00:07,982 --> 00:00:12,612 A chap could come to a very sticky end if he did something silly. 4 00:00:12,822 --> 00:00:14,699 Duncan! 5 00:00:14,902 --> 00:00:17,735 We all have to learn to deal with rejection. 6 00:00:17,942 --> 00:00:20,376 - Bye, Fliss. - No! 7 00:00:23,462 --> 00:00:28,013 Tell me you never loved me. You can't. 8 00:00:28,182 --> 00:00:30,571 Felicity... I never loved you. 9 00:00:35,022 --> 00:00:39,573 Neville is happy with me. That should make you happy, too. 10 00:00:42,182 --> 00:00:45,174 - You're insane! - I think you forgot something. 11 00:00:45,382 --> 00:00:47,373 You never mentioned your sister. 12 00:00:47,542 --> 00:00:49,737 Hello, Chester. How are you? 13 00:00:49,942 --> 00:00:51,660 Hewie Harper, 14 00:00:51,822 --> 00:00:54,973 - the legendary blind jazz musician... - Right. 15 00:00:55,182 --> 00:00:56,615 - Oh! - Oh! 16 00:00:56,822 --> 00:01:01,657 - .. isn't blind. - It's me. Kitty. 17 00:01:13,582 --> 00:01:16,972 - You coming or not? - What have you found? 18 00:01:24,542 --> 00:01:28,091 Fell out the killer's pocket, you reckon, in the struggle? 19 00:01:34,702 --> 00:01:40,379 Yes, police? A woman's been murdered. 14 Gallows Gate. 20 00:01:42,102 --> 00:01:45,572 As God is my lord and judge, that's him. 21 00:01:46,422 --> 00:01:48,856 If you'd just tell us his name, please. 22 00:01:49,622 --> 00:01:54,298 I'm sorry, Inspector, she's made a mistake, I'm afraid. 23 00:01:55,262 --> 00:01:57,981 That man couldn't possibly have murdered Felicity. 24 00:01:58,182 --> 00:02:00,173 Oh? What makes you so sure? 25 00:02:00,342 --> 00:02:03,732 Because that man's Duncan Proctor. 26 00:02:03,902 --> 00:02:08,339 He killed himself three weeks ago, jumping out of a window. 27 00:02:11,702 --> 00:02:15,297 "DANSE MACABRE" BY SAINT SAËNS) 28 00:02:37,462 --> 00:02:41,250 I'm sorry, Miss Sallinger, there are a lot of names here. 29 00:02:41,422 --> 00:02:45,415 I just need to separate them all in my head. 30 00:02:45,582 --> 00:02:48,415 Felicity Vale was in bed with this chap Neville? 31 00:02:48,622 --> 00:02:52,331 And when Duncan walked in and found them together... 32 00:02:52,502 --> 00:02:55,494 I mean, he was just ga-ga about Fliss. 33 00:02:56,022 --> 00:03:00,174 Ga-ga all told. God knows how much he'd drunk that night. 34 00:03:00,342 --> 00:03:03,015 He just opened a window and... 35 00:03:04,262 --> 00:03:06,457 OK. We'll leave it there for tonight. 36 00:03:08,382 --> 00:03:11,977 Obviously, I'll need more from both of you. 37 00:03:12,182 --> 00:03:16,414 For now, we'll organise a couple of cars to run you home. 38 00:03:16,582 --> 00:03:18,573 You see to that. 39 00:03:21,982 --> 00:03:25,611 You two haven't got to be anywhere special, have you? 40 00:03:26,582 --> 00:03:30,541 Er, look... We've already told you everything we... 41 00:03:30,702 --> 00:03:34,854 But I don't think we got a formal statement down, did we? 42 00:03:36,982 --> 00:03:41,214 If you just pop next door with WPC Hicks for a moment... 43 00:03:48,102 --> 00:03:51,412 .. while I get your version down in here. 44 00:03:52,622 --> 00:03:57,138 What do you mean, "version"? I don't very much like the implication... 45 00:03:57,302 --> 00:04:00,499 Madeline... Magellan. 46 00:04:00,702 --> 00:04:04,934 How are we spelling that surname? Oh, hang on. Of course. 47 00:04:06,462 --> 00:04:10,091 It'll be on here, won't it? 48 00:04:10,702 --> 00:04:13,500 "Scales of Injustice". 49 00:04:13,662 --> 00:04:20,932 "An exposé of ten shamefully inept criminal prosecutions compiled by... " 50 00:04:22,302 --> 00:04:25,021 One G, two Ls. 51 00:04:29,502 --> 00:04:31,493 This is unreal. 52 00:04:33,062 --> 00:04:35,053 What am I, Joseph K? 53 00:04:38,462 --> 00:04:42,341 You realise this is completely illegal when I haven't been charged? 54 00:04:47,902 --> 00:04:49,699 Look... 55 00:04:50,702 --> 00:04:53,170 I need to go to the toilet. 56 00:05:15,942 --> 00:05:18,775 But... You're not going to give him the key?! 57 00:05:20,942 --> 00:05:22,933 You're not serious? 58 00:05:23,982 --> 00:05:27,133 You know what? This is bordering on date rape. 59 00:05:27,302 --> 00:05:30,339 Before you touch anything, I demand to see your fingernails! 60 00:05:31,982 --> 00:05:35,418 So, just to get my bearings again here... 61 00:05:37,142 --> 00:05:43,900 when we arrived, the front door was bolted on the inside... wasn't it? 62 00:05:44,062 --> 00:05:48,578 Back door locked. Windows all locked. 63 00:05:48,742 --> 00:05:52,417 And the only people inside the house, apart from the victim, 64 00:05:52,582 --> 00:05:56,495 were you and your friend Lassie in there. 65 00:05:57,622 --> 00:05:59,419 Oh, what...? 66 00:06:00,022 --> 00:06:05,221 We both strangled her, then rang you up so you'd come and arrest us 67 00:06:05,422 --> 00:06:09,415 Hang on. Not too fast. "We both strangled... " 68 00:06:09,622 --> 00:06:12,056 Oh, very good. 69 00:06:13,542 --> 00:06:19,174 Why was it, do you suppose, you weren't nominated at the British Comedy Awards? 70 00:06:22,622 --> 00:06:25,659 Come on. Wakey-wakey. 71 00:06:30,022 --> 00:06:32,092 Hello? 72 00:06:45,422 --> 00:06:46,855 Uh! 73 00:06:49,342 --> 00:06:52,573 Not funny, Jonathan Creek... 74 00:06:53,662 --> 00:06:55,937 in any respect. 75 00:06:56,102 --> 00:06:58,900 Oh, God. 76 00:07:00,222 --> 00:07:03,214 I was being strangled by a giant badger. 77 00:07:03,822 --> 00:07:05,858 What time is it? 78 00:07:06,022 --> 00:07:10,379 Practically time to go to bed. We didn't get in till gone seven. 79 00:07:11,262 --> 00:07:15,460 Those bastards. Wait till I get the chance to make them sweat. 80 00:07:16,102 --> 00:07:19,572 How come when I stay at your place, I get the sofa, 81 00:07:19,862 --> 00:07:22,660 and when you stay here, I still get the sofa? 82 00:07:22,862 --> 00:07:26,696 Because you're being terribly chivalrous and gentlemanly, 83 00:07:26,862 --> 00:07:30,093 and very solicitous of my welfare. 84 00:07:30,262 --> 00:07:32,253 Don't I get any food? 85 00:07:34,102 --> 00:07:38,300 So, logically, there are only two possibilities here, basically. 86 00:07:38,462 --> 00:07:40,453 Number one, Kitty got it wrong 87 00:07:40,662 --> 00:07:45,782 and she didn't see this Duncan Proctor, just someone who looked a bit like him. 88 00:07:46,942 --> 00:07:50,491 Or two, it was him, and he isn't really dead. 89 00:07:51,662 --> 00:07:57,134 Except his chums were there when he threw himself out of that window. 90 00:07:57,302 --> 00:07:59,862 - Is that what she said? - That's what she said. 91 00:08:00,062 --> 00:08:03,099 - Where do you keep your salt? - That cupboard. 92 00:08:04,902 --> 00:08:07,575 Top shelf, right at the back... 93 00:08:07,782 --> 00:08:10,535 there's a leaflet explaining why it's bad for you. 94 00:08:17,382 --> 00:08:20,101 All right... Evidence. 95 00:08:20,742 --> 00:08:22,733 Wish I'd made a list now, 96 00:08:22,902 --> 00:08:26,338 but no doubt you can remember it all, Mr Photographic Memory. 97 00:08:26,502 --> 00:08:29,699 That pipe under the washbasin. 98 00:08:30,622 --> 00:08:33,136 Duncan Proctor was a pipe-smoker. 99 00:08:33,302 --> 00:08:35,816 You'll say it could have been put there deliberately. 100 00:08:35,982 --> 00:08:38,098 - It WAS put there deliberately. - Because? 101 00:08:38,742 --> 00:08:42,940 If it had fallen from a pocket, the loose ash would have spilled out. 102 00:08:44,262 --> 00:08:49,336 Hang on. This doesn't make sense, does it? Why frame a man who's dead? 103 00:08:49,542 --> 00:08:54,570 Why did he take her stockings off after he killed her and throw them in that bin? 104 00:08:55,182 --> 00:08:57,252 How do you work that out? 105 00:08:57,422 --> 00:09:01,893 You said three had been washed. The other two she was obviously wearing. 106 00:09:02,062 --> 00:09:06,578 - Why obviously? - Her shoes were next to her on the floor. 107 00:09:06,742 --> 00:09:10,621 A pair of tight-fitting boots. There's no way they fell off. 108 00:09:10,782 --> 00:09:14,491 They were deliberately removed there in the bathroom. 109 00:09:14,702 --> 00:09:18,092 - Would you wear those boots on bare feet? - All right, 110 00:09:18,262 --> 00:09:20,412 but the word "why" springs to mind. 111 00:09:21,902 --> 00:09:25,895 It's got an echo of something I just can't access. 112 00:09:27,142 --> 00:09:29,861 What the hell does that remind you of? 113 00:09:32,302 --> 00:09:35,738 Oh, it'll come when it's ready. What are your plans for today? 114 00:09:36,662 --> 00:09:41,178 My plans? OUR plans. What do you think? Going back to Gallows Gate. 115 00:09:41,382 --> 00:09:44,454 To find out how a woman could be murdered by a ghost. 116 00:09:47,262 --> 00:09:51,494 You've seen everything there is to see. I've had three journalists here already. 117 00:09:51,702 --> 00:09:55,092 My hairdryer's just exploded, so it's not the best time... 118 00:09:55,302 --> 00:10:00,217 No problem. Jonathan's brilliant with anything electrical, aren't you? 119 00:10:04,262 --> 00:10:07,698 So, she was here first, then, Felicity? 120 00:10:07,862 --> 00:10:10,934 - You'd been sharing how long? - Coming up to two years. 121 00:10:11,102 --> 00:10:16,222 Ironically, I thought it'd be safer out here from crime, burglaries. 122 00:10:16,382 --> 00:10:22,093 Well, you've been on the receiving end. You know London. I never dreamt... 123 00:10:26,302 --> 00:10:29,977 What did she do, then, exactly? Some sort of graphic designer? 124 00:10:30,142 --> 00:10:32,292 She was a cartoonist. Animation work. 125 00:10:32,462 --> 00:10:37,582 Have you seen that advert for soup with the mushrooms jumping into a pot? 126 00:10:37,742 --> 00:10:41,132 You're kidding? Are you an artist, as well? 127 00:10:41,302 --> 00:10:44,294 Me? Can't draw a circle round a penny. 128 00:10:44,502 --> 00:10:47,414 Osteopathy is my line of work. 129 00:10:47,582 --> 00:10:51,097 I have a little practice in town, off the Charing Cross Road. 130 00:10:51,262 --> 00:10:57,417 Last night was a bit of a late one. If I'd got back half an hour earlier... 131 00:11:17,742 --> 00:11:20,415 Oh, this is ridiculous! 132 00:11:20,902 --> 00:11:24,656 - Problem? - The tape's gone from the answerphone. 133 00:11:24,822 --> 00:11:27,211 Yes, I noticed that last night. 134 00:11:27,382 --> 00:11:30,419 No, I mean the second one. 135 00:11:30,622 --> 00:11:34,820 I put another tape in this morning to replace the one that went missing. 136 00:11:35,822 --> 00:11:40,293 Now that's gone, as well. How in the name of God did that...? 137 00:11:41,422 --> 00:11:43,652 Oh, great. We back in action? 138 00:11:48,702 --> 00:11:50,693 I did my best. 139 00:11:51,582 --> 00:11:55,370 This party you all went to at Duncan's house, where did you say it was? 140 00:11:55,542 --> 00:11:59,376 Northumberland. The other end of the earth, it felt like. 141 00:11:59,542 --> 00:12:03,137 - He lived there on his own? - Had no family, as far as I know. 142 00:12:03,302 --> 00:12:05,816 He'd been in the Army a while, 143 00:12:05,982 --> 00:12:09,895 had friends still serving, but he never saw it as a career. 144 00:12:13,902 --> 00:12:17,372 And when he met Felicity, he just fell hopelessly in love? 145 00:12:17,542 --> 00:12:19,578 I don't think Duncan loved Fliss. 146 00:12:19,742 --> 00:12:23,496 She wasn't easy to love. She wasn't easy to understand at all. 147 00:12:23,662 --> 00:12:26,779 He was obsessed with her, which is quite another thing. 148 00:12:26,942 --> 00:12:31,891 That's why he did it, I'm sure, when he found out about Neville - to punish her. 149 00:12:32,062 --> 00:12:35,134 Of course, a week later, Neville had already found someone else. 150 00:12:35,302 --> 00:12:38,294 - Oriental lady? - That's right. 151 00:12:38,462 --> 00:12:42,501 He'd told Fliss it was all over. She just couldn't deal with it. 152 00:12:42,662 --> 00:12:45,779 I mean, it demolished her completely. 153 00:12:47,662 --> 00:12:50,222 So... how did he do it? 154 00:12:53,342 --> 00:12:55,412 - Sorry? - Duncan. 155 00:12:55,622 --> 00:12:59,695 How could he have jumped to his death in full view of everyone, 156 00:12:59,862 --> 00:13:02,695 and then come back to commit a murder? 157 00:13:02,862 --> 00:13:04,853 How can he possibly be alive? 158 00:13:05,822 --> 00:13:08,336 - Well, he can't, can he? - Yet he is. 159 00:13:10,582 --> 00:13:14,814 - What do you mean? - I thought that was why you both... 160 00:13:14,982 --> 00:13:17,974 - You mean you don't know? - Know what? 161 00:13:19,142 --> 00:13:21,861 The police rang just before you arrived. 162 00:13:22,022 --> 00:13:26,493 Those boots Felicity was wearing that she bought only three days ago, 163 00:13:26,662 --> 00:13:29,620 Duncan's fingerprints were all over them. 164 00:13:34,342 --> 00:13:35,775 Oh! 165 00:13:35,942 --> 00:13:38,410 Oh, I don't know what to say! 166 00:13:39,742 --> 00:13:42,017 One word would do it. 167 00:13:42,622 --> 00:13:44,419 "Yes. " 168 00:13:46,582 --> 00:13:50,461 Evening. Neville Bruce, is it? We haven't met. Madeline Magellan. 169 00:13:50,622 --> 00:13:55,013 I hope you don't mind. I rang your secretary. She was incredibly helpful. 170 00:13:55,182 --> 00:13:58,777 Very nice telephone manner. I'd hang on to her. 171 00:13:59,542 --> 00:14:04,457 Tell me if I'm interrupting anything. I just need a word about Felicity Vale, 172 00:14:04,622 --> 00:14:08,297 who I understand you were heavily involved with before, um... 173 00:14:09,502 --> 00:14:12,539 You know, obviously, that she was found dead last night. 174 00:14:12,742 --> 00:14:16,701 I've told the police everything I know. Who are you? 175 00:14:16,902 --> 00:14:21,771 I'm a professional investigator for the deceased's life assurance company. 176 00:14:22,742 --> 00:14:28,180 Any information you have could help speed up the processing of her family's claim. 177 00:14:28,342 --> 00:14:34,258 I was wondering, for instance, when you last actually saw Miss Vale alive? 178 00:14:34,422 --> 00:14:39,974 It would have been a couple of days ago. She came to my house, rather hysterical. 179 00:14:40,182 --> 00:14:43,891 I had to be blunt with her about how things stood. 180 00:14:44,782 --> 00:14:49,936 I don't know if they told you, but a witness saw the murder take place. 181 00:14:50,102 --> 00:14:53,538 - In fact, she's identified the killer... - As Duncan Proctor, 182 00:14:53,702 --> 00:14:56,011 which speaks volumes about her reliability. 183 00:14:56,182 --> 00:14:59,731 - Well, she's looked at a lot of photos... - Forgive me, 184 00:14:59,902 --> 00:15:02,097 but I was there when he jumped. 185 00:15:02,302 --> 00:15:07,057 I saw him on the ground. No human being could walk away from that. 186 00:15:07,262 --> 00:15:09,696 The man is dead. I'm sorry, she's mistaken. 187 00:15:09,902 --> 00:15:13,975 She could be mistaken, Mr Bruce, but how do we explain the fingerprints? 188 00:15:14,182 --> 00:15:18,539 - Fingerprints? - His prints were all over her shoes. 189 00:15:18,742 --> 00:15:22,098 And the door handles. Everywhere. It's all been checked. 190 00:15:22,302 --> 00:15:26,614 I think I'll have the roast salmon mousse and artichoke hearts. Thanks. 191 00:15:28,102 --> 00:15:32,300 So, any background you can give me, really, on this young lady. 192 00:15:32,462 --> 00:15:36,694 I'll try not to be too indelicate, but it could impact upon the crime. 193 00:15:36,862 --> 00:15:39,251 During the period you were having sex together, 194 00:15:39,462 --> 00:15:42,932 did she ever talk in her sleep, can you remember? 195 00:15:43,102 --> 00:15:45,093 About other lovers? 196 00:15:45,262 --> 00:15:51,053 Or at a critical moment, for instance, accidentally scream someone else's name? 197 00:15:55,302 --> 00:15:58,692 Oh, it's like travelling back to the Stone Age coming here. 198 00:15:59,862 --> 00:16:04,617 I mean, this is the pits, Jonathan! It hasn't even got an S! 199 00:16:04,782 --> 00:16:08,661 - The S has completely snapped off! - Try not to use it, then. 200 00:16:08,822 --> 00:16:12,292 It's the most common letter in the English language! 201 00:16:12,462 --> 00:16:17,582 No, it's not. E is the most common. S is the 8th most common, 202 00:16:17,742 --> 00:16:21,212 After E, T, A, O, N, R and I. 203 00:16:21,422 --> 00:16:26,860 Oh, you'd have to know that, wouldn't you? Useless piece of information. 204 00:16:27,022 --> 00:16:29,980 Not useless at all if you're trying to crack a cipher. 205 00:16:30,182 --> 00:16:34,141 Funnily enough, I'm not cracking a cipher at this precise moment. 206 00:16:34,302 --> 00:16:36,941 I'm not actually cracking anything very much. 207 00:16:37,102 --> 00:16:41,220 I've got a murder committed by a dead man in a house he couldn't have got out of, 208 00:16:41,382 --> 00:16:43,691 involving a girl found horribly "trangled" 209 00:16:43,862 --> 00:16:46,854 with her "hoe" and "tocking" removed in the "downtair" cloakroom! 210 00:16:47,062 --> 00:16:50,498 Oh, have you ever heard of silence?! 211 00:16:51,582 --> 00:16:55,336 I'm trying to achieve a level of abstract thought here, 212 00:16:55,502 --> 00:16:59,051 trying to prise this... whatever it is out of my memory. 213 00:16:59,982 --> 00:17:02,450 What is it? Let me have a go. 214 00:17:03,302 --> 00:17:07,136 I told you, I can't put it into words. 215 00:17:07,302 --> 00:17:10,851 It's purely intuitive. It's just a feeling. 216 00:17:11,022 --> 00:17:14,173 It won't come into focus till it's ready. 217 00:17:16,022 --> 00:17:19,776 I thought perhaps that image might have triggered it, but... 218 00:17:21,062 --> 00:17:25,533 - I could put them on. - The point is, they've been taken off! 219 00:17:30,462 --> 00:17:34,455 Yes, this is the home of Cro-Magnon Man. Can I help? Clare! 220 00:17:35,382 --> 00:17:39,580 You're kidding? She's had another tape stolen from the answering machine. 221 00:17:39,742 --> 00:17:43,781 What? You put a third one in, and when you got back that... 222 00:17:43,942 --> 00:17:49,255 If someone was trying to find a message, but didn't know which tape it was on... 223 00:17:50,222 --> 00:17:55,740 It depends what you mean by progress. To be honest, we were both just saying, 224 00:17:55,902 --> 00:18:01,340 the only way we're going to solve this, basically, is to actually go up there... 225 00:18:01,542 --> 00:18:04,659 - weren't we? - Yes, I suppo... 226 00:18:06,302 --> 00:18:07,815 Up where? 227 00:18:09,182 --> 00:18:12,572 Northumberland?! Have you any idea how long this will take? 228 00:18:12,782 --> 00:18:15,501 I've got the route sorted. Five hours, max. 229 00:18:15,662 --> 00:18:18,256 - And the rest, with your navigation. - Look... 230 00:18:18,422 --> 00:18:21,858 Anyway, I wonder how the police are faring at the cottage? 231 00:18:22,022 --> 00:18:25,492 - I don't envy them that job one bit. - What job? 232 00:18:25,702 --> 00:18:31,299 I gave Detective Inspector Barrison a ring this morning before we left. 233 00:18:31,462 --> 00:18:33,578 That business about the answering machine? 234 00:18:33,782 --> 00:18:39,220 Of course, there was something I completely forgot to tell him. 235 00:18:39,382 --> 00:18:43,170 I saw one of those tapes floating in the lavatory, 236 00:18:43,382 --> 00:18:48,058 and I accidentally knocked the handle and flushed it away. 237 00:18:48,222 --> 00:18:50,611 Probably a vital piece of evidence. 238 00:18:55,582 --> 00:19:00,098 Yes, all right. Haven't you ever seen a cesspit before? 239 00:19:00,302 --> 00:19:02,293 Let's get searching. 240 00:19:08,822 --> 00:19:11,382 "Was that the turning?" "Definitely. " 241 00:19:11,542 --> 00:19:15,774 "You saw a sign for the 6342?" "Yes, definitely. As God is my judge. " 242 00:19:15,942 --> 00:19:20,094 - Which is why we ended up in Gateshead. - I was sure it said 6342. 243 00:19:20,262 --> 00:19:25,177 How can Hadrian's Wall run north to south? The Romans divided the country lengthwise? 244 00:19:25,342 --> 00:19:29,574 - Two and a half hours we lost. - Will you give over moaning?! 245 00:19:29,742 --> 00:19:33,894 - I've forgotten what we're looking for. - A Victorian phone box. 246 00:19:34,062 --> 00:19:36,576 There it is. First left and we're there. 247 00:19:47,902 --> 00:19:51,656 This was completely open. Fliss nearly went in. 248 00:19:55,782 --> 00:20:00,537 His name's not been added yet. What do you reckon? Get a shovel and see? 249 00:20:00,702 --> 00:20:03,500 Yes, thank you, Dr Van Helsing. 250 00:20:03,982 --> 00:20:06,974 Perhaps if we look round first. 251 00:20:07,182 --> 00:20:11,619 Can you imagine anyone rattling around on their own in a place this size? 252 00:20:11,782 --> 00:20:16,776 It's immoral. You say he took it over when he came out of uniform? 253 00:20:16,942 --> 00:20:20,059 And his old Army pals, whatever their names were... 254 00:20:20,222 --> 00:20:23,259 - Ben and Buster. - .. were both at this party? 255 00:20:23,422 --> 00:20:27,097 - What do you know about them? - I avoided knowing them. 256 00:20:27,262 --> 00:20:31,301 They're still serving. They'll be back overseas somewhere by... 257 00:20:31,462 --> 00:20:33,692 What's he doing? 258 00:20:34,622 --> 00:20:36,613 The breaststroke? 259 00:20:42,342 --> 00:20:44,810 When you saw him on the ground, 260 00:20:45,902 --> 00:20:48,541 can you show me how he was lying? 261 00:20:48,702 --> 00:20:50,772 Yes, it was just here. 262 00:20:51,502 --> 00:20:54,653 His head was over the edge. No, a bit more... Yeah. 263 00:20:54,822 --> 00:20:58,258 Yeah, about like that, I'd say. 264 00:20:58,422 --> 00:21:01,414 - Roughly. - Still some blood where he landed. 265 00:21:01,582 --> 00:21:04,813 - Let me see. - Something very wrong there, 266 00:21:04,982 --> 00:21:06,973 - wouldn't you say? - Would I? 267 00:21:07,982 --> 00:21:09,973 Didn't you ever watch "Quincy"? 268 00:21:49,742 --> 00:21:54,816 Felicity's birthday present to Duncan. I don't think he was exactly overwhelmed. 269 00:21:58,222 --> 00:22:02,261 You want to get that seen to by a qualified osteopath. 270 00:22:02,422 --> 00:22:05,459 What do you think? Give him a quick seeing to? 271 00:22:05,622 --> 00:22:08,216 - I could have a look... - Yes, thanks all the same. 272 00:22:08,382 --> 00:22:12,170 Anything that involves turning my skeleton inside out, I get twitchy. 273 00:22:12,342 --> 00:22:15,652 Oh, just get your kit off! 274 00:22:19,222 --> 00:22:21,292 Right. Are you sure? 275 00:22:23,422 --> 00:22:27,051 Nothing. OK. And that's for the whole night and the morning. 276 00:22:30,262 --> 00:22:32,730 The 21st and the 22nd? 277 00:22:32,902 --> 00:22:35,052 All right. That's great. 278 00:22:35,942 --> 00:22:38,695 Thanks for your help, then. Bye. 279 00:22:55,582 --> 00:22:57,937 Oh. Where is it, then? 280 00:22:59,062 --> 00:23:03,055 - Where's what? - Sorry, I thought I heard a baby up here, 281 00:23:03,222 --> 00:23:05,782 screaming its head off. 282 00:23:05,942 --> 00:23:10,458 OK, three out of the four local funeral directors haven't heard of him. 283 00:23:10,622 --> 00:23:15,616 The other one, I couldn't get hold of. Local rag, nothing in the obit columns. 284 00:23:15,782 --> 00:23:19,980 But most importantly, the hospital have no record of any Duncan Proctor - 285 00:23:20,142 --> 00:23:24,852 no admissions - no call-outs, even - to this address on the night in question. 286 00:23:25,022 --> 00:23:28,935 The ambulance came and took him away. We all saw it. 287 00:23:29,102 --> 00:23:32,219 What you see isn't always what's happening. 288 00:23:32,662 --> 00:23:37,053 What you all saw that night, I've got a horrible feeling, 289 00:23:37,222 --> 00:23:39,736 was a very brilliantly conceived hoax. 290 00:23:39,942 --> 00:23:42,502 Here we go. How it was done. 291 00:23:43,982 --> 00:23:47,975 I know how I'd have done it, but from what I've seen out there... 292 00:23:48,182 --> 00:23:50,491 - Sh! - What? 293 00:23:52,902 --> 00:23:54,893 - You hear that? - What? 294 00:23:56,502 --> 00:23:58,618 The front door just opened. 295 00:23:58,782 --> 00:24:00,773 There! It closed again. 296 00:24:01,942 --> 00:24:04,297 How can you hear that up here? 297 00:24:04,502 --> 00:24:09,417 Shh! There's someone moving about now in the hall. 298 00:24:10,702 --> 00:24:14,217 - Better go and have a look, then. - OK. 299 00:24:18,262 --> 00:24:21,493 - Why me? - Because you're the man. 300 00:26:05,862 --> 00:26:11,334 I don't think you'll find any badgers in there, will you, Mr Creek? 301 00:26:15,462 --> 00:26:17,612 What if they draw a blank? 302 00:26:18,702 --> 00:26:23,457 When they draw a blank, they'll fill it all in again. 303 00:26:24,702 --> 00:26:29,981 Duncan Proctor's body is no more at the bottom of that grave 304 00:26:30,142 --> 00:26:34,135 than that answer tape was in her sewage tank. 305 00:26:35,142 --> 00:26:38,930 My God. You mean the killer must have somehow realised 306 00:26:39,142 --> 00:26:42,657 and got there before you and fished it out? 307 00:26:42,822 --> 00:26:47,976 I don't think they'll be buying your next book, any of them. 308 00:26:48,142 --> 00:26:51,214 There's only so much crap a man can wade through. 309 00:26:53,982 --> 00:26:59,454 So... do you know this lover's leap thing was a set-up? 310 00:26:59,622 --> 00:27:03,581 A dead man's not going to be suspected of murder. 311 00:27:03,742 --> 00:27:10,500 What we in our flat-footed ignorance are still trying to figure out 312 00:27:10,662 --> 00:27:14,257 is how the hell he faked it. 313 00:27:16,382 --> 00:27:18,976 Someone said you work for a magician. 314 00:27:20,622 --> 00:27:23,978 How uncannily appropriate. 315 00:27:25,822 --> 00:27:29,019 Well, I've had a sniff round... 316 00:27:30,182 --> 00:27:32,980 - given it a bit of thought. - Go on. 317 00:27:41,902 --> 00:27:46,054 Three people saw him jump, everyone saw him on the ground, 318 00:27:46,222 --> 00:27:48,611 but nobody saw him land. 319 00:27:48,782 --> 00:27:53,731 In between was a gap of maybe eight seconds, when they did the clever bit. 320 00:27:54,622 --> 00:27:57,375 - They? - He couldn't do it on his own. 321 00:27:57,542 --> 00:28:01,501 He needed at least two accomplices - one up top and one below. 322 00:28:01,702 --> 00:28:07,174 - Buster and Ben. - Whatever their names were. 323 00:28:07,342 --> 00:28:10,175 His two chums from the Lancers. 324 00:28:10,422 --> 00:28:15,780 Look how it stands up. Duncan's got this total mind-numbing crush on Felicity. 325 00:28:15,942 --> 00:28:18,410 He knows she's screwing Neville. 326 00:28:18,582 --> 00:28:21,255 He decides to teach 'em both a lesson. 327 00:28:21,422 --> 00:28:26,416 It's the sort of sick joke three drunken soldiers would dream up between them. 328 00:28:26,942 --> 00:28:29,456 They just go for it, like a military exercise. 329 00:28:30,422 --> 00:28:33,573 Leaping off the second floor balcony is no big deal 330 00:28:33,742 --> 00:28:36,210 if there's something to catch you at the bottom. 331 00:28:38,142 --> 00:28:40,133 You dug yourself a big hole 332 00:28:40,302 --> 00:28:42,896 with a tightly sprung net inside, 333 00:28:43,102 --> 00:28:46,174 rigged up the camouflage frame covered in turf, 334 00:28:46,342 --> 00:28:49,652 which slides across in seconds, so you can't see the join. 335 00:28:49,822 --> 00:28:54,213 As per the plan, one of them rushes in as he's about to jump... 336 00:28:56,942 --> 00:29:02,733 so if the other two get to the balcony too quickly, he can hold them back. 337 00:29:03,622 --> 00:29:08,742 During which time, Duncan's out of the net and into position. 338 00:29:10,062 --> 00:29:13,372 The hole's disappeared and so has his friend, 339 00:29:13,542 --> 00:29:17,330 making sure he's first on the scene to pronounce him dead 340 00:29:18,022 --> 00:29:20,013 and wave everyone else away. 341 00:29:21,462 --> 00:29:24,374 Half an hour later, he's whisked off in an ambulance. 342 00:29:24,542 --> 00:29:28,171 It could have been a couple of locals who were in on it. 343 00:29:28,342 --> 00:29:32,381 It could have been pukka ambulance drivers paid to keep their mouths shut. 344 00:29:32,542 --> 00:29:38,253 The main thing is, his body's gone, and no one asks any questions. 345 00:29:39,662 --> 00:29:42,096 They've put it all right again afterwards, obviously. 346 00:29:42,262 --> 00:29:47,211 Although you can see a slight camber where the level's a bit off. 347 00:29:47,382 --> 00:29:50,977 And, of course, there was the dummy blood on the patio, 348 00:29:51,142 --> 00:29:55,738 carefully deposited just before he fell to look fresh. 349 00:29:55,902 --> 00:29:59,895 Problem is, you can see from the scalloped edges around the splash marks, 350 00:30:00,062 --> 00:30:02,940 they'd been dropped from a height of several feet. 351 00:30:03,102 --> 00:30:06,777 And you don't normally start bleeding before you hit the ground. 352 00:30:12,182 --> 00:30:17,654 These two squaddies are serving abroad somewhere, did I hear? 353 00:30:17,862 --> 00:30:20,251 But their house in Maida Vale could... 354 00:30:21,502 --> 00:30:24,062 My God, I've just had a thought. 355 00:30:25,182 --> 00:30:27,650 Well, he's got to be hiding somewhere. 356 00:30:39,982 --> 00:30:43,019 What the hell do you want? You can't do this! 357 00:30:43,182 --> 00:30:45,173 Ah! What have I done? 358 00:31:22,262 --> 00:31:25,538 Kitty, Kitty, Kitty. Come on. 359 00:31:25,702 --> 00:31:29,172 Er, Inspector... So, that's it? You're finished with her? 360 00:31:29,342 --> 00:31:31,412 She can go back to Scotland? 361 00:31:31,582 --> 00:31:34,050 Mr Klaus, we've barely started with her. 362 00:31:34,222 --> 00:31:38,738 As long as Proctor exercises his right to silence, she's the only case we've got. 363 00:31:38,902 --> 00:31:41,336 - Fingerprints alone won't do it. - Inspector... 364 00:31:42,502 --> 00:31:46,336 You can't know how deeply traumatised this experience has left my sister. 365 00:31:46,502 --> 00:31:50,177 - She can't sleep. - There's many a night I can't sleep. 366 00:31:50,382 --> 00:31:55,740 No, no. You don't understand the full horror of the situation. 367 00:31:57,742 --> 00:32:01,417 She can't sleep... alone. 368 00:32:11,542 --> 00:32:13,533 Three o'clock in the morning, 369 00:32:13,702 --> 00:32:17,172 like something from the nightmare world of M.R. James, 370 00:32:17,342 --> 00:32:23,099 as the duvet is lifted up... and you feel it sliding in beside you. 371 00:32:23,942 --> 00:32:29,380 Oh, to wake in the night... to those eyes staring at you on the pillow. 372 00:32:29,542 --> 00:32:34,536 For mercy's sake, Inspector, I'm appealing to you for clemency. 373 00:32:35,702 --> 00:32:37,897 I'm sorry. We need her down here. 374 00:32:48,862 --> 00:32:53,094 Ah, now, I like this one. It's got a Pentium processor, CD-ROM. 375 00:32:53,262 --> 00:32:56,857 Whoo! Look at this. State-of-the-art stuff, it's got an S. 376 00:32:57,022 --> 00:33:00,412 You could type words like "floppy disc" instead of "floppy dic". 377 00:33:00,582 --> 00:33:02,573 Just browsing, thanks. 378 00:33:10,622 --> 00:33:13,853 So, this'll be chapter four. 379 00:33:17,702 --> 00:33:20,341 What do you reckon? A bit Perry Mason? 380 00:33:20,542 --> 00:33:22,612 Do for the time being, anyway. 381 00:33:22,782 --> 00:33:27,219 - Now. Intro... - I wonder why he won't confess? 382 00:33:28,222 --> 00:33:30,656 Proctor? Bit of a stupid question, isn't it? 383 00:33:30,822 --> 00:33:35,259 Why? He was seen throttling her to death through the window. 384 00:33:35,422 --> 00:33:38,698 It'd save a lot of time and money. 385 00:33:39,662 --> 00:33:44,816 It's all wrong still. There's still too much stuff left over that doesn't fit. 386 00:33:46,222 --> 00:33:49,532 Those three tapes that were stolen from her answering machine. 387 00:33:50,462 --> 00:33:53,579 They found one of the blank ones at that flat, 388 00:33:53,742 --> 00:33:57,291 but we don't know about the others or why they were taken. 389 00:33:57,462 --> 00:34:00,613 Well, there was a message he wanted to get back. 390 00:34:00,782 --> 00:34:04,457 Probably one he'd left himself that proved he was still alive. 391 00:34:04,622 --> 00:34:08,661 That would explain why he'd go back once, but why twice? 392 00:34:08,822 --> 00:34:14,454 To come away with a blank tape, it's obvious the message has been removed. 393 00:34:16,182 --> 00:34:20,141 What if the third tape was taken by someone else... 394 00:34:20,302 --> 00:34:23,578 who was also trying to get hold of that message, 395 00:34:23,742 --> 00:34:26,097 who didn't know Proctor had already got it? 396 00:34:35,342 --> 00:34:38,539 How long does insurance take?! I'm running out of showrooms. 397 00:34:38,702 --> 00:34:42,775 Of course, there's the other problem. Why did he take her stockings off her? 398 00:34:43,942 --> 00:34:48,857 Jonathan, you've got an unnatural fixation with this stockings thing, 399 00:34:49,022 --> 00:34:51,695 more than is healthy. 400 00:34:51,862 --> 00:34:55,457 Electric-shock therapy could be the answer. 401 00:34:55,622 --> 00:34:58,614 Stick your fingers in the cigarette lighter and concentrate hard 402 00:34:58,782 --> 00:35:01,342 on a pair of sheer... What? 403 00:35:02,702 --> 00:35:05,262 - What now? - THAT'S what it reminded me of. 404 00:35:05,422 --> 00:35:07,219 That's exactly it. 405 00:35:07,382 --> 00:35:09,850 - Bootlaces. - I beg your pardon? 406 00:35:10,662 --> 00:35:12,892 Different choice of words, in it popped. 407 00:35:13,062 --> 00:35:16,850 He didn't take off her stockings, he took her stockings off her. 408 00:35:17,502 --> 00:35:20,096 The police would never believe that, obviously. 409 00:35:20,262 --> 00:35:25,461 - That's why he's not saying anything. - About what? Stop talking Martian. 410 00:35:25,622 --> 00:35:29,979 Come on. We've got to go through this whole thing again, every detail, 411 00:35:30,142 --> 00:35:32,451 - what everyone said to you. - Why? 412 00:35:32,662 --> 00:35:36,655 So we can find out who really murdered Felicity Vale. 413 00:36:00,102 --> 00:36:02,457 Sorry. Sorry! 414 00:36:02,622 --> 00:36:06,979 I keep doing this, don't I? I keep interrupting your love life. 415 00:36:07,142 --> 00:36:10,134 This is our senior claims investigator, Mr Creek. 416 00:36:10,302 --> 00:36:15,217 We've been right back to the beginning of this case now with Miss Sallinger here, 417 00:36:15,382 --> 00:36:19,375 and there's some vital points we need to clarify with you and Mr Bruce. 418 00:36:19,542 --> 00:36:23,615 What the hell is your game? Can't you wait till tomorrow, for God's sake? 419 00:36:23,822 --> 00:36:26,894 - It's a quarter past midnight! - Is it? 420 00:36:27,062 --> 00:36:31,340 You'd better put some strong coffee on, then. Two sugars, thanks. 421 00:36:34,022 --> 00:36:39,779 Three tapes were stolen from the answering machine, one after the other. 422 00:36:41,022 --> 00:36:42,614 Why? 423 00:36:46,222 --> 00:36:49,931 Let's say there was a very important message on the original, 424 00:36:50,102 --> 00:36:54,254 which was removed from the machine on the night of the murder. 425 00:36:54,422 --> 00:36:58,176 The next day, Clare puts a new tape in, a blank one, 426 00:36:58,342 --> 00:37:00,651 which, at some point, is also stolen. 427 00:37:00,822 --> 00:37:04,701 And again, the day after that, the same thing happens. 428 00:37:04,862 --> 00:37:07,660 We know that Duncan Proctor had a blank tape. 429 00:37:07,862 --> 00:37:10,057 It was found at the flat by the police. 430 00:37:11,262 --> 00:37:15,050 The other one had to have been taken by someone else... 431 00:37:16,942 --> 00:37:20,935 who was just as desperate to get hold of that message. 432 00:37:23,102 --> 00:37:24,899 What? 433 00:37:25,622 --> 00:37:28,261 For God's... I... I mean... You...! 434 00:37:28,622 --> 00:37:32,251 - What?! - A young woman's lost her life, 435 00:37:32,422 --> 00:37:36,415 a woman you loved - or claimed to love, if only for five minutes. 436 00:37:36,582 --> 00:37:40,336 We're entitled to a bit more than splutters and a blank look. 437 00:37:40,502 --> 00:37:42,094 Neville? 438 00:37:46,302 --> 00:37:49,499 I just reached elastic limit, I'm sorry. 439 00:37:51,702 --> 00:37:55,456 When I saw what she'd done to Kiko with her scissors... 440 00:37:55,622 --> 00:38:01,492 I picked the phone, the machine was on, I tore into her, two minutes of poison. 441 00:38:01,662 --> 00:38:04,540 - And threats? - Warnings, certainly, 442 00:38:04,702 --> 00:38:08,092 about what would happen if I ever saw her again. 443 00:38:08,262 --> 00:38:13,290 Any rate, it wasn't a tape you want lying around after she'd been found murdered. 444 00:38:13,462 --> 00:38:17,250 The following day, I found a way in, grabbed the tape, 445 00:38:17,422 --> 00:38:20,414 hoping the message would still be on it. 446 00:38:20,582 --> 00:38:24,655 Of course, it wasn't... But then the pressure suddenly eased 447 00:38:24,822 --> 00:38:28,337 when you heard that Duncan Proctor had been seen. 448 00:38:28,502 --> 00:38:31,812 Even if that message did turn up, no one would suspect you. 449 00:38:32,022 --> 00:38:34,013 Yes, but I... 450 00:38:34,342 --> 00:38:37,937 You're not sugges... She saw him do it. 451 00:38:38,742 --> 00:38:41,495 He's been found alive and arrested. 452 00:38:41,662 --> 00:38:45,018 - Duncan strangled Felicity. - Except he didn't, actually. 453 00:38:45,222 --> 00:38:47,417 Of course, neither did you. 454 00:38:48,302 --> 00:38:53,057 That's why you rang her up, because you were nowhere near the cottage that night. 455 00:38:53,222 --> 00:38:58,501 But there was a third person in the house who saw the whole weird and wonderful event, 456 00:38:58,662 --> 00:39:01,972 and I think now's the time to say, don't you... 457 00:39:03,062 --> 00:39:04,859 Clare... 458 00:39:06,382 --> 00:39:08,896 and tell us how you murdered her? 459 00:39:12,302 --> 00:39:15,260 We've had an interesting afternoon with the police pathologist. 460 00:39:16,262 --> 00:39:19,060 It turns out those lesions in the victim's neck 461 00:39:19,222 --> 00:39:22,055 contained skin cells that didn't belong to Felicity or Duncan, 462 00:39:22,222 --> 00:39:27,250 but funnily enough, matched exactly to some still in Jonathan's shoulders 463 00:39:27,462 --> 00:39:30,977 after your fingers had been digging into him yesterday afternoon. 464 00:39:31,142 --> 00:39:34,930 You'll testify to the power of her grip, I think. 465 00:39:42,022 --> 00:39:45,981 Rozzers'll be waiting for you at home. I wouldn't bother going anywhere. 466 00:39:57,382 --> 00:40:00,692 Duncan was seen by a witness that night, 467 00:40:00,862 --> 00:40:04,218 violently strangling Felicity at the kitchen window. 468 00:40:04,582 --> 00:40:08,097 And yet, he did nothing of the kind. 469 00:40:09,782 --> 00:40:14,412 What Kitty saw, she didn't really see at all, did she? 470 00:40:17,742 --> 00:40:19,937 Felicity was so obvious. 471 00:40:21,022 --> 00:40:23,377 She didn't even have to try. 472 00:40:24,542 --> 00:40:27,693 But men like it obvious, don't they? 473 00:40:27,862 --> 00:40:30,137 Men like Duncan. 474 00:40:33,022 --> 00:40:36,810 In the space of three weeks, I went the distance - 475 00:40:36,982 --> 00:40:40,975 from idolising him, grieving for him... 476 00:40:42,022 --> 00:40:44,058 to despising the pair of them. 477 00:40:45,022 --> 00:40:48,935 He didn't love women. He just wanted them to love him. 478 00:40:50,982 --> 00:40:53,098 When I came back that night... 479 00:40:58,022 --> 00:41:01,458 I saw him there... alive. 480 00:41:03,182 --> 00:41:06,379 At first, I was too shocked to do anything. 481 00:41:08,662 --> 00:41:13,497 I heard him telling her what he'd done, how he'd gone to ground at Buster's, 482 00:41:13,662 --> 00:41:17,257 giving her all that phoney contrition, 483 00:41:17,462 --> 00:41:19,851 while she just ranted and raved. 484 00:41:20,022 --> 00:41:23,571 She was already in a complete state about Neville. 485 00:41:23,742 --> 00:41:26,779 It only needed one more push to send her over. 486 00:41:26,942 --> 00:41:30,537 And, of course, at that moment... 487 00:41:30,702 --> 00:41:32,294 it came. 488 00:41:38,382 --> 00:41:40,657 I've had it with you, Fliss. 489 00:41:40,822 --> 00:41:43,382 I've had it with your whole juvenile number. 490 00:41:43,542 --> 00:41:46,739 I'd say get a life, but you don't know what that is. 491 00:41:46,942 --> 00:41:51,413 I'll say it one last time, Felicity. I don't love you. I loathe youI 492 00:41:51,582 --> 00:41:55,257 I despise youI Now stay awayI 493 00:42:02,822 --> 00:42:05,495 And you want to know the truth? 494 00:42:05,662 --> 00:42:07,653 I was willing her on. 495 00:42:07,862 --> 00:42:09,739 Oh, no. No, no. No, no! 496 00:42:09,902 --> 00:42:13,815 Give me those. Open your mouth. Open your mouth! 497 00:42:13,982 --> 00:42:17,611 Open your mouth! Do not swallow, for goodness' sake! 498 00:42:20,982 --> 00:42:23,416 I think she passed out for a while. 499 00:42:23,622 --> 00:42:26,182 By now, he realised what he was dealing with. 500 00:42:26,342 --> 00:42:29,061 He'd make her safe, then get the hell out. 501 00:42:38,742 --> 00:42:41,097 So he took her into the bathroom. 502 00:42:41,862 --> 00:42:46,538 And so she couldn't do any damage, he took the stockings off the radiator 503 00:42:46,702 --> 00:42:48,693 and the ones she was wearing. 504 00:42:50,022 --> 00:42:54,891 He wasn't going to leave her any rope to hang herself with... literally. 505 00:42:58,302 --> 00:43:00,372 And then left. 506 00:43:37,542 --> 00:43:40,261 Can you kill someone out of spite? 507 00:43:43,942 --> 00:43:45,739 Maybe... 508 00:43:46,622 --> 00:43:49,739 because it's so ridiculously easy. 509 00:43:52,262 --> 00:43:56,016 His fingerprints were everywhere. I made sure they found his pipe. 510 00:43:57,022 --> 00:44:01,891 All I had to do was wait for them to prove he was still alive. 511 00:44:02,062 --> 00:44:04,451 Who was going to believe his story? 512 00:44:05,022 --> 00:44:08,094 You took the tape with Neville's message. 513 00:44:08,902 --> 00:44:12,292 You didn't want the police thinking he was involved. 514 00:44:12,502 --> 00:44:15,221 You wanted all the evidence to point to Duncan. 515 00:44:15,422 --> 00:44:20,337 So, why did Duncan want to get that tape back, for God's sake? 516 00:44:20,502 --> 00:44:23,016 To corroborate his account of what really happened, 517 00:44:23,182 --> 00:44:25,901 that your message drove her to try and kill herself. 518 00:44:27,702 --> 00:44:30,535 Even then, it was all going to sound pretty flimsy. 519 00:44:30,702 --> 00:44:35,378 Yes, the wonderful bonus of Kitty, seeing him with his hands around her throat. 520 00:44:35,582 --> 00:44:38,380 You must've thought it was meant to be. 521 00:44:38,542 --> 00:44:41,010 Only problem was it brought us onto the scene. 522 00:44:45,102 --> 00:44:49,493 How do you know they weren't just larking about? 523 00:44:49,662 --> 00:44:52,654 Larking about?! 524 00:44:52,822 --> 00:44:56,861 Quiet as a grave. Probably miles away by now, but you never know. 525 00:44:57,022 --> 00:45:00,014 Cover the front entrance, while I try the back. 526 00:45:15,222 --> 00:45:18,851 I thought once you'd found it all locked up, you'd go away. 527 00:45:19,022 --> 00:45:21,013 Then when I heard the window... 528 00:45:34,942 --> 00:45:38,651 There's one thing about this whole business I still don't understand. 529 00:45:38,862 --> 00:45:42,377 - Hmm? - Why you swallowed all that crap 530 00:45:42,542 --> 00:45:44,612 about skin cells in Jonathan's shoulders. 531 00:45:46,862 --> 00:45:49,092 Still, I suppose it broke the ice. 532 00:45:53,262 --> 00:45:58,382 So, what made you think that I could...? 533 00:45:58,542 --> 00:46:03,297 One, I finally remember that routine of taking a prisoner's bootlaces off him 534 00:46:03,462 --> 00:46:05,532 so he can't hang himself, 535 00:46:05,702 --> 00:46:08,978 which put a completely different spin on the whole thing - 536 00:46:09,142 --> 00:46:13,021 what Duncan was really doing with his hands around her throat. 537 00:46:13,862 --> 00:46:16,820 And, of course, the other thing was the burglary. 538 00:46:17,022 --> 00:46:19,297 When they took the tapes? Why? 539 00:46:19,462 --> 00:46:22,135 No, Clare. Not your burglary, my burglary. 540 00:46:23,582 --> 00:46:26,619 You remember when you were showing me around the cottage? 541 00:46:26,782 --> 00:46:29,740 Ironically, I thought it would be safer from crime. 542 00:46:29,902 --> 00:46:32,939 Well, you've just been on the receiving end. 543 00:46:33,102 --> 00:46:35,775 You know how bad it gets in London. 544 00:46:35,942 --> 00:46:39,730 It never struck me till we went over it again this afternoon. 545 00:46:39,902 --> 00:46:42,257 How did you know about my being burgled? 546 00:46:43,222 --> 00:46:45,452 I certainly hadn't mentioned it. 547 00:46:47,502 --> 00:46:50,016 But then I remembered. I had. 548 00:46:51,142 --> 00:46:54,179 There was only one way you could have heard me. 549 00:46:54,382 --> 00:46:57,454 How do you think that burglar got into my place? 550 00:46:57,662 --> 00:47:01,257 He didn't just give up, did he? The bastard. 551 00:48:19,102 --> 00:48:20,615 - Oh! - Oh! 552 00:48:21,862 --> 00:48:24,422 It's me. Kitty. 553 00:48:27,662 --> 00:48:30,734 And God forbid you breathe a word to a living soul. 554 00:48:30,902 --> 00:48:33,370 I was told in complete confidence. 555 00:48:33,542 --> 00:48:37,581 Ladies and gentlemen, the living legend that is Hewie Harper. 556 00:48:43,382 --> 00:48:46,658 One, two... One, two, three, f... 557 00:48:49,702 --> 00:48:54,332 And keep your peepers off my naked body in future, you pervert! 558 00:48:54,502 --> 00:48:57,141 All right, come down off there, please, madam. 559 00:48:57,302 --> 00:48:59,770 Get off! Go away! Go on!