paper was light gold in medieval times
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oh no tobacco sugar
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that everything we thought we knew about
the world
might turn out to be completely wrong
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ah
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here are your brothers things
sign here mr kingdom
see always gives up it's dead
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my
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1050 millibars and hold it over the
azures
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again
how many times do you want me to sue the
planning authority mr snell
they can't build a car park there it's
not right
from memory this will be the 17th time
you've brought an action on the same
issue 18th 18th one forgive me
one of them must have slipped through my
synapses but they're wrong well they may
well be wrong mr snell and i sympathize
but they have the law on their side
they've been through all the usual
rigorous procedures as i recall you
appeal
whom at some point you tried to sue or
legally challenge you even tried to sue
the barristers i engaged to argue your
case in court they gave me the wrong
advice no mr snell i gave you the advice
and it remains the same
drop it oh but i've been doing some
research
just leave them down there with you mr
snell and i'll pick them up and go
through them later oh and i'll need
legal aid
why can't he wash
i think he does it's his clothes over
the years they've become impregnated
with his unique signature he means well
where would the world be without people
like snell
a lot fresher
it's not entirely his fault
millie's new charcoal diet isn't helping
morning
oh
sort read inwardly digest and bring your
sharp legal mind to bear on whether
there's a case against the planning
authorities i've got my own case
market shipper's very own john dice
versus jaundice snail versus everybody
else this came for simon
just find it with the others would you
this was anything for the bank was it no
i picked these up yesterday
would you like me to
yeah i'll have to go through the police
probably want them back
you're right me garcia yes
never been all right
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do i look sixty
not yet ask me again at midnight
90 minutes left of living and then it's
downhill all the way
okay
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sheila
oh no
when
oh
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now
she the last is not safe
ah here we are
last will and testament dated a year ago
how did she you screamed i bellowed
manfully you know when i screamed
probate
heart attack they think possibly a
stroke but i'm on planet
though you were thinking nothing ever
happens in market shape no what i said
was it's not quite london well maybe but
we have our prominent citizens
should you stay on after your articles
and should life sadly run its course for
some of our clients i can promise you
the estates of two television presenters
a thrash metal drummer and an actor who
played a sex offender in the bill can
london boast that i think not
no millie this is business
i'll take this puppy
now i understand the next to the euro of
london's bright lights market shipper
must seem like a very dozy east anglian
backwater point is here you belong
practicing law in london is like
light beer it may look like lawrence
smell like though but when you swing it
right down it
doesn't have the same effect here it's
more human morning jim
you know everyone everyone knows you
john sorry
you make a difference that's the point
hmm
parking is just as crap there
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wow
now that was the cars
sunglasses lyle
you're a solicitor not a hitman
damien
peter kingdom
this is my uh article clark lyle
anderson gosh last time i saw you you
were what seven uh during mum and dad's
divorce he bought me a football did i
i'm afraid that is the devil of being a
lawyer we're only ever around during a
crisis i'm so sorry about your mother
she was such a life force 59 is no age
well it was to her it's probably a good
thing she hated getting old so
should we
go through
so who found her
some bloke called rupert have you heard
of him
i didn't catch his surname rupert no i
think i'd remember rupert all right so
he's not in the world then not as far as
i'm aware
i checked the wardrobes upstairs he
certainly wasn't living with her
last thing we need is some
leech of a boyfriend crawling out of the
woodwork and spoiling the inheritance
well quite
sorry
to be honest i just want this whole
thing wrapped up as soon as possible i
can't be schlepping up here all hours
well i'll certainly bear your request in
mind but you should remember that our
client is your mother's estate not you
our job is to gather in the assets pay
the debts and then distribute the
residue amongst the beneficiaries just
pull your finger out will you and don't
rack up the fees
we can get this thing done and dusted
what's your brother make of all this
he does know your mother's dead
i mean what a tosser
why should we help him toss her or not
we're not working for him we're working
for his mother death especially sudden
death often leaves a great deal unsaid
and a whole heap of unanswered questions
without us many families would turn
themselves to pieces ah
here we are the other son
mark larson
you can manage on your own don't you
you having a laugh only i have to uh
find somewhere to park
mind you you should find it a doddle
without this to carry
oh lord
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has she gone
oh mrs thing
what oh never mind
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no i'm afraid he isn't this is um
these south
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look i don't know how long it is since
you two haven't spoken or what the
reason is but it ends here do you
understand decisions are gonna have to
be taken which need the pair of you to
be on speaking terms wasn't me it was
him oh great start thank you
with different people mr kingdom no
you're different oh is that right well
look at me and tell me you haven't
already been through mum's stuff and
picked out the best bits for yourself
why would i do that i don't know why you
just do
do you have a brother mr kingdom
my position isn't relevant look it's
very simple after a few donations the
residue of your mother's estate is split
between the
all right
but she specifically wanted this done
with first the contents to be shared
between you
this is yours
i don't think so
well she wanted you both to have them
well they're crap hang on they're not uh
some modern artists are they you know
tracy whatever or damien thingy are they
emphatically not well what the hell is
he playing it in perhaps she thought
you'd like them well she was wrong
please just
sort out the money
sorry
i'm glad mum chose you thank you thank
you very much
try not to let her down
not for long couldn't stand it any
longer so i checked myself out
do you have anyone that could help me
with these
perfect
anyone making tea
wow
can't she's she's my sister
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mr kingdom yes
rupert bennett
i was with sheila larson i come about
money oh well rupert bennett i'm afraid
there's no provision for rupert bennett
in the will oh no not after that type of
money
i'm a male escort she hired me to sleep
with her for the night it's my invoice
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i always like this room yes well don't
get getting ideas last night was purely
temporary measure where did you sleep
so far why
why because the floor is uncomfortable
and millie has hogged the basket
does gary know you're here of course not
what's it got to do with him if i want
to discharge myself well it is usually a
joint decision
it's a private clinic i can make up my
own mind
anyway you know how i hate it when
people get clingy you didn't sleep with
him tell me you didn't sleep with your
doctor
why is it all my fault he slept with me
too
sugar
with the light behind you could have
been simon
i don't think so
no of course not much too awkward
not so much milk either
well
maybe
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um
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okay
great
everyone else i qualified with is in and
out the high courts me
i move your old toys right market ship
bro
well that's because they made the
mistake of getting good degrees from
well-regarded universities
your genius lyle wants to avoid such an
obvious route to legal stardom no other
candidate i interviewed
choses uni on the basis of there being a
snooker room in every hall of residence
the essential quality for success is to
be yourself and you lyle have mastered
the art of your selfness
to a higher degree than uh
well to a higher degree than you managed
to get in your finals if i can put it
that way look at a screwdriver
thank you
just shut them down now dude
uh sheila
larsen according to the bank statements
has been
using this rupert guy about twice a
month for the past six years yes well
sadly rupert is gonna have to wait in
the queue for his money like everybody
else
pop quiz lyle order of distribution of
estates
mortgages first and then funeral and our
expenses exactly one reason why being a
solicitor is more rewarding than
soliciting
next inland revenue and customs and
excise yes
after which rupert and others can
present their bills for services
rendered and then
specific legacies and finally residue to
the boys
excellent
yes banks funeral directors tax
collectors lawyers and [\h__\h] all come
before family in the eyes of probate law
it's interesting isn't it
she was using this rupert for six years
which is exactly the length of time her
sons haven't been on speaking terms
families are weird
she's still growling at me
yes
because they are weird aren't they
off you pop back to the larsens see what
you can find
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oh hey now
you can't do this
i'm with the kingdom of switzerland with
the executive office
peter
problem
you better come over
the cars weren't hers they released
a bit heavy-handed to grab them back
when she only just died isn't it no she
was behind with the payments they sent
her letters the fact that she died was
just a coincidence really they were
going to take him back anyway and i
found all these under the spare bed i
don't know why she opened a post for
months no credit cards
february
right up to the limit 15 000
well looks like there's a lot of work to
be done doesn't it
is there some sort of leak
might be
yes
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mr kingdom oh mr smell what a pleasant
surprise
i was wondering how the case was going
um oh oh really very well very good
indeed yes um what'd you think of what
turned up uh turned up remind me in the
papers
oh i well in fact i was so intrigued i
gave him to my young associate here mr
anderson for second opinion also you
think we got a chance then only we got
stop him well it's something we must
discuss it's very complex there's lots
of latin oh i know so you'll ring me and
let me know when to come in uh well yes
only perhaps not so much in as uh in the
open air oh you do that do you oh yes
yes me lawyers are much more outdoors
these days the stuffy days of the stuffy
solicitor and his stuffy officer long
gone yeah
i'll deal with all those you plow
straight into snell's papers the quicker
he realizes he has no case the quicker
we get rid of him and the quicker this
town gets its much-needed bloody car
park bill
peter
i don't mind the company it's the stair
and i draw the lineup
staring
it's not a lounge
i'm not a television i have to work yeah
i'll have a word with her
no you won't
i will
i know you
this is all you've got
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i have no idea who she is
where do you find her
simon's wanted
so he um he never mentioned him well oh
you know simon he never talked about
anything of substance
though i'm sure he had more than his
fair share of gambles take it from me
i'm a woman i know these things
do you think they'll ever find his body
well after six months it seems unlikely
well i'm just pleased your father wasn't
here to have to deal with it he had a
hard enough time with beatrice
you visit her
which institution is she in now
my institution
is that wise
it's just the way it is
you are good peter everything always
falls on your shoulders doesn't it
when your father had alzheimer's
beatrice
simon
how long before he's officially declared
dead six and a half years
hard to think you're now my only nephew
is it that time already
peter
walk me to the dining room
okay
have you heard of doggie
um yes and aurel i have really oh
that was news to me
difficult enough to do it in a car at
all without the heavy breathing brigade
staring in at you
the old rover had bench seats in the
front you're a wicked and insane old
woman oreo why don't you stay for some
soup
um yes yes why not absolutely
i'd rather you didn't do that do what
hey do you mind i'm gonna have them back
i just want some coffee's closed
she's stolen my keys
i'm not putting up with this peter i'm
not some football to be kicked around no
you're right
you also had a fact from the land
registry about the charges on sheila
larsen's house that should cheer you up
are you sure
that's what it says who am i to dad
you're not going to believe this
snell has got a case what
he's got grounds for appealing against
the planning decision yeah no that's
impossible
oh god
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can gloria have her keys back she had to
break into her own house tonight
she has a house
never moved anything
never been allowed beatrice
so which one do they need to be mine
oh you need redecorating
but i i thought you weren't staying on
well i have a right to be comfortable
and i want my own entrance oh beatrice i
can't do that of course you can one of
those big metal staircases on the
outside no this is a listed property the
internal and external features have to
be in keeping in keeping with what
that's absurd well it's the law well
then whoever said that the law is an ass
was right well it may well be an ass but
it's a stubborn one
and
i may point out it's also an ass that
keeps you
in vodka and high heels
what is it you want from me
what are you after
you want me to be grateful is that it
grateful that you're my brother
is that better
hello
oh hell
glass pants and damnation
the only place you can get what passes
for a phone signal in market shipwreck
mr snell successfully contested the
building of a phone mast
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mind you wonderful view
i reckon in our time we've done the
convincing for just about every building
as far as the eye can see
ah there's no doubt then
what i just don't get is why you sold
the cars did it not occur to you that
maybe we might like them certainly more
of an inheritance than finger paintings
yes but i didn't sell them
they were taken back back what do you
mean back well she didn't own them
they released
oh rubbish what would she do that for
she had loads of money oh for once in
your life we'd just be quiet oh oh it
does speak
how well do you think you knew your
mother
what sort of dumb question is that as
well as any child knows their parent
did she give you any money during her
lifetime any gifts no not to me
i got a tie for my last birthday no i
mean large financial gifts
she said um
she'd give everything to us once she's
gone look when can we get probate so we
can have the house well you see that's
the trouble
she didn't own the house what
she took out a mortgage on the property
and then last year she took out a second
one so now the banks owned most of the
house and in return she got a large sum
of money in cash thank god for that
had me worry for me
yes but the problem is we can't find any
trace of the money
well what are you saying
i'm saying
that the best part of a million pounds
has disappeared
just doesn't make sense
i mean if you had that kind of money
lying around somewhere hidden
why would you be up to the limit on your
credit cards paying extortionate
interest and only repaying the minimum
every month
if you gave away that sort of money who
would know about it
you should ask ted
he knows everything
we get them in all the time especially
now we start doing toy food
see this one
brandon
has been left there for a young model
three years ago
financially never been more secure
emotionally
complete rat
was she a friend of shoes oh yeah
everyone was a friend of sheila that's
acoustic hers could talk make your hair
cool
you'll never get an invite yeah once but
there was a documentary on mudskippers i
had to watch really
am i the only one who never got an
invite
who they know
so did she throw her money around
she did then like the rest of her she
never threw it in this direction look at
this
that's what she died old mate
good lord
the greatest national product of a small
african nation never knew where to pay
cash
gaze needs to settle a bit on it
so you never saw her with large sums of
money before yeah i don't arrest that
farmer
funny though
your eyes got feeling something sad
there buying their
i don't think she's that happy about one
of her boys
i can't believe i never got an
invitation
ah just the man i wanted to see oh yeah
but not now i'm
working
come out tomorrow oh right yes
usual please ted two banana daiquiris
umbrellas one with one without wait oh
i'm sad
within me don't have to worry about the
humiliation of rejection
hello
yes but does peter know
well even when he gets home
and don't think of telling him
despite what you must have heard about
me i can make my own decisions i'm not a
little girl i don't need his approval no
i'm sure you don't
if i want to redecorate that's exactly
what i'll do
i live here too now
can i help you
well i'm not sure i was given this
addresses belonging to it mr rupert
bennett
rupert what's your name uh peter kingdom
i beat your kingdom for you come in
he's only just got up he was working
last night
you're right um yes you want some see oh
no thanks i just just just had some
have you brought me my money
exactly no
sorry
as soon as he knows what i do there's no
secrets here oh
uh-huh well um
it seems that sheila larson got rid of a
great deal of money before she died
well and you think i took it
no i i
just wondered if you had any ideas
you think i blackmailed her
no no i was wondering if
if she had mentioned anything to you
well pillow talk
would you like
well the only time sheila and i
mentioned money was on the first night
she hired me
did she seem
worried about money no she drank yes but
she didn't drink that much money
ted mentioned that she seemed
sad
but i'm in the sad business
everyone who hires me is sad
but i did once find her crying
you upset her their two sons weren't
speaking
i remember saying when everything else
is gone
family's all you got left
yes
she wasn't wrong
don't think he could be lying here's
jeglo oh sweet the old-fashioned word no
no i believe him now
mile
any news on the pension fund
she didn't take out any life policies
either in fact she cashed two in
earth is she done with it all
and that would be
who exactly yes i was going to tell you
oh god what color is she chosen black
very black black
oh and i set up that meeting with you
and mr smell with me
well
far too busy
now
they plan
to build the new supermarket over there
with car parking for 200 cars over there
and here's where the service road will
be so which
which part is the area of contention
exactly here according to the plans all
this is owned by the council but it
isn't
isn't it no
they don't own
this bit
well who does
i do
see originally all this was land as
owned by the nursery and they tried to
sell it off in the 1930s hence
honeysuckle lane rose bush gardens
you're right mr kingdom
who
all right anyway
now you see that this is the designated
land sold all our little boxes but the
box is never quite met so there's a
batch of land they never bought
yes but on the original planning
application
i said they only assumed they owned it
so i went back to the family originally
owned it tracked through the successors
in title and bought it how about four
ten pound
mr snell you're an aggravating nuisance
a tiresome pedant and a complete genius
that land cannot be developed without
your permission i know
god knows what we'll do for parking now
she'd done it before we can stop her
i'll speak to her we'll do this time
she's a strong woman your sister
you were right
snell has got a case well i'm
very rarely wrong but how's the uh she
the last in the state ending up not
quite so well
twenty thousand pounds to a care home
wow
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hey
come back
phew
you are still taking your medication
of course
i'm not stupid
anyway i don't get as violent as i used
to good
try not to drink too much when you're on
it it's not a good combination you won't
make me go back will you
if you do
i might have to report gary to the
general medical council
thank you
that seems to be my vocation getting
people out of trouble
do you miss him simon
every day
and every day not knowing just makes it
worse
i don't know how you have the time to
think about so many other people
look at you
wrapped in your shell with your suit and
your ties and your eternally irritating
politeness what is it
protection
or for keeping everybody out
you tell me
do people take advantage of you i don't
think so
only you
yeah but i'm family
twenty thousand
silly sheila
i wouldn't thought she had 20 000 left
to give
oh
so you knew her quite well then very
well mr kingdom
i knew her for over 30 years
i think i knew her better than anybody
well
why then would you say that you would
have thought she didn't have 20 000 left
everyone else i spoke to including her
children seemed to think she was rather
well off was there anything else in the
will
there such as
was she specific about any other
arrangements
not sure i follow oh i suppose she never
thought it would happen
i have to show you something
your eyes are younger than mine is this
a d or a g
it's a k
hello
sorry can i hear you
i'm sorry but i really am powerless to
help you see although my brother's dead
he isn't not legally at any rate in
effect my brother's affairs are frozen
in limbo no longer in this world but
not yet in the next
sorry i couldn't be more help
facts just came through
from the records office lol you'd be
wasted in london she in the last minute
only people didn't keep secrets knife
would be so much simpler wouldn't it
what do you think
well personally i don't like you
but professionally you're a client
i was talking about the car
i don't know
so uh are we in for a colouring set or
have you found the missing money uh yes
yes i have ah you may find the news
disappointing
on the face of it your mother was a
pretty wealthy woman but i'm afraid the
reality was very different
her major asset the house was doubly
mortgaged she was overdrawn at the bank
and her credit card and other debts
amount to a considerable sum the problem
facing the pair of you
is the way wills are commonly executed
only after the discharge of debt and
specific bequests does the residue of
the estate fall to you and i'm afraid
after the mortgages have been paid
and other debts discharged
and you're left with nothing
precisely zero
no that's
that's
that's not true
i'm afraid it is
just bought a bloody porsche i borrowed
against what i was going to inherit
that's great isn't it hey
huge house
pool jacuzzi
sports cars expensive gigolo what do we
get
crayon pictures of trees and sky love
you too mum shut up it was her she could
do what she wants right now yeah hasn't
she just so what does she do with all
the money i mean can we
you know sue to get it back maybe she
wasn't quite you know right in the head
oh i think she was
no in my view she did it on purpose
i think she wanted to leave you
something
a little bit more valuable than money
i'll drive uh you may have to take the
porsche back
how come you can afford one of these and
i can't i know the world is so unfair
isn't it
what the hell are we doing here
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oh
damien and mark i've heard so much about
you your mother was such a wonderful
woman it's a tragedy she's no longer
here
you must have been so proud of her yeah
yeah yeah we were uh oh
i'm sorry mrs ashraf but we really have
no idea why we're here
but
i understand
huh seems none of us knew sheila as well
as we thought we did
well this way
30 years ago this was a small rundown
rectory that struggled to provide a home
for children with severe special needs
and your mother changed all that
this is what your mother did for us she
donated money when she was with your
father
but after she was divorced
we were able to build all this you know
anything about this
our mother are you sure her money paid
for this what the hell for is this where
the pictures came from it certainly is
and they were all painted by the same
person
karen larson she wanted us to name it
after your sister
sister we haven't got a sister
karen
this is damien and mark
hello
hi karen
are you making sandwiches
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damn sandwiches yum yum
this is my favorite sandwich
damien
just
leave me alone
i don't think he knows how to react
i mean he'll come around eventually in
his own way
mom always protected damian we always
have to be careful when we broke news to
him meanwhile you were the one who's
left to pick up the pieces yeah
that's what i do
there's someone like me in every family
don't you think mr kingdom
perhaps you're right you're right
i think i got past this party-going show
she used to wear maybe she would have
told me well shells are for protection
maybe she needed it to survive sometimes
you only discover the real person
after they've gone
listen if you permit me i'd like to
waive the firm's fees as executives that
way at least you'll get something out of
your mother's estate
thank you
i think she's left us more than enough
you should donate it to this place mum
would have liked that
can we go now please
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i sat for decorators did you oh good why
not up to the jaw
18 cases no offense peter but the man's
a joke no he is not a joke he is a
landowner here are copies of his land
registry entry he's proof of ownership
which bit does he own well as a matter
of fact you're standing right in the
middle of it you are trespassing as will
be every car that uses this proposed
relief road
i'll buy it how much do you want oh no
my client isn't selling i'm afraid no
we'll issue a compulsory purchase order
you'll have to take me to court first
but that'll take years
we know
what he don't know is i own lots of bits
of land like this all over town just
where they plan to build the sewage
works the leisure center and the bypass
oh please beatrice she's fat enough
already well you should take her out
more
why don't you take her with you when you
go to simon's beach
how do you know i go to simon's beach
just do
people always make the mistake of
underestimating me
what do you think made him do it i
i didn't suppose we'd ever know oh
you didn't put coriander in this did you
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simon's phone
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oh
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you