0:00:02 > 0:00:04# My daddy, he's a handsome devil
0:00:06 > 0:00:11# He's got a chain five miles long
0:00:12 > 0:00:17# And on every link a heart does dangle... #
0:00:25 > 0:00:28TYRES SCREECH
0:00:28 > 0:00:30METAL CRUNCHES
0:00:30 > 0:00:31LOUD SPLASH
0:00:38 > 0:00:40MUFFLED YELLING
0:00:44 > 0:00:46WOMAN SOBS
0:00:46 > 0:00:48Help me.
0:00:49 > 0:00:51Help me!
0:01:32 > 0:01:34And in.
0:01:34 > 0:01:35HE INHALES
0:01:35 > 0:01:37And slowly out.
0:01:37 > 0:01:39HE EXHALES
0:01:39 > 0:01:41And again, please.
0:01:41 > 0:01:42HE INHALES
0:01:44 > 0:01:47HE EXHALES
0:01:47 > 0:01:49Did I survive another year, Doctor?
0:01:49 > 0:01:53Your as fit as a lop, as they say up here.
0:01:53 > 0:01:54No idea what it means.
0:01:54 > 0:01:59Lived here 26 years, still no idea what anyone's saying.
0:02:01 > 0:02:05Tell me, Chief Inspector, when does it hurt the most?
0:02:05 > 0:02:09First thing in the morning or last thing at night?
0:02:09 > 0:02:11PHONE RINGS
0:02:18 > 0:02:20SHE GROANS
0:02:20 > 0:02:22Your phone.
0:02:26 > 0:02:29No, I can't remember, either, pet.
0:02:34 > 0:02:37I don't miss her less as time passes.
0:02:39 > 0:02:40I just...
0:02:42 > 0:02:44Just miss her differently.
0:02:44 > 0:02:45How long?
0:02:45 > 0:02:50Four years, three months, two weeks and...
0:02:50 > 0:02:52HE CHUCKLES
0:02:52 > 0:02:56It's the never again, you know? Never.
0:02:56 > 0:02:58Do you talk about this to anybody?
0:02:58 > 0:02:59No.
0:02:59 > 0:03:01Your sergeant, perhaps?
0:03:01 > 0:03:04HE GUFFAWS
0:03:04 > 0:03:06Oh, yeah, that's a thought.
0:03:06 > 0:03:08- Is she identified?- 'Who?'
0:03:08 > 0:03:12- Is the woman identified? - 'Which woman?'
0:03:12 > 0:03:14Which woman do you think I'm talking about?!
0:03:14 > 0:03:16Twiggy? The woman in the car.
0:03:16 > 0:03:19Listen, tell them, do not move that car until I get there,
0:03:19 > 0:03:22- is that understood?- 'Aye.'
0:03:22 > 0:03:24And where's Gently? Has anybody found him? Has he gone fishing?
0:03:24 > 0:03:28I bet he has! I bet he's gone fishing and not told anyone!
0:03:28 > 0:03:30'We don't know where he is.'
0:03:30 > 0:03:34Great, thanks, George. Thanks. I'll look after the dead woman, shall I?
0:03:34 > 0:03:37On my only day off this month. Thanks, pal(!)
0:03:37 > 0:03:40- Do you believe in dreams?- Try me.
0:03:40 > 0:03:44I've been having the same one recently, time and time again.
0:03:44 > 0:03:48I go back to a house that I used to live in.
0:03:48 > 0:03:51And I meet a woman on the doorstep. She's...she's leaving.
0:03:53 > 0:03:54And our hands brush.
0:03:54 > 0:03:59- And she tells me she'll meet me again later.- Your wife?
0:04:00 > 0:04:03Can't see her face.
0:04:03 > 0:04:07Then I go through the door, I'm glad to be back...
0:04:09 > 0:04:13..and then slowly I realise that everything's different.
0:04:13 > 0:04:15All the rooms are different.
0:04:15 > 0:04:19Different shapes, different sizes, different things in them.
0:04:19 > 0:04:21Everything's changed.
0:04:22 > 0:04:23And then...
0:04:23 > 0:04:28- And then?- Then there's water coming down the walls and across the floor,
0:04:28 > 0:04:31and I'm drowning.
0:04:31 > 0:04:33Helpless and drowning.
0:04:51 > 0:04:53Morning, sir.
0:04:53 > 0:04:55Good morning, John.
0:04:56 > 0:05:00Right, well, I wanted to have a look before they disturbed it.
0:05:00 > 0:05:02Got a girl here with a bruise on her head.
0:05:04 > 0:05:06Could've been unconscious.
0:05:08 > 0:05:10Let's hope so.
0:05:10 > 0:05:12This was in the car.
0:05:13 > 0:05:14What about the driver?
0:05:14 > 0:05:17Ah, there's no sign of him.
0:05:17 > 0:05:19The metal's caved in by the impact.
0:05:19 > 0:05:24And her left foot, it's trapped. You can see it.
0:05:32 > 0:05:35OK? Right, let's cut her out!
0:05:42 > 0:05:45I don't think she was unconscious.
0:05:45 > 0:05:47Well, either way, he didn't call for help.
0:05:47 > 0:05:50Panic maybe, because he'd nicked the car.
0:05:50 > 0:05:55- Young man, too much to drink. Or an older one with a wife somewhere. - He left her to drown!
0:05:55 > 0:05:58She was helpless.
0:05:58 > 0:06:00Dead and alone out here. All night.
0:06:04 > 0:06:06SAW WHIRRS
0:06:08 > 0:06:13I woke up with a complete stranger next to us this morning.
0:06:13 > 0:06:14Some men pay money for that.
0:06:14 > 0:06:17Should have seen the state of her.
0:06:17 > 0:06:20It's like waking up next to somebody's grandma.
0:06:20 > 0:06:21Hair was sticking up, and...
0:06:21 > 0:06:24POLICE RADIO Two secs.
0:06:27 > 0:06:29Yes?
0:06:29 > 0:06:33- 'The Austin A40 is registered to Hector Blackstone.'- Guv.
0:06:33 > 0:06:36'The address is Abberwick Hall.'
0:06:36 > 0:06:38We got a trace on the vehicle.
0:06:38 > 0:06:40Say that again for Mr Gently, will you, please?
0:06:40 > 0:06:43- 'Abberwick Hall.' - Registered to Hector Blackstone.
0:06:43 > 0:06:47He's the 13th Earl of Guyzance, don't you know!
0:06:47 > 0:06:51- Friend of yours?- No, no, but I know his son pretty well. James Blackstone.
0:06:51 > 0:06:55I've nicked him twice for being drunk in charge of a vehicle.
0:06:55 > 0:06:58- And...?- Mummy and Daddy hired expensive lawyers.
0:06:58 > 0:07:01And Mummy and Daddy waved a magic wand over the charge sheet,
0:07:01 > 0:07:05which then magically disappeared into thin air.
0:07:05 > 0:07:08And then Mummy and Daddy got me reprimanded for victimisation. ..Yes?
0:07:08 > 0:07:11Nothing on her, sir, except this key.
0:07:11 > 0:07:14Thank you. We haven't even got her name.
0:07:14 > 0:07:16I bet you 100 quid
0:07:16 > 0:07:20- the Right Hon James Blackstone will know her name. - Why don't you go and ask him?
0:07:20 > 0:07:22Nicely!
0:07:22 > 0:07:29# On our block all of the guys call her Flamingo
0:07:29 > 0:07:34# Cos her hair glows like the sun
0:07:34 > 0:07:38# And her eyes can light the skies
0:07:38 > 0:07:39# When she walks... #
0:07:39 > 0:07:46Are we nearly there? I mean, how much of England is one bloke allowed to own?
0:07:46 > 0:07:50# ..Crimson dress that clings so tight
0:07:50 > 0:07:56# She's out of reach and out of sight
0:07:56 > 0:08:02# When she walks by she brightens up the neighbourhood... #
0:08:02 > 0:08:04HORN BEEPS
0:08:04 > 0:08:07Do we get to Abberwick Hall if we keep going?
0:08:07 > 0:08:11- CROAKY VOICE:- Did yous come through a big gate marked Abberwick Hall?
0:08:11 > 0:08:15- Aye.- And have yous turned off the road since?
0:08:15 > 0:08:17You got a cold or summat?
0:08:17 > 0:08:18Throat cancer.
0:08:18 > 0:08:20Oh.
0:08:27 > 0:08:29You look more intelligent.
0:08:29 > 0:08:32- Faint praise. - Hey, I've got four O-levels, me.
0:08:32 > 0:08:35Tell us who wrote this and I'll tell yous the way.
0:08:35 > 0:08:39We don't have time for double your money, pal, all right?
0:08:39 > 0:08:41Who is there that has not jeered at the House of Lords,
0:08:41 > 0:08:47the military caste, the Royal Family, the public schools,
0:08:47 > 0:08:51the hunting and shooting set, the horrors of a country society?
0:08:51 > 0:08:54- No, I'm sorry, I've no idea. - Rudyard Kipling.
0:08:54 > 0:08:59Kipling was a king and country imperialist, you clot.
0:08:59 > 0:09:00George Orwell.
0:09:00 > 0:09:05And Orwell knew summat that gets forgot these days.
0:09:05 > 0:09:09The English ruling class are not as stupid as they look.
0:09:09 > 0:09:11Look at the workers in Paris last night.
0:09:11 > 0:09:15Pulling up the pavements and chucking them at the boss class.
0:09:15 > 0:09:16Now look at me,
0:09:16 > 0:09:22repairing the boss's fences to keep his deer oot of his rose gardens.
0:09:22 > 0:09:25Makes you think about this country, doesn't it, bonny lad?
0:09:25 > 0:09:27Sorry?
0:09:27 > 0:09:29200 yards.
0:09:32 > 0:09:36Hang onto your wallets! They'll have the rings off your fingers!
0:09:36 > 0:09:39They've stole England from the workers!
0:09:43 > 0:09:45What the hell was all that about?
0:09:45 > 0:09:47GEORGE CHUCKLES
0:09:47 > 0:09:49Did you ever meet the Earl and his good lady?
0:09:49 > 0:09:53POSH VOICE: Oh, no! Goodness, golly gosh, me? No.
0:09:53 > 0:09:56NORMAL VOICE: No. I was never granted an audience.
0:09:56 > 0:10:00But if they're anything like the son, get ready to throw up.
0:10:00 > 0:10:06# ..Sha la la la la la la la Pretty Flamingo
0:10:06 > 0:10:09# Some day I'll make her mine Sha la la la la la la la
0:10:09 > 0:10:11# Yes, I will, yes, I will
0:10:11 > 0:10:13# I'll make her mine... #
0:10:13 > 0:10:15DOOR OPENS
0:10:26 > 0:10:29Inspector Gently, Sergeant Bacchus, I'm so sorry.
0:10:29 > 0:10:32I was in the stables, working on my motorcycles.
0:10:32 > 0:10:35Something about a car, I'm told?
0:10:35 > 0:10:39Yes, a car registered to you has been involved in a fatal accident, sir.
0:10:39 > 0:10:40Hector, just call me Hector.
0:10:40 > 0:10:43Is your son in at the minute, there, Hector?
0:10:43 > 0:10:46- Fatal to whom?- A young woman, early 20s, late teens.
0:10:46 > 0:10:49Does your son have a girlfriend, Hector?
0:10:49 > 0:10:53- Which car was this? - Austin A90.- A40.
0:10:53 > 0:10:57A40 Farina, blue, registration number BOJ 174C.
0:10:57 > 0:11:01Are you saying that you weren't even aware that this car was missing?
0:11:01 > 0:11:04- Totally.- Any chance of talking to your son, Hector, please?
0:11:04 > 0:11:08I'm not sure if he's even here, Sergeant.
0:11:08 > 0:11:09My wife may know.
0:11:11 > 0:11:13Have you seen my wife, Colin?
0:11:13 > 0:11:15She's through there, sir. Just in there.
0:11:15 > 0:11:17Alethea?
0:11:17 > 0:11:18TV ON
0:11:18 > 0:11:23- Ah, there you are! These two gentlemen... - Just give me a second.
0:11:23 > 0:11:27This man, Cohn-Bendit - someone should shoot him, shouldn't they?
0:11:27 > 0:11:31Like they did the German, Red Rudi.
0:11:33 > 0:11:37"Be realistic, demand the impossible." The naivety!
0:11:37 > 0:11:40Do they really think they can overturn
0:11:40 > 0:11:43the natural order of things by throwing a few stones?
0:11:43 > 0:11:46De Gaulle's run away, of course.
0:11:46 > 0:11:49- Chief Inspector Gently, Sergeant Bacchus.- Is there a problem?
0:11:49 > 0:11:52A fatality. A young woman.
0:11:52 > 0:11:55- Oh, dear.- We found your husband's car, Mrs Blackstone...
0:11:55 > 0:11:59- I beg your pardon? - You hard of hearing?
0:11:59 > 0:12:01My wife prefers to be Your Ladyship.
0:12:01 > 0:12:03Well, I wouldn't mind being Bobby Charlton, but...
0:12:03 > 0:12:06Your Ladyship, an Austin car belonging to your husband
0:12:06 > 0:12:10was found five miles away, upside down in the river...
0:12:10 > 0:12:13with a dead girl inside.
0:12:23 > 0:12:27Well, then. Somebody's stolen one of our cars.
0:12:27 > 0:12:28Is it a write-off?
0:12:28 > 0:12:31Don't you care about the dead girl?
0:12:31 > 0:12:32Why should I care about a car thief?
0:12:32 > 0:12:34What if it wasn't stolen?
0:12:34 > 0:12:36What other explanation is there?
0:12:36 > 0:12:40- Is your son at home?- He may be.
0:12:40 > 0:12:41It is a large house.
0:12:41 > 0:12:44Would you like me to organise a search party(?)
0:12:44 > 0:12:46- Was he here last night? - We had supper together.
0:12:46 > 0:12:53Hector was at one of his... musical self-flagellation evenings in the village.
0:12:53 > 0:12:56Musical what, sorry?
0:12:56 > 0:13:00My husband likes the music of downtrodden workers.
0:13:00 > 0:13:04Fiddles and squeezeboxes,
0:13:04 > 0:13:06starving children, wicked mine owners,
0:13:06 > 0:13:08tragic underground explosions.
0:13:08 > 0:13:12Singers with their fingers in their ears.
0:13:12 > 0:13:13That sort of thing.
0:13:13 > 0:13:16So you stayed in with your son?
0:13:16 > 0:13:22Mm-hm. James and I sat talking and playing backgammon.
0:13:22 > 0:13:26I kissed him good night... at 1.00am.
0:13:26 > 0:13:29And you haven't seen him this morning?
0:13:29 > 0:13:31I'm his mother, not his maid.
0:13:31 > 0:13:34Could you go and find your son? Now.
0:13:34 > 0:13:37What sort of school did you go to, Sergeant?
0:13:37 > 0:13:38One with an outside lav.
0:13:38 > 0:13:40And did they teach you the word "please"?
0:13:44 > 0:13:47Please.
0:13:47 > 0:13:49Thank you.
0:13:57 > 0:13:59When did you last use your car, sir?
0:13:59 > 0:14:01It was the Austin, you say?
0:14:01 > 0:14:02Yeah.
0:14:02 > 0:14:03How many cars you got?
0:14:03 > 0:14:06Well, there are seven or eight dotted around the estate,
0:14:06 > 0:14:09all registered to my name for insurance purposes,
0:14:09 > 0:14:11but intended for common use.
0:14:11 > 0:14:14Austin A40 Farina. Blue. Registration number...
0:14:14 > 0:14:16No idea when I last drove it.
0:14:16 > 0:14:20I tend to avoid cars if at all possible. Prefer my motorcycles.
0:14:20 > 0:14:24- So, you don't know who the girl was, then?- No, no, not yet.
0:14:24 > 0:14:28You say various people had access to this car?
0:14:28 > 0:14:29It's a very large estate.
0:14:29 > 0:14:31Who keeps the ignition keys?
0:14:31 > 0:14:35Actually, they're usually just kept in the cars.
0:14:35 > 0:14:38Right. Well, I'm going to need a list of all the employees, then.
0:14:38 > 0:14:41- Of course.- Right. (More money than sense.)
0:14:43 > 0:14:47My wife has misremembered one thing, Inspector.
0:14:47 > 0:14:50James did in fact come down to the village last night
0:14:50 > 0:14:52to hear the music.
0:14:52 > 0:14:55He then had a late supper with his mother on his return.
0:14:55 > 0:14:57But not you?
0:14:57 > 0:14:59No, I went straight to my rooms.
0:14:59 > 0:15:02Your wife's a very forceful woman.
0:15:02 > 0:15:06Alethea's my second wife, hence the discrepancy in our ages.
0:15:06 > 0:15:10My first wife died 30 years ago.
0:15:10 > 0:15:13Bonny. That was her name.
0:15:13 > 0:15:15Though, in fact, she was very bonny.
0:15:15 > 0:15:17An incurable disease.
0:15:19 > 0:15:21Do you still miss her?
0:15:21 > 0:15:24Miss her? Well, that would be disloyal, wouldn't it?
0:15:24 > 0:15:25Guv! >
0:15:25 > 0:15:27Guv!
0:15:27 > 0:15:29Excuse me.
0:15:50 > 0:15:52You found him, then.
0:15:52 > 0:15:55Ah! Of course. It would be you.
0:15:55 > 0:15:57Oh, um...
0:15:57 > 0:16:02- Bacchus.- Sergeant Bacchus. Yes, of course. How splendid to see you again.
0:16:02 > 0:16:05Ohh. That's a nasty cut you've got there, Your Highness.
0:16:05 > 0:16:07Did you get that playing backgammon?
0:16:07 > 0:16:08Sergeant.
0:16:08 > 0:16:11I actually don't mind what he calls me, Chief Inspector.
0:16:11 > 0:16:15Well, I do. So now, then, how did you come by that injury?
0:16:15 > 0:16:18I fell into the French windows and broke a pane.
0:16:18 > 0:16:19Can anybody corroborate that?
0:16:19 > 0:16:23I can. If you're actually doubting my son's word.
0:16:23 > 0:16:26So how did you come to walk into a pane of glass?
0:16:28 > 0:16:30Um... Brandy.
0:16:30 > 0:16:32When was this, exactly?
0:16:32 > 0:16:34I can't exactly remember.
0:16:34 > 0:16:39- Can't remember? A whack like that? - Of course he can remember. It... - I'm not asking you, I'm asking him.
0:16:39 > 0:16:41It was just after supper.
0:16:42 > 0:16:46- Yes. It was...just after supper. - Just after supper. Yeah.
0:16:46 > 0:16:49- I'd like you to come down to headquarters. - Are you harassing my son again?
0:16:49 > 0:16:53- No, I'm asking him to come down to headquarters. - Are you arresting my son?
0:16:53 > 0:16:56No, but if he doesn't come voluntarily, I will arrest him.
0:16:56 > 0:17:01- A lawyer will be present at all times.- You don't need a lawyer. He's not being charged with anything.
0:17:01 > 0:17:05- Our solicitor will be present at all times. Hector, get on the phone.- Come on.
0:17:05 > 0:17:08Mr Gently, you had better be SO careful.
0:17:08 > 0:17:10You know, this could go very badly for you.
0:17:10 > 0:17:12Do you know what makes me laugh, Your Battleship?
0:17:12 > 0:17:14Your career prospects?
0:17:14 > 0:17:17After all your greed and all your wealth and all your privileges
0:17:17 > 0:17:19and it's all been shown up,
0:17:19 > 0:17:23and the whole country is laughing at you for wearing tweed underwear
0:17:23 > 0:17:26and shooting furry animals and going, "Oh yah, yah, Gertrude",
0:17:26 > 0:17:29you still think you should be running the country, don't you?
0:17:29 > 0:17:33You know, when I first met you, I took you as one of those
0:17:33 > 0:17:35angry young men with a chip on his shoulder.
0:17:35 > 0:17:38But now I see you're actually quite well balanced.
0:17:38 > 0:17:40You have a chip on both your shoulders.
0:17:40 > 0:17:44- Oooh. You're for the knacker's yard, Mrs Blacksmith.- Sergeant!
0:17:44 > 0:17:47Tell me, Sergeant, who DOES run the country?
0:17:47 > 0:17:51Grammar school boys like Mr Wilson?
0:17:51 > 0:17:53Clever little men like David Frost?
0:17:53 > 0:17:56The boilermakers' union? The Marxists at the BBC?
0:17:56 > 0:17:58The Royal Shakespeare Homo Company?
0:18:02 > 0:18:07OK, you're the expert on the Right Hon James Blackstone.
0:18:07 > 0:18:09- Let's have it.- He's 24.
0:18:09 > 0:18:12He's just resigned his commission in the Coldstream Guards,
0:18:12 > 0:18:13which was Hector's regiment.
0:18:13 > 0:18:16Studied at Marlborough public school,
0:18:16 > 0:18:18then went on to St Edmund Hall, Oxford.
0:18:18 > 0:18:20Apparently, that's where the thick ones with money get in.
0:18:20 > 0:18:23- Says who?- I asked a friend of mine.
0:18:24 > 0:18:28Good work, Sergeant. How many O-levels did you say you got?
0:18:28 > 0:18:31General science, biology, German and technical drawing, OK?
0:18:31 > 0:18:34- Fully rounded human being(!) - Look, are we discussing me or him?
0:18:34 > 0:18:36Sorry, go on, carry on.
0:18:36 > 0:18:38Right. Continuing the military theme,
0:18:38 > 0:18:41he got made General of the Bullingdon Club.
0:18:41 > 0:18:44Their main activity is getting plastered, smashing restaurants up,
0:18:44 > 0:18:46throwing loads of money on the floor
0:18:46 > 0:18:49and then leaving with stupid, smug grins on their faces.
0:18:49 > 0:18:53Now about to take up a position - "take up a position" -
0:18:53 > 0:18:56that's known to the rest of us as getting a job -
0:18:56 > 0:19:01in the City, at Lloyd's, where he'll no doubt sit on his backside
0:19:01 > 0:19:05until it's time to shoot pheasants or murder young women in car crashes.
0:19:05 > 0:19:09- One of the two.- I don't think James'll be sitting on his backside.
0:19:09 > 0:19:11Not with a mother like that.
0:19:11 > 0:19:13- Sir?- Busy!
0:19:13 > 0:19:15Bob Anderton's ready for you, sir.
0:19:21 > 0:19:24Unknown female, approximately 20 years of age.
0:19:24 > 0:19:27No distinguishing marks or features,
0:19:27 > 0:19:29except the fingers are cut and scratched.
0:19:29 > 0:19:31Death was by drowning.
0:19:31 > 0:19:35What about this bruise on her head?
0:19:35 > 0:19:37Consistent with the crash, but a glancing blow.
0:19:37 > 0:19:40I doubt whether she lost consciousness. Sexually active.
0:19:40 > 0:19:43- Recent?- I'd say fairly recent.
0:19:43 > 0:19:47The fingernails on the left hand are much more worn than the right.
0:19:47 > 0:19:50Presumably she was scrabbling at the door with that hand.
0:19:50 > 0:19:52Or because she plays the violin, yes?
0:19:54 > 0:19:57Anything else I should know at this point, Bob?
0:19:58 > 0:20:03Yes. The blood sample on the metal frame, driver's side...
0:20:03 > 0:20:05- Oh, aye?- Yeah.
0:20:05 > 0:20:08It's a pretty rare type, actually. Might help you.
0:20:08 > 0:20:10A2B positive.
0:20:11 > 0:20:13After all night in the river?
0:20:13 > 0:20:16Apparently the car was at a slight angle.
0:20:16 > 0:20:19Not all the frame was submerged.
0:20:21 > 0:20:23I see.
0:20:25 > 0:20:28OK, well, I think we're done here, thanks.
0:20:36 > 0:20:39Did James Blackstone have a rare blood group?
0:20:39 > 0:20:42Oh, I can't remember. Why don't we go and ask him?
0:20:48 > 0:20:51I'll ask the questions. You take a back seat.
0:20:55 > 0:20:59Sir. Assistant Chief Constable's waiting for you in your office.
0:21:05 > 0:21:07Ah!
0:21:07 > 0:21:10Your questioning of His Lordship will take place here,
0:21:10 > 0:21:13with Mrs Acklington in attendance.
0:21:13 > 0:21:15I'll remain but will play no part.
0:21:15 > 0:21:17Oh, I think you already have, sir.
0:21:17 > 0:21:20This is not for discussion, Chief Inspector.
0:21:20 > 0:21:23It's a necessary precaution, given the history.
0:21:31 > 0:21:35How would you like me to address you?
0:21:35 > 0:21:37James is fine.
0:21:37 > 0:21:40Very well. James.
0:21:42 > 0:21:46May I ask you once again how you came by that cut on your head?
0:21:46 > 0:21:48You don't have to answer that.
0:21:48 > 0:21:52Well, he's already told us, in fact, that he fell into a window frame,
0:21:52 > 0:21:55whilst under the influence of alcohol.
0:21:57 > 0:22:00Would he care to elaborate on that?
0:22:00 > 0:22:03Were the French windows open or closed, for instance?
0:22:03 > 0:22:05They were open.
0:22:06 > 0:22:08I was talking to my mother.
0:22:08 > 0:22:10Not paying attention properly.
0:22:10 > 0:22:14- WHY were they open? - That's what French windows are for.
0:22:15 > 0:22:21Quite. So, were you on the inside or on the outside?
0:22:25 > 0:22:26We were outside.
0:22:29 > 0:22:32- Just the two of you?- Yes.
0:22:32 > 0:22:34No-one else to distract you?
0:22:34 > 0:22:37No, I was drunk.
0:22:37 > 0:22:40Yeah, you were drinking with your father.
0:22:40 > 0:22:43At a musical event in the village.
0:22:43 > 0:22:46Although Her Ladyship had previously told me
0:22:46 > 0:22:50that you were at home having supper and playing backgammon. So, which is true?
0:22:50 > 0:22:55- The countess isn't here to answer questions. - The question is for James.
0:22:55 > 0:23:00They're both true. James and his father came back about 11.
0:23:00 > 0:23:01So why did you first tell me...
0:23:01 > 0:23:04The countess isn't here to answer questions.
0:23:04 > 0:23:07Well, she has no problems answering for her son, I notice!
0:23:07 > 0:23:10HE CLEARS HIS THROAT AND MOUTHS
0:23:13 > 0:23:16James, we have a car upside down in a shallow river,
0:23:16 > 0:23:21and a young girl dead. Do you know what happened to her last night?
0:23:21 > 0:23:25The Chief Inspector must ask specific questions,
0:23:25 > 0:23:26not go on a fishing trip.
0:23:26 > 0:23:30- Agreed.- I'm asking James what he knows about a young girl
0:23:30 > 0:23:33whose life ended in the early hours of this morning.
0:23:33 > 0:23:37Trapped, frightened and helpless in a metal tomb,
0:23:37 > 0:23:41waiting for the cold river water to enter her lungs and drown her.
0:23:43 > 0:23:45Just a name would help.
0:23:47 > 0:23:49A little bit of dignity for her?
0:23:55 > 0:23:57I...I think I might know her.
0:23:57 > 0:24:01- Put a stop to this.- James, there's absolutely no obligation to...
0:24:01 > 0:24:02Why might you know her, James?
0:24:05 > 0:24:06Just, um...
0:24:09 > 0:24:12Just if...if she's local, I might recognise her.
0:24:12 > 0:24:15Certainly. Would you like to see her?
0:24:17 > 0:24:19She's here, just down the corridor.
0:24:19 > 0:24:21Yes, I would. Very much.
0:24:21 > 0:24:26- Stop this. James, I forbid this! - I strongly object to this procedure...
0:24:26 > 0:24:30Mr Blackstone has very kindly agreed to assist in identifying the body.
0:24:30 > 0:24:32This way, James.
0:24:34 > 0:24:37You said you could control this man!
0:24:39 > 0:24:40Come on.
0:24:42 > 0:24:43Down there.
0:25:12 > 0:25:13James?
0:25:23 > 0:25:25Ellen.
0:25:27 > 0:25:30Her name is Ellen.
0:25:31 > 0:25:33No, no, no. You can't touch her.
0:25:35 > 0:25:37You can never touch her again.
0:25:42 > 0:25:45- Never?- No, never.
0:25:50 > 0:25:52Were you driving the car, James?
0:25:54 > 0:25:57James, were you driving the car?
0:26:13 > 0:26:16Your son's waiting for you in reception.
0:26:16 > 0:26:18What did he tell you?
0:26:18 > 0:26:20Just the dead girl's name. Nothing more.
0:26:22 > 0:26:24Aren't you curious to know what it is?
0:26:26 > 0:26:28- Yes, of course.- Ellen Mallam.
0:26:30 > 0:26:35Oh, well, that begins to make sense. Her father works for us.
0:26:35 > 0:26:37Oh. Does he have access to the car?
0:26:37 > 0:26:40He's free to use it any time.
0:26:40 > 0:26:43Gosh. What a run of bad luck he's had.
0:26:43 > 0:26:49He lost his wife, lost his job at the pit, throat cancer,
0:26:49 > 0:26:51now this.
0:26:51 > 0:26:54- Throat cancer?- Mm-hm.
0:27:09 > 0:27:12Yous want to buy a compass, you two.
0:27:13 > 0:27:16Straight past the House of Lords stable block.
0:27:16 > 0:27:19Go quiet, cos they're fast asleep in the afternoons.
0:27:19 > 0:27:22Turn right at the Profumo swimming pool,
0:27:22 > 0:27:25over the bridge at the Christine Keeler goldfish pond...
0:27:28 > 0:27:30Billy Mallam?
0:27:30 > 0:27:31Aye.
0:27:32 > 0:27:36I went over the water to see Ellen Wilkinson speak
0:27:36 > 0:27:39the day the Jarrow March set out.
0:27:39 > 0:27:42The Fiery Spark, they called her.
0:27:44 > 0:27:47You know, she had that thing about her.
0:27:47 > 0:27:49You moved towards her, you know?
0:27:49 > 0:27:54And I thought to myself - and I hadn't even met her mother yet...
0:27:56 > 0:28:00..if I ever have a girl child, I'll call her Ellen.
0:28:02 > 0:28:08And my Ellen had that fiery spark, an' all.
0:28:34 > 0:28:37# A holiday, a holy day
0:28:37 > 0:28:38# The first one of the year
0:28:38 > 0:28:41# Lord Arlen's wife came into church
0:28:41 > 0:28:42# The gospel for to hear
0:28:42 > 0:28:45# And when the meeting, it was done
0:28:45 > 0:28:47# She cast her eyes about
0:28:47 > 0:28:50# And there she saw little Matty Groves
0:28:50 > 0:28:52# Walking in the crowd
0:28:52 > 0:28:55# Come home with me little Matty Groves
0:28:55 > 0:28:57# Come home with me tonight... #
0:28:57 > 0:29:00- 'This was last night, in the Miners' Welfare in your village?- Aye.
0:29:00 > 0:29:05'I'm going to need the names of the other band members.
0:29:05 > 0:29:07'It was whoever was free. Except Anthony.'
0:29:07 > 0:29:10# ..You are Lord Arlen's wife... #
0:29:10 > 0:29:15- 'Anthony always played. - Anthony...?- Anthony Baugh.'
0:29:15 > 0:29:18How can I find him?
0:29:18 > 0:29:22Well he's here, usually. In the library.
0:29:22 > 0:29:24Writing some kind of book.
0:29:24 > 0:29:28- Weren't you concerned when Ellen didn't come home last night? - Well, nah.
0:29:29 > 0:29:33Cos she told us she was getting the bus out of Newcastle, for London.
0:29:33 > 0:29:36Bus leaves at three o'clock in the morning.
0:29:36 > 0:29:39Her bags were packed, sitting on the floor.
0:29:39 > 0:29:43She was going to slip in later, pick them up after I'd gone to bed.
0:29:43 > 0:29:46They were still there this morning.
0:29:46 > 0:29:48So was her bus ticket.
0:29:48 > 0:29:50Did she have a boyfriend up here?
0:29:50 > 0:29:54- No, no.- How long has she been home from London?
0:29:54 > 0:29:58- Three or four days. - She was a student, yeah?
0:29:58 > 0:30:00At the Royal College of Music.
0:30:01 > 0:30:05From a bairn, Mr Bacchus, she could pick up any instrument
0:30:05 > 0:30:07and play it.
0:30:09 > 0:30:12Never knew where she got that from.
0:30:12 > 0:30:16Not me or her mam.
0:30:16 > 0:30:18What a voice.
0:30:18 > 0:30:21She made the angels weep.
0:30:24 > 0:30:28# Little Matty Groves, he laid down and took a little sleep
0:30:28 > 0:30:32# When he awoke Lord Arlen was standing at his feet
0:30:32 > 0:30:35# Saying, how do you like my featherbed?
0:30:35 > 0:30:36# How do you like my sheets?
0:30:36 > 0:30:39# How do you like my lady
0:30:39 > 0:30:41# Who lies in your arms asleep?
0:30:41 > 0:30:44# It's well I like your featherbed
0:30:44 > 0:30:46# And well I like your sheets
0:30:46 > 0:30:51# But better I like your lady gay who lies in my arms asleep
0:30:51 > 0:30:53# Well, get up, get up! Lord Arlen cried
0:30:53 > 0:30:55# Get up as quick as you can
0:30:55 > 0:30:57# It'll never be said in fair England
0:30:57 > 0:30:59- # I slew a naked man.- #
0:30:59 > 0:31:02'Who was in the audience?
0:31:02 > 0:31:05'People from the village. Farms round about.
0:31:05 > 0:31:06'People from the hall.
0:31:06 > 0:31:08'Who from the hall?
0:31:08 > 0:31:10'Well, Hector.
0:31:10 > 0:31:12'He always came when Ellen sang.'
0:31:14 > 0:31:17So Hector had known Ellen all her life?
0:31:17 > 0:31:20Always used to tell her she was beautiful, you know?
0:31:20 > 0:31:23Give her presents on her birthday, and that.
0:31:25 > 0:31:27She'd give him that big smile, and say,
0:31:27 > 0:31:31"Hector, give all the land and money you've pinched back to the workers
0:31:31 > 0:31:34"and I'll have a dirty weekend with you."
0:31:34 > 0:31:36Oh, she made me blush sometimes.
0:31:36 > 0:31:40She reminded him of his first wife, I think.
0:31:40 > 0:31:43OK, yeah. So, Hector was there.
0:31:43 > 0:31:45Why was James there?
0:31:45 > 0:31:47I don't know.
0:31:47 > 0:31:51But I do know he never took his eyes off Ellen all night.
0:31:52 > 0:31:55# ..And then Lord Arlen He took his wife
0:31:55 > 0:31:56# And he sat her on his knee
0:31:56 > 0:32:00# Saying, who do you like the best of us, Matty Groves or me?
0:32:00 > 0:32:03# And then up spoke his own dear wife
0:32:03 > 0:32:05# Never known to speak so free
0:32:05 > 0:32:10# I'd rather kiss dead Matty's lips than you and your finery!
0:32:10 > 0:32:12# And then Lord Arlen, he stood up
0:32:12 > 0:32:14# And loudly he did bawl
0:32:14 > 0:32:17# He struck his wife right through the heart
0:32:17 > 0:32:19# And pinned her against the wall
0:32:19 > 0:32:21# A grave, a grave, Lord Arlen cried
0:32:21 > 0:32:23# To put these lovers in
0:32:23 > 0:32:28- # But bury my lady at the top for she was of noble kin.- #
0:32:30 > 0:32:35- She had your politics?- She believed in justice and fair shares.
0:32:35 > 0:32:39Thank you. You've been listening to The Fiery Spark.
0:32:39 > 0:32:42Please give generously to the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign.
0:32:42 > 0:32:46Support the people of Vietnam. Victory to the Vietcong!
0:32:46 > 0:32:48America out!
0:32:48 > 0:32:50One last time, Ellen Mallam!
0:32:50 > 0:32:54If you want to hear her do one more, you better let her know.
0:32:54 > 0:32:57COINS RATTLE Thank you.
0:32:57 > 0:33:00Beautiful, darling, beautiful.
0:33:00 > 0:33:05Very kind. Thank you. Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
0:33:07 > 0:33:10Did James have a gash on his head, Mr Mallam?
0:33:10 > 0:33:15- A gash?- Aye.- No, why?- Sure?
0:33:15 > 0:33:16Has he got one now, like?
0:33:18 > 0:33:21He says he walked into the French windows.
0:33:21 > 0:33:23He's done this before, you know?
0:33:25 > 0:33:28Crashed cars and got away with it.
0:33:29 > 0:33:33Can you think of any reason why Ellen would be in a car
0:33:33 > 0:33:35with James Blackstone late last night?
0:33:39 > 0:33:43'They were talking, after the concert.
0:33:43 > 0:33:47- 'What were they talking about? - They were too far away.
0:34:00 > 0:34:02'I just remember thinking,
0:34:02 > 0:34:07' "There he goes again, drunk behind the wheel."
0:34:07 > 0:34:09'Well, her coach was at 3am.'
0:34:09 > 0:34:11Could he have been offering to come back later
0:34:11 > 0:34:15and give her a lift to the coach station in Newcastle?
0:34:15 > 0:34:16She did say she had a lift.
0:34:16 > 0:34:19- With James? - Well, I assumed Anthony.
0:34:19 > 0:34:21Anthony?
0:34:21 > 0:34:24Oh, Anthony Baugh, the guitarist that's writing a book?
0:34:24 > 0:34:25Why did you assume that?
0:34:25 > 0:34:29Cos that's what usually happened. They were close.
0:34:29 > 0:34:34- They grew up together. - Has he got a car? - No, he uses the ones off the estate.
0:34:34 > 0:34:38So, if he thought he might be needing a car last night, he...
0:34:41 > 0:34:45So sorry, Inspector. Billy, this is appalling.
0:34:45 > 0:34:46This is appalling!
0:34:46 > 0:34:50I'm sorry, I just wanted...
0:34:50 > 0:34:52It's all right we'd finished anyway.
0:34:52 > 0:34:53We want to speak to Anthony Baugh.
0:34:53 > 0:34:56I'm afraid he's not here today.
0:34:56 > 0:35:02- Could he have borrowed the Austin yesterday?- Yes, of course. He frequently takes a car.
0:35:02 > 0:35:06- We need to find out who left her to drown, Hector. - Yes. Mr Gently will, I'm sure.
0:35:06 > 0:35:09- Whoever it is, Hector. - Yes, of course.
0:35:11 > 0:35:13Whoever.
0:35:16 > 0:35:18I'm so sorry.
0:35:27 > 0:35:30- He won't hesitate.- To do what?
0:35:31 > 0:35:35Pull whatever strings it takes to save his son's neck.
0:35:36 > 0:35:40Well, aye - he's going to be Prime Minister one day,
0:35:40 > 0:35:43we keep getting told, whereas a young lass like Ellen -
0:35:43 > 0:35:47who had more brains and more heart in her little finger
0:35:47 > 0:35:53than he'll ever have - her life can be snuffed out like that.
0:35:57 > 0:35:59He's killed her, hasn't he?
0:36:00 > 0:36:04The only one who had any time for him,
0:36:04 > 0:36:07and he's killed her.
0:36:08 > 0:36:10Why is he not locked up?
0:36:12 > 0:36:15Hall here. Village here.
0:36:15 > 0:36:19A1 to Newcastle and the coach station here.
0:36:19 > 0:36:22River winds round this way. Death occurs here at the bridge.
0:36:22 > 0:36:24- Is there a point to this? - She had a ticket to London.
0:36:24 > 0:36:28Her father told us she left her luggage in the middle of the floor,
0:36:28 > 0:36:32so presumably whoever was driving her went back to pick it up.
0:36:32 > 0:36:35The rest of her band had gone home in the van.
0:36:35 > 0:36:38Guv, me brain's gone. We'll talk about this tomorrow.
0:36:41 > 0:36:43You've got nothing to say to me?
0:36:45 > 0:36:48- What about?- OK.
0:36:48 > 0:36:51Let me just tell you one of the vast array of things wrong
0:36:51 > 0:36:53with planting false evidence.
0:36:53 > 0:36:56Whoa. Whoa there, Nelly. False evidence?
0:36:56 > 0:36:58Yeah, the blood smear.
0:36:58 > 0:37:00James Blackstone is A2B, I take it?
0:37:00 > 0:37:04Come on, you must know from all the times you tried to nick him.
0:37:04 > 0:37:10- So?- So, a smear of it turns up conveniently on the car frame.
0:37:10 > 0:37:12That blood sample never even existed, did it?
0:37:12 > 0:37:15Guv, he's got a three-inch gash on his head!
0:37:15 > 0:37:17He's got previous for drinking and driving!
0:37:17 > 0:37:20They tried to stop us putting him away twice before
0:37:20 > 0:37:22and now, guess what, he's killed somebody,
0:37:22 > 0:37:24and you're trying to stop us a third time?!
0:37:24 > 0:37:28No, I'm trying to stop you from perjuring yourself and ruining Bob Anderton's career!
0:37:28 > 0:37:32He's got a wife and four kids depending on his salary,
0:37:32 > 0:37:35and you are asking him to risk all of that
0:37:35 > 0:37:39because you are SURE you've got the right man, you just haven't got the evidence to prove it!
0:37:39 > 0:37:42- Blokes your age, you can't help yourselves, can you?- What?!
0:37:42 > 0:37:46"This bloke here, he was in the Army, he must be a good bloke.
0:37:46 > 0:37:48"This bloke here, he's got a posh accent,
0:37:48 > 0:37:51"he couldn't POSSIBLY tell a pack of lies!"
0:37:51 > 0:37:54How many times have these people got a free pass
0:37:54 > 0:37:57just because they won the pools on the day that they were born?
0:37:57 > 0:37:59Is that what you think of me?
0:37:59 > 0:38:01Somebody who knows his place?
0:38:01 > 0:38:04These people have been farting in our faces for centuries
0:38:04 > 0:38:07and now we don't have to take it any more
0:38:07 > 0:38:12and here is my guv'nor calling this stuck up cow Your Ladyship.
0:38:12 > 0:38:15And that excuses you from inventing evidence against her son?
0:38:15 > 0:38:18A, I'm doing nothing of the kind. You're imagining it.
0:38:18 > 0:38:20B, he's guilty.
0:38:21 > 0:38:25And C, do you think these people got all their land,
0:38:25 > 0:38:28all their titles, all their wealth
0:38:28 > 0:38:29by sticking to the rules?
0:38:31 > 0:38:32Go home.
0:38:32 > 0:38:35- Guv...- Go home.
0:38:36 > 0:38:38You disappoint me, John.
0:38:52 > 0:38:55# You must leave now Take what you need
0:38:55 > 0:38:58# You think will last
0:39:00 > 0:39:03# But whatever you wish to keep
0:39:03 > 0:39:06# You better grab it fast
0:39:09 > 0:39:14# Yonder stands your orphan with his gun
0:39:17 > 0:39:23# Crying like a fire in the sun
0:39:26 > 0:39:32# Look out, baby The saints are comin' through
0:39:34 > 0:39:40# And it's all over now Baby Blue... #
0:39:40 > 0:39:43KNOCK AT DOOR
0:39:43 > 0:39:47# ..The highway is for gamblers
0:39:47 > 0:39:50# Better use your sense
0:39:53 > 0:39:57# Take what you have gathered from coincidence
0:40:00 > 0:40:06# The empty-handed painter from your streets
0:40:09 > 0:40:15# Is drawing crazy patterns on your sheets
0:40:18 > 0:40:24# The sky, too, is folding over you
0:40:26 > 0:40:32# And it's all over now, Baby Blue
0:40:32 > 0:40:35# Yeah, yeah, yeah
0:40:35 > 0:40:40# It's all over It's all over now, Baby Blue
0:40:42 > 0:40:45# It's all...
0:40:45 > 0:40:49# It's all over now, oh, yeah. #
0:40:49 > 0:40:52SIRENS WAIL
0:40:56 > 0:41:00This wouldn't have happened if we'd arrested him yesterday.
0:41:00 > 0:41:03Four O-levels AND 20/20 hindsight(!)
0:41:10 > 0:41:14- What business is this of theirs? - How's your son?
0:41:14 > 0:41:18They don't really know yet. Would you like a cup of tea?
0:41:18 > 0:41:20- No, thank you. - I wouldn't mind, actually.
0:41:20 > 0:41:23Anthony? And a tea for Sergeant Bacchus.
0:41:23 > 0:41:25Anthony Baugh.
0:41:26 > 0:41:30Yeah, you find out all you can. I'll take him outside.
0:41:33 > 0:41:37So Alethea found James with his throat cut?
0:41:37 > 0:41:40- Yes.- Did he manage to say anything?
0:41:40 > 0:41:44Presumably not, with his throat cut(!)
0:41:44 > 0:41:45Were you at the hall last night?
0:41:45 > 0:41:47At night? Of course not.
0:41:47 > 0:41:49How come you learned about James so quickly?
0:41:49 > 0:41:55The countess telephoned. She was...very upset. I came over.
0:41:57 > 0:41:59You think he tried to kill himself?
0:41:59 > 0:42:05James was - is - probably the most unhappy human being I've ever met.
0:42:05 > 0:42:07And one of the least likeable.
0:42:07 > 0:42:09What makes him unhappy?
0:42:09 > 0:42:12I'm not a psychiatrist.
0:42:12 > 0:42:14What makes him unlikeable?
0:42:14 > 0:42:16Proximity to him.
0:42:19 > 0:42:23Where do you fit in at Abberwick Hall, Anthony?
0:42:23 > 0:42:26The ruling class of England went mad about ten years ago,
0:42:26 > 0:42:28shortly after Suez, didn't you notice?
0:42:28 > 0:42:30I'm writing a book about it.
0:42:30 > 0:42:33Through A Class Darkly - The Decline Of The Old Order.
0:42:33 > 0:42:35Think it'll sell?
0:42:49 > 0:42:51Is that your son's blood?
0:42:59 > 0:43:02Why doesn't he make them open the kitchen?
0:43:02 > 0:43:06Is there really not a woman here to boil a kettle?
0:43:06 > 0:43:08What happened to your son?
0:43:09 > 0:43:12He used be a soldier.
0:43:13 > 0:43:16They play with death.
0:43:17 > 0:43:19- They're reckless.- I'm sorry.
0:43:20 > 0:43:24You're saying that James accidentally cut his own throat?
0:43:26 > 0:43:29SHE SIGHS
0:43:29 > 0:43:33He really is quite unbelievable, isn't he?
0:43:33 > 0:43:35Darling? Do you have any shrapnel?
0:43:40 > 0:43:44My husband was conceived upon a flannel.
0:43:45 > 0:43:47I beg your pardon?
0:43:47 > 0:43:51His mother - my predecessor as the Countess of Guyzance -
0:43:51 > 0:43:53was a notorious "horizontale".
0:43:55 > 0:43:57Sorry, I...?
0:43:57 > 0:43:58Rarely in the vertical plane.
0:43:58 > 0:44:00Oh, right.
0:44:03 > 0:44:05Why am I telling you this?
0:44:07 > 0:44:13- VOICE CRACKING:- Because sometimes... we just need to talk, don't you?
0:44:15 > 0:44:19My parents owned the village shop. James and I were at school together.
0:44:19 > 0:44:23- You went to public school?- Yep.
0:44:23 > 0:44:24Thrifty shopkeepers.
0:44:24 > 0:44:27Yes. But not that thrifty.
0:44:27 > 0:44:29Hector paid for my education.
0:44:29 > 0:44:33And, no, I'm not his illegitimate offspring, it was pure philanthropy.
0:44:33 > 0:44:35Hector does a lot of good in this world.
0:44:35 > 0:44:39- All he asks in return is that you try and do the same.- And will you?
0:44:39 > 0:44:41I'd like to go into politics.
0:44:41 > 0:44:43As James is meant to.
0:44:43 > 0:44:47Except he's got a mother who controls the local Tory Party
0:44:47 > 0:44:50- and decides who the MP will be. - Lucky boy, eh?
0:44:50 > 0:44:52But if James was no longer a candidate...?
0:44:52 > 0:44:54Oh, crikey. Am I a suspect?
0:44:54 > 0:44:57Tell me why you shouldn't be.
0:45:08 > 0:45:10What's your name?
0:45:10 > 0:45:12John.
0:45:12 > 0:45:16Well, John... She slept with everybody.
0:45:19 > 0:45:23Except Hector's father, whom she couldn't abide.
0:45:25 > 0:45:29You won't say a word of this to anyone, will you? Promise?
0:45:29 > 0:45:30I promise.
0:45:32 > 0:45:35So there came a point...
0:45:35 > 0:45:39where they hadn't had "conjugale" for six years,
0:45:39 > 0:45:44at which point the old bird announces she's pregnant.
0:45:44 > 0:45:46Well, even Hector's father -
0:45:46 > 0:45:49who was given dinners at Eton for his imbecility -
0:45:49 > 0:45:52even HE could do simple arithmetic.
0:45:55 > 0:45:58So he sued her for adultery in the High Court
0:45:58 > 0:46:02and tried to have Hector declared a bastard.
0:46:04 > 0:46:08- What happened? - Oh, he lost his case, obviously.
0:46:08 > 0:46:11- Can I get you anything, you chaps? - Oh, no, no, no.- Are you sure?
0:46:11 > 0:46:13Well...
0:46:13 > 0:46:17how did the, um...the "old bird" get away with it?
0:46:17 > 0:46:21She simply told the judge the facts of the matter.
0:46:21 > 0:46:24- Which were...?- That because he wasn't getting any sex,
0:46:24 > 0:46:27Hector's father was in the habit of relieving himself
0:46:27 > 0:46:30on a flannel in her bathroom.
0:46:30 > 0:46:31One night in her bath,
0:46:31 > 0:46:34she used the flannel to wash herself down there,
0:46:34 > 0:46:39thus impregnating herself with his sperm.
0:46:39 > 0:46:41And the judge believed that?
0:46:41 > 0:46:45Of course he believed her. Her father was a duke.
0:46:48 > 0:46:49So who is Hector's real father?
0:46:49 > 0:46:54Probably some horny-handed son of toil from the local coal mine.
0:46:56 > 0:46:59That would explain a lot about Hector.
0:46:59 > 0:47:01Tea at last!
0:47:04 > 0:47:06Getting to know each other?
0:47:07 > 0:47:10Is there a Mr and Mrs Guyzance here?
0:47:16 > 0:47:19A friend of yours has just lost her life in a car crash,
0:47:19 > 0:47:23somebody that you were close to, according to her father. Were you?
0:47:23 > 0:47:25Mm.
0:47:25 > 0:47:28So why weren't you driving the car?
0:47:29 > 0:47:30Cos Billy...
0:47:30 > 0:47:33Billy assumed that you would be giving her a lift
0:47:33 > 0:47:35to the coach station. Why didn't you?
0:47:35 > 0:47:38She wasn't going to the coach station.
0:47:39 > 0:47:41James was driving them both to London.
0:47:41 > 0:47:44- How do you know this?- She told me.
0:47:45 > 0:47:47How close were you, Anthony?
0:47:49 > 0:47:51Did you love Ellen, Anthony?
0:47:52 > 0:47:54All my life.
0:47:54 > 0:47:56Guv?
0:48:03 > 0:48:05He lost too much blood.
0:48:05 > 0:48:07They couldn't bring him back.
0:48:09 > 0:48:11I'm very sorry.
0:48:16 > 0:48:18What can you tell me about what happened?
0:48:18 > 0:48:20Very little.
0:48:20 > 0:48:24I heard my wife's screams, I went to the window,
0:48:24 > 0:48:27I saw the scene and I immediately phoned for help.
0:48:29 > 0:48:31When I got outside...
0:48:31 > 0:48:33there was blood everywhere.
0:48:33 > 0:48:36James was barely alive.
0:48:37 > 0:48:39We tried to bandage his neck.
0:48:39 > 0:48:42He was drowning in his own blood.
0:48:42 > 0:48:44The ambulance took an age.
0:48:44 > 0:48:47And you saw no-one else?
0:48:48 > 0:48:49Such as who?
0:48:50 > 0:48:53Anthony Baugh, for instance?
0:48:54 > 0:48:57No, of course not.
0:48:57 > 0:49:00And the previous evening, the night that Ellen met her death,
0:49:00 > 0:49:03was he at the hall then?
0:49:03 > 0:49:07Why would he be there in the evening?
0:49:07 > 0:49:08Hector, I'm sorry, too.
0:49:08 > 0:49:12The silver dagger that was found beside James?
0:49:12 > 0:49:13It's a letter opener.
0:49:13 > 0:49:16- Was it familiar to you? - It was my wife's.
0:49:16 > 0:49:19- Oh.- A gift from James on her 40th birthday.
0:49:19 > 0:49:21There's an inscription on it -
0:49:21 > 0:49:24"To Mummy, from James".
0:49:24 > 0:49:27It normally lives on a desk in the day room.
0:49:27 > 0:49:32Do you think that your son could have ended his own life with it?
0:49:35 > 0:49:37Yes. I do.
0:49:37 > 0:49:38Why would he do that?
0:49:40 > 0:49:41I don't know.
0:49:41 > 0:49:45And yesterday evening, were the three of you at home together?
0:49:45 > 0:49:49Yes. I myself went out for a while.
0:49:49 > 0:49:51To go where?
0:49:51 > 0:49:54I went to Billy Mallam's house to share a drink with him,
0:49:54 > 0:49:57but he slammed the door on me.
0:49:57 > 0:50:00There was real hatred in his eyes.
0:50:01 > 0:50:04I fear he may have been led to the wrong conclusion
0:50:04 > 0:50:06about his daughter's death.
0:50:06 > 0:50:08I think your son killed himself last night
0:50:08 > 0:50:13because he felt responsible for the death of Ellen Mallam.
0:50:13 > 0:50:17Why do you keep pointing your finger at other people, I wonder?
0:50:17 > 0:50:19Confucius had a saying, Sergeant -
0:50:19 > 0:50:21"When a wise man points at the stars,
0:50:21 > 0:50:25"only a fool stares at his finger".
0:50:25 > 0:50:27DOOR LATCH CLICKS
0:50:33 > 0:50:35Darling...
0:50:54 > 0:50:57- Are we letting Anthony go? - Yeah. For now.
0:50:57 > 0:51:00- These people are weird.- Yeah.
0:51:00 > 0:51:02Better question Billy Mallam.
0:51:04 > 0:51:06Oh, right. Yeah.
0:51:06 > 0:51:09Billy Mallam has now gone to the hall, has he, huh?
0:51:09 > 0:51:13To open James Blackstone's throat with a silver dagger that belonged to Alethea, huh?
0:51:13 > 0:51:16And because of me, apparently. Are you taking this rubbish seriously?
0:51:16 > 0:51:19- I have to.- What, because an earl says that it's true?
0:51:19 > 0:51:21- Oh, well, then it must be(!)- You...
0:51:21 > 0:51:24You as good as told Billy Mallam that James was driving the car!
0:51:24 > 0:51:27It's a smoke screen, guv! The truth...the truth has just walked out that door!
0:51:27 > 0:51:30Listen, you don't have to be there. I'll question him on my own.
0:51:30 > 0:51:32No, no! I'll do it, sir. I'll do it!
0:51:32 > 0:51:34It's all my fault, apparently, so I'll do it!
0:51:40 > 0:51:43That's for slitting envelopes, not throats.
0:51:44 > 0:51:47There's easier ways than that of killing a man, bonny lad.
0:51:47 > 0:51:49- Such as?- A shotgun.
0:51:49 > 0:51:51Yeah, but...
0:51:51 > 0:51:56you wanted poetic justice, though, didn't you?
0:51:56 > 0:51:58For your beautiful, artistic daughter?
0:51:58 > 0:52:02Cut the killer's throat with a knife inscribed to his Mammy.
0:52:02 > 0:52:04What's sweeter than that?
0:52:04 > 0:52:08Having Ellen alive would be sweeter than that, bonny lad.
0:52:08 > 0:52:10Yeah, but she's not alive, though, is she?
0:52:10 > 0:52:13You're never going to see her again, Billy. Never.
0:52:18 > 0:52:22You had hate in your heart last night, Billy.
0:52:22 > 0:52:23Says who?
0:52:23 > 0:52:25Who came knocking at your door?
0:52:28 > 0:52:29Hector put yous up to this?
0:52:29 > 0:52:32James Blackstone left Ellen to drown.
0:52:32 > 0:52:35James Blackstone drowned in his own blood.
0:52:35 > 0:52:38Nobody, nobody on Earth,
0:52:38 > 0:52:40would blame you for that, Billy. Nobody.
0:52:40 > 0:52:44Did you leave the house after Hector came to see you?
0:52:47 > 0:52:50Where did you go to, Billy?
0:52:52 > 0:52:54The river.
0:52:55 > 0:52:57I went to the river.
0:52:59 > 0:53:01To see where my bairn lost her life.
0:53:02 > 0:53:05Thinking I might die in the same spot.
0:53:08 > 0:53:10I couldn't kill myself last night.
0:53:11 > 0:53:13This was not simple cowardice.
0:53:15 > 0:53:17At age 19,
0:53:17 > 0:53:21I spent six days trapped by a rock fall,
0:53:21 > 0:53:23underground on me own,
0:53:23 > 0:53:26so I've met despair before.
0:53:27 > 0:53:31Wrapped tight round my throat in the dark.
0:53:32 > 0:53:35But I survived it.
0:53:35 > 0:53:38As I will the loss of Ellen.
0:53:39 > 0:53:41As I have everything else.
0:53:46 > 0:53:52Anthony Baugh says James and Ellen were leaving for London together.
0:53:52 > 0:53:54Knows it for a fact, he says.
0:53:54 > 0:53:57He only knows one thing for a fact -
0:53:57 > 0:54:02that Anthony Baugh will one day be atop of the greasy pole.
0:54:02 > 0:54:07I've watched that lad grow up. He believes in nothing except himself.
0:54:07 > 0:54:12All the same, why would he make it up? Huh?
0:54:12 > 0:54:15I mean, you said it yourself, didn't you?
0:54:15 > 0:54:17James held onto her hand, she kissed him.
0:54:18 > 0:54:22That's a funny thing for a fiery working-class lass to be doing.
0:54:22 > 0:54:26Standing necking on the street with a bloke whose mum's posher than the Queen.
0:54:26 > 0:54:28Billy...
0:54:29 > 0:54:32..the postmortem tells us
0:54:32 > 0:54:36that Ellen had sex with somebody in the days before she died.
0:54:36 > 0:54:38Did yous have to tell us that?
0:54:38 > 0:54:41Could it have been James?
0:54:41 > 0:54:43- Never in a million year.- Anthony?
0:54:44 > 0:54:49I think they used to... but that was years ago.
0:54:50 > 0:54:53Well... Thank you very much, Mr Mallam.
0:54:53 > 0:54:56I'll arrange for a squad car to take you home.
0:54:58 > 0:55:02When the undertakers have done their work,
0:55:02 > 0:55:05people can come and pay their respects.
0:55:09 > 0:55:14He was so, so very loved, my son.
0:55:18 > 0:55:20England has lost a future leader.
0:55:32 > 0:55:36Have you ever lost anyone you were really close to, George?
0:55:36 > 0:55:38Of course you have.
0:55:40 > 0:55:42We're the generation, aren't we?
0:55:47 > 0:55:49I lost my father
0:55:49 > 0:55:53and my brother in the war.
0:55:53 > 0:55:55In the same week.
0:55:57 > 0:56:00I lost some comrades. Anzio.
0:56:01 > 0:56:04Sicily before that.
0:56:07 > 0:56:10I also lost my wife a few years ago.
0:56:13 > 0:56:14I'm so sorry.
0:56:17 > 0:56:19It's been very much on my mind recently.
0:56:21 > 0:56:23I can't quite work out why.
0:56:23 > 0:56:26It's because you're a sensitive man, George.
0:56:28 > 0:56:31But life will be good again.
0:56:32 > 0:56:37Life always works out well in the end for good men...
0:56:37 > 0:56:39like you.
0:56:41 > 0:56:42Your Ladyship...
0:56:42 > 0:56:45Why don't you call me Alethea? Hmm?
0:56:47 > 0:56:49When no-one else is around.
0:56:51 > 0:56:54I think I'll call you Your Ladyship, if it's all the same to you.
0:56:56 > 0:56:58The night Ellen died...
0:57:00 > 0:57:02Back to that again, are we?
0:57:03 > 0:57:07Anthony Baugh says James and Ellen were going away to London together.
0:57:09 > 0:57:10Gosh!
0:57:11 > 0:57:15Hasn't he a lot to say for the son of village shopkeepers?
0:57:28 > 0:57:31- Can I help you in some way?- Yeah.
0:57:31 > 0:57:35Sometime before she died, somebody shagged Ellen. Any idea who?
0:57:35 > 0:57:38You really are something.
0:57:39 > 0:57:43An easier one, then - was it you or was it James?
0:57:43 > 0:57:46Body's hardly cold, Sergeant.
0:57:46 > 0:57:47I'm sorry.
0:57:48 > 0:57:50If you want coppers with good taste,
0:57:50 > 0:57:53then mebbies they should send us all to public school.
0:57:53 > 0:57:55Could learn how to cane each other.
0:57:55 > 0:57:59I just went to the local grammar, me, so I never really got into bondage.
0:57:59 > 0:58:00This is an amazing, kind,
0:58:00 > 0:58:02beautiful, talented human being
0:58:02 > 0:58:05who's lost her life in tragic circumstances.
0:58:05 > 0:58:06The fact that you think it's funny,
0:58:06 > 0:58:10the fact that you think she's to be mocked, does you no credit.
0:58:10 > 0:58:15And, actually, maybe that IS something to do with your education.
0:58:15 > 0:58:16Oh, where did I go wrong?
0:58:16 > 0:58:19Let me tell you what I'm thinking, Ant.
0:58:19 > 0:58:22I'm thinking this - there's you sent to school
0:58:22 > 0:58:25to learn how to parrot the upper classes, right?
0:58:25 > 0:58:28But it'll always be all right, won't it?
0:58:28 > 0:58:31Because there's Ellen, childhood sweetheart,
0:58:31 > 0:58:34the Fiery Spark,
0:58:34 > 0:58:35Red Ellen.
0:58:37 > 0:58:39And as long as she still loves you,
0:58:39 > 0:58:42then you haven't turned into a complete toady.
0:58:42 > 0:58:45And then one day - disaster.
0:58:45 > 0:58:50She thinks to herself, "Why am I wasting my time dropping my knickers
0:58:50 > 0:58:54"for a pretend upper-class twit when I can have a proper one?"
0:58:56 > 0:58:58Eh?
0:58:59 > 0:59:02James never took his eyes off her at that concert.
0:59:02 > 0:59:04That must have made you angry, did it?
0:59:04 > 0:59:07Then he leaves her to drown in a river.
0:59:07 > 0:59:10You expect me to believe that you spent all last night
0:59:10 > 0:59:13playing draughts with your mam and dad up in Seahouses?
0:59:13 > 0:59:15- Ask them.- I have.
0:59:16 > 0:59:21"Ah, yeah, no, he was here the whole time, honest."
0:59:22 > 0:59:25What are mums and dads for?
0:59:30 > 0:59:33What was James's relationship with Ellen Mallam?
0:59:35 > 0:59:36"Relationship"?
0:59:38 > 0:59:43James was a man of action. A soldier.
0:59:43 > 0:59:45They're allowed to sow wild oats.
0:59:46 > 0:59:49Well, village girls...
0:59:49 > 0:59:51sometimes get the wrong idea.
0:59:52 > 0:59:56She laid herself down for him
0:59:56 > 0:59:59and then expected a wedding ring.
0:59:59 > 1:00:01So she threw herself at him?
1:00:01 > 1:00:05She...ensnared him with sex.
1:00:05 > 1:00:08This proud working-class girl,
1:00:08 > 1:00:11named after a famous working-class heroine,
1:00:11 > 1:00:13expected a life with your son?
1:00:13 > 1:00:18And isn't that just typical of the working classes?
1:00:18 > 1:00:21Once they smell money and opportunity...
1:00:22 > 1:00:25They envy wealth, success, brilliance -
1:00:25 > 1:00:28all the things that James had in spades.
1:00:28 > 1:00:31- Exactly.- So why did he kill himself?
1:00:31 > 1:00:33He didn't kill himself.
1:00:33 > 1:00:36Your husband says it was suicide.
1:00:36 > 1:00:38How would he know?
1:00:38 > 1:00:39He wasn't there.
1:00:39 > 1:00:41Nor were you.
1:00:41 > 1:00:44Exactly. Nobody was.
1:00:44 > 1:00:48So nobody can say that James killed himself.
1:00:48 > 1:00:51Mm. Anthony Baugh says so, too.
1:00:52 > 1:00:54Well, God damn Anthony Baugh.
1:00:57 > 1:01:01- He would say that, wouldn't he?- Why?
1:01:02 > 1:01:05Because he hated my son.
1:01:05 > 1:01:07Hated and envied him.
1:01:09 > 1:01:11Because you can give a boy an education...
1:01:12 > 1:01:14..but you can't give him breeding.
1:01:14 > 1:01:17But Anthony's family, really, isn't he?
1:01:23 > 1:01:25James is home, my dear.
1:01:25 > 1:01:28Would you excuse us now, please?
1:01:29 > 1:01:31One more question.
1:01:33 > 1:01:36Did Ellen visit you the night she died?
1:01:36 > 1:01:38What an absurd idea.
1:01:45 > 1:01:48Were you here at the club the night Ellen Mallam was playing?
1:01:48 > 1:01:50I wouldn't miss it.
1:01:50 > 1:01:52So you knew Ellen, I assume?
1:01:52 > 1:01:55Watched her grow up. Lovely lass.
1:01:57 > 1:02:00Breaks your heart, you know?
1:02:00 > 1:02:02Was there anything different about her that night?
1:02:02 > 1:02:04Anything unusual happen?
1:02:04 > 1:02:08Well, she was never usually short of a lift.
1:02:08 > 1:02:10Sorry?
1:02:10 > 1:02:13Turns the lights out, locks the place up,
1:02:13 > 1:02:16she was out here, sitting here on her own.
1:02:17 > 1:02:19What did she say?
1:02:19 > 1:02:21Just her lift never turned up.
1:02:22 > 1:02:23Did she say who the lift was?
1:02:23 > 1:02:29No. She just said, "I don't care, I'll walk."
1:02:29 > 1:02:31Like, determined, you know?
1:02:33 > 1:02:37If I don't see you through the week, I'll see you through the window.
1:02:37 > 1:02:40'And she gives us this big smacker on the lips.
1:02:40 > 1:02:43'She was...happy.'
1:02:43 > 1:02:45Heading which way?
1:02:45 > 1:02:46That way.
1:02:47 > 1:02:50Towards Abberwick Hall?
1:02:50 > 1:02:53It's a simple enough question, Tone - was it you
1:02:53 > 1:02:55or was it James who shagged her before she died?
1:02:55 > 1:02:57Well, it wasn't me, no.
1:02:57 > 1:03:01Oh, dear. The thought of her and James would have hurt, wouldn't it?
1:03:02 > 1:03:04But it wasn't James either, was it?
1:03:04 > 1:03:08I nicked him twice before for being drunk behind the wheel.
1:03:08 > 1:03:11Both times he was with a lad.
1:03:11 > 1:03:15Different lads, but never any sign of any lasses.
1:03:15 > 1:03:18And Billy? He just laughed at the idea of her and James.
1:03:18 > 1:03:23James was queer. Everybody knew that. Except one person, of course.
1:03:23 > 1:03:26Four prancing horses will draw your carriage.
1:03:33 > 1:03:35You will be engraved in marble.
1:03:42 > 1:03:45Earls and dukes will attend you.
1:03:50 > 1:03:52And men and women everywhere...
1:03:54 > 1:03:55..will weep...
1:03:57 > 1:03:59..for their fallen hero.
1:04:10 > 1:04:12'Ellen gave him hope.'
1:04:12 > 1:04:16For the first and only time in his stupid life, he had hope.
1:04:16 > 1:04:20- How'd she do that?- By singing to him. A song called Silver Dagger.
1:04:21 > 1:04:24- Silver Dagger? - It was the last song she ever sang.
1:04:26 > 1:04:30'It's about a mother who won't let go of her son.'
1:04:32 > 1:04:35One more, then. This is for mothers everywhere.
1:04:39 > 1:04:43# Don't sing love songs
1:04:43 > 1:04:46# You'll wake your mother
1:04:47 > 1:04:50# She's laying there
1:04:50 > 1:04:54# Right by your side
1:04:55 > 1:04:59# And in her right hand
1:04:59 > 1:05:02# A silver dagger
1:05:04 > 1:05:08# She says that I
1:05:08 > 1:05:11# Can't be your bride
1:05:16 > 1:05:21# All maids are false
1:05:21 > 1:05:24# Says your mother
1:05:24 > 1:05:29# They'll tell you wicked
1:05:29 > 1:05:33# Winning lies
1:05:33 > 1:05:37# And the very next evening
1:05:37 > 1:05:41# They'll love another
1:05:41 > 1:05:46# Leave you alone
1:05:46 > 1:05:51# To pine and cry
1:05:54 > 1:05:58# Go find yourself
1:05:58 > 1:06:01# A rich young maiden
1:06:02 > 1:06:06# And hope that she
1:06:06 > 1:06:09# Will be your wife
1:06:10 > 1:06:14# For I've been warned
1:06:14 > 1:06:18# And I've decided
1:06:19 > 1:06:23# To live alone
1:06:23 > 1:06:26# All of my life... #
1:06:46 > 1:06:50So what were your movements after the concert?
1:06:50 > 1:06:52Packed up the instruments, offered Ellen a lift,
1:06:52 > 1:06:55- but she declined because she was... - DOOR BANGS
1:06:55 > 1:06:57Carry on.
1:06:57 > 1:06:59She was waiting for James to come back and pick her up,
1:06:59 > 1:07:02- which obviously he did. - Why do you say that?
1:07:02 > 1:07:05Come on. We all know who was driving the car.
1:07:05 > 1:07:09But it wasn't James's car that crashed. It was an old Austin.
1:07:09 > 1:07:11- Well, then that's the car he was driving that night.- No, no.
1:07:11 > 1:07:15James was in his Volvo P1800 earlier outside the Miners' Welfare.
1:07:15 > 1:07:17Well, then...
1:07:17 > 1:07:20for some reason he must've come back for her in the Austin.
1:07:20 > 1:07:22Why?
1:07:22 > 1:07:24What car were you driving, Anthony?
1:07:24 > 1:07:27Just one of the Abberwick cars. I don't remember which.
1:07:27 > 1:07:29Don't you?
1:07:29 > 1:07:31Ellen walked to the hall.
1:07:31 > 1:07:34I have an eye witness.
1:07:34 > 1:07:37Five miles on her own in the dark.
1:07:37 > 1:07:39It is now nearly one in the morning
1:07:39 > 1:07:43and Ellen will soon get into the car that will crash and drown her.
1:07:44 > 1:07:46Where were you?
1:07:47 > 1:07:49I was at home.
1:07:50 > 1:07:53Stop wasting our time.
1:07:53 > 1:07:56You were about to get a big surprise, weren't you?
1:07:56 > 1:07:58Not to mention the countess.
1:08:00 > 1:08:02Oh.
1:08:02 > 1:08:06Is that why he paid for you to go to that posh school is it, Anthony?
1:08:06 > 1:08:10So his wife could have a bit of well-spoken rough?
1:08:10 > 1:08:13Or is this your way of saying, "Thank you, Hector"?
1:08:13 > 1:08:16I was with Alethea when Ellen arrived.
1:08:17 > 1:08:20Doing what, exactly?
1:08:21 > 1:08:24How's the uprising going, village boy?
1:08:24 > 1:08:27Oh, it's... It's coming along.
1:08:27 > 1:08:29Give me some of that.
1:08:35 > 1:08:39Good. Because I'm ready.
1:08:57 > 1:09:00RADIO: '..resembles a battlefield after an uprising on a scale
1:09:00 > 1:09:02'unequalled in the postwar period...'
1:09:02 > 1:09:04That'll be you one day, my lady.
1:09:04 > 1:09:09Your house will burn, baby, burn.
1:09:09 > 1:09:14Oh, really? I'm so scared.
1:09:14 > 1:09:17The working classes on the rise.
1:09:18 > 1:09:23At last seeing through all our ruses to keep them enslaved.
1:09:23 > 1:09:26Oh, Lord, what shall become of me?
1:09:26 > 1:09:28You'll be up against a wall.
1:09:28 > 1:09:31Oh, will I? Up against a wall...
1:09:33 > 1:09:35And where will you be, village boy?
1:09:35 > 1:09:39- I'll be standing right behind you with my gun in my...- Sh.
1:09:39 > 1:09:41VIOLIN PLAYS "SILVER DAGGER"
1:09:59 > 1:10:02- This girl is insane!- She's come to collect James, Alethea.
1:10:02 > 1:10:05He wants to go to London with her.
1:10:05 > 1:10:07Wants to drop out. Find his own space.
1:10:07 > 1:10:09The police can deal with this.
1:10:09 > 1:10:13Tell her she has ten minutes to get off my property!
1:10:13 > 1:10:17- I can't talk to her! - Oh, she still doesn't know?
1:10:17 > 1:10:23Well, I think that it's about time that she did!
1:10:23 > 1:10:25Alethea, why not just let him go with her?
1:10:25 > 1:10:28He isn't what you think he is. He isn't clever enough.
1:10:28 > 1:10:32Oh, and you are, I suppose?
1:10:32 > 1:10:36Don't get ideas above your station, Anthony. Your parents ran a shop!
1:10:36 > 1:10:37He's weak, Alethea.
1:10:37 > 1:10:40And not very bright.
1:10:40 > 1:10:42Have you ever met any Government ministers?
1:10:42 > 1:10:44I wrote his essays all through school and Oxford.
1:10:44 > 1:10:48- And were amply rewarded!- Can't you see what you've turned him into?
1:10:48 > 1:10:50He's a vain, lazy, stupid...
1:10:52 > 1:10:55# And I've decided
1:10:55 > 1:11:01# To live alone all of... #
1:11:02 > 1:11:04Anthony?
1:11:08 > 1:11:11Oh, Anthony...
1:11:11 > 1:11:13I always worried you might sell your granny
1:11:13 > 1:11:16- but I never thought you'd shag her! - Make her shut up!
1:11:16 > 1:11:20You are a total nightmare, Mrs Guyzance, do you know that?
1:11:20 > 1:11:21Does Hector know?
1:11:23 > 1:11:25Well...
1:11:26 > 1:11:28Good luck.
1:11:29 > 1:11:31Get rid of her.
1:11:33 > 1:11:35I'll take you to the coach station, Ellen.
1:11:35 > 1:11:37No, thanks. I've got a lift.
1:11:46 > 1:11:49But she did get in that car. Who with?
1:11:49 > 1:11:52I don't know. I went back upstairs.
1:11:52 > 1:11:55That was the last I ever saw of Ellen.
1:12:23 > 1:12:25Stay here. Don't talk to anybody.
1:12:28 > 1:12:31ENGINE RUMBLES
1:12:38 > 1:12:42I call them my steeds. They're like old friends, really.
1:12:42 > 1:12:45Ellen Mallam came here the night she died.
1:12:45 > 1:12:47You've been lying to us.
1:12:47 > 1:12:50Isn't that against the rules for barons?
1:12:51 > 1:12:53Yes, she was here.
1:12:53 > 1:12:55Were you expecting her?
1:12:55 > 1:12:57I thought I was dreaming.
1:12:57 > 1:12:59VIOLIN PLAYS "SILVER DAGGER"
1:13:02 > 1:13:05Shall I tell you something, Chief Inspector?
1:13:05 > 1:13:08If I'd been 40 years younger, I wouldn't have hesitated.
1:13:08 > 1:13:10I would have run off with her myself.
1:13:11 > 1:13:13You knew why she'd come, then?
1:13:13 > 1:13:15To rescue James.
1:13:15 > 1:13:19# Right by your side
1:13:19 > 1:13:22# And in her right hand
1:13:22 > 1:13:26# A silver dagger
1:13:26 > 1:13:28# She says that I... #
1:13:28 > 1:13:31'James wasn't at all what he appeared to be.
1:13:31 > 1:13:33'He was a frightened young man, really.
1:13:33 > 1:13:35'Desperately unsure of what he wanted of life.'
1:13:35 > 1:13:38Desperately unsure he could deliver
1:13:38 > 1:13:40what life seemed to be asking of him.
1:13:40 > 1:13:43What life was asking of him? Or his mother?
1:13:43 > 1:13:45Where was she while all this was happening?
1:13:45 > 1:13:48- You'll have to ask her that. - Oh, no, I'm asking you.- No, no.- What?
1:13:48 > 1:13:51We spoke to Anthony Baugh.
1:13:51 > 1:13:53We know where your wife was.
1:13:53 > 1:13:56Where is your wife now, please?
1:13:56 > 1:13:58Asleep. Exhausted.
1:13:58 > 1:14:02Somebody's responsible for the death of Ellen Mallam and I think she knows who,
1:14:02 > 1:14:07so could you go and tell your wife "wakey, wakey", now, please?
1:14:07 > 1:14:08All right.
1:14:14 > 1:14:17You do it your way, I'll do it mine, all right?
1:14:17 > 1:14:21I'm sick to the back teeth of these toffee-nosed hypocrites.
1:14:22 > 1:14:26- All right. We'll do it your way. - Right.
1:14:29 > 1:14:33Ellen Mallam walked here at 1am the night she died.
1:14:33 > 1:14:37According to your husband, she came here to talk to James.
1:14:37 > 1:14:39You were in your bedroom.
1:14:41 > 1:14:43With him.
1:14:43 > 1:14:46Oh, aye, he's given us all the gory details.
1:14:46 > 1:14:50So what happened next, when Ellen tried to take your son away from you?
1:14:50 > 1:14:53VIOLIN PLAYS "SILVER DAGGER"
1:15:05 > 1:15:07Go back to bed.
1:15:08 > 1:15:12Come with me. It's not as hard as you think, James.
1:15:12 > 1:15:14Go inside, James.
1:15:15 > 1:15:18There's an amazing world out here, beautiful man.
1:15:18 > 1:15:22You'll find different friends, do different things - I promise.
1:15:24 > 1:15:25I'll help you.
1:15:27 > 1:15:31Just...forget about me, Ellen.
1:15:31 > 1:15:32No, I won't just forget about you.
1:15:32 > 1:15:34The police will be here shortly, my dear,
1:15:34 > 1:15:37so I suggest that you pack up your fiddle
1:15:37 > 1:15:39and clear off back where you belong.
1:15:39 > 1:15:41Let him choose his own life, Alethea.
1:15:41 > 1:15:43He has chosen.
1:15:43 > 1:15:45Haven't you, James?
1:15:47 > 1:15:49Get back in the house.
1:15:49 > 1:15:51Now!
1:15:59 > 1:16:01GLASS SHATTERS
1:16:01 > 1:16:04For goodness' sake. Oh, my God, James!
1:16:04 > 1:16:06Are you all right?
1:16:06 > 1:16:08Now do you see what you've done?!
1:16:10 > 1:16:13'So Anthony had gone upstairs, yes?'
1:16:13 > 1:16:16Yes.
1:16:16 > 1:16:18Another man she had twisted round her little finger.
1:16:18 > 1:16:22Really, what was the attraction?
1:16:22 > 1:16:24Why all this fuss about her?
1:16:24 > 1:16:28- For goodness' sake, Alethea, she was an extraordinary creature!- So...
1:16:28 > 1:16:30She left in a car.
1:16:31 > 1:16:33Driven by whom?
1:16:34 > 1:16:36We have no idea.
1:16:40 > 1:16:44We were with James and his cut head.
1:16:45 > 1:16:47James was...hardly conscious.
1:16:47 > 1:16:50Chief Inspector, it seems to me
1:16:50 > 1:16:54that you would like us to solve this mystery for you.
1:16:56 > 1:16:59And you've obviously failed to come up with any evidence
1:16:59 > 1:17:02of who was behind the wheel or you'd have produced it by now.
1:17:05 > 1:17:06That's where you're wrong.
1:17:06 > 1:17:10- John...?- No, no. They're not getting away with this.
1:17:15 > 1:17:18We have a blood sample.
1:17:18 > 1:17:20Taken from the crashed car. It's quite rare.
1:17:20 > 1:17:24A2B, James's blood type.
1:17:24 > 1:17:27So presumably one of yours as well.
1:17:27 > 1:17:31- Blood types...? - It's quite simple, Mrs Blackstone.
1:17:31 > 1:17:34James was A2B,
1:17:34 > 1:17:37so one of his parents must be.
1:17:39 > 1:17:40What are you?
1:17:42 > 1:17:43O.
1:17:49 > 1:17:51And you?
1:17:53 > 1:17:54It was my blood.
1:17:54 > 1:17:56I drove the car.
1:17:57 > 1:17:59Somebody had to.
1:17:59 > 1:18:04James was incapable, my wife was under the influence,
1:18:04 > 1:18:08so I took the nearest car and drove Ellen home for her baggage.
1:18:08 > 1:18:11Except we didn't get there.
1:18:11 > 1:18:14I lost control of the car on a bend.
1:18:15 > 1:18:17I lost consciousness for a while.
1:18:17 > 1:18:21When I came to, we were upside down in the river.
1:18:22 > 1:18:24Ellen was trapped.
1:18:24 > 1:18:28I tried to free her. The water was rising.
1:18:29 > 1:18:32I kicked my door open and I scrambled out.
1:18:32 > 1:18:35God help me, I tried to save her,
1:18:35 > 1:18:38but I couldn't free her foot!
1:18:40 > 1:18:42I talked to her.
1:18:42 > 1:18:47And I held her hand until she was covered by the water
1:18:47 > 1:18:48and then she drowned.
1:18:48 > 1:18:51You could've just told us all this from the beginning, man.
1:18:51 > 1:18:54What, and have all of this brought up for public scrutiny?
1:18:54 > 1:18:57My life - our lives - a laughing stock?
1:18:57 > 1:19:02There go the aristocracy again! Mad, degenerate, sexually incontinent,
1:19:02 > 1:19:04no longer fit to lead...
1:19:04 > 1:19:06Who wants to be led by people
1:19:06 > 1:19:10who can leave a dead girl in a drowned car all night?!
1:19:10 > 1:19:12You're under arrest.
1:19:12 > 1:19:14He's under arrest when I say he is.
1:19:14 > 1:19:18Your blood type's B, Hector.
1:19:19 > 1:19:20I checked in the hospital.
1:19:20 > 1:19:23- What?- That's just basic police work, Sergeant.
1:19:23 > 1:19:27Then how could there be an A2B blood stain in the car?
1:19:27 > 1:19:31Well, yes. Good point. How could there be, Sergeant?
1:19:31 > 1:19:34CLEARS THROAT NERVOUSLY
1:19:34 > 1:19:36- Must have been some kind of mistake.- Yeah.
1:19:39 > 1:19:42Just like Hector thinking that James was his son.
1:19:42 > 1:19:45I was never under that misapprehension, Sergeant.
1:19:45 > 1:19:49We have no evidence except your confession.
1:19:50 > 1:19:52Do you wish to retract it?
1:19:54 > 1:19:57No. Someone should pay.
1:19:57 > 1:19:59I was brought up to honour a debt.
1:20:01 > 1:20:03You are a fool, Hector.
1:20:03 > 1:20:05Perhaps so.
1:20:05 > 1:20:08But I can live with being a fool, Alethea.
1:20:08 > 1:20:11What I couldn't live with, however,
1:20:11 > 1:20:14was knowing that I'd as good as killed my own son.
1:20:15 > 1:20:18How could the poor chap live, after all you'd done to him?
1:20:18 > 1:20:20No, it was...
1:20:20 > 1:20:22a silly accident
1:20:22 > 1:20:25I saw it, Alethea! I saw it!
1:20:25 > 1:20:30Please, James, please! I am begging you. Sweetheart, please don't.
1:20:30 > 1:20:33- I am going to count to ten. One... - No, no, please don't!
1:20:33 > 1:20:35No, no, no, because you're brilliant.
1:20:35 > 1:20:39- ..two...- This is us. We can talk away any problem.
1:20:39 > 1:20:44- ..three...- I love you with every fibre of my being!
1:20:44 > 1:20:49- ..four...- What if I do this? What if I crawl? What if I crawl to you?
1:20:49 > 1:20:52Yes, laugh at me, but don't destroy yourself!
1:20:52 > 1:20:56Please, not after everything that we have done together!
1:20:56 > 1:20:59- What have I ever done? - The world is waiting for you.
1:20:59 > 1:21:00Ah...
1:21:02 > 1:21:07- The world. Five, six... - Please. Please, please, please!
1:21:07 > 1:21:09Let me take all the pain away!
1:21:09 > 1:21:12She was the only friend I've ever had
1:21:12 > 1:21:15because she didn't want anything from me.
1:21:15 > 1:21:18She only wanted to help me.
1:21:19 > 1:21:23Tell me, Mummy, why did she have to die?
1:21:24 > 1:21:30It is so, so hard to lose what's precious,
1:21:30 > 1:21:32which is why you must not do this.
1:21:32 > 1:21:35Why? Because it will hurt you?
1:21:35 > 1:21:37Because the world needs you.
1:21:37 > 1:21:40You know that, James. You've always known that.
1:21:40 > 1:21:42We've always said that, haven't we?
1:21:42 > 1:21:44Since you were a little boy.
1:21:44 > 1:21:47No, no. YOU have always said that.
1:21:50 > 1:21:53I just wanted a life to live.
1:21:54 > 1:21:58You are the master of your own destiny, James,
1:21:58 > 1:22:01and, one day, of all our destinies.
1:22:04 > 1:22:07My darling son.
1:22:08 > 1:22:10My brave,
1:22:10 > 1:22:12brave boy.
1:22:12 > 1:22:14She was right about you.
1:22:14 > 1:22:17You are a nightmare.
1:22:18 > 1:22:19James?
1:22:19 > 1:22:23Seven, eight, nine, Mummy...
1:22:23 > 1:22:25SHE SCREAMS
1:22:27 > 1:22:30Help! Hector!
1:22:32 > 1:22:35Hector, would you stand up, please?
1:22:42 > 1:22:44Hector Blackstone,
1:22:44 > 1:22:47I'm charging you with causing death by dangerous driving
1:22:47 > 1:22:49and attempting to pervert the course of justice.
1:22:49 > 1:22:52You do not have to say anything, but anything you do say
1:22:52 > 1:22:55may be used in evidence. Do you understand?
1:22:55 > 1:22:57Perfectly, thank you.
1:22:57 > 1:22:59Is there anything?
1:22:59 > 1:23:00Yes.
1:23:00 > 1:23:04No, I'd like you to hear this, too, Alethea.
1:23:04 > 1:23:06I want you to know exactly what happened
1:23:06 > 1:23:10because I will never tell it to a court.
1:23:13 > 1:23:16ELLEN: Stop for a minute. I want to talk to you.
1:23:25 > 1:23:27Hector...
1:23:29 > 1:23:30..when did you stop breathing?
1:23:35 > 1:23:39- Let's go for a walk.- But... - There's bags of time.
1:23:39 > 1:23:45# My daddy, he's a handsome devil
1:23:45 > 1:23:50# He's got a chain five miles long
1:23:51 > 1:23:56# And on every link a heart does dangle
1:23:57 > 1:24:02# Of another maid he's loved and wronged. #
1:24:07 > 1:24:10What are you thinking of?
1:24:10 > 1:24:12Or should I say "who"?
1:24:12 > 1:24:15I've never, ever been so happy in all my life.
1:24:15 > 1:24:18Ah. Is he waiting for you in London?
1:24:20 > 1:24:22It can happen for you as well, Hector.
1:24:22 > 1:24:26HE LAUGHS I want you to believe that. Can you?
1:24:26 > 1:24:28I'll try to believe it.
1:24:30 > 1:24:32Good. When you get home,
1:24:32 > 1:24:34start making changes.
1:24:34 > 1:24:37OK? Promise?
1:24:37 > 1:24:39I promise.
1:24:42 > 1:24:44Look at the time!
1:24:44 > 1:24:46Oh, God! Come on!
1:24:50 > 1:24:53It's perhaps hard for you to understand
1:24:53 > 1:24:57what those few minutes meant to me.
1:24:57 > 1:25:00Just to be touched by a beautiful young woman.
1:25:01 > 1:25:03It was only when Ellen kissed me
1:25:03 > 1:25:06that I realised the truth of what she'd said.
1:25:07 > 1:25:09I had stopped breathing.
1:25:11 > 1:25:15I had stopped breathing the day Bonny died.
1:25:25 > 1:25:27We were late.
1:25:27 > 1:25:31I wanted Ellen to get to London
1:25:31 > 1:25:33to meet the man she'd fallen in love with.
1:25:33 > 1:25:37- I drove too fast. - METAL CRUNCHES
1:25:59 > 1:26:03He'll get off, guv. I'm telling you, he'll get off.
1:26:03 > 1:26:05His posh lawyer'll say he was in shock or something.
1:26:05 > 1:26:08He held her hand until she died, John.
1:26:08 > 1:26:10And then he walked home and he told his wife
1:26:10 > 1:26:14and his wife's boyfriend what had happened.
1:26:18 > 1:26:21I don't understand these people.
1:26:21 > 1:26:24It's like The Wizard Of Oz, isn't it?
1:26:24 > 1:26:29Everyone thinks there's some amazing brains running the operation
1:26:29 > 1:26:34and you look behind the curtain, it's just some weird Hooray Henry
1:26:34 > 1:26:36who was once in the Bullingdon Club.
1:26:36 > 1:26:40But the game's up. Because once you start laughing at the high-ups...
1:26:42 > 1:26:43..they lose their power.
1:26:43 > 1:26:46I wouldn't worry too much on their behalf.
1:26:46 > 1:26:49It might be all over for the toffs,
1:26:49 > 1:26:52but they've trained the Anthony Baughs of this world
1:26:52 > 1:26:55to carry on the good fight.
1:26:55 > 1:26:57Hi. I'm Anthony.
1:26:57 > 1:27:01I think, you know, people like me cos I'm a straight sort of guy.
1:27:01 > 1:27:03That's why people trust me.
1:27:05 > 1:27:06CLEARS THROAT
1:27:06 > 1:27:08Hi. Call me Tony.
1:27:10 > 1:27:12OK, why should you vote for me?
1:27:23 > 1:27:27All right. The blood thing, that was a mistake.
1:27:28 > 1:27:31But it got us a confession.
1:27:31 > 1:27:35So...bingo.
1:27:35 > 1:27:39- No. Not "bingo".- I wouldn't have had to make it up, would I,
1:27:39 > 1:27:41if he'd have coughed up in the first place.
1:27:41 > 1:27:42What were the lies all about?
1:27:42 > 1:27:45Honour, I think.
1:27:45 > 1:27:46Dignity.
1:27:47 > 1:27:49Memory.
1:27:49 > 1:27:52Well, like I said, I don't understand these people.
1:27:52 > 1:27:55Just out of interest,
1:27:55 > 1:27:59what sort of people do you think should be running this country?
1:28:01 > 1:28:04People like me. GEORGE LAUGHS
1:28:09 > 1:28:14# A holiday, a holy day The first one of the year
1:28:14 > 1:28:18# Lord Arlen's wife came into church The gospel for to hear
1:28:18 > 1:28:23# And when the meeting, it was done She cast her eyes about
1:28:23 > 1:28:25# And there she saw little Matty Groves
1:28:25 > 1:28:29# Walking in the crowd. #
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