0:00:02 > 0:00:09This programme contains some strong language and some scenes which some viewers may find upsetting.
0:01:52 > 0:01:54MUSIC: I Walk Beside You by Beth Rowley
0:02:40 > 0:02:42I just...
0:02:42 > 0:02:44I don't understand how you can still love me.
0:03:02 > 0:03:03Built for stamina, me.
0:03:14 > 0:03:17- KNOCK ON DOOR - Cormoran?
0:03:17 > 0:03:18KNOCK ON DOOR What's that?
0:03:18 > 0:03:20You awake?
0:03:20 > 0:03:22It's 9.40.
0:03:22 > 0:03:26You've got clients waiting. I thought you'd want to...
0:03:26 > 0:03:29I'll be five minutes. The alarm must have...
0:03:29 > 0:03:31Can you offer them a cup of tea or something?
0:03:31 > 0:03:34Yeah, we're on second cups already.
0:03:34 > 0:03:36OK, offer them a biscuit. That always makes people feel special.
0:03:36 > 0:03:37Right.
0:03:57 > 0:03:58KNOCK ON DOOR
0:04:08 > 0:04:09Reading it again?
0:04:11 > 0:04:12So Daniel, I'm off.
0:04:12 > 0:04:13I've done a letter for the HR people.
0:04:13 > 0:04:15Don't try to dissuade me.
0:04:15 > 0:04:16What's this about?
0:04:16 > 0:04:18No, no. Please don't.
0:04:18 > 0:04:21It's effective immediately, etc, etc.
0:04:36 > 0:04:38Morning.
0:04:38 > 0:04:4215 minutes late. Bet the army wouldn't let you get away with that.
0:04:42 > 0:04:44If you didn't have such a good-looking secretary,
0:04:44 > 0:04:46- I'd have left. - Good morning. How can I help you?
0:04:46 > 0:04:48Hey, excuse me. I'm not waiting.
0:04:51 > 0:04:54Robin, would you make up Mr Baker's final bill?
0:04:54 > 0:04:57- But you're not finished! - We are.
0:04:57 > 0:04:59I'm sure you can find somebody who doesn't mind having
0:04:59 > 0:05:01a tosser for a client.
0:05:01 > 0:05:02Come this way.
0:05:16 > 0:05:17I need you to make a phone call.
0:05:19 > 0:05:20One phone call?
0:05:20 > 0:05:22I can pay.
0:05:22 > 0:05:24Your girl said what your rates are, and if the call's not longer
0:05:24 > 0:05:27than five minutes then I've already got the money on me.
0:05:29 > 0:05:31My husband's gone off to a writers' retreat
0:05:31 > 0:05:33and he'll have told 'em not to pick up to me.
0:05:33 > 0:05:34So I just need you to get him on the line
0:05:34 > 0:05:37and then I can tell him to come home.
0:05:37 > 0:05:38Could a friend not do this for you?
0:05:38 > 0:05:42My neighbour, Edna, can't do it because she's a woman.
0:05:42 > 0:05:45He's gone off before, only this time it's been ten days
0:05:45 > 0:05:49and our girl's missing her daddy and getting upset and we need him back.
0:05:50 > 0:05:53Have you got the number for this retreat?
0:05:53 > 0:05:54Bigley Hall.
0:05:56 > 0:05:58He's always talking about that one.
0:06:04 > 0:06:05What's his name?
0:06:05 > 0:06:09Owen Quine. He's a very famous and good novelist.
0:06:09 > 0:06:12Morning. I'm calling for Owen Quine. I know Mr Quine sometimes asks
0:06:12 > 0:06:15for his calls to be screened, but these are medical test results.
0:06:15 > 0:06:17So he really needs to take this one.
0:06:19 > 0:06:21OK. Thanks.
0:06:23 > 0:06:26He's not there. I believe them.
0:06:26 > 0:06:30There's no charge. Sorry we couldn't help you.
0:06:30 > 0:06:31I'll see you out.
0:06:33 > 0:06:34No charge.
0:06:45 > 0:06:47How's the day looking?
0:06:47 > 0:06:49Well, surveillance on the Gunfrey place,
0:06:49 > 0:06:52then I'm pulling town hall records on the Stokes while you see
0:06:52 > 0:06:54Mrs Ingles in Chelsea.
0:06:54 > 0:06:57And then at four o'clock, you're due to follow Mr Abingdon
0:06:57 > 0:07:00from work, which I reckon will take about two hours,
0:07:00 > 0:07:02which'll lead us to six o'clock and drinks.
0:07:04 > 0:07:05Drinks?
0:07:05 > 0:07:07With Matthew?
0:07:07 > 0:07:09It's been pushed back twice. Please tell me you've...
0:07:09 > 0:07:11Drinks. Great. Fine.
0:07:11 > 0:07:13Could you text me Caroline Ingles's contact details?
0:07:13 > 0:07:15Sure.
0:07:15 > 0:07:16Can you find him?
0:07:17 > 0:07:21I'm afraid we haven't the capacity to take on another client.
0:07:21 > 0:07:23If you're worried, you could maybe try calling the police?
0:07:23 > 0:07:26Yeah, they can trace phones and track bank card usage.
0:07:26 > 0:07:28Things we can't do without breaking the law.
0:07:28 > 0:07:31Yeah, but I called the police before and then he showed up in a hotel
0:07:31 > 0:07:34with some girl and everyone got upset how I'd wasted police time.
0:07:36 > 0:07:37I've got a photo of him.
0:07:40 > 0:07:42His agent, Liz, will pay.
0:07:42 > 0:07:44Owen's her best client. She loves him.
0:07:44 > 0:07:47She can take it out of his next commission.
0:07:49 > 0:07:50Please.
0:07:53 > 0:07:55Absolutely not.
0:07:55 > 0:07:57Leonora can find her own damn husband.
0:08:00 > 0:08:01Excuse me.
0:08:02 > 0:08:04End of flu.
0:08:04 > 0:08:05It's been hellish.
0:08:07 > 0:08:10And anyway, I fired Owen.
0:08:10 > 0:08:13I'm not sure Leonora's aware of that.
0:08:13 > 0:08:15Was there any particular reason for it?
0:08:15 > 0:08:18Owen has written a very thinly-disguised slandering
0:08:18 > 0:08:20of the people who have tried to help him.
0:08:20 > 0:08:24He attacks his publisher, his editor, me, other writers.
0:08:24 > 0:08:29It is a thinly disguised, nasty little allegory
0:08:29 > 0:08:31that deserves nothing but burning.
0:08:34 > 0:08:38And I say that as someone who loves books.
0:08:42 > 0:08:44Ralph!
0:08:44 > 0:08:45He's out with Beau!
0:08:46 > 0:08:50Owen would like nothing better than for a search party to be sent
0:08:50 > 0:08:51out to find him.
0:08:51 > 0:08:53I shan't pay for his PR.
0:08:53 > 0:08:55- Now, if you'll excuse me... - That's him there, isn't it?
0:08:58 > 0:09:00Oh, yeah.
0:09:00 > 0:09:02That's...
0:09:02 > 0:09:07me, Quine, Andrew Fancourt, Joe North.
0:09:08 > 0:09:11My first three clients.
0:09:11 > 0:09:12You represent Andrew Fancourt?
0:09:12 > 0:09:15- He sells a lot of books, doesn't he? - Mmm.
0:09:15 > 0:09:19Out of the three writers, Andrew and I have parted ways and...
0:09:21 > 0:09:22..Joe's dead.
0:09:23 > 0:09:25AIDS.
0:09:28 > 0:09:30Do you think Quine might be staying with friends?
0:09:30 > 0:09:32He hasn't got any left.
0:09:33 > 0:09:36Well, he teaches creative writing, that supplies him.
0:09:36 > 0:09:38What a phrase that is!
0:09:39 > 0:09:42It supplies him with a fresh pool of wide-eyed sycophants.
0:09:48 > 0:09:50I'm not sure he's very well.
0:09:50 > 0:09:52I know, his poos are like boulders.
0:09:55 > 0:09:56Get him some fibre.
0:09:59 > 0:10:01And...
0:10:01 > 0:10:02a mint tea.
0:10:05 > 0:10:06For his bowl?
0:10:09 > 0:10:10For my throat.
0:10:10 > 0:10:12For God's sake, for the dog?
0:10:14 > 0:10:17Apparently, he took a first in English at Warwick.
0:10:17 > 0:10:19I'm minded to call them to check.
0:10:19 > 0:10:22I won't waste any more of your time. Just a few more questions.
0:10:22 > 0:10:25When was the last time you saw Quine?
0:10:27 > 0:10:28We had lunch together.
0:10:28 > 0:10:30We ate at Congreve's.
0:10:30 > 0:10:33By then, I'd had some very angry calls from Daniel Chard.
0:10:33 > 0:10:36I have never not read a manuscript before sending it off,
0:10:36 > 0:10:40but just for once I skimmed a few pages and told Ralph to send it off.
0:10:41 > 0:10:43Unforgivable.
0:10:44 > 0:10:49I went to stay with a writer friend of mine, Dorcus Pengelly.
0:10:49 > 0:10:51That's her real name.
0:10:51 > 0:10:55Once I had read what the book contained, I fired him.
0:10:56 > 0:10:58In the restaurant?
0:11:01 > 0:11:02How did he take the news?
0:11:04 > 0:11:06Poorly.
0:11:06 > 0:11:10Before you judge me for that, I'll have you know
0:11:10 > 0:11:13that I was one of the very few friends he had in this industry.
0:11:16 > 0:11:18Have you met Orlando?
0:11:18 > 0:11:19Is that the daughter? No, not yet.
0:11:19 > 0:11:21She's sweet.
0:11:21 > 0:11:23Had a hard start in life.
0:11:24 > 0:11:29The state is niggardly with those needing more help than average.
0:11:31 > 0:11:33Perhaps you've discovered that for yourself?
0:11:41 > 0:11:43I hope you feel better soon.
0:11:43 > 0:11:47It will tell my story, as all my books have done.
0:11:47 > 0:11:52I draw upon my disagreement with Andrew Fancourt.
0:11:54 > 0:11:57The end of a literary era.
0:12:01 > 0:12:03I'm putting together a pack on Quine for you.
0:12:03 > 0:12:07He's a very important writer, according to himself.
0:12:09 > 0:12:10Those any good?
0:12:11 > 0:12:14He's not a fan of short sentences.
0:12:14 > 0:12:16I managed about ten pages then and had to take a break before I gave
0:12:16 > 0:12:18myself a migraine.
0:12:20 > 0:12:23Should I contact Liz Tassel about billing?
0:12:23 > 0:12:26No, she won't be paying. I would like to help his wife,
0:12:26 > 0:12:28but it will mean turning down some paid work.
0:12:29 > 0:12:31Well, it's your business.
0:12:31 > 0:12:32When we're out of debt...
0:12:35 > 0:12:38I know you're worth more than I'm currently paying you.
0:12:41 > 0:12:44It'll be a nice change, trying to bring a couple back together
0:12:44 > 0:12:46instead of helping people divorce.
0:12:46 > 0:12:48Yeah, I thought that, too.
0:12:49 > 0:12:52Right, I'm off to Islington now.
0:12:52 > 0:12:54Surveillance on the Gunfrey place.
0:12:54 > 0:12:57I'll swing by Leonora Quine's first.
0:12:57 > 0:12:59Can you make a start on those searches?
0:12:59 > 0:13:01Will do.
0:13:01 > 0:13:02Don't forget drinks.
0:13:03 > 0:13:05I won't. See you at eight.
0:13:05 > 0:13:08Six! We're meeting at six!
0:13:08 > 0:13:09Six!
0:13:31 > 0:13:33Leonora, dear, I really must...
0:13:40 > 0:13:43Cormoran Strike, private investigator.
0:13:43 > 0:13:45God, has it come to that already?
0:13:45 > 0:13:47Jerry's Owen's editor.
0:13:47 > 0:13:49He's one of the good ones.
0:13:51 > 0:13:52Of course we all do worry about him.
0:13:56 > 0:13:59You ring me as soon as he shows up, right?
0:13:59 > 0:14:00Nice to meet you.
0:14:12 > 0:14:14Did you smell the wine on him?
0:14:14 > 0:14:17I got woozy just talking to him.
0:14:17 > 0:14:19Nice he popped round, though.
0:14:47 > 0:14:49Andrew.
0:14:49 > 0:14:52Have you read it? Did he send it to you?
0:14:53 > 0:14:54What do you want?
0:14:56 > 0:14:57I fired Owen.
0:14:59 > 0:15:02As soon as I read Bombyx, I told him it was despicable.
0:15:02 > 0:15:05- I wanted you to know that. - I haven't read it.
0:15:07 > 0:15:09Your dog is shitting on my lavender.
0:15:17 > 0:15:18It's possible your husband is
0:15:18 > 0:15:20seeking publicity for his new manuscript,
0:15:20 > 0:15:24or he could be genuinely upset at being fired by his agent.
0:15:24 > 0:15:26He's her best client, though. He's really good.
0:15:26 > 0:15:29Liz came over to see him last week an 'all.
0:15:29 > 0:15:32Back in the day, she chose him over Andrew Fancourt.
0:15:32 > 0:15:33Why'd she go and fire him now?
0:15:33 > 0:15:36I think he insulted a lot of the people she works with.
0:15:38 > 0:15:40A hotel for ten days would be expensive.
0:15:40 > 0:15:43Can you think of anyone he might be staying with?
0:15:43 > 0:15:46He's had girlfriends as well as flings.
0:15:46 > 0:15:48He always says, "That's that, no more," every time,
0:15:48 > 0:15:50and I always believe him.
0:15:53 > 0:15:56So, yeah. He's probably shagging some girlfriend.
0:15:58 > 0:15:59And I still want him home.
0:17:07 > 0:17:08You're stinking my flat out!
0:17:29 > 0:17:31- Matthew, hi.- Cormoran.
0:17:32 > 0:17:35- Who needs a drink? - No, it's table service here.
0:17:36 > 0:17:37In a pub?
0:17:38 > 0:17:39Matt comes here quite a lot.
0:17:39 > 0:17:43Yeah, the food's all right. It's no Mango Tree, but it passes.
0:17:43 > 0:17:44Mango Tree?
0:17:44 > 0:17:45Yeah, Thai place.
0:17:45 > 0:17:48- Any good? - Yeah, if Thai's your thing.
0:17:52 > 0:17:53Did you watch the rugby?
0:17:53 > 0:17:54No. What happened?
0:17:54 > 0:17:57England Wales.
0:17:57 > 0:17:59- Do you want to know the score? - OK.
0:17:59 > 0:18:01England 16, Wales 5.
0:18:04 > 0:18:06Matt played rugby for Yorkshire under-16s.
0:18:07 > 0:18:09Aah.
0:18:09 > 0:18:12Do you play anything? Erm, like, did you before you...?
0:18:13 > 0:18:16Oh, well, I used to be the European hop-scotch champion,
0:18:16 > 0:18:18but can't do that any more.
0:18:20 > 0:18:21Funny.
0:18:26 > 0:18:27We'd like to invite you to...
0:18:37 > 0:18:38In eight weeks?
0:18:39 > 0:18:41Yeah, it's exciting.
0:18:44 > 0:18:46So...
0:18:46 > 0:18:48how long have you two been together?
0:18:48 > 0:18:50Nine years. Yeah.
0:18:50 > 0:18:52Yeah, we went to school together.
0:18:52 > 0:18:55Yeah, she was the only half-fit girl with a brain, really.
0:18:55 > 0:18:56So I had no choice.
0:18:58 > 0:19:01What about you? Have you got a girlfriend?
0:19:01 > 0:19:02No, no.
0:19:04 > 0:19:05Not for a while.
0:19:06 > 0:19:07I might head to the bar.
0:19:09 > 0:19:11We're working on a missing person's case.
0:19:13 > 0:19:16Sounds like most of the work's watching married people cop off.
0:19:16 > 0:19:19I said to Robin, you should be called privates investigators.
0:19:19 > 0:19:20That's not all we do.
0:19:20 > 0:19:22We're actually quite busy at the moment, aren't we?
0:19:22 > 0:19:26Yeah, yeah, yeah. Going to have to take on a new investigator.
0:19:26 > 0:19:27How do you find one?
0:19:27 > 0:19:29We advertise. Probably go with ex-police.
0:19:29 > 0:19:32They tend to have useful relationships.
0:19:36 > 0:19:37I'm going to go to the bar.
0:19:37 > 0:19:39What can I get you?
0:19:39 > 0:19:40Yeah, same again, please.
0:19:40 > 0:19:41Yeah. Robin?
0:19:44 > 0:19:45Oh, erm, white wine, please.
0:19:53 > 0:19:56White wine and one of those Czech beers
0:19:56 > 0:19:58and can I get a pint of that?
0:20:05 > 0:20:08I felt a bit sorry for him, to be honest.
0:20:08 > 0:20:10He's not an easy conversationalist, is he?
0:20:13 > 0:20:14What's up with you?
0:20:14 > 0:20:16Nothing. Just...
0:20:17 > 0:20:19..him talking about taking someone else on.
0:20:19 > 0:20:23Yeah, but not for your job. He just needs another one of him.
0:20:23 > 0:20:24Yeah.
0:20:26 > 0:20:28I suppose I just thought I'd move up the ladder there.
0:21:20 > 0:21:22I mean, I never bloody see you.
0:21:22 > 0:21:24You bring in next to no money.
0:21:24 > 0:21:25Fuck's sake.
0:21:28 > 0:21:31I told you it would be tough at first building up an agency.
0:21:31 > 0:21:32I'm pregnant.
0:21:45 > 0:21:46Morning, Venetia.
0:21:46 > 0:21:47Morning.
0:21:47 > 0:21:49How did you...?
0:21:49 > 0:21:51- It's on the invitation. - Oh.
0:21:51 > 0:21:53I was conceived in Venice.
0:21:55 > 0:21:56Good noodles at that pub.
0:21:57 > 0:22:00I think I've got something.
0:22:00 > 0:22:02You said his only friends were his students,
0:22:02 > 0:22:04so I looked up the class he teaches.
0:22:04 > 0:22:07They put out a publication each year showcasing the students' work,
0:22:07 > 0:22:09with contact details and web links.
0:22:09 > 0:22:13One of them has a blog about her erotic fiction,
0:22:13 > 0:22:16full of cosy mentions of her and TGW.
0:22:16 > 0:22:18The Great Writer.
0:22:18 > 0:22:21- Her name's Kathryn Kent. - Sounds promising.
0:22:23 > 0:22:25What did you think of Matthew?
0:22:25 > 0:22:26Nice bloke.
0:22:54 > 0:22:55Are you Kathryn Kent?
0:22:57 > 0:22:58Yes?
0:22:58 > 0:23:00I'm looking for Owen Quine. I thought he might be here?
0:23:00 > 0:23:03- No.- Not a fan? - He can go to hell.
0:23:03 > 0:23:06I'm an investigator. His wife's very worried for him.
0:23:06 > 0:23:08Thought he might be staying with you.
0:23:11 > 0:23:13You took his writing class, didn't you?
0:23:13 > 0:23:14We were friends.
0:23:14 > 0:23:17He said he'd write me into his new book.
0:23:17 > 0:23:20And then he posted a copy through my door.
0:23:20 > 0:23:21I hope I never see him again.
0:23:30 > 0:23:32It's an odd one, though.
0:23:32 > 0:23:35Sending it to his girlfriend, knowing it would hurt her?
0:23:35 > 0:23:36It seems nihilistic.
0:23:36 > 0:23:37It's like a suicide note.
0:23:37 > 0:23:40Railing against a world that called your last novel
0:23:40 > 0:23:41"sphincter-clenchingly awful."
0:23:43 > 0:23:44Is that a real review?
0:23:44 > 0:23:46That was one of the better ones.
0:23:48 > 0:23:51I'm heading to Leonora's to ask some more questions.
0:23:51 > 0:23:52Do you want to come?
0:23:52 > 0:23:53I can't tonight.
0:23:55 > 0:23:56Yeah, OK.
0:23:56 > 0:23:58Oh. I've done the searches.
0:24:00 > 0:24:02Might be worth asking about her husband co-owning
0:24:02 > 0:24:04a house on Talgarth Road.
0:24:06 > 0:24:08I know.
0:24:08 > 0:24:10Yeah, but he never goes there. I don't even know if we've got...
0:24:10 > 0:24:13It might have been worth mentioning, given he's been missing
0:24:13 > 0:24:15- for nearly a fortnight now. - He owns it with Andrew Fancourt,
0:24:15 > 0:24:18so he can't ever do anything with it.
0:24:18 > 0:24:20Their mate, Joe, left it them when he died.
0:24:20 > 0:24:23Sometimes they get it rented out to artists an' that, but mostly
0:24:23 > 0:24:26Andrew won't let them make money off it, just to piss Owen off.
0:24:30 > 0:24:31Here you are.
0:24:34 > 0:24:36He won't be there. It's a wreck.
0:24:38 > 0:24:41Did he leave you a copy of his new manuscript, by any chance?
0:24:41 > 0:24:42Oh, yeah.
0:24:49 > 0:24:51He left it for me by the front door.
0:24:51 > 0:24:53He knows I'm not going to read it like that.
0:24:53 > 0:24:56I only read 'em when there's a cover and it's proper,
0:24:56 > 0:24:57even if he reckons it's good.
0:25:00 > 0:25:03So he posted this into his own home?
0:25:03 > 0:25:06I don't know. It was on the doormat. It was just sat there.
0:25:08 > 0:25:11- I can't see any box-files for Bombyx Mori.- Oh, there will be.
0:25:11 > 0:25:15He's always getting some idea and it has to go down before he forgets.
0:25:15 > 0:25:17Apart from Jerry and Liz, have you had any visitors
0:25:17 > 0:25:19since Owen disappeared?
0:25:19 > 0:25:22His publisher rang, but he didn't come over.
0:25:22 > 0:25:24People don't really.
0:25:24 > 0:25:25Do they, Dodo?
0:25:33 > 0:25:35Do you like to draw?
0:25:35 > 0:25:36Yes.
0:25:38 > 0:25:40And I take things.
0:25:40 > 0:25:42Yeah, we talked about that didn't we, Dodo?
0:25:45 > 0:25:48She pinches things and sticks 'em in her monkey.
0:25:50 > 0:25:51Who's that man?
0:25:52 > 0:25:54He's helping us find Daddy.
0:25:55 > 0:25:58- I want Daddy. - I know you do, pet.
0:26:01 > 0:26:04Say what you like about him, but Owen does a good bed-time story.
0:26:06 > 0:26:07My name is Cormoran Strike.
0:26:09 > 0:26:11That's not a name.
0:26:11 > 0:26:13I was named after a Cornish giant.
0:26:16 > 0:26:17Could I borrow this?
0:26:19 > 0:26:20Go for your life.
0:26:28 > 0:26:30Hey, babes, how was work?
0:26:30 > 0:26:32The FSA are bringing in new regs,
0:26:32 > 0:26:36so we have to get on top of that along with the client business.
0:26:36 > 0:26:39I've had Mum on the phone complaining about a headache.
0:26:39 > 0:26:40Is she all right?
0:26:41 > 0:26:43Yeah, just short on attention.
0:26:47 > 0:26:48That's a good-looking omelette.
0:28:31 > 0:28:32Come on, then.
0:28:39 > 0:28:43Robin, I'm going to Quine's house on Talgarth road.
0:28:43 > 0:28:46Give Bombyx a read, would you? See if you can make any sense of it.
0:28:51 > 0:28:54PHONE RINGS
0:28:57 > 0:28:58Cormoran Strike's office.
0:29:01 > 0:29:04Yes, I am so sorry, he was detained on another case.
0:29:06 > 0:29:09Yeah, well, he can still see you tomorrow.
0:29:09 > 0:29:10OK, I'm so sorry about that, bye.
0:31:18 > 0:31:19He's dead.
0:31:19 > 0:31:21I found his body at that address.
0:31:21 > 0:31:24- Police are there now. - Oh, my God.
0:31:25 > 0:31:28- Does his wife know? - Police are there, too.
0:31:29 > 0:31:31Really odd murder scene.
0:31:32 > 0:31:34It's quite disturbing. Pictures are pretty grim.
0:31:34 > 0:31:35PHONE RINGS
0:31:37 > 0:31:38Sorry.
0:31:48 > 0:31:49Jesus.
0:31:53 > 0:31:54It's demented.
0:31:54 > 0:31:56Gutting someone and taking their intestines away.
0:31:59 > 0:32:00You have to read this.
0:32:02 > 0:32:03Look at the last chapter.
0:32:05 > 0:32:06You finished it already?
0:32:06 > 0:32:09I skipped to the end. I always do.
0:32:09 > 0:32:10Read it. Go on.
0:32:57 > 0:33:01The hero dies in exactly the same way Quine did.
0:33:01 > 0:33:03Tied up, guts torn out.
0:33:03 > 0:33:05It must be the grimmest part of the book,
0:33:05 > 0:33:06and someone made him re-enact it.
0:33:08 > 0:33:11PHONE RINGS
0:33:11 > 0:33:13Sorry, I'm just going to...
0:33:14 > 0:33:15Hi, are you OK?
0:33:19 > 0:33:21When?
0:33:24 > 0:33:25Where are you now?
0:33:26 > 0:33:28Right, I'll come straightaway.
0:33:29 > 0:33:30OK. I love you.
0:33:31 > 0:33:33Everything OK?
0:33:35 > 0:33:37Matt's mum just died.
0:33:40 > 0:33:41Erm...
0:33:43 > 0:33:46She had a stroke.
0:33:46 > 0:33:47Tell him I'm sorry, will you?
0:33:47 > 0:33:48Yeah.
0:33:49 > 0:33:53I'm going to get the tube, then I'll call you later.
0:34:18 > 0:34:21Mystic Bob! Hello, mate.
0:34:21 > 0:34:23It's good to see you.
0:34:23 > 0:34:25I pulled a few strings to get the case once
0:34:25 > 0:34:28I heard it was one of yours. How are you? How's the fiance?
0:34:28 > 0:34:30- We broke up.- No?
0:34:31 > 0:34:34Shit, sorry, mate. What...?
0:34:34 > 0:34:37How's the case looking, Rich? How about forensics?
0:34:37 > 0:34:40Time of death's going to be a bastard.
0:34:40 > 0:34:42Guts are missing, so there's no last meal to date,
0:34:42 > 0:34:44and then there's acid everywhere.
0:34:44 > 0:34:47Even the flies stayed off the body, so we've got no maggots.
0:34:47 > 0:34:49Neighbour saw a woman in a burqa coming
0:34:49 > 0:34:51out the property about ten days ago with a sports bag.
0:34:51 > 0:34:53Burqa's not a bad disguise.
0:34:53 > 0:34:55Do we assume the bag was full of Quine's intestines?
0:34:55 > 0:34:57Assume so, yeah.
0:34:57 > 0:34:59We'll have the dogs search the rubbish dumps.
0:34:59 > 0:35:01We've got a suspect as well, the wife.
0:35:01 > 0:35:04He was having an affair, probably going to leave her.
0:35:04 > 0:35:07But if he dies, she gets a nice insurance pay-out.
0:35:07 > 0:35:09She's got a key to this place. All adds up.
0:35:09 > 0:35:11I don't think she had the ingenuity to pull off
0:35:11 > 0:35:12something like this.
0:35:12 > 0:35:14And she hired me to find him.
0:35:14 > 0:35:16You don't have the full picture, mate.
0:35:16 > 0:35:17We talked to the neighbours.
0:35:17 > 0:35:19Massive argument in the street the night before he goes.
0:35:19 > 0:35:22Did she tell you that? And get this, before she married him?
0:35:22 > 0:35:26- Worked in her uncle's butcher shop in Hay-on-Wye.- Oh.
0:35:26 > 0:35:28- Gutting pigs, the works. - Oh.
0:35:30 > 0:35:32This is my mate, Cormoran.
0:35:32 > 0:35:35- Ex-SIB. The bloke that saved my life.- Hi.
0:35:35 > 0:35:37I've heard lots about you from Richard.
0:35:37 > 0:35:40He'd just finished a manuscript for his new book.
0:35:40 > 0:35:43It makes some very unpleasant allegations about people he knew.
0:35:43 > 0:35:46Each of them has a motive, if that's what you're looking for.
0:35:46 > 0:35:48- But only if they read it. - The killer definitely did.
0:35:48 > 0:35:51Quine was killed in the exact same way as the hero from his book.
0:35:51 > 0:35:54Tied up, gutted, laid out to be eaten.
0:35:54 > 0:35:56Bloody hell.
0:35:56 > 0:35:58Is Leonora Quine in it?
0:35:59 > 0:36:00Yes.
0:36:02 > 0:36:05Not hard for her to get a look at his work in progress.
0:36:53 > 0:36:54She's upset.
0:36:54 > 0:36:58It's all the coming and going. They asked her questions.
0:36:58 > 0:37:01I told 'em what she's like, but they still did.
0:37:01 > 0:37:04- I'm sorry for your loss. - Yeah, that's what they said as well,
0:37:04 > 0:37:06but with them you can see it's like they have to say it.
0:37:08 > 0:37:10I can't do much more for you now, Leonora.
0:37:10 > 0:37:12This is a murder case.
0:37:12 > 0:37:14There's no charge for the work we've done,
0:37:14 > 0:37:16- so please don't worry about that. - Shush.
0:37:18 > 0:37:21They dug out photos.
0:37:21 > 0:37:23These were private photos,
0:37:23 > 0:37:25and they were all like, "Look, there's him tied up by you,"
0:37:25 > 0:37:27and I'm saying, "Yeah, but that's what he likes."
0:37:27 > 0:37:29How's that mean anything to anyone?
0:37:29 > 0:37:32I can recommend a good lawyer. She's an old friend of mine.
0:37:32 > 0:37:33If they question you again...
0:37:33 > 0:37:36Why have I got to pay for a lawyer now?!
0:37:36 > 0:37:37All I ever done was look for him!
0:37:37 > 0:37:39I want it quiet!
0:37:39 > 0:37:40It's all right, Dodo.
0:37:42 > 0:37:43It's all right.
0:37:44 > 0:37:48Let's do...a cloud.
0:37:48 > 0:37:49I want Daddy!
0:37:49 > 0:37:53What goes on in a cloud?
0:37:53 > 0:37:54- Daddy!- A bird?
0:37:57 > 0:37:58A blue bird?
0:38:01 > 0:38:04- Or a red bird?- Red.
0:38:04 > 0:38:07There's a red pencil for you then, Dodo.
0:38:07 > 0:38:08Now, you put it there.
0:38:23 > 0:38:25I'm a bit scared they're going to take me away from her.
0:38:27 > 0:38:28She can't manage it.
0:38:30 > 0:38:32It's only ever been me and Owen.
0:38:56 > 0:38:57That's great, thank you.
0:39:02 > 0:39:04What time's your train?
0:39:04 > 0:39:0611.
0:39:06 > 0:39:08Do you think you could get the day off?
0:39:08 > 0:39:09Yeah, I'd like to.
0:39:11 > 0:39:12I'll ask.
0:39:26 > 0:39:27KNOCK ON DOOR
0:39:29 > 0:39:32How long have you been up? You sent me an e-mail at 5am.
0:39:32 > 0:39:35The police think Leonora killed Quine. She needs our help.
0:39:36 > 0:39:38How's Matthew?
0:39:40 > 0:39:42Funeral's already arranged.
0:39:42 > 0:39:43He's going up today.
0:39:46 > 0:39:47Take whatever time you need.
0:39:52 > 0:39:55We've been getting a lot of complaints from clients.
0:39:55 > 0:39:57The work with Leonora's really put us back.
0:40:00 > 0:40:03I'm making a list of people we know who've been ridiculed
0:40:03 > 0:40:04or slandered in the book.
0:40:04 > 0:40:06Leonora, Liz Tassel.
0:40:06 > 0:40:08Succuba and the Tick.
0:40:08 > 0:40:10Yeah, judging by how angry she is,
0:40:10 > 0:40:12I'm guessing Kathryn Kent's in there, too.
0:40:12 > 0:40:13I think she's Harpy.
0:40:15 > 0:40:18I know what he says about the three of them is really cruel,
0:40:18 > 0:40:20but there are others that come off a lot worse.
0:40:20 > 0:40:23Liz mentioned the book was attacking his publisher, Daniel Chard.
0:40:23 > 0:40:27He could be The Cutter? Phallus Impudicus.
0:40:27 > 0:40:30- Vainglorious. - One of the really nasty ones.
0:40:30 > 0:40:31Chard called me this morning.
0:40:31 > 0:40:34He doesn't want to risk meeting us in London and he's paranoid
0:40:34 > 0:40:36about his phone being tapped, which is probably sensible.
0:40:36 > 0:40:38So I'm going to have to meet him in bloody Devon.
0:40:38 > 0:40:40I'll need a hire car booked for tomorrow.
0:40:40 > 0:40:41I'll drive us.
0:40:43 > 0:40:46Are you sure? I can probably manage with an automatic...
0:40:46 > 0:40:49No, I'm sure. I'll drive us, definitely.
0:41:01 > 0:41:04I'm really sorry, I'm not going to be able to get away today.
0:41:04 > 0:41:08We're just so over-stretched on this case we're working on and I've
0:41:08 > 0:41:10got a meeting at the British Library tomorrow
0:41:10 > 0:41:12that I tried to move, but...
0:41:12 > 0:41:15Anyway, the good news is it's round the corner from the station
0:41:15 > 0:41:17and I've got a ticket for the 8pm.
0:41:17 > 0:41:19So, I will be with you all as soon as I can.
0:41:21 > 0:41:26I'm sorry, Matt. Give my love to your dad, and I love you.
0:41:45 > 0:41:47Why does he have to live in Devon?
0:41:47 > 0:41:49At least it's not Cornwall.
0:42:22 > 0:42:24Thanks for coming.
0:42:24 > 0:42:26Hi.
0:42:28 > 0:42:30Would you...?
0:42:30 > 0:42:32- We're shoes off, if you don't mind. - Oh, no problem.
0:42:38 > 0:42:41Oh, sorry. I'd forgotten.
0:42:41 > 0:42:42Why don't you leave yours on?
0:42:45 > 0:42:47Is your foot all right?
0:42:47 > 0:42:48Relatively speaking.
0:42:48 > 0:42:49Relative to mine?
0:42:50 > 0:42:53Oh, no, I mean, it's a sprain, that's all.
0:42:54 > 0:42:56Tea? Coffee?
0:42:56 > 0:42:57Coffee would be great.
0:42:57 > 0:42:58Manny!
0:43:02 > 0:43:04Would you please make coffee for our guests?
0:43:09 > 0:43:11He doesn't like it down here.
0:43:11 > 0:43:12He wants to be back in London.
0:43:14 > 0:43:16Horrible news about Quine.
0:43:16 > 0:43:18How are his sales?
0:43:18 > 0:43:19Oh, improving.
0:43:21 > 0:43:24Look, what I have to say is confidential.
0:43:27 > 0:43:29Would you mind waiting in the kitchen?
0:43:31 > 0:43:32Sure.
0:43:43 > 0:43:46Look, I am fairly confident...
0:43:46 > 0:43:48Well, I mean, almost certain
0:43:48 > 0:43:52that Bombyx Mori is not the work of one person.
0:43:52 > 0:43:54Quine must have had an accomplice.
0:43:55 > 0:43:56How can you tell?
0:43:56 > 0:43:59The style seems like his, certainly,
0:43:59 > 0:44:03but some things in it I doubt he could possibly have known.
0:44:07 > 0:44:09And I've been in books all my life.
0:44:09 > 0:44:11A writer's voice is particular.
0:44:13 > 0:44:15Hard to substantiate.
0:44:15 > 0:44:16I know.
0:44:19 > 0:44:21If you can prove, definitively,
0:44:21 > 0:44:23who authored the book...
0:44:23 > 0:44:25I'll pay you £10,000.
0:44:32 > 0:44:34I hate gossip.
0:44:35 > 0:44:40And believing that maybe someone I know told Quine
0:44:40 > 0:44:42private things about me...
0:44:44 > 0:44:48- Have you read Bombyx? - I have.
0:44:48 > 0:44:51It's especially savage about me and about the writer Andrew Fancourt.
0:44:53 > 0:44:57I asked Andrew to join me in suing to prevent publication,
0:44:57 > 0:45:01but that seems moot, since Quine has been...
0:45:03 > 0:45:05- ..you know.- Disembowelled.
0:45:07 > 0:45:09Yeah.
0:45:13 > 0:45:15What does Quine allege about you both?
0:45:17 > 0:45:22In Andrew's case, he implies that Andrew himself wrote
0:45:22 > 0:45:25a nasty parody of his late wife's novel.
0:45:25 > 0:45:27She killed herself over it.
0:45:27 > 0:45:29Andrew found her on the kitchen floor,
0:45:29 > 0:45:31with the parody pinned to her chest.
0:45:33 > 0:45:35Has Mr Fancourt read Bombyx?
0:45:35 > 0:45:37No, but I gave him the gist.
0:45:39 > 0:45:42Fancourt and Quine were close before they fell out?
0:45:44 > 0:45:45Who have you been talking to?
0:45:45 > 0:45:47Liz Tassel.
0:45:49 > 0:45:50She represented them both...
0:45:50 > 0:45:53for a while.
0:45:53 > 0:45:55Liz told everyone that Quine was a genius...
0:45:57 > 0:45:59..and she had a huge crush on Andrew.
0:46:00 > 0:46:03Not a woman who always gets it right...
0:46:05 > 0:46:08..and not least in sending out Bombyx Mori.
0:46:15 > 0:46:17I'm just going to use the loo.
0:46:17 > 0:46:18Are you friends of his?
0:46:18 > 0:46:20We're private investigators.
0:46:21 > 0:46:24I didn't push him down the stairs. He fell.
0:46:25 > 0:46:28OK. Are the toilets this way?
0:46:28 > 0:46:29It's downstairs.
0:46:36 > 0:46:39I'm just trying to think if there's anything else I need to ask. Er...
0:46:42 > 0:46:44Look, I have a call with New York.
0:46:47 > 0:46:50I'm sorry the coffee didn't materialise. Manny's a little bit...
0:46:52 > 0:46:54Well...
0:46:54 > 0:46:58Oh, take a look at Jerry Waldegrave.
0:46:59 > 0:47:02He'll be at our centennial party. I'll put you on the list.
0:47:05 > 0:47:07Need to retrieve my assistant.
0:47:07 > 0:47:09Oh, yes. Manny!
0:47:15 > 0:47:17Forget about the coffee.
0:47:17 > 0:47:20Would you please fetch Mr Strike's assistant?
0:47:20 > 0:47:21All done, Mr Strike?
0:47:23 > 0:47:24I think so.
0:48:04 > 0:48:07Come on, then. Speak your mind.
0:48:08 > 0:48:09Really, I'm fine.
0:48:13 > 0:48:15Chard ended up telling me a lot of useful things.
0:48:15 > 0:48:18The book might have had multiple authors.
0:48:18 > 0:48:21I get the impression Quine knew a lot of damaging stuff,
0:48:21 > 0:48:24so maybe he was killed to stop further revelations.
0:48:24 > 0:48:27Chard avoiding telling me what Quine knew about him.
0:48:27 > 0:48:28I can guess, though.
0:48:32 > 0:48:35I wasn't going to stop him talking by picking him up on his manners.
0:48:35 > 0:48:37No, it's really... It's not about that. It's just..
0:48:40 > 0:48:41What do you want from me?
0:48:42 > 0:48:44As in...?
0:48:44 > 0:48:47I mean, what were you intending when you hired me?
0:48:47 > 0:48:51Because I've been working really hard.
0:48:51 > 0:48:53I know, I've noticed.
0:48:56 > 0:48:59You said you're going to take on another investigator.
0:49:02 > 0:49:04OK, OK. Listen. Just...
0:49:04 > 0:49:08You mightn't like what I'm going to say, but just let me get it out.
0:49:10 > 0:49:13I did take you on thinking I could train you.
0:49:13 > 0:49:15'Course I didn't have the money for that,
0:49:15 > 0:49:18but I reckoned you could learn on the job...
0:49:18 > 0:49:19until.
0:49:22 > 0:49:25But you're getting married to someone who hates you doing this.
0:49:31 > 0:49:34I'm not going to ask you to ruin your marriage over a job.
0:49:36 > 0:49:39Have you told Matthew about today?
0:49:39 > 0:49:40No, not yet.
0:49:40 > 0:49:42I need a partner who can share the long hours,
0:49:42 > 0:49:45who can give up their weekend at the drop of a hat.
0:49:45 > 0:49:48I wouldn't ask that of an assistant, but I'd demand it of a partner.
0:49:50 > 0:49:52That's what broke me and Charlotte up in the end.
0:49:52 > 0:49:54Amongst other things.
0:49:54 > 0:49:56She hated what I do.
0:49:56 > 0:50:00Hated that when she finally demanded I choose, I chose the job over her.
0:50:05 > 0:50:06If it's what you really want,
0:50:06 > 0:50:09I'll put you on a surveillance course when I get the money.
0:50:09 > 0:50:10But I'm not spending that on an assistant.
0:50:10 > 0:50:13That is what I want.
0:50:13 > 0:50:14This is what I love.
0:50:20 > 0:50:22Then cheer the fuck up and give me that sandwich
0:50:22 > 0:50:25- if you're not going to eat it. - It's not a good sandwich.
0:50:25 > 0:50:27- Too much onion. - There's no such thing.
0:50:33 > 0:50:34Can we get going?
0:50:34 > 0:50:37If I don't make my train, I'll miss the funeral.
0:50:37 > 0:50:39Don't.
0:50:39 > 0:50:40Let's just go.
0:51:01 > 0:51:03- Bollocks. - I'll see what's happening.
0:51:21 > 0:51:22Sorry about this.
0:51:22 > 0:51:25They're not going to be able to get in to tow it out.
0:51:25 > 0:51:27It's an idiotic place to break down.
0:51:38 > 0:51:39Can you open that gate?
0:51:40 > 0:51:43- Why? - Just, can you?
0:52:15 > 0:52:16Hey. This is a bit...
0:52:16 > 0:52:18I've got this, trust me.
0:53:20 > 0:53:24- Where did you learn to drive like that?- Oh, I've always loved driving.
0:53:24 > 0:53:27I used to practise in the field with my uncle doing the pedals
0:53:27 > 0:53:30- before I could reach them.- Yeah, but that wasn't just enjoying driving.
0:53:30 > 0:53:33I did an advanced driving course...
0:53:33 > 0:53:35- PHONE BEEPS - ..the year I left uni.
0:53:35 > 0:53:37Something to do. Got me out of the house a bit.
0:53:40 > 0:53:41Signal's back.
0:53:44 > 0:53:46Andrew Fancourt here.
0:53:46 > 0:53:48I have no comment to make on Bombyx Mori.
0:53:48 > 0:53:51I haven't read it and I don't intend to.
0:53:51 > 0:53:54And nor do I have any valedictory words for Owen Quine.
0:53:54 > 0:53:57I disliked him both as a man and as a writer.
0:53:57 > 0:53:58I hope that helps.
0:53:58 > 0:54:00Oh.
0:54:13 > 0:54:14I can't just leave her, can I?!
0:54:14 > 0:54:16Is there anyone you can call?
0:54:16 > 0:54:18Oh, God! This isn't happening!
0:54:20 > 0:54:22Come inside, loveheart. You have to.
0:54:22 > 0:54:23Be good for Edna. Be a good girl.
0:54:25 > 0:54:28- Call him! Tell him what's happened! - I will, I promise.
0:54:29 > 0:54:32I'll be home soon, Dodo. I promise.
0:55:11 > 0:55:12Thank you. Thanks.
0:55:14 > 0:55:15Bye!
0:55:53 > 0:55:56Excuse me. Do you know how to drive?
0:55:56 > 0:55:57Yeah.
0:55:57 > 0:56:01I'll pay you 20 quid if you drive me home in this car.
0:56:01 > 0:56:02And why can't you do it?
0:56:05 > 0:56:09I've only got one leg and my driver had to go home.
0:56:09 > 0:56:11Do you want more money or is it the situation as a whole
0:56:11 > 0:56:12that's making you hesitate?
0:56:14 > 0:56:17PHONE RINGS
0:56:17 > 0:56:18Excuse me.
0:56:21 > 0:56:22Arrested or charged?
0:56:57 > 0:56:59I'm asking you these questions to try to keep you out of prison.
0:56:59 > 0:57:02Well, I didn't do anything. That's enough, innit?
0:57:02 > 0:57:05- The ugly truth is, it might not be. - What's she mean, "It might not be"?
0:57:05 > 0:57:07You were supposed to keep me out of here. You promised.
0:57:08 > 0:57:11Fancourt's in Bombyx Mori. You'd have thought...
0:57:11 > 0:57:13I'm not sure the Met's literary criticism unit
0:57:13 > 0:57:14was brought in on this one.
0:57:14 > 0:57:16He's certainly got the imagination for it.
0:57:16 > 0:57:18Lots of the profile pieces you read on him
0:57:18 > 0:57:20talk about how he writes violence.
0:57:20 > 0:57:23Could Fancourt kill a man?
0:57:23 > 0:57:26He's very good at writing hate.
0:57:26 > 0:57:29The one-legged detective. I've read about you, Mr Strike.
0:57:29 > 0:57:31I've been looking into Owen Quine's death.
0:57:31 > 0:57:33I was hoping we'd have a chance to talk.
0:57:33 > 0:57:35Well...here we are.
0:57:35 > 0:57:36Oi!