0:01:57 > 0:02:04'I cannot now distinguish between the train that brought my mother and me to London
0:02:04 > 0:02:10'and the one which took us back. Which took me back, I mean.
0:02:10 > 0:02:14'But there was something odd about that journey,
0:02:14 > 0:02:21- 'something I still dream about.' - Where's your Mum? Your lovely Mum?
0:02:21 > 0:02:25- In the ground. - Oh, yes?
0:02:25 > 0:02:27Yes.
0:02:27 > 0:02:34Covered in dirt? That were always on the cards. Covered in the old dirt.
0:02:34 > 0:02:38Her legs and all, eh?
0:02:38 > 0:02:44You did it, didn't you? It's your doing, Sonny Jim.
0:02:45 > 0:02:47All your doing.
0:03:03 > 0:03:06# After you've gone
0:03:06 > 0:03:09# And left me crying
0:03:09 > 0:03:12# After you've gone
0:03:12 > 0:03:15# There's no denying
0:03:15 > 0:03:18# You'll feel blue
0:03:18 > 0:03:21# You'll feel sad
0:03:21 > 0:03:27# You'll miss the bestest pal You've ever had
0:03:27 > 0:03:29# There'll come a time
0:03:29 > 0:03:32# Now don't forget it
0:03:32 > 0:03:35# There'll come a time
0:03:35 > 0:03:38# When you'll regret it
0:03:38 > 0:03:41# So-ome day
0:03:41 > 0:03:44# When you grow lonely
0:03:44 > 0:03:47# Your heart will break like mine
0:03:47 > 0:03:50# And you'll want me only
0:03:50 > 0:03:53# After you've gone
0:03:53 > 0:03:57- # After you've gone away-ay. # - Philip!
0:05:15 > 0:05:20# You'll miss the bestest pal You've ever had. #
0:05:32 > 0:05:34No.
0:05:35 > 0:05:42'But I tell you, there was something odd about that journey, something not right.
0:05:42 > 0:05:46'Something I still dream about. I saw the scarecrow.'
0:05:48 > 0:05:50Scarecrow?
0:05:50 > 0:05:53Scarecrow.
0:05:53 > 0:05:56I'm sorry. Go on.
0:05:56 > 0:06:00A scarecrow in a field by the railway.
0:06:00 > 0:06:06I dreamt about that thing last night. It had got out of the field.
0:06:06 > 0:06:09Uh-uh?
0:06:09 > 0:06:14Even at the time, from the train, going to London and coming back,
0:06:14 > 0:06:17looking out of the train window,
0:06:17 > 0:06:22I had a strong feeling it was alive - and watching.
0:06:22 > 0:06:25- Watching?- Me. Watching me.
0:06:25 > 0:06:29- So it has eyes?- What?- Whose eyes?
0:06:29 > 0:06:33- Whose face?- This is a scarecrow, not a...
0:06:33 > 0:06:36But if it's watching you... Why?
0:06:36 > 0:06:41- What for? What does it think you've done?- This is a dream, right?
0:06:41 > 0:06:48- Right.- The face! I know it but I can't quite... - Is it your mother?- What?
0:06:48 > 0:06:52- Your mother, is it her face?- No!
0:06:52 > 0:06:55How did she die?
0:06:59 > 0:07:01She killed herself.
0:07:01 > 0:07:03How?
0:07:05 > 0:07:08River. In the river.
0:07:08 > 0:07:11Are you...? Is that REALLY so?
0:07:11 > 0:07:14What do you mean?
0:07:14 > 0:07:19You have a young woman fished out of the river in your detective story.
0:07:19 > 0:07:21So?
0:07:21 > 0:07:24I'm just a little surprised.
0:07:24 > 0:07:31- Is it likely that you'd duplicate such a traumatic event in your own life...?- The face!
0:07:31 > 0:07:34I know who it is!
0:07:34 > 0:07:38- I'm sorry?- She used to frighten me, the bitch!
0:07:38 > 0:07:45- Your mother?- No, the teacher in the village school. Pointing that finger.
0:07:45 > 0:07:50- God rot her nasty old bones! - Aren't you being a little...?
0:07:50 > 0:07:58You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their own young.
0:07:58 > 0:08:00So will rabbits when disturbed.
0:08:00 > 0:08:08Once I did something bad, I mean nasty, really disgusting, at school, at the primary school.
0:08:08 > 0:08:11I was nearly caught.
0:08:11 > 0:08:16I was in for it - and bad. But I blamed somebody else.
0:08:16 > 0:08:19I pointed the finger elsewhere.
0:08:19 > 0:08:22Long ago and far away.
0:08:22 > 0:08:30I've never doubted since what people are really made of. We all have blood on our teeth.
0:08:30 > 0:08:35- 'Tell me, there's a good boy.' - It was Mark Binney.
0:08:35 > 0:08:38Mark Binney.
0:08:38 > 0:08:43- No, Miss, it wasn't.- Come out to the front.- No, Miss. No!
0:08:43 > 0:08:46Come here, boy.
0:08:57 > 0:09:02Philip, you may go back to your desk for the while.
0:09:02 > 0:09:05Thank you, Philip.
0:09:05 > 0:09:08Miss, twasn't me, Miss. Honest!
0:09:08 > 0:09:11Honest, Miss!
0:09:11 > 0:09:16We'll see about that, won't we, my boy? We are going to find out.
0:09:16 > 0:09:21We are going to find out if it takes us the rest of the day.
0:09:21 > 0:09:23Yes, Barbara?
0:09:24 > 0:09:28Him was lurking by the big tree.
0:09:28 > 0:09:30HE!
0:09:30 > 0:09:32- He WAS, Miss.- Oh, but Miss...
0:09:32 > 0:09:35Be quiet! Did he go into the school?
0:09:35 > 0:09:39Yes, Miss. And Miss... > < Go on.
0:09:39 > 0:09:42Him told... He told I...
0:09:42 > 0:09:45< ME! How many times...
0:09:45 > 0:09:49He told me, Miss. > < He told you what?
0:09:49 > 0:09:52He told me that he was going to...
0:09:52 > 0:09:54< Barbara!
0:09:54 > 0:10:01Him said he was going to do his nasty...on the table, Miss!
0:10:01 > 0:10:06I saw him, Miss. And me, Miss? So did I.
0:10:06 > 0:10:11I saw him, Miss. And I saw him as well. I did too, Miss.
0:10:11 > 0:10:16Oh, Miss, tisn't true. Honest, Miss, tisn't true.
0:10:19 > 0:10:23'I sat at my desk, perjurer, charlatan,
0:10:23 > 0:10:28'and watched and listened as one after another
0:10:28 > 0:10:32'they nailed that poor lad to my story.'
0:10:32 > 0:10:40I've not seriously doubted since that afternoon that ANY lie will receive instant corroboration
0:10:40 > 0:10:43and instant collaberation
0:10:43 > 0:10:50if the maintenance of it results in the public enjoyment of someone else's humiliation or pain.
0:10:53 > 0:10:55Oh, God, she beat him.
0:10:56 > 0:10:59That poor boy, she beat him.
0:11:00 > 0:11:03The vicious bitch!
0:11:08 > 0:11:10Interestingly,
0:11:10 > 0:11:12what is interesting...
0:11:12 > 0:11:18is the lad himself was completely overwhelmed by the evidence.
0:11:18 > 0:11:21He was a backward boy,
0:11:21 > 0:11:27although we didn't think in those terms at the time amongst ourselves.
0:11:27 > 0:11:32I mean, I used to see him sometimes in the woods. He'd be running.
0:11:33 > 0:11:36He was almost always running.
0:11:37 > 0:11:44"What bist thou doing, Mark?" I'd say. "Training," he'd answer. Just that.
0:11:44 > 0:11:47"Training for what?"
0:11:48 > 0:11:53The poor little sod came in the end to believe that he had done it.
0:11:53 > 0:11:57"Yes, Miss. Yes, Miss."
0:11:57 > 0:12:00That he had done what?
0:12:01 > 0:12:04Shat on the teacher's table.
0:12:04 > 0:12:11It has of course occurred to you that you, yourself, were in extreme distress at the time?
0:12:11 > 0:12:17I once told the story to a man who used to lived in the same village.
0:12:17 > 0:12:21We were laughing about it, you know. Ho, ho ho(!)
0:12:21 > 0:12:26"I wonder," I said, "whatever became of Mark Binney?"
0:12:28 > 0:12:31That was my victim, Mark Binney.
0:12:31 > 0:12:34"Don't you know?" he said.
0:12:34 > 0:12:40He looked at me with an odd sort of glint, nasty, the way you do.
0:12:42 > 0:12:47"Mark's in the loony bin," he said. "Been there for years.
0:12:47 > 0:12:51"A complete nutter."
0:12:53 > 0:12:56"Yes, Miss."
0:12:56 > 0:13:00"You DID, didn't you?" "Yes, Miss."
0:13:00 > 0:13:05"You came back and you did this FILTHY thing!"
0:13:05 > 0:13:07"Yes, Miss."
0:13:07 > 0:13:12"You are a filthy, wicked, horrible, little..."
0:13:50 > 0:13:53I'm sorry.
0:13:53 > 0:13:55Don't be.
0:13:59 > 0:14:01Stand up!
0:14:01 > 0:14:04- What?- You can. You can do it.
0:14:04 > 0:14:07- You think so?- Now or never.
0:14:07 > 0:14:09Now or never.
0:14:10 > 0:14:17Wait. I want to make sure these wheels are locked. Don't want you skeetering all over the floor.
0:14:18 > 0:14:21That would be rather untidy.
0:14:22 > 0:14:25Right, go ahead.
0:14:25 > 0:14:29"Into each life some rain must fall."
0:14:29 > 0:14:32- Metaphysics?- Music.
0:14:40 > 0:14:43That's it.
0:14:44 > 0:14:46Ow.
0:14:46 > 0:14:53# Into each life Some rain must fall
0:14:53 > 0:15:00# But too much is falling In mi-i-ine
0:15:00 > 0:15:07# Into each heart Some tears must fall
0:15:07 > 0:15:14# But some day The sun will shi-i-ine
0:15:15 > 0:15:22# Some folks can lose the blues in their hearts
0:15:22 > 0:15:29# But when I think of you Another shower starts. #
0:15:45 > 0:15:51# Into each life Some rain must fall
0:15:51 > 0:15:58# But too much, too much Is falling in mi-i-ine
0:15:58 > 0:16:06# Into each heart Some tears must fall
0:16:06 > 0:16:13# But some day The sun will shi-i-ine
0:16:13 > 0:16:21- # Some folks can lose The blues in their hearts... # - No, no, no.
0:16:21 > 0:16:28# But when I think of you Another shower starts. #
0:16:34 > 0:16:39- What do you think?- I think you been off the love apples, man.
0:16:39 > 0:16:42Whoa! No hang-gliding!
0:16:42 > 0:16:45No, I can do it myself.
0:16:51 > 0:16:53Yipp-ee!
0:16:53 > 0:16:55Geronimo.
0:17:26 > 0:17:32ORCHESTRA PLAYS "PUTTING ON THE RITZ"
0:17:56 > 0:17:59TELEPHONE RINGS
0:18:01 > 0:18:04Turn it down.
0:18:04 > 0:18:06Put it off. OFF.
0:18:08 > 0:18:11Featherwheel. Who's calling?
0:18:11 > 0:18:14Hi! How are things with you?
0:18:14 > 0:18:17Around midnight. No, that's OK.
0:18:18 > 0:18:20What?!
0:18:20 > 0:18:23Fantastic!
0:18:23 > 0:18:25Obviously.
0:18:25 > 0:18:28'Delighted, yes. Thank you.'
0:18:29 > 0:18:31'No, that's no problem.'
0:18:31 > 0:18:34I can be in L.A. at a day's notice.
0:18:34 > 0:18:38Yeah! Very exciting indeed!
0:18:40 > 0:18:42Uh-huh.
0:18:42 > 0:18:47Mm, you mean the scene in the dance hall?
0:18:47 > 0:18:50The bar and the balcony.
0:18:50 > 0:18:56No, I think you have a point. It's too...enigmatic.
0:18:57 > 0:19:00Ehm...not clear. (Piss off!)
0:19:00 > 0:19:03No, I can hear you fine.
0:19:03 > 0:19:07Yes, just too...too...
0:19:07 > 0:19:13Exactly! No, I can put that right. Patch and mend, you know.
0:19:13 > 0:19:17'Sure. I have all the chain of title documents.'
0:19:17 > 0:19:22Now it's a deal, I'll Skypak them to you first thing.
0:19:22 > 0:19:28There's my title to the option on the book and to my screenplay.
0:19:28 > 0:19:32Look, the other thing, the casting...
0:19:32 > 0:19:35Oh, sure!
0:19:35 > 0:19:40Well, I think it should be Nicola Marlow because...
0:19:40 > 0:19:43Nicola Marlow.
0:19:44 > 0:19:48Well, she's done quite a lot over here.
0:19:48 > 0:19:51Because that's my understanding.
0:19:54 > 0:19:56Who?
0:19:57 > 0:20:00Oh, fabulous!
0:20:00 > 0:20:03That's fantastic!
0:20:04 > 0:20:07I mean, if we could get HER...
0:20:07 > 0:20:10My God!
0:20:10 > 0:20:13That's WONDERFUL!
0:20:14 > 0:20:19You obviously have more experience of these things than I have.
0:20:19 > 0:20:24It's basically your money, you know, control-wise.
0:20:24 > 0:20:27'I'll see you very soon then.
0:20:27 > 0:20:29'Fine. Thank you.
0:20:29 > 0:20:33'Thank YOU! Bye.'
0:20:37 > 0:20:40You cheap little bastard.
0:20:40 > 0:20:42You cheap little bastard.
0:20:42 > 0:20:47Oh, Nicola, listen. I have no power here. Listen!
0:20:47 > 0:20:50No. YOU listen.
0:20:52 > 0:20:54- I- brought Philip's script to you.
0:20:56 > 0:21:02- I- conned him into signing away the rights for a tenth of your share.
0:21:02 > 0:21:06You don't think I'm trying to cheat on you?
0:21:06 > 0:21:09You'll get what we agreed.
0:21:09 > 0:21:14No, it's not for the money. It's NOT for the money.
0:21:14 > 0:21:17- I- play it. It is MY part.
0:21:17 > 0:21:20Me!
0:21:20 > 0:21:23We agreed, Mark.
0:21:23 > 0:21:26We agreed.
0:21:26 > 0:21:29You know we can't control casting.
0:21:29 > 0:21:33NO! I don't bloody well know!
0:21:35 > 0:21:43"Advice and consultation." That's what we got, that's what anybody gets. I'm not Spielberg!
0:21:43 > 0:21:48- Advice and consultation. - That wasn't our deal.
0:21:48 > 0:21:52It is MY part. I play it. We agreed.
0:21:53 > 0:21:57It is my BIGGEST CHANCE!
0:21:57 > 0:22:02Honey! Don't you think you're just a teeny bit too old now?
0:22:05 > 0:22:07'Honey!'
0:22:07 > 0:22:13Don't you think you're just a teeny bit too old now?
0:22:13 > 0:22:16Oh!
0:22:18 > 0:22:20Perhaps.
0:22:22 > 0:22:25A teeny bit.
0:22:27 > 0:22:29Yes.
0:22:29 > 0:22:36A teensy, weensy millimetre or so nearer the garbage heap. Oh, yes.
0:22:38 > 0:22:42There are a few inky-dinky lines here and there
0:22:42 > 0:22:49on this dried-up parchment rather badly stretched over my crumbling bones. See?
0:22:51 > 0:22:54And my eyes, LOOK!
0:22:54 > 0:22:56Bleared and bloodshot.
0:22:56 > 0:23:02And my mouth, see? Look how it drools?
0:23:02 > 0:23:07- Stop it now.- The sag of it. The CREAK of it!
0:23:07 > 0:23:12- The USED-UPNESS of it! - OK. Enough. I'm sorry.
0:23:13 > 0:23:19First, you oh-so-casually throw away my one great chance.
0:23:20 > 0:23:23Then you dig into my sense of...
0:23:23 > 0:23:25my...
0:23:25 > 0:23:28of my... You're a KILLER!
0:23:30 > 0:23:33My God! You're a killer!
0:23:33 > 0:23:35You smash up people's lives!
0:23:35 > 0:23:38You are rotten with your own bile!
0:23:38 > 0:23:43You think you're smart but really, you're VERY sad
0:23:43 > 0:23:48because you use your illness as a weapon against other people
0:23:48 > 0:23:53and as an excuse for not being properly human. Eugh!
0:23:53 > 0:23:57You disgust me, you sick little creep!
0:23:57 > 0:24:02You poisonous, malformed, cynical OAF!
0:24:02 > 0:24:04You...!
0:24:05 > 0:24:07Having a good time, are we?
0:24:07 > 0:24:10Of course, I'm having a good time.
0:24:10 > 0:24:15- Why are you not IN the bed?- Because I stood up on my own two feet.
0:24:15 > 0:24:19- You didn't.- I did.- Well done!
0:24:19 > 0:24:23- I'll be walking as far as those doors soon.- Don't overdo it.
0:24:23 > 0:24:28- But that's really nice. - "Nice" is not the word.
0:24:28 > 0:24:33You should be like the disciples when Our Lord walked on the water.
0:24:33 > 0:24:38- Can you stand up while I grease you? - I think I can stand up again.
0:24:38 > 0:24:45- I'm not sure for how long. - I don't expect you to. I'm just glad to see you're improving.
0:24:48 > 0:24:55- You're the nicest person I've met in a long time.- You haven't been anywhere in a long time.
0:24:55 > 0:24:58As well as the most beautiful.
0:25:00 > 0:25:02Your eyes.
0:25:02 > 0:25:05What about them?
0:25:05 > 0:25:09- Your mouth.- Listen.
0:25:09 > 0:25:14- The way your head joins your neck. - I brought you a fresh tub of...
0:25:16 > 0:25:19Stop it, please. Don't be silly.
0:25:19 > 0:25:24- Now I look at you properly, I can see what you are.- Oh, can you now?
0:25:24 > 0:25:29- You are the girl in all those songs.- What songs?
0:25:29 > 0:25:33The songs. The bloody, bloody songs.
0:25:33 > 0:25:36What are you talking about?
0:25:36 > 0:25:40- The songs you hear coming up the stair.- Sorry?
0:25:40 > 0:25:46When you are a child. When you are supposed to be asleep. THOSE songs.
0:25:51 > 0:25:53S...s...ss...
0:25:53 > 0:25:56Songs.
0:25:57 > 0:26:02ORCHESTRA PLAYS "THE VERY THOUGHT OF YOU"
0:27:17 > 0:27:20# The very thought of you
0:27:21 > 0:27:25# And I forget to do
0:27:26 > 0:27:31# The little or-din-ary things
0:27:31 > 0:27:36# That everyone ought to do
0:27:36 > 0:27:42# I'm living in a kind of day-dream
0:27:42 > 0:27:46# I'm happy as a king
0:27:46 > 0:27:51# And foolish though it may seem
0:27:52 > 0:27:57# To me-e-e, that's everything
0:27:57 > 0:28:00# The mere idea of you
0:28:02 > 0:28:05# The longing here for you
0:28:05 > 0:28:09- # You'll never know... # - Grandad.
0:28:09 > 0:28:12Christ! You made me jump.
0:28:12 > 0:28:14Sorry.
0:28:14 > 0:28:17Don't do that, boy.
0:28:17 > 0:28:22# I see your face In every flower
0:28:22 > 0:28:28# Your eyes In the stars above
0:28:28 > 0:28:30# It's just the thought of you
0:28:30 > 0:28:36# The very thought of you, my love. #
0:29:09 > 0:29:11# It's just the thought of you
0:29:11 > 0:29:14# The very thought of you
0:29:14 > 0:29:20# M-y-y-y lo-o-ve. #
0:29:59 > 0:30:02- Hello, Philip.- Hello, Dad.
0:30:44 > 0:30:49Ant got enough for the bus, o'butty. Sorry. Pay day tomarra.
0:30:49 > 0:30:54- Don't mind walking.- 'Bout another five mile, I reckon.- Seven.
0:30:54 > 0:30:57Aye, seven.
0:30:59 > 0:31:01Did you see her?
0:31:01 > 0:31:06- Yes.- After, I meant. After the...accident.
0:31:06 > 0:31:08Yes.
0:31:08 > 0:31:11- Lovely, was her?- Yes.
0:31:13 > 0:31:15- Peaceful like?- Yes.
0:31:28 > 0:31:31- Tired, bist?- No.
0:31:36 > 0:31:41- I love you, Philip. I love you, o'butt, with all my heart.- Shh!
0:31:41 > 0:31:44- What?- Somebody might hear us.
0:31:44 > 0:31:49- What?- Some bugger might be listening. Keep tha quiet!
0:31:49 > 0:31:52What d'you mean? There's no-one here.
0:31:52 > 0:31:55- And even if there was...- Ssht!
0:31:55 > 0:31:58It's only a scarecrow.
0:31:58 > 0:32:01Him can't hurt tha.
0:32:18 > 0:32:21Ding dong dell,
0:32:21 > 0:32:25Pussy's in the well.
0:32:47 > 0:32:52KNOCKING AT DOOR
0:33:06 > 0:33:12# Ding Dong Dell Pussy's in the well
0:33:14 > 0:33:17# Who pushed him in?
0:33:18 > 0:33:21# Who pushed him in?
0:33:22 > 0:33:25# Ding Dong Dell
0:33:25 > 0:33:27# Ding Dong Dell... #
0:33:36 > 0:33:39POLICE SIREN
0:33:52 > 0:33:55WHISTLES
0:33:56 > 0:33:59You'll hurt yourself.
0:34:00 > 0:34:04I said you'll hurt yourself. What?
0:34:04 > 0:34:07I said... I know what you said.
0:34:07 > 0:34:10I said, you'll hurt yourself. I heard.
0:34:10 > 0:34:13All this activity. What activity?
0:34:13 > 0:34:17Whistling. Yeah.
0:34:18 > 0:34:21Talk. Why don't you?
0:34:21 > 0:34:24Just a word. The odd nod, now and again.
0:34:24 > 0:34:28You'll be discharged soon. Tomorrow.
0:34:28 > 0:34:33Who said so? Tomorrow. I'm going tomorrow.
0:34:33 > 0:34:36Is that definite? Yes.
0:34:38 > 0:34:40But who shall I talk to?
0:34:40 > 0:34:43You can have this.
0:34:43 > 0:34:47I prefer HUMAN intercourse. You dirty old devil.
0:34:47 > 0:34:53Reginald! If you let me finish it, you can have it.
0:34:53 > 0:34:58"I wandered lonely as a cloud..." If you stop nattering!
0:34:58 > 0:35:06Poetry is more my style. I don't want corpses all over the place. Not in THIS place.
0:35:06 > 0:35:08Wonder who'll go next.
0:35:08 > 0:35:11Out, do you mean? DEAD, I mean.
0:35:11 > 0:35:14Don't. Don't!
0:35:15 > 0:35:18It's not very legible and it hurts.
0:35:18 > 0:35:25For the first time in my life, I'm going to have to think about the value of every word.
0:35:25 > 0:35:30- That's dangerous.- That rules out the newspapers, doesn't it?
0:35:30 > 0:35:38- Except The Sun and The Star. They don't have words. I could work for Mr Murdoch.- Can I see?
0:35:39 > 0:35:42- Can you read it?- Mmm.
0:35:43 > 0:35:48"Upward strokes and down..." What's this?
0:35:49 > 0:35:55Ah..."downward slopes and a comma curls, making me hold..."
0:35:55 > 0:35:58Yes, I can read it.
0:35:58 > 0:36:05- Making me hold what? - My breath. Words. Words make me hold my breath.
0:36:05 > 0:36:10- I see.- Who knows what you'll say? Who knows where they've been?
0:36:10 > 0:36:13Keep at it. You're doing very well.
0:36:13 > 0:36:19- Suppose they got together and ganged up on us?- Who?- Words.
0:36:19 > 0:36:26- Well, I'll pop in and see you some time tomorrow afternoon. - What made you say that?
0:36:26 > 0:36:31- What do you mean?- If I wrote it down: "Well, dash, I'll pop in
0:36:31 > 0:36:37"and see you some time tomorrow afternoon." Oh, it doesn't matter.
0:36:37 > 0:36:41- Keep practising, that's thing. - "Keep practising, comma.
0:36:41 > 0:36:47- "That's the thing, full stop." - Jolly good!
0:37:29 > 0:37:33I presume you made your call, Mr Binney.
0:37:33 > 0:37:40I hope you did. If it was long-distance, don't worry about the bill.
0:37:48 > 0:37:51So now we wait.
0:37:51 > 0:37:54We wait...and we see.
0:38:35 > 0:38:37(Mr Binney?)
0:38:38 > 0:38:43(Are you here, sir? At home, are you?)
0:38:43 > 0:38:47(Put on the light, why don't we?)
0:38:54 > 0:38:59(There's blood.) What? Shhh!
0:38:59 > 0:39:01Sorry.
0:39:03 > 0:39:08Oh! Shhh! Shhh your bloody self.
0:39:14 > 0:39:20Where's the switch? It's usually on the wall.
0:39:20 > 0:39:23The people I have to work with!
0:39:23 > 0:39:25Why do you always say that?
0:39:28 > 0:39:31Oh, the poor bugger.
0:39:31 > 0:39:35I thought his voice sounded funny.
0:39:35 > 0:39:39What? On the phone, when he rang.
0:39:39 > 0:39:46Of course his voice sounded funny. There's a knife in his throat! All right. All right.
0:39:46 > 0:39:54What are all these papers? Perhaps it's the... Yeah.
0:39:58 > 0:40:03I don't know what to do. I don't have the faintest idea.
0:40:03 > 0:40:07It's just... Yeah?
0:40:07 > 0:40:11I don't know. I mean, who do we go to?
0:40:11 > 0:40:15The top. What?
0:40:15 > 0:40:19Go to the top. Whitehall, it'll have to be.
0:40:19 > 0:40:23We're supposed to be in Intelligence.
0:40:23 > 0:40:29Yes. We're supposed to use this, up here. The old grey mare.
0:40:45 > 0:40:47Hallo?
0:40:47 > 0:40:52What do these bits of paper say? That's a point.
0:40:55 > 0:40:58 Well, what does it say?
0:40:59 > 0:41:02God Almighty.
0:41:02 > 0:41:04What is it?
0:41:04 > 0:41:11It would take a more cleverer man than me to understand it. And one with better grammar.
0:41:11 > 0:41:15What? "More better," you would say.
0:41:15 > 0:41:20Look 'ere, smart arse. You little shit. I mean,
0:41:20 > 0:41:26nit-picking at a time like this! OK, I spoke out of turn.
0:41:26 > 0:41:33I probably went to a better school that you did. Oh yeah? Where?
0:41:33 > 0:41:35Don't you...
0:41:38 > 0:41:42That's it. That's the point.
0:41:42 > 0:41:46You put your finger right on it.
0:41:46 > 0:41:49Have I? How do you mean?
0:41:49 > 0:41:54We don't know a bloody thing about our...
0:41:55 > 0:41:57Who?
0:41:57 > 0:42:01Why? What?
0:42:01 > 0:42:04I mean, it's all a blank, innit?
0:42:04 > 0:42:08Not filled in, do you mean? Padding.
0:42:08 > 0:42:11Still... > No "still" about it. It's a fact!
0:42:11 > 0:42:16A hard and fast fact! And you can't argue about it.
0:42:17 > 0:42:21We're padding. Like a couple of bleedin' sofas!
0:42:21 > 0:42:26You never use my name, do you? Do you ever use mine?
0:42:26 > 0:42:30Oh, God, you're completely...
0:42:32 > 0:42:34You're completely...
0:42:40 > 0:42:44There's blood on this paper, all over it.
0:42:44 > 0:42:47What does it say?
0:42:49 > 0:42:52It says...
0:42:56 > 0:43:01It says, "Who killed Roger Ackroyd?"
0:43:03 > 0:43:05Who?
0:43:05 > 0:43:08Christ knows. Is he a foreigner?
0:43:08 > 0:43:15Do we know him? Is he on our list? I don't know him from Adam.
0:43:15 > 0:43:18But it's a clue.
0:43:19 > 0:43:21Everything...
0:43:21 > 0:43:24All things mean something.
0:43:24 > 0:43:31All things point. Weren't we taught that in the Depot? Absorb, ponder, act. One, two, three.
0:43:31 > 0:43:39That singer. Perhaps he done it, the crooner. I wouldn't be totally surprised.
0:43:39 > 0:43:43We lost him, didn't we? The bugger.
0:43:43 > 0:43:45WE lost HIM,
0:43:45 > 0:43:48but has HE found US?
0:43:55 > 0:43:58Search the place.
0:43:58 > 0:44:01Every room. Every cupboard.
0:44:01 > 0:44:04Every nook, every cranny.
0:44:04 > 0:44:08If he's here, we'll find the bugger.
0:44:11 > 0:44:13'Philip!'
0:44:14 > 0:44:17Philip, where be ya? Philip?
0:44:18 > 0:44:20Philip!
0:44:20 > 0:44:23Where bist? Philip!
0:44:23 > 0:44:26Come on, o'butty!
0:44:26 > 0:44:28Philip!
0:44:29 > 0:44:32Where bist? Philip!
0:44:32 > 0:44:35Doesn't trust anybody again.
0:44:35 > 0:44:38Doesn't give thy love.
0:44:38 > 0:44:44Hide in theeself or they'll die. They'll die and they'll hurt you.
0:44:44 > 0:44:47Hide! Hide!
0:46:51 > 0:46:55CRY OF ANGUISH
0:47:11 > 0:47:13'Dad...?'
0:47:14 > 0:47:16Dad.
0:47:24 > 0:47:27Oh, there thou bist.
0:47:27 > 0:47:30Ay. Here I be.
0:47:35 > 0:47:37'Doesn't give thy love.
0:47:37 > 0:47:40'Hide in theeself or they'll die.
0:47:40 > 0:47:44'They'll die and they'll hurt you.
0:47:44 > 0:47:47'Hide. Hide.'
0:47:47 > 0:47:49Oh, Philip!
0:47:51 > 0:47:54Philip! Philip, come back! Please! Philip!
0:48:00 > 0:48:02'PHILIP!'
0:48:05 > 0:48:07'PHILIP!!'
0:48:57 > 0:49:02What's the loveliest word in the English language, officer?
0:49:02 > 0:49:09In the sound it makes in your mouth and the shape it makes on the page. What d'you think?
0:49:09 > 0:49:12Er... Fit up?
0:49:12 > 0:49:19Come on, that's two words! And forget your hobbies. Now, think of the loveliest word.
0:49:19 > 0:49:27- That's not my bag, now, is it? - Well, I'll tell you. E-L-B-O-W.
0:49:27 > 0:49:29Elbow.
0:49:29 > 0:49:32That's very useful, an elbow.
0:49:32 > 0:49:35- What?- In my line of work.
0:49:35 > 0:49:40- What have I done?- I'm sorry, but I have bad news.
0:49:40 > 0:49:45- Riot-shields to be banned? - Your wife.- I'm not married.- But...
0:49:45 > 0:49:53- What's happened to her? What's she done now?- I'm referring to a Mrs Nicola Marlow.
0:49:53 > 0:49:58- My ex-wife, yes.- But I thought... - All right. All right, my wife.
0:49:58 > 0:50:05- Get on with it!- I don't know whether you... Our enquiries indicate she has been living with
0:50:05 > 0:50:10- a Mr Mark Finney, sir. - Binney, did you say?
0:50:10 > 0:50:15- Finney, sir. F for Freddie. A film producer, it seems.- Go on.
0:50:15 > 0:50:23Early today, the Hammersmith station received a distraught call from Mrs Marlow. She said she had...
0:50:23 > 0:50:29She said she had stuck a knife in the throat of this Mr Finney
0:50:29 > 0:50:33- and that this Mr Finney was dead. - Dead?
0:50:33 > 0:50:35- Dead.- With a D?- What?
0:50:35 > 0:50:38Go on.
0:50:38 > 0:50:45- We sent a patrol round. - Where is this? - The Mall by the bridge. Hammersmith.
0:50:45 > 0:50:50Mrs Marlow was sitting on the stairs in a state of extreme distress, sir.
0:50:50 > 0:50:58She had blood all over her. The room upstairs was as she had described. Stabbed with a large kitchen knife.
0:50:59 > 0:51:04- A 'Abitat knife.- Abitat? - Tottenham Court Road.
0:51:05 > 0:51:07Where?
0:51:07 > 0:51:09Tottenham Court...
0:51:09 > 0:51:15Oh...yes. In the throat, sir. In HIS throat. Sticking out of...
0:51:17 > 0:51:22- Jesus! But...- Naturally, we read your wife her rights, sir.
0:51:22 > 0:51:27She was taken into custody where she was "docile and co-operative".
0:51:27 > 0:51:34The arresting officer had no reason to suspect but...when she was taken to the patrol car,
0:51:34 > 0:51:41she suddenly made a run for it, taking the arresting officer very much by surprise, sir,
0:51:41 > 0:51:45particularly as she was in a state of near-undress.
0:51:46 > 0:51:50What are you... What are you saying?
0:51:51 > 0:51:53Half-naked.
0:51:54 > 0:51:59Oh, God. I've got to wake up. I've got to wake up.
0:51:59 > 0:52:03She managed to get on to the bridge itself...
0:52:04 > 0:52:10Whereupon she threw herself in the bleedin' river.
0:52:12 > 0:52:15Maximum embarrassment all round.
0:52:15 > 0:52:17Yes.
0:52:17 > 0:52:19Wake up.
0:52:19 > 0:52:22- What?- Wake your bloody self up.
0:52:22 > 0:52:24Ye-es.
0:52:28 > 0:52:31What's wrong? What's all this noise?
0:52:33 > 0:52:36I'm sorry.
0:52:36 > 0:52:40- You go back to sleep.- I'm sorry.
0:52:40 > 0:52:43Go on, back to sleep.
0:53:06 > 0:53:08You all right, Pop?
0:53:10 > 0:53:12Oh, good.
0:53:25 > 0:53:31What's the loveliest word in the English language? In its sound.
0:53:31 > 0:53:38The sound it makes in your mouth and the shape it makes on the page. Mm? What do you think?
0:53:38 > 0:53:43- Or have I asked you this before? - The loveliest?
0:53:44 > 0:53:46Rose.
0:53:46 > 0:53:48- No, primrose.- No, no.
0:53:48 > 0:53:52- E-L-B-O-W.- Come on, drink.
0:53:54 > 0:53:56What's the matter?
0:54:05 > 0:54:07(No.)
0:54:07 > 0:54:10I didn't mean it.
0:54:10 > 0:54:12I didn't.
0:54:15 > 0:54:20I always thought they knew their way around.
0:54:20 > 0:54:23- What did he want?- The women's ward.
0:54:23 > 0:54:27- What?- His mother was brought in yesterday.
0:54:27 > 0:54:34- But...- It was quite lucky him walking in here, though. He recognised a friend.
0:54:35 > 0:54:39- What's the matter?- Nothing. - Come on!
0:54:43 > 0:54:46'Ere! Well, well, well.
0:54:46 > 0:54:50Hello. Hello, OFFICER. Yeah, well.
0:54:50 > 0:54:54Are you a reading man?! Yeah. Well.
0:54:54 > 0:54:58Is this a Janet and John? Who?
0:54:58 > 0:55:03"He didn't believe the human body could be so crimsonly liquid.
0:55:03 > 0:55:10"Blood had gushed out of the severed vein as if it had been longing to escape..." Gawd!
0:55:10 > 0:55:13It's good. They say this doesn't corrupt!
0:55:13 > 0:55:19There you are. What is there to say, officer? It's good!
0:55:19 > 0:55:24He reads this, then pinches a video-cassette machine.
0:55:24 > 0:55:29I've paid my debt to society. I think different, my lad.
0:55:29 > 0:55:32Keep your nose clean. God Almighty.
0:55:32 > 0:55:37What you in for? Heart.
0:55:37 > 0:55:44You ain't got one. Oh, come on! I'll be watching YOU.
0:55:52 > 0:55:59Berk. Who have I been next to all this time? What sort of person?!
0:55:59 > 0:56:03A HUMAN person. But what have you done?
0:56:03 > 0:56:08Why are the police so interested in you? Mind your own business.
0:56:08 > 0:56:12Keep your nose out of it. Good heavens!
0:56:12 > 0:56:17Is that the way to speak to me? Reginald! Reginald!
0:56:20 > 0:56:24You're hot, Mr Marlow.
0:56:24 > 0:56:29Don't you go and get complications when you're doing so well.
0:56:29 > 0:56:32Drink plenty of water. You hear?
0:56:35 > 0:56:37Now, let's see what's going on here.
0:56:38 > 0:56:42You've been overdoing it again.
0:56:43 > 0:56:46Hey! Where are you?
0:56:46 > 0:56:53'Too many people were asking the same question. And they weren't wanting to polish my shoes.
0:56:57 > 0:57:00# If you go down in the woods today
0:57:00 > 0:57:03# You're sure of a big surprise
0:57:03 > 0:57:06# If you go down in the woods today
0:57:06 > 0:57:08# You'd better go in disguise
0:57:08 > 0:57:11# For every bear that ever there was
0:57:11 > 0:57:14# Will gather there for certain because
0:57:14 > 0:57:19# Today's the day The Teddy Bears have their picnic.
0:57:29 > 0:57:32# Beneath the trees Where nobody sees
0:57:32 > 0:57:36# They'll hide and seek As long as they please
0:57:36 > 0:57:40# That's the way The Teddy Bears have their picnic!
0:57:40 > 0:57:45# Picnic time for Teddy Bears
0:57:45 > 0:57:50# The little Teddy Bears Are having a lovely time today
0:57:50 > 0:57:55# Watch them! Catch them unawares!
0:57:55 > 0:58:00# And see them picnic On their holiday
0:58:00 > 0:58:05# See them gaily gad about
0:58:05 > 0:58:11# They love to play and shout They never have any ca-a-ares
0:58:11 > 0:58:14# At six o'clock their mummies and daddies
0:58:14 > 0:58:17# Will take them home to bed
0:58:17 > 0:58:21# Because they're tired little Teddy Bears
0:58:53 > 0:58:56# If you go down in the woods today
0:58:56 > 0:58:58# You'd better not go alone
0:58:58 > 0:59:04# It's lovely down in the woods today, but safer to stay at home
0:59:04 > 0:59:06# For every bear that ever there was
0:59:06 > 0:59:09# Will gather there for certain because
0:59:09 > 0:59:13# Today's the day The Teddy Bears have their picnic. #
0:59:24 > 0:59:26Look!
0:59:26 > 0:59:29I did it. I walked!
0:59:29 > 0:59:32I can walk! Look at me, everybody!
0:59:32 > 0:59:37He's bellowing again. It's nice to be able to walk.
0:59:37 > 0:59:43Yes, but you don't have to make a song and dance about it.
1:00:00 > 1:00:05< Philip, what are you doing? What do you think you're doing?
1:00:05 > 1:00:07Walking.
1:00:07 > 1:00:13Supposing you fall over? Hold on to me. You're not ready for this.
1:00:13 > 1:00:16Hold on to YOU?
1:00:17 > 1:00:19There are not many others about now.
1:00:28 > 1:00:32# Be-bop-a-loo-bop. #
1:00:32 > 1:00:37Yes. But isn't it about time you climbed down out of your tree?
1:00:41 > 1:00:45Well, one thing's for sure, I'm going to...
1:00:45 > 1:00:50I'm going to walk right out of this place. I'm not going to stay here.
1:00:50 > 1:00:55- But are you going to stay in this condition?- No.
1:00:55 > 1:00:59- I don't just mean your skin and joints.- No.
1:00:59 > 1:01:02You nasty old sod.
1:01:04 > 1:01:07Mr Marlow! What are you doing?
1:01:10 > 1:01:14- What do you think you're doing? - Walking.
1:01:14 > 1:01:19- What if you fell? You can't walk on your own yet. Take it in stages.- No.
1:01:19 > 1:01:23- Now, steady.- By tomorrow... - What about tomorrow?
1:01:23 > 1:01:28- By tomorrow I'm going to walk out on my own two feet.- Will you?
1:01:28 > 1:01:32- Hey! Nicola isn't in the river. - What?
1:01:33 > 1:01:36I told you, didn't I?
1:01:36 > 1:01:39Can I have some help here?
1:01:39 > 1:01:41Oh, you're too heavy.
1:01:41 > 1:01:44Can I have some help here?
1:01:44 > 1:01:47All right, Nurse.
1:01:47 > 1:01:49He's too heavy for you, Nurse.
1:01:50 > 1:01:53Gently!
1:01:53 > 1:01:55Sorry. Sorry.
1:01:55 > 1:01:59Take him back to his bed. Over there.
1:01:59 > 1:02:02Gently does it, sunshine.
1:02:02 > 1:02:05It's a giant leap for a cripple(!)
1:02:05 > 1:02:08This is not the time...!
1:02:08 > 1:02:11Sit him on his bed. Gently!
1:02:11 > 1:02:14- Thanks. Thank you. - Yes, thank you.
1:02:14 > 1:02:20Good job we came. You're telling me. And just who we came to see.
1:02:20 > 1:02:23You're telling me.
1:02:23 > 1:02:26These are not visiting hours. They are NOW.
1:02:26 > 1:02:30Bugger the rules. Bugger the regulations.
1:02:30 > 1:02:36Is it because I'm hot? I don't know who or WHAT you are.
1:02:36 > 1:02:38Disowning us?
1:02:38 > 1:02:42Bloody orphans, are we? I'm sorry...
1:02:42 > 1:02:44I MUST ask you to leave.
1:02:44 > 1:02:49Leave! We're fed up, lady! We get all the shit!
1:02:49 > 1:02:53- And ONE shooter between us.- What?
1:02:53 > 1:02:56Bang! Bang! And why? What for?
1:02:56 > 1:02:59Our roles are unclear. No names, even.
1:02:59 > 1:03:00Nurse!
1:03:03 > 1:03:05Nu-urse!
1:03:05 > 1:03:08NU-U-URSE!
1:03:08 > 1:03:11- Where are you going? - Home.
1:03:11 > 1:03:14But that's off the page, isn't it?
1:03:14 > 1:03:18You're going nowhere. Not until we settle this.
1:03:18 > 1:03:21Settle what?
1:03:21 > 1:03:24WHO we are! WHAT we are.
1:03:24 > 1:03:29- That's right. That's absolutely right.- No, no-o...
1:03:29 > 1:03:32- Come on.- Please, don't.- Tell us.
1:03:32 > 1:03:35I BEG you, don't do that, Please... No!
1:03:35 > 1:03:37Aaah!
1:03:37 > 1:03:40Aaaah, no-o! Aa-aahh.
1:03:40 > 1:03:43A-a-a-ah! NO-O!
1:03:43 > 1:03:45- Own up.- Please, don't!
1:03:45 > 1:03:48Aaa-aah!
1:03:48 > 1:03:51We'll tear you apart.
1:03:51 > 1:03:55- Limb from limb.- Aa-aah! NO !
1:03:55 > 1:03:58Speak English. Come on.
1:03:58 > 1:04:00TELL us.
1:04:00 > 1:04:04Help! He-elp! HELP me. Somebody...!
1:04:04 > 1:04:07Help me-e-e!
1:04:07 > 1:04:09'Please...
1:04:09 > 1:04:12'No, please... Aaahh!
1:04:12 > 1:04:15'Stop, please.... Sto-op.
1:04:15 > 1:04:19'Somebody, HE-E-ELP me, please...
1:04:19 > 1:04:21'Aaa-aah!
1:04:21 > 1:04:24'Aaa-aah! Please...'
1:04:25 > 1:04:28'Please...! Please...he-elp!'
1:04:28 > 1:04:31'He-elp me... Help ME!'
1:04:31 > 1:04:38- I- don't want to walk any mean streets. But there's no money in picking bluebells.
1:04:38 > 1:04:40Am I right, or am I right?
1:04:40 > 1:04:44'He-elp' Can you hear that guy?
1:04:44 > 1:04:47You'd think someone was twisting his arm.
1:04:47 > 1:04:51What I say is, when you're dealing with the Devil,
1:04:51 > 1:04:55then praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
1:04:55 > 1:05:00Am I not wrong? Neither am I wrong.
1:05:04 > 1:05:08- The warbler! - Use the shooter
1:05:16 > 1:05:19Jesus!
1:05:40 > 1:05:42Jesus!
1:07:04 > 1:07:06Nu-urse?
1:07:19 > 1:07:23Mr Marlow...! GUNSHOT
1:07:25 > 1:07:27Really...
1:09:22 > 1:09:24Please...not me.
1:09:24 > 1:09:26Please...
1:09:29 > 1:09:30No.
1:09:30 > 1:09:33You CAN'T. No...
1:09:33 > 1:09:34No. Wait.
1:09:34 > 1:09:39- (Don't shoot. Please don't.) - That's MURDER.
1:09:39 > 1:09:42(No, please...don't.)
1:09:43 > 1:09:47Will you listen to that? Murder, he says.
1:09:47 > 1:09:50I call it pruning.
1:09:50 > 1:09:55Only one of us is going to walk out of here sweeter than the roses.
1:09:55 > 1:09:56No-o-o.
1:09:56 > 1:09:59Please!
1:09:59 > 1:10:01Please don't.
1:10:01 > 1:10:02Don't shoot.
1:10:02 > 1:10:04Please...
1:10:19 > 1:10:23You could say we'd been partners - him and me,
1:10:23 > 1:10:27like Laurel and Hardy, or Fortnum and Mason.
1:10:27 > 1:10:32But, HELL, this was one sick fellow from way back when.
1:10:32 > 1:10:36And I reckon I'm man enough to tie my own shoelaces now.
1:10:49 > 1:10:51Open.
1:10:53 > 1:10:56Haven't you finished that silly book yet?
1:10:56 > 1:10:59Last page.
1:11:00 > 1:11:04H'mph! A giant leap for mankind, my boy(!)
1:11:04 > 1:11:06Thank you, nurse.
1:11:23 > 1:11:25Got my hat, then?
1:11:52 > 1:11:54Cheers, Pop.
1:11:58 > 1:12:01Goo...by...
1:12:01 > 1:12:04..Bye, everybody.
1:12:04 > 1:12:06See you. Bye.
1:12:06 > 1:12:09Cheerio. Bye.
1:12:10 > 1:12:13Good luck.
1:12:13 > 1:12:15Keep your noses clean.
1:12:18 > 1:12:22REGINALD: "And - her - soft - red - lips
1:12:22 > 1:12:26"clam - clam - CLAMPED...
1:12:26 > 1:12:32"them-selves - on - his."
1:12:32 > 1:12:34"The - end."
1:12:38 > 1:12:40Lucky devil.
1:12:40 > 1:12:43VERA LYNN: # We'll meet again
1:12:43 > 1:12:50# Don't know where Don't know whe-en
1:12:50 > 1:12:54# But I KNOW we'll meet again
1:12:54 > 1:12:57# Some sunny da-ay... #
1:12:57 > 1:13:00INAUDIBLE
1:13:00 > 1:13:04# Keep smiling through
1:13:04 > 1:13:09# Just like you alwa-ays do
1:13:09 > 1:13:14# Till the blue skies chase those dark clouds
1:13:14 > 1:13:20# Far awa-ay
1:13:20 > 1:13:24# And I will just say hello
1:13:24 > 1:13:27# To the folks that you know
1:13:27 > 1:13:31# Tell them you won't be lo-ong
1:13:32 > 1:13:37# They'll be happy to know that as I saw you go
1:13:37 > 1:13:43# You were si-inging this song
1:13:44 > 1:13:48# We'll meet again
1:13:48 > 1:13:51# Don't know where
1:13:51 > 1:13:55# Don't know whe-en... #
1:13:58 > 1:14:00When I grow up...
1:14:00 > 1:14:04I be gonna be a detective.
1:14:05 > 1:14:09#..But I KNOW we'll meet again
1:14:10 > 1:14:18# Some sunny da-ay. #
1:14:24 > 1:14:28BIRDSONG FILLS THE AIR
1:14:32 > 1:14:36BIRDSONG ECHOES IN CORRIDORS
1:15:19 > 1:15:22Subtitles by Dorothy Moore BBC Scotland 1986