0:00:02 > 0:00:05This programme contains some strong language
0:00:05 > 0:00:10This programme contains some scenes of a sexual nature
0:00:10 > 0:00:12SOLDIER PANTING
0:00:34 > 0:00:36HE COUGHS
0:00:42 > 0:00:45HE PANTS
0:00:45 > 0:00:47DISTANT EXPLOSIONS
0:00:50 > 0:00:52HIGH-PITCHED WHINING
0:01:36 > 0:01:38HE SNIFFS
0:02:10 > 0:02:12HE KISSES HER
0:02:16 > 0:02:18FOOTSTEPS RETREAT
0:02:20 > 0:02:23DOOR OPENS
0:02:23 > 0:02:25DOOR CLOSES
0:02:25 > 0:02:26DOOR LOCKS
0:02:33 > 0:02:36BLUES MUSIC
0:02:40 > 0:02:43WOMAN SINGS ON RECORDING
0:02:43 > 0:02:45HE SNORES
0:02:48 > 0:02:50BELL RINGS
0:02:55 > 0:02:57BELL RINGS
0:03:00 > 0:03:02SHE SIGHS
0:03:04 > 0:03:06CAT MEWS
0:03:06 > 0:03:07SHE TUTS Mimi!
0:03:15 > 0:03:18Saucer?
0:03:18 > 0:03:20Is he still down there?
0:03:20 > 0:03:22He is.
0:03:22 > 0:03:24And there's a lot of mess for me to clear up.
0:03:29 > 0:03:30Emily?
0:03:31 > 0:03:32Emily!
0:03:32 > 0:03:34Get rid of him for me.
0:03:41 > 0:03:42I'm going out tonight.
0:03:42 > 0:03:44Why can't you just be content?
0:03:49 > 0:03:52Come along then, Mr Freddy. Party's over. Come along.
0:03:52 > 0:03:54Out you go.
0:03:54 > 0:03:56BACKGROUND CHATTER
0:03:56 > 0:03:57Come on, beginners on stage.
0:03:57 > 0:03:59Don't dilly-dally.
0:03:59 > 0:04:02Tits and teeth. Tits and teeth.
0:04:02 > 0:04:04Come on, get a move on.
0:04:12 > 0:04:14Keep it down. Keep the chatter down.
0:04:14 > 0:04:17A girl's got to do what a girl's got to do.
0:04:20 > 0:04:24Hello, lovelies. Hello, girls.
0:04:24 > 0:04:27You're always my favourite. Give us a kiss, Romaine.
0:04:27 > 0:04:28Suit yourself.
0:04:28 > 0:04:30Oh, Dora, Dora, you know I adore ya.
0:04:30 > 0:04:33- And you, as well, sweetheart. - Not too tight - careful.
0:04:38 > 0:04:41- They're ready for you now, Miss Moffat.- All right.
0:04:45 > 0:04:47Quiet, please.
0:04:52 > 0:04:53Standing by.
0:05:10 > 0:05:12Put your brains on it, then. Look lively.
0:05:16 > 0:05:18WALTZ MUSIC PLAYS
0:05:25 > 0:05:28BACKGROUND CHATTER
0:05:47 > 0:05:49- Can I get you anything for- you, madam? No.
0:06:03 > 0:06:05Goodnight, Mrs French.
0:06:20 > 0:06:22LOUD CLATTER, SMASHING
0:06:23 > 0:06:25Excuse me.
0:06:25 > 0:06:27Idiot!
0:06:27 > 0:06:29He's got my dress.
0:06:29 > 0:06:32- I gave you a chance cos I felt sorry for you.- It wasn't my fault.
0:06:32 > 0:06:34Nobody here cares. Out.
0:06:34 > 0:06:35Clean that up!
0:06:35 > 0:06:37LAUGHTER
0:06:43 > 0:06:45DOOR UNLOCKS
0:06:48 > 0:06:50DOOR OPENS
0:06:50 > 0:06:51FOOTSTEPS
0:06:51 > 0:06:53Did you enjoy your evening, Madam?
0:06:53 > 0:06:55Come in, then.
0:06:55 > 0:06:58This is Mr Vole. He was kind enough to drive me home.
0:06:58 > 0:07:00- Is there plenty of ice?- Yes, Madam.
0:07:00 > 0:07:03You'll have a drink, Mr Vole. Take his coat.
0:07:03 > 0:07:04DOOR CLOSES
0:07:12 > 0:07:14CHARLESTON MUSIC STARTS UP
0:07:20 > 0:07:22Probably best if you run along now.
0:07:23 > 0:07:27Mr Vole? Come and make friends with Mimi.
0:07:40 > 0:07:42Ooh!
0:07:42 > 0:07:43She likes you.
0:07:45 > 0:07:49So after that debacle with the plates and glasses,
0:07:49 > 0:07:51what will you do?
0:07:52 > 0:07:56I don't know. Try and find something else.
0:07:56 > 0:07:58You could work for me.
0:07:58 > 0:07:59As a chauffeur?
0:07:59 > 0:08:00I could do that.
0:08:00 > 0:08:03I was quite good with engines in the army.
0:08:03 > 0:08:04No.
0:08:04 > 0:08:06I drive my own car.
0:08:09 > 0:08:15I didn't really need you to drive me home.
0:08:15 > 0:08:16It was a ruse.
0:08:17 > 0:08:20A ruse?
0:08:20 > 0:08:23Could you hold my drink for me, please, Leonard?
0:08:27 > 0:08:29You're really rather beautiful, aren't you?
0:08:31 > 0:08:32- I don't think so. - SPLASH
0:08:32 > 0:08:35Oh, be careful of the drinks.
0:08:35 > 0:08:38I don't want them spilling.
0:08:38 > 0:08:41When one is a woman of a certain age,
0:08:41 > 0:08:45one becomes subject to all manner of tedious lectures
0:08:45 > 0:08:48about what one should and shouldn't be.
0:08:48 > 0:08:52I'm supposed to no longer have any particular needs, wants,
0:08:52 > 0:08:54or appetites.
0:08:54 > 0:08:57My fires are supposed to be out.
0:08:57 > 0:08:59But they rage unchecked.
0:09:01 > 0:09:02Do you follow?
0:09:02 > 0:09:05I don't mean to be rude but I think you might be a little bit drunk.
0:09:05 > 0:09:08Or I am told to find a man my own age.
0:09:08 > 0:09:11Or older. Some bluff old colonel.
0:09:11 > 0:09:14Listening to his war stories,
0:09:14 > 0:09:16pretending to hang on his every word.
0:09:16 > 0:09:19And I don't like old men, Leonard!
0:09:21 > 0:09:23I like young men.
0:09:25 > 0:09:26I like their company.
0:09:28 > 0:09:30I like their skin.
0:09:32 > 0:09:35I like their muscles...
0:09:35 > 0:09:36their musk...
0:09:37 > 0:09:40..their gleam, their vigour,
0:09:40 > 0:09:41their heft....
0:09:41 > 0:09:44and their spring.
0:09:49 > 0:09:50I like to look.
0:10:01 > 0:10:03Would £5 be...
0:10:05 > 0:10:06..agreeable?
0:10:24 > 0:10:26SHE GASPS
0:10:48 > 0:10:50I don't know what I'm supposed to do.
0:10:50 > 0:10:54Just do what you would normally do...Leonard.
0:11:11 > 0:11:13- Goodnight.- Goodnight.
0:11:16 > 0:11:18Let's get you home.
0:11:21 > 0:11:22Evening, Miss.
0:11:25 > 0:11:27FOOTSTEPS APPROACH
0:11:32 > 0:11:34THEY KISS
0:11:34 > 0:11:36Just give us a moment, sweetheart, would you?
0:11:43 > 0:11:46All I've got to do is click my fingers and you're out of here.
0:11:46 > 0:11:49So you keep your eyes off him, you hear?
0:11:49 > 0:11:52Stay...right...away.
0:11:56 > 0:11:58Pissy German bitch.
0:11:58 > 0:12:01I'm Austrian, Christine. Not German - Austrian.
0:12:02 > 0:12:03There's a difference.
0:12:03 > 0:12:06You don't get to call me Christine.
0:12:06 > 0:12:07You're just the chorus.
0:12:07 > 0:12:09I'm the principal.
0:12:09 > 0:12:11You call me Miss Moffat.
0:12:17 > 0:12:19- Who's she?- No-one!
0:12:24 > 0:12:26Come and see me tomorrow.
0:12:26 > 0:12:29We'll have luncheon and go for a drive.
0:12:40 > 0:12:42She gets bored very quickly.
0:12:42 > 0:12:45I'll give you two weeks, tops, and then you'll be out on your ear.
0:12:49 > 0:12:50Your face!
0:12:51 > 0:12:53Your funny little face!
0:12:53 > 0:12:55What a crosspatch!
0:13:01 > 0:13:03MUSIC STARTS UP
0:13:12 > 0:13:17# Easy come, easy go
0:13:17 > 0:13:19# That's the way
0:13:19 > 0:13:22# If love must have its day
0:13:22 > 0:13:29# Then as it came, let it go... #
0:13:31 > 0:13:34MUSIC FADES, CREAKING
0:13:34 > 0:13:37# No, no remorse, no regrets
0:13:37 > 0:13:41# We should part exactly as we met
0:13:41 > 0:13:48# Just easy come, easy go... #
0:14:02 > 0:14:04MEN WHISPER
0:14:08 > 0:14:09COLLAR BELL JINGLES
0:14:23 > 0:14:26COLLAR BELL JINGLES
0:15:15 > 0:15:16Miss McIntyre?
0:15:17 > 0:15:19Miss McIntyre?
0:15:22 > 0:15:24We're, er, taking the body away now.
0:15:24 > 0:15:27You'll be...coming with us to make your statement.
0:15:28 > 0:15:30I already told you who did it.
0:15:30 > 0:15:33He was here, I saw him leave, it was him, I saw him.
0:15:33 > 0:15:35Why haven't you been and got him yet?
0:15:35 > 0:15:37He did it! He did it!
0:15:37 > 0:15:38He was here!
0:15:38 > 0:15:42I've told you his address! It was him, it was Leonard Vole!
0:15:46 > 0:15:48BANGING
0:15:48 > 0:15:50SHOUTING
0:15:51 > 0:15:53Murdering bastard!
0:16:16 > 0:16:18I'll see you tonight?
0:16:19 > 0:16:20I expect so.
0:16:30 > 0:16:32STREET HUBBUB
0:16:37 > 0:16:39BUZZING
0:16:44 > 0:16:46COUGHING
0:16:50 > 0:16:53THUNDER RUMBLES, RAIN FALLS
0:17:02 > 0:17:03Come on, then.
0:17:03 > 0:17:05HE COUGHS
0:17:10 > 0:17:12BANGING, SHOUTING
0:17:12 > 0:17:13You're that one, Sir.
0:17:13 > 0:17:16SHOUTING
0:17:21 > 0:17:22HE KNOCKS
0:17:24 > 0:17:27Good morning, Mr Nelish. My name is John Mayhew. I...
0:17:30 > 0:17:33SNORING Mr Nelish?
0:17:33 > 0:17:34DISTANT SHOUTING
0:17:38 > 0:17:41Good morning, Mr... HE VOMITS
0:17:41 > 0:17:43DISTANT SHOUTING
0:17:45 > 0:17:47Good morning, Mr Vole.
0:17:47 > 0:17:50My name is John Mayhew. I'm here to offer my services
0:17:50 > 0:17:52- as your legal representative. - Yes! Yes, please.
0:17:52 > 0:17:55I don't understand, they're saying I did it and I didn't do it, I swear.
0:17:55 > 0:17:58- I swear I didn't do it.- My initial fee will be ten shillings.
0:17:58 > 0:18:01I don't have money - I don't have any money, but, look, I have this.
0:18:01 > 0:18:03Please! She gave it to me.
0:18:03 > 0:18:05Take this.
0:18:05 > 0:18:07- Here. Can you use this? - Out of the way. Stand back.
0:18:07 > 0:18:09Please!
0:18:09 > 0:18:12- Oh, course it's you, lurking about down here.- Where are you taking him?
0:18:12 > 0:18:14Hearing.
0:18:14 > 0:18:17But I'm going to need time with my client to ascertain the facts.
0:18:17 > 0:18:20These are the facts. I've been up all night, the body's barely cold...
0:18:20 > 0:18:21Can I have a moment...
0:18:21 > 0:18:24..I've already got the commissioner and the press crawling up my arse.
0:18:24 > 0:18:28- Detective Breem, I just want a minute, please!- This way.
0:18:28 > 0:18:30Detective Breem, leading the investigation.
0:18:30 > 0:18:32Double E in the spelling, yeah? Double E.
0:18:32 > 0:18:34I'm sick of you bastards getting it wrong.
0:18:34 > 0:18:36- Mr Breem, can you give us a bit more information?- Double E.
0:18:36 > 0:18:38Why's the commissioner so interested?
0:18:38 > 0:18:40This isn't some tuppenny-ha'penny tart
0:18:40 > 0:18:42clubbed to death in the back of an alley.
0:18:42 > 0:18:45This is a rich lady. Society lady.
0:18:45 > 0:18:49- Thank you, sir.- Now her brains are sprayed up the wall.
0:18:49 > 0:18:51Vole was seen leaving the house,
0:18:51 > 0:18:54the body discovered moments later, blood still steaming.
0:18:54 > 0:18:56Where have they taken her?
0:18:56 > 0:18:59She's in the morgue, waiting for the coroner.
0:18:59 > 0:19:02I need to be with her. She needs to be washed.
0:19:02 > 0:19:04- I can make her hair look nice. - Nah. Nah.
0:19:04 > 0:19:07They'll do all that, you go in and sit down. She's in safe hands.
0:19:07 > 0:19:11No, I have to do it. I have to do it! She's my lady!
0:19:11 > 0:19:16I look after her! I take care of her, not strangers!
0:19:16 > 0:19:21Not strangers looking after her, looking at her and prodding her!
0:19:21 > 0:19:22She's mine!
0:19:22 > 0:19:25- Sit down, madam, calm down, madam. - She needs me, she's mine!
0:19:25 > 0:19:26She's mine!
0:19:26 > 0:19:29Make her a cuppa tea, for God's sake! What's the matter with you?
0:19:29 > 0:19:32The maid. She found it all.
0:19:32 > 0:19:36- Right mess. - I want to read her statement.
0:19:36 > 0:19:37There you are. Knock yourself out.
0:19:39 > 0:19:42Your boy is a no-mark chancer.
0:19:42 > 0:19:45He hasn't got a pot to piss in.
0:19:45 > 0:19:46He meets Mrs Emily French
0:19:46 > 0:19:50and, though the maid's not saying, I'm sure there's plenty of...
0:19:50 > 0:19:53She's buying him clothes, shoes, whatever he wants.
0:19:54 > 0:19:58Within three months, she's made her will, naming him for everything.
0:19:59 > 0:20:01That doesn't make him a murderer.
0:20:01 > 0:20:04Well, he'd burned a shirt in the grate.
0:20:04 > 0:20:08I mean, who burns a shirt unless they've got something to hide?
0:20:08 > 0:20:09Like blood.
0:20:10 > 0:20:14He opened her skull like a tin of peaches...
0:20:14 > 0:20:16and he'll dangle for it.
0:20:24 > 0:20:25GAVEL BANGS
0:20:25 > 0:20:30The prosecution will show that on the 28th of October, 1923,
0:20:30 > 0:20:32at approximately 9.30...
0:20:32 > 0:20:36Leonard Vole, of Goldhawk Road, London, did murder Mrs Emily French
0:20:36 > 0:20:38- at her home in Holland Park. - (I was at home.)
0:20:38 > 0:20:41(I was at home at 9.30, I can prove it!)
0:20:41 > 0:20:44There are elements to this case which unequivocally indicate
0:20:44 > 0:20:48malicious calculation and premeditation and, as such,
0:20:48 > 0:20:51the Crown seeks a jury trial
0:20:51 > 0:20:54where we will argue for a capital sentence.
0:20:55 > 0:20:58My wife. Romaine. I was with her.
0:21:00 > 0:21:05I was with her! She can tell them and all this can be over.
0:21:05 > 0:21:08What was your relationship with Mrs French?
0:21:08 > 0:21:10Friendly. We're friends. I'm...
0:21:10 > 0:21:12I was her companion.
0:21:12 > 0:21:15- HE COUGHS Were there.. Intimacies?- Intimacies?
0:21:16 > 0:21:18Intercourse, Mr Vole.
0:21:18 > 0:21:20No. No. Of course not!
0:21:20 > 0:21:22MAYHEW COUGHS
0:21:22 > 0:21:26Did you know that the will names you as her sole beneficiary?
0:21:28 > 0:21:29No, I had no idea.
0:21:31 > 0:21:34So you visited her house that night...
0:21:34 > 0:21:36Why are you asking me this?
0:21:36 > 0:21:39I've told you already that I was at home with Romaine by 9.30.
0:21:39 > 0:21:42Christ, she doesn't know about any of this!
0:21:42 > 0:21:44Look, will you tell her that I'm sorry?
0:21:44 > 0:21:46Tell her that I'm so, so sorry.
0:21:46 > 0:21:51Mr Vole, wives can speak neither for nor against their husbands in court.
0:21:51 > 0:21:54Wives are meaningless, useless.
0:21:54 > 0:21:57No, but we're not married - not properly.
0:21:57 > 0:21:59We call each other husband and wife, she uses my name,
0:21:59 > 0:22:01but we're not married.
0:22:01 > 0:22:03- MAYHEW COUGHS - Please!
0:22:08 > 0:22:10Go and see her.
0:22:10 > 0:22:12Ask her, she'll tell you.
0:22:14 > 0:22:16And where will I find her?
0:22:16 > 0:22:18SHOUTING
0:22:20 > 0:22:22JAUNTY MUSIC PLAYS
0:22:29 > 0:22:31FOOTSTEPS
0:22:32 > 0:22:34Bernie. Don't you knock?
0:22:34 > 0:22:36Have you seen the evening edition?
0:22:38 > 0:22:40Isn't that, er, your chap?
0:22:43 > 0:22:46The management will be thrilled.
0:22:46 > 0:22:48Nothing like a scandal to pack the house.
0:22:51 > 0:22:53MUSIC PLAYS
0:22:59 > 0:23:02Evening Standard! Read all about it!
0:23:11 > 0:23:13- Good evening.- Evening.
0:23:13 > 0:23:16Could you please ensure Miss Vole gets this card?
0:23:16 > 0:23:19- Tell her I'll meet her after the performance.- Sure.
0:23:21 > 0:23:22- A ticket?- Oh...
0:23:22 > 0:23:24Look, anyway, where have you been, Willy?
0:23:24 > 0:23:26- I've been fishing at the end of the pier.- Ooh...
0:23:26 > 0:23:30- Yes... I caught crabs. - Caught crabs - you daft thing!
0:23:30 > 0:23:32COUGHING
0:23:34 > 0:23:36Now listen here. Stop messing about.
0:23:36 > 0:23:38I love you. Oh, I do...
0:23:38 > 0:23:41- Give us a kiss.- No.
0:23:41 > 0:23:43What will it take for you to kiss me?
0:23:43 > 0:23:44Chloroform!
0:23:44 > 0:23:46LAUGHTER
0:23:46 > 0:23:47- I'll give you a kiss...- Will you?
0:23:47 > 0:23:50- Yes. Pucker up.- Ahh!- Cheeky!
0:23:50 > 0:23:52HORN HONKS
0:23:52 > 0:23:54APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:23:54 > 0:23:59WALTZ MUSIC STARTS
0:24:03 > 0:24:07# Let me call you sweetheart
0:24:07 > 0:24:12# I'm in love with you
0:24:12 > 0:24:16# Let me hear you whisper
0:24:16 > 0:24:22# That you love me, too
0:24:22 > 0:24:26# Keep the love light glowing
0:24:26 > 0:24:32# In your eyes so true
0:24:32 > 0:24:35# Let me call you sweetheart
0:24:35 > 0:24:41# I'm in love with you
0:24:44 > 0:24:48# Let me call you sweetheart
0:24:48 > 0:24:53# I'm in love with you
0:24:53 > 0:24:57# Let me hear you whisper
0:24:57 > 0:25:04# That you love me, too
0:25:04 > 0:25:09# Keep the love light glowing
0:25:09 > 0:25:16# In your eyes so true
0:25:16 > 0:25:22# Let me call you sweetheart
0:25:22 > 0:25:34# I'm in love with you. #
0:25:46 > 0:25:49DISTANT APPLAUSE
0:25:57 > 0:26:00CHATTER
0:26:03 > 0:26:04See you in the foyer.
0:26:21 > 0:26:23SOBBING
0:26:40 > 0:26:43HE SOBS
0:26:46 > 0:26:48Mr Mayhew?
0:26:49 > 0:26:50Mr Mayhew?
0:26:53 > 0:26:54I'm Romaine Vole.
0:26:56 > 0:26:59Oh... Of course.
0:26:59 > 0:27:02CHATTERING
0:27:02 > 0:27:06Were she and Leonard lovers? I think it's best to be direct.
0:27:09 > 0:27:11Were they? The paper suggested they were.
0:27:11 > 0:27:13Well, that's the newspapers.
0:27:13 > 0:27:14He says not.
0:27:18 > 0:27:22With your testimony that he was with you at 9.30...
0:27:22 > 0:27:24He was with me.
0:27:24 > 0:27:25At 9.30.
0:27:26 > 0:27:29I left at 10.30.
0:27:29 > 0:27:32I was staying near the theatre
0:27:32 > 0:27:35because we were rehearsing a new routine early in the morning.
0:27:35 > 0:27:39I arrived at my digs about midnight.
0:27:39 > 0:27:43I didn't see anybody until the next morning - they'd all gone to bed.
0:27:47 > 0:27:49This time last night,
0:27:49 > 0:27:52I said to Leonard that I would see him in a couple of days and now...
0:27:52 > 0:27:53You the brief?
0:27:56 > 0:27:58Dora, this is a private conversation.
0:27:58 > 0:28:01Don't be like that.
0:28:01 > 0:28:02Did he do it?
0:28:03 > 0:28:05No.
0:28:06 > 0:28:10Must say, bad enough when your fancy man's knocking another girl
0:28:10 > 0:28:13bandy-legged, but when it's some boiler twice your age...
0:28:14 > 0:28:17Well, that's really got to sting.
0:28:19 > 0:28:22I wish Christine were here to see it.
0:28:22 > 0:28:23How she'd laugh!
0:28:33 > 0:28:35I'm popular.
0:28:35 > 0:28:37- Who is Christine?- Miss Moffat.
0:28:37 > 0:28:40The girl who used to sit in the moon before me.
0:28:41 > 0:28:44She didn't like me, either.
0:28:44 > 0:28:47Leonard must be so frightened.
0:28:47 > 0:28:48Miss Vole...
0:28:48 > 0:28:52Miss Heilger - Perhaps you should call me Miss Heilger from now on.
0:28:52 > 0:28:54Miss Heilger.
0:28:54 > 0:28:57I will seek counsel,
0:28:57 > 0:28:59but...
0:28:59 > 0:29:03you must prepare yourself to hear some difficult things.
0:29:07 > 0:29:09That they WERE lovers.
0:29:13 > 0:29:16Well, er...
0:29:16 > 0:29:20I'm very used to difficulty, Mr Mayhew.
0:29:21 > 0:29:23As, I think, are you.
0:29:37 > 0:29:39DOOR OPENS
0:29:39 > 0:29:40I'm home.
0:29:53 > 0:29:55MUFFLED SHOUTING
0:30:04 > 0:30:06HE COUGHS
0:30:11 > 0:30:13HE COUGHS
0:30:15 > 0:30:18CLOCK TICKS
0:30:19 > 0:30:22TICKING GROWS LOUDER
0:30:22 > 0:30:24INAUDIBLE
0:30:24 > 0:30:27LOUD TICKING
0:30:30 > 0:30:31SHE GASPS
0:30:43 > 0:30:45So if you could take us through what happened
0:30:45 > 0:30:48on night of the murder from the beginning.
0:30:48 > 0:30:50I'd gone to a meeting at my church.
0:30:50 > 0:30:54We make up parcels for the needy - blankets, jumpers for kiddies.
0:30:54 > 0:30:56And she knew by then.
0:30:56 > 0:30:58She knew about him.
0:30:58 > 0:31:01Everything I'd been telling her was right and now I had proof.
0:31:01 > 0:31:05- 'He's already married!' - 'You're lying! You're lying.'
0:31:05 > 0:31:07I followed him! I asked their landlady!
0:31:07 > 0:31:09Mr and Mrs Vole!
0:31:09 > 0:31:12Are you saying you fought with your mistress about Leonard Vole?
0:31:12 > 0:31:14No! Never!
0:31:14 > 0:31:17I'd never raise my voice, let alone my hand to her. I know my place -
0:31:17 > 0:31:19unlike some.
0:31:22 > 0:31:25I stayed behind after the church meeting, packed up the boxes.
0:31:25 > 0:31:26Alone?
0:31:26 > 0:31:30The other ladies had family to get back to.
0:31:30 > 0:31:33And I'd left Mrs French with her supper on a tray -
0:31:33 > 0:31:36she wanted a quiet evening after all the upset.
0:31:37 > 0:31:40So she was on her own.
0:31:40 > 0:31:41With Mimi - the cat.
0:31:44 > 0:31:47I locked the church up and walked home.
0:32:01 > 0:32:02Madam?
0:32:06 > 0:32:08SCREAMS: Madam!
0:32:08 > 0:32:10Madam!
0:32:10 > 0:32:12Madam...
0:32:12 > 0:32:14MADAM!
0:32:18 > 0:32:20STATIC FROM RECORD PLAYER
0:32:22 > 0:32:25INAUDIBLE
0:32:29 > 0:32:34And Vole knew that Mrs French had made her will in his favour.
0:32:34 > 0:32:36You heard her tell him so.
0:32:36 > 0:32:40And now she knew he was living with this other woman
0:32:40 > 0:32:41as husband and wife.
0:32:41 > 0:32:43She must have said to him that was it -
0:32:43 > 0:32:46he'd been found out. No more money.
0:32:46 > 0:32:48And then he did that to her.
0:32:48 > 0:32:52Did he seduce Mrs French?
0:32:56 > 0:32:59MOANING
0:33:02 > 0:33:06GASPING, MOANING
0:33:14 > 0:33:20GASPING, MOANING
0:33:28 > 0:33:31He had a hold on her.
0:33:31 > 0:33:33I knew from the first moment he walked in.
0:33:33 > 0:33:35'Mr Vole's hat and coat, Janet.'
0:33:55 > 0:33:56You shouldn't watch.
0:33:59 > 0:34:02You don't have any say over me.
0:34:02 > 0:34:03She'll get bored of you.
0:34:06 > 0:34:08What if she gets bored of you first?
0:34:08 > 0:34:10Think about that.
0:34:13 > 0:34:15'A nasty piece of goods.'
0:34:15 > 0:34:16A wrong 'un. Trailing his stink.
0:34:18 > 0:34:20He got in between us.
0:34:20 > 0:34:21DOOR SLAMS
0:34:21 > 0:34:24Try not to be so vindictive.
0:34:24 > 0:34:26You don't want the jury to think you have some...
0:34:26 > 0:34:30vendetta against him. You need to be more impartial.
0:34:30 > 0:34:32I want them to know exactly what he's like!
0:34:32 > 0:34:33I want him to hang!
0:34:33 > 0:34:37Then we must choose your words carefully.
0:34:39 > 0:34:40Do you understand?
0:34:48 > 0:34:51I'll say it the way you tell me to say it.
0:34:51 > 0:34:53Anything to put that rope round his neck.
0:34:56 > 0:34:59DOG BARKS
0:35:03 > 0:35:05I'm sorry!
0:35:07 > 0:35:10- I'm so sorry! - That's enough of that.
0:35:10 > 0:35:11DOOR SLAMS
0:35:26 > 0:35:27DOG BARKS
0:35:27 > 0:35:30Please, I...
0:35:30 > 0:35:33I brought these cigarettes for him.
0:35:36 > 0:35:39He'll be glad he's seen you.
0:35:42 > 0:35:45Tell him...he's all I'm thinking about.
0:35:56 > 0:35:59£5 for your company...
0:35:59 > 0:36:01and she paid you other sums.
0:36:05 > 0:36:08But it wasn't just your company, was it?
0:36:11 > 0:36:16If you lie about this, the jury will wonder what else you're lying about.
0:36:20 > 0:36:22I don't want Romaine to know.
0:36:22 > 0:36:24She's guessed.
0:36:24 > 0:36:26But...
0:36:26 > 0:36:30she came to see you and bought these cigarettes.
0:36:38 > 0:36:41It wasn't the same, you know.
0:36:41 > 0:36:42With Emily.
0:36:44 > 0:36:46It wasn't like...being unfaithful.
0:36:46 > 0:36:47It wasn't love.
0:36:48 > 0:36:51- And you couldn't say no? - What would she have thought?
0:36:51 > 0:36:54Oh, it would have been over, wouldn't it?
0:36:54 > 0:36:56No more money. No more presents.
0:36:56 > 0:36:59- You sound like the police. - I sound like the prosecution.
0:36:59 > 0:37:01Because that's what they're going to say.
0:37:01 > 0:37:04That, er, you were doing very nicely out of it.
0:37:04 > 0:37:07That's why you didn't tell Mrs French about Romaine,
0:37:07 > 0:37:10because that would have been an end to it.
0:37:10 > 0:37:13End of your peachy life as a kept man,
0:37:13 > 0:37:15as a ponce, a leech.
0:37:15 > 0:37:19She made me eat out of her hand - like a dog.
0:37:19 > 0:37:22My peachy life?
0:37:22 > 0:37:24It was work, is what it was.
0:37:24 > 0:37:26So why did you keep going back?
0:37:31 > 0:37:32Janet.
0:37:34 > 0:37:36Miss McIntyre.
0:37:36 > 0:37:39She kept telling me that Emily would get bored,
0:37:39 > 0:37:40chuck me over,
0:37:40 > 0:37:45and I kept waiting for that to happen - the easy way out.
0:37:45 > 0:37:47No-one getting upset.
0:37:47 > 0:37:50If Emily wasn't upset and we parted friends
0:37:50 > 0:37:52then maybe she'd recommend me as a chauffeur
0:37:52 > 0:37:54or working with cars or something.
0:37:54 > 0:37:58But she never did chuck me over, so it just went on.
0:37:58 > 0:38:01- Did you get on with Miss McIntyre? - She couldn't stand me.
0:38:01 > 0:38:04- Why?- Because I'm common, Mr Mayhew.
0:38:09 > 0:38:11Why did you burn the shirt?
0:38:11 > 0:38:13It was ripped.
0:38:13 > 0:38:14It couldn't be mended.
0:38:14 > 0:38:17I put it in the fire - I didn't think twice about it.
0:38:17 > 0:38:20What did you tell Romaine about the money -
0:38:20 > 0:38:23where the money was coming from, the new clothes?
0:38:23 > 0:38:27I told her I got a job selling electric carpet sweepers.
0:38:27 > 0:38:29That I'd have to be away sometimes.
0:38:29 > 0:38:31So you lied.
0:38:32 > 0:38:34I hadn't really worked.
0:38:34 > 0:38:37Not steady - I couldn't settle to anything.
0:38:37 > 0:38:41Not since service. Not since it all being over and coming home.
0:38:42 > 0:38:44Romaine was paying for everything,
0:38:44 > 0:38:47so she was proud of me for doing so well with my job.
0:38:47 > 0:38:49And I liked her being proud of me.
0:38:53 > 0:38:55God, what have I done to her?
0:38:59 > 0:39:01How am I going to make it up to her?
0:39:05 > 0:39:07All I kept thinking was...
0:39:07 > 0:39:11play this right and you'll get a job driving cars.
0:39:13 > 0:39:16I learned engines in the Army. I'm good with them.
0:39:18 > 0:39:19That's all I wanted.
0:39:28 > 0:39:30My boy loved engines.
0:39:32 > 0:39:33Mad about them.
0:39:35 > 0:39:38Army taught him - like you.
0:39:43 > 0:39:45He didn't come home.
0:39:48 > 0:39:51Gone on the eve of his 17th birthday.
0:39:51 > 0:39:53Gas.
0:39:54 > 0:39:57HE WRITES
0:40:00 > 0:40:02We thought we'd get more, didn't we?
0:40:05 > 0:40:07Thought we'd all come home heroes.
0:40:10 > 0:40:13Live in a house with roses round the door.
0:40:14 > 0:40:17Three meals a day with extra gravy.
0:40:21 > 0:40:22Any job you want.
0:40:23 > 0:40:25Money falling out of your pockets.
0:40:28 > 0:40:31End up getting priced like a side of meat...
0:40:34 > 0:40:37..and going along with it to pay the rent.
0:40:47 > 0:40:49I never hurt Emily.
0:40:51 > 0:40:54And I swear I didn't know anything about the will.
0:40:57 > 0:40:59I believe you, Leonard.
0:41:02 > 0:41:03I believe you.
0:41:07 > 0:41:09HE COUGHS
0:41:13 > 0:41:16MAYHEW CONTINUES COUGHING
0:41:49 > 0:41:52COUGHING
0:41:58 > 0:42:02Young Mr Vole must be hung like a Clydesdale stallion.
0:42:04 > 0:42:08Never fails to amaze me how the ladies can utterly
0:42:08 > 0:42:12lose their damn minds if a man is even semi-adroit
0:42:12 > 0:42:15in the fucking department.
0:42:15 > 0:42:17MAYHEW COUGHING
0:42:17 > 0:42:20The maid loathes him. Jealous, probably.
0:42:20 > 0:42:24Well there's something about Janet McIntyre. Something not right.
0:42:24 > 0:42:27She's very possessive about Mrs French.
0:42:27 > 0:42:30"My lady," she kept saying.
0:42:30 > 0:42:31"She's mine."
0:42:31 > 0:42:35That's how servants speak. "My lady", "My gentleman."
0:42:35 > 0:42:40I never knew a valet or a lady's maid who wasn't rabidly possessive.
0:42:40 > 0:42:42But it could undermine her testimony.
0:42:42 > 0:42:45I'm never too keen on wrong-footing servants.
0:42:45 > 0:42:47- It makes us look like bullies. - MAYHEW COUGHING
0:42:47 > 0:42:52And if this wasn't already pretty bloody hopeless,
0:42:52 > 0:42:56the sole witness for the defence is an actress from Vienna.
0:42:58 > 0:43:01Romaine Heilger is not what you'd expect.
0:43:01 > 0:43:04When the court hears "actress", they'll think "whore".
0:43:06 > 0:43:08When they hear "Vienna"...
0:43:08 > 0:43:10Well, we all know what they'll think then.
0:43:11 > 0:43:14Miss Heilger will make an impressive witness.
0:43:14 > 0:43:15She's restrained.
0:43:15 > 0:43:17Composed. Dignified.
0:43:17 > 0:43:20Well, there's a first.
0:43:20 > 0:43:23And this revue she's in...
0:43:23 > 0:43:28What is it - all sauce and thighs and squealing?
0:43:28 > 0:43:30It's quite old-fashioned, actually.
0:43:30 > 0:43:32Songs. Dances.
0:43:32 > 0:43:34Amusing sketches.
0:43:34 > 0:43:36Would you let your wife see it?
0:43:37 > 0:43:38Yes.
0:43:38 > 0:43:40HE SCOFFS, MAYHEW COUGHS
0:43:40 > 0:43:44Isn't there something you can take for that? It's rather annoying.
0:43:44 > 0:43:46MAYHEW COUGHS
0:43:46 > 0:43:48I do apologise, Sir Charles.
0:43:48 > 0:43:49Gas damage - there's...
0:43:49 > 0:43:51nothing to be done about it.
0:43:51 > 0:43:52I see.
0:43:52 > 0:43:53Well, never mind.
0:43:55 > 0:43:56This isn't for me, Mayhew.
0:43:56 > 0:43:58MAYHEW COUGHS
0:44:02 > 0:44:08Mrs French's estate includes a cash balance of £185,000,
0:44:08 > 0:44:10a townhouse in Holland Park,
0:44:10 > 0:44:14furs, jewellery, art, antiques,
0:44:14 > 0:44:17a Hispano-Suiza motorcar,
0:44:17 > 0:44:20and stocks and shares in, amongst other things, sewing machines,
0:44:20 > 0:44:22telephones and mining.
0:44:24 > 0:44:28WOMAN SINGS, BAND PLAYS
0:44:33 > 0:44:37INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS
0:44:50 > 0:44:53Bernie! Oh, put it away!
0:45:56 > 0:46:00'SLOW MUSIC PLAYS'
0:46:06 > 0:46:10# Let me call you sweetheart
0:46:10 > 0:46:15# I'm in love with you
0:46:15 > 0:46:19# Let me hear you whisper
0:46:19 > 0:46:26# That you love me, too
0:46:26 > 0:46:31# Keep the love light glowing
0:46:31 > 0:46:39# In your eyes so true
0:46:40 > 0:46:45# Let me call you sweetheart
0:46:45 > 0:46:52# I'm in love with
0:46:53 > 0:46:58# You. #
0:47:01 > 0:47:05APPLAUSE
0:47:35 > 0:47:36Hm.
0:47:44 > 0:47:48FOOTSTEPS RETREAT
0:47:55 > 0:47:56Do you like it?
0:47:58 > 0:48:03People in the street are talking about you - about your case.
0:48:05 > 0:48:06In the shop, when I go in.
0:48:06 > 0:48:09They're all pointing bits out to me
0:48:09 > 0:48:11where your name's been written.
0:48:14 > 0:48:16They all want to know if he did it.
0:48:18 > 0:48:20Tell them no.
0:48:21 > 0:48:22I will.
0:48:27 > 0:48:29Pretty as a picture.
0:48:41 > 0:48:43HE KISSES, SHE MOANS
0:48:46 > 0:48:49People will hear - the neighbours!
0:48:49 > 0:48:52HE GRUNTS
0:48:57 > 0:49:01HE COUGHS
0:49:01 > 0:49:04HE CONTINUES COUGHING
0:49:06 > 0:49:07Sorry...
0:49:07 > 0:49:09I'm so...
0:49:09 > 0:49:12- I'm sorry.- It doesn't matter.
0:49:13 > 0:49:16HE COUGHS
0:49:16 > 0:49:18Doesn't matter.
0:49:36 > 0:49:38Court is in session.
0:49:38 > 0:49:41Justice Greville Parris presiding. All rise.
0:49:56 > 0:49:58Bring him up.
0:50:21 > 0:50:25Leonard Vole, you are charged with the murder of Mrs Emily French.
0:50:25 > 0:50:28How do you plead?
0:50:28 > 0:50:29- SOFTLY:- Not guilty.
0:50:29 > 0:50:30Speak up!
0:50:35 > 0:50:36- LOUDER:- Not guilty.
0:50:37 > 0:50:40I will hear opening statements.
0:50:40 > 0:50:42Sir Hugo Meredith for the Crown.
0:50:46 > 0:50:48To look at him, standing there,
0:50:48 > 0:50:52you'd think there was nothing to Leonard Vole, wouldn't you?
0:50:52 > 0:50:54Nothing to him at all.
0:50:54 > 0:50:57But Leonard Vole's a dissembler.
0:50:57 > 0:51:00A fraud. A thief. A liar.
0:51:00 > 0:51:03He lied to Mrs Emily French -
0:51:03 > 0:51:06a rich, indulgent, generous widow.
0:51:06 > 0:51:08A lonely woman,
0:51:08 > 0:51:12susceptible to his hollow charms.
0:51:12 > 0:51:14She was so besotted with him,
0:51:14 > 0:51:17she changed her will in his favour
0:51:17 > 0:51:20and told him.
0:51:20 > 0:51:23And when it all came crashing down,
0:51:23 > 0:51:28when Mrs French discovered the despicable truth, he killed her!
0:51:28 > 0:51:31He beat her to death!
0:51:31 > 0:51:34A defenceless woman in her own home.
0:51:34 > 0:51:38And then, he went home and he went to bed.
0:51:38 > 0:51:42When he was arrested, he was sleeping like a baby.
0:51:44 > 0:51:48This depraved abomination is a cold-blooded killer
0:51:48 > 0:51:51and only the harshest penalty will suffice.
0:51:55 > 0:51:57Sir Charles Carter KC for the defence.
0:52:00 > 0:52:05Gentlemen of the jury, Leonard Vole is guilty.
0:52:05 > 0:52:07He is guilty of lying.
0:52:08 > 0:52:11He is guilty of leading a double life.
0:52:11 > 0:52:14He is guilty of enjoying presents and gifts.
0:52:14 > 0:52:17He is guilty of lacking good judgment.
0:52:17 > 0:52:20But he is not guilty of murder.
0:52:21 > 0:52:25Leonard Vole did not kill Emily French. He can't have done -
0:52:25 > 0:52:26he wasn't there.
0:52:26 > 0:52:31And despite my learned friend's thrilling rhetorical bombast,
0:52:31 > 0:52:35it overlooks the basic law of physics -
0:52:35 > 0:52:38a man cannot be in two places at the same time.
0:52:38 > 0:52:40It's impossible.
0:52:40 > 0:52:44Leonard Vole was a foolish young man.
0:52:44 > 0:52:48He is most emphatically not a murderer.
0:52:48 > 0:52:52And you will find him innocent of the charge.
0:52:52 > 0:52:57I will hear witnesses for the Crown at ten o'clock tomorrow morning.
0:52:57 > 0:52:59Court adjourned.
0:52:59 > 0:53:00All rise.
0:53:03 > 0:53:05'You only have a few minutes.'
0:53:05 > 0:53:07I just want to see him.
0:53:10 > 0:53:13Well, we have to make sure nothing's said that leads the witness.
0:53:13 > 0:53:15MAYHEW COUGHS
0:53:18 > 0:53:20DOOR IS UNLOCKED
0:53:31 > 0:53:33Romaine, I...
0:53:35 > 0:53:36I don't know what to say.
0:53:39 > 0:53:41I don't know what to say to make this better.
0:53:44 > 0:53:45I've done...
0:53:52 > 0:53:53Leonard...
0:54:01 > 0:54:02Hang.
0:54:07 > 0:54:09Romaine!
0:54:09 > 0:54:13- Romaine!- The prosecution's witness now. You stay back.
0:54:13 > 0:54:14You stay right back.
0:54:14 > 0:54:17- Romaine!- Wait! Please wait.
0:54:17 > 0:54:19He wasn't there when he said he was. He came in later.
0:54:19 > 0:54:22Much later. And guess what?
0:54:22 > 0:54:23He was covered in blood.
0:54:23 > 0:54:26LEONARD SHOUTS
0:54:26 > 0:54:29Hey, Mayhew. Your boy?
0:54:30 > 0:54:32HE IMITATES CHOKING
0:54:32 > 0:54:35Why are you doing this?! Please!
0:54:58 > 0:55:00You shouldn't be here.
0:55:03 > 0:55:04Why?
0:55:04 > 0:55:06Because justice has to be served.
0:55:06 > 0:55:09You told me he was with you at 9.30.
0:55:09 > 0:55:11No - you said that, John.
0:55:11 > 0:55:14I just said he was with me, and he was.
0:55:15 > 0:55:17But not until much later.
0:55:17 > 0:55:19You're lying.
0:55:20 > 0:55:23- This is revenge. - I have to go to work.
0:55:23 > 0:55:24SHE GASPS
0:55:28 > 0:55:30You're hurting me, Mr Mayhew.
0:55:32 > 0:55:34You're sending him to the gallows...
0:55:35 > 0:55:38..and he loves you.
0:55:40 > 0:55:41Oh...
0:55:46 > 0:55:47You are a romantic.
0:55:50 > 0:55:53Of course you are.
0:55:53 > 0:55:55Weeping over a sentimental song.
0:55:55 > 0:55:58Crying and crying as though your heart would break.
0:56:00 > 0:56:02No, it's so much worse than that.
0:56:02 > 0:56:06You are crying and crying as if your broken heart...
0:56:06 > 0:56:07could heal.
0:56:12 > 0:56:14As though...
0:56:14 > 0:56:15there's hope.
0:56:17 > 0:56:19As if there really is such a thing as love.
0:56:34 > 0:56:37You have the look of a guilty man, John.
0:56:38 > 0:56:41And it makes you so very easy to hurt.
0:56:46 > 0:56:48Go home.
0:56:49 > 0:56:51Scandal of the decade!
0:56:52 > 0:56:55Showgirl turns the tables on her murdering lover!
0:56:58 > 0:57:01VENDORS SHOUT
0:57:12 > 0:57:14RUSTLING PAPERS
0:57:20 > 0:57:22HE COUGHS
0:57:31 > 0:57:33HE COUGHS
0:57:38 > 0:57:40HE COUGHS, CHOKES
0:57:44 > 0:57:46HE BREATHES HEAVILY
0:58:12 > 0:58:15HE COUGHS
0:58:22 > 0:58:25HE COUGHS
0:58:43 > 0:58:45SOFT MUSIC PLAYS