Pigeon Detectives Armchair Detectives

Elvis once said, "We can't go on together with suspicious minds."

He obviously never saw Armchair Detectives.

Welcome to the TV show with only one question -

whodunnit?

APPLAUSE

Hello, and welcome to Armchair Detectives.

These 15 murder-mystery enthusiasts

will compete to solve a fatal crime,

but will they catch the killer?

Our studio detectives watch

a fictional investigation play out in Mortcliff,

a village with a deadly history.

They'll watch the best cops in the business find the evidence

and track the prime suspects.

There they are, DI Knight, DC Slater,

and scene-of-crime officer Simmons.

Before we head to Mortcliff for the first time,

let's say hello to our armchair detectives.

-Hello, armchair Detectives! ALL:

-Hi!

I've spent a couple of weeks with them, we're all friends,

we're going on a caravan holiday later on.

Only three of you play each day,

so please take your armchairs, Krystyna, Dipak and Audrey. Come on!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Welcome, armchair detectives.

As you know by now, the detective guessing the killer correctly

will win one of these,

the hotly contested Golden Magnifying Glass trophy!

-AUDIENCE:

-Ooo!

-Doesn't get any less exciting, really, does it?

Now, you've all played before, but Dipak and Audrey are yet to win one.

What are you going to do to try and win one of those trophies today, Audrey?

I'm going to pay more attention to the visual clues,

as last time I was too busy writing too much.

So it's getting a good balance between taking notes and watching.

Dipak, what are you going to do differently?

OK, I'm going to stick to the facts.

I'm going to look for evidence,

logic and decision-making without random back stories.

You have a slightly frightening steely determination today, Dipak, I'll be honest!

"What are you going to do?" "Stick to the facts, Susan."

LAUGHTER

And, Krystyna, you have won a Golden Magnifying Glass trophy,

what are you going to do today to see if you can make it two in a row?

I'm going to stick to my formula.

Which is?

Don't make any notes, just pay attention to the screen.

OK, then, armchair detectives,

let's start as always with Round One - the Crime Scene.

Knight and Slater meet Simmons

and she puts the cat amongst the pigeons.

Notepads at the ready.

For the first time today, let's head over to Mortcliff.

The victim is 70-year-old Victor Bobsworth, sir.

Retired, and a pigeon enthusiast.

His body was found in the gardens by a Gus Dunham this afternoon.

-Hi.

-Ah! Anything out of the ordinary, Simmons?

There are some unique elements to this case.

Anyone have an issue with birds?

Of course not.

Perhaps best you didn't see the birds after all, Slater.

You'd like Vertigo, though.

We had to remove the body as it was covered in bird excrement.

From the way the body was positioned,

it looks like he fell from the roof, up there.

Time of death?

Based on his liver temperature, approximately 13:30.

This is Justin Porter, caretaker of the building.

He's going to take us to the roof, to where the pigeon coop is.

Detectives, we'll take the maintenance stairs. This way.

COOING

It's a nasty fall, but I'm not sure it'd be enough to actually kill him.

We'll know as soon as we've done the postmortem.

It's locked. How do pigeons escape a locked coop?

Still sharp, Slater, despite your phobia.

I don't have a phobia.

I suspect "fowl" play.

Ha! Fowl play! Really good!

DI Knight thinks he's a comedian.

AUDIENCE CHUCKLE

Shall we pick up on the oddities, other than the fact that

pigeons pooed on him afterwards?

The thing is, the pigeons could have done their bit

and somebody else who's au fait with pigeons

has got them back in the cage and locked them up.

The only other things that was up there, it was locked,

there was a brush, there was a timer

because the pigeon fanciers time the flights of their birds.

Yeah, they have the clocking thing which they put on the leg.

There was also a feed bucket that had a lot of feed missing,

-as if someone had used it.

-Yes. Yeah, yeah.

Let me tell you a bit more about the victim,

-see if that helps you out, as well.

-OK.

So today, we're investigating the death of Victor Bobsworth.

Victor was 70 years old and a pigeon racer.

He had been a greengrocer for 30 years and was widowed.

The cause of death is a suspected fall from height,

but this is still under investigation.

And the time of death is approximately 1:30pm.

-Obviously a massive pigeon enthusiast, to be racing them, so...

-Yep.

..he's part of some club or society for pigeons, that kind of thing.

It's also expensive, racing pigeons,

and he's a retired greengrocer, isn't he? So, how is he funding that?

Well, he could have made quite a bit of money in his business,

-he could have sold the shop.

-Or sold his business for money.

And that's been his little pension fund for his pigeons.

So the suspect list so far is...

Justin Porter, who's the caretaker.

He took them up the back steps,

so, obviously, there's access to the roof up the back steps.

-And that's a bit...

-Well noted, Audrey. Mm-hm.

So he'll have keys to a lot of things, access to a lot of areas.

-Yeah.

-And probably knows patterns of people, as well,

-if he's looking after the building.

-Mm.

OK, armchair detectives, lots of questions,

let's see if we can get a bit further forward in the investigation

because here's the first bit of evidence to help you out.

It is a layout of the crime scene.

There's an exit at the back of the building.

I thought he said there was an exit at the back. "I'll take you up the back stairs".

Does it go through the building and up to the front, then, the stairs?

Yeah, so we've two ways into the building -

the ground-floor front entrance, the back entrance,

which is probably what the caretaker uses.

-Is it, maybe, like, a fire escape type of thing?

-Yeah.

Because, to me, that looks like they've gone into a building,

then up some stairs and out. That's like a sort of hatch thing.

Let's have a look at the photographs, as well.

Talk me through what you can see there.

So in the top photograph, even though the padlock's been put back on,

someone's forgot to latch it.

-To lock... To lock it, yes...

-The bolt's not bolted.

So maybe someone was in a hurry and they just forgot the latch.

-If you owned those pigeons, every day, you'd have a kind of routine of latching it, maybe.

-Yeah.

So remember all of that information, it may come in useful later on.

But let's move on to Round Two - Last Movements.

We'll meet Victor Bobsworth prior to his tragic murder.

Notepads at the ready, let's head back to Mortcliff.

Thanks, old chap.

Henry and I will be releasing them in an hour or so.

-Could you stand by on the roof from about 12:40?

-Of course.

I'm hoping the first bird to arrive home will be Homer.

Now, you know what he looks like?

Sure thing. Thanks to the mugshot, I'll not miss him.

Thank you, Justin. My life would be a lot harder without you.

What is that? Is that Gus Dunham? I'll take that.

He wishes me gone. I know that for sure.

Gus is just grumpy.

Understandably, after all the hours he puts into saving people's lives.

It's not personal, it's just chatter.

"Never trust anyone who threatens to hurt animals", my father used to say.

I've brought my timer just in case.

No offence, old chap, but these are said to be much more reliable.

Expensive...but very accurate.

The club are insisting we all use them from now on.

You don't mind, do you?

Not in the least. Rules are rules.

And I'm the first to admit that Homer's sudden and excessive speed appears odd.

Fine.

Hopefully, this will clear things up once and for all.

You have to admit, MY birds

have been ahead throughout the league.

I've never denied it.

-It's not personal.

-Of course not.

My son's standing by at home.

So is the caretaker at my building.

Godspeed, Gloriana.

Bon voyage, Homer.

Three, two, one...

PHONE RINGS

Hello?

Ah, Justin.

Right. And you're sure it's Homer?

Thank you very much!

Homer arrived at 12:45 precisely.

PHONE RINGS

Hello, son.

Thank you very much.

Well?

Gloriana arrived at 12:47.

That's two minutes after Homer.

That's a much narrower margin than ten minutes!

Well, Homer is a narrow winner, but a winner nonetheless.

All this proves is that there's been monkey business going on with that!

I was the first to admit that my timer might have been faulty, Henry,

there's no need to be churlish.

I may just be going home on Saturday

with the Mortcliff Pigeon Championship Cup after all.

VICTOR CHUCKLES

The Mortcliff Pigeon Champion Cup.

Now we're into interesting, interesting territory.

The parcel that arrived looked suspiciously like

-a bird-feed container, didn't it?

-It looked like a tub of bird feed.

Henry mentioned that...

Homer looked...

Which was Victor's bird.

..looked suspiciously faster,

so I wonder if the caretaker

had put something in the bird feed

-to enhance...

-Right, yeah.

-..Homer's capabilities.

This is blowing my mind, Audrey.

Why do they not have urine tests for pigeons? That's what I want to know.

That might explain the laxative effect afterwards.

Yeah, the excess pooping.

LAUGHTER

Let's turn to the Suspects Board,

and there's two new suspects to add.

Henry Campbell, pigeon enthusiast,

and Gus Dunham,

who we've not met yet.

Henry's...

He looks as if he's a bit pedantic.

He looks a bit grumpy.

He's keeping a close eye on Victor.

He knows that he's not playing fair.

Well, let's have a look at some evidence,

see if this gets you further forward.

We have the caretaker's set of keys

or the parcel addressed to Gus Dunham.

And finally, the pigeon-timing mechanism.

What would you like to see?

Personally, the parcel for Gus.

I kind of want to go for Justin's keys.

-Take a vote, what would you like to see?

-You have the deciding vote.

-I would absolutely like to see what was in that parcel.

-Parcel?

-Parcel.

-Great. So, this is the parcel for Gus Dunham.

It's a parcel addressed to Gus Dunham

and it contains rat poison.

Nothing suspicious there at all.

Let's move on. LAUGHTER

No, what are you thinking?

We haven't seen any dead pigeons yet

so we've got no evidence to say that it has been used.

But the thing is,

IF Gus killed him, right...?

Because they had an argument,

a fight, because the pigeons...

..had pooped and are all lying dead,

but Gus might have got rid of the dead pigeons.

Cos all you see is the poop.

As much as I love that, I promised not to go down specul...

That is really speculative

cos who would clean up all those pigeons?

-There'd be all sorts going on.

-Krystyna, what are you thinking?

It says, "Delivered, scanned."

I know that, with couriers, they have to deliver it to...

That is... That is classified as poison, so you'd have to be...

..given to it, and Justin took it,

which means we don't actually know

if it actually physically went to Gus or whether Justin had it.

OK, guys, it's time for you to pick your Prime Suspect.

Write it down now.

Write it down at home as well.

Who do you think it is?

Krystyna, who's your Prime Suspect?

Well, at the moment, it's Justin.

Justin.

And tell me for why.

The only thing I've got in my head that Justin might have done

was poisoned him with rat poison.

-I'd want to see the forensics of the body.

-OK.

Dipak, who's your Prime Suspect?

OK, so I also have gone for Justin.

-Why?

-It's just... It's just that...

..he's got the means to do it.

Audrey, who do you think it is?

Well, at the moment, I know we've not met him, but I think Gus.

-On the premise that he lives in the building...

-Yes.

-..he's been referred to as being grumpy...

-Yes.

..and the rat poison was addressed to him.

So, the Prime Suspects just now - we have...

Krystyna's going for Justin,

Dipak's going for Justin, as well,

and Audrey is going for the as-yet mysterious Gus.

So, it's on to Round Three - the Police Interviews.

As Knight and Slater pull in Justin, Gus and Henry for questioning,

Simmons has made an important discovery from the crime scene.

Notepads at the ready,

it's off to Mortcliff Police Station.

Just to let you know we found bird seed under Victor's shirt.

Also both his legs were fractured.

Caused by the fall?

Most definitely.

Although the cause of death was a heavy blow to the ribcage

which broke all his ribs,

causing fatal punctures to his lungs.

Hmm. Was there anything near the body that could have crushed it?

Nothing, which means a heavy object was pushed over the edge,

landed on the victim and then was removed.

Wow, someone really wanted him dead.

Victor headed out for a training test

to run his pigeons against Henry's

at about...

..quarter to 12.

He came back about quarter past one.

That was the last time I saw him.

And what were you doing while Victor was away?

I was at the front desk, mostly.

I took a parcel up to Gus.

He's working nights, so he didn't answer.

I left it outside his door.

Victor asked me to go up to the coop about 12.40

to see what time Homer arrived back at.

And what time did he arrive back?

12.45.

Victor was very pleased.

Why do you think that was?

He was angry that Henry seemed to think he was cheating.

This proved that he wasn't,

that Homer was faster than Henry's top bird,

which was good news

because it meant that Homer had a real chance

of winning the championship on Saturday.

The championship?

The Mortcliff Pigeon Championship.

When Homer arrived, I went back downstairs and went to the spa.

You have a spa?

Yes.

I don't have hot water at the minute

so I've been taking advantage.

Was the coop locked or unlocked when you left?

Unlocked.

I didn't want to hang around

to wait for all the other birds to come home -

they make a right mess.

Always made Gus angry.

Victor said he threatened to harm the birds once.

So, you weren't on the roof when Victor returned?

I was in my own flat.

Can anyone confirm that?

Yes, but it's delicate.

You were with someone you shouldn't be?

No, it's fine for me, but...

..I was on the phone with Janice Honey.

And you were discussing...?

I see.

I'm a surgeon at Mortcliff Hospital.

I'm often on call for night duty.

I usually work shifts but yesterday was my day off.

I was asleep until my alarm went off.

Round about two o'clock.

Can anyone confirm that?

I was hot when I woke up...

..so I went outside and that's when I saw the body.

Did you see or hear anything suspicious?

I usually sleep with ear plugs,

because of the damn birds.

You don't like the birds much?

They're dirty,

noisy and messy.

What's to like?

They're an inconvenience

and they were ruining my quality of life.

"Were"?

Well, I assume they won't be staying.

I despise the birds

but old Victor was a gent.

You don't think that...

Do you sleep with that on?

Yes.

In fact,

perhaps you should check it out.

But I want it back, though.

It was a gift from my brother in New York.

Nice bloke, Victor.

I'm not one to speak ill of the dead

but...

..as nice as he was,

the man was an out-and-out cheat and a liar.

Sorry, how do you cheat at pigeon racing?

He had this old mechanical timer

that you adjust with a key.

He maintained that Homer was ten minutes faster than Gloriana.

Ten minutes is a huge margin.

Yesterday,

Homer beat Gloriana

by only two minutes.

Two birds flying exactly the same distance,

because we're both at the same midpoint from our houses,

and Homer, who has consistently won by a "ten minute" margin

for the last three weeks,

suddenly wins by two minutes.

Come on, gentlemen.

Can you tell me more about these pigeons?

Homer and Gloriana are purebred Speckled Jims.

And how much are birds like this worth?

You can reach up to 50K

with a winning bird on the Chinese market.

They are highly sought after.

Sorry, £50,000 for a bird?

Not just any bird.

Gloriana is my most prized possession.

50K for a pigeon?!

LAUGHTER

There's loads in my garden.

I'm a millionaire!

LAUGHTER

Armchair Detectives,

what did we find out in that film?

That...

..Homer was two minutes instead of ten,

which leads me to believe it wasn't Homer,

and I think Homer's probably been sold by Justin,

unscrupulously, for 50 grand.

I'm just speculating here.

Let me bring up the suspects board while we're talking

just so we can talk through what we know now.

We have Gus Dunham, who we now know what he looks like and what he does.

He is indeed a surgeon.

I'm beginning to go along the lines

that maybe Victor is a nice guy,

maybe he's not done it.

I'm maybe starting to think that maybe Justin's interfering

cos he's the one that's clocking him in when he comes back.

For the three previous times that the birds raced,

there was a ten-minute difference between the birds.

Now, all of a sudden, there's a two-minute difference.

-So, something's going on...

-What you're saying there, Audrey,

is you think Victor maybe, by being a nice guy, isn't the criminal,

-hasn't committed the fraud. He doesn't know what's happening.

-Yes.

All right, Armchair Detectives,

it's time to pick a piece of evidence.

You can have...

..either the caretaker's set of keys,

the pigeon-timing mechanism

or a new piece of evidence,

which is Gus' fitness tracker data.

What would you like to see?

If he's been asleep,

he's been on nights,

his alarm woke him up at two o'clock

so he's not really going to have been doing much

in his fitness tracker, is he?

No, but it'll log whether he was sleeping or not asleep.

Does it do that? I don't know the intricacies.

Some of them can log your heartbeat so it tells you.

-Ahh!

-I was going to say, it does your heartbeat, doesn't it, as well.

Ah, right. Well, if it does that, then it'll let us know...

-If he's telling the truth.

-..if he was up before two o'clock.

So, what would you like to see?

Fitness tracker log.

I'm happy with fitness tracker log, without a doubt.

-Krystyna, are you happy?

-I'm happy with that, too, yeah.

Fitness tracker log. Let's have a look at it.

You can see there, light moderate and intense exercise...

-I thought he said...

-He was up and about!

He was asleep until two, wasn't he, allegedly?

He said he slept till two.

-So, to me, he was up...

-And it's intense.

He's either had an extremely horrible nightmare

between one and two...

That's one heck of a nightmare, Audrey.

Absolutely.

He said he was up at two.

-Him running up the stairs and down.

-Yeah.

The only thing, trying to not assume, is that,

because he was active, it's an hour.

I'm not sure if this murder took an hour of consistent activity as well.

Well, Armchair Detectives,

I have to stop your speculation just now

because it is my favourite time -

Prime Suspect time.

Pens at the ready.

Who is your Prime Suspect?

Write it down now.

Notepads down, please, Armchair Detectives.

Krystyna, last time, your Prime Suspect was Justin.

Have you stuck with Justin or have you changed your mind?

Judging on that log, I've gone for Gus.

I just want to know why he had such cardiovascular...

All right, he may have run around the grounds

but he could easily have run up and down the stairs several times

-to do things.

-Dipak, last time, your Prime Suspect was Justin.

Have you stuck with Justin?

-I have stuck with Justin.

-Why?

-He's still got the means.

-Yes.

I'm not saying I'm happy but

-there's a scale and he's at the top of it at the moment...

-Of course.

..but there's other things to come yet.

Audrey, last time, you went for Gus.

Yeah. I'm sticking with Gus.

-Sticking with Gus?

-Yeah. Two reasons.

First of all, if he's pushed him off and then,

when he's fallen, he's shattered his legs.

He's realised that he's not dead.

I think because Simmons said there was bird seed on Victor's jacket,

I think he's maybe picked the brush up,

run down the stairs again

and, being a doctor, he would know that, if he broke his ribs,

the ribs could pierce his heart and kill him instantly

so that would be a good way of finishing him off.

Oh, Audrey, you say such things with such a smile.

"I think he crushed his ribs and it went through his heart."

LAUGHTER

So, Armchair Detectives, to summarise -

Prime Suspects just now,

Krystyna has gone for Gus,

Dipak has gone for Justin

and Audrey has gone for Gus.

Well, let's go to Round Four.

Dig Deeper.

Notepads at the ready,

we're off to see what Victor was up to at his pigeon coop

the day before the murder.

Your parcel's arrived. Do you need any help?

Oh, no, no, no, no. Thanks. No, no.

The lids are always a bit tight when they first arrive.

Now, I may be old, but I've still got the knack.

Watch.

Hey-hey!

Ah, thank you.

Excellent.

That's like Christmas.

It's my new electronic timer.

Henry has been hinting

that he doesn't trust my old one

and the club are now insisting

that we use these digital ones.

Not surprised, really,

because my Homer is currently running two minutes ahead

of his prestigious Gloriana,

which means we may win the championship on Saturday.

That is fantastic news.

Isn't it just?

Just pop that down for me, could you? Thanks.

Right.

Ah, that's it.

There we go.

Thanks very much, Justin.

You stay away from me, you psychopath.

You have a cheek calling me names, Victor.

I've been more than tolerant with your damn birds.

Oh, don't pretend you like them.

Are you kidding? I loathe them.

The noise, the smell.

I look at the garden, it's a trash heap.

You're lucky I'm not from pest control.

Funny, I didn't think we had rats.

I'll come and clean it up, sir.

Why should you?

It's his responsibility.

I'm not a man who shirks responsibility.

No, just human needs.

Didn't you swear an oath to protect life at any cost?

Human life only.

That man is appalling.

Don't worry, Victor, I'll see to it.

No point in making him even more angry.

PHONE VIBRATES

Hmm!

THEY CHUCKLE

Armchair Detectives, what did you see in that film?

-This is the day before...

-Yes.

..and the surgeon has the rat poison

or they're all saying that it's the surgeon's rat poison.

-Why would he get a subsequent...

-Another one.

..delivery the next day of a huge, big thing?

Of the same thing.

Because you only need a small amount of poison to kill the rats,

so why get another huge tub the day after?

Delivered the next day?

I'm loving this, Audrey. I'm loving it.

I'm loving everything that you're doing.

It's just confusing me, completely.

-Sorry.

-Sorry.

-No, no, no.

It's great because there's...

You're right, I think, that the package...

-It was delivered the day he died, yes.

-The day he died.

Why...?

So, Suspects Board, let's just talk around the suspects.

Justin, Henry and Gus.

It's...

I'm struggling with motive here.

-That's what keeps pulling me back to Justin.

-Definitely.

If Gus...

Gus is a surgeon so, financially,

you hope that pays enough for now.

-Yeah.

-He's bypassed the pigeons with his ear plugs.

He's... You know, if he was going to commit a murder,

you'd hope it would be more elaborate

than just chucking a bucket on somebody and crushing their ribs,

and taking the chance that that might puncture their...

heart or lungs cos that's not very surgical precision.

I think trying to narrow down

on what the actual motive is

is useful, and... to help you out,

-let's go to another evidence pick.

-Hmm.

-OK.

-OK.

Choose one of these three pieces of evidence.

The caretaker's set of keys,

the pigeon-timing mechanism

and the new item is the call log from Justin's phone.

ALL: Oh!

-I haven't even finished...

-Justin...

-Justin's...

..the sentence. THEY LAUGH

I was too excited.

"The call log from..." "Oh, yes, that's the one."

Which one would you like, Armchair Detectives?

-I'd like...

-I'd like...

-..Justin's phone.

I'd like Justin's phone.

So, you want to see the call log of Justin's phone.

Three missed calls from Jaws...

and three missed calls...

..from another number.

-We don't know who Jaws is at the moment...

-No.

..but if you look at the call,

it's got the +86 now.

That's usually an international.

-I don't know where it's area code for.

-It's China.

-Is it?

-I've memorised every single plus number.

-Have you?

-No, I haven't, but it's...

It's the only other foreign country that's been mentioned.

It's definitely that,

and he's talking to somebody about the pigeon, selling it abroad maybe.

-Yeah.

-OK. Armchair Detectives,

have any of you changed your mind about your Prime Suspect?

It is time to lock it in.

Time's up, Armchair Detectives.

Notepads down.

-So, Krystyna, last time, your Prime Suspect was Gus.

-Mm-hmm.

Have you changed your mind?

Yes.

-Who is it this time?

-I've done a backpedal to Justin.

-To Justin?

-Mm-hmm.

-And why Justin?

I just think it's something to do with the pigeons.

He's making money off them.

Interesting.

-Dipak, last time you went for Justin.

-Yep.

-Have you changed your mind?

-I have not changed my mind.

-Stuck with Justin?

-Yep.

-All the way?

-Just for now,

but things are creeping up, so it's...

It's just no more evidence the other way

but there's something I'm kind of scratching my head about.

I'm interested more about his keys.

-We keep overlooking them...

-Yeah, we do keep overlooking them.

..and maybe something's missing from his keys

that might implicate somebody else.

Audrey, last time, you went for Gus.

Well, at the moment,

-I've jumped ship...

-Mm-hmm.

..to Justin.

If you're playing Armchair Detective bingo,

have a sip of tea. LAUGHTER

We've got a full house of suspects.

The reason I've jumped ship

is because of the phone.

That's a foreign number,

and it goes together with selling the birds abroad,

making money, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

So, Armchair Detectives,

Prime Suspects.

All of them have gone for Justin.

Well, it's Round Five now -

the Final Clues.

We're racing towards closing this case like one of Victor's pigeons.

Notepads at the ready

as Knight and Slater

head to the Mortcliff Apartments.

Hello, detectives.

Ah, Justin, can we gain access to the roof?

We need another look in the coop.

Henry's up there right now.

Thank you.

Henry.

Hello.

Detective.

Slater?

Just double checking the exterior, sir,

making sure nothing fell off over the roof.

HE INHALES SHARPLY

Look here, one of your chaps let me have Victor's keys.

It's all right, your alibi checks out.

You live an hour away from here, so you couldn't have killed Victor.

That and the fact that several witnesses saw you shopping

-at the time of his death.

-I told you, sir.

Yes.

Notice anything odd?

The birds aren't eating...

..and Homer's missing.

Anything wrong with the lock when you arrived?

How's the exterior?

Yeah, fine, sir.

For Pete's sake, I thought this racket would have stopped by now.

I'll throttle whoever it is.

Oh, hello, Mr Dunham.

Sorry.

I didn't realise it was you, officer.

Did we disturb you?

I only got home at ten o'clock this morning.

I have to head back later.

Yeah, we won't be long.

Quite the temper on him.

Yeah.

Is no-one going to pick up that tub of rat poison?

Yeah.

That's been there for ages.

That is against health and safety, I swear.

It is, Krystyna.

I am disgusted.

I will be reporting them immediately to Mortcliff Health and Safety.

-Absolutely.

-Audrey.

First of all, when he knocked over that rat poison,

it was a full tub,

so that tub that was there the day before the guy died was a full tub,

so we know that whatever arrived,

that Justin took delivery of,

might not have been rat poison on the inside.

It said it on the label but it might not have been.

That's exactly what I was going to say -

I wondered if it had been swapped.

You have two pieces of evidence left to choose from.

You'll only see one before you make your final accusation.

Which one do you want to see?

Justin's keys or the pigeon-timing mechanism?

-I think we'll go with Justin's keys.

-Yeah.

-I know Dipak's wanted that...

-That's what you wanted.

-Yeah.

-That's what you said you were potentially missing.

-Just curious.

-Yeah.

-Yeah. I'd like to see Justin's keys.

-Justin's keys?

-Yeah.

OK, let's take a look at Justin's keys.

These are the caretaker's set of keys that he uses when working

and to get access around the Mortcliff apartments.

There's two mortise locks.

So, one mortise lock key and two Yale keys.

So, they'll be for the outside door,

-possibly his flat door.

-Yeah.

But I don't see the key to the...

-Padlock.

-..padlock.

The one with the S on it looks like a radiator-type key.

Does look like a radiator key, yeah.

I think that...

..that's the kind of key you use for a pigeon-timer mechanism.

-Would you?

-Oh, is it?

Didn't...? He said something, didn't he, about...?

I vaguely remember him saying something about the key.

I don't think there was a padlock key.

It was something to do with, he'd left it unlocked or something,

so somebody may have...

He said he left the padlock unlocked because...

..after he left, waiting for the rest of the pigeons.

-Yeah, that's right, yeah.

-So, that would assume the door was open,

so whoever did it wasn't aware

and they locked that padlock since the crime happened.

So, he's saying that he left it unlocked.

When we first saw the crime scene,

-that padlock was shut...

-Was locked.

-Was shut.

-Yes.

-..and the latch was open.

-Yes.

And there are just a few birds in there.

We didn't get an exact number.

But there was no key for that padlock on there

cos that type of padlock, it's just a small...

-Yeah, I know, I've got one at home.

-A smallish key.

-So, there's not a padlock key on there.

-Suspects.

-Mm-hmm.

Have we learnt anything that rules in or rules out suspects?

-Yes.

-Yes.

-Dipak.

-Well, our crime...

..crime team there said that Henry had a watertight alibi.

-OK. So Henry's out?

-Henry's out, yeah.

We are faced...

I think for the first time in Armchair Detectives,

-with a 50/50.

-Right, well, we know...

For the Gus camp,

we know that he lied when he said he was asleep and he woke up at two

because we saw his heartrate,

but what else has he to...gain?

I mean,

as you said, he earns a lot of money, he has nothing...

He doesn't like pigeons

and the mess that they make

so he's got nothing else to gain

apart from, if he gets rid of Victor,

the pigeons will go

and then he won't have any more smelly, thingummy problems.

-He assumes that.

-Yeah. But I doubt he would...

But he risks going to prison just for that?

-I don't think he will.

-I don't think so.

-I just want...

I want one of you guys to say, "We've missed something,

-"there's a massive motive for Gus."

-Don't talk about it any more.

-All right.

-Oh.

-Is there any way, by me continuing talking, I can delay you...

-No.

..so that I can think a little bit?

-So...

-Oh, please, please, please.

Now it's accusation time.

Guess correctly and you'll win a prized Golden Magnifying Glass.

AUDIENCE: Ooh!

Write down who you're accusing.

Justin, Henry, Gus.

It's time to answer the only question that matters.

Whodunnit?

I just want to say hello to the Skipton Knitting Circle

who are also playing along today.

Ladies...and gents.

Notepads away, Armchair Detectives.

Let's find out who you are accusing.

Krystyna, who have you accused?

I've done a volte-face. Justin.

Justin.

For all the reasons you've said before?

Yes.

Dipak, who have you gone for?

I have gone for the person who committed the crime...

-Yes.

-..and his name is Justin.

Justin.

He wants that Golden Magnifying Glass trophy

like you wouldn't believe.

Audrey.

Yes, I've gone for Justin, as well.

It's a full house, ladies and gentlemen.

All three of them have gone for Justin.

I can reveal that I have not gone for Justin.

I have gone for Gus.

AUDIENCE: Ooh!

I'm putting it out there, ladies and gentlemen.

APPLAUSE

I am tense.

I am tense.

I'm going to tell you the final piece of evidence that was left.

Let's have a look.

It's the pigeon-timing mechanism.

Here, we have Victor's old-fashioned key-operated timer

he used to race his birds.

Vrrr!

Oh, no!

-The lock.

-The key.

Yep.

Where else have we seen that key?

She said, answering her own question.

Yeah, all right. Yeah, OK.

It doesn't mean anything. Yes, Dipak, yes.

Let's just move this on to the end.

Well, what really happened in today's story,

the Pigeon Detectives?

Who killed Victor Bobsworth?

Let's find out...

whodunnit.

Sir.

Data from Gus' fitness tracker..

It's actually set for standard eastern time,

New York time zone,

which means 13:30 our time

is actually 08.30 on the fitness tracker.

Hmm.

No movement.

So, either he took it off

or he was sleeping, as he told us.

Right.

See, Justin maintains

that he was speaking to Janice Honey

during the time of Victor's death.

His phone records show they made a series of calls

lasting no longer than a couple of minutes.

Do we know who this "Janice Honey" is yet?

No, not yet.

Still waiting on her file from records.

Not someone to mess about with, apparently.

Hmm.

PHONE RINGS

DI Knight.

Yes.

I see.

Well, thank you very much.

What's this all about?

I found Homer...

..you'll be glad to know.

Poor bird was at the live animal section of airport customs...

..bound for China.

What's that got to do with me?

Well, you dropped him off...

..after someone from the International Bank of China

deposited £50,000 into your current account, that is.

What?

Janice Honey is a loan shark

known as "Jaws"

as she likes to have her clients bitten if they miss a payment.

We saw the final-notice letters

addressed to you yesterday.

OK, I stole Homer,

I admit it.

I owe Janice loads of money.

She kept harassing me.

But there's no way that I killed Victor.

As the building's caretaker,

you have access to the roof

where Victor was allowed to keep his pigeons.

Realising that some prized pigeons

can go for tens of thousands of pounds,

you decided to increase the value of Victor's pigeons

by fiddling with the mechanical clock timer

used to time the pigeons.

By making the timer run fast,

Victor's pigeons would appear to arrive quicker

than they actually do,

helping Victor in the club's racing league

and, subsequently, increasing the value of his pigeons.

Your phone records show quite a few +86 calls.

The international dialling code for China.

There is a HUGE demand for these birds there.

Whilst Victor is away for the training run,

you decide to steal Homer as soon as he arrives home.

But Victor arrives back

and realises what you're doing.

Victor is angry

and attacks you.

Forensics are just confirming the DNA

from the skin they found underneath his nails.

You pushed him off the roof of the building

onto the penthouse buildings

one floor below, fracturing his legs.

The fall only dazes Victor, however,

so you panic and look for the nearest heavy object -

which is a barrel full of seed.

You push the barrel over on its side

and roll it over the edge of the roof, killing Victor.

Using the keys to the maintenance stairwell,

you go to Gus' garden and remove the barrel,

but it's too heavy.

So you spill the seed.

This attracts all the pigeons

and explains why the pigeons

weren't hungry the following day.

You didn't have time to get the birds back in the coop

so you locked it, despite how many birds were inside.

Then you took Homer in preparation for his sale.

I want to see my lawyer.

LAUGHTER

I refuse to accept that.

I refuse to accept that.

Well done, Armchair Detectives.

You picked up on so many of the clues there.

It was exceptional detective work. It really was.

Did you genuinely know that was the prefix for China?

-Shall I be honest?

-Yeah.

A very close family member was born in China

and I know that 86 is China.

Well, well done, Armchair Detectives.

You all caught today's killer.

Audrey and Dipak,

you've won your first Gold Magnifying Glass.

Krystyna, it's your second. Well done.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Well done, you two. Well done.

Armchair Detectives,

hands up how many of you guessed that one correctly.

Well, that's all from Armchair Detectives.

Come back next week,

where Knight and Slater put their thinking caps on

as they head back to school.

And remember...

..no-one gets away with murder in Mortcliff.

Goodbye.

Well done. Well done. Well done.