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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:21,260 --> 00:00:25,700 Vater. Mein Vater, bist du an Bord? 2 00:00:27,980 --> 00:00:30,060 Vater, bist du hier? 3 00:00:30,060 --> 00:00:32,340 Vater. 4 00:00:32,340 --> 00:00:34,180 Vater! 5 00:00:36,060 --> 00:00:39,620 Bloody hell... Bloody, bloody hell! 6 00:00:52,980 --> 00:00:55,540 The doctor says he won't come until he has a body, sir. 7 00:00:55,540 --> 00:00:58,380 What? What, he thinks it's just an eyeball down there? 8 00:00:58,380 --> 00:01:00,780 Somebody leaned over the quay and it dropped out? 9 00:01:00,780 --> 00:01:03,620 He says he needs a body, sir. 10 00:01:03,620 --> 00:01:04,860 Unbelievable. 11 00:01:04,860 --> 00:01:10,220 I've got something here. Right here, Sarge. Sarge! Right, good. 12 00:01:10,220 --> 00:01:11,940 Tell him we've got one. 13 00:01:14,700 --> 00:01:16,780 Shouldn't we call out Chief Inspector Gently? 14 00:01:16,780 --> 00:01:19,980 No, no. He's on leave. Right. 15 00:01:19,980 --> 00:01:22,260 Go on, Doctor. 16 00:01:42,260 --> 00:01:44,100 Please let me through. Stand back. 17 00:01:44,100 --> 00:01:47,060 But then I need to talk to whoever is in charge. 18 00:01:47,060 --> 00:01:50,860 Well, who is in charge? It's all right, I'm in charge. How can I help? 19 00:01:50,860 --> 00:01:53,740 I am missing my father since last night. OK, right. 20 00:01:53,740 --> 00:01:59,740 Since we are to come here, to meet and go on our boat and I am hearing now there is a body in the water! 21 00:01:59,740 --> 00:02:01,580 Er, yeah. Can I take your name please, sir? 22 00:02:01,580 --> 00:02:04,340 Wilhelm Schmeikel...and my father is Gunter Schmeikel. 23 00:02:04,340 --> 00:02:05,860 Gunter Schmeikel. 24 00:02:05,860 --> 00:02:08,940 I'm Detective Sergeant John Bacchus. 25 00:02:08,940 --> 00:02:12,180 Now, is that your boat over there, sir? Please. 26 00:02:12,180 --> 00:02:15,220 I have no need to talk to you... I wish to speak to the commanding officer. 27 00:02:15,220 --> 00:02:20,820 I am in charge, Mr Schmeikel. You? Yeah. No. A mere sergeant? 28 00:02:20,820 --> 00:02:23,020 Detective sergeant, actually. 29 00:02:23,020 --> 00:02:25,220 No, no no...you do not understand. 30 00:02:25,220 --> 00:02:29,140 My father is missing. He's an important man, very important. Yeah. We'll try our best. 31 00:02:29,140 --> 00:02:36,460 No, no. That's not good enough. It's unacceptable... Wilhelm! Das ist Gunter. 32 00:02:36,460 --> 00:02:41,300 Sir. Sir, sir. Please, I need to... Excuse me, sorry, pet. 33 00:02:41,300 --> 00:02:43,380 Can you just tell me the man that's been recovered... 34 00:02:43,380 --> 00:02:47,220 Is my father-in-law... It's Wilhelm's father... 35 00:02:47,220 --> 00:02:50,540 Gunter Schmeikel! Gunter Schmeikel. 36 00:02:54,700 --> 00:02:56,700 Why didn't you call me? 37 00:02:56,700 --> 00:03:00,100 Because 30 seconds ago it was just an unidentified eyeball. 38 00:03:00,100 --> 00:03:02,220 I thought you were on leave? 39 00:03:02,220 --> 00:03:05,820 Not now, I'm not. Right. Right. 40 00:03:05,820 --> 00:03:07,900 Is there anything I can do, then? 41 00:03:07,900 --> 00:03:10,060 Get you a cup of tea, perhaps? 42 00:03:10,060 --> 00:03:13,180 No, thanks. Look at the body. 43 00:03:13,180 --> 00:03:16,700 Well, the eyeball was hooked out by a fisherman. 44 00:03:16,700 --> 00:03:18,540 Not talking about the eyeball, Sergeant. 45 00:03:20,620 --> 00:03:24,860 He's all twisted. Yeah, we'll get to that. Look at his hands. What do you see? 46 00:03:26,540 --> 00:03:28,980 Nothing. What's that tell you? 47 00:03:28,980 --> 00:03:30,940 He didn't struggle. 48 00:03:30,940 --> 00:03:35,420 Yeah, because he would have torn his hands to shreds trying to get out of here, but he didn't. 49 00:03:35,420 --> 00:03:37,300 Turn him over. 50 00:03:37,300 --> 00:03:40,340 Pull up his jacket and shirt. 51 00:03:45,140 --> 00:03:46,740 That spine's been snapped. 52 00:03:46,740 --> 00:03:50,980 He didn't struggle because the attack paralysed him. 53 00:03:50,980 --> 00:03:55,980 Meaning he was alive when he entered the water. Correct. 54 00:03:55,980 --> 00:03:58,260 Shall I call off the doctor, then? 55 00:03:58,260 --> 00:04:02,140 I'll have a stab at the time of death, if you like. You fancy a bet? 56 00:04:02,140 --> 00:04:03,780 Ten or twelve hours. 57 00:04:03,780 --> 00:04:05,300 All right, you're on. 58 00:04:06,940 --> 00:04:11,260 So you were just passing then, were you? Well, you know. 59 00:04:11,260 --> 00:04:13,700 I had a look in at the station, yeah. 60 00:04:13,700 --> 00:04:15,820 On your week off? 61 00:04:15,820 --> 00:04:17,820 We got a name yet? 62 00:04:17,820 --> 00:04:20,500 Yeah. Gunter Schmeikel. 63 00:04:20,500 --> 00:04:24,380 What's that, German, Austrian, Swiss? 64 00:04:24,380 --> 00:04:26,220 Well, it's not Geordie, is it? 65 00:04:26,220 --> 00:04:29,420 Taylor's talking to his son and his daughter-in-law... 66 00:04:29,420 --> 00:04:31,780 They reckon that's his boat over there. 67 00:04:31,780 --> 00:04:33,740 Very nice. 68 00:04:36,420 --> 00:04:38,380 Any wallet or cash? 69 00:04:38,380 --> 00:04:40,060 No. Just this. 70 00:04:43,580 --> 00:04:46,300 Must've cost a few bob, this. 71 00:04:46,300 --> 00:04:48,220 All right for some. 72 00:04:48,220 --> 00:04:51,020 I thought they lost the war. 73 00:05:09,900 --> 00:05:12,180 Log book. 74 00:05:14,580 --> 00:05:19,060 It says here they left Hamburg six days ago. 75 00:05:19,060 --> 00:05:21,140 I did German 'O' level. 76 00:05:21,140 --> 00:05:22,700 Top of me class. 77 00:05:22,700 --> 00:05:24,900 Well, that's a relief. 78 00:05:26,420 --> 00:05:29,140 Passport in the name of Gunter Schmeikel. 79 00:05:29,140 --> 00:05:30,900 It's him, all right. 80 00:05:34,340 --> 00:05:36,980 Overnight bag. See if there's a wallet. 81 00:05:41,060 --> 00:05:43,500 No. No, there isn't. 82 00:05:43,500 --> 00:05:51,060 Hey, eh, listen, I had this German pen pal that came over to stay from Dusseldorf when I was 17. 83 00:05:51,060 --> 00:05:52,980 Elke, she was called. 84 00:05:52,980 --> 00:05:56,220 Ah, man, she was... Hair down to here. 85 00:05:56,220 --> 00:05:57,860 Face like an angel. 86 00:05:57,860 --> 00:06:00,340 God, she was, she was beautiful. 87 00:06:00,340 --> 00:06:01,900 Good. 88 00:06:03,700 --> 00:06:06,540 I took the son and daughter-in-law back to their hotel, sir... 89 00:06:06,540 --> 00:06:08,700 About a mile up the hill. You left them on their own? 90 00:06:08,700 --> 00:06:12,100 You never said they were suspects. Well, of course they're suspects, man. 91 00:06:12,100 --> 00:06:14,900 Some folks in the crowd said that the deceased was drinking 92 00:06:14,980 --> 00:06:19,780 with some locals in the Mariner's Rest last night. Well done, Taylor. 93 00:06:19,780 --> 00:06:21,980 We'll use your car. 94 00:06:29,820 --> 00:06:33,540 Well, how do you fit a pram into an MG? 95 00:06:33,540 --> 00:06:36,660 Three into two does not go. 96 00:06:36,660 --> 00:06:38,580 I did 'O' Level Maths an' all. 97 00:06:50,660 --> 00:06:53,660 Mrs Schmeikel's in the coffee lounge, and... 98 00:06:53,660 --> 00:06:56,620 Yes. Mr Schmeikel's still in his room...on the phone. 99 00:06:56,620 --> 00:06:59,340 Room number? 14. 100 00:06:59,340 --> 00:07:01,020 D'you mind if I listen in, Guv? 101 00:07:01,020 --> 00:07:04,540 I'm sorry, I didn't quite catch that. Can I have the headphones, please, pet? 102 00:07:08,060 --> 00:07:11,620 Thanks. 103 00:07:11,620 --> 00:07:13,140 Yep. 104 00:07:13,140 --> 00:07:15,180 What? 105 00:07:15,180 --> 00:07:18,020 He's speaking in German. Him and another man. 106 00:07:18,020 --> 00:07:21,180 Saying what? 107 00:07:21,180 --> 00:07:24,540 Well, it's a bit tricky, isn't it, when you can't see the lips moving? 108 00:07:24,540 --> 00:07:27,780 Or if the speaker doesn't have the face of an angel? 109 00:07:27,780 --> 00:07:29,420 Interrupt him, please. 110 00:07:29,420 --> 00:07:33,260 Tell him Detective Inspector Gently would like to speak to him. Right now. 111 00:07:33,260 --> 00:07:35,140 Go and get him. 112 00:07:35,140 --> 00:07:36,740 Mr Schmeikel? 113 00:07:36,740 --> 00:07:39,180 Yes, I have a Detective Gently for yer. 114 00:07:41,380 --> 00:07:44,460 Chief Inspector. This is more like it. 115 00:07:44,460 --> 00:07:46,260 No offence intended, Sergeant. 116 00:07:46,260 --> 00:07:48,780 Right. Chief Inspector Gently. 117 00:07:48,780 --> 00:07:50,820 Yes... Thank you. 118 00:07:50,820 --> 00:07:52,700 You can leave now. 119 00:07:52,700 --> 00:07:54,140 Shall we...? 120 00:07:54,140 --> 00:07:57,220 My father had been drinking all evening with his so-called... 121 00:07:57,220 --> 00:08:03,940 friends...and, I'm imagining him trying to get into the dinghy...and, well, 122 00:08:05,460 --> 00:08:10,180 in he goes. What if I told you we think his back was broken? 123 00:08:10,180 --> 00:08:12,140 Lieber Gott. 124 00:08:12,140 --> 00:08:14,940 Are you all right, Mrs Schmeikel? Yes. 125 00:08:14,940 --> 00:08:18,660 Now, you mentioned that your father was important. 126 00:08:18,660 --> 00:08:21,420 He owns a large pharmaceutical company in Bremen. 127 00:08:21,420 --> 00:08:23,220 That makes him important, does it? 128 00:08:23,220 --> 00:08:29,220 Can you tell me what happened to your hands, Mr Schmeikel? 129 00:08:29,220 --> 00:08:35,260 This. This you get from the North Sea when you're no good at sailing! 130 00:08:35,260 --> 00:08:38,100 Ridiculous! This whole thing is ridiculous. 131 00:08:38,100 --> 00:08:41,660 Ridiculous in what way, sir? 132 00:08:41,660 --> 00:08:45,860 My father, he, er, was a prisoner of war...shot down in '44... 133 00:08:45,860 --> 00:08:48,060 Luftwaffe...a bomber pilot... 134 00:08:49,540 --> 00:08:52,780 and, then... billeted? 135 00:08:52,780 --> 00:08:54,820 Billeted, yeah. 136 00:08:54,820 --> 00:09:02,380 Billeted, yes, on a pig farm...which 20 years later I apparently must visit and stay at so I can "learn" 137 00:09:02,380 --> 00:09:06,260 how pig farmers do business... 138 00:09:06,260 --> 00:09:10,300 So my father, he stays on the farm...and 139 00:09:10,300 --> 00:09:13,740 we come here. Did you argue with your father over this? 140 00:09:13,740 --> 00:09:16,420 They argue all the time, it's... 141 00:09:16,420 --> 00:09:19,980 These pig farmers, are they the friends he was in the pub with last night? 142 00:09:19,980 --> 00:09:22,900 The Hardyments, yeah! The Hardyments. 143 00:09:30,820 --> 00:09:34,900 Gunter, Gunter. C'mon, let's do the worm song. Do the worm song. 144 00:09:34,900 --> 00:09:36,780 No, no, no, I can't remember it! 145 00:09:36,780 --> 00:09:42,260 Course yer can! Who taught yer, eh? Away, man, let's wind the clock back 20 year! 146 00:09:42,260 --> 00:09:47,820 ♪ Whisht lads, hold yer gobs I'll tell yer all an awful story, 147 00:09:47,820 --> 00:09:53,820 ♪ Whisht lads, hold yer gobs An' I'll tell yer 'boot the worm! ♪ 148 00:09:56,460 --> 00:09:58,220 And where were you? 149 00:09:58,220 --> 00:10:01,900 We were here... We were here until we were to meet my father at the quayside at 10.15... 150 00:10:01,900 --> 00:10:08,660 He insisted we sleep on the boat to catch an early tide. 151 00:10:08,660 --> 00:10:10,820 So, you left the hotel last night, what time? 152 00:10:12,340 --> 00:10:14,380 Ten o'clock, yes? Ten...ja. 153 00:10:14,380 --> 00:10:17,900 Did you see or meet anyone? 154 00:10:17,900 --> 00:10:20,420 No. No-one... 155 00:10:20,420 --> 00:10:23,580 And when my father doesn't come after half an hour, we come back here. 156 00:10:23,580 --> 00:10:25,260 Did your father have a wallet? 157 00:10:25,260 --> 00:10:29,780 Yes. The inside pocket of his jacket. 158 00:10:29,780 --> 00:10:31,300 Why, it is gone? 159 00:10:31,300 --> 00:10:33,740 Yes. Could I ask 160 00:10:33,740 --> 00:10:36,900 who were you talking to earlier, 161 00:10:36,900 --> 00:10:38,740 on the phone? 162 00:10:38,740 --> 00:10:40,940 I had to inform the company... to let them know. 163 00:10:40,940 --> 00:10:44,900 My father-in-law's employees are like his family. Halt du dich da raus. 164 00:10:44,900 --> 00:10:49,100 You will be needing our passports... I will go get them for you. Yes. 165 00:10:49,100 --> 00:10:53,060 THEY WHISPER IN GERMAN 166 00:10:55,300 --> 00:10:56,380 Excuse me, 167 00:10:56,380 --> 00:10:58,620 could you speak in English, please? 168 00:10:58,620 --> 00:11:02,100 Excuse me, her English is not good enough. 169 00:11:14,340 --> 00:11:16,700 Um... I must... By all means. 170 00:11:23,340 --> 00:11:26,260 I can read German... I just, I can't do the oral. 171 00:11:27,780 --> 00:11:31,380 Poor old Elke. Right. 172 00:11:31,380 --> 00:11:35,260 Once you've collected the Schmeikels' passports, get someone to track down China... 173 00:11:35,260 --> 00:11:37,900 I want him here drunk or sober, as soon as you can. 174 00:11:37,900 --> 00:11:40,140 Why do we need him? 175 00:11:40,140 --> 00:11:42,620 Just do it, please. 176 00:11:49,860 --> 00:11:52,580 They're looking in all the pubs in Durham for China. 177 00:11:52,580 --> 00:11:55,020 And the pathologist's ripping the body open already, so... 178 00:11:55,020 --> 00:11:57,420 Right. Let's visit a pig farmer. 179 00:11:57,420 --> 00:11:59,860 Oh, right. 180 00:11:59,860 --> 00:12:01,380 One minute. 181 00:12:04,260 --> 00:12:07,140 They're pretty well off, some of these pig farmers. 182 00:12:08,820 --> 00:12:12,820 A hundred quid for this car? Yeah. 183 00:12:14,660 --> 00:12:18,620 A hundred pound for an MG is a bargain, man! Oh, yeah, 184 00:12:18,620 --> 00:12:21,940 so why are you selling it so cheap? 185 00:12:21,940 --> 00:12:24,500 You know. 186 00:12:24,500 --> 00:12:26,820 Have you got money problems, Sergeant? 187 00:12:26,820 --> 00:12:28,340 No. 188 00:12:30,980 --> 00:12:36,380 Yes. What, are you just feeling the pinch, or are you actually in debt? 189 00:12:38,180 --> 00:12:43,060 How much do you owe? Look, sir, it's nothing I can't manage... 190 00:12:43,060 --> 00:12:47,380 I'm taking my Inspector's exams soon...which I'll pass... Well, yes, I'm sure you'll pass. 191 00:12:47,380 --> 00:12:50,780 But I can't see a vacancy for an Inspector coming up in the near future. 192 00:12:50,780 --> 00:12:54,060 Well, then I'll transfer to another force where they've got more room. 193 00:12:54,060 --> 00:12:57,420 Somewhere bigger. And how long's that going to take? 194 00:12:57,420 --> 00:12:59,660 Look, Sir, it's all in hand. 195 00:12:59,660 --> 00:13:04,460 Yeah, good...because a copper in debt is open to temptation. 196 00:13:04,460 --> 00:13:08,500 I resent that, actually. What? You think it can't happen to you? 197 00:13:08,500 --> 00:13:13,460 I've seen it a dozen times. A dozen promising careers ruined. 198 00:13:13,460 --> 00:13:16,220 Just trying to offer some friendly advice. 199 00:13:16,220 --> 00:13:18,740 Yes, sir, I heard your advice. "Don't get into debt". 200 00:13:18,740 --> 00:13:21,500 Thanks for the tip. I'm selling me car, aren't I? 201 00:13:21,500 --> 00:13:24,060 Sorry. Sorry. 202 00:13:25,500 --> 00:13:29,260 Honestly, it'll all get straightened out. 203 00:13:37,260 --> 00:13:41,380 I reckon Mrs Schmeikel knows more than she's allowed to say. 204 00:13:51,220 --> 00:13:53,020 Oh, what's that smell?! 205 00:13:57,500 --> 00:13:59,260 Shoes... 206 00:13:59,260 --> 00:14:04,460 Who are yous, like, and what d'yer want? Detective Sergeant Bacchus... 207 00:14:04,460 --> 00:14:08,980 How, Da! Who's that flash bugger? Looks like a toff. 208 00:14:08,980 --> 00:14:11,180 Afternoon. 209 00:14:11,180 --> 00:14:16,860 I'm Detective Chief Inspector Gently. This is Detective Sergeant Bacchus. 210 00:14:16,860 --> 00:14:18,500 We'd like to ask you a few questions, please. 211 00:14:18,500 --> 00:14:21,420 A bloody Londoner! And a big-wig an' all. 212 00:14:21,420 --> 00:14:25,580 Gets worse and worse! Welcome to the North/South divide, sir. 213 00:14:25,580 --> 00:14:29,820 Well, I'm just about to have me dinner...so either wait there, or away in. 214 00:14:36,860 --> 00:14:40,500 I'm shocked...shocked, 215 00:14:40,500 --> 00:14:42,740 I am, I'm shocked. 216 00:14:42,740 --> 00:14:48,220 I am. We were with him last night! 217 00:14:48,220 --> 00:14:49,900 Who'd wanna do Gunter?! 218 00:14:49,900 --> 00:14:53,580 Naybody...why would they?! 219 00:14:53,580 --> 00:14:57,180 I gave him a wave as we drove off! 220 00:14:57,180 --> 00:14:58,700 I can barely eat! 221 00:15:02,660 --> 00:15:04,340 Can I ask you about last night? 222 00:15:04,340 --> 00:15:07,700 Aye, ask what yer like, aye! 223 00:15:07,700 --> 00:15:09,740 You went to the Mariners. 224 00:15:09,740 --> 00:15:14,380 Aye! And what happened? 225 00:15:14,380 --> 00:15:17,380 Cos I haven't seen Gunter since he was billeted here... 226 00:15:17,380 --> 00:15:21,420 But as soon as he's back, he's back in his loft where he was as a PoW... 227 00:15:21,420 --> 00:15:26,380 Two nights he slept there. He helps out with the pigs an' everything... 228 00:15:26,380 --> 00:15:29,220 Him an altogether different type of farmer now... 229 00:15:31,700 --> 00:15:36,620 A pharmaceutical man. Aye, a pharmaceutical man, that's right, aye. 230 00:15:36,620 --> 00:15:39,540 But he mucks in like it's 20 years ago, you know, and he loves it. 231 00:15:39,540 --> 00:15:44,460 We took him to Hadrian's Wall...cos I taught him to be a bird man, 232 00:15:44,460 --> 00:15:49,140 and there's rare ones flying in, you know, quite a to-do about it, 233 00:15:49,140 --> 00:15:53,500 and 'fore yer know it's his last night and we're all in the pub. 234 00:15:53,500 --> 00:15:55,100 He's buying drinks for everybody. 235 00:15:58,100 --> 00:16:00,700 No, really, already you have given enough! 236 00:16:00,700 --> 00:16:04,420 Then, when I'm gone, tomorrow, 237 00:16:04,420 --> 00:16:08,660 the drinks are still on me! One Black and Tan, sir. Thank you! 238 00:16:08,660 --> 00:16:10,260 Keep it, please. 239 00:16:10,260 --> 00:16:11,860 Singing the Worm song! 240 00:16:11,860 --> 00:16:14,460 Aye. Aye... 241 00:16:14,460 --> 00:16:16,260 He'll tell yer all about the worm now. 242 00:16:16,260 --> 00:16:23,100 Whisht lads and hold yer gobs for the man who's buyin' drinks, Gunter Schmeikel! 243 00:16:23,100 --> 00:16:25,580 Sieg heil... Sieg heil! 244 00:16:25,580 --> 00:16:27,660 Oy! Forgive and forget, you lot! 245 00:16:27,660 --> 00:16:30,260 Or I'll slap yer chops for yer! 246 00:16:30,260 --> 00:16:32,060 Mabs... 247 00:16:32,060 --> 00:16:33,260 Mabs, it's all in jest! 248 00:16:33,260 --> 00:16:40,700 ♪ He catched a fish upon his heuk He thought leukt varry queer 249 00:16:40,700 --> 00:16:46,620 ♪ But what'n a kind of fish it was Young Lambton couldn't tell 250 00:16:46,620 --> 00:16:52,340 ♪ He wasn't fash to carry it home So he hoyed it doon a well 251 00:16:52,340 --> 00:16:58,420 ♪ Whisht lads, hold yer gobs I'll tell yer all an awful story 252 00:16:58,420 --> 00:17:04,660 ♪ Whisht lads, hold yer gobs, I'll tell yer boot the worm! ♪ 253 00:17:05,820 --> 00:17:09,460 Fancy a drop of home brew, Chief Inspector?! 254 00:17:09,460 --> 00:17:11,580 Yeah, be very nice. Thank you. 255 00:17:11,580 --> 00:17:15,380 He's like Gunter's family, isn't he? 256 00:17:15,380 --> 00:17:19,300 What was that? He says you're a lot like Gunter. 257 00:17:19,300 --> 00:17:23,340 Weren't a bomber pilot, though, were yer? Oh, no. Not a bomber pilot, no. 258 00:17:23,340 --> 00:17:25,940 No, you gotta be posh to be a bomber pilot! 259 00:17:25,940 --> 00:17:29,660 Not yer Alec Douglas-Home posh... 260 00:17:29,660 --> 00:17:32,140 But posher than you. 261 00:17:32,140 --> 00:17:34,020 Aye, he'd have liked you. 262 00:17:34,020 --> 00:17:37,580 You'd have liked him, well, everybody liked Gunter. 263 00:17:37,580 --> 00:17:39,900 End of the evening, what happened? Well, he's back to Deutschland 264 00:17:39,900 --> 00:17:43,420 first tide, so we come out the pub and give him a hug. 265 00:17:43,420 --> 00:17:46,060 What time was that? 266 00:17:46,060 --> 00:17:49,860 Ten o'clock sharp... We're up early in the morning, you know. 267 00:17:49,860 --> 00:17:51,740 Which way did you go home? 268 00:17:51,740 --> 00:17:55,380 Along the quayside and back up the hill. See anybody else? 269 00:17:55,380 --> 00:17:58,060 Don't think so, no. Yeah, we did! 270 00:17:58,060 --> 00:18:01,580 That son of his, near his hotel. 271 00:18:01,580 --> 00:18:04,300 Cos I said, "Oh, you've missed him!" 272 00:18:04,300 --> 00:18:06,620 I'm sorry, but he didn't like us. 273 00:18:06,620 --> 00:18:08,420 Ah, you didn't like him... We noticed! 274 00:18:08,420 --> 00:18:11,660 Well, what's to like about that arrogant shite? 275 00:18:11,660 --> 00:18:16,780 So you saw him and his wife walking towards the quayside. 276 00:18:16,780 --> 00:18:19,500 No, no, she wasn't with him. He was on his own... 277 00:18:19,500 --> 00:18:22,540 Wouldn't have her down...she's just a mouse. 278 00:18:27,380 --> 00:18:29,820 Anything I can do, just give us a shout! 279 00:18:29,820 --> 00:18:31,340 Thank you. 280 00:18:33,860 --> 00:18:37,940 Did you see the young lad skulking around? The one that left. I did... 281 00:18:37,940 --> 00:18:40,780 Speak of the devil. 282 00:18:40,780 --> 00:18:42,740 In the pub last night. 283 00:18:45,900 --> 00:18:49,260 There was this new bloke behind the bar called Shavers... 284 00:18:49,260 --> 00:18:51,900 A big bastard, like, yer wouldn't cross him. 285 00:18:53,740 --> 00:18:56,100 Anyway, we're with Gunter. 286 00:18:56,100 --> 00:18:59,900 A mate of mine at the bar says Shavers has been mouthing off 287 00:18:59,900 --> 00:19:04,340 about the Nazis an' that, an' how he pissed in Gunter's beer and said he had a mind to do more, you know? 288 00:19:08,300 --> 00:19:12,540 And when a few others walked out in protest, he gans with 'em. 289 00:19:12,540 --> 00:19:16,980 ♪ Whisht lads, hold yer gobs I'll tell yer all an awful story... ♪ What time was this? 290 00:19:16,980 --> 00:19:18,700 Just after nine? 291 00:19:20,260 --> 00:19:23,180 Right, thanks... We'll be in touch. 292 00:19:23,180 --> 00:19:25,460 I saw him again that night when we were leaving. 293 00:19:27,660 --> 00:19:29,500 In the car park, 294 00:19:29,500 --> 00:19:33,820 in the shadows, watching us... I didn't have a good feeling, like, but... 295 00:19:35,340 --> 00:19:37,860 say goodbye to Gunter and look back, and he'd gone. 296 00:19:37,860 --> 00:19:39,580 This is Shavers? 297 00:19:39,580 --> 00:19:42,140 Aye. 298 00:19:42,140 --> 00:19:45,020 Chick Shavers. Did you see where he went? 299 00:19:46,540 --> 00:19:48,300 Nah, we just drove off. 300 00:19:48,300 --> 00:19:50,300 And did you see anyone after that? 301 00:19:50,300 --> 00:19:52,580 Only Dog Shite On Yer Shoe. 302 00:19:54,180 --> 00:19:57,260 Y'know, Gunter's son. Coming down the hill. 303 00:19:57,260 --> 00:19:58,900 Thank you. 304 00:19:58,900 --> 00:20:01,380 Thanks. 305 00:20:01,940 --> 00:20:02,820 Hoy! 306 00:20:02,820 --> 00:20:05,420 Y'know that owld knack ya drivin'? 307 00:20:05,420 --> 00:20:07,980 Will you take 25 pound for scrap? 308 00:20:07,980 --> 00:20:09,220 No. I won't. 309 00:20:12,380 --> 00:20:16,060 Touch me one more time! Get in. 310 00:20:16,060 --> 00:20:18,740 Mr Shavers, thanks for coming in. Please sit down. 311 00:20:18,740 --> 00:20:21,340 No, ta, I won't be stopping. 312 00:20:23,820 --> 00:20:30,340 We've had reports that you claimed to have urinated in the beer of a particular customer last night... 313 00:20:30,340 --> 00:20:36,300 In the Kraut's, aye. I did it three times, one for each Reich! 314 00:20:36,300 --> 00:20:38,340 You're aware Mr Schmeikel was found dead this morning. 315 00:20:38,340 --> 00:20:41,420 Well, if it's from urine poisoning, I'm yer man. 316 00:20:41,420 --> 00:20:44,620 You don't mind that he's dead? Look. 317 00:20:44,620 --> 00:20:48,500 I don't know what you were doing in the war. Sit down. Yelling at folk to put up black-out curtains... 318 00:20:48,500 --> 00:20:54,620 I was kicking that scum back where they came from, and I saw things that are buried into here! Here! 319 00:20:54,620 --> 00:20:57,660 You and the rest of the world can forgive and forget... But not me. 320 00:20:57,660 --> 00:20:59,420 Calm down. I've had it with you!! 321 00:21:10,020 --> 00:21:11,620 I'm all right. 322 00:21:12,540 --> 00:21:16,260 I missed my vocation. 323 00:21:16,260 --> 00:21:19,460 Suspected broken back. 324 00:21:19,460 --> 00:21:21,260 Everything else just as we thought. 325 00:21:21,260 --> 00:21:23,220 Taylor. Sir. 326 00:21:23,220 --> 00:21:25,700 They tell me you're a wrestling fan. 327 00:21:25,700 --> 00:21:28,780 Oh, well, me mam is sir, I just take her along, like. 328 00:21:28,780 --> 00:21:31,620 Name Chick Shavers mean anything to you? 329 00:21:31,620 --> 00:21:34,380 Oh, aye, I saw him in Berwick once... 330 00:21:34,380 --> 00:21:37,300 He's retired now, did his knee in. Oh, he was a nasty piece of work. 331 00:21:37,300 --> 00:21:38,820 Played the part well, though. 332 00:21:38,820 --> 00:21:42,060 Did some horrible things to The Wild Man of Borneo. 333 00:21:42,060 --> 00:21:44,380 Nearly broke his back once. 334 00:21:44,380 --> 00:21:47,900 Thank you. Sir. 335 00:21:47,900 --> 00:21:53,660 So if we cuff him, d'you reckon you can manage Shavers on your own? 336 00:21:55,180 --> 00:21:57,780 Yeah, of course. Good. 337 00:21:57,780 --> 00:21:59,660 Well, I should, um... 338 00:21:59,660 --> 00:22:01,700 stay out of his reach though. 339 00:22:03,740 --> 00:22:07,540 I object to Nazis coming here and flashing their money around. 340 00:22:07,540 --> 00:22:10,220 I object, OK? Cos where's my money, eh? 341 00:22:10,220 --> 00:22:12,500 Where's mine? I thought we won the war! 342 00:22:12,500 --> 00:22:14,500 This is 1964, Mr Shavers. 343 00:22:14,500 --> 00:22:17,620 There speaks a man whose pockets are full! 344 00:22:17,620 --> 00:22:20,580 Listen... 345 00:22:20,580 --> 00:22:26,500 I don't go looking for them, right? But if they turn up on my doorstep and wave it in my face then yeah, 346 00:22:26,500 --> 00:22:31,540 I'll put piss in their beer, and folk'll pat us on the back for doing it! 347 00:22:31,540 --> 00:22:34,540 What else did you do? What d'you mean, what else? 348 00:22:34,540 --> 00:22:38,180 We have a witness that places you in the car park when Gunter Schmeikel left the pub. 349 00:22:38,180 --> 00:22:41,740 Witness. Don't yer mean half-wit? 350 00:22:41,740 --> 00:22:44,020 One of the Hardyments? 351 00:22:44,020 --> 00:22:46,460 Witless, more like! 352 00:22:46,460 --> 00:22:51,100 Mr Shavers, did you follow Gunter Schmeikel down to the quay? No. 353 00:22:51,100 --> 00:22:54,020 Because his back was broken, see. 354 00:22:54,020 --> 00:22:56,580 You're quite capable of doing that, aren't you? 355 00:22:58,540 --> 00:23:01,020 No. No, no, no, no. No, you don't! 356 00:23:03,020 --> 00:23:04,580 Whoa! 357 00:23:06,100 --> 00:23:06,780 Look... 358 00:23:06,780 --> 00:23:09,020 Just calm down, all right. 359 00:23:10,900 --> 00:23:13,700 Just get on with it. 360 00:23:13,700 --> 00:23:15,580 All right. 361 00:23:15,580 --> 00:23:17,340 I did go to the quayside, aye. 362 00:23:17,340 --> 00:23:19,700 But I was on me way back, and this is the truth, right? 363 00:23:19,700 --> 00:23:21,900 Cos I admit it. I hate 'em. 364 00:23:21,900 --> 00:23:26,900 I hate Jerries, and all right, I did want to do something else and I knew what that something was, so I 365 00:23:26,900 --> 00:23:30,980 went down to the quay to set their boat adrift. 366 00:23:30,980 --> 00:23:33,460 This is about nine. 367 00:23:33,460 --> 00:23:38,340 And I arrive, and there's their flash boat with no-one around, or, I think 368 00:23:38,340 --> 00:23:45,460 there's no-one around, but then I clock this car, cos whoever's in it turns on some light so I turn away. 369 00:23:45,460 --> 00:23:47,380 Hang about, hang about. 370 00:23:47,380 --> 00:23:50,020 Who was it? I don't know. 371 00:23:50,020 --> 00:23:52,020 Well, didn't...didn't you recognise them? 372 00:23:52,020 --> 00:23:55,780 I'm not looking, am I? I'm waiting to set the boat adrift. 373 00:23:55,780 --> 00:23:58,860 I just want the bloke to go, but he stays, he just sits there! 374 00:23:58,860 --> 00:24:00,620 Calm down. 375 00:24:02,140 --> 00:24:08,060 And after half an hour of waiting, I lose me appetite, give up, go back to the pub and 376 00:24:08,060 --> 00:24:13,460 arrive just as the Hardyments and the Kraut are heading off home. And that's the God's honest. 377 00:24:13,460 --> 00:24:15,980 And what type of car was it? I don't know! 378 00:24:19,780 --> 00:24:21,540 A dark saloon. 379 00:24:21,540 --> 00:24:24,140 I can't be sure. That's all I can tell you. 380 00:24:24,140 --> 00:24:25,660 Right. 381 00:24:34,780 --> 00:24:38,860 Would I be right in thinking that "Chick Shavers" isn't your real name? 382 00:24:38,860 --> 00:24:42,580 Well, it's the name I used professionally. And it's the one I'm known as now. 383 00:24:42,580 --> 00:24:45,420 Right, yeah, see, 384 00:24:45,420 --> 00:24:48,260 I'm afraid we need your name that's on your birth certificate. 385 00:24:52,740 --> 00:24:55,740 Malcolm Fairey. Sorry? 386 00:24:55,740 --> 00:24:58,300 Malcolm Fairey! 387 00:24:58,300 --> 00:25:01,060 Thank you. Poofter. 388 00:25:03,740 --> 00:25:05,620 You know, none of the locals... 389 00:25:05,620 --> 00:25:08,580 Well, except for the Fairey in the blue corner... 390 00:25:08,580 --> 00:25:11,620 none of them have a bad word to say about our German bomber. 391 00:25:11,620 --> 00:25:14,820 Yeah, Gunter Schmeikel seems to have been a decent fellow. 392 00:25:14,820 --> 00:25:18,420 Oh, yeah, yeah. For somebody who dropped bombs on people. 393 00:25:18,420 --> 00:25:21,860 You know, I can just about remember the docks being bombed. 394 00:25:21,860 --> 00:25:23,500 Civilians were killed. 395 00:25:23,500 --> 00:25:25,060 Innocent people. 396 00:25:25,060 --> 00:25:27,940 Ever hear of Dresden? 397 00:25:27,940 --> 00:25:32,220 Our bombs created a fire storm that killed 50,000 civilians. 398 00:25:32,220 --> 00:25:35,260 For no particular reason that I can think of, 399 00:25:35,260 --> 00:25:37,660 except to terrorise a nation. 400 00:25:39,380 --> 00:25:44,260 Yeah, well, the Germans should've thought of that before they started the bloody war. 401 00:25:45,900 --> 00:25:48,140 Right. 402 00:25:48,140 --> 00:25:52,740 Chick Shavers tells us that there was a car at the quayside when he left. 403 00:25:52,740 --> 00:25:57,140 Yep. When he got to the pub, the Hardyments were saying goodbye to Gunter, 404 00:25:57,140 --> 00:26:02,780 and the Hardyments drive along the road, up the hill where they see Wilhelm coming down. 405 00:26:02,780 --> 00:26:04,900 Yeah, and he's on his own. He hasn't got his wife with him. 406 00:26:04,900 --> 00:26:06,780 According to the Hardyments. Yeah. 407 00:26:06,780 --> 00:26:10,460 Meanwhile, Gunter's walking from the pub to the quay. 408 00:26:10,460 --> 00:26:13,260 We assume, where he met his maker. 409 00:26:13,260 --> 00:26:17,260 Let's see what time the Schmeikels booked back into their hotel. 410 00:26:17,260 --> 00:26:19,020 OK. Should be interesting. 411 00:26:25,340 --> 00:26:28,620 China? Well, you did say "drunk or sober", Guv. 412 00:26:28,620 --> 00:26:33,100 No, no, Mr Bacchus. I'm sober as a lamb, and ready and willing to 413 00:26:33,100 --> 00:26:39,700 do whatever it is Mr Gently is ready and willing for me to do. 414 00:26:39,700 --> 00:26:41,220 Drunk, then. 415 00:26:41,220 --> 00:26:42,780 Taylor. Sir. 416 00:26:42,780 --> 00:26:50,220 Go to my house. I want this man scrubbed, shaved and put in one of my suits, with a shirt and tie, 417 00:26:50,220 --> 00:26:53,820 with shoes on, and socks...my socks...and brought back here. 418 00:26:53,820 --> 00:26:58,060 Mr Gently, sir. I cannot let another man perform intimate... 419 00:26:58,060 --> 00:27:01,900 And if I'm pleased... 420 00:27:01,900 --> 00:27:04,860 Scoured, Taylor...head to toe. 421 00:27:04,860 --> 00:27:06,620 Quick as you can. Yes, sir. 422 00:27:08,140 --> 00:27:09,740 His name's Robert Stratton. 423 00:27:09,740 --> 00:27:11,860 He's a warden for the National Park. 424 00:27:11,860 --> 00:27:15,180 He was on the quay last night monitoring bird migration. 425 00:27:16,700 --> 00:27:18,740 I only know what I'm told, sir. 426 00:27:18,740 --> 00:27:21,300 He came in of his own accord. 427 00:27:21,300 --> 00:27:25,540 He's here with his daughter, that's her, cos his wife's not well, 428 00:27:25,540 --> 00:27:30,100 and his daughter's apparently a bit... WHISTLES 429 00:27:30,100 --> 00:27:32,700 We got to the quay around nine. 430 00:27:32,700 --> 00:27:35,500 Yes... Bird watching at night? Yeah. 431 00:27:35,500 --> 00:27:38,780 Oh, we don't do it all year round, just when the migrations are on. 432 00:27:38,780 --> 00:27:40,500 You don't have to see them, y'see... 433 00:27:40,500 --> 00:27:42,500 you can hear 'em coming in. 434 00:27:42,500 --> 00:27:47,020 And we've had a couple of mergansers turn up on one of the lakes, from Denmark. 435 00:27:47,020 --> 00:27:51,340 The red merganser's a scruffy bird, it's not very common in these parts. 436 00:27:51,340 --> 00:28:00,220 It's got a tufty head, very untidy-looking, always bedraggled...always...always. 437 00:28:00,220 --> 00:28:01,780 That's the one. 438 00:28:01,780 --> 00:28:07,300 But you weren't out and about last night, you were sitting in your car on the quay? 439 00:28:07,300 --> 00:28:12,900 Angled, yeah, so I'm looking out to sea, which is what I must've been doing cos I didn't see anyone arrive. 440 00:28:12,900 --> 00:28:16,580 But suddenly this big chap turns up, down by the dinghy moorings. 441 00:28:16,580 --> 00:28:20,060 He looks in my direction and turns away. 442 00:28:20,060 --> 00:28:23,300 And he walks up and down a bit, impatient, like. 443 00:28:23,300 --> 00:28:26,300 And then I'm checking the skies again and he's gone. 444 00:28:26,300 --> 00:28:31,540 And what happened then? Well, some curlew and oyster-catchers come over. 445 00:28:31,540 --> 00:28:34,180 We're not greatly interested in the birds. 446 00:28:34,180 --> 00:28:38,620 Oh, I'm sorry... No, um... 447 00:28:38,620 --> 00:28:40,420 Ten past ten, 448 00:28:40,420 --> 00:28:42,100 another chap turns up. 449 00:28:42,100 --> 00:28:43,740 A slighter man, quite tall... 450 00:28:43,740 --> 00:28:48,900 I can't give much of a description, I'm afraid, but he's sitting on one of the 451 00:28:48,900 --> 00:28:54,180 bollards and he's tapping his thighs, you know, like he's drumming along to a song. 452 00:28:54,180 --> 00:28:58,660 And... Well, as I say, I'd decided to call it a day and I drive off. 453 00:28:58,660 --> 00:29:00,980 Was this the man who died? 454 00:29:00,980 --> 00:29:03,260 One minute... 455 00:29:03,260 --> 00:29:04,860 Can I go and get the passports? 456 00:29:08,220 --> 00:29:10,700 Alice! Alice. No. Stop it. 457 00:29:10,700 --> 00:29:12,460 I'm sorry. 458 00:29:12,460 --> 00:29:14,940 Here y'are, here y'are... 459 00:29:16,900 --> 00:29:19,020 Make a list of every bird you've seen this month. 460 00:29:23,780 --> 00:29:27,500 It's very good of you to have come in so promptly. 461 00:29:27,500 --> 00:29:30,500 Was this the man that you saw at the quay? 462 00:29:30,500 --> 00:29:32,180 Look, I was some way away. 463 00:29:32,180 --> 00:29:34,260 I cannot swear to it. Right. 464 00:29:34,260 --> 00:29:36,780 What about these two? 465 00:29:36,780 --> 00:29:38,660 Yeah, they were at the hotel. 466 00:29:38,660 --> 00:29:40,180 Right. 467 00:29:40,180 --> 00:29:42,180 I popped in for a drink on the way down. 468 00:29:42,180 --> 00:29:48,260 They were at the bar, very smart. I passed this one as I was going home, he was coming down towards the quay. 469 00:29:48,260 --> 00:29:50,260 Was he with anybody? 470 00:29:50,260 --> 00:29:52,060 No, he was on his own, he was carrying two bags. 471 00:29:52,060 --> 00:29:55,020 Oh, I'm sorry, she's... Here y'are. Alice, leave it. 472 00:29:55,020 --> 00:29:57,100 There you go. Go on, carry on. 473 00:30:00,700 --> 00:30:02,300 All right, all right... 474 00:30:02,300 --> 00:30:04,620 All I wanna do is ask you a few questions, that's all, right? 475 00:30:04,620 --> 00:30:11,940 I only meet him twice, but Gunter, he is like someone you have known for years. 476 00:30:11,940 --> 00:30:13,780 He is... 477 00:30:13,780 --> 00:30:15,980 He looks at you when you speak, 478 00:30:15,980 --> 00:30:18,180 looks into you. 479 00:30:18,180 --> 00:30:20,300 Is interested in you, 480 00:30:20,300 --> 00:30:23,420 and has such a smile. 481 00:30:23,420 --> 00:30:25,660 I think... 482 00:30:25,660 --> 00:30:30,140 SHE SPEAKS ITALIAN Ma non tutti, ovviamente. 483 00:30:30,140 --> 00:30:35,020 Parla Italiano? No, veramente, no. 484 00:30:35,020 --> 00:30:37,260 Mia moglie e nata a Napoli. 485 00:30:37,260 --> 00:30:39,860 Oh...he's married, 486 00:30:39,860 --> 00:30:41,660 what a pity! 487 00:30:41,660 --> 00:30:45,740 Gunter, he spoke Italian to me once, 488 00:30:45,740 --> 00:30:49,700 though his wife was, um... Danish. 489 00:30:49,700 --> 00:30:54,380 WAS Danish? She died this year, he say to me. 490 00:30:54,380 --> 00:30:58,780 So did mine. I'm so sorry. 491 00:30:58,780 --> 00:31:01,580 When Gunter left last night... 492 00:31:01,580 --> 00:31:04,580 With the Hardyments. Yes, did anyone else leave? 493 00:31:04,580 --> 00:31:07,140 The ones that don't like a German buying the drinks 494 00:31:07,140 --> 00:31:10,980 and have walked out, they come back in through the other door. 495 00:31:10,980 --> 00:31:15,260 I have been working the bar for half an hour or more, on my own. 496 00:31:15,260 --> 00:31:19,620 And the drinks are free, but now Chick is back to help! 497 00:31:19,620 --> 00:31:22,540 And Chick Shavers came back when? 498 00:31:22,540 --> 00:31:26,460 Gunter and the Hardyments go, and Chick is next to me straightaway. 499 00:31:26,460 --> 00:31:30,180 And stays here? Yes. 500 00:31:30,180 --> 00:31:32,860 If you think 501 00:31:32,860 --> 00:31:37,620 of anything else you would like to ask me... 502 00:31:37,620 --> 00:31:39,140 Thank you. 503 00:31:42,700 --> 00:31:46,300 Call the station. They can let Chick Shavers go. 504 00:31:46,300 --> 00:31:48,300 Got an alibi. 505 00:31:49,820 --> 00:31:51,540 Mr Gently, sir. 506 00:31:51,540 --> 00:31:54,380 How have we done? Will I do? 507 00:31:55,900 --> 00:31:57,580 Have you got a comb, Sergeant? 508 00:31:59,980 --> 00:32:00,780 Give it to him. 509 00:32:02,660 --> 00:32:05,940 What did you find out? 510 00:32:05,940 --> 00:32:10,300 Bloke in there says ask the Hardyments about a woman called Molly, 511 00:32:10,300 --> 00:32:12,140 lived with them during the war. 512 00:32:12,140 --> 00:32:15,260 And then had a thing with Gunter, 513 00:32:15,260 --> 00:32:19,780 and then she later topped herself. 514 00:32:19,780 --> 00:32:23,220 China! Come with me. 515 00:32:23,220 --> 00:32:25,100 No, you... 516 00:32:35,300 --> 00:32:39,340 China, that's my suit. Don't put fag-ends in it. 517 00:32:39,340 --> 00:32:44,860 Right, Mr Gently. If I'm passing you off as a police officer, at least try and act like one. 518 00:32:53,540 --> 00:32:56,340 I have a problem. 519 00:32:56,340 --> 00:33:01,860 The Hardyments only remember driving past you, Mr Schmeikel. You alone, 520 00:33:01,860 --> 00:33:03,900 not Mrs Schmeikel. 521 00:33:05,900 --> 00:33:07,940 She was with me! 522 00:33:09,780 --> 00:33:11,780 I was there... I was with him. 523 00:33:11,780 --> 00:33:15,980 Another witness only saw Mr Schmeikel walking down the hill. 524 00:33:17,900 --> 00:33:20,060 They are lying! 525 00:33:20,060 --> 00:33:21,780 Why would they do that? 526 00:33:21,780 --> 00:33:23,420 Who is the investigator here? 527 00:33:25,300 --> 00:33:29,500 Perhaps the Hardyments wish to point the finger at me because they did it. 528 00:33:29,500 --> 00:33:32,100 Um, I'm sorry, are you accusing the Hardyments? 529 00:33:32,100 --> 00:33:33,940 Yeah! Why not? 530 00:33:33,940 --> 00:33:36,020 They get drunk and they kill him! 531 00:33:36,020 --> 00:33:40,900 Wilhelm, nein. Kill him for what reason, Mr Schmeikel? 532 00:33:40,900 --> 00:33:43,820 For being German, 533 00:33:43,820 --> 00:33:49,740 and successful, a combination you cannot bear because we are more determined than you, 534 00:33:49,740 --> 00:33:52,940 more industrious, more ingenious, and this makes you angry. 535 00:33:55,780 --> 00:33:58,420 Oh. Not possible. I'm sorry, I forgot. 536 00:33:58,420 --> 00:34:04,980 You British are so pleasant. SHE SPEAKS GERMAN 537 00:34:04,980 --> 00:34:07,860 HE REPLIES IN GERMAN 538 00:34:07,860 --> 00:34:12,700 Leave 'em to it. 539 00:34:12,700 --> 00:34:14,500 I apologise for my husband. 540 00:34:14,500 --> 00:34:17,220 He is upset. 541 00:34:17,220 --> 00:34:21,820 I'm curious, though, as to what motive you think 542 00:34:21,820 --> 00:34:27,340 the Hardyments would attribute to you, if they thought you had killed your father. 543 00:34:29,220 --> 00:34:31,260 Ridiculous question. Wilhelm. 544 00:34:31,260 --> 00:34:34,580 Are you considering us now suspects? 545 00:34:38,620 --> 00:34:40,100 Britische Gerechtigkeit! 546 00:34:40,100 --> 00:34:44,420 THEY SPEAK ANGRILY IN GERMAN 547 00:34:56,500 --> 00:34:58,020 Did you get all that? 548 00:34:58,020 --> 00:35:00,380 She asked him not be rude... 549 00:35:00,380 --> 00:35:04,300 And then he was rude, and he told her to 550 00:35:04,300 --> 00:35:06,820 leave it to him from now on. 551 00:35:06,820 --> 00:35:08,380 They were having a row. 552 00:35:08,380 --> 00:35:10,660 I think. And before that? 553 00:35:10,660 --> 00:35:16,940 She was saying why would the Hardyments kill Gunter when he was making them such a generous offer? 554 00:35:16,940 --> 00:35:19,980 What offer? What offer? How do I know? 555 00:35:19,980 --> 00:35:23,740 He told her to shut up and never mention it again. 556 00:35:23,740 --> 00:35:26,260 Well done, China. 557 00:35:26,260 --> 00:35:27,820 Thanks, Mr Gently. 558 00:35:27,820 --> 00:35:30,100 May be needing you again. Yeah. 559 00:35:30,100 --> 00:35:32,900 "Niemals", it means never. 560 00:35:35,540 --> 00:35:38,980 China never got off the beach at Dunkirk. 561 00:35:38,980 --> 00:35:43,100 He spent five years in various Stalags. 562 00:35:45,780 --> 00:35:47,900 DOGS BARK AND GEESE QUACK 563 00:35:56,740 --> 00:35:59,540 Pull up the crates. 564 00:35:59,540 --> 00:36:02,580 Now, yer might think this is what yer had before...but there's a lesson in that. 565 00:36:02,580 --> 00:36:07,380 Put days between yer visits. 566 00:36:07,380 --> 00:36:09,180 None for me... Thank you very much. 567 00:36:09,180 --> 00:36:12,020 Oh, yeah, man. Tuck in, tuck in. 568 00:36:12,020 --> 00:36:14,100 Are yer back with news? 569 00:36:14,100 --> 00:36:15,860 Just some questions. 570 00:36:15,860 --> 00:36:19,180 Aye, well, we like a bit of a quiz. So fire away. 571 00:36:19,180 --> 00:36:20,780 Who's Molly? 572 00:36:24,380 --> 00:36:27,100 Who talked to you about Molly? 573 00:36:27,100 --> 00:36:30,700 Why don't you just tell us about her? 574 00:36:30,700 --> 00:36:33,500 Jimmy. Sit down. Jimmy... Jimmy! 575 00:36:43,060 --> 00:36:44,900 Molly was Jimmy's mum. 576 00:36:44,900 --> 00:36:47,180 She was the daughter of a neighbouring farmer, 577 00:36:47,180 --> 00:36:51,740 and when she got pregnant, out of wedlock, this is January 1940, 578 00:36:51,740 --> 00:36:54,660 the father kicked her out. The bastard. 579 00:36:54,660 --> 00:37:00,740 Molly was training to be a teacher, you know, something worthwhile, so Mabs and me, we took her in. 580 00:37:00,740 --> 00:37:05,460 And when Jimmy was born, Mabs looked after him, so she could finish her training. 581 00:37:05,460 --> 00:37:09,420 And she became a wonderful teacher, so we're told. 582 00:37:09,420 --> 00:37:16,700 Then the war ended and two year after, '47, 2nd of May, nay-body saw it coming. 583 00:37:16,700 --> 00:37:19,300 She took her own life. 584 00:37:19,300 --> 00:37:20,980 Here on the farm. 585 00:37:20,980 --> 00:37:23,220 Up in the loft where Gunter stayed. 586 00:37:23,220 --> 00:37:24,980 No reason why. 587 00:37:24,980 --> 00:37:27,460 No last note. 588 00:37:27,460 --> 00:37:29,180 Just an empty bottle of pills. 589 00:37:29,180 --> 00:37:33,620 Where was Gunter? Repatriated. He'd gone back two weeks before. 590 00:37:33,620 --> 00:37:38,940 Aye, the how she died, and the where and the why got everybody talking, you know, making assumptions. 591 00:37:38,940 --> 00:37:41,500 Did anything happen between Molly and Gunter? 592 00:37:41,500 --> 00:37:45,020 Well, now, the only two people who can answer that are dead, but... 593 00:37:45,020 --> 00:37:47,500 I'm sure as damn-it certain nowt happened between 'em. 594 00:37:47,500 --> 00:37:49,140 What about Jimmy, then? 595 00:37:49,140 --> 00:37:52,820 He must have been about, I dunno, seven when Molly died. 596 00:37:52,820 --> 00:37:57,100 Maybe he saw 'em... You know, saw them together, maybe he knows something. 597 00:37:57,100 --> 00:38:02,660 Look, when Gunter comes back again, aye, everybody's talking again, you know, was it to do with him? 598 00:38:02,660 --> 00:38:07,100 But he hadn't been here long, looking round the farm. We're all traipsing after him. 599 00:38:09,660 --> 00:38:12,180 Nothing has changed. 600 00:38:12,180 --> 00:38:13,780 Nothing. 601 00:38:13,780 --> 00:38:18,820 All is as it was. Everything! 602 00:38:18,820 --> 00:38:22,740 Only us...we have changed! 603 00:38:22,740 --> 00:38:24,980 Look at you all! 604 00:38:24,980 --> 00:38:26,900 Jimmy... 605 00:38:26,900 --> 00:38:29,500 You were that size! 606 00:38:31,780 --> 00:38:34,540 And your mother, Molly. 607 00:38:34,540 --> 00:38:37,740 What is she now? 608 00:38:37,740 --> 00:38:41,700 She's a head teacher? Must be such a fine teacher. 609 00:38:41,700 --> 00:38:43,380 Will I get to see her, too? 610 00:38:43,380 --> 00:38:45,220 No, um... 611 00:38:46,620 --> 00:38:49,380 We lost Mum a long time ago, Gunter. 612 00:38:50,980 --> 00:38:54,020 'He had all these pairs of eyes staring at him, 613 00:38:54,020 --> 00:38:57,540 'looking for a hint of guilt, a trace of bad conscience, 614 00:38:57,540 --> 00:39:00,220 'and all we saw was love and sadness.' 615 00:39:00,220 --> 00:39:03,020 Same as what we all felt. 616 00:39:03,020 --> 00:39:06,460 And yet, he spent two nights in the loft where she killed herself. 617 00:39:06,460 --> 00:39:10,700 Yeah, but we didn't tell him that's where it happened. Mind if I have a look? 618 00:39:10,700 --> 00:39:13,020 There's not much to see, like. 619 00:39:23,180 --> 00:39:24,700 There you go. 620 00:39:32,700 --> 00:39:34,300 Like I said, not much to see. 621 00:39:47,340 --> 00:39:48,860 Sir... 622 00:39:56,100 --> 00:39:58,620 That's Gunter's. He must've left it here. 623 00:39:58,620 --> 00:40:02,900 He didn't take it to the pub? Can't have. He must've left it here. 624 00:40:02,900 --> 00:40:07,300 Fingerprints. Fingerprints! What do you want fingerprints for? 625 00:40:07,300 --> 00:40:10,500 Did Gunter make you any kind of offer while he was here? 626 00:40:10,500 --> 00:40:12,300 Who told you that? 627 00:40:12,300 --> 00:40:17,220 Did he? Well, I didn't really understand what he was on about. 628 00:40:17,220 --> 00:40:20,820 Something to do with him giving us shares in his firm for free. 629 00:40:20,820 --> 00:40:24,220 But I didn't like the sound of shares, so I said no. 630 00:40:24,220 --> 00:40:28,340 But he kept bringing it up, saying he wanted to thank me for what I did for him. 631 00:40:28,340 --> 00:40:31,580 And I said to him words are enough. 632 00:40:31,580 --> 00:40:33,140 What did you do for him? 633 00:40:33,140 --> 00:40:39,540 Nowt, as far as I was concerned, but he said it was the community. 634 00:40:39,540 --> 00:40:41,060 The way we lived. 635 00:40:44,060 --> 00:40:46,140 You're not looking as friendly as you were. 636 00:40:46,140 --> 00:40:49,460 I'd like the fingerprints of everybody on the farm, please. 637 00:40:53,100 --> 00:40:56,300 Where's your car? Still at the station. 638 00:40:56,300 --> 00:41:00,020 Pick it up, scrape China off the bar and earn yourself some overtime. 639 00:41:00,020 --> 00:41:03,420 I want that wallet dusted and cross-checked for fingerprints. 640 00:41:03,420 --> 00:41:08,460 Find out anything and everything that you can about the Schmeikels and their company... 641 00:41:08,460 --> 00:41:10,860 That's where China comes in, by the way. 642 00:41:10,860 --> 00:41:13,380 Get on the phone to the German Embassy. 643 00:41:13,380 --> 00:41:17,900 I want a flavour of this company. The business will reflect the man. 644 00:41:25,300 --> 00:41:28,020 Thanks. For the overtime. 645 00:41:30,820 --> 00:41:33,740 By the way, who gave us the heads up on Molly? 646 00:41:33,740 --> 00:41:37,260 Bert Galton. The fisherman that hooked out the eyeball. 647 00:41:37,260 --> 00:41:38,860 Yeah? 648 00:41:38,860 --> 00:41:41,380 Friend of Chick Shavers. 649 00:41:41,380 --> 00:41:43,460 Is he now? 650 00:41:49,780 --> 00:41:51,580 Chief Inspector. 651 00:41:51,580 --> 00:41:53,460 What can I get you? 652 00:41:53,460 --> 00:41:56,980 No. No, thank you, I'm on duty. 653 00:42:00,300 --> 00:42:05,060 I wondered if you noticed the other night whether... 654 00:42:05,060 --> 00:42:08,820 Gunter Schmeikel paid for his drinks from a wallet? 655 00:42:08,820 --> 00:42:12,420 A wallet? Yes, he did. 656 00:42:12,420 --> 00:42:14,980 Bert Galton...is he here? 657 00:42:16,540 --> 00:42:20,980 You know, I leave at the end of next week. 658 00:42:20,980 --> 00:42:25,500 SHE SPEAKS ITALIAN And I was wondering... 659 00:42:25,500 --> 00:42:29,580 Did your wife ever make you risotto di zucca? 660 00:42:29,580 --> 00:42:31,780 Yes, she did, often. 661 00:42:31,780 --> 00:42:33,980 I have said the wrong thing. 662 00:42:33,980 --> 00:42:37,420 No. No, er... 663 00:42:40,540 --> 00:42:45,460 Amata, you seem like a very lovely woman and it's been a pleasure to meet you. 664 00:42:45,460 --> 00:42:47,220 But I have to go now. 665 00:42:48,940 --> 00:42:51,180 Good luck, Mr Gently. 666 00:42:59,700 --> 00:43:02,500 Oh, sir, post mortem. 667 00:43:02,500 --> 00:43:05,740 The lower spine has splintered from pressure, not a blow. 668 00:43:05,740 --> 00:43:10,860 They're gonna do more tests on that. The fingerprint boys are still working on the wallet. Too slow! 669 00:43:10,860 --> 00:43:13,380 I have bollocked them, sir, but listen to this. 670 00:43:13,380 --> 00:43:18,460 German Police in Bremen are investigating Wilhelm Schmeikel for fraud...major fraud. 671 00:43:18,460 --> 00:43:23,300 What's he been up to? Illegal transfer of funds from his father's company into his accounts. 672 00:43:23,300 --> 00:43:25,820 Why would he need to steal from his father? 673 00:43:25,820 --> 00:43:30,700 Because Gunter was in the process of turning his company into a co-operative, 674 00:43:30,700 --> 00:43:33,620 making every employee into a shareholder 675 00:43:33,620 --> 00:43:38,980 and effectively...disinheriting Wilhelm! Pick him up! Right. 676 00:43:38,980 --> 00:43:41,580 < SNORING 677 00:43:43,260 --> 00:43:47,620 Guv, urgent call. Disturbance at the Mariners Rest. 678 00:43:47,620 --> 00:43:51,660 Piece of shite! Piece of shite yerself. Spreadin' lies about my ma! 679 00:43:57,140 --> 00:43:59,740 Clip him, man! 680 00:44:01,060 --> 00:44:05,580 Keep out of this, you! He's the one telling yer, is he?! 681 00:44:05,580 --> 00:44:08,860 You're nicked, the pair of you! Bit of a mover, aren't ya?! 682 00:44:08,860 --> 00:44:10,900 Cuff him, call for assistance. 683 00:44:10,900 --> 00:44:13,580 Away, man, let them finish it! LAUGHTER 684 00:44:14,580 --> 00:44:17,620 I hear you've had a bit of a result, Chief Inspector. 685 00:44:17,620 --> 00:44:22,660 I hear...the young Nazi killed the old Nazi. 686 00:44:22,660 --> 00:44:25,220 Joy unconfined, eh! 687 00:44:25,220 --> 00:44:27,340 Shut up. 688 00:44:27,340 --> 00:44:29,660 Mr Fairey. 689 00:44:31,260 --> 00:44:35,740 Who's been doing all the talking round here? Not me, sir. 690 00:44:35,740 --> 00:44:40,300 Well, cut it out, d'you hear me! ..You are still on my radar. 691 00:44:54,860 --> 00:44:59,900 He ditched his wife and scarpered. He's on the bus to Newcastle. He's gonna try and get a boat! 692 00:44:59,900 --> 00:45:03,020 I thought you took his passport? Dual nationality, sir. 693 00:45:03,020 --> 00:45:06,740 He's got a Danish one an' all. His mother was Danish. Amata told me. 694 00:45:13,940 --> 00:45:15,580 I tried to stop him. 695 00:45:15,580 --> 00:45:18,100 Didn't telephone us, though, did you? 696 00:45:18,100 --> 00:45:23,020 I told him this will only look bad, this will implicate you! 697 00:45:23,020 --> 00:45:26,180 Your English is excellent, isn't it? 698 00:45:26,180 --> 00:45:30,380 Yes. Well, while we're at it, let's clear up one other thing. 699 00:45:30,380 --> 00:45:34,740 Did you, or did you not, walk down to the quayside with your husband? 700 00:45:34,740 --> 00:45:37,540 I was going to. 701 00:45:37,540 --> 00:45:42,060 But I was feeling ill. I needed to lie down for a while, so... 702 00:45:42,060 --> 00:45:46,140 I stayed here at the hotel and he went on ahead. 703 00:45:46,140 --> 00:45:49,740 Collect your things and come downstairs, please. 704 00:46:12,580 --> 00:46:15,420 Take your time. OFFICER PANTS 705 00:46:15,420 --> 00:46:17,100 Not that long! 706 00:46:17,100 --> 00:46:22,380 The station called to say a warden from the National Park claims to have seen Gunter Schmeikel. 707 00:46:22,380 --> 00:46:25,260 Stratton? We talked to him yesterday. No, sir. 708 00:46:25,260 --> 00:46:29,420 Another warden, who saw the dead man's photo in the paper this morning 709 00:46:29,420 --> 00:46:33,380 and remembers seeing him in the park near Hadrian's Wall two days ago. 710 00:46:33,380 --> 00:46:36,780 He was with a group of people, but Gunter Schmeikel was seen 711 00:46:36,780 --> 00:46:40,300 in conversation with Stratton, who then went off with him, sir. 712 00:46:43,580 --> 00:46:47,700 The man who arrived just before you left the other night. 713 00:46:47,700 --> 00:46:53,180 The man we assumed was Gunter Schmeikel, you said he sat on a bollard. Which one? That one there. 714 00:46:53,180 --> 00:46:56,660 So the car's pointing virtually straight at him? Yes. 715 00:46:56,660 --> 00:47:02,860 And when you start your engine, the headlights come on and he's right in your beam? 716 00:47:02,860 --> 00:47:05,980 I suppose so. Yes. And presumably looks up. 717 00:47:05,980 --> 00:47:08,740 If he did, I don't remember. Well, did he or didn't he? 718 00:47:08,740 --> 00:47:11,740 You were looking straight at him. Well, I was driving off. 719 00:47:11,740 --> 00:47:16,540 Yes, and in order to leave, you have to go into reverse and then come forward again. 720 00:47:16,540 --> 00:47:18,460 When I reverse, I look behind us. 721 00:47:18,460 --> 00:47:22,340 A colleague of yours, a fellow warden, says that 722 00:47:22,340 --> 00:47:27,020 he saw you two days ago with Gunter Schmeikel at the National Park. 723 00:47:27,020 --> 00:47:30,300 He says you spoke to him, then went off together on your own. 724 00:47:30,300 --> 00:47:34,460 He says he recognised the deceased from the newspaper photographs. 725 00:47:34,460 --> 00:47:38,060 No. No, can't be the same man. 726 00:47:38,060 --> 00:47:41,580 Well, it was, though, wasn't it? 727 00:47:41,580 --> 00:47:46,220 Well, I met a lot of people that day! A lot of Germans?! 728 00:47:48,580 --> 00:47:53,180 Listen, what can I say? I'm sorry. I never connected the two men. 729 00:47:53,180 --> 00:47:54,820 Well, you can now. 730 00:47:54,820 --> 00:48:00,380 The man who sat on the bollard, was he the same man you went off with on the moors?! Don't shout at him! 731 00:48:00,380 --> 00:48:03,420 Why are you shouting? Alice! Stop it, please. 732 00:48:03,420 --> 00:48:06,540 It's all right, it's all right. Alice, you're quite right. 733 00:48:06,540 --> 00:48:10,980 You're quite right, I shouldn't. You shouldn't. A man called Gently shouldn't shout! 734 00:48:10,980 --> 00:48:14,140 No. You're right, Alice. I'm sorry. I apologise. 735 00:48:14,140 --> 00:48:16,700 My dad sometimes shouts, only in the house. 736 00:48:16,700 --> 00:48:20,740 Never outside, you mustn't shout outside, only in the house. 737 00:48:22,700 --> 00:48:25,740 Do you blame us? No. 738 00:48:27,820 --> 00:48:31,380 It never occurred... Of course it was the same man. 739 00:48:31,380 --> 00:48:34,660 Well, thank God for that or we'd be looking for another German. 740 00:48:37,220 --> 00:48:41,820 But...the man on the moors, why did you go off with him? 741 00:48:43,260 --> 00:48:46,820 Well, everyone was hoping to see a Merganser. 742 00:48:46,820 --> 00:48:51,380 Jim, he was with Jim Hardyment, but Jim's got gout these days 743 00:48:51,380 --> 00:48:56,020 and asks if I can take him down the lake, so I said sure, yeah. 744 00:48:56,020 --> 00:48:59,980 I only point him in the right direction. 745 00:48:59,980 --> 00:49:03,260 I may need to speak to you again, Mr Stratton. 746 00:49:03,260 --> 00:49:05,660 Of course. Again, I'm sorry. 747 00:49:05,660 --> 00:49:07,620 Me mind's all over the place. 748 00:49:07,620 --> 00:49:09,700 Alice. Am I forgiven? 749 00:49:19,500 --> 00:49:21,500 Got yer. Got yer! 750 00:49:26,100 --> 00:49:29,500 HORN BLARES 751 00:49:40,940 --> 00:49:43,220 Police. Sorry about this... 752 00:49:43,220 --> 00:49:48,180 Hey, you stay where you are! You stay where you are! Right? Yeah. 753 00:49:49,500 --> 00:49:54,020 What happened, eh? Your father found out you were stealing from him? 754 00:49:54,020 --> 00:49:57,060 Agh! Right, come on. 755 00:49:57,060 --> 00:50:00,340 Sorry, it's just me. Chief Constable was busy. 756 00:50:02,180 --> 00:50:05,580 All right, you can go now. Thank you. Listen... 757 00:50:05,580 --> 00:50:08,140 No, no, no. In the car. 758 00:50:08,140 --> 00:50:12,980 Please. Just, please listen. This could be as important for you as it is for me. Please listen. 759 00:50:12,980 --> 00:50:17,620 No, you listen. You don't know how much trouble you're in? Right. No, I know, I know. 760 00:50:17,620 --> 00:50:20,340 I know, you hang people here. 761 00:50:20,340 --> 00:50:26,420 And if the tide is against me, which it is, then no-one is going to understand. 762 00:50:26,420 --> 00:50:30,940 So my father's company, mine now, 763 00:50:30,940 --> 00:50:34,420 we can pay our way! 764 00:50:36,460 --> 00:50:40,620 I'm not following you. Oh, yes, you are. You are very smart, and... 765 00:50:40,620 --> 00:50:42,420 and I've been watching you. 766 00:50:42,420 --> 00:50:45,940 You have connections. And I'm not trying to avoid anything. 767 00:50:45,940 --> 00:50:49,340 It is just that, in Germany, we do not have the death penalty. 768 00:50:49,340 --> 00:50:55,060 So all I ask is for you to work on my extradition, to have me sent back to Bremen. 769 00:50:55,060 --> 00:50:57,620 For that, I will give you £20,000. 770 00:51:00,020 --> 00:51:05,220 Because I did not kill my father! Did not, did not! 771 00:51:05,220 --> 00:51:07,260 Look... 772 00:51:07,260 --> 00:51:11,500 To show good faith, with one phone call... 773 00:51:11,500 --> 00:51:16,340 I put £5,000 into your bank account today. 774 00:51:16,340 --> 00:51:21,980 Now. All I need is you give me your account number. Yes? 775 00:51:34,380 --> 00:51:36,420 Sir? 776 00:51:36,420 --> 00:51:39,580 Schmiekel, any news? Er, no, sir. 777 00:51:39,580 --> 00:51:42,620 Post-mortem tests? No. Not yet, sir. 778 00:51:42,620 --> 00:51:46,740 I've just been told there are two sets of prints on Gunter Schmeikel's wallet. 779 00:51:46,740 --> 00:51:49,660 Gunter's and Jimmy Hardyment's. 780 00:51:50,740 --> 00:51:55,020 Jimmy... Could you tell me, please, 781 00:51:55,020 --> 00:51:59,500 why your finger-prints were on Gunter's wallet? 782 00:52:03,620 --> 00:52:06,420 I took it to see if he had a photo of me mam in it. 783 00:52:06,420 --> 00:52:08,020 When was this? 784 00:52:08,020 --> 00:52:10,380 In the pub on the last night. 785 00:52:11,900 --> 00:52:16,780 'He was singing this song and just threw his jacket to us. 786 00:52:16,780 --> 00:52:20,020 'But when he finished, I was still holding the wallet.' 787 00:52:23,180 --> 00:52:25,380 Hadn't looked in it yet. 788 00:52:25,380 --> 00:52:28,140 In case anybody saw us... 789 00:52:28,140 --> 00:52:30,540 Cos I felt like a thief. 790 00:52:30,540 --> 00:52:32,060 So then I kept it. 791 00:52:34,020 --> 00:52:37,740 I put it in the bedside cupboard up in the loft as if he'd forgotten it. 792 00:52:37,740 --> 00:52:40,460 And was there a photo of your mum in it? 793 00:52:43,180 --> 00:52:47,740 Jimmy, do you think Gunter was responsible for your mother's death? 794 00:52:55,740 --> 00:53:00,780 I don't pretend that Wilhelm's relationship with Gunter was easy. 795 00:53:00,780 --> 00:53:02,820 It wasn't. 796 00:53:02,820 --> 00:53:06,220 I think, maybe, they disagree about everything, 797 00:53:06,220 --> 00:53:10,860 but to be the son of a successful father, it is hard. 798 00:53:10,860 --> 00:53:14,660 Then on this trip to be presented to these... 799 00:53:14,660 --> 00:53:18,500 Wilhelm calls them peasants... and they are. 800 00:53:18,500 --> 00:53:20,460 In the best sense, they are. 801 00:53:20,460 --> 00:53:24,860 But then his father is saying, these people are what we must be like. 802 00:53:24,860 --> 00:53:29,780 This is what our company must be like, this is how we must look after one another, 803 00:53:29,780 --> 00:53:32,380 and really, this is not business! 804 00:53:34,340 --> 00:53:36,980 And you met the Hardyments where? 805 00:53:36,980 --> 00:53:40,700 Wilhelm's father studies birds and the Hardyments took us to the moors. 806 00:53:40,700 --> 00:53:42,300 Tell me about that. 807 00:53:42,300 --> 00:53:44,180 There's nothing to tell. 808 00:53:44,180 --> 00:53:49,500 We don't like the Hardyments and I'm sure the Hardyments don't like us. 809 00:53:49,500 --> 00:53:52,060 But Gunter is happy. 810 00:53:52,060 --> 00:53:55,060 So happy. 811 00:53:55,060 --> 00:53:57,700 Well, someone tried to snatch his camera. 812 00:53:57,700 --> 00:54:01,340 They didn't get it, but Wilhelm was very angry. 813 00:54:01,340 --> 00:54:06,100 He wanted to find this person, because it happened while Gunter was off at the lake. 814 00:54:06,100 --> 00:54:10,420 But then Gunter was saying, leave it, leave it, so we leave it. 815 00:54:10,420 --> 00:54:13,580 Please, I have to keep saying this, because I know it is true. 816 00:54:13,580 --> 00:54:19,500 Wilhelm could never have killed his father, never. This I know. 817 00:54:21,860 --> 00:54:29,100 Your husband is being investigated for fraud, Frau Schmeikel, for stealing from his father. 818 00:54:29,100 --> 00:54:33,500 Perhaps in anticipation of his father disinheriting him. Did you know that? 819 00:54:36,980 --> 00:54:39,380 He never told you, did he? 820 00:54:39,380 --> 00:54:43,620 Do some thinking, please. 821 00:54:50,740 --> 00:54:53,900 Mr Gently. China. 822 00:54:53,900 --> 00:54:57,420 I was asked to take a call from Bremen, from the police there. 823 00:54:57,420 --> 00:55:01,460 They couldn't speak English, but wanted you to know that, half an hour ago, 824 00:55:01,460 --> 00:55:04,980 Wilhelm Schmeikel instructed his bank 825 00:55:04,980 --> 00:55:09,580 to transfer five grand into the account of Sergeant John Bacchus. 826 00:55:11,260 --> 00:55:15,300 And they want to know whether they should let the transfer go ahead? 827 00:55:15,300 --> 00:55:17,940 Where is Sergeant Bacchus? He's just come in, sir. 828 00:55:17,940 --> 00:55:20,820 With the German in handcuffs. 829 00:55:20,820 --> 00:55:24,580 Looking very happy with himself. Guv... 830 00:55:24,580 --> 00:55:28,860 Wilhelm Schmeikel wishes to make a statement. I'll get him lined up for you. 831 00:55:28,860 --> 00:55:31,380 Not yet, Sergeant. 832 00:55:31,380 --> 00:55:34,460 Yes. Tell them to go ahead with it. 833 00:55:34,460 --> 00:55:36,460 With me, please. 834 00:55:41,980 --> 00:55:44,660 I, er... 835 00:55:44,660 --> 00:55:47,700 I want your opinion on Robert Stratton. 836 00:55:49,300 --> 00:55:51,580 They're here now, we've got 'em now! 837 00:55:51,580 --> 00:55:55,100 I'm talking about you letting it fester for years, man! 838 00:55:55,100 --> 00:55:59,340 I thought it was the best thing to do at the time! Mr Gently. 839 00:55:59,340 --> 00:56:01,100 Look what we just dug up! 840 00:56:01,100 --> 00:56:04,540 We must talk to Wilhelm as quickly as possible. You stick with me. 841 00:56:04,540 --> 00:56:07,660 I was the one who found Molly, y'see, 842 00:56:07,660 --> 00:56:12,380 and there she was, on the bed, holding this box. 843 00:56:12,380 --> 00:56:16,900 And when I saw them... You should've read them or told somebody about 'em! 844 00:56:16,900 --> 00:56:19,940 It wouldn't have been right. They were too personal! 845 00:56:19,940 --> 00:56:22,620 She wasn't hiding them, was she?! 846 00:56:22,620 --> 00:56:28,020 I didn't want anyone doing anything stupid like going after whoever had made her do such a thing. 847 00:56:28,020 --> 00:56:35,500 I took 'em outside to where she used to sit and read and...buried 'em under a tree. 848 00:56:36,820 --> 00:56:39,740 Now what yer blabbing for? 849 00:56:39,740 --> 00:56:43,300 Cos he thinks our Jimmy did for Gunter, don't yer?! 850 00:56:43,300 --> 00:56:48,140 Well, if our Jimmy done it, we're all in it, aren't we? He was with us! 851 00:56:48,140 --> 00:56:52,460 These must be nearly 20 years old! I mean, what are they gonna prove?! 852 00:56:52,460 --> 00:56:54,500 Let's find out, shall we? 853 00:56:54,500 --> 00:56:59,620 I'm not opening 'em! I don't wanna know who they're from. 854 00:57:01,980 --> 00:57:03,500 May I? 855 00:57:08,940 --> 00:57:11,700 When you took Gunter out onto the moors, 856 00:57:11,700 --> 00:57:15,180 I gather you met Robert Stratton, one of the wardens. 857 00:57:15,180 --> 00:57:17,980 Bob Stratton, aye. 858 00:57:17,980 --> 00:57:22,620 Gunter was telling us about the night he got shot down, and Bob joined with. 859 00:57:22,620 --> 00:57:27,180 And Gunter went off with him? Well, I asked him to show him down to the lake. 860 00:57:27,180 --> 00:57:30,060 How long have you known Robert Stratton? 861 00:57:30,060 --> 00:57:32,380 Came here just after the war. 862 00:57:32,380 --> 00:57:39,900 A Sunderland man. What a life he has, wife on the verge all the time and that poor lassie of his... 863 00:57:39,900 --> 00:57:42,700 He does everything. He's a sound bloke. 864 00:57:47,380 --> 00:57:50,580 They're all censored. I mean, there's a few clues and that. 865 00:57:53,140 --> 00:57:57,380 If we see a phone-box, d'you mind if I stop and make a quick call? 866 00:57:57,380 --> 00:57:59,900 Something urgent? No. 867 00:58:19,900 --> 00:58:22,540 Hello. Hello. 868 00:58:22,540 --> 00:58:26,060 Can we...? Come in, come in! Come in. 869 00:58:26,060 --> 00:58:29,580 HE KNOCKS ON DOOR Hello? Oh! Oh, sorry. Sorry. 870 00:58:29,580 --> 00:58:32,380 WATER SPLASHES > Can you give us a minute, please? 871 00:58:32,380 --> 00:58:35,340 It's me mam, she's in the altogether. 872 00:58:35,340 --> 00:58:38,780 Me mam, she's in the altogether. Look. Yeah, we'll wait. 873 00:58:38,780 --> 00:58:41,860 Alice, come on. Pack it in! Come on. 874 00:58:41,860 --> 00:58:47,100 Er, sorry, me wife can't wash or dress herself at the moment. 875 00:58:47,100 --> 00:58:49,340 Mr Stratton. 876 00:58:49,340 --> 00:58:51,420 Yeah, I was gonna come and see you. 877 00:58:51,420 --> 00:58:58,580 Cos I realised that I must have also seen that young German couple from the hotel before. 878 00:58:58,580 --> 00:59:04,380 On the moors, part of the Hardyment group. I mean, I never spoke to them at the time, but, er... 879 00:59:04,380 --> 00:59:09,740 I guess they didn't recognise me either cos they would've said something at the hotel, perhaps. 880 00:59:09,740 --> 00:59:17,180 It's just that the young wife says that when Gunter Schmeikel came back from going off with you, 881 00:59:17,180 --> 00:59:20,780 he complained that someone tried to snatch his camera. 882 00:59:22,300 --> 00:59:24,740 What? She said it was... I didn't steal... 883 00:59:24,740 --> 00:59:27,140 Why would I steal his camera? Now listen, no. 884 00:59:27,140 --> 00:59:29,820 No, he was a, he was a strange one, that one. 885 00:59:29,820 --> 00:59:35,100 I didn't say that she'd accused you, Mr Stratton. But please go on. 886 00:59:35,100 --> 00:59:38,100 Gunter Schmeikel was strange in what way? 887 00:59:38,100 --> 00:59:41,740 Well, you know, he was odd... 888 00:59:41,740 --> 00:59:46,060 Nice enough to start off with, but when we got down to the lake, 889 00:59:46,060 --> 00:59:49,820 he turns on us, "Go. Go on. Go on!" 890 00:59:49,820 --> 00:59:52,140 and starts saying I was spying on him. 891 00:59:52,140 --> 00:59:55,500 Well, you know, I just walk away. I leave him to it. 892 00:59:55,500 --> 01:00:01,740 And yet, this was the man who was behaving so strangely earlier in the afternoon, 893 01:00:01,740 --> 01:00:06,300 that you failed to recognise him at the quayside? 894 01:00:06,300 --> 01:00:09,260 Yeah, well, I've already explained that! 895 01:00:09,260 --> 01:00:13,860 The man at the quayside didn't bring to mind that man, not once. 896 01:00:15,820 --> 01:00:19,300 Italy '44... 897 01:00:19,300 --> 01:00:22,220 Durham Light Infantry? 898 01:00:22,220 --> 01:00:23,740 Aye. 899 01:00:25,260 --> 01:00:26,940 You? 900 01:00:26,940 --> 01:00:29,300 Middlesex Regiment, then... 901 01:00:31,020 --> 01:00:33,300 ..joined up with the Cheshire. 902 01:00:35,060 --> 01:00:37,780 Took a bit of a hammering. 903 01:00:37,780 --> 01:00:42,900 They did. We had a quiet time for the most part. 904 01:00:49,460 --> 01:00:53,060 Sorry, I think your wife's... No. 905 01:00:53,060 --> 01:00:58,020 Come on. Come on. No. In. In. Come on. 906 01:00:58,020 --> 01:01:01,940 Alice, don't. Don't do that, Alice. 907 01:01:01,940 --> 01:01:05,980 Don't! Alice, come away from the fire. 908 01:01:07,020 --> 01:01:10,260 Away from the fire. There's a good girl. 909 01:01:10,260 --> 01:01:14,340 Thank you. Thanks. 910 01:01:14,340 --> 01:01:17,100 What happens when you're working? 911 01:01:19,260 --> 01:01:21,900 They stay in their rooms. 912 01:01:21,900 --> 01:01:24,900 Does that...? 913 01:01:24,900 --> 01:01:26,420 Does he lock 'em in? 914 01:01:34,660 --> 01:01:36,580 Is Stratton a suspect? 915 01:01:36,580 --> 01:01:39,700 Yeah, of course he is. Why? 916 01:01:39,700 --> 01:01:42,060 Would that help or hinder you? 917 01:01:42,060 --> 01:01:46,300 Don't understand the question. Would that be good or bad for you? 918 01:01:46,300 --> 01:01:47,940 For me?! 919 01:01:49,300 --> 01:01:51,940 I don't get you, guv. 920 01:01:51,940 --> 01:01:54,820 The police in Bremen rang. 921 01:01:54,820 --> 01:01:59,020 Wilhelm Schmeikel's transferring £5,000 into your account. 922 01:01:59,020 --> 01:02:01,780 I was gonna tell ya. Well, you've had two hours. 923 01:02:03,540 --> 01:02:06,140 I was waiting for the money to be in place. 924 01:02:06,140 --> 01:02:07,900 It could've changed his mind! 925 01:02:07,900 --> 01:02:09,500 Try again, Sergeant. 926 01:02:10,500 --> 01:02:12,940 Look... 927 01:02:12,940 --> 01:02:19,460 OK, I wanted to prove to you that I could get things done, my way! 928 01:02:19,460 --> 01:02:22,180 Look, guv. Guv, listen, please. 929 01:02:22,180 --> 01:02:25,900 Think about it! The guy wasn't just gonna go and confess, was he? 930 01:02:25,900 --> 01:02:27,340 This is proof! 931 01:02:27,340 --> 01:02:31,940 What was he gonna get for his 5,000? 20,000. 20?! 932 01:02:31,940 --> 01:02:35,740 Five now and the rest when I got him extradited to Germany. 933 01:02:35,740 --> 01:02:36,860 You can't do that! 934 01:02:36,860 --> 01:02:39,580 Well, I know that! But he doesn't know that, does he? 935 01:02:39,580 --> 01:02:43,420 He's desperate. He's desperate, because he's guilty. 936 01:02:43,420 --> 01:02:46,500 What about Jimmy Hardyment and the Hardyment family? 937 01:02:46,500 --> 01:02:48,980 Jimmy's fingerprints are all over the wallet. 938 01:02:48,980 --> 01:02:51,500 Are you not bothered about Robert Stratton's memory lapses? 939 01:02:51,500 --> 01:02:54,020 Sir, Wilhelm Schmeikel killed his father, 940 01:02:54,020 --> 01:02:57,620 and in an attempt to avoid the news, tried to buy his way home! 941 01:02:57,620 --> 01:02:59,460 Thank you. Right. Very good. 942 01:03:01,260 --> 01:03:05,420 Yes, we now need to transfer the 5,000 back to the... 943 01:03:06,940 --> 01:03:08,460 What? 944 01:03:12,380 --> 01:03:14,500 By how much? 945 01:03:19,100 --> 01:03:21,700 Can I call you back, please? 946 01:03:21,700 --> 01:03:23,180 Thank you. 947 01:03:26,180 --> 01:03:30,420 Your bank can't repay the full £5,000. They can only manage... 948 01:03:30,420 --> 01:03:33,340 £4,782. 949 01:03:34,180 --> 01:03:35,220 My overdraft. 950 01:03:35,220 --> 01:03:38,980 Which you exceeded and has consequently been cancelled, 951 01:03:38,980 --> 01:03:42,060 meaning, as of now, you just took a bribe. 952 01:03:43,180 --> 01:03:45,700 No, sir... You know that's not true! 953 01:03:45,700 --> 01:03:48,300 No, let me tell you what I know. 954 01:03:48,300 --> 01:03:52,100 You decided to cut corners to incriminate Wilhelm Schmeikel, 955 01:03:52,100 --> 01:03:55,660 and what you've really managed to do is incriminate yourself. 956 01:03:59,140 --> 01:04:02,500 Find out who the man is in those letters. 957 01:04:02,500 --> 01:04:04,540 His name is blacked out. 958 01:04:04,540 --> 01:04:05,660 HE SCOFFS 959 01:04:06,700 --> 01:04:08,820 It's a simple task, Sergeant. 960 01:04:08,820 --> 01:04:12,860 There's lots of circumstantial stuff in them. Anyone can do that. 961 01:04:12,860 --> 01:04:14,420 Yeah, so go and do it. 962 01:04:15,820 --> 01:04:19,700 My punishment, is it? I don't care how you look at it. 963 01:04:19,700 --> 01:04:21,580 Just do as I tell you for once!! 964 01:04:21,580 --> 01:04:24,100 What are you gonna do while I'm stuck in some office 965 01:04:24,100 --> 01:04:26,180 30 miles away for the rest of the night? 966 01:04:26,180 --> 01:04:29,620 I'll talk to some senior officers who might just be able to save you 967 01:04:29,620 --> 01:04:32,860 from a dishonourable discharge from the police service! 968 01:04:32,860 --> 01:04:34,380 Hello. 969 01:04:36,540 --> 01:04:38,060 Speaking. 970 01:04:39,780 --> 01:04:41,500 Tomorrow? 971 01:04:41,500 --> 01:04:43,940 Just hold on a minute. 972 01:04:51,620 --> 01:04:54,380 Yes, that will be fine. 973 01:05:18,500 --> 01:05:19,820 Good work. 974 01:05:19,820 --> 01:05:22,060 Good work, Detective Sergeant Bacchus. 975 01:05:28,500 --> 01:05:29,860 Exc.. 976 01:05:29,860 --> 01:05:31,580 Excuse me! 977 01:05:31,580 --> 01:05:32,740 Hello?! 978 01:05:32,740 --> 01:05:34,540 There's no need to shout in here. 979 01:05:34,540 --> 01:05:37,500 Can I move on to the Ss, please. Aye. 980 01:05:37,500 --> 01:05:39,380 Thank you. S for Stratton. 981 01:05:54,620 --> 01:05:59,420 Yes, I can feel myself inhabiting the role of the detective. 982 01:06:00,500 --> 01:06:02,540 Accumulating information, 983 01:06:02,540 --> 01:06:07,820 examining motives and evidence, you know. 984 01:06:07,820 --> 01:06:11,340 But I tell yer how I decide who's done it, 985 01:06:11,340 --> 01:06:17,180 cos it might be useful to you as a technique, y'know? 986 01:06:17,180 --> 01:06:19,820 Out of the mouths of babes in China... 987 01:06:21,700 --> 01:06:23,540 What I do is this - 988 01:06:23,540 --> 01:06:25,980 I ask myself, 989 01:06:25,980 --> 01:06:31,380 who would you not want to be right now, China? 990 01:06:31,380 --> 01:06:34,300 What's it like speaking German after all these years? 991 01:06:35,820 --> 01:06:37,860 It's not the speaking of it... 992 01:06:39,380 --> 01:06:41,340 It's hearing it again. 993 01:06:46,780 --> 01:06:48,460 So... 994 01:06:48,460 --> 01:06:52,380 Are you not going to ask me who I think done it?! 995 01:06:52,380 --> 01:06:54,860 Nope. I think you should get some sleep, China. 996 01:06:54,860 --> 01:06:58,300 German Police and Embassy officials first thing in the morning. 997 01:06:58,300 --> 01:07:00,820 Right, Mr Gently. 998 01:07:22,940 --> 01:07:24,660 Robert Stratton. 999 01:07:24,660 --> 01:07:26,500 Robert Stratton... 1000 01:07:26,500 --> 01:07:30,260 "By the King's order the name of Corporal Robert C Stratton, 1001 01:07:30,260 --> 01:07:31,700 "Durham Light Infantry, 1002 01:07:31,700 --> 01:07:35,260 "was published in the London Gazette on the 4th of August 1944, 1003 01:07:35,260 --> 01:07:39,980 "as mentioned in a dispatch for distinguished service. 1004 01:07:39,980 --> 01:07:44,340 "I am charged to record His Majesty's high appreciation." 1005 01:07:44,340 --> 01:07:46,180 Signed Secretary of State for War. 1006 01:07:47,700 --> 01:07:49,660 Mentioned in a dispatch for what? 1007 01:07:53,820 --> 01:07:57,380 Bloody hell! He killed three men with his own hands. 1008 01:08:00,260 --> 01:08:03,220 Ich flehe Sie an, bitte... 1009 01:08:03,220 --> 01:08:04,420 KNOCK ON DOOR 1010 01:08:07,740 --> 01:08:10,180 Ich moechte an die deutsche Justiz ausgeliefert werden. 1011 01:08:10,180 --> 01:08:13,940 Full post-mortem report, and DS Bacchus is on the phone for you. 1012 01:08:13,940 --> 01:08:16,700 Thank you. Taylor? Sir. 1013 01:08:16,700 --> 01:08:19,900 I sent someone to fetch Mr Stratton in. Is he here yet? 1014 01:08:19,900 --> 01:08:21,540 I'll go and check for you, sir. 1015 01:08:27,500 --> 01:08:32,140 Sir, I've got the identity of the man in the letters. Molly's man. 1016 01:08:32,140 --> 01:08:35,580 Right, he was based up here with the Royal Signals from '45 1017 01:08:35,580 --> 01:08:38,980 till he was posted to Palestine, where he died of diphtheria. 1018 01:08:38,980 --> 01:08:42,260 Now this was two weeks before Molly Hardyment killed herself. 1019 01:08:42,260 --> 01:08:45,860 And he was married, which may have some bearing. 1020 01:08:45,860 --> 01:08:49,340 Although, of course, none of this actually solves anything, 1021 01:08:49,340 --> 01:08:51,460 since the important thing is that people thought 1022 01:08:51,460 --> 01:08:53,900 it might have been down to Gunter. 1023 01:08:54,900 --> 01:08:57,460 D'you wanna say something, guv? 1024 01:08:58,980 --> 01:09:00,420 Well done. Well done. 1025 01:09:00,420 --> 01:09:03,740 Right. Am I still on the case? 1026 01:09:03,740 --> 01:09:07,140 You were never off it, or didn't you notice? 1027 01:09:07,140 --> 01:09:10,060 Sometimes we have to take the long way round, Sergeant. 1028 01:09:10,060 --> 01:09:12,740 Yeah, it's amazing what a bit of donkey work can do, innit? 1029 01:09:12,740 --> 01:09:16,180 Now, listen, I came up with one more thing. It's the... 1030 01:09:16,180 --> 01:09:18,940 Yeah, tell me when you see me. 1031 01:09:41,060 --> 01:09:44,060 Well? Doesn't look good, Mr Gently. 1032 01:09:44,060 --> 01:09:47,260 He's begging to be extradited... and admitting everything. 1033 01:09:47,260 --> 01:09:48,940 He admitted killing his father? 1034 01:09:48,940 --> 01:09:52,580 Well, he said he'd say he did it if they sent him back to Germany. 1035 01:09:52,580 --> 01:09:55,900 But then he said he didn't do it. 1036 01:09:55,900 --> 01:09:57,980 One thing's for certain, Mr Gently. 1037 01:09:57,980 --> 01:09:59,140 He don't want to hang. 1038 01:10:00,140 --> 01:10:02,860 Do you think he did it? Yes. 1039 01:10:02,860 --> 01:10:04,380 Well, no. 1040 01:10:04,380 --> 01:10:07,380 Well, maybe. 1041 01:10:09,020 --> 01:10:10,980 The Germans think he did it, sir. 1042 01:10:12,980 --> 01:10:14,020 Hm. 1043 01:10:15,420 --> 01:10:19,140 I ask you, Chief Inspector, if I wanted to kill him, 1044 01:10:19,140 --> 01:10:22,100 why wouldn't I have done it out at sea? 1045 01:10:22,100 --> 01:10:23,660 Claim it as an accident?! 1046 01:10:23,660 --> 01:10:25,620 You can't sail. 1047 01:10:25,620 --> 01:10:28,620 And your wife was with you. 1048 01:10:28,620 --> 01:10:30,900 I did not kill my father! 1049 01:10:30,900 --> 01:10:34,900 And I'd be inclined to believe you, because, 1050 01:10:34,900 --> 01:10:37,580 to do this, 1051 01:10:37,580 --> 01:10:40,740 to inflict this amount of pain... 1052 01:10:40,740 --> 01:10:45,380 and I am assured he would have been in extreme agony... Well... 1053 01:10:45,380 --> 01:10:49,620 There are simpler and less suspicious ways 1054 01:10:49,620 --> 01:10:51,860 to dispatch a father. 1055 01:10:51,860 --> 01:10:53,820 However, in your latest statement, 1056 01:10:53,820 --> 01:11:00,100 you still insist that you walked down to the quayside with your wife. 1057 01:11:01,980 --> 01:11:06,260 The truth, Mr Schmeikel, might just save your life. 1058 01:11:07,380 --> 01:11:09,460 However, if you persist... 1059 01:11:09,460 --> 01:11:13,060 It was too suspicious to say that I was there on my own. 1060 01:11:13,060 --> 01:11:17,020 I am being investigated for stealing from my father. 1061 01:11:17,020 --> 01:11:18,700 Oh. 1062 01:11:18,700 --> 01:11:20,620 Good. Better... 1063 01:11:22,140 --> 01:11:25,660 So, who saw you on your own? 1064 01:11:25,660 --> 01:11:28,340 The Hardyments. 1065 01:11:28,340 --> 01:11:30,740 They were the first to pass you, yeah? 1066 01:11:30,740 --> 01:11:32,500 The first, no. 1067 01:11:32,500 --> 01:11:35,220 The only ones. There were no others. 1068 01:11:37,220 --> 01:11:42,140 Mr Schmeikel, you were seen and passed by two cars. 1069 01:11:42,140 --> 01:11:44,860 No, by the Hardyments only. 1070 01:11:45,780 --> 01:11:47,740 There were no other cars! 1071 01:11:47,740 --> 01:11:51,140 You're telling me, no other cars?! 1072 01:11:54,260 --> 01:11:57,020 Parked cars, yes. 1073 01:11:57,020 --> 01:11:59,180 One on the street and one on the harbour. 1074 01:11:59,180 --> 01:12:01,580 The harbour one. What make? 1075 01:12:03,100 --> 01:12:05,900 A small family car. 1076 01:12:05,900 --> 01:12:07,420 Blue, I think. 1077 01:12:09,100 --> 01:12:11,620 Where's Stratton? What room's he in?! 1078 01:12:11,620 --> 01:12:13,460 Oh, he's still not here, sir. 1079 01:12:34,380 --> 01:12:35,980 Mr Stratton. 1080 01:12:41,660 --> 01:12:43,420 Hello! 1081 01:12:43,420 --> 01:12:45,340 Mr Stratton! 1082 01:12:47,540 --> 01:12:48,780 Anybody! 1083 01:13:02,940 --> 01:13:04,540 BANGING 1084 01:13:10,620 --> 01:13:12,820 You all right, son? Yes, sir. 1085 01:13:16,300 --> 01:13:18,820 Where's the wife and daughter? 1086 01:13:18,820 --> 01:13:23,300 Upstairs, I think, but he went out maybe five, ten minutes ago. 1087 01:13:52,980 --> 01:13:54,660 What're yer doing? 1088 01:13:54,660 --> 01:13:56,100 Why are yer pulling us?! 1089 01:13:56,100 --> 01:13:58,540 Just taking a short cut. Wanna get to the top. 1090 01:13:58,540 --> 01:14:01,500 I don't want to. I don't like it. 1091 01:14:08,820 --> 01:14:11,980 TYRES SCREECH 1092 01:14:16,540 --> 01:14:17,900 No! 1093 01:14:17,900 --> 01:14:19,940 Come on, Alice. 1094 01:14:22,820 --> 01:14:24,340 Come on. 1095 01:14:48,420 --> 01:14:50,580 When was... 1096 01:14:50,580 --> 01:14:52,700 the best time up here? 1097 01:14:52,700 --> 01:14:54,220 When was that, do you reckon? 1098 01:14:55,780 --> 01:14:57,300 When it was frosty. 1099 01:15:00,900 --> 01:15:03,500 It was cold and frosty. 1100 01:15:03,500 --> 01:15:06,060 It was a cold and frosty morning! 1101 01:15:06,060 --> 01:15:09,180 I remember. The mist was down there, wasn't it? 1102 01:15:10,820 --> 01:15:13,580 Was...was like, 1103 01:15:13,580 --> 01:15:15,620 like we were in heaven! 1104 01:15:15,620 --> 01:15:19,740 Like, like me and you were angels. 1105 01:15:19,740 --> 01:15:21,180 Dad! 1106 01:15:25,740 --> 01:15:27,300 Let her go! 1107 01:15:27,300 --> 01:15:28,940 Stratton! 1108 01:15:28,940 --> 01:15:31,260 Let her go! 1109 01:15:50,740 --> 01:15:52,500 There's a good girl. 1110 01:15:53,900 --> 01:15:55,380 Come on. 1111 01:16:10,180 --> 01:16:11,220 Sir? What? 1112 01:16:11,220 --> 01:16:13,020 Call the station. 1113 01:16:13,020 --> 01:16:17,140 Tell them to release Jimmy Hardyment and Schmeikel. 1114 01:16:17,140 --> 01:16:20,060 And call an ambulance for Mrs Stratton. 1115 01:16:20,060 --> 01:16:21,540 Non-urgent. 1116 01:16:43,020 --> 01:16:44,620 Sergeant. 1117 01:16:44,620 --> 01:16:46,540 Whatever part you played, thank you. 1118 01:16:46,540 --> 01:16:48,580 Much appreciated, as you know. 1119 01:16:48,580 --> 01:16:51,220 Let's get this straight. I did nothing to help you. 1120 01:16:51,220 --> 01:16:53,740 The money's going back into your bank account. 1121 01:16:53,740 --> 01:16:57,660 Personally, I think you should be done for attempting to bribe a police officer. 1122 01:16:57,660 --> 01:17:02,260 You know, Sergeant, you are really quite an unpleasant chap. 1123 01:17:02,260 --> 01:17:06,500 Why don't you piss off back to where you came from? 1124 01:17:06,500 --> 01:17:10,460 Auf Wiedersehen, Herr Sergeant. 1125 01:17:13,340 --> 01:17:15,140 Trudi. 1126 01:17:16,260 --> 01:17:17,700 Sorry. 1127 01:17:31,220 --> 01:17:32,420 You joining us? 1128 01:17:36,380 --> 01:17:37,900 It's fate, isn't it? 1129 01:17:39,660 --> 01:17:42,220 I could've been anywhere on the moors that day. 1130 01:17:42,220 --> 01:17:46,020 And if Jim Hardyment hadn't've been there, I'd never have gone over. 1131 01:17:48,660 --> 01:17:50,900 But over I went, 1132 01:17:50,900 --> 01:17:54,220 and there's this smart German bloke, 1133 01:17:54,220 --> 01:17:57,620 laughing about being a bomber pilot, 1134 01:17:57,620 --> 01:18:01,300 and how he was shot down over the Tyne 20 years ago. 1135 01:18:03,900 --> 01:18:06,060 Laughing about it. Aye, man. 1136 01:18:06,060 --> 01:18:07,580 What? 1137 01:18:12,380 --> 01:18:15,380 1944, I'm out in Italy. 1138 01:18:15,380 --> 01:18:18,660 Yeah you were mentioned in dispatches, weren't you? Aye. 1139 01:18:18,660 --> 01:18:20,620 For killing three guards. 1140 01:18:22,260 --> 01:18:23,980 They were the enemy. 1141 01:18:23,980 --> 01:18:26,300 We'd been captured. 1142 01:18:26,300 --> 01:18:27,580 How did yer kill 'em? 1143 01:18:28,700 --> 01:18:31,380 I have admitted killing Gunter Schmeikel. 1144 01:18:31,380 --> 01:18:35,980 You broke their necks, didn't yer! There you are, there!! 1145 01:18:37,780 --> 01:18:40,260 We were unarmed. We did what we had to do. 1146 01:18:41,780 --> 01:18:43,500 And this time? 1147 01:18:43,500 --> 01:18:45,340 Well, I was trying to tell you. 1148 01:18:47,140 --> 01:18:50,220 Out in Italy, after we'd escaped, 1149 01:18:50,220 --> 01:18:53,540 I get a letter telling us me wife and bairn have been killed 1150 01:18:53,540 --> 01:18:55,300 in an air-raid in Sunderland. 1151 01:18:55,300 --> 01:18:57,500 We lived in Sunderland. 1152 01:18:57,500 --> 01:19:00,900 So you kill an innocent man 20 years later! Innocent? Well... 1153 01:19:00,900 --> 01:19:03,780 Who's innocent in this world? 1154 01:19:03,780 --> 01:19:05,180 Except me daughter. 1155 01:19:08,380 --> 01:19:11,060 But I'll tell you, I'd never have thought 1156 01:19:11,060 --> 01:19:14,660 I'd feel the way I did when I heard that Gerry laughing. 1157 01:19:14,660 --> 01:19:17,660 I'm not saying that I never thought about me first family, 1158 01:19:17,660 --> 01:19:22,540 cos what with me second wife and Alice, 1159 01:19:22,540 --> 01:19:27,700 you know, who wouldn't wonder what might have been? 1160 01:19:27,700 --> 01:19:29,740 But... 1161 01:19:32,420 --> 01:19:33,980 That laughter, though. 1162 01:19:35,980 --> 01:19:37,900 And Jim was joining in as well. 1163 01:19:37,900 --> 01:19:41,180 Fair dos, cos I'd never told anyone. 1164 01:19:41,180 --> 01:19:42,860 So... 1165 01:19:42,860 --> 01:19:47,780 When you go off with Gunter Schmeikel on the moors... 1166 01:19:47,780 --> 01:19:50,220 Oh, I'm gonna confront him. And I do. 1167 01:19:50,220 --> 01:19:53,900 But before I mean to, cos suddenly... 1168 01:19:53,900 --> 01:19:57,140 This is the new Canon. 1169 01:19:57,140 --> 01:19:59,580 You know about cameras? 1170 01:19:59,580 --> 01:20:01,940 It's the world's first. 1171 01:20:01,940 --> 01:20:04,340 You think I want to look at your bloody camera? 1172 01:20:04,340 --> 01:20:08,660 What do you do?! You think you can carry on like nothing's happened. 1173 01:20:08,660 --> 01:20:11,660 Like, standing around laughing and smiling. 1174 01:20:11,660 --> 01:20:13,500 Well, not in front of me, mate. 1175 01:20:13,500 --> 01:20:14,740 Just go away. 1176 01:20:14,740 --> 01:20:16,260 Not in front of me! 1177 01:20:20,700 --> 01:20:23,420 Don't think he knew what was happening, 1178 01:20:23,420 --> 01:20:25,500 cos I'm like, 1179 01:20:25,500 --> 01:20:29,460 you know, tongue-tied. I can't get me words out. 1180 01:20:29,460 --> 01:20:31,140 And... 1181 01:20:31,140 --> 01:20:32,980 Well, I'm embarrassed. 1182 01:20:34,980 --> 01:20:36,620 And I wander off. 1183 01:20:40,500 --> 01:20:44,660 Yesterday evening, when I knew I wasn't gonna get away with this, 1184 01:20:44,660 --> 01:20:48,220 I thought about telling yer that I went to see him the following night 1185 01:20:48,220 --> 01:20:50,820 to apologise and it got out of hand, 1186 01:20:50,820 --> 01:20:54,420 how I didn't mean to kill him, y'know, go for manslaughter. 1187 01:20:55,420 --> 01:20:57,780 But that still left us with the same problem. 1188 01:20:57,780 --> 01:20:59,900 Me wife and Alice, cos with me in prison, 1189 01:20:59,900 --> 01:21:03,020 them two's put away in mental homes and... 1190 01:21:03,020 --> 01:21:05,900 So... 1191 01:21:05,900 --> 01:21:07,620 Better to kill them? 1192 01:21:10,620 --> 01:21:13,180 Better if you'd've let us kill Alice, aye. 1193 01:21:16,580 --> 01:21:18,180 You frequent loony bins, do yer? 1194 01:21:18,180 --> 01:21:20,260 No, you know all about them though, yeah? 1195 01:21:20,260 --> 01:21:23,260 Well, try putting your own children in them! 1196 01:21:23,260 --> 01:21:25,300 If she were dead, I'd be joining her. 1197 01:21:25,300 --> 01:21:28,140 As it is, she's left here, cared for by who? You?!! 1198 01:21:30,300 --> 01:21:31,860 You? 1199 01:21:35,420 --> 01:21:37,820 And I keep feeling this... 1200 01:21:41,180 --> 01:21:44,220 Me, the quiet man, 1201 01:21:44,220 --> 01:21:46,820 the patient man everyone admires. 1202 01:21:49,380 --> 01:21:52,460 But from when I got home after that tussle... 1203 01:21:54,860 --> 01:21:57,140 ..I got angry. 1204 01:21:57,140 --> 01:22:00,100 I can't tell yer. I can't sleep for this rage. 1205 01:22:00,100 --> 01:22:02,460 Have I got to do everything by me bloody self? 1206 01:22:02,460 --> 01:22:05,300 Can you not see that the bloody fire's gone out?! 1207 01:22:05,300 --> 01:22:09,300 I can't stop hearing him laughing, like he's laughing at me life. 1208 01:22:10,740 --> 01:22:12,180 Some wood on the fire! 1209 01:22:16,300 --> 01:22:18,180 And I knew I was gonna kill him. 1210 01:22:20,740 --> 01:22:23,300 And end it? 1211 01:22:25,500 --> 01:22:28,220 How did the opportunity arise? 1212 01:22:29,980 --> 01:22:32,420 Well, like everything in life, you need the luck. 1213 01:22:32,420 --> 01:22:34,940 I figured rich folk like that would be staying at the hotel 1214 01:22:34,940 --> 01:22:35,980 so I went there first. 1215 01:22:35,980 --> 01:22:40,060 Yes. We will be spending the last night on the boat. 1216 01:22:40,060 --> 01:22:42,100 My father's already having drinks... 1217 01:22:42,100 --> 01:22:46,900 There's his son settling his bill and telling the receptionist everything I needed to know. 1218 01:22:46,900 --> 01:22:50,340 Where his dad was, what time they were meeting him. 1219 01:22:50,340 --> 01:22:52,700 We will go and meet my father soon. 1220 01:22:53,940 --> 01:22:57,620 So I drive down to the Mariners, go in... 1221 01:22:57,620 --> 01:22:59,220 RAUCOUS SINGING 1222 01:23:00,420 --> 01:23:03,900 And there's laughing boy up and singing Geordie songs to everyone! 1223 01:23:03,900 --> 01:23:05,900 So that helps fuel us. 1224 01:23:07,580 --> 01:23:10,980 But there's too many folk around, so I take meself off to the quay, 1225 01:23:10,980 --> 01:23:13,180 cos I know he's meeting his son there. 1226 01:23:13,180 --> 01:23:15,180 And I wait. 1227 01:23:17,220 --> 01:23:20,660 Why did you admit to being the fella in the car? 1228 01:23:20,660 --> 01:23:22,420 Well, I didn't know who'd seen us. 1229 01:23:22,420 --> 01:23:25,820 Could've been the Hardyments, in which case, why hadn't I, 1230 01:23:25,820 --> 01:23:28,060 y'know, owned up? 1231 01:23:28,060 --> 01:23:30,780 By this time I was still hoping to get away with it. 1232 01:23:32,300 --> 01:23:34,700 So you stitch up the son? 1233 01:23:34,700 --> 01:23:39,260 Can we stick to the order of events? 1234 01:23:39,260 --> 01:23:41,940 You're back on the quayside. 1235 01:23:41,940 --> 01:23:43,940 I take it Shavers came and went? 1236 01:23:43,940 --> 01:23:45,500 Thank God. 1237 01:23:45,500 --> 01:23:46,780 And then? 1238 01:23:46,780 --> 01:23:49,460 Well, just in case this Gunter came, 1239 01:23:49,460 --> 01:23:54,900 I parked in the shadows and waited and hoped. 1240 01:23:54,900 --> 01:23:57,260 I gave meself a time frame of 10.14. 1241 01:23:57,260 --> 01:23:59,980 If he hasn't turned up, I'm out of there. 1242 01:23:59,980 --> 01:24:01,700 At nine minutes past... 1243 01:24:01,700 --> 01:24:04,180 GUNTER SINGS 1244 01:24:04,180 --> 01:24:08,180 ♪ Saved coos an' calves 1245 01:24:08,180 --> 01:24:14,620 ♪ O' the famous Lambton worm. ♪ 1246 01:24:32,380 --> 01:24:33,540 CRACKING 1247 01:24:47,540 --> 01:24:49,220 And then I heard someone coming. 1248 01:24:50,180 --> 01:24:55,500 But I'm happy to wait for him to go now, cos I knew. 1249 01:24:55,500 --> 01:24:59,420 When your Gunter went in the water, 1250 01:24:59,420 --> 01:25:01,020 he went in alive. 1251 01:25:05,380 --> 01:25:07,700 Why was that so important? 1252 01:25:07,700 --> 01:25:11,180 Why not just snap his neck and kill him? 1253 01:25:11,180 --> 01:25:13,740 Cos when my wife and bairn died in that raid, 1254 01:25:13,740 --> 01:25:16,140 they weren't killed by a direct hit. 1255 01:25:16,140 --> 01:25:17,940 They were in the cellar 1256 01:25:17,940 --> 01:25:20,420 and a water-main burst. 1257 01:25:20,420 --> 01:25:24,220 But they couldn't get 'em out cos of the fallen masonry. 1258 01:25:24,220 --> 01:25:26,700 So they drowned. 1259 01:25:30,060 --> 01:25:32,380 Let's all have a laugh, eh? 1260 01:25:42,660 --> 01:25:45,180 Ah, good, you're still here. Come with me. 1261 01:25:45,180 --> 01:25:46,820 Guv? 1262 01:25:50,540 --> 01:25:54,180 I found out about Stratton's war record last night. 1263 01:25:55,260 --> 01:25:58,060 I knew when we spoke on the phone... 1264 01:26:01,700 --> 01:26:03,460 But if I'd told you last night, 1265 01:26:03,460 --> 01:26:06,340 his wife would still be alive now, wouldn't she? 1266 01:26:10,740 --> 01:26:12,220 For better or for worse. 1267 01:26:18,900 --> 01:26:20,020 Come on! 1268 01:26:21,020 --> 01:26:22,620 I want to show you something. 1269 01:26:28,460 --> 01:26:30,340 Stay! 1270 01:26:30,340 --> 01:26:31,540 Stay. 1271 01:26:31,540 --> 01:26:35,460 That's right, you tell 'em. You show them who's the boss. Come on! 1272 01:26:38,540 --> 01:26:39,740 Now make a fuss of 'em. 1273 01:26:39,740 --> 01:26:41,780 Good doggies. 1274 01:26:41,780 --> 01:26:44,620 Right, we'll be heading back, Mr Gently. 1275 01:26:44,620 --> 01:26:47,980 I'm gonna look after the chickens and the ducks, 1276 01:26:47,980 --> 01:26:50,220 and the geese. 1277 01:26:50,220 --> 01:26:51,380 And the doggies. 1278 01:26:51,380 --> 01:26:53,580 Thank you. 1279 01:26:53,580 --> 01:26:55,060 That's what we're here for. 1280 01:26:56,460 --> 01:26:57,700 Come on then. Eh! 1281 01:26:57,700 --> 01:27:02,380 Right, now we have to repay that bribe you took. 1282 01:27:02,380 --> 01:27:04,740 Sir, it wasn't a bribe. 1283 01:27:04,740 --> 01:27:06,860 I ran up an overdraft limit. 1284 01:27:06,860 --> 01:27:10,580 Right, well let's clear it. Here. Have this. 1285 01:27:10,580 --> 01:27:12,020 Go on. 1286 01:27:12,020 --> 01:27:13,980 Oh, no. No, I'm not taking that. 1287 01:27:13,980 --> 01:27:16,580 Yes, you are. You can repay me £10 a month. No. 1288 01:27:16,580 --> 01:27:18,420 £10 a month without fail. 1289 01:27:18,420 --> 01:27:19,980 I don't want it, sir. Have it. 1290 01:27:19,980 --> 01:27:23,060 There's enough in there, so you can keep the MG as well. 1291 01:27:23,060 --> 01:27:25,900 Can't have you driving around in something sensible. 1292 01:27:25,900 --> 01:27:27,940 Tomorrow, first thing. 1293 01:27:30,020 --> 01:27:31,540 (WHISTLES) In you go. 1294 01:27:32,620 --> 01:27:34,140 Thank you, sir. 1295 01:27:50,700 --> 01:27:54,860 Subtitles by Red Bee Media Ltd 1296 01:27:54,860 --> 01:27:59,220 E-mail subtitling@bbc.co.uk 104241