All language subtitles for The Gentle Touch s01e07 Melody

Keep the change.

Keep half the change.

We're your friends.

Come on.

Call that a game.

It was daylight, Robert.

The English should have been arrested if
they came off the far.

Look, they were playing 13 men. I
counted them.

And that penalty went a rip -off.

You can't kick a man in a crutch in a
football field. Where can you do it? The

sport's not what it was. It's a game now
for jetties and big girl blouses.

Where are these lads anyway?

She did say fifth floor, didn't she?

Aye.

But it was the way she said it.

Tony, where's that bloody rabbit one?

32.

Ah, here we are.

34.

What were you doing there, anyway?

For God's sake, woman.

Inspector. We got her address from the
barber at her hotel, Inspector.

We're just down here in business for the
international... Look, we've already

been put through the grinder by your
colleagues.

We were the ones who reported it,
remember?

That's what you get for being a good
citizen. We could have just walked away,

you know. Yes, I know you could. And I'm
grateful that you didn't.

Have you visited Melody before?

No.

Did you see anyone leaving as you
arrived? Maybe in the lobby?

There wasn't a soul.

Give them a cup of coffee, let them go.
We've got a car going near the hotel.

Give them a lift.

Yes, ma 'am.

Home address is verified?

Yes, ma 'am.

Take statements from both these
gentlemen and check their alibis. Right,

Make it a hold yourself free to give
evidence if necessary.

Inspector, there's only need for us to
get in the papers.

Everything you've told us is true now.
If it's all the same with you, we'll get

a taxi back to the hotel.

Aye.

Tasty.

So she wasn't entertaining when it
happened.

Kill would hardly have stopped to make
the bed up.

No.

No blood on it either.

She must have been doing well.

I want a word with some of her
colleagues.

This is one of their favourite blocks of
flats.

Yeah.

There'll be half a dozen of them in this
block.

Right.

Round up as many of the girls as you can
muster. Get them down to the neck.

I'm not sure I'm up to that.

I've gone all weak at the knees.

Jimmy, get cracking.

Thanks for getting everyone together,
Margot.

Think nothing of it, darling.

Though there was a bit of interruption
here and there, we are all very busy

girls. I've had to leave a household
name tied up in a cupboard upside down.

He's due to vote in the House of Commons
in half an hour.

Oh, don't encourage her, Margot.

Sorry, Major.

Well, considering what we're here to
talk about, I do think that all this

school giggling is rather misplaced.
Pauline's right.

I know it's mostly nerves, but let's
leave it out, okay?

Oh, dear.

Hey,

coffee, baby.

Inspector, darling, you do know there is
a call -out fee? I hope you've had your

Weetabix. If I'd known it was a party,
I'd have worn my party hat.

All right.

I've got all the comedians I can use.
The point is, have you got all the

you can use, darling?

Now, look, you know we do anything to
help the police.

I once nursed the chief constable up
where you know where.

And he wasn't even ill. No, not until
his wife found out.

Will you shut up?

Oh, he's fierce. You see why Adrian
built that wall between England and

Scotland? He'd seen Trafalgar Square
full of Scots on New Year's Eve. OK, now

wrap it.

I mean, we are talking about a murder.
If we got more cover from the law, this

sort of thing wouldn't happen. You are
at risk the minute that you go on the

game. And you can't blame anybody for
that but yourself.

So what do you want? Police protection?

Exactly. If you weren't on top of us all
the time, I mean, if you weren't laying

into us... What she's trying to say in
her sweet little mentally retarded way.

Well, the point is, darling, we've
always been around and we always will

You can't win against Mother Nature.

So when I'd accept it.

Stick it in a letter to the Home
Secretary.

What we're here for is to try and sort
out who put Melody away.

I agree.

Because none of us is safe until we've
found the man.

Old woman.

Aye. She's a strong woman, too.

Used a marble ash tray.

Margot.

You live directly above Melody.

Did you hear anything?

I was there with the Hilton, darling,
making a house call. Oh, I was there,

Well, I was.

Pauline, what about you? You live only a
couple of doors away. I always attend

my Spanish classes on Wednesday
evenings.

She's thinking of retiring to my orca.

Well, send me retiring.

Did she have any regulars? I imagine so.
I mean, she was a good looker. You only

know by seeing the same faces. But we've
no idea who they were. Anyone who

struck you as odd.

Who was sharing with Melody?

I don't understand, darling.

Well, half the clothes in Melody's
wardrobe were size 10, the other size

Well, we all come and go, darling, you
know that. We can't all be iron -willed

wake -watchers. Half the shoes were size
5, the other size 7. What are you

telling me, that our feet go in and out
like the tide?

Where's our Ruby?

She's moved on. I tell you, we don't
really go in for forwarding addresses.

You wouldn't say you were a great deal
of help to me, would you? Honestly,

Maggie, we're doing the best we can. You
got any enemies that you know of?

Only a, you might say, common enemy.

That's right.

They were always pitching into each
other, you know. Who's that?

Come on, Maggie.

It's not like you to be so slow with the
jumps.

Jeremy Miller.

Jeremy Miller putting on the pressure
for more money in return for seeing

not bothered by his fellow scum. Yes,
and Melody howled louder than any of us.

And if any of this ever came up in
court, I'd suffer from total amnesia.

We're not saying he did it personally.

No, no, no, it's not the old Etonian
pimp style. Might ruin his white gloves.

Why don't you roast him anyway?

He deserves it.

Let's see.

You do your job, I'll do mine.

Okay? Sounds a sensible arrangement.

Quite frankly, I don't think you'd stand
much chance the other way round.

Funny lady.

Mm -hm.

All right, you can all go when you've
made your statements.

I'll send an officer in to take them
down.

Anyone know what Melody was really
called?

Like the man said, all the customer
wants are girls with nice teeth and no

names.

Well, if you think of anything that
might help, you know where to find the

inspector.

For the moment, I'll leave you with the
charges.

Take your statement.

And off you all go.

Back on your feet.

I beg your pardon.

They're not common tarts, you know. I
hope this isn't going to take all night.

Better get on with it.

Odd, isn't it?

What? Oh, how nobody's mentioned how you
and Melody got up each other's noses.

Look, we may not have got on, but if you
think I could kill anyone, you're more

bent than I thought.

I'm bent.

Just shut up.

So, what have we got?

Possible pointer to Jeremy Miller.

He used to thrive in silk.

Yeah, if he got any smoother, he'd slide
straight out of his German street

shirt.

Ruby?

Bet you knew more about her than I do. I
swear she was sharing with Melody.

Got her on file somewhere.

I want her picture buzzed round. She
shouldn't be hard to find. From what I

remember, she was rather spectacular.

No check cards, checkbook, no passport,
no driver's licence.

Nothing that might give us a clue to
Melody's real identity.

Almost as if you ever killed her, wanted
to wipe her completely off the map.

Yeah, that's what I thought.

What are you making this envelope?

Julia Portman.

Could be her real name.

Well, nobody's really called Melody, are
they?

And it was stuck down the back of the
couch, like maybe she was choked about

No sign of the letter in it, I suppose.

I couldn't get that lucky.

It's not in me stars.

Well, I'm afraid you're going to have to
do some plodding.

I had a feeling you were going to say
that. Sometimes your intuition frightens

me.

Let's go and have a talk with Mr Jeremy,
you know.

Here we are, girls. Come on in.

Thank you, Mother.

Stay all over the booze, if you just
help yourself. Oh, what have we got? I

a drink after all that.

My goodness.

Our uniforms give me that creep.

Really, let's see. I thought they were
your speciality.

Only when she's wearing them.

Very platonic.

On the shelf, very tall with you. Where
you've been all last week, my dear.

I can't tell without the tongue, right?
So I hear. All in the same geriatric

clinic in Switzerland.

Oh, Margot, don't you think it's silly
to quarrel amongst ourselves when we've

got a common cause?

Margot, my dear, I don't suppose you
have a small brandy, do you?

I'm psychic. I knew you were going to
ask for this.

Georgia, my dear.

You're a doll. Oh, yes. Press her tummy
and she'll say, Papa. Just so long as

it's not Mama.

Lady, can we come to order?

Well, look, you want to die?

What happened to Melody? Something that
can happen to anyone of us.

We've got to make sure that her killer
isn't anyone we know.

I take it we can accept that none of us
killed her?

No, of course we didn't. She was a
lovely girl.

If that's what the police think, they're
sick. No, I don't think they do.

What about Ruby?

Police are interested in her.

What about Ruby?

I come in a lot of things. I'm not
asking anyone what they know.

Well, Melody and Ruby... I told you,
darling, I don't want to know. Now, if

anyone's got anything to say, just
don't. Not to me, not to each other, and

to the police. We wouldn't, anyway.

If you ask me, it's not Ruby we have to
be worried about.

I've told you. Shut it. I don't see why
I should. Please, please. I don't want

to sound callous about this, but...
Aren't we wasting a great opportunity

Oh, thank you, Lettie, dear.

Shouldn't we really be talking about the
chance we have to get rid of J. Miller,

Esquire? Eton, Maudlin, and Wormwood
Brunt.

Miller's favourite to have done it,
according to the girls. Could we... Come

Jeremy Miller.

Hasn't been home all night.

So, do we know who this Melody really
was?

Not yet.

There's something odd there.

Well, didn't any of the other ladies
know? You know the girls. Anonymous is

beautiful, darling. Sergeant Fenton may
have a lead. He's following it up now.

No, we're staying on Miller.

He does lean on those girls.

I'm missing girl Ruby.

I've got a funny feeling about her.

Feminine intuition.

How's it happen, Gardinger?

It's coming slowly, sir.

Mortimer Street.

Information coming, sir. Keep me posted.
Right.

Yes, sir.

Oh, I forgot.

I tore this out of a magazine in the
hairdresser's the other day.

It's the new...

Therapy for spastic. They seem to have
had some good results.

That's what I like about women.

They're winning little ways.

Inspector, how far am I just sticking in
your ear?

What was all that about spastics?

His youngest son.

It's still here. It's two o 'clock in
the morning.

Why haven't you gone home?

I'm staying the night.

I'm trying to make our thieves ready
costume.

They're doing a story about Everard and
Eloise for the school play, remember?

Abelard and Eloise.

Well, I don't care if it's Baconlard and
Eloise. You were supposed to be making

his monk's habit, and you haven't done a
thing about it. Oh, I completely

slipped my mind.

Too busy ridding the country of
villainy.

Don't leave it out, Dad.

How far have you got?

Your caterer's here.

Girl 23, go far unidentified.

Any picture?

No. Oh, Dan.

Still, it's only days yet. We may be
getting her identified today.

No, that's supposed to be Abelard, not
Quasimodo.

Oh, what? Sorry, love. It's only a mock
-up. It's more like a cook -up.

No, let's have it. Sit down, eat your
breakfast.

In the kitchen, I don't want crumbs all
over the place.

You are coming to super, aren't you? Of
course I am, love. It's on Friday, isn't

it? No, Steve, I know you'd forget. I
won't forget.

Don't go, but I've told you before.

I'm right, Mum. Nobody told me.

Your mother didn't get home till two o
'clock in the morning.

And what is more, when I was your age, I
got myself up.

Summer or winter, ale or shine.

You're all too soft. That's what's the
matter with you kids.

Thanks, Grandad. You should take up a
discus. Dad, you're as bad as he is.

Anyway, Mum, you've got to be there to
give me more support.

It's been written by the English master.

You should hear some of the stuff I got
a rabbit.

When as the stars that punctuate the
night, their glitter lend our souls.

That sounds a lot better without your
mouth full.

Don't count on it. That's the sort of
stuff they teach us nowadays.

And they wonder why we grow up to be
weirdos. You're a weirdo and you're

There's more, isn't there?

And then in that dark veil... Just put
this on. Have you got any shirts that

aren't frayed?

No, Mum, they're all dirty.

Well, tell me when they're all dirty.
You're not dumb, are you? I'll bang them

in the machine today.

Oh, thanks, Dad. Would you get to make
as well, number three? I've got to go.

I'll be there the rest of the night.
Well, that's safe enough. You're never

in time. I will be, I promise.

And you will be down for the play.

Press my heart.

I've got to go. Bye, love.

Bye, Dad.

Bye, love.

Thank you.

Morning. We've got Miller. We'll bring
him up now.

Good word come of the Mortimer Street
furs, John. Yeah, there's a report from

Sergeant Brodie on your desk. The snout
came up, John.

Terrific.

What did you make out with Carolyn,
Marsden?

The elbow.

We're paid for that.

Did you let Inspector Croft know they're
bringing Miller in?

No, I couldn't get a hold of him. He's
out on a hat and garden job.

Well, as soon as we see Miller, we'll do
just that. He'll be prepared to fall

into a hole if you're wrong.

Remind me to get some shirts from
Stephen. Come in.

Maggie, my dear girl, I swear you get
younger by the hour.

Take the notice.

He records all the old Harry Grant
movies off television and plays them

like linguaphone lessons. Please, sit
down.

Thank you for coming.

My pleasure.

Where were you? Last night?

Stay to the point. Direct.

I like that in a woman. You switch off
the charm.

It has about as much effect on me as a
cold Chinese dinner.

Sharp.

I was at a little club I own in Greek
Street.

Trouble with the accounts. Little hands
in the till.

Cut them off, did you?

Everybody saw me there. Why?

Where would you like me to have been?

One of your girls was murdered last
night. And you're everyone's favourite

suspect. One of my girls?

What am I, a schoolteacher?

Possibly. I would say your curriculum is
rather bizarre.

Entertaining lady.

If ever you decide to leave the force...
We'll send you an exploding telegram.

I protect working girls from
exploitation and violence. Help them get

their jobs. You help old ladies across
the street as well. Yeah, only if they

don't want to go. What was Melody's real
name?

Who? The girl who was murdered.

If she was one of the girls I helped
from time to time, I wouldn't know.

We social workers don't like to pry.

Miller, how long is it since the fire
department gave one of your little clubs

and other little rat runs a good going
over?

If I'm really what you say I am, and
this Melody was paying me a fortune for

protection, why should I try and kill
the golden goose?

Any number of reasons.

A quarrel over raising your percentage.

Maybe she knew something about you,
something about your other activities.

she was going to shock you. What did you
say the name of that little club was?

I didn't.

No, you didn't. That's right, I didn't.
But you will.

It's called the trap door.

Why don't you try falling through it?

Look here, I don't have to take this
from your monkey.

Goodbye, Mr Miller.

I want all the staff of the trapdoor
questioned. I want to know if he was

all night. I want to know if he left at
any time, then came back. And I want to

know what those times were.

Turn right.

What are you doing?

Shirts.

Mine? Okay.

On your way.

What's new, Maggie, love?

Oh, listen to that.

You know anything of Red Ruby lately,
have you?

Bought her a drink last night in the
Fenwick.

Seemed a bit shook up.

Said she was heading south.

Any idea where exactly?

No.

Never mind.

Thanks, Eskimo.

It's one I owe you.

Anything else I can do for you?

Yeah, shirts would be.

You know his style.

Whatever the kids are wearing these
days.

Don't worry.

Got just the thing.

Ridiculous, right?

Don't tell me they fell off the back of
Shaw Taylor's Land Rover.

My information is she's gone south.

An eye has been kept on the port. I've
other inquiries to make. I'll keep in

touch.

Home of the Medean man.

And Mr and Mrs Portman.

Doesn't look much like the breeding
ground for a high -class poor girl.

Oh, you'd be surprised.

It's getting to be a habit.

What's that supposed to mean?

Well, last night it was the police
station and Maggie Forbes and today it's

flat and Uncle Jeremy.

You should get together and hire a hall.

Which one of you suggested I had Melody
killed?

You dreary trollops.

What have I ever done to you?

Just bled as white, Dracula.

Don't damage the goods.

In gratitude.

If it's one thing that hurts, it's that.

I keep all those ill -bred Soho thugs
away from you for the tiniest of

considerations.

I don't force you to work. You bloody
hypocrite!

It's when we try to stop that we're in
trouble.

Keep it down, will you?

Girls, think of the neighbours.

Is that why Melody had to die? Because
she told you she was giving it up?

You cowardly pig! You can't even do your
own hurting, can you?

Even when it's girls.

No.

It would be amusing.

It would be amusing, wouldn't it, if
you'd got it right?

If it were I who dispensed with Melody
because she was beginning to be a bore,

because she was more trouble than she
was worth, because barking bitches are

best put down.

I'll buy that.

I find that very plausible.

I'd like to have a chat with you about
it down the station.

What the hell are you doing here? If you
don't mind my saying so, that really is

not the question that you should be
asking. You should be asking, can you

your lawyer?

Don't be absurd.

I was only joking.

Did you think he was joking?

No.

Did you think he was joking? No.

Right. Nobody seems to think you were
joking.

I really think we ought to continue this
conversation then, Nick.

You charge me with murder, with
anything, and I'll have your pension.

Now, that is good thinking.

A salt.

That'll do for now.

You can't be serious.

Solemn. We don't know anybody called
Melody.

How about Julia Portman, then? We don't
know any Julia Portman, either.

Julia Portman was our daughter. She
called herself Melody. She didn't, she

didn't. We don't know anyone called
Melody. Come on, my love, it's no use. I

warn you.

When we saw it in the papers this
morning, the name Melody and that

knew it was Julia.

I wanted to ring the police and tell
them then, but my wife was against it.

I told her you'd easily find out who she
really was anyway. It wasn't that easy,

Mr Portman. No, if we hadn't found an
envelope addressed to her. There you

I told you not to write to her. I told
you to stop writing to her.

Now look where it's landed us. We would
have found out anyway, Mr Portman.

We always do. It'd have taken longer,
that's all.

Surely you wouldn't want to disown your
own daughter, would you? I mean,

whatever she's done.

And we want to find her killer.

You must want that too, surely.

It wasn't true about her.

All those disgusting things are implied
in the newspaper.

We'll have to move away from here. We
can't go on living here any longer. Oh,

no, Miss Corbin, that won't be
necessary.

We found her killer. She's been brought
to trial. The press will lose interest.

Did you see your daughter regularly?

She was a hostess. That's what she was.

There's nothing wrong in that.

There are a lot of very respectable
establishments in London these days.

Mr Portman. And I dare say she had a
nice little flat too, though I never saw

it. Mr Portman.

I've seen her a few times since she
moved to the West End, yes.

The wife wouldn't, but I thought, well,
family, you know.

I know.

I'm an assistant bank manager, you see,
and sometimes I have occasion to go up

to head office in the city and we'd have
lunch together.

She always looked very smart, I will
say.

Do you remember by any chance what size
shoe she took? Was it a size five? No,

those weren't hers. She took seven. Did
she ever mention any of her associates?

Mr Miller, for instance? No, she hardly
mentioned men at all.

Did she say what she did for a living?

I didn't ask.

Oh, you must have wondered.

I mean, you must have asked yourself
where all those smart clothes were

from. If you're implying... There is
such a thing as slander, you know.

I know about the police. They're as bad
as the newspapers.

I did think she might have some rich
boyfriend.

She was a grown woman. It was her own
business.

But I had no idea.

She was... I still don't think she was.

I think there's been some terrible
mixer.

Oh, come on, Mr Portman. There must have
been some signs in her flat.

Oh, I never went there. She always
insisted we met wherever we were

When did you last see her?

A month ago.

We had lunch in a small restaurant in
Knightsbridge.

She paid.

Do you remember the name of the
restaurant?

Yes, it was called La Lune Blanche.

The White Moon.

Did she mention any trouble with this
boyfriend, for instance?

No, she seemed in very good spirits.

Well, Mr Foreman, I'm afraid you will
have to come with us to formally

the body.

Then we'll take a statement.

Yes.

I'll just get my cat.

Thank you.

You here again?

Your esteemed colleague, Inspector
Croft, pulled me in for questioning on

Call Girl murder.

Meanwhile, your team had come up with
the all -clear on my alibi.

So you had to let me go.

You know, you geniuses ought to get your
skulls sorted out.

Otherwise the taxpayers will be asking
for their money back.

Thank you for your advice.

The entire station made to look like
bloody fools.

Now, first rule, when on a case, keep in
touch. We did try to keep in touch, but

it isn't easy. We're both working on
other cases besides this one.

I don't need a rundown of the caseload
this station carries, Inspector.

What I do want is elementary procedures
to be carried out. Well, if Inspector

Forbes had told me Miller was claiming
an alibi, I'd never have pulled him in.

Sergeant Fenton tried to rape you four
times on the RT. It was never matched.

I've got better things to do with my
time than wait for the radio to squawk,

so has my sergeant. You didn't even try
to contact me. There was no point, for

God's sake.

I wasn't after Miller. I wanted to talk
to Margot. I had already told you

everything that she had to say. I
thought it was just possible there was

something Wonder Woman Forbes had
forgotten about. Let's leave out the

shall we, Croft? You've got an
explanation.

As I got to the flat, I saw Miller going
in, so I had the porter let me in

quietly. It was all of the kind.

Anyway, how good is Miller's alibi?

I think you can take it. I know how to
check an alibi.

I'm just trying to keep in touch. Croft!

I only meant... Now, listen.

There's something I want to tell the
pair of you.

Now, I don't give a damn what kind of
kindergarten sex war you conduct off

-duty, but just let me get a whisper of
an idea. It's affecting your work.

You're going to find yourself back in
uniform so fast you won't know what time

of day it is.

You've both got good track records,
don't want to lose you. But if I have

will. Understood?

Yes, sir.

Yes, sir.

All right.

How's the Hatton Garden job?

One last push, I think I can crack it,
sir. Fine. I want that one. Drop

everything else. Maggie, you stay with
the murder. But I really don't see

Oh,

don't be so fake.

Don't you realise that we've just been
segregated like a couple of squabbling

kids? And if you don't find that
humiliating, well, I do. I'll bet.

I've changed my whole bag.

Now, that sick mirror's got to be in
this one.

I've got a leaner and we can claim
harassment.

Yeah. Stay clear of that one, Dan. I
don't tell you again.

I'm going to come and try this thing on.

Can't I wait till the end of this?

I don't know if you want this habit in
time.

But I think I'll keep the habit.

Just put it on.

Feels good.

It'll hold still a minute.

Right on. How do I look, Grandpa?

Like a nasturtium.

You mean a cistercian. You mean what you
mean, and I'll mean what I mean. My

dear flock, who I have so often seen.
Don't steal around. Please leave.

You know, I was reading that 90 % of
murders that are not solved in the first

hours are not solved at all. That was
America. Well, it might happen in this

case. I can't see what you've got to go
on.

Well, somebody must have seen something.

Some man running away, distraught. Even
somebody covered in blood.

Anyway, I've got the night. She's going
through Mayfair as a vacuum cleaner.

Oh, dear.

We got Ruby.

They've picked her up down at Dover.

Right.

Dad, I'm off.

We got something.

Bye, love.

Bye, Dad.

Why Dover, Ruby?

Thinking of skipping the country?

Course not.

I was going to work the cross -channel
ferries for a bit, wasn't I? The

they're duty -free.

You weren't running away, then?

You think I did it, did you?

Oh, do leave off.

Any idea who did?

You must have seen a lot of irregulars.

How do you reckon that, then?

I want you to come with me.

Where to?

Where have you taken me? Come on.

I don't want to.

I need to think the last night she was
here.

Fine. No worries.

Yeah.

That's the little things that get made.

Like what happens to all her clothes?

Look.

All these shoes.

Keep warm.

Do you a treat, Robe?

Try one on.

Try the other.

Go on.

You always did have small feet for a
tall girl, Rube.

Same colour, same make, same everything,
Cinderella.

All right, all right.

So I shared with Melody.

Call girls.

The punters are looking for class.

They won't say they've seen me. Well,
I've never had no -one walk away.

But over the phone, well, I mean, listen
to me.

We can't all fly in from Luton Airport.

It's male chauvinistic sexual bloody
snobbery, that's what it is.

So Melody used to take my calls for me.

Make like she was me.

As I said, once they've seen me... I
played the day after tomorrow.

I know it is. Stop moaning. Yeah, with
the rate you're carrying on, you'll be

following around the stage with a needle
and thread.

Look, Sir Lawrence, if you'd rather do
it yourself... I've got enough to do

remembering me lines.

It's all in blank verse.

It should suit you down to the ground.
You've got a blank nut.

Do you know, it's really marvellous,
isn't it?

My, I'll always be an almond about good
manners and all that old lemon juice.

And yet you're one of the rudest old
senior citizens I've ever met.

Privilege of age, my son.

You get old enough, you've got it made.

Now, come in here and let's have a deco.

Well, how do I look?

Can I have your autograph?

You were here.

Ruby. Look, one girl on her tod, OK.

Two girls sharing, they get done, right?

I was coming home last night, I saw the
law swarming all over the place. I

didn't want to take any chances, so I
beat it.

Had a quick drink at the Fennec and
caught the first train to Dover,

Well... If you help me, I think I can
have an attack of amnesia about your

sharing.

OK?

OK.

Right. Her regulars.

Any one of them strike you as odd? One.

Used to call on Melody about once a
month or so.

Dead out of place. Not the type.

You think there was a type?

Well, there isn't, really. But when
you're on the game, you get a kind of

sense about who wants it and who
doesn't.

And I definitely got a feeling that this
punter didn't.

Maybe he was a talker.

Yeah, I thought of that.

But there was something else funny as
well.

What?

Yeah, he always had this parcel with
him.

Parcel? Well, a box, you know, about
this big.

Couldn't make it out.

I mean, punters have their funny little
ways, I know, but it beat me what could

have been in this box each time.

It was like those French films,
remember, where the Japanese punters

a box of them every time and you never
get to see what's in it. Nearly drove me

mad. Get on with it, Ruby.

Well, one day I finally got a squint
what was inside this geezer's box. What

it?

A plant in a pot.

A plant?

Yeah.

Yeah, this must be one of them, I should
think.

Well, it was just him not being the type
and then the parcel every time and then

it turning out to be a plant in a pot.

Anyway, I told you it might be nothing.

Ruby, can you describe this man?

That's just it. I couldn't, really.

He was sort of nondescript.

He'd be difficult to pick out in a
crowd.

Yeah, I thought that's what you were
going to say.

How many sets of prints are on that
flower pot?

Two. One set belonged to the murdered
girl, the other's not yet identified.

How about this flower?

Yeah.

I'm afraid so.

We went to the bank.

They said you hadn't been in.

No, I decided to take the day off.

I didn't want it to happen at the bank.

You know why we're here, Mr. Pullman,
don't you?

You want to talk with you again?

Yes, I understand.

Come into the house, will you?

It had to be done, you see.

She had a good upbringing.

God -fearing upbringing, but somehow it
didn't take.

You know how vaccination sometimes
doesn't take.

It started with boys at school.

Then older men.

She found there was money to be made
with them.

She liked it, in any case.

She found there was money to be made,
too.

When she left school, I got her a job at
the bank.

But she said she could make more in an
hour than she could make in a week

I used to go and see her at that place
of hers.

to reason with her I always took her a
plant

I tried to show her how

clean and

sweet they were I could tell she

was getting more and more fed up with me

She told me not to come again.

Ever.

So she had to be killed?

Here, this is for you.

I know you don't have a lot to brighten
up those police officers of yours.

Thank you very much.

Shall we go now?

They're going to all turn up but her own
mother.

It could place a scandal.

No, those weren't hers.

She took a seven.

I found I couldn't do it.

I couldn't let him take the blame.

I was supposed to go to my sister at
Cheltenham, but... I was coming to you

anyway.

How did you know that it was... Shoes.

You knew about the other ones.

The ones that weren't Melody's.

You just said you'd never been to the
flat.

I went to plead with her.

She went wild.

She wouldn't even give me a chance.

She'd just been with a man.

I saw him coming out.

She had nothing on.

under her dressing gown.

She said vile things, terrible.

She said she'd already had two
abortions.

Two of God's creatures.

I screamed at her.

And then I... I didn't know

what I'd done until I saw her lying
there.

Sorry, I'm so sorry.

He didn't miss much.

I was used to this anyway.

I guess a man's got to do what a man's
got to do.

Even if she's a woman.