1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,074 Advertise your product or brand here contact www.OpenSubtitles.org today 2 00:00:33,460 --> 00:00:34,600 Ah! 3 00:00:36,980 --> 00:00:38,180 Ooh! 4 00:01:14,100 --> 00:01:16,440 Have I got time for a shower? 5 00:01:17,660 --> 00:01:20,130 All the time in the world, guv. 6 00:01:32,020 --> 00:01:35,900 I've been asked to see the ACC this afternoon. To discuss you. 7 00:01:37,140 --> 00:01:39,570 Me?! What now? I haven't done anything. 8 00:01:39,620 --> 00:01:44,570 You must've done something, John. They're making you up to Inspector. 9 00:01:44,620 --> 00:01:47,780 Eh? Give over! 10 00:01:55,740 --> 00:01:57,610 Whoo! 11 00:02:35,740 --> 00:02:37,100 Hm. 12 00:02:49,540 --> 00:02:51,330 This is exactly how you found her, is it? 13 00:02:51,380 --> 00:02:54,120 ~ You haven't moved anything? ~ No, sir. 14 00:03:00,380 --> 00:03:01,690 Thanks. 15 00:03:01,740 --> 00:03:03,170 How did you find her? 16 00:03:03,220 --> 00:03:07,220 We stopped to look at the Hillman parked at a funny angle. 17 00:03:07,700 --> 00:03:09,450 Somebody's given her a whack. 18 00:03:09,500 --> 00:03:11,700 Unless she took a tumble. 19 00:03:18,940 --> 00:03:20,290 Car keys. 20 00:03:20,340 --> 00:03:22,210 Let's take a look. 21 00:03:28,020 --> 00:03:32,220 The locals could have done this, you know. I was fast asleep. 22 00:03:32,660 --> 00:03:35,690 She's topped herself. What are we supposed to do about it? 23 00:03:35,740 --> 00:03:38,740 Big bruise on the side of her face, John. 24 00:04:00,620 --> 00:04:01,900 Keys. 25 00:04:06,660 --> 00:04:07,930 She's a GP. 26 00:04:07,980 --> 00:04:10,340 Dr Valerie Cullen. 27 00:04:11,420 --> 00:04:13,610 And the address of her surgery. 28 00:04:13,660 --> 00:04:15,400 Is there a note? 29 00:04:16,140 --> 00:04:18,140 Nah, there's nothing. 30 00:04:18,580 --> 00:04:20,920 Let's leave it for Forensics. 31 00:04:32,940 --> 00:04:36,010 Dr Cullen isn't here. I can put you on Dr Plant's list. 32 00:04:36,060 --> 00:04:37,770 I don't want Plant, I want her! 33 00:04:37,820 --> 00:04:41,330 Well, you cannot have her because we don't know where she is. 34 00:04:41,380 --> 00:04:44,740 ~ Excuse me? ~ Well, I'll come back when you find out. 35 00:04:45,860 --> 00:04:48,730 ~ Yes? ~ We'd like to talk to somebody about Dr Cullen, please. 36 00:04:48,780 --> 00:04:50,690 Give me strength! 37 00:04:50,740 --> 00:04:54,840 ~ Her surgery's cancelled. We don't know where she is. ~ We do. 38 00:04:59,580 --> 00:05:00,970 What a terrible waste. 39 00:05:01,020 --> 00:05:03,960 You don't seem that surprised, Dr Plant. 40 00:05:04,820 --> 00:05:07,370 Valerie suffered terribly from depression. 41 00:05:07,420 --> 00:05:08,850 Awful mood swings. 42 00:05:08,900 --> 00:05:12,370 We just couldn't find a way to control it medically, 43 00:05:12,420 --> 00:05:15,930 so she lived with it, I thought, successfully. 44 00:05:15,980 --> 00:05:18,380 But... Er... 45 00:05:20,660 --> 00:05:23,730 I know she did find it oppressive thinking about what the future held. 46 00:05:23,780 --> 00:05:24,970 I'm sorry? 47 00:05:25,020 --> 00:05:27,890 About 18 months ago, we found that she had an extremely 48 00:05:27,940 --> 00:05:30,490 nasty condition called motor neurone disease. 49 00:05:30,540 --> 00:05:32,970 Is that where you go all jerky, like a spastic? 50 00:05:33,020 --> 00:05:36,340 No, you're probably confusing it with multiple sclerosis. 51 00:05:38,540 --> 00:05:40,010 Right. 52 00:05:40,060 --> 00:05:42,490 Was she married, Dr Plant? 53 00:05:42,540 --> 00:05:45,250 Yes. Andrew Cullen. 54 00:05:45,300 --> 00:05:48,250 ~ Also a doctor. ~ Here? 55 00:05:48,300 --> 00:05:49,820 No. 56 00:05:51,540 --> 00:05:54,130 No, Andrew works for the Factories Safety Board. 57 00:05:54,180 --> 00:05:56,570 ~ I'll get you his address. ~ Thank you. 58 00:05:56,620 --> 00:05:58,730 I should perhaps tell you that he and Valerie 59 00:05:58,780 --> 00:06:00,770 have been living separately for over a year now. 60 00:06:00,820 --> 00:06:02,970 Nobody here knows that, except me. 61 00:06:03,020 --> 00:06:05,370 Did she mention suicide? 62 00:06:05,420 --> 00:06:06,530 No. 63 00:06:06,580 --> 00:06:11,380 I mean, did she EVER mention suicide to you, Dr Plant? 64 00:06:12,900 --> 00:06:14,370 Yes, once. 65 00:06:16,540 --> 00:06:18,570 After she was diagnosed? 66 00:06:18,620 --> 00:06:19,850 No, it was after that. 67 00:06:19,900 --> 00:06:22,240 When her marriage broke down. 68 00:06:23,060 --> 00:06:24,970 Why did it break down? 69 00:06:25,020 --> 00:06:28,420 I think you should ask her husband that question. 70 00:06:33,660 --> 00:06:35,530 You all right, guv? 71 00:06:36,620 --> 00:06:37,890 Yeah. 72 00:06:38,900 --> 00:06:42,000 Yeah, I'm just thinking about Valerie Cullen. 73 00:06:42,420 --> 00:06:44,610 You can understand why she did it. 74 00:06:44,660 --> 00:06:47,400 Husband might be relieved. Who knows? 75 00:06:50,100 --> 00:06:51,930 I hate this part of the job, me. 76 00:06:51,980 --> 00:06:53,850 Oh, yeah, me, too. 77 00:06:54,380 --> 00:06:59,180 They're saying Dr Cullen's not here, ring in and make an appointment. 78 00:07:02,260 --> 00:07:04,610 It's the police, Vera. 79 00:07:04,660 --> 00:07:06,010 She's looking in his diary. 80 00:07:06,060 --> 00:07:09,210 Have there been any calls for Dr Cullen today? 81 00:07:09,260 --> 00:07:11,530 One from his wife's surgery about two hours ago. 82 00:07:11,580 --> 00:07:14,450 ~ Did he take that call? ~ Aye, when I told him it wasn't his wife. 83 00:07:14,500 --> 00:07:17,250 ~ We always had to tell her he was out. ~ What's he like? 84 00:07:17,300 --> 00:07:21,060 If he was made out of chocolate, he'd eat himself. 85 00:07:22,420 --> 00:07:26,530 Right. Found him for you. Here's a surprise. 86 00:07:30,260 --> 00:07:32,010 Somebody telephones you to say that 87 00:07:32,060 --> 00:07:34,170 your suicidal wife didn't turn up for work, 88 00:07:34,220 --> 00:07:36,890 so you take yourself out for lunch. 89 00:07:39,140 --> 00:07:41,680 I bet that ruined his spaghetti. 90 00:07:47,460 --> 00:07:49,810 ~ Dr Cullen? ~ What's happened? 91 00:07:49,860 --> 00:07:52,850 I'm afraid it's your wife. 92 00:07:52,900 --> 00:07:56,600 Very sorry to have to tell you she's been found dead. 93 00:08:12,300 --> 00:08:14,980 Yes. That's Valerie. 94 00:08:25,020 --> 00:08:27,690 There's no toxicology report as yet. 95 00:08:28,900 --> 00:08:30,890 But there are traces of barbiturate 96 00:08:30,940 --> 00:08:33,890 in the syringe that we found next to her. 97 00:08:33,940 --> 00:08:37,330 Plus she's got this large bruise on the side of her face 98 00:08:37,380 --> 00:08:39,610 and two loose teeth on the same side. 99 00:08:39,660 --> 00:08:41,690 Do you know anything about that? 100 00:08:41,740 --> 00:08:44,540 No. I haven't spoken to her for weeks. 101 00:08:45,660 --> 00:08:47,130 Did she leave a note? 102 00:08:47,180 --> 00:08:49,730 No. Not on her. You were separated? 103 00:08:49,780 --> 00:08:51,730 She left me over a year ago. 104 00:08:51,780 --> 00:08:53,330 Where was she living? 105 00:08:53,380 --> 00:08:54,490 I-I never went. 106 00:08:54,540 --> 00:08:56,540 I didn't ask you that. 107 00:08:58,180 --> 00:09:01,090 She was renting a little two up, two down. 108 00:09:01,140 --> 00:09:03,280 Place called Easterhope. 109 00:09:04,180 --> 00:09:06,780 What made her do it, do you think? 110 00:09:08,420 --> 00:09:11,660 Sergeant, I have been expecting this since the first day I met Valerie. 111 00:09:13,340 --> 00:09:16,260 She just... couldn't cope with life. 112 00:09:17,940 --> 00:09:19,940 Why did she leave you? 113 00:09:21,020 --> 00:09:24,050 The marriage was a failure. We'd let it drag on. 114 00:09:24,100 --> 00:09:28,810 Dr Cullen, do you mind if I ask who your lunch companion was? 115 00:09:28,860 --> 00:09:33,370 Anna Zweig. She's a work colleague, nothing more, nothing less. 116 00:09:33,420 --> 00:09:35,690 Zweig. 117 00:09:35,740 --> 00:09:38,170 Local lass, is she(?) 118 00:09:38,220 --> 00:09:39,410 Swiss. 119 00:09:39,460 --> 00:09:41,170 Can I please get out of here? 120 00:09:41,220 --> 00:09:44,220 Would you just write down your wife's address, please? 121 00:09:46,900 --> 00:09:49,690 Guv, are you seriously looking at something apart from suicide? 122 00:09:49,740 --> 00:09:53,610 Well, two loose teeth in her mouth. 123 00:09:53,660 --> 00:09:56,330 How do we know that somebody didn't thump her unconscious 124 00:09:56,380 --> 00:09:57,930 and then inject her afterwards? 125 00:09:57,980 --> 00:10:01,610 ~ A lot of doctors in this story, John. ~ Yeah, but... 126 00:10:01,660 --> 00:10:03,890 Look, she had a failed marriage, right. 127 00:10:03,940 --> 00:10:06,850 She had this toffee-nosed git for a husband, 128 00:10:06,900 --> 00:10:11,330 she was depressed and she had this motor-racing disease thing. 129 00:10:11,380 --> 00:10:12,650 Being told that you're ill 130 00:10:12,700 --> 00:10:14,890 doesn't necessarily mean you want to kill yourself. 131 00:10:14,940 --> 00:10:17,010 And she couldn't cope with life to start with. 132 00:10:17,060 --> 00:10:18,970 ~ He says. ~ Yeah, all right, he said. 133 00:10:19,020 --> 00:10:21,170 But who knows what was going on inside her head? 134 00:10:21,220 --> 00:10:23,290 Well, I'd like to know. 135 00:10:24,460 --> 00:10:26,170 All right. 136 00:10:26,220 --> 00:10:28,560 All right, I'll look into it. 137 00:10:29,660 --> 00:10:31,570 ~ You asked for me, sir? ~ Rachel. 138 00:10:31,620 --> 00:10:33,450 I'm buying John a drink this evening 139 00:10:33,500 --> 00:10:35,650 to celebrate his promotion to Inspector. 140 00:10:35,700 --> 00:10:38,690 ~ Oh, congratulations, Sarge. ~ Thank you very much. 141 00:10:38,740 --> 00:10:40,530 Inspector. Not before time. 142 00:10:40,580 --> 00:10:41,890 So, join us. 143 00:10:41,940 --> 00:10:44,690 ~ Oh, well, I think I'm... ~ Oh, no. She wouldn't want to. 144 00:10:44,740 --> 00:10:46,890 Of course she would. 145 00:10:46,940 --> 00:10:51,010 So, Rachel, this means I'll be needing a new sergeant. 146 00:10:51,060 --> 00:10:53,650 She's not a sergeant. 147 00:10:53,700 --> 00:10:56,330 Ever hear of sergeants' exams, John? 148 00:10:56,380 --> 00:10:58,370 You're taking your exam? 149 00:10:58,420 --> 00:11:01,090 Next month. Mr Gently suggested it. 150 00:11:02,220 --> 00:11:04,450 We don't need a uniformed sergeant in here. 151 00:11:04,500 --> 00:11:06,930 No, but we will be needing a detective sergeant 152 00:11:06,980 --> 00:11:08,330 to replace you, won't we? 153 00:11:08,380 --> 00:11:11,010 So, Rachel, how do you feel about joining us in CID? 154 00:11:11,060 --> 00:11:14,170 Guv, what is the point in training them up, right? 155 00:11:14,220 --> 00:11:17,010 They just go off and have bairns. What's...? 156 00:11:17,060 --> 00:11:19,530 That's why we don't have any female detectives! 157 00:11:19,580 --> 00:11:22,170 Well, then, maybe it's time that we did, eh? 158 00:11:22,220 --> 00:11:25,410 ~ Anyway, think about it, Rachel. ~ No! Y-Y-Yes! 159 00:11:25,460 --> 00:11:28,050 It's a yes. Sorry, I-I-I'm saying yes. 160 00:11:28,100 --> 00:11:31,420 Excellent! Well, it's a double celebration, then. 161 00:11:32,540 --> 00:11:34,810 ~ 7:30, Town Arms. ~ Great(!) 162 00:11:34,860 --> 00:11:40,210 Meanwhile, here's Valerie Cullen's keys, here's her address. 163 00:11:40,260 --> 00:11:42,970 See if you can find out why she killed herself. 164 00:11:43,020 --> 00:11:44,370 Guv, you asked me to do that. 165 00:11:44,420 --> 00:11:46,890 Perfect. Well, you can do it together, then, can't you? 166 00:11:46,940 --> 00:11:48,480 Easterhope. 167 00:11:49,860 --> 00:11:52,770 My friend used to live there when we were growing up. 168 00:11:52,820 --> 00:11:54,250 Really? You had friends? 169 00:11:54,300 --> 00:11:57,660 Well, one less now, yeah, because she died when we were 15. 170 00:12:00,100 --> 00:12:03,450 Right. We're off. Come on. 171 00:12:03,500 --> 00:12:05,040 (Thank you.) 172 00:12:07,420 --> 00:12:10,090 Assistant Chief Constable's office again, sir. 173 00:12:10,140 --> 00:12:11,130 Bananas are being gone. 174 00:12:11,180 --> 00:12:13,770 "Where's Gently? Why are they still sitting here waiting?" 175 00:12:13,820 --> 00:12:15,690 ~ They? ~ They. 176 00:12:17,340 --> 00:12:19,290 Inspector Nunn acknowledges his mistakes 177 00:12:19,340 --> 00:12:20,970 in his handling of rape complaints. 178 00:12:21,020 --> 00:12:23,970 They weren't mistakes. He deliberately ignored evidence. 179 00:12:24,020 --> 00:12:27,170 Bear with me. And he'll be leaving the constabulary forthwith. 180 00:12:27,220 --> 00:12:30,770 What, sacked on full pension? He should be prosecuted. 181 00:12:30,820 --> 00:12:34,370 I've got a transfer. I'm joining the Met. 182 00:12:34,420 --> 00:12:35,960 Vice Squad. 183 00:12:38,540 --> 00:12:41,850 So an officer with a proven record of violence to women 184 00:12:41,900 --> 00:12:43,410 goes to join the Vice Squad. 185 00:12:43,460 --> 00:12:45,490 Which brings me to the problem of your sergeant. 186 00:12:45,540 --> 00:12:46,930 What problem's that, sir? 187 00:12:46,980 --> 00:12:49,650 Any way you look at it, George, there was a vendetta 188 00:12:49,700 --> 00:12:52,530 against Inspector Nunn conducted from your office. 189 00:12:52,580 --> 00:12:54,730 But why would you look at it that way, sir? 190 00:12:54,780 --> 00:12:56,890 Are you saying it was just a coincidence 191 00:12:56,940 --> 00:12:59,490 that these charges were brought against Walter 192 00:12:59,540 --> 00:13:02,530 at a time when your sergeant was trying to steal his wife? 193 00:13:02,580 --> 00:13:04,610 They're completely separate issues. 194 00:13:04,660 --> 00:13:08,090 Concerted action to discredit a fellow officer, George. 195 00:13:08,140 --> 00:13:10,570 I can't allow Bacchus' promotion to go forward 196 00:13:10,620 --> 00:13:12,490 under these circumstances. 197 00:13:12,540 --> 00:13:14,930 John has been held back far too long already. 198 00:13:14,980 --> 00:13:18,130 He makes too many mistakes. Look at his file. 199 00:13:18,180 --> 00:13:21,770 ~ I won't accept it. ~ A bloke shags me wife and you make him Inspector? 200 00:13:21,820 --> 00:13:23,770 Where would the justice be in that, sir? 201 00:13:23,820 --> 00:13:25,410 Don't you talk to me about justice! 202 00:13:25,460 --> 00:13:27,410 You're a borderline criminal yourself! 203 00:13:27,460 --> 00:13:30,700 ~ George! ~ I mean it, sir. This is a resignation issue for me. 204 00:13:40,620 --> 00:13:42,490 Bacchus' promotion goes forward. 205 00:13:42,540 --> 00:13:45,140 Now, let's draw a line under this. 206 00:14:04,780 --> 00:14:07,780 Dennigs has shut down. I didn't know that. 207 00:14:08,980 --> 00:14:10,930 It's quiet, isn't it? 208 00:14:10,980 --> 00:14:13,250 ~ Esther's dad used to work there. ~ Who? 209 00:14:13,300 --> 00:14:15,300 ~ Me friend. ~ Oh, yeah. 210 00:14:16,700 --> 00:14:18,450 What'd she die of, again? 211 00:14:18,500 --> 00:14:19,840 Cancer. 212 00:14:34,220 --> 00:14:36,130 Gently? Tell Inspector Bacchus 213 00:14:36,180 --> 00:14:39,890 if his shadow ever falls across me again, I'll break his back. 214 00:14:39,940 --> 00:14:41,610 I'm not your messenger boy. 215 00:14:41,660 --> 00:14:43,730 There's one from Gemma. 216 00:14:45,100 --> 00:14:47,290 She says goodbye. 217 00:14:47,340 --> 00:14:49,810 She's coming with me to London. 218 00:14:50,660 --> 00:14:52,530 I've forgiven her. 219 00:14:57,900 --> 00:14:59,210 What we looking for? 220 00:14:59,260 --> 00:15:01,610 Suicide note would be favourite. 221 00:15:01,660 --> 00:15:05,560 Then I might be able to get George to accept the obvious. 222 00:15:07,420 --> 00:15:09,620 Wait. Rachel, wait, wait. 223 00:15:10,500 --> 00:15:13,930 Now, this isn't her mess, is it? The place has been turned over. 224 00:15:13,980 --> 00:15:16,780 ~ Shall we look for forced entry? ~ Yeah. 225 00:15:23,620 --> 00:15:25,360 Where's the dog? 226 00:15:35,740 --> 00:15:37,300 Oh! 227 00:15:41,820 --> 00:15:44,160 ~ Have you got a bag? ~ (Yeah.) 228 00:15:51,940 --> 00:15:54,010 "Control to 724. Are you receiving?" 229 00:15:54,060 --> 00:15:56,400 Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah. Excuse me. 230 00:15:57,660 --> 00:16:00,410 John Bacchus' private line, John Bacchus speaking personally. 231 00:16:00,460 --> 00:16:03,210 "Forensics will be there in about ten minutes. 232 00:16:03,260 --> 00:16:06,970 "Stay in the area, let them in, then come back to HQ." 233 00:16:07,020 --> 00:16:08,420 Right. 234 00:16:12,340 --> 00:16:14,050 It is mine. 235 00:16:14,100 --> 00:16:17,090 It belongs to the constabulary, actually. 236 00:16:17,140 --> 00:16:20,820 ~ It's in my car. ~ Were you an only child, by any chance? 237 00:16:37,580 --> 00:16:39,520 Where are you going? 238 00:16:40,620 --> 00:16:41,940 Oi! 239 00:17:31,020 --> 00:17:32,700 Boo! 240 00:17:36,660 --> 00:17:38,930 What are you doing in here? 241 00:17:40,380 --> 00:17:43,690 Esther's dad used to come and do the maintenance here on a weekend. 242 00:17:43,740 --> 00:17:45,530 He used to let us come and play. 243 00:17:45,580 --> 00:17:48,940 Bet it was a bit like Disneyland, wasn't it, when you were a little lass? 244 00:17:50,380 --> 00:17:52,060 Sort of. 245 00:18:30,700 --> 00:18:32,440 Do you miss her? 246 00:18:34,540 --> 00:18:35,820 Yeah. 247 00:18:38,580 --> 00:18:40,340 Come on. 248 00:18:46,980 --> 00:18:49,120 No sign of forced entry. 249 00:18:50,500 --> 00:18:52,500 Somebody's got a key. 250 00:18:53,340 --> 00:18:55,090 Or maybe she did it herself, actually. 251 00:18:55,140 --> 00:18:58,640 Searching for something in a hurry before she left. 252 00:18:58,900 --> 00:19:00,250 Any other prints in her car? 253 00:19:00,300 --> 00:19:01,490 No, just hers. 254 00:19:01,540 --> 00:19:03,330 There you go. 255 00:19:03,380 --> 00:19:05,850 Lovely. Cheers! 256 00:19:05,900 --> 00:19:08,410 ~ Cheers. ~ Congratulations, Inspector Bacchus. 257 00:19:08,460 --> 00:19:09,730 Thank you very much. 258 00:19:09,780 --> 00:19:10,890 Inspector Bacchus. 259 00:19:10,940 --> 00:19:12,130 Thank you. 260 00:19:12,180 --> 00:19:13,520 Cheers. 261 00:19:16,500 --> 00:19:19,890 Go on, then. What did Davenport say about us? 262 00:19:19,940 --> 00:19:22,690 I thought he hated me. 263 00:19:22,740 --> 00:19:25,050 Nothing much. Sang your praises. 264 00:19:25,100 --> 00:19:27,700 ~ Like what? ~ Tell you later. 265 00:19:29,460 --> 00:19:31,850 Do you want me to come back in a bit, or...? 266 00:19:31,900 --> 00:19:33,490 No. No, nothing. 267 00:19:33,540 --> 00:19:36,050 Look, we're not here to talk about work. 268 00:19:36,100 --> 00:19:37,970 This is a celebration. Cheers! 269 00:19:38,020 --> 00:19:39,980 ~ Cheers. ~ Cheers! 270 00:19:45,780 --> 00:19:46,930 Hm! 271 00:19:51,460 --> 00:19:53,850 We should search her office, though, at the surgery. 272 00:19:53,900 --> 00:19:57,450 And question her husband, who you both think is dodgy, yeah? 273 00:19:57,500 --> 00:19:59,450 He's one of those blokes, isn't he? 274 00:19:59,500 --> 00:20:02,330 Can't walk past a mirror without having a little look. 275 00:20:02,380 --> 00:20:04,250 Bit like you. Huh! 276 00:20:13,060 --> 00:20:15,250 So, why are you so sure that she killed herself? 277 00:20:15,300 --> 00:20:16,850 Think about it, Rachel, will you? 278 00:20:16,900 --> 00:20:19,730 She's got this motor neurone disease, right. 279 00:20:19,780 --> 00:20:24,250 This time next year, she'll be sat in a wheelchair with breakfast dribbling down her chin. 280 00:20:24,300 --> 00:20:27,100 What would you do? I know what I'd do. 281 00:20:35,340 --> 00:20:37,570 Guv, can I just say something? 282 00:20:37,620 --> 00:20:39,170 Get used to it, John. 283 00:20:39,220 --> 00:20:41,490 ~ What? ~ Working with Rachel. 284 00:20:42,500 --> 00:20:45,010 Right. Fine. 285 00:20:45,060 --> 00:20:47,010 John? 286 00:20:47,060 --> 00:20:48,730 Shut the door. 287 00:20:52,740 --> 00:20:57,250 Just so you know, Walter Nunn got off scot-free. 288 00:20:57,300 --> 00:20:59,650 No reprimand, no charge, no nothing. 289 00:20:59,700 --> 00:21:02,740 He's transferring to London. 290 00:21:03,860 --> 00:21:05,400 Dirty squad. 291 00:21:08,220 --> 00:21:11,450 Yeah. It's the job you've always wanted, I know. 292 00:21:11,500 --> 00:21:13,010 But he got it and you didn't 293 00:21:13,060 --> 00:21:17,860 and it's just something else that you're going to have to get used to. 294 00:21:20,460 --> 00:21:22,250 And there's something else. 295 00:21:22,300 --> 00:21:25,500 Just in case you were getting your hopes up... 296 00:21:26,980 --> 00:21:31,480 .. the marriage is patched up and she's going to London with him. 297 00:21:35,540 --> 00:21:38,300 Goodnight. Goodnight, John. 298 00:21:51,980 --> 00:21:54,250 Do you want to take a seat? 299 00:21:55,580 --> 00:21:57,010 Hello again, Mr Gently. 300 00:21:57,060 --> 00:22:00,610 Morning. We'd like access to Dr Cullen's surgery, please. 301 00:22:00,660 --> 00:22:04,210 ~ First on the left at the end. It's open. ~ Thank you. 302 00:22:04,260 --> 00:22:06,600 Dr Cullen's already in there. 303 00:22:12,220 --> 00:22:14,090 Hey! Are you looking for summat? 304 00:22:14,140 --> 00:22:18,610 Well, um... anything that might shed a light on this awful business. 305 00:22:18,660 --> 00:22:22,140 ~ Such as? ~ This is our job, actually. Come on. 306 00:22:24,060 --> 00:22:25,850 ~ Did you find anything? ~ No. 307 00:22:25,900 --> 00:22:29,250 ~ Do you want me to search him, guv? ~ Are you calling me a liar, Sergeant? 308 00:22:29,300 --> 00:22:33,170 Yeah, I am. I think you're also lying about the Swiss maid you were having lunch with. 309 00:22:33,220 --> 00:22:36,650 Just a colleague! Seemed pretty close to me. 310 00:22:36,700 --> 00:22:38,090 Close? What does that mean? 311 00:22:38,140 --> 00:22:41,410 Well, it means she won't need to yodel when she needs you. 312 00:22:43,140 --> 00:22:47,210 Dr Cullen, we think someone paid a visit to your wife's house 313 00:22:47,260 --> 00:22:48,970 searching for something. 314 00:22:49,020 --> 00:22:51,560 Any idea who that might've been? 315 00:22:52,490 --> 00:22:53,490 ~ Valerie's house? ~ Yeah. 316 00:22:53,540 --> 00:22:55,450 Yeah. The one you said you'd never been to. 317 00:22:55,500 --> 00:22:57,090 How would I know? 318 00:22:57,140 --> 00:23:01,860 ~ Mr Gently, Dr Plant needs to speak urgently. ~ Thank you. 319 00:23:14,620 --> 00:23:17,090 She writes from Easterhope. 320 00:23:17,140 --> 00:23:20,850 Dated two nights ago at 9:00pm. 321 00:23:20,900 --> 00:23:22,900 "Dear Michael." Um... 322 00:23:24,020 --> 00:23:28,530 "You will know by now that I took the coward's way out after all..." 323 00:23:28,580 --> 00:23:32,010 'Others will ask, I know, why not a bottle of pills, 324 00:23:32,060 --> 00:23:34,460 'and not this ghastly syringe. 325 00:23:37,100 --> 00:23:40,450 'But you more than anyone know how my illness has already affected...' 326 00:23:40,500 --> 00:23:42,210 ".. My ability to swallow. 327 00:23:42,260 --> 00:23:47,570 "So I've made my choice, even though I hate and fear needles. 328 00:23:47,620 --> 00:23:49,820 "Some doctor I made, eh?" 329 00:23:54,780 --> 00:23:56,610 She was actually a wonderful, um... 330 00:23:56,660 --> 00:24:01,810 She was. She... she had an extraordinary rapport with patients. 331 00:24:01,860 --> 00:24:03,800 Everybody loved her. 332 00:24:07,060 --> 00:24:09,260 Take your time, Dr Plant. 333 00:24:13,260 --> 00:24:17,730 "You know, too, that there were two loves in my life." 334 00:24:17,780 --> 00:24:18,930 'Medicine was one. 335 00:24:18,980 --> 00:24:21,730 'Being a doctor was the greatest privilege. 336 00:24:21,780 --> 00:24:25,410 'Serving the poor was the thing that rescued me from a life 337 00:24:25,460 --> 00:24:30,140 'I might otherwise have spent in the selfish pursuit of my own appetites. 338 00:24:31,500 --> 00:24:34,330 'The second... great love...' 339 00:24:34,380 --> 00:24:37,170 "... Was Andrew, of course. 340 00:24:37,220 --> 00:24:41,450 "When we met, it was love at first sight for me. 341 00:24:41,500 --> 00:24:44,060 "A genuine coup de foudre. 342 00:24:45,780 --> 00:24:47,490 "He was the light in my world. 343 00:24:47,540 --> 00:24:49,610 "And though we had our differences, 344 00:24:49,660 --> 00:24:54,370 "he remains, deep down, a good man, Michael. 345 00:24:54,420 --> 00:24:56,730 "Please believe that. 346 00:24:56,780 --> 00:24:59,450 "For my sake, be a friend to him... 347 00:25:03,340 --> 00:25:06,250 ".. in the days, months and years ahead. 348 00:25:06,300 --> 00:25:09,930 "With gratitude for having known you 349 00:25:09,980 --> 00:25:12,320 "and in admiration of you... 350 00:25:14,220 --> 00:25:17,170 ".. I... I take my leave. 351 00:25:17,220 --> 00:25:21,500 "Your friend and colleague, Valerie Cullen." 352 00:25:36,100 --> 00:25:39,200 ~ I think that letter really belongs to me. ~ No. 353 00:25:40,220 --> 00:25:42,810 When I'm sure of the reasons for your wife's suicide, 354 00:25:42,860 --> 00:25:46,210 then I'll return this letter to Dr Plant. It's addressed to him. 355 00:25:46,260 --> 00:25:48,770 Until then, it's evidence in an unexplained death 356 00:25:48,820 --> 00:25:51,620 and belongs to the coroner. Thank you. 357 00:25:54,660 --> 00:25:56,530 Dr Cullen, I'm going to have to trouble you 358 00:25:56,580 --> 00:25:59,680 to come in and let us take your fingerprints. 359 00:26:01,180 --> 00:26:04,770 Aye, he really wanted to burn this letter, didn't he? 360 00:26:04,820 --> 00:26:07,450 What did she see in a bloke like him? 361 00:26:07,500 --> 00:26:10,620 Sometimes people fall for the wrong person, don't they? 362 00:26:14,220 --> 00:26:18,050 Right, well, we've got a suicide note. Are we done? 363 00:26:18,100 --> 00:26:20,930 Why? Why did she end her life? 364 00:26:20,980 --> 00:26:23,290 I don't know how many more reasons you need, guv. 365 00:26:23,340 --> 00:26:25,050 I honestly don't. Heidi the Goat Girl. 366 00:26:25,100 --> 00:26:27,050 Yeah, maybe. 367 00:26:27,100 --> 00:26:30,490 Did you see that look in Plant's eyes? 368 00:26:30,540 --> 00:26:32,130 Oh, yeah. Yeah. 369 00:26:32,180 --> 00:26:35,170 If looks could kill, Cullen would be dog meat, wouldn't he? 370 00:26:35,220 --> 00:26:36,890 Yeah, no, Plant hates him. 371 00:26:36,940 --> 00:26:39,170 So do I, actually, and I've only just met him. 372 00:26:39,220 --> 00:26:41,250 I think he has that effect on people. 373 00:26:41,300 --> 00:26:43,490 There's more to this. 374 00:26:43,540 --> 00:26:47,610 Her letter was clearly asking Plant to forgive Cullen for something. 375 00:26:47,660 --> 00:26:51,250 I've got some tasty stuff on Dr Andrew Cullen if you want it. 376 00:26:51,300 --> 00:26:54,770 ~ Such as? ~ Such as, sir, he's barely a doctor at all. 377 00:26:54,820 --> 00:26:56,130 You wouldn't trust this bloke 378 00:26:56,180 --> 00:26:58,370 to take your pulse without breaking your wrist. 379 00:26:58,420 --> 00:27:01,730 Anyway, he was born to dirt-poor parents in Blackpool, 380 00:27:01,780 --> 00:27:05,810 unlike his wife Valerie, who, sorry was, an honourable. 381 00:27:05,860 --> 00:27:10,050 ~ A what? ~ Well, it means that she's... was... 382 00:27:10,100 --> 00:27:11,890 the daughter of a baronet. 383 00:27:11,940 --> 00:27:14,730 You know, a silver spoon to eat your cornflakes with and all of that. 384 00:27:14,780 --> 00:27:17,450 Private schools, but she turns her back on it all 385 00:27:17,500 --> 00:27:20,530 to train as a GP and come and work in the industrial north. 386 00:27:20,580 --> 00:27:23,250 Anyway, they met at medical school, but where... 387 00:27:23,300 --> 00:27:24,970 Where's all this coming from? 388 00:27:25,020 --> 00:27:28,330 Mainly that gobby woman who answers the phone at the Safety Board. 389 00:27:28,380 --> 00:27:32,170 Anyway, he's worked in the same practice as his wife three times. 390 00:27:32,220 --> 00:27:34,450 And the same thing happens every time. 391 00:27:34,500 --> 00:27:37,890 He gets sacked and then she leaves with him out of loyalty. 392 00:27:37,940 --> 00:27:40,810 So eventually, he can't get a job anywhere as a GP, 393 00:27:40,860 --> 00:27:43,770 so he ends up as a factory doctor, 394 00:27:43,820 --> 00:27:46,250 which is where you end up when you're useless, apparently. 395 00:27:46,300 --> 00:27:49,780 Right. Well, see, I don't know where any of this gets us. 396 00:27:50,820 --> 00:27:52,130 Deep down. 397 00:27:52,180 --> 00:27:55,010 She said, "Deep down, he's a good man." 398 00:27:55,060 --> 00:27:57,970 Which implies that he's done something bad. 399 00:27:58,020 --> 00:28:01,580 And don't say, "Heidi the Goat Girl," I'm sick of hearing it. 400 00:28:03,500 --> 00:28:05,450 What's in Easterhope? Why Easterhope? 401 00:28:05,500 --> 00:28:07,570 What is in Easterhope for Valerie Cullen? 402 00:28:07,620 --> 00:28:09,570 Well, it was nowhere near her practice, 403 00:28:09,620 --> 00:28:12,220 so her patients didn't live there. 404 00:28:13,220 --> 00:28:14,690 Show me Easterhope. 405 00:28:14,740 --> 00:28:17,330 Actually, Rachel knows the place much better than I do. 406 00:28:17,380 --> 00:28:20,580 I've got a mountain of paperwork I need to do. 407 00:28:23,540 --> 00:28:24,810 Right. 408 00:28:26,140 --> 00:28:27,660 Let's go. 409 00:28:31,500 --> 00:28:35,170 ~ Mr Gently, can I just say something? ~ Get used to it. 410 00:28:35,220 --> 00:28:36,890 ~ What? ~ Working with John. 411 00:28:36,940 --> 00:28:39,210 Gently. 412 00:28:39,260 --> 00:28:41,330 "Andrew Cullen's prints, sir. 413 00:28:41,380 --> 00:28:44,290 "Apparently, they're all over the place in his wife's house." 414 00:28:44,340 --> 00:28:46,060 Thank you. 415 00:28:54,260 --> 00:28:57,860 The whole place depended on the factory that closed. 416 00:29:08,100 --> 00:29:09,890 Do you know them? 417 00:29:09,940 --> 00:29:11,690 Yeah. It's, er... 418 00:29:11,740 --> 00:29:14,450 ~ It's me best friend's mum and dad. ~ Oh. 419 00:29:14,500 --> 00:29:16,900 I haven't seen them for years. 420 00:29:17,220 --> 00:29:19,420 Do you want to say hello? 421 00:29:19,780 --> 00:29:21,140 Yeah. 422 00:29:22,580 --> 00:29:24,260 Yeah. 423 00:29:54,540 --> 00:29:57,010 I've come to say goodbye, John. 424 00:30:10,340 --> 00:30:12,210 Hello, Mrs Carlin. 425 00:30:12,780 --> 00:30:14,180 Rachel? 426 00:30:15,420 --> 00:30:17,420 Eeeee! 427 00:30:19,620 --> 00:30:22,690 Hey, man! Rachel! 428 00:30:22,740 --> 00:30:24,010 Hiya! 429 00:30:26,380 --> 00:30:29,530 If you'd have give us half an hour, I would've done the twist with you. 430 00:30:29,580 --> 00:30:33,130 But I'm jiggered after me game of tennis, you know. 431 00:30:33,180 --> 00:30:36,930 Why've you gone in the police? Could you not get a proper job?! 432 00:30:36,980 --> 00:30:38,730 Eh, Rachel, he never changes. 433 00:30:38,780 --> 00:30:41,050 This is Chief Inspector George. 434 00:30:41,100 --> 00:30:42,850 He's her boss, so no showing her up. 435 00:30:42,900 --> 00:30:44,450 Mr George. 436 00:30:44,500 --> 00:30:47,040 Pleasure to meet you, Mr Carlin. 437 00:30:57,340 --> 00:31:01,170 What I've got, George, is emphysemia. 438 00:31:01,220 --> 00:31:02,690 Me lungs are shot. 439 00:31:02,740 --> 00:31:06,500 Norman, man, it's not called emphysemia. It's called emphysema. 440 00:31:07,980 --> 00:31:11,130 Won't matter how they spell it when they put us in the box, Bridgie. 441 00:31:14,940 --> 00:31:16,650 We shouldn't tire him out. 442 00:31:16,700 --> 00:31:19,650 Rachel, this has done more for him than a million doctors. 443 00:31:19,700 --> 00:31:21,450 He gets no company, pet. 444 00:31:21,500 --> 00:31:23,330 Valerie's been good, though. 445 00:31:23,380 --> 00:31:24,570 Who's that? 446 00:31:24,620 --> 00:31:27,290 Oh, Valerie. He likes his Valerie. 447 00:31:27,340 --> 00:31:29,450 She's not his proper doctor, she just calls round. 448 00:31:29,500 --> 00:31:33,700 Ah, like her, me. She's got a... a lovely smile. 449 00:31:35,620 --> 00:31:38,930 She brings that little dog she's got sometimes, doesn't she, Bridgie? 450 00:31:38,980 --> 00:31:40,650 Greedy little thing for biscuits. 451 00:31:40,700 --> 00:31:46,300 Ah, George, she says that, but she spoils him rotten every time. 452 00:31:47,740 --> 00:31:50,410 That dog gets more to eat than I do! 453 00:31:55,820 --> 00:31:57,560 Suffering hell! 454 00:32:03,260 --> 00:32:04,650 That was not the plan. 455 00:32:04,700 --> 00:32:06,300 Yeah, it was. 456 00:32:07,380 --> 00:32:10,180 You've got your lacy knickers on, Gem. 457 00:32:11,260 --> 00:32:12,650 Detectives! 458 00:32:12,700 --> 00:32:16,420 Next time, wear your grandma's apple-catchers, then I'll know it's goodbye. 459 00:32:19,740 --> 00:32:22,740 There isn't going to be a next time, John. 460 00:32:24,780 --> 00:32:26,980 I can't do this any more. 461 00:32:28,740 --> 00:32:32,240 Walter's asked me for promises and I've made them. 462 00:32:32,860 --> 00:32:34,810 Well, you've made promises before, Gem. 463 00:32:34,860 --> 00:32:36,460 On the altar. 464 00:32:39,260 --> 00:32:41,060 Hm. Thanks. 465 00:32:49,540 --> 00:32:52,130 Anyway, you know, he's... he's changed. 466 00:32:52,180 --> 00:32:54,090 He's a different man. 467 00:32:54,140 --> 00:32:56,480 Never works nights any more. 468 00:32:57,620 --> 00:32:58,890 Yeah? 469 00:32:58,940 --> 00:33:02,140 Says it's time for him to stay home and spend time with me and the kids. 470 00:33:06,340 --> 00:33:07,810 Any plans? 471 00:33:09,580 --> 00:33:11,020 Plans? 472 00:33:12,540 --> 00:33:14,780 No. Same. 473 00:33:16,260 --> 00:33:17,900 Same life. 474 00:33:20,660 --> 00:33:22,660 Except I can't, John. 475 00:33:23,060 --> 00:33:24,460 I can't. 476 00:33:26,140 --> 00:33:28,340 I can't live in the dark. 477 00:33:29,380 --> 00:33:31,720 I want to live in the light. 478 00:33:35,860 --> 00:33:38,060 Live with me in the light. 479 00:33:45,020 --> 00:33:47,810 Why did Valerie call round, Norman? 480 00:33:47,860 --> 00:33:49,810 Did she examine you? 481 00:33:49,860 --> 00:33:51,490 Examine us? No. 482 00:33:51,540 --> 00:33:53,650 Take any blood samples? 483 00:33:53,700 --> 00:33:55,100 Why, no. 484 00:33:57,020 --> 00:33:59,160 Million questions, mind. 485 00:34:00,660 --> 00:34:02,890 "What've the doctors told you about your chest? 486 00:34:02,940 --> 00:34:04,850 "When did the coughing start?" 487 00:34:04,900 --> 00:34:08,250 I says to her, "Valerie, it's not the cough that carries you off, 488 00:34:08,300 --> 00:34:11,240 "it's the coffin they carry you off in!" 489 00:34:14,620 --> 00:34:16,770 She laughed her head off, didn't she, Bridgie? 490 00:34:16,820 --> 00:34:19,210 You would think they were courting, the way he goes on. 491 00:34:19,260 --> 00:34:23,650 "Oh, Dr Tambling's coming this afternoon. Give me hair a brush!" 492 00:34:23,700 --> 00:34:25,610 It's her maiden name, Tambling. 493 00:34:25,660 --> 00:34:28,850 Aye, she's married?! Don't break me heart! 494 00:34:28,900 --> 00:34:30,650 Well, I could've told you that, Norman. 495 00:34:30,700 --> 00:34:32,410 She had a wedding ring on, man! 496 00:34:32,460 --> 00:34:37,420 Did she... Has she never spoken to you about her husband, Norman? 497 00:34:38,740 --> 00:34:40,650 Never mentioned him once. 498 00:34:40,700 --> 00:34:42,010 You know why? 499 00:34:42,060 --> 00:34:43,930 She didn't want to scare us off! 500 00:34:43,980 --> 00:34:47,530 Married women! Man, George, they're the worst! 501 00:34:58,860 --> 00:35:01,970 Gem, you wouldn't... just go, would you? 502 00:35:02,020 --> 00:35:05,020 You wouldn't disappear without saying nowt? 503 00:35:05,340 --> 00:35:07,970 ~ Go where? ~ I don't know. Say if Walter got a job somewhere. 504 00:35:08,020 --> 00:35:09,330 He's got a job. 505 00:35:09,380 --> 00:35:12,930 Yeah, I know, but say if he got another job somewhere else. 506 00:35:12,980 --> 00:35:14,330 Move away, you mean? 507 00:35:14,380 --> 00:35:15,700 Yeah. 508 00:35:16,700 --> 00:35:19,700 No. Why you asking that? 509 00:35:23,020 --> 00:35:25,290 Ah, it's no reason, just... 510 00:35:26,940 --> 00:35:28,940 Gem, don't go, please! 511 00:35:38,020 --> 00:35:39,890 I've got to, John. 512 00:35:42,500 --> 00:35:44,370 This was a mistake. 513 00:35:45,140 --> 00:35:47,010 And it's my fault. 514 00:35:52,380 --> 00:35:55,380 I'm going that way, you're going that way. 515 00:35:57,100 --> 00:35:58,840 Don't look back. 516 00:36:22,180 --> 00:36:25,180 What other questions did she ask, Norman? 517 00:36:26,820 --> 00:36:28,290 "How long have you lived here? 518 00:36:28,340 --> 00:36:30,930 "How long did you work in Owens?" 519 00:36:30,980 --> 00:36:35,250 Owen Linings. It changed its name to Dennigs when it got took over. 520 00:36:35,300 --> 00:36:37,450 Aye, I meant, Dennigs. Sorry. 521 00:36:37,500 --> 00:36:40,970 Valerie can answer all of this better than us 522 00:36:41,020 --> 00:36:43,210 because she wrote everything down. 523 00:36:43,260 --> 00:36:45,660 She only lives 200 yards away. 524 00:36:49,340 --> 00:36:51,660 Bridgie? Norman? 525 00:36:53,220 --> 00:36:55,810 I hate to tell you this, but, er... 526 00:36:55,860 --> 00:36:59,290 Valerie killed herself two nights ago. 527 00:36:59,340 --> 00:37:00,970 Valerie did? 528 00:37:01,020 --> 00:37:02,780 Why?! 529 00:37:24,500 --> 00:37:27,050 Why do you think she was asking all of those questions? 530 00:37:27,100 --> 00:37:30,130 More to the point, what did she do with the answers? 531 00:37:30,180 --> 00:37:32,210 She wrote everything down, Bridget said. 532 00:37:32,260 --> 00:37:35,660 So, who might not want those answers made public? 533 00:37:38,980 --> 00:37:41,180 Who benefits by her death? 534 00:37:42,700 --> 00:37:44,330 Who? 535 00:37:44,380 --> 00:37:46,320 ~ Valerie Cullen. ~ Oh. 536 00:37:47,060 --> 00:37:49,090 Him, I suppose. 537 00:37:49,140 --> 00:37:51,690 There's a lot of it, the Tambling inheritance. 538 00:37:51,740 --> 00:37:53,460 Who? 539 00:37:55,020 --> 00:37:57,930 Sir Edward Tambling, her father. 540 00:37:57,980 --> 00:37:59,570 Made a lot of money making shoes. 541 00:37:59,620 --> 00:38:02,530 Gave a lot of it to the Conservative Party, naturally. 542 00:38:02,580 --> 00:38:05,930 Knighted in 1958, 543 00:38:05,980 --> 00:38:08,730 died in 1959. 544 00:38:08,780 --> 00:38:12,530 Left half-a-million quid to each of his three daughters. 545 00:38:12,580 --> 00:38:16,370 Well, that's a motive for murder, guv. We've got a suicide note. 546 00:38:16,420 --> 00:38:19,250 I know. And I can't explain that. 547 00:38:31,540 --> 00:38:34,210 Is there something getting you down? 548 00:38:35,620 --> 00:38:37,530 You know what's getting me down. 549 00:38:37,580 --> 00:38:40,170 ~ John, stay out of it. ~ No, I can't stay out of it. 550 00:38:40,220 --> 00:38:42,290 Let them sort their marriage. 551 00:38:42,340 --> 00:38:44,490 He hasn't even told her that he's going to London. 552 00:38:44,540 --> 00:38:47,410 Do you know that? He hasn't even told her! 553 00:38:47,460 --> 00:38:48,810 She's blind to him. 554 00:38:48,860 --> 00:38:52,530 She thinks, right, that the reason that he's home every night 555 00:38:52,580 --> 00:38:55,090 is because he wants to be with the kids all of a sudden. 556 00:38:55,140 --> 00:38:57,480 That's none of your business. 557 00:38:59,340 --> 00:39:02,640 ~ I'm going home. ~ No, come on. Don't be like that. 558 00:39:03,380 --> 00:39:05,450 Here, have another one. 559 00:39:09,860 --> 00:39:11,860 ~ You all right? ~ Yeah. 560 00:39:12,580 --> 00:39:14,330 ~ It's all right, I can manage. ~ I've got it. 561 00:39:14,380 --> 00:39:16,250 I don't need help! 562 00:39:18,220 --> 00:39:19,660 Right. 563 00:40:18,540 --> 00:40:20,890 How much do Safety Board officers pull in these days? 564 00:40:20,940 --> 00:40:24,340 I don't think this came out of his wages, do you? 565 00:40:34,900 --> 00:40:36,890 Rattle his cage for me, John, will you? 566 00:40:36,940 --> 00:40:38,970 Aye, all right. 567 00:40:39,020 --> 00:40:40,610 Hiya! 568 00:40:40,660 --> 00:40:44,090 Hey! Have you ever heard of the law of trespass?! 569 00:40:44,140 --> 00:40:46,180 Pfft! What? 570 00:40:47,220 --> 00:40:48,370 Well, have you? 571 00:40:48,420 --> 00:40:49,730 Trespass? Yeah. 572 00:40:49,780 --> 00:40:52,290 Yeah, it's an offence, isn't it? 573 00:40:52,340 --> 00:40:56,220 Involving unjustifiable interference. 574 00:40:57,300 --> 00:40:59,300 Is that what you mean? 575 00:41:01,660 --> 00:41:04,050 Miss Zweig, we didn't meet properly last time. 576 00:41:04,100 --> 00:41:06,570 I'm Detective Sergeant Bacchus, soon to be Inspector. 577 00:41:06,620 --> 00:41:09,970 This is my governor, Detective Chief Inspector Gently. 578 00:41:10,020 --> 00:41:12,290 Yes, I remember. Inspector. 579 00:41:12,940 --> 00:41:15,370 Well, Andrew, I can see you're busy, so I'll... 580 00:41:15,420 --> 00:41:17,760 No please, Miss Zweig, stay. 581 00:41:18,900 --> 00:41:21,690 I can't offer you any tea, I'm afraid. I have no help today. 582 00:41:21,740 --> 00:41:23,610 Doesn't matter. We won't be here very long. 583 00:41:23,660 --> 00:41:28,100 Help? Did they not teach you to boil a kettle in Blackpool, eh? 584 00:41:29,100 --> 00:41:31,050 Did you meet the other Dr Cullen, Miss Zweig? 585 00:41:31,100 --> 00:41:32,890 Er... no. 586 00:41:32,940 --> 00:41:35,370 Ah. I'd show you a picture, but there doesn't seem to be any. 587 00:41:35,420 --> 00:41:38,720 There's one in the drawing room, if you need it. 588 00:41:38,940 --> 00:41:40,170 No, I'm all right, thanks. 589 00:41:40,220 --> 00:41:42,890 And I don't need a photograph to remind me of Valerie. 590 00:41:42,940 --> 00:41:46,530 ~ There's a big one of you in Easterhope. ~ I don't rememb... 591 00:41:46,580 --> 00:41:49,580 I thought you said you'd never been there. 592 00:41:53,900 --> 00:41:57,900 So, how come your prints are all over the place? 593 00:42:00,060 --> 00:42:03,130 Yes, I made a mistake when I said that. I forgot. 594 00:42:03,180 --> 00:42:04,970 ~ I-I've been there once. ~ When? 595 00:42:05,020 --> 00:42:06,170 Three nights ago. 596 00:42:06,220 --> 00:42:08,890 She rang me, she sounded very depressed. 597 00:42:08,940 --> 00:42:11,890 So I drove over there to try and calm her down. 598 00:42:11,940 --> 00:42:14,260 Did she seem suicidal? 599 00:42:16,740 --> 00:42:19,080 Well, was suicide mentioned? 600 00:42:20,620 --> 00:42:22,530 I can't remember. 601 00:42:22,580 --> 00:42:24,290 Oh. I see. 602 00:42:24,340 --> 00:42:27,580 So, then you just forgot about that visit altogether? 603 00:42:29,140 --> 00:42:32,900 Do you know of a factory in Easterhope called Dennigs? 604 00:42:39,660 --> 00:42:41,090 Yes, I do. 605 00:42:41,140 --> 00:42:43,410 Did you ever visit there as part of your duties 606 00:42:43,460 --> 00:42:46,660 ~ for the Factories Safety Board? ~ Several times. 607 00:42:47,860 --> 00:42:51,370 ~ Why? ~ Part of my job is to check on the health of the workforce. 608 00:42:51,420 --> 00:42:54,530 ~ On behalf of the owners? ~ No, no, for the Safety Board. 609 00:42:54,580 --> 00:42:57,890 ~ I'm totally independent of the owners. ~ Oh. 610 00:42:57,940 --> 00:43:00,250 But it's closed now, anyway. It closed some time ago. 611 00:43:00,300 --> 00:43:02,740 When was that? 612 00:43:03,740 --> 00:43:05,450 Four or five years ago. 613 00:43:05,500 --> 00:43:08,170 It closed on December 20, 1965. 614 00:43:08,220 --> 00:43:10,810 Three and a half years ago. 615 00:43:10,860 --> 00:43:13,450 You're very well informed, Miss Zweig. 616 00:43:13,500 --> 00:43:16,290 Inspector, you are a very intelligent man, 617 00:43:16,340 --> 00:43:19,210 unlike your sergeant, who only thinks he is, 618 00:43:19,260 --> 00:43:21,810 and I think you already asked yourself, 619 00:43:21,860 --> 00:43:23,930 "She is Swiss, Dennigs is Swiss, 620 00:43:23,980 --> 00:43:26,450 "Oh, my golly, is there a connection?" 621 00:43:26,500 --> 00:43:28,090 Is there? 622 00:43:28,140 --> 00:43:32,010 I'm on the board of Dennigs' parent company, Silvexpo. 623 00:43:32,060 --> 00:43:36,530 We're a Geneva-based multinational that deals in synthetic fibres. 624 00:43:36,580 --> 00:43:38,210 I see. 625 00:43:38,260 --> 00:43:42,250 And you consider yourself to be completely independent 626 00:43:42,300 --> 00:43:45,300 ~ of the owners of Dennigs Linings? ~ Totally. 627 00:43:46,300 --> 00:43:47,890 And you're a chemist, Miss Zweig. 628 00:43:47,940 --> 00:43:51,650 Oh, yes, but I haven't been in a laboratory for years. 629 00:43:51,700 --> 00:43:54,210 I'm Head of Business Affairs these days. 630 00:43:54,260 --> 00:43:58,980 I now dream of extended lunches, instead of extruded plastics. 631 00:43:59,980 --> 00:44:02,210 ~ Is that how you met? ~ It's how we met again. 632 00:44:02,260 --> 00:44:05,700 We first met at Badminton Horse Trials. We have a shared passion. 633 00:44:07,060 --> 00:44:10,370 And how long have you been having an affair with Dr Cullen, Anna? 634 00:44:10,420 --> 00:44:13,730 Ah, you see, clever. 635 00:44:13,780 --> 00:44:17,690 ~ And when did you stop beating your wife? ~ Hm. 636 00:44:17,740 --> 00:44:20,410 So, then, Dr Cullen, why did your wife 637 00:44:20,460 --> 00:44:23,010 go to live in Easterhope, of all places? 638 00:44:23,060 --> 00:44:24,530 I've really no idea. 639 00:44:24,580 --> 00:44:27,260 Just a strange coincidence, was it? 640 00:44:29,940 --> 00:44:31,890 All right, well... 641 00:44:31,940 --> 00:44:33,490 Just one more question 642 00:44:33,540 --> 00:44:37,660 and then I'll leave you to your, er... shared passion. 643 00:44:39,060 --> 00:44:42,300 What were these linings in Easterhope made of? 644 00:44:44,620 --> 00:44:46,690 Asbestos. 645 00:44:46,740 --> 00:44:48,480 White asbestos. 646 00:44:49,580 --> 00:44:51,140 Hm. 647 00:44:52,340 --> 00:44:56,610 Till now, the asbestos industry has been regulated by a statute of 1931 648 00:44:56,660 --> 00:45:00,010 which forbade asbestos dust from escaping into the air. 649 00:45:00,060 --> 00:45:02,410 So the workers had to have proper overalls and masks 650 00:45:02,460 --> 00:45:04,570 and the place had to had to be properly vent... 651 00:45:04,620 --> 00:45:06,010 (Bloody hellfire!) 652 00:45:06,060 --> 00:45:07,170 Are you all right? 653 00:45:07,220 --> 00:45:08,890 Yeah, sorry. Carry on. 654 00:45:08,940 --> 00:45:13,090 Right. So, well, the act stated that the place had to be kept clear of... 655 00:45:13,140 --> 00:45:14,770 Ow! Massive spelk. Look at that. 656 00:45:14,820 --> 00:45:16,570 It's like a bloody telegraph pole. 657 00:45:16,620 --> 00:45:18,410 Well, have you not got any tweezers? 658 00:45:18,460 --> 00:45:22,360 Yeah, they're in me handbag for when I do me eyebrows(!) 659 00:45:23,140 --> 00:45:27,610 ~ Right, shall I just come back later, when...? ~ No, no. Just ignore him. 660 00:45:27,660 --> 00:45:31,410 ~ Huh! ~ So, these new regulations that are coming in next year 661 00:45:31,460 --> 00:45:34,490 will change the rules for places like Dennigs, yes? 662 00:45:34,540 --> 00:45:36,810 Well, no. No, that's the point. 663 00:45:36,860 --> 00:45:39,770 The new regulations are for factories that actually use asbestos. 664 00:45:39,820 --> 00:45:41,130 The 1931 regulations 665 00:45:41,180 --> 00:45:44,130 are for factories that actually made asbestos. 666 00:45:44,180 --> 00:45:45,890 Bloody hellfire! I can't get it. 667 00:45:45,940 --> 00:45:48,080 Oh, for God's sake, man! 668 00:45:49,460 --> 00:45:51,340 Where is it? Hm? 669 00:45:53,660 --> 00:45:56,140 Ready? One, two, three. 670 00:45:57,340 --> 00:45:59,740 Hey, look at that. She got it! 671 00:46:01,300 --> 00:46:03,570 So, Owen Linings, later Dennigs, 672 00:46:03,620 --> 00:46:06,290 always did manufacture the stuff, rather than just use it, 673 00:46:06,340 --> 00:46:09,010 so they've always been covered by the regulations. 674 00:46:09,060 --> 00:46:10,890 They just chose to ignore them. 675 00:46:10,940 --> 00:46:12,330 So the law was clear. 676 00:46:12,380 --> 00:46:14,370 There should have been strict controls 677 00:46:14,420 --> 00:46:17,330 over the amount of asbestos in the air, and there wasn't. 678 00:46:17,380 --> 00:46:19,890 ~ Yes. ~ And men like Norman are dying. 679 00:46:19,940 --> 00:46:22,330 So, what's the Factory Safety Board been doing? 680 00:46:22,380 --> 00:46:24,780 Well, exactly. Let's find out. 681 00:46:25,860 --> 00:46:28,780 Guv? I think Rachel should be along. 682 00:46:30,580 --> 00:46:32,580 Yeah, yeah. Good idea. 683 00:46:35,180 --> 00:46:37,290 Go on, then. Won't kill you. 684 00:46:37,340 --> 00:46:38,780 Thanks. 685 00:46:53,860 --> 00:46:55,570 ~ Hello. ~ Hello. 686 00:46:55,620 --> 00:46:58,050 We'd like to speak to Mr and Mrs Carlin, please. 687 00:46:58,100 --> 00:47:01,490 Mr Carlin's very poorly, I'm afraid, and Mrs Carlin's gone out. 688 00:47:01,540 --> 00:47:03,570 She has a night out once a week. 689 00:47:03,620 --> 00:47:05,360 It is important. 690 00:47:06,700 --> 00:47:09,800 She always writes it down, where she's going. 691 00:47:15,180 --> 00:47:17,370 ~ Does she do this every week, does she? ~ Aye. 692 00:47:17,420 --> 00:47:20,210 And every few months, she goes away altogether for a proper rest. 693 00:47:20,260 --> 00:47:22,930 ~ The company sends a car for her. ~ Company? 694 00:47:22,980 --> 00:47:26,480 Silvexpo, they're called. They pay for me, as well. 695 00:47:27,100 --> 00:47:28,650 Anyway, you'll find her there today. 696 00:47:28,700 --> 00:47:30,770 She loves her housey, does Bridgie. 697 00:47:30,820 --> 00:47:33,500 ~ Thanks a lot. ~ Thank you. ~ 'Bye. 698 00:47:36,500 --> 00:47:38,660 Seven and four, 74. 699 00:47:42,540 --> 00:47:45,050 ~ Two fat ladies, 88. ~ House! 700 00:47:45,100 --> 00:47:47,380 House called. 701 00:47:48,500 --> 00:47:51,170 It's a new card and a new game. 702 00:47:51,220 --> 00:47:54,570 Eyes down for your first number. And it is... 703 00:47:54,620 --> 00:47:58,100 on its own, number six. 704 00:48:01,140 --> 00:48:03,260 Four and seven, 47. 705 00:48:04,900 --> 00:48:07,380 Five and three, 53. 706 00:48:16,380 --> 00:48:20,280 I thought for a minute you'd come to tell us he was dead. 707 00:48:21,500 --> 00:48:23,700 A bit of us will be glad. 708 00:48:25,100 --> 00:48:26,890 You must think I've got a heart of stone. 709 00:48:26,940 --> 00:48:28,480 No, Bridgie. 710 00:48:29,460 --> 00:48:32,730 I had three year of it when Esther got her cancer. 711 00:48:32,780 --> 00:48:35,860 Now I've had two and a half year with Norman. 712 00:48:36,900 --> 00:48:39,730 What kind of cancer did your daughter have, Bridget? 713 00:48:39,780 --> 00:48:42,050 It was called, um... 714 00:48:42,100 --> 00:48:43,890 It's a long word. Um... 715 00:48:43,940 --> 00:48:46,810 I have to say it in bits, like a bairn. 716 00:48:47,460 --> 00:48:49,890 Meso-thelioma. 717 00:48:49,940 --> 00:48:53,330 It's a death you wouldn't put on your worst enemy. 718 00:48:53,380 --> 00:48:58,900 Bridget, how come Silvexpo gave you days out and holidays? 719 00:49:00,820 --> 00:49:03,130 Well, they come offering money, 720 00:49:03,180 --> 00:49:06,330 but I couldn't take the money, it felt wrong. 721 00:49:06,380 --> 00:49:09,060 They said, "We want to help you." 722 00:49:10,580 --> 00:49:12,090 What'd she call it? It was in Latin. 723 00:49:12,140 --> 00:49:14,770 ~ Ex gratia payment? ~ Yeah. 724 00:49:14,820 --> 00:49:18,650 And she saw there was nothing they could do for Norman, 725 00:49:18,700 --> 00:49:20,810 but she could see I was tired out, 726 00:49:20,860 --> 00:49:23,450 so she suggested holidays now and then. 727 00:49:23,500 --> 00:49:25,130 Who's the she? 728 00:49:25,180 --> 00:49:27,330 Foreign lass. Um... 729 00:49:27,380 --> 00:49:29,420 ~ Anna Zweig? ~ (Aye.) 730 00:49:30,660 --> 00:49:32,850 Did she ask you to sign something first? 731 00:49:32,900 --> 00:49:36,930 Saying that you would never claim against them for Norman's emphysema? 732 00:49:36,980 --> 00:49:39,490 No. No, not that. 733 00:49:39,540 --> 00:49:43,210 Because the Factory Board doctor had already had a look at Norman 734 00:49:43,260 --> 00:49:46,890 and says the emphysema's got nothing to do with the dust. 735 00:49:46,940 --> 00:49:50,570 And then he comes back with a letter for me to read 736 00:49:50,620 --> 00:49:52,770 saying Norman had smoked tabs for 30 year, 737 00:49:52,820 --> 00:49:55,930 which was the truth, and that's what's knackered his lungs. 738 00:49:55,980 --> 00:49:57,610 And you accepted that? 739 00:49:57,660 --> 00:50:00,210 He's a doctor. He's supposed to know. 740 00:50:00,260 --> 00:50:03,450 He's, like, more high up than your own doctor. 741 00:50:03,500 --> 00:50:06,460 Very well spoken. Lovely-looking man. 742 00:50:08,140 --> 00:50:10,250 ~ Dr Cullen? ~ Aye, that's him. 743 00:50:10,300 --> 00:50:14,290 Was it him that offered the money, the, er... ex gratia payment? 744 00:50:14,340 --> 00:50:17,210 No, no, that come after from the Swiss lass. 745 00:50:17,260 --> 00:50:20,860 ~ She offered money if we signed about Esther. ~ Esther? 746 00:50:22,020 --> 00:50:23,810 What did you have to sign about Esther for? 747 00:50:23,860 --> 00:50:26,450 Well, it was to say she'd never worked in Dennigs 748 00:50:26,500 --> 00:50:30,250 and I kept me house clean and cleaned me windows 749 00:50:30,300 --> 00:50:33,970 and always washed Norman's overalls, and all that malarkey. 750 00:50:34,020 --> 00:50:37,930 Course, I never knew then what Valerie told us later. 751 00:50:37,980 --> 00:50:42,620 You can only get Esther's cancer off asbestos. No other way. 752 00:50:44,420 --> 00:50:46,010 Esther died when she was 15. 753 00:50:46,060 --> 00:50:48,130 She couldn't possibly have worked for Dennigs. 754 00:50:48,180 --> 00:50:50,810 No, no, no. She, er... she played there. 755 00:50:50,860 --> 00:50:52,370 She played in the factory? 756 00:50:52,420 --> 00:50:54,210 A lot of bairns did. 757 00:50:54,260 --> 00:50:57,890 She lived all her life over the road from it. 758 00:50:57,940 --> 00:50:59,770 It was in the air, wasn't it, Rachel? 759 00:50:59,820 --> 00:51:01,290 Er... 760 00:51:01,340 --> 00:51:05,460 They used to just dump piles of the stuff all over the place. 761 00:51:08,260 --> 00:51:09,810 Me and Esther, we used to... 762 00:51:09,860 --> 00:51:12,330 play this game called Snow White. 763 00:51:12,380 --> 00:51:15,820 And whenever we came across a pile of the stuff... 764 00:51:17,380 --> 00:51:20,380 .. we used to rub it into each other's faces. 765 00:51:22,140 --> 00:51:24,460 You know, to make us white. 766 00:51:29,420 --> 00:51:31,290 She was, though... 767 00:51:32,660 --> 00:51:34,970 .. the fairest of them all. Eee! 768 00:51:35,020 --> 00:51:37,290 The lads were mad for her. 769 00:51:37,340 --> 00:51:39,140 She was so bonny! 770 00:51:40,620 --> 00:51:43,820 But she got the cancer and you didn't, Rachel. 771 00:51:48,060 --> 00:51:51,000 ~ I'm sorry, pet. ~ It's all right, Bridgie. 772 00:51:54,980 --> 00:51:58,530 Did Valerie say how she knew this about asbestos, Bridget? 773 00:51:58,580 --> 00:52:00,010 She never said. 774 00:52:00,060 --> 00:52:01,810 But she was positive, she said. 775 00:52:01,860 --> 00:52:04,370 When did she first tell you this? 776 00:52:04,420 --> 00:52:06,930 Just a couple of weeks ago. 777 00:52:06,980 --> 00:52:09,410 She wanted to have a meeting for the whole town. 778 00:52:09,460 --> 00:52:11,570 She called it and then she cancelled it again. 779 00:52:11,620 --> 00:52:13,130 When was this? 780 00:52:13,180 --> 00:52:15,650 Two days before she died. 781 00:52:15,700 --> 00:52:18,300 She said Dr Cullen would be there. 782 00:52:55,220 --> 00:52:57,210 She probably shouldn't be on this now, guv. 783 00:52:57,260 --> 00:53:00,170 I'm not going to take her off it, not unless she asks. 784 00:53:00,220 --> 00:53:02,090 Do you think she will? 785 00:53:02,140 --> 00:53:04,010 Huh! Not a chance. 786 00:53:19,860 --> 00:53:22,210 What made Valerie Cullen so sure 787 00:53:22,260 --> 00:53:26,730 of the link between asbestos and mesothelioma? 788 00:53:26,780 --> 00:53:30,010 Worked it out from the questions she was asking in Easterhope? 789 00:53:30,060 --> 00:53:33,450 Maybe. She wasn't taking any tissue samples, so... 790 00:53:33,500 --> 00:53:36,450 Do you think that's why she called the meeting? 791 00:53:36,500 --> 00:53:39,090 To let people know what she'd found out? 792 00:53:39,140 --> 00:53:40,890 Why would she want Cullen there? 793 00:53:40,940 --> 00:53:43,970 All he'd say is, "You shouldn't smoke tabs." 794 00:53:46,020 --> 00:53:47,770 She calls a meeting. 795 00:53:47,820 --> 00:53:51,610 Cullen says that he went to see her because she was distressed. 796 00:53:51,660 --> 00:53:54,300 She cancels the meeting, again. 797 00:53:55,300 --> 00:53:57,570 36 hours later, she's dead. 798 00:53:58,660 --> 00:54:02,850 I don't believe him when he says that he went there to calm her down. 799 00:54:02,900 --> 00:54:05,770 What was he looking for in her surgery? 800 00:54:06,260 --> 00:54:08,730 And why was her house searched? 801 00:54:10,300 --> 00:54:12,210 Do you need me any more today, guv? 802 00:54:12,260 --> 00:54:15,090 No. But thank you. 803 00:54:15,140 --> 00:54:18,010 You did very well today, Rachel. 804 00:54:18,060 --> 00:54:19,530 Thank you. 805 00:54:22,300 --> 00:54:25,240 I'll, um... I'll see you tomorrow, then. 806 00:54:25,820 --> 00:54:29,730 If you'd like me help on this case, I'd... Well, I'd like to give it. 807 00:54:29,780 --> 00:54:32,020 Thank you. 808 00:54:38,900 --> 00:54:41,900 Well, I think I might push off home meself. 809 00:54:42,420 --> 00:54:44,650 She hasn't gone home, John. 810 00:54:44,700 --> 00:54:47,330 She's headed straight for the library. 811 00:54:47,380 --> 00:54:50,690 ~ Why? ~ Because it's what I would've done if I was her. 812 00:54:50,740 --> 00:54:53,650 I would want to find out everything there was to know 813 00:54:53,700 --> 00:54:55,450 about mesothelioma. 814 00:54:55,500 --> 00:54:57,100 Wouldn't you? 815 00:55:00,500 --> 00:55:02,300 See you tomorrow. 816 00:55:21,180 --> 00:55:22,780 About time. 817 00:56:32,620 --> 00:56:34,380 Come on. 818 00:56:53,940 --> 00:56:57,010 Hey! Whoa, whoa! 819 00:56:57,060 --> 00:56:58,860 Shit! 820 00:57:11,700 --> 00:57:13,900 The moon's still a virgin. 821 00:57:17,540 --> 00:57:19,740 Do you want to see it, Mr? 822 00:57:24,260 --> 00:57:25,780 Yeah. 823 00:58:00,660 --> 00:58:05,850 Malcolm, where's your manners? There's a guest. 824 00:58:05,900 --> 00:58:07,980 Hello. 825 00:58:29,740 --> 00:58:31,530 Late night, John? 826 00:58:31,580 --> 00:58:34,570 Guv, you've got me up and working at six o'clock in the morning, 827 00:58:34,620 --> 00:58:36,560 I'm allowed to yawn. 828 00:58:42,740 --> 00:58:45,090 Onto that and over there? 829 00:58:45,140 --> 00:58:46,860 Yeah, not bad. 830 00:58:49,420 --> 00:58:53,700 Whatever it is, it isn't here, or it was and they found it. 831 00:58:58,220 --> 00:59:02,460 I met a family here last night, John. Another kid with mesothelioma. 832 00:59:04,860 --> 00:59:07,490 Do you know, Silvexpo offered them 833 00:59:07,540 --> 00:59:10,010 500 quid to waive all rights to complain? 834 00:59:10,060 --> 00:59:12,490 They're getting away with murder here, John. 835 00:59:12,540 --> 00:59:14,970 Guv, why don't we bring them in and shout at them for a bit? 836 00:59:15,020 --> 00:59:17,090 She's as hard as nails but he's not. 837 00:59:17,140 --> 00:59:20,130 ~ He's not that clever either. ~ Doesn't have to be. 838 00:59:20,180 --> 00:59:22,730 We'll have him in for questioning, he'll bring a lawyer... 839 00:59:22,780 --> 00:59:26,410 Well, then, we'll just have to be cleverer than them. 840 00:59:26,460 --> 00:59:29,610 Trust me, guv, I'm an Inspector. 841 00:59:29,660 --> 00:59:32,250 Not yet you're not. 842 00:59:32,300 --> 00:59:35,610 Silvexpo has no responsibility for Dennigs! 843 00:59:35,660 --> 00:59:39,210 Look, no parent company has any responsibility for the actions 844 00:59:39,260 --> 00:59:41,410 of the firms it takes over. 845 00:59:41,460 --> 00:59:44,290 ~ Huh! ~ Look, I'm sorry you don't like that but that is the law. 846 00:59:44,340 --> 00:59:46,570 Andrew, please wait for the lawyers. Where are they? 847 00:59:46,620 --> 00:59:50,250 And in any event, Dennigs itself was not responsible for these illnesses. 848 00:59:50,300 --> 00:59:53,770 You can't be responsible legally for that which you are unaware of. 849 00:59:53,820 --> 00:59:56,290 Again, that is the law, as I keep telling you! 850 00:59:56,340 --> 00:59:58,650 When did you start dishing out free legal advice, 851 00:59:58,700 --> 01:00:00,490 instead of syringing people's ears? 852 01:00:00,540 --> 01:00:04,010 You sound like somebody who works for Silvexpo rather than 853 01:00:04,060 --> 01:00:07,410 somebody who's paid to look after the health of the workers. 854 01:00:07,460 --> 01:00:09,690 What would your wife think about that, I wonder? 855 01:00:09,740 --> 01:00:12,250 Please say no more, Andrew. Where are our lawyers? 856 01:00:12,300 --> 01:00:14,650 We asked for our lawyers to be here, where are they? 857 01:00:14,700 --> 01:00:16,970 Somebody told them that we were in Newcastle... 858 01:00:17,020 --> 01:00:18,570 so I think they're on the train now. 859 01:00:18,620 --> 01:00:21,570 Yes, an administrative error, they'll be here any minute. 860 01:00:21,620 --> 01:00:24,090 You brought us here under false pretences. 861 01:00:24,140 --> 01:00:27,330 You said it was to investigate the death of Valerie but all you 862 01:00:27,380 --> 01:00:28,930 talk about is Silvexpo. 863 01:00:28,980 --> 01:00:32,090 There is no connection. Why are we here all these hours? 864 01:00:32,140 --> 01:00:36,170 Valerie Cullen had something that you needed. 865 01:00:36,220 --> 01:00:39,250 Now, I think that she believed that Silvexpo 866 01:00:39,300 --> 01:00:42,770 and Dennigs knew a lot more about the deadly effects of asbestos. 867 01:00:42,820 --> 01:00:46,290 She called a meeting, you were expected to attend, Dr Cullen. 868 01:00:46,340 --> 01:00:50,180 She told people that you had more to say about that - what was it? 869 01:00:52,020 --> 01:00:54,760 My wife's state of mind was confused. 870 01:00:56,260 --> 01:00:59,810 I had nothing new to say. I know nothing about any meeting. 871 01:00:59,860 --> 01:01:03,490 Then why did she kill herself the following night? 872 01:01:03,540 --> 01:01:06,850 Why? What passed between you when you went to her house? 873 01:01:06,900 --> 01:01:09,330 I told you, I simply went to calm her down. 874 01:01:09,380 --> 01:01:11,810 ~ And was she calm when you left? ~ Perfectly. 875 01:01:11,860 --> 01:01:13,810 Did she have a bruise on her face? 876 01:01:13,860 --> 01:01:15,730 Not that I recall. 877 01:01:19,580 --> 01:01:22,570 I think you're both liars. 878 01:01:22,620 --> 01:01:26,260 And that Miss Zweig is why you've been here "all these hours". 879 01:01:29,780 --> 01:01:31,410 Hey, hey! 880 01:01:31,460 --> 01:01:33,530 John...it's all right. 881 01:01:33,580 --> 01:01:36,570 I represent Silvexpo and its employees. 882 01:01:36,620 --> 01:01:39,730 Miss Zweig and Dr Cullen are leaving with us now or 883 01:01:39,780 --> 01:01:42,330 you'll be facing a charge of false imprisonment. 884 01:01:42,380 --> 01:01:46,210 Surely Dr Cullen isn't an employee of Silvexpo? 885 01:01:46,260 --> 01:01:47,780 No. 886 01:01:50,020 --> 01:01:53,170 I represent Dr Cullen as a private individual in this matter... 887 01:01:53,220 --> 01:01:55,170 Of course you do. 888 01:01:55,220 --> 01:01:57,370 .. he comes with us too. 889 01:01:57,420 --> 01:02:00,250 I don't know how you do things north of Watford 890 01:02:00,300 --> 01:02:03,890 but you're about to be reminded that the writ of English law runs 891 01:02:03,940 --> 01:02:06,970 all the way to Hadrian's Wall and beyond. 892 01:02:07,020 --> 01:02:08,560 Miss Zweig. 893 01:02:12,940 --> 01:02:14,280 Doctor. 894 01:02:20,460 --> 01:02:22,810 He was posh, wasn't he? 895 01:02:22,860 --> 01:02:26,690 Yeah, posher than the Queen. 896 01:02:26,740 --> 01:02:29,540 Posh enough to lose us our jobs, John. 897 01:02:31,140 --> 01:02:34,140 Ah well, I wasn't cut out to be Inspector. 898 01:02:36,540 --> 01:02:39,850 I've come up against corporate crime before, John, in London. 899 01:02:39,900 --> 01:02:42,410 It's like taking on the government - you probably lose. 900 01:02:42,460 --> 01:02:44,810 In fact, you do lose. 901 01:02:44,860 --> 01:02:48,770 These are the worst bastards you'll ever come across in your life! 902 01:02:48,820 --> 01:02:51,090 So what does that mean? 903 01:02:51,140 --> 01:02:53,850 Well for me, it means it's worth the risk. 904 01:02:53,900 --> 01:02:56,250 I can go today on two thirds of my salary. 905 01:02:56,300 --> 01:02:58,370 But for you it means... 906 01:03:02,740 --> 01:03:04,450 No... 907 01:03:04,500 --> 01:03:08,250 no, I want to find out who is responsible for giving 908 01:03:08,300 --> 01:03:12,610 Esther Carlin a cancer that gave her a vile death. 909 01:03:12,660 --> 01:03:16,060 And I want to find out why Valerie Cullen killed herself. 910 01:03:17,700 --> 01:03:19,410 If we can't ask those questions, 911 01:03:19,460 --> 01:03:22,960 then what's the bloody point in being a policeman? 912 01:03:23,700 --> 01:03:26,640 It's a pleasure to serve with you, John. 913 01:03:29,900 --> 01:03:31,620 ~ Guv. ~ What? 914 01:03:33,060 --> 01:03:35,770 You're not going anywhere, are you, guv? 915 01:03:35,820 --> 01:03:37,690 Tomorrow or any other day? 916 01:03:37,740 --> 01:03:41,330 Me? I'm not going anywhere. 917 01:03:41,380 --> 01:03:44,700 I wouldn't bank on that, after today's antics. 918 01:03:46,300 --> 01:03:49,370 This woman, Valerie Cullen, are you satisfied it was suicide? 919 01:03:49,420 --> 01:03:50,770 No, I'm not. 920 01:03:50,820 --> 01:03:54,290 I think it's possible that she was murdered to cover up the fact that 921 01:03:54,340 --> 01:03:58,210 an entire community was poisoned by fat cat businessmen who think that 922 01:03:58,260 --> 01:04:02,130 their workers and their workers' children are disposable items 923 01:04:02,180 --> 01:04:05,290 to be entered into the column marked "Dead Loss" and I'm not having it! 924 01:04:05,340 --> 01:04:09,050 ~ Can you prove any of that? ~ No. ~ Case closed. 925 01:04:09,100 --> 01:04:12,250 I will need to speak to Andrew Cullen again. 926 01:04:12,300 --> 01:04:15,170 He's hiding something that he can't live with. 927 01:04:15,220 --> 01:04:18,170 You'll never get him in a room again without ten lawyers round him. 928 01:04:18,220 --> 01:04:20,890 And can I just make one more point, George? 929 01:04:20,940 --> 01:04:24,930 Those lawyers are cleverer than me, they're miles cleverer than him 930 01:04:24,980 --> 01:04:30,330 and they might even be cleverer than you. Case closed! 931 01:04:30,380 --> 01:04:33,210 The Coroner's ready to release the woman's body. 932 01:04:33,260 --> 01:04:36,820 They want her buried... and frankly, so do I. 933 01:04:44,780 --> 01:04:48,770 Out of the depths I have cried to thee, O Lord. 934 01:04:48,820 --> 01:04:50,530 Lord, hear my voice. 935 01:04:50,580 --> 01:04:54,730 Let thy ears be attentive to the voice of my supplication. 936 01:04:54,780 --> 01:04:57,530 If thou, O Lord, would mark iniquities. 937 01:04:57,580 --> 01:04:59,650 Lord, who shall endure it? 938 01:04:59,700 --> 01:05:04,050 Ah, well, at least he turned up... just. 939 01:05:04,100 --> 01:05:08,610 ~ Up all night packing, I expect. ~ What's that? 940 01:05:08,660 --> 01:05:12,650 He's been made senior medical officer for Silvexpo. 941 01:05:12,700 --> 01:05:15,930 He's moving to Switzerland. 942 01:05:15,980 --> 01:05:18,730 Struth! 943 01:05:18,780 --> 01:05:20,970 For with the Lord there is mercy 944 01:05:21,020 --> 01:05:23,050 and with Him plentiful redemption. 945 01:05:23,100 --> 01:05:26,850 And He shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities. 946 01:05:26,900 --> 01:05:30,010 Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord. 947 01:05:30,060 --> 01:05:34,580 and let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. Amen. 948 01:05:58,700 --> 01:06:02,500 Is that it? Does the truth get buried down there with her? 949 01:06:06,500 --> 01:06:10,620 We've missed something here, John. I'm going to start again. 950 01:06:14,420 --> 01:06:17,020 Let's start with Valerie's office. 951 01:06:38,020 --> 01:06:40,940 Love, love, love! 952 01:06:42,940 --> 01:06:45,410 Don't you think this is a bit pointless? 953 01:06:45,460 --> 01:06:49,650 I agree with you but nobody's told me to stop cleaning her room. 954 01:06:49,700 --> 01:06:53,580 Come back later, go on. You're all right. 955 01:06:59,700 --> 01:07:02,370 It's not as pointless as this, mind... 956 01:07:02,420 --> 01:07:04,890 If you wanted to hide something from your husband, 957 01:07:04,940 --> 01:07:07,410 ~ where would you put it? ~ Haven't got a husband. 958 01:07:07,460 --> 01:07:08,730 Well, think like a woman, then. 959 01:07:08,780 --> 01:07:11,090 Guv, I haven't had time to have a cup of tea this morning, 960 01:07:11,140 --> 01:07:12,970 let alone have a sex change operation. 961 01:07:13,020 --> 01:07:16,900 ~ Under his nose... John! ~ What? ~ Under his nose. 962 01:07:21,980 --> 01:07:25,810 February 1962, signed by G Inler, 963 01:07:25,860 --> 01:07:29,330 Chief Medical Officer, Northern Region, Factory Safety Board. 964 01:07:29,380 --> 01:07:32,450 Subject "Asbestos and Mesothelioma". 965 01:07:32,500 --> 01:07:35,250 1962, they knew it was killing people, 966 01:07:35,300 --> 01:07:37,290 you just had to breathe in the air. 967 01:07:37,340 --> 01:07:39,290 Kids like Esther. 968 01:07:39,340 --> 01:07:42,940 Valerie confronted Cullen with it and he told his friend Anna. 969 01:07:44,380 --> 01:07:49,100 ~ Nice. ~ I thought they were all supposed to be safety checks? 970 01:07:52,340 --> 01:07:54,050 The funeral's jiggered him. 971 01:07:54,100 --> 01:07:57,010 We won't stay long, Bridget, I promise. 972 01:07:57,060 --> 01:07:59,900 Norman, Norman, you've got company. 973 01:08:01,540 --> 01:08:04,690 How, George, what fettle? 974 01:08:04,740 --> 01:08:07,340 Canny fettle, Norman, no bother. 975 01:08:08,580 --> 01:08:12,340 Listen to him, we'll get you talking Pitmatic before were finished. 976 01:08:14,740 --> 01:08:16,330 Are you all right, bonny lad? 977 01:08:16,380 --> 01:08:19,320 Ah, yeah, fit as a lop there, Mr Carlin. 978 01:08:20,900 --> 01:08:24,450 Norman, we wanted to talk to you about the Factories Safety Board. 979 01:08:24,500 --> 01:08:27,970 ~ Those sods? ~ What happened when there was an inspection? 980 01:08:28,020 --> 01:08:30,960 They were surprise visits, weren't they? 981 01:08:32,220 --> 01:08:35,690 The only surprise was they bothered to come at all. 982 01:08:35,740 --> 01:08:39,700 No, they were never a surprise. 983 01:08:41,140 --> 01:08:44,940 The machines were turned off two hours before they come. 984 01:08:46,260 --> 01:08:48,450 We cleaned the place. 985 01:08:48,500 --> 01:08:53,090 The inspector comes in, has a look, puts his meter in the middle 986 01:08:53,140 --> 01:08:58,970 of the floor to measure the dust in the air. 987 01:08:59,020 --> 01:09:04,730 Then he's took off to Durham for a slap-up dinner while I put 988 01:09:04,780 --> 01:09:08,140 a big polythene bag over his meter. 989 01:09:09,220 --> 01:09:13,100 ~ You did? ~ George, it was my job... 990 01:09:14,580 --> 01:09:17,410 .. and we didn't know what was in the air. 991 01:09:17,460 --> 01:09:22,460 All we knew was bloody health and safety... bloody nuisances! 992 01:09:24,380 --> 01:09:28,050 If his meter said "shut the line down," they'd shut the line down... 993 01:09:28,100 --> 01:09:32,660 and we'd get no bonus that week because we won't hit our targets. 994 01:09:33,980 --> 01:09:37,020 The bonus is half your pay packet. 995 01:09:38,540 --> 01:09:40,460 Then what? 996 01:09:41,540 --> 01:09:46,370 Ten minutes before he gets back we have another sweep up 997 01:09:46,420 --> 01:09:50,010 and I take the bag off his meter. 998 01:09:50,060 --> 01:09:53,210 In he comes, drunk as a monkey, 999 01:09:53,260 --> 01:09:56,410 "Oh, everything's hunky dory here, 1000 01:09:56,460 --> 01:09:59,580 "it's a pass, see you next time." 1001 01:10:01,500 --> 01:10:04,980 And off he goes home with his little kickback in his pocket. 1002 01:10:06,820 --> 01:10:11,780 And we get on with it, breathing in the air. 1003 01:10:16,420 --> 01:10:20,060 You think they knew it caused Esther's cancer, George? 1004 01:10:23,620 --> 01:10:27,930 Yes, they knew three or four years before it was closed down. 1005 01:10:27,980 --> 01:10:30,650 They were told and they ignored it. 1006 01:10:33,220 --> 01:10:36,250 That's the time Esther died. 1007 01:10:36,300 --> 01:10:40,570 But, George, Esther's the only one I know of that got that cancer. 1008 01:10:40,620 --> 01:10:42,890 Was it not just bad luck? 1009 01:10:42,940 --> 01:10:46,610 No, it wasn't bad luck, Bridget... and she wasn't the only one either. 1010 01:10:46,660 --> 01:10:50,010 It can take 50 years for it to reveal itself. 1011 01:10:50,060 --> 01:10:52,530 And I know of at least one other 1012 01:10:52,580 --> 01:10:55,770 and there will be more as the years go by. 1013 01:10:55,820 --> 01:10:59,290 And that is what Silvexpo is so keen to keep a lid on. 1014 01:10:59,340 --> 01:11:03,580 George, tell us, what's the working man worth to these people? 1015 01:11:06,100 --> 01:11:09,540 They only need us when there's a war on - you know that, George. 1016 01:11:11,020 --> 01:11:14,290 It's the same old racket everywhere you look. 1017 01:11:14,340 --> 01:11:18,490 That's what the lass Valerie found out in the end. 1018 01:11:18,540 --> 01:11:20,410 She was a lovely lass, 1019 01:11:20,460 --> 01:11:25,260 but she was naive and that's what's put her in the ground today... 1020 01:11:26,860 --> 01:11:29,290 .. naivety! 1021 01:11:29,340 --> 01:11:32,250 You can not beat these people, man, George. 1022 01:11:32,300 --> 01:11:34,170 I can try, Norman. 1023 01:11:34,940 --> 01:11:39,020 George, don't let them put you in the ground. 1024 01:11:57,420 --> 01:11:59,360 Thank you very much. 1025 01:12:08,580 --> 01:12:10,620 Mr Inler? 1026 01:12:18,380 --> 01:12:23,940 Mr Inler... I'm DCI Gently, this is DS Bacchus. 1027 01:12:28,700 --> 01:12:32,130 It's about a letter that you wrote to the owners of Dennigs Linings, 1028 01:12:32,180 --> 01:12:33,920 seven years ago. 1029 01:12:35,500 --> 01:12:37,690 I've nothing to say. 1030 01:12:37,740 --> 01:12:40,570 We've got the letter, Mr Inler, so there's no use denying it. 1031 01:12:40,620 --> 01:12:43,620 Ernie, would you get the drinks in, please? 1032 01:12:46,820 --> 01:12:48,380 Thank you. 1033 01:12:51,300 --> 01:12:53,850 I'm not denying it, though, am I? 1034 01:12:53,900 --> 01:12:57,810 It's just not my problem any more - I told Valerie that. 1035 01:12:57,860 --> 01:12:59,970 She's passed this to you, did she? 1036 01:13:00,020 --> 01:13:01,570 Listen, it is your problem 1037 01:13:01,620 --> 01:13:04,570 if you're a bloke lying on your back coughing your guts up every night. 1038 01:13:04,620 --> 01:13:06,170 And it's your problem if you've 1039 01:13:06,220 --> 01:13:08,770 already lost a daughter to mesothelioma. 1040 01:13:08,820 --> 01:13:11,450 You let these people down, Mr Inler. 1041 01:13:11,500 --> 01:13:15,210 Gentlemen, writing that letter cost me my career, 1042 01:13:15,260 --> 01:13:18,090 a career in protecting the safety of others. 1043 01:13:18,140 --> 01:13:21,890 A career I loved, of which I was proud. 1044 01:13:21,940 --> 01:13:24,290 Now, I would just like to hang onto my pension, 1045 01:13:24,340 --> 01:13:26,010 if it's all the same to you? 1046 01:13:26,060 --> 01:13:29,850 Your letter refers to "copious data" supporting your allegations. 1047 01:13:29,900 --> 01:13:32,730 What happened to that data after you were sacked? 1048 01:13:32,780 --> 01:13:35,010 I left it with the Board, of course. 1049 01:13:35,060 --> 01:13:36,330 What did they do with it? 1050 01:13:36,380 --> 01:13:38,610 Passed it over to the Swiss, I imagine, 1051 01:13:38,660 --> 01:13:41,130 because nothing has ever been made public. 1052 01:13:41,180 --> 01:13:43,120 Did you keep a copy? 1053 01:13:44,940 --> 01:13:47,370 Did you keep a copy? 1054 01:13:47,420 --> 01:13:51,850 Until my severance and pension arrangements were agreed, yes. 1055 01:13:51,900 --> 01:13:53,890 Do I look like a complete fool? 1056 01:13:53,940 --> 01:13:56,170 Then what? 1057 01:13:56,220 --> 01:14:02,050 And then I signed a confidentiality agreement with Silvexpo and then 1058 01:14:02,100 --> 01:14:04,740 I burned the files in my garden. 1059 01:14:07,660 --> 01:14:11,170 Valerie Cullen came to you asking for help, didn't she? 1060 01:14:11,220 --> 01:14:14,970 Yes, I gave her a copy of my letter to Silvexpo. 1061 01:14:15,020 --> 01:14:19,810 ~ Then, no doubt, you were visited by Silvexpo's lawyers. ~ Yes. 1062 01:14:19,860 --> 01:14:21,370 Did they threaten you? 1063 01:14:21,420 --> 01:14:24,580 Oh, yes... but I can stick up for myself. 1064 01:14:26,500 --> 01:14:29,620 Valerie Cullen couldn't, I'm afraid. She killed herself. 1065 01:14:36,780 --> 01:14:41,250 I warned her. I told her the persecution would never stop. 1066 01:14:41,300 --> 01:14:43,700 ~ Persecution? ~ You didn't know? 1067 01:14:45,180 --> 01:14:48,610 They were trying to have her struck off, 1068 01:14:48,660 --> 01:14:51,810 "unfit to practise medicine" 1069 01:14:51,860 --> 01:14:54,400 and she had nobody in her corner. 1070 01:15:12,060 --> 01:15:16,810 ~ Oh... ~ Would you like one? ~ No. 1071 01:15:16,860 --> 01:15:19,900 Come on, if you're going to join CID. 1072 01:15:26,700 --> 01:15:28,440 ~ Cheers. ~ Cheers. 1073 01:15:32,100 --> 01:15:35,530 ~ Oh, I better not. I'll get the whirling pits. ~ Eh? 1074 01:15:35,580 --> 01:15:38,570 You know, when you feel like you're falling backwards through the floor 1075 01:15:38,620 --> 01:15:41,570 and the ceiling spins round. 1076 01:15:41,620 --> 01:15:46,650 Yeah, I may be about to experience the career equivalent, actually. 1077 01:15:46,700 --> 01:15:50,090 I've got Andrew Cullen and half a dozen fancy lawyers, most of them 1078 01:15:50,140 --> 01:15:54,610 Swiss, coming to town tomorrow - at my own insistence and against all 1079 01:15:54,660 --> 01:15:59,330 sensible advice and I haven't got anything new to say to any of them. 1080 01:15:59,380 --> 01:16:01,570 Why are you doing it? 1081 01:16:01,620 --> 01:16:05,300 Because... why am I a policeman, Rachel? 1082 01:16:06,980 --> 01:16:10,090 ~ Can you win? ~ Probably not. 1083 01:16:10,140 --> 01:16:12,450 Unless I can get Andrew Cullen to crack, 1084 01:16:12,500 --> 01:16:16,220 they'll wipe the floor with me. I haven't got the proof I need. 1085 01:16:17,380 --> 01:16:20,970 This, to my mind, is evidence of malpractice 1086 01:16:21,020 --> 01:16:23,690 but it doesn't actually prove anything. 1087 01:16:23,740 --> 01:16:27,370 Geoffrey Inler says he burned the proof seven years ago. 1088 01:16:27,420 --> 01:16:29,130 Do you believe him? 1089 01:16:29,180 --> 01:16:31,050 No, I don't. 1090 01:16:31,100 --> 01:16:33,130 It's his pension protection plan... 1091 01:16:33,180 --> 01:16:36,410 but if he handed it over to us, Silvexpo would sue him 1092 01:16:36,460 --> 01:16:38,660 to death in a Swiss court. 1093 01:16:43,980 --> 01:16:46,320 What did you decide, Rachel? 1094 01:16:49,140 --> 01:16:51,450 You don't miss much, Sir. 1095 01:16:51,500 --> 01:16:57,620 There is a way of finding out if you've got it, a lung biopsy. 1096 01:16:59,300 --> 01:17:03,530 There's no cure for it, anyway, so what's the point in knowing? 1097 01:17:03,580 --> 01:17:05,540 Are you afraid? 1098 01:17:06,740 --> 01:17:08,210 Petrified. 1099 01:17:10,020 --> 01:17:13,940 I'm not sure whether I can live with the uncertainty. 1100 01:17:15,820 --> 01:17:20,740 Something inside me that, one day, might just kill me. 1101 01:17:41,580 --> 01:17:43,980 You'll find a way, believe me. 1102 01:17:51,300 --> 01:17:54,530 MUSIC: "For What It's Worth" by Buffalo Springfield 1103 01:17:54,580 --> 01:17:57,730 ♪ There's something happening here 1104 01:17:57,780 --> 01:18:02,300 ♪ What it is ain't exactly clear 1105 01:18:03,380 --> 01:18:07,020 ♪ There's a man with a gun over there 1106 01:18:08,260 --> 01:18:12,180 ♪ Telling me I've got to beware 1107 01:18:13,460 --> 01:18:16,330 ♪ I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound? 1108 01:18:16,380 --> 01:18:19,100 ♪ Everybody look what's going down 1109 01:18:29,460 --> 01:18:32,850 ♪ There's battle lines being drawn 1110 01:18:32,900 --> 01:18:35,940 ♪ Nobody's right if everybody's wrong 1111 01:18:38,340 --> 01:18:40,770 ♪ Young people speaking their mind... ♪ 1112 01:18:40,820 --> 01:18:42,530 You all right? 1113 01:18:42,580 --> 01:18:44,490 You sure about this? 1114 01:18:44,540 --> 01:18:46,890 Yeah, positive. 1115 01:18:46,940 --> 01:18:48,810 ♪ I think it's time we stop 1116 01:18:48,860 --> 01:18:50,570 ♪ Hey, what's that sound 1117 01:18:50,620 --> 01:18:53,360 ♪ Everybody look what's going down. ♪ 1118 01:18:58,100 --> 01:18:59,970 Now then, Dr Cullen, 1119 01:19:00,020 --> 01:19:04,010 your wife injected herself with a lethal dose of barbiturates 1120 01:19:04,060 --> 01:19:06,970 on the evening of July the 18th. 1121 01:19:07,020 --> 01:19:10,210 Now, I'm trying to find out what part in her suicide might have 1122 01:19:10,260 --> 01:19:14,410 been played by yourself and by Silvexpo Holdings. 1123 01:19:14,460 --> 01:19:17,210 Sir, we need to firmly establish that... 1124 01:19:17,260 --> 01:19:19,130 Excuse me, excuse me. 1125 01:19:19,180 --> 01:19:22,410 Now, the Assistant Chief Constable is here to represent 1126 01:19:22,460 --> 01:19:25,130 the constabulary, he's not a judge, this is not a trial, 1127 01:19:25,180 --> 01:19:28,140 it's an interview and I'm conducting it. 1128 01:19:35,660 --> 01:19:38,650 Your wife called a public meeting in Easterhope to discuss 1129 01:19:38,700 --> 01:19:41,250 the source of various illnesses. 1130 01:19:41,300 --> 01:19:45,490 Some of the people who said they intended to go were told that 1131 01:19:45,540 --> 01:19:49,410 you were expected to attend, in your capacity as Medical Officer 1132 01:19:49,460 --> 01:19:51,130 for the Factory Safety Board. 1133 01:19:51,180 --> 01:19:53,850 No, I've already told you, I know nothing about that. 1134 01:19:53,900 --> 01:19:55,810 Why would your wife lie to them? 1135 01:19:55,860 --> 01:19:59,890 She told them that you had something "new" to say about Silvexpo. 1136 01:19:59,940 --> 01:20:03,610 I'm sorry, am I not supposed to say the word "Silvexpo"? 1137 01:20:03,660 --> 01:20:06,090 Silvexpo are extremely litigious 1138 01:20:06,140 --> 01:20:08,490 when it comes to protecting its reputation. 1139 01:20:08,540 --> 01:20:11,810 Neither your job nor your rank offers you any special 1140 01:20:11,860 --> 01:20:14,810 protection at all from the laws of libel. 1141 01:20:14,860 --> 01:20:18,420 Have you ever heard the name Geoffrey Inler? 1142 01:20:22,740 --> 01:20:24,530 ~ No. ~ No? 1143 01:20:24,580 --> 01:20:28,250 Then you won't have seen the letter that he wrote to the 1144 01:20:28,300 --> 01:20:30,290 board of Silvexpo? 1145 01:20:30,340 --> 01:20:34,890 In this letter, dated the 11th of February 1962, Geoffrey Inler, 1146 01:20:34,940 --> 01:20:38,690 in his capacity as the Chief Regional Medical Officer 1147 01:20:38,740 --> 01:20:42,050 for the Factory Safety Board, outlines his argument 1148 01:20:42,100 --> 01:20:46,500 for a causal link between asbestos and mesothelioma. 1149 01:20:52,820 --> 01:20:57,420 ~ May we have a minute to study this? ~ Please. 1150 01:21:15,500 --> 01:21:17,970 It seems Mr Inler lost his job 1151 01:21:18,020 --> 01:21:20,730 because of these unfounded allegations. 1152 01:21:20,780 --> 01:21:24,180 He never produced any data to back up his claims. 1153 01:21:26,060 --> 01:21:30,100 ~ Do I look like a saint to you, Constable? ~ No. 1154 01:21:32,140 --> 01:21:35,490 I was expecting to hate you but you look like a decent human being. 1155 01:21:35,540 --> 01:21:38,650 Decent human beings get trampled on in this world. 1156 01:21:38,700 --> 01:21:43,170 If they're lucky, some of them die horrible deaths. 1157 01:21:43,220 --> 01:21:46,970 In her final letter to Dr Plant, your wife begged him 1158 01:21:47,020 --> 01:21:51,010 to think well of you because you were, quote, "deep down a good man". 1159 01:21:51,060 --> 01:21:53,890 ~ What did she mean? ~ No idea. 1160 01:21:53,940 --> 01:21:56,370 ~ Well, why write that to Dr Plant? ~ No idea. 1161 01:21:56,420 --> 01:21:58,730 I mean, why would she write that at all to Dr Plant? 1162 01:21:58,780 --> 01:22:00,530 Why not a letter to you? 1163 01:22:00,580 --> 01:22:02,730 I suppose, she had nothing to say to me. 1164 01:22:02,780 --> 01:22:06,050 Well, she had plenty to say about you, though, didn't she, hmm? 1165 01:22:06,100 --> 01:22:10,170 I mean, for instance, how you were the light of her world. 1166 01:22:10,220 --> 01:22:13,130 She wanted Dr Plant to forgive you. 1167 01:22:13,180 --> 01:22:15,050 What had you done? 1168 01:22:16,980 --> 01:22:20,610 This is my friend, Esther Carlin 1169 01:22:20,660 --> 01:22:23,250 and her friend on their first holy communion. 1170 01:22:23,300 --> 01:22:26,330 She can't be here to speak for herself, cos she died, 1171 01:22:26,380 --> 01:22:29,460 when she was 15, of mesothelioma. 1172 01:22:33,060 --> 01:22:35,260 I'm here to speak for her. 1173 01:22:37,220 --> 01:22:40,490 See, you've got a new job, Doctor. 1174 01:22:40,540 --> 01:22:43,730 Highly salaried Chief Medical Officer for a company whose 1175 01:22:43,780 --> 01:22:47,050 name I'm not allowed to mention because they're highly litigious. 1176 01:22:47,100 --> 01:22:49,610 Is that what your wife wanted you to be forgiven for? 1177 01:22:49,660 --> 01:22:52,810 Because you sided with your new employer against the people 1178 01:22:52,860 --> 01:22:56,370 whose health you were paid to protect? 1179 01:22:56,420 --> 01:22:58,970 And when you're in Switzerland with your new job and your 1180 01:22:59,020 --> 01:23:02,650 new wife, breathing in the Alpine air, you can forget 1181 01:23:02,700 --> 01:23:06,130 all about the people of Easterhope, riddled with disease, and the 1182 01:23:06,180 --> 01:23:09,770 dead woman who just wanted to turn you back into a decent human being. 1183 01:23:09,820 --> 01:23:14,650 The woman that you denounced as "being unfit to practise medicine!" 1184 01:23:14,700 --> 01:23:18,610 Have you any idea how bloody tedious it is to be married to a saint? 1185 01:23:18,660 --> 01:23:20,860 Andrew. 1186 01:23:25,500 --> 01:23:28,040 Can you guess where Esther lived? 1187 01:23:29,540 --> 01:23:32,080 Can you guess who her friend is? 1188 01:23:34,660 --> 01:23:40,180 That's me... we breathed the air together. 1189 01:23:45,580 --> 01:23:48,410 Did you hate your wife, Dr Cullen? 1190 01:23:48,460 --> 01:23:52,210 For being a better doctor than you, for being a better human being? 1191 01:23:52,260 --> 01:23:54,530 For being rich?! 1192 01:23:54,580 --> 01:23:57,090 Or was it just that she still believed in the things that 1193 01:23:57,140 --> 01:23:58,890 you used to believe in? 1194 01:23:58,940 --> 01:24:01,690 Like, erm, healing the sick... 1195 01:24:01,740 --> 01:24:03,540 helping the poor? 1196 01:24:09,980 --> 01:24:11,940 Will you help me? 1197 01:24:17,660 --> 01:24:22,130 ~ Did you ever tell her that you hated her? ~ Yes. 1198 01:24:22,180 --> 01:24:26,050 Just before the night of the proposed meeting, perhaps? 1199 01:24:26,100 --> 01:24:29,850 The night you went to "calm her down". 1200 01:24:29,900 --> 01:24:34,570 The meeting that you had no intention of going to. 1201 01:24:34,620 --> 01:24:37,530 You had to go, didn't you? 1202 01:24:37,580 --> 01:24:41,130 And it wasn't to help your distressed wife. 1203 01:24:41,180 --> 01:24:44,530 You went because she told you about the Inler letter. 1204 01:24:44,580 --> 01:24:46,890 You told Miss Zweig 1205 01:24:46,940 --> 01:24:49,890 and Miss Zweig told you to go and get it at all costs! 1206 01:24:49,940 --> 01:24:51,450 This has absolutely... 1207 01:24:51,500 --> 01:24:54,800 If you don't like it, you don't have to be here. 1208 01:25:00,900 --> 01:25:03,240 Where is it... where is it?! 1209 01:25:14,500 --> 01:25:16,380 Andrew... 1210 01:25:18,500 --> 01:25:22,730 .. you're... you're better than those people. 1211 01:25:22,780 --> 01:25:25,780 You don't have to do what they want you to do. 1212 01:25:27,180 --> 01:25:29,970 You don't need their jobs in Switzerland. 1213 01:25:30,020 --> 01:25:32,410 Why, because I've got your money!? 1214 01:25:32,460 --> 01:25:34,770 I don't want your money, 1215 01:25:34,820 --> 01:25:38,660 I don't want to waste my life the way that you've wasted yours... 1216 01:25:40,740 --> 01:25:42,880 .. and I don't want you! 1217 01:25:44,700 --> 01:25:47,050 I know that, Andrew. 1218 01:25:47,100 --> 01:25:49,810 I accepted that a while ago. 1219 01:25:49,860 --> 01:25:55,020 I just want you to remember who you used to be. 1220 01:25:57,460 --> 01:26:00,530 There's always hope. 1221 01:26:00,580 --> 01:26:03,090 Hope, you stupid woman?! 1222 01:26:03,140 --> 01:26:05,850 You'll be dead in two years! 1223 01:26:05,900 --> 01:26:08,610 What have you got to live for? Nothing! 1224 01:26:08,660 --> 01:26:12,660 What are you doing, waiting for your wheelchair to arrive? 1225 01:26:19,380 --> 01:26:22,380 She was wrong about me... Inspector Gently. 1226 01:26:25,060 --> 01:26:27,060 From start to finish. 1227 01:26:28,340 --> 01:26:31,570 I'm not a good man, never was. 1228 01:26:31,620 --> 01:26:34,160 Not deep down, nor anywhere else. 1229 01:26:35,820 --> 01:26:38,890 But not being a good man isn't a crime, as far as I'm aware, 1230 01:26:38,940 --> 01:26:41,280 so have you finished with me? 1231 01:26:43,820 --> 01:26:46,380 Was there anything more? 1232 01:26:51,700 --> 01:26:53,440 Yes, one moment. 1233 01:27:07,540 --> 01:27:09,530 This is Malcolm, from Easterhope. 1234 01:27:09,580 --> 01:27:12,940 We watched the moon landing together, didn't we, Malcolm? 1235 01:27:16,820 --> 01:27:21,890 Malcolm has mesothelioma, which, as you well know, you can only 1236 01:27:21,940 --> 01:27:24,170 get from inhaling asbestos, which is 1237 01:27:24,220 --> 01:27:28,140 what he did every day of his life until Dennigs Linings closed down. 1238 01:27:30,540 --> 01:27:32,890 I can't prove this, of course, 1239 01:27:32,940 --> 01:27:36,860 but I just wanted you to see what you've done. 1240 01:27:44,100 --> 01:27:47,570 Well, may we go, Inspector? 1241 01:27:47,620 --> 01:27:49,100 Yes. 1242 01:28:00,340 --> 01:28:05,580 My name is Geoffrey Inler. I have some information for you. 1242 01:28:06,305 --> 01:28:12,826 Support us and become VIP member to remove all ads from www.OpenSubtitles.org