1 00:00:02,380 --> 00:00:07,940 Reading Rock Festival 1979 is deliriously thrilled and delighted to 2 00:00:07,940 --> 00:00:10,700 Holy Trinity of Edwin Broome. 3 00:00:16,239 --> 00:00:20,280 On electric fiddle, the legendary Roy Pilgrim. 4 00:02:26,490 --> 00:02:28,770 Are you sure you know where you're going? I'll be fine 5 00:04:10,890 --> 00:04:11,890 into Classic FM. 6 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:17,360 Oh, no. 7 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:47,120 Morning. 8 00:05:47,420 --> 00:05:48,980 Is there a problem? What's happened? 9 00:05:49,340 --> 00:05:51,920 Do you know this Mr Roy Pilgrim? We're not getting any reply. 10 00:05:53,020 --> 00:05:54,020 I'm his fiancée. 11 00:05:54,540 --> 00:05:56,500 He should be in. He's expecting me at nine. 12 00:05:57,320 --> 00:05:58,320 What's this all about? 13 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:01,680 Roy? 14 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:06,800 Roy? In here. 15 00:06:14,280 --> 00:06:15,780 What the hell's happened to you? 16 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:19,260 I've got a crack on the back of the head. 17 00:06:20,380 --> 00:06:23,100 I thought they'd gone and one of them caught me from behind. 18 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:29,120 They rifled the safe and then cuffed me to this thing so I couldn't raise the 19 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:30,120 alarm. 20 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:32,120 I think you're going to need a hacksaw. 21 00:06:35,140 --> 00:06:37,800 Before we go into this, there's another matter I have to ask you about 22 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:39,240 concerning a young lady. 23 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:46,440 What games have you been playing here? 24 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:47,680 Four o 'clock. 25 00:06:48,220 --> 00:06:49,660 How many of you saw this girl? 26 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:52,780 And where is she now? 27 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:55,460 Her mother's out of her mind with worry. 28 00:06:55,740 --> 00:06:56,419 With who? 29 00:06:56,420 --> 00:07:00,100 The pretty little thing you invited around for tea and crumpets. 30 00:07:01,300 --> 00:07:02,940 Oh, don't pull that innocent routine. 31 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:05,180 Why do you think the police are here? 32 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:11,460 Fourteen. I've got the faintest clue. Mr Pilgrim, can you tell us where you were 33 00:07:11,460 --> 00:07:12,940 at four o 'clock yesterday afternoon? 34 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:16,600 Is this a joke? 35 00:07:18,460 --> 00:07:20,720 I haven't moved from this spot for 20 hours. 36 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:23,660 I'm not Harry Houdini. 37 00:07:24,340 --> 00:07:25,460 Someone trying to be funny? 38 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:29,160 There's nothing funny about a missing person, Mr Pilgrim. 39 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:33,220 We know she left home yesterday morning for this address. 40 00:07:34,380 --> 00:07:39,120 It appears now she was seen by six eyewitnesses entering your house through 41 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:42,240 door at four o 'clock as the school bus was arriving. 42 00:07:45,790 --> 00:07:49,210 Someone's putting you up. Mr Pilgrim, a straight answer to the question, please. 43 00:07:50,150 --> 00:07:54,410 Did you let a 16 -year -old girl named Tracy Cook into this house yesterday 44 00:07:54,410 --> 00:07:55,410 afternoon? 45 00:07:56,310 --> 00:07:59,070 Look, I don't know what you guys are playing at, but let's lay this to rest 46 00:07:59,870 --> 00:08:06,090 I've been sat here staring at these four walls since midday yesterday till the 47 00:08:06,090 --> 00:08:07,090 moment you just arrived. 48 00:08:07,570 --> 00:08:12,530 And on my granny's grave, no -one has come in through those French windows. 49 00:08:21,290 --> 00:08:25,550 If she calls me abracadabra once more, I may go berserk with that emery board. 50 00:08:26,110 --> 00:08:28,770 Fire down her face so that it resembles a hard -boiled egg. 51 00:08:28,970 --> 00:08:30,730 Don't let her rat you. It's just Gina's way. 52 00:08:31,490 --> 00:08:32,970 I think she quite likes you, actually. 53 00:08:33,190 --> 00:08:36,490 I can't tell you how much I've enjoyed sharing the back seat with Mr Biceps out 54 00:08:36,490 --> 00:08:37,490 there. 55 00:08:38,110 --> 00:08:39,770 I'm beginning to wish I'd stayed at home. 56 00:08:40,010 --> 00:08:41,850 You lighten up and make the effort. 57 00:08:42,309 --> 00:08:43,470 She's my best friend. 58 00:08:46,570 --> 00:08:47,990 So basically, that's what you do. 59 00:08:48,450 --> 00:08:50,770 You sit at home all day and think up conjuring tricks. 60 00:08:53,670 --> 00:08:54,830 How amazingly pointless. 61 00:08:55,850 --> 00:08:56,850 Thank you. 62 00:08:57,230 --> 00:08:59,090 And what's the deal between you and Madeline? 63 00:08:59,990 --> 00:09:02,510 I mean, is it like the theory of passion time here? 64 00:09:04,110 --> 00:09:06,270 Just how far into your world is she allowed to go? 65 00:09:07,470 --> 00:09:09,390 I mean, have you showed her your magic wand yet? 66 00:09:11,250 --> 00:09:14,690 Wedding! You've got some nerve on you. You're just not real. This whole thing's 67 00:09:14,690 --> 00:09:15,690 not real. 68 00:09:16,150 --> 00:09:18,550 Hello. Love is tip. Oh, thanks. 69 00:09:21,550 --> 00:09:23,250 You want me to believe you've changed? 70 00:09:24,870 --> 00:09:26,350 You'll never change, Roy. 71 00:09:27,290 --> 00:09:28,290 And that's it? 72 00:09:28,570 --> 00:09:30,650 I don't get a chance? I'm condemned before I start? 73 00:09:31,130 --> 00:09:33,590 Six eyewitnesses watched her walk into your house. 74 00:09:34,410 --> 00:09:35,430 It's a conspiracy. 75 00:09:35,830 --> 00:09:37,670 I don't know. They were all bought off. 76 00:09:37,890 --> 00:09:39,110 Six schoolboys, Roy. 77 00:09:40,310 --> 00:09:43,890 Francine, I had nothing to do with her. I never touched her. I never saw her. 78 00:09:44,030 --> 00:09:45,030 For God's sake, just leave. 79 00:09:45,770 --> 00:09:47,150 Don't contaminate my life. 80 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:51,760 Whoops -a -daisy. 81 00:09:56,560 --> 00:09:57,560 Go on. 82 00:09:58,120 --> 00:09:59,180 Tuck it down the drain. 83 00:09:59,420 --> 00:10:00,480 Show what you think of her. 84 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:03,360 Oh. 85 00:10:04,660 --> 00:10:05,660 The love's easy. 86 00:10:06,100 --> 00:10:07,560 Probably just wants to get the money back. 87 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:11,200 Are you all blind? 88 00:10:13,340 --> 00:10:14,340 What's your problem? 89 00:10:15,180 --> 00:10:16,460 Can't you see who that is, that guy? 90 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:22,220 That is Roy Pilgrim. 91 00:10:24,280 --> 00:10:28,600 You are kidding me. No. 92 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:31,180 Who's Roy Pilgrim? 93 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:32,860 Roy Pilgrim. 94 00:10:35,540 --> 00:10:36,680 Edwin Drood. 95 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:39,740 Oh, God. 96 00:10:40,860 --> 00:10:42,780 You probably liked them, did you? 97 00:10:43,620 --> 00:10:48,020 They were in the vanguard of progressive rock right through the 70s and the 80s. 98 00:10:48,020 --> 00:10:49,540 They produced some seminal stuff. 99 00:10:50,350 --> 00:10:51,890 Polite way of describing them. 100 00:10:52,370 --> 00:10:56,110 I suppose you went to Percy's leg. Ah, now you're talking. 101 00:10:56,670 --> 00:11:00,070 We loved Percy. We loved Percy. 102 00:11:00,450 --> 00:11:02,330 We loved him so much. We loved him. 103 00:11:27,020 --> 00:11:28,140 Oh, no, I've just seen it. 104 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:33,720 Kids will tell you anything to be part of the story. 105 00:11:34,100 --> 00:11:36,880 Maybe they saw... I don't know what they saw. 106 00:11:38,380 --> 00:11:40,880 Appearances can be deceptive. Right enough, Mr Pilgrim. 107 00:11:41,620 --> 00:11:44,880 Despite the appearance of something in those trousers, you haven't got a leg to 108 00:11:44,880 --> 00:11:45,599 stand on. 109 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:46,740 And you haven't got a case. 110 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:50,140 I can't help noticing you've taken my house to pieces and scored a big fat 111 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:54,640 Mr Pilgrim, you... You need a cup of tea. 112 00:11:58,140 --> 00:12:01,720 You say that you never left the room from about midday onwards? 113 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:03,900 Sure, when I'm plumbed into the central eating system. 114 00:12:04,660 --> 00:12:07,260 You don't think you could have passed out again for a minute? 115 00:12:08,060 --> 00:12:09,060 Fallen asleep? 116 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:11,420 Thanks. I didn't pass out. 117 00:12:11,840 --> 00:12:14,940 I was wide awake for the next eight, nine hours till it got dark. I mean, I 118 00:12:14,940 --> 00:12:18,780 I was stuck there till Francine arrived in the morning. So I used the time. 119 00:12:19,560 --> 00:12:22,160 I wrote three songs just to get my mind off my bladder. 120 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:24,240 And at four o 'clock? 121 00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:28,120 From three to four, I'm listening to Classic FM, so that definitely fixes the 122 00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:31,860 time. Four o 'clock, they went into Vivaldi, so I switched it off, went back 123 00:12:31,860 --> 00:12:32,819 the words. 124 00:12:32,820 --> 00:12:33,820 I mean, what do you do? 125 00:12:34,300 --> 00:12:37,380 I'm staring right at the window where she's supposed to have come in. 126 00:12:38,380 --> 00:12:41,240 Did you write a letter to this girl inviting her to come and meet you on 127 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:42,940 afternoon? Why am I going to do that? 128 00:12:43,380 --> 00:12:44,900 She was young, attractive. 129 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:47,520 She'd send you photos in her fan mail. 130 00:12:47,780 --> 00:12:48,780 You're sick. 131 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:53,120 And what you're suggesting is sick. Oh, and what am I suggesting, Mr Pilgrim? 132 00:12:53,710 --> 00:12:57,510 That Tracy Cook came to meet a lifelong hero and found you wanted to give her 133 00:12:57,510 --> 00:12:58,510 more than your autograph? 134 00:12:58,730 --> 00:13:02,150 That it all got very nasty in ways I don't like to think about? 135 00:13:02,810 --> 00:13:06,010 And that afterwards, to give yourself an alibi, you cooked up all this guff 136 00:13:06,010 --> 00:13:07,570 about burglars and radiators? 137 00:13:07,890 --> 00:13:12,110 For God's sake, like I told your colleague before you arrived, the only 138 00:13:12,110 --> 00:13:14,470 that came in through those French windows was a frog. 139 00:13:15,150 --> 00:13:17,650 Now, if I notice that, I'm hardly going to... What do you mean? 140 00:13:18,950 --> 00:13:21,910 A little green frog with a red belly. 141 00:13:22,430 --> 00:13:24,750 What do you mean, told our colleague before we arrived? 142 00:13:28,030 --> 00:13:32,950 I... never said I was the police. 143 00:13:34,090 --> 00:13:37,290 I just said I'd like some help with my inquiries. 144 00:13:38,510 --> 00:13:40,450 You're not this gentleman's legal advisor? 145 00:13:40,870 --> 00:13:41,870 Legal advisor? 146 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:32,940 No, I was just reminded of that quote by Robert Oppenheimer. 147 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:36,240 I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. 148 00:14:36,780 --> 00:14:38,680 I overdid the crouton slightly, that'd be funny. 149 00:14:38,960 --> 00:14:42,840 I overdid the crouton slightly? It's like Gandhi's funeral pyre, isn't it? 150 00:14:42,960 --> 00:14:45,320 now you've put the gas out, thank you very much. 151 00:14:45,680 --> 00:14:47,520 I'm sitting on fine till you arrive. 152 00:14:52,620 --> 00:14:56,140 This lightness of touch you have in the kitchen is a joy to behold. 153 00:14:57,260 --> 00:15:00,580 So... Tell me about Pilgrim. Is he capable of murder? 154 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:02,160 And I've heard him sing, obviously. 155 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:04,440 I don't get it. 156 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:06,220 He's got six witnesses. 157 00:15:06,540 --> 00:15:08,460 All saw her go in at four o 'clock. 158 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:11,340 Now, if that's right, he hasn't got a prayer. 159 00:15:11,660 --> 00:15:15,860 And yet he swears blind. He was in the room all afternoon, fully conscious. 160 00:15:16,140 --> 00:15:17,300 And saw no one. 161 00:15:18,160 --> 00:15:20,520 He's either very stupid or very devious. 162 00:15:20,900 --> 00:15:21,899 Or neither. 163 00:15:21,900 --> 00:15:22,899 What do you mean? 164 00:15:22,900 --> 00:15:25,340 Well, maybe the reason he's sticking to his story is because it's true. 165 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:27,380 Is that supposed to be doing that? 166 00:15:32,650 --> 00:15:34,530 Two more minutes. What do you mean, true? 167 00:15:34,930 --> 00:15:40,850 A girl can't vanish into thin air while walking through a pair of French... Do 168 00:15:40,850 --> 00:15:44,610 you know, I never know when you're winding me up. That's the trouble. 169 00:15:45,210 --> 00:15:47,510 Now, do you want to pick up that bottle of something? 170 00:15:50,930 --> 00:15:52,270 Any particular one? 171 00:15:53,950 --> 00:15:54,950 What's this? 172 00:15:56,350 --> 00:15:57,410 Oh, petrol. 173 00:15:58,750 --> 00:15:59,750 Petrol? 174 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:03,240 overnight. Things get nicked. 175 00:16:03,640 --> 00:16:05,120 I'll put it out in the hall, shall I? 176 00:16:07,880 --> 00:16:09,800 The canisters of napalm. 177 00:16:12,500 --> 00:16:16,640 So this is the guy, you reckon? Jacob Flowers. He's stuck them under my wiper. 178 00:16:17,380 --> 00:16:18,740 What's his connection with Pilgrim? 179 00:16:19,620 --> 00:16:21,940 You heard of an American cult called the Creed of Eden? 180 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:25,780 I mean, I've no... Well, don't ask me what they're into. Some kind of eco 181 00:16:25,780 --> 00:16:26,780 -religious thing. 182 00:16:27,220 --> 00:16:29,760 The world is God's garden. All life is sacred. 183 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:33,380 It's easier for a rich man to enter a camel if he stands in a box. 184 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:37,380 Well, this character is their grand prophet and founding father. 185 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:40,500 And if you know your history of rock music... Intimately. 186 00:16:40,860 --> 00:16:46,280 ..then you'll know it was during Edwin Drew of the States in July 87 that Roy 187 00:16:46,280 --> 00:16:50,940 Pilgrim became a disciple of the Order, leading effectively to the break -up of 188 00:16:50,940 --> 00:16:56,220 the group and some fairly deadly solo albums about rainforests and dolphins. 189 00:16:57,920 --> 00:16:58,920 Oh. 190 00:16:59,380 --> 00:17:02,040 Flowers is going to stick up for Pilgrim because they're buddies. 191 00:17:02,260 --> 00:17:07,440 Or maybe he knows something else about all this that we don't scrape that off. 192 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:09,780 It's meant to be that colour. It's Cajun. 193 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:11,660 Blackened catfish. 194 00:17:12,819 --> 00:17:14,380 Looks more like halibut to me. 195 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:17,300 Blackened halibut, then. I had to improvise. 196 00:17:17,900 --> 00:17:19,740 Less of the pedanticism and just deep. 197 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:26,060 The word is pedantry. 198 00:17:33,040 --> 00:17:34,040 That's the one, then. 199 00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:36,060 Could hardly miss her from here. 200 00:17:37,320 --> 00:17:43,560 Though, when she pressed this bell, someone must have let her in. 201 00:17:44,500 --> 00:17:45,500 What are you doing? 202 00:17:46,240 --> 00:17:47,640 I need to check it out. 203 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:49,960 I can't go in there. Why not? 204 00:17:50,980 --> 00:17:52,260 Roy Pilgrim? 205 00:17:53,180 --> 00:17:54,860 I can't meet Roy Pilgrim. 206 00:17:55,740 --> 00:17:57,000 You're talking about mythology. 207 00:17:58,380 --> 00:18:02,220 You reduce someone like that to flesh and blood, the whole thing's destroyed, 208 00:18:02,540 --> 00:18:04,160 the whole icon. 209 00:18:04,740 --> 00:18:06,860 Jonathan, you're beginning to sound like a prat. 210 00:18:08,580 --> 00:18:11,120 Sorry. What does it take to make you go away? 211 00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:16,360 Look, I'm sorry about yesterday, but I'm really quite interested in helping you, 212 00:18:16,420 --> 00:18:18,420 actually. If you'd just take a minute to let us in. 213 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:20,520 What are you? 214 00:18:21,120 --> 00:18:24,780 Right now, Mr Pilgrim, with the only hope you've got. 215 00:18:29,870 --> 00:18:30,870 The white room. 216 00:18:32,470 --> 00:18:36,350 I'm standing in the white room. The white room. 217 00:18:37,030 --> 00:18:40,590 Yes, it's certainly white, all right, no question. 218 00:18:41,030 --> 00:18:44,910 The white room's like a chamber of contemplation. 219 00:18:45,190 --> 00:18:47,170 That's where I try and centre myself creatively. 220 00:18:53,430 --> 00:18:56,250 And the actual Bandawi bushcats. 221 00:18:57,910 --> 00:18:58,910 Utterly amazing. 222 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:04,920 Hand -carved speaker cabinets presented by the Gambian percussionist Josh 223 00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:08,180 Bandawi in... What year were you over there? 224 00:19:08,780 --> 00:19:09,780 1973. 225 00:19:11,440 --> 00:19:13,560 I think you'll find it was 76. 226 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:20,660 Because tribal jam didn't hit the charts until early 77. 227 00:19:21,620 --> 00:19:23,660 I thought we were in Zaire in 76. 228 00:19:24,180 --> 00:19:25,180 No. 229 00:19:25,420 --> 00:19:29,260 He was deported from Zaire in May 75. 230 00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:34,420 After Martin Crowe rode into the president's jacuzzi on a wildebeest. 231 00:19:35,700 --> 00:19:36,940 Mad as a lightbulb. 232 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:43,520 Yes. I don't suppose you see much of the others now, do you? Since the old firm 233 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:44,520 split up. 234 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:47,480 The band was always driven by petty factionalism. 235 00:19:48,300 --> 00:19:50,420 I lived with those guys for 15 years. 236 00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:52,580 That's 15 years too long. 237 00:19:53,340 --> 00:19:56,900 And then came the Creed of Eden. That's been quite a crusade for you. 238 00:19:57,400 --> 00:19:59,880 I try to follow my conscience. 239 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:04,360 Jacob Flower seems to be on your side. 240 00:20:04,700 --> 00:20:06,400 He left a little note on my windscreen. 241 00:20:07,700 --> 00:20:09,480 Well, they have a commune about 20 minutes away. 242 00:20:10,540 --> 00:20:11,540 Hogsbelly Farm. 243 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:15,220 I've been a kind of patron for them. 244 00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:18,100 I guess he's as rattled about all this as I am. 245 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:20,600 Hello, is that one o 'clock? 246 00:20:21,700 --> 00:20:22,940 I've got to record the Waltons. 247 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:25,000 The Waltons? 248 00:20:34,220 --> 00:20:35,220 What have you found? Something clever. 249 00:20:36,500 --> 00:20:38,360 The gateway to a parallel dimension. 250 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:41,060 The Waltons? 251 00:20:43,220 --> 00:20:46,060 Jonathan, the French windows. 252 00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:47,960 What? 253 00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:50,740 What do you want me to say? The French windows? 254 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:53,680 That people walk in and out of? 255 00:20:55,740 --> 00:21:01,540 The blinds are Venetian blinds and the floor is just a... floor. 256 00:21:05,629 --> 00:21:06,629 What? 257 00:21:09,130 --> 00:21:11,830 No, it's just the way these figures are slightly faded. 258 00:21:12,670 --> 00:21:14,030 You see down here? 259 00:21:18,050 --> 00:21:19,130 And down here. 260 00:21:23,670 --> 00:21:25,410 They're faded on the wrong side, surely. 261 00:21:28,050 --> 00:21:30,750 These pair of speakers, Mr Pilgrim, they get moved about very often. 262 00:21:31,090 --> 00:21:34,810 Never. They were positioned like that for perfect balance 15 years ago. 263 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:37,200 Why do you ask? 264 00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:39,140 I could be wrong. 265 00:21:40,940 --> 00:21:43,320 It looks to me as if someone's recently swapped them round. 266 00:21:49,300 --> 00:21:50,380 Well, I don't know. 267 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:53,660 I mean, it's just too incredible for words. 268 00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:58,100 Roy Pilgrim watches the what. 269 00:21:58,820 --> 00:22:00,760 But doesn't that make him a murderer? 270 00:22:01,700 --> 00:22:03,220 Here, you can navigate. 271 00:22:04,360 --> 00:22:05,360 Can I come? 272 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:07,440 I thought we'd pay a visit to Hogsbelly Farm. 273 00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:30,800 Good afternoon. 274 00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:34,520 Hi, my name's... Madeline, right? 275 00:22:35,050 --> 00:22:36,090 We've been expecting you. 276 00:22:37,510 --> 00:22:38,510 Toby Flowers. 277 00:22:40,310 --> 00:22:41,910 Guess you got me the note from my uncle, huh? 278 00:22:42,250 --> 00:22:44,050 Well, it did intrigue me. 279 00:22:44,850 --> 00:22:46,230 Oh, this is my friend, Jonathan. 280 00:22:46,730 --> 00:22:47,730 Jonathan, hi. 281 00:22:48,010 --> 00:22:49,010 You a journalist, too? 282 00:22:49,870 --> 00:22:52,630 More in the way of a technical advisor, aren't you? 283 00:22:52,990 --> 00:22:55,090 On this business with the missing girl. 284 00:22:55,510 --> 00:22:56,770 The weirdest thing, isn't it? 285 00:22:57,810 --> 00:23:01,510 He could have walked in through that window and then somehow never arrived 286 00:23:01,510 --> 00:23:02,510 other side. 287 00:23:03,510 --> 00:23:04,510 Spooky, kind of. 288 00:23:05,100 --> 00:23:06,100 Wouldn't you say? 289 00:23:07,380 --> 00:23:09,220 Now, you want to come with me? 290 00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:13,220 I know my Uncle Jacob and Aunt Polly are keen to see you. 291 00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:16,020 They're just up ahead, bonding with the trees. 292 00:23:17,020 --> 00:23:18,020 And up. 293 00:23:20,300 --> 00:23:21,700 And down. 294 00:23:23,580 --> 00:23:28,200 Look. And caressing the trunk with your trunk. 295 00:23:34,220 --> 00:23:38,540 And if you feel you want to lick or nibble the bark, don't be afraid to do 296 00:23:38,620 --> 00:23:45,620 Let the love flow from your body, rhythmically into the tree, down 297 00:23:45,620 --> 00:23:48,540 through the roof, into the earth. 298 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:53,100 Remember, the tree will get as much pleasure from this as you will. 299 00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:58,100 Do you do this sort of thing regularly, then? 300 00:23:58,300 --> 00:24:00,260 Since I met Jacob 18 years ago now. 301 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:02,700 It's a really liberating experience. 302 00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:05,360 Especially for Polly, who grew up in East London. 303 00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:07,140 Really? Which part? 304 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:09,800 Barking or Highland? It's quite close. 305 00:24:10,100 --> 00:24:12,440 I've never seen anyone get that friendly with a knothole before. 306 00:24:13,360 --> 00:24:14,540 It's almost grounds for divorce. 307 00:24:15,220 --> 00:24:17,860 Have you ever been up in an oak tree, Jonathan? 308 00:24:19,820 --> 00:24:20,820 It's true. 309 00:24:20,940 --> 00:24:26,140 We all owe a tremendous debt to Roy Pilgrim. This whole estate, everything 310 00:24:26,140 --> 00:24:29,340 see here is down to his support and generosity. 311 00:24:30,830 --> 00:24:34,410 He was the greatest benefactor you could ask for. 312 00:24:35,030 --> 00:24:36,030 How do you mean, was? 313 00:24:36,310 --> 00:24:42,230 I won't pretend that new fiancée of his was devoted to our cause, 314 00:24:42,490 --> 00:24:44,150 Francine Faraday. 315 00:24:44,730 --> 00:24:50,950 She runs a small investment consultancy somewhere, so she's probably in need of 316 00:24:50,950 --> 00:24:52,430 spiritual enlightenment. 317 00:24:53,690 --> 00:24:57,270 So what are you saying? She was leading him off the straight and narrow. It's 318 00:24:57,270 --> 00:24:59,270 for Roy to choose his own destiny. 319 00:24:59,880 --> 00:25:02,680 We were just glad that he'd found a relationship that worked for him. 320 00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:08,160 But now, with all these rumors flying around... If you can shed any light on 321 00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:13,080 this, Madeline, to clear Roy's name, believe me, your efforts won't go 322 00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:15,640 unrewarded. And we're not talking about money here. 323 00:25:16,380 --> 00:25:17,380 Come with me. 324 00:25:17,900 --> 00:25:19,640 I want to show you something. 325 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:51,860 We've got four more on their way back home in Utah, Wyoming, Maine, 326 00:25:52,100 --> 00:25:53,560 and New Mexico. 327 00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:58,000 Because the day will come, make no mistake about that. 328 00:25:59,360 --> 00:26:00,700 And I'll make you a promise. 329 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:08,480 Help Roy, and there'll be two seats waiting for you on the journey to the 330 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:09,480 world. 331 00:26:15,350 --> 00:26:16,570 What, like an arc as in Noah? 332 00:26:17,730 --> 00:26:18,730 Sorry, I don't believe you. 333 00:26:18,970 --> 00:26:23,150 I don't believe me, and I was there. I mean, seriously, potty people. I can't 334 00:26:23,150 --> 00:26:24,089 tell you. 335 00:26:24,090 --> 00:26:25,110 So what do the police think? 336 00:26:25,590 --> 00:26:26,650 That he did her in, basically. 337 00:26:27,130 --> 00:26:29,150 And he's just going to bluff it out until they find the body. 338 00:26:29,870 --> 00:26:30,890 If they find the body. 339 00:26:33,030 --> 00:26:35,130 I thought it was all down to Marvo the Mystic here. 340 00:26:37,350 --> 00:26:38,350 What happened? 341 00:26:38,650 --> 00:26:40,450 Your special powers desert you all of a sudden. 342 00:26:40,850 --> 00:26:43,150 He did find something, actually, didn't you? 343 00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:47,420 Those two funny speaker cabinets just inside the door have been switched 344 00:26:47,500 --> 00:26:48,500 do you reckon? 345 00:26:48,860 --> 00:26:50,620 Because that's where he'd hidden her. 346 00:26:51,140 --> 00:26:52,300 After he sawed her in half. 347 00:26:54,120 --> 00:26:55,120 No? 348 00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:58,620 All right, then. Why would you deliberately swap round a couple of hi 349 00:26:58,620 --> 00:27:00,340 speakers? That's the question. 350 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:02,960 That's not the question. 351 00:27:03,620 --> 00:27:04,620 What do you mean? 352 00:27:05,420 --> 00:27:06,500 Fairly obviously, you wouldn't. 353 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:08,900 So, what's the point? 354 00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:11,340 None whatsoever, I should think. 355 00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:13,780 All right, you've lost me. 356 00:27:15,020 --> 00:27:19,840 I think what he's saying is it could be accidental. 357 00:27:21,300 --> 00:27:22,300 Consider it this way round. 358 00:27:23,360 --> 00:27:27,380 Someone comes into Pilgrim's house and for whatever reason removes a pair of 359 00:27:27,380 --> 00:27:29,060 identical -looking speakers from the white room. 360 00:27:29,900 --> 00:27:32,900 Later on, they return them, and because they look very much the same as one 361 00:27:32,900 --> 00:27:35,140 another, they put them back the wrong way round. 362 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:40,860 But who would steal a pair of speakers? 363 00:27:41,550 --> 00:27:42,770 And then just put them back again. 364 00:27:45,830 --> 00:27:47,390 A very honest burglar. 365 00:27:52,090 --> 00:27:53,170 Better split, I think. 366 00:27:53,410 --> 00:27:57,630 Adam said he might call later from Vegas, so... I thought I'd check out 367 00:27:57,630 --> 00:27:59,390 other band members tomorrow. Have them watch it. 368 00:27:59,750 --> 00:28:01,210 If I get anything, I'll ring you. 369 00:28:02,850 --> 00:28:03,850 See you around, Sheena. 370 00:29:10,110 --> 00:29:14,010 Glenn, I don't know if you've got a minute to talk to this journalist about 371 00:29:14,010 --> 00:29:17,350 Pilgrim from which magazine, did you say? I didn't. I'm freelance. 372 00:29:17,610 --> 00:29:18,609 Manny Magellan. 373 00:29:18,610 --> 00:29:19,610 MacArthur. Hi. 374 00:29:19,690 --> 00:29:24,590 God, I can't believe I just shook the hand that played rhythm guitar on Who Do 375 00:29:24,590 --> 00:29:26,190 Woman. Now I can die happy. 376 00:29:27,070 --> 00:29:30,650 No, I was just after a bit of background, actually, on your ex 377 00:29:31,510 --> 00:29:35,090 Well, what do you want me to say? That I loathed the money -grabbing son of a 378 00:29:35,090 --> 00:29:36,090 bitch with a vengeance? 379 00:29:36,550 --> 00:29:37,570 It's a starting point. 380 00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:41,360 We were young. We just wanted to play the best rock and roll in the world. We 381 00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:42,360 weren't businessmen. 382 00:29:42,940 --> 00:29:46,880 Edwin Drew became a fundraising charity for our management and record companies. 383 00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:50,900 Roy, because he wrote all the songs, got a lot of sponsorship. 384 00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:52,860 And he was the one who cleaned up. 385 00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:57,500 Don't ask me how he did it. I've spent the last eight years trying to forget. 386 00:29:57,720 --> 00:29:59,460 You'd better drown your bits, because I couldn't remember. 387 00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:03,900 Mike said you did like that. I could have sworn you just had to... What's 388 00:30:03,900 --> 00:30:04,659 What's going on? 389 00:30:04,660 --> 00:30:07,220 Look, Tex, I'm really sorry, but... Jerry? 390 00:30:08,090 --> 00:30:09,350 Who are these jokers? What's happening? 391 00:30:09,830 --> 00:30:14,410 Listen, there comes a time for the greater good of the band when... You've 392 00:30:14,410 --> 00:30:16,270 replaced, is what he's trying to say, guys. 393 00:30:16,950 --> 00:30:17,950 These things happen. 394 00:30:18,130 --> 00:30:22,050 Replaced? We've only been gone for 20 minutes. Well, I mean, life moves on, 395 00:30:22,050 --> 00:30:24,930 know. Can't we all stay cool about this? Stay cool? 396 00:30:25,230 --> 00:30:27,550 Yeah. You put together another line -up while we went for a pizza. 397 00:30:28,270 --> 00:30:29,270 This is unreal. 398 00:30:30,510 --> 00:30:32,950 Jerry, can you handle it for me? It was a tough decision. 399 00:30:33,170 --> 00:30:35,390 We needed fresh blood. Yeah, and you're going to get it. 400 00:30:44,980 --> 00:30:49,740 So, do you know about this fiancé of his, Francine Faraday? 401 00:30:50,580 --> 00:30:52,620 Can't say she struck me as Roy's type at all. 402 00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:54,540 More like a future mother -in -law. 403 00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:56,440 What do you mean by that? 404 00:30:58,160 --> 00:30:59,260 Who did you say you wrote for? 405 00:31:00,060 --> 00:31:04,440 I'm putting a book together with, like, major cases that the police have got 406 00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:05,440 horribly wrong. 407 00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:11,360 Well, if you want my opinion, you're wasting your time on this one. 408 00:31:14,860 --> 00:31:15,860 Thanks for your help. 409 00:31:32,420 --> 00:31:34,460 And, um, one of these a day. 410 00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:36,900 I think she'll be up in no time. 411 00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:38,980 Is this somewhere I can wash my hands? 412 00:31:39,180 --> 00:31:40,740 Sure, right inside in the kitchen. 413 00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:03,720 Toby? Oh, my God, what's happened? 414 00:32:05,060 --> 00:32:08,560 He appears to have been suffocated or choked or something. 415 00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:11,180 You've got to call the police. 416 00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:16,020 There's something in there. 417 00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:48,000 The possibility of willful damage and the reason for such vandalism is still a 418 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:49,000 mystery. 419 00:32:49,820 --> 00:32:54,340 Detectives are investigating a bizarre Silence of the Lambs -style murder at 420 00:32:54,340 --> 00:32:58,380 Hogsbelly Farm near Whistlingford after the victim was found with a dead frog 421 00:32:58,380 --> 00:32:59,820 inserted in his windpipe. 422 00:33:00,060 --> 00:33:04,720 30 -year -old Toby Crouse was a member of the American religious sect the Creed 423 00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:08,420 of Eden, whose members include the rock guard Roy Pilgrim. 424 00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:12,420 Insult in the news this week in the internet was the disappearance of 425 00:33:12,420 --> 00:33:13,540 Tracy Cook. 426 00:33:18,100 --> 00:33:19,100 Hi. 427 00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:29,120 It's a pig of a night out here. 428 00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:35,200 Before I became a puppet, I was a gynecologist. 429 00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:38,220 I wanted to be a brain surgeon, but I wasn't tall enough. 430 00:33:39,500 --> 00:33:40,620 Here's another one. 431 00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:47,020 What is long and thin and sticky? 432 00:33:48,660 --> 00:33:49,860 A stick! 433 00:33:53,700 --> 00:33:56,340 Behold the impecunious rock legend. 434 00:33:58,140 --> 00:34:02,720 As you can see, performing is still my major source of income. 435 00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:08,320 I've got this reputation for instability, which I could never get my 436 00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:09,320 around. 437 00:34:09,639 --> 00:34:12,239 Don't want Marty Crowe? No way. 438 00:34:15,020 --> 00:34:18,260 Don't want a drummer who urinates on the audience? 439 00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:19,560 Why not? 440 00:34:20,179 --> 00:34:22,760 Personal contact with the public? Very important. 441 00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:29,400 Roy Pilgrim. What type of women did he go for, would you say? 442 00:34:30,460 --> 00:34:34,360 Let's just say he wouldn't look at you if he thought you'd had too many. 443 00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:36,520 Drinks? 444 00:34:37,340 --> 00:34:38,340 Birthdays. 445 00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:43,040 Closer they were to the legal limit, better he liked them. Good old Roy. In 446 00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:45,920 those days, there were plenty around to like, believe me. 447 00:34:47,100 --> 00:34:48,120 That was then. 448 00:34:50,100 --> 00:34:51,580 His taste could have changed. 449 00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:08,578 About those speakers. 450 00:35:08,580 --> 00:35:10,600 About why someone would take them out of the room. 451 00:35:12,700 --> 00:35:15,980 He was hypnotised, right? 452 00:35:18,140 --> 00:35:23,100 Someone took the speakers away, rigged them up to play some recording that made 453 00:35:23,100 --> 00:35:26,140 him forget that he'd seen the girl come in through the window. 454 00:35:31,020 --> 00:35:32,020 Right. 455 00:35:33,900 --> 00:35:34,900 Involuntary hypnosis. 456 00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:36,198 Mm -hm. 457 00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:39,680 Knock. I'm quite sure Roy Pilgrim's the man to go under without a fight. 458 00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:44,080 And why would they need to do all that as opposed to just dangling a watch 459 00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:45,080 in front of his nose? 460 00:35:46,860 --> 00:35:51,880 Because they didn't do that at all. 461 00:35:53,900 --> 00:35:54,940 So what did they do? 462 00:35:56,360 --> 00:35:57,520 Why have you come here? 463 00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:01,440 Because I'm like you. 464 00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:04,740 I can't resist a puzzle. 465 00:36:10,380 --> 00:36:11,800 Let me into your mind. 466 00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:13,960 Sorry? 467 00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:20,920 Lecture me. 468 00:36:24,820 --> 00:36:25,860 All right. 469 00:36:27,420 --> 00:36:28,580 Let's recap. 470 00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:37,000 Last Monday, 16 -year -old girl, Tracy 471 00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:38,000 Cook, 472 00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:43,440 calls around to visit her hero, rock star Roy Pilgrim. Half a dozen 473 00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:48,000 see her walk in through the French windows at the back of the house into 474 00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:49,000 white room. 475 00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:51,180 That's proven fact. It's beyond dispute. 476 00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:57,560 Exact same time, four o 'clock, Pilgrim swears he was in the room, fully 477 00:36:57,560 --> 00:37:01,440 conscious, handcuffed to the radiator, and saw no one come in. 478 00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:03,440 His watch was wrong. 479 00:37:05,460 --> 00:37:07,540 He knew the time because he'd been listening to the radio. 480 00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:09,120 That's not the point. 481 00:37:09,300 --> 00:37:11,540 He says he was awake all afternoon. 482 00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:15,740 The only time he grabbed any sleep was during the night. 483 00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:18,280 So he has to be lying. 484 00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:20,120 Nothing else makes sense. 485 00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:22,640 But what he says makes even less sense. 486 00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:26,460 Why would he go to the trouble of making up a story like that? He could easily 487 00:37:26,460 --> 00:37:29,860 have said he wasn't in the house at all, or he was in the room, but he was still 488 00:37:29,860 --> 00:37:30,860 unconscious. 489 00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:32,100 No one could have proved otherwise. 490 00:37:33,100 --> 00:37:36,760 No, instead of that, he says the one thing that no jury in the world is going 491 00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:39,240 believe. That no -one came in through the door. 492 00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:41,280 Why? Because it's true. 493 00:37:42,300 --> 00:37:43,760 Both stories can't be true. 494 00:37:44,620 --> 00:37:45,620 It's impossible. 495 00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:47,840 Is it? 496 00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:49,200 Yes, it is. 497 00:37:50,240 --> 00:37:52,420 You've been there. You've inspected it. 498 00:37:53,020 --> 00:37:54,520 The police have inspected it. 499 00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:58,440 How can she just have vanished into the ether? 500 00:37:59,060 --> 00:38:02,340 Like some phantom or... 501 00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:09,280 What's the matter? You got a frog in your throat? 502 00:38:19,240 --> 00:38:20,240 Jonathan Creek. 503 00:38:22,260 --> 00:38:23,260 Sorry. 504 00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:26,060 I know it's early. Can I wait here? 505 00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:28,880 No, that's fine. 506 00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:31,799 You well? 507 00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:33,860 I just wanted to bring you up to date on yesterday. 508 00:38:38,220 --> 00:38:39,220 He did it. 509 00:38:40,580 --> 00:38:42,540 All this thing about young girls. 510 00:38:44,300 --> 00:38:45,340 Seems to check out. 511 00:38:46,100 --> 00:38:49,120 I spoke to both his erstwhile buddies. They said the same thing. 512 00:38:50,180 --> 00:38:56,860 So, I know it looked promising, but I've got a feeling we should ditch it, 513 00:38:56,880 --> 00:38:57,880 probably. 514 00:38:58,060 --> 00:38:59,080 Barking up the wrong tree. 515 00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:04,100 Funnily enough, I've just come to the exact opposite conclusion. 516 00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:11,080 I draw your attention to page 197 of the Observer's Book of Frogs. 517 00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:20,520 What's happening? 518 00:39:34,190 --> 00:39:35,290 Has he been charged? 519 00:39:35,930 --> 00:39:37,730 He's not in there to keep the seat warm. 520 00:39:38,170 --> 00:39:39,210 Do you want to speak to him? 521 00:39:39,910 --> 00:39:42,130 I just came to collect one or two things. 522 00:39:42,830 --> 00:39:44,110 Would that still be possible? 523 00:39:44,510 --> 00:39:45,510 This is all yours. 524 00:40:01,750 --> 00:40:02,750 They've taken him. 525 00:40:03,150 --> 00:40:04,350 As we knew they would. 526 00:40:05,030 --> 00:40:07,990 God help them. Without a shred of proof, of course. 527 00:40:08,570 --> 00:40:09,770 Where do we go from here? 528 00:40:10,570 --> 00:40:12,750 I think the back gate's as good a place as any. 529 00:40:42,220 --> 00:40:45,980 Yes, Miss Faraday? I was looking for my hairbrush. 530 00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:50,660 I used to keep... What is this? I thought you'd... Not quite, Miss 531 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,580 But never fear, an arrest will be made very shortly. 532 00:40:54,820 --> 00:40:59,280 Though it sticks in the craw to admit the press had any hand in this, I'm 533 00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:00,280 it's down to our friend here. 534 00:41:01,340 --> 00:41:03,340 We're now seeing this business in a new light. 535 00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:08,900 Go on, you're dying to tell them. 536 00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:10,200 Is she? 537 00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:12,120 Well, you can all stay to listen. 538 00:41:12,420 --> 00:41:13,319 I'm off. 539 00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:16,060 Yeah, you don't tend to hang about, do you, Francine? 540 00:41:17,020 --> 00:41:19,360 Same as when your husband -to -be was suspected of murder. 541 00:41:19,580 --> 00:41:20,960 You were off like a bullet. 542 00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:24,160 So wonderful to have faith in the one you love. 543 00:41:24,380 --> 00:41:25,380 Oh, please. 544 00:41:25,660 --> 00:41:29,080 You think any woman alive would take his word for it, after what happened? 545 00:41:29,820 --> 00:41:31,000 Well, of course they wouldn't. 546 00:41:31,740 --> 00:41:37,460 And that's exactly what you were banking on, Mr and Mrs Flowers, when you 547 00:41:37,460 --> 00:41:38,720 engineered this whole affair. 548 00:41:39,980 --> 00:41:41,060 I beg your pardon. 549 00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:43,140 Not mine to grant, unfortunately. 550 00:41:43,980 --> 00:41:47,100 I don't imagine a judge would be too lenient either after what you've done. 551 00:41:47,420 --> 00:41:50,280 We've stood full square behind Roy from the word go. 552 00:41:51,340 --> 00:41:52,340 Yes. 553 00:41:52,540 --> 00:41:57,180 I don't think believing in someone's innocence when you're the one that 554 00:41:57,180 --> 00:41:58,920 him quite counts as loyalty, does it? 555 00:41:59,340 --> 00:42:02,100 Why on earth would he want to frame Roy? 556 00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:05,600 To get rid of the one person who was a threat to your income. 557 00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:11,540 The logic of shelling out millions of pounds every year to people who had sex 558 00:42:11,540 --> 00:42:13,500 with trees was a bit lost on you, wasn't it? 559 00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:16,180 Roy's interest in the creed was on the wane. 560 00:42:17,180 --> 00:42:20,220 Of course, once you were married... Oh, dear. 561 00:42:21,460 --> 00:42:23,180 Serious cash flow problems. 562 00:42:23,620 --> 00:42:25,720 So, she had to be scared off. 563 00:42:26,820 --> 00:42:29,360 Sharpish. Are you saying this was like a trick? 564 00:42:30,140 --> 00:42:31,140 To set me up? 565 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:35,760 Like all the best tricks, it was blindingly simple, in theory. 566 00:42:37,050 --> 00:42:41,390 and fantastically elaborate in practice but then to a bunch of people building 567 00:42:41,390 --> 00:42:44,410 an ark in their back garden all things were possible 568 00:42:44,410 --> 00:42:51,330 staging the break -in 569 00:42:51,330 --> 00:42:52,910 and putting him out with the easy bit 570 00:42:52,910 --> 00:42:58,810 an 571 00:42:58,810 --> 00:43:05,450 hour later he comes around to find he's trapped inside the white room 572 00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:15,360 He remains fully conscious for the rest of the day, during which the only thing 573 00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:18,660 that comes to the door is a small, red -bellied frog. 574 00:43:25,980 --> 00:43:32,980 At the same time, a teenage girl, not noted for her frog -like appearance, is 575 00:43:32,980 --> 00:43:36,560 seen entering the door from the outside by a bunch of boys at the back gate. 576 00:43:37,740 --> 00:43:39,100 There's no way it adds up. 577 00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:45,240 until he realised the whole thing was a classic piece of misdirection, which 578 00:43:45,240 --> 00:43:50,580 relied upon us all making one very false assumption, that in both versions of 579 00:43:50,580 --> 00:43:53,360 events, we were talking about the same door. 580 00:44:00,220 --> 00:44:03,760 Shame you couldn't have followed that frog, Roy, as it hopped back outside. 581 00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:20,120 i think you'd have been impressed by the handiwork of the drones down at hulk's 582 00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:24,680 belly farm god knows how long it took them to come up with an exact replica of 583 00:44:24,680 --> 00:44:29,300 the room down to every last detail but i think we can assume months of planning 584 00:44:29,300 --> 00:44:31,260 and careful preparation when you went around 585 00:44:31,260 --> 00:44:39,880 sifting 586 00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:44,920 through the fan mail for a suitable candidate and forging the letter that 587 00:44:44,920 --> 00:44:45,920 bring her here 588 00:44:58,380 --> 00:45:01,440 Tracy Cook was instructed to call at the back gate at four o 'clock. 589 00:45:02,180 --> 00:45:05,060 Because you knew there'd be plenty of witnesses then to watch her going in. 590 00:45:10,180 --> 00:45:12,880 Inside, I don't know, she's told us to change her plan. 591 00:45:13,280 --> 00:45:14,520 Roy's going to meet her at the farm. 592 00:45:15,520 --> 00:45:18,000 Whatever, it's whisked up out the front to be hidden away somewhere. 593 00:45:19,560 --> 00:45:23,400 All this time, Roy's been sitting in what he thinks is his own back room, 594 00:45:23,500 --> 00:45:24,500 jotting down songs. 595 00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:28,940 Of course, the one thing you couldn't duplicate was the handcuffed speakers 596 00:45:28,940 --> 00:45:31,760 Africa. But that's no problem, you just took them with you. 597 00:45:34,540 --> 00:45:35,680 Finally, it gets dark. 598 00:45:36,460 --> 00:45:37,460 Roy nods off. 599 00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:42,440 And that's when you pull the second switch, making sure he won't wake up on 600 00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:43,440 way. 601 00:45:56,430 --> 00:46:00,310 And back he goes into his own room, along with the speaker cabinets, which 602 00:46:00,310 --> 00:46:01,570 know ended up the wrong way round. 603 00:46:04,290 --> 00:46:07,770 As compromising set -ups go, it was a gem. 604 00:46:09,530 --> 00:46:15,090 The man's convicted by his own honesty, while you lot leap about in his defence 605 00:46:15,090 --> 00:46:16,450 to keep the handouts coming. 606 00:46:16,870 --> 00:46:19,850 Well, you've got a colourful imagination. 607 00:46:20,950 --> 00:46:23,330 And you've got a colourful frog. 608 00:46:24,370 --> 00:46:25,590 Lots of them, we reckon? 609 00:46:26,890 --> 00:46:27,890 Where's my little book? 610 00:46:31,630 --> 00:46:32,630 Look familiar? 611 00:46:35,070 --> 00:46:37,510 The Anasazi River Toad. 612 00:46:39,270 --> 00:46:45,250 Much prized by the Indians of New Mexico and many others for its narcotic 613 00:46:45,250 --> 00:46:46,250 secretions. 614 00:46:47,210 --> 00:46:51,790 Quickest way to get a fix, basically, is to put it in your mouth and suck. 615 00:46:52,530 --> 00:46:54,370 Being careful not to overdo it. 616 00:46:55,230 --> 00:46:56,890 Well, you end up like poor old Toby. 617 00:46:58,730 --> 00:47:00,570 That's what joined it all up, I have to say. 618 00:47:01,690 --> 00:47:06,470 If these frogs were being bred on a commune at Hogsbelly Farm, how the hell 619 00:47:06,470 --> 00:47:09,010 one of them appear at these French windows nearly 15 miles away? 620 00:47:09,950 --> 00:47:12,690 Unless they had gone for a very long walk or hitched a lift. 621 00:47:13,590 --> 00:47:15,050 There was only one explanation. 622 00:47:16,010 --> 00:47:18,110 They had never left the farm in the first place. 623 00:47:19,430 --> 00:47:23,470 And as ludicrous as it sounds, the window and the room... 624 00:47:24,080 --> 00:47:31,080 And Roy Pilgrim... had to be there as well. 625 00:47:34,140 --> 00:47:37,040 I'm sorry, I think my head may explode. I can't take this in. 626 00:47:39,820 --> 00:47:43,220 The lads are turning your place over even as we speak. 627 00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:46,300 You could save them time by telling us where she is. 628 00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:51,940 What the hell? Let them have fun. 629 00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:29,940 Can we turn this down a bit? 630 00:48:40,010 --> 00:48:42,170 So what were they going to do, do you think? Just keep her locked up there 631 00:48:42,170 --> 00:48:43,170 indefinitely? 632 00:48:43,690 --> 00:48:44,910 Work in her mind. 633 00:48:45,370 --> 00:48:47,310 A couple of years, a bit of brainwashing. 634 00:48:48,350 --> 00:48:50,390 She'll be one of them. It'll be the birth time. 635 00:48:51,690 --> 00:48:52,890 Anyway, thanks. 636 00:48:53,770 --> 00:48:54,770 Again. 637 00:48:55,130 --> 00:48:58,010 I'll talk to Barry about cutting you in on this book when it's done. 638 00:48:58,610 --> 00:48:59,610 What for? 639 00:48:59,930 --> 00:49:01,270 I don't expect you to help me for nothing. 640 00:49:03,930 --> 00:49:04,930 Fair enough, then. 641 00:49:08,490 --> 00:49:10,730 You'd take it as well, wouldn't you, you penny -pinching bastard? 642 00:49:11,270 --> 00:49:14,150 Do you know how much I make at the end of the day from all this? Not very much, 643 00:49:14,270 --> 00:49:15,370 compared with some people. 644 00:49:15,910 --> 00:49:18,230 Compared with, say, a prostitute or something. 645 00:49:18,570 --> 00:49:21,830 But I'd rather do something I believe in, actually. And if you want my 646 00:49:21,950 --> 00:49:26,530 I think casual sex is a sign of a very shallow personality. But there we are. 647 00:49:29,150 --> 00:49:30,410 Have you been sucking a frog? 648 00:49:31,650 --> 00:49:33,370 I beg your pardon? 649 00:49:48,970 --> 00:49:52,770 or you won't miss the train. I better hurry or I won't miss my train. What 650 00:49:52,770 --> 00:49:55,110 of gibberish is that? Oh, Jonathan, stop being clever. 651 00:49:55,670 --> 00:49:56,670 For once. 652 00:49:57,050 --> 00:49:58,050 And just go. 653 00:50:01,390 --> 00:50:02,390 I get it. 654 00:50:03,150 --> 00:50:07,310 That phone call you made to Sheena just before we got in the car, she told you 655 00:50:07,310 --> 00:50:11,570 that she spent last night at my place and now you've got the hump. Who's got 656 00:50:11,570 --> 00:50:13,490 hump? Because you think we slept together. 657 00:50:16,110 --> 00:50:17,110 Jonathan. 658 00:50:17,420 --> 00:50:23,780 Whether or not you and Fina slept together is your business and her 659 00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:25,640 It's certainly none of my business. 660 00:50:26,340 --> 00:50:29,740 Quite frankly, I have no desire to even discuss the matter. 661 00:50:30,020 --> 00:50:34,600 So if I said I'd rather poke red -hot needles down my fingernails than poke... 662 00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:40,620 It would be a matter of no consequence to me whatsoever. In fact, I find that 663 00:50:40,620 --> 00:50:44,620 extremely offensive and highly insulting to my best friend. 664 00:50:45,640 --> 00:50:46,640 Right. 665 00:50:48,200 --> 00:50:49,360 I'll see you around then. 666 00:50:50,060 --> 00:50:51,060 Yeah.