1 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:15,160 And what do you want? 2 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:17,560 Come to John's for breakfast? 3 00:01:19,180 --> 00:01:20,600 Let's see what we've got for you today. 4 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:25,140 How about this for the appetizer? 5 00:01:36,340 --> 00:01:37,340 Johnson? 6 00:01:39,460 --> 00:01:40,460 No! 7 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:42,140 Come on, out with it. 8 00:01:44,190 --> 00:01:45,190 Good boy. 9 00:01:46,530 --> 00:01:47,590 Good boy! 10 00:01:49,310 --> 00:01:52,730 Thank you, Elliot. It's bad enough that he chews up half the newspaper. 11 00:01:53,150 --> 00:01:54,670 And anything that's left in my in -tray. 12 00:01:54,910 --> 00:01:57,910 He had an entire thesis on subdural hematoma yesterday. 13 00:01:58,290 --> 00:02:01,310 Anyway, it's an application for Barclay Card. It's not carcinogenic. 14 00:02:01,730 --> 00:02:04,070 Let's not prejudge the research on that one. 15 00:02:04,610 --> 00:02:06,430 You're not going into the lab today, then? 16 00:02:06,650 --> 00:02:07,830 This afternoon, possibly. 17 00:02:08,449 --> 00:02:10,370 When I'm tired without this presentation. 18 00:02:10,810 --> 00:02:11,810 Well, just... 19 00:02:12,170 --> 00:02:13,650 Keep the door locked in future. 20 00:02:14,290 --> 00:02:15,670 Come on, Townsend, we're going. 21 00:02:16,430 --> 00:02:17,470 Come on, good boy. 22 00:02:18,190 --> 00:02:19,190 Come with me. 23 00:02:19,550 --> 00:02:20,670 There's a good boy. 24 00:02:53,870 --> 00:02:55,590 What did I tell you? It's all happening. 25 00:02:55,870 --> 00:02:58,970 Yes, you like that, don't you? But I haven't got all morning to sit 26 00:02:58,970 --> 00:02:59,970 you. 27 00:03:00,530 --> 00:03:01,790 Jordan. What? 28 00:03:02,490 --> 00:03:03,990 Your wife has some good news. 29 00:03:05,310 --> 00:03:06,310 Yes, wonderful. 30 00:03:07,730 --> 00:03:11,970 The director and I were particularly impressed by your interpretation of the 31 00:03:11,970 --> 00:03:13,950 character as an intellectual vacuum. 32 00:03:17,510 --> 00:03:18,510 What's that mean? 33 00:03:18,850 --> 00:03:21,350 It means they liked the way you made her empty -headed. 34 00:03:24,829 --> 00:03:26,390 Right. Oh, right. 35 00:03:26,690 --> 00:03:32,350 Well, maybe if for the next interview I had my hair up more. Young lady, I swear 36 00:03:32,350 --> 00:03:33,630 you're putting on weight. 37 00:03:33,950 --> 00:03:35,450 It's normal during pregnancy. 38 00:03:36,350 --> 00:03:37,350 Yes, I suppose. 39 00:03:37,690 --> 00:03:39,210 Pregnant? Why? 40 00:03:40,210 --> 00:03:41,250 What do you mean, why? 41 00:03:41,590 --> 00:03:43,510 She's a sexually mature adult. 42 00:03:44,230 --> 00:03:46,610 God knows we could do with a few around here. 43 00:03:48,170 --> 00:03:52,610 And soon the joys of parenthood will be yours. Won't they, Polly? 44 00:03:53,050 --> 00:03:54,390 All I can say is good luck. 45 00:03:54,610 --> 00:03:55,790 Do we know who the father is? 46 00:03:57,150 --> 00:04:01,150 Cathy, there are only two mangabees in this house, and they only mate with 47 00:04:01,150 --> 00:04:02,150 members of their own species. 48 00:04:04,150 --> 00:04:06,950 You wouldn't copulate with a rangy tang, would you? 49 00:04:07,770 --> 00:04:09,890 Don't even dignify that with an answer, please. 50 00:04:10,490 --> 00:04:12,130 Wish we'd never started this conversation. 51 00:04:34,500 --> 00:04:35,600 Going late for the tour today? 52 00:04:36,020 --> 00:04:38,940 First screening's not until 10 .30. I've got an hour. 53 00:04:39,780 --> 00:04:41,060 Someone you may know, actually. 54 00:04:41,420 --> 00:04:44,860 Do you remember Dr Sally Creek, who was in practice with me in that grotty old 55 00:04:44,860 --> 00:04:47,920 porter cabin in Harlow in the early 70s? I thought she emigrated. 56 00:04:48,260 --> 00:04:49,119 She did. 57 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:50,120 This is her son. 58 00:04:50,460 --> 00:04:53,740 I promised to give him a full MOT every couple of years to make sure he's still 59 00:04:53,740 --> 00:04:54,479 ticking over. 60 00:04:54,480 --> 00:04:55,480 Well, doesn't he get embarrassed? 61 00:04:56,980 --> 00:04:59,100 Stripping off in front of an old friend of his mother's. 62 00:05:00,060 --> 00:05:01,060 Oh, yes. 63 00:05:05,550 --> 00:05:09,210 Last time I saw you, if I remember, you were panicking about the moulds on your 64 00:05:09,210 --> 00:05:12,070 back. Well, I... Probably. 65 00:05:14,630 --> 00:05:16,030 How have they been? 66 00:05:16,230 --> 00:05:17,810 Has somebody been keeping an eye on them for you? 67 00:05:18,710 --> 00:05:19,890 Not lately. 68 00:05:20,850 --> 00:05:21,850 Oh, dear. 69 00:05:22,270 --> 00:05:23,810 Has it been as bad as that? 70 00:05:25,210 --> 00:05:27,350 Mouth wide open, tongue down. 71 00:05:28,850 --> 00:05:33,630 If you were moving in these glamorous show business circles, you'd make lots 72 00:05:33,630 --> 00:05:34,630 young ladies. 73 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:38,840 A certain type, I suppose. 74 00:05:39,140 --> 00:05:40,180 Must be difficult. 75 00:05:41,300 --> 00:05:44,760 That's smashing. On to the bed now, underpants down, lie back, think of 76 00:05:50,860 --> 00:05:57,760 What was it your mother was telling me the last time I rang about you 77 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:00,380 out some complicated murder case or something? 78 00:06:00,660 --> 00:06:01,660 Cough. 79 00:06:03,100 --> 00:06:04,100 Yes. 80 00:06:04,620 --> 00:06:05,860 I've been getting a bit of a habit. 81 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:09,400 Ever since I ran into the crime writer woman. 82 00:06:09,980 --> 00:06:12,000 Things seem to keep happening. 83 00:06:13,620 --> 00:06:14,900 Unattached? What is? 84 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:16,560 This person. 85 00:06:16,740 --> 00:06:20,960 Of course, you always did have that inside -out way of looking at things, 86 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:22,160 makes you so good at what you do. 87 00:06:22,780 --> 00:06:23,559 That's lovely. 88 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:25,360 On your side now. Knees up to your chin. 89 00:06:29,460 --> 00:06:31,620 So, you've still got all your monkeys? 90 00:06:35,180 --> 00:06:37,500 14 and 15th expected shortly. 91 00:06:38,420 --> 00:06:39,980 Plus our son and his wife. 92 00:06:40,580 --> 00:06:41,720 And they call it evolution. 93 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:44,880 How's the baby gorilla? 94 00:06:45,420 --> 00:06:47,500 Not much of a baby these days. 95 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:50,980 You should come round and see us. It's been a long time. 96 00:06:52,140 --> 00:06:53,360 That's all, champion. 97 00:06:54,180 --> 00:06:55,580 There's a tissue there if you need it. 98 00:07:39,830 --> 00:07:40,830 Continuing. 99 00:07:41,350 --> 00:07:46,650 Conclusions drawn on the mutative role of apetotoxins in the aspergillus mold 100 00:07:46,650 --> 00:07:47,690 the liver cells of turkeys. 101 00:08:18,710 --> 00:08:21,770 Help me! Help me! 102 00:08:23,390 --> 00:08:29,830 Help me! 103 00:08:34,110 --> 00:08:34,750 Anyone 104 00:08:34,750 --> 00:08:42,110 home? 105 00:08:43,850 --> 00:08:45,590 Well, anywhere will do. 106 00:08:45,810 --> 00:08:46,990 That'll be fine. 107 00:08:47,290 --> 00:08:48,610 Thanks. I'll just get you a cake. 108 00:08:57,590 --> 00:09:00,990 Elliot, do you have any change? I've got nothing smaller than this to do for the 109 00:09:00,990 --> 00:09:01,990 taxi driver. 110 00:09:04,170 --> 00:09:05,170 Elliot? 111 00:10:02,420 --> 00:10:03,620 Mother 105 112 00:10:03,620 --> 00:10:10,500 and that's 113 00:10:10,500 --> 00:10:11,700 coming up to three minutes now 114 00:10:12,760 --> 00:10:15,620 You know, I don't think that's bad when you think that I came up here at a fair 115 00:10:15,620 --> 00:10:16,620 old lictus then. 116 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:18,440 What is that? 117 00:10:18,860 --> 00:10:19,860 A pulse meter. 118 00:10:21,140 --> 00:10:22,140 Clip it to your ear. 119 00:10:22,940 --> 00:10:24,160 It measures your heart rate. 120 00:10:25,340 --> 00:10:28,860 She said everything else was fine, but my aerobic capacity is a little low and 121 00:10:28,860 --> 00:10:29,860 need more exercise. 122 00:10:30,700 --> 00:10:33,180 You're coming up eight flights a day. It shouldn't really knack you, should it? 123 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:40,140 That doesn't make... Yeah, well, you'd expect of... I mean, you're a lot 124 00:10:40,140 --> 00:10:41,140 more... 125 00:10:41,740 --> 00:10:42,740 Yeah? 126 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:48,280 Can you make the quick walk before lunch? 127 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:11,200 The key's still in there, and the door is solid as a rock. 128 00:11:13,130 --> 00:11:15,330 How long would it take to cut through that grill on the window? 129 00:12:31,370 --> 00:12:33,870 Thank you so much for waiting for me. 130 00:12:34,210 --> 00:12:36,290 I really appreciate it. 131 00:12:37,030 --> 00:12:39,830 Is there any lock you can't pick your way in through? 132 00:12:41,890 --> 00:12:43,570 A little walk before lunch? 133 00:12:44,570 --> 00:12:47,550 What the hell did you want to go all the way up that hill for? 134 00:12:49,330 --> 00:12:52,950 I said, are you on for a brief stroll to the top? 135 00:12:53,170 --> 00:12:55,290 And you said, I'll drink to that. 136 00:12:55,880 --> 00:12:59,240 I said bollocks to that, which you'd have heard if you hadn't gone striding 137 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:00,940 like a lunatic in a walking race. 138 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:05,760 If I keep stopping for you to catch up, it's not continuous. 139 00:13:07,300 --> 00:13:11,660 Irregular exercise has no beneficial effect. Oh, shut up. 140 00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:17,880 What? 141 00:13:19,940 --> 00:13:20,940 No. 142 00:13:21,360 --> 00:13:24,120 Jess, you know when you leave a beetroot in the larder too long and it goes all 143 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:25,120 sweaty? 144 00:13:25,300 --> 00:13:27,340 Don't push it, Jonathan. 145 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:30,240 Sorry. 146 00:13:37,380 --> 00:13:38,380 Jonathan, great. 147 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:45,080 Ingrid, hi, how are you... Oh, my God. 148 00:13:47,460 --> 00:13:53,860 What... How did... 149 00:13:58,120 --> 00:13:58,999 This is strange. 150 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:03,000 Have you any idea why your husband would have locked the door to his study in 151 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:04,000 the first place? 152 00:14:04,500 --> 00:14:09,680 This particular ape, you may have noticed we have quite a menagerie here, 153 00:14:09,680 --> 00:14:10,760 taste for paper. 154 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:14,160 Just closing the door won't keep him out. 155 00:14:14,640 --> 00:14:17,740 I imagine that's why he locked it, to protect his work. 156 00:14:18,140 --> 00:14:24,600 And this suit of armour, or whatever it is in there, the sword was... 157 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:25,459 Part of it? 158 00:14:25,460 --> 00:14:29,580 It's an authentic 12th century samurai battle dress. 159 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:36,420 He picked it up eight years ago on a lecture tour of the Far East during his 160 00:14:36,420 --> 00:14:38,160 anthropological phase. 161 00:14:40,660 --> 00:14:44,600 Can I ask you not to sit like that? He's reading it as a display of sexual 162 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:45,600 dominance. 163 00:14:49,860 --> 00:14:54,300 Your husband enjoyed quite a high profile in the field of... 164 00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:55,560 Medical research. 165 00:14:55,980 --> 00:14:57,300 Well, I don't know about enjoyed. 166 00:14:58,500 --> 00:15:03,340 There are some very short -sighted people in our society, Inspector, who 167 00:15:03,340 --> 00:15:06,720 welfare of a laboratory mouse above a treatment for tumours. 168 00:15:07,940 --> 00:15:12,800 Because he believed in what he was doing, and said so, he was not a very 169 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:15,860 figure with the so -called animal rights fraternity. 170 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:21,860 It appears he was speaking into this dictaphone when the attack took place, 171 00:15:21,860 --> 00:15:23,900 seconds before he returned through the front door. 172 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:25,880 Ma 'am? 173 00:16:01,900 --> 00:16:03,200 to have a problem here, Mrs. Strange. 174 00:16:03,860 --> 00:16:10,700 With the door still locked from the inside, as it was, the fact that no one 175 00:16:10,700 --> 00:16:15,460 could have left the room anyway without you or the taxi driver seeing them, and 176 00:16:15,460 --> 00:16:21,620 as we seem now to have eliminated any panels or openings in the 177 00:16:21,620 --> 00:16:26,080 walls... Inspector, the evidence is there. 178 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:30,700 Someone was in his study and stabbed him to death. Don't ask me how. Don't ask 179 00:16:30,700 --> 00:16:31,700 me who. 180 00:16:31,790 --> 00:16:33,930 And don't tell me the whole thing is impossible. 181 00:16:34,390 --> 00:16:36,270 I know it's impossible. 182 00:16:37,850 --> 00:16:40,450 You're the detectives. You tell me how it was done. 183 00:16:41,990 --> 00:16:47,170 Because if you can't, maybe there's someone else who can. 184 00:16:58,410 --> 00:16:59,670 They'd be right the way round. 185 00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:03,520 Every corner, every crevice. 186 00:17:04,900 --> 00:17:06,819 The cupboard's a chock full of rubbish. 187 00:17:07,940 --> 00:17:09,380 The chimney's been blocked off. 188 00:17:09,660 --> 00:17:11,560 A rat couldn't get through. 189 00:17:16,839 --> 00:17:19,859 There are four walls of solid brick behind all this. 190 00:17:23,460 --> 00:17:26,560 And there was no -one else here, anywhere in the building. 191 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:29,140 Jordan was in the garden. 192 00:17:29,860 --> 00:17:30,920 Cathy had gone shopping. 193 00:17:32,020 --> 00:17:35,000 I wasn't working today. I just went to the clinic to get some files. 194 00:17:37,420 --> 00:17:39,480 Do you know what I really don't understand? 195 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:42,060 Is how the hell I'm coping. 196 00:17:43,520 --> 00:17:45,700 It's as if I've been given a pain -killing injection. 197 00:17:46,100 --> 00:17:47,280 Everything is numb. 198 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:53,880 Whoever did this... We're all wondering how they could have got out of the room, 199 00:17:53,940 --> 00:17:55,620 but how did they get in here in the first place? 200 00:17:56,420 --> 00:17:57,620 The window was barred. 201 00:17:58,120 --> 00:17:59,320 The walls are all solid. 202 00:18:01,220 --> 00:18:08,200 Unless, of course, they were in here already when he went to lock the door. 203 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:13,260 So he couldn't see them. 204 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:32,020 The police had the same idea. 205 00:18:33,040 --> 00:18:35,900 They took the whole thing to bits and then put it together again. 206 00:18:37,460 --> 00:18:38,520 Not very successfully. 207 00:19:15,850 --> 00:19:17,370 Pretty hefty gash here. 208 00:19:18,370 --> 00:19:19,370 In the death. 209 00:19:21,030 --> 00:19:23,490 Well, the killer went for him, probably. He dodged out the way. 210 00:19:24,730 --> 00:19:27,170 Hmm. The body was over there. 211 00:19:28,750 --> 00:19:30,610 But there's blood on the desk as well. 212 00:19:31,950 --> 00:19:34,530 They're all struggled between the pair of them by the look of it. 213 00:19:35,370 --> 00:19:41,590 But these books... would have come from that pop shelf? 214 00:19:43,340 --> 00:19:45,740 Look as if they've been used as missiles or something. 215 00:19:46,380 --> 00:19:48,340 Like they've been thrown across the room. 216 00:19:50,320 --> 00:19:51,320 And why? 217 00:19:52,460 --> 00:19:57,620 Out of all this lot, why pick three books from his shelf he could have 218 00:19:57,620 --> 00:19:58,620 reached? 219 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:00,880 Unless he didn't. 220 00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:04,460 And they flew across the room on their own. 221 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:18,900 Can I say two words here, if anyone's listening? 222 00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:20,880 Amityville horror. 223 00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:23,820 Why don't you go and see to Cathy? 224 00:20:24,060 --> 00:20:25,960 That sedative will be wearing off now. 225 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:28,400 You know I'm right. 226 00:20:28,740 --> 00:20:30,140 You just can't face the truth. 227 00:20:38,580 --> 00:20:40,740 You see why I need someone else here. 228 00:20:42,220 --> 00:20:43,680 Someone from the planet Earth. 229 00:20:47,180 --> 00:20:49,160 Night seems to have stolen up on us. 230 00:20:49,860 --> 00:20:51,680 You'll stay over, won't you? 231 00:20:51,980 --> 00:20:52,980 Both of you. 232 00:20:58,120 --> 00:21:01,240 It feels like we're teetering on the edge of reality. 233 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:05,920 I really don't want to fall off. 234 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:43,680 Why isn't someone doing something? 235 00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:49,760 Instead of just sitting here, I mean, it's dead, and we're just... sitting 236 00:21:51,900 --> 00:21:54,300 For God's sake, Elliot's been murdered! 237 00:21:55,360 --> 00:21:56,520 And what have they said? 238 00:21:57,520 --> 00:21:58,940 I can't believe it. 239 00:22:00,580 --> 00:22:01,620 One policeman. 240 00:22:02,540 --> 00:22:04,660 How's he going to find the killer standing out there? 241 00:22:04,980 --> 00:22:05,980 Are you watching? 242 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:09,700 All he does is wander about by the gate. What does he think, the killer's going 243 00:22:09,700 --> 00:22:11,320 to walk past? I mean, it's a joke. 244 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:17,260 Cathy, that's just a duty constable posted there to keep away reporters and 245 00:22:17,260 --> 00:22:22,800 sightseers. The CID are carrying out a thorough investigation, I promise you. 246 00:22:26,820 --> 00:22:28,000 Well, what have we got? 247 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:33,320 Some books that fell off the top shelf. A suit of armour that was completely 248 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:36,220 empty. It doesn't exactly shout at you. 249 00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:40,560 I don't know. 250 00:22:42,250 --> 00:22:43,790 How it was done is a puzzle. 251 00:22:44,750 --> 00:22:46,570 But what really stumps me is why. 252 00:22:48,550 --> 00:22:53,090 If, even for the sake of argument, your husband killed himself and wanted to 253 00:22:53,090 --> 00:22:57,350 make it look like murder, he's not going to do it in a hermetically sealed room. 254 00:22:58,230 --> 00:22:59,710 It completely defeats the object. 255 00:23:00,850 --> 00:23:04,610 Equally, if whoever killed him wanted to make it look like suicide, somehow 256 00:23:04,610 --> 00:23:08,570 rigged up the locked room, why stab him in the back? 257 00:23:08,950 --> 00:23:10,570 And why leave that dictaphone behind? 258 00:23:11,820 --> 00:23:13,720 which he must have known proved he'd been attacked. 259 00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:23,980 Well... Early night, I think. Sleep on it. 260 00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:27,580 Might just get the rest of those books down tomorrow, do a final check on the 261 00:23:27,580 --> 00:23:28,580 shelves. 262 00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:33,120 And I'll say goodnight. 263 00:23:34,040 --> 00:23:35,520 Yes. Goodnight. 264 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:37,720 Night. 265 00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:25,700 I know exactly what you're thinking. 266 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:29,260 The thought came out of the wall. 267 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:32,060 On some sort of mechanism. 268 00:24:32,860 --> 00:24:35,180 Probably from behind those books on the top shelf. 269 00:24:36,620 --> 00:24:40,240 Shot across the room, somehow, and got him in the back. 270 00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:43,020 Surely the saw was on the soup farmer. 271 00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:44,280 Just wait a sec. 272 00:24:45,020 --> 00:24:47,680 The person he was shouting at was on the phone. 273 00:24:48,060 --> 00:24:50,440 They weren't in the room at all. They were on the phone. 274 00:24:51,120 --> 00:24:52,960 Making some sort of... Terrible threats. 275 00:24:53,260 --> 00:24:57,780 Which means it could have been any one of the three of them. His wife or one of 276 00:24:57,780 --> 00:24:59,020 those other two, dumb and dumber. 277 00:24:59,860 --> 00:25:03,080 But if he was on the phone when the sword hit him, how come the receiver had 278 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:04,019 been replaced? 279 00:25:04,020 --> 00:25:05,240 I'll tell you something else. 280 00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:10,080 I think Elliot Strange was having an affair with his daughter -in -law. 281 00:25:10,380 --> 00:25:11,380 Based on what? 282 00:25:11,780 --> 00:25:13,120 I just got a strong feel. 283 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:15,520 There was more to all those tears tonight. 284 00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:19,840 You can see our own marriage has gone to the pictures. All that guff from him 285 00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:21,440 about... paranormal forces. 286 00:25:22,100 --> 00:25:26,400 There's definitely something going on in this house under the surface we're not 287 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:27,400 seeing. 288 00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:31,180 It's a problem of the heart. 289 00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:37,360 Shall I get in? 290 00:25:39,540 --> 00:25:40,540 If you want. 291 00:25:57,870 --> 00:25:59,090 I think I can't get my head round. 292 00:26:00,010 --> 00:26:04,450 If the sword missed him, when he caught the edge of the death, why was there 293 00:26:04,450 --> 00:26:05,450 blood there? 294 00:26:08,090 --> 00:26:10,390 I just can't work out where it's all leading. 295 00:26:13,950 --> 00:26:15,350 We're in bed together, Jonathan. 296 00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:53,720 What is it? 297 00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:55,280 Sorry? 298 00:26:57,260 --> 00:27:00,640 This thing that messes your pulse. 299 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:03,600 What have you got this on for? 300 00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:05,280 In bed? 301 00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:08,680 I... I just... Oh, you bastard. 302 00:27:11,020 --> 00:27:12,020 What? 303 00:27:12,740 --> 00:27:13,900 Is that what you were going to do? 304 00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:17,680 Keep a check on your heart rate while we were having sex? 305 00:27:17,940 --> 00:27:20,140 I just have to be careful I don't overload it, that's all. 306 00:27:20,380 --> 00:27:21,380 Overload it? 307 00:27:22,250 --> 00:27:23,250 Thank you. 308 00:27:23,610 --> 00:27:26,250 Whatever you do, don't make love to me without a heavy goods licence. 309 00:27:26,870 --> 00:27:33,590 How dare you assume that I was going to walk in here and just get into 310 00:27:33,590 --> 00:27:34,590 bed with you? 311 00:27:35,110 --> 00:27:39,150 But you did. That is irrelevant. You have no right to assume it. 312 00:27:40,650 --> 00:27:43,830 Well, you can just bugger off right now and let me get some sleep. 313 00:27:44,250 --> 00:27:48,810 But this is my room. And I'm not in the mood for any more smart -ass logic. Just 314 00:27:48,810 --> 00:27:49,810 go. 315 00:28:03,310 --> 00:28:06,190 gone up to one two five now get out 316 00:29:21,580 --> 00:29:24,080 It just went... I don't know. 317 00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:25,440 What? 318 00:29:25,860 --> 00:29:26,860 Ape shit. 319 00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:28,040 Where? 320 00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:29,420 Don't try to move anything. 321 00:29:30,380 --> 00:29:32,980 It's OK. No, I just took a tumble. 322 00:29:34,300 --> 00:29:35,620 It just came at me. 323 00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:40,060 Almost like it was... Was there? 324 00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:07,620 You invent conjuring tricks. 325 00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:11,600 All right. 326 00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:13,460 Is that what you're going to do? 327 00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:17,160 Work out how this was done so we'll all be totally amazed. 328 00:30:22,020 --> 00:30:24,260 But you're not going to bring him back to life, are you? 329 00:30:26,580 --> 00:30:27,580 No, Cathy. 330 00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:29,440 We're not going to do that. 331 00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:37,680 That is weird. 332 00:30:38,060 --> 00:30:39,900 Weird as weird can be. 333 00:30:41,300 --> 00:30:42,300 What is? 334 00:30:42,340 --> 00:30:43,340 A footprint. 335 00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:48,440 What? 336 00:30:49,860 --> 00:30:51,120 There's another one here. 337 00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:56,180 Someone's been climbing up these shelves. 338 00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:17,800 Hello? 339 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:19,160 Uh, 340 00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:20,600 no. 341 00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:23,820 She's up and about now if you want to talk to her. 342 00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:26,120 Half past. 343 00:31:28,100 --> 00:31:29,820 Right. Yes, I'll tell her. 344 00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:31,360 Bye. 345 00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:34,920 Where are you going? 346 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:38,360 I'm going to have a poke a bite in her room. Give me a shout if she comes back 347 00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:39,360 in. 348 00:33:41,390 --> 00:33:43,530 I'm not too sure she'd thank you for this. 349 00:33:45,610 --> 00:33:47,190 I'm damn sure she wouldn't. 350 00:33:52,810 --> 00:33:54,090 What's happening now? 351 00:33:58,230 --> 00:33:59,810 I think we'd better go downstairs. 352 00:34:14,510 --> 00:34:15,790 I never knew you kept a diary. 353 00:34:16,370 --> 00:34:17,830 There's a lot you don't know, Jordan. 354 00:34:19,469 --> 00:34:20,469 You want to read that? 355 00:34:21,630 --> 00:34:22,630 You're a journalist. 356 00:34:23,090 --> 00:34:24,710 I suppose you did shorthand. 357 00:34:28,489 --> 00:34:29,949 October 15th. 358 00:34:30,150 --> 00:34:31,230 At long last. 359 00:34:32,210 --> 00:34:34,510 E and I had fantastic thoughts. 360 00:34:35,530 --> 00:34:37,489 Imagine that's meant to say sex. 361 00:34:37,870 --> 00:34:38,870 What does it say? 362 00:34:38,989 --> 00:34:41,630 Actually, they're thoughts, but we won't quibble. 363 00:34:41,949 --> 00:34:42,949 Oh, really? 364 00:34:45,770 --> 00:34:50,130 I did two years at secretarial. I think I know the difference between sex and 365 00:34:50,130 --> 00:34:56,949 sex. I would... Afterwards, as we lay knackered next 366 00:34:56,949 --> 00:34:58,510 to each other... Naked, it says. 367 00:34:58,730 --> 00:35:02,530 I'm sorry, if we're being accurate, it says knackered. For naked, your outline 368 00:35:02,530 --> 00:35:03,550 would be completely different. 369 00:35:03,850 --> 00:35:05,850 He and I had sex. Why is this a crime? 370 00:35:06,890 --> 00:35:10,710 The I doesn't stand for Ingrid, Jordan. 371 00:35:11,010 --> 00:35:13,870 Doesn't stand... You're making this up. 372 00:35:14,270 --> 00:35:15,270 I wish you was. 373 00:35:16,510 --> 00:35:17,510 What do you mean? 374 00:35:18,830 --> 00:35:23,310 How? I may be a wizened old bat in your eyes, Cathy. That doesn't mean I'm as 375 00:35:23,310 --> 00:35:24,310 blind as one. 376 00:35:24,850 --> 00:35:28,430 Some other time, I'll give you a lesson in subliminal bonding gestures. 377 00:35:29,670 --> 00:35:31,110 Oh, for God's sake. 378 00:35:32,550 --> 00:35:36,770 I'd seen it coming for months. I'd almost say he needed it to flush it out 379 00:35:36,770 --> 00:35:37,770 his system. 380 00:35:38,650 --> 00:35:42,470 Afterwards, when he told me and all the guilt came out, he threw himself on my 381 00:35:42,470 --> 00:35:43,470 mercy. You're lying! 382 00:35:45,190 --> 00:35:46,190 Never tell, Cathy. 383 00:35:47,510 --> 00:35:52,410 You have the body of a woman and the brain of a sexually stunted newt. 384 00:36:12,750 --> 00:36:15,550 I can't get my head round this. On top of everything else... Jordan! 385 00:36:15,890 --> 00:36:18,210 My wife was sleeping with my father. 386 00:36:18,490 --> 00:36:19,610 One, Jordan. 387 00:36:19,970 --> 00:36:20,970 Perfect tense. 388 00:36:21,490 --> 00:36:24,450 And can't you see that you were as responsible as she was? 389 00:36:24,870 --> 00:36:28,570 If you would only take your marriage by the scruff of the neck between you and 390 00:36:28,570 --> 00:36:29,448 make it work. 391 00:36:29,450 --> 00:36:30,450 How did this happen? 392 00:36:31,130 --> 00:36:32,130 Where did it happen? 393 00:36:32,430 --> 00:36:33,450 Not in this house. 394 00:36:33,650 --> 00:36:35,010 In this very house. Where? 395 00:36:35,290 --> 00:36:36,290 Can't you guess? 396 00:36:36,730 --> 00:36:40,210 No way, Cathy, you didn't. Oh, for God's sake, does it matter? 397 00:36:41,310 --> 00:36:42,730 Not in a swivel chair. 398 00:36:43,630 --> 00:36:45,410 We set it to maximum tilt. 399 00:36:46,030 --> 00:36:47,850 The hydraulics were wonderful. 400 00:36:48,110 --> 00:36:49,110 With my father? 401 00:36:49,530 --> 00:36:50,830 In my chair? 402 00:36:51,610 --> 00:36:53,350 How could you do that to me? 403 00:36:53,670 --> 00:36:54,670 Oh, right! 404 00:36:55,510 --> 00:36:56,970 Then how do you think I felt? 405 00:36:57,410 --> 00:36:59,290 Losing my husband to a bloody monkey? 406 00:37:32,110 --> 00:37:35,370 The fingerprints on the sword have now been identified. Right. 407 00:37:35,790 --> 00:37:37,890 They all belonged to your husband. 408 00:37:38,910 --> 00:37:41,310 Well, if he picked it up off the floor the other morning, that's hardly 409 00:37:41,310 --> 00:37:42,310 surprising. 410 00:37:42,790 --> 00:37:43,790 Is that all? 411 00:37:43,850 --> 00:37:47,630 The circumstances here are unusual, to say the least. 412 00:37:48,830 --> 00:37:51,930 You can't expect the solution to just suddenly fall out of the sky. 413 00:37:52,990 --> 00:37:56,090 Mrs Strange, according to your statement, you went to the town 414 00:37:56,090 --> 00:37:57,090 some clothes. 415 00:37:57,310 --> 00:38:00,790 If you wouldn't mind telling us which doors exactly you visited. 416 00:38:01,340 --> 00:38:02,340 Well, I didn't kill him. 417 00:38:03,340 --> 00:38:05,980 For God's sake, I wasn't even here. 418 00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:09,660 As you say, which is why you can let us know exactly where you were. 419 00:38:10,240 --> 00:38:14,080 Why can't you think I could have killed him? No -one's accusing you of anything 420 00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:16,060 at this stage. At this stage? But you will. 421 00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:19,880 If I can't make account of my movement... Cathy, this is just a matter 422 00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:20,880 elimination. 423 00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:22,140 She's very emotional. 424 00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:23,360 I'd say that you've got a moment. 425 00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:26,800 Or him, if you're looking for a reason. They had every reason, both of them. 426 00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:29,940 I wouldn't put it past them either. You see all the irrational hysteria coming 427 00:38:29,940 --> 00:38:31,640 out? Where have we all seen that before? 428 00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:33,480 Two words. 429 00:38:33,620 --> 00:38:34,620 Fatal attraction. 430 00:38:34,660 --> 00:38:37,560 Am I right? If I could just butt in for a moment... Your statement will simply 431 00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:41,340 be compared with everyone else's. Oh, right. It's not as if I'm the one that's 432 00:38:41,340 --> 00:38:43,960 on trial here or anything, because you can't even take my word for it. 433 00:38:44,220 --> 00:38:47,260 If you've got nothing better to do with your time that's now insinuating that 434 00:38:47,260 --> 00:38:48,720 I... I know who murdered him. 435 00:38:51,660 --> 00:38:52,840 If anyone's interested. 436 00:38:58,380 --> 00:38:59,980 A set of footprints on the shelves. 437 00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:01,760 What was that all about? 438 00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:06,660 Someone had climbed up this bookcase, and there's a perfectly good set of 439 00:39:06,660 --> 00:39:07,660 over there. 440 00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:11,000 Taken three books from the top shelf, hurled them across the room. 441 00:39:12,100 --> 00:39:13,260 Does that make sense to anybody? 442 00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:17,320 Then I realised that was the whole point. 443 00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:20,480 It doesn't have to make sense. 444 00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:27,340 Well, that was most illuminating, Mr Creek. 445 00:39:28,270 --> 00:39:30,250 Now, if we could just get back to our questioning. 446 00:39:30,630 --> 00:39:32,950 I think there may be more. 447 00:39:34,970 --> 00:39:40,410 There was no sense either in that gorilla suddenly going off its rocker, 448 00:39:40,410 --> 00:39:43,310 headfirst off the balcony when the day before it had been as nice as pie. 449 00:39:44,270 --> 00:39:47,590 So what was there connected these two acts of total madness? 450 00:39:49,650 --> 00:39:54,670 About half an hour ago, in this room, I found it. 451 00:40:04,110 --> 00:40:05,510 That he'd signed on the inside. 452 00:40:07,130 --> 00:40:11,050 All sealed up and ready to be sent off by someone called Teresa Tolling. 453 00:40:11,990 --> 00:40:13,550 Does that name mean anything to anyone? 454 00:40:15,050 --> 00:40:17,670 Apart from the fact it's an anagram of Elliot Strange, obviously. 455 00:40:19,410 --> 00:40:22,710 Which probably means there's no such person and no such dress. 456 00:40:23,190 --> 00:40:24,850 An anagram made up by who? 457 00:40:25,230 --> 00:40:26,230 Exactly. 458 00:40:26,710 --> 00:40:30,870 From the fact it's been folded and this isn't his handwriting, it's obviously a 459 00:40:30,870 --> 00:40:32,790 stamped address job that someone had sent him. 460 00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:37,380 The envelope for which is still down there in the bin. 461 00:40:39,980 --> 00:40:41,820 Huge fan of your work. 462 00:40:43,420 --> 00:40:48,840 If you'd kindly sign the enclosed and return it to me, 463 00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:52,320 I'd be the envy of all my colleagues. 464 00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:56,100 Oh, my God. 465 00:40:57,460 --> 00:40:59,720 I think I'm beginning to see. 466 00:41:00,220 --> 00:41:01,320 You see it now? 467 00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:05,170 So... Well, earlier today... Exactly. 468 00:41:05,630 --> 00:41:09,330 ..I went to Samson's. They were both... Precisely. Yes, thank you. 469 00:41:09,670 --> 00:41:12,530 If you have got something to tell us, will you, for God's sake, spit it out? 470 00:41:13,910 --> 00:41:15,770 If they'd done that, they might still be alive. 471 00:41:17,750 --> 00:41:18,750 Spit... What? 472 00:41:20,710 --> 00:41:25,490 If you ask yourself, what did Dr Strange do that Samson the gorilla also did? 473 00:41:27,430 --> 00:41:30,130 Looking at how chewed up and bitten into this is. 474 00:41:34,380 --> 00:41:37,000 They've both tasted the gummed flap on this envelope. 475 00:41:38,820 --> 00:41:41,020 The second I realised, it frightened me to death. 476 00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:46,520 How easy it is for any lunatic to commit a long -distance murder. You don't need 477 00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:50,880 a letter bomb, just some pretext for them to lick a stamped -addressed 478 00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:51,880 that you've sent them. 479 00:41:53,260 --> 00:41:54,920 You could put anything on the sticky bit. 480 00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:56,640 Poison. 481 00:41:57,820 --> 00:42:01,440 In this case, from the effect it had both times... 482 00:42:02,090 --> 00:42:05,510 I'd say a particular kind of poison, like some sort of bad acid. 483 00:42:06,370 --> 00:42:10,690 Something that was always going to kill him, but was going to turn his brain 484 00:42:10,690 --> 00:42:11,930 inside out along the way. 485 00:42:14,530 --> 00:42:21,390 You're saying some animal rights activist could have put something 486 00:42:21,390 --> 00:42:23,330 on the flap of that envelope? 487 00:42:24,750 --> 00:42:26,550 I'd say they got hold of some dodgy stuff. 488 00:42:27,210 --> 00:42:29,190 It's fatal in the right dose. Excuse me? 489 00:42:29,710 --> 00:42:32,650 My father was found in a locked room with a sword in his back. 490 00:42:32,950 --> 00:42:34,050 How do we explain that? 491 00:42:38,010 --> 00:42:39,490 I've looked at it every which way. 492 00:42:45,070 --> 00:42:46,890 No one else could have got into this study. 493 00:42:47,570 --> 00:42:48,810 And no one could have got out. 494 00:42:49,890 --> 00:42:52,890 It may be that there's another sequence that could explain it all. 495 00:42:54,030 --> 00:42:55,950 So far, I can only come up with one. 496 00:43:04,300 --> 00:43:07,400 Dr. Strange had locked the door to make sure he wasn't disturbed. 497 00:43:10,260 --> 00:43:12,340 First off, he deals with his morning mail. 498 00:43:15,620 --> 00:43:17,200 Signs the book someone sent him. 499 00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:24,740 Licks the flap to seal the envelope. 500 00:43:25,780 --> 00:43:28,340 Maybe it tastes a bit funny, but he's not going to read anything into that. 501 00:43:29,340 --> 00:43:32,580 He's not going to know he's just swallowed some lethal hallucinogenic 502 00:43:33,930 --> 00:43:37,770 Only now it's just a matter of time before he starts tripping out. 503 00:43:38,730 --> 00:43:40,250 The end things aren't there. 504 00:43:46,290 --> 00:43:47,290 Continuing. 505 00:43:47,930 --> 00:43:54,510 Conclusions on the mutative role of erythritoxins and aspergillus mold in 506 00:43:54,510 --> 00:43:55,510 liver cells of turkeys. 507 00:43:59,670 --> 00:44:00,790 Oh, my God. 508 00:44:03,530 --> 00:44:05,310 Hello? Hello? 509 00:44:39,370 --> 00:44:44,430 Tumbling off the shelves, onto that blade, had to be an accident. 510 00:44:45,550 --> 00:44:48,450 Something the killer, no one could have foreseen. 511 00:44:49,090 --> 00:44:50,850 The drug was the murder weapon. 512 00:44:51,650 --> 00:44:55,290 The sword, a rather horrible bonus. 513 00:44:59,770 --> 00:45:03,170 Elliot, do you have any change? I've got nothing smaller than this to you for 514 00:45:03,170 --> 00:45:04,170 the taxi drugs. 515 00:45:10,060 --> 00:45:11,340 Something set that gorilla off. 516 00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:13,740 We all saw it. 517 00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:18,440 I just think it's too much of a coincidence otherwise. It has to be the 518 00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:19,440 envelope. 519 00:45:20,020 --> 00:45:26,720 At some point, later in the evening, it went back in the study, looking for a 520 00:45:26,720 --> 00:45:27,720 snack. 521 00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:31,160 So, 522 00:45:31,700 --> 00:45:36,200 if poor old Samson hadn't chewed his paper... Hang on. 523 00:45:37,500 --> 00:45:39,080 You said that's a made -up name. 524 00:45:40,040 --> 00:45:42,020 Were you ever going to trace the person that sent it? 525 00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:47,880 What was interesting about the address on the envelope the killer sent was the 526 00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:48,880 name of the street. 527 00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:52,120 Here, look. 528 00:45:54,180 --> 00:45:55,260 Polo Park Lane. 529 00:45:56,540 --> 00:45:58,340 When it should have been Pool Park. 530 00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:01,600 Polo instead of pool. 531 00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:06,620 Two letters transposed like that. It's as good as me typing it. 532 00:46:09,580 --> 00:46:10,880 Except it's been written by hand. 533 00:46:11,380 --> 00:46:14,220 But it could have been copied from something that had been mistyped in the 534 00:46:14,220 --> 00:46:15,220 place. 535 00:46:15,480 --> 00:46:21,400 If someone wanted to kill a famous scientist and wanted to find out where 536 00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:25,960 lived, they'd... write to his publishers? 537 00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:28,060 Who would simply forward it here? 538 00:46:29,220 --> 00:46:32,900 They'd never give out his address to the public, any more than Elliot would when 539 00:46:32,900 --> 00:46:33,900 he wrote back. 540 00:46:33,980 --> 00:46:36,100 He knew how many cranks there were out there. 541 00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:38,880 as I discovered when I checked his files. 542 00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:44,200 So what if they wrote to someone else in the house who wasn't so careful? 543 00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:53,040 Cathy Strange, actress, daughter -in -law of Elliot Strange, would 544 00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:58,100 receive a fan letter sent on by her agent from someone who knew she lived in 545 00:46:58,100 --> 00:46:59,100 same house. 546 00:47:00,900 --> 00:47:01,900 She'd write back. 547 00:47:03,360 --> 00:47:04,580 A little thank you. 548 00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:07,840 Address at the top of the page. 549 00:47:08,580 --> 00:47:13,200 Except she mistypes Pool Park Lane as Polo Park Lane. 550 00:47:14,660 --> 00:47:16,660 And I'm afraid that's exactly what happened. 551 00:47:18,300 --> 00:47:23,820 On October 7th, you wrote to Alistair Tyree of Nantwich in Cheshire. 552 00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:28,060 Alfaga House, 17, Polo Park Lane. 553 00:47:29,940 --> 00:47:31,560 Could be an almighty coincidence. 554 00:47:33,240 --> 00:47:34,240 But... 555 00:47:35,560 --> 00:47:37,980 His saliva checks out against that envelope. 556 00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:44,500 And you find he's a paid -up liberationist with known drug 557 00:47:45,140 --> 00:47:47,060 You wouldn't be at all surprised. 558 00:47:48,300 --> 00:47:49,700 I wouldn't, actually. 559 00:47:58,600 --> 00:48:03,260 Within three days, forensic investigation confirmed 23 -year -old 560 00:48:03,260 --> 00:48:06,940 unemployed graduate with previous convictions for violent radical activity 561 00:48:06,940 --> 00:48:11,680 drug trafficking, as the missing link in the strange case of Elliot Strange and 562 00:48:11,680 --> 00:48:12,880 the House of Monkeys. 563 00:48:13,660 --> 00:48:18,980 And once again, the probing lateral brain of Jonathan Creek had pierced the 564 00:48:18,980 --> 00:48:22,860 of darkness, restoring reason to another seemingly impossible mystery. 565 00:48:23,780 --> 00:48:24,780 All right. 566 00:48:25,520 --> 00:48:31,060 I know it's cheesy and tacky and corny, but it also sells books and it's going 567 00:48:31,060 --> 00:48:32,060 to get me in the shops. 568 00:48:32,600 --> 00:48:36,700 It's all right for you. You've got a secure income, but I need the dosh. 569 00:48:37,500 --> 00:48:39,340 It'd be different if I wasn't on my own. 570 00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:43,520 I've had someone else to support me and everything. 571 00:48:47,460 --> 00:48:49,280 You're right. I'm being selfish. 572 00:49:04,720 --> 00:49:09,300 We came that close when we were at that house. 573 00:49:10,780 --> 00:49:11,780 Doing it. 574 00:49:22,140 --> 00:49:25,280 And then I got all bitsy and blew up again. 575 00:49:26,300 --> 00:49:27,300 Sorry about that. 576 00:49:27,720 --> 00:49:28,720 It's all right. 577 00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:30,200 What do you mean? 578 00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:32,738 It's all right. 579 00:49:32,740 --> 00:49:33,860 You think I was bitchy? 580 00:49:35,850 --> 00:49:39,590 Come on, you were thinking, what an utter bitch. What is it with you? 581 00:49:39,950 --> 00:49:42,530 You can never say the right thing, can you? Never. 582 00:49:43,790 --> 00:49:47,270 I didn't mean... Can we start again? 583 00:49:47,550 --> 00:49:48,550 No. 584 00:49:50,910 --> 00:49:52,770 I'm right off the boil now. 585 00:50:15,990 --> 00:50:18,130 110 lying down? You've got to get some exercise.