1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:03,560 Dear friends, let us begin. 2 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:36,400 I can see you. 3 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:39,120 I can see you, Babuji. 4 00:00:40,160 --> 00:00:42,400 The mists are clearing. 5 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:43,840 Babuji, 6 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:45,920 that's what you always called me. 7 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:49,840 Do not weep for me, Babuji. 8 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:52,320 All is well. 9 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:02,520 I have to go now, Babuji. 10 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:05,320 Farewell. 11 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:11,720 Death is but a door. 12 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:14,680 There's nothing here but peace, 13 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:18,320 universal, never-ending. 14 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:21,920 Peace and joy. 15 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:29,360 The connection is fading Papa. 16 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:33,640 Where are you? I can't see you, Babuji. 17 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:38,160 Oh, bless you, Babuji. 18 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:49,080 Mr Sneed? 19 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:51,720 M-Mr Sneed, are you all right? 20 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:22,120 Blimey. 21 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:25,120 What's the story? 22 00:03:25,920 --> 00:03:27,640 Harold Terence Sneed, 23 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:30,040 fifty-four years of age. He's lived here, 24 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:32,040 twenty-seven Kingsgate Row, Borough, 25 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:33,440 for about a year. 26 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:35,960 Previously somewhat itinerant. 27 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:37,040 Profession. 28 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:39,440 Psychic medium. 29 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:40,520 Hmm. 30 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:42,960 And killed by a single blow to the heart, 31 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:44,480 done with some force. 32 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:46,320 Well, can we deduce anything 33 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:48,040 from the angle? 34 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:49,920 Hmm. Pretty much straight on. 35 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:52,600 We'll obviously know more when we get the prints analysed. 36 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:53,800 Yes, yes. Right, well, 37 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:55,400 we're holding the others down at the station. 38 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:57,560 Any obvious suspects? 39 00:03:58,480 --> 00:03:59,680 Book! What, what-- 40 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:01,680 Oh, apologies, Inspector. 41 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:05,360 Like the dead, murder travels fast. 42 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:07,400 Well, news of it, anyway. 43 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:08,920 And I must confess 44 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:10,760 to a personal interest in this matter. 45 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:13,040 You see, I rather suspected 46 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:15,080 that something of this sort might happen 47 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:17,120 to Harold Terence Sneed. 48 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:19,840 Oh, you knew the victim? 49 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:44,920 Get your paper! 50 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:49,440 Read about Sandra Dare. 51 00:04:56,120 --> 00:04:57,200 Mr Baseheart. 52 00:04:57,280 --> 00:04:58,840 I'll have one of those, thank you. 53 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:01,920 Here you go. 54 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:04,160 - Oh! - I know. 55 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:06,120 Half cloth. 56 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:08,680 Oh, uh, paper-covered boards, 57 00:05:08,760 --> 00:05:10,120 uh, spine bound in cloth. 58 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:11,880 Excellent. Duodecimo. 59 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:14,640 Uh, uh, a book. 60 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:15,720 Good start. 61 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:17,480 Uh, seven inches tall. 62 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:18,600 Seven or eight? 63 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:19,800 One for Nora? 64 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:21,720 - Do I get a shilling? - You may. 65 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:22,840 Bastard title? 66 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:24,960 Oh, hang on, hang on. I know this. 67 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:26,160 Come on, come on, come on. 68 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:27,480 - Uh... - Come on, come on. 69 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:29,400 The page before the title 70 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:31,000 page with nothing but the title on. 71 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:32,240 Correct. 72 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:33,520 - Yes! - Bugger! 73 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:35,160 Definitely worth a shilling. 74 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:37,040 Come on, Jack, Nora's putting you to shame. 75 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:38,400 She doesn't even work here. 76 00:05:38,960 --> 00:05:41,080 I could. Just say the word. 77 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:42,160 Impossible. 78 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:44,040 Your uncle says you're indispensable. 79 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:46,200 That's only 'cause he doesn't pay me. 80 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:49,280 Oh, Mr Baseheart. 81 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:50,560 Hello. 82 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:52,200 - Good morning. - Good morning. 83 00:05:52,280 --> 00:05:53,600 What can we do for you? 84 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:57,080 Uh, Mr Book, I, 85 00:05:57,840 --> 00:05:59,440 I was wondering if you could 86 00:05:59,840 --> 00:06:01,520 help me with a little problem? 87 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:06,440 Come this way? 88 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:25,320 His name is Harold Sneed. 89 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:33,120 Sneed. 90 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:35,640 I've heard that name before. 91 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:38,560 Gently now, Ayesha. 92 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:43,240 Sneed... 93 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:45,160 He's a medium, a psychic. 94 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:46,280 Ah. 95 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:48,800 Oh, you remember young Jack. 96 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:51,480 You may speak freely in front of him. 97 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:53,240 He's by way of being apprenticed here. 98 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:56,120 Think of him as Pip to my Joe Gargery. 99 00:06:57,400 --> 00:06:58,400 Eh? 100 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:01,280 Oh, well, I have great expectations. 101 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:04,240 Well, anyway, all that 102 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:07,000 psychic stuff, it's not really something I believe in. 103 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:08,720 You are wise in your generation. 104 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:10,840 Though I did go and see one once, a medium. 105 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:13,320 Yeah, end of a pier, south end. 106 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:15,880 Old girl, all scarves and bangles. 107 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:16,960 How did that go? 108 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:18,240 Well, she got in touch 109 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:19,480 with a few people, you know, 110 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:20,960 including my Aunt Irene. 111 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:22,040 Oh. 112 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:24,040 There was a lot of moaning, as I recall. 113 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:26,400 - And how was she? - Who? 114 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:27,680 Your Auntie Irene. 115 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:29,920 Oh, very happy in the veil of mists 116 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:31,880 and looking down on me with pride. 117 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:33,320 They always are. 118 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:36,760 So how exactly can I help you, Mr Baseheart? 119 00:07:36,840 --> 00:07:40,080 Ah, well, now, it's, it's not me I've come for. 120 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:44,600 I know how you helped clear up that nasty business 121 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:47,320 with Eric Wellbeloved and George Harkup, 122 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:49,480 and people tell me you're very, um... 123 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:51,040 discreet. 124 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:54,120 - How indiscreet of them. - Oh, uh, 125 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:57,560 I'm actually here about someone else. 126 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:09,600 Mrs Dredge. 127 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:11,640 You're close, are you? 128 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:15,440 Well, you know, uh, we were nodding acquaintances, 129 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:18,600 and then, well, after Harkup died, 130 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:19,880 I'd-I just seemed to 131 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:21,560 keep on bumping into her. 132 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:23,880 We've become very fond of one another. 133 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:26,720 And then when she lost her boy, uh... 134 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:28,400 I heard about that. How sad. 135 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:29,720 Well, what happened? 136 00:08:30,280 --> 00:08:32,560 Accident. Overdose of his morphine. 137 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:35,640 He was in so much pain. 138 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:37,000 Yes, I remember. 139 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:38,720 Hmm. Anyway, Mr Book, 140 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:40,160 the thing is, Ada, she's... 141 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:42,600 Well, not to put too fine a point on it, 142 00:08:42,680 --> 00:08:44,280 she's wallowing in it, 143 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:46,120 wallowing in her grief. 144 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:49,200 I mean, I always knew she had an interest in spiritualism 145 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:52,400 and she kept on mentioning it 146 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:53,840 more and more, 147 00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:56,840 and that there was this chap, Sneed, 148 00:08:57,240 --> 00:08:59,520 and how he was the only one who could 149 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:01,640 put her in touch with her boy. 150 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:03,400 And, well, it seemed altruistic. 151 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:06,000 I mean, he, he doesn't charge a bean, 152 00:09:06,560 --> 00:09:08,240 and it helped at first. 153 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:09,440 But now? 154 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:11,160 Now she can't keep away from him! 155 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:19,200 I, I, I just think it's making it all worse, Mr Book, 156 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:22,600 much worse and she's never going to move on. 157 00:09:23,480 --> 00:09:27,320 So I, I just wondered if perhaps 158 00:09:27,960 --> 00:09:32,160 you might think there was something to do to help? 159 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:34,920 I'm sure she'd listen to you Mr Book. 160 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:38,840 We shall have to tread carefully. 161 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:41,240 If she's a true believer, 162 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:44,320 then Mrs Dredge might not take too kindly 163 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:45,800 to any intervention. 164 00:09:47,040 --> 00:09:49,400 It's rather like waking a sleepwalker. 165 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:50,680 Oh. 166 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:51,760 But, uh... 167 00:09:55,080 --> 00:09:56,280 I'll do what I can. 168 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:11,360 Yes, yeah, uh, okay. Yeah. 169 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:14,720 Yes. No, that sounds about right to me. 170 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:17,000 Well, we should be about 20 minutes. 171 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:19,400 Righto. 172 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:20,680 Morris! 173 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:22,080 Sir? 174 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:25,040 Stickup job, tobacconists on Mercer Street. 175 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:27,120 Bring the car around. 176 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:29,440 Well? 177 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:32,720 Morris, jump to it. 178 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:34,400 Yes, sir. 179 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:48,000 Spiritualism began in America. 180 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:49,200 Not surprising. 181 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:51,520 Where all sorts of silly things have started. 182 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:54,600 Yeah, hot dogs, Coca-Cola... 183 00:10:54,680 --> 00:10:56,480 The Fox sisters, they were called. 184 00:10:56,560 --> 00:10:57,600 Three of them. 185 00:10:57,680 --> 00:10:59,120 Cowboy films, 186 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:01,440 gangster films, the electric chair! 187 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:03,600 Such an uncivilized way to kill someone. 188 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:05,520 The sisters convinced everyone 189 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:06,920 they could communicate with the dead 190 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:09,080 by making strange banging noises. 191 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:10,680 Created a whole industry out of it. 192 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:12,920 Where are bananas from? 193 00:11:13,040 --> 00:11:14,520 Uh, not America. 194 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:16,520 I've never had a banana. 195 00:11:16,640 --> 00:11:18,320 Anyway, years later, 196 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:21,120 one of the sisters revealed they'd done the whole thing 197 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:23,640 by cracking the knuckles in their toes, 198 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:25,280 but it was too late. 199 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:27,600 Even though it was a proven fraud, 200 00:11:27,680 --> 00:11:29,320 people wanted to believe 201 00:11:30,120 --> 00:11:31,120 and they still do. 202 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:32,320 There you are, Mr Book, 203 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:33,440 the best we have. 204 00:11:33,560 --> 00:11:35,400 Ah, thank you, Yusuf. 205 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:36,480 I owe you. 206 00:11:36,560 --> 00:11:37,840 You do, six shillings. 207 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:39,360 Uh, yes. 208 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:41,680 Uh, pay the man, would you, Jack? 209 00:11:42,280 --> 00:11:43,280 What's that? 210 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:46,080 "Life is short. Eat your pudding first." 211 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:49,600 Present for Mrs Dredge, off the ration. 212 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:51,680 A sweet tooth is always 213 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:53,600 a reliable way into someone's confidence. 214 00:11:53,680 --> 00:11:54,680 Come on. 215 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:56,840 Up, up, up. Not you, young lady. 216 00:11:57,640 --> 00:11:58,760 Dishes. 217 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:00,880 What? 218 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:02,640 There is a pile of dishes in there 219 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:04,440 higher than Hagia Sophia. Ade. 220 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:11,680 But you should give the girl a rise. 221 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:14,240 She eats, she has a roof over her head. 222 00:12:14,320 --> 00:12:15,680 What more does she want? 223 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:17,760 Hmm. Cheerio! 224 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:41,200 Ooh, Turkish delight! 225 00:12:41,280 --> 00:12:42,600 Oh, it's been years. 226 00:12:42,680 --> 00:12:45,000 My late husband used to get me a box every Christmas. 227 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:47,760 Of course, he's long gone now, 228 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:48,840 long gone. 229 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:51,200 Oh, it's just one thing after another. 230 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:53,600 First him, then poor George Harkup, 231 00:12:53,680 --> 00:12:54,680 and then, 232 00:12:56,640 --> 00:12:57,640 and then my Alf. 233 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:00,120 Yes, I had heard. I'm so terribly sorry. 234 00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:02,240 Yes, I still keep his boots 235 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:03,720 just as they were. 236 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:05,240 Mm. 237 00:13:05,320 --> 00:13:07,000 And now he's in Our Lady of Dalston, 238 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:09,040 just down the road, next to his dad. 239 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:12,400 A veil of tears, this life, Mr Book. 240 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:14,280 That's what it is, a ruddy veil of tears. 241 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:15,840 Still, you're, you're, you're managing? 242 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:18,120 Oh, yes, yes. And George-- 243 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:20,760 Mr Harkup's money won't come through for a while yet, 244 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:21,920 but I'm all right. 245 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:25,560 But to the matter in hand, Mrs Dredge. 246 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:27,600 I noticed some advertisements 247 00:13:27,680 --> 00:13:28,800 when last I visited, 248 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:31,760 Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World? 249 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:34,320 Oh, you've noticed those. Yes. 250 00:13:34,400 --> 00:13:36,480 Well, I used to give little talks on it 251 00:13:36,560 --> 00:13:38,000 up at the temperance hall, 252 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:39,080 the spirit world. 253 00:13:39,160 --> 00:13:41,640 Uh, it's concerning that, that we're here, dear lady. 254 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:43,680 I understand you're an acquaintance of 255 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:45,600 Mr Harold Sneed. 256 00:13:45,680 --> 00:13:46,680 Oh. 257 00:13:46,760 --> 00:13:48,320 Oh, you've heard of him? 258 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:49,880 Yes [chuckles] oh, well, 259 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:52,600 remarkable man is Mr Sneed. 260 00:13:52,680 --> 00:13:55,760 Mm. I talk to my Alf regular now, 261 00:13:55,840 --> 00:13:57,720 through Mr Sneed, of course. 262 00:13:57,800 --> 00:13:59,240 Great comfort it is. 263 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:02,400 We're believers, too, Mrs Dredge. 264 00:14:02,480 --> 00:14:03,480 Aren't we, Jack? 265 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:07,080 Oh, yeah, big fans... 266 00:14:08,240 --> 00:14:09,400 of the dead. 267 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:13,920 That's not quite the way I'd put it. 268 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:16,160 Of course, Mr Sneed caters 269 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:19,240 to a very sophisticated clientele. 270 00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:20,720 Uh, I don't doubt it, 271 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:23,480 but if there were any way of, um... 272 00:14:23,560 --> 00:14:24,960 Getting you on the list? 273 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:28,880 Oh, well, I do pride myself that 274 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:31,520 Mr Sneed and I are on very good terms. 275 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:33,560 I'll see what I can do. 276 00:14:39,280 --> 00:14:40,960 Well, thank you very much again, 277 00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:42,040 Mrs Dredge, 278 00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:45,680 and if we are fortunate enough to attend, 279 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:47,760 is there anything we need to do to prepare? 280 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:48,840 Well, 281 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:52,400 Mr Sneed does sometimes ask his sitters to bring an object, 282 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:55,520 uh, closely related to the dear departed, 283 00:14:55,600 --> 00:14:59,520 uh, a keepsake or some such of the one you have lost. 284 00:15:00,520 --> 00:15:02,240 Do you have anything like that? 285 00:15:03,760 --> 00:15:04,920 I'll have a think. 286 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:06,680 Good day. 287 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:16,080 Cheerio. 288 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:19,600 Cheerio. 289 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:33,360 My plan was gradually and subtly 290 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:34,720 to unpick his schemes. 291 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:38,040 Someone's unpicked him unsubtly and for good. 292 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:40,480 This window, 293 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:43,680 - is it always open like this? - Yes, why? 294 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:45,480 You think someone chucked the knife through? 295 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:49,920 So six persons present, excluding the deceased. 296 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:52,080 All of them swear their hands were joined 297 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:53,400 at the moment of the murder. 298 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:56,200 Well, they would, wouldn't they? 299 00:16:56,840 --> 00:16:57,840 What's this? 300 00:16:58,800 --> 00:16:59,800 Bracelet? 301 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:01,680 Napkin ring? 302 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:03,320 Hmm. 303 00:17:04,600 --> 00:17:05,720 Shall we? 304 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:10,040 Oh. 305 00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:12,920 - Got a print? - Oh, a couple of beauties. 306 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:14,600 Ah, excellent. 307 00:17:39,400 --> 00:17:41,200 Do we know if they were regulars, 308 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:42,600 the ones at the seance last night? 309 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:43,680 Looks like it. 310 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:45,920 Uh, first up, there's the factotum, 311 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:48,560 one Ayesha Jean-Baptiste, 312 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:51,080 then Miss Geraldine Mercer. 313 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:55,720 Our old friend, Mrs Ada Dredge. 314 00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:57,920 Ehhh, she has no luck, does she? 315 00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:01,360 Lastly, a Professor. 316 00:18:02,320 --> 00:18:06,200 Ved Chopra, and the spinster Mrs Plumchute, 317 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:07,520 Clara and Amelia. 318 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:10,840 Looks like the usual collection of lost souls 319 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:12,520 in search of some meaning 320 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:14,960 in their pointless, miserable lives. 321 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:18,000 Dear me, Inspector, we do have the glums today. 322 00:18:18,760 --> 00:18:21,920 How is, um, Mrs Bliss? 323 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:24,320 Much the same. 324 00:18:25,560 --> 00:18:26,560 Ernie, 325 00:18:27,120 --> 00:18:29,760 forgive me, were you ever... 326 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:30,840 What? 327 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:33,080 Happy? 328 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:38,280 I, I, I - seem to recall an afternoon, 329 00:18:38,360 --> 00:18:40,040 just around the time of the abdication. 330 00:18:41,280 --> 00:18:42,920 It doesn't have to be like this, you know. 331 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:44,520 There is such a thing as divorce. 332 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:45,640 I couldn't. 333 00:18:46,840 --> 00:18:48,520 Just wouldn't sit right with me. 334 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:51,280 So, so you're condemning yourself to a life-- 335 00:18:51,360 --> 00:18:53,200 The question is one of motive, then. 336 00:18:54,720 --> 00:18:55,720 Yes. 337 00:18:56,400 --> 00:18:57,640 Well, you met the man. 338 00:18:58,080 --> 00:19:00,280 Why would any of these people want to kill him? 339 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:04,800 - How long have you got? 340 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:06,200 Yes. 341 00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:10,120 Uh, would you be so kind as to clear away 342 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:13,640 the gin and biscuits now, Ayesha? 343 00:19:17,360 --> 00:19:18,800 Poor child is mute and less, 344 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:20,480 but loyal, 345 00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:22,080 loyal to a fault. 346 00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:24,280 Where did you find her? 347 00:19:24,360 --> 00:19:26,160 - Well... - Charming name. 348 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:27,800 She who must be obeyed. 349 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:29,920 Have you read Rider Haggard? It's a caucus-- 350 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:31,080 Shhh! 351 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:32,520 Sorry. 352 00:19:33,280 --> 00:19:35,760 Again, we're, uh, we're very grateful. 353 00:19:36,320 --> 00:19:37,880 I found Ayesha 354 00:19:37,960 --> 00:19:39,720 on the old Kent Road, 355 00:19:39,800 --> 00:19:41,600 would you believe, in a circus? 356 00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:44,720 Now, 357 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:47,720 would you be so kind as to lower the lights, 358 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:48,920 Ayesha? 359 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:51,800 Brightness, 360 00:19:52,760 --> 00:19:54,320 as we know... 361 00:19:55,360 --> 00:19:59,520 is anathema to those from the Land of Mists. 362 00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:05,880 Now, then... 363 00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:08,200 any mementos? 364 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:10,160 A special something. 365 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:12,680 As we know, 366 00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:14,080 this will help 367 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:17,400 in summoning the loved one from the, 368 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:19,720 from the beyond. 369 00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:04,280 Now, my friends, old and new, 370 00:21:04,360 --> 00:21:07,320 small in number but stout of heart, 371 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:10,720 let us join hands in the prescribed manner. 372 00:21:11,360 --> 00:21:13,520 Hold on your right. 373 00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:17,200 Be held 374 00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:18,520 on your left. 375 00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:35,160 Ah, there he goes. 376 00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:38,120 Chaps going under. Witnessed this before. 377 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:40,040 Malay walla out foreign. 378 00:21:40,120 --> 00:21:41,720 The spirits'll be coming through now. 379 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:42,880 From Summerland. 380 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:45,000 Sunderland? 381 00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:48,120 It's Summerland. 382 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:49,360 It's what they call the spirit world. 383 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:50,520 Oh. 384 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:52,880 This isn't your first time? 385 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:54,640 No, no, no, quite the old hand. 386 00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:57,960 They... 387 00:21:58,360 --> 00:21:59,360 They're here. 388 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:01,760 Oh! Listen! 389 00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:04,400 - What is it? - Birds. 390 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:06,120 There are birds on the other side. 391 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:07,240 It's a proven fact. 392 00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:10,160 They go to heaven, too and dogs. 393 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:11,640 That's reassuring. 394 00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:21,040 - Mum? - Oh! 395 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:25,280 Mum, are you there? 396 00:22:25,360 --> 00:22:26,520 Oh, Alf! 397 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:29,400 Oh, Alf, is that you again? 398 00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:32,240 Yeah. Yeah, Mother, it's me. 399 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:37,600 Do not weep for me, Mother. 400 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:39,520 I'm happy. 401 00:22:40,120 --> 00:22:42,400 I'm truly happy. 402 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:45,120 Oh, Alf, I wish I could see you. 403 00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:50,680 Aw. Oh, but I'm so very weary, now. 404 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:54,840 But perhaps I can 405 00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:58,280 linger just, just a moment more. 406 00:23:00,120 --> 00:23:01,120 Good Lord! 407 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:03,000 Oh, oh, oh! 408 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:06,800 Touch, touch my hand, Mother. 409 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:12,200 Let me feel your touch, just once more. 410 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:13,840 Oh! Oh, it's cold. 411 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:15,040 So cold. 412 00:23:15,120 --> 00:23:16,560 Oh, oh, Alf. 413 00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:18,880 Oh, Alf, did I do right? 414 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:20,880 Did I do the right thing? 415 00:23:40,360 --> 00:23:41,400 Jack. 416 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:45,600 Jack! 417 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:48,680 Yeah? 418 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:04,080 What's he saying? 419 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:08,520 Do not grieve, my son. 420 00:24:10,360 --> 00:24:11,520 I am happy. 421 00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:15,720 Truly happy. 422 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:38,120 Thank you so much for coming. 423 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:39,840 The spirits work-- 424 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:41,120 You heard what he said? 425 00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:44,600 How did he know... about my dad? 426 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:50,320 Fascinating, fascinating. 427 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:52,800 I, I'd love to hear more, Mr Sneed. 428 00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:55,800 Perhaps you could pop over and see me, uh, tomorrow? 429 00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:57,720 My card. 430 00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:03,160 - Books, books. How charming. 431 00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:04,800 No, no, no, keep it, please. 432 00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:07,240 Oh, well, you're very kind. I'm all right now. 433 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:08,760 Ladies. 434 00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:12,520 Shall we say, 11:00-ish? 435 00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:14,240 Ish. 436 00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:17,240 Of course, um, 437 00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:19,760 I always, um, like to spread the word. 438 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:22,600 Good night, then. 439 00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:29,400 Well, thank you again, 440 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:31,440 Mrs Dredge. Most enlightening. 441 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:33,000 Will I see you here again? 442 00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:34,800 Oh, I should think so. And you? 443 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:36,560 Oh, of course! 444 00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:39,560 Well, [sniffs] night then. 445 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:41,320 - Good night. - Good night. 446 00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:46,040 Night, night. 447 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:47,640 Ta-Da. 448 00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:00,600 Did you locate the autopsy report on her boy? 449 00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:02,840 Accidental overdose. 450 00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:04,560 Hmm. 451 00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:06,840 There was something else very interesting in it, though. 452 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:07,920 Oh? 453 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:10,320 The boy's fingers splashed with ink. 454 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:11,840 He'd been writing. 455 00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:15,320 Nothing at the bedside, no pen, no paper. 456 00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:19,320 "Did I do right?" she said. 457 00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:21,800 "Did I do the right thing?" 458 00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:24,640 Well, what could that mean? 459 00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:25,880 21's coming. 460 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:30,200 I think we should treat ourselves to a cab, 461 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:31,280 don't you? 462 00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:48,320 Poor Jack. 463 00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:50,880 And he got out that photo. 464 00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:53,320 Yes, that was, as they used to say, 465 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:54,640 a bit of a facer. 466 00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:57,640 We need to look out for him, Trottie, 467 00:26:57,720 --> 00:26:59,520 make sure he feels involved. 468 00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:01,920 He's obviously desperate for answers. 469 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:03,720 Like me. 470 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:05,360 Where's he got to? 471 00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:07,360 Gone for a smoke. 472 00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:10,480 And how's that all going, 473 00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:14,160 finding out about what happened to Felix? 474 00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:16,480 You can say his name, you know. 475 00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:18,000 I know, it's just-- 476 00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:19,760 We progress. 477 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:23,320 Time for bed, I think. 478 00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:25,120 You sure you'll be all right down here? 479 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:26,600 Oh, yes, perfectly all right, 480 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:28,720 at least until my ceiling's fixed. 481 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:31,720 Whole place is crumbling, Trottie, 482 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:33,520 like the empire. 483 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:36,720 Don't shut me out, Book. 484 00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:40,440 Shut you out? 485 00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:42,160 I know how delicate all this is. 486 00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:45,200 I know how much it must all hurt. 487 00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:47,320 It's fine. I'm fine. 488 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:49,560 I just want to help. 489 00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:50,840 You are helping. 490 00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:53,840 It takes time, that's all, getting us into Germany. 491 00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:55,520 Strings must be pulled. 492 00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:59,720 You'll know everything just as soon as I do, I promise. 493 00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:03,200 Be careful, my love. 494 00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:07,720 It's not always a good idea, disturbing the dead. 495 00:28:10,120 --> 00:28:11,400 Good night, Mr Book. 496 00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:14,240 Good night, Mrs Book. 497 00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:38,800 Felix? 498 00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:41,320 I never had his name, 499 00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:44,400 just that... 500 00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:47,800 Just that one picture. 501 00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:52,000 Your father was a German. 502 00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:55,400 German? 503 00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:04,400 I last saw your father, 504 00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:06,840 Felix von Bode, 505 00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:10,440 in a Berlin railway station in 1935. 506 00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:13,200 According to the information I received, 507 00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:14,680 he was sent to a sanatorium 508 00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:16,520 shortly afterwards and died there. 509 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:18,800 I was sent the death certificate. 510 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:19,920 And? 511 00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:22,920 Some sort of tumour on the brain. 512 00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:25,320 I wrote to his family, 513 00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:27,720 expressed my condolences, 514 00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:29,600 but I never had any reply. 515 00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:31,960 And then one day, only last year, 516 00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:33,520 just after VE Day, in fact-- 517 00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:34,800 You heard from him? 518 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:37,240 Not exactly. 519 00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:39,480 A photograph 520 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:41,840 came into my possession. 521 00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:49,800 That's him. 522 00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:52,800 That's my dad. 523 00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:54,920 Yes. 524 00:29:56,680 --> 00:30:00,720 Dated December the 5th, 1936. 525 00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:03,720 So? 526 00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:08,440 The day I was told Felix died. 527 00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:11,720 In the sanatorium. 528 00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:51,720 Amontillado. 529 00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:52,800 Only a glass, 530 00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:54,000 not a cask? 531 00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:56,120 Ah, Poe. 532 00:30:56,560 --> 00:30:57,640 Poe. 533 00:30:57,720 --> 00:30:59,000 So early in the morning, 534 00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:01,200 one does feel a little naughty. 535 00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:03,040 Uh, you prefer something milder? 536 00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:04,320 Tea, coffee? 537 00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:06,720 We have only chicory, alas, the ration. 538 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:08,680 No, no. 539 00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:13,280 We could all do with a little cheering up, 540 00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:14,360 don't you think? 541 00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:17,920 The war does cast a very long shadow. 542 00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:21,560 Quite. 543 00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:28,520 Bugger Attlee! 544 00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:32,480 Mm, do I find myself in a socialist household? 545 00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:34,840 I try not to be too tribal about these things. 546 00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:36,640 The prime minister's doing a very good job 547 00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:38,880 in difficult times, is all I think. 548 00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:40,400 Bring back Winston, I say. 549 00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:42,600 He does have his uses. 550 00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:47,320 Speaking of the war, Mr Sneed, last night-- 551 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:48,400 ...Yes? 552 00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:50,520 That photograph the young man gave you. 553 00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:51,600 Oh, oh, yes. 554 00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:53,800 How did you know all that? 555 00:31:57,280 --> 00:31:59,600 The ways of the beyond 556 00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:02,920 are a mystery, even to Harold Sneed. 557 00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:06,200 I am a mere vessel, Mr Book. 558 00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:08,280 Come now, Mr Sneed, 559 00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:10,000 we are not children. 560 00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:17,760 I knew I'd heard your name before, so I asked around. 561 00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:20,320 You've been a professional medium since the '20s, 562 00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:21,480 but during the war-- 563 00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:22,560 Yes? 564 00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:26,080 ...your powers were utilized by the authorities. 565 00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:27,960 Oh, how did you know that? 566 00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:30,120 Because I was pressed into service, too. 567 00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:33,000 I thought you were a mere bookseller. 568 00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:34,080 I read. 569 00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:35,160 Books. 570 00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:36,800 And people, like you do. 571 00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:40,520 Very useful method of acquiring information. 572 00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:42,400 According to my sources, you were very helpful 573 00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:45,200 in laying hands on all kinds of undesirables, 574 00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:47,840 miscreants, black marketeers, 575 00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:50,120 fifth columnists, fascists 576 00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:52,720 like Sir Gideon Fay and Harrison Hopper. 577 00:32:57,360 --> 00:32:59,720 I did what I could to serve my country, 578 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:02,000 and the spirits were kind. 579 00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:03,800 You used the same crooked methods 580 00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:05,600 you do in your so-called profession, 581 00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:07,920 but for once on the side of the angels. 582 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:09,760 Did you invite me here just to insult me? 583 00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:11,120 No, that's just a bonus. 584 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:15,640 Crooked methods, well, explain it then. 585 00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:17,720 Explain what happened last night. 586 00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:20,560 "Trauert nicht, mein Sohn. 587 00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:22,360 Ich bin glücklich, 588 00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:24,280 wirklich glücklich." 589 00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:26,760 It was rather touching, I thought. 590 00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:28,120 A fatuous platitude, 591 00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:30,840 but then you people always deal in generalizations, don't you? 592 00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:33,120 Oh, we people do, do we? 593 00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:35,960 You'd heard Jack's name already when we arrived. 594 00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:38,240 You asked him for a memento. 595 00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:41,520 Obviously, it would be something linked to a meaningful loss. 596 00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:43,720 A quick glance at the photograph told you 597 00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:46,680 it was of some age, so probably not a brother. 598 00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:49,920 "My son" could merely be a term of affection, 599 00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:53,320 or more specifically, a father talking to his child. 600 00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:55,200 Worth you taking a punt. 601 00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:56,920 But the German, now, the German, 602 00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:59,440 how did you manage that? Ah, yes. 603 00:33:59,920 --> 00:34:01,760 There's a number on the back of the photo 604 00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:04,520 with a crossed seven in the continental manner. 605 00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:05,960 Could have been French. 606 00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:07,520 And presumably you would've tried that, too, 607 00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:09,360 if Jack hadn't reacted the way he did. 608 00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:20,800 All I offer 609 00:34:21,720 --> 00:34:23,200 is a little comfort, 610 00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:25,400 a little hope. 611 00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:26,960 Uh, my clients-- 612 00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:28,120 Your customers. 613 00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:30,120 Well, hardly. I don't charge. 614 00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:35,000 They see me as a confidant, 615 00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:38,320 a father confessor, if you will. 616 00:34:38,720 --> 00:34:40,000 Balderdash. 617 00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:43,520 Don't bring heaven into this. 618 00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:46,000 We must make the best of what we have, 619 00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:47,440 and if there is a God, 620 00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:49,920 he is a cruel and abhorrent thing, is he not? 621 00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:54,280 No, Mr Sneed, no gods, no ghosts. 622 00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:56,400 Consider this a warning. 623 00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:58,840 Warning. 624 00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:01,320 I'm not about to let you get your claws into Jack Blunt, 625 00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:03,400 nor into Mrs Ada Dredge. 626 00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:05,800 You, sir, are a grief 627 00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:07,120 leech. 628 00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:09,040 I beg your pardon? 629 00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:10,360 Psychics, mediums, 630 00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:12,560 whatever you choose to call yourselves, 631 00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:14,200 grief leeches, 632 00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:16,720 peddling a few tatty ancient parlour tricks 633 00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:19,320 and passing them off as supernatural powers, 634 00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:21,720 feasting off the bereaved 635 00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:24,400 and fleecing them so they can never move on. 636 00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:29,240 Filthy, crooked, mendacious, disgusting pigs. 637 00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:31,440 Can I help you? 638 00:35:31,720 --> 00:35:32,800 Good morning. 639 00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:35,720 I'm here for the book. 640 00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:37,920 Thank you, Mrs Fung. 641 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:39,680 - Cheerio. - Thank you. 642 00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:48,280 The sight of that picture 643 00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:51,720 did provoke quite a reaction in you, too, Mr Book. 644 00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:53,520 Perhaps you were expecting 645 00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:55,720 a message from the beyond that was 646 00:35:56,240 --> 00:35:57,680 less platitudinous 647 00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:00,760 and more, uh, intimate. 648 00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:03,160 What exactly are you suggesting? 649 00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:09,400 We all have our secrets, Mr Book. 650 00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:11,400 Perhaps you'd be so good 651 00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:14,160 as to keep your nose out of mine. 652 00:36:21,240 --> 00:36:24,320 Thank you for the Amontillado. 653 00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:02,680 Sorry. 654 00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:05,160 What for? 655 00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:07,920 It wasn't what you hoped for 656 00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:12,120 and it wasn't Felix who came to you last night. 657 00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:15,600 That's okay, Mr Book. 658 00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:19,240 We need to concentrate on what's real, 659 00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:21,600 don't we? 660 00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:24,120 Yes, Jack. 661 00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:27,720 Yes, we do. 662 00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:44,000 Hello, 3-8-6-5. 663 00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:47,880 Oh, oh, Mr Sneed! 664 00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:49,280 Oh, oh, oh, 665 00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:51,600 how lovely to hear from you. 666 00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:52,720 Oh! 667 00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:56,080 Oh. 668 00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:58,000 Oh. 669 00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:03,120 - Good evening. - Good evening. 670 00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:05,960 Who knows what tonight might hold? 671 00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:07,600 Yes, indeed. 672 00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:40,480 Oh. 673 00:38:58,360 --> 00:38:59,600 Dear friends, 674 00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:02,800 let us begin. 675 00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:15,000 Could you tell us about what happened to your daughter? 676 00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:16,640 There is little to say. 677 00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:20,120 Lakshmi was the light of my life. 678 00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:23,040 After my wife passed over, 679 00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:24,800 my daughter was all I had. 680 00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:26,840 You're a professor, Sir. 681 00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:29,640 Chemistry, University of London. 682 00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:32,480 I came here before the war. 683 00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:35,080 Which was a distinguished one, by all accounts. 684 00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:36,320 I did my bit. 685 00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:39,640 May I ask you, miss, the nature of your loss? 686 00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:41,160 My mother. 687 00:39:41,240 --> 00:39:43,400 She had rather an unhappy end. 688 00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:46,880 I, I suppose I've been going to the seances looking for 689 00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:48,400 some kind of answer. 690 00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:50,240 What happened to Lakshmi? 691 00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:53,240 A car, it struck her. 692 00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:57,560 Hit-and-run. 693 00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:01,320 We were taking a little holiday in Scotland. 694 00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:03,440 One moment, everything was fine, 695 00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:04,560 and the next, 696 00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:07,720 my whole world changed. 697 00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:09,800 Very sorry. 698 00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:12,320 The police, they said they could do nothing. 699 00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:14,160 The driver... 700 00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:17,000 there were no witnesses, 701 00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:19,920 it was impossible to trace her. 702 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:22,840 Well, the seance had been proceeding as usual. 703 00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:25,640 Mr Sneed was sitting next to me. 704 00:40:25,720 --> 00:40:27,200 All our hands were linked. 705 00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:29,920 Uh, well, technically, I suppose our wrists. 706 00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:33,000 Yes, we did the same at the one I attended. 707 00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:35,360 It had been a very successful session. 708 00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:37,560 Mr Sneed had made contact 709 00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:39,280 with Professor Chopra's daughter, 710 00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:42,560 Mrs Dredge's son, a, a high priestess 711 00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:44,520 from Atlantis and uh, 712 00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:47,520 Mr Bonar Law, the late prime minister. 713 00:40:48,720 --> 00:40:50,000 Busy night. 714 00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:51,680 I know what you must be thinking. 715 00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:55,040 He's a rational man, a, a scientist. 716 00:40:56,040 --> 00:40:58,600 What's he doing messing about with table tappers? 717 00:41:00,240 --> 00:41:01,680 Well, I can't answer that. 718 00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:03,800 I only know I needed 719 00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:07,680 solace in whatever form I could find. 720 00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:11,200 I tried my faith and found it wanting. 721 00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:14,920 When one loses a child, 722 00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:18,920 one descends into a particular kind of hell. 723 00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:22,880 And that's when you came across Harold Sneed? 724 00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:25,120 In hell. 725 00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:26,560 Uh, was there anything 726 00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:28,680 unusual about this particular seance, 727 00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:30,320 this particular group of people? 728 00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:33,160 Well, I, I don't think I'd met any of them before. 729 00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:35,560 I just got a phone call confirming 730 00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:36,800 I was on the list. 731 00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:37,960 Uh, there was 732 00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:39,760 nothing unusual other than that. 733 00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:42,080 There was a, a rota, a schedule? 734 00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:44,760 Yes. I went every other Thursday, 735 00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:46,680 although my, uh, 736 00:41:47,240 --> 00:41:50,680 invitations had increased somewhat recently. 737 00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:53,560 And the phone invitation, a voice you knew? 738 00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:54,640 Yes. 739 00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:56,600 Yes, it was Mr Sneed himself. 740 00:41:56,680 --> 00:41:58,320 And that was unusual? 741 00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:00,120 Well, it's usually a letter. 742 00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:02,160 It's never happened before. 743 00:42:02,240 --> 00:42:03,880 I go quite regularly. 744 00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:05,840 I was simply informed that it was my turn again. 745 00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:07,320 By letter? 746 00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:08,440 No, by telephone. 747 00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:09,840 Sneed called you? 748 00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:12,680 Yes, that was unusual. 749 00:42:17,240 --> 00:42:18,960 Right, who's next? 750 00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:21,640 - Well, uh... - No point. 751 00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:23,680 No point? 752 00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:25,120 Well, we got statements from the others, 753 00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:27,080 but it's got to be Miss Mercer or the professor, isn't it? 754 00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:28,160 Has it? 755 00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:30,920 They were the ones sat either side of the victim. 756 00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:32,360 Stands to reason, doesn't it? 757 00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:34,200 One of them must have stabbed him. 758 00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:36,320 It's just a question of proximity. 759 00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:37,880 Well... 760 00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:39,120 Uh, I think he's right. 761 00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:42,000 Sneed was stabbed front on, so yeah, it, 762 00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:43,720 it must have been one of them. 763 00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:47,120 You don't think so? 764 00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:49,880 We're in the land of mists, Inspector. 765 00:42:50,760 --> 00:42:52,520 We're dabbling with the dead... 766 00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:55,120 perhaps not all... 767 00:42:56,960 --> 00:42:58,120 is what it seems. 768 00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:02,440 Very good. 769 00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:18,160 Hello there! 770 00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:21,400 Oh, you don't remember? How wounding. 771 00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:22,640 No, um... 772 00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:25,280 Yes, yes, from the, um... 773 00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:26,520 Yes, the seance. 774 00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:29,120 Good Lord, did you hear? 775 00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:31,200 Oh, yes. It was dreadful. 776 00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:32,520 Poor old Sneed. 777 00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:35,000 Sorry, I didn't mean to distress you, Miss-- 778 00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:36,080 Uh, Trottie. 779 00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:37,840 Book. Trottie Book, Mrs. 780 00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:39,040 And you don't need to worry about me. 781 00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:40,960 I'm made of fairly strong stuff. 782 00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:42,800 Reggie Winters, Colonel. Delighted. 783 00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:44,920 Wish we could have met under more pleasant 784 00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:46,440 - circumstances. 785 00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:48,040 Not at a bus stop, you mean? 786 00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:54,480 About the, um, seance, how did you-- 787 00:43:54,560 --> 00:43:56,360 Oh, somebody got me on the list, friend of a friend, 788 00:43:56,440 --> 00:43:57,600 and I thought I'd give it a whirl. 789 00:43:57,680 --> 00:43:59,400 And how did you find it? 790 00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:00,920 Very entertaining, actually. 791 00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:02,680 Well, more than that. 792 00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:04,720 I suppose it, it gave me... 793 00:44:06,320 --> 00:44:07,320 something. 794 00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:12,440 Forgive me, what was the nature of your bereavement? 795 00:44:12,520 --> 00:44:14,560 Well, I, I lost a lot of pals during the war, 796 00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:16,520 obviously, but more particularly, 797 00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:19,120 the memsahib. 798 00:44:19,640 --> 00:44:20,640 It's my wife. She-- 799 00:44:20,720 --> 00:44:22,480 Oh, I'm so, I'm so sorry. I, I didn't mean to-- 800 00:44:22,560 --> 00:44:23,600 No, it's quite all right. 801 00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:25,040 We're also made of stern stuff 802 00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:27,400 in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. 803 00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:30,600 Perhaps we'll run into one another again. 804 00:44:30,680 --> 00:44:31,800 Yes, perhaps we will. 805 00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:33,120 This is my bus. 806 00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:36,200 Cheerio. 807 00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:23,520 How long 808 00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:26,400 have you been in Mr Sneed's employ? 809 00:45:30,880 --> 00:45:33,240 Five years come Christmas. 810 00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:35,200 You met at the circus, I gather? 811 00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:37,760 I had an accident, 812 00:45:38,920 --> 00:45:39,920 on the trapeze. 813 00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:42,200 And then Mr Sneed offered you a job with him. 814 00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:44,320 Happy in your work? 815 00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:52,000 Happy as a sandboy. 816 00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:55,360 And you were in charge of the appointments you arranged 817 00:45:55,440 --> 00:45:57,040 who was to come to each seance? 818 00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:03,920 Mr Sneed selected the patrons. 819 00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:05,800 I just contacted them. 820 00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:07,920 By letter, clearly. 821 00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:12,160 Ayesha, I may call you Ayesha, mayn't I? 822 00:46:12,240 --> 00:46:14,600 How did you feel about your employer's profession, 823 00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:16,560 the flummery, 824 00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:19,400 the mummery, the tricks of the trade? 825 00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:21,080 Like that? 826 00:46:21,160 --> 00:46:23,760 Is that how Sneed made all the lights go out? 827 00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:32,120 - It's a living. 828 00:46:32,520 --> 00:46:33,840 Well, thank you very much. 829 00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:37,680 Oh, finally, Miss Jean-Baptiste, 830 00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:40,560 how do you feel about the death of your employer? 831 00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:51,480 Out of a job, 832 00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:52,960 aren't I? 833 00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:12,040 Well how would you refer to it? 834 00:47:12,520 --> 00:47:14,240 A calling, perhaps. 835 00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:15,600 A vocation, rather. 836 00:47:15,680 --> 00:47:17,280 Yes, perhaps the better word. 837 00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:19,920 You see, after Emelia and I lost Teddy-- 838 00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:21,240 In the war. 839 00:47:21,320 --> 00:47:23,120 - The previous war. - The Great War. 840 00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:24,400 The war to end all wars. 841 00:47:24,480 --> 00:47:26,120 Oh, the horrible irony of that. 842 00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:28,160 - If any of us had known... - How could we have known? 843 00:47:28,240 --> 00:47:29,800 ...that a few wretched years later-- 844 00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:31,040 It would all happen again. 845 00:47:31,120 --> 00:47:32,400 And poor Teddy's sacrifice-- 846 00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:34,040 - All for nothing - ...nothing. 847 00:47:34,120 --> 00:47:35,920 So we do what little we can 848 00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:38,040 to alleviate the sufferings of this world. 849 00:47:38,120 --> 00:47:39,160 And here you find us. 850 00:47:39,240 --> 00:47:41,320 Oh, but to get back to the seance. 851 00:47:41,800 --> 00:47:43,640 Do you want bread with that, dear? 852 00:47:43,720 --> 00:47:44,920 Yes please. Over there. 853 00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:46,000 Thank you. 854 00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:47,920 Well... 855 00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:50,600 You see, we've been in touch with Teddy ever since-- 856 00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:51,800 Ever since he passed over. 857 00:47:51,880 --> 00:47:53,880 We know all about his last moments 858 00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:55,640 - on the Western Front. - Western Front. 859 00:47:55,720 --> 00:47:57,440 Terribly distressing, of course. 860 00:47:57,520 --> 00:48:00,280 But then, how much more wonderful to know 861 00:48:00,360 --> 00:48:01,360 that he is happy... 862 00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:03,080 - ...on the other side. - The other side. 863 00:48:03,160 --> 00:48:04,840 And Harold Sneed, you've been 864 00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:06,760 attending his seances... 865 00:48:06,840 --> 00:48:10,120 Oh, my, forever. 866 00:48:10,240 --> 00:48:12,280 Since 1928. 867 00:48:12,360 --> 00:48:15,760 In fact, oh, very impressive was Mr Sneed. 868 00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:17,280 There has been ectoplasm. 869 00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:18,400 Mm. 870 00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:19,480 Really? 871 00:48:19,560 --> 00:48:21,440 And an angel's feather. Feather. 872 00:48:21,520 --> 00:48:22,600 And he didn't charge you for this? 873 00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:24,160 No, nothing. 874 00:48:24,240 --> 00:48:25,760 Nothing at all. 875 00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:27,880 - Only a-- - Voluntary contribution. 876 00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:30,520 Money was of little interest to 877 00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:32,760 poor Mr Sneed. 878 00:48:32,840 --> 00:48:35,360 And I have to ask, can you think of any reason 879 00:48:35,440 --> 00:48:37,280 why anyone would want to kill him? 880 00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:43,560 None. 881 00:48:45,960 --> 00:48:48,080 Well, thank you, ladies. You've been most kind. 882 00:48:54,200 --> 00:48:55,400 Fascinating. 883 00:48:56,480 --> 00:48:59,520 Handiwork as distinctive as the brushwork 884 00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:01,600 of an old master... 885 00:49:03,120 --> 00:49:04,120 Ey? 886 00:49:27,960 --> 00:49:29,160 Profitable day, dear? 887 00:49:29,240 --> 00:49:30,520 Exhausted. 888 00:49:31,240 --> 00:49:33,640 Jack and I have tramped miles, haven't we, Jack? 889 00:49:33,720 --> 00:49:34,800 Miles. 890 00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:37,880 [sighs] Inspector Bliss is focused on Professor Chopra 891 00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:39,400 and Miss Geraldine Mercer, 892 00:49:40,080 --> 00:49:41,640 the police mindset. 893 00:49:42,160 --> 00:49:44,240 But it does leave us a pretty clear field 894 00:49:44,320 --> 00:49:46,320 to investigate the other suspects. 895 00:49:46,720 --> 00:49:48,760 So perhaps, 896 00:49:49,240 --> 00:49:50,960 maybe it's time-- 897 00:49:51,320 --> 00:49:53,360 Oh, the pattern book. 898 00:49:53,440 --> 00:49:55,920 Oh, good, it's been ages. 899 00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:57,920 - The what? - The pattern book. 900 00:49:58,720 --> 00:50:00,720 - What's the pattern book? - Well, 901 00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:02,840 no man is a hero to his valet, Jack. 902 00:50:02,920 --> 00:50:04,200 Isn't that what they say? 903 00:50:04,280 --> 00:50:06,240 The same thing is true of commerce. 904 00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:07,320 Right. 905 00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:08,600 It, it's really quite simple. 906 00:50:08,680 --> 00:50:11,080 We all of us develop habits. 907 00:50:11,160 --> 00:50:13,160 We tend to go to the same grocers, 908 00:50:13,240 --> 00:50:14,840 cobblers, bakers. 909 00:50:14,920 --> 00:50:17,200 We wear a groove into our own lives, 910 00:50:17,280 --> 00:50:19,040 a groove that can be analysed. 911 00:50:19,560 --> 00:50:21,840 And after numerous years in this business, 912 00:50:21,920 --> 00:50:24,240 Trottie's become rather good at it, haven't you, dear? 913 00:50:24,760 --> 00:50:25,840 I'm not bad. 914 00:50:26,360 --> 00:50:27,360 Uh, gossip, you mean? 915 00:50:27,440 --> 00:50:28,840 Uh, intelligence, Jack. 916 00:50:29,440 --> 00:50:31,120 We need to find out everything we can 917 00:50:31,200 --> 00:50:34,040 about all the people who attended the fatal seance 918 00:50:34,120 --> 00:50:35,840 and there's really no better way 919 00:50:35,920 --> 00:50:38,120 than by scrutinizing their spending habits. 920 00:50:38,480 --> 00:50:40,320 We call this the pattern book. 921 00:50:40,640 --> 00:50:41,640 You and I shall adopt 922 00:50:41,720 --> 00:50:43,880 the guises of twittery persons 923 00:50:44,320 --> 00:50:46,200 and go about our business. 924 00:50:46,280 --> 00:50:48,160 - You and me? - Of course. 925 00:50:48,240 --> 00:50:49,720 You're one of the family now, aren't you? 926 00:50:55,360 --> 00:50:57,000 Anything else to go on at the moment? 927 00:50:57,080 --> 00:50:59,400 Oh, no, it's far too soon to speculate. 928 00:50:59,480 --> 00:51:01,960 Nonsense, I know you. Three things? 929 00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:04,080 No, heaps of things. 930 00:51:04,840 --> 00:51:07,560 This is a rum old case and no mistake. 931 00:51:08,040 --> 00:51:10,520 I would offer these up, Mrs Book: 932 00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:12,600 an unbroken circle, 933 00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:14,520 a hit-and-run accident 934 00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:17,920 and a pioneering plastic surgeon. 935 00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:19,000 Sorry. 936 00:51:19,640 --> 00:51:21,080 Uh, inspector on the blower. 937 00:51:21,160 --> 00:51:22,800 He wants to see you in the morning. 938 00:51:27,160 --> 00:51:28,160 Hmm. 939 00:51:32,280 --> 00:51:35,720 Well, we got prints off the murder weapon. 940 00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:38,040 Professor Chopra's or Miss Mercer's? 941 00:51:38,120 --> 00:51:39,280 Neither. 942 00:51:39,360 --> 00:51:40,400 Wh-wh-what? 943 00:51:40,480 --> 00:51:41,480 Neither. 944 00:51:41,560 --> 00:51:43,480 A totally different set of prints. 945 00:51:43,560 --> 00:51:44,600 Whose? 946 00:51:44,680 --> 00:51:45,840 The fingerprints I took off the dagger 947 00:51:45,920 --> 00:51:47,400 were very distinctive, 948 00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:50,200 an odd double-loop whorl pattern. 949 00:51:50,280 --> 00:51:54,080 They seemed familiar, rang a bell, so I went looking. 950 00:51:58,120 --> 00:51:59,840 Harrison Hopper, remember him? 951 00:51:59,920 --> 00:52:01,200 Of course. Blackshirt, 952 00:52:01,280 --> 00:52:02,960 interned during the war, escaped to Germany, 953 00:52:03,040 --> 00:52:04,640 then arrested in '44. 954 00:52:04,720 --> 00:52:05,960 They hanged him, didn't they? 955 00:52:06,040 --> 00:52:07,520 Earlier this year. 956 00:52:07,600 --> 00:52:10,040 On evidence provided by Harold Sneed. 957 00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:11,560 What? 958 00:52:11,640 --> 00:52:13,480 Yes, I did some digging, too. 959 00:52:13,560 --> 00:52:16,440 Sneed was co-opted by British Intelligence. 960 00:52:17,080 --> 00:52:19,200 The war was a murky time, 961 00:52:19,280 --> 00:52:21,240 made strange bedfellows of us all. 962 00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:23,520 No one around to clean the sheets. 963 00:52:23,640 --> 00:52:25,400 Sneed used his tricks to get all sorts 964 00:52:25,520 --> 00:52:27,520 of shady contacts. 965 00:52:27,600 --> 00:52:29,400 As a result, he knew where lots of Nazi 966 00:52:29,480 --> 00:52:30,720 sympathizers were hiding. 967 00:52:31,400 --> 00:52:32,880 Doctor, wh-where's all this-- 968 00:52:32,960 --> 00:52:36,120 Harrison Hopper had very unusual fingerprints, 969 00:52:36,200 --> 00:52:37,200 double loop. 970 00:52:37,600 --> 00:52:38,720 No two sets of fingerprints 971 00:52:38,800 --> 00:52:40,240 are alike, Inspector. 972 00:52:40,320 --> 00:52:42,200 The prints on the dagger belonged to Hopper, 973 00:52:42,680 --> 00:52:44,760 an executed Nazi. 974 00:52:44,840 --> 00:52:45,920 What? 975 00:52:46,160 --> 00:52:48,160 You heard what she said, Inspector. 976 00:52:49,080 --> 00:52:51,120 Harold Sneed was murdered... 977 00:52:53,120 --> 00:52:54,520 by a dead man.