1 00:01:32,004 --> 00:01:34,504 - I've got two fine fish here. 2 00:01:41,891 --> 00:01:45,533 - Hamish man, for a minute there, I thought I has myself 3 00:01:45,533 --> 00:01:46,366 a poacher. 4 00:01:47,890 --> 00:01:49,221 I fancy that's alright. 5 00:01:52,213 --> 00:01:56,055 Is somebody wee in the van here, lady friend maybe? 6 00:01:56,055 --> 00:02:00,046 - No, Mr. Clunie, it will only be Jock. 7 00:02:00,046 --> 00:02:02,229 - Aye, that'll be it. 8 00:02:02,229 --> 00:02:03,913 - Go on Macbeth. 9 00:02:05,514 --> 00:02:07,809 - Probably my man Macnish. 10 00:02:07,809 --> 00:02:09,995 The poachers have got me knocked fair stupid. 11 00:02:09,995 --> 00:02:12,491 - They're a scourge in thiy day, hey Mr. Clunie? 12 00:02:13,717 --> 00:02:15,842 - Angus, come here you big idiot. 13 00:02:15,842 --> 00:02:19,140 Bye the bye, did I mention that Miss Alexandra 14 00:02:19,140 --> 00:02:20,958 is coming up? 15 00:02:23,558 --> 00:02:25,947 - Come on, Macbeth. 16 00:02:25,947 --> 00:02:27,125 Go on. 17 00:02:27,125 --> 00:02:28,261 - You simmer down. 18 00:02:28,261 --> 00:02:29,844 I'm fine. 19 00:02:32,371 --> 00:02:33,454 - Hey Barney? 20 00:02:36,831 --> 00:02:37,664 - Angus? 21 00:02:38,499 --> 00:02:39,332 Any luck? 22 00:02:40,185 --> 00:02:42,632 - Oh it's hardly a matter of luck, Barney. 23 00:02:42,632 --> 00:02:45,440 It's a matter of pure skill. 24 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:50,353 Here I've got a couple of really nice ones outside. 25 00:02:50,353 --> 00:02:53,021 30 pounds secures the pair of them. 26 00:02:53,021 --> 00:02:55,650 - Done, here it's on the house. 27 00:02:55,650 --> 00:02:58,068 - Hey shortie, shut that racket up. 28 00:02:58,068 --> 00:03:00,147 - I'm not making a racket, the machine is. 29 00:03:00,147 --> 00:03:01,213 - You're pressing the buttons. 30 00:03:01,213 --> 00:03:02,113 I said cut it out! 31 00:03:02,113 --> 00:03:03,909 Hey we'll have no rowing in here. 32 00:03:03,909 --> 00:03:06,003 - Look you big idiot, the loudest things 33 00:03:06,003 --> 00:03:09,334 in here right now are that jumper and that stupid shirt 34 00:03:09,334 --> 00:03:12,357 you're wearing, so why don't you just piss off? 35 00:03:12,357 --> 00:03:14,264 Find yourself a sympathetic tailor 36 00:03:14,264 --> 00:03:17,409 and get yourself straightened out. 37 00:03:17,409 --> 00:03:18,242 Barney! 38 00:03:22,218 --> 00:03:24,633 - Can you not see he's only a bern. 39 00:03:24,633 --> 00:03:27,383 - Let go, or you'll feel it next. 40 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:34,199 - Right Barney, you run across and get Macbeth over here. 41 00:03:34,199 --> 00:03:37,866 I'll keep Mr. Robb occupied in the meantime. 42 00:03:38,833 --> 00:03:43,000 - Wait, there's no need to involve the police in this. 43 00:03:57,938 --> 00:03:59,771 Another time, MacIver. 44 00:04:01,327 --> 00:04:04,910 You just watch your mouth, boy, just watch! 45 00:04:08,042 --> 00:04:11,410 - I was just about to smack him there, TV John. 46 00:04:11,410 --> 00:04:13,210 You should've let me take him. 47 00:04:13,210 --> 00:04:17,543 - Put something cold on the boy's eye, Agnes. 48 00:04:17,543 --> 00:04:20,291 I'll go and get you that wee message. 49 00:04:20,291 --> 00:04:22,184 - Two wee messages. 50 00:04:50,117 --> 00:04:51,728 So who started it? 51 00:04:51,728 --> 00:04:54,645 - Big Geordie Robb and finished it. 52 00:04:55,543 --> 00:04:57,385 Young Suitor will have some face on him, 53 00:04:57,385 --> 00:04:59,029 I can tell you. 54 00:04:59,029 --> 00:05:00,446 You can look now. 55 00:05:04,702 --> 00:05:07,123 Young Robb's even worse than his father was, 56 00:05:07,123 --> 00:05:09,075 and that's saying something. 57 00:05:09,075 --> 00:05:10,268 - I'll talk to him in the morning. 58 00:05:10,268 --> 00:05:11,506 - Oh you can't. 59 00:05:11,506 --> 00:05:14,173 He was heading off to Inverness on a weeks golfing holiday 60 00:05:14,173 --> 00:05:15,680 according to Barney. 61 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:18,779 - Well I'll talk to him when he gets back then. 62 00:05:18,779 --> 00:05:20,196 - How's the book? 63 00:05:21,816 --> 00:05:23,816 - It's alright actually. 64 00:05:25,829 --> 00:05:27,395 She's coming up. 65 00:05:27,395 --> 00:05:28,395 - Oh really? 66 00:05:36,569 --> 00:05:37,402 - Rory. 67 00:05:37,402 --> 00:05:38,893 Hamish. 68 00:05:54,278 --> 00:05:55,945 - My God, that much! 69 00:05:56,973 --> 00:05:58,075 - Aye. 70 00:05:58,075 --> 00:06:00,864 - What about this EEC business? 71 00:06:00,864 --> 00:06:01,948 - EEC? 72 00:06:01,948 --> 00:06:03,266 Behave yourself, boy. 73 00:06:03,266 --> 00:06:06,942 Now listen we are entrepreneurs Lachie Junior. 74 00:06:06,942 --> 00:06:09,084 What care have we for the EEC? 75 00:06:09,084 --> 00:06:10,258 Barney. 76 00:06:10,258 --> 00:06:11,544 Hamish. 77 00:06:11,544 --> 00:06:12,845 Hi Agnes. 78 00:06:12,845 --> 00:06:14,095 - Hello Hamish. 79 00:06:16,547 --> 00:06:17,667 Beer Hamish? 80 00:06:17,667 --> 00:06:18,917 Aye. 81 00:06:22,145 --> 00:06:24,174 - Fancy some solace with your beer? 82 00:06:24,174 --> 00:06:26,825 I have a very nice salmon patty on the go? 83 00:06:26,825 --> 00:06:29,213 - Well maybe just a wee nibble, Barney. 84 00:06:34,144 --> 00:06:36,808 What's going on over there, I wonder? 85 00:06:36,808 --> 00:06:40,623 - The wheels of commerce never stop turning, Hamish. 86 00:06:59,810 --> 00:07:01,128 - Good morning Alice. 87 00:07:01,128 --> 00:07:02,378 Can I hash you? 88 00:07:04,165 --> 00:07:06,228 Well as you can see the farm of McCrae and son 89 00:07:06,228 --> 00:07:07,645 are raring to go. 90 00:07:08,877 --> 00:07:10,506 - You know what's required Lachan, 91 00:07:10,506 --> 00:07:11,559 so I'll let you get on with it. 92 00:07:11,559 --> 00:07:13,669 - Hey Alice I was wondering is there any chance 93 00:07:13,669 --> 00:07:16,395 that Big Geordi might give us a hand do you think? 94 00:07:16,395 --> 00:07:18,132 - My son's not back from the golf, Lachlan. 95 00:07:18,132 --> 00:07:22,010 But, Whiskey Bob's there if you want him. 96 00:07:22,010 --> 00:07:24,192 - Aye, Whiskey Bob will do fine. 97 00:07:24,192 --> 00:07:26,241 You're dealing with a can do company in McCrae and son, 98 00:07:26,241 --> 00:07:28,243 you know Alice. 99 00:07:28,243 --> 00:07:30,160 Drive on Lachie Junior. 100 00:07:34,114 --> 00:07:37,087 No Big Geordi Robb, better and better. 101 00:07:37,087 --> 00:07:39,087 Onwards and upwards son. 102 00:08:15,233 --> 00:08:17,357 - Let me get young Dr. Brown in to see you. 103 00:08:17,357 --> 00:08:18,190 - No. 104 00:08:19,062 --> 00:08:23,434 He'll know, as soon as he sees, he'll know. 105 00:08:23,434 --> 00:08:25,014 I heard the lorry. 106 00:08:25,014 --> 00:08:26,597 - It's the McCraes. 107 00:08:45,475 --> 00:08:46,308 - Dad? 108 00:08:47,999 --> 00:08:49,587 There's a light on. 109 00:08:49,587 --> 00:08:52,254 I can't do it with the light on. 110 00:08:53,505 --> 00:08:56,793 - Right, this requires a bit more nerve. 111 00:08:56,793 --> 00:08:58,233 Are you alright? 112 00:08:58,233 --> 00:08:59,066 Right. 113 00:09:00,539 --> 00:09:01,372 Stockings. 114 00:09:05,670 --> 00:09:06,670 - Stockings. 115 00:09:07,870 --> 00:09:11,530 - No, stockings, women's stockings, tights 116 00:09:11,530 --> 00:09:12,774 for God's sake! 117 00:09:12,774 --> 00:09:14,074 - I'm not going into a shop and asking 118 00:09:14,074 --> 00:09:15,129 for a woman's tights. 119 00:09:15,129 --> 00:09:16,107 What would people think? 120 00:09:16,107 --> 00:09:19,207 What sick images would flash through their brains? 121 00:09:19,207 --> 00:09:20,457 - Give me that. 122 00:09:23,499 --> 00:09:24,332 Is there holes in that? 123 00:09:24,332 --> 00:09:25,483 - Yeah at the front. 124 00:09:25,483 --> 00:09:26,815 - Give me the jimmie. 125 00:09:26,815 --> 00:09:27,709 Give me the jimmie. 126 00:09:27,709 --> 00:09:29,042 Okay. 127 00:09:50,347 --> 00:09:53,059 Rory, is everything alright in there? 128 00:09:53,059 --> 00:09:55,072 - Everything's just fine, dear one. 129 00:09:55,072 --> 00:09:57,322 I'll be with you in a jiff. 130 00:10:13,642 --> 00:10:15,225 Lachie. 131 00:10:17,335 --> 00:10:19,168 We've cracked it, boy. 132 00:10:26,452 --> 00:10:28,231 - There you are now. 133 00:10:28,231 --> 00:10:29,999 I wasn't too long now, was I? 134 00:10:29,999 --> 00:10:30,832 - No. 135 00:10:36,695 --> 00:10:39,309 You smell awful nice, Rory. 136 00:10:39,309 --> 00:10:41,006 - That'll be my Chanel. 137 00:10:41,006 --> 00:10:42,756 It's called Pur Homo. 138 00:10:45,461 --> 00:10:47,961 And now Esme, some mood music. 139 00:10:57,501 --> 00:10:58,334 - Shut up! 140 00:11:01,390 --> 00:11:03,307 It's only bloody music. 141 00:11:04,590 --> 00:11:06,078 Rory Campbell's got this place wired up 142 00:11:06,078 --> 00:11:08,370 like a bloody hyper bonnet. 143 00:11:08,370 --> 00:11:09,816 Take that. 144 00:11:18,051 --> 00:11:20,617 - Hamish Macbeth, calling Hamish Macbeth. 145 00:11:20,617 --> 00:11:24,919 This is TV John McIver calling Hamish Macbeth, over. 146 00:11:24,919 --> 00:11:26,770 I know who it is, John. 147 00:11:26,770 --> 00:11:27,673 What do you want? 148 00:11:27,673 --> 00:11:28,573 Could you go and see the man 149 00:11:28,573 --> 00:11:31,482 at the Lochdubh General Stores, over? 150 00:11:31,482 --> 00:11:33,800 See Rory about what? 151 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:34,955 - So help me Hamish. 152 00:11:34,955 --> 00:11:36,163 This will have you baffled. 153 00:11:36,163 --> 00:11:37,984 I mean a burglary's one thing, but this makes 154 00:11:37,984 --> 00:11:39,317 no sense at all. 155 00:11:43,930 --> 00:11:46,029 - You know this must've made some kind of noise 156 00:11:46,029 --> 00:11:48,122 when it was forced, Rory. 157 00:11:48,122 --> 00:11:50,654 You sure you heard nothing? 158 00:11:50,654 --> 00:11:53,101 - I sleep like a bern, and I had an ear full 159 00:11:53,101 --> 00:11:54,954 of fiddle music before I turned in. 160 00:11:54,954 --> 00:11:57,606 That's a state of the art sound system up there. 161 00:11:57,606 --> 00:11:59,649 You'll hear nothing above that. 162 00:11:59,649 --> 00:12:00,551 - Touch anything? 163 00:12:00,551 --> 00:12:01,400 - Nothing. 164 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:02,249 And, that's the funny thing. 165 00:12:02,249 --> 00:12:04,637 Neither of the two ever robbed me except 166 00:12:04,637 --> 00:12:07,445 for half a hundred weight of table salt. 167 00:12:07,445 --> 00:12:10,030 - And, that's it, nothing else? 168 00:12:10,030 --> 00:12:10,890 - Nothing. 169 00:12:10,890 --> 00:12:11,946 And, as you can see for yourself, 170 00:12:11,946 --> 00:12:13,499 there's whiskey and all sorts back here, it's-- 171 00:12:13,499 --> 00:12:14,348 - Baffling? 172 00:12:14,348 --> 00:12:15,196 - Baffling, right. 173 00:12:15,196 --> 00:12:18,918 I mean what would anybody want with that amount of salt? 174 00:12:18,918 --> 00:12:19,835 - Baffling. 175 00:12:20,806 --> 00:12:22,715 Well I suppose I should check for labs. 176 00:12:22,715 --> 00:12:24,585 - Oh no, I've got a business to run. 177 00:12:24,585 --> 00:12:26,218 I need access to my stock. 178 00:12:26,218 --> 00:12:27,506 I only called you in to make if formal 179 00:12:27,506 --> 00:12:29,326 for the insurance, you understand. 180 00:12:29,326 --> 00:12:30,960 - Yeah but, there's a damage to the back door, Rory. 181 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:33,545 - Well, I'll just batter a couple of nails in there, 182 00:12:33,545 --> 00:12:35,993 and I'll remember to his the insurance 183 00:12:35,993 --> 00:12:39,629 for a couple of extras, a couple of crates of whisky say, 184 00:12:39,629 --> 00:12:41,603 and maybe some fags I'll see. 185 00:12:41,603 --> 00:12:44,214 Enough to cover the damage. 186 00:12:44,214 --> 00:12:47,274 - Well I'll keep me ears open anyway. 187 00:12:47,274 --> 00:12:48,688 Crime's a crime and all that, Rory. 188 00:12:48,688 --> 00:12:50,356 - Well you please yourself, Hamish. 189 00:12:50,356 --> 00:12:52,523 I'll see you out, shall I? 190 00:12:56,813 --> 00:12:58,061 Won't be moment, darling. 191 00:12:58,061 --> 00:12:59,812 Just want to see if they've got a bloody, 192 00:13:00,689 --> 00:13:01,689 or whatever. 193 00:13:09,377 --> 00:13:11,945 - It's Alexandra Maclean, Hamish. 194 00:13:11,945 --> 00:13:13,778 - Aye, I can see that. 195 00:13:29,251 --> 00:13:30,501 - Hello Hamish. 196 00:13:31,906 --> 00:13:32,906 - Alexandra. 197 00:13:35,340 --> 00:13:37,597 Heard you were coming home. 198 00:13:37,597 --> 00:13:39,430 - Only for a few days. 199 00:13:40,506 --> 00:13:41,506 - Of course. 200 00:13:44,315 --> 00:13:45,148 Nice Car! 201 00:13:46,659 --> 00:13:47,909 - Isn't though. 202 00:13:48,855 --> 00:13:50,996 Belongs to my publisher. 203 00:13:50,996 --> 00:13:52,506 He's come up with me. 204 00:13:52,506 --> 00:13:53,459 - Has he? 205 00:13:53,459 --> 00:13:54,459 That's nice. 206 00:13:56,027 --> 00:13:58,120 Morning sir, lovely car. 207 00:13:58,120 --> 00:13:59,335 - Thank you. 208 00:13:59,335 --> 00:14:01,597 Would you like to toot the horn or something? 209 00:14:03,146 --> 00:14:03,995 - Where are my manners? 210 00:14:03,995 --> 00:14:05,608 I haven't introduced you two. 211 00:14:05,608 --> 00:14:08,858 Peter Peterson, this is Hamish Macbeth. 212 00:14:09,764 --> 00:14:11,181 - Hamish Macbeth? 213 00:14:12,287 --> 00:14:13,870 - That's right sir. 214 00:14:14,756 --> 00:14:16,369 - What a super name. 215 00:14:16,369 --> 00:14:19,069 - Look, we'd better get going. 216 00:14:19,069 --> 00:14:21,344 I have to pick up a few odds and ends. 217 00:14:21,344 --> 00:14:25,177 Of course, you have a nice day sir. 218 00:14:26,569 --> 00:14:29,273 Hamish Macbeth, I don't believe it. 219 00:14:29,273 --> 00:14:30,443 I thought you were winding me up. 220 00:14:30,443 --> 00:14:32,741 It's too good to be true, Hamish Macbeth. 221 00:14:43,794 --> 00:14:45,044 - Thanks again. 222 00:14:51,049 --> 00:14:52,548 Hamish man? 223 00:14:52,548 --> 00:14:53,381 - Doc. 224 00:14:57,002 --> 00:15:00,165 Yeah it belongs to a Mr. Peterson, a friend 225 00:15:00,165 --> 00:15:01,665 of Miss Maclean's. 226 00:15:02,819 --> 00:15:05,301 He also thinks I've got a funny name. 227 00:15:05,301 --> 00:15:06,134 - Oh dear. 228 00:15:09,833 --> 00:15:11,877 It's only some bruno henge. 229 00:15:11,877 --> 00:15:12,710 - Aye. 230 00:15:22,419 --> 00:15:24,155 - I could do with a lift out to the Fish and Game Company, 231 00:15:24,155 --> 00:15:25,005 Hamish. 232 00:15:25,005 --> 00:15:26,707 I have a house call to make. 233 00:15:26,707 --> 00:15:27,557 - Who's sick? 234 00:15:27,557 --> 00:15:28,612 - Lucy Robb. 235 00:15:28,612 --> 00:15:30,210 She fell off a forklift last night. 236 00:15:30,210 --> 00:15:32,397 - Well I've been meaning to have a look there 237 00:15:32,397 --> 00:15:34,465 about a job there anyway. 238 00:15:51,285 --> 00:15:53,595 Morning Whiskey Bob. 239 00:15:53,595 --> 00:15:55,924 - You say this happened last night, Lucy? 240 00:15:55,924 --> 00:15:57,174 - That's right. 241 00:16:00,261 --> 00:16:03,095 Look I don't want a fuss. 242 00:16:03,095 --> 00:16:06,565 Just some painkillers until the worst of it passes. 243 00:16:06,565 --> 00:16:07,398 - Passes? 244 00:16:08,387 --> 00:16:11,459 I think you've a couple of cracked ribs there, Lucy. 245 00:16:11,459 --> 00:16:15,626 I want you to have an x-ray just to be on the safe side. 246 00:16:15,626 --> 00:16:17,376 And, a couple of days in the infirmary 247 00:16:17,376 --> 00:16:19,418 with proper medical attention. 248 00:16:19,418 --> 00:16:23,822 - Look doctor, I don't think that's really necessary. 249 00:16:23,822 --> 00:16:26,072 - But, I think it is, Lucy. 250 00:16:34,551 --> 00:16:36,384 Is your husband about? 251 00:16:43,096 --> 00:16:44,591 - I'd appreciate it if you can tell me 252 00:16:44,591 --> 00:16:46,396 when your son does come back, Alice. 253 00:16:46,396 --> 00:16:47,516 - I will. 254 00:16:47,516 --> 00:16:50,117 But, you know Big Geordie Robb, Hamish. 255 00:16:50,117 --> 00:16:52,840 He's probably shacked up with some tart somewhere. 256 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:54,424 We need him here. 257 00:16:54,424 --> 00:16:56,492 I'm all but useless with my leg. 258 00:16:56,492 --> 00:17:00,467 Lucy can barely move, and Whiskey Bob, well he's a good man 259 00:17:00,467 --> 00:17:01,709 when he's sober, Hamish. 260 00:17:01,709 --> 00:17:05,021 But, that's a rarer sight than Haley's Comet. 261 00:17:05,021 --> 00:17:08,391 - Aye, listen Alice, would you mind 262 00:17:08,391 --> 00:17:10,582 if I stepped across and had a word with the McCraes? 263 00:17:10,582 --> 00:17:12,556 - Not at all, you get on with it. 264 00:17:21,600 --> 00:17:23,583 - Half a hundred weight of salt 265 00:17:23,583 --> 00:17:26,101 and nothing else was touched? 266 00:17:26,101 --> 00:17:29,010 - You must be baffled, Hamish my boy, baffled? 267 00:17:29,010 --> 00:17:30,186 - He'll not be baffled for long 268 00:17:30,186 --> 00:17:31,750 if I know Hamish Macbeth. 269 00:17:31,750 --> 00:17:33,279 He'll have the pair of the rascals banged up 270 00:17:33,279 --> 00:17:35,279 before you can say peas. 271 00:17:37,410 --> 00:17:39,245 - The pair of them? 272 00:17:39,245 --> 00:17:41,594 Now what makes you think there was two, Lachie? 273 00:17:41,594 --> 00:17:43,735 - Is it no wonder that I'm proud of that boy. 274 00:17:43,735 --> 00:17:45,279 Now that's nimble thinking. 275 00:17:45,279 --> 00:17:48,287 To deduce that it must've taken more than one man 276 00:17:48,287 --> 00:17:49,649 to shift all that salt. 277 00:17:49,649 --> 00:17:51,299 That is quick thinking. 278 00:17:51,299 --> 00:17:53,406 - Yeah there could've been three Lachlan, 279 00:17:53,406 --> 00:17:54,630 maybe even four. 280 00:17:54,630 --> 00:17:56,806 - Now I think you're just nitpicking now, Hamish. 281 00:17:56,806 --> 00:17:58,641 He just made an observation. 282 00:17:58,641 --> 00:18:02,497 You don't expect him to solve the whole case, do you? 283 00:18:02,497 --> 00:18:04,148 - You're probably right. 284 00:18:04,148 --> 00:18:05,946 If you two hear anything, you'll let me know though? 285 00:18:05,946 --> 00:18:07,104 No problem Hamish. 286 00:18:07,104 --> 00:18:08,870 - Straightaway Hamish. 287 00:18:12,901 --> 00:18:16,114 - That's right dandy footwear you're wearing there, 288 00:18:16,114 --> 00:18:16,947 Lachlan. 289 00:18:19,632 --> 00:18:21,842 - Do you like them? 290 00:18:21,842 --> 00:18:25,207 Yes, Big Geordi Robb, he got himself a new pair, 291 00:18:25,207 --> 00:18:27,689 so his wife Lucy tossed these over to yours truly. 292 00:18:27,689 --> 00:18:30,171 Yes, it's good quality leather that. 293 00:19:15,583 --> 00:19:17,528 - How was your patient? 294 00:19:17,528 --> 00:19:19,445 - She was telling lies. 295 00:19:40,971 --> 00:19:42,279 - How is it? 296 00:19:42,279 --> 00:19:43,770 - Salty. 297 00:19:43,770 --> 00:19:45,091 Right, start dumping them in. 298 00:19:45,091 --> 00:19:47,174 Mind your fingers though. 299 00:19:56,949 --> 00:20:00,782 - So how long is she home for then, Alexandra? 300 00:20:04,158 --> 00:20:05,991 - Just a holiday, doc. 301 00:20:14,659 --> 00:20:15,492 - Yowser! 302 00:20:19,577 --> 00:20:21,494 Have you read her book? 303 00:20:22,615 --> 00:20:25,952 I mean it's not gonna make her a millionaire or anything. 304 00:20:25,952 --> 00:20:29,383 Too full of big ideas and big words for that, 305 00:20:29,383 --> 00:20:30,550 but it's good. 306 00:20:31,388 --> 00:20:32,887 Always excepting of course that you credit 307 00:20:32,887 --> 00:20:36,186 the short story with being a valid literary form, 308 00:20:36,186 --> 00:20:37,967 and then there's the hole post structuralist 309 00:20:37,967 --> 00:20:41,046 debate about the value of literature per say. 310 00:20:41,046 --> 00:20:42,847 What is the function of the writer? 311 00:20:42,847 --> 00:20:44,818 What is the function of the text? 312 00:20:44,818 --> 00:20:47,456 Are the two interrelated or in fact do they stand 313 00:20:47,456 --> 00:20:50,772 separately, divorced as it were? 314 00:20:50,772 --> 00:20:53,727 Or indeed to take it further as the post modernists have? 315 00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:08,993 - Macbeth? 316 00:21:12,917 --> 00:21:14,042 Hamish? 317 00:21:14,042 --> 00:21:15,125 - What is it? 318 00:21:16,519 --> 00:21:18,686 God John, what time is it? 319 00:21:20,467 --> 00:21:22,845 It's just after six. 320 00:21:22,845 --> 00:21:24,788 Have you had anything to eat? 321 00:21:24,788 --> 00:21:25,621 - No. 322 00:21:30,344 --> 00:21:31,177 - Elbows. 323 00:21:39,031 --> 00:21:39,864 Well? 324 00:21:40,882 --> 00:21:42,515 - Lovely. 325 00:21:42,515 --> 00:21:46,682 - Well it's just a wee crab consume I boiled up at home. 326 00:21:51,982 --> 00:21:53,274 - God I'm thirsty. 327 00:21:53,274 --> 00:21:54,191 - So I see. 328 00:21:55,606 --> 00:21:59,462 Young Doc Brown's been here I take it. 329 00:21:59,462 --> 00:22:00,295 - Aye. 330 00:22:04,171 --> 00:22:05,819 Anybody call around when I was sleeping? 331 00:22:05,819 --> 00:22:06,652 - No. 332 00:22:07,756 --> 00:22:08,589 No calls. 333 00:22:32,658 --> 00:22:35,993 - So I'm saying, "Look Julien, we can cooperate on this," 334 00:22:35,993 --> 00:22:38,914 thank you dear, "Or we can be rivals." 335 00:22:38,914 --> 00:22:40,552 - Constable Macbeth, sir. 336 00:22:40,552 --> 00:22:41,698 Thank you, Malkey. 337 00:22:41,698 --> 00:22:44,448 Hamish, some hospitality, please. 338 00:22:45,473 --> 00:22:47,306 - No, I'm fine thanks. 339 00:22:48,531 --> 00:22:50,112 I'm afraid there's been a burglary 340 00:22:50,112 --> 00:22:51,405 at the general store, major. 341 00:22:51,405 --> 00:22:53,346 A half hundred weight of salt was taken. 342 00:22:53,346 --> 00:22:54,721 - Salt? 343 00:22:54,721 --> 00:22:58,330 Well, well, well, well who would've thought that hey? 344 00:22:58,330 --> 00:22:59,163 - Yes sir. 345 00:23:02,850 --> 00:23:05,823 So I'm just warning everyone just in case 346 00:23:05,823 --> 00:23:08,509 the thieves try and pass on the goods. 347 00:23:08,509 --> 00:23:10,774 I'd appreciate it if you'd warn your kitchen staff. 348 00:23:10,774 --> 00:23:14,766 - So constable, you're hot on the trail of a salt seller? 349 00:23:14,766 --> 00:23:15,620 Peter. 350 00:23:15,620 --> 00:23:17,490 - No, your friend is just favoring us 351 00:23:17,490 --> 00:23:20,598 with some metropolitan whit, Alex. 352 00:23:20,598 --> 00:23:22,878 Wasn't that witty, Hamish? 353 00:23:22,878 --> 00:23:25,256 - Effervescent, major! 354 00:23:25,256 --> 00:23:27,146 Did you get my ticket, Mr. Peterson. 355 00:23:27,146 --> 00:23:30,664 Yes, I've had the repair done. 356 00:23:30,664 --> 00:23:33,348 - I told Peter the car was probably damaged 357 00:23:33,348 --> 00:23:35,628 by some envious adolescent. 358 00:23:35,628 --> 00:23:37,922 - Well envious and persistent it would seem. 359 00:23:37,922 --> 00:23:39,112 - What do you mean? 360 00:23:39,112 --> 00:23:41,100 - Well he's went and smashed the other light. 361 00:23:41,100 --> 00:23:42,695 Happen to notice it on the way in. 362 00:23:42,695 --> 00:23:43,862 Evening Major. 363 00:23:54,191 --> 00:23:56,524 Here take it. 364 00:23:58,587 --> 00:23:59,871 - I can't believe it! 365 00:23:59,871 --> 00:24:01,881 How much have we made? 366 00:24:01,881 --> 00:24:04,531 - Plenty, and we'll make plenty more 367 00:24:04,531 --> 00:24:06,810 when we get over to Nothum. 368 00:24:06,810 --> 00:24:10,141 There's a whole untapped market over there, boy. 369 00:24:10,141 --> 00:24:10,974 Right. 370 00:24:11,912 --> 00:24:14,069 Take us over the Devil's Humpf. 371 00:24:14,069 --> 00:24:15,583 You'll save half an hour then. 372 00:24:15,583 --> 00:24:16,891 - The Devil's Humpf? 373 00:24:16,891 --> 00:24:18,559 Nobody drives over there. 374 00:24:18,559 --> 00:24:20,275 You can barely get three sheep walking abreast 375 00:24:20,275 --> 00:24:21,108 on that road. 376 00:24:21,108 --> 00:24:23,844 - Look I want time for a pint at the conclusion 377 00:24:23,844 --> 00:24:24,964 of business. 378 00:24:24,964 --> 00:24:26,381 You know me, boy. 379 00:24:54,051 --> 00:24:55,731 - Talk about the wages of fear. 380 00:24:55,731 --> 00:24:57,332 This is murder. 381 00:24:57,332 --> 00:24:59,499 - Don't talk rubbish, man. 382 00:25:04,567 --> 00:25:05,558 Hey stop the car! 383 00:25:05,558 --> 00:25:06,406 - What is it? 384 00:25:06,406 --> 00:25:07,477 - Just stop the damn car! 385 00:25:07,477 --> 00:25:08,560 - What is it? 386 00:25:18,595 --> 00:25:19,940 That's Big Geordie Robb's car. 387 00:25:19,940 --> 00:25:21,042 - Aye, I know. 388 00:25:21,042 --> 00:25:23,625 Where's Big Geordie. 389 00:25:26,275 --> 00:25:30,442 - Reverse back to Lochdubh, Lachie, and get Hamish. 390 00:25:32,384 --> 00:25:34,443 Just do it, boy! 391 00:26:10,821 --> 00:26:12,032 Morning sir. 392 00:26:12,032 --> 00:26:12,881 - Who are you? 393 00:26:12,881 --> 00:26:13,917 I'm Macbeth, sir, local man. 394 00:26:13,917 --> 00:26:15,224 - You don't sound local. 395 00:26:15,224 --> 00:26:17,724 - Well the folks moved to Glasgow when I was very young, 396 00:26:17,724 --> 00:26:19,764 joined the force and eventually moved back here. 397 00:26:19,764 --> 00:26:22,287 - Couldn't resist the call? 398 00:26:22,287 --> 00:26:24,620 I'm Detective Inspector Bruce, and this is 399 00:26:24,620 --> 00:26:25,947 DS Sandra Macdonald. 400 00:26:25,947 --> 00:26:27,362 - What do we know, constable? 401 00:26:27,362 --> 00:26:30,432 - Well the car belonged to a Mr. George Robb. 402 00:26:30,432 --> 00:26:33,270 He left home on a golfing trip about a week ago, 403 00:26:33,270 --> 00:26:35,484 stopped off at a Lochdubh hotel, and that's 404 00:26:35,484 --> 00:26:36,600 the last time he was seen. 405 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:37,962 - And nobody recorded him missing? 406 00:26:37,962 --> 00:26:41,114 - Well Big Geordie, Mr. Robb, 407 00:26:41,114 --> 00:26:42,609 he was the wayward type, you know? 408 00:26:42,609 --> 00:26:43,749 Frequently disappeared. 409 00:26:43,749 --> 00:26:44,598 - A married man? 410 00:26:44,598 --> 00:26:45,792 Aye. 411 00:26:45,792 --> 00:26:48,310 - And, when he disappeared, it was with women? 412 00:26:48,310 --> 00:26:49,938 Maybe other people's women? 413 00:26:49,938 --> 00:26:51,892 - Absolutely sir. 414 00:26:51,892 --> 00:26:53,427 - So he had enemies then? 415 00:26:53,427 --> 00:26:55,667 - Well he wasn't a popular man, no. 416 00:26:55,667 --> 00:26:58,149 Of course it could be that he injured himself here 417 00:26:58,149 --> 00:26:59,017 and wandered off. 418 00:26:59,017 --> 00:27:00,513 I really don't have the resources 419 00:27:00,513 --> 00:27:02,042 to mount a proper search. 420 00:27:02,042 --> 00:27:03,052 No, you did the right thing 421 00:27:03,052 --> 00:27:04,885 calling us, constable. 422 00:27:09,220 --> 00:27:11,351 Signs of blood in the back, sir. 423 00:27:11,351 --> 00:27:12,521 - Well maybe I should say, sir, 424 00:27:12,521 --> 00:27:14,564 that Mr. Robb and his family own the Lochdubh 425 00:27:14,564 --> 00:27:16,326 Fish and Game Company. 426 00:27:16,326 --> 00:27:21,210 See this car was often used to carry carcasses of meat. 427 00:27:21,210 --> 00:27:22,828 - You mean it could be days before we establish 428 00:27:22,828 --> 00:27:25,495 if there's human blood in there? 429 00:27:27,111 --> 00:27:30,970 So I don't know if I'm dealing with foul play 430 00:27:30,970 --> 00:27:32,637 or a missing person. 431 00:27:35,237 --> 00:27:36,427 Well we better assume he's missing 432 00:27:36,427 --> 00:27:37,651 and start looking for him. 433 00:27:37,651 --> 00:27:39,520 The usual appeals on the media with description 434 00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:41,234 and photograph. 435 00:27:41,234 --> 00:27:44,565 Aye, you better put in a request for more men. 436 00:27:44,565 --> 00:27:46,542 - I have arranged for you to meet a few of the locals 437 00:27:46,542 --> 00:27:48,709 in the Lochdubh hotel, sir, some of the ones 438 00:27:48,709 --> 00:27:50,209 that last seen Mr. Robb. 439 00:27:50,209 --> 00:27:52,064 - That was very efficient of you, constable. 440 00:27:52,064 --> 00:27:53,472 - Thank you. 441 00:27:53,472 --> 00:27:55,039 See I also noticed that the car clock 442 00:27:55,039 --> 00:27:56,775 is stopped at 2:20. 443 00:27:56,775 --> 00:27:59,051 Assuming it was working prior to the crash, 444 00:27:59,051 --> 00:28:02,144 then we know the exact time of whatever happened. 445 00:28:02,144 --> 00:28:03,561 - Very efficient. 446 00:28:13,316 --> 00:28:14,816 - Listen here now. 447 00:28:17,089 --> 00:28:19,689 Now the big boys from Inverness are coming. 448 00:28:19,689 --> 00:28:21,663 Hamish is not taking the piss, 449 00:28:21,663 --> 00:28:24,283 and no dumb country yokel acts, right? 450 00:28:39,224 --> 00:28:41,163 - What's that smell? 451 00:28:41,163 --> 00:28:43,526 Smells like bald fish or something. 452 00:28:43,526 --> 00:28:47,026 - Bet it's a staple diet around here, sir. 453 00:28:52,046 --> 00:28:54,241 So what's your name? 454 00:28:54,241 --> 00:28:56,431 - TV John McIver, sir. 455 00:28:56,431 --> 00:28:59,369 - TV what's that, Thomas Victor or something? 456 00:28:59,369 --> 00:29:02,181 - No, TV's short for television, sir. 457 00:29:02,181 --> 00:29:04,441 I was the first man in Lockdubh to have a set, you see. 458 00:29:04,441 --> 00:29:08,200 A wee 14 inch pie it was, so naturally enough 459 00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:09,153 the name stuck. 460 00:29:09,153 --> 00:29:10,904 - Aye, I remember when you managed to get 461 00:29:10,904 --> 00:29:12,654 your aerial up, John. 462 00:29:14,470 --> 00:29:16,887 It just seems like yesterday. 463 00:29:27,883 --> 00:29:29,092 That's Whiskey Bob. 464 00:29:29,092 --> 00:29:33,259 - Well there's no mystery about that name, is there? 465 00:29:34,882 --> 00:29:36,039 Whiskey, Whiskey? 466 00:29:36,039 --> 00:29:38,013 - I want whiskey. 467 00:29:38,013 --> 00:29:39,846 - Whiskey for whiskey. 468 00:29:43,367 --> 00:29:45,950 Here, stick one of these in it. 469 00:29:51,903 --> 00:29:52,968 Well TV John, 470 00:29:52,968 --> 00:29:55,064 what can you tell me about Mr. Robb. 471 00:29:55,064 --> 00:29:57,442 - Well it's just as Barney said. 472 00:29:57,442 --> 00:29:59,825 Big Geordie gave young Jimmy there a smack, 473 00:29:59,825 --> 00:30:02,648 and then he left the hotel. 474 00:30:02,648 --> 00:30:04,499 Then when I went out to the carpark 475 00:30:04,499 --> 00:30:07,749 to get a wee message, I saw Big Geordie 476 00:30:08,662 --> 00:30:11,540 doing something at his car. 477 00:30:11,540 --> 00:30:12,552 - Doing what? 478 00:30:12,552 --> 00:30:14,526 - Well he seemed to be looking for something, 479 00:30:14,526 --> 00:30:17,012 and he was angry at not finding it. 480 00:30:17,012 --> 00:30:19,340 Then he drove off. 481 00:30:19,340 --> 00:30:21,073 Well that was it. 482 00:30:21,073 --> 00:30:22,893 - And you're sure about Robb's clothes, 483 00:30:22,893 --> 00:30:26,530 a blue woolen diamond jumper and a lemon shirt? 484 00:30:26,530 --> 00:30:27,892 - Positive. 485 00:30:27,892 --> 00:30:31,138 I mean who else but a golfer would dress like that? 486 00:30:35,268 --> 00:30:37,055 - Everybody's agreed that Robb left 487 00:30:37,055 --> 00:30:38,888 for Inverness at 9:30. 488 00:30:39,892 --> 00:30:41,113 It couldn't have taken five hours 489 00:30:41,113 --> 00:30:43,040 to drive to the crash site, could it? 490 00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:44,619 - Half hour at most, sir. 491 00:30:44,619 --> 00:30:47,150 Must've left here, then went somewhere else first. 492 00:30:47,150 --> 00:30:48,732 Maybe took a shortcut over the Humpf 493 00:30:48,732 --> 00:30:50,382 to make up for lost time. 494 00:30:50,382 --> 00:30:51,799 - Aye, but where? 495 00:30:54,463 --> 00:30:58,884 She's pretty young for a DS, Miss Macdonald. 496 00:30:58,884 --> 00:31:00,009 - Young? 497 00:31:00,009 --> 00:31:02,130 That's as old as the hills, son. 498 00:31:02,130 --> 00:31:03,984 She's just oozing with ambition. 499 00:31:03,984 --> 00:31:06,739 Mark my words that's not long of Inverness. 500 00:31:06,739 --> 00:31:08,338 No sir, it'll be the bright lights 501 00:31:08,338 --> 00:31:12,277 of Perth and Dundee for Miss Sandra Macdonald. 502 00:31:12,277 --> 00:31:14,877 So what are you up to then? 503 00:31:14,877 --> 00:31:16,617 - Investigating a burglary, sir. 504 00:31:16,617 --> 00:31:19,385 - Aye well on you go, we'll complete the search here. 505 00:31:19,385 --> 00:31:23,515 Though you could check the young lad's alibi, 506 00:31:23,515 --> 00:31:25,098 Jimmy Suitor is it? 507 00:31:27,370 --> 00:31:30,370 Just in case Mr. Robb turns up dead. 508 00:31:36,063 --> 00:31:39,208 - Hamish man, I tried to call you earlier. 509 00:31:39,208 --> 00:31:40,499 Look at this. 510 00:31:40,499 --> 00:31:41,585 It's the strangest thing. 511 00:31:41,585 --> 00:31:43,474 It was shoved through my letter box. 512 00:31:43,474 --> 00:31:44,307 Read it. 513 00:31:47,092 --> 00:31:49,342 And, have a look at the PS. 514 00:32:18,088 --> 00:32:19,005 - Dad, dad! 515 00:32:38,052 --> 00:32:40,317 - It's not a bad afternoon now, Hamish? 516 00:32:40,317 --> 00:32:42,207 - Not a bad afternoon my ass, you're nicked 517 00:32:42,207 --> 00:32:43,687 the pair of you. 518 00:32:43,687 --> 00:32:46,520 - What are you talking about, boy? 519 00:32:48,330 --> 00:32:50,743 - Here's the cash for the salt we took. 520 00:32:50,743 --> 00:32:52,495 We're sorry we were inconvenient to you, 521 00:32:52,495 --> 00:32:54,552 but we had a wee cashflow problem. 522 00:32:54,552 --> 00:32:57,163 PS if you need a new backdoor, 523 00:32:57,163 --> 00:32:59,737 see Dan Macdonald over at Nothum. 524 00:32:59,737 --> 00:33:02,950 He'll do you a big, thick door for 52 pound 50 525 00:33:02,950 --> 00:33:03,783 plus VAT. 526 00:33:04,713 --> 00:33:06,893 That Dan Macdonald made one door at that price 527 00:33:06,893 --> 00:33:09,375 in the last three years, and guess what. 528 00:33:09,375 --> 00:33:12,242 That's right, he made it for you two. 529 00:33:12,242 --> 00:33:15,242 Lachlan McCrae Jr. I'm arresting you 530 00:33:16,663 --> 00:33:18,024 under section two-- 531 00:33:18,024 --> 00:33:21,274 - Hamish, why don't we talk about this? 532 00:33:25,998 --> 00:33:27,134 - Well you can give me the full story 533 00:33:27,134 --> 00:33:29,807 and the judge might, and I say might just look 534 00:33:29,807 --> 00:33:30,893 favorably on that. 535 00:33:30,893 --> 00:33:31,757 - Certainly. 536 00:33:31,757 --> 00:33:33,823 We'll cough the lot, boy. 537 00:33:33,823 --> 00:33:35,195 Come on. 538 00:33:35,195 --> 00:33:36,528 - You come here. 539 00:33:42,752 --> 00:33:43,669 - Lobsters. 540 00:33:44,636 --> 00:33:46,270 See we had to change their water you see. 541 00:33:46,270 --> 00:33:48,347 So we had to have the salt. 542 00:33:48,347 --> 00:33:49,808 - I take it these are stolen as well. 543 00:33:49,808 --> 00:33:50,656 Yes. 544 00:33:50,656 --> 00:33:52,561 - Well no, not exactly no. 545 00:33:52,561 --> 00:33:54,784 We were asked to dump them by the Fish and Game Company. 546 00:33:54,784 --> 00:33:56,484 Whiskey Bob gave them the wrong feed. 547 00:33:56,484 --> 00:33:58,144 Something about EEC regulations. 548 00:33:58,144 --> 00:33:59,646 - They looked perfectly alright to me, 549 00:33:59,646 --> 00:34:01,225 so we set up shop. 550 00:34:01,225 --> 00:34:03,638 Saw a little niche in the market. 551 00:34:03,638 --> 00:34:05,966 - Who bought them? 552 00:34:05,966 --> 00:34:09,500 - Just about everybody in Lockdubh, Nothum. 553 00:34:09,500 --> 00:34:11,256 - You may have poisoned the whole region. 554 00:34:11,256 --> 00:34:12,717 No, we've been eating them ourselves, Hamish. 555 00:34:12,717 --> 00:34:15,145 - No, what about long term effects? 556 00:34:15,145 --> 00:34:16,472 Have you thought about that? 557 00:34:16,472 --> 00:34:18,253 I mean in six months time, we could have 558 00:34:18,253 --> 00:34:21,130 women with whiskers, men with breats. 559 00:34:21,130 --> 00:34:21,963 - Breasts? 560 00:34:21,963 --> 00:34:22,796 - Breasts! 561 00:34:22,796 --> 00:34:24,002 - You never said we'd grow breasts. 562 00:34:24,002 --> 00:34:25,023 I'm still a young man. 563 00:34:25,023 --> 00:34:29,190 - Whatever happens you might not mind asking for tights! 564 00:34:32,538 --> 00:34:35,288 - So what's our next move Hamish? 565 00:34:36,673 --> 00:34:39,101 - Say nothing just now. 566 00:34:39,101 --> 00:34:42,851 We could have a mass panic on our hands here. 567 00:34:44,745 --> 00:34:46,662 Maybe even a lynch mob. 568 00:34:48,826 --> 00:34:51,659 I'll be sending these to Inverness 569 00:34:53,078 --> 00:34:54,161 for analysis. 570 00:35:19,872 --> 00:35:22,251 - Well, well Mr. Peterson. 571 00:35:22,251 --> 00:35:24,396 I thought you'd never get here. 572 00:35:24,396 --> 00:35:26,174 - Outside, or do you intend hiding 573 00:35:26,174 --> 00:35:27,895 behind that uniform. 574 00:35:27,895 --> 00:35:29,257 - What uniform? 575 00:35:29,257 --> 00:35:30,584 - Look I don't know who you are, 576 00:35:30,584 --> 00:35:33,560 or what this is all about, but you're making a mistake, sir. 577 00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:34,986 - A mistake? 578 00:35:34,986 --> 00:35:36,481 He's making the mistake. 579 00:35:36,481 --> 00:35:38,128 I was a boxing blue at university. 580 00:35:38,128 --> 00:35:39,713 - A boxing blue? 581 00:35:39,713 --> 00:35:42,213 Well my, my, tremble, tremble. 582 00:35:43,487 --> 00:35:44,320 - Out. 583 00:35:50,248 --> 00:35:52,765 Mr. McIver, how are you if I may ask? 584 00:35:52,765 --> 00:35:54,738 - Of course you may. 585 00:35:54,738 --> 00:35:57,121 I'm perfectly fine, major. 586 00:35:57,121 --> 00:35:58,122 And, your goodself? 587 00:35:58,122 --> 00:35:59,583 - Oh You know. 588 00:35:59,583 --> 00:36:01,063 - Isn't that my house guest? 589 00:36:01,063 --> 00:36:02,202 He's not dead, is he? 590 00:36:02,202 --> 00:36:06,369 - No, no, he was bobbing when he should've been weaving. 591 00:36:07,335 --> 00:36:09,313 Is there somewhere I could park him? 592 00:36:09,313 --> 00:36:12,480 - You could put him there if you like. 593 00:36:14,667 --> 00:36:16,000 - What happened? 594 00:36:17,183 --> 00:36:18,433 It was Macbeth. 595 00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:22,207 It was Macbeth, wasn't it? 596 00:36:34,779 --> 00:36:35,612 - Hello. 597 00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:41,896 - Thought you'd might like to know how Peter is. 598 00:36:41,896 --> 00:36:43,103 I had Dr. Brown take a look at him, 599 00:36:43,103 --> 00:36:45,521 and there's no lasting damage. 600 00:36:45,521 --> 00:36:46,979 He started it. 601 00:36:46,979 --> 00:36:49,818 - Do you have any idea what you sound like? 602 00:36:49,818 --> 00:36:53,559 A bloody nine year old on a school playground. 603 00:36:53,559 --> 00:36:54,817 You provoked him. 604 00:36:54,817 --> 00:36:55,666 You've been provoking him-- 605 00:36:55,666 --> 00:36:56,519 - I provoked him. 606 00:36:56,519 --> 00:36:57,532 Which way, I'm only here. 607 00:36:57,532 --> 00:36:59,120 He came for me. 608 00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:00,733 And, what about him parading up and down the street 609 00:37:00,733 --> 00:37:01,566 as if he owned you? 610 00:37:01,566 --> 00:37:03,521 - Don't talk about me as if I was some prize 611 00:37:03,521 --> 00:37:04,938 to be fought for! 612 00:37:09,147 --> 00:37:09,980 Don't. 613 00:37:11,835 --> 00:37:16,002 God, what did I ever see in you, bloody neanderthal? 614 00:37:17,702 --> 00:37:19,182 - Maybe that was it. 615 00:37:19,182 --> 00:37:20,662 Just a bit of rough to tell your pals about 616 00:37:20,662 --> 00:37:22,005 between the soup and the main course, 617 00:37:22,005 --> 00:37:22,957 is that what it was? 618 00:37:22,957 --> 00:37:24,907 - You believe I heard that! 619 00:37:24,907 --> 00:37:27,136 How could you say that? 620 00:37:27,136 --> 00:37:29,144 - I don't know. 621 00:37:29,144 --> 00:37:31,251 What am I supposed to think? 622 00:37:31,251 --> 00:37:32,391 One minute we're perfectly happy, 623 00:37:32,391 --> 00:37:33,886 and the next minute, you're off. 624 00:37:33,886 --> 00:37:35,925 - I have to earn a living. 625 00:37:35,925 --> 00:37:36,775 I explained to-- 626 00:37:36,775 --> 00:37:40,143 - That's crap, I make a living. 627 00:37:40,143 --> 00:37:41,810 I could support you. 628 00:37:44,140 --> 00:37:46,557 Just till you make your mark. 629 00:37:51,038 --> 00:37:53,621 - And, if I never make my mark? 630 00:37:54,763 --> 00:37:58,263 - Alex, this is a good place, good people. 631 00:38:00,511 --> 00:38:02,594 What more could you want? 632 00:38:03,857 --> 00:38:04,863 You don't want the city. 633 00:38:04,863 --> 00:38:07,975 Don't tell me you want the city. 634 00:38:07,975 --> 00:38:09,319 Those places just grind you down. 635 00:38:09,319 --> 00:38:12,152 Just chew you up and spit you out. 636 00:38:13,210 --> 00:38:15,951 - But if we were together, we could-- 637 00:38:15,951 --> 00:38:19,260 - Alex, you're not listening to me, 638 00:38:19,260 --> 00:38:21,343 I cannot go back to that. 639 00:38:23,411 --> 00:38:24,661 I'm happy here. 640 00:38:26,322 --> 00:38:27,989 I could never leave. 641 00:38:30,655 --> 00:38:31,988 What would I be? 642 00:38:34,291 --> 00:38:38,816 Look you're just angry at me for what I did to your pub. 643 00:38:38,816 --> 00:38:40,957 You tell me you don't care for me, and I swear to God 644 00:38:40,957 --> 00:38:43,707 I'll never bother you ever again. 645 00:38:45,787 --> 00:38:47,204 You tell me that. 646 00:38:51,180 --> 00:38:52,930 Can you tell me that? 647 00:39:12,512 --> 00:39:13,790 What? 648 00:39:13,790 --> 00:39:15,285 I'm sorry. 649 00:39:15,285 --> 00:39:16,133 I am sorry. 650 00:39:16,133 --> 00:39:16,966 I'm sorry! 651 00:39:27,344 --> 00:39:30,344 - Did I miss something off the list? 652 00:39:32,081 --> 00:39:32,914 - No. 653 00:39:34,770 --> 00:39:38,880 I was just wondering why there was no shoes, 654 00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:40,047 no golf shoes. 655 00:39:41,056 --> 00:39:44,762 - Do you think that's why he was killed for his shoes? 656 00:39:44,762 --> 00:39:47,214 - Look Bruce has got us combing the hills 657 00:39:47,214 --> 00:39:48,216 for a missing person. 658 00:39:48,216 --> 00:39:50,950 It's a complete waste of time. 659 00:39:50,950 --> 00:39:54,048 There's a killer out there, and I'd like to catch him. 660 00:39:54,048 --> 00:39:57,650 You could make the job so much easier. 661 00:39:57,650 --> 00:39:58,603 Oh really? 662 00:39:58,603 --> 00:40:01,436 - Sure, with your local knowledge. 663 00:40:02,357 --> 00:40:05,881 I think we should work together on this, Hamish. 664 00:40:09,310 --> 00:40:10,977 - Oh do you, Sandra? 665 00:40:13,139 --> 00:40:15,639 Well I must say I'm flattered, 666 00:40:19,055 --> 00:40:23,136 and I'm sure there's a lot you can teach me. 667 00:40:30,523 --> 00:40:31,356 - Hamish? 668 00:40:57,591 --> 00:41:00,073 Man, that's cheap scent. 669 00:41:00,073 --> 00:41:01,771 Who was she? 670 00:41:01,771 --> 00:41:02,771 - Macdonald. 671 00:41:04,830 --> 00:41:07,650 What was wrong with your bed? 672 00:41:07,650 --> 00:41:11,424 - Didn't have the hear to disturb wee Jock. 673 00:41:11,424 --> 00:41:13,119 What's that? 674 00:41:13,119 --> 00:41:17,286 - I don't know it was in the machine when I came in. 675 00:41:19,529 --> 00:41:22,401 Now why would a detective sergeant lie down 676 00:41:22,401 --> 00:41:25,818 with a police constable I wonder, Hamish? 677 00:41:29,373 --> 00:41:30,547 - I thought I might need somebody 678 00:41:30,547 --> 00:41:34,149 to dump the credit if my guess was proved right. 679 00:41:34,149 --> 00:41:35,901 If I go around starting to solve murders the powers 680 00:41:35,901 --> 00:41:39,824 that be might think I've outgrown Lochdubh, 681 00:41:39,824 --> 00:41:41,457 and that Bruce is gonna have me on the next train 682 00:41:41,457 --> 00:41:42,409 back to Glasgow. 683 00:41:42,409 --> 00:41:45,576 - Murders, what are you talking about? 684 00:41:48,819 --> 00:41:51,962 - I want you to find Macdonald, John. 685 00:41:51,962 --> 00:41:54,462 Make sure she sees that, okay? 686 00:42:02,415 --> 00:42:03,694 Alice? 687 00:42:03,694 --> 00:42:04,944 - Hello Hamish. 688 00:42:06,241 --> 00:42:07,908 - I was wondering if I might have a look in Geordi's 689 00:42:07,908 --> 00:42:08,741 wardrobe. 690 00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:41,737 Why do you suppose he never took them, Alice? 691 00:42:41,737 --> 00:42:43,768 I mean he's not likely to have forgotten his new shoes 692 00:42:43,768 --> 00:42:45,407 is he? 693 00:42:45,407 --> 00:42:47,415 - It was Lucy who packed for him. 694 00:42:47,415 --> 00:42:49,572 She always packed for him. 695 00:42:49,572 --> 00:42:51,155 She must've forgot. 696 00:42:55,438 --> 00:42:58,271 - Lucy, aye well that explains it. 697 00:43:01,641 --> 00:43:04,532 It was just nagging at me, you know? 698 00:43:04,532 --> 00:43:06,012 - Aye. 699 00:43:18,586 --> 00:43:22,753 - Ah Jock, why can't people live like we dogs, hey? 700 00:43:24,839 --> 00:43:26,672 Simple, uncomplicated. 701 00:43:49,349 --> 00:43:50,599 - What's wrong? 702 00:43:51,495 --> 00:43:53,089 What's going on here? 703 00:43:53,089 --> 00:43:54,485 - I'm detaining you under Section Two 704 00:43:54,485 --> 00:43:57,885 of the Criminal Justice Act of Scotland of 1980 705 00:43:57,885 --> 00:43:59,602 because I suspect you have committed 706 00:43:59,602 --> 00:44:02,367 an offense punishable by imprisonment 707 00:44:02,367 --> 00:44:03,280 namely murder. 708 00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:04,992 - We'll be speaking to Alice as well Bob. 709 00:44:04,992 --> 00:44:08,075 - No, I'm the man you're looking for. 710 00:44:09,896 --> 00:44:11,646 I killed Geordi Robb. 711 00:44:14,347 --> 00:44:17,846 He come back that night and started on Lucy. 712 00:44:17,846 --> 00:44:20,836 I could not stand by and watch that. 713 00:44:20,836 --> 00:44:21,996 I killed him. 714 00:44:21,996 --> 00:44:25,079 - Hamish, Alice has something to say. 715 00:44:29,362 --> 00:44:31,612 - I killed my son, not Bob. 716 00:44:33,033 --> 00:44:33,866 - Alice. 717 00:44:35,801 --> 00:44:38,742 - Forgot his golf shoes and came back for them. 718 00:44:38,742 --> 00:44:40,153 He was in a right black mood, 719 00:44:40,153 --> 00:44:43,197 and as usual, took it out on Lucy 720 00:44:43,197 --> 00:44:46,479 just as his father had done with me. 721 00:44:46,479 --> 00:44:48,112 He said Lucy should've checked his bag 722 00:44:48,112 --> 00:44:49,362 before he left. 723 00:44:55,979 --> 00:44:59,729 I thought he would surely kill her this time. 724 00:45:00,781 --> 00:45:02,709 - Alice come on. 725 00:45:05,324 --> 00:45:06,407 - I told you. 726 00:45:18,388 --> 00:45:21,805 - But, when he fell, he hit the forklift. 727 00:45:25,918 --> 00:45:27,261 I asked Bob to go to the car, 728 00:45:27,261 --> 00:45:29,816 but that's all he did. 729 00:45:29,816 --> 00:45:31,775 Bob and Lucy are innocent. 730 00:45:31,775 --> 00:45:32,775 I'm the one. 731 00:45:35,258 --> 00:45:38,675 I gave that boy life, and I took it away. 732 00:45:40,563 --> 00:45:42,980 He was such a big, lumpy man. 733 00:45:59,811 --> 00:46:02,020 How did you find out, Hamish? 734 00:46:02,020 --> 00:46:04,859 The McCraes did not dump the lobsters, Alice. 735 00:46:04,859 --> 00:46:07,242 They've been selling them all over the district. 736 00:46:07,242 --> 00:46:08,688 I thought they may have been poisoned, 737 00:46:08,688 --> 00:46:11,355 so I took a couple for analysis. 738 00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:17,607 They found bits of blue and lemon wool in the guts. 739 00:46:19,825 --> 00:46:22,221 - That's what Robb was wearing the night he disappeared. 740 00:46:22,221 --> 00:46:23,717 I saw the fax when it came through, 741 00:46:23,717 --> 00:46:25,824 so I made the connection. 742 00:46:25,824 --> 00:46:29,907 - Do you mean people have been eating Big Geordi? 743 00:46:33,044 --> 00:46:34,377 - Seems like it. 744 00:46:37,420 --> 00:46:40,337 - It's a wonder they did not choke. 745 00:46:58,297 --> 00:47:00,404 - Well done, Macdonald. 746 00:47:00,404 --> 00:47:03,004 This'll be your ticket out of Inverness. 747 00:47:03,004 --> 00:47:04,337 - Thank you sir. 748 00:47:06,369 --> 00:47:08,036 Well what can I say? 749 00:47:09,836 --> 00:47:11,604 - What do you think'll happen to her. 750 00:47:11,604 --> 00:47:13,593 - Probation most probably. 751 00:47:13,593 --> 00:47:16,907 If it was up to me, I'd let her go right now. 752 00:47:16,907 --> 00:47:18,490 Goodbye, constable. 753 00:47:20,363 --> 00:47:24,530 - You never know you may be back this way someday. 754 00:48:29,521 --> 00:48:30,449 What's all this? 755 00:48:30,449 --> 00:48:32,270 - They're buying laxatives. 756 00:48:32,270 --> 00:48:34,396 That Rory Campbell's making a fortune. 757 00:48:34,396 --> 00:48:36,370 - Laxatives, for what? 758 00:48:36,370 --> 00:48:38,989 - Well to get rid of the lobsters and Big Geordie. 759 00:48:40,381 --> 00:48:41,964 - Serves 'em right. 760 00:48:43,423 --> 00:48:44,256 - Hamish? 761 00:48:44,256 --> 00:48:45,314 - Aye? 762 00:48:45,314 --> 00:48:49,123 - Do you remember that crab consume I gave you? 763 00:48:49,123 --> 00:48:50,327 - Aye.