1 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:29,880 Hey! Hey! 2 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:53,600 Oh! 3 00:03:01,640 --> 00:03:03,720 This is a very odd letter. 4 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:09,760 "Too many smart young men I see getting promoted over me. 5 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:14,280 "And rising up the salary scale, only because he is a male." 6 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:17,640 What does she want you to do? 7 00:03:17,640 --> 00:03:19,440 I don't know. 8 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:22,120 It's what happens in the workplace all the time. 9 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:25,000 The glass ceiling! I have read about this. 10 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:28,240 Exactly right. The glass ceiling. 11 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:29,680 Mm! 12 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:32,480 It has never stopped you. 13 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:35,560 That's because my father left me plenty of cattle. 14 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:40,560 If it weren't for that, I'd be slaving away in an office like anybody else, going nowhere. 15 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:47,880 I don't mean that you are going nowhere. 16 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:51,960 What I was trying to say was that... 17 00:03:51,960 --> 00:03:54,560 SHOUTING AND RAISED VOICES 18 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:10,360 I'm going to kill you! Look at my shop. 19 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:12,440 Stupid boy! Stop this! 20 00:04:12,440 --> 00:04:15,160 Rra Sesupeng, what is the meaning of this? 21 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:17,280 There have been robbers in my shop. 22 00:04:17,280 --> 00:04:22,240 My stock is ruined, because this boy, this boy forgot to lock the shop last night, huh? 23 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:26,240 I forgot one time before, but not last night. Look, here are my keys. 24 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:29,200 The same keys you forgot to put in the lock last night, you idiot! 25 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:32,440 Let me help. I am the detective. Show me the scene of the crime. 26 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:34,880 Come, come, come and have a look. Come. 27 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:37,040 You don't have to be so harsh! 28 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:39,040 What was taken? Shoes. Three shoes. 29 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:42,360 What else do you think they are going to take from a shoe shop? 30 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:44,600 Three single shoes? Yes. 31 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:49,200 Do you think you were...invaded by a gang of one-legged burglars?! 32 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:51,920 LAUGHTER AND CLAPPING 33 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:56,760 And what makes you think they came in, or hopped in, through THIS door? 34 00:04:56,760 --> 00:04:58,600 How else can they come inside, huh? 35 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:00,440 Ha! 36 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:04,400 An unlocked window. 37 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:07,560 Too small for a grown-up person to climb through. 38 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:09,800 That's my point exactly. 39 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:12,120 It is clear what has happened. 40 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:15,680 Rra Sesupeng, you've been robbed by children. 41 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:17,440 In the future, 42 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:22,960 if you don't want them to come in, put bars on your window and stop abusing your assistant. 43 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:24,480 It's not nice. 44 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:26,120 CROWD CHEERS AND CLAPS 45 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:33,120 I don't know why he had to beat the boy. 46 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:35,040 Oh, my God! 47 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:38,880 Aaagh! Get off my desk! Off! Get out! 48 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:41,120 Out, out, out! 49 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:43,440 Ugh! Get out of here! 50 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:51,120 MAN SHOUTS 51 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:01,200 Out! Ah! 52 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:03,440 Get out! Out! Out! Go, chicken! 53 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:06,480 Out, out, out! Excuse me. 54 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:09,800 Good afternoon. 55 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:13,520 Are you looking for the detective agency? Yes. Out! 56 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:23,680 I'll have that letter ready for you in just one moment, mma. 57 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:24,960 Thank you. 58 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:28,680 Would you like to sit under the little tree? 59 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:30,600 It's cool there, Mrs...? 60 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:32,320 Curtin. Andrea Curtin. 61 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:33,920 That would be a good idea. 62 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:35,920 Mma Ramotswe. 63 00:06:37,840 --> 00:06:40,480 How did you hear about my business? 64 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:43,560 There was a porter at the hotel who gave me your name. 65 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:45,080 My embassy was no use at all. 66 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:49,560 They said there was no such thing as a detective agency here in Gaborone. 67 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:51,800 We are a new business. 68 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:54,120 How may I help you? 69 00:06:56,120 --> 00:06:59,560 I'm here to find my son, Michael. 70 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:02,280 But I don't think he's alive any more. 71 00:07:02,280 --> 00:07:04,680 That's very sad. 72 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:07,640 I lost a child myself. A boy. 73 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:10,760 He was born, but he did not live. 74 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:15,480 We think we get over the pain, but it never happens. 75 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:21,120 Do you have a picture of Michael? 76 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:23,240 That's Michael, 77 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:25,600 just after he graduated from Stanford. 78 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:27,480 Oh, he wanted to change the world. 79 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:29,200 You know how kids are. 80 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:34,360 Well, somehow he heard about a project... 81 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:36,080 a commune, I guess... 82 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:41,520 here in Botswana, where they were growing plants and vegetables in very, very dry soil. 83 00:07:41,520 --> 00:07:44,800 "The greening of the desert," that's what they called it. 84 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:46,880 It was at a farm near, erm... 85 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:51,160 Silolakwalea... 86 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:53,560 Silokwalela. 87 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:57,280 It is very dry in this part of the country, almost desert. 88 00:07:57,280 --> 00:07:59,400 This is Mma Makutsi, my secretary. 89 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:02,680 Ah. Dumela. Hello. Thank you. 90 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:04,640 Secretary? 91 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:07,440 I haven't heard that very much in the United States. 92 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:14,000 Every secretary is an assistant at least, or an associate executive. 93 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:16,200 Associate executive. 94 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:23,240 Michael heard about this project. 95 00:08:23,240 --> 00:08:26,880 Yes, and he wanted to come here and do some good in the world. 96 00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:30,120 His father and I weren't happy about it, but what else could we do? 97 00:08:30,120 --> 00:08:32,840 For weeks, we heard nothing. 98 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:35,440 And then... 99 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:39,640 He started to write these wonderful letters. 100 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:44,480 He said he'd found his African heart. 101 00:08:44,480 --> 00:08:48,040 What else could we be but happy? 102 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:49,600 Until one day... 103 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:55,160 ..the embassy called and said he'd been reported missing. 104 00:08:55,160 --> 00:08:59,160 Jack, my husband, dropped everything and... 105 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:01,280 we came here. 106 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:03,320 It was miles from anywhere. 107 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:06,680 Took us two hours to get there and the roads. 108 00:09:06,680 --> 00:09:10,000 Well, they weren't roads, just tracks really. 109 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:14,240 But when we get to the place, I saw what Michael had meant. 110 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:17,600 Somehow, in the middle of all that dust and heat, 111 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:19,480 they'd built a garden. 112 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:22,760 They all came out to meet us. 113 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:27,760 There was a guy with a little beard, Oswald Ranta. 114 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:30,320 The leader of the commune was an older man from Kenya. 115 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:32,200 I think his name was Peter Ngari. 116 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:36,520 Oh, and the nurse at the clinic that they started for the local people. 117 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:38,680 Rebecca Soloi was her name. 118 00:09:38,680 --> 00:09:43,240 All any of them could tell us was that Michael had gone to bed the night before 119 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:45,440 and had disappeared the next morning. 120 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:47,880 A total mystery. 121 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:53,440 The embassy and the local police did their best, but after a while, they gave up. 122 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:57,800 We even hired a tracker, a bushman. 123 00:09:57,800 --> 00:10:00,320 What was his name? 124 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:02,480 I think we called him JoJo. 125 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:05,440 But he searched and couldn't find anything. 126 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:08,480 So we had no alternative but to go back home. 127 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:10,360 That must have been hard. 128 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:12,640 Fearing the worst, but not knowing. 129 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:14,640 Yes, it was hard. 130 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:20,080 My only consolation was that as the years went by, Jack and I had each other. 131 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:22,680 Till last September, when he passed away. 132 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:30,640 Seems like I had a choice of going to Florida and retiring and watching TV, 133 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:34,200 or to make a life for myself. And that's what I've chosen. 134 00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:40,680 But I can't do it until I find out what happened to my son. 135 00:10:40,680 --> 00:10:43,040 For better or for worse. 136 00:10:43,040 --> 00:10:44,760 Does that makes sense? 137 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:47,840 It makes very good sense. 138 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:51,960 I think we should start by going back to that farm together. 139 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:55,080 But it's deserted. Nobody lives there. 140 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:57,160 Places have echoes. 141 00:10:57,160 --> 00:11:01,680 If we are sensitive enough, we might pick up a feeling of what happened there. 142 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:05,600 All right. OK. 143 00:11:06,680 --> 00:11:11,760 Zebras, sunsets, irrigation schemes. 144 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:15,600 These letters are beautifully written but there isn't one single clue. 145 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:17,800 We must trace the witnesses. 146 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:20,040 I have made a note of all their names. 147 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:23,000 Except they didn't witness anything, so they said. 148 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:26,200 I have a bad feeling about this case. 149 00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:30,040 Ten years is a long time. 150 00:11:53,960 --> 00:11:59,200 "A stale enquiry is unrewarding for all concerned." 151 00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:00,760 Nnyaa, mma. 152 00:12:00,760 --> 00:12:02,920 It's about a prize he's won. 153 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:08,160 "The client is given false hopes and the detective feels committed to come up with something." 154 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:11,320 Yes. Thank you. 155 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:13,320 "But at the end of the day... 156 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:15,520 SHE SIGHS HEAVILY 157 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:18,080 "..nothing is likely to be achieved." 158 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:25,440 Mma Makutsi! 159 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:27,520 What are you doing? 160 00:12:27,520 --> 00:12:30,840 I have found a witness.You've done what? 161 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:33,680 Oswald Ranta is now Dr Ranta. 162 00:12:33,680 --> 00:12:38,680 He is a head of studies in the Department of Rural Economics at the university right here in Gaborone. 163 00:12:38,680 --> 00:12:40,680 How did you find him? 164 00:12:40,680 --> 00:12:42,800 I phoned his home and the maid told me... 165 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:45,000 Yes, yes, but how did you find his number? 166 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:52,440 That was very clever of you. 167 00:12:52,440 --> 00:12:56,920 How about witness number two, Rebecca Soloi? 168 00:12:56,920 --> 00:13:00,480 A nurse should be easy to find. You should call Dr Gulubane. 169 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:06,560 There is no need to trouble Dr Gulubane. 170 00:13:06,560 --> 00:13:09,880 She works in a clinic in Mosopa. 171 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:13,280 Was she in the telephone directory as well? Nnyaa, mma. 172 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:15,520 I happen to know her. 173 00:13:15,520 --> 00:13:18,520 Oh! 174 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:20,080 Coincidence. 175 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:34,200 Welcome to the Grand Palm.Thank you. 176 00:13:35,560 --> 00:13:39,240 Sorry I'm late. Are you 177 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:40,920 Of course! OK. 178 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:44,280 We had 10 outlets in Washington DC. 179 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:47,680 For the last year of his life I was effectively running the whole show. 180 00:13:47,680 --> 00:13:51,840 Will you go on running the show now that you're on your own? 181 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:54,400 No, I'm going to see everything off. 182 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:56,920 Don't laugh too loud, 183 00:13:56,920 --> 00:14:00,560 but I'm planning on going to college to do African studies. 184 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:05,640 Like your son? Yeah, you could say that. 185 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:08,160 We should offer this man a lift. 186 00:14:16,320 --> 00:14:18,640 Do you think this is safe? 187 00:14:18,640 --> 00:14:20,200 I'm sure it's safe. 188 00:14:20,200 --> 00:14:24,440 If he was a criminal he would have stolen his own car by now. 189 00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:27,240 Besides, he's not very big. 190 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:28,680 Thank you. 191 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:39,280 MUSIC PLAYS FROM BOOM BOX 192 00:14:42,680 --> 00:14:46,480 Do you like music, mma?No, it's OK, thank you. 193 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:55,440 Could you do something about the volume? 194 00:14:55,440 --> 00:14:59,120 Do you want it louder? I make it much louder. 195 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:05,240 Rebecca Soloi? 196 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:07,000 This is Grace Makutsi. 197 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:09,160 Do you remember me? 198 00:15:09,160 --> 00:15:12,080 Ee, mma. He is. 199 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:14,520 He... He is not so strong as he was. 200 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:18,000 No, not yet, but he will. 201 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:21,680 Mma, I'm calling to make an appointment with you 202 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:25,280 for the lady that I work with, but I must ask a favour first. 203 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:28,080 When you see her, can you please not mention Richard? 204 00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:31,000 Hello! What's happening?No, I know you wouldn't. 205 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:34,360 Hey, 97%. Where's everybody else? Ah, don't tell me... 206 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:36,680 I'm having a private business call. 207 00:15:36,680 --> 00:15:40,920 Is it private or business? Make up your mind. Out, out! 208 00:15:40,920 --> 00:15:44,280 OK. I'm gone. Don't shoot! 209 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:48,080 Hello. 210 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:49,960 HE SINGSAh! Don't shoot! 211 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:51,720 I'm out! I'm out! 212 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:53,920 WOMEN: Whoa! I'm out! Don't shoot! 213 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:11,680 If you want to see that old farm, you must ask Mma Potsane. She was there once upon a time. 214 00:16:11,680 --> 00:16:13,320 Straight down this road? 215 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:17,680 Yes, down this road. You'llOK. 216 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:18,960 Thank you. 217 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:24,480 Sorry. 218 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:35,920 Well, he was right about the donkeys. 219 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:57,160 Let me speak with her first. 220 00:17:09,960 --> 00:17:13,160 She knows the farm well and she remembers Michael. 221 00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:14,360 Oh! 222 00:17:14,360 --> 00:17:16,440 I'm Andrea Curtin. 223 00:17:16,440 --> 00:17:17,880 Michael was my son. 224 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:21,360 Oh, I'm sorry, my sister. 225 00:17:21,360 --> 00:17:25,520 Come, come inside. Thank you. 226 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:36,080 Last week, my youngest girl sent me a postal order. 227 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:38,640 If you had come that day, I would have given you meat. 228 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:40,440 Oh, that's OK. 229 00:17:57,040 --> 00:17:58,720 Is this OK? 230 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:02,840 She seems to have so little. 231 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:05,880 What do you think she's cooking? 232 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:07,880 It looks like mealie meal. 233 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:09,960 It's corn. 234 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:11,480 Corn. 235 00:18:21,120 --> 00:18:24,200 I was married once. 236 00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:26,840 You must marry again. Oh! 237 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:32,080 You must a policeman or a motor mechanic or a minister of religion. 238 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:34,280 All those are very good men to marry. 239 00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:37,120 You must not marry a politician. 240 00:18:37,120 --> 00:18:38,800 Or a man who works in a bar. 241 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:42,600 My husband was a trumpeter. He was not a good husband. 242 00:18:42,600 --> 00:18:44,720 I will add trumpeters to my list. 243 00:18:54,280 --> 00:18:56,920 Is she going to join us? 244 00:18:56,920 --> 00:18:58,560 She'll wait until we're finished. 245 00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:05,320 How do I do this? Watch me. 246 00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:19,040 Ooh. 247 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:26,720 Hm. 248 00:19:45,120 --> 00:19:48,160 Oh, my God! 249 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:50,320 This used to be beautiful before. 250 00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:54,120 Glad Jack can't see this. 251 00:19:54,120 --> 00:20:00,200 It's like everything our son was trying to do was just a joke. 252 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:03,280 I think the bush has eaten it up. 253 00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:05,320 What went wrong? 254 00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:10,480 They were trying to grow lettuces and tomatoes in a place that is only good for thorn bushes. 255 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:13,440 It would be easier to grow grass on your own head. 256 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:16,560 What do you think happened to Michael? 257 00:20:16,560 --> 00:20:18,360 I think he was sucked up. 258 00:20:18,360 --> 00:20:21,160 Sucked up? 259 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:25,920 Big whirlwinds come from the Kalahari and suck things up. 260 00:20:25,920 --> 00:20:29,960 But where that whirlwind would have put him down, I do not know. 261 00:20:29,960 --> 00:20:32,400 It could be thousands of miles away. 262 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:36,360 Yeah. 263 00:20:36,360 --> 00:20:39,720 That is where I lived with my husband. 264 00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:45,920 I, sister, 265 00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:48,760 am sad to see it. 266 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:50,800 Sad to see it. 267 00:20:52,360 --> 00:20:55,760 It breaks my heart every time she calls me "sister". 268 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:02,960 Let's do this. 269 00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:20,240 This was the clinic where Rebecca Soloi worked. 270 00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:29,400 She was one of the first to realise how quickly HIV was spreading beyond the towns into the countryside. 271 00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:44,680 Look, there's a photograph. 272 00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:46,240 That's Michael. 273 00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:47,840 In the middle. 274 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:50,840 Who's that? I don't know. 275 00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:52,880 It says Clara Sedibe. 276 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:56,040 Michael never mentioned her in any of his letters. 277 00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:58,600 < Mma. 278 00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:00,120 Excuse me. 279 00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:12,800 Somebody made a fire over there. 280 00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:16,360 It is after the last rains. 281 00:22:16,360 --> 00:22:18,640 It was probably hunters. 282 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:21,680 There's a wind, eh? 283 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:25,960 What do you think it's saying, this wind? 284 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:29,480 It's saying that on this farm there is a spirit that can't get away. 285 00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:33,560 I think so, too. 286 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:48,280 Did she say anything about this girl? The one standing next to Michael. 287 00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:51,720 Clara Sedibe? No, nothing at all. 288 00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:52,960 Hold on. 289 00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:00,160 Look. 290 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:03,880 Oh, wow! 291 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:10,400 Can we get out? (If we are quiet.)OK. 292 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:14,880 They're so primitive. 293 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:25,120 God! 294 00:23:25,120 --> 00:23:27,320 Why do you think they're fighting? 295 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:29,080 They're male. 296 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:31,480 Oh, that reason. 297 00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:33,640 It's always that reason. 298 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:37,240 They're just children. Yes. 299 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:41,680 The whole world was young in Africa once. 300 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:43,200 Ee, mma. 301 00:23:53,120 --> 00:23:55,120 What do you think? 302 00:23:55,120 --> 00:23:58,480 I don't like this guy withNo, neither do I. 303 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:01,120 Is there anything else? 304 00:24:01,120 --> 00:24:03,920 There is closeness between the boy and the girl. 305 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:06,520 Yes, I saw that, too. Did you tell the mother? 306 00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:09,240 I think she suspects it already. 307 00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:12,000 I feel worse about something else I didn't tell her. 308 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:13,960 What's that? 309 00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:20,000 There was a wind that spoke of a restless spirit and that only means one thing. 310 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:24,240 There is a body there that has not been properly buried. 311 00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:25,800 You have proof? 312 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:27,440 No, just my instincts. 313 00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:31,240 Well, until you know for certain, best not to say anything. 314 00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:33,520 Americans are very clever people. 315 00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:35,440 They can send rockets into space. 316 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:37,960 But science isn't the only thing. 317 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:41,320 There are other things that make the world what it is. 318 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:43,240 Things of the spirit. 319 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:48,520 Americans never notice them, even though they're right under their noses. 320 00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:01,240 Ah, please leave the water. 321 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:11,680 You should change your maid. 322 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:15,280 She's just jealous. Jealous of who? 323 00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:17,880 Of you. 324 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:20,800 She has no reason to be jealous. 325 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:22,320 I know. 326 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:28,280 Oh, bye-bye. Thank you. 327 00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:30,240 Oh, good morning, Mma Ramotswe. 328 00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:31,560 What can we do for you? 329 00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:35,840 Dumela, rra. How about a romanticOr three? 330 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:37,640 We are very broad-minded here. 331 00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:41,240 Mm-hm. No thank you! I just have a question. 332 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:45,200 A-huh. Do you send Basarwa trackers on your safari tours? 333 00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:48,800 What sort of territory did you want to explore? 334 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:51,080 Do you know a tracker called JoJo? 335 00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:54,320 THEY LAUGH You won't have 336 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:56,520 I'm not looking for love, thank you. 337 00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:58,560 I just want to know where he lives. 338 00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:02,640 If you come across anyone who might know where he is, please let me know. 339 00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:05,720 It's very urgent. I want to speak with him. Ho, mma! Ho, mma! 340 00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:07,720 What's in it for us? 341 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:13,360 Maybe, just maybe... A-huh? 342 00:26:13,360 --> 00:26:18,040 I'll try to find a couple of girls 343 00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:21,640 desperate enough to deal with your crazy chatter! 344 00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:23,680 THEY ALL LAUGH 345 00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:27,120 We don't need two girls. Just one who's big enough for two! 346 00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:32,080 Don't go in there. 347 00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:37,960 TYPEWRITER CLATTERS NOISILY 348 00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:45,400 Hoo! Ah! 349 00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:51,840 I've been thinking about the possibility of my promotion. 350 00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:54,160 There need not be any rise in pay, 351 00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:59,120 but if my title recognised my powers of detection, rather than just my typing, 352 00:26:59,120 --> 00:27:00,720 I'd be very grateful. 353 00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:05,720 Well, I don't think "associate executive detective" sounds quite right. 354 00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:07,880 Mm, that would be going too far. 355 00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:12,880 May I make the suggestion of the wording "assistant detective"? 356 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:17,600 Darling lady, please come and help. There's an emergency. Quick, quick! 357 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:24,920 How did that happen? I came out 358 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:27,400 My pants are broken.It won't take a moment. 359 00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:29,680 I'll get a needle. Take them off. 360 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:32,240 We were in the middle of a business conversation. 361 00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:35,760 I'm a serial interrupter.D'ah! Not in here. 362 00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:38,520 What if a client were to come in? What would they think? 363 00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:43,560 They would think that my beautiful legs were only matched by these extraordinary underpants. 364 00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:45,400 Mma Makutsi, please. Come in. 365 00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:49,280 I've seen a man with no trousers on before. 366 00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:01,120 D'ah! 367 00:28:01,120 --> 00:28:03,600 HE CHUCKLES 368 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:05,200 Thank you, darling lady. 369 00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:07,160 They should last for the rest of the day. 370 00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:09,320 I can't answer for them after that. 371 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:12,160 I'll try and get my own sewing kit next time. 372 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:16,760 HE WHISTLES 373 00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:27,520 Wait, mma! Mma! 374 00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:30,000 Mma Ramotswe! 375 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,320 Mma Ramotswe! 376 00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:34,120 Whoa! 377 00:28:34,120 --> 00:28:36,160 Dammit! 378 00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:38,640 The hairdryer's gone. 379 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:41,880 Box of eyelashes, they were next to... 380 00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:44,600 Oh, no! They are gone, too. 381 00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:46,400 Who steals a box of fake nails? 382 00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:48,320 Don't touch anything! 383 00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:51,440 I must inspect the scene of the crime. 384 00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:53,640 Oh! How do you know what to inspect? 385 00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:57,320 BK, I will very soon be an assistant detective. 386 00:28:57,320 --> 00:29:01,560 I would be that already had you not come bursting in here with emergencies and what-what. 387 00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:05,760 Question number one, where were the keys to the beauty salon? 388 00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:07,760 I pulled the keys out of my pocket. 389 00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:10,680 So the door was locked? 390 00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:13,960 No, I pulled the keys out of my pocket to scratch my bottom(!) 391 00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:15,640 Of course the door was locked! 392 00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:17,560 The door... 393 00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:19,240 was locked. 394 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:23,800 Goods scattered around the floor. 395 00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:27,240 And there is no sign of forced entry. 396 00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:32,920 I am familiar with this modus operandi! 397 00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:38,200 Modus what? We are investigating a similar crime in another commercial establishment. 398 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:41,240 Oh, oh, I hope you're not comparing this catastrophe 399 00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:44,600 with Sesupeng losing a couple of his horrible-looking shoes. 400 00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:47,920 In fact, I think this crime is identical. 401 00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:51,720 You have been robbed by children. 402 00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:53,680 How do you know? 403 00:29:53,680 --> 00:30:00,720 Because at the back of the shop there is a small window with a broken... A broken... 404 00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:01,960 A broken... 405 00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:12,040 Perhaps I spoke too soon. 406 00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:15,400 I will, of course, personally pay for the damage. 407 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:27,880 Mma Ramotswe. 408 00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:31,560 Dumela, mma. Dumela, mma. Le kae? 409 00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:33,560 Re teng, mma. 410 00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:35,680 Nurse Soloi, thank you for seeing me. 411 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:37,560 Oh, this is a good time. 412 00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:39,520 Most of our patients are resting. 413 00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:41,680 Come, let us sit in the shade. 414 00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:45,560 So, Grace Makutsi tells me thatThat's right. 415 00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:48,480 Oh! It must be exciting work. 416 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:50,680 Ee, sometimes it is. 417 00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:53,160 Do you know her well... Grace? 418 00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:59,040 Not well, but I know that she's aShe is. 419 00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:01,480 So you want to talk about Michael? 420 00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:04,200 Ee, mma. Were you close? 421 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:12,080 We worked together for six months,Clara Sedibe. 422 00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:13,800 She was his girlfriend, yes? 423 00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:17,760 There were not supposed to be boyfriends or girlfriends on the farm. 424 00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:21,840 Peter Ngari thought it against the spirit of the commune. 425 00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:26,280 So nothing was said, but Michael was not a good actor. Sit. 426 00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:27,960 Thank you. 427 00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:33,320 There is water for us and two iced buns. 428 00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:36,040 I've heard that you are a woman who likes to eat. 429 00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:39,320 Now that I have met you I can see it's true. 430 00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:41,320 Eat, please. Thank you. 431 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:47,240 Do you know where Clara is now? 432 00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:50,280 No. No, I don't. 433 00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:55,080 I was in Gaborone buying supplies on the night that Michael disappeared. 434 00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:58,120 By the time I got back, Clara had already left. 435 00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:01,680 And you've heard nothing from her? No, not a word. 436 00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:05,560 Perhaps I need to look for two people, Michael and Clara. 437 00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:09,520 Perhaps. What about Oswald Ranta? 438 00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:13,680 Oh, he is now a lecturer at the university. 439 00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:16,880 Do you think he had something to do with Michael's disappearance? 440 00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:23,560 You know, at the time, I would have said if there's anyone to suspect, then, yes, it would be him, 441 00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:26,400 but now something has happened to make me change my mind. 442 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:31,320 Every year, I drive past that farm on my way to see relatives. 443 00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:34,760 This year, I saw that someone else had been there. 444 00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:36,320 They had built a fire. 445 00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:38,800 Yes, I saw that, too. Lying beside the fire 446 00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:40,480 I found this. 447 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:46,800 Michael Curtin. 448 00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:51,720 I think that Michael is still alive. 449 00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:16,280 JoJo is here. 450 00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:26,560 I offered them food,Thank you. 451 00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:28,160 Mma. 452 00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:34,960 Doris, JoJo's granddaughter. 453 00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:39,480 Dumela, mma. Dumela. I am going to 454 00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:40,960 Thank you, Doris. 455 00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:54,240 Please tell your grandfather, I'm very happy to have him as my guest. 456 00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:04,480 Ten years ago, your grandfather searched a farm near Silokwalela. 457 00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:11,920 He was looking for a boy that was missing. 458 00:34:17,720 --> 00:34:20,440 Recently, I went to the same farm. 459 00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:23,120 I felt that there was something there. 460 00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:30,600 I thought it might be the body of a missing young man, Michael Curtin. 461 00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:39,120 Now I think I was wrong. 462 00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:44,400 I think Michael may be alive. 463 00:34:54,360 --> 00:35:01,120 My grandfather says that heEe. 464 00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:03,320 He knows where the body was hidden. 465 00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:11,280 He saw an anthill. He believes that the, the body of... 466 00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:14,440 The body is in the anthill. 467 00:35:18,240 --> 00:35:22,280 It was as clear to him as the sun in the sky, 468 00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:26,200 but he could not tell the mother what he had found. 469 00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:35,280 A man, who has a small beard, said that if he told anyone, 470 00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:39,200 he would do harm to both him and his family. 471 00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:48,840 Doris, I have just one last question. 472 00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:54,960 Does he know if the body was a man or a woman? 473 00:35:59,960 --> 00:36:05,400 My grandfather says that if you want to know the answer, you must dig it up. 474 00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:07,000 Thank you. 475 00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:10,760 I still don't understand. 476 00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:13,320 Why did you ask that? 477 00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:19,240 Because it's not just Michael who is missing. No-one has seen Clara Sedibe since Michael vanished. 478 00:36:19,240 --> 00:36:22,080 And if he's still alive, as this suggests, 479 00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:25,920 then we have to consider that the body might be Clara's. 480 00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:28,640 Michael Curtin may not be the victim in this crime. 481 00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:32,440 You mean, Michael killed Clara? 482 00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:46,920 Thank you. My pleasure, mma. 483 00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:52,000 That trip really took it out of me. 484 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:54,040 Emotionally, I mean. 485 00:36:55,840 --> 00:37:00,600 I thought I had ended grieving years ago... 486 00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:05,000 but now it feels as if I'm just at the beginning. 487 00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:09,680 So how are we doing? 488 00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:15,720 Well, I'm afraid I don't have anything to report at the present. 489 00:37:15,720 --> 00:37:17,440 No developments whatsoever? 490 00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:22,800 I've been working on some ideas, but nothing definite yet. 491 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:24,640 Is there... 492 00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:27,400 Is there some bad news you're trying to protect me from? 493 00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:31,640 It's too soon to say, 494 00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:35,360 but... there is something I need to know. 495 00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:40,720 If I discovered someone did something wrong, 496 00:37:40,720 --> 00:37:43,040 whoever it is, 497 00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:45,200 could you... 498 00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:48,080 Could you find it in your heart to forgive that person? 499 00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:52,120 No. I would want them brought to justice. 500 00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:55,640 I'm American and that's what we believe in, Mrs Ramotswe. 501 00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:58,720 Most people in this country would agree with you, 502 00:37:58,720 --> 00:38:00,920 but we have an older tradition. 503 00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:04,600 If a wrongdoer is truly sorry for what he has done, 504 00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:07,520 the person he has harmed will try to forgive him. 505 00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:11,040 I think that's what your son would want. 506 00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:15,160 The African heart. 507 00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:17,080 Hey, mma. 508 00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:25,920 Well, I may just be beginning to understand what Michael meant by that. 509 00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:40,280 WOMEN LAUGHING AND TALKING 510 00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:44,160 Dumela, mma. 511 00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:47,400 I'm looking for a Dr Ranta. 512 00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:50,800 Dr Ranta! 513 00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:52,120 Dr Ranta! 514 00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:57,160 One moment he's here, the next moment he's run off. 515 00:38:57,160 --> 00:38:58,840 Do you know where he is now? 516 00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:01,320 You could try his office, it's two doors down. 517 00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:03,320 I'm afraid I'm busy, as you can see. 518 00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:10,360 Knock loudly before you go in if you don't want a surprise. 519 00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:17,240 May I sit for a moment? 520 00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:21,240 I've been on my feet all day. 521 00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:24,440 You look run off your feet as well. 522 00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:26,240 It's my last day. I'm leaving. 523 00:39:26,240 --> 00:39:28,920 About Dr Ranta. 524 00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:33,400 What sort of surprise? Forget what 525 00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:35,360 Oh, I understand. 526 00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:38,240 It's very good you don't gossip about your boss. 527 00:39:38,240 --> 00:39:40,400 Male teachers... 528 00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:45,080 are always getting into trouble for things that perfectly normal men would do. 529 00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:48,080 I understand a little about human nature. 530 00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:52,480 You see, I run a small detective agency. 531 00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:55,800 Perhaps I could leave some leaflets with you? 532 00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:03,000 Sexual harassment... 533 00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:06,000 you'd be a very busy lady if you came to work for this department. 534 00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:09,760 I don't know about that. 535 00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:13,600 I find a lot of accusations boil down to not very much. 536 00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:16,440 Is that so? What if a teacher says to a young girl, 537 00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:20,440 "Come into bed with me and I'll give you an advance peep at the examination paper"? 538 00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:24,960 Oh! I can't believe Dr Ranta does that. 539 00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:26,800 You just try working here. 540 00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:31,920 Now that I think about it, 541 00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:35,600 I heard about that. 542 00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:40,080 The girl's name was Kitou Metsi, wasn't it? Kitou Metsi? No! 543 00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:42,440 It was my cousin's daughter, Solu. 544 00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:44,720 Yes, Solu. 545 00:40:44,720 --> 00:40:47,000 But it happened to nobody else? 546 00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:49,280 Well, she's the only one I know of for sure, 547 00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:52,880 but I see plenty of other girl students creeping into his office after hours. 548 00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:55,640 Nobody lifts a finger to stop his going-ons. 549 00:40:55,640 --> 00:40:57,680 He gets away with it every time. 550 00:40:57,680 --> 00:40:59,400 He doesn't have to. 551 00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:10,080 You know, it only takes one person to tell the truth. 552 00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:11,600 Just one. 553 00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:19,400 Ah, yes, I remember now. Michael's mother came nosing around asking questions 554 00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:23,360 and now I suppose she's paying you to do it for her. 555 00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:27,560 Well, I've nothing to add. He must have wandered off into the Kalahari and lost his way. 556 00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:29,160 It is easy to get lost out there. 557 00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:32,040 One thorn bush looks just like another. 558 00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:36,400 Dr Ranta, it is so obvious that you are not telling the truth. 559 00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:40,040 You may as well have a neon sign around your neck saying "liar". 560 00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:45,680 Please don't think your comic-book job gives you any right to come into my office and threaten me. 561 00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:48,400 Our talk is now finished and I must ask you to leave. 562 00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:50,480 I have papers to mark. 563 00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:54,800 Oh, but I have something in my bag that might interest you. 564 00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:57,920 It is a written statement from one of your students. 565 00:41:57,920 --> 00:41:59,840 You might know her. Her name is Solu. 566 00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:01,680 I don't know what you are talking about. 567 00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:04,080 Get out now or I will call security. 568 00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:05,800 You do know who I mean. 569 00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:10,520 I can prove you slept with her and that you showed her the examination papers in exchange. 570 00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:13,960 I also know another girl who's willing to swear 571 00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:17,000 that you offered her the exact same thing if she slept with you. 572 00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:19,400 That's two statements. 573 00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:21,200 It's called corroboration. 574 00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:24,200 We detectives like corroboration. 575 00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:30,800 So tell me, Dr Ranta, what will you do as an unemployed university lecturer? 576 00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:33,040 Will you go back to your village? 577 00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:35,160 Will you help with the cattle? 578 00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:38,800 What do you really want? 579 00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:46,320 I want to know the truth about Michael Curtin. 580 00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:48,960 And if I fail to tell the truth, I lose my job? 581 00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:53,120 Correct. But if I do tell the truth, 582 00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:56,720 As if they never existed. 583 00:42:56,720 --> 00:42:59,520 Very well. 584 00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:02,520 It was Clara's fault as much as mine. 585 00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:04,960 Until Michael turned up at the farm, 586 00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:07,440 she and I were doing fine, just fine. 587 00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:09,080 So you were in love with her, too? 588 00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:12,760 Let's tone down the violin, shall we? 589 00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:18,320 We would slip out at night to an old hut by a dried-up river bed. 590 00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:25,080 Then Michael turned up on the scene with his half-thought-out political ideals. 591 00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:27,760 Clara, of course, was impressed. 592 00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:32,960 I would see the two of them sitting together or going off for walks. 593 00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:39,120 Then they took a trip up to the north together. 594 00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:43,080 When they came back I asked her "What is going on?" 595 00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:46,480 She said she had something important to tell me. 596 00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:49,200 I said to her, straight out, 597 00:43:50,720 --> 00:43:53,000 had she been sleeping with him? 598 00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:54,840 She admitted it. 599 00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:56,400 I felt so betrayed. 600 00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:58,440 And angry. Of course! 601 00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:02,160 And you fought? I may have slapped 602 00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:05,480 Then what happened? Michael burst in. 603 00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:08,080 He had followed her. 604 00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:11,320 There was a struggle...and I ran. 605 00:44:11,320 --> 00:44:16,040 He came after me, but it was pitch dark and it was not difficult to lose him. 606 00:44:16,040 --> 00:44:18,000 Then everything went quiet. 607 00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:23,640 I felt completely alone. 608 00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:27,520 Then I heard Clara screaming. 609 00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:29,560 I ran back and... 610 00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:36,160 Michael had run head first into a deep ditch. 611 00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:40,480 He had broken his stupid, bloody neck. 612 00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:44,320 It was obvious no-one was going to believe it was an accident. So... 613 00:44:44,320 --> 00:44:46,360 You saw an anthill. 614 00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:49,240 How do you know that?It doesn't matter. 615 00:44:49,240 --> 00:44:51,800 You said she was going to tell you something important. 616 00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:54,600 What was it? 617 00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:57,200 That time they went away together. 618 00:44:57,200 --> 00:44:59,560 She and Michael had got married. 619 00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:04,320 Perhaps you can understand why I felt so betrayed? 620 00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:06,880 I understand more than that. 621 00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:09,840 Where is she now? 622 00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:15,560 I believe she is running a small hotel up north. 623 00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:18,680 Thank you. That's what I wanted to know. 624 00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:20,920 I want Solu's statement. 625 00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:23,040 I don't have a statement. 626 00:45:24,560 --> 00:45:29,720 Dr Ranta, for a clever man, you are remarkably easy to fool. 627 00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:39,600 Well, you said someone ought to stop it. 628 00:45:41,120 --> 00:45:44,040 Good luck on your new job. Thank you. 629 00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:01,160 Excuse me. 630 00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:05,360 Yes? 631 00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:08,280 I'm looking for Michael Curtin. 632 00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:10,920 I am Michael Curtin. 633 00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:14,520 I know. 634 00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:16,720 Can I help you? 635 00:47:16,720 --> 00:47:18,400 Clara Curtin? 636 00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:21,200 Who are you? 637 00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:25,400 I couldn't tell Ranta I was carryingOf course not. 638 00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:28,760 He was crazy enough as it was. So? 639 00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:34,960 Afterwards, he tried to make me help him hide Michael's body, but I couldn't. 640 00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:36,960 It was too much. 641 00:47:36,960 --> 00:47:39,800 He told me if I said anything to anyone, 642 00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:42,360 he would make sure I went to prison. 643 00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:46,120 I was frightened for myself... 644 00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:48,000 and my child. 645 00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:50,880 So I just... I ran. 646 00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:55,000 I moved around at first, afraid to tell anyone where I was. 647 00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:57,120 Then I ended up here. 648 00:47:57,120 --> 00:47:59,640 When the baby was born, 649 00:47:59,640 --> 00:48:04,520 I named him after his father and I brought him up on my own. 650 00:48:04,520 --> 00:48:08,160 Recently, he started to want to know about his daddy. 651 00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:11,000 That's why I took him to the farm. 652 00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:17,480 We made a fire and talked and laughed, just like his father and I used to do. 653 00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:20,720 Hm, he's a beautiful boy. 654 00:48:20,720 --> 00:48:25,040 If I had a son, I would want him to be like that. 655 00:48:25,040 --> 00:48:29,080 I'm proud that I have been a good mother, 656 00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:35,680 but what I did on that farm has haunted me ever since. 657 00:48:35,680 --> 00:48:38,560 I don't know if I can ever make up for it. 658 00:48:38,560 --> 00:48:41,760 Tell Michael's mother what happened. 659 00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:43,480 The truth. 660 00:48:43,480 --> 00:48:47,040 She cannot stop grieving until you do. 661 00:48:56,840 --> 00:48:59,400 What will you do when you grow up? 662 00:48:59,400 --> 00:49:02,160 I'm going to study agriculture. 663 00:49:02,160 --> 00:49:04,200 That's a very good thing to do. 664 00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:06,320 It's what your father would have wanted. 665 00:49:06,320 --> 00:49:08,440 It reminds me, 666 00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:11,880 I have something of yours. 667 00:49:16,560 --> 00:49:18,280 I did that! 668 00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:19,640 I know. 669 00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:22,040 Take it with you. Never lose it. 670 00:49:22,040 --> 00:49:24,040 It's what brought us all together. 671 00:49:24,040 --> 00:49:29,520 And this...is a gift for your new grandmother. 672 00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:35,800 I brought this basket from an old lady on the side of the road on the very day I met you. 673 00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:37,360 You see the picture on the side? 674 00:49:37,360 --> 00:49:39,600 Yes. Do you know what it means? 675 00:49:39,600 --> 00:49:42,840 No. Do you want me to tell you? Yes. 676 00:49:49,040 --> 00:49:54,080 OK, now, you know what a giraffe is, right? See the small marks? 677 00:49:54,080 --> 00:49:56,480 Those are tears... 678 00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:00,960 Good. 679 00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:04,640 Michael. 680 00:50:09,840 --> 00:50:12,840 Your father's mother wants to meet you, OK? 681 00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:15,080 She's a very nice lady. 682 00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:19,360 I want you to be on your best behaviour, OK? 683 00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:32,040 Hello. 684 00:50:33,680 --> 00:50:36,000 This is for you, grandmother. 685 00:50:37,520 --> 00:50:39,160 It's lovely. 686 00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:41,760 Thank you. Let me have a look at it. 687 00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:46,640 There's a meaning in it. There is. 688 00:50:46,640 --> 00:50:49,000 These little marks are tears. 689 00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:51,120 Tears? 690 00:50:51,120 --> 00:50:55,920 The giraffe gives its tears to the ladies to weave into the basket. 691 00:50:57,800 --> 00:51:05,080 It means that everyone in the world has something to give, but the giraffe only has its tears. 692 00:51:05,080 --> 00:51:07,520 They're all he's got. 693 00:51:10,280 --> 00:51:12,960 Thank you, Michael. 694 00:51:25,080 --> 00:51:30,280 If you had not found Oswald Ranta, I never would have solved this case. 695 00:51:30,280 --> 00:51:32,720 It was nothing. I just used my head. 696 00:51:32,720 --> 00:51:38,120 Use of one's head is the primary qualification of a good detective. 697 00:51:38,120 --> 00:51:43,240 As of tomorrow, you will be promoted to assistant detective. 698 00:51:43,240 --> 00:51:47,360 I wish you many congratulations on your breaking of the glass ceiling. 699 00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:51,360 Nnyaa, mma. 700 00:51:51,360 --> 00:51:53,760 I cannot accept. 701 00:51:53,760 --> 00:51:57,800 I do not have the true qualities necessary for this work. 702 00:51:59,360 --> 00:52:01,200 Mma... I must say this. 703 00:52:02,720 --> 00:52:06,920 I've watched you all this time and I see that you are not afraid to tell the truth, 704 00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:09,720 whatever the risk to yourself. 705 00:52:11,240 --> 00:52:14,000 There's something I have to say to you, 706 00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:19,080 something I have not said and because... 707 00:52:19,080 --> 00:52:21,640 I am a coward. 708 00:52:24,760 --> 00:52:28,080 I have a brother. 709 00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:29,760 He's sick. 710 00:52:29,760 --> 00:52:32,040 He is very sick. 711 00:52:32,040 --> 00:52:34,960 He attended Nurse Soloi's clinic for a few weeks. 712 00:52:34,960 --> 00:52:36,640 He was one of her patients. 713 00:52:36,640 --> 00:52:38,200 That is how I know her. 714 00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:39,920 He did not stay. 715 00:52:39,920 --> 00:52:42,040 He would not take the drugs. 716 00:52:42,040 --> 00:52:44,680 He would not even talk about it. 717 00:52:46,640 --> 00:52:51,720 I do everything for him. 718 00:52:51,720 --> 00:52:54,240 It is difficult 719 00:52:54,240 --> 00:52:57,120 for some people to accept 720 00:52:57,120 --> 00:52:59,280 they have the sickness. 721 00:52:59,280 --> 00:53:02,360 Ee, mma. That is right. 722 00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:05,000 And that is me. 723 00:53:05,000 --> 00:53:07,320 I know it is nothing to be ashamed of, 724 00:53:07,320 --> 00:53:10,160 but I still cannot accept this. 725 00:53:15,560 --> 00:53:17,080 I'm sorry, 726 00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:20,920 but I definitely... 727 00:53:22,440 --> 00:53:24,320 cannot... 728 00:53:24,320 --> 00:53:26,960 accept your kind offer. 729 00:53:26,960 --> 00:53:29,160 Grace Makutsi, 730 00:53:30,920 --> 00:53:37,280 it is good that you love your brother. 731 00:53:37,280 --> 00:53:38,800 What is his name? 732 00:53:40,320 --> 00:53:41,880 Richard. 733 00:53:41,880 --> 00:53:44,840 Richard. 734 00:53:44,840 --> 00:53:51,520 It is a wonderful thing that you take care of Richard. 735 00:53:51,520 --> 00:53:55,680 There is no other person 736 00:53:55,680 --> 00:54:03,080 on the face of this great continent that I would be more proud to have as an assistant detective. 737 00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:08,480 At no extra pay. 738 00:54:11,160 --> 00:54:16,040 Please do me the honour of accepting. 739 00:54:23,440 --> 00:54:25,080 Come. 740 00:54:47,960 --> 00:54:50,200 PRIEST SPEAKS IN LOCAL DIALECT 741 00:54:52,360 --> 00:54:53,640 Thank you. 742 00:55:10,120 --> 00:55:11,440 Thank you. 743 00:55:17,160 --> 00:55:19,800 Thank you, my sister. 744 00:55:19,800 --> 00:55:22,040 Excuse me for one moment. 745 00:55:22,040 --> 00:55:23,600 There is something I need to do. 746 00:56:02,600 --> 00:56:06,240 I held him in my arms for six hours. 747 00:56:40,760 --> 00:56:42,800 SHE EXHALES SHARPLY 748 00:57:22,760 --> 00:57:27,080 Mma Makutsi, case number one. You must follow her and see where she goes. 749 00:57:27,080 --> 00:57:32,160 If you were to come with us, Mma Ramotswe would be VERY jealous! 750 00:57:32,160 --> 00:57:34,120 ALARM SOUNDS What did they take? 751 00:57:34,120 --> 00:57:35,440 My new CCTV camera. 752 00:57:35,440 --> 00:57:37,880 Before I met her, I was resigned to loneliness. 753 00:57:37,880 --> 00:57:39,960 Now I cannot be happy without her. 754 00:57:39,960 --> 00:57:41,760 Do you want to go to the police? 755 00:57:41,760 --> 00:57:44,000 No, that is why I came to you. 756 00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:46,080 I promised her anonymity. 757 00:57:46,080 --> 00:57:48,480 Conspiracy of silence. That is what breeds crime. 758 00:57:49,640 --> 00:57:51,640 You must tell me what I need to know. 759 00:58:12,680 --> 00:58:15,720 Subtitles by Red Bee Media Ltd 760 00:58:15,720 --> 00:58:18,760 Email: subtitling@bbc.co.uk 761 00:58:18,810 --> 00:58:23,360 Repair and Synchronization by Easy Subtitles Synchronizer 1.0.0.0