1 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:35,200 ALL CHANT: 1, 2, 3, 4. No-one wins a nuclear war! 2 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:36,400 1, 2, 3, 4... 3 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:53,880 1, 2, 3, 4. No-one wins a nuclear war! 4 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:56,520 1, 2, 3, 4. No-one wins a nuclear war! 5 00:00:56,520 --> 00:01:01,240 1, 2, 3, 4. No-one wins a nuclear war! 6 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:04,800 1, 2, 3, 4. No-one wins a nuclear war! 7 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:11,200 1, 2, 3, 4. No-one wins a nuclear war! 8 00:01:14,765 --> 00:01:16,405 Hey, back, you stay back. 9 00:01:16,405 --> 00:01:19,205 1, 2, 3, 4. No-one wins a nuclear war! 10 00:01:19,205 --> 00:01:20,245 I am warning you. 11 00:01:20,245 --> 00:01:21,965 What are you going to do? 12 00:01:21,965 --> 00:01:24,285 WHISTLE PEEPS 13 00:01:49,325 --> 00:01:53,685 Get off me! Come on. 14 00:01:53,685 --> 00:01:57,565 Straight down. Bit of overtime? 15 00:01:57,565 --> 00:02:00,445 You missed a right good scrap, sir. Hundreds of them turned up. 16 00:02:00,445 --> 00:02:02,805 Where's your collar numbers, John? 17 00:02:04,325 --> 00:02:06,205 Must have got tugged off. 18 00:02:06,205 --> 00:02:08,605 On both sides? It was a hell of a scrap, sir. 19 00:02:08,605 --> 00:02:13,165 Ow! You're breaking my arm! 20 00:02:14,885 --> 00:02:19,605 CROWD: We hate the pigs! We hate the pigs! 21 00:02:22,405 --> 00:02:23,565 I need your name, sir. 22 00:02:23,565 --> 00:02:26,805 I want a lawyer present. We can't get you a lawyer without a name. 23 00:02:26,805 --> 00:02:29,645 How's he supposed to know who to send his bill to? 24 00:02:29,645 --> 00:02:31,685 Who's in charge here...? 25 00:02:31,685 --> 00:02:35,125 Is it you? No, sir, I'm a Chief Inspector. 26 00:02:35,125 --> 00:02:39,165 What's your number? My name is DCI George Gently. 27 00:02:39,165 --> 00:02:42,925 Make a note of that. I haven't been offered a phone call. 28 00:02:42,925 --> 00:02:46,725 That's because you've only been arrested, sir. You haven't been charged with an offence. 29 00:02:46,725 --> 00:02:50,805 I teach at the university. I think I know my rights. Would you like to be charged with an offence? 30 00:02:50,805 --> 00:02:54,085 No, but I do want to make a complaint. I've been assaulted. 31 00:02:54,085 --> 00:02:55,325 Let this officer book you in 32 00:02:55,325 --> 00:02:58,525 and then you can register your complaint. And you'll throw it in the bin. 33 00:02:58,525 --> 00:03:00,765 Nazi! Oi! 34 00:03:00,765 --> 00:03:06,125 Show some respect! Oink, oink! 35 00:03:06,125 --> 00:03:10,005 ALL: Oink, oink! Oink, oink! 36 00:03:10,005 --> 00:03:11,285 Shut up! 37 00:03:11,285 --> 00:03:12,645 ALL: Oink, oink! Oink, oink! 38 00:03:12,645 --> 00:03:16,405 You want to go straight into the cells, eh? Anybody still singing... 39 00:03:16,405 --> 00:03:18,685 Right open the doors! 40 00:03:26,805 --> 00:03:28,125 Come on, John. 41 00:03:28,605 --> 00:03:33,085 You're not Greavsie, keep it simple! 42 00:03:36,285 --> 00:03:38,365 Shoot! Shoot! 43 00:03:38,365 --> 00:03:41,165 Yes! 44 00:03:46,245 --> 00:03:49,005 Oi! England could use you in the World Cup. 45 00:03:49,005 --> 00:03:51,165 I didn't know you were a fan, sir. 46 00:03:51,165 --> 00:03:53,805 I'm not. Come on, get changed. 47 00:03:53,805 --> 00:03:57,405 We've got a job on. Murder? Friend of yours apparently. 48 00:04:06,725 --> 00:04:09,365 We found him floating in the dock this morning. 49 00:04:09,365 --> 00:04:13,045 He and his CND colleagues had been drinking in that pub there. 50 00:04:13,045 --> 00:04:15,645 He might of had a few and lost his footing? 51 00:04:21,005 --> 00:04:24,085 He's been in a fight of some sort. 52 00:04:24,085 --> 00:04:25,645 Blow to the back of his head. 53 00:04:30,685 --> 00:04:33,645 Yes. And Gouge marks on his face as well. 54 00:04:41,085 --> 00:04:46,045 Some of these injuries could have been post mortem, bobbing about on the dock all night. 55 00:04:46,045 --> 00:04:49,005 We won't know till we get the pathologist's report. 56 00:04:58,005 --> 00:05:01,205 Sir. 57 00:05:01,205 --> 00:05:03,965 He's got oil on his clothes. 58 00:05:15,485 --> 00:05:21,165 John. Looks like he's been dragged. 59 00:05:25,165 --> 00:05:28,525 It's not an accident that, is it? No. I don't think so. 60 00:05:28,525 --> 00:05:31,365 He was unconscious when he was put in the water. 61 00:05:31,365 --> 00:05:34,445 Cos if he had been conscious he would have resisted. 62 00:05:34,445 --> 00:05:36,605 He'd have writhed about a bit. 63 00:05:36,605 --> 00:05:38,125 < Sir! Over here, sir. 64 00:05:44,805 --> 00:05:46,845 It's a blood splatter, sir. What? 65 00:05:46,845 --> 00:05:49,285 Is that blood? 66 00:05:52,085 --> 00:05:53,605 Guv. 67 00:05:57,525 --> 00:06:00,845 It's blood. Maybe this is where he was whacked in the head. 68 00:06:02,365 --> 00:06:05,525 Apparently he left the pub last night with one of his students. 69 00:06:05,525 --> 00:06:07,445 Name of Elizabeth Higgs. 70 00:06:07,445 --> 00:06:09,405 She hasn't been seen since. 71 00:06:09,405 --> 00:06:11,885 Right. 72 00:06:12,925 --> 00:06:15,845 Do you want us to call in at your place? Why? 73 00:06:15,845 --> 00:06:17,725 You might want to pick up a clean shirt. 74 00:06:17,725 --> 00:06:21,005 We are going to a place of higher learning after all. 75 00:06:23,005 --> 00:06:26,125 I just haven't been to the laundrette this week. Ok. 76 00:06:26,125 --> 00:06:29,645 Lisa is still at her Mum and Dads. 77 00:06:29,645 --> 00:06:32,925 She definitely wants a divorce. And? 78 00:06:32,925 --> 00:06:36,725 She expects me to stand up in court and say I've been with other women! 79 00:06:36,725 --> 00:06:38,885 Well, you have... 80 00:06:38,885 --> 00:06:42,525 No other way? Yes, she'll have to wait for five years. 81 00:06:51,365 --> 00:06:55,005 I've never actually set foot inside this place. 82 00:06:55,005 --> 00:06:59,845 I was invited to participate in a debate here a few months back. 83 00:06:59,845 --> 00:07:02,045 Debate what? 84 00:07:02,045 --> 00:07:04,445 "The Law Is An Ass." 85 00:07:04,445 --> 00:07:06,845 How did that go? 86 00:07:06,845 --> 00:07:08,965 They expected me to oppose the motion. 87 00:07:10,485 --> 00:07:12,925 I had an aunt who came here. 88 00:07:12,925 --> 00:07:15,085 Did you really? Yes, yes. 89 00:07:15,085 --> 00:07:16,885 She used to clean the dorms. 90 00:07:19,205 --> 00:07:20,805 She said they were a mucky lot. 91 00:07:35,805 --> 00:07:39,245 If I could just ask you to sign there, gentlemen. 92 00:07:39,245 --> 00:07:44,725 Certainly. We log all our visitors, even officers of the law. 93 00:07:44,725 --> 00:07:48,005 We're told Miss Higgs shared a room with another girl? 94 00:07:48,005 --> 00:07:49,605 Miss Doyle, sir. 95 00:07:49,605 --> 00:07:52,085 Not the best of influences I'm afraid. 96 00:07:54,605 --> 00:07:56,325 There you go. Thank you. 97 00:07:56,325 --> 00:07:58,645 I'll show you up. 98 00:08:00,165 --> 00:08:02,325 I see you were in the desert? 99 00:08:02,325 --> 00:08:04,965 I was a mosquito, sir. 100 00:08:04,965 --> 00:08:07,565 You were lucky. I had to march. 101 00:08:07,565 --> 00:08:09,405 Were you with the Eighth? 102 00:08:09,405 --> 00:08:11,285 Came in at Salerno. 103 00:08:12,805 --> 00:08:15,565 You wonder if it was all worth it now, don't you, sir? 104 00:08:15,565 --> 00:08:19,005 The sacrifice. For this mob. 105 00:08:23,285 --> 00:08:25,325 MUSIC BLARES 106 00:08:28,525 --> 00:08:30,605 No thought for anyone else of course. 107 00:08:32,445 --> 00:08:36,805 You the Head Porter here? I have been since I was demobbed in '47, sir. 108 00:08:38,725 --> 00:08:40,965 Decent girl Miss Higgs. 109 00:08:40,965 --> 00:08:43,645 Worked ever so hard to get herself here. 110 00:08:43,645 --> 00:08:45,605 Father's only a welder. 111 00:08:45,605 --> 00:08:48,365 It's through here, gentlemen. 112 00:08:52,565 --> 00:08:55,885 Thank you. I'll be at the front desk if you need me, sir. 113 00:08:59,565 --> 00:09:01,845 He's a right old coot him, ain't he! 114 00:09:01,845 --> 00:09:04,885 His war service is fairly impressive. 115 00:09:04,885 --> 00:09:06,685 Did you see the Military Cross? 116 00:09:09,325 --> 00:09:11,925 The boys in blue. 117 00:09:11,925 --> 00:09:14,925 I'm Professor Mallory Brown, Elizabeth's tutor. 118 00:09:14,925 --> 00:09:16,565 You teach Elizabeth...? 119 00:09:16,565 --> 00:09:18,165 Civil Law... 120 00:09:18,165 --> 00:09:20,405 I have all her records in my study. 121 00:09:20,405 --> 00:09:21,925 Follow me. 122 00:09:23,725 --> 00:09:27,045 What do I call you? Chief Inspector. 123 00:09:27,045 --> 00:09:30,405 As in Clouseau? As in Gently. 124 00:09:30,405 --> 00:09:32,525 Do you know what happened? 125 00:09:32,525 --> 00:09:34,925 We've established it wasn't an accident. 126 00:09:34,925 --> 00:09:37,325 And Elizabeth? 127 00:09:37,325 --> 00:09:41,285 So far we've found no trace of her. 128 00:09:41,285 --> 00:09:43,965 Is that good news? It could be. 129 00:09:43,965 --> 00:09:46,045 She is one of our best students. 130 00:09:46,045 --> 00:09:48,685 Serious, committed. 131 00:09:48,685 --> 00:09:51,325 Had a mountain to climb to get here. 132 00:09:51,325 --> 00:09:54,725 Yes. I understand that she's from a humble background. 133 00:09:54,725 --> 00:09:58,205 She also has the handicap of being a woman. 134 00:09:58,205 --> 00:10:01,925 I didn't think that made any difference these days. 135 00:10:01,925 --> 00:10:03,445 Did you not? 136 00:10:09,725 --> 00:10:12,845 You don't seem overly concerned about Mr Barratt? 137 00:10:14,645 --> 00:10:18,765 Well, any man's death diminishes me, of course. 138 00:10:18,765 --> 00:10:21,925 Do you know of anybody who might have held a grudge against him? 139 00:10:21,925 --> 00:10:25,965 Half the female population of the university! 140 00:10:25,965 --> 00:10:30,165 Fraser embraced the ideology of sexual liberation with gusto. 141 00:10:30,165 --> 00:10:33,405 Spreading the gospel of free love even unto the freshers. 142 00:10:35,605 --> 00:10:39,245 I'm sure you think our campaign threatens the safety of the Realm. 143 00:10:39,245 --> 00:10:40,965 It doesn't matter what I think. 144 00:10:40,965 --> 00:10:44,965 You're very wrong. It does. This issue affects every single one of us. 145 00:10:44,965 --> 00:10:48,485 A nuclear war will wipe us all from the face of the Earth. 146 00:10:48,485 --> 00:10:50,965 You fought in the war? Yes. 147 00:10:50,965 --> 00:10:52,765 Do you want to see another one? 148 00:10:54,285 --> 00:10:57,965 I don't believe rioting will achieve peace. 149 00:10:57,965 --> 00:11:00,165 I don't sanction the violence. 150 00:11:00,165 --> 00:11:03,165 I'm a pacifist. That's the whole point of CND. 151 00:11:03,165 --> 00:11:08,605 Is it? It's Fraser Barratt and his Trotskyite faction who argued for violence. 152 00:11:10,125 --> 00:11:12,965 It discourages decent people from turning up, 153 00:11:12,965 --> 00:11:15,325 scares them away. 154 00:11:15,325 --> 00:11:17,725 You'd almost think that... 155 00:11:17,725 --> 00:11:23,685 Think what? That the State was paying people like Fraser to undermine us. 156 00:11:23,685 --> 00:11:26,765 Perhaps there are some decent people who don't support your aims. 157 00:11:26,765 --> 00:11:31,405 Of ending nuclear war? Of leaving us defenceless against the Soviet Bloc. 158 00:12:08,285 --> 00:12:12,205 Where's Elizabeth? Have you locked her up again? No. 159 00:12:12,205 --> 00:12:15,605 Why, should we? Well, where is she then? She didn't come back last night. 160 00:12:15,605 --> 00:12:18,325 Her parents haven't heard from her either. 161 00:12:18,325 --> 00:12:21,805 She would hardly go there! She's got nothing in common with them. 162 00:12:21,805 --> 00:12:25,565 Hasn't she? They work in factories and things. They don't understand her. 163 00:12:27,925 --> 00:12:29,765 Who's this fella then? 164 00:12:29,765 --> 00:12:33,045 Che! Has he got a second name? Guevara. 165 00:12:35,925 --> 00:12:38,125 I take it he's her boyfriend? 166 00:12:38,125 --> 00:12:40,685 Have you really never heard of him? 167 00:12:46,725 --> 00:12:48,365 Does she have a boyfriend? 168 00:12:49,965 --> 00:12:51,405 Well, she did. 169 00:12:55,245 --> 00:12:58,565 She was courting Fraser Barratt? 170 00:13:00,085 --> 00:13:01,605 It's rather over now. 171 00:13:01,605 --> 00:13:03,965 Poor old Fraser. 172 00:13:03,965 --> 00:13:06,245 Were you in the pub with him last night? 173 00:13:06,245 --> 00:13:08,005 Yeah. We all were. 174 00:13:08,005 --> 00:13:12,525 After you lot let us split your sty we all went back to the docks. Rally the troops. 175 00:13:17,365 --> 00:13:19,525 Change is coming, people! 176 00:13:22,645 --> 00:13:28,485 The world is turning! Things aren't going to be this way for much longer. 177 00:13:31,085 --> 00:13:33,085 Today, in the North East 178 00:13:33,085 --> 00:13:38,765 we stood up and we said, "No to Polaris, 179 00:13:38,765 --> 00:13:43,285 "no to the bomb and no to war!". 180 00:13:45,765 --> 00:13:52,525 Instead we say, "Yes, to grooving, yes, to peace 181 00:13:52,525 --> 00:13:55,005 and yes, to love"! 182 00:13:55,005 --> 00:13:58,765 Right on. 183 00:14:00,725 --> 00:14:08,205 And don't think, comrades, that because we failed to stop these evil submarines arriving 184 00:14:08,205 --> 00:14:11,165 here today that the battle is lost. 185 00:14:11,165 --> 00:14:12,925 Oh, no! 186 00:14:12,925 --> 00:14:16,045 We have plans! 187 00:14:16,045 --> 00:14:19,365 We will enter that yard! 188 00:14:19,365 --> 00:14:23,965 And we will send these deadly toys back. 189 00:14:29,565 --> 00:14:32,005 Is it true? 190 00:14:32,005 --> 00:14:35,005 What's true, pet? What I just heard? 191 00:14:35,005 --> 00:14:40,125 Probably. How could you? 192 00:14:40,125 --> 00:14:43,645 Look. Don't get all heavy with me now. 193 00:14:53,685 --> 00:14:55,765 A row. 194 00:14:55,765 --> 00:15:01,245 About what? What do guys and chicks usually argue about? 195 00:15:01,245 --> 00:15:03,885 I told her I'd done Fraser. 196 00:15:06,805 --> 00:15:10,805 You also had relations with Mr Barratt. 197 00:15:10,805 --> 00:15:13,485 I didn't have "relations" with him pork chops. 198 00:15:13,485 --> 00:15:15,485 I HAD him. 199 00:15:15,485 --> 00:15:17,565 You do know what that means? 200 00:15:17,565 --> 00:15:19,325 'Course. 201 00:15:20,885 --> 00:15:22,525 Far out. 202 00:15:27,045 --> 00:15:29,645 French letters. Hardly a surprise. 203 00:15:33,805 --> 00:15:36,605 Cigarette papers. Matches. 204 00:15:36,605 --> 00:15:39,245 He was a Communist Party member. Is that legal? 205 00:15:39,245 --> 00:15:42,245 We did win the war you know, John. 206 00:15:42,245 --> 00:15:44,805 It's a free society. It was for him. 207 00:15:44,805 --> 00:15:48,405 He was having it away with half the girls on campus. 208 00:15:48,405 --> 00:15:50,725 Look how much he was getting paid! 209 00:15:53,285 --> 00:15:54,965 They are our taxes, you know. 210 00:15:54,965 --> 00:15:57,325 Makes you wish you'd paid attention at school, doesn't it? 211 00:16:02,965 --> 00:16:05,405 Is that what I think it is? 212 00:16:06,925 --> 00:16:09,205 Yes. Cannabis resin. 213 00:16:09,205 --> 00:16:14,445 It's a bit late to charge him with it now, ain't it? 214 00:16:14,445 --> 00:16:17,885 What do you think caused this injury to the back of his head? 215 00:16:19,765 --> 00:16:21,805 A blunt instrument. 216 00:16:21,805 --> 00:16:24,045 Weighty. 217 00:16:24,045 --> 00:16:26,085 A club? 218 00:16:26,085 --> 00:16:27,765 Yes, something like that. 219 00:16:27,765 --> 00:16:29,885 A truncheon? 220 00:16:29,885 --> 00:16:31,885 Could be. 221 00:16:33,405 --> 00:16:37,445 When Mr Barratt was detained here, he wanted to make a complaint. 222 00:16:37,445 --> 00:16:39,645 He threatened to. 223 00:16:39,645 --> 00:16:41,165 Did he? Don't think so. 224 00:16:45,165 --> 00:16:48,405 We nearly lost control of them. We had to weigh in. 225 00:16:48,405 --> 00:16:50,165 So he might have got a clump? 226 00:16:50,165 --> 00:16:56,965 If they had broken through our lines and got into that dock they'd have had the Navy to deal with. 227 00:17:00,685 --> 00:17:05,285 Could this have killed him? I can't give an opinion until I've done the post mortem. 228 00:17:05,285 --> 00:17:10,485 But from a superficial examination I think it's unlikely. 229 00:17:10,485 --> 00:17:16,165 So he might not have been drunk, he could have been suffering from delayed concussion. 230 00:17:16,165 --> 00:17:22,285 Yes, highly possible. So if he was still dizzy when he left the pub, he'd be easy prey. 231 00:17:22,285 --> 00:17:24,285 Yes, he would. 232 00:17:24,285 --> 00:17:28,165 Anyone would have been able to overpower him. Even a woman. 233 00:17:39,005 --> 00:17:41,685 Morning, Guv. 234 00:17:41,685 --> 00:17:43,205 All right. 235 00:17:52,685 --> 00:17:54,725 Morning, sir! 236 00:17:54,725 --> 00:17:56,805 Well, Gently, any progress? 237 00:17:56,805 --> 00:18:00,685 Not much, we've issued her photo to the press, no response, so far. 238 00:18:00,685 --> 00:18:02,925 I'm struggling for boots with all these demos. 239 00:18:02,925 --> 00:18:05,765 We will apply ourselves, Chief Constable. 240 00:18:05,765 --> 00:18:10,485 With Polaris in the County we are going to be under an intense spotlight. 241 00:18:10,485 --> 00:18:17,125 Which means that if we can make it through to Christmas without incident it's gongs all round. 242 00:18:17,125 --> 00:18:22,365 No doubt. Now we've got this Association Football tournament nonsense coming here as well. 243 00:18:22,365 --> 00:18:24,765 Just means more louts. 244 00:18:27,085 --> 00:18:29,605 Association Football tournament! 245 00:18:29,605 --> 00:18:32,005 What is he talking about? 246 00:18:32,005 --> 00:18:34,445 Not a clue! Sir. 247 00:18:34,445 --> 00:18:36,285 They've dredged something up. 248 00:18:43,125 --> 00:18:44,805 Is this it? 249 00:18:44,805 --> 00:18:46,365 Pulled it out an hour ago, sir. 250 00:19:02,085 --> 00:19:05,125 Why would she throw this away? 251 00:19:05,125 --> 00:19:07,445 Maybe she went in with it. 252 00:19:13,805 --> 00:19:16,485 It looks like a child's hand writing, doesn't it? 253 00:19:22,085 --> 00:19:25,085 Does the name "David Swift" mean anything to anybody? 254 00:19:25,085 --> 00:19:27,245 You mean Swifty? 255 00:19:27,245 --> 00:19:29,005 Aye, he works at the dockyards over here. 256 00:19:29,005 --> 00:19:33,485 You'll find him in his caravan around the corner. Thank you. 257 00:19:33,485 --> 00:19:35,485 Get this in a box for us, will you? 258 00:19:35,485 --> 00:19:38,325 Yes, sir. 259 00:19:38,325 --> 00:19:43,325 THICK GEORDIE ACCENT: I already spoke to your lads. 260 00:19:43,325 --> 00:19:46,965 He said he's already been interviewed. Where's Swift now? 261 00:19:46,965 --> 00:19:49,565 I divvent knaa. He diwnae been back hym sin Satdee neet. 262 00:19:49,565 --> 00:19:52,645 He doesn't know. He hasn't seen him since Saturday night. 263 00:19:52,645 --> 00:19:54,245 All right if we have a look in here? 264 00:19:54,245 --> 00:19:56,845 Aye gan reet aheid an help yorsel. 265 00:20:00,805 --> 00:20:03,605 He's canny lad like. Parish bairn. 266 00:20:03,605 --> 00:20:05,645 He's all right. He's an orphan. He rents this place does he? 267 00:20:05,645 --> 00:20:07,885 Two bob a week. Two shillings a week. 268 00:20:07,885 --> 00:20:10,205 Thank you, John. I understood that. 269 00:20:10,205 --> 00:20:12,245 That's his bed there. 270 00:20:16,805 --> 00:20:18,845 Is that him? 271 00:20:18,845 --> 00:20:20,365 Aye, that's him. 272 00:20:35,525 --> 00:20:38,165 Where exactly is this Polaris submarine? 273 00:20:38,165 --> 00:20:42,125 The Naval dry docks just through there, sir. 274 00:20:42,125 --> 00:20:44,005 Who's got a key to these gates? 275 00:20:44,005 --> 00:20:46,965 Whoever's on watch. Me or Swifty. 276 00:21:02,005 --> 00:21:03,565 Do you smell bacon? 277 00:21:05,085 --> 00:21:07,685 News? I'm afraid not. 278 00:21:14,045 --> 00:21:15,725 David Swift, 279 00:21:15,725 --> 00:21:17,285 earnest lad. 280 00:21:17,285 --> 00:21:20,525 We met him one day when we were out leafleting the dock workers. 281 00:21:20,525 --> 00:21:22,325 Hoping to get them onto our side. 282 00:21:22,325 --> 00:21:25,565 He's very eager to improve himself. 283 00:21:25,565 --> 00:21:28,725 Elizabeth offered to teach him to read. 284 00:21:28,725 --> 00:21:31,885 Were they romantically connected? 285 00:21:31,885 --> 00:21:34,605 She was infatuated with Fraser. 286 00:21:34,605 --> 00:21:37,445 But Fraser Barratt and David Swift knew each other? 287 00:21:38,965 --> 00:21:42,205 Well, I suppose they may have done. 288 00:21:42,205 --> 00:21:45,245 Fraser loved the working people as a class, 289 00:21:45,245 --> 00:21:50,605 he proclaimed that with his help they would shortly inherit 290 00:21:50,605 --> 00:21:55,885 the earth. But he had very little interest in any of its individual representatives. 291 00:21:55,885 --> 00:22:01,605 David Swift lives just a few minutes away from where Barratt was killed. 292 00:22:01,605 --> 00:22:03,125 Any thoughts on that? 293 00:22:04,765 --> 00:22:07,125 No. Have you? 294 00:22:08,965 --> 00:22:12,565 It seems more than mere coincidence. 295 00:22:12,565 --> 00:22:15,965 And Elizabeth? The jotter's wet. 296 00:22:15,965 --> 00:22:17,925 We only found her satchel. 297 00:22:17,925 --> 00:22:20,525 We've no idea where she is. 298 00:22:30,885 --> 00:22:33,045 Oh, oh. Fuzz alert. 299 00:22:38,565 --> 00:22:41,125 Hello. You heard from Elizabeth? 300 00:22:41,125 --> 00:22:44,925 No, why? Do you know where she is? I wish I did. 301 00:22:48,045 --> 00:22:52,085 I hear you're in the midst of a Sexual Revolution. 302 00:22:52,085 --> 00:22:56,565 I was reading your posters. 303 00:22:56,565 --> 00:22:58,725 You should jump on board, baby. 304 00:22:58,725 --> 00:23:01,525 You can't make love if you're wearing chains. 305 00:23:03,485 --> 00:23:06,965 Kick the bishop out the bedroom and that old judge goes too. 306 00:23:06,965 --> 00:23:11,245 Everyone is free to do exactly what they feel, whenever they feel like it. 307 00:23:11,245 --> 00:23:13,525 You'll see a totally different world. 308 00:23:13,525 --> 00:23:16,565 Aye, YOU will! 309 00:23:16,565 --> 00:23:18,805 If we're all making love. 310 00:23:18,805 --> 00:23:20,805 We won't have time to make bombs. 311 00:23:20,805 --> 00:23:23,245 I might give it a go. 312 00:23:23,245 --> 00:23:27,365 There's nothing that hasn't been done before. 313 00:23:27,365 --> 00:23:29,325 Just that nobody has to lie about it any more. 314 00:23:29,325 --> 00:23:30,885 Sniffer dog, sniffer dog. 315 00:23:30,885 --> 00:23:33,485 Snoop's about, got to split. 316 00:23:41,565 --> 00:23:45,125 Not invited you on board the Love Train then? 317 00:23:45,125 --> 00:23:47,085 No chance of that. 318 00:23:47,085 --> 00:23:48,845 They're getting their way though. 319 00:23:48,845 --> 00:23:52,445 Soviets will be coming here soon. Only for football, we hope. 320 00:23:52,445 --> 00:23:56,965 Roker Park will be sold out with all the Commies up here. Aye. 321 00:23:56,965 --> 00:24:01,885 The way things are going, there'll be a statue of Lenin on Gilesgate and all be learning Russian. 322 00:24:01,885 --> 00:24:05,285 They've already taken over this place. 323 00:24:05,285 --> 00:24:07,885 Their tendrils reach everywhere. 324 00:24:07,885 --> 00:24:11,005 Even the governors. What do you mean? 325 00:24:11,005 --> 00:24:12,845 Water under the bridge now. 326 00:24:19,245 --> 00:24:20,965 Sir. 327 00:24:20,965 --> 00:24:25,165 Charles the Head Porter and Barratt had a big fall out three weeks ago. 328 00:24:25,165 --> 00:24:27,725 Really, why? 329 00:24:27,725 --> 00:24:33,565 He discovered that Barratt had stayed overnight in Elizabeth Higgs' room. 330 00:24:33,565 --> 00:24:37,205 Now this is against College rules. Listen... 331 00:24:37,205 --> 00:24:42,925 "Any inappropriate relationship between academic staff and students is strictly forbidden". 332 00:24:42,925 --> 00:24:45,725 So presumably he reported him? 333 00:24:45,725 --> 00:24:49,285 Yes, he did and Barratt would have been sacked for this. 334 00:24:49,285 --> 00:24:53,645 But Professor Mallory Brown stepped in and saved his skin. 335 00:24:53,645 --> 00:24:58,445 Claimed that he'd been working with her all that evening. Maybe he had? 336 00:24:58,445 --> 00:25:00,525 Maybe he had but wait for this. 337 00:25:00,525 --> 00:25:06,605 When Barratt was off the hook he turned it all against Charles. 338 00:25:06,605 --> 00:25:09,285 Said that Charles told lies. 339 00:25:09,285 --> 00:25:12,485 Said he'd been slandered and then he tried to get Charles fired. 340 00:25:14,005 --> 00:25:18,965 What was the outcome? The Governors are still considering whether to reprimand him. 341 00:25:20,525 --> 00:25:23,005 Well, bring him in. Let's see what he has to say. 342 00:25:24,765 --> 00:25:29,725 Barratt stayed overnight in the room of a female student. 343 00:25:29,725 --> 00:25:32,445 I reported him as I am duty bound to do. 344 00:25:32,445 --> 00:25:37,885 Unfortunately, the governors accepted his denials. 345 00:25:37,885 --> 00:25:41,405 That must have been very wounding for you? 346 00:25:41,405 --> 00:25:46,325 They could hardly accuse two of their academic staff of lying. And were they? 347 00:25:46,325 --> 00:25:48,325 Absolutely. 348 00:25:48,325 --> 00:25:54,885 Both Barratt and Professor Brown are driven by political ambitions. 349 00:25:54,885 --> 00:25:59,845 The interests of their young students seem not to register with either of them. 350 00:25:59,845 --> 00:26:03,965 Surely they have a right to protest? No doubt. 351 00:26:03,965 --> 00:26:09,205 But his group intend to take matters into their own hands. 352 00:26:09,205 --> 00:26:11,445 They want to sabotage the Polaris subs. 353 00:26:16,325 --> 00:26:18,205 You think that's why he died? 354 00:26:18,205 --> 00:26:20,725 I've no idea, sir. 355 00:26:20,725 --> 00:26:22,405 But he was playing with fire. 356 00:26:22,405 --> 00:26:25,445 Were you down in the docks Saturday night? 357 00:26:27,285 --> 00:26:29,645 Yes, I was. 358 00:26:29,645 --> 00:26:31,165 Can you tell us why? 359 00:26:32,965 --> 00:26:38,125 No. What! Just "no"? 360 00:26:38,125 --> 00:26:41,205 I'm sorry. I can't say why. 361 00:26:43,885 --> 00:26:46,885 You're going to have to, this is a murder enquiry. 362 00:26:46,885 --> 00:26:54,085 I'm sorry. Does the reason that you won't answer perhaps have anything to do with a woman? 363 00:26:54,085 --> 00:26:57,005 Yes, sir, it does. In a way. 364 00:26:57,005 --> 00:26:59,485 You're going to have to explain. 365 00:27:01,005 --> 00:27:04,805 We are only interested in finding a killer here. 366 00:27:04,805 --> 00:27:06,645 It's very awkward, sir. 367 00:27:06,645 --> 00:27:08,245 Nevertheless. 368 00:27:10,245 --> 00:27:13,445 It involves Her Majesty. 369 00:27:13,445 --> 00:27:14,965 I see. 370 00:27:17,445 --> 00:27:22,005 Mosquitoes was our nickname for the Long Range Desert Group. 371 00:27:22,005 --> 00:27:25,085 They operated deep behind enemy lines. 372 00:27:25,085 --> 00:27:27,325 Oh, right. Were you a Commando? 373 00:27:27,325 --> 00:27:29,685 Special Air Service, actually, sir. 374 00:27:29,685 --> 00:27:33,445 Worked very closely with Military Intelligence. 375 00:27:45,005 --> 00:27:48,125 I spoke to a commander down in Special Branch. 376 00:27:48,125 --> 00:27:53,045 They will neither confirm nor deny that they know Charles Hexton 377 00:27:53,045 --> 00:27:57,325 but they did advise me to exclude him from our enquiries. 378 00:27:57,325 --> 00:28:00,005 Which is as good a confirmation as we'll get? 379 00:28:00,005 --> 00:28:04,165 Yes. Let's find David Swift. 380 00:28:06,565 --> 00:28:08,405 Photograph, sir. Right, good. 381 00:28:08,405 --> 00:28:11,285 Thank you. David Swift... 382 00:28:11,285 --> 00:28:14,085 Hasn't been back home to his digs since Saturday night. 383 00:28:14,085 --> 00:28:17,325 We want to speak to him urgently. 384 00:28:23,965 --> 00:28:26,525 Elizabeth Higgs? Are you Detective Sergeant Bacchus? 385 00:28:26,525 --> 00:28:30,725 Adriana said you were groovy. 386 00:28:30,725 --> 00:28:34,165 Are you all right? Yes. Just a bit dizzy. 387 00:28:39,645 --> 00:28:42,485 You all right? I'm fine now, thanks. 388 00:28:42,485 --> 00:28:44,005 I've not eaten. 389 00:28:50,245 --> 00:28:52,645 Taylor, fetch us a cup of tea, will you? Nice and sweet. 390 00:29:05,565 --> 00:29:09,645 I need to ask you a few questions about Fraser Barratt. 391 00:29:09,645 --> 00:29:13,685 I know you do. Are you aware that he's dead? 392 00:29:15,205 --> 00:29:17,885 I read it in the papers. 393 00:29:17,885 --> 00:29:21,005 Have you any idea who killed him? 394 00:29:22,845 --> 00:29:29,845 Yes. I do. I think I did. 395 00:29:32,205 --> 00:29:34,685 Did you offer her a lawyer? 396 00:29:34,685 --> 00:29:36,485 No. She didn't ask for one. 397 00:29:38,085 --> 00:29:39,685 She's 19. 398 00:29:39,685 --> 00:29:41,485 She is studying Law. 399 00:29:43,445 --> 00:29:45,565 Probably not even got as far as the Magna Carta yet. 400 00:29:49,965 --> 00:29:53,605 I'm Detective Chief Inspector Gently. 401 00:29:53,605 --> 00:29:56,525 I'd like you to tell us exactly what happened on Saturday night. 402 00:29:58,045 --> 00:30:01,805 I discovered what a rotter Fraser was. 403 00:30:04,485 --> 00:30:07,925 Fraser, wait for me! 404 00:30:07,925 --> 00:30:10,445 Don't you love me any more? 405 00:30:10,445 --> 00:30:13,605 Of course I love you, pet. I just don't feel you right now. 406 00:30:13,605 --> 00:30:16,405 I thought we were... What? 407 00:30:16,405 --> 00:30:18,005 Forever. 408 00:30:18,005 --> 00:30:19,805 Yes. 409 00:30:19,805 --> 00:30:22,325 Come on. 410 00:30:22,325 --> 00:30:24,045 Nothing's forever. 411 00:30:24,045 --> 00:30:29,485 I'm just not a one woman sort of guy. Can't you understand that? 412 00:30:29,485 --> 00:30:34,005 Yeah, I understand. I understand that all right. 413 00:30:34,005 --> 00:30:36,765 You're a liar and a cheat! 414 00:30:36,765 --> 00:30:38,885 Adriana told me everything! 415 00:30:38,885 --> 00:30:41,845 I hope she didn't tell you everything. 416 00:30:45,845 --> 00:30:48,205 Scumbag! 417 00:30:48,205 --> 00:30:49,285 Argh! 418 00:30:52,845 --> 00:30:54,965 That's my work! 419 00:30:59,005 --> 00:31:02,005 Crazy chick! You need to see a shrink. Are you all right? 420 00:31:02,005 --> 00:31:03,645 Go away from me. Leave me alone! 421 00:31:06,525 --> 00:31:08,165 I left him there. 422 00:31:08,165 --> 00:31:10,045 You believed you had killed him? 423 00:31:10,045 --> 00:31:14,005 Well, I thought he'd maybe fallen in after I'd gone. 424 00:31:15,885 --> 00:31:18,645 Was David Swift with you at any point in the evening? 425 00:31:18,645 --> 00:31:20,325 David, no. 426 00:31:20,325 --> 00:31:25,965 So you never told your lover about this young lad you were teaching to read? 427 00:31:25,965 --> 00:31:28,525 I might have mentioned him but... 428 00:31:28,525 --> 00:31:31,045 They didn't ever meet. I think they did. 429 00:31:31,045 --> 00:31:34,605 Really, when? Perhaps as recently as Saturday night. 430 00:31:34,605 --> 00:31:37,085 Oh! Are you OK? Argh! 431 00:31:41,045 --> 00:31:42,885 Ambulance, quickly! 432 00:31:45,085 --> 00:31:50,445 Promise you won't tell anyone about this. Where did you go? 433 00:31:50,445 --> 00:31:52,645 Edinburgh. 434 00:31:52,645 --> 00:31:55,605 Who do you know in Edinburgh? 435 00:31:55,605 --> 00:31:57,605 No-one. 436 00:31:57,605 --> 00:31:59,245 That's why I went there. 437 00:32:02,205 --> 00:32:04,365 I had a phone number. 438 00:32:04,365 --> 00:32:06,165 Did you dial it? 439 00:32:06,165 --> 00:32:07,925 Yes. 440 00:32:07,925 --> 00:32:10,885 I booked in. Then I read in the papers that Fraser was dead. 441 00:32:10,885 --> 00:32:13,365 I knew I couldn't go through with it. 442 00:32:13,365 --> 00:32:16,085 This is all I've got left of him now. 443 00:32:16,085 --> 00:32:17,805 If you could excuse us, please. 444 00:32:17,805 --> 00:32:19,325 That's OK. 445 00:32:22,445 --> 00:32:24,605 She could still have done it, sir. 446 00:32:24,605 --> 00:32:26,485 Fit of rage. 447 00:32:26,485 --> 00:32:29,125 She seems like a nice girl but 448 00:32:29,125 --> 00:32:32,645 women go a bit loony when they're in the family way, believe me. 449 00:32:32,645 --> 00:32:34,485 Lisa went mental. 450 00:32:34,485 --> 00:32:36,965 Crying like the world's ending. 451 00:32:36,965 --> 00:32:39,805 Hurling things around. 452 00:32:39,805 --> 00:32:42,725 At you? Yeah, at me! 453 00:32:42,725 --> 00:32:45,925 Women can't handle their emotions like we can. 454 00:32:48,485 --> 00:32:51,325 Fraser Barratt weighed eleven and a half stone. 455 00:32:52,845 --> 00:32:55,765 You reckon she could have dragged him into the water? 456 00:32:55,765 --> 00:32:58,725 Maybe somebody helped her. 457 00:32:58,725 --> 00:33:05,405 David Swift? He lives nearby. She only has to run over to his place. 458 00:33:05,405 --> 00:33:10,325 Why would Swift help her? Well... 459 00:33:10,325 --> 00:33:12,645 He looks up to her. 460 00:33:12,645 --> 00:33:14,485 She was teaching him. 461 00:33:14,485 --> 00:33:16,725 She's his best chance of getting on in life. 462 00:33:16,725 --> 00:33:18,965 Yes. 463 00:33:18,965 --> 00:33:21,925 Maybe he was carrying a torch for her. 464 00:33:21,925 --> 00:33:23,605 Yes. 465 00:33:27,525 --> 00:33:29,885 How is she? She's out of danger, apparently. 466 00:33:29,885 --> 00:33:33,405 Has she lost it? No. She was lucky. 467 00:33:33,405 --> 00:33:35,085 Do you think so? 468 00:33:37,925 --> 00:33:40,285 You knew she was pregnant, didn't you? 469 00:33:40,285 --> 00:33:43,605 She confided in me, yes. You should have informed us. 470 00:33:43,605 --> 00:33:45,645 It was confidential. 471 00:33:45,645 --> 00:33:48,325 Did you give her that phone number in Edinburgh? 472 00:33:50,325 --> 00:33:53,005 If she has that child 473 00:33:53,005 --> 00:33:55,085 it's the end of her degree. 474 00:33:55,085 --> 00:33:56,805 The end of her career. 475 00:33:56,805 --> 00:33:59,365 And she'll be all on her own with nothing. 476 00:33:59,365 --> 00:34:01,325 Are you aware it's Fraser Barratt's child? 477 00:34:01,325 --> 00:34:04,725 Yes. Well aware. 478 00:34:10,405 --> 00:34:13,725 Sir. Customs picked up David Swift last night. 479 00:34:13,725 --> 00:34:16,565 He was nicked trying to stow away on a freight ship 480 00:34:16,565 --> 00:34:18,405 bound for Helsinki. 481 00:34:18,405 --> 00:34:20,365 There you go. 482 00:34:20,365 --> 00:34:24,565 He was born South Shields in 1946, raised by nuns. 483 00:34:24,565 --> 00:34:26,925 He's worked on the dock since he was 14, sir. 484 00:34:26,925 --> 00:34:28,725 He told you all this already? 485 00:34:28,725 --> 00:34:30,765 No! No! No! We can't get a cheep out of him. 486 00:34:30,765 --> 00:34:33,085 But he was carrying his passport. 487 00:34:34,605 --> 00:34:36,845 And this. 488 00:34:36,845 --> 00:34:38,445 Same as what Barratt had. 489 00:34:40,645 --> 00:34:44,245 Any idea where this place is. No. No idea. 490 00:34:44,245 --> 00:34:46,885 I thought you knew all the nightclubs in the North East, John. 491 00:34:57,045 --> 00:34:58,565 Right. 492 00:35:00,165 --> 00:35:01,685 David. 493 00:35:03,205 --> 00:35:06,165 What made you want to run away? 494 00:35:06,165 --> 00:35:07,765 I've nothing to say to you. 495 00:35:11,165 --> 00:35:13,005 Elizabeth Higgs. 496 00:35:16,285 --> 00:35:18,885 You know who I'm talking about, don't you? 497 00:35:22,805 --> 00:35:26,165 This is your writing. 498 00:35:28,725 --> 00:35:31,245 Of course, yeah. 499 00:35:31,245 --> 00:35:37,965 Bless her. She met you out campaigning for the CND. 500 00:35:37,965 --> 00:35:40,725 You familiar with any of their other members? 501 00:35:42,885 --> 00:35:45,285 Fraser Barratt? 502 00:35:46,925 --> 00:35:50,805 Come on! Fraser Barratt. 503 00:35:50,805 --> 00:35:54,885 You know, commie bloke from up the Uni. Big head, thought himself a bit of a ladies man. 504 00:35:58,445 --> 00:36:00,885 I think you did know Fraser Barratt. 505 00:36:03,405 --> 00:36:05,485 Did you socialise with him? 506 00:36:07,685 --> 00:36:10,205 At the Seagull Club, perhaps? 507 00:36:14,245 --> 00:36:18,245 He was murdered very near your home. 508 00:36:18,245 --> 00:36:20,725 I heard about that on the news. 509 00:36:20,725 --> 00:36:25,565 I didn't know that was his name though. So you know absolutely nothing about how he met his death? 510 00:36:25,565 --> 00:36:29,365 No. Are you sure? 511 00:36:31,325 --> 00:36:34,965 I have nothing to say to you. We can keep you here overnight you know. 512 00:36:34,965 --> 00:36:39,325 So it might be a lot more comfortable for you 513 00:36:39,325 --> 00:36:42,365 if you just decided to cooperate with us. 514 00:36:42,365 --> 00:36:44,125 I have nothing to say to you. 515 00:36:55,525 --> 00:36:57,325 Nigel. 516 00:36:59,445 --> 00:37:01,925 Sir. I've been onto the Licensing Board. 517 00:37:01,925 --> 00:37:04,805 I have a trace on the Seagull Club. 518 00:37:04,805 --> 00:37:08,765 It's part of a hotel in Whitley Bay, sir. Near the seafront. 519 00:37:17,285 --> 00:37:20,885 Have we made any progress? Some. 520 00:37:20,885 --> 00:37:23,565 I thought this might be useful, sir. 521 00:37:23,565 --> 00:37:27,125 It's the names of all the students who attended the protest on Saturday. 522 00:37:27,125 --> 00:37:29,845 Also the one's who were in the bar later. 523 00:37:29,845 --> 00:37:32,085 Members, affiliates etc. 524 00:37:32,085 --> 00:37:34,685 Is this an official position? 525 00:37:34,685 --> 00:37:37,085 Informal, sir, deniable. 526 00:37:37,085 --> 00:37:39,605 Why didn't you show me this before? 527 00:37:39,605 --> 00:37:42,125 I had to get clearance. 528 00:37:42,125 --> 00:37:44,845 I don't see Elizabeth Higgs name down here. 529 00:37:44,845 --> 00:37:47,765 I recorded her as X5, sir. 530 00:37:47,765 --> 00:37:50,365 I wouldn't want to ruin her career. 531 00:37:50,365 --> 00:37:51,925 She'll grow out of all this. 532 00:38:18,765 --> 00:38:22,005 Evening, gentlemen, I'm afraid this is a private club. 533 00:38:22,005 --> 00:38:24,565 Yes, we're aware of that, 534 00:38:24,565 --> 00:38:27,685 aren't we, John. Yes. 535 00:38:30,325 --> 00:38:33,045 We've been here before. 536 00:38:33,045 --> 00:38:37,565 All right, come in, tout-suite. 537 00:38:47,365 --> 00:38:48,405 Evening. 538 00:38:48,405 --> 00:38:49,925 What can I do you for? 539 00:38:49,925 --> 00:38:52,485 Er, I'll have a pint of... Two gin and tonics, please. 540 00:38:54,285 --> 00:38:56,485 I don't like gin and tonic. I want a pint. 541 00:38:56,485 --> 00:38:59,165 You're on duty, son, don't look a gift horse in the mouth. 542 00:39:01,925 --> 00:39:04,245 Seems quite tame, in here, doesn't it? 543 00:39:04,245 --> 00:39:07,285 It's nice. I'd bring a bird in here. 544 00:39:08,845 --> 00:39:12,205 Put a tosheroon on the tab for me, ducks. 545 00:39:14,085 --> 00:39:16,565 You have done well. 546 00:39:30,885 --> 00:39:32,965 This is a teapot's place. 547 00:39:34,485 --> 00:39:36,765 You flipping well knew, didn't you? 548 00:39:36,765 --> 00:39:40,125 I had my suspicions. 549 00:39:40,125 --> 00:39:42,805 You do know what they get up to in here, don't you? 550 00:39:42,805 --> 00:39:44,845 I've got a fair idea, John. 551 00:39:47,725 --> 00:39:50,965 Barratt was getting it every which way, wasn't he? 552 00:39:50,965 --> 00:39:53,285 Excuse me? 553 00:39:53,285 --> 00:39:56,885 Same again? No. I need your help, please. 554 00:39:56,885 --> 00:39:59,805 With what? 555 00:39:59,805 --> 00:40:02,085 Do you recognise either of them? 556 00:40:02,085 --> 00:40:04,565 No. Yes. 557 00:40:04,565 --> 00:40:06,085 We're police officers. 558 00:40:06,085 --> 00:40:08,245 And we're closing now. 559 00:40:08,245 --> 00:40:11,885 I don't want to alarm your customers. We're not from Vice. 560 00:40:11,885 --> 00:40:14,365 We are not interested in vice. 561 00:40:14,365 --> 00:40:17,405 We're investigating a murder. 562 00:40:17,405 --> 00:40:21,285 Who's dead? This man. I don't know who he is. 563 00:40:23,805 --> 00:40:27,285 I might have seen him in here once. 564 00:40:27,285 --> 00:40:29,885 How about him. No. Look. 565 00:40:29,885 --> 00:40:32,485 We'll be here tomorrow night. And the night after. 566 00:40:32,485 --> 00:40:37,205 And the night after. And by then your clientele will be thinning out. 567 00:40:37,205 --> 00:40:40,085 OK, OK... 568 00:40:40,085 --> 00:40:41,845 I do know her. Is he a regular? 569 00:40:41,845 --> 00:40:44,485 He pops in from time to time. 570 00:40:46,925 --> 00:40:48,565 Tell me anything else about him? 571 00:40:48,565 --> 00:40:50,165 In here, duck, they don't tell you 572 00:40:50,165 --> 00:40:53,205 and you don't ever ask. 573 00:40:53,205 --> 00:40:56,005 OK, thanks. Are you going to leave us in peace now? 574 00:40:56,005 --> 00:40:57,525 I think so. 575 00:40:58,885 --> 00:41:02,565 All right, I'll tell you for free. 576 00:41:02,565 --> 00:41:04,805 He came in once, last week. I can't tell you what night. 577 00:41:04,805 --> 00:41:06,685 He stayed for an hour. 578 00:41:06,685 --> 00:41:09,445 I don't think WE were his cup of tea. 579 00:41:09,445 --> 00:41:12,005 Anybody with him? On his todd, duck. 580 00:41:14,165 --> 00:41:17,445 I only remember him because he swiped all me matches off the bar. 581 00:41:19,925 --> 00:41:22,405 Are we going to report that place to Vice, sir? 582 00:41:22,405 --> 00:41:24,085 You heard my promise to him. 583 00:41:24,085 --> 00:41:26,925 Sir, it's flagrantly illegal what they get up to in there. 584 00:41:26,925 --> 00:41:28,725 Buying drinks and peanuts? 585 00:41:28,725 --> 00:41:30,845 You know what they do. 586 00:41:30,845 --> 00:41:32,685 We're here to investigate a murder. 587 00:41:32,685 --> 00:41:35,165 Sir! What about the people that live round here. 588 00:41:35,165 --> 00:41:37,325 Or bring their kids to the beach? 589 00:41:37,325 --> 00:41:39,565 It's Whitley Bay it's not Soho. 590 00:41:39,565 --> 00:41:41,685 You never get near the real owners anyway. 591 00:41:41,685 --> 00:41:44,845 Next week they'll open up a place two streets away. 592 00:41:44,845 --> 00:41:47,925 I worked Vice in Soho for several years. 593 00:41:47,925 --> 00:41:53,445 All I learnt was that the harder you push these vice lords down the stronger they get. 594 00:41:53,445 --> 00:41:55,005 In the end they beat us anyway. How? 595 00:41:55,005 --> 00:41:58,885 They bought us. YOU took a bribe? 596 00:42:00,445 --> 00:42:02,165 Perhaps I should have done. 597 00:42:03,685 --> 00:42:06,645 I'd have been Chief Constable by now. 598 00:42:09,925 --> 00:42:11,525 Are you ready to talk to us? 599 00:42:15,165 --> 00:42:16,965 Right. 600 00:42:16,965 --> 00:42:22,125 You frequent a club in Whitley Bay which is a known haunt for homosexuals. 601 00:42:22,125 --> 00:42:24,045 I have nothing to say to you. 602 00:42:24,045 --> 00:42:29,645 You're a pansy. I can get you locked up for what you get up to down there. 603 00:42:29,645 --> 00:42:33,205 I'm not ashamed. I don't hurt anyone else. 604 00:42:37,245 --> 00:42:38,925 You and Fraser Barratt, 605 00:42:38,925 --> 00:42:41,325 you were having it away, weren't you? 606 00:42:41,325 --> 00:42:43,125 Were we heck! 607 00:42:43,125 --> 00:42:45,925 You arranged to meet him down the docks. 608 00:42:45,925 --> 00:42:48,085 All goes wrong. 609 00:42:48,085 --> 00:42:50,685 So you kill him. I don't even know this fella! 610 00:42:50,685 --> 00:42:52,485 Don't lie. 611 00:42:52,485 --> 00:42:54,485 Don't lie. You met him here. 612 00:42:54,485 --> 00:42:58,685 This is rubbish! It's a fairytale! 613 00:43:00,205 --> 00:43:02,365 Fairytale! 614 00:43:02,365 --> 00:43:06,325 Did you see Elizabeth Higgs at any point on Saturday night? 615 00:43:06,325 --> 00:43:08,325 No. She was down in the docks. 616 00:43:08,325 --> 00:43:10,365 Well, I wasn't. Where were you then? 617 00:43:12,005 --> 00:43:14,765 You know where I was. You won't have any witnesses? 618 00:43:14,765 --> 00:43:19,085 How can I? Soon as they put their hand up you'll have cuffs on them. 619 00:43:19,085 --> 00:43:20,845 That's convenient, isn't it? 620 00:43:23,485 --> 00:43:26,005 Was Fraser Barratt attempting to blackmail you? 621 00:43:32,245 --> 00:43:36,765 Compel you to open the gates so his lot could get into the Naval dockyard. 622 00:43:36,765 --> 00:43:40,085 I've told you I don't even know him! He's dead. 623 00:43:40,085 --> 00:43:42,045 Yeah, well, I never knew him. 624 00:43:42,045 --> 00:43:45,085 He tailed you to the Seagull Club, didn't he? 625 00:43:45,085 --> 00:43:50,605 Discovered your sexual habits and threatened to expose you. 626 00:43:50,605 --> 00:43:52,565 I never knew him. 627 00:43:52,565 --> 00:43:54,525 Really, I never met him. 628 00:43:54,525 --> 00:43:56,565 I never even heard of him 'till now. 629 00:44:00,805 --> 00:44:02,725 Taylor. Get his stuff. 630 00:44:04,245 --> 00:44:06,525 Oi! Don't go too far. 631 00:44:06,525 --> 00:44:09,085 We might want to speak to you again. 632 00:44:11,125 --> 00:44:14,405 You do understand the terms of your release? 633 00:44:14,405 --> 00:44:18,085 You have to come back and report to us at nine o'clock tomorrow. Ah-ah! 634 00:44:18,085 --> 00:44:22,005 Well, keep a hold of this. No jumping on any more boats then, eh. 635 00:44:25,045 --> 00:44:27,085 I'm working tomorrow at nine o'clock. 636 00:44:27,085 --> 00:44:29,645 Well, you'll have to take some time off, then, won't you? 637 00:44:29,645 --> 00:44:32,205 Just sign there, please, sir. 638 00:44:32,205 --> 00:44:34,445 Just a cross will do. 639 00:44:47,445 --> 00:44:50,605 Are you sure about this, guv? Nothing to hold him on. 640 00:44:50,605 --> 00:44:53,525 He did it though? Quite possibly. 641 00:44:53,525 --> 00:44:57,405 But where's his motive? He doesn't seem to have known Barratt. 642 00:44:58,925 --> 00:45:00,445 The Head Porter though. 643 00:45:02,245 --> 00:45:04,965 He seemed to be very protective of Elizabeth, didn't he? 644 00:45:04,965 --> 00:45:06,805 I thought that was his job? 645 00:45:06,805 --> 00:45:09,885 What? Spying on a young girl's rooms in the middle of the night. 646 00:45:09,885 --> 00:45:14,645 It's not exactly fighting the Cold War, is it? 647 00:45:15,965 --> 00:45:17,765 Mr Hexton. 648 00:45:19,765 --> 00:45:24,045 Do you mind if I ask you a few more questions about Elizabeth Higgs? 649 00:45:24,045 --> 00:45:26,965 You saw her arrive at the pub? 650 00:45:26,965 --> 00:45:29,925 Yes, sir. But you never saw her leave? 651 00:45:29,925 --> 00:45:33,325 I only wanted to establish who was meeting down there. 652 00:45:33,325 --> 00:45:35,125 I didn't stay much longer. 653 00:45:35,125 --> 00:45:37,765 You close to Elizabeth? 654 00:45:37,765 --> 00:45:40,445 No, sir, not at all. 655 00:45:40,445 --> 00:45:42,565 But you admire her? 656 00:45:42,565 --> 00:45:44,205 Well, yes. 657 00:45:44,205 --> 00:45:46,725 She had a struggle to get here as I told you. 658 00:45:48,285 --> 00:45:49,805 What are you implying? 659 00:45:49,805 --> 00:45:53,805 How did you know that Fraser Barratt had been in her room overnight? 660 00:45:53,805 --> 00:45:56,845 I saw him emerging in the early hours. 661 00:45:56,845 --> 00:45:58,365 You were spying on her? 662 00:45:58,365 --> 00:46:00,885 Certainly not. 663 00:46:00,885 --> 00:46:04,645 I was called to a room on the floor above. Their lights had fused. 664 00:46:04,645 --> 00:46:07,725 I happened to be passing her door and saw him. 665 00:46:07,725 --> 00:46:12,325 So you report every incident then? No. 666 00:46:12,325 --> 00:46:14,765 But I chose to report Barratt's. 667 00:46:14,765 --> 00:46:18,525 He was taking advantage of a very impressionable girl. 668 00:46:18,525 --> 00:46:21,885 From that background she was easy prey to a seducer like him. 669 00:46:21,885 --> 00:46:24,805 Perhaps their feelings were mutual. 670 00:46:24,805 --> 00:46:28,005 God, man, she's 19. 671 00:46:28,005 --> 00:46:30,645 He was supposed to be her teacher! 672 00:46:33,325 --> 00:46:39,365 You think I have some sort of salacious interest in Miss Higgs? 673 00:46:39,365 --> 00:46:45,445 Isn't wanting to protect a young girl from harm sufficient motive? 674 00:46:45,445 --> 00:46:47,845 Yes, but why her? 675 00:46:47,845 --> 00:46:52,245 The other students here have family and connections to fall back on. 676 00:46:52,245 --> 00:46:57,565 She has none. So yes, I do have particular regard for her. 677 00:46:57,565 --> 00:47:01,445 But I was repelled to discover Barratt had taken advantage of her 678 00:47:01,445 --> 00:47:04,405 and I reported him to prevent it happening again. 679 00:47:06,085 --> 00:47:13,645 Unfortunately, I failed and she is in hospital, and expecting. 680 00:47:13,645 --> 00:47:16,165 And you could lose your job? 681 00:47:16,165 --> 00:47:20,725 I think the Governors will recognise now I told the truth. 682 00:47:22,325 --> 00:47:27,885 So, really, Fraser Barratt's death was quite fortuitous for you? 683 00:47:29,405 --> 00:47:31,125 I suppose it was. 684 00:47:32,645 --> 00:47:34,805 But it's come rather too late for Miss Higgs. 685 00:47:45,125 --> 00:47:47,365 Where's Gently? 686 00:47:47,365 --> 00:47:49,045 He has gone up the hospital, sir. 687 00:47:56,365 --> 00:48:01,365 Lisa claims that she has asked you for a divorce. 688 00:48:01,365 --> 00:48:03,765 It's what she wants, sir. 689 00:48:03,765 --> 00:48:06,125 Is it what you want? 690 00:48:06,125 --> 00:48:08,685 Do you want your daughter to grow up fatherless? 691 00:48:08,685 --> 00:48:10,925 Lisa seems to have made up her mind. 692 00:48:10,925 --> 00:48:14,045 She's only a young girl! She doesn't know her own mind. 693 00:48:14,045 --> 00:48:17,845 She certainly doesn't understand the shame she is going to feel. 694 00:48:19,845 --> 00:48:22,445 Along with the rest of our family. 695 00:48:22,445 --> 00:48:24,765 I did ask her to reconsider. 696 00:48:27,645 --> 00:48:30,085 Well... 697 00:48:30,085 --> 00:48:35,285 Well, perhaps she'll calm down eventually and realise she's better off married. 698 00:48:35,285 --> 00:48:38,965 No matter how disappointing a husband you might be. 699 00:48:40,845 --> 00:48:43,325 Yes, sir. 700 00:48:43,325 --> 00:48:45,805 Well. You've made an arrest anyway. 701 00:48:45,805 --> 00:48:48,485 That's good. Has he confessed? 702 00:48:48,485 --> 00:48:50,245 No. He denies it. 703 00:48:50,245 --> 00:48:53,605 He had the opportunity though, yes? And the motive? 704 00:48:53,605 --> 00:48:56,165 It wasn't enough to charge him on. 705 00:48:56,165 --> 00:48:59,165 Are you quite sure about that, Sergeant? 706 00:48:59,165 --> 00:49:01,085 I mean... 707 00:49:01,085 --> 00:49:03,605 Lad like him? 708 00:49:03,605 --> 00:49:05,845 Never going to get a decent lawyer, is he? 709 00:49:07,365 --> 00:49:09,965 The DCI thinks we still need hard evidence, sir. 710 00:49:09,965 --> 00:49:12,445 Shouldn't be too hard to find though, eh? 711 00:49:12,445 --> 00:49:15,805 You go over that crime scene again. 712 00:49:19,645 --> 00:49:22,645 I fell for Fraser from the first tutorial. 713 00:49:22,645 --> 00:49:26,885 He told me I wrote the longest essays and wore the shortest skirts. 714 00:49:26,885 --> 00:49:28,765 His lectures were amazing. 715 00:49:28,765 --> 00:49:33,605 I thought he understood everything. History, politics, life. 716 00:49:35,565 --> 00:49:38,005 But he was incapable of hearing any voice but his own. 717 00:49:38,005 --> 00:49:40,285 Not just that. 718 00:49:40,285 --> 00:49:42,765 He couldn't understand how anyone else felt. 719 00:49:44,605 --> 00:49:48,765 Do you think he was capable of blackmail, to get what he wanted? 720 00:49:48,765 --> 00:49:51,885 Now I think he was capable of anything. 721 00:49:56,325 --> 00:49:58,285 Are you sure you don't mind? 722 00:49:58,285 --> 00:50:00,885 No. Not at all. 723 00:50:03,605 --> 00:50:08,285 I worked so hard to get here. 724 00:50:08,285 --> 00:50:13,485 All my friends going out on a Friday night and I'm sat at home revising. 725 00:50:13,485 --> 00:50:17,805 I was going to be a lawyer. Fight for people's rights. 726 00:50:17,805 --> 00:50:21,165 But now I'm going to be Mum. 727 00:50:21,165 --> 00:50:26,645 Wondering how to pay off the coal man and the milkman, and the tally man. 728 00:50:26,645 --> 00:50:28,525 Just the same as my Mum. 729 00:50:43,005 --> 00:50:45,445 CAR HORN BLARES 730 00:50:56,805 --> 00:50:59,445 Sir! Right. 731 00:50:59,445 --> 00:51:01,925 I need your lads to go back over this crime scene. 732 00:51:01,925 --> 00:51:03,805 Hands and knees. Every inch. 733 00:51:03,805 --> 00:51:05,365 We need a piece of hard evidence, 734 00:51:05,365 --> 00:51:08,845 a weapon, a fingerprint, even a fibre, right? 735 00:51:08,845 --> 00:51:10,605 Very good, Sergeant. 736 00:51:10,605 --> 00:51:14,445 When you've done that. You can go over the caravan as well. 737 00:51:14,445 --> 00:51:16,605 Ok, sir. 738 00:51:17,885 --> 00:51:20,285 Right. 739 00:51:20,285 --> 00:51:24,005 WOLF WHISTLE 740 00:51:24,005 --> 00:51:28,885 There he is lads. Oh, you little villain! 741 00:51:49,365 --> 00:51:51,285 Don't you mind about them. 742 00:51:51,285 --> 00:51:53,805 You're always be all right in here with me, you know. 743 00:51:53,805 --> 00:51:56,445 THUMP 744 00:52:21,525 --> 00:52:25,965 David Swift is a homosexual. Ah. 745 00:52:25,965 --> 00:52:28,485 I shan't ask you how you found that out. 746 00:52:30,365 --> 00:52:32,445 You knew that, didn't you? 747 00:52:38,525 --> 00:52:43,005 It would help if you didn't withhold information from our enquiries. 748 00:52:43,005 --> 00:52:47,925 It would help if the Law allowed people to live and love as they pleased. 749 00:52:47,925 --> 00:52:50,725 Then none of us would have to keep secrets. 750 00:52:50,725 --> 00:52:54,045 Did you tell Fraser Barratt that David Swift was a homosexual? 751 00:52:55,885 --> 00:52:57,565 Cos I think you did. 752 00:52:59,165 --> 00:53:03,565 Fraser teased me that David fancied me. It all became rather tiresome. 753 00:53:03,565 --> 00:53:06,565 How did he react when you told him? 754 00:53:06,565 --> 00:53:08,205 Surprise. 755 00:53:08,205 --> 00:53:10,765 It was a bit fruity 756 00:53:10,765 --> 00:53:12,285 even for Fraser. 757 00:53:14,045 --> 00:53:16,245 Well, he decided to blackmail him. 758 00:53:21,925 --> 00:53:23,765 How did you deduce that? 759 00:53:23,765 --> 00:53:26,725 How did I deduce that? 760 00:53:26,725 --> 00:53:31,605 Barratt was determined to get into the Naval dockyard. 761 00:53:31,605 --> 00:53:36,085 David Swift had access to the keys to the dock gate. 762 00:53:43,645 --> 00:53:49,165 He started prowling round David's caravan. 763 00:53:49,165 --> 00:53:52,045 Followed him to some seedy club. 764 00:53:53,565 --> 00:53:59,845 I wished I'd never told him. Fraser argued that the campaign was far more important than David's happiness. 765 00:54:01,365 --> 00:54:04,685 Who else was aware of this plan? Only me. 766 00:54:04,685 --> 00:54:07,325 Fraser wouldn't let go of the idea. 767 00:54:07,325 --> 00:54:09,805 The plan.... 768 00:54:09,805 --> 00:54:15,605 The plan was we'd open the gate, rush in 769 00:54:15,605 --> 00:54:19,725 and block access to the naval dry docks where the subs are. 770 00:54:19,725 --> 00:54:25,285 Did any of you stop to consider what might have happened to you if this plan had succeeded? 771 00:54:25,285 --> 00:54:30,885 Have you ever stopped to consider what will happen if a nuclear missile lands on Tyneside? 772 00:54:34,685 --> 00:54:38,765 RADIO PLAYS 773 00:54:51,765 --> 00:54:53,845 Oh, lovely. Look at that. 774 00:54:53,845 --> 00:54:57,205 I see you got Italy coming up here, Mrs Laparelli? Are you going to go? 775 00:54:57,205 --> 00:55:01,325 If they played it in the street I'd shut the curtains. All right! Only asking! 776 00:55:15,245 --> 00:55:17,965 You on duty? 777 00:55:17,965 --> 00:55:19,805 No. 778 00:55:19,805 --> 00:55:21,445 Me neither, 779 00:55:21,445 --> 00:55:25,085 so let's just be in the moment, man, you dig? 780 00:55:27,445 --> 00:55:29,325 You looking after Elizabeth? 781 00:55:31,605 --> 00:55:34,005 I don't want to talk about Elizabeth. 782 00:55:34,005 --> 00:55:37,045 Talk about you then, will we? If you like. 783 00:55:37,045 --> 00:55:40,205 I'd much rather talk about you though. 784 00:55:40,205 --> 00:55:44,605 You have totally groovy hair but you're with the Fuzz. 785 00:55:44,605 --> 00:55:47,645 I've been told to get it cut. Don't. 786 00:55:47,645 --> 00:55:49,165 Promise me. 787 00:55:54,925 --> 00:55:58,605 You knew where Elizabeth was all along, didn't you? 788 00:55:58,605 --> 00:56:01,165 She called me up. Long distance. 789 00:56:01,165 --> 00:56:03,685 I told her the best thing to do was to come back and ask for you. 790 00:56:03,685 --> 00:56:06,245 Aye, I forgot, 791 00:56:06,245 --> 00:56:08,885 you're a great friend to her. 792 00:56:08,885 --> 00:56:11,045 Yes, I am a very good friend to her. 793 00:56:11,045 --> 00:56:12,725 Going with her boyfriend and that! 794 00:56:12,725 --> 00:56:16,285 It was the only way to turn her on to what sort of guy he was. 795 00:56:16,285 --> 00:56:20,885 She was actually thinking about going ahead and having Fraser's baby! 796 00:56:20,885 --> 00:56:23,245 She imagined he would stick around, 797 00:56:23,245 --> 00:56:25,605 give her a ring, roses and turtle doves. 798 00:56:25,605 --> 00:56:28,165 What about free love? 799 00:56:28,165 --> 00:56:30,885 Elizabeth can't handle free love, 800 00:56:30,885 --> 00:56:32,525 she's much too serious. 801 00:56:32,525 --> 00:56:34,525 Are you coming? > 802 00:56:34,525 --> 00:56:39,245 All right. Bye. See you. > 803 00:56:41,005 --> 00:56:44,285 You have a ring. 804 00:56:44,285 --> 00:56:46,765 Are you married? Yes. 805 00:56:48,525 --> 00:56:50,805 But you're eating in the chippy. 806 00:56:50,805 --> 00:56:54,765 She blew you off! 807 00:56:54,765 --> 00:56:57,205 Far out. Is that right? No. 808 00:56:57,205 --> 00:57:01,005 Mrs Chops had enough of the pig scene and split. 809 00:57:01,005 --> 00:57:02,725 She's visiting her mother. 810 00:57:06,485 --> 00:57:09,485 Great! How? 811 00:57:09,485 --> 00:57:13,445 You won't be expected back home. Will you? 812 00:57:37,485 --> 00:57:39,045 Good evening, sir. 813 00:57:39,045 --> 00:57:43,165 I'm so glad Miss Higgs is safe and back amongst us. 814 00:57:43,165 --> 00:57:45,845 I've been reading through this. 815 00:57:45,845 --> 00:57:52,205 Barratt is FB and MB is Professor Brown, I presume. You've cracked my code. 816 00:57:53,925 --> 00:57:57,245 They seem to have met alone together many times. 817 00:57:57,245 --> 00:57:58,805 Indeed. 818 00:57:58,805 --> 00:58:02,325 They were lovers? For several years. 819 00:58:02,325 --> 00:58:04,805 She supervised his PhD. 820 00:58:07,085 --> 00:58:08,885 She's considerably older. 821 00:58:08,885 --> 00:58:11,165 Anything goes here. 822 00:58:11,165 --> 00:58:13,645 He had other girls. 823 00:58:13,645 --> 00:58:16,645 No young lady was safe around him. 824 00:58:16,645 --> 00:58:22,885 Professor Brown put up with it until a few months ago, when he finally dropped her. 825 00:58:22,885 --> 00:58:25,845 Why? He got his tenure, 826 00:58:25,845 --> 00:58:27,685 permanent position. 827 00:58:27,685 --> 00:58:29,845 He no longer needed her. 828 00:58:29,845 --> 00:58:34,325 Then why did she lie in front of the university governors to protect him? 829 00:58:35,845 --> 00:58:39,965 Women allow love to completely govern their lives. 830 00:58:39,965 --> 00:58:42,205 Don't we? 831 00:58:42,205 --> 00:58:45,125 Not to the point of destroying ourselves. 832 00:58:52,885 --> 00:58:56,365 You got one life, man, and then it's gone, 833 00:58:56,365 --> 00:58:59,645 or the bomb comes and bang, 834 00:59:01,165 --> 00:59:03,245 you're ash in a flash. 835 00:59:08,565 --> 00:59:10,365 Could happen tomorrow. 836 00:59:11,885 --> 00:59:14,365 Yes. Yes, it could. 837 00:59:14,365 --> 00:59:17,845 When that flash comes you want to have a lot to remember, right. 838 00:59:23,165 --> 00:59:27,125 My mum was the first girl my dad ever kissed. 839 00:59:27,125 --> 00:59:30,085 They were younger than me when they got married. 840 00:59:30,085 --> 00:59:35,245 They've been together for 25 years and they never say a kind word to each other. 841 00:59:35,245 --> 00:59:37,685 They're not happy but they've left it too late. 842 00:59:39,205 --> 00:59:41,605 My Mum and Dad were together for 20 years. 843 00:59:43,125 --> 00:59:46,085 Why would you shackle yourself to just one person 844 00:59:46,085 --> 00:59:47,885 no matter how groovy they are? 845 00:59:49,405 --> 00:59:51,725 If you're in chains, how can you fly? 846 01:00:05,365 --> 01:00:07,325 What is it you want from me? 847 01:00:10,085 --> 01:00:11,605 Absolutely nothing. 848 01:00:13,725 --> 01:00:17,005 Just a bit of a game to you this, isn't it? 849 01:00:17,005 --> 01:00:19,085 Life is a game. 850 01:00:19,085 --> 01:00:20,965 Not to people like me it's not. 851 01:00:24,285 --> 01:00:26,005 I'll give you a lift home. 852 01:00:50,045 --> 01:00:52,445 STEAM WHISTLE TOOTS 853 01:01:11,845 --> 01:01:14,125 Don't you listen to your radio? 854 01:01:16,485 --> 01:01:18,805 How did you know where I was? 855 01:01:18,805 --> 01:01:20,685 Dog team passed you half an hour ago. 856 01:01:20,685 --> 01:01:22,245 Didn't want to disturb you. 857 01:01:24,525 --> 01:01:26,205 Something on your mind? 858 01:01:28,125 --> 01:01:30,325 No. I'm just enjoying the view. 859 01:01:33,325 --> 01:01:35,085 Right, try this. 860 01:01:35,085 --> 01:01:38,045 David Swift is dead. 861 01:01:38,045 --> 01:01:40,605 Come on. How? 862 01:01:40,605 --> 01:01:42,165 He caught the Flying Scotsman. 863 01:02:22,405 --> 01:02:24,165 Maybe he did kill Barratt. 864 01:02:24,165 --> 01:02:30,445 Knew that we were going to find enough evidence to arrest him again and took the only way out. 865 01:02:30,445 --> 01:02:36,565 But of course you're going to tell me that in murder investigations it's never the obvious thing. 866 01:02:39,005 --> 01:02:43,005 Well, actually, John, it usually is the obvious thing. 867 01:02:48,085 --> 01:02:51,485 Look at his eyeball. Blood vessels look burst to you? 868 01:02:51,485 --> 01:02:55,125 Yeah. That's petechial haemorrhaging. 869 01:02:58,045 --> 01:02:59,565 Strangled? 870 01:03:02,085 --> 01:03:05,605 He was already dead when he was laid on the tracks. 871 01:03:14,365 --> 01:03:17,005 This whole thing has been staged to look like a suicide, 872 01:03:17,005 --> 01:03:19,045 but it's murder, isn't it? Yes. 873 01:03:24,925 --> 01:03:28,725 All right, maybes he didn't kill Barratt... 874 01:03:29,725 --> 01:03:32,245 ..but he knew who did it. 875 01:03:32,245 --> 01:03:33,765 Go on. 876 01:03:36,525 --> 01:03:41,165 He saw who killed Barratt and he kept that from us. 877 01:03:41,165 --> 01:03:42,685 Why? 878 01:03:45,045 --> 01:03:49,125 They're a friend. They're a friend! He wanted to protect them. 879 01:03:54,005 --> 01:03:55,845 He's gone. He cleared right out. 880 01:03:55,845 --> 01:03:57,885 Took all his things. 881 01:03:57,885 --> 01:04:00,165 Did he take a bag with him? Aye, he did. 882 01:04:00,165 --> 01:04:02,925 Like a duffle bag, like a tartan one. 883 01:04:02,925 --> 01:04:05,165 He was running away, weren't he? 884 01:04:14,485 --> 01:04:16,325 Do you know where he was headed? 885 01:04:16,325 --> 01:04:18,765 I divvent knaa, bonny lad. 886 01:04:18,765 --> 01:04:21,485 But I knaa he never got there. 887 01:04:29,805 --> 01:04:33,525 I thought I heard you make a promise not to ever come back. 888 01:04:33,525 --> 01:04:36,245 I'm afraid circumstances have changed. 889 01:04:37,885 --> 01:04:40,165 It is him, then? 890 01:04:40,165 --> 01:04:41,725 I'm afraid so. 891 01:04:50,125 --> 01:04:53,005 He claimed to us that he was down here, Saturday night. 892 01:04:55,285 --> 01:04:56,325 I don't recall. 893 01:04:58,085 --> 01:05:00,125 You can't hurt him now, you know. 894 01:05:03,365 --> 01:05:06,285 I never saw him Saturday. 895 01:05:06,285 --> 01:05:08,645 I think he were working. 896 01:05:08,645 --> 01:05:11,125 In the docks. 897 01:05:11,125 --> 01:05:14,325 He came in here last night, early. 898 01:05:15,325 --> 01:05:19,445 He had a couple of port and lemons. 899 01:05:19,445 --> 01:05:22,205 He said he was going up to the university. 900 01:05:22,205 --> 01:05:25,325 Why's that? He said his friends there would look after him. 901 01:05:26,845 --> 01:05:29,205 I just listened, of course. 902 01:05:29,205 --> 01:05:32,285 Did he name these friends? 903 01:05:32,285 --> 01:05:34,485 I doubt he really had any, chuff. 904 01:05:39,525 --> 01:05:41,525 Swift lied to us. 905 01:05:41,525 --> 01:05:43,605 He was there in the dock that night. 906 01:05:43,605 --> 01:05:48,205 If he saw what happened, that gives somebody a motive. 907 01:05:48,205 --> 01:05:50,965 Let's try the university. 908 01:05:57,205 --> 01:06:00,645 Is it true? 909 01:06:00,645 --> 01:06:02,445 I'm afraid so. 910 01:06:02,445 --> 01:06:06,565 Why did he do it? He didn't. 911 01:06:10,005 --> 01:06:14,205 You know, David once mentioned there are a lot of queer bashers about. 912 01:06:14,205 --> 01:06:17,565 And you can't go to the police, and the law doesn't protect you. 913 01:06:17,565 --> 01:06:21,605 The law is there to protect young lads from them. He WAS a young lad. 914 01:06:25,765 --> 01:06:30,605 Mr Hexton. May I look at your register for last night, please? 915 01:06:30,605 --> 01:06:32,765 Of course, sir. 916 01:06:32,765 --> 01:06:34,565 You a service to go to or something? 917 01:06:34,565 --> 01:06:38,045 Governors hearing, sir. Later on this afternoon. 918 01:06:42,005 --> 01:06:44,725 Right. Thank you very much. 919 01:06:44,725 --> 01:06:48,805 Good luck with that hearing. Thank you, sir, but I doubt I'll need it. 920 01:06:52,405 --> 01:06:55,125 Did either of you see David Swift up here yesterday? 921 01:06:55,125 --> 01:06:57,405 Yes. I saw him last night. 922 01:06:57,405 --> 01:06:59,965 Where did you see him? Back at the Prof's place. 923 01:06:59,965 --> 01:07:03,045 She had a bit of a scene going on. Dave was there. 924 01:07:03,045 --> 01:07:04,565 What time did you leave? 925 01:07:04,565 --> 01:07:08,725 I dunno. Well, I had a few. It was late, about 2 o'clock. 926 01:07:08,725 --> 01:07:11,085 Was David still there? 927 01:07:11,085 --> 01:07:12,365 I can't remember. 928 01:07:14,365 --> 01:07:17,325 When did you first confide to Professor Brown 929 01:07:17,325 --> 01:07:19,965 that you were carrying Barratt's child? 930 01:07:19,965 --> 01:07:21,525 On Saturday. 931 01:07:21,525 --> 01:07:24,845 In the pub after the demo. She overheard me telling Adriana. 932 01:07:26,365 --> 01:07:27,925 What was her reaction? 933 01:07:27,925 --> 01:07:30,605 She was furious. She told me to get rid of it. 934 01:07:32,125 --> 01:07:34,445 Was it her gave you that phone number? 935 01:07:35,445 --> 01:07:38,485 She told me if it didn't work she'd kick me down the stairs. 936 01:07:43,525 --> 01:07:47,605 I thought you'd be at the docks. We've another demo today. 937 01:07:47,605 --> 01:07:49,205 We still have business here. 938 01:08:00,965 --> 01:08:03,365 Was David Swift here last night? 939 01:08:03,365 --> 01:08:05,685 Yes. I, er... 940 01:08:05,685 --> 01:08:07,925 I think he still is... somewhere. 941 01:08:07,925 --> 01:08:09,445 Unlikely. He's dead. 942 01:08:09,445 --> 01:08:10,965 Really? 943 01:08:12,485 --> 01:08:15,165 What happened? How did he die? You tell us. 944 01:08:18,005 --> 01:08:21,005 'He came round here last night. 945 01:08:21,005 --> 01:08:24,485 'I couldn't tell you exactly what time. 946 01:08:24,485 --> 01:08:26,325 'I wasn't expecting him.' 947 01:08:30,565 --> 01:08:33,365 David? Hiya. What are you doing here? 948 01:08:33,365 --> 01:08:36,205 I've been with the pigs. They've just let me go. 949 01:08:36,205 --> 01:08:38,285 Can I come in? 950 01:08:38,285 --> 01:08:40,285 Of course. Yeah. 951 01:08:40,285 --> 01:08:44,285 I thought maybes you could help me with the police. 952 01:08:44,285 --> 01:08:46,325 Darling, I'm too spaced right now. 953 01:08:46,325 --> 01:08:48,485 Just grab a pew and find yourself a drink. 954 01:08:50,485 --> 01:08:52,205 Hey, David. 955 01:08:59,685 --> 01:09:03,405 I'll stick to my ciggies. It's prime Kabul black. 956 01:09:03,405 --> 01:09:06,885 Widdershins! Pass to the left, man. 957 01:09:06,885 --> 01:09:08,885 MUSIC AND LAUGHTER 958 01:09:18,285 --> 01:09:20,365 Last time you saw him? 959 01:09:21,365 --> 01:09:22,405 Yes. 960 01:09:22,405 --> 01:09:27,965 You claim you were utterly opposed to Fraser Barratt's plan to blackmail David Swift. 961 01:09:27,965 --> 01:09:29,005 Yes, I was indeed. 962 01:09:29,005 --> 01:09:32,725 And the night he was killed you were celebrating with him in the Holborn. 963 01:09:32,725 --> 01:09:35,325 I was celebrating our demo. Not Fraser Barratt. 964 01:09:35,325 --> 01:09:38,445 What time did you leave the pub? I don't know. Closing time, probably. 965 01:09:38,445 --> 01:09:41,885 You were dead set against Elizabeth bearing Barratt's child. 966 01:09:41,885 --> 01:09:43,405 Excuse me, Inspector. 967 01:09:43,405 --> 01:09:46,885 Are you questioning me about my feelings or my actions? 968 01:09:46,885 --> 01:09:51,325 Just answer the question. You were against Elizabeth having his child. 969 01:09:51,325 --> 01:09:54,405 Not his child - any child! 970 01:09:54,405 --> 01:09:57,325 There are very few women with Elizabeth's potential. 971 01:09:57,325 --> 01:09:59,605 Any silly girl can have a baby. 972 01:09:59,605 --> 01:10:02,365 You and Fraser Barratt used to be lovers, didn't you? 973 01:10:02,365 --> 01:10:04,645 It's a very broad church, but... 974 01:10:04,645 --> 01:10:07,685 However, your affair lasted several years. 975 01:10:07,685 --> 01:10:10,085 You cared for him? I also hated him. 976 01:10:10,085 --> 01:10:13,245 Oh. Is that what you wanted me to say? 977 01:10:17,485 --> 01:10:20,125 You actually think I killed him? 978 01:10:20,125 --> 01:10:24,525 Followed him from the pub to confront him with his terrible betrayal of my love. 979 01:10:24,525 --> 01:10:26,845 You do, don't you? 980 01:10:26,845 --> 01:10:30,205 What, a barren woman, spurned for a younger one? 981 01:10:30,205 --> 01:10:36,365 The male arrogance of your deductive reasoning is really quite incredible. 982 01:10:36,365 --> 01:10:37,685 You see these journals? 983 01:10:37,685 --> 01:10:40,325 I have material published in every single one. 984 01:10:43,405 --> 01:10:47,085 I also have nine books published, one a novel. 985 01:10:47,085 --> 01:10:49,445 I have a citation from the Sorbonne. 986 01:10:49,445 --> 01:10:52,085 I have a paper to deliver to Harvard. 987 01:10:52,085 --> 01:10:53,925 I fly there next week. 988 01:10:53,925 --> 01:10:57,125 I then travel to New York to give a lecture. 989 01:10:58,645 --> 01:11:01,885 Unfortunately I don't have a child to nurse. 990 01:11:04,165 --> 01:11:05,725 Do you have children? 991 01:11:05,725 --> 01:11:08,405 No. A wife? 992 01:11:08,405 --> 01:11:12,925 Perhaps like me you made a decision to put your profession first. 993 01:11:14,085 --> 01:11:19,205 For a woman that rather means closing the door on domestic bliss. 994 01:11:19,205 --> 01:11:21,005 I don't ever regret it. 995 01:11:34,525 --> 01:11:36,245 The night of the demo. 996 01:11:36,245 --> 01:11:38,925 Your CND branch met here? Yes. 997 01:11:38,925 --> 01:11:41,685 Did you discuss Fraser Barratt's plan to get into the dockyard? 998 01:11:41,685 --> 01:11:45,365 We did, yes. Afterwards. He wouldn't budge. 999 01:11:45,365 --> 01:11:47,405 Where did this discussion take place? 1000 01:11:47,405 --> 01:11:49,605 Here. After the committee meeting. 1001 01:11:49,605 --> 01:11:51,845 Afterwards? Yes. 1002 01:11:51,845 --> 01:11:53,365 Who was there? 1003 01:11:53,365 --> 01:11:55,125 Just myself and Fraser. 1004 01:11:55,125 --> 01:11:57,325 Nobody else? No. 1005 01:12:02,365 --> 01:12:07,725 When I was doing my basic training we had a fellow from the Mosquitoes 1006 01:12:07,725 --> 01:12:10,765 come and show us how to resist interrogation. 1007 01:12:10,765 --> 01:12:13,605 He told us, "Name, rank, number. 1008 01:12:13,605 --> 01:12:15,925 "Any other questions you block by saying, 1009 01:12:15,925 --> 01:12:19,325 "'I have nothing to say to you', 'I have nothing to say to you'." 1010 01:12:19,325 --> 01:12:21,285 Swift wasn't in the army, sir. 1011 01:12:21,285 --> 01:12:23,125 No, but he knew somebody who was. 1012 01:12:25,085 --> 01:12:28,405 CROWD CHANT: One, two, three, four! We don't want a nuclear war! 1013 01:12:35,325 --> 01:12:36,845 Mr Hexton? 1014 01:12:51,885 --> 01:12:52,965 Guv. 1015 01:13:01,325 --> 01:13:02,405 John. 1016 01:13:28,605 --> 01:13:29,845 Careful, sirs. 1017 01:13:30,845 --> 01:13:32,885 Stay well clear. 1018 01:13:44,365 --> 01:13:48,365 Her mob of reds are going to ruin your crime scene, sir. 1019 01:13:48,365 --> 01:13:51,645 It doesn't matter very much. We've gathered all our evidence. 1020 01:13:53,285 --> 01:13:55,125 Ye knaa who killed Barratt? 1021 01:13:56,125 --> 01:13:59,485 A young man down the docks saw everything that happened. 1022 01:13:59,485 --> 01:14:00,725 Did he indeed? 1023 01:14:00,725 --> 01:14:04,805 And now he's dead. But you know that, don't you? 1024 01:14:07,085 --> 01:14:09,405 Be a man, Mr Hexton. 1025 01:14:10,925 --> 01:14:15,045 I fought for each of these medals, ye knaa. I earned them! 1026 01:14:15,045 --> 01:14:16,285 I don't doubt it. 1027 01:14:16,285 --> 01:14:18,445 I'm as much a man as either of you. 1028 01:14:18,445 --> 01:14:20,085 Without question. 1029 01:14:20,085 --> 01:14:22,605 But God cursed me when he made me. 1030 01:14:22,605 --> 01:14:25,365 He gave me a mortal sin I couldn't resist. 1031 01:14:28,965 --> 01:14:34,085 A young squaddie I met... took me there one night. 1032 01:14:34,085 --> 01:14:36,845 'A year ago. 1033 01:14:36,845 --> 01:14:39,445 'I swore to myself I'd never go back.' 1034 01:14:55,885 --> 01:15:00,405 'I was more scared of going into that place than a jerry foxhole.' 1035 01:15:31,125 --> 01:15:34,045 I work for British Rail, you know. 1036 01:15:34,045 --> 01:15:39,405 Do you, Mr Jones? Aye. In, eh, Manchester. 1037 01:15:42,245 --> 01:15:44,885 Each time I swore would be the last. 1038 01:15:49,005 --> 01:15:51,445 Sometimes weeks'd go by without a blemish. 1039 01:15:51,445 --> 01:15:53,325 But he discovered where you worked? 1040 01:15:53,325 --> 01:15:55,005 Aye. 1041 01:15:56,005 --> 01:16:01,165 He was coming to the college for reading classes or some such. 1042 01:16:02,845 --> 01:16:04,965 'But he never embarrassed me. 1043 01:16:04,965 --> 01:16:07,325 'He never acknowledged that he knew me.' 1044 01:16:10,085 --> 01:16:12,565 'But he did.' 1045 01:16:12,565 --> 01:16:15,645 Then a few days ago... 1046 01:16:15,645 --> 01:16:17,805 I heard the reds had a committee meeting. 1047 01:16:35,165 --> 01:16:37,005 Just a moment. 1048 01:16:37,005 --> 01:16:38,685 'We have unfinished business.' 1049 01:16:40,885 --> 01:16:42,845 Catch you down in the bar, chicklet. 1050 01:16:51,365 --> 01:16:54,365 I'm begging you, Fraser, please don't go ahead with this. 1051 01:16:54,365 --> 01:16:56,325 Why not? It's beautiful. 1052 01:17:02,165 --> 01:17:05,525 I've been down to his queer club and everything. 1053 01:17:05,525 --> 01:17:06,925 What a scene! 1054 01:17:06,925 --> 01:17:10,565 'They're all at it hammer and tongs.' 1055 01:17:10,565 --> 01:17:12,885 'I've got snaps en flagrante.' 1056 01:17:12,885 --> 01:17:14,645 'Of David?!' 'Yeah.' 1057 01:17:14,645 --> 01:17:20,165 'Grooving with these other geezers. Police would have him sewing mailbags the minute they set eyes on 'em.' 1058 01:17:20,165 --> 01:17:21,925 You'll destroy him. 1059 01:17:25,245 --> 01:17:27,885 Omelettes and eggs, my dear. 1060 01:17:28,885 --> 01:17:30,485 'Omelettes and eggs.' 1061 01:17:33,525 --> 01:17:38,325 But I could hardly tell your mob what he intended, could I? 1062 01:17:38,325 --> 01:17:41,805 It's all right for that lot to have free love. 1063 01:17:43,405 --> 01:17:45,765 But not for chaps like me. 1064 01:17:45,765 --> 01:17:47,805 Fraser, wait for me! 1065 01:17:50,085 --> 01:17:52,845 Don't you love me any more? 1066 01:17:52,845 --> 01:17:56,525 Of course I love you, pet. I just don't feel you right now. 1067 01:18:06,645 --> 01:18:08,765 Charles! David. 1068 01:18:08,765 --> 01:18:10,725 I've no time to stop. 1069 01:18:10,725 --> 01:18:15,205 There's a fellow on his way here to try and obtain a copy of the gate key from you. 1070 01:18:15,205 --> 01:18:17,365 Why? Never mind why. 1071 01:18:17,365 --> 01:18:19,085 Just listen to me, David. 1072 01:18:19,085 --> 01:18:21,645 You have to let him take the key. 1073 01:18:21,645 --> 01:18:26,245 I can't do that. You can. There'll be no consequences. 1074 01:18:26,245 --> 01:18:29,045 I'll make sure of that. 1075 01:18:29,045 --> 01:18:31,285 He'll threaten to expose you. 1076 01:18:31,285 --> 01:18:33,685 He has photographs. 1077 01:18:33,685 --> 01:18:37,765 Of us? No... I don't know, David. 1078 01:18:39,285 --> 01:18:41,125 Do this my way. 1079 01:18:41,125 --> 01:18:42,765 Trust me. 1080 01:18:42,765 --> 01:18:46,685 Hand him the damn key, or do whatever he asks. 1081 01:18:46,685 --> 01:18:48,885 I will sort it all out. 1082 01:18:48,885 --> 01:18:51,845 I won't leave you embarrassed. 1083 01:18:51,845 --> 01:18:54,245 Charles? 1084 01:18:54,245 --> 01:18:58,405 HE LAUGHS 1085 01:18:58,405 --> 01:19:01,525 Well, well, well! 1086 01:19:04,485 --> 01:19:08,125 Am I going to have some fun with this! Get in there. 1087 01:19:08,125 --> 01:19:10,245 Eh? Stay inside. 1088 01:19:20,845 --> 01:19:22,365 Oh, Charles! 1089 01:20:08,285 --> 01:20:09,845 'Didn't feel much for him.' 1090 01:20:11,485 --> 01:20:12,525 Laddie! 1091 01:20:15,445 --> 01:20:17,005 Shame of it is... 1092 01:20:19,645 --> 01:20:21,325 ..The boy saw what happened. 1093 01:20:24,965 --> 01:20:27,925 Then last night, long after you left. 1094 01:20:27,925 --> 01:20:30,365 'I was dozing in my armchair, half asleep.' 1095 01:20:30,365 --> 01:20:32,685 KNOCKING AT DOOR 1096 01:20:32,685 --> 01:20:35,365 All right, Charles? 1097 01:20:38,325 --> 01:20:39,765 Whatever do you want? 1098 01:20:40,765 --> 01:20:43,005 I've spent the day down Durham nick. 1099 01:20:43,005 --> 01:20:44,525 In the cells. 1100 01:20:47,125 --> 01:20:49,485 They thought I'd killed that Barratt fella. 1101 01:20:51,885 --> 01:20:53,405 I see. 1102 01:20:55,165 --> 01:20:56,805 I did it to protect you. 1103 01:21:00,005 --> 01:21:01,965 I appreciate that, Charles. 1104 01:21:04,485 --> 01:21:07,885 I didn't tell them nothing. I never said a word. Thank you. 1105 01:21:07,885 --> 01:21:12,725 But if they bring me back in and charge me, I'm going to have to tell them something. 1106 01:21:15,005 --> 01:21:17,605 I just need shot of Newcastle. 1107 01:21:17,605 --> 01:21:20,085 Get out on a boat and I'll never be back. 1108 01:21:20,085 --> 01:21:21,925 They'll find you. 1109 01:21:21,925 --> 01:21:23,445 Not if I'm with you. 1110 01:21:26,205 --> 01:21:29,525 You know how to get round the world. 1111 01:21:29,525 --> 01:21:31,885 I want you to come with me. 1112 01:21:31,885 --> 01:21:36,485 To do what? We can live how we want to. 1113 01:21:36,485 --> 01:21:38,805 The world is changing, Charles! 1114 01:21:38,805 --> 01:21:42,365 We could travel together, we could be ourselves. 1115 01:21:42,365 --> 01:21:44,045 Are you mad, boy? 1116 01:21:45,045 --> 01:21:48,205 Don't you want to be with me? Of course not! 1117 01:21:48,205 --> 01:21:50,965 How dare you? Get out of my house! 1118 01:21:50,965 --> 01:21:53,725 Don't you care about me? 1119 01:21:53,725 --> 01:21:57,365 We had something...me and you. 1120 01:21:57,365 --> 01:22:00,125 Shut up! Out of my house! Just leave! 1121 01:22:00,125 --> 01:22:02,205 I will. 1122 01:22:02,205 --> 01:22:04,965 I will, I'll go and I'll tell the police everything. 1123 01:22:04,965 --> 01:22:07,445 No, you won't. Why not? You don't care about me! 1124 01:22:07,445 --> 01:22:09,525 You won't! Ah, Charles! 1125 01:22:13,445 --> 01:22:15,565 I thought you said you loved me. 1126 01:22:15,565 --> 01:22:17,445 I did not. 1127 01:22:18,445 --> 01:22:21,565 I did not! I did not! 1128 01:22:21,565 --> 01:22:24,045 I did not! 1129 01:22:24,045 --> 01:22:26,685 I...did...not. 1130 01:22:35,885 --> 01:22:37,885 I'm sorry. 1131 01:22:39,645 --> 01:22:41,365 Poor child. 1132 01:22:45,365 --> 01:22:47,165 You know the rest. 1133 01:22:47,165 --> 01:22:49,965 I waited till the wee small hours, 1134 01:22:49,965 --> 01:22:52,165 I laid him on the rail tracks... 1135 01:22:57,285 --> 01:22:59,325 ..Shed a tear for him... 1136 01:22:59,325 --> 01:23:00,405 and meself. 1137 01:23:00,405 --> 01:23:04,005 Don't try it, laddie! Get back! BACK! 1138 01:23:46,125 --> 01:23:49,045 All right. Come on. 1139 01:23:56,405 --> 01:23:59,925 Disgusting. Wherever will it end? 1140 01:23:59,925 --> 01:24:01,125 No idea, sir. 1141 01:24:18,405 --> 01:24:19,925 Shoes. 1142 01:24:26,285 --> 01:24:28,125 In there. 1143 01:24:29,925 --> 01:24:32,045 I want him watched like a hawk. 1144 01:24:32,045 --> 01:24:34,245 He's a suicide risk. 1145 01:24:34,245 --> 01:24:35,885 I doubt he'd have the guts, man. 1146 01:24:35,885 --> 01:24:36,925 Don't. 1147 01:25:35,205 --> 01:25:37,765 I thought you might use these. 1148 01:25:42,765 --> 01:25:43,805 Thanks, lad. 1149 01:26:17,445 --> 01:26:20,165 Will you give this to Lisa from me? 1150 01:26:22,165 --> 01:26:23,285 If that's you want. 1151 01:26:23,285 --> 01:26:28,205 Tell her, I'll go to court and I'll make a show of myself. 1152 01:26:28,205 --> 01:26:31,005 She can get on with living her life. 1153 01:26:33,005 --> 01:26:34,085 I'll tell her. 1154 01:26:43,125 --> 01:26:46,165 Subtitles by Red Bee Media Ltd 1155 01:26:46,165 --> 01:26:49,205 E-mail subtitling@bbc.co.uk 9999 00:00:0,500 --> 00:00:2,00