1 00:00:22,130 --> 00:00:25,030 Give me your teeth and another batch in ring. They're my teeth. I can show you 2 00:00:25,030 --> 00:00:25,709 the bill. 3 00:00:25,710 --> 00:00:26,710 Do it yourself. 4 00:00:27,650 --> 00:00:28,650 How's the fluff in there? 5 00:00:28,790 --> 00:00:31,170 Blood and filth on the northern one has poken all. 6 00:00:31,470 --> 00:00:32,750 I can't find any of them sweets. 7 00:00:32,950 --> 00:00:34,850 Takes the taste of the dust out of me mouth. 8 00:00:35,090 --> 00:00:37,430 Right, well, that is one pound and 75 penny. 9 00:00:38,290 --> 00:00:41,190 Damn, I'm 45p short. Will tonight be all right? 10 00:00:41,950 --> 00:00:42,950 Sorry, love, I asked for all. 11 00:00:43,450 --> 00:00:45,470 Oh, suit yourself, you miserable old sod. 12 00:00:45,910 --> 00:00:49,230 Here, just give me them sweets. You can stick that back on the shelf. Look, if I 13 00:00:49,230 --> 00:00:50,990 make one exception, I have to make two. 14 00:00:51,470 --> 00:00:52,470 Here. 15 00:00:53,690 --> 00:00:56,110 It's all there. You don't have to bite the coin. 16 00:00:56,810 --> 00:00:57,810 Do you want a bag? 17 00:00:57,930 --> 00:00:58,930 What, and pay extra? 18 00:00:59,190 --> 00:01:00,650 Give them here. I'll miss me bath. 19 00:01:06,410 --> 00:01:07,410 60p. 20 00:01:12,510 --> 00:01:13,770 And another four pounds. 21 00:01:14,470 --> 00:01:16,110 Eh? I gave you five pounds. 22 00:01:17,270 --> 00:01:18,270 What's your game? 23 00:01:18,590 --> 00:01:20,310 You just put it in the till. Five pounds. 24 00:01:21,290 --> 00:01:22,149 Have I? 25 00:01:22,150 --> 00:01:23,770 And you've got the serial number, I suppose. 26 00:01:23,970 --> 00:01:26,350 I don't need it. Look, it's there on top. 27 00:01:28,050 --> 00:01:29,310 On your bike, Sambo. 28 00:01:31,170 --> 00:01:32,170 OK. 29 00:01:34,170 --> 00:01:37,970 Hey! Hey! Put that back, you thieving little... You're the thief, not me. 30 00:01:39,570 --> 00:01:40,570 Right, chocolate. 31 00:01:41,230 --> 00:01:42,590 Put back the chocolate. 32 00:01:43,170 --> 00:01:44,170 Get off! 33 00:01:55,590 --> 00:01:56,429 Thank God. 34 00:01:56,430 --> 00:01:57,490 I thought I was a goner. 35 00:01:58,630 --> 00:02:01,150 Wildy came at me with a bottle just because I was trying to stop him nicking 36 00:02:01,150 --> 00:02:02,150 stock. 37 00:02:02,350 --> 00:02:03,610 You saw that, Mr Croft, didn't you? 38 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:00,800 No. 39 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:02,440 Oh, well, it's a bit early yet. 40 00:03:03,820 --> 00:03:04,820 You're going to be late. 41 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:06,040 Huh? 42 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:07,080 Second day running. 43 00:03:07,380 --> 00:03:08,620 Oh, I can make up the time. 44 00:03:10,300 --> 00:03:11,300 Would you like bread? 45 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:12,400 No, I'm not hungry. 46 00:03:12,900 --> 00:03:16,100 But you said last night, come three in the morning, you were prowling the house 47 00:03:16,100 --> 00:03:17,100 eating digestive. 48 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:18,580 I didn't mean to wake you up. 49 00:03:19,700 --> 00:03:21,040 No, I couldn't sleep either. 50 00:03:21,740 --> 00:03:24,580 I heard you dropped the lid of the biscuits in. Oh, look, Mum, why don't 51 00:03:24,580 --> 00:03:25,580 just get off to work? 52 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:28,780 I promise I'll phone you the moment there's any news. No, it's not the same. 53 00:03:28,780 --> 00:03:30,380 want to be here. In case it's bad. 54 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:32,800 Won't be bad. 55 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:36,640 Yes. 56 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:39,800 Well, I'll get this down here. 57 00:03:40,020 --> 00:03:41,180 Oh, I can't. No. 58 00:03:41,980 --> 00:03:42,980 Oh, give it here. 59 00:03:43,180 --> 00:03:44,300 Just like Dave's mum. 60 00:03:44,860 --> 00:03:47,680 What? Mrs Isaacs. Any problem, stop him with grub. 61 00:03:55,370 --> 00:03:57,050 You say Colin and Ian got there yesterday? 62 00:03:57,710 --> 00:03:58,710 That's right. 63 00:04:00,550 --> 00:04:02,530 Perhaps they come in batches, alphabetically. 64 00:04:03,230 --> 00:04:04,650 What, Colin Taylor and Ian Wilson? 65 00:04:05,890 --> 00:04:09,070 Just a thought. Oh, for God's sake, Mum, leave it out. What? The mother hen bit. 66 00:04:09,190 --> 00:04:15,090 For once in your life, just let me be able to... I'll go. 67 00:04:22,390 --> 00:04:23,390 It's Carmel. 68 00:04:23,930 --> 00:04:24,930 Ether for you. 69 00:04:57,780 --> 00:04:58,780 Grade A? 70 00:04:58,900 --> 00:05:02,320 History grade A? French grade B? Oh, dear. 71 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:07,360 Well, I did warn you my French was a bit crumbly. Oh, it is marvellous. Oh, I'm 72 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:09,780 so proud of you. Oh, God, I think I'm going to cry. 73 00:05:10,340 --> 00:05:14,100 Oh, no, I'm not. I'm not trying to fix my face again. Oh, I told you I knew it 74 00:05:14,100 --> 00:05:17,840 would be an incredible band of Bob Croft. Oh, I see. You're just relieved 75 00:05:17,840 --> 00:05:20,740 can hold your head up at work. Oh, no, of course not. It is that I've been 76 00:05:20,740 --> 00:05:23,000 driving them potty with a fence for days. 77 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:25,120 What do you do in lunchtime? 78 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:28,280 Well, I don't know, mooching, I suppose. Well, mooch on down to Seven Dials. 79 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:32,520 I'll buy you a big drink. Or we'll invite Peter and Jake and have a real 80 00:05:32,620 --> 00:05:35,340 Why not? You mean they thought I was going to screw it up too? No, of course 81 00:05:35,340 --> 00:05:36,820 not. About 12 .30, all right? 82 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:38,040 OK. 83 00:05:38,180 --> 00:05:40,800 Oh, my son, the genius, is feeding his face. 84 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:42,680 Genius. 85 00:05:44,420 --> 00:05:47,600 Now, that man is going to need six or seven stitches in his head, and from 86 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:51,440 I saw... What did you say? No, I know what I saw, and it'll all be in my 87 00:05:51,540 --> 00:05:54,260 which brings us back to you being in big trouble. 88 00:05:54,760 --> 00:05:58,280 Well, you keep saying... Hello, Mr Russell, it's Steve Forbes. 89 00:05:59,180 --> 00:06:01,060 I just wanted to let you know Mum's on her way in. 90 00:06:01,540 --> 00:06:03,700 Fine. You get your results? 91 00:06:03,980 --> 00:06:05,440 Yes, she waited on a bit for the post. 92 00:06:06,280 --> 00:06:07,280 Worth waiting for? 93 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:09,660 Results worth being late for? 94 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:11,860 Oh, yes. Well, yes, I think she thinks so. 95 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:15,460 I'm relieved to hear it. No doubt I'll get chapter and verse from her later. 96 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:16,520 Anyway, congratulations. 97 00:06:16,840 --> 00:06:19,140 Well, I hope you go easy on her if she overdoes the proud Mum act. 98 00:06:19,620 --> 00:06:21,760 Yeah, I'll try and make allowances. 99 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:23,900 Anyway, Steve, if that's all... 100 00:06:24,890 --> 00:06:28,650 Look, Mum's having a bit of a do at lunchtime to celebrate, and if I'll be 101 00:06:28,650 --> 00:06:30,070 there, I wondered if I might have a bit of a chat. 102 00:06:31,150 --> 00:06:32,029 Yeah, fine. 103 00:06:32,030 --> 00:06:33,350 That's assuming I get an invite. 104 00:06:33,890 --> 00:06:35,770 No, sir. I mean a private chat. 105 00:06:36,190 --> 00:06:37,190 A private chat? 106 00:06:37,550 --> 00:06:38,550 Without Mum. 107 00:06:39,650 --> 00:06:41,290 Well, that could be a bit difficult. 108 00:06:41,510 --> 00:06:44,770 I would appreciate it. It's just that I need another man's advice, and I'd 109 00:06:44,770 --> 00:06:46,290 rather Mum didn't know about it. 110 00:06:47,650 --> 00:06:50,790 Well, it all sounds a bit cloaked and daggy. Yeah, all right, all right. I'll 111 00:06:50,790 --> 00:06:53,750 see what I can do. Sometime this afternoon, yeah? Oh, great. I wouldn't 112 00:06:53,750 --> 00:06:57,030 you, but it's no bother. It's just that we'll have to choose our time a bit 113 00:06:57,030 --> 00:06:58,030 careful. 114 00:06:58,070 --> 00:06:59,070 Sometime after lunch, yeah? 115 00:06:59,390 --> 00:07:00,229 Right, thanks. 116 00:07:00,230 --> 00:07:01,230 Goodbye. 117 00:07:05,730 --> 00:07:07,790 What do you mean, not bad? It's fantastic. 118 00:07:09,510 --> 00:07:10,510 Yes. 119 00:07:10,710 --> 00:07:13,950 Look, I know you're on late turn, but if you want to pop into the tank at 120 00:07:13,950 --> 00:07:14,950 lunchtime, I'm buying, OK? 121 00:07:16,210 --> 00:07:17,210 Oh, can't you? 122 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:22,020 Oh, yes, I see. Well, try not to get too much non -drip gloss in you here. 123 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:23,900 OK, Jake, I'll see you. See you. 124 00:07:24,380 --> 00:07:25,380 Good morning. 125 00:07:25,540 --> 00:07:26,880 Is it? Hadn't noticed. 126 00:07:27,220 --> 00:07:28,220 Mrs Freeman. 127 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:30,660 What? Mrs Freeman. Clock. 128 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:35,320 A few months back. Wait a minute. Oh, yes, the woman had a valuable anti 129 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:38,040 story. Yes, I remember. I think you've got a photograph somewhere. Why? 130 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:40,440 Just had this bump in from the yard. 131 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:43,840 List of goods recovered from a garage in Hornsey. 132 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:49,240 Item 446, Louis 15th, Ormolu, cartel, clock 30 inches high, after the manner 133 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:50,840 Charles Cresson. Yeah, could be. 134 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:54,700 That'd be a great thing, judging by the photograph. I wouldn't give it out. 135 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:58,720 Oh, to each his own. Give her a bell, would you? She'll be required to go over 136 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:03,580 and identify it. Oh, and while I think of it, I want you, Bob and Young, what's 137 00:08:03,580 --> 00:08:05,100 his name, my office, by 11 .30. 138 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:06,640 Bit of stock taking, yes? 139 00:08:06,980 --> 00:08:07,980 Yes, sir. 140 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:10,340 Oh, uh, Steve, get his results. 141 00:08:10,780 --> 00:08:11,780 Yes, good morning. 142 00:08:11,820 --> 00:08:16,000 Good? Fantastic, you'll never believe it. Good morning. 143 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:20,140 Right, come on then, laddies, speak up. 144 00:08:20,940 --> 00:08:26,420 Well, it's only a suggestion, sir, but with all due respect... Oh, I like it. 145 00:08:26,740 --> 00:08:29,260 Yes, your ire heat me all you like, laddie. 146 00:08:29,820 --> 00:08:30,820 Go on. 147 00:08:31,380 --> 00:08:36,320 Yeah, well, perhaps he feels a natural hostility to you, I mean, being the 148 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:38,600 arresting officer, so I thought... Would you like to have a go on your own? 149 00:08:39,140 --> 00:08:40,720 Yeah. Yeah, good thinking. 150 00:08:42,240 --> 00:08:43,240 Where you go, then? 151 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:48,040 Oh, before you do, get me a coffee, will you, Maggie? 152 00:08:48,460 --> 00:08:50,860 What? Oh, yes, white, no sugar. Thanks, Peter. 153 00:08:55,480 --> 00:08:56,480 He's shaping up. 154 00:08:56,520 --> 00:08:58,420 Yes, he's keen. I would like that one. 155 00:08:59,180 --> 00:09:01,320 You know, there's an interesting case downstairs. 156 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:04,800 Found him battering hell out of my newsagent on the way to work. 157 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:06,920 Why interesting? 158 00:09:07,340 --> 00:09:08,340 Well, he's black. 159 00:09:08,970 --> 00:09:11,630 Very well spoken, and refuses to give his name and address. 160 00:09:11,850 --> 00:09:12,850 He's in charge. 161 00:09:13,190 --> 00:09:14,690 Probably with violence, for starters. 162 00:09:15,210 --> 00:09:18,670 You know... Steve's got three A -levels. Good ones. 163 00:09:19,770 --> 00:09:23,670 Great. Mind you, never could see much point in collecting useless bits of 164 00:09:24,790 --> 00:09:28,730 Useless? Oh, come on, Maggie. There are kids out there with first -class degrees 165 00:09:28,730 --> 00:09:29,810 on dole cues. 166 00:09:31,990 --> 00:09:33,750 What do you think of A -levels, Sergeant? 167 00:09:34,190 --> 00:09:35,190 How do you mean, sir? 168 00:09:35,670 --> 00:09:37,090 Well, are they of any use to you? 169 00:09:38,190 --> 00:09:40,270 A bit of a sweat at the time, but I'm glad I got them. 170 00:09:40,530 --> 00:09:42,650 That's not what I asked. My son's got three. 171 00:09:43,730 --> 00:09:45,950 Oh, that's terrific, ma 'am. You must be well pleased. 172 00:09:46,170 --> 00:09:46,969 Yes, I am. 173 00:09:46,970 --> 00:09:49,590 It's a matter of fact I'm having a little celebration with my dad at 174 00:09:49,590 --> 00:09:50,449 this minute, to be honest. 175 00:09:50,450 --> 00:09:53,310 Oh, yeah, fine. Wasn't there something about you wanting another go at our 176 00:09:53,310 --> 00:09:54,310 friend downstairs? 177 00:09:54,650 --> 00:09:56,970 Yeah, well, I did do it. It's all time like the present, isn't it? 178 00:09:58,150 --> 00:09:59,150 Right -o, sir. 179 00:09:59,970 --> 00:10:01,010 How many did you get? 180 00:10:01,550 --> 00:10:02,890 What? Eight of them. 181 00:10:03,290 --> 00:10:04,290 Four, sir. 182 00:10:09,580 --> 00:10:13,240 Mrs Freeman, DI4, seven dials. Good morning. 183 00:10:27,660 --> 00:10:30,920 Did they bring you some refreshment? 184 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:32,940 Yes. All right? 185 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:35,340 Adequate. I'll tell the chef. 186 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:38,880 No, thank you. 187 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:44,360 Something amuses you. 188 00:10:44,920 --> 00:10:45,920 Nice try. 189 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:47,280 Your idea or his? 190 00:10:47,540 --> 00:10:48,720 Whose? Croft, is it? 191 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:50,320 Inspector Croft, yeah. What idea? 192 00:10:50,660 --> 00:10:51,900 Just planned you to soften me up. 193 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:54,740 No, that was my idea. 194 00:10:55,720 --> 00:10:56,720 All right. 195 00:10:57,360 --> 00:11:00,680 Winston Mandela, 245 Hennage Road. 196 00:11:02,820 --> 00:11:05,460 Well, that's a bit more like it. 197 00:11:08,300 --> 00:11:11,160 Which only leaves the white weir nicked from Blair and Sons. 198 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:13,160 Fridges, freezers, washing machines. Anything? 199 00:11:13,460 --> 00:11:16,940 I put out a few wanted posters and just had a call from Jack O 'Thomas. 200 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:18,360 Promising? Better be. 201 00:11:18,500 --> 00:11:21,580 I've got a meet at the Graves' lunchtime. Right, keep at it. Maggie, 202 00:11:21,580 --> 00:11:22,580 this report. 203 00:11:23,700 --> 00:11:27,240 Just give it back to young Phillips. My compliments. Tell him it's gobbledygook. 204 00:11:27,300 --> 00:11:28,520 What's he done? Swallowed a dictionary? 205 00:11:28,860 --> 00:11:31,520 I think he believes it pays to improve your word to the power. 206 00:11:32,340 --> 00:11:33,340 Oh, I see what you mean. 207 00:11:34,300 --> 00:11:36,140 Oh, are the two Fs inefficacious? 208 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:39,450 Hmm. Still, he made the change when I was proceeding in a westerly direction. 209 00:11:39,730 --> 00:11:41,390 Yeah, we'll just get him to redo it, eh? 210 00:11:41,650 --> 00:11:45,850 And try to explain that no -one ever won a Nobel Prize for Literature writing a 211 00:11:45,850 --> 00:11:48,270 report on a break in a safeway. When's he due back? 212 00:11:48,550 --> 00:11:51,270 He shouldn't be long. He's checking out our friend downstairs' address. 213 00:11:51,650 --> 00:11:53,130 Our gentleman chocolate thief. 214 00:11:54,010 --> 00:11:54,949 What do you think? 215 00:11:54,950 --> 00:11:58,370 Well, I haven't seen him in so long. Philip thinks that he's intransigent. 216 00:11:58,610 --> 00:11:59,610 He would. Is he? 217 00:12:00,510 --> 00:12:01,850 There's more to it than that. 218 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:06,160 I just can't seem to make him understand that he's in serious trouble. It's as 219 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:08,120 if he doesn't believe me or just doesn't care. 220 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:09,740 Why don't you have a word? 221 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:12,140 Well, yeah, if you think I'd be of any help. Are you sure? Any tips? 222 00:12:12,500 --> 00:12:15,680 Well, he tries to give the impression he's very laid back about the whole 223 00:12:15,740 --> 00:12:18,400 but I reckon he's so uptight he's liable to implode. 224 00:12:18,700 --> 00:12:23,240 I mean, he didn't resist arrest, had no ID, but did have just over 18 quid on 225 00:12:23,240 --> 00:12:25,860 him. Oh, so if he was flashed, why did he steal? 226 00:12:27,220 --> 00:12:29,040 I'll get the newsagent's statement this afternoon. 227 00:12:29,550 --> 00:12:33,270 If he's up to it. I mean, he was a bit groggy last time I saw him. Right, sort 228 00:12:33,270 --> 00:12:35,210 it out among you. Yeah, that's it, isn't it? 229 00:12:38,490 --> 00:12:43,870 Oh, uh... Either of you fancy playing Aunt Sally at a student debate on the 230 00:12:43,870 --> 00:12:45,330 of police in the erosion of democracy? 231 00:12:46,330 --> 00:12:50,390 Well, it could prove instructive. Did you know we were being used as cat's 232 00:12:50,390 --> 00:12:51,470 by a fascist elite? 233 00:12:51,890 --> 00:12:53,370 I wonder what would have been giving me those headaches. 234 00:12:53,570 --> 00:12:54,570 No, thanks. 235 00:12:54,730 --> 00:12:55,609 I pass. 236 00:12:55,610 --> 00:12:56,610 Oh, Maggie. 237 00:12:57,290 --> 00:13:02,550 Uh... I've got to dash over to Vine Street. May not be back in time, so... 238 00:13:02,550 --> 00:13:03,950 round in for me, would you? Oh, thanks. 239 00:13:04,610 --> 00:13:05,610 How did you know? 240 00:13:07,090 --> 00:13:08,190 It's all at the station. 241 00:13:09,050 --> 00:13:10,950 Good news travels fast. Thank you. 242 00:13:14,970 --> 00:13:18,510 Right, then. I'll go downstairs and have a word with... What's his name? 243 00:13:18,890 --> 00:13:20,810 Mandela. Winston Mandela. 244 00:13:21,170 --> 00:13:22,170 That's one I owe you. 245 00:13:22,860 --> 00:13:27,040 Well, look, if first Steve comes before I'm back, he won't belittle his efforts. 246 00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:29,460 Oh, Maggie, what do you take me for? What you said before. 247 00:13:29,980 --> 00:13:31,660 I was pulling your leg. Joke. 248 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:33,200 Oh, how bloody how. 249 00:13:36,460 --> 00:13:39,700 Oh! What were you bloody... Sorry, ma 'am. 250 00:13:42,940 --> 00:13:46,680 Patronising little thot downstairs has just had me traipse halfway across south 251 00:13:46,680 --> 00:13:47,980 London to a false address. 252 00:13:48,340 --> 00:13:49,239 Yeah, Winston. 253 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:51,240 Oh, yeah, if that's his real name, which I doubt. 254 00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:53,720 How did it turn out to be? 255 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:55,060 I'm sure you're going to tell me. 256 00:14:01,520 --> 00:14:02,520 It's all right, brother. 257 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:05,080 Do, please, sit down. 258 00:14:08,620 --> 00:14:10,840 Now, I'm Detective Inspector Forbes. 259 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:14,340 Right, now, what do we know about you so far? 260 00:14:15,980 --> 00:14:19,440 Your name is Winston Mandela and you live in a multi -story car park in 261 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:20,440 Woolwich. 262 00:14:20,980 --> 00:14:22,520 You have lovely manners. 263 00:14:23,260 --> 00:14:25,100 You like practical jokes and chocolate. 264 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:28,680 Well, that's a start, isn't it? 265 00:14:30,700 --> 00:14:33,180 All right, if the inspector's somewhere, it's in here. Oh, yeah, fine. 266 00:14:33,520 --> 00:14:36,820 Hello, Steve. Bob Croft. We've spoken on the phone. You know Sergeant Phillips. 267 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:38,200 Hello. All right. 268 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:42,380 Well, who's a clever boy, then? No, not again. 269 00:14:42,860 --> 00:14:44,200 Everybody in the nick's on about it. 270 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:45,720 Shall I get you some coffee? 271 00:14:45,940 --> 00:14:47,520 Oh, yes, thanks. Milk, sweet sugars. 272 00:14:52,630 --> 00:14:55,990 He had a bit of bother then. In the newsagents round the corner. 273 00:14:56,590 --> 00:14:57,930 Philip's been filling you in, has he? 274 00:14:58,190 --> 00:14:59,330 No, I was in there just now. 275 00:14:59,830 --> 00:15:02,370 A man with plaster on his head was telling some woman all about it. 276 00:15:02,970 --> 00:15:03,970 Was he now? 277 00:15:04,010 --> 00:15:05,010 It was a bit odd, though. 278 00:15:05,210 --> 00:15:07,930 How? Well, it seems she was in the shop just before the robbery. 279 00:15:08,330 --> 00:15:09,850 Said she hadn't noticed the bloke who did it. 280 00:15:10,330 --> 00:15:12,230 Yeah, so what's odd? She's no help. 281 00:15:12,450 --> 00:15:14,330 Ah, but he wanted to say that she had. 282 00:15:14,590 --> 00:15:16,470 And that the black chap was acting suspiciously. 283 00:15:17,410 --> 00:15:18,410 Well, well. 284 00:15:19,030 --> 00:15:19,969 What did she say? 285 00:15:19,970 --> 00:15:22,350 She said that she didn't see anything and she didn't want to get involved. 286 00:15:23,490 --> 00:15:24,490 Right. 287 00:15:28,670 --> 00:15:29,489 Here you go. 288 00:15:29,490 --> 00:15:31,770 A bit luke, I'm afraid. Still, your mum shouldn't be long. 289 00:15:31,970 --> 00:15:33,790 Then we can have something a bit more convivial, eh? 290 00:15:41,710 --> 00:15:45,670 Oh, I'm not so sure this is a good idea. 291 00:15:46,030 --> 00:15:47,030 Eh? 292 00:15:49,090 --> 00:15:51,510 I'm not going to get away with being 32 anymore. 293 00:15:51,790 --> 00:15:53,050 No, you'll be married at 12. 294 00:15:53,450 --> 00:15:57,170 The lad will go far, as do you now. Yeah, congratulations. 295 00:15:57,370 --> 00:15:58,750 And Bill Rutledge, this is, and Jane. 296 00:15:59,170 --> 00:16:00,170 Thanks. 297 00:16:01,670 --> 00:16:03,030 I'm going to start saving up. 298 00:16:03,430 --> 00:16:04,430 What for? 299 00:16:04,550 --> 00:16:06,710 I'll have to do a bit better than this when you get your degree. 300 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:19,299 in London. 301 00:16:19,300 --> 00:16:21,580 I mean, if he can live at home, it'll help beat the grant out. 302 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:24,300 Ah, you won't need to get that. 303 00:16:24,640 --> 00:16:27,460 Oh, no, it's all right. I told them I'd be here if our joke had changed his 304 00:16:27,460 --> 00:16:29,380 mind. I shan't be as sexy as he can make himself. 305 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:32,800 That's about what? 306 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:34,740 Mum's all set for me to go to London University. 307 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:36,700 And you don't fancy London? 308 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:38,500 No. University. 309 00:16:42,660 --> 00:16:43,660 Right. 310 00:16:48,740 --> 00:16:52,040 We'll be adding assault on a police officer to the list of charges, as well 311 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:54,440 wasting police time. Now, do you want to throw something at me and go for broke? 312 00:16:54,620 --> 00:16:56,620 I'm sorry. I just lost my temper. I'm sorry. 313 00:16:57,320 --> 00:16:58,980 My parents will pay for any damage. 314 00:16:59,540 --> 00:17:01,760 Does that mean you're going to stop being stupid and tell me who they are? 315 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:06,640 Yes. Mr and Mrs Livesey, 26 Kennington Terrace. And your name? 316 00:17:06,980 --> 00:17:08,420 Mark. Mark Livesey. 317 00:17:10,079 --> 00:17:12,240 Ah, Constable, is interview two occupied? 318 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:14,200 Yes, I believe it is, Madam. 319 00:17:14,420 --> 00:17:16,740 I'll have to take this young man down to the cell and then get someone to clean 320 00:17:16,740 --> 00:17:17,740 this mess up. 321 00:17:22,380 --> 00:17:25,740 I hope you find someone at home. My parents have bitten me. 322 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:34,640 And you haven't told her yet? 323 00:17:35,020 --> 00:17:36,020 No. 324 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:37,880 She'll have to know sooner or later. 325 00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:40,280 Yeah, I know. I just never seem to find the right moment. 326 00:17:41,100 --> 00:17:42,100 That's why I want to see Mr. 327 00:17:42,220 --> 00:17:43,220 Russell this afternoon. 328 00:17:44,020 --> 00:17:45,020 You won't say anything? 329 00:17:45,220 --> 00:17:46,220 Of course not. 330 00:17:49,620 --> 00:17:50,620 My love, she's back. 331 00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:53,700 Yeah, English was my best subject, too. I thought you had the gift for words. 332 00:17:53,700 --> 00:17:56,540 Steve, love, I'm sorry. Now, where have I heard that before? Yes, I know, love, 333 00:17:56,580 --> 00:17:59,880 but something's come up. His name is Mark Libby, and he's just clobbered a 334 00:17:59,880 --> 00:18:03,080 constable with his lounge. But I think we have his real name and address now. I 335 00:18:03,080 --> 00:18:04,120 think it's whatever word of his parents. 336 00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:07,480 It's in Kennington, love, and give you a lift. It's OK. As I'm up west, I'll 337 00:18:07,480 --> 00:18:10,340 have a look round the shops. Oh, here, take some money. We'll pop into the deli 338 00:18:10,340 --> 00:18:13,620 on your way home, and you can buy something special to suffer. My treat. 339 00:18:16,030 --> 00:18:17,130 Okay. See you now. 340 00:18:17,670 --> 00:18:18,670 Cheers. 341 00:18:29,470 --> 00:18:31,690 No, no. No, he hasn't been charged. 342 00:18:32,510 --> 00:18:33,510 No, no statement. 343 00:18:34,750 --> 00:18:36,490 Yes, it's all right. He hasn't been hurt. 344 00:18:37,870 --> 00:18:40,050 No. Seven dials. 345 00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:45,500 What time does the court rise? 346 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:47,000 Not till then. 347 00:18:47,120 --> 00:18:49,380 My God, that'll mean you won't be back in town till after six. 348 00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:53,140 Right. Yes, right, I will. 349 00:18:53,780 --> 00:18:55,880 But you will get back as soon as you can. 350 00:18:57,060 --> 00:18:58,060 All right. 351 00:18:58,320 --> 00:18:59,320 How's the case? 352 00:19:04,620 --> 00:19:08,640 My husband's defending two boys in Oxford County Court. He won't be back 353 00:19:08,640 --> 00:19:10,820 Oh, my God, I can't believe it. 354 00:19:12,460 --> 00:19:15,780 I ring up Kennington Police Station to tell them that Bark's been missing all 355 00:19:15,780 --> 00:19:19,540 night and ten minutes later you arrive and tell me... Is he all right? 356 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:20,800 He's fine. 357 00:19:21,380 --> 00:19:22,380 Well, where is he? 358 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:25,660 Is he in a cell? How long has he been there? Your son was arrested at... 359 00:19:25,660 --> 00:19:27,840 Approximately 7 .45 this morning, ma 'am. 360 00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:29,180 My God, that's six hours. 361 00:19:29,700 --> 00:19:33,040 By God's name, didn't you let me know sooner? He's only just decided to give 362 00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:34,019 his real name and address. 363 00:19:34,020 --> 00:19:37,220 Yeah, we waited a fair chunk of those six hours traipsing across London to a 364 00:19:37,220 --> 00:19:38,220 false address. 365 00:19:39,020 --> 00:19:40,020 Has he been fed? 366 00:19:40,440 --> 00:19:43,180 Your son was offered lunch. He threw it at a constable. 367 00:19:43,460 --> 00:19:45,880 Oh, no, I don't believe it. 368 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:48,160 No, Mark's a gentle boy. 369 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:50,840 You're making out to be some kind of thug. 370 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:54,380 Oh, my husband asked me to ask you. 371 00:19:54,720 --> 00:19:56,680 Was there anyone there when he was interrogated? 372 00:19:57,320 --> 00:20:00,580 When your son was questioned, another officer was present at all times. No, 373 00:20:00,580 --> 00:20:03,680 no. I mean a probation officer, a social worker. Was he on probation? 374 00:20:07,530 --> 00:20:11,390 I just wondered if there was anyone there to represent his interest as a 375 00:20:11,390 --> 00:20:12,390 juvenile. 376 00:20:12,450 --> 00:20:15,910 Mrs. Lively, your son refused to give his age. Well, surely you must have 377 00:20:15,910 --> 00:20:17,190 realised he was a juvenile. 378 00:20:17,450 --> 00:20:19,030 Well, no, it's hard to tell. I see. 379 00:20:21,090 --> 00:20:23,510 If they're black and suspect, they all look alike. 380 00:20:24,190 --> 00:20:26,350 No, Mrs. Lively, that's not what I meant. 381 00:20:27,110 --> 00:20:31,170 Your son is intelligent and very articulate. He seems very mature for his 382 00:20:31,410 --> 00:20:33,070 I naturally assumed he was older. 383 00:20:34,050 --> 00:20:35,050 I'm sorry. 384 00:20:36,050 --> 00:20:37,210 Sorry I shouldn't have said that. 385 00:20:38,830 --> 00:20:42,710 Yes, it's true. Mark's got 11 O -levels. We want him to go to Cambridge. 386 00:20:43,890 --> 00:20:45,670 Oh, that's what makes all this so pointless. 387 00:20:47,610 --> 00:20:49,710 Well, Mrs. Livesey, if you'd like... Oh, yes, right. 388 00:20:50,390 --> 00:20:55,190 I'll get my coat. I must just leave a note for Mrs. Baker. She's my 389 00:20:55,350 --> 00:20:56,350 She'll be worried. 390 00:21:05,350 --> 00:21:07,530 I got you a large whiskey, sir. Fine. 391 00:21:11,230 --> 00:21:12,790 So, what is all this? 392 00:21:12,990 --> 00:21:15,090 It's good of you to spare me the time. You've got five minutes. 393 00:21:15,690 --> 00:21:19,530 Look, Steve, I don't like going behind your mother's back, pretending I knew 394 00:21:19,530 --> 00:21:22,170 nothing about your exam results, et cetera, skulking about. 395 00:21:22,570 --> 00:21:25,150 Nearly dropped a wicket earlier when I offered to stand my corner. 396 00:21:25,650 --> 00:21:26,650 Cheers. 397 00:21:30,450 --> 00:21:31,550 So, what's your problem? 398 00:21:32,610 --> 00:21:34,790 I want to go to Hendon. So, what's your problem? 399 00:21:35,410 --> 00:21:36,950 I think Mum's against it. Think? 400 00:21:37,170 --> 00:21:38,450 Well, I haven't actually told her yet. 401 00:21:39,590 --> 00:21:40,590 Why involve me? 402 00:21:41,030 --> 00:21:42,110 Well, I want to know what you think. 403 00:21:42,510 --> 00:21:43,389 About what? 404 00:21:43,390 --> 00:21:44,129 Whether I should. 405 00:21:44,130 --> 00:21:45,210 Should what? Tell her? 406 00:21:45,510 --> 00:21:46,510 Go to Hendon. 407 00:21:48,050 --> 00:21:49,050 All right. 408 00:21:49,490 --> 00:21:50,890 Why do you want to become a copper? 409 00:21:51,850 --> 00:21:54,990 Well, I just want to do the job. Oh, come on, Steve. You're going to have to 410 00:21:54,990 --> 00:21:55,990 better than that. 411 00:21:56,330 --> 00:21:59,030 First question they'll ask you at the interview. 412 00:21:59,870 --> 00:22:00,910 That's if you get that far. 413 00:22:01,470 --> 00:22:02,470 You mean I might not? 414 00:22:02,670 --> 00:22:03,710 It's not automatic, no. 415 00:22:04,150 --> 00:22:07,490 Look, if that was on the force, your mother's very highly regarded. But that 416 00:22:07,490 --> 00:22:09,890 doesn't make it a family business. You ain't going to get any favors. 417 00:22:10,210 --> 00:22:11,210 I'm not looking for any. 418 00:22:11,430 --> 00:22:12,730 Just as long as you realize that. 419 00:22:14,090 --> 00:22:15,150 All right, let's start again. 420 00:22:16,050 --> 00:22:17,790 What makes you think you'll make a good copper? 421 00:22:18,450 --> 00:22:22,390 Well, I know a lot about the job already, and, well, I worked bloody hard 422 00:22:22,390 --> 00:22:23,390 make a go of it, all right. 423 00:22:23,510 --> 00:22:24,510 That's a bit better. 424 00:22:24,550 --> 00:22:25,550 Tell me something. 425 00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:28,420 How are you going to cope when it comes to collaring villains if you haven't 426 00:22:28,420 --> 00:22:30,820 even got the balls to tell your mother you want to do the job, hmm? 427 00:22:34,380 --> 00:22:37,400 Right, now, you'll be good to go. I'll keep you a moment. 428 00:22:38,120 --> 00:22:39,120 Thank you. 429 00:22:42,260 --> 00:22:43,260 Yes, 430 00:22:47,220 --> 00:22:50,720 we'll check with an interview room free and then get young Mark up for myself. 431 00:22:50,940 --> 00:22:53,880 So I want to know if Bob's off back yet. Right, ma 'am. What do you reckon? 432 00:22:55,500 --> 00:22:56,439 I don't know. 433 00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:58,480 I remembered her husband coming back in the car. 434 00:22:58,820 --> 00:23:02,840 He's a barrister. He specialises in ethnic minorities, people's rights, that 435 00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:04,760 sort of thing. Trouble. Yeah, could be. 436 00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:08,500 You want my advice? You tell her. Tonight, certainly, before you apply to 437 00:23:08,500 --> 00:23:10,640 Hendon. I've already sent him my application form. 438 00:23:12,420 --> 00:23:14,380 That's it, then, isn't it? You've blown it. Why? 439 00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:19,140 Police training colleges have to be careful who they accept, yes? 440 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:22,980 Your application form goes in, they'll spend a few weeks checking it. 441 00:23:23,340 --> 00:23:25,780 Now, obviously, they're going to learn who you are from what happened to your 442 00:23:25,780 --> 00:23:29,100 dad, then they'll contact Maggie and see how she feels. Any parental objection, 443 00:23:29,300 --> 00:23:30,560 they're going to take that into consideration. 444 00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:33,940 Damn. So, the sooner you make clean breast of it, the better. 445 00:23:34,460 --> 00:23:37,300 If they approach Maggie before you've talked to her, she could give a thumb's 446 00:23:37,300 --> 00:23:38,960 done. Can she do that? What do you think? 447 00:23:40,660 --> 00:23:41,660 I'll tell her tonight. 448 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:42,680 You'd better add. 449 00:23:42,820 --> 00:23:44,380 Otherwise, you ain't going to make it to the interview. 450 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:48,960 You still haven't said whether you think I'd be right for the job. 451 00:23:49,180 --> 00:23:51,700 Oh, come on, Steve. You're trying to put me on the spot. Now, don't. 452 00:23:52,460 --> 00:23:55,840 You make up your own mind you want to do the job and to hell with anybody else's 453 00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:59,500 opinion. Okay, so it's a big decision for you, but you know as well as I do, 454 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:02,440 half police work depends on people being able to take decisions. 455 00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:05,660 Now, if you can't take that sort of pressure... Then I should go to you. 456 00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:08,000 if that sounds unsympathetic. No, it sounds honest. 457 00:24:08,660 --> 00:24:09,660 Thanks. 458 00:24:10,460 --> 00:24:14,600 I'm sorry I bothered you, sir, but, well, I can't ask Dan. I didn't need 459 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:15,600 man's advice. 460 00:24:16,380 --> 00:24:17,380 I must go. 461 00:24:17,620 --> 00:24:18,920 Look, Steve... I'll tell her tonight. 462 00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:20,520 Bye. 463 00:24:23,150 --> 00:24:25,010 We adopted Mark when he was four. 464 00:24:25,670 --> 00:24:26,670 Thirteen years ago. 465 00:24:27,310 --> 00:24:28,310 Yes, it must be. 466 00:24:28,510 --> 00:24:30,970 David and I are always forgetting to explain to strangers. 467 00:24:31,490 --> 00:24:33,110 Well, you do after all that time. 468 00:24:34,190 --> 00:24:35,630 Ready for an alarm, then. Right. 469 00:24:36,190 --> 00:24:40,950 I did want to see him, but... Don't your sergeant have to be there? 470 00:24:42,110 --> 00:24:44,410 Well, no. I didn't feel that Mark would talk more freely. 471 00:24:45,310 --> 00:24:46,530 Well, I am his mother. 472 00:24:49,390 --> 00:24:51,590 Oh, excuse me. One moment. 473 00:24:52,830 --> 00:24:56,170 I want to know that Bob Croft gets back that statement from the news agent. 474 00:24:56,310 --> 00:25:00,070 Right, ma 'am. And I've got a little job for you. The general feeling is that 475 00:25:00,070 --> 00:25:03,070 you're intoxicated with the exuberance of your own verbosity. 476 00:25:03,610 --> 00:25:04,610 Know what I mean? 477 00:25:04,910 --> 00:25:05,910 I'll rewrite it. 478 00:25:11,850 --> 00:25:12,850 Right, then. 479 00:25:15,450 --> 00:25:16,450 Where's the head? 480 00:25:17,010 --> 00:25:17,969 It's robbing a bit. 481 00:25:17,970 --> 00:25:19,050 Yeah, shouldn't you be at home? 482 00:25:19,630 --> 00:25:21,910 I wouldn't mind the store, if you don't got any help. 483 00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:23,680 Take on one, I'd go broke. 484 00:25:25,140 --> 00:25:26,420 Do you know how much I've paid in rates? 485 00:25:27,020 --> 00:25:28,360 Hefty, I could imagine, this area. 486 00:25:29,420 --> 00:25:30,420 Two through. 487 00:25:32,360 --> 00:25:33,460 SPQR. Huh? 488 00:25:33,940 --> 00:25:35,200 Small profit, quick return. 489 00:25:35,700 --> 00:25:37,620 Only have to do 14 hours a day to get it. 490 00:25:38,660 --> 00:25:40,260 Fags, was it? No, it's a statement. 491 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:44,600 Can't it wait till I shut the shop? It's come up in my busy time. I'm due for 492 00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:47,300 signing off soon. I'd like to get this wrapped up for a good haul. All right, 493 00:25:47,300 --> 00:25:49,380 fair enough. If you don't mind the interruptions, I don't. 494 00:25:50,700 --> 00:25:53,900 I saw a woman leave the shop as I turned the corner this morning. A woman? 495 00:25:54,220 --> 00:25:55,220 Come in here, Benson, please. 496 00:25:59,960 --> 00:26:00,960 Woman. 497 00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:02,280 Oh, you mean Rean. 498 00:26:02,700 --> 00:26:03,539 Rean who? 499 00:26:03,540 --> 00:26:04,419 Oh, I don't know. 500 00:26:04,420 --> 00:26:05,600 Comes in after the night. 501 00:26:06,820 --> 00:26:07,819 She's a fluffer. 502 00:26:07,820 --> 00:26:08,820 A what? 503 00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:13,740 Fluffer. You know, she cleans out the tube stations, the track and that. 504 00:26:13,740 --> 00:26:16,500 like men's work to me. Tough old bird is our Rean. 505 00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:19,500 Mouth on her like a sewer, breath to match. 506 00:26:19,900 --> 00:26:21,200 I'll take it you don't like the lady. 507 00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:23,560 No. And lady she ain't. 508 00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:26,680 So she'd be no use as a witness then. 509 00:26:27,180 --> 00:26:29,200 I didn't see the kid, or so she said. 510 00:26:29,580 --> 00:26:30,740 Well, you asked her. Yeah. 511 00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:33,660 She popped in lunchtime. She won't be much help. 512 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:35,780 So it's down to you then. 513 00:26:36,120 --> 00:26:37,120 Yeah. 514 00:26:37,220 --> 00:26:38,540 Well, and you. 515 00:26:39,120 --> 00:26:40,120 Me? 516 00:26:41,100 --> 00:26:43,920 Oh, well, come on, Mr Croft. You were here. You saw it happen. 517 00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:45,280 Did I? 518 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:48,340 Well, what have I got to do? Do I have a diagram? The kid comes out with a 519 00:26:48,340 --> 00:26:50,860 bottle and down I go. Yeah, well, look, that's where I came in, wasn't it? You 520 00:26:50,860 --> 00:26:53,520 lying on the floor, him standing over you with a fistful of chocolate. 521 00:26:53,740 --> 00:26:56,100 Well, there you are, then what more do you want to know? Two seconds earlier 522 00:26:56,100 --> 00:26:58,780 you'd have seen him do it. But it's still your word against his. 523 00:26:59,120 --> 00:27:00,120 A spade? 524 00:27:00,380 --> 00:27:01,380 Two seconds? 525 00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:05,640 You're beginning to interest me, Mr Coombs. 526 00:27:06,100 --> 00:27:07,240 It's the truth, though, help me. 527 00:27:14,610 --> 00:27:15,610 Two seconds. 528 00:27:16,370 --> 00:27:20,970 Look, if you get some smart spade lawyer, them two seconds could be vital. 529 00:27:20,970 --> 00:27:21,970 might even get away with it. 530 00:27:23,270 --> 00:27:27,890 If you could just nudge the truth along for a couple of seconds. 531 00:27:29,510 --> 00:27:32,830 I presume there'd be some inducement. 532 00:27:33,590 --> 00:27:34,590 Eh? 533 00:27:35,250 --> 00:27:36,690 Oh! Oh, well. 534 00:27:37,390 --> 00:27:38,650 Fags is expensive. 535 00:27:39,030 --> 00:27:41,290 Look, we've got to stick together. They're taking over. 536 00:27:41,530 --> 00:27:42,530 Are they? 537 00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:47,780 Have you any idea what the penalty is for conspiring to pervert the course of 538 00:27:47,780 --> 00:27:53,500 justice, Mr Coons? Well, who's going to know if we... I might have known. 539 00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:57,720 You're one of them, ain't you? One of what, Mr Coons? I could have had you 540 00:27:57,720 --> 00:27:59,740 pegged for one of the bleeding art brigade. 541 00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:07,500 Get your orders from up top, will you? 542 00:28:08,020 --> 00:28:11,800 Go easy on the Coons. Mustn't upset them, must we? Oh, no. 543 00:28:12,670 --> 00:28:15,350 See a spade mugging an old lady, do the old lady. 544 00:28:16,110 --> 00:28:17,970 Arrest her for hitting her head against his boot. 545 00:28:18,210 --> 00:28:21,630 Right, shall we get on with your statement then, Mr Coombs? I don't think 546 00:28:21,630 --> 00:28:25,330 should be interested in that. Oh, yes, I am. I am very interested in the truth. 547 00:28:26,010 --> 00:28:28,590 What have you got to worry about anyway, huh? The truth is going to put him 548 00:28:28,590 --> 00:28:29,590 away. 549 00:28:31,410 --> 00:28:36,310 Now, you say he hit you over the head with that bottle. 550 00:28:36,950 --> 00:28:41,090 Now, our forensic boys will come up with a set of his prints from the glass. 551 00:28:41,830 --> 00:28:42,830 Won't they? 552 00:28:43,070 --> 00:28:45,830 And then you're laughing, aren't you? 553 00:28:53,090 --> 00:28:54,530 You, uh, seen Inspector Forbes? 554 00:28:54,830 --> 00:28:57,230 Down in interview one, sir, getting a statement from Mark Lidley. 555 00:28:57,430 --> 00:29:01,070 Who? Chuck Croft called this morning. He's juvenile, by the way. Oh, why 556 00:29:01,070 --> 00:29:01,729 you with her, then? 557 00:29:01,730 --> 00:29:03,710 His mum's down there with him and she doesn't like crowds. 558 00:29:03,910 --> 00:29:05,890 Oh. Well, you know the Home Office recommendation. 559 00:29:06,550 --> 00:29:08,470 Give him every assistant, no cause for complaint. 560 00:29:08,830 --> 00:29:09,769 The Icroft? 561 00:29:09,770 --> 00:29:10,770 Out taking statement. 562 00:29:11,219 --> 00:29:13,760 Fine. You, uh, retyping that report? 563 00:29:14,260 --> 00:29:15,620 Yeah. Maggie, explain? 564 00:29:16,220 --> 00:29:18,200 Well, too many long words. Bit flash. 565 00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:20,400 Flash? You sure you don't mean meretricious? 566 00:29:20,940 --> 00:29:22,940 I'll stick with flash, then. You're learning. 567 00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:28,160 And there's nothing you want to add to this, Mark? 568 00:29:28,380 --> 00:29:29,380 No, it's all there. 569 00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:31,900 Anything you want to change or alter? No, that's what happened. 570 00:29:32,140 --> 00:29:35,500 Do you want me to find it? I think you ought to wait till David gets there. I 571 00:29:35,500 --> 00:29:37,060 want to find it. Well, there's really no hurry. 572 00:29:38,660 --> 00:29:39,660 I've, uh, got to go. 573 00:29:39,930 --> 00:29:40,930 Typed out anyway. 574 00:29:42,330 --> 00:29:43,470 Now, would you like a cup of tea? 575 00:29:43,690 --> 00:29:44,750 You didn't have any lunch, did you? 576 00:29:45,110 --> 00:29:46,110 Yes, please. 577 00:29:46,670 --> 00:29:47,670 Can I stay with you? 578 00:29:48,150 --> 00:29:49,930 Well, I don't see why not. 579 00:29:50,410 --> 00:29:52,070 I suppose you could do with a cup of tea as well. 580 00:29:56,630 --> 00:29:57,630 Now, mark for me. 581 00:30:01,310 --> 00:30:08,090 Sign it. Both pages. Here, here. 582 00:30:15,260 --> 00:30:17,260 Never in the right place at the right time. 583 00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:21,200 I think I was in the nick of time this morning, Mr Coombs. Yeah? 584 00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:24,580 Too bad you weren't in Brixton last year, wasn't it? 585 00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:27,220 Where were you when they bombed me out, eh? 586 00:30:28,180 --> 00:30:31,460 Where was your lot when they smashed all the windows and threw the petrol bombs 587 00:30:31,460 --> 00:30:32,460 in, eh? 588 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:37,320 14 years I had that shop in Rowden Road. 589 00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:39,200 Good customers. 590 00:30:40,140 --> 00:30:41,140 Most of them black. 591 00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:42,600 All of them had tick. 592 00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:44,920 They were the old ones, you see. 593 00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:49,420 Too proud to owe 10p at the end of the week. They always paid up on the nails, 594 00:30:49,500 --> 00:30:50,500 the young ones. 595 00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:53,480 I even know who did it. I could take you to their homes, but you're not even 596 00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:55,260 interested and you talk about justice. 597 00:30:56,580 --> 00:30:57,980 You're a bastard, Mr Croft. 598 00:30:58,180 --> 00:31:03,720 You are one sick man, Mr Coombs. You need help before you go over the edge. 599 00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:05,060 There may be charges. 600 00:31:05,380 --> 00:31:06,380 I'll be in touch. 601 00:31:06,620 --> 00:31:08,580 And you can get your bloody cigarette somewhere else. 602 00:31:10,460 --> 00:31:11,460 What's this word? 603 00:31:12,340 --> 00:31:13,340 Read the sentence. 604 00:31:14,260 --> 00:31:17,740 Um, I had been out all night and I was... Hungry. 605 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:19,940 There. That's it. 606 00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:22,280 Do you think it's true? 607 00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:23,960 I don't know. 608 00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:29,200 Something he's not telling us. Just something that... Oh, cosy. 609 00:31:29,900 --> 00:31:32,080 Peter was helping you through a statement. Your arrest. 610 00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:34,420 Ah, I should have got back earlier. I saved you the trouble. 611 00:31:34,780 --> 00:31:36,740 What? You let the kid go. 612 00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:38,040 How come? 613 00:31:38,270 --> 00:31:40,770 Well, I wouldn't go so far as to say that Coombs is an out -and -out villain, 614 00:31:40,870 --> 00:31:44,230 but he does seem to have a pathological hatred of young black people. Seems he 615 00:31:44,230 --> 00:31:44,909 fell over. 616 00:31:44,910 --> 00:31:45,910 An accident. 617 00:31:50,270 --> 00:31:51,670 Well, see what you mean. 618 00:31:53,290 --> 00:31:55,790 This is the boy's statement, and I quote. 619 00:31:56,970 --> 00:32:00,690 The man saw me try to steal the chocolate and came towards me. I was 620 00:32:01,070 --> 00:32:04,290 I saw the bottle of soft drink on the counter. I must have panicked. 621 00:32:04,510 --> 00:32:07,350 I picked up the bottle and hit him on the head. He fell down. 622 00:32:07,870 --> 00:32:10,310 That's when the policeman came in and arrested me. 623 00:32:11,050 --> 00:32:13,050 What the hell is he playing at? 624 00:32:13,950 --> 00:32:14,950 I don't know. 625 00:32:15,770 --> 00:32:16,770 Yet. 626 00:32:25,910 --> 00:32:27,370 I don't see you've got any problem. 627 00:32:27,610 --> 00:32:30,230 You simply drop all charges, drive the boy and his mother home. 628 00:32:30,450 --> 00:32:34,170 They're worth the assault on PC Lyme. Oh, come on. Throwing a dollop of baked 629 00:32:34,170 --> 00:32:37,610 beans in a couple of bangers hardly constitutes an assault with a deadly 630 00:32:37,710 --> 00:32:39,870 even if they were from our canteen. Send him home. 631 00:32:40,410 --> 00:32:42,830 Bob said something earlier about the boy being tense. 632 00:32:43,550 --> 00:32:45,030 I'd like to have a word with him. 633 00:32:45,430 --> 00:32:49,210 I'd like to know why he confessed to something he hadn't done, and where did 634 00:32:49,210 --> 00:32:50,209 go last night? 635 00:32:50,210 --> 00:32:52,890 Now, don't get involved. Leave that to the social worker, Miss Hubble. That 636 00:32:52,890 --> 00:32:53,890 woman, she did it after. 637 00:32:54,710 --> 00:32:57,650 You sure this isn't just to satisfy your curiosity? 638 00:32:57,890 --> 00:32:58,890 No, it's not. 639 00:32:59,190 --> 00:33:00,550 I'm worried about the boy. 640 00:33:01,050 --> 00:33:04,070 All right, today Bob got at the truth. Next time he may not be so lucky. It's 641 00:33:04,070 --> 00:33:06,470 almost as if he wanted to go to prison. Do you think there'll be a next time? 642 00:33:06,870 --> 00:33:07,870 I just don't know. 643 00:33:08,290 --> 00:33:10,790 Is it worth taking the risk just for the sake of a few minutes' talk? 644 00:33:11,330 --> 00:33:14,450 Would his mother go along with it? I think both his parents would prefer it 645 00:33:14,450 --> 00:33:15,450 visit from a social worker. 646 00:33:16,750 --> 00:33:21,110 OK, you've got half an hour. I want a pair of them off the premises by 5 .30 647 00:33:21,110 --> 00:33:23,590 latest. I don't want either of them around when the old man gets here. 648 00:33:24,050 --> 00:33:25,049 Did you phone Oxford? 649 00:33:25,050 --> 00:33:26,150 Yes, sir, he'd already left. 650 00:33:26,650 --> 00:33:30,310 I'm already charging to the rescue. Now, I know this David Livesy is a crusader. 651 00:33:30,310 --> 00:33:33,590 Put me through the mincer at a seminar on policing methods a couple of years 652 00:33:33,590 --> 00:33:37,070 back. Last thing I need is a do -gooder with a severe attack of moral 653 00:33:37,070 --> 00:33:40,070 indignation rushing in here screaming unlawful arrest. 654 00:33:40,330 --> 00:33:43,550 Oh, come on, Gav. Even the most rabid anti -police vigor would see that I had 655 00:33:43,550 --> 00:33:44,349 just cause. 656 00:33:44,350 --> 00:33:45,430 Don't have to convince me, Bob. 657 00:33:45,630 --> 00:33:48,070 Still think it'd be a good idea if you went around when he gets here. 658 00:33:48,630 --> 00:33:50,670 Right. Uh, what about Coombs? 659 00:33:50,890 --> 00:33:52,030 Yeah, leave facts with me. 660 00:33:52,330 --> 00:33:54,870 We may prefer charges. Either way, we'll keep a bead on him. 661 00:33:55,110 --> 00:33:56,110 Yeah. 662 00:33:56,810 --> 00:34:00,410 All right, Maggie, half an hour, and only if the mother agrees. 663 00:34:00,990 --> 00:34:01,990 And, uh, 664 00:34:02,490 --> 00:34:04,430 like it were, before you go home, yeah? 665 00:34:05,110 --> 00:34:06,110 Yes. 666 00:34:08,810 --> 00:34:12,030 All right, I'm off. He who fights and runs away. 667 00:34:12,710 --> 00:34:16,170 Oh, by the way, there was a phone call for you yesterday. I forgot. 668 00:34:16,429 --> 00:34:18,989 Um, Ron Boyce. It's all right, he phoned back. 669 00:34:19,650 --> 00:34:23,050 Yeah, the only Ron Boyce I knew was an instructor, Hendon. That's right. 670 00:34:23,730 --> 00:34:24,549 All right. 671 00:34:24,550 --> 00:34:27,310 You sure you don't want to... Day, any help with the liberals? 672 00:34:27,630 --> 00:34:28,589 No. 673 00:34:28,590 --> 00:34:29,870 Aren't you even vaguely curious? 674 00:34:30,190 --> 00:34:33,330 A couple of colour supplement liberals get a pasty. There's no big deal. 675 00:34:33,650 --> 00:34:35,250 Oh, you're a hard man, Bob. 676 00:34:35,469 --> 00:34:38,570 Yeah, there are some who wouldn't agree with that. I mean, Coombs, for example. 677 00:34:38,770 --> 00:34:41,110 He thinks I'm a member of the Bleeding Hearts Brigade. 678 00:34:42,030 --> 00:34:43,030 He should meet you. 679 00:34:43,530 --> 00:34:47,690 Hi. Oh, by the way, thank Steve for me, will you? 680 00:34:48,610 --> 00:34:51,550 Steve? Yeah, well, he was the one that put me on to Coombs. 681 00:34:51,949 --> 00:34:53,170 He's very observant, tell him. 682 00:34:53,389 --> 00:34:54,389 Thanks. 683 00:34:56,590 --> 00:34:57,590 Oh, Peter. 684 00:34:57,910 --> 00:34:59,290 Please, it is the time. 685 00:34:59,510 --> 00:35:01,730 Peter, do you think you could get another book, please? 686 00:35:06,850 --> 00:35:11,210 Well, now, Mark, we've got a full statement from the newsagent. 687 00:35:11,850 --> 00:35:14,010 We won't be pressing any charges. 688 00:35:15,150 --> 00:35:19,330 But I don't understand. What about Mark's statement? Well, I think Mark was 689 00:35:19,330 --> 00:35:20,330 little confused. 690 00:35:21,530 --> 00:35:24,010 You mean we're free to go? If he wants to. 691 00:35:24,540 --> 00:35:25,540 Of course we want to. 692 00:35:25,620 --> 00:35:26,700 What about the assault, the PC? 693 00:35:27,820 --> 00:35:29,580 Well, I think we can forget about that. 694 00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:33,280 Of course, if you'd like to tell me why you made that statement. 695 00:35:33,580 --> 00:35:36,820 Come on, Mark, we're going home. I'd like to try and explain if I can. 696 00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:38,800 And I'd like a wash, please. 697 00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:40,259 A wash? 698 00:35:40,260 --> 00:35:42,400 I've been up all night and here all day. I feel a bit sticky. 699 00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:45,920 Mark, we're going home. You can have a nice hot bath. 700 00:35:46,260 --> 00:35:47,260 A wash will do for now. 701 00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:49,800 Peter, can you take... This way. 702 00:35:56,100 --> 00:36:00,140 I'm not glad of this opportunity to talk to you, Mrs. Lipsy. I rather think 703 00:36:00,140 --> 00:36:01,320 that's why Mark arranged it. 704 00:36:01,780 --> 00:36:02,780 Oh. 705 00:36:03,940 --> 00:36:08,320 You must realize that your son is deeply disturbed about something. 706 00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:12,080 I mean, why else... Why else would he make a false statement? 707 00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:14,980 I don't know. You tell me. 708 00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:17,860 Does he often spend the night away from home? 709 00:36:18,660 --> 00:36:22,420 No. No, not often. But when he does, it's with friends. We always know where 710 00:36:22,420 --> 00:36:23,880 is. That's why you were so worried today. 711 00:36:24,220 --> 00:36:25,220 Well, of course. 712 00:36:25,580 --> 00:36:28,960 But you only reported him missing just before we got there this afternoon, and 713 00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:30,000 he had been missing all night. 714 00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:33,500 Well, I didn't know he was missing till I came home at lunchtime. And your 715 00:36:33,500 --> 00:36:37,780 husband? Well, my husband was in Oxford all day yesterday in court. He spent the 716 00:36:37,780 --> 00:36:38,780 night at the Randolph. 717 00:36:39,100 --> 00:36:43,660 Well, I left crack of dawn this morning. I didn't think that there was any point 718 00:36:43,660 --> 00:36:45,380 in waking Mark so early. 719 00:36:45,980 --> 00:36:46,980 No, I see. 720 00:36:47,180 --> 00:36:48,680 You go to work? 721 00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:50,740 No, no, not as such. 722 00:36:51,340 --> 00:36:53,720 I belong to a group who run a... 723 00:36:54,259 --> 00:36:55,440 Sanctuary for battered wives. 724 00:36:55,660 --> 00:36:57,140 We were faced with eviction. 725 00:36:57,560 --> 00:37:01,420 I was there all day, yes, there. I had to get the food in and organise the sit 726 00:37:01,420 --> 00:37:03,900 -in. Actually, I never got home till about two in the morning. 727 00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:08,500 I didn't think that there was... Well, I naturally assumed that Mark would be in 728 00:37:08,500 --> 00:37:09,500 bed. 729 00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:10,560 Yes, I see. 730 00:37:11,900 --> 00:37:12,900 What happened? 731 00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:17,400 When I got home at lunchtime, Mrs Baker told me that Mark's bed hadn't been 732 00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:20,620 slept in. I rang round all the friends I could think of. None of them had seen 733 00:37:20,620 --> 00:37:22,260 him. So I rang the police. 734 00:37:23,380 --> 00:37:24,400 Look, is this relevant? 735 00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:26,200 It could be. 736 00:37:26,420 --> 00:37:28,360 You don't think much of the police, do you? 737 00:37:28,700 --> 00:37:29,700 Why do you say that? 738 00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:31,520 False statement. 739 00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:33,080 False names and addresses. 740 00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:36,840 You must think we were a right bunch of nanas. Not at all. That inspector got 741 00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:38,620 that man to tell the truth. I was very surprised. 742 00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:40,040 Didn't you think he could? 743 00:37:40,300 --> 00:37:41,300 No. 744 00:37:42,820 --> 00:37:44,000 David and Paula were wrong. 745 00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:46,860 Justice can win over expediency. 746 00:37:48,140 --> 00:37:49,500 How old do you say you were? 747 00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:51,240 I'm only like a parrot, really. 748 00:37:51,790 --> 00:37:53,490 I hear that sort of talk all the time at home. 749 00:37:55,890 --> 00:37:56,890 You, Pitt? 750 00:37:58,230 --> 00:37:59,230 Fine. 751 00:38:02,070 --> 00:38:04,450 Oh, sir, this is Mark Livesey. 752 00:38:05,930 --> 00:38:07,210 How do you do? How do you do? 753 00:38:07,450 --> 00:38:09,810 You will apologise to that PC for me, won't you? 754 00:38:10,810 --> 00:38:11,810 Yeah, yeah, sure. 755 00:38:18,350 --> 00:38:20,930 You're more or less accusing me of neglecting Mark. Oh, no. 756 00:38:21,830 --> 00:38:24,270 I'm not. I've seen neglected children. 757 00:38:24,850 --> 00:38:27,090 No, I'm not saying that Mark is neglected. 758 00:38:27,670 --> 00:38:29,810 But he seems very unhappy. 759 00:38:33,430 --> 00:38:34,430 Well, 760 00:38:34,650 --> 00:38:35,650 Mark. 761 00:38:44,570 --> 00:38:46,310 It's difficult to know where to start. 762 00:38:47,690 --> 00:38:49,510 Well, look, Mark, you don't have to say anything. 763 00:38:49,790 --> 00:38:50,790 No, I want to. 764 00:38:51,570 --> 00:38:53,290 I want to try and make some sense. 765 00:38:59,570 --> 00:39:04,170 Look, Mark, why didn't you want us to know who you were? 766 00:39:05,490 --> 00:39:06,490 I needed time. 767 00:39:08,010 --> 00:39:09,090 Frightening things had happened. 768 00:39:09,750 --> 00:39:12,550 I needed time to think about it. 769 00:39:14,090 --> 00:39:16,850 To try and make space around me. 770 00:39:18,700 --> 00:39:21,420 I wanted to know what my ideals were. 771 00:39:22,940 --> 00:39:26,600 That man in the shop, cross -shouting, all of it. 772 00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:32,360 It was as if it wasn't happening to me, as if I was outside. 773 00:39:35,620 --> 00:39:36,980 I'm sorry, I'm not making any sense. 774 00:39:37,780 --> 00:39:41,320 Take your time. You just go on when you feel you can. 775 00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:46,400 Even when I knew I could be in trouble, I kept thinking of... 776 00:39:48,830 --> 00:39:49,830 Causes. Causes? 777 00:39:50,070 --> 00:39:51,770 We're a great family for causes. 778 00:39:52,250 --> 00:39:53,630 We collect them like a stamp. 779 00:39:54,670 --> 00:39:58,630 Save the world, stop the tour, ban the bomb, free the dissidents. 780 00:39:59,010 --> 00:40:00,430 Every week there's a new one. 781 00:40:01,550 --> 00:40:05,510 David and I are very active. We believe strongly in certain things. 782 00:40:05,970 --> 00:40:09,530 We naturally wanted to involve Mark in our beliefs. 783 00:40:10,830 --> 00:40:14,230 Well, it's only natural. You're our son. That doesn't make it right. 784 00:40:15,970 --> 00:40:17,910 Always another demo, another campaign. 785 00:40:18,470 --> 00:40:19,790 Something new to worry about. 786 00:40:21,130 --> 00:40:23,870 When I was little, you took me to a demonstration in Trafalgar Square. 787 00:40:25,250 --> 00:40:26,750 I didn't know it was Trafalgar Square. 788 00:40:27,670 --> 00:40:32,130 I just saw a big crowd and a man standing, shouting into a microphone and 789 00:40:32,130 --> 00:40:34,030 shaking his fist at a tall building. 790 00:40:35,550 --> 00:40:39,150 Hugh and David were clapping, but I didn't know what it was about. 791 00:40:40,470 --> 00:40:42,110 I didn't know it was South Africa House. 792 00:40:43,250 --> 00:40:44,730 I didn't know what apartheid was. 793 00:40:47,530 --> 00:40:48,530 And it was cold. 794 00:40:49,510 --> 00:40:50,710 You could see my breath. 795 00:40:51,910 --> 00:40:52,910 It was cold. 796 00:40:53,670 --> 00:40:57,250 You're only seven and you remember all that time. I remember the cold. 797 00:40:58,230 --> 00:41:00,390 You see, we wanted to involve you. 798 00:41:00,850 --> 00:41:04,170 You were so busy, rushing about, putting things right. 799 00:41:04,950 --> 00:41:07,790 You haven't got time to let me decide how I feel about things. 800 00:41:08,730 --> 00:41:10,330 You say this is good, that's bad. 801 00:41:10,730 --> 00:41:13,330 You stick all your ideas on me, you nail them on me. 802 00:41:14,830 --> 00:41:15,830 It's all right for you. 803 00:41:17,770 --> 00:41:19,390 David was always so sure. 804 00:41:22,130 --> 00:41:24,130 Don't look at me like that. I'm not trying to hurt you. 805 00:41:26,990 --> 00:41:32,130 Have we ever done anything, involved you in anything that you didn't believe in? 806 00:41:32,530 --> 00:41:33,810 Some things, sometimes. 807 00:41:34,250 --> 00:41:35,250 What things? When? 808 00:41:35,850 --> 00:41:37,070 I thought of one this morning. 809 00:41:37,690 --> 00:41:38,690 Hennage Road. 810 00:41:39,550 --> 00:41:41,250 What about Hennage Road? 811 00:41:41,550 --> 00:41:44,010 There's a big old church there and a local council wanted to pull it down. 812 00:41:45,130 --> 00:41:46,130 It was ugly. 813 00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:50,520 It would have cost a fortune to restore it, but there we were with our placards. 814 00:41:50,620 --> 00:41:52,540 Save our heritage from the vandals. 815 00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:56,660 They wanted to pull it down and build a car park. We had to try and save it. 816 00:41:56,680 --> 00:41:59,720 Why? All that money spent to restore it, and what would you have? 817 00:42:00,180 --> 00:42:01,540 Another empty church. 818 00:42:02,700 --> 00:42:05,940 That's a busy shopping area. The people needed a car park, wanted one. 819 00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:07,980 I'm glad they got it. 820 00:42:09,780 --> 00:42:13,940 Mark, have you often felt this way about the things that your mother and father 821 00:42:13,940 --> 00:42:15,640 do? Quite often, yes. 822 00:42:17,670 --> 00:42:19,590 Why have you never told them how you felt? 823 00:42:20,530 --> 00:42:21,910 Because they've been so good to me. 824 00:42:22,910 --> 00:42:23,910 Oh, my God. 825 00:42:25,330 --> 00:42:31,170 I'm sorry. Have I said something wrong? No, it's all right, Mark. Don't worry. 826 00:42:34,270 --> 00:42:38,230 Look, Mark, where were you last night? 827 00:42:38,790 --> 00:42:39,790 Walking. 828 00:42:40,230 --> 00:42:41,350 Walking? Where? 829 00:42:41,930 --> 00:42:42,930 Everywhere. Miles. 830 00:42:43,750 --> 00:42:44,970 Walking? Last night? 831 00:42:45,580 --> 00:42:48,680 No, to start with, a friend of mine from school said he found a great club and 832 00:42:48,680 --> 00:42:49,680 asked me to go with him. 833 00:42:50,140 --> 00:42:51,019 A club? 834 00:42:51,020 --> 00:42:52,060 A reggae club in Brixton. 835 00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:54,040 So I went. 836 00:42:54,940 --> 00:42:55,940 I hated it. 837 00:42:56,600 --> 00:42:57,900 Why? Why did you hate it? 838 00:42:58,220 --> 00:42:59,440 Because I didn't fit in. 839 00:43:00,460 --> 00:43:02,460 I couldn't understand what they were saying. 840 00:43:03,620 --> 00:43:05,880 I tried to join in, tried to make friends. 841 00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:08,660 They just laughed at me. 842 00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:11,040 I think I'm a freak. 843 00:43:13,670 --> 00:43:15,090 There's a boy there called Winston. 844 00:43:15,970 --> 00:43:17,230 At least he talked to me. 845 00:43:17,670 --> 00:43:18,670 For a long time. 846 00:43:19,950 --> 00:43:21,510 He said I was a white nigger. 847 00:43:21,730 --> 00:43:23,090 Oh, Mark. He was right. 848 00:43:23,990 --> 00:43:25,510 You and David lied to me. 849 00:43:25,810 --> 00:43:28,950 You always said that the colour of your skin doesn't matter, but it does. 850 00:43:30,610 --> 00:43:33,010 When I look into the mirror, I see me, but who's that? 851 00:43:34,570 --> 00:43:37,830 Winston thinks I'm a white nigger. That man in the shop called me chocolate. He 852 00:43:37,830 --> 00:43:40,450 just thinks I'm a nigger. 853 00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:44,920 You made me think I was white. 854 00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:49,080 I don't know. 855 00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:50,720 Maybe one's wrong, maybe one's right. 856 00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:55,040 Mark, if only you'd come home last night. I didn't know where home was 857 00:43:56,820 --> 00:43:58,640 I told Winston about you and David. 858 00:44:00,620 --> 00:44:02,920 He said you only adopted me because I was black. 859 00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:06,080 Mark. He just thinks I'm another one of your causes. 860 00:44:06,300 --> 00:44:08,520 You don't believe that. You don't really believe that. 861 00:44:16,759 --> 00:44:19,700 Winston can never know what it's like to be childless. 862 00:44:21,620 --> 00:44:22,620 But he was wrong. 863 00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:27,380 We didn't want a black child or a white child or a Chinese. 864 00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:29,720 We just wanted a child. 865 00:44:31,260 --> 00:44:32,320 But it's not that easy. 866 00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:37,660 You go to the authorities and you fit in forms and you wait a long time. 867 00:44:38,020 --> 00:44:39,020 Years. 868 00:44:39,580 --> 00:44:42,580 And in the meantime, you're vetted, screened. 869 00:44:43,460 --> 00:44:45,360 You go to more meetings, lectures. 870 00:44:46,510 --> 00:44:47,950 You sit around and hope. 871 00:44:49,230 --> 00:44:51,130 You're sick with hope. 872 00:44:53,490 --> 00:44:59,810 And then, one day, one day, if you're very, very lucky, 873 00:44:59,990 --> 00:45:02,590 you get to adopt a child. 874 00:45:04,010 --> 00:45:05,650 And we were lucky. 875 00:45:10,430 --> 00:45:11,430 Yeah? 876 00:45:12,390 --> 00:45:14,410 I'm off. You said you wanted to talk to me. 877 00:45:14,610 --> 00:45:15,610 Yeah. 878 00:45:16,430 --> 00:45:18,290 It'll lead us to the tent from young Phillips. 879 00:45:18,610 --> 00:45:19,990 I think he's got the message. 880 00:45:20,190 --> 00:45:21,810 It's strictly cat sat on the mat. 881 00:45:23,650 --> 00:45:24,770 You look bushed. 882 00:45:25,430 --> 00:45:26,430 Yes, I am. 883 00:45:26,690 --> 00:45:27,690 How'd it go? 884 00:45:28,110 --> 00:45:29,110 All right. 885 00:45:29,170 --> 00:45:32,390 They're talking at the start. Young Phillips is driving them home. 886 00:45:32,990 --> 00:45:34,270 You fancy a drink? 887 00:45:35,570 --> 00:45:36,930 No, I better not. I'm driving. 888 00:45:37,210 --> 00:45:39,130 Anyway, the way I feel, one wouldn't be enough. 889 00:45:39,450 --> 00:45:41,430 Don't let me stop you. No, I don't. 890 00:45:42,350 --> 00:45:45,670 I've still got Mr. Livesey to see if he really needs to catch one whiff of that 891 00:45:45,670 --> 00:45:48,490 on me breath. I'd be a drunk as well as a fascist. Oh, I think he'd be all 892 00:45:48,490 --> 00:45:51,650 right. He may slang you off a bit, but you know, Mrs. Livesey was quite 893 00:45:51,650 --> 00:45:52,650 for the time they left. 894 00:45:52,770 --> 00:45:53,770 Right, good. 895 00:45:54,690 --> 00:45:56,550 So, you said you wanted a word. 896 00:45:57,470 --> 00:46:00,430 Yeah, well, it was just that I managed to get back in time to have a drink with 897 00:46:00,430 --> 00:46:02,070 Steve and we had a bit of a talk. 898 00:46:02,690 --> 00:46:03,690 About Hendon. 899 00:46:03,810 --> 00:46:04,810 How long you known? 900 00:46:05,410 --> 00:46:07,230 That he'd actually applied this afternoon. 901 00:46:07,910 --> 00:46:09,230 One voice gave me a bell. 902 00:46:09,720 --> 00:46:11,080 I knew someone had been in touch. 903 00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:12,460 Yeah, well, it was a bit of a blow. 904 00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:14,620 I should have recognised the signs. 905 00:46:14,860 --> 00:46:16,180 Heavy hints from Jake. 906 00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:20,320 Even Phillips mentioned it in the car, going over to the Liz's. 907 00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:24,920 And, uh, now Steve sounded you out. He seems to have talked to everyone except 908 00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:27,860 me. Well, I think he intends to get around to that tonight. 909 00:46:28,140 --> 00:46:30,220 Oh, great. That's all I need, a stand -up fight. 910 00:46:30,560 --> 00:46:31,560 Does it have to be a fight? 911 00:46:32,220 --> 00:46:36,140 No, it's just I had the same situation, only in reverse with my eldest. 912 00:46:36,660 --> 00:46:38,380 I wanted him to go in force. 913 00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:40,740 I'd call it vanity, if you like. 914 00:46:41,460 --> 00:46:42,580 He wanted to go in the Navy. 915 00:46:42,860 --> 00:46:45,760 We had one hell of a shouting match. I really put my foot down. 916 00:46:46,940 --> 00:46:48,300 He went to Dartmouth. 917 00:46:48,540 --> 00:46:49,540 He's doing very well. 918 00:46:49,700 --> 00:46:50,700 What does that prove? 919 00:46:51,020 --> 00:46:53,980 Well, sometimes they do make the right choice, even if we can't see them. 920 00:46:54,860 --> 00:46:58,180 Look, Maggie, I was a bit hard on Steve. Go easy, eh? 921 00:46:59,620 --> 00:47:00,578 Thanks, Bill. 922 00:47:00,580 --> 00:47:01,580 I'll handle it. 923 00:47:02,140 --> 00:47:03,140 I'll have to. 924 00:47:03,520 --> 00:47:10,230 Now... Why didn't you tell me? All right, so I'm telling you now. Yes, 925 00:47:10,290 --> 00:47:13,550 after you've talked to everybody else at the NIC, I'll be already applied. No 926 00:47:13,550 --> 00:47:16,210 discussion, just like that. There's nothing to discuss. I want to go to the 927 00:47:16,210 --> 00:47:17,470 police training college and that's it. 928 00:47:17,970 --> 00:47:20,450 Oh, my feelings on the subject just don't matter, I suppose. 929 00:47:20,690 --> 00:47:22,090 I just didn't want an argument. 930 00:47:22,450 --> 00:47:26,210 Why does there have to be an argument? Can't we just talk about it? A 931 00:47:26,210 --> 00:47:27,970 would turn into a row and you wouldn't fight fair. 932 00:47:28,270 --> 00:47:29,270 Fight fair? 933 00:47:29,510 --> 00:47:32,030 What does that mean? Well, are you saying you wouldn't remind me what 934 00:47:32,030 --> 00:47:32,729 to Dad? 935 00:47:32,730 --> 00:47:35,130 That you'd already lost half your family to the job? No. 936 00:47:35,770 --> 00:47:39,330 It's a powerful argument. It's an emotional one. It's irrational and 937 00:47:40,170 --> 00:47:42,550 Well, it's a mother's argument. Steve, I am your mother. 938 00:47:42,770 --> 00:47:43,729 And what about Dad? 939 00:47:43,730 --> 00:47:46,370 I think he would have been proud. Well, do you think I'm not proud? 940 00:47:47,590 --> 00:47:49,090 Of course I'm proud of you. 941 00:47:50,470 --> 00:47:54,910 Even when you were just a toddler, you used to grab your dad's helmet and put 942 00:47:54,910 --> 00:47:56,470 around the room saying, I'm a policeman. 943 00:47:57,050 --> 00:47:59,870 God, we were proud of you even then. Well, then I don't see why you... Oh, 944 00:47:59,870 --> 00:48:01,270 Steve, it was 15 years ago. 945 00:48:02,170 --> 00:48:03,710 The world's changed. 946 00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:06,600 The job's changed so much. 947 00:48:07,100 --> 00:48:10,460 It's before he died, your dad was worried about the violence. 948 00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:15,600 What do you think he would say now about petrol bombs and street riots? 949 00:48:15,860 --> 00:48:18,680 I think he'd say that's all the more reason why someone's got to get out 950 00:48:18,680 --> 00:48:20,240 and do the job and try and keep order. 951 00:48:21,320 --> 00:48:22,460 It's what he believed in. 952 00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:24,160 It's why he died. 953 00:48:24,640 --> 00:48:27,560 He saw the villains robbing that van, but he thought like a policeman. 954 00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:29,580 It was something he had to do. 955 00:48:29,980 --> 00:48:31,740 He was a hero and I'm a widow. 956 00:48:32,670 --> 00:48:35,830 Oh, now, look, Steve, if you think you want to join the force just out of 957 00:48:35,830 --> 00:48:38,410 loyalty to your dad... Oh, look, Mum, it's not that. I promise you. 958 00:48:38,810 --> 00:48:41,670 You only see the worst of what could happen. I've already lived through the 959 00:48:41,670 --> 00:48:42,670 worst that can happen. 960 00:48:42,870 --> 00:48:46,250 I just can't face doing it a second time. Oh, for God's sake, Mum, 961 00:48:46,250 --> 00:48:49,490 show that more people get killed crossing the road in a day than police 962 00:48:49,490 --> 00:48:52,350 hear. I don't care about statistics. I care about you. 963 00:48:52,570 --> 00:48:53,570 I want to go to Hendon, Mum. 964 00:48:56,390 --> 00:48:57,590 All right, all right. 965 00:48:59,010 --> 00:49:01,290 I just hope that you go to university first. 966 00:49:02,060 --> 00:49:04,880 Just to give yourself time to find out who you are. 967 00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:06,200 What do you want? 968 00:49:06,340 --> 00:49:10,040 I can still go to university after my two years probationary period. And at 969 00:49:10,040 --> 00:49:11,040 police force's expense. 970 00:49:13,080 --> 00:49:14,780 You've thought it all out, haven't you? 971 00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:17,060 Except for one thing. 972 00:49:17,480 --> 00:49:18,480 What about? 973 00:49:19,980 --> 00:49:20,980 What do I do? 974 00:49:22,640 --> 00:49:24,400 What do I do when you're out on patrol duty? 975 00:49:25,700 --> 00:49:30,080 You know, a woman this afternoon said something about being thick with hope. 976 00:49:31,160 --> 00:49:32,480 That'll be me, won't it? 977 00:49:33,740 --> 00:49:37,680 Hoping I won't get a call from the hospital to say your ribs have been 978 00:49:37,680 --> 00:49:39,020 by some football hooligans. 979 00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:44,160 Hoping you'll come home safe and sound after a spell on night duty. 980 00:49:46,180 --> 00:49:50,460 Hoping I won't get another call from Russell's office like when your dad... 981 00:49:50,460 --> 00:49:52,460 the hell do you think I've been feeling for years? 982 00:49:54,180 --> 00:49:55,760 At least I know the pitfalls. 983 00:49:57,300 --> 00:49:58,300 It's my life. 984 00:49:58,810 --> 00:50:00,550 And you can't go on protecting me forever. 985 00:50:01,810 --> 00:50:04,510 You can't stop me from joining the force because of what happened to Dad. 986 00:50:10,290 --> 00:50:11,350 Well, I had to try. 987 00:50:14,070 --> 00:50:15,070 Yes. 988 00:50:16,590 --> 00:50:17,590 Look, I'm no hero. 989 00:50:18,370 --> 00:50:20,530 I'll keep my head down when it gets rough, I promise, OK? 990 00:50:22,730 --> 00:50:23,730 Yes. 991 00:50:32,250 --> 00:50:33,610 One thing you haven't thought of? 992 00:50:33,850 --> 00:50:34,850 No. 993 00:50:34,970 --> 00:50:36,010 My son, the commissioner.