1 00:00:12,330 --> 00:00:18,850 Lot 29, a portrait of Pope Julius II, known as the Hathaway Raphe from 2 00:00:18,850 --> 00:00:22,890 Castle. A similar, though more accomplished, work than the portrait in 3 00:00:22,890 --> 00:00:24,170 Palazzo Fili in France. 4 00:00:24,590 --> 00:00:29,790 I have several bids. I must have 500 ,000 pounds, ladies and gentlemen. 5 00:00:31,250 --> 00:00:32,250 550. 6 00:00:33,050 --> 00:00:34,110 600 ,000. 7 00:00:35,090 --> 00:00:36,090 650. 8 00:00:37,070 --> 00:00:40,070 700 ,000. 700 ,000 pounds is bid. 9 00:00:42,249 --> 00:00:43,249 750 ,000. 10 00:00:45,350 --> 00:00:46,570 800 ,000 near me. 11 00:00:48,670 --> 00:00:49,670 850 ,000. 12 00:00:52,050 --> 00:00:53,850 New bid, 900 ,000 pounds. 13 00:00:57,090 --> 00:00:58,370 950 ,000 near me. 14 00:00:59,990 --> 00:01:04,069 At 950 ,000, it's against you, sir. 15 00:01:06,670 --> 00:01:08,410 One million pounds, ladies and gentlemen. 16 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:11,960 1 ,100 ,000. 17 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:16,880 It's against you, sir, at 1 ,100 ,000 pounds. 18 00:01:18,660 --> 00:01:20,300 1 ,200 ,000 pounds. 19 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:24,420 1 ,300 ,000 pounds. 20 00:01:24,820 --> 00:01:29,960 1 ,300 ,000 pounds. It's against you, sir, at 1 ,300 ,000 pounds. Is that a 21 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:31,000 madam? 22 00:01:39,500 --> 00:01:40,880 Let's go! 23 00:02:29,870 --> 00:02:30,870 We've always got someone in there, ma 'am. 24 00:02:31,250 --> 00:02:35,070 I know you speak English, Abdul. I've been told. Information. 25 00:02:35,470 --> 00:02:37,430 That's all I want. Now, come on. 26 00:02:37,830 --> 00:02:39,990 We don't pull toenails out in this country. 27 00:02:40,650 --> 00:02:42,570 You're acting. You may not be so sure. 28 00:02:43,510 --> 00:02:44,950 Oh, go on, go on. Get out. 29 00:02:46,250 --> 00:02:47,250 Out. 30 00:02:47,770 --> 00:02:48,770 Vamos. 31 00:02:48,950 --> 00:02:49,950 Adiamos. 32 00:02:51,130 --> 00:02:52,290 Come on, Abdul. 33 00:02:52,590 --> 00:02:53,770 I'll fish with you. 34 00:02:56,070 --> 00:02:58,410 Is that you or him, that whiff? Go on. 35 00:02:58,730 --> 00:03:01,270 Ah, Philip, show this foreign visitor out, will you? 36 00:03:01,910 --> 00:03:04,230 Hey, go, go. Shoo, shoo. 37 00:03:08,510 --> 00:03:10,610 Have you got an interview or something? 38 00:03:11,210 --> 00:03:12,470 The present was today. 39 00:03:12,810 --> 00:03:13,930 Oh, it's not Christmas. 40 00:03:14,970 --> 00:03:17,390 Birthday. Oh, 29 again. 41 00:03:18,430 --> 00:03:20,030 30 -something. 42 00:03:20,410 --> 00:03:21,410 What, today? 43 00:03:21,690 --> 00:03:25,110 Yeah. Ah, credit to the monkey gland industry. 44 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:30,240 You know, Inspector, it's police work keeps women young. Nice warm offices, 45 00:03:30,420 --> 00:03:32,540 varied work, mixing with interesting people. 46 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:33,499 Oh, shut up. 47 00:03:33,500 --> 00:03:34,540 What a money -beater, Lance. 48 00:03:35,860 --> 00:03:36,860 Yeah, Croft. 49 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:39,180 What? Yeah. 50 00:03:39,580 --> 00:03:40,800 Yeah, that's what I said, sir. 51 00:03:41,660 --> 00:03:43,800 Assaulting the WPC and causing a disturbance. 52 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:48,480 Now, the point is, they're very insistent. They say they've got 53 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:50,260 about a crime. Yes, we have. 54 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:53,120 Yeah. 55 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:55,478 Come on. 56 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:56,480 OK. 57 00:03:56,820 --> 00:03:58,000 Right, interview room. 58 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:01,040 All right, ladies, no more of that, please. 59 00:04:01,300 --> 00:04:04,400 Aren't you locking us up? We will if you kick WPC Sutton again. 60 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:08,840 Go on, give him a cup of tea. I want you two to cool off before you're seen. 61 00:04:09,340 --> 00:04:13,680 What the hell is this place? A geriatrics advice centre? 62 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:15,400 Well, go and find out. 63 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:18,980 Ah, no, you go, eh? I'm busy. 64 00:04:19,860 --> 00:04:20,860 And I'm not. 65 00:04:21,370 --> 00:04:24,570 I'm at the Old Bailey this afternoon, and I'm trying to finish this report for 66 00:04:24,570 --> 00:04:25,409 the DPP. 67 00:04:25,410 --> 00:04:27,230 No, no, this job needs a woman's touch. 68 00:04:27,450 --> 00:04:30,070 You know, old ladies, frail, old people. 69 00:04:30,330 --> 00:04:31,670 I suppose I frighten them. 70 00:04:32,430 --> 00:04:33,690 Well, that'd be your fault. 71 00:04:34,310 --> 00:04:37,390 Well, suppose they wouldn't talk in front of a uniform. 72 00:04:37,770 --> 00:04:40,410 I need a WPC when I'm interviewing women, remember? 73 00:04:42,970 --> 00:04:43,970 Sneaky. 74 00:04:45,890 --> 00:04:48,090 Well, at least you can answer my calls for me. 75 00:04:50,090 --> 00:04:53,250 You know where it is when we want it? Yes, Sarah. In your bag? 76 00:04:53,830 --> 00:04:57,410 Yes, Sarah. We don't want them thinking we're two batty old women who can't look 77 00:04:57,410 --> 00:04:58,169 after themselves. 78 00:04:58,170 --> 00:05:01,350 I've thought of it. Well, it won't be the first time you've messed things up, 79 00:05:01,370 --> 00:05:02,370 Ethel. 80 00:05:02,630 --> 00:05:03,549 Who is it? 81 00:05:03,550 --> 00:05:04,550 It's a woman. 82 00:05:04,750 --> 00:05:09,050 We're not speaking to any young chit of a girl, you know. We have some very 83 00:05:09,050 --> 00:05:10,050 important information. 84 00:05:10,790 --> 00:05:11,790 Is that so? 85 00:05:12,850 --> 00:05:13,850 Right now. 86 00:05:14,550 --> 00:05:15,550 Which of you is Ethel? 87 00:05:15,870 --> 00:05:17,430 Miss Ethel Mead. 88 00:05:18,010 --> 00:05:19,050 You can talk to me. 89 00:05:19,850 --> 00:05:20,850 The Mrs. 90 00:05:21,090 --> 00:05:24,050 Ethel and Sarah Mead Cathedral, close Norwich. Is that right? 91 00:05:24,430 --> 00:05:25,430 If it is, sir. 92 00:05:26,130 --> 00:05:31,350 Well, now, what information might you have? Ethel. I said you can talk to me. 93 00:05:32,390 --> 00:05:35,730 But I thought Sarah always does the talking. 94 00:05:38,890 --> 00:05:39,890 Well? 95 00:05:40,290 --> 00:05:44,850 Well, show her the cutting. Go on, you're so slow. Where is it? I don't 96 00:05:45,050 --> 00:05:46,970 We'll get a move on. Right. 97 00:05:47,730 --> 00:05:48,730 Right. 98 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:50,120 Is she reading it? 99 00:05:53,380 --> 00:05:59,840 Has she finished? She doesn't need it. It's just, you know, being blind, she 100 00:05:59,840 --> 00:06:01,120 gets a bit pernickety. 101 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:04,520 So will you be if you had to rely upon such a stupid idiot. 102 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:08,020 Well? What has this got to do with the sale today? 103 00:06:08,340 --> 00:06:09,740 That was just a taste. 104 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:12,540 Of what? Of what we'll do if we're not fairly treated. 105 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:16,580 Well, it says here that an anonymous London dealer has almost certainly 106 00:06:16,580 --> 00:06:20,500 succeeded in proving that a picture he bought cheaply at Greville six months 107 00:06:20,500 --> 00:06:22,600 is an unknown and very valuable masterpiece. 108 00:06:23,100 --> 00:06:25,300 Ah, before we sold it. 109 00:06:25,700 --> 00:06:30,200 This undiscovered masterpiece belonged to you? We were cheated out of it by 110 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:33,000 Greville. For a crippling sum, I might add. 111 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:35,160 But it was all sold legally. 112 00:06:35,420 --> 00:06:39,300 You haven't given her the catalogue. You didn't say. Don't give... I don't know 113 00:06:39,300 --> 00:06:42,380 when you should have. You're sorry. Don't keep saying you're sorry. 114 00:06:43,700 --> 00:06:45,740 Now then, has she got it yet? Yes, thank you. 115 00:06:46,220 --> 00:06:47,340 Lot 110. 116 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:50,280 I did put a marker in, Sarah. Well, how should I know? 117 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:52,040 Have you found it? 118 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:56,620 Yes, yes. A picture of two men in a garden, English school, 18th century. 119 00:06:56,860 --> 00:07:00,640 We told the young man, didn't we, Sarah, that it was French. But he wouldn't 120 00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:04,290 believe it. It's been in our family for generations, the French picture we call 121 00:07:04,290 --> 00:07:08,850 it. Oh, no, madam, it couldn't possibly be French. It's an English garden. I 122 00:07:08,850 --> 00:07:11,450 mean, look at the inscription on the statue's plinth. 123 00:07:11,730 --> 00:07:15,670 It's in English. It's quite obvious that Greville has been negligent, criminally 124 00:07:15,670 --> 00:07:16,670 so. 125 00:07:17,490 --> 00:07:19,730 £600 does seem to be a very good price for a picture. 126 00:07:20,050 --> 00:07:21,890 Rubbish. It's worth tens of thousands. 127 00:07:22,230 --> 00:07:24,410 And who's going to benefit? Not us, that's for sure. 128 00:07:25,050 --> 00:07:28,450 Well, I don't know much about it, but isn't that the gamble of an auction? Oh, 129 00:07:28,590 --> 00:07:29,590 can't you understand? 130 00:07:30,650 --> 00:07:34,970 Greville simply omitted to find out about it. And we poor benighted 131 00:07:34,970 --> 00:07:38,630 that we are will not receive one brass farthing of its real value. 132 00:07:38,950 --> 00:07:42,150 And that's the reason for the scene this morning. 133 00:07:42,850 --> 00:07:47,110 I told her we shouldn't. Well, that's all we had left. 134 00:07:47,410 --> 00:07:48,410 An impact. 135 00:07:48,950 --> 00:07:50,630 Isn't that what people do nowadays? 136 00:07:51,110 --> 00:07:52,310 Make an impact. 137 00:07:52,670 --> 00:07:54,730 Which is going to land you both in court. 138 00:07:55,270 --> 00:07:57,650 Oh, we went through the blitz. 139 00:07:58,140 --> 00:08:01,880 We are not frightened of a mere magistrate. Yes, he was a magistrate. 140 00:08:01,880 --> 00:08:06,380 brother, he wasn't in the slightest fright. Don't. Stop dribbling. You are a 141 00:08:06,380 --> 00:08:07,440 detective, I suppose. 142 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:11,440 Yes. And you, I suppose, want me to detect. 143 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:13,460 We most certainly do. 144 00:08:14,020 --> 00:08:15,020 Don't we, Ethel? 145 00:08:17,540 --> 00:08:19,600 There you go. Oh, thanks. 146 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:25,800 Do you know anything about painting? 147 00:08:26,980 --> 00:08:27,839 Emotional gloss. 148 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:29,640 Oh, God, you're too clever by half sometimes. 149 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:32,059 Oil. Old Martin. 150 00:08:32,740 --> 00:08:33,740 Oh, a bit, yeah. 151 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:35,780 What is it, those two old biddies of rebels? 152 00:08:36,659 --> 00:08:38,320 The reason they did it. 153 00:08:39,039 --> 00:08:42,760 You know, they've got a story so far -fetched it might actually be true. 154 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:45,940 That's what the Art and Antique Squad's for. No, it's just a story for another 155 00:08:45,940 --> 00:08:46,940 morning of gossip. 156 00:08:47,900 --> 00:08:49,220 Well, you know what old ladies are like. 157 00:08:49,500 --> 00:08:52,340 They say the house is on fire and it's only footies stuck up in a tree. No, not 158 00:08:52,340 --> 00:08:55,080 them. If there was, it would be a tiger at the very least. 159 00:08:56,920 --> 00:09:00,220 If I finish early at the Old Bailey, I might pop round to Greville's and have a 160 00:09:00,220 --> 00:09:01,199 look -see. 161 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:02,620 Don't tell me. You've got a hunch. 162 00:09:03,420 --> 00:09:05,920 I don't believe in hunches, Peter. I'm following up on information. 163 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:09,320 Oh, I don't know. I'm sick of it. Perhaps I'll go tomorrow. 164 00:09:10,660 --> 00:09:11,579 Thank you. 165 00:09:11,580 --> 00:09:13,000 What can I have, sir? 166 00:09:13,860 --> 00:09:15,340 Well, that's very civil of you. 167 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:16,800 Whiskey, water, no ice, sir. 168 00:09:23,990 --> 00:09:25,890 You're at the old Bailey today? Yeah. 169 00:09:26,610 --> 00:09:27,610 We in with the chance? 170 00:09:28,510 --> 00:09:31,330 Defense counsel is our old friend Lionel. You know what he's about. 171 00:09:31,790 --> 00:09:34,790 I'd still like to see that young butt that Taylor put away. Yeah, me too. 172 00:09:36,950 --> 00:09:37,950 What is that? 173 00:09:39,030 --> 00:09:39,989 It's what? 174 00:09:39,990 --> 00:09:40,990 Perfume. 175 00:09:41,300 --> 00:09:44,840 Mr. President, don't you like it? Not much, no. What is it? I thought you had 176 00:09:44,840 --> 00:09:46,940 taste. I think you must have a heavy cold. 177 00:09:47,300 --> 00:09:48,520 You've lost the sense of smell. 178 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:51,660 Charm, by the feel. You know, it's 30 pounds an ounce, whatever. 179 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:54,640 Steve bought you that for your birthday. Well, I'm not inquiring too hard where 180 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:57,660 he got it from. I would if I were you. It's not charm for a start. No, it's 181 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:02,660 No, it's not. Listen, I'm here to tell you. I have been buying charm for Janie. 182 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:06,700 Birthday's anniversary is something like 20 years. That's not charm. It's 183 00:10:06,700 --> 00:10:07,700 nothing like it. 184 00:10:08,570 --> 00:10:12,190 Really? You'd better believe it. If I were you, I'd ask young Steve where he 185 00:10:12,190 --> 00:10:13,710 it, because he's certainly been done. 186 00:10:16,110 --> 00:10:21,150 Happy birthday. 187 00:10:21,790 --> 00:10:22,910 Cheers. Cheers. 188 00:10:24,110 --> 00:10:25,190 Nice, thank you. 189 00:10:25,950 --> 00:10:26,950 Thank you, Steve. 190 00:10:27,270 --> 00:10:28,270 Did you play it? 191 00:10:28,630 --> 00:10:29,850 Only once a year. 192 00:10:30,370 --> 00:10:31,370 Now, where is it? 193 00:10:31,710 --> 00:10:32,770 It's up there in the flowerpot. 194 00:10:40,350 --> 00:10:41,850 Somewhere. Down this step. 195 00:10:51,250 --> 00:10:52,250 There. 196 00:11:03,530 --> 00:11:04,530 It's empty. 197 00:11:04,670 --> 00:11:05,670 But it was here. 198 00:11:06,439 --> 00:11:08,160 Not a closing down sale. 199 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:09,520 No, I'm trying to be helpful. 200 00:11:09,740 --> 00:11:12,820 I thought you'd like what I gave you. I didn't expect a third degree. I do love. 201 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:16,500 It's just that it's an expensive perfume. You couldn't possibly have 202 00:11:16,500 --> 00:11:20,040 it. You think it's knocked off? No. Oh, that's terrific. Thanks a bunch. No. 203 00:11:21,020 --> 00:11:23,820 I thought I'd buy another bottle, that's all. 204 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:25,360 Come on home. 205 00:11:29,980 --> 00:11:31,760 I've never seen any prices like it. 206 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:32,960 Bankrupt stuff. 207 00:11:33,130 --> 00:11:35,210 Dirt cheap. Don't forget, it's only going to be out today. 208 00:11:35,430 --> 00:11:38,810 You can't go wrong. These prices today, very, very cheap. 209 00:11:39,530 --> 00:11:43,330 Please, five, you've seen nothing like it. It's a bit close. I don't spit much. 210 00:11:43,970 --> 00:11:45,290 It's all got to go today. 211 00:11:45,690 --> 00:11:46,690 Bankrupt stock. 212 00:11:46,710 --> 00:11:48,330 We're expecting a queen mother later. 213 00:11:48,770 --> 00:11:52,250 Forget your wallets out. Right, back in basement time. 214 00:11:52,490 --> 00:11:55,170 I'll not tell you what's in it, but who'll give me a quid for it? 215 00:11:55,950 --> 00:11:58,610 All right, in place, 50p. 216 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:00,280 Hey, can you take us? 217 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:04,500 Yeah, clever man. Thank God somebody's got some brains in his skull. 218 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:07,200 Now, show the lovely people what you've got there. Beautiful presentation. 219 00:12:07,620 --> 00:12:08,620 God, just look at that. 220 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:13,120 Good 221 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:22,900 morning, 222 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:23,939 Mr. Takata. 223 00:12:23,940 --> 00:12:25,660 Good morning, Mr. Shosh. Excuse me. 224 00:12:25,940 --> 00:12:28,040 Excuse me. 225 00:12:32,189 --> 00:12:33,390 About that little scene yesterday. 226 00:12:34,010 --> 00:12:37,610 Not treated very kindly by the press, were we? You won't want to press 227 00:12:37,810 --> 00:12:38,229 will you? 228 00:12:38,230 --> 00:12:40,950 You were the one who got most covered in that foam stuff. 229 00:12:41,270 --> 00:12:42,970 I've had some inspector on. What do you feel? 230 00:12:44,410 --> 00:12:47,570 We don't want any publicity, do we? No, certainly not. That wouldn't do. 231 00:12:47,850 --> 00:12:50,430 Good lad. I've had to opt to pay dozens of cleaning bills as it is. 232 00:12:50,690 --> 00:12:53,730 Oh, by the way, I've told Diana to put you on a list for the French Embassy 233 00:12:53,730 --> 00:12:56,390 dinner. All right? Suits me. I'll see you about eight o 'clock then. 234 00:12:56,630 --> 00:12:57,630 Jolly good, Piers. 235 00:13:00,580 --> 00:13:01,580 Thank you, my friends. 236 00:13:02,700 --> 00:13:05,280 Remember, if it doesn't work, you know where to find it. 237 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:07,340 Here. I'll tuck in a blanket. 238 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:11,500 See you in a minute. See you in a minute. 239 00:13:20,920 --> 00:13:24,120 You're nicking from the hotel store? I mean, you can't be eating it yourself, 240 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:25,279 can you? 241 00:13:25,280 --> 00:13:28,220 £40 a mince, half a dozen sides of smoked salmon? No way. 242 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:29,860 They're our interview rooms, Bob. 243 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:31,340 What, unlock all that lockdown? 244 00:13:31,700 --> 00:13:34,260 Well, look, I want to make some phone calls. I need to chat with Jake. Look, 245 00:13:34,260 --> 00:13:35,260 Maggie. 246 00:13:35,300 --> 00:13:38,960 Maggie, I know that you are used to the genteel lifestyle of old ladies, but 247 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:40,680 this is a nick, not a tea shop. 248 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:42,160 Me? 249 00:13:44,360 --> 00:13:47,460 All right, but just make sure Charlie here doesn't nick anything. Yeah, tell 250 00:13:47,460 --> 00:13:50,760 Jack I want to see him, will you? Oh, I'm sure this gentleman would love cup 251 00:13:50,760 --> 00:13:51,760 tea. 252 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:07,159 Oh, yes. 253 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:11,080 Hello. I'd like to see Mr Sharkey this afternoon, if possible. It's Inspector 254 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:12,300 Forbes again. Seven dial. 255 00:14:13,260 --> 00:14:14,260 Yes, that's right. 256 00:14:20,940 --> 00:14:22,380 Oh, yes, I can. 257 00:14:49,130 --> 00:14:50,130 Oh, it was in the gents. 258 00:14:51,230 --> 00:14:52,230 Morning. 259 00:14:54,570 --> 00:14:56,970 I want you to find out where that comes from. What is it? 260 00:14:57,210 --> 00:15:00,190 It's not what it seems. It's fake. Steve pulled off a bunch of con men on our 261 00:15:00,190 --> 00:15:01,190 ground. 262 00:15:01,950 --> 00:15:03,550 What? Yeah, it's getting worse, too. 263 00:15:03,970 --> 00:15:04,729 You know where they are? 264 00:15:04,730 --> 00:15:07,530 Well, go and see Steve. I'll give him a buzz. He's got a fair description. 265 00:15:07,730 --> 00:15:11,870 Oh, and they used a lock -up shop in the garden. They must have got the key from 266 00:15:11,870 --> 00:15:15,830 an agent who was in Middleman, Stockton, Wright. Go and see them, too, wouldn't 267 00:15:15,830 --> 00:15:16,850 you? I want them, Jake. 268 00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:20,500 A bit embarrassing for you, isn't it? Yeah, which is why I want it done 269 00:15:20,600 --> 00:15:23,440 away from the ears of a certain gentleman. Oh, yeah, I see. 270 00:15:23,680 --> 00:15:24,680 Good. 271 00:15:24,900 --> 00:15:25,900 How's it going? 272 00:15:26,700 --> 00:15:27,700 What? 273 00:15:27,860 --> 00:15:30,900 The other thing in Regent Street, the break -in. Oh, we've got some prints 274 00:15:31,020 --> 00:15:32,500 Very amateur, I doubt they're on file. 275 00:15:32,700 --> 00:15:36,400 Ah, remember, what? Oh, yeah, yeah, as a dead mouse. 276 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:38,600 Morning. 277 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:41,960 Oh, fuck, huh. 278 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:44,740 Sure, Mr Abdo, I really appreciate that. 279 00:15:52,460 --> 00:15:54,840 Well, it is, of course, to be deplored, that sort of behaviour. 280 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:56,120 Utterly deplored. 281 00:15:56,300 --> 00:15:57,720 But you're not going to press charges? 282 00:15:58,180 --> 00:16:01,340 What, Greville's hounding the elderly, one of whom is blind, Inspector? 283 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:04,000 No, we've had enough publicity on this already. 284 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:07,620 Over two million on one sale, he can afford it. No, no, no, we don't want to 285 00:16:07,620 --> 00:16:08,620 drag them through the courts. 286 00:16:08,840 --> 00:16:10,440 Oh, well, let's just leave the thought in an officer. 287 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:12,760 And don't worry, that was our side of the street. 288 00:16:13,020 --> 00:16:14,360 Inspector, I don't think you quite understand. 289 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:16,640 Greville's has a certain reputation. 290 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:20,340 Of course, if this sort of thing happened every day, which, God forbid, 291 00:16:20,340 --> 00:16:22,020 might have to do something. But once, no. 292 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:24,300 We pride ourselves on our discretion. 293 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:25,880 Do you know what it was about? 294 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:27,980 Oh, a shrewd idea. 295 00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:30,120 Some complained against us. 296 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:31,400 It was a painting you sold. 297 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:35,020 Well, we sell a lot, Inspector. 298 00:16:35,380 --> 00:16:37,340 Not all undiscovered masterpieces. 299 00:16:39,620 --> 00:16:40,880 The Watto, I take it. 300 00:16:41,940 --> 00:16:45,200 Look, I don't know much about it, but you might feel that they have a 301 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:48,720 complaint. They never complained to us, not until yesterday. If you should see 302 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:51,620 them, as I said, it's not my line, but they feel certain that you should have 303 00:16:51,620 --> 00:16:52,620 identified the picture. 304 00:16:53,700 --> 00:16:57,100 They're not infallible, Inspector. Even experts are only human. And, of course, 305 00:16:57,100 --> 00:17:00,280 this painting hasn't definitely been authenticated, as far as I understand 306 00:17:00,460 --> 00:17:04,780 The painting was sold for £600, Mr Sharkey. If it turns out to be a genuine 307 00:17:04,780 --> 00:17:06,520 Watto, how much could it fetch? 308 00:17:08,900 --> 00:17:10,940 Are you investigating, Miss Inspector? No. 309 00:17:11,700 --> 00:17:12,700 I'm just interested. 310 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:18,359 Ah. Well, if it is genuine, Something that's not catalogued, but genuine. 311 00:17:19,780 --> 00:17:22,960 Mind you, this will only be a rough guide, of course. The last sale was some 312 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:23,960 three years ago. 313 00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:28,520 Now, whether or not the two pictures are comparable, I don't know. But we sold 314 00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:29,580 an oil on canvas. 315 00:17:30,100 --> 00:17:31,100 Let me see. 316 00:17:32,220 --> 00:17:33,280 Faitch on Fetch. 317 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:34,740 39 inches by 28. 318 00:17:36,140 --> 00:17:37,140 358 ,000 pounds. 319 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:39,200 What a difference. 320 00:17:41,180 --> 00:17:43,200 Do you know anything about the art world? 321 00:17:43,580 --> 00:17:44,580 No. 322 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:46,860 Neither did they. I swear they came to you. 323 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:54,240 Well, Inspector, on occasions we do offer some compensation. 324 00:17:54,660 --> 00:17:57,320 But in this situation... After what they did. 325 00:17:57,660 --> 00:18:00,660 Well, you must see we can't encourage this sort of display. 326 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:05,040 You know, I would love to talk to the person who bought it at the auction. 327 00:18:05,340 --> 00:18:06,920 Oh, no, I'm afraid I can't possibly. 328 00:18:07,160 --> 00:18:08,160 It's a question of confidence. 329 00:18:08,620 --> 00:18:09,620 Well, not even to me. 330 00:18:10,800 --> 00:18:11,920 Well, perhaps this once. 331 00:18:13,830 --> 00:18:16,810 I suppose you could have found out from somebody who was at the sale. 332 00:18:17,050 --> 00:18:18,830 Well, it would be much easier from you. 333 00:18:19,370 --> 00:18:22,490 Yes, but you do realise that... Oh, yes, yes, I promise I won't tell. 334 00:18:23,050 --> 00:18:24,950 Well, so long as we understand each other. 335 00:18:25,830 --> 00:18:26,830 There we are. 336 00:18:27,110 --> 00:18:29,490 Finnaman. Nicholas Finnaman, a dealer. 337 00:18:29,770 --> 00:18:30,669 Bourne Street? 338 00:18:30,670 --> 00:18:31,670 No, Inspector. 339 00:18:31,970 --> 00:18:33,030 Alder Road, Clapham. 340 00:18:33,690 --> 00:18:35,750 One of the smaller shops in our waters. 341 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:49,560 Peace and love, darling. 342 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:51,200 Your Nick. 343 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:57,060 Steve wasn't too sure about the main bloke. A jock, about five foot seven, 344 00:18:57,140 --> 00:18:59,680 finished. Anything else? All vague, nothing worth much. 345 00:18:59,960 --> 00:19:00,960 That's a help, though. 346 00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:08,200 I've just heard. 347 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:12,740 Oh, dear. Your son, your own son, getting caught by a game like that. 348 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:16,220 Well, he's thinking of following in Mummy's footsteps. He'd be a villain's 349 00:19:16,220 --> 00:19:18,300 delight. Don't tell me you've never bought anything cheap. 350 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:22,520 Scots, I may be. Stupid, I'm not. Now, where have you kept him, Maggie? 351 00:19:22,740 --> 00:19:24,200 Cottonwood? In the draft, Bob. 352 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:25,980 People get done every day. 353 00:19:26,340 --> 00:19:28,980 Caveat emptor. Let the buyer beware. 354 00:19:29,260 --> 00:19:32,020 It's our job to teach street wisdom. Are you coming in or out? 355 00:19:32,700 --> 00:19:36,400 In, if that suits you. You're going to have to pass that on. Not our division. 356 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:39,320 Don't worry, you won't disturb me. 357 00:19:40,230 --> 00:19:43,570 I don't know what your definition of crime is, but mine is what it says in 358 00:19:43,570 --> 00:19:44,850 law, and this sort of thing's illegal. 359 00:19:45,310 --> 00:19:46,730 So is parking on a yellow line. 360 00:19:48,650 --> 00:19:49,650 Come on. 361 00:19:49,830 --> 00:19:53,570 I promise you, Jake, I am not pushing this because of thieves. It makes no 362 00:19:53,570 --> 00:19:57,070 difference to me, Maggie. It does to me, especially when I hear mug -toads like 363 00:19:57,070 --> 00:19:59,030 that suggesting otherwise. The law's the law. 364 00:19:59,290 --> 00:20:00,650 Calm down. You don't have to argue. 365 00:20:00,870 --> 00:20:01,870 Just tell me what to do. 366 00:20:05,230 --> 00:20:07,110 Did you get anything out of the girl who gave you this? 367 00:20:07,330 --> 00:20:08,570 One of the Moonies, wouldn't you? 368 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:11,180 Some bloke gave her a five at the end of the month. She lives with her eyes 369 00:20:11,180 --> 00:20:12,640 shut. What about the shop? 370 00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:14,420 I went round the lock -up in the garden. 371 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:17,480 Some bloke came round to borrow the peas. Wanted to see if it was suitable 372 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:18,099 herb shop. 373 00:20:18,100 --> 00:20:19,100 Brought them back the next day. 374 00:20:19,180 --> 00:20:20,159 Good thing. 375 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:21,160 Got. Well -dressed. 376 00:20:21,540 --> 00:20:22,840 Glasses. Might be things, man. 377 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:25,360 I suppose he didn't leave his dress. 378 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:27,160 Just a tenner for a deposit on the king. 379 00:20:27,740 --> 00:20:29,480 It's their own. Yeah, I've been with them. 380 00:20:29,740 --> 00:20:31,040 One yesterday, another tomorrow. 381 00:20:31,580 --> 00:20:33,060 What are the people drinking here, actually? 382 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:34,400 Drinking with a chintz, probably. 383 00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:36,100 That market's pretty shut in, though. 384 00:20:36,420 --> 00:20:38,230 Yeah. Take this over, Pat. 385 00:20:38,530 --> 00:20:39,409 Well, give me a bow. 386 00:20:39,410 --> 00:20:40,410 No, go yourself. 387 00:20:40,790 --> 00:20:43,970 Just hear them being enthusiastic about covering the closing down auction. 388 00:20:44,170 --> 00:20:45,750 Okay. And I'll go and tell Mr. 389 00:20:45,990 --> 00:20:47,490 Russell, you know, how he feels about the haze on. 390 00:20:48,330 --> 00:20:51,890 Very luck. We'll just draw them in tomorrow. Oh, I doubt it. Life hunts 391 00:20:51,890 --> 00:20:52,890 lot. 392 00:21:27,470 --> 00:21:28,470 Can I help you? 393 00:21:28,710 --> 00:21:29,710 Mr. Finnaman? 394 00:21:29,950 --> 00:21:31,750 Just my luck, your trade. 395 00:21:32,170 --> 00:21:35,350 Look, dear, a whole container went off this morning to Holland. The dock's 396 00:21:35,350 --> 00:21:37,550 down. Please, Mr. Finnaman. 397 00:21:38,350 --> 00:21:40,570 Inspector Forbes, you are Nicholas Finnaman. 398 00:21:40,870 --> 00:21:41,910 What have I done? 399 00:21:42,530 --> 00:21:43,369 You are? 400 00:21:43,370 --> 00:21:44,370 To the life, dear. 401 00:21:45,010 --> 00:21:46,270 You're not one of the local ones. 402 00:21:47,150 --> 00:21:48,150 Seven dows. 403 00:21:48,670 --> 00:21:50,310 You deal in paintings, don't you? 404 00:21:50,930 --> 00:21:54,370 Dabble, dear, dabble, but just for fun. 405 00:21:56,430 --> 00:21:57,430 Stolen, is it? 406 00:21:58,130 --> 00:21:59,130 No. 407 00:21:59,370 --> 00:22:01,690 Ah, you bought not 110. 408 00:22:04,150 --> 00:22:05,150 What is this? 409 00:22:05,670 --> 00:22:06,629 You did? 410 00:22:06,630 --> 00:22:08,110 Inspector, is this some of your police harassment? 411 00:22:08,630 --> 00:22:11,730 I bought this fair and square at auction, and there's no law against 412 00:22:11,730 --> 00:22:12,730 profit as far as I'm aware. 413 00:22:12,930 --> 00:22:13,930 You're very touchy. 414 00:22:14,570 --> 00:22:18,270 Yes, well, I saw in the papers what those two old bats did. 415 00:22:18,650 --> 00:22:19,730 But it's not my fault. 416 00:22:20,350 --> 00:22:22,570 How did you know that that had anything to do with it? 417 00:22:23,770 --> 00:22:24,770 I guessed. 418 00:22:25,790 --> 00:22:26,790 Now, what did you want? 419 00:22:27,850 --> 00:22:31,590 As a matter of fact, I came to do you a favour. It's just possible that they may 420 00:22:31,590 --> 00:22:32,590 come and see you. 421 00:22:32,630 --> 00:22:35,030 Here? Well, they've quite got the bit to ruin their tea. 422 00:22:35,230 --> 00:22:37,250 It's nothing to do with me. It's Greville's they're after. 423 00:22:37,490 --> 00:22:40,530 Of course, they may not come, but if they do... I'll be the blue -eyed boy. 424 00:22:41,090 --> 00:22:43,570 Tea and cakes all round and buckets of sympathy. 425 00:22:44,510 --> 00:22:46,470 I'll have them have them eating out of my hand. 426 00:22:47,350 --> 00:22:48,610 Mind they don't bite it off. 427 00:22:50,090 --> 00:22:51,170 I'm sorry to have bothered you. 428 00:22:53,310 --> 00:22:55,110 Oh, and by the way... 429 00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:56,440 think I could see the painting? 430 00:22:56,500 --> 00:22:58,480 Keep it here, not on your life. 431 00:22:58,720 --> 00:22:59,720 It's in the bank. 432 00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:01,480 Well, yes, it was very sensible. 433 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:03,980 Thank you for your time, anyway. 434 00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:06,040 Bye. 435 00:23:29,419 --> 00:23:30,820 Greville? Mr. Roberts, please. 436 00:23:31,360 --> 00:23:35,720 I know because I've been told, that's why. You're the one, Mr. Big. 437 00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:39,240 Getting a whole load of people in trouble, and all because you couldn't 438 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:40,840 wholesale butcher's like anyone else. 439 00:23:41,060 --> 00:23:44,660 Now, you get them to nick the stuff from the hotel store, then you resell it 440 00:23:44,660 --> 00:23:47,500 through your kebab shop. It's very clever, except you got caught. 441 00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:49,880 You're nicked. Where's Michael? God knows. 442 00:23:50,220 --> 00:23:53,640 Well, when you see it, tell her I wanted the Dublin Bob. Got the property store 443 00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:55,580 on my back. You know, what does that crowd of old women want? 444 00:23:55,930 --> 00:23:58,550 They want to know how long they've got to hang on to a mountain of mincemeat, 445 00:23:58,550 --> 00:24:01,350 not a coal store, you know. Yeah, I've got all that sorted just now, thanks to 446 00:24:01,350 --> 00:24:02,009 Jimmy here. 447 00:24:02,010 --> 00:24:03,470 A little teller, a bit smartish, eh? 448 00:24:06,230 --> 00:24:07,230 You hear that? 449 00:24:07,730 --> 00:24:09,610 They're going to send a bill for storage to you. 450 00:24:10,830 --> 00:24:11,830 Right. 451 00:24:12,030 --> 00:24:13,250 Let's start again, shall we? 452 00:24:13,610 --> 00:24:14,610 From the beginning. 453 00:24:14,670 --> 00:24:17,230 You can't go off with some half -baked notion like that. 454 00:24:18,380 --> 00:24:21,460 Neither was it half -baked, nor did I pump Sharky for information. 455 00:24:21,740 --> 00:24:25,620 Then why did I collect an earful from a superintendent Hague of art and 456 00:24:25,620 --> 00:24:26,620 antiques? Tell me that. 457 00:24:26,660 --> 00:24:28,380 I've no idea. I've never spoken to him. 458 00:24:29,220 --> 00:24:34,700 So, why does it need an officer of your rank to deal with a case of common 459 00:24:34,700 --> 00:24:36,120 assault? Well, there is an explanation. 460 00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:39,120 Make it quick and convincing. I'm not investigating an assault. 461 00:24:40,180 --> 00:24:41,180 Well, go on. 462 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:45,980 Look, I think a painting was knowingly undersold at a Greville's auction some 463 00:24:45,980 --> 00:24:49,300 six months ago. I can't prove it. I've no idea how it was done. All I know is 464 00:24:49,300 --> 00:24:51,800 that wherever I ask, there's evasion and suspicion. 465 00:24:52,120 --> 00:24:56,520 Maggie, a painting knowingly undersold. That is art and antiques business, not 466 00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:59,300 ours. Well, there's only suspicion so far. There's nothing concrete. 467 00:24:59,920 --> 00:25:03,680 Maggie, that is precisely what Superintendent Haig's been going on 468 00:25:03,700 --> 00:25:06,920 it's a very influential world you're playing around in. Now, Superintendent 469 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:09,560 Haig's already had one ear bashing from this sharky character. 470 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:10,760 You warning me off? 471 00:25:12,899 --> 00:25:18,400 You know how I feel about people in so -called privileged positions phoning up 472 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:21,840 top policemen, telling them how to do their job. All the same, it was none of 473 00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:25,660 your business. Your job's out there on the street and you're wasting your time 474 00:25:25,660 --> 00:25:26,800 at Greville's. I'm being pulled. 475 00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:30,980 Handing over as an Inspector Turnbull of Art and Antiques waiting on a call from 476 00:25:30,980 --> 00:25:31,980 you. Yes, sir. 477 00:25:32,980 --> 00:25:36,180 Now then, what's this about a request to Paddington? 478 00:25:36,940 --> 00:25:40,660 To raid a closing dance sale. It's about the phony perfume. Sergeant Barrett's 479 00:25:40,660 --> 00:25:41,760 dealing with it. Well, good. 480 00:25:42,420 --> 00:25:44,480 That's the sort of thing we're here for, OK? 481 00:25:45,020 --> 00:25:46,320 I've got a date, ma 'am. 482 00:25:46,540 --> 00:25:49,300 I don't care if it's Kate Bush. You're not going till I've finished. 483 00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:50,640 You like it here? 484 00:25:51,660 --> 00:25:53,740 Yes, ma 'am. Right. How many statements have you got? 485 00:25:56,400 --> 00:26:01,040 Two about cassette radios without works, one about a dark calculator, and 486 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:02,040 another about a computer game. 487 00:26:02,140 --> 00:26:03,140 No perfume? 488 00:26:03,460 --> 00:26:06,020 No. You've got your own snouts now, haven't you? 489 00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:08,500 I mean, why didn't they know about the Covent Garden sale? 490 00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:12,280 Well, a couple of McGregors flogging junk to the Yanks didn't rate you, I 491 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:15,060 suppose. Well, you tell them for future reference that you want to know about 492 00:26:15,060 --> 00:26:17,900 every slightest thing, and it's not up to them to decide how bent something is 493 00:26:17,900 --> 00:26:20,100 before they tell you this crowd's making monkey dollars. 494 00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:22,840 I'm going on the raid with the boys from Pennington, but I don't hold out much 495 00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:23,900 hope. The leaflet girl? 496 00:26:24,140 --> 00:26:25,140 Well, she could have said something. 497 00:26:25,300 --> 00:26:28,060 Well, the Mooney? Be the first time in history that lot have noticed anything. 498 00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:29,880 Well, what do we know about this Boland character? 499 00:26:30,300 --> 00:26:32,320 Well, three witnesses picked him out of the book, and Steve. 500 00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:33,720 He's got form. 501 00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:38,400 75 posies on the meter reader, 77 receiving, 79 logbooks for patched -up 502 00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:41,240 Well, it sounds like it's lying, sort of. Well, put the word out. 503 00:26:41,460 --> 00:26:43,020 Well, I have. Another bunch of paper. 504 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:45,180 Clean the ashtrays in the car. 505 00:26:46,460 --> 00:26:50,000 I've got to see an inspector Turnbull, and from what I hear, he's not the sort 506 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:51,120 to put up with tacky vehicles. 507 00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:53,420 Steady, John. You wouldn't want to have to pay for this. 508 00:26:54,700 --> 00:26:55,760 Who'd want to nick this stuff? 509 00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:56,879 What is it? 510 00:26:56,880 --> 00:26:58,840 Someone cleared out a sculpture park in Eppie. 511 00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:00,540 God knows what they were going to do with it. 512 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:01,920 Turned up in Greenwich. 513 00:27:02,570 --> 00:27:04,710 I read about your Watto. Yeah, yours now. 514 00:27:05,130 --> 00:27:07,070 If it's kosher, that dealer did himself a favour. 515 00:27:07,310 --> 00:27:08,590 Is it kosher? 516 00:27:09,150 --> 00:27:10,150 Yes and no. 517 00:27:10,890 --> 00:27:12,050 You cold? A bit. 518 00:27:13,190 --> 00:27:15,110 I'm going inside. Don't knock anything off. 519 00:27:17,170 --> 00:27:21,770 I believe it was kosher if it was some bright sparker Agnews or Colnagis did 520 00:27:21,770 --> 00:27:25,450 ascription. Not if it was some pretentious tat dealer from Clapham. 521 00:27:25,450 --> 00:27:27,310 difference? He's an odd one, his Watto. 522 00:27:27,510 --> 00:27:30,130 Never signed his name for a start. Well, hardly ever. 523 00:27:30,610 --> 00:27:31,610 Not prolific. 524 00:27:31,980 --> 00:27:33,560 It's the galleries that have got most of it. 525 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:36,180 It'd be a bugger to pick a totally unknown elf. 526 00:27:37,300 --> 00:27:38,780 What did you say your old lady's name was? 527 00:27:39,660 --> 00:27:40,720 What's that got to do with it? 528 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:42,760 Mead? Yes. 529 00:27:43,940 --> 00:27:44,940 Interesting. 530 00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:50,840 After you. 531 00:27:57,140 --> 00:27:58,340 Copy? Oh, thanks. 532 00:28:00,140 --> 00:28:01,640 Now, why is the name Mead? 533 00:28:01,850 --> 00:28:02,850 Listen, 534 00:28:03,850 --> 00:28:08,670 just suppose those two old dears were descendants of one Dr Mead, noted sore 535 00:28:08,670 --> 00:28:12,930 bones of the 18th century, friend of the famous, and doctor to one Alexander 536 00:28:12,930 --> 00:28:13,930 Pope, the poet. 537 00:28:14,390 --> 00:28:15,390 Do you want a copper? 538 00:28:16,370 --> 00:28:17,370 Milk and sugar? 539 00:28:17,990 --> 00:28:18,990 Just milk. 540 00:28:21,130 --> 00:28:25,970 Old Mead was also an art collector, sort of Paul Getty of his time, and very 541 00:28:25,970 --> 00:28:27,410 keen on Mr Watteau's paintings. 542 00:28:28,270 --> 00:28:30,910 And would you believe it? The painter comes to England to make his fortune, he 543 00:28:30,910 --> 00:28:35,450 says, but most likely to see this quack, Dr Mead. Well, Mead taps his chest, 544 00:28:35,530 --> 00:28:39,350 listens to his heart, all that caper, then says, Sorry, monsieur, nothing I 545 00:28:39,350 --> 00:28:40,570 do. You got TB. 546 00:28:40,990 --> 00:28:42,230 But here's my bill. 547 00:28:42,770 --> 00:28:44,010 Can't pay, says Watteau. 548 00:28:44,290 --> 00:28:47,230 Never mind, says Mead, who could have had this idea all along. 549 00:28:47,450 --> 00:28:51,710 Just paint a picture of me and my friend, Mr Pope, in my garden at 550 00:28:52,070 --> 00:28:54,130 Two gentlemen in an English garden. 551 00:28:54,350 --> 00:28:55,350 Could be. 552 00:28:55,570 --> 00:28:57,290 The thing is, we already know that... 553 00:28:57,500 --> 00:29:00,480 Mead owned two vatos. It was only a matter of time before a third turned up. 554 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:04,440 And if it had always been in the old lady's family... Right, unknown, 555 00:29:04,780 --> 00:29:07,000 uncatalogued, just waiting for some villain to come along. 556 00:29:07,380 --> 00:29:09,700 But they would have to have known the old lady's name. 557 00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:11,040 That would be the clincher. 558 00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:15,000 This bloke Finnaman either knew it before he bought it or afterwards. 559 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:17,940 way, someone told him. He couldn't have done it himself, no way. Someone inside 560 00:29:17,940 --> 00:29:19,500 Greville's? Even money, yeah. 561 00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:23,260 So it's very possible there has been a conspiracy. 562 00:29:23,780 --> 00:29:24,780 Right. 563 00:29:25,300 --> 00:29:26,440 But proving it... 564 00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:28,240 Well, where's that leave us? 565 00:29:29,060 --> 00:29:30,060 What's your boss said? 566 00:29:30,460 --> 00:29:31,580 I'm handing over to you. 567 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:37,880 Suppose I said, let's shake the tree a bit. 568 00:29:40,820 --> 00:29:41,719 Both of us? 569 00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:42,720 No, you. 570 00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:44,340 Now, you know what I told you? 571 00:29:44,660 --> 00:29:47,880 The sight of me, I'll put the wind up them. You go in, maybe they'll be caught 572 00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:48,880 sure. Let something slip. 573 00:29:49,380 --> 00:29:52,740 Find out if whoever saw that painting twigged the significance of the name. 574 00:29:53,540 --> 00:29:54,600 You'll take the responsibility. 575 00:29:55,460 --> 00:29:56,460 Okay. 576 00:29:57,510 --> 00:29:58,510 You're on. 577 00:29:59,930 --> 00:30:00,930 Grab also. 578 00:30:01,690 --> 00:30:04,090 Inspector, I was under the impression this was settled. 579 00:30:04,390 --> 00:30:05,750 It is irritating, I know. 580 00:30:06,050 --> 00:30:07,050 What more can I say? 581 00:30:07,430 --> 00:30:08,830 I've heard nothing from the old ladies. 582 00:30:09,030 --> 00:30:12,150 Quite likely it's all a red herring then, but I would like to finally 583 00:30:12,150 --> 00:30:13,490 myself that there's nothing in it. 584 00:30:14,110 --> 00:30:17,450 We hear this sort of thing, well, I won't say every day, but often enough. 585 00:30:18,090 --> 00:30:19,410 Have Mr Roberts come in, will you? 586 00:30:19,770 --> 00:30:21,410 I'm quite sure I won't have to bother you again. 587 00:30:24,139 --> 00:30:27,360 Isn't this sort of matter normally dealt with by the Art and Antiques Squad 588 00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:29,280 anyway, or is this some sort of freelance job? 589 00:30:30,100 --> 00:30:31,400 Now, come in, Piers. 590 00:30:33,740 --> 00:30:35,060 This is Inspector Forbes. 591 00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:36,660 How do you do, Inspector? 592 00:30:36,980 --> 00:30:37,819 Mr. Roberts? 593 00:30:37,820 --> 00:30:40,680 Now, just tell the Inspector what you told me about this retinite. 594 00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:44,960 I believe you saw it when it first came in. It was referred to me by one of our 595 00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:46,700 junior evaluers. Quite routine. 596 00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:50,300 It's a nice enough painting, but there was nothing about it to suggest it was 597 00:30:50,300 --> 00:30:51,480 anything but what it appeared. 598 00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:53,560 English, 18th century. 599 00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:58,420 Precisely. Absolutely typical of dozens of minor English paintings of the time. 600 00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:00,600 Good. 601 00:31:01,260 --> 00:31:04,280 Well, that's all I needed to know. 602 00:31:05,060 --> 00:31:06,960 I'm sorry to have kept on about it. 603 00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:09,240 You're satisfied? Yes, I think so. 604 00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:12,300 Oh, there is one thing. 605 00:31:12,580 --> 00:31:16,200 The name of the lady selling the picture, does that mean anything to you? 606 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:19,780 Mr. Roberts is an expert in pictures, not pedigrees. 607 00:31:21,540 --> 00:31:22,540 Thank you. 608 00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:26,620 Should we let you know if the vendors contact us? Oh, I don't think it's 609 00:31:26,620 --> 00:31:27,620 that they will. 610 00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:29,900 Goodbye, Mr. Jackie. Goodbye, Inspector. 611 00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:30,939 Mr. Roberts. 612 00:31:30,940 --> 00:31:31,940 Goodbye. 613 00:31:34,860 --> 00:31:38,580 Clearly she's tried it on the art and antique squad and they've told her to 614 00:31:38,580 --> 00:31:41,220 forget it. Yes, and that business about the name. 615 00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:44,300 She must have heard the word provenance somewhere. 616 00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:46,280 Amateurs. 617 00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:50,120 While you were in with the big cheese, I was chatting to the porters. Why, it 618 00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:52,340 just came out. And more than some repeatable. 619 00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:54,940 Arrogant bastard was about the politest thing they said. 620 00:31:55,940 --> 00:31:58,660 Have a search on Roberts and see our own. 621 00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:00,220 He'll be as clean as a whistle. 622 00:32:00,580 --> 00:32:02,740 Shark his nephew, oh well, with the family. 623 00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:06,020 Been there two years and gone down steadily in everyone's estimation. 624 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:10,140 The porters wouldn't give him the time of day if he paid for it. Nasty, but 625 00:32:10,140 --> 00:32:11,079 as well. 626 00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:15,380 Apparently. He borrows pictures from the store to impress his bank manager, and 627 00:32:15,380 --> 00:32:17,880 he has been known to auction his own stuff under a false name. 628 00:32:18,100 --> 00:32:20,920 Now, if that's not bent, he isn't. God, what did they get up to? 629 00:32:21,340 --> 00:32:22,700 I thought you'd been pulled. 630 00:32:23,380 --> 00:32:24,380 I have, Torum. 631 00:32:24,820 --> 00:32:26,400 Well, Jake reckoned the governor wouldn't approve. 632 00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:29,660 Hasn't Turnbull taken it off you completely, then? I'm just doing what he 633 00:32:30,220 --> 00:32:33,200 Nearly closing time, and not a soul to disturb us. 634 00:32:34,020 --> 00:32:37,880 Honestly, Gunther, the people of Clapham have no idea what treasures lie on 635 00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:38,880 their doorstep. 636 00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:41,280 Closing! 637 00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:43,140 Join the choir, Finnaman. Sorry, shut. 638 00:32:43,540 --> 00:32:45,340 We won't take up too much of your time, Mr Finnaman. 639 00:32:46,740 --> 00:32:50,020 Gunther, be alert. Pop up there, put the kettle on. I shan't be long. Not for 640 00:32:50,020 --> 00:32:50,999 far, son. 641 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:52,300 You needn't bother him. He's Dutch. 642 00:32:52,700 --> 00:32:53,960 No sugar for me, please. 643 00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:55,160 Don't bother. 644 00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:57,680 I can close up, can I? 645 00:33:03,700 --> 00:33:05,320 All breakages to be paid for, Inspector. 646 00:33:05,940 --> 00:33:06,980 Here's a bob for the lot. 647 00:33:07,460 --> 00:33:08,800 Very droll, I'm sure. 648 00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:12,440 It's about that bloody picture, I suppose. Do I smell guilty conscience? 649 00:33:12,940 --> 00:33:16,700 We just want to clarify a few points, Mr Finnaman. I wish I'd never bought it. 650 00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:17,840 Why did you, Finnaman? 651 00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:20,560 Because I fancied it. 652 00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:24,000 Though that's not an explanation a flatfoot's going to be satisfied with. 653 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:25,520 ignorant bastard, you catch on fast. 654 00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:28,520 You told me you normally didn't deal in pictures. 655 00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:32,000 It doesn't need a light. Belt up, Finnaman, and answer the lady's 656 00:33:32,260 --> 00:33:33,260 Such finesse. 657 00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:37,700 Well, no, and yes, not for sale, for my own pleasure, though I wouldn't say I 658 00:33:37,700 --> 00:33:38,699 never fell them off. 659 00:33:38,700 --> 00:33:40,080 Going abroad, is it, or has already? 660 00:33:40,500 --> 00:33:43,920 How did you authenticate it, Finnaman? That's a crime, Finnaman, exporting a 661 00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:46,780 picture worth over eight grand without a license. It's in the bank. 662 00:33:47,340 --> 00:33:49,660 Convenient. Answer the lady, then. How did you know? 663 00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:51,840 By the style. 664 00:33:52,380 --> 00:33:56,280 By the subject matter. A certain way things are done. By the subject matter? 665 00:33:56,280 --> 00:33:57,720 not? Why not? He doesn't know. 666 00:33:57,940 --> 00:34:01,320 Know what? It's an English garden, Finnaman. Butto was French. 667 00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:02,800 Yes, but... But what? 668 00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:04,220 Put that down. 669 00:34:04,700 --> 00:34:07,640 Don't trust me? It's more fragile than it looks. Like a lot of a tat in this 670 00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:09,100 shop, like your explanations, Finnerman. 671 00:34:09,420 --> 00:34:14,500 Look, Mr Finnerman, I'm not an expert like Inspector Turnbull here, but from 672 00:34:14,500 --> 00:34:17,600 what I've found out, it's not likely that you would have known. 673 00:34:18,060 --> 00:34:19,460 You'd have needed some information. 674 00:34:20,020 --> 00:34:21,400 You know what I'm saying, don't you? 675 00:34:21,780 --> 00:34:22,840 Who tipped you the wink, eh? 676 00:34:23,500 --> 00:34:24,699 What's he paying you, ten grand? 677 00:34:24,900 --> 00:34:25,900 Twenty? 678 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:27,800 He's going to make a quarter of a million. 679 00:34:28,500 --> 00:34:29,679 That's a lot of money, Finnerman. 680 00:34:32,020 --> 00:34:33,639 Answer the door like a good boy. 681 00:34:34,620 --> 00:34:35,760 Go on, answer it. 682 00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:40,800 Is he bent? Yeah. Without a confession, we haven't got a prayer. 683 00:34:45,100 --> 00:34:46,239 Friend of yours, Finnerman? 684 00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:47,560 No. 685 00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:49,040 Just a late customer. 686 00:34:49,500 --> 00:34:50,500 Too late. 687 00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:56,659 All right, lovey. 688 00:34:57,340 --> 00:34:58,940 Next time you won't open your mouth. 689 00:34:59,960 --> 00:35:01,380 And don't make a sound. 690 00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:03,760 Okay. 691 00:35:15,530 --> 00:35:16,790 We've just stopped down at Middlesex now. 692 00:35:17,090 --> 00:35:17,948 Is she talking? 693 00:35:17,950 --> 00:35:20,430 No, she's scared Willis, according to them. She's been pretty badly cut. 694 00:35:21,130 --> 00:35:23,610 Bastards. Well, look, get on down there and see if she can identify the ones who 695 00:35:23,610 --> 00:35:24,730 did it. Right, I'll see you later. 696 00:35:25,050 --> 00:35:26,050 Sir? 697 00:35:28,230 --> 00:35:30,110 My chief's definitely not buying it, Maggie. 698 00:35:30,710 --> 00:35:31,710 What have we got? 699 00:35:32,390 --> 00:35:36,030 I mean, the picture could only have been identified in one way. Finnaman caught 700 00:35:36,030 --> 00:35:39,310 out on a lie, saying he didn't know Robert, and obviously not knowing a 701 00:35:39,310 --> 00:35:42,610 thing about the picture. It doesn't prove conspiracy to defraud. Well, put 702 00:35:42,610 --> 00:35:43,499 pressure on. 703 00:35:43,500 --> 00:35:44,520 You don't understand, do you? 704 00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:47,680 It's a delicate business. Art and Antiques needs a corporation of a place 705 00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:49,120 Greville's. We can't afford to lose it for nothing. 706 00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:52,680 Nothing? You've got the next best thing to a smoking gun. It's not on. The only 707 00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:55,280 bloke to put pressure on is Roberts. And the moment we do that, the whole thing 708 00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:56,280 will close up like a clam. 709 00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:59,340 I have to live with that lot. It's not going to make my life any easier. Oh, 710 00:35:59,340 --> 00:36:00,480 see, that's what it's all about, is it? 711 00:36:00,940 --> 00:36:01,940 If you want, yeah. 712 00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:05,500 All those two have got to do is stick to a tale that Finnerman consulted Roberts 713 00:36:05,500 --> 00:36:07,220 after the sale. It's as easy as that. 714 00:36:09,700 --> 00:36:11,940 I'm not working on this just for the waste paper basket. 715 00:36:12,649 --> 00:36:13,930 You can tell all that to my governor. 716 00:36:19,750 --> 00:36:20,910 It's a question of credibility. 717 00:36:21,270 --> 00:36:24,390 Art and antiques depends on it. If we go in there shouting blue murder and we're 718 00:36:24,390 --> 00:36:27,830 wrong, it'll take us two years to heal the wounds. But we're right. 719 00:36:28,050 --> 00:36:30,290 You're never going to get a conviction out of this one, not in a million years, 720 00:36:30,310 --> 00:36:33,210 just a load of aggravation. You can get a confession if we leave. Not without 721 00:36:33,210 --> 00:36:35,870 our weight behind it, you won't. And if you don't mind my saying so, Governor, 722 00:36:35,910 --> 00:36:37,190 your people have gone too far already. 723 00:36:37,550 --> 00:36:38,610 Okay, you've made your point. 724 00:36:40,010 --> 00:36:41,010 Sorry. 725 00:36:41,350 --> 00:36:43,330 Better luck next time. You know where to find me. 726 00:36:43,890 --> 00:36:44,890 Cheers. 727 00:36:47,590 --> 00:36:51,090 Judas. Did I tell you any different? It's a carve -up between them and 728 00:36:51,310 --> 00:36:54,910 Still gets up my nose having him come in here, told me to my face we've gone too 729 00:36:54,910 --> 00:36:58,430 far. I know we can get them. Robert's as bent as a forkney bit. 730 00:37:03,290 --> 00:37:05,210 You're not just doing this for two old ladies. 731 00:37:05,550 --> 00:37:09,190 I am doing it because I don't like to see someone like Robert get away with 732 00:37:09,690 --> 00:37:12,330 You were the one who told me they could look after themselves. They just have, 733 00:37:12,450 --> 00:37:14,470 helped along by Inspector Turnbull. 734 00:37:16,450 --> 00:37:18,670 Supposing I told you, have another go, what would you do? 735 00:37:19,250 --> 00:37:20,750 Go to Sharkey, tell him straight. 736 00:37:21,030 --> 00:37:21,928 Will he see it? 737 00:37:21,930 --> 00:37:22,930 Oh, yes. 738 00:37:23,550 --> 00:37:24,690 All right, go ahead. 739 00:37:25,150 --> 00:37:27,330 And I'll answer to Superintendent Haig. 740 00:37:28,050 --> 00:37:29,049 Thank you. 741 00:37:29,050 --> 00:37:31,510 But don't expect any sympathy if it all goes wrong. 742 00:37:33,450 --> 00:37:36,270 Inspector Forbes. 743 00:37:37,020 --> 00:37:41,100 Sleuth to the nobility, the lady raffles with just a touch of the Robin Hood's 744 00:37:41,100 --> 00:37:42,180 salams, madam. 745 00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:47,320 Oh, it just so happens I have a little tidbit for you, if you've time. 746 00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:49,240 It's a joke. It's no joke. 747 00:37:49,820 --> 00:37:51,720 You see, it's like this, ma 'am. 748 00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:55,280 After I'd cracked the little case of meat theft from one of London's better 749 00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:59,320 -known hotels, I happened to have a moment or two free before going on to my 750 00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:02,960 next... Oh, I do beg your pardon, ma 'am. No doubt you have an appointment at 751 00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:03,960 the House of Lords. 752 00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:05,920 Here. 753 00:38:06,410 --> 00:38:08,830 The snout of mine knows where your lads keep their stuff. 754 00:38:09,130 --> 00:38:11,650 Where? The lock -up, deepest Soho. 755 00:38:12,130 --> 00:38:13,129 That's the address. 756 00:38:13,130 --> 00:38:14,930 I can't arrest them for possessing rubbish. 757 00:38:15,250 --> 00:38:16,470 No, but you've got more of them now, haven't you? 758 00:38:16,990 --> 00:38:20,230 All you've got to do is find out the date of their next bargain sale and then 759 00:38:20,230 --> 00:38:21,650 nobble them as they go and collect the crap. 760 00:38:22,110 --> 00:38:23,610 Easy. What's in it for you? 761 00:38:24,890 --> 00:38:29,170 A hard barst that I may be, but I do not like young women getting their faces 762 00:38:29,170 --> 00:38:30,170 cut. 763 00:38:31,450 --> 00:38:32,450 Thanks. 764 00:38:38,570 --> 00:38:39,570 Who's Peter Phillips? 765 00:38:39,790 --> 00:38:41,890 Don't know, ma 'am. Well, when you find him, tell him I've gone round to 766 00:38:41,890 --> 00:38:44,930 Greville and see if he can find out who owns that garage. 767 00:38:50,410 --> 00:38:52,030 This better be important, Inspector. 768 00:38:52,310 --> 00:38:53,310 It is. 769 00:38:53,770 --> 00:38:56,030 I'm not here just for your convenience, you know. 770 00:38:57,850 --> 00:39:00,970 I have reason to believe that a member of your staff has been party to a 771 00:39:00,970 --> 00:39:02,130 conspiracy to defraud. 772 00:39:03,230 --> 00:39:04,230 I see. Who is it? 773 00:39:04,450 --> 00:39:05,830 It is Robert, your nephew. 774 00:39:07,310 --> 00:39:11,650 You have proof before making this serious accusation? Without a 775 00:39:13,050 --> 00:39:14,930 What is it you suspect he's done? 776 00:39:15,870 --> 00:39:20,030 He arranged for a man called Finnaman to bid for him when the undiscovered Watto 777 00:39:20,030 --> 00:39:21,030 was sold. 778 00:39:21,670 --> 00:39:22,890 Putative Watto, Inspector. 779 00:39:23,190 --> 00:39:24,850 It hasn't been authenticated yet. 780 00:39:25,110 --> 00:39:26,110 Are you safe? 781 00:39:26,430 --> 00:39:29,650 And you say you have no definite proof my nephew has acted dishonestly? 782 00:39:30,330 --> 00:39:34,010 I was at Finnaman's yesterday when your nephew happened to call round. Oh, he 783 00:39:34,010 --> 00:39:35,410 shot off the moment he saw me. 784 00:39:35,930 --> 00:39:39,550 And it's quite clear that Finnaman wouldn't know a watto from a damp patch 785 00:39:39,550 --> 00:39:41,950 the wall. He's a trendy junk dealer. 786 00:39:42,510 --> 00:39:45,770 Well, it's not against the law to sell trendy junk, just as it's not against 787 00:39:45,770 --> 00:39:47,890 law to get a friend to bid for a lot at an auction. 788 00:39:49,290 --> 00:39:50,290 Ethically, it stinks. 789 00:39:54,010 --> 00:39:57,790 Let me put a hypothetical case to you, Mr Sharkey. 790 00:39:58,550 --> 00:39:59,550 A picture. 791 00:39:59,880 --> 00:40:04,660 It's brought into a long -established auction house of international repute by 792 00:40:04,660 --> 00:40:05,920 someone who doesn't know its real worth. 793 00:40:06,260 --> 00:40:09,620 Now, an expert examines that picture and he begins to suspect that it's very 794 00:40:09,620 --> 00:40:10,620 valuable indeed. 795 00:40:10,820 --> 00:40:14,680 Ethically, he should recommend to the owner that he leaves the picture with 796 00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:19,600 so that text can be carried out, further research done, you know, other opinions 797 00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:23,220 given. Standard procedure in the case of a potentially valuable picture, but I 798 00:40:23,220 --> 00:40:25,340 don't see how this... But now we come to the hypothetical bit. 799 00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:28,360 Suppose that expert was greedy. 800 00:40:29,580 --> 00:40:30,920 Saw a way to make a killing. 801 00:40:31,780 --> 00:40:32,800 What could be easier? 802 00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:36,120 He dismisses the painting as a minor work. 803 00:40:36,780 --> 00:40:40,200 He enters it into a run -of -the -mill sale at the end of the season. He 804 00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:42,020 deliberately miscatalogues it. 805 00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:44,500 He even gets a chum to bid for him. 806 00:40:45,060 --> 00:40:47,640 And he's coasting home to a large sum of money. 807 00:40:48,780 --> 00:40:52,840 The owner is swindled out of the true value of the picture to say nothing of 808 00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:56,740 auction house losing out on a fat slice of commission. 809 00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:00,660 That's an interesting theory. 810 00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:06,020 But as you said, you have no proof. There was just one curious coincidence. 811 00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:12,300 Now, you don't usually publish the vendor's name for an individual sale of 812 00:41:12,300 --> 00:41:15,140 painting, do you? No, it's not our practice. Certainly not in a minor 813 00:41:15,220 --> 00:41:16,220 sir. 814 00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:20,580 The name Mead was crucial to the identification of the Watteau painting. 815 00:41:20,580 --> 00:41:24,060 at the sale knew the vendor's name except the person who catalogued the 816 00:41:24,060 --> 00:41:25,060 painting. 817 00:41:25,500 --> 00:41:26,500 Your nephew. 818 00:41:30,779 --> 00:41:32,640 Will you get Mr. Roberts up here a moment, please? 819 00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:34,600 Immediately. 820 00:41:38,100 --> 00:41:39,920 Are you going to ask him? I can't. 821 00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:41,240 He'll only deny it. 822 00:41:41,580 --> 00:41:42,580 I need your cooperation. 823 00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:48,900 Oh, well, um... Then perhaps you'd better wait outside, Inspector. 824 00:41:53,140 --> 00:41:55,640 I would warn you, Mr. Sharkey, that a crime may have been committed. 825 00:41:56,460 --> 00:42:00,580 And I would warn you, Inspector, that my office door is thick and sunproof. 826 00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:09,000 Sit down, Piers. 827 00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:12,840 What's all the fuss? 828 00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:15,560 Have you been frigging about? 829 00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:17,960 Sorry? 830 00:42:18,580 --> 00:42:21,060 Finnaman Piers, the Watto. Did you get him to bid for you? 831 00:42:25,450 --> 00:42:26,450 Isn't it proof? 832 00:42:27,030 --> 00:42:28,330 Damn it, you tell me. 833 00:42:28,710 --> 00:42:29,970 Do I smell scandal? 834 00:42:30,690 --> 00:42:35,610 This isn't a game. The good name of the firm, uncle, has the black sheep put all 835 00:42:35,610 --> 00:42:37,170 your precious millions at stake. 836 00:42:39,930 --> 00:42:43,890 Piers, if you don't tell me the truth this instant, I'm going out of that door 837 00:42:43,890 --> 00:42:46,790 and I shall tell that attractive inspector that you've owned up. 838 00:42:47,730 --> 00:42:50,430 And I shall be quite happy to testify against you in court. 839 00:42:51,730 --> 00:42:53,170 Do I make myself clear? 840 00:42:53,819 --> 00:42:54,960 There's Venetian glass. 841 00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:56,640 What? 842 00:42:57,420 --> 00:42:58,420 You tell me that. 843 00:42:58,900 --> 00:43:00,400 You'll hand me over. 844 00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:02,220 I'll have to find out, won't you? 845 00:43:02,900 --> 00:43:03,900 That's 22. 846 00:43:05,780 --> 00:43:07,300 All right, yes, I did. 847 00:43:08,020 --> 00:43:12,280 The minute I saw that picture and heard the name Mead, I knew it might be more 848 00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:13,058 than it looked. 849 00:43:13,060 --> 00:43:14,940 It was a very long shot, a gamble. 850 00:43:15,780 --> 00:43:19,120 Well, the old bag's got a very good price for its catalogue description. 851 00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:21,160 How did you know? The name. 852 00:43:21,790 --> 00:43:25,310 and some of Meade's letters I bought at a junk shop in Bath a couple of years 853 00:43:25,310 --> 00:43:28,510 ago. They're the confirmation that Watteau did paint such a picture. 854 00:43:28,830 --> 00:43:30,850 Oh, it's all right. I haven't shown them to anyone. 855 00:43:31,310 --> 00:43:34,050 So you put up filament a bit for you? Mm -hm. 856 00:43:35,230 --> 00:43:36,870 You stupid fool. 857 00:43:37,090 --> 00:43:38,170 But it can't be proved. 858 00:43:39,030 --> 00:43:40,150 Unless I admit it. 859 00:43:41,230 --> 00:43:44,370 How dare you abuse your position here, hmm? 860 00:43:44,770 --> 00:43:48,770 How dare you? I've done no more than goes on all the time, and well you know 861 00:43:49,230 --> 00:43:50,590 You disgust me. 862 00:43:51,970 --> 00:43:55,430 Everything tells me I ought to hand you over. Except your greed, uncle. 863 00:43:55,830 --> 00:43:59,650 The scandal would be too much for Greville's flawless reputation. 864 00:44:00,590 --> 00:44:02,070 You little shit. 865 00:44:02,330 --> 00:44:04,150 You won't even sack me, not immediately. 866 00:44:04,730 --> 00:44:08,570 You'll wait for things to die down, then quietly send me off to one of the 867 00:44:08,570 --> 00:44:11,490 international branches, Rio, Australia. 868 00:44:12,570 --> 00:44:14,810 What's your agreement with Pinnaman? Ten percent. 869 00:44:15,350 --> 00:44:16,470 I take ninety. 870 00:44:17,010 --> 00:44:18,810 Well, I'll have that for a start. 871 00:44:19,110 --> 00:44:20,170 Now get out. 872 00:44:27,150 --> 00:44:28,650 Are you going to hand me over? Out. 873 00:44:33,730 --> 00:44:35,370 Ah, come in, Inspector. 874 00:44:40,490 --> 00:44:41,490 Do sit down. 875 00:44:45,290 --> 00:44:50,210 I've spoken to Mr. Roberts, and he assures me there isn't the slightest 876 00:44:50,210 --> 00:44:51,370 truth in what you suspect. 877 00:44:52,310 --> 00:44:53,650 It was a genuine mistake. 878 00:44:55,310 --> 00:44:56,430 I don't believe that. 879 00:44:58,150 --> 00:44:59,210 Well, you've got no option. 880 00:45:00,910 --> 00:45:05,390 However, in the circumstances, and I shall be putting this in writing to the 881 00:45:05,390 --> 00:45:10,990 Miss Meads, Greville's is quite prepared to compensate them pound for pound for 882 00:45:10,990 --> 00:45:15,110 whatever sum their former picture fetches at auction if and when it is 883 00:45:15,110 --> 00:45:16,310 genuine water. Just like that. 884 00:45:16,970 --> 00:45:17,970 What did he tell you? 885 00:45:19,530 --> 00:45:20,530 It was a mistake. 886 00:45:21,230 --> 00:45:23,310 A stupid, idiotic mistake. 887 00:45:24,490 --> 00:45:29,270 And if I were you, given the impossibility of proving a crime without 888 00:45:29,270 --> 00:45:32,570 confession, I should forget the whole matter. 889 00:45:34,710 --> 00:45:36,310 Do you see what I'm getting at, Inspector? 890 00:45:37,850 --> 00:45:39,910 Stop pulling, Ethel. Don't pull. 891 00:45:40,190 --> 00:45:45,030 I'm not a camel. I'm sorry. Anyway, here's the sergeant. Am I facing the 892 00:45:45,030 --> 00:45:46,150 way? There. 893 00:45:47,230 --> 00:45:49,530 We wish to see that woman, Inspector. 894 00:45:49,910 --> 00:45:51,930 Oh, do you now? Yes, we do. 895 00:45:52,750 --> 00:45:53,930 What rank do you hold? 896 00:45:54,810 --> 00:45:55,810 It's all right, madam. 897 00:45:56,150 --> 00:46:00,090 I'm the duty sergeant. Then kindly inform her that the Mrs Mead are here. 898 00:46:00,390 --> 00:46:01,870 Now, you sit on this street here, Jay. 899 00:46:02,130 --> 00:46:04,830 You be here, Peter. I'll be up here in this window. That's the entrance to the 900 00:46:04,830 --> 00:46:05,408 lock -up. 901 00:46:05,410 --> 00:46:07,230 How much uniform is there? I'm asked for eight. 902 00:46:07,510 --> 00:46:08,510 What if they don't show? 903 00:46:08,670 --> 00:46:10,350 Well, any reason for them to have clocked us this time? 904 00:46:10,550 --> 00:46:11,550 Not that I know. 905 00:46:13,290 --> 00:46:15,790 Sparrow fart, then. We'll be here at half past five and we'll be there by 906 00:46:15,790 --> 00:46:17,750 quarter to six and, uh, trapped. 907 00:46:18,110 --> 00:46:20,030 I've had another disaster recently. 908 00:46:20,950 --> 00:46:21,950 Yes. 909 00:46:23,730 --> 00:46:26,170 Oh. Thank you very much, Sergeant. I'll be right down. 910 00:46:27,230 --> 00:46:28,230 All right, any questions? 911 00:46:28,370 --> 00:46:30,570 Yeah. Who's joining me in a campaign for better overtime? 912 00:46:33,590 --> 00:46:36,150 Dave, what are you doing with them? I'll put them in the interview room. 913 00:46:36,530 --> 00:46:37,530 Thank you. 914 00:46:38,030 --> 00:46:44,410 The shares reacted sharply to the news in London with a fall of 70p to 560p, 915 00:46:44,410 --> 00:46:47,690 they since then stabilised at around that level. The London... 916 00:46:48,110 --> 00:46:51,950 Who is he? Who is he? It's the lady inspector. Good afternoon, ladies. Good 917 00:46:51,950 --> 00:46:57,230 afternoon. We had a phone call from Greville's, so we came straight up. 918 00:46:57,470 --> 00:47:00,310 We'll come to make statement, Inspector, for the prosecution. 919 00:47:00,790 --> 00:47:02,450 Well, there is no prosecution. 920 00:47:03,510 --> 00:47:05,610 You're not going to prosecute. 921 00:47:05,850 --> 00:47:11,430 I have no concrete evidence, Miss Maid. But Mr. Sharkey said that now they're 922 00:47:11,430 --> 00:47:13,930 going to give us the full value of the picture when it's sold. 923 00:47:14,670 --> 00:47:18,670 Compensation. I would have thought that compensation was tantamount to an 924 00:47:18,670 --> 00:47:19,670 admission of guilt. 925 00:47:19,710 --> 00:47:21,450 I'm afraid there is nothing of the thought. 926 00:47:22,270 --> 00:47:25,290 You have spoken to your superiors, I imagine. 927 00:47:27,330 --> 00:47:31,130 Miss Mead, I might point out that you're very lucky to have got anything. 928 00:47:31,590 --> 00:47:34,470 Well, we're very grateful, aren't we, Sarah? 929 00:47:35,550 --> 00:47:40,250 She doesn't mean to be brusque. It's just her way. Oh, yes, you silly woman. 930 00:47:41,530 --> 00:47:42,730 Am I to understand? 931 00:47:43,520 --> 00:47:46,940 that in spite of the obvious fact that there has been fraud at Greville's, 932 00:47:46,940 --> 00:47:47,940 nothing is to be done. 933 00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:51,800 Well, you could take it up in the civil court. We shall. 934 00:47:52,280 --> 00:47:55,600 But I would have thought after what you did at their sale that you ought to be 935 00:47:55,600 --> 00:48:00,380 grateful. What is your fund called? Oh, poor fund. You have one, I imagine. 936 00:48:01,060 --> 00:48:02,820 There's a box at the front desk. 937 00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:04,120 Yes. 938 00:48:04,520 --> 00:48:06,360 Is that 50p? Yes, dear. 939 00:48:07,020 --> 00:48:08,020 Thank you. 940 00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:10,200 That is how we show our gratitude. 941 00:48:12,549 --> 00:48:13,549 Thank you. 942 00:48:41,420 --> 00:48:42,420 Like the grave, gov. 943 00:48:44,260 --> 00:48:46,080 Okay, give it another ten minutes, then come in. 944 00:48:46,460 --> 00:48:47,480 We'll open up this door. 945 00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:49,640 They're not coming. 946 00:49:03,660 --> 00:49:04,660 Damn. 947 00:49:05,740 --> 00:49:06,740 Thanks for the hospitality. 948 00:49:06,880 --> 00:49:09,040 I've gone back north. You can keep the rubbish. 949 00:49:09,900 --> 00:49:10,900 Jock. 950 00:49:11,290 --> 00:49:12,189 Who's graft? 951 00:49:12,190 --> 00:49:13,190 Cross snout. 952 00:49:13,690 --> 00:49:14,690 Terrific. 953 00:49:15,690 --> 00:49:17,770 All right, that's it, you lot. Back to the nick. 954 00:49:18,090 --> 00:49:18,948 Here, go. 955 00:49:18,950 --> 00:49:19,950 Want one of these? 956 00:49:20,990 --> 00:49:22,050 Oh, you never know. 957 00:49:22,410 --> 00:49:24,130 Christmas present for a long -lost auntie.