1 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:38,840 You don't understand. 2 00:00:39,300 --> 00:00:40,300 No, stop, 3 00:00:40,700 --> 00:00:43,440 please. Why are you doing this to me? I don't want money. 4 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:49,080 I can't stand it anymore. 5 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:51,040 Excuse me. 6 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:54,360 Oh, thank God. Help me. Please help me. 7 00:00:55,020 --> 00:00:58,620 Come on, love. Are you hurt? No, no, I'm all right. But him, you keep him away 8 00:00:58,620 --> 00:00:59,159 from me. 9 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:00,840 I think you'd better come along with me, sir. 10 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:03,260 Shall we go, sir? 11 00:01:42,990 --> 00:01:45,050 Yeah, right. And you'll send someone round with it? 12 00:01:45,850 --> 00:01:46,850 Well, right away. 13 00:01:47,870 --> 00:01:50,970 Yeah. OK, I'll give you a message, and thank you. Bye -bye. 14 00:01:52,390 --> 00:01:54,130 Ooh, just what I need. Put it here. 15 00:01:54,810 --> 00:01:58,370 You'll be lucky. It's for her ladyship. Ooh, hang about. 16 00:02:01,590 --> 00:02:02,590 Yes. 17 00:02:03,690 --> 00:02:04,870 Oh, Jim. Oh, Jim. 18 00:02:05,470 --> 00:02:07,610 I'll run Harper's. Let me come around with the lady's hand. 19 00:02:07,990 --> 00:02:11,990 Oh, get someone to bring it in. Oh, do you have some? Are you all right? Have 20 00:02:11,990 --> 00:02:12,769 you burned your hand? 21 00:02:12,770 --> 00:02:16,210 No, no, no, I'm fine. I'm just a bit weak. Use these, Joan. Can you get Lady 22 00:02:16,210 --> 00:02:18,770 Mirella another cup? Thank you. I'm sorry to be such a nuisance. 23 00:02:19,370 --> 00:02:21,730 Perhaps you'd better bring the next one in a baby's bottle. Oh. 24 00:02:23,330 --> 00:02:25,990 So, she really is a ladyship. 25 00:02:26,670 --> 00:02:27,670 Really and truly. 26 00:02:28,090 --> 00:02:29,090 Toplifting, was she? 27 00:02:29,170 --> 00:02:30,270 Well, here's the best idea. 28 00:02:30,510 --> 00:02:31,489 Well, then why'd you nick her? 29 00:02:31,490 --> 00:02:34,590 I didn't. I rescued her from a rather tasty number. 30 00:02:35,390 --> 00:02:37,390 I nicked him. Oh, fancy him, dear. 31 00:02:38,430 --> 00:02:39,430 Where is he? 32 00:02:39,790 --> 00:02:41,190 Downstairs with the heavy mob. 33 00:02:41,730 --> 00:02:43,610 I only wanted to speak with her. 34 00:02:44,010 --> 00:02:45,010 What about? 35 00:02:45,330 --> 00:02:46,330 Something private. 36 00:02:46,610 --> 00:02:48,070 You'll have to do better than that. 37 00:02:48,530 --> 00:02:50,170 What was this private something? 38 00:02:50,550 --> 00:02:53,750 It doesn't matter. Not now. Oh, yes, it does. It matters to us. 39 00:02:54,690 --> 00:02:57,150 You were trying to pick her up, weren't you? Pick her up? 40 00:02:57,910 --> 00:03:00,750 Do you mean... That's horrible. 41 00:03:01,170 --> 00:03:02,810 No. What do you mean, horrible? 42 00:03:03,589 --> 00:03:05,490 Good -looking woman? Not short of a few, Bob. 43 00:03:06,110 --> 00:03:09,530 Prefer older women, then, do you? No, but he seems to. You're disgusting. 44 00:03:09,750 --> 00:03:12,650 She's a lady. Oh, and you'd know the difference, would you? Do you know what 45 00:03:12,650 --> 00:03:16,350 reckon? Nope, and I don't want to. In spite of your posh talk, I reckon you're 46 00:03:16,350 --> 00:03:19,110 some kind of gigolo looking for a rich woman. 47 00:03:19,410 --> 00:03:20,650 I don't know what you're talking about. 48 00:03:21,010 --> 00:03:26,270 And neither, I suspect, do you? You suspect? You suspect? No, Sonny, we do 49 00:03:26,270 --> 00:03:30,310 suspecting. That's our business, our trade, and you are a very suspicious 50 00:03:30,310 --> 00:03:31,310 character. 51 00:03:32,140 --> 00:03:35,420 Now, then, why did you want to speak to her and don't give me any more of this 52 00:03:35,420 --> 00:03:36,520 I've -got -a -secret crap? 53 00:03:38,140 --> 00:03:40,840 I wanted to ask Lady Morell a question. 54 00:03:41,900 --> 00:03:42,900 What question? 55 00:03:45,060 --> 00:03:46,960 Can you remember the first time you saw him? 56 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:51,180 Yes, it was about three months ago, not long after my husband died. 57 00:03:51,500 --> 00:03:52,540 That would be, what, June? 58 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:54,160 Yes, June. 59 00:03:54,860 --> 00:03:55,860 Where was he? 60 00:03:56,120 --> 00:03:57,120 Outside my flat. 61 00:03:57,700 --> 00:03:58,700 Lounge Square? 62 00:03:58,880 --> 00:03:59,880 Yes. 63 00:04:00,019 --> 00:04:03,380 I glanced out of the window one evening and he was standing on the pavement 64 00:04:03,380 --> 00:04:06,020 opposite. He looked flared and rather lost. 65 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:11,400 Well, I thought no more about it. And then about two hours later... Yes, it 66 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:13,880 have been all of that because it was starting to get dark and I went to draw 67 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:15,120 curtains and he was still there. 68 00:04:15,700 --> 00:04:17,940 Just standing, looking up at my window. 69 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:19,760 What did you do? 70 00:04:20,420 --> 00:04:23,620 Well, I telephoned down to the porter. He went out to speak to him. 71 00:04:24,280 --> 00:04:26,840 He gave one last glance up at my window and he walked away. 72 00:04:27,500 --> 00:04:28,540 What did the porter say? 73 00:04:29,070 --> 00:04:32,710 Oh, he said something about him being a burglar, you know, spying out the land. 74 00:04:33,250 --> 00:04:34,250 Ridiculous. 75 00:04:34,630 --> 00:04:35,630 Why is it ridiculous? 76 00:04:36,210 --> 00:04:38,130 Well, it certainly didn't look like a burglar. 77 00:04:38,410 --> 00:04:39,410 Oh. 78 00:04:39,910 --> 00:04:42,270 What did a burglar look like, Lady Morell? If only we knew. 79 00:04:44,230 --> 00:04:46,030 Did the young man say anything to the porter? 80 00:04:46,470 --> 00:04:48,790 Yes. He said he was sorry if he'd worried me. 81 00:04:49,850 --> 00:04:51,930 And then he said something rather odd. 82 00:04:52,670 --> 00:04:54,010 He said he had a right. 83 00:04:54,870 --> 00:04:55,910 Had a right? What? 84 00:04:57,090 --> 00:04:58,170 To worry you? 85 00:04:58,410 --> 00:05:01,450 No. No, I think he meant just to be there. 86 00:05:08,830 --> 00:05:11,790 Well? The young man hasn't been very forthcoming. 87 00:05:12,610 --> 00:05:16,910 You got a name? The name on the credit cards and checkbook reads R .D. Viscov. 88 00:05:16,950 --> 00:05:17,950 Are you in charge here? 89 00:05:18,650 --> 00:05:19,810 That's why they call me Gov. 90 00:05:21,770 --> 00:05:22,930 Name? It's that. 91 00:05:23,620 --> 00:05:28,020 Now, we've got a name on some documents found in your possession, but we're not 92 00:05:28,020 --> 00:05:29,020 to know they're yours. 93 00:05:29,660 --> 00:05:30,780 So, name? 94 00:05:31,500 --> 00:05:32,520 Roland Deedis. 95 00:05:32,840 --> 00:05:33,659 It's better. 96 00:05:33,660 --> 00:05:34,780 Just one day you say so. 97 00:05:35,500 --> 00:05:36,500 Date of birth? 98 00:05:36,620 --> 00:05:37,780 14th of June, 1957. 99 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:42,860 Address? Flat 4, Nevan Chambers. That's what, uh, Oldscore? 100 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:44,080 Yes. 101 00:05:44,330 --> 00:05:47,370 All right, Mr. Davis, now we know who you are, perhaps we can stop buggering 102 00:05:47,370 --> 00:05:50,090 about. What were you doing molesting the widow of a high court judge in a 103 00:05:50,090 --> 00:05:53,830 department store? I was not molesting... Mr. Davis, you are in a very parlous 104 00:05:53,830 --> 00:05:54,829 position. 105 00:05:54,830 --> 00:05:56,070 Do you know what parlous means? 106 00:05:58,950 --> 00:06:00,490 No parlous? 107 00:06:01,050 --> 00:06:02,710 Ify, yub. Only more so. 108 00:06:02,970 --> 00:06:03,970 Much more so. 109 00:06:05,870 --> 00:06:11,290 Well, my reasons for wishing to talk with Lady Morrell were private and 110 00:06:11,290 --> 00:06:12,490 personal, very personal. 111 00:06:13,390 --> 00:06:16,330 I've already caused her a great deal of distress. I don't wish to embarrass her 112 00:06:16,330 --> 00:06:20,630 by... by brooding those reasons about to all and sundry. Do you know brooding? 113 00:06:20,830 --> 00:06:22,550 Well, I'm a few bars. Start me off. 114 00:06:22,790 --> 00:06:23,790 All right. 115 00:06:27,070 --> 00:06:28,070 Frank. 116 00:06:31,890 --> 00:06:36,070 Now, he's not all and sundry. He's strictly regulations. That's to stop me 117 00:06:36,070 --> 00:06:37,230 hitting you or you hitting me. 118 00:06:38,550 --> 00:06:40,790 Mr. Davis, do yourself a favor. 119 00:06:41,470 --> 00:06:42,470 I'm waiting. 120 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:45,900 The next time was at the Royal Academy summer show. 121 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:48,900 You know that feeling you get when someone's watching you? 122 00:06:49,280 --> 00:06:53,080 Well, I turned round and there he was, not ten feet away, standing in a 123 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:54,200 staring. 124 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:55,760 Staring? 125 00:06:56,020 --> 00:07:00,040 Well, maybe not staring. He was just looking at me very intently as if he 126 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:00,959 thumbing me up. 127 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:02,320 It was most unnerving. 128 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:03,740 Yeah, that's what it must have been. 129 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:08,140 And what was this? This was the fifth time that you'd seen him. Were there any 130 00:07:08,140 --> 00:07:09,740 other times? I mean, before this morning? 131 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:11,140 Oh, yes, lots. 132 00:07:12,140 --> 00:07:13,440 In Harrods Food Hall. 133 00:07:13,740 --> 00:07:16,340 Another day, coming out of my hairdressers, everywhere I went. 134 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:18,120 I was almost afraid to go out. 135 00:07:19,020 --> 00:07:21,660 Lady, why on earth didn't you report this to the police? 136 00:07:22,260 --> 00:07:24,100 I felt embarrassed, Inspector. 137 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:25,780 How would it have looked? 138 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:28,820 A woman of a certain age claiming that she's seeing things. 139 00:07:29,220 --> 00:07:30,340 What would you have thought? 140 00:07:30,820 --> 00:07:32,840 I would have looked into it. 141 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:36,240 I mean, if someone had been Harrods, what do you want to know about it? 142 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:41,180 Well, now, look, you tell me exactly what happened this morning. 143 00:07:43,370 --> 00:07:45,770 I went to Harford to buy a present for my niece. 144 00:07:46,390 --> 00:07:49,670 While I was standing at the counter, someone came and stood beside me. 145 00:07:50,190 --> 00:07:52,670 I didn't even need to look. I just sensed that it was him. 146 00:07:53,350 --> 00:07:54,350 I was terrified. 147 00:07:55,250 --> 00:07:59,790 I turned round, and he reached out as if to touch me, and I just panicked. I had 148 00:07:59,790 --> 00:08:00,790 to get away from him. 149 00:08:01,650 --> 00:08:04,410 Who is he? What does he want from me? 150 00:08:06,950 --> 00:08:08,170 Sergeant, back the right. 151 00:08:08,910 --> 00:08:09,910 The what? 152 00:08:10,330 --> 00:08:11,910 Lady Morrell's handbag. 153 00:08:12,380 --> 00:08:13,380 Yeah, thanks, Dan. 154 00:08:14,180 --> 00:08:18,100 You took your time. I went to the wrong bloody nick, didn't I? West End Central. 155 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:21,980 Oh, now, look, I told that man seven dials. Why the hell didn't he tell me, 156 00:08:21,980 --> 00:08:22,980 silly old poof? 157 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:26,920 All right, give it here. Mr Floyd said I was to give it to her person. 158 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:29,140 She's an old and valued customer. 159 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:32,880 Don't you trust me? Why should I? The way I've been messed about today, I 160 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:33,880 trust anybody. 161 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:35,559 All right, suit yourself. 162 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:37,120 This way. 163 00:08:40,309 --> 00:08:42,309 Excuse me, ma 'am. Young lady has bought Lady Morel's bag. 164 00:08:42,570 --> 00:08:44,790 Oh, that is kind of you. Thank you very much. 165 00:08:45,010 --> 00:08:47,790 Mr. Floyd said I was to ask if you'd be good enough to check the contents, 166 00:08:47,910 --> 00:08:49,870 madam. Oh, no. Sure, there's no need for that. 167 00:08:50,730 --> 00:08:52,030 Oh, very well. 168 00:08:54,010 --> 00:08:55,010 Yes? 169 00:08:55,610 --> 00:08:56,630 Checkbook? Keys? 170 00:08:57,250 --> 00:08:58,250 Wallet? 171 00:08:58,330 --> 00:08:59,330 It's all here. 172 00:08:59,390 --> 00:09:00,870 Oh, please. 173 00:09:02,610 --> 00:09:06,070 Take this, and thank you very much. Oh, I couldn't, madam. Oh, no, no, no, I 174 00:09:06,070 --> 00:09:08,810 insist. It's been so much trouble for you, and it must have quite ruined your 175 00:09:08,810 --> 00:09:09,809 lunch hour. Please. 176 00:09:09,810 --> 00:09:10,930 Well, thank you very much. 177 00:09:11,750 --> 00:09:13,290 This is the young girl who was serving you. 178 00:09:13,890 --> 00:09:15,530 Did you see what happened at the counter? 179 00:09:16,010 --> 00:09:18,750 No, I'd gone to get a silver picture frame from the main showcase. 180 00:09:19,230 --> 00:09:20,830 When I got back, the lady had gone. 181 00:09:21,210 --> 00:09:22,850 There was just her handbag on the counter. 182 00:09:23,310 --> 00:09:26,990 Did you see anyone else there? I mean, before you left the counter? 183 00:09:27,330 --> 00:09:29,850 No. Mind you, I was gone for a few minutes. 184 00:09:30,790 --> 00:09:32,390 Right, well... Thanks very much. 185 00:09:32,870 --> 00:09:33,870 Oh, 186 00:09:34,730 --> 00:09:38,130 tea. Thank Mr. Floyd for me. And tell him I will take that picture, friend. 187 00:09:38,570 --> 00:09:41,610 Can you charge it to my account and send it to me? Yes, of course, madam. 188 00:09:43,510 --> 00:09:45,930 I don't know, madam. Three by four, madam. 189 00:09:46,250 --> 00:09:47,290 Give me your card. 190 00:09:48,230 --> 00:09:50,950 He just gave you a tenner. Why not? You can afford it. 191 00:09:52,030 --> 00:09:53,090 Can you get a lunch break? 192 00:09:53,590 --> 00:09:54,590 Yeah, if I'm a good boy. 193 00:09:54,790 --> 00:09:56,070 Do you want to buy me a burger? 194 00:09:56,570 --> 00:09:57,570 Buy your own. 195 00:09:57,810 --> 00:09:59,290 Why not? You can afford it. 196 00:09:59,510 --> 00:10:00,510 Cut off, then. 197 00:10:01,870 --> 00:10:05,570 Hey, can you get Lady Morel another cup of tea? She hasn't come to the library. 198 00:10:05,890 --> 00:10:07,790 Ah, it must be Nostalgie de la Vue. 199 00:10:08,510 --> 00:10:11,590 What? It means a yearning for mud. Rich folk have it. 200 00:10:12,090 --> 00:10:13,610 So indulge the lady. 201 00:10:14,050 --> 00:10:15,050 Maggie, a minute? 202 00:10:15,130 --> 00:10:16,130 Yes. 203 00:10:16,430 --> 00:10:19,870 Lady Morel still in there? Yes. What's she like? She's a lovely lady. Why? 204 00:10:20,330 --> 00:10:22,070 You reckon she can stand another shock? 205 00:10:22,570 --> 00:10:23,570 What kind of shock? 206 00:10:23,750 --> 00:10:27,710 Our mystery molester downstairs is claiming that she's his mother. 207 00:10:28,850 --> 00:10:30,330 What? The man said. 208 00:10:30,890 --> 00:10:31,890 You want to tell him? 209 00:10:35,150 --> 00:10:36,150 Give me a minute. 210 00:10:44,990 --> 00:10:46,710 Do you mind if I have a cigarette? 211 00:11:00,300 --> 00:11:01,300 Thank you. 212 00:11:02,500 --> 00:11:03,500 Filthy habit. 213 00:11:05,740 --> 00:11:06,740 Where is he? 214 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:09,240 Downstairs. 215 00:11:10,620 --> 00:11:11,660 May I see him? 216 00:11:12,940 --> 00:11:17,720 Why, don't you think it would be better to wait until we've checked his story? 217 00:11:19,140 --> 00:11:21,580 I think I've kept him waiting long enough, don't you? 218 00:11:22,420 --> 00:11:23,420 27 years. 219 00:11:23,860 --> 00:11:24,860 Oh, it's him. 220 00:11:25,300 --> 00:11:26,640 He knew all those details. 221 00:11:28,280 --> 00:11:29,620 He even looks like... 222 00:11:32,170 --> 00:11:33,170 His father. 223 00:11:34,150 --> 00:11:35,350 Please let me see him. 224 00:11:38,010 --> 00:11:41,110 Well, if you're sure. Yes, I am sure. 225 00:11:42,990 --> 00:11:44,590 I don't even know his name. 226 00:11:45,550 --> 00:11:46,550 Devis. 227 00:11:46,730 --> 00:11:47,730 Roland Devis. 228 00:11:48,510 --> 00:11:49,510 Roland. 229 00:11:51,010 --> 00:11:52,070 I like that name. 230 00:11:58,310 --> 00:12:00,550 Lady, well, you don't want him to see you like this. 231 00:12:00,750 --> 00:12:01,750 No. 232 00:12:02,470 --> 00:12:04,070 No, he mustn't see me like this. 233 00:12:07,250 --> 00:12:14,050 It's just that all those years, I don't think a week went by 234 00:12:14,050 --> 00:12:15,370 when I didn't think about him. 235 00:12:15,650 --> 00:12:16,670 Was he all right? 236 00:12:17,190 --> 00:12:18,190 Happy? 237 00:12:19,570 --> 00:12:21,550 Now I'm going to find out and I'm afraid. 238 00:12:22,930 --> 00:12:25,430 Well, I expect he must be afraid too. 239 00:12:26,470 --> 00:12:27,470 Yes. 240 00:12:27,770 --> 00:12:28,770 Yes, he must be. 241 00:12:29,770 --> 00:12:31,270 My husband knew nothing about him. 242 00:12:32,780 --> 00:12:35,960 He tried to speak to me and I treated him like a criminal. 243 00:12:36,940 --> 00:12:37,940 Yes. 244 00:12:52,760 --> 00:12:53,760 Hello. 245 00:12:54,300 --> 00:12:55,300 Hello. 246 00:12:55,540 --> 00:12:56,660 What would you have said? 247 00:12:57,880 --> 00:12:59,500 A little less so. You weren't there. 248 00:12:59,700 --> 00:13:02,240 I think even your command of the English language might have dried up. 249 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:05,920 And that was the big dark secret. That Lady Muck was up at the dock when she 250 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:06,920 just a chit of a girl. 251 00:13:07,100 --> 00:13:10,760 Oh, how delicately you put it. What's the matter with you? Don't you like 252 00:13:10,760 --> 00:13:12,520 endings? It's not ended yet, though, is it? 253 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:14,000 Well, it hasn't as far as we're concerned. 254 00:13:14,560 --> 00:13:15,389 All right. 255 00:13:15,390 --> 00:13:17,130 Who shouted it? Paul or Sundry? 256 00:13:17,370 --> 00:13:19,150 Sundry. I knew I should have got to talk about it. 257 00:13:19,710 --> 00:13:22,690 Maggie, same again? Yeah, I was in Clemmons with Ice, right? 258 00:13:22,910 --> 00:13:24,870 Pete? Oh, not the same. 259 00:13:25,290 --> 00:13:26,290 Jack? 260 00:13:26,430 --> 00:13:29,870 What did he say? He'll have the same. Bitter lemon, sour grape. 261 00:13:30,170 --> 00:13:31,170 Double squash, right? 262 00:13:32,810 --> 00:13:34,230 So you bought this story? 263 00:13:34,530 --> 00:13:35,530 Why not? She did. 264 00:13:36,250 --> 00:13:37,490 Well, she would, wouldn't she? 265 00:13:38,020 --> 00:13:39,260 Now, what do you mean by that? 266 00:13:40,180 --> 00:13:42,660 I mean, she's recently widowed, rich and lonely. 267 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:46,400 I get you that point, Jack. All that repressed guilt, sexually terrified. 268 00:13:46,860 --> 00:13:47,860 Well, how do you work that out? 269 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:49,400 I mean, she admits she had a child. 270 00:13:49,780 --> 00:13:52,540 And then often marries a man old enough to be her father. 271 00:13:52,820 --> 00:13:54,060 Too old to get it up. 272 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:58,040 Sorry, Mag. I keep forgetting you're not one of the lads. 273 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:00,560 Now, think about it. 274 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:02,440 She was a sitting duck. 275 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:06,020 You say he never showed till her old man snuffed it. 276 00:14:06,300 --> 00:14:07,300 That's right. Why? 277 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:10,040 Shows great delicacy of feeling, does that? 278 00:14:10,320 --> 00:14:11,320 Although cunning. 279 00:14:11,920 --> 00:14:14,640 I caught judges you do not mess with. 280 00:14:15,420 --> 00:14:16,780 And she inherited a bundle. 281 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:18,460 No kids by our marriage. 282 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:20,040 Where are they now? 283 00:14:20,420 --> 00:14:22,120 Well, actually, they've gone off to have lunch together. 284 00:14:22,780 --> 00:14:26,260 Cozy. Guess they'll be paying. You don't love people very much, do you? 285 00:14:26,920 --> 00:14:27,920 No, not a lot. 286 00:14:28,640 --> 00:14:33,080 My basic rule of thumb is always assume people are wrong. That way you can only 287 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:34,400 ever be pleasantly surprised. 288 00:14:35,060 --> 00:14:38,000 Never let me down. 289 00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:41,540 Well, all right, then tell me this. If he isn't a son, how do you know all 290 00:14:41,540 --> 00:14:44,640 details about her? I mean, about the baby's birth, the adoption, all that. 291 00:14:44,640 --> 00:14:45,119 me that. 292 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:48,040 Just the question he'd have wanted you to ask to put you off the more obvious 293 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:49,480 one. Yeah, what's that? 294 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:53,540 Look, he knew where she'd had the kid, when, and that she'd had it adopted, 295 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:54,720 right? Right. 296 00:14:54,940 --> 00:14:56,540 But he only knew her maiden name. 297 00:14:57,160 --> 00:14:58,500 So how did he find her? 298 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:01,860 How did he find her after all this time? 299 00:15:02,820 --> 00:15:03,820 He's a villain. 300 00:15:04,620 --> 00:15:06,580 Right one. Smell of a Marlowe. 301 00:15:08,560 --> 00:15:09,560 Yes, hello? 302 00:15:10,460 --> 00:15:11,720 No, I'm still here. 303 00:15:13,420 --> 00:15:14,480 Is he still at lunch? 304 00:15:15,420 --> 00:15:18,180 Well, is there anyone there that can talk to me? 305 00:15:19,660 --> 00:15:21,040 No, no, it's all right, Marlowe. 306 00:15:21,280 --> 00:15:22,280 Hang on. 307 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:25,940 I'm off to lunch. All right. Any trouble occurs, cope. 308 00:15:26,560 --> 00:15:29,740 I'll, uh, be back about four -ish. It's a long lunch. 309 00:15:30,860 --> 00:15:31,860 Family business. 310 00:15:37,300 --> 00:15:37,780 All 311 00:15:37,780 --> 00:15:46,940 right. 312 00:15:47,220 --> 00:15:48,680 Do you see what I just saw? 313 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:53,200 It depends what you think you just saw. Oh, I saw it all right. 314 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:56,540 Russell, with a very fanciable bird. 315 00:15:57,360 --> 00:15:59,720 Yeah? She was a cracker. 316 00:16:00,580 --> 00:16:02,000 He's really letting himself go. 317 00:16:02,300 --> 00:16:03,700 She couldn't have been more than 20. 318 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:06,820 Really? Oh, hello. Mrs Hardesty? 319 00:16:07,300 --> 00:16:10,560 Yes, this is Detective Inspector Forbes, Seven Dials Police Station. 320 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:14,040 Yes, that's right. I was wondering if you could help me. I'm making some 321 00:16:14,040 --> 00:16:17,640 inquiries about how an adopted person can find their real parents. 322 00:16:19,020 --> 00:16:22,220 No, no, no, it's not me. It's someone who's helping us. 323 00:16:24,650 --> 00:16:28,250 Yeah. Well, no, I realise that you can't give that sort of information on the 324 00:16:28,250 --> 00:16:30,210 phone. I was wondering if I could pop round and see you. 325 00:16:30,990 --> 00:16:31,990 With this afternoon. 326 00:16:33,890 --> 00:16:34,809 Yeah, fine. 327 00:16:34,810 --> 00:16:35,810 OK. 328 00:16:36,450 --> 00:16:37,910 No, it's all right. I'll find it. 329 00:16:39,450 --> 00:16:40,950 Right. Yeah, tell. 330 00:16:43,270 --> 00:16:46,210 He's back to being a suspect, is he? Yeah, thanks to you. 331 00:16:46,570 --> 00:16:49,090 Don't you detect the usual few degrees of frost? 332 00:16:49,330 --> 00:16:50,330 No, not this time. 333 00:16:50,490 --> 00:16:52,070 Set me straight. You were right. 334 00:16:52,590 --> 00:16:56,030 So much raw emotion flying around this morning that I wasn't asking the right 335 00:16:56,030 --> 00:16:59,330 question. Now I'm going to. Better late than never. 336 00:16:59,750 --> 00:17:02,390 Yes, well, preventing crime is better than solving it. 337 00:17:02,790 --> 00:17:04,510 How's that for a thought for the day? 338 00:17:05,270 --> 00:17:07,310 You're convinced he's up to no good, aren't you? 339 00:17:07,530 --> 00:17:10,550 Yep. She's a rich woman and very vulnerable. 340 00:17:13,490 --> 00:17:14,650 You talk to him. 341 00:17:15,869 --> 00:17:16,890 How does he strike you? 342 00:17:17,329 --> 00:17:21,670 Shifty. One minute, all love intent are concerned for the lady. The next? 343 00:17:22,079 --> 00:17:24,819 Arrogant, sarky, too bloody cocky by half. 344 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:27,880 Highly indignant at the suggestion that he might be a crook. 345 00:17:29,600 --> 00:17:30,940 Overconfident? Way over. 346 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:33,600 You might almost say innocent. 347 00:17:34,340 --> 00:17:38,780 Oh, no, look, man, you've questioned innocent people, folks with nothing at 348 00:17:38,780 --> 00:17:39,639 to hide. 349 00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:44,120 But for some reason, even the innocent ones sort of clam up, their mouths go 350 00:17:44,120 --> 00:17:48,940 dry. For good or ill, they're uneasy, they're scared of the law, right? 351 00:17:49,220 --> 00:17:50,520 Not so Roland. 352 00:17:51,040 --> 00:17:53,520 He was so, I don't know, cool. 353 00:17:54,220 --> 00:17:55,240 Acted a part. 354 00:17:55,940 --> 00:17:57,400 Playing with us, you know what I mean? 355 00:17:58,480 --> 00:17:59,480 Anyway, 356 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:02,359 thanks anyway. 357 00:18:02,360 --> 00:18:03,460 Any time, Meg. 358 00:18:05,120 --> 00:18:07,960 Here. What do you reckon to Russell's new bird, then? 359 00:18:09,180 --> 00:18:10,640 You said she was attractive. 360 00:18:11,020 --> 00:18:12,020 Calendar stuff. 361 00:18:12,560 --> 00:18:14,000 What's he got that I haven't? 362 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:15,800 A doper. 363 00:18:22,350 --> 00:18:23,670 That was absolutely delicious. 364 00:18:24,790 --> 00:18:26,410 And how clever of you to suggest it. 365 00:18:27,290 --> 00:18:28,590 John and I often ate here. 366 00:18:29,030 --> 00:18:30,230 He always had the halibut. 367 00:18:30,430 --> 00:18:31,430 Yes, I know. 368 00:18:32,650 --> 00:18:34,250 The waiters, they all seem to know you. 369 00:18:34,690 --> 00:18:36,270 They do a passable silver, let's go. 370 00:18:36,790 --> 00:18:38,210 Sauce was a little too sticky for me. 371 00:18:39,190 --> 00:18:42,510 And these, well, they just don't know, do they? 372 00:18:42,850 --> 00:18:43,850 What don't they know? 373 00:18:43,990 --> 00:18:45,450 Two forks for fish, always. 374 00:18:45,790 --> 00:18:46,529 Oh, really? 375 00:18:46,530 --> 00:18:49,210 Oh, yes, a friend of mine called these Edwardian Aravis. 376 00:18:50,730 --> 00:18:51,730 Isn't that amusing? 377 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:57,640 Look, love, I didn't ask for the history of the British Civil Service. What are 378 00:18:57,640 --> 00:18:58,940 you doing about it? 379 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:04,720 Well, that's what you said last week, and the poor little bitch is still 380 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:09,280 waiting. Now, no more excuses. Just pull your bloody finger out. 381 00:19:10,740 --> 00:19:14,400 Well? Detective Inspector Forbes, we spoke on the telephone. 382 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:16,040 Sit yourself down. 383 00:19:16,860 --> 00:19:18,480 Do you realise this... 384 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:22,280 Poor girl lost her payment book three weeks ago and she's still waiting for a 385 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:23,280 new one. 386 00:19:23,420 --> 00:19:27,700 I don't know, trying to get the DHSS off their arses is like banging your head 387 00:19:27,700 --> 00:19:28,700 against a brick wall. 388 00:19:29,420 --> 00:19:32,560 She's got an 18 -month -old child with acute bronchitis. 389 00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:35,400 Why am I shouting at you? 390 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:36,840 Because I'm here. 391 00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:38,880 Sorry. 392 00:19:39,140 --> 00:19:40,180 Why are you here? 393 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:42,200 Jodie Prosser said you might be able to help. 394 00:19:42,880 --> 00:19:43,880 Prosser? 395 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:47,020 Prosser. Oh, yes, probation officer. 396 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:48,680 Nice chap. 397 00:19:48,900 --> 00:19:49,879 Terrible kid. 398 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:53,100 How? He said you used to work with an adoption agency. 399 00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:54,519 That's right. 400 00:19:54,520 --> 00:19:55,700 Before I came here. 401 00:19:56,820 --> 00:19:59,940 Unwanted babies to unmarried mothers seemed like a logical progression. 402 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:04,880 So what's your problem? Well, a young man has turned up claiming to be the 403 00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:06,720 illegitimate son of a very rich woman. 404 00:20:07,480 --> 00:20:10,760 So? Well, he knew all the details about our baby's birth, the adoption, 405 00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:14,740 everything. What I want to know is, if he is a crook, how could he have found 406 00:20:14,740 --> 00:20:15,539 all that out? 407 00:20:15,540 --> 00:20:16,980 And how long is a piece of string? 408 00:20:17,590 --> 00:20:18,750 Perhaps he met a man in a pub. 409 00:20:18,990 --> 00:20:22,990 Would Jerry process that there was a way that adopted people could find out 410 00:20:22,990 --> 00:20:24,430 details from their birth records? 411 00:20:24,710 --> 00:20:26,490 There is, but not crooks. 412 00:20:27,130 --> 00:20:31,170 Since the Children's Act of 75, adults who are adopted can apply to the 413 00:20:31,170 --> 00:20:35,250 Registrar General for details of their natural parents, usually the mother. 414 00:20:35,630 --> 00:20:38,870 They have to fill in a form giving details of adopted parents. 415 00:20:39,150 --> 00:20:40,250 Name, date. 416 00:20:40,830 --> 00:20:43,210 But if your bloke is a crook, he wouldn't have any of those, would he? 417 00:20:43,410 --> 00:20:46,410 What if he used somebody else's name, a friend that he knows has adopted? 418 00:20:47,010 --> 00:20:48,010 Impossible. 419 00:20:48,370 --> 00:20:49,370 Why impossible? 420 00:20:49,650 --> 00:20:52,590 Well, they don't just send the details back by return of post, you know. 421 00:20:53,050 --> 00:20:55,890 If they have anything, the chap would have to see a counsellor. 422 00:20:56,230 --> 00:20:57,450 A counsellor? Why? 423 00:20:57,770 --> 00:20:59,470 As a safeguard built into the Act. 424 00:20:59,890 --> 00:21:03,530 The counsellor has to interview any applicant to make sure they understand 425 00:21:03,530 --> 00:21:04,910 full implications of what they're doing. 426 00:21:05,550 --> 00:21:06,550 Implications? 427 00:21:06,690 --> 00:21:10,720 Well... Think about it. Even if he finds his natural mother, and that's bloody 428 00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:12,920 difficult, it could cause ructions. 429 00:21:13,420 --> 00:21:17,840 Chances are she's married, had a family, never told her husband about her past. 430 00:21:18,260 --> 00:21:21,980 The man would be shocked when he comes knocking at the door for all of them. I 431 00:21:21,980 --> 00:21:22,980 see what you mean. 432 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:26,400 Then again, he may have some idealised picture of his mother. 433 00:21:26,860 --> 00:21:29,820 What happens if you find some drunken old trollop with a bottle of meth under 434 00:21:29,820 --> 00:21:30,820 the bed? 435 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:35,380 The counsellor has to make him aware of all the emotional hazards involved on 436 00:21:35,380 --> 00:21:36,380 both sides. 437 00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:38,960 Not to mention the shock he may be causing the real parents. 438 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:42,860 I'm not with you. The real parents? The adopting parents, dear. 439 00:21:43,300 --> 00:21:44,920 They are the real parents, aren't they? 440 00:21:45,340 --> 00:21:48,780 The natural mother gives birth, the real parents give the love. That's a 441 00:21:48,780 --> 00:21:49,800 different people. 442 00:21:50,860 --> 00:21:54,280 Well, this young man claims that his adoptive parents were killed in a car 443 00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:55,520 when he was 13. 444 00:21:56,780 --> 00:21:58,740 That's when he found out that he was adopted. 445 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:00,440 Oh, 446 00:22:00,860 --> 00:22:02,180 poor kid. 447 00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:06,560 Or set to mourn Mum and Dad, only they weren't Mum and Dad. 448 00:22:07,100 --> 00:22:10,420 Oh, think how confused he must have been. 449 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:11,960 If it's true. 450 00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:16,520 Anyway, a chum of mine at Oxford had the father in advertising and he took me 451 00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:19,200 on. It's all a bit bogus, actually, but the money was good. 452 00:22:19,980 --> 00:22:23,140 I was with them for three years and then decided to have a go on my own. 453 00:22:23,500 --> 00:22:26,400 Was that wise, with the recession and everything? Oh, yes. 454 00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:30,020 The less money people have to throw about, the more they need people like me 455 00:22:30,020 --> 00:22:31,660 persuade them to buy stuff they don't need. 456 00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:33,600 That sounds frightfully cynical. 457 00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:35,680 Oh, it's not my theory, you understand. 458 00:22:36,300 --> 00:22:40,640 No, my ex -boss, he used to say, invention was the mother of necessity, 459 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:42,680 long as that was so, we'd all make a lot of tin. 460 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:44,000 I see. 461 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:45,400 Do you make a lot of tin? 462 00:22:45,620 --> 00:22:46,620 All comes and goes. 463 00:22:47,300 --> 00:22:49,880 Mostly goes, hence my present embarrassment. 464 00:22:50,460 --> 00:22:52,160 Oh, I'm glad you reminded me. 465 00:22:52,620 --> 00:22:53,900 I must let you have that check. 466 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:55,840 Pas de vent, Mother. 467 00:22:56,540 --> 00:22:58,240 Waiters can be so censorious. 468 00:22:58,960 --> 00:22:59,960 Oh. 469 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:01,240 Something to follow? 470 00:23:02,009 --> 00:23:04,150 No, no, thank you. Just coffee. Yes. 471 00:23:04,850 --> 00:23:07,370 And I wonder if they have a really good Armagnac. 472 00:23:08,690 --> 00:23:11,650 What did the woman think? 473 00:23:12,930 --> 00:23:16,170 Can you tell me her name? No, I'm afraid I can't do that. 474 00:23:16,570 --> 00:23:18,210 But she is absolutely convinced. 475 00:23:18,750 --> 00:23:20,410 She says that he even looks like his father. 476 00:23:21,410 --> 00:23:22,670 Well, that doesn't prove anything. 477 00:23:23,070 --> 00:23:27,350 After 27 years, he could look like an orangutan and she'd see a resemblance. 478 00:23:27,350 --> 00:23:28,350 wants to. 479 00:23:29,030 --> 00:23:32,920 When a woman's given away a child, Whatever pressure she was under at the 480 00:23:33,360 --> 00:23:35,280 After which she's haunted. 481 00:23:35,540 --> 00:23:36,540 Never lets go. 482 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:38,160 Wondering, worrying. 483 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:43,720 I used to get letters from women desperate to find their adopted child. 484 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:44,720 interfere. 485 00:23:44,860 --> 00:23:46,340 Just to make sure they were all right. 486 00:23:46,980 --> 00:23:48,500 Letters that would break your heart. 487 00:23:49,900 --> 00:23:52,820 Nothing I could do, of course. The law doesn't allow it. 488 00:23:53,420 --> 00:23:58,500 Yes, lady... The lady in question said something like that. 489 00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:00,320 Nearly. 490 00:24:01,910 --> 00:24:04,570 Look, proving he's the crook may be a bit of a pill. 491 00:24:05,390 --> 00:24:07,770 Let's try it the other way round. See if he's on the level. 492 00:24:08,790 --> 00:24:10,190 Can you do that now? 493 00:24:10,790 --> 00:24:11,790 I can have a go. 494 00:24:12,030 --> 00:24:15,830 I've got a lot of contacts. I could make a few phone calls, cut a few corners. 495 00:24:16,630 --> 00:24:17,990 I'll need to have his name, though. 496 00:24:21,150 --> 00:24:22,150 All right. 497 00:24:26,570 --> 00:24:27,570 Well, that's apparent. 498 00:24:27,730 --> 00:24:28,790 Turn the power a bit. 499 00:24:29,290 --> 00:24:30,790 Well, get out, Pete. Maggie's going to walk about. 500 00:24:31,330 --> 00:24:32,610 You've got a bone in your arm. 501 00:24:34,230 --> 00:24:35,169 Well, I was a parrot. 502 00:24:35,170 --> 00:24:37,370 They turned the polar bear and he said, if I catch you wearing my pyjamas 503 00:24:37,370 --> 00:24:39,550 again... Back to Paul's office. 504 00:24:40,430 --> 00:24:43,450 May I speak to the inspector, please? I'm afraid she's out on an inquiry, 505 00:24:43,930 --> 00:24:45,870 Oh. Do you know when she'll be back? 506 00:24:46,230 --> 00:24:47,850 No, I can't say. Can I take a message? 507 00:24:48,430 --> 00:24:51,850 Yes. Would you tell her that Ruth Morrell rang and ask her to come and see 508 00:24:52,010 --> 00:24:53,730 It's rather urgent. She has my address. 509 00:24:53,930 --> 00:24:56,490 Yes, of course, Lady Morrell. I'll tell her the moment she gets in. Thank you. 510 00:24:58,160 --> 00:24:59,160 She wasn't there. 511 00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:01,320 Right. 512 00:25:08,020 --> 00:25:09,540 No. No. 513 00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:14,300 No record of an application for birth records from anyone called Delith. 514 00:25:15,180 --> 00:25:16,180 Damn. 515 00:25:18,540 --> 00:25:20,940 Did she say where he was born? 516 00:25:21,380 --> 00:25:24,040 Yeah, maternity home just outside Godalming. 517 00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:25,520 What for? 518 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:27,700 That was the name of the village. Yes, do you know it? 519 00:25:28,030 --> 00:25:29,030 Of it, yes. 520 00:25:29,670 --> 00:25:30,970 Very posh. 521 00:25:31,430 --> 00:25:34,470 Expensive. Used to cater for well -heeled ladies. 522 00:25:34,830 --> 00:25:37,170 Debs who forgot to keep their legs crossed in taxis. 523 00:25:37,390 --> 00:25:39,570 All very discreet. Had to be. 524 00:25:40,090 --> 00:25:43,190 We're talking about the days before the pill and abortion on demand. 525 00:25:44,210 --> 00:25:46,850 Run by a Dr McKeown. I met him once. 526 00:25:47,170 --> 00:25:49,790 House? House of Commons. 527 00:25:50,430 --> 00:25:53,210 A crowd of us went to lobby about the abortion bill. 528 00:25:53,470 --> 00:25:54,470 Good man. 529 00:25:56,230 --> 00:25:57,670 Small, shock of white hair. 530 00:25:58,410 --> 00:26:00,730 Must be dead by now. 531 00:26:01,670 --> 00:26:05,630 The clinic closed, I think, but it was all strictly above board. 532 00:26:06,050 --> 00:26:09,730 He used to arrange private adoptions, found good homes for the kids. 533 00:26:10,590 --> 00:26:13,310 Just think, I owe Dr McTernan. 534 00:26:15,690 --> 00:26:16,690 Oh! 535 00:26:17,250 --> 00:26:21,870 Hello, Maureen. Hi, Mrs Arden. Look, love, could you be a sec? 536 00:26:22,230 --> 00:26:23,229 Oh, OK. 537 00:26:23,230 --> 00:26:24,230 Hello, Rebecca. 538 00:26:24,830 --> 00:26:26,070 How's my best girl? 539 00:26:26,710 --> 00:26:27,710 This is Rebecca. 540 00:26:27,890 --> 00:26:29,250 Hello. She's lovely. 541 00:26:29,590 --> 00:26:31,770 Could you... I won't take a minute, dear. 542 00:26:32,170 --> 00:26:33,170 Thanks. 543 00:26:36,310 --> 00:26:39,190 Look, you leave this with me and I'll have a sniff around. 544 00:26:39,470 --> 00:26:43,110 I can't promise anything of mine. Thanks very much, Mrs. Howell. Dear, I didn't 545 00:26:43,110 --> 00:26:44,130 mean to put you to all this trouble. 546 00:26:44,350 --> 00:26:47,010 No trouble, dear. It's that poor woman I'm worried about. 547 00:26:47,500 --> 00:26:50,600 If he is a crook, it'll cut her to ribbons. Yes, well, perhaps we can prove 548 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:52,300 isn't. Then we can both leave soundly and nice. 549 00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:56,040 Right. Goodbye, thanks. Anything comes up, I'll ring you. Right. Yes. 550 00:26:57,780 --> 00:26:59,120 Come on in, Maureen. 551 00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:01,040 I'll put the kettle on. 552 00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:02,720 Oh, 553 00:27:02,940 --> 00:27:06,780 I think I found you a playpen. But the fuckers are being difficult about a high 554 00:27:06,780 --> 00:27:09,260 chair. I don't know. I'm not a bloody keeper. 555 00:27:10,260 --> 00:27:12,780 No, I don't. Hang on. Maggie, it's for you. 556 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:14,940 Oh, ma 'am, there was a message. 557 00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:16,620 It's the boyfriend. 558 00:27:18,350 --> 00:27:19,069 Hello, Mike. 559 00:27:19,070 --> 00:27:20,009 Where you been? 560 00:27:20,010 --> 00:27:22,330 Working. Look, I'm at Lady Morel's flat. 561 00:27:22,530 --> 00:27:24,350 She's been done for stuff worth a quarter of a million. 562 00:27:25,050 --> 00:27:27,850 What? I'm rare. 563 00:27:28,330 --> 00:27:29,370 Ma 'am, there was a message. 564 00:27:29,730 --> 00:27:32,470 It's like your message will have to wait. 565 00:27:33,690 --> 00:27:34,690 Love has tripped. 566 00:27:36,290 --> 00:27:37,390 No, you're wrong. 567 00:27:37,650 --> 00:27:38,650 Quite wrong. 568 00:27:38,810 --> 00:27:41,430 Roland had nothing to do with this. How can you be so sure you know practically 569 00:27:41,430 --> 00:27:42,430 nothing about him? 570 00:27:43,500 --> 00:27:46,600 Inspector Tamberl is right, Lady Morell. He turns up this morning with Pastor 571 00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:48,540 Nuneau robbed. It's got to be more than coincidence. 572 00:27:49,300 --> 00:27:52,620 But how could he have done it? He was at your police station all morning. 573 00:27:53,060 --> 00:27:54,160 Then we went to lunch. 574 00:27:54,500 --> 00:27:56,120 We were at the restaurant till gone three. 575 00:27:56,580 --> 00:27:59,740 We went to the bank and then I dropped him off at the travel agent and came 576 00:27:59,740 --> 00:28:00,459 straight here. 577 00:28:00,460 --> 00:28:03,780 We were only apart for 20 minutes at the most. How could he have done it? He may 578 00:28:03,780 --> 00:28:06,500 not have been working alone. He may have had an accomplice. Now you're being 579 00:28:06,500 --> 00:28:07,500 absolutely ridiculous. 580 00:28:08,140 --> 00:28:11,660 Look, I understand how you feel. Believe me, you don't want to think badly of 581 00:28:11,660 --> 00:28:13,060 Roland because you think he's your son. 582 00:28:13,380 --> 00:28:15,120 He is. He is my son. 583 00:28:17,540 --> 00:28:18,780 What exactly was taken? 584 00:28:19,060 --> 00:28:20,900 A very important collection of portrait miniatures. 585 00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:23,720 Did Roland know about these miniatures? 586 00:28:24,100 --> 00:28:26,580 Well, he may have done. It's a very well -known collection. 587 00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:28,580 He never mentioned them. 588 00:28:28,940 --> 00:28:32,480 But Roland knows he can have anything I have. Why should he rob me? 589 00:28:32,900 --> 00:28:35,120 Why did he go to the travel agent? To book a cruise. 590 00:28:36,120 --> 00:28:37,520 We thought about it at lunchtime. 591 00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:39,760 Chance to get to know each other and to talk. 592 00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:43,080 It seems like a good idea. You say you went to the bank. Did you give him any 593 00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:44,080 money? 594 00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:45,820 Yes, yes, but the deposit. 595 00:28:46,060 --> 00:28:48,120 Well, he explained that he was short of money. How much? 596 00:28:49,180 --> 00:28:51,520 What? How much money did you give Roland? 597 00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:53,560 Four thousand pounds. 598 00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:55,560 As much as that. 599 00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:57,520 Cruises are expensive. 600 00:28:57,860 --> 00:28:59,540 And you were expecting him two hours ago. 601 00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:01,620 I think you've seen the last of him, don't you? 602 00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:03,280 He'll be long gone by now. 603 00:29:04,660 --> 00:29:05,660 You're wrong. 604 00:29:05,820 --> 00:29:06,820 Both of you. 605 00:29:07,100 --> 00:29:09,060 I don't care about the money. 606 00:29:09,740 --> 00:29:11,820 But, Roland, you just don't know him. 607 00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:13,760 He's got such courage. 608 00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:18,600 His adoptive parents were killed when he was just a child. He went to foster 609 00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:21,100 parents, council homes, but he rose above all that. 610 00:29:21,580 --> 00:29:24,440 He went to Oxford on a scholarship. He got a first -class degree. 611 00:29:26,180 --> 00:29:28,320 You can't be right. 612 00:29:28,980 --> 00:29:30,600 You just mustn't be right. 613 00:29:40,490 --> 00:29:41,490 What's going on? 614 00:29:41,630 --> 00:29:42,630 What's happened? 615 00:29:42,850 --> 00:29:43,850 Inspector, what is all this? 616 00:29:44,050 --> 00:29:45,830 Oh, Rowan, thank God. 617 00:29:46,590 --> 00:29:47,590 Are you all right? 618 00:29:48,890 --> 00:29:50,610 Won't someone please tell me what's happened? 619 00:29:51,130 --> 00:29:52,930 Lady Morell has been robbed, sir. 620 00:29:53,290 --> 00:29:54,269 Robbed? When? 621 00:29:54,270 --> 00:29:56,870 Mr. Davies, where were you between now and when you left Lady Morell? 622 00:29:57,490 --> 00:29:58,770 I went to the travel agents. 623 00:29:59,470 --> 00:30:00,429 Which one? 624 00:30:00,430 --> 00:30:03,250 Hayes and Greenway, Piccadilly Arcade, to book a cruise. 625 00:30:03,610 --> 00:30:04,890 We sail in three weeks. 626 00:30:05,410 --> 00:30:07,090 Have you been there all this time? 627 00:30:07,650 --> 00:30:09,130 Well, no, I... Where else have you been, sir? 628 00:30:09,980 --> 00:30:12,420 I had some business to attend to, and then I went back to my flat. 629 00:30:12,860 --> 00:30:16,300 It suddenly dawned on me that my passport might be out of date, so I went 630 00:30:16,300 --> 00:30:17,380 to check it out. And is it? 631 00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:20,580 No, if it happens, but I haven't used it for some time, and I wasn't sure. 632 00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:21,919 Now, you are sure? 633 00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:23,140 Yes, thank you. Quite sure. 634 00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:24,960 You say you've booked a cruise? 635 00:30:25,460 --> 00:30:26,460 Yes. 636 00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:31,720 Here we are. 637 00:30:37,450 --> 00:30:40,650 Thank you very much, Mr. Deavis. I'm sure you'll appreciate in the 638 00:30:40,650 --> 00:30:43,610 we have to ask these questions. I told you, but you wouldn't believe me. 639 00:30:44,630 --> 00:30:45,710 I did tell them, Roland. 640 00:30:46,050 --> 00:30:47,029 That's all right, Mother. 641 00:30:47,030 --> 00:30:48,130 They're only doing their job. 642 00:30:48,730 --> 00:30:51,810 Well, I can see it must look pretty fishy to them. They have to rule me out 643 00:30:51,810 --> 00:30:53,390 suspect. I quite understand. 644 00:30:53,710 --> 00:30:54,710 Well, I don't. 645 00:30:55,290 --> 00:30:58,090 I'm sure you only have my best interest at heart, Inspector, but I would like 646 00:30:58,090 --> 00:31:00,530 you to leave now. But, Mother, the lady was only being thorough. 647 00:31:01,130 --> 00:31:02,130 You mustn't blame her. 648 00:31:03,690 --> 00:31:04,690 Lady Morrell? 649 00:31:06,590 --> 00:31:07,590 Excuse me. 650 00:31:10,450 --> 00:31:11,269 Maggie? Yeah? 651 00:31:11,270 --> 00:31:12,109 I'm going home. 652 00:31:12,110 --> 00:31:14,510 No, I'm going back to the office. I've got a touch and report, sir. I've just 653 00:31:14,510 --> 00:31:16,590 got to finish the inventory and I'll pop round, OK? Oh, right. 654 00:31:17,150 --> 00:31:21,510 Nearly finished? 655 00:31:22,270 --> 00:31:23,270 No. 656 00:31:24,450 --> 00:31:26,050 Fancy a touch of the colour of curry, house? 657 00:31:26,770 --> 00:31:27,770 Hmm? What? 658 00:31:28,530 --> 00:31:29,530 Skip it. 659 00:31:42,830 --> 00:31:43,930 Is this what it would be like? 660 00:31:44,590 --> 00:31:45,590 What? 661 00:31:45,890 --> 00:31:50,510 Marriage. Us two sitting at opposite ends of the sitting room, both typing 662 00:31:50,510 --> 00:31:51,510 our reports. 663 00:31:51,690 --> 00:31:52,690 Not always. 664 00:31:52,950 --> 00:31:54,010 I might be ironing. 665 00:31:54,430 --> 00:31:55,790 I hate ironing. 666 00:31:56,110 --> 00:31:59,370 Perhaps that's what love is. Never having to say who's going to do the 667 00:31:59,530 --> 00:32:00,530 Oh. 668 00:32:02,390 --> 00:32:03,650 Why do you put up with me? 669 00:32:06,570 --> 00:32:10,810 Well, you're a reasonably good -looking woman, and you do a good breakfast. 670 00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:13,560 Oh, ask a silly question. 671 00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:27,800 He's a crook. 672 00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:28,979 Who is? 673 00:32:28,980 --> 00:32:31,340 Davis. Ah, but can you prove it? 674 00:32:31,580 --> 00:32:32,940 No, it's another thing. 675 00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:33,879 What is? 676 00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:36,100 Well, hanging around, just staring at her. 677 00:32:36,380 --> 00:32:40,140 I mean, if he really is her son, why didn't you just go up to her and just 678 00:32:40,140 --> 00:32:41,320 to her... What? Hello, Mum? 679 00:32:42,159 --> 00:32:43,160 Well, right, yes. 680 00:32:44,340 --> 00:32:45,340 Too shy? 681 00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:48,040 Softening her up? 682 00:32:48,500 --> 00:32:49,540 Fattening her up for the kill? 683 00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:51,700 You've been watching too much telly. 684 00:32:54,980 --> 00:32:57,400 Hi, do you see Turnbull's handling the robbery? 685 00:32:57,840 --> 00:32:58,639 Yes, sir. 686 00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:00,140 But you don't think Devis is involved? 687 00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:05,160 No. Oh, come on, he's got to be. He's a villain. I'd put money on it. Fiver? 688 00:33:05,540 --> 00:33:06,620 Right. Your own? 689 00:33:06,860 --> 00:33:07,980 You heard that, Gop. 690 00:33:10,179 --> 00:33:15,020 You reckon Devis is bent? So why the bet? I can't prove it. If I can't, I'm 691 00:33:15,020 --> 00:33:19,300 sure Slater can't. So even if neither of us get a collar on Devis, at least I'm 692 00:33:19,300 --> 00:33:20,300 five quid to the good. 693 00:33:21,580 --> 00:33:23,040 There's got to be a flaw there somewhere. 694 00:33:23,500 --> 00:33:26,180 Mum, there's a woman called Hardesty on your phone. Thanks, 695 00:33:27,020 --> 00:33:27,999 Joan. 696 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:29,000 Oh, Joan. 697 00:33:29,980 --> 00:33:31,020 You nick Devis? 698 00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:32,480 What do you think of him? 699 00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:35,360 Oh, she could eat him with a spoon, gov. Thank you, Joan. 700 00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:41,860 Yes, Mrs. Hardesty. Look, would you get to the point, please? 701 00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:43,520 We got him. 702 00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:45,620 Nailed him. You're devious. 703 00:33:46,540 --> 00:33:47,680 Well, how? 704 00:33:47,900 --> 00:33:48,900 What have you got? 705 00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:50,700 Someone told me about a midwife. 706 00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:54,420 She lives in Godfrey. She used to work at that clinic. You know, the one that 707 00:33:54,420 --> 00:33:56,080 closed. And what's her address? 708 00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:58,820 No, it's not her you want. 709 00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:01,340 She told me about the caretaker. 710 00:34:01,940 --> 00:34:05,080 The house is derelict now, but he still lives in a cottage on the ground. 711 00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:06,640 Yeah. 712 00:34:06,860 --> 00:34:09,639 What's it got to do with him? His name, dear. 713 00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:11,719 Deavis. 714 00:34:12,100 --> 00:34:13,400 Reginald Deavis. 715 00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:20,080 Mrs Hardesty, you are a gem, and you have just lost me five pounds. 716 00:34:22,639 --> 00:34:24,159 You fancy a trip to Godalming? 717 00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:25,360 What for? 718 00:34:25,420 --> 00:34:27,040 Deavis, we're going to leave. 719 00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:30,739 Well, if it concerns Lady Muriel, yeah, let's watch our backs. 720 00:34:35,209 --> 00:34:37,969 Mike Turnbull's going to call me about that robbery. Would you tell him I think 721 00:34:37,969 --> 00:34:38,989 I've got a lead on Davis? 722 00:34:39,770 --> 00:34:40,770 Check. 723 00:34:42,670 --> 00:34:43,509 That girl. 724 00:34:43,510 --> 00:34:44,510 The handbag girl. 725 00:34:44,710 --> 00:34:45,688 What about her? 726 00:34:45,690 --> 00:34:48,750 Well, I might reckon that someone used keys to get into Lady Morel's flat, and 727 00:34:48,750 --> 00:34:50,190 that girl had access to her handbag. 728 00:34:51,310 --> 00:34:52,570 Check it out. Give Mike a ring. 729 00:34:53,170 --> 00:34:55,730 Jake, will you put a tail on Davis? I may need to pick him up in a hurry. 730 00:34:55,770 --> 00:34:58,610 Nothing too obvious. If he gets on to us, he might make a break for it. 731 00:34:58,850 --> 00:34:59,850 Will you fit? 732 00:35:01,510 --> 00:35:02,510 I'm with her. 733 00:35:04,759 --> 00:35:08,700 Um, she wouldn't have had time not to rob that flat before coming here with 734 00:35:08,700 --> 00:35:10,500 bag. Ever heard of Key's cut? 735 00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:12,040 Wally White? 736 00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:56,280 Mr. Davis? 737 00:35:56,540 --> 00:35:57,540 Yeah? 738 00:35:58,180 --> 00:35:59,180 We're police officers. 739 00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:00,480 We'd like a few words. 740 00:36:02,540 --> 00:36:03,540 Just a minute. 741 00:36:10,240 --> 00:36:11,240 Roland, is it? 742 00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:12,439 That's right. 743 00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:13,860 You don't seem very surprised. 744 00:36:14,940 --> 00:36:15,940 I'm not. 745 00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:18,300 Do you always get police officers calling about Roland? 746 00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:20,220 No. You're the first. 747 00:36:21,020 --> 00:36:22,360 Only a matter of time, though. 748 00:36:23,580 --> 00:36:24,580 What's he done? 749 00:36:24,950 --> 00:36:27,090 We're just making a few inquiries. 750 00:36:27,530 --> 00:36:29,450 Must be something bad if it's Roland. 751 00:36:29,710 --> 00:36:30,750 Why do you say that? 752 00:36:31,390 --> 00:36:32,390 He's rotten. 753 00:36:32,790 --> 00:36:33,790 I'll make tea. 754 00:36:38,530 --> 00:36:41,270 Adopted? Well, he would say that, wouldn't he? 755 00:36:41,690 --> 00:36:42,990 Why would he, Mr. Davis? 756 00:36:43,770 --> 00:36:47,330 Well, he always found me and his mum a bit of a disappointment. 757 00:36:48,030 --> 00:36:49,150 A bit of an embarrassment. 758 00:36:49,850 --> 00:36:50,850 Not what he wanted. 759 00:36:51,310 --> 00:36:53,610 But Roland was born here, wasn't he? Oh, yeah. 760 00:36:54,030 --> 00:36:55,030 November it was. 761 00:36:55,770 --> 00:36:56,770 Scorpio, see? 762 00:36:57,190 --> 00:37:00,370 My Vera was up at the house helping in the kitchens when her pains come on. 763 00:37:01,150 --> 00:37:03,290 Old McEwan took her straight up to the delivery room. 764 00:37:03,750 --> 00:37:06,410 Couldn't have had better treatment if she'd been one of them rich ones paying 765 00:37:06,410 --> 00:37:07,410 all them guineas. 766 00:37:09,730 --> 00:37:11,370 Well, she had to have a caesarean. 767 00:37:12,430 --> 00:37:14,230 Rolling up to leave his scar, didn't he? 768 00:37:15,490 --> 00:37:16,490 Scorpio, see? 769 00:37:17,410 --> 00:37:18,770 When did you last see him? 770 00:37:19,670 --> 00:37:20,990 He had some funny ideas. 771 00:37:22,050 --> 00:37:23,050 Even as a kid. 772 00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:27,300 Always reading, putting himself full of nonsense. 773 00:37:28,740 --> 00:37:33,060 He got a book once from Guildford Library all about you and non -you. Do 774 00:37:33,060 --> 00:37:34,060 ever read that book? 775 00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:35,960 No. Yeah, I do. It's a load of rubbish. 776 00:37:36,260 --> 00:37:37,660 Not to Roland, it wasn't. 777 00:37:38,060 --> 00:37:39,060 His Bible. 778 00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:44,040 Well, me and Vera, we thought it was some kind of a game, so we tried to join 779 00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:45,040 in. 780 00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:49,000 Serviettes his napkins, dentures his false teeth. 781 00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:53,380 He really got angry with his mum when she forgot and called it the toilet. Had 782 00:37:53,380 --> 00:37:54,380 to be the lavatory. 783 00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:56,800 U stands for upper classes. 784 00:37:57,220 --> 00:37:58,220 Oh. 785 00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:01,020 That's what we had the big row about. 786 00:38:01,720 --> 00:38:03,500 What? The lavatory. 787 00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:05,360 The toilet. 788 00:38:06,180 --> 00:38:07,500 When he was still at college. 789 00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:09,400 Oxford. 790 00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:11,920 No, teacher training college, Snaresbrook. 791 00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:17,660 You see, one of my Vera's bonds come up. 792 00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:19,180 And she only had five. 793 00:38:19,870 --> 00:38:21,450 But one of them came up and she won £1 ,000. 794 00:38:22,350 --> 00:38:26,610 So he put 500 quid in the post office for Roland and used the rest to buy a 795 00:38:26,610 --> 00:38:28,650 brand -new bathroom suite to surprise him. 796 00:38:29,710 --> 00:38:31,910 Avocado green it was. Oh, lovely. 797 00:38:32,170 --> 00:38:33,109 Yeah, same as Mum. 798 00:38:33,110 --> 00:38:34,490 Really? Lovely, isn't it? 799 00:38:35,330 --> 00:38:36,970 Oh, Roland didn't think so. 800 00:38:37,670 --> 00:38:38,670 Oh, no. 801 00:38:39,010 --> 00:38:40,790 When he came home on his holidays, you know what he said? 802 00:38:41,550 --> 00:38:44,830 He said he should have bought a white suite, Dad. All the best houses have 803 00:38:44,830 --> 00:38:45,830 white. 804 00:38:46,350 --> 00:38:47,390 Well, his mum was... 805 00:38:47,810 --> 00:38:49,550 Wasn't he at a tears and just said, why, Roland, why? 806 00:38:51,170 --> 00:38:55,090 And he said, so that they can see that the servants clean it properly. 807 00:38:56,110 --> 00:38:57,790 Coloured sweets are so vulgar. 808 00:38:58,910 --> 00:39:04,430 Well, his mum just, just bust out crying. So I went for him. 809 00:39:06,730 --> 00:39:12,490 Well, after that, he, he bunged a few things in his old hall and off. 810 00:39:14,010 --> 00:39:15,170 It's the last I heard of him. 811 00:39:17,130 --> 00:39:18,130 Oh, no. 812 00:39:18,450 --> 00:39:19,450 No, I tell a lie. 813 00:39:21,430 --> 00:39:22,630 He sent me a card. 814 00:39:23,490 --> 00:39:24,870 Christmas after Vera died. 815 00:39:25,870 --> 00:39:28,330 There was a 20 -pound note stapled to it. 816 00:39:28,850 --> 00:39:31,910 And he'd underlined Mary in red biro. 817 00:39:33,130 --> 00:39:34,690 But I explained about that. 818 00:39:35,010 --> 00:39:37,610 West End Central know nothing about it. You weren't there. 819 00:39:37,950 --> 00:39:39,550 Well, it must have been one of the other ones, then. 820 00:39:39,830 --> 00:39:41,710 Well, I had a try for Bynestreet, Bow Street. 821 00:39:42,110 --> 00:39:43,690 Come on, Judy, we're not playing bloody Monopoly. 822 00:39:44,170 --> 00:39:46,050 You left half us and you had those keys cut. 823 00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:47,440 Now, where? 824 00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:51,920 Who put you up to it, Judy? 825 00:39:52,180 --> 00:39:53,158 What do you mean? 826 00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:54,300 Come on, you couldn't have thought it up by yourself. 827 00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:56,580 It's your boyfriend, wasn't it? 828 00:39:56,860 --> 00:39:57,860 What boyfriend? 829 00:39:58,140 --> 00:40:00,460 It was Roland, wasn't it? I don't know any Roland. 830 00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:02,560 All right. 831 00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:04,420 You can carry the can for the lot. 832 00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:06,280 Quarter of a million. 833 00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:07,259 Do you reckon, Pete? 834 00:40:07,260 --> 00:40:08,480 I don't know, what, five years? 835 00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:09,840 Quarter of a million? 836 00:40:10,500 --> 00:40:12,800 The bastard, the rotten poxy bastard. 837 00:40:13,420 --> 00:40:14,580 He gave me 50. 838 00:40:15,190 --> 00:40:16,570 A lousy 50 quid. 839 00:40:22,090 --> 00:40:23,090 Who did, Judy? 840 00:40:23,970 --> 00:40:25,730 Ah, lovely it used to be. 841 00:40:26,490 --> 00:40:27,490 Not any more, though. 842 00:40:27,910 --> 00:40:28,910 Been left to rot. 843 00:40:29,470 --> 00:40:30,470 Like me. 844 00:40:31,630 --> 00:40:35,510 Speculators bought it in 73, but they couldn't get permission to demolish it. 845 00:40:36,310 --> 00:40:37,890 You say Roland used to play up there? 846 00:40:38,210 --> 00:40:39,430 Yeah, yeah, all the time. 847 00:40:39,910 --> 00:40:41,130 I had to take my belt to him. 848 00:40:41,430 --> 00:40:43,270 It could have been dangerous up there on his own. 849 00:40:44,900 --> 00:40:46,240 What did he do up there, do you know? 850 00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:47,680 Made himself a den. 851 00:40:48,340 --> 00:40:49,340 A den? 852 00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:51,900 Yeah. You know, a den. 853 00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:54,960 You never had a den when you was a kid? 854 00:40:55,580 --> 00:40:56,580 I did. 855 00:40:57,460 --> 00:40:58,840 It was the old doctor's room. 856 00:40:59,100 --> 00:41:01,800 Oh, lovely it was. All that scroll work on the ceiling. 857 00:41:02,540 --> 00:41:06,120 He found some bits of furniture that had been left behind. A couple of chairs, a 858 00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:08,140 table. He even got a bed from somewhere. 859 00:41:08,740 --> 00:41:12,400 He must have spent weeks cleaning the place up, getting rid of all the old 860 00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:13,339 papers and stuff. 861 00:41:13,340 --> 00:41:14,340 Papers? What papers? 862 00:41:14,730 --> 00:41:15,730 Oh, papers. 863 00:41:15,770 --> 00:41:17,330 Teach us, fool. Left behind. 864 00:41:17,610 --> 00:41:18,730 What kind of papers? 865 00:41:19,430 --> 00:41:20,810 Oh, medical papers and that. 866 00:41:21,070 --> 00:41:22,250 Old files and stuff. 867 00:41:22,870 --> 00:41:26,190 It was only written on one side, so Roland used to draw on the backs of 868 00:41:26,450 --> 00:41:27,850 He must have had a room full of them. 869 00:41:28,590 --> 00:41:29,610 Are they still there? 870 00:41:31,430 --> 00:41:32,430 No. 871 00:41:33,050 --> 00:41:36,170 No, I got rid of all his stuff after Vera died. 872 00:41:37,530 --> 00:41:39,430 Clothes, books, papers. 873 00:41:40,850 --> 00:41:41,850 And a bonfire. 874 00:41:42,970 --> 00:41:43,970 Palafin. 875 00:41:45,589 --> 00:41:46,910 Matches. It seemed best. 876 00:41:50,010 --> 00:41:51,010 Did I do wrong? 877 00:41:51,390 --> 00:41:52,390 No, Mr. Davis. 878 00:41:53,610 --> 00:41:57,290 Many thanks, Mr. Davis. Thanks for your help. We may need to get in touch again. 879 00:41:57,550 --> 00:41:59,690 Oh, right -o. But not Roland. 880 00:42:01,310 --> 00:42:02,690 I don't want to set eyes on him. 881 00:42:03,530 --> 00:42:04,530 Ever. 882 00:42:07,770 --> 00:42:08,770 You stop him. 883 00:42:09,890 --> 00:42:11,050 You stop him, Urchin. 884 00:42:12,490 --> 00:42:13,490 Do that. 885 00:42:24,589 --> 00:42:27,890 Oh, well, we've got Lady Morel's stuff back. That girl? Right. She had the key 886 00:42:27,890 --> 00:42:28,990 cut in Harper's basement. 887 00:42:29,190 --> 00:42:30,930 Silly cow. Even asked for Darcy's cash. 888 00:42:31,150 --> 00:42:32,109 Is David involved? 889 00:42:32,110 --> 00:42:33,870 No. What product? A man named Floyd. 890 00:42:34,170 --> 00:42:36,770 Let's charge him, Floyd. Pick up, David. No problem. 891 00:42:37,230 --> 00:42:40,270 Your governor's been on the blower. Seems Lady Morel's doing her fruit about 892 00:42:40,270 --> 00:42:42,090 persecuting her little boy. She's upstairs. 893 00:42:42,970 --> 00:42:44,710 Blast. And he's not her little boy. 894 00:42:45,370 --> 00:42:47,390 You're all right. I'll give him a bell. Where have you got David? 895 00:42:47,590 --> 00:42:49,970 He's downstairs, screaming blue murder about witch hunters. 896 00:42:50,350 --> 00:42:51,450 Witches always do. 897 00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:55,100 Right, give us a couple of minutes. I'd like to sit in on that. Yeah, OK. It 898 00:42:55,100 --> 00:42:55,959 could be nasty. 899 00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:59,380 I don't think I could face Lady Morel right now, not with what I've got to 900 00:42:59,380 --> 00:43:00,580 her. We've got her miniatures back. 901 00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:01,800 They should brighten her day. 902 00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:03,040 For now, I doubt it. 903 00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:05,760 And just what do you imagine you can charge me with? 904 00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:10,260 Well, for starters, how about obtaining money by criminal deception? 905 00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:11,839 Wrong. Oh? 906 00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:13,720 I have obtained no money from Lady Morel. 907 00:43:14,140 --> 00:43:16,040 Well, at least you're not still calling her mother. 908 00:43:16,700 --> 00:43:18,880 Yes, well, that would be a bit ludicrous under the circumstances. 909 00:43:19,820 --> 00:43:20,820 How was Dad? 910 00:43:21,130 --> 00:43:21,988 Still whinging? 911 00:43:21,990 --> 00:43:23,630 Yes, I didn't think very much of you either. 912 00:43:24,750 --> 00:43:27,090 Now then, Lady Morrell gave you £4 ,000. 913 00:43:27,730 --> 00:43:31,170 Correct. A deposit on a cruise. I paid it to the travel agents. 914 00:43:31,570 --> 00:43:33,050 You saw the receipt. 915 00:43:33,530 --> 00:43:37,090 Right, how about obtaining a cruise by criminal deception? 916 00:43:37,770 --> 00:43:38,770 Sorry. 917 00:43:39,090 --> 00:43:42,590 Lady Morrell made me a temporary loan. I repaid her this morning. 918 00:43:43,150 --> 00:43:46,310 And paid the outstanding balance on the cruise for both of us. 919 00:43:46,750 --> 00:43:50,750 Some 7 ,000 pounds in all. Where did you get some 7 ,000 pounds in all? 920 00:43:51,470 --> 00:43:53,210 I sold a small parcel of shares. 921 00:43:54,010 --> 00:43:56,670 You may check this with my bankers and Lady Moreau's. 922 00:43:57,070 --> 00:44:00,410 And in case you intend to be really tired, some I also paid for yesterday's 923 00:44:00,410 --> 00:44:03,670 luncheon. I think that settles the money side of things. Anything else? 924 00:44:04,410 --> 00:44:06,630 Just a little matter of pretending to be her son. 925 00:44:07,210 --> 00:44:09,330 As you say, a little matter. 926 00:44:09,670 --> 00:44:12,710 That'll never come to court. You're really usually very sure of that. I am. 927 00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:16,940 Your legal bods would hardly agree to subjecting Lady Morel to that kind of 928 00:44:16,940 --> 00:44:21,940 ordeal. Having to stand up in court and admit to a judge she probably knows 929 00:44:21,940 --> 00:44:23,540 socially she's been a slag. 930 00:44:23,780 --> 00:44:24,780 I think not. 931 00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:29,440 Better you see her a slag. 932 00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:32,920 That is a non -new word. 933 00:44:34,180 --> 00:44:35,300 May I go now? No. 934 00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:39,280 I'll have to check your story with your band. 935 00:44:39,720 --> 00:44:42,640 I've instructed my bankers to tell your people anything they wish to know. I 936 00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:46,160 hope for your sake that the travel agents also confirm your story. 937 00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:48,920 Oh, they will. Hayden Greenway. Piccadilly Arcade. 938 00:44:53,060 --> 00:44:55,740 What was it? I don't know. I stopped myself. 939 00:44:56,780 --> 00:44:57,658 What's that? 940 00:44:57,660 --> 00:45:00,780 It's a load of miniatures. Mine's a Cointreau. Ah, very droll. 941 00:45:01,100 --> 00:45:03,620 What's that say to you? Roland Deavis. He's meant to clean. 942 00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:08,340 It's been muggy for us. Over there. Put away your bulletproof vest. 943 00:45:09,390 --> 00:45:12,590 Thanks. And if the travel agents confirm his story, will he get on to the bank 944 00:45:12,590 --> 00:45:14,990 and check that he's got sufficient funds to cover both checks? 945 00:45:15,510 --> 00:45:19,090 Look, do you mind doing that? Thanks, Jack. Don't thank me. I've got a fiver 946 00:45:19,090 --> 00:45:20,090 riding on this. 947 00:45:20,570 --> 00:45:21,730 Oh, excuse me, darling. 948 00:45:22,230 --> 00:45:25,370 If you're taking those for Lady Murrell, be kind to her. And I always. 949 00:45:25,970 --> 00:45:28,470 Excuse me, ma 'am. What do you think, ma 'am? Sergeant Stiles thought these 950 00:45:28,470 --> 00:45:29,850 might be important. Well, what are they? 951 00:45:30,110 --> 00:45:32,830 Well, it looks like part of an old -fashioned car index system. 952 00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:39,800 Where did he get this from? 953 00:45:40,340 --> 00:45:43,620 Interesting, that. He was keeping oboe on Deaveth all morning. 954 00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:54,560 You know, if I was doing that, some smart -arse defence lawyer could claim 955 00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:55,560 was a threatening gesture. 956 00:45:59,260 --> 00:46:04,980 Mr Dean, I'm so sorry to have taken so long, but these formalities will be... 957 00:46:07,690 --> 00:46:13,610 Still, now that we've got a few minutes... You see, what puzzled me was 958 00:46:13,610 --> 00:46:14,730 managed to find her. 959 00:46:15,150 --> 00:46:18,890 I mean, wherever you got your information from, all you had was her 960 00:46:18,930 --> 00:46:23,650 and let's face it, Miss Ruth Holmes could have gone and married anyone, 961 00:46:23,650 --> 00:46:24,650 she? 962 00:46:24,710 --> 00:46:27,670 You're quite a detective yourself, aren't you? Do I have to listen to this? 963 00:46:28,070 --> 00:46:30,830 No. But it would be a bit churlish not to. 964 00:46:31,310 --> 00:46:32,510 Any case, I want to listen. 965 00:46:33,550 --> 00:46:35,370 Shall I tell you how I think you did it? 966 00:46:36,110 --> 00:46:38,370 Now, I think you'd have needed more information. 967 00:46:39,150 --> 00:46:40,570 I'm sure you know what this is. 968 00:46:40,910 --> 00:46:41,910 I don't. 969 00:46:42,270 --> 00:46:45,770 Mr. Davis was seen to dispose of this in the litter bin this morning. 970 00:46:46,170 --> 00:46:47,210 Nice and tidy. 971 00:46:48,390 --> 00:46:49,630 Miss Ruth Holmes. 972 00:46:50,430 --> 00:46:54,570 Details of a male child, date of birth, weight, etc., date given for adoption. 973 00:46:55,370 --> 00:46:58,670 Ah, here's the most important bit. Her home address. 974 00:46:59,110 --> 00:47:02,010 The Manor House, Melbury, Shropshire. 975 00:47:03,730 --> 00:47:07,610 Now, I may not be a graduate of, um... Now, where was this? 976 00:47:08,470 --> 00:47:12,510 Snaresbrook. Oh, yes, Snaresbrook. Now, I may not be a graduate of Snaresbrook, 977 00:47:12,550 --> 00:47:16,790 but even I can see how easy it would be to go up to Melbury and make a few 978 00:47:16,790 --> 00:47:20,310 discreet inquiries about what happened to the girl from the manor house. 979 00:47:22,770 --> 00:47:23,830 Something like that, was it? 980 00:47:25,590 --> 00:47:26,590 Something like that. 981 00:47:28,450 --> 00:47:29,450 Excuse me, girl. 982 00:47:29,710 --> 00:47:31,850 We've checked with the travel people and Lady Morell. 983 00:47:32,300 --> 00:47:35,040 The bank does have funds to cover both checks. 984 00:47:35,400 --> 00:47:38,180 Thanks, Jack. Well, if you've quite finished... Not quite. 985 00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:48,880 Was it just as easy to find all the others? 986 00:47:49,140 --> 00:47:50,140 I don't know what you mean. 987 00:47:50,740 --> 00:47:52,520 Oh, I think you do need to do this. 988 00:47:55,500 --> 00:48:00,640 Miss Joanna Dyson, Dyson House, Harley Crotch, near Stroud. Miss Harriet Digby 989 00:48:00,640 --> 00:48:02,140 -Stevens, South Eton Place. 990 00:48:02,500 --> 00:48:04,460 Hmm, London. Not so far to travel. 991 00:48:04,780 --> 00:48:09,980 Highgate Village, Belgravia. Rich ladies, rich addresses, baby boys, all 992 00:48:09,980 --> 00:48:11,420 adopted. Coincidence? 993 00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:15,000 Take them all on cruises, did you? 994 00:48:16,020 --> 00:48:20,020 Did you take any money from these ladies? Temporary loans, little parcels 995 00:48:20,020 --> 00:48:21,020 shares? 996 00:48:23,020 --> 00:48:25,280 Why don't you ask them? I intend to, Mr. Davis. 997 00:48:27,160 --> 00:48:28,160 Too bad. 998 00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:30,580 Lady Morella and I could have been very happy. 999 00:48:31,020 --> 00:48:32,300 I'd have been good to her, you know. 1000 00:48:33,480 --> 00:48:34,860 Until her cash ran out. 1001 00:48:35,080 --> 00:48:37,680 Oh, no fear of that. Do you know how much she's got? I'm sure you do. 1002 00:48:37,900 --> 00:48:38,940 To the last penny. 1003 00:48:39,260 --> 00:48:41,880 It was only money, and God knows I can afford it. 1004 00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:44,360 If we could have been happy, where was the harm? 1005 00:48:45,220 --> 00:48:46,800 If only you hadn't interfered. 1006 00:48:48,840 --> 00:48:51,980 Oh, I'm sorry. That sounds ungrateful after all your hard work. 1007 00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:55,820 Can you give Roland a message for me? 1008 00:48:58,840 --> 00:49:02,280 I really don't think that. 1009 00:49:04,780 --> 00:49:07,380 Right, I'll see that he gets it. 1010 00:49:07,660 --> 00:49:08,660 Thank you. 1011 00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:12,660 I just want him to know that he needn't worry about his defence. 1012 00:49:13,080 --> 00:49:16,380 I've retained counsel for him. A friend of my husband's a good man. 1013 00:49:17,980 --> 00:49:20,520 How on earth should you do that for him? 1014 00:49:21,290 --> 00:49:23,750 Because it just doesn't seem fair to let him take all the blame. 1015 00:49:24,950 --> 00:49:29,190 Lady Morel, Roland Davis is a cold -blooded swindler. 1016 00:49:30,390 --> 00:49:33,410 Why on earth should you bother to help him? 1017 00:49:34,970 --> 00:49:37,490 Because I was just as ready to swindle him. 1018 00:49:37,730 --> 00:49:38,730 How? 1019 00:49:38,890 --> 00:49:40,690 By pretending to believe him. 1020 00:49:41,410 --> 00:49:42,410 Pretending? 1021 00:49:42,970 --> 00:49:45,390 My son died when he was seven years old. 1022 00:49:45,730 --> 00:49:46,830 Cerebral meningitis. 1023 00:49:47,610 --> 00:49:50,650 A very clever private detective told me that 15 years ago. 1024 00:49:54,000 --> 00:50:00,020 Are you saying that you knew all along that Roland Davis was not your son? 1025 00:50:00,680 --> 00:50:01,680 Yes. 1026 00:50:02,180 --> 00:50:07,780 But you see, even if all he wanted was money, I wanted my son back. 1027 00:50:09,220 --> 00:50:10,460 Roland is such fun. 1028 00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:12,880 A son any mother would be proud of. 1029 00:50:13,200 --> 00:50:14,200 Except his own? 1030 00:50:15,220 --> 00:50:16,480 Yes, poor woman. 1031 00:50:17,060 --> 00:50:18,760 I didn't know about her yesterday. 1032 00:50:20,370 --> 00:50:23,410 I probably never would have known if you hadn't... Interfered. 1033 00:50:24,130 --> 00:50:27,090 I was going to say if you hadn't been trying to be so good at your job, 1034 00:50:27,150 --> 00:50:28,150 Inspector.