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Rear tyre!

What? Rear t...

Rear tyre!

Agh!

Nice one! All right, boys, lose that van.

Now, Barry, boy, little present for you.

Look at that. 500 of them. Worth 20 grand at least.

Better than working? Come on, let's go.

A little graft and a lot of bread.

I've found a way of getting a lot of bread for no graft at all.

250 100-quid cameras on that truck.

Makes £25,000.

Second floor have had enough,

the insurance companies have had enough and I've had enough.

We all know the Smith brothers are behind these hijacks,

so I want them nicked.

Yeah, but guv, you know I'm on that Post Office job.

That's all right, I'll take over.

Right now, you're gonna concentrate on these faces.

Barry Smith, the pretty one, the youngest brother.

John Smith, the brains.

Charley Smith, the muscle. I want them away, Jack.

We'll hound these three musketeers until we've got a good case.

Your target is gonna be Barry. I wanna know everything that bandit does.

Friends, girls, what he has for breakfast, when he goes to the toilet.

Guv, I'll get you the date of his Auntie Flo's birthday if you like, but what good's that in court?

Jack, we've been trying to get the brothers Smith for two years

by supposedly orthodox methods without results.

I propose we try a new approach.

Everywhere they go, we'll be watching.

We'll have too much evidence for them to wriggle out of. You hope.

I beg your pardon? You'll be dissipating manpower for nothing.

You'll drive them to Majorca.

I see. What do YOU have to offer?

Wait till we get a reliable tip, then nick them in the act.

We've been waiting for a reliable tip as long as I care to remember.

It's time for a new approach. You'll be wasting your time.

I'll be the judge of that. You're wasting my squad...

Don't push your luck, Jack! What's that supposed to mean?

This is not a debating society, it's the police.

I'm trying to tell YOU that!

You've been given an order, Inspector. Are you refusing to obey?

Are you?

No. I just thought it was my duty to offer my advice.

Jack, you've got a good track record here. So have a lot of other men.

The rules apply to you like everyone else. I'll make sure they do.

I hope I make myself clear.

96, 97, 98, 99, 500.

Did you check it, Angela? Yes, Mr Wardle.

Check it again, love. Can't be too careful, you know?

Blimey! You've got a nerve, ain't you?

Cool as a cucumber, you are.

Bring your own case next time. I'm tired of giving you new ones.

Yeah, yeah. OK. No sweat.

You are, though, mate, dead cool.

Yes, well, I have to be, don't I? Dealing with the likes of you.

If some other people had sussed you,

it'd cost you a lot more than this, you know?

I'm quite well aware of that, Mr Smith.

Yeah. Don't forget it, mate.

I'm not likely to.

Just going off to lunch, Mr Wardle. Right-Angela.

Blimey! You can pick 'em, can't you?

I see. Not on your own doorstep?

I've got to hand it to you, you're a dab hand at figures.

What are you talking about? Never mind.

The man from the insurance called, did he?

Yes. As usual.

How, erm...

How did you get on at the casino last night?

- Lost a grand. - Did you?

I see what you mean. A dab hand at figures.

You're a lad, Jacko.

Been here for three races. He hasn't had a bet yet.

Perhaps he's skint.

What you doing for the next one?

Ballingbroke.

35 to 1?

I see. You think your luck's changing, do you?

Cor, dear, I hope he does something soon.

Another half hour of this, I'll be brassic myself.

Does he look like moving?

Well, no, but... I'll see you at the rails.

Here, what you really backing?

£6 to 1, Lacy Grey, 44.

2 to 1, Five Spar, Five Spar, 2 to 1 the field.

£2, Bright Boy, on the nose.

£10 to 2, Bright Boy. Down to Mr Regan and paid on.

Cheeky! I'm right, aren't I, guvnor?

Anyway, saves you a ticket, don't it?

Stay quiet, Spratty, or I'll nick you for taking money under false pretences. Always am.

2 to 1, Five Spar, Five Spar, 2 to 1. Make your bet with happy Joe Spratt.

Central. 'Central.'

Advise Oscar 7 that Oscar 24 is at multi-storey car park

in Emerson Road, West 12.

I'll meet him back at the office at eight. OK?

Hello, Mr Wardle. Here I am again. Bang on time.

I brought my own case this time, didn't I?

Well, so long, Mr Wardle.

Be seeing you down at the club tonight, will we?

Quite surprised you being a member. Stella got you in, I suppose?

Yes, she did, actually.

Nice girl, Stella.

Very er...understanding.

Yes, she's putting her kid's sister through university.

I ordered a 24-hour watch on Barry Smith.

You're getting it, guv. Well, where is he now?

I don't know. I lost him. Really?

It's all right, George Carter's with him.

As long as somebody is.

All right, John, Charley.

Hello, Barry. How's my young brother? OK.

Got it? When didn't I?

Don't get to believe in muscle, Barry.

Didn't need it this time.

But you might next time, boy?

Don't give him the wrong idea, Charley.

Muscle's only useful when we need it. How many times must I tell you?

Forever, John. Forever.

If the old man heard you talk...

The old man's dead, Charley. Yeah, I know.

I know, worse luck.

Because he, he was the best.

The hardest.

You hear me, Barry, boy? The hardest.

Yeah, Charley, sure.

Excuse me, sir, are you a member?

No, is it members only? Yes, sir.

I didn't realise that. OK, ta.

Mugs. The world's full of them.

Thank God, Charley?

John?

Hello, Stella.

Hello. Got a little business I'd like to discuss with you.

Really? And what sort of business would we have in common?

That mug you've got in tow, Wardle. Do you know him?

I've got a little interest in him. I see.

I know the form with you, Stella. You'll take him for every penny he's got, then drop him.

What I do is my business. Not this time, love.

I want that mug kept happy, not squeezed dry and ditched. Right?

Look, I've got more to do with my life

than look after some menopausal spendthrift for you.

This mug is a very important mug.

He's worth a lot of money to us. And if I don't?

Don't even say it, love. You've got a nice face.

So, keep him sweet, keep him happy,

and if there's anything I ought to know about, come and tell me, right?

You're a very persuasive man, Mr Smith.

John. Hi, Stella.

I think I'll go and have some nosh. Hey, Barry! Yeah? Fancy some nosh?

Yeah, why not? Right. Charley?

No. I'll just stay out here and have a sandwich.

Sandwich!

You know, Stella, I've always fancied you.

Your frankness is compelling.

But the feeling's not mutual.

Hey, come off it, love.

Don't you forget, I've had you.

I don't remember.

Yeah, well, you were just starting up then.

Not quite so hoity-toity.

But in those days, love,

you did a hell of a lot for ten quid?

Here, have a drink. Oi!

Drink! If you insist.

Agh!

Hey, Stell. How's it going with big spender?

Mr Wardle's a very generous man.

He's every reason to be, hasn't he?

I don't follow you.

If you say so, love.

If you say so.

Hello, Stella. Charley.

Can I get you a drink? No, no. I've gotta be off.

Leave you two love birds to it?

Bye-bye, Stell. Ha!

She's quite a girl, that girl. Be lucky, boy.

Why do you let him do that? Do what?

Maul you about like that.

You're jealous. No, I'm not.

All right, yes, I am.

Stella, I... There's no need to be.

You're number one.

So you tailed Barry Smith to this car park.

He went in and came out. About ten minutes later.

Check it out. See if they've got an interest in the place.

I looked at the companies list, the answer's no.

Nominees? No, it's Multi Car Parks. They're a big public company.

No, thanks. My mum used to work in a pie factory.

The stories she used to tell us.

Do you know, one Christmas, there was this cat.

The poor little thing... Thank you, George.

We must have dinner more often. Why didn't you go and have a look?

I thought he might just be parking his car.

It is a car park. And it's not the easiest place to hide up there.

Look, he left the racecourse in the middle of a race, right?

So he didn't want a tail. He was taking precautions.

You think he was meeting someone in there? What else?

# Twenty-one today!

Ha ha ha!

# I've got the key... #

That's how old you make me feel, Stella.

Got a little present for you.

But it's your birthday! I know!

I know. It's just that...

..you know, Stella, you're v... you're very...

I know. I know.

You're special too.

Do you really think so?

But you've spent enough on me!

You go on as if there's no future.

There isn't. Course there is!

No., You have to eat and drink,

and live!

Eating! Ha ha ha ha!

Stella!

# She was just... # Hey,

where do you get your money from?

You guess.

Vroom, vroom.

F-tung! Vroom.

Did my former service in public.

Do you... Do you perform a service for the p...

I feel sick.

Well, George, there's only one way to find out.

Capture him? Haskins wants evidence, let's go.

He's seen us!

He's going a bit, isn't he? What do you expect him to do?

Come on, Joe!

10,000 quid, give or take a pound or two.

Yeah, and one badly injured villain. Yeah. Bad, that.

Makes you think about your expense sheets, doesn't it?

Yeah.

10,000 quid. Now, what would he be doing with 10,000 quid?

One thing, guv. How are we going to explain all this to Haskins?

With long words and a dead straight face.

10,000. Any ideas?

Not yet. All right.

So he went to the car park.

Now, could they have diversified into car parks legally?

We checked the companies list. No.

If they're staging hijacks all over the place, they must be making a lot of bread.

You saw nothing suspicious there, no faces? No, sir, nothing.

Is Barry Smith still unconscious? Yeah.

It's a pity about that. He was running away from us.

We gave him several signals to stop.

And we were, what, 100 yards away when he crashed.

He was driving, you know, not us!

I want you to go see the brothers.

Get to John and Charley. Check on their reactions.

Hey, John!

Stop playing silly buggers! Get that lot shifted!

What the hell do you think you're doing?

You stay with me a week, it's about all you will do!

Hello, Charley.

Do I know you? No, but I'm sure you'll want to. I chased Barry.

Flying Squad.

You've got a bloody nerve barging in here.

Regan, is it? Before he's even come round?

He was obstructing the police in the execution of their duties.

If you wanna talk business, we'd better go inside.

Well, what can we do for you, Mr Regan?

I wanna know about that ten grand. What ten grand?

The ten grand that Barry had with him.

If Barry was carrying money on him, it must've been his own.

They tell me you can carry three sets of books in your head at one time.

Two bent and one straight. Is that right?

Don't believe everything intelligence tell you. I don't.

You're the Sweeney, right? Yep.

So what are you chasing Barry for? What's he done?

Nothing. He was over the speed limit, see?

So now in your spare time you work as a traffic cop? Do us a favour!

You've no idea what that money was?

No idea at all? None at all. I'm sorry.

Make much money here, do you? We make a living.

By the way, that ten grand will be scrutinised.

The income tax people will be looking at it.

Want him to explain how he came by it. All that.

Thanks for the tip. Thanks very much.

Any time.

Just the kid's bad luck rolling that motor with all that bread on board.

Maybe. Nah, they're just sniffing. They'd have nicked us otherwise.

But I think we ought to give tomorrow the elbow, just to be... No! No!

There's too much going on it. That git don't scare me none.

Tomorrow's on and that's definite, boy.

Jack. George.

Don't tell me, the Smiths. It would seem so.

Naughty.

You didn't drag me all the way here to show me this.

No, I wanted to ask you something.

As you probably know, there's been an increase in the establishment

for chief inspectors.

There's some immediate vacancies. In the Squad?

No, these are divisional appointments.

Getting me kicked upstairs?

I'm advising you of an opportunity of advancement.

Yeah, finding stolen bikes in Pinner.

I take it you're not interested? Why tell me now?

The appointments have to be made quickly.

Yeah, yesterday as far as you're concerned.

Do you have to make a personal issue of everything?

If you dream up any more schemes for me, I'll be at that car park, sir.

What was all that about?

The confidential chat?

Haskins is trying to get rid of me down at the squad.

He'll have his bloody work cut out, I'll tell you that.

Well, there's an office here. You never know, we can try.

You stay here.

Send it over right away. Give my regards to your wife.

This gentleman wants somebody in authority.

Can I help you, sir?

I was wondering if you have a special reduction scheme

for drivers using the car park every day. We're new in the district.

No, not really. There's no call for it.

Yeah, course, you've got a big turnover, I expect.

Aye. Pretty full most days. Well, it was just a thought. Aye.

There's no point in getting in touch with your sales manager?

Not really, no.

You're not sales? No. Accounts. Chief cashier.

Chief cashier? That's right.

Well, I am in the wrong place.

Sorry. It's no trouble.

Sorry I couldn't help you. But you did.

Bye.

Anything? Yeah, a face from the recent past.

Who? A cashier with a liking for car-breakers' yards.

700. Right...

Hello, guvnor! I see you here more often than Lord Wig.

Seen this face before? Let's have a butcher's.

Yeah. Yeah!

Yeah, I think I know him. Tell me.

He's a mug for starters.

Done a lot of money with me. And with a lot of others.

How much is a lot? He done a grand with me the first day's racing.

Is he here today?

I need him!

Always cash? Yeah. Keeps it in his case.

Had over a grand there last time. Anybody with him at all?

Yeah. A blonde bit. A bit of all right an' all.

And he has a fella with him now and again.

Calls him Joey. No. Jacko.

And he's carrying an' all.

And now the good news. Yeah? He's here today.

How long for?

I knew it couldn't last.

'That's another call for P Dobson.'

'Will he please go to the steward's office in the grandstand?'

They're here. I know.

How did you make out today?

I'm three grand behind already.

Never. Aye. I'll get it back on the next race.

Plenty more where that came from,

I'll see you down the club tonight, then? Possibly.

It's all right for you. All you have to do is cough.

We have to do all the graft.

Are you talking to me, snot nose? Come on... No! Look!

Here, how am I gonna keep this from my missus?

She's starting to ask questions.

It's ridiculous. I've got a fortune and I can't spend it.

She's gonna suss it out!

I suggest you don't tell her, boy.

I will show them. It's too much! It's too much! Agh!

Leave him. I'll look after him.

You better, mate. Come on, Jacko.

Here, Charley.

Sometimes I think that Wardle's the biggest bunko I've ever seen.

Yeah, and the widest. That's a hell of a scheme he's got.

I'll give you that, but three grand behind? And cheering?

If he don't do that, what else is he gonna do?

He can't sling it in a building society.

No, it's not Wardle I'm worried about.

It's his oppo that's the problem. That Jacko's bottling out.

You reckon?

Well, he's always on the sauce and he's stopped pulling birds.

That's a sure sign. Yeah.

Now for the bad news.

The old bill's onto us. In the other bar.

Who is he? I dunno but I've seen him down the club and he's a copper.

We're under obo.

Yeah, well, we're not on our tod this time.

Wardle we can handle. We can shop him tomorrow, but why call the goose?

No, it's Jacko that's the problem, Charley.

And if they're watching Jacko, dear, dear.

You know,

sometimes you remind me of the old man.

Wardle? Yeah, Wardle. He's the kingpin.

Wardle, William, earns 3,000 a year, got a house in Pinner.

Mortgage paid up last December in cash.

What about his mate? Jackson, Herbert, semi-detached in Wembley.

He also has a small boat and a car, no large sums in his bank account.

Dishes out tickets at the car park.

And the bird? Stella Goodman, high-class scrubber. No form.

Are you sure you won't come to the club, Jacko?

Nah. I've had enough of big brother for one day.

Do you wanna stop and let me go after him?

No. We'll stay with Wardle.

Hello, Jacko. Nice little boat you got there.

No, no, no. Stay, boy, stay.

Yeah, it's all right, Mr Smith. Charley. Call me Charley.

After all, we're friends.

Yeah. Charley.

I just thought I'd come down and have a little chat.

You know, after all, you were a bit upset back there at the races.

You know me, Jacko. I can't stand to see a mate upset.

You're not pulling the birds these days, Jacko.

No. I got a bit fed up with them, you know? Yeah, I know.

Feeling a bit depressed.

Feeling like talking to somebody about it.

Well, like, to relieve your mind.

Like loosing off to the old lady?

Who, me? Why should I? I know, I know, I...

I get my depressions.

It's them headaches. Them blinding headaches.

They're terrible, Jacko.

Terrible.

I know just how you feel.

I'm all right, Charley. Honest.

You're sweaty, Jacko.

Here.

Why don't you and me go for a little trip?

Come on.

Hey, Jacko.

I want two of you round the back.

You're worried about him. You know something could be wrong

or you wouldn't be talking to me at all, would you, Mrs Wardle? No.

He paid off the mortgage on the house. Yes, I know.

He said he got it through investments.

And then recently we went abroad, we went to Portugal.

It was the three of us, my daughter, as well.

He'd never done anything like that before.

It was always Bournemouth.

That must have cost money, the trip to Portugal.

William paid all the bills.

I never asked him, I mean, I never asked him about money

because, well, he always saw to it.

He works very hard, you know, all hours. Very late.

Do you believe all that, Mrs Wardle?

Do you really believe he works late?

No.

No, I've not believed that for a very long time.

Guvnor? Excuse me.

These mean anything, guv?

What do you think they are?

Look like tickets to a car park. That's just what they are.

Frankly, Bill, I don't know how you do it at your age.

Thank you! Crawling home with the milk.

It's only four o'clock in the morning.

I'll have a lie in till seven. You're potty.

No. No.

Live for today, that's my motto.

I think I've done enough living for today.

Hello? Hello, Stella. Charley here.

'Charley, do you know what time it is?'

Yeah, yeah. Tell Romeo I wanna talk to him.

It's Charley Smith, he wants to talk to you.

Hello. Wardle here.

We think the law know the lot. Heck.

Well, how can they know? 'We can't be sure.'

But we've had a tail. Chances are you've had one, too.

Well, hang on a minute. 'Don't go and look!'

Listen to me, get yourself out of Stella's out the back way

and get here as soon as you can.

John and me have got a scheme to get you out, well, off the hook.

A few weeks' holiday. What do you mean? Out of the country?

'Once the law start sniffing, they'll get it sooner or later.'

That would involve us. Now you get over here soon as you can. OK?

If you say so. What about Jacko?

Don't worry about Jacko. Yes, but I do, see?

I mean, he's like the weak link.

Jacko has been well looked... well looked after.

Looked after?

What do you mean?

Is there a back way out of here? No.

What am I gonna do?

Take your trousers off.

All right, mate?

Heck.

It's five o'clock in the morning, Mrs Wardle.

Yes, I know that.

Is he usually this late?

Not usually.

Sometimes?

Not often as late as this.

May I use your phone?

Yeah, well, at least we're not the only people up.

'Oscar 2-4. Calling Oscar 2-4.'

Oscar 24.

'Instructions from Oscar 7, pick up suspect.'

OK. Will do.

Hey! Who do you think you are? Police!

Identification.

Where's Wardle?

Do come in, Sergeant Carter.

I don't know what you're talking about. I saw him come in.

He's a casual acquaintance. We meet occasionally. He comes, he goes.

Just save me the little girl lost routine, will you?

Where's your sugar daddy gone? I don't know. Out the window.

What do you mean? I'm not his psychiatrist.

If he chooses to leap out of my back window, that's his affair.

I could book you, you know? On what charge, may I ask?

All right. Did he say why he left in such a hurry?

Not to me.

You do realise you may be implicated in a major crime?

A man called Smith telephoned.

Smith? Charley Smith.

And you've no idea where Wardle's gone?

I find it pays to mind my own business on these occasions.

Taxi. Taxi!

Charley Smith blew in his ear and he aimed himself out the back.

If we'd had full surveillance... Yeah. I've got a general out on him.

I doubt he'll get too far. They'll pick him up. What's all this?

The basis of a gigantic fiddle.

This is how they got all that cash together.

You take your motor into a car park, you get one of these, right?

And when you come to collect it,

you pay so much for so many hours parking.

But Wardle didn't pay that into his bosses.

No, he had phoney tickets made

which stated that lower charges had been made.

He pocketed the difference. Clever.

And he brought all the real tickets back home to get rid of. Right.

I see now why Jacko had to be in on it.

Yeah, well, it wouldn't work with a straight ticket attendant.

They must have been making thousands.

They made so much, they didn't know what to do with it.

I wouldn't mind that problem.

Yeah, Wardle could think of all sorts of ideas for using it.

But he was too scared. His old lady knew nothing about it.

She thought he was doing a lot of overtime.

I'd do that kind of overtime any day.

I tell you what, guv, I've been doing this job for a few years,

I still don't understand why a bird like Stella needs to go on the game.

She doesn't need to, she likes it.

Morning, Polly!

What about Jacko? Disappeared.

Smiths got to him on time, then. Maybe.

What about the Smiths?

They saw our pair spending like it was going out of fashion,

knew they got it under the counter,

so they blacked him and took a half share.

Have you told Haskins? What, and wake him up?

Look what he's done to my pencil!

Hello, Mr Wardle. You do look nice.

My God.

Enid, is she... She's upstairs asleep.

Don't wake her, please. If you don't want us to.

Can I have a drink? It's your drink.

Would you join me?

Why not? Whisky.

Anything in it?

Here, why did you come back here?

I mean, the Smiths rang you, why didn't you go to them?

Cos I don't trust them. Would you?

Well, quite, but Jacko did and he's missing.

I know.

Well, everything comes to an end, doesn't it?

By the way, everything I have said, I will deny in court.

I mean, I can't afford to offend certain people,

I've got a wife and a daughter.

I owe them something.

All right. Anything you say... It's all right.

Why not cut and run? What? In those shoes?

Why come back here, then?

Well, it's over, isn't it?

Stella.

Stella.

£1,000 a week.

It's too much, isn't it?

Jacko said that.

Well, I've nothing to say.

Sorry, love.

There's no tail. I've been out there, looked everywhere.

They've sussed Barry, now they're onto us.

It was your idea to get Wardle here. So?

I wish you'd let me handle this. Not unless we have to.

Wardle's shrewd, if we let him out, he won't talk. Too much to lose.

No, this time I'm not listening to you.

No more thinking! No more orders! This time we do it my way.

Cos let's face it, boy, there's no more bread coming from that mug.

Use your bloody loaf! There's no need to do anything like that.

What was that?

Put it away! Wardle won't talk, I've told him!

You've told him! Well, what are they here for?

Charley, don't be a mug! Agh!

We are armed as well, you know, Smith?

All right.

Agh! Charley!

I should've guessed you'd play it like this.

What do you mean? You've nicked a conman, killed a psychopath,

and you've got absolutely nothing that his brief can't disprove.

Wardle may be a conman but this was a bloody big one.

Yes, indeed. He's not gonna shop the Smith brothers, is he?

Get a contract out on his wife and daughter?

You've ruined it, Jack.

We could've had them all if you'd been prepared to play it cool.

What about the girl, Stella? She owes you nothing.

She's got her good looks to think about.

Look, I did nick a villain, guv! And a pretty big one at that.

That wasn't the purpose of this particular game, Jack.

I shouldn't have to tell you that.

Screwed up my promotion chances, then, have I?

Is he on the turn again, guv?

The best-laid schemes of mice of men and all that.

Yeah, well, I know somebody else who's pondering on that right now.

Yeah, poor old Wardle.

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