1 00:00:30,686 --> 00:00:34,641 The gangland savages who redefined the word "evil." 2 00:00:34,646 --> 00:00:39,685 Tonight, underworld associates promise reprisals will be swift and bloody. 3 00:00:39,686 --> 00:00:42,480 And the man who condemned them, Judge Forrest Sweetland, 4 00:00:42,500 --> 00:00:44,345 is placed under armed guard, 5 00:00:44,346 --> 00:00:48,605 as Chinese assassins declare he'll be dead by morning. 6 00:00:50,146 --> 00:00:53,422 Good evening. A massive security operation has been launched 7 00:00:53,426 --> 00:00:58,480 at the home of the High Court judge in the so-called Bamboo Mafia trial... 8 00:01:05,246 --> 00:01:09,294 Okay. They very helpfully sent one set of these, 9 00:01:09,314 --> 00:01:11,802 so you'll have to pass them round. 10 00:01:11,806 --> 00:01:14,132 This is a character they'll probably use on a major hit, 11 00:01:14,152 --> 00:01:16,065 sometimes known as the Invisible Man, 12 00:01:16,066 --> 00:01:19,715 which I don't take to mean he'll be wearing bandages round his face. 13 00:01:19,786 --> 00:01:21,955 You see this one, take special care. 14 00:01:21,975 --> 00:01:24,144 He's one of these martial-art types. 15 00:01:24,146 --> 00:01:27,456 He'll break your spine in half with his foot as soon as look at you. 16 00:01:27,526 --> 00:01:32,025 However, if this merchant turns up, it's a whole different ball game. 17 00:01:32,026 --> 00:01:33,362 He's a suicide bomber. 18 00:01:33,382 --> 00:01:35,994 One tap on the shoulder, it could be goodnight, Vienna. 19 00:01:36,006 --> 00:01:38,015 Chief Inspector? - Yes, sir. 20 00:01:38,026 --> 00:01:40,742 My wife and I rather hoping to have an early night. 21 00:01:40,762 --> 00:01:42,958 I have to be up at six on the dot tomorrow. 22 00:01:42,966 --> 00:01:44,785 No problem Mrs. Sweetland. 23 00:01:44,805 --> 00:01:46,694 The lads will do one final sweep of your room, 24 00:01:46,706 --> 00:01:49,576 then we won't disturb you again until morning. 25 00:03:46,426 --> 00:03:47,964 I'm sorry, Ken. 26 00:03:47,984 --> 00:03:50,942 I can do you "what" and "where", but 27 00:03:51,006 --> 00:03:54,615 "how" is going to take a better brain than mine. 28 00:03:54,686 --> 00:03:57,559 It appears to have gone pretty much through the centre of the heart. 29 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:00,240 The wound's barely a millimetre in diameter, 30 00:04:00,306 --> 00:04:03,637 as if he'd been stabbed by... I don't know... 31 00:04:03,706 --> 00:04:05,742 a rapier or something. 32 00:04:05,806 --> 00:04:07,873 How about "when"? 33 00:04:07,893 --> 00:04:10,980 Well, if you're saying they heard it happen at six o'clock, 34 00:04:11,046 --> 00:04:14,579 any earlier, you wouldn't have seen this carpet for blood. 35 00:04:17,186 --> 00:04:21,518 Barred windows, solid walls, nothing that comes close to a murder weapon. 36 00:04:21,586 --> 00:04:24,817 What the hell are we looking at here? 37 00:04:26,106 --> 00:04:28,103 Hello? 38 00:04:36,866 --> 00:04:40,105 Who's been cutting their nails? 39 00:04:40,246 --> 00:04:43,735 If they have, it was a very blunt pair of scissors. 40 00:04:43,786 --> 00:04:48,074 This looks as if it's been ripped off someone's finger. 41 00:04:49,206 --> 00:04:52,903 You would not believe, Jonathan, how boring my life is at the moment. 42 00:04:52,906 --> 00:04:56,122 I've had bugger all of any interest for five weeks. 43 00:04:56,126 --> 00:04:59,675 Hardly the in-tray of a thriving crime writer. 44 00:04:59,846 --> 00:05:03,165 Who's Jason Tippet? - God knows. 45 00:05:03,166 --> 00:05:07,465 I got as far as he's an estate agent and fell into a narcoleptic trance. 46 00:05:07,466 --> 00:05:11,375 "I wonder if you'd be interested in collaborating with me 47 00:05:11,446 --> 00:05:14,624 "on a rather fascinating history I'm compiling 48 00:05:14,626 --> 00:05:17,678 "of a London hostelry called the Mother Redcap. 49 00:05:17,746 --> 00:05:20,624 "If convenient, I should very much like to ring you Monday evening..." 50 00:05:20,786 --> 00:05:24,761 I'd better put this answerphone on quick... 51 00:05:25,466 --> 00:05:29,222 3810546. - I'm dead. I've just been cremated. 52 00:05:29,226 --> 00:05:33,296 Yep. She's standing right next to me, Mr. Tippet. 53 00:05:33,466 --> 00:05:36,578 Hang on while I pass you over. 54 00:05:41,586 --> 00:05:46,025 Hello, Mr. Tippet. Yes, I did. I was just... 55 00:05:48,806 --> 00:05:51,198 Well, that's all right. 56 00:05:51,286 --> 00:05:53,955 Don't be silly. 57 00:05:53,975 --> 00:05:56,264 Why would I think that? 58 00:05:56,286 --> 00:05:58,773 Well, it pays to be careful. 59 00:05:58,793 --> 00:06:01,280 There are some odd people about. 60 00:06:01,346 --> 00:06:02,942 Forgive my scrappy letter. 61 00:06:02,962 --> 00:06:06,178 I'm not a writer, as you'll have gathered. 62 00:06:06,246 --> 00:06:09,561 That's why I'd love it if you'll help me out on this project. 63 00:06:09,566 --> 00:06:14,401 It's actually the most macabre mystery that goes back almost 50 years. 64 00:06:14,466 --> 00:06:16,065 And for my money, 65 00:06:16,085 --> 00:06:19,023 you're the one person in the country who can do it justice. 66 00:06:19,086 --> 00:06:20,985 You reckon? 67 00:06:21,166 --> 00:06:23,573 No, nothing I can't stay back in the freezer. 68 00:06:23,593 --> 00:06:24,980 What a nice idea. 69 00:06:24,986 --> 00:06:27,316 So, where are you thinking of going? 70 00:06:27,386 --> 00:06:30,477 Great. 71 00:06:30,546 --> 00:06:34,604 Okay. See you there, then. 72 00:06:34,666 --> 00:06:36,816 Bye. 73 00:06:37,086 --> 00:06:39,616 You're not serious? - What's your problem? 74 00:06:39,686 --> 00:06:41,371 Can't stand the competition? 75 00:06:41,391 --> 00:06:43,076 Excuse me, I need to run a bath. 76 00:06:43,096 --> 00:06:44,130 Competition? 77 00:06:44,150 --> 00:06:47,758 You don't know anything about him. He could be some sort of weirdo. 78 00:06:52,886 --> 00:06:55,336 Jonathan Creek? - Yeah. 79 00:06:59,626 --> 00:07:02,604 Fortunately, Jonathan, not everyone in life is a weirdo. 80 00:07:02,606 --> 00:07:07,726 We don't all live in windmills, thinking up ways to saw women in ha... 81 00:07:10,706 --> 00:07:12,897 Toodle-oo. 82 00:07:16,166 --> 00:07:19,055 I'm starting with the assumption that you know nothing of this place 83 00:07:19,056 --> 00:07:23,335 the Mother Redcap or what happened there in the mid 1940s. 84 00:07:25,446 --> 00:07:27,951 I don't quite know where you place it, 85 00:07:27,971 --> 00:07:32,296 under unsolved murders or very weird ghost stories. 86 00:07:32,426 --> 00:07:35,015 Amazingly, no one has ever written a book about it, 87 00:07:35,026 --> 00:07:38,323 which I rather hope the two of us, could put to rights. 88 00:07:38,386 --> 00:07:41,301 Now, I know exactly what you're thinking this minute. 89 00:07:41,321 --> 00:07:43,616 I suppose a fork's out the question, huh? 90 00:07:45,046 --> 00:07:48,883 I beg your pardon? - Sorry? 91 00:07:49,546 --> 00:07:53,965 Excuse me. Could you get me something with prongs? 92 00:07:54,466 --> 00:07:58,559 Obviously, the copyright, royalties, everything would be yours. 93 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:02,314 The research I could help with. I've already done quite a bit. 94 00:08:02,386 --> 00:08:05,958 As I said on the phone, the whole thing's so macabre. 95 00:08:05,978 --> 00:08:07,894 I don't really know where you start. 96 00:08:07,906 --> 00:08:11,001 At the beginning. Thanks. 97 00:08:12,986 --> 00:08:16,795 Ever since the man who owned and ran this place died, 98 00:08:16,866 --> 00:08:21,144 it was 1969, a man named William Ambergast, 99 00:08:21,146 --> 00:08:26,339 the old Mother Redcap pub in Edmonton has been property market poison. 100 00:08:26,346 --> 00:08:32,097 Whether it's superstition or what, but, I don't know. 101 00:08:32,586 --> 00:08:34,545 Would you buy a 100-year-old building 102 00:08:34,546 --> 00:08:39,176 where seven men were quite literally terrified to death? 103 00:08:48,066 --> 00:08:50,057 The way it's told, 104 00:08:50,126 --> 00:08:52,561 the first one, Mr. Clifford Jennings, 105 00:08:52,581 --> 00:08:55,016 managing director of a big clothing firm, 106 00:08:55,086 --> 00:08:57,914 was staying overnight with a lady friend 107 00:08:57,934 --> 00:09:01,782 in a special guest room that was kept for visitors. 108 00:09:03,006 --> 00:09:08,045 Round about midnight, he was preparing for bed. 109 00:09:35,666 --> 00:09:39,322 The death certificate said it was his heart. 110 00:09:39,366 --> 00:09:43,920 The truth was, no one knew what had killed him. 111 00:09:43,926 --> 00:09:49,417 The girl was convinced he'd seen something outside. 112 00:09:50,426 --> 00:09:55,438 "Something so utterly horrible, it set off the fatal seizure." 113 00:09:57,506 --> 00:10:01,699 Between 1947 and '51, there were five other cases, 114 00:10:01,866 --> 00:10:05,859 deaths which have never been explained from that day to this, 115 00:10:06,066 --> 00:10:07,734 all in the same room, 116 00:10:07,754 --> 00:10:11,718 all after they'd looked out of the window in the middle of the night. 117 00:10:11,738 --> 00:10:15,158 Not a mark or scratch on any of the bodies. 118 00:10:15,366 --> 00:10:19,622 No evidence they'd been poisoned or suffocated. 119 00:10:19,826 --> 00:10:23,739 Four of them were found on the floor the next morning. 120 00:10:23,806 --> 00:10:27,635 Three were actually seen at the moment of death, 121 00:10:27,706 --> 00:10:32,763 collapsing in what appeared to be a fit of mortal terror. 122 00:10:34,226 --> 00:10:37,360 So, what are you saying? 123 00:10:37,386 --> 00:10:39,382 Something appeared outside a window 124 00:10:39,402 --> 00:10:43,218 that frightened seven grown men to death? 125 00:10:44,326 --> 00:10:48,335 Why am I getting this image of George Formby on a ladder? 126 00:10:55,286 --> 00:10:59,698 Er, is there any chance at all you could tell me what this is all about? 127 00:10:59,866 --> 00:11:01,858 Sorry! 128 00:11:02,746 --> 00:11:05,938 Ken Speed, Chief Inspector. How do you do? 129 00:11:06,806 --> 00:11:10,462 Um sorry about the Neanderthal tactics of my two constables. 130 00:11:10,526 --> 00:11:13,040 They were under the impression they were bringing a suspect in. 131 00:11:13,106 --> 00:11:15,451 So I gather. I confessed to two armed robberies 132 00:11:15,471 --> 00:11:17,816 before we reached the first set of traffic lights. 133 00:11:17,826 --> 00:11:21,791 Now, I was having a beer the other week with DCI Janet Masterson. 134 00:11:21,806 --> 00:11:25,097 That locked-room business with Dr. Strange and the house of monkeys? 135 00:11:25,106 --> 00:11:27,189 Work of bloody genius, man. 136 00:11:27,209 --> 00:11:29,913 I thought, "If anyone could give us some pointers on this Sweetland thing, 137 00:11:29,933 --> 00:11:31,815 well, let's get him in." 138 00:11:31,906 --> 00:11:34,998 That Judge Sweetland? - That's right. 139 00:11:35,066 --> 00:11:38,078 About six o'clock this morning, he was found stabbed... 140 00:11:38,146 --> 00:11:42,825 God. Is that a lump coming up under there now? 141 00:11:43,526 --> 00:11:46,491 Tell me, does that feel swollen to you? 142 00:11:46,511 --> 00:11:47,986 Yeah. 143 00:11:48,006 --> 00:11:50,839 Right. Thank you, sweetheart. 144 00:11:50,906 --> 00:11:55,238 WPC Radnor, this is Mr. Creek, the chap I mentioned. 145 00:11:55,306 --> 00:11:56,348 You'll want to pull up a chair, 146 00:11:56,368 --> 00:11:59,392 and we'll take you through the grisly details. 147 00:12:02,446 --> 00:12:05,544 You're kidding? It's been like this since the '50s. 148 00:12:05,546 --> 00:12:09,081 Last year, we persuaded the brewery to let it go for a song at auction. 149 00:12:09,101 --> 00:12:11,516 Didn't even reach the reserve price. 150 00:12:11,586 --> 00:12:15,596 Lock's been forced again. 151 00:12:16,406 --> 00:12:20,540 I'm afraid it's a bit of a haven for vagrants. 152 00:12:24,066 --> 00:12:26,336 Be careful. - Yes. 153 00:12:34,206 --> 00:12:36,456 This is the room. 154 00:12:37,646 --> 00:12:41,595 Where seven men died of fright, 155 00:12:41,666 --> 00:12:44,924 looking out of this very window. 156 00:12:51,586 --> 00:12:53,777 Just kidding. 157 00:12:58,286 --> 00:13:01,305 I suppose it's all been redeveloped since then, is it? 158 00:13:01,646 --> 00:13:04,665 Just to make our lives even more diff.. 159 00:13:07,346 --> 00:13:09,343 Jason? 160 00:13:13,286 --> 00:13:15,278 Jason? 161 00:13:15,786 --> 00:13:17,777 Over here. 162 00:13:22,586 --> 00:13:24,162 What's the problem? 163 00:13:24,182 --> 00:13:26,038 Thing keeps cutting out. 164 00:13:26,046 --> 00:13:29,537 Really, a connection needs re-soldering. 165 00:13:37,546 --> 00:13:41,942 Now we come to the riddle of the torn-off nail found by the body. 166 00:13:42,006 --> 00:13:44,501 Have you got the blow-ups here, Fay? 167 00:13:46,346 --> 00:13:51,345 The question here being why would a self-respecting Chinese assassin 168 00:13:51,346 --> 00:13:54,856 let his fingernails grow nearly half-inch long? 169 00:13:55,166 --> 00:13:56,582 How are you feeling now? 170 00:13:56,602 --> 00:14:00,122 Yes. Better, now my heart's back inside my ribcage. 171 00:14:00,186 --> 00:14:02,031 I suppose it's right, what they say. 172 00:14:02,051 --> 00:14:04,841 She was just some old bag lady with a lungful of tar, 173 00:14:04,846 --> 00:14:08,141 but talk about turning up on cue. 174 00:14:08,146 --> 00:14:10,821 Be worth keeping tabs on, at any rate. 175 00:14:10,841 --> 00:14:13,516 In case it has a place in our story. 176 00:14:14,526 --> 00:14:17,779 Listen, I feel, all of a sudden... 177 00:14:19,046 --> 00:14:20,858 there's something about me you ought to know. 178 00:14:20,866 --> 00:14:22,278 What're you gonna tell me? 179 00:14:22,298 --> 00:14:25,762 You've got a month to live? Which is my sodding luck. 180 00:14:26,266 --> 00:14:28,443 It's more in the way of... 181 00:14:28,463 --> 00:14:31,957 I suppose you'd say an alternative lifestyle. 182 00:14:31,966 --> 00:14:35,859 Myself and a few friends I share a house with... 183 00:14:35,866 --> 00:14:38,914 Bit of a hippy on the quiet, are you? 184 00:14:38,934 --> 00:14:41,982 No, nothing like that. It's just... 185 00:14:44,906 --> 00:14:49,321 If you have any kind of problem with a man who practises nudism, 186 00:14:50,026 --> 00:14:53,262 now would be the time to say. 187 00:14:54,486 --> 00:14:56,977 Well, absolutely, I think it's wonderful. 188 00:14:59,226 --> 00:15:02,104 Seriously? 189 00:15:02,266 --> 00:15:05,664 Look, it's been a fascinating evening, one way and another, 190 00:15:05,666 --> 00:15:08,180 and we must get together and talk some more. 191 00:15:08,186 --> 00:15:12,559 Only I've just seen someone I know, so why don't you get off, 192 00:15:12,566 --> 00:15:15,419 and I'll give you a buzz tomorrow? 193 00:15:22,546 --> 00:15:24,537 Goodnight. 194 00:15:25,126 --> 00:15:26,923 Bye, Madeline. 195 00:15:42,006 --> 00:15:44,315 Yes, can I help you at all? 196 00:15:44,526 --> 00:15:45,583 The bloke in this room. 197 00:15:45,603 --> 00:15:46,940 What's he here for? What's going on? 198 00:15:46,946 --> 00:15:48,358 Look, if you're from the press, 199 00:15:48,378 --> 00:15:50,002 you'll have to go through the proper channels. 200 00:15:50,006 --> 00:15:51,316 I'm not from the press. 201 00:15:51,336 --> 00:15:53,496 My name's Madeline Creek and I'm that gentleman's wife. 202 00:15:53,506 --> 00:15:56,242 And I quite like to know what this is all about. 203 00:15:56,306 --> 00:15:58,112 So the deal, as I see it, is this. 204 00:15:58,132 --> 00:16:00,744 If I come up with a solution that leads to the killer's arrest, 205 00:16:00,746 --> 00:16:05,165 by next week, I'm highest new entry on the Tong's UK death list. 206 00:16:05,166 --> 00:16:07,025 Not much of an incentive, really. 207 00:16:07,026 --> 00:16:09,302 A couple of hours tomorrow morning, Jonathan, is all I asked. 208 00:16:09,322 --> 00:16:10,670 Have a bit of your wisdom. 209 00:16:10,690 --> 00:16:13,178 If I could pick you up about ten o'clock. 210 00:16:19,586 --> 00:16:20,767 What are you doing here? 211 00:16:20,787 --> 00:16:21,948 Well, what do you think? 212 00:16:21,968 --> 00:16:24,265 I'm worried sick about where you've got to. 213 00:16:24,266 --> 00:16:28,345 Come on. We'll grab a coffee. You can tell me all about it. 214 00:16:35,046 --> 00:16:38,283 Of course, technically, I'm retired. That's a joke! 215 00:16:38,346 --> 00:16:41,223 After the third bypass, they put me behind a desk, told me, 216 00:16:41,226 --> 00:16:44,123 "If you don't watch the stress levels, you could go at any moment." 217 00:16:44,186 --> 00:16:46,377 Well, of course, they're so short-staffed... 218 00:16:46,386 --> 00:16:48,217 You brainless little turd! 219 00:16:50,146 --> 00:16:53,006 I'll nick your Brylcreemed arse! 220 00:16:53,026 --> 00:16:54,705 Cor! Did you see that? 221 00:16:54,725 --> 00:16:56,524 Came straight out, didn't even look. 222 00:16:56,586 --> 00:16:58,803 On another planet, some of these people. 223 00:16:58,823 --> 00:17:02,160 Still, we're in good time, wouldn't you say? No hurry. 224 00:17:02,166 --> 00:17:03,974 Then you've got my daughter. Says she's gay. 225 00:17:03,994 --> 00:17:05,878 What's that all about? 226 00:17:05,946 --> 00:17:09,859 Expecting her first baby in a month, courtesy of the local sperm bank. 227 00:17:09,926 --> 00:17:11,576 What are they going to put on the birth certificate? 228 00:17:11,596 --> 00:17:13,601 "Father, some wanker"? 229 00:17:13,666 --> 00:17:15,765 God only knows what the world's coming to. 230 00:17:15,785 --> 00:17:17,864 Yes. Well... 231 00:17:17,866 --> 00:17:20,721 In a minute or two, we'll be able to ask him. 232 00:17:21,766 --> 00:17:24,324 Personally, I don't know what's left to look for. 233 00:17:24,386 --> 00:17:27,364 We turned the place inside out before and after. 234 00:17:27,426 --> 00:17:30,677 We've had body heat detectors, ultrasonics in here, the lot. 235 00:17:30,746 --> 00:17:34,043 And two of your officers were posted outside that door the entire night? 236 00:17:34,106 --> 00:17:36,265 From about 10.30 to 6am precisely. 237 00:17:36,266 --> 00:17:39,642 When they heard a disturbance, came in, to find the body. 238 00:17:39,706 --> 00:17:43,765 Which I think you said is what woke you up at the same time. 239 00:17:43,826 --> 00:17:47,136 Normally, I'm a very heavy sleeper, but I... 240 00:17:47,306 --> 00:17:50,598 The first thing I remember with any accuracy, 241 00:17:50,666 --> 00:17:54,645 the door's been flung open, the police were in here... 242 00:17:55,626 --> 00:18:01,438 And when I saw the blood... on her hand... 243 00:18:01,926 --> 00:18:07,162 Um... Sorry, just to fix it, 244 00:18:07,266 --> 00:18:11,542 he'd half-fallen out of bed about here... 245 00:18:12,166 --> 00:18:16,937 with a load of stuff from his table on the floor. 246 00:18:17,006 --> 00:18:21,335 If I remember from the photo, his clock, a glass of water, 247 00:18:21,406 --> 00:18:23,245 some papers and a table lamp. 248 00:18:23,246 --> 00:18:27,878 His clock, well there's another weird thing. The fact that when I... 249 00:18:27,886 --> 00:18:30,624 except that I obviously was dreaming. 250 00:18:30,626 --> 00:18:32,264 Dreaming, Mrs. Sweetland? 251 00:18:32,284 --> 00:18:35,142 It's all the worry of that night. 252 00:18:35,206 --> 00:18:39,135 It took me a while to drop off, and when I did, I kept waking. 253 00:18:39,146 --> 00:18:41,222 The first time, I remember quite clearly. 254 00:18:41,242 --> 00:18:43,698 I happened to open my eyes, 255 00:18:43,766 --> 00:18:48,237 and the clock there by his bedside said 5.10. 256 00:18:48,306 --> 00:18:51,386 I nodded off. I must have woken up again a while later, 257 00:18:51,406 --> 00:18:54,978 and this time, you'll think I'm mad 258 00:18:54,998 --> 00:18:58,524 it said 4.06. 259 00:18:59,026 --> 00:19:05,440 At the time, I'd swear it was real, but then how could it have been? 260 00:19:05,546 --> 00:19:08,524 Why are we all standing around pretending? 261 00:19:08,586 --> 00:19:11,723 There are only two explanations for my husband's death. 262 00:19:11,786 --> 00:19:16,481 Either somehow he did it to himself or I'm lying... 263 00:19:16,546 --> 00:19:19,160 because I was the only person in the room. 264 00:19:19,226 --> 00:19:22,875 I'm the only one who could possibly have killed him. 265 00:19:22,946 --> 00:19:27,039 If we take the evidence at face value, 266 00:19:27,106 --> 00:19:30,816 and fall into exactly the trap we're meant to fall into. 267 00:19:30,866 --> 00:19:33,536 I know we're all buying the fact that he was stabbed at six o'clock 268 00:19:33,556 --> 00:19:35,721 because that's when they heard the scuffle, 269 00:19:35,786 --> 00:19:37,461 and the fact that he'd barely started bleeding 270 00:19:37,481 --> 00:19:39,156 despite a wound through the middle of his heart. 271 00:19:39,166 --> 00:19:43,663 But, even if he was killed earlier, the question remains, 272 00:19:43,666 --> 00:19:48,078 how did the assassin get in here to do it, and then out again? 273 00:19:49,326 --> 00:19:51,214 Sorry? 274 00:19:51,234 --> 00:19:52,992 Er, no, I think you're missing the point. 275 00:19:53,006 --> 00:19:55,759 I mean, that question remains, but it's largely irrelevant. 276 00:19:55,826 --> 00:19:58,320 Implying what? 277 00:19:58,386 --> 00:20:00,997 Implying... 278 00:20:01,366 --> 00:20:06,223 there's a third explanation for what happened in this room 279 00:20:06,466 --> 00:20:11,476 that's so ingenious, we're not within a mile of seeing it yet. 280 00:20:28,006 --> 00:20:29,678 Morning. 281 00:20:29,698 --> 00:20:32,882 Someone said you did the PM on that old lady they brought in last night. 282 00:20:32,886 --> 00:20:34,822 I just wondered if you could say what she died of? 283 00:20:34,842 --> 00:20:37,058 No to you. That information's confidential. 284 00:20:37,066 --> 00:20:39,606 Of course it is. Shame. 285 00:20:39,626 --> 00:20:42,625 I suppose I'll just have to put these photographs in the post, then. 286 00:20:42,626 --> 00:20:45,256 Sorry about that. Bye. 287 00:20:45,686 --> 00:20:49,605 Just a minute. What photographs? 288 00:20:49,606 --> 00:20:51,109 Photographs, Mrs. Climpson, 289 00:20:51,129 --> 00:20:55,000 that I think might be of considerable interest to your husband. 290 00:21:04,626 --> 00:21:07,050 So, he's not really a Chelsea fan, then? 291 00:21:07,070 --> 00:21:09,074 Get out. 292 00:21:32,586 --> 00:21:35,222 Holy moley! 293 00:21:35,226 --> 00:21:38,094 You're kidding? When did you find that out? 294 00:21:38,106 --> 00:21:40,805 My God! 295 00:21:40,825 --> 00:21:44,263 And we thought this case was already complicated! 296 00:22:19,506 --> 00:22:21,210 What's that theory? 297 00:22:21,230 --> 00:22:23,745 That absolutely everything that happens in the world 298 00:22:23,746 --> 00:22:26,579 is somehow connected to everything else? 299 00:22:26,846 --> 00:22:28,732 I read an article once, 300 00:22:28,752 --> 00:22:32,064 that if a man breaks wind in Hounslow 301 00:22:32,126 --> 00:22:35,206 it can affect a hurricane in Java. 302 00:22:35,226 --> 00:22:37,044 In fact, I think I know the man they're talking about. 303 00:22:37,064 --> 00:22:39,303 Travels on the Circle Line. 304 00:22:43,306 --> 00:22:46,004 Did you tell that WPC you were my wife? 305 00:22:46,006 --> 00:22:48,156 Certainly not. 306 00:22:49,286 --> 00:22:51,641 Certainly NOT. 307 00:22:52,946 --> 00:22:55,840 So, come on then. How does all this fit together? 308 00:22:55,906 --> 00:22:58,501 Corpses with ripped-off fingernails. 309 00:22:58,566 --> 00:23:02,518 I'm going to have to put a poultice on my brain. 310 00:23:08,106 --> 00:23:12,376 You should never tumble-dry a cotton and linen mix. 311 00:23:14,486 --> 00:23:17,624 She wasn't a bag lady at all. 312 00:23:17,626 --> 00:23:22,277 She was Sweetland's cleaning woman, or someone with access to the house, 313 00:23:22,346 --> 00:23:25,882 who the gangsters paid to do the deed for them. 314 00:23:25,946 --> 00:23:28,401 And afterwards, to shut her up, 315 00:23:28,466 --> 00:23:33,023 they kill her and dump the body, suitably disguised, in this old pub, 316 00:23:33,086 --> 00:23:36,920 where no one'll find her till she's rotted beyond recognition. 317 00:23:39,306 --> 00:23:41,503 Pardon? 318 00:23:42,486 --> 00:23:44,245 Sorry? 319 00:23:44,246 --> 00:23:47,341 Is that all I get, contemptuous silence? 320 00:23:47,361 --> 00:23:49,536 Give me your mobile. 321 00:23:49,906 --> 00:23:53,666 And she got in and out of the room how? Astral projection? 322 00:23:53,686 --> 00:23:55,242 She was in one of the drawers under the bed. 323 00:23:55,262 --> 00:23:57,218 I don't know. That's your department. 324 00:23:57,286 --> 00:24:01,665 And if she was murdered, why does it says here she died of emphysema? 325 00:24:01,826 --> 00:24:03,901 And how could she have killed Sweetland two night ago 326 00:24:03,921 --> 00:24:06,316 when according to this, she'd been dead for at least a week. 327 00:24:06,386 --> 00:24:08,383 And why would they pick a 70-year-old asthmatic...? 328 00:24:08,403 --> 00:24:11,680 Yes, all right! You've made your point. 329 00:24:19,066 --> 00:24:22,245 This Mother Redcap thing, how does it go again? 330 00:24:22,246 --> 00:24:24,366 Seven men all died of fright? 331 00:24:24,386 --> 00:24:26,741 While looking out the window, that's the story. 332 00:24:26,746 --> 00:24:29,739 Hi, Jason. It's Maddy. I got your message. 333 00:24:29,746 --> 00:24:32,943 I'd love to come round for coffee. That'll be great. 334 00:24:32,946 --> 00:24:35,425 I'm sorry we keep missing each other. 335 00:24:35,426 --> 00:24:37,284 There's been quite a few amazing developments 336 00:24:37,304 --> 00:24:40,942 which I'll fill you in on tomorrow. Bye. 337 00:24:44,626 --> 00:24:49,204 Look, it all happened 50 years ago, and it's probably apocryphal anyway. 338 00:24:49,206 --> 00:24:52,039 One's fact, one's folklore. I don't see the relevance. 339 00:24:52,106 --> 00:24:55,022 You don't, but obviously the killer did. 340 00:24:55,026 --> 00:24:57,856 You're losing me, Jonathan. 341 00:24:59,866 --> 00:25:04,383 Fifty years ago, Mother Redcap, seven baffling deaths in a bedroom. 342 00:25:04,386 --> 00:25:08,237 This week, Judge Sweetland, baffling death in a bedroom. 343 00:25:08,246 --> 00:25:10,537 What are you saying? 344 00:25:11,706 --> 00:25:15,643 That the people there were all murdered 345 00:25:15,663 --> 00:25:21,424 using some clever method that's now also been used to kill Sweetland? 346 00:25:21,626 --> 00:25:23,783 Except their deaths couldn't be explained. 347 00:25:23,803 --> 00:25:26,280 Your guy we know was stabbed through the heart. 348 00:25:26,286 --> 00:25:28,572 A single, clean puncture, through the right auricle, 349 00:25:28,592 --> 00:25:32,598 unaccompanied by any peripheral tearing or tissue damage... 350 00:25:33,226 --> 00:25:36,642 which suggests there was no resistance. 351 00:25:37,006 --> 00:25:41,265 And yet he brushed all that stuff off his table onto the floor. 352 00:25:41,266 --> 00:25:43,295 No resistance? 353 00:25:43,315 --> 00:25:46,513 Which means he must have been stabbed while he was asleep. 354 00:25:48,489 --> 00:25:50,985 I've got a horrible feeling it doesn't mean that at all. 355 00:25:50,986 --> 00:25:55,742 I just wish I could get a fix on that clock she said had gone backwards. 356 00:25:55,746 --> 00:25:57,282 What are you on about? 357 00:25:57,302 --> 00:25:59,758 When are you seeing your estate agent chum? 358 00:25:59,826 --> 00:26:01,825 Tomorrow at 11. Why? 359 00:26:01,845 --> 00:26:03,864 Get him to fill out the whole story, 360 00:26:03,926 --> 00:26:07,502 as much as he knows, about the guy who ran the pub, the victims, 361 00:26:07,506 --> 00:26:12,916 their backgrounds, the exact details of how each one died. 362 00:26:15,406 --> 00:26:18,485 Somewhere in this place... 363 00:26:18,686 --> 00:26:21,375 everything's telling me... 364 00:26:21,786 --> 00:26:25,664 lies the truth behind Sweetland's murder. 365 00:26:26,846 --> 00:26:30,282 And it's got sod all to do with a fingernail. 366 00:26:49,266 --> 00:26:52,642 Hi. Welcome to our weird and wonderful world. 367 00:26:52,706 --> 00:26:54,804 I've told everyone all about you, 368 00:26:54,824 --> 00:26:58,042 but I know they're dying to see you in the flesh. 369 00:27:06,766 --> 00:27:09,800 This is really, really nice. 370 00:27:10,186 --> 00:27:12,677 God, aren't you lucky? 371 00:27:14,306 --> 00:27:15,862 So long as... 372 00:27:15,882 --> 00:27:19,534 I suppose there's a danger you could just chuck yourself off? 373 00:27:19,546 --> 00:27:23,938 People call you a recluse because they love labels. 374 00:27:23,986 --> 00:27:27,525 You know, I go into a shop or a pub or a restaurant, 375 00:27:27,586 --> 00:27:29,064 and they're all pointing, going, 376 00:27:29,084 --> 00:27:32,762 "There's that bloody recluse again. Fed up to serve him." 377 00:27:32,766 --> 00:27:35,255 It's deeply disturbing. 378 00:27:37,406 --> 00:27:40,341 What are they like? I don't know. 379 00:27:40,646 --> 00:27:42,937 This looks smashing. 380 00:27:50,366 --> 00:27:53,678 So, tell me about you, what made you become a copper? 381 00:27:53,686 --> 00:27:56,395 Both of my brothers were already in the force. 382 00:27:56,466 --> 00:27:58,882 They more or less twisted my arm. 383 00:27:59,466 --> 00:28:02,738 Sound a right pair of bastards. 384 00:28:03,566 --> 00:28:06,844 They were both killed on duty by an axe murderer. 385 00:28:10,066 --> 00:28:13,503 There's some Parmesan there if you want it. 386 00:28:26,706 --> 00:28:29,866 I was just saying to Gareth and Pauline, 387 00:28:30,666 --> 00:28:32,885 the moment we first spoke on the phone 388 00:28:32,905 --> 00:28:36,521 and I don't know if you sensed it, and it may be too strong a word 389 00:28:36,541 --> 00:28:40,136 but a certain er... simpatica. 390 00:28:40,866 --> 00:28:44,654 Most people, I think we find this, can be terribly judgemental 391 00:28:44,666 --> 00:28:48,305 about a lifestyle they simply don't understand. 392 00:28:50,426 --> 00:28:51,541 Yes. 393 00:28:52,541 --> 00:28:54,741 Yes, right. 394 00:28:55,326 --> 00:28:58,548 At the moment, you're being held on suspicion of murder, 395 00:28:58,568 --> 00:29:01,159 so I think it'll be well- advised if you just... 396 00:29:01,926 --> 00:29:04,704 Good. So can we take that as a confession? 397 00:29:04,766 --> 00:29:07,230 Yes, right, well just make yourself at home 398 00:29:07,250 --> 00:29:09,714 in there for a day or two and bear with us. 399 00:29:09,786 --> 00:29:12,002 That'd be smashing. 400 00:29:12,346 --> 00:29:15,516 And no miraculously disappearing through the walls this time, 401 00:29:15,536 --> 00:29:17,201 if you wouldn't mind. 402 00:29:17,266 --> 00:29:20,082 Our job's hard enough as it is. 403 00:29:20,726 --> 00:29:23,845 I mean I'm sorry, but that is a serious turn-off, 404 00:29:23,846 --> 00:29:26,266 if you can't keep your tongue in your mouth while you're eating. 405 00:29:26,286 --> 00:29:28,225 Right out it came each time, 406 00:29:28,226 --> 00:29:32,314 with it's revolting scooping action, like a giant iguana or something. 407 00:29:32,316 --> 00:29:36,718 Listen, you're lucky you only had a tongue to look at. 408 00:29:36,786 --> 00:29:39,364 Let's just put it down as nil-nil on the score sheet, 409 00:29:39,384 --> 00:29:40,513 shall we, and move on? 410 00:29:40,516 --> 00:29:42,711 What I have got is everything you ever wanted to know 411 00:29:42,731 --> 00:29:44,926 about the Mother Redcap and the people who died here, 412 00:29:44,946 --> 00:29:47,121 plus, he said the power should be on now. 413 00:29:47,126 --> 00:29:49,610 So we can see what we're looking for. 414 00:29:49,630 --> 00:29:51,894 What ARE we looking for? 415 00:30:02,466 --> 00:30:04,700 Victim number five, 416 00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:09,574 Mr. Gordon James Chapman, age 53. 417 00:30:09,606 --> 00:30:11,135 A merchant banker. 418 00:30:11,155 --> 00:30:15,326 Same as three and four, dead on the floor the next morning. 419 00:30:15,386 --> 00:30:18,717 No evidence of any human intervention. 420 00:30:18,718 --> 00:30:21,903 Found him lying there with just a towel around his waist. 421 00:30:22,066 --> 00:30:25,681 As if he'd come out of the bath, gone over to the window and just 422 00:30:25,746 --> 00:30:30,018 died of shock or whatever it was. Am I talking to myself? 423 00:30:30,106 --> 00:30:34,096 Plenty of woodworm and a fair old bit of fungus. 424 00:30:35,266 --> 00:30:37,557 What the hell is it? 425 00:30:39,846 --> 00:30:42,737 Yeah, sorry. Number six. 426 00:30:42,986 --> 00:30:46,523 Number six. Yeah. 427 00:30:46,543 --> 00:30:49,200 Got a picture of this one. 428 00:30:50,186 --> 00:30:55,222 Sir Michael Pritchett QC. That was his last entry in the family album. 429 00:30:55,326 --> 00:30:57,621 You'd think word would have got round by now, wouldn't you, 430 00:30:57,626 --> 00:31:02,940 or you'd think the publican, Mr. Ambergast, would put a sign up. 431 00:31:02,946 --> 00:31:07,222 "Caution. Do not gaze out..." What? 432 00:31:07,646 --> 00:31:09,821 What have you spotted? 433 00:31:09,841 --> 00:31:11,596 Shoes. 434 00:31:11,626 --> 00:31:14,676 Over by the chest of drawers. 435 00:31:15,946 --> 00:31:17,325 So? 436 00:31:17,345 --> 00:31:20,594 The last guy you said, Chapman, had just come out the bath, 437 00:31:20,606 --> 00:31:22,365 and all of them were getting ready for bed, 438 00:31:22,385 --> 00:31:24,564 so it's a fair bet that when they died, 439 00:31:24,584 --> 00:31:26,764 each one of them would have been... 440 00:31:26,826 --> 00:31:28,544 Yes... 441 00:31:28,706 --> 00:31:30,263 Clever. I'll give him that. 442 00:31:30,283 --> 00:31:31,760 It wouldn't work every time, but... 443 00:31:31,766 --> 00:31:33,852 Hang on. Who are we talking about? 444 00:31:33,872 --> 00:31:35,445 Ambergast? 445 00:31:35,446 --> 00:31:38,797 You think he'd deliberately lured people up here to bump them off? 446 00:31:38,806 --> 00:31:40,996 And the amazing thing is, no one tumbled it, 447 00:31:41,016 --> 00:31:43,196 because there's nothing to suggest a crime had been committed. 448 00:31:43,206 --> 00:31:45,521 They would swallowed that tosh about dying of fright. 449 00:31:45,526 --> 00:31:48,175 Bearing in mind, three of them were actually seen 450 00:31:48,195 --> 00:31:51,364 convulsing with horror, supposedly, as they looked out. 451 00:31:51,366 --> 00:31:54,534 Doesn't that point you in any definite direction? 452 00:31:54,546 --> 00:31:57,877 Especially when you look at all the things it couldn't have been. 453 00:31:57,946 --> 00:32:00,365 What was that Sherlock Holmes said to Watson? 454 00:32:00,385 --> 00:32:02,184 "Get your kit off and give us a kiss"? 455 00:32:02,186 --> 00:32:06,693 Exactly. Which leaves us with only one possibility. 456 00:32:06,706 --> 00:32:08,239 Which is? 457 00:32:08,306 --> 00:32:09,779 Why do you think there's no evidence 458 00:32:09,799 --> 00:32:11,742 of any woodworm in this skirting board 459 00:32:11,762 --> 00:32:13,705 when the floor here is riddled with it? 460 00:32:13,706 --> 00:32:15,803 Pass. 461 00:32:16,066 --> 00:32:18,626 Stay right where you are. 462 00:32:18,786 --> 00:32:21,233 What are you looking for now? 463 00:32:21,253 --> 00:32:23,700 I don't know till I've found it. 464 00:32:25,046 --> 00:32:28,104 I still can't get over that other, you know? 465 00:32:28,266 --> 00:32:33,759 If you were looking for the quickest way to destroy any sense of mystique, 466 00:32:33,826 --> 00:32:39,842 I think opening the door stark bollock naked would do it every time. 467 00:32:39,906 --> 00:32:41,181 Got you. 468 00:32:41,201 --> 00:32:44,396 What if there been a wasp out there or something? 469 00:32:44,466 --> 00:32:47,965 Mistaken it for a sprig of buddleia? 470 00:32:48,666 --> 00:32:52,825 I can tell you, you wouldn't catch me dabbing on his Savlon. 471 00:32:52,886 --> 00:32:55,725 Ooh, put me right off. 472 00:32:55,786 --> 00:32:59,083 The things people get up to in pr... 473 00:33:06,166 --> 00:33:07,645 Jonathan? 474 00:33:21,286 --> 00:33:24,578 What are we doing in this sodding place?! 475 00:33:24,646 --> 00:33:28,543 I think I'm ready to go home now, Jonathan. 476 00:33:28,706 --> 00:33:31,764 Solution or no solution. 477 00:33:31,826 --> 00:33:36,124 I'm afraid I draw the line at bubonic plague. 478 00:33:38,226 --> 00:33:40,517 Don't go near the window! 479 00:33:44,206 --> 00:33:46,442 I'm sorry. 480 00:33:46,846 --> 00:33:49,037 God! 481 00:33:49,806 --> 00:33:52,276 I could have killed you. 482 00:34:12,826 --> 00:34:15,715 What the hell happened there? 483 00:34:15,886 --> 00:34:19,178 The same thing as happened to those seven guys... 484 00:34:19,186 --> 00:34:22,000 and nearly happened to you. 485 00:34:22,226 --> 00:34:24,917 It's been electrocuted. 486 00:34:27,526 --> 00:34:29,960 That's not woodworm in those boards... 487 00:34:31,446 --> 00:34:35,739 They're the holes for a set of tiny metal pins, 488 00:34:35,906 --> 00:34:38,795 just very slightly proud of the surface. 489 00:34:38,806 --> 00:34:40,997 Can you see? 490 00:34:43,506 --> 00:34:46,379 Step on those in your bare feet... 491 00:34:48,126 --> 00:34:50,317 You're kidding? 492 00:34:50,646 --> 00:34:55,303 For a 50-year-old booby trap, it still works surprisingly well. 493 00:34:56,326 --> 00:34:58,556 Come on. 494 00:35:05,866 --> 00:35:08,782 You've got a lever here, evidently, 495 00:35:08,802 --> 00:35:11,718 which raises and lowers the pins... 496 00:35:12,526 --> 00:35:16,721 and a switch here, on and off. 497 00:35:19,926 --> 00:35:22,401 And that's how he did it? 498 00:35:37,226 --> 00:35:42,221 Well, beats Sweeney Todd into a cocked hat. 499 00:35:44,146 --> 00:35:47,935 But... how do we put this together 500 00:35:47,955 --> 00:35:51,744 with the murder of Judge Sweetland? 501 00:37:12,926 --> 00:37:14,917 That's the one. 502 00:37:14,986 --> 00:37:17,003 He followed me up the road last Thursday, 503 00:37:17,023 --> 00:37:21,060 and made himself scarce when he saw all the police cars outside the house. 504 00:37:21,226 --> 00:37:23,842 Okay. 505 00:37:24,546 --> 00:37:28,682 That's very useful, Mrs. Sweetland. 506 00:37:29,266 --> 00:37:31,244 Have you got a moment and come and have a cup of tea? 507 00:37:31,264 --> 00:37:33,922 I think Mr. Creek has got something to tell us. 508 00:37:34,466 --> 00:37:37,441 Sorry to rake this all over yet again, 509 00:37:37,461 --> 00:37:40,436 but last night, about 2:00 in the morning, 510 00:37:40,506 --> 00:37:43,942 a load of stuff suddenly came into focus, 511 00:37:44,006 --> 00:37:45,944 and I finally got 512 00:37:45,964 --> 00:37:50,180 I don't know, a sense of the whole thing in context. 513 00:37:50,726 --> 00:37:54,196 Are you okay? - Just get on with it. 514 00:37:54,726 --> 00:37:57,412 Sometimes what looks really sinister to start with 515 00:37:57,432 --> 00:37:59,398 turns out to be frighteningly normal. 516 00:37:59,406 --> 00:38:01,765 Something like the time on the clock 517 00:38:01,785 --> 00:38:04,144 that appears the wrong way around 518 00:38:04,146 --> 00:38:07,263 with a glass of water in front of it. 519 00:38:07,426 --> 00:38:09,070 It's pretty safe to assume, I think, 520 00:38:09,090 --> 00:38:12,518 that the first time you opened your eyes that night and looked across, 521 00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:15,980 the time was actually twenty past one. 522 00:38:17,906 --> 00:38:20,658 Only, because you were seeing it through the water, 523 00:38:20,678 --> 00:38:23,084 the display was reversed, 524 00:38:23,106 --> 00:38:25,701 and it read ten past five. 525 00:38:25,766 --> 00:38:27,416 Between then and the next time you look, 526 00:38:27,436 --> 00:38:30,446 your husband has taken a sip of water and put the glass back, 527 00:38:30,466 --> 00:38:32,485 only this time not in front of the clock, 528 00:38:32,505 --> 00:38:36,763 so you see the correct time, 4.06. 529 00:38:38,286 --> 00:38:40,285 So... 530 00:38:40,666 --> 00:38:45,805 the clock had nothing to do with the murder at all. 531 00:38:45,806 --> 00:38:47,645 Alternatively, Mrs. Sweetland, 532 00:38:47,665 --> 00:38:50,583 it might have had everything to do with the murder. 533 00:38:50,646 --> 00:38:52,338 God help us. 534 00:38:52,358 --> 00:38:56,082 If I get through this one alive, it'll be a miracle. 535 00:38:56,946 --> 00:38:59,941 Cutting to the quick, we face two questions. 536 00:38:59,966 --> 00:39:02,445 How was your husband stabbed by an assailant 537 00:39:02,446 --> 00:39:05,174 who appeared to have spirited himself into the bedroom like Dracula, 538 00:39:05,194 --> 00:39:07,038 and then out again. 539 00:39:07,106 --> 00:39:08,836 And what the hell has an old bag lady, 540 00:39:08,856 --> 00:39:10,566 whose fingernail was found in the carpet, 541 00:39:10,586 --> 00:39:14,057 got to do with the murder of a High Court judge. 542 00:39:15,486 --> 00:39:18,841 According to the description in this report... 543 00:39:19,986 --> 00:39:24,502 Mr. Sweetland put up no resistance... 544 00:39:24,566 --> 00:39:29,136 to the blade or rapier or whatever it was when he was stabbed, 545 00:39:29,166 --> 00:39:32,702 suggesting the attack took place when he was asleep. 546 00:39:32,706 --> 00:39:35,361 But then how do we explain the apparent struggle 547 00:39:35,426 --> 00:39:38,919 and the way he'd knocked all that stuff off his table? 548 00:39:40,226 --> 00:39:44,839 So let's run, for a minute, with a different hypothesis. 549 00:39:45,006 --> 00:39:51,280 That he was stabbed through the heart after he'd been murdered. 550 00:39:53,466 --> 00:39:56,980 And now we're looking for a different cause of death entirely, 551 00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:58,837 something a bit less obvious, 552 00:39:58,906 --> 00:40:04,264 that would be totally overlooked next to a knife wound in the chest. 553 00:40:04,426 --> 00:40:06,918 Enter Mr. William Ambergast, 554 00:40:06,938 --> 00:40:09,962 a thoroughly unpleasant character in the 1940s, 555 00:40:10,026 --> 00:40:14,438 who electrocuted his victims at a London pub called the Mother Redcap. 556 00:40:14,506 --> 00:40:16,724 Electrocuted? 557 00:40:16,926 --> 00:40:21,358 I'd been lying there, trying to squeeze the mechanics of it out of my brain. 558 00:40:21,426 --> 00:40:24,044 How do you put an electric current through someone in such a way 559 00:40:24,064 --> 00:40:26,603 that no one would ever realised what happened? 560 00:40:26,666 --> 00:40:29,526 You'd need to rig something up in his bedroom, 561 00:40:29,586 --> 00:40:32,100 something you knew he was going to touch 562 00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:34,634 that was connected to a power point, 563 00:40:34,706 --> 00:40:38,279 that looked entirely harmless. 564 00:40:43,646 --> 00:40:46,538 If it hadn't been for that thing about time going backwards, 565 00:40:46,558 --> 00:40:49,534 I'd probably would never have latched on to it. 566 00:40:49,566 --> 00:40:54,681 On to the frightening simplicity of a clock that had been carefully sabotaged 567 00:40:54,746 --> 00:40:58,636 so the alarm button actually becomes live. 568 00:40:59,766 --> 00:41:03,097 So that when he goes to hit it... 569 00:41:03,946 --> 00:41:07,221 at 6am precisely... 570 00:41:16,566 --> 00:41:19,175 And I'm afraid everything that follows, 571 00:41:19,195 --> 00:41:22,624 follows directly from that one basic premise. 572 00:41:22,746 --> 00:41:27,501 If Mr. Sweetland was killed by an electrified clock at 6am, 573 00:41:27,666 --> 00:41:32,442 and less than 15 seconds later was found with a stab wound through his heart, 574 00:41:32,506 --> 00:41:36,562 there was only one possible explanation... 575 00:41:36,926 --> 00:41:40,201 and only possible killer. 576 00:41:48,086 --> 00:41:52,505 God. Fay. 577 00:41:54,066 --> 00:41:58,561 A quick trawl through the news services filled in the gaps. 578 00:41:58,846 --> 00:42:02,780 The man who slaughtered both your brothers, 579 00:42:02,946 --> 00:42:06,844 decapitating one with an axe, 580 00:42:07,146 --> 00:42:10,283 and then himself being killed in a police shoot-out, 581 00:42:10,346 --> 00:42:13,424 had previously been released on bail, 582 00:42:13,444 --> 00:42:16,522 pending another charge for assault. 583 00:42:16,866 --> 00:42:22,215 Their deaths would never have happened if that man had still been in custody. 584 00:42:22,966 --> 00:42:25,157 It was a bum decision... 585 00:42:25,226 --> 00:42:30,465 but did it really give you the right to murder the judge who made it? 586 00:42:37,926 --> 00:42:40,760 Well, I couldn't believe it, could I? 587 00:42:42,906 --> 00:42:46,979 When I found I'd been rota'd on the protection detail. 588 00:42:50,746 --> 00:42:53,783 My first thought was, "To hell with it." 589 00:42:53,946 --> 00:42:55,882 Just produce a gun. 590 00:42:55,902 --> 00:42:58,358 Hang what they did to me. 591 00:42:58,426 --> 00:43:04,439 That's how much I wanted to blow his trendy, progressive brains away. 592 00:43:09,546 --> 00:43:12,037 Then something happened... 593 00:43:14,046 --> 00:43:17,037 about a week beforehand... 594 00:43:19,306 --> 00:43:22,013 showed me I could be more... 595 00:43:22,033 --> 00:43:25,020 creative than that. 596 00:43:59,646 --> 00:44:02,082 Okay. All right. Up you go. 597 00:44:02,526 --> 00:44:04,956 My finger's caught. 598 00:44:09,966 --> 00:44:12,461 Just caught. 599 00:44:14,666 --> 00:44:16,497 There it goes. 600 00:44:17,066 --> 00:44:20,042 I said I'd try and get her in a hostel somewhere, 601 00:44:20,062 --> 00:44:21,680 but she wasn't interested. 602 00:44:21,746 --> 00:44:24,041 This was her home. 603 00:44:24,106 --> 00:44:27,039 I decided to stay with her for a few minutes, 604 00:44:27,106 --> 00:44:29,356 during which I got her life story 605 00:44:29,426 --> 00:44:33,021 and the story of that place, Mother Redcap. 606 00:44:33,486 --> 00:44:38,076 It turned out as a young girl in the '40s, she'd actually worked there... 607 00:44:38,226 --> 00:44:40,521 and not as a barmaid. 608 00:44:42,246 --> 00:44:46,425 A room upstairs was basically a knocking shop. 609 00:44:46,666 --> 00:44:51,083 Discreet service with professional gentlemen of the day... 610 00:44:53,006 --> 00:44:56,262 with the additional grisly sideline you know about. 611 00:44:57,806 --> 00:45:00,825 Seems several of these blokes' wives coughed up a lot of money 612 00:45:00,826 --> 00:45:04,118 to have their husbands conveniently disposed of. 613 00:45:05,606 --> 00:45:09,894 What it did... set me thinking. 614 00:45:12,886 --> 00:45:15,177 If I was clever... 615 00:45:16,826 --> 00:45:19,325 I could do this... 616 00:45:19,525 --> 00:45:22,224 and get away with it. 617 00:45:24,106 --> 00:45:27,002 Required some special expertise... 618 00:45:27,502 --> 00:45:30,598 but of course I knew just who to go to for that. 619 00:45:36,586 --> 00:45:38,950 The deal was done. 620 00:45:38,970 --> 00:45:41,748 They fixed me up with a duplicate clock, 621 00:45:41,768 --> 00:45:44,037 suitably modified. 622 00:45:44,906 --> 00:45:49,147 And to throw everyone off, I was taught how to use one of their more... 623 00:45:49,167 --> 00:45:51,594 sophisticated devices. 624 00:45:54,986 --> 00:45:57,584 Earlier in the day, I'd made the switch, 625 00:45:57,604 --> 00:46:01,522 knowing it would be easy enough to swap them back later. 626 00:46:02,486 --> 00:46:06,779 At six o'clock, when we heard the noise... 627 00:46:40,226 --> 00:46:44,465 My God, you're proud of what you did to him. 628 00:46:46,706 --> 00:46:48,424 You murdering...! 629 00:47:07,026 --> 00:47:09,242 My God. 630 00:47:09,262 --> 00:47:11,698 Someone call an ambulance. 631 00:47:17,506 --> 00:47:20,638 Chief Constable Peter Grisham paid tribute to what he called 632 00:47:20,658 --> 00:47:24,982 Mr. Speed's incomparable intellect and powers of deductive analysis. 633 00:47:24,986 --> 00:47:28,456 His window Marjorie could cherish with pride the memory of a husband 634 00:47:28,526 --> 00:47:31,957 whose lasting memorial, he said, was the resolution 635 00:47:32,026 --> 00:47:35,248 of one of the most complex and apparently baffling murders 636 00:47:35,268 --> 00:47:37,219 in police history. 637 00:47:37,226 --> 00:47:39,717 And now let's take a look at the weather. 638 00:47:40,606 --> 00:47:44,440 No, I'm impressed, I must say. 639 00:47:44,486 --> 00:47:48,641 'Cause it wouldn't have mattered a toss to him who got the credit, 640 00:47:48,661 --> 00:47:52,816 but you, Mr. Self-Effacing Softie, knew what it would mean to her. 641 00:47:52,826 --> 00:47:56,144 It almost makes up for you being such an anal-retentive smart-arse 642 00:47:56,146 --> 00:47:59,636 who never gets absolutely anything wrong, not matter what he does. 643 00:47:59,706 --> 00:48:03,557 Now... what have we here? 644 00:48:13,366 --> 00:48:16,544 How is it? - Bliss. 645 00:48:16,546 --> 00:48:19,958 Utter... pure... bliss. 646 00:48:19,966 --> 00:48:23,885 I've finally found something you are crap at, food. 647 00:48:23,886 --> 00:48:27,642 This is absolutely horrible! 648 00:48:27,686 --> 00:48:31,037 The worst Caesar salad I have tasted in my life ever, bar none. 649 00:48:31,106 --> 00:48:34,776 Urgh! - Maybe I overdid the raw egg. 650 00:48:34,786 --> 00:48:38,481 Raw? You're supposed to wait until the chicken's laid it! 651 00:48:38,546 --> 00:48:39,736 Didn't anyone ever tell you, 652 00:48:39,756 --> 00:48:42,389 the first rule of preparing lettuce, take off the slugs? 653 00:48:42,409 --> 00:48:45,364 What are you talking about, slugs? They're anchovies. 654 00:48:45,384 --> 00:48:48,340 Look, get your coat. We'll go down to the chippie.