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Dribble it!

2
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Tackle him, Martin!

3
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Darrel, keep your position.

4
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You're a winger, not a guitarist!

5
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Pass.

6
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Gary, shoot!

7
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Shoot, Gary! Shoot!

8
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'It's Miriam Hamborough,
Mrs Mosscrop. It's about Harry.

9
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'It's his voice. I've had him
inhaling balsam, but it does no good.

10
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'His lower register's knackered...'

11
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'His lower register's knackered,
and his arpeggios...'

12
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That's the fourth, with five days
to go before the final, leaving six.

13
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We saw the poster. Only a few
posters are within reach of vandals.

14
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If it IS a vandal defacing them...

15
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..and not the nameless nobbler
marking his success on every corner.

16
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Don't worry.
Vanity defeats the criminal.

17
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Just take the notes, Geoffrey.

18
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I'll do the theories.
..Shall we start at the beginning?

19
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The Blainthorp Music Festival has
been going 50 years. I'm the organiser.

20
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A great responsibility. Huge!

21
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You must find someone scary enough
to keep mothers out of the judges' eyeline!

22
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What are the prizes?
Usually certificates.

23
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But this year we have
the Golden Voice Competition.

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£500 in prize money,

25
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and a career beckons... says our
sponsor. Hardiman's Herbal Healing.

26
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You've done your homework
on that poster.

27
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Finalists have already been given

28
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Hardiman's herbal preparations for nose and
throat in cut-glass crystal with gold stoppers.

29
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The winner gets to promote the range
on radio and TV.

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You think a competitor is nobbling
the others? You're the detective.

31
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It's not up to me what to think. You're
the client. You're entitled to an opinion.

32
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Mr Hardiman's the client. I'm to
take you to him if I'm satisfied...

33
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..which I am. Thank you.

34
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Mr Hardiman was born
the year the Festival started.

35
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By the time he was 15, he'd won 12
certificates with distinction and 10 cups.

36
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Born in this house? Oh, no.

37
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As he likes saying, he's of humble stock. Not that
you could use the word "humble" of Mr Hardiman.

38
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He bought this 15 years ago,
when he married.

39
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There's a Mrs Hardiman, then?
Was. She left.

40
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We'll use the kitchen entrance. He's
left it open. Nobody uses the front.

41
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He began with a nasal inhaler

42
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that could shift industrial-strength
catarrh. It all grew from that.

43
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Herbal? Of course! It's all herbal.

44
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People will buy anything these days
as long as there are herbs involved.

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He'll be waiting in his office.

46
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He doesn't use much of the house
since Mrs Hardiman left.

47
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What's under the sheets?
Armour, mainly.

48
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I've had a tape
of the finalists made.

49
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Each bit is reduced to ten seconds.

50
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♪ I, through my sorrows... ♪

51
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Harry Hamborough. Baritone. Teaches
geography at the comprehensive.

52
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I have to wipe him off the tape now.

53
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Beverly Prendergast.
Soprano, single mother, student.

54
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Works part-time
in a hairdressing salon.

55
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♪ Where the flying fishes play... ♪

56
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Simon Letby. Bass baritone.
You don't have to worry about him.

57
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Why not? Farmer. Doesn't need
the money. Anyway, he's a friend.

58
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In the Poirot books, it's always the
best friend who commits the crime.

59
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Glenda Jason. Contralto.

60
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A furnace of passion
with a husband in a wheelchair.

61
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That's not fair. Gossip never is.

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♪ Pie Jesu

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♪ Domine

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♪ Dona eis... ♪

65
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Brian Borrowmere. Boy treble.
He does a lot of competitions.

66
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There's something about that boy
worries me.

67
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♪ Dona eis requiem. ♪

68
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I'll put me finger on it eventually.

69
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I always do.

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Rita Locheed. Mezzo, single,

71
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fashion buyer for a big store.

72
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There's your passionate furnace.

73
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Nah. She puts it about.
She's not banked up like Glenda.

74
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♪ Oh, ruddier than the cherry
Oh, sweeter than... ♪

75
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And last, Les Maynard.
..Bass.

76
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Works for an estate agent.

77
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♪ Moonshine night...
bright and merry. ♪

78
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Prime suspect, in my view.

79
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Why? No talent. Couldn't win
without nobbling the rest.

80
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If it IS nobbling.
It might actually be a virus.

81
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I do have some medical knowledge.

82
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Find me a virus
which only strikes finalists.

83
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But it's not simple nobbling.

84
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There's no pattern.

85
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They'd have been practising.
They'd all be anxious.

86
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They could have over-strained.
I like a lad to think for himself...

87
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if he keeps his mouth shut!

88
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I won't have my associate insulted.
We don't have to accept this case.

89
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No, but you will. The supergran
sleuth doesn't refuse a challenge.

90
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It's five days until the final.

91
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200 a day plus reasonable expenses.

92
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Free board and lodgings provided here
at the manor. I've a home and husband.

93
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Get him over
if you think you need a chaperone.

94
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I'm hiring a detective,
not a call girl.

95
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May I ask you to fetch my husband?

96
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Geoffrey and I
will be needed in Blainthorp.

97
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I'll make a list of things for him
to bring. Fingerprint powder?

98
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Underwear. A nightie, of course.
And something for Geoffrey.

99
00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:05,200
Mrs Mosscrop will take you there.

100
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Pick a couple of rooms
and wait for us.

101
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Is the festival a full-time job? Three weeks a year.
My degree is in media studies. I can't expect better

102
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The rest of the time, I live with
my grandfather. He's a herbalist.

103
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It depends, Robert...

104
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A herbalist? Like Mr Hardiman?

105
00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:31,640
Most unlike. Grandad's a proper
herbalist. He prescribes.

106
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Hardiman's herbal humbug
you can buy over the counter.

107
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I can't say more.

108
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Don't annoy me. There's nothing
on the allotment that can't wait.

109
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I'd like the finalists' addresses.

110
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Even the ones who have withdrawn?

111
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Particularly those ones.

112
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If I was making the opposition lose their power
of speech, a lost voice would be my best disguise.

113
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At the last minute, I'd "find" what was
never lost and sail through on wings of song.

114
00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:09,360
They've withdrawn.

115
00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:13,520
What's to stop them re-entering?
The rules.

116
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Don't muddle me with facts.

117
00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:20,200
Is this one of your finalists here?

118
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Brian Borrowmere comes in most days. He listens
to the classes, gets to know what the judges like.

119
00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:29,880
Competitions are his life... Brian?

120
00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:37,920
This lady's a private detective. She wants to interview
the finalists. You've saved her a ride to Rochdale.

121
00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:41,040
I've just seen you on video tape...

122
00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:44,000
singing beautifully. Thank you.

123
00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:47,840
How d'you get here from Rochdale?

124
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Mother brings me in the Mercedes. Drops me off,
picks me up again. It's not really inconvenient.

125
00:10:56,200 --> 00:11:00,080
Have you had any trouble
with your voice lately?

126
00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:05,760
A touch of laryngitis? Anyone given
you sweets with a funny taste?

127
00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:11,800
I never have trouble with my voice,
eat sweets or take strangers' gifts.

128
00:11:11,840 --> 00:11:16,280
I'm always extremely careful.
That is why I succeed.

129
00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:23,440
If you'll excuse me, the open entry
traditional ballads has just begun.

130
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How can he lose?

131
00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:37,720
We might as well start
with the closest.

132
00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:42,960
That's the... hairdressing salon
and the estate agent's.

133
00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:51,640
Mr Maynard? Right.

134
00:11:51,680 --> 00:11:54,720
Have you come to view?

135
00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:58,760
I've come to see you.
Shall we go in?

136
00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:01,640
It'll be a bit more private.

137
00:12:01,680 --> 00:12:07,000
You didn't make the sale, then?
How can you tell? Body language.

138
00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:11,040
Here is the light and airy
entrance hall.

139
00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:15,880
You don't mind the patter?
It's good to keep me hand in.

140
00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:21,160
They call me Des res Les, but I've
not even moved a caravan lately.

141
00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:23,800
You're Mr Hardiman's prime suspect.

142
00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:25,280
Why?

143
00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:28,040
You need money and have no talent.

144
00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:31,440
That's his opinion.
I wouldn't know.

145
00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:36,280
I need money, but I wouldn't be
in the final if I was no good.

146
00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:39,600
But it's true, I'm not the best.

147
00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:46,360
If you want to see the rest of the house,
I'll show you. If not, piss off.

148
00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:51,280
You're a student? Yeah. Where?

149
00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:55,960
Open University. I can't
go away to study with a young kid.

150
00:12:56,000 --> 00:13:03,000
How can you study singing by correspondence?
I don't. It's pharmacology. Me mum does it.

151
00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:06,720
It's secure,
and you're always in demand.

152
00:13:06,760 --> 00:13:11,640
But I heard if you win...
I'll turn professional if I win.

153
00:13:11,680 --> 00:13:17,160
That's where me heart is, singing.
Pharmacology's just to fall back on.

154
00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:22,360
You've heard about the others? Have
you had trouble with your voice?

155
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You what?!

156
00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:30,080
She asked if I've lost me voice.
Why? Is she deaf?!

157
00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:33,680
No. She's a private detective.
Well...

158
00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:36,360
It takes all sorts.

159
00:13:36,400 --> 00:13:43,120
Pharmacist... means people come to you asking
about their ailments? When I'm qualified.

160
00:13:43,160 --> 00:13:46,400
If you wanted to make people
lose their voices,

161
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what would do the trick? She's going to be
the Golden Voice. I've got a fiver on her!

162
00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:57,320
Really?
And she's studying to be a chemist.

163
00:13:57,360 --> 00:14:02,840
A damned sight more sense
than poncing about with a camera,

164
00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:05,880
spying on folk who want a divorce.

165
00:14:05,920 --> 00:14:10,920
I try and help people get well,
not make them ill.

166
00:14:10,960 --> 00:14:12,960
Of course.

167
00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:20,760
Who God hath joined together, let
no private detective put asunder.

168
00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:22,880
Ignore her.

169
00:14:22,920 --> 00:14:27,160
Would they cancel the competition?
I don't think so.

170
00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:32,720
It means so much to me to win,
and I really have a chance. Yes.

171
00:14:38,640 --> 00:14:42,520
I feel as if
I'm being manipulated...

172
00:14:42,560 --> 00:14:47,520
Will the food be long? ..Pushed
one way to stop me looking another.

173
00:14:47,560 --> 00:14:51,520
I noticed a sign
for "gourmet cuisine".

174
00:14:51,560 --> 00:14:56,560
If one nobbled the others and
then won for want of competition,

175
00:14:56,600 --> 00:15:00,480
we'd know he or she was the nobbler.
You're right.

176
00:15:00,520 --> 00:15:03,360
.. "Dinner parties a speciality." Mm?

177
00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:05,880
I expect he's gone there.

178
00:15:05,920 --> 00:15:09,960
How's it done?
Find out, and we know who it is.

179
00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:13,840
Eileen Hargreaves' face swelled up.

180
00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:16,480
She still looks like a beetroot.

181
00:15:16,520 --> 00:15:23,120
The others have just got coughs, sneezes,
sore throats that anybody could get.

182
00:15:23,160 --> 00:15:25,200
But nobody has.

183
00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:28,240
It may be a different motive. What?

184
00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:33,920
Someone out to spoil the festival.
Why? It's been going for 50 years.

185
00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:36,800
Not with prizes and promotions.

186
00:15:36,840 --> 00:15:40,760
A business rival
might be out to scupper...

187
00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:43,800
He hasn't got any business rivals.

188
00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:46,320
It says on the label

189
00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:48,920
Hardiman's Herbal Healing is unique.

190
00:15:53,520 --> 00:15:58,120
An enemy, then. Somebody doesn't
like him... He's back!

191
00:15:59,120 --> 00:16:01,240
Move over.

192
00:16:02,440 --> 00:16:06,720
We'll never get through
everyone who doesn't like him!

193
00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:13,280
Pie and chips.

194
00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:17,000
Northern food...
for northern folk.

195
00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:20,960
No bread?! No afters?!

196
00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:23,560
I brought lettuce if you want salad.

197
00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:28,480
Men don't eat salad.
Only women and poofs eat salad!

198
00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:33,280
My wife ate salad.
You don't need plates.

199
00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:44,360
When did she leave, your wife?
What's it to you? I'm not a suspect.

200
00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:47,800
Only making conversation.

201
00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:55,760
It must be ten years ago. She
wasn't right after the boy was born.

202
00:16:55,800 --> 00:17:00,160
Some postnatal rubbish.
Nothing pleased her.

203
00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:03,360
Good riddance to them both.

204
00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:06,400
She took your son? Why not?

205
00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:11,640
Sickly little devil. He could never
have run a business like mine.

206
00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:16,120
You're not eating.
I think I'd like some salad.

207
00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:35,200
You going out again?

208
00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:37,960
The car's done 80 miles since Monday.

209
00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:42,440
Checking up on me?
You bet your miserable life I am.

210
00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:46,480
Worried I'll find
a toy boy or something?

211
00:17:46,520 --> 00:17:50,680
More likely "something".
Even toy boys have pride.

212
00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:56,120
To find a man without pride is bound
to put a few miles on the clock.

213
00:17:56,160 --> 00:18:00,920
I might be late again tonight.
Don't wait up.

214
00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:29,800
This is good.
What's the extra taste?

215
00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:32,280
Berberis and aquilegia.

216
00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:37,040
Aquilegia...
A plague cure which never worked.

217
00:18:37,080 --> 00:18:41,600
No valerian?
D'you want to be put to sleep?!

218
00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:44,560
If I can prepare you to take over,

219
00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:48,200
< I'd go to sleep happily
and never wake up.

220
00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:52,240
- Who is this Betty Maincrop?
- Hetty Wainthropp.

221
00:18:52,280 --> 00:18:57,400
She's a private detective... Could
we start? I may have to go out.

222
00:18:58,440 --> 00:19:01,080
I'm a 65-year-old woman with asthma.

223
00:19:01,120 --> 00:19:06,920
Me voice is going because of the
beclamethasone I'm taking for asthma.

224
00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:09,520
What do you prescribe?

225
00:19:09,560 --> 00:19:14,840
Hardiman's herbal linctus
Don't wind me up, lad.

226
00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:17,440
It's all herbs, isn't it?

227
00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:23,160
What herbs?! Two drops of menthol
and let the problem solve itself.

228
00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:28,640
- "Help the disease cure itself."
- I say that out of knowledge.

229
00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:32,840
With Oliver Hardiman,
it's pig ignorance.

230
00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:37,600
My hope is
whoever's doing it will stop

231
00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:40,240
when they know we have a detective.

232
00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:45,320
Mrs Mosscrop said you were a whizz
at these competitions yourself.

233
00:19:45,360 --> 00:19:47,960
I was. A boy wonder!

234
00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:50,920
I was all set for music school.

235
00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:55,560
Then I started getting
more colds than were good for me.

236
00:19:55,600 --> 00:20:00,000
I realised the potential
for nose and throat remedies.

237
00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:05,600
There are more blocked snouts
in Lancashire than pie and chips.

238
00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:08,920
And you stayed with pie and chips.

239
00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:32,920
♪ La la la la la la la la... ♪

240
00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:49,960
Oh no, Leslie!

241
00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:55,320
You can't get a cold now,
when we need the money so bad.

242
00:20:56,480 --> 00:21:01,560
Geoffrey was asking
who's this mystery celebrity judge?

243
00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:07,360
I wish I knew. From Dame Sutherland
down, they keep refusing. Oh, aye?

244
00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:20,720
It was the smallest bedroom
I could find.

245
00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:22,760
Dust.

246
00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:29,720
We needn't draw the curtains of
the four-poster... unless we want to.

247
00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:36,800
I haven't even found the bathroom.

248
00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:39,680
Aria from "Carmen"

249
00:21:57,640 --> 00:21:59,680
Aaaagh!

250
00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:14,120
Don't the neighbours ever complain
about how you react to spiders?

251
00:22:18,120 --> 00:22:21,680
Would you stand
where the burglar stood?

252
00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:27,680
Standing where I am, what was
the first thing you noticed?

253
00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:33,240
A hat with a feather. Big... like
a plume of smoke twirling round.

254
00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:36,600
And a huge lace collar.

255
00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:39,240
Lots of it. Very pretty.

256
00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:42,080
Sounds like Prince Rupert!

257
00:22:42,120 --> 00:22:44,600
How did he get in here?

258
00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:51,080
She hadn't locked up properly
because... because you hadn't gone yet.

259
00:22:51,120 --> 00:22:55,000
What happened next? He turned...

260
00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:57,640
and shone his torch on me.

261
00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:00,080
I was dazzled.

262
00:23:00,120 --> 00:23:03,600
He ran off downstairs.

263
00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:06,520
Hardiman? Did you see his face?

264
00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:12,720
I don't know. I must have, but...
it wasn't a proper face.

265
00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:16,960
It all happened so fast.
Change places.

266
00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:20,440
Les Maynard's lost his voice.

267
00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:26,200
We're down to five. I may win yet.
Close your eyes.

268
00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:30,120
Open.

269
00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:32,520
Describe the face you saw.

270
00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:37,600
Cat-like... Smiling.

271
00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:40,960
How tall? About your height.

272
00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:45,480
One hand out
towards the bathroom cabinet.

273
00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:49,560
There's nothing in here of value.

274
00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:53,560
The presentation case.
That's valuable!

275
00:23:53,600 --> 00:24:01,320
Cut glass with 18-carat-gold trimmings. It's meant
to be handed down from one generation to another.

276
00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:08,600
Have you used any of these yet?
No. I'd no reason.

277
00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:14,040
Then you can take that scarf off.
You're not losing your voice.

278
00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:16,760
Don't touch these.

279
00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:24,240
Get me the presentation case of a finalist who HAS
lost his voice. Les Maynard. He's just withdrawn.

280
00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:31,080
You can phone the rest of the finalists and
warn them not to use Hardiman's herbal cures.

281
00:24:31,120 --> 00:24:35,920
Hang on! I assume you have
a lab somewhere in your factory

282
00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:40,760
that can analyse the contents
of Les Maynard's presentation case.

283
00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:45,080
Ammonium phosphate.

284
00:24:45,120 --> 00:24:49,920
Ammonium sulphate. That's a lot
of ammonium you've got there.

285
00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:54,440
Is it that choking stuff
that's in smelling salts?

286
00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:59,160
Potassium metabi...
Oh, isn't science wonderful?

287
00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:01,680
I told you, she's at work.

288
00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:07,360
Who'd have thought you could make
wine from bananas and marigolds?

289
00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:11,200
What's this?
Birch sap... It's a hobby.

290
00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:14,120
It'd have to be. Who drinks it?

291
00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:19,760
Me and Glenda... on cold
winter nights, in front of the fire.

292
00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:23,920
She's had no voice trouble?
It's top class.

293
00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:31,920
She'll walk away with a cup, and she'll be singing
for our supper. Those radio jingles for chest rubs.

294
00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:36,720
Hardiman's Herbals proudly presents
Glenda Jason...

295
00:25:47,120 --> 00:25:50,360
Down to five.
Seems so.

296
00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:54,600
- Me grandson says you need money.
- I do.

297
00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:57,080
Good luck, then.

298
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:06,800
With only five finalists left, and two of
them present when the Cavalier attempted...

299
00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:11,200
..Leaves three, one of which
is a twelve-year-old boy.

300
00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:15,240
So it's Beverly Prendergast
or Glenda Jason?

301
00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:20,000
Beverly's studying pharmacy,
so she knows about medicines.

302
00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:23,800
And Glenda's house is
chock-full of chemicals.

303
00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:25,520
Interesting.

304
00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:31,120
The burglar dresses as a Cavalier,
and Mr Hardiman's name is Oliver.

305
00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:37,600
Maybe Oliver beat this Cavalier person
in a singing contest at Marston Moor!

306
00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:42,440
Just concentrate on the fry-up,
will you, Robert?

307
00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:48,040
The Cavalier costume's easy. Floppy
clothes, feathers so you look tall.

308
00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:54,320
Better than a polo neck and a Balaclava
at hiding feminine bits and pieces.

309
00:26:54,360 --> 00:26:58,160
What about Rita?
She says it was a warning,

310
00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:01,560
and if she competes
she'll be punished.

311
00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:06,200
Down to four. Can't have that.
Talk her round.

312
00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:10,960
It's on local radio. It can't be.

313
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:15,080
I'm a shareholder.
Was... They had fun with it.

314
00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:18,840
We must delve into Hardiman's past.

315
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:21,480
There were scrapbooks in his office.

316
00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:28,120
We need to find out where around
here you'd go to hire a theatrical costume.

317
00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:33,560
We'd better adjourn this meeting
to his office before he gets back.

318
00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:47,080
Don't tell me you don't know. Who released
that information to radio without my sanction?

319
00:27:47,120 --> 00:27:52,480
It's not a secret.
Everybody in Blainthorp knows.

320
00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:58,840
..There's that poster where
someone is crossing off the faces.

321
00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:03,880
He's got everything from age eight.
He went all over, like Brian.

322
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:06,440
Theatrical costume. See Fancy dress.

323
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:11,280
He won it all. If he didn't win,
he didn't keep the programme.

324
00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:13,960
Fancy dress. There's hundreds!

325
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:17,000
Manchester. Preston. All over.

326
00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:22,120
Medieval mantles from Macclesfield
with guaranteed genuine fake fur!

327
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:25,040
He had a restricted repertoire.

328
00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:28,680
I don't know where to start.
The nearest!

329
00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:34,720
Pie Jesu, Pie Jesu... Something
is tickling my memory buds.

330
00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:37,360
Horse coming! Out!

331
00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:54,480
I've had the report from the lab.

332
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:59,720
There is no alien substance in
Les Maynard's herbal preparations.

333
00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:08,960
Could they have done
the analysis too quick?

334
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:15,080
My technical team has been working
flat out. They've double-checked.

335
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:19,040
Since your team
is back at first base,

336
00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:22,920
perhaps you'd like
to get on with your work!

337
00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:32,560
♪ Is it not sweet
to hear the breeze singing...

338
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:37,400
♪ As lightly it comes
on the deep, rolling sea? ♪

339
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:42,600
Watch it! The sibilant "S" s
are creeping in again.

340
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:47,480
I'll be late again tonight.

341
00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:51,160
You'll be the death of me.

342
00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:54,680
Mmm.

343
00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:59,040
- Lucky heather.
- Thank you!

344
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:02,080
Don't let the buggars get you down!

345
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:03,760
Edna!

346
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:08,360
I'll be in there
rooting for you, baby!

347
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:11,400
If only we had enough singers left,

348
00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:16,920
the publicity would be wonderful
for putting bums on seats.

349
00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:21,720
What about your celebrity judge?
Nobody's nobbled HIM, I trust?

350
00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:24,040
Her.

351
00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:30,960
We had trouble finding one and ended up with
the resident contralto from the Winter Garden.

352
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:35,360
She's cancelled
because of the bad publicity.

353
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:39,200
I'll get on me way.
You've a lot to do.

354
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:47,440
Sorry I'm late.
Errands for Grandad.

355
00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:52,760
She's talking about protection
for the remaining finalists.

356
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:57,240
I don't know how,
with just one scooter!

357
00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:14,560
What class is this?
12 to 16. Songs from the shows.

358
00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:17,200
All waiting to perform?

359
00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:19,240
Nervous?

360
00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:25,800
Think as you go in that door, "I'll
enjoy it, even if they don't."

361
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:37,680
What are you going to sing? I'm not. It wouldn't be
fair on the others when I'm a Golden Voice finalist.

362
00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:40,640
Also, my mother doesn't want me to.

363
00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:45,000
She finds adult emotions
sung by children sick-making.

364
00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:51,000
Does your dad throw up easily, too?

365
00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:55,160
I don't know.
He hasn't lived with us for years.

366
00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:57,480
How many years?

367
00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:01,960
It doesn't come up in conversation.

368
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:05,000
Stop that!
What?

369
00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:11,200
Winding Georgina up just before she
has to go on. It's almost cheating.

370
00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:13,920
Pardon me for living

371
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:24,960
There's a poster in the office...
"When did you last see your father?"

372
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,440
My son had the jigsaw.

373
00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:30,880
I've been wondering

374
00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:33,360
when you last saw yours.

375
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:39,520
I'm never rude to older people. One
never knows when one might need them.

376
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:44,080
So I'll just say au revoir
for the present.

377
00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:46,680
I'm sure I'll see you around.

378
00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:55,080
Excuse me

379
00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:13,520
Where's she gone?

380
00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:19,320
She helps out behind the bar at the
Green Bay Tree and does a cabaret.

381
00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:23,400
We've come to protect her.
It isn't necessary.

382
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:26,440
They're all friends there.

383
00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:30,200
Come in for a glass
of home-made wine.

384
00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:33,800
Oh... thank you.

385
00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:38,120
Not for Geoffrey. He's driving.
Thank you.

386
00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:44,440
It must get a bit lonely
with Glenda out.

387
00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:47,040
I know where she is.

388
00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:51,680
What time does she leave
the restaurant? About 11.

389
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:57,320
But sometimes she's a bit late
getting back, I dare say?

390
00:33:57,360 --> 00:34:01,240
She was late last night.
How do you know?

391
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:03,920
Has someone been talking?

392
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:07,120
It's no business of anyone else's.

393
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:11,480
You want to keep it quiet?
I don't want any talk.

394
00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:13,640
Who would?

395
00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:15,680
Trust me.

396
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:24,080
Not in front of the lad.
Oh, right.

397
00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:26,680
Geoffrey, would you wait outside?

398
00:34:26,720 --> 00:34:29,320
What?! Do as you're told.

399
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:53,200
She'd seen some play...
in Manchester...

400
00:34:53,240 --> 00:34:57,840
at a cultural evening
with the town's Women's Guild.

401
00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:02,600
It were about husbands and wives
pretending to be other people...

402
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:08,200
lovers, toy boys...
scuba divers.

403
00:35:08,240 --> 00:35:12,840
It were all pretence,
but it raised the temperature.

404
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:17,920
She and me were going through
a rough patch. We gave it a whirl.

405
00:35:19,240 --> 00:35:21,720
And ever since... So...

406
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:27,760
she comes home late...
and pretends you're her lover?

407
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:30,320
It goes all through the day.

408
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:33,200
YOU'RE married. Maybe you understand.

409
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:36,360
Well...

410
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:41,200
What I can't get into my head
is how you could know.

411
00:35:41,240 --> 00:35:44,720
Who told you? Nobody.

412
00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:47,240
I was just fishing.

413
00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:53,280
If you'd said she always comes home
on time, I'd have believed you.

414
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:56,800
♪ I'd sacrifice anything
Come what might

415
00:35:56,840 --> 00:36:00,160
♪ For the sake of having you near
In spite...

416
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:04,200
♪ of a warning voice
that comes in the night

417
00:36:04,240 --> 00:36:07,080
♪ And repeats and repeats in my ear,

418
00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:11,960
♪ "Don't you know, little fool,
you never can win?

419
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:15,600
♪ "Use your mentality!

420
00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:19,160
♪ "Wake up to reality!"

421
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:23,640
♪ But each time that I do
Just the thought of you...

422
00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:26,440
♪ makes me stop...

423
00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:30,800
♪ before I begin

424
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:39,520
♪ Cos I've got you... ♪

425
00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:42,000
Hey! I want a word with you.

426
00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:46,640
You're late. We had ours in town.

427
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:52,400
May I use your study? I'd like
to have a look at your scrapbooks.

428
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:56,800
I had to rescue your husband
from a police cell. Eh?

429
00:36:56,840 --> 00:37:00,680
He's a bit the worse for wear.
I'm OK.

430
00:37:00,720 --> 00:37:03,080
Just a misunderstanding.

431
00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:07,160
Robert! You get on
with what you have to do!

432
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:09,240
I'd rather.

433
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:22,360
Beat you up, did they?
I should never have tried to run.

434
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:32,920
Cocoa.

435
00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:40,960
What's this North-West Young Singer Of The Year
Competition? It wasn't a festival as such. More important.

436
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:48,840
That's when everyone decided
that I had a career in music.

437
00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:53,200
Oliver Hardiman...
Pie Jesu yet again.

438
00:37:53,240 --> 00:37:56,160
D'you ever see the other finalists?

439
00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:04,680
Eric Leavesden, Mary Ann Winterbottom,
Ethel Warders, Michael Morone...?

440
00:38:04,720 --> 00:38:07,160
Too long ago.

441
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:10,400
So much has happened since.

442
00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:12,600
Yes.

443
00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:21,360
We're going home.

444
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:24,000
Giving up on the job? I'm not.

445
00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:28,800
There will be no more trouble
before the final.

446
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:31,440
I shall be at that, of course.

447
00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:37,400
I should like you to invite a few
people round here afterwards. Why?

448
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:42,840
That's how it's done in the Poirot
books. He gathers all the suspects

449
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:45,480
and puts his finger on the murderer.

450
00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:48,400
I've not had the opportunity before.

451
00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:53,120
I'll pop round to Les Maynard's
to pick up some toothpaste.

452
00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:57,280
You're not so green
as you're cabbage-looking.

453
00:38:57,320 --> 00:39:00,000
Nothing like, Mr Hardiman.

454
00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:06,400
I'd take it kindly if you'd give
Robert a lift. Pleased to.

455
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:12,080
And there's just one thing
I'd like you to do for me.

456
00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:25,080
♪ Upon the e-e-earth

457
00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:27,800
♪ Upon the earth

458
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:31,680
♪ I know...

459
00:39:31,720 --> 00:39:36,000
♪ that my redeemer liveth

460
00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:39,800
♪ And he shall stand... ♪

461
00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:55,640
♪ But my kindness shall not be bound

462
00:39:55,680 --> 00:40:00,040
♪ But my kindness... ♪

463
00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:19,800
♪ Pie Jesu

464
00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:23,560
♪ Pie Jesu

465
00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:27,680
♪ Domine

466
00:40:27,720 --> 00:40:32,000
♪ Dona eis

467
00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:37,040
♪ Dona eis

468
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:45,080
♪ Sempi ternam requiem

469
00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:53,400
♪ Sempi ternam requiem. ♪

470
00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:12,640
You're looking at yourself
at his age, aren't you?

471
00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:15,320
He's your son.

472
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:20,160
That being so,

473
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:22,920
I shouldn't give him the prize.

474
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:38,320
And the cup and the cheque for £500
goes to...

475
00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:41,760
Miss Beverly Prendergast!

476
00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:46,480
Well done!

477
00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:59,680
Don't worry, lad. You don't need a cup.
You've the Hardiman empire to inherit.

478
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:09,120
Mostly, it was
to do with wrong trails.

479
00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:13,960
I never really believed
one of the finalists was nobbling.

480
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:20,760
But I did swallow the idea that the bottles in
the presentation cases were being spiked. Why?

481
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:23,680
A competitor trying to damage you.

482
00:42:23,720 --> 00:42:26,680
We have no competitors in the area.

483
00:42:26,720 --> 00:42:29,640
Someone trying to show you up, then.

484
00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:36,680
Someone who doesn't believe that
Hardiman's Herbal Healing actually heals.

485
00:42:36,720 --> 00:42:44,280
What caused them to lose their voices, Mr Hardiman?
How should I know? Aren't you a herbs expert?

486
00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:46,320
Mr Slater?

487
00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:51,360
It has to be something
like xin yi leaf, a Chinese herb.

488
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:56,800
In substantial amounts, it causes
inflammation of the nose and throat.

489
00:42:56,840 --> 00:42:59,680
Over how long? A week or so.

490
00:42:59,720 --> 00:43:07,440
I give it homeopathically - in tiny doses to
stimulate the body's defences against hay fever.

491
00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:13,880
How would you give it in large
amounts without anybody knowing?

492
00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:17,400
Add it to something
with a strong taste...

493
00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:23,320
tea caddy, instant coffee...
Home-made wine? If you like.

494
00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:29,080
Make a tincture and inject it
into the mixture... Toothpaste?

495
00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:33,920
Les Maynard's wife has dentures,
so she doesn't use it.

496
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:40,000
Does your grandson have access to
this herb and know its properties?

497
00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:46,040
It's me that has no use for this
quack, Hardiman, not me grandson.

498
00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:50,200
Are you saying you did it?
I'm not saying I didn't.

499
00:43:50,240 --> 00:43:53,760
A tinpot herbalist
in a country town.

500
00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:57,000
I'll ruin you. OK, Oliver Cromwell.

501
00:43:57,040 --> 00:44:02,160
You can bully your way around
Blainthorp, but I'm in charge here.

502
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:08,320
Mr Slater was never the Cavalier.
Breaking and entering at his age?!

503
00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:11,320
You're enjoying this. Of course.

504
00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:17,960
Shall I go round with more champagne?
Not yet. I'm just reaching the best bit.

505
00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:23,520
Step forward the wardrobe mistress
of the Blainthorp Amateur Operatic,

506
00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:27,240
AKA Mary Ann Winterbottom.

507
00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:32,640
Is this the bit when
the criminal makes a run for it?

508
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:34,120
You!

509
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:38,640
Me.

510
00:44:38,680 --> 00:44:42,680
"When did you
last see your father?"

511
00:44:42,720 --> 00:44:45,160
Cavaliers and Roundheads.

512
00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:48,600
Why?

513
00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:51,040
Revenge.

514
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:54,760
The Cavalier
was getting his own back.

515
00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:57,120
I've never harmed you.

516
00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:02,120
I think you have.

517
00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:06,720
Mary Ann... Annie.

518
00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:11,080
Married name Mosscrop.
Born Winterbottom.

519
00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:16,920
In every one of your scrapbooks
she was one of the contestants.

520
00:45:16,960 --> 00:45:19,840
And suddenly she wasn't.

521
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:32,640
North-West Young Singer
Of The Year Competition, 1960?

522
00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:36,720
You were 12.

523
00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:39,160
I was 14.

524
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:44,440
You winked and smiled at me and
whispered it was a two-horse race.

525
00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:51,920
You sang She Moved Through The Fair.
It was beautiful.

526
00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:54,880
And it moved me through to the final.

527
00:45:54,920 --> 00:46:01,960
You joked about the obsessive way I wiped
and blew my nose just before going on stage.

528
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:06,240
While I was in the loo,
you opened my purse

529
00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:08,880
and put sneezing powder on my hanky.

530
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:13,560
- You must have planned it.
- Dad!

531
00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:19,920
I had to walk off in the middle.
They couldn't even give me a merit.

532
00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:27,240
After that, my aunt changed her mind
about funding my musical education.

533
00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:30,320
I got in to a third-rate university.

534
00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:32,840
Then marriage...

535
00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:35,360
divorce...

536
00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:38,200
finally revenge.

537
00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:41,960
I'm proud of what I did.

538
00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:44,560
I'd have pulled it off completely,

539
00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:47,400
had Mrs Wainthropp not come so close.

540
00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:49,320
Even so...

541
00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:55,200
A final of five can't have done
Hardiman's Herbal Healing much good.

542
00:46:55,240 --> 00:47:00,040
You won't get away with it.
I'll sue you for all you have.

543
00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:02,760
No, Dad. We don't want the publicity.

544
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:08,480
Five finalists nobbled. They'll
sue, and I'll pay the lawyers.

545
00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:12,200
Would you?
Les? Harry? All of you?

546
00:47:12,240 --> 00:47:14,840
Even if he pays out, would you sue?

547
00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:19,880
We'd look stupid.
We knew we didn't stand a chance.

548
00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:24,520
It was always going to be Beverly.
That's right.

549
00:47:24,560 --> 00:47:29,400
I won't give you the satisfaction,
Mr Hardiman.

550
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:35,640
What hurt was that after stealing my
chance of fame, you threw yours away.

551
00:47:36,720 --> 00:47:39,600
..Just to make money.

552
00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:48,640
I would have liked, just once, to sing
in a really big hall with a full orchestra.

553
00:47:51,560 --> 00:47:53,560
Geoffrey...

554
00:47:53,600 --> 00:47:56,400
I'll have that refill now.

555
00:47:57,560 --> 00:48:00,040
A good job well done.

556
00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:06,000
Mr Hardiman found a son. Beverly won
the prize. Annie got her own back.

557
00:48:06,040 --> 00:48:08,600
And nobody hurt at the end.

558
00:48:08,640 --> 00:48:14,840
What I don't like about Poirot
is somebody always ends up hanged.

559
00:48:30,920 --> 00:48:35,400
Subtitles by Clare Symmers
BBC Scotland 1996