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Red leather, yellow leather...

I'm good. Come on, people!
Let's make this a good one.

Thank you, Dawn. Feeling good,
feeling good.

Going to be a good one.

Let's do it, come on!

TV: 'Ladies and gentlemen,'

live from Ballarat Studios,

BTV Channel 8 and Tyneman Electrics
are proud to present...

..Game Of Champions, the quiz show
where only the smartest survive.

And now please welcome
the stars of the show,

Alan and Verity Coleman.

APPLAUSE

Thank you, Tony, and welcome,
ladies and gentlemen.

'Have we got an exciting show
for you tonight.

'After countless heats
and thousands of questions,

'tonight's game
is the championship round.'

One contestant will take home
all the prizes and £1,000 in cash,

courtesy of Tyneman Electrics.
The loser will go home with nothing.

And now it's time for me to
introduce to you our contestants.

Our longest-running champion ever,

the man with
all the answers, Simon Lo.

APPLAUSE

And his challenger, the very
charming James Holbrook.

APPLAUSE

'Are you ready to play
Game Of Champions?'

Your father treated his
family for years.

What, the Chinese bloke?
No, James Holbrook. He's nice.

Oh, come on!
He's not that good-looking.

'Simon, this is your
final question.'

Get this right,
and the money's yours.

The Stanford-Binet test tells us
which of these has the lowest IQ?

A, moron,

B, cretin,

C, imbecile,

D, idiot.

And your time's up.
Your answer, please.

Cretin. And that's wrong.

MURMURING

Simon Lo, thanks for playing
Game Of Champions,

and congratulations to our new quiz
champion James Holbrook.

APPLAUSE

Congratulations, James.

You take away £1,000 in cash,

together with these great prizes
from Tyneman Electrics.

'Tune in tomorrow night,

'when our new champion James
Holbrook will return

'to defend his title.'

Thanks.

STATIC HISSES

Have you seen him? No sign of him.

You were meant to be keeping an eye
on him! Don't start, Alan.
This wasn't my idea.

There you are. We were worried.
This isn't fair!

I know, Simon.
You must be very disappointed.

You made me lose! Settle down, son.

Don't tell me to settle down!
This is fixed! Simon!

SCREAMING

SCREAMING

SHE SCREAMS AND SOBS

He's dead!

James Holbrook, I take it.

It is. What are you doing here?

James's fiancee called me. I'm the
family doctor. What about you?

Oh, I was in the audience.

I like quiz shows.

Explains the civvies.
You look very smart.

I might go take a look at the room
where it happened. Are you coming?

Ambos reckon it was a heart attack.
Yes, I just checked his history.

Makes sense. Heart disease runs in
the family.

Bloke wins 1,000 quid, then dies.

It's ironic, really.

Yes. I better talk
to the boy's fiancee.

Patrick... That chink is NOT going
back onto the show!

Simon's the holdover champion...

People keep coming into the store
just to tell us how much they hate
the little ...

Superintendent. Anything you need?

Yes, actually. I'd like to talk
to Dawn Prentice, James's fiancee.

Dr Blake, our police surgeon.

We sent Dawn home.
She was the one who found his body.

Mmm. Dreadful thing.
It certainly is.

I couldn't help overhearing.
Simon Lo coming back on the show?

Over my dead body.
Simon was our previous champion.

Now James is dead, we have to bring
him back. They're the rules.

I'm with Patrick on this.

You saw him after the show.
He was out of control.

Take losing badly, did he?
He was upset.

He threatened us.
Where is he now? He went home.

Couldn't get out of here fast enough
after we found James.

And you want to put him back on air.

We might leave you to it.

Well, you didn't lose any money,
Patrick. At least that's something.

Oh, Jesus.

Oh, James. I really never expected
to see you in here.

Certainly not yet.

We all knew your heart needed some
attention.

But to fail you right
after you won £1,000.

You were very good on the music
questions.

And what have you done here?

So much for a heart attack, James.

Lawson! Oh!

Listen, James Holbrook was
electrocuted, not heart.

Well, not a heart attack, as such.

Are you sure?

Flash burns on his hands,
soles of his feet.

I'm surprised the ambulance boys
didn't pick up on it.

There must be something
of an electrical fault

or something live in that room
that he touched.

Superintendent Lawson, Ballarat
Police. Get me Alan Coleman, BTV 8.

Alan Coleman.

This question goes to Matthew
Lawson, first practical
use of the telephone?

Alexander Graham Bell, 1876.
Correct.

Mr Coleman. Superintendent Lawson.

I need you to close down
that dressing room now.

I was horrified to get your call
this morning, Superintendent.

It's awful to think that the station
might have had a hand in his death,

but I've had Roger check
all the electrics in the room.

He couldn't find anything.
And who's Roger?

Uh, the station technician.
Part-time, of course.

Can you get him up here?

Well, at first I thought it might
have been the lights.

They're fine.

Then I checked the kettle.

I thought James might have made
a cup of tea or something.

Nothing?
Nothing.

I put everything through the volt
meter, even the television,

even though I'd checked that
at the store before I brought it in.

The store?

Roger works part-time
at Tyneman Electrics as well.

And electrics seem
to be the issue here.

I thought James had a heart attack.
Not according to the doctor.

We had high hopes for James.
He was very popular.

I'd noticed.

It's Dawn I really feel for.

It was the television.

I put it through the volt meter.
It's fine.

Well, you may have, but you didn't
actually look at the television,

did you, Roger? I checked it.

What's he doing? Lawson.

Here we are. Have a look at this.

Have a look at that. It's a screw
that's missing

from the back panel
of the television set.

That's brand-new.
It's never been used.

What? Someone tampered
with the television.

Roger brings the prizes in from
the shop on the day of the show.

The television was brand-new.

Where did it go after that?

In this office.

And Roger was the only one who had
access to it before the show.

And me, Alan, and Dawn.

Right. Alan, tell me,
what about after the show?

It was in the champion's
dressing room.

Roger took it there
before we went to air.

Thank you, Dawn.

I told her to take the day off.

Who else had access to the
television once it was put in the
dressing room?

The door was unlocked,
anyone could have gone in,

and the room was left open after
James's body was taken away, but...

Simon went missing after the show.

We couldn't find him for about ten
minutes, then suddenly he appears.

Basically attacked us.
He was in a filthy mood.

So, you think he might
have tampered with the set.

I have no idea. The point is, the
television was in the dressing room.

Simon had just lost £1,000.

£1,000. That'd be motive.

Possibly.

Dawn, are you sure you should be
at work today?

Oh, well, I have to be doing
something, and this place would fall
apart without me, so...

Yes.

Look, I know this is difficult,

but what did you see when you went
into that room?

Um...

I saw James...

..lying on the floor.

Anything else? No. Why?

I'm just trying to work things out.

Where were you before that?
I was looking for Simon.

We were all looking for Simon.
Yes, so I gather.

Well, if I had've been here,
none of this might've happened.

So, maybe you should ask Simon
where HE was when James died.

Well, everyone was out looking
for Simon Lo after the show.

Roger Lambert checked the circuitry
of that television.

There was no damage, and no wires
were out of place.

Well, someone got to it.

He also reckons that Simon Lo had
more than a working man's

knowledge of electronics. Well, how
would Roger Lambert know that?

He was at school with Simon,
and Dawn, and James, apparently.

They all went to school together?

In the same class.

Well, maybe we should
be talking to Roger.

I think I'll have a chat with Simon.

Mr Coleman said that you attacked
him last night. Is this correct?

Yes. Why?

I should have won.

You were missing for ten minutes
after the show had finished.

Where were you?
That's an exaggeration.

So, you weren't missing.
It was eight minutes.

Where were you?

Out. What were you doing?

Nothing. I don't know how you do
things at home...

Are you going to hit me now?

Mr Lo, Mr Lo, please!

Now, James Holbrook is dead.

We're just trying to find out what
happened to him, all right?

We're simply asking
some questions here today.

Are you familiar with electronics,
Mr Lo? Obviously.

So, if I was to ask you to pull
apart a television, for example...

The electronics of a television set

consist of a rectifier to convert
from alternating to direct current.

Also capacitors, a regulator,
and a control circuit.

Basic circuit theory.

I think that means he could.

Did you sabotage the television in
Mr Holbrook's dressing room. No.

Look at him, trying to make himself
look innocent.

I don't think he feels he needs to.
Clearly.

The fact that a man's been murdered
doesn't seem to bother him a bit.

So, what's your next move?
I'll let him sweat it out for a bit,
then I'll pull him back in.

He didn't appear to be sweating
that much to me.

He's an annoying piece of work.

I think he must be Filipino.
He's speaking Tagalog.

Anything else I should know?

Yes. You should be investigating
him for murder.

Thought so.

One, two, three!
Er, what's going on?

Don't worry, it'll be fine.

Yes, you say that every time you
borrow something.

Sunny Side Up's on this evening.

Right. What are you trying to do?

Well, I'm working out how to turn a
television set into a murder weapon.

But do you actually know
what you're doing?

Well, just basic circuit theory
according to Simon Lo.

Right, so, how do you do it?

Well, if you're not concerned about
damaging the television,

you simply run a high tension supply

from the cathode ray
to aerial socket.

And you don't want to do that?

Well, no. That'd blow the tube.

And you don't want to blow the tube?

Danny, whoever sabotaged
James Holbrook's television

didn't leave a single sign

apart from a small screw
that dropped on the floor.

Yeah, but are we actually sure that
it was sabotaged?

No. No, but I can't for the life of
me think of another explanation.

ELECTRICITY CRACKLES
Oooh!

LAUGHTER
What's happened?

Lucien!

Um, yes. I'll go find
the fuse box, shall I?

Oh! There you are.

What did you do to it?

He was conducting an experiment.
What sort of experiment?

He wanted to know how long
it was going to take

to get from the living room
to the fuse box with the house
in complete darkness.

And I did find the fuse box.

But not the fuse wire.
My guess is it's ruined.

Pretty much. Ha!

Thank you, Jean. Excuse me.

Trouble on the home front?

Oh, I was testing a theory

about how a television might
be dangerous if you touched it,

and how that could happen
without blowing the tube.

Yeah, I've been thinking
about that too.

You take a couple of cables,

then you wire them
from the main socket

through the back of the set
to the aerial socket,

but you'd have to touch the aerial
to get a shock. Right.

Of course, you'd have to take
the cables out again
before anyone found them.

Right. Seems you've been giving this
some thought, Roger.

Well, I was trying to work out why
there wasn't any damage to the set.

Tell me, was the television on when
you left it in the room? No.

PHONE RINGS
I'll get it, if the lights stay on.

Oh!

Listen, I understand you went to
school with Simon.

Simon, Dawn, James, and me.

It was a special academic programme.

I was never really
in the running, though.

Must have been tough competing
with him, eh?
Simon always came out ahead.

I heard the police
were talking to him.

Yes. What do you think?

Simon was always playing with
circuits and wires at school.

If it was me, I'd be locking him up.

You know it's going to cost you
to have it repaired?

Yes, lovely. We'll do that, thank
you. Phone call for you.

Right. Excuse me, Roger.

Yes, Dr Blake.

What kind of trouble?

That man has absolutely no
business being here!
OK, look, I understand...

He's a contestant
on a television show!

Please! Don't give me that!

Just everybody relax so I can
understand what's going on.

Keep this man away from the shop!

Yes, I'm trying, sir. If you can
just step backwards...

He pushed me into the traffic!

Doc. Glad you're here.

This man came into my shop making
certain wild allegations...

They're true!
My manager here asked him to leave.

He assaulted him,
so I grabbed him...

That's a lie. He pushed me onto
the road. A car ran into me!

He tried to kill me!
Hang on, hang on.

A car hit you? Are you hurt?

It simply brushed against him,
that's all.

Thank you, Patrick, I was talking to
Mr Lo. Are you hurt?

I hurt my knee
when I fell on the gutter.

Just step aside with me
for a moment, would you?

Did you hit your head?

I can't remember.

All right, Mr Lo, just follow my
finger with your eyes,

and tell me, why were you here?

He was making absurd claims
about the show!

What's he saying?

Professor Waterman...

We talk English here, Mr Lo.

If you want to speak Chinese,
you can go back home.

Actually, Patrick,
he's speaking Tagalog.

I don't give a damn! He speaks
English and he learns how to behave.

I'll be laying a complaint.

God alone knows what rubbish
he's been telling you!

Who's Waterman?

That went well.

Yes.

It's all going terribly smoothly
today, Danny.

Better track down this Waterman.

See you, Doc.

Professor Waterman? Yes?

Dr Lucien Blake, police surgeon.

Simon Lo mentioned your name.
Do you mind if we have a chat?

Simon Lo.

Frankly, I was glad
to see the back of him.

He didn't belong in our school
system.

Roger Lambert certainly had
a few things to say.

Well, I'm not surprised.

Roger and James Holbrook got
themselves into a lot of trouble
with our Mr Lo.

What kind of trouble? There was some
violence on the oval one lunchtime.

It was understandable with Simon Lo,
but it got out of hand.

We had to expel Roger Lambert.

Tell me, why was Roger expelled
and not James?

Lambert was a bad influence.
James told us everything.

You want to know what Simon Lo
was really like?

Read this. Simon Lo wrote it just
before he graduated.
It's typical of the boy.

"Critical Analysis of the Teaching
Methods of Professor M Waterman."

He gave this to you? I hope your
patients treat you better.

"Professor Waterman has a pompous
manner that attempts to hide

"consistently sloppy thinking
and incorrect..."

You don't need to read it out.

"He has a weak grasp of higher
mathematics, conceptual physics..."

Well, it goes on and on,
much like the boy himself.

I had 12 other pupils
to teach at this time.

"Use of terms of abuse,
especially the word 'idiot'."

You called him an idiot?

It was the only way I could get him

to stop answering
every single question.
Well, clearly he's not an idiot.

Well, obviously, but it proved to
be most effective at the time,

especially when the other students
cottoned on.

Professor,
was that really necessary?

The other students
needed to step up.

Dawn Prentice, for example.

Such a clever girl -
always in Simon's shadow.

Right.

Tell me, have you had, or indeed,

do you have contact with Alan
Coleman and Patrick Tyneman?

Well, yes, indeed.
I write questions for that show.

There's a whole group of us -
academics, of course.

Of course, and let me guess.

The idiot question, that was one of
yours, wasn't it?

Quite possibly.

They came to you, didn't they?

Wanting to know
how to unsettle Simon,

and you told them exactly
how to do it.

I have signed a confidentiality
contract.

I couldn't possibly comment.

Thank you, Professor.
I think I have everything I need.

You did a good job on it.

Took me half the morning
to fix it up.

Is it working now?
It was in the shop.

Well, the reception used to be fine.

Oh, you'll need to adjust
that during transmission.

Oh. That can be your job.

Not too happy with you, is she? No.

Roger, tell me about getting
expelled from school.

Who'd you talk to? Oh, some
obnoxious chap called Waterman.

That'd be right.

Me and James had an argument with
Simon Lo.

It was more than just an argument,
wasn't it?

All right, we beat him up.

You'd call Simon an idiot
and he'd lose it.

Then we'd get stuck into him.
It became a sort of game. Really?

I wonder if Simon saw it like that.

So, you got kicked out,
but not James. Why?

Cos James said
I was the sole instigator.

We were mates.

He never talked to me again.

PHONE RINGS

I think I'd be pretty resentful
of James if that had've been me.

It was years ago.

And I didn't sabotage his TV,
if that's what you're asking.

It's Superintendent Lawson again.

Right.

I would like you to do something
about it. I'm sorry, Mr Lo, but...

He pushed me in front of a car!
Yeah, I understand that, all
right...

Tyneman tried to kill me, and you're
not doing anything about it!

Yeah, OK...
He wanted me off his show...

Oh, Doc! Just a sec.

..Can you talk to him?

And you, Dr Blake.

Where's Lawson?

Well, he's...

So, what's it going to be,
Constable? Really has no idea how to
get on with people, does he?

Well, I don't think it's ever
occurred to him.

He was right about the show, though.

I spoke to his old schoolteacher.

That last question was designed
to unsettle him.

How?

Well, back in the day

his teacher's preferred term of
abuse for Simon was "idiot".

Of course, the rest of the class
picked up on it.

James was part of that too.

It seems the word "idiot" has
become Simon's Achilles heel.

What's your point? Simon was
effectively cheated out of £1,000.

Now, that gives him plenty of motive
for killing James Holbrook.

And he still can't explain those
ten minutes he went missing.

Someone else we should be looking
at. Roger Lambert.

Now, he went to school with James
and Simon.

In fact, they got into trouble
for beating Simon up.

Why didn't he tell us that when
he was dropping Simon Lo into it?

What are you planning
on doing with him?

Right, here we are.

Ah! Simon. This is Mrs Beazley.

Hello, Simon.

Is this house yours?

Well, this was my father's house.

Is he dead now?

Yes. Yes, he is, and Mrs Beazley
looked after him for quite a while.

Right, Simon, why don't you come
through to my surgery?

What are you doing?
I'm really not sure.

Erm, some tea, please.

Simon, can we talk about
that question

that cost you the championship?

I already said I should have won.

They knew what they were doing
with that question. Yes.

A, moron, B, cretin,
C, imbecile, D, idiot.

Idiot...idiot...

It seems, if I may,
the very mention of the word "idiot"

makes your blood pressure increase
instantly.

The adrenaline pumps
through your system.

Your entire body is primed
for fight or flight.

It makes calm, logical thought
damn-near impossible,

and that's what happened to you the
other night, wasn't it?

Yes.

Yes. No wonder you got that last
question wrong.

Your old schoolteacher took
a fairly common term of abuse
and he made it yours.

The kids in the class
picked up on it,

and pretty soon you only had to hear
the word and you'd lose all control.

Professor Waterman started it all.

Yes, when in fact,

you are the furthest thing from
an idiot I could possibly imagine.

Professor Waterman compiles
questions for the show,

and I'm pretty sure Patrick Tyneman
and Alan conspired with him

to get you kicked off.

Unfortunately, at the moment,
I have no proof.

He didn't like me.
No, he did not.

Neither does your housekeeper.

Well, that's a little
bit different.

She just thought
you were being rude.

Everyone thinks I killed James.
Yes, they do.

Do you?

I don't know. Did you?

No.

Do you know who did?

No.

Well, seemingly you have
considerable motive.

You come across as quite angry,

and that - that is why people think
it was you.

So, the question is -
who else had a reason to kill him?

Do you have a blackboard?

And then he brings him in here,
into the house!

Simon Lo. What?! That awful
man from the show?

Yes!

Why?

Well, why does the Doctor do any of
these things?

But isn't Simon Lo a suspect?
Oh, yes.

Well, why would you bring him here?
And how long is he going to stay
for?

I suggest you ask the Doctor.

Did you watch the show? Yes.

Then you'll know James appeared
in five heats before the final.

Which composer is famous for writing
the opera Cosi Fan Tutti?

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Correct!

A heat has a total of 25 questions.

In every heat, he was asked
at least 23 questions

about music, sport, or European
politics, his speciality subjects.

So, you're saying the questions
were rigged.

That percentage
is far beyond probability.
During the first heat,

Verity Coleman stood at a standard
distance from James.

There's a standard distance?

Allowing for the distance
from camera,

the contestant occupies one half
of the television screen

while Verity occupied the other.
So, I started out, just talking...

That angle diminished over
the course of James's five heats,

culminating in our final appearance

when Verity's position meant the
camera had to move to include her.

Now, on at least five occasions -

at least five occasions during
shooting -

I witnessed conversations of
increasing length
between James and Verity

when details of impending questions
could have been discussed.

Or perhaps there's more to it.

Such as?

£1,000 in cash!

They were having an affair.

Why would they?
Why would anyone have an affair?

I don't understand your question.

Well, it's difficult to explain,
but the point is,

if Verity and James were, in fact,
having an affair and Alan found out,

that would give him a strong motive
to kill James.

Stronger than being cheated out of
winning the championship?

Maybe stronger.

Jean, erm, I think we might have
to set another place for dinner.

That man's eating with us?!

Yes, he is. Please.

And then after that?

After that I thought we could make
up a bed in the spare room.

And what if he electrocutes
us all while we're sleeping?

Well, then I won't be wondering
who killed James Holbrook, will I?

By the way, I think Verity Coleman

might've been having an affair
with James.

Oh. How is that connected?

I'm not sure, but I think
I'm going to have to

make another visit to TV land.

Excuse me, sorry to trouble you, er,
Dawn Prentice... Ah.

Dawn, I'm wondering
if we could have a chat.

I'm very busy. We can walk together.
Certainly.

And tell me, what is it you actually
do here at the station?

During production,
I'm stage manager.

Daily routine,
I open and close the station,

answer phones, take notes,
organise schedules.

I do some repairs and I make tea.

That's a lot of jobs.
They're all menial.

Professor Waterman tells me you're
very smart. Not as smart as Simon.

You and James were engaged to be
married, weren't you?

Yes.

He was a very popular contestant,
wasn't he? Smart, handsome.

It must have been difficult, seeing
how other women reacted to him.

You're thinking something.
Why don't you just ask it?

All right. Was James having
an affair with Verity Coleman,

and if so,
did Alan Coleman know about it?

You're not sure, so you're trying
to get a reaction from me.

The question still stands.

I loved James.

Verity, being Verity, always wants
what she can't have.

But James loved me, and that money
was going to set us up for life.

Any more questions?

No.

TV: 'Today's forecasts
are for Victoria.

'A few light clearing showers in the
southern district, otherwise fine.

'Cool to mild day south-west to
south-east winds...'

Anything you need, Simon?

A cup of tea.

"A cup of tea, please."

He was simply answering
your question. Rudely.

Don't talk in front of him.

I can't hear! Well, excuse us,
Simon, but this is where we live.

TV: 'Ladies and gentlemen,

'Game Of Champions
suffered a tragic loss.'

I think I'll go make
that cup of tea.

No, I'll get it. Shush!

'Holdover champion Simon Lo
will return,
but who will be his challenger?

'Professor Michael Waterman,
respected teacher
and Simon's old schoolmaster.

'The master meets the student
on Game Of Champions

'tomorrow night at half-past seven.'

The man's a fool.
He doesn't stand a chance.

Lawson, I think I've got another
suspect for us.

Oh! No, no, hear me out,
hear me out.

Clearly Simon Lo struggles with
any sense of emotional connection,

but what he does understand is
patterns,

and what he saw with each ongoing
episode of that show

was Verity Coleman standing closer
and closer to James Holbrook.

Every woman I've talked to wanted to
stand closer to that bloke.
Yes, I'm sure.

Look, Simon couldn't quite put it
together, but what he described

was essentially two people becoming
interested in each other,

and Dawn Prentice confirmed it.

Confirmed it? Yes, she knew.

The question is,
how much did Alan know and
did he do anything about it?

So, studio full of people
with motive?

Alan Coleman, Verity Coleman,
Roger Lambert, and Simon Lo.

Look, historically,

I know that Simon's been at the
centre of trouble,

but it was never,
never of his making.

He still remains number one
on my suspect list.

'Live from Ballarat Studios,

'BTV Channel 8 and Tyneman Electrics
are proud to present

'Game Of Champions,
tonight at half-past seven.'

You know they'll rig the questions?
Yes.

And that word Waterman
used to call you,

that's how they'll try
to make you feel.

They're wrong.

Well, they'll still try.

It's the way you described.
Fight or flight.

They can use that word.
I'll be ready for it.

You don't have to go, you know.
I'm smarter than Professor Waterman.

Even if it's rigged, I'll beat him.

All right. ..Danny, keep an eye on
him. Make sure there's no trouble.

Oh!

Simon! Sandwiches.

I'm not hungry.
Well, have them later.

Not an easy person to like, is he?

Well, depends what
you're looking for.

HE SIGHS

Hello, Simon.

Have to get you ready. You know
where the make-up room is.

Thank you, Constable.
Oh, that's fine.

He's hard work, isn't he?
Yeah. Goodbye.

ANNOUNCER: 'And now. please welcome
the stars of the show,

'Alan and Verity Coleman!'

APPLAUSE

Thank you, Tony, and welcome,
ladies and gentlemen,

to a very special episode
of Game Of Champions.

Tonight, we present the student
and the master.

The returning champion
and his teacher.

'Ladies and gentlemen...'

I'm confused. I don't know
if I want him to win or not.

There's no pattern. None of this
makes any sense.

Do we have to talk about this now?

Simon, your next question.

What question appears as number
75 on the periodic table?

A, magnesium, B, rhenium,

C, beryllium, D, silicon.

Number 75 on the periodic table
is rhenium.

Correct.

APPLAUSE

Whoever killed James
left no evidence

apart from one screw
on the dressing room floor.

Now, a number of people had access
to that room,

and therefore the television,
before and after the show.

Any one of them
could have killed him.

I'll turn it up.

What are we missing?
Quite a lot, actually.

..Seventh king of England, following
invasion by the House of Normandy?

A, King John, B, King Henry,

C, King Lear, D, King Edward.

King John was the
seventh king of England

after the invasion of Normandy.

Correct! Perfect score.

He's a machine! He's not a machine,

he's just very intelligent

in a very particular way.

James Holbrook was loved
by everyone, wasn't he?
Hmm, quite literally.

Yet someone sabotaged
that television

so that after he won the quiz,
he'd be killed.

But why would someone
want to kill him?

Unless we're asking
the wrong question.

TV: 'Professor Waterman...'

If James wasn't actually
expected to win.

'You'll need to have your skates
on tonight.

'Are you ready to quiz?'

I am, Alan.

Simon, you'll be off-air
for the Professor's round.

ELECTRICITY CRACKLES

SCREAMING

COMMOTION

INTERMISSION MUSIC PLAYS
Bloody hell!

Oh!

Ladies and gentlemen, if you'd like
to make your way

to the foyer
in a quiet and orderly fashion.

Everything is under control.
Thank you.

I'll shut down the studio
till I can get the wiring checked.

Why would someone
want to kill him on air?

What the hell just happened?
I don't know.

You're paid to do a job, Roger.
I checked those wires.

This is a total bloody disaster!
A man just died live on television!

Save your arguments
for later, please.

How am I supposed
to sell electrical appliances

when this clown's contestants
keep on getting electrocuted?

Shut up, Patrick!
Everybody down to the station now.

Needle in a haystack.

Four needles
in a very large haystack.

Only one of them tampered
with those headphones.

DOOR CLOSES

The questions were rigged.

I didn't need to kill him.

I checked everything before
the show. Everything.

I don't think people realised
just how smart Simon was.

I did.

I heard it in the headphones.

I actually touched his hand.

What do you think of James?

Simon had enemies. James didn't.

James was going to be our star.
Our new champion.

What did you think of Simon?

I couldn't stand Simon.

But to see him just lying there.

Does this mean whoever killed Simon
probably killed James too?

Sir? What?

Mr Tyneman's downstairs,
wants to talk to you.

Great(!)

For God's sake, Lawson,
it's two in the morning!

I've been waiting an hour
and a half,

I've been treated like a criminal,

and you will never,
NEVER tell me to shut up again!

Two people have been murdered,
Patrick.

You think I don't know that?

One of those murdered was
in here yesterday

claiming that you tried to kill him.
You pushed him in front of a car.

You were also present tonight
at Simon Lo's death.

You've made no secret about how much
you hated him. EVERYBODY hated him.

And it was your television that
killed Mr Holbrook!

Should I keep going?!
You don't believe any of this.

You can go home for now, and I'll
tell you to shut up when I need to!

You too, Parks. Go home.

Yes, sir.

Does this mean whoever killed Simon
probably killed James, too?

Yes?

Oh, I'm sorry, I know it's late.

I didn't think you'd be sleeping.

Huh!

Danny? Evening. Danny.

You've been busy. Yes.
Am I missing out on something?

All right, I'm going to say it.

He was a difficult man, but he
didn't deserve to die like that.

No, he certainly didn't.

You know, I've been asking
two questions.

Who would want to kill James, and
two, who would want to kill Simon?

Well, the second question's
easier than the first.

Jean, say you were running
a successful quiz show

and you were the star of that show.

So, she's Alan Coleman? Yes.

You want to get rid of a
particularly unpopular contestant.
What do you do?

I'd keep asking him difficult
questions until he got one wrong.

You wouldn't kill him?
No, why would I?
Yeah, I would do that too.

Say your wife is becoming close
to another contestant.

I'd smack him out!
I'd talk to her.

I'd confront them both,
and then I'd divorce her.

Right. So, you wouldn't kill
James or Simon?

I wouldn't need to.

Danny, James and Simon got you
kicked out of school.

Now you're doomed to work
in a repair shop for the rest of
your life.

Mm-hm. You kill them?

No, you wouldn't, would you?
Hey, this is my question!

Why now?

Well, you tell me.

Well, because they're both more
successful than me? I don't know.

It's just... Why wouldn't I get
back at them years ago?

And why wouldn't just beat 'em up?
I mean, it's so much more simpler.

I agree.
All right. Mattie, you're Verity...

No, I want to be Dawn. Why?

Well, from what you said,
that would make me the smartest.

Right, right.

OK, you went to school
with James and Simon,

but no-one really paid much
attention to you.

Well, everyone seems to be paying
attention to Simon,

and now he's on the show,
it's all happening again.

Uh-huh. Why do you kill your fiance?

I don't know.

Do I love him?
He's your ticket out of here.

Well, then why would I kill him?
I wouldn't. I couldn't.

Was it an accident?

Now we're asking the right question.

Good evening, Dawn.
Ready for your questions?

What are you doing HERE? Giving
you your moment in the spotlight

after all these years in Simon Lo's
shadow. Are you ready?

Who was the smartest person
in your class at school?

A, Simon Lo, B, James Holbrook, C,
Roger Lambert, or, D, Dawn Prentice.

Come on, give me your answer.

Simon Lo!

Wrong!

The correct answer is D,
Dawn Prentice.

Next question...
You shouldn't be here.

I'm calling security.
True or false.

You didn't know Alan Coleman
and Patrick Tyneman

were conspiring to get Simon
off the show. Come on, Dawn.

True. Correct.

You had no idea James
was meant to be champion,

otherwise you would never
have sabotaged that television set.

Is this all a game to you?

No. No, not at all,

and it wasn't a game
for you either, was it?

True or false. You loved James.

True! You hated Simon. True!

But you only ever meant
to kill Simon, didn't you?

True or false. Come on.

Answer me! True!

I killed the man I loved.

Simon was going to become champion.

He was going to take our money,
so, yes, true!

The sad thing is, Dawn, that makes
you the real loser in all of this.

The loser always leaves
with nothing.

Dawn Prentice, I'm arresting you

for the murders of Simon Lo
and James Holbrook.

Anything you say may be taken down
and used in evidence against you.

True.

'Ladies and gentlemen,

'welcome to another round
of Game Of Champions,

'the quiz show
with all the answers,

'and now, please welcome
the stars of the show,

'Alan and Verity Coleman.'

Well, I think
I've had enough television

to last me a lifetime. Me too.

How about a game of Pontoon?

Ah, now you're talking!

Kitchen table?
I've got the cards.

'..£1,000 in cash
together with these great prizes

'from Tyneman Electrics!

'A very hearty welcome to all!

'Now, briefly,
this is the way we play the game...'

APPLAUSE

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