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Heartbeat, why do you miss when my baby kisses me?

Heartbeat, why does a love kiss stay in my memory?

On the duty.

On the duty.

David, get to bed.

There's dogs.

Come on.

What I mean is, I mean, how many chances have you had to have a share in the

race? I mean, it doesn't happen to people like us, does it? It only happens

millionaires. And I thought you were a millionaire, Claude.

I've got no more than I've ever had. Except money.

Ah, well, the thing is, what I've done, I've taken him up to Ted Shaw's livery,

you know, and he's going to train him professionally, but, of course, it's

to cost a few bob.

Oh, you're serious, then? Oh, well, you know, spend a bit to win a bit.

But what I thought might be nice were to offer one or two of me real mates a

chance to have a share.

Have you asked Nick and Kate yet?

I'd rather take him to the knackers yard. Hey, keep a little quiet, don't

Evening. Nicola.

Come here.

That's good. Hiya.

What's he up to?

He's talking about having his racehorse trained professionally.

He's shelling out real money.

It's hard to believe.

Well, he must know something about that horse that no one else does. Eh, George?

David!

Ma, you shouldn't be out. It's cold. I wouldn't be out if you were in bed.

Well, there's dogs.

There's four cats. I should show them how to get to the road.

What?

Nobody about you said we were no more than a knock.

Try, come on.

Ma?

You all right, Ma?

Are you all right?

There you go. That was lucky.

Cool.

Joe, would you put another one on the doctor's slate?

Mum.

What is it, man?

I

couldn't move

her. You did the best thing, David. It just hit her. Hit her down.

I'll keep an eye out for this ambulance.

All right.

Hey, Myron, I want to go to hospital.

She has to go, David.

They can help her there.

Will you be all right?

Hey, I could stay up late, couldn't I?

Hey, I'll see you there. I'll find out what happened.

Okay.

Here you go, David.

Fenty of sugar.

Aye, great.

So, can you tell me any more about the accident?

Well, I'll be best pleased with us bringing her to hospital.

I'll be in real trouble.

No, I don't think so.

She's got a hell of a temper. She'll want to be at home.

No, it was a car that knocked her over.

Aye, smack.

I couldn't wake her, but I went for the doctor.

I didn't know where to look when the doctor weren't at the doctor's.

But I found her.

Well, there can't be that many vehicles in those woods.

Do you know whose it was?

Well, a dog.

Someone you know?

Bloody noisy dogs.

They were snarling and yapping. I wouldn't have dogs like that.

They wanted a good kick up the bum.

What sort of car was it, David?

A Land Rover.

Hey, there's how many folk here?

Do you know who the Land Rover belongs to?

Hello, Doctor?

Marl will want to be off, I reckon.

She's going to have to stay in hospital for a while, David. We need to make sure

she's better before she comes home.

Oh, no, she'll be cross with us. I know.

Look, why don't you go and see her? She's just through that door at the end

the corridor.

She's had a heart attack.

Not serious, but she's pretty weak and badly bruised.

Did she say anything about a hit and run?

She's very shaken, Nick.

And upset about being here at all.

Maybe after a good night's sleep.

It's hard going with David.

He's not going to make much of a witness.

Doctor says you're poorly, Ma.

Fine lads, now.

They make such a fuss when the doctors get hold of you.

I ran to the village.

You did right.

Peace, you're on.

Has he been asking questions?

I have.

Tell him I fell.

I fell, that's all.

Listen, David, I fell down and you found me by the track.

Ah, you fell.

You mustn't say out about my being knocked over.

Tell the police that there were nobody in woods. No dogs, no cars, no

people. It's important.

Can you remember?

They had dogs?

It has to be a secret.

We have to pretend they weren't there.

Promise me it'll be a secret.

I promise.

You're better off with one of them than this here fatigue.

What's it in for?

Shock absorbers.

Belongs to Hunt.

Sweet it like a tank they do.

Still comes back for more.

Have you had anyone in with a broken headlamp this morning?

No. Why's that?

There was a hit and run up at Beckenwood last night.

Florence Stockwell's in hospital.

Is she bad?

She'll be all right, no thanks to the driver.

I'm looking for a lamb rover with a broken headlamp.

That's your business.

Could be local.

It's not easy to find that place.

So keep your eyes open, will you, Malcolm?

Why would the chief inspector...

asked me to go in for the sergeant's exam again.

Eh?

Why? I'm gone.

I'm trying to read it.

What if there were a sergeant's job going and he had me in line for it?

In view of the fact that you only just failed last year, so you weren't lying

after all. Oh, go on, get on with it.

In view of the fact that you only just failed last year, we feel this would be

the right time to reset the examination.

Come on, Alf.

They're always banging on about exams.

It's just their way of keeping us out of the pub.

I'm serious.

The examination's next week.

Do you think he's giving me the nod?

I don't know.

Ask the Sarge.

No, not a word with Blake in mind.

He's never let me forget a fail last time.

Yes, Sarge.

Hello, David.

You all right?

I'm off to see your mum later.

I thought we'd find out what happened last night.

Can I come in, then?

Any chance for a cup of tea?

David, this vehicle last night, you said it was a lamb rover.

Oh, no one here.

Sorry?

Martha over.

Yeah, she was knocked over.

David, you said you saw a lamb rover.

I saw the tracks.

I also found a piece of broken headlamp.

There's no one here.

No car.

Marth fell.

What?

Struggling, Harry?

You could do with losing a bit of weight.

Wouldn't do now. I'm a fugitive, isn't I? Me? I'm a client, Harry.

I pay good money to this table to have my investment looked after.

You know, keep a dog and bark yourself, you know.

By the way, stick one of those mineral blocks in Agamemnon's field, will you?

Aga -who?

Agamemnon. Who's he when he's at home? He happens to be me racehorse.

Well, he'd better not be far away, cos those are heavy.

Come and have a look at him. No, I've got work to do.

Come on, come on, it'll only take a minute.

Now then, Harry, is that an horse or is that an horse?

Ah, he's fit, Lord, I'll give you that.

Anybody gives their right arm to have an interest in something like that.

Have you ever thought of, like, having a share in a racehorse?

Are you asking me to put my money into a racehorse?

I've lost three customers this month already.

Well, in that case, you can't afford not to be in, can you? I mean, he's going

to make us a fortune.

And you don't win a raffle unless you buy a ticket.

Bye, Claude.

His mother won first time out at Redcar at 33 to 1.

Nearly.

So you went out to see the hens?

It weren't till we got to bed. I remembered I hadn't shut them up for the

We've got no shortage of foxes to take us hens if chance comes their way.

And this was after David had gone out?

Before.

He were in his bed.

So you were already outside when he heard the dogs.

Did you hear them?

I know nought about dogs.

There were a vixen howling over by Darley Top.

All right, let's start on the other end then.

that you were knocked over by a car or a lamb river coming out of the woods.

I don't know where you get that from, lad. Didn't your missus tell you it was

heart? I just blacked out.

Lucky my lad came to see what I'd got to.

Well, last night David told me it was a hit and run.

Did he?

Yeah. I found a piece of broken glass from a headlamp.

I thought you were knocked over, Mrs Stockwell.

I were not knocked over.

My lad's a bit on the slow side. It's no secret. He doesn't always know what's

happening around him, especially if he's in a state.

He must have been in quite a state last night.

Have you talked to him this morning?

Yes.

He's a bit clear about it all.

So you've no need to waste more of your time, have you?

My name is Jack and I live in the back of the Granter Garbo home. With friends

will remember wherever I may roam.

And my name's Jack and I live in the back of the Granter

Garbo home for wayward boys and girls.

I make as much noise as I want and no one ever cares

Oh, come on, Alf. You can't do that sergeant's exam with a booking frontier.

Now, come on.

Arrest him without a warrant.

It's all right. I know that.

So tell us. Yeah, come on, Alf.

Where a constable of reasonable cause has reason to suspect that a felony is

being committed, he may arrest without warrant anyone who is, with reasonable

cause, guilty of the offence. And it's the same for about to commit a felony.

That's very good.

All right, try this then.

Search without a warrant. Oh, get lost.

I'm very impressed.

It's good to see such dedication to the law of entrance and an Ashfordly police

station of all the most unlikely places.

Now, this report of yours, Rowan, gives us an unusual angle on police powers.

Well, it's a bit difficult to explain, sir. Aye.

PC Rowan here is itching to arrest a person or persons unknown for a hit -and

-run incident which the supposed victim and sole witness says never took place.

And it won't be difficult finding the vehicle that Mrs Stockwell says never

her. It'll stick out like a sore thumb in the north riding.

Because it's a muddy Land Rover.

Ma!

They want to keep an eye on you for a few more days.

Well, I'm grateful for all that's been done, but I've no time for all this

frotting. I must be in my own home.

I'm right as rain now.

No, you're not.

And you haven't been for a while, have you?

I've David to think on.

I'll pop in on him when I can.

The next time I'm in Ashfordly, I'll bring him to see you.

Look, if you're worried that he can't manage on his own... I've said nought

about that.

He can manage well enough for a bit. I can see to my own child.

I'll have no busybodies popping up there and poking their noses round. I'll not

stay... I'll tell David how you are.

I'm sure he'll be fine.

No one knows who the father was.

When a bloke came down from Sunderland, he used to buy the pegs off them when

Florence's father was still coppicing the woods.

Stayed in a tent there.

Some people thought it was him.

Didn't David have any help?

Folk didn't think about that.

The Stockwells kept themselves to themselves.

Now, the old man died during the war.

I don't suppose the woods have been worked since then.

Bit of firewood, maybe.

So how do they keep going?

I know one thing, though.

David won't be able to stay up there for long without Florence.

Whiskey, Claude?

All right, then, go on.

Large.

Hey, did you read that article in the paper about all the increase in all the

horses in the Metropolitan Police?

Are they?

Apparently they're out doing all the coppers of the IQ test.

Very good, Claude. That's the best you can do. I'm off. Cheers.

Ciao.

Claude, you'll never go to heaven.

Hey, we went to see your horse today.

Yeah,

how much did you say her share was?

How many times have I got to tell you?

Tell everybody, they'll all want to be in. We'll talk about it later, all

Five pounds.

I must say, I was very impressed.

It looked like he'd got a bit of class.

What a class!

That horse is a complete and utter thoroughbred. If it could talk, it

speak to any of us, I'll tell you.

Was he a bit confused?

No.

He was upset, worried.

But you knew what he was talking about?

Yeah.

He said a car hit his mother.

Well, he's not saying that now, and neither is Florence.

Could be she's lying. She's got David lying, too.

Why?

Well, maybe she's frightened of someone local, like we thought.

You're in.

And don't forget, you don't back the arse until I tell you, right?

And if I were you, I'd keep a bit quiet about having chairs, like, cos you know

what they're like round here. They get a bit jealous if they think somebody's

onto a good thing, eh?

Right.

You'd better put your name down for a roller.

Don't worry, Uncle George.

Sometimes you've just got to go for it.

You're right.

It just makes me a bit uneasy to see Claude smiling, that's all.

Hey, let's celebrate.

OK.

There's not much I can do, David.

It's been badly mauled.

You've stopped it dying.

Well, I could clean it up, stop the bleeding, but I don't know.

But it won't live, not long.

Let's try.

Just a second.

There's no for you here, Claude. It's all nailed down.

I'm not in the mood, Malcolm.

I want a serious word.

What word's that?

I can't understand why people hunt stuff they can't eat. That's their business.

But when their business interferes with my business, it stops being just their

business. It becomes my business.

What? I'm talking about badger digging.

Eh? Yes, you might as well, eh? And you know what happens after badger digging.

All of a sudden, the cops start coming round asking questions of everybody.

You've got a nerve, Greengrass. I've followed the Ashfordly Hump for 20

badger digging. If you're accusing me of having nothing to do with badger

digging... Don't come the old soldier with me, Malcolm, cos I happen to know

were involved in baiting a few years back.

Well? Well, I don't want outsiders coming round here spoiling things for

I'm just marking your card, so you can just go and mark theirs. Got it?

I saw her a badger when I was about 12.

At least I think you were a badger. My mate said it was an overweight sheepdog.

Well, you wouldn't want to see this one unless something had a right old guy.

Morning, Sarge. Morning, Rowan.

Kate thought we might have been dogs.

I suppose dogs do have a go at badgers.

Yeah, they will.

But they reckon a good badger can save a dog off a dog.

Nature study this morning, is it?

No, Sarge. No, Kate had to sort out a half -dead badger last night.

What you and your missus do in your private life is your own business.

Ventress? Er, he had something to do, Sarge.

Right.

That's not how I told him.

Having trouble with your bowels, Ventress?

No, Sarge.

I mean, just a bit. I don't know what the modern ideas on potty training are,

but my mother persuaded me at quite an early age that the best results were

achieved more comfortably with the trousers off.

Oh.

Oh, indeed, Ventress.

Now, when you feel, you can make it back to your desk.

I thought I might try and get some more out of David Stockwell about that hit

and run.

So what did he say?

Not much. All he talks about is badges.

I think I'll have a look round the woods.

Come and talk to me, Rowan. If you're searching the woods, you best know what

you're looking for.

You'll mind my beauty.

Morning, Claude. Harry.

Been thinking about this horse of yours.

Oh, huh?

Decided to fill your boots, have you?

Yeah, but a spare cash wouldn't go amiss.

Mind you, I know there's going to be a risk.

I thought you knew me better than that. If there were any risk, I wouldn't have

my money in it, would I?

Don't worry.

That horse is going to be hooked up until it's a certainty.

Hooked up?

Not trying too hard to win until them in the know have been told to dip their

bread.

Amen.

You're not a bad judge, partner.

You're beautiful, aren't you?

Badger baiting, Rowan.

This came in from Middlesbrough last week.

It's mostly RSPCA information.

The new one on me, sir?

Not on me, I'm afraid, although it's been a few years back.

Now, don't worry, do you?

Here they are.

Now, there are various ways to get a badger out.

Say you've got the dog in the tunnel behind him, biting him. You're outside

hole with ease.

Now, they're powerful little animals, but they won't do much harm like that.

You just pick them up and drop it in the bag.

Now, these go on the end of flexible rods, like chimney brushes.

Now, you've got the badger trapped.

You push the rod down the hole until the barb finds him. You twist, the

barb bites into the skin, and you just keep pulling.

It'll be pretty bloody when it comes out, but it'll still be alive.

Well, I picked these up on a raid a few years back, and using them...

counts as cruelty.

Although magistrates round here don't think it's worth more than a modest

But you do.

Hello, David.

You off to see your mum?

Aye.

How's the badger?

Eating fit to bust.

We can let it go now.

Back with its mates.

They've gone.

Where?

Just gone.

It wasn't me because I wasn't there. And if I was, it must have been somebody

else. I don't doubt it, Claude. I want you to help me.

What were your inquiries?

What do you know about badgers?

Badgers? Yeah.

Small little black and white furry things. Eat worms.

Not as much as you by the sound of it.

Now, I wouldn't know a badger set if I fell into one.

So if I were to take you up to Beckham Woods where the Stockwells live... To

woods? I didn't know you cared. Look, I've got better things to do than to go

countryside rambles with coppers.

Would you want me to find out what those better things are?

When do you want to go?

Now. Come on.

Oh, not on that.

Ah.

Hello, son.

Are you managing?

Oh, I am.

Eating all right? I found a badger. It were poorly.

There's work needs doing, David.

There was a dead one, too.

I took it to the doctors.

What? No, I took the poorly badger to the doctors. She made it better.

Mar's doing well for visitors today.

Here.

Why don't you go and buy her some flowers?

She'd like that.

I'm glad you both kept your mouths shut, Florence.

Is this it?

He wanted me to show you a set.

If you'd have wanted a badgerologist, you should have gone and got one.

Well, I've heard they can dig.

This lot must use a bulldozer.

Oh, don't look at me. I'm not an expert on badgers.

I mean, they won't bother with what they can't eat.

Well, that must make them sleep easy in their beds.

I mean, they're vermin, aren't they?

I don't know, perhaps the Stockwells thought they were after their ends.

No, it doesn't make sense.

That David's been looking after an injured one.

You can't take any notes about what he does. I mean, he's something short of a

tanner. You're being as generous as ever.

So are there any more like this?

How many more do you want to see? I want to see if there's any more in these

woods, Claude.

That's not a problem, is it?

Only for me feet.

Come on.

I'm waiting for a bus.

Well, you'll have a long wait. The last one went an hour ago.

Off to war, then?

Come on, hop in, son.

Oh, thanks, Mr. Capshaw.

Can we go home now, sir?

You know, Blaketon was saying that a badger that'll put up a good fight will

worth about ten pounds. Even more down south.

Really?

Look, the only interest I've ever had in badgers is a shaving brush that belongs

to me duck.

And it's so old, it's got less hair on than my head.

No -one's pointing the finger at you, Claude, but you know something.

You've been twitching something terrible all afternoon.

I'm not surprised on the back of your bike with my complaint.

What complaint?

I don't want to spoil your dinner.

Look, someone's been digging badgers, Claude.

You know who it is.

I don't, I've no idea.

You know what's going on.

All right, look, there were some blokes up on Denby Top with terriers last

night. I mean, they're probably the same mob as has been digging round here.

But they weren't from round here, they were strangers.

How close did you get?

Close enough for a quick scarper.

They're a nasty lot, you know, terrier men.

You can't watch it if you're going out after them. They're not all that

about who they hurt.

I know.

That's why Florence stuck while I was lying in hospital.

Come on.

Your ma's been poorly for some time.

You'll need help, huh?

Aye.

You need some money from time to time.

I'll sell more firewood.

You can help her with money. You can help me as well.

All right.

I bet you know every badge you set from here to Aidensfield.

Look, I've got these two mates in Middlesbrough. They want to have a look.

Oh, your mother said it was all right before.

I've got to go.

Look, you're the expert on this.

These guys will give you two foot at a time for each set.

Thanks for...

Thanks for the lift. I've got to go. You can have a tennis test away for your ma

when she comes out.

That'll make life easier for her.

David, our little secret.

Surprise for your ma.

I don't know where you got this from, Colonel Smedley.

There are no accusations flying around, and I can assure you that no one is

suggesting that any members of the Ashfordly Hunt... All right, I am sorry,

Colonel Smedley.

Your cooperation is much appreciated.

Thank you.

I just got a nice chat with the Master of Foxhounds.

Who's been winding him up?

Oh, I don't know.

I think he wanted to give me a lecture on country ways and how to avoid

on people's toes.

So what are you going to do?

I think I'll go see David again.

I've got to give him that ten bob back.

And it's time I talked to him properly.

David?

It's PC Rowan.

Are you in there?

Kate asked me to give you this.

You don't have to pay her.

No, that was for what she did.

Well, I'll leave it with you, shall I?

She wanted to know how the patient's doing.

Oh, it's all right.

Oh, good.

I went for a walk through these woods this afternoon.

I saw that set that was dug up.

Was that where you found your badger?

Well, they went.

They just went.

And that's not true, is it?

Someone dug that set up.

Now, some might have got away, but some were killed, and some would have been

taken away.

David, you know it's against the law to dig up badges, don't you?

To take them away and to hurt them.

No one took them.

They use dogs, don't they?

Put them in a pit, see how long before the dogs can kill them.

It can be hours before they die.

You can't just stop them!

I can help you.

This thing's well added.

I've come about money.

There's no good looking here, lad.

Badger money.

Oh.

I'm glad it went in, David.

You're not as daft as you look.

You've no right to use him like that.

He wants to do something to stop them.

We can't do anything unless we catch them digging. And what if he goes wrong?

He's only got a meat capture on his brain. Oh, yeah, the men who knocked an

woman down and left her.

It's like sending a child.

He wants to stop these people, Kate.

He knows exactly what it's about and he's made his own decision.

He wants these blokes done, Kate.

He's got a right to, hasn't he?

You're right, Sarge.

Shh!

Now, David, is this it?

Aye.

Right, then. Off you go, lad.

Bellamy, the art of surveillance is to be invisible.

Yes, Sarge.

I can still see you. Find yourself a bloody tree.

Sarge.

All ready?

There I did.

As soon as you get captured to the sets, you slip away.

Oh, no, no, I can't help it. Come straight back here and lock the doors.

Okay.

Bellamy!

Behind your tree!

Untouched. Beautiful.

They can smell him. Come on.

Could be a fiver in this.

This is the police.

Stop what you're doing and stand completely still.

Run for it, Al!

I would drop that if I were you.

Pull that down.

Oh, come on.

You looking for these?

They'll end up with a fine for the badger digging, but that's the way it

But by the time they've been charged with resisting arrest and assaulting

officers... A bit more than a modest fine, then, Sarge.

I didn't ask them to resist, did I, Rowan?

Capture certainly did. Well, keep that sling on, Bellamy, for the magistrate.

all helps.

What are you doing, Ventress?

You could use a piece of steak on that eye, Sarge. If you must cram for your

sergeant's exam, I suggest you do it at home.

You knew.

Of course I knew.

And I have it on very good authority.

There's a sergeant's job coming up a -pickering.

What? So try not to let me down this time, will you?

Promotion's the only way I can get rid of you.

All you've got to do now is pass.

If anything happens to Florence, it'd be terrible if he was sent off to some

sort of home.

What's the alternative?

Well, I had to see Eric Masters this afternoon.

He's got a bit of bronchitis.

He's doing the gardens at the hall on his own now, and he reckons Lord

would let him take on someone else, just to help out.

And I don't suppose there's a cottage that goes with a job.

With running water and electricity.

Could be.

You'll never get them out of the woods.

Well, we can try.

You can start tomorrow when you go up to tell her there'll be no charges against

her. How did you know?

All right, Malcolm, spit it out. You've been giving me daggers all evening.

You know he's young.

I hope so.

Well, there's full reckon you should find something better to do than see a

like Harry Capshaw locked up. You know what he's been doing?

He's had hard times and a family to look out for.

If he turns to country round him for a few extra quid...

I think that's his business. Now, listen, I turn a blind eye to a lot of

round here, but there's got to be something wrong with people who like

animals being torn to pieces in a pit.

Yeah, and anyone who thinks different can drink somewhere else.

Ah, Claude, I'm glad you called in.

There's a lot of people talking about you.

Perhaps I'd like to hear my side.

How many did you say had a share in this horse of yours?

How many more times? I've got half a share.

And there's six of you with an equal share in the other half.

Well, we reckon there's about 11 others in it up to now.

Well, you know what they're like around here, George.

I mean, they hear you're on to a good thing, so what do they do? They make out

they're in on it at all, don't they? Well, that is what they say.

You're right. I'd like to meet these people.

You can.

They're standing behind you.

Are they?

You'd better pour me a very large scotch.

Think he'll get on all right?

Should be safe enough now.

Not many places animals can do what they want.

It's always people.

People can't leave anything alone.

Why do you miss when my baby kisses me?

Heartbeat, why does a love kiss pain?

my memory.