1 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:09,160 You mean everything to me. 2 00:00:10,514 --> 00:00:12,068 What the hell was that? 3 00:00:12,193 --> 00:00:14,720 Lovelorn in London. Scene 28, take three. 4 00:00:16,273 --> 00:00:19,160 I hope we did the right thing letting those people into the lane. 5 00:00:21,052 --> 00:00:25,451 Film struck girl. Inspector dead. I've shut down filming for the time being. 6 00:00:25,584 --> 00:00:30,112 - What do we know about this film? - Stewart Howard. He and Sandra have bound 7 00:00:30,238 --> 00:00:32,545 their careers together, the nation's sweethearts. 8 00:00:32,670 --> 00:00:35,096 Then there's the Honourable Jesse Mckendrick. 9 00:00:35,222 --> 00:00:36,900 You're the director and the writer. 10 00:00:37,025 --> 00:00:38,555 What about Billy? 11 00:00:38,680 --> 00:00:40,640 Someone is trying to kill me. 12 00:00:43,453 --> 00:00:46,320 Strychnine. Drop it. It's poison. 13 00:00:46,973 --> 00:00:49,360 Can you think of anyone who might want to kill you? 14 00:00:49,486 --> 00:00:52,573 - Take your ruddy pick. - When are we going to tell him? 15 00:00:52,699 --> 00:00:53,920 Not yet. 16 00:00:56,966 --> 00:00:58,680 It's one of the extras. 17 00:01:00,825 --> 00:01:03,040 It's Nerina Bean. 18 00:01:09,989 --> 00:01:11,905 - You still rolling, Sandra? - Yeah. 19 00:01:13,315 --> 00:01:15,467 And action. 20 00:01:21,912 --> 00:01:24,481 Oh no. God, I'm so sorry, Jesse. 21 00:01:25,141 --> 00:01:28,176 Um, can I beg 10 minutes? The sigy will sort me out. 22 00:01:29,535 --> 00:01:30,809 Cut there. 23 00:01:32,500 --> 00:01:34,606 Scene 49. Take nine. 24 00:01:38,405 --> 00:01:39,721 Action. 25 00:01:39,847 --> 00:01:43,419 It was then I knew we had fallen in love. 26 00:01:43,545 --> 00:01:45,226 Kill the sound, please. 27 00:01:45,989 --> 00:01:47,927 Can we stop the film and take a proper look? 28 00:01:48,053 --> 00:01:50,054 No, we burn in the projector. 29 00:01:50,475 --> 00:01:54,115 I think the difference is pretty obvious. You'll see in just a moment. 30 00:01:55,762 --> 00:01:58,059 Here comes the post. 31 00:02:00,633 --> 00:02:03,637 Oh gosh, I see what you mean. He's lost 6 inches. 32 00:02:03,763 --> 00:02:06,151 Just while Sandra D went off for a gasper. 33 00:02:06,364 --> 00:02:09,474 So between takes eight and nine 34 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:13,386 Norena Bean gets her screen break an hour later. Is that right? 35 00:02:13,512 --> 00:02:15,019 Well, certainly no more than two. 36 00:02:15,144 --> 00:02:17,508 She's on the cutting room floor. Well... 37 00:02:17,819 --> 00:02:20,015 the bottom of the basement steps. 38 00:02:20,629 --> 00:02:23,509 I know who he is, the postman. 39 00:02:24,747 --> 00:02:26,022 You do? 40 00:02:27,282 --> 00:02:29,243 He was down the line yesterday. 41 00:02:30,114 --> 00:02:31,922 I've seen him in the yard just now. 42 00:02:32,812 --> 00:02:34,251 Would you be so kind? 43 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:38,258 Yep. 44 00:02:40,618 --> 00:02:43,525 Gosh, she hit that step with tremendous force. 45 00:02:44,422 --> 00:02:46,624 Too hard for an accident, you think? 46 00:02:46,931 --> 00:02:48,360 Did she fall 47 00:02:49,404 --> 00:02:51,252 or was she pushed? 48 00:03:46,603 --> 00:03:51,203 Sync and corrections: minouhse www.addic7ed.com 49 00:03:58,435 --> 00:04:00,869 I think John Mills has lovely hair 50 00:04:00,995 --> 00:04:03,610 and his nails always looks so neat. 51 00:04:04,401 --> 00:04:06,831 Riveting stuff this, Mrs. B. 52 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:09,467 Well, Book thinks there's something here. 53 00:04:09,592 --> 00:04:12,112 A clue. We like those. 54 00:04:12,391 --> 00:04:16,081 Many names coming up a lot. Regular correspondence. 55 00:04:16,286 --> 00:04:20,664 Name and address supplied is a very reliable contributor. 56 00:04:22,521 --> 00:04:25,728 I try to give myself a mole like Margaret Lockwood. 57 00:04:25,854 --> 00:04:28,883 And now mum says I look like a tart. 58 00:04:34,818 --> 00:04:36,310 Hang on. 59 00:04:37,305 --> 00:04:39,924 I've seen a letter from this one before. 60 00:04:40,449 --> 00:04:41,877 Signed 61 00:04:42,589 --> 00:04:44,000 Basilisk. 62 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:51,545 If only we could step through the screen. 63 00:04:52,241 --> 00:04:55,593 Oh... Romance of the pictures is really getting to, isn't it? 64 00:04:55,719 --> 00:04:56,922 It's not that. 65 00:04:57,702 --> 00:04:59,497 Beyond a door, behind that set, 66 00:04:59,623 --> 00:05:03,786 there's a flight of stairs when I think Norena Bean is already dead. 67 00:05:08,839 --> 00:05:11,165 Do you think this is linked to the poison girl? 68 00:05:13,375 --> 00:05:16,512 Special delivery. Your postman. 69 00:05:17,274 --> 00:05:18,690 Bert Masterson. 70 00:05:19,137 --> 00:05:21,037 Kurt Masterson. 71 00:05:22,341 --> 00:05:24,996 Normally I... I do landlords 72 00:05:27,139 --> 00:05:30,302 I seen a glass pushed in a bloke's face 73 00:05:30,428 --> 00:05:32,802 and I've laughed. See? 74 00:05:34,078 --> 00:05:37,754 Very good. Robert Newton should watch his back. 75 00:05:37,879 --> 00:05:41,332 But you're not auditioning now, Mr. Masterson. 76 00:05:41,457 --> 00:05:45,025 We're investigating the unfortunate death that took place here last night. 77 00:05:45,151 --> 00:05:48,869 Second one on this production, in fact, after Miss Barbara Markham. 78 00:05:48,995 --> 00:05:51,581 And two looks like carelessness. 79 00:05:52,059 --> 00:05:53,721 Whose though? 80 00:05:54,131 --> 00:05:56,609 - Are you the police? - Inspector Bliss is the police. 81 00:05:56,734 --> 00:05:58,674 - Hello. - I'm just helping them. 82 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:01,400 - With their inquiries? - With the fiddly bits. 83 00:06:01,892 --> 00:06:05,721 Now Kurt Masterson not your real name. 84 00:06:05,846 --> 00:06:07,549 How did you know? 85 00:06:07,881 --> 00:06:10,815 You went home early last night, Mr. Masterson. Why? 86 00:06:10,941 --> 00:06:13,189 Well, I was made an offer I couldn't refuse, wasn't I? 87 00:06:13,315 --> 00:06:16,782 I knew the lady. Narina Bean. I read a column. I always do. 88 00:06:16,907 --> 00:06:19,395 She gave me a fiver just to borrow the uniform mine. 89 00:06:19,521 --> 00:06:21,212 Said she would go on for me and no one would clock it. 90 00:06:21,337 --> 00:06:24,930 Now, why would she want to pose as you? 91 00:06:25,291 --> 00:06:27,572 She said she was writing a story. 92 00:06:28,151 --> 00:06:31,401 The poisonous secret at the heart of Loveless in London. 93 00:06:31,526 --> 00:06:33,397 Love Lorne. 94 00:06:33,522 --> 00:06:36,107 Something like that. She wasn't specific. 95 00:06:36,233 --> 00:06:38,264 But she said she needed one last bit of proof. 96 00:06:38,631 --> 00:06:41,300 I didn't think nothing of it. I was barely in the shot. 97 00:06:41,514 --> 00:06:44,701 You sell a lot of stories to the press, do you, Mr. Masterson? 98 00:06:44,826 --> 00:06:46,379 About actors here? 99 00:06:46,505 --> 00:06:47,844 No. 100 00:06:48,208 --> 00:06:50,940 Well... nothing nasty just whether they like mink 101 00:06:51,066 --> 00:06:53,061 or feathers or where they drink. 102 00:06:53,186 --> 00:06:54,395 Or how much. 103 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:56,964 Alright, thank you. We'll come and get a statement from you. 104 00:06:57,090 --> 00:06:58,400 - That's it? - That's it. 105 00:07:00,306 --> 00:07:03,113 I was a red herring before, once. 106 00:07:03,239 --> 00:07:05,691 Arthur Wantner tapped his pipe and looked obedient at me. 107 00:07:05,817 --> 00:07:08,557 But I'd never done it. I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. 108 00:07:08,683 --> 00:07:09,929 Alright, thank you. 109 00:07:12,028 --> 00:07:13,871 Why was she here though Norena? 110 00:07:13,996 --> 00:07:16,894 Why got her to the trouble of bribing him and putting on his costume? 111 00:07:17,019 --> 00:07:18,361 The extra security. 112 00:07:18,486 --> 00:07:20,516 She can just hang around in a lane, could she? 113 00:07:20,642 --> 00:07:22,789 So I suppose she needed a disguise. 114 00:07:23,226 --> 00:07:25,281 Title of that article though, eh? 115 00:07:25,406 --> 00:07:27,227 Maybe she was on to the poisoner? 116 00:07:27,452 --> 00:07:29,106 So she had to go. 117 00:07:30,353 --> 00:07:31,997 What's that? 118 00:07:32,123 --> 00:07:33,794 It was something I noticed. 119 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:36,852 Backwards impression on Norena Bean's hand in ink. 120 00:07:36,977 --> 00:07:39,049 It was something she was holding. 121 00:07:39,174 --> 00:07:40,788 Evidently, she was sweating. 122 00:07:40,913 --> 00:07:44,792 The weather from the exertion of going up the stairs or the heavy costume... 123 00:07:45,403 --> 00:07:49,387 and reversed... it reads... 124 00:07:50,203 --> 00:07:52,489 Ty Wyns... Ty... 125 00:07:52,614 --> 00:07:56,099 Ty Wyns... Ty... Ty Wyns... to twins. 126 00:07:56,433 --> 00:07:57,679 Hardly. 127 00:07:57,862 --> 00:08:00,934 More likely the fragment of two words, wouldn't you say? 128 00:08:01,059 --> 00:08:03,255 I uh... better get back to work. 129 00:08:03,381 --> 00:08:04,781 Work? 130 00:08:05,252 --> 00:08:07,067 I'm standing in for Stuart. 131 00:08:07,632 --> 00:08:09,746 It's not a profit trade, you know? 132 00:08:09,872 --> 00:08:11,217 Yeah. 133 00:08:11,446 --> 00:08:13,674 Like being a part-time detective. 134 00:08:17,897 --> 00:08:19,409 What's up with it? 135 00:08:25,718 --> 00:08:26,970 Me. 136 00:08:29,443 --> 00:08:32,076 She's dead. You saw her. 137 00:08:32,842 --> 00:08:34,842 She was at the bottom of the stairs. 138 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:38,261 - Like a broken doll. - Oh God, how awful. 139 00:08:38,445 --> 00:08:42,036 I mean she was awful but still... 140 00:08:42,464 --> 00:08:43,866 how awful. 141 00:08:49,588 --> 00:08:53,418 If it was murder there'd be a lot of suspense. 142 00:08:54,089 --> 00:08:55,682 Half the British film business. 143 00:08:55,807 --> 00:08:57,692 - All of it. - It's true. 144 00:08:57,818 --> 00:08:59,540 Everybody hated her. 145 00:09:00,366 --> 00:09:01,600 You hated her. 146 00:09:03,513 --> 00:09:06,087 What did you do last night? 147 00:09:07,530 --> 00:09:10,047 Had a drink with that boy. Nice kid. 148 00:09:10,603 --> 00:09:14,123 Went to bed early, did some film star duties. 149 00:09:14,530 --> 00:09:16,103 Yes, you know. 150 00:09:16,278 --> 00:09:19,535 Signing photos, answering questions from fans. 151 00:09:19,661 --> 00:09:22,580 What's your ideal night out, What'd you like for breakfast. 152 00:09:24,053 --> 00:09:26,719 - You were just shooting here? - Yeah, yes. 153 00:09:26,893 --> 00:09:29,390 Due take off to take. 154 00:09:29,516 --> 00:09:31,536 Simple stuff really. 155 00:09:37,393 --> 00:09:41,245 How many stars have sat here like me 156 00:09:42,125 --> 00:09:44,320 watching the creases grow? 157 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:48,094 The hair thin, the flesh droop, 158 00:09:48,219 --> 00:09:50,080 the chins. 159 00:09:52,902 --> 00:09:56,547 I met a man once, he was an astronomer. 160 00:09:56,673 --> 00:10:01,000 Now he knew about the stars, the real ones, I mean. 161 00:10:01,567 --> 00:10:03,013 Did you know 162 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:06,820 that the stars that we see in the sky, aren't really there? 163 00:10:06,984 --> 00:10:09,133 Most of them anyway. 164 00:10:09,259 --> 00:10:12,892 It takes so long for the light to reach us, 165 00:10:13,374 --> 00:10:15,576 that they're just echoes. 166 00:10:15,967 --> 00:10:17,355 Ghosts, 167 00:10:17,644 --> 00:10:20,920 just a memory of what was once there. 168 00:10:21,787 --> 00:10:23,305 Christ darling. 169 00:10:23,430 --> 00:10:26,521 But some of those stars don't go quietly. 170 00:10:26,646 --> 00:10:28,285 Or no, towards the end 171 00:10:28,410 --> 00:10:30,296 later in life, shall we say, 172 00:10:30,422 --> 00:10:33,467 they get bigger, bigger stew. 173 00:10:33,592 --> 00:10:38,760 They give out more more light and heat till nothing can eclipse them. 174 00:10:38,886 --> 00:10:40,219 Nothing. 175 00:10:41,470 --> 00:10:43,651 I don't want to go quietly 176 00:10:43,777 --> 00:10:48,720 I want to burn, light up the town like I used to. 177 00:10:48,845 --> 00:10:50,475 Explode. 178 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:51,867 Boom. 179 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:58,475 Chocolates were injected with one of these. So why have you got one? 180 00:10:58,601 --> 00:11:01,165 Well, it's hardly a secret, is it? 181 00:11:01,291 --> 00:11:03,667 Diabetic, aren't I? Everyone knows that. 182 00:11:04,265 --> 00:11:05,764 Interesting. 183 00:11:05,890 --> 00:11:09,142 So anyone could have gained access to this, for instance. 184 00:11:11,661 --> 00:11:13,122 Well, you might have done it yourself. 185 00:11:13,247 --> 00:11:15,282 Why the hell would I have wanted to poison Miss Dare? 186 00:11:15,407 --> 00:11:18,594 Well, that's just the thing, Sonny Jim. Miss Dare wasn't the target. 187 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:20,963 - Then who was? - Her fiancé. 188 00:11:21,746 --> 00:11:25,248 Yes, puts a rather different complexion on things, doesn't it? 189 00:11:25,374 --> 00:11:26,762 Mr. Howard fired you, didn't he? 190 00:11:26,887 --> 00:11:28,704 Yeah, yeah, but not till after the chocolate... 191 00:11:28,829 --> 00:11:30,386 Yeah, but he treated you badly. 192 00:11:30,512 --> 00:11:31,722 You were his whipping boy. 193 00:11:31,847 --> 00:11:34,400 You need to develop a fixed skin in this business, Inspector. 194 00:11:34,526 --> 00:11:37,594 I've dealt with bigger egos than Stuart Howard, believe me. 195 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:39,965 If I'd wanted to get my own back, I'd have pissed in his tea, 196 00:11:40,090 --> 00:11:41,874 not poisoned his chocolates. 197 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:44,647 And then there's the late Miss Noreen Bean. 198 00:11:44,772 --> 00:11:47,542 Yeah, well, she was a right old man. 199 00:11:49,026 --> 00:11:50,863 Mustn't speak ill of the dead. 200 00:11:51,587 --> 00:11:53,778 - She have anything on you? - Like what? 201 00:11:54,269 --> 00:11:56,261 You can account for your movements last night, can't you? 202 00:11:56,387 --> 00:11:58,973 - Shot right through. - What? No coffee breaks? 203 00:11:59,098 --> 00:12:00,502 Yes, of course coffee breaks. 204 00:12:00,627 --> 00:12:02,871 So theoretically, you could have pushed Noreen Bean 205 00:12:02,996 --> 00:12:05,455 - down the stairwell, couldn't you? - Yeah, well, theoretically, 206 00:12:05,580 --> 00:12:08,593 I could have won the pools and rung up Veronica Lake for a date. 207 00:12:08,719 --> 00:12:10,861 - But I didn't. - What's this? 208 00:12:11,653 --> 00:12:13,182 Tomorrow's Pink Page. 209 00:12:15,227 --> 00:12:16,654 Rewrite? 210 00:12:16,780 --> 00:12:19,233 Mr. McKendrick's rewrite of scene 34. 211 00:12:19,358 --> 00:12:23,297 Just a little one. But in this business, the details matter, Inspector. 212 00:12:23,423 --> 00:12:25,518 You don't want actors bumping into the furniture. 213 00:12:25,644 --> 00:12:27,526 I'm a details man myself. 214 00:12:29,840 --> 00:12:32,735 Oh, yeah, I'm terrible at the pictures, me. 215 00:12:32,861 --> 00:12:35,361 You know, I... I always know it, done it, straight off. 216 00:12:36,520 --> 00:12:38,235 Here it takes the marrow out of Mrs. Bliss. 217 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:41,024 But as I always say to her, the why is the thing. 218 00:12:41,149 --> 00:12:43,321 So why not take her to a Western? 219 00:12:44,340 --> 00:12:47,490 Watch all those cowboys getting shot in the chest and falling forwards. 220 00:12:47,946 --> 00:12:49,480 Don't think so. 221 00:12:50,340 --> 00:12:52,067 You ever get home, Billy? 222 00:12:52,726 --> 00:12:56,356 If I try hard, Mr. Book, I can remember the daylight. 223 00:12:57,222 --> 00:13:01,175 - Can I go now? - Well, we'll need to get this testy. 224 00:13:01,431 --> 00:13:02,824 For insulin. 225 00:13:03,579 --> 00:13:05,270 For Strychnine. 226 00:13:22,756 --> 00:13:23,963 Basilisk. 227 00:13:24,845 --> 00:13:27,225 Eh? Ring any bells? 228 00:13:28,733 --> 00:13:29,953 Basilisk. 229 00:13:30,079 --> 00:13:33,325 Nora and I have spent most of the morning dredging through your back issues. 230 00:13:33,450 --> 00:13:34,825 My head's swimming. 231 00:13:34,950 --> 00:13:37,234 And we finally found what we were looking for. 232 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:41,160 A Sandra Dare fan who wrote to Picture Goer a lot. 233 00:13:41,286 --> 00:13:43,232 This one is from two years ago. 234 00:13:43,357 --> 00:13:46,059 For looks, talent and sheer screen charisma, 235 00:13:46,184 --> 00:13:48,840 no one can compete with the divine Miss Dare. 236 00:13:49,111 --> 00:13:50,446 There's loads like that. 237 00:13:50,571 --> 00:13:53,379 In our latest picture, the 43-year-old star 238 00:13:53,505 --> 00:13:56,493 elevates the art of acting to great heights. 239 00:13:56,619 --> 00:13:59,174 But why she's wasting her time sharing the screen 240 00:13:59,299 --> 00:14:01,762 with Stuart Howard, I will never know. 241 00:14:01,887 --> 00:14:04,994 A mumbling, soppy-eyed fop. 242 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:08,200 - Oh. - And here's another, a year later. 243 00:14:08,326 --> 00:14:11,426 The public's infatuation with Dare and Howard is beyond me. 244 00:14:11,552 --> 00:14:14,747 Miss Dare should be striking out alone, not saddling 245 00:14:14,872 --> 00:14:17,434 herself with this talentless whippersnapper. 246 00:14:17,560 --> 00:14:21,350 Of course, there is always difficulty when one reaches for the stars. 247 00:14:21,476 --> 00:14:25,320 But the difficulty, as I see it, is Stuart Howard. 248 00:14:25,446 --> 00:14:27,880 And there's a lot more like that in the same vein. 249 00:14:28,313 --> 00:14:31,720 An all-signed Basilisk. 250 00:14:32,879 --> 00:14:34,100 I see. 251 00:14:34,747 --> 00:14:36,738 Well, they obviously didn't like Stu. 252 00:14:38,573 --> 00:14:41,129 You think they might be the one who sent the chocolates? 253 00:14:41,255 --> 00:14:42,471 I don't know. 254 00:14:42,597 --> 00:14:45,930 Is it too much of a stretch to go from disliking a film star 255 00:14:46,143 --> 00:14:48,216 to sending them Strychnine? 256 00:14:53,112 --> 00:14:58,106 Sometimes the discussions can get very heated at the meet-ups. 257 00:14:58,927 --> 00:15:01,282 - Meet-ups? - Oh, yeah. 258 00:15:01,407 --> 00:15:03,040 We meet up and have chats and that. 259 00:15:03,166 --> 00:15:06,573 Sometimes the studio will send a star down to open a fate or something. 260 00:15:07,359 --> 00:15:09,040 That's when I first met Barbara. 261 00:15:09,419 --> 00:15:13,130 And you've never come across this Basilisk? 262 00:15:13,487 --> 00:15:15,342 Well, how would I know? 263 00:15:15,467 --> 00:15:17,744 If they never used their real name? 264 00:15:34,180 --> 00:15:35,385 Anything? 265 00:15:35,511 --> 00:15:39,208 Mr Howard's room's as bare as George Zocco's pate. 266 00:15:40,547 --> 00:15:42,626 What about Miss Dare's? 267 00:15:43,087 --> 00:15:44,386 Same. 268 00:15:47,487 --> 00:15:48,786 Probably. 269 00:15:50,967 --> 00:15:52,474 Who's next? 270 00:15:55,167 --> 00:15:57,332 - Sound-proofed? - Naturally. 271 00:15:58,364 --> 00:16:01,003 Now, we know your movements last night, Mr. McKendrick. 272 00:16:01,129 --> 00:16:04,422 I should think so. The director never has a moment to themselves. 273 00:16:04,547 --> 00:16:08,040 In the tea break, I went to my office. Just a minor change for tomorrow. 274 00:16:08,576 --> 00:16:10,242 A pink page, yes. 275 00:16:10,367 --> 00:16:12,082 You can check with my secretary. 276 00:16:12,207 --> 00:16:14,160 These stairs, where do they lead? 277 00:16:14,965 --> 00:16:16,754 Prop store, offices. 278 00:16:16,880 --> 00:16:19,421 - It's a warren, this place. - Film vault, down there. 279 00:16:19,547 --> 00:16:21,040 Nice place, if you like asbestos. 280 00:16:21,499 --> 00:16:23,606 The treasures are pretty similar. 281 00:16:23,732 --> 00:16:26,251 - Not really. - No? What then? 282 00:16:26,839 --> 00:16:30,116 Well, our film opens in Leicester Square. 283 00:16:30,241 --> 00:16:33,257 Then it goes out across the country. Then to the second-run houses in the flea pits. 284 00:16:33,383 --> 00:16:36,200 And when it's so scratched that every scene looks like it's happening in Antarctica, 285 00:16:36,326 --> 00:16:37,480 it comes here. 286 00:16:37,747 --> 00:16:38,990 Back home. 287 00:16:39,307 --> 00:16:41,057 It's taken to the tank. 288 00:16:41,182 --> 00:16:43,975 The tank? What happens there? 289 00:16:50,761 --> 00:16:52,592 It's put out of its misery. 290 00:16:52,972 --> 00:16:55,501 It's dissolved in sodium hypochlorite. 291 00:16:55,627 --> 00:16:58,000 - Why back here? - The fumes, Mr. Book. 292 00:16:58,126 --> 00:16:59,390 The fumes. 293 00:16:59,844 --> 00:17:02,840 In goes some old tat starring a terrible provincial comic. 294 00:17:02,966 --> 00:17:04,912 And out comes something useful. 295 00:17:05,037 --> 00:17:07,754 Waterproof paint and silver halide. 296 00:17:07,879 --> 00:17:10,172 What an odd little cottage industry. 297 00:17:10,298 --> 00:17:13,232 It's valuable. More valuable than what's on the films themselves. 298 00:17:13,357 --> 00:17:16,343 - That seems a lot of effort to go to. - No, it's a simple process. 299 00:17:16,469 --> 00:17:17,924 A chemical solution does the work. 300 00:17:18,050 --> 00:17:22,512 No, I mean, making a motion picture. You know, the stars and the lights. 301 00:17:22,638 --> 00:17:24,200 You know, shooting all those scenes. 302 00:17:24,326 --> 00:17:26,078 And then just to melt it all down for scrap. 303 00:17:26,204 --> 00:17:28,969 British cinema is mainly stupid, Inspector. 304 00:17:29,157 --> 00:17:31,960 It's never been about anything. That needs to change. 305 00:17:32,391 --> 00:17:35,200 When it does, I'll make movies that won't end up here. 306 00:17:51,517 --> 00:17:52,728 Howard? 307 00:17:56,551 --> 00:17:58,698 - Bye, darling. - Bye. 308 00:18:03,353 --> 00:18:04,812 Mr. Howard. 309 00:18:04,937 --> 00:18:06,320 - Mr. Book. - A moment? 310 00:18:06,446 --> 00:18:07,689 Of course. 311 00:18:07,815 --> 00:18:10,258 - A hoary old query. - Who is? 312 00:18:10,697 --> 00:18:12,710 What were you doing last night? 313 00:18:14,077 --> 00:18:17,807 Well, after drinks with your Jack, I went to bed early. 314 00:18:17,933 --> 00:18:21,215 But I couldn't get off. I spent a lot of time staring at the ceiling, 315 00:18:21,341 --> 00:18:23,877 contemplating mortality, as you can imagine. 316 00:18:24,003 --> 00:18:26,364 Any witnesses? Sorry to sound so official. 317 00:18:26,490 --> 00:18:28,965 Of course not. Sandra and I are engaged, don't you know? 318 00:18:29,091 --> 00:18:31,413 I had heard something of the kind. 319 00:18:32,103 --> 00:18:33,320 And Lorena Bean? 320 00:18:34,637 --> 00:18:37,600 - Was she blackmailing you? - About prison? 321 00:18:39,259 --> 00:18:40,480 I've been very careful. 322 00:18:42,043 --> 00:18:44,435 Incredibly, I don't think she ever got a sniff of it. 323 00:18:44,736 --> 00:18:46,988 Mustache. TTFM. 324 00:18:47,962 --> 00:18:51,032 All right, there's been a smash and grab in Crystal Palace. 325 00:18:51,158 --> 00:18:54,285 A tray of missing wedding rings and a cracked skull. 326 00:18:55,103 --> 00:18:57,378 Very much a B-movie crime. 327 00:18:57,504 --> 00:19:00,067 Why don't you stick around here? 328 00:19:00,381 --> 00:19:02,578 Keep in mind the beautiful people. 329 00:19:03,492 --> 00:19:05,093 They are beautiful. 330 00:19:05,793 --> 00:19:07,542 Well, what else are they? 331 00:19:12,287 --> 00:19:13,640 Come on, Sergeant. Let's go. 332 00:19:57,783 --> 00:19:59,004 Clippings. 333 00:19:59,917 --> 00:20:03,023 - We found your trail, Book. - Oh, excellent work. 334 00:20:03,966 --> 00:20:06,404 Mrs. Book. Didn't expect to see you here. 335 00:20:06,530 --> 00:20:09,960 Mr. Howard said we should visit, and I've bought something for my husband. 336 00:20:10,218 --> 00:20:12,173 - Lunch? - Clues. 337 00:20:12,298 --> 00:20:15,406 - Eh? - Very interesting trail here. 338 00:20:16,184 --> 00:20:19,091 And I thought I saw something earlier, too, in the note. 339 00:20:19,217 --> 00:20:21,289 A repeated phrase. 340 00:20:22,283 --> 00:20:25,494 And these are all signed Basilisk. 341 00:20:26,677 --> 00:20:28,985 - What? - It's a mythological creature. 342 00:20:29,111 --> 00:20:31,132 Could kill you just by looking at you. 343 00:20:31,257 --> 00:20:33,676 Rather the way Miss Dare is looking at me now. 344 00:20:33,909 --> 00:20:35,314 Would you excuse me? 345 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:36,669 Well done, darling. 346 00:20:39,927 --> 00:20:42,242 Would you like a little look around, Mrs. Book? 347 00:20:42,367 --> 00:20:44,458 Oh, I'd be delighted. 348 00:20:47,287 --> 00:20:51,027 So, er, wallpaper didn't suit your story, then? 349 00:20:51,153 --> 00:20:52,219 Well, no. 350 00:20:52,345 --> 00:20:55,181 Because the hero, Tony, he desires pleasure. 351 00:20:55,307 --> 00:20:58,315 But he's afraid of it. He's repressed. 352 00:20:58,497 --> 00:21:00,263 That's Freud, you know. 353 00:21:00,389 --> 00:21:03,662 - Oh, so I understand. - Wallpaper simply doesn't give us that. 354 00:21:03,787 --> 00:21:05,793 Wallpaper is about covering things up. 355 00:21:05,919 --> 00:21:07,518 I thought cakes. 356 00:21:07,699 --> 00:21:10,482 Cakes are the opposite of books, really. 357 00:21:10,895 --> 00:21:13,014 I must have missed that bit in Freud. 358 00:21:13,306 --> 00:21:16,058 Ah. Yes. Break. Please. 359 00:21:18,151 --> 00:21:20,760 Skirts gathered ready for the pursuit of art? 360 00:21:22,066 --> 00:21:24,006 Er, yes. I suppose so. 361 00:21:24,132 --> 00:21:27,057 Well, before you rush off, perhaps I could check some details. 362 00:21:27,887 --> 00:21:31,342 How do you help the police exactly, Mr. Book? 363 00:21:31,467 --> 00:21:33,202 I check details. 364 00:21:33,327 --> 00:21:36,364 You must be relieved to know the chocolates weren't intended for you. 365 00:21:36,490 --> 00:21:39,522 Naturally. But also terribly worried for Stu. 366 00:21:39,647 --> 00:21:40,742 Of course. 367 00:21:40,867 --> 00:21:44,422 Now, I know where you were last night, Miss Dare, because I've seen the rushes. 368 00:21:44,547 --> 00:21:46,981 You were doing that scene where you look through the window 369 00:21:47,107 --> 00:21:48,955 and think about the resilience of your love. 370 00:21:49,081 --> 00:21:50,240 Yes. 371 00:21:50,366 --> 00:21:53,244 With Narina Bean amongst the background artists. 372 00:21:53,370 --> 00:21:56,267 Narina? Was she on the set? 373 00:21:56,809 --> 00:21:59,399 - In the shot? - Yes. 374 00:21:59,913 --> 00:22:02,680 Moments later, she was on the stairs. 375 00:22:02,806 --> 00:22:06,540 - Yes, yes. - And then at the bottom of the stairs. 376 00:22:06,666 --> 00:22:08,776 Yes, well, I know about that. 377 00:22:08,902 --> 00:22:12,963 Perhaps she was killed because she knew who'd sent the poison chocolates. 378 00:22:15,476 --> 00:22:17,120 So how would you think? 379 00:22:18,250 --> 00:22:20,039 It's a working hypothesis. 380 00:22:20,165 --> 00:22:22,165 Wait a minute. Um... 381 00:22:22,768 --> 00:22:24,640 You don't think that I... 382 00:22:26,360 --> 00:22:30,668 No. I love Stuart. We're everything to each other. 383 00:22:31,779 --> 00:22:34,200 Everything to the box office, at any rate. 384 00:22:34,326 --> 00:22:37,157 Oh. And someone's been telling tales. 385 00:22:37,930 --> 00:22:39,384 Well, if that were the case, 386 00:22:39,510 --> 00:22:42,972 I'd have even less motive for killing Stuart, wouldn't I? 387 00:22:43,098 --> 00:22:44,760 We're joined at the hip. 388 00:22:46,346 --> 00:22:49,110 When you finished filming, you went back to your dressing room. 389 00:22:49,235 --> 00:22:50,676 - Very much. - Yes. 390 00:22:51,015 --> 00:22:55,030 Oh, Billy darling, you wouldn't get me a coffee, would you please? 391 00:22:55,155 --> 00:22:56,914 - Of course, Miss Dare. - A dash of milk. 392 00:22:57,040 --> 00:23:00,626 - Me too, Billy. Good strong one. - Sure thing, sir. 393 00:23:02,046 --> 00:23:07,156 You all work such long hours. We like to turn the sign at 5.30. 394 00:23:07,282 --> 00:23:09,511 Oh, my dear. Well, in the quota quickie days, 395 00:23:09,636 --> 00:23:13,074 there was one picture shooting here during the day and one at night. 396 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:15,650 When that door opened with a 10 o'clock turnaround? 397 00:23:15,775 --> 00:23:19,736 Oh, no idea. Stale beer, orange peel, gas. 398 00:23:19,861 --> 00:23:20,910 Thank you, darling. 399 00:23:21,035 --> 00:23:23,329 Oh, the 1930s. 400 00:23:23,454 --> 00:23:24,880 Those were the days. 401 00:23:27,961 --> 00:23:29,339 Sugar, sir. 402 00:23:30,637 --> 00:23:33,767 - What? - Tastes horrible, so bitter. 403 00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:36,896 Would you like some milk, sir? 404 00:23:37,435 --> 00:23:38,641 No. 405 00:23:38,967 --> 00:23:40,342 Billy, get me some water. 406 00:23:41,900 --> 00:23:43,800 Oh, my lord. 407 00:23:43,926 --> 00:23:45,160 Jessie? 408 00:23:45,474 --> 00:23:47,113 Same symptoms. 409 00:23:49,120 --> 00:23:50,511 Oh, my lord. 410 00:23:51,339 --> 00:23:52,595 Help me. 411 00:23:55,911 --> 00:23:57,195 Eat it. 412 00:23:57,661 --> 00:23:59,060 Swallow again. 413 00:23:59,186 --> 00:24:00,306 What are you doing, Tim? 414 00:24:00,432 --> 00:24:01,754 Trying to save his life, I think, 415 00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:04,760 but perhaps someone should call an ambulance in case I've got it wrong? 416 00:24:04,886 --> 00:24:06,329 Ambulance, quickly. 417 00:24:06,455 --> 00:24:08,726 - What's up, Mr. McKendrick? - Stay with us. 418 00:24:10,714 --> 00:24:13,480 Oh, no. Look at me. Look at me. 419 00:24:26,422 --> 00:24:28,560 We didn't even get to the top of the hill. 420 00:24:28,725 --> 00:24:31,434 - Is he hurt? - It's largely cosmetic. 421 00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:33,434 Well, some of that stuff around his mouth. 422 00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:35,960 - It's largely cosmetic. - Mascara. 423 00:24:36,701 --> 00:24:38,274 Oh, charcoal. 424 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:39,920 I believe that's what mascara is. 425 00:24:40,045 --> 00:24:41,311 Oh, and petroleum jelly. 426 00:24:41,437 --> 00:24:42,781 Bit of a risk, though, Mrs. Book. 427 00:24:42,907 --> 00:24:44,653 Charcoal's good for Strychnine. 428 00:24:44,779 --> 00:24:48,200 But I'm still waiting for the report on what was in Barbara Malcolm's chocolate. 429 00:24:48,325 --> 00:24:50,840 - Could've been anything. - Mr. McKendrick twitched, though. 430 00:24:50,965 --> 00:24:53,011 - Strychnine gives you the twitches. - That's right. 431 00:24:53,136 --> 00:24:55,210 Great presence of mind is my wife. 432 00:24:56,324 --> 00:24:59,040 All my thoughts, dear Jesse. 433 00:24:59,165 --> 00:25:01,137 Oh, wait. My bag. 434 00:25:01,262 --> 00:25:03,395 - I need my things. - Oh, allow me. 435 00:25:09,828 --> 00:25:11,168 Silly me. 436 00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:20,364 Thank you, Mr. Book. 437 00:25:42,388 --> 00:25:44,841 Oh, it's in the coffee. 438 00:25:45,388 --> 00:25:48,043 Everyone else has drunk it. They seem to be fine. 439 00:25:53,870 --> 00:25:55,412 Not entirely awful. 440 00:25:56,125 --> 00:25:59,970 Oh, it's in the cup. Added afterwards. 441 00:26:00,095 --> 00:26:01,729 You'd think so, wouldn't you? 442 00:26:02,248 --> 00:26:04,349 It's so indiscriminate. 443 00:26:06,672 --> 00:26:08,426 I just heard. Jessie? 444 00:26:08,551 --> 00:26:10,733 - Poisoned. - Oh, God. 445 00:26:11,481 --> 00:26:14,230 - What? Is it meant for me? - I don't know. 446 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:16,511 The new schedule. Mr. Howard. 447 00:26:16,813 --> 00:26:18,040 Mrs. N. 448 00:26:18,901 --> 00:26:20,342 You can go, Jack. 449 00:26:20,534 --> 00:26:22,446 That'll be the end of shooting for the day. 450 00:26:24,474 --> 00:26:25,685 Okay. 451 00:26:28,251 --> 00:26:29,462 Quite. 452 00:26:29,924 --> 00:26:32,141 Let's call it a day. Shall we, Trotty? 453 00:26:40,081 --> 00:26:42,116 What's the matter with him? 454 00:26:42,521 --> 00:26:43,727 I don't know. 455 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:47,306 He's been rather off with me all day. 456 00:26:47,547 --> 00:26:50,379 _ 457 00:27:01,875 --> 00:27:04,170 Laura, are we diversifying? 458 00:27:04,501 --> 00:27:06,822 Just catching up on my reading. 459 00:27:09,538 --> 00:27:11,989 Here's mud in your eye. 460 00:27:12,115 --> 00:27:14,510 - Oi. - You're still a child. 461 00:27:14,832 --> 00:27:17,329 Your uncle'd have my guts for garters. 462 00:27:17,524 --> 00:27:20,080 - I'm going to bed. - Are you all right? 463 00:27:20,921 --> 00:27:22,201 Long day. 464 00:27:22,478 --> 00:27:25,461 What's wrong with your usual diet of blood and guts? 465 00:27:26,068 --> 00:27:27,685 Got a bit bored. 466 00:27:28,195 --> 00:27:31,102 They're starving a woman to death in Penge. 467 00:27:32,475 --> 00:27:34,295 Nora, a favour. 468 00:27:34,442 --> 00:27:37,231 Where are those film almanacs? 469 00:27:37,539 --> 00:27:39,389 You mean the magazines that girl bought? 470 00:27:39,515 --> 00:27:41,126 No, no. We have a stack of almanacs. 471 00:27:41,252 --> 00:27:44,390 Early films. From when they still called them Flickers. 472 00:27:44,515 --> 00:27:48,600 If memory serves, between William Friese-Greene and How Green Was My Valley. 473 00:27:49,095 --> 00:27:50,306 Right. 474 00:28:02,054 --> 00:28:03,825 There she is. 475 00:28:04,399 --> 00:28:06,640 Christiana Edmunds. 476 00:28:11,683 --> 00:28:13,429 And Astra. 477 00:28:13,588 --> 00:28:15,007 Asper. 478 00:28:16,357 --> 00:28:17,600 What? 479 00:28:36,574 --> 00:28:39,480 Oh, it's all right. These people never go upstairs. 480 00:28:39,606 --> 00:28:42,973 - Sounds like home. - No ceiling, though. 481 00:28:43,205 --> 00:28:46,100 The rooms in films never have ceilings. Why is that, eh? 482 00:28:46,225 --> 00:28:47,757 It stopped the light getting in. 483 00:28:47,882 --> 00:28:49,500 Continuity. Mr. Book. 484 00:28:49,625 --> 00:28:50,836 Oh. 485 00:28:51,865 --> 00:28:53,076 Sorry. 486 00:28:53,885 --> 00:28:55,360 How is the life of a stand-in? 487 00:28:56,157 --> 00:28:58,722 - Static. - Jack, a word in your shell-like. 488 00:29:02,815 --> 00:29:04,110 Jack. Jack. 489 00:29:04,467 --> 00:29:05,915 Back into the light. Please. 490 00:29:07,738 --> 00:29:08,947 Mr. McKendrick. 491 00:29:09,073 --> 00:29:10,864 Glad to see you looking hale and hearty. 492 00:29:10,990 --> 00:29:12,554 - Fully recovered, I hope. - Yes. 493 00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:15,123 Thanks to Mrs. Book. When I went into the picture business, 494 00:29:15,248 --> 00:29:17,325 I never thought it would be so bad for my nerves. 495 00:29:17,451 --> 00:29:19,205 It's exhausting. More exhausting than running. 496 00:29:19,330 --> 00:29:21,330 - So much more. - Near the end, though, now, aren't we? 497 00:29:21,455 --> 00:29:22,690 Yes. I'm so sorry, Mr. Book. 498 00:29:22,815 --> 00:29:25,275 - Would you excuse me? I'm rather busy. - Of course. 499 00:29:25,401 --> 00:29:29,230 Oh, what is the, er... story so far, Mr. Howard? 500 00:29:29,355 --> 00:29:32,950 We've been having a passionate affair of the intellect, Madeline and I. 501 00:29:33,075 --> 00:29:34,490 But then this telegram comes. 502 00:29:34,615 --> 00:29:37,060 A telegram of doom. And what do you know? 503 00:29:37,185 --> 00:29:39,810 A husband's been found in a Japanese POW camp. 504 00:29:39,935 --> 00:29:40,982 Oh, bad luck. 505 00:29:41,108 --> 00:29:43,425 Yes, and he's on his way back to Blighty with his ribs sticking out, 506 00:29:43,550 --> 00:29:45,540 but still very much a going concern, love-wise. 507 00:29:45,666 --> 00:29:47,130 And so she tells me she has to leave me. 508 00:29:47,255 --> 00:29:49,558 - What do you say? - Nothing. Of course. 509 00:29:49,684 --> 00:29:51,741 Writers never want to write those bits. 510 00:29:51,867 --> 00:29:54,278 They're like a nice, clean reaction shot. 511 00:29:54,404 --> 00:29:56,160 Something's swelling in the soundtrack. 512 00:29:56,537 --> 00:29:58,024 Positions, please. 513 00:29:58,435 --> 00:30:00,370 But, credit due, Jesse listened. 514 00:30:00,496 --> 00:30:02,137 So instead of standing there catching flies, 515 00:30:02,262 --> 00:30:05,062 I gird my loins and go stoically back to work. 516 00:30:05,187 --> 00:30:06,760 Like Uncle Vanya. 517 00:30:07,787 --> 00:30:09,976 I'm sure that's what Jesse had in mind. 518 00:30:10,434 --> 00:30:11,661 Ask him. 519 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:14,009 I might have that. 520 00:30:14,755 --> 00:30:16,890 What did you do today, today? 521 00:30:17,015 --> 00:30:18,453 What did you do today? 522 00:30:18,581 --> 00:30:20,163 Goodmorning. 523 00:30:20,795 --> 00:30:22,370 What did you do today, today? 524 00:30:22,495 --> 00:30:25,120 What did you do today? 525 00:30:25,575 --> 00:30:27,918 Scene 34, take one. 526 00:30:28,735 --> 00:30:29,944 And. 527 00:30:30,150 --> 00:30:31,382 Action. 528 00:30:31,508 --> 00:30:33,311 Now the telegram is here. 529 00:30:33,472 --> 00:30:35,400 The one I think we knew would always come. 530 00:30:36,135 --> 00:30:37,690 Is this the end of the affair? 531 00:30:37,815 --> 00:30:40,110 Oh, don't say that word, Stuart. 532 00:30:40,235 --> 00:30:41,991 You know that it hurts me. 533 00:30:42,116 --> 00:30:44,110 - I shall think of us hiding together... - She said Stuart. 534 00:30:44,235 --> 00:30:45,230 - You said Stuart. - What? 535 00:30:45,355 --> 00:30:47,634 - You said Stuart. - Cut. Let's go again. 536 00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:49,855 - First positions, please. - First positions. 537 00:30:49,981 --> 00:30:52,050 - Billy. - Yes, Mr. McKendree. 538 00:30:52,175 --> 00:30:55,072 - Run this one. - Would you? Call of nature. 539 00:30:57,947 --> 00:30:59,180 Got it. 540 00:31:00,574 --> 00:31:02,015 Quiet, please. 541 00:31:10,035 --> 00:31:11,360 Don't say that word. 542 00:31:11,485 --> 00:31:13,603 Tell me you know that it hurts me. 543 00:31:13,945 --> 00:31:15,694 There's still time, you know. 544 00:31:17,265 --> 00:31:18,640 Time for what? 545 00:31:18,765 --> 00:31:21,146 To do the right thing. Stop the filming. 546 00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:26,700 I've been aware for a while about a certain secret relationship in your life. 547 00:31:26,839 --> 00:31:29,018 We are not... She isn't... 548 00:31:29,144 --> 00:31:30,840 Not with Sandra. 549 00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:32,951 With Strychnine. 550 00:31:33,485 --> 00:31:37,721 I've read those grave little paragraphs in the Farsity Sporting Review. 551 00:31:38,072 --> 00:31:39,634 How you took it as a stimulant 552 00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:42,600 to get you through those last agonizing yards of the race. 553 00:31:42,991 --> 00:31:44,916 Rather reckless, really. 554 00:31:45,185 --> 00:31:47,360 - Father wasn't very pleased, was he? - No. 555 00:31:48,198 --> 00:31:50,196 So I got into trouble. So what? 556 00:31:50,322 --> 00:31:53,140 And then there's Christiana Edmonds. 557 00:31:53,546 --> 00:31:55,920 The heroine of your new film script. 558 00:31:56,145 --> 00:31:57,720 Household name, once. 559 00:31:57,845 --> 00:31:59,360 Fell in love with a doctor. 560 00:31:59,737 --> 00:32:03,166 And believed that he was in love with her. A pure fantasy. 561 00:32:03,722 --> 00:32:06,097 And she thought she could help him escape from his wife 562 00:32:06,222 --> 00:32:09,554 by bringing her a box of poisoned chocolate creams. 563 00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:12,320 Which the wife spat out just in time. 564 00:32:12,591 --> 00:32:14,494 And her poison of choice? 565 00:32:15,325 --> 00:32:17,332 Strychnine, of course. 566 00:32:17,458 --> 00:32:19,777 Bit of a leitmotif, isn't it? 567 00:32:20,225 --> 00:32:22,200 I've had a lot of time to think. 568 00:32:22,325 --> 00:32:23,920 Too much, I dare say. 569 00:32:24,778 --> 00:32:27,638 And I think we've been living in a kind of a dream. 570 00:32:28,525 --> 00:32:31,267 It's time for that dream to end. 571 00:32:31,433 --> 00:32:34,521 You, you must stay here with your folks. 572 00:32:35,085 --> 00:32:36,328 And I... 573 00:32:37,465 --> 00:32:40,356 I must go back to my husband. And... 574 00:32:41,145 --> 00:32:42,916 I simply must. 575 00:32:58,980 --> 00:33:02,095 You didn't mean to kill poor Barbara Markham, 576 00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:05,269 and that might save you from the gallows. 577 00:33:05,914 --> 00:33:09,664 But you couldn't make the same argument about what's happening here, could you? 578 00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:13,493 This is your very last chance, Jesse. 579 00:33:19,355 --> 00:33:22,768 Oh, damn, damn, damn you, Book. 580 00:33:22,974 --> 00:33:25,529 Ow. How was that with bloody pain? 581 00:33:26,967 --> 00:33:28,265 Oh, well. 582 00:33:30,387 --> 00:33:32,026 Too late now. 583 00:33:32,645 --> 00:33:34,040 You all right, Stu? 584 00:33:34,166 --> 00:33:37,481 I was on the cash register. It went... right into me when I... 585 00:33:37,607 --> 00:33:38,825 I pressed the button. 586 00:33:42,416 --> 00:33:43,757 Oh, my God. 587 00:33:44,534 --> 00:33:45,745 Oh, my God. 588 00:33:45,871 --> 00:33:48,610 You. I have a name, Mr. Howard. 589 00:33:50,730 --> 00:33:52,320 This is what happened to that girl. 590 00:33:53,173 --> 00:33:56,554 No. Barbara Markham swallowed Strychnine. 591 00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:59,400 This time the poison was on a pin in the cash register, 592 00:33:59,525 --> 00:34:01,640 so it would go straight into the bloodstream. 593 00:34:02,436 --> 00:34:06,394 If Jack and Billy hadn't followed my instructions perfectly 594 00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:08,080 and swapped it with a clean one. 595 00:34:08,775 --> 00:34:10,880 The pink page told me where to look. 596 00:34:11,391 --> 00:34:13,507 But it was Billy who found it. 597 00:34:13,633 --> 00:34:15,931 You should be grateful he's so diligent, Mr. Howard, 598 00:34:16,057 --> 00:34:18,171 considering how bloody rude you are to him. 599 00:34:19,571 --> 00:34:21,958 You should thank him, too, Jesse. 600 00:34:22,646 --> 00:34:24,829 One less name on the chance sheet 601 00:34:24,954 --> 00:34:27,250 next to little Barbara Markham. 602 00:34:29,703 --> 00:34:31,154 It was for you, my love. 603 00:34:31,516 --> 00:34:32,939 All for you. 604 00:34:33,305 --> 00:34:35,400 - What? - So we could be together. 605 00:34:35,764 --> 00:34:38,058 And I could make you a bigger star than ever. 606 00:34:38,184 --> 00:34:41,840 Not in cheap trash like this, but in a real film or masterpiece. 607 00:34:42,279 --> 00:34:44,200 What the hell are you talking about? 608 00:34:44,325 --> 00:34:47,520 He's been obsessed with you for years, Miss Dare. 609 00:34:47,957 --> 00:34:49,960 Used to write letters to picture-goer. 610 00:34:50,165 --> 00:34:52,124 Under a pseudonym, of course. 611 00:34:52,511 --> 00:34:55,160 Basilisk, his family crest. 612 00:34:55,645 --> 00:34:58,674 And all those books he read in the shop last year. 613 00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:01,649 That's how he came up with his magnum opus. 614 00:35:01,998 --> 00:35:06,208 Unfortunately, he left a little trace behind. 615 00:35:07,413 --> 00:35:10,400 He saw that we were getting a little too close to the truth. 616 00:35:10,720 --> 00:35:14,474 And that's why he suddenly tasted something strange in his coffee. 617 00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:16,432 Faked the poisoning. 618 00:35:16,558 --> 00:35:17,780 He could have said, 619 00:35:17,965 --> 00:35:19,820 Bitter almonds. 620 00:35:19,945 --> 00:35:22,160 Like people do in the films. 621 00:35:22,778 --> 00:35:24,400 But you chose to twitch. 622 00:35:24,959 --> 00:35:28,600 Because you knew that Barbara Markham had been killed by Strychnine. 623 00:35:28,797 --> 00:35:32,220 You were familiar with the effects. They're pretty ugly, aren't they, Trotty? 624 00:35:32,345 --> 00:35:34,700 Yes, spasms. A sort of breathless agitation. 625 00:35:34,825 --> 00:35:36,200 I'll never forget it. 626 00:35:37,610 --> 00:35:39,720 You put in a good performance, Jessie. 627 00:35:40,210 --> 00:35:42,824 But let me give you a note, Mr. Director. 628 00:35:43,717 --> 00:35:46,140 It takes a few minutes for the spasms to start. 629 00:35:46,265 --> 00:35:48,674 Your timing was out. 630 00:35:50,307 --> 00:35:52,927 Ad Astra per Aspera. 631 00:35:53,193 --> 00:35:56,500 Through hardship to the stars. Your family motto. 632 00:35:57,187 --> 00:35:59,640 You got to the stars, didn't you, Jessie? 633 00:35:59,958 --> 00:36:02,219 Or to the only star that mattered to you. 634 00:36:03,585 --> 00:36:06,020 - Sandra Dare. - My family has money. 635 00:36:06,145 --> 00:36:07,394 So much money. 636 00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:09,942 That's how I bought my way into this filthy industry. 637 00:36:10,882 --> 00:36:12,720 I could have financed a picture, Sandra. 638 00:36:13,366 --> 00:36:14,960 But he was spoiling it. 639 00:36:16,184 --> 00:36:17,400 Him. 640 00:36:18,020 --> 00:36:19,560 And what better publicity? 641 00:36:20,346 --> 00:36:23,300 A tragic widow overcoming her grief. 642 00:36:23,671 --> 00:36:27,486 Tackling the part of a lifetime alongside the brilliant young writer. 643 00:36:27,612 --> 00:36:28,793 Writer-director. 644 00:36:28,919 --> 00:36:31,480 Writer-director. Who consoled her. 645 00:36:32,123 --> 00:36:33,560 It's a scene. 646 00:36:33,882 --> 00:36:35,171 Deranged. 647 00:36:35,297 --> 00:36:36,887 Oh, you poor fool. 648 00:36:37,013 --> 00:36:39,120 It would be a whole new Sandra Dare, my darling. 649 00:36:39,405 --> 00:36:41,103 Playing your own age. No makeup. 650 00:36:41,228 --> 00:36:43,820 A true character part to show your real range. 651 00:36:43,945 --> 00:36:46,480 No makeup. Are you mad? 652 00:36:46,605 --> 00:36:49,840 - I'm Sandra Dare. - So it was him. 653 00:36:50,778 --> 00:36:52,240 He killed that poor girl. 654 00:36:52,645 --> 00:36:54,644 - Yes. - And Noreena Bean. 655 00:36:54,905 --> 00:36:57,764 - No, not Noreena Bean. - What? 656 00:36:58,565 --> 00:37:01,172 Not Noreena Bean, the girl with the poison pen. 657 00:37:01,298 --> 00:37:04,908 Jessie has a cast-iron alibi. He was in his office, 658 00:37:05,034 --> 00:37:08,041 his secretary by his side, passing him the carbon paper, 659 00:37:08,166 --> 00:37:10,520 typing out a way to murder you, Mr. Howard. 660 00:37:10,645 --> 00:37:11,910 Then who did do it? 661 00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:14,115 Where did we find her? 662 00:37:14,424 --> 00:37:16,640 - Bottom of the stairs. - Which lead where? 663 00:37:18,404 --> 00:37:21,320 Prop store. Offices. The vault. 664 00:37:22,391 --> 00:37:24,272 The vault. Yes. 665 00:37:25,332 --> 00:37:28,720 Wherein lie some of the forgotten remnants of British cinema. 666 00:37:28,876 --> 00:37:30,500 And one film in particular. 667 00:37:30,625 --> 00:37:34,880 I found the reference in an old movie almanac back in Archangel Lane. 668 00:37:35,005 --> 00:37:36,382 What film? 669 00:37:36,833 --> 00:37:39,240 Kitty Wins the Calcutta Sweep. 670 00:37:39,725 --> 00:37:41,019 The hell is that? 671 00:37:41,781 --> 00:37:44,466 It's the film I found in your room. 672 00:37:46,144 --> 00:37:47,355 Sandra. 673 00:37:57,273 --> 00:37:58,790 Billy. Call Bow Street. 674 00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:01,359 - Get Bliss here. - Yes, Mr. Book. 675 00:38:13,053 --> 00:38:14,994 You never loved her, Stuart. 676 00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:16,634 Not like I did. 677 00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:19,320 It's a long time since I've done this for real. 678 00:39:04,548 --> 00:39:06,137 Sandra, it's all over. 679 00:39:07,501 --> 00:39:09,551 Why don't you come out and explain? 680 00:39:18,314 --> 00:39:22,874 I wasn't Sandra Dare back then. 681 00:39:26,623 --> 00:39:28,076 I was... 682 00:39:28,767 --> 00:39:30,844 Deirdre Pittock. 683 00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:40,108 It was so long ago. 684 00:39:42,274 --> 00:39:44,363 The film was lost. 685 00:39:45,151 --> 00:39:49,598 And then Norena discovered it. 686 00:39:53,725 --> 00:39:55,560 And then I discovered her. 687 00:40:06,754 --> 00:40:08,880 It was pure chance. 688 00:40:11,504 --> 00:40:14,665 I was going back to my dressing room and I saw 689 00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:17,210 this person an extra. 690 00:40:19,992 --> 00:40:23,022 And then I recognized her. 691 00:40:25,202 --> 00:40:29,064 And I saw what she had in her sweaty hands. 692 00:40:30,228 --> 00:40:33,820 I had never been so angry, 693 00:40:34,166 --> 00:40:36,280 not in all my life. 694 00:40:37,176 --> 00:40:39,284 - No. - You give it. 695 00:40:41,028 --> 00:40:42,239 No. 696 00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:44,725 - No. - Damn it. 697 00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:57,056 She hit that step like a fairground coconut. 698 00:40:57,182 --> 00:40:58,440 She died instantly. 699 00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:03,640 But it was an accident. 700 00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:06,732 I swear. 701 00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:09,057 It was an accident. 702 00:41:11,845 --> 00:41:13,730 But there it was. 703 00:41:15,444 --> 00:41:16,965 The master print. 704 00:41:29,750 --> 00:41:33,003 This business will forgive you a lot of things, 705 00:41:35,219 --> 00:41:36,993 but not getting old. 706 00:41:37,861 --> 00:41:39,873 Are you smoking, Sandra? 707 00:41:43,905 --> 00:41:48,869 When nitrate film burns, Sandra, it makes its own oxygen. 708 00:41:51,508 --> 00:41:53,981 You think I don't know that, Mr. Book? 709 00:41:55,341 --> 00:41:58,002 I'm a veteran of the silver screen. 710 00:42:00,115 --> 00:42:03,614 That's why they keep it in an asbestos bolt. 711 00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:08,562 If you drop that cigarette, Sandra, you'll go up like a torch. 712 00:42:09,315 --> 00:42:12,026 And Trotty and I won't escape unscathed. 713 00:42:15,014 --> 00:42:16,991 And neither will Stuart. 714 00:42:18,694 --> 00:42:19,998 Stuart? 715 00:42:21,688 --> 00:42:23,019 Darling. 716 00:42:24,228 --> 00:42:26,214 It doesn't have to be like this. 717 00:42:27,902 --> 00:42:29,158 But... 718 00:42:29,284 --> 00:42:32,076 She would have told them all my secret. 719 00:42:35,382 --> 00:42:39,270 That I was making films when Lennon was in office. 720 00:42:41,583 --> 00:42:44,319 They would have made me box office poison. 721 00:42:45,610 --> 00:42:47,277 And I've told you. 722 00:42:48,104 --> 00:42:49,736 I want to go on 723 00:42:49,862 --> 00:42:53,625 and on and light up the town, explode. 724 00:43:03,350 --> 00:43:06,907 Sandra, that script that Jesse wrote, I read it. 725 00:43:08,405 --> 00:43:10,486 It's about a woman who makes... 726 00:43:11,250 --> 00:43:13,586 a terrible moral mistake. 727 00:43:15,207 --> 00:43:18,064 But she faces her fate with dignity. 728 00:43:20,015 --> 00:43:22,492 Inspector Bliss will be here soon. 729 00:43:23,488 --> 00:43:25,304 And you'll be under arrest. 730 00:43:26,560 --> 00:43:28,318 But before he arrives, 731 00:43:29,477 --> 00:43:32,089 I could save you a little bit of humiliation. 732 00:43:33,434 --> 00:43:34,963 What do you say? 733 00:43:37,567 --> 00:43:39,483 Let's go out to the tank. 734 00:43:40,538 --> 00:43:42,226 Bring that film. 735 00:43:42,699 --> 00:43:46,047 The one with you as a 17-year-old with your whole life ahead of you. 736 00:43:47,901 --> 00:43:51,000 If all this business made you what you've become. 737 00:43:53,994 --> 00:43:56,072 Oh, no, Mr. Book. 738 00:44:00,134 --> 00:44:01,923 I've always had it in me. 739 00:44:03,562 --> 00:44:05,356 I've always been a star. 740 00:44:06,608 --> 00:44:09,017 I think that's what the camera saw. 741 00:44:10,381 --> 00:44:12,410 And why they've always loved me. 742 00:44:15,907 --> 00:44:18,157 Just give me a moment, will you? 743 00:44:29,504 --> 00:44:31,275 Not bad. 744 00:44:47,918 --> 00:44:51,000 That's long enough. Keep the bloody door in. 745 00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:39,158 - It's a tragedy, really. - Will they... 746 00:46:40,317 --> 00:46:41,640 Will they hang? 747 00:46:42,495 --> 00:46:45,106 Jesse McKendrick. Undoubtedly. 748 00:46:45,588 --> 00:46:48,718 But I'm sure the jury will be kind to Miss Dare. 749 00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:51,972 It was an accident, after all. 750 00:46:54,877 --> 00:46:57,366 Now you're a free man, Mr. Howard. 751 00:46:58,240 --> 00:47:01,473 Just what I wanted. What a cost. 752 00:47:02,864 --> 00:47:04,173 Mind you. 753 00:47:04,505 --> 00:47:06,100 Tragic ex-fiancé. 754 00:47:06,686 --> 00:47:09,789 Broken-hearted leading man. Suddenly single. 755 00:47:17,033 --> 00:47:18,359 What is it? 756 00:47:20,224 --> 00:47:22,193 It was an accident, wasn't it? 757 00:47:23,161 --> 00:47:24,818 Nerina Bean's death. 758 00:47:25,171 --> 00:47:26,454 Well... 759 00:47:26,702 --> 00:47:28,725 You shall never know, Inspector. 760 00:47:29,369 --> 00:47:30,678 After all... 761 00:47:31,265 --> 00:47:34,487 Sandra Dare is a terribly good actress. 762 00:48:11,046 --> 00:48:12,289 Hello, Jack. 763 00:48:14,333 --> 00:48:15,588 What's up? 764 00:48:15,919 --> 00:48:18,427 Jack. We need to tell you something. 765 00:48:18,553 --> 00:48:20,157 I'm sorry we didn't say it before, 766 00:48:20,282 --> 00:48:23,652 but I wanted to let you settle in and it's a delicate matter. 767 00:48:23,778 --> 00:48:27,272 It's about our... relationship. 768 00:48:32,184 --> 00:48:33,764 I think I guessed it. 769 00:48:35,189 --> 00:48:36,839 Is it that obvious? 770 00:48:37,199 --> 00:48:39,076 Well, it wasn't at first, but... 771 00:48:39,928 --> 00:48:41,171 Yeah. 772 00:48:43,777 --> 00:48:45,390 I found a photograph. 773 00:48:46,310 --> 00:48:47,729 A photograph? 774 00:48:48,208 --> 00:48:49,517 My dad. 775 00:48:53,703 --> 00:48:55,630 You have a photo of my dad. 776 00:48:56,121 --> 00:48:57,893 It's just like the one that I have. 777 00:49:02,381 --> 00:49:03,610 And this. 778 00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:07,050 I know I shouldn't have taken it. I'm sorry, but... 779 00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:09,173 With the picture, I... 780 00:49:10,508 --> 00:49:13,278 Eric Percival Banks, your first husband... 781 00:49:18,657 --> 00:49:20,128 Is this him? 782 00:50:50,868 --> 00:50:52,079 Troy? 783 00:50:55,823 --> 00:50:57,240 Are you my mother? 784 00:51:02,008 --> 00:51:03,515 No, my dear. 785 00:51:04,295 --> 00:51:05,824 Not at all. 786 00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:08,427 I'm so sorry. 787 00:51:19,100 --> 00:51:20,805 Then what's all this about? 788 00:51:21,936 --> 00:51:23,215 Jack. 789 00:51:26,571 --> 00:51:29,000 We have rather a lot to tell you. 790 00:51:40,354 --> 00:51:44,754 Sync and corrections: minouhse www.addic7ed.com