All language subtitles for Taggart s04e02 Root of Evil

Jim, stand there with Auntie Hattie and
Auntie Peggy.

Come on, put your arms in, Jim.

Right.

Jim, smile.

Smashing. Thanks.

Just wish the audiences were better.

What are you drinking?

Pineapples.

Come make your home in my heart.

In my heart.

Thanks, Lord, for at the Garden Festival
as well, quite a bit through the

summer.

Petty and Peggy want to go and look at
the water displays.

You know, Jean, I was just thinking how
my old man used to drive one of these

things.

That was my ambition, too, to be a
driver.

Good job we joined the policy.

I wish Alison could have come home this
week for the opening.

Right.

It is certainly going to change the
image of Glasgow.

It's certainly going to do that.

What colour's the star?

Blue stars and there are red stars.

You're one of my good wee blue stars,
aren't you?

So why are you borrowing money off Frank
Bell?

That's not a good idea.

Going to one money lender to pay off
another.

Tell you what I'll do. I've got a wee
proposition for you. I will lend you the

money. to pay back Frank Bell and that
way you stay into me.

Right?

Right!

Thank you.

Good try, Satan. Good try.

Okay.

Where's Pat?

Sorry, Mr. Bell.

We don't know how it happened.

We're going to have to hang on to the
dog for a while.

An autops.

I harmed your fingers.

Hello, Max.

Yeah, I'll do it.

What's all this?

He said I have to pay you back.

Loan and interest.

I've been paying him for 60%. I'm sorry,
Frank. I wish I'd gotten to you

earlier.

I wish I had the muscle to match his.

I've had to start cleaning windows in
the quiet to pay off the debt.

One day I'll do it.

There you go.

Teenager said, Mammy, I'm 19 now. Can I
wear a bra?

She said, No, John.

Garbage.

One out.

Cheers.

I get my sickness benefit.

As well as my social media books.

That way you don't fall behind and I
don't have to come and look at them.

See ya.

We don't serve your type here.

You can't afford to be that fussy.

Listen, Mick, I might have nice to get
to Mum's tomorrow.

I thought I might go down to London for
a few days, you know, leave it all a

break. It's Sunday.

Ken and Helen are going to be there.

That makes it special for Mother. We are
all going to be there.

Aye, all right.

More, Mum?

I don't know why you have to waste money
on champagne.

The garden festival's on.

Helen and I were thinking of going.

Thought you might like to join us.

Oh, that would be nice.

Willie, pass Helen a napkin.

Wouldn't want her to spoil her nice new
clothes.

You ought to come through to see the
club one night, Mrs Lomax.

I'm not the club.

We did have an elderly party.

Once.

Behaved themselves better than some
people I know.

Why employ hostesses if they're not
there to please?

They're not there to please you.

Why own a nightclub then?

I don't run out of the family knocking
shop for scumbags like you.

Sorry, Mum.

Matter of fact, I thought of coming
through to Edinburgh tomorrow.

Well, you know, I might drop in.

Yes? Can I come in, Mrs Lomax?

What is it?

I've got most of the interest, Mrs
Lomax. Do you think I'd have another 30?

I've got to buy the Wayne shoes for
school.

And I'm already losing 11 out my
allowance for fuel payments.

It's my wee boy's birthday tomorrow.

If you can't pay the interest in one
loan, how do you expect to pay it in

another? I just will, Mrs Lomax. I
promise.

After this 30, I'm freezing it. So you
pay back all the interest.

Thanks, Mrs Lomax.

I appreciate it.

There's a list of 12 names, all in this
block, all missed between four and six

weeks.

I wish you wouldn't lend to a woman,
Mum.

I refuse to beat up a woman.

What do you think I ask you for? I know
Willie.

Oh, good man. You kept it for us.

I've got a surprise for you, will you?

Okay.

I

hear

you and your boys are taking a cut off
Frank Bell.

It's been at my customers at 25's.

Says you killed his dog.

As a warning.

Wasn't me.

He's out for revenge.

I said it wasn't me.

I like animals.

Do you remember that mouse we kept in a
shoebox at school?

Yeah. I remember what happened to it.

I loved that mouse.

30 years they got a mouse in a shoebox.

Not at his school.

David!

Amy, we're getting you home.

Mum's at Keep Fitting. He's got a staff
meeting at the school, 2 -6.

He?

He's your stepfather.

You'll just have to get used to the
idea.

Okay, then, David. See you next Sunday.
Official time.

Better leave the camera here till then.

Bye, Uncle Bobby. Bye. And here.

Remember my comic next week. And don't
forget who your real pals are.

I love you, baby.

Baby, baby, baby.

mcnormand

The car was outside.

Right shell at home. My wife married.

You see David two Sundays a month. No
other time.

But I'll see to it that you never have
access to him.

You're out of line, child.

David's in a good school now. I don't
want him growing up admiring you or your

brother.

I'm his father.

Don't forget that.

You might be a couple of hard men
through in Glasgow, but here you're

What's going on?

Nothing.

I'm finished.

Oh, Charles.

Tell Lana.

If she wants any excitement, she knows
where to come.

Come here.

You like this, huh?

I shoot brothers, don't I?

You know, the last time I saw a hack job
like that was in the late 60s.

The gang.

I think they were called the Tong. I'm
going to be sick.

Morning.

Morning.

You'd be lucky to find somewhere to
stick your thermometer.

Give me one of that, will you?

Well, so far as I can judge, I'd say the
time of death between...

2 and 4 a .m.

Not a lot of folk about.

Who do you think was used?

I'll give you my opinion later.

Oh, come on.

I know what it wasn't.

An axe?

The rest of us up there.

I think he played fit the way up.

Oh, hello, you. Back in the job?

I found this.

Look at the logo in the corner.

Glasgow Garden Festival.

Your souvenirs, Mum.

Oh, yes, thanks.

Here's a nice handkerchief, Helen.

Enjoying yourself?

Oh, yes.

It's good to remember Glasgow the way it
was. Isn't it, Helen?

Pardon? I think the point is, Mum, it is
better than it was.

There's still a lot to see.

I think that was it.

There's the Chinese gardens, the water
tower.

What a display. And don't forget the
thrill ride.

I'm thinking Willie would love it here.

Why?

There's just boys at heart.

It's printer and file.

Willie Lomax, the money lender.

This flat's only about 100 yards from
where we found him.

So somebody did it at last.

If you're looking for a moneylender's
tally book, you've got to think like a

moneylender.

He did all right for himself.

Look at that stuff.

The interest these boys charge, they
always do all right for themselves.

If there wasn't so much poverty, they
wouldn't get the opportunity.

Well, that's a social worker's job, not
ours.

Hey, Michael.

What's the pain?

What? The bulk.

Oh, what the heck?

than one.

There must be about 200 suspect names in
this book.

Don't allow me.

Listen, his brother's got a bar on the
south side. I'll go and talk to him.

You go down to the garden festival.

Find out how many of those hankies have
been sold.

Right.

Can I help you, gentlemen?

DCI Tiger.

Superintendent McVitie.

Maryhill Police Station.

Sit down.

What brings you on to Foreign South?

When was the last time you saw Wally?

Last night.

Where?

We drove through to Edinburgh.

At the Oasis.

My brother's club.

What time did you get back to Glasgow?

About half past two this morning.

Were you driving?

Yes.

What's this about?

He didn't make it home in one piece.

I hope you haven't been up to anything,
Mum.

I'll put the kettle on, Mum.

It's on general sale to the public as a
souvenir.

Thousands have been sold.

Wonderful.

I know he had his fault, but why?

Why?

He had a book with 220 names in it.

Names of people he lent money to.

Do you have to bother her now?

I'm afraid we must.

We don't know anything about any book.

Don't insult us.

If people weren't too ashamed or too
frightened to come forward, we'd have

you out of business years ago.

Look at the state she's in. Can't you
wait?

I don't know what you're talking about.
You know what I'm talking about.

I'm not interested in your activities,
only his.

But I might get interested.

How do you understand that? I don't know
anything about illegal money lending.

I'm the T -Monk.

They've always been good boys.

On my last birthday, the 5th of
November, they took me to see Frankie

the Theatre Royal.

And they took me out for a lovely meal
at the Albany Hotel.

Very nice.

It might have been you.

What might?

Well, moneylenders must invite murder.

Especially those that charge 60 %
interest a week, like your brother.

As much as that?

He put a blue asterisk and a red
asterisk in his book, me. How many

knew nothing about my brother's
business.

But I know about his business.

And I know the misery it causes.

Have you thought of the misery that
would be without it?

That's the cook.

Police.

What happened to the painter?

He had a big jam.

In a windy.

Come doon, son.

Is there somebody in the other end here?

I don't know what you're talking about.
Archie Cook.

Is that you?

That's a common name.

Well, it's no that common.

How much do you owe Willie Lomax?

Who? Now listen, you.

This is a murder inquiry.

You can help us here at doon at the
night.

I paid him up.

I didn't owe him anything.

That's funny.

According to this, you still owe him
£200 and a £50 loan.

I paid him back, honest.

He put his heavies on you.

What are their names?

No, no, he never said any of them.

What does a blue asterisk mean?

A your name in his book.

Asterisk?

Why don't you just call him Stars?

He'll know what you're talking about.

I've no idea.

We have reason to believe you had a good
motive for killing Lomax.

We're holding you on suspicion of
murder.

Now, uh...

If your memory comes back, you might do
yourself a bit of good.

Wait.

My windies.

Why bother with them?

They don't seem to agree with you.

So we thought, you know, with your book,
we might go into partnership.

Partners.

I'd sooner hear a couple of monkeys.

Report from forensic of interest.

In a few cuts on Lomax clothing, they
found pollen grains.

Pollen?

They've gone to the botany department of
the university for identification.

And you have a theory about the
handkerchief?

I think the killer used it to wipe the
blood off the axe, sir.

And it's on sale only at the garden
festival?

Yes, sir.

And thousands have been sold.

Inspector Taggart.

Hello. My name's Paul Hunter.

I'm the director of a play at the Tron
Theatre.

About Lizzie Borden, the axe murderess
from New England.

I read in the paper about the axe murder
of the moneylender.

Well, this may just be coincidental, but
two days before, we had something

stolen.

Lizzie Borden's axe.

Did you feel that?

I'll put some of it into the poem.

The horns of Elfland faintly blowing.

Blow, let us hear the purple glens
replying. Blow, bugle answer echoes

dying, dying.

It's just an axe.

You don't think somebody's going to
steal an axe.

Who can get into that stage area?

Almost anybody.

People use the bar here.

And anyone can nip through to the
theatre area. It's not kept locked.

How big would you say that the head of
the axe was?

Five, six inches.

Bigger than the new axe.

Thank you.

You really think somebody saw the show
and got the idea?

It's one theory.

Crazy.

Lizzie Borden was a good few years older
than you, wasn't she?

Dramatic license.

She was also a very unattractive woman,
I believe.

Dramatic license, too.

What interested you in the park?

I wanted to show that, driven by hatred,
the most unlikely person can commit

murder.

Listen, if you're going to be out for a
couple of weeks, maybe we could have a

longer chat, I think.

Hi.

We've got work to do.

I was just telling Julie how much we
enjoyed the play.

We're on duty.

We're not supposed to enjoy ourselves.

Come on.

Did your mother never warn you about
actresses?

You think Lizzie Borden did it? Who
cares? Didn't happen on my patch.

I'm keener on knowing if it was her
acts.

Someone could have been unhinged by
watching the play.

Unhinged? But listen, Willie Lomax was
no random victim.

Somebody had it in for him.

Let's go.

One leg of the family we haven't spoken
to yet.

Please, sit down.

I've got to ask you, did you like your
brother -in -law?

I didn't like or dislike him.

I married Ken, not his family.

Did you know he was a moneylender?

He threw me if I lied.

Yeah, I did.

When did you last see him?

Monday night, at the club. I was working
there.

As what?

As Ken's wife.

I employ girls for him.

Not that I don't trust him.

Have you had experience with this kind
of job?

I know what men look for.

Did you know anyone that might want to
murder Willie? Didn't hundreds of

No, I mean personally.

Well, what happened at the club?

That was mainly a threat to Mick.

Why? What happened?

Mick had a row with his son's stepfather
about access.

He said he put an end to David saying
his father, or Willie, said he didn't

the boy admiring villains.

And this was the night before he was
murdered? Well, why didn't you mention

before?

Maybe I agreed with him.

Someone did your city a favor.

I don't call murder doing anyone a
favor.

Everybody's got the right to live.

My boy has a right, too, to grow up
emulating decent people.

Which Willie Lomax wasn't. The row was
between me and my wife's ex -husband.

Did you wait for them to come out?

At half past eleven at night.

Edinburgh folk turn into pumpkins at
midnight, do they?

Indifference, certainly, to your ex
-husband.

Bill and I grew up on the same street in
Edinburgh.

Went to the same school.

I met Mick and just made a big mistake.

How long were you married to?

Ten years.

That's how big a mistake it was.

He never went to prison, but I felt as
though I did time every day of it.

Now, if you'll excuse us, we're driving
up to St. Andrew's for dinner.

What do you think?

Maternal jealousy?

It was Willie who died, no Mick.

Aye, but the boy admired both of them.

Maybe he saw a threat in both of them.

Doesn't seem the type.

Neither did Blasey Borden.

Help me if you can, I'm feeling down.

You know a man called Mr.

Shire?

He was well -spoken, slightly baldy.

No? Thanks very much.

So one person saw Shire's hanging around
afterwards.

I think we're wasting our time.

So do I.

Every villain in Edinburgh must be here
tonight.

It's bothering my mile away.

See that pair?

They're Glasgow. I know them.

I just can't put my finger on them.

I know their faces.

I might have lifted them.

Who are they?

Come on.

What are they thinking?

They're up to something.

Come on, let's satisfy our curiosity.

Boys, mind if we join you in
interrupting something at all?

No.

I want to remind us of your names.

We've had a memory lapse.

You remind me he never went in for that
kind of thing.

Does that mean a different version?

Can I ask you something?

Sure.

Is it true you're in money at really
high rates of interest, illegally?

Who told you that?

Mum.

It's true.

Is it true you have people beaten up who
can't pay?

Time I was getting you home. Why did you
do it?

You're good at science at school, yes?

Some boys are good at sports.

Some at languages.

It was the same when I was at school.

Some were good at some things.

Some were good at others.

Let's get you home.

You've just got Mick Lomax in your
patch.

We've got his whole money -lending
operation in ours.

We've been working with the consumer
credit guys for months, trying to get

enough evidence.

Is that why you're here?

And for the fun.

We drink with the Lomax brothers a lot
here. Real nice guy.

Three Alabama flammers.

Count me out.

Are you having one? Three Alabama
flammers. And what about the boss?

No, really, I don't want one. I don't
drink.

You're not sitting at this table and not
drinking.

Three Alabama flammers.

And a double malt for the boss. Besides,
I'm driving him back.

Do you hear Christmas?

An angel just landed on my shoulder in
death.

Mr. Taggart.

What?

There's a guy, Frank Bell, lives in
Parting.

Willie was taking a cuddle.

Right.

Thanks.

Hello, Dad.

Aye, aye.

When did you get here?

About eight o 'clock. We've been waiting
out for you.

I was through in Edinburgh.

Inquiries, you know.

It's good to see you.

Dad, this is Tim.

Pleased to meet you.

Hello.

Tim and I are engaged.

You might say congratulations.

I don't even know the guy.

Here's something for you.

It's a 12 -year -old.

Thanks.

Sit down.

It's just that Alison never told us she
was going out with anybody.

How long have you known each other?

About three months.

I broke my leg. I was a patient in the
ward she was working in.

What do you do?

I'm a carpenter.

I've got my own business.

That's good.

Is something wrong?

Ah, Sergeant.

The pottery's been found out where the
pollen came from.

Vine leaves are beaten off.

Never heard of it.

It's a member of the Hibiscus family.

Now, Romeo.

Here,

look at these hankies.

The logo on the one we found is thick.

The one you bought at the festival is
printed.

Meaning? I've just phoned the festival.

Before they opened, they sent out
information packs to...

Advertisers, exhibitors.

The hanky with the logo stitched on it
was included.

Never went on sale.

It was a promotional item.

How many went out?

About 2 ,000.

You

two

again. The usual.

We met two colleagues from the north
side last night in Edinburgh.

They're investigating your brother's
murder.

Wish we could have been in at that one.
Aye.

We'll be pulling out all the stops to
congratulate him.

£1 .80.

That's nice.

We drop in for a friendly chat and he
doesn't even buy us a drink.

I don't encourage the police in here.

That's why I had a carpet put down.

This was Bell's routine, it seems.

Collecting his debts at the same time
folk collected their social.

We were hoping to interview him this
morning.

Was it Bell?

Yes, sir.

There were witnesses who owed him.

Two moneylenders down, two hundred to
go, sir. All right, all right.

Who gave you his name?

Ken Lomax, sir.

Last night in Edinburgh at the Oasis
Club.

Pretty you didn't visit him at once.

Instead of staying on and enjoying
yourself.

I will remember next time.

Poor kid.

No hope to clean the wind, is there?

I think he was all right.

There's a lot worse than him.

He's run a couple of names.

Aye.

Good morning.

Do you think the killings are connected?

Oh, I don't know.

I'd be happier if you knew what a vine
-leaved debutalon was.

I've got one in my greenhouse. I'll
shoot it to you sometime.

It'll do really well this spring.

Come in!

Come in!

Hello.

Mrs Lomax.

Mr Lomax.

Superintendent McBitty. Hello.

Splendid collection of plants.

Thank you.

They respond well to a wee burst of
puccini.

That name you gave me the other night,
Frank Bell, who gave you the tip -off?

My brother, Mick.

As someone who might have a motive for
murdering Willie?

That's right.

What did the names Nicholas Frame and
George McSherry mean to you?

Not a lot.

Why? Well, they were henchmen for
Willie.

You see, we think they might have had it
in for Bell, too.

I knew nothing of Willie's... Business.
We've always kept ourselves apart from

Mick and Willie, haven't we, Ken?

Yes. Ken tried to give a guiding hand to
them, but they just went their own way.

Willie was pretty affected when our
father died.

Ken would make a good father.

Have you got a butylone?

They haven't.

Did you speak to Frank Bell?

We never had a chance.

His car was blown up this morning.

He was in it.

No, I sure think. I don't know the
difference between jelly night and jelly

babies. Never mind, mate, a bomb.

Come on, that's IRA's department,
officer, not mine.

Do you need much intelligence for this
line of work?

I mean, how many O -levels?

Do you have any O -levels?

Just that my boy's interested in science
at school. I could recommend this as a

career of knocking worthwhile times off.

Do you do toenails as well?

You know one of the delights of my job?

Seeing a hard man go soft at the sight
of four walls.

He never murdered anybody.

Look straight at me.

What are you on?

Coke?

Mum. What's that we found in your
pocket?

That's just a little weed.

What are you in your pile?

The flowerpot, mate.

I don't have an alibi. I don't need an
alibi. I didn't plant that bomb.

This was found in the search of your
flower.

It's just a book.

It's an American publication.

Banned in this country.

Terrorist standard issue.

Tells you how to make the lot.

The revolutionary's recipe book.

I thought it was Mrs. Beaton's.

Collecting hankies.

This is a really exciting job I joined a
horse for.

Lizzie Borden in the eye.

John Peter.

Lizzie Borden in the eye.

John Peter every lunchtime.

Lizzie Borden in the eye.

Malcolm.

You've seen it.

Look, you're backing me into a corner.

You were in a corner when you got out of
bed this morning.

I've got an alibi.

All night.

Not that one again.

What's her name?

My son.

David.

Hi.

You didn't tell me you all could play
the guitar.

I was playing before I even thought
about acting.

What kind of music?

Country and western music.

Wait, did you start singing?

A bit this high.

Mind you, I was practically pushed into
it.

Goodbye.

Why are you going round like Nancy?

Everyone connected with the festival got
one in their info plan.

You can buy them at the souvenir stand.

Is there a difference?

I don't even know where mine is.

Don't worry.

Why not?

Well, because... I'm a woman.

And therefore I can't possibly be a
suspect.

It's not just that.

Electronic dog lead in case I stray.

I'll be back in a minute.

Okay, sir.

Right, sir.

You have 20 minutes.

These gentlemen are from the police in
Glasgow.

I want to know where you were last
night.

I spent the night with Dad, that's all.

He's only meant to see him twice a
month.

The courts laid that down.

The courts never asked me.

You were ten at the time. Mr. Shires,
can we ask the questions?

I don't want him growing up like his
father.

I hate him, but I hate this school and I
hate you.

Mr. Shires.

We want to know what your dad did last
night.

He sat up and talked till about two o
'clock, then went to bed.

I slept in his tea.

Did your father go out and go out again?

No.

How do you know if you were asleep?

I wasn't asleep. I was too scared of not
getting back home in time.

I made dad a cup of tea about half past
five, then he drove me back to

Edinburgh.

I fell asleep in France today.

That just about does it. Just about does
it for us, too.

Ah, Jim.

What do you have? Hello, sir. No, eh?
I'll get this.

Well?

Boy says the same as his father, sir.

Family, are they, boy?

In this case, sir, I think it's the
truth.

Womack's didn't have a chance to plan
that boat.

I'd like to go and test it out.

We could have some sort of vigilante.

Killing moneylenders?

There you are, sir. A toast.

To your daughter's engagement.

Speak, sir.

It all seems off the wedding.

You know what the word is?

Somebody's out to kill moneylenders.

Why should that concern me?

What? You're back, Lomax.

It's 10 minutes to 8.

Dad, could we have a party here on
Tuesday night?

No. Just for some of the nurses from the
general. I haven't seen them since I

left. Ali and I thought we'd prepare
everything.

We won't cause you any trouble.

Ali. I'm sure we'll manage. I'll do what
I can. Bring your partner along, Dad.

I'd like to meet him.

It wouldn't matter.

Who's this Ali?

It's just my name for her.

Look.

We give our daughter a perfectly good
name, Euda.

I suppose I live a rather dull and
uninteresting life.

We set for the tour.

Dear Papa paid for that.

Oh, Emma didn't want to come, so she
stayed at home.

Oh, I visited Britain and France and...

Italy. But I preferred France, most of
all.

But all the time, I kept thinking about
Mother.

How much I hate her.

I refuse to call her Mother.

I call her Mrs.

Borden.

How that infuriates Papa.

I'd like to... I'd like to strike her
dead.

Am I holding this?

Oh, I guess it's my turn to chop the
wood.

Oh, hello, Mrs Lomax.

Hello. Excuse me.

I didn't know you were a theatre girl.

Frequently.

Did you enjoy the play?

Yes, thanks.

What's your particular interest in this
play?

Nothing really. I suppose it's culture.

I'd better go.

Shopping to do, you know.

I'll see you.

Sure you will.

A good house, as they say.

Yes. Marvelous what a bit of publicity
can do, huh?

It has helped.

I've been thinking about this axe that
went missing.

Did you make that story up?

Are you accusing me of wasting police
time?

No.

Not yet.

The axe was stolen from here two days
before the murder.

Did you take it? Look.

Ask anybody when the axe went missing.

I couldn't foresee an axe murder two
days after. One person dead.

There, that's everything ready.

The rest.

I'm going to call some solid brass
fittings.

You'd have liked that.

And velvet interior.

Good taste.

Goodbye.

Did you kill Frank Bell?

Me? No.

The truth, Michael.

Are you calling your brother a murderer?

Kenneth.

Then take your hands off my cashmere
coat.

gentlemen, we'll be back at six o
'clock.

Excuse me, which one of you is Robert
Carrera, the secretary?

Robert, this guy wants a word with you.

Mr Carrera, Detective Sergeant Jarden,
we're making inquiries of...

Excuse me, will you? Do something for
me.

Is your middle name Pimpernel?

Why have you been trying to avoid me?

I wasn't.

You saw me.

You deliberately walked the other way.

You must have imagined it.

I didn't imagine it.

Why did you run away from me yesterday?

You were... You were getting too close.

Because I'm an actress, because I'm in
the business, I'm with everybody I meet.

wrong. I didn't mean it that way.

A lot of men do.

Michael.

I've got a singing barber in here.

Singing what?

You were supposed to interview him, then
you ran off in pursuit of somebody

else. I saw Julie Adams and I thought,
what is it with you?

Are you lovesick or something?

Look, this guy has not only connected to
the festival...

He sang in a quartet at the Tron
Theatre.

And his wife committed suicide because
she was into moneylenders.

Come on.

Robert Carrera, Detective Sergeant
Jardine.

You've met briefly.

I don't ever remember receiving an
information pack.

Or a handkerchief.

Now, look.

We've got a letter you wrote in February
to the festival organiser requesting

one. It was sent three days later.

I don't remember.

Why is that?

Is it because you can't supply us with a
hanky?

Or because you lost it somewhere?

No.

Come on.

You're the secretary of your group.

You're supposed to remember things like
dates, bookings.

That's why they want to replace me.

When you were at the Tron Theatre, did
you see the Lizzie Borden play?

Yes. Did it give you ideas?

When did your wife die?

1976.

Twelve years ago?

I didn't know she wasn't dead.

Things were harder then.

They threatened her.

She couldn't stand violence.

She had a bath one night.

I went in.

And she'd opened up her wrists.

She was just lying there.

She owed £500 on a £20 date.

Old wounds opened, Robert.

You must hate moneylenders.

I've got a proposition.

I need a couple of debt collectors.

Why, yes.

Not really.

Thought I'd keep you in the family.

Did you blow up Frank Bell?

No.

I thought you did.

Wasn't us.

Business, then.

I don't lend to women.

For the moment, I don't want any
violence.

What are we supposed to use?

Sarcasm? I don't want any bust faces or
bust anything.

I've enough police attention as it is.

Give folk a warning, but go no further.
Not without consulting me. And what's

that?

The joint.

Not in here.

It's an unspectable place.

Do you see who that is?

Graham and McSherry.

They used to be Willie Lomax's muscle on
the north side.

Maybe they're working for his brother
now.

More than likely. Keeping it in the
family.

Let's keep an eye on them.

What he needs is a singing housekeeper.

He doesn't even have a window bolt, let
alone a vine -leaved abutula.

Graham, do you know a dear Scott and a
dear Hines from Rutherford?

The Alabama Slammers.

And they reported that Freeman McSherry
had gone down over to the south side.

Probably working for McLomax.

At least that gets him off her patch.

Long report.

Simple time device.

Wired to at least a pound of blasting
explosive.

Obviously someone who knew Frank Bell's
post office routine.

It would have been more reliable if he'd
wired it up to the ignition.

That takes time, though. He was in a
hurry.

Otherwise, he'd have put it behind the
dashboard.

Would have been more professional behind
the dashboards.

Would you do it?

Is

that

what I think it is?

We'd like a chat with the money you owe
MacLoma.

Okay, he'll get the money, my flagons.

You haven't paid interest for six weeks.

Do you know what that's mounted up to?

Four hundred. I can't get it all.

Then you shouldn't have borrowed it,
should you?

Next week it'll be higher.

The week after that, higher still.

No, my duket, lad.

This is just a warning.

You don't pay by tomorrow.

It'll be your duket, your birds, and
then you.

Okay.

Just a voluntary confession.

That's right, sir.

He was in such a state he decided to
make a clean breast of it.

They chopped up Willie Lomax because he
tried to do them out of earnings.

And Frank Bell they did him to get his
book. He didn't want them as muscle.

You're saying both of them?

That's right.

With two axes?

That's what he says.

All the axe blows in Lomax's body came
from the One Direction.

Well, I'm sure that can be got around.

Nothing can be got around.

We had Freeman McSherry.

We eliminated them both from any link
with Lomax's death.

Maybe we've got the charm.

Aye, as much charm as a couple of puff
adders.

This cell.

You two wait here.

How's George?

He'll live, no thanks to you.

It's this you should worry about.

Is that your signature?

Yeah.

So, you and McSherry killed Lomax and
Bell?

No.

Well, why'd you sign this?

I don't know.

You know this is a confession to murder?

Yes, but we didn't.

Look, I want you to say we didn't.
There's no point in you saying anything

You've signed it.

Can I get some sleep now?

Can we talk about this in the morning?

It is morning.

He's tired.

Suggestible. And he's full of dope.

You see, you don't believe his
confession, sir. I don't believe a word

and neither do you.

Pottinger?

Here, sir.

Rankin? Here, sir.

Ronaldson? Yes, sir.

Shires?

Shires?

Where's my son?

Hello, Granite Bar.

Hold on.

Rick.

Not yet, boy. I said, what were you
doing?

Dad,

I've run away.

I don't want to live in Edinburgh.

I want to live in Glasgow with you.

Lots of these hankies went out in info
packs, sir.

To advertisers, journalists.

Some of them went even at the garden
festival site.

We've got just about over half of it.

What about the pollen?

That's a massive job.

I've got 200 officers searching every
garden in the city for that fine lead

you put on.

Including yours.

I wish all the criminals would leave us
clues like this.

Put that all together, sir.

Hanky, Ike's calling.

Plenty of threads.

No part.

Phone call for you, sir.

Hey, you want a break?

Go down to the

theater. See if Helen Lomax is a member
or a regular.

Even if anybody saw her there.

Why? She was at the play yesterday.

She spoke about culture.

I don't think she can even spell the
word.

Only. My daughter's having a party
tonight at her place.

About a dozen nurses are going.

If you've got five minutes, drop in.

Fine.

All right, dear.

Helen Lomax?

I don't know the name.

And for the way you describe her, I
think I'd know if she was a regular.

Who's Julie?

She's on stage, resting.

The show starts in three quarters of an
hour.

Nothing. It's all right.

Julie, are you sure?

Yes. I'm okay. I just caught a fright.

I didn't mean to.

The light was behind you. I couldn't see
your face.

I must have fallen asleep.

Are you sure there's nothing wrong?

Yes.

Hello. Ken's out.

Oh, it's no Ken I want.

It's you.

Did you like a drink?

No, no thank you.

Come on, sit down.

Sorry.

I'd like to know your interest in Lizzie
Borden.

I told you.

She's fancy something a bit different.

You said you went to the theatre
frequently. What plays have you seen

I can't remember just like that.

It's not a crime to go to the theatre,
is it?

I saw it in the papers.

Would it have anything to do with your
brother -in -law's death?

Why should it?

They have a lot in common.

No, I just think Lizzie Borden's an
interesting character.

Lizzie Borden took an axe, gave her
mother 40 whacks.

When she saw what she had done, she gave
her father 41.

I just admired her for getting to be
with us.

I thought I'd go with you to the
festival.

Good performance.

Yes, thanks.

I'm proud of you.

Hi. Enjoy yourself.

Yeah.

It's been a nice day, eh? It's been
good, Father.

Give me those, I'll fill them up.

Thanks.

What's wrong with you?

You've got a face as long as a fiddle.
Nothing.

Only getting married, you know. She's
not going to Australia.

Jim.

Ah. There we are.

Listen,

I've got an idea.

Why don't you and me go down the road
and get a couple of halves of a wee

Might be the last chance we get, eh?

If it's okay with Alison.

She's not going to miss you for half an
hour.

I'll bring her back in one piece.

It's a bit pan -loafy, but we've got a
good selection.

Now get your refill.

No, you've got to tell him, Alison. It
isn't up to me. Can't you just soften

up a bit? Soften him for something like
this? I wanted Dad to get to know him,

to like him, before I told him. It's
going to destroy him, Alison. Oh, Mum,

don't exaggerate.

He's been inside for armed robbery.

He was a teenager. He got dragged into
it. He's got a prison record.

He's been inside for six years. And your
dad's the chief inspector.

He's been here all day.

I can't make him go home. He's run away.

And you ran away once yourself, so don't
think... David,

your dad wants to speak to you.

Have you had enough to eat?

I've some ice cream I was keeping till
tomorrow, but we might as well have it

now, eh?

David, I told you this morning, go home.

The police could visit me at any time. I
don't need more trouble.

Look, look, look.

Just hang on a minute, will you?

David?

Okay, come around.

That's what I said. Come round.

Lana?

It's Mick.

No, no, he isn't here.

But he's on his way round.

Bill, too?

I thought he might be...

Oh, sorry about that, Tim.

Don't worry. I won't fight.

We've got a good long chat before you go
away, eh? Nice to meet you.

are the same size.

Why so many?

I hear you're holding somebody.

That's right.

What's the motive?

Jealousy.

That answers your question.

David. What's happening?

I want to see Bill.

I'm afraid that's not possible at the
moment, Mrs. Shires.

I want to see him.

What's going on?

He's under arrest for the murder of your
ex -husband.

Elizabeth, spread your attention a bit.

Make it thinner.

This is a nightclub, not a courthouse.

And your seams are crooked, by the way.

What did the police want?

He was murdered.

Just like Willie.

I didn't kill him. How could I have?

Then how did you get the blood on your
trousers and shoes?

When I went back up to the flat with
David before phoning you.

There was a lot of blood around.

I must have brushed up against
something.

I say you left with the axe, dumped it
in the neighbourhood and then came back.

Why would I come back?

You were in Glasgow coming to see Mick.
You can't get out of that.

You mean I put up a facade?

A deception?

I'm not an English teacher, but yeah.

I suppose you also think I killed Mick's
brother because David was fond of him.

Why don't you let us make the
suggestions?

I think I'd like to see a solicitor now.

Later.

The denial of my access to a solicitor
violates Rule 92 of the UN Standard

Minimum Rules for the Treatment of
Prisoners under Articles... I can't

which, of the European Convention.

We've got a liberal here. Oh, I see.

Oh, so that's your attitude.

They're going to get that axe.

I don't know how you can believe such a
preposterous theory. Your son was hiding

in the stairwell when the murderer left.

He saw who it was.

So why pick on me?

You're the person he saw.

What do you think of McBrain's chances
at Ibrox on Saturday?

I should do okay.

A bit of a time for a transfer fee.

Did you see this?

What?

On the theatre page.

Look, will you?

Oh, me first.

Isn't that for subversives? Use your
eyes.

Mick Lomac flat's here.

There's no way Bill's chance of the time
to make that journey.

If the lad's story's right.

He had his car, don't forget.

Bill didn't have time.

David ran up the stair, saw his father
dead, then ran back down again.

It would take at least five minutes to
make that journey.

Even if he knew the bottle bank was
there.

Drink your coffee, David.

I'm fed up with coffee.

I'll go and ask for Chief Inspector
Taggart and find out what's going on.

Tell him.

Yes?

Tell him I'm not really sure it was
Bill.

What are you saying?

I didn't actually see who went out the
door.

Bill was there to sing after. I just
imagined it was him.

You are coming with me.

No, your lies have cost 12 hours.

Whoever killed your father had 12 hours
to cover his tracks.

He wasn't lying.

Who did you see leave?

I just saw a figure.

What made you say it was your father?

I don't know.

Look, you're a bright boy.

You go to a good school. You can do
better than that. Now, come on.

I suppose I wanted to think it was him.

You wanted to?

He was there so soon after.

Look, can't you see how confused he is?

David, that night you spent with your
dad,

The night you said he never went out.

Was that true?

Tell the truth, David.

If your father was handling explosives,
making a bomb which he planted that

night, it might have gone off in the
flat.

Killed you.

Not so much he thought of you.

Bob, I don't understand.

Did he or did he not go out?

He said he'd escort us out. That's all.

You certainly know how to pick your
heroes.

Mrs. Womack.

What do you have to talk?

I have to go to the garden festival.

I'll perform there.

I'll drive you. I can take the bus.

I have to know.

Make anybody but my brothers -in -law.

What do you think went through my mind
sitting out there?

I don't know.

Look.

Hello. Can you hurry up, Julie? We're
going to be late.

Julie!

Julie! Julie!

What's that French feeling you get
sometimes?

Déjà vu.

Why, that's... No.

Well, go on. Can you go now?

Just make yourself at home, Mum.

Everything's here.

Take your coat off, then.

The temperature's kept constant through
the house, so you won't catch cold.

If you want a sherry, there's dry,
medium cream, a Montalado. Just make

at home.

I'm happy in my own flat.

You can't live there on your own, Mum.
Not for a while.

Where's Helen? Out.

We're interviewing more girls this week.

When will she be back? I don't know.

Look, you'll have to make an effort to
like Helen, Mum.

The only son I've got left.

Married to a cold girl.

She was an escort, Mum.

There's a subtle difference.

Look, she's a happily married woman now.

Respectable. Get to like her.

No one who ever stole the axe kept it
near thine leave the butyl.

I was reading the other day how colling
grains have helped date the Turin

Shroud.

The what?

The cloth that Jesus was wrapped in.

You keep your mind in this case.

Never mind the Turin Shroud.

I want to find out the connection
between Helen Lomax and your actress.

She's not my actress.

Is it not time you had another word with
her?

Look, I'll tackle Helen Lomax.

We're ready to miss Tim and Alison and
go home today.

Maybe you should go home, sir.

Before they leave.

Why?

Just got the impression at the party
that there was something they wanted to

talk to you about.

That's all.

Oh, come on, Michael. That's not all.
What is that?

He's got previous.

I'm drooling.

Where

none

of you going to tell me?

Was I the only one to be left in the
dark?

You didn't come home last night.

I was working. How did you find out?

Michael told me.

I've got to find out from my neighbour.

Mr. Tiger, if you can go back into the
house, I'll talk to you about it. You're

damn right we'll talk about it.

I was a teenager at the time.

I put it to good use for learning to
trade. It wasn't his fault.

I've read the details. They asked him to
be a lookout, that's all.

Outside a fur warehouse in Salford. He
was carrying a bloody gun. I'm not out

here for good.

You liked him.

I wanted you to get to like him before
we told you.

It took you five days to tell me.

Mum's right.

When are you ever here?

When did you ever take the time to be
with us? We've wanted to tell you.

Mr. Taggart, can I talk to you inside?

Out.

Out. Out of my house.

I've got work to do.

Catching criminals?

Would you believe?

Hiya.

Can't get lost, do you?

Listen, I'll get the rest of you off.
Fancy a boat trip?

I can.

Come on.

It's a speedboat.

I have known a night like this when I'm
all

alone.

You tell me he's a good Christian boy.
Well, let's leave it.

Do you think that's official?

That doesn't look it.

We'll keep her eye on pretty boy.

And her.

Very good.

Don't forget to smile.

Right.

Right, now, do your parents know you've
come here to work?

They never come to Edinburgh.

Big wicked city, is it? Yeah, they think
so.

I always ask.

We've had our rape fathers dragging
their daughters out of here by the

their necks.

Now, nine sharp for the fitting, OK?
Right.

Bye -bye now. Thank you.

Hello. Hello.

You recruit?

She won't laugh.

You get the tell.

What kind of girls come here?

All kinds.

University graduates.

You only go for the bright girls.

If you fell ill here, you'd be all
right. We've got more nurses than the

Southern General.

Nurses? Is that a fact?

Uh -huh.

What brings you to Edinburgh?

I'm curious to know why you went to the
theatre to see the same play twice.

Oh, that.

Drink? I'll take a whisky, please.

Sorry to hear about your brother -in
-law.

Are you?

I've never seen it like this.

You must move around a lot in your life.

I've left in lots of places.

Hey, babies!

Here!

We want here!

Why was it so peculiar to want to go to
the theatre again?

Well, to see the same play.

I saw you with our actress, Julie
Adamson.

Did you?

Uh -huh.

Do you know her?

She's got eyes everywhere.

Oh, no.

Just with her, Martha.

She used to work here.

What?

When resting?

She only worked for one night. She
didn't like it and left.

One night?

And you go and see her play twice?

Now, that doesn't smell right to me.

There must have been more to your
relationship than that. I assure you

wasn't.

Why, um... Why exactly did she leave?

Okay, I... I asked her to leave.

She wasn't suitable.

After only one night.

Wasn't very fair, was it?

Didn't give her much of a chance.

There were reasons.

What reasons?

Ken took a shine to her, as he does with
some of the girls. Only with Julie, I

felt it was more.

Next day I fired her.

I can't do that, you know.

What date was that?

November 5th.

Fireworks night. How could I forget?

And what was Ken's reaction?

Well, he never had a choice.

Sorry. My agent.

I have to call her every day.

That's all right.

One of the hazards of living in a boat.

This?

I told you it was small.

Named after J .M. Barrie. Why, does he
live in a boat as well?

No. He wrote a book called The Merry
Rose.

And he was wee, like me.

I'm taking her back to the flat to get
some of her things.

I've asked her to stay for a while.

That's nice.

I'll try not to get under your feet.

Did you see some good girl? Yeah.

Who's there?

A woman of many parts, eh?

Here's a copy of the book.

Let me have it back, Bill.

I'll drop it off to you at the theatre.

Or at the Garden Festival.

Yesterday was my last day at the Garden
Festival.

What's that?

I have another part to learn.

I, uh... I saw you with some friends
earlier today.

Fans of yours?

Oh, they're... They were you.

Whose side?

Well... They're drama students.

From Edinburgh.

Didn't know you knew Helen Lomax.

Are you here to interrogate me?

I let you come because I thought...
Who's interrogating?

I just wondered how you knew each other,
that's all.

I worked at a club.

As a hostess.

I needed the money.

We didn't dig.

In Edinburgh.

I didn't see anything.

It was the way you looked.

I didn't like it.

So I left.

All those businessmen expecting me to...

Well, you know.

So I just didn't go back the next night.

Actually, it was her husband's club.

Not Mrs Lomax's.

I never met him.

I suppose.

That's cosy.

It was your idea.

Julie says she left of her own accord.

Helen Lomax says she was paid off
because Ken was showing her too much

attention.

And one of them's got to be lying.

Which one?

I'll sleep with her.

How many festival hikers have we got?

We're in about 1 ,400.

600 to go.

600 suspects.

It's a rotten, boring job. It could lead
nowhere.

Did you get Julie's hanky?

No.

Well, what have you been doing?

She reckon she's thrown it out.

There's not much space in her boat.

For a hanky?

And you believe that?

I thought you'd gone.

Tim had to because of work.

I stayed.

Alison, I only want the best for you.

Then like Tim.

I don't want to embarrass you, Dad.

The last thing I'd do is embarrass you.

You're over 18.

You can do what you want.

That's not enough.

Shall I put the kettle on?

What is this?

An ambush?

Tomorrow,

we're in court.

Probably all day. As soon as it's over.

It's too dangerous.

I say we do nothing at all. I don't
know.

What do we do?

Even if we find something?

I haven't decided yet.

She's in Edinburgh.

More interviewing.

I sometimes think she doesn't trust me.

Does the name Julie Adamson mean
anything to you?

No.

She was a girl who went to your club.

Do you expect me to remember other
names?

Right enough.

She only worked there one night.

She was an actress.

Resting.

It was Guy Fawkes night last year.

Do you keep a diary?

Yes.

Where were you that night?

I don't need my diary to remember that.
I was down south, London, thinking of

opening up a new club.

I remember because some kid threw a
banger into my Rolls Royce.

That could have been one of any number
of nights.

There were bonfires.

If you don't believe me, look in my
diary.

Why? Who was this girl?

I want Helen Lomax brought in.

And this time we'll get the truth out of
her.

What have you put young Jardin on?

I'll put him on looking for buying leave
at a beauty lot.

He's had enough fun in this case.

Hello.

Can you tell your mummy there's someone
here to see her?

I don't want any more lies, Mrs. Lomax.

I've had too many.

Now you tell me, what is your
relationship with Julie Adamson? There's

relationship.

Your husband couldn't have been in the
club that night.

He was in London on November the 5th. I
don't know anymore.

Who are you protecting?

I'm not protecting anybody.

But you, you're going to find out
anyway.

Mick and Willie were always looking for
trouble.

On Julie's first night, they gave her a
lift home to her digs.

She trusted them because they were my
brother's -in -law.

They raped her.

She came to me the next morning and
handed in her notice.

She broke down in tears and told me. Did
you tell your husband?

If I had have done, he'd have killed
them.

I wish I'd been there myself that night.
I could have stopped it happening.

Where were you?

At home. I don't go to the club every
night.

It didn't stop me confronting Mick and
Willie.

They denied it, of course, but they were
very good at denying things.

Why didn't you tell us this sooner?

Because I had sympathy for her.

I've been through it myself.

You know,

she told anyone else.

She may have told her father. He lives
in Glasgow. Where?

I don't know where.

I just know about him.

I make a point of asking. We get fathers
coming in sometimes.

Never mind that.

What do you know about him?

He's in the entertainment business.

A singer with one of those fabulous
quartets.

Almost.

I told you on the phone, stay away from
me. I couldn't. We're performing here

today. I've got work to do. I'm going
home.

I did it for you, Julie.

Let me go.

Why did you tell me the drapes if you
didn't expect me to do something about

Because you're my father.

We have a word back home.

Oh, don't start all that.

I found out they were moneylender, too.

I couldn't see two men go free who did
that to a daughter of mine. Stop it,

please.

I'd do the same again, Julie.

for the garden festival.

We'll pick up both her and her father
there. She's gone home. She said

about having another part to learn.

What

is

this? By popular request. Quite fun as a
pastiche.

Which one's Julie's father?

That's curious.

Second on the right.

Julie's stage name must have been
Adamson.

That's why we never made the connection.

Can I have that for a minute?

One with the purple flower.

Where did you get that?

Oh, it's my uncle's. I borrowed it.

It's rather camp, isn't it?

Did you bring that down the last time
they were here?

You're up for the nuts.

Is this how you stole it from the
theatre?

That was stealing the paper they gave
you away.

Pollen grains.

I hope the bastards are in hell for what
they did to my daughter.

Take him away.

Caution him.

All right, boys.

The excitement's over.

Back to work.

I thought we'd never get out of here.

Look at the time.

We're okay.

She goes straight from the theatre to
the garden festival.

That gives us enough time to search.

If you told Jarden, I suppose they're
better.

Well, that's that, then.

It's not quite so.

Remember the first time we saw Mrs
Lomax?

She said Mick and Willie had taken her
out on their birthday to see Frankie

Vaughan have a meal.

Yes.

November the 5th.

The same date.

Mick and Willie couldn't have been in
the club that night.

What are you implying?

Helen never saw them.

Whoever raped Julie and said they were
Lomax brothers, they obviously weren't.

I'm on my way there.

Pick up Julie Arnes. Yeah.

Thought there must be a connection.

She's gone to her boat in Bowling.

I'm on the boulevard already.

I'll be at her boat in ten minutes.

I mean it. We should do nothing.

What have we got to gain?

I want to know.

Why don't we just ask?

We can't risk it showing her interest.

Taggart knows we go to that nightclub.

The most important thing is she never
feed it. She's already seen pictures of

the Lomax brothers.

What I don't understand is, why would
she kill them?

She'd realise they were different guys.

Maybe somebody else did it. Maybe she
sleepwalked. How the hell would I know?

That's why I want to search your things
and find out.

What do we do then when we find out?
What do we do?

There's a maniac we're an axe. You might
still have it in for us.

If the answer's on this boat, I want it
now. Are you coming?

I'm afraid we know about your father,
Everton.

Listen, there should be other officers
turning up soon.

In the meantime, I advise you to say
nothing.

I'm going to have to take you in for
questioning.

Can I ask a favour?

Sure.

Can I feed my cat before we go?

I'll come with you.

I'm not going to do anything stupid.

But I wanted to.

I've done it a long time ago.

Let's get over here.

Where do they fit in?

The Alabama Slammers.

They raped Julie Adamson and then said
they were the Lomax brothers.

Is your hand all right?

That's just a cut.

She was defending herself.

There may be a case for the names.

Do either of you have a hanky?

Sorry.

There's 1 ,100 at the station.

And, uh, Michael, we've all got to go
back.

To love another that I found This is no
mean town No mean

city City life

is strange You take your share of the
good times and bad times

That I'd be willing to die for.