All language subtitles for Taggart s26e03 The Knife Trick

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.

Sit,

sit.

And welcome.

Today, your journey begins toward what I
consider to be the finest job on earth.

That being said, this is what they don't
tell you on the recruitment posters.

About half your life is going to be
spent in...

airless rooms, taking eyewitness
statements from the great unwashed.

And when you're taking those statements,
what you've got to remember, take

nothing for granted.

Eyewitnesses are responsible for more
miscarriages of justice than any other

source of evidence.

Consider this.

Your witness might have been traumatized
by what he's seen.

and images can become conflated in the
mind and their judgments distorted by

prejudices and preconceptions.

Thanks, James.

I bet you used to sit in the front row
with all the swats. Your pens in a row,

making notes, straight A's.

Yep. A man stabbed to death in front of
30 trainee police officers.

Any of them notice anything?

Stuart's taking statements.

How's your arm, sir?

It'll never get better if people keep
touching it. Can we get on?

Oh, sorry for killing. The victim's a
Professor, Alison Matheson.

Uh, excuse me.

There's a crime scene. How did you get
in here? I'm Pippa Harry.

Is that supposed to mean something?

I'm a senior lecturer here. You must be
Burke.

Detective Chief Inspector Burke.

That's a rank in the police. I know what
it is. I lecture in criminology.

Yeah? Well, you know what they say about
college.

It's what you learn after you know all
that counts.

Is that right?

So why have you got them bothering with
that?

We all know who did it.

Do we?

The lecture was filmed.

When were you intending to tell me?

The whole thing's an act. It's meant to
illustrate the unreliability of

eyewitness evidence.

They do it for each knee intake.

Michael Shearer would run in with a
trick knife.

And he's in disguise?

Yeah.

Once we'd calmed down, we had to
describe the attacker.

The point being... No, I get the point.

What I don't understand is why the blade
failed to retract.

So are we treating this as accidental
death?

Officially, yes.

Privately, we're going to have the law
society and a bunch of academics pissing

up our backs.

So it's belt, braces and a stout length
of rope.

Where is this Michael Shearer? Spoke to
his secretary.

He's gone to visit his daughter at
Ammonvale Hospital.

Katie Shearer's been in a coma for three
weeks.

An overdose of antidepressant.

According to his secretary, he visits
two or three times a day.

Mr. Shearer?

Mr.

Shearer and Detective Sergeant Reid?

Yes.

We're going to have to ask you to come
to the station.

Where's the Chabot?

Yep, Reid.

One of the nurses saw Miss Sierra
stuffing this into the bin we sent to

incinerator.

Thank you.

What did you do to your arm?

Fell off a space hopper.

What have you got for me?

Cause of death, internal bleeding.

The blade severed the common hepatic
artery.

Don't know why they call it common. It's
one of my top three.

Oh, there's also a bruise on the cheek.

Judging by the colour, I'd say it's a
day or two old.

Anything else?

Well, in the pubic topiary, I suggest a
ladies' man.

He meant anything relevant.

Just like seeing you blush.

Take a lot more than a baldy ball bag to
make me blush.

Where's Shearer?

He's in the visitor's suite.

And the murder weapon?

Not a murder yet.

Forensics will get to it. They're snowed
under at the moment. So far they know

it's a 1958 French OTF flick knife.

Oh, don't bamboozle me, Stuart. What's
OTF?

Out the front. The blade springs
straight out.

What's wrong with the plastic, then?

Too well by the time she had her joke
shot. The blade has to look real.

Otherwise the whole experiment...
Degrees coming out the rears no announce

common thabby.

When Shearer was in the hospital?

You tried to have this destroyed.

Why would a grown man write a diary in
code?

Who are you two off to anyway?

We're off to see Pippa Harris.

She remembered something she omitted
from her statement.

Right, I'll go with you, Stuart. I'm
sure you've got plenty to be getting on

with here.

I was in early this morning, just before
seven. I saw a man near Alistair's

office. For a second, I thought he'd
come out of the office, but when I

it was locked.

Could you describe him?

I didn't get a look at his face, but he
was wearing a parka with fur around the

hood. At the time, I thought nothing of
it, just a student.

Student at that time in the morning?

I should have challenged him.

I understand Arthur Matheson had
recently been made professor.

So, Michael killed him in a spasm of
professional jealousy.

I'm sure you can do better than that.

We realise it must have been traumatic
for you. Do you?

I don't think you have the slightest
idea.

What sort of relationship did you have
with Professor Matheson?

We were friends.

Friends and colleagues.

And the knife?

You said it was kept in the office you
shared with Matheson.

That's right.

And you didn't think to shake it?

I was running late.

Why did you leave the scene?

Obviously, I had no idea what happened.

This was something we'd done 14, 15
times.

I did what I always did.

Recognize this?

That's my daughter's diary.

Why were you trying to get rid of it?

I'd been carrying it around for weeks.

I decided to let it go.

Why were you carrying it around in the
first place?

My daughter tried to commit suicide.

I thought this might tell me why.

I couldn't decipher the code myself, but
one of my colleagues is a cryptanalyst.

I was hoping to persuade him to do it.

Persuade?

I'd asked him before.

He refused.

The Alan Park?

I'd assumed as Katie's godfather that he
might want to help.

I still don't know why you were trying
to incinerate it.

Because I'd become obsessed with it.

Knowing what it said wasn't going to
help me, and it wasn't going to help

Your actions could be construed as an
attempt to destroy evidence.

I appreciate you have got your
interrogation manual to follow, D .S.

But I want to see my daughter.

And I think you'll find you have no
powers to detain me.

You know Alan Park?

Yeah, I worked with him a few years ago.

Alan Park?

He had a thing for you, didn't he,
Jackie?

Yes, which wasn't reciprocated.

End of story.

The sooner we get this translated, the
better.

He won't do it.

Do you remember that child abduction
case in Belgium?

Well, they blamed himself for the girl's
death.

I'll bet you could talk him round now.
Eh, Jackie?

No, I couldn't.

Jackie, a case like this, we're all
under examination.

The longer it drags on...

Well, thanks for agreeing to see me.

I wish the circumstances could have been
different.

What are you lecturing in these days?

NVC. Non -verbal communication.

Body language.

Micro -expression.

Not code?

It's not a million miles away.

Our bodies give out messages. I teach
people how to interpret.

Michael Shearer can't see you if his
daughters die.

I just asked, what did he say to you?

He told me she'd been withdrawn.

He thought it might tell him what was
going on.

It's got to do with Professor Madison.

Well, my boss thinks the diary might be
important.

Did you take a look at it?

I don't do that sort of work anymore.

Well, I just thought you'd be in Katie's
godfather that you might have.

I gave him the names of a couple of
other cryptanalysts who'd have been more

than happy to help out.

Ah, but you're the best.

Am I?

I find that laughable.

Alan, I'd really like to work with you
again.

Tragic accident occurred today.

I don't see what the fault of a
vulnerable girl has got to do with that.

I can't help it.

Isn't this a wee bit outside your
jurisdiction?

I was under the impression you were in a
hurry.

This piece is from a TXL standard
stapler.

I'm guessing that doesn't come as
standard.

Somebody's jammed it into the mechanism.

To stop the blade retracting. And
whoever did that is your killer.

We'll go ourselves a murder inquiry.

One minute.

Michael Shearer, we're searching your
office.

We do not touch or attempt to remove
anything from the premise.

If you tell me what you're looking for,
I might be able to help you.

Boss, you'd be correct to make a model.

I've never seen this before.

So how did it come to be in your office?

Because I thought you'd never look
there.

Anybody could have planted that.

DCI Burke, I'm a lecturer in
criminology. Do you honestly think I

incriminating evidence in my own office?

You and Alistair Matheson both applied
for the professorship. I had nothing but

respect for Alistair.

Beaten to a prestigious job by a younger
man? And how old are you now, Jackie?

And still a DS?

That's not... Then again, I remember you
at college. This is just a sort of

inept interrogation I'd have expected of
you.

Well, Ethan, I remember you.

You didn't think women should be
detectives at all, did you? Just some

Okay, can I go?

I think you'll find we have powers to
detain you.

We need to know what's in that diary.

What's that?

The director's cup?

They film the students and analyse how
they respond.

Everyone reacts, except this guy here,
John Goldie. Bring him in.

Extend my world fame with hospitality.

Looking for John Goldie?

Who are you?

Eugene Roper.

I'm in the shop next door.

You know, John will be away on his bike.

Away to the pub, more than likely.

Which pub would that be?

No idea.

Other folks' business, know what I'm
saying?

Aye, sure.

Aye, well, um, this is about Professor
Matheson.

It's just that I saw him in the college
bar.

A couple of nights ago.

I put a to -do with this woman.

Yeah?

Look, I don't want you to think I'm some
kind of a gossip.

Use you and me.

Between you and me, this could be
pivotal to a murder inquiry.

Aye, well, the woman lamped on one.

Fair near broke his jaw.

You describe this woman?

Well, she had...

Hair and a dress.

You weren't there, were you?

Somebody... Somebody told me.

You should have let me know you were
coming. I'd have got a bottle of wine

fancy beer instead.

Oh, no, I'm good, thanks.

Did you know the knife had been tampered
with?

No.

No, I didn't know that.

We've arrested Michael Cedar.

I really think you're making a mistake.

Michael's not capable.

Well, he's taking it pretty badly that
he can't see his daughter.

And my boss won't release him until we
know what's in her diary.

I thought you'd like to help your
friend.

Michael's a friend when he needs
something.

I was there for him right through his
wife's illness.

But when I came back from Belgium, he
didn't want to know.

It's for Katie, too.

You know, she needs to hear his voice.

The sooner we have it translated... I
don't do that work anymore.

Maybe I'll have that beer after all.

Couldn't keep away, could you?

Miss Parrott.

Miss Parrott?

You've ached well.

You haven't ached a bit.

Liar.

I hear you found something in Michael's
office.

I can't comment.

You searched the office without a
warrant. Was that corruption or

It's a murder case.

Urgency provisions of the law allowed
the search.

Except it wasn't a murder case when the
search was carried out, and that renders

it illegal.

Where are you getting your information?

What you lacked in technique, you always
made up in puppyish enthusiasm, didn't

you?

I want to talk to you about your
relationship with Mather.

Were you two having an affair?

You want to talk to me, Robbie, you do
it properly.

I heard what happened in Belgium.

Did it help to talk about it?

This had nothing to do with what
happened in Belgium.

Well, there's a young girl crying out to
be heard.

That's not exactly subtle, Jackie.

No.

No, I'm sorry. I spent three months
working on the codes the abductors used.

I went night after night without sleep.

By the time I cracked it, the girl had
starved to death.

The men who'd taken her got away.

Nicole Guzman.

Every night, I hear her crying for help.

How'd you get on with Park?

She's still got it.

He's coming in at ten.

Forensics found John Goldie's prints on
the knife.

You got them downstairs?

No, but I did try the dress last night.
I'll do it myself.

Police cadet John Goldie.

You avoiding it?

Who are you?

DCI Burke.

I'd like to bring in for a wee chat.

They're busy right now.

If I arrest you, you're still going to
look too clever in your CV.

Why are your fingerprints on the knife?

Because I touched it.

Listen, son.

A man's been murdered, so stow the
attitude.

When did you touch it?

Two, three months ago.

My ex took me into her dad's office.

Her dad's office?

Your ex -girlfriend's Katie Shearer?

She showed me the knife.

Told me about the trick.

Which is why you didn't react.

Why didn't you tell us this yesterday?

Didn't think my prince would still be on
it.

And you think you're cut out for a
career in the police?

The fact that Katie's in a coma doesn't
seem to bother you.

As the poet said, shit happens.

All right, that'll do for now.

Interview terminated at 9 .22.

Can I go?

I'll let you know when you can go.

Right. Get back to the holding cell.

Wait a minute.

Put your hood up.

What? Put your hood up.

The man, Pippa Harry, go outside
Matheson's office.

Her description fits Goldie.

There he is now.

7 .32.

Knows about the knife, knows about the
trick.

His alibi is lying comatose in the
hospital.

So what's his motive?

Jackie's boyfriend should be in in a
minute.

Maybe he can help us.

It looks pretty complex.

No, it's not.

Basic shift system.

Peppered with the astrological signs.

Kanji very simple.

How long will it take?

Hard to say. Could take a month, could
take two days.

I'd prefer two days.

I tell you what, if I do it in two days,
will you have dinner with me?

Yeah.

If I do.

Your first lecture was at

nine yesterday.

What were you doing at the college at
half past seven?

I wasn't.

We were going on film.

I've just been wrong with the timer or
something.

There's nothing wrong with the timer.

What were you doing at 7 .30 yesterday
morning?

I was asleep.

You sure you're cut out for this?

You want to repeat that?

How's it going?

Well, it's definitely Katie's diary.

Four months ago, she fought someone
older. She's worried because he's a

colleague of her father's, a Japanese
kanji for teacher.

And this M here, could that be Alistair
Matheson?

Yeah. From other passages, it's clearly
Matheson.

Does she ever mention a John Goldie?

Goldie?

Right.

That's a thing.

She has a fling with a young man.

A -U?

Chemical symbol for gold?

You've got a knack for this.

Here she's talking about her dates with
Mathis and films, restaurants.

A place called the Hanging Garden?

Then, two months later, she's pregnant.

That looks like a coat hanger.

Yeah, it is a coat hanger.

It's an abortion symbol.

It's got M here, putting her under
pressure to get rid of the baby.

It's a class act.

She tried to talk to her dad.

Told him she doesn't know who the father
is.

He goes ballistic.

Tells her she's ruining her life.

And does she have the abortion?

Yeah.

Here she's consumed with regret.

Thoughts of suicide.

Could Michael Shearer have translated
this himself?

Well, impossible.

More likely he took my advice, scanned
the diary and sent it to another

cryptanalyst.

Yes, hi there.

My name's Detective Sergeant Reid.

Is this a quick question? Have you been
contacted recently by a Michael Shearer?

Okay.

Yeah, is that Miriam Chambers?

Oh, this is Detective Sergeant Reid.

Yeah, it's about your work as a
cryptanalyst.

Can I ask you, have you been contacted
recently by a Michael Shearer?

And you translated the whole thing?

Did you send him a hard copy?

Oh, that's great.

So you could forward the copy?

You've deleted your copy.

No, no, don't worry.

No, we'll be in touch.

Yep, thanks.

She sent Michael Shearer a translation
of the diary as an attachment two days

ago.

Uncle Shearer told us he'd nothing
again, fellas, for Matt.

In fact, he referred to Matheson as a
friend.

Shearer knew that his daughter was
pregnant and that she'd had an abortion

contributed to her suicide attempt.

What we don't know is whether Shearer
had motive to kill Matheson.

Now, he would only have known that
Matheson was the father of Kate's baby

he'd read a translation of that diary.

As soon as we can prove that you did
that, you'll be charged with murder.

With Goldie and Shearer, there's two
lines of inquiry here.

We follow them both to the hilt.

Oh, Jesus!

Get someone to calm down!

I fear hell.

Do you want to tell me why you did it?

My daughter's in a coma.

I've apparently murdered one of my best
friends.

I've spent my life trying to teach thick
cults about the law.

And I could feel a wrongful conviction
looming over me.

Best friend?

After what you read in Kate's diary?

I haven't read her diary.

Yeah.

What did her say?

You tell me.

You scanned it.

Sent it to a cryptanalyst.

She translated it, sent it back.

But I deleted it.

I didn't even open it.

Why not?

I was scared of what it might tell me.

What was that?

That I'd failed her as a father.

You've read my statement?

Yes, I have.

So why am I here? You know I didn't get
a good look at his face.

We want you to take a look at the way
they walk.

Right, could you put your hoods up,
please?

And take six steps forward.

Number four looks as if he needs some
music.

So is number four the person that you
refer to in your statement?

Okay, and walk back to the wall. Helps
some people.

Music.

Doesn't it, Robbie?

Is that the person you... How much
longer do you intend to hold Michael?

Look, please... If he killed himself,
I'm holding you all personally

responsible. Please.

Please try and concentrate.

None of them.

Definitely not.

You sure?

That's what definitely not means.

Hey.

I've got something to show you.

Pathologist's report on Matheton.

There's bruising to the right cheek.

He fell, didn't he?

Not on that side.

I've got a witness who saw a woman
flapping him.

Just the one?

Just the one.

The day before he was killed.

That was you, wasn't it?

How can I deny it when you have such
compelling evidence?

How would you like to spend the weekend
in a cell?

Fine.

Make an even bigger fool of yourself.

What happened to you?

I had access to the knife.

I had a motive.

No. No?

Seven years I put up with him.

Then he gets a career boost and starts
to hanker after a younger model.

You want to know why I hit him?

Tell me.

He told me he wanted to get married.

I thought he meant to me.

Who was it then?

Mooty.

If you recover it.

What a bastard!

Oh.

Are you going to arrest me?

Why put you through that?

You didn't do it.

You're scared I'll tell your colleagues
about us?

No regret from that fight.

All those years.

You don't get them back, do you?

What was that all about?

Oh, she's just upset.

She's known maths in a long time.

And that's it?

I know you've got your doubts, boss, but
I really don't think she'd get anything

to do with it.

Hi, Alan.

How's it going?

Probably finished in an hour or so.

You don't look very happy about it.

It's always a bit of an anticlimax at
the end of a job.

It's not like everybody's safe and the
hero just walks away.

You on for dinner tonight?

Sure.

Here's John Goldie.

It's not how I imagined him.

In the diary.

Right. Time's up.

Michael Shearer. Charge him or release
him.

Any proof you opened that bloody
attachment yet?

Not yet.

Are you time for a drink?

I've been. What do you think, Jackie?

Well, we charge him. It buys us time.

Yeah, that's what you expect.

I think we'll release him.

Let him talk to his daughter.

Seat it, would you, Stuart?

Yes, sir.

Just as soon as you've finished.

We haven't bought... No, I can't right
now.

I need one of you for a spot of
surveillance.

What? Don't tell me you're selling a
social life.

I'm meeting Alan Park.

Ah, it's always the quiet one.

So is that you volunteering, Robbie? I
suppose it must be.

Where is it?

Amundale Hospital.

Don't bother drinking that.

You're driving.

You haven't changed a bit, you know
that?

No.

Was that good or bad?

I don't know how you do this job and
retain your humanity.

Well, I try and get away when I can.

Can you get away when it's all in here?

You really hear voices?

One voice.

Nicole.

Et moi.

And it gets louder and louder.

Nobody can hear it except me.

I can't say a word without reading it
backwards, making up anagrams, thinking

about its Chinese equivalent.

Did you notice John Goldie's pendant?

I noticed everything of his shape.

Forks, spoons, hands, flowers, wine
stains on a tablecloth. They're all

symbols.

Job turns your brain inside out.

You'll be glad the job's over, then?

No, I'm not. You want to know why?

I'm going to get the bill.

Because I know now that if I had done
what Michael asked, I might have been

to save Katie.

I've blown it for a second date.

No, Alan, you haven't blown it.

There was never going to be a second
date.

Do you want?

It was

you?

You get Katie pregnant?

How long are we going to give it?

I can hardly keep my eyes open.

Do you think I wasn't coming?

I'm never going to let you down again.

All those times when I closed the door
on you.

Now you've done it to me.

What were you expecting?

Confession.

Too much pressure.

Why Pippa had to confide in me, I don't
know.

I should have told the police everything
she said.

All this rubbish, this crap about
Alistair.

How he'd hurt her.

And how she was going to get him back
for it.

Still 100 % about Pippa Harris?

Sir, I'm just on the way to the
hospital.

Goldie's been stabbed.

Yeah, that was me too. I'm getting a
taste for it now.

What's going on? I'll tell you later.

How bad is Goldie?

He's not in danger.

Right, get a couple of uniforms down
there with him.

Sir, I'm pretty sure it was Goldie that
got Katie pregnant, not Matthew.

Park's got it wrong.

Yeah, he misread a Zodiac symbol as the
letter M. How could he balls that up?

Well, the guy's been traumatised.

I don't think he's playing with a full
deck.

And did you get a look at your attacker?

It's just what I told him earlier.

Dressed like me.

Man or woman?

Man.

I suppose it could have been a woman.

There was just too much pressure.

Why Pippa had to confide in me, I don't
know.

You used Shearer to kill Matheson
because you knew he had a motive.

I told Michael how Alistair had treated
me, and I said I wanted to get him back.

You had Act II tonight, and you did
discuss committing a crime of pattern.

I didn't say I was going to kill him.

A few hours before the murder, you were
publicly humiliated by Matheson.

What? He talked about marriage.

You thought he meant to you. I can't
think of anything much more humiliating

than that.

You...

This investigation has been a joke from
the start.

Is that right?

Why don't you let Alan Parks run it for
you?

What's that supposed to mean?

The guy's in meltdown and you've got him
in here every day helping you out.

Yeah, he's so messed up he's a full
-time lecturer.

He uses one of the rooms.

He's been on sick leave for over a year.

How did it go with Goldie?

Yeah, he admitted he got Katie pregnant.
And when he reacted badly to the news,

she went back to Madison.

That's a hell of a motive. Nearly as
good as Pippa Harrow.

Where is Goldie? St Mungo's infirmary.

Right, Robbie, let's see him while you
visit.

What did Park say to you about his
position at the college?

That he was a lecturer.

I want him back in.

Hello.

Constable!

Glue your arse to this chair until
you're told otherwise.

Shit!

Find out if anybody saw him go.

Jackie?

Yeah? I found something on Shearer's
hard drive.

An email.

Alan Park sent, commiserating about
Katie.

It had a Trojan horse virus attached.

Nope, I'm lost.

It means every email Shearer sent after
that was copied to Park.

When did Shearer email the diary to
Miriam Chambers?

That's it here.

So Park had access to the diary two
weeks before we showed it to him?

So why didn't he just read the diary
when Shearer asked him to?

If Katie hadn't tried to kill herself by
then.

We'll be a minute.

That's Alan Parr.

That's the thing he does with his thumb.

He thinks if he translated that diary
sooner, Casey could have been saved.

So he feels responsible for our suicide
attempt.

I dreamt about you.

You were on this beach then.

It just went on forever.

And the little kid... Fleening

away.

Can you hear me?

She can't hear you.

But I can hear her.

It was Alan Parks that tried to kill
John Goldie last night.

I think he's going to try again.

Goldie's done a runner.

Okay.

Yep, keep me posted.

You and Matheson making her do the
things she didn't want to do.

Her own father pushing her away.

The three of you leaving her for dead.

I saved her.

No, you didn't.

But it's over now.

So you can put the knife down.

It's not over.

Alan, your job's done here.

Save the girl.

So it's time to walk away because that's
what heroes do.

Look.

Katie's going to need her father.

No.

You've got no love for her.

People can show love in different ways.

I know it's hard.

I just want everybody to be safe.

I know you do.

I just want to be safe.

I saved her.

I know.

Just wanted to say... I underestimated
you.

I'm not the one that needs your
approval.