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Sandra.

I'm in a rush. I'm sorry, Tom.

TOM: I left a couple of messages on your phone.

Four, actually.

Yeah.

- TOM: You're avoiding me. - I've just been very busy.

You've been busy.

We're family, Sandra.

You're the only blood relative I have left.

I'm sorry, Tom.

He's in the room with us now.

He's standing just behind you, Victoria.

Vicky.

Oh, he's frowning.

I don't think he liked you shortening your name, did he'?

He hated it.

CARTER: He seems agitated again.

It's as if he can't relax...

can't settle.

Because of this unfinished business?

I think so, yeah.

He says he needs your help.

He needs you to help him put it right.

Now he's holding up his hand.

There's a key in it.

This is what he did last time.

What does this key look like?

Look, I must ask you to remain silent.

The connection to the spirit world is always tenuous.

VICKY: What does the key mean'?

I'm not sure.

He seems to think that you might know.

Look, I don't think he's at all happy

that there is a stranger in the room.

We need to know what happened the night he died.

No, no, I'm sorry.

He's moving into the darkness.

Perhaps next time.

If this "unfinished business" refers to the burglary,

it means it wasn't random.

My father was targeted,

which makes his death murder, doesn't it'?

I'd like a word with Mr. Carter in private, please, Vicky.

Okay.

Thank you again.

Pleasure.

You're a policewoman.

Detective superintendent.

You were less than honest about that.

Coming from you, Mr. Carter...

You're skeptical.

That's an occupational hazard.

Much of what I do seems outlandish.

I understand that.

Actually, taking money from gullible people

is quite commonplace.

Don't worry.

What you're doing isn't illegal, although it probably should be.

I'm only here to evaluate Whether there's any new evidence

concerning the death of Miss Anderson's father.

I don't think what you have to say qualifies as evidence.

CARTER: You lost someone who means a great deal to you.

I'm not a gullible person, Mr. Carter.

He's been gone awhile now, your father.

This kind of cheap parlor trick --

CARTER: He's disappointed.

There's someone you should be closer to.

[inhales sharply]

It's a sibling.

It's someone you've neglected.

# It's all right, it's okay #

# Doesn't really matter if you're old and gray #

# It's all right, I say it's okay #

# Listen to what I say #

# It's all right, doing fine #

# Doesn't really matter if the sun don't shine #

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PULLMAN: Douglas Anderson.

A wealthy financier who made his money in investment banking

in Hong Kong.

He retired and moved back to England with his family

in 1997 when Hong Kong was handed back to the Chinese.

About 18 months ago,

Mr. Anderson returned to his house in Knightsbridge

after a late dinner,

Where it appears he surprised an intruder.

A struggle ensued

and Anderson sustained several blows to the face and body.

According to the coroner, he suffered a fatal heart attack,

but he did have a pare-existing heart condition.

So, the death wasn't necessarily deliberate?

There's no way to know.

Apparently, there was a Wealth of physical evidence,

fingerprints at the scene,

but the original investigation failed to identify the intruder.

He had no known enemies.

Maybe he was just at the wrong place at the wrong time.

PULLMAN: A couple of days ago,

Victoria Anderson, the victim's daughter,

claimed to have uncovered new evidence

suggesting that this burglary may not have been random.

And if that's the case,

then perhaps his death wasn't accidental either.

Vicky had been in contact with this man...

Sebastian Carter.

Carter is a clairvoyant, a psychic.

He says that he'd been in touch with Anderson's spirit

and that Anderson had unfinished business

which he wished Vicky to conclude for him

before he could find peace.

-[ Laughing] - Yes, I know.

And this is the bloke you went to see yesterday.

PULLMAN'. Y Bah. - And'?

And I don't know.

You don't know if he's really talking to the dead or not'?

STANDING: Well, he could be.

Excuse me'?

No, no, no, I was on a case in the '80s --

'84, I think --

and we knew this bloke had offed his wife, right,

but we couldn't prove it 'cause there was no body.

Well, one of the team brought in a mate of his

who was into this clairvoyancy stuff

and he only pinpointed exactly Where she was buried.

How?

Well, she told him, apparently, you know, from the other side.

You're not buying any of this stuff, Jack'?

Well, of course I'm not. Are you'?

Carter was...

Some of the things he said...

HALFORD: Like what?

He was quite impressive.

He's a con man.

I'm not saying he's not a good one.

But what these people do is just cold reading.

Cold reading?

Educated guesses based on your body language,

your appearance, and Whatever.

I mean, for example, one glance at Brian,

and I can tell you that he had porridge

for his breakfast this morning.

How did you know that'?

It's all down your front.

All right, these so-called clairvoyants are impressive,

but, come on, don't let's kid ourselves.

What, you think there might be something in this'?

No, of course not. Don't be silly.

It's just there was something that Carter said

during the consultation.

He said that he could see

Anderson standing in the room with us

and that Anderson -- Wait.

Anderson was holding a key in his hand

and somehow this key was significant.

- What kind of key'? - PULLMAN: I don't know.

But the point is that Anderson's body

was found on the floor of his study

and it was surrounded by keys.

It appears that the intruder found Anderson's key ring

in his pocket

and was trying to use the keys to open desk drawers

and various cabinets in the room.

And none of this was made public at the time?

- PULLMAN: No. - Lucky guess.

Why would you guess a key'?

Because it's general.

It might not be a physical key.

It might be a key to a code or a keyword.

It's open to interpretation.

That's how these people work.

LANE: Maybe he did know something.

Oh, don't you start.

No, no, no, look, what I am saying

is maybe this Carter character knew something

about the burglary,

but he's just pretending that he's being told by a ghost.

That's interesting.

Yeah, yeah, it is.

Shouldn't be too difficult to prove either, should it'?

I met him at a dinner, a charity thing.

I can't even remember what it was for now.

There was a drinks reception before we sat down to eat,

and I fell into conversation with Mr. Carter about my work.

LANE: You're a photographer?

Yeah. Wildlife mostly.

It was a hobby that became a job.

Those are mine.

Ah.

VICKY: Heron Island on the Great Barrier Reef.

It's an amazing place.

My dad bought a holiday home there when I was a kid.

I went back there last year after he died

to get my head together.

Those were all taken then.

Ha!

A noddy tern!

It's a kind of bird.

Whoa!

HALFORD: Sebastian Carter'?

VICKY: Yes, sorry.

I was talking to him at this drinks thing

when he suddenly told me he could see my father

standing right behind me.

And you believed him'?

Yes, I did.

He said that your father seemed agitated?

He said that he was unable to find rest,

that he had some kind of unfinished business

that needed to be taken care of first.

LANE: What unfinished business?

I don't know.

I've had several consultations with Mr. Carter since then,

but we can't seem to get to the bottom of it.

And how much do these consultations cost'?

Oh, he's not charging me for them.

Mr. Carter feels an obligation

to help restless spirits find peace.

I think this unfinished business

has something to do with Hong Kong.

Why do you say that?

Because we left Hong Kong under a bit of a cloud.

I was young and I wasn't told very much,

but I remember my mother saying

that there were all sorts of accusations flying around

about my dad's business being dodgy somehow.

Dodgy'? How'?

Dad always shrugged it off, said there was nothing to it,

but when we moved back here,

my mother was diagnosed with cancer

and my dad retired so he could look after her.

Whatever is disturbing him

has to be to do with his business in Hong Kong.

But "unfinished business" could also refer

to a personal matter, though, couldn't it'?

Yes, I suppose it could,

but I have no idea what that could be.

My dad didn't have much of a personal life

after my mother died.

HALFORD: And this was the family home?

And your father's body was found in the study?

Yes, I found him.

Thank you.

Has anything changed in here since it happened?

No.

I occasionally have to go through files for something,

home insurance papers or Whatever, but otherwise...

It was Dad's space.

He didn't like us to come in here.

And your father's body was found Where?

Um...

Over there, in front of the desk.

You were still living here at the time, weren't you'?

Yeah. Dad liked company.

Although, that night, I'd been out.

I had a boyfriend at the time in North London,

and I'd stayed there.

When I came home in the morning, I found him.

So, there couldn't have been anybody else in the house

that night?

No. Penny had moved into her own place a few months earlier.

Penny?

Miss Anderson's sister.

Adopted sister, yeah.

You and Penny are close'?

Very close.

About these keys'?

The crime-scene report said

there were a lot of keys on the floor.

Dad liked to keep his keys

in one of those old-fashioned leather pouches.

Aside from the house and the car,

there were keys for the desk over there

and some of these antique boxes.

None of them were ever used,

but Dad liked to keep them all in one place.

So, the thief must have tried out all the keys,

but nothing was actually stolen, was it'?

Not as far as I could tell.

The boxes were already empty,

and the paperwork in the desk seemed complete.

Well, the things in here

must be worth a few bob in their own right.

Nothing was missing?

VICKY: The police assumed that Dad must have disturbed him

before he had the chance.

And you really believe that this Sebastian Carter character

is in touch with your father's spirit?

Yes, Mr. Halford.

That is what I believe.

LANE: According to the original investigation,

Vicky's alibi for the night of the burglary was Watertight.

And there was no motive.

Except money.

She did get a nice big house out of it.

Yeah, but look at the place. It's like a shrine to her dad.

Okay.

Hold on, hold on.

Penny Anderson's real father was a man called John Plummer

who had a construction company in Hong Kong.

Ha!

What?

Well, he had a construction company

and his name was Plummer.

Forget about it.

Yeah, yeah.

Anyway, he was imprisoned in '97

for conspiring to defraud the Chinese government

to the tune of several million quid.

The money was never recovered,

and he died in Victoria Prison in '99.

Oh, well, we can scratch his name from the list of suspects.

What suspects? We haven't even got a crime.

It was the break-in, Jack, and a possible murder rap.

The break-in was probably completely random.

Douglas Anderson disturbs a burglar, a fight ensues,

his heart gives out.

It's happened before.

- I want to see Carter again. - What about?

Because I think there's something going on there.

- The man's a fraud. - Not necessarily.

Spare me!

You two go and speak to Penny Anderson.

And ask her what?

I want to know more about this fraud in Hong Kong,

'cause if several million quid disappeared,

then maybe Douglas Anderson was involved somehow.

And maybe that's what the intruder was looking for.

You're clutching at straws.

You got something better to do, Jack?

LANE: Your real name is Guy Thomas,

and you have prior convictions for possession of Class A drugs.

CARTER: That was before the call.

What call'?

The reawakening. The emergence.

There are many different names for it.

The realization of my psychic gifts.

And this reawakening presumably took place in 2004

While you were attending

a three-day residential course in Watford

entitled "Novice Clairvoyancy."

That was a happy coincidence, wasn't it'?

Fortunately, Mr. Lane,

not everyone is as cynical about my gift.

How did you know about the keys'?

CARTER: Keys?

You said Douglas Anderson was holding a key.

Indeed, he was. Does that mean something to you'?

What do you know about Hong Kong?

What is this -- a general-knowledge quiz now'?

PULLMAN: Douglas Anderson worked in Hong Kong,

and apparently, he left there under something of a cloud.

I make it a firm policy to know as little as possible

about my clients or their families.

The less I know, the less I am prone

to interpret the messages they receive.

So, everything you told Victoria Anderson

you got from the ghost of her father?

"Ghost" is not a term we enjoy, but, yes.

PULLMAN: I don't think so.

I think you know something about that burglary,

and I think that whatever the burglar was looking for,

he didn't find,

and now you're trying to con Vicky Anderson

into telling you Where it is.

Oh, I think that's a very elaborate theory.

And I'm going to prove it.

CARTER: Do you know what I think, Detective Superintendent?

I think you need me to be a fraud.

Because if I am,

then you Won't have to believe me

when I tell you that your father is very disappointed

with the way that you've been treating your brother.

But Whether you believe me or not,

we both know it's true.

PENNY: When I was three years old,

my mother took a trip back to Gansu province on the mainland

to see relatives.

She never came back.

Apparently, she had run into an old boyfriend

and started up with him again,

and I've never heard from her since.

My father was friendly with Douglas Anderson,

so I ended up being sent away to school in England with Vicky.

We became very close,

and when my father was arrested and imprisoned,

the Andersons took me in.

My father died a couple of years later,

and Douglas made the adoption official for legal reasons.

Do you know what your father was arrested for'?

Some kind of fraud.

I was away at school when it happened.

And I'd appreciate it if you didn't mention it around here.

This company takes family history very seriously.

Did you ever visit your father in prison?

No.

By the time A-levels were over,

the Andersons had moved back to the U.K.,

just ahead of the handover in July.

So, the last time you saw him...

PENNY: Kai Tak Airport.

He gave me a hug and put me on the plane

for the start of the summer term.

Did you have any contact with him after his arrest'?

Letters?

PENNY: No.

Look, I appreciate you taking my sister seriously

with all this psychic business, but...

- You don't think we should. - Well, do you'?

Hmm.

Listen, thank you for your time.

Look, I'd never say this to Vicky, but...

She's been seeing people like this since her mother died.

You and I know they're all frauds,

but she gets some comfort from it

and that's fine with me.

I feel partly responsible for this one.

Vicky met this Sebastian Carter

at a dinner I was supposed to go to.

I had too much work on,

so Vicky took my place at the last minute.

So, if there's a way you can make this go away

Without hurting Vicky,

I'd be very grateful.

And you're not interested

in what happened to your adopted father?

I know what happened.

He surprised a burglar and suffered a heart attack.

I'd rather not drag up the past on the say-so of some psychic.

Oh, the unopened box.

Do you have any ideas about that?

I'm sorry'?

The burglar used Mr. Anderson's keys

to open various boxes and what have you

that were in the study,

but there was one box, black and gold with figurines,

for which there was no key.

Well, I didn't know that.

I have no idea, I'm afraid.

Oh, don't worry. Thank you.

What was all that about an unopened box'?

It came to me in a vision, Gerry.

[Buzzer]

PULLMAN: What exactly are you playing at'?

Playing at'?

- Yeah, you and Sebastian Carter. - Who?

I don't believe he's a real psychic, Tom,

so how the hell did he know about you'?

I have no idea what you're talking about.

Stay away from me.

I see you took the dog for a walk in the park today.

ESTHER: I take the dog for a walk in the park every day.

Ha ha! Wrong!

I do.

I mean that's not how I knew. Cold reading.

You see, I'm deducing details about you

from tiny, subtle clues.

A little bit of dried mud on the heel of your shoe.

The dog hairs on the bottom of your trousers.

That and the fact that I told you I'd taken him

not 20 minutes ago.

LANE: Now, you're a confident person

but sometimes you worry about the way others see you.

ESTHER: Well, everybody does, don't they?

Your favorite color's green.

Blue.

You spend a lot of time inside your own head.

You'd like to get more out of life,

but there's a sense that something is holding you back.

Somebody.

The skin on your hands is dry and cracking.

You don't own a dishwasher, do you'?

You've always refused to buy one.

You're not a vain woman.

Careful!

Outward appearances aren't important.

The makeup inexpertly applied.

You don't spend a lot of money at the hairdresser's, do you'?

And you're left-handed,

which accounts for the nails on that hand being slightly uneven.

No, they're not.

Oh, I suppose they are a bit.

How did I do'?

Can I have a go'?

I deduce that you had a very big lunch today.

Ha ha!

Wrong. Sandwiches.

Well, that's a shame,

because you're not getting any supper.

Thanks, Nigel. That's great.

Oh, yeah, I will. [Chuckles]

Yeah. Ta-ta.

Well, apparently, John Plummer's construction company

had a contract to build a new admin building in Hong Kong

for the incoming Chinese government.

But Plummer cooked the books and got caught,

and the money was never recovered.

The Chinese accused one of their own,

a man called Lau Cheung,

of conspiring with Plummer from the inside.

Now, Lau Cheung was arrested at the same time as Plummer,

but he was sent to Su Chou Prison on the mainland,

which apparently is horrible.

I mean, there's no way of knowing

Whether this Lau Cheung is still alive even.

And Douglas Anderson?

Well, officially, there was nothing to connect Anderson

with the fraud,

and they're pretty hot on that stuff over there.

But they couldn't find anything.

And unofficially?

Well, unofficially,

they were sure that a third man was involved

who made the money disappear,

and although they couldn't prove that it was Douglas Anderson,

my mate says they never bothered to look at anybody else.

So, if Anderson did take the money,

then that was probably what the burglar was looking for.

So, we've got a fraud in Hong Kong

which Douglas Anderson was probably involved with,

along with John Plummer, who is now dead,

and Lau...

Cheung.

Cheung. Who knows Where he is'?

Well, immigration are checking, but if he's here illegally...

Even if Anderson did have something to do with the fraud

and even if that was somehow linked to the burglary,

what's the connection with this Sebastian Carter character?

He's been talking to Vicky Anderson

about an aspect of the crime

that no one outside the investigation knew about.

He's involved somehow.

STANDING: Well, there is another possible lead.

While Plummer was in nick,

he had a cellmate called Simon Beswick.

Now, he got out a few years ago and came back here.

I've got an address for him, off Gerrard Street.

[Telephone rings]

Yeah?

- Gerrard Street, Chinatown. -Interesting.

Detective Superintendent Pullman's phone.

Maybe Plummer talked to Beswick about what happened.

And if Anderson is involved in the fraud,

maybe Beswick has some of the details.

Yeah, thanks very much.

You're never going to believe this.

Vicky Anderson's house has just been burgled again.

What?

She got up this morning, and the place had been turned over.

Well, that can't be a coincidence.

This isn't an ordinary burglary,

so I want a full crime-scene workup,

and no one else is to come in or out of the house

till SOC get here.

Yes, ma'am.

Apparently, the burglar forced open the kitchen Window.

You didn't hear anything?

I haven't been sleeping

since Mr. Carter spoke to my father.

The last few days, I've been taking sleeping pills.

On prescription?

- No, um... - I gave them to her.

They were leftover from a prescription I had

a year or so ago.

Have you any idea what's missing?

It's such a mess.

They -- They've broken so many things.

It'll take weeks to work out what's been taken.

If anything.

What do you mean'?

Well, the rest of the house was left alone, wasn't it'?

VICKY: As far as I can tell.

Well, jewelry, TV's, DVD players.

VICKY: It's all there.

PULLMAN: Then whoever did this

was obviously looking for something in particular.

Probably the same thing that the previous intruder was after.

Which is what?

STANDING: Well, we were hoping you might help us with that.

I haven't got the faintest idea.

I think we need to sit down

and have a little chat about Hong Kong.

[Conversations in Chinese]

Coming out at both ends it was.

I spent three days in the toilet.

I got quite good at Sudoku, but I never ate octopus again.

I'm a bit worried about Sandra.

What about her'?

This Sebastian Carter fellow,

he's really got under her skin, you know.

Don't be ridiculous, Brian.

Sandra's not going to fall for all that nonsense.

I Wouldn't be so sure, Jack.

Yesterday, when we were in his office,

he alluded to something he'd said to her

when she went to see him with Vicky Anderson.

What?

Something about her father and her brother,

about her father being disappointed in her.

I asked her about it after, but she wouldn't say a word.

This brother business has really knocked her for six, you know.

The CPS aren't prosecuting him.

There's nothing more that Sandra could do.

They should both just get on with their lives

as if they'd never met.

How could Carter know about any of this'?

He didn't know, Brian.

That's what these people do.

They identify a weakness, then take advantage.

No Wonder she was so keen on this case.

So, she's got to prove he's a fraud'?

Well, what if she can't'?

If the four of us can't prove

that this clown isn't getting his information from ghosts,

we should all...

Retire?

You know what I mean.

Excuse me.

We're looking for Simon Beswick.

Gweilo.

LANE: Mr. Beswick'?

I'm Brian Lane, and this is Jack Halford.

We're working with the Metropolitan Police's

Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad.

Working with, not for.

We're consultants, if you like.

And if I don't like'?

We have some questions about John Plummer.

You shared a cell with him in Hong Kong.

LANE: Bit of a rough old place, was it'?

BESWICK: Victoria Prison?

Yeah.

This didn't happen there, though.

Liverpool. 1986.

Don't drink a bottle of Scotch

and then get behind the wheel of a car.

I lost two fingers, a brand-new Mercedes,

and all I had to show for it was a criminal record.

Next question.

John Plummer was imprisoned for fraud.

Weren't we all'?

Did he talk to you about what he'd done'?

I'm sure you know enough about prisons.

No one in there had done anything Wrong.

LANE: Mr. Beswick.

No, he didn't talk about it.

Did he mention a man called Lau Cheung'?

No.

- Or Douglas Anderson? - No.

- Did he talk about his daughter'? - No.

HALFORD: Yes, he did.

A man in a foreign prison.

You were his cellmate.

Even if he didn't say what he'd done,

he talked about his only daughter.

She never came to see him, never even Wrote him a letter.

You dwell too long on the whys and wherefores of that situation

in a place like that, you go mad.

He missed her.

Did he know Where she was'?

She was staying with friends.

He was looking forward to seeing her when he got out.

But that never happened, did it'?

Where were you on the night of March 17, 2009'?

I have absolutely no idea.

What about last night?

Why? What happened last night?

Where were you, Mr. Beswick'?

I was here. Upstairs.

There's a bed-sit up there, comes with the job.

Doing accounts for a grocery shop's a bit of a comedown

from investment banking, isn't it?

When you've been to prison for fraud,

there's not many banks that'll take you on.

I was in prison with the cousin of the guy who owns this place.

He put a word in for me.

So, you were here last night?

I'm here every night.

HALFORD: What were you doing'?

Drinking.

Do you do that every night as Well?

Yes, I do.

I'd have thought you'd have given that up after...

I gave up driving instead.

Better for the planet.

I'm sorry I don't know more about my father's business

in Hong Kong.

He was a private man, and I was young.

Too young to have been interested

even if he had told me.

Yeah, and he wasn't a criminal.

I don't know what anyone else has told you,

but my father was a good man.

Yeah, but as you say,

neither of you know enough about his past to be certain of that.

All we have left of him are memories.

A broken window frame can be fixed,

and I can live with the damage to some of his possessions.

But if this investigation is going to tarnish his memory,

then I...

Okay, look, if the guy who killed your father

was specifically targeting him --

STANDING: We're just looking for the truth.

And if memory and the truth turn out to be two different things?

I'd rather have the memory.

[Door closes]

I hope Brian and Jack had more luck than us.

Sebastian Carter's involved in this somehow.

But it doesn't make sense.

I mean, if he's trying to con her with all this psychic stuff,

why risk it all by breaking in to the house again?

I know. I know. It doesn't make sense.

Ah, Jack'? Yeah, it's me.

Nah, not very good, actually.

Excuse me!

Oi!

Grab the car!

STANDING: I'll call you back, mate.

All right.

Let's just calm down, okay'?

We need to talk to you.

[Shouting]

Oi!

Shit!

It's okay.

I don't think anything's broken.

Not you, Gerry. The bloody car!

Ugh.

PULLMAN: No, the nose was a bit wider than that.

Yeah, and make the lips a little thinner.

Yeah. What do you think, Gerry'?

Uh, I don't know.

All I saw was the bottom of his shoe.

LANE: Thanks very much.

Well, that's Simon Beswick in the clear.

He's already got a criminal record

from the incident of the drink driving,

Where he lost his fingers,

so we've already got his prints on file,

but they don't match the original burglar's.

Have SOC come back with anything from the latest burglary yet'?

Yeah, we've got a couple of partial ones

from the windowsill in the kitchen,

but they don't match anything on the database

and neither do they match the first burglary.

So, we've got two burglars.

And neither of them is Beswick.

And neither of them registering as having a criminal record.

So, either this morning's was a first-timer...

Or he's never been caught.

Or he's never been caught in this country.

All right, let's get this picture and the new prints

over to your mate.

See if he can get someone in Hong Kong

to run them through the system

Without taking six months over it.

My Aunt Edith used to have her palm read once a month.

She swore by it.

Ah, it's all a scam.

What's the harm?

People get a bit of comfort out of it.

You try telling Sandra that.

This Sebastian Carter character.

He's got her all worked up

about how she's dealing with her brother.

If she wasn't already feeling guilty,

it Wouldn't have had any effect on her, would it'?

- Well, that's as maybe. - How did he know anyway?

- Know what'? - About Sandra's brother.

I don't think he did. Lucky guess.

Hmm. Very lucky guess.

No.

This is one of the techniques they use, Esther.

They know that everyone's got someone in the family

who's died,

so they start with that

and they build on it

till they've hit something that gets a reaction.

So, it's quite clever, really.

Oh, it's a scam.

I mean, even if they're not what they claim,

it's quite a skill, isn't it, reading people like that.

Well, yeah, as Jack says,

it's not a million miles away from what we do, is it'?

You know, sizing up suspects and so on.

I mean, we call it instinct,

but, really, it's years of observation and experience.

So, why don't you use it on him'?

On Jack'?

No. On this Sebastian what's his name.

Carter.

Yeah, that's it.

Use what?

These techniques.

Turn the tables on him.

If you can't find anything that connects him with any of this...

What'? Beat him at his own game, you mean'?

If he's guilty, there are bound to be signs

if you look hard enough.

A man with your deductive abilities.

Hmm.

Hmm.

No, Brian.

Why not?

Everything else in this case so far's a dead end.

We all think Carter's involved.

We just can't find a way to prove it.

And he's just going to admit it if we confront him, is he'?

Not exactly, but if we can play him at his own game,

we might turn the tables on him.

We can't just go in there and use his own tricks

to prompt a confession out of him.

He does this for a living.

HALFORD: So do we!

Don't tell me you think this is a good idea, Jack.

I think it's a daft idea.

And I think it might work.

What Brian's proposing is not very different

from standard interview technique.

Exactly. We let him think we know more than we do.

Yeah, I get it, Brian. I just think it's a bad idea.

Are you worried we might discover

that Carter's the real thing?

What?

Oh, I see.

Cheers, Brian.

We're worried about you, Sandra.

Well, don't be.

HALFORD: Whatever he said to you about your dad and --

I don't want to talk about it, Jack.

- He's a fake. - Sorry. What did I just say'?

Hey, hey!

The Hong Kong police have got our burglar's prints on file.

One Daniel Cheung.

LANE: As in...

As in the son of Lau Cheung,

who was done for fraud with Plummer.

Daniel entered the country two Weeks ago,

supposedly on holiday.

That puts him out of the frame for the first burglary then.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Different fingerprints, and anyway it's confirmed.

He was in Hong Kong at the time.

Where is he now'?

Well, he gave immigration an address in Chinatown.

Now, the local boys said they can lay on a team to nab him,

but they want you there to make the l.D.

MAN: We've managed to borrow these glasses

from counterterrorism.

There's a hidden camera built into the frame.

Right, make sure you get a good look at everyone in there.

Yeah, hold them for as long as you can.

When you see your man, shout out.

Yuen will stay with him

so we can nab him when he comes outside.

Aren't you going to send any men in'?

No, we've got a few undercover operations going on

at the moment,

and we don't want to spook anyone.

Besides, there might be one or two dog lovers in there

who Wouldn't be too pleased to see you.

Sorry.

So, off you go.

Anything yet?

I'd have said, Wouldn't I'?

MAN: Keep going.

There's a table at the back. Go back.

- Which way'? - Left. Left!

MAN: Back to your left.

PULLMAN: Come on.

Get past him.

That was him. I'm sure that was him.

- That's him! That's him! - That's our man. Stay with him.

Target is about to exit the building.

He was with someone. There's an exit at the back.

Have you got someone at the back?

Go, go, go!

[Shouting]

Daniel Cheung, I'm arresting you on suspicion of burglary.

You don't have to say anything unless you want to.

You were with someone in there, weren't you'?

Who was it'? Where did they go'?

Tell me, tell me!

Get him in the van.

PULLMAN: Who were you meeting, Mr. Cheung'?

[Speaking Cantonese]

I was alone.

PULLMAN: Two cups. Do you see'?

[Speaking Cantonese]

One of them was already there when I arrived.

There's an awful lot of change on that bill.

What sort of tea were you drinking'?

[Speaking Cantonese]

I'm a big tipper.

You've already been charged with breaking and entering

Vicky Anderson's house.

Plus, you assaulted my colleague here.

[Speaking Cantonese]

My point is, you're in a lot of trouble, Mr. Cheung,

so telling us the truth now can only help you.

I wasn't meeting anyone.

Who are you afraid of'?

[Chuckles]

Not you.

What were you looking for in Vicky Anderson's house?

Jewelry, money.

Nothing to do with your father, Lau Cheung,

who's in prison because of a fraud he perpetrated

with John Plummer in Hong Kong,

and John Plummer is an associate of Douglas Anderson.

The man whose house you broke in to.

Do you really expect us to believe

that's some sort of coincidence?

[Knock on door]

For the benefit of the tape,

Mr. Halford and Mr. Lane are now entering the room

and have handed me a slip of paper,

which we will label Exhibit JH-1.

I'm showing Mr. Cheung exhibit JH1.

No need.

That's a list of phone numbers

that you've called from your mobile

over the last few days.

And that number there belongs to Sebastian Carter,

and I don't think he speaks Chinese, does he'?

[Speaking Cantonese]

Sorry to waste your time.

At Mr. Cheung's request,

the interpreter has left the room.

My father isn't in prison.

He's dead.

Douglas Anderson killed him,

just as he killed John Plummer.

He said he'd call in some favors,

pull some strings to get them off,

that they Wouldn't go to prison.

And split the money three Ways'?

He didn't do anything for them.

He didn't even show up in court.

My family lost everything.

My father went to Su Chou Prison.

Have you any idea what that prison is like?

The Chinese government seized everything my father had

and threw my mother and I onto the street.

And Douglas Anderson kept all the money?

PULLMAN: Who told you all this'?

My mother.

Is she still in Hong Kong?

I grew up on The Peak,

one of the best addresses in Hong Kong.

We were a wealthy family, part of society.

Now my mother lives in a tin shack

in the slum down by the harbor

with the rats and cockroaches.

This is what Douglas Anderson did to us.

So you came over to find the money.

No such luck, eh'?

What were you doing hanging around the next day'?

Were you going to give it another go'?

HALFORD: You called Sebastian Carter.

Where does he come into all this'?

PULLMAN: How do you know Sebastian Carter, Mr. Cheung'?

Your father died in prison

as a result of what Douglas Anderson did.

You and your mother were thrown out onto the streets.

Well, a jury is going to understand

the hardship you've been through.

Now, if you've been manipulated,

if you Weren't acting alone,

then that just makes you more sympathetic.

HALFORD: Did Sebastian Carter put you up to this'?

Is that who you're afraid of'?

I'm not saying any more.

Well, I reported my phone stolen a Week ago.

Whoever took it must have made these calls

to your Mr. Chen.

Cheung.

Cheung. I'm sorry.

I'm hearing the name for the first time.

[Cellphone ringing]

[Beep]

Any chance we could stop messing about now'?

You met with Daniel Cheung at a tea house in Chinatown

earlier today.

CARTER: No.

We've got video.

Not of me you haven't.

I was here with a client.

You can go and ask my receptionist.

Then who was he meeting'?

How would I know'? I don't know the man.

Daniel Cheung broke in to Vicky Anderson's house

at your request.

He called you afterwards.

No.

Now, I think you should all just leave.

Nothing more to say on this subject.

LANE: Oh, yes, you do, Mr. Carter.

Not in so many words maybe,

but we both know you're speaking volumes

Without saying anything.

Oh, no.

Now, you out yourself shaving this morning, didn't you'?

You don't normally shave yourself, do you'?

You go to the barber's.

And that's a fake tan, which needs topping up.

And when did you last have a manicure?

Now, I noticed those shoes have recently been re-soled.

Nice shoes, but why didn't you just go and get another pair'?

Are you on an economy drive'?

I understand what you're doing.

What time is it, Mr. Carter'?

Oh, no watch.

You normally wear one, don't you'?

'Cause there's a tan line round your wrist.

That's a dead giveaway.

And I bet it was an expensive watch.

How much did the pawnbroker give you for it'?

This is ridiculous.

LANE: Is it'?

Isn't this how you make a living?

- No, this is cheap theatrics. - Whereas you have a gift.

CARTER: That's right. - Of course you do.

You saw Douglas Anderson's ghost.

Yes, I did.

And he told you he had unfinished business.

- That's right. - And he was holding a key.

And he was talking about an unopened box.

CARTER: Yes.

What was it like?

Well, it was wooden, with gold and black lacquer.

You are a liar and a fraud.

There was no unopened box at the Anderson house.

Well, then I'm confused.

I mean, I can't always be exactly...

Oh, please don't be confused, Mr. Carter.

There was no box because I made it up.

And I told Penny Anderson it was significant

in the hope that that information

would crop up again somewhere else.

And lo and behold...

It wasn't about the money.

PULLMAN: Revenge, then?

My real father suffered an injustice.

During the commission of a crime.

Douglas Anderson left my father to die in prison.

He also took you in and treated you as his own daughter,

whereas your real father's actions

could have put you in an orphanage.

How long have you known about Hong Kong'?

A couple of years.

The company I work for, their head office is in Hong Kong.

They had some dealings

with my father's construction company years ago,

and I was asked to dig out the particulars

of one of these deals from the computer archive.

I found copies of memos my father had written.

It was...

It was like I could hear his voice again

after all these years.

I started digging,

and I followed a trail

of newspaper articles and court reports

until I had uncovered the truth.

So, then you broke in to the house in Knightsbridge

looking for clues as to Where Douglas Anderson

may have hidden the money?

That's right.

What happened'?

Douglas --

Dad found me in the study.

I confronted him about what had happened

and what I'd found out.

It must have been too much for him.

He...

His, um...

He...

His heart, it, um...

It's all right. You can stop there.

Are you okay'?

Right, let's start from the beginning, shall We'?

Preferably with a version of the story

that's at least plausible this time.

Douglas Anderson's involvement in this fraud

was never proved, Penny.

It didn't appear in the newspaper articles

or the court records of the time.

And his heart gave out

as the result of a struggle with an intruder...

HALFORD: During which he sustained several blows

about the face and body

which were not delivered by a person of your size and build.

PULLMAN: Now we know that Daniel Cheung was in Hong Kong

at the time.

So, who broke in to the house?

Okay, We'll come back to that.

What's your relationship with Cheung'?

I tracked him down in Hong Kong.

His father suffered an even worse fate than mine did.

Part of that money belonged to him.

Actually, all of it belongs to the Chinese government.

And when my colleague told you about the unopened box,

you sent Daniel Cheung to burgle the house again.

Did you meet with him this morning?

- Yes. - Where'?

In a tea house.

Tell us about Sebastian Carter.

Vicky fell for all this psychic nonsense

just after her mother died.

I found Carter. He needed money.

I thought if he could persuade her

that her father was talking to him,

she'd open up a dialogue with Carter

and he'd be able to find the location of the money from her.

Assuming she knew it.

- Of course she knew. - I don't think she does.

I don't think your scheme would ever have worked.

Douglas Anderson Wouldn't have taken that secret to his grave.

Maybe not.

But he didn't know he was going to his grave, did he'?

PULLMAN: Who did he struggle with, Penny?

Who broke in to the house that night?

- I don't know. - That's not true.

My life has been a lie.

Douglas Anderson cheated my father

and left him to rot in a prison.

That's not an answer to the question.

He must have told Vicky Where the money was.

HALFORD: What if he didn't'?

She knew the truth.

All this time, they were both laughing at me.

- PULLMAN: No. - At my father.

I don't think so.

HALFORD: And if she didn't know,

then she's lost her father and her sister has betrayed her

and she doesn't even know Why.

I'm not an accountant,

but there's an awful lot of red ink in Carter's books.

That's fine.

I reckon he must have been counting

on his share of the fraud money to bail him out.

We've already got Carter.

That's not who Penny's protecting.

I Wouldn't fancy him in a fight with Douglas Anderson anyway.

That's brilliant. Thank you very much.

So, what's the opposite of an alibi?

I don't know.

No, neither do I, but I think I've just heard it.

Penny Anderson reckons she was the one who met Daniel Cheung

-at the tea house, right'? - Yeah.

Well, that was her company, and according to her assistant,

she was at a marketing meeting in the boardroom

till lunchtime.

LANE: So, who was Daniel Cheung meeting'?

Well, not Carter, and it wasn't Penny.

Well, we know it's not Simon Beswick.

STANDING: Well, do We'?

Plummer was his cellmate.

He could have told him about the fraud

and that Anderson still had the money

and Beswick fancied it for himself.

But why would Penny be protecting Beswick'?

She's put a lot on the line.

I don't see why she'd feel any loyalty

towards a man she doesn't even know.

No, it can't be Beswick.

Both us and the original investigation

ran the prints on the first burglary.

Beswick has a criminal record. There would have been a match.

Unless they do know each other.

Who? Penny and Beswick'?

Sandra, what Jack says is right. The prints don't match.

- It's not Beswick. - It's not Beswick.

- HALFORD: No. - It never was Beswick.

What wasn't'?

Of course the prints don't match.

- God, that's very clever. - What is'?

There's only one person that Penny could be protecting,

and it's not Beswick.

No!

He's just calling himself Beswick.

We've got him.

He's not here,

and the bed-sit upstairs has been cleared out.

Well, as neither of us speak Chinese,

as far as we can work out,

he's been gone for a couple of hours.

If he knows the others have been arrested,

he might think this is his last chance

to force Vicky to tell him Where the money is.

[Thud]

John Plummer, you're under arrest.

I want my money!

You're not as handy as the other bloke.

MAN: Come on, up you get.

We knew Penny was protecting someone,

but we just couldn't work out who.

Now, you were the only person left in the mix,

but why would Penny protect Simon Beswick,

a man she didn't know?

And anyway, We'd already discounted Simon Beswick

because his fingerprints didn't match

those left at the scene of the burglary.

Then we realized there might be another reason

why the prints didn't match.

You're not Beswick.

STANDING: What happened to him'?

He died in prison.

Pneumonia.

It was just about the time the British were leaving

and the Chinese were taking over.

One bureaucracy supplanting another.

There was enough confusion

that the right bribes in the right places

allowed him to be buried as John Plummer.

So you became Beswick,

who was serving a much shorter sentence.

You seem to know all the details.

Do you need me to be here?

I want to know about the fingers.

I bet you do.

Bit of a desperate measure, wasn't it'?

I don't imagine any of you

ever saw the inside of Victoria Prison, did you'?

It was a hellhole.

Bad enough when we were running it.

It was only going to get a lot worse

when the Chinese took over.

And I was a gweilo, a foreigner,

who'd stolen millions of dollars from their own government.

The only way I was getting out of that place was in a box.

And Beswick's missing fingers were noted on his prison file.

Exactly.

I'd managed to squeeze

Beswick's whole tedious life story out of him

before he croaked.

I knew everything about the man.

But the fingers were a bit of a giveaway.

And how did you...

One of the machines in the prison laundry.

And I used the steam press to cauterize the wounds.

Gory enough for you'?

Take us through the death of Douglas Anderson, Mr. Plummer.

Yes, that didn't go quite according to plan.

Because he died'?

Because the bastard died before I could kill him.

I broke in that night with two aims.

Douglas was going to tell me Where the money was

and then I was going to kill him.

But best laid plans and all that.

When Douglas got back, he found me waiting for him.

I think he was scared. He should have been.

All that time in prison, this was all I'd thought about.

L, uh, hit him a couple of times,

for my own gratification.

I had no idea he'd developed a heart problem.

The coward started turning blue there and then,

so, uh, the clock was ticking.

And that's when he told you about the key'?

That's all I could get out of him.

He kept saying "the key, the key" over and over again.

So I got his keys out,

opened everything I could.

Found nothing.

Douglas seemed to find this funny,

or maybe he was having some kind of seizure.

Either way, I lost my temper and hit him again.

And that's when he died.

No remorse?

He stole from me.

STANDING: Then you and Penny

cooked up this scheme with Sebastian Carter.

That was Penny's bright idea.

I was all for doing a repeat performance with the girl,

but, uh, we couldn't be absolutely sure

she knew where the money was.

She didn't.

Apparently not.

So, all of this was for nothing.

You win some. You lose some.

PULLMAN: What about your daughter, Penny?

What about her'?

You went to prison. You left her on her own.

I'm sure she had a nice life with the Andersons.

A life which you ripped apart

by coming back and telling her what had happened.

I told her the truth.

And now she faces a prison sentence

because she tried to help you.

Her choice.

PULLMAN: That's it'?

Yeah.

Your only child.

I barely know the girl.

Poor Penny.

Given the circumstance,

I imagine the courts will be quite lenient with her.

It's broken, though, isn't it'? Everything.

Yes, it is.

So, what are you going to do'?

Are you going to stay here, or...

I put the house on the market this morning.

The contents, everything.

I don't want it.

I'm sorry about your father.

The man everyone's talking about isn't the man I knew

or the man I want to remember.

Does that make sense?

Yes.

I'm going back to Australia, to Heron Island.

All my best memories are there of him and my mother.

All of us together.

And Penny.

I'd like her to join me, but I don't --

The noddy tern.

Brian!

The noddy tern!

The key!

It's not a key! It's a cay!

Heron Island.

VICKY: Yes.

LANE: You say your family had a home there.

VICKY: That's right.

Heron Island.

It's on the Great Barrier Reef.

It's famously composed of coral sand, rather than rock.

So, what do we call an island that's composed of coral sand'?

- A cay. - LANE: A cay.

C-a-y.

Douglas Anderson was saying "cay," not "key."

And that's Where the money is.

On Heron Island?

There's a safe.

Dad had it put in when we left Hong Kong.

But it's not big enough to hold all that money.

Well, not the money maybe, but the paperwork.

All the details of the bank account where the money's kept.

We should get the Aussie cops to search that house.

So, it's been there all this time.

He never spent a penny of it, and he never told anyone.

What was the point'? Why did he do it?

That's the one question we can't answer.

VICKY: Maybe my mother knows.

There's a Woman in Whitechapel my mother communicates with.

I should speak to her before I go.

I'll let you know if I find anything out.

Well done, Brian.

Poor girl, though, eh'?

The sins of the father.

Or three fathers in this case.

Yeah, well, you can't choose your family, can --

Sorry, Sandra.

It's all right.

He was a fraud, Sandra. Sebastian Carter, I mean.

He didn't know anything.

He did, though, didn't he'?

It doesn't really matter

that he wasn't communing with the dead.

He was right about what my dad would think.

The situation with your brother isn't easy.

No, it's not easy.

It's not meant to be easy, Jack.

[Buzzer]

Whatever you think I've done now...

You haven't done anything.

My father had an affair with your mother.

Now, I don't like that,

but -- but, then, I don't suppose he was doing it

to gain my approval.

None of this is your fault is actually what I'm trying to say.

I know that.

Yeah.

If you don't want to have anything to do with me,

I understand.

I'm not much of a family person.

Was he a nice guy'?

I think so, yeah.

Well, that's something, then.

There's a pub at the end of your road.

Yes.

Can I buy you a drink'?

Yes, you can.

Do you want to come in'?

I'm not sure how this is going to work out.

Me neither.

That's okay, isn't it'?

I think it'll have to be.

# It's all right, it's okay #

# Doesn't really matter if you're old and gray #

# It's all right, I say it's okay #

# Listen to what I say #

# It's all right, doing fine #

# Doesn't really matter if the sun don't shine #

# It's all right, I say it's okay #

# We're getting to the end of the day #

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