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Well, as long as Charles
is kept out of the way

and no one sees him in a week,
it'll all be done.

That phone never stops ringing.

I'll refer them to me.

I'll handle it.

Are you handling Julian Shepherd?

Just ignore him.

No, he's making trouble, George.

I don't want anything to go wrong.

All right.

I'll see to it.

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You'd better come in.

Mr. Edmonton, I have to talk to you.

The money I invested, I need it.

I can't get any sense out of anyone.

They haven't seen the future.

A new future for the way we live.

I trusted you with my money.

But I can't wait any longer.

You haven't even told us
what this project is.

All I want is what I put

in, back, or I'll be bankrupted.

It has to be secret.

That's what holds this
project together.

My simple invention to support
travel and live in a

perfect environment without
fuels, without pollution,

Don't go to any lengths to
get their hands on it.

Any lengths.

They'll even kill.

I told you you'd make a fortune,
my boy, and you will.

A fortune!

I have to have my money.

Now.

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You're early, Miss McPherson.

I'm sorry, Mr. Pilger, really.

But I do need some sausages.

Emergency, is it?

You'd best come in.

Beef will be all right, a pound.

It's pork we want.

I'll be making some later.

My sister forgot to buy
them yesterday.

They were on her list, pork, sausages.

She lost it.

Well, why don't you come
back, Miss Macpherson?

No, those will have to do.

$2.40?

I'll put the porkers aside for you.

There you are, Miss Mc...

I've got the brooches.

Oh, great.

So I'll just order it, shall I?

Yes, fine.

I don't know whether they'll
fit it in the front garden.

I mean, it's 45 feet quite
big for a yacht.

Pardon?

Brochures, Tom.

Africa.

Lions, rhinos, giraffes.

Next year's holiday.

We have talked about this.

Yeah, well, I'm sure we'll
manage something.

It's just a question
of when, isn't it?

It's a wonderful idea in principle.

I want to do this, Tom.

And Cully can get us a very good deal.

Well, we will.

-We will.
-I must go now.

I could go on my own.

I might not come back.

I always had a crush on
that man from Dactari.

He'd be drawing his pension by now.

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I'm glad I caught you.

You can have a look at these at work.

What about crime?

It won't go away, Dad.

I didn't realize that working for
a travel agent was a conspiracy.

More of a happy coincidence.

Thank you.

The swallows are still here.

They should be long gone by now.

Good, he was open.

He didn't have pork, Jane.

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Hey, Troy, I thought this book
might be of use to you.

Don't want anyone to
think that Causton

CID doesn't know it's
ASIO from its elbow.

It's what?

ASIO, isn't it?

An owl. Well, two, to be precise, the
short-eared and the long-eared.

In the event of an identity parade,
you'll need to be well up in that.

It's a waste of time.

It's a crime, Troy.

You are a detective.

Don't expect me to treat it any differently
to any other crime.

I'm looking for DS Troy, sir.

Oh, well, you found him.

Hi, I'm Constable Pearce.

Sarah, wildlife liaison officer.

Oh, right.

Yes, nice to meet you.

Oh.

Um, is that what you're
wearing, Sarge?

Well, I've got some wellies.

I'm in the car park.

I'm away.

Right.

Not all bad news, then.

Wildlife liaison.

It's like you said, sir.

A crime is a crime, after all.

Thank you.

Smells good, Jane.

I'm ready for it.

You know I don't eat these.

I went to the butcher specially.

He didn't have any pork.

I was looking forward to them.

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Hi.

How is he?

Oh, I don't know what they use
in those sedatives, Naomi.

But I wouldn't rush to buy shares
in the drug company.

He was high as a kite again
for most of the night.

But he can only take so much.

Well, I can't control him
when he's like that.

I'll up the dose then.

Just get it right, sis, OK?

I know what I'm doing, but you might

remember whose benefit this
is all really for.

If I didn't know you better,
I would swear that

you're accusing me of being
an ungrateful bitch.

You wouldn't, would you?

Don't those birds ever get in the
mood to peck someone's eyes out?

Oh.

Only when I ask them to.

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I brought your medicine
up, Mr. Edmonton.

And Mallory wondered if you
fancied a bite to eat.

Did we have the press conference?

Well, I'm still preparing that, sir.

Oh.

I've been working on my speech.

Excellent.

There was a, there was a man
in here the other day.

I, I, I knew him from, uh, he,

he came in through the window.

It's locked now.

I, I don't want any journalists getting
hold of the story until we're ready.

I should be at a meeting.

People from the city.

Are they here?

It's very important.

They're going to invest millions.

Now, they're downstairs.

Yes, I shall make sure that everything's
running smoothly.

Well, what about the conference room?

Has that been swept again for bugs?

Have we got good people in?

The best.

Thank you.

Well, you can.

I can't, just a little
rest, I think, eh?

How about a nice nap?

There you are.

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DC Angel, sir.

Morning.

So what have we got?

Well, looks like he went in
sometime during the night.

It's quite deep here.

The car was right under the water.

Do you know the man?

Julian Shepard.

Local.

Lived up the road about a mile away.

I, uh, I thought I'd better call CID.

You see, there's no time marks
and no sign of a skid.

He didn't try to break.

Very observant of you, Constable.

Did his family know?

No, no, he lived alone.

I spoke to the woman that
cleaned for him.

She said she wasn't surprised.

She thought he might do
something like this.

Like what?

Kill himself.

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They're all here to see the seraphs
how many other just

How do they know where they are?

They don't.

There's a chance they could see them.

But they might not, and the
birds could just go.

But it's worth standing there
all day on the off chance.

They've been around here
for a few weeks.

If they do winter here, it's possible
they could breed in the spring.

It would be a first.

Oh, I'll do it.

Time for the beep, Sarge.

I should have said, sorry.

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Do you think Mr. Shepard
was in trouble?

I know he was.

What kind of trouble?

All sorts.

His wife leaving, not seeing his children,
the business, the house.

But it all came down to one
thing in the end, money.

The business being?

Uh, books, buying and selling.

He had a shop in Oxford up
until two years ago.

So I suppose he made
some bad decisions.

I don't know.

You're saying Mr. Shepherd was depressed
because of his financial difficulties?

Well, wouldn't you be?

It's a long road from being depressed
to committing suicide.

I know that, Mr. Barnaby.

It did cross my mind, but I suppose

I never really believed
that he'd actually.

You go make a cup of tea.

I'll take a look around upstairs.

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Thank you.

Mrs. Edmonton?

Yes, can I help you?

Good morning to you.

I'm Detective Chief Inspector
Barnaby, Causton CID.

I'm making a few inquiries
about the death

of a neighbor of yours,
Mr. Julian Shepard.

Oh, yes, yes.

I heard about the accident.
It's terrible, terrible.

You wonder why these things happen.

Did you know Mr. Shepard?

Not well.

None of us greatly into popping around
to borrow a cup of sugar.

You see, apparently he phoned here
several times yesterday.

There was something he wanted to
talk to your husband about.

Did he actually come here?

I certainly didn't see him.

Is Mr. Edmonton in?

No, Charles is away at the moment.

Would you know what he wanted to
talk to your husband about?

No, no idea.

I have absolutely no interest in
my husband's business affairs.

You'd have to talk to the major.

Major?

Major who?

Major George Hamilton.

And where would I find him?

He lives in the village.

That is beautiful.

Beautiful is not a big enough word.

It's like saying the sea's wet.

Come on.

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That's one.

There.

Yeah, that's a buzzard

What about that one?

Definite?

No, that's a red kite.

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There he is.

Where?

No, not the bird. Alfred Moorcroft,
by the Toyota.

Very serious egg dealer.

I've been watching him for some time.

The Eggman.

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Who's that?

It could be just a twitcher more cross-pumping
for information or

it could be another dealer or or a

buyer a collector How much money

is there in it Some eggs are fetch

a few pounds, rare ones thousands.

Look, an adult is serious money.

Serious enough not to care what species
it could be wiping out in the process.

Your first serum, not bad for
your first hour's twitching.

Why?

I'm sorry, you've just missed
your first serum.

It's a good job the villains
are bigger, eh, Sarge?

Good morning.

Looking for Major Hamilton.

You've found us.

Are you Mrs. Hamilton?

Yes.

You'll find him in the study.

You'll hardly miss the raised
voices, I'm sure.

Thank you.

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What was he on about?

He said something was wrong.

I put a lot of money into this thing.

Did you refuse to give him his
capital back, Richard?

Because that's what Shepard told you.

That's quite untrue.

I'm not sure. I'm not sure
it is what we need.

I haven't seen Charles Edmonton
in over a month.

And where the hell is he?

Charles has been in the States.

He's been in Switzerland putting into place
the last pieces before the launch.

Now you're going to make
a lot of money.

What the hell has that got
to do with the opinion of

Julian Shepard, who was quite
clearly mentally deranged?

Major Hamilton?

Yes?

Your wife said I'd find you here.

I'm Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby.

You sure you don't want anything?

No, no, thank you.

Just taking all this in.

It's not quite what you'd
expect from the outside.

I spent my working life in Africa.

When I retired, I brought
back as much as I could.

Eileen has her side of the house.

I have mine.

It's not every house you can change continents
just by walking through a door.

Well, I'm sure there's many a man
who wished he could at times.

-Yes.
-Yeah.

So you did see Julian Shepherd?

Yes, yesterday morning.

And I spoke to him after lunch
later on the phone.

I must say, it's a shock to us all.

We knew that he was, well, he was

on the verge of some breakdown.

There's no point in beating
about the bush.

But none of us ever dreamt that
he'd take his own life.

What did the two of you talk about?

Well, Julian was in a spot of bother
on the financial front.

Well, you know how these things go.

Divorce and so on.

Ruin a man unless his
head's screwed on.

Well, he'd invested money in one
of Charles Edmonton's projects.

Stood to make a great deal out of it.

But Julian needed to
get his money out.

Well, the launch was only
a few weeks away.

It's damn stupid.

He was throwing away at least
10 times what he'd invested.

Maybe more.

Well, I did my best to persuade
him to change his mind.

And he didn't?

Absolutely not.

And did you give him his money back?

I would have written the
check for him today.

I don't know what to do.

I presume he has executors.

Well, it'll be up to them when
all this is sorted out.

Terrible business.

We're all very upset.

You're so together.

What precisely did Julian
Shepard invest in?

I suppose there's no harm.

Basically, it was a fuel-free
transport system.

And that was the revolutionary
part, the invention.

Only Charles Edmonton
knew the details.

Not the investors?

No.

That was very trusting of them.

Well, he'd made several fortunes
in his lifetime, and not

just for himself, but for those who
had the vision to back him.

-Thank you, Major.
-Pleasure.

How many?

I've got two more spare.

I thought three peregrine eggs.

And...

I could go to 300 pounds.

You know what it takes
to get an osprey egg?

The nesting sites are all secret.

Watch night and day,
300 quid, come on.

Once I get an osprey, I've completed
all the British pandry on a diet.

A Jupiter diet's taken me 20 years.

Can you really get one?

I said I can deliver.

Can you?

Eddie, old son, we can
sort something out.

This woman up at the hall...

Mrs Edmund.

She's breeding, you told me, right?

Um, peregrines, merlins, goshawks?

I don't know, exactly.

Oh, come on, Eddie, you told
me you could get in there.

You said you'd been in there.

To see, that's all.

Well, didn't you take an egg?

Once.

money.

You underestimate yourself, Eddie.

You know your way around.

I've got a buyer for
some fertile eggs.

You get me enough of
those, and this...

could be all yours.

He drowned.

That's clear enough.

You're familiar enough with it.

Mucus from the body mixes with water.

This is from his lungs.

It looks like he drove straight
into the river.

No sign of him losing control.

Car wasn't even traveling
at any speed.

How about a drink?

No.

It's a suicide.

It could be right. I could tell
you what he had for dinner.

I could tell you he wasn't in the habit
of rinsing his hair properly.

But I can't tell you what
he was thinking.

What do you mean he didn't
rinse his hair properly?

There was some gunge at the roots.

Turned out to be conditioner.

So when did he wash his hair, then?

Yesterday morning?

-Later?
-When?
-I guess later.

Tom, there's nothing very suspicious

about a man who doesn't wash
his hair properly.

No, but there's something
rather odd about a man

who washes his hair just
before killing himself.

We got a deal there, Eddie.

All right.

I'm trusting you, you know that.

We're trusting each other.

No, Eddie Olsen, what
I mean is, you know

more about what I do than
makes me comfortable.

I'm not going to say anything.

No, you're not.

We're working together on this.

If you screw up, if you
put me in it...

Your head could end up under
the wheels of my jeep.

Just so we know where we stand.

I'll see you tonight, then.

what time's dinner?

about an hour.

I'll have a glass of wine with it.

we had some of that wine.

I'll have some red and get something
decent for a change.

you can flush the last
lot down the sink.

it might clear the drains.

and run me a bath nearly to the top.

turn that bloody music off now!

I can't stand it.

Go on.

What happened to you?

What do you mean?

Well, I can only hope you're
not going to try

and claim for a new suit
on your expenses, Troy.

Oh, not bothered about that.

Good.

I'm glad to see you're prepared to make
sacrifices in the line of duty.

You look like you've had quite a day.

I have.

There's a lot more to wildlife
crime than you think.

Is there any chance of
you bringing a little

less of it back into the office
with you tomorrow?

I don't think wildlife liaison is
treated seriously enough in CID.

We don't spend enough time on it.

Well, after the road
to Damascus, you've

been traveling on with
Constable Pierce.

I'm sure you'll do your
best to remedy that.

Very nice.

I enjoyed it.

I got the pork sausages.

The butcher made them this afternoon.

I don't fancy them tomorrow.

I'll have mushroom omelet, I think.

Well, that'll be fine.

I'm a little short of cash this
evening, and I need to go out.

We haven't been to the post
office today, Mr. Darwin.

Oh, that sounds like
a fib to me, Jane.

You shouldn't, you know.

She shouldn't fear, should she?

There's no point hiding
things from me.

I know when it's pension day.

I don't know what to say.

Look at that.

They're guaranteed to get you that
close to a lion, do they?

I'm not sure if I consider that
a threat or a promise.

I don't suppose they walk
straight up to you, Tom.

Oh, that's something.

The trouble is, I've already
been to Africa.

No, you haven't.

Yes, I have.

Only today.

Major Hamilton, in Midsomer Magna,
he still lives in Africa.

And it's not at all like
your brochures here.

It's less of your luxury lodges,
more your heart of darkness.

Don't be so silly.

I'm going to have a bath.

You read the brochure.

And in return, I'll clean
up the mess you

left in the bathroom without
even mentioning it.

Almost without mentioning it.

I always clean up.

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Who want his hot milk?

Mr. Darwin, what's happened?

An accident.

Just an accident.

She'd called a doctor.

No.

I'm all right.

There's nothing broken.

I just need to rest.

I'm going to bed.

Perhaps we should help him.

I'd better leave him.

We'll see how he is in the morning.

You know how he is if we fuss, dear.

What about his milk?

He'll call if he wants it.

Why don't we have a nice cup of cocoa?

Oh, there you are.

I see the years have not diminished
your powers of observation.

Is it all right?

Well, all right isn't quite
the phrase that

first springs to mind, but
it's under control.

Well, that's all that matters, really.

We haven't done all this for nothing.

So it's we now.

It's always been we, George, always.

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-Morning.
-Morning.

Ah, Troy.

-Oh, that's better.
-Yeah.

You need to wear something practical
for this sort of thing.

Yeah, well, there's only so many suits
a man can go through in a week.

Sadly, I'm going to have to drag you
away from your rural liaison.

What, now?

But I think we could really be
onto something here, sir.

Constable Pearce, you'll have
to manage on your own.

I know a dead body is poor
recompense for the

call of the wild, but it's
the best I can offer.

Come on.

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I thought Mr. Darwin might like some
of these, they're so pretty.

And if he's not feeling very well...

I think he'd rather be left
on his own just now.

You know how he is.

Maybe we'll take them up later.

I'll put them in some water.

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Come on, let me help.

Oh, thanks.

-Where do you want it?
-Through there.

It just came.

I don't really know what
to do with it.

The label says, with compliments,
the Edmonton Corporation.

What should I do with it?

See what's inside.

Maisie, I want to look at
the bathroom again.

You didn't clean the
bathroom, did you?

I didn't even come upstairs.

Looking through the house,
didn't get the

impression Mr. Shepard was the
tidiest man in the world.

He certainly wasn't.

But he might have cleaned the bathroom,
though, mightn't he?

He looks like a very
thorough job to me.

I mean, it's bleach, bath cleaner.

People do get fussy about
the bathroom.

Not Mr. Shepard.

I don't think he ever even
wiped around the bath.

What is it?

It's a scooter.

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The coffee's there, dear.

He is dead then.

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I suppose we ought to ask Dr. Robert
Shaw to come and see him now.

He doesn't rule out an
accident or suicide.

There's no evidence.

Well, not yet, there isn't.

And no motive.

But there are reasons why he
might have killed himself.

He was depressed.

He had family troubles, money troubles,
the usual old stuff.

I see your encounter with nature
red in tooth and claw

hasn't made you more sensitive
to the human condition, Troy.

But in this case, I don't believe that
the usual old stuff will do.

Either there was something
we don't know about

that pushed him over the edge,
or someone killed him.

I need to know more.

Chief Inspector Barnaby?

Yeah.

James Robert Shaw, GP.

Constable Angel said
I'd find you here.

I've got a rather puzzling death.

I would guess the cause of death will
turn out to be internal bleeding.

How long has he been dead?

Give or take four or five hours.

What are we talking about
with the bruising?

Some kind of accident?

Was he attacked?

That's for a pathologist.

All I can say is that whatever
did happen to

him, it almost certainly
resulted in his death.

I'll leave you to it.

Yes, thank you, Doctor.

So what have you got, sir?

Don't know.

We're going to need a post-mortem.

You'd better get a key for this room.

May need forensics in.

His name is Edward Darwin,
clerk to the council.

I know him.

I didn't know his name.

I saw him with a man Sarah's
got under surveillance.

The Eggman.

The Eggman?

We knew he wasn't feeling very well.

I did knock on his door and ask if
there was anything he wanted.

He said there wasn't.

How long was he in his room?

Since yesterday evening.

And he didn't come out of his room
at all during that time?

No.

We didn't think there was anything
very odd about that.

He was a very private person.

Oh, thank you. Let me help,
Miss McPherson.

Thank you. I thought you might
like something to eat.

Just put it down there.

There.

I'll pour, and you can
help yourselves.

That's very kind. You shouldn't have
put yourself to all that trouble.

Oh, I know you don't eat properly
when you're working.

Mr. Darwin.

He was a very private man,
Chief Inspector.

Tea, dear.

Could you tell us something about
Mr. Darwin's friends?

No.

No one ever came here.

Never.

Does the name Moorcroft, Shaun Moorcroft,
mean anything to you?

Cucumber?

-Some ham?
-No, thank you.

He would have been interested in birds'
eggs as well, like Mr. Darwin.

Mr. Darwin was very knowledgeable
about birds.

And he was very proud of his eggs.

But he didn't like us
to talk about that.

He said his collection
was very valuable.

I'm afraid it was also very
illegal, Miss MacPherson.

Still, that's not important
now, is it?

I'll have to ask you not to disturb anything
in Mr. Darwin's room, all right?

Oh, yes, that's quite all right.

Will you be taking him with you?

I think we would prefer that.

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It may do no harm to make
some attempt to

behave a little more like
the grieving widow, sis.

I've done my grieving, Naomi.

Alzheimer's took Charles' spirit away from
his body a long time before he died.

And what was left had very little to
do with the man that I married.

Except financially.

I don't know why you've always
had a problem with

the fact I didn't only marry
Charles for his money.

And you stand to do very
nicely out of it, too.

So don't overdo the snide remarks.

Yes?

The undertakers are here.

Good.

Can they do the funeral tomorrow?

Yes, it can be done.

Good.

Ask him to come in.

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Morning, Sarge.

Oh, you're here.

Great.

Have you got the info on Moorcroft?

Yes, two addresses, a farm near Reading
and his girlfriend's flat in Staines.

He spends his time between the two.

But I spoke to Berkshire, and
the Toyota's at his now.

So I guess he's there.

They could pull him in any time.

I'd rather do it myself, see his reactions,
get a look at his house.

I'll contact Thames Valley en route.

They'll probably want to give us a
couple of uniforms for backup.

You won't need that, Sarge.

-Of course not.
-Just routine.

What's he like on violence?

Depends what he's had to drink.

He's well up as a mackerel with
a skinful, but sober.

Discretion is a better part.

A bit early for the pub.

Doesn't look like he's up yet.

What's around the back?

Just open fields.

You do the front.

You come with me.

I'm glad we caught you.

All right, all right,
there's no need to

break my arm, I'll break
up the birds' eggs.

Cut to what Pierce can
do with the eggs.

I want to talk to you
about Eddie Darwin.

I don't know any Eddie Darwin.

You certainly do, Mr.
Moorcroft, or did.

In fact, you were one of the last
people to see Mr. Darwin alive.

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Well, for God's sake, Burton,
the man's just died.

I've no idea what's happening.

You read the paper.

He's bloody bankrupt.

You know we got bloody
scooters sent to us.

What kind of a joke is that?

What's that got to do with
launching the project?

As soon as I know more,
I'll let you know.

Truth is, I'm as much in
the dark as you are.

Well, I had a drink with him.

He went his way, I went mine.

You talked about bird spotting.

That's right.

I suppose you know Mr. Darwin
collected bird's eggs.

I didn't.

Naughty man, eh?

It's against the law, that.

Mr. Moorcroft, an examination of your
car has revealed two things.

The first is blood, stains on the
carpet, front passenger side.

Some attempt has been made to wash
the stains out very recently.

Well, it's probably mine.

I'll leave now to all life.

Forever knocking myself about.

I never think about a bit of blood.

Two convictions for assault
seem to confirm that.

Although, the blood you don't think about
usually belongs to someone else.

That was a long time ago.

But not so long ago,
you were fined for

trading in birds' eggs and wild birds.

And, er...

this was also found in your car.

A feather.

Big deal.

A peregrine feather?

Like I said, I'm an outdoor guy.

I get plenty of shite on me shoes.

This is another piece of
peregrine feather.

It was in the pocket of clothes Edward

Darwin was wearing when he
was hit by a vehicle.

We will be able to find out whether these
two feathers came from the same bird.

And if the blood in your
car came from Mr

Darwin, we'll also be able
to establish that.

It would be a lot easier if you told
us what happened that night.

Good morning.

Good girl.

Hello?

-Oh, good.
-Is it all finished?

Yes, all done.

Yes.

Last one went through.

You're home and dry.

Good.

The deal was, Darwin would
steal fertile eggs.

Moorcroft had a buyer.

If he got enough, he'd
get this osprey egg.

But he was definitely up
at the hall last night.

Moorcroft met him in the pub, then dropped
him by the wall around the estate.

They met in the pub car
park an hour later.

And the eggs?

No, Darwin said something spooked him.

He didn't get near the birds.

Moorcroft dropped him back
at the McPherson's.

What sort of state was he in?

He told Moorcroft he'd
fallen off the wall.

He'd torn his clothes, hurt himself.

He just wanted to get home.

That's what Moorcroft said.

Do you believe him?

Yeah.

Moorcroft's scared rigid
at the moment.

Whatever happened to Eddie Darwin,
he's telling what he knows.

Good girl, good girl.

Come on, Brady.

Come on, Brady.

You could have chosen a better
time, Mr. Barnaby.

I'd normally take any attempt
to steal eggs very

seriously indeed, but with
my husband's funeral to

organize, it isn't exactly at the
top of my list of priorities.

I won't intrude on your time
more than necessary.

I was very sorry to hear
about your husband.

Yes.

Well, I'm not quite sure what it
is you're expecting to achieve.

I've already told you.

The birds were not disturbed, and no eggs
were stolen from the incubator.

And whilst I do take considerable
pride in

communicating with my falcons
and my hawks, I

doubt whether anybody would get very
far by interrogating them.

-Good.
-Right, so there are the birds.

Mrs. Edmonton, I have good
reason to believe

that Eddie Darwin was
in this building the

night he was involved in a road
accident, a hit and run.

That accident resulted in his death.

And I want to find out where he
was and what he was doing.

Well, not only do my birds
not talk, but none

of them, as far as I know,
has a driving license.

So if you will excuse me, I have a lot
of things to be getting on with.

Okay.

If Eddie Darwin did get in here,
why didn't he take any eggs?

Mrs. Edmonton flies these birds
all over the estate.

He could have picked the
feather up anyway.

He lost his bottle.

Never did get in here.

Ooh.

Feather was in his pocket, wasn't it?

It's not impossible he could have got

there when he was climbing
a tree or a wall.

But it wasn't just any
feather, was it?

It was a feather left by a peregrine.

And Darwin was heading this way
to steal peregrine eggs.

Not a sport for vegetarians.

Those

-ma-fricka.

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Hi, how's it going?

Well, I've, uh, I've come to the
conclusion it's not enough.

I mean, I want more money.

Yes.

Yes, I don't think you're really in
a position to refuse, are you?

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because it's sickle a lay
Africa my look back in

years upon the way oh he's what
he me thunders oh yeah

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cozy a sickle a la

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she'll kill me...

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We're all waiting, Mallory.

When somebody dies, somebody the birds

had respect for, it's important
to tell them.

I think they probably know.

Death matters to them like life.

I suppose I should thank you.

I don't expect thanks.

What do you expect?

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Hi.

Hiya.

Is this all right?

I mean, have forensics finished?

No.

No, no, I thought I'd come
in here, destroy all

the evidence, and generally
get in everyone's way.

You spoke to the boss?

Yeah.

And look at this.

Mr. Darwin was a very meticulous man.

Details of every egg he bought,
every egg he sold.

Addresses of the dealers.

I think if we put this together with what
I'm holding over Sean Moorcroft.

Oh, the Osprey egg.

You can help me threaten more
than that, can't you?

Obstructing the police,
that sort of thing?

I've been having some horrid dreams.

They'll go away.

It'll soon be over.

No, it won't, Eleanor.

We've been very bad.

You know we have.

It'll soon be finished.

I hope he won't be troubling
you much longer.

We need to talk to Mr. Barnaby.

♪

♪

I am the resurrection and the
life, saith the Lord.

He that believeth in me, though he
were dead, yet shall he live.

And whosoever liveth and believeth
in me shall never die.

♪

We didn't know what had happened.

We knew he was hurt, of course.

He just went to bed.

I didn't like to interfere.

Mr. Darwin never liked
us to interfere.

He'd shout at us.

Is that why you didn't
call for a doctor?

Well, he told us not to, you see.

That was my decision, Mr. Barnaby.

Jane didn't have anything
to do with it.

Don't say that, Eleanor.

Weren't you concerned?

Not at first.

A little later on, I
went in to see him.

He was still dressed.

He was still conscious then?

Oh, yes.

I helped him get his clothes
off and put his pajamas on.

You could see he was bruised.

Yes.

♪

Good night, Mr. Darwin.

♪

We couldn't have any idea how
badly he was hurt, could we?

He became delirious, saying
the strangest things.

Could you make out anything
he was saying?

Somewhere he was, a place
he'd run away from.

It frightened him.

No.

It was the body that frightened
him, the one in the freezer.

Oh, I think you'd popped out, dear.

It was where the birds were.

The birds were flying, and
there was a freezer.

That's what he said.

And there was a man in it.

It was all nonsense.

This all keeps coming back to
Casement Hall, doesn't it?

There's bird's eggs and
nest eggs, and now

there's a cuckoo in the
freezer, a dead body.

It was Charles Edmonton.

They're burying him today,
this morning.

They're not burying him this morning,
they're cremating him this morning.

Round about now.

We did the right thing.

At least it's all over and done with.

I'm sure it is, dear.

♪

Insure in certain hope
of the resurrection

to eternal life through
our Lord Jesus Christ.

who shall change our vile body,
that it may be like

unto his glorious body, according
to the mighty

working, whereby he is able to
subdue all things to himself.

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♪

I heard a voice from heaven,
saying unto me...

Stop this now!

Charles was a great man.

People trusted him.

He invented a way of
packaging mold that

halved production costs
around the world.

He'd invented a prefabricated
building system

that could put up a house
in a week, right from

the foundations to running water
and central heating.

That doesn't tell me why his body
was in the deep freeze, Major.

I was trying to explain who he was.

Why he was being disposed of
so quickly and so secretly.

Well, in the past few years, he's
made mistakes, big mistakes.

I didn't realize it when I first joined
him, but he was very nearly bankrupt.

He was spending millions
on development.

And he wasn't as well as he might be.

In what way?

What was the matter with him?

Alzheimer's.

By the time he was diagnosed,
he'd done

considerable damage to his
financial position.

And if it got out before Mallory
consolidated her own position.

Is that a euphemism for fraud?

Absolutely not.

What was going to get out, Major?

A scooter.

Seen one of those before.

This was the project that he'd
been working on for years.

Great secret.

Charles Edmonton invented a scooter?

Well, basically.

Well, we had no idea.

There was a great deal
of money at stake.

Enough to kill for.

No one got killed.

Charles Edmonton died
of a heart attack.

I am merely the accountant,
Chief Inspector.

All right, thank you, Major Hamilton.

Thank you.

The officer will see you
back downstairs.

For now, you're to have no communication
with Mrs. Edmonton or her sister, OK?

There'll be a lot more questions.

I quite understand.

Another one.

Three people have died.

Julian Shepherd, who wanted to take money
out of this mad project and couldn't.

A man who broke into Casement
Hall and saw

the body of Charles Edmonton
in the freezer.

-Darwin.
-Darwin, yeah.

Someone knew Darwin had
seen that body.

And somebody wanted to shut him up.

Because Mrs. Mallory Edmonton
wanted another

couple of days to defraud the
investors and shareholders.

But Darwin got away.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, at least that
begins to make sense.

What about the funeral?

There really is a death certificate,
isn't there?

All in order, except the
doctor who signed the

certificate is one Naomi Sinclair,
Edmonton's-in-law.

She's downstairs now, hot foot
from the crematorium.

Let's get them all into the
neck for questioning.

By the time they found out,
the privileges are over.

I have nothing to say, Chief Inspector,
until my solicitor arrives

and as he's travelling from London,
that could be rather a long time.

This is absolutely pointless.

You refuse to answer?

No.

I refuse to be questioned without the

legal representation to
which I am entitled.

That is not the same thing.

Troy, would you take Mrs. Edmonton
down to the custody, Sergeant?

I'm sure you can find a cell for her.

Well, I really don't need to be locked up,
Mr. Barnaby, but whatever you wish.

I don't know what crime you're
intending to charge me with,

but I do assure you, a police cell
isn't going to intimidate me.

It's got nothing to do
with intimidation.

You are a suspect in a
murder investigation.

Oh, I see.

Oh, I see.

You think I murdered Charles.

Well, yes, yes, I can
see why some fairly

stupid policeman might have
leapt to that conclusion.

But, you know, I'd really credited
you with more intelligence.

Shall we go?

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I don't understand what
Mr. Shepard has got to

do with my-in-law's death or me.

But you knew what was going
on, didn't you?

The financial cover-up?

All I knew was how much trouble
Mallory was in.

Charles had fritted away so much before
anyone realized something was wrong.

I'm talking millions.

So the answer was to lock him
up, keep him sedated?

I treated him as I would treat
any patient with Alzheimer's.

He died under your regime, Doctor.

I treated him properly and discreetly.

How do you medical ethics square with
keeping a body in a deep freeze?

So you can put a false date on
a death certificate, then?

I shouldn't have done that.

That was a mistake.

Mallory was panicking.

How did Charles Edmonton die, Doctor?

A heart attack.

The date may be false, but
it's a true diagnosis.

I hope it is, for your sake.

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My client has answered all questions
which relate to her

husband's death and the circumstances
surrounding the funeral.

That's just the beginning.

Well, unless you wish to charge
Mrs. Edmonton with

something pertinent to all
these other areas of

inquiry, it's not so much the beginning,
Chief Inspector, as the end.

Mrs. Edmonton told you she's never
heard of this man, Darwin.

And as for Mr. Shepard, she
met him on two or three

occasions, either in her husband's
company or Major Hamilton's.

You're on a fishing expedition,
Chief Inspector.

And you know, as well as
I do, that there's no

reason for my client to remain
in your keepnet any longer.

Heart attack. That's what killed him.

Could Edmonton's heart attack
have been induced?

I doubt it. He did have
a pretty dicky ticker.

I wouldn't say she was doing
anything unusual.

She kept notes.

So it was natural causes, was it?

I'm afraid so.

Unlike our friend in the
river, you were right.

About what?

It's on your desk.

I popped it in this morning.

I looked for the microorganisms that
should have been in the system.

They'd have entered his
body as soon as

he went into the river
and took him water.

Not a trace.

But he did drown.

No question about that.

But Shepard probably drowned in the
bath, which would have made

it extremely difficult for him to
drive his car into the river.

Or even to rinse his hair.

Just off.

-No, Troy.
-We're both off.

Oh, but I was going to go and see Sam.

No. I want you to get a SOCO unit round
to Shepard's place right away.

They need to take that
bathroom to pieces.

Then Casement Hall, the Hamiltons,
and Naomi Sinclair's too.

What are we looking for?

Anything that ties him to Shepard
on the night he died.

I am going to talk to Eleanor
and Jane Macpherson.

You think they know something?

I know they didn't tell me the truth.

Go on, get straight upstairs
to the bathroom.

Take it apart inch by inch, you
and I'll be downstairs.

Those are the two account numbers.

I just need to find out
how much is in each.

Yes, the, uh...

The password is fofoniane.

-N-E.

How much?

And when was that transferred
to South Africa?

I just need to check that the bank
here sent the right amount.

Thank you so much for your help.

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♪

Well, I hope this will all be
over very soon, and when it

is, I hope I never have to set
eyes on you again in my life.

I told myself he'd be all right.

I told myself we'd call a doctor if
he wasn't better in the morning.

We both said that.

But I knew I wouldn't,
Chief Inspector.

What I really thought deep inside
was that he would go

to sleep quietly and painlessly,
and he wouldn't wake up.

And our lives would be as they were.

Before he came, we'd be free of him.

He took our house.

He took our money.

He made us his servants.

We were terrified of him, you
see, but we couldn't say.

We were too frightened.

Aren't you ashamed?

Done.

And I hope that's that.

A day in a police cell, George.

You must be pleased with yourself.

Oh, come on now, girl.

I did say the scene might
get a bit choppy.

Well, we'll weather the storm.

They were here, too.

Police.

They've searched the house
from top to bottom.

What do you mean?

Don't worry.

They didn't find your
little hidey hole.

Oh,

I've always known where it was.

Thank you.

A plane ticket to Johannesburg, and that's
where most of the money is already.

You're going back, aren't you?

Well, I was going to tell you.

Were you?

When you got there?

I thought, given time, after I set

up a business, you'd come around.

And that's what I've done.

I bought a lodge, a really
classy lodge.

No, it's not going to be
like the last time.

Look, I can't stay here, Eileen.

You know that.

There's nothing here, nothing for me.

Nothing for you.

I have lived with nothing for
the best years of my life.

A place I loathed, people I loathed.

I loathed you, too.

I gave up what I wanted then.

You had to do the same for
me when you retired.

I can't stay here.

I'm suffocating.

You think I'm going to let
you walk out on me now?

Well, you're not gonna stop me.

Not now.

I'll stop you.

Whatever it takes to do it.

I'll stop you, George.

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Uh, thank you, please.

♪

♪

♪

I'm going to stop and
see what's going on.

You sit down.

-Sit down.
-You don't do good at all.

Sit down. Fernand, sit down
and finish your...

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♪

Off already, Major.

Don't you want a drink with your
old business associate?

Leave it alone.

Nothing to say, Major.

Look, I'm sorry that this happened.

A lot of people lost money.

I wish it could have been otherwise.

You knew, you bastard.

There's no point, Vernon.

I'm saying you it, Hamilton.

-Admit it.
-All crap, just like you.

I mean, what do we really
know about you?

Tell us exactly what regiment you
belong to, Major Hamilton.

Or is that crap too?

It was a high-risk investment.

You thought you'd make
a lot of money by

sitting on your asses
and doing nothing.

Well, look on it as a lesson.

At least you walked away
with something.

Oh, I walked away with something.

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away.

No!

♪

♪

♪

When did you find him?

This morning, first thing.

I called the police straight away.

No point in calling a doctor.

You saw nothing last night?

I went to bed.

I didn't know where he was.

I didn't care.

You didn't hear him come in?

When I saw him this morning, the
first thing I felt was relief.

I thought, it's over,
it's finally over.

You smashed his belongings.

You dragged the contents of
his room into the garden.

You set fire to the lot of it.

You went to bed, you say.

Meanwhile, Major Hamilton
was killed and his

body thrown onto the fire,
which you just lit.

He wasn't a major, you know.

He's a sergeant in the pay corps.

All those years in Africa, that's
all he ever was, a clerk.

Why were you so angry yesterday,
Mrs. Hamilton?

What happened?

He was going back.

After everything he said,
he was going back.

And he was going to take everything,
all the money we had.

All the money he promised we'd have.

This is a lot of money.

I don't know where they stashed it.

But George knew about these things.

The creditors won't see a penny.

You thought it was a
good idea, did you?

Them to be involved in fraud?

Why not?

What did anyone ever give me
for leading an honest life?

George was lying to me.

He was going to take every penny
and go back to Africa.

So you had to stop him.

I didn't kill him.

If I'd had the guts to kill him,
I'd have done it years ago.

Someone stopped him.

I can't say I'm sorry.

But it wasn't me.

She must have done it.

You think Mrs. Edmonton killed him?

Mallory?

Of course not.

She believed George was getting
some money out for

her, though she was never
going to see half of it.

No, it was her sister, Dr. Sinclair.

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are you Mallory?

♪

Sir, you'd better see this.

We didn't know Naomi had another car.

The grey wouldn't be a bad match
for the paint on Darwin's coat.

Finally, some evidence.

♪

Reason to believe evidence
material to a

murder investigation is about
to be destroyed, sir.

No Troy, just bring him in.

Navy said she left about half an hour

ago, came in and drove
straight off again.

Surgery?

No, uniforms are there now.

Don't ignore me, Naomi.

Naomi!

It's George now, isn't it?

I pushed it out of my mind before.

Julian Shepard.

I mean, I couldn't believe that...

But I know, and I have to
know, how Charles died.

The police will be here, Naomi.

How can I lie about the
things that I know?

♪

♪

♪

All very mysterious.

I pushed it out of my
mind, but I know.

But did you really think
that I wouldn't, Naomi?

No one can prove anything.

I see, now that Major Hamilton is
dead, no one can prove anything.

I hear that.

Do you hear yourself, Naomi?

People have died.

Major Hamilton, Julian
Shepard, that man

who broke in here just
to steal some eggs.

I thought you'd approve of that one.

All those little chats
with the major when

you should have been looking
after Charles.

You didn't even like the man.

I didn't have to.

We just wanted more than a few
crumbs from your table.

Did you kill Charles?

Oh, you're not telling
me you really cared.

You never understood, did you?

I wanted to protect the man he'd
been, the man I loved!

It was never just about money!

A pretty speech, Mallory.

You could always afford
the prettiest thing.

Is there anything about my
life you don't resent?

I don't care about your life!

I've got the money to live my own now.

What?

Oh, that's a turn up.

I never thought I'd see the day when you
were afraid of your little sister.

But what I need now is for you
to disappear as well as me.

You see, you're going to be the main
suspect in several murders.

I don't dislike that.

And if you're never seen
again, everybody

will always believe that
you got away with it.

The murders and the money
are very neat.

Sorry Naomi, I can't do that.

You're going to betray
your only sister?

That's not nice.

No.

When I said disappear, I
didn't mean a flight

to foreign shores and a new name.

It's too late for that.

It's the only way now.

What are you doing?

What are you doing?

Sorry.

-No!
-No!

No!

Oh no.

Oh.

Oh. Oh.

♪

You take the house.

♪

♪

♪

Try it.

♪

♪

Any news on the car?

Oh, yes.

Darwin's blood, threads
from his clothes.

And I got this.

Hi, Todd.

Sir.

Hiya.

I owe you a drink sometime.

You know, Moorcroft was
so afraid of what he

got involved in, he's delivered
his whole network.

-Right.
-Great.
-Well, I don't know when.

I mean, I get off about, er...

Well, it depends what's happening.

Oi.

You can get off about now.

Oh, right.

Cool.

I mean, thank you, sir.

Okay.

There we go, my lovely.

Is this an arrest?

No, no it's not.

But I guess you'll have to face
the court at some point.

Who is my sister?

Well, let's just say she's not being
as cooperative as you are.

But however much I help
with the money, I'm

not going to testify against
her, I can't do that.

I won't.

I really did have no idea.

I'm just going to say goodbye.

To the birds.

I don't think I'll ever feel free
again, but they can be.

I wish that we could all just

fly away when the time comes.

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♪

♪

I don't know what it's like.

I've never even seen it in
the supermarket before.

I thought it would set the
right sort of mood.

Mmm, it's not bad.

No, it's very good.

What is it?

Ostrich.

I thought you wanted to see
the animals, not eat them.

I do.

But it was the only thing I could
find that was African.

Well, I say African.

The ostrich farm is just
outside Cheltenham.

The wine, South African.

Cheers.

Joyce, what have you done?

Well, since you were never
going to look seriously

at the brochures, I took the
dates and Cully did it.

We're booked.

We're going to Botswana in April.

Here's to our holiday.

Enjoy it.

Looks like these people are sitting
on top of an elephant.

That's right.

It's an elephant-backed safari.

Won't it be wonderful?

Cheers.

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