1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,640 (THEME SONG PLAYING) 2 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:53,440 Good day. 3 00:00:53,480 --> 00:00:56,080 A very good day to you, Mr Campion. 4 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:57,840 Our paths cross again. 5 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:01,120 I believe your name is Hayhoe. 6 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:04,000 It serves, it serves. 7 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:06,840 This is a most unexpected pleasure. 8 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:09,600 I was hoping for an interview with you today. 9 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:13,640 Though not quite so early. Admittedly. 10 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:15,080 An early riser, are you? 11 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:17,400 You're up early, too. 12 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:18,480 Watching the sun rise? 13 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:20,240 That... 14 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:23,640 And other things... 15 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:27,880 I believe you're investigating the death of that unfortunate man, Harris. 16 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:30,360 You know something? 17 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:34,080 I know that as far as the rest of the world is concerned, 18 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:39,320 Roland Peters, more commonly known as "Pig", was buried in May. 19 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:41,120 And the body that is now missing, 20 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:43,360 is that of Oswald Harris, 21 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:45,680 an equally obnoxious character 22 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:48,240 with a marked resemblance to Pig, 23 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:53,640 who met his end when someone shoved a geranium urn on his head at the country club. 24 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:56,040 And as far as you are concerned? 25 00:01:56,080 --> 00:02:00,480 I have some interesting information, which I might be prepared to give you. 26 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:05,400 Information which would take you a long time to amass on your own. 27 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:09,680 And which would lead you to a successful conclusion of the case. 28 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:12,200 Thereby enhancing your professional reputation. 29 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:17,600 This is not, I take it, a philanthropic gesture on your part? 30 00:02:17,640 --> 00:02:20,000 Alas, no. 31 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:23,960 At the moment, my financial affairs are in considerable disorder. 32 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:27,760 But I'm sure that we can come to terms. 33 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:29,760 (HAYHOE SNORTS) 34 00:02:31,640 --> 00:02:34,320 Was Harris by any chance a relation of yours? 35 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:36,080 A nephew, as it happens. 36 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:39,880 But not a very dutiful one. 37 00:02:39,920 --> 00:02:43,400 He was a wealthy young man, and I... 38 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:48,480 Well, I do not choose to spend my holidays in a wretched workman's hovel. 39 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:50,640 Was Roland Peters your nephew, too? 40 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:52,760 I have several nephews. Or had. 41 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:55,200 May we get down to business? 42 00:02:57,880 --> 00:03:01,600 I am asking 500 guineas 43 00:03:01,640 --> 00:03:05,840 for a complete and confidential explanation of the whole affair. 44 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:09,160 Would that include the mole? 45 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:11,600 Oh, you know about the mole, do you? 46 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:15,040 You are perceptive. 47 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:18,120 Which is why I'm sure you will not reject my offer. 48 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:25,160 I am asking 500, how far will you meet me, Mr Campion? 49 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:27,240 Mr Hayhoe, if you know anything about the death of 50 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:29,880 your nephew, you should go to the police. 51 00:03:29,920 --> 00:03:32,400 Ah, well. You had the opportunity. 52 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:38,520 Oh, no, no, no. One minute! 53 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:40,400 Don't be hasty, dear boy. 54 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:46,760 If you knew something important, you'd hardly talk about it. 55 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:48,280 Why not? 56 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:50,360 The police can take me in and bullyrag me, 57 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:53,720 but they can't hold me, they've got nothing against me. 58 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:57,560 I possess an asset which I intend to realise. 59 00:03:57,600 --> 00:03:59,480 If not to you, to someone else. 60 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:01,440 Oh, yes. 61 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:04,840 I have another likely purchaser in mind. 62 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:07,520 I wanted to give you first chance. 63 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:09,200 If you're thinking of Sir Leo... 64 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:11,160 (LAUGHING) 65 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:13,320 Look. 66 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:15,960 I'm a reasonable man. 67 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:19,560 If I don't get satisfaction from another quarter I may drop my price. 68 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:23,600 Let's give it 24 hours. 69 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:26,360 Suppose we meet here tomorrow morning. 70 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:28,760 Seven o'clock. 71 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:31,320 And chat about the mole? 72 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:32,800 If you wish. 73 00:04:32,840 --> 00:04:33,840 The mole. 74 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:35,920 And other things. 75 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:38,120 Tomorrow then. 76 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:39,160 At 7:00. 77 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:09,880 So you're back. 78 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:11,640 I trust you saw Ms Rowlandson home safely. 79 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:15,320 -Look, Janet... -It's quite all right. 80 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:17,080 You don't have to explain yourself to me. 81 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:28,920 Lugg. 82 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:35,480 I'm back. 83 00:05:42,840 --> 00:05:44,960 What sort of time is this to wake anyone? 84 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:46,560 Sorry. 85 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:48,680 Especially someone who's already been up half the night. 86 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:50,360 I thought you might be worried about me. 87 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:52,960 I'm more worried about myself. 88 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:56,160 I need me eight hours, 89 00:05:56,200 --> 00:05:59,680 if I'm gonna go dragging around the country after missing bodies and such. 90 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:01,240 Oh, you'd better lie in. 91 00:06:01,280 --> 00:06:04,040 I won't bother to go to bed now, not worth it. 92 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:06,000 I'll wash, change, have an early breakfast with Leo. 93 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:09,920 Oh, there's been another development. I met this fellow Hayhoe on the way here. 94 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:11,280 I have a shrewd idea he knows... 95 00:06:11,320 --> 00:06:12,520 (SNORING) 96 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:14,680 (LOUD SNORE) 97 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:18,280 I never liked the look of the fellow. 98 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:20,640 A name like Hayhoe, too. 99 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:22,960 We'll call him in for questioning. 100 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:24,840 I don't think I would, sir. 101 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:26,440 You want him left on the loose? 102 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:28,160 He can't be involved in the murder. 103 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:31,000 He's obviously blackmailing someone. I'd like to know who and why. 104 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:33,760 I'll get Pusey to put a man on him. 105 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:36,680 I only hope... 106 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:38,960 Well, I hope that whoever it is that he's blackmailing... 107 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:42,960 You're worried about Poppy? 108 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:45,320 Well... 109 00:06:45,360 --> 00:06:48,320 Hayhoe kept pestering her, for some reason. 110 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:50,600 Not that I think for a moment she... 111 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:52,280 Poppy wouldn't hurt a fly. 112 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:05,720 (CAR HORN HONKING) 113 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:09,080 Good, I caught you, it's Skinn, Sutain and Skinn. 114 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:11,040 I'm sorry? 115 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:14,120 The solicitors who dealt with Peter's affairs, they're in Lincoln's Inn. 116 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:15,720 Well, that's most helpful, Dr Kingston. 117 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:17,240 And they should know if there's any connection 118 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:20,080 between your Pig Peters and Oswald Harris. 119 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:22,240 The more I think about it, the more I think they were brothers. 120 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:23,600 It'll have to wait for the moment. 121 00:07:23,640 --> 00:07:25,200 Oh, things are moving, are they? 122 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:28,200 You could say that. 123 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:29,520 The body has disappeared. 124 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:31,880 Really? I say! 125 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:34,880 Then you certainly won't have time to go and see the solicitors. 126 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:37,360 Would you like me to take the day off and go and see them for you? 127 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:39,400 Thank you, but I'll ask Leo to follow it up. 128 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:41,560 Well, anything I can do to help! 129 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:45,840 I'm just on my way to visit my young patient at the Knights and then I'm at your disposal. 130 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:48,560 Well, I was going down to the Knights too. Perhaps you could give me a lift. 131 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:49,600 Certainly, yes. 132 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:11,400 This patient of yours, is she one of the maids? 133 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:13,920 Flossy Edwards. Down with jaundice. 134 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:17,560 She must have been upstairs yesterday throughout the time leading up to Harris' death. 135 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:19,400 Oh, no, I think you're on the wrong track there. 136 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:21,200 Yeah. She's away, at the back of the house. 137 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:25,040 Good morning, Doctor. 138 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:26,600 Good morning, Albert. 139 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:28,680 See you later, Doctor. 140 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:32,400 Oh, I'm so glad you've come. 141 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:35,280 I want you to patch things up for me with Leo. 142 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:36,800 We had a bit of a... 143 00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:39,440 ...barney yesterday, as you probably gathered. 144 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:41,800 It was all my fault. 145 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:44,000 I told him a ridiculous lie. 146 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:45,880 About Hayhoe's visit? 147 00:08:45,920 --> 00:08:47,600 (SIGHS) You know. 148 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:50,480 I can't think why I did it. 149 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:53,880 But people down here are such dreadful snobs. 150 00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:56,800 In my world, that is my old world, the theatre world, 151 00:08:56,840 --> 00:08:58,760 there is no such thing. 152 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:00,760 As snobbery? 153 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:02,560 Except between legits and variety. 154 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:05,640 Principals and chorus. 155 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:09,320 But getting back to Hayhoe. 156 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:12,640 He is a bit of a bounder but quite human. 157 00:09:12,680 --> 00:09:14,480 And we all have to live. 158 00:09:15,960 --> 00:09:18,080 May I tempt you to one of my highballs? 159 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:19,840 American style. 160 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:22,920 Well, actually I make it up myself but it's rather fun. 161 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:24,280 Thank you. 162 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:27,440 So, Mr Hayhoe is a friend of yours? 163 00:09:27,480 --> 00:09:31,000 Oh, not a friend, no! But... 164 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:35,240 When he came to me for help, well... 165 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:37,720 We've all been down on our luck, haven't we? 166 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:40,040 Did he borrow money from you? 167 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:41,480 Good Lord, no! 168 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:45,160 I may have lent him a pound or two. 169 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:49,640 He was very hard up, you see. Through no fault of his own, poor dear. 170 00:09:49,680 --> 00:09:53,280 That wretched man Harris was his nephew. 171 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:57,320 There'd been some jiggery-pokery going on. 172 00:09:57,360 --> 00:10:02,360 I forget the details, but Harris had done Hayhoe out of all his money. 173 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:04,400 And he wanted me to help him get it back. 174 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:06,400 So. 175 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:08,200 I showed him up to Harris' room. 176 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:10,080 You what? 177 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:12,240 Oh, don't worry. 178 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:15,440 Harris was there, and anyway that was days ago. 179 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:16,760 What happened? 180 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:19,160 There was an awful hullabaloo. 181 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:22,160 Hayhoe came running out with a flea in his ear. 182 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:25,400 Since which, he hasn't been near the place. 183 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:27,440 Except for yesterday afternoon? 184 00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:32,040 (EXHALES) When Leo saw him. 185 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:34,400 He jumped to all sorts of conclusions. 186 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:38,840 Why did he come? 187 00:10:40,760 --> 00:10:42,920 To offer support. 188 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:48,360 He said that he knew what it was like being surrounded by standoffish country people 189 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:50,400 in your hour of trouble. 190 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:52,720 And could he help me. 191 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:53,960 As a man of the world. 192 00:10:54,960 --> 00:10:57,200 I think he actually wanted a drink. 193 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:02,560 Uh, Poppy. 194 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:05,480 You said you remembered yesterday morning very clearly. 195 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:10,800 It isn't every morning that one has a murder on the premises. 196 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:13,160 Think carefully. 197 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:16,400 Was there anybody here earlier on? 198 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:18,920 Someone who left before Harris' demise? 199 00:11:22,040 --> 00:11:24,000 No. No one. 200 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:26,520 Unless you count the vicar. 201 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:29,640 Bathwick! 202 00:11:29,680 --> 00:11:32,120 Mmm-hmm. He always looks in mid-morning. 203 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:36,480 Has a highball like this. 204 00:11:36,520 --> 00:11:38,880 And then trots off home via the kitchen garden. 205 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:40,600 I see... 206 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:42,680 Oh, how's Flossy? 207 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:44,320 Oh, she'll be feeling fine in a couple of days. 208 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:47,160 Don't let her do too much or eat too much fat. 209 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:49,160 Would you care to see her? Campion? 210 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:50,640 Hmm. 211 00:11:50,680 --> 00:11:52,520 You want to question Flossy? 212 00:11:52,560 --> 00:11:56,440 She was the only one upstairs and alone when the urn fell on Harris. 213 00:11:56,480 --> 00:11:59,400 Poor little Flossy! She hasn't the strength! 214 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:02,440 Or the wit. 215 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:06,920 I didn't think she'd be much use to you. 216 00:12:06,960 --> 00:12:09,920 The poor girl was scarcely in the land of the living herself at the time. 217 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:11,760 If she had been, I doubt she would have noticed much. 218 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:13,480 I wonder if Poppy does it deliberately. 219 00:12:13,520 --> 00:12:14,920 I'm sorry? 220 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:17,160 Select staff whose intelligence quota is somewhat below par. 221 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:19,800 (LAUGHING) Well, I suppose she does, in a way. 222 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:22,520 It's her kind heart, all the lame dogs. 223 00:12:22,560 --> 00:12:24,360 Mind you, I suppose it could be rather convenient. 224 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:26,240 Never know, she didn't want things noticed. 225 00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:29,520 Is that what you're getting at? 226 00:12:30,920 --> 00:12:32,960 Oh, no, Campion. 227 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:34,120 Poppy wouldn't hurt a fly. 228 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:38,280 Excuse me a moment, I'd like to have another look upstairs. 229 00:12:39,280 --> 00:12:40,920 I say... 230 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:42,400 Do you mind if I come with you? 231 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:44,200 No, of course not. 232 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:50,400 I find all this quite fascinating. 233 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:54,440 I mean, why couldn't I have been a detective instead of a dull, old GP? 234 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:01,760 I say, look! Look at that scratch. 235 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:03,520 Oh, I had noticed. 236 00:13:03,560 --> 00:13:06,880 But, I mean, does it tell you anything? I mean, it looks quite recent. 237 00:13:06,920 --> 00:13:09,200 Do you think you want some fingerprints? 238 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:13,040 Come on. I've seen what I wanted to see. 239 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:17,000 Where are you off next? 240 00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:18,320 Can I drive you anywhere? 241 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:21,000 No, thank you, Lugg's picking me up later. 242 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:22,880 Well, if you need me... 243 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:24,560 Just whistle. 244 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:26,760 Colonel. 245 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:31,640 He's a nice man. 246 00:13:31,680 --> 00:13:34,880 He doesn't mean to be a ghoul, but he's bored, like so many people here. 247 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:37,240 Anyway. 248 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:40,200 It'll give him something to talk about to his patients. 249 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:42,680 I wonder if I might see the kitchen garden? 250 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:49,480 POPPY: That's the way the vicar goes. 251 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:52,440 The meadow leads up to his house. 252 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:54,680 Poppy, could you find something out for me? 253 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:55,880 Unobtrusively. 254 00:13:55,920 --> 00:13:57,520 What's that? 255 00:13:57,560 --> 00:13:59,440 It's about yesterday morning. 256 00:13:59,480 --> 00:14:04,160 I want to know if anyone was seen puttering about upstairs. 257 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:06,040 Perhaps someone who wasn't there later. 258 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:09,440 Bathwick, for instance. 259 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:44,800 First they bang him on the head, then they bang him in the river! 260 00:14:44,840 --> 00:14:46,480 No satisfying some people. 261 00:14:46,520 --> 00:14:47,520 Why the river? 262 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:49,600 I was in... 263 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:54,760 Hello, there. I was with Pusey. 264 00:14:56,400 --> 00:14:57,400 It's an outrage! 265 00:14:58,240 --> 00:14:59,520 Wanton mischief. 266 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:00,560 I wonder... 267 00:15:01,960 --> 00:15:03,880 Chap was already dead! 268 00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:05,400 What's the point of dumping him in the river? 269 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:06,520 That's what I say! 270 00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:09,120 Water has a peculiar property, hasn't it? 271 00:15:09,160 --> 00:15:10,280 It washes things. 272 00:15:13,520 --> 00:15:15,320 How soon can you arrange the autopsy? 273 00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:17,560 Where are we going now? 274 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:19,680 To see my old school pal, Whippet. 275 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:22,360 He keeps cropping up. Whippet in the anonymous letters, 276 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:25,040 Whippet and Effie Rowlandson, Whippet and his hunch about the river. 277 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:27,440 Funny, lad uses cold... 278 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:41,320 (EXHALES) 279 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:42,600 What are you waiting for? 280 00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:47,240 Pop in and see if he's there, would you, Lugg? 281 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:49,320 I knew it would catch up on you. 282 00:15:52,760 --> 00:15:54,000 Whippet? 283 00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:56,160 Youngish fellow, brown hair. 284 00:15:56,200 --> 00:15:57,280 Well, brownish. 285 00:15:57,320 --> 00:15:58,880 I couldn't say. 286 00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:00,160 Public school type. 287 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:01,920 Speaks like it was too much trouble. 288 00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:04,480 Oh, yes! No, he's not here. 289 00:16:04,520 --> 00:16:05,680 Did he sleep here last night? 290 00:16:06,240 --> 00:16:07,720 I couldn't say. 291 00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:10,080 Was he here at breakfast? 292 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:12,200 I believe he was. 293 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:13,240 Would you know when he's coming back? 294 00:16:14,040 --> 00:16:15,040 I couldn't say. 295 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:18,160 And about Ms Rowlandson? 296 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:19,680 Young lady with blonde hair. 297 00:16:20,640 --> 00:16:22,320 Oh, yes, I know her. 298 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:23,360 Is she here? 299 00:16:24,360 --> 00:16:25,960 No, she'd be out. 300 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:31,640 Did Mr Whippet and her leave together or separate? 301 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:33,800 I couldn't say. 302 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:44,880 We kept lunch for you, sir. 303 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:47,920 Sorry I'm late, Pepper. 304 00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:50,360 Ms Janet had hers some time ago, sir. 305 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:53,440 Oh. Do you know where she is? 306 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:56,000 In the rose garden, sir. 307 00:16:58,400 --> 00:17:00,120 Will lunch keep a little longer? 308 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:06,400 And you still say you're not soft on her? 309 00:17:16,080 --> 00:17:19,280 MAN: Well, I really thought I'd stay on for a while. 310 00:17:19,320 --> 00:17:20,360 Might even rent a place. 311 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:21,480 JANET: Really? 312 00:17:21,520 --> 00:17:23,760 Yes. I'm beginning to... 313 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:27,040 To share Constable's enthusiasm for this part of the world. 314 00:17:27,080 --> 00:17:28,320 The wonderful skies? 315 00:17:28,360 --> 00:17:29,760 And the wonderful eyes! 316 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:30,880 (LAUGHING) 317 00:17:30,920 --> 00:17:32,000 Whippet! 318 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:33,160 Hello, Campion. 319 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:34,360 Found you at last! 320 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:36,080 I've been searching for you all over the place. 321 00:17:36,120 --> 00:17:37,760 I've been busy. Hello, Janet. 322 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:40,480 Why didn't you tell me you had such a nice friend? 323 00:17:40,520 --> 00:17:42,560 How's it going? 324 00:17:42,600 --> 00:17:45,560 The missing body, as you predicted, was found in the river. 325 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:48,960 I know. The village is terribly shaken by it. 326 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:53,520 I suppose there is some, um... You know, explanation. 327 00:17:53,560 --> 00:17:55,840 You have some explaining to do yourself, Whippet. 328 00:17:55,880 --> 00:17:59,040 Yes, I know, that's why I've come to see you. 329 00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:00,920 There's Ms Rowlandson for one thing. 330 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:03,480 She's frightfully upset. I sent her down to the vicarage. 331 00:18:04,920 --> 00:18:07,560 -The vicarage? -What on earth for? 332 00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:09,440 Well... Help. 333 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:12,800 When in doubt, in the country, one always goes to the parson. 334 00:18:12,840 --> 00:18:15,360 You know, good works, that sort of thing. 335 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:18,960 Oh, yes! And I think you ought to have a look at this, Campion. 336 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:22,640 Uh, someone slipped it under my bedroom door. 337 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:29,000 "He waiteth patiently. Peace and hope are in his warm heart. 338 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:32,400 "He foldeth his hands upon his belly." 339 00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:36,320 "Faith is his that can remove the mountain or his little hill." 340 00:18:36,360 --> 00:18:40,720 Funny. I didn't think anyone knew I was at the Feathers. Except you. 341 00:18:40,760 --> 00:18:42,520 And I don't suppose you... 342 00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:44,600 No. 343 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:45,720 Who's the "he"? 344 00:18:46,400 --> 00:18:47,600 Mole again? 345 00:18:47,640 --> 00:18:49,560 Hmm. His little hill. 346 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:51,520 A mole hill? Could be. 347 00:18:51,560 --> 00:18:53,800 I suppose you two know what you're talking about. 348 00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:56,400 Sorry! Well. 349 00:18:56,440 --> 00:18:59,640 Um, I fancy I ought to go, now I've seen Campion. 350 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:02,200 Thank you for your kindness, Ms Pursuivant. 351 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:04,680 -It was a pleasure. -I hope to repay it. 352 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:05,720 I'll see you to your car. 353 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:11,560 Yes, this, this really is a Constable country. 354 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:15,120 You know, Whippet, you've still a lot to explain. 355 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:18,080 What are you doing in Kepesake? 356 00:19:18,120 --> 00:19:21,120 Well, it's that girl, Effie. 357 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:22,800 She's a strong personality, you know. 358 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:25,120 I met her at Pig's funeral. 359 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:27,560 She sort of collected me. 360 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:32,120 Asked me to drive her down here yesterday. So, well, I did. 361 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:37,080 What about these letters? 362 00:19:37,120 --> 00:19:39,640 I suppose one should tear them up. 363 00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:43,720 It's very disturbing, but I, I like the mole. 364 00:19:45,520 --> 00:19:49,640 Well, look me up when you've time and we'll, uh, go into it. 365 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:52,360 Goodbye. 366 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:04,640 Death is still working like a mole and digs my grave at each remove. 367 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:09,160 Honestly! You shouldn't let her pester poor Bathwick like that. 368 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:12,160 -Who? -You know perfectly well who! 369 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:14,080 It's bad enough your bringing her down here, 370 00:20:14,120 --> 00:20:16,120 without letting her get her claws into somebody like that, 371 00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:18,480 who can't possibly look after himself. 372 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:23,680 Are you sure Bathwick's such an innocent lamb? 373 00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:26,200 Perhaps you haven't heard about his dip last night. 374 00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:29,200 Told Leo some ridiculous story about falling into a dyke. 375 00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:31,120 Now that Harris' body has turned up in the river, 376 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:32,640 he'll have to do better than that. 377 00:20:32,680 --> 00:20:34,240 You think they'd suspect him! 378 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:36,920 Oh, no, how awful. 379 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:40,720 What's the matter? 380 00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:42,720 You swear you won't laugh if I tell you? 381 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:43,760 I swear. 382 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:46,720 He didn't fall into a dyke. 383 00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:48,720 He fell into our lily pond. 384 00:20:49,360 --> 00:20:50,800 How do you know? 385 00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:52,160 I pushed him. 386 00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:54,960 (LAUGHS) 387 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:56,000 You promised! 388 00:20:57,600 --> 00:20:59,520 What happened? 389 00:20:59,560 --> 00:21:04,000 Last night, after you took that female home, I came out here. 390 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:05,880 I saw someone by the pond. 391 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:07,520 It was him. 392 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:11,360 He came back to... Well, hoping to... 393 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:13,440 Offer you his hand and heart. 394 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:15,480 Actually, it was rather more than that. 395 00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:19,040 I suppose it was the wine at dinner. 396 00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:20,720 I pushed him away and he fell in. 397 00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:23,920 No one else need know, need they? 398 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:26,200 No, I don't think so. 399 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:29,720 You're not so bad, really. 400 00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:31,400 I'm awfully glad. 401 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:33,120 That I pushed him in the pond? 402 00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:36,080 Yes. And you're wrong about Effie Rowlandson. 403 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:45,080 Last night, you were about to say something when Pepper told us she was here. 404 00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:49,200 About that time in London... I... 405 00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:51,440 -Beg pardon, sir. (PANTS) -I'm not hungry now, Pepper. 406 00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:55,600 No, it's not that, sir. You're wanted on the telephone, sir. 407 00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:56,640 A lady. 408 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:05,960 I've made those inquiries you wanted and no one saw the vicar come back yesterday. 409 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:10,920 But, my dear! Who do you think was seen trotting about upstairs? 410 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:13,520 Now, the girl who saw him naturally thought I'd given permission, 411 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:18,240 as she'd seen him here before. And he seemed so genuine, too! 412 00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:19,880 CAMPION OVER PHONE: Who are you talking about? 413 00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:23,160 Who? Oh, sorry! Didn't I say? 414 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:28,120 It's Hayhoe. 415 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:29,840 You want me to arrest him? 416 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:32,800 At once. I should have let you do it earlier. 417 00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:35,320 But we can't, we've no solid evidence against him. 418 00:22:35,360 --> 00:22:36,920 Then pull him in on something else. 419 00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:38,800 Trump up a charge? 420 00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:41,400 Much as I'd like to see the fellow behind bars... 421 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:45,840 Please. Just keep him here for 24 hours. 422 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:47,760 It's imperative. 423 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:53,040 -Is young Brimble still watching Hayhoe? -Like a hawk, sir. 424 00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:14,080 -Brimble? -Sir! 425 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:19,360 -Still there, is he? -Yes, sir. He's been in there all day. 426 00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:22,280 That's his room, over there. 427 00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:23,720 You can see him if you look. 428 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:27,560 Not that old trick! 429 00:23:30,360 --> 00:23:33,680 You'd better put him back on dog licenses, Inspector. 430 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:46,360 I don't understand it. He were in here earlier. I brought him up a cup of tea. 431 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:51,960 How long ago was that? 432 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:55,760 That's... 40 minutes, I'd say. 433 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:57,000 He's not been gone long, then. 434 00:23:57,040 --> 00:23:58,480 I never heard him go out! 435 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:01,160 He must have gone down the stairs in his stocking feet. 436 00:24:03,360 --> 00:24:04,440 We must find him! 437 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:11,600 Have all your men mobilised? 438 00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:13,440 Yes, sir. And I've called in a few more men. 439 00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:15,200 The whole village will be on the lookout now. 440 00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:17,800 See they search the hilltop, where his telescope is. 441 00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:19,400 He'd have to go through the village to get there. 442 00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:21,200 Couldn't do it without being seen. 443 00:24:22,120 --> 00:24:23,800 Not unless he's a mole. 444 00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:30,280 The moles, they travel underground. 445 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:32,400 I know. 446 00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:36,920 We should know something in an hour or two. 447 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:39,000 I hope so. 448 00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:42,480 Well, nothing you and I can do, but wait. 449 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:44,160 Might as well go and get a bite to eat. 450 00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:58,440 You go and have your posh meal. 451 00:24:58,480 --> 00:24:59,680 I'll be at the bar. 452 00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:01,920 Sir Leo! 453 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:03,480 Campion! 454 00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:05,840 What a bit of luck! I hear you've got your man on the run. 455 00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:09,720 A patient told me. The whole place is agog. Is there anything I can do? 456 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:10,880 Uh. No, thank you. 457 00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:11,920 But keep your eyes open. 458 00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:15,800 You're looking tired. You mustn't overdo it. 459 00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:24,080 (INDISTINCT TALKING) 460 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:26,240 Thank you. 461 00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:27,320 -Monsieur. -Thank you. 462 00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:35,440 Isn't that Bathwick? 463 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:38,800 And Effie Rowlandson. 464 00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:41,200 -An odd trio. -Very. 465 00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:45,000 We'd better ask them if they've seen Hayhoe. 466 00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:46,080 (SOFTLY) Mr Campion. 467 00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:49,440 Cooee! 468 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:53,720 And get that young lady down in the morning to identify the body. 469 00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:57,480 Yes. There'll be a lot to do in the morning. 470 00:25:58,360 --> 00:26:00,480 Plenty if we catch Hayhoe. 471 00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:03,480 More if we don't. 472 00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:07,640 Good for Hayhoe, I say. All them narcs out, he gives them the slip? 473 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:09,440 I shall be up at 6:00, Lugg. 474 00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:13,760 -Oh, lummie. -There's an appointment I want to keep at 7:00 sharp. 475 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:17,880 You're not going up there. Hayhoe is on the run for murder. 476 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:20,600 If he's caught, he'll be clapped in jail for life. 477 00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:23,320 I shall still go. 478 00:26:23,360 --> 00:26:27,000 Suppose I have to go with you. Make sure you don't get yourself bumped off. 479 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:31,160 No, you need your beauty sleep. I'd sooner go on my own. 480 00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:34,360 But there is something I'd like you to follow up, later in the morning. 481 00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:37,160 SIR LEO: This is what you were afraid of. 482 00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:39,040 CAMPION: He had something on the murderer. 483 00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:41,560 Well, now he has two deaths on his hands. 484 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:44,440 Who, Campion? I can't believe it's anyone in Kepesake. 485 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:47,440 There's not a lot to go on. Cornfield was near the road. 486 00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:50,600 The murderer wouldn't have had to carry the body far. If he did carry him! 487 00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:53,600 It's my guess Hayhoe was killed on the spot. 488 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:55,320 There was a lot of blood around. 489 00:27:55,360 --> 00:27:57,560 What on earth were they doing in the middle of a cornfield? 490 00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:01,080 Having a very quiet, private interview. 491 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:05,560 I should like an opinion on the wound. 492 00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:08,160 You shall have it. My old friend, Professor Farrington 493 00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:10,840 will be along later to take a look at Harris. 494 00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:15,240 What would you say it was done with? 495 00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:18,120 Something narrow and sharp. 496 00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:19,800 A dagger perhaps. 497 00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:39,040 I say. Who could afford a car like that? 498 00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:41,880 A bookie. Or a solicitor. 499 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:45,840 I'm so sorry I was unable to speak to you myself yesterday, 500 00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:48,560 Sir Leo. I was in court. 501 00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:50,560 Your partner was most courteous. 502 00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:55,880 In view of the circumstances I'm seeing it was you, Sir Leo, 503 00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:57,840 I thought I would come down myself. 504 00:28:57,880 --> 00:28:59,560 How kind. 505 00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:02,000 I looked through the papers last night. 506 00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:04,960 The names, of course, had communicated themselves instantly. 507 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:08,840 Peters and Harris. Both clients of ours. 508 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:11,720 Were they brothers? 509 00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:17,760 Yes. Mr Raymond Henry Peters changed his name to Harris for... 510 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:20,080 For good reasons of his own, no doubt. 511 00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:23,240 He's comparatively new to our books. Our principal client 512 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:24,720 is his elder brother, 513 00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:27,040 Mr Roland Isidore Peters, 514 00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:30,440 who died last May. 515 00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:34,520 I believe Harris received a considerable sum under his brother's will. 516 00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:37,600 Indeed. 517 00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:40,920 I can give you the exact figures if you wish, Sir Leo. 518 00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:44,400 There was personal property, and insurance, of course. 519 00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:46,480 It all seemed in order at the time. 520 00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:48,680 Do you know who Peters was insured with? 521 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:51,600 Not offhand. 522 00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:57,360 Mutual Ordered Life Endowment, I believe it was. 523 00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:01,600 -I can look it up, if you wish. -If you would. Thank you. 524 00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:07,280 I wonder, Mr Skinn, would you be prepared to take a look at the body yourself? 525 00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:12,480 -You want me to identify Mr Harris? -Or Mr Peters. 526 00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:15,400 As the case may be. 527 00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:18,000 Well? 528 00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:24,480 I'm afraid I can't be sure, Sir... Sir Leo. 529 00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:27,040 It's 12 years since I saw Mr Peters, 530 00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:29,200 and I only met Mr Harris just the once. 531 00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:34,400 The dead man resembles them both, 532 00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:36,880 insofar as one... (BREATHES HEAVILY) 533 00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:39,000 Do you think I might have a glass of water? 534 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:47,200 I'm sorry, Sir Leo, but I don't want to commit myself! 535 00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:50,480 Never mind. We have someone else who should be able to identify him. 536 00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:54,040 You have no right to ask a young lady to identify a body which has been lying... 537 00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:56,840 I'm sorry, Reverend Bathwick, but I'm only following orders! 538 00:30:56,880 --> 00:30:59,880 -It's all right, really! -It most certainly is not! 539 00:30:59,920 --> 00:31:01,520 I never heard such an outrage. 540 00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:03,480 Oh, hello, Mr Campion. 541 00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:05,640 What seems to be the trouble? 542 00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:08,360 -Well, it's like this, sir... -The trouble? You're prepared to subject a young lady 543 00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:11,280 to a shattering ordeal because of the inefficiency of the police 544 00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:13,280 and their hangers on! 545 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:16,480 As I recall, it was Ms Rowlandson's own request that she might see the body. 546 00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:19,120 -Yes, Philip, it's ever so kind of you... -No! 547 00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:21,040 She goes in there over my dead body. 548 00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:24,000 Hmm. I think two dead bodies are quite enough for the time being. 549 00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:28,240 And why are you so concerned about it? 550 00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:30,360 Out of human decency. 551 00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:33,200 Ah. Human decency. 552 00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:36,240 If you'd care to follow me, Ms Rowlandson. 553 00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:52,600 Which is it? 554 00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:53,680 This one. 555 00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:02,840 Yes. It's Piggy. 556 00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:05,160 He'd have hated to be seen without his toupee. 557 00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:13,400 (SOBS) I wasn't in love with him, but I'm sorry he's dead. 558 00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:18,640 Satisfied? 559 00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:30,080 I take my hat off to you, young man. 560 00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:33,640 I can't be certain without a... A careful autopsy, 561 00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:36,080 but I'd hazard a tentative guess that 562 00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:40,680 he met his death sometime before he had yon crack on the head. 563 00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:43,320 -Poison. -Yeah. Yeah, I wouldn't wonder. 564 00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:48,320 I'd say this was in the nature of a blind. 565 00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:50,120 You've got a clever man up against you, Mr Campion. 566 00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:54,200 Yes. 567 00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:57,480 Have Pusey send the body 'round to me, and I'll let you know for certain. 568 00:32:57,520 --> 00:32:59,720 Right. Let's have a look at this other poor fellow. 569 00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:05,200 Excuse me, missus. 570 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:08,480 He's out! And where I couldn't say. 571 00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:10,200 Miss Rowlandson, is she out too? 572 00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:11,920 Couldn't say. 573 00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:14,120 Just one more question. 574 00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:16,880 Do you know if Mr Whippet brought a typewriter with him? 575 00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:20,640 -You couldn't say. -Oh, yes, I could! 576 00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:23,320 Smart-looking portable one, it is, I seen it in his room! 577 00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:26,320 (BELL DINGS) 578 00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:29,360 This is from that solicitor chappie. 579 00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:33,560 The Peters who died in May had his life insured for £20,000 580 00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:35,320 with Mutual Ordered Life Endowment. 581 00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:38,880 Turned out very well for Harris. 582 00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:43,400 I mean Peters. Oh, dear. It's all so confusing. I can't be sure which is which. 583 00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:47,440 Only that they were both Pigs. Any news of the inquest? 584 00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:49,880 It's been adjourned for 10 days to give us breathing space. 585 00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:52,720 Which means we must get results, Campion! 586 00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:54,440 Or I shall have to call in the Yard. 587 00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:58,320 You're on to something, aren't you? 588 00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:01,720 I know how the first murder was done, and I think I know who did it. 589 00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:04,600 But I haven't any proof. 590 00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:07,040 Will you give me another day? 591 00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:09,440 Might as well, having gone this far. 592 00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:11,480 And another thing, Leo. 593 00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:13,800 Can you arrange a Home Office order for the exhumation of R.I. Peters 594 00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:15,840 who was buried last May? 595 00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:17,920 I think it's time we took a look at that body. 596 00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:21,920 Well, I'll try. Identification after all this time? 597 00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:24,280 In certain circumstances, it would be possible. 598 00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:28,520 -Antimony in the body? -No. 599 00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:30,080 It's a question of the soil. 600 00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:34,480 Yes, yes, you may well be right. I remember Old Whitton, 601 00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:37,800 the last gravedigger here, dragging me out of bed one morning. 602 00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:40,440 He opened up a grave somewhere around here to put in the relative 603 00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:43,880 of a dead woman and somehow the lid of the coffin had been dislodged, 604 00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:46,200 but the body was almost perfect. 605 00:34:46,240 --> 00:34:49,480 So there must be something preservative in the soil. 606 00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:51,200 How did you guess? 607 00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:59,280 Cow Parsley. I noticed it at Pig's funeral. 608 00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:01,320 You often find it growing in soil like this. 609 00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:05,840 It's lucky he chose this place to die. 610 00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:08,480 His body might well be preserved. 611 00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:11,640 So you're thinking of an exhumation? 612 00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:13,720 I say, that's rather exciting! 613 00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:15,880 I can't promise anything, nothing's fixed. 614 00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:17,800 And for Heaven's sake, keep it under your hat. 615 00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:19,880 Oh, rely on me. 616 00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:24,600 I get bored at times! That's why something like this 617 00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:27,200 is such a... An exciting thing to happen! 618 00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:30,400 CAMPION: Large house. How do you manage? 619 00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:33,240 Young Royle comes in from the village, local builder's son. 620 00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:35,360 Jack-of-all-trades. When I have patients in, 621 00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:38,280 I import a nurse and housekeeper. 622 00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:40,560 Would you care to come in and have a drink? 623 00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:42,560 Some other time. 624 00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:46,440 Oh, yes! Yes, of course. You're busy. 625 00:35:47,240 --> 00:35:49,600 Thank you for your help. 626 00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:54,200 Anything else, just let me know. 627 00:35:57,080 --> 00:35:58,800 Beautiful car! 628 00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:01,240 And beautifully kept. 629 00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:04,240 I'm afraid mine's not in the same class. 630 00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:06,520 KINGSTON: Afternoon, Royle. ROYLE: Afternoon, Doctor. 631 00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:08,000 Where are we going now? 632 00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:27,160 Look, this may take some time, 633 00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:29,400 and then I shall go into the police station. 634 00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:32,520 Why don't you take a stroll back to Highwaters and stay there. 635 00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:34,320 I may need you. 636 00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:36,520 And will that be days in Bottle Street. 637 00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:45,400 (HORN HONKING) 638 00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:49,360 -Whippet. -Campion. 639 00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:51,360 It's you I've come to see. 640 00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:55,080 Oh, I've been house hunting. Rather taken with this part of the world. 641 00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:59,120 There's a little house down the road. Empty. 642 00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:01,400 I like empty houses, don't you? 643 00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:03,640 -May we get to the point? -Of course. 644 00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:06,920 -Uh, what is the point? -Hayhoe? 645 00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:12,000 Oh, yeah. Poor chap. I spoke to him a couple of times. 646 00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:15,560 Hmm, not a frightfully nice fellow. Tried to touch me for a few quid. 647 00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:17,600 What did you talk to him about? 648 00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:22,920 Um, natural history. You know, flora and fauna. 649 00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:26,440 -And moles. -(LAUGHING) 650 00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:31,160 Yes, as a matter of fact we did. 651 00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:35,920 Whippet, I think it's time we had our little chat. 652 00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:41,360 You were right, it's poison. Chloral hydrate. 653 00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:44,240 Lucky he was only in the water a short time or we couldn't have traced it. 654 00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:50,200 He must have been dead already when yon stone urn crashed down on his head. 655 00:37:50,240 --> 00:37:52,160 Either that or heavily drugged. 656 00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:55,280 In which case he'd appear to be in a deep natural sleep. 657 00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:58,160 Pepper. 658 00:37:59,920 --> 00:38:01,960 -Pepper. -Yes, sir? 659 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:03,320 Oh, there you are. Have you seen Lugg? 660 00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:05,920 -He's gone, sir. -Gone? 661 00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:07,640 Well, he went as soon as he got your message. 662 00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:09,720 What message? 663 00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:13,520 Someone phoned him on your behalf and Mr Lugg packed his case and went at once. 664 00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:15,240 -Went where? -I don't know. 665 00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:16,640 Well, you must know. 666 00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:21,360 -He took the field path. -Oh, my God. 667 00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:25,520 -Is Sir Leo here? -No, sir. Nor Ms Janet. 668 00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:27,480 Get me Dr Kingston's telephone number. 669 00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:28,600 Yes, sir. 670 00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:32,040 -Hello? -In here. 671 00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:34,520 Ah, I'm sorry I've been a while. Car trouble. 672 00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:35,640 I'm so glad you called me. 673 00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:36,840 You know the area? 674 00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:38,760 Yes. Poor old Lugg. 675 00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:40,840 If anything's happened to him, I'll never forgive myself. 676 00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:43,000 I know I'm maybe barking up the wrong tree, 677 00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:45,240 but I'm still uneasy about that chap Whippet. 678 00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:46,960 I can't see Whippet murdering anyone. 679 00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:49,200 No, I know how you feel, old school friend and so on, 680 00:38:49,240 --> 00:38:53,240 but I've been keeping an eye on him ever since I heard about his visits to Hayhoe... 681 00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:57,360 -Oh, my God. I wonder... -What? 682 00:38:57,400 --> 00:39:00,480 There's this empty house that he's been showing an interest in. 683 00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:03,120 -You don't think that... -Well, it's possible. 684 00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:07,800 Yes, he could have killed Hayhoe there too and then moved his body to the field. 685 00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:09,680 Can you take me there? 686 00:39:09,720 --> 00:39:11,640 Yes, we'd better use your car. It'll be quicker. 687 00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:16,720 I'll just get my bag. 688 00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:18,960 -Where is this place? -It's down the hill. 689 00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:20,800 First left, and then on about a mile. 690 00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:24,280 (ENGINE STARTING) 691 00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:25,800 (EXHALES) 692 00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:29,480 Pray God we're not too late. 693 00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:32,800 Now just hang on a tick, old chap. Have some brandy. 694 00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:34,320 No, there's no time to waste. 695 00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:36,560 But you're in no state to help Lugg or anyone else. 696 00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:39,680 Take a good swig, it'll steady you. It's doctor's orders. 697 00:39:39,720 --> 00:39:42,640 (BREATHES DEEPLY) All right. I do feel a bit shaky. 698 00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:46,480 It's hardly surprising. Lack of sleep, I dare say, and now this shock. 699 00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:50,400 Thanks. 700 00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:52,600 -Down the hill, you say? -Yes. 701 00:40:07,240 --> 00:40:09,120 -(TYRES SCREECHING) -Steady up. 702 00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:13,760 -You all right? -I don't feel too... 703 00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:16,520 Kingston, would you mind driving? 704 00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:18,760 Oh, with pleasure. 705 00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:23,160 I'll go around, you slide over. 706 00:40:34,240 --> 00:40:37,800 I can't understand it. I feel so terribly... 707 00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:39,720 -Tired? -(EXHALES) 708 00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:42,320 I can't seem to keep my eyes open. 709 00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:45,440 Then close them, old chap. 710 00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:55,200 Beautiful car. 711 00:40:57,680 --> 00:41:01,000 -Goes like a bird. -We must find Lugg. 712 00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:05,040 We will. Don't worry. 713 00:41:24,240 --> 00:41:27,440 There's the house now. 714 00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:30,920 Very secluded. No one would know if he's there. 715 00:41:57,560 --> 00:41:59,960 Sleep sound, Mr Campion. 716 00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:04,920 (ENGINE RUNNING) 717 00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:18,240 (GRUNTING) 718 00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:22,120 Carbon monoxide. Such an easy death. 719 00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:26,880 (LAUGHS) That's why people choose it so often. 720 00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:31,400 Now, I'll leave the engine running and go. 721 00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:35,360 Suicide of a brilliant criminologist. 722 00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:38,920 Really not quite brilliant enough. 723 00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:41,520 I was too clever for him. (LAUGHS) 724 00:42:41,560 --> 00:42:44,000 Too damned clever. 725 00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:45,600 -By half. -(GRUNTING) 726 00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:47,760 (GROANS) 727 00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:49,920 (PANTING) How did you... 728 00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:53,080 Sorry, I should have mentioned, brandy gives me nightmares. 729 00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:55,920 (BOTH GRUNTING) 730 00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:20,040 (EXHALES) 731 00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:34,000 Thank God. Thought you were a goner. 732 00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:36,480 I'm not all that hot on artificial respiration. 733 00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:39,160 (GROANS) Kingston. Where is he? 734 00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:42,000 Had to let him go. Couldn't cope with the two of you. 735 00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:44,280 Lugg. We must find him before it's too late. 736 00:43:57,920 --> 00:43:59,960 -Locked! -Conservatory. 737 00:44:19,720 --> 00:44:21,000 (SOFT THUD) 738 00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:02,640 (GROANS) 739 00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:04,920 (GRUNTING) 740 00:45:54,360 --> 00:45:57,880 You don't get 'round me with a bunch of grapes. 741 00:45:57,920 --> 00:46:00,040 How many more times do I have to say it? 742 00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:01,920 You could've warned me, couldn't you? 743 00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:03,800 Told me he was leadin' me up the garden with your 744 00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:06,200 "come and hold me hand" routine. 745 00:46:06,240 --> 00:46:08,640 I thought he'd go for me. That's why I briefed Whippet. 746 00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:11,200 It never entered my head. 747 00:46:11,240 --> 00:46:14,440 Oh, yeah. That's you all over. Not a thought for me. 748 00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:16,480 And what are my London friends gonna make of this, eh? 749 00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:19,480 I've got my reputation to think of, you know? 750 00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:22,800 You could always tell them the truth. 751 00:46:22,840 --> 00:46:27,040 Oh, yeah. Tell 'em the local maniac needed a red-headed bloke to be dug up 752 00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:28,760 in the absence of a corpse. 753 00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:32,200 Who'll believe that? 754 00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:09,160 How did he organise it all on his own? 755 00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:11,240 I mean, the bricks and the coffin and everything. 756 00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:14,160 He wasn't on his own. He had Pig Peters to help him. 757 00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:16,400 JANET: Of course. 758 00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:18,280 And the fellow who worked for him. The builder's son. 759 00:47:18,320 --> 00:47:19,720 Young Royle. 760 00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:22,000 I tumbled to that as soon as Kingston mentioned him. 761 00:47:22,040 --> 00:47:25,520 In the country, the builder quite often helps out with burials. 762 00:47:25,560 --> 00:47:28,120 I remembered seeing Young Royle at the funeral. 763 00:47:28,160 --> 00:47:30,240 He was the one who stole the body, of course. 764 00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:32,920 I always thought that lad had strange eyes. 765 00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:36,080 I'm still a bit confused about the brothers. 766 00:47:36,120 --> 00:47:39,320 -How many were there? -ALL: None. 767 00:47:39,360 --> 00:47:42,160 Just one inimitable Pig as I suspected all along. 768 00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:45,000 Had there been a brother, he too would have been at Botolph's Abbey. 769 00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:47,480 Pigs major and minor? Unthinkable. 770 00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:49,960 But why go to all that trouble pretending he died in May? 771 00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:52,680 Well, the insurance, £20,000. 772 00:47:52,720 --> 00:47:55,520 Pig needed a doctor in order to carry out the swindle. 773 00:47:55,560 --> 00:47:59,640 He approached Kingston, who was more than a little dissatisfied with his life. 774 00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:02,720 Tie up your medical chap and let Mutual Ordered Life Endowment 775 00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:03,880 settle his financial problems. 776 00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:05,480 Well, why didn't the plan work? 777 00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:08,800 Pig being Pig tried to avoid paying Kingston his share. 778 00:48:08,840 --> 00:48:12,600 Kingston wasn't having any. By then he was obsessed by the thought of the money. 779 00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:15,360 So he contrived the accident with the urn. 780 00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:17,960 And where did Hayhoe come into it? 781 00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:22,320 He became suspicious of Kingston. Tried to blackmail him. 782 00:48:22,360 --> 00:48:24,840 So then he committed a second murder. 783 00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:27,080 And damn nearly a third. 784 00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:30,200 Yes, you'd have looked pretty green if it hadn't been for Gilbert. 785 00:48:30,240 --> 00:48:32,040 Oh, I didn't do that much. 786 00:48:32,080 --> 00:48:35,640 Well, Campion phoned me after Kingston had agreed to pick him up here. 787 00:48:35,680 --> 00:48:38,520 -I just followed the car. -But you did save his life. 788 00:48:38,560 --> 00:48:40,960 Mr Whippet, forgive my asking. 789 00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:43,520 But how do you fit into this extraordinary business? 790 00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:46,640 Well, a bit complicated... 791 00:48:46,680 --> 00:48:50,080 His little hands are sore and his snout bleedeth. 792 00:48:50,120 --> 00:48:52,160 Gilbert is the son of Q. Whippet, 793 00:48:52,200 --> 00:48:56,080 managing director of Mutual Ordered Life Endowment. Otherwise known as... 794 00:48:56,120 --> 00:48:57,960 -M.O.L.E. -M.O.L.E. 795 00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:01,800 When father became uneasy about the claim, I remembered Campion. 796 00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:03,920 I thought the letters might intrigue him. 797 00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:06,160 I prefer writing to action, you know. 798 00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:08,280 You were always a lazy beast, Whippet. 799 00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:09,960 He can move when he wants to. 800 00:49:11,320 --> 00:49:13,800 One thing still puzzles me. 801 00:49:13,840 --> 00:49:17,160 How could Kingston have killed Harris, that is, Peters, 802 00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:20,520 if he was playing poker with me at the time the urn was pushed? 803 00:49:20,560 --> 00:49:25,040 Ah, that came to me when I was drinking one of Poppy's highballs. 804 00:49:27,480 --> 00:49:31,760 Kingston told me he met Harris alias Pig, on the stairs shortly before the murder. 805 00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:34,840 In fact, he went to Pig's room and offered him something for his hangover. 806 00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:36,880 Something laced with chloral hydrate. 807 00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:39,280 Pig didn't realise how far he'd goaded Kingston, 808 00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:41,400 and he took the dose without suspecting anything. 809 00:49:41,440 --> 00:49:44,480 Then Kingston suggested that he slept it off on the lawn. 810 00:49:44,520 --> 00:49:47,080 Why bother with the flower pot? 811 00:49:47,120 --> 00:49:49,480 Why not just leave him there to die? 812 00:49:49,520 --> 00:49:50,600 An added precaution. 813 00:49:54,880 --> 00:49:58,760 After all, if Pig met with an accident, no one would suspect poison. 814 00:49:59,800 --> 00:50:01,640 You see, he had a brainwave. 815 00:50:01,680 --> 00:50:03,960 He remembered Poppy's ice cubes. 816 00:50:06,480 --> 00:50:10,920 He came out here, having ascertained where Pig was sitting, 817 00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:13,600 took the urn out of its socket, 818 00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:21,640 and blocked it into position with two pieces of ice. 819 00:50:23,360 --> 00:50:26,680 -Then he went downstairs. -And joined our game of poker. 820 00:50:27,960 --> 00:50:30,040 All he had to do then was wait. 821 00:50:30,080 --> 00:50:32,120 Until the ice melted and the urn fell. 822 00:50:32,840 --> 00:50:34,480 How ghastly. 823 00:50:42,480 --> 00:50:44,280 I'm so grateful, Campion. I knew you'd bring it home. 824 00:50:44,320 --> 00:50:45,800 -I'll see you very soon. -Goodbye. 825 00:50:46,760 --> 00:50:49,400 You have been so clever. 826 00:50:49,440 --> 00:50:50,840 Sorry about the misunderstanding. 827 00:50:52,720 --> 00:50:55,080 Goodbye, Mr Campion. Thank you very much. 828 00:50:55,120 --> 00:50:56,120 Best of luck. 829 00:51:01,440 --> 00:51:04,480 Albert, thank you. 830 00:51:04,520 --> 00:51:06,720 -What for? -You were right, of course. 831 00:51:06,760 --> 00:51:09,720 What I felt for you was just a silly schoolgirl crush. 832 00:51:09,760 --> 00:51:12,240 But I've grown up now. Goodbye. 833 00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:15,320 Goodbye. 834 00:51:29,600 --> 00:51:32,080 Looks like it's happy endings for everyone. 835 00:51:37,120 --> 00:51:38,160 Yes. 836 00:51:51,200 --> 00:51:54,480 That bloke Whippet. Comes down with Ms Effie Rowlandson, 837 00:51:54,520 --> 00:51:56,680 goes off with Ms Janet Pursuivant 838 00:51:58,480 --> 00:52:00,120 and without lifting a finger. 839 00:52:01,320 --> 00:52:03,200 You have to hand it to him. 840 00:52:03,240 --> 00:52:05,200 (BRAKES SCREECHING) 841 00:52:05,240 --> 00:52:07,400 Lugg, would you like to walk home? 842 00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:20,520 (SNORTING) 843 00:52:33,720 --> 00:52:35,640 (THEME SONG PLAYING)