1 00:00:14,040 --> 00:00:16,080 (THEME SONG PLAYING) 2 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:48,880 All I can say at present is that death was due to asphyxia. 3 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:50,560 I don't know yet what caused it. 4 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:53,160 Oh, sorry, Doctor. 5 00:00:56,600 --> 00:00:59,440 No one mentioned a smell of gas, did they? 6 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:01,360 -No. -Poison? 7 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:05,440 Hmm, could be. 8 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:08,760 I'll be up at the house if you need me. 9 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:10,640 Right. Thank you, Doctor. 10 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:16,080 I don't like anything about it. 11 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:17,520 There's only one thing about it that I like. 12 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:19,240 What? 13 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:21,920 Linda Lafcadio is out of the country. You can't pin this one on her. 14 00:01:21,960 --> 00:01:24,600 Yes, all right, all right. 15 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:27,920 Do you still claim she launched herself at Tom Dacre and stabbed him to death? 16 00:01:27,960 --> 00:01:30,720 I don't know. I don't even know why she went to Paris. 17 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:33,200 Well, she went to Paris to try and find out who did murder Tom. 18 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:35,480 Which you seem to have lost interest in. 19 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:37,280 And to find out who began stealing 20 00:01:37,320 --> 00:01:39,760 and buying up all his pictures as soon as he was dead. 21 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:43,440 Odd there's a glass 22 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:45,440 but no bottle. 23 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:48,360 Yes, I wondered about that. 24 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:53,600 Perhaps someone came back and took the bottle away. 25 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:57,680 And washed the glass. 26 00:01:58,280 --> 00:01:59,280 CAMPION: Mmm. 27 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:04,240 -He's late. -Who? 28 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:05,800 Potter, the husband. 29 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:07,640 POTTER: Well, that's another day over. 30 00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:10,920 Thank God for... 31 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:15,200 Oh, hello. 32 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:17,200 Excuse me. 33 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:21,480 Claire, we've got visitors. 34 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:23,120 Mr Potter. 35 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:25,160 Not yet. 36 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:28,440 Oh, dear. She must've... 37 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:30,520 You'd better sit down, Mr Potter. 38 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:49,040 What's that? 39 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:55,800 Oh! 40 00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:58,360 Yes, I knew it was going to happen. 41 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:00,960 I warned Belle only this morning. 42 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,000 You told her Mrs Potter was going to die? 43 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:04,120 What? 44 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:05,600 No, but... 45 00:03:05,640 --> 00:03:06,960 Some kind of disaster. 46 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:10,080 I have an overwhelming premonition, I still have. 47 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:11,480 Two deaths already. 48 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:14,560 Don't you find that sinister, Inspector? 49 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:17,120 Don't you believe these things always go in threes? 50 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:18,760 Thrice mine and thrice thine. 51 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:21,760 No, dear, the inspector doesn't believe that. 52 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:25,360 Won't help him at all if we all go around talking like something out of Macbeth. 53 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:26,920 Ah, Lisa. 54 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:28,400 How is Mr Potter? 55 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:29,720 The doctor's given him something, we've put him to bed. 56 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:31,240 -Oh, good. -You wanted me? 57 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:35,160 No, I did. Just a few questions, if you don't mind. 58 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:38,240 At the moment, it seems you were the last one in this household 59 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:40,360 to see Mrs Potter alive. 60 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:42,880 Yes. I saw her at about half past four. 61 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:45,240 Did she seem worried or upset? 62 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:47,320 No. 63 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:49,000 She was working hard as usual. 64 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:51,600 We chatted a bit. 65 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:54,720 I didn't stay for tea, because the telephone rang so I left her to it. 66 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:56,680 I see. 67 00:03:56,720 --> 00:03:58,920 And that was the last you saw of her? 68 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:01,400 Yes. 69 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:04,080 The next I heard about it was when Belle rushed in and said, 70 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:08,920 "Lisa, go down to the cottage, stand by the door and see that nobody goes in." 71 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:11,560 Then she went to telephone the doctor and I went down there. 72 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:15,560 You came back to the house to telephone? 73 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:18,480 I needed my glasses to look up the number. 74 00:04:18,520 --> 00:04:21,920 I rang the doctor, then Albert. 75 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:24,880 And while you were outside the door of the cottage, no one went inside? 76 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:27,640 No, I stayed there till you and the doctor came. 77 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:30,240 I see. Well, that's all for now, thank you. 78 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:35,440 Poor, poor Claire. Of all people. 79 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:38,280 Such a gentle, harmless soul. 80 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:40,840 Nothing was ever too much trouble for her. 81 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:46,000 There must be some malign force at work, something really evil. 82 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:49,400 -Who could want to murder Claire? -Oh, please. 83 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:51,800 -(MAN'S VOICE HEARD) -Oh, thank heavens, here's Max. 84 00:04:51,840 --> 00:04:55,040 Ah, the gentleman who confessed to murdering Dacre. 85 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:57,920 Is he going to give us a repeat performance, I wonder? 86 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:00,400 Belle, my dear, may I come in? 87 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:02,400 Terrible news, terrible. 88 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:05,440 Max, so good of you to come. I knew you would as soon you heard. 89 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:06,600 Beatrice. 90 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:08,560 How did you come to hear the news, Mr Fustian? 91 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:11,280 Why, Lisa told me. On the way upstairs. 92 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:13,320 It's quite a shock, as you would imagine. 93 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:16,920 I'm glad now I obeyed the impulse to come on here from Sayers. 94 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:18,480 -You must have had a presentiment. -Sayers? 95 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:19,680 That's an art gallery. 96 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:21,600 Private view of the Duchess of Swain's pastels. 97 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:24,400 Delicate things. Genuine feeling. Selling like hot cakes. 98 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:25,880 If you still want to see Potter, 99 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:28,120 his breathing's much better now that we've got him into bed. 100 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:29,400 Ah, is he willing to talk? 101 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:31,600 Oh, yes, he's rather keen to get it over. 102 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:33,920 Thinks he'll sleep better. Probably right. 103 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:36,040 (SIGHS) Thank you, Doctor. 104 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:39,920 Ah, this is a terrible business. 105 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:41,120 Indeed. 106 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:43,720 MAX FUSTIAN: Dreadful. 107 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:47,400 The suggestion that I killed my wife is ridiculous. 108 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:52,200 What put that idea into your head, Mr Potter? 109 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:56,840 Lisa's been telling me the sort of questions you've been asking. 110 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:01,600 She had no right to do that. 111 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:04,160 I'll pop back later. 112 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:14,760 I've been lying here, 113 00:06:15,840 --> 00:06:19,200 realising that I'm on my own now. 114 00:06:19,240 --> 00:06:21,760 I'm free to go anywhere I like. 115 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:23,520 And to do anything I like. 116 00:06:25,280 --> 00:06:26,880 And I wish I was dead. 117 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:30,560 Ask me what it is you want to know. 118 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:35,360 When you went out this morning, 119 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:38,040 -did your wife seem quite normal? -Ha. 120 00:06:38,840 --> 00:06:40,360 I suppose so. 121 00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:46,360 But you would have noticed if she had been worried or upset? 122 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:48,920 God, what a hell of a question, are you married? 123 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:53,520 We all get so wrapped up in ourselves. 124 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:57,080 To be honest, I wasn't paying much attention. 125 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:00,920 She seemed all right. 126 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:05,760 One thing that's puzzling is 127 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:09,560 the doctor's now convinced that she took something by mouth. 128 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:12,600 We found a glass on the draining board. 129 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:14,560 But somebody seems to have washed it. 130 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:18,520 Any idea who that might have been? 131 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:20,480 Yes. 132 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:22,280 Who? 133 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:25,160 Claire. She did it herself. 134 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:28,920 -Oh, why should she? -Cast iron habit. 135 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:32,600 I suppose she was afraid of the smell hanging around. 136 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:35,120 Same as hiding the bottles. 137 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:39,080 You don't mean she washed the glass between every drink? 138 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:43,360 You haven't got the picture yet, have you? 139 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:45,720 Now, listen, 140 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:49,280 mostly she never touched it. 141 00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:52,560 Except when something bad had happened. 142 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:55,120 Then she'd wait until she was on her own. 143 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:58,600 She wouldn't sit down and spin it out 144 00:07:58,640 --> 00:08:01,160 and enjoy it, oh, no. 145 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:04,760 No, she'd down the whole lot right away. 146 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:08,760 And she'd wash the glass, hide the bottles. 147 00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:12,040 In 10 minutes, she was out like a light. 148 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:16,600 -Where did she keep the bottles? -I don't know. 149 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:19,960 I don't know where she got them from, either. 150 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:22,960 I certainly don't know where she got the money from. 151 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:26,040 We're impossibly poor. 152 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:29,640 And what did she do with the empty bottles? 153 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:33,120 I used to hunt for them sometimes, 154 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:36,760 but I didn't find anything. 155 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:43,880 -That's really quite hard to believe. -Yes. 156 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:46,040 Well, I can't help that. 157 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:49,760 I can't help anything. 158 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:51,880 Look, I would like to be left alone. 159 00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:58,360 You're not giving me a sniff at this, are ya? 160 00:08:59,880 --> 00:09:02,040 All right. There's things you don't want found out. 161 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:06,120 Why, do you think I wielded the jewelled scissors and poisoned Mrs Potter? 162 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:07,480 You could be covering for somebody. 163 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:11,640 If I was, would you shop me, Lugg? 164 00:09:11,680 --> 00:09:13,960 You'd be out of a job if they put me in clink. 165 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:15,320 Job? 166 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:18,400 You said there'd be action. You call this a job? 167 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:21,520 Look, here, Lugg. 50 to one, the next caper will involve 168 00:09:21,560 --> 00:09:25,120 a whole hornet's nest of villains and thugs and you'll be invaluable. 169 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:27,960 But in this case, you'll just be a spanner in the works. 170 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:29,800 Nothing I can do about it. 171 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:33,240 You can get a move on it and solve it quick. 172 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:36,080 I'll go round a twist just messing about here. 173 00:09:57,360 --> 00:09:59,440 That's the report from forensic. 174 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:01,640 (EXHALES) 175 00:10:02,760 --> 00:10:07,800 14.98 milligrams of alkaloid nicotiana. 176 00:10:09,560 --> 00:10:11,240 Can't you trace that? 177 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:13,680 Doesn't sound like the sort of stuff you can go out and buy by the pint. 178 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:15,640 Anyone can buy a box of cigars. 179 00:10:15,680 --> 00:10:17,040 Ah, nicotine. 180 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:20,880 Is it really as easy as that? 181 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:22,640 Only if you know how to do it. 182 00:10:22,680 --> 00:10:25,400 But it seems we're up against somebody that knows plenty. 183 00:10:27,560 --> 00:10:30,160 Why can't they stick to arsenic? I could write a book about arsenic. 184 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:36,720 That stuff paralyses the respiratory system. 185 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:39,640 Which is why the doctor said asphyxia. 186 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:45,520 They also found alcohol in the body. 187 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:48,440 Hmm. 188 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:50,480 She must have had more than a glass full. 189 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:55,520 She got a bottle from somewhere, that's for sure. 190 00:10:55,560 --> 00:10:58,440 And somebody poisoned it. 191 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:02,120 And then came back and took the bottle away. 192 00:11:04,560 --> 00:11:06,640 Have you checked Potter's alibi? 193 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:09,720 Hmm? 194 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:12,840 Yes, he'd come straight from school. 195 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:14,360 We were there when he arrived. 196 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:17,240 No, he can't have disposed of it. 197 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:19,280 But somebody must have. 198 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:28,600 -Any luck? -Nothing so far, sir. 199 00:11:31,920 --> 00:11:35,080 So, that leaves us with Potter, 200 00:11:35,920 --> 00:11:39,120 Donna Beatrice, Lisa... 201 00:11:40,720 --> 00:11:41,840 Or Belle. 202 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:46,240 Or suicide. 203 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:48,640 Or Mr Fustian. 204 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:52,480 Fustian. 205 00:11:55,560 --> 00:11:57,000 He was miles away. 206 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:03,880 He's got an alibi. 207 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:07,160 Oh, yes. He was at Sayer's Art Gallery, rubbing shoulders 208 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:10,280 with a couple of hundred witnesses straight out of Who's Who. 209 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:12,120 And he couldn't wait to rush around here, 210 00:12:12,160 --> 00:12:14,840 still in his glad rags, and wave that alibi under our noses. 211 00:12:14,880 --> 00:12:18,080 And you can't wait, I'm sorry to say this, Albert, 212 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:22,880 you can't wait to put up any argument to direct my attention away from this house 213 00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:25,160 and these people, you're too close to them. 214 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:28,840 Anyway, I'm not looking for theories, I'm looking for facts. 215 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:32,160 Have you traced that phone call yet? 216 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:38,280 The one that came through here at half past four as Lisa was leaving. 217 00:12:38,320 --> 00:12:41,200 I've told HQ to try and trace it, there's not much hope. 218 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:47,200 Why, do you think somebody poured the poison down the phone? 219 00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:51,320 No, but how about this? 220 00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:54,560 We know from Potter if ever she had an upset or nasty shock, 221 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:56,040 she went straight for the whisky. 222 00:12:56,080 --> 00:12:59,320 Now, you can't use the phone to administer poison. 223 00:12:59,360 --> 00:13:02,400 But you could certainly use it to administer a nasty shock. 224 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:03,960 You can't use it to take a bottle away, though. 225 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:06,760 Oates, you are getting obsessed by that bottle! 226 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:08,200 (LISA CLEARING THROAT) 227 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:10,880 Oh. 228 00:13:10,920 --> 00:13:12,480 Hello, Lisa. 229 00:13:12,520 --> 00:13:14,880 Belle's asking if the inspector would like to come up to the house 230 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:16,200 for tea and biscuits. 231 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:17,840 Er, no, thank you. 232 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:19,080 Just a minute. 233 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:23,080 I want you to think very hard. 234 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:27,480 You remember after Mrs Lafcadio found the body, 235 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:31,520 she left you here and you waited outside. 236 00:13:31,560 --> 00:13:32,880 Yes. 237 00:13:32,920 --> 00:13:34,360 All the time? 238 00:13:34,400 --> 00:13:36,120 Yes. 239 00:13:36,160 --> 00:13:39,400 Are you quite sure that no one came in? 240 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:42,120 I told you, nobody came in. 241 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:43,880 (SIGHS) 242 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:49,080 Nobody even came near. 243 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:50,440 Except the boy. 244 00:13:51,560 --> 00:13:52,640 Boy? 245 00:13:54,160 --> 00:13:55,960 What boy? 246 00:13:58,080 --> 00:13:59,840 Now, 247 00:13:59,880 --> 00:14:02,800 if you want to make Detective Chief Inspector Oates very happy, 248 00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:04,760 and me too, 249 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:07,040 just tell us about the boy. 250 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:10,520 Well, he's just a lad who works for Max Fustian. 251 00:14:10,560 --> 00:14:16,920 He comes around every week with a sort of a box thing, about this size. 252 00:14:16,960 --> 00:14:20,400 It's work... It was work for Claire Potter. 253 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:24,360 When it was done, she'd put it ready for him just inside the door there. 254 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:27,440 He didn't come in, he'd just put his hand in and took it away. 255 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:29,000 Same as always. 256 00:14:30,560 --> 00:14:32,920 He just took it away. 257 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:34,600 Same as always. 258 00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:36,920 Right. 259 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:39,760 GREEN: See? 260 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:42,680 We got two like this. 261 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:47,440 I'd take one round to her, and the other one would be ready to bring away. 262 00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:52,080 -Who packed them? -Mr Fustian did. He was funny about that. 263 00:14:52,760 --> 00:14:54,840 They're very valuable. 264 00:14:54,880 --> 00:14:57,640 What size were the blocks? 265 00:14:57,680 --> 00:15:00,600 Well, I would say one would about fill this up. 266 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:04,000 Only not so wide. 267 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:06,640 About like this. 268 00:15:06,680 --> 00:15:09,240 Wouldn't it slide along? 269 00:15:09,280 --> 00:15:11,800 I expect he put something in it to stop it. 270 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:13,440 You never watched him pack it? 271 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:15,720 Oh, no, he wouldn't let me near it. 272 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:18,640 But he must have done, mustn't he? 273 00:15:18,680 --> 00:15:20,720 He must have put something in each side. 274 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:24,840 A scrupled up bit of paper or something like that? 275 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:27,360 Or something like that. 276 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:30,160 Thank you, Mr Green. 277 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:34,400 Oh, by the way, 278 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:37,160 did you leave one of those behind you the last time you called? 279 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:39,720 Oh, no, I just fetched the last one away. 280 00:15:39,760 --> 00:15:41,680 Mr Fustian said she'd finished the job. 281 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:53,560 -So, Fustian was paying her in kind. -Yeah. 282 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:57,120 Drink came in with the blocks, and the empties went out the same way. 283 00:15:57,160 --> 00:16:01,320 -Did you manage to trace the phone call she received? -Oh, yes! 284 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:03,240 Wasn't much help, though, because 285 00:16:03,280 --> 00:16:06,480 it was made from a public phone box in Clifford Street. 286 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:09,720 -Do you know Clifford Street? -Yes. 287 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:11,800 It's just around the corner from Sayer's Art Gallery. 288 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:13,240 Bang goes Fustian's alibi. 289 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:15,400 He was no more than 50 yards from that phone box. 290 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:18,960 Wait a minute. 291 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:22,840 Anything she drank at that time, she must have had for several days. 292 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:25,160 Well... 293 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:28,000 All right. We know she didn't drink every day. 294 00:16:28,040 --> 00:16:31,760 Fustian was waiting patiently to hear she'd mysteriously died. 295 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:35,440 Nothing happened, so he decided to hurry things up. 296 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:38,680 He rang her and told her something that put the fear of God into her. 297 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:43,600 -And he's got away with it. -What? 298 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:46,680 We haven't got enough to pull him in for questioning. We can only wait. 299 00:16:46,720 --> 00:16:48,320 Good God! What for? 300 00:16:48,360 --> 00:16:51,360 Well, he won't stop at this. They never do. 301 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:55,040 The question is, who's gonna annoy him next? 302 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:57,840 No. 303 00:16:57,880 --> 00:17:00,760 I won't let you take them out of the country. 304 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:04,040 Johnny left specific instructions about those 12 pictures. 305 00:17:04,080 --> 00:17:08,960 He wanted one unpacked and exhibited every year and people invited to see it. 306 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:11,640 I've done it for eight years, and I shall do it for the other four. 307 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:14,920 -You'll find that people won't be so eager to exhibit... -I don't care if nobody comes. 308 00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:17,360 I shall still do what he wanted. 309 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:22,880 -My dear Belle... -I am not your dear Belle. 310 00:17:22,920 --> 00:17:24,280 Let me explain again. 311 00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:26,320 I'm offering to do this at great personal inconvenience 312 00:17:26,360 --> 00:17:28,840 as a last tribute to Don Lafcadio. 313 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:32,920 If I take the pictures abroad now, I know that I can sell privately in Tokyo or New York 314 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:35,000 where they won't even have heard of the scandal. 315 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:37,400 Now, there aren't many painters I'd do it for. 316 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:41,920 Cos I was the one chiefly responsible for bringing his work to public attention, I... 317 00:17:41,960 --> 00:17:44,040 Well, I feel it's my duty. 318 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:46,760 -Do listen to him, Belle. -I'm not going to plead with you, Belle. 319 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:50,200 Bring the lawyers into it if you must. They'll encourage you. 320 00:17:50,240 --> 00:17:54,640 Nothing they like more than old ladies in their 70s with a taste of vexatious litigation. 321 00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:56,880 At your age, it's a well-known syndrome. 322 00:17:56,920 --> 00:17:59,760 Well, the courts will recognise it and sympathise, 323 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:01,640 but they won't take it seriously. 324 00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:03,520 On the other hand, the gutter press with have a field day. 325 00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:08,120 Mr Fustian, I shall overlook what you've said about me. 326 00:18:08,160 --> 00:18:11,160 You've always been a vain and bumptious little man. 327 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:13,080 And it must have come as a shock to find that, 328 00:18:13,120 --> 00:18:15,960 just for once, you can't have your own way. 329 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:20,360 But I shall find it much harder to forgive what you said about Johnny. 330 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:23,400 You brought his name before the public. I... 331 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:26,560 I've never heard such monstrous nonsense in my life. 332 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:29,240 You only hold the position you occupy now 333 00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:33,160 because you had the intelligence to cling to his coattails when he was alive 334 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:36,160 and make capital out of him when he was dead. 335 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:41,000 This is your last chance, Mrs Lafcadio. 336 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:44,440 Will you or will you not allow me to take the pictures abroad? 337 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:46,840 -No. -Nothing will make any difference? 338 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:49,200 Only my death. 339 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:52,120 When I'm dead, you can all do what you like. 340 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:06,880 -Yes? -(EXHALES) 341 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:09,400 We've come to see Albert. 342 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:12,440 Whom shall I say it is, madam? 343 00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:16,920 Oh, Lugg, don't be so silly. You know perfectly well I rang up yesterday. 344 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:24,840 Who is that? 345 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:27,680 Oh, that's the famous Lugg, sort of butler-cum-henchman, 346 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:30,120 and he thinks he's Albert's Dr Watson. 347 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:32,120 Come and sit down. 348 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:36,720 Miss Linda Lafcadio and Mr Matt D'Urfey. 349 00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:40,760 -Yes, thank you, Lugg. -Only doing me job. 350 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:44,400 Well, now... I didn't expect you back so soon. 351 00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:49,000 Well, as soon as I heard about Claire, I dropped everything. 352 00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:51,280 You're looking well. Paris has done you good. 353 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:55,360 We're beginning to get somewhere. That's what's doing me good. 354 00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:57,440 It was shock enough when Tommy got murdered, 355 00:19:57,480 --> 00:20:00,760 and 10 times worse when everyone seemed to think I'd done it. 356 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:05,360 And then when the pictures started vanishing, I wondered if I really was mad. 357 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:08,600 Do you know what is the most beautiful feeling in the whole world? 358 00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:10,520 Waking up in the morning and thinking, 359 00:20:10,560 --> 00:20:14,040 "I am not going off my head. I never was going off my head." 360 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:16,800 Uh, Linda. Are you gonna show him this? 361 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:18,880 Yes, Matt. 362 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:22,640 Matt is a great lad for getting down to essentials. 363 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:24,400 She found this in Paris. 364 00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:26,160 There's a man called Lepanon. 365 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:28,880 Keeps a filthy little cafe at Montparnasse. 366 00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:32,640 I knew Tommy used to take rooms there sometimes when he was hard up. 367 00:20:32,680 --> 00:20:34,960 He left this behind once in lieu of rent. 368 00:20:36,280 --> 00:20:38,360 -Well? -It looks familiar. 369 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:41,120 LINDA: Doesn't it just? It's a detail from my grandfather's picture. 370 00:20:41,160 --> 00:20:43,760 The soldier standing just behind Saint Joan. 371 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:46,200 CAMPION: Ah, yes. That's it. 372 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:49,440 You mean Dacre copied it? When? Why? 373 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:51,960 -Matt's got a theory. -Come and look. 374 00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:01,880 Lugg, wasn't there something you had to do in the kitchen? 375 00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:04,160 I can take a hint. 376 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:08,520 It's all I'm fit for nowadays, making tea. 377 00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:10,440 I'm sorry. You were saying? 378 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:15,080 -All right, you see that watermark? -Mm-hmm. 379 00:21:15,120 --> 00:21:17,320 Well, this paper is Whatman, fashion surface. 380 00:21:17,360 --> 00:21:20,280 And it wasn't manufactured till about seven years ago. 381 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:23,560 Lafcadio was dead by then, so he can't have drawn it. 382 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:27,760 -You mean Dacre copied it? -No, no, he can't have. 383 00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:29,680 You see, Saint Joan is supposed to be 384 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:33,560 one of the 12 Lafcadio pictures packed up and sealed before his death. 385 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:38,000 When Dacre was in Paris, it hadn't been unveiled. 386 00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:40,120 That isn't a copy of a painting. 387 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:42,640 It's a study for a painting. 388 00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:48,720 Are you trying to suggest that Tom Dacre painted the picture of Saint Joan? 389 00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:52,000 We're not suggesting. We're telling you. It's a fake. 390 00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:53,760 It fooled the experts. 391 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:55,800 Experts are only human, Mr Campion. 392 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:01,000 Was Dacre really a good enough painter to deceive everybody? 393 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:02,760 Yes, he was. 394 00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:04,800 Not many people realise it. 395 00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:09,280 That's why Max has been so busy getting hold of his paintings and destroying them. 396 00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:11,640 So no one ever will realise it. 397 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:12,720 You think it was Max? 398 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:15,960 Don't you? 399 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:17,760 I think when he took over Seagrave's gallery, 400 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:20,360 he couldn't keep his hands off Lafcadio's pictures. 401 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:22,480 -Well, that was the time he got so rich. -So suddenly. 402 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:26,280 I believe he opened them up and sold off three or four to private buyers on the quiet. 403 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:28,120 He never thought Belle would live so long. 404 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:32,040 If she died, he could have covered his tracks and told any tale he liked. 405 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:34,880 As it was, he knew he'd have to produce something to replace them, 406 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:36,680 so he hired Tom to forge them. 407 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:38,920 But why kill him? 408 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:41,400 Well, it must have been hard for Tom to hear his picture praised as a masterpiece 409 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:43,360 and not be able to take a bow. 410 00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:45,640 Well, perhaps he threatened to blow the gaff. 411 00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:48,000 Or paint some more Lafcadios on his own account. 412 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:51,480 LINDA: Albert. 413 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:54,400 Max had got to be stopped. 414 00:22:56,840 --> 00:22:59,400 Where is Williams? 415 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:01,320 Tell Easton I want the report on the Teller case. 416 00:23:01,360 --> 00:23:02,960 Well, find him! 417 00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:05,480 You were saying? 418 00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:08,320 You asked for evidence. That drawing is evidence. 419 00:23:08,360 --> 00:23:09,640 It proves nothing. 420 00:23:11,120 --> 00:23:13,400 It could have been an old sketch by Lafcadio... 421 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:18,080 -Lafcadio. -...copied from old paper onto new paper. 422 00:23:18,120 --> 00:23:20,280 Too circumstantial. 423 00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:22,200 And about time. 424 00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:25,240 Oates, will you or will you not give me three minutes' undivided attention? 425 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:27,040 Sorry. Yes. 426 00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:29,280 I'm telling you Max Fustian killed two people. 427 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:32,480 Look, we're watching him. The very next time he puts a foot wrong... 428 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:33,920 Or the next time somebody dies? 429 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:37,600 Look, Albert, I can't and I won't do anything 430 00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:40,560 until I've got a case that will stick. 431 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:44,040 Suppose you're right about Dacre, what about Claire Potter? 432 00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:47,000 -Well, we know how he did that. -Where's the motive? 433 00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:48,960 If Dacre was forging Lafcadio pictures, 434 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:52,200 he'd have had to go to her for Lafcadio red and a couple of other pigments. 435 00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:53,280 She knew too much. 436 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:55,800 Now, the 4:30 phone call, 437 00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:57,520 he could have told her the police were onto the fraud, 438 00:23:57,560 --> 00:23:59,040 that she'd be charged as an accessory. 439 00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:00,800 That would have driven her to the bottle. 440 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:09,000 -Now, will you arrest him? -No. 441 00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:10,920 Unless we've got hard evidence, 442 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:14,440 Fustian can hire first-class lawyers and make us look like fools. 443 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:18,720 What I will do, though, 444 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:21,760 I'll put a man onto Fustian full time. 445 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:24,200 All right? 446 00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:27,520 I wouldn't have said "all right" was the mot juste. 447 00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:30,400 What you're really asking for is one more corpse. 448 00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:34,320 -Albert. -What? 449 00:24:34,360 --> 00:24:35,520 Mind how you go. 450 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:39,200 Oates. 451 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:42,560 CAMPION: Lugg! 452 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:49,800 Lugg. I'm going to need your help. 453 00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:53,000 -That's nothing new. -Tom Dacre's widow. 454 00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:58,320 -What's she like? -You're about to find out. 455 00:24:58,360 --> 00:25:00,400 -She's coming to lunch tomorrow. -Here? 456 00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:04,280 You can, um, get the food up from the restaurant downstairs. 457 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:06,960 But I want to be sure of privacy and I want bags of style. 458 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,240 Lugg, she's a girl who takes umbrage if she's not treated right. 459 00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:13,800 I want you to pick her up in the car tomorrow at about half past 12. 460 00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:16,320 At her home, would that be? 461 00:25:16,360 --> 00:25:18,200 That's right. At her home. 462 00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:06,440 I'm looking for a lady called... 463 00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:11,800 (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE) 464 00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:17,840 I am Rosa. 465 00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:19,600 Where is the car? 466 00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:26,800 -More coffee? -No. 467 00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:29,000 But I'll have some more of that. 468 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:34,360 -So, go on. What happened next? -Wait till he's gone. 469 00:26:42,120 --> 00:26:46,200 Why you got a man like him? He's not a proper servant. 470 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:47,440 That right? 471 00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:50,280 I try to give satisfaction, madam. 472 00:26:57,520 --> 00:26:59,560 How do you recognise a proper servant? 473 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:01,600 Easy. You don't know he's there. 474 00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:05,680 You think, "Ah, it is two hands holding a tray." 475 00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:08,440 With him, you don't think that's a pair of hands. 476 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:11,160 You think there is another man in this room. 477 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:13,200 Quite true, 478 00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:17,520 but don't I think I could live with genuine 18-carat civility, it's too corrupting. 479 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:19,600 Che? 480 00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:23,400 -Not talking over her head. -Lugg, go away. 481 00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:25,760 Your cover is blown. You've been unmasked as a human being. 482 00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:27,720 Perhaps you ought to be flattered. 483 00:27:31,120 --> 00:27:33,720 You were saying that Dacre went to a cottage. 484 00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:36,040 -Was that with you? -No. No. 485 00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:40,120 Long time ago, he went there to paint a man called Hector. 486 00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:42,280 You know about him? 487 00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:45,680 -Hector who? -Old Greek soldier. 488 00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:47,840 Oh, that Hector. A classical picture. 489 00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:50,120 Si, those kinds with lots of people in. 490 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:53,720 He did four big ones, all different. 491 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:56,480 Ah, now I make you excited, eh? 492 00:27:57,480 --> 00:27:59,240 You look nice like that. 493 00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:02,840 I think maybe you got a too-quiet life. 494 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:05,960 Hmm. Uh, you don't happen to remember where the cottage was? 495 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:09,080 Remember? Remember? (SPEAKING ITALIAN) 496 00:28:09,120 --> 00:28:11,240 When Tommy was dead, they all told me, 497 00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:14,240 "Odd luck, missus. You got nothing coming. He never had nothing." 498 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:16,440 I said, "Balls! He had a cottage." 499 00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:18,760 -He owned it? -Eh? 500 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:22,320 He must have. He was there for weeks all on his own. 501 00:28:22,360 --> 00:28:23,880 He never paid rent. 502 00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:26,360 So I went to the railway. 503 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:30,040 I said, "Where is a place called... Eeronowee?" 504 00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:34,840 -Haronhowe. -Si, that's at Essex, right? 505 00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:39,160 I said, "Give me a ticket," and I went, and nothing there. 506 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:42,040 -No pictures? -No cottage. 507 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:45,680 Cows, fields, little titchy bunch of house and one pub. 508 00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:50,000 I asked people, "Where is the cottage called Pennystone belonging to a painter?" 509 00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:54,640 And guess what? They all swear he never been there. 510 00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:57,360 Why do they lie? 511 00:28:57,400 --> 00:29:00,960 Now then, somebody made his pictures vanish. 512 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,200 So, all right, clever trick. 513 00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:07,160 But somebody making the whole damn cottage vanish? 514 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:09,600 That's somebody in league with the devil. 515 00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:34,680 -It's around here somewhere. -So you keep saying. 516 00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:36,600 There are only two Haronhowes. 517 00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:38,520 Rosa drew a blank in the Essex one. 518 00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:40,200 It's got to be the Sussex one. 519 00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:42,400 Try the next on the left. 520 00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:22,720 -What are you expecting to find here? -I don't know. 521 00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:24,920 (SCOFFS) That's handy. 522 00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:35,600 LUGG: Nobody's been near this place in donkey's years. 523 00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:38,200 CAMPION: Oh, I don't know. 524 00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:40,400 Wouldn't you say this has been trodden on? 525 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:45,640 Anything could have done that. 526 00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:48,680 -Such as? -I don't know. 527 00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:52,880 A place like this, I daresay it's running alive with things as soon as it gets dark. 528 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:55,120 Foxes, ferrets. 529 00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:56,960 Rats and things. 530 00:30:57,480 --> 00:30:59,120 Badgers. 531 00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:01,240 Oh, I do like that. Straight out of Kenneth Grahame. 532 00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:05,360 Ratty and Mole and Badger, and wonderful Mr Toad. 533 00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:21,520 LUGG: This place is rubbish. It's falling down. 534 00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:23,800 CAMPION: This window's not fastened properly. 535 00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:25,520 Maybe I can get in. 536 00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:34,080 LUGG: Don't strain yourself. 537 00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:36,200 Door open around there. 538 00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:39,360 Thank you, Lugg. 539 00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:46,360 (HUMMING) 540 00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:48,160 Stinks, don't it? 541 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:50,640 Damp, that is. 542 00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:54,000 And mildew. 543 00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:12,520 Greatest crash in Wall Street's history. 544 00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:15,320 -That's going back a bit. -Six years. 545 00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:22,280 This stuff wasn't burned six years ago. 546 00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:24,320 It would've settled into dust. 547 00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:28,840 Lugg, come here. 548 00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:35,440 Is it my imagination, or is this warm? 549 00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:41,240 That's warmer back there. You feel it. 550 00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:43,240 No, no, I'll take your word for it. 551 00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:58,080 Eureka. 552 00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:05,000 -What is it? -It's a little piece of an oil painting. 553 00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:11,400 And unless I'm very much mistaken, the colour is the true Lafcadio red. 554 00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:12,800 Does that mean... 555 00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:30,200 My dear fellow! 556 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:34,240 But this is delightful! 557 00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:36,800 How very good of you to drop in! 558 00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:40,440 Sorry the place is so obscenely dirty and I'm afraid I can't offer you a drink, 559 00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:42,600 but at least there's a chair. 560 00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:45,640 Won't you sit down? 561 00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:48,560 Is this place yours? 562 00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:52,360 Such as it is, yes. A poor thing, but mine own. 563 00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:55,640 Actually, I believe that's a misquotation, but I've always been too lazy to look it up. 564 00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:58,800 Well, well, well, this is a surprise. 565 00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:02,080 Just happened to be passing, did you? 566 00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:04,200 Or perhaps you're on the lookout for a country cottage? 567 00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:07,400 You could put it like that. 568 00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:09,560 Well, I doubt whether this would suit you, dear boy. 569 00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:12,200 It's very remote and quite devastatingly unsanitary. 570 00:34:12,240 --> 00:34:14,880 So I bought it some years ago to lend out to artists, you know. 571 00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:17,600 Just put a painter in here, he'd get so bored, he'd work like a beaver. 572 00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:20,920 A studio in the back thrown in. Converted washhouse. 573 00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:22,680 There's a studio, is there? 574 00:34:22,720 --> 00:34:25,520 You'd like to look it over! By all means, peer into every nook and cranny. 575 00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:28,200 But you won't find anything. 576 00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:31,600 I've been having a grand clear-out. 577 00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:36,280 -Any particular reason? -Why, yes. 578 00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:39,640 I'm leaving the country soon. I may be gone some time. 579 00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:42,320 One prefers not to leave loose ends lying around. 580 00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:46,080 -I noticed you'd been destroying something. -Oh, everything, dear boy. 581 00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:49,320 All my sins. 582 00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:53,960 CAMPION: Can I give you a lift? 583 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:56,560 FUSTIAN: Most kind, but no, my car's back there around the corner. 584 00:34:57,880 --> 00:34:59,680 Well, it's been nice knowing you, Campion. 585 00:34:59,720 --> 00:35:02,040 This looks like the parting of the ways. 586 00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:05,040 Give my regards to Belle. 587 00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:07,760 Say I'll send her a postcard from New York. 588 00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:09,600 -Goodbye. -Bon voyage. 589 00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:12,400 Oh, and about the Dacre picture... 590 00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:15,160 Yes? 591 00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:17,480 You said you'd keep an eye open for me to find me one to replace it. 592 00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:20,960 No need now. I managed to get hold of a Dacre oil painting. 593 00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:22,480 Ah! 594 00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:24,960 Good. Good. 595 00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:30,240 -I didn't know you'd got hold of a... -Campion! 596 00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:34,280 It's just occurred to me. 597 00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:37,080 I'm not leaving right away. We could get together for a drink sometime next week. 598 00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:39,320 -What do you say? -Nothing I'd like better. 599 00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:40,960 Splendid. 600 00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:43,760 I'll give you a ring. 601 00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:10,840 FUSTIAN: Ah ha! 602 00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:13,080 My dear fellow. 603 00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:17,120 -Fustian. -Allow me. 604 00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:19,800 You're just in time to join us in a little celebration. 605 00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:21,920 Adrian Fielding, my publisher. 606 00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:23,920 Albert Campion. 607 00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:25,960 The Albert Campion. 608 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,000 -How do you do? -Mr Fielding. 609 00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:31,400 Now, Albert, you must join us in a little toast. 610 00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:37,640 Brandy and soda. So deliciously Edwardian. 611 00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:40,720 FUSTIAN: It's really a double celebration. CAMPION: Of what? 612 00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:44,840 FUSTIAN: Well, number one, 10 years ago, I took this place over. 613 00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:48,360 FIELDING: Best decision you ever made. FUSTIAN: I think so. 614 00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:52,200 To the Seagrave Gallery. 615 00:36:52,240 --> 00:36:54,000 The Seagrave Gallery. 616 00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:55,600 You know, Campion, this is one of the few callings 617 00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:57,840 where success goes to the man who was in it for love, 618 00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:00,560 for the sheer privilege of spending his life among truly beautiful objects. 619 00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:02,080 I mean, this for instance. 620 00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:04,960 Isn't it perfect? 621 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:06,600 Look at that detail! 622 00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:09,720 Or this... 623 00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:14,560 Ah, I shall hate parting with this one. 624 00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:17,920 And this, I take it, is your second cause for celebration. 625 00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:19,880 Ah, yes. 626 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:22,840 I hope you're satisfied. 627 00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:26,120 The wranglings we've had with this man over the cover design. 628 00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:29,680 Lafcadio, the man. 629 00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:34,200 Very nice. Oh, that reminds me, 630 00:37:34,240 --> 00:37:37,000 I came across an old photograph only last week. 631 00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:45,040 It was the only one taken of both of us together. 632 00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:47,080 That's me. That's Johnny. 633 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:50,360 A wonderful, wonderful artist. 634 00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:52,920 Johnny Lafcadio. 635 00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:54,760 FIELDING: Johnny Lafcadio. CAMPION: Johnny Lafcadio. 636 00:37:57,320 --> 00:37:59,680 And are you a collector, Mr Campion? 637 00:37:59,720 --> 00:38:02,040 Mr Campion has just acquired a new Tom Dacre. 638 00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:06,520 Really? Does one collect Tom Dacres? I hadn't realised. 639 00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:08,080 (CHUCKLING) Adrian takes rather a dim view. 640 00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:10,040 I tend to agree, the man was a second-rater, 641 00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:12,920 but I'll be fascinated to know how you got hold of it. 642 00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:15,280 You must tell me all about it over dinner. 643 00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:16,800 Where will that be? 644 00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:18,720 FUSTIAN: Oh, Saverini's. 645 00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:24,360 That's where everyone goes this season. Salute! 646 00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:27,200 MAITRE D': Won't you follow me, gentlemen? Your table is ready. 647 00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:32,560 I took the caution of leaving the choice of food up to our good maitre d'. 648 00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:36,800 Elizabeth! Hello. What have you done with Margo? 649 00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:40,840 -John. -Fustian. 650 00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:42,640 Thank you. 651 00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:48,400 Tonight, taste the Cantonetti. 652 00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:50,640 To appreciate it one must have the right things with it. 653 00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:52,200 What's the Cantonetti? 654 00:38:52,240 --> 00:38:55,640 My dear Campion, greatest gastronomic discovery of the age. 655 00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:58,400 The one wine our generation has given to the civilised world. 656 00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:02,480 Of course, they've known about it in Romania for generations, but it simply didn't travel. 657 00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:04,920 The aeroplane has changed all that. Joseph. 658 00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:08,560 Has the Cantonetti arrived? 659 00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:12,520 Quite safely, Mr Fustian, by Mr Saverini's private plane. 660 00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:14,080 Has it been kept at 65? 661 00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:17,080 Sixty-five degrees exactly. 662 00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:19,120 -Bring it now. -Very good, sir. 663 00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:23,280 You know, Campion, some people treat good food as a consolation prize 664 00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:25,080 when life is treating them badly. 665 00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:26,680 That is sacrilege. 666 00:39:26,720 --> 00:39:28,560 Should add the final touch of perfection to those days 667 00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:30,840 when nothing can possibly go wrong, don't you agree? 668 00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:35,360 I've been wondering why I've been selected to share this special occasion. 669 00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:37,720 There must have been likelier candidates. 670 00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:40,000 What a suspicious mind you have. 671 00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:42,200 I suppose it's an occupational hazard. 672 00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:45,280 So right, of course. 673 00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:47,680 Suspicious minds so often are. That's the depressing thing about them. 674 00:39:47,720 --> 00:39:49,640 Yes, Campion, I have brought you here in order to lull you 675 00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:52,000 into a mellow and receptive frame of mind. 676 00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:55,520 -To what end? -Ah, you'll enjoy this. One of the house specialties. 677 00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:00,320 Thank you. 678 00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:03,440 You were saying? 679 00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:06,960 -I'm very fond of Belle Lafcadio. -So am I. 680 00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:09,320 She's got the wrong end of the stick. 681 00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:12,280 What I am proposing will be best for her and for Johnny's reputation. 682 00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:17,600 Now, you're a reasonable man, open to persuasion, and she trusts you. 683 00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:19,240 So... 684 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:21,320 Ah ha! 685 00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:27,960 You are prepared for it, Mr Fustian? 686 00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:30,120 We've been in training all day. 687 00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:34,800 (DINERS CHATTERING IN THE BACKGROUND) 688 00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:13,200 To your health, my dear Campion. 689 00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:20,760 Your very good health. 690 00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:33,120 You're not supposed to sip the stuff. It's not Madera. 691 00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:35,560 Drink it like the divine draught it is. 692 00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:55,320 Now, let me raise the question of Lafcadio. 693 00:41:57,880 --> 00:41:58,960 Aah. 694 00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:00,520 Lafcadio. 695 00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:03,960 Oh, yes, of course, Lafcadio. 696 00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:05,640 It was on the... 697 00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:09,720 -It was on the... -Tip of your tongue? 698 00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:12,480 It was on the agenda. 699 00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:13,520 Oops! 700 00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:21,800 (DISTORTED LAUGHTER) 701 00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:33,160 (LAUGHING) 702 00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:41,480 Oh, God, I feel drunk! 703 00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:44,080 -Do you feel drunk? -Not in the least. 704 00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:46,880 Mmm. 705 00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:48,480 I must eat something. 706 00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:54,880 My biscuit appears to be soggy. 707 00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:56,440 Have another. 708 00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:14,880 Did he understand about the Cantonetti? 709 00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:17,160 Well, I certainly thought I'd made it perfectly clear. 710 00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:19,880 Well, he can't have taken you seriously, Mr Fustian. 711 00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:22,040 It's a wonderful wine, 712 00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:26,040 but it's essential to refrain from spirits of any kind for the preceding 12 hours. 713 00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:31,320 Even after one small drink, the strongest head can't stand it. 714 00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:33,840 -Excuse me. -Pardon me, sir. 715 00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:37,080 You were just saying something to him over there. 716 00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:39,000 -Mr Fustian, sir. -Right. 717 00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:43,320 Well, you can safely tell me. 718 00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:46,800 -Do you understand what I'm saying? -Yes, sir. 719 00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:49,880 I was simply reminding Mr Fustian that if the Cantonetti 720 00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:53,960 is taken in conjunction with spirits of any kind, even in small quantities, 721 00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:56,760 -the effect can be, to say the least... -Ha! 722 00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:01,400 (DISTORTED LAUGHTER) 723 00:44:30,840 --> 00:44:32,640 No, he didn't. 724 00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:34,640 I see it now! 725 00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:38,840 It's damn clever! 726 00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:46,080 FUSTIAN: I really must apologise for my friend's behaviour. 727 00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:49,440 Not at all, sir, but I do think, in the gentleman's own interest... 728 00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:51,520 Yes, yes, yes. 729 00:45:18,240 --> 00:45:20,600 (LAUGHTER ECHOING) 730 00:45:29,120 --> 00:45:31,360 (ECHOING) Have another drink. 731 00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:33,400 (ECHOING) To Cleopatra. 732 00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:35,080 Off we go. 733 00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:43,200 CAMPION: (ECHOING) What are we doing here? 734 00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:45,560 Come quickly, dear boy. 735 00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:51,840 (DISTORTED LAUGHTER) 736 00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:01,440 This way. 737 00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:11,000 Any sign of the train? 738 00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:16,160 -What? -Any sign of the train coming? 739 00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:21,480 Careful. 740 00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:32,440 No, can't see. 741 00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:35,040 Yes, you can. See if there's a light in the tunnel. 742 00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:50,320 (MOUTHING) 743 00:47:18,520 --> 00:47:19,520 (GROANS) 744 00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:32,440 -Still alive, then? -Only just. 745 00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:35,800 It is five minutes to one. 746 00:47:35,840 --> 00:47:39,520 -What happened? -You went out. To dinner. 747 00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:45,960 Oh, no. 748 00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:50,800 Seems to me, you made a public exhibition of yourself. 749 00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:54,120 I don't know. 750 00:47:54,160 --> 00:47:56,880 I can't take me eyes off you for 10 minutes without you getting into trouble. 751 00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:01,800 There's been a couple of phone calls. What'll I tell them? 752 00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:05,680 Mr Campion is otherwise engaged. 753 00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:10,320 Right. 754 00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:15,720 If you ever get nearer to death than you were last night, 755 00:48:15,760 --> 00:48:17,400 you'd be able to steal his scythe. 756 00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:19,120 Lucky for me, your chap was there. 757 00:48:19,160 --> 00:48:21,520 Lucky? Luck doesn't come into it. 758 00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:23,720 I told you, I was going to put a man to Fustian. 759 00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:26,760 He was right behind the pair of you all night. 760 00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:29,360 -It's all here in the report. -I can imagine. 761 00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:31,720 Makes a very good read. 762 00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:36,080 I'll show it to you one day. 763 00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:39,520 I don't think you're quite in the mood to appreciate it now. 764 00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:54,400 I intended to be so careful in that restaurant. I thought, 765 00:48:54,440 --> 00:48:57,880 as long as I don't take anything he doesn't take, I'll be all right. 766 00:48:57,920 --> 00:48:59,720 OATES: It was much subtler than poison. 767 00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:03,920 Nothing would have been found in your blood stream, only alcohol. 768 00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:07,240 And there were quite a few people about, prepared to witness 769 00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:11,520 that you had been reeling around London drunk as a lord. 770 00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:15,160 -Have you questioned him? -Yes. 771 00:49:16,600 --> 00:49:18,760 He volunteered to make a statement. 772 00:49:18,800 --> 00:49:21,440 Statement? What sort of statement? 773 00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:24,640 A long one. It took them all morning to get it done. 774 00:49:24,680 --> 00:49:29,120 Look here, Stanislaus, you're telling me he's confessed? 775 00:49:29,160 --> 00:49:32,520 He's gone over the edge, delusions of grandeur, megalomania. 776 00:49:32,560 --> 00:49:36,200 There's a lot of stuff in the confession about 15th century Rome. 777 00:49:36,240 --> 00:49:39,560 Either he thinks he's descended from Lorenzo de' Medici 778 00:49:39,600 --> 00:49:43,880 or he thinks he is Lorenzo de' Medici. It's all a lot of rubbish anyway. 779 00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:45,520 You sure he's not faking it? 780 00:49:45,560 --> 00:49:47,600 It's not my department, but the doctors don't think so. 781 00:49:47,640 --> 00:49:51,080 -What will happen now? -Asylum. Pentonville. 782 00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:54,880 Remanded till fit to plead. 783 00:49:54,920 --> 00:49:57,960 Which certainly won't be for a long, long time. 784 00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:00,800 Maybe never. 785 00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:07,480 -I wouldn't have wished that on him. -No, old boy. 786 00:50:07,520 --> 00:50:09,360 I didn't believe you would. 787 00:50:16,520 --> 00:50:19,280 Albert, I hear he's dead. 788 00:50:19,320 --> 00:50:23,000 Yes, bad business. 789 00:50:23,040 --> 00:50:24,440 He died in the infirmary. 790 00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:27,280 He was only there five days. 791 00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:30,400 I suppose no really sane person could have done those things. 792 00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:33,720 What had poor Tom done to him? 793 00:50:33,760 --> 00:50:36,520 The inspector hinted that Tom might have been blackmailing him, 794 00:50:36,560 --> 00:50:38,720 but he wouldn't have done that. 795 00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:40,920 According to Rosa, Tom was short of money. 796 00:50:40,960 --> 00:50:43,920 He talked of going to the cottage and painting some more pictures. 797 00:50:43,960 --> 00:50:47,760 If that meant more fake Lafcadios, Max would have thought it much too dangerous. 798 00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:50,960 And poor Claire. What had she ever done to offend him? 799 00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:54,200 Nothing. Only she'd guessed. 800 00:50:56,520 --> 00:50:58,840 He talked a lot about Claire in his confession. 801 00:51:03,760 --> 00:51:06,600 When he phoned her that day, he told her the police knew everything 802 00:51:06,640 --> 00:51:09,200 and that she would be charged as an accessory. 803 00:51:09,240 --> 00:51:11,440 He knew how much that would frighten her. 804 00:51:11,480 --> 00:51:12,920 Oh, Albert. 805 00:51:12,960 --> 00:51:18,160 The wickedness... Dreadful wickedness, oh, the waste. 806 00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:22,000 And all through that "Show Sunday" idea of Johnny's. 807 00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:26,040 Well, there won't be any more of those now. 808 00:51:26,080 --> 00:51:28,080 BEATRICE: He's very upset about that. 809 00:51:29,560 --> 00:51:31,560 He came to me last night. 810 00:51:31,600 --> 00:51:34,320 I could hear his voice so clearly. 811 00:51:34,360 --> 00:51:38,680 And you know, I could sense how much he enjoyed those occasions. 812 00:51:38,720 --> 00:51:43,920 He wanted me to know, he's truly, truly distressed they've come to an end. 813 00:51:43,960 --> 00:51:46,040 Is he, dear? 814 00:51:46,080 --> 00:51:49,800 Does he want me to invite people to come and admire the pictures ghosted by Tom Dacre? 815 00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:53,680 -Well, I... -If so, he's changed a lot since he died. 816 00:51:53,720 --> 00:51:57,280 Next time you're communing with him, tell him for me not to be such a goose. 817 00:52:00,600 --> 00:52:02,800 Do you know, 818 00:52:02,840 --> 00:52:06,480 I've always had the strangest feeling that Johnny couldn't have painted that picture. 819 00:52:08,880 --> 00:52:13,120 And last night, I suddenly realised what had been bothering me. 820 00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:14,880 What was it? 821 00:52:16,520 --> 00:52:19,320 I remember him talking to me about Saint Joan. 822 00:52:19,360 --> 00:52:23,440 Thirty-odd years ago. "Look, Belle," he said. 823 00:52:23,480 --> 00:52:27,160 "She spent most of her life hoeing and carrying pig swill. 824 00:52:27,200 --> 00:52:33,360 "Then a couple of years sleeping rough in army camps, then rotting in jail. 825 00:52:34,480 --> 00:52:36,400 "And she had the kind of mind 826 00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:41,120 "that thought nobody knew what God wanted, only she. 827 00:52:41,160 --> 00:52:42,880 "I'll lay 20 to one," he said. 828 00:52:42,920 --> 00:52:46,480 "That women must have had a face like Oliver Cromwell's" 829 00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:53,760 (THEME SONG PLAYING)