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So, to sum up, creative problem solving -

techniques that allow us to move forward as individuals, as teams, as an organisation.

Right. One last thing before we finish.

Could you stand up, please?

Right, you catch it, you come up with a different use for it,

if you get stuck use the checklist - don't censor.

Erm... cut the bottom off, attach four strings,

tie them to a silk canopy, hot air balloon. Great.

Sterilise, crush, melt and mince 100 bottles providing

fibrous polyester strands which we weave into a fleece.

I'm sorry my brain's gone blank.

Relax. Use the checklist.

You have an idea, Gerry.

I 'aven't.

If it's sexual, it's perfectly normal.

I'm sorry, sweetheart, nothing.

Don't block, Gerry.

I'm not. You have the answer.

I 'aven't. What are you holding? Eh?

Say it, Gerry. What?

What's in your hand?

It's a bottle for Christ's sake!

♪ It's all right it's ok

♪ it doesn't really matter if you're old and grey

♪ it's all right I say it's ok

♪ listen to what I say

♪ it's all right doing fine

♪ doesn't really matter if the sun don't shine

♪ it's all right I say it's ok

♪ we're getting to the end of the day... ♪

I'm flattered you asked me but you understand

it's taking a risk and I want to be sure you've thought about the consequences.

Absolutely. You don't want time to think about it?

I know what I want, Jack.

Always have.

Mobile rings sorry.

Oh, shit.

Hello.

'Where the hell are you, Jack?'

thanks. Take care. Bye-bye.

Goodbye.

Hello. Goodbye.

Aah. Sorry I'm late.

You're not just late, you missed the entire workshop.

Oh dear, what a pity... Now,

what d'you think...

..This is?

Crystallised narcotic?

You apply heat, it dissolves into a liquid,

allow that to evaporate leaving a powder ready for sale on the street.

No. It's an extremely rare uncut red diamond.

I didn't know you could get red diamonds.

Where did you get it from? Social worker, Elise Allen.

She recovered it from a peabody flat in 1982.

The tenant, John Newman, died leaving no traceable next of kin.

She was responsible for clearing his flat.

Did she know it was a diamond? Elise thought it was a crystal.

Go on, how much?

Astound me.

For insurance purposes, say...

£15 million.

What?!

Give it here.

£15 million for a lump of carbon.

For a piece of history. That diamond was around before the dinosaurs.

Here. Oh! Bloody hell.

A salute would suffice, guys.

Where's the diamond? It was stolen.

What?! Here it is.

In 1982, thieves broke into the poultry vaults in the city.

Poultry vaults, that rings a bell.

November 14th, 1982.

They forced open 12 safety deposit boxes.

Got away with millions. No-one was caught.

Who officially owns it?

Polestar insurance made a £7.5 million payout

to a gentleman in 1983, so officially it's theirs.

Furthermore, there were four smaller red diamonds, also uncut, also never found.

They were part of the same haul.

Who was John Newman and what was he doing with the stolen diamond?

That's a case for ucos.

John Newman was somehow connected with the poultry vaults robbery.

He may even have done it.

Nice pad. Yes, husband was a very successful architect.

He left her well cared for.

So she's single.

Widowed.

Elise.

Elise Allen, this is Gerry Stanley.

Lovely to meet you.

You too. Come in. Thank you.

John Newman was peeling potatoes in his flat.

He had a heart attack and died. Who found him?

A wpc broke in and found him dead.

Any signs of forced entry, foul play, injuries?

The coroner recorded natural causes.

He'd been on sickness benefit for two years.

How long before they found him? Not long.

The potato peelings blocked the sink.

It overflowed and flooded the flat below.

Presumably, if there's no next of kin a load of stuff must get binned.

90% of it - anything of value goes to the chancellor.

Unless, of course, it happens to be a £15 million red diamond.

I know I shouldn't have taken it,

but if I hadn't it would've been sitting at the bottom of a landfill.

Why did you take it?

I was upset.

The sum total of a man's life

sitting there in five bin bags waiting to be dumped.

Did you get any feeling for the man, socially, was he rich, poor?

He had half a dozen hand-made suits.

There were family photos, but none of his family or friends came forward.

What about the funeral? No-one turned up.

So when did you realise that the crystal was in fact a diamond?

When I retired I took a course in jewellery design.

The tools we used were the same as the ones in Newman's box.

I started to wonder about the crystal. There was a box?

That's John Newman.

There's another roll of film here.

These are jewellers' tools.

He made regular trips from London to antwerp and Geneva.

Sold the diamonds in antwerp, deposit the money in a Swiss bank account.

This airline ticket's for antwerp. December 7th, 1982.

Trip to sell the stolen diamond?

Hold on, problem.

This was also stamped in antwerp airport 14th November, 1982.

The day of the robbery, so Newman couldn't have stolen the diamond.

But was possibly connected to the person who did.

So we need to find out who the suspects were and establish a connection with Newman.

Maybe somebody on the peabody estate remembers him.

You and Gerry find out. Brian, you and I'll check through the old files... hang on.

..And see what we can come up with. I'd rather go with Jack - more interesting work.

Maybe the flying squad can take you out for lunch.

No, it's just I can't work him out.

Maybe if I got inside his home I might get inside his head.

Ok, fine, fine. Gerry and I will do the donkey work.

I see, I'm not creative enough...

Let's just get on with it, shall we, Gerry?

Yes, ma'am!

Fran hunter used to live underneath Newman,

moved into the flat when he died.

Why did she do that? For the view?

Miss hunter? We're from ucos, we phoned earlier.

Hello. We appreciate you allowing us to look at the flat.

It's nice to have visitors once in a while.

Oh, mezuzah! Say that again?

Mezuzah, it's a token that protects Jewish households.

I always wondered what that was.

Did you know John Newman?

He kept himself to himself.

Do you recognise either of these two?

Daughter and grandchild possibly?

Did you ever see him with other people, friends, family?

To be honest, I don't remember much about him.

I didn't hear a peep out of him until the night he died.

What happened? I remember because it was the night that Jr was shot,

and Dallas was just about to start and there was this shouting match going on up here.

I lived below mr Newman in those days.

Was it a violent row?

Was stuff being thrown? No.

In fact, by the time I got up here they had stopped and Dallas was just about to start, so I left it.

I went back in, watched Dallas, I was just about to get up

and the ceiling collapsed and half the thames landed on my head.

Now Dallas started at 8.30. How long for the sink to overflow?

10 minutes? That would leave 50 minutes.

The coroner put the time of death between 9 and 10.

I'd put it closer to 8.30.

That's how long it would take for the water to pool and flood.

That means he had his heart attack immediately after the shouting.

Or maybe because of it.

It was terrible really. I lived side by side with him all those years, the only thing I can tell you about

the man is that he always looked really smart and that he was Jewish.

You never said he was Jewish.

I assume he was. It was him who put up that muz... Mez...

Mezuzah... Mezuzah thing.

Gerry! Come here a minute.

Thanks, I'll hold.

Have you ever had a suit tailor-made?

Yes, I used to treat myself when I got married.

Do men talk to their tailors?

He's measuring your inside leg, of course you're going to talk to him.

So would you say that your tailor knew you?

I'd say he had the measure of me.

Ha, ha. Oh, look at this. You can't keep a good criminal down, can you?

Les spitz, the prime suspect for the poultry vaults diamond robbery.

East end boy made good or bad, depending how you look at it.

Do you know him? Know of him.

Persil white now - virtually establishment.

Jewellery trade. Why was he a suspect?

Well, he pulled a similar stunt a few years before.

I saw spitz once getting out of this bloody great white merc.

I thought, "this is a mug's game.

"I'm supposed to be the good guy and I'm driving a Ford Capri!"

Would you have swapped? Cars, definitely.

Hang on.

Yeah... ok.

Uh-hmm, uh-hmm... thank you, that's great.

John Newman's tailor, sid goldberg, still runs the family business

along with his daughter, Ruth goldberg, in savile row.

Now if Newman had half a dozen suits made, that's a lot of time to talk to your tailor, isn't it?

Good. Pin them up there.

And tell mr Freeman if he wants it ready for the opening

he has to come in for a fitting.

Speak.

Ah, yes, the chocolate leather and it has to be flexible.

Good.

Ah, where were we?

John Newman.

Take a good look.

No, still no.

He had half a dozen of your suits hanging in his wardrobe

when he died. So he must have been quite a good customer.

Average. Six suits - that's two winter weight, two summer,

one morning, one formal.

Ruth, I'm busy.

Excuse me, new bond street are still waiting for the black cashmere.

I need an invoice.

I'll find it, I'll find it. Ok, you deal with it, sid.

Does the name Leslie spitz mean anything to you?

I do not know Leslie spitz and I can't remember John Newman.

Sid's lying.

How d'you know? Woman's intuition.

You wouldn't have picked up on it.

If I've so little intuition, how come I'm the only one who's picked up on Jack and Elise?

What about Jack and Elise?

Haven't you noticed how many times he says her name?

He has a very bad case of mentionitis.

I've known Elise for 30 years.

She is professional, meticulous... I'm not saying she took the diamonds...

She came to me because she wanted it cleared up. Exactly!

We don't know if the diamonds were... Elise is not capable of...

I'm just bouncing ideas around, I'm not... hh-hmm.

How did you get on?

Neh. Sid goldberg doesn't remember a client John Newman.

I bet he remembers a client called Yosef neumann.

Forensics couldn't come up with a match for John Newman,

but Interpol came up with a perfect match for Yosef neumann -

a diamond cutter from Amsterdam.

Oil and diamond dust left an almost perfect print on the box.

Neumann was imprisoned in a concentration camp in 1943,

where he came into contact with the criminal underworld.

After the war, he became a small-time racketeer and diamond handler.

Sometime in the '50s, he came over to the UK

and changed his name to John Newman.

New birth certificate, new passport, the lot. So he laundered his old identity?

Who do you think you are, Rolf Harris?

It's a mind map. Symbols and pictures allow the brain

to connect with an idea on a deeper level than words.

Lists kill the creative process.

Come on, Elise, I'll buy you a drink.

I'm Sandra!

They laugh night, Brian.

Gerry, that was pathetic, mate. And shearer is in the box.

It's a goal! It's a goal!

They shout

horn blares

Oh, nearly... heh!

Play is a very important part of creativity.

Yeah, well, right now I'm more interested in crime. I've...

Just had neumann's film developed.

Yosef. The family. Elise assumed it was his daughter and granddaughter.

It looks like a wedding. Yeah, that's highgate synagogue.

Now let me enhance that.

Do you remember... Michael fagin?

Shinned up the drainpipe into her majesty's bedroom.

Sat on the bed and asked for a cigarette, didn't he?

7th June, 1982.

So we've got a date, a synagogue and a wedding party.

Whoever got married knew Yosef.

You see, you take those mental leaps and Jack's thorough.

Basically, I'm the only one in the team that's not creative.

Gerry, it takes a lot of creativity to be unfaithful

and you've been very successful at that.

Yeah. Yeah, you're right.

Eh-up! 7th June, 1982 was our friendly tailor's wedding.

Groom - Sidney goldberg.

Ha, best man - Yosef neumann.

Bridesmaid - Ruth neumann.

So Yosef knew Sidney goldberg and had a daughter or granddaughter.

Yeah.

Same age and name as sid's daughter.

Yeah. Ruth.

Yosef was sid goldberg's best man, and Ruth...

Ruth goldberg is Yosef neumann's daughter.

And the woman in the picture is her mother?

She died in 1981 of motor neurone disease.

They were never married, she was 28 years younger than Yosef.

So, why did sid lie?

My assistant tells me you've been asking about Ruth.

That's right, Ruth neumann.

Yes, um... I was...

..Protecting Ruth.

No, you were wasting police time.

She puts her father up there on a pedestal. He could do no wrong.

But he did. But he did good things too.

He was the best diamond cutter of his generation.

He taught war veterans to cut diamonds.

How long did he work with the veterans?

Three years. And then?

Then shramers - London diamond merchants.

They wanted a cutter to teach the apprentices.

When did he stop working for shramers?

1980. Why did he stop working in 1980?

His girlfriend was sick,

he was 58 and looking after a small child and he couldn't cope.

My wife and I looked after Ruth. Why you? Well, he was my cousin.

So what was Yosef doing while you were looking after Ruth?

He was getting ready for a new life.

He was taking Ruth back to Holland. When? Did he have a date?

November 27th, 1982.

Ruthie was so excited.

She sat there with her little case and her sandwiches

and she sat with her coat on just waiting for him,

but... he never came.

Because he died two days earlier.

Why didn't you come forward?

He was your cousin, best man, he trusted you with his daughter

and yet you didn't attend his funeral. I don't buy it, sid.

Yosef... he compartmentalised his life.

I was afraid that if he was investigated

the authorities would end up taking ruthie from me.

Why disrupt her life any more?

What did you know about his other life?

Well, in the camps he picked up ways of surviving.

He fenced things for favours.

And when he came out, well, he didn't change all those ways.

We're not judging him, we're trying to find out who he was working with.

Do you remember any names?

No.

Leslie spitz? You've already asked me about him. I'm asking you again.

About 40, at least, he would've been back then. Drove a white Mercedes.

Ah, I remember a white Mercedes.

Yosef wanted us to use it for the wedding,

but I wasn't going to drive to the synagogue in a German car.

Do you remember who owned the car? No idea, no.

Ok, thank you very much.

Oh, um...

Just a minute.

Yosef's apprentice, now his father had a white Mercedes.

I'll ring your pa and fix a fitting for your evening suit.

Excellent. Once again, thank you. Pleasure.

Is this about my father? What do you remember about him?

His hands were rough from the diamonds.

He smelled gorgeous. Always had mint imperials in his pocket.

It's not going to help you with your investigation, is it?

Did you meet any of his friends?

Do you remember the name Leslie spitz?

I was six when my father died.

My parents are just ghosts, I've no funny stories,

there's no family friends, no junk in the attic -

just one big blank.

What has sid told you about your father?

I know that dad dabbled in the black market after the war.

What if it turned out to be more than dabbling?

I'd prefer it if he were a war hero,

but if it turns out he was involved in the child slave trade, so be it.

At least, I'd know the truth.

I wonder if Yosef ever intended picking his daughter up?

What? November 27th? It's unlikely.

He had a return air ticket to antwerp for December 7th, didn't he?

Yes. Get them to check those dates.

And you're absolutely sure about those dates? Great.

Thank you very much.

You've made two old men very happy.

What you got? Right. Neumann worked for the diamond merchant, shramer.

Yeah. And his apprentice from 1979 until he left in 1980 was ray spitz.

Les spitz's son. Yes!

Coincidence? Oh, yes!

So what's spitz junior up to these days? Diamond dealer, bond street.

He's also a member of the diamond exchange. Must be good then.

We've established a connection, but how do we prove les spitz was behind this robbery?

We coax him out with the diamond.

I'd come out to play for £15 million, wouldn't you?

Especially if I still had the four little stones.

You get to spitz senior through spitz junior.

Gerry?

How creative are you feeling?

There you go, how's that then? Eh?

What? Agh! I can't...

Look if I'm going to town I've got to wear a tie.

Get with the times, dad. That's it, that's a lot better.

Oh no!

Belt. Eh?

Belt. Ooh!

That'll be perfect. Let's go see what the mums say.

Yeah, all right.

They laugh

a-hmm... ta-da!

There you go, girls, eat your heart out. Ha, ha, ha!

Oh, dear. Another woman, Gerry?

Or do you think a suit would be better for bond street, eh?

So she's quite a bit younger then?

If you must know...

My boss has asked me to marry her.

What?!

Don't ever do that again.

'Can I help you?'

yeah, we've come to see mr spitz.

Morning. Hello, um, Nick Logan and my fiancee Jackie driver. Georgina day.

Do you have an appointment with mr spitz?

No, but we have a diamond that we'd like valued

and we've been advised that he's the man to see.

Well, mr spitz is busy at the moment,

but perhaps if I took an initial look?

Sure, yeah.

We believe it's a red diamond.

It's certainly not a red diamond.

How can you be so sure?

Red diamonds are so rare, you just don't get them.

I've been in this business all my life and I've never...

I think I'd like mr spitz to have a second look.

Could I say who recommended you?

Mr fishgrund.

Right.

Mr fishgrund?

Yeah. Bob fishgrund.

The nag's head darts champion three years on the trot.

Oh, sorry, Brian, didn't mean to wake you.

I was incubating. Many creative insights

follow a period of incubation when the conscious mind is attending to other issues.

Diamond cuts.

Designers patent them the way you patent an invention -

the Parker brilliant, the peruti cut.

Oh, by the way, Elise's on her way over.

What now? Elise!

What a nice surprise.

I was just passing. I thought you might like to have...

Lunch.

Oh, thanks very much.

I'll get my coat.

The more the merrier.

This engagement lark's a load of old bollocks. It's just a test.

How many times have you failed that test, Gerry?

Three. And not once did any of them throw the ring back at me.

Nah, like I said, it's a no-return.

Ray spitz, I'm sorry to keep you.

I believe you have a stone you'd like me to look at.

Where did you get it?

I was owed a lot of money and the debt was paid off with the diamond.

So, no paperwork, no Gia certification?

I'm afraid not, no.

Is it a genuine red?

Well, I'd like to take it to the diamond exchange,

run a few further tests on it. No problem. We haven't got anything planned.

No, no, I'm afraid it's trade only. Ah.

But this is an exceptional case.

Let me see... See what I can do.

The diamond exchange.

The site holders buy lots or parcels at a fixed price from the central selling organisation.

The divided lots are then resold here on the exchange.

This whole industry runs on trust.

Everyone knows everyone. Most of them are family.

I think I'd want a bit more security than that.

The greatest security is secrecy.

It's a closed community.

A stranger here can only mean one of two things,

either I've disgraced myself and you've come to clear my desk

or... I've hit the jackpot.

So how did you get into the diamond trade, mr spitz?

Oh, ray, please. Oh, Nick and Jackie.

I was apprenticed to... John Newman.

He was one of the best cutters in the business,

until he lost his nerve.

What happened? In 1980 he had spent weeks

working out how to cut this really beautiful pink diamond.

He got it on the wheel, got his blade in and... Crack, it shattered.

He never worked again.

What business are you in, Nick?

Scrap metal, you know, tankers, oil rigs...

Anything big and metal we dismantle it.

How about you, Jackie?

I run creativity workshops.

Is Nick creative?

You should see what he can do with an empty coke bottle!

It's, um...

A genuine four carat red.

Ooh, hoo, hoo!

Do you have any idea of the value?

Cash value, no, no idea at all.

Well, name your price. £10 million upwards.

Wow! £10 million!

At least.

What will you do? Will you keep the stone? Or sell it?

I couldn't walk around with a £10 million rock on my finger, I'd be terrified.

So would I! Well, I can advise you on the cutting.

If you do decide to sell

my father could bring interested parties to the table.

Jack Alfred?

Bill Tyson - serious fraud. What can I do for you?

We've heard that you're investigating Leslie spitz.

He's a lead in the diamond robbery we're looking into.

Spitz is an ongoing investigation for serious fraud.

We know he's getting laundered money out of the country,

but we don't know how or where he's putting it. He burps

as long as the file on spitz's open we need you to go softly and run any plans by us.

I'll get the governor to give you a call. It's a waiting game.

He'll trip up eventually, they always do.

Stop the car, Gerry. What?

Stop the bloody car!

Sandra...

Listen, listen. Don't...

Police! Get out the car!

Oh dear, oh lord.

Our insurance company have provided their own security.

I tried to tell you.

You knew! Yes.

You bloody knew!

Seat belt, insurance.

So, I slam on the anchors, she's out the car like a shot,

she gets the geezer, bangs him up against the car, gets the ID card

then... Gerry brought you up to speed, has he?

Yes, I was just about to do that.

There's a window polished on the side of the stone,

which means that someone had considered cutting it before.

In 1980, Yosef shattered a very pricey pink diamond

along with his confidence, he never worked again.

Where would he have got the nerve from to cut a red stone?

Well, if he wasn't fit to cut it, maybe he was fencing it for spitz.

Or double crossing him.

Here. What?

Oh, thanks.

COD and crown? When did you go there?

Elise took me and Jack for lunch.

What's his secret, eh?

Elise is a different class, isn't she? She's gorgeous.

He's not interested. Well, or else he hasn't noticed.

Well, he's mad...

Or scared.

That happens sometimes after a dry spell.

It happened to me once when when I split up with Alison.

Birds throwing themselves at me.

Just didn't have the bottle.

Well, the sexual impulse is like a weed apparently -

it never really dies.

What never really dies?

We were just saying that after a dry spell

it's not easy to get back in the saddle. If it's sex you're after, there's plenty out there.

No, we're talking about you, Jack.

You're talking about me having sex? Lads, please.

We were just saying - Elise fancies you.

It's a professional relationship based on mutual respect.

You're too young to understand, Gerry.

I may not be the most creative person here, but I do know women and she fancies you.

She's widowed, the kids have moved away, she's lonely.

Anyway, you're missing the point. I'm married.

Yes, but...

Leslie spitz. You must be Jacqueline.

Yes. And I must offer you my congratulations.

Thank you, it is an incredible stone.

I was referring to the engagement. Leslie spitz. Nick Logan. Hello.

After you.

Family firm, is it? No, I've retired.

Do you have the stone? Hh-hmm.

Faceted cuts bring out the lustre,

the fire in the stone.

With a coloured stone like this,

you want to cut it to bring out the intensity.

How long will it take to cut?

If it takes more than seven weeks there's something wrong.

You're looking at a...

Step cut. This is basically a sunflower emerald.

With these steep facets, you see, you can keep the weight and the size.

Which is always good.

The dealer wants carat because that's pure profit,

but the cutter wants the best possible cut for the stone.

My son trained as a cutter.

The prima Donnas of the diamond trade, every stone is unique, another shot at perfection.

Whoever cuts this stone...

..It'll change their life.

I think a pendant setting would be absolutely spectacular

with the main stone falling about here.

All you need is four little red diamonds about a carat each to...

Frame it.

Leslie spitz was letting us know he had the other four diamonds.

How are we going to play this?

Let him make the first move.

Come to us.

Look at this - this card from Yosef's box.

It looks like Yosef was planning a sunflower emerald cut for the diamond,

which is exactly what spitz junior's suggesting. Poor old neumann.

He invents the perfect cut for the perfect stone and then, bang,

has a heart attack. What a bummer. Kismet.

It could have changed his life.

Spitz and son had a disagreement about whether to go

for the perfect cut or cash.

Maybe 20 odd years ago, spitz senior had the same argument with Yosef.

And maybe Yosef was planning to Nick the diamond from spitz

in order to fund his new life with Ruth.

Thank you for these.

It seems your father was involved, Ruth.

In what exactly?

Handling stolen diamonds.

One? A dozen? Shiploads?

One definitely, but there are still four small red diamonds missing.

Just one.

I was steeling myself for a lot worse.

One worth £15 million...

Right. So now I know.

It's almost a relief.

If these photos jog your memory, Ruth,

anything, doesn't matter how small or incidental, will you call me?

Sure.

Ok, thanks.

Mobile rings

Gerry...

8 o'clock! It doesn't give me much time to get ready. Where?

The Atlantic. I hope he's paying!

All right. Pick me up at 7.30.

Bye.

Hi, there. Hello.

Sorry to keep you waiting. Some champagne, dad?

I don't think I'll join you. I'll...

Je prends le poulet, s'il vous plait.

Well then, ray...

Why don't you take Jacqueline to see the paintings?

You'll enjoy them.

He's a young artist, but he's very good.

Thank you, but I'm perfectly happy to stay here. No, really...

Go and look at the paintings.

I didn't want to embarrass you in front of your, what is she your...?

Fiancee. Oh yes, you still want to play games, that's all right.

Eh?

In one house I opened a book and I found £500 inside.

Tell me you didn't take it?

Oh, yeah!

Of course not, Jack!

How is the investigation going?

I didn't invite you out to dinner to talk about work.

How would you cut the diamond?

I wouldn't, I'd get rid of it.

Have you ever heard of maslow's hierarchy of needs?

No. No, I haven't, no.

It's a pyramid.

At the bottom you've got the basic needs -

food, sex, somewhere to sleep.

You satisfy those needs and another need pops up - security, love.

In the middle you have esteem, knowledge, then creativity.

That's where my son is stuck. He'd be happy to cut that diamond for you.

But, you know, the really beautiful thing isn't a red stone.

It's cash.

Well, I'm not at all creative and I'd much rather have the cash.

But Jackie has set her heart on that pendant you described.

The only problem is...

..Where do we get the four little red diamonds?

Elise... you're a dear friend,

you're a beautiful woman, you're interesting, you're great company...

I would make any man proud.

You certainly would. Except you.

Mary was always the woman I loved, and always will be.

What is it you want? To do some business with you.

This business is based on trust, I don't trust you. I need more to go on.

Look, we both know that that diamond is dodgy.

And your point is?

I'd like to do a deal on the four reds.

You want to buy or you want to sell? Buy. You're making me an offer?

I haven't got them.

I didn't finish telling you about maslow's hierarchy.

At the top of the pyramid is self-actualisation,

when you've become everything you are capable of becoming. Yes?

I've done that.

Well, I'm very happy for you. Is there a punch line?

I don't need to deal in dodgy diamonds. Why would I do that?

Have I got "bloody idiot" burned into my forehead?

Do you know what I notice...

On top of the pyramid?

No.

The world is full of scum, like you, grubbing around at the base,

grabbing on to people like me and my family, trying to get a leg up.

It makes me sick.

Donnez-moi UN steak bleu et une salade verte et De chateau lafitte.

And you...

..You take your tart and your stinking diamond...

..And you stay away from my family. Hmm?

What a cock-up!

It's my fault. It wasn't your fault.

If I had been more creative, we could have had spitz.

No, it was my fault. I assumed he had the diamonds, he assumed we had them.

We all assumed he had the diamonds

and that he would want to buy the big one.

Would you stop trying to take the blame. I'm in charge, it's my call.

All right then.

It's your fault. Thanks.

Oh, shit!

What are you doing?

I want to get some cigarettes.

Oh, right. Goodnight, Gerry. Goodnight, see you in the morning.

Yeah.

Doorbell buzzes

Gerry! Oh, my god! Who did this?

Spitz's boys.

We'd better get you to hospital.

Look, you can't keep punching the living daylights out of villains

now that you're a granddad! I didn't.

It was the other way round. Grape?

Could you break one off for us, please?

And I do hope you haven't ruined that lovely suit.

You said you didn't like it. All: Who said that? It's lovely.

Where's that doctor?

You couldn't go and find him for us, could you? I've got to get out of here.

Are you all right?

Ok, thanks very much. Gerry's boss, aren't you?

Yes, are you Carol? You should be ashamed of yourself -

putting a man his age in that position.

Well, unfortunately, it goes with the job.

What if he'd been seriously injured?

Who's going to take care of his family then? How is he? Like you care!

He's just a stepping stone for you and your fancy career, isn't he?

Doesn't bother you that he's a father and grandfather.

He did pass the police fitness test.

Gerry? Fit? He can't even bend down and tie up his own shoelaces

cos his gut gets in the way.

He could do with losing a few pounds. And he was treated for gout at Christmas.

Please, make this stop. Excuse me.

You won't be happy until he's on his knees in the knacker's yard!

How are you feeling?

Girls, give us a minute, will you? We've got some work to talk about.

Lovely. Thank you.

See what I have to put up with?

Cor blimey, I don't remember it hurting this much before.

That's age dulling the memory.

Oh, thanks very much.

Strickland's closed down the case. Ha, ha, ha(!)

Oh, that really makes me feel good about being beaten up.

There's still a chance that serious fraud will trace spitz's Swiss bank account and get him out that way.

Listen, why don't we get Interpol

to look at neumann's Swiss bank account?

When was it last used?

1982.

What?

I bet you a tenner that that account is still active.

Oh, good thinking! Agh! Oh, sorry.

I'm really sorry. No, no...

Hey, sweetheart...

Ow!

It's all right, leave me alone!

So, option a - he was a double crossing thief and a fence.

Or option b - he was a brilliant diamond cutter who gave up his career to care for my mum...

We'll probably never know the truth.

..And who was planning a new life with his daughter.

Why didn't you bring this in sooner?

Doesn't that mean he was coming for me?

Well, without proof, we can never know for definite.

I can. I have proof.

The four missing red diamonds...

He hid them in his child's bracelet.

He risked his daughter's safety

just to smuggle those bloody diamonds out!

I don't think they were more important than his daughter.

They were his survival strategy. How do you mean?

In the camps, it was useful if you had something to pass on, and if it was useful, he wasn't killed.

So he'd been repeating that survival strategy ever since? Yes!

They've got him. How?

Yosef's bank account is still active. He, he!

Deposits and withdrawals have been traced to a property development in Spain owned by...

Lesley spitz!

We've got the bastard!

Yes!

Governor?

Back down at the bottom of the pyramid again, eh, les?

Still, prison will look after all your basic needs.

With grateful thanks from polestar insurance head office.

I just handed it to Jack.

They should have the cheque.

I'd very happily accept... But it's against police policy.

We were only doing our job, weren't we, Gerry?

You could always treat me to a fabulous meal.

But that would be a date, Jack. Friends go Dutch.

So the creative problem solving course worked then, did it?

Yeah. Scamper - substitute, combine, adapt, modify, put to another use, eliminate, reverse.

You twigged the Swiss bank account had been p'd - put to another use.

How does he remember all that stuff? I'm sorry but...

Oh, of course, the diamond. Brian has it in the safe.

It couldn't be in safer hands. He stuck to that diamond like a limpet.

What's the problem?

I can't remember the number.

♪ It's all right it's ok

♪ it doesn't really matter if you're old and grey

♪ it's all right I'd say it's ok

♪ listen to what I say

♪ it's all right doing fine

♪ it doesn't really matter if the sun don't shine

♪ it's all right I say it's ok

♪ we're getting to the end of the day

♪ high-tech low-tech take your pick

♪ cos you can't teach an old dog a brand new trick

♪ I don't care what anybody says... ♪