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ROCK BAND REHEARSING INSIDE

MUSIC CONTINUES UPSTAIRS

When are they going to stop making that awful noise?

My head feels like it's about to explode!

Why are you dressed as Rod Stewart?

Well, I thought I'd make a special effort

for our special guest.

He looks amazing! Hasn't changed at all.

Must have an incredible surgeon. MUSIC STOPS

"Effort".

Judith, today, the musical legend Dura

is starting to record his comeback album in our millhouse.

Do they not have recording studios nowadays?

Yes, of course.

But Dura wants to use our millhouse

because of the sonority of the stone,

a chamber that resonates on a frequency

that only Dura can create.

Twaddle. And where are you going with my nightie?

Dura wants to borrow it. It's a size six.

Well, nearer a four, actually. It'll never fit him.

He doesn't want to wear it!

He wants to stand on it.

He wants to stand on my Dior silk?

For the next track.

Why on Earth?

I'm not sure, but I know it would be mind blowing!

Oh, what utter claptrap.

And what does the old fossil think he's trying to achieve

with a comeback album anyway?

Nobody knew he went in the first place.

MUSIC STARTS AGAIN Oh, will someone please shut him up?

SHE GROANS

MUSIC CONTINUES

MUSIC STOPS

Erm... I got you that silk.

Erm, can I ask what you need it for?

It's the silkworms.

Part of their soul remains in the threads.

That's what creates the resonance.

The vision of enveloping my voice...

in the Mediterranean stone...

..is closer than ever. Oh.

Can I have a selfie?

CAMERA CLICKS

Thank you! Oh!

The key, please.

Oh! Oh, yes, yes, yes, of course.

You always lock yourself in, don't you.

It's important my process is not interrupted...

..or contaminated by any other human being. Hmm.

HE CHUCKLES NERVOUSLY

DOOR CLOSING, LOCKING

I gave him the nightie and he started channelling.

Thanks, Jez. This is Marco, our engineer.

Hey, Jez.

Jez owns this place.

Cool. Quite the gaff.

Cheers... dude.

Marco has been with Dura since the beginning.

It's so cool he's here for the comeback.

Oh, so you were responsible for the Butterfly Hair album?

Guilty as charged.

Oh, the vibraphone on that album, it changed my life!

All about the bounce.

QUIETLY:Uh-huh. Hmm.

Ready when you are. Good luck, mate.

Good luck, my darling.

'What is all this good luck?

'I am Dura, I am one.

'I don't need luck - I am luck.'

BELLS TOLL

VOCALS START

DRUMS BEGIN

# Oh, yeah... #

BELLS TOLL, DURA SCREAMS

Oh, my God!

SCREAMING CONTINUES

Come on, open the door! Come on!

Come on! Hurry up!

GRUNTING Come on!

Whatever is the matter, darling?

We need to get inside.

BANGING CONTINUES

GASPING Hurry up!

GASPING Oh, my darling!

Oh, my darling! Oh!

SHE SOBS

Robert De Niro once got into my cab when I was driving in New York.

Did you drive one of those big yellow cabs?

Sure did. So he gets in and he says,

"Hey, take me up the Guggenheim."

GIGGLES And I say,

"Are you talking to me?" SHE LAUGHS HYSTERICALLY

More drinks? Oh, go on, then.

All right.

What the 'eck's he doing here?

Hiya, Dad! Ah, there you are.

I went to the garage. Not like you to shut up shop early.

It's a Sunday?

Mm, then I thought, "I bet she's frolicking with that new fella."

You know, she's got a lot of making up to do in that department.

Ha-ha! I can't remember last time she had a boyfriend.

PIANO RIFF TEXT ALERT Oh, it's just me.

So where is he, then? The cowboy.

You know, you said his legs go on for... Dad!

Legs that go on for miles?

Hi, Trevor. I'm Cooper.

Great to meet you. Hey, you're right.

He has got a cowboy look about him, hasn't he.

SHE CHUCKLES

You all right? Uh...

There's been a murder. What?

That was Caron.

Some old rock star's been murdered up at the chateau.

Rock star!

What's a rock star doing at the chateau?

Recording a comeback album.

Somebody called, erm, Drury, or something.

You don't mean Dura, do you?

Yeah, that's the one. Oh, my God.

I'm, like... I'm a huge fan. Me, too.

I've never been the same since after Butterfly Hair.

So he's making a comeback album.

Well, he's not any more.

Erm... will you give me a lift to the chateau?

Yeah, yeah, of course, yeah. Oh. Can I come? Can I come?

Dad, for goodness sake!

Erm, I'm afraid we're gonna have to get off.

Yeah. This has been lovely.

See you, Trev.

And it's been lovely meeting you properly, Cooper.

You too.

And, Dom, you're a really great guy. Thanks.

SHE MOUTHS:Thank you.

Dura. Now, that takes me back.

Now, talking of rock stars, Cooper, answer me this...

Elvis - alive or dead?

What?

Jean.

Oh! Hello, love. You all right?

Oui. Hello.

I have something to tell you. I hope you can forgive me.

I went to see Simone.

Oh, it was like a weight was lifted from my shoulders.

Well done.

Jean, she was so adorable.

So interested in the shop,

always asking if we have a good enough alarm system

so I would be safe.

SHE SIGHS She seems so different.

I, however... SHE MUMBLES IN FRENCH

Sorry?Er, it means when you leave a conversation

and you think of all the things you should've said.

Tres bien. Merci beaucoup.

Look, love, erm, I've got to be somewhere,

but I'll pop by later and we can talk it through?

Thanks, Jean.

How did your visit with Charlie go?

Is she still madly in love with you?

Oui. Ha! I told you she would be.

Did you get any information?

Well, her Jean's shop is going really well.

So how do I get in there?

I know she's had an alarm fitted.

She always uses her date of birth. The code.

Unless she's changed the habit of a lifetime.

Some people are so stupid.

What are you planning to do?

Have you seen the film Misery?

Yes.

Well, in the film, she breaks his feet.

But in the book, she cuts his foot off.

And?

Well, both of these things are terrific ideas,

but one of them has a lasting effect.

All I'm saying is, that whatever I do to Jean

will leave its mark, forever.

Oh, Dominic, it's absolutely dreadful!

Thank you for coming, Gina.

This year's Dura's wife, Mandarina.

And the man? That's the sound engineer, Marco.

So what happened?

It looks like he died from a severe head injury.

It appears that his head was bashed repeatedly against the studio.

Studio?

Jeremy has converted the stone millhouse into a temporary studio.

Oh.

But the strange thing is, Dura locked himself in.

Now, the reason I called you is this.

This symbol was drawn on the side of his head.

Oh, that looks like a symbol of a snake to me.

Snake? Yeah.

The snake can symbolise loads of things,

erm, fertility to the Hopi tribes in North America,

erm, compassion to some Abrahamic traditions, yeah.

So, where was everyone else?

In the sound van.

They heard him screaming over the playback.

That's awful.

OK...

So we've got a man who's had his head bashed against a wall,

erm, a symbol of a snake drawn on his face,

and it all happened in a locked room.

Right. Can I, erm... Can I keep this?

Of course. Right.

I met him donkeys years ago...

Oh, he'd never remember - we were utterly smashed!

Brilliant.

I couldn't believe it when his wife Mandarina

phoned out of the blue

and asked if they could use the chateau millhouse.

Mm.

I met him years ago at a little low key gig in Soho.

Next thing I know, I'm backstage.

And he says to me,

"Hey, man, we ought to do a gig together sometime soon."

Erm...

Oh, well, he thought I was Brian Jones from The Rolling Stones.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, I can see that. Yeah.

Did you put him right? Absolutely not.

He handed me a guitar and we had a jam.

Diddle-ling!

This is Jean, my colleague.

A few more questions.

How long have you worked with Monsieur Duran?

There is no monsieur,

it is just Dura.

One name, one Dura.

"As one, we can be one."

Pardonnez-moi.

40 years, on and off.

I worked with him on his very first album...

..and now?

Life is so unfair, isn't it?

It really is.

You've only just reconnected and now he's dead.

I know, darling,

but we must find the positive and do his memory justice.

That chateau millhouse

will become a destination for all Dura devotees.

That's right.

Our very own Graceland! How exciting!

Forgive me for asking the next question,

but do you know anyone who would want to kill Monsieur...

ah, Dura?

Erm, what brought you here?

A three record deal.

He chose San Victoire

because of the sonority of the Mediterranean stone.

When the rhythm of the dance changes,

the sound it produces also changes.

Each atom perpetually sings its song.

An Alexandra David-Neel quote.

You've heard of her? Yes.

The first European woman to enter Lhasa, Tibet,

when it was closed to the rest of the world.

I, erm, sourced a first edition of one of her books

for a client once. She was quite the trailblazer.

That's what Dura used to call Chloe.

Sorry. Who's Chloe?

Chloe is our saviour.

She works for the record company

that offered Dura the three album comeback deal.

It took a bit of persuading because he was such a recluse,

but once Dura had found his concept, he was really excited.

What am I gonna do?

How long do you think he was planning to stay?

What?

Well, Dura is legendary for his long studio sessions.

He once spent three weeks recording a triangle.

Oh, wow.

You know, when I first hear Dura,

the way he used his Tamerlane just blew my mind.

I thought his wife was called Mandarina.

No, no, no.

This is the Tamerlane speaker.

The Doppler effect on that is mind blowing.

Pardon?

Well, you know how the sound of a train whistle

goes down in pitch as it passes by?

Yeah.

That's the Doppler effect.

A combined amplifier and loudspeaker.

Mm. So why is it so mind blowing?

It made the notes make sounds that no-one had ever heard before.

Oh.

I can't believe I'm actually in the same room

as some of the equipment that produced a sonic serpent.

I mean, that is the actual Tamerlane speaker

that is on that album cover.

And I've just touched it.

Just touched it again!

The lock is intact.

Yeah. No-one's getting through these walls.

So how do they get in? C'est impossible.

Are you actually crying?

HE SCOFFS No!

What you talking about?

There is a bell, you know.

Hello. I think you need to get your bell fixed.

The bell does work, actually.

DOORBELL RINGS

How can I help you?

I'm here to see Mandarina.

Oh, Chloe. Thank God you're here.

Oh, it's so good to meet you in the flesh.

Judith, Jeremy, this is Chloe from the record company.

She commissioned our album deal.

How are you doing? I'm OK.

When did you get here? I landed an hour ago.

I'm so sorry for your loss.

I was just really looking forward

to being part of the artistic process.

Our FaceTime communications

played an integral part in the preparations. Yes.

It's just a shame Dura could never join us.

Well, you know what he was like about technology.

Look, there's no easy way to say this.

There's bad news from the record company.

We'll be calling in our investment in the next 24 hours.

What? MARCO:Are you actually serious?

He's not even cold,

and you're already talking money?

As Dura is unable to fulfil his commitments,

we have no choice but to call in our investment.

How could he fulfil his investment?!

He is dead!

Money needs to be in the account today.

I'm afraid business is business.

He said that you were his trailblazer.

That you gave him a reason to create again.

How can you be so cold?

Like I said...

business is business.

It's like I don't recognise your face.

Oh, the irony!

The Masks We Have.

WHISPERS: Dura's third album. What?

The Masks We Have.

Recorded the whole thing in a public lavatory in Hyde Park.

Eurgh, that's disgusting. Yeah.

I'll give you 24 hours, then I'll be calling our lawyers.

I think you'd better leave.

Oh! Hang on, lady...

you are going out of the tradesmen's entrance.

That way.

MOBILE RINGS

John. I've sorted it.

The money will be in your account tomorrow.

I'll pay you well for your silence.

Please, John, we have worked together for years.

Please don't tell them.

Erm, Judith...

..who was that woman?

Oh, she's from Dura's record company.

Frightful woman. Only just got off the plane

and she's demanding their advance back.

I had to physically remove her. Oh.

Gin and tonic? Oh, er, no, thanks.

We'll be off now. Oh, shame!

DURA'S MUSIC PLAYS

Open your eyes.

Well?

Yeah. Yeah, it was good.

Did you feel it?

Er...

The journey of the bell, did you feel it?

Er... I-I'm not sure.

That's... That's why the album's called Journey Of The Bells.

Really? Yeah.

The resonance of the bell

travels continuously throughout the album...

..and through you.

So, what happens when you turn the record over?

Well, that's where Dura was a maverick.

He thought of everything

to do with every musical journey ever created.

The album came with a free bell,

which you rang when you turned the record over.

I lost the clapper years ago at a house party in Leicester.

Go on, then, play us another one. Yeah?

All right, er...

Oh, now, now, now, this is one of his absolute best.

Dura was the first artist

to use the lithophone in a non-percussive way.

The lithophone? Like a xylophone? Yeah, yeah.

But with rocks.

He used water to strike the rocks

and created notes and sounds that no-one had ever heard before.

Cor, he's a good looking fella, wasn't he?

Look at them eyes. Oh, he was so beautiful.

Mm. That's interesting...

His tattoo. It's the chakana.

Considered to be the most holy sign of the Inca culture.

It represents the tree of life

and, er, the four realms of the world.

Hang on...

This symbol was drawn on Dura's face when he died.

It's all about the Incas.

Right.

The chakana, and now the snake.

No, I'm not with you.

Well, the snake, in Inca symbolism,

it means the passage to the underworld.

That's really interesting.

Mandarina got snake tattoo when they got married.

SHE GASPS No, no. No, it can't have been her.

Yeah.

And they would have made loads with a comeback.

And the record company was set to make a killing, too.

Yes. You might wanna rephrase that.

But then Chloe did want her money back sharpish, didn't she?

And then there's a phone call. What phone call?

I overheard her talking to someone saying,

"Don't tell anybody, and I'll put the money back in your account."

Sounded like blackmail to me. Really?

But how could she have murdered Dura?

She came straight from the airport. Hmm.

And how did she get through a locked door,

bash his head, and draw a squiggle on his face?

None of it makes any sense, does it?

Nothing about this case makes any sense,

but that's all we've got to go on.

I think we need to find out a little bit more

about this Chloe character. Hmm. Hey...

the first track on this album is called Keep My Eye On You.

Well, that's very appropriate.

This one is 28 minutes long,

and in the middle, it goes backwards.

Oh, fantastic.

ROCK INTRO PLAYS

VOCALS START

DRUMS BEGIN

Is that really necessary?

Yeah, you're right, I should've cut eye holes in it, shouldn't I.

Dom, she's never even seen us.

Oh, wait, what's going on here?

Stop it! You're supposed to be incognito.

Hey, they're a great band, them.

Bonjour. Avez-vous un menu? Oui. Bien su.

I first met Dura at a little low profile gig in Soho.

So, is all Dura's stuff still up at your millhouse?

Dad, stop sniffing for merchandise. He's not even cold.

Yes, we're thinking of making it into a shrine, like Graceland.

Do you know, they've never changed a thing

in the bathroom where Elvis died.

Even left his haemorrhoid cream in place.

Eurgh, that's awful.

How do you know that?

Mate of mine, worked in the gift shop.

Hey, is there any chance I could come and have a look round?

I'm a big fan.

Well, his wife is still in the chateau,

so I suppose there's no harm in asking.

Maybe give it a couple of days, 'ey, Dad.

As I was saying, after the gig,

Dura thought I was Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones.

You sit down, I'll get the drinks in.All right.

The money will be in your account tonight.

Don't get aggressive.

Dura's death has cleaned everything up.

MUMBLING:I recorded it.

I can't understand you.

GRITTED TEETH:I recorded it.

I'll be back in a minute.

Charlie, erm, the peridot earrings

I bought at auction a couple of weeks ago,

have we sold them?

Uh... Ah, oui. I sold them last week.

The woman kept going on about how peridot can combat stress.

To be honest, pfft, I glazed over.

Can you remember which day last week?

Uh... Pfft, je ne sais pas.

Well, have you got the customer details?

Ah! Oui. She wanted a written receipt.

Mm. Voila.

Thank you.

LAUGHTER

Sorry, there's somebody sitting there.

You've got to hear this, Dom. Go on, Trev.

I once sold some actual grass off Jerry Lee Lewis' grave.

What, grass, grass? Oh, aye. Proper turf.

I once went to a "green party" in Chelsea back in the day.

I ended up naked in a giant fish tank!

No!

Thank God for an age before camera phones.

That sounds amazing.

Golden days, Dominic, golden days.

Yeah, I bet.

My God, Dura looked amazing for his age.

Sort of Peter Pan of rock.

Hmm. Well, he did always say he wanted to die before he got old.

You know, I've got the last picture of him alive.

No way. Mm, I was, ah, helping, ah,

with the album, you know.

Come on, let's see it, then.

No, really? It's a bit grim, innit, guys?

No, he wouldn't mind, would he.

Here we go.

Oh, wow. He looks great.

That's not Dura. That's not...

Who is that, then, Cliff Richard? Course it's Dura,

it was taken yesterday just before he was killed.

Listen, I sold loads of his merchandise back in the day.

And unless plastic surgery can make your forehead smaller...

Then again, how many of these have I had?

JEAN: 'Dom!'

Where have you been? I have got a recording of her saying

Dura's death has cleaned everything up.

Have you? Well done, Dom.

All right, don't sound so surprised. No, no, it's great.

And she was lying about arriving yesterday.

See those earrings she's wearing?

She bought them from my shop last week.

I think you need to call Caron. Yeah.

Send me that recording, Colombo.

Am I under arrest?

You are by no means under arrest.

Thank you for coming in.

We just need to clarify your whereabouts

at the time of Dura's death.

You told everyone that you flew in on the morning of the murder.

And? I like your earrings.

Peridot stones.

The ancient Egyptians believed

they would protect them from night terrors.

Also known very well for their healing qualities. Hmm.

And you bought them from my shop last week.

May I? Yes, sure.

RECORDING:'The money will be in your account tonight.

'Don't get aggressive,

'Dura's death has cleaned everything up.'

DOM:'I recorded it.' JEAN: 'I can't understand you.'

SHE TURNS IT OFF

Can you elaborate?

It would be easier for you if you told the truth, Chloe.

Look, I'm a woman at a record company.

For years, men had leapfrogged me into better positions.

I was still scrabbling around in pubs, looking for major talent,

finding it, and having it taken away from me.

I was always such a fan of Dura,

and I worked out that a comeback would make millions.

But because he's been such a recluse and no-one had seen him for years,

no-one would trust me with a budget.

Go on.

So I made contact with Mandarina...

..and we came up with a deal.

I was so looking forward to meeting Dura in the flesh.

What, you signed him up to the record company

without even meeting him?

It all adds to the mystery.

Besides, everyone knew Mandarina deals with the business.

So how did you afford the deal?

I borrowed the money from the record company's accounts.

Illegally. Of course, illegally.

I was going to pay it back before the next financial year.

No-one would have known it was gone.

Dura would have gone into profit.

And I'd be able to prove to those pig-headed misogynists

that I was the best that they had.

So what happened?

Colleague found out and started blackmailing me.

I came out last week to tell Mandarina and Dura,

but when I turned up

they weren't at the studio that I'd booked,

so I rang the sound engineer to find out what was going on

and he told me Mandarina had cancelled him.

Hang on...

I thought Marco was Dura's regular sound engineer.

I'm sorry, I don't know who you're talking about.

I finally found out they're at the chateau,

when Mandarina called me to tell me what happened.

But I didn't kill him.

I'm a record company exec.

Not a murderer.

TEXT ALERT

Mon Dieu.

What?

The autopsy report has shown

that he did not die from the head injury.

He had the most horrible death, Jean.

What?

His lungs exploded.

Oh!

DOG BARKS Douglas, no! No!

DOG BARKS

Humans can't hear it.

It used to belong to Barbara Woodhouse.

Dom, could you give me a lift to the chateau, please.

Hi, guys. How's it hangin'?

The Js are sunbathing out back, if you want to join?

Er, we're here to take a look at the studio, actually.

I think I might have dropped something.Sure. Go through.

I never know where to look with an unbuttoned shirt.

Trevor was well-oiled earlier.

You know that selfie that Jeremy says is the last photo of Dura?

Well, Trevor says, "That's not Dura."

I said, "Who is it, then, Cliff Richard?"

He's having none of it, battered.

Dom... This isn't the same speaker.

What do you mean? It's not walnut.

'Ey?

I have sold too many pieces of 18th century furniture

to know this is not walnut grain.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, what are you doing?

Trust me. Jean...

CYMBALS CLATTER

Jean, that speaker has produced

some of the most influential music ever written.

Dom. Dom...

This is not the same speaker as the one on your album cover.

Trust me.

Ah! Exactly as I thought.

False cover.

I don't understand. I take it that's not supposed to be there?

No. That is a brand new subwoofer, that's not supposed to be there.

It was the dog whistle that gave me the idea,

but I'm not sure.

I need to speak to someone who knows what they're talking about.

You know an expert in dog whistles.

No. Professor Thomas. Who's that?

She's an expert in military warfare. Loves her Air Medal.

Oh, thank you so much for sparing me your time, Professor Thomas.

'Not at all. Good to hear from you.' Oh!

'Call me Penny.'

Well, this might sound like an odd question, Penny...

..but can sound kill?

'Now, that is a fascinating subject, Jean.'

Sound. Dura was killed with sound.

What?

In an enclosed space, a certain sound frequency,

well, can kill a human.

Right. When we were listening to your records,

you said the resonance of the bells travels through you continuously.

Yeah. Right.

And when Trevor blew the dog whistle for Douglas,

no-one else could hear it.

And that gave me the idea. What idea?

That's why I called Professor Thomas.

Part of her studies are on sonic warfare.

Oh, my God.

Well, we know that Dura didn't die from the bash on his head.

He died from his lungs exploding.

And that was done with a huge sound wave.

He must have hit his head on the way down to the floor.

Of course!

Who you could get inside a locked room.

No-one, because no-one did.

SHE EXHALES SHARPLY

Dom, what did Trevor say about Dura not being Dura?

Well, when he saw the selfie of Jeremy and Dura, he said,

"Unless he's had plastic surgery." Oh, my God.

SHE GASPS Come on.

The police again.

I thought they'd finished all their forensics.

I wonder what's going on?

CHUCKLING Oh, yes!

And he thought I was Brian Jones from the Rolling Stones!

My colleague would like to ask you a few questions.

Some things are just not adding up for me.

So, Marco,

How long have you worked with Dura?

Donkey's years.

I did his first album.

It's funny that, because, erm, when we interviewed Chloe,

she had absolutely no idea who you were.

Is there anything you'd like to say?

No?

Marco, we have evidence

that it was you who murdered Dura.

Ridiculous. I was in the van!

Which is exactly where you needed to be

if you were gonna kill him with sound.

What?! Sorry?!

The Tamerlane speaker had been replaced,

and inside the casing, I found a powerful subwoofer

where the rotary system should be.

And that was big enough to kill any man.

How can you kill someone with sound?

A specific low frequency sound inside an enclosed space

can cause fatal physical damage.

I have never heard of this before.

Oh, I've had it confirmed by an expert.

Why would you kill your boss

when you're about to set the world on fire again?

Do you want to explain, or... or should I?

He was blackmailing you.

Wasn't he, Dura?

Dura?! What are you talking about?

Dom, let me introduce to you,

the great Dura.

Here, in the flesh.

That's ridiculous!

This is how I see it.

Mandarina and Chloe had sealed a very lucrative record deal.

But you got scared,

because you don't exactly look like you did

on the cover of your albums any more, do you, Dura?

The world is so looks-obsessed nowadays, isn't it?

So you hired a lookalike.

I'm guessing, erm, some Dura tribute act.

Dura. Loved your work.

Someone who looked like you back in the day, but looked younger,

and he would be the face

and then you would record over the tracks after.

But I assume he got greedy.

And threatened to tell.

What did you want, Dura?

Obviously more than you were willing to give.

How did you know?

I saw the tattoo round your bellybutton when you open the door.

The Js are sunbathing out back, if you want to join.

Oh, actually, I'm here to take a look at the studio.

I think I might have dropped something.

Sure. Go through.

The same one on the cover of the album, Sonic Serpent.

So Trevor was actually right.

Oh, God.

Oh, and of course, you were in on it, too.

I mean, who else would identify the body?

The stooge, he got greedy and was threatening to tell.

I worked out that with our life insurance

and the back catalogue,

Dura could make the same amount of money if he was dead.

It's true.

I couldn't face today's press, social media scrutiny.

I mean, look at me.

Do I look like the Peter Pan of rock?

I wanted to make music...

..so much. Oh, darling.

we had to put a stop to it.

We had to find a way of killing Dura

without killing Dura.

We thought doing it with sound would be quite...

..spiritual.

Sorry? Sort of...

..prophetic.

SHOUTING

See, I wouldn't say having your lungs explode

is very prophetic.

But who drew this symbol on his face?

I did.

MANDARINA:Oh, darling!

Why take the chance of drawing a symbol?

You see, that was my final clue, Caron.

Pardon?

You thought you were doing him a favour?

The snake would help guide him back to the underworld

and to the start of a new life.

Am I right, Dura?

Indeed you are.

It's time, my love.

You both need to accompany me to the station.

Are you all right, Dom?

Nothing will ever sound the same.

Well... at least you can start dressing like a grown up again.

What are you wearing?

HE SPLUTTERS

WHIMSICAL FRENCH MUSIC PLAYS

INDISTINCT CHATTER

CHUCKLES

LOCK RATTLES

BEEPS