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(TYPEWRITER KEYS CLACK)

(GENTLE SIGH)

(MIRROR CLUNKS)

(INTO PHONE) I know, I know, I understand that.

There's a conspicuous absence of plainclothes personnel, Stella.

(INTO PHONE) Well, any time, any time.

You have a nice weekend. And you, sir.

(BIRDSONG)

Oh, not half, not half, no. (CHATTER CONTINUES)

(CROW CAWS)

(KEYS JANGLE)

ALL: Surprise!

(SLOW JAZZ PLAYS ON RECORD PLAYER)

Happy Birthday. Ah.

Daddy, you have to make a wish. A wish, you say?

Done. (BLOWS)

Right, can I have some cake now, please?

(SNIFFS)

(FIZZLES)

(METALLIC CLATTER)

No, no, I never saw that one, no.

# Magic moments...

Oh, my God... (LAUGHS)

Sandra, not so hard. Ach, don't worry, Mrs Muncie, I can take it.

Want one? Er, no, no, I'd better not.

According to Agnes I have given up. Yes, he has given up.

(BOTH CHUCKLE)

How's things down in the lab? Progress is being made slowly,

but I managed to persuade Glasgow University School of Medicine

to donate a microscope. Papa, pour vous.

Merci, sweetheart. (CHUCKLES) You're welcome.

# The telephone call that tied up the line

# For hours and hours

# The Saturday dance I got up the nerve

# To send you some flowers... #

Here, take a look at that.

(DOG BARKS IN DISTANCE)

(CROW CAWS)

(CHATTER AND LAUGHTER)

Are you concerned, sir?

He's come to your home. That's out of order.

It's just posturing, that's all it is.

He's been out three months, he's kept his nose clean thus far.

Don't say anything to Agnes, though, cos I don't want her worrying.

Understood, sir.

(ECHOING SLAP) Oh.

Now the woman you attacked last Sunday

had a three-year-old son with her. That wee boy had to sit and watch

while you punched and kicked his mother. What do you say to that? I'm innocent.

The woman that you attacked last night said she'd had an operation.

A woman's operation.

Said she was in pain. She said she begged you for mercy,

but you went right ahead and raped her anyway. What do you say to that?

I say if you're trying to make me puke, you're doing a bang up job. (THWACK)

You're not a boy any more.

There's no more approved school.

There's no more borstal.

This time it's gonna be prison, and for a good long while.

I'll see you when you get out. I'm still gonna be here.

(CHAIR SCRAPES)

(INTRO)

# Maybellene

# Why can't you be true?

# Oh, Maybellene

# Why can't you be true?

# You've started back doin' the things you used to do

# As I was motivatin' over the hill

# I saw Maybellene in a Coup de Ville

# A Cadillac a-rollin' on the open road

# Nothin' will outrun my V8 Ford

# The Cadillac doin' about ninety-five

# Bumper to bumper, rollin' side by side

# Maybellene

# Why can't you be true...

Don't waste your time. Chubby Miller thinks he's God's gift.

You work in Livingston's, right?

You're on the machines a few rows over from me.

Oh, don't worry, I wouldn't recognise me, either.

It's those shower caps they make us wear. (BOTH LAUGH)

I'm Barbara, but everybody calls me Babs. Mary.

Are you on your own? I'm waiting on some friends.

They were meant to be here by now.

Ba-ba-ba-baby. You're looking good, Babs.

I'm having a conversation, Tony.

Lovely hair you've got, Mary. Ah. Aye.

My dog's got a lovely coat, eh? (BOTH LAUGH)

Why don't you go somewhere you're wanted?

All right.

Later, alligator.

Dipsticks. Actually, I was thinking about dyeing it.

Why? Don't do that.

I'd kill to be a redhead.

(CLOCK TICKS)

(INHALES)

(EXHALES)

'Dear Ma, I am watching the best years of my life roll away.

And I can tell you, it's no picnic.

You tell me I'm best to do my nine years and forget Mr Muncie,

but unfortunately for him I am not made like you.

So with sincerest apologies and deepest regrets,

I have to tell you that my mind is made up.

One way or another, Mr Muncie is going to pay.'

(BAND PLAYS)

# And make the darkness bright

# Only you

# And you alone

# Can thrill me like you do

# And fill my heart with love

# Only you

# O-O-Only you

# Can make this change in me... #

No, that'll be tuppence - and it hurts.

You'd better hurry, you'll miss your bus.

Thank you. Thank you. (BRAKES SQUEAL)

Come on.

(DOOR SHUTS)

(RUNNING FOOTSTEPS)

(SIGHS) Oh, stupid girl.

(SIGHS)

(SIGHS)

(DISTANT SCREAM)

Hello?

(MUFFLED CRIES)

(Don't say a goddamn word.) (MUFFLED CRIES)

Hello?!

(MUFFLED CRIES)

Hello! (WHIMPERS)

Hello!

Is there anybody there?!

(ANIMAL CRY)

Hello!

(MUFFLED CRIES)

(SOBS)

(AMERICAN ACCENT) Say a word and I'll murder ya.

(WHIMPERS)

I'm gonna cut your head off and bury ya.

(SOBS) (BREATHES HEAVILY)

(GASPS AND SIGHS)

Don't... peep.

(METALLIC THUD)

(BREATHES HEAVILY)

(SCOTTISH ACCENT) Smoke? No. No, thank you.

(SNIFFS) (MATCH STRIKES)

Crazy day.

Crazy, crazy day.

I've been down in the dumps since the moment I woke up.

I even went down to the Clyde to drown myself this evening, but...

..when I got there I remembered I can swim.

Sorry you felt down in the dumps.

You should be.

You see, when I get down in the dumps, I just...

I feel this overpowering need to murder someone.

(GASPS)

Are you cold? (SHIVERS) No.

Do you want my blazer? No, no.

I'm fine, thank you.

Suit yourself.

(ANIMAL CALLS)

(WIND WHISTLES)

I've never done anything like this before.

Maybe it was your hair.

You see, I had a fiancee once and she was a redhead.

So maybe that's what did it.

Maybe if you'd been blonde I wouldn't have laid a finger on you.

(THUD) (GASPS)

Oh, no...

Am I boring you?

No. No.

(GENTLE THUD)

Shall we?

Come on, I'll see you home.

It's the least I can do.

Come on. (SHALLOW BREATHS)

I suppose you'll be reporting me to the police?

No. I'll go with you now if you want,

tell them what I've done?

No. I just want to get home.

I think I'll take off my shoes.

Hi, hi, hi! (GASPS)

You've not been eating your carrots.

(JANGLES)

You could do some serious damage with this.

Why don't you go?

(BREATHES HEAVILY)

(METALLIC RATTLE) (RAPID BREATHS)

(DOG BARKS IN DISTANCE)

(SNIFFS)

(BIRDSONG)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

(CLOCK TICKS)

(DOG BARKS IN DISTANCE)

(GENTLE GRUNT)

'He had a knife.'

He told me if I screamed he'd cut my throat.

That he'd cut off my head and bury me.

That must have been very frightening for you.

I told him I had two children

so he'd think I was older.

Yes, that was good thinking. He just said I was telling fibs.

And then he started kissing me,

touching me.

I told him to stop but he wouldn't.

(VOICE BREAKS) Then he started pushing against me.

(SNIFFS AND SOBS)

'So five foot four, five foot five,

dark hair,

smartly dressed, a smoker.

And then this...business with the American accent.

Does that sound about right to you, Mary? Yes, sir.

Now I know it's a tall order

to ask you to be precise

about such an ordeal,

but are you sure about these times?

Because three-and-a-half hours seems like an awful long time

to be sitting in a field in the middle of the night.

I'm sure, sir.

He said he was gonna keep me there all night.

Did he give you any reason for wanting to do that?

No, sir.

We're nearly there. You're doing great.

Now is there any...

..anything else that you can remember, Mary?

It doesn't matter how small it is.

I think he might live on our estate.

What makes you say that?

I think I've seen him before.

I think him and his dad take the same bus as me to work.

(ENGINE RUMBLES)

(BELL DINGS)

Are you OK?

(ENGINE OFF)

Mr Manuel?

What the bloody hell do you want?

(ENGINE ON AND BELL DINGS) As if it's not enough.

For you to deprive our Peter of his liberty for nine years for crimes he dinnae do, nine years!

No, that's not enough, is it? No. The disgrace to our family.

The disgrace!

Muncie, I'm talking to you.

Yes, Mr Manuel, I'm aware of that.

Bastards.

(DOG BARKS IN DISTANCE)

Peter! (CUTLERY CLATTERS)

(DOOR SHUTS)

Mrs Manuel.

How's your work at the hospital, Theresa? Fine.

Peter!

(BONES CRACK)

(FOOTSTEPS APPOACH)

Detective Inspector Muncie.

Long time no see.

What brings you here?

I was in the field... just not with her.

Your father said you were in all night.

I'm his son, he's looking out for me.

You mean lied to the police.

Come on, Muncie, keep the old buffer out of it.

I told you I was there.

Now, show me what you've learnt since our last encounter.

Dazzle me with some detective brilliance.

If you weren't with the victim in the field, what were you doing there? Checking on my snares,

seeing if I'd caught any conies. Poaching rabbits?

Guilty as charged.

We found a sheath knife in the field

in a location consistent with where Miss McLauchlan said you'd thrown it.

She identified it as the knife you'd used to threaten her with.

Any fingerprints on it?

The knife matched her description. What?

(LAUGHS) Sharp and pointy?

Where did she get this stuff?

The only reason my knife was in that field was cos of Rusty, my dog.

He was sniffing about the railway tracks so I slung the knife at him to scare him back to me. (SNORTS)

(CLEARS THROAT)

When Miss McLauchlan picked you out of the line-up,

you looked at her in a manner that suggested that you knew her.

Why was that?

It's a nice bit of WPC you've got on you there, boys.

Mr Muncie asked you a question. You look awful fetching in that uniform, darling.

Watch your mouth.

(LAUGHS)

I like there's a wee smack of romance in the air. Peter.

Yes, sir? Had you met Miss McLauchlan before?

No.

Did you get my birthday card?

You're gonna hear that Peter Manuel

just loves the sound of his own voice.

Peter Manuel's all mouth and no trousers.

I don't want any of you getting taken in by any of that.

Because Peter Manuel is a very real threat

to the women of this community.

In 1946,

when he was out on bail, he seriously assaulted a young mother

walking home with her child.

Four days later he attacked and sexually assaulted a second woman.

And the very next day he attacked and raped a third.

He did nine years in Peterhead for those crimes

and he very badly wants to make up for all that lost time.

Mary McLauchlan was the first.

I want to make sure that she's also the last.

Now he's up in court on Tuesday and he's got a chance of bail.

It is our job to guarantee that there is enough evidence for a conviction.

Well, good luck. Get on with it.

(PAPER RUSTLES)

Oh, come on, Ma,

let me have my grub, standing there all gloomy.

Is there something you want to say to me, son?

Like what? You know.

You think I did it, don't you?

You think I did that to that poor girl.

That hurts me. I don't want to hurt you, son, I want to help you.

If that's the best you can do, feel free not to try.

(FIST THUDS ON TABLE)

(CAR APPROACHES)

Morning, Hugh. Morning, sir.

(DOOR SQUEAKS) Go on.

(TYPEWRITER KEYS CLACK AND TELEGRAPH LINE CLICKS)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

(PHONE RINGS)

Bill.

Sir.

Too many man hours on this Manuel thing.

That's just because I don't want to leave anything to chance, sir.

The lassie wasn't raped, no theft.

Your approach is out of proportion.

I'm not sure Mary McLauchlan would see it that way, sir.

Well, she's not your boss.

You've got Sherriff "Bang 'Em Up" Boyd on Tuesday.

There's no way the nasty little tartar's getting bail

It's not just the bail, sir.

We've also got the trial to consider.

Look what he got up to last time.

He lost.

Don't be getting obsessive, Bill. Let the lawyers deal with the trial.

Sir.

We have some items of Manuel's clothing.

And the footprints from the field

exactly match the tread on his shoes.

Also,

thanks to our new bit of kit,

I was able to ascertain that soil found on his shoes and trousers

was consistent with samples taken from the field.

And then there's this.

A significant quantity of dried semen.

Just like 1946.

Premature ejaculation.

It's the fear in his victims which arouses him rather than penetrative intercourse.

It's not just about catching them, Laird, it's about finding out what makes them tick. Yes, sir.

This is excellent work, Hugh.

Thank you, sir.

Remanded to Barlinnie pending trial, sir.

Thank you, Sheriff Boyd.

(INHALES) I think we're allowed a wee smile, Iris.

(STARTS ENGINE)

"600 mourners were in attendance at the Friends Church in Fairmount,

Indiana. An estimated 2,400 fans gathered outside the church."

For a poxy actor who bawled and grated his way through

a grand total of three films? People are mugs.

And you could do better I suppose?

I will do better, pal, and I'm not some poxy actor neither.

Yep. Thanks.

(DING)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

Manuel's put in a request to conduct his own defence.

The prison doctor's examined him and declared him sane and fit to plead.

The cocky wee arse is definitely stuffed now.

For God's sake, Duncan, he did the exact same thing nine years ago.

Represented himself in court.

The judge even complimented him on his professionalism.

Nor does anything without a reason.

It says that women are more likely to poison their victims than men.

Oh, isn't that curious? (FIRE CRACKLES)

(CLOCK TICKS)

Bill?

(SIGHS)

(EXHALES)

Why do you think...

Why do you think Manuel kept Mary with him for three-and-a-half hours

when he'd got what he wanted in ten minutes?

Well, there's no mystery there.

He...

wanted to drag it out for as long as possible.

Poor girl.

(CAR HORN PARPS)

(HUSHED CHATTER)

(DOOR SHUTS)

(METALLIC RATTLE)

Mr Manuel?

Mr Manuel?!

Miss McLauchlan, have you ever spoken to me

at any time prior to the night of Saturday, the 30th July, 1955?

(No.)

I'm sorry, Miss McLauchlan, could you speak up, please?

No.

(MAN COUGHS)

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,

you've heard one version

of what transpired that fateful night.

Now is the time for you to hear the truth.

Somewhat embarrassing facts which, to spare Miss McLauchlan's blushes,

I declined to tell the police.

Objection, milord. On what grounds, Mr Farrel?

There is a danger here that he may seek

to unfairly influence jury opinion

with unsubstantiated statements not made under oath.

Indeed there is, Mr Farrel,

and now the jury have been alerted to it.

You may continue, Mr Manuel. Thank you, milord.

Is it not true, Miss McLauchlan,

is it not true,

Mary,

that for some weeks prior to the night of 30th July, 1955,

you and I had been, as the saying goes,

romantically involved?

(SCATTERED LAUGHTER)

Miss McLauchlan, His Lordship did not ask you the question,

I asked you the question.

No, that's not true.

Furthermore, is it not also true that on the night in question,

I told you as tactfully as I was able

that I wished our affair to end?

You were saddened by this information

and that I tarried at your side to proffer you some comfort.

Her silence is eloquent, is it not?

Ladies and gentlemen, what other plausible explanation can there be

for the fact that the witness, by her own admission,

spent over three hours, half the night, with me,

a total stranger she would have you believe,

in a field. No.

He's lying. He's lying!

He's lying!

They say hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

Well, I've certainly learnt my lesson in that regard.

No further questions, milord.

Please, sir, you can't believe him. Calm down, Miss McLauchlan.

I swear to God, I've never met him before in my life. Miss McLauchlan!

Please... (SOBS) He's a liar!

Miss McLauchlan... (SOBS) Please?

(LAUGHS)

There she is, there's the slag. Aye, you tart.

Have a heart, boys. Life's not easy for gingers.

(MEN LAUGH)

Mary?

Mary?

Mary.

The law let you down badly today,

but I want you to know that I will not rest

until Peter Manuel's behind bars. Och, leave her alone.

You promise me? I promise you.

(TRAIN RATTLES OVERHEAD)

(RAIN PITTER-PATTERS)

(FOOTSTEPS ECHO)

(CAR APROACHES)

(GRAVEL CRUNCHES UNDERFOOT)

Hello, darling. Hello.

(CLOCK TICKS)

(DOORBELL TINKLES)

Mum, he's early.

Well, don't just stand there.

Come in, Douglas, she's just getting ready. Thank you, Mrs Muncie.

Sir.

Douglas is taking our daughter to the pictures.

Which one was it again?

Lady And The Tramp, sir.

You don't let her out of your sight and you get her back here by 11 o'clock sharp.

Yes, sir.

(DOOR SHUTS)

I'll just go check on Jane.

Jane?

Right, I'm off out. Doing anything nice, son?

Ask me no questions, Ma, I'll tell you no lies. Bye, son. See ya.

(CLOCK TICKS)

(OWL HOOTS)

What is it, Bill?

Ah. (SIGHS)

Do you remember Jane up at View Park?

Got on at me, got on at me to make the fence

stronger around about the hen house. Yes.

Me being too busy, and then of course the fox getting amongst the hens

and she wouldn't speak to me for a week...

You can't build a fence around every house in the country, Bill.

I know.

If, heaven forbid, that monster does strike again,

you will catch him.

They will put him away for years.

What if this time he does something worse?

What if this time he doesn't leave a witness?

(BAND PLAYS) # Runnin' wild, lost control

# Running wild, mighty bold

# Feelin' gay, reckless too

# Carefree mind all the time

# Never blue

# Always goin' I don't know where

# Always showin' I don't care

# Don't love nobody, it's not worthwhile

# All alone

# Runnin' wild

(GUITAR RIFF)

Excuse me.

I see you dyed it then. Yeah.

It suits you. Do you want to dance?

Definitely.

# Always goin' don't know where

# Always showin' I don't care

# Don't love nobody

# it's not worthwhile

# All alone, running wild...

You're an OK dancer. Thanks very much.

Sorry about the old trot.

# Running wild, running wild

# Running wild...

What's your name? Private... Private Andrew Murnin.

You? Private Anne Kneilands.

You know what, Private Kneilands? What?

I think 1956 is gonna be a good year.

# Don't care

# Don't love nobody

# It's not worthwhile

# All alone... #

She was so badly beaten that her hands and her arms

which she'd held up to try to defend herself were broken.

Wembley, '38.

Sir.

(THWACK)

He traipsed all over my crime scene and that's the bombshell?

C'mon, please tell me you've got something else?

A fingerprint or something? We can't use fingerprints. A motive then.

He's a psychopath. That's all the motive he needs.

That's egotism. Come on, Charlie, I'm front page news.

What do you think? There's no question you will be the belle of Belleshill ball. (GIGGLES)

It's Manuel.

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