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I'm Book and I run a bookshop.
You must be here about the job.

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You know where I've come
from, don't you?

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I have a little hobby on the side and I
find it's taking me away from the shop

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more and more.
Well, you must stay with us, mustn't

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you? Now that you've got the job,
what exactly is it you do? I sell books.

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Yeah, but that's not all, is it?
Yesterday out there at a bomb site. So

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you don't think they
died in an air raid?

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Inkerman Street was already empty,
wasn't it, Mr. Basehart? Scheduled for

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demolition. It's a chaotic world, Jack.
I have a system.

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Do you think it was suicide?
Why would a chemist kill himself with something as

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horrible as Prussic acid? It's murder.
There's a daughter, isn't there?

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All right. Money grabbing little cow.
And then she has the gall to run off

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with him. Well,
dad was convinced that Mickey was

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thieving. Got the chemist will through.
Sir daughter doesn't get a beam.

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This is a sacred charge. You understand that?
I wouldn't ask this of you if I

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didn't think you were ready more than that.
That you're the one creature on

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this earth to whom I could entrust this.
This message must go to Trottie and to no

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one else. Is that clear?
Is that clear?

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Good boy. Off you go.

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Morning in. Morning.
Uh, doc, stay.

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Can I help you? Oh, yes.

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With wallpaper, that is.
It's a little early for that.

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For what? Never mind.

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I'm looking for a Mrs.
book. You found her.

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Well, that's a crying shame.
What is that?

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You're married. That is.
Can I help you?

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Yeah. Yeah. You're uh got a message
from your husband. Said you were having

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problems with your alternator.
My

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in the car. It's what I do. See cars.
I see. I miss Mr. Book sent for you

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today. Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, no idea why I didn't

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go with someone more local, but why not say no?
I go where the work is, right?

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Quiet. Oh,

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got a light. Yeah.

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Yeah. Yeah. Hang on.
Somewhere here. One minute.

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Where have they gone?

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Somewhere. Where's the
last pocket you looking at?

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Ah, here we are.

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T. So, you are a mechanic, Mr. Mickey.
Mickey Hall. And uh Yeah. Yeah.

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I got a garage mile end.
All yours.

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Why not? Me in the um Oh, yeah.
Yeah. All mine.

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See? Um,

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if you excuse me a moment,
I need to lay my hands on a well, find my car.

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Right on. Yeah.
Well, I ain't I ain't going anywhere, so

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the very man. Oh, good morning, Mrs.
Book. Ah, morning

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Eric. Wonder if you'd be an
absolute darling for me, Eric.

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Anything for a lady?
Well, as I recall, Sheila is a proud owner of

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a rather splendid Daimler.
Yeah, she's got a car.

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Yeah, is she in? Can I just pop
in to ask to borrow the car?

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Lovely. I'm sure she wouldn't mind.
It's just parked around the back. I'll get

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the keys for you. Thank you.

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Yeah.

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Hello. Hello.

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What's up? Puncture.
I think as ball as daddy. I

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told him these wheels
won't get me to Cambridge.

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I don't suppose you could help me out.
It's not really my department. I'm just

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looking after the place.
I'd be most awfully grateful.

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Yeah. All right.
I'll see what Mickey's got.

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Thanks ever so.
So, there must be a repair kit back here

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somewhere. I really appreciate this.
Like he puts things in those random

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places.

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There we go.

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Huh?

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Slow

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down. Oh my goodness.

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Yeah, nothing wrong with that.
The alternator. I mean, I'd have trouble

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starting it.
He didn't mention it.

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Maybe I should put me specs on.
Maybe.

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Thank you very much, Mr. Hall.
That was, uh, that was quite a ride.

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Yeah, not at all, love.
And, uh, anytime you want to go a bit

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further, Sunday maybe?

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Desperately tempting though, that is.
I find I'm washing my hair that evening.

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Besides, besides,

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I think perhaps your dance
card may soon be a little full.

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Quick word, Mr. Hall.

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Well, isn't this nice?
Who are you?

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We thought, Mr. Hall that it
was high time we had a little chat.

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Listen, I know my rights.
Straight out of the blocks.

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Disappointing. Dear me, Mr. Hall.
One point deducted already.

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Point. What are you talking about?
Listen, you can't stick anything on me.

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There you go again.
Hey, textbook quotidian, banal.

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What? You see, the inspector and I have
been through this routine a hundred

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times. Thousand.
You have no idea how tedious

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it is having to listen to the same old
stock responses from gnarly old lags

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like something from the music hall.
Hold your hand down, you naughty boy.

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Probably enough of that.
So, here's the question that you would

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ask were it not for your fear of me dinging you.
Why would I want to kill

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poor Mr. Harkup? Well, why would I?
I wouldn't hurt a fly.

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I never did it.
But you'd meant to go into the shop.

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Yeah. Yes. All right. I I went there to
talk things through, to reason with him.

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Now me and Marula got a
little one on the way.

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Oh, did you go with the express
intention of filching the jade elephant

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and replacing it?
That's a dirty lie.

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Oh, bravo.
Haven't heard that one in a while.

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Should put copper at the
end, though. What?

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That's a dirty lie.
Copper is much more effective.

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But you ain't a copper, is you? No. Fair point.
No, I ain't, isn't, aren’t. But I do

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have a special letter from Churchill.
So anyway, you can't prove that I did

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that. No, but it's very
probable, you admit.

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What happened then?
I waited outside the shop.

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I knew he'd be in. He never goes
anywhere except Mondays and Thursdays.

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He's played dominoes down The Bull.
I waited till well after 7:00, but there

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was no sign of him.
So he went into the flat.

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No sign of him, but first she come out.
Who? The char. Mrs. Dredge

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coming out of the chemist acting all shifty.
Yeah, well, you know all about that.

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She had something in her coat.
Trying her best to keep it hidden.

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Didn't let her see me.
Obviously. When was this?

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About 6:00. Now go on.

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Then someone else come.
But it's like Piccadilly circus on your lane, Book.

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Couldn't see him properly.
What with me eyes and that.

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Oh yes, we've heard all about.
But it was a him.

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I do know the difference, mister.
Your reputation precedes you.

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It was all bundled
up, scarf, overcoat.

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After he left, I went to the flat.
My door was shut, but I know my way around

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a lock. So, in I went,
and that's when I found him.

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Maru's dad that is, stone dead.
So naturally, you thought you should

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call the police.
Well, that wouldn't have been a very

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wise thing to do, would it?
I almost just legged it. And then I remembered

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about the ornaments,
the jade figures.

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A month ago, he told me
about how precious they was.

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I thought no one's going to
miss one of them, are they?

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Alas for you,
that wasn't quite the case.

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Had me little
chess set with me.

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So, I swap one.
Then I took off straight home. I swear I

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never killed Harkup. I never even touched him.
He was dead when I got there.

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All right, son. Maybe you're telling the truth.
Maybe you're not. But let me

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assure you, if you are lying,
if you think you can take Scotland Yard, I'll

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come down on you so hard you won't be
able to see straight till Christmas.

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I'll throw the bloody book at you.
Inspector,

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do we believe him?
Bent his dog's hind leg.

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Yeah, but is he a murderer?

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I need to think.
Do you have time to queue?

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I'm planning a casserole.

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We should stop him moaning love.
Chance would be a fine thing.

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Come on, Edith, sharp now…
It's not going to wrap itself.

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She's new.

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Out the way you we're
be all bleeding day,

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right? You're watching. Over.
Over. Under. Under under.

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There we go. Lovely. Bye.

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Come in. Let's be having you.

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It’s enough to turn you vegetarian.
No, our cat brought home a pigeon the

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other night. And

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well, Mrs. Bliss was sorely tempted.
We had plenty of pigeons in the war.

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Nothing wrong with a bit of pigeon.
Yeah. Yeah, I know. But now it's all

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over. I mean, we want to weigh
him a bit higher, don't we?

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We are all of us in the gutter,
but some of us are looking at the starlings.

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Right. Bugger this. All right. Excuse me.
Police business coming through.

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Coming through. Police business.
Police business. Thank you. Thank you. Sorry.

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Sorry, madam. Police business.
Thank you very much.

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Oi! Wait, your bloody turn like the rest of I'm so
sorry, madam. It's urgent. Police

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business. One minute. Oh, madam. Sorry.
Could I just ask you to take a few steps

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outside urgent
police business?

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Afternoon, Eric.
Afternoon, sir.

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Now, stewing steak.
I've kept it aside, sir.

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You are a prince amongst men.
Oh, you've got something just there.

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Hey, excuse me. Powdered egg.
Bit of a rushed

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breakfast. How's Sheila?
Well, sir. Well,

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she's driven up to Sheffield.
I know family.

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Yes.
Terrible about George Harkup.

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Certainly is. Mind you,
I wag your old Basehart won't shed any tears.

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Huh? I never got on.
Many a running during

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the blitz.
Arup was a stickler for the rules.

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Always on at Mr. Base for being too slack.
Blackout curtain, showing light,

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that sort of thing.
Rob your tick.

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Right. Then where are we
up to with the murders?

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Murder? There's only
one as far as I know.

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Yes. Well, Mrs.
Dredge says she saw the

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chemist at approximately 6:00 p.m.
We have only her word for that.

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Yes. They did.
But Mickey Hall did say he saw her

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leaving the shop around that time with
something in her coat she wanted to keep

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hidden. And she has a strong motive.
Now we know

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she inherits the lot.
So Harkup appears to have died somewhere

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between 6 and 10 according to Dr. Calder.
An awful lot could have happened in

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those 4 hours. Indeed.

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Now we're presuming the killer called round.
No sign of forced entry.

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So Half Cup knew them. Probably.
I've told you this before.

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Hear me out, Mr. Harkup. Please.
It's about Marula.

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I suppose you'd better come through.
So, he let them in. There was some talk,

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chat.

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The killer proceeds to pour
Prussic acid down his throat.

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Harkup croaks.
Literally, I should imagine.

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But why did he take just the one piece?
Well, why not grab the lot? Cuz then it

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would look like burglary.
Whereas he wanted to make it look like suicide.

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There we are, sir. Oh, bless you, Eric.
Oh, um, anything

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for dog? I'll spoil you.
You do.

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Would you like it, wrapped? No, no, no.
He won't mind. Thank you,

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Toodle Pip. Enjoy your day, gentlemen.
Cheerio.

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H barrel. Hello.

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Mrs. Dredge has motive and opportunity.
Mickey Hall motive and opportunity.

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What about Marula?
Nikki says the bundled up stranger is a

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man. Yeah,
but then he would if they were in

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it together.

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Did they know that Harkup is
going to disinherit them?

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Hello, Jack. Sir,

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not for you.

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What have you done?
Oh, tidied up.

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Tidied up. Oh dear.

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Well, you said you wanted things
cataloguing, so I need to put it in a

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proper order.
You've only done these shelves so far.

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Yeah, sorry. Takes time, you know.
Thank God. Put it all back. I put it all

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back just as it was. I told you I have a system.
But you'd said that. Catalog it.

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I said, not desecrate it.
Christ.

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I'm sorry.
Least said, soonest mended, eh?

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Well, I think I might
have done something right.

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You found something? Yeah, I have.
It's been cleaned recently.

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The residue you can see that's
remains of silver polish.

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Meaning? meaning that
it got into the ground

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recently. Probably dropped or
something far more sinister.

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What you getting at? 1665.
Year of the plague.

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Yeah. Very specifically
the year of the

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plague. Not a year or two before.
Capital.

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Too convenient. Horribly.
Where better to hide a tree than in a forest? 11

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skeletons in the plague pit from the
17th century on the 12th of 1946.

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Oh, bloody hell.
You said earlier ‘murders’, plural.

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Yes. Linked.

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Oh, I should think so. Top of the class, Jack.
Really? I should give you the

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afternoon off to go to the pub.
So I will more specifically the Bull where

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the late Mr. Harkup used to
play dominoes. Take Nora.

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Nora? I believe you met.
She's good at this

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sort of thing.
You could learn a lot.

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Ah, something?

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Very much something.

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What's this? A list of addresses and a
very particular question. I'd be ever so

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grateful if you go on a
little field trip for me.

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All right.
If you cook tonight, I am, a casserole.

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Oh, casserole.

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Very irregular this,
kiddies on the premises.

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I'm not a kid.
You look like one.

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Appearances can be very deceptive.
I'll have a drink if that's what you're

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worried about.
That would make it worse.

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She'll have a lemonade.
Oh, what?

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And I'll have a bottle of mild, please.
All right.

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Thanks.

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You'll have to get these. What?
I haven't got any money.

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Oh, no. Ask Mr. Book.
He'll advance you your

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wages.

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There you are. Thanks.
Keep the change.

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You were saying, Mr. Harkup.
That's right, son. Yeah. Every Monday

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and Thursday, sit just over there. Yeah.
Mr. Wellbeloved the butcher. Mr. Basehart.

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the RP warden. Mrs. Acres from the junk shop.
Mr. Cullen the tailor. It's

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like happy families. Mr. Toovey from the cobblers.
Mr. Harkup. Oh, God rest his soul.

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Yeah.

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Are you with the
coppers then?

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In a manner of speaking.
I mean, I don't mind. I was in the in

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the force myself back in the day.
Ah, poor old Harkup. Didn't seem the

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type, you know, to do himself in.
But then do they ever?

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I know we had a teacher life and soul,
drowned herself in a weir man when you

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last saw him. Well, that's the thing.
You see, I saw

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Mr. Harkup just the day before.
Oh,

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yeah. Very out of character. It was.
Yeah. He marched in here in the middle

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of the day. He was a man of very regular
habits, so it did seem a bit queer.

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It seemed like he had a lot on his mind.
Said he was sitting on a secret.

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Obviously eating him up a bit.
Did you get it out of him? The secret?

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Not at first. No. More than my life's worth.
He said he said that his very

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words, son.
And the next day dead.

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Did he um elaborate?

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Yes, son. Eventually he did.
Now, Mr. Harkup was a very upright

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citizen. You see, he suspected one
of his pals was cheating at Spotties.

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Spotties? Spotties.

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dominoes.

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That was smashing. Book has His uses

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better than what you're used to.
Oh, yeah.

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So, uh, you were saying,
uh, Scarlet Fever.

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Well, that's what
brought us together. Yes.

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We met on the Scarlet Fever Ward
when we were what, both, 12?

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And so what? You fell for
each other right from the off.

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I wasn't quite like that. No.

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Profitable day. I'm not sure.
I put my foot right in it.

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Oh, I tried to tidy
Mr. Book's bookshelves.

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I mean, I don't think I
did too much damage, but.

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And then I was out and
about with Nora detecting.

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Well, it certainly put
some color in your cheeks.

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So, go on then.
Well, if you didn't fall for each other

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straight away.
When did you know?

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You'll forgive me, my dear,
but we'll have to know each other rather better

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before such confidences are exchanged.
Oh, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I didn't

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mean to overstep, but Not at all.
You haven't.

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I do hope we'll become fast
friends, Jack.

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It's complicated. That's all.

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Book and I weren't
separable for years and then

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life got in the way.

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Love is where it falls.
Isn't that what they say?

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Couldn't trouble you for a
lie, could I? Sorry, I

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I don't smoke.

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You sure?

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And were things more than formal
between you and your employer?

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I resent that question, Inspector.
Nevertheless,

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well, I won't deny there was a degree
of affection between George, between Mr.

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Harkup and myself.
If you've been doing for someone all

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those years. Well, that's my point, Mrs.
Dredges. Is

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that all you were doing?
What my friend is trying to suggest.

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Well, what he's trying to suggest,
what he's trying to elucidate then is

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whether this affection took
any more tangible form.

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Well, what's it got to do with you?
Well, the fact is, Mrs. Strange, certain

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new facts have come to light.
Mr. Harkup gave the lot to you. Love

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the shop. The good will
this whole estate or yours?

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Never.
I didn't see that coming.

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Everything. Everything.

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Is your son at home, Mrs. Dredge?
Oh, he's uh upstairs in bed.

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A late riser. A war hero.
His Wellington came down

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over Holland 44. All right. I'm sorry.
Nothing to be sorry for. He survived,

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didn't he? Given that we
don't believe Mr. Harkup

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took his own life, you can see why
that leaves you in a rather difficult

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position.
You never think I topped him.

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The fact remains you're in a rather
sticky position, Mrs. Dredge. The the

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the new will was properly
signed and witnessed.

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Well, I don't know anything about that.
But you could have done. You could have

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found a draft when you were cleaning and decided
to, you know, speed things up a

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bit. What?
By knocking off Mr. H?

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Yes, Barmy. No, it's her.
You should be

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talking to Marula and him Mickey Hall.
Have you nabbed him?

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He is assisting us with our inquiries.
Oh, well, good. That's something then.

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In fact, Mr. Hall's been most helpful.
He has?

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Yes. Yeah. Most helpful.
In fact, he told us

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that he saw you leaving the chemist
shop the night of the murder.

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But there's no mystery there.
I told you. I saw it.

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Leaving and trying your very
best to conceal something.

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Bandages. I told you for
elf the trying to hide.

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He lost a leg,
didn't he, your son?

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H how?

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One of them worn and creased,
the other almost completely smooth. His prosthesis

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must need constant attention and
painful, I should imagine. Very, very

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painful.

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Painful enough for morphine.

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Why didn't you just
ask Mr. Harkup to help?

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I I couldn't.

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Alf needs more than he's
ever given by the doctor.

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So I, I, I nicked some extra.
I didn't think Mr. Hark would notice, but he did.

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And he assumed Mickey Hall must have done it.
I couldn't tell him it was me.

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He was such a stickler, you see, for the rules.
Well, well, how could I tell him?

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I'd had away with drugs
from his own shop.

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You've no idea what it's like the pain.
My poor Alf. So, you dropped in on the

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pretext of getting bandages and
instead stole more morphine.

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I And Mr. Harkup was
alive when you left him.

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I swear on my son's life.

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If you'll excuse me.
Yes, of course.

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Oh,
and, uh, when do I get it then?

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Beg pardon? The money.

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Not her then. No.
Life is hardened, Mrs. Dredge. But

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not a killer. No. Then who did it?
Them. Two murders. Remember

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them? Then look, I suppose it'd be too
straightforward for you to just, you

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know, just tell me.
It would be my...

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Well, no, not my pleasure.
You're going to need backup, Inspector.

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What? What?

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Oh, no. No. Sorry.
Uh, we're just Good evening, sir.

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Eric. Oh, we're just
closing, I'm afraid.

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That's all right. How's Sheila?
Well, you asked me that, Mr. Book.

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Oh, yes. She's in Sheffield.
What day did you drive up there?

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Oh, um, Thursday. Yes, Thursday. I see.
Well, if there's anything special

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I can help you with, sir. You know, I've got a lot on.
But she couldn't have done

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that. Could she, Eric, when
Trottie borrowed her car

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on Friday?

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Come on. Come on. Come on.
Come on. Come on.

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Now then, Mr. Wellbeloved,
I didn't mean to do her in.

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Don't go on. Things hadn't
been right for some time.

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Always rowing we were.
And then.

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I met her... Edith

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Ah, an old fool
and a young beauty.

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It's. It's a very old tale.
When did you know, Mr. Book, if you

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don't mind me asking?
I suspected right away that something

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was off. And that was confirmed when I
discovered that some of the bones in the

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plague pit were newer,
though you'd made an effort to age them.

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Gravy Browning.
Sheila uses it on her legs.

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Couldn’t afford to get her nylons.
Plus, the knife marks on them are very

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distinctive. I checked your handiwork.
That bone you gave me for dog.

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So, uh, for the sake of a future with Miss Enid
Clegg, you sent your wife to

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meet her maker.

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Then found yourself confronting
the murderer's oldest dilemma,

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getting rid of the corpse.
Should have been simple for you, not being a

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stranger to the notion
of chopping things up.

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Unfortunately, Inspector,
people can tell the difference between the bones of

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hogs and homo sapiens.
So, I think that after removing the flesh from your

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unfortunate wife, ‘flensing’ 
her, you still needed to

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dispose of her skeleton,
which is where the caustic soda comes in.

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Precisely. Freely available at any chemist.
Getting rid of a body, are you?

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Drains. It's for the drains, George.
Terrible pong.

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Alkaline hydrolysis.
Was that what you were going for?

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I'd read about it.
See, funny the things you pick up in this

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trade.

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Caustic soda. Dissolves flesh.
I'd used it before to

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get rid of carcasses, you know,
but it didn't work properly. You know, lots of

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lots of bones left.
I didn't know what to do. And then

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and then Basehart mentioned the
skeletons that he'd found.

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Strange to think that if it wasn't for
the Luftwaffe, we'd never have known

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those poor devils were under
our feet all these years. You told the coppers?

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not just yet.
Well, no rush, I suppose. After 300

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years, I put a tarp
over the crater. Yes.

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Well, you know what kids are like.
They probably run off with the bones and give

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them to a dog. Yeah.
Anyway, cheerio.

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Afternoon.

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As I said, where better to
hide a tree than in a forest?

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Who would notice? Oh, you.

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Then there was this. Of course, Eric
here, though exhibiting a lively skill

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at improvisation, is not an imaginative man.
No offence. No call for it in my game

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meat is meat.
You rather overdid it by planting the

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coin in the plague pit that rang an
alarm bell straight away. And so armed

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with a description of our suspect,
my wife made a short but instructive tour

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of the local curio shops.
Oh, how how do you know he hadn't gone further a field

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to get the coin? Unimaginative.
Remember, anyone

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conceiving so clumsy a clue would never
stray far from their own neighbourhood.

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Eric was very much in the frame
when I noticed the clincher

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in the queue at the butchers.

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Notice what? Powdered egg.

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Oh, you've uh you've got something
just there, right? Excuse

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me. Powdered egg.
Bit of a rush breakfast.

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Such an intimate thing to do with
absolutely no acknowledgement from Mr.

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Wellbeloved. Aha, I thought.
Uh-huh. How's Sheila?

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Well, sir, well,
she's driven up to Sheffield.

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A nice family.
I inquired with Sheila's family in

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Yorkshire. They've seen neither
hide nor hair of her, of course.

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So, it all looked rosy.
And then

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I've got the note.
I suspected something of the kind. Some

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sort of vague threat.
Urgent that we talk.

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I don't want to have to take
this to the authorities.

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I hope we can sort this
matter between ourselves.

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George Harkup. And you assumed
it was about the murder.

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Of course. What?
And it wasn't?

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No. What?
Then what was it about?

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Dominoes. What?
Mr. Harkup was a stickler for the

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rules, as we know. He suspected you
of cheating at his favourite pastime.

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That's all it was.
No, no, no, no, no, no. It had to be a

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threat about Sheila.

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What else could it be? So,

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what happened next?

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I had an idea I could
buy him off with cash.

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With beef.

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So he went round.
I was scared,

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you know, scared of what he might say.
What if he wouldn't listen to reason?

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you there was poison everywhere, all around.
And so I I kept him talking.

434
00:39:56,600 --> 00:40:01,697
I just need you to tell the truth.
George, just tell the truth, Eric.

435
00:40:01,721 --> 00:40:07,378
And then I took my chance.
I I got hold of him and and and then I poured

436
00:40:07,402 --> 00:40:11,698
the poison down his throat. Right.
You poisoned him, did you?

437
00:40:11,722 --> 00:40:15,616
Oh, yes. Oh, it's horrible.
Nothing else.

438
00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:21,057
Why? You see, that's very interesting,
Eric, because before he was poisoned,

439
00:40:21,081 --> 00:40:26,017
George Harkup was struck over the head
and the weapon left a bloody residue in

440
00:40:26,041 --> 00:40:30,018
his hair. You remember there was
blood but no wound, Inspector?

441
00:40:30,042 --> 00:40:33,377
Yes.
Dr. Calder analysed it for me.

442
00:40:33,401 --> 00:40:37,856
Cow's blood.
Ah, and you would have known that, Eric, if

443
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:41,938
you'd been the one who'd hit
him with a joint of beef.

444
00:40:41,962 --> 00:40:46,898
No. Yeah. Yes. No. No. No. No.
I remember now. No, I did hit him.

445
00:40:46,922 --> 00:40:50,401
I don't think so. So, who did?

446
00:41:01,081 --> 00:41:06,257
it? Obviously neglected to mention the
part where she clobbered Mr. Harkup. Was

447
00:41:06,281 --> 00:41:10,897
it her idea from the start?
No.

448
00:41:10,921 --> 00:41:14,321
She was…

449
00:41:23,001 --> 00:41:31,001
Enid found me after I’d
strangled, after Sheila died.

450
00:41:33,961 --> 00:41:40,497
She just took charge.
Didn't know what to do.

451
00:41:40,521 --> 00:41:44,497
And it was so calm,

452
00:41:44,521 --> 00:41:48,017
methodical, and

453
00:41:48,041 --> 00:41:53,041
we, we reckon we was
going to be okay until.

454
00:41:53,401 --> 00:41:57,521
What the hell do we do now?

455
00:41:57,721 --> 00:42:01,360
Leave this to me.

456
00:42:05,721 --> 00:42:08,721
Huh?

457
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:25,840

458
00:42:37,081 --> 00:42:43,281
And to finish the job,
make it look like suicide.

459
00:42:44,761 --> 00:42:51,201
She poured Prussic acid down
poor Mr. Harkup's gullet.

460
00:42:54,921 --> 00:43:00,417
Can't we just say that I did
it, please?

461
00:43:00,441 --> 00:43:08,441
I mean, I'll swing, won't I?
But it the law must take its course.

462
00:43:09,001 --> 00:43:16,257
I'm sorry, Eric. I truly am.
But I'm even more sorry for George Harkup

463
00:43:16,281 --> 00:43:22,600
and poor Sheila. Oh.

464
00:43:24,041 --> 00:43:29,457
Right. Formal charge done. Sign out.
You can take him to a holding cell.

465
00:43:29,481 --> 00:43:33,616
Very good of you.
Thank Mrs. Book.

466
00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:38,737
She said you might be a while.
Quite a tale. Wish I could have sat in

467
00:43:38,761 --> 00:43:43,537
on it.
I'm pushing my luck as it is.

468
00:43:43,561 --> 00:43:49,297
Questioning now.
What exactly did you do in the war?

469
00:43:49,321 --> 00:43:54,337
It must have been pretty big for you
to get that letter from Churchill

470
00:43:54,361 --> 00:43:58,178
for the inspector so that you
have run of the shop like this.

471
00:43:58,202 --> 00:44:01,978
Now, now Jack, don't be nosy.
Where would the fun be if everyone knew

472
00:44:02,002 --> 00:44:05,178
everything?
Besides, I hardly have the run of the

473
00:44:05,202 --> 00:44:10,418
place. Not with laughing boy there
hovering the whole time. He's just

474
00:44:10,442 --> 00:44:14,081
waiting for his chance to collar me.
Slightest malfeasance.

475
00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:20,257
Surely you're a model of
respectability, Mr. Book.

476
00:44:20,281 --> 00:00:44:27,360
You'd be surprised: they got
Ivor Novello for his petrol coupons

477
00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:44,561
All right, we're out.
Out you go.

478
00:44:45,561 --> 00:44:50,497
Eric. Eric.

479
00:44:50,521 --> 00:44:56,576
All right. No, no, no contact.
Enough of that.

480
00:44:56,600 --> 00:44:59,217
That's enough. Run for

481
00:44:59,241 --> 00:45:02,241
love.

482
00:45:05,321 --> 00:45:08,321
Hell’s bells….

483
00:45:10,201 --> 00:45:13,201
Eric.

484
00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:26,640
Eric, come out, man.
Don't be a fool.

485
00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:31,840
Think I see him. Eric.

486
00:45:46,761 --> 00:45:52,481
That's it. That way. Come on.

487
00:46:24,521 --> 00:46:28,161
Where did he go?

488
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:31,600
There

489
00:46:43,401 --> 00:46:47,217
crater.
This is - was - Inkerman Street,

490
00:46:47,241 --> 00:46:52,017
which means Mr. Basehart's
fastidiousness has come good at

491
00:46:52,041 --> 00:46:56,721
last. If the ruddy
thing's still working.

492
00:47:13,401 --> 00:47:19,201
All right.
Wellbeloved, come quietly.

493
00:47:21,081 --> 00:47:24,401
You see him

494
00:47:25,801 --> 00:47:28,801
there?

495
00:47:29,481 --> 00:47:37,481
Eric, stop. Don't lose him. I'm trying.
I'm going in. Let me talk to him.

496
00:47:58,120 --> 00:48:05,537
Where are you going to run to, Eric?
There's nothing to be done.

497
00:48:05,561 --> 00:48:09,120
Where will you go,

498
00:48:09,880 --> 00:48:12,880
Eric?

499
00:48:43,640 --> 00:48:47,777
You can give up today or tomorrow, Eric.
It's inevitable.

500
00:48:47,801 --> 00:48:52,737
The law must take its course.
That's what you said.

501
00:48:52,761 --> 00:48:56,961
You're not stringing me up.

502
00:48:58,761 --> 00:49:05,616
Eric, no. You shan’t do that to me.
I've seen

503
00:49:05,640 --> 00:49:10,897
beasts go. It's not always kind.
Eric, stop.

504
00:49:10,921 --> 00:49:17,521
What about Enid?
You’re going to leave her to face the rope alone?

505
00:49:17,721 --> 00:49:22,417
You're right.
She did all this for me.

506
00:49:22,441 --> 00:49:27,521
Yes. All for me.

507
00:49:31,321 --> 00:49:36,401
I can't leave her to face the
music, can I?

508
00:49:36,921 --> 00:49:43,761
If we're going to
go, we go together.

509
00:49:47,640 --> 00:49:51,600
No. No.

510
00:50:01,241 --> 00:50:08,897
For him the hemlock shall distill.
For him the axe be bared.

511
00:50:08,921 --> 00:50:16,921
For him the gibbet shall be built.
For him the stake prepared.

512
00:50:18,441 --> 00:50:24,816
I see him up there with Mr. Book.
And then.

513
00:50:24,840 --> 00:50:29,418
Wallop. He just fell. Dropped like a stone.
I mean he must have broke his

514
00:50:29,442 --> 00:50:32,417
neck. Sad business.

515
00:50:32,441 --> 00:50:39,777
Very sad. Well, this is a treat.
Pineapple chunks.

516
00:50:39,801 --> 00:50:44,161
Haven't had these
since before the war.

517
00:50:45,241 --> 00:50:48,257
So, what now?
What do you mean?

518
00:50:48,281 --> 00:50:53,217
We just go back to selling books?
Well, that's the job, Jack. Just Jack.

519
00:50:53,241 --> 00:50:57,137
Yeah, but that was Yeah,

520
00:50:57,161 --> 00:50:59,297
but it was so
bloody exciting.

521
00:50:59,321 --> 00:51:03,777
Can't be like this all the
time, young man. And anyway,

522
00:51:03,801 --> 00:51:08,961
who are you?
You haven't really said.

523
00:51:13,080 --> 00:51:18,417
Jack Blunt. I was brought
up in an orphanage. Like I

524
00:51:18,441 --> 00:51:23,457
told you, made acquaintances
with the wrong sort.

525
00:51:23,481 --> 00:51:25,297
I did time for it. Oh,

526
00:51:25,321 --> 00:51:28,640
yeah. Oh,

527
00:51:29,961 --> 00:51:34,737
I was the driver for a smash and grab
up Mayfair way. They got away with a

528
00:51:34,761 --> 00:51:40,657
load of mink coats.
I got away with two years.

529
00:51:40,681 --> 00:51:46,417
I missed the war, some of it anyway.
And then

530
00:51:46,441 --> 00:51:53,457
I get a letter from the Prison Reform Society.
An address for a job. This

531
00:51:53,481 --> 00:51:56,018
address. Well, there we are.
And no need to

532
00:51:56,042 --> 00:51:58,576
mention it again.
Yeah, but why me?

533
00:51:58,600 --> 00:52:02,257
Why'd you pick me? Altruism.

534
00:52:02,281 --> 00:52:05,218
What? Giving a second
chance to someone felt

535
00:52:05,242 --> 00:52:08,258
like the right thing to do.
Yeah, but you don't know me from Adam.

536
00:52:08,282 --> 00:52:11,538
Oh, he was hopeless, wasn't he, Trottie?
Always wandering around the shop in the

537
00:52:11,562 --> 00:52:13,458
altogether.
Getting his fig leaf trapped in the

538
00:52:13,482 --> 00:52:16,336
till. I'm serious.
I mean, bloody hell. I am

539
00:52:16,360 --> 00:52:23,056
grateful and all that,
but it's nice here.

540
00:52:23,080 --> 00:52:27,658
It's really nice.
But Book’s is a raft on the great turbulent

541
00:52:27,682 --> 00:52:30,096
sea of life.
You mean books are a raft?

542
00:52:30,120 --> 00:52:34,721
No, no.
Book’s, this place, my shop.

543
00:52:35,001 --> 00:52:40,898
Don't dwell in it, Jack. Just accept it.
It's a second chance.

544
00:52:40,922 --> 00:52:45,217
But why me? Why not?
You only live once, but if you do it

545
00:52:45,241 --> 00:52:51,217
right, once is enough.
Shakespeare?

546
00:52:51,241 --> 00:52:54,561
May West.

547
00:53:15,880 --> 00:53:18,880

548
00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:32,080

549
00:54:00,840 --> 00:54:03,840

550
00:54:06,120 --> 00:54:08,681

551
00:54:09,305 --> 00:55:09,527
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