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They don't get any lighter.

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All the latest news.

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Bit lost, love?

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Ah... 158?

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Just there, sweetheart.

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Ta.

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Hold that, would you?

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What do you make of it?

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- Looks old.
- It is.

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Barely indifferent Jacobean poetry,

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calfskin binding, worth a couple of bob.

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What are these brown spots on the pages?

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You get straight to the heart of the
matter, Mr... um...

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Jack. It's just Jack.

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That's called foxing, Jack-just-Jack.

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It's what time does to books.

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To all of us.

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In the profession, we say
it's "slightly foxed." Interested?

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You know, there's a mistake.

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A mistake?

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Well, isn't there?

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- Above the door, a sign.
- What about it?

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Well, it's wrong, isn't it?
There's no apostrophe in "books."

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- There is.
- There isn't.

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- There is.
- There isn't.

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- There is.
- There isn't.

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There is. If your name is Book and
you own the shop. Which it is. And I do.

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My name is Book. Book's books.

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Confusing, I know. Or is it handy?
I can never decide.

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Anyway, I'm Book and I run a bookshop.

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This one, obviously.
You must be here about the job. Tea?

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Not quite there yet.

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I'm trying to make ginger snaps.

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- How much?
- Where were you dragged up?

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One for each person and one for the pot.

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Oh.

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Where have we got to, Jack-just-Jack?

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Uh, this is dog,

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Book, dog, job.

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I have a little hobby on the side,

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and I find it's taking me away
from the shop more and more.

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So, I require assistance.

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God.

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Oh, that's better.
I must have tea.

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Without tea, I am merely
unreconstituted dust.

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Look, this isn't really my sort of gaff.

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I mean, I thought they'd maybe send me
to a factory or something.

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They?

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

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- You know that I was...
- No need to mention it again.

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What are you hoping for now?
You've got the job, Jack-just-Jack.

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I just want to keep my head down, you know.

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Try and get back to normal.
Wait, I've got the job?

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Normality is overrated. Yes,
you got the job. If you want it.

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Darling, you must come at once.

56
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- Oh.
- Uh... Trottie, this is Jack. Just Jack.

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Jack, this is Trottie, my wife.

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Hello.

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- Hello.
- Well, what is it?

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The bomb site. The men clearing the bomb site.
You know where Inkermman Street used to be?

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Oh, yes, that one. What of it?

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Well, they found something
in suspicious circumstances.

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My favourite kind of circumstances.

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Sync and corrections: minouhse
www.addic7ed.com

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I was wondering if we'd be seeing you.

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- Like a bad penny, Sergeant.
- Yeah, well, you know my feelings.

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You've made them exquisitely plain,

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but as you know, I do have
a special letter from Churchill.

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Yeah,

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All right.

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Oh, hello Book.

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Mrs. Book, thought this might
be up your street.

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Almost literally.

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Start at the beginning, inspector,
and leave nothing out.

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Especially if it's salacious,
gory, or vaguely scandalous.

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Bit of a puzzle. Mr. Basehart here
was starting to clear away the rubble

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- from his old bomb site the other day.
- Inkerman Street caught it in 44, didn't it?

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Yes, sir. Terrible pounding.

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- Do you remember that raid, sir?
- How could I forget?

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Trottie and I ended up cheek
by jowl in the Anderson shelter

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with the man from the credential
insurance company.

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He had lovely fingernails.

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Terrible halitosis.

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Those shelters weren't built for sharing.

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War's over, Mr. Basehart.

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Quite so, sir. But I still like to
patrol my route for old time's sake.

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And to keep an eye on old Brenda there,

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my trusty searchlight.

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Well, here he was trying to clear away
the rubble when lo, what does he find?

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Lo? What?

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Heavens to Betsy.

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Tossed together like a skeletal salad.
How many?

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It's hard to tell, cuz they're all
jumbled up. But 10 or 12, I'd say.

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Quite why Mr. Basehart didn't tell the
authorities about his discovery forthwith

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- is another matter.
- He didn't?

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No. Some kiddies who were playing here
let us know.

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As I was saying, I have a theory.

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Well, obviously they copped it
in the raid, didn't they?

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What do you think, Jack?

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- Me?
- You.

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Uh,

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yeah. That's what must have happened.

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Air raid killed him.

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Died 2 years ago
and now they're all rotted away.

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That would be a logical assumption.

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Who's this?

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

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If you recall, Inkerman Street was
already empty, wasn't it, Mr. Basehart?

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Scheduled for demolition.

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So, nobody was living here, in which case.

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- Who are they?
- Well, anybody, surely?

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Anybody could have taken shelter from
the bombing in one of the empty houses?

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A dozen of them. What about clothes?

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- Clothes?
- All flesh is grass.

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The raid was only 2 years ago.

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Even if the bodies had rotted away,
their clothes would still be intact.

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I think Mr. Basehart and I are
thinking along similar lines.

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Well,

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that would appear to be the clincher.

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What do you think?

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The unmistakable bonds of King Charles II.

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Oh, does it have a date on it, too?

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1665.

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Plague pit, yeah?

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So, it would seem.

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- A what?
- Plague pit.

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The great plague.

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London's burial grounds were overflowing,

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so they dug these great big pits
and dumped all the corpses in them.

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I'm a bit of an archaeologist.

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On the side, strictly amateur,
you understand?

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So, why didn't you tell us
straight away when you found them?

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Well, I knew I'd never get
a chance like this again.

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I just wanted a bit of time
to excavate them.

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Fascinating stuff.

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I really am very sorry, Inspector.

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Yes. Well, no harm done, I suppose.

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Not sure about that.

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These skeletons might still be lively.

140
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Well, you mean it's still catching.

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The jury, as they say, is out,

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but I think it's very unlikely.
Do you mind if I hang on to this?

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- You're welcome to it.
- Right, Mr. Book?

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Well, hello, Nora.

145
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Why I'm not surprised to see you here?

146
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Did you know that back then
they used to use great catapults

147
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to toss plaguey corpses
into besieged cities

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to deliberately infect people?

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- That's horrible, Nora.
- I know.

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And a split infinitive.
Even more horrible.

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Might be worth a bit too.

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Sergeant, get this lot.

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Taken care of in a pronto with care.

154
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And where to, sir?

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Uh... uh... morgue, I suppose.

156
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Get Dr. Gold to take a shufty.

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See if there's any chance
they're still infectious.

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Sure.

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- Thank you, Book.
- Аnytime, Inspector.

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Sergeant.

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Why can't you collect stamps
like normal people?

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Oh dear.

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Are you all right?

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Yeah. Um,

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it's all just a bit, uh...

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being coppers.

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I've uh been away, you see. And...

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Oh, yes, I know.

169
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Can't have been very nice.

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Tell me all about it when you're ready.
Hey, let me take this.

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Well, you must stay with us, mustn't you?

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Now that you've got the job.
I have the premises next door.

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Book has his books.
I have my wallpaper.

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And there is a darling little
attic room between the two.

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Why are you helping me like this?

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Why not?

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What old Harkop?

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- Suicide, I heard.
- Heard?

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Uh, from your colleague over there.

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Oh, I’ll have his ruddy guts for garters.

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- This goes against all the rules.
- Of right, Sergeant. All right.

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Mr. Book's always welcome to give us
the benefit of his wisdom, as you know.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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Bad business, Book, very bad.
Poor sod.

186
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But look, Morris has a point.
This is a plain ordinary suicide.

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I mean, I can be flexible, as you know.

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When something a little bit more...

189
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Recherche, entrée,
anything with an acute accent.

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Unusual comes along like
our friends the skeleton.

191
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But this is a meat-and-potatoes job.

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You know the sergeant and I are
perfectly capable...

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Who found him?

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Charwoman, Ada Dredge.

195
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Pretty shook up, she is.

196
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Dredge... it rings a little bell.

197
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She's been doing
for Harkup for donkeys’ years.

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Ding dong.

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- Was there a note?
- No, no note.

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How did he do it?

201
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Prussic acid.

202
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Nasty.

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Аnd intriguing, don't you think?

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Mr. Harkup?

205
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Afraid so.
Looks like suicide.

206
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Oh, dreadful.

207
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Well, I'd better get on.

208
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Too much excitement for one day.

209
00:15:17,096 --> 00:15:19,580
Jack, nip back the shop, would you?

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00:15:19,780 --> 00:15:22,952
There's a pile of newspapers.
Third stack on the right as you come in.

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Charing Cross Dispatch underneath

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two volumes of Eleanor of Castile
and the wilting aspidistra.

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Fetch them for me would you?

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Okay.

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And put the kettle on again.

216
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We're going to have company.

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All right.

218
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Oh, well, see as it's from him.

219
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Oh, I brought a coffee
and walnut cake round for Mr. Harkup.

220
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You might as well have it.

221
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This is your usual char day.

222
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Yes, every week regular as clockwork.

223
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But I only saw him yesterday

224
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popped around to get some bandages.

225
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Bandages?

226
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Oh, my son.
He was injured in the war.

227
00:16:16,966 --> 00:16:20,539
He needs constant attention.
The dressing.

228
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What time did you see Mr. Harkup?

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Six... six-ish, I think.

230
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It doesn't seem possible.

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Him standing there
all full of life and then.

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Finding him lying there like that.

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You're doing very well.
And was he?

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Was he?

235
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Full of life when you saw him
in good spirits, I mean.

236
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Well, to be honest,
he seemed a little down.

237
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Though why’d he want to go and do a
horrible thing like that to himself.

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Any vices?

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Vices, sir.

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We must investigate all angles,
alas, dear lady.

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Man of very regular habits.
He was at church every Sunday.

242
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Kept his accounts in very neat order.
I think that was the soldier in him.

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He... he did play dominoes.

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Dominoes?

245
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Every Monday and Thursday night

246
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in the Bull with Mr. Basehart
and some others.

247
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Does that count as a vice?

248
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- I hardly think so.
- He have any family?

249
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My mother always said, "If you can't
say anything nice about someone,

250
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don’t open your trap".

251
00:17:32,293 --> 00:17:34,880
So, there was... bad blood then?

252
00:17:36,771 --> 00:17:40,379
There's a daughter, isn't there?
Some estrangement.

253
00:17:40,504 --> 00:17:42,443
I wouldn't like to say.

254
00:17:42,985 --> 00:17:44,548
Don't seem right.

255
00:17:45,430 --> 00:17:47,348
What with Mr. H not cold in his grave?

256
00:17:47,473 --> 00:17:49,180
Heavens, this cake.

257
00:17:49,305 --> 00:17:50,914
- Yes.
- Oh, it's superb.

258
00:17:51,040 --> 00:17:53,126
Oh, too kind, sir.

259
00:17:53,251 --> 00:17:55,514
But then I'd expect nothing less.

260
00:17:55,640 --> 00:17:57,154
Oh, why'd you say that?

261
00:17:57,280 --> 00:18:00,215
From Miss Lyon's Corner House, 1921.

262
00:18:01,816 --> 00:18:04,264
Fancy you knowing that.

263
00:18:04,564 --> 00:18:05,900
It was 1922, though.

264
00:18:06,025 --> 00:18:08,499
- My mistake.
- How the Dickens.

265
00:18:08,625 --> 00:18:11,220
Oh, I store up a lot
of little tidbits like that.

266
00:18:11,345 --> 00:18:12,919
Mostly useless.

267
00:18:13,044 --> 00:18:15,387
Must have been a lovely experience.

268
00:18:15,512 --> 00:18:16,759
Oh yes.

269
00:18:16,885 --> 00:18:19,120
Oh, I've never felt so glamorous.

270
00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:23,538
I bought a new hat
and the Lord Mayor winked at me.

271
00:18:24,048 --> 00:18:25,797
- Winked.
- Fancy.

272
00:18:25,922 --> 00:18:29,204
Worked there for years.
I did at the corner house.

273
00:18:29,330 --> 00:18:31,588
So I got very good with the baking.

274
00:18:32,257 --> 00:18:34,807
Mr. H used to love my
pineapple upside down.

275
00:18:34,932 --> 00:18:38,655
You know, it really would be most
helpful to know why he and his daughter

276
00:18:38,780 --> 00:18:40,788
Sarah, uh...

277
00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:43,820
- Marula...
- Marula, that's right.

278
00:18:43,945 --> 00:18:46,960
Why he and Marula no longer saw eye to eye.

279
00:18:48,478 --> 00:18:51,534
Well, seeing as you've been so kind, sir.

280
00:18:51,659 --> 00:18:53,920
- Very good of you.
- She was a cow.

281
00:18:54,773 --> 00:18:58,399
All right? Horrible, money
grabbing little cow.

282
00:18:58,524 --> 00:18:59,620
I see.

283
00:18:59,746 --> 00:19:02,668
Apple of his eye she was,
after his wife passed on.

284
00:19:03,342 --> 00:19:06,780
But she knew how to twist
him around her little finger.

285
00:19:06,905 --> 00:19:09,393
Nothing was too much for
his little princess.

286
00:19:09,518 --> 00:19:14,031
Oh, and then she has the
gall to run off with him.

287
00:19:14,156 --> 00:19:15,394
Him?

288
00:19:15,785 --> 00:19:19,298
Mickey. Mickey Hall.
It's a right ne’er-do-well.

289
00:19:19,423 --> 00:19:21,640
Up to all sorts in the war.
Spy stuff, you know.

290
00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:23,496
Black market.

291
00:19:23,621 --> 00:19:25,370
He's a motor mechanic.

292
00:19:25,495 --> 00:19:27,646
They've got a garage out Mile End way.

293
00:19:27,771 --> 00:19:29,600
- Mile End?
- Charming.

294
00:19:29,884 --> 00:19:32,596
And now Marula will inherit the lot.

295
00:19:34,978 --> 00:19:36,440
Don't seem right, do it?

296
00:19:37,059 --> 00:19:38,757
No, it, um...

297
00:19:39,225 --> 00:19:42,017
Don't. Thanks for the cake.

298
00:19:45,465 --> 00:19:47,600
What the hell do you think you're doing?

299
00:19:47,726 --> 00:19:50,408
Just being neighbourly, Sergeant.

300
00:19:50,534 --> 00:19:53,468
Uh... your witness, I think.

301
00:20:04,649 --> 00:20:06,773
- Hello again.
- Oh, hello, Book.

302
00:20:07,045 --> 00:20:11,407
I just wondered if I could have a little
nosy around before I head out.

303
00:20:11,706 --> 00:20:14,286
- See if I can help at all.
- Head out.

304
00:20:14,411 --> 00:20:16,397
Oh, Mrs. Book and I
are often pleasure bent.

305
00:20:16,522 --> 00:20:18,204
The new boys, babysitting.

306
00:20:18,739 --> 00:20:19,952
Oh, for the dog.

307
00:20:20,078 --> 00:20:22,253
Dog? There's no definite article.

308
00:20:22,378 --> 00:20:23,790
Off to the pictures.

309
00:20:23,915 --> 00:20:26,176
There's a rerunning of Sandra Dare
at the Rialto.

310
00:20:26,301 --> 00:20:27,400
The opera.

311
00:20:27,665 --> 00:20:29,556
Fat ladies singing.

312
00:20:30,861 --> 00:20:32,988
Speaking of which, may I, um...

313
00:20:37,225 --> 00:20:40,705
There's a daughter, but Mrs. Dredge
says they didn't get on.

314
00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:43,987
So, I gather.

315
00:20:44,113 --> 00:20:46,447
Yeah, we're endeavouring to trace her.

316
00:20:46,645 --> 00:20:49,830
She has a garage, Mile End.

317
00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:52,967
Oh, right.
Thanks.

318
00:21:11,816 --> 00:21:13,361
Funny, aren't they?

319
00:21:14,079 --> 00:21:16,162
Mrs. Bliss goes in for something similar.

320
00:21:16,287 --> 00:21:18,096
Little... little knickknacks.

321
00:21:18,221 --> 00:21:19,917
Not quite the same, I think.

322
00:21:20,043 --> 00:21:23,136
These are jade, rather fine.

323
00:21:24,829 --> 00:21:26,338
And this one...

324
00:21:32,437 --> 00:21:35,247
Mr. Harkup was obviously
a connoisseur.

325
00:21:53,612 --> 00:21:56,619
- Do you think it was suicide?
- You have doubts?

326
00:21:56,744 --> 00:21:59,616
I do. What's your theory?

327
00:21:59,741 --> 00:22:01,776
- Evening, gentlemen.
- Evening.

328
00:22:01,901 --> 00:22:05,360
- Oh, Eric. Black Lamb and Grave Falcon.
- Hey?

329
00:22:05,486 --> 00:22:07,148
That book for Sheila.
It's arrived.

330
00:22:07,273 --> 00:22:10,025
Oh, smashing.
Um, she'll come over tomorrow for it.

331
00:22:10,150 --> 00:22:11,595
- Right.
- Whet your whistle?

332
00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:13,083
Oh, thank you.

333
00:22:13,208 --> 00:22:15,384
I was never keen on him myself.

334
00:22:15,509 --> 00:22:17,020
Harkup.

335
00:22:17,296 --> 00:22:18,800
God forgive me.

336
00:22:19,264 --> 00:22:23,819
- Bit of a little Hitler.
- Still poor bugger offing himself like that.

337
00:22:24,574 --> 00:22:27,499
So... is that your theory?

338
00:22:27,631 --> 00:22:29,846
Patience, Inspector. Patience.

339
00:22:29,972 --> 00:22:34,271
The two most powerful warriors
are patience and time. Tolstoy.

340
00:22:34,396 --> 00:22:35,604
Oh, I couldn't get into it.

341
00:22:35,730 --> 00:22:38,800
I tried that one, you know, where she
chucks herself in front of a train.

342
00:22:38,926 --> 00:22:40,436
- No.
- No.

343
00:22:41,362 --> 00:22:43,492
- Book.
- Inspector.

344
00:23:17,545 --> 00:23:19,000
Too much?

345
00:23:21,225 --> 00:23:23,809
No, not at all. Uh...

346
00:23:24,852 --> 00:23:26,214
You look amazing.

347
00:23:26,406 --> 00:23:27,640
I meant the walls.

348
00:23:28,660 --> 00:23:31,974
- Oh.
- Book says it's an affront to good taste,

349
00:23:32,099 --> 00:23:35,160
I think it has a certain something,
don't you?

350
00:23:35,565 --> 00:23:39,160
I'm good at knocking things together.
I always have been.

351
00:23:39,361 --> 00:23:42,897
Wardrobes, wireless sets, heads.

352
00:23:43,022 --> 00:23:45,198
I was in the Land Army. Gin?

353
00:23:45,324 --> 00:23:48,560
What? Oh, yeah, please.

354
00:23:50,942 --> 00:23:52,538
So, you're going out then?

355
00:23:52,663 --> 00:23:54,333
I do. We're always going out.

356
00:23:55,297 --> 00:23:57,369
Well, one has to live, doesn't one?

357
00:23:57,494 --> 00:23:59,775
Especially after the time we've all had.

358
00:23:59,900 --> 00:24:01,896
There's some chops in the larder I think.

359
00:24:02,021 --> 00:24:04,200
Your room's up at the top.
I've aired the sheets.

360
00:24:08,212 --> 00:24:09,538
You're...

361
00:24:09,664 --> 00:24:10,920
I mean...

362
00:24:12,492 --> 00:24:13,706
Thank you.

363
00:24:21,885 --> 00:24:23,548
Better go and unpack.

364
00:24:36,585 --> 00:24:39,086
- Well.
- Well?

365
00:24:40,905 --> 00:24:44,139
I know that look.
You're onto something.

366
00:24:44,264 --> 00:24:47,353
Nonsense. Merely the happy
look of a contented man.

367
00:24:47,478 --> 00:24:50,747
I have my lovely wife,
my lovely shop, my lovely dog.

368
00:24:50,872 --> 00:24:54,210
- What more could a man ask for?
- Broad.

369
00:24:54,525 --> 00:24:55,920
Three things then.

370
00:24:56,191 --> 00:25:00,456
Mr. Harkup collected Chinese jade
figures of exceptional quality.

371
00:25:00,581 --> 00:25:02,404
But dust is eloquent.

372
00:25:02,529 --> 00:25:05,738
As someone once said, dust doesn't lie.

373
00:25:06,131 --> 00:25:08,986
One of the figures has been
replaced with a bit of cheap trash,

374
00:25:09,111 --> 00:25:12,920
a chess piece, but the larger
outline remains clear.

375
00:25:13,625 --> 00:25:16,520
Mrs. Dredge hasn't cleaned in a while,
despite what she said.

376
00:25:16,646 --> 00:25:18,381
Secondly. Mr. Harkup

377
00:25:18,507 --> 00:25:21,082
has a small lump on the back of his head.

378
00:25:21,311 --> 00:25:23,856
Not caused by him falling, I don't think.

379
00:25:23,981 --> 00:25:26,936
Or, probably, a blow
with a blunt instrument.

380
00:25:27,061 --> 00:25:29,534
A blunt instrument that
didn't break the skin.

381
00:25:29,659 --> 00:25:32,954
And yet, there is blood on the back
of Mr. Harkup's scalp.

382
00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:34,371
- Thirdly.
- Yes?

383
00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:36,923
Darkling I listen;

384
00:25:37,049 --> 00:25:41,199
and, for many a time I have been
half in love with easeful Death,

385
00:25:41,541 --> 00:25:45,962
Call'd him soft names
in many a mused rhyme,

386
00:25:46,087 --> 00:25:48,915
To take into the air my quiet breath.

387
00:25:49,942 --> 00:25:51,259
Pardon?

388
00:25:51,384 --> 00:25:55,416
Why would a chemist with every known
gentle poison in the shop

389
00:25:55,542 --> 00:25:58,561
choose to kill himself with
something as horrible

390
00:25:58,686 --> 00:26:00,080
as prussic acid?

391
00:26:02,984 --> 00:26:06,430
Well, Book.
There you are, then.

392
00:26:06,744 --> 00:26:09,440
Yes, Trottie. There we are.

393
00:26:12,586 --> 00:26:14,454
It's murder.

394
00:26:41,465 --> 00:26:43,991
- Book?
- Mrs. Book?

395
00:26:44,884 --> 00:26:46,278
Be careful.

396
00:27:42,932 --> 00:27:44,449
Shop.

397
00:27:46,825 --> 00:27:48,760
Ah, good morning.

398
00:27:52,258 --> 00:27:54,894
- How can I help?
- Oh, well, I'm...

399
00:27:55,580 --> 00:27:58,914
- I'm after a book.
- You are very much in the right place.

400
00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:01,373
What do you think, young man?
What would suit the lady best?

401
00:28:01,499 --> 00:28:04,559
Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Henry James.

402
00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:07,577
Do you have the new Georgette Heyer?

403
00:28:08,058 --> 00:28:09,284
Ah.

404
00:28:09,512 --> 00:28:13,201
- Well, I've read all her other ones.
- Me too, and what a smasher she is.

405
00:28:13,326 --> 00:28:15,265
But that would be a new book, miss um...

406
00:28:15,390 --> 00:28:16,889
Mrs. Goodwin.

407
00:28:17,014 --> 00:28:18,520
- Mrs. Goodwin.
- Jean.

408
00:28:18,646 --> 00:28:21,860
Jean. We don't really go for those,
do we?

409
00:28:23,252 --> 00:28:25,230
We should try Foyle’s.

410
00:28:25,847 --> 00:28:28,874
It's a bit of a trudge,
with my feet being what they are.

411
00:28:28,999 --> 00:28:30,622
I have the perfect alternative.

412
00:28:30,747 --> 00:28:32,310
One who is spinning romantic yarns

413
00:28:32,435 --> 00:28:35,151
when Miss Heyer
was still in the cradle, probably.

414
00:28:35,276 --> 00:28:37,209
- Oh, well, if you think that...
- Shh.

415
00:28:37,334 --> 00:28:39,573
- But I mean, if you'd recommend...
- Shh.

416
00:28:39,852 --> 00:28:41,136
Beg your pardon, I'm sure.

417
00:28:41,261 --> 00:28:43,452
Sorry, thinking. Ah.

418
00:28:53,305 --> 00:28:55,341
- Orczy.
- Never heard of him.

419
00:28:55,467 --> 00:28:58,055
Her. Baroness, Hungarian.

420
00:28:58,180 --> 00:28:59,681
The Scarlet Pimpanel.

421
00:28:59,807 --> 00:29:01,776
Oh, I've heard of that.

422
00:29:01,967 --> 00:29:03,186
French Revolution.

423
00:29:03,312 --> 00:29:05,918
It's a delight. You won't regret it.

424
00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:09,408
When you've finished, come
back and I'll find you the sequel.

425
00:29:09,533 --> 00:29:12,683
Oh, that's very good of you.
What do I hear of you?

426
00:29:12,808 --> 00:29:15,269
Oh, let's call it a bob. Hang on.

427
00:29:15,583 --> 00:29:19,096
Feet, feet, feet, feet. Ah.

428
00:29:20,425 --> 00:29:23,331
This is free.

429
00:29:23,959 --> 00:29:25,609
Oh, I couldn't possibly.

430
00:29:25,735 --> 00:29:27,803
Well, there's nothing.
But sending you off

431
00:29:27,928 --> 00:29:31,812
happily on the bus without further
bunions is a price above rubies.

432
00:29:31,938 --> 00:29:33,952
Wouldn't you agree, Jean?

433
00:29:34,819 --> 00:29:37,633
- Thank you.
- Cheer by.

434
00:29:38,719 --> 00:29:40,389
Come on, woman.

435
00:29:41,705 --> 00:29:43,659
I'll never make any money
like that, will I?

436
00:29:47,005 --> 00:29:51,400
Hey-ho. Now then, Jack,
excited to start the day.

437
00:29:51,637 --> 00:29:54,160
There's a whole world of learning in here.

438
00:29:54,716 --> 00:29:58,994
All human life and some inhuman.
Still got that coin?

439
00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:01,906
Well, oh, uh, yeah.
Yeah, of course.

440
00:30:02,031 --> 00:30:03,268
Good.

441
00:30:04,871 --> 00:30:08,520
I don't mean to pry, Mr. Book,
but um...

442
00:30:09,603 --> 00:30:11,578
what exactly is it you do?

443
00:30:11,703 --> 00:30:13,596
I would have thought that was obvious.

444
00:30:13,721 --> 00:30:15,209
I sell books.

445
00:30:15,334 --> 00:30:16,800
Yeah, but that's not all, is it?

446
00:30:17,225 --> 00:30:20,416
Yesterday out there at the bomb site,

447
00:30:20,541 --> 00:30:22,626
- a chat with a charlady.
- Yes.

448
00:30:22,751 --> 00:30:24,486
Well, is that like your...

449
00:30:24,984 --> 00:30:26,240
your hobby?

450
00:30:27,138 --> 00:30:29,754
I mean, the way you talk to those coppers,

451
00:30:29,879 --> 00:30:31,898
where they let you roam around that pit.

452
00:30:32,024 --> 00:30:34,359
Are you like some sort of adviser
to them or something?

453
00:30:34,484 --> 00:30:36,274
I mean, why should they listen to you?

454
00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:38,753
They frequently don't, more fool them.

455
00:30:39,771 --> 00:30:42,776
I did the inspector
a favour once during the war.

456
00:30:42,902 --> 00:30:44,402
He hasn't forgotten.

457
00:30:44,641 --> 00:30:46,318
Also, I have a special letter.

458
00:30:46,443 --> 00:30:49,505
A letter from Churchill.
Yeah, the cop has said that.

459
00:30:50,750 --> 00:30:52,560
A letter saying what?

460
00:30:54,121 --> 00:30:56,511
It's a chaotic world, Jack.

461
00:30:56,947 --> 00:30:58,543
I have a system.

462
00:30:58,668 --> 00:31:01,496
Sometimes people like me to give
an opinion on things,

463
00:31:01,621 --> 00:31:03,880
impose a little order.
That's all.

464
00:31:04,717 --> 00:31:06,600
You can read all sorts of things,

465
00:31:07,414 --> 00:31:09,040
as well as books.

466
00:31:09,419 --> 00:31:10,866
This...

467
00:31:10,991 --> 00:31:14,707
- This is your system.
- Yes.

468
00:31:15,066 --> 00:31:17,054
What's wrong with it?

469
00:31:17,179 --> 00:31:19,645
Well, they're not in any kind of order.

470
00:31:21,551 --> 00:31:24,034
Cataracts of denial.

471
00:31:25,384 --> 00:31:28,345
Diseases of the eye and their treatment.

472
00:31:28,692 --> 00:31:31,205
Cataracts. Eye disease. Logical.

473
00:31:32,232 --> 00:31:34,251
The guillotine. A practical guide.

474
00:31:34,376 --> 00:31:37,306
The life and death of Alfred Mutton's Gent.

475
00:31:37,545 --> 00:31:38,913
Coins of the realm.

476
00:31:39,038 --> 00:31:41,068
I mean, there's no system.
There's no system at all.

477
00:31:41,193 --> 00:31:44,651
Well, it's all up here, isn't it?
How best to explain?

478
00:31:45,346 --> 00:31:47,688
Alfred Martins was a career criminal,

479
00:31:47,813 --> 00:31:49,348
very successful forger in his day,

480
00:31:49,473 --> 00:31:51,908
which was Queen Victoria's day.
Extraordinary chap in his field.

481
00:31:52,033 --> 00:31:53,891
He was a coiner, a forger of coins,

482
00:31:54,016 --> 00:31:57,075
but his luck ran out in Paris
and they chopped off his head,

483
00:31:57,200 --> 00:31:59,294
which is why all those books
are clumped together, you see.

484
00:31:59,420 --> 00:32:01,036
Yeah, but that's...

485
00:32:02,511 --> 00:32:04,210
I mean, that's silly.

486
00:32:06,264 --> 00:32:07,891
Nevertheless.

487
00:32:09,564 --> 00:32:11,833
Well, I shall leave you to, uh,

488
00:32:11,958 --> 00:32:13,566
hold the fort.

489
00:32:31,224 --> 00:32:32,810
Slightly foxed.

490
00:32:35,811 --> 00:32:38,026
Slightly foxed.

491
00:32:39,399 --> 00:32:40,857
Says it all.

492
00:33:08,782 --> 00:33:12,149
- Morning.
- Yeah. Uh, can I help you?

493
00:33:12,461 --> 00:33:14,060
I've come to collect an order.

494
00:33:14,185 --> 00:33:16,848
Uh, right. Um, what's the name?

495
00:33:16,974 --> 00:33:18,600
Sheila Wellbeloved.

496
00:33:24,131 --> 00:33:25,415
Hello.

497
00:33:26,179 --> 00:33:27,434
- Jack?
- Yeah.

498
00:33:27,699 --> 00:33:31,132
I'm Nora.
We've got lots to talk about.

499
00:33:45,423 --> 00:33:48,841
- Thank you, miss. Again, very sorry for you.
- Can I go now?

500
00:33:48,967 --> 00:33:51,686
Well, if you wouldn't
mind just answering a few questions.

501
00:33:52,599 --> 00:33:55,966
Um, would you just come with
me, please, miss.

502
00:33:56,671 --> 00:33:57,914
Fascinating.

503
00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:01,499
- Where better to hide a tree?
- Than in a forest?

504
00:34:01,792 --> 00:34:04,379
And these markings.

505
00:34:04,504 --> 00:34:06,073
Indeed.

506
00:34:06,198 --> 00:34:08,322
- Book.
- Oh, hello.

507
00:34:08,447 --> 00:34:11,148
Just checking in on those
skeletons with Dr. Calder here.

508
00:34:11,273 --> 00:34:13,616
Ah, yes. Any risk of infection?

509
00:34:13,741 --> 00:34:15,913
Quite safe on that,
County Inspector. However.

510
00:34:16,038 --> 00:34:16,734
Ah.

511
00:34:16,859 --> 00:34:20,056
Loose lips drop slips,
as they say in the nicker trade.

512
00:34:20,181 --> 00:34:22,334
Wouldn't want to spoil
the surprise, would we?

513
00:34:22,657 --> 00:34:24,084
Surprise?

514
00:34:24,704 --> 00:34:26,303
Anyway, back to the case in hand,

515
00:34:26,428 --> 00:34:28,296
this is Miss Marula Harkup.

516
00:34:28,421 --> 00:34:31,188
Oh, my dear child, I'm so very sorry.

517
00:34:31,371 --> 00:34:33,732
A few questions, you said.

518
00:34:33,857 --> 00:34:36,240
Do you mind if I tag along?

519
00:34:40,724 --> 00:34:43,416
Oh, don't forget that blood test, will you?

520
00:34:43,541 --> 00:34:44,917
On its way.

521
00:34:49,217 --> 00:34:50,633
Sorry about that.

522
00:34:51,452 --> 00:34:54,606
There you go.
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon.

523
00:34:55,009 --> 00:34:56,440
Sounds interesting?

524
00:34:56,746 --> 00:34:57,978
Ta.

525
00:35:03,971 --> 00:35:05,341
Getting the hang of it?

526
00:35:05,466 --> 00:35:07,000
Slowly.

527
00:35:07,125 --> 00:35:08,976
So, who are you?

528
00:35:09,101 --> 00:35:12,640
Nora. I live across the road
in the Turkish restaurant.

529
00:35:12,765 --> 00:35:14,418
Help out in the shop sometimes.

530
00:35:14,543 --> 00:35:15,926
So, um...

531
00:35:16,267 --> 00:35:18,513
Do you know them well
then, Mr. and Mrs. Book?

532
00:35:19,183 --> 00:35:20,316
Yeah.

533
00:35:20,901 --> 00:35:23,714
And do you know about his little hobby?

534
00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:27,080
Bloody hell. Yes.
It's all I think about.

535
00:35:28,338 --> 00:35:30,595
Isn't all that I mean,

536
00:35:31,649 --> 00:35:33,764
- isn't that...
- Unhealthy?

537
00:35:34,573 --> 00:35:36,047
I should think so.

538
00:35:36,172 --> 00:35:38,030
What'd your mum and dad think?

539
00:35:38,694 --> 00:35:40,267
Don't have any.

540
00:35:41,067 --> 00:35:42,420
What do you mean?

541
00:35:42,546 --> 00:35:45,738
Well, it was the war, wasn't it?

542
00:35:46,567 --> 00:35:48,334
Everyone lost someone.

543
00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:50,635
I lost them.

544
00:35:51,348 --> 00:35:52,681
Sorry.

545
00:35:54,445 --> 00:35:56,325
- What happened?
- So,

546
00:35:56,668 --> 00:35:59,906
how we getting on anyway with the Books,

547
00:36:00,345 --> 00:36:01,892
Mr. and Mrs.

548
00:36:03,705 --> 00:36:06,283
It's not quite what I expected.

549
00:36:06,409 --> 00:36:08,580
What is his Christian name, by the way?

550
00:36:08,847 --> 00:36:10,182
What do you think?

551
00:36:10,942 --> 00:36:14,033
Cook book, scrap book, mucky book.

552
00:36:14,809 --> 00:36:16,120
Gabriel.

553
00:36:16,613 --> 00:36:17,833
Ah.

554
00:36:18,593 --> 00:36:19,800
Like the angel.

555
00:36:19,981 --> 00:36:22,349
Archangel. I think you'll find

556
00:36:22,608 --> 00:36:26,360
they're a dream.
Both of them such sweethearts.

557
00:36:28,304 --> 00:36:29,652
So,

558
00:36:30,137 --> 00:36:31,967
what's your story?

559
00:36:46,025 --> 00:36:48,179
They think I'm hard.

560
00:36:48,305 --> 00:36:52,071
I'm not sniffling,
boohooing all over the shop.

561
00:36:53,521 --> 00:36:56,295
I mean, it's just not the way
I'm made. So there...

562
00:36:57,387 --> 00:36:58,974
Your father.

563
00:36:59,518 --> 00:37:01,491
I'm sorry that he's dead.

564
00:37:01,885 --> 00:37:03,820
Of course I am. He was my dad.

565
00:37:04,172 --> 00:37:06,075
In spite of everything.

566
00:37:08,390 --> 00:37:10,823
He didn't make it easy to, um,

567
00:37:11,404 --> 00:37:12,728
to love him though.

568
00:37:12,853 --> 00:37:15,383
Can you think of any reason why
he'd want to take his own life?

569
00:37:15,510 --> 00:37:19,062
None. No. He was nicely
set up with a shop and

570
00:37:19,925 --> 00:37:22,976
well, mum had left him
a few bob when she died.

571
00:37:23,265 --> 00:37:24,913
You don't think your estrangement?

572
00:37:25,038 --> 00:37:27,450
No. Nothing to do with that.

573
00:37:27,575 --> 00:37:29,685
He wasn't the type to get all emotional.

574
00:37:30,725 --> 00:37:32,689
Maybe that's where I get it from.

575
00:37:34,097 --> 00:37:36,058
I mean, he made it very clear

576
00:37:36,183 --> 00:37:38,379
that he didn't approve of, um,

577
00:37:38,982 --> 00:37:40,480
me and Mickey,

578
00:37:40,756 --> 00:37:44,329
but um... he'd hardly have gotten killed
himself in a fit of the glums about it.

579
00:37:44,454 --> 00:37:46,382
He just wasn’t the type, as I say.

580
00:37:46,665 --> 00:37:48,440
Tell us about Mickey.

581
00:37:51,405 --> 00:37:53,428
What's to say? He's my fellow.

582
00:37:55,326 --> 00:37:57,349
How was his war?

583
00:37:58,165 --> 00:37:59,616
Why do you ask that?

584
00:37:59,755 --> 00:38:02,548
Well, we know how much our
father appreciated the armed forces.

585
00:38:02,673 --> 00:38:05,065
Always wore his medal
ribbons with great pride.

586
00:38:05,190 --> 00:38:07,405
Yes. Well, Mickey wasn't lucky.

587
00:38:07,530 --> 00:38:09,689
His eyes, they're not good.

588
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:13,480
I say that's why he ended up with me.

589
00:38:14,026 --> 00:38:15,271
I mean,

590
00:38:15,396 --> 00:38:18,320
he wouldn't have been much
good against jerry with eyes like his.

591
00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:21,915
Dad didn't like that.
Thought he was a shirker.

592
00:38:22,212 --> 00:38:24,645
- That was the start of it.
- What was the finish?

593
00:38:26,778 --> 00:38:29,424
Well, dad was convinced that
Mickey was thieving from him.

594
00:38:30,177 --> 00:38:31,480
Cash?

595
00:38:32,048 --> 00:38:33,588
Morphine.

596
00:38:35,259 --> 00:38:39,034
Mickey got up to some shady business
during the war.

597
00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:41,618
Just stockings, cigarettes, small stuff.

598
00:38:42,048 --> 00:38:43,421
Dad had, um,

599
00:38:43,547 --> 00:38:45,554
just got it into his head
that Mickey was bad.

600
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:49,160
- And he'd noticed morphine had gone missing.
- Yes.

601
00:38:49,365 --> 00:38:51,372
Wouldn't speak to us.

602
00:38:51,850 --> 00:38:54,129
But you've had a bit of news, haven't you?

603
00:38:59,444 --> 00:39:02,280
I thought a little one might be the
thing that brings us back together.

604
00:39:03,652 --> 00:39:06,973
What's all this about? Why are you so
interested in Mickey if...

605
00:39:07,221 --> 00:39:08,836
dad has gone

606
00:39:09,144 --> 00:39:10,660
and topped himself?

607
00:39:16,647 --> 00:39:19,338
- Stories.
- Detective stories.

608
00:39:19,714 --> 00:39:21,397
That's what I want to write.

609
00:39:21,522 --> 00:39:24,122
I've got so many ideas. It's...

610
00:39:24,567 --> 00:39:27,600
such an exciting new world out there.

611
00:39:28,729 --> 00:39:31,471
Everything's all smashed up.
The whole world.

612
00:39:31,724 --> 00:39:33,276
No one knows what to do anymore.

613
00:39:33,401 --> 00:39:35,004
Well, I do.

614
00:39:35,332 --> 00:39:40,052
The war turned everything upside down.
Shook it up. That's great.

615
00:39:40,177 --> 00:39:42,048
There's no going back
to how things used to be.

616
00:39:42,173 --> 00:39:44,594
- Including murders.
- Including murders.

617
00:39:44,720 --> 00:39:47,096
Half the soldiers in Britain have come home

618
00:39:47,221 --> 00:39:49,813
with pistols they stole from dead Nazis,

619
00:39:49,938 --> 00:39:51,440
the country is awash with them.

620
00:39:51,918 --> 00:39:52,943
So?

621
00:39:53,068 --> 00:39:57,805
So we only seem civilised in this country
because we're not armed.

622
00:39:57,931 --> 00:40:02,727
Think of all that throbbing
suburban passion.

623
00:40:02,852 --> 00:40:06,197
Husbands having affairs with secretaries,

624
00:40:06,322 --> 00:40:08,915
ladies having affairs
with their chauffeurs,

625
00:40:09,184 --> 00:40:12,951
all those contested
wills and domestic rows.

626
00:40:13,077 --> 00:40:15,024
People used to kill each other

627
00:40:15,149 --> 00:40:18,426
by boiling down arsenic
from their wallpaper.

628
00:40:18,551 --> 00:40:21,203
Now they just have to reach for a Luger.

629
00:40:22,650 --> 00:40:24,615
Pow pow pow.

630
00:40:30,757 --> 00:40:32,715
What did happen to your parents?

631
00:40:33,986 --> 00:40:36,668
You're supposed to be telling me
your story.

632
00:40:39,550 --> 00:40:40,880
I'm an orphan too.

633
00:40:42,461 --> 00:40:44,081
I never knew my mum.

634
00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:46,296
I got a picture of my dad.

635
00:40:48,006 --> 00:40:49,252
That's all.

636
00:40:51,043 --> 00:40:52,454
I’m sorry.

637
00:40:54,290 --> 00:40:55,504
It's all right.

638
00:40:58,885 --> 00:41:00,720
- I should um...
- Yeah.

639
00:41:01,137 --> 00:41:04,473
- It was nice to meet you.
- It was an incendiary.

640
00:41:06,018 --> 00:41:07,373
What?

641
00:41:10,418 --> 00:41:12,218
An incendiary.

642
00:41:13,624 --> 00:41:16,427
Set the roof on fire in the blitz.

643
00:41:18,878 --> 00:41:21,170
Mom got me out, and...

644
00:41:21,632 --> 00:41:23,427
went back for dad.

645
00:41:25,456 --> 00:41:27,142
Then the roof fell in.

646
00:41:27,924 --> 00:41:30,414
I just sat there

647
00:41:30,539 --> 00:41:33,216
in the garden looking at the house.

648
00:41:33,341 --> 00:41:34,616
Just

649
00:41:36,151 --> 00:41:37,609
felt

650
00:41:38,117 --> 00:41:39,858
sort of numb.

651
00:41:42,405 --> 00:41:44,668
The ARP warden found me.

652
00:41:44,793 --> 00:41:48,603
Then my uncle took me in. So...

653
00:41:49,411 --> 00:41:51,692
now I have to help him out

654
00:41:51,818 --> 00:41:53,765
with the restaurant.

655
00:41:54,569 --> 00:41:56,581
But you'd rather be...

656
00:41:58,681 --> 00:42:01,328
Much more exciting over here, isn't it?

657
00:42:11,077 --> 00:42:13,256
See the skull.

658
00:42:26,245 --> 00:42:28,913
I gave up pleasure for Lent.

659
00:42:31,385 --> 00:42:33,040
I gave up Lent

660
00:42:34,386 --> 00:42:35,974
for pleasure.

661
00:42:41,822 --> 00:42:43,077
Well,

662
00:42:44,350 --> 00:42:45,860
what's your answer?

663
00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:49,785
I told you before, I'm just a book seller.

664
00:42:50,121 --> 00:42:52,999
I sell books again
like I did before the war.

665
00:42:53,519 --> 00:42:55,440
This would be

666
00:42:56,765 --> 00:42:58,869
for old times’ sake.

667
00:43:00,048 --> 00:43:02,565
And we did help you find

668
00:43:02,896 --> 00:43:04,123
him.

669
00:43:04,533 --> 00:43:06,324
Very kind of you.

670
00:43:07,858 --> 00:43:09,780
How's all that working out?

671
00:43:10,779 --> 00:43:12,306
It's complicated.

672
00:43:13,494 --> 00:43:16,184
Well, yes, I imagine it is…

673
00:43:17,125 --> 00:43:18,393
delicate.

674
00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:22,953
And we wouldn't want anything to go wrong,

675
00:43:24,007 --> 00:43:25,509
now, would we?

676
00:44:25,745 --> 00:44:27,128
So,

677
00:44:27,253 --> 00:44:29,768
what do we make of him? Mm?

678
00:44:29,894 --> 00:44:34,322
- Jack, put him in the attic room.
- Like Mrs. Rochester.

679
00:44:34,462 --> 00:44:36,060
Only slightly more butch.

680
00:44:36,185 --> 00:44:39,072
Has it ever occurred to you
that you are such a...

681
00:44:39,197 --> 00:44:41,557
- Bibliophile?
- Because of your name?

682
00:44:41,783 --> 00:44:44,422
Nominative determinism.

683
00:44:44,725 --> 00:44:47,650
I mean, if you've been called butcher,

684
00:44:48,092 --> 00:44:51,391
you might be slicing
up choice cuts of meat.

685
00:44:51,931 --> 00:44:54,614
Flensing, that's the word.

686
00:44:54,739 --> 00:44:59,029
Removing fat from a carcass.
Wonderful descriptive word, flensing.

687
00:44:59,154 --> 00:45:02,594
- I shall endeavour to bring it back.
- Well, I wish you joy with that.

688
00:45:02,720 --> 00:45:07,007
Yes, you could be slipping me black market
chops under the counter like Mr. Wellbeloved.

689
00:45:07,132 --> 00:45:09,736
Much more useful than books these days.

690
00:45:09,862 --> 00:45:14,466
I could have been an archer or a baker
or a chandler.

691
00:45:15,198 --> 00:45:19,240
- Speaking of which, farewell, my lovely.
- Oh, you're going out again.

692
00:45:19,483 --> 00:45:23,274
You're so sharp you'll cut yourself.
Crime fiction, American.

693
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:26,111
Customer put in a request.
I know it's here somewhere.

694
00:45:26,236 --> 00:45:30,308
- I saw a lady in the lake recently.
- Anyway, Jack.

695
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:34,774
Definite promise, definite promise.

696
00:45:34,899 --> 00:45:36,940
He didn't try to flog that coin.

697
00:45:37,129 --> 00:45:40,066
So, jail hasn't made a wrong ‘un for life.

698
00:45:40,811 --> 00:45:42,372
Touchwood.

699
00:45:45,045 --> 00:45:46,670
And the, uh,

700
00:45:47,653 --> 00:45:49,171
other matter.

701
00:45:51,643 --> 00:45:53,516
It's too soon to tell him.

702
00:46:21,233 --> 00:46:23,892
What was so special about your book?

703
00:46:24,252 --> 00:46:27,541
Nothing really. It's just
about some chaps at

704
00:46:27,666 --> 00:46:29,621
school playing cricket.

705
00:46:29,858 --> 00:46:31,823
And what do you think of Carol Darley?

706
00:46:32,720 --> 00:46:34,864
- You've read Tim?
- Started it.

707
00:46:34,989 --> 00:46:36,269
When?

708
00:46:36,783 --> 00:46:39,280
After I saved it from the incinerator.

709
00:46:43,698 --> 00:46:46,032
Book. What's your name?

710
00:46:47,399 --> 00:46:48,759
Budge up.

711
00:46:50,392 --> 00:46:52,098
It's a funny name.

712
00:46:54,466 --> 00:46:55,915
Thank you.

713
00:46:58,892 --> 00:47:00,716
Strotford Perry.

714
00:47:01,886 --> 00:47:04,283
But my friends call me Trottie.

715
00:47:04,957 --> 00:47:06,597
You're splendid.

716
00:47:06,724 --> 00:47:09,031
- You owe me.
- I do.

717
00:47:11,014 --> 00:47:14,261
So when I get into trouble here,
will you help me out?

718
00:47:14,914 --> 00:47:17,520
Let us make a solemn pact.

719
00:47:29,940 --> 00:47:31,983
Put your strong arms around me, Carol,

720
00:47:32,108 --> 00:47:33,935
and raise me a little.

721
00:47:34,060 --> 00:47:35,840
I can talk better so.

722
00:47:40,175 --> 00:47:42,656
Carol bowed his head
without a word and kissed him,

723
00:47:42,928 --> 00:47:45,501
and thus their friendship was sealed.

724
00:47:54,303 --> 00:47:56,008
Good night, Mrs. Book.

725
00:47:56,133 --> 00:47:57,926
Good night, Mr. Book.

726
00:48:13,844 --> 00:48:17,867
The daughter, the spiv,
the char, the warden.

727
00:48:19,818 --> 00:48:21,840
Who gave Harkup

728
00:48:22,453 --> 00:48:24,368
the ruddy poison?

729
00:48:34,657 --> 00:48:36,504
Absent friends.

730
00:48:56,645 --> 00:48:58,038
Hi.

731
00:49:16,505 --> 00:49:18,641
Sir, you'll never believe it.

732
00:49:18,766 --> 00:49:20,512
It takes a lot to surprise me anymore.

733
00:49:21,684 --> 00:49:24,469
- What? What is it?
- We just got the chemist's will through, sir.

734
00:49:24,595 --> 00:49:27,204
- Yeah.
- Daughter doesn't get a bean.

735
00:49:27,329 --> 00:49:29,090
- No.
- No.

736
00:49:29,215 --> 00:49:30,732
Well, who does?

737
00:49:36,872 --> 00:49:39,339
Oh, the char.

738
00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:42,513
Mrs. Ada Dredge.

739
00:49:51,291 --> 00:49:52,991
No.

740
00:50:00,571 --> 00:50:01,997
No.

741
00:50:03,971 --> 00:50:08,571
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