The Sweeney. S03 E12. 'Lady Luck'.

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(The uncut version of this episode was blocked by DM.)  First broadcast 13th December 1976.  Middle-class housewife Marcia Edmunds approaches Regan in a pub.  John Thaw - Regan Dennis Waterman - Carter Garfield Morgan - Haskins Moira Redmond - Marcia Edmunds Norman Rodway - Philip Edmunds James Cossins - Colonel Rosier Daphne Oxenford - Mrs. Rosier Peggy Bullock - The Old Lady Carolyn Hudson - Marcia's Friend Tony Allen - Bill the Driver

Transcript

00:00Music

00:09Music

00:20First, we have a very nice restaurant in Thailand.

00:22It's a pretty nice restaurant.

00:24Too often, I think, but to let you...

00:28I'm going to go to a little bit more than that.

00:31There's a lot of restaurant I'd like to eat.

00:35There's a lot of food.

00:38It's the whole restaurant between us, and kids that eat their rice.

00:42I want to go to food to drink, drink, drink, drink, drink.

00:45I love the food.

00:47Goblin, we aren't you, quick!

01:01Detective Inspector Reagan, flying squad, you're late.

01:08Very sexy, who did you say his name was?

01:23We're still here in the summer.

01:31We're still here in the summer of the year, but we are still here in the summer.

01:37It's time to get out of the room.

01:42We're still here in the summer of the year.

01:47We'll see you the other week.

02:15I had a meeting with a colleague, and this fellow believed that turf accountants were gamblers.

02:22Presumably because they make their money from gamblers.

02:25Foolish.

02:25If Colonel Rozier had been present, he would have pointed out much more succinctly than I,

02:31but it is precisely because they're not gamblers that we find them so distasteful.

02:36Am I right, Colonel?

02:37Don't like them. Never liked them.

02:39Thank you, my dear. Delicious.

02:41You see farmers are gamblers. People who make wonderful wine are gamblers.

02:46They gamble with the weather.

02:47Damned expensive now, wine.

02:49I mean, you don't gamble when you make lemonade, now, do you?

02:52I always say a little bit of chance makes life exciting.

02:55Thank you, dear.

02:57Mmm. Bloody good.

02:59True.

03:00But it's a bloody good wine.

03:01Now, I'm going to put on the souffle.

03:04Oh, delicious, Marciel.

03:05Not sure I've got the room?

03:06You will have by the time it's ready.

03:09If you'll excuse me, somewhere in the cellar is a bottle of 1947 Sautern,

03:14which I've been keeping for just this occasion.

03:18If only I can find it.

03:21Excellent fellow.

03:22Joe, you must watch your language.

03:24It was a bloody good wine.

03:30Come on, now.

03:32Come on, now.

04:02Come on, now.

04:32We'll see you next time.

06:02As I said, don't move.

06:07Stand up!

06:14Okay, lads.

06:15No.

06:16Don't come.

06:17Don't come.

06:18Let me in.

06:22Don't move.

06:23Don't move.

06:26Well I've looked everywhere for that 1947 and all I could find was this in

06:44state. Not to worry old boy. It's a 1945. What? A 1945. Is that no good? It's a

06:51Chateau de Kemp. 1945. My god so it is. Do you know my dear I've never ever had this

07:01year. Is it all right? All right. My dear boy it's one of the three great years of

07:06the century. Oh Carol. You really had me worried there for a moment. Oh my dear how

07:15magnificent. But my dear boy where on earth did you get this? Well Colonel if

07:25you really want to know it fell off the back of a lorry. Fell off the back? Back of? Oh you mean you?

07:45Hello.

08:15Hello?

08:16Inspector Regan.

08:24Have we met before?

08:26No.

08:27How do you know what I look like?

08:30I saw a photograph in the newspaper.

08:34You look younger than I thought you'd be.

08:38I've no spring chicken, darling.

08:41Neither am I.

08:45Well, come on, then, what's this information you found about?

08:50How old are you?

08:58You haven't got any information from me at all, have you?

09:01What do you mean?

09:02What's your name, love? I don't mean your real name, of course.

09:05What name would you like to give? I'm Jack. How about Jill?

09:08You're suggesting that I've pretended to have information for you,

09:12just in order to meet you?

09:14Yes.

09:17You really fancy yourself, Inspector, don't you?

09:20Nope.

09:21Are you suggesting that I'm some kind of flying squad groupie?

09:27Yeah.

09:32Did you get many of them?

09:33Yeah, less than our first year.

09:35And this is the way they normally approach you?

09:38Yep.

09:41Are they young or older?

09:45Look, I'll get us another drink, then I'll have to go.

09:51Vodka?

09:52Mm.

10:01Large vodka and tonic, large scotch.

10:10£14.

10:11Have you seen that one before?

10:23Cheers.

10:24Carol.

10:25Ah, Carol. I like it.

10:41Cheers.

10:42Ah, Carol. I like it. Cheers, Carol.

10:59With or without an E.

11:01What?

11:03Oh, erm, with.

11:05You know, I bet you tried 20 names while I was getting these drinks.

11:09What, you?

11:10What is it, love? Having trouble with your boyfriend?

11:13Someone at work you don't like?

11:14No, no.

11:15What is your work?

11:16Well, I'm...

11:17You don't work.

11:18You married?

11:19Please, I...

11:20Oh, come on.

11:22Come on, you're out in the middle of the day.

11:23You're not exactly dressed for armature winding, are you?

11:25So you can't creep up in the evening.

11:26What does he do?

11:27You're wrong. You're completely wrong.

11:29I just...

11:31Let go.

11:32It's all right. It's all right.

11:33I'll cut and chop.

11:34Just relax.

11:41We have to be careful in our job, you know.

11:43That's all.

11:44Won't bite you.

11:46Now then, what did you want to see me about?

11:48You were right the first time.

11:50I mean about my heavy information.

11:53Wouldn't it be nice if that were true?

11:55Would it?

11:56Look, Carol.

11:58Listen to my couple.

12:00You're a sexy suburban housewife on the make,

12:03and I'm a hard-working copper.

12:06Now, you might just have had some information for me

12:08which you could have picked up anywhere.

12:10But I'm also not a saint, and I might just fancy you.

12:13You get that.

12:14A little bit of pleasure and a little bit of work can go together.

12:17If they didn't, half the bloody offices in the country would be antique.

12:20The robots finally would inherit the earth.

12:23You've got it all worked out, haven't you?

12:26You're a nice, warm lady.

12:28What are you trying to prove?

12:29So?

12:30You've got to be hard to get a hearing.

12:32What was that?

12:33I've got some names for you.

12:38I understand you pay for that kind of information.

12:41What, money?

12:42No.

12:44Not money.

12:48Why don't you give me these so-called names first?

12:50Ah.

12:53You in a hurry?

12:55Jack?

12:57Well, that all depends.

12:59Do you think we have time?

13:02Before we go?

13:05Yeah.

13:06There you go, Governor.

13:07Pull the house.

13:08Aces on the roof.

13:09Don't look so surprised.

13:10They're all contenders.

13:11Do you mind telling me something?

13:12Have you done a deal with someone?

13:13What are you getting at, George?

13:14I'm not quite as daft as I look.

13:15That is good news.

13:17No, look.

13:18You put five goodens in the frame, right?

13:19After the job.

13:20No, no.

13:21Hang about.

13:22If your snout had the names,

13:23why didn't you get them before the blag,

13:24so we could nick them at it?

13:25I mean, what's to stop me thinking

13:26you've got one of them to do the rolls for the insurance?

13:28No way, George.

13:29I don't know.

13:30I don't know.

13:31I don't know.

13:32I don't know.

13:33I don't know.

13:34I don't know.

13:35I don't know.

13:36I don't know.

13:37I don't know.

13:38I don't know.

13:39I don't know.

13:40I don't know.

13:41I don't know.

13:42No way, George.

13:43I was just lucky.

13:44Oh, yeah.

13:45Well, anyway,

13:46there's the dope on Bennett's, Roach and the Jones brothers.

13:49Oh, now this Edmonds.

13:50You sure his name was Phil?

13:51Yeah.

13:52Well, in that case,

13:54five years ago,

13:55a fella called Charlie Reed

13:57changed his name by deed poll to Peter Philip Edmonds

13:59after doing a full seven-year stretch for malicious wounding.

14:02Three kids in a club apparently attacked his girlfriend.

14:05He had them held while he sliced them up, all by himself.

14:09No, he's not just a jealous lover either.

14:11He was a known associate of the Wharton gang.

14:13But since they've been inside, which is a few years now,

14:15he's been as clean as a whistle.

14:16What else?

14:17Well, there's a load of cloth fibres from the fingernails

14:19of the old lady who was injured.

14:21Oh, one of them ran into her.

14:22What about her description?

14:23Well, it hardly fits Bennett's or Roach,

14:24and it's certainly not the Jones brothers.

14:26What about this Peter Philip Edmonds?

14:28You tell me.

14:32Get the team to hold up, George.

14:39Okay, Operation Ladybird.

14:44Thirty seconds.

14:45Roger.

14:46Romeo Victor 2.

14:49I've got a good feeling about this one.

14:51Yeah?

14:52Yeah.

14:53You spend months slouching around, drinking with social vermin,

14:59mortgaging your liver for a pension.

15:02Better be known then, I feel I really deserve it

15:05when something nice, clean and unexpected lands in me lap.

15:09Like a ripe apple.

15:11Romeo Victor 2.

15:12We're in the stalls, Gar.

15:13Okay, let's go.

15:43I'm not going to stand them, but there must be some stake.

15:49You start upstairs, that includes the attic,

15:51then help George and the garage in cellars.

15:53Guess what I mean?

15:54Isn't one supposed to be able to call a solicitor or something?

15:56Take him and get him dressed.

15:58This is absolutely outrageous.

16:00It's absolutely ridiculous.

16:04He's doing it a bit well.

16:06Yeah.

16:07Too well.

16:08I'll go and have a look at the cellar.

16:13Who's in there?

16:24Police!

16:25Open up.

16:28Oi.

16:29Make a note of the clothes he's putting on as well.

16:31We want fiber samples from everything.

16:34Open up!

16:43You lied. You are his wife.

17:04I didn't...

17:06You didn't think!

17:08Oh, I should have seen it coming a mile away.

17:12Jack, please...

17:13Listen, if you've stitched me up, Carol Marcy, whatever you call yourself...

17:16Everything I said was true about the robbery.

17:18I mean, I only lied to you about...

17:19I was bound to find out!

17:20Why lie?

17:22Will it come out, then?

17:25Will what come out?

17:27About us.

17:28The fact that...

17:29The fact that we what?

17:31Does he know?

17:35About us?

17:36No, no, no.

17:37What do you think the old man will do if he ever finds out you grasped on him?

17:43I think he would kill me.

17:44Yeah.

17:46Yeah, I think he might.

17:48But he never will find out, Jack.

17:49Not from me.

17:50Please, believe me.

17:51No, that's just it.

17:52I did believe you.

17:53I believed he did that black.

17:54He did do it.

17:55I know he did.

17:56You keep saying.

17:57But if I don't turn something up against him, he's gonna be back in this house in next

18:01to no time.

18:02I mean, what do you think's going on in his head right now?

18:05Eh?

18:06The same thing they all think about every time.

18:08Who informed?

18:10He'd never guess.

18:11It's nothing to do with guessing.

18:13Look, I don't know how he planned the job if he actually did it.

18:16But one thing I do know is when they plan a job, they concentrate on the possibility

18:20that somebody just might grass on him.

18:23Now, he could have had a watertight operation.

18:25For sure.

18:26Does he know that you knew about the job?

18:29Yes, of course.

18:30Christ.

18:32Governor.

18:34Mr. Steele.

18:48Bennett's has been in Spain for a month with Roche.

18:50And, a week ago, the Jones Brothers went to the Republic of Ireland to have holiday with

18:53island to have holiday with relatives no bodies did they find anything no still

18:59looking what about the wife she give anything away not yet no what do I do

19:06now then go into the local nick by the hospital get on to the doctors and

19:10arrange an ID parade with the old lady as soon as possible yeah we'll go

19:13straight there if necessary

19:23I'm beginning to feel like I've just been made idiot of the year why what's just

19:33happened well what should have happened I don't know are you married to him or aren't

19:42you yes for how long five years I know you want to get him put inside for the

19:50last good years of his life you don't believe me you think I'm making it all

19:57up just to get rid of him or me you really think that I could do a thing like that

20:04you do don't you I don't know but I'm a copper I'm not supposed to let feelings

20:12affect my work so I don't care

20:20to get rid of him

20:34to get rid of him

20:38to get rid of him

20:41I'm absolutely flabbergasted.

20:54How do you know Meg Roach?

20:56Say, where is I know Brian?

20:58They both work for me.

21:00Did good work.

21:01In your little building firm?

21:03Yes.

21:04They work for me for years.

21:06They haven't taken.

21:08Yes.

21:09Oh, is it then?

21:09The both of them.

21:10Just now.

21:11I've finished telling us a completely different story.

21:14About a little job they've pulled and they gave you all the credit.

21:17Well, where are they?

21:18Can I talk to them?

21:19Do you want me to go and get them?

21:20Go on and hold them.

21:21Well, couldn't I talk to them?

21:22I'm sure the whole business could be completely cleared up.

21:25Edmonds.

21:28Your little act is getting on my nerves.

21:32I wish I knew how I could help.

21:34Tell us, Edmonds.

21:37Where were you?

21:38Last Friday between 2 and 2.15 p.m.

21:40Oh, my God.

21:42Answer me!

21:47What day?

21:47I don't know.

21:51The, what time did you say?

21:53Between 2 and 2.15.

21:562 and 2.15?

21:58You heard.

21:592 and 2.15.

22:00Was that the, what day?

22:02Uh, Friday?

22:04Thursday?

22:04Friday.

22:05Friday.

22:052 and 2.15, 2 and 2.15.

22:10If only you'd give me time.

22:12I drove to Cambridge.

22:14What for?

22:15No.

22:16No, not that day.

22:18Um.

22:19I'm sorry.

22:20I am trying.

22:21Take your time.

22:30My mind's gone a complete blank.

22:32He's a pro, this one, I tell you.

22:34He's in there talking nightly into the dozen and saying nothing.

22:37No alibi.

22:39It's all blue eyes and total innocence.

22:41No alibi.

22:41Oh, we'll dream one up.

22:43I've had this kind before.

22:44Turn up anything at the house?

22:45A shotgun.

22:46For shooting ducks.

22:48The boys are still turning the place over.

22:51So it's just the one positive ID?

22:53Correct.

22:58Oh, uh, you'll let me know when you want to extradite Bennetton Roche from that yacht club on the Costa del Sol.

23:11Inspector!

23:15I've got it, I think.

23:17Oh, give it to us, then, please.

23:19No, no, you did say between 2 and 2.15 last Friday.

23:23Yes.

23:25In that case, I know exactly where I was.

23:29You do?

23:30Yes, I do.

23:32Preposterous.

23:33Absolutely preposterous.

23:34He's only trying to do his job, Colonel.

23:36Insinuating that my wife is capable of dishonesty.

23:39I'm sorry, sir, that's not what I meant.

23:41No, you know, the reason I remember so well what we had is that Marcia is such a beautiful cook.

23:45I'm not under arrest, am I, Inspector?

23:47No, of course not, sir.

23:48In that case, I shall telephone my solicitor.

23:51He happens to bloody well represent Edmunds, too.

23:54Joe, language.

23:55Sorry.

23:57Where is poor Marcia at the moment?

24:00Well, somebody should be with her.

24:01Perhaps I could go.

24:02Well, I'd rather you didn't, but I was still being searched.

24:06Hello.

24:07Mr. DeWitt, please.

24:09Well, since he came out of jail five years ago, he's been clean.

24:12Prison record excellent.

24:14Company records all above board.

24:17This Colonel Rozier is impeccable.

24:19Military cross, territorial, he's even served as a JP for a while until the pressure got too much.

24:24His wife is equally reputable.

24:27And against that, you've got an old lady's word.

24:29A very old lady's word.

24:31We've also got a bit of forensic.

24:32The fibres from the old lady's fingernails.

24:34Yeah, it's not positive, though, is it, Jack?

24:36I also noticed that you haven't put in the informant's report for the reward.

24:40Was it, Stickley?

24:41No.

24:42Who, then?

24:43There's a girl called Carol.

24:45It's a nom de plume, I take it?

24:46Yeah.

24:47What's her real name?

24:50Marcia Edmonds.

24:53Philip Edmonds' wife?

24:54Yes.

24:55Is she going to give evidence in court?

24:56No, of course not.

24:58I mean as an alibi witness.

24:59Look, well, I hope you're not being taken for a ride, Jack.

25:11How about this, then?

25:12Now, we've done something like it before.

25:14Now, Edmonds is a villain, right?

25:16Okay, now the word's got around.

25:18Bennett's and Roach, they're in Spain, having flown in and out just for the job.

25:22Now, they hear that we've got Edmonds.

25:23And they know he's the only one left behind because they've heard,

25:26well, we make sure they do hear, that their Jones brothers have gone to Ireland.

25:31So you fly out to Spain, you say to Bennett's and Roach,

25:34we've got a case against Edmonds,

25:36he's going to turn Queen's evidence against the rest of you,

25:39but we'd rather have him than you, so why don't you sing a song instead?

25:43First come, first serve.

25:45Yeah, something like that.

25:46But you would definitely go to the Costa del Sol.

25:49Yeah.

25:50I promise I'd sit in the shade.

25:51Well, I'm trying her again, check over and see that nothing obvious has been missed, eh?

26:09It's what me to have a go, being young and beautiful and all that.

26:11George, I've had enough of your sparkling humour for the day, do you mind?

26:14How was Philip?

26:23Brilliant.

26:24He succeeded in convincing everyone who can't that he's the soul of innocence.

26:28He's very good at that.

26:30Seems to run into family.

26:33What do you mean by that?

26:36Look, Marcia, he might just have convinced me, too.

26:40I see.

26:41You really do think I've lied to you, don't you?

26:47Maybe.

26:50Does that mean that you're going to let him go?

26:53It's not down to me.

26:54He's been charged, love.

26:57The remorseless machinery of justice has taken over.

27:02Has he asked to see me yet?

27:04As it happens, no.

27:06Not once?

27:07No.

27:11Do you think he suspects me?

27:14If only you'd told me before who you were, we could have worked out a perfect cover for you.

27:19But in a way, this couldn't be better.

27:21I mean, it's perfectly natural for me to be visiting you, questioning you further.

27:25And you're going to have to visit him.

27:28Act the part of the shattered wife, or he will suspect you.

27:31I mean, we could have got the information from anywhere.

27:33I couldn't visit him.

27:35Well, you may not have to.

27:37What do you mean?

27:37Unless I can find a crack in his alibi, I'm not going to get him remanded in custody again.

27:42In which case, he'll be here tomorrow morning, having his cornflakes.

27:45Yeah, and I'm going to look more than incompetent if he walks right out of my case.

27:49At least we're united in the common fight against crime, even if both our personal motives stink.

27:54Why did you shop him, sweetheart?

27:58Was he giving you a hard time?

28:00Another woman?

28:02I wish I were dead.

28:04Or did you just get bored with him?

28:06Was that it?

28:07The exciting bank robber turned out to be just another dull, monotonous husband.

28:12Why are you trying to make me feel guilty?

28:14I can't make you feel guilty.

28:16But you're trying to make it worse for me.

28:18Why, why, why?

28:19I think you should quieten down.

28:21I'll tell you why.

28:24You want to make me feel guilty because you feel guilty yourself.

28:27I feel guilty?

28:28Yes, you!

28:30You want to make me feel bad about what I've done to my husband because you feel bad about what you've done to me.

28:36Do you want to make an official complaint?

28:37No!

28:38I don't want to make an official complaint.

28:41I want to make an ordinary, unofficial complaint from one human being to another.

28:46For Christ's sake, keep your voice down.

28:49All right.

28:53I became bored with Philip.

28:57After five years with him.

29:00And his pettiness, his childishness, his possessiveness, his double standards, I finally became bored with him.

29:06And no doubt he became bored with me before I became bored with him.

29:11You lost interest in me overnight.

29:19After playing me up, leading me on, the moment you found I interfered with your precious police purity, you turned off like a tap.

29:27And that's why you feel guilty.

29:33So don't try and soften things for yourself by making them worse for me.

29:36Okay, so we both feel guilty.

29:42But so far, according to the law of the land, your husband is innocent, which could be very bad news for you, Marcia.

29:55So, how can we prove that he left that dining table, went to that bedding shop and did that job?

30:02You don't have to worry.

30:07I've even figured that one out for you as well.

30:10It was a superb souffle, a grand marnier, perfectly cooked, slightly moist in the centre with a heavenly crust on the top.

30:17But Mr Edmonds was out of the room all the time it was cooking.

30:19The permit man, he was in the cellar, digging out a bottle of 1945 Chateau de Chem.

30:26And you both stayed at the dining table.

30:28Marcia never likes to be helped in the kitchen.

30:30Inspector, have you any idea what a 45 Chateau de Chem is?

30:35A wine that's very hard to find.

30:38Well, Jack, you seem to have broken a cast-iron alibi.

30:40I almost owe you an apology. I was beginning to think you'd been made a fool of.

30:44Almost an apology, Oger.

30:45What do you want, a bottle of champagne?

30:49Regan.

30:53Governor, I've got a problem. It might be a big one.

30:56Well, as long as it's not a 90-second souffle, I think I can handle it.

30:59That drive from the Edmonds house to the betting shop and back, I've just been over it.

31:04It can't be done in the time.

31:19We'll save three minutes for him to come out, get into his car, put on his false moustache and wig, change his jacket.

31:27Wouldn't he do that at the other end?

31:29It doesn't make any difference to the time, does it?

31:31OK.

31:32OK.

31:33Go.

32:0610 minutes, 18 seconds.

32:25Double that journey time, that makes it...

32:28Hey, wait a minute, that one-way system works in our favour on the way back.

32:32Yeah, but there's that bad right-hand turn against the traffic.

32:34Well, let's give it a try, OK?

32:38Go.

32:39Go, go, go.

32:41Go, go, go.

33:11You could have gone then, Bill.

33:14How the hell was that slower?

33:42How long was it?

33:4412.52.

33:46We lost 30 seconds at that turn.

33:48Call it 12 minutes.

33:49All right, so it's two three-minute sections at either end for him to get his disguise on and off, to get his gun and to change his jacket each time, right?

33:59That's six minutes, plus 10 and 12 minutes for the driving, 28 minutes.

34:04We'll leave him 25 minutes for the job.

34:0753 minutes.

34:1053 minutes.

34:12Take off five minutes from the job itself.

34:14Give him only 10 minutes' waiting time.

34:17It was 43 minutes.

34:19To take three minutes off even by driving faster would mean he'd run the risk of getting Nick for speeding, wouldn't he?

34:26Which he might well have done, but no jury would wear it.

34:28Eight or 10 bleeding minutes.

34:31That 45 minutes she said it took for the souffle to be made, that's already done in her sworn statement, is it?

34:39Yeah.

34:40Well, that's a pity, isn't it?

34:43If she had just said 55, you'd be home and dry by now.

34:46What do you mean, I'd be home and dry?

34:48What's that Schneider remark supposed to mean?

34:51Nothing.

34:52It doesn't mean nothing.

34:54You think Edmunds is innocent, don't you?

34:56You think he never did do that job?

34:58You think he never did better, that old lady?

35:00Well, if you think I'm having a go at Edmunds for something else, you better come out with it into the open, George.

35:05Either put up or shut up.

35:10You mean we're going to have a grand manier souffle mixed up and baked in court?

35:16It's not the souffle, gov. It's the time she says it took to bake it.

35:1945 minutes, right?

35:20Yes.

35:21Look, Jack, we all make mistakes.

35:23Now, why don't you admit this woman made a fool of you?

35:25I'll back you up if there's a complaint or an inquiry.

35:27We know that Edmunds is guilty.

35:30We've got positive eyewitness identification.

35:33The fibres from the old lady's fingernails match one of his jackets.

35:36That jacket has also been identified by several other eyewitnesses.

35:39The fibres are only similar, as his counsel will point out very clearly to the jury.

35:45But if we can prove that he could have been there at the time of the robbery, we're still going to have a good case.

35:49Which you have not proved here.

35:51Well, not yet. I need more time.

35:53You need less time.

35:54Very funny.

35:55How long have you known Marcia Edmunds?

36:02Only a couple of weeks.

36:03How did you meet her?

36:04She saw my name in the paper.

36:07If I remember correctly, your name hasn't been in the paper for some time.

36:10It was an old addition.

36:11The London airport, John.

36:13She liked my photo.

36:15Jack,

36:15If that's your story, you'd better stick to it when the big guns start to swivel and stick fast.

36:21If anything can be proved between you and that woman.

36:23What are you trying to say, Frank?

36:24It looks and reads like a stitcher.

36:26Only to you.

36:28Because you know she's my snout.

36:29The jury don't know that.

36:30Well, maybe I'm being too subjective.

36:34But that's my conscience.

36:35And it's my conscience you have to satisfy, Jack.

36:38With a cleaner case.

36:39Otherwise, we'll suggest to the Director of Public Prosecutions that he offers no evidence.

36:45So it's not Edmunds who's going to be on trial, is it?

36:47It's me.

36:48And if I don't put up a better case against him, I no longer have your trust.

36:53Is that what it is?

36:54In a nutshell, yes.

37:00I'm sorry.

37:01He's not it.

37:02Yeah, well, I'm...

37:03Hold on.

37:03Governor!

37:04Dog and bone.

37:05Urgent.

37:11Regan.

37:12Jack.

37:12I must see you.

37:13Something's happened.

37:25What do you mean?

37:26He knows.

37:28I've visited him like you said I should.

37:30Jack, he knows.

37:32He said he knew who shopped him.

37:33What did you say to him?

37:34You didn't admit it.

37:35No, of course not.

37:36But he knows, Jack.

37:37He'd kill me.

37:38You know he will.

37:39Even if it has to wait 15 years.

37:43As it is, he may not have to wait longer than the weekend.

37:45What do you mean?

37:46He's not coming out.

37:47Well, that may depend on you.

37:52What do I have to do?

37:55Well, at the moment, your husband's alibi works for us and against us.

38:01By accepting his alibi, we can prove that while he was looking for that wine, he didn't actually have an alibi.

38:08He was unaccounted for during the exact half hour in which that robbery was committed.

38:12But that half hour doesn't give him a reasonable enough leeway.

38:16It's not quite long enough.

38:18So, in order for us to prove he was unaccounted for for a longer period, we've got to throw out the entire alibi.

38:25Meaning that you and the two rosiers are lying.

38:28Or you got your date wrong in the statements.

38:31You swear that you had that lunch on a different date.

38:33So, it's my word against the rosiers?

38:37Yeah, but if you were to break down in court, the fact that you're Edmund's loving wife,

38:42and the fact that you unintentionally revealed a damning mistake in his alibi,

38:46I mean, that'd be enough to discredit the rosiers, even if they kept to the date they first gave.

38:50Are you asking me to lie?

38:52Just in order to keep him inside?

38:54No, I'm just telling you what you'd have to do now in order to protect yourself.

38:59I mean, I don't know what day you had that lunch party.

39:01I've only got your statement.

39:05I couldn't do it, Jack.

39:07I couldn't lie.

39:09It was the same day.

39:12Well, that takes care of that angle.

39:16The only possibility we've got left is to prove that he could have got to that bedding shop faster.

39:21Faster than a high-performance squad car.

39:25I don't know.

39:27I just don't know how he did it.

39:29I can assure you he did.

39:32Yeah, but you don't know how.

39:33No.

39:34He'd find a way, all right.

39:37He's clever.

39:39Too clever.

39:41Where did you meet him?

39:43In Spain.

39:44He and his friends had taken over the entire nightclub of the hotel I was staying at.

39:50I was very naive.

39:53They told us they'd just won the pools.

39:55My friend was with me.

39:56We believed them.

39:59He was wonderful then.

40:01At least I thought so.

40:03Incredibly generous.

40:04Yeah, well, it's not fair to be stingy with other people's money.

40:07Of course, I soon found out the truth.

40:09But by then I'd...

40:11I'd had such a good time and...

40:14got used to being with him.

40:16Well, anyway, I half-guessed before I knew, which made it easier to deal with.

40:23So you pretended you didn't know long after you're dead?

40:27That sort of thing.

40:29When did it start to go wrong?

40:30He never knew it had gone wrong for me.

40:33Well, the first time I found out he'd been unfaithful to me.

40:38When was that?

40:39On another holiday.

40:40After a job, I flew out to join him.

40:43It was a week too late.

40:45They couldn't hide it.

40:46What happened?

40:47Nothing.

40:48They never found out that I knew.

40:49It rained the whole holiday.

40:53In Spain?

40:54No.

40:55The Isle of Man.

40:57Oh.

40:57Partly my fault, I suppose.

40:59I wouldn't go with him for the TT.

41:01TT?

41:01Oh, you know, motorbikes.

41:04He used to know a lot of the riders.

41:06Still does.

41:07I found it dead boring.

41:08A lot of pimply kids in smelly leather.

41:12Does he still have a bike?

41:14No, I don't think so.

41:15Do you have access to everywhere in the house?

41:17Yes.

41:18Well, there's a couple of places out the back he keeps locked up.

41:48George, get a hold of Askins.

42:03He's just been invited to lunch.

42:04So, let's go to the ship.

42:07We must go to the ship.

42:08Where are you?

42:09Good afternoon.

42:10We'll be back.

42:11Bye-bye.

42:12Bye-bye.

42:13Goodbye-bye.

42:13Bye-bye.

42:16Bye-bye.

42:26I'll be back.

42:28Bye-bye.

42:29Bye-bye.

42:31Bye-bye.

42:32Bye-bye.

42:33Bye-bye.

42:33It's my governor, Frank Haskins.

42:50This is Edmonds. I'm Detective Chief Inspector Haskins. How do you do?

42:53How do you do?

42:54This is all a little bizarre, Jack.

42:56Where would you like to sit, Gav? What about the head of the table?

43:03Ready, Gav?

43:07Right.

43:09OK, let's make a souffle.

43:15Right then, George. On your boat.

43:33Let's go.

43:43Let's go.

46:151975, Spanish Plonk.

46:17That's all I could get.

46:18Where's the pudding?

46:20Should just be beginning to rise.

46:27Hello?

46:27Yeah, hold on.

46:31It's for you, Governor.

46:37Haskins?

46:39Yes.

46:39All right, thank you.

46:47Goodbye.

46:51I was the director of public prosecution's office.

46:54Your old lady witness died this afternoon from causes unrelated to her injuries.

47:00Unless crucial new evidence is forthcoming, they don't propose to proceed.

47:04Well, you read her statement.

47:06And now you know Edmonds could have done it, even with his alibi.

47:08The D of PP don't give prizes for trying, Jack.

47:11You did your best.

47:12I'm sorry.

47:14No, Mrs. Edmonds.

47:16Your husband will probably be out of custody later this afternoon.

47:19This time, he won't get here in time for the dessert.

47:21Well, did the D.I. convince you, Governor?

47:31Convince me of what, George?

47:33That Edmonds did it?

47:35Oh, yes.

47:36Yes, he convinced me of that.

47:42Jack.

47:44Yeah.

47:46I can't face him.

47:48Don't leave me.

47:49You can face him.

47:52He didn't kill me.

47:53He won't suspect you.

47:55You're the last person to think of.

47:57What could you possibly have to gain by getting rid of him?

48:00His ego couldn't take it.

48:04What am I going to do?

48:07Well, you tried getting him put away.

48:08What's to stop you leaving yourself?

48:10Next time you want your dirty work done for you, get on to a private detective or a divorce lawyer.

48:24Don't call hard-working policemen.

48:26Of course, I knew all along she was your snout.

48:36Well, George, I don't know if I should tell you this, but, uh, as it happens...

48:57No, no, no.

49:00No, no.

49:01No, no.

49:02No, no.

49:03No.

49:09Yeah.

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