- 5 months ago
First broadcast 10th May 1997.
An exuberant artist is found dead at home. The only suspect is the artist's wronged wife who was well aware of his affair with his model.
Colin Baker - Hedley Shale
Paul Allen - Radio Interviewer
Saskia Mulder - Francesca Boutron
Sheila Gish - Serena Shale
Rebecca Charles - Joy
Jane Hazlegrove - Katrina Toplis
Alan Thompson - Mr Winstanley
Lloyd McGuire - D.S. Owen Davey
Mem Ferda - Drunk
Christine Ellerbeck - Supermarket Cashier
Alan Davies - Jonathan Creek
Clare McCarron - Woman in Supermarket
John Marquez - Supermarket Manager
Anthony Head - Adam Klaus
Scott Chisholm - Rhino
Rae Baker - Yasmin
Doug Fisher - Stephen Grismal
Caroline Quentin - Maddy Magellan
Alistair McGowan - Trevor
Geoffrey McGivern - Barry Opper
Shaun Chawdhary - News Reporter
Tim Chipping - Martin
Hugh Parker - Waiter
An exuberant artist is found dead at home. The only suspect is the artist's wronged wife who was well aware of his affair with his model.
Colin Baker - Hedley Shale
Paul Allen - Radio Interviewer
Saskia Mulder - Francesca Boutron
Sheila Gish - Serena Shale
Rebecca Charles - Joy
Jane Hazlegrove - Katrina Toplis
Alan Thompson - Mr Winstanley
Lloyd McGuire - D.S. Owen Davey
Mem Ferda - Drunk
Christine Ellerbeck - Supermarket Cashier
Alan Davies - Jonathan Creek
Clare McCarron - Woman in Supermarket
John Marquez - Supermarket Manager
Anthony Head - Adam Klaus
Scott Chisholm - Rhino
Rae Baker - Yasmin
Doug Fisher - Stephen Grismal
Caroline Quentin - Maddy Magellan
Alistair McGowan - Trevor
Geoffrey McGivern - Barry Opper
Shaun Chawdhary - News Reporter
Tim Chipping - Martin
Hugh Parker - Waiter
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00:03:03Well, that brings back memories. Anyone I know?
00:03:07All from photographs this time. Haven't had a live model in months.
00:03:12You must be losing your touch.
00:03:13Bye, darling.
00:03:18Hi, it's me.
00:03:28No, she just left.
00:03:30I don't know. I don't care. I just want you to get round here and make me bark like a sea lion.
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00:03:45Good morning, Helen.
00:04:08Good morning, Joy. Good weekend?
00:04:17Not bad, thanks. You?
00:04:19Fine. If you can hold all calls till lunchtime, I'd like to seal myself off, get this paste up sorted.
00:04:23Fine. I'll try and make sure you...
00:04:25Serena Shell's office. I'm sorry, she's not at the...
00:04:31Well, if you'd like to leave your...
00:04:33No, but I'm afraid it's...
00:04:35No, but she...
00:04:37Yes. Yes, one second, then. What name was it?
00:04:44Sorry, Serena. Quick one before you settle. Davina Yates sent us a spec portfolio. What do we think?
00:04:50Too short, too fat, and a very serious eyebrow problem.
00:04:54Right. Only she'd like her pickies back, so...
00:04:56Okay, if you make it quick.
00:05:07Won't disturb you again.
00:05:27Hello, Danny. DeVito. Davina.
00:05:30Have you done much professional modelling, may I ask?
00:05:37Serena.
00:06:07in the Shale's office. I'm sorry she can't right now. Can I get her to call you
00:06:12back? Morning! Doesn't he ever give you a day off from that vacuum cleaner? If it
00:06:19breaks down you can come and lie underneath it. Okay. Yep. Fine. Bye.
00:06:37What is this?
00:07:07Who do you think you...
00:07:37Who do you think you're looking for?
00:07:41You think you're looking for it?
00:07:45What'd you think you could do?
00:07:47Who do you think you should be doing?
00:07:51Who do you think you're giving me a beer?
00:07:53What happened?
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00:09:23He had like a black glue that covered his head and a black sweater.
00:09:29I don't know.
00:09:30That's when I passed out because when I come round, he's put this stuff over my mouth,
00:09:36my eyes, and he's tied up my hands.
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00:10:51and he was shot twice in the chest the girl who comes around to clean for you
00:10:57Katrina topless she arrived at that second but by the time she and a
00:11:03neighbor had found the body the killer had got away through the garden dropping
00:11:09his spores on route it would seem now you may know of an incident very similar to
00:11:14this happened a few weeks ago man in a black mask tied up the
00:11:20householders while he ransacked the house however in view of the circumstances
00:11:24here mrs. shale I have to ask the question where were you at the time all this
00:11:30happened at 11 25 this morning 11 25 I was here I haven't set foot outside this
00:11:37room since I arrived at about half past nine my PA will tell you that's the
00:11:41absolute truth I've been out there all that time at my desk she never even
00:11:46open the door I swear
00:11:54oil paint off the door handle in my husband's studio
00:12:02all right well thank you mr. shell we'll be in touch I'm I'm very sorry
00:12:16why can't I have to ask the question where were you at the time and I thought
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00:12:42that'll be 43 pounds 92 then please 67 excuse me i made it 43 pounds 67
00:13:10sorry that's not what the computer says i'm afraid so did you want any cash back the
00:13:18computer's wrong i don't know how you've got a fault in there something with your software
00:13:25sorry about this there's always some smart aleck that's all right
00:13:31i suppose we could just check to be on the safe side
00:13:34sorry about that miss i'm afraid we're gonna have to close this checkout i do apologize
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00:15:17What the hell?
00:15:18You have been tonight the warmest, most appreciative audience I've ever played to.
00:15:23It's been an absolute joy, and I thank you.
00:15:27Goodnight.
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00:16:50It's supposed to be a family show, Adam. You're reducing it to the level of a bank commercial.
00:16:54Sex and sorcery, Jonathan. Indivisible since the dawn time.
00:16:59While I yield to your genius as a theoretician, you will allow me one or two insights in the area of presentation.
00:17:06Talking of which, we have a little problem with Psycho.
00:17:09Alec and Judy are both off with the flu. I need someone who understands the timing to escort the volunteer.
00:17:14So, if you haven't got anything on all week?
00:17:16No, Adam. I haven't got anything on all week.
00:17:19Great. See you at six.
00:17:22Oh, and don't forget your passport this time.
00:17:28Cheers, Adam.
00:17:31Why don't you go the whole hog and have him neutered?
00:17:33I'm sorry.
00:17:34He doesn't get a chance, does he? Playing to move a lamp to you all the while.
00:17:39When do you think he last did it? Do you think he's ever done it?
00:17:43Not since he's been on my payroll.
00:17:45How'd you know that?
00:17:46Because I know.
00:17:47The closest he's got to a kiss was spitting in a dental nurse's funnel.
00:17:51That means he has to find other outlets.
00:17:54And that's when he does his best work.
00:17:59The guy has quite a brilliant analytical brain.
00:18:02I don't want the power drained off to another organ.
00:18:07Get out of my car!
00:18:09I don't want to know how much of the car is.
00:18:12You're here, Bill.
00:18:13I've never had to be a little bit alive.
00:18:14You're here.
00:18:15You're there.
00:18:16I think he's just a strategy.
00:18:17What do you care?
00:18:18You're here, Bill?
00:18:19How about theятие?
00:18:20I'm going to take that shit.
00:18:21Leave him.
00:18:22Leave him.
00:18:23You're here.
00:18:24Help me.
00:18:25Come on!
00:18:26It's him!
00:18:27We're here.
00:18:28We're here today, Bill.
00:18:29Time for the car.
00:18:30You're here, Bill.
00:18:31Look, all right, I copped for that one, okay?
00:18:43The Arundel Road job, I'll come quietly.
00:18:45But this Edleigh was his face, no way, not my style.
00:18:50All my life, I didn't do him.
00:18:52Look, you found some prints on the gun, right?
00:18:56Were they mine?
00:18:57Mr. Gooseberry.
00:18:58Were they mine?
00:18:59The fingerprints on the gun don't appear to belong to anyone connected with this case.
00:19:03But then, you might have borrowed the gun and wore gloves.
00:19:06It's hardly a testament to your innocence, is it?
00:19:10Now, is there anything else?
00:19:12Yeah.
00:19:13I'd like to exercise my right to an investigative journalist.
00:19:19Are you still on the phone?
00:19:21No.
00:19:23The BBC was supposed to be getting back to me about that documentary.
00:19:26Uh-huh.
00:19:27I wonder why they haven't run.
00:19:30Don't know.
00:19:33Hello.
00:19:35Superintendent.
00:19:37My name's Madeline Magellan.
00:19:39I'm researching a book about bungled police prosecutions over the...
00:19:42Sorry?
00:19:44Well, it's in connection with the death of a Mrs. Doreen Harker, who I understand rather tragically hanged herself last week while in police custody with some thick copper wire.
00:19:55I was wondering, to be honest, where she might have got hold of the...
00:20:00From a thick copper, possibly?
00:20:04Oh, I thought so.
00:20:08They've probably given up and hired somebody else.
00:20:10Have you any idea how many cameraman there are chasing jobs these days?
00:20:13Don't point that thing at me, please.
00:20:15You're impossible.
00:20:16Do you know that?
00:20:16You want to write about criminal injustices, start with this relationship.
00:20:20I don't think you even care about...
00:20:21Put that down.
00:20:22I...
00:20:23I'm not...
00:20:24Trevor Michaels.
00:20:28Yes.
00:20:30Your publisher.
00:20:35It's more bad news, Barry.
00:20:37I don't want to know.
00:20:3810,000 returns in Australia, mad.
00:20:40I'm sorry.
00:20:4110,000?
00:20:42What did they do?
00:20:42Print them on boomerangs?
00:20:44Tell me about it.
00:20:45Oh, listen.
00:20:46We've had a call from the solicitor of some guy, Stephen Grismal, who's just been charged with the murder of Hedley Shale,
00:20:52which she claims is a classic constabulary cock-up, but I don't know.
00:20:56It smells like it could go somewhere.
00:20:58Can't you see what's happened, dear?
00:21:00Someone's used my M.O., the mask, the black tape they tied her up with, as a cover to do this guy in.
00:21:08And we know who had the motive.
00:21:10Mr. Shale's wife never left her office that morning.
00:21:14From what they're saying, there's no way on earth she could have got out without someone seeing.
00:21:17She did it.
00:21:18I don't know how, but she went back to that house and shot her old man in cold blood.
00:21:25And she'll watch me go down for it, unless someone like you can nail her.
00:21:31Mr. Shale, Mr. Shale, the man's been charged for the murder of your husband.
00:21:59Any reaction to that news?
00:22:00I can't say anything now.
00:22:02It's substitute to say.
00:22:03But she must be relieved that someone's been arrested at last.
00:22:08Nothing anyone does now will bring Hedley back.
00:22:11I just hope that whoever carried out this terrible crime will suffer the full force of British justice.
00:22:17Mr. Shale, tell us exactly which.
00:22:19Mr. Shale, tell us a little bit about art.
00:22:31I don't know what I like.
00:22:34Hedley Shale.
00:22:36Ever heard of him?
00:22:38Yeah, um, Trevor.
00:22:40I think we should have a moratorium.
00:22:45Moratorium?
00:22:46What's that, a polite word for bugger off?
00:22:49It's not working, we both know that.
00:22:52Shale.
00:22:53That was in the other week, wasn't it?
00:22:55Shot by a burglar while humping one of his models.
00:22:58Is this her?
00:22:59Yeah, try not to drool over the crackers, it makes them soggy.
00:23:04I mean, what's the point of having a waist that size anyway?
00:23:07All right, you can get your skirt up with a wristwatch.
00:23:09What are you doing?
00:23:11Every time I call round, she's out.
00:23:14I thought I'd try and tap into her answer machine, see where it took me.
00:23:18BT response 80s have a two-digit code, that's 99 possibilities.
00:23:2135...
00:23:22You're not serious.
00:23:2536.
00:23:2736.
00:23:27Bingo.
00:23:30Three messages.
00:23:31Please push one for playback.
00:23:34What have we got?
00:23:36Ah, that's obscene.
00:23:38What is?
00:23:39An obscene phone call some pervo's left on the tape.
00:23:42Saying what?
00:23:43What's he saying?
00:23:43Get off.
00:23:44It's personal.
00:23:46You'll be on belief.
00:23:47Hang on.
00:23:49This sounds hopeful.
00:23:52Angelica and Lionel.
00:23:54Meeting her tonight.
00:23:56Eight o'clock.
00:23:58Foyer.
00:24:00Prince of Wales.
00:24:01Right.
00:24:02What's on at the Prince of Wales?
00:24:05Hmm.
00:24:06Adam Klaus.
00:24:10Some sort of conjurer, isn't he?
00:24:11Who's on at the Prince of Wales?
00:24:13Oh.
00:24:30Yeah.
00:24:30Is that a Prince of Wales?
00:24:33A Captain vielleicht.
00:24:35That's a proud nut on the soul.
00:24:35Looking forward to a garden.
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00:27:07of warm glue. Jenny. Jenny. Black skirt and jacket. Red blouse. Can we do that?
00:27:37Francesca! You look...
00:28:07Terrific. I don't care what the press is saying. After all you've been through and everything.
00:28:14Don't you reckon? Oh, I'm sorry. I don't know why you'd remember me. It must be a good two
00:28:23years now. Maddy? Magellan? We met at that big bash at... Oh. Was it Sinti Lorenz's engagement?
00:28:36I can't remember. Had I started my course by then? Your course? Counselling through crisis.
00:28:43I don't want to sound all namby-pamby social worker, but it's been such a fulfilling venture.
00:28:48Like, there's been so much one's learnt about steering people through trauma, especially
00:28:53bereavement, that if there's any way, I can help. The main plank of our therapy is that
00:29:00you have someone to talk to, to purge yourself. I don't know. Good idea. I'll give you my number.
00:29:09How does that sound? So...
00:29:16Who's gonna come out and play? Hmm?
00:29:22How about...
00:29:29Come on. Don't be shy. Isn't she a sport, everyone? Come on.
00:29:35What's up, you ladies? We're gonna have some fun. Isn't she beautiful?
00:29:44Hold it right there. Okay. What's your name, honey?
00:29:47Francesca. Francesca. Ooh. It's hot up here, isn't it, Francesca?
00:29:52Mm-hmm. Hot and sticky. Thank you, Stephanie. Don't you feel a little hot and sticky, Francesca?
00:29:59I'll bet you're ready for a shower, huh? Come on. Take a look. Just a little freshen up, okay? Step right up there.
00:30:11We have all the mod cons here. Now, Francesca, I want you to take off anything you don't want to get wet.
00:30:19See, that's silk jacket for a start. Let me take care of that for you. Very good.
00:30:26How about that, uh, that blouse? You don't want that to shrink any? Or that skirt? Oh. Doesn't bear thinking about it.
00:30:35Okay. Now, don't worry. No one's looking. Just throw it on over here. This is not viristic in any way.
00:30:51Do you want to come with me? We've got 1 minute 29 seconds.
00:30:55Okay. Okay. How you doing in there? Are you ready for me to come and wash your back?
00:31:10Yeah.
00:31:19So you, uh, create all these fantastic illusions for Adam Klaus?
00:31:24So, you must know all the secrets.
00:31:32Well, I've learned to keep my mouth shut.
00:31:34Ever since I told one of his girlfriends he had a hairpiece.
00:31:37She thought I said herpiece, tried to circumcise him with a tin opener.
00:31:45When I open this door, I just step through and take a bow.
00:31:54WHISTLE BLOWS
00:32:19OK, how's that?
00:32:20Yeah, it's fine. It just seems to keep sticking for some reason.
00:32:24Get a WD-40, Adam.
00:32:26Sure.
00:32:29Now, listen.
00:32:30Can you find a way, when I'm pulling the barbed wire out of my mouth,
00:32:33that the ring's always at the end?
00:32:34Because what's happening at the moment is it keeps flying.
00:32:37Now, listen, let me wait to the station.
00:32:40What now?
00:32:42One very quick favour.
00:32:43No, not this routine again.
00:32:45I don't change my socks as often as you change sleeping partners.
00:32:48Well, that's something else we can discuss.
00:32:49Listen, Jonathan, don't worry about Yasmin.
00:32:51I'll straighten it out, because I swear, Jonathan, this is the real thing.
00:32:55Her radiant smile lights up my life like no one else I know.
00:32:58What are you, a greetings card?
00:33:00Look, I am not traipsing all the way round to her place with this, Adam.
00:33:04I'm sorry. No.
00:33:05Absolutely not.
00:33:05So, how long had you and Hedley Shale been?
00:33:10Since July last year.
00:33:12We met at the reception, and he asked me how I would feel about posing the nude.
00:33:15I said, sure.
00:33:18And, you know, just the minute I took off my clothes, I could feel he was attracted to me.
00:33:23Isn't that funny?
00:33:27And before you knew it, you were secret lovers.
00:33:30For me, it was very frustrating.
00:33:32But he didn't want the publicity of a divorce, because Serena could make things very unpleasant for him.
00:33:38For his career, so...
00:33:40Right.
00:33:41So, if you can just better go through it again, Francesca.
00:33:48Just let the pain flow out.
00:33:56That last morning, the two of us...
00:34:01It was beautiful.
00:34:04You know, sometimes when you make love, it's like a nuclear explosion between your thighs.
00:34:11Yes.
00:34:13Afterwards, we're getting dressed, and the phone rings.
00:34:19Hedley went down to answer it.
00:34:21I start to get dressed, and then, from behind me, someone's put a hand over my mouth, so I can't breathe.
00:34:29And then, when I turn around, there's this man with, like, a black hood over his head.
00:34:37And the next thing, I don't know, I fainted.
00:34:41For maybe a minute.
00:34:43Because now, I've got this tape over my eyes.
00:34:49And my mouth.
00:34:52And these died on my hands.
00:34:55So, when I hurt the gun.
00:35:01You're doing so well, Francesca.
00:35:05You say he put a hand over your mouth.
00:35:08Was it a bear hand, or was he wearing gloves?
00:35:12It was gloves, I'm pretty sure.
00:35:15Because, when you talk about a man, you don't really know, do you, that it was a man?
00:35:20What are you saying?
00:35:22That his wife?
00:35:23Oh, no.
00:35:25Why would she do a thing like that to her own husband?
00:35:28Because he was screwing another woman.
00:35:31Granted.
00:35:32But Serena was at work all morning.
00:35:35There's a witness to say she went into her office and never came out.
00:35:39What if she did?
00:35:41What if she...
00:35:42How do you know all this?
00:35:46Let me.
00:35:47Let me.
00:35:47Hi, is Francesca?
00:35:57You'd better come in.
00:36:06She's through there.
00:36:11Morning.
00:36:11I was just passing.
00:36:13Oh, hi.
00:36:13Hey, how are you?
00:36:14Adam Klaus would like you to have this, with his eternal undying love.
00:36:21This is so naughty of him.
00:36:23What is he doing?
00:36:32What is he doing?
00:36:41I cannot possibly wear this.
00:36:44Tell him there's no way I can accept.
00:36:46I don't even know him.
00:36:48Okay.
00:36:49No, don't tell him that.
00:36:52Tell him...
00:36:54I'll have dinner with him tonight after the show.
00:36:56Like a priest.
00:36:58Right.
00:37:00Well, you'll excuse me then.
00:37:02I've got to dash.
00:37:03Bye.
00:37:08Adam Klaus.
00:37:09Hmm?
00:37:10Nah.
00:37:13It's a wacky idea.
00:37:15If there was a way someone could get out of a room like that undetected,
00:37:20I suppose the man to ask about it would be a magician.
00:37:24Or the guy who works for him.
00:37:26Exactly.
00:37:28Sorry?
00:37:29That man who's just here must have the most incredible mind, don't you think,
00:37:33to come up with all that stuff?
00:37:34Have you had any lunch yet?
00:37:42No.
00:37:42Come in.
00:37:43Beg your pardon?
00:37:44You're a journalist, aren't you?
00:37:46I'll just get that idea.
00:37:47Are you?
00:37:47No.
00:37:48But why was your bag open in there with a tape recorder running inside?
00:37:51Okay.
00:37:52I'll give you seven out of ten.
00:37:53I'm a writer but with a social conscience.
00:37:55My last book got a defendant's case reopened.
00:37:57All right.
00:37:58A W.H. Smith under true crimes with photos of headless prostitutes on the cover.
00:38:02Look, that girl in there was having an affair with Hedley Shale, an artist who was shocked.
00:38:07I read the papers.
00:38:08Why do you want to know if I've had lunch?
00:38:10Because I haven't.
00:38:11I thought we could go somewhere and talk.
00:38:13I know you're a whiz at all these magic tricks and things and I just wanted to pick your brains about something.
00:38:18And you don't want to go to bed with me?
00:38:22I beg your pardon?
00:38:23I'm not very good on subtext with women.
00:38:26I think the safest thing is just to ask.
00:38:28I have no desire whatsoever to go to bed with you.
00:38:31Or to see you naked.
00:38:33Or to enter into any kind of relationship that involves undoing a zip.
00:38:39I'm sorry I poked you last night.
00:38:42It was an accident.
00:38:44Shall we go in?
00:38:45How do you know this grismal didn't kill Shale?
00:38:57Why would he?
00:38:58He'd just run for it.
00:39:00More importantly, professional burglars don't drop their loot leaving the scene of a crime.
00:39:04She did that so she could have it both ways.
00:39:07Forced the drawer to make it look like a robbery,
00:39:09then left the jewellery behind so it'd be given back to her later.
00:39:12And her entire alibi rests the fact she was seen going into her office at half past nine
00:39:18and was still there when the police arrived at one.
00:39:20Which, unfortunately, is proving to be the one...
00:39:23What?
00:39:28What?
00:39:29No, I just can't watch people eating raw onions.
00:39:32That's all.
00:39:32It gives me indigestion.
00:39:34Oh, I'm sorry.
00:39:35For being such a gastronomic klutz.
00:39:37I like onion rings.
00:39:38Is that okay?
00:39:42So where does she work, this Serena Shale?
00:39:46God, what planet have you been on?
00:39:48She's editor-in-chief of Eve magazine, which is grounds for prosecution in itself.
00:39:53I don't know.
00:39:54How does it work?
00:39:56How do you get out of a room through a closed door without someone outside noticing?
00:40:01What floor is the office on?
00:40:0313th.
00:40:04No ledges or walkways outside.
00:40:06Plus, the windows don't open in any case for safety reasons.
00:40:12Hmm.
00:40:14Do a trick for me.
00:40:16I beg your pardon?
00:40:18Something from your repertoire.
00:40:20I don't do tricks.
00:40:22Oh, you invent them.
00:40:23You know all about them.
00:40:25Come on.
00:40:26What do they call it?
00:40:28Close-up magic.
00:40:29You've got a tissue in your bag.
00:40:43I think of...
00:40:45a well-known city.
00:40:47Constantinople.
00:40:56Put your hand on mine.
00:40:59Now, concentrate hard on Constantinople.
00:41:14Right.
00:41:16Very hard.
00:41:29Now, lift up that radish tray.
00:41:52That is...
00:41:53How did you do that?
00:41:58You don't want to know.
00:41:59Believe me.
00:42:01How did you do it?
00:42:02It's mind-numbingly banal.
00:42:04Tell me.
00:42:04I have to know.
00:42:07I set it up.
00:42:09Because people always ask me.
00:42:11When I dropped my fork on the floor earlier on, I grabbed a tissue out of your bag, put it in my pocket.
00:42:15When you went to the toilet, I gave it to the waiter.
00:42:17I asked him to write down whatever you said.
00:42:19Stick it under the radish tray, bring it to the table.
00:42:20The first tissue I threw over your head so far, she didn't see it leave my hand.
00:42:29That is mind-numbingly banal.
00:42:35So.
00:42:38You're going to help me, then?
00:42:39Well, I'd need to know the exact layout of the office.
00:42:47Okay.
00:42:47And the movements of everyone involved.
00:42:50Fine.
00:42:50So, if I found a pretext for the two of us to go around there.
00:42:54Pretext such as what?
00:42:56Oh.
00:42:57Leave that to me.
00:42:58I've got it.
00:43:09I've got it.
00:43:11Hi.
00:43:12Madeline McGill and Mad Cow Productions for Channel 4.
00:43:15We're interviewing Serena Shell at 3.30.
00:43:17A series on image breakers in the fashion industry.
00:43:19It is all arranged.
00:43:20Would you like to take a seat?
00:43:21Thanks.
00:43:21How does it feel?
00:43:28Like I've been artificially inseminated with a supermarket trolley.
00:43:33How are you supposed to walk in a straight line with these things?
00:43:35I should have brought the manual, but I don't know where he keeps it.
00:43:37It's called a Steadicam.
00:43:38It's supposed to eliminate jerks.
00:43:40If so does Clint Eastwood, I wouldn't want him strapped to my chest for the afternoon.
00:43:44Okay, so we'll lift up this blocked paw under her mouth, Martin.
00:43:48That's incredible.
00:43:49So you can take that away completely?
00:43:50Oh, absolutely.
00:43:51You won't see a thing.
00:43:53Beats airbrushing, doesn't it?
00:43:56And you'll be able to match the skin tone.
00:43:59Perfectly.
00:44:03And if the left eye can come down just a fraction, I swear it's not leveled with the right.
00:44:10Maybe we could thin out the neck a little.
00:44:13Amazing.
00:44:14I think they start out like, well, talking Quasimodo with acne, really, aren't we?
00:44:19I'm giving away our trade secrets.
00:44:23Oh, we won't tell anyone.
00:44:25Just a teensy few million viewers.
00:44:29Okay for you?
00:44:30I wonder if I might get some stuff out there now.
00:44:33Just people at desks and...
00:44:35Right.
00:44:36What he calls his texture shots.
00:44:37Fine.
00:44:39We've got plenty to chat about still.
00:44:41So...
00:44:41Just getting some texture shots.
00:45:05Are you ready for a coffee?
00:45:06Thanks.
00:45:12She's bearing up well in there, then.
00:45:14What is it?
00:45:15Four weeks since her husband was...
00:45:17Today I'll forget.
00:45:18I hear they found him now.
00:45:22Guy who did it.
00:45:25That's her off the hook, at least.
00:45:27I don't know how they thought she could have had anything to do with it.
00:45:30She was in there all morning.
00:45:33I saw her go in.
00:45:34Thirteenth floor office with sealed windows.
00:45:37It's too ridiculous for words.
00:45:40Lucky you were here all that time.
00:45:42I mean, if you'd left the room at any point, Bango's her alibi.
00:45:45Masses to do that day.
00:45:46I didn't leave my desk till one.
00:45:48But you'd spoken to her during the morning.
00:45:51Putting calls through.
00:45:53More than my life's worth when she's not to be disturbed.
00:45:56She often does that.
00:45:58Shuts herself off like a clam.
00:46:01Well, I don't wish to be rude, but we said an hour.
00:46:03And I know you'll only use two minutes.
00:46:06I mean, you know what they're like.
00:46:08Detectives.
00:46:09Wanting to know all the ins and outs.
00:46:12And when you'd got this file from the cabinet...
00:46:15I shut the door.
00:46:18Went back to my desk.
00:46:19Picked up the phone again to this...
00:46:21Whatever her name was.
00:46:23Davina Bates?
00:46:25Or Yeats.
00:46:26Yeats or Bates, can't remember now.
00:46:28And from then on, I told them.
00:46:30I didn't move.
00:46:31For like a good three hours.
00:46:32And no, I didn't nod off at my computer.
00:46:34Or pop to the loo.
00:46:35I was here the entire time.
00:46:38At my desk.
00:46:39Well, how's she supposed to have got past me?
00:46:41By magic.
00:46:45So.
00:46:46How's it looking?
00:46:48Got everything you need?
00:46:49I think I have.
00:46:56What's the state of play?
00:46:58We looking at a solution?
00:47:00I'll need a few hours.
00:47:02Go over it from every angle.
00:47:08Seems to all hinge on a phone call that came in.
00:47:11From some girl named Davina Yeats.
00:47:14Or it might have been Bates.
00:47:15The PA can't remember.
00:47:17What difference does her name make?
00:47:18Well, a very big difference if it was Yeats.
00:47:21Why?
00:47:23Because it would explain how Serena Shale managed to get out of that room
00:47:26to go home and kill her husband.
00:47:46Found it okay, then?
00:48:03Doesn't exactly merge into the background, does it?
00:48:07It's been in the family five generations.
00:48:09My parents emigrated and I've stayed put.
00:48:16I quite like it, really.
00:48:18Living alone concentrates the mind.
00:48:20You must find that.
00:48:22What makes you think I live alone?
00:48:24Well, you're not sleeping with anyone on a regular basis.
00:48:28Oh, really?
00:48:29Those onion rings hang around for days.
00:48:36Is that right?
00:48:39Want to come up?
00:48:40Come up.
00:48:40My big passion.
00:48:52The golden age of illusion.
00:48:57Robert Houdin, Masculine, Duval.
00:49:15I was born a hundred years too late, basically.
00:49:20I take it this is a disease that struck in childhood.
00:49:50I never wanted to be a magician as such.
00:49:54Swanning about with silk hankies.
00:49:58It was, I don't know, the ingenuity at the back of it always fascinated the hell out of me.
00:50:04Started dreaming up a few ideas.
00:50:08Sending them round.
00:50:11Eventually I got hooked up with Adam.
00:50:13And your parents are abroad now?
00:50:16Philadelphia.
00:50:17Philadelphia.
00:50:17My dad teaches epidemiology at PAU.
00:50:23They come over a couple of times a year to see if I've got a proper job yet.
00:50:27You know that way parents look at you is if you just announce your engagement to a fruit bat.
00:50:33They can never get behind me opting out.
00:50:36From college.
00:50:38Academic future.
00:50:39Like it's a cop-out to try and escape.
00:50:43Brilliant!
00:50:45Is this one of those things where you get on and it makes you look as if you're...
00:50:48I've always wanted to have a go on one of these.
00:50:50Maybe later.
00:50:51Serena's office.
00:51:04More or less to scale, based on the video.
00:51:07When did you do this?
00:51:10Oh, I love it!
00:51:14All the little details.
00:51:15You're mad.
00:51:22Recapping.
00:51:23From what she told me yesterday and from your police contacts,
00:51:26Serena arrives at 9.30 through here.
00:51:29Unlocks the door to her office.
00:51:33They have a little conversation outside.
00:51:35Serena goes in while Joy answers the phone.
00:51:38Sits down at her desk.
00:51:40Joy comes back in.
00:51:46Get a file from the cabinet.
00:51:49Closes the door.
00:51:50Goes back to her desk.
00:51:52Stays there for the next three hours.
00:51:55How does Serena get out?
00:51:58Er...
00:51:59Panel in the wall?
00:52:01Well, she's had a gang of chippies in there now, is she?
00:52:04Alright, then.
00:52:05She didn't then, did she?
00:52:07Doesn't work.
00:52:08Correct.
00:52:10So, what happens if she never went in, in the first place?
00:52:15Yeah, but her PA said that she saw her sitting up against her desk.
00:52:19No, she saw her a pair of legs and some smoke, which proves nothing.
00:52:22So forget about that for the moment.
00:52:23This time, you be Joy.
00:52:27Okay.
00:52:29I have a little conversation outside the door.
00:52:33And the phone rings on your desk.
00:52:37Ring, ring.
00:52:37You turn around to answer it.
00:52:39Go on.
00:52:39Serena immediately closes the door, ducks down here behind this chair.
00:52:47It's a bit convenient, isn't it?
00:52:52The phone rings at that exact moment at that end of the desk.
00:52:56But not impossible.
00:52:57Serena could have worked out using a mobile in her pocket.
00:53:01She's already keyed the number in, all she needs to do is press send, knowing that Joy is going to turn her back for a second to answer it.
00:53:07So, when Joy thinks she's talking to this girl about her pictures, it's actually Serena.
00:53:14And, of course, as she talks, she moves around behind the other sofa.
00:53:18So now, Serena apparently invites Joy over the intercom to collect the photos.
00:53:26And if she can work that trip with her phone, there's no reason why she couldn't have some kind of bug rigged up to the machine on the desk.
00:53:32Okay, if you make it quick.
00:53:34Joy steps through, and this is where the girl's name comes in.
00:53:39You'll have to get right down for this.
00:53:44You've got three cabinets, nine drawers, divided alphabetically.
00:53:49If you're looking for Bates, under A to C, top left, it's no good, see?
00:53:56The outer doorway's still clearly in vision.
00:53:59But if you're crouching down at the bottom of the third one, after Yates,
00:54:04the doorway's just masked.
00:54:06Enough for Serena to slip out of the room, and then down the fire escape.
00:54:16Coming back, she just nips in again while Joy's in reception.
00:54:22Turns back to her desk.
00:54:24She'll swear she's been there all morning.
00:54:29Right.
00:54:33Very good.
00:54:36You see, it's like the tissue.
00:54:39People beg me to explain something.
00:54:41It's the last thing they want to hear, because you're disproving a miracle.
00:54:45Houdini walked through a war.
00:54:47Two bricklayers are built on stage.
00:54:49People swore he had the power to dematerialise.
00:54:53You find out he used the trapdoor under a carpet.
00:54:54It's too mundane. You feel cheated.
00:54:57That's all magic is.
00:54:58It's an illusion.
00:54:59It doesn't mean illusion magic.
00:55:00It's amazing, I suppose, to think she could have done all that to create an alibi.
00:55:16Of course she didn't, did she?
00:55:18What do you mean?
00:55:23What, she's left her office empty for three hours with a pair of legs propped on the table?
00:55:28What if a PA puts through an urgent call or there's a fire drill or something?
00:55:31The whole thing's blown to bits.
00:55:33It's just a textbook explanation.
00:55:35Doesn't stand up for a minute in real life.
00:55:37So, er, sorry, er, what are you saying?
00:55:41The more I go over it,
00:55:44this bloke's shale,
00:55:47his life and work and everything,
00:55:51the more I think we're missing something obvious.
00:56:02You see, this is the one that won't go away.
00:56:05You see, fingerprints on gun,
00:56:07three question marks.
00:56:09I thought you said...
00:56:10The killer wore gloves, that's what Francesca said.
00:56:12So why would you then take them off?
00:56:14Why leave the gun behind in the first place?
00:56:17Dropped it, I suppose,
00:56:18in the hurry to get away.
00:56:21Anyway,
00:56:22they couldn't get a match on those prints
00:56:24against Grismal or anyone else who was in the house.
00:56:27Serena, Francesca,
00:56:28that cleaning girl,
00:56:30even the victim himself,
00:56:32so we can cross off elaborate suicide hoax.
00:56:35And yet,
00:56:37the prints were very clear.
00:56:39What does that suggest?
00:56:40They were quite fresh.
00:56:41Conclusion?
00:56:43There must have been another person in the room.
00:56:45Mm.
00:56:48Look, do you mind if we slip this thing off now?
00:56:50I'm just a bit worried it might...
00:56:53Um...
00:56:55What?
00:56:57Go on, say the word.
00:57:00Buckle.
00:57:01No.
00:57:02No.
00:57:03No, no, no.
00:57:05Well, yeah.
00:57:08There is a limit, obviously,
00:57:09to the strain these things can take.
00:57:10It's a good job I've got a positive self-image.
00:57:13OK, get me down.
00:57:17Then I'll explain our next move.
00:57:19Just let me under...
00:57:20What do you mean, our next move?
00:57:23I think you get off on puzzles like this.
00:57:25You just don't want to admit that I've whetted your appetite.
00:57:29Is that a fact?
00:57:30Mm.
00:57:36So think about this place.
00:57:38The back garden's totally enclosed for security reasons.
00:57:41No side or rear gates.
00:57:43You can only get in through the house itself,
00:57:45which means she had to climb over a fence or wall somewhere.
00:57:49Maybe it's one of these trees.
00:57:54Waited till she was surely gone downstairs,
00:57:56then moved in up that little wrought-iron staircase
00:57:58and into the bedroom.
00:58:00Very important, Francesca saw her with the hood and everything,
00:58:02so that whole thing about the burglar would work.
00:58:05What do you think?
00:58:06I think I could be at home in the warm
00:58:08instead of standing here with a shoe full of stoke vomit
00:58:10developing several interesting strains of nettle rash.
00:58:13If we're going to do it, let's just do it.
00:58:15Whatever I say, back me up.
00:58:21There's got to be some little thing up there she's overlooked.
00:58:24Meow.
00:58:26Yes?
00:58:27Hi, we've come to see Serena.
00:58:29She's helping us on a feature series for Channel 4.
00:58:32She's at work.
00:58:33Oh, of course she is.
00:58:36You remember.
00:58:37She said she was going to pop back to the office for an hour
00:58:39and then meet us back here at 12.
00:58:42I'm just here cleaning.
00:58:43She never said anything about me.
00:58:44Gosh, I'm getting a bit nippy.
00:58:47I don't want to get you in trouble,
00:58:48so we'll just come inside and wait.
00:58:51Oh, goodness.
00:58:53Oh, no, no, no.
00:58:55Please, let me.
00:58:58They're very valuable.
00:59:00This one's a pen and ink by Salvador Dali.
00:59:03It's over 50 years old.
00:59:06I couldn't just pop to your bathroom for a second.
00:59:09Do you mind?
00:59:10I promise not to touch anything.
00:59:12It's their first door at the top.
00:59:14You want to take a seat, then?
00:59:17You want to take a seat, then?
00:59:17Perhaps I'll ring Mrs. Shale's work number.
00:59:41Make sure she knows about all this.
00:59:43Right.
00:59:45Good idea.
01:00:04Engaged, as usual.
01:00:05Well, you think your friend's all right?
01:00:10Bit of a jibby tummy, I think.
01:00:12Well, maybe I ought to see if she's okay.
01:00:16Oh, sorry.
01:00:17Oh, it's okay.
01:00:18It's okay.
01:00:19Don't worry.
01:00:19Don't worry.
01:00:20Let me.
01:00:21Let me.
01:00:21You okay?
01:00:34It's just so many things keep bringing it back.
01:00:38The letter that was on the mat when I came in and...
01:00:41It's like a bad dream.
01:00:44You think you're over it, and then...
01:00:50It's okay.
01:00:56Come on.
01:00:57Come on, here.
01:00:58It's all okay.
01:01:03It's all okay.
01:01:06Here, have a good old squirt.
01:01:28These things take time.
01:01:30Oh, it's Martin, my husband.
01:01:35He's come to pick me up.
01:01:37He gets very jealous, so I'd better let him in.
01:01:41Good idea.
01:01:43Before he tries to chew a hole in the wall.
01:02:00Martin, Martin, it's not what you're thinking.
01:02:09It's okay.
01:02:10He's come here to see Mrs. Shea, and he wasn't doing anything.
01:02:13He just gave me something to blow on, that's all.
01:02:15Is that right?
01:02:18What's this?
01:02:19Some dust on your face?
01:02:21Here.
01:02:22Let me get that for you.
01:02:23Don't go near my wife again.
01:02:48Ever.
01:02:49Ever.
01:02:50Ever.
01:02:51Ever.
01:02:53Definitely.
01:02:55Understood.
01:02:56Oh, you're kidding.
01:02:58Oh, that's...
01:02:59So it's a cock up, then, basically.
01:03:02Mm-hmm.
01:03:03All right, I will.
01:03:05Bye.
01:03:06My office, would you believe it, gave me the wrong date.
01:03:08It's not till tomorrow.
01:03:10Sorry to have troubled you.
01:03:11We'll see ourselves out, then.
01:03:11Bye.
01:03:17Have you...
01:03:18What are you...
01:03:20What are you...
01:03:22I know what I said.
01:03:40I can't get a job.
01:03:41Shut up.
01:03:41Good morning.
01:03:42Something wrong?
01:03:44I don't think so.
01:03:47Where's the napkin?
01:03:50Napkin, Mrs Shale?
01:03:51From a cafe in Paris, 30 years ago.
01:03:54There was a little autographed drawing on it, by Pablo Picasso.
01:03:57She did it.
01:04:04What did you find?
01:04:06Nothing that stands up.
01:04:07But she did it.
01:04:08It's all there in her face.
01:04:10Where did you get that from?
01:04:13The bedroom floor.
01:04:15Which is another thing.
01:04:16That rug with his blood on it.
01:04:19Well, you'd throw it away, wouldn't you?
01:04:20Burn it.
01:04:20But she's just left it there.
01:04:21She's got to be sick.
01:04:22I saw something, but...
01:04:26I don't know.
01:04:28What?
01:04:30A letter.
01:04:32It was on the doormat the day he was killed, from the Inland Revenue.
01:04:36What, you think he had some sort of tax problem, or...?
01:04:38No, that's not the point.
01:04:40It was on the doormat.
01:04:43But doesn't that tell you that something very strange is going on here?
01:04:45Because it...
01:04:47That's never the time.
01:04:48I'm supposed to be somewhere.
01:04:52I don't think it's all...
01:04:54Mmm, Poussin.
01:04:56Who told you I adored Poussin?
01:04:59A little bird.
01:05:00Mmm, a little bird.
01:05:02You see?
01:05:03She's always there.
01:05:04Mind like Quicksilver.
01:05:06Such a talent.
01:05:08In every department.
01:05:12What do you think, Jonathan?
01:05:13Can we lick her into shape for Sunday?
01:05:16Hmm?
01:05:17The Iron Maiden?
01:05:17Well, the only thing I'd say is you've got a TV crew covering it, and it's got to stand
01:05:24up to very close scrutiny.
01:05:25And, I mean, Yasmin had done this routine, what, 50 times?
01:05:28Yasmin is no longer part of the story, Jonathan, for whatever reasons.
01:05:31I don't run her life.
01:05:32I'm such a quick learner, Jonathan.
01:05:35Can you trust me?
01:05:36No, no, no, no.
01:05:39No, no, no.
01:05:40No, listen.
01:05:41If it's in the cellar, I want to see it.
01:05:44No, Adam.
01:05:45You know, Hedley was never happy with it.
01:05:48He said, I mean, it's embarrassing, that no painting could ever do justice.
01:05:53You know?
01:05:57Listen.
01:05:58I'll buy it.
01:05:59Just name your price.
01:06:00Some other time.
01:06:02Oh, no, Adam, were you crazy?
01:06:05I'm just fascinated.
01:06:07I don't know how he saw you, though.
01:06:08Well, I think it's not good down here, either, so you can...
01:06:10Oh, my God.
01:06:26They're bullet holes.
01:06:28What?
01:06:30Someone's been here with a gun.
01:06:34Oh, no.
01:06:35Come on, let's get out of here.
01:06:36Come on.
01:06:57From now on, you don't leave my sight.
01:06:59I think it's just someone's out here with a sick joke.
01:07:03We're not taking any chances.
01:07:07Jonathan, see you at the theater, Monday at 3.
01:07:11Thank you, Bruce.
01:07:11It's a great idea.
01:07:21Bye.
01:07:23Bye.
01:07:24Bye.
01:07:24Bye.
01:07:33Bye.
01:07:35Bye.
01:07:36Bye.
01:07:36Bye.
01:07:36This is it.
01:08:06Victoria Station.
01:08:36Hi.
01:08:42Katrina, is it?
01:08:46Who are you?
01:08:47I told you I'm...
01:08:50one of those nasty meddling writers that pervert the course of justice in this country.
01:08:55I came round yesterday because...
01:08:57Because you think Serena killed her husband?
01:09:00Do you?
01:09:01I don't know what to think anymore.
01:09:06Is that...?
01:09:17Well...
01:09:20I hadn't seen that one coming.
01:09:23Don't tell me I was naive.
01:09:26Sex was just a small part of what we had.
01:09:31I never met a man like him.
01:09:34He had so many great qualities.
01:09:37Monogamy wasn't one of them.
01:09:40All the same, I didn't know about Francesca.
01:09:45In some ways, that hit me as much as his death.
01:09:50But I know what she must be going through.
01:09:54Why haven't you told anyone?
01:09:56I was one of Hedley Shale's lovers.
01:09:59You've met my husband.
01:10:01And I don't want to spend the rest of my life looking like an early Frances Bacon.
01:10:05I'd better go.
01:10:06Keep meddling, won't you?
01:10:07For Hedley's sake.
01:10:20Yeah?
01:10:21Clot thick?
01:10:22Yeah.
01:10:23Clot thick?
01:10:24Yeah.
01:10:25Clot thickens.
01:10:26Guess who I ran into at the gallery?
01:10:40Katrina the cleaner, who it turns out was also sharing the sack with Mr Shale.
01:10:43I tell you, if the guy had stamina, that's two models he was knocking off.
01:10:47Oh, and what's all this I hear about mutilated portraits in the cellar?
01:10:51I was down the nick today.
01:10:53Your friend Mr Clouse has been demanding police protection for his new assistant.
01:10:56Like he thinks she might be next on the killer's hit list.
01:10:59I suppose he'd have a point. What you reckon?
01:11:00Why did you lie to me?
01:11:01What?
01:11:02Why did you say you lived alone?
01:11:03I didn't say I lived alone.
01:11:04That was one of your clever deductions.
01:11:05That was one of your clever deductions.
01:11:06I don't know.
01:11:07What's it?
01:11:08What's it?
01:11:09I don't know.
01:11:10I don't know.
01:11:11I don't know, but what's it?
01:11:12I don't know.
01:11:13What's it?
01:11:14I don't know.
01:11:15I don't know.
01:11:16I don't know.
01:11:17I don't know.
01:11:18I don't know.
01:11:19I don't know.
01:11:20I don't know.
01:11:21That was one of your clever deductions.
01:11:23But you didn't bother to correct me.
01:11:25I beg your pardon?
01:11:26You wanted my help and you knew the best way to get it was to make me think you were
01:11:30single and unattached.
01:11:32I'm sorry.
01:11:34What am I being accused of here?
01:11:36That I led you on with inducements of sexual favours.
01:11:39Oh no.
01:11:40You made that very clear right up front that you had no interest in me whatsoever.
01:11:42So how did I deceive you?
01:11:44By telling me categorically that you weren't interested in me in such a way that implied
01:11:50you were interested in me.
01:11:51I don't have to listen to this.
01:11:53Once in a while it wouldn't hurt you to stop putting on an act and be yourself.
01:11:56Oh really?
01:11:57And it wouldn't hurt you once in a while not to be so infuriatingly self-righteously bloody
01:12:02honest.
01:12:03Hello?
01:12:04You can't begin to imagine the fetid quagmire that passes for my love life.
01:12:08It has no stability of any kind.
01:12:10All right.
01:12:11Say I was enjoying your company.
01:12:13Well stranger things have hap-
01:12:22Hello?
01:12:23Thank you Mr. Beam.
01:12:36What the hell are you doing?
01:13:00I told you to stay outside Francesca's door and not to move.
01:13:03Sorry, Mr. Glass, I had to pass you on.
01:13:05I don't pay you to pass urine.
01:13:07I pay you not to move from the dressing room.
01:13:09There's a young girl in there whose life could well be in danger if we don't all keep...
01:13:13I've put on three pounds since last Sunday.
01:13:25I can't do the show.
01:13:26I'll never get inside that thing.
01:13:35Listen, I'm going to go over some things with the director.
01:13:42I'm going to leave Jonathan here and he's going to lock the door.
01:13:46Aren't you, Jonathan?
01:13:47And it's going to stay locked until I get back.
01:13:51So melodramatic.
01:13:53What's going to happen to me in my dressing room?
01:13:56Nothing.
01:13:56I'm going to make sure of that.
01:14:11Just going to freshen up.
01:14:12Okay.
01:14:21Hi.
01:14:23She's in the shower at the moment.
01:14:25Can I get a few...
01:14:26My name's Serena Shale, calling from Eve magazine.
01:14:28I think she'll know me.
01:14:30I wonder if you'll give her a message.
01:14:32Tell her I want to buy her story.
01:14:34I'm absolutely serious.
01:14:36Tell her to forget any personal situation between us.
01:14:39This is a professional inquiry.
01:14:42I'd like to publish her account of her affair with my husband.
01:14:46And I'm prepared to make a very generous offer for the rights.
01:14:50Right.
01:14:51If you'd like to talk things over, I'm coming to the show tonight.
01:14:54Maybe we could meet for a drink afterwards and discuss terms.
01:15:06For the third time of asking, can you ring me at the theatre ASAP?
01:15:29Hey.
01:15:41I've been trying to ring you.
01:15:45Didn't have to talk a lot of crap last night.
01:15:49So did you.
01:15:51I accept your unconditional apology.
01:15:54Thanks.
01:15:57Oh, my God.
01:15:58What's he going to do to me?
01:16:00I think I've fathomed it.
01:16:02What?
01:16:02How Hedley Shale was murdered.
01:16:04You're kidding.
01:16:05How?
01:16:06There's a number of things.
01:16:06They don't make any sense until you put them all together.
01:16:09Why was that rubber band on the bedroom floor?
01:16:11Why was the letter on the doormat?
01:16:13Why would someone fire bullets through the middle of a painting?
01:16:15Why would they?
01:16:16First, clear your mind of all preconceptions.
01:16:20This is more calculated and evil than we imagined.
01:16:23How are you doing, sweetheart?
01:16:39The place is jumping out there.
01:16:40This is so weird.
01:16:42I mean, it's just weird.
01:16:44What?
01:16:45Someone stole my waging machine.
01:16:49I had a set of scales I brought in this morning.
01:16:51But this door has been locked all day.
01:16:54How did they get inside this room?
01:16:56I've got to go.
01:16:58I've got to go.
01:17:00I've got to go.
01:17:30I've got to go.
01:18:00I've got to go.
01:18:30I've got to go.
01:18:40We all sat.
01:18:41Hi, I'm Serena Shale, and I think you've met Jonathan, and my friend Madeline.
01:19:11Actually, we're old friends. They lied their way into my office the other day. Pity, we could have done with some TV exposure. Still, ten out of ten for technique. You can come and work for me any day.
01:19:26How about when hell freezes over? So, how much are you offering her for all the spicy details? Be worth it, whatever it is, to up your circulation. I just wonder if you've got it right this time.
01:19:40Meaning what?
01:19:43The police dropped their murder charge against Stephen Grisnell this afternoon.
01:19:47Dropped?
01:19:48In the light of new evidence.
01:19:50What new evidence?
01:19:51Evidence, I'm afraid, supplied by us.
01:19:57Francesca, I think you said you got to the house that day at what, a quarter past nine?
01:20:02Nine ten, nine fifteen.
01:20:03Hmm. And Mrs. Shale, a silly question, but what time does the postman call at your place in the morning?
01:20:09About half past eight. I think I passed him on my way out. Why?
01:20:13There you are. That's what never made sense. The letter on the doormat, that's what started it all off for me.
01:20:20When I saw the footprint on the envelope.
01:20:22And it was you came snooping around my house. My God, you've got some explaining to do.
01:20:28What is this? What have you found out?
01:20:30A letter addressed to Hedley Shale from the Inland Revenue was lying on the floor when they discovered the body at half past eleven.
01:20:37Why? When he'd been to that door at nine fifteen to let Francesca into the house.
01:20:43He must have seen it. An important letter from the taxman. I mean, you'd pick it up.
01:20:48And why? If he wasn't shot by the burglar, would someone else want him dead?
01:20:54No mystery about that.
01:20:57Revenge.
01:20:58He was sleeping with another woman.
01:21:01A simple crime of passion.
01:21:03Plus, of course, the added benefits later on when the whole thing could be exploited for commercial gain.
01:21:11Right, Francesca?
01:21:13And that's why you murdered him.
01:21:17What?
01:21:19You knew your husband was having an affair.
01:21:23We all jumped to the conclusion it was Francesca.
01:21:26Didn't we, Francesca?
01:21:28Because that's what you made us believe.
01:21:30But the truth of it is, Francesca wasn't his type.
01:21:37Unlikely as it may seem.
01:21:38But it was all there in his work.
01:21:39He was into a different kind of beauty in a woman.
01:21:43Something that went deeper than pore cleanser.
01:21:47Something he found in Katrina Topless.
01:21:49Katrina?
01:21:51I'm afraid.
01:21:54Hedley and Katrina.
01:21:56That's who he really had scheduled for his bedroom romp that day.
01:22:04Francesca never really figured in his life at all.
01:22:07I think that's right, isn't it?
01:22:09Even after you'd stripped off for him, he still somehow managed to resist.
01:22:16And you couldn't handle that.
01:22:18What did he do?
01:22:20Tell you to keep the painting as a peace offering and go away.
01:22:23Hedley loved me.
01:22:26He could not live without me.
01:22:28Well, you proved that.
01:22:31And you made him pay for that rejection.
01:22:34You made sure you'd go down in history as his ill-fated lover.
01:22:38His death would be your passport to fortune and fame.
01:22:43What do you expect me to say to all this?
01:22:46The whole thing would have been physically impossible.
01:22:51Sometimes it's not hard to make things look impossible if you work at it.
01:22:57It wasn't too difficult to get over that wall into the bedroom through the back garden.
01:23:01He never picked up that letter in the porch because you never went in through the front door that day.
01:23:06Did you?
01:23:07Once you're inside, Hedley's downstairs on the phone.
01:23:11Katrina's due at any minute.
01:23:16You force the drawers to fake a robbery.
01:23:22You threw the jury out the window to make it look like the thief had dropped it on the way out.
01:23:28You roughed up the bed a bit to make it look like there'd been a wrestling match.
01:23:30And then the devious bit.
01:23:40You tied yourself up.
01:23:43A couple of pinholes in the blindfold so you can see what you're doing.
01:23:47Once it's peeled off, no-one's going to check that.
01:23:57Then you brace yourself against the wall.
01:24:00Elbowed a vase over to get Hedley's attention.
01:24:04And wait it.
01:24:06This is crazy.
01:24:08So I've just bound and gagged myself.
01:24:11How did I shoot him?
01:24:13Well, that was always the real stumper.
01:24:16Those prints on the gun, which apparently belonged to no-one who'd been in the house that day.
01:24:21We were wrong, weren't we?
01:24:23They belonged to you, Francesca.
01:24:25If you checked your facts, my fingerprints were eliminated with everyone else's.
01:24:32Ask the police.
01:24:33No-one said they were fingerprints.
01:24:38Not the first thing that's going to occur to anyone.
01:24:41You'd fire the gun with your foot.
01:24:44But you'd already have plenty of target practice.
01:24:48With the painting in the cellar, the one you didn't want us to see.
01:24:52So when Hedley walked in, you weren't going to miss.
01:24:55Worthy of Houdini.
01:25:05The way you got that elastic band on and off your foot.
01:25:07Again, you'd had bags of practice.
01:25:14You can't possibly expect the police to believe this.
01:25:18Not without hard proof, obviously.
01:25:19Which is why this afternoon, Jonathan had me pop some bathroom scales down to the CID
01:25:25to eliminate your toe prints from their inquiries.
01:25:31Unfortunately.
01:25:36Sorry about that.
01:25:37Okay.
01:25:38How are we all doing in here?
01:25:40Who wants a little top-up, huh?
01:25:44What?
01:25:46Miss Petron?
01:25:46You were nothing to him.
01:25:52You're less than nothing.
01:25:53No.
01:25:54I will never be nothing again.
01:25:59You still and my story will cost you double.
01:26:03So, can I give you a lift back to the hotel?
01:26:27Uh, no, thanks.
01:26:30I may as well get a cab.
01:26:36You see, that's where I have absolutely no idea how your mind works.
01:26:41To suddenly lock into that area that, because only her hands were tied up.
01:26:47I know.
01:26:48Somewhere, I still had that image of those long, prehensile toes.
01:26:52And when I turned the TV remote off last night on my foot, I don't know, I just suddenly saw it.
01:27:08This coffee's a long time coming.
01:27:12They've probably forgotten all about us.
01:27:14Oh, well.
01:27:15I could give them another ring.
01:27:16No, to be honest, I suppose I ought to get back.
01:27:18Well, if you ever want any help again, don't ring me.
01:27:23Whatever you do.
01:27:25All that snooping around people's houses, getting sadistly molested by vacuum cleaners.
01:27:29No thanks.
01:27:30I promise I'll never bother you again.
01:27:34Good night.
01:27:36Night.
01:27:36Night.
01:27:36Night.
01:27:57Night.
01:28:02Night.
01:28:04Night.
01:28:04Night.
01:28:05Night.
01:28:35Coffee for two?
01:28:48Just put it over there, please.
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