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00:00The End
00:30Oh, my God.
01:00Oh, my God.
01:30Hey, don't get any lighter.
01:48Oh, my God.
02:18A bit lost, Lot.
02:22Uh, 158.
02:25Just there, sweetheart.
02:28Ta.
02:28Oh, my God.
02:37Oh, my God.
02:38Hold that, would you?
03:02What do you make of it?
03:11Looks old.
03:12It is.
03:13Fairly indifferent, Jacobean poetry, calfskin binding, worth a couple of bob.
03:18What are these brown spots on the pages?
03:21You go straight to the heart of the matter, Mr. Um...
03:24Jack.
03:25It's just Jack.
03:27That's called foxing.
03:29Jack, just Jack.
03:30It's what time does to books.
03:32To all of us.
03:34In the profession, we say it's slightly foxed.
03:36Interested?
03:39You know, there's a mistake.
03:41A mistake?
03:43Well, isn't there?
03:45Above the door, a sign.
03:47What about it?
03:48Well, it's wrong, isn't it?
03:51There's no apostrophe in books.
03:53There is.
03:54No, there isn't.
03:54There is.
03:55There isn't.
03:55There is.
03:56There isn't.
03:56There is that your name is Book and you own the shop, which it is and I do.
03:59My name's Book.
04:00Books, books.
04:02Confusing, I know.
04:03Or is it handy?
04:04I can never decide.
04:05Anyway, I'm Book and I run a bookshop.
04:07This one, obviously.
04:08You must be here about the job.
04:10Tea?
04:10Tea?
04:10Tea?
04:10Tea?
04:10Tea?
04:27Not quite there yet.
04:31I've tried to make ginger snaps.
04:34Uh, how much?
04:36Where were you dragged up?
04:37One for each person and one for the pot.
04:40Now, where have we got to, Jack?
04:47Just Jack.
04:49Uh, this is dog, book, dog, job.
04:53I have a little hobby on the side and I find it's taking me away from the shop more and more.
04:59So, I require assistance.
05:01Oh, God.
05:17Oh, that's better.
05:19I must have tea.
05:20Without tea, I am merely unreconstituted dust.
05:23Look, this isn't really my sort of gaff.
05:31I mean, I thought they'd maybe send me to a factory or something.
05:34They?
05:37You know where I've come from, don't you?
05:40You know that I was...
05:41No need to mention it again.
05:43What are you hoping for now you've got the job, Jack?
05:45Just Jack.
05:46I just want to keep my head down, you know, try and get back to normal...
05:50Wait, I've got the job.
05:52Normality is overrated.
05:54Yes, you've got the job.
05:56If you want it.
05:58Darling, you must come at once.
06:01Oh.
06:02Uh, Trotty, this is Jack.
06:03Just Jack.
06:04Jack, this is Trotty, my wife.
06:07Hello.
06:07Hello.
06:09Hello.
06:10Well, what is it?
06:11The bombsite.
06:12The men carrying the bombsite.
06:13You know where Inkeman Street used to be?
06:14Oh, yes, that one.
06:15What of it?
06:16Well, they found something.
06:18In suspicious circumstances.
06:22My favourite kind of circumstances.
06:37Go on, go.
06:47No, no, no.
06:50No, no, no.
06:54Do you not care?
06:56No.
07:04Do you not care?
07:37I was wondering if we'd be seeing you.
07:57Like a bad penny, Sergeant.
07:58Yeah, well, you know my feelings.
08:00You've made them exquisitely plain.
08:01But as you know, I do have a special letter from Churchill.
08:05Yeah.
08:07It's good to cover them up.
08:10All right.
08:12Oh, hello, Book.
08:14Mrs. Burke, thought this might be up your street.
08:16Almost literally.
08:17Start at the beginning, Inspector, and leave nothing out,
08:19especially if it's salacious, gory, or vaguely scandalous.
08:22Bit of a puzzle.
08:23Mr. Basehart here was starting to clear away the rubble
08:26from this old bombsite the other day.
08:27Incommon Street caught it in 44, did it?
08:30Yes, sir.
08:31Terrible pounding.
08:32Do you remember that raid, sir?
08:34How could I forget?
08:35Trotty and I ended up cheek by jowl in the Anderson shelter
08:38with the man from the Prudential Insurance Company.
08:41He had lovely fingernails.
08:42Terrible halitosis.
08:44Those shelters weren't built for sharing.
08:46War's over, Mr. Basehart.
08:48Quite so, sir, but I still like to patrol my route.
08:51For old time's sake.
08:53And to keep an eye on old Brenda there.
08:55My trusty searchlight.
08:58Well, here he was, trying to clear away the rubble,
09:00when lo, what does he find?
09:02Lo, what?
09:03Ah.
09:03Heavens to Betsy.
09:14Tossed together like a skeletal salad.
09:17How many?
09:17It's hard to tell, because they're all jumbled up.
09:19Ten or twelve, I'd say.
09:21Quite why Mr. Basehart didn't tell the authorities
09:22about his discovery forthwith is another matter.
09:25He didn't?
09:26No.
09:27Some kiddies who were playing here let us know.
09:29As I was saying, I have a theory.
09:31Well, obviously they copped it in the raid, didn't they?
09:34What do you think, Jack?
09:36Me?
09:37You.
09:41Uh.
09:43Yeah, that's what must have happened.
09:46Air raid killed them.
09:48Died two years ago, and now they're all rotted away.
09:52That would be a logical assumption.
09:54Who's this?
09:55So you don't think they died in an air raid?
09:58If you recall, Inkeman Street was already empty,
10:00wasn't it, Mr. Basehart?
10:01Scheduled for demolition.
10:03So nobody was living here, in which case...
10:06Who are they?
10:07Well, anybody, surely.
10:09Anybody could have taken shelter from the bombing
10:11in one of the empty houses.
10:12A dozen of them.
10:13What about clothes?
10:14Clothes?
10:15All flesh is grass.
10:17The raid was only two years ago.
10:19Even if the bodies had rotted away,
10:21their clothes would still be intact.
10:22I think Mr. Basehart and I are thinking along
10:24similar lines.
10:27Well, that would appear to be the clincher.
10:40What do you think?
10:44The unmistakable bonds of King Charles II.
10:47Oh, does it have a date on it, too?
10:49What do you think?
10:521665.
10:54Plague pit, yeah?
10:56So it would seem...
10:57A what?
10:58Plague pit.
11:00The Great Plague.
11:01London's burial grounds were overflowing,
11:04so they dug these great big pits
11:06and dumped all the corpses in them.
11:09I'm a bit of an archaeologist.
11:12On the side, strictly amateur, you understand?
11:15So why didn't you tell us straight away
11:17when you found them?
11:18Well, I...
11:19I knew I'd never get a chance like this again.
11:22I just wanted a bit of time to excavate them.
11:24Fascinating stuff.
11:30I really am very sorry, Inspector.
11:33Yes, well, no harm done, I suppose.
11:35Not sure about that.
11:37These skeletons might still be lively.
11:39What?
11:39You mean, it's still catching?
11:41The jury, as they say, is out.
11:44But I think it's very unlikely.
11:45Do you mind if I hang on to this?
11:47You're welcome to it.
11:48Right, Mr. Book?
11:49Oh, hello, Nora.
11:51Why, I'm not surprised to see you here.
11:52Did you know that back then,
11:54they used to use great catapults
11:56to toss plaguey corpses into besieged cities
11:59to deliberately affect people?
12:02That's horrible, Nora.
12:04I know.
12:04And a split infinitive.
12:06Even more horrible.
12:10I'd be worth a bit, too.
12:14Sergeant, get this long taken care of
12:17in the pronto, wouldn't you do that?
12:18With care.
12:20Where to, sir?
12:21Uh, uh, morgue, I'll suppose.
12:23Get Dr. Golder to take a shifty.
12:25See if there's any chance
12:26they're still infectious.
12:27Yes, sir.
12:28Thank you, Book.
12:29Anytime, Inspector.
12:33Sergeant!
12:36Why can't you collect stamps
12:37like normal people?
12:38Oh, dear.
12:48Oh, dear.
12:48Oh, dear.
12:48Oh, dear.
12:48Oh, dear.
12:52Are you all right?
13:09Yeah.
13:10It's all just a bit, uh...
13:14being coppers.
13:18I've, uh...
13:19been away, you see, and...
13:21Oh, yes, I have.
13:21I know.
13:23Can't have been very nice.
13:24Tell me all about it when you're ready.
13:26Here, let me take this.
13:28Well, you must stay with us, mustn't you?
13:29Now that you've got the job.
13:30I have the premises next door.
13:33Book has his books,
13:34I have my wallpaper,
13:35and there is a darling little attic room
13:37between the two.
13:38Why are you helping me like this?
13:40Why not?
13:41I'll get this.
13:43I'll get this.
13:45What old hark up?
13:48Suicide, I heard.
13:49Heard?
13:50Uh, from your colleague over there.
13:52Oh, love his ruddy guts for garters.
13:54This goes against all the rules of...
13:56All right, Sergeant, all right.
13:57Mr. Book's always welcome
14:00to give us the benefit of his wisdom,
14:01and as you know...
14:02Yes.
14:04Yes.
14:07Bad business, but very bad.
14:08Oh, sod.
14:10But, look, Morris has a point.
14:12This is a plain ordinary suicide.
14:14I mean, I can be flexible, as you know.
14:16Weren't something a little bit more...
14:17Recherche, outré,
14:19anything with an acute accent?
14:22Unusual, comes along.
14:24Like our barbed friends, the skeleton.
14:26This is a meat and potato,
14:27his job.
14:28You know, the sergeant and I
14:29are perfectly capable of...
14:30Who found him?
14:32Charwond.
14:32A hater dredge.
14:34Pretty shook up she is.
14:36Dredge?
14:37That means a little bell.
14:38She'd been doing the hark up for donkeys.
14:42Din-dong.
14:44Was there a note?
14:45No, no, no.
14:46How did he do it?
14:48Prussic acid.
14:48It's not...
14:50Nasty.
14:52And intriguing,
14:53don't you think?
14:54Mr. Harkup.
15:01Great, sir.
15:02Looks like suicide.
15:03Oh, how dreadful.
15:06Well, I'd better get on.
15:07Too much excitement for one day.
15:10Jack,
15:10knit back to the shop, would you?
15:12There's a pile of newspapers,
15:14third stack on the right as you come in,
15:16Charing Cross Dispatch,
15:17underneath two volumes
15:18on Eleanor of Castile
15:19and the wilting Aspadistra.
15:22Fetch them for me, would you?
15:28Okay.
15:29Oh, and put the kettle on again.
15:31We're going to have company.
15:38Have a drink.
15:39All right?
15:39Oh, well,
15:49seeing as it's from him.
15:51Oh, I brought a coffee and walnut cake
15:54round for Mr. Harkup.
15:55You might as well have it.
15:58This is your usual char day?
16:00Yes.
16:01Every week,
16:02regular as clockwork.
16:03But I only saw him yesterday.
16:04Pop round to get some bandages.
16:06Bandages?
16:07Oh, my son,
16:08he was injured in the war.
16:10He needs constant attention.
16:12The dressing.
16:13What time did you see Mr. Harkup?
16:16Six.
16:17Six-ish, I think.
16:19Oh, it doesn't seem possible.
16:21Him standing there,
16:22all full of life,
16:23and then...
16:25finding him lying there,
16:27like that.
16:27You're doing very well.
16:29And was he?
16:31Was he what?
16:32Full of life,
16:33when you saw him.
16:34In good spirits, I mean.
16:35Well, to be honest,
16:37he seemed a little down.
16:41Although I'd want to go
16:42and do an horrible thing
16:42like that to himself.
16:44Any vices?
16:47Vices, sir?
16:48We must investigate
16:49all angles,
16:50alas, dear lady.
16:53Man of very regular habits
16:55he was.
16:55Church every Sunday.
16:57Kept his accounts
16:58in very neat order.
16:59I think that was
17:00the soldier in him.
17:00He did play dominoes.
17:04Dominoes?
17:04Every Monday and Thursday night.
17:06In the ball.
17:07With Mr. Baceheart
17:08and some others.
17:09Does that count as a vice?
17:11I hardly think so.
17:13Do you have any family?
17:20My mother always said
17:21if you can't see anything nice
17:22about someone,
17:23don't open your trap.
17:25So there was
17:26bad blood, then.
17:29There's a daughter,
17:30isn't there?
17:31Some estrangement?
17:33I wouldn't like to say.
17:35No.
17:36Don't seem right.
17:38What with Mr. H.
17:39not cold in his grave.
17:40Heavens, this cake.
17:42Yes?
17:43Well, it's superb.
17:44Oh, too kind, sir.
17:46But then I'd expect
17:47nothing less.
17:48Oh, why'd you say that?
17:50From Miss Lyon's
17:51Corner House, 1921.
17:52Oh, I fancy you
17:55knowing that.
17:57It was 1922, though.
17:59My mistake.
18:00How the dickings?
18:01I saw off a lot of
18:03little tidbits like that,
18:04mostly useless.
18:06Must have been a
18:07lovely experience.
18:08Oh, yes.
18:10Oh, I've never felt
18:11so glamorous.
18:12I got a new hat
18:13and the Lord Mayor
18:15winked at me.
18:17Winked.
18:18Fancy.
18:18Worked there for years,
18:20I did,
18:20at the Corner House.
18:21so I got very good
18:23with the baking.
18:25Mr. H.
18:26used to love
18:26my pineapple upside down.
18:28You know,
18:28it really would be
18:29most helpful to know
18:30why he and his daughter,
18:31Sarah,
18:33er,
18:34Lor, Lor, Mary?
18:35Marula.
18:35Marula, that's right.
18:37Why he and Marula
18:38no longer saw eye to eye.
18:41Well,
18:42seeing as you've been
18:43so kind, sir.
18:44Very good of you.
18:45She was a cow.
18:47All right?
18:48Horrible.
18:49Money-grabbing.
18:50Little cow.
18:51I see.
18:52Apple of his eye,
18:53she was,
18:54after his wife passed on.
18:56But she knew
18:57how to twist him
18:58round her little finger.
19:00Nothing was too much
19:01for his little princess.
19:02Oh,
19:03and then
19:03she has the gall
19:05to run off with him.
19:07Him?
19:08Mickey.
19:10Mickey Hall.
19:11It's a right and there,
19:12do well.
19:12Up to all sorts
19:13in the war.
19:13Spivvy stuff,
19:14you know,
19:15Black Market.
19:16He's a motor mechanic.
19:17They've got a garage
19:19out Mile End way.
19:20Mile End.
19:21Charming.
19:22And now Marula
19:23will inherit the lot.
19:27Don't seem right,
19:29do it?
19:30No,
19:30it, um,
19:32don't.
19:33Thanks for the cake.
19:38What the hell
19:39do you think you're doing?
19:40Just being neighbourly,
19:42Sergeant?
19:43Uh,
19:44your witness,
19:45I think.
19:57Hello again.
19:58Oh,
19:58hello,
19:59Book.
20:00I just wondered
20:00if I could have
20:01a little nosy around
20:02before I head out.
20:04See if I can
20:05help at all.
20:06Head out?
20:07Oh,
20:07Mrs. Book and I
20:08are often pleasure-bent.
20:09The new boy's
20:10babysitting.
20:11Up for the dog.
20:12Dog.
20:13There's no definite
20:14article.
20:15Off to the pictures?
20:17There's a re-running
20:17a Sandra Dare
20:18at the Rialto.
20:19The opera.
20:20Fat ladies singing.
20:23Speaking of which,
20:25may I,
20:25um...
20:28There's a daughter,
20:31but Mrs. Dredge
20:32says they didn't get on.
20:35So I gather.
20:37We're endeavouring
20:38to trace her.
20:38She has a garage
20:40at Mile End.
20:43Oh, right.
20:45Thanks.
20:45Thanks.
20:45Funny, aren't they?
21:05Mrs. Bliss goes in
21:08for something similar
21:09in their little,
21:10little McNacks.
21:11Not quite the same,
21:12I think.
21:13These are jade.
21:14Rather fine.
21:17And this one...
21:21Mr. Harcup
21:26was obviously
21:26a connoisseur.
21:27Do you think
21:47it was suicide?
21:48Do you have doubts?
21:50I do.
21:51What's your theory?
21:53Evening, gentlemen.
21:54Evening.
21:55Oh, Eric.
21:55Black Lamb and Grey Falcon.
21:58What?
21:58That book for Sheila.
21:59It's a ride.
22:00Oh, smashing.
22:01Shall we come over
22:02tomorrow for it?
22:03Righto.
22:03Wait a whistle?
22:04Oh, no, thank you.
22:06I was never keen
22:07on him myself.
22:08Harcup.
22:10God forgive me.
22:12Bit of a little Hitler.
22:13Still, poor bugger.
22:15Stop it himself like that.
22:16Hmm.
22:17So, so...
22:19What's your theory?
22:20Patience, Inspector.
22:22Patience.
22:22The two most powerful warriors
22:24are patience and time.
22:26Polstoy.
22:27Oh, I couldn't get into it.
22:28I tried that one, you know,
22:29where she chucks herself
22:30in front of a train.
22:32No?
22:32No.
22:34Oh.
22:35Inspector.
22:36Inspector.
22:45There you are.
22:45Too much?
23:11No, not at all.
23:16Er...
23:16I mean, you look amazing.
23:19I meant the walls.
23:21Oh.
23:22Book says it's an affront to good taste,
23:24but I don't know,
23:25I think it has a certain something,
23:27don't you?
23:28I'm good at knocking things together.
23:30I...
23:30I always have been.
23:33Wardrobes,
23:33wireless sets,
23:35heads.
23:36I was in the land army.
23:37Gin?
23:38What?
23:40Oh, yeah, please.
23:43So you're going out, then?
23:45My dear,
23:46we're always going out.
23:48Well, one has to live,
23:49doesn't one?
23:50Especially after the time
23:51we've all had.
23:52There's some chops
23:53in the larder, I think.
23:54Yours runs up at the top.
23:55I've heard the sheets.
24:01You're...
24:02I mean...
24:14Better go and unpack.
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