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'It's just - I need you to...

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promise me something, Tabitha erm...

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You see, I've...
I've done something rather silly.

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And it might sound bad -
might sound very bad even -

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but it's not what it seems.

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Not at all.
It's not what it seems

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and um...just needs a little bit
of clearing up, that's all, so...

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That's why I need you to promise me.

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I need you to promise me
that you won't tell the police.

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There you go.
Can you promise me that, Tabitha?

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Er, because I can't...

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I can't let Susan down.
Do you understand?

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She's very, er, fragile. Yeah.'

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'(VEHICLE ENGINE REVVING)'

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'Dear Chris...

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I've managed to get hold
of a pen and some paper

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and so I thought
I'd write you a letter.

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There's so much
I want to say to you, Chris,

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and maybe, one day,
we'll see each other again

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and I'll be able to do it.

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Perhaps a little better
than I feel able to now.

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You see, I never cared about being
shut out from the real world...

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..because I never felt like
I was allowed to arrive here
in the first place.

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I'm not here, anyway, am I?

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So, what's the difference?

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What's the difference between here
and somewhere else in my head?

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But I see it now.
That it was different for you.

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You had a place in that world...
and then you met me.

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So, I just wanted to say
that I understand.

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I will love you always...
but I understand.

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Yours, Susan.'

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Wait there.
I'll be back in minute.

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What? Chris. Where are you going?
I'll be back before you know it.
Just hold tight.

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..and buried them in
the rear garden of their own house.

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They then set about concealing
both the deaths and the burials

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for the next 15 years.

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But the story that Susan
and Christopher have concocted

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is a fantasy.

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It is not the truth.

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Over the course of this trial,
we will demonstrate
that Susan and Christopher Edwards

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are not only audacious
and unrepentant liars,

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they are cold-blooded killers
who, with forethought and malice,

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jointly agreed to murder
and conceal the bodies

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of the helpless Patricia
and William Wycherley.

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Thank you.

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Good morning, officers.

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My step-son left this letter
on my porch early this morning.

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'Decomposition begins
almost immediately...

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and after three or four days
in a warm environment, the corpse

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enters a new phase of decay which we
refer to as putrefaction or bloat.'

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The microorganisms
digesting body tissue produce gases

52
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which cause the body to swell -
most visibly in the face,

53
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where the eyes and tongue are pushed
forward, often quite grotesquely.

54
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And these gases
are extremely foul-smelling.

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We've all had the misfortune
of smelling "off" chicken.

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Now imagine two chickens,
each the size of a human body.

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'In many cases,
it induces nausea and vomiting.'

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So what are the chances,
would you say,

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of Christopher and Susan Edwards
entering a tiny house,

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where two adult corpses had lain
for nearly a week

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in temperatures
of up to 23 degrees Celsius,

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and not immediately smelling them?

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Nil.

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Yah!

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Dr Dickson,
in the Edwards' interviews,

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they repeatedly stated
that William Wycherley's limbs
and torso were "stiff".

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What would account for that?
Rigor mortis.

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Biochemical changes in a dead body

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that lead to a stiffening
of the muscles.

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Is rigor mortis permanent?

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00:09:28,003 --> 00:09:31,803
No. Without refrigeration,
it dissipates

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approximately three days
after death.

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So, could William Wycherley's body
have been stiff

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six days after he was killed?

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00:09:39,043 --> 00:09:40,803
It is highly improbable.

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Yet, both Chris and Susan
contend that it was stiff

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when they buried it.

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Their timescale must be mistaken.

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They must have buried William
within three days of death.

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When Mr Edwards maintains
he was still in London?

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Yes.

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00:10:35,083 --> 00:10:36,803
Here.

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00:10:39,283 --> 00:10:41,043
Whoa. Whoa.

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00:10:51,043 --> 00:10:54,563
With a double-action revolver
like this...

85
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the trigger action has two phases.

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The first part of your squeeze,
which takes quite a bit of effort.

87
00:11:03,163 --> 00:11:06,083
I think you can see
the strain on my finger.

88
00:11:06,123 --> 00:11:08,803
What's happening
is the hammer is being pulled back

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00:11:08,843 --> 00:11:11,283
into firing position
and, at the same time,

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00:11:11,323 --> 00:11:15,043
the cylinder is advancing
a fresh bullet into the chamber.

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00:11:15,083 --> 00:11:20,443
Requires quite a deliberate effort
to discharge every bullet.

92
00:11:20,483 --> 00:11:23,923
So not the kind of trigger that you
could pull by mistake, then?

93
00:11:23,963 --> 00:11:26,163
'Not easily, no.

94
00:11:26,963 --> 00:11:29,483
It's a gun. It's not a toy.'

95
00:11:36,683 --> 00:11:38,603
'And the other thing
to consider here

96
00:11:38,643 --> 00:11:41,883
is that the bullet strikes
on the bones

97
00:11:41,923 --> 00:11:45,803
are also extremely similar
in both victims...

98
00:11:45,843 --> 00:11:48,483
and suggests
they were facing the gun.'

99
00:11:48,523 --> 00:11:52,123
'What would your overall conclusion
be, taking all that into account?'

100
00:11:52,163 --> 00:11:55,563
My working assumption would be
that the same shooter

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00:11:55,603 --> 00:11:58,243
discharged all four bullets,

102
00:11:58,283 --> 00:12:02,083
which is to say
that both William and Patricia

103
00:12:02,123 --> 00:12:04,603
were most likely killed
by the same person,

104
00:12:04,643 --> 00:12:08,803
and that he or she was probably
familiar with this sort of weapon.

105
00:12:08,843 --> 00:12:12,723
It's not like this is
the biggest gun in the world
but it's still quite serious.

106
00:12:12,763 --> 00:12:15,603
Do you know what I mean?
No further questions, My Lady.

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00:13:01,003 --> 00:13:05,563
I swear by Almighty God
that the evidence I shall give...

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00:13:06,443 --> 00:13:10,763
..shall be the truth, the whole
truth and nothing but the truth.

109
00:13:16,723 --> 00:13:20,643
What sort of films
did Gary Cooper star in, Mr Edwards?

110
00:13:20,683 --> 00:13:22,803
He was a Hollywood actor
in the '40s and '50s,

111
00:13:22,843 --> 00:13:24,883
is that correct?
And '60s, yes.

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00:13:24,923 --> 00:13:27,723
And '60s.
Yes, thank you for clarifying.

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00:13:27,763 --> 00:13:30,643
He was, er,
principally known for Westerns.

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But he played a wide range
of characters -

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romantic leads, comedies, soldiers.

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And, er, of course,

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he once played baseball player
Lou Gehrig in Pride Of The Yankees.

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00:13:41,683 --> 00:13:43,323
But isn't it true, Chris,

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that you and your wife
loved stories about the Wild West?

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About gunslingers and outlaws?

121
00:13:49,883 --> 00:13:52,563
Well, Susan was the Gary Cooper fan.

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And it was all perfectly harmless.

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Members of the jury,
please refer to document EL-96.

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This is an invoice from 2009,

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00:14:01,523 --> 00:14:06,243
for an authenticated
Gary Cooper letter costing £2,700.

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00:14:06,283 --> 00:14:10,523
You spent £2,700
on a Gary Cooper letter

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00:14:10,563 --> 00:14:12,923
despite being
on the verge of bankruptcy?

128
00:14:12,963 --> 00:14:14,603
It was a gift for Susan.

129
00:14:14,643 --> 00:14:17,123
And we were not
on the verge of bankruptcy.

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00:14:17,163 --> 00:14:19,643
Mr Edwards, when you and your wife

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were arrested
on your return from France,

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you had nothing
but a few coins between you.

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00:14:25,043 --> 00:14:29,883
The only personal belongings you had
were a few signed photos and books.

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00:14:29,923 --> 00:14:35,403
You personally have a correspondence
with the actor Gerard Depardieu.

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00:14:35,443 --> 00:14:39,763
So, it is preposterous to suggest
that you were not a participant

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in this world of overblown heroes
and Hollywood stars and guns.

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00:14:44,123 --> 00:14:46,683
If you wanna get into the detail -
Listen to my question -

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00:14:46,723 --> 00:14:49,363
Well, now you're
interrupting my answer.

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00:14:50,603 --> 00:14:54,003
You owned a gun of the same calibre

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00:14:54,043 --> 00:14:56,803
as the one that shot your in-laws,
didn't you?

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00:14:56,843 --> 00:14:59,723
At one time I owned a revolver
that was capable of taking

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.38-calibre cartridges, yes.

143
00:15:02,203 --> 00:15:04,283
You had .38-calibre cartridges.

144
00:15:04,323 --> 00:15:06,803
Not in May 1998, I didn't.

145
00:15:06,843 --> 00:15:11,243
I had neither cartridges
nor firearms. I had sold them.

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00:15:11,283 --> 00:15:14,483
Your wife hates guns, doesn't she?

147
00:15:14,523 --> 00:15:16,523
She certainly doesn't like them.

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00:15:17,403 --> 00:15:20,923
You told the police
she was terrified of them.

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00:15:20,963 --> 00:15:23,923
That she wouldn't even touch one
at the firing range.

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00:15:23,963 --> 00:15:27,683
That's correct.
She's generally very fragile.

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00:15:27,723 --> 00:15:29,683
Another thing we haven't spent -

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00:15:29,723 --> 00:15:31,523
What about you, Chris?

153
00:15:31,563 --> 00:15:33,603
You like guns, don't you?

154
00:15:35,043 --> 00:15:36,643
I'm interested in guns.

155
00:15:36,683 --> 00:15:40,443
I am interested in military history
and guns are simply a part of that.

156
00:15:40,483 --> 00:15:43,323
Chris, could we just clarify
something for the jury?

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00:15:43,363 --> 00:15:46,643
You used to fire such weapons,
didn't you? Quite often?

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00:15:46,683 --> 00:15:49,003
Not often, no, because the er...

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00:15:49,043 --> 00:15:52,123
the club where I did my shooting
was in Earl's Court.

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So, from Dagenham,
I had to change trains twice,

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00:15:54,603 --> 00:15:57,003
so by the time I got home,
it was very late.

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And then after Susan moved in,
it started to feel like I...

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00:15:59,843 --> 00:16:02,203
Well, it wasn't worth it any more,
so I sold the guns

164
00:16:02,243 --> 00:16:04,483
and surrendered
my firearms certificate

165
00:16:04,523 --> 00:16:07,003
and that was in September 1995.

166
00:16:07,043 --> 00:16:11,443
But before you lived with Susan, you
would've happily made the journey?

167
00:16:11,483 --> 00:16:13,443
Yes.
So, what changed?

168
00:16:14,283 --> 00:16:18,163
Susan didn't like me being away
from home for too long
unless it was for work.

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00:16:18,203 --> 00:16:22,243
Or she didn't like me being away
from HER, perhaps I should say.

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00:16:22,283 --> 00:16:25,043
But you enjoyed this hobby,
didn't you?

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00:16:26,163 --> 00:16:28,163
Yes.

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00:16:28,203 --> 00:16:30,323
Did you feel like it was your choice

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to stop making that journey,
or did Susan make you do it?

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00:16:34,323 --> 00:16:36,883
Um... It was... It was mutual.

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00:16:37,763 --> 00:16:41,283
And when you buried the bodies,
was that your choice?

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00:16:41,323 --> 00:16:43,683
Or did Susan make you do it?

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00:16:44,723 --> 00:16:47,443
It was erm...
Was it mutual?

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Yes.

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And when you phoned your step-mother

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to tell her
about the bodies in the garden,

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00:16:55,483 --> 00:16:57,963
that was YOUR choice, wasn't it?

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00:16:58,003 --> 00:17:02,163
That was a choice you made
independently without Susan.

183
00:17:02,203 --> 00:17:04,723
And that is why
we are all here today, isn't it?

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00:17:04,763 --> 00:17:08,443
You must have been in a great deal
of pain and discomfort

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00:17:08,483 --> 00:17:12,963
to choose this over what you
could've had in France, with Susan.

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00:17:20,643 --> 00:17:25,803
I made a choice to marry Susan
because I loved her...

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00:17:27,483 --> 00:17:31,083
..and since then I've been living
Susan's life with her.

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00:17:35,323 --> 00:17:38,923
My life didn't really come into it.
It wasn't important any more.

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00:17:50,403 --> 00:17:52,323
Chris.

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00:17:52,363 --> 00:17:54,243
Huh?

191
00:17:58,603 --> 00:18:02,563
'Would you be able to show us,
Chris, how to fire a gun?

192
00:18:02,603 --> 00:18:04,883
A .38, for example?'

193
00:18:04,923 --> 00:18:07,603
Well, there are many styles.

194
00:18:07,643 --> 00:18:11,523
My training was in something called
"precision target shooting".

195
00:18:11,563 --> 00:18:14,323
You begin with a pistol
in front of you, unloaded.

196
00:18:14,363 --> 00:18:19,043
And let's say the target is erm...
well, where My Ladyship is.

197
00:18:20,323 --> 00:18:23,243
And you take your position,
bringing up the hand

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00:18:23,283 --> 00:18:25,923
to make sure you're pointing
naturally in that direction.

199
00:18:25,963 --> 00:18:28,803
Take out the pistol,
fit it to the hand very precisely

200
00:18:28,843 --> 00:18:31,203
cos you need to get
a consistency of grip.

201
00:18:31,243 --> 00:18:35,723
In the case of a revolver,
you put the cartridges into it
and then close it.

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00:18:35,763 --> 00:18:40,083
Take a couple of gentle,
deep breaths.

203
00:18:43,363 --> 00:18:46,763
And then raise...the pistol.

204
00:18:49,523 --> 00:18:51,243
Breathe out...

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00:18:52,683 --> 00:18:54,683
..both eyes open.

206
00:18:58,603 --> 00:19:01,643
And what you're looking for...

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00:19:01,683 --> 00:19:04,763
is something they call
the "surprise break"...

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00:19:05,883 --> 00:19:09,683
..which is when the shot goes off
without you even thinking about it.

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00:19:29,163 --> 00:19:31,283
Here, take this.
What do I do with it?

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Aargh!
Move forward!

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00:19:36,363 --> 00:19:38,923
Just run, Susan! Go!
No!

212
00:19:42,123 --> 00:19:45,243
I'll take care of this. Just go now!
No! Not without you.

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00:19:46,523 --> 00:19:48,603
Susan, I'm begging you!

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00:19:48,643 --> 00:19:50,963
Just do it!
No! Not without you!

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00:19:51,003 --> 00:19:53,003
I'll find you.

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00:19:54,123 --> 00:19:56,963
Susan, I'm begging you. Just run!
I'll be all right.

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00:19:58,923 --> 00:20:00,843
How did they know we'd be here?

218
00:20:04,123 --> 00:20:06,163
Chris? How did they know?

219
00:20:07,203 --> 00:20:08,883
Susan...

220
00:20:15,963 --> 00:20:19,243
Susan! What are you doing?

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Aargh!

222
00:20:35,723 --> 00:20:37,683
Aargh!

223
00:20:42,323 --> 00:20:43,643
Aargh!

224
00:22:13,363 --> 00:22:16,003
'Would you mind speaking up,
please, Mrs Edwards.

225
00:22:16,043 --> 00:22:18,523
It's quite hard to hear
what you're saying.'

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00:22:18,563 --> 00:22:21,283
'I can't remember clearly, erm...

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00:22:22,443 --> 00:22:24,083
She had just killed my father,

228
00:22:24,123 --> 00:22:26,403
and she was saying
those dreadful things to me,

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00:22:26,443 --> 00:22:28,163
and at some point I just...'

230
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'You pulled the trigger?'
'Yes.'

231
00:22:30,763 --> 00:22:34,203
Louder, please, Mrs Edwards.
Yes, I pulled the trigger.

232
00:22:34,243 --> 00:22:37,363
But as we heard from our expert,
such an action would have required

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two separate applications of force,
not hair trigger, but deliberate.

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00:22:42,443 --> 00:22:46,923
Enough to cock it and fire the gun.
Twice. Bang-bang.

235
00:22:46,963 --> 00:22:48,563
You did that?

236
00:22:50,283 --> 00:22:52,243
I... I don't know
exactly how I did it.

237
00:22:52,283 --> 00:22:54,723
I've spent 16 years
trying to forget what happened.

238
00:22:54,763 --> 00:22:56,083
All I know is I was provoked.

239
00:22:56,123 --> 00:22:58,963
Did you even look to see
if you could help your father

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00:22:59,003 --> 00:23:00,523
when you saw he'd been shot?

241
00:23:00,563 --> 00:23:02,603
No, I didn't
want to look at my father.

242
00:23:02,643 --> 00:23:04,523
It... It was frightening.

243
00:23:04,563 --> 00:23:08,923
Perhaps you might be able to tell me
a little about the brass casings

244
00:23:08,963 --> 00:23:11,083
that you told the police
you saw on the floor

245
00:23:11,123 --> 00:23:13,403
and that you disposed of
with the gun.

246
00:23:14,643 --> 00:23:16,683
Erm...there were casings.

247
00:23:16,723 --> 00:23:19,843
Erm blastings. I...
I don't know, I saw them.

248
00:23:20,643 --> 00:23:23,603
And what did you do with the gun?
To dispose of it?

249
00:23:23,643 --> 00:23:27,283
I wrapped it up
along with the casings that I...

250
00:23:27,323 --> 00:23:28,883
that were on the floor,

251
00:23:28,923 --> 00:23:31,883
and I put it in a bag, and then
I took it into town and I...

252
00:23:31,923 --> 00:23:33,523
put it in an empty rubbish bin

253
00:23:33,563 --> 00:23:35,963
so that other things
would be put on top.

254
00:23:36,003 --> 00:23:38,963
A rubbish bin?
In the middle of the street?

255
00:23:39,003 --> 00:23:41,403
Yeah, it was the Tuesday
after bank holiday.

256
00:23:41,443 --> 00:23:44,443
Then you went directly
from the rubbish bin to the bank,

257
00:23:44,483 --> 00:23:47,123
which we've already discussed.
Where did you go after the bank?

258
00:23:47,163 --> 00:23:49,043
I returned to the house

259
00:23:49,083 --> 00:23:51,363
after buying some air fresheners.

260
00:23:51,403 --> 00:23:53,363
Oh, you bought air fresheners?

261
00:23:53,403 --> 00:23:55,443
Yes, about 20 of them.

262
00:23:55,483 --> 00:23:58,163
Cos I...I thought the bodies
might start to smell

263
00:23:58,203 --> 00:24:00,923
and...and the house already stank
of smoke and nicotine,

264
00:24:00,963 --> 00:24:02,483
and I hated that smell.

265
00:24:02,523 --> 00:24:05,683
You've never mentioned
the air fresheners to the police

266
00:24:05,723 --> 00:24:09,083
and yet after Dr Dickson's
very vivid description

267
00:24:09,123 --> 00:24:12,683
of how a body decomposes,
suddenly you bought 20 of them.

268
00:24:12,723 --> 00:24:15,963
I did... I forgot.
I didn't think it was important.

269
00:24:16,003 --> 00:24:18,003
Did you know, Mrs Edwards,

270
00:24:18,043 --> 00:24:21,523
that a revolver of this type
does not discharge casings?

271
00:24:24,323 --> 00:24:26,283
Did you know that?
No.

272
00:24:26,323 --> 00:24:29,003
Could you speak up please,
Mrs Edwards, so we can all hear you?

273
00:24:29,043 --> 00:24:30,963
Sorry. No.
You didn't know.

274
00:24:31,643 --> 00:24:34,163
But if you had fired the gun,
you would've seen

275
00:24:34,203 --> 00:24:36,003
it produced no casings,
wouldn't you,

276
00:24:36,043 --> 00:24:37,883
and you wouldn't have made them up.

277
00:24:37,923 --> 00:24:41,483
Isn't it a pity
that you didn't go over that detail
with your husband before the arrest?

278
00:24:41,523 --> 00:24:43,763
No, they... I saw them.

279
00:24:43,803 --> 00:24:47,363
They would not have become
part of your story, would they?

280
00:24:47,403 --> 00:24:50,123
No, they were there.
They were there on the floor.

281
00:24:50,163 --> 00:24:52,923
And can you tell me why you wrapped
your parents' bodies

282
00:24:52,963 --> 00:24:55,123
in duvet covers, Mrs Edwards?

283
00:24:55,843 --> 00:24:58,003
To hide them,
to make it as if it hadn't happened.

284
00:24:58,043 --> 00:25:01,403
Cos I didn't want to see them.
I didn't want to look at them.

285
00:25:01,443 --> 00:25:05,443
Is that also why you destroyed
the photographs, the letters,

286
00:25:05,483 --> 00:25:08,203
the diaries, that you burned
outside your apartment in France,

287
00:25:08,243 --> 00:25:09,883
as we heard from the defence?

288
00:25:09,923 --> 00:25:12,603
The intention there
isn't to preserve

289
00:25:12,643 --> 00:25:15,323
the memory of your parents, is it?

290
00:25:15,363 --> 00:25:18,523
That's you trying to wipe your
parents off the face of the Earth.

291
00:25:18,563 --> 00:25:20,283
It wasn't enough
that they were dead.

292
00:25:20,323 --> 00:25:25,043
You had to burn all trace
that they had ever existed.

293
00:25:25,083 --> 00:25:27,443
And they are not here
to defend themselves, are they?

294
00:25:27,483 --> 00:25:30,523
I don't -
The victims of these shootings,

295
00:25:30,563 --> 00:25:32,803
what would they have told us,
do you think?

296
00:25:32,843 --> 00:25:34,723
What would be their side
- of the story?
- Please.

297
00:25:34,763 --> 00:25:37,163
You have painted them
in the worst possible light.

298
00:25:37,203 --> 00:25:40,483
You were their daughter,
weren't you, their only daughter?

299
00:25:40,523 --> 00:25:44,163
No, they said I was a mistake
and they said they never
wanted to get married,

300
00:25:44,203 --> 00:25:46,243
they wouldn't have,
if Mum hadn't got pregnant.

301
00:25:46,283 --> 00:25:48,843
They hated each other
and they didn't want me.

302
00:25:48,883 --> 00:25:51,923
But they must have loved you on
some level, they were your parents.

303
00:25:51,963 --> 00:25:54,643
No, no, cos I'm...
I'm impossible to love.

304
00:25:54,683 --> 00:25:56,323
Mrs Edwards?

305
00:25:57,443 --> 00:25:59,363
I'm impossible to love.

306
00:25:59,403 --> 00:26:02,043
That's what my mother
would say to me all the time

307
00:26:02,083 --> 00:26:04,043
and it's true...

308
00:26:05,563 --> 00:26:07,723
I... I know now that it's true.

309
00:26:11,283 --> 00:26:13,323
Would you like to take a break,
Mrs Edwards,

310
00:26:13,363 --> 00:26:16,003
if you're having
a bit of a fragile moment?

311
00:26:16,723 --> 00:26:19,283
No.

312
00:26:19,323 --> 00:26:21,323
I'm not fragile.

313
00:26:22,043 --> 00:26:24,083
I'm not fragile.

314
00:26:24,123 --> 00:26:26,043
I'm broken.

315
00:26:26,083 --> 00:26:28,083
So, you can't hurt me.

316
00:26:29,083 --> 00:26:31,763
You can send me to prison
and you can all laugh at me

317
00:26:31,803 --> 00:26:33,923
and you can make me look like
a piece of dirt

318
00:26:33,963 --> 00:26:37,923
in front of all these people
but I'm broken so you can't hurt me.

319
00:26:38,843 --> 00:26:40,883
No-one can hurt me any more.

320
00:27:24,163 --> 00:27:25,843
Chris!

321
00:27:33,403 --> 00:27:35,203
Chris!

322
00:28:01,083 --> 00:28:02,883
Chris!

323
00:28:10,603 --> 00:28:11,923
'(GUNSHOT)'

324
00:28:48,043 --> 00:28:50,243
Do you want to get
an ice cream cone?

325
00:28:50,283 --> 00:28:53,523
Yeah. Yeah.
Oh, I'm gonna get strawberry.

326
00:29:15,203 --> 00:29:18,363
'There's not much we can do
about it now, is there?'

327
00:29:21,523 --> 00:29:23,683
I did have one thought, though...

328
00:29:24,403 --> 00:29:27,723
..that maybe we should've told the
barrister or I should have told you

329
00:29:27,763 --> 00:29:29,523
about Gerard Depardieu.

330
00:29:30,803 --> 00:29:33,083
I've never told anyone this before.

331
00:29:33,123 --> 00:29:35,523
Are you sure you wanna tell me?

332
00:29:39,563 --> 00:29:43,163
So, just after Chris's brother
passed away,

333
00:29:43,883 --> 00:29:46,523
I wrote to Gerard Depardieu,
asking for a signed photo

334
00:29:46,563 --> 00:29:48,683
cos I thought it would
cheer Chris up.

335
00:29:48,723 --> 00:29:52,523
He didn't know anything about films
or France when we got together.

336
00:29:52,563 --> 00:29:55,883
But, er, somehow, he did know
about Gerard Depardieu.

337
00:29:57,203 --> 00:30:00,763
'And then, eventually,
after a few weeks of waiting,

338
00:30:00,803 --> 00:30:04,763
I decided I would write
back to Chris

339
00:30:04,803 --> 00:30:07,363
pretending to be Gerard Depardieu.

340
00:30:07,403 --> 00:30:10,283
I practised his signature
until I got it just right.

341
00:30:10,323 --> 00:30:13,523
And I practised his handwriting.

342
00:30:13,563 --> 00:30:15,763
And I put in spelling mistakes
and things,

343
00:30:15,803 --> 00:30:18,843
you know, so it looked like
it was written by a French person.

344
00:30:18,883 --> 00:30:20,403
Well, it worked. He bought it.'

345
00:30:20,443 --> 00:30:22,603
And it made him so happy...

346
00:30:22,643 --> 00:30:24,083
that I just kept doing it.

347
00:30:24,123 --> 00:30:26,723
I kept writing to him,
pretending I was Gerard Depardieu.

348
00:30:26,763 --> 00:30:28,883
And then Chris would write back,
all excited.

349
00:30:28,923 --> 00:30:31,443
But he never knew
that I was behind it all.

350
00:30:31,483 --> 00:30:33,363
Er, where was he sending
the letters?

351
00:30:33,403 --> 00:30:35,243
Oh, well, I thought of all that too.

352
00:30:35,283 --> 00:30:37,523
So, the first one went
to erm... Apartment 16,

353
00:30:37,563 --> 00:30:40,363
Rue Madam Zephirine, 75014 Paris.

354
00:30:40,403 --> 00:30:42,123
And then there was
an address in Belgium.

355
00:30:42,163 --> 00:30:43,963
And later on,
there was an address in Russia.

356
00:30:44,003 --> 00:30:45,603
But I just made them all up.'

357
00:30:45,643 --> 00:30:47,123
Bye, love!

358
00:30:47,163 --> 00:30:48,923
Have a nice day!

359
00:30:52,523 --> 00:30:54,603
'Cos it didn't matter
where they ended up.

360
00:30:54,643 --> 00:30:56,963
I always read his letters
before he sent them,

361
00:30:57,003 --> 00:30:58,803
so I knew exactly how to reply.

362
00:30:58,843 --> 00:31:01,523
And you might think that Chris
would become suspicious

363
00:31:01,563 --> 00:31:04,603
those letters had London postmarks,
but they didn't.

364
00:31:04,643 --> 00:31:07,043
Because I had a franking machine!

365
00:31:07,083 --> 00:31:10,803
Just had to pick a few well chosen
words in the right language

366
00:31:10,843 --> 00:31:12,483
and hey, presto.'

367
00:31:12,523 --> 00:31:15,883
'Wow...and you did all that
just to make Chris happy.'

368
00:31:16,803 --> 00:31:19,643
'I think, even if I told him,
he wouldn't believe me.'

369
00:31:20,563 --> 00:31:23,563
"Good morning,
I'm Gerard Depardieu."

370
00:31:23,603 --> 00:31:25,483
"No, you're not Gerard Depardieu -

371
00:31:25,523 --> 00:31:28,643
you're a librarian from Harlesden,
for crying out loud!"

372
00:31:32,243 --> 00:31:34,243
Least, I don't think he knew.

373
00:31:35,643 --> 00:31:37,043
Mm.

374
00:31:37,083 --> 00:31:39,003
It wouldn't have helped, would it?

375
00:31:39,763 --> 00:31:41,403
Mm-mm.

376
00:31:48,163 --> 00:31:50,123
I get you, Susan.

377
00:31:50,843 --> 00:31:52,843
I don't know why I get you,
but I get you.

378
00:31:52,883 --> 00:31:55,723
And I find that story really sweet.

379
00:31:55,763 --> 00:31:58,923
That you would do something
like that for him.

380
00:31:58,963 --> 00:32:00,803
But other people...

381
00:32:00,843 --> 00:32:02,843
Yeah.
..might not get it.

382
00:32:04,283 --> 00:32:06,723
I just think it wouldn't
have played, that's all,

383
00:32:06,763 --> 00:32:08,283
because you're on trial.

384
00:32:08,323 --> 00:32:10,803
Anything weird,
anything that isn't just "normal",

385
00:32:10,843 --> 00:32:13,763
will make people assume -
They'll think I'm bad news.

386
00:32:15,043 --> 00:32:17,283
And I hate that, by the way.

387
00:32:17,323 --> 00:32:18,883
Because...

388
00:32:19,923 --> 00:32:21,923
..I like that you're you.

389
00:32:22,843 --> 00:32:27,363
Honestly, I... I honestly think
I will carry this experience with me

390
00:32:27,403 --> 00:32:29,523
for the rest of my life because...

391
00:32:30,803 --> 00:32:33,163
..you know what,
you're right, Susan.

392
00:32:33,963 --> 00:32:36,003
I'm lucky.

393
00:32:36,043 --> 00:32:38,603
It's not the same for me.

394
00:32:38,643 --> 00:32:41,403
And you've helped me
to appreciate that.

395
00:32:41,443 --> 00:32:44,883
Not because you're unlucky.
I don't mean it like that, though.

396
00:32:46,163 --> 00:32:48,803
Or maybe I DO mean it like that.
I... I... I dunno.

397
00:32:49,883 --> 00:32:52,443
I'm not saying
that has to define you

398
00:32:52,483 --> 00:32:56,483
or that it's even the reason why
we're here right now in court but...

399
00:32:58,603 --> 00:33:01,563
..they should have looked after you,
Susan.

400
00:33:01,603 --> 00:33:04,163
They were your parents.
You were seven years old.

401
00:33:04,203 --> 00:33:07,603
Do you know how tall
a seven-year-old is? This tall.

402
00:33:07,643 --> 00:33:09,363
This tall.

403
00:33:12,963 --> 00:33:16,363
So, er... I'm still learning.

404
00:33:18,403 --> 00:33:20,803
Maybe I could have done
a better job for you.

405
00:33:20,843 --> 00:33:22,803
I don't know.

406
00:33:22,843 --> 00:33:25,083
I tried my best, I really did.

407
00:33:26,523 --> 00:33:29,003
But I just wanted to make sure
that you understand

408
00:33:29,043 --> 00:33:31,483
that whatever happens today...

409
00:33:33,683 --> 00:33:36,203
..there's a lot
that has happened in your life

410
00:33:36,243 --> 00:33:38,243
that is not on you.

411
00:34:15,483 --> 00:34:18,843
But given that you left home
in your early twenties...

412
00:34:19,563 --> 00:34:21,563
..15 years before the murders,

413
00:34:21,603 --> 00:34:23,683
I cannot accept that his conduct

414
00:34:23,723 --> 00:34:25,963
explains your decision to kill him.

415
00:34:26,683 --> 00:34:30,803
You thought your parents had
deprived you of an inheritance

416
00:34:30,843 --> 00:34:33,363
that was rightfully yours.

417
00:34:33,403 --> 00:34:37,003
I am sure it was you, Christopher
Edwards, who held the gun.

418
00:34:37,043 --> 00:34:40,283
But I have no doubt
that you were acting together,

419
00:34:40,323 --> 00:34:44,643
and I see no reason to distinguish
between you on sentence.

420
00:35:10,763 --> 00:35:15,203
Can you imagine ever, like,
actually murdering someone?

421
00:35:15,243 --> 00:35:17,323
I can imagine it, yeah.

422
00:35:17,363 --> 00:35:19,203
I don't think I'd ever do it,
though.

423
00:35:19,243 --> 00:35:22,163
Why? Are you thinking of trying it?
Bit of murder?

424
00:35:22,203 --> 00:35:24,683
Just trying to imagine
actually having a gun

425
00:35:24,723 --> 00:35:27,483
and pointing it at your...
Your mum and dad.

426
00:35:27,523 --> 00:35:29,763
Yeah. So fucked up.

427
00:35:32,283 --> 00:35:34,243
It's sad.

428
00:35:35,363 --> 00:35:37,363
Yeah. I guess so.

429
00:35:41,003 --> 00:35:43,203
I threatened me dad once...

430
00:35:45,003 --> 00:35:47,003
..when he'd been at me mum.

431
00:35:48,243 --> 00:35:49,803
I sat on it for a bit.

432
00:35:50,683 --> 00:35:53,163
There was no point me
trying anything when he was pissed

433
00:35:53,203 --> 00:35:54,963
cos he'd just kick the shit
out of me.

434
00:35:55,003 --> 00:35:58,323
But a few days later,
when he was watching telly,

435
00:35:58,363 --> 00:36:00,323
I got an axe from the garage

436
00:36:00,363 --> 00:36:03,763
and I went up to the sofa
and I said...

437
00:36:05,603 --> 00:36:08,003
.."If you touch Mum again...

438
00:36:09,723 --> 00:36:11,883
..I'll chop your fucking head off."

439
00:36:14,363 --> 00:36:16,563
Jesus.

440
00:36:16,603 --> 00:36:18,723
How old were you?

441
00:36:18,763 --> 00:36:20,403
12.

442
00:36:22,123 --> 00:36:24,443
Then what happened?

443
00:36:24,483 --> 00:36:26,203
He left.

444
00:36:29,643 --> 00:36:31,403
Shit, man.

445
00:36:33,963 --> 00:36:35,763
Sorry.

446
00:36:40,163 --> 00:36:42,603
Don't fucking hug me, you twat.

447
00:36:42,643 --> 00:36:44,883
OK.
That's not...

448
00:36:44,923 --> 00:36:47,163
Just offering you a hug. Sorry.
Pervert.

449
00:36:47,203 --> 00:36:51,003
Fuck off. Why would I try it on
after a story like that? That's mad.

450
00:36:51,043 --> 00:36:53,283
When WOULD you do it, then?
I don't know.

451
00:36:53,323 --> 00:36:55,963
I'd just ask you out for a drink,
whenever.

452
00:36:56,003 --> 00:36:57,803
Right.

453
00:36:58,563 --> 00:37:00,203
In what way?

454
00:37:00,243 --> 00:37:02,403
Well, in that way, if you're asking.

455
00:37:02,443 --> 00:37:03,923
Are you asking?

456
00:37:03,963 --> 00:37:05,843
Yeah, all right I'm asking.

457
00:37:07,643 --> 00:37:09,483
No, I don't think so. Sorry.

458
00:37:10,723 --> 00:37:12,483
What?

459
00:37:12,523 --> 00:37:16,763
I would in theory.
But...not in practice.

460
00:37:16,803 --> 00:37:20,883
Maybe in, like, ten years.
Just before my eggs start to dry up.

461
00:37:20,923 --> 00:37:23,443
Shall we go for a drink
just as friends, then?

462
00:37:23,483 --> 00:37:25,003
Or as partners even?

463
00:37:25,043 --> 00:37:28,083
I need a bit more than a drink.
It's been quite an intense few days.

464
00:37:28,123 --> 00:37:30,403
Oh, well, like what?
Like a fuck.

465
00:37:30,443 --> 00:37:33,123
No, not with you.
Don't get any ideas.

466
00:37:33,163 --> 00:37:35,603
You're a sensitive lad, I can tell.

467
00:37:35,643 --> 00:37:39,283
It'll get a bit complicated and then
it'll go a bit... Chris and Susan.

468
00:37:39,323 --> 00:37:41,803
But I'm not gonna offer
to kill your dad for ya.

469
00:37:41,843 --> 00:37:44,683
I'm not asking you to.
We're going to the pub.

470
00:37:44,723 --> 00:37:46,683
You're gonna be my wingman.

471
00:37:46,723 --> 00:37:48,723
Fucking wingman?
Yeah.

472
00:37:48,763 --> 00:37:50,683
Fuck off.

473
00:37:50,723 --> 00:37:52,243
Chop, chop.

474
00:38:17,163 --> 00:38:20,643
'Dear Susan,
thank you for your letters,

475
00:38:20,683 --> 00:38:23,803
which I have been very grateful
to receive.

476
00:38:23,843 --> 00:38:27,043
I'm sorry it's taken me
so long to reply.

477
00:38:27,083 --> 00:38:29,843
The first pen I received
was very scratchy

478
00:38:29,883 --> 00:38:33,243
and I wanted you to be able to read
what I was saying.

479
00:38:33,283 --> 00:38:36,763
So I waited to be furnished
with the brand of implement

480
00:38:36,803 --> 00:38:41,323
I originally asked for, which I'm
happy to say is working much better.

481
00:38:45,123 --> 00:38:48,963
In answer to your question
about Tabitha, the truth is, Susan,

482
00:38:49,003 --> 00:38:51,923
that I don't entirely know
why I did that.

483
00:38:52,643 --> 00:38:55,883
But I do think that,
on some level, you are right.

484
00:38:55,923 --> 00:38:57,763
I felt like I was struggling,

485
00:38:57,803 --> 00:38:59,843
and I needed to ask somebody
for help,

486
00:38:59,883 --> 00:39:04,203
something that,
traditionally speaking,
I have not been very good at.

487
00:39:10,203 --> 00:39:15,323
I think, though, that you're wrong
about how I felt, in other ways.

488
00:39:15,363 --> 00:39:19,443
Because I never felt like
I had to leave the real world behind

489
00:39:19,483 --> 00:39:21,483
to be with you, Susan.

490
00:39:21,523 --> 00:39:27,323
If anything, you are the person
who made the world feel real to me.

491
00:39:39,243 --> 00:39:43,763
It wasn't you who made me
feel trapped, Susan.

492
00:39:43,803 --> 00:39:45,603
It was me.'

493
00:39:47,763 --> 00:39:52,123
'In the movies, there are the good
guys and there are the bad guys.

494
00:39:52,163 --> 00:39:55,643
And I think we will have to accept
that, for most people,

495
00:39:55,683 --> 00:39:58,803
we will always be the bad guys.

496
00:40:00,003 --> 00:40:02,603
But we love each other, Susan.

497
00:40:02,643 --> 00:40:05,683
And nobody can take that
away from us.

498
00:40:06,523 --> 00:40:09,763
Yours forever and always...

499
00:40:10,643 --> 00:40:12,763
..Gerard Depardieu.'

500
00:40:27,123 --> 00:40:29,163
Ah, there you are!

501
00:40:29,203 --> 00:40:31,203
Come with me, please.

502
00:40:33,163 --> 00:40:34,763
Checks, please.

503
00:40:46,163 --> 00:40:48,203
Stand by.

504
00:41:09,643 --> 00:41:11,803
Stand by.

505
00:41:11,843 --> 00:41:13,243
Roll sound.

506
00:41:13,283 --> 00:41:14,723
Sound rolling!

507
00:41:14,763 --> 00:41:16,883
All right, let's do this.

508
00:41:19,243 --> 00:41:21,163
Roll camera!
Rolling!

509
00:41:24,003 --> 00:41:26,483
Ladies and gentlemen,
are you all set?

510
00:41:27,843 --> 00:41:30,123
And...action!

511
00:42:26,043 --> 00:42:29,003
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