1 00:00:07,221 --> 00:00:11,621 RADIO: Live across the capital, this is Radio London Live. 2 00:00:11,621 --> 00:00:13,341 Oh. Hello. Hi. 3 00:00:13,341 --> 00:00:15,781 I'm Susan Ryeland. This is... This is my place. 4 00:00:15,781 --> 00:00:18,021 I've just come to get some clothes. Right. 5 00:00:18,021 --> 00:00:21,061 Oh, erm, do you know when you might be finished? 6 00:00:21,061 --> 00:00:24,181 We should be out some time later on. Great. Thanks. 7 00:00:26,701 --> 00:00:28,941 What are you doing here? 8 00:00:26,701 --> 00:00:28,941 SUSAN GASPS 9 00:00:30,181 --> 00:00:33,061 Well, actually, this is my flat. How about you? 10 00:00:33,061 --> 00:00:36,021 Just wanted a shot of this before they paint over it. 11 00:00:36,021 --> 00:00:38,421 Why? You think that's going to help you? 12 00:00:38,421 --> 00:00:40,261 It'll make a nice souvenir. 13 00:00:40,261 --> 00:00:42,061 SUSAN CHUCKLES WRYLY 14 00:00:42,061 --> 00:00:44,781 I hope you don't mind if I don't stay for a chat. 15 00:00:48,541 --> 00:00:50,301 You know he's playing you? 16 00:00:52,061 --> 00:00:53,461 I'm sorry? 17 00:00:53,461 --> 00:00:55,381 DI Blakeney. 18 00:00:55,381 --> 00:00:58,541 He's not your friend, if that's what you were thinking. 19 00:00:58,541 --> 00:01:00,461 It's what we always do. 20 00:01:00,461 --> 00:01:02,261 I don't know what you mean. 21 00:01:02,261 --> 00:01:04,541 Get close to the main suspect. 22 00:01:04,541 --> 00:01:07,461 Quiet meal, glass of wine. 23 00:01:08,701 --> 00:01:11,301 We both know you did it, Susan. 24 00:01:11,301 --> 00:01:14,981 He's just drawing you out, waiting for you to give yourself away. 25 00:01:14,981 --> 00:01:16,621 Are you serious? 26 00:01:16,621 --> 00:01:19,301 Do yourself a favour and admit what you did. 27 00:01:19,301 --> 00:01:21,541 It'll save us all a lot of time. 28 00:01:27,301 --> 00:01:29,381 THEME MUSIC 29 00:02:11,061 --> 00:02:14,541 Is he going to help you? That detective of yours. 30 00:02:14,541 --> 00:02:17,061 Oh, erm, he's called DI Blakeney, 31 00:02:17,061 --> 00:02:19,861 and I'm not sure I want to see him again. 32 00:02:20,861 --> 00:02:23,661 But I thought he was on your side. So did I. 33 00:02:23,661 --> 00:02:25,781 You said he was trying to help. 34 00:02:25,781 --> 00:02:29,061 I... I'm not sure what he's up to any more. 35 00:02:30,461 --> 00:02:33,301 Right, well, treat the place as yours. 36 00:02:33,301 --> 00:02:35,061 I'll be back at five. 37 00:02:35,061 --> 00:02:36,821 May I ask something? 38 00:02:37,821 --> 00:02:40,301 Oh, erm... Yes, of course. 39 00:02:40,301 --> 00:02:42,061 Why did you want a job? 40 00:02:42,061 --> 00:02:43,541 Erm... 41 00:02:43,541 --> 00:02:46,381 Well, it's...it's my life, David. 42 00:02:46,381 --> 00:02:48,181 Books, publishing. 43 00:02:48,181 --> 00:02:51,261 Does it pay well? Well, yeah, she does all right for herself. 44 00:02:51,261 --> 00:02:53,661 Don't you, Susan? Not really. 45 00:02:54,661 --> 00:02:56,701 Perhaps you're making a mistake. 46 00:02:56,701 --> 00:03:00,341 No, Susan loves publishing. It's all she's ever done. 47 00:03:00,341 --> 00:03:04,581 You're going to miss your train. Oh, yeah... I'll get my things. 48 00:03:05,581 --> 00:03:10,541 I usually drop David off at the station on my way to work. Mm. 49 00:03:10,541 --> 00:03:13,301 Are you sure you're going to be all right on your own? 50 00:03:13,301 --> 00:03:16,061 Yes, I'll be fine! I'm worried about you, Susan. 51 00:03:16,061 --> 00:03:18,941 What happened at the flat, that was dreadful. 52 00:03:18,941 --> 00:03:20,461 And Hugo! 53 00:03:20,461 --> 00:03:23,541 The flat's being redecorated and Hugo's going to be as good as new. 54 00:03:23,541 --> 00:03:26,701 Actually, I've quite taken to him. If I'd known he was going to 55 00:03:26,701 --> 00:03:29,781 get stabbed, I'd never have let you have him. Dave! 56 00:03:29,781 --> 00:03:31,261 Yeah, I'm here. 57 00:03:31,261 --> 00:03:34,821 Erm, what I meant was, perhaps you're making a mistake 58 00:03:34,821 --> 00:03:36,541 working for somebody else. 59 00:03:36,541 --> 00:03:40,701 Well, there's no chance of that right now. Nobody wants me. 60 00:03:40,701 --> 00:03:46,061 Erm... Revenue, 7.1 billion, a year-on-year increase of 3%, 61 00:03:46,061 --> 00:03:48,541 which is not bad in the current climate. 62 00:03:48,541 --> 00:03:50,541 Export market, 4.4 billion. 63 00:03:50,541 --> 00:03:53,301 Digital revenue up 13%. 64 00:03:53,301 --> 00:03:56,141 You don't want to WORK for a publishing house. 65 00:03:57,141 --> 00:03:58,861 You want to be one. 66 00:04:00,061 --> 00:04:01,541 Thank you. 67 00:04:01,541 --> 00:04:03,781 I'll definitely think about that. 68 00:04:05,301 --> 00:04:08,541 Right, I'll... I think he's trying to help. 69 00:04:08,541 --> 00:04:10,661 Oh... Yeah. 70 00:04:10,661 --> 00:04:14,541 Are you sure you're going to be all right? Yes. Thank you, Katie. 71 00:04:14,541 --> 00:04:18,781 I'm going home today. Right, well, just call me if anybody else gets killed. 72 00:04:20,061 --> 00:04:23,341 Right, come on, then. Let's get your train. Yes, yes. 73 00:04:24,341 --> 00:04:28,141 Look, we are here about Eliot. Then why are you asking these questions? 74 00:04:28,141 --> 00:04:30,941 I had nothing to do with the death of my grandmother. 75 00:04:30,941 --> 00:04:33,661 Are you denying that the three of you planned to kill her? 76 00:04:33,661 --> 00:04:36,061 We talked about it, but we were children. 77 00:04:36,061 --> 00:04:39,381 We talked about lots of things. You also concocted some kind of poison. 78 00:04:39,381 --> 00:04:41,701 It wasn't poison. It was stuff from the house, 79 00:04:41,701 --> 00:04:44,501 it was stuff from the garden. It was chopped-up leaves, 80 00:04:44,501 --> 00:04:47,541 it was cough mixture my brother stole from the family doctor. 81 00:04:47,541 --> 00:04:50,781 Whatever it was, your brother Eliot saw you carrying it 82 00:04:50,781 --> 00:04:54,541 towards your grandmother's bedroom. The very same night she died. 83 00:04:54,541 --> 00:04:57,141 That is rubbish. That is ridiculous. I d... 84 00:04:59,301 --> 00:05:00,781 Oh, my God. 85 00:05:05,701 --> 00:05:07,301 Tell me. 86 00:05:09,541 --> 00:05:12,541 OK, we made this "poison", 87 00:05:12,541 --> 00:05:14,621 but we were never going to use it. 88 00:05:15,621 --> 00:05:19,061 I was scared to have it in my room. I had to get rid of it. 89 00:05:21,581 --> 00:05:25,981 There's a toilet opposite my grandmother's room. 90 00:05:25,981 --> 00:05:27,781 DOOR CREAKS 91 00:05:32,461 --> 00:05:34,781 So I poured it down the toilet. 92 00:05:34,781 --> 00:05:36,981 That was the end of it. 93 00:05:37,981 --> 00:05:40,541 So, you're saying... 94 00:05:41,541 --> 00:05:45,541 ..that it's just a coincidence your grandmother died 95 00:05:45,541 --> 00:05:47,381 a few hours later? 96 00:05:48,381 --> 00:05:51,141 Yes. Yes! That's exactly what I'm saying. 97 00:05:51,141 --> 00:05:54,061 She was ill. I mean, it could have happened at any time. 98 00:05:54,061 --> 00:05:56,541 What about the night that Eliot was run down? 99 00:05:56,541 --> 00:05:58,221 When did you leave the party? 100 00:05:58,221 --> 00:06:01,061 Well, that question is irrelevant, Detective Constable, 101 00:06:01,061 --> 00:06:03,221 because I can't drive. Why not? 102 00:06:03,221 --> 00:06:06,941 I'm colour-blind. Hmm? It's something I inherited from my grandmother. 103 00:06:06,941 --> 00:06:09,781 Being colour-blind doesn't stop you from driving. 104 00:06:09,781 --> 00:06:12,661 Not legally, no, but I never felt comfortable behind the wheel, 105 00:06:12,661 --> 00:06:15,221 so I never took the test. Look, I didn't kill my brother! 106 00:06:15,221 --> 00:06:17,381 I didn't kill my grandmother. 107 00:06:17,381 --> 00:06:20,061 So can you just, I don't know, leave me alone? 108 00:06:57,261 --> 00:07:01,421 "..resented me from the moment I came onto the scene." 109 00:07:16,501 --> 00:07:18,301 HE CHUCKLES 110 00:07:20,341 --> 00:07:21,461 Yes! 111 00:07:33,301 --> 00:07:35,061 HE EXHALES LOUDLY 112 00:07:49,381 --> 00:07:53,221 The following day, Atticus Pund... 113 00:07:56,061 --> 00:07:59,061 ..returned to the Villa Belmar. 114 00:08:03,061 --> 00:08:04,541 Oh. 115 00:08:10,781 --> 00:08:12,461 KNOCKING 116 00:08:15,301 --> 00:08:16,901 Good morning, sir. 117 00:08:16,901 --> 00:08:19,501 They are all here? Yes, sir. 118 00:08:19,501 --> 00:08:23,021 Then it is time to bring this matter to a close. 119 00:08:32,301 --> 00:08:34,061 Come and get it! 120 00:08:42,061 --> 00:08:43,821 BUZZER 121 00:08:47,061 --> 00:08:50,301 Susan. Oh! Sorry. Are you in the middle of something? Erm... 122 00:08:50,301 --> 00:08:54,061 Just some cleaning. I was just passing and... Yeah, come in. 123 00:09:09,061 --> 00:09:11,061 So, wh...? 124 00:09:11,061 --> 00:09:14,461 I was burgled. Oh, my God! Mm. 125 00:09:14,461 --> 00:09:16,701 It's one thing after another with you. 126 00:09:16,701 --> 00:09:19,741 You should've called me. You could have come and stayed with me. 127 00:09:19,741 --> 00:09:22,541 I stayed a few days with Katie. Oh, that's nice. 128 00:09:22,541 --> 00:09:26,541 To be honest, Elaine, I'm a little up to my eyes at the moment. 129 00:09:26,541 --> 00:09:30,301 Is this important? Yes... Yes, I think it is. 130 00:09:30,301 --> 00:09:32,301 I need to talk to you, Susan. 131 00:09:33,301 --> 00:09:35,061 I want to help you. 132 00:09:35,061 --> 00:09:37,061 Help me? How? 133 00:09:38,781 --> 00:09:40,901 You're in terrible trouble. 134 00:09:40,901 --> 00:09:43,941 I didn't know how bad it was, but... 135 00:09:43,941 --> 00:09:45,701 ..you need to know. 136 00:09:45,701 --> 00:09:48,341 They're about to arrest you for Eliot's death. 137 00:09:49,341 --> 00:09:51,981 Who told you that? I spoke to that policeman. 138 00:09:51,981 --> 00:09:54,541 Detective Inspector Blakeney. 139 00:09:54,541 --> 00:09:56,701 They have all the evidence they need, 140 00:09:56,701 --> 00:09:58,661 and they could be here any time. 141 00:09:58,661 --> 00:10:01,941 I know it sounds impossible. It is impossible. 142 00:10:01,941 --> 00:10:06,541 It wasn't me. Of course not, but that's not going to stop them. 143 00:10:06,541 --> 00:10:10,061 They're going to arrest you and I know what you'll go through. 144 00:10:11,061 --> 00:10:12,701 It's so horrible. 145 00:10:12,701 --> 00:10:14,581 It's so humiliating. 146 00:10:14,581 --> 00:10:18,261 Elaine... Remand, custody, 147 00:10:18,261 --> 00:10:21,021 court, the newspapers... 148 00:10:22,021 --> 00:10:24,621 ..and then prison. It's not going to happen. 149 00:10:24,621 --> 00:10:27,701 Well, you think that, but there's so much evidence. 150 00:10:27,701 --> 00:10:29,541 And you had a motive. 151 00:10:30,541 --> 00:10:33,661 If it goes to a jury, there's no way you're going to get off. 152 00:10:34,661 --> 00:10:36,541 So what are you saying? 153 00:10:37,541 --> 00:10:39,061 SUSAN SIGHS 154 00:10:39,061 --> 00:10:42,541 What do you think I should do? I...I don't know, Susan, but... 155 00:10:43,541 --> 00:10:46,061 ..I saw what happened to Charles. 156 00:10:46,061 --> 00:10:49,381 Every time I visit him, it makes me sick to my stomach. 157 00:10:50,381 --> 00:10:52,501 And you know what he says? 158 00:10:52,501 --> 00:10:56,541 He says he wishes he'd taken pills... 159 00:10:56,541 --> 00:10:59,861 ..or thrown himself under a train before they arrested him. 160 00:11:01,621 --> 00:11:03,861 He says it would've been easier. 161 00:11:07,301 --> 00:11:09,461 So what are you suggesting? 162 00:11:11,061 --> 00:11:12,861 That I... 163 00:11:12,861 --> 00:11:14,861 ..kill myself? 164 00:11:16,781 --> 00:11:19,781 Believe me, as a friend... 165 00:11:21,301 --> 00:11:24,301 ..don't let them do to you what they did to Charles. 166 00:11:25,301 --> 00:11:27,061 Maybe you're right. 167 00:11:30,701 --> 00:11:32,301 Oh... 168 00:11:35,061 --> 00:11:38,061 But there is...one thing. 169 00:11:40,181 --> 00:11:42,981 There's one thing I don't understand. What's that? 170 00:11:42,981 --> 00:11:45,061 How did you know where I live? 171 00:11:46,061 --> 00:11:47,661 I never told you. 172 00:11:47,661 --> 00:11:49,661 Eliot told me. 173 00:11:49,661 --> 00:11:52,301 Oh, right. 174 00:11:52,301 --> 00:11:53,941 And, of course... 175 00:11:54,941 --> 00:11:57,061 ..you've been here before. No. 176 00:11:57,061 --> 00:11:59,541 I've never been here. 177 00:11:57,061 --> 00:11:59,541 SUSAN LAUGHS 178 00:11:59,541 --> 00:12:01,741 Oh, maybe you've forgotten. 179 00:12:05,781 --> 00:12:09,541 When you called me after I'd visited Charles. 180 00:12:12,061 --> 00:12:14,061 You were here then. 181 00:12:14,061 --> 00:12:16,701 No, I was at home. 182 00:12:16,701 --> 00:12:18,541 That's not true. 183 00:12:21,061 --> 00:12:22,701 I know. 184 00:12:22,701 --> 00:12:24,741 While we were talking, the doorbell rang. 185 00:12:24,741 --> 00:12:26,221 DOORBELL 186 00:12:26,221 --> 00:12:28,141 Damn. I've got to go. Talk later. 187 00:12:30,901 --> 00:12:34,141 But your doorbell plays a piece of piano music. 188 00:12:34,141 --> 00:12:35,701 PIANO MUSIC 189 00:12:35,701 --> 00:12:38,141 Susan. You haven't changed the doorbell. 190 00:12:38,141 --> 00:12:41,061 No. That's Charles playing his favourite Bach prelude. 191 00:12:41,061 --> 00:12:44,301 It wasn't your doorbell that I heard. It was mine. 192 00:12:46,061 --> 00:12:49,421 And who was it who rang it? Well, I can answer that, too. 193 00:12:49,421 --> 00:12:52,061 At 3:27, I got a delivery. 194 00:12:52,061 --> 00:12:54,061 And I've checked. 195 00:12:54,061 --> 00:12:56,941 That's exactly the same time... 196 00:12:56,941 --> 00:12:58,861 ..that you called me. 197 00:12:58,861 --> 00:13:01,901 Susan... You smashed up... 198 00:13:01,901 --> 00:13:03,781 ..my house. 199 00:13:05,061 --> 00:13:07,541 You wrote "Killer"... 200 00:13:07,541 --> 00:13:10,541 ..on my wall to make it look like it was someone 201 00:13:10,541 --> 00:13:12,941 who blamed me for Eliot's death. 202 00:13:12,941 --> 00:13:15,381 But it wasn't me, and you know that. 203 00:13:16,621 --> 00:13:18,941 You were the first person who found him 204 00:13:18,941 --> 00:13:21,541 when you came out of the party, weren't you? 205 00:13:26,781 --> 00:13:28,461 And that's when you got the idea 206 00:13:28,461 --> 00:13:30,381 that you'd been looking for all along. 207 00:13:30,381 --> 00:13:33,381 You didn't call the police, you didn't call for an ambulance, 208 00:13:33,381 --> 00:13:35,701 you just leant down and just took a little piece 209 00:13:35,701 --> 00:13:37,381 of what he was wearing. 210 00:13:39,061 --> 00:13:42,061 And then you kicked in the grille of my MG 211 00:13:42,061 --> 00:13:45,621 and you placed this little piece of cloth right there. 212 00:13:47,301 --> 00:13:50,541 And of course you were the anonymous witness who called the police 213 00:13:50,541 --> 00:13:53,221 and gave them part of my registration number. 214 00:13:54,221 --> 00:13:56,301 Do you really hate me... 215 00:13:57,541 --> 00:13:59,301 ..that much, Elaine, 216 00:13:59,301 --> 00:14:02,541 that you'd do all of this to hurt me? 217 00:14:06,781 --> 00:14:08,301 Yes. 218 00:14:10,301 --> 00:14:12,941 I hate you more than you can possibly believe. 219 00:14:14,061 --> 00:14:16,781 I hate you for your high-mindedness. 220 00:14:16,781 --> 00:14:19,541 The cruelty of what you did to Charles. 221 00:14:21,701 --> 00:14:24,061 Charles killed Alan Conway... 222 00:14:25,061 --> 00:14:28,061 ..and he tried to kill me. I wish he'd succeeded! 223 00:14:29,381 --> 00:14:31,781 He had done so much for you. 224 00:14:31,781 --> 00:14:34,301 He gave you your career. 225 00:14:34,301 --> 00:14:36,381 And you turned on him. 226 00:14:36,381 --> 00:14:40,541 You betrayed him, without a thought for me, 227 00:14:40,541 --> 00:14:43,141 for my children, for my grandchildren. 228 00:14:43,141 --> 00:14:45,381 You're out of your mind. You're as bad as he is. 229 00:14:45,381 --> 00:14:48,781 I think you should go. The police still think it's you. 230 00:14:48,781 --> 00:14:50,821 You're still going to prison. 231 00:14:50,821 --> 00:14:52,941 The police don't think anything of the sort. 232 00:14:52,941 --> 00:14:55,421 If the police thought that, they'd have arrested me. 233 00:14:55,421 --> 00:14:58,301 Well, then, maybe I should give them something to think about. 234 00:14:58,301 --> 00:15:01,381 Come on, Elaine. You're not serious. You're not going to use this. 235 00:15:01,381 --> 00:15:03,861 Why not?! You've left me with nothing. 236 00:15:03,861 --> 00:15:07,541 I'm on my own, my friends have abandoned me, Charles is in jail. 237 00:15:07,541 --> 00:15:09,541 I've got nothing to live for. 238 00:15:09,541 --> 00:15:11,421 No, no! 239 00:15:11,421 --> 00:15:13,501 Just stop this, Elaine! This is crazy! 240 00:15:13,501 --> 00:15:15,661 I don't care, I don't care, I don't care. 241 00:15:15,661 --> 00:15:17,341 Argh! 242 00:15:17,341 --> 00:15:19,221 You've ruined my life. 243 00:15:19,221 --> 00:15:20,941 Elaine, no... 244 00:15:20,941 --> 00:15:22,701 BUZZER 245 00:15:22,701 --> 00:15:24,541 Elaine, you can go. 246 00:15:24,541 --> 00:15:27,221 You can just go. You can just walk away. No! 247 00:15:27,221 --> 00:15:28,821 BUZZER 248 00:15:28,821 --> 00:15:31,661 Help... Help me! 249 00:15:31,661 --> 00:15:33,341 Arrgh! 250 00:15:33,341 --> 00:15:35,861 Help me! I'm in here! 251 00:15:36,861 --> 00:15:38,381 Stop! 252 00:15:42,221 --> 00:15:44,941 You stay there! Don't move! 253 00:15:49,061 --> 00:15:50,781 Are you hurt? 254 00:15:51,781 --> 00:15:54,861 I'll live. SUSAN BREATHES HEAVILY 255 00:16:23,541 --> 00:16:25,221 How's that feeling? 256 00:16:25,221 --> 00:16:26,701 Fine. 257 00:16:26,701 --> 00:16:28,381 It's just a scratch. 258 00:16:28,381 --> 00:16:31,301 You should probably still get it looked at by a professional. 259 00:16:31,301 --> 00:16:33,301 I thought you were a professional. 260 00:16:33,301 --> 00:16:36,941 First aid and emergency life support training, 30 years ago. 261 00:16:36,941 --> 00:16:39,541 And that's the first time I've used it. 262 00:16:41,461 --> 00:16:44,061 So what'll happen to her? She'll go to prison. 263 00:16:44,061 --> 00:16:45,861 She tried to kill you. 264 00:16:45,861 --> 00:16:47,381 SUSAN SIGHS 265 00:16:47,381 --> 00:16:50,541 She didn't know what she was doing. I think she did. 266 00:16:51,541 --> 00:16:55,541 And there's the matters of obstruction of justice, 267 00:16:55,541 --> 00:16:57,461 wasting of police time. 268 00:16:57,461 --> 00:17:00,061 I feel sorry for her. You shouldn't. 269 00:17:01,061 --> 00:17:03,061 So why were you here? 270 00:17:04,141 --> 00:17:07,741 Elaine said you were coming to arrest me. She was lying. 271 00:17:11,061 --> 00:17:14,061 I know why you're being kind to me, Detective Inspector. 272 00:17:14,061 --> 00:17:17,061 Dinner the other night, driving me to my sister and now this. 273 00:17:17,061 --> 00:17:18,701 And why is that? 274 00:17:18,701 --> 00:17:22,741 I could still have killed Eliot before Elaine found him, 275 00:17:22,741 --> 00:17:25,541 and you hope that by... 276 00:17:26,541 --> 00:17:30,701 ..cosying up to me, you'll get me to give myself away. 277 00:17:30,701 --> 00:17:34,661 Is that what you think? Well, are you going to deny it? 278 00:17:34,661 --> 00:17:37,061 Who have you been talking to? 279 00:17:37,061 --> 00:17:38,941 Did you see Wardlaw? 280 00:17:38,941 --> 00:17:40,821 We met, yes. 281 00:17:40,821 --> 00:17:43,021 And that's what she told you? 282 00:17:43,021 --> 00:17:45,061 Are you saying it's not true? 283 00:17:46,061 --> 00:17:49,301 Emma Wardlaw is a good detective... 284 00:17:50,941 --> 00:17:53,541 ..but she's had a rough time recently 285 00:17:53,541 --> 00:17:57,541 and sometimes gets the wrong idea about things. 286 00:17:59,061 --> 00:18:00,821 About me. 287 00:18:01,821 --> 00:18:03,341 All right. 288 00:18:04,341 --> 00:18:05,941 I came here... 289 00:18:07,301 --> 00:18:09,061 ..to give you this. 290 00:18:10,381 --> 00:18:12,061 What is it? 291 00:18:12,061 --> 00:18:14,581 The final chapter of Pund's Last Case. 292 00:18:15,781 --> 00:18:18,501 You found it? Wrote it. 293 00:18:18,501 --> 00:18:20,301 I worked it out. 294 00:18:21,301 --> 00:18:24,821 And I thought I'd put it down on paper, just to give it a try. 295 00:18:24,821 --> 00:18:27,061 You said you wanted to be a writer. 296 00:18:27,061 --> 00:18:28,701 Well... 297 00:18:29,701 --> 00:18:31,661 You'll probably think it's rubbish. 298 00:18:31,661 --> 00:18:34,781 Oh... The style, I mean. 299 00:18:37,701 --> 00:18:40,061 But I'm pretty sure I've got it right. 300 00:18:41,061 --> 00:18:43,021 This is what Eliot intended. 301 00:18:44,021 --> 00:18:45,461 Wow. 302 00:18:47,541 --> 00:18:49,701 Wow. 303 00:18:47,541 --> 00:18:49,701 SUSAN CHUCKLES 304 00:18:52,541 --> 00:18:55,781 I'm sorry about the things I said. 305 00:18:58,541 --> 00:19:01,421 So, let me read it. 306 00:19:11,461 --> 00:19:16,301 "The following day, Atticus Pund returned to the Villa Belmar..." 307 00:19:16,301 --> 00:19:18,901 Good morning, sir. They are all here? 308 00:19:18,901 --> 00:19:20,301 Yes, sir. 309 00:19:20,301 --> 00:19:23,061 Then it is time to bring this matter to a close. 310 00:19:26,141 --> 00:19:29,861 JEFFREY SIGHS What's all this about, Mr Pund? 311 00:19:29,861 --> 00:19:33,141 I don't mind helping you with your enquiries but what's he doing here? 312 00:19:33,141 --> 00:19:36,061 Mr Carter is very much part of this story, Lord Chalfont. 313 00:19:36,061 --> 00:19:39,661 It's only right that he should be present. Harrison Carter is a fake. 314 00:19:39,661 --> 00:19:41,781 He's no detective. 315 00:19:41,781 --> 00:19:46,461 He's a retired professor who came here and accused me of theft, 316 00:19:46,461 --> 00:19:48,461 in my own home! 317 00:19:48,461 --> 00:19:51,541 I think you need to listen to what Mr Pund has to say. 318 00:19:51,541 --> 00:19:53,541 Thank you, Police Lieutenant. 319 00:19:54,541 --> 00:19:58,381 Everyone in this family, with the exception of Mr Waysmith, 320 00:19:58,381 --> 00:20:01,701 who is independently wealthy, had need of the money 321 00:20:01,701 --> 00:20:05,021 which might have been left to them in Lady Chalfont's will. 322 00:20:05,021 --> 00:20:08,461 Harry Lyttleton, he was having financial difficulties 323 00:20:08,461 --> 00:20:11,701 with his new hotel, while his wife, Judith, 324 00:20:11,701 --> 00:20:15,381 needed money to protect the Nazca Lines in Peru. 325 00:20:15,381 --> 00:20:18,941 The new Lady Chalfont, she needed backing for her musical, 326 00:20:18,941 --> 00:20:21,541 while her husband was having major difficulties 327 00:20:21,541 --> 00:20:24,301 running his estate back in England. 328 00:20:24,301 --> 00:20:29,341 Four people in desperate need of money. 329 00:20:31,541 --> 00:20:35,261 But it was Elmer Waysmith who is the reason that I first invited 330 00:20:35,261 --> 00:20:37,061 to the Villa Belmar 331 00:20:37,061 --> 00:20:40,141 following a chance meeting with Lady Margaret Chalfont. 332 00:20:40,141 --> 00:20:43,621 A week ago, while I was sitting in my room at the villa, 333 00:20:43,621 --> 00:20:47,181 I overheard something that shocked me to the core. 334 00:20:47,181 --> 00:20:50,261 Something relating to your second husband? 335 00:20:50,261 --> 00:20:51,541 Yes. 336 00:20:51,541 --> 00:20:54,941 Lady Chalfont had learned that her husband was involved 337 00:20:54,941 --> 00:20:58,061 in a dreadful crime perpetrated by the Nazis. 338 00:20:59,061 --> 00:21:04,061 The theft and resale of stolen Greek and Roman antiquities. 339 00:21:05,541 --> 00:21:08,301 You can go to hell, Mr Pund! 340 00:21:08,301 --> 00:21:10,541 I don't have to listen to this! 341 00:21:10,541 --> 00:21:13,701 You will sit down and be silent if you don't wish to be arrested! 342 00:21:14,701 --> 00:21:18,781 Sit down, Pa. I know you didn't do it. Mr Pund is just playing games. 343 00:21:18,781 --> 00:21:22,941 The investigation of murder is never a game. 344 00:21:25,061 --> 00:21:28,501 But I have to tell you, Robert, 345 00:21:28,501 --> 00:21:32,861 every piece of evidence, it points to your father. 346 00:21:32,861 --> 00:21:34,821 Don't listen to him! 347 00:21:34,821 --> 00:21:37,781 He was in his room above the kitchen. 348 00:21:37,781 --> 00:21:40,901 He could easily have come down to place the aconitine in the tea. 349 00:21:40,901 --> 00:21:45,701 He had a book dedicated to the study of poisons, in his possession. 350 00:21:45,701 --> 00:21:49,061 We know that the man who bought the poison, he had white hair, 351 00:21:49,061 --> 00:21:50,701 spoke no Greek. 352 00:21:50,701 --> 00:21:53,581 The same man had taken a room at the Poseidon Hotel 353 00:21:53,581 --> 00:21:56,541 near to the harbour and signed his name in turquoise ink. 354 00:21:56,541 --> 00:21:59,061 The same colour preferred by your father. 355 00:21:59,061 --> 00:22:01,541 There was an American newspaper left in the room! 356 00:22:01,541 --> 00:22:04,701 I mean, it's a simple matter to piece together 357 00:22:04,701 --> 00:22:06,781 the sequence of events. 358 00:22:07,781 --> 00:22:09,941 At exactly 12 o'clock, 359 00:22:09,941 --> 00:22:14,221 Elmer Waysmith purchases aconitine in the market in Kassiopi. 360 00:22:14,221 --> 00:22:17,901 We know the time because the church bell struck the hour. 361 00:22:17,901 --> 00:22:20,221 The timing was perhaps no coincidence. 362 00:22:20,221 --> 00:22:23,461 It would have made it impossible for him to return to the old town 363 00:22:23,461 --> 00:22:26,021 in time for lunch with his son at one o'clock. 364 00:22:26,021 --> 00:22:31,901 Unless, that is, he came by boat and not by car. 365 00:22:34,861 --> 00:22:36,941 He then enters the Poseidon Hotel, 366 00:22:36,941 --> 00:22:39,621 he changes into the clothes that he will wear for lunch, 367 00:22:39,621 --> 00:22:43,061 he discards the white linen suit, the hat, the sunglasses, 368 00:22:43,061 --> 00:22:45,541 all the other elements of his disguise, in a bin, 369 00:22:45,541 --> 00:22:47,741 which is where we will later find them. 370 00:22:47,741 --> 00:22:50,141 This is nonsense! 371 00:22:50,141 --> 00:22:53,301 I...I never went to the hotel! 372 00:22:53,301 --> 00:22:55,301 I never went to the market! 373 00:22:56,301 --> 00:23:00,061 Then how do you explain this matchbook... 374 00:23:01,061 --> 00:23:03,421 ..which I found here, in the house? 375 00:23:03,421 --> 00:23:05,061 I can't. 376 00:23:05,061 --> 00:23:07,701 I never saw it before. It could belong to anyone. 377 00:23:07,701 --> 00:23:09,381 Cedric was right. 378 00:23:09,381 --> 00:23:11,421 It was you all along! 379 00:23:11,421 --> 00:23:14,941 You put poison in her tea. 380 00:23:14,941 --> 00:23:18,061 You went down the service stair to the kitchen. I heard you. 381 00:23:18,061 --> 00:23:20,221 Pa, tell them it's not true. 382 00:23:20,221 --> 00:23:24,461 Oh, what does it matter what I say?! He's already made up his mind! 383 00:23:24,461 --> 00:23:28,541 I wish, in a way, it were so simple. MR PUND CHUCKLES 384 00:23:28,541 --> 00:23:30,941 There's much that troubles me. 385 00:23:30,941 --> 00:23:33,421 Tell me, my friend, would you say 386 00:23:33,421 --> 00:23:36,461 that Mr Waysmith was an intelligent man? 387 00:23:36,461 --> 00:23:38,941 Intelligent? Yes. Very much so. 388 00:23:38,941 --> 00:23:42,341 Then how could such a man have made so many mistakes? 389 00:23:42,341 --> 00:23:45,381 The book of matches that directs us to the hotel, 390 00:23:45,381 --> 00:23:49,061 the American newspaper thrown into a bin, the turquoise ink, 391 00:23:49,061 --> 00:23:52,061 the book - Erskine's Toxicology - protruding from a shelf, 392 00:23:52,061 --> 00:23:54,141 and, most damning of all, 393 00:23:54,141 --> 00:23:57,941 the lid of the teapot that now contains poison, 394 00:23:57,941 --> 00:23:59,781 placed to one side. 395 00:24:00,781 --> 00:24:03,421 He never thought there would be a police investigation. 396 00:24:03,421 --> 00:24:06,061 He assumed it would look like a natural death. 397 00:24:06,061 --> 00:24:08,341 And so it would have, Mr Lyttleton. 398 00:24:09,341 --> 00:24:12,741 But it was you who, for no reason at all, 399 00:24:12,741 --> 00:24:15,061 insisted that the police be called. 400 00:24:15,061 --> 00:24:17,261 Well, you should thank me. 401 00:24:17,261 --> 00:24:18,541 Hmm. 402 00:24:19,541 --> 00:24:23,061 And so we come to Lady Margaret Chalfont herself. 403 00:24:25,061 --> 00:24:28,781 From the very beginning, something has puzzled me. 404 00:24:30,701 --> 00:24:33,381 If she believed that her husband was guilty of theft 405 00:24:33,381 --> 00:24:35,381 and collaboration with the Nazis, 406 00:24:35,381 --> 00:24:38,381 and had called her solicitor, Mr Lambrose, to change her will, 407 00:24:38,381 --> 00:24:41,541 so why did she never mention his arrival? 408 00:24:41,541 --> 00:24:44,781 Indeed, she seems to have completely forgotten it! 409 00:24:44,781 --> 00:24:46,701 So what are you saying, Mr Pund? 410 00:24:46,701 --> 00:24:50,061 I'm saying that nothing is as it seems 411 00:24:50,061 --> 00:24:53,061 and that, to make sense of it, we... 412 00:24:53,061 --> 00:24:55,181 Well, we must begin again. 413 00:24:56,181 --> 00:25:00,301 So let us ask, was Lady Chalfont the real victim? 414 00:25:00,301 --> 00:25:05,541 Or could it have been the one person hated by every single person here, 415 00:25:05,541 --> 00:25:07,661 who was the target? 416 00:25:07,661 --> 00:25:10,061 Elmer Waysmith! 417 00:25:11,061 --> 00:25:14,541 Lady Chalfont gave him control of all the money, 418 00:25:14,541 --> 00:25:17,661 but with him out of the way... Exactly. 419 00:25:17,661 --> 00:25:21,141 If he were to face the firing squad as a result of being found guilty 420 00:25:21,141 --> 00:25:25,301 of the murder of his wife, all the money would pass to the family. 421 00:25:25,301 --> 00:25:30,541 You're saying one of the family planned to frame my father? 422 00:25:33,701 --> 00:25:35,541 Which one was it? 423 00:25:37,061 --> 00:25:39,541 Well, it was not one of them. 424 00:25:40,941 --> 00:25:43,061 But you know that, Robert. 425 00:25:44,061 --> 00:25:45,661 It was you. 426 00:25:45,661 --> 00:25:47,061 Me?! 427 00:25:47,061 --> 00:25:50,221 That's... That's ridiculous. I would never hurt my father. 428 00:25:50,221 --> 00:25:54,701 He's looked after me my entire life. You hate your father. 429 00:25:54,701 --> 00:25:57,381 You tried to disguise it when you spoke to me, 430 00:25:57,381 --> 00:26:00,941 but it was not difficult to see the true nature of your relationship. 431 00:26:00,941 --> 00:26:04,061 We don't need you, Robert. I'll talk to these people on my own. 432 00:26:04,061 --> 00:26:07,061 Whatever you say, Pa. If that's all right with you? 433 00:26:07,061 --> 00:26:10,701 I said we don't need you! Just do as I say! 434 00:26:11,701 --> 00:26:13,701 You told us exactly who he was. 435 00:26:13,701 --> 00:26:17,061 This is a man who would not return home even after the suicide 436 00:26:17,061 --> 00:26:20,541 of your mother, for which you also held him to blame. 437 00:26:20,541 --> 00:26:23,261 No. Hey, no! I never... I never said that. 438 00:26:23,261 --> 00:26:26,941 He dominated you and bullied you and you wished to be rid of him. 439 00:26:26,941 --> 00:26:31,101 This was a murder in which every last detail had been planned, 440 00:26:31,101 --> 00:26:35,541 and it all began with the chance arrival of Mr Harrison Carter, 441 00:26:35,541 --> 00:26:39,061 who was investigating the theft of stolen antiquities. 442 00:26:39,061 --> 00:26:42,781 But it was the maid who came to me and told me about the calyx. 443 00:26:42,781 --> 00:26:46,061 But it was Robert who invited you to the house. 444 00:26:46,061 --> 00:26:50,061 Yes. He said I should see the calyx with my own eyes. 445 00:26:50,061 --> 00:26:52,541 His father wasn't too pleased. 446 00:26:53,541 --> 00:26:57,621 He led you into the living room. The windows, of course, were open. 447 00:26:57,621 --> 00:26:58,861 Yes. 448 00:26:58,861 --> 00:27:00,701 Robert had opened them. 449 00:27:01,701 --> 00:27:05,061 He did so deliberately because he knew that every word 450 00:27:05,061 --> 00:27:08,781 could be heard by Lady Chalfont in the bedroom directly above. 451 00:27:08,781 --> 00:27:10,701 How dare you, sir? 452 00:27:10,701 --> 00:27:13,301 How dare you come to my home... 453 00:27:13,301 --> 00:27:16,301 You invited me. ..and make these foul accusations 454 00:27:16,301 --> 00:27:18,301 with no evidence whatsoever?! 455 00:27:18,301 --> 00:27:20,861 Mr Waysmith, I have eyewitness testimony 456 00:27:20,861 --> 00:27:24,701 that this piece in front of me right now was stolen from the Vathy Museum 457 00:27:24,701 --> 00:27:28,061 in Ithaca, and that the director was murdered trying to protect it. 458 00:27:28,061 --> 00:27:29,581 That's a lie. 459 00:27:29,581 --> 00:27:32,541 You mean Robert wanted Lady Chalfont to know? 460 00:27:32,541 --> 00:27:35,821 Yes! Because Robert wanted the police to think that she had 461 00:27:35,821 --> 00:27:37,781 decided to cut Elmer out of her will 462 00:27:37,781 --> 00:27:40,141 and that Elmer had killed her to stop her doing so. 463 00:27:40,141 --> 00:27:42,941 But she did want to change her will. She called her lawyer. 464 00:27:42,941 --> 00:27:45,981 No, she did not! She loved your father and wanted to trust him. 465 00:27:47,461 --> 00:27:50,381 What she did was ask me to investigate him. 466 00:27:50,381 --> 00:27:52,541 So who called Lambrose? 467 00:27:52,541 --> 00:27:57,541 I would suggest a talented actress who could imitate her voice. 468 00:27:57,541 --> 00:28:00,941 An actress such as Lola Chalfont. 469 00:28:01,941 --> 00:28:04,581 She's not talented. How dare you! 470 00:28:05,781 --> 00:28:07,701 It's not true. 471 00:28:07,701 --> 00:28:09,781 I had no part in it. 472 00:28:09,781 --> 00:28:14,301 And who bought the aconitine in the market, if it wasn't Elmer? 473 00:28:14,301 --> 00:28:16,861 It was Robert, disguised as his father. 474 00:28:16,861 --> 00:28:19,061 White suit, hat, sunglasses. 475 00:28:19,061 --> 00:28:20,541 Aconitine. 476 00:28:20,541 --> 00:28:23,141 They're father and son. They have similar appearance. 477 00:28:23,141 --> 00:28:26,381 But what about his hair? The old man in the market, Georgios Leonidas, 478 00:28:26,381 --> 00:28:28,541 was sure that the man he met had white hair. 479 00:28:28,541 --> 00:28:30,461 That was Robert's one mistake. 480 00:28:30,461 --> 00:28:32,981 That's what finally made it all clear to me. 481 00:28:32,981 --> 00:28:36,301 What was the object that was found under the bed in the hotel? 482 00:28:36,301 --> 00:28:38,701 A tin of shoe polish. White shoe polish! 483 00:28:38,701 --> 00:28:40,141 Do you not see? 484 00:28:40,141 --> 00:28:43,061 He used the white shoe polish to change the colour of his hair. 485 00:28:43,061 --> 00:28:46,381 And it would also have had a smell not dissimilar to surgical spirit. 486 00:28:46,381 --> 00:28:49,341 Which is why Leonidas thought that he might be a doctor. 487 00:28:49,341 --> 00:28:53,541 You made it appear that your father had murdered his second wife. 488 00:28:53,541 --> 00:28:55,381 That was not enough. 489 00:28:55,381 --> 00:28:59,381 You wanted us to think that he had attempted to cover his tracks 490 00:28:59,381 --> 00:29:02,061 with a disguise, the timing, all the rest of it, 491 00:29:02,061 --> 00:29:05,061 knowing that in the end it would only incriminate him further. 492 00:29:05,061 --> 00:29:07,221 And it was also you 493 00:29:07,221 --> 00:29:10,061 who pretended to be in love with a... 494 00:29:10,061 --> 00:29:12,381 ..poor, innocent girl, 495 00:29:12,381 --> 00:29:14,061 Sofia Androulakis. 496 00:29:14,061 --> 00:29:16,541 The assistant to Mr Lambrose. 497 00:29:17,541 --> 00:29:19,581 That wasn't me. That was Harry. 498 00:29:19,581 --> 00:29:21,461 Wait a minute! No, Robert. 499 00:29:21,461 --> 00:29:24,941 You are handsome, clever, young. You are also unmarried. 500 00:29:24,941 --> 00:29:27,861 You would have had no difficulty in manipulating her. 501 00:29:27,861 --> 00:29:29,701 She had his photograph. 502 00:29:29,701 --> 00:29:32,061 No! No, you took it! 503 00:29:33,781 --> 00:29:36,501 You're right, Mr Pund. It was Robert from the very start! 504 00:29:36,501 --> 00:29:38,821 He used my picture to take the heat off himself. 505 00:29:38,821 --> 00:29:41,501 He was the one who did it. And I had an alibi. I was here. 506 00:29:41,501 --> 00:29:43,741 Harry, you shut your mouth! 507 00:29:43,741 --> 00:29:46,301 It's too late, Robert. I know! 508 00:29:46,301 --> 00:29:49,381 You persuaded Miss Androulakis 509 00:29:49,381 --> 00:29:52,061 to inform you of the contents of the will. 510 00:29:53,061 --> 00:29:58,061 She was terrified from the moment that Lady Margaret was poisoned. 511 00:29:58,061 --> 00:30:01,861 I am conducting an official murder investigation. 512 00:30:01,861 --> 00:30:03,501 Murder? 513 00:30:04,501 --> 00:30:07,181 Fearing that she'd played a part in the crime. 514 00:30:07,181 --> 00:30:10,141 And that was why you had to silence her. 515 00:30:11,141 --> 00:30:13,701 You strangled her on the beach. 516 00:30:13,701 --> 00:30:15,981 But Harry Lyttleton knew what was going on? 517 00:30:15,981 --> 00:30:18,621 He was part of it. They were all part of it. The whole family. 518 00:30:18,621 --> 00:30:21,221 No! That's outrageous! It's impossible! Enough! 519 00:30:21,221 --> 00:30:22,701 Why? 520 00:30:22,701 --> 00:30:25,701 Because they had an immediate need of the money. 521 00:30:25,701 --> 00:30:28,981 They'd learned from Sofia that Lady Chalfont left everything to you, 522 00:30:28,981 --> 00:30:31,781 but if you were arrested and executed for murder, 523 00:30:31,781 --> 00:30:34,781 you'd receive nothing. It would all pass to them. 524 00:30:34,781 --> 00:30:37,901 You're wrong, Mr Pund. We loved our mother. 525 00:30:37,901 --> 00:30:40,941 Maybe you did. But she was dying anyway. 526 00:30:40,941 --> 00:30:44,541 What would it matter if the end came a week or a few days earlier? 527 00:30:44,541 --> 00:30:47,061 No, no, no, no. You've got this all wrong. 528 00:30:47,061 --> 00:30:48,861 I am never wrong. 529 00:30:51,061 --> 00:30:53,381 Every one of you played a part in it. 530 00:30:54,941 --> 00:30:58,301 You planted all the evidence, all the clues. 531 00:31:00,541 --> 00:31:02,301 KNOCK ON DOOR 532 00:31:08,701 --> 00:31:10,221 Luan? 533 00:31:23,181 --> 00:31:25,061 KNOCK ON DOOR 534 00:31:26,781 --> 00:31:28,341 Hello, Mama. 535 00:31:28,341 --> 00:31:30,541 Are you coming out for tea? 536 00:31:43,541 --> 00:31:46,061 When Lady Chalfont died, you called the police, 537 00:31:46,061 --> 00:31:48,061 shouted that she'd been poisoned. 538 00:31:48,061 --> 00:31:51,061 You spoke badly of Elmer every opportunity. 539 00:31:51,061 --> 00:31:55,061 Even the fight when the will was read was staged only for my benefit. 540 00:31:55,061 --> 00:31:57,461 You're a crook! A gold-digger! 541 00:31:57,461 --> 00:31:59,301 Just like we always thought. 542 00:31:59,301 --> 00:32:02,181 Do not talk to my father like that. It's true! 543 00:32:02,181 --> 00:32:03,781 Ladies and gentlemen, please. 544 00:32:03,781 --> 00:32:06,461 He turned Margaret against us from the day he married her! 545 00:32:06,461 --> 00:32:09,461 Now, you listen to me! You killed her, didn't you? You knew about 546 00:32:09,461 --> 00:32:12,061 the will, so you put poison in her tea! You take that back! 547 00:32:12,061 --> 00:32:14,261 Your father is a thief and a murderer! 548 00:32:14,261 --> 00:32:15,781 Argh! 549 00:32:17,861 --> 00:32:19,541 It wasn't real? 550 00:32:21,461 --> 00:32:23,141 It was staged... 551 00:32:24,461 --> 00:32:27,301 ..to make us think that they were unaware 552 00:32:27,301 --> 00:32:29,701 of what was contained within the will. 553 00:32:29,701 --> 00:32:31,781 That they were enemies. 554 00:32:33,061 --> 00:32:34,781 HE SIGHS 555 00:32:35,781 --> 00:32:37,541 But this is the truth. 556 00:32:39,301 --> 00:32:43,061 Robert Waysmith, he longed to be free of the man 557 00:32:43,061 --> 00:32:45,221 who tormented him all his life. 558 00:32:45,221 --> 00:32:49,301 He led you into this, but you are all guilty. 559 00:32:50,301 --> 00:32:52,461 And all of you must pay. 560 00:33:05,061 --> 00:33:07,061 It was... 561 00:33:08,541 --> 00:33:10,061 ..my... 562 00:33:19,781 --> 00:33:22,861 Robert Waysmith. It's an anagram, isn't it? 563 00:33:22,861 --> 00:33:25,061 So you spotted it, too. Mm. 564 00:33:25,061 --> 00:33:28,301 It's very well-written, what you've done. 565 00:33:28,301 --> 00:33:29,781 Really. 566 00:33:29,781 --> 00:33:34,381 Very Alan Conway, and the solution makes complete sense. 567 00:33:34,381 --> 00:33:36,021 Robert Waysmith. 568 00:33:36,021 --> 00:33:39,541 Mm. "It was my brother." 569 00:33:39,541 --> 00:33:42,861 Suggesting that it was Roland Crace who killed his grandmother. 570 00:33:42,861 --> 00:33:46,661 And also killed Eliot. Trouble is, I've spoken to Roland, 571 00:33:46,661 --> 00:33:50,061 and he admits the three of them concocted a poison of sorts 572 00:33:50,061 --> 00:33:53,061 but he then says he poured it away. 573 00:33:53,061 --> 00:33:56,781 Do you believe him? He also couldn't have run over Eliot. 574 00:33:56,781 --> 00:33:58,461 He doesn't drive. 575 00:33:59,461 --> 00:34:01,141 He's colour-blind. 576 00:34:02,141 --> 00:34:04,741 Colour-blind? Says he inherited it. 577 00:34:07,461 --> 00:34:09,301 From Miriam Crace. 578 00:34:12,061 --> 00:34:13,781 Oh, my God! 579 00:34:13,781 --> 00:34:15,301 What? 580 00:34:17,061 --> 00:34:18,941 I know who killed them. 581 00:34:20,381 --> 00:34:22,061 Both of them. 582 00:34:24,061 --> 00:34:26,221 I've had quite enough of this family so, 583 00:34:26,221 --> 00:34:29,181 if you don't mind, I'm going to keep this brief. 584 00:34:29,181 --> 00:34:33,101 Eliot always believed that it was Roland who killed Miriam Crace. 585 00:34:34,301 --> 00:34:37,701 But he kept it quiet all these years because... 586 00:34:37,701 --> 00:34:39,821 ..he revered and loved the brother 587 00:34:39,821 --> 00:34:42,221 who'd looked after him when they were young. 588 00:34:42,221 --> 00:34:47,061 But then Roland betrayed Eliot in the worst possible way, 589 00:34:47,061 --> 00:34:49,061 by sleeping with his wife. 590 00:34:49,061 --> 00:34:51,301 So Eliot decided to get his revenge 591 00:34:51,301 --> 00:34:53,781 by naming him as the killer in his book. 592 00:34:53,781 --> 00:34:56,181 What happened between me and Gillian was wrong. 593 00:34:56,181 --> 00:34:57,861 You should be ashamed of yourself. 594 00:34:57,861 --> 00:34:59,781 I am. 595 00:34:59,781 --> 00:35:02,221 But I didn't kill anyone. 596 00:35:02,221 --> 00:35:04,021 But Eliot didn't know that. 597 00:35:04,021 --> 00:35:06,301 And, at the party, he still thought it was you. 598 00:35:06,301 --> 00:35:08,941 Ladies and gentlemen, forgive the interruption. 599 00:35:08,941 --> 00:35:12,061 I think we should raise a toast to someone in the room. 600 00:35:13,061 --> 00:35:16,181 Someone who killed my grandmother. 601 00:35:16,181 --> 00:35:17,861 "Someone in the room." 602 00:35:18,861 --> 00:35:21,941 He meant Roland, but there was someone else who heard him, 603 00:35:21,941 --> 00:35:25,301 and that person had every reason to be afraid. 604 00:35:25,301 --> 00:35:28,741 The real killer. Mm. It could have been any one of you. 605 00:35:28,741 --> 00:35:31,101 All of you were bullied by her. 606 00:35:32,461 --> 00:35:35,381 Edward, Jonathan, you were terrified of her. 607 00:35:37,501 --> 00:35:39,941 I... I wouldn't hurt her. She was my mother. 608 00:35:39,941 --> 00:35:42,581 She needed me. We needed each other. 609 00:35:45,061 --> 00:35:47,181 What about you, Frederick? 610 00:35:47,181 --> 00:35:49,061 She didn't bully me. 611 00:35:49,061 --> 00:35:51,181 She saved me. 612 00:35:53,061 --> 00:35:55,581 You were a second-class citizen in that house. 613 00:35:56,581 --> 00:35:59,301 You lived in the attic, you were trained to be 614 00:35:59,301 --> 00:36:02,541 the family's accountant and you ended up as a tour guide. 615 00:36:02,541 --> 00:36:04,541 Mrs Crace adopted me... 616 00:36:05,541 --> 00:36:07,341 ..and she gave me a home. 617 00:36:07,341 --> 00:36:10,541 Still "Mrs Crace". You weren't even allowed to call her "Mother". 618 00:36:10,541 --> 00:36:12,541 That was because I respected her. 619 00:36:12,541 --> 00:36:16,101 No... No, it was because she didn't respect you. 620 00:36:16,101 --> 00:36:20,301 As far as I can see, there was no love between you. 621 00:36:20,301 --> 00:36:23,141 She was almost ashamed of you. This is nonsense! 622 00:36:23,141 --> 00:36:24,901 You couldn't be more wrong. 623 00:36:24,901 --> 00:36:27,061 Let me ask you a question, Frederick, 624 00:36:27,061 --> 00:36:28,941 about all these injuries of yours. 625 00:36:28,941 --> 00:36:31,301 How exactly did you manage to crash your car? 626 00:36:31,301 --> 00:36:34,541 I told you. I wasn't concentrating and I had a bad cold. 627 00:36:34,541 --> 00:36:37,781 Leilah, you were there. Is that how you remember things? No. 628 00:36:38,901 --> 00:36:40,781 You weren't ill. 629 00:36:40,781 --> 00:36:44,541 I told you. He went through a red light. He didn't even see it. 630 00:36:44,541 --> 00:36:48,141 And that was when Frederick discovered that he was colour-blind. 631 00:36:49,141 --> 00:36:54,621 A genetic trait which, like Roland, he'd inherited from his mother. 632 00:36:54,621 --> 00:36:56,501 His real mother. 633 00:36:56,501 --> 00:36:58,261 Miriam Crace. 634 00:36:58,261 --> 00:37:00,941 What?! Nonsense. No. 635 00:37:00,941 --> 00:37:02,981 You're even left-handed, just like Miriam, 636 00:37:02,981 --> 00:37:05,381 who had a collection of left-handed pens. 637 00:37:05,381 --> 00:37:07,581 I noticed at the party. 638 00:37:08,581 --> 00:37:11,701 I have to say, I didn't expect to see you here tonight. 639 00:37:11,701 --> 00:37:14,381 You picked up your wine glass with your left hand. 640 00:37:15,941 --> 00:37:19,061 Miriam was many things, but she was also a Roman Catholic. 641 00:37:19,061 --> 00:37:22,861 And, according to Charles Clover, who I visited in prison, 642 00:37:22,861 --> 00:37:25,301 she was sexually promiscuous. 643 00:37:25,301 --> 00:37:28,301 The big secret about Miriam Crace was that throughout her marriage 644 00:37:28,301 --> 00:37:30,781 she was a nymphomaniac, chasing anything in trousers. 645 00:37:30,781 --> 00:37:33,061 She was having it away with half the domestic staff, 646 00:37:33,061 --> 00:37:35,621 and there were rumours that included one of the nannies. 647 00:37:35,621 --> 00:37:39,061 So...it makes you think, doesn't it? 648 00:37:40,301 --> 00:37:42,781 Why do you think she kept a photograph 649 00:37:42,781 --> 00:37:45,381 of her Albanian chauffeur in her library? 650 00:37:45,381 --> 00:37:47,661 You're talking about Luan? 651 00:37:47,661 --> 00:37:51,061 Yes. Luan was name-checked in Eliot's book as the gardener 652 00:37:51,061 --> 00:37:55,301 at the Villa Belmar, so maybe he was trying to tell us something. 653 00:37:55,301 --> 00:37:57,861 He was your father... Luan? 654 00:37:57,861 --> 00:37:59,861 ..wasn't he, Frederick? 655 00:37:59,861 --> 00:38:02,581 No, I told you, my father was a traveller. 656 00:38:02,581 --> 00:38:05,381 You see, I think Miriam became pregnant 657 00:38:05,381 --> 00:38:09,701 and that's why she disappeared to a clinic in Lausanne for six months. 658 00:38:09,701 --> 00:38:11,981 She went away to give birth... 659 00:38:12,981 --> 00:38:16,701 ..and then she placed the baby into her own orphanage. 660 00:38:16,701 --> 00:38:19,781 That baby was you, Frederick. 661 00:38:19,781 --> 00:38:22,461 And then, later, she "adopted" you, 662 00:38:22,461 --> 00:38:25,061 but she never treated you decently. 663 00:38:25,061 --> 00:38:27,861 She never even told you who your father was. 664 00:38:27,861 --> 00:38:29,541 Uncle Fred? 665 00:38:29,541 --> 00:38:31,021 No. 666 00:38:31,021 --> 00:38:32,701 This is wrong. 667 00:38:32,701 --> 00:38:34,701 You can't think I killed her. 668 00:38:34,701 --> 00:38:36,381 It's over, Frederick. 669 00:38:36,381 --> 00:38:38,781 You've been living a lie your whole life. 670 00:38:39,781 --> 00:38:41,501 You can stop now. 671 00:38:42,501 --> 00:38:44,941 You know, I feel sorry for you. 672 00:38:44,941 --> 00:38:48,141 The way she treated you must have been hard to bear. 673 00:38:49,141 --> 00:38:51,061 Hard to bear? 674 00:39:00,781 --> 00:39:02,781 I never knew my father. 675 00:39:03,781 --> 00:39:06,461 She fired him before she brought me to Marble Hall, 676 00:39:06,461 --> 00:39:08,781 so that I would never get to meet him. 677 00:39:09,781 --> 00:39:12,021 And she lied to me about who I was. 678 00:39:13,021 --> 00:39:14,621 What I was. 679 00:39:14,621 --> 00:39:16,541 She was my mother! 680 00:39:17,781 --> 00:39:19,781 You poisoned her? 681 00:39:19,781 --> 00:39:21,461 Yes, Jonathan. 682 00:39:22,461 --> 00:39:24,701 I'm sure it amused her, 683 00:39:24,701 --> 00:39:28,541 me taking over my father's job as an unpaid chauffeur. 684 00:39:30,061 --> 00:39:32,061 But after the accident... 685 00:39:33,061 --> 00:39:37,061 ..I asked questions, found my birth certificate, 686 00:39:37,061 --> 00:39:41,061 and, when I realised the truth, I had no choice. 687 00:39:42,701 --> 00:39:45,581 She deserved to die. What?! 688 00:39:46,661 --> 00:39:49,981 You knew about us? About Roland, Eliot and me? 689 00:39:49,981 --> 00:39:51,221 Oh, yes. 690 00:39:51,221 --> 00:39:53,781 You and your witch's potion in the garden. 691 00:39:58,301 --> 00:40:00,301 You were the perfect cover. 692 00:40:02,621 --> 00:40:06,381 Except you didn't use aconitine or Liqufruta. You used arsenic. 693 00:40:06,381 --> 00:40:08,061 How do you know that? 694 00:40:08,061 --> 00:40:11,621 It was something Dr Lambert said. He treated Miriam's husband, Arthur. 695 00:40:11,621 --> 00:40:14,461 He had a hobby. Taxidermy. 696 00:40:14,461 --> 00:40:17,621 It brought him into contact with some quite unpleasant chemicals 697 00:40:17,621 --> 00:40:19,541 and he developed a skin disease. 698 00:40:19,541 --> 00:40:22,541 I put him on a course of dimercaprol and it cleared up in the end. 699 00:40:22,541 --> 00:40:25,781 The Victorians used arsenic in taxidermy. 700 00:40:25,781 --> 00:40:29,381 Dark skin and lesions are the symptoms of arsenic poisoning. 701 00:40:29,381 --> 00:40:31,181 Dimercaprol is the cure. 702 00:40:34,701 --> 00:40:36,101 You're right. 703 00:40:37,181 --> 00:40:40,701 I cut open one of his specimens. A kingfisher in a glass case. 704 00:40:40,701 --> 00:40:43,781 The insides were coated in white powder. 705 00:40:44,781 --> 00:40:46,381 Arsenic. 706 00:40:47,381 --> 00:40:50,701 I didn't know if it would work, but the children had given me 707 00:40:50,701 --> 00:40:53,661 the perfect opportunity, so why not try? 708 00:40:55,461 --> 00:40:57,541 And what about Eliot? 709 00:40:59,061 --> 00:41:00,781 Wait, he wouldn't... 710 00:41:01,781 --> 00:41:04,301 You couldn't... Yes, I killed him, too. 711 00:41:06,701 --> 00:41:08,541 I had to stop him. 712 00:41:08,541 --> 00:41:11,061 I thought he was threatening me, 713 00:41:11,061 --> 00:41:13,061 so what was I meant to do? 714 00:41:13,061 --> 00:41:15,061 ENGINE STARTS 715 00:41:16,301 --> 00:41:20,781 You waited for him outside the party, and you ran him down. 716 00:41:24,221 --> 00:41:25,781 TYRES SCREECH 717 00:41:26,781 --> 00:41:28,781 LOUD THUD/GLASS SMASHES 718 00:41:33,381 --> 00:41:37,701 But there was no need. It wasn't even you he was talking about. 719 00:41:38,701 --> 00:41:42,021 That was his own fault. He shouldn't have boasted like that. 720 00:41:42,021 --> 00:41:44,541 He wasn't boasting, Frederick. 721 00:41:46,061 --> 00:41:47,621 He was in pain. 722 00:41:48,621 --> 00:41:50,541 Just like you. 723 00:41:53,061 --> 00:41:54,781 Poor Eliot. 724 00:41:56,181 --> 00:41:58,901 SHE LAUGHS RUEFULLY 725 00:41:56,181 --> 00:41:58,901 What a family! 726 00:42:11,061 --> 00:42:12,781 Hello, everyone. 727 00:42:12,781 --> 00:42:15,301 Hello. Thank you for coming. 728 00:42:15,301 --> 00:42:18,781 Right, this evening we are celebrating the first book 729 00:42:18,781 --> 00:42:22,301 published by my own imprint, Redlayn Books. 730 00:42:22,301 --> 00:42:23,821 APPLAUSE 731 00:42:25,061 --> 00:42:28,781 And for those of you who haven't noticed, "Redlayn" is an anagram. 732 00:42:28,781 --> 00:42:32,061 I'll leave you to work that one out! SUSAN LAUGHS 733 00:42:32,061 --> 00:42:34,021 Anyway, here it is, 734 00:42:34,021 --> 00:42:38,461 Pund's Last Case, and this time I really do think it will be. 735 00:42:38,461 --> 00:42:41,781 Ian Blakeney, he might be a first-time writer, 736 00:42:41,781 --> 00:42:46,781 but he's done a fantastic job not just of working out who did it, 737 00:42:46,781 --> 00:42:52,061 but also writing the missing chapters of Eliot Crace's book. 738 00:42:52,061 --> 00:42:55,461 And I'm happy to tell you that I'm going to be publishing 739 00:42:55,461 --> 00:42:59,301 his first original novel, Mile End Murders, next year. 740 00:43:03,541 --> 00:43:06,781 I'd also like to thank my wonderful sister, Katie, 741 00:43:06,781 --> 00:43:10,061 who first introduced me to Alan Conway, 742 00:43:10,061 --> 00:43:13,061 even though it nearly killed me. LAUGHTER 743 00:43:13,061 --> 00:43:14,541 Twice! 744 00:43:14,541 --> 00:43:19,381 And her partner, David, who is an investment fund manager, 745 00:43:19,381 --> 00:43:23,541 who managed to raise the funds to launch Redlayn... Oh. ..so... 746 00:43:23,541 --> 00:43:26,541 APPLAUSE 747 00:43:23,541 --> 00:43:26,541 Thank you. Thank you, David. 748 00:43:33,781 --> 00:43:37,061 Anyway, thank you for your support, 749 00:43:37,061 --> 00:43:39,341 thank you for being my friends. 750 00:43:39,341 --> 00:43:42,061 I suppose this is what I always dreamed of. 751 00:43:43,621 --> 00:43:47,661 And I can't quite believe that it's actually arrived, so... 752 00:43:47,661 --> 00:43:49,661 SUSAN CHUCKLES 753 00:43:49,661 --> 00:43:51,781 Anyway, thank you. 754 00:43:51,781 --> 00:43:53,541 APPLAUSE 755 00:43:53,541 --> 00:43:55,781 I hate making speeches. 756 00:43:55,781 --> 00:43:57,541 You did great. 757 00:43:57,541 --> 00:44:00,661 Listen, would you mind signing a few books? Do I have to? 758 00:44:00,661 --> 00:44:03,381 Oh, come on. You ought to know by now, a signed book... 759 00:44:03,381 --> 00:44:05,301 Is a sold book. Yeah. 760 00:44:07,301 --> 00:44:10,661 Are you and him? Mind your own business. 761 00:44:11,901 --> 00:44:13,781 Ssh, ssh. 762 00:44:14,781 --> 00:44:17,061 Can you just give me a minute? There's... What? 763 00:44:17,061 --> 00:44:19,061 There's somebody I need to see. 764 00:44:19,061 --> 00:44:20,701 Did you see that? 765 00:44:25,301 --> 00:44:27,781 Well, I didn't expect to see you here. 766 00:44:27,781 --> 00:44:29,701 How could I stay away? 767 00:44:30,701 --> 00:44:33,461 Did you ever go to any of Alan's book launches? 768 00:44:34,461 --> 00:44:37,101 I think not. 769 00:44:34,461 --> 00:44:37,101 SUSAN CHUCKLES 770 00:44:41,781 --> 00:44:43,421 Is something wrong? 771 00:44:44,421 --> 00:44:45,861 No, no. 772 00:44:45,861 --> 00:44:47,541 Not at all. 773 00:44:52,781 --> 00:44:54,781 Let's go somewhere quiet. 774 00:45:17,301 --> 00:45:19,461 So, tell me what's the matter. 775 00:45:20,541 --> 00:45:22,381 I was just thinking. 776 00:45:23,381 --> 00:45:25,781 We've said goodbye to each other twice... 777 00:45:25,781 --> 00:45:27,301 THEY LAUGH 778 00:45:27,301 --> 00:45:31,461 ..but this time, I believe it really is over between us. 779 00:45:31,461 --> 00:45:33,341 Why do you say that? 780 00:45:33,341 --> 00:45:36,701 Well, I've come to the end of my story. 781 00:45:37,701 --> 00:45:39,381 And as for you... 782 00:45:40,381 --> 00:45:42,541 ..you have your own detective now. 783 00:45:43,541 --> 00:45:45,541 Ian's left the force. 784 00:45:45,541 --> 00:45:48,061 He's going to become a full-time writer. 785 00:45:48,061 --> 00:45:50,661 I wish you every happiness. Hmm. 786 00:45:51,661 --> 00:45:53,541 No... No, no, no. 787 00:45:53,541 --> 00:45:57,061 You don't get rid of me quite that easily, Atticus. 788 00:45:57,061 --> 00:45:58,781 HE SIGHS 789 00:46:00,061 --> 00:46:01,621 I'm sorry? 790 00:46:01,621 --> 00:46:05,061 Well, you obviously haven't seen my list of upcoming titles. 791 00:46:05,061 --> 00:46:07,781 Unusual of you to miss a detail like that. 792 00:46:07,781 --> 00:46:12,061 HE EXHALES LOUDLY 793 00:46:07,781 --> 00:46:12,061 So, what are you publishing? 794 00:46:12,061 --> 00:46:16,381 I have a very interesting book coming out soon. 795 00:46:16,381 --> 00:46:17,941 It's a sort of... 796 00:46:19,141 --> 00:46:24,381 ..meditation on the nature of crime and detection, 797 00:46:24,381 --> 00:46:26,341 with illustrations. 798 00:46:27,341 --> 00:46:32,501 It's called The Landscape Of Criminal Investigation. 799 00:46:34,541 --> 00:46:36,541 You are publishing my book? 800 00:46:36,541 --> 00:46:38,061 Why not? 801 00:46:38,061 --> 00:46:41,061 You have a huge following, you know. 802 00:46:42,541 --> 00:46:46,301 No... Nobody cares who writes detective novels. 803 00:46:46,301 --> 00:46:50,461 It's the detectives they care about, and a great many care about you. 804 00:46:50,461 --> 00:46:53,541 But it's not yet complete. Who... Who will finish it? 805 00:46:53,541 --> 00:46:55,781 I suppose you and I will. 806 00:46:55,781 --> 00:46:57,421 Together. 807 00:46:57,421 --> 00:46:59,301 All my life... 808 00:47:00,301 --> 00:47:03,061 ..I waited to see my book in print. 809 00:47:05,061 --> 00:47:06,741 You can do this? 810 00:47:06,741 --> 00:47:08,541 Of course I can. 811 00:47:10,141 --> 00:47:12,181 I'm a publisher now. 812 00:47:12,181 --> 00:47:13,781 THEY CHUCKLE 813 00:47:16,781 --> 00:47:19,461 Are you going to come back to the party? Oh, no. 814 00:47:19,461 --> 00:47:22,061 No, you...you...you go ahead. 815 00:47:23,301 --> 00:47:25,381 I need to think about this. 816 00:47:31,461 --> 00:47:32,781 All right. 817 00:47:32,781 --> 00:47:34,461 HE SIGHS 818 00:47:41,941 --> 00:47:43,701 Don't be long. 819 00:48:32,061 --> 00:48:33,941 SHE CHUCKLES KNOWINGLY 820 00:48:44,541 --> 00:48:46,781 MUSIC PLAYS/CHATTER