Reuben's killer also murders his co-researcher and suspicion falls on fellow psychic Frank Mclean and tarot reader Justine Skinner
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00:00Reason to believe that he was moonlighting as a psychic.
00:03That's absurd.
00:04He was one of my best post-grads.
00:06A true skeptic.
00:08Oh, I'm sorry, you've played your daughter.
00:10Convinced ourselves there might be a miracle.
00:12Classic denial.
00:13He's trying to tell me who killed him.
00:15Frank, my claim.
00:17I don't trust anyone else in this world or the next.
00:20So what are you telling me, Crane had Reuben killed in order to silence him?
00:23I can't be seen with you.
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04:22Injected. Same drug. Atorphin.
04:27I heard you were with her when she died.
04:30That's rough. I'm sorry.
04:32Yeah.
04:34Atorphin. We've had a result from our inquiries.
04:36Garsington Equine Centre reported a theft.
04:49Asleep last night?
04:51I should have stabled her.
04:53When she told me about Crane, she was scared for her life.
04:56Well, don't give yourself a hard time, James.
05:00Professor Crane's her boss. He got her into it.
05:02See what he's got to say about it.
05:51Detective Inspector Lewis. Yeah.
06:15Lucy's sofa. This is exciting.
06:18Do you like horses, Inspector?
06:20Well, I bet I'm a winner, yeah.
06:22It's my passion. I eat, breathe and sleep horses.
06:26You should come for a trek. The old plodders are quite safe.
06:29Never underestimate a plodder.
06:32I'm sorry to have to bring you in at what must be a very difficult time for you.
06:36Don't be. You have an investigation to conduct.
06:38But if you're going to ask me the same questions about Vicky that you've asked me about Reuben,
06:42then I'm going to give you the same answer.
06:44I have no idea why anybody would want either of them dead.
06:50Could it have something to do with the work you've been offered, Professor?
06:53Work? For the military.
06:56I understand you've been offered a great deal of money to undertake it.
07:00And Reuben was jeopardising that by threatening to go public about it.
07:04That would give you motive for Reuben's murder and probable cause for Vicky's.
07:12Who told you this?
07:13Did Vicky come to see you after Reuben was killed?
07:17Did she ask you if you'd killed him or knew anything about his death?
07:20I have no idea what you're talking about.
07:23Where were you between the hours of four and five yesterday afternoon?
07:25That's easy. I was doing my daily jog.
07:29And if you want to check that, you can ask the man at the juice bar in the market.
07:33I always buy a drink there.
07:38You said on the phone that a small amount of etophen had disappeared from your stock?
07:430.25 milligrams to be exact.
07:45I had no idea it was missing until your lot asked us to check.
07:48We only use it in emergencies, until the vet can get here.
07:50Whereabouts is it stored?
07:52All our pharmaceuticals are kept in the dispensary. I'll show you.
07:55I have no idea who might have taken it.
07:58Has someone abducted a horse or something?
08:00Were you approached by the military to design a trial for them?
08:03No, but I do find the idea intriguing, I must say.
08:07What sort of trial?
08:09Have you signed the Official Secrets Act?
08:12Let me tell you about Reuben and Vicky.
08:14Reuben was the clear-headed one.
08:16He was driven, you know, detached.
08:20My protégé, in fact.
08:22He set up shop as a clairvoyant.
08:26He didn't tell you, your protégé.
08:30He branched out with Vicky. That must have stung.
08:34Now, Vicky, the total opposite.
08:37She's brilliant, but excitable.
08:39The type of person who may well submit to hysterical conspiracy theories
08:45to justify the object of her affection's death.
08:49Are you claiming that you didn't approach Vicky
08:52to assist you in the trial instead of Reuben?
08:54Had there been any sort of trial,
08:56I assure you I would have favoured Reuben over Vicky.
09:01This cupboard is always locked, and I keep the keys in the office.
09:05I'm the only one who can administer it,
09:07and always with an antidote to hand.
09:09An accidental injection can be fatal for a horse.
09:12For a human being, too.
09:14Gosh, yes.
09:16You're not telling me it's been used to kill someone?
09:18Two people, in fact.
09:20That's awful.
09:22How many people have access to the office, Lucy?
09:25Lots of people.
09:26And how often do you do a stocktake?
09:28We do one annually.
09:30In fact, we're probably due for one roundabout now.
09:33Thanks for the reminder.
09:34I'm going to need a list of all your staff and paying customers.
09:41I understand your position.
09:42You have a great deal to protect, a great deal to be frightened of.
09:45Nothing to be afraid of, if I'm telling the truth.
09:49Reuben Beatty was drugged,
09:51and then kept alive knowing that he faced certain death.
09:56Tortured.
09:58Terrorised, for information, maybe.
10:01Doesn't that bother you, Professor?
10:05It takes a lot of effort to keep your hand still, doesn't it?
10:09I was watching you earlier through the mirror.
10:11Ah, studying the lab rat, eh?
10:16I'm trapped.
10:17Don't forget I'm used to sitting where you're sitting.
10:19Deconstructing people.
10:21Helping them cope with the truth, or failing that.
10:25Working out why they're in denial.
10:27Denial of what?
10:28That they aren't part of something greater than themselves.
10:32That this is it.
10:42You know, we're no different, you and I.
10:45Hmm?
10:46Here you are, trying to break me down.
10:48Except your subjects aren't criminals or liars.
10:52You've no real evidence, therefore you've no reason to keep me here.
10:56It's quite in keeping with the blindness of your faith.
11:02My little test.
11:06Those who don't believe in God readily admit it.
11:13I'm keeping you here because I think Vicky was telling the truth.
11:17And you're not.
11:20Then talk to me when you have some proof.
11:23You can tell how busy we've been.
11:25And this is without the drop-ins and the holidaymakers.
11:28Thanks.
11:30When was the last time you used a torphine?
11:33Less than a year ago.
11:34It was awful.
11:36A dressage horse slipped and broke its leg during training for a national competition.
11:41It hit the ground and rolled onto its rider, a teenage boy.
11:45It was a terrible accident.
11:47He was crushed from the waist down.
11:49His mother was running the session, a championship rider herself,
11:52and very ambitious for her children to follow in her footsteps.
11:56We suspected she'd been pushing the horse and son too hard.
12:02Into my heart an air that kills, from yon far country blows.
12:07What are those blue-remembered hills?
12:09What spires, what farms are they?
12:12What are those blue-remembered hills?
12:14What spires, what farms are they?
12:18This is the land of lost intent.
12:21I see its shining plain.
12:23The happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
12:43So, what happened to the boy?
12:46He's been more or less confined to a wheelchair ever since.
12:49The horse had to be put down.
12:51Not a good day.
12:52Everyone was screaming and panicking.
12:55So, amid all this chaos, your stockroom could have been left unlocked for a time.
13:00Yes, I suppose.
13:04So, what happened to the boy?
13:06He's been more or less confined to a wheelchair ever since.
13:09The horse had to be put down.
13:11Staff.
13:13Customers.
13:15What?
13:16Volleys?
13:17Volunteers.
13:18Can't get enough of them.
13:22Justine Skinner.
13:25Thanks, Lucy.
13:36Crane's alibi checked out, sir.
13:38What about this work Vicky said he'd taken on this contract?
13:42He's holding out on us.
13:43He says it's some hysterical fabrication on Vicky's part.
13:46Can't rule that out.
13:48Well, whether she was right or wrong, he was spooked by something.
13:51Unless he was just grieving.
13:54How did you get on?
13:550.25 milligrams of etorphine stolen from Galsington sometime in the last year.
14:01And guess who volunteers there?
14:03Justine Skinner, the cat killer.
14:05What, you're saying Justine Skinner killed Reuben?
14:08Well, she was in his office.
14:10Yeah, but she was right here in Cussey when Vicky Warnsley died.
14:13Well, maybe she had an accomplice.
14:15Maybe one of her clients proved malleable to suggestion.
14:18Whatever.
14:19She's our only link between Reuben and the etorphine.
14:22So we'd better keep an eye on her.
14:36PHONE RINGS
14:54What do you want?
14:55It's your kosher darling, you know.
14:58I've got Vicky here jogging.
15:04That's where I called her name.
15:12There, see, she's on the ground. Whoever did it's gone.
15:20Stop it there.
15:22Stop it there.
15:25Can you wind that back?
15:33There, just stop it there.
15:37Can you blow that bit up?
15:44Anyone make out if they're male or female?
15:52Someone's just called asking to speak to you in connection with the BT murder.
15:55Do they have a name?
15:57Joshua Grace. He says he's Polly BT's brother.
16:22Joshua.
16:24Detective Inspector Lewis.
16:26This is my colleague, Detective Sergeant Hathaway.
16:32Is it Joshua or Josh?
16:34Josh.
16:40Don't be nervous.
16:42Anything you tell us here is just between us, OK?
16:46What do you want to tell us, Josh?
16:49You know the day Reuben was murdered, in that office?
16:53Yeah.
16:56OK, take your time.
17:00Mum went there.
17:02Where?
17:03To Reuben's office in Oriole Street that day.
17:06I know cos I was in the car.
17:10What time was this?
17:11After school, about half three.
17:13I didn't think anything of it, she's always running errands,
17:16but then Polly told me where Reuben's office was and...
17:20How did your mum and Reuben get on?
17:23Mum likes to get her own way.
17:25If she wants her daughter to get a first in psychology
17:28or her son to be a championship rider,
17:31you don't really have much say.
17:33Look what I had to do to get out of it.
17:36Did this happen at Garton?
17:41I don't think Mum killed him or anything,
17:43but she might know something.
17:49Get over to their house and talk to the mother.
17:52If she doesn't admit she was in Reuben's office that day,
17:54take her fingerprints.
17:56We'll compare them with the unidentified one's,
17:58sock her for them.
18:14KNOCK AT DOOR
18:23Hello, Polly.
18:25Have you found out who did it?
18:27Not yet. Is your mum in?
18:31This is Detective Sergeant Hathaway.
18:33He's investigating Reuben's murder.
18:35Well, do sit down. I hope you've got some news for us.
18:39I think it might be better if I spoke with your mother alone.
18:42This is about Reuben. I have every right to stay.
18:44Darling, why don't you go and check on Sarah?
18:53Mrs Grace... Jane, please.
18:57Did you know that Reuben was renting an office on Oriel Street?
19:00Yes. That's where he was killed, right?
19:03Did you know before? No, of course not.
19:06We have evidence that suggests you did
19:08and that you visited him the day he was killed.
19:11What?
19:12I'd advise you at this juncture that withholding information
19:14in a murder inquiry is a very serious offence.
19:19Mum.
19:24Yes, I did know about the office.
19:27What?
19:28He was never at home. I presumed he was having an affair.
19:31I followed him one day from the department.
19:33You spied on him? Someone had to make you see sense.
19:36I knew you'd just keep on making excuses for him.
19:38You just wanted to get rid of him.
19:40I thought if I could give you a concrete reason...
19:42So why didn't you, Mum? Oh, believe me, I wanted to...
19:45Why didn't you tell me?
19:46Because I never found him with another woman, all right?
19:56Why did you go to Reuben's office the day he was murdered?
20:02Jane.
20:07To talk to him.
20:11To confront him.
20:15He told me he was doing some counselling on the side.
20:18Asked me not to tell Polly.
20:22I said I didn't trust him.
20:26And...
20:28I offered him money to divorce her.
20:32You did what?
20:34He said he didn't care whether I trusted him or not.
20:38He told me he loved Polly.
20:40He was hoping to surprise her with a deposit for a proper family home.
20:46For her and Sarah.
20:51I didn't tell you before because the next thing Reuben was dead...
20:57I knew how it would look.
21:00This is a serious offence.
21:02You were the last person to see Reuben alive and you didn't come forward.
21:05I didn't kill him.
21:10Joshua told you, didn't he?
21:13Joshua told you, didn't he?
21:26You all right?
21:28Yeah.
21:30In a way, Mum's done me a favour.
21:33At least now I know he did love me.
21:36But I can't shake the idea of him and Vicky having an affair.
21:39I can't shake the idea of him and Vicky having an affair.
21:43They weren't.
21:50Maybe I should talk to her.
21:52You can't. She was murdered yesterday.
21:55You being convinced that they were having an affair gives you a motive.
22:01You can't think I killed them?
22:04No, no. I was angry with both of them, yes.
22:07But only because I didn't want to lose him.
22:09I love him more than anything.
22:11I could never...
22:13He's the father of my child.
22:16Have you told us everything you know?
22:18Yes.
22:22Except...
22:28Yeah?
22:29Justine's not picking up, so I'm going round there.
22:33I want to know what happened to that atorphine from the Galsington Riding School.
22:37What did Josh's mother have to say?
22:39She admits going to see Reuben. She denies killing him.
22:42She had motive. She had opportunity.
22:44But no reason to kill Vicky.
22:48I'll call you back.
22:51I was looking for answers. I couldn't make any sense of it.
23:03I'm going to need to take this.
23:24Oh, God, no.
23:28Justine?
23:29Justine?
23:32Justine, who did this to you?
23:38Frank McLean.
23:49Frank McLean, the guy she reckons killed Reuben.
23:53As a result, some message from beyond the grave.
23:55Yeah, yeah.
23:56But you did warn us that there was a woman in trouble.
23:59Yeah, who? Vicky Wormsley or herself?
24:01Well, the afterlife's obviously a bit vague on the specifics.
24:05So we've certainly got enough to go after McLean for assault.
24:08Well, that's not all we've got, sir.
24:11What the hell does all this mean?
24:13Well, according to Vicky, Reuben did his psychic hearings on Tuesdays and Wednesdays,
24:17so these are his client's initials and the order of the appointments.
24:21How many times did Justine go to visit him?
24:23Just the one.
24:24And he died on a Tuesday?
24:27Well, he's booked up for most of the next few weeks,
24:30so there should be a J.S. in here somewhere.
24:34Our client's became regular, so he must have been good.
24:37I never realised so many people fell for this kind of thing.
24:40Grief makes people irrational.
24:42You can't blame them for that, I suppose.
24:44You can blame the parasites that feed off them.
24:47It would come with a hell of a blow to find out that this was some sort of giant scam.
24:53Maybe someone did.
24:57There she is. Justine Skinner and F.M.
25:00Frank McLean. He was booked at three. Says he left early.
25:03K.D.S.S. Susan Smith who found Reuben's body.
25:06Lewis.
25:09Ah, right. Thanks.
25:12So K.D. was due in after she left.
25:16We have McLean in custody.
25:27Hello, Frank.
25:30Would you please do me the courtesy of explaining why I'm here?
25:34Maybe you'd do me the courtesy of explaining how you got those grazes on your hand.
25:40Justine Skinner is in hospital.
25:43When you left her for dead... Oh, please.
25:45..she blacked out.
25:47If she hadn't been able to reach her phone... An hour later.
25:50..she'd probably still be lying there now.
25:52Well, I am sorry about that, but there's nothing doing me.
25:56I got you so wrong.
25:59I thought, here's a man that wouldn't kill somebody when he can break them down with words.
26:05Never had you down as a coward who would beat up a defenceless woman.
26:11When I saw you, I thought, now here's a man that won't present any great challenge
26:16with his simple questions and his dumb, open face.
26:19And I wanted to find out who'd incriminated me, so I fired some names.
26:24And you reacted to Justine Skinner.
26:27I cold read you in a heartbeat.
26:29Shouldn't be so lax, Inspector.
26:31A psychic and his colleague have been murdered,
26:33and now another psychic has been viciously attacked.
26:36Forensics are crawling over our home as we speak.
26:42I only meant to scare her.
26:44She's a vulnerable woman.
26:46You violated the sanctuary of her home.
26:48She set me up.
26:51She said she'd seen a vision of me in that dead bloke's office.
26:56All because I'd written on my blog that she was a disturbed, cat-murdering spinster.
27:02So I confronted her, and she came at me, and I pushed her away.
27:08And that was all.
27:11And that was all.
27:15Can you read my face now, Frank?
27:21I've never known a man of so much arrogance and self-belief.
27:25Not anymore, he's a mess.
27:27What you said before about what if Ruben's clients found out he's a phony,
27:31that whatever got them through their pain was a lie.
27:33I imagine they'd feel broken.
27:35Wouldn't Professor Crane's subjects feel the same?
27:38Crane says if he wants to work out why people believe in the paranormal,
27:42he's also desperate to prove that any faith, including religion,
27:46is pernicious because it affects people's ability to think rationally.
27:50If he wants to push his subjects to the limits of their beliefs,
27:53maybe he pushed one of them too far.
27:55Vicky and Ruben conducted his experiments.
27:58Maybe one of their subjects wanted revenge.
28:03Who's that?
28:06Ma'am?
28:08Professor Crane is out of bounds.
28:11What? Crane is out of bounds.
28:14Says who?
28:16Doesn't matter who.
28:18But, ma'am, we need to get into his research files.
28:21You think he's involved?
28:23Well, we haven't ruled out the idea that he might have killed Ruben and Vicky
28:26to protect some potentially lucrative source of income.
28:29But there's also a second line of inquiry we'd like to pursue with him.
28:33In that case, I'll rephrase.
28:35Professor Crane is going to be out of bounds.
28:38As of when? First thing tomorrow morning.
28:40And you really can't tell us why or who gave you the instruction?
28:43You've got ten hours.
28:45I wouldn't waste your time trying to get anything out of me.
29:04This is borderline harassment.
29:06Your alibi checks out.
29:08Then what are you doing here?
29:10Why are you so jumpy, Professor?
29:12It's because your colleagues have been murdered and you don't want to be next.
29:15Don't you care what happened to Ruben and Vicky?
29:18What good would that do?
29:20She was running for her life.
29:22Didn't know if she was safe at home, in the lab, in a crowd.
29:26I'm not big on sentiment.
29:28They weren't like children to me, but I was very fond of them.
29:31And I am so bitterly sorry that I ever got them involved
29:35in this sleep deprivation experiment.
29:37But please, I cannot disclose any details about my employers.
29:43That's not why we're here.
29:45How do you select subjects for your experiments, Professor?
29:48We mainly use adverts in the local press or the Oxford journals.
29:52And I'm not going to lie.
29:54We mainly use adverts in the local press or the Oxford journals
29:58or the department's website.
30:00Is there a specific type of individual you look for?
30:02It varies from one experiment to the next.
30:04But why are you now interested in the subjects?
30:07We think it's possible one of them killed your students.
30:13We're looking for someone with the initials KD.
30:16Right, well, the details will be in here somewhere.
30:25BIRDS CHIRP
30:38So how does this work?
30:40People tell you what they believe and you just prove it?
30:43Yeah, we question it.
30:45We counter their beliefs with logic.
30:48We try and understand why they hold on to such views,
30:51despite all the evidence to the contrary.
30:54They come to us voluntarily.
30:56They know exactly what to expect.
30:58If we break them down,
31:00then their conviction must have been shaky in the first place.
31:03Of course, it has nothing to do with you
31:05browbeating them into submission.
31:07This last list of volunteers is three months ago.
31:10There's no-one with the initials KD.
31:12The last investigation was a few weeks ago.
31:17Vicky led it,
31:19under my supervision, and Reuben assisted.
31:23Here it is.
31:28An investigation into the mechanism
31:30upholding spiritual conviction.
31:35Sir?
31:37What is it?
31:39I think I know who killed Vicky and Reuben.
31:50Move!
31:59Kneel down! Now!
32:01Down! Down!
32:02What's going on?
32:03Alan Dutter.
32:04Arresting you on suspicion of the murders
32:06of Reuben Beattie and Vicky Wormsley.
32:09Who else is in the house?
32:11No-one. My wife goes swimming at this time.
32:13Right. Get him down to the station.
32:15But I haven't done anything wrong.
32:18Search the place thoroughly.
32:19Any evidence of the torphing.
32:28I'm placing a photograph of Reuben Beattie
32:31in front of Callum Dutter.
32:33Do you recognise this man?
32:36Yes.
32:38From the news.
32:40Reuben Beattie was sedated with barbiturates
32:43and then fatally injected with the torphing.
32:45You came to see me about it.
32:47Likened it to euthanasia.
32:49Though to me it sounded more like torture.
32:53You're familiar with barbiturates, Mr Dutter?
32:56I give Catherine, my wife,
32:58a barbiturate-based pharmaceutical to help her sleep.
33:01But you also had access to a torphing, didn't you,
33:04when you and Catherine worked as conservationists in Angola?
33:09Yes, but I don't know I'm here.
33:12Why do you think I did this?
33:16Oops.
33:23Did you volunteer for an experiment
33:26at the Department of Psychology three weeks ago
33:29to examine the resilience of spiritual belief
33:33when challenged by a sustained attack of logic and reason?
33:37Yes. Why?
33:39I'm placing a second photograph in front of Callum Dutter.
33:45Do you recognise this woman?
33:51I'm not sure.
33:54Vicky Wormsley led the experiment,
33:57assisted by Reuben Beattie.
33:59It's that opposite.
34:01You persistently challenged your spiritual beliefs.
34:05That can't have been easy.
34:10Professor Andrew Crane
34:14oversees the experiments
34:16for the university's Department of Psychology.
34:19You just said you volunteered, Mr Dutter,
34:22and yet you don't seem sure that you met any of the people involved.
34:29Reuben Beattie was also a practising psychic
34:33under the name of Randolph James.
34:36His appointment book tells us
34:38that you visited him regularly for the past three months.
34:41Your last appointment was on the day he was murdered.
34:44So why are you pretending you never met him?
34:50I was ashamed.
35:12When Jo died,
35:14I wanted to stay strong for my wife.
35:18But the grief was eating me away.
35:22So you went to see a psychic?
35:29Yes.
35:31And he brought her back,
35:33just like she used to be.
35:42Found anything?
35:44The wife's name is Catherine Dutter with a K.
35:47Dutter's covering for her.
35:50She was at the lab.
35:52She was a volunteer for Crane's experiment,
35:55and that's where she saw Reuben and Vicky.
35:58And Crane.
36:01We just found the autophag.
36:04Get over to his place.
36:12Catherine with a K.
36:15The initials in Reuben's appointment book are KD.
36:19Where is she?
36:21Where's your wife, Mr. Dutter?
36:23Let me speak to her.
36:25She isn't home yet.
36:27A man's life could be at stake.
36:29Stop trying to protect her.
36:31She lost her daughter. You have no idea how close they were.
36:42When Jo died,
36:45Catherine looked for her everywhere.
36:48Wanted to talk to her.
36:50She said the psychic helped.
36:52She wasn't living in the real world.
36:55All that seemed to matter to her were those sessions
36:58with Randolph James.
37:02I was losing her
37:04to our dead daughter.
37:07I signed up for the experiment.
37:10Signed up for the experiment to prove to myself that Jo was gone.
37:15But I wasn't the one that needed convincing.
37:19So I sent Catherine in my place.
37:22But in Crane's lab,
37:24she saw a psychic.
37:26He wasn't called Randolph.
37:28He was Reuben, postgraduate.
37:31Cold, detached, self-absorbed.
37:34She hasn't been right since.
37:38Whatever she's done,
37:40it's down to me.
38:01Any sign of Crane?
38:03Not here.
38:05I think I saw him settle for a run about 15 minutes ago.
38:08He could be anywhere.
38:12He said he always stops in at the market when he goes for a jog.
38:15Meet me down there.
38:36You see the short guy? Oxford professor.
38:38Comes in here and has a drink every day.
39:06See a hand?
39:08Nothing.
39:30Professor Crane!
39:33Professor Crane!
39:35Professor!
39:49Are you all right?
39:51Halfway, man.
39:52Talk to me! Please!
39:58She got the brace.
40:03Oh, God.
40:20Where did you get the autophane?
40:24Catherine?
40:28We used it on elephants in Angola.
40:32I smuggled it in,
40:34ready for when Jo died so I could join her.
40:38But I was too scared.
40:41In case Jo wasn't there and it all just went black.
40:45Is that when you went to see a psychic?
40:50I must have been a walkover,
40:52because I couldn't stop talking about her.
40:55But it didn't matter.
40:57He was good.
40:59It was like she was in the room.
41:03Told me she was healthy.
41:06Having fun.
41:09Missing me.
41:13Canon wanted me to do the spiritual conviction experiment.
41:18I thought I could stay strong.
41:21But it was in a sterile lab,
41:25and this girl was grilling me, mocking me,
41:29while her boss looked on,
41:31observing me like a rabbit in a cage.
41:35They were wiping Jo out.
41:37All I wanted to do was get out of there, see my psychic.
41:43And then I did see him.
41:45My psychic.
41:47In that lab.
41:49Randolph James.
41:53The man who brought Jo back to me.
41:56Did he see you?
41:58He didn't look at anyone.
42:00He was lining people up to be passed on to the professor.
42:05Why did you sedate Reuben before you killed him, Catherine?
42:10He was happy enough to speak for Jo.
42:12I wanted him to know what it felt like to be her.
42:16And Vicky?
42:18She was just a young girl doing her job.
42:22She had no belief to take.
42:25So I took her life instead.
42:29The world represents the ending of one cycle of life before the next begins.
42:35It teaches us that true happiness lies in choosing happiness.
42:41You're not able to control your happiness.
42:44I don't understand.
42:46If you're not able to control your happiness,
42:49you're going to lose your life.
42:54You're not going to be able to control your happiness,
42:57lies in giving ourselves back to the world,
42:59taking what we've learned and moving forward.
43:03But the emphasis is on moving forward.
43:07Does that make sense?
43:08Yes.
43:09I'm looking for a new house for us two and my brother.
43:14Great about your neck, eh?
43:16Yeah, who'd have thought rugby-tackling
43:18a syringe-wielding murderer would be such good physio?
43:21An inch and a half of foam away from certain death.
43:27Just think, if you hadn't made it,
43:29I might not have had to go and see a doctor.
43:31I'm sure you wouldn't have.
43:32I'm sure you wouldn't have.
43:34I'm sure you wouldn't have.
43:36I'm sure you wouldn't have.
43:37I'm sure you wouldn't have.
43:39I'm sure you wouldn't have.
43:40I'm sure you wouldn't have.
43:42I might not have had to go and see a psychic.
43:44Would have been a very one-sided conversation.
43:46You say that now, you'd miss me if you were gone.
43:54So, you don't think Justine was the real thing?
43:59She knew Ruben had been killed before we told her.
44:02It's strange she didn't tell us something
44:03we didn't already know.
44:06Strange how the higher powers are so ambivalent, eh?
44:13Come on, let's get back.
44:15I don't think I want to.
44:25I used to feel like that.
44:28What happened?
44:30The next case.
44:33Can we just sit here for a minute?
44:37Of course we can.
44:43There's something that I can't say.
44:44Is it good?
44:48There's something that I can't say.
44:50I know.
44:52You don't want to say it?
44:54That's not so funny.
44:55At least while they're celebrating.
44:58We'll look forward to tomorrow.
45:00Ready for a goodbye to tomorrow, eh?
45:03Yes.
45:04First teller of the seasons.
45:06Oh, thanks, but I don't think that's a good thing.
45:08You must catch one.
45:09Can we suggest a bit of Marple tomorrow night right here on ITV?
45:13She's heading to a London pub run by three witches!
45:16It's bizarre what the death of an old friend will unearth.