Shadows Of Fear (1970) Episode 1 Did You Lock Up
Shadows Of Fear (1970) Episode 1 Did You Lock Up
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01:16Not a bad dinner.
01:18It was lovely.
01:26not having to plan tomorrow's meals.
01:32I beg your pardon?
01:34you asked me what I like best about being away.
01:36oh
01:38did you order morning tea?
01:40I did and the papers.
01:42pound to a shilling the chambermaid's Irish.
01:45no takers.
01:47oh dear
01:49what's wrong?
01:51no electric blanket.
01:53I feel quite lost.
01:55must be getting old.
01:57I knew you when you wouldn't have missed the sheets.
02:00I knew me too.
02:06and that didn't get much wear the first time.
02:09it was heat wear.
02:11oh that's what it was.
02:13hmm
02:26if you're long in there I shall drink yours.
02:30don't you dare!
02:32glass shatters
02:56door opens
03:00come on
03:07in the lock? yeah
03:14come on come on
03:19door opens
03:21door closes
03:26door opens
03:36door slams
03:38doors bang
03:44door bangs
03:46door closes
03:48lock jingles
03:55Hey, hey!
04:10What to?
04:11The next 14 years.
04:15Fair enough.
04:20Yum yum.
04:22It doesn't taste all that much better than that fruit cup.
04:25It wasn't fruit cup.
04:27Was it?
04:28Yes.
04:29I helped to make it, don't you remember?
04:31Vintage 56.
04:33Well, no offence to you or to your dear parents, but yes, it does taste better.
04:40Much better.
05:21Steady.
05:30I'll get it.
05:41Steggy.
06:00it's a funny thing I'm hardly what you'd call an impetuous man. can you reach the
06:16light? but just for the hell of it I did that all-night queue and wound up with
06:21two tickets for Swan Lake which I didn't really want. and me which you
06:26didn't really want. which I didn't know I really wanted. God bless the Balshaw.
07:26Myra! Myra!
07:56Peter? what's wrong? oh my god no. everything.
08:04the clock?
08:12why?
08:14why?
08:18the bastards!
08:20bastards!
08:26Peter! Peter!
08:43Peter? why? what did they have to do that for? who knows?
08:56don't touch anything. glass everywhere. my god I'd like to meet the man who did
09:05this. door was locked. he was on the outside. push it through and then kick a
09:12hole in the door to reach it. wasn't very difficult. no plywood and egg boxes. I
09:20better call the police.
09:34all right we'll start making a list. you'll send somebody round? no no we
09:41won't touch anything. thank you.
09:50Myra! I'm down here in the sitting room. you feeling all right? want a brandy or
10:06something? I just feel so damned cross. cross and useless. I found this on the
10:15stairs. did you call the police? yeah they're coming round. we're supposed to
10:24start making a list of everything that's missing. a description, value etc. about
10:29the insurance? hmm. we ought to call them. yeah I suppose so.
10:35was a nice anniversary wasn't it?
10:40they knew what they were after. look at that. a key without a clock.
10:57I'll never feel the same about this place. oh don't love don't.
11:04we were better off in the cottage. oh please we worked years for this. we'll
11:10get over it. years time we'll have all the pieces back again. no no. why not?
11:19they can be stolen all over again. from now on we'll concentrate on
11:25things we can keep in the bank.
11:33forget it. we must try to forget it. what? what did you say? we must try and what?
11:49forget it. it's been over a week now. yes but how? how do you forget it? you know
11:57what I'm really doing up here? no. I'm operating a rack with our burglar on it.
12:03he's about nine feet long already. the louder he screams the more I turn. every
12:11time a window rattles my hair bristles. paper drops through the letterbox and I
12:16nearly fall through the bottom of the bed. we go out for 20 minutes and then
12:20dash back expecting to see the house being driven off on the back of a truck
12:23and you say forget it. that'll pass. pass? 857 pounds worth to you.
12:32Moira. hmm? shouldn't you be working? what about those galley proofs? I want to talk to you.
12:54what? sit down. now then we're going to play detectives. oh no. now I've been
13:04thinking. this job was based on inside information. they knew exactly what they
13:08were after. Peter I don't want to talk about it not anymore. why not? I've been
13:12talking about it for two weeks. policemen, carpenters, locksmiths. I'm
13:15talked out. will you please listen? now then we have security devices on all the
13:20downstairs windows right? but upstairs upstairs we have nothing. now they knew
13:24that. how do you know? because they didn't even try to get in downstairs.
13:28right they knew. so who told them? that we'll never know. yes we will. huh. because I'm
13:34going to find out. now I've been making a list of all the people who could have
13:37known. there's the builders, the odd job man mr. thing. mr. King. yeah all that
13:41sob stuff to you about not being able to raise a deposit. probably living in a
13:45penthouse somewhere. he looked like it. there's the window cleaner. but he never
13:49sets foot in the house. not even to fill his bucket. well. oh come on not once.
13:53don't snap at me. he comes in here. doesn't tell him much about upstairs does he? he
13:57spends half his time upstairs on his ladder. he knows exactly what goes on.
14:01Peter we've been over all this with the police. let's leave it to them please. I'm
14:04sorry but I can't. there's some bastards out there thumbing their noses at us
14:08thinking what a couple of mugs we are. prized bloody mugs. that's better than
14:11going around suspecting everybody. is it? well I don't agree. and then there's the
14:14green grocer. I caught him in here the other week. caught him? he was delivering a
14:19quarter of mushrooms. it doesn't matter. everybody is guilty until proved innocent.
14:23then there's the obvious one. the char. mrs. Jane. now Peter stop it. oh come on.
14:28I'm the one who has to face these people and work with them. it isn't fair. fair?
14:31when they came through that window upstairs was that fair? they violated a
14:36basic right and worse than that they've changed our lives. rubbish. oh it's true.
14:39you said yourself you'd never feel the same about this house and now we're
14:42scared to leave it. well I want my eye for an eye. I just don't want it that
14:46badly and I'm not gonna make an obsession out of it. I don't understand you. Peter no!
14:50damn the money, damn the possessions. we've been burgled. it's a bloody nuisance.
14:55now let's forget about it please.
14:58ah this would be where you kept most of the porcelain. that's right sergeant.
15:18the mantelpiece and the cabinet.
15:22they didn't touch your pictures. no. too bulky. and they didn't make much mess.
15:32no not really. they forced that door, smashed the cabinet, slashed a sofa and
15:41kicked a hole in the bedroom door. ah big mistake. what is? never lock inside
15:47doors. anything you can to keep them out but when they're in let them get on with
15:52it. I'll remember. morning sir. ah this is my husband. this is sergeant Newman our
16:00crime prevention officer. how do you do? would you care for a cup of coffee sergeant?
16:04the percolator is still on. no no thank you mrs. Astor. perhaps I wouldn't say no
16:09to a drop of tea later. sit down sergeant. bit of bad luck really sir but then it's a
16:17burglar's paradise stuck the way up here. yeah. as I understand it you're quite
16:22secure downstairs but upstairs no. well that's the first thing to be put right.
16:26like I said you're sitting ducks. no neighbors. what about an alarm system?
16:33I've got some leaflets here I can leave with you. choice is yours obviously but
16:38they're all reputable companies. what would this cost approximately? house this
16:43size three or four hundred. who was it who said crime doesn't pay? I'd like to
16:49meet him. one suggestion sir. yeah? do you work at home? yes. what is it you do
16:55exactly? I'm a writer. oh very interesting. no not that kind of writing.
17:00I write textbooks. oh. you see for 12 years I was a long-suffering schoolmaster
17:07and then I decided to stop suffering and get my revenge so I started writing
17:12textbooks. very successfully too by the look of it. yes very thank you. you have
17:18an office here then? well a study. same thing. why don't you rent an alarm sir?
17:23part of the rental would be tax-deductible. what is this crime
17:27prevention or crime promotion? tax avoidance not evasion sir. and I'll leave
17:33you this brochure on window grills and collapsible gates etc. thank you.
17:36tell me what chance have we got? of catching them? yeah. well I don't really
17:43know much about the case sir. you can be honest. very little I'm afraid. when I
17:49first came to this patch ten years ago we could have told you within ten or a
17:52dozen names who'd done it. now I'm afraid we've no more idea than you have. so your
17:56colleagues said. why is that? what's the reason? well we've all gone a bit soft
18:01haven't we? we? who's we? all of us. police, courts, parents, schools. nearly half the
18:07break-ins in London are done by under 17s. you know we caught a jeweler in the
18:11town a few weeks ago. the one in the Arcade. please forget I said that sir.
18:16anyway we caught him. done more fencing than Errol Flynn. stolen goods and ten
18:22thousand pounds in one pound notes in his safe. do you know what he got? a
18:25hundred quid fine and a lecture. he's probably got my clock in there. could be
18:32what are you gonna do sir? they'll be back you know. you really think so? sure
18:36as little apples. wait for you to spend the insurance money, replace the stolen
18:40stuff. two months at the most bang. hmm so what will you do sir? well I'm a bit
18:48divided at the moment between a 60,000 volt current and a sawn-off 12 bore. I'd
18:53settle for the alarm if I was you sir. wired to the station, squad car here in
18:57five minutes. we do the rest. you sure there's enough police to go around? I
19:01mean you won't all be hanging about in Grosvenor Square. no comment. well we
19:07don't very often see anyone on the beat up here. we are short of men it's true
19:12sir but the cars are up to strength. you know what I'd really like? my little
19:19fantasy to catch them myself and then hand them over to you. I'm sure there'd
19:25be no more no objections from us but I'd advise against it. why? your settee
19:30wasn't slashed by a fingernail. they might jump you. think of all those
19:34textbooks that wouldn't get written. all that revenge going to waste. leave it to
19:38the professionals. that's right sir. you glance at those pamphlets. I'll check on
19:43the tea situation. sergeant just a minute. listen if I was to fix one of these
19:53gates across there and another one across here that would just about seal
19:58this room off wouldn't it? easily.
20:23Oh
20:25good afternoon. afternoon. you're very quiet in here. very. always like this.
20:55not always. and what can I do for you? well actually I was looking for a clock.
21:01I'm not a specialist. I have a few. I was looking for a clock to fit that key.
21:10nothing individual about clock keys. they're not fingerprints. any particular
21:15sort of clock? fingerprints. I wonder what made you say that. that's rather an
21:22unusual one. funny how the mind slips out these words at unguarded moments. that?
21:26no. well what sort of clock? a French striking clock. Buell and Ormolu. wooden
21:33case inlaid with brass pink and white porcelain dial made by Simpson and
21:38Company of Paris. height 17 and a half inches cost 185 guineas three months ago.
21:44you know what you want. I know what I had. you do better in London. they clock
21:49specialists. I've never seen one like that. never? you see this clock was stolen
21:56locally presumably by locals so it's logical to assume they'd try and sell it
22:02locally. I'd have thought not. where then? as far away as possible. that's the way
22:08it's done is it? you asked my opinion. you haven't bought a Victorian silver
22:14water jug or a pair of George the fourth salt so. I bought nothing recently.
22:18recently? no this was two weeks ago last Tuesday. nothing. I'm also careful who I
22:24buy from. very careful. it's your business you'd have to be. that's right.
22:48Oh
23:06great. you think it's an improvement? marvelous. solid as a rock. just what the
23:15room needed. well they fold back you know. you can hide them behind the
23:20curtains. no one will know they're there. I will. yeah so will I. I'll sleep a lot
23:26better at night. custom-built. even sound secure. women's fashions carpets curtains
23:38yes you can laugh but this will keep them out. the question is what do we keep
23:43in? well that'll come. I thought we'd agreed not to try to replace the stuff.
23:49well I've changed my mind. why should we be dictated to? some faceless goons
23:54telling us how to live our lives. you don't think this is being dictated to?
23:58turning the house into a safety vault isn't being dictated to. it's a price we
24:02have to pay. some price. we get burgled we end up behind bars. my god I'd give
24:12anything to see them standing where you are right now. I'd even become a prison
24:19visitor for that. I'd take them packets of cigarettes. empty packets. that's nasty.
24:26yes I'd give a thousand pounds to be able to call up the police station and
24:30say listen boys when you've got a minute from sorting out your parking offenses
24:35pop round here will you? I've got a couple of tearaways for you to pick up.
24:41would you stop dreaming and let me out of here? I'm sorry. how do you open it?
24:50the keys on the kitchen table. hey hey be funnier. no perhaps not.
25:41oh
25:48oh
26:03oh it's you. forgot my key. must be Freudian.
26:10you were quick. it's jolly cold. for an awful moment I thought you were out.
26:16why was everywhere so dark? oh well I've been filing some bills. came over all
26:22mean. Peter. yeah? darling. no. what's wrong? I know that darling you want
26:31something. all right. keep my gems to myself.
26:48you'll burst. go on tell me. I'd die sooner. suit yourself.
27:01damn you. that's better. now then what is it that you want? I called Fiona earlier.
27:19well in Scotland. yes dear. and cut a long story short. a long phone call short I
27:24hope. yes dear. she says that the cottage is free from now until the beginning of
27:29summer. oh I thought an American professor was taking it. yes he was but
27:35now he can't go and so I said that we'd go. now I know what you're going to say. I
27:44know all the objections you're going to make but just forget about them. we need
27:48this break Peter. we do really both of us. we've got to get away. away from all
27:54this suspicion and bars and locks and keys. slow down. Peter I've been thinking
28:12and I know I'm right. well it's not often that I... how long for? two three weeks.
28:21holiday. hmm. when were you thinking of going? two weeks time. yes put the car on
28:29the train drive off at Perth save all that. two weeks time you said. yes.
28:35what's wrong? full moon. full moon? yeah. is that good bad relevant? bad. we go
28:45next weekend. darling. launch the new suitcases. I name this bag vanity. god
28:50bless all who travel with her. Peter. yeah. silly question but what's a full moon got
28:57to do with it? think I'm cracking up? no but convince me. the fish in that lock
29:04don't bite when there's a full moon. convinced? absolutely.
29:11gone fishing. how you sign up on the door. gone fishing. what about mrs. um. Jay I've told her.
29:22you didn't leave her a spare set of keys did you? no didn't seem fair. you know I
29:30am looking forward to this. yeah me too. I feel as I'm getting back a loving
29:35husband and adoring father of two and saying goodbye to the chief warder.
29:41did you pack any writing Kit? no not yet. I'll get it.
29:59operator it's four five one oh. listen there seems to be something wrong with
30:04the phone. could you ring me? thank you.
30:09I'll get it. hello. oh no obviously it's quite all right. thank you.
30:40who was it? trouble. what's wrong? the book. oh don't tell me. yes some fool of a
31:00compositor's made a cock up. I've got to go down there tomorrow and start putting
31:03it right. tomorrow? that's what I said. oh can't it wait. well not if we had to make
31:11publication date. miss that and we miss the next school year. I knew it. I thought
31:19everything was going too smoothly. luck isn't it. I'll go and phone motor rail. cancel the
31:27booking. I'm ever so sorry love. not your fault. another day in the heat of
31:43the ministers. listen don't cancel it. you go. I'll leave you on your own. never.
31:58well why not? it'll only be for a few days. three or four at the most he thought.
32:02but you'd starve. nonsense I'll be out whining and dining on someone's expense
32:07account. at least they owe me that. oh come on love. if we cry off now we'll
32:11never go. there'll always be something. the children or the school holidays or
32:15the decorators or something. well think of Fiona. you don't want to
32:19disappoint her. I'll go on love. you take all my stuff with you and I'll follow as
32:24soon as possible. well are you sure? positive. how will I know when you're
32:30coming? I'll call you. there's no phone. all right then you ring me from the
32:36phone box. we'll fix a time. don't make it the evening. don't know what time I'll
32:44be getting back. it might be quite late. all right. morning then? yeah. what shall we say?
32:5110 30? not any earlier. you might wake me. and I won't leave the house until after
32:58we've talked. sure you aren't sir won't you? otherwise I'll think someone's
33:03bopped you on the head. well I must say you look broken-hearted.
34:03now that's the last of the pork and beans. life gets tasteless don't it?
36:03phone rings
36:19phone rings
36:21hello. yeah hello Morris. sorry I was in the bath. yeah I'm fine. how's Fiona? good.
36:36no no no news. well we're making progress that's all. well I can't tell exactly.
36:46darling it's up to them. yeah yeah I think there's a good chance but I can't
36:52guarantee it. listen darling the minute I finish I'll send you a wire tell you
36:59which train I'm on then you meet me in that pub by the station all right? fine.
37:06yeah. yes I miss you too. bye-bye.
37:14phone rings
37:36phone rings
37:42come on you bastards come on
38:36door opens
39:06door slams
39:36door slams
39:43oh they're learning
39:52yeah what about in here? waste of time forgetting. here? yeah it's locked.
39:56skip it. yeah but it weren't locked last time. hey there might be something in here.
40:06door opens
40:19furniture. oh a lovely set of fire irons. come on. hang on. look. what is it?
40:31it's beans. it's bloody dozens of them. come on we're wasting time.
41:01door slams
41:14it's rubbish bloody rubbish
41:20door slams
41:22glass shatters
41:28bloody hell
41:30it's all bloody rubbish isn't it? you've been too clever this time. much too
41:37bloody clever. what the bloody hell's going on?
41:50welcome back. who are you? you're Lithia. huh. I don't think you'll shift it. it's
42:01sunken concrete
42:04door opens
42:16good aren't they? solid steel
42:25okay okay you've given us a fright. now what? get in the car pop down and call the police i
42:33suppose. well you reckon that we're just gonna sit around here and wait? yes. well who do you
42:39think's outside eh? in the van? I wondered about that. well nobody.
42:51well we've got friends you know. I mean we can call them. how? it isn't working you know. liar.
42:59we rang you not 10 minutes ago. yes but I took the phone off the hook upstairs.
43:18wow we smashed up bleeding windows. yeah we're screaming bloody heads off. someone'll hear us.
43:23scream your hearts out. it's half a mile to the nearest house and we're surrounded by trees.
43:36your move.
43:45what's the game? I wanted to meet you. see what you were like. come on this is all very
43:52matey cox but what happened Dave? how do we get out of this place? yeah why don't we talk about that?
43:59yeah that's right don't we?
44:02well go ahead. well uh
44:08we could come to some sort of arrangement. arrangements I love them.
44:15keep talking. uh
44:18you let us go we'll pay you. does sound likely doesn't it? no no he's on a level.
44:26boys halfwits. let me tell you that there's no money that you've ever dreamed of that would
44:34deprive me of the pleasure of seeing you two behind bars. I've thought about it every night
44:41since you broke in here. I've dreamed, plotted, planned, wasted valuable time and money and driven
44:50my wife half crazy. believe me you've never been thought about so much in your worthless
44:57talentless lives. now what the hell's the matter with you? not disabled are you? defective? crippled?
45:05why can't you work like everybody else? yeah we're not like everybody else. work? why should we?
45:11to acquire the things you take from people like me who do work. nah nicking them's easier.
45:17lot more fun. was. was easier. yeah maybe.
45:25here um have you got a fag on you? huh? well you see I don't carry them with me not on a job.
45:34so
45:49got a light? yeah
45:54now I know you haven't. so? so you won't go starting any fires.
45:5910 minutes that's all we need. yeah yeah we'll have this carpet slashed. right here we do all
46:07his pictures. yeah and we do his wallpaper. and I'm gonna pee in all your cupboards. I don't care
46:12what you do. there's nothing in there that I want anymore. I took all the good stuff upstairs.
46:18all right then. here you are. might be your last for quite a while.
46:33what was it you were going to slash? it's gonna cost you. that I promise you.
46:38well that's the price I'm willing to pay to see you two in court tomorrow.
46:41oh he's real public spirited ain't he? yeah ain't he? I'm just seeing him now paying his taxes.
46:47and his rates first of the month. yeah his rent. rent? he's one of your capitalists. not a rep
46:53payer. yeah yeah every time I'm signing on at the labour I'll be fined.
46:57I'll be fined. I'll be fined. I'll be fined. I'll be fined.
47:00I'll be fined. I'll be fined. I'll be fined. I'll be fined. I'll be fined. I'll be fined.
47:04yeah yeah every time I'm signing on at the labour I'll be thinking of you.
47:11well he doesn't get it does he? you'll still be paying for us when we're up there in the nick.
47:17every meal will be on you. the boots, uniforms, haircuts, pocket money.
47:22yeah yeah you hadn't thought of that had you? no that's right. I hadn't.
47:29every farthing from freaks like you.
47:34oh I hadn't thought of that.
47:39oi oi where you going?
47:48no point wasting good electricity.
47:50well there you are boys. head slashing. you've plenty of time.
48:01all the time in the world.
48:11you stupid bastard. shut up. I knew we shouldn't have come back so soon.
48:15shut up. you're too bloody keen. that's your trouble.
48:18shut up.
48:21I didn't order.
48:25oh how lovely. did you have a good journey? no bloody awful. I couldn't get a sleeper.
48:33oh why didn't you fly? oh well there wasn't a flight until later today and I
48:38didn't want to spend another night in that house alone. is the book finished? uh-huh.
48:44and everything all right? tip-top. no dramas? uh-uh. did you lock up? yes I locked up.
48:51how's Fiona? she's fine. she's expecting us back for lunch. great. well happy hauls.
49:02we do. it is going to be a proper holiday this time isn't it? promised. I mean you're not going
49:05to get restless after a few days. no no no no proper holiday. wild horses wouldn't drag me
49:12back there. not for a month at least.
50:12you