Inspector Morse -03x02 - The Last Enemy
A body is found in the canal and the only clue to its identity points to a connection with one of the colleges. The question for Morse is which one of the highly respected contenders for a prestigious post is the killer?
Transcript
00:00:30Hello.
00:00:31Morning.
00:01:01There.
00:01:07Nathan!
00:01:09What are you doing, Nathan?
00:01:14Look out, we're going into the bank!
00:01:16Okay, quick! Grab that pole there!
00:01:24I can't do anything!
00:01:27Cut the engine, Nathan!
00:01:30Come on!
00:01:47Nathan!
00:01:49What is it?
00:02:00Nathan!
00:02:30Nathan!
00:02:47Come on, Bruce.
00:03:01Approximately seven hours.
00:03:06What happened?
00:03:07I can't tell you exactly.
00:03:10A man in his early sixties, about five feet ten inches tall.
00:03:14There's not a lot to go on.
00:03:16What's that supposed to mean?
00:03:17Well, the head's been hacked off, the arm's below the elbow, the leg's below the knee.
00:03:21I'm only guessing at the height from the trousers.
00:03:24Quite neatly done, really.
00:03:26By a sergeant, you mean?
00:03:28Well, anyone could do it with a hacksaw.
00:03:30Shall I show you?
00:03:31Thank you, my dear. I'll leave that to Sergeant Lewis.
00:03:34I do wish you wouldn't call me your dear, Morse.
00:03:37How does one address a lady pathologist first thing in the morning?
00:03:41Well, a doctor would do.
00:03:43Well, doctor, I look forward to your full report.
00:03:50If I had to hazard a professional opinion, I'd say the chief inspector was not a morning person.
00:03:55I shouldn't worry about it. He's got toothache.
00:04:17Need any help?
00:04:19My mother always insisted I should have a proper breakfast.
00:04:22Medical opinion would agree with her.
00:04:25What about you, doctor?
00:04:27I can barely manage a cup of coffee.
00:04:44No third degree. I didn't get to bed till four.
00:04:47We all have our problems.
00:04:53Well, that kills you in the end.
00:04:55Well, what are you lot here for?
00:04:57Suicide? Rape? Cattle rustling? Illegal immigrants?
00:05:01Murder, actually. A nasty one.
00:05:04Decapitation, to be precise.
00:05:07I don't suppose anybody came in last night with a severed head.
00:05:11You think you're joking? Look, comes in offering to sell me a fresh chicken.
00:05:14I don't know what you're talking about.
00:05:16I don't know what you're talking about.
00:05:18You think you're joking? Look, comes in offering to sell me a fresh chicken.
00:05:22We keep a few hens and I can never bear to kill them, so I says yes.
00:05:25Out he goes, comes back a few minutes later with a bird all plucked and ready.
00:05:29It's only when I go out later to shut the hens up against the fox
00:05:32I notice his one is missing.
00:05:34Then I find a bag full of feathers and guts on the head.
00:05:39I bet he's only gone out and knocked off one of me own birds to sell me.
00:05:48Come on, Lewis. Duty calls.
00:05:52What kind of people live in the cottages down the towpath?
00:05:55Locals? Weekenders?
00:05:58You don't think the locals could afford these prices?
00:06:13My auntie used to swear by a clove, you notice?
00:06:16She's still got her own teeth.
00:06:19I'll settle for coffee, Lewis, and plenty of aspirin.
00:06:22Extra sugar, as usual?
00:06:24And don't forget the aspirin.
00:06:46There's old Dr Russell found in the pockets. I was worried about tearing it.
00:06:50To discuss appearing. For what, I wonder?
00:06:54Television, sir.
00:06:57Our studio's in Dockland.
00:07:00You watch the stuff. What sort of programmes are made in Dockland?
00:07:03EastEnders? Not that I get time to see it.
00:07:07Maybe one of them game shows.
00:07:09Meet me at the... I can't read it.
00:07:12Something Club in Pall Mall. Does that sound like a game show?
00:07:16You never know, sir. They use all sorts of ruses.
00:07:22When someone goes to the trouble of inviting you to an exclusive gentleman's club,
00:07:26where you pay handsomely for the privilege of keeping alive public school manners
00:07:31with dreadful public school food,
00:07:33it must be to flutter the subject's vanity.
00:07:37That suit came from a university tailor, didn't it, Lewis?
00:07:40Let's assume our victim is a university man.
00:07:43What would flatter the vanity of a university man in the 60s?
00:07:47Pretty young woman, sir.
00:07:49Wrong sort of club.
00:07:52Appearing on television in something intellectually respectable.
00:07:56South Bank show, sir.
00:07:58Get on to all the TV companies.
00:08:00Find out who invited an Oxford man about five foot ten inches tall
00:08:04in his early 60s to a London club in the late 60s.
00:08:08How do you know it's late night?
00:08:10I may not see much television, Lewis,
00:08:12but they don't put that sort of stuff on during the day, do they?
00:08:15PHONE RINGS
00:08:19Chief Inspector Morse's office.
00:08:21Yeah, one moment.
00:08:23It's the Mossford Bournemouth College, Sir Alexander Rees.
00:08:26Morse.
00:08:28Thank you.
00:08:32Alex.
00:08:35Alex.
00:08:38Yes, yes, it's been ages.
00:08:41No, I didn't know.
00:08:44Well, I don't have time to keep up with all your activities.
00:08:47I suppose congratulations are in order.
00:08:51Lunch?
00:08:54Yes, well, why not?
00:08:57Yes, I'm free.
00:09:00I'll be there.
00:09:04Offering you a fellowship, is he, sir?
00:09:06Knowing Rees, he probably wants free advice on guarding the college silver.
00:09:10I'll leave you to sort out those TV companies, all right?
00:09:13Right, but I...
00:09:15And check on that suit.
00:09:17Sailor May, we should get the owner's name.
00:09:19I'll get on to them first.
00:09:21Oh, and then you can chase up your friend Dr Russell.
00:09:24That should give us all something to look forward to.
00:09:34MUSIC PLAYS
00:10:05MUSIC CONTINUES
00:10:30Chief Inspector Morse.
00:10:32I am he.
00:10:52Ah, Deborah.
00:10:54Ah.
00:11:01Over-educated women.
00:11:04My dear fellow.
00:11:06How long has it been?
00:11:09Quite a while.
00:11:11Come in. Come in!
00:11:13Come in.
00:11:23Right. Sherry?
00:11:25Scotch, if you've got it.
00:11:27Too thick. Oh.
00:11:34All this stuff yours or the college's?
00:11:37Mine, I'm afraid.
00:11:39You always were quite a collector, weren't you, Alex?
00:11:42Take a seat.
00:11:49What was wrong with the girl just now?
00:11:52Oh, Deborah Burns, yeah.
00:11:54Such a pretty, highly gifted student.
00:11:57She's just completed her DPhil.
00:11:59I supervised her myself, actually.
00:12:01Will she get it?
00:12:03Oh, she'll get it, all right.
00:12:05But she was hoping for a research fellowship here.
00:12:07I had to tell her just now that she's been turned down.
00:12:10She took it very hard, as you saw.
00:12:13Rather highly strung.
00:12:17But I didn't get you here to talk about my students.
00:12:20As Virgil pointed out, there's no such thing as a free lunch.
00:12:24Hmm.
00:12:26I'm very concerned about Dr Kerridge, my vice-master.
00:12:29It seemed to me that someone like you who understands the university
00:12:33could make discreet inquiries.
00:12:36What about?
00:12:38Well, he took off for London at the end of term
00:12:40and was supposed to be back four days ago.
00:12:43I'm supposed to chair a conference on constitutional law
00:12:47at Sussex tomorrow.
00:12:49And he's supposed to be in charge in my absence.
00:12:52Four days isn't very long.
00:12:54Oh, he's very punctilious.
00:12:56Untidy in appearance, perhaps, but highly organised.
00:13:00Oh, we've checked his flat in Bayswater
00:13:03and his cottage in Thrupp. He's a keen angler.
00:13:06But he doesn't appear to have been there either.
00:13:09Too desirable residences?
00:13:13People pay economists vast sums of money
00:13:15in order to avoid taking their advice.
00:13:18Perhaps he fell in love.
00:13:20It can happen to anybody.
00:13:23That's what concerns me.
00:13:27Kerridge is not a ladies' man.
00:13:30Quite the contrary.
00:13:32So if he has fallen among a...
00:13:35bad company, well, we can't afford the scandal.
00:13:38What makes you think he has?
00:13:40I had a call from a young man.
00:13:43All he would say was that Dr Kerridge would be delayed.
00:13:47When I asked to speak to Kerridge himself, the man rang off.
00:13:50I still don't see why.
00:13:52But you must realise that my college's reputation is at stake.
00:13:57I appointed Kerridge.
00:13:59It was a good idea.
00:14:01Healed the divisions after my election.
00:14:04He was popular with most of the fellows.
00:14:06Except Drysdale, of course.
00:14:08Arthur Drysdale?
00:14:10Yes, you know him.
00:14:11Are you still...?
00:14:12He has cancer, you know. Of the brain.
00:14:15Six months, I reckon. Maybe less.
00:14:17He's gone to Rome. It's his favourite city.
00:14:20One last visit.
00:14:23What about him and Kerridge?
00:14:25Oh, they were famous as enemies.
00:14:28I mean, are.
00:14:30Rivals for the Sheldon lectureship, you see.
00:14:33Some people consider it the most prestigious post in the university.
00:14:38Who won?
00:14:41As a matter of fact, I did.
00:14:44Which no doubt put you on the road to your present eminence.
00:14:48Yes, I expect it helped.
00:14:50But whatever the case,
00:14:52if something unsavoury has happened to Kerridge, it'll affect badly.
00:14:56Not only on the college, but upon me.
00:14:59Can you think of one good reason why it should help you, Alex?
00:15:07Professional pride.
00:15:12Better get into lunch, or it'll all be gone.
00:15:16Come on.
00:15:25Come on, come on.
00:15:46I'm Dr. Kerridge.
00:15:47Mr. Christopher Stonely is expecting me.
00:15:50Straight along to the smoke.
00:15:51Sir.
00:15:52Thank you.
00:16:00Nice lunch, sir?
00:16:02I had an eminent chemist on my left
00:16:04who talked throughout the whole meal about the operation
00:16:06he'd just had on his piles.
00:16:08Very nice.
00:16:09And the world-famous mathematician on my right
00:16:12demonstrated beyond all reasonable doubt
00:16:14that the best au pairs come from Portugal.
00:16:18That's what you go for, isn't it, a conversation?
00:16:21True, Lewis.
00:16:21That's why I prefer pubs.
00:16:23What have you got?
00:16:25Not much.
00:16:26No luck with the university tailors yet.
00:16:29Those TV people were no help at all.
00:16:31And we're still waiting for Dr. Russell's report.
00:16:34I've got a missing person, a distinguished economist.
00:16:38Get across the site.
00:16:41He's called Kerridge.
00:16:42He's vice master of Beaumont College.
00:16:44Is he on the list?
00:16:48Kerridge.
00:16:49No, Kerridge.
00:16:50Were you thinking he might be the body?
00:16:51It'd be convenient, wouldn't it?
00:16:54Let us hypothesize.
00:16:56Let's say that Kerridge is the recipient of that letter.
00:16:59He goes to London.
00:17:01Something goes wrong.
00:17:03A young man calls to say that he'll be delayed.
00:17:07And then we find a headless body in Thrupp, the place where
00:17:11he happens to have a cottage.
00:17:13Sounds all right to me.
00:17:14Right.
00:17:17You take the cottage in Thrupp.
00:17:18I'll do the pied-de-terre in fragrant Bayswater.
00:17:22Fortes, Fortuna, do that.
00:17:25Fortune favors the brave.
00:17:29My school motto, sir.
00:17:40Look here, David.
00:17:43I don't want to see you hurt.
00:17:46I am not hurt, Christopher.
00:17:48Chris, please call me Chris.
00:17:51Chris, I've had a lovely time.
00:17:54But I must admit to being just the tiniest bit irritated.
00:17:57You've kept me in London when I ought to be in Oxford.
00:18:01I'm still waiting to see the contract
00:18:03for this show of yours.
00:18:04There is no contract, nor a show, nor a studio.
00:18:10Then what on earth?
00:18:12Just a little acting job, while I'm resting,
00:18:17as they don't say in the trade.
00:18:19I do not understand.
00:18:23Someone wanted me to play a TV producer.
00:18:27It's the second time they've asked me, as a matter of fact.
00:18:31I was supposed to persuade you about this program
00:18:34and lure you down to the Isle of Docks,
00:18:36pretending that's where the studio is.
00:18:39Who approached you, and why?
00:18:43He didn't tell me his name.
00:18:45But I can tell you what he looks like, though.
00:18:48The sort who should play old-fashioned headmasters.
00:18:52Tall, fuzzy, upright for his age.
00:18:57Claimed to be a friend of yours, though he's not wearing
00:19:01nearly as well as you are.
00:19:03Thanks, Chris.
00:19:06Did he tell you why he wanted you to go through this charade?
00:19:09No.
00:19:12No, I... I didn't care for the first one.
00:19:16But you're different.
00:19:21I must be on my way.
00:19:22No, please...
00:19:23No, I'm afraid I must.
00:19:25I believe the person you describe to be abroad.
00:19:29If he's not, I must prepare myself.
00:19:33Goodbye.
00:19:36Thank you for my lunch.
00:19:52The 1630 service from Oxford to Dewitt 1732
00:19:57is now arriving at platform 9.
00:20:07DEWITT STATE POLICE STATION
00:20:14The city service from Oxford is also boarding at platform 2.
00:20:21Deport at ready, Bristol-Folkway, Bristol-Temple East,
00:20:26Taunton, Exeter-St. David's, Newton-Abbott and Pellissippi...
00:20:36who is it? it's chief inspector Moore so I'm looking for dr. Carriage well of
00:20:56course I know the doctor inspector I've lived here since the war you know when
00:21:00it was a respectable place. I'm sure madam. of course it was very boring then
00:21:05fascinating things that go on now. I wouldn't live anywhere else in the world.
00:21:08how long has dr. Carriage had his flat mrs. miss tree. miss tree by name. miss tree
00:21:15by nature. I don't suppose you want to know about my private life. if you would
00:21:22just tell me about dr. Carriage. what do you want to know inspector? when did you
00:21:26last see him? I haven't seen him for weeks. I've heard him all right he has
00:21:31the flat above me. not that I'm complaining he doesn't go in for wild
00:21:34parties more's the pity. keeps himself to himself you might say rather dull
00:21:39really. I mean all he really likes doing is sitting by the canal in the rain
00:21:43trying to catch fish. I prefer dancing. when you say you've heard him. oh just a
00:21:50bit of banging about chopping the head off some poor herring I dare say to feed
00:21:55his friends. how anyone can eat fish when you see the state of the water. does he
00:22:00often have friends in miss tree? hmm he lets people stay here. they usually come
00:22:05to me for the key. when was the last time that happened? last week. an elderly
00:22:10gentleman. very nicely turned out. and he didn't say who he was? it wouldn't have
00:22:14meant anything to me anyway would it inspector? if I could borrow the key to
00:22:19have a look around as a friend of the doctor's. I must finish getting ready for
00:22:27my tea dance. do you tango? no I thought not. I might be able to do something with
00:22:34you. perhaps not.
00:24:27hello
00:24:47yes sir. scotch please.
00:24:51thank you sir.
00:24:57may I?
00:25:15it's dr. Burns isn't it? who the hell are you? my name is Morse. paths crossed in the
00:25:22master's lodgings at Beaumont.
00:25:27can I get you a drink? I'm waiting for someone. your glass is still empty. all right
00:25:42white wine thanks.
00:25:45that seat is taken. scotch and white wine. did you hear what I said? that seat is
00:25:58taken.
00:26:00how did you know my name? well Alex told me. we're old acquaintances. so are we.
00:26:18cheers. cheers. by the way I'm not a doctor yet. well Alex said there'd be no
00:26:27doubt. that's what he said about my fellowship. academics don't know what it
00:26:31means stuck in their little library towers. they've more or less got jobs for
00:26:35life haven't they? would they share them with someone new? someone who also
00:26:40happens to be a woman? I'd like to see some of them on the dole I can tell you.
00:26:46like Alex? Alex and I we work very closely together on the new book. I should
00:26:55have joint credit really. still it might get me my doctorate. it should have got
00:27:02me my research fellowship.
00:27:08are you connected with Oxford mr. Morse? in a manner of speaking. you must have
00:27:12some idea of what it's like. a vicious backbiting petty minded parochial little
00:27:16town that thinks it's the center of the universe. pretty though for a city. it's
00:27:23the people that spoil it. people like Beaumont's vice master dr. David bloody
00:27:28Carriage. why Carriage in particular? he's the one who voted against me. how do you
00:27:36know? Alex. the master told me. that's who I'm waiting for.
00:27:43you might have a long wait.
00:27:49I've got a train to catch. can I get you another?
00:27:53well I wish you luck miss Burns.
00:28:19good evening dr. Carriage. miss Burns! what are you doing here? you vetoed my
00:28:27fellowship. I want to know why. dear good woman. come on. this may sound
00:28:38melodramatic miss Burns but there is someone after me. me dr. Carriage. I am
00:28:44quite serious miss Burns. so am I. give me one good reason why you were so
00:28:49against me. I was not. I am not. I had nothing to do with turning you down. you
00:28:55have my word. then who was it? you really want to know? very well. it was the master.
00:29:44Dr. Carriage! Dr. Carriage! we are trying to master the belita.
00:30:14rinse please.
00:30:30you've got a tissue. you've got a nasty infection there. there's nothing I can do
00:30:39until it's cleared up. I'll give you a prescription for some penicillin and you
00:30:43can come back on Friday. can't you just take it out now? we no longer condemn
00:30:48teeth to death without just cause mr. Morse. if you had visited a dentist in
00:30:53the last few years you would know that. make an appointment with a receptionist
00:30:56and cut out the sugar. good day to you.
00:31:06thanks for your help.
00:31:13hello sergeant Lewis. what's he got you wrong? I thought your wife bought your
00:31:23clothes. not around here she doesn't. it's a bit rich. go on let's have a look.
00:31:30you've seen this once already. hmm definitely not your style. still at least
00:31:37we know now who's it was. it was tailor-made for Dr. Carriage. an arm and a leg.
00:31:46the chief inspector found out that Carriage went missing recently. more than
00:31:51likely ended up in the Canal of Truth. oh how is Morse's toothache? still making him
00:31:57impossible? he's gone to the dentist. he'll be all sweetness and light now I
00:32:01promise. well we'll see. actually you can probably help me. I'll try. well believe it or not
00:32:09I've been made godmother. yes which makes me feel very old and I'm not quite sure
00:32:15what you get nowadays. a girl or a boy? a boy age three. one thing I wanted when I
00:32:20was a lad was a tin drum. but me mum wouldn't have it. said it'd be too noisy.
00:32:25sure she was right. no no I need something smaller. they're going back to
00:32:31India. used to work in the same hospital. I shall miss them. what about a mug? you know a pewter mug.
00:32:38some nice shops on the high street. yes that's a good idea.
00:32:42oh but it may not turn out to be a drink. it's hot out there isn't it?
00:32:50sugar? no better not. dentist's orders. is this yours? sort of. I pinched it from my local.
00:33:02is that beer any good? why don't you try it sometime? I might just do that. what news of the master?
00:33:12I spoke to him this morning. in fact I was going to call you. dr. Kerridge has
00:33:18been found in London. he's perfectly all right. who found him? miss Spurns
00:33:24apparently. she rang here last night in a most peculiar state. what did she say?
00:33:31she appears to have got it into her head that the master has ruined her career. in
00:33:37fact she made all sorts of threats. what sort of threats? well you know academics
00:33:43they're forever accusing each other of plagiarism. she said she'd expose him the
00:33:48usual kind of thing. how would she do that? well there are people in the media
00:33:55who are ready to believe anything. especially about Oxford. but I think miss
00:34:01Burns was just being hysterical. why? because she claimed dr. Kerridge
00:34:07supported her against the master. that's completely unlike him. he's totally loyal
00:34:12to the college.
00:34:22may I?
00:34:30miss Burns doesn't exactly get the most generous of acknowledgments does she? I
00:34:35have no doubt the master gave her what she deserved. of course she could have
00:34:39been greedy for more. does she know what he's put? she insisted on knowing. that's
00:34:45what caused her intemperate reaction. and you tell the master about that? of course.
00:34:51how did he react? calmly as always.
00:35:09find anything at Thrap? cottages as neat as an island sir. like his London place.
00:35:19dr. Russell's had forensics report on that piece of skin he brought back. it does
00:35:23belong to the body. but whose body is it Lewis? it's dr. Kerridge's. the suit was his.
00:35:30dr. Kerridge is alive and kicking in London.
00:35:35we better have that canal dragged again. arrange it will you?
00:36:01cheers
00:36:06I trust your excellent taste is as much appreciated by your employer as it is by
00:36:14me. difficult is it?
00:36:23just difficult to keep up with. but the effort is so worthwhile. tell me about
00:36:31the Sheldon lectures. one of the greatest honors the college can bestow.
00:36:36guaranteed publicity, guaranteed publication, guaranteed future career. so
00:36:42the master was very fortunate to get the job. not fortunate deserving. but of
00:36:49course he wasn't master then. that followed later. how is the post awarded?
00:36:54the College Council decide between those fellows have been put forward. and how
00:37:00would people like Kerridge and Drysdale get defeated? you know Oxford it only
00:37:05needs someone to put about the wrong sort of gossip about a candidate that
00:37:09his work wasn't original or that there was something in his private life that
00:37:13would gain the lectures the wrong sort of attention. so Kerridge and Drysdale
00:37:18might have assumed that each had slandered the other. I suppose so. I feel
00:37:23so sorry for mr. Drysdale. for an academic contract cancer of the brain.
00:37:29but he does seem to be enjoying himself in Rome. we've all had postcards.
00:37:39damn it Lewis I'm off duty. sorry sir sorry miss. we've just had a call from
00:37:44the chief superintendent about dr. Kerridge. come back to Oxford has he?
00:37:48I'm afraid not sir. they found him in his bayswater flat battered to death.
00:38:18hmm hacksaw job. yep thought it might be. what's a nice girl like you doing a job
00:38:42like this for? how do you know I'm a nice girl hmm? you sound just like Morse.
00:38:48I'll take that as a compliment. no I mean you'd have made a smashing GP. what made
00:38:54you prefer dead bodies? well you have the same challenge of diagnosis but without
00:39:01the responsibility of prescription. the dead man was at least 5 feet 10 but I
00:39:09can't tell you much more till the head is found. I'll go and see the boss. you
00:39:15really like him don't you? it's the best there is. if you say so.
00:39:32doesn't make sense Lewis. two people killed in the same flat. by the same
00:39:37person do you reckon? well if so why cut up one body and bring it all the way to
00:39:42Thrupp? why dress it in someone else's suit? you're gonna kill the owner of that
00:39:48suit soon afterwards. unless it was Kerridge did the first killing sir and
00:39:52then got killed himself. why would Kerridge want to dress up a corpse in
00:39:56his own clothes? whoever killed our first victim planned it very carefully. Kerridge
00:40:04on the other hand was battered to death in a way that seems almost casual by
00:40:08comparison. there obviously is a connection. one the yard will never find
00:40:14that's for sure. look at that. it's a Christopher Wren 1669. well done.
00:40:24and the place where the Sheldon lectures are delivered in front of the great men
00:40:29of the University in all their robed finery. to be the center of attention in
00:40:35such a place. to have your peers hanging on your every word. worth killing for
00:40:42would you say Lewis? I don't know sir. I was once meant to speak in a balloon
00:40:46debate in my first year at secondary school. it was cut short by a fire drill.
00:40:52get back to the office. check on all missing persons over five foot ten. I'm
00:40:58popping into Blackwell's to see if they've got anything by the late doctor.
00:41:02by their works. surely he knew them.
00:41:12look at that. simplicity of life. the older one comes the more unattainable
00:41:19expensive simplicity becomes. Mary my dear how well you've recovered. lady
00:41:30Reese doesn't share your taste in art I take it. Rachel is not fond of crowds.
00:41:35being in a wheelchair she gets bored with other people's groins. I didn't know.
00:41:41no it was her own fault. hunting? what do you expect?
00:41:51you um you never married did you?
00:41:58what was the name of that girl we both knew? Wendy.
00:42:07Wendy. let's talk about carriage.
00:42:19what if it were rent boys or whatever they're called. would be very helpful if
00:42:27you could curb speculation. the Scotland Yard are officially dealing with this
00:42:32case. not you. oh well that's all right I know the commissioner quite well. they
00:42:39sometimes call me in to talk about civil liberties. yes I'm sure you're
00:42:43everybody's favorite expert. as a matter of fact I dropped into the cabinet
00:42:49office on the way back from Sussex. they're setting up a commission to look
00:42:52into the feasibility of a Bill of Rights. which means they're never gonna do
00:42:55anything about it. and I shall probably be its chairman. I'm told it's almost
00:43:00definite. well done. you'll soon be in the House of Lords. it would make Rachel
00:43:07happy. you didn't by any chance run into miss Burns when you were in London? no I
00:43:14was very pressed for time. come on Alex. she was threatening to blacken your name.
00:43:21I can handle miss Burns. and dr. Carriage? wasn't he prepared to back her up?
00:43:29Carriage is far too sensible to be swayed by anything an overwrought young
00:43:33woman might have told him. you didn't run into him by any chance? no I told you I
00:43:39was in London for only an hour or so. do you want the name of the person I was
00:43:45with? the Yard Knight. it was Mitchell. Robin Mitchell. Martha! I thought you were in
00:43:55the Rockies with Eddie. yes we were Alex darling. Walter's business commitments I'm afraid.
00:44:04hello Lewis. listen I think I found something. you better come in.
00:44:27poured yourself a drink? no no thanks.
00:44:40well? yeah about this missing person there are one or two people the right
00:44:44height. oh that's heaven. there's one mr. J Williams who's described as a financial
00:44:49advisor. to the government you mean? not exactly no more like telling old ladies
00:44:55how to invest their savings and then walking off with the cash. I mean some
00:44:59old pensioner might have caught up with him and extracted a terrible revenge.
00:45:03unfortunately he had a tattoo. if it was on one of the limbs that was chopped off.
00:45:08a writhing serpent right across his back. I've checked with dr. Russell not a
00:45:13snout in sight. all right Lewis. now tell me the good news. well there's one five
00:45:20foot eleven early 60s last seen about five days ago and who has the Oxford
00:45:25connections. name? Ballarat. Nicholas Ballarat. he's a very senior civil
00:45:32servant sir. has the ear of the Prime Minister and all that. so if it is him
00:45:35that would explain why Scotland Yard have kept quiet. what's his connection
00:45:39with Oxford? he's an honorary fellow of Beaumont College sir. looks to me Lewis
00:45:48as if we ought to pay a visit to the wicked metropolis. you say so sir. go on
00:45:57get home to your wife and kiddies. they need you even more than I do.
00:46:18is he in? he's at lunch in all souls. can I help? is that a rhetorical question?
00:46:33toothache still giving you hell? mm-hmm. would a beer help? undoubtedly but I don't
00:46:42want to keep you from... the college buttery serves a perfectly acceptable ale and I do
00:46:51owe you one. thank you.
00:47:00does the name Nicholas Ballarat mean anything to you? of course he's one of
00:47:06our honorary fellows. do you know anything more about him? only that he's
00:47:10an internationally known economist who advises half the world's governments.
00:47:14including our own. he's also a whiz at money-raising. he made the new building
00:47:20program possible. who nominated him for the honorary fellowship? the master I think.
00:47:25why? I've been reading Carriage's book. he attacks Ballarat quite viciously. I
00:47:31wouldn't have thought that made for harmonious high table gathering. I'm told
00:47:37they could do with a bit of livening up.
00:47:44besides Ballarat gives as good as he gets. he made a speech at the Union that
00:47:51was quite obviously aimed at dr. Carriage. everybody here was talking about it.
00:48:00well Carriage was an angler. they're very philosophical. like policemen. you know
00:48:08Alex built his reputation on people like them. he wrote their Constitution when
00:48:14they became independent. he understood their need so well that within a year
00:48:20they'd torn up all his rules and become a one-party state.
00:48:30I'm sorry to disturb you my dear. my dear doctor. you're very squeamish aren't you
00:48:41Morse? very. hmm I can understand that. can? Max never did. ah well I'm not Max am I?
00:48:50no no I would say you weren't. don't know anything about toothache I suppose. bloody
00:48:56pills haven't done any good. I don't trust doctors let alone dentists. so what
00:49:01can I do you for? the Ballarat murder. have you had anything from the yard? yes
00:49:07yes much of what they sent is not much use since we don't have his head to check
00:49:11his dental records. hmm the blood groups the same. the height matches. the age is
00:49:19right and also the time of death. you said he was cut up by someone who knew
00:49:27what he or she was doing. thank you.
00:49:34where the hell did you get the name Grayling from? blame my father. I was his
00:49:41seventh daughter and well he was a keen fisherman and desperate for a name he
00:49:45decided to call me after whatever he pulled out of the river. lucky it wasn't
00:49:49the chub eh? sorry. maybe you'd like a drink sometime? maybe I would. once I've
00:49:57got rid of this bloody toothache.
00:50:06how do people live in a place like this? worse than Kedlington. the buildings are
00:50:13considerably finer. some were designed by Inigo Jones. you should see Newcastle sir.
00:50:23once knew a girl in Burton on Trent Lewis. further north than that I have no desire
00:50:28to go. turn right here. you sure? so sure.
00:50:44thank you inspector. first on the right.
00:50:51I'm a frequent visitor to the corridors of power Lewis.
00:51:05good
00:51:08look I'm sorry if I'm not being much help but well I suppose we in the
00:51:16cabinet office get into the habit of telling as little as possible and I
00:51:19assure you you wouldn't get any more out of mr. Mitchell even if he had the time
00:51:23to see you. we are talking about a murder mr. Collins. I know I know but it could
00:51:29happen to anyone couldn't it? I mean you asked me if Ballarat had any enemies.
00:51:33well quite frankly we all have. it's one of the penalties of being a public
00:51:37servant. though I imagine you two should know all about that. what do you know
00:51:41about the Royal Commission on the Bill of Rights mr. Collins? what do you know
00:51:46chief inspector? the CID do sometimes get information sir. have you found
00:51:51yourselves a chairman? to be quite honest I don't see what this has to do with
00:51:54your inquiries. I could find out in any Fleet Street pub mr. Collins. I'd rather
00:51:59have it from the horse's mouth.
00:52:03well I suppose it'll be made public fairly soon. in actual fact we have found
00:52:08a chairman. I can't tell you who of course. sir Alex Rees? no certainly not.
00:52:13whoever gave you that idea? who made the final recommendations? look these are
00:52:18matters of national security. was it mr. Ballarat?
00:52:26look all I can say is that he is or rather was someone by whose advice the
00:52:32PM set great store.
00:52:40thank you sir. hope we haven't taken up too much of your time. look here chief
00:52:44inspector and I wouldn't want any unauthorized information being wrongly
00:52:49attributed. of course not mr. Collins. you haven't told us anything have you?
00:53:02could hit the road sir. think of the traffic Lewis. besides the pubs will be
00:53:12open any minute. what's your opinion of mr. Collins? I thought he was an arrogant
00:53:20pillock sir. you more or less told him so. did I? I thought I was the soul of
00:53:26politeness. that's what you always think though isn't it sir? you got any bread
00:53:31Lewis? miss Burns? miss Burns. oh I'm sorry. nice try sir. shut up Lewis. it's opening
00:53:49time. alcohol-free lager time for me I suppose. you always complain about my
00:53:59driving Lewis. think of my pension and slow down will you. what didn't you say?
00:54:06actually I was thinking about Ballarat. I still can't fathom out why he was
00:54:11dumped at Thrupp. if you'd been promised something and were then disappointed
00:54:16something that would crown your career wouldn't you harbor murderous thoughts
00:54:21against the person that disappointed you? I doubt it sir. well let's assume the
00:54:26murderer doesn't have your forgiving nature Lewis. the victim is someone
00:54:33prominent. so prominent that the minute the death is discovered the entire
00:54:38nation's police forces are in action. now what would you do to put off the moment
00:54:43of discovery? chop him up into little bits and dump him somewhere miles away.
00:54:48precisely. and if you know of a flat in London where you can perform the act of
00:54:53butchery or a cottage by a canal where you can jettison the bits. dr. Kerrinship?
00:55:01no that's who we were meant to think of. the person I forgave was...
00:55:14you were saying sir? I was thinking Lewis of sir Alex Rees the master of Beaumont.
00:55:24for heaven's sake be a man inspector. is it the way you behave when facing some
00:55:30slight discomfort? no wonder violent crime is on the increase.
00:55:35see the details on that one?
00:55:39don't know anything about that. you'll have to ask Malcolm I think.
00:55:43yeah can you put him in cell number three? cos he hasn't been charged yet. I'll be down later about that.
00:55:49yeah yeah he's all right there. the rest are fine. that's good yeah. chief superintendent wants to see you sir.
00:55:55like an hour ago. thanks chief. I'll be in the office.
00:56:02and you barge in without informing the guard? sir? you threaten a member of a cabinet
00:56:07office staff? a very self-important member. that's no excuse. and uncooperative.
00:56:13you know what these bureaucrats are like. you don't go picking on them. I thought we
00:56:18parted very amicably. and you must be getting even more insensitive in your
00:56:21old age. what's wrong with you? teeth. nevertheless it does not do this force
00:56:27any good to have one of its chief inspectors behaving like a rustic yobbo
00:56:31up in Whitehall for the cup. look sir I was at Oxford with half the senior ranks
00:56:36of the civil service. that's where you learn to behave so badly I suppose.
00:56:41thank God my daughters went red brick. civil servants respect a bit of effortless
00:56:47superiority. it's what they're always trying on the rest of the world. and what
00:56:51good did it do you? we believe the torso is that of Nicholas Ballarat a senior
00:56:55government adviser. dr. Russell's forensic skills identified him I understand.
00:57:00always happy to pay credit where it's due sir. what about his killer? that's why my
00:57:08interview with mr. Collins at the cabinet office was so useful. Ballarat
00:57:12was an honorary fellow of Beaumont College. the new master of Beaumont to
00:57:17Alexander Rees recommended him personally. in return he expected Ballarat
00:57:22to get the Prime Minister to nominate him as chairman of a new Royal
00:57:25Commission. a certain route to a peerage if you come up with the right conclusions.
00:57:31well? according to mr. Collins Ballarat did not put forward Rees's name. are you
00:57:40seriously suggesting that a public figure like the master of Beaumont would
00:57:44murder a senior civil servant because he didn't get the chair of the Commission?
00:57:47look I've known Rees for a long time. he's always been intensely over
00:57:52ambitious. Carriage found out that he was claiming as his own the work of one of
00:57:56his female pupils. Rees also happened to be having an affair with her. I don't see
00:58:02what that's got to do with anything. Rees called me informally when Carriage
00:58:06disappeared because he didn't want any scandal sullying his own good name. so he
00:58:11could have killed Carriage to keep him from speaking out. could have? it's pure
00:58:16speculation around a case being dealt with by the yard. yes sir but if Rees
00:58:20could kill his own vice master he could certainly kill a man like Ballarat who
00:58:24he believed had robbed him of his crowning glory. if... if... don't give me any
00:58:30more hypotheses Morse. I want facts. Morse? no I'm sorry sir.
00:58:36jaw's still rather tender.
00:58:43coffee sir? extra sugar.
00:58:52didn't last long did it sir? the self-denial. I know you need the energy.
00:59:01yes I've already had a bad time from both the dentist and the chief
00:59:06superintendent. sorry sir. what did he say? we need more to convince him that Rees is
00:59:12a killer. what if we were to eliminate all other possible suspects? like Drysdale.
00:59:18he had a motive for killing Carriage. they were old enemies. I checked on him.
00:59:23the hospital's confirmed he's dying of brain cancer. besides he's in Rome. still.
00:59:31what are the twin bases for successful detection Lewis? confession and
00:59:37information sir. well done. now what we need is information and who are the best
00:59:41informed people in any college? the Scouts Lewis. they put the drunks to bed.
00:59:48they clean up the vomits. they wake the sober where the singular impairs. they
00:59:54are discreet, maternal, devoted, exploited and they know everything. start with
01:00:02Carriages scout. find out all the college gossip. off you go.
01:00:07Dr. Carriage? who? Dr. Carriage. oh yes. turn left and up the stairs.
01:00:26thanks.
01:00:32this will set you up sir. oh it's a bit early in the day for me mister. just Ben
01:00:38sir. if I had a last name I'd forgotten it. well it's only for when you're in
01:00:45trouble isn't it sir? law, taxes and elections. that's what they want to know
01:00:51don't they? bottoms up sir. what's in this? bits and bobs sir. won't do you any harm.
01:01:04how long have you been here Ben? all my life sir. terrible isn't it? never been to war.
01:01:10never been to sea. never been to London. never been a football hooligan. never
01:01:17been unemployed. never been rich. never voted Tory. there you have it sir. my whole
01:01:22story. you're from up north aren't you sir? Newcastle but we're wise from Oxford.
01:01:31born and bred. now can we talk about Dr. Carriage? what was he like to look after?
01:01:36was he fussy about keeping things just so? oh I wish there were more like him sir.
01:01:42he was that tidy you scarcely know he was there. what about his private life?
01:01:46didn't have one in college sir. I imagine he left that for those other places he had.
01:01:53friends? enemies? he was one of those people everybody got on with sir. well
01:01:59except for mr. Drysdale and that was just one of those stupid things got
01:02:03right out of hand. mr. Drysdale's away I gather. yes sir.
01:02:07you got a card from him only yesterday?
01:02:14to to show you how things were between them when dr. Carriage heard about mr.
01:02:22Drysdale's cancer he actually smiled. I think I'd like to take a look at both
01:02:28their rooms if that's possible. of course it is sir. I got the keys right here.
01:02:38I got six dollars to look after her.
01:02:44their little war is quite famous you know. when mr. Ballarat attacked dr. Carriage
01:02:50in the Union mr. Drysdale was that delighted. it was all over the college
01:02:55in no time. what kind of attack did mr. Ballarat make? oh the usual oxford kind sir.
01:03:01an attack on his reputation.
01:03:07you can imagine the trouble I have getting to water all these plants when
01:03:20he's away. you didn't know mr. Ballarat did you? of course I did sir. used to be a
01:03:28great friend of mr. Drysdale's. when was that? when mr. Drysdale first got his
01:03:34fellowship. regular visitor mr. Ballarat was. mr. and mrs. Drysdale used to
01:03:41entertain him all the time. mrs. Drysdale? oh he was married sir didn't you know?
01:03:48why you should considering how long ago it was. what happened to her? she ran off
01:03:56with mr. Ballarat. mr. Drysdale wasn't half upset. let him kill himself he was.
01:04:04a different gentleman after that I can tell you. how do you mean? sort of moody
01:04:11sir. much more withdrawn. and the funny thing is mrs. Drysdale died three year
01:04:20after. maybe mr. Drysdale put a curse on her. I wouldn't put it past him.
01:04:30depends on how heavy it was and what's been going through the lock. if it was a
01:04:34busy day when it was choked in. was it busy seven days ago? high season now isn't it?
01:04:39places full of trippers. even the fish fall about laughing. so if something the
01:04:44size of say a football only heavier something weighing say about 10 pounds
01:04:51was thrown in from here a week ago what's your expert guess as to where it
01:04:56would be now? water will shift anything every which way. each time the locks open.
01:05:04what is it you're looking for exactly? well a head actually. a head? a man's head.
01:05:15we know it hasn't gone straight to the bottom because we've looked. an angler
01:05:19would soon holler hooking something like that. exactly so what you're saying is it
01:05:23could have been washed to the right or left of where it was dumped upstream or
01:05:28down. thank you Lewis. well if it was me I'd start at the next lock up. and go
01:05:34which way upstream or down? I'd go north meself. thanks. thanks very much.
01:05:48we already know who the body belongs to sir so why bother about the head? you
01:05:53know the legend of Orpheus? seen in Greek. the very same. they did teach you
01:05:59something in the frozen north. I went to a Demis Roussos concert as a kid sir.
01:06:04that's who they compared him with. this is the way to the lock? this is the way
01:06:10to a lock. yes. thank you old boy.
01:06:14I told you we had to go this way and then it went...
01:06:18Orpheus Lewis was torn apart by women jealous of his love for his wife. one of the hazards of
01:06:24being a pop star is it? his head was carried down the river into which it
01:06:28had been thrown still singing. when it came to rest it uttered a stream of
01:06:34prophecies. that's not gonna look very convincing in court though is it sir? we
01:06:38have to establish the cause of death Lewis. we find a battered skull. I say...
01:06:46a battered skull Lewis. would you be awfully sweet and untie the painter for me?
01:06:53will you be able to handle this on your own? of course I will.
01:06:56but thanks anyway.
01:07:08I don't like to interrupt you Lewis but as I was trying to say if we find
01:07:21Ballarat's battered skull the chances are he was killed by the same person
01:07:25that killed Carriage. that's what the yard in their sloppy way are assuming.
01:07:29and if the skull's got a bullet hole in it? we can assume there are two killers.
01:07:33that at the moment is my theory. Neeson? not sure yet. maybe Deborah Burns. maybe
01:07:44even Drysdale. he's still abroad. college is our postcard from Rome. postmarks can
01:07:51be deceptive. a foreign stamp on a smudged bit of franking does not mean it
01:07:58was posted abroad.
01:08:04let's get the underwater search unit out here again. and while we wait...
01:08:17HA receiving. HA receiving. over. thank you Dave.
01:08:26cup of tea sir? coffee? medicinal brandy? just take a few deep breaths. I'm sure it's
01:08:34the formaldehyde. what were you saying doctor? shot in the back of the head at
01:08:40close range. the bullets are 0.32 I'd say. quite old by the look of it.
01:08:45ballistics should know what fired it. guns are as distinctive as typewriters.
01:08:49not like those blasted word processors. robots used by robots. can't tell the
01:08:56difference. you always knock him, sir. if you knew how to get him to tell you what
01:09:00you wanted. I still prefer a pen. so do I. one with a nib that you fill from a
01:09:10bottle.
01:09:13you better get someone to identify the thing Lewis. and if there's no next of
01:09:25kin I think our friend mr. Collins will do nicely don't you? and if he's too
01:09:29busy to come tell him we'll send it in a dispatch box. how's the toothache? as if
01:09:39it had never been. what about that drink? hmm why not? tonight? ah no I can't tonight I'm
01:09:48afraid. I'm going to a concert. I like concerts. what are you gonna see? metric
01:09:52conversion. one of those serialists? no a pop group. not your kind of thing Morse.
01:10:01maybe another time. hmm I trust so.
01:10:10I can't join you I'm afraid. I'm rather pressed for time. what was it? Scotch. tell me
01:10:21about Ballarat Alex. Ballarat? oh didn't I tell you his was the body we found at
01:10:26Thrupp. Ballarat.
01:10:35perhaps I will.
01:10:40why hasn't this been made public? we weren't absolutely sure. we've only just
01:10:47found the head you see. my god. nasty isn't it? the lengths to which people
01:10:55will go. yes it is a shock. we were quite close professionally of course. I thought
01:11:01he was an economist. he put forward a few of my ideas to the PR which I gather
01:11:06were favorably received. do you know if he put them forward as your ideas or his?
01:11:12he was a gentleman Morse. I repeat the question. I'm sure he never stolen
01:11:18another man's thoughts. it happens doesn't it? hmm it's an accusation that's often
01:11:24made by those with few original thoughts of their own. Ballarat would never have done such a thing.
01:11:32people change don't they? you don't. heard anything from miss Burns by the way?
01:11:41why are you so interested in her? is it professional or merely libidinous?
01:11:49like you Alex a little bit of both. I've heard nothing. that if you saw my diary
01:11:58we'll ask Carol. she knows my every move. I hope to be back by midnight but you know
01:12:04this sort of delegate. they always feel cheated if they don't drink till dawn.
01:12:09don't do too much. good night. Morse?
01:12:18well you heard his master's voice. dinner?
01:12:25where? you choose. bearing in mind that I am only a poor policeman. I know just the place.
01:12:32I've been wanting to try it for ages but I haven't had the courage on my own. will I like it?
01:12:39you're broad-minded as well as broad-shouldered aren't you? trust me.
01:12:48would you promise I'll find it interesting? oh yes. it's very unusual.
01:13:48I'm in the house. you can hear the songs. but only people in the house are going to break us up.
01:13:55there'll be turmoil and a lot of talk. nobody without a cause. I'm no bother with nobody.
01:14:01I don't believe in the world. you've got to know I'm a lonely soul.
01:14:18I still don't forgive you. you will. after you denied me the fellowship. you were going to claim my work as yours.
01:14:29I wasn't going to have that. it is mine. you think that but who gave you the groundwork?
01:14:38who showed you the method? who pointed you in the right direction? who got you published?
01:14:44in a Scandinavian journal. there'll be others. if you... keep my mouth shut. if you do then I can help shape your future.
01:14:57if not... does that future include all this? we make rather a good team don't you think?
01:15:07we can continue together or not. it's your choice.
01:15:21and if I choose not to? oh that would be very sad. for both of us.
01:15:29let me get you some more champagne.
01:15:39it's a great persuader.
01:15:59Debra?
01:16:04just...
01:16:06oh!
01:16:08oh!
01:16:10oh!
01:16:12now miss Sharpe. Carol. you got in about nine. ten to the traffic was good.
01:16:32was the door of the study open or closed? closed. if it was open that was a sign
01:16:39that he wanted me to go straight in. and if it was closed? either he wasn't there or he
01:16:45didn't want to be disturbed. so you left a chat and got on with your work? until I
01:16:51got a phone call from Lady Rees asking if her husband was in. apparently she
01:16:56couldn't get through on his private line. so naturally I got up to see if he
01:17:00wanted to speak to her. you mean sometimes he didn't? as you know the
01:17:06master is or rather he was a very busy man. he might have been in the middle of
01:17:15something or on the phone. surely your sergeant intercepts calls you don't want
01:17:20to take. so you opened the door and found him lying there. would you normally be
01:17:29the first one to see him? I mean there wasn't a scout who's attached to the
01:17:34lodgings who'd wake him up with a cup of tea. the lodgings has a cleaner who
01:17:38comes in later. the master doesn't live here permanently of course. he and Lady
01:17:43Rees have a house in North Oxford. he only stays here. stayed here when work
01:17:53dictated. so you would be the first to see him. would anyone else know if he was
01:18:02in residence? I mean did he come and go via the Porter's Lodge or is there a
01:18:07private door to the street? there is a private door to which he has had a key.
01:18:16only he had one. and Lady Rees. were you expecting him to sleep here last night?
01:18:24oh he often did after one of those conference dinners. they go on very late
01:18:28and since we were hard at work finishing the book. say he'd come back with
01:18:38someone.
01:18:40you recognize this?
01:18:52miss Burns
01:18:55do you know who it was miss Burns? I don't know Lewis. highly strung bent on revenge yet the
01:19:17pieces don't quite fit. if she was going to kill him why would she sleep with him
01:19:25if you were a young girl going to the trouble of obtaining a gun travel to
01:19:34Oxford all ready to use it would you be in the mood for love? what if he tried to
01:19:40rape me? all right but what about Lady Rees? if he was carrying on she must have
01:19:47known about it. everybody knows everybody's business in this university.
01:19:50maybe she thought it was time to put a stop to her once and for all. good try
01:19:55Lewis. unfortunately Lady Rees is confined to a wheelchair. come on let's
01:20:00see what dr. Russell has to say. make sure you get this area too.
01:20:25there.
01:20:35from the same gun that shot mr. Ballarat I'd say. same sort of marks from the
01:20:41rifling of the barrel. I'll send the bullets down to ballistics for
01:20:45confirmation. ballistics said that other bullet could have been left over from the
01:20:48war. you wouldn't think they'd keep that long would you? careful Lewis I kept that
01:20:52long. you realize this means miss Burns is highly unlikely to be the killer.
01:20:57where would a girl like that get wartime ammunition? there's plenty of collectors
01:21:02about her. maybe a father or an old family friend. what else can you tell us
01:21:12doctor? time of death around midnight and from my examination I'd say he'd
01:21:17recently had sexual intercourse. I think I'd better go and see miss Burns. she
01:21:23could be anywhere. I'll start with her parents in London. meanwhile you check
01:21:29what kind of wartime gun used 0.32 ammo and could take a silencer. one was
01:21:36obviously used if no one in a college full of carousing delegates heard a
01:21:39thing. find out what kind of people were issued with it. oh by the way how was
01:21:46decimalization? what? oh you mean metric conversion. dreadful. must be getting old.
01:22:10mrs. Burns my name is Morse from Oxford. is Debra in by any chance? I'm so sorry
01:22:21she's not here mr. Morse. she's just taken Sabina. that's our other daughter
01:22:26Rachel's little girl to the zoo. oh that's all right I'm sure I'll find her.
01:22:29thank you.
01:22:39I'm sorry.
01:23:00what on earth? it's all right. you never said you were a policeman. just want to
01:23:07know what happened. would you like a nice lolly? it's all right Sabina. you
01:23:15wanted a camel ride didn't you? yes you did. come along. I'll come back to the elephants
01:23:20later I promise. come on. it's never any good with children or animals. I realized
01:23:30I'd lost the earring when I got home. I was in such a panic. why did you go and
01:23:35see him in the first place? I wanted to confront him as I had dr. Kerridge. I
01:23:39just couldn't understand how someone who'd been so close to me as Alex could
01:23:43have treated me that way. robbing me of both my job and my reputation. you'd
01:23:47already threatened to expose Alex. why didn't you? because I still loved him I
01:23:53suppose. so you went to see him. how did you get into the lodgings? I sent him a
01:23:59note at high table saying I was waiting for him. he came as soon as he could get
01:24:03away. he can be very persuasive you know. I know. do you? he persuaded you in the bed.
01:24:12what else did he persuade you of? if I was a good girl and kept my mouth shut
01:24:18we could carry on just as before and he'd help me with my career. and if you
01:24:24didn't? I asked that. he said that it was up to me. if I made the wrong choice it
01:24:32would be very sad for both of us. what do you think he meant? the tone of his voice.
01:24:37made me go cold all over. he was threatening you? letting me know how
01:24:42easily he could destroy me if he chose. so then what happened? we went to get
01:24:48some more champagne to celebrate. I don't know. in the study I stayed in the
01:24:54bedroom. then I heard a couple of pops. like champagne corks exploding. then a
01:25:02crash. I came out and there he was. you saw nobody else?
01:25:10the door closed. I froze. then I ran to put on my clothes and got out as quickly
01:25:17as I could. you could have reported it to the police miss Burns. I thought about it
01:25:22and then I thought I'm the obvious suspect. I haven't an alibi or any
01:25:26witnesses. I just couldn't. you can understand that can't you?
01:25:42but sir Drysdale could still be armed. there'll be no need for guns. he managed
01:25:48to kill Reese with one which he must have kept from his wartime days in the
01:25:51SOE. according to the War Museum they were
01:25:53issued with well rods. it may look like a kid's pop gun but it's lethal. come on
01:26:01let's pick him up.
01:26:07he's not gonna kill anymore. you can never tell sir. sometimes they get a taste for it.
01:26:14and after three murders... I know the man Lewis. he thinks of himself as a man of
01:26:18virtue. his diseases turned him into a lunatic. it's in the best classical
01:26:22tradition Lewis. the man of virtue puts right the wrongs that have been done to
01:26:26him. meaning? you got old Ben to spill what everybody knew except us that in
01:26:31the dim and distant past Ballarat ran off with Drysdale's wife. you mean
01:26:37revenge? the oldest motive of all. why kill Reese? because he pipped Drysdale for
01:26:44the Sheldon lectureship ended up master. and dr. Carriage had been an enemy for
01:26:48years. which leaves only one to conquer. the policing? no Lewis. the last enemy
01:26:55that shall be destroyed is death. sir? the New Testament. my school assemblies
01:27:01were multicultural. but I still don't understand how you... to the classical mind
01:27:08the way to conquer death is to become an Olympian. a hero who spends the
01:27:14afterlife being fated by the gods. how do you manage that sir? well the best route
01:27:20to heroism is via valiant deeds. killing people isn't very valiant sir. it is to a
01:27:27deranged mind. you're agreeing with me then? you think he's a nutter?
01:27:34cancer of the brain according to the best available medical advice. would that
01:27:39be dr. Russell sir? cancer of the brain can lead to profound character changes.
01:27:45trivial slights of a lifetime can assume gigantic proportions. that's surely why
01:27:51we should protect ourselves. how do we know he's in the college anyway? when a
01:27:57man's lived there for most of his adult life where else would he go to die?
01:28:03music
01:28:26the drys there
01:28:34music
01:28:38look at the mess you made me make. it's bad isn't it? this is chief inspector
01:28:44Morse. where's mr. Drysdale? you just missed him by two minutes sir. he only
01:28:51showed up this morning. very peculiar state he was.
01:29:04music
01:29:15how do you recognize him sir? it has been a few years and he's ill. once you're taken to
01:29:20the university's bosom Lewis you're preserved like sleeping beauty in a
01:29:25rarefied atmosphere of hot air and alcohol. aging is unknown. not that
01:29:32Drysdale was ever young.
01:29:37there he is. mr. Drysdale! mr. Drysdale!
01:29:47mr. Drysdale!
01:30:03like Laius on the road to Thebes. I don't suppose you remember much of your Greek?
01:30:10eh? Morse?
01:30:14where Oedipus killed his father.
01:30:18send for an ambulance would you lose? right sir.
01:30:22I fled him down the nights and down the days. I fled him down the arches of the years. I fled him down the
01:30:41labyrinthine ways of my own mind. in the midst of tears I hid from him and under
01:30:53running laughter. but with an hurrying chase an unperturbed pace deliberate
01:31:01speed majestic instancy they beat and a voice beat more instant than the feet.
01:31:10all things betray thee who betrayest me. maybe I was in error having our
01:31:17scholarship taken away. I wondered if you'd remember. cancer hasn't got to my
01:31:24memory you know. if you'd done any work at all you could have got a first. I doubt
01:31:32it. I have a good memory but a prosaic mind. perfect qualifications. for a
01:31:39policeman you mean. well junior fellow. I did your work all to pieces. I suppose it was a
01:31:48woman. where do you think you're going? he needs his plants sir. cheer him up. cheer
01:32:00him up? he's not just getting over a hernia operation you know. he's being
01:32:04charged with murder. it'll never come to court though will it? I mean he's not
01:32:09gonna live that long is he? maybe not but I'm not letting you. let him have it.
01:32:14what harm can it do? I'll see what I can do. off you go.
01:32:35can we talk about Ballarat? not a man to be trusted. not with anything. how did you
01:32:43get him to Carriage's flat? simple. his vanity. ah you wrote him the same sort of
01:32:51letter you wrote to Carriage about appearing on television. I'm told there
01:32:56are some people who will kill to get before the cameras. man was an
01:33:00appropriate way of turning the tables don't you think? and you cut up the body. yes
01:33:08wonderful invention the axle. remarkably cheap remarkably efficient and simple to
01:33:14use. there must have been quite a mess. to cleanse the Ordean stables
01:33:23Hercules diverted the River Alpheus. I made do with plastic sheeting and a J
01:33:29cloth sir. and you went to all that trouble in order to delay detection until you
01:33:34disposed of the rest of your victims. the hound of heaven could not be deprived of
01:33:39its quarry. why bother taking the bits all the way to Thrupp? he could perfectly
01:33:44well have implicated Carriage by letting the corpse be discovered in his flat.
01:33:48simple. I didn't want him to discover anything untoward. I hoped to kill him when he least expected it.
01:33:54you thought Carriage had blackened your name to the College Council in order to
01:34:03get them to vote him in a Sheldon lecturer. he thought the same about you.
01:34:07in the event Rhys got the job. but you and Carriage became implacable enemies.
01:34:14that's why you killed him. there's a theory that has much to commend it.
01:34:19unfortunately your conclusions are false. oh I tried. I waited in his flat.
01:34:29when he finally succeeded in shaking off that tarsum Miss Burns I went to him.
01:34:38I would have shot him but I had only four bullets left. some of which might have
01:34:45been duds. and you wanted to be sure of a bullet for Rhys. that man was a cronus morse.
01:34:52devouring anyone who might conceivably threaten him. he achieved dubious
01:34:57eminence by destroying my good name and that of Carriage. whom you destroyed by
01:35:04bashing in his skull. I did no such thing. I attempted to strangle him but failed.
01:35:14Dr. Carey we are trying to master the belita.
01:35:19I lay in wait until he emerged from his flat. showed him my gun. got him to unlock the gate to the
01:35:27gardens where I intended to dispose of him. why didn't you? because he convinced
01:35:35me that it was not he who'd slandered my name to the College Council. which as you
01:35:41correctly stated was my assumption. never let it be said I am deaf to persuasion.
01:35:50so it must have been Rhys. that was my inevitable if I may say so correct
01:35:57conclusion. and Rhys who killed him. because of his overweening ambition he
01:36:04couldn't bear to be exposed as a plagiarist and a liar. I rather doubt
01:36:09Carriage would have gone so far. he was rather fond of a quiet life. but it was to be denied him.
01:36:19ever earned among a trumpet sounds from the battlements of eternity. and finally
01:36:30you made the trumpet sound for Rhys. who do you deny that he deserved it?
01:36:44my days have crackled and gone up in smoke. I've puffed and burst like sun starts on a stream.
01:36:55nay fairest thou even dream the dreamer and the loot the lootanist.
01:37:09thank you mr. Drysdale.
01:37:25I thought the chief superintendent was quite generous in news her. considering
01:37:33you've got it right about Rhys when he warned you off. I didn't get it quite right Lewis.
01:37:36not in the academic sense. we're not academic though are we Sid? thank goodness.
01:37:42Morse. do you believe in birthdays? well do I have a choice? well it's my birthday
01:37:51today and I've no one to celebrate with. so what about that drink? my dear Grayling I...
01:37:57well um Sergeant Lewis tells me that you're a great connoisseur of country pubs. will you
01:38:03take me to one? as a treat? I'll pick you up at 7. thanks. hold on a minute. happy birthday.
01:38:17oh hey. you shouldn't have.
01:38:21Sam! what a lovely surprise.
01:38:51this is Sam Morse. a very dear friend. we're at medical school together. chief inspector Morse.
01:39:02one of my colleagues. what are you doing here? birthday weekend. your office told me where to
01:39:10find you. can I get you a drink Sam? oh great thanks. half a lager. Grayling? thanks I'm fine.
01:39:25how are you? it's really good to see you.
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