The Clarets XI old boys' cricket team gather in Oxford for their annual match, but before the first ball is bowled one of the team meets an untimely death. As Morse pieces together the clues, he realises that the Clarets players have more than cricket on their minds.
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00:01:01Radio 3 listeners on medium wave will now rejoin Brian Johnston
00:01:05and his team of commentators at Lourdes
00:01:07for Test Match Special and the afternoon session of England Fest.
00:01:14And welcome back to Lourdes.
00:01:16We've come to the end of the luncheon interval.
00:01:18We all had a jolly good lunch prepared by Nancy just below us here in her little kitchen.
00:01:22The umpires, Jack Baldwin, Tom Hedges, right there in the middle.
00:01:25Spectators settling down.
00:01:26Hello, Barker.
00:01:27Mr Duncan, how are you?
00:01:30Quite good. How are you?
00:01:32Where are you parked? You're not on double yellow, are you?
00:01:35They're not above coming in and knocking on my windows, traffic wardens.
00:01:38Reflects badly on the college.
00:01:40I'll move it.
00:01:41MUSIC PLAYS
00:01:57Welcome to Anthony Don.
00:02:01Third window on the right, across the corner.
00:02:08Here you are, sir, your old room.
00:02:10Nice to have you back, sir.
00:02:12Don't forget about the motorcar.
00:02:14Thank you, Barker. Nice to see you again.
00:02:41MUSIC CONTINUES
00:02:53You beat up your girlfriend's father?
00:02:55Yeah, er, that's about it, I suppose.
00:02:57I see.
00:02:58How do you feel about that, Mark?
00:03:00The thing is, then I went round to my girlfriend's house
00:03:03to see if I'd have her back and what have you,
00:03:05and he wasn't there, so I had to work with her mum about it,
00:03:08and, well, one thing led to another and what have you,
00:03:10and we ended up making love in the back of my van.
00:03:14You're 17 years old.
00:03:16You make your girlfriend pregnant, you assault her father...
00:03:18Blimey. Afternoon tea.
00:03:20Yeah, that is what happened, but...
00:03:22They make those things up, don't they?
00:03:24Have you told...
00:03:31Is that Radio 3 now?
00:03:33Supposed to be, yes.
00:03:34I don't suppose you know what the England cricket score is, do you?
00:03:37No, I don't.
00:03:38That's my little morse.
00:03:41Yes, that's right. Who's this?
00:03:43I don't know whether it's going to ring any bells.
00:03:46It's Anthony Don.
00:03:48Anthony Don?
00:03:50St John's Road, Anthony Don?
00:03:54What?
00:03:55Cricket.
00:03:57The Clarets.
00:03:59The old boys' eleven.
00:04:01Anything wrong?
00:04:03No, no, no, nothing ominous.
00:04:05I was wondering if you might fancy supper or something.
00:04:08Leave it alone.
00:04:15Hmm?
00:04:16Oh, I don't know.
00:04:18What about tonight?
00:04:20Sure.
00:04:22OK.
00:04:23Yes.
00:04:25Goodbye.
00:04:30Is this girl grown up enough, Mark,
00:04:32to understand that the fact that you've slept with her...
00:04:35A leg spinner, Woodcock, to bowl to Baxter from the nursery end.
00:04:38Baxter's 36, and here comes Woodcock now
00:04:41with that quaint hop-and-a-skip run of his.
00:04:43He bowls, he tosses up in the air, and Baxter goes down the pitch.
00:04:46And he's missed it. He's completely deceived by the flight,
00:04:49and Jackson behind the tippers whips off the mails,
00:04:51and Baxter's out.
00:04:53Stuck Jackson, Bill Woodcock for a steady but very useful 36.
00:04:56England then are now 125 for 5,
00:04:58and poor Baxter looks disgusting himself.
00:05:01He was completely deceived by the flight.
00:05:03The flight.
00:05:05The flight.
00:05:07The flight.
00:05:14Nothing ahead. Have a go at speed of 10, Brian.
00:05:2181-0-7, we're booking your man, Brian.
00:05:234-1, booking your man. Have a go at speed of 10, Brian.
00:05:30Come back. Come back.
00:05:54Move this, Kenny.
00:05:56Oh, come on, for God's sake, and get the vultures away from here.
00:06:07Not a pretty sight in there, I'm afraid.
00:06:09How many?
00:06:11Dead? Uh, two.
00:06:13Plus some him.
00:06:16Hello, Doctor.
00:06:18Oh, Sergeant.
00:06:20Threw in petrol bombs and locked the door.
00:06:22This thing.
00:06:25Couldn't get out.
00:06:27Apparently used to sell, you know,
00:06:29left-wing books and way-out stuff,
00:06:31homosexual books and so on.
00:06:33There've been threats, apparently,
00:06:35and the local council's been trying to close the place down.
00:06:37Been in all the local papers.
00:06:39I don't think you mean way out, do you?
00:06:41Well, you know, explicit writing and...
00:06:45I'm just saying. I've got nothing against it.
00:06:47Oh, right.
00:06:49No, I'm just saying quite explicit material
00:06:52about homosexuals, that's all I meant.
00:06:54And some stuff about how the best copper's a dead copper.
00:06:57I'm not saying this is a good thing.
00:06:59Well, good, because you can go into any high-street bookstore
00:07:02and find literature far more offensive than anything sold here, in my opinion.
00:07:05Pornography next to the children's comics.
00:07:08I think you should get those slogans painted out.
00:07:11They're evidence.
00:07:13Yeah, they most certainly are.
00:07:17Yes, of course they are.
00:07:19I'm sorry, it's...
00:07:21It's just...
00:07:23I'm sorry, Sergeant. That was unnecessary.
00:07:26Don't worry.
00:07:28Well, I'll phone you when I've done the tests.
00:07:30Well...
00:07:32She'll get used to it.
00:07:34She'll have to.
00:07:44I haven't done this for years.
00:07:46Not bad, are they?
00:07:48Not bad.
00:07:50What do you do normally?
00:07:52Do you cook or something?
00:07:54Or is there somebody at home you're keeping a secret?
00:07:58I did live with a microwave for a while,
00:08:01but we argued.
00:08:04Never married?
00:08:06That's right.
00:08:08How was that?
00:08:10Do you mind?
00:08:12Not being married?
00:08:16Sometimes.
00:08:18Sometimes I mind.
00:08:22Why? Have I missed out?
00:08:24Well, I've got to say yes, haven't I?
00:08:27I've got two beautiful children.
00:08:30A beautiful wife?
00:08:32A very beautiful wife.
00:08:34Yes, of course I think so,
00:08:36but then I'm not you.
00:08:38Anyway, I know some evenings
00:08:40and you wish you could just buy a bag of chips and...
00:08:43Whatever this is.
00:08:45You know?
00:08:49It's ironic, isn't it?
00:08:51You've got a policeman and a lawyer together.
00:08:54They know how to ask the questions,
00:08:56but they're not very good at answering them.
00:08:59Well, I've enjoyed myself.
00:09:01So have I.
00:09:03We didn't even talk about cricket.
00:09:05Police force?
00:09:08I'll run you home.
00:09:11Listen, I think I'll walk.
00:09:13It's not far.
00:09:15You sure?
00:09:17Thanks for the offer.
00:09:19OK.
00:09:21Look, um...
00:09:25Was there something you wanted to talk about?
00:09:29What do you mean?
00:09:31No.
00:09:32What do you mean?
00:09:34I don't know.
00:09:36I got the feeling that you wanted to say something.
00:09:40About what?
00:09:45I suppose I wondered why,
00:09:48after all this time...
00:09:52Oh, that I rang you.
00:09:54Oh.
00:09:56Yes, well, you know,
00:09:58you get to a certain age,
00:10:00you start to see things differently.
00:10:03You start to...
00:10:05I don't know.
00:10:09Right.
00:10:11That wasn't very...
00:10:13That was a bit vague, wasn't it?
00:10:16A bit.
00:10:17I was reading this book the other day,
00:10:20cranky thing about Zen Buddhism.
00:10:22Not my thing, by the way.
00:10:24Successful lawyer, F.T. reader,
00:10:26meditate on the stock market.
00:10:28No, it's Kate's, my wife.
00:10:30I picked it up to...
00:10:32Anyway, it had this story
00:10:34about a chap who goes to see a master
00:10:36and wants to know about the meaning
00:10:38of the one-hand clapping.
00:10:40You know, that Zen thing
00:10:42about the sound of one hand clapping.
00:10:44And the master tells him
00:10:46he's not concentrating hard enough
00:10:48and too attached to wealth, to things.
00:10:50I don't know why I'm telling you this.
00:10:52Anyway, the master says to this chap
00:10:54it would be better if he died.
00:10:56That would solve the problem.
00:10:58So the chap falls over on the floor
00:11:00as if he were dead.
00:11:02The master watches this and says,
00:11:04so now you're dead, what about the sound?
00:11:06And the chap says, I still can't hear it.
00:11:09Upon which the master kicks him.
00:11:11Dead men cannot speak, he says.
00:11:16Anyway, it's not bad, eh?
00:11:21Look, it's been good to see you.
00:11:24Chew the fat and what have you.
00:11:27Chew the chips.
00:11:30That's right.
00:11:32Look, um,
00:11:34if you remember what it was,
00:11:38give me a call, huh?
00:11:40I will. I will.
00:11:44The white hair suits you.
00:11:48Makes you look very wise.
00:11:52See you.
00:11:54Mm-hmm.
00:12:08Tony, you're not watching the ball.
00:12:10You're not using your feet.
00:12:12And your bat looks like a limp willy.
00:12:15Apart from that, you're doing fine.
00:12:17Give him a few bounces.
00:12:19Might help to wake him up.
00:12:22And that's out.
00:12:24Straight down Longhorn's throat.
00:12:29Ah.
00:12:31Ah.
00:12:33Ah.
00:12:36Ah.
00:12:38God, what a shambles.
00:12:40Come on, Clarence.
00:12:44Sorry, Rowley, I'm not quite with it today.
00:12:46No, you'll be all right.
00:12:48By the way, when is Vince arriving, do you know?
00:12:50Mr. Cranston.
00:12:52Your guess is as good as mine.
00:12:54Probably saying a long goodbye to somebody else's wife.
00:12:58That's right.
00:13:00Oh, bloody thing.
00:13:06What I'd like you two to do
00:13:08is just spray a few words on that sheet.
00:13:11What?
00:13:13I collect autographs.
00:13:15No, thanks.
00:13:17Really?
00:13:19I thought you were good at this.
00:13:21Well, you thought wrong, then, didn't you?
00:13:23It's odd, because you were both seen spraying slogans
00:13:26on the walls outside the bookshop.
00:13:28Well, I thought you were good at this.
00:13:30Well, you thought wrong, then, didn't you?
00:13:33Who might?
00:13:35By reliable witnesses who are prepared to testify.
00:13:38What, people who work there?
00:13:40What difference does it make if they work there or not?
00:13:43Well, if they work in a place like that,
00:13:45there must be something wrong with them.
00:13:47I mean, have you read the stuff they sell there?
00:13:49It's disgusting.
00:13:51It's difficult to read the books they sell.
00:13:53They're all caught fire.
00:13:55Look, I can't understand why everybody's making
00:13:57such a sung and dance about this fire.
00:14:00Makes you wonder who the police really care about.
00:14:03I'll tell you what disgusts me.
00:14:06Someone who sets fire to a building
00:14:09with human beings inside it.
00:14:11Yeah, like the IRA.
00:14:14They had books supporting the IRA in that shop.
00:14:17Is that why you put petrol bombs through the letterbox?
00:14:21Look, we don't know what you're talking about.
00:14:25Call for you, sir.
00:14:28Call for you, sir.
00:14:30Get them to call back.
00:14:32Well, it's personal, and Anthony Don, he seems quite...
00:14:35Take a message.
00:14:37Sir?
00:14:39Look, we're not going to answer any more questions
00:14:41until the lawyer's here.
00:14:43No.
00:14:45Tell him I've remembered what it was that I wanted to say.
00:14:49He can telephone me at Arnold College.
00:14:52Thank you.
00:14:55Okay, thank you very much.
00:14:57Thank you.
00:15:22Which means the M25 is blocked in both directions.
00:15:25I'm afraid few people driving in to work.
00:15:27This is Kate, Don, and it's 8.17,
00:15:30and now back to John in Crouch End.
00:15:32Come on. Come on, Kate.
00:15:34Get rid of him. People are falling asleep.
00:15:36We don't give a toss about his grandmother or his...
00:15:39I think you should see this.
00:15:41The police phone. It's Kate's husband.
00:15:43It's heavy.
00:15:45He's dead.
00:15:47I can't believe this.
00:15:50Have you seen this?
00:15:52I'm not going to tell her now.
00:15:55I'm not going to tell her. We're on air in 15 minutes.
00:15:57What are we to do?
00:15:59This is a live programme. What am I supposed to do?
00:16:01It's a disaster.
00:16:13It's Morse.
00:16:15Right, constables, we've finished with fingerprints now.
00:16:18Will you contact the law?
00:16:20Sorry, sir.
00:16:22OK, now, back to base.
00:16:24Go on, off you go.
00:16:28This is the chap who...
00:16:30Isn't this the chap, your friend, from...
00:16:36Yes, that's right.
00:16:39It's the radio lead.
00:16:41And there was this.
00:16:47Where was this?
00:16:49Inside his suitcase. It was loaded.
00:16:52It was loaded.
00:17:05He rang me, you know.
00:17:07Yesterday.
00:17:09It was him who rang when we were interviewing those...
00:17:12It was him.
00:17:14Oh, right. It didn't click.
00:17:17The message was...
00:17:20He knew what he wanted to tell me.
00:17:23To tell you about what?
00:17:25I don't know, Lewis, I don't know.
00:17:28Dead men can't speak, can they?
00:17:34The old boys' eleven.
00:17:37Do we know who this is?
00:17:39His name's Roland Marshall.
00:17:41We were friends.
00:17:43Of a kind.
00:17:45I knew him and Anthony Don when I was a student.
00:17:47Good man. Or was.
00:17:50He's a sort of inventor.
00:17:52Solar energy and all sorts of things.
00:17:56That's right, I know about him.
00:17:58He's the chap that made the thing, the car thing.
00:18:02You know, what was like a big bubble.
00:18:04And it didn't work.
00:18:06That's him.
00:18:08A crank, but a nice one.
00:18:10I didn't know about the wheelchair.
00:18:13We need to speak to him.
00:18:16They're trying to track him down.
00:18:18And Mrs Don?
00:18:20Yeah, on her way.
00:18:26What do you think, sir?
00:18:28Was he depressed when you met him the other evening?
00:18:30Not particularly.
00:18:32Why didn't he shoot himself?
00:18:35I mean, I'm not saying that...
00:18:38I don't know what I am saying, but I wouldn't have thought...
00:18:42I wouldn't have thought myself it was a very reliable method.
00:18:46The radio lead, you know.
00:18:48If you were trying to make sure.
00:18:50I mean, you'd think they'd just sort of jump out when you turned the power on.
00:18:53But it must have been on, mustn't it, already?
00:18:55Because he was on the bed.
00:18:57Well, if somebody helped him.
00:18:59One of his teammates, perhaps.
00:19:03Let's have them all in, the cricket team.
00:19:06In batting order.
00:19:08Right, you are.
00:19:10Excuse me, sir. Mrs Don's arrived.
00:19:13Bring her in.
00:19:15Well, she's up in the room.
00:19:17We couldn't really...
00:19:19OK, I'll speak to her.
00:19:23Do you want to start taking statements?
00:19:25What, now?
00:19:31Don't tell me you're babysitting.
00:19:33No, I'm on leave, sir, from half an hour ago.
00:19:36Leave?
00:19:38Just a week, sir, that's all.
00:19:40Oh.
00:19:42Did I know about this?
00:19:44You signed the form.
00:19:46Did I?
00:19:49Well, look, it's not very convenient for this.
00:19:53What are you doing, going to Butlins?
00:19:56No, sir, actually.
00:19:58I've got the outside of the house to paint and some gutters to fix and what have you.
00:20:02I thought you'd had your leave. You're always on leave.
00:20:05No.
00:20:06Ten days of Christmas, a couple of days of the Easter holidays and now this.
00:20:10Yes, yes, all right, Les.
00:20:17The follow-on.
00:20:20You're kidding.
00:20:22No, I'm not.
00:20:24They're all out. None of our last five batsman made it into double figures.
00:20:27It's a shambles.
00:20:29Well, who told you?
00:20:33Great.
00:20:36LAUGHTER
00:20:4127 for two.
00:20:43Brilliant.
00:20:45What was that?
00:20:47I can't see anything.
00:20:49Something flashing from that first window on the first floor.
00:20:52Find out who's staying there.
00:20:54And don't let me catch you listening to that on duty.
00:21:05Come on.
00:21:26I'm sorry. I understand he was a friend, is that right?
00:21:29That's right. Sir?
00:21:32He died in the night. He was electrocuted.
00:21:35My guess is he'd taken some sedatives as well.
00:21:38Tell me, do you know anything about patterns of suicide?
00:21:42I mean, is it normal?
00:21:45I mean, do people normally...
00:21:47Don't they do it at home?
00:21:49I mean, do they have to go somewhere else to do it?
00:21:52Sorry, I don't know.
00:21:54But you do think it was suicide?
00:21:56I think it would be very difficult to ask somebody to lie still
00:21:59unless there was a live electric cable in their mouth.
00:22:01Unless he was asleep or unconscious.
00:22:06His wife is upstairs, you know.
00:22:08Yes, I'm just going.
00:22:10She's a radio presenter, isn't she?
00:22:12Is she? I don't know.
00:22:14Anyway.
00:22:16Anyway.
00:22:19Do you have any plans for later?
00:22:21I'll be in the lab.
00:22:23Well, another time.
00:22:26OK.
00:22:29Bye.
00:22:40Mrs Darn?
00:22:42Yes.
00:22:44My name is Morse.
00:22:46Hello.
00:22:48Your husband and I were students together.
00:22:50Really?
00:22:52I'm sorry, I thought you were a policeman.
00:22:54I am.
00:22:56I'm very sorry.
00:22:59This was his room, wasn't it?
00:23:03When he was an undergraduate.
00:23:05For a time, I think.
00:23:07And then we...
00:23:09We shared a house together, actually.
00:23:11So we were quite...
00:23:14Really?
00:23:16I didn't know.
00:23:18I had a drink with him the night before last.
00:23:22No, we weren't...
00:23:24I hadn't kept in touch.
00:23:27So I imagine that's why you didn't...
00:23:31There was no reason.
00:23:36Apparently, they used to...
00:23:39Well, you'll know this.
00:23:41You're supposed to write your name somewhere in the room,
00:23:44if you lived here.
00:23:47I've been looking.
00:23:49Can't find it.
00:23:54Coffee.
00:23:58I need coffee.
00:24:02It's my headache.
00:24:12Oh, God, Cradstone, I might have known it was you.
00:24:15Still can't drive, I see.
00:24:17Rowley! Is this yours?
00:24:19Thought you were grounded. Not quite yet.
00:24:22Come on, give me a hand. Pleasure.
00:24:25How's Trix? Look, I don't need that.
00:24:28Oh, right, eh?
00:24:30Sorry I'm a bit late. One or two distractions on the old heart front.
00:24:35Good to see you. Everything all right?
00:24:37Tony Don committed suicide last night.
00:24:40You're joking. No, I'm not.
00:24:43He electrocuted himself.
00:24:50Kate!
00:24:53Kate, I'm so sorry.
00:24:56I can't believe it.
00:24:58I know.
00:25:03I... I don't know what to say.
00:25:07There's nothing to say.
00:25:09I only just arrived. I had no idea.
00:25:12Well, I've got to go inside. It's question time.
00:25:16Hello.
00:25:19Hello, Rowland.
00:25:21Hello.
00:25:23I'm sorry, do we know each other?
00:25:26Rowland, this is Chief Inspector Morse.
00:25:29Oh, I see.
00:25:31Morse?
00:25:33It's pagan Morse, isn't it?
00:25:37It is!
00:25:39My God, it is as well!
00:25:42And you're a policeman.
00:25:44I'm afraid so.
00:25:46Well, there's a turn-up for the book.
00:25:48It's good to see you.
00:25:50Yes, absolutely.
00:25:52Not the best of...
00:25:54No, no, that's right.
00:25:56Look, I'm taking Mrs Don for a walk,
00:25:59but we'll talk, you and I.
00:26:02Oh, yes, please.
00:26:04This is Vince Cranston, by the way.
00:26:06Mr Cranston. Inspector.
00:26:09If you'll excuse me.
00:26:11Goodbye.
00:26:16Chin up, Kate.
00:26:19How do you know him?
00:26:21Lonsdale man.
00:26:23He knew Tony Dunn very well in the old days.
00:26:26Last person you'd imagine doing that job.
00:26:31I imagine he's good.
00:26:33Clever.
00:26:35Drinks.
00:26:37Used to.
00:26:39Pagan Morse.
00:26:42Really is a turn-up for the book.
00:26:45Pagan?
00:26:47Why Pagan?
00:26:49What's all that about?
00:26:59I, uh, prefer Morse.
00:27:02Plain and simple.
00:27:04But when I came up to Oxford
00:27:06and wouldn't say what my Christian name was,
00:27:09somebody called me Pagan.
00:27:11And it stuck.
00:27:13For a while.
00:27:15I think I prefer Morse.
00:27:17Thank you. So do I.
00:27:20This looks more like it.
00:27:22I hope so.
00:27:26I, uh, have to ask you a few questions.
00:27:31Of course.
00:27:33Tony didn't kill himself.
00:27:35What makes you say that?
00:27:37I just know.
00:27:39We didn't have the greatest marriage in the world.
00:27:41I just know he wouldn't...
00:27:44I just know he wouldn't.
00:27:46Do you have any idea why he might have been carrying a gun?
00:27:52Tony?
00:27:54I don't believe it.
00:27:56He had a gun in his luggage.
00:28:00Tony wouldn't know one end of a gun from the other.
00:28:03Did your husband have any enemies?
00:28:06No.
00:28:08No, I don't think so.
00:28:11Obviously, I'm sure there were people who didn't.
00:28:13But not enough to...
00:28:15No, no.
00:28:18What kind of a gun?
00:28:21I don't believe this. I don't believe this is happening.
00:28:25The children.
00:28:27I must call the children. They won't know where I am.
00:28:29What's happening? Excuse me, I must find a telephone.
00:28:32Don't worry. Don't worry.
00:28:34They're with your mother. Everything's been taken care of.
00:28:38My mother.
00:28:40Right.
00:28:42Thanks.
00:28:45Do you know, I feel a little...
00:28:50I think I feel a little...
00:29:01Thank you.
00:29:09Cheers.
00:29:16This stuff is so potent.
00:29:18I always hope it might get the old leg and arm twitching again.
00:29:22How is it, the...
00:29:24Oh, all right. One learns to live with it.
00:29:27Or rather, one doesn't.
00:29:30Actually, it's a swine.
00:29:35Yes, it's a swine.
00:29:37Yes.
00:29:40Well, Pagan, here you are.
00:29:44Here I am.
00:29:49Tell me about Anthony Don.
00:29:52I can't see the Anthony Don I knew committing suicide.
00:29:56Can you?
00:29:58Makes more sense than someone killing him.
00:30:00I mean, why?
00:30:02Well, I was hoping you might tell me that,
00:30:04Well, I was hoping you might tell me that,
00:30:06because I think someone did kill him.
00:30:10Really?
00:30:11And I'm a pedestrian sort of copper.
00:30:14I say to myself,
00:30:16a man comes to Oxford to play cricket with old friends
00:30:20and gets murdered.
00:30:22And then I remember reading some statistic or other
00:30:25about how most murders are committed by someone the victim knows.
00:30:30And I put these things together
00:30:32and I come up with 11 suspects.
00:30:36Okay.
00:30:38And you?
00:30:4011.
00:30:42Anyway, Rowley, I have a plan and I need your help.
00:30:46As long as I'm not going to be arrested.
00:30:48Well, on the nobody-changes-much theory,
00:30:51I think you get parole.
00:30:53Okay, fire ahead.
00:30:55How can I help?
00:31:02Yeah.
00:31:05Oh, hey, you've been practising with your mum, haven't you?
00:31:09I'm impressed, Sergeant. I think you'll do very well.
00:31:12I think it's a crazy idea.
00:31:14Really?
00:31:16I thought it would be a fantasy come true.
00:31:18What about the other bit?
00:31:20You have to take the rough with the smooth.
00:31:23Oh, well, Val and I have something to say about the decorated one.
00:31:26We'll take care of that. It's only fair.
00:31:33You just keep practising.
00:31:36When do I start?
00:31:38Oh, I think Mr Barker's expecting you any time now.
00:31:44Whoa!
00:31:50Now, there is no question but that the festival will continue.
00:31:55Apart from the European end, which must go ahead,
00:31:58we have a game to play here.
00:32:00Seems a little indecent to me,
00:32:02carrying on playing cricket after what's happened.
00:32:04I don't agree. Tony Dunne was a dear friend of mine.
00:32:07We were fellow students together
00:32:09while you were still bowling at your high chair.
00:32:12But packing up and going home isn't going to change anything.
00:32:15Rowling, are the police going to allow us to go abroad
00:32:18while they're carrying out their investigations?
00:32:20They'd better. Now, come on, clerics!
00:32:22We owe it to Tony to put up a decent show.
00:32:25What about the team, Rowl? We're a man short.
00:32:28Ah, well, I was coming to that.
00:32:31It so happens Arnold has a couple of porters this year
00:32:35who are quite handy.
00:32:37I've had a word with Barker and he's prepared to cover for one of them.
00:32:41Bit of an all-rounder.
00:32:43I've asked him to come down for a net.
00:32:45Porter?
00:32:47Why not? He qualifies.
00:32:49Any man who can hit the ball off the middle of the bat is a gentleman in my book.
00:32:53I never met a porter a good bat.
00:32:55Block. Blocking. In the bone with porters, you see.
00:32:58Enough chat.
00:33:00Let's get your boots on and get outside.
00:33:04Hello?
00:33:06Oh, hello, Lewis.
00:33:08Gentlemen, I'd like you to meet your new team-mate.
00:33:26I wish you'd stay and have a proper lunch.
00:33:30No, I have to get back. This is perfect.
00:33:33Great. Thank you.
00:33:35Find anything?
00:33:37Not really. I'll have to go over to his office later.
00:33:41Thing is, you know, I can't think why any of his clients...
00:33:44It's not as if we're in criminal law or anything.
00:33:47Why should any of his clients want to...?
00:33:50I can understand if it were me. I'm always treading on toes on the programme.
00:33:54Tony? I mean, it was matrimonial law.
00:33:58It was commercial work.
00:34:00He was always complaining how mundane it was.
00:34:03Well, love and money are the most common motives,
00:34:07but, yes, yes, I know what you mean.
00:34:10I suppose so.
00:34:12What about the partners? Were there ever any problems?
00:34:15No, none that I knew of. The reverse.
00:34:18But you said to me he was a difficult man. What did you mean?
00:34:24He...
00:34:26I think he sometimes resented my career.
00:34:29He could get angry. He was quite a conventional man.
00:34:33I don't know.
00:34:35Perhaps he was unhappy.
00:34:39Perhaps the fact that I didn't realise was one of the reasons he was unhappy.
00:34:47I feel I didn't know him at all.
00:34:50Perhaps he did.
00:34:55I keep thinking about that gun. He hated guns.
00:35:00So maybe he bought it...
00:35:03to...
00:35:08And then he couldn't.
00:35:11So...
00:35:16I'm sorry.
00:35:19It's fine.
00:35:22The children are so miserable and I don't know what to say to them.
00:35:27I know.
00:35:31My mother's going to take them home with her
00:35:34so I can come up to the inquest and then...
00:35:38I must keep working. I feel I must work.
00:35:42I think you're right.
00:35:45Do you?
00:35:48Thank you.
00:35:52You're so nice.
00:35:54Really?
00:35:57Just as I was thinking of trading myself in.
00:36:04Well, I must get on. I'll leave you.
00:36:07OK.
00:36:10There was one thing.
00:36:12Anthony mentioned a book he'd been reading.
00:36:15It was yours, I think.
00:36:17I wondered if I could look at it.
00:36:19What book was this?
00:36:21It was something to do with Zen Buddhism.
00:36:24He'd been reading it.
00:36:26Really?
00:36:28I can't think.
00:36:30He said you were very interested in that area.
00:36:33Well, I am.
00:36:35He told me a story from it,
00:36:37something to do with a man seeking knowledge from a master
00:36:42and something about the sound of one hand clapping.
00:36:46Yes, that's right.
00:36:49That's where it went.
00:36:51It was a present given to me and then I couldn't find it.
00:36:56Tony must have.
00:36:58What was the title? Do you remember?
00:37:02I'm sorry, I can't.
00:37:04I didn't have it for very long.
00:37:06Why? Might that be important?
00:37:08I don't know. I stumble around.
00:37:11That's what I do.
00:37:13Sometimes I stumble in the right direction.
00:37:17However Anthony died, there had to be a reason.
00:37:20Either somebody else had a motive or he did.
00:37:24I'll try and remember.
00:37:28Might you ask the person who gave it to you?
00:37:32Yes, of course.
00:37:34It's the obvious.
00:37:36It was a girlfriend.
00:37:38I'll telephone her.
00:37:40And would you telephone me if you need anything?
00:37:44Yes.
00:37:47Or even if you don't.
00:37:52OK.
00:38:03Oh, hello. Sir.
00:38:05No Barker? Mr Barker's off today. Can I help you?
00:38:08I'm Lewis. Lewis? I haven't seen you before.
00:38:11That's right. Spot on leave.
00:38:13We all take a turn during the vacation.
00:38:15Catching up with the decorating? I'm sorry?
00:38:18You've got paint on your hands.
00:38:20Oh, yes. Sorry about that.
00:38:22I'm Peter Foster, by the way.
00:38:24I'm borrowing your library and doing a little book on the EEC.
00:38:27Oh, yeah? Hobby of mine.
00:38:29Now, I came to ask Barker if he'd mind terribly lending me his master key.
00:38:34Actually, Lewis, I'm rather glad he's not here
00:38:36because this is the second time this week I've locked myself out.
00:38:40I'll tell you what it is. There's only one key for our room.
00:38:44Every time Philippa goes out, I forget to leave the lock on the latch.
00:38:48It's quite ridiculous.
00:38:50Would you mind?
00:38:52You'd like me to come and open your room?
00:38:54That's it. Although I can do it myself.
00:38:56Save you the bother. Run up and straight back.
00:38:59Fair enough. Would you mind hanging on just a second?
00:39:03There you go, Mr Foster.
00:39:05Would you mind bringing them straight back to the lodge?
00:39:08Absolutely. Two minutes.
00:39:20Keep your head down, Mr Barker. I'll be right back.
00:39:32I'll be right back.
00:40:03Tell me, which staircase does our friend Foster live on?
00:40:07East.
00:40:09Mm-hm. Lost his sense of direction along with his key.
00:40:16Thank you, Lewis. And not a word to Barker, or he'll shoot me.
00:40:20Don't worry. Good man.
00:40:24Where are you going to arrest him?
00:40:26I don't know.
00:40:28Good man.
00:40:30Where are you going to arrest him?
00:40:32What for? He told you a lie.
00:40:34I told him lots of lies. Very fishy.
00:40:37But I'll tell you something else for nothing.
00:40:40The woman he's with, I'm positive they're not married.
00:40:43What makes you say that?
00:40:45There's a big song and dance about a couple staying.
00:40:48I'm not fond of it myself.
00:40:50But anyway, I get the bedder to put the beds together
00:40:53because they're supposed to be man and wife.
00:40:55The bedder comes to see me the next day
00:40:57and says the beds have been pushed apart again.
00:41:00Well, it's very fishy because she's a very handsome woman.
00:41:04We're in.
00:41:06No, we're not.
00:41:08You were followed all the way to the staircase.
00:41:13I still think it's a bit fishy.
00:41:15Well, I've checked the statements,
00:41:18checked the address,
00:41:20checked the work details.
00:41:22He's a master. He does work in Brussels.
00:41:25He is married to a Philippa Foster
00:41:28and he's researching a book in Oxford.
00:41:30So what's he doing poking around in Anthony Dunn's room?
00:41:33Was he in the room?
00:41:35I thought you said you didn't actually see him go in.
00:41:38No, no, but I heard him
00:41:40and he lives on the other side of the college
00:41:42and I think he's got a pair of binoculars.
00:41:44You heard something and you think something.
00:41:47It's not a staggering weight of evidence.
00:41:50What about the bed thing?
00:41:52Well, you can't arrest a man because his wife won't sleep with him.
00:41:55Well, I think there's something going on
00:41:57and so does Mr Barker.
00:41:59Oh, well, if Mr Barker thinks there's something going on.
00:42:03Hey, Charlie.
00:42:09My key. Richard.
00:42:11Ah, er, 15.
00:42:13Thanks. Thanks, Lewis. Any messages?
00:42:16Just look for these... Oh, yes.
00:42:18Your office call.
00:42:20Dan, what time was that?
00:42:22Oh, I don't know, sir. Sorry.
00:42:24Do you think you could try and keep a time of my messages?
00:42:27Makes life easier.
00:42:29Yeah. Yes, sir.
00:42:33Anything for me? Cassidy?
00:42:35No, I don't think so, sir.
00:42:37Keep an eye on my car, will you?
00:42:39Blue BMW on the corner.
00:42:41Shove a coin in if the warden's come prowling.
00:42:43Sir. And a good chap.
00:42:48Good evening. Good evening, sir.
00:42:50I wanted Mr Foster.
00:42:52East staircase, first floor.
00:42:54Thank you.
00:42:57Mine's the Jaguar, just across the street.
00:43:05KNOCK AT DOOR
00:43:06Who is it? Chief Inspector Morse.
00:43:08Thames Valley, please.
00:43:10Um, just a minute.
00:43:13DOOR OPENS
00:43:15DOOR CLOSES
00:43:17Inspector.
00:43:19Uh, I hope this is not an inconvenient time.
00:43:22Uh, no, well, I was just getting ready for supper.
00:43:25But no, no, please come in.
00:43:29DOOR OPENS
00:43:30I'm sorry, by the way, but my husband is still in the library.
00:43:33Was it him you wanted to speak to?
00:43:35No, no, either of you. No problem.
00:43:37Forgive the, um...
00:43:39These rooms are rather cramped.
00:43:41I shan't look.
00:43:43So?
00:43:46Well, I, uh, wanted to have a little chat
00:43:49about you and your husband's statements.
00:43:52Oh, yes.
00:43:54It's about your telephone number, actually.
00:43:56Do you remember it?
00:43:58Uh, our home number?
00:44:00That's right.
00:44:02Um, well, it's Brussels, of course,
00:44:04and I can never remember the code from here,
00:44:07but certainly our home number is 3416293.
00:44:11Ah.
00:44:13Well, that's where we have a small anomaly,
00:44:17because that's the number your husband gave,
00:44:20but, uh, you seem to have given a different one.
00:44:23Really?
00:44:25Ah, yes, yes, here we are.
00:44:27Uh, Brussels 3565599.
00:44:30No, let me see.
00:44:323565599.
00:44:34Oh, you know what I've done.
00:44:36I've given you our flat in London. How stupid.
00:44:39So if I telephone that number, who would I get?
00:44:42Um, well, you'd get our answering service, I'm afraid,
00:44:45but please do. Leave us a message.
00:44:48It'll persuade Peter it was worth paying all that money.
00:44:51Oh, no, that's fine. Simple mistake.
00:44:54I don't even know my own telephone number.
00:44:59Was there anything else, Inspector?
00:45:01No, I don't think so.
00:45:06It was like a boarding school.
00:45:08That's right, very prim.
00:45:10You didn't know Anthony Don, did you?
00:45:13No.
00:45:15No.
00:45:17No, I was thinking his firm had an office in Brussels.
00:45:20I just wondered whether you'd ever, uh...
00:45:22But, uh, no.
00:45:24Really? No, although perhaps Peter might have, but then he would have said.
00:45:27Yes, I'm sure.
00:45:29So it was just an unfortunate coincidence
00:45:32that you arrived the day before the cricket team.
00:45:36Um, yes.
00:45:38I'm not quite sure what you're getting at,
00:45:40but, um, looked at in those terms, yes, I suppose so.
00:45:46Terrible thing.
00:45:48I can't imagine someone wanting to take their own life.
00:45:52He didn't.
00:45:54Oh, really? You think he was...?
00:45:57I'm certain of it.
00:45:59Oh, his poor wife. Yes.
00:46:02I suppose that means there'll be no cricket tour.
00:46:05Oh, no, no, they're going ahead.
00:46:07Rotterdam, Antwerp, Brussels.
00:46:11There's Brussels cropping up again.
00:46:14No, no, they've roped in one of the porters to take Anthony's place.
00:46:18That's good. I'm so pleased. I love cricket.
00:46:21I was intending to go along to the game here.
00:46:25Then we'll see each other.
00:46:27Oh, really? Oh, great.
00:46:29Because I can't tempt Peter away from his blasted books.
00:46:32You wouldn't, um...
00:46:34Would I be a terrible nuisance if I, um...
00:46:37Oh, God, what are you trying to say?
00:46:39Can I sit with you is what I'm asking.
00:46:41Only it's a bit uncomfortable being a single woman on these occasions.
00:46:45Sure. Thank you. That's really kind.
00:46:48Oh, it's my pleasure.
00:46:50Wild horses won't drag my husband away from his work.
00:46:53Obsessional, I call it.
00:46:56I'd call it bad taste.
00:46:58So would I.
00:47:00Tomorrow, then. Goodbye.
00:47:10Brilliant.
00:47:14No, no, Cranston's not your man, Sergeant.
00:47:18It's much more likely someone would want to stick him in a live socket.
00:47:24Boyle Cuckolder, our Vince.
00:47:27Naughty boy.
00:47:29He'll chase anything outside his off stump.
00:47:32Harmless enough, though.
00:47:34And in any way, he wasn't in Oxford at the time.
00:47:37That's right.
00:47:39Oh, yes.
00:47:41I am supposed to be leaning on you.
00:47:44Sorry.
00:47:46It's the air. It hits you, doesn't it?
00:47:48Goodbye.
00:47:51Good night, sir. Good night, Barker.
00:47:54See you in the morning, Mr Lewis.
00:47:56Right.
00:47:58At least I might get the morning off.
00:48:00No such luck, I'm afraid.
00:48:02Barker's taking all this very seriously.
00:48:10At last! Young Jamie, if I'm not mistaken.
00:48:14My nephew, Sergeant Lewis, the captain of the Hearties.
00:48:19Nunk, at what time do you call this, then?
00:48:21I'm late. What's this?
00:48:23Still pretending you can't walk?
00:48:25Let me break your bones properly.
00:48:27Excuse us. The annual family bear hug.
00:48:30That's enough!
00:48:32This is Mr Lewis.
00:48:34He's going in for us at number five.
00:48:37Lewis. Hello. I'm the opposition.
00:48:40Hello. What a dreadful business with Tony Don.
00:48:43What was all that about? We don't know.
00:48:46Dreadful? It wasn't our team.
00:48:48We'd have gone for your blacksmith. Have you met Mr Cranston?
00:48:51He certainly has. Ah, yes.
00:48:53Hits the ball seriously hard.
00:48:55I'm starving. Did you keep back any of that groaning board?
00:48:58I suppose so.
00:49:00I'm not going to let you go home.
00:49:02Back indoors. I don't have much choice, do I?
00:49:05Not much. I'll go on ahead. I'll catch you up.
00:49:08Oh, team tactics, eh?
00:49:10OK, see you tomorrow. Is he good?
00:49:12Ah, wait and see.
00:49:14Your secret weapon, eh? You'll need it.
00:49:16We're planning on giving you a thrashing.
00:49:18A first-rate thrashing.
00:49:22Rory, sorry. I wonder, could I borrow your car?
00:49:25What's up?
00:49:27Nothing. Do you mind?
00:49:29No, no. You may have a spot of trouble with the controls.
00:49:32I've had them adapted.
00:49:34I'll manage, if you've got the keys.
00:49:38Go ahead.
00:49:44How do I make it go?
00:50:14I'll get it.
00:50:44MUSIC PLAYS
00:51:14MUSIC CONTINUES
00:51:45Ah!
00:51:49All right. Nasty bump.
00:51:51Gathering pull his head in the way of a hook shot.
00:51:54Is he still planning to play today?
00:51:56I hope so.
00:51:58I told him. Lewis, Colin Cowdery faced up to Wes Hall
00:52:01in the 63 Lords' Test with a fractured arm.
00:52:04You'll be facing friendly medium pace with a headache.
00:52:07How did that go down?
00:52:09He grunted. I took that as positive.
00:52:15Looks like someone's determined to get the Clarets down to ten, man.
00:52:19I know. A little bit worrying.
00:52:22Made any progress?
00:52:24Not much. Is that why you wanted this business postponed?
00:52:27Yes. Roland, would you excuse me? I want to have a word with Mrs Don.
00:52:31No problem. We'll see you at the ground.
00:52:34Sure. No, it's all right. I'm fine.
00:52:37See you, Bacon.
00:52:40Mrs Don.
00:52:42Inspector. Could I...?
00:52:45Excuse me.
00:52:52Kate, um...
00:52:55Are you all right?
00:52:57Yes. Yes, I think so.
00:53:00I'm sorry. It couldn't be any easier. I need the adjournment.
00:53:04I know.
00:53:07How could it be anything but awful?
00:53:13I don't want to go home.
00:53:16Then don't.
00:53:19What's your day?
00:53:21Uh, not. I have to go to the cricket this afternoon.
00:53:26Right.
00:53:29Could I come with you?
00:53:33I don't think so, Kate. I don't think that...
00:53:37that would be a good thing for you to do.
00:53:40Well, before that...
00:53:42Before that, I have to speak to some people who set fire to a bookshop.
00:53:47It's not very, um...
00:53:50Look, uh...
00:53:52What about supper?
00:53:55I could come with you now.
00:53:57I read about that fire.
00:53:59Any other time, I'd be asking you professional questions.
00:54:03Why don't I just grab my tape recorder and tag along?
00:54:07No.
00:54:10I know.
00:54:12I'm sorry.
00:54:15Yes.
00:54:19Yes!
00:54:21Sorry, sir.
00:54:23You have to go.
00:54:25I have to go.
00:54:27Tonight?
00:54:30I don't know.
00:54:33I don't know.
00:54:41Roland, you still here? Can we take you anywhere?
00:54:45No, no. I'm just waiting for my nephew.
00:54:48Supposed to be collecting me.
00:54:50Completely unreliable.
00:54:52Have you met Jamie?
00:54:54This is your nephew. No, I haven't.
00:54:56Mustn't criticise him too much. He forks out for the match expenses.
00:55:00The Hartys are his team, you see.
00:55:03He flies halfway across the globe to be here.
00:55:06For a game of cricket?
00:55:08There are few things in life more important than a game of cricket.
00:55:12I'll take your word for it.
00:55:14OK, I'll see you at the great event.
00:55:18Mock not, Inspector.
00:55:21Oh, I hope so.
00:55:23How's your head?
00:55:25Can it be all right to play?
00:55:27I told him if he's not, he should get his son down here.
00:55:30Sounds a bit useful.
00:55:32What's he done?
00:55:34My son hit me on the head with a cricket bat.
00:55:37When was this, then?
00:55:39This morning.
00:55:41I thought you said you were in casualty half the night.
00:55:44No, no, I meant...
00:55:46No, I didn't say half the night.
00:55:48No, I went very early this morning.
00:55:52You know what time kiddies get out of bed.
00:55:54No, it was early this morning.
00:55:56I think for son read wife and for bat read rolling pin, eh, Lewis?
00:56:00Someone's been at this lock-in.
00:56:02Someone's swine's been fooling around with the bloody lock.
00:56:05Are you sure?
00:56:09You know anything about this?
00:56:11Who, me?
00:56:13I'll tell you something.
00:56:16If I catch anyone around here with their nose in my business,
00:56:19they'll get more than a bloody bat round their head.
00:56:22Supposed to be a civilised team, not a bloody riffraff.
00:56:26Take no notice.
00:56:28He's psyching himself up for a big knock.
00:56:30OK.
00:56:38Gentlemen, your call, Jenny.
00:56:40Head.
00:56:42Wee field.
00:56:46Sorry, chaps.
00:56:48We're in.
00:57:02They're batting.
00:57:04Good. Keep your eyes open.
00:57:06I'll get to work here.
00:57:08I guess I've got a good couple of hours before I need to be down there.
00:57:15APPLAUSE
00:57:35Two, please.
00:57:37Right, get out to square.
00:57:39A little more.
00:57:41Yeah, that's fine now.
00:57:43Gully, Jeremy, you can go, Gully. That's right.
00:57:45Everyone, look lively. He's a good polo's guy.
00:57:48Straight down. All right?
00:57:50Good luck, batsman.
00:57:56Play.
00:58:13APPLAUSE
00:58:37Yes.
00:58:40And again. This end.
00:58:54All right!
00:58:56APPLAUSE
00:59:09APPLAUSE
00:59:40Yes!
00:59:42APPLAUSE
00:59:45Can I join you?
00:59:47Hello. Yes, of course.
00:59:49Thank you.
00:59:51I brought us a picnic. Good idea?
00:59:53Wonderful.
00:59:55How are we doing?
00:59:57Who are we supporting?
00:59:59The Clarets, of course. College loyalty.
01:00:01Clarets!
01:00:03CHEERING
01:00:05In that case, I think we may have a few problems.
01:00:08Oh, dear. I hope it's not me.
01:00:10I'm a bit of a gyrus.
01:00:12Is their attack very strong?
01:00:14Whose attack? The fielding side.
01:00:16The... What's his name? The... The Hearties.
01:00:21I've got no idea.
01:00:23Do you not follow cricket, Inspector?
01:00:25Follow would be an exaggeration.
01:00:28Not so much follow as flee.
01:00:31Philistine.
01:00:33Men in uniforms, incomprehensible rules.
01:00:37Nothing happening for hours at a time.
01:00:40Everyone taking it very seriously.
01:00:42Not my idea of a good time.
01:00:44Inspector, you're a thug.
01:00:46Maybe.
01:00:48I go for the picnic, though.
01:00:52You're absolutely wrong about cricket.
01:00:54It is quite the best game in the world.
01:00:57It's war without guns.
01:00:59It's wonderful.
01:01:01Deployment of men,
01:01:03psychology,
01:01:05bravery,
01:01:07great skill, camaraderie,
01:01:09tactics, tension.
01:01:11Honestly, fantastic tension.
01:01:23Just try and stay there. Vince can get the runs.
01:01:25Good luck.
01:01:27Just stay there, Lewis.
01:01:36Look, look.
01:01:38It's our porter.
01:01:40Middle and leg, please.
01:01:48Watch the ball.
01:01:50Keep your feet. Watch the ball.
01:01:53Watch the ball.
01:02:06Yes!
01:02:16All right, Lewis?
01:02:23Yes! No!
01:02:25Yes! No!
01:02:27Get in there!
01:02:29Come on, yes!
01:02:31Well done, chaps.
01:02:34Whose fault was that?
01:02:36Hard to say. What a pity.
01:02:38No, thanks.
01:02:40Nothing worse than being run out.
01:02:42It's up to you, Vince.
01:02:44It'll be all right.
01:02:46If somebody will stay with us,
01:02:48it'll be all right.
01:02:50It'll be all right.
01:02:52It'll be all right.
01:02:54It'll be all right.
01:02:56It'll be all right.
01:02:58It'll be all right.
01:03:00It'll be all right.
01:03:02If somebody will stay with me...
01:03:04No conferring, please, gentlemen.
01:03:0631 for 4.
01:03:08What's the word I'm looking for, Nug?
01:03:10Rout? Massacre?
01:03:13A philosopher?
01:03:15No, not really.
01:03:17What, then?
01:03:19Just a policeman.
01:03:21Actually, I was looking for a book on zen
01:03:23and the art of car maintenance,
01:03:25but this was the best they could do.
01:03:27Terrific!
01:03:29I'm enjoying this.
01:03:32No, I mean it.
01:03:34This is nice.
01:03:36You're nice.
01:03:40I think you're flattering me.
01:03:42No.
01:03:46Well, so are you.
01:03:48Nice.
01:03:50Why, thank you.
01:03:52If I didn't know there was a Mr Foster,
01:03:54you might even convert me to cricket.
01:03:57Perhaps not.
01:04:02Inspector.
01:04:04Hello, Kate.
01:04:06Hello.
01:04:08Philippa, this is Mrs Don.
01:04:10Kate, this is Philippa Foster.
01:04:13Hello.
01:04:15I'm interrupting.
01:04:17No, no, no. Please, join us.
01:04:19No, I don't, uh...
01:04:21I don't think so.
01:04:23You were right.
01:04:25I don't think so.
01:04:27I don't think so.
01:04:29You were right.
01:04:31I shouldn't have come.
01:04:33Now you're here, why don't you sit down,
01:04:35have a glass of wine?
01:04:37You're just in time to see our number three make his 50.
01:04:40Who's that?
01:04:42Oh.
01:04:45Listen, do you two want to talk?
01:04:47Because I can easily take myself off for a tour of the boundary.
01:04:50No, it's absolutely fine.
01:04:52I'm going.
01:04:55APPLAUSE
01:04:57Oh, well played!
01:05:05Kate Don, did you say?
01:05:09That's not the same Don as the...
01:05:11Yes.
01:05:13It was her husband.
01:05:15Golly.
01:05:17Yes.
01:05:25DOOR SLAMS SHUT
01:05:27Edda!
01:05:29Edda!
01:05:34APPLAUSE
01:05:50He stayed in and I did.
01:05:52You may be.
01:05:55Ah, Pagan, there you are.
01:05:57Jamie, this is Inspector Morse.
01:06:00Ah, I've heard all about you.
01:06:02Hello. Hello.
01:06:04You watching the game? Yes.
01:06:06I hope you stay to see the thrashing completed.
01:06:08Many a slip, eh, Pagan, many a slip.
01:06:10A mug of tea?
01:06:12Oh, thanks. No, I'll get it.
01:06:14Good chap. Oh, um, do you know Lewis?
01:06:17Hello, Lewis. Hello, Pagan.
01:06:19Sugar?
01:06:21Oh, thank you.
01:06:24Your uncle tells me you've come a long way just for the game.
01:06:27My little indulgence.
01:06:29We forgive his second-rate cricket
01:06:31for the first-rate contribution he makes towards costs, eh, Jamie?
01:06:34How far is a long way?
01:06:36I move around. I flew back from Hong Kong.
01:06:39What's that?
01:06:41Money.
01:06:43Ah, we've a snubby one leaving.
01:06:47Thanks. May the best man win.
01:06:52Oh, congratulations.
01:06:54Oh.
01:07:06Yes!
01:07:08Come on!
01:07:13Wait. Two.
01:07:21Yes!
01:07:27Yes!
01:07:51Well played.
01:07:54Well done.
01:08:22New bowler, right arm over.
01:08:28Good shot.
01:08:47Ah!
01:08:52Well done.
01:08:59You've got to worry, Lewis.
01:09:01Your son would have hit that into the car park.
01:09:03Well played, Lewis.
01:09:05They're still ahead.
01:09:07After 18 overs, we've lost six wickets.
01:09:10Inspector Morse, I think you're getting hooked.
01:09:17It's wet.
01:09:21Ah!
01:09:33Ah!
01:09:35Ah!
01:09:37Ah!
01:09:39Don't touch him!
01:09:43Oh, my God.
01:09:51Come on.
01:10:09Thanks.
01:10:17You all right?
01:10:21Look, I know this is unpleasant and awful...
01:10:26..but we need to talk
01:10:28and we have to drop all the charades and games
01:10:33and whatever else it is that's been going on.
01:10:36I know.
01:10:38Because there are a couple of dozen men next door
01:10:41and until we speak properly...
01:10:46..we're not going to know which of them killed your husband.
01:10:52Thank you.
01:11:00Would you mind leaving us for a few minutes?
01:11:02Just wait outside.
01:11:11Peter Foster wasn't my husband, Chief Inspector.
01:11:14He was my colleague.
01:11:22I'm trying to make a new telephone call.
01:11:26Sorry?
01:11:28I've got a wife at home who'll be wondering what's happened to me.
01:11:32I'm all in good time.
01:11:38Yes, sir?
01:11:40Gents.
01:11:42I'll just come along with you, then.
01:11:45I need an accurate time of death.
01:11:47Oh, that's not difficult.
01:11:49When I got here, the body was still warm.
01:11:51That was, what, 45 minutes?
01:11:54When was he discovered?
01:11:56Just after five.
01:11:58Well, if he had been dead 20 minutes before that,
01:12:01I'd be very surprised.
01:12:03You realise that that means when he died,
01:12:06all of his organs were gone?
01:12:08Yes.
01:12:10I don't know who the obvious suspects are, Inspector.
01:12:13Is there any reason for him to be here?
01:12:16Not for me.
01:12:18Sergeant, can we...?
01:12:20Oh, yeah, sure.
01:12:22It's a very interesting personal effect, sir, for an academic.
01:12:26A miniature camera.
01:12:28And these aren't our forensic bags.
01:12:31They're his.
01:12:33I'm sorry.
01:12:35It's all right.
01:12:38Yes?
01:12:40I thought you might like to know, sir,
01:12:43Sergeant Lewis is in the gents.
01:12:46I always like to know that, Hilla.
01:12:49I'm sorry, I thought you...
01:12:51Yes, yes, I'm coming.
01:12:57One more thing.
01:12:59Could a woman have done this?
01:13:01No.
01:13:03No, you would need a considerable amount of...
01:13:07Well, I couldn't have done it.
01:13:16We can't go on meeting like this, Lewis.
01:13:21Oh, is that something?
01:13:23No, that's all right. Just put your foot against the door.
01:13:26Bit of a turn-up for the booth.
01:13:28Yes.
01:13:30Thing is, sir, if he died while we were out fielding,
01:13:33they've all got alibis.
01:13:35I had worked that out, yes.
01:13:37And his wife was with you, wasn't she?
01:13:40Yes and no.
01:13:42What do you mean?
01:13:44Mrs Foster is not Mrs Foster.
01:13:46Come again?
01:13:48Mrs Foster is an investigating officer with customs and excise.
01:13:51Peter Foster was her boss.
01:13:53Are you joking?
01:13:55No.
01:13:57So it wasn't him that hit me last night?
01:13:59Apparently not.
01:14:01Foster had you down as chief suspect.
01:14:04Whoever thumped you over the head was aiming for him.
01:14:07Chief suspect in what?
01:14:09Well, it seems that one of our cricketers,
01:14:11when they're not knocking balls for sex or practising on your head,
01:14:15like to take the odd kilo of cocaine on holiday with them.
01:14:18Oh, that explains a lot.
01:14:20I mean, about Foster being everywhere and the single beds
01:14:24and him breaking into What's-His-Name's room.
01:14:27It explains some things and gives us a motive.
01:14:30It certainly doesn't explain how the killer manages to be in two places at once
01:14:34or why Anthony Donne died.
01:14:38So what? Do I...
01:14:40Am I dropping this port of business or what?
01:14:42No, not yet.
01:14:44No, and you'd better go in there.
01:14:46Right.
01:14:50Well, off you go.
01:14:52Well, I just want to...
01:14:54You know.
01:14:56You know.
01:14:58You know.
01:15:00I bet you'd call it by a number at home.
01:15:03So what of?
01:15:05Don't tell me. I can guess.
01:15:12Gentlemen, sorry for any inconvenience.
01:15:14Inspector, there are men here who've done us a great favour
01:15:17by turning out for Jamie's team. I think they ought to be allowed to go.
01:15:20There is a body in the next room.
01:15:22I'm afraid he's not going anywhere and neither for the moment are any of you.
01:15:26This is ridiculous.
01:15:28I mean, half of us were on the pitch, see?
01:15:31When?
01:15:33Well, when this chap was...
01:15:35killed.
01:15:37How do you know?
01:15:39I think we might have noticed a corpse on the floor while we were getting changed.
01:15:43Look, none of us had even met him.
01:15:46Oh, I think somebody did, Mr Cranston.
01:15:48Somebody had a brief chat with him this afternoon.
01:15:51Well, it certainly wasn't me.
01:15:53I was either fielding or batting the whole time.
01:15:56Look, I want to be allowed to go or I want to see my solicitor.
01:15:59There was a tea interval. I thought I saw you in here.
01:16:04No, you could have done it.
01:16:06Anybody here could have done it.
01:16:08So we'll all stay until we have a volunteer.
01:16:24Pagan.
01:16:28What?
01:16:30About the tour.
01:16:31What about it?
01:16:33We're supposed to be on a boat tomorrow afternoon.
01:16:35Yes.
01:16:37Well, I...
01:16:39Well, I know it's an abuse of knowing you, but...
01:16:42we're talking about months of organisation.
01:16:45That's all.
01:16:49Rowley.
01:16:51Rowley, people are dying all over the place.
01:16:55Compared with that, even cricket has to suffer.
01:17:06What we know is this.
01:17:08Heroin, cocaine, hard drugs,
01:17:12large quantities, are being brought into England
01:17:16and then distributed throughout Europe.
01:17:19This has been going on for some years.
01:17:22No-one cottoned on at first,
01:17:24because normally we're looking for stuff coming in, not going out.
01:17:28That's why it's so clever.
01:17:30Anyway, then it became clear
01:17:33that one of the deliveries had a pattern to it.
01:17:36One consignment, not big,
01:17:40a million, two million street value,
01:17:43always around the same time of year,
01:17:47always to more than one destination.
01:17:50Peter...
01:17:55Peter had this brainwave about a tour or a holiday or something.
01:18:00After that, it was just a matter of matching and elimination.
01:18:05The pattern fitted the Claret's tour exactly.
01:18:08So we came to Oxford.
01:18:10Then Tony Don died.
01:18:14And then... and then this.
01:18:21Why didn't you tell me?
01:18:23You might have been involved.
01:18:26We'd already worked out about Sergeant Lewis.
01:18:29It happens, Inspector.
01:18:32And that's why I got all the attention?
01:18:37Something like that.
01:18:40So what now?
01:18:42Well, I know that we'd want to let the tour go ahead.
01:18:46Why? Surely nobody's going to risk carrying the stuff if they know you're on to them.
01:18:51Maybe, maybe not.
01:18:53At the very least, they might make contact with their connections on the other side.
01:18:58This is two years' work.
01:19:00It's not so much the link as the chain.
01:19:05Now it's cost a life.
01:19:07Now it's cost a life.
01:19:09Perhaps two lives.
01:19:11I'm just asking for the opportunity to make it count.
01:19:17You've got to find a reason why they're all suddenly allowed to go.
01:19:21Otherwise it's going to be...
01:19:23It'll be so obvious.
01:19:27I've got an idea about that.
01:19:30What I think happened was that Foster found out
01:19:34that his wife was having an affair with Anthony Darn.
01:19:38Killed him.
01:19:40Told her and got his comeuppance this afternoon.
01:19:44From his own wife?
01:19:46She's in shock, but that's my guess.
01:19:49What about Lewis's batter on the head?
01:19:52Foster.
01:19:54I think he was ransacking Anthony's kit for letters.
01:19:58Evidence.
01:20:00If we'd found them first, it would have been obvious.
01:20:03Are you sure?
01:20:05It all sounds a bit gothic.
01:20:07I know.
01:20:10Anthony told me a few things the night before he died.
01:20:14About emotional problems.
01:20:18Some other things.
01:20:20I was just too slow to put two and two together.
01:20:25Well...
01:20:28You know what I'm going to ask, Peyton?
01:20:31Any chance?
01:20:34About the tour, you mean?
01:20:38Well, I'm not sure.
01:20:41Lewis can chaperone us.
01:20:44I'll do my best, but I can't promise.
01:20:47Good man.
01:20:49Good man.
01:20:51But if I say yes, Roly, I want you to guarantee
01:20:54that all who go out will come safely back.
01:20:57Just in case I'm wrong.
01:20:59Scout's honour.
01:21:03Are you all right?
01:21:05Yes.
01:21:07Yes, it's this bloody leg.
01:21:10I'm not supposed to...
01:21:12I'm not supposed to walk on it.
01:21:15Yes.
01:21:17Listen to those bastard doctors who just roll over and die.
01:21:22Not for me, Tom.
01:21:24I'll tell you what I was thinking.
01:21:26His phone. It was a portable one, wasn't it?
01:21:29And?
01:21:31Well, there'll most likely be a record of all his calls.
01:21:34Could be interesting.
01:21:36Maybe.
01:21:38You see, there's something staring me in the face,
01:21:41and I can't...
01:21:43I keep looking at this bloody thing,
01:21:46and I can't see it.
01:21:49I keep looking at this book.
01:21:52This is where the story Don told me came from.
01:21:56But why did he tell it to me?
01:22:01I know there's something staring me in the face.
01:22:05What about Vince Cranston?
01:22:08Why? Why Cranston?
01:22:10I'm prejudiced.
01:22:12He ran me out this afternoon.
01:22:14I suppose it's true, though, isn't it?
01:22:16He was on the pitch all the time.
01:22:18And he dropped a catch off your bowling.
01:22:21That's right. I was just getting into the swing of it.
01:22:24Did he see my catch?
01:22:26Sorry.
01:22:28Oh.
01:22:30I did see you get your wicket, though.
01:22:32Oh, well, that was more bad battling than good bowling.
01:22:35You could have hit, that's it. No offence.
01:22:39Thank you, Sergeant.
01:22:42PHONE RINGS
01:22:47Hello, this is Kate speaking.
01:22:49I'm sorry, I'm not able to answer the phone,
01:22:51but if you'd like to leave a message,
01:22:53I'll call you back as soon as I can.
01:22:55Or you can try ringing Beaconsfield,
01:22:57which is 0494 699 488.
01:23:02Please speak after you hear the beep,
01:23:05leaving the time and date of your call.
01:23:07Thanks.
01:23:10Hello, Kate, it's Morse.
01:23:13I'd like to see you.
01:23:15I need to speak to you and...
01:23:19Well, nothing, I just need to speak to you.
01:23:22So, I think you've got my numbers, so...
01:23:28Actually, no, forget this.
01:23:30I'll try the other number.
01:23:32OK, bye now.
01:23:36PHONE RINGS
01:23:38These telephone numbers, what about times?
01:23:41I didn't ask, sir.
01:23:43Well, call them back and ask for the times.
01:23:46PHONE RINGS Sir?
01:23:55I wish you'd rung first. I'm just going out.
01:23:57I'm recording today.
01:24:00Are you going to let me come in?
01:24:09Please don't try and explain
01:24:11why we didn't go to supper last night,
01:24:13or say you like my outfit, or...
01:24:15You know, let's just stick to me, Widow, you policeman.
01:24:18We didn't go to supper last night
01:24:20because I didn't know where you were.
01:24:23I was here. You've got the number.
01:24:25I called here.
01:24:27What time? You didn't call.
01:24:29About five.
01:24:31I came straight here after you saw me.
01:24:33If it wasn't five, it was just after,
01:24:35and my mother was here anyway.
01:24:38Good. I'm glad.
01:24:40What do you mean?
01:24:42It doesn't matter. I'm just glad you were here around five.
01:24:45So you didn't call?
01:24:47No, but I called your London number this morning.
01:24:50Where is that?
01:24:52I have a flat.
01:24:54For when I'm working late.
01:24:56Right.
01:24:58Anthony called it on the day he died.
01:25:01That's all.
01:25:03Did he?
01:25:05Did he?
01:25:07You didn't know?
01:25:09Well, I haven't been there since he died.
01:25:12No, I didn't.
01:25:14Will you tell me if he left a message?
01:25:17Of course.
01:25:19I'll go straight there on the way to the studio.
01:25:23I didn't think about that.
01:25:25I was stupid. I didn't think about that.
01:25:29I might have been able to...
01:25:31I'm sorry.
01:25:33I'm sorry.
01:25:35I didn't come to upset you.
01:25:39I'm sorry, too.
01:25:42I'm not normally...
01:25:45whatever I am.
01:25:47It's just that I...
01:25:49I just need to be working.
01:25:51And I'm late.
01:25:54I'm going.
01:25:56OK.
01:25:58Well, thanks. Thanks for coming.
01:26:01Can I take you to the station?
01:26:03Or are you driving?
01:26:05No, my mother's going to...
01:26:08Yes.
01:26:10Please.
01:26:12Be nice.
01:26:14As long as you promise to have supper with me.
01:26:17Very soon.
01:26:19I promise.
01:26:22Can I just be a minute?
01:26:24Sure.
01:26:30OK.
01:27:01MUSIC PLAYS
01:27:20I'm ready.
01:27:22Let's go.
01:27:24All set?
01:27:26Where the hell is Cranston?
01:27:28He's gone, Rowley, driving himself down.
01:27:30Apparently got a bit of business to sort out on the heart front.
01:27:33Well, he better not miss that ferry.
01:27:35OK, Rowley.
01:27:37Yes, on the bus.
01:27:39All ready, sir.
01:27:41Well, get them going, then.
01:27:43Ready to come on board now, is it?
01:27:45Not me, Lewis.
01:27:47Get Carsegan as I'm driving myself.
01:27:49I'll see you in Dover.
01:27:51After that, it's the brown paper bag for a week.
01:27:54See you there.
01:27:56Just a moment, sir.
01:28:20Well, see you soon.
01:28:23Thanks.
01:28:25Bye.
01:28:27Bye.
01:28:52MUSIC PLAYS
01:29:22BIRDS CHIRP
01:29:52MUSIC CONTINUES
01:30:09OK, thanks.
01:30:22MUSIC CONTINUES
01:30:53MUSIC CONTINUES
01:31:07Come on, Vince.
01:31:12He's gone out of shape.
01:31:14Lots of men.
01:31:23We've turned the vehicle inside out. It's clean.
01:31:25So what's the plan now?
01:31:27I don't know. We've got people at the other side.
01:31:29They'll keep tabs.
01:31:31And we just hope that somehow we've missed it
01:31:33and it emerges further down the line.
01:31:35Why the delay?
01:31:37No Cranston. They're waiting.
01:31:39Oh, he's coming. How do you know?
01:31:41I've just seen him at the station making his goodbye.
01:31:44I think I shall do the same.
01:31:53Hagen!
01:31:55Where did you spring from?
01:31:57I just thought I'd come and see you all off.
01:31:59Are you going on the tour?
01:32:01No such luck.
01:32:03No, he's just dispatching me and then he's going back.
01:32:05To Hong Kong?
01:32:07In that direction. Tokyo, Singapore.
01:32:09It's called Follow the Yen.
01:32:11Good luck.
01:32:13Vince! Vince!
01:32:15Come on, Vince, for Christ's sake.
01:32:18I'm sorry, I'm a little held up.
01:32:20In fact, leave being imagining.
01:32:22On you go.
01:32:24I'll see you on board.
01:32:26Don't get lost, Rowley.
01:32:36Okey-doke.
01:32:38It's kisses from me, then, no?
01:32:40Yes.
01:32:42I'll call you when you get back.
01:32:44In the middle of the night, if I can.
01:32:46Inspector.
01:32:48Where's my car?
01:32:50I'll say goodbye, too.
01:32:52Have a good tour, Roland.
01:32:54Ready?
01:33:18For the hearties like this team, you see,
01:33:20flies halfway round the globe to be here.
01:33:22For a game of cricket.
01:33:24I move around.
01:33:26I flew back from Hong Kong.
01:33:28What's there?
01:33:30Money.
01:33:32Then it became clear that the consignment had a patent.
01:33:34One delivery a year.
01:33:36Even you can hear that.
01:33:38No offence.
01:33:44Come on, Porter!
01:33:48Lewis!
01:33:54Lewis!
01:33:58Lewis, don't let them go!
01:34:02Get up.
01:34:04What?
01:34:06Get up!
01:34:08What are you talking about?
01:34:10What the bloody hell do you think you're doing?
01:34:14Blimey!
01:34:16Let go of me!
01:34:18Just let go of me!
01:34:20Let go of me, blast you!
01:34:22I'll leave this to you.
01:34:24Sergeant Lewis.
01:34:26Have Mr. Cranston driven back to Oxford.
01:34:28This has nothing to do with me.
01:34:30This hasn't?
01:34:32No. That's why it took me so long.
01:34:34Sergeant.
01:34:36What the bloody hell's going on?
01:34:38That's what you're going to tell me.
01:34:42Why?
01:34:44Why not?
01:34:46Life has spat on me. Why not?
01:34:48Why not spit back?
01:34:52Lewis, we need a car.
01:35:14SIREN WAILS
01:35:40Good afternoon, sir.
01:35:42Are you the owner of this vehicle?
01:35:44I'm not, actually. No, it's my uncle's.
01:35:46I've got some papers here somewhere.
01:35:48Oh, bloody thing.
01:35:50Do you have any idea what speed you were doing?
01:35:52A bit fast, I suppose.
01:35:54That's right, sir.
01:35:56I thought the two of us were just saying a bit fast.
01:36:00I see.
01:36:02Books for Burning is our subject today on Speak Out.
01:36:04This is Kate Don.
01:36:06Happy to be back and happy to hear your views
01:36:08on London 727-2727.
01:36:12Kate, a bit less me, me, me,
01:36:14a bit more them, them, them, OK?
01:36:16This happens to be something
01:36:18that me, me, me feels quite strongly about.
01:36:20Lovely.
01:36:22I just don't want my children
01:36:24reading these kind of books.
01:36:26If you know what I mean, there's already enough sex and violence.
01:36:28What are we talking about here?
01:36:30Political books? Children's books? What?
01:36:32The other. About homosexuals.
01:36:34Shall I tell you what I always say?
01:36:36There are all kinds of things in this world
01:36:38and we don't need to know about them all.
01:36:40We just need to concentrate on the good things, eh?
01:36:42Good idea, Mrs Ellingham.
01:36:44And we'll do that by taking another call
01:36:46just after the commercial break.
01:36:50Inspector?
01:36:58I think we'd better talk outside, Kate.
01:37:02I'm on the air.
01:37:04Nevertheless.
01:37:06OK.
01:37:08So what is so important
01:37:10I had to leave my programme?
01:37:12Catherine Donne.
01:37:14I charge you with the murder of your husband,
01:37:16Anthony John William Donne.
01:37:18You have the right to speak,
01:37:20but I must warn you,
01:37:22anything you say may be taken down and used in evidence.
01:37:24What?
01:37:28I'm sorry.
01:37:32What?
01:37:38Come on.
01:37:50I've got an instinct, you see, Lewis,
01:37:52but it's sort of addled,
01:37:54I suppose.
01:37:58I knew the Zen thing was important,
01:38:00but I kept thinking it was the story.
01:38:02And it wasn't the story.
01:38:04It was the book
01:38:06and where it came from.
01:38:08Vince Cranston.
01:38:10Vince Cranston.
01:38:12Then I made the connection
01:38:14between one death and the other.
01:38:18Oh, Forster's fault.
01:38:20Forster?
01:38:22No, Forster, the writer.
01:38:24Only connect, that was his motto.
01:38:26Terrible idea. There was no connection.
01:38:30Kate killed her husband,
01:38:32Jamie killed Forster.
01:38:34Sir?
01:38:36Why did she kill her husband?
01:38:38I told her myself.
01:38:40I said, love and money,
01:38:42they're the most common motives.
01:38:44And they are.
01:38:46She wanted to leave him.
01:38:48He wasn't having any.
01:38:50He threatened to keep the kids,
01:38:54to keep the money,
01:38:56to kill Cranston.
01:38:58So she killed him.
01:39:00Same with Rowley.
01:39:02He was bitter,
01:39:04short-changed.
01:39:08He decided nobody cared for him,
01:39:10so he stopped caring for them.
01:39:14His nephew exploited that.
01:39:16Brilliant, really.
01:39:18Because all the time we were looking
01:39:20in the wrong place,
01:39:22at the wrong team.
01:39:24It's me.
01:39:26I'll see you later.
01:39:28Cranston?
01:39:30Both of them.
01:39:32Kate, Rowley.
01:39:34I had them both so close to me,
01:39:36I couldn't see.
01:39:38I've read the book.
01:39:40One thousand hugs, one thousand kisses.
01:39:42I've got a gun, Kate.
01:39:44And I swear to God,
01:39:46if I don't kill myself, I'll kill somebody.
01:39:48Right.
01:39:50Kate, it's Morse.
01:39:52Look, I'd like to see you.
01:39:54I need to speak to you.
01:39:56And...
01:39:58Well, nothing.
01:40:00I just need to speak to you.
01:40:02Well, I think...
01:40:14Sir.
01:40:20It's got on, hasn't it?
01:40:22Yeah.
01:40:24Any idea what time it is?
01:40:26Why?
01:40:28Are you up for a pint?
01:40:30Well, actually, I was hoping
01:40:32we might be in time to see the end of the test match.
01:40:36Yes, of course, Lewis.
01:40:38I mean...
01:40:40Where could we avoid it?
01:40:54THE END
01:41:24THE END
01:41:54THE END
01:42:24THE END
01:42:54THE END