Part 2 of 3 of the 1987 thriller. Weaver is persuaded by pal Jack Irwin to rob rival nightclub owner Mc Fadden of his drug dealing courier money, but in return wants the name of the bent copper that presided over his son's murder investigation. He also locates the boy's teacher Kelling, who informs him that the area his son was found is a notorious drug wasteland, but is later told by the bent cop Greerson that his son wasn't into drugs. So why was he there? As he continues to dig into the case, Weaver risks complicating matters when he becomes involved in an affair with Irwin's girlfriend Hazel. And his prying begins to disturb someone, when someone pays his father in law Doyle a visit at the book shop...
Starring David Threlfall, Michael Angelis, Craig Charles, James Ellis, Richard Griffiths, Leslie Ash, Eithne Browne, Terence Harvey, Dawn Archibald, Andrew Scofield, Ray Kingsley and Nick Maloney among the cast. This has never been repeated since it's broadcast in 1987 and comes from an old recording. It has the added interest of ads for TV programmes on the end of this episode for Radio Times that may be of interest. Please note that this contains swearing, violence and nudity.
(Further note: For those wondering where Episode 3 is, your guess is as good as mine. I have asked 3 times why it was removed - apparently due to audio elements - but no explanation what those audio elements are. For those seeking the last episode, I can only advise you to seek it out on ok.ru, as it is on there. Apologies for the inconvenience, but sadly this is not down to me).
Starring David Threlfall, Michael Angelis, Craig Charles, James Ellis, Richard Griffiths, Leslie Ash, Eithne Browne, Terence Harvey, Dawn Archibald, Andrew Scofield, Ray Kingsley and Nick Maloney among the cast. This has never been repeated since it's broadcast in 1987 and comes from an old recording. It has the added interest of ads for TV programmes on the end of this episode for Radio Times that may be of interest. Please note that this contains swearing, violence and nudity.
(Further note: For those wondering where Episode 3 is, your guess is as good as mine. I have asked 3 times why it was removed - apparently due to audio elements - but no explanation what those audio elements are. For those seeking the last episode, I can only advise you to seek it out on ok.ru, as it is on there. Apologies for the inconvenience, but sadly this is not down to me).
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00:00First on BBC One, part two of the thriller, The Marksman, with David Threlfall.
00:04Weaver is back from Spain to hunt for the killers of his young son.
00:08He needs money to help track them down, and joins forces with his ex-partner in crime, Irwin.
00:14However, he will blow the job unless he gets the name of the Bent Policeman.
00:18It's strange the way we go through life, not daring to commit a touch,
00:31and settle for so very little when we've longed for so very much.
00:41It's strange the way we think of God as someone upstairs in the sky,
00:45who doesn't care they're in the basement. The law's an eye for an eye.
00:51You're meant to be a pro, Weaver. You can't screw this up for a kid you hardly ever saw.
00:55I never knew.
00:58Ah, he's never this late.
01:00I want the name of the cop who set this up.
01:04Boil your head.
01:08I've had the clock on him for weeks. You can't rely on anyone.
01:13Name.
01:20Name.
01:21Okay, name!
02:12Where is he?
02:43We did it!
02:49We did it!
02:50We chopped up the bastard.
02:52What's that crack? It's two rights and a left.
02:54Yeah.
02:55Oh, shit.
03:12It's Hyman's, mate, it's Hyman's.
03:42Guess the ways I have known. Jobs I have bought.
04:00Never again.
04:02Never again.
04:04Go, Jesus, go!
04:06Shit.
05:07These were my back alleys.
05:17Thank God some things never change up here.
05:19When Irish eyes are smiling, sure it's like a morning spring.
05:43And the lutes of Irish laughter, you can hear the angels sing.
05:53When Irish hearts are happy, all the world is bright and gay.
06:04That's for pissing off!
06:18That's for coming by.
06:21What if I was to say screw the two of you?
06:23Sleeping with Jack Irwin doesn't make me a runner for every con pal of his.
06:25Then I'll do what I'll do if you play clever, Dennis,
06:27and sell it on your own account.
06:29I don't care.
06:31I don't care.
06:33I don't care.
06:35I don't care.
06:37I don't care.
06:39I don't care.
06:41I don't care.
06:43I don't care.
06:45I don't care.
06:47I don't care.
06:50I don't care.
06:52So, take it on your own account,
06:54find and cut you.
06:56you
07:26I'm going to do that bit here.
07:55Good evening and welcome to Dancers' Club.
08:06There's Frances.
08:07If she doesn't win, you'll catch her over there by the collar, isn't it?
08:12Ladies and gentlemen, what are you doing?
08:14You're unemployed at the moment.
08:15No, I'm dancing.
08:17You're always going to win with your leg like that.
08:21Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together for Frances.
08:26Ladies and gentlemen, you're as content as a barmaid now.
08:29There you go. This is young Katie.
08:32What do you do, darling?
08:33I'm a housewife.
08:35Show me your lovely legs.
08:38The rest tomorrow when I've washed and dried it.
08:52You've got to keep your paperwork straight.
08:54Would I slice you?
08:57Knowing you're as good as ever.
09:02You didn't put a treat.
09:08All right, girls, how are you doing?
09:10There's so many lessons now coming.
09:24Name.
09:27Oh, don't go mixing business with the personal.
09:30You're a keen amateur.
09:32You're a pro.
09:36Grayson, detective, inspector.
09:42Don't go pulling the town down around your ears for a grudge, Don.
09:47Hey, do you fancy a take or what?
09:51Or have you got something not on toast already?
10:03Right, girls.
10:05Who wants to be in the movies?
10:35Never mind the police.
10:58Fetch that shotgun.
11:00Have you got the shotgun man?
11:04Get that bloody doberman awake.
11:07Well, the police aren't away yet.
11:12Hippies!
11:22That was the kid's granddad.
11:24I know that because that mouth breather led better pointed him out.
11:29He knows it because he follows him around.
11:32He says because he's checking we're still clear of it.
11:36I say it's because led better is a creepy dickhead with nothing better to do.
12:05How have you been?
12:27You know.
12:31You're looking great.
12:34Your hair's longer.
12:37Shorter?
12:41You've been away.
12:44Milton Keynes.
12:46The biggest open prison in Europe.
12:48I was there three months, I left screaming.
12:57So will you do something?
13:00Call led better off.
13:03See if we're still clear.
13:10Something.
13:12Always did when you asked before.
13:25Is she rotten?
13:27I only want to screw you.
13:56I don't want to screw you.
14:25You pulled one.
14:38If I'm going to find who killed him, I'll have to lay some money out.
14:45You're a thief to trade, Weaver.
14:52I never hid it from you.
14:56You got a kick out of it when I got back.
15:22Was there ever a cop called Grayson who'd have mentioned a teacher called Kelly?
15:34I want another Gordon.
15:38Just do it and get out.
16:31I got it last night.
17:01Don't shout down the phone like that.
17:03Not when I'm flying me desk.
17:06How's Marge?
17:09You see, I really hope you're not trying to take two slices out of me, pal,
17:12because someone had me right teed up.
17:15Give over.
17:16I'll give you 20 names here and now of people who queue up to stick a shiv in your guts.
17:20I only want the one name.
17:22I mean, what am I paying you for?
17:25I've run a good few of you in my time, you know.
17:27Listen, clever, greedy little cops who thought they could tip the wink
17:32when you knew a house was going to be empty well off their own patch.
17:36Once or twice, they tried to double up.
17:39They've all gone for a swim with their hands chopped off.
17:42Now, I won them, and I won his mate.
17:47Just the two, like?
17:50Motor?
17:51No, no, leave the wheels to me.
17:53I've got a good look.
17:55And it'll be a sort of double check on anything you come up with, won't it?
18:07Now, are you sure Marge is all right?
18:11Yeah.
18:12Give me a nod and she can have the winter in the Canaries.
18:15I mean, what are friends for?
18:19You've got days.
18:22Well, they'll be doing a doggy paddle with stumps.
18:26Nothing personal.
18:36Six pounds, I think it's amazing.
18:39It's very expensive.
18:41It's good material.
18:43We have to get this cut down at the factory.
18:52Thank you very much.
18:54No, thanks.
18:55Right, sir.
18:56Well done, mate.
18:58It's done.
19:01Hiya.
19:02Thank you very much.
19:03No, thanks.
19:04Right, sir.
19:05Well done, mate.
19:08It's done.
19:46So, the whiskey priest and the avenging angel aren't relying entirely on divine comeuppance.
19:53Nob off, Brown.
19:55I wish to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent.
20:26That's Kellings.
20:28Number 23.
20:40I'll just say I'm done.
20:46I'm Gordon Weaver's dad.
20:49You don't know nothing about me.
20:52I'm Gordon Weaver's dad.
20:54You'd have known him as Gordon Doyle.
20:59It's for me, Brian!
21:02Mother said you were dead.
21:04Working abroad.
21:15We're doing the place up.
21:17Hoping to sell it.
21:20Going south.
21:22There's nothing here anymore.
21:24Decadence is one thing.
21:26Decay quite another.
21:28The difference between a mouth full of dead teeth with diamond fillings and just a mouth full of bad teeth.
21:33How well did you know him?
21:35He was a loner.
21:37He walked by himself.
21:39Like that cat in Kipling.
21:44Well enough to try it on with him.
21:46When did you last try it on with an underage girl?
21:48Your name kept cropping up.
21:50Yes.
21:52There's something in me that draws the kids whose dads are dead or working abroad.
21:57I've learnt my lesson.
21:59Not again.
22:01I'll be as sour and hard a knock as the rest of them.
22:05Being human gets you into trouble.
22:07He wasn't killed where he was found.
22:09Did they tell you where?
22:11One of the piggeries.
22:13What would he be doing there?
22:15How long has he been away?
22:18What was the worst you did at his age?
22:20Half a shandy.
22:22Aspirin and coke.
22:24They do glue.
22:26They do pills.
22:27They do smokes.
22:28And they do the needle.
22:30Don't tell me my kid was a junkie.
22:34Kelly.
22:36I'm not.
22:38But what else would he be doing there?
22:46You know a little bit more about him now.
22:50At least he never had his shirt tugged by that disgusting bender of an English master.
22:59For a blue movie star, you make a great drinking club owner, Jack.
23:10I'm sorry.
23:12I'm sorry.
23:14I'm sorry.
23:41I've a wired into the law, Kelly.
23:44They tell me it was you, but they couldn't nail you for it.
23:47I'll be back.
23:49I thought you were the police at first.
23:52Not him.
23:54It's the gear.
23:56No, it isn't the gear.
24:15You might have told me you were picking the job up, Jack.
24:19You had it in the box so long, I was nearly going to pass it on to someone else.
24:23And he did the right number, too.
24:25Local?
24:28New face?
24:30Third from the left.
24:45So?
24:47Who's the new talent in town?
24:53I'll check him out, maybe drop you something really tasty.
24:57Sit on your hands. He'll find you.
25:15The captain walked by itself.
25:18As in the story of Roger Kipling.
25:21That's what the man said, done right.
25:23And you're asking me?
25:25You're wearing glasses, ain't you?
25:27Don't that mean you're bright?
25:29Look, I've tried necking and snogging.
25:31I've never heard of Kipling.
25:33Brown made a joke.
25:35There's hope for you yet, Brown.
25:37God loves a joker.
25:39Well, setting you two to do his work, he must be a right turn.
25:42Well, setting you two to do his work, he must be a right turn.
26:13Yeah?
26:15Yeah.
26:17Yeah.
26:19Why did you not come to me first?
26:21It was me.
26:23It was me.
26:25It was me.
26:27It was me.
26:29It was me.
26:31It was me.
26:33It was me.
26:35It was me.
26:37It was me.
26:39Why did you not come to me first?
26:41It was me told you to keep an eye on the old geezer.
26:44Yeah?
26:46I'm scurred.
26:47Yeah?
26:48I can't be trusted.
26:49Yeah?
26:51He's been at the daughter's.
26:53He's been ruined at the school.
26:55He's beaten his gums over the kiddie again.
26:57Something's stirring.
27:00You're going to ask him what.
27:03Yeah?
27:09Yeah?
27:39You're going to ask him what.
28:09What have you found, little boy?
28:39Please take that car down south for me.
28:53I would appreciate.
28:57It's remaining here could lead to an awkwardness.
29:09It's remaining here could lead to an awkwardness.
29:35I don't like northern men.
29:37Bone and knuckle.
29:39Sharp angles.
29:41Hard eyes.
29:43They don't touch much.
29:45Their spring is kept down all the time.
29:47So when they let go.
29:53Teach me some way that will make all those business suits spill their pints.
30:15Keep it tidy, Weaver.
30:17With the car.
30:19You know what a fussy you are.
30:39Keep it tidy, Weaver.
31:07Keep it tidy, Weaver.
31:35Keep it tidy, Weaver.
31:51I suppose it's long-legged girls from the lazy south for me.
31:58Uncoiled in the sun.
32:02Convent sluts with long legs and tawny nipples.
32:10Risky business.
32:12I'm proud of being it.
32:32There is nothing wrong up here with me.
32:46The violence is just a tool of my particular trade.
32:50Like that's yours.
32:59Wheel it south.
33:01And stay down there?
33:03Next train north.
33:10Maybe I'm not so bad for Jack.
33:16Who said you'll be coming back to Jack?
33:36I don't think so.
34:05Do I know you?
34:12I'm just going off shift.
34:17There was a boy killed 14 months ago.
34:22I don't know if you worked on it.
34:24I don't care.
34:26You'll pull the files for me.
34:29I want the names.
34:32Could be druggies, so go careful.
34:37I don't like the service in here.
34:40And I don't like you.
34:42Well, I could shop you both ways.
34:44To your own people.
34:46What a 5'6 West Indian with a Scottish surname.
35:11I don't like the service in here.
35:13I don't like you.
35:15I don't like you.
35:17I don't like you.
35:19I don't like you.
35:21I don't like you.
35:51I did a bit on it.
35:56I'm not promising.
36:09You threw me the eye-throne and the drugs.
36:12Teacher.
36:14One of his teachers put in a lot of voluntary overtime.
36:18Too awful by half.
36:20Kelly.
36:26Might be.
36:28So many names.
36:31Not drugs, he was cleaner though.
36:35You related?
36:39Don't.
36:43You did a lot of very clever forensic on it.
36:46Marvellous them chaps.
36:48Where would we be without them white coats?
36:54You're not going to like it.
36:57And the last thing we need up here is one of your sort laying waste around him.
37:03He roped him under a truck.
37:06Drove it backwards, forwards.
37:11Got him free and dumped him where he was found.
37:35Who?
37:45Name a Bremner.
37:48Name a Leadbetter.
37:51Self-employed undesirable.
38:09No sweat.
38:11He was getting a bit choked like.
38:13Looked the kid's mother up for old time's sake.
38:15Went to where the kid went to school.
38:17You can understand eh?
38:22Look.
38:24Nothing's staring.
38:27No sweat.
38:30So we're still clear.
38:32Oh are eh?
38:36We're up there.
38:40We're up there.
38:52And they didn't leave anything on him.
38:54Around him to nail them for it.
38:56Near as I remember.
38:57I was only a floater on it.
38:59It was one of them cases where they were too stupid to get caught.
39:03Passion, greed, car theft.
39:06There's pattern there.
39:07Trace.
39:09The random stuff leaves us like wingless chickens.
39:12But it was those two for certain.
39:15And no one else.
39:16I've got a fiver on it and a canteen sweep if ever it gets a coat, eh?
39:19Which it won't.
39:22Want them?
39:26You got them?
39:29I saw the timber age of what was left of the nipper.
39:34Give me a day.
39:36I'll sort their currencies.
39:39Where?
39:43Who are you getting on with?
39:46Where?
40:04The cat that walked by itself in the wild, wild wood.
40:17Just so stories Rudyard Kipling, 1865 to 1936.
41:05Not another time, Weaver.
41:33Not again.
41:50Not again.
42:18Not again.
42:47Not again.
43:13Not again.
43:42Not again.
44:12What was he doing here?
44:13Why did you let him come here?
44:14He was looking for you, Weaver.
44:17I told him you were brought up here before they built these.
44:21You brought him here.
44:24Whatever he walked into here.
44:27He was here because he wanted a clue to who you were.
44:33He always asked what you were like.
44:38He came here to look for you.
44:50I want you to tell me.
44:54What was he like?
44:59Well, you'll never know that, will you?
45:05That's my best revenge on you.
45:35Lazy.
45:46My wife, lazy.
45:48You wouldn't believe it.
45:50You know, it's up the book by the side of the armchair three weeks ago and it's still there.
45:55I reckon it's because she was brought up dead posh and bootle.
45:58You know, bootle.
46:01Do you know, our old man was so posh.
46:04Yeah, yeah.
46:08Anyway, she's never satisfied.
46:11Do you know what?
46:12I took her downtown the other Saturday night.
46:14Well, you know what?
46:15No, it was a Saturday night because the armed police were on the buses.
46:18I wait for a laugh there.
46:21She says, I do like that ring in the jewellers there.
46:26So I picked up a brick and I threw it through the window.
46:30Then she says, I'd love a new telly out of curries.
46:33So I found another brick and I threw that one.
46:36But the last door is when she sees this three-piece sweetened imitation plastic.
46:40Give us a break, she says.
46:41It's all wearing me out.
46:43Are you taking major breaks?
46:47Yeah.
46:51It's not enough just to come from Liverpool.
46:55You also have to be funny.
46:59But don't ever change.
47:07It's the way I tell them.
47:12It's the way I tell them.
47:21Hey.
47:24That weaver.
47:27Bit out of your class.
47:30It's a 50 grand a year tan he's wearing in check.
47:33And we haven't even got half a sheet on him.
47:37Bad news from the skin cancer clinic.
47:40I tell you what, getting a council flat in Kirby
47:43wouldn't be in it against tangling with a fellow carrying a chip like that.
47:51So what do we do about him?
47:54Why should I want to do anything about him?
47:57His class is done.
48:00And you must have another couple of jobs in the box for us.
48:05It was cosy, Jack.
48:09You and me.
48:12I can't afford a weaver knowing I've got ten fingers in it.
48:16Might have been cosy for you, Mr Grayson.
48:19But I had the wind blowing up my kilt.
48:35So, you finally got the lock on me, then, eh?
48:39Got that bit of insurance you were always looking for against me.
48:44It was always business.
48:47And I keep a tidy desk.
48:50Yeah? Me too.
48:53You'll have your knickers this weaver.
48:57And you'll have your gill.
49:01And he'll put the wind up too many kilts to be allowed to live.
49:05But getting to him...
49:11Gonna spoil a lot of good things
49:14for a lot of people.
49:17Reflect maturely on this.
49:22I've got a licence renewal coming up.
49:28Look into it, will you?
49:51And he has water in the pipes.
50:21DOOR CLOSES
50:51FOOTSTEPS
51:21FOOTSTEPS
51:37Vacancies.
51:39Smart boy wanted or avenging angel.
51:46When you've disproved God
51:50or he doesn't seem to bother anymore, not even for the faithful.
51:54And men have given up.
51:59And the only law is the one you make for yourself, isn't it?
52:12They killed your son.
52:15And as Doyle was asking questions, you told him to ask.
52:19They killed him.
52:30You made him write the letter that brought me back.
52:39I'm the marksman, yes.
52:43But you're the bullet.
52:50When a marksman presses the trigger of a gun, the letter,
52:56the only control he can exercise
52:59over the subsequent behaviour of the bullet
53:03is directional.
53:06He can point the barrel here or there.
53:10Blydtrell, the parable of the beast.
53:20Right.
53:24The actual behaviour of the bullet itself,
53:27its velocity,
53:29is determined by the cartridge that encloses it,
53:33the amount of powder and its rate of combustion.
53:43I close my eyes and point you at the people
53:47who killed your son because that burden
53:51had to be lifted off Doyle somehow.
53:57The damage you do,
54:00those who get hurt now I've fired you at them,
54:03that's ballistics.
54:08I thought that maybe this was something to do with justice.
54:13Oh, God, no.
54:18We justice is just
54:22a rare statistical anomaly
54:25in that branch of mathematics that deals with a theory of chance.
54:31Like,
54:33Doyle's death and your son's
54:37can be lived with if you understand
54:40the theory of mathematics that deals with random events
54:44that have no meaning, motive,
54:47that have no moral spin or charge.
54:58But you wouldn't be here if you could live with that.
55:41Don't get too used to feeling cosy, Jack.
55:44Put a few curls out.
55:46There's someone as tasty as Weaver in their own way
55:48who might do the job for me,
55:50once he knows he's in town, like.
55:53It's a love job and all.
55:55Just like you and that tart Weaver's going to have off you.
56:04I'm not going to do it.
56:07I'm not going to do it.
56:28I'll go up to my parents
56:31Confess what I've done
56:34Confess for their prodigal son
56:38And when they do so
56:40As they do before
56:43Then I never will play
56:45The one who'll learn no more
56:48And it's no man's business
56:52I'll never know
56:55When I play the one who'll learn
56:58I'll never know
57:05When I play the one who'll learn
57:09And it's strange the way we extinguish guilt
57:12With all the fire of our hate
57:15And realise who was to fault too late
57:24And it's so strange that in confusion
57:27The hunter is the prey
57:29And revenge and retribution are the order of the day
57:34And it's so strange that in confusion
57:37The hunter is the prey
57:40And revenge and retribution are the order of the day
58:04And it's so strange that in confusion
58:07The hunter is the prey
58:10And revenge and retribution are the order of the day
58:13And it's so strange that in confusion
58:16The hunter is the prey
58:19And revenge and retribution are the order of the day
58:22And it's so strange that in confusion
58:25The hunter is the prey
58:28And revenge and retribution are the order of the day
58:31And it's so strange that in confusion
58:34The hunter is the prey
58:37And revenge and retribution are the order of the day
58:40And it's so strange that in confusion
58:43The hunter is the prey
58:46And revenge and retribution are the order of the day
58:49on Monday morning just after 11.
58:52You can telephone now until midnight on 061 814 0424.
59:00And you may like to know that the music from the series is on this BBC LP.
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