Inspector Morse investigates the death of an eminent scientist
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00:00:00Right, well, thank you, gentlemen, and good night.
00:00:27Well, bloody rain.
00:00:28At least it's clean, rain master.
00:00:30As far as we know.
00:00:43Oh, damn it.
00:00:45I left my papers at the lodge.
00:00:48I'll catch you up.
00:00:49Do you want this?
00:00:50No, thanks.
00:00:51I reckon you can still make it.
00:01:09If I break my neck, maybe.
00:01:11Why do I have to come out on a night like this?
00:01:23You had your instructions.
00:01:25I told you I won't do it.
00:01:29I think you're going to have to now.
00:01:44I forgot something.
00:02:07Damn nuisance, too much on my plate.
00:02:11Carry on.
00:03:41What's happened?
00:03:48They're counting the votes.
00:03:49Did Julian dare speak?
00:03:51He nearly showed up.
00:04:11Curious state of affairs.
00:04:38Concussion.
00:04:39My doctor tells me that tomorrow I should expect
00:04:41my legs to walk in different directions.
00:04:44You must forgive me if my account is a little hazy.
00:04:48This is your umbrella, sir.
00:04:50I imagine so.
00:04:51You imagine so?
00:04:52Was Dr. Dears identical?
00:04:55Would you expect my, that is the master's,
00:04:57umbrella to display some differentiating feature
00:05:01from that of a senior fellow's?
00:05:03Perhaps you have some general interest in the taxonomy
00:05:05of umbrellas, Chief Inspector.
00:05:07Taxonomy?
00:05:08Sounds like stuffing something.
00:05:11Stuffed umbrellas?
00:05:13No, Lewis, taxonomy is classification.
00:05:15The master was making a joke.
00:05:18We only found one umbrella, sir.
00:05:21I just want a clear picture of what happened.
00:05:23Of course.
00:05:25Forgive me, I'm babbling.
00:05:27Blame the bump.
00:05:29Blanche, one moment, would you?
00:05:31Coming, darling.
00:05:32At least I can babble.
00:05:34Which a more than poor Julian can do.
00:05:36Why don't we just try the hospital again?
00:05:37It's hard.
00:05:38We'll be notified of any change.
00:05:41No more details come to mind yet, sir.
00:05:43We could use a better description of the attacker.
00:05:46Well, the rain and the dark.
00:05:49I had an impression of wild eyes.
00:05:52Made me think of the young Wittgenstein,
00:05:54if that means anything to you.
00:05:55Before or after his Norwegian period, sir.
00:06:01I was hoping to hear the debate myself.
00:06:03I'm looking forward to Dr. Dear's contribution.
00:06:06A very great man.
00:06:08So rarely tempted to speak.
00:06:10Such a pity.
00:06:11Is that my umbrella?
00:06:13Well, I should know.
00:06:15I donned it myself near the fastening in 1983.
00:06:19Rather a dying art.
00:06:21Donning, wouldn't you say, in thrift,
00:06:23is such an unfashionable virtue.
00:06:26Definitely, Matthews.
00:06:29Sir, do we make the proverbial noises now?
00:06:33I'm sorry?
00:06:34Well, aren't we supposed to say, would you like a drink,
00:06:37so you can say, not while I'm on duty,
00:06:39then I provide tea instead?
00:06:41Tea would go down nicely.
00:06:42We don't have time, I'm afraid.
00:06:45It looks as if you disturbed an attempted mugging tonight, sir.
00:06:49I suppose an arrest, let alone an early arrest,
00:06:52would be too much to hope for.
00:06:54I'll keep you informed of any developments,
00:06:56but with so little to go on.
00:06:58There is undermining of the police force, I know.
00:07:00I sit on the appropriate government committee.
00:07:03Still, I'm sure you'll do your best.
00:07:05Who is your chief superintendent?
00:07:07Mr. Rennie, on this case,
00:07:09in the absence of Chief Superintendent Strange.
00:07:12Good night, Chief Inspector.
00:07:14Sergeant Lewis.
00:07:18Oh, I ought to tell you,
00:07:20we're expecting a guest tomorrow
00:07:23for a family party, do you see?
00:07:25I'd be grateful if you'd bear that in mind
00:07:27when you're planning your inquiries.
00:07:29I'll do my best.
00:07:31What?
00:07:33Oh, yes, thank you.
00:07:35Many thanks, it's certainly Matthews.
00:07:38PHONE RINGS
00:07:45Masters Lodge?
00:07:49You just caught him.
00:07:51It's for you, Chief Inspector.
00:07:57Morse?
00:08:03Thanks.
00:08:06Yes, I'll get back on it.
00:08:12Bad news?
00:08:14Well, that complicates things a bit, sir.
00:08:17It's got a death in it now.
00:08:28MUSIC CONTINUES
00:08:30MUSIC CONTINUES
00:08:54Coach Porter thinks now he saw a youngish fella
00:08:56come dashing out this end.
00:08:58Right sort of time. Description?
00:09:00Vague.
00:09:02But he says he'd know him again.
00:09:04Pool of vomit just around that corner.
00:09:06Felt it by the wall, so the rain didn't wash it away.
00:09:09They were at a fellows' meeting. It ran late.
00:09:11They were in a hurry.
00:09:13They were going to take Beauford Path.
00:09:15The master turned back at the archway
00:09:18to collect some papers from home.
00:09:22We've got a pool of vomit and a lost umbrella, Mr Gray.
00:09:25Does it mean anything to you?
00:09:27Vomit? What's new round here?
00:09:29That bloke you mentioned.
00:09:31You didn't happen to notice him puke first, did you?
00:09:33That corner.
00:09:34No, he was on the move when I saw him.
00:09:36A student?
00:09:37Not one of ours.
00:09:38Been umbrella handed in either.
00:09:40You going to get rid of him?
00:09:42Don't know he was done for yet.
00:09:44We're waiting for the post-mortem.
00:09:46Even if his heart gave out, he was still done for.
00:09:48It makes a difference, though, Mr Gray,
00:09:50the charge, the sentence.
00:09:52It's murder to me and everyone else at Beauford.
00:09:54Let's see if you can't sharpen up the description you gave.
00:09:57Sergeant Mills.
00:10:10Thank you for coming at such short notice.
00:10:14I thought some practice was necessary.
00:10:20Before the funeral.
00:10:25Right. Open the windows, will you?
00:10:27All of them.
00:10:30And the door.
00:10:35Bards' Miserere.
00:10:40Let us sing out our sorrow.
00:10:44Let us be heard.
00:10:47By everyone in college.
00:10:54Hello.
00:11:18Hello.
00:11:21Yes?
00:11:25Sylvia!
00:11:27Oh, my dear, you're early, but how perfectly wonderful.
00:11:30I... I have a pupil, do you see?
00:11:33Please, it's all right, Blanche.
00:11:35We'll hug later. Go back to her.
00:11:37Very well.
00:11:39It's him, actually.
00:11:54Thank you.
00:12:20Seems to have been some sort of saint, this Dr Deer.
00:12:23Don't say a wrong word about him.
00:12:25So bloomin' modest, I can't even get a profile.
00:12:28He was modest.
00:12:30You knew him, sir?
00:12:32Only by reputation, not personally.
00:12:35Who won the debate?
00:12:37Hmm?
00:12:39This house believes that environmental issues transcend party politics.
00:12:43Carried by a small majority.
00:12:46Dr Deer would have been pleased.
00:12:54DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES
00:12:57Refused an entry in who's who.
00:13:00Call it the posers' address book, apparently.
00:13:03You read his books, sir?
00:13:05Not all of them.
00:13:07I read The Barren Planet.
00:13:09I couldn't get through The Breath of Life.
00:13:13How about this for an environment?
00:13:16Oh, yeah. Look after themselves, don't they?
00:13:19What about that master's lodge last night?
00:13:22He's not sure.
00:13:24It's always been very rich, Beaufort.
00:13:26Very rich, very scientific.
00:13:29Very musical.
00:13:31Message. Here we go.
00:13:33Must be the post-mortem report.
00:13:35CHOIR SINGS
00:14:06CHOIR SINGS
00:14:17Our visitor.
00:14:19Our distinguished visitor.
00:14:22What does one say?
00:14:24One could say hello, master.
00:14:28Hardly seems appropriate after all this time.
00:14:31It'll do.
00:14:33I suppose master is what I call you.
00:14:35That, too, will do.
00:14:37Yes. We've grown out of Uncle Matthew, haven't we?
00:14:40A whim of my wife's, as I remember.
00:14:43Like the present occasion.
00:14:45Oh, come now, master.
00:14:47You'll make me feel my attentions aren't welcome.
00:14:49Hardly a promising start for an interview.
00:14:51I mean, my wife saw my cooperation
00:14:53as a way of healing any conceivable breach
00:14:55that might have been between you and my family.
00:14:57So, I comply.
00:14:59Why the police here?
00:15:01An unfortunate incident last night.
00:15:04A senior fellow was attacked.
00:15:09Lest your journalistic antennae begin to quiver,
00:15:12the story is, so to speak, old news.
00:15:14The local press have scooped you.
00:15:16Drink?
00:15:18Hello, Sylvie.
00:15:20I'm sorry?
00:15:22It's Imogen, Sylvie.
00:15:28Of course it is.
00:15:31I'm sorry.
00:15:3317 years is a long time.
00:15:35For me, it seems, but not for you.
00:15:37Nonsense.
00:15:39It's called a clothing allowance.
00:15:41How are you?
00:15:43Oh, ticking over, you know.
00:15:45This is Ron, my husband.
00:15:47Oh, that's something I haven't acquired along the way.
00:15:50Pleased to meet you. I've heard a lot about you.
00:15:52I even read your stuff.
00:15:54Good. Help to keep the last decent Sunday in business.
00:15:57And I want to hear about your business.
00:15:59What is it? Horses?
00:16:01Stables. Yes, off the Newbury Road.
00:16:04It's nothing glamorous. We're just starting.
00:16:06Sylvia?
00:16:15I'm so very, very glad you came back to us.
00:16:25Thanks, Jack. That was a bonus in my working day.
00:16:28I didn't know you were back from America.
00:16:30I have this arrangement now.
00:16:32I spend one term a year at Beaufort, the rest at Princeton.
00:16:36A better class of mathematics at Princeton?
00:16:39A better class of money.
00:16:41And how about the choral singing?
00:16:43Ah, now, there's nothing quite like that pure, clear English sound, is there?
00:16:50Not the way you produce it.
00:16:52We must have a drink sometime.
00:16:54Yes, well, I still do the Renaissance Group when I'm here.
00:16:56We've missed you recent years, you and your useful baritone.
00:16:59Oh, the Renaissance Group's too demanding for me now.
00:17:01There's the job. It's the long hours.
00:17:06This, um, Julian's death, would...
00:17:12Would this mean long hours?
00:17:14I shouldn't think so. We just got the post-mortem result.
00:17:17We're winding it up.
00:17:19Really?
00:17:21Dr. Dear died of a heart attack.
00:17:23Is that official?
00:17:26It's what's on the death certificate.
00:17:28The mugging was incidental. He'd have died anyway.
00:17:31Three, six months.
00:17:37Was he a particular friend of yours?
00:17:42I loved him.
00:17:46You know, we weren't lovers, so that wasn't his style.
00:17:50Lots of people loved him. He inspired them.
00:17:56Let's just say he was an inspiration in my life anyway.
00:18:01I'm sorry.
00:18:03This debate, he'd got something to say, something new.
00:18:06Disturbing.
00:18:08Any idea what?
00:18:10He'd written to me about it in America. There were hints.
00:18:14He talked about feeling obliged to sound off in public.
00:18:19Hoping I'd be there.
00:18:21Were you?
00:18:23Yes, by the skin of my teeth. Just off the train, I made it.
00:18:28And he didn't.
00:18:33Sudden death. It's hard to take.
00:18:37People tend to look for reasons.
00:18:41Do they?
00:18:44It's the intellectual muggers you have to watch for around here, Morse.
00:18:49They're the ones who wouldn't have wanted him to speak.
00:18:53He wouldn't care to elaborate, would he?
00:19:00You know where to contact me.
00:19:03Yes. Yes.
00:19:24DOOR SLAMS
00:19:32Mugging goes with drugs often, does not it?
00:19:35If it was mugging.
00:19:37Didn't ring any bells with the drugs boys.
00:19:40It's not the place for it.
00:19:42You've been busy?
00:19:44He's got a bit of intrigue about it, this, hasn't he?
00:19:48I'll pull a vomit now.
00:19:50Wasn't your usual spewed-up undergraduate rubbish?
00:19:54Lewis.
00:19:56Oh, sorry, sir. I forget your stomach.
00:19:59It was pastry, spinach and cheese, mostly.
00:20:02Two kinds of cheese, as a matter of fact.
00:20:05Didn't actually poke about a bit, did you?
00:20:09No, no. But I got a sample sent over to the lab.
00:20:13While you went to hear that choir.
00:20:15Now you tell me.
00:20:17Brie and Dolce Latte.
00:20:20Wholemeal pastry. Sort of a...
00:20:22What is it? A quiche, probably.
00:20:25How many people knew he had a bad heart?
00:20:28Deliberate, you mean?
00:20:30What's the motive?
00:20:32Someone wanted to stop him speaking at the debate.
00:20:35What was he going to say?
00:20:37Well...
00:20:39It would help if we found out, wouldn't it, Lewis?
00:20:44Let's go.
00:20:47Are we sticking with it, then, sir?
00:20:49We'll have to convince Superintendent Rennie he thinks it's finished.
00:20:52He should say so, shouldn't he? Categorically.
00:20:55If he does, we've got a bit of time.
00:20:58What makes you think undergraduates don't go in for speciality quiche, Lewis?
00:21:03It's not on the college menu.
00:21:06Oh, that vomits, eh?
00:21:08There was real ale in it, too.
00:21:10Some of your fellows already took a look, Sergeant.
00:21:13Yeah, well, I'm just doing a re-check.
00:21:20Proper sell, this, isn't it?
00:21:23Well, he was a real scholar, wasn't he?
00:21:27What did he do with his earnings?
00:21:29Gave it all away, I expect.
00:21:34Who gets all this stuff? The books?
00:21:37College, I suppose. We had no relations.
00:21:49I am not at ease with this machinery, please bear with me.
00:21:53I resort to these methods because it seems wise to make some record
00:21:57of what I intend to say in the union debate.
00:22:00My contribution will be, to all intents and purposes, a warning.
00:22:04A statement I am forced to make in public,
00:22:07even though I deplore the necessity and am uncomfortable in that arena.
00:22:12What I have to say has, I believe,
00:22:15the most grave and far-reaching implications.
00:22:19I do not exaggerate.
00:22:21Three of the country's leading newspapers have refused
00:22:24to publish communications from me on this topic.
00:22:28Our visitor has the gift of...
00:22:31Well, not tongues, exactly, but what would one say?
00:22:34She facilitates. She gives scape.
00:22:37She popularises, I suppose. But then that's her job.
00:22:40I wouldn't call the Sunday Review the most popular newspaper in the world.
00:22:44Oh, you know about these things?
00:22:46Well, I recognise Sylvie...
00:22:48Laxton. All Sunday newspapers are anathema to me, Andrew.
00:22:52You're not afraid for your reputation, master?
00:22:55I'm sorry?
00:22:57Sylvie Laxton's stock in trade is the expose, I believe.
00:23:02Her interest in this occasion is in the type, simply.
00:23:05The master of an Oxford college.
00:23:09Do you have any idea of what Dr Deer was intending to say at the debate?
00:23:13No. And he never made notes.
00:23:16I don't know.
00:23:19No. And he never made notes.
00:23:22His lectures were the same, off the cuff.
00:23:24And brilliant, of course, closely argued.
00:23:26Not that he gave many. He preferred seminars.
00:23:29Small groups.
00:23:31So how was he persuaded to speak at the union debate?
00:23:35Out of character, surely, the publicity.
00:23:38He may have wished deliberately to engage a wider audience.
00:23:41The subject was an environmental issue, was it not, close to his heart.
00:23:45Do you think his statement would have been controversial?
00:23:48Who knows?
00:23:49Darling?
00:23:51You were going to attend the debate yourself, sir.
00:23:54May I ask if you'd have been likely to agree with Dr Deer's views?
00:23:58Since I hadn't heard those particular views expressed, how can I say?
00:24:02You went back for some papers. Were they relevant?
00:24:05They were simply some reflections on the issues involved.
00:24:08I'm sorry, I can't be of more help to you, Chief Inspector.
00:24:11What is it I am to do for this farce?
00:24:13They want you among the Delphiniums, darling.
00:24:18Now, he'll decide to look gruesome, and I shan't be able to bear the results.
00:24:23Beautiful garden, Mrs Copley-Barnes.
00:24:26Isn't it, indeed?
00:24:28Of course, we're outrageously lucky in the fabulous Phil.
00:24:31The fabulous Phil?
00:24:33Phil Hotkirk, our gardener.
00:24:36Well, not ours, of course, the college's.
00:24:38And not theirs for long, because he's been seduced by Q, would you believe?
00:24:42He's staying on to win the college garden's cup for Beaufort this year, touch wood.
00:24:48Do you dibble and hoe, Chief Inspector?
00:24:51I can't somehow see myself raising flowers.
00:24:55A perfect lawn, perhaps, that would be a challenge.
00:24:58Actually, I like to think we've given something back to Phil.
00:25:01He's a widower. His daughter's musical.
00:25:04I encouraged... did encourage her.
00:25:07She's gone on ahead to London to an aunt,
00:25:10so her schooling's not interrupted.
00:25:13Oh, what's this now, would you say?
00:25:15Second post, Mrs Copley-Barnes.
00:25:17Thank you, Grey. I'll take it.
00:25:19What is it, Blanche?
00:25:21Parcel, master. Needs signing for.
00:25:23What kind of parcel?
00:25:25Matthew, I think it's another one.
00:25:28Don't accept it. Send it back now.
00:25:31Please, don't accept it.
00:25:33Keep calm, Blanche. I must accept it.
00:25:36Oh, thank you, Grey.
00:25:39This is not the first of these outrages,
00:25:42these insults, Inspector.
00:25:44One knows there are unbalanced people.
00:25:47One hears, but one never really believes.
00:25:50Is it a police matter?
00:25:52I don't think there's any cause for alarm.
00:25:54What is it, Father?
00:25:56It's all right. There's nothing to worry about.
00:25:59Oh, yes, it is. I do fear it is.
00:26:01I wish I could say otherwise,
00:26:03but I am afraid we have to prepare ourselves.
00:26:09Send as address 15 Beat Street, Highbury.
00:26:12False, false, like the others.
00:26:14The last one, Chief Inspector.
00:26:16For heaven's sake, control yourself.
00:26:18It's a hoax. Someone playing tricks, that's all.
00:26:20No name. Were the others anonymous?
00:26:22What's going on?
00:26:24You might well ask, Sylvia. There's no answer.
00:26:26No conceivable explanation we can find.
00:26:29Nothing we could possibly understand.
00:26:32Ah!
00:26:34Ah!
00:26:36Ah!
00:27:00PHONE RINGS
00:27:07So...
00:27:09The Master of Beaufort gets hate mail?
00:27:12Parcels, sir.
00:27:14Nothing dangerous, just distressing.
00:27:17And you're saying that there is some connection
00:27:20with the attack on Dr Deer?
00:27:22I'm saying I'd like to investigate further.
00:27:25A mugging like that,
00:27:27unpremeditated, probably.
00:27:29Hit-or-miss stuff.
00:27:31What are the charges?
00:27:33Hit-or-miss stuff?
00:27:35What are the chances, Morse, of nailing someone?
00:27:38Not high, sir, in the ordinary course of things. I agree.
00:27:41You see, what I want to avoid
00:27:44is you turning over a lot of stones
00:27:46just to see what's underneath.
00:27:48Sir?
00:27:50We all know your methods, Morse,
00:27:52and I'll grant you they've been effective, sometimes.
00:27:55The Master of Beaufort, Copley Barnes,
00:27:58is on a police force policy committee.
00:28:00Did you know that?
00:28:02Yes, I did know that, sir.
00:28:04And, um, he reminded me...
00:28:07Where's your evidence for this connection?
00:28:10I'm about to compile it, sir.
00:28:18You ever been to Austria?
00:28:20Only to Salzburg, sir.
00:28:23For the festival.
00:28:25Oh.
00:28:27What kind of festival is that?
00:28:30So there's nothing really for us to get excited about, is there not?
00:28:36You'd better give us the gory details, anyway.
00:28:39Yeah?
00:28:42All right, good.
00:28:44I'm pretty sure we'll be on him for a bit, yeah?
00:28:48Ah, not that long, actually.
00:28:50No, it could be just three days.
00:28:52OK, thanks. Ta-ra.
00:29:00Sheep's blood on the skull.
00:29:02Well, lamb's blood is a matter of fun.
00:29:04Squeezed from the Sunday joint, maybe.
00:29:08At least Renny gave us a bit of leeway.
00:29:10Only till the ranks close, Lewis.
00:29:13Yes, terrible, terrible, horrendous, awful, terrible.
00:29:18Two parcels, you said, before this one?
00:29:21Yes, two D-sharp, Lawrence, if you please.
00:29:26They came through the post from London sorting offices.
00:29:31Different offices?
00:29:33This first one was registered in Holborn.
00:29:36They came from Islington, I believe, and Camden.
00:29:41Matthew would remember.
00:29:43I'm so sorry you missed him. He...
00:29:46He had to go out.
00:29:49The snakeskin came from Camden.
00:29:53Snakeskin?
00:29:55The dried skin of an ander.
00:29:58Shriveled.
00:30:01I went quite dippy for a moment when I saw it.
00:30:06Matthew was remarkably steady.
00:30:10Though even he...
00:30:12I'm in the second one.
00:30:16Well, the smell was around for days, the sitting room.
00:30:19I had to see my pupils in their own homes,
00:30:21which is never satisfactory because the instruments are always inferior.
00:30:25The smell, Mrs Copley-Barnes?
00:30:29Fish.
00:30:31Stinking fish.
00:30:35A plastic pail, would you believe,
00:30:38packed with shellfish, seaweed,
00:30:41the sort of things you'd scoop out of a rock pool,
00:30:44very carefully sealed and then...
00:30:46And it was opened.
00:30:51We're dealing with a fanatic here.
00:30:53Someone with an axe to grind.
00:30:56Oh, no. No, no.
00:30:58Matthew said it was almost certainly a disaffected student.
00:31:02A failure, perhaps.
00:31:04Even a failed first, they're the most bitter of all, as a rule.
00:31:11Your pupil's doing very well.
00:31:13Oh, your musical, Chief Inspector, rather than horticultural?
00:31:17I listen. I know your reputation as a teacher.
00:31:20Really?
00:31:22You think it's fearfully exclusive?
00:31:24I am very choosy, I suppose,
00:31:27but then I don't care to waste my time on anything less than real potential.
00:31:32I bought my nippers one of them electronic keyboards.
00:31:36Parcels of...
00:31:38What?
00:31:39Natural products.
00:31:41Why?
00:31:43My husband thinks they might relate
00:31:46to specific examination questions.
00:31:49They could as easily relate to the motion of the union the other night.
00:31:53You don't imagine that they might have something to do with what happened to Julian?
00:31:57It's a possible loophole.
00:31:59I don't think so.
00:32:01You'll keep us informed?
00:32:03Of course.
00:32:05Oh, um...
00:32:07Your son-in-law, Mr Garrett?
00:32:09Ronald.
00:32:11What about him?
00:32:13He seemed concerned yesterday
00:32:15to play down the significance of these things.
00:32:18Oh, for my daughter's benefit, I expect.
00:32:21That's his way. Protective.
00:32:23She's very highly strung.
00:32:25I don't know.
00:32:27That's his way. Protective.
00:32:29She's very highly strung.
00:32:31Have they been married long?
00:32:34Oh, it's four, five years.
00:32:37He's very much Imogen's choice.
00:32:41By that, I mean that we, Matthew and I...
00:32:44Thank you. I'll be in touch.
00:32:57Morning.
00:32:59Hi.
00:33:01Where's Imogen?
00:33:03Inside.
00:33:05Did she say I was coming?
00:33:07I'm going to pretend to interview her.
00:33:09We'll talk about old times instead.
00:33:11She doesn't want to see you.
00:33:13I'm sorry?
00:33:15She's not well.
00:33:17She says to apologise.
00:33:19Was it the pass or yesterday?
00:33:21It was yesterday.
00:33:23I apologise.
00:33:25Was it the pass or yesterday?
00:33:27What did you make of it?
00:33:29Someone's got a grudge against him, I suppose.
00:33:31Not surprising. He offends a lot of people.
00:33:34Give her these, will you?
00:33:36They're from the garden.
00:33:38Courtesy of the fabulous Phil.
00:33:40And carried hither by the commendable Sylvia.
00:33:43Was that their name for you?
00:33:45Who is Sylvia? What is she that all our swains commend her?
00:33:49I'm the reliable Ron, I believe.
00:33:52And are you reliable?
00:33:54I was never very commendable.
00:33:59Must be hard work here.
00:34:01We like it.
00:34:03Couldn't take a horse out, could I?
00:34:05Do you ride?
00:34:07I learned with Imogen when we were ten.
00:34:09You could come with me.
00:34:11Fill me in on a few things.
00:34:14Go on.
00:34:22Master's Lodge.
00:34:28Hello? Who is this?
00:34:34Imogen? Is that you?
00:34:38Is it you, darling?
00:34:40Imogen?
00:34:42Please, darling, don't do this again.
00:34:45I'm sorry.
00:34:47I'm sorry.
00:34:49I'm sorry.
00:34:51I'm sorry.
00:35:14I used to come here for picnics once.
00:35:16Always taken up where the Copley Barnes is.
00:35:19Before my father died.
00:35:21They didn't have picnics, did they?
00:35:23No.
00:35:25They had expeditions to centres of cultural interest.
00:35:31Does Imogen talk about the old times?
00:35:33Not much.
00:35:35What happened to her?
00:35:38What do you mean, what happened?
00:35:40Well, she's different.
00:35:43She used to be different, energetic, funny.
00:35:47I couldn't keep up.
00:35:49I went to London. She stayed on in Oxford.
00:35:52She didn't get her degree, did she?
00:35:54No. She had a breakdown.
00:35:56As I'm sure you know from your research.
00:36:00How did her parents react to that?
00:36:02Overjoyed.
00:36:04Look, I can't spare the time for this. Walk on.
00:36:06I'm sorry.
00:36:08But she was important to me growing up.
00:36:10They widened my horizons. The whole family did.
00:36:13It matters if she's not happy.
00:36:15She's not happy.
00:36:16You happy?
00:36:18Well, I haven't broken down.
00:36:20I don't react to shock the way she does.
00:36:22Got me to look after her now.
00:36:24Well, she's lucky.
00:36:25I'm lucky.
00:36:28As the parents never tire of pointing out.
00:36:35You ever wanted to give marriage a go?
00:36:37I couldn't stay the course.
00:36:39Kids?
00:36:41I'm fine as I am.
00:36:43I want kids.
00:36:45Someday.
00:36:49This all going in your piece?
00:36:51What do you think I am?
00:36:53I don't know.
00:36:54I only know the kind of thing you write.
00:36:56Walk on.
00:37:14Where are you going?
00:37:16I just want to wash my hands.
00:37:18There's a sink in the tack room.
00:37:20She doesn't want to see you.
00:37:23I just want to say goodbye.
00:37:25Why can't you leave her alone?
00:37:27She was my friend, for God's sake. You don't know how...
00:37:33I don't want to see you.
00:37:35I just want to say goodbye.
00:37:37Why can't you leave her alone?
00:37:39She was my friend, for God's sake. You don't know how...
00:37:43I don't want to see you.
00:37:51If I'd known in time, we might have come together.
00:37:54Have you come to see Imogen?
00:37:56There's been a small emergency.
00:37:58She telephoned. All's well now.
00:38:02I should confer briefly with my son-in-law.
00:38:05Since you're back.
00:38:07I want to see her.
00:38:09That's impossible, I'm afraid.
00:38:11I think we should both be on our way.
00:38:13Now, off you lift.
00:38:15I have a hired car. Thank you.
00:38:23Tell Blanche you won't be home for dinner.
00:38:32Was she famous, then, Mrs Seaby?
00:38:34She was quite a performer in her day.
00:38:37Not world-class, but decent third programme.
00:38:40Never made it to the top.
00:38:42Maybe she lacked concentration.
00:38:45She doesn't seem all there, somehow.
00:38:47A master's absent-minded wife.
00:38:50Takes years to cultivate that, Chris.
00:38:53An essential requirement for the job.
00:39:03Do you think they could be connected,
00:39:05these parcels, with the attack on Dr D?
00:39:08Why not?
00:39:16What have we got, Lewis?
00:39:18A scientific philosopher.
00:39:20Dr Julian Dear.
00:39:22Virtual recluse.
00:39:24Keen on environmental issues.
00:39:26Anxious to speak in a university debate.
00:39:29Strain on the nerves, that. With his heart trouble.
00:39:32Right, so doing it must matter to him.
00:39:34But no notes, no record of what he was going to say.
00:39:38And then we have a distinguished chemist,
00:39:40the master, Copley Barnes,
00:39:42who's being pestered by a postal faddist
00:39:44who's trying to tell him something about death and decay.
00:39:48Two sorts of attack.
00:39:50On the same theme, like?
00:39:53Think Rennie'll go for that?
00:39:55Shouldn't think so.
00:39:59Maybe he put it on tape.
00:40:02What?
00:40:03If he wanted to make a record of what he was going to say,
00:40:06he might have spoken it on to a tape.
00:40:08There was a recorder in his rooms.
00:40:10All his tapes were missing.
00:40:12Yeah.
00:40:13So maybe some of them know what he was going to say.
00:40:16You've just earned yourself a drink, Lewis.
00:40:19It's lentil soup in the canteen today.
00:40:21It's too warm for lentil soup.
00:40:37All right.
00:40:45Thanks.
00:41:07Mum?
00:41:26That's better.
00:41:36Come on.
00:41:47Still on the trail, eh, Mort?
00:41:49Why have you come to sign up with the Renaissance Group after all?
00:41:52Still on the trail, Jake.
00:42:00I've just been going through Dr. Dear's things again.
00:42:04Oh, anything I can do to help?
00:42:06You can tell me who might have had a key to his rooms.
00:42:08Did you, for instance?
00:42:10No, that's a very big naughty round here,
00:42:12as you may remember from your Oxford days.
00:42:15Did you?
00:42:16No.
00:42:20I think there's something missing from his collection of tapes.
00:42:29Is there some other way in apart from the staircase?
00:42:32No, no, no.
00:42:34Well, I suppose Julian could have lent somebody a key.
00:42:37He was a true anarchist after all.
00:42:39Only kept to the college rules when they suited his view of the world.
00:42:42May I?
00:42:49Well, thank God you're dressed.
00:42:51We wouldn't want to shock the chief inspector too much, would we?
00:42:54You can go now.
00:43:03Oh.
00:43:05How very embarrassing.
00:43:07Not to me.
00:43:09I never could resist the charm of casual acquaintance.
00:43:15Speaking as a professional,
00:43:17I tend to sound the standard warning about casual acquaintance these days.
00:43:22Oh, I absorbed all the warnings long ago,
00:43:25but then health and efficiency were ever my watchwords.
00:43:29Look, I've got a tutorial in ten minutes.
00:43:32Perhaps we should get together for that drinksen.
00:43:35That first morning, you seemed to suggest that all was not well at Beaufort.
00:43:40Something about intellectual mugging?
00:43:43Well, I was upset.
00:43:45What do I know? I'm away two-thirds of the time.
00:43:52Anything?
00:43:54Nothing. Nobody's saying anything.
00:43:56Everyone's scared.
00:43:58The porter's not saying much either.
00:44:01Hates the master's guts, but he's got this college loyalty.
00:44:06He did say the place got a bit richer
00:44:08when Copley Barnes was investment bursar.
00:44:10Did he?
00:44:12Gave their industrial shareholding a big boost in the late 70s.
00:44:15Bought into Corby International.
00:44:17They fund his research too.
00:44:19Corby?
00:44:21Chemical Organic Range and Biosystems.
00:44:23Yes, I know what it stands for, Lewis.
00:44:27Corby was the victim of one of Sylvie Maxton's
00:44:30journalistic inquiries recently, if I'm not mistaken.
00:44:36Making a big thing of the funeral.
00:44:38The gardener's on overtime.
00:44:40Did you see a young man leave by this door just now?
00:44:43No. Only a couple of girls came out of here while I've been here.
00:44:46Are you sure? Yeah.
00:44:50You know, there's a bloke down at headquarters
00:44:52remembers her when she lived here. Oxford.
00:44:54Who? Sylvie Maxton.
00:44:57She's got a bit of form, you know.
00:45:00She what?
00:45:02She's got form.
00:45:04Been quite a naughty girl, actually.
00:45:06Drinking, creating a disturbance.
00:45:08Beyond parental control, apparently.
00:45:10She got a year's probation.
00:46:25How can the worldly pay adequate tribute
00:46:28to one whose unworldliness was his most admirable quality?
00:46:34How can those of us whose ideals were compromised early
00:46:38appropriately praise one whose ideals remained pure
00:46:43and uncontaminated?
00:46:45How can the unworldly pay adequate tribute
00:46:48to one whose unworldliness was his most admirable quality?
00:46:53Pure and uncontaminated by the values of the outside world.
00:47:23Perfect top to get sand off.
00:47:25They're moving, really.
00:47:27The master has opened his seat, Miss Bracey.
00:47:30Twisted his arm.
00:47:32I'm afraid so.
00:47:34I'm afraid so.
00:47:36I'm afraid so.
00:47:38I'm afraid so.
00:47:40I'm afraid so.
00:47:42I'm afraid so.
00:47:44I'm afraid so.
00:47:46I'm afraid so.
00:47:48I'm afraid so.
00:47:50I'm afraid so.
00:47:52Twisted his arm.
00:47:53Well, Blanche's, actually.
00:47:55This being the prodigal, I can get away with anything.
00:47:57At the time being.
00:48:00I see David Naylor's here.
00:48:02Naylor?
00:48:03Head of Corby International.
00:48:05Are you surprised?
00:48:07He's hardly a friend of Julian Dear's, would you think?
00:48:15Excuse me.
00:48:23Please, excuse me.
00:48:29Thank you.
00:48:31Please, excuse me.
00:48:37Out of the way!
00:48:38Just a minute, you...
00:48:42This is the man, Julian Dear.
00:48:44I said I'd know him again.
00:48:52I'm sorry.
00:49:23DOORBELL RINGS
00:49:40What have you got again? Time?
00:49:42Because it is only a matter of time, you know.
00:49:47And you'll regret wasting it with me.
00:49:51Is this your usual reading matter, woman?
00:49:53Woman's world?
00:49:57You've probably gathered, Jake Normington is a friend of mine.
00:50:00He'll be brought in to identify you, or at least tell us what he knows.
00:50:04Where he met you, where there is someone who'll give you a name.
00:50:16How many cruising dons have picked you up off the street?
00:50:20It wouldn't be difficult to bring in one or two of the old familiar impertuners.
00:50:25Lest it screak the Normington.
00:50:30DOOR KNOCKS
00:50:32Yes, Lewis?
00:50:34Have you got a minute?
00:50:44Where did this come from?
00:50:46A house in Woolsey Street. It's completely burnt out.
00:50:49PC Hodgson had to go down there just after he saw our suspect brought in.
00:50:53Name?
00:50:54McGovern, the woman next door thinks.
00:50:56Just him and his mother. They've not lived there long.
00:50:59Didn't see much of the neighbours.
00:51:01The mother's gone into hospital, apparently. We're checking now.
00:51:06I want to see everything on Copley, Barnes and Deer.
00:51:09And Jake Normington, too, for that matter.
00:51:12Has anybody got a hold of Normington yet?
00:51:14Your musical friend. I'm still trying.
00:51:17I'm going to visit Mrs McGovern in hospital.
00:51:20What about him?
00:51:22He'll keep, Lewis. He's where he wants to be.
00:51:41Can I help you?
00:51:44Good evening. You've got a patient, Mrs McGovern?
00:51:47Visiting's over, I'm afraid.
00:51:49I've got an important message from her son.
00:51:52He's not been, has he?
00:51:54Not since yesterday.
00:51:56She ask him for him?
00:51:58She does ask for him, yes.
00:52:00Do you mind if I sit and wait?
00:52:14Mrs McGovern.
00:52:24I want you to give your son a message from his friends.
00:52:33Please. She's been spying on me.
00:52:36I've got to go.
00:52:38I've got to go.
00:52:41Please. Chief Inspector Morse.
00:52:43You have a patient, Mrs McGovern?
00:52:45Yes. She's got a visitor with her.
00:52:52Could I have a word, sir?
00:52:56Call the squad!
00:52:58Control, Control, 1-0-0. Receiving, over.
00:53:06Police!
00:53:08Oh!
00:53:15Police!
00:53:18Here!
00:53:38Police!
00:54:08Police!
00:54:38Police!
00:55:08Police!
00:55:10Police!
00:55:36Who's paying your bills?
00:55:39Because there are few to be paid now!
00:55:43Intimidation with violence!
00:55:48Arson!
00:55:51Murder, maybe!
00:56:09You must be quite exhausted, Matthew.
00:56:13A funeral?
00:56:15An arrest? Imagine!
00:56:18Did you... Did you find it difficult identifying the man?
00:56:22I didn't identify him.
00:56:24Not categorically. It wasn't possible.
00:56:31We're off, then.
00:56:33I've got a musical writing to do.
00:56:37I've got a musical ride to see to tomorrow.
00:56:40I'm going to be busy with the crepe paper.
00:56:42You've made a terrific go of all that.
00:56:45The business, I mean.
00:56:47Oh, do you really think so?
00:56:49It's Ron, mostly. He likes taking on wrecks.
00:56:52Oh, you know, Imogen, you've always done your share.
00:56:55I've been most impressed.
00:56:57You've accomplished a great deal since you had your...
00:57:01Since you changed course.
00:57:03Imogen's always been accomplished.
00:57:06Do you remember this?
00:57:13Oh, les jeux d'enfants!
00:57:15Oh, yes, darling, do.
00:57:17Do you think you could?
00:57:19She never practices, I'm afraid.
00:57:21Nor do I. But this is second nature. Come on, Emu.
00:57:23Must we have this plunge into nostalgia?
00:57:25But there were such happy times, weren't there? Such harmony.
00:57:29Come on, Emu. Let's give them our turn.
00:57:36Let's do it.
00:58:07Oh, that was great!
00:58:10What's wrong?
00:58:12That's enough. Let's go home.
00:58:15Of course.
00:58:17You probably just forgot
00:58:19one gets these tiresome blanks occasionally.
00:58:22Come on, Emu.
00:58:24We've got to go.
00:58:26We've got to go.
00:58:28We've got to go.
00:58:30We've got to go.
00:58:32We've got to go.
00:58:35Come on, Emu. It is time for your pills anyway.
00:58:38Oh, yes. The jarring of Emu.
00:58:45Bye, Father.
00:58:49Don't worry.
00:58:51Everything will soon be back to normal.
00:58:55Yes, she is a bit jarring, isn't she?
00:58:58Whose fault is that?
00:59:04Why don't you be more explicit?
00:59:06Since you appear to have been tempted out of your usual reticence.
00:59:12What exactly is this fault?
00:59:14Do you think all you have to worry about is the way I speak?
00:59:19We'll see ourselves out. Thank you.
00:59:26Well, luckily, I don't have a grating local accent these days.
00:59:30Oh, Sylvia, you have a beautiful speaking voice.
00:59:33Yes. Well, we worked on it, didn't we, Blanche?
00:59:36Is your... What will one call it?
00:59:38Your brief, your assignment almost complete?
00:59:41I fear my ego will never recover from all this attention.
00:59:44I suspect your ego is proof against most things, Master.
00:59:48I shall be staying on a couple of extra days, as a matter of fact.
00:59:54I wonder if that would be convenient.
00:59:56Oh, well... In Oxford?
00:59:58Not necessarily here. With Imogen, maybe.
01:00:01Is she up to visitors?
01:00:04It might be better if you...
01:00:07I'll consult the diary.
01:00:09I'm thinking of covering this gardening competition.
01:00:12If you really think Beaufort's going to win...
01:00:14Beaufort and the fabulous Phil?
01:00:17Oh, we shall certainly win. I've taken the measure of the opposition.
01:00:21The visuals seem almost too good to miss.
01:00:32Shall I clear away?
01:00:35Mrs Walsh might well choose to feel victimised in the morning if I don't.
01:00:43Matthew?
01:00:53I have to get out, Mawson.
01:00:56I'm leaving this cesspool. That's as far as my courage will take me.
01:01:02Not very far, you might think.
01:01:04But at least I'm not staying to be submerged like the rest of them.
01:01:14Go easy on Mick McGovern. Trust him.
01:01:17He's a neurotic, but not a liar, and he'll talk when he can.
01:01:21Although you may be hard put to distinguish truth from conspiracy theory.
01:01:26I'm letting my fellowship go.
01:01:29I'm off to spend all my time with students who can't even begin to understand Oxford irony.
01:01:35They think it's hostile.
01:01:37Still, some of them love Renaissance music as much as you do.
01:01:43What do you reckon?
01:01:45I reckon we may as well give up now.
01:01:59We all want to keep our jobs.
01:02:02We're not all engaged in a high-minded pursuit of the truth.
01:02:07We're not high-minded, perhaps, but we want to know, don't we?
01:02:12Yes, Lewis, we have that in common.
01:02:15Policemen and academics, we want to know.
01:02:20The difference is that we'd be sacked for withholding information.
01:02:25The difference is that we'd be sacked for withholding information.
01:02:36Now, tell me how far you got looking into the college investments.
01:02:41Nothing doing.
01:02:43I don't have the rank.
01:02:46Don't you, Lewis?
01:02:47I didn't go to Oxford, see?
01:02:50Well, I don't have the rank either.
01:02:53Why don't you ask Mr Rennie? Perhaps he has the rank.
01:03:01I think there's a tie-up with McGovern.
01:03:04He's a systems analyst out of work.
01:03:07The DHSS have been pushing him.
01:03:09Well, there's hundreds of jobs in his field.
01:03:12He has a doctor's note for his nerves, though.
01:03:15And his last job was with Soil Scan in Gloucester.
01:03:18Soil Scan?
01:03:19Yeah. Agricultural chemicals and that.
01:03:21Fertilisers.
01:03:23A subsidiary of Corby International.
01:03:25Yeah, that's right.
01:03:28There, isn't it, Lewis?
01:03:31Beaufort is involved with the Parent Company.
01:03:34It's right there and we can't get at it.
01:03:38So why bother to try?
01:03:41I mean, everyone's happy, no-one's been murdered.
01:03:44What was I doing running through a hospital after a hired heavy waste of effort?
01:03:52And you reckon Normington's got the tape?
01:03:55What do you think he'll do with it?
01:03:57Textual analysis for his American students, I expect.
01:04:05I could do a bit of work on Soil Scan.
01:04:08Have another look at the stuff from the fire.
01:04:10Have another look at my glass first.
01:04:13It's a bit early for a second, isn't it, sir?
01:04:18We still haven't fathomed the umbrella.
01:04:22Nor the pool of vomit.
01:04:23What a good idea, Lewis.
01:04:25The sicked-up quiche. Do fathom that.
01:04:29Why don't you?
01:04:31I'll see you later, then, sir.
01:04:48Here you are.
01:04:50Thank you very much.
01:05:15Did I say I wouldn't be home for lunch?
01:05:18You said an appointment at 12.30?
01:05:22Did I distress you?
01:05:47I thought it would interest you, sir.
01:05:49What is it?
01:05:50It's a printer's code from the bottom edge of a poster.
01:05:54What kind of a poster?
01:05:56Greenpeace, would you believe?
01:05:58You're certain?
01:05:59I couldn't be surer.
01:06:01Well, good work, Lewis.
01:06:03There was some other stuff like that around the house, sir.
01:06:06A couple of books, magazines.
01:06:08I suppose most of the stuff would have been burnt, though, in his room.
01:06:11All right, that's McGovern.
01:06:14We know he's interested in ecological matters and he used to work for Soil Scan.
01:06:19Well, he could have been, what, blowing the whistle, couldn't he?
01:06:23It's possible.
01:06:25Well, why would he be knocking down a bloke that would have been on his side?
01:06:31Maybe he got the wrong man.
01:06:35He what, sir?
01:06:36He got the wrong man. It was dark, it was raining.
01:06:39Brilliant!
01:06:41I bet he had a bad stomach and all.
01:06:43McGovern, sensitive bloke like him.
01:06:45Yes, thank you, Lewis.
01:06:46He could have fetched up his ecological vegetarian supper off to just around the corner.
01:06:51Sorry, sir.
01:06:52You reckon he was out to get the Master?
01:06:55Or possibly he was out to get Corby International through the Master.
01:07:01No. No, no, no.
01:07:03No, it still doesn't...
01:07:11Morse.
01:07:13Has Chief Superintendent Rennie been informed?
01:07:18In that case, say he'll be there in a few minutes.
01:07:23We've had a call from Mrs. Copley-Barnes.
01:07:26It seems we're off again.
01:07:39Mrs. McGovern?
01:07:41Mrs. McGovern?
01:07:44Mrs. McGovern?
01:07:51I'm sorry.
01:07:53I couldn't contact her.
01:07:55Where is she?
01:07:56She's in the stable.
01:08:00What happened?
01:08:01She had a bad night and then somebody called her this morning.
01:08:04Imogen?
01:08:07Imogen?
01:08:08It's Mummy, darling.
01:08:10It's all right.
01:08:12I'm here now, Imogen.
01:08:16Unlock the door, darling.
01:08:18And come out.
01:08:19Please.
01:08:26It's quite a display, Mr. Hopkirk.
01:08:28Yeah.
01:08:29Not bad.
01:08:30You've done a good job here.
01:08:40Not as off-putting as a sheep's skull, I suppose.
01:08:46It's addressed to the master, like the last one.
01:08:48Has he seen it?
01:08:49No.
01:08:51Blanche would sooner he didn't.
01:08:53She doesn't want him bothered.
01:08:56We'll have to know if inquiries are to go on.
01:08:59Exactly.
01:09:00Her idea is that you just log it, or whatever it is you do,
01:09:03and then do nothing, unless another real abomination arrives.
01:09:07I can't just log it.
01:09:09She made the complaint.
01:09:10She should be here to give details.
01:09:12That's what I said.
01:09:13She wasn't even going to call you.
01:09:15She asked my opinion.
01:09:18You insisted?
01:09:19You said you wanted to be informed.
01:09:23You don't think the master should be spared the bother?
01:09:27No, I don't.
01:09:28Why should he?
01:09:33You tell me.
01:09:35I'm sorry?
01:09:36Why the master shouldn't be protected.
01:09:39Are you suggesting your inquiries be compromised
01:09:42because he has to be told something he'd rather not know?
01:09:45No, I mean in larger terms.
01:09:47In terms, say, that might affect the slant of this piece you're writing about him.
01:09:53I haven't decided on the slant yet.
01:09:56Well...
01:09:59What's his record on, um...
01:10:03for example, environmental matters?
01:10:07As deplorable as some of his associates?
01:10:10David Naylor's, for instance?
01:10:13We shall have to see, shan't we?
01:10:16My editor wants a series on men of power and influence.
01:10:19The master of an Oxford college is an obvious choice.
01:10:23What do you make of his son-in-law?
01:10:26What?
01:10:27His son-in-law, he isn't an obvious choice for the master's daughter, is he?
01:10:31Ron?
01:10:32He's Imogen's little rebellion.
01:10:35A different kind of rebellion from yours.
01:10:39I don't know what you mean.
01:10:42We have a file on you, Miss Maxton, in headquarters.
01:10:52Are you listening?
01:10:55Are you listening, mummy?
01:10:57Yes, darling, I'm listening.
01:10:59You've got to get rid of her.
01:11:01You've got to get her away.
01:11:03Tell her to go.
01:11:05She's evil, do you understand?
01:11:08I don't know what you're talking about, darling.
01:11:10We were getting on so well.
01:11:12It was like the old days.
01:11:14I grew up, that's all.
01:11:18I risen to being Imogen's paid companion.
01:11:23Which is what I was, in effect.
01:11:26Blanche's second child.
01:11:30After school.
01:11:33Most weekends.
01:11:36Every holiday.
01:11:41I was destined for an Oxford scholarship.
01:11:45But my mother became ill.
01:11:49And I discovered gin and tonic.
01:11:52And boys.
01:11:54And smashing the occasional shop window.
01:12:00I'm a good girl now, though.
01:12:04Promise.
01:12:16The Copley-Barnes years.
01:12:19Touching, aren't they?
01:12:22They seem idyllic.
01:12:25They seem idyllic.
01:12:28They were, in a way.
01:12:30Only I didn't get the best out of them.
01:12:33Rather like learning this.
01:12:35For the fingering.
01:12:38And not knowing till much later what it meant.
01:12:54Blondie!
01:13:19Blondie!
01:13:21What did I tell you?
01:13:25Well, I'm sorry.
01:13:27I thought you were someone else.
01:13:30There's been a message, sir.
01:13:32It's urgent.
01:13:33What is it?
01:13:34From the hospital.
01:13:35McGovern's mother.
01:13:36She's dying.
01:13:38Tell them to get him out there fast.
01:13:40With an escort.
01:13:54Come on.
01:14:24Come on.
01:14:39I'm sorry, Mr McGovern.
01:14:45Now I'll tell you.
01:14:50It was 1987.
01:14:52I'd worked for SoilScan about a year.
01:14:55They'd been testing this stuff known as EK4 over...
01:14:59Well, I don't remember.
01:15:00Maybe...
01:15:01Well, say since the beginning of the 80s.
01:15:03On a few targeted farms in Norfolk.
01:15:06And they realised they'd got a winner.
01:15:09There'd never been a fertiliser like it.
01:15:11High crop yields, clean soil, everything.
01:15:14There were memos flying around predicting the end of Third World Famine by the turn of the century.
01:15:19There was government money.
01:15:21Government approval.
01:15:22You handled them, the memos?
01:15:24Well, they were common knowledge.
01:15:26You see, I dealt with the figures from the tests and you couldn't argue with them.
01:15:31And then it all started to go wrong.
01:15:33We are so very sorry.
01:15:35My instinct last night was quite right.
01:15:37I was mistaken, Solia.
01:15:39I don't know what got into my head.
01:15:42We have guests arriving.
01:15:44Do you see our...
01:15:45Very distinguished guests.
01:15:48I thought I was a distinguished guest.
01:15:50So, I'm afraid we need your room.
01:15:54I don't apologise.
01:15:56I was leaving anyway.
01:15:58Had you thought of going to Imogen?
01:16:00I fear she couldn't cope.
01:16:02I shall be at the Randolph.
01:16:04Two nights.
01:16:05It's not the first time I've fallen out of favour, is it, Blanche?
01:16:09Fallen out?
01:16:10What on earth do you mean?
01:16:12There's no question.
01:16:16I must own to second thoughts about this newspaper venture.
01:16:20It was, after all, my wife's idea.
01:16:21Too bad, master.
01:16:24I shall write my observations, with or without your approval.
01:16:29And it's Sylvie, Blanche.
01:16:31Not Sylvia.
01:16:33Sylvie was what my mother called me.
01:16:35It's the name I write under.
01:16:37It's Sylvie now.
01:16:38Sylvia was then.
01:16:45Cancer.
01:16:46Yes, cancer.
01:16:48It showed up first in cattle that grazed adjacent fields,
01:16:51got cereal in their feed.
01:16:53Then there was the stuff about people.
01:16:55What stuff?
01:16:56There were two bread chains,
01:16:58bakeries that used flour from treated wheat.
01:17:01It was the last stage of the trials.
01:17:03Soil scans were about to go public.
01:17:05Then some bright GP started asking questions
01:17:08about the local incidents of brain tumours in children.
01:17:11Your mother had cancer.
01:17:13She just died for Christ's sake.
01:17:15You were obsessed with cancer, McGovern.
01:17:17Yeah, sure.
01:17:18If you mean I didn't want anyone else suffering like she did.
01:17:21At least not without some accountability.
01:17:23It happens all the time.
01:17:25A mistake, people suffer.
01:17:26I'm not saying it was deliberate.
01:17:28But it happened.
01:17:30And nobody would admit it.
01:17:35So you told Julian Dick?
01:17:38Well, I'd read his books.
01:17:40He was...
01:17:41Well, you'd read his books too, Jake said.
01:17:43Never mind, Jake.
01:17:45So you gave Dr Deer information
01:17:47you'd handled in the computer department?
01:17:49And other stuff.
01:17:50Stuff I photocopied when I assessed what was going on.
01:17:53Then I left soil scan. I got the shakes a bit.
01:17:56So why did you hit Deer in Beaufort Park?
01:17:59I didn't.
01:18:00I keep telling you, he'd been hit when I got there.
01:18:04Chief Superintendent Rennie would like to see you, sir.
01:18:07Well, doesn't he know I'm interviewing?
01:18:10Right away, he said.
01:18:14Right.
01:18:33Hello, Amanda.
01:18:35I thought you were in London.
01:18:38Are you back for a few days?
01:18:40We must have a lesson.
01:18:42I found that little Mendelssohn piece I'd like you to try.
01:18:47Oh, Phil.
01:18:49I wish you'd told me Amanda was going to be home.
01:18:52I do hope she's managed to keep up her practice.
01:18:55She's so very talented.
01:19:00Oh, goodbye, Amanda. Goodbye.
01:19:04Oh, goodbye, Amanda. Goodbye.
01:19:15No, well, I take your point, Morse.
01:19:17Indeed, I take all of your points.
01:19:19I believe McGovern's stories.
01:19:21Yes, well, maybe you do, but...
01:19:23When I have time, I'll go through the books
01:19:25and I'll identify the man that gave me the slip in the hospital.
01:19:28Look, you will have a chance to do McGovern a bit of good in the witness box.
01:19:32First he'll get bail, then he'll get off.
01:19:34You see to it that there's reasonable doubt.
01:19:36Beaufort College has very large interests and shareholdings
01:19:39in Corby International and its subsidiary companies.
01:19:42You don't know the size of their holdings.
01:19:44I don't know precisely, sir, because they're storming.
01:19:48I do know there's a Corby representative among the college's advisers.
01:19:52Well, there's nothing unusual in that these days,
01:19:54with business subsidising the universities.
01:19:56No, no, Morse. You stay out of Beaufort.
01:20:00I'm sorry.
01:20:04We're not talking about big-time crime, for God's sake.
01:20:08We're talking about a cover-up.
01:20:11A cover-up of scientific data that might...
01:20:14Stuff, the fertiliser, whatever it is, has been withdrawn.
01:20:17Even McGovern says so.
01:20:20If new evidence comes to light, the right department will deal with it.
01:20:25It's not for us.
01:20:30If McGovern is telling the truth,
01:20:32Dr Deer's attacker is walking around free.
01:20:38You don't find it strange, sir,
01:20:40that the master sent Dr Deer ahead of him into Beaufort Path?
01:20:45What an extraordinary imagination you have, Morse.
01:20:50Maybe you should give it a rest.
01:20:53Why don't you take that holiday soon?
01:20:57You'll have some leave, won't you?
01:21:16You're getting off, McGovern, in a manner of speaking.
01:21:26BIRDS CHIRP
01:21:57BELL RINGS
01:22:20Get in.
01:22:22What?
01:22:23Get in and keep down.
01:22:27GROANS
01:22:36I'm putting my job on the line over this, McGovern.
01:22:39I want the whole story.
01:22:56BIRDS CHIRP
01:22:58DOOR OPENS
01:23:22There is nothing new about the soil scan affair.
01:23:25It follows a familiar pattern.
01:23:28Life is destroyed,
01:23:30and no-one admits responsibility.
01:23:33We fail in our own responsibility
01:23:35if we don't do everything in our power
01:23:38to see that such incidents are made known,
01:23:40are held up to the light of day,
01:23:43are discussed and made the basis of a sterner policy.
01:23:50It might have helped if I'd heard this before, Jake.
01:23:53Sorry. I have to keep my career out of the dirt.
01:23:56I could do you for obstruction.
01:23:58You want me to send you the tape?
01:24:02No, don't bother.
01:24:04I don't think anyone will want to hear it somehow.
01:24:08Give Mick my regards, will you, Mawson?
01:24:11Say there could be a job for him here.
01:24:13Yeah.
01:24:22Julian told me to go to him if things got rough.
01:24:25He said we'd get on.
01:24:27Is that what you'll do, join him?
01:24:29I will, if I survive.
01:24:32Let's not get melodramatic.
01:24:34Who's being melodramatic?
01:24:36Who burned my house down?
01:24:38Who had you taken off the case, Inspector Morse?
01:24:42Someone who could say words in high places.
01:24:45Someone who's damned if he'll let your lot
01:24:47see the extent of the college's investments in Corby.
01:24:50No-one is going to kill you. You're not important enough.
01:24:55What did they have on you?
01:24:57What were they going to tell your mother?
01:25:02I did some posing for magazines.
01:25:05Years ago.
01:25:07I was broke.
01:25:09Hard stuff, you mean?
01:25:12She wouldn't have understood.
01:25:14I mean, she knew about me, but...
01:25:17that kind of thing.
01:25:19I didn't want her to die with it on her mind.
01:25:23You were supposed to confront Julian Dear
01:25:26and tell him you'd given him false information about Soil Scan
01:25:29because you had a grudge against them for not promoting you.
01:25:32Yes. Only someone had got to him first.
01:25:35Well, I thought I was being set up for a murder.
01:25:38When Copley Barnes appeared, I clouted him and ran.
01:25:47Tell me...
01:25:50what did you hope to achieve with the parcels?
01:25:53Parcels?
01:25:55The ecological statements in the post to the master.
01:25:59The, um, dried snakeskin, was it?
01:26:02The sheep's head and the blood, the green ribbon.
01:26:05The what? Me?
01:26:09No. Not you, obviously.
01:26:12Someone else.
01:26:20Come on!
01:26:22Oh!
01:26:50PHONE RINGS
01:27:09Moose.
01:27:11I hope you'll let me finish this, sir, because it'll probably get you mad.
01:27:14What is it, Lewis?
01:27:16I'm in this pub, sir.
01:27:18I'm checking pubs off my own bat.
01:27:20And they've got this speciality quiche on the menu.
01:27:23Jeez.
01:27:25Brian Dolce Lata, as it happens.
01:27:27Lewis.
01:27:29No, listen, sir.
01:27:31You know who's a regular here?
01:27:33Phil Hopkirk, the gardener.
01:27:35The barman says he was in here early the night that Dr Dear got attacked.
01:27:39Getting a real skinful.
01:27:41What do you want to do, Lewis?
01:27:43We're after the case.
01:27:45Well, I could go and see him in the morning, sir.
01:27:48But on your own initiative, against orders.
01:27:51I'm just curious, sir.
01:27:53I mean, it was me that got the vomit analysed.
01:27:56Do it, if it'll get it out of your system.
01:27:59Good night, Lewis.
01:28:45Can I have the keys?
01:29:07Sure?
01:29:08Yes, I'm sure.
01:29:11Thanks, sir.
01:29:16Drive safe.
01:29:40I want to see your daddy!
01:29:47Detective Sergeant Lewis.
01:29:49Thames Valley Police.
01:29:51Oh, is it about her not being at school?
01:29:53I don't know anything about it, I'm afraid.
01:29:55I just do a bit of housekeeping here.
01:29:57No, I came to see her dad.
01:29:58I told him we shouldn't keep her off.
01:30:00Where is Mr Hopkirk?
01:30:02Oh, he left early.
01:30:03Some competition or other.
01:30:07Is that his umbrella?
01:30:10Mind if I take a look?
01:30:28I'd like to speak to your wife, Mr Garrett.
01:30:30She's not here.
01:30:31Where is she?
01:30:32She's at the Randolph, seeing Sylvia.
01:30:34When did she leave?
01:30:35About 20 minutes ago.
01:31:05Miss Maxton?
01:31:34Miss Maxton?
01:32:03Miss Maxton?
01:32:32Miss Maxton?
01:32:56He heard it coming.
01:33:01Someone had to do it sometime.
01:33:21I would have called you.
01:33:23I was going to call you.
01:33:29Morse.
01:33:30Is Lewis there?
01:33:32Find him.
01:33:33Tell him to come to Beaufort College.
01:33:35The Master's Lodge.
01:33:37As soon as he can.
01:33:38Thanks.
01:33:46Where's Mrs Copley-Barnes?
01:33:52What day is it?
01:33:54Friday?
01:33:59It'll be organ practice in the chapel.
01:34:03Same old routine, year in, year out.
01:34:17Tell me about the holidays at the seaside.
01:34:23It was kind of them to invite me.
01:34:27What did you find on the beach?
01:34:29A starfish?
01:34:31A snake?
01:34:32Was there a sheep's head?
01:34:34Trust me to spoil it.
01:34:38How did you spoil it, Sylvia?
01:34:42There was a snake on the rock.
01:34:47I screamed.
01:34:50I made him put his arms around me.
01:34:56You were frightened.
01:34:57You were just a little girl.
01:34:59I was a big girl.
01:35:01I was 11.
01:35:03I was a flirt.
01:35:06Is that what he told you?
01:35:07Yeah.
01:35:13It was hot.
01:35:15I couldn't breathe.
01:35:20There was something buried in the sand.
01:35:22Something with horns and holes through the eyes.
01:35:28I looked at it.
01:35:30I just kept looking at it.
01:35:35I looked at it the whole time.
01:35:37I didn't look at him once.
01:35:42The green ribbon.
01:35:50I left a green ribbon in his bed once.
01:35:53Imogen found it.
01:35:56She...
01:35:57I don't think she knew what it meant.
01:35:59She couldn't have, could she?
01:36:01Not his own daughter.
01:36:06Why did you send the parcels?
01:36:10I wanted him to remember.
01:36:15All the times he made me be nice to him.
01:36:20Cupboards.
01:36:22Bathrooms.
01:36:24In here once.
01:36:28And Mandy Hopkirk?
01:36:30Oh, have you seen her?
01:36:32She's so sweet, so clean.
01:36:35Poor Phil.
01:36:36I could have helped him.
01:36:38We had a case.
01:36:39Why doesn't he wait?
01:36:45Where's Mrs. Copley-Barnes?
01:37:09Mother?
01:37:34Oh, no, darling.
01:37:36No, no, no.
01:37:37Go away.
01:37:38You must.
01:37:43I told him, Imogen.
01:37:45I told him this morning.
01:37:47I said we'd talked.
01:37:49You and I.
01:37:51You'd better bring my father.
01:37:53Your father's dead, Mrs. Garrett.
01:37:58I couldn't allow him to live, do you see?
01:38:02He didn't deserve it, and neither do I.
01:38:06There's a serpent in our house,
01:38:10coiled around the foundations.
01:38:14Mother.
01:38:16Mother, stay with me, please.
01:38:18I can't, darling.
01:38:21There's the dignity of the college to consider as well,
01:38:24do you see?
01:38:26There's never only one bad parent.
01:38:30The other must be bad too, if only by default.
01:38:33It's my fault.
01:38:35I knew about it.
01:38:37I knew all about them.
01:38:39That's why he didn't like me.
01:38:42I should have said.
01:38:44It's my fault.
01:38:46No, no.
01:38:47No, no, darling.
01:38:48I'm the one to blame.
01:38:50I let it go on.
01:38:53I could have saved Amanda.
01:38:55I have to die.
01:38:56It's not a matter of guilt, is it?
01:38:59It's a matter of responsibility.
01:39:03There are two women with their lives disfigured.
01:39:06And now a young girl.
01:39:09How many others?
01:39:12There's only one way to help.
01:39:14Let it all come out.
01:39:16Nothing hushed up this time.
01:39:21You have to live.
01:39:23You have no choice.
01:39:34Would you sing, please?
01:39:38Do you mind, Chief Inspector?
01:39:41Music does put heart into one.
01:39:44Don't you agree?
01:39:47You have to live.
01:39:49You have no choice.
01:39:51Would you sing, please?
01:39:53Do you mind, Chief Inspector?
01:39:56Music does put heart into one.
01:39:59Don't you agree?
01:40:16Take it down, Mr. Churchill.
01:40:46Man gets drunk.
01:41:03Hits out blindly at someone he thinks is the master.
01:41:07Finds he's killed Dr. Deer instead.
01:41:12Why couldn't he have come to us about his kid?
01:41:16They earned him.
01:41:17He had no power.
01:41:18He didn't belong to the club.
01:41:21As not a soul would have believed him.
01:41:24Serpent.
01:41:25Was that it?
01:41:27Did a bit of curling around here and all.
01:41:40The infernal serpent.
01:41:43He it was whose guile stirred up with envy and revenge.
01:41:49Deceived the mother of mankind.
01:41:58Milton, Lewis.
01:42:00Paradise lost.