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00:05:41It's half past six on BBC Radio Oxford on 95.2 VHF and 202 metres...
00:05:46What time does Radio Oxford go off the air?
00:05:48Head.
00:05:49Last news, 11.15 about 11.30, Chief.
00:05:52Taking plenty of pictures?
00:05:53They should be back any time now, sir.
00:05:55Don't call me sir.
00:06:10DOOR CREAKS
00:06:41Here.
00:06:57The janitor's outside, Gavin.
00:06:59I want to see the doctor.
00:07:01He's not here yet.
00:07:03Ah, well, all right then.
00:07:05The janitor, then the doctor, then the widow and son.
00:07:11Now, the janitor's name is Lloyd, Fred Lloyd.
00:07:16Come in, please, Mr Lloyd.
00:07:21Take a chair, Mr Lloyd.
00:07:30I don't know anything.
00:07:33Let me be the judge of that.
00:07:35Don't mind if I use this thing to you, it won't be evidence.
00:07:37That's my sergeant making notes.
00:07:39His writing is lousy.
00:07:42Let's see.
00:07:47Right, you're Fred Lloyd, janitor of these flats.
00:07:49Do you live in the building?
00:07:51In the basement.
00:07:53Tell me about the tenant in flat number six.
00:07:55Mr Lamb.
00:07:56What happened last night?
00:07:58Well, nothing happened to me.
00:08:00Not till Stephen rang down...
00:08:02Stephen?
00:08:03Mr Lamb's son.
00:08:04Was it an ordinary night?
00:08:06What time did you finish work?
00:08:08About eight.
00:08:09I watched TV, did some washing.
00:08:12Then the phone went and it was young Stephen.
00:08:14What time was that?
00:08:16Oh, it was late, 11.30, something like that.
00:08:19Can you remember what the boy said?
00:08:21Well, he'd just got home.
00:08:23Him and his mother, they'd just got home and Mr Lamb was dead.
00:08:27So I went up.
00:08:30So I went up.
00:08:36Mrs Lamb?
00:08:38Are you sure?
00:08:40Is he really?
00:08:42In here, Mr Lloyd.
00:08:44Are you all right, Mrs Lamb?
00:08:55I phoned the police.
00:08:59I touched the telephone.
00:09:01I mean, there'll be fingerprints.
00:09:03I didn't think.
00:09:05Are you sure?
00:09:08Oh, God.
00:09:10We came in and there he was.
00:09:12Was the front door shut?
00:09:14Yes.
00:09:15I used my key.
00:09:16We came in the front door and in here and...
00:09:20My mother can't sleep here tonight.
00:09:22Well, you must wait for the police.
00:09:24Don't leave me.
00:09:25Could it have been burglars?
00:09:27If there's anything missing, take a look.
00:09:38Mrs Lamb, you shouldn't be here.
00:09:40The bedrooms look all right.
00:09:58Oh.
00:10:00Can't you look inside?
00:10:02Only father knows how.
00:10:04And you how.
00:10:05Sorry about this, madam.
00:10:07I'm Detective Inspector Havelock and this is Sergeant Latimer.
00:10:11I'm the janitor.
00:10:13This is Stephen, the son.
00:10:15You OK, lad?
00:10:16Yes, I think so.
00:10:17Take your mother out and look after her.
00:10:19See where they can stay, Sergeant.
00:10:21Right, son.
00:10:22What about this?
00:10:23Some relatives or in a hotel or somewhere like that.
00:10:26The car downstairs, madam.
00:10:32Where is he?
00:10:33Oh, he's in this room here.
00:10:47Shot?
00:10:48Looks like it.
00:10:50Could it be suicide?
00:10:52In the back.
00:10:55No, I don't mind a bit.
00:10:59You're American, Mrs Lamb?
00:11:01A long time ago.
00:11:03I came over here after college to continue my studies.
00:11:06What was your subject?
00:11:08The Icelandic sagas.
00:11:10And you met and married Mr Lamb here?
00:11:13Yes.
00:11:14Was he to do with the university?
00:11:16Octavius?
00:11:17Oh, no.
00:11:18Octavius, it's an unusual name.
00:11:21An unusual name?
00:11:23Oh, he was the eighth child and his parents were...
00:11:29No, he was nothing to do with the university.
00:11:31He was in business.
00:11:33And Stephen, how old is Stephen?
00:11:35Nearly 16, sir.
00:11:36Where did he go to school?
00:11:37Radcliffe Road Grammar, sir.
00:11:38As far as you know, your father didn't leave the apartment yesterday evening.
00:11:42He wouldn't have.
00:11:43He hardly ever went out in the evenings.
00:11:45And you two went to...
00:11:46I went to the cinema.
00:11:47What did you see?
00:11:48A French film, sir.
00:11:50Both of you?
00:11:51No, Mother went to Professor Friedland's.
00:11:53Professor Friedland?
00:11:54They talk Vikings and sagas.
00:11:56It would bore Father.
00:11:58And yet you arrived home at the same time, at 11.30?
00:12:01I still can't believe it.
00:12:03It's...
00:12:04It's so...
00:12:05It's all right, Mother.
00:12:09I called for her after the cinema and we walked home together.
00:12:12Did you see anyone outside?
00:12:14I don't think so.
00:12:15Or in the hall?
00:12:16No.
00:12:18It's a bit late for a young lad like you to be out.
00:12:20He was with me.
00:12:22Who could have done it?
00:12:25Do either of you know if Mr Lamb had any enemies?
00:12:29Octavius?
00:12:30Oh, no, that's the terrible thing.
00:12:32Why do that to him?
00:12:34There are...
00:12:35There are enough wicked people in the world, people no one would miss.
00:12:38Why kill him?
00:12:39Mother!
00:12:45Yes, well, thank you for coming in.
00:12:47We'll be at the hotel if I still need you.
00:12:56I'd like to go up to the apartment, to my home, to his home.
00:13:01Well, we're working up there, Mrs Lamb.
00:13:03If you need anything, ask my sergeant.
00:13:05Make sure they go back to the hotel.
00:13:07Sure.
00:13:09Quite a second.
00:13:11Yes, sir.
00:13:12Two bullets.
00:13:13One in the arm of the chair, one in the wall.
00:13:15And the third still in his body.
00:13:20An automatic, that's for sure.
00:13:22Well, I'll have them looked at.
00:13:24Lamb Services.
00:13:26Sort of his business.
00:13:28Temporary typist, secretary, his office cleaner, that sort of thing.
00:13:31Any profit?
00:13:33I'd say so.
00:13:35Not even sure I expected.
00:13:37To all accounts, Octavius Lamb was a saint.
00:13:47I'm afraid Mr Lamb's not in yet.
00:13:49Has he got a secretary?
00:13:51Yes, Miss Bennet.
00:13:52All right, I'll see her.
00:13:53If you'd like to wait a moment, I'll...
00:13:57Can I help you?
00:13:59Yes, of course.
00:14:02Can I help you?
00:14:07Oh.
00:14:09It's about Mr Lamb.
00:14:11I haven't taken it in yet.
00:14:13Do you mind telling me how you heard?
00:14:15Stephen telephoned me, Mr Lamb's son.
00:14:18The girl outside doesn't know.
00:14:20No, I haven't told anyone yet, except Mr Humber.
00:14:24I don't know how to.
00:14:25Mr Humber?
00:14:27The general manager.
00:14:29How long have you been with Mr Lamb?
00:14:31Ten years.
00:14:33Ten wonderful years.
00:14:38That's his desk.
00:14:41I can't believe it.
00:14:43Who could have done such a thing?
00:14:45You liked him.
00:14:46I respected him.
00:14:48We all did.
00:14:49Did you ever meet him socially, away from the office?
00:14:52No.
00:14:53Did you ever go to his flat?
00:14:55There was no reason.
00:14:57Do you know if Mr Lamb had any enemies?
00:14:59Oh, no.
00:15:01And if you knew him...
00:15:02Tell me.
00:15:04Tell you?
00:15:05What he was like.
00:15:06If you could manage to type those up and get them in post by lunchtime, I'd be very happy.
00:15:10Would you like them on your personal paper, Mr Lamb?
00:15:12Yes, please. Good morning.
00:15:14Good morning, Miss Bennett.
00:15:16Good morning, Mr Lamb.
00:15:18Usual stuff again, I'm afraid, Miss Bennett.
00:15:20My goodness, you are looking smart today.
00:15:23Do you want to dictate, Mr Lamb?
00:15:26Oh, you do that so much better than I do, I don't really know why I bother to come in.
00:15:30Now, they want a secretary for the advertising manager at Drusen's.
00:15:34Who have we got who's good?
00:15:36Miss Renshaw?
00:15:38No, no, I was thinking of somebody a little bit more...
00:15:40What's the word I want?
00:15:42Dolly.
00:15:44Oh, I see.
00:15:45Well, not too dolly, of course.
00:15:47What about Miss O'Connor?
00:15:48Oh, yes.
00:15:49But she's a chatterbox.
00:15:51Well, just right for an advertising manager then.
00:15:53Oh, and somebody at New College wants a thesis type, somebody bright.
00:15:56I'll sort someone out, Mr Lamb.
00:15:58Perhaps a young man for change.
00:16:00Oh, yes, that would be a nice idea.
00:16:02How's your mother, Miss Bennett?
00:16:04Oh, much better, thank you.
00:16:06Good, that's what I like to hear.
00:16:08Oh, by the way, I've got two tickets for the theatre next week.
00:16:11Now, I can't use them.
00:16:13I thought perhaps you might take your mother, if she's well enough.
00:16:16Oh, Mr Lamb.
00:16:18How kind.
00:16:21I shan't like to use them now.
00:16:24He took an interest in who worked where, who did what jobs.
00:16:27Well, that's what made her so successful.
00:16:29He talked to everyone.
00:16:31Secretaries.
00:16:32And cleaners.
00:16:34He wasn't a proud man.
00:16:36He chucked to them, endlessly.
00:16:39To tell you the truth, he was a bit of a gossip.
00:16:42But I mean that in a nice way.
00:16:44Oh, yes.
00:16:46Oh, Mr Humber.
00:16:48This is Chief, er, Policeman.
00:16:51Mr Humber, General Manager.
00:16:53Yes.
00:16:55Yes, Mr Humber runs the place.
00:16:57Mr Lamb always said he could never get along without him.
00:16:59How did you get along with Mr Lamb?
00:17:01Oh, everyone got along with him.
00:17:04Excuse me.
00:17:06Did you ever go to his flat?
00:17:08I have.
00:17:10When was the last time?
00:17:12I don't know.
00:17:14I have.
00:17:15When was the last time?
00:17:20Last night.
00:17:23Is that a fact?
00:17:24I wanted some papers.
00:17:26Last night?
00:17:27Yes.
00:17:28What time?
00:17:29Oh, quite early.
00:17:31He'd taken the draft accounts, and I wanted them urgently.
00:17:34Well, there we are, Humber.
00:17:36I think that's everything you want there.
00:17:39I've written my comments on the summary page of your accounts.
00:17:42Thank you, sir.
00:17:43You never seem to smile, Humber.
00:17:45Do I work you too hard?
00:17:47Well, it's been a long day, and I do have to work hard.
00:17:50You know that.
00:17:51How lucky I am.
00:17:53Now I'll be getting along.
00:17:55I'll finish these this evening.
00:17:58Hang on a minute.
00:18:00There's a note here from my wife.
00:18:02She's gone out.
00:18:03My son's out.
00:18:04Why not stay and have a meal with me?
00:18:05Keep me company.
00:18:06No, thank you.
00:18:07These are urgent.
00:18:09Good night, Mr Lamb.
00:18:12And that was early, you say?
00:18:14About eight.
00:18:16I was only there a minute.
00:18:18And saw no one else?
00:18:19No, he was alone.
00:18:21Or outside?
00:18:22I didn't see anything.
00:18:23I just went and caught my bus.
00:18:25And he was alive and well when you left?
00:18:27Oh, alive and well.
00:18:30Excuse me, I have to...
00:18:32Did you kill him, Mr Humber?
00:18:34Oh, no!
00:18:36I didn't.
00:18:37What reason would I have?
00:18:38Do you own a gun?
00:18:39No.
00:18:40Do you have access to a gun?
00:18:41No.
00:18:42Or to anyone that has?
00:18:43No.
00:18:46Well, I'll be off.
00:18:49You having so much urgent work to do.
00:18:51Good day, Miss Bennett.
00:18:52Good day.
00:19:08Kinky.
00:19:10Mr Bolton.
00:19:11There's not a dab anywhere, sir.
00:19:13Not a print shouldn't be here.
00:19:14Only the dead man, the wife, the son.
00:19:16Oh, and the janitor.
00:19:17Go on looking.
00:19:18Aye, sir.
00:19:23Gruesome for a kid.
00:19:26All kids are gruesome.
00:19:32Mr Lloyd.
00:19:33Says he's remembered something, Chief.
00:19:35I wish I hadn't mentioned it now.
00:19:36It can't mean anything.
00:19:38Try me.
00:19:44I heard a motorbike.
00:19:45When?
00:19:46Last night.
00:19:47Where were you?
00:19:48Down in my room.
00:19:49And the motorbike went by in the street?
00:19:51Oh, no, no.
00:19:52It was outside my window.
00:19:53I saw it.
00:19:54But you didn't think to tell us?
00:19:55Well, what time was this, Mr Lloyd?
00:19:57Well, I know that because news at ten had finished.
00:20:00I botched that.
00:20:02Then there was this route.
00:20:11Here, cut it out, why don't you?
00:20:14Can't you stop all the commotion at this time of night?
00:20:18You didn't get the number?
00:20:20Number?
00:20:21No, of course not.
00:20:22Did you get it, Abbot?
00:20:23Yes, Chief.
00:20:24Good.
00:20:31Get what?
00:20:48I thought a combination of locks were another of James Cagney's movies.
00:20:51The manufacturers wouldn't give it me over the phone.
00:20:53I had to send a uniformed man round.
00:20:56What's the number?
00:20:5812-1-1-3-2.
00:21:03He could have guessed it.
00:21:04Why?
00:21:0612-1-13-2.
00:21:08What?
00:21:09Letters of the alphabet.
00:21:10L-A-M-B, his name.
00:21:11That's why you're a chief superintendent and I never will be.
00:21:15You know, there's a lot of vanity even among saints.
00:21:20Car lock book.
00:21:22Insurance policies.
00:21:27I'm not here.
00:21:36What do you expect all to his wife?
00:21:42Now, what's this?
00:21:43A number.
00:21:456-0-7-2-1-9-2.
00:21:48Another bank account somewhere?
00:21:50A London telephone somewhere.
00:21:52Try it.
00:21:56Carry on, mate.
00:22:02Oh, I'm sorry to trouble you, but I need some more papers.
00:22:09Excuse me, I wonder...
00:22:15He didn't give me them all last night and I can't get on.
00:22:18Is there something else, Mr Lloyd?
00:22:19Oh, well, it's this mail for the lambs.
00:22:21All right, give it to me.
00:22:23All right.
00:22:25All right, Mr Lloyd, off you go to your coffee party.
00:22:29Can I go up and look for them?
00:22:30There are no business papers up there, Mr Humber.
00:22:32I'm sure if I went up...
00:22:35Electricity bill.
00:22:37I haven't paid that either.
00:22:38Should you be looking?
00:22:40Report me to the police.
00:22:42Come in.
00:22:46It's sealed.
00:22:48Yes, I have noticed.
00:22:51So if I can just...
00:22:52Not today, Mr Humber.
00:22:53Yes, but the accountants are screaming.
00:22:54To let them scream.
00:22:56Or talk to Mrs Lamb.
00:23:04Bullets are nine millimetre.
00:23:05Ballistics guess and they stress guess.
00:23:07They came from a Browning.
00:23:08No sign of it.
00:23:09Big search going on.
00:23:10He throws guns away.
00:23:12Too hard to come by.
00:23:15Any news on the motorbike?
00:23:16None of the beat constables or cars noticed one.
00:23:20Surely it's somewhere in that terminal.
00:23:51He came in late last night.
00:23:53Smashed the bike on the bypass.
00:23:55Skidded, I guess.
00:23:56A truck driver found him and brought him here.
00:23:58What's wrong with him?
00:23:59Legs, arms, back, skull, you name it, man.
00:24:03Is he drunk?
00:24:04No, we ran a blood test for the transfusion.
00:24:07What about the motorbike?
00:24:08Scrap metal.
00:24:09I got the number.
00:24:10Oh, we already checked that to let the relatives know.
00:24:13It's still registered in the name of the previous owner.
00:24:15He sold it a year ago and moved away.
00:24:17No one knows where.
00:24:19Call for you, Sergeant.
00:24:20Thanks.
00:24:22Did he have a gun on him?
00:24:23No.
00:24:24What about his clothes?
00:24:26Oh, we had to cut them off him.
00:24:28They were leather.
00:24:29Black leather.
00:24:30And the motorbike, what else?
00:24:31Even priests wear black leather these days.
00:24:33Including the underwear.
00:24:37We need a photograph of him.
00:24:38Without a photograph, we can't find him.
00:24:40I'm afraid we can't.
00:24:43We need a photograph of him without the bandages.
00:24:45Sergeant Beck will arrange it.
00:24:47The doctor won't like it.
00:24:49So don't tell him.
00:24:51He was expected to have locked, Chief.
00:24:52You're not going to believe this, but they've found the gun.
00:25:03Amy Hobson and Michael Singleton, Chief.
00:25:05I have the addresses.
00:25:07Where did you find it?
00:25:09Go on.
00:25:12Was it some kind of a secret?
00:25:14No, it was under the bridge.
00:25:16You're a skin diver?
00:25:18No, no, I'm a milkman.
00:25:21So you meet there every day?
00:25:23Yeah.
00:25:24No.
00:25:25Every dinner time.
00:25:26No doubt you have your reasons.
00:25:28I try, don't I?
00:25:29Well, it's quite dark there under the bridge, and I didn't know what it was.
00:25:32So I picked it up.
00:25:33I thought it was a toy.
00:25:34I was too heavy for a toy.
00:25:36So you decided to tell the police, after an argument.
00:25:39Well, Michael was married, you see.
00:25:41Shut up.
00:25:42There won't be any dabs in it now, but you might as well go through the routine.
00:25:45We'll need your fingerprints.
00:25:46Already done, Chief.
00:25:47Yeah, and I don't like it.
00:25:48You'll be destroyed.
00:25:49This isn't Russia yet.
00:25:51Tell me.
00:25:53How about your secret meeting place?
00:25:55Hey, now, you watch it.
00:25:56Of course it's our secret meeting place.
00:25:59The bridge over, is it a road bridge?
00:26:01Yes.
00:26:02It's a hive bridge, Chief, here.
00:26:04Oh.
00:26:05Could someone on a motorbike, say, going over that bridge,
00:26:08throw a gun thinking it would go in the water?
00:26:10Yeah, yeah, I suppose so.
00:26:12If they didn't stop to make sure.
00:26:14OK.
00:26:15Well, thank you.
00:26:16You've been very helpful.
00:26:21And good luck.
00:26:25I'm telling you, it was Mary.
00:26:28It is a Browning 9mm.
00:26:29Ballistics were right.
00:26:30Ballistics are always right.
00:26:32It's easy to be right when you're dealing with simple facts.
00:26:35Ballistics, you try working with people sometimes.
00:26:39Now, the apartment here, the bridge here,
00:26:44and where the bike crashed, there.
00:26:46Along the line, east to west across the city.
00:26:48No number on that gun.
00:26:50Filed off years ago from the look of it.
00:26:54So, imagine he was going home.
00:26:58Killed a man, drove off, threw the gun, crashed.
00:27:02He lives here, the west of the city.
00:27:05He's not much over there.
00:27:06Oh, cheer me up.
00:27:08There'll be photographs of him soon.
00:27:10They'll look like a waxwork.
00:27:12And Sergeant Beck is having his fingerprints checked at the yard.
00:27:15No, he won't be known.
00:27:16He's an amateur.
00:27:17Yeah.
00:27:18A professional wouldn't throw the gun away or crash the motorbike.
00:27:21Unless he was drunk.
00:27:22He wasn't.
00:27:23He was young, he was excited.
00:27:24He just killed a man.
00:27:26Oh, yeah, they're running copies now.
00:27:27It's still wet.
00:27:30Looks like I feel the morning after.
00:27:32Well, get it around to everybody.
00:27:34Hotels, boarding houses, filling stations.
00:27:36I want him identified.
00:27:37Right.
00:27:38Anyone up in the apartment?
00:27:39Not now, they're finished.
00:27:41And came up with damn all.
00:27:43Keys?
00:27:46Well, I'm having another thought in my head.
00:27:49I shall revisit the scene of the crime.
00:27:51Sound like Sherlock Holmes.
00:27:53I don't play the fiddle.
00:27:57He strikes me as a bit of a con...
00:28:00You know the chief?
00:28:01He's one of the best.
00:28:02One of the best what, Sergeant?
00:28:06One of the best, sir.
00:28:23Come on.
00:28:40Is anyone here?
00:28:54Is your business as urgent as all that, Mr. Humber?
00:29:05What did you get in?
00:29:07I found spare keys in his desk at the office.
00:29:10I told you, it's the accounts.
00:29:13I need the summary sheet urgently.
00:29:15I've been looking for it.
00:29:16You've been breaking and entering.
00:29:18You've been breaking and entering.
00:29:20The summary sheet urgently.
00:29:21I've been looking for it.
00:29:22You've been breaking and entering.
00:29:24But how could I be?
00:29:26Mr. Lamb was my boss.
00:29:28We can't have his death, however sad, upsetting the business.
00:29:32You didn't like him.
00:29:34I didn't kill him.
00:29:35I know that.
00:29:36You wouldn't have the guts.
00:29:38Well, let's go and look for your accounts together, shall we, Mr. Humber?
00:29:43Let's try the den.
00:29:51Did you try the safe?
00:29:53Of course I tried it. It's locked.
00:29:55So you thought that whatever you were looking for would be hidden among Sir Walter Scott and Jane Austen?
00:30:00I don't know, do I? It's somewhere.
00:30:02What? What is it you're looking for, Mr. Humber?
00:30:04The summary page of the accounts with Mr. Lamb's comments.
00:30:21These are what you're looking for, Mr. Humber.
00:30:23What are they?
00:30:25Don't you know?
00:30:27Why should I?
00:30:29I've never seen them before.
00:30:33Except that I can see their filth.
00:30:37They're a rather special brand of cowboys and Indians, I'll grant you that.
00:30:41This one will fetch 20 pounds in the black market.
00:30:44And even saints have private lives.
00:30:47You think Mrs. Lamb knows that sort of thing?
00:30:51Wives always know. Husbands always think they don't.
00:30:56All right, Mr. Humber, you go back to your office for now and wait for me.
00:31:10You've got it, haven't you?
00:31:12You've found it.
00:31:14It was in the safe?
00:31:17What was in the safe, Mr. Humber?
00:31:38Carlton Cinema turns out at 10.15.
00:31:42Carlton Cinema turns out at 10.15 this week.
00:31:45Oxford. City of culture and learning.
00:31:48Humber was up there, snooping around.
00:31:51For what?
00:31:53Holy cow!
00:31:55Hundreds of them.
00:31:57Anything to do with it?
00:31:59No, I don't think people get murdered for liking dirty books.
00:32:02Or for collecting butterflies.
00:32:04Or for... What does the mother do?
00:32:06Have dinner with LF?
00:32:08No, it's Lewis Freedland, professor at Merton College.
00:32:11Professor of what?
00:32:13Scandinavian studies.
00:32:15I figured that was her subject.
00:32:18Look, take this up to the safe.
00:32:21Stephen Lamb? Couldn't I just give it to him?
00:32:23No.
00:32:27Even the dead get bills.
00:32:29It's a wicked world.
00:32:34Didn't you get any one?
00:32:36Oh, if you like.
00:32:38No, don't bother.
00:32:40About Humber snooping, what do you think...
00:32:42It's the murder.
00:32:44Something in the flat, someone killed for it, Humber was snooping for it.
00:32:46Perhaps our motorbike friend got it.
00:32:48Any idea what?
00:32:50A fair idea.
00:32:52How saintly Mr. Octavius Lamb.
00:32:54That old thing stinks to high heaven of blackmail.
00:32:56Yes.
00:32:58He got what blackmailers deserve.
00:33:00PHONE RINGS
00:33:02John Beck.
00:33:06It's our motorbike friend, he's conscious.
00:33:08Right, let's get there.
00:33:10You stay here and finish your lunch.
00:33:16It's not going to happen, is it?
00:33:18False alarm.
00:33:20Hell!
00:33:22He came round for a moment, delirious, but speaking.
00:33:24It seemed right to call you, sir.
00:33:26It was right. Don't call me sir.
00:33:28What did he say?
00:33:30He was talking about a woman.
00:33:32Talking to a woman.
00:33:34He said she shouldn't be here.
00:33:36Go away, whoever you are, this is no place for a woman.
00:33:38A woman? Do you think...
00:33:40No name, nothing to tell us who she is.
00:33:42Afraid not.
00:33:44It could have been something from years ago.
00:33:46He didn't know her, did he?
00:33:48Go away, whoever you are.
00:33:50PHONE RINGS
00:33:52Excuse me.
00:33:54Well, if it was last night.
00:33:56He was up in the flat looking for something,
00:33:58saw a woman there, maybe killed her.
00:34:00Or she did.
00:34:02Him, Humber, the woman, all snooping.
00:34:04Don't leave him for a second.
00:34:06Where are we going?
00:34:08To break Humber.
00:34:10He's all we've got left.
00:34:30PHONE RINGS
00:34:38Miss Bennet.
00:34:40I keep thinking he's still here.
00:34:42I have my pad and pencil...
00:34:44Where's Mr Humber?
00:34:46Mr Humber?
00:34:48I'll take him.
00:34:50Mr Humber in his office?
00:34:52He's in the washroom, Miss Bennet.
00:34:54Oh, if you'll wait.
00:34:56Scuttled in there like a white rabbit ages ago.
00:35:00PHONE RINGS
00:35:06Mr Humber?
00:35:08Mr Humber!
00:35:10No!
00:35:12Stop it! Stop it!
00:35:14SCREAMS
00:35:20Foxtrot calling Red Badge 3.
00:35:22Foxtrot calling Red Badge 3.
00:35:24Hello, Foxtrot.
00:35:26This is Red Badge 3.
00:35:28Hang on, Foxtrot. I'll get him.
00:35:34I have to see him.
00:35:36Not again!
00:35:38Please, not again!
00:35:40Ian, take this, will you?
00:35:44He went out earlier.
00:35:46He said he had something to do.
00:35:48Yes, I know about that, Miss Bennet.
00:35:50He asked me if I knew how to open the safe in Mr Lamb's flat.
00:35:54Indeed.
00:35:56I opened the safe in Mr Lamb's flat.
00:35:58And did you?
00:36:00No! I've never been there!
00:36:02The Roman way of dying.
00:36:04The least painful way.
00:36:06Our motorbike friend has died.
00:36:08He didn't speak again, but we do know who he is.
00:36:10His landlady recognised his picture.
00:36:12Well, we'll go and see the landlady.
00:36:14You stay here. You drive, Ian.
00:36:16Chief, my car.
00:36:18He's not that bad a driver.
00:36:26Let's go.
00:36:42Let him in, Constable.
00:36:44Mrs Beauty recognised your picture.
00:36:46Well, of course I recognised it.
00:36:48I knew it was right away.
00:36:50What I don't know is what you people are doing here.
00:36:52This is a respectable house.
00:36:54I've never seen a police here before.
00:36:56What's it all about?
00:36:58He's a quiet gentleman, my Mr Casson.
00:37:00He's never given me a minute's bother.
00:37:02And won't in the future.
00:37:04Here, just a minute. What do you think you're doing?
00:37:06Don't look so scared, Constable.
00:37:08He's somewhere else.
00:37:10Yes.
00:37:12Yes what?
00:37:14Yes, sir.
00:37:16Does she know what he does for a living?
00:37:18Yes, Chief Superintendent.
00:37:20He was an assistant manager in a bank.
00:37:22That's respectable.
00:37:24Little suit, grey suit, Harris tweed.
00:37:26And...
00:37:30More casual gear.
00:37:34Empty.
00:37:38Cricket bag, golf club.
00:37:40I don't know.
00:37:52Money?
00:37:54No, sir.
00:37:56He likes having his photograph taken.
00:37:58Cor!
00:38:02Ever seen anything like this before, Constable?
00:38:04No, sir.
00:38:06It's square to be ordinary these days.
00:38:10We'd better take these with us.
00:38:12The landlady will have a heart attack.
00:38:14They had to be processed somewhere.
00:38:16Any chance of finding out where?
00:38:18I doubt it.
00:38:20Who is it?
00:38:22Let me in.
00:38:24This is my house and I've got a right to know what's going on.
00:38:26Do you recognise that man, Mrs Bute?
00:38:28Why, it's Mr Lamb.
00:38:36Come in.
00:38:38What do you want?
00:38:40Can I go upstairs? Mother wants some things.
00:38:42What things?
00:38:44A change of clothes and her nightdress.
00:38:46Nordic House?
00:38:48Detective Inspector Jessel, please.
00:38:50In Yale Hall.
00:38:52Go on, off you go.
00:38:54Have you found who did it yet?
00:38:56It's a male.
00:38:58For me?
00:39:00It's only a bill. I'll leave it upstairs.
00:39:02Hello, Peter?
00:39:04Hold on a second. Are you expecting a butterfly?
00:39:06Yes, an Apertura Iris.
00:39:08The Purple Emperor.
00:39:10How do you know?
00:39:12I'll put it in the safe upstairs.
00:39:14Thanks a lot.
00:39:18Peter, yes.
00:39:20Listen, I'm down in Oxford playing a hunch.
00:39:22A number.
00:39:24607
00:39:262192.
00:39:28No, no, no.
00:39:30It's not a telephone number. We tried it.
00:39:32Yeah?
00:39:34Yes, it could be.
00:39:36Would you?
00:39:38OK, thanks, Peter.
00:39:40Listen, C1 number I am.
00:39:42Thanks a lot.
00:39:48The boy said everything seemed to be there.
00:39:50And he was by the safe.
00:39:52And I said,
00:39:54can't you look inside?
00:39:56And he said
00:39:58only his dad knew how to open it.
00:40:18OK.
00:40:48OK.
00:41:12He didn't even hesitate, Chief.
00:41:14He just whipped the safe straight open.
00:41:16Had to be the boy or the mother.
00:41:18Chief.
00:41:20He's too controlled.
00:41:22He never drops a hairpin like my own mother used to say.
00:41:24Chief, this is Bill, Inspector Hadlock.
00:41:26Yes, I'm back.
00:41:28Just a minute. Inspector Jessel.
00:41:30Peter?
00:41:32Yep.
00:41:34Yeah?
00:41:36Are you sure?
00:41:38Not sure, but half sure.
00:41:40That sounds like the fraud squad.
00:41:42Ha-ha.
00:41:44No, thanks a lot, Peter.
00:41:46Yeah, bye-bye.
00:41:48607-2192.
00:41:50Number in the safe.
00:41:52It's probably the number of a bank account.
00:41:54Great, all we do is...
00:41:56Bank account in Switzerland.
00:41:58Oh.
00:42:00I don't know any Swiss police.
00:42:02Didn't know they needed any.
00:42:04There might be somebody who does.
00:42:06Yeah, if I ring...
00:42:08You do it.
00:42:10I'll buy you a cheap dinner.
00:42:12If she minds being hungry.
00:42:14Oh, Chief.
00:42:20You haven't a newsagent or backings
00:42:22to come for the month.
00:42:24Six pounds 25, so?
00:42:26The address. It's in Great Two.
00:42:28It's a village about 12 miles from here.
00:42:30Now, who buys their newspapers
00:42:32from a shop 12 miles away?
00:42:34You are a clever boy.
00:42:41Finished yet, Chief?
00:42:48Yeah, just about.
00:42:55OK. Let's make an entrance.
00:43:11MUSIC PLAYS
00:43:27Someone's in a hurry, Mr Lavender.
00:43:29They'll have an accident driving like that.
00:43:32You're right, Mrs Lavender.
00:43:41BIRDS CHIRP
00:43:55Post office is shut.
00:43:57I'm sorry, but the law's the law.
00:43:59I'm the law.
00:44:01What do you want, then?
00:44:03Information.
00:44:05It's a terrible photo.
00:44:07Is this?
00:44:09Oh, no, that's ever so good.
00:44:11Look, Mr Lavender, it's Mr Battersby.
00:44:15That's right. Mr Battersby.
00:44:17Mr Battersby buys his newspapers here?
00:44:19Magazines. And cigars sometimes.
00:44:21Once a week. Regular as clockwork.
00:44:23I think he's a travelling man.
00:44:25If he wasn't a travelling man,
00:44:27he'd have a home of his own now, wouldn't he?
00:44:29Wouldn't need us for his letters.
00:44:31This man has his letters addressed here?
00:44:33They're what he calls for really.
00:44:35How many?
00:44:37Maybe 20 or so.
00:44:39Or through the mail. No-one ever calls personally.
00:44:41No, never. Never called themselves.
00:44:43There's a letter for him now. It came this morning.
00:44:45I want it.
00:44:47Oh, no. Our service is confidential.
00:44:49Quite confidential. We never betray a trust.
00:44:51I'll betray your bloody post office licence.
00:44:53Now get it.
00:45:01How long has he been coming here, this Mr Battersby?
00:45:03Years and years.
00:45:05He's one of our most regular customers.
00:45:07He gets 20 letters every week?
00:45:09Give or take a few.
00:45:11Here.
00:45:13You can't do that.
00:45:15It's against the law.
00:45:17It's criminal. It's scandalous.
00:45:21Money.
00:45:23This is lavender.
00:45:25B, E, R, yep.
00:45:27Yes.
00:45:29Uh-huh.
00:45:31You're beautiful.
00:45:33Sorry, sir.
00:45:35All right.
00:45:39Rough?
00:45:41Pretty rough.
00:45:43If we ever reveal the information, we'll be shot.
00:45:45And if the Swiss find out how we got it, they'll declare war.
00:45:47So tell me.
00:45:49The bank is the Bank Huber.
00:45:51The address is Zurich.
00:45:53The account is in the name of Agneau, Monsieur Agneau.
00:45:55That's French for lamb.
00:45:57Any chance of finding out how much is in the account?
00:45:59No way. The Pope couldn't find out.
00:46:01No.
00:46:03Well, here's some more for it.
00:46:05All grubby and untraceable.
00:46:07Definitely blackmail.
00:46:0920 or more people regularly every week.
00:46:11And one of them killed him.
00:46:13It happens.
00:46:15Look, this isn't a regular stamp.
00:46:17No, you get on to the post office.
00:46:19Yes, come in.
00:46:21What do you want?
00:46:23I asked them to check the crime books for last night.
00:46:25Huh?
00:46:27People getting killed, motorbikes crashing, guns thrown.
00:46:29Central Post Office.
00:46:31Someone broke into a television store
00:46:33and got away with four colour sets.
00:46:35Drunk and disorderly outside the Dog and Duck.
00:46:37Someone broke into a school
00:46:39and a woman complained a man attacked her
00:46:41but ran away with her own as he happened.
00:46:43Probably got a good look at her.
00:46:45Right. Thank you very much.
00:46:47This envelope belongs to a firm called Harness and Barden.
00:46:49Lawyers.
00:46:51Right, I'll go there.
00:46:53School? I beg pardon, sir?
00:46:55Which school was broken into last night?
00:46:57Well, nothing seemed to be missing, sir.
00:47:01It was Radcliffe Road Grammar.
00:47:05We're here after college
00:47:07to continue my studies.
00:47:09What was your subject?
00:47:13And Stephen, how old is Stephen?
00:47:15Nearly 16, sir.
00:47:17Where do you go to school?
00:47:19Radcliffe Road Grammar, sir.
00:47:21As far as you know.
00:47:23You go to that school.
00:47:25You stay here.
00:47:27We don't want too many big feet
00:47:29clomping round a lawyer's office.
00:47:31You might see us.
00:47:37I'm sorry.
00:47:39What the hell do you think you're doing?
00:47:41Police, Mr Barden.
00:47:43You have confirmation?
00:47:47Your secretary is a better typist than you are.
00:47:49Do you realise anything concerning my client?
00:47:51You're a lawyer, not a priest.
00:47:53It concerns you, Mr Barden.
00:47:55You typed this envelope,
00:47:57put 50 pounds in it and mailed it.
00:47:59The same as you've been doing every week or every month.
00:48:01He was blackmailing you.
00:48:03Lamb.
00:48:05Battersby. For how long?
00:48:07I don't have to say anything
00:48:09which might incriminate me.
00:48:11Get him down to the station.
00:48:13Lamb's dead. Battersby, as you know him, he's dead.
00:48:15You weren't the only one. There were dozens of you.
00:48:17Help yourself. Is that true?
00:48:19Battersby's dead.
00:48:21You're off his hook.
00:48:23Now get off ours.
00:48:25Help you with your inquiries.
00:48:27That's all right.
00:48:31How long has he been blackmailing you?
00:48:35Six years.
00:48:37How much? You know.
00:48:3950 pounds a month.
00:48:41Six years, that's...
00:48:433,600.
00:48:45What did you do with its worth so much?
00:48:47I had an affair.
00:48:49With a woman? Of course it was with a woman.
00:48:51What the hell do you think?
00:48:53How did he find out Battersby Lamb?
00:48:55I don't know.
00:48:57He wrote.
00:48:59Sent me copies of letters
00:49:01I'd written to Mary and...
00:49:03It was six years ago.
00:49:05It hasn't happened since. I never see her.
00:49:07You didn't want your wife to find out.
00:49:09I'm not married.
00:49:11Her husband. Was he big? Would he have duffed you up?
00:49:13That wouldn't worry me.
00:49:15What did? What does?
00:49:17Who is this Mary you had an affair with six years ago?
00:49:19She's married to my brother.
00:49:25Did you kill Octavius Lamb?
00:49:27No.
00:49:31But whoever did...
00:49:33Well, go on.
00:49:35They've got themselves a free lawyer.
00:49:43Pardon.
00:49:45Humber, the manager.
00:49:47What's his name on the motorbike?
00:49:49All Payne.
00:49:51All unknown to each other.
00:49:53And the woman who lives upstairs.
00:49:55Whatever her name is.
00:49:57Suddenly they all know who Lamb is
00:49:59and where he lives.
00:50:01How?
00:50:03Is it important to try and trace the other...
00:50:05No, I don't.
00:50:11Good evening, Superintendent.
00:50:13My name's Mary Barden.
00:50:15I'm a lawyer.
00:50:17I'm a lawyer.
00:50:19I'm a lawyer.
00:50:21I'm a lawyer.
00:50:23I'm a lawyer.
00:50:25I'm a lawyer.
00:50:27I'm a lawyer.
00:50:29I'm a lawyer.
00:50:31My name's Mary Barden.
00:50:37I heard it on the radio.
00:50:39Some evenings my husband gets home late.
00:50:41If the traffic's bad,
00:50:43the local radio tells you.
00:50:45So I listen at tea time.
00:50:47They said that Mr. Lamb of Oakhurst Court
00:50:49was dead.
00:50:51So I thought I'd better come.
00:50:53How long had you known him by that name?
00:50:55His real name?
00:50:57Since yesterday.
00:50:59Is that right?
00:51:01Yes.
00:51:03Had you met him before?
00:51:05Until yesterday I had no idea who he was
00:51:07or where he lived.
00:51:09How did you suddenly discover that he lived here?
00:51:11This arrived
00:51:13yesterday.
00:51:25So, Mrs. Barden, this is to help you.
00:51:27If you're Octavius Lamb
00:51:29and live at 6 Oakhurst Court, Oxford,
00:51:31burn this letter.
00:51:33Don't reveal it.
00:51:35I well wish her.
00:51:37What did you think of it?
00:51:39I thought it was
00:51:41his weird way of saying
00:51:43he wanted to meet me at last.
00:51:45You came here?
00:51:47Yes.
00:51:49What time?
00:51:51I left it till late.
00:51:53I didn't particularly want to be seen.
00:51:55I rang the bell.
00:52:03Mr. Lamb?
00:52:05Yes.
00:52:07The man who blackmails me?
00:52:09What is this?
00:52:11I thought you'd ask me in.
00:52:17Who is she?
00:52:19Is she in this with you?
00:52:21I have no idea who either of you are.
00:52:23Get rid of her.
00:52:25You shouldn't be here.
00:52:27Go away, whoever you are.
00:52:29This is no place for a woman. What do you want?
00:52:31I had a letter.
00:52:33The same as his, from a well-wisher.
00:52:35Look, I want those photographs
00:52:37and I want them now.
00:52:39Oh.
00:52:41And what do you want?
00:52:43Don't you know?
00:52:45You know,
00:52:47you should be poised like her.
00:52:49Photographs?
00:52:51No, I think not.
00:52:53A letter?
00:52:55Did you send this?
00:52:57Of course I didn't.
00:52:59It's playing a practical joke.
00:53:01Do I look like a blackmailer?
00:53:03Yes, and I'm here to get my photographs.
00:53:05I don't give a damn what you're here to get.
00:53:07Save you can both get out now.
00:53:09I've had enough of you, Mr. Battersby.
00:53:11Over the years, I've had more than enough of you.
00:53:13You haven't had anything of me.
00:53:15I have never seen you in my life before.
00:53:17I have never seen either of you,
00:53:19if heaven's sake, put that pop-gun away.
00:53:21Look, it says here that you're the man
00:53:23that's been blackmailing me for six years.
00:53:25He is, and me for four years.
00:53:27Blackmailer? I'm a business man.
00:53:29Some business.
00:53:31Look, if it was a joke,
00:53:33who'd want to play it?
00:53:35Who can possibly know about me?
00:53:37About either of us?
00:53:39I've no idea.
00:53:41Go on.
00:53:43I stopped being poised.
00:53:45You started to phone for the police.
00:53:47Stop that. Put it down.
00:53:49My home invaded by a pair of raving lunatics.
00:53:51I'm warning you, Battersby, don't make me do it.
00:53:53Come here.
00:53:55No.
00:53:57Go on, get out.
00:53:59You shot him? Blackmailed him?
00:54:01Kassim?
00:54:03No.
00:54:05There was a fight.
00:54:07Well?
00:54:09There was a fight.
00:54:11Well, scuffle.
00:54:13I had furniture going in.
00:54:15But he was alive and well
00:54:17when you both left? Yes.
00:54:19And if I say it's a pack of lies
00:54:21that one of you killed him...
00:54:23Look, when I come here,
00:54:25listen, the whole thing's
00:54:27a bore. The blackmail's
00:54:29a bore. It's all because
00:54:31I didn't want my husband to find out.
00:54:33And I don't even care.
00:54:35I was stupid.
00:54:37The adultery?
00:54:39Paying him
00:54:41in the first place.
00:54:43Have you ever employed anyone
00:54:45from Lamb's Services?
00:54:47Lamb's Services?
00:54:49Lamb's?
00:54:51Yes. Years ago,
00:54:53I got a cleaner from them when my home was sick.
00:54:55Is that how you discover it?
00:54:57Did you ever see Kassim again?
00:54:59Well, not really.
00:55:01I saw a motorbike tearing off.
00:55:03I assumed that was him.
00:55:07I felt weak.
00:55:09But I had to move. There was this person watching.
00:55:11Person?
00:55:13Out there in the darkness.
00:55:15Scared me.
00:55:17Funny, after what had happened.
00:55:19Did you recognize this person?
00:55:21I didn't look.
00:55:25Do I have your
00:55:27address, Mrs. Barton?
00:55:29I have it, Chief.
00:55:31Well, you might as well go home.
00:55:37♪♪
00:56:07Yes?
00:56:09Professor Friedland, Lewis Friedland?
00:56:11Yes.
00:56:13We're police officers, sir.
00:56:15We'd like to have a word with you about Mrs. Madeline Lamb.
00:56:17Maddie?
00:56:19What about her?
00:56:21Do you think we might come in, sir?
00:56:23Please be seated, gentlemen.
00:56:27Well, it's about
00:56:29Maddie, you say?
00:56:31She dined with you last night, Professor Friedland.
00:56:33That's right.
00:56:35What time did she leave?
00:56:37Oh, we talked about old times.
00:56:39I showed her an essay.
00:56:41She said,
00:56:43I don't know,
00:56:45I don't know,
00:56:47I don't know,
00:56:49I don't know.
00:56:51We talked about old times.
00:56:53I showed her an essay I have in the Havamo.
00:56:55We had some dinner.
00:56:57She left about ten.
00:56:59Hell no more like 11.30.
00:57:01Did she ask you to say that?
00:57:03Ask?
00:57:05Oh, you're both American.
00:57:07Roughly the same age.
00:57:09We've known each other a long time.
00:57:11We're in the same class of school.
00:57:13In America.
00:57:15You were friends.
00:57:17Well, we dated.
00:57:19Look I got this appointment a year ago. We've exchanged Christmas cards over the years. That's all until you met here
00:57:28Are you in love with mrs. Lam she's a married woman. Are you in love with her?
00:57:34Yes
00:57:38And she with you she was gonna ask her husband for a divorce I can imagine that
00:57:49Mrs. Lam, please
00:57:53She didn't want to see anyone
00:57:57She's upset after what happened
00:58:02It's you or your son mrs. Lam we know that
00:58:08Me
00:58:11You absolutely certain about that
00:58:14Mrs. Madeline Lam I have to charge you with the murder of your husband Octavius Lam and number six Oakhurst Court in Oxford and whatever
00:58:20Yeah, what the hell is this?
00:58:21I must warn you that you needn't say anything
00:58:23But if you do we're taken down and may be used in evidence Maddie. Don't you worry about a thing. This is all nonsense
00:58:27I'm calling my
00:58:29He knows nothing he lied to me. Well for my sake he has no idea why
00:58:35He he wouldn't divorce me Louis. He wouldn't let me divorce him. I didn't even know he was gay
00:58:41Wouldn't let me divorce him I didn't even ask so you killed him
00:58:45But that wasn't why do you know about his business the agency? Of course, there's other business
00:58:52What other your son knew?
00:58:55Stephen he went alone to the cinema last night. It got out at 1015. You said you both got back at 1113
00:59:03It was near 10 o'clock
00:59:07Stephen got home first and he didn't go to the movies
00:59:11He told me later there'd been two people at the apartment a man and a woman they were there because he wrote to them
00:59:18Well, he didn't tell me that
00:59:20He waited outside until they left and then he went in
00:59:41I
01:00:11I
01:00:42Oh
01:00:43Well, we're sure you've been snooping. You're going to kill me
01:00:48You don't know how weak people are
01:00:51Not me
01:00:52I'm not weak
01:00:54And your mother I suppose you told her
01:00:57Father please it's for her. What does that mean? What does that mean? She wants to go away
01:01:03Professor Friedland they want
01:01:11A
01:01:15Little boys must learn to mind their own business
01:01:21Little boys must not meddle in other people's affairs
01:01:29Little treasures been up to his tricks again, my dear
01:01:32Oh
01:02:02I
01:02:04I
01:02:31Must empty the safe
01:02:35Stephen
01:02:41There are things the police mustn't find mother
01:02:49They killed him
01:02:52I
01:03:01Waited down by the back door and when he came back we went in the front way up to the apartment
01:03:09You know the rest
01:03:12I'll talk to the boy. Is that necessary? Of course it is
01:03:17I've charged you mrs. Lamb. It's a custody charge. I'm afraid you'll have to come to the police station
01:03:23You'll have to come to the police station
01:03:43From detective chief superintendent Jameson see one new Scotland Yard today's tonight's date
01:03:51Copies to
01:03:54the chief constable coroner the director of public prosecutions
01:03:59paragraph one
01:04:02Octavius lamb was shot dead
01:04:20I
01:04:50You