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A well-to-do woman hires Hetty to find out why her soon-to-be-married daughter is being stalked and photographed by a stranger in the village. Starring: Patricia Routledge, Dominic Monaghan, Derek Benfield.
A well-to-do woman hires Hetty to find out why her soon-to-be-married daughter is being stalked and photographed by a stranger in the village. Starring: Patricia Routledge, Dominic Monaghan, Derek Benfield.
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00:30just arrived for you miss caroline
00:40we have some tea joanna when you're ready well come along darling put us out of our misery tell
00:47us who they're from just says to my darling caroline good me i didn't send them grandfather
00:56or me sorry probably from daddy darling but he would have said wouldn't he
01:26at home
01:28so
01:33yeah
01:37yeah
01:39yeah
01:42yeah
01:46Oh, I must have been absolutely potty agreeing to help with a talent show.
02:08At least it's for a good cause.
02:11I can't help thinking I've got better things to do.
02:13You seem definite enough about it when you agreed.
02:17Where else are the pensioners going to have their quiz night, you said?
02:20And the mother and toddler groups, where are they going to go?
02:23Look at it this way, love.
02:25I think you're going to have a lot more fun this morning than I am.
02:28Oh, what have you got in mind?
02:31Introducing young Geoffrey to the mysteries of accountancy, for starters.
02:36I wouldn't worry about that, Robert.
02:38I've got my own plans for that young man this morning.
02:40If and when he ever gets back from his driving lesson.
02:44What plans?
02:46He's going to help me sort out that marquee for Saturday.
02:49Hello?
02:50At last!
02:51Hi.
02:52How did it go?
02:54Not bad.
02:55I only ran over one policeman.
02:56Why?
02:59How do you like your new instructor?
03:01Nice legs.
03:03A woman?
03:04Well, of course a woman.
03:05Well, don't sound so shocked, Robert.
03:07They're thinking of giving us the boat soon, you know.
03:09Now then, Geoffrey.
03:12You like music, don't you?
03:14Yes.
03:14Good.
03:16Come on.
03:19There's some lunch for you on that tray, Robert.
03:23Ta-da!
03:23Race you to the board.
03:39You're on.
03:39Oh, no.
03:58It's him again.
04:01Right.
04:01Come on.
04:03Come on, Geoffrey.
04:29Say something.
04:29For my what?
04:31Well, I think the usual phrase is,
04:34How now, brown cow?
04:37How now, brown cow?
04:40I've seen that in front of all these.
04:41Look, we haven't got all day.
04:43Just say it, will you please?
04:45Okay.
04:46How now, brown cow?
04:49Oh, terrific.
04:50I think the tweeter's blown, Mrs. Waincrop.
04:52What?
04:52The tweeter's obviously going to need a bit of adjusting.
04:56Right, shall we give it another go?
04:57No, not if the what-sisters are gone.
04:59Okay.
05:00We'll have to find somebody who knows what they're doing.
05:02Oh, look at this.
05:06Oh.
05:07When daisies hide and violets float.
05:10Oh, it's lovely as this, we used to sing it at school.
05:12Lady smocks of silver.
05:15Cuckoo wood of yellow.
05:16Cuckoo.
05:17Then on every tree.
05:19Cuckoo.
05:19Cuckoo.
05:20Cuckoo.
05:20Cuckoo.
05:21Oh, it's lovely.
05:22Cuckoo.
05:22Cuckoo.
05:23Cuckoo.
05:24Cuckoo.
05:25Cuckoo.
05:26Cuckoo.
05:27Yes, isn't it lovely?
05:29Oh, dear.
05:30Oh, well, I'm off here.
05:31Very, very nice, too.
05:47Right, then, Geoffrey, let's make a start on this lot, shall we?
05:50Right.
05:51Thanks.
05:52Coping, are we, Mrs. Waincrop?
05:54I think so.
05:57Oh.
05:57Well done, Geoffrey.
06:02Good morning.
06:02Oh, good morning, Mrs. Langley.
06:05May I introduce Mrs. Waincrop?
06:08She's our local sleuth.
06:10How do you do?
06:11I'm delighted to meet you, Mrs. Waincrop.
06:14So, what's that, then?
06:15Well, I wouldn't say that, but I expect we'll get there eventually, won't we, Mrs. Waincrop?
06:19I expect so, yes.
06:21Very kind of you to let us use the grounds, particularly with your own big day coming up.
06:27Oh, it's the least I could do as president of the committee.
06:30And we'd booked the marquee for Caroline's young friends to have a party, so really it's no trouble.
06:35Excuse me, Mrs. Willoughby.
06:37Yes.
06:37Can I have a quick word?
06:38Yes, well, excuse me.
06:40This is Geoffrey Shawcross, my associate at the agency.
06:44Hello.
06:45Geoffrey.
06:46How are preparations coming along for the wedding, Mrs. Langley?
06:52Oh, very well, thank you.
06:53Good.
06:57Mrs. Waincrop, I confess I came over deliberately to meet you.
07:03I was hoping to have a word with you about my daughter, Caroline.
07:06If you have a moment, of course.
07:08Of course.
07:09So, how can we help you, Mrs. Langley?
07:13I'm not sure that you can.
07:16The police don't seem to be able to.
07:18The police?
07:21You know that Caroline's wedding is due to take place a week on Saturday at St. Peter in the Vale?
07:27Yes.
07:28Well, everything was going very smoothly.
07:31Swimmingly, in fact.
07:31And now it appears she's being stalked.
07:38Stalked?
07:39Yeah, for the past fortnight, this man's been appearing everywhere she's gone, taking photographs of her.
07:45And that's all he does, is it?
07:47Simply takes a photograph?
07:48That's all he's done so far, but as you can imagine, it's not pleasant.
07:54No, it's not.
07:59What did the police say to you?
08:00Well, basically, that with the manpower situation the way it is, they were hardly in a position to offer 24-hour surveillance.
08:08Besides, he could just be some sort of journalist.
08:11And according to them, well within his rights.
08:15So what exactly do you want us to do for you, Mrs. Langley?
08:20Well, if nothing else, find out who he is.
08:24And why he's here.
08:26At whatever your usual rates are, of course.
08:28But before we do, there's nothing I should know, is there?
08:36Oh, what do you mean?
08:38You've no idea why he might be doing this.
08:42Of course not.
08:43But there is one thing, though, that may or may not be significant.
08:51Those.
08:54They arrived for her yesterday afternoon.
08:57But as you can see, there's no name on the card.
09:00And you think this person might have sent them?
09:07The events could be entirely unconnected, but no one else will admit to it.
09:11She's right about that, of course.
09:15Who is?
09:16Mrs. Langley.
09:18When she said the two events could be entirely unconnected.
09:21Well, of course she's right.
09:23But then again, Robert, it seems to me to be too much of a coincidence to be a coincidence, if you know what I mean.
09:30And he wrote up.
09:31It's somewhere to make a start.
09:32Now, where are you off to?
09:33To find out who sends 40 pounds worth of roses and doesn't even bother to put his name to them.
09:47Beautiful, though, isn't she?
09:49In fact, they both are.
09:53Two dozen best read, right?
09:55That's right.
09:56Australian gentlemen, actually.
09:58Australian?
09:59Oh, yeah.
10:00Right, Aussie twang.
10:01And his name?
10:04Can't help you there, love.
10:06He paid cash, you see.
10:09Can you remember what he looked like?
10:11Oh, yeah.
10:12I mean, dead fit, really.
10:14For his age, like.
10:15What age would that be?
10:17Must have been getting on for 50, at least.
10:20Good heavens.
10:21That old.
10:24Anything else she can remember about him?
10:26Well, he were brown-haired.
10:28And he had this dead good tan, like.
10:32I mean, the sort he felt he probably had all over.
10:35You know.
10:36Oh, yes.
10:37Well, apart from that and the fact he obviously had a bob or two.
10:40I mean, that car he was driving.
10:43Well, don't ask me what it was, but it looked like it had a swimming pool in the boot.
10:46Nothing else, really.
10:48Well, thanks for that, anyway.
10:51So you're one of those private detectives, are you?
10:55Yes, I am.
10:57Can you do courses in that, down at the tech, then?
10:59I don't see why not.
11:01Mrs. Langley, please.
11:06Oh, I see.
11:08Is Caroline there at the moment?
11:12Oh, is she?
11:15And that would be at St. Peter's in the Vale.
11:20Right.
11:24Now, it's at this point that the best man will do one of two things.
11:43Either produce the ring, or break the bad news to the groom that he's left it back in the mess on his track.
11:49Wednesday, this is the one that I gave a lot of guests,
11:56that he also made the world here.
11:58This is the one that he was doing.
12:16Bye.
12:18Now, darling, are you sure we can't drop you off anywhere?
12:23I told you, I have absolutely tons of shopping to do.
12:27OK, well, we'll see you later, back at the ranch.
12:30Don't be late.
12:32I am saving that for the big day.
12:34You dare.
12:38Bye, darling.
12:39Bye.
12:42Miss Langley?
12:44Yes?
12:45I'm Hetty Wainthrop. Your grandfather said I'd find you here.
12:49Ah, so you're the gumshoe Mummy's hired.
12:52Ha!
12:53That's the first time I've been called that.
12:56I was wondering if we could have a word over a cup of tea, perhaps.
13:00I have to be a quick one. I am rather meeting myself coming back today.
13:03I'm sure.
13:04I do feel that Mummy's making a bit of a meal of this photographer business, Mrs Wainthrop.
13:08You didn't see him inside the church, then?
13:11He was in church?
13:13Well, somebody with a camera was.
13:21An Australian?
13:24Apparently, yes.
13:30I don't know that I know any 50-year-old Australians.
13:33Certainly none that would send me flowers.
13:37But if he is that age, then he can hardly be my stalker, can he?
13:42Because the man told me so nice, or when we were out riding the other day,
13:45couldn't have been a day over 30.
13:47I see.
13:48What's she like, then, this Miss Langley?
13:53Oh, a bit toffee-nosed, I suppose.
13:56But then, given her background, that's not all that surprising.
14:00She probably thinks I'm a bit of an odd stick.
14:02I think I dislike her already. I haven't even met her yet.
14:05Now you she'd have eaten out of her hand in ten seconds flat.
14:09Oh, thanks very much.
14:11She's a beautiful-looking girl.
14:13Well, she's as snooty as that father of hers.
14:15Oh, thanks.
14:16I didn't know you knew her father.
14:18Yes, we've met. Not that he'd remember me mind.
14:21Where was that?
14:22The British Legion.
14:24When I was secretary of the fundraising committee.
14:27He came to our Armistice Day parade
14:29and marched up and down as though he was Montgomery or somebody.
14:32So, what's our next move, then, Mrs Winthrop?
14:35Well...
14:37I think we should concentrate now on our Aussie friend, don't you?
14:41Who, if he is an Aussie, and a stranger to this area,
14:45must be staying at some hotel locally.
14:48Unless he's resident locally.
14:50I think not, Robert,
14:52with the sort of tan I've had described to me.
14:56So, tomorrow, Geoffrey,
14:58you and I check out every hotel in the area.
15:01And if he is at one of them, then what?
15:04Well, we tell them that, as Aussies ourselves,
15:08we've heard there's a fellow countryman of ours staying with them.
15:12And being Aussies and famous for our outgoing nature,
15:16we just want to drop by and say good day, don't we?
15:22As Aussies ourselves?
15:24What?
15:25Fair dinkum, Geoffrey.
15:27I might be sure I can do an Aussie accent.
15:37I've told you.
15:38The key to doing an authentic Australian accent is,
15:42I'm going down to Brisbane for the cricket.
15:45Hmm.
15:46I don't know anything about cricket.
15:48You don't have to.
15:49Look, just keep practising, will you?
15:51I'm going down to Brisbane for the cricket.
15:53I'm going down to Brisbane for the cricket.
15:56Good.
15:57You don't think I should wear a hat with corks in it?
15:59Well, the didgeridoo do have much more, didn't you?
16:01I'll get you quite a bit to carry if you say much more.
16:05See you later, copper.
16:07I'll get you quite a bit.
16:32G'day.
16:33Mr Lorden.
16:35G'day, mate.
16:37G'day, dearie.
16:41Good morning, madam.
16:44And isn't it a good day, by the way?
16:47For the time of year, anyway.
16:50I suppose it is, yes.
16:53Can I help you, sir?
16:56I'm over here for the cricket.
16:59The cricket?
17:00Yeah, you know, the, uh...
17:03Cricket.
17:04And what I heard is that one of our lot might be staying here.
17:10With no cockley staying here.
17:12You see, I'm over here from down under.
17:15Brisbane, tell you the truth.
17:18And sweet though the old country undoubtedly is,
17:21I'm already feeling the odd pang of homesickness, you know.
17:25Aussies.
17:26Aussies.
17:27I'm an Aussie.
17:28From Brisbane.
17:29Are you?
17:30Yep.
17:31And if we have...
17:32What?
17:35Well, I'd just like to say g'day.
17:38As a matter of fact, we do have an Australian gentleman staying with us at the moment.
17:42Really?
17:43He wouldn't by any wild stretch of the imagination be from Brisbane, would he?
17:48I think he's from Melbourne, actually.
17:50You wouldn't by any chance be trying to extract the Michael, would you, Sully?
17:54Me?
17:55No.
17:56You're one of those barmy bloody students, perhaps.
17:57No.
17:58Up to one of your rag-day rumps.
18:00No, no.
18:01Honest.
18:02I just want to know if you have any Aussies staying here.
18:05So you can say good day to him.
18:08Right.
18:09Right.
18:10But if you haven't, that's okay, to be honest.
18:16In fact, forget it.
18:19Okay.
18:20All right.
18:21Mr Arkwright.
18:26Is he on the premises at the moment?
18:32He isn't.
18:33But we are expecting him back shortly.
18:35If you'd like to leave a message.
18:37Oh, well, perhaps not.
18:39Eh?
18:40I mean, I wouldn't like to seem pushy.
18:45And if he is from Melbourne, which, as you know, is just down the road a piece from us,
18:50I can...
18:53Well, thanks very much, anyway.
18:55Dearie, you've been a real sport.
18:58Not at all, madam.
19:02Reception.
19:03How may I help you?
19:17304, please.
19:22Cheers.
19:23Oh, Mr Arkwright.
19:24There's a Mr Vincent waiting in the bar for you.
19:28Cheers.
19:29Cheers.
19:30Cheers.
19:32Cheers.
19:33Cheers.
19:34Cheers.
19:46Hello?
19:48Cheers.
19:50Cheers.
19:54Mr. Vincent, I presume?
20:14Have we met, then?
20:16We have now.
20:18Hetty Wainthrop.
20:20Private investigator.
20:21Snap.
20:29A private detective?
20:31That's what it said on his card.
20:33Why would somebody want to hire a private detective just to take photographs of the landlays?
20:38Exactly.
20:39Fortunately, while I was waiting in reception, I did just happen to catch his room number.
20:45I hope you're not planning on breaking and entering.
20:48I'm planning to go in and question him.
20:51Oh, hello, dearie.
21:03You found him, then, did you, Mr. Ark, right?
21:06Only I believe that he's up in his room in the moment, if you'd like me to call him for you.
21:10We did bump into him in the bar just now.
21:12Between you, me, and the gatepost, we've arranged to split a couple of tinnies later.
21:19Oh, and this is my nephew, by the way.
21:21He's over here for the cricket, you know?
21:25Aren't you, Possum?
21:26Yeah.
21:28The cricket?
21:28The cricket, you play, then, do you?
21:31Oh, yeah.
21:33Too right.
21:34We named him after Jeff Thompson.
21:36He's our quickie.
21:37Really?
21:38Excuse me.
21:43Our quickie.
21:44Never mind.
21:45What's up, sir?
21:59He's a pretty dead man.
22:01I know.
22:01I know.
22:01I know.
22:02I know.
22:07I know.
22:11Hello? Mr. Arkwright?
22:22Mr. Arkwright?
22:38Wait outside, please, Geoffrey.
23:11Mr Arcright?
23:41Mr Arcright, I was just looking for you, only there's a message for you, in reception.
23:50Sounded in.
23:51OK, thanks, I'll bring them down.
23:53Oh, whoa, no, no, you can't ring them.
23:56I can't.
23:57No, the computers are just crashed and none of the phones are working.
24:01Oh, I see.
24:02So, shall we?
24:04Yeah, OK.
24:06OK.
24:07Uh, here.
24:10Thanks.
24:11Oh, thanks very much.
24:14Mrs Weintraub.
24:15Here.
24:16Oh, come on.
24:17Good God.
24:19It's Doug Arcright.
24:21After all these years.
24:22Is that his real name?
24:23Oh, yes.
24:24Yes, except that he isn't Australian.
24:26He's as English as we are, so where the accent has come from.
24:30Oh, yes.
24:31Yes, except that he isn't Australian.
24:33He's as English as we are, so where the accent has come from.
24:39Well, I...
24:40I suppose some sort of explanation is in order, isn't it?
24:42It might help.
24:43If nothing else, it might shed a bit of light on me.
24:44Oh, yes.
24:45Oh, yes.
24:46Oh, yes.
24:47Yes, except that he isn't Australian.
24:48He's as English as we are, so where the accent has come from...
24:52Well, I...
24:53I suppose some sort of explanation is in order, isn't it?
24:58It might help.
24:59If nothing else, it might shed a bit of light on why he's doing what he's been doing.
25:12Look, do you mind if we get some fresh air?
25:15Of course not.
25:17But I last saw Doug, what, 22 years ago?
25:25Something like that.
25:28We were with BAOR in Germany.
25:38Her father had just been made up to CO.
25:44I was only about 21 myself at the time.
25:47We both were.
25:49And close friends, obviously, from the look of the photograph.
25:52Oh, rather more than that, Mrs. Wainthrop.
25:55In fact, much more.
25:57Doug was father's driver.
26:02He used to run me all over the place.
26:05Which was how it all started, I suppose.
26:08He was very attractive in those days.
26:10He still is.
26:11Is he?
26:12Oh, yes.
26:13Yes, I expect he is.
26:15And, of course, there was the other attraction.
26:19For me, anyway.
26:21What other attraction?
26:23Forbidden fruit.
26:27You mean that in those days the army wouldn't have taken kindly to the idea of the CO's daughter having an affair with a mere private?
26:36Or even in these days, to be honest, Mrs. Wainthrop.
26:39Things haven't changed all that much.
26:42No, I suppose not.
26:45So, your father knew nothing about all this?
26:48No, neither of my parents did.
26:51We both went to some lengths to make sure of that.
26:54Didn't they ever find out?
26:56Oh, yes.
26:57It all came out eventually.
26:59But by then, Doug had vanished.
27:02Vanished?
27:04Yes, I'd been over in London for a family wedding.
27:07And when I got back, he'd gone.
27:11Left the army altogether.
27:13But why?
27:16It seems that for some time they'd suspected that someone had been pilfering from the house.
27:22And when a snap inspection of Doug's billet was called, his locker was found to be full of stuff.
27:29I see.
27:33Well, my father was devastated.
27:36He was genuinely fond of Doug.
27:39He wouldn't hear of his being court-martialed, and so they came to an arrangement.
27:45Such things can generally be arranged, you know.
27:48Especially if it's going to spare the army a bit of unsavoury publicity.
27:54Yes.
27:56And what was the arrangement?
27:59That no charges would be brought if Doug agreed to go quietly.
28:04Which, presumably, he did.
28:06With some alacrity, apparently.
28:10And you've not heard from him since?
28:13Not a word, no.
28:15Which, as you can imagine, left me feeling pretty devastated at the time.
28:20I was, after all, under the impression that he was as much in love with me as I was with him.
28:27So why do you think he would suddenly turn up again after all these years, Mrs Langley?
28:33I've really no idea.
28:35Unless, of course, he still bears a grudge for having been kicked out of the army.
28:41But that wouldn't explain why he would want photographs of Caroline, surely.
28:47Or of you, for that matter.
28:50Me?
28:51Oh, quite a lot of the photographs were of you.
28:56Really?
29:00Perhaps it's time he had another word with the police, if he really has got some sort of bee in his bonnet about your family.
29:06Oh, no. No, no, there's absolutely no way I'd want to involve the police now.
29:11In fact, I'd say we've taken this thing just about as far as we can, wouldn't you?
29:18You want me to drop the investigation?
29:21What I asked you to do was to find out who was behind all this, and that's what you've done.
29:27And quite brilliantly, if I may say so.
29:30So, really, what else is there left to investigate?
29:33If you'd just let me have your bill?
29:35If that's what you want, of course.
29:38If that's what you want, of course.
30:05Would you like a cup of coffee, Mr Arkwright?
30:20Well, well. The ubiquitous Mrs Wainthrop.
30:24Not all that ubiquitous, Mr Arkwright.
30:27It's just an impression we like to give.
30:31How did you know it was me, by the way?
30:33My own private detective told me you'd had a word with him.
30:37And stealing is a criminal offence, Mrs Wainthrop, even if it's only an old photograph.
30:43If you check with your hotel, I think you'll find it's been left for you at reception.
30:50So, why don't I make us a nice pot of tea?
30:54And you can tell me what all this is about.
30:57Not that I don't know most of it already.
31:00You do, do you?
31:01I know all about what went on over in Germany.
31:04How you got kicked out of the army for stealing.
31:07I never stole a thing in my life, lady. I was fitted up for that one.
31:10That's what they all say, isn't it?
31:16Okay.
31:17But the kettle on.
31:20So, who fitted you up, Mr Arkwright?
31:26He did, of course. Him.
31:29The man who eventually married her.
31:31Lieutenant Colonel Langley.
31:33Yeah, or rather Captain Langley as he was then.
31:35And why would he want to fetch you up?
31:39Well, he'd probably claim he was just doing his duty as a loyal member of staff.
31:46To safeguard his CO's good name, having found out what was going on between his daughter and a mere private.
31:52And when did this happen?
31:56The day she left for England.
31:59I drove her to the airport as usual and carried her bags in for her.
32:05Langley was just getting back himself from London at the time.
32:12And spotted us in the airport lounge.
32:15Saying goodbye.
32:17Only, er, being what you might call pretty preoccupied with each other at the time.
32:24And we never clocked him.
32:26Unfortunately.
32:27So what did he do about it?
32:33Well, once we got back the base, he took me to one side and told me,
32:38Hands off! For other ranks, strictly verboten.
32:41And what did you say to that?
32:43What do you think?
32:45Only, the next thing.
32:47The military police do a snap inspection of my locker.
32:51And suddenly it's jammed to the gills with stuff nicked from the house.
32:55Stuff I'd never seen before.
33:00You're suggesting Langley planted it?
33:03No, I can't.
33:06But I know I never nicked this stuff.
33:09As far as I was concerned, the facts spoke for themselves.
33:14So that's what this is about.
33:18Clearing your name.
33:20Get real, Mrs. Wainthrop.
33:23I know I've about as much chance of doing that now as I had then.
33:28Which is why I accepted their terms in the first place.
33:33So why did you come back?
33:34Well, er, reading this was what started it, I guess.
33:49Caroline's engagement announcement.
33:52Wouldn't you want to be there, Mrs. Wainthrop?
33:54At your daughter's wedding?
33:56Hello.
33:57daughter's wedding. Hello. I gather you wanted a word,
34:26Mrs. Wainthrop. There have been further developments, Mrs. Langley, that I think you should know
34:31about. It is true, then, Caroline is his daughter. Yes. Though I only found out myself that I
34:47was pregnant a couple of weeks after he'd gone. Of course, I was frantic. Yes, you would
34:55have been. If it ever came out that the so-called daughter of the regiment had been put in the
35:01pudding club, as they called it, by the CO's driver. And then there Gerald was, at one fell
35:10swoop, prepared to save not only the good name of the family, but of the regiment as well.
35:16Oh, you wouldn't believe how pathetically grateful we all were, Mrs. Wainthrop.
35:20Oh, I can imagine. If I'd only known what they'd really done to him.
35:27You do believe Doug, then, when he says he wasn't guilty of pilfering?
35:33It wasn't his style. There were times when he was honest, almost to the point of naivety.
35:41Is Caroline aware of who her real father is? Oh, goodness me, no. And she mustn't ever find
35:51out, either. You see, the real irony is she worships her daddy. She really does. She thinks
35:59Gerald is wonderful, in fact. I see. He is quite determined, then, to make himself known
36:07to her. He was, when I last talked to him.
36:11OK, Geoff, it's all yours.
36:23Oh, er, Mr Wainthrop, er, can I ask you something?
36:28It's, er, it's personal, like...
36:30Not in trouble, are you, Geoffrey?
36:32Is it a lonely one?
36:34No, it's, er, it's nothing like that.
36:37It's just this problem I have with girls and that.
36:42Problem?
36:43Yeah, er, I'm all right when I get going.
36:46It's just, well, getting started, really.
36:50I mean, when you were my age and you wanted to chat up a girl,
36:54what did you used to say to them?
36:56Well, I suppose, do you come here every week?
37:00Do you come here every week? What?
37:02Well, you're usually either fox-trotting or quick-stepping
37:06down the local palais.
37:07Right.
37:08I remember one Friday night...
37:10Robert!
37:11Your bacon's going brown at the edges!
37:26Oh.
37:28Good day.
37:31I'd like to speak to Mr Arkwright, please. He's expecting me.
37:34I believe you'll find him in the bar.
37:43The army was the only family I ever had, Mrs Wainthrop.
37:46I was in for life and happy to be so.
37:49Until Langley planted that stuff in my locker.
37:52And now, after all these years, you want it brought out into the open.
38:00Well, that's one way of looking at it, I suppose.
38:03In my experience, when a person's intent on vengeance,
38:08everybody ends up getting hurt, including the Avenger.
38:11Besides, what a waste of your life.
38:17Waste of my life?
38:19Well, from what I can see, you've already spent half of it festering away over what Langley
38:25did to you.
38:26Now you're planning to spend the rest of it blaming yourself for what you will have done
38:30to Caroline.
38:31So, blaming yourself?
38:33Ruining the happiest day of their life.
38:35Just to get your own back on him.
38:38So what am I supposed to do, Mrs Wainthrop?
38:40The honourable thing?
38:41Keep my mouth shut and say nothing?
38:43Let me tell you something about waste, lady.
38:46My entire life's already been wasted.
38:52You never married, then?
38:55Never met anyone I wanted to marry.
38:59Meanwhile, back in good old England, the bastard responsible for all this,
39:06he was married to the only girl I ever wanted.
39:10And passing my daughter off as his own.
39:12You know, all I could think about when I saw the photograph of her in that magazine
39:19and realised who she must be
39:21was that this beautiful creature
39:26was my daughter.
39:31My flesh and blood
39:32who I never knew even existed.
39:39And she sure as hell didn't know about me.
39:42And you ask me if I'm bitter.
39:46You bet I am, Mrs Wainthrop.
39:48And determined to have your pound of flesh
39:50whoever gets hurt?
39:52Even if it's your own daughter?
39:54Put it this way.
39:57Why the hell not?
39:58Behold, a giant am I,
40:06a lofty air of my power,
40:08with my granite jaws I devour.
40:12Penny for your thoughts.
40:14Oh, Mrs Willoughby.
40:16Oh, I was wondering,
40:17why do people go in for these things?
40:19They enjoy them, I suppose.
40:21Right.
40:21Also, it's an excellent way of meeting people.
40:24You mean girls?
40:27Yes.
40:29Rachel looks as if she could do with some help.
40:33Bit of a problem, is there?
40:34I meet it.
40:36See you later.
40:38Thanks.
40:39Thanks.
40:39Do you really think he'll come tonight, Mrs Wainthrop?
40:51I've no idea what he'll do, Geoffrey.
40:53And I cross my arms on my breast
40:57and all is peace within.
41:01Aren't you going over there?
41:15Probably later.
41:17Caroline tells me Gerald rang.
41:20Yes.
41:21He's flying in on Wednesday.
41:24Good time for the wedding.
41:26Yes.
41:29Something on your mind, is there, dear?
41:31Yes.
41:36Doug Arkwright.
41:40After all these years.
41:44I was just wondering what would have happened
41:47if he hadn't been found guilty of theft
41:50and we'd discovered I was carrying his child.
41:54What would you have done then, Father?
41:56How do you mean?
41:58If he volunteered to make an honest woman of me himself.
42:01Well, I was just deeply grateful we find him out in time
42:05and he never came to that.
42:07You do realise Doug has always claimed that it was Gerald who set up the whole thing
42:10simply to discredit him.
42:12You believe that about your own husband?
42:14Oh, easily, yes.
42:16Having married him, I soon realised that he'd do almost anything to get what he wanted
42:20and where he wanted.
42:23But then as a professional soldier yourself, you'd probably have recognised that, wouldn't you, Father?
42:28He was in love with you, you know.
42:30He was in love with his career.
42:32Almost as much as he was in love with himself.
42:35You sound as if you hate him.
42:37You mean you don't realise, Father?
42:39How can you possibly know what Arkwright claims or doesn't claim?
42:44Oh, it isn't important.
42:46It isn't even all that important whether or not it's true anymore.
42:50What is important is just where you stood in all of this.
42:53Where I stood?
42:54If Doug Arkwright was framed, were you a party to it or not?
43:00You asked me that.
43:02I don't know what to believe anymore.
43:05All I know is that marrying Gerald Langley was just about the biggest mistake of my entire life.
43:12Twenty miserable years, Father.
43:16And none of them necessarily if I hadn't been told a pack of lies.
43:24You made it, then.
43:38Finally.
43:39Yep.
43:43I'm glad.
43:54Hello, Doug.
43:59Hi.
44:06Well, um...
44:08It's been a long time between drinks.
44:15Lifetime.
44:17Two lifetimes.
44:18So, I gather from Mrs. Wainthrop you have something you want to say to me?
44:25Yes.
44:27Well?
44:28She tells me you're proposing to make yourself known to Caroline at the wedding.
44:33That's the idea, yeah.
44:35I just wish you wouldn't, that's all.
44:38Don't you think I have a right to, for God's sake, she's my daughter.
44:41But firmly under the impression that she's Gerald's daughter.
44:44Something else the bastard's stolen from you, then?
44:47How could you bring yourself to marry that creep?
44:49What the hell was I supposed to do, Doug?
44:52Settle down to life as an unmarried mother?
44:56Go into a nunnery, perhaps?
44:59You weren't there, remember?
45:01I wrote to you!
45:04You what?
45:05Half a dozen letters!
45:12You mean...
45:14You never got them?
45:17No?
45:19Not one of them.
45:21No.
45:28And what did you say to me in your letters?
45:31What did you say to me in your letters?
45:32What did you say to me in your letters?
45:33What did you say to me in your letters?
45:34What did you say to me in your letters?
45:35If I remember rightly,
45:37what I was usually inquiring about was
45:41how you felt
45:44about eloping with me.
45:51Would you have?
45:53Oh, yes.
45:54So he stole that from me, too.
46:02I'm sorry, Doug.
46:05I'm so very sorry.
46:09Well, the important thing is...
46:11has he made you happy?
46:14Well, he's away a lot.
46:20I have my committees do good works.
46:25So why do you stay with him?
46:28Caroline, to say, principally.
46:29She'll be married soon, what then?
46:34I don't suppose anything will change.
46:37Not now.
46:38A bit late for that.
46:43You're still a lovely woman, Dawn.
46:46And I, uh...
46:48I guess you know I'm still in love with you.
46:52Oh, please don't.
46:53Why?
46:57Why?
47:00Am I suddenly so repulsive?
47:04Well, you know better than that.
47:06Oh, my God.
47:36Oh, my God.
48:06Oh, my God.
48:36I think they'll get back together, Mrs Wainthram.
48:40Well, judging by his good behaviour, I'd say he's still the gentleman she fell in love with.
49:06I think they'll get back together, Mrs Wainthram.