1 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:09,400 *CREDITS* 2 00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:21,300 Leonard Finch? 3 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:23,300 If you could follow me. 4 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:25,720 Just Mr Finch. 5 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:28,560 It's gonna be fine. 6 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:44,120 A serious allegation has been made that, on Friday 29 August 7 00:00:44,121 --> 00:00:46,660 at approximately 10:15pm, 8 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:50,800 you were seen engaging in an act of gross indecency with another man 9 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:53,220 at the Merries Holiday Camp. 10 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:57,500 Did you attend Merries dance hall on the evening in question? 11 00:00:59,120 --> 00:01:00,880 You know that I... 12 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:03,760 Yes. 13 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:07,840 Did you leave the hall around ten to ten, 14 00:01:07,841 --> 00:01:11,800 - then go back to your own chalet? - I can't quite recall the time. 15 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:15,140 Did you, in fact, meet a man, then spend the night with him? 16 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:17,820 I can't... quite recall... 17 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:19,640 No. 18 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:21,680 Well, yes. 19 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:27,100 I-I mean to say, I did meet Mr Davenport. We shared a room. 20 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:31,080 Twin beds. He came back later. 21 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:47,080 This is you, correct? 22 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:52,040 So, who's this fella? 23 00:01:52,041 --> 00:01:53,480 Oh, erm... 24 00:01:53,481 --> 00:01:56,780 I'm not really... Really not sure. 25 00:01:56,880 --> 00:01:58,700 You seem very familiar with him. 26 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:02,480 Are you a homosexual, Mr Finch? 27 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:08,800 I have nothing more to say. 28 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:11,550 You told me I'm not obliged to say anything. 29 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:15,360 What about Daniel Marlowe? Photographer from your village. 30 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:18,800 Allegation's it's him you were in bed with. 31 00:02:18,801 --> 00:02:21,440 - So he's bent an' all? - All right. 32 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:25,560 I have nothing more to say. 33 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:29,220 We're gonna have to do this the hard way, then. 34 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:31,700 Thank you, Leonard. That's all for now. 35 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:37,696 - Leonard. - I'm a fool. 36 00:02:37,721 --> 00:02:38,560 You're no fool. 37 00:02:38,561 --> 00:02:40,960 One who thought for a minute he was in paradise, 38 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:43,160 when he was really paving the road to hell. 39 00:02:43,161 --> 00:02:45,810 Daniel said, "Don't give them anything," and that's what you did. 40 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:47,560 I'm going for a cinnamon bun, a hot cocoa 41 00:02:47,561 --> 00:02:49,720 and a stroll on Midsummer Common. In that order. 42 00:02:49,721 --> 00:02:51,600 - We've got an appointment. - No, I don't think so. 43 00:02:51,601 --> 00:02:52,920 Give my best to the Archdeacon, 44 00:02:52,921 --> 00:02:55,780 but his feelings on the matter are very clear. 45 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:58,120 And I've had all the incandescent disappointment 46 00:02:58,121 --> 00:02:59,160 I can take from Mrs C. 47 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:12,360 Good morning, Mr Lowell! 48 00:03:12,361 --> 00:03:14,920 Dahlias are looking lovely this year. 49 00:03:14,921 --> 00:03:17,380 - Oh, thank you. - Have you a minute to talk? 50 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:19,160 Might I give you one of these? 51 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:28,880 Hey! 52 00:03:28,881 --> 00:03:32,220 Damn you! So much for a fair and democratic competition. 53 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:34,960 Morning, Reeny. Well, you'd think it was a race to the bottom, 54 00:03:34,961 --> 00:03:37,700 - not to parish council. - It's hard. 55 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:40,980 Derek's death seems to have galvanised his critics. 56 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:43,800 Your husband would be proud to see you follow in his footsteps. 57 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:48,280 Well, it is getting lively, for a village by-election. 58 00:03:48,281 --> 00:03:50,980 I find it rather encouraging to see people throw their energy 59 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:53,020 into local politics. 60 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:54,737 And when the competition do it, 61 00:03:54,762 --> 00:03:56,744 you know you've got them on the run! 62 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:03,420 It's like I always say: capital begets capital and... 63 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:07,280 Reverend! Come and hear the word! 64 00:04:07,281 --> 00:04:10,500 - And what word is that, Mr St Martin? - Maurice, please. 65 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:15,020 The word is morality. Your area of expertise, no? 66 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:18,320 The way I see it, each generation has its great struggle. 67 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:21,510 And if the last one's was a literal fight for their lives 68 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:25,920 against a foreign evil, then ours is with the evil in our own hearts, 69 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:27,800 the everyday morality. 70 00:04:27,801 --> 00:04:29,900 - I couldn't agree more. - And do you think, Vicar, 71 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:33,600 that morality has its part to play in local government? 72 00:04:33,601 --> 00:04:36,000 I think it has a part to play in every aspect of our lives. 73 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:40,340 Exactly. The council has a moral duty to help local businesses! 74 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:43,960 Shouldn't my cousin Phillip have the right to build on his own land, 75 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:45,800 without waiting months for permission? 76 00:04:45,801 --> 00:04:47,922 Can't Mrs Bedwell be allowed to sell 77 00:04:47,947 --> 00:04:49,700 Christmas trees from her shop? 78 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:52,960 As a businessman, I know that we thrive on entrepreneurship. 79 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:55,160 And that is why the next council must cut the red tape 80 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:58,700 and let loose that great British enterprising spirit! 81 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:06,720 - That's it for now. Thank you all! - Reverend. 82 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:09,200 I can understand if you have reservations about me, 83 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:10,940 our paths having rarely crossed. 84 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:14,120 But I hope you can see we're cut from the same cloth. 85 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:16,260 I really must remain impartial. 86 00:05:16,280 --> 00:05:18,120 Of course! But there is the more, er, 87 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:22,380 delicate matter of our dear departed chairman, Derek McArthur. 88 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:23,980 You were there, I gather? 89 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:25,840 When they fished him out of the water. 90 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:39,660 To commit suicide does make you wonder if he wasn't... 91 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:42,000 capable of committing other things. 92 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:43,880 Could be the tip of the iceberg. 93 00:05:43,881 --> 00:05:46,320 Hmm, or idle gossip. 94 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:49,660 Muck raking for publicity, if I were being harsh. 95 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:52,274 We need strong leadership, Vicar. 96 00:05:52,299 --> 00:05:54,640 Every flock needs its shepherd. 97 00:05:54,641 --> 00:05:58,280 Come along, Maurice. Busy schedule today, eh? 98 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:01,520 Good to see you both talking. 99 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:05,600 Hm. 100 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:18,040 - Where's Leonard? - Er, he's just in town. 101 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:19,106 They kept him in? 102 00:06:19,131 --> 00:06:21,520 No, no, he had a prior engagement. 103 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:24,080 A prior engagement?! 104 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:30,560 I see Reeny called. 105 00:06:30,561 --> 00:06:33,107 As if I have time to natter away with every Tom, 106 00:06:33,132 --> 00:06:35,440 Dick and Harry that comes calling. 107 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:38,080 I thought you and Jack liked the McArthurs? 108 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:40,900 Drumming up support in her mourning clothes. 109 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:42,660 It's wanton luridness! 110 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:45,280 It's hardly the dance of the Seven Veils. 111 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:48,040 And anyone who can win a lovely legs competition 112 00:06:48,041 --> 00:06:49,360 is in no position to judge. 113 00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:55,080 Reeny's certainly a progressive thinker. 114 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:57,120 Taking a reformist stance. 115 00:06:57,160 --> 00:06:58,706 Liberal views on tolerance. 116 00:06:58,731 --> 00:07:00,440 And look where that gets you. 117 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:02,180 You're angry because of Leonard. 118 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:04,840 I'd put more stock in that St Martin chap. 119 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:07,040 Get us back to proper family values. 120 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:08,720 I'm pretty sure Maurice's moral compass 121 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:10,560 points whichever way the wind blows. 122 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:15,560 Oh, smarten yourself up before the Archdeacon arrives! 123 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:20,920 Not your first time in here, then, Mr Marlowe. 124 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:23,920 - No. - Questioned about a dead teenager. 125 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:26,360 Nudey photos and a poisoning. 126 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:27,680 And? 127 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:32,920 On the evening in question, did you join Mr Finch in his chalet? 128 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:34,760 No. 129 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:39,180 Did you engage in gross indecency with Mr Finch? 130 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:40,960 No. That's absurd. 131 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:44,500 Where were you that evening at quarter past ten? 132 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:46,920 I went out to the main hall from about seven, 133 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:48,600 danced with the Inspector's wife, 134 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:51,560 and I was back in my own chalet by ten. 135 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:53,160 I slept through to dawn. 136 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:59,720 - Have you ever seen Mr Finch with another man? - No. 137 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:03,660 - But I'm only an acquaintance. - Who went on holiday with him. 138 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:06,960 I went on holiday with my friend Reverend Davenport. 139 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:10,480 And the Chapmans, who I've known since I photographed their wedding. 140 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:17,240 Well, we'll be in touch if we have any more questions. 141 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:26,520 Mm-hm? 142 00:08:26,521 --> 00:08:28,280 You forgot your lunch, love. 143 00:08:30,280 --> 00:08:33,120 - You left in a bit of a hurry. - Thank you. 144 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:42,300 You had a right face on this morning. 145 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:45,060 In fact, you still have. 146 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:47,620 Leonard's gonna be OK, isn't he? 147 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:51,200 Well, Larry's got the bit between his teeth on this one. 148 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:53,600 Thinks I'm a soft touch. 149 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:56,040 Of all the things the police could be doing. 150 00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:59,280 - It's barely a crime! - Except it is, Cathy. 151 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:01,760 And I have sent men down for it. 152 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:09,980 We all knew of Mr Finch's... 153 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:11,640 peculiarities. 154 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:15,040 But there's knowing what he is... 155 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:18,400 ..and allowing him to act upon it. 156 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:23,320 I had hoped that you would have guided him away 157 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:25,160 from such temptations. 158 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:31,620 Don't we have a duty to save people from living a lie? 159 00:09:39,920 --> 00:09:43,960 This situation has gone too far. And too public. 160 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:48,800 If these allegations are proved to be true, 161 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:51,840 then the church cannot defend him. 162 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:54,320 Whose business is it...? 163 00:09:54,345 --> 00:09:56,945 What do you hope to achieve, William? 164 00:09:56,960 --> 00:10:00,960 You really want to bang this drum, wearing that collar, 165 00:10:01,040 --> 00:10:03,680 and publicly challenge the law of the land? 166 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:05,920 I understand if you cannot speak up. 167 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:08,960 - But I am... - You have a role to play here, 168 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:11,240 in Grantchester. 169 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:17,180 If you wish to remain part of this ministry, 170 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:19,840 you will cooperate with the police. 171 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:23,200 Tell them the truth. 172 00:10:24,560 --> 00:10:27,400 The church is not above the law. 173 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:32,500 _ 174 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:39,360 How did it go with the Archdeacon? 175 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:42,400 - Ahh... fine. - Really? 176 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:45,460 - He's, er... he's concerned. - Am I out? 177 00:10:45,560 --> 00:10:47,660 - I'm out, aren't I? - No! 178 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:50,420 No, this is all gonna blow over and then everything will be fine. 179 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:52,718 Was he angry at my absence? 180 00:10:52,743 --> 00:10:55,043 Leonard, it's gonna be OK. 181 00:10:55,480 --> 00:10:58,640 Will, could I have a word, please? 182 00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:08,751 This arrived for Derek today. 183 00:11:08,776 --> 00:11:11,544 It's from a property firm in Hove. 184 00:11:11,680 --> 00:11:15,160 Confirming acceptance on Derek's purchase of some holiday home. 185 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:19,760 - Well, I don't follow. - Why would he secretly organise this 186 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:22,720 if he knew he was going to... end his own life? 187 00:11:22,760 --> 00:11:26,260 People in his situation often do contradictory things. 188 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:28,800 I understand that. But that's not Derek. 189 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:33,520 I never really believed him capable of what he did. 190 00:11:33,521 --> 00:11:37,920 I had to accept it, but... now this. 191 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:39,900 This wasn't suicide, Will. 192 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:42,120 It was murder. 193 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:47,520 It's an open and shut case: 194 00:11:47,560 --> 00:11:50,660 Derek McArthur drowned himself here a few weeks back. 195 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:54,400 He left that note on the bank, inside his jacket pocket. 196 00:11:54,440 --> 00:11:56,560 Happily married, chairman of the council, 197 00:11:56,600 --> 00:11:58,660 well respected in the village. 198 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:02,384 - It just doesn't add up. - Or maybe it does. 199 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:05,040 Sometimes, it's just a man who ran out of rope. 200 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:09,720 And another man trying to distract himself from his curate's crimes. 201 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:11,470 Maybe. 202 00:12:11,495 --> 00:12:13,920 Why didn't you come to me about Leonard? 203 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:15,920 I thought I had it under control. 204 00:12:15,921 --> 00:12:18,280 - Well, you didn't. - And what would you have done? 205 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:20,880 - Intimidated Bryan? - Blackmail is an offence, Will. 206 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:23,120 We could've had this Bryan fella in for that. 207 00:12:23,121 --> 00:12:25,460 Instead, I'm having to grill bloody Leonard! 208 00:12:25,560 --> 00:12:27,520 Whose explanation is wafer thin, 209 00:12:27,521 --> 00:12:29,800 and one wrong word from another witness... 210 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:35,760 A charge will mean a trial. Where all this is laid bare. 211 00:12:37,160 --> 00:12:38,960 Why does the law care what he does in private? 212 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:41,840 He was happy and in love. We have to fight for that. 213 00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:44,420 You're not that bloody naive. 214 00:12:44,520 --> 00:12:47,740 The only fight left is for you to come in and say you knew nothing. 215 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:50,680 Or better yet... give him an alibi. 216 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:53,360 Oh, right. Yeah, lie under oath 217 00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:55,500 to hide Leonard from a stupid, outdated law. 218 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:59,000 I can't do that, Geordie. It goes against everything I believe in. 219 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:04,040 You tell the truth, and he's done for. 220 00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:12,800 As I said to your officers before, it's Derek's handwriting, 221 00:13:12,801 --> 00:13:14,680 - without a doubt. - Mm-hm. 222 00:13:15,880 --> 00:13:17,380 Was he always so pithy? 223 00:13:17,480 --> 00:13:20,180 Not judging by some of the annual parish meetings. 224 00:13:20,280 --> 00:13:23,320 It was one of the oddities about his death. 225 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:26,680 He wrote tirelessly to constituents and on council matters 226 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:28,320 ever since his war days. 227 00:13:28,345 --> 00:13:30,645 Is that where you met? In the war? 228 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:32,820 Have you heard of Operation Mincemeat? 229 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:34,760 We managed to fool the Germans into thinking 230 00:13:34,800 --> 00:13:37,760 we were going to invade the Balkans using just a dead tramp, 231 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:40,080 an officer's uniform and some faked papers. 232 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:42,729 Did he have any enemies? 233 00:13:42,754 --> 00:13:44,934 Derek had an ability to be liked. 234 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:48,060 Even when he wasn't always easy to live with. 235 00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:49,720 Sorry, didn't realise you had company. 236 00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:53,200 Oh, Robert, come in. Robert Waterhouse is an old friend. 237 00:13:53,240 --> 00:13:57,660 Will's kindly asked Inspector Keating to look into Derek's death. 238 00:13:57,760 --> 00:13:59,880 Ah, you knew Derek well? 239 00:13:59,881 --> 00:14:03,120 In our youth... and these last few weeks after coming to visit. 240 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:05,920 Erm, I was basing a character on him. 241 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:08,880 I'm an author. It was for my next novel. 242 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:10,880 All feels very inappropriate now. 243 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:14,020 I've been able to lean on him for help with the election. 244 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:15,640 Well, hardly. 245 00:14:15,680 --> 00:14:18,400 I hand out leaflets, she's the one being righteous 246 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:20,480 and brilliant and changing the world. 247 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:25,500 D'you think Derek was capable of taking his own life? 248 00:14:25,520 --> 00:14:28,620 Inspector, I imagine you and I both spend a lot of time 249 00:14:28,640 --> 00:14:31,940 trying to get into other people's heads. Lining up the plots. 250 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:35,200 But truthfully, I don't think anyone really knows 251 00:14:35,240 --> 00:14:37,360 what goes on inside another man's mind. 252 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:41,300 You said he wrote tirelessly to his constituents. 253 00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:43,800 Could we see any of the letters? 254 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:48,520 I mean who files carbon copies of their correspondence? 255 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:50,080 Who files their correspondence? 256 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:52,820 Well, haven't found any evidence of a falling out, 257 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:54,440 but if I read one more complaint 258 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:56,520 about traffic measures in the high street... 259 00:14:57,840 --> 00:14:59,800 So, there's a chain of letters here 260 00:14:59,801 --> 00:15:02,500 relating to a drainage issue in a property down by the Cam. 261 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:05,900 A Mr Eric Pritchard getting rather tetchy. 262 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:07,930 I'll raise you an Elsie Bedwell, 263 00:15:07,955 --> 00:15:10,000 moaning about the bleating sheep. 264 00:15:10,040 --> 00:15:12,680 In this last letter, Derek shuts down Pritchard's complaint 265 00:15:12,681 --> 00:15:15,920 by saying: "I'm sorry. There's nothing more to be done." 266 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:18,000 It's the same words from the suicide note. 267 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:21,400 _ 268 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:23,972 Handwriting's a match as well. 269 00:15:23,997 --> 00:15:25,760 It's the exact same letter. 270 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:28,000 It's not a suicide note. It never was. 271 00:15:28,001 --> 00:15:29,600 Derek sends this to Eric Pritchard... 272 00:15:29,640 --> 00:15:32,240 Who cuts out this particular phrase, 273 00:15:32,241 --> 00:15:34,090 slips it into Derek's pocket... 274 00:15:34,115 --> 00:15:35,904 And pushes him in the water. 275 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:44,000 I thought this place was empty. 276 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:46,720 Mrs C said the owner moved on years ago. 277 00:15:51,520 --> 00:15:53,200 Mr Pritchard? 278 00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:00,440 No big pile of post. 279 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:02,920 Someone had to be coming here to collect Derek's letters. 280 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:05,200 The someone who started a correspondence with him, 281 00:16:05,201 --> 00:16:07,480 to elicit a letter that sounded like a suicide note. 282 00:16:07,580 --> 00:16:11,140 - All sounds a bit elaborate. - It's murder, Geordie. 283 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:14,700 By someone who knew Derek. Knew this place was empty. 284 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:17,080 It's someone in the village. 285 00:16:46,040 --> 00:16:50,940 Do a few common factors underpin all good fiction? 286 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:55,560 A hero's quest, a decisive crisis... 287 00:16:55,760 --> 00:16:57,600 a changed status quo? 288 00:16:57,601 --> 00:17:00,840 Well, I like to think it's not the universal, 289 00:17:00,841 --> 00:17:04,040 but more the personal stories that really chime the strongest. 290 00:17:04,080 --> 00:17:05,920 Hello, Will... Inspector. 291 00:17:05,921 --> 00:17:08,360 I'm guessing you're not here for the book club. 292 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:11,200 Er, we're just checking on some parish business. 293 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:13,400 Oh, of course. 294 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:22,320 Oh, bloody hell, 295 00:17:22,321 --> 00:17:24,760 they'll have you in the village stocks for this. 296 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:28,900 All the minutes from the last 12 months. 297 00:17:28,920 --> 00:17:32,360 If Derek caused any grievances at the council, it'll be here. 298 00:17:39,160 --> 00:17:42,300 It's quite the cast of characters you have here, Reverend. 299 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:43,520 Well, I get the feeling 300 00:17:43,521 --> 00:17:46,180 we're all gonna be in one of your books one day. 301 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:48,117 Well, I promise I'll be kind. 302 00:17:48,142 --> 00:17:50,080 Er, did I sense some, er, 303 00:17:50,081 --> 00:17:53,160 reluctance from Reeny when I called earlier? 304 00:17:53,360 --> 00:17:56,920 I think she'd hoped you'd look into it discretely. 305 00:17:56,960 --> 00:17:59,980 A policeman calls on a candidate two days before a vote. 306 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:02,780 Ah. I was, er... I was just trying to do the right thing. 307 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:06,080 Oh, and you did! Inaction would be far worse. 308 00:18:06,120 --> 00:18:10,000 Here we go. Give us a minute, would you, Mr Waterhouse? 309 00:18:13,120 --> 00:18:15,420 Planning applications this year. 310 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:20,060 Denied three times. All made by Phillip St Martin. 311 00:18:20,360 --> 00:18:23,320 Maurice St Martin's cousin. Lot of money lost out on. 312 00:18:24,960 --> 00:18:27,800 It's like you said: it's someone who knew Derek 313 00:18:27,801 --> 00:18:29,720 and knows this village. 314 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:32,840 So, what do you say, Phillip? 315 00:18:32,880 --> 00:18:34,640 Must have been frustrating 316 00:18:34,641 --> 00:18:37,000 that Derek was blocking your planning applications. 317 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:38,680 Extremely. 318 00:18:38,720 --> 00:18:42,020 It's no secret that Derek and I never saw eye-to-eye. 319 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:43,920 How so? 320 00:18:43,921 --> 00:18:46,240 I believe in investing in local businesses 321 00:18:46,241 --> 00:18:49,460 and letting us get on with it. Derek didn't. 322 00:18:49,560 --> 00:18:51,120 But if you're suggesting 323 00:18:51,121 --> 00:18:53,940 that his death was in some way suspicious... 324 00:18:54,040 --> 00:18:55,760 I am. 325 00:18:55,960 --> 00:18:58,840 Look, Derek could be a pain, 326 00:18:58,841 --> 00:19:01,500 but councillors come and go every few years. 327 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:03,093 I'm a patient man. 328 00:19:03,118 --> 00:19:06,684 Truth is, I found a much better revenge. 329 00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:09,280 - And what's that? - Maurice. 330 00:19:09,281 --> 00:19:10,920 Running for office. 331 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:15,120 Can you think of a more perfect grenade to roll into the council? 332 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:25,440 I was with my husband in the main hall. 333 00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:28,580 We attended the dance and stayed for a drink. 334 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:31,920 Did you see Mr Finch leave the dance hall? 335 00:19:31,921 --> 00:19:33,440 No, I did not. 336 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:36,780 Oh, so you didn't see if Mr Marlowe left with Mr Finch? 337 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:39,200 - No, I did not. - So, would it be fair to say that 338 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:40,783 as far as you're aware, 339 00:19:40,808 --> 00:19:43,624 Mr Finch went back to his chalet alone? 340 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:47,960 "The integrity of the upright guides them, 341 00:19:47,961 --> 00:19:51,360 "but the unfaithful are destroyed by their duplicity." 342 00:19:51,361 --> 00:19:54,920 Have you ever seen Mr Finch show affection for another man? 343 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:01,160 Mrs Chapman? 344 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:07,280 - No. - What did you see, Mrs Chapman? 345 00:20:07,281 --> 00:20:10,120 You wouldn't want to pervert the course of justice now. 346 00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:11,174 I don't think Mrs... 347 00:20:11,199 --> 00:20:12,979 - No. - Or obstruct our investigation. 348 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:15,360 - No! - So, what did you see? 349 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:20,400 Nothing. Nothing at all. 350 00:20:35,360 --> 00:20:36,400 Leonard... 351 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:40,280 Hang on! Right... what do you think of this? 352 00:20:40,281 --> 00:20:42,680 "The views and attitudes that shaped us 353 00:20:42,681 --> 00:20:44,560 "may not shape the next generation. 354 00:20:44,561 --> 00:20:48,000 "But perhaps nor will the prejudices we wrestle with today. 355 00:20:48,001 --> 00:20:50,680 "We are a community, and a community only works 356 00:20:50,681 --> 00:20:53,280 "when it carries everyone along with it." 357 00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:56,240 It's very... political, for a sermon. 358 00:20:56,280 --> 00:20:59,160 Well, I was thinking of speaking at the hustings. 359 00:20:59,161 --> 00:21:02,560 Accentuate the positives of a progressive candidate. 360 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:04,840 You might find that church and state 361 00:21:04,865 --> 00:21:07,065 are kept at a distance for a reason. 362 00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:09,600 Never underestimate public opinion. 363 00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:14,240 I've been thinking about going back to the police. 364 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:16,600 Present them with a reasonable story, 365 00:21:16,601 --> 00:21:21,740 about Daniel and I being seen innocently together. 366 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:23,680 Lying is not the answer to this. 367 00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:28,720 But what is? I have the sword of Damocles hanging over me. 368 00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:32,160 Come to the hustings! 369 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:35,640 It'll take your mind off any sharp objects floating above you. 370 00:21:35,641 --> 00:21:37,720 Hm? 371 00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:45,840 What happened? 372 00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:53,380 Look, I understand that you're angry. 373 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:54,520 I'm not angry. 374 00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:57,120 You wish things were back the way they were. Before you knew. 375 00:21:57,160 --> 00:21:59,260 Pandora's box is open. 376 00:21:59,360 --> 00:22:02,080 Leonard is still Leonard. His life is not a sin. 377 00:22:02,120 --> 00:22:04,820 And that's the view of the Archdeacon, too, is it? 378 00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:06,936 When he said you're out as well if you defend him? 379 00:22:06,961 --> 00:22:07,840 You listened in? 380 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:09,800 Course I bloody did! 381 00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:12,920 He's part of your flock. And you let him stray. 382 00:22:12,921 --> 00:22:16,640 - I let him be himself. - Oh, and look where that's got us! 383 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:19,320 You're the shepherd. 384 00:22:19,321 --> 00:22:23,240 And you stood by and let us all wallow in his sins. 385 00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:24,920 Oh, don't be such a bigot! 386 00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:30,000 - I will not be spoken to like that. - Mrs C! 387 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:43,560 Stupid boy! 388 00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:58,960 Oh, please tell me you've come to make an exonerating statement. 389 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:01,320 I can't do that, Geordie. 390 00:23:01,360 --> 00:23:03,840 Well, Mrs C was hardly a star witness, 391 00:23:03,841 --> 00:23:05,880 and now you're gonna tell the truth, 392 00:23:05,881 --> 00:23:08,280 even if you damn Leonard and lose your job. 393 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:11,520 I don't know. I feel impotent. 394 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:13,400 Have you tried oysters? 395 00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:16,520 What are you gonna do? 396 00:23:16,521 --> 00:23:19,320 Maurice St Martin, let's bring him in. 397 00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:22,580 Some new evidence come to light? 398 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:26,600 I've asked around. He's a hustler. Underhanded tactics... er, bribery, 399 00:23:26,601 --> 00:23:30,720 sabotage, devaluing the land, forcing the owners to undersell. 400 00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:33,320 So, basically, you want me to haul someone in you don't like, 401 00:23:33,321 --> 00:23:34,620 based on some village gossip? 402 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:37,480 Oh, fine, Geordie, it's clearly not worth wasting your time pursuing. 403 00:23:37,481 --> 00:23:40,480 Easy! That's not what I'm saying. 404 00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:42,360 In fact, I've already asked Miss Scott... 405 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:46,580 The St Martin files and the McArthur files, from the archive. 406 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:48,360 Thank you, Miss Scott. 407 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:51,720 Forget God. You want an all-seeing presence, 408 00:23:51,721 --> 00:23:53,760 she's in a wiggle dress on desk seven. 409 00:23:58,080 --> 00:23:58,960 What is it? 410 00:23:58,985 --> 00:24:01,600 Five years back, Reeny sustained some nasty injuries 411 00:24:01,601 --> 00:24:03,440 after an incident at her home. 412 00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:06,480 - What happened? - There's nothing. 413 00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:11,320 There's no charges, but it reads more like a fight than a fall. 414 00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:14,920 So, what... Derek beats her and they shushed it up? 415 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:18,580 Reeny mentioned he wasn't always easy to live with. 416 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:22,040 So, after years of suffering in silence, 417 00:24:22,041 --> 00:24:24,440 the wife knocks off her abusive husband? 418 00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:27,680 Believe me, that is the most likely motive so far. 419 00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:38,800 I'll leave you to it. 420 00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:45,000 Reeny, er, we... we need to ask you a few more questions about Derek. 421 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:47,480 Did he have a temper? 422 00:24:47,481 --> 00:24:50,880 Ever struggle with his anger boiling over? 423 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:54,161 He could get worked up. 424 00:24:54,186 --> 00:24:56,424 And was that ever aimed at you? 425 00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:03,180 What started as a happy marriage didn't always stay that way. 426 00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:05,280 Whose does? 427 00:25:05,281 --> 00:25:07,880 But, erm, we did good work together. 428 00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:12,460 A few years back, there was a domestic incident here. 429 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:14,200 Police were called. 430 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:17,040 It's not exactly "good work" from the sounds of it. 431 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:21,420 Yes. There were violent moments. 432 00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:23,560 And, yes... 433 00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:27,240 ..I won't lie, the thought of killing him did cross my mind. 434 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:33,240 But he wasn't an evil man. He was... haunted, perhaps. 435 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:36,200 Tricking the Germans might seem clever, 436 00:25:36,201 --> 00:25:40,800 but truthfully, war is one awful choice after another. 437 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:44,740 For Derek, it was picking the men who never came back. 438 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:47,400 You don't have to defend a violent man. 439 00:25:47,401 --> 00:25:49,080 People should know the truth about him. 440 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:52,360 Really? 441 00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:55,520 I'm being judged because he died. 442 00:25:55,521 --> 00:25:57,480 Because of how he died. 443 00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:00,920 Because of everything except who I am. 444 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:03,880 I don't need to give the world more of Derek. 445 00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:08,640 I wanted him to retire. I didn't want to kill him. 446 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:11,840 Do you really think I would have come to you, 447 00:26:11,841 --> 00:26:14,280 questioning his suicide, if I had? 448 00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:22,840 Someone like Reeny as a chairwoman might take up Leonard's fight. 449 00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:24,160 If it comes to that. 450 00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:28,600 You do not want it to come to that. 451 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:31,600 At some point, bad laws need to be overturned. 452 00:26:31,601 --> 00:26:33,640 People like Maurice are holding this world back. 453 00:26:33,641 --> 00:26:34,531 People like Reeny... 454 00:26:34,556 --> 00:26:36,720 I wouldn't pin all your hopes on her, Will. 455 00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:39,720 - Well, I have to pin them somewhere. - No, you don't! 456 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:46,960 What you have to do is give Leonard an alibi. 457 00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:48,940 Geordie! 458 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:51,280 Do you think I like asking? 459 00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:55,600 Jesus Christ, Will, there's cracks in Leonard's story. 460 00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:57,078 Larry's been on the phone to the 461 00:26:57,103 --> 00:26:58,740 Merries staff for more statements. 462 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:01,440 - If one person saw something else... - I can fix this. 463 00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:06,160 Just come to the station and tell us Bryan Stanford was mistaken... 464 00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:11,660 ..because Leonard was in that bloody twin bed across from you. 465 00:27:12,360 --> 00:27:13,780 Hey! 466 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:16,880 Then all this goes away. 467 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:25,000 _ 468 00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:28,000 And that is how I know 469 00:27:28,001 --> 00:27:32,040 that the growing number of passing motor vehicles is a concern. 470 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:34,720 And I know that the lack of a telephone line 471 00:27:34,721 --> 00:27:36,920 in Spring Lane is a concern. 472 00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:38,320 I know these things 473 00:27:38,321 --> 00:27:41,940 because I live amongst you and have done all my life. 474 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:45,560 I know Grantchester, 475 00:27:45,561 --> 00:27:48,820 and I want to serve it as best I can. 476 00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:50,560 Thank you. 477 00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:04,240 Thank you, Mrs McArthur. 478 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:08,720 - Mr St Martin, would you like to respond? - Oh, yes. 479 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:18,880 Derek McArthur served as chairman to the council for many years. 480 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:23,720 Mrs McArthur by his side. His suicide is tragic. 481 00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:27,040 But it does beg a question. 482 00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:29,680 What was he so sacred of? 483 00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:34,580 Was there something rotten in Grantchester? 484 00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:37,320 Perhaps Mrs McArthur can help us, 485 00:28:37,321 --> 00:28:40,600 since she's been seen talking to the police. 486 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:42,869 Perhaps you would care to comment 487 00:28:42,894 --> 00:28:45,120 on the accusation of gross indecency 488 00:28:45,121 --> 00:28:47,280 levelled at our very own church curate? 489 00:28:47,281 --> 00:28:49,240 - Hey! - Bloody hell. 490 00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:55,320 Reeny! 491 00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:59,360 This is utter... 492 00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:02,560 I-I have no idea what allegations you're talking about. 493 00:29:02,561 --> 00:29:07,920 Really? Only a policeman calls on you yesterday and today, 494 00:29:07,921 --> 00:29:10,060 and the curate fella's been down the station, too. 495 00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:13,740 I mean, it's plain deviancy here on our own doorstep! 496 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:20,560 To think that the unnatural can take up home amongst us. 497 00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:24,280 I ask, do you want a council that's just a soft touch, 498 00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:27,120 or do you want one that takes a stand against the corruption 499 00:29:27,121 --> 00:29:29,800 that threatens our traditional, British way of life?! 500 00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:35,040 - Bloody hell. - You dare to throw these accusations out here, 501 00:29:35,041 --> 00:29:38,702 for public trial? This isn't a cheap game for scoring points. 502 00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:40,800 You're toying with someone's else life! 503 00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:43,560 You're-you're pouring poison in people's ears and for what? 504 00:29:43,561 --> 00:29:44,880 For a few bloody votes! 505 00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:46,920 And what exactly are you peddling, Reverend? 506 00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:49,960 Milk and honey for poofs and communists! 507 00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:52,160 Order, please! 508 00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:54,600 Steady on! This man should be disqualified! 509 00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:56,720 All right! All right! 510 00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:01,720 Everyone just needs to calm down... and go home. 511 00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:12,480 Leonard! 512 00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:16,400 Leonard, I am... I am so, so sorry. 513 00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:19,840 - What... what was said? - Well, you heard the crux of it. 514 00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:22,680 And, er, Maurice only had the allegation. 515 00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:24,700 The village? 516 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:26,880 Mixed. 517 00:30:26,881 --> 00:30:31,120 And, er, I'm sorry I, er, spoke up. 518 00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:35,040 That speech you were writing? 519 00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:38,980 Er, a little more off-the-cuff, in the end. 520 00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:40,660 That's... 521 00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:42,660 OK? 522 00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:45,840 Well, I, erm... hit a table. 523 00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:49,680 It all got a little bit rowdy. 524 00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:55,720 Ah. Sounds very Jesus in the temple. 525 00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:07,100 People won't care. 526 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:10,820 How can I stand in front of our congregation again? 527 00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:14,920 Walk into a... a post office. I ran! 528 00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:19,480 I ran out and I didn't... defend myself. 529 00:31:19,481 --> 00:31:23,140 I did! And Reeny will, I'm-I'm sure. 530 00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:26,360 And the Archdeacon will be happy with that, will he? 531 00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:34,917 I would hate more than anything for 532 00:31:34,942 --> 00:31:38,184 my mistakes to cost you this... 533 00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:41,840 ..your vocation. 534 00:31:41,841 --> 00:31:44,340 Please, Will. 535 00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:46,880 I wouldn't be able to look myself in the mirror 536 00:31:46,881 --> 00:31:48,400 if I didn't say something. 537 00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:55,960 You are a... wonderful idiot sometimes. 538 00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:12,800 Hello? 539 00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:18,400 Oh, sorry. The door was open, and nobody answered. 540 00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:20,800 No, I'm up, I am. Come in. 541 00:32:20,801 --> 00:32:24,660 - I can come back? - No, it's fine, I was just, erm... 542 00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:30,300 I can't pretend I'm not disappointed. 543 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:32,280 In me? 544 00:32:32,281 --> 00:32:36,420 Uh... I was a little taken aback. The whole village was. 545 00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:40,220 Allegations about Derek, accusations of Leonard. 546 00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:43,480 Leonard is a good man. We are so lucky to have him. 547 00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:45,600 Damn anyone who thinks differently. 548 00:32:45,601 --> 00:32:49,940 And what a world it would be if everyone felt the same. 549 00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:54,200 But you can't rock the boat if they push you out of it. 550 00:32:57,520 --> 00:32:59,880 Another surprise delivery. 551 00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:14,160 Well, will you look who it is? 552 00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:17,440 The only man who can turn a parish election into a fist fight. 553 00:33:17,740 --> 00:33:21,620 - Jesus would be proud. - Jesus never met Maurice St Martin. 554 00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:23,220 How did he know about Leonard? 555 00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:25,520 I don't know, but I'm gonna find out. 556 00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:29,960 - Reeny received this today. - Hm? 557 00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:34,360 And "this" is what? 558 00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:38,840 Some sort of surveillance? 559 00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:41,000 Someone's made timings of the comings and goings 560 00:33:41,001 --> 00:33:42,360 from the St Martin warehouse. 561 00:33:42,460 --> 00:33:45,880 There's about two weeks' worth there, starting two months ago. 562 00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:50,120 Who's it from? 563 00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:53,440 Well, there's a covering letter from a private detective 564 00:33:53,441 --> 00:33:56,560 that Derek hired. But there's no address or number given. 565 00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:02,380 This last entry says, "Observation is suspended... 566 00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:04,320 "to avoid suspicion." 567 00:34:04,321 --> 00:34:06,560 Derek was spying on Maurice? 568 00:34:08,500 --> 00:34:10,500 _ 569 00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:14,000 No-one's in. 570 00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:17,420 Well, that private detective must have been watching from somewhere. 571 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:38,400 Here's your surveillance post. 572 00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:45,300 A clear view of them, but hard for them to see you. 573 00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:48,740 No ash in the ashtray. Only cigarette butts. 574 00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:51,140 - So? - Must be on the floor. 575 00:34:51,240 --> 00:34:53,040 Can't see any. 576 00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:16,880 This how you win over all your potential voters, is it, Maurice? 577 00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:29,300 I see exactly what your game is. This is a vendetta. 578 00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:32,120 - A vendetta? - He doesn't like it that I'm a hair's breadth 579 00:35:32,121 --> 00:35:34,320 from the parish council, so, last day of the campaign, 580 00:35:34,321 --> 00:35:36,980 he's fitting me up for whatever happened to Derek. 581 00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:41,860 He's the one you should arrest, for sheltering a homosexual. 582 00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:47,640 Who told you there were allegations about Leonard Finch? 583 00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:50,120 I've got little birds everywhere. 584 00:35:51,240 --> 00:35:54,600 At a guess, some cop got loose-lipped at the Lodge. 585 00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:58,680 So, why'd you make a run for it at the shed? 586 00:35:58,720 --> 00:36:00,880 Because when I find people nosing around my property 587 00:36:00,881 --> 00:36:03,360 with a pair of binoculars and I've done nothing wrong, 588 00:36:03,361 --> 00:36:04,540 I figure it's a stitch-up. 589 00:36:04,740 --> 00:36:08,140 You know, you love to play the victim, don't you? 590 00:36:08,240 --> 00:36:11,000 "Poor Maurice, picked on by the leftie vicar." 591 00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:12,760 Must wind you up something rotten, 592 00:36:12,761 --> 00:36:15,720 people preferring the vision I'm selling to yours. 593 00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:19,500 You're pretty close to your cousin Phillip, aren't you? 594 00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:22,620 It's gotta be a pain his plans keep getting squashed by the council. 595 00:36:22,720 --> 00:36:25,920 Rumour has it, you've a habit of sabotaging land sales 596 00:36:25,921 --> 00:36:28,060 and then swooping in to buy them up cheap. 597 00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:30,880 Derek McArthur got wise to your intentions 598 00:36:30,881 --> 00:36:34,080 and sent a private detective to keep watch. 599 00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:37,840 And when you found out, you got angry... 600 00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:40,840 ..followed Derek... 601 00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:42,880 and pushed him into the Cam. 602 00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:47,600 That's... That's what you've got? 603 00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:50,080 Oh, bloody hell. 604 00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:54,200 You're right about one thing. I do know how to get a good deal. 605 00:36:54,201 --> 00:36:57,500 Which is why I'd been helping Derek buy a house down in Hove. 606 00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:00,505 Now, why would I kill a man I was 607 00:37:00,530 --> 00:37:03,264 about to make a commission off? 608 00:37:10,240 --> 00:37:13,840 Ah, there's something not right about this surveillance operation. 609 00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:16,500 - The ashtray's bothering me. - Come again? 610 00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:19,560 This private detective smoking away, watching the St Martin's place, 611 00:37:19,561 --> 00:37:20,900 but... 612 00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:23,680 ..there's no ash. 613 00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:25,840 Why? 614 00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:28,920 Well, I dunno, maybe he knocked it over? 615 00:37:29,020 --> 00:37:32,660 So why not bin the lot? Why just put the stubs back? 616 00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:36,780 Erm, to make it look like someone had spent some time there? 617 00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:39,560 And why would someone want you to believe that? 618 00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:45,840 We've got a few crumbs of evidence, and... 619 00:37:45,841 --> 00:37:49,160 I want to believe they point back to Maurice, but... 620 00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:52,580 the ash tray? The anonymous private detective? 621 00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:53,900 The notebook? 622 00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,740 They're like the components of an elaborate story. 623 00:37:56,840 --> 00:37:59,600 And who do we know who likes to tell stories? 624 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,000 _ 625 00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:07,080 - Good afternoon. - Good afternoon. 626 00:38:10,720 --> 00:38:12,542 Will. Inspector. 627 00:38:13,467 --> 00:38:14,984 Everything all right? 628 00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:19,040 We've just been on the phone to your publisher, 629 00:38:19,041 --> 00:38:22,880 who was very keen to point out the military accuracy in your books 630 00:38:22,881 --> 00:38:25,060 is because of your own experiences. 631 00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:28,180 Of course. Robert and I were both in military intelligence. 632 00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:29,800 With Derek. 633 00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:33,020 What's this about? 634 00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:36,360 You once told me that we both spend time lining up evidence, 635 00:38:36,361 --> 00:38:38,240 to... to make sense of a crime. 636 00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:43,720 How about we head down the station and have a go now? 637 00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:58,160 You wrote to Derek under the guise of "Eric Pritchard" 638 00:38:58,161 --> 00:39:01,300 to elicit a response that looked like a suicide note. 639 00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:04,160 You then met him at the Cam and you pushed him in. 640 00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:09,080 You should take up writing novels yourself, Inspector. 641 00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:11,880 But then Reeny asked me to look into it. 642 00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:14,680 Because Derek had made retirement plans you had no idea about. 643 00:39:14,720 --> 00:39:17,160 But then she became a suspect herself, 644 00:39:17,161 --> 00:39:19,600 and you had to move the focus elsewhere. 645 00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:22,400 And who was I most set against? 646 00:39:22,401 --> 00:39:24,514 Cue a hastily-faked observation post 647 00:39:24,539 --> 00:39:26,000 at the St Martin's place, 648 00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:28,940 to imply that Derek had hired a private investigator. 649 00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:31,560 Now it looks like Maurice has found out Derek was spying on him, 650 00:39:31,561 --> 00:39:33,360 which gives him a motive for revenge. 651 00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:36,600 It's all very... Operation Mincemeat. 652 00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:41,240 Well, it's fascinating. Really. 653 00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:43,920 But you're starting from a false premise: 654 00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:47,840 what possible motive would I have for wanting to kill an old friend? 655 00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:59,560 "They sat in that cafe, as people came and went about their business. 656 00:39:59,561 --> 00:40:04,560 "Just a tablecloth apart, but he saw now that a world lay between them. 657 00:40:04,561 --> 00:40:09,280 "A continent of things unsaid. Regrets piled up like mountains." 658 00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:13,560 "She would know nothing of this world and that terrible loss, 659 00:40:13,561 --> 00:40:16,560 "he knew, was of his own making." 660 00:40:16,740 --> 00:40:19,560 They say you write what you know... 661 00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:24,120 ..and you've been in love with Reeny McArthur for 20 years. 662 00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:32,160 "Righteous and brilliant... 663 00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:35,320 "and changing the world." 664 00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:44,080 She burned with life. 665 00:40:44,081 --> 00:40:48,440 I was so in awe... I could never find the words to tell her. 666 00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:52,480 It's ironic, really. 667 00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:56,620 She married Derek while I was posted away. 668 00:40:56,720 --> 00:41:00,720 I didn't come back. Not for a long time. 669 00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:02,160 But when I did... 670 00:41:03,240 --> 00:41:05,300 ..her fire had... 671 00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:06,680 dimmed. 672 00:41:06,681 --> 00:41:08,720 Oh, give over, Mr Waterhouse. 673 00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:13,400 You're not the first man to miss the boat with a pretty girl. 674 00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:17,240 That bastard beat her! 675 00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:20,900 He got her and he broke her! 676 00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:23,240 But you would have made her happy? 677 00:41:23,241 --> 00:41:26,780 I worshipped her. No-one could've made her happier. 678 00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:29,380 I couldn't stand by and do nothing. 679 00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:31,160 Real knight in shining armour. 680 00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:33,800 If I didn't intervene... 681 00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:36,080 You murdered her husband in cold blood. 682 00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:38,360 How very gallant of you. 683 00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:48,800 I think he really did just want to help. 684 00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:51,960 How dare he. 685 00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:55,980 How dare he make it his job to "save me"! 686 00:41:57,040 --> 00:41:58,760 I'm so sorry. 687 00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:06,160 I've lost my husband and now my best friend. 688 00:42:07,720 --> 00:42:09,700 In no time at all. 689 00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:14,560 - Voting day, Iris. - Afternoon, Reeny. 690 00:42:14,561 --> 00:42:16,580 Come along, now. 691 00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:18,400 After you. 692 00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:30,320 - Apologies, after you. - It's quite all right, I'm just, er, 693 00:42:30,321 --> 00:42:32,200 popping out for a minute. 694 00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:36,380 - Good day? - Fine. 695 00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:38,320 Well, er, had better. 696 00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:44,381 I'm sorry I called you a... 697 00:42:44,506 --> 00:42:46,704 I'm sorry for what I said. 698 00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:57,160 - Lie to them. - What? 699 00:42:57,161 --> 00:43:00,840 Please. I can't lose my boy. 700 00:43:20,240 --> 00:43:22,780 - Hello, Will. - I've come to give my statement to Geordie. 701 00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:25,680 You, too? He's in with Mr Finch. 702 00:43:25,681 --> 00:43:27,520 Leonard's here? 703 00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:36,160 So... what is it you'd like to say? 704 00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:40,320 "To thine own self be true." 705 00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:44,160 Isn't that how it goes? 706 00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:49,800 The allegation made by Bryan Stanford... 707 00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:51,520 it's true. 708 00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:55,320 He was not lying about seeing me... 709 00:43:56,640 --> 00:43:59,280 ..in bed with another man. 710 00:43:59,281 --> 00:44:00,765 - Leonard... - Bloody hell. 711 00:44:00,790 --> 00:44:02,984 Why are you telling us this now? 712 00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:06,680 Because it's the truth, Inspector. 713 00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:13,480 - Was this other man Daniel Marlowe? - No. A stranger. 714 00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:18,280 I don't recall a name. Just a holiday romance. 715 00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:30,800 Then I must charge you with the crime of gross indecency... 716 00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:33,880 ..committed at the Merries Holiday Camp 717 00:44:33,881 --> 00:44:35,780 on 29 August this year. 718 00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:40,120 DC Peters will now escort you through the charging process. 719 00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:42,960 You're not obliged to say anything unless you wish to do so. 720 00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:45,360 But what you say will be taken down in writing 721 00:44:45,361 --> 00:44:47,820 and may be given in evidence. 722 00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:49,920 For your own safety, and in view of the late hour, 723 00:44:49,921 --> 00:44:51,680 you'll stay here overnight 724 00:44:51,681 --> 00:44:54,480 and be taken to the magistrates in the morning. 725 00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:39,280 *CREDITS*