So you're here at last. Didn't I tell you?
It gets you one day. I swear, that day a rolled me
over in the mud that I be even with you yet.
Ha ha ha good Heavens. You
We present John Moffitt as Julian cared.
Jeremy Clyde is Rodney Fleming and Peter Salas as detective.
Inspector Spears in death that broadcasting house by Val
gielgud and Holt Marvel Shall I must throw away my pistol and my
mask and say goodbye to the Scarlet, highwomen forever, q8a
and fed up for closing music. If you love me my darling, more
than life itself. Darling.
Page 6, A and Q announcements. That was the Scarlet Highwayman
by Rodney Fleming starring Leopold, Dryden as the Scarlet
Highwayman Isabel Dryden as Camille penshurst with Stephen
Drew. It has Captain George, many
Sahara's along a bit. I will be off the air.
It'll be heavily Dewhurst as Cynthia Harding Gregory has lit
and had on spragg as to Bow Street Runners and Sydney
Parsons as the Jailer the Scarlet highwomen was produced
by Julian. Dad.
Red light off speakers off and that's it. 10:20 exactly.
We have overrun. If Dryden hadn't speeded up in
that last scene, what? An evening he didn't do badly
for first broadcast distinguished.
As he may be in the theater, must have been nerve-racking for
him and for the rest of us, one crisis.
After another, if I didn't have the best sound and control man
in the business, does that mean the drinks are on me?
No, I mean guy. And I couldn't rely on you.
God knows what would happen. Sorry, I had to dash off and
check that return. Q light trusted to fail tonight
of all nights. I code quite well on my own.
Did you miss Parsons finest hour there?
How did the Great death scene? Go considerably.
Better than did a rehearsal Parsons really got it.
This time he died like a good'n did exactly what you told him.
I think you can be pretty pleased with yourself.
Even if you have got an extra gray hair or to well as
presented, I have a word with a cast and haul, our beloved
author, Of six Abe. And then, what do you say to
that? Drink, you look at if you need
one Julian, I've never seen you. As jumpy as you were tonight, it
seems final play which took God. Fleming had never written the
damn thing or persuaded me to produce it if you got that space
script. Yeah, thanks.
If it wasn't driving during his star turn elevens pushing his or
in, it was Fleming kicking up a fuss about that with his lines
were spoken. He certainly said, has a tough
job. I don't have ever used every
studio in the sixth and seventh. Or before and a table of music
and announcement. Yeah, I think he wanted to show
me, he could Master the technique of broadcasting
without any trouble at all. Rodney, always was an arrogant
devil. After this Triumph will be is
insufferable, is that why you hid him away in the six, a
Listening Room? I didn't want to be in here.
Actors are a curse, but authors are intolerable anyway.
He wanted to see some of the play going on.
Most of the Big scenes were in 6A.
So I thought it was the best place for him.
Well, away from me and he was That damned call 6A, listening
rooms. The only one with the telephone.
I think your next page will be written by an author who's been
dead. At least a hundred years at
least. Well, if you go to make sure
there are no actors lingering in the Studio's, I'll go and
congratulate dear Rodney. Add another layer to his ego.
Julian. What can I say?
Thank you for a brilliant production.
Are you turn my faltering step is Rodney?
No false modesty. Well, I couldn't have asked for
it to be better done. I couldn't have done it if you
hadn't written it, Mutual compliments done with hope so
I'm sorry. I was stuck in here.
Miss seeing you play the dictator.
I don't see myself as comrade Stalin.
I was thinking of her Hitler actually ever the Marxist
Rodney. Coming down with me.
I want to see The Dryden. Well, absolutely.
I thought there was frightfully good.
And of course, Isabel as always was perfect.
I thought perhaps we could get them to come out to supper.
I'm just waiting for banished. Oh, you might congratulate him.
He did marbles on the panel of course.
Oh, and thanks for fixing that telephone call for me.
Julia. There's been an accident Parsons
in 7c. I think he's dead.
I came in to check the studio was empty.
And there he was he's probably just fainted not by the looks of
him. God, it's close in here.
We'd better not touch him or anything else.
What do you mean? I think he's been strangled.
I think it's murder. Good God.
No wonder, he played the death scene, so well truly poor devil.
But I better go until the general.
What's happened? Meanwhile guy keep the sixth and
seventh floors, clear, would you I'll put someone on this door
that make sure nothing's Disturbed.
God knows what the generals going to say.
Come General. I'm sorry to bother you so that
all can come in just cashing Henry hole on top form tonight
and the audience sounds happy. I thought you should know at
once. Her, you're as white as a sheep
man, are you ill, there's been an accident in 7c accident.
What sort of accent is one of one of my don't care.
Tell me what happened. Oh, we could do without this
wretched noise sit. We just finished a play on the
national wavelength, so the Scarlet Highwayman.
Well, the pose in the cast was a man called Sydney Parsons
Bannister found him in 70 at the end of the show.
Yes, you sir carry on. He was dead dead.
Are you sure? I know it sounds absurd but
there's every reason to suppose he's been murdered murdered.
This is fantastic. He killed what have you done?
I've put a studio attendant on the door of Seven Seas her
Higgins. A good, man.
And I want my studio manager. McDonald's on my way down here,
but banisters up there. Now, Bannister guy, Bannister my
balance and control ma'am. I told him to keep the sixth and
seventh floors, clear, and ask McDonald's upon the police.
You seem to have been pretty sensible.
We'd better go up. I'll call it lift.
Lift, we won't wait for the lift Heavens bad if I can run up
seven, flights of stairs. So can you Yes, General, let's
get on them. God knows what state of panic.
The access will be in. Never can rely on actors in an
emergency? This is an outbreak a my wife
and I to be kept here all night as if we were a couple of just
reputable chorus girls without some relief, I insist upon some
explanation McDonald near darling.
I can I get you another cup of coffee.
You can get me a taxi. I repeat, none of us can leave
for the moment. Is that the job of a studio
manager McDonald? I know I'm new to this Wireless
game, but I didn't think you had the power to keep me against my
will. I'm so sorry.
Leo isn't? Well, you don't have to
apologize for me. I understand.
Do you? I wish I Please sit down,
darling stop pacing around Rodney.
Can't you do anything? You do look rather green Leo,
shouldn't you sit down, huh? Well yes, perhaps I will it's
the Damned atmosphere in this place.
I had to leave the studio during play.
Get some fresh air, but I will have some of that coffee
McDonald. Of course.
Mrs. Dryden. No no, thank you.
Ian Rodney. Can't you tell us what's going
on? I'm sorry, Isabel.
I think we'll have to wait for care.
Cared damned, unnecessary mystery.
I'll have something to say to cared.
I promise you. A killing in Broadcasting House
of all places. How was it?
The thing wasn't discovered until the end of the play
Parsons was murdered in character during the play part
of the story. He was alone in 7c.
Come along cared only one more floor to go, don't stop.
Now, I was just thinking Do you realize that everyone who heard
that they must have heard him die, as it happened.
Makes it pretty unique in the annals of crime.
We don't know yet. It is a crime.
Don't jump to conclusions. Who's that?
What no one was allowed to leave the seventh floor.
Higgins. What the blazes are you doing
here? Sorry mr.
Cass, didn't I tell you it's just outside the door of seven.
See, what's the meaning of this Higgins?
Is it why have you disobeyed orders part?
No, did you go into 17? No, sir.
Of course not. I'm sorry, I didn't know.
It was important. I misunderstood your mr.
Kidd misunderstood must have understood.
I was off duty at the end of the play and I had an important
engagement. That's how it.
Well, I told you. You went to leave.
I told her I came back. Hopefully, sorry.
Well, it can't be helped. Let's get.
Oh, just a minute sir. There's something else I want to
ask Higgins. What's that?
Then you aren't you joining the play?
Won't you here? Sir, is this entirely relevant
to the matter in hand for the play started sir?
I asked McDonald to put a man at the North End of the corridor,
on the 7th Floor, on the door, leading out of the tower.
Yes, yes, that does not watch you get people going through the
tower card at all. Using it as a shortcut during
transmission didn't regret. I had to go down to 68 from the
panel room during the transmission because one of the
returned queue lights failed. I went along the seventh floor
Corridor and Higgins wasn't on that door.
So where were you Higgins? I was on the door, all through
the transmission, damn it. I've got eyes in my head.
You've obviously been neglecting your duties this evening, you
Find yourself in a very awkward position.
If you aren't completely Frank with us, I'm no liar.
Where were you where you should have been on that door?
Don't know what you mean, don't make things worse for yourself
by lying. One of those girls who work in
the basement, canteen go on. We've been sweet on each other
for quite a while but it wasn't coming to anything what with me
being married. So yesterday she writes me a
letter and gives me the check no Bad Thing by the sound of it, I
sent a note asking her to come up and meet me in one of the
offices on the 7th Floor. While the play was going on, I
said to meet at 10:00 and that's when I went to the office, damn
fools are both but she didn't answer.
It's nothing to do with Fe ice which he didn't come very proper
of us, waited till 10:20. When the play ended, then I went
back to the door. I was there when mr.
Kerr did mr. Bannister came down from the
panel room wasn't uh mr. Kerr was from the I hadn't left
in the middle of the transmission.
I'd never have known. He gone.
Yes. Well, we'll discuss your
outrageous conduct leader. Higgins.
Stay on the premises. I expect the police will what
the world that you police have not done.
Nothing wrong. Not saying you have no time to
discuss it now cared. I'm going straight up the 7c,
I'll wait for the police there. There you go along and see what
the drive-ins are getting up to. Don't want a riot on our hands.
I won't stay here a minute longer.
I'm afraid, you'll have to mr. Bottner it.
Well, how dare you? Tell me what I have to do?
Rodney, I do wish. They'd let Leo go.
He's been so CD or even. He wasn't a bit himself with
dinner. Sorry, Isabel side of my hands.
But here comes your knight in tarnished armor, sorry to have
kept you all waiting like this, sit down to the fifth floor
banisters, keeping an eye on the nurse thinks McDonald.
I thought Best away, I demand an explanation.
You mustn't mind, Leo, Julian, but do let him go.
Now, even if you want to keep me, I'm afraid he's going to be
ill nonsense. Well, yes, but perhaps I will
sit, how may I tell him? Now Julian, tell us what, not
just for a minute, please, we won't be long.
I won't stand for it all this mystery making and humbug.
I already did your infernal broadcast will Blige Isabel.
She made such a point of it and you to Fleming, I've never
believed in broadcasting for plays, but as you've written the
damn thing for me, I wish to God, I'd never touched it.
All right darling I'm sure Julian will tell us what's going
on. Just as soon as he can, I'm not
used to this kind of behavior cared.
I can tell you, this is What you treat artists?
What do you think? I know who the hell are you
General, Sir, Herbert, awesome. Administrative, controller
Broadcasting House. Perhaps, you can tell us what's
going on. I'm extraordinarily.
Sorry, you should have been inconvenience like this.
Let me introduce these gentlemen, who have a few
questions to ask all of your questions?
What? Right of they to ask us
questions, who the devil are? You my name is Spears.
Detective inspector Spears of Scotland Yard.
This is my colleague. Detective Sergeant ring.
God raining. I'm glad to see you.
Sir, Scotland Yard indeed. So, I've been kept waiting here
because some lady is Miss later handbag or a 10 Shilling notes,
gone missing from the gentleman's lavender.
It's rather more serious. I'm afraid.
Luckily, one of the Board of Governors of this Corporation is
a member of my club. You've not heard.
The last of this, I can tell you mr.
Dryden, I've apologized for inconveniencing you.
You'll realize why I had to if I tell you that one of Fellow
actors, Sydney, Parsons met his death in one of the studios
tonight steadiest. Well, needless, to say, I'm
distressed to hear this but it seems to me, you're turning
tragedy into farce a, my wife. And I to be question because
some poor devil has been unlucky enough to die on your premises,
I think, or perhaps you believe it was murder and I'm to be
arrested on suspicion, it may be murder.
Well, I suppose it is murder. Do you suggest?
I or my wife had anything to do with it?
I suggest nothing at this stage so I can tell you this inspector
Spears, you've no right to detain US unless you choose to
put us under arrest, and I don't imagine your impudent enough or
stupid enough to do that, I'll be glad to be at home to you
tomorrow morning, but not before 11:00 is about Leo.
Please, you'll find are addressing the telephone book.
Good evening. Tomorrow inspector is about.
I really feel one. Should applaud, shall I stop
them leaving the building? No, I think I'll let him cool
off. There's plenty to see here.
I'll go back up to seven. See here.
What the police surgeon has to say there.
May I go home inspector? Well, if you don't mind, I'd
like you and mr. Cared with me, I need to know
how things. Look from both.
Your points of view. I, I don't know that I feel up
to seeing the body again. Come on, Julie, and you're as
excited as I am by all this lead on inspector.
You're hardly needed to just have my beauty sleep for this
one's peers, really doctor. I suppose, they'll have to be an
autopsy as a matter of form, but the things as clear as daylight,
well, strangled from behind, the fellow, who did the Strangling
wore gloves, I suppose there's not much argument about when he
was killed. I can time it to the second.
I don't jump to conclusions. Mr. Cared please.
Sergeant make a thorough search of the studio and turnout
Parsons Pockets up. Can't you cover him over though?
Not just yet. I'm afraid.
So you think you heard him die? Of course, all our players go
out live, millions of listeners, must have heard him being
strangled, her a present, I'm looking for facts.
How long's he been dead doctor? I've told you before, Spears,
Only Fools pretend to answer that question accurately.
As accurately as possible. Well, he's not being dead for
more than two hours. I can tell you that it didn't
take much killing poor, little brute wretchedly undernourished
bad physique and the worst set of teeth out.
For years. I knew Parsons was in, rather a
bad way. Really mr.
Fleming. Yes, I knew him slightly
recommended him for the part because he was so damned hard
up. Thank you, hell.
I'd like to hear more about that later.
Anything else you can tell me, doctor, nothing useful.
Alright, I'll arrange for the removal of the body and see if
the autopsy tells us anything more, it won't good night.
Good night, doctor. Not my idea of a police surgeon.
Do they come in all shapes and sizes found a nothing's harder?
Not too much though this room's, as bare as a board carpets too
thick to take any impression. Whoever did this job Knew Too
Much to leave anything behind him here, the contents of the
pockets. How pathetic they look?
What do you mean? Few pennies half empty packet of
cigarettes shabby pocketbook. Who'd want to kill a man who had
so little but these may be Clues, Julian a pawn ticket,
some keys keys to what and what did he pawned?
Hmm, I suppose you found it. Interesting Rodney personally,
it gives me the creeps Spears pinguin that put Devil's things
as if he was choosing kidneys for.
Make a note of the contents ring.
So what's this mr. Cared.
That's a script of the play. The actors read their parts.
You know, they don't have to learn them.
It was lying just beside the body sir.
Would this be a copy of your planes to blow me the Scarlet
Highwayman? Yes, it's my RV.
Go effort. That's what I thought.
Is it usual for your actors to mutilate, their scriptures to
care? No, they scribble on them.
Sometimes make notes in the margin.
Why? Well, either mr.
Parsons or someone else has torn half the front page of this
away. Way.
It was torn in a hurry. The edges are Jagged.
Is that significant? Well I just wondered why it was
done and who did it? But I think we can send everyone
home except for you two. Gentlemen, if you wouldn't mind
looks like we're not going to get much sleep tonight.
I don't know if I'll be able to sleep.
When I finished in here, I'd like you to tell me a bit about
exactly how you handle a broadcast play.
Julian can lead the conducted tour.
It's quite exhausting. I promise you.
And this is my office. Which ends the tour I hope.
Yes. I see what you mean by
exhausting as to walk miles whole buildings like a maze.
I wanted to show you everything. Yes, thank you.
It was in value and you can blame Rodney for writing.
Such a damnably complicated play.
He put every trick and gadgety could think of into the script
just to put you on your metal. If I could see those Studio
plans is, of course and they're in my desk somewhere.
It'll make things clearer for me.
Here we are. Floor, six, seven and eight the
main Studios. We use for the Scarlet.
Highwayman were on the sixth floor 6A through to da6, a
actually stands on two floors, the sixth and seventh.
So the six a Listening Room is on the seventh floor Parsons was
in 7c. While I was tucked away on the
8th floor in the dramatic control room.
Exactly. Why did you need so many studios
for this production because I'm an awkward devil?
Who likes to make Julian's life. Hell exactly.
One of the reasons we use Use several Studios is to get
different acoustic effects for each scene. 7, see, where
Parsons was his bill to get the effect of a closed room or if
you add an echo from the echo room at dungeon, which is where
Parsons was murdered in the play.
And well, in reality, I suppose, In a fairly large studio, like
68, you can get the effect of Greater space.
We needed that for the ballroom scene, for example, and then
sound effects, gramophone effects, in the orchestra all
have a studio, their own a new set up in the control room away
from it all. Yes.
Now that's why I need a studio manager like McDonald's to see
everything is in order and the actors are behaving themselves
in the studio and McDonald would have been present with the
actors during the entire play. If he was doing his job, might
he not have been no, no, no, no ill McDonald's utterly,
reliable. Unlike this light which gave you
problem. The Returned queue light from
88. Yes.
It when that failed, I had to rush down to 68.
Make sure the lights there were in working order.
McDonald was due to give me a light later in the play cool,
for some rather complicated scene changes from mayor culpa
once again. So you left the can guess at
about the time of the murder. Yes, it must have been and where
exactly did you go? I went down the staircase from
the DC panel room to the seventh floor, then along the passage,
which leads into the tower and down the central Corridor.
So, Studio 7B and 7c would have been on your right.
Yes. I noticed Higgins wasn't on
guard outside the door, leading into the tower, on the 7th
floor, but I, I really only noticed it subconsciously.
I didn't. It didn't really strike me at
the time and you didn't look into 7c, obviously not, I was in
a hurry, guy bolted straight down the tiny spiral staircase
from the seventh floor to the sixth.
I checked the light circuit for the engineer and went back up
again. When did you see anyone?
Well yeah. I don't want to lead you to draw
any false conclusions. I should tell him Julian.
If it gives you an alibi, I don't know that it does.
But Just at the top of the spiral staircase.
Old, Leo, Dryden, coming along the seventh floor, passage from
the direction of the lifts. Did he have any business being
there? Hmm, not that.
I can think of did you speak to it?
I asked him what the devil he was doing out of the studio.
He said, he felt ill and needed some air.
Did he look ill? He looked ghastly nerves?
I expect but good, and you've got fresh air on the sixth
floor. I mean, why should he have gone
up to the 7th? I can't possibly answer that.
No, well, perhaps mr. Dryden, a better answer that
question himself. I wish you luck.
And during the entire broadcast you were in the six a Listening
Room, mr. Fleming.
I was yeah, I can vouch for that.
Rodney was on the phone when I put my head, round the door just
before going back up to the d.c. panel room and the call must
have come through. Before I'd first calm down
there's my dear brother ringing from Leeds.
One of my players is touring and George had some problems to
discuss with me. You must have been on the phone
for ages but I'm sure your check up on that.
I will mr. Fleming, becoming I mean, could
I have a word sir? Yes, certainly ring.
If you'll excuse us, gentlemen, Constable Swift has found
something in one of the ashtrays.
Yeah. It's been put in the bag now for
forensic. It's a torn piece of paper.
Screwed up like a spill and shoved into one of those funnel
ashtrays in The Listening Room outside 7c, one ends charred,
looks like someone tried to set fire to it, push it into the
ashtray. Where unfortunately for him it
went out it had some writing still visible as far as we can
make out, just three words, your darling Isabel.
Seems to be impulsive this handwriting matches notes.
We found in the pocketbook the missing piece of passing script.
Looks like it right? Let me see it as soon as
forensics finished with it sir sorry about that gentleman was
tall. Sounded intriguing couldn't hear
a thing? Unfortunately look I don't know
about you but I'm starving and I could do with some coffee.
Me too. If we're going to be under
cross-examination for much long enough for much longer, but I
welcome sir. Upper right.
I'll go down to the canteen. Order some food, make mine ham
sammiches inspector whatever's convenient.
Right? I won't be long.
Inspector. You don't really think Julian
had anything to do with Parsons death to do, you know, mr.
Cared. Well, I've known him for years.
We were struggling actors together.
She had many a dingy set of digs.
Before we both saw the light, you can't think he's involved at
this stage. I have a completely open mind.
So we're all suspects. How exciting?
Excuse me. Oh, hello Evans.
Are you cared? Nothing you doing here at this
time of night, taking the lift, as I assume, are you?
Yes, it's all. I've going down canteen.
I heard y'all play tonight. I meet you can handle that stuff
curd. But how you can bring yourself
to put it on at all? Beats me my dear Heavens.
I don't want to be offensive but sometimes and particularly, when
I'm as tired as I am, I wish you'd mind your own business as
a matter of fact, as head of research and publicity it is my
business. I've got to get together some
Guff for the damn thing. When his rebroadcast on the
Empire service rebroadcast for reasons, best known to our
Colonial friends, the Empire service Blattner phone your
production, they seem to like that sort of thing.
Course, is that important? It might be most.
I asked why I know all about it tomorrow morning.
I'm sorry Evans, but we're going up again.
Let's not forget, it's a system of recording a production on
steel tape, so it can be rebroadcast later.
So my masterpiece isn't lost in the eighth note with.
Don't you see what it mean? We can hear the death scene
again over and over again. As often as you like, I wonder
if the murderer thought of that, how soon can you arrange for me
to hear the recording? I'll have a word with the
general. I'm sure we can arrange
something for tomorrow night. Is that soon enough?
Yes, yes, I think so. Well, food or no food?
I suppose, I really must let you go.
I think we all need our Sleep. Well, you certainly will
inspector. If you're seeing Leo tomorrow,
you'll need all your wits about you.
Inspector. Oh, I'm sorry to have kept you.
Oh please don't be I've occupied my time.
Leafing through your husband's cuttings books, I hope you don't
mind. Not at all, we're terrible ones
for keeping every single notice. However, bad the playing when
she said that inspector, thank you.
I can't tell you how Dreadful I'm feeling about all this.
Of course, it must have been a great shock.
Yes. It was actually a husband.
I came to see this morning, I'm afraid, he can't see.
Can't mrs. Dryden, or won't you're thinking
of his attitude last night? Please don't Leo's, rather used
to getting his own way. Exactly.
And he was Ill this morning, he didn't feel equal to getting up.
I run his doctor, he's coming to see him before.
Lunch, your husband must hurry. As you'll have to tell us what
he knows about this matter. If not to me, then to the
coroner, but he doesn't know anything.
He was in the studio. All through the play.
He was feeding wretchedly ill. You must have seen for yourself.
He was in pain. He was far too anxious about
lasting through the broadcast to pay attention, to anything else.
Mmm, well, perhaps you should remind him, he'll have to give
evidence at the inquest. It might be to his advantage to
see me beforehand. Meanwhile, I'd like to ask you a
few questions if you don't mind. Of course but I'm afraid there's
nothing I can tell you. Do you mind if I smoke By all
means and first of all mr. Dryden and notebook.
Very formal. Well, this is our formal
interview. Yes.
Did you know suddenly Parsons as an actor?
Yes. You'd acted with him before.
No. Never.
I only meant. I knew him as an actor he'd been
on stage for some time and I think I've heard of him as a
member of the thespian Club. Did you like him?
It was hardly a question of liking.
I don't need Seen him in the course of this play.
We didn't have any scenes together.
I see and nothing happened during rehearsals to give you
the idea any other member of the cast is like, do no.
It was a quiet for others, shabby little, man.
I don't think he spoke much to anyone.
He's been most rehearsals today about reading a newspaper.
There's no need to be nervous. Mrs. Dryden.
So I'm not in the least nervous. Why should I be Have you any
idea? What upset your husband last
night, upset? Oh, do you mean what did he have
for dinner? Yes.
If you think it was the food that upset him.
It seemed to me, emotional rather than physical.
Are you on good terms with your husband?
You've no right to ask me that. Leah and I have been married
almost five years, stage. Marriage is seldom lasts that
long at that unsuccessful. Leah's temperamental like all
great artists. I'm not pretending where
candidates for the done mode flitch, you know, in fact, your
husband's inclined to be jealous.
I think I've read gossip to that effect.
A man. Who's in love with his wife.
Should be jealous, don't you think?
So? He wasn't jealous of Sydney
Parsons got nothing happened as not to upset him apart from the
food. I'd much rather hear it from
you. Mrs. Dryden them from your
servants. Well.
I will tell you but don't draw any false conclusions from it
because it's absurd my husband and I did quarrel at dinner.
Nothing serious you had what some people call words.
It was only that someone had written me, a silly letter and I
was foolish enough to show it to Leah.
He lost his temper. He's often touch in hot.
Weather here either and played. It was my fault that anyone
should have written me. Such a letter.
We were both nervous about this play really.
We've never done any broadcast. Before we got rather childishly
heated about it. This letter.
Was it a love letter? I suppose you might call it that
would you mind showing it to me? I'm afraid I tore it up.
Where's the letter? Written in answer for one of
yours. Mrs. Dryden, no.
It was just a silly thought of letter.
Any actress? Is liable to get from a perfect
stranger. How can any of this affect the?
That the horrible thing that happened last night.
Mrs. Dryden, I sympathize with you, but I have to say that
active hindrance on your part might be construed as
participation in the crime. I don't know what you mean.
Your husband refuses to see me. I told you it's possible.
He may be ill. I'll be able to judge that when
I speak to his doctor and you probably from the best of
motives are doing your best to mislead me.
Mislead you. You said your husband was in the
studio during the whole of the broadcast.
I know for a fact he wasn't you only admitted under pressure.
That he was a jealous man. But hide ho his jealousy is one
of the principal topics of theatrical London.
Again, you only admitted under pressure that you'd quarreled
with your husband, mr. Spears.
I don't like being called a liar to my face.
I'd like you to look at this letter with Bryden, what's this?
Now, it's one of three letters from you.
We found among Austin's papers. That is your handwriting.
Do you still deny? It was in answer to this letter
that the letter came which you showed to your husband which
caused the quarrel you hadn't heard.
It was in fact. Blackmailing, you do you deny
that? What do you want from me?
The nothing more present. But I'd like to speak to your
husband as soon as possible. I'll talk to him what this
evening do. No, not this evening.
This evening I fancy. I'm going to hear a murder being
committed. How damn damn the play.
Damn Rodney. Damn everything die.
He'll come in. Okay.
Are you busy? Judy should be.
I should be drawing up a list of productions for the last three
months of this year, somehow, I can't concentrate, have you seen
the reporters outside had to battle my way through them to
get in the building? Where in all the newspapers
headline, you death that broadcasting house?
It's it is a stable unfortunately, it doesn't help
anyone in Apartment to do that job this morning.
I've been thinking about last night's business.
You surprised me. No, no, I have and I don't
understand the methods of your friend, the detective if I was
handling the case, posing to do his job for him.
Guy, of course not, but there are one or two things.
All right guys, I'm not going to get any serious work.
Done this morning, give me your thoughts on the mystery.
Well, first of all that man, Higgins.
He hasn't shown up at all today. Probably overslept.
He might have, but I had a word, a flaming rail with Parsons
during whistles for the Scarlet. Highwaymen Oh, go on.
It was a third or fourth. Rehearsal the first day you
stopped rehearsing the cast in a studio and came up to the
control room. You know that rule about not
taking hats and coats into the studio, never understood it now.
Well, it seems Parsons took his into 7c.
Higgins, saw them and tried to take them downstairs.
To the cloakroom Parsons turned on him.
Used some pretty filthy language, really throw him out.
Higgins told McDonald all about it.
You're trying to pin the murder on Higgins.
I'm not trying to pin it on anyone but it's a bit queer.
It was The door during transmission.
He didn't stay in God 7c after the murder.
He was looking like death last night and now he doesn't turn up
this morning. I had a perfectly good story
about the girl from what you told me.
I don't think it's either perfect or good.
Huh. Well, is that the full extent of
your thoughts? Not quite this Blattner phone
recording. There might be a clue on the
steel tape. I imagine that's why Spears
wants to hear it? Yes.
But would he pick up a clue? He's not used to just using his
ears, is he? But you are.
It's my job. Oh my gosh, I you can come along
to the replay of the recording tonight, but don't tread on the
inspectors toes for all his charm.
I don't think Spears is a man to cross I can tell you care to see
that awful day, the governors are being difficult.
Of course, the Press are entirely responsible as usual
now, this infernal Blattner phone business shouldn't take
long sir, is it really necessary to have all these people here
just to listen to this recording?
Well, that was my decision. I'm afraid I thought Fleming
should be here. It's his play after all and the
banisters more accustomed to hearing Blattner phone
recordings than anyone else. He might spot something, we'd
Miss, they don't know one of the inspectors.
Happy bring up the Room and let's get on with it.
They're preparing the steel tape now.
Come General Farkas and yes I'm I'm sorry to give you another
late night. Think nothing of it.
Inspect over here to help the police in any way we can.
Well if we're already, perhaps we could hear the recording.
Couldn't we just do my play from the beginning.
So the inspector gets the full flavor.
I don't think that's entirely necessary.
Is it inspector perhaps? Now I'm sure Rodney wasn't being
serious. It guy.
Are you ready? I think so.
Quiet everyone. It started.
What's the music? The end of the previous scene in
the ballroom, that's where I faded over from 6 a.m. and 8
a.m. to 7:00. See where Parsons was So you're
here at last. Didn't I tell you?
It gets you one day. Didn't I?
Swear that day a rolled me over in the mud that I'd even with
you yet. Ha ha.
Ha. Good Heavens.
You Is that it? I call that pretty average
gruesome? Yeah.
Is there anything more we could do for you inspector?
I like that piece of steel tape sealed up and kept so I can hear
it again. If I need to connect be arranged
certainly according to Evans, it wasn't good enough for the a
service out that also you can mutilate it as much as you wish.
I'll give instructions to the blood, the phone Engineers
myself. I'm not going to ask you now.
If you've learned that he will lose Experiment.
But I'd be glad if you'd call me in the morning.
Of course. Then I'll say goodnight to you
all good night, Jennifer Mason. Did you get anything out of its
peers? Personally, I was down.
Nearly sick. Poor bloody little man.
Did you pick anything up? Well, the only thing that struck
me was I'd never heard the scene played so well.
What about you, mr. Fleming.
All authors of the same inspector, they'd only notice
one thing, the way actors and producers mutilate, what they
write? What do you mean?
Wait, it's not important. But as I wrote the scene after
the words, I'll be even with you yet.
There was a pause and then you the Scarlet high and then the
Jailer was strangled in a mass of horrible gurgle.
I cut the Scarlet. Hi myself.
I thought it weakened the end of Speak and you don't think good
Evans weakens it. I didn't put that in Parsons
wanted to say good God. I told him that wasn't
acceptable. I suppose you substituted good
Heavens paid for misreading the author with this.
Lovely shut up Rodney. Thank you gentlemen.
I think that's cleared up the point.
Is that a hole? No sudden Revelations.
Pissed, you're an incorrigible romantic.
There may be something on the recording, we just have to find
it. Any ideas mr.
Bannister nothing at the moment. Inspector are you going back to
Scotland? Yard inspector?
Yes, I wanted. Two things to tidy up before I
get home. What about you and Julian?
Can I give you a lift? No, there's some there's
something I want to do in my office before I leave.
It'll be useful. If you came along guy, if you're
not too tired, no, not at all. I have a feeling, I won't get a
proper night's sleep till this case is over.
I felt such a damned fool the way Fleming laughs.
No, I wouldn't take much notice of Rodney.
He puts on a show of not caring very much, but Underneath It All
and then think it does care very much except about his career,
you know, him better than I do. Yes.
But this patch of caution a moment ago.
Happy when idea, it's not really an idea, but it seems to me.
There are only two real suspects, Higgins and Leo,
Dryden and myself, too, serious suspects, don't you agree?
I'm not sure. Rodney has an alibi and Isabel
didn't leave the studio if we can believe McDonald and there's
no reason not to no. I suppose not.
And he's given an alibi to all the other actors in the cast.
So we're left with Higgins and Dryden.
Hmm. Which do you favor?
Well, I can't really believe. Dryden would kill anyone and I'm
inclined to agree, despite the idiotic way is behaving with the
police, but Higgins, that story about his girlfriend.
Fe in the canteen is, as thin as tissue paper and he quarreled
with Parsons he lied when you confronted him.
And now Disappeared. Well, you wouldn't arise as much
as you like guy, but what you're going to do track Higgins down,
I might take a cast in the direction of his home, as a
matter of fact, I might do a bit of amateur detection myself.
I thought this whole thing, sick, and it does that like it
resolved, but I'm not at all surely inspector takes any of us
entirely seriously and he suggestion.
We make might just be cast aside.
I asked you to stay on tonight. Might give me a hand with what.
Gloves, gloves, the murderer wore gloves.
What happened to them? Would he or just, possibly she
risk, slipping them into their pocket from the crime might be
discovered at once in the general search made has Spears
look for them and they tucked away somewhere on the 7th floor
somewhere where the police haven't taught to look and what
do you say to a search? Now, this late the best time
buildings almost empty. We won't be disturbed your game.
I certainly am good because I think Know where they'll be how
nice? There's a cupboard on the 7th
Floor, built into the wall Higgins.
Keeps his cleaning stuff in there when the doors closed.
You wouldn't know. There was a cupboard, but
Higgins, usually leaves the door open, it wasn't open last night.
I think it's worth a look lead on.
I'll be right behind you at 2:30.
You can hear the first part of a new classic serial people about
there's no reason to whisper I think I'd rather Other.
Well, that is just a cat. There's still two of them left
from the tribe of moved in, with the place.
Was being built. Oh, come on!
This is the way I came last night Juliette.
There's a light six, a Listening Room.
There shouldn't be any Wonder. Hagen's come to retrieve his
gloves. Let's find out.
All right, what do you think? What the hell happens?
What in God's name? Are you doing here at this time
of night? Suppose, I ask you the same
question which I don't propose to enter into a slanging match
with you Evans. Departmentally, I'm responsible
for what you do in this part of the building.
If you're going to drag red taping, I'm not dragging in
anything, but you can tell me or explain it to the controller in
the morning. Is it necessary for banners to
be here? I'm sorry.
Should I go? No, stay Guy.
I'm sure Evans can tell us both what he's doing.
Routing about in that cupboard. Criminology happens to be a
hobby of mine. Yes you can't expect me not to
take advantage of it when a murders been committed in the
building where I actually work. There's a chance in a million.
This murders no business of yours as much, mine as yours or
are you pretending you came up here to see if any more dead
bodies were lying about in your precious Studios.
I got hold of one of the police photographers only cost me, 10
Bob to get a very fair resume, a of the police surgeons report.
But what were you after in that cupboard?
If you must know, Bannister a pair of gloves?
Gloves. It's the cupboard where Higgins
keeps his cleaning stuff. I know he didn't turn up this
morning, so the cupboard hasn't been Disturbed since the murder.
How did, you know? He didn't come in today, you've
talked of nothing else banister. Sorry, Julian can't be helped.
Are you trying to pin this thing on a Higgins Higgins?
If he cans are done it, I wouldn't be looking for the
gloves in his cupboard. And as he was insane, he died.
He put them in his own cupboard, Woody, unless he had no time to
do anything else in here somewhere, you should leave this
to. He got it, just tape, it makes
sense, you know the murderer comes out of seven, see he can
only leave by two doors. Either through the door that
leads into 7B and that door solid.
So he wouldn't know if anyone was on the other side, but the
door into the passage has a glass panel so he could check
for people. Then, all he has to do is slip
out here. Chuck the gloves into the
cupboard, slam the door, and go back wherever he came from, who
shut up. Banister, make this a space
behind this shelf, it given that torch guys.
Oh look! I've got a longer reach than
you. Okay.
Yes. Yes, here they are good for you.
Good God, look at them, black stitching scalloped Gauntlet
wrists. I think we all know who these
belong to can't be certain they're dryden's gloves affected
extravagant idiot, fancy having things like this made for you.
A man can be affected and extravagant without committing.
Murder. Do you seriously suspect?
Leopold Trident. Suspect him.
It's as plain as a pikestaff. He's got just the sort of
limited intelligence combined with a colossal, vanity.
But all the showy murderers have rude domineering, brute.
Quite a good chap. If you're taking the right way,
I don't call a man, a good chap. When he quarrels with his wife,
in front of her friends, the man's a cad.
I didn't know you were a friend of Isabel I've known ever
sometime. I think I can say I know her
considerably better than you do care and you won't want to cause
her pain. But what are we going to do with
the gloves? We obviously have to hand them
over to the police. Don't take too much on yourself
kid. I'll take them to the police
myself as forgiving, Isabelle. Pain it would be the best thing
that ever happened to her. If Leopold Dryden was hanged as
high as Haman. I'll say, goodnight, to both of
you. Are you thinking what I'm
thinking? What's that guy Evans planted
the gloves himself just to implicate, Dryden possible, but
knowingly, oh he'll get himself hanged without any help from
Evans unless Spears can find a better candidate.
Mr. Fleming is here to see you sir.
I think I'll let him wait for a bit.
I've been going through my notes ring and no further forward.
Really, it's a tough one. This well, there are too many
suspects, he games, Dryden, of course, cared Fleming himself.
Except his Alibi seems to be cast on the stage doorman at
Leeds, confirm the brothers call and the timing, lets him out
together with the switchboard girl, a Broadcasting House
confirming, they were chatting away whenever she happened to
check. The line was clear, still, I'm
keeping him as a possible, any ideas yourself?
Well, those letters we found at Parsons digs could put Isabel,
Dryden on the list. Well, she certainly went as
white as the walls of her flat when I showed her own letter,
but Donna confirmed. She was in the studio the whole
time. But how reliable is he?
I have a feeling the beautiful mrs.
Dryden lies behind this in some way.
Too many. People are in love with her.
I saw her once. He is ago before, she was famous
in some review. She suddenly got something I
wonder if Rodney Fleming's. Another of her Conquest Shaymin
I think I'm ready. Stop I hope I'm ready.
Jolly place you got here. Inspector.
Good morning, mr. Fleming like your view ever.
Can't you bribe? The English fascist to burn down
County Hall on the same Principle as the Nazis burned
the reichstag. If you'd like to sit down oh
thanks. Oh, don't pay any attention to
my chatter. I'm always professionally bright
in the morning. May I smoke by all means.
I'm afraid. I don't keep Egyptian cigarettes
so you've observed, I don't smoke gaspar's.
My dear Holmes, you restore my faith in the police.
Bring out the handcuffs. What do you mean?
Mr. Fleming, I can't expect to get out of Scotland Yard.
I have cuffs on my wrist, can I? After all look at me, promising,
new playwright, according to the Press.
That's almost enough to hang a man by itself.
No visible means of support, except one successful play now
closed in the West End and making the rounds of the
province's. The second play bought for
theater production by Leo. Dryden the radio play of course
M. Darius journalistic efforts
apart from that. What you?
About me inspector except that I was on the scene of the crime
and uncomfortably close to where it was committed.
If you don't arrest me, I'll have a question asked in the
house. Very amusing, mr.
Fleming, the time runs on, he'll answer a few questions.
I hope delighted. Inspector turn on our third
degree. What do I get?
Robert Ronson's fire hose. I'll tell you when you start
refusing to answer to share, perhaps you could tell me a bit
about your background, we intended for charge of the
Accountancy disliked the motion heartily, so drifted onto the
stage scraped, a living in the provinces for a few years.
I lived in same digs as Julian. Cleared on one of those tours
and we became friends then I wrote a play which caught on.
I saw it at the fortune enjoyed it.
Very much. Thank you.
And why did you write the Scarlet?
Highwomen several reasons. There's no advertisement in the
world, like, having a play broadcast, Leo dryden's,
accepted my second stage. Play means to do it in the
Autumn. If you don't hang him instead,
we'll try not. Sorry, taste, I wrote Leo
eyelash, part in the radio plates.
Good publicity for my stage play and I wanted to show Julian, I
could master all his infernal technicalities at my first shot.
So, I went away for a fortnight and wrote The Scarlet Highwayman
I see. But suppose we go on to the
actual night of the crime. Now, you sat in the six, a
Listening Room, not in the drama, control room with the
producer by wanted to see the actors playing my scenes as
much. As possible, was that the only
reason but no, no, I was expecting a call from Leeds, it
was rather important. Apparently 6A is the only
Listening Room on those floors with a phone.
This was the call from your brother.
That's the one you would you mind giving me a few more
details about it at all. Inspector, I'm at your mercy.
George my brother is managing the regional tour of my first
play. We've had a certain amount of
bother with the actor playing the father in law is quite the
wrong type and George wanted to rewrite the part to suit the
actor is that unusual Not I told you guys to go ahead and order
the parts he saw fit, but to ring and let me know the details
before it was actually a restaged of time was tight and
he had ring me at the BBC. Do you know exactly when the
gold came through? Didn't we go through this
before? I'd like a few more details?
Well, the phone rang just as the ballroom scene was ending,
that's the scene before, the murder.
How long did your call? Lust can tell you exactly at
some point Julian, pokes his head, round the door, something
about it. Return light failing.
I didn't pay much attention to him.
I suppose that call finished about two minutes after that.
Would you say you had about 6 minutes and all of probably, I
expect that's important. The times always are in Murder
Mystery, quite I believe it was your suggestion to engage Sydney
Parsons for a part in the play. Yes.
How did you come to know him or he understood in the West End in
my first play? He wrote me afterwards, saying
it was hard up, and I thought he might do for the Jailer.
So I suggested him to Julian. I see.
Well, I think that's all mr. Fleming look, seriously, you're
not really suspect Leo, do you? I'm afraid.
I can't comment. Not just that he's putting on my
next play. I'm sure he couldn't do such a
thing. You'll probably find out that
the murderer is someone, you haven't even thought of yet.
I want to speak to Isabel alone. Please do and you can't stop me
drive. You don't get out of my house.
I'll have you thrown out Isabel, perhaps.
This isn't the time. Oh, very well, I had something
to tell your wife, something that might have saved you both
some pain as it is. The hell.
Would you drive me? What did he mean?
I don't know. But I know I'm frightened Leo.
He's just a damned fool besotted with you.
Only you talk to inspector Spears.
Tell him the truth. I'm not sure.
I know what the truth is and tell him what, you know, I know
you should never have got involved with that devil
Parsons. I wasn't involved with him, but
he's dead now, and I'm not sorry.
Yeah, best thing that ever happened.
I gladly shake the hand of the man who strangled him.
Higgins must have done it. Have you been playing the
private? Detective guy I know where his
lodging? It's an awful hole above a
greengrocers in Gentile. Street.
Earth, did you get the address the house superintendent?
Secretary. She was too busy with a thousand
other things to ask why I wanted it.
Don't you dare you? I've been down there Gentile
Street. I quizzed the greengrocers wife
about Higgins. Apparently, he only goes out at
night. I'd like to know where I hardly
dare ask, how you're going to find out.
I need to watch I've got the evening off.
I thought I'd spend it watching. Higgins is window from a greasy
Cafe across the road. I can get a perfect view rather
you than me. Don't get yourself arrested,
I'll try not to. I need company that would arouse
suspicion in a place like that. What I need is a tarred with a
heart of gold and I know exactly where to find her.
But I'm desperate pad and Pat always said, you were such a
nice young man. All you have to do is dress up
slap on all that makeup. You got left over from the run
of the Viennese hasar and chatter in a loud voice, just
like me. Shut up top.
See, pretend you're auditioning for one of Cochran's racier
reviews. I should be so lucky.
Well as CB hasn't been in touch for ages.
Of course, I'll do it guy but don't be mean.
Let's take Topsy with us. I'm not sure if you don't you're
a skunk and don't forget, I knew Isabelle dry When she was just a
girl in the chorus like me. She was human.
Then I'd like to help get her and her husband out of trouble
if I can. I don't know about two of you.
I'll guarantee to look after one.
All right, but there's just a chance.
It might turn risky. Oh, come off it.
My middle names risky in tip at Whiskey and frisky and a little
drop of whiskey and the girl for you, I can see, I don't know,
we'll turn a policeman of yours subject to this.
He won't know. And I won't tell him Scotland
Yard needs a break through and we're going to provide it.
Mr. Evans, I'm grateful. You asked for this interview.
I've something vital to tell you Spears holding the time.
First of all I'd like to ask you some questions that it will I
gather you were working late in your office on the night of the
tragedy. I was, is that usual perfectly
during the day, I'm liable to Perpetual interruptions.
I frequently returned to the BBC after dinner and work in my
office I see. Did you know Sydney Parsons
never set eyes on the man. I'm mr.
Dryden. I hope the owner to be a friend
of mrs. Dryden's.
That's why I wanted to see you. Do you know mr.
Fleming I'm a demon cares off his conceited ass.
You don't like you, I don't dislike him no reason to accept
he's achieved Fame by writing facile.
Bad work as for the Scarlet. Highwomen cared has a weakness
for that romantic to Sheree. When did you first hear of the
tragedy? I met Kat on my way.
Back from the canteen, I gathered something was wrong.
He was in an Old State even for him.
Inquiries at the reception desk I say and look, inspector
dryden's your man. That's a pretty serious
accusation, mr. Evans.
I don't give a damn how serious it is.
As I told you, I'm a friend of his wife's.
She's been good enough to ask me to that flat on one or two
occasions. I don't quite see the road.
Wait a minute, Dryden treats her like dirt.
He didn't consider it jealous. Abominably.
Rude to her in front of other people.
He's just the type of man who could murder someone.
I'm afraid that's no proof of and what are these?
Gloves, I found these in a Cupboard used by the studio
attendant Higgins. The cupboards just outside 7c,
your people probably didn't search it because when it's
closed, it's flush with the wall, hardly noticeable.
You're saying these gloves belong to Lee about driving?
Who else any actor in? London would confirm it.
Look at the stitching, the scalloped risks.
No one. But a far sir like dried will be
seen dead in a things. These are important evidence and
I'm grateful, you brought them to me my duty inspector, I'd
been eating more grateful, still, if you'd pointed out the
cupboard and let the police find them in the normal way, I
shouldn't be too free and easy with your accusations against
mr. Dryden for that.
You need cast-iron proof and that's I'm looking for If You
Can't Hang Dryden without it. Then I'll find you cast-iron
proof, inspector. I'll find it.
He can just coming out now heading for that Pub.
Oh this is just like the food, it's real life.
Come on let's follow him and let's not be quiet about it.
The louder, we are the less suspicious he'll be.
So where are we Sergeant Wu Higgins, had opportunity and a
possible motive. But with these gloves coming to
light, we may have to arrest Drytown.
He certainly had opportunity and I think the motive lies with his
wife and what about care. He had opportunity being on that
floor at just the right time, but no milk.
If we can find Fleming, apparently didn't have the
opportunity. Even though he was right on the
spot but he knew Parsons heard there might be a motive to
Uncovered at what about Isabel? Dryden.
Well, as you say, so, I think the motive for the murder lies
with her hip McDonald's swear, she never left the studio.
I've looked into his background and there's no reason not to
trust him. And what about that, piece of
paper? Yes, a burnt screw of paper with
your darling Isabel written in Parsons handwriting.
It's pretty damning, isn't it? If only we knew who it was
addressed to dryden's, the obvious candidate for gonna be
this and then their Steward Evans who's obviously, madly in
love with Isabel her. The moment about the only person
we can discount with any certainty, is young guy
Bannister. What did you lightful evening
from greasy Cafe to Smoky bar and tepid beer?
Sorry, girls, I'm afraid. I've LED you on a wild-goose
chase. It hasn't shifted from the bar
since he got here, three large risk is already.
He'll pass out soon. It doesn't look as if he's going
anywhere. Does Yes, it does.
He's putting on his hat. Oh, come on.
Let's see what he's up to now. Straight home.
He doesn't behave like an evil criminal.
Does he not much tucked up in bed by 11:00?
He's left the door on the latch too drunk to lock it.
Look you girls, cut off home. I'll go up an interview mr.
Higgins. What do you take us for?
A couple of Arms from Children's Hour, you go first and we'll
follow, right? Okay, chief, let's get going.
Don't follow me to close, and if there's a real, don't imitate
the pictures. Don't stand about watching, nip
out and call the police. Stale greens.
I remember that smell from Dixon Norwich.
Come on. Can you hear anything?
Not a thing conscious. Anyway, there's a light on his
door, I don't think. All right, Sergeant, you can
cover the body now, mr. Bannister ocean arrest.
You on what charge, I can think of any number being a silly.
Young fool comes first, guy's fault.
We were all in it together and I should have you all arrested.
What exactly happened? We were just outside the door
when we heard a shot, I burst in and, and found Higgins.
This horrible, his head. I told you not to, look, I
checked the room for, for, an intruder, the next moment to
policeman rushed in. Knows where they came from.
We've been watching Higgins, since the murder.
We're not complete fools Bannister.
Then why didn't you stop another murder?
I don't think it was murder. What did the note say?
Note there was a note on the mantelpiece.
Suicide note, I suppose a confession, it's gone.
Now, one of your chaps must've taken it.
Observant. Are you in the circumstances?
Yes, we've got the note. It's evident and will keep its
contents to ourselves for the moment guy.
I didn't want to seem unbearably wet, but do you think you could
take? Take us home before I'm sick.
Oh I'm sorry of course looks like the case is closed.
Anyway I'm not so sure about that.
I don't think poor Higgins has sold anything with that.
Bullet anything at all. Well, I'm sorry that was as much
of the inquest as I could bear. If I wasn't being put off my
lunch, you should have stayed a bit longer at Leo behaving, like
a lunatic. I left after that.
Imagine still grinding on a row. What have you ordered fried?
Sole followed by lamb. Cutlets, not very original but
we'll serve it wouldn't look so damnably ostentatious, I'd stand
as a bottle of champagne. I need it.
But what did Leo say? I'm beginning to believe.
He's either frightened about something else.
We really did it. He pretended him to CD that
evening. Remember anything much about it
when he was asked, why he went up to the seventh floor for
Fresh Air instead of going outside the studio tower on the
six? He said I suppose subconsciously
I thought it'd be fresher higher up but I ask you.
How did Isabel stand it hardly noticed?
I didn't like to look at that too much.
Didn't want to embarrass her and she sat through it.
And as far as I could see, never turned a hair and Leo was doing
all his stuff, jaw, Thrust out, upper lip stiffened, one
eyebrow, lifted all the time. Fix your fried salsa of thanks,
especially Higgins inquest. Next suicide, while I Advance on
my Natalie, in the person's condition, Higgins must have
done, it then killed himself from remorse to easy Julian,
it's altogether too, easy. That's what.
All this morning's papers were hinting at, of course, if the
police want a solution at any price, it gives them a
convenient way out even after Leo's performance today, Julian,
your friend Bannister, I wonder if he's found Another dead body.
He does seem to make a habit of it.
Julian, the inquest is just finished, and you're still at
Liberty. I beg your pardon.
I was just thinking, suppose you murdered Parsons and Higgins.
Saw you. And you shot him last night
before he could grass on you. Take no notice guy.
What was the verdict? Oh, Murder By person or Persons
Unknown. That's not the interesting bit.
When Leo tried to leave, he was arrested Let me out of here.
I demand to speak to the commissioner.
I demand to see my son. Listen up.
I may not have committed money yet but if you don't let me out,
I swear I will do. So let me once I tell you God
God. Stop.
I don't understand it guy. Spears seems to have disappeared
off the face of the earth. I could track him down.
No, I think your days is a private detective and numbered,
but we have to find him somehow convince him that Leo couldn't
have done. It is me.
The General. Yes, I see that.
Yes, of course it right away, I'll bring balance to the wrong.
Yes, goodbye. And that's the general, I
gathered. Apparently inspector Spears is
downstairs. He'd like us to join him.
Come on kid, Bannister to your chair.
Thank you. Sir.
Inspector Spears. Wanted the two of you in on
this. Can't imagine why.
Now I want you both to understand.
I do consider it. Your business to try and do the
job of the police. You've got plenty to do here.
I quite understand Bannister, no more Mischief, no sir.
I've got the note that was in Higgins, rum A Farewell message
he left for his girlfriend Effie Effie.
This is just a line to wish you good.
Bye. And to say, I'm sorry for all
the trouble and pain. I have caused you, loving you
all the time. As I do.
I can't stick it any longer. They keep following me around
and the noises won't stop in my head.
I'm not afraid of going out, but I don't want people to think of
how I might have killed that mr. Parsons, you know, we'd agreed
to meet that night. So please tell the police and
let me go out with a clear name. I can't think of more to say so
will now draw to a close Joe for devil.
When I interviewed a few previously, she denied there
been any arrangement for her and Higgins to meet that night.
Then later she confessed that Higgins had sent her down a note
in the afternoon. Asking her to meet him in an
office on the seventh floor. He wants to talk things over but
she was afraid of losing her job, so didn't go.
There's no reason to disbelieve her story.
So now we've released her poor little beast.
You're not going to make her suffer for this.
Are you sir? No certainly not.
Mr. Bannister, I thought you'd like to hear that.
After all your efforts, I ought to be pretty angry with you, but
no real harm has been done. So we'll let it go at that.
Thank you, inspector. So you think this puts Higgins
out of the picture? I think so.
One suspect less, that's all we get out of it.
But what about Dryden? Why on Earth?
Have you arrested him? And I don't suppose the
inspectors about to tell us. Well, I don't mind as long as
you both keep it to yourselves. There are two reasons first,
there's a great deal of unpleasant evidence against mr.
Dryden and secondly, I hope now he's been arrested.
He'll realize, he has to open his mouth and answer questions,
drive-ins are stubborn devil. Inspector purse, her if he won't
answer the questions, perhaps his wife will as a wall of
Silence covering those 2, and if we can't break it down, I'll
begin to think that my instinct was wrong.
Then privately, you don't believe Leo's guilty, I don't
know. That's the other reason I was to
see you kid. You're a friend of mrs.
Dryden's aren't you my hopes her or talk to her.
See what you can do? You might tell her I've known
men to be hanged on a darn sight less evidence than there is
against her husband. I know Rodney Fleming was going
around today to try and cheer her up.
I think I'll join him. Just hope I can get Isabel to
see sense. This room always sends a chill
through me. Isabelle, got him, one of those,
modern designers, everything had to be White Walls, cupboards
table even damn dried flowers. He was even colder without Leo's
personality about the place or what Leo's personalities
everywhere. Look at the bookshelves
straining under a dozen volumes of his cuttings, more to see
Isabel have one rather pathetic scratch.
She's coming. Perhaps it's time for a bit of
Truth telling I'm afraid you've got a cold dinner.
Yes Man, 7 walked out on me as soon as he heard about the
arrest. Couldn't afford to be mixed up
in this sort of thing in his profession.
Don't worry about food. We will take you out.
Won't be Rodney, of course. I don't, I don't think I'll ever
be able to go out again. Rot.
I used to, like, people looking at me and restaurants knowing
they were Whispering that's Isabelle, Palmer, you know, the
girl, who married, Leo, Dryden. Now, they bring me up pretending
to be sympathetic and really only wanting to satisfy their
odious curiosity. Look Isabel, can't you make Leo
talk? What do you mean?
Julian means the police only arrested him to try and break
this stupid silence. What I can't bear is that.
I know, it's really my fault. What do you mean I hadn't lost
my head? And showed him that silly letter
from Parsons. No one would have believed he
was guilty for a second. What letter?
It wasn't important. Just to stupid scribble.
Neither of you believe he did it.
Do you know this inspector Spears?
I'm sure he just wants to help you both.
He's not a fool. Have I been a fool ring?
I don't know. Sir.
Are you covered yourself there? Have you got the transcript of
Parsons death scene? Yes sir.
Read it to me. Would you?
Oh well, I have to act it at all.
Her dad just read it as it's written, huh?
So you're here at last. Didn't I tell you?
We get you one day. Didn't I?
Swear that day. You roll me over in the mud.
That I'd be even with you yet. Good Heavens.
You know sir. Now I'm sorry ring do read it.
Exactly as it's written keep the pauses in so you're here at
last. Didn't I tell you?
We get you one day. Didn't I?
Swear that day. You rolled me over in the mud
that I'd be even with you yet. Good.
Was you let me see it? I've been even with you yet,
good. Evans, you Yes, I thought as
much. All these questions you to is
bad. Is the police?
Don't you see how important it is?
Must get to the bottom of Leo's Behavior?
I don't think suspicion would have focused on him if he hadn't
been so stupid when he was first questioned, you know what Leo's
like Rodney damned awkward and he wants to be look here.
We've been imagining Leo's kept silent for his own sake.
I suppose you didn't shut up like a trap because he thought
you might be concerned in the murder as a bell.
Tuvia on, Julian's. Got a point.
Leo wouldn't tell you that but it might be the Could you have
been out of the studio at the same time?
He was I could but I wasn't Leo only had to ask Ian McDonald.
He knew I wasn't out of the studio or leave Mark, but don't
you see if he does McDonald's and you had been out of the
studio. He'd drawn suspicion on you.
He couldn't risk that better to say nothing.
You must talk to him when you see him.
Oh God, probably those reporters.
Again the turn off the light. Julian.
Look out the window. I can't see anyone.
It's a chaplain the BBC Stewart, Heaven.
What is he doing here? But the second he heard about
years arrest. He rang me up.
I'm sure he did. You ran three times this
afternoon? I get rid of him.
Would you? I can't see him when I'm feeling
right now. Let me I know how to handle it
them's. And what business is it of yours
cared? I've been dining with Isabel
naturally. She's feeling the strain of
Leo's arrest. I'm leaving early for that.
Very reason and you wish me to follow your example.
Yes, my dear CAD I thought to myself.
I've seen a good deal more of the world than you have.
I think I can guarantee. Mrs. Dryden will appreciate a
visit from me when she might find your Society.
A little tedious that's enough. Don't push me.
I was trying to be diplomatic. The truth is she doesn't want to
see you. I'll let her tell me that.
Don't push me. I'm warning, you care.
If you're threatening, I've done a good deal of boxing in my
time. Apparently there were scrapping
right there in the street outside.
Isabel dryden's flat. I never thought of Julian.
Care does a very physical man Evans?
Gave him a black eye. He says he gave Evans worse and
all for the love of a lady. I don't know about that.
I bet it was Isabel used to be sweet on a man called Evans when
we were touring together years ago.
Good God. I'm sure his name was Evans.
Stewart Evans. It might have been as far as I
can remember. We always called him by his
surname. Don't know why, but this is
incredible. Why?
Because Pat, if we can prove that Isabel new Evans years ago,
had an affair with him. I think Parsons was blackmailing
her, maybe Evans was the reason for the blackmail, which play
was it. I'm not sure.
Have you got some old programs, we can go through them.
I don't keep stuff like that, but I bet Isabel dos.
Well, Topsy, tomorrow morning, you're going to Scotland Yard.
We've got to tell Spears, So Julian was right, my darling.
Yes, my beloved. Thank God.
He persuaded me to come. Thank God.
But how could you think I had anything to do with this
horrible murder earlier? I know you're passionate nature
onic. My love to think you endured
these days in a prison cell for me.
I could do nothing else. Now you can tell inspector
Spears what you know But I know nothing about the murder.
Exactly, that's what you got to tell him.
Ah, nice to meet you again under less distracting circumstances,
mr. Levine.
Thank you. Kind sir.
Topsy has something vital to tell you, inspector, really?
You remember my ideas about Evan?
If you would let Miss Levine do the talking Topsy and this isn't
one of those ideas. This is a fact gone.
Well, this little girl was on tour with Isabelle, Dryden.
Isabelle Palmer. In those days, in a player
called overseas, at least, I think it was overseas.
It was a What I glad I do know that and it was about the sea or
holidays, get to the meat of it, Topsy, right?
Well, I don't remember much. Of course you wouldn't expect me
to after all this time. Just tell me what you do.
Remember Topsy, the roller of the Seas?
That was it. I think.
Anyway, I was the lowest of the low assistant stage manager, but
I got to see things and I do remember Isabel was having an
affair with another member of the company.
At least, there was a lot of talk and his name.
Name was Evans evidence. There you are and he's still in
love with Isabel, but why murder possums?
Well, when I really thought about it I could swear that man
Parsons was in the company as well.
Are you sure? This is desperately important is
Parsons knew about the affair. He could have been blackmailing
both Isabel and Evans it, to be honest.
The more I thought about it last night, these are it was to think
it was another name, not Parsons, but all you have.
To do is get hold of one of Isabel's old programs, it'll be
on that. She's just the sort to keep all
her old stuff. Yes.
I know that very well but thank you, Topsy.
Oh, oh, this isn't waves. That was it.
Uh-huh. Oh yeah, thank you both.
Can you see yourselves out? You'll keep me informed of
what's going on, inspector? Oh yes.
I think I can promise you'll be in on the kill mr.
Bannister. Bring I guess, had a very
interesting chat with mr. Bannister.
And his Charming, young friend. I think we should pay another
visit to mrs. Dryden.
Why haven't you let you go? Because though he's now talking.
He's not saying anything that helps his case.
He knows nothing. That's probably true.
This is driving and I can promise you, we're doing all we
can to find the real murderer. Thank you.
I wonder if my sergeant and I could examine some of the books
on your shelves. Oh God.
Are you pretending? You want to help you and then
looking for evidence against you.
I promise you. We are not doing that.
I can get a warrant if necessary but the sooner we find what
we're looking for. The sooner, your husband.
Be free. I'll be in my bedroom lying
down, call me when you're finished.
She can suddenly flash those blue eyes conscious a ring.
I didn't know you were susceptible right on these the
books. No those are drivers cuttings in
all their Glory know where after that slim scrapbook.
Yeah let's see. No I have to stop this must be
it go as you please, of course, a farce in three Acts.
Assistant stage manager, Topsy Levine.
There's Isabelle Palmer as The Honorable Enid faversham and
yes, Sydney Parsons as Sam Buckley jockey most out of
Stewart Evans in the cast. No.
Nope, but there is Evans. The buckler played by Philip
Nelson in the world. Well let's see what his
photograph looks like. Well, I'm damned and so is he?
I think it's time to gather the cast together, a broadcasting
house. Thank you, gentlemen for
agreeing to come here tonight. Agreeing ordered more like what
Dryden doing here. It's good to see you.
Leo, I know, Julian when my innocence has been fully
established, then I'll be delighted to shake your hand.
I'm afraid just rather a tight squeeze in here, but I wanted
you all in the drama control room.
So we could hear the murder over the speaker.
What actually is the point of all this inspector.
Is this really necessary? I think so mr.
Cared, Sergeant ring will play the murderer and Bannister will
play pass. Some like advantage to play
Parsons when he might have done it.
I didn't intend to discuss it Bannister is already waiting in
7c, ring disappear for the moment.
Sir, by the time we finished, we'll find bring exactly where
the murderer was. I think everything will at last
be made, clear, like, all these methods of Marik and positively
a Mary. What would you know about?
Had to downsize? My name was just ending when the
light failed. Is that correct?
Mr. Kerr. Yes, I jumped out of my chair
and dash down to six. A And at that moment, the
murderer was silently opening. The door of studio 7c and
creeping up behind Sydney Parsons his gloved hands at the
ready. So you're here at last.
Didn't I tell you? We'd get you one day.
Didn't I? Swear that day.
You wrote me over in the mud. That I'd be even with the
essence turns, sees his attacker.
Good Heavens. You my God is a frame-up, you've
twisted the meaning. Now the murderer, takes the
unmistakable gloves, belonging to Leo.
Dryden and tosses them into Higgins.
Opened covered, slamming the door behind him, hoping they'll
be found meanwhile cared as re-crossed the listening Ron and
his back here in a moment. That's how it was death.
So we've Rings playing the murderer.
Where is he? But if you'll follow me
gentleman, I'll show you So where is ring to be found back
in the dramatic control panel room or in mr.
Stewart Evans office? In studio 6A or perhaps in The
Listening Room, attached to Studio. 6A play acting is
getting a little tedious. Who dies isn't the word?
I call it. Damn sadism mr.
Cairo, get it over with inspector, please.
Very well mr. Fleming, would you open the door
of the six a Listening Room? Well, how nursed you open it it?
Well, Yes, George, thank you. That seems sounds fine to me,
and mr. Fleming butts down the
telephone. I'm sorry, inspector, I don't
understand. As you can see, I was on the
phone to my brother, discussing the rewrite of my play, but I
can hardly be in two places at once.
But you can you weren't discussing anything with your
brother, a precisely 10:00. He put a call through to you and
you asked him to read without Stopping the entire three pages
of Rewritten dialogue. When the BBC telephonist checked
the call, she heard conversation and assumed to people were
talking as you meant her to at my request.
Your brother was kind enough to post me a copy of the rewrite
I've timed it. The scene lasts almost exactly
six minutes and during those six minutes you crept into 7c and
murdered Sydney Park. So this can't be true, why not?
Just because he went to the right school, be quiet Evans.
And my motive, some years ago, you took with his Abode Ridin in
a play and had a passionate Affair.
Your part was that of Evans, the butler, it was also your
nickname. The name Parsons remembered you
by. He was blackmailing Isabel about
the affair soon. He might turn on the promising.
Playwright even in these days of loose morals, such an affair.
He frowned on might damage your career and your career is
desperately important to you, isn't it mr.
Fleming and Isabel's happiness, I'm sorry.
Leo. Shouldn't be carrying a torch
for her after all these years but you kill a man.
Well, I thought I couldn't at first but I managed it and I'll
do it again. If I have to Lonnie, don't be an
idiot to come Freight. It gone, far beyond idiots now
police and all the exit points, mr.
Fleming don't move, God moves, I'll shoot him.
How did it go over? Get out of my way.
Answer. It was Fleming right?
This time Bannister. He's heading for the tower.
Hey can stay here. He's a friend of mine.
Probably stop, you can't get away, watch out your him.
There's no way I was gonna be around the room for the room
when he disappear to the through that window of the roof.
Can he get away? I don't know.
Do you really not know what you want to give the better chance
of it all Spears? The man's a friend of mine or
was, I think he's trapped up there.
What about color? Not much.
Just the towers of the experimental transmitter.
It's a bit like a mountain with a precipice on each side, right?
Then I better get after it. About his gun.
That's all right. Kid, I've got one to stay here
and then he comes back. I to come to all right.
But keep in mind me. What about you banners?
Her, if I can give you a hand, oh, that's right.
Guy, join the hunt. Can you see anything?
Not a lot. Reminds me of no-man's-land.
Your name. Are you in on the chase?
Careful what you say? This isn't the ending.
I have written but I suppose you had a certain cannot give up
Rodney. Please come back in through the
window. It's the only way down from
here. Keep your head down Julian.
I Don't Wanna Hurt you for anything for the last time.
Will you surrender? Oh, He will write.
Yes, I think so. It's just my wrist Rodney.
Please don't be a damn fool. Let me drop your gun and put up
your hands so the hell. I'm sorry cat.
I've no alternative. My God.
I'm sorry. He would have killed us all
Would he another death of broadcasting house?
But this time, We know who the Killer is, right?
From the start. Don't worry, inspector.
Death that broadcasting house was written by Val gielgud and
halt. Marvel Julian cat was played by
John Moffitt Rodney Fleming by Jeremy Clyde and detective.
Inspector Spears by Peter Salas. General Graham crowded.
Guy banister. Roger met Detective Sergeant
ring, Nicky Henson and stood Evans by Julian Glover.
Topsy. Becky hindley pout Caroline,
strong Higgins, Gavin Mia. McDonald David Holt for police
surgeon. John Hartley.
With William died as Leopold. Dryden and Diana Quick.
Cuz it's a build, right? Other parts were played by
members of the cast. Foreplay was dramatized for
radio by Sue, Rodwell, and produced by Glinda.
Mmm. What play was recorded in
studio? 6A Broadcasting House, London?
And directed by ended Williams.