Agatha Raisin (2014–…): Season 1, Episode 2 - Hells Bells - full transcript
A woman is accused of strangling another villager to death with bell-rope. Agatha Raisin is hired to crack the case.
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BELLS CHIME TUNELESSLY
DOG HOWLS
BELLS CONTINUE CHIMING NOISILY
Oh!
I'm beginning to regret
them re-hanging the bells.
What exactly are they trying to play?
We've been having
a sweepstake down the shop.
We think it may be
Jay-Z featuring Rihanna.
I wish they'd asked me
to play the bells.
I am really good at things musical.
I think they're trying to play
All People That On Earth Do Dwell.
Are they?
Who's playing it, Quasimodo?
Five Quasimodos.
TUNELESS CHIMING CONTINUES
Stop! Stop! Thank you.
Really very, very good, all of you.
Don't you think this is a bit too
ambitious for beginners, Amanda?
No, I don't.
I think the bishop when he visits
will appreciate the effort.
Is the bishop deaf? No.
I remember as a child hearing
this tune over the fields.
It'll be perfect.
But, Agatha, when you're pulling
on the sally, you don't look up.
Right.
Feel for the balance point
like you feel for
the biting point of a car.
Oh, right.
And, Mrs Josephs,
you need to improve your rhythm.
I've always been known for my rhythm.
I had three children
by the rhythm method.
It's a very different
kind of rhythm, Mrs Josephs.
HE CLEARS THROAT
Hello, ladies... and gentleman.
How's it going?
Very well, thank you.
Ah, Jez, Jez. Perfect.
If you'd watch us for a moment
and tell us what you think?
OK. OK. Are we ready?
Look to, treble's going,
and going she's gone.
BELLS CHIME TUNELESSLY
Sarah, you're not being quick enough.
Yes, I am.
No, you weren't, darling.
Um, I think Jez was right.
You were a little slow
on the sally, Sarah.
Had to be me you criticised, didn't it?
Well, you can do it yourself.
One, two, three, rest.
Rest. One, two, three, rest.
Rest. One, two...
CAT MEOWS
What are you looking at?
DOOR OPENS
I've come down to rage
about that awful woman.
Who? Amanda?
Yes. Amanda Ballard. Going on
about my lack of musicianship.
I've got grade five flute.
Congratulations.
She's taking over
the ladies' committee,
and helping raise money
to re-hang the bells,
organising work parties
to dig out the culverts
and making life perfect
and acting like a saint.
That is MY role, Agatha.
Is she spending too much time with Jez?
Yes! They are always together.
Sit down. I'll make us a cup of tea.
You know, it's a big thing for us,
the bishop coming to Carsely.
It should be me alongside him
organising it, not her.
Young widows like her should be banned,
with their pretty cardigans
and available eyes.
Can we just talked for five minutes
about how much we genuinely hate her?
I quite like her, actually.
Agatha...
She's invited me horse riding
tomorrow. Sorry.
Just to get to know her
a little bit better. Agatha!
Just ask Jez not to spend
too much time with her.
Tell him how it makes you feel.
I have! And he won't!
DOOR SLAMS
The new bells have been paid for,
which is a relief,
but I am concerned about covering
the cost of the vestry windows.
I don't know what we're going to do.
I'm sure we'll get there.
Come on. Let's pray.
Ah, here you are, Agatha.
This is Samson.
Wow.
Look at him. He's a beauty,
isn't he?
You sure I'm going to be able
to handle him?
I mean, I've not really ridden before.
Oh, no. Samson's mine. Oh.
You've got Snip.
Snip. Agatha, this is Steph.
She helps me at the stables.
Oh!
Where did you find Steph?
She was my best friend at school.
She's had a rough time.
She just got out of
her latest rehab and asked
if she could park her caravan
in the far field
and help out with the horses.
Oh.
It's nice to have a bit of company.
It's been a bit lonely since
my husband died. How did he die?
Heart attack.
He was much older than me.
Ah. All very sudden.
Do you ever think about marrying again?
Oh, I know everyone thinks
I'm looking for a man, but I'm not.
I see women guarding
their husbands against me
and acting all jealous and crazy,
but I'd never split up a marriage.
I saw it happen to my parents.
It's a real sin to do it.
A sin?
I think so.
I'll put the donation box
in the vestry. Thank you.
And I'll lock up. Don't worry.
I want to give a little ring
on the tenor bell.
It's not sliding right.
HOWLING AND THUNDER CLAPS OVER TV
BELL TOLLS Oh!
The bells.
The bells! The bells!
Oh, blimey. She's finally lost it.
I didn't think there was
a rehearsal tonight. Oh!
Hey, why don't you come, Gemma?
You might enjoy it.
We're one short.
I don't want to go bell-ringing.
Go on, Mum. Bill goes.
BELL TOLLING
It's a bit monotonous, isn't it?
What's wrong with a tune,
do you know what I mean?
Hi, Amanda?
Sorry I'm late.
Is there a light switch?
It's creepy, Mum.
It's all right. It's all right.
No, it's really creepy.
CRASHING Ah!
Amanda? I want to leave, Mum!
It's OK. Hold my hand.
Amanda?
SHE GASPS
Stay back. Don't look.
SHE SCREAMS
What is it? What's happened, Kyra?
TOLLING CONTINUES
What a way to die.
Has Gemma gone to call the police?
Yeah.
What is it?
It's a suicide note.
"It's all too unbearable.
I've gone to be with Dad."
Poor Amanda.
She was fine when we were at the
bell-ringing, wasn't she? She was.
She was fine.
I mean, that was only...
Did you see this coming? I mean,
you knew her better than anyone.
What's that supposed to mean?
That you were friends.
SHE SIGHS
Did she ever talk to you
about her dad? No.
Why would she commit suicide?
It's what people do, isn't it?
They get low and then
they top themselves.
She wasn't low, though, Gemma.
I only saw her this morning.
And I was thinking how like me she was.
She'd come to the Cotswolds
to create a perfect life.
She was nothing like you. She was.
She didn't have any children.
She was single and yet available.
Fast approaching middle-age.
You're not fast approaching
middle-age.
Thanks. You've been there years.
SHE SMACKS HER LEG
THEY CONVERSE INAUDIBLY
All I asked her... I don't know.
I don't understand
why you're talking about this.
You're just being weird.
I don't get it.
Hi.
Oh, hello. Snip's friend.
Yeah. Uh, can we come in?
No.
You know the police want
to talk to you, don't you?
Yeah, well, I never answer
the door to them, so...
You must be awfully upset
over Amanda's death.
Of course.
I mean, she was my best friend.
Did she ever do anything
like this before?
You know, try to commit suicide?
She just didn't...
Well, she didn't...
She didn't seem the type.
Yeah, well,
you didn't know her, did you?
I mean, she was one of those
up and down all the time people.
Well, I think you're wrong
because I think that she...
Steph,
if there is anything at all that
we can do to help... This is Gemma,
I'm Agatha, and, well,
I'll leave you my number.
Oh.
What are the keys for?
If you want to help,
you can muck out the horses.
I think these are the keys
to the house as well as the stables.
Come on.
Hang on. Where are you going?
To have a little nose around.
Agatha, we can't!
Oh, what's that doing there?
God, it must've cost a fortune, this.
It says she ordered that yesterday.
Now, what does that tell us?
Not a lot.
What woman would order herself
brand-new saddle
and then top herself before
she'd had the chance to use it?
I don't know.
Well, no woman I know.
She ordered that saddle
hours before she died.
She was looking forward.
She was treating herself.
She was not a woman that was
about to kill herself.
So, what are we looking for?
Evidence that she was having
an affair with Jez Bloxby. No!
I think Sarah thought they could be.
Oh, no. I can't...
What, you think he killed her?
Let's look and see what we find.
Why are we whispering?
Don't know.
God, her childhood looks
so perfect, doesn't it?
Oh, don't go through her things.
Well, what do you think we're here for?
You'd be a useless burglar.
Thank you.
It's a big old to-do list
for someone who was about
to top themselves, isn't it?
Who's Amanda Marlowe?
Maiden name?
Look at all these bills.
She must have about ten,
15 credit cards here.
There's someone coming.
DOOR CLOSES
Quick! Hide!
Who is it?
SHE GASPS Look.
She was getting money
every month from a lawyer,
not an insurance company.
So?
Well, that's what happens
when you get divorced,
not when you're widowed.
You think her husband is still alive?
He's heading for the desk.
DRAWERS CLATTERING
It's Jez!
BELLS CHIME DISCORDANT MELODY
Oh!
No, no, no, no, no, no.
No, Mary. You weren't beginning
in the right place.
Yes, she was. I was.
She's got to wait for Agatha
to pull before she begins.
She'll be waiting a long time then.
LAUGHTER Thanks for that, Gemma.
Brilliant. Really. Yes, I will!
Maybe we could try something
a little less complicated.
Can't we just give up?
No, we can't.
Reverend Bloxby made
such a song and a dance
about selling off the land
at the back of the vicarage
to pay for the bells.
The new bells are the reason
the bishop is holding
confirmation here.
Hiya.
Where were you this afternoon?
Parish visits.
Mrs Mansfield, she's still not well.
Not at Amanda's farmhouse then?
Why would I go there?
You were seen, Jez.
I don't know what you're talking about.
Jez, I feel as though
I don't know you at the moment.
First your friendship with Amanda
and now you're lying to me.
What's going on?
What friendship with Amanda?
What were you looking for
at her farmhouse? I wasn't there!
Did you find Amanda's next of kin?
We did. We found her husband.
I thought she was a widow.
Well, that's what she told everyone,
but the more you look at her life,
the more it looks like a pack of lies.
Who was he?
John Marlowe, a lawyer in Bristol.
He's much older than her,
and you wouldn't believe
how much Amanda was in debt
with the farmhouse and the horses.
She was in arrears on the lot.
No wonder she was finding
everything unbearable.
And what information
did you get on her dad?
He was a financier
in the City, Teddy Ballard.
He hanged himself when she was 21.
Oh, poor girl. It's sad how often
suicides run in families. I know.
On that note,
shall we head out to the garden?
Come on, James.
James. James,
we need to investigate this death.
No. No, we don't.
Because I think it could be murder.
Well, there was a suicide note
written in her handwriting, Agatha.
How do you know it was her handwriting?
Because I recognised it.
Look.
She was clearly under more stress
than any of us knew.
Well, I don't think she was.
James? Come on.
It's lovely out here.
HE SIGHS
I'm not going to play detective
with you any more, Agatha.
It is exactly the same.
Oh, he's right.
Hmm.
DANCE MUSIC PLAYS
PHONE RINGS
Hello.
'Roy, darling.'
What do you want, Aggie?
'This is not a good time.'
I want you to check
something out for me.
You're not my boss any more, Aggie.
Get yourself another PA.
No. Mush up her hair.
It's posh grunge. Grunge posh.
Mush the hair up.
I want you to check out
'a Teddy Ballard.' No.
He was a financier in the City
who committed suicide
'about 12 years ago.' No.
I know you're already intrigued
'as to why I'd want you to do this.'
No, I'm not.
I'm sorry, I really have to take this.
'I think it might be linked
to a recent suspicious death.'
'What was the name again?'
Teddy Ballard.
Oh, and, Roy...
'I love you.'
And I hate me, Aggie,
and I really have to go now. Bye.
What did I say about the hair?
DOOR CLOSES
Argh! Oh!
You think it's me. What?
You all think it's me who killed her.
No, no, no, no, no. No, I don't.
Well, I didn't. I didn't.
What's going to happen to me now?
She was my only friend.
What's going to happen to me?
Just let's...
Let's have a seat.
We'll have a seat, OK?
SHE SOBS
What are you here for?
To find out more about Amanda.
I don't know anything. Did you know
that her husband was still alive?
What was he like?
Don't know. Never met him.
It's very kind of you to offer
to help me with this, Agatha.
No problem.
If you'd like to come this way,
Mr Marlowe will see you know.
Thank you.
We've put together a service
for Amanda with a hymn
we believe she was fond of -
All People That On Earth Do Dwell -
but we wondered if
there was another hymn she liked
or a reading that might be
more meaningful for her.
I'm sure that will be fine.
I'm happy to pay for the funeral,
but I don't want to be
involved in arranging it.
Will you be coming?
Relations with my ex-wife
were not good, Mrs Raisin.
I don't think it would be
appropriate if I attended.
Why were they not good?
Uh, could we have a list
of her friends in Bristol
who might like to attend?
She didn't have any friends
by the time she left.
What you don't know
is that Amanda was a liar,
manipulative, underhand.
Why did you marry her?
Oh, that's not our business.
You don't really find out
the truth about the person
you've married until later.
You get taken in
by the version of themselves
they present to the world,
but it's not the real them.
Who was the real Amanda?
A princess.
She wanted a life of privilege,
but she didn't want
to work for it or pay for it,
and she'd drop anyone
if she thought they know longer
fitted into her perfect life.
Oh.
With everyone you speak to,
Amanda seems like a completely
different person. I don't know,
manipulative and underhand
seemed to sum her up for me.
Do you think Jez knew
what she was really like?
Um, I think he knows more
than he's letting on.
Do you think they were maybe
having an affair?
Sarah, I'm just saying.
All men are dogs.
It's just the unfortunate way it is.
He's just not like that.
I mean, he's under so much pressure
with this bloody bishop visit.
Do you think he had SOMETHING
to do with her death?
No. No.
No, I can't think like that.
And yet he was searching
for something in her house,
and he was the last person
to see her alive,
and you know that
he's keeping something from you.
Just saying!
'I thought we'd never get here.
'Oh!'
Oh!
Good afternoon, Your Grace.
I'm so sorry. I'm a bit stiff.
I don't think I've been in this parish
since they built that
wretched ring road.
I believe that's true.
Oh, do you know Canon Gibbons?
I almost forgot.
Well, I always forget
about him, actually.
The man has hardly any presence at all.
But he smells of pleasantry,
which is more than can be said
for the other canons at the cathedral.
HE CHUCKLES Hello.
Oh, how many for confirmation
this evening?
Three, Your Grace.
All children from the village.
Oh, it'll be over in a jiffy.
Last week in Bristol, I had 53. Oh.
It took so long
I missed Game Of Thrones.
Oh, it's nice to see it restored.
Although, as I can't remember
what it looked like before,
it makes no difference to me.
If you'd like to come back
to the vicarage, Your Grace,
Sarah has prepared a tea.
I do hope there is enough.
I didn't realise you'd be
accompanying His Grace,
Canon Gibbons. Who?
Oh, don't worry about him.
He's here to work, not stuff his face.
Now, they've found, um...
What is it?
Irregularity.
...irregularity with the accounts
about the selling of the land.
It's probably nothing.
Unless... of course
you have been stealing.
HE LAUGHS
We're sending someone round
to look through your receipts.
Well, that would be me, Your Grace.
Who? Oh, yes.
I always forget you're here.
BELLS INHARMONIOUSLY CHIME
All People That On Earth Do Dwell
MRS JOSEPHS: Keep up the good work.
The bishop loves us!
Why is everyone looking so astonished?
Well, that's actually not too bad.
Right, go. What have you got for me?
Teddy Ballard was a super-rich
financier who made a fortune
trading African currencies.
He had one daughter, Amanda,
who had this gilded childhood...
We've seen the photos.
...and went to the kind of
posh girls' school
where there were stables
for your ponies.
But unlike most bankers,
Teddy had a heart.
I didn't speak to anyone
who said he wasn't a saint.
He was a big Christian
and a big philanthropist
and he killed himself
when his firm went bust.
Was he a depressive?
No, he was broke and he felt guilty
because all the charities
he was funding became insolvent.
So, Amanda went from super-rich
to nothing overnight.
But within three months,
she'd married
a friend of her dad's -
John Marlowe, who you've met.
I have.
He's not short of a bob or two.
You know what this calls for?
A beer?
BOTH: A mood board.
Childhood home.
It's a hell of a place, that, isn't it?
Talk to me about the suicide note.
It was a suicide note.
Written on? Posh paper.
Written with? Pen.
Was the pen found in the belfry? No.
Did you spot the pen on the desk
when you illegally broke in
and snooped around the house? No.
We saw a lot of felt-tips.
Any way, the whole pen thing,
that's irrelevant.
Put that back up!
No, because it's Agatha's
murder mood board, not yours.
It's all three of our mood boards.
Fine, fine.
That's the point of it -
we're brainstorming stuff
so we all suggest things...
I'll put it out the way.
..their logical end.
Have you two finished bickering?
I'll just move it. Hey, hey, hey.
Come and have a look at this.
Who's that?
Teddy Ballard.
OK, now, this is quite exciting.
It would appear that Teddy Ballard
had set up philanthropic schools
for orphans in Africa, Ghana,
for kids who had lost their parents
during the civil war.
Now, Amanda's dad paid for the schools,
but they were run by the church,
and some of the bright kids
were brought back here
to England to go to school.
Could that be Reverend Bloxby as a boy?
If it is, he would've known
Amanda from before.
Thank you, Jeremy.
Your Grace.
Your Grace.
Did you say anomalies?
Will you lock up?
Of course. Where are you going?
I... I'm tired.
Sarah... Yeah?
You're the best thing
that's ever happened to me.
I... just want you to know that.
And you, me.
I don't think so. Yes, Jez.
When I first met you,
I thought you were the most
beautiful man I'd ever seen.
Clever. Kind.
I'm not the man you want me to be.
You are what I want.
You always have been.
I'm going for a bath.
So, Jez was the last person to see
her alive. That's right. Yeah.
So, he had the opportunity.
So, maybe he killed her and
made it look like suicide.
Yeah.
There's no-one safe in Carsely.
PHONE RINGS Jez!
Jez, can you get that?
Carsely Vicarage. 'Mrs Bloxby.'
Ah, Bishop Parsons, hello.
'Is your husband free
tomorrow morning?'
Yes, I'm sure he can be
at the cathedral in the morning.
Can I ask what it's regarding?
'We found some serious anomalies
in the report.' Oh. Right.
'Shall we say 11?' OK.
Jez?
Are you in the bath?
DOOR SLAMS Jez is gone.
He's taken the car
and he's disappeared.
Sarah, we think we ought
to call the police about Jez.
He knew Amanda before she came here.
How?
Her dad ran a school
for refugees in Africa.
Did you know?
I knew he was a war child.
Why didn't he tell me that he knew her?
Maybe that's something to do with
why he might have killed her.
If there's anything
I know about my husband,
he's not capable of murder.
He's just not.
Well, why did he run away?
I think he's been stealing.
There were some irregularities
with the sale of the land
for the restoration.
I think the bishop has found out.
I just want him back, Agatha.
I don't care what trouble he's in,
but I want him back
before he does something stupid.
'What are we looking for?'
A green Golf. A green Golf.
TYRES SCREECH
'P368 PYU.'
Got it. He's abandoned it. 'Where?'
That bus stop says Bristol.
Oh.
Jez...
Oh, God. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.
It's all right. It's all right.
Whatever you've done, we can face it.
It's all right.
I was the reason
Amanda came to Carsely.
I hadn't seen her for 20 years,
but she came looking for money
and she came up with the idea
of selling the land
around the vicarage.
That was a good thing, wasn't it?
That was going to help the church.
She pocketed a quarter of the money.
Why did you let her do that?
Because otherwise she would
tell Sarah who I really was.
My parents were executed
towards the end of the war.
Yeah, they were good people.
They fought bravely.
No. They weren't good people, Sarah.
That's what I told you.
That's what I told everybody
when I came to England
and took an English name.
Amanda knew my lie.
She knew that my parents
were the very worst people.
They fought for the government,
not the rebels.
And they tortured
and murdered innocent people.
They were notorious.
Everyone in Ghana knew their names
and everyone breathed in relief
when they were tried and executed.
I lied to you...
about who I was, who my parents were.
I lied to everybody.
I love YOU, Jez.
Not your family.
So, why did Amanda kill herself?
Well, because the diocese were
going to find out about the money.
They were already on the trail,
and I hadn't been as clever
with the accounts as I'd thought.
So, is that what you were looking for
when you went to her house,
the accounts?
No, I was looking for the file
that she said she had on me
from the orphanage.
But if you were responsible
for the accounts,
she could've denied all knowledge
and let you take the blame.
She had your secret.
Perhaps the shame of being found out
for who she really was was too much.
No. She had Jez by
the short and curlies.
She would've let him take the fall.
Agatha, not now.
You didn't know her, Agatha. I did.
And the day she died,
she was not suicidal.
SHE SIGHS
In the midst of life, we are in death.
Of whom may we seek for succour,
but of Thee, oh, Lord,
for who are sins art justly displeased?
Ashes to ashes,
earth to earth, dust to dust...
in sure and certain resurrection
of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
ALL: Amen.
BELL TOLLS
Hello? Hello. Excuse me.
Are you the receptionist from Bristol?
That's right.
Were you a friend of Amanda's?
No.
We were more like rivals,
I'm ashamed to say.
I'm here out of guilt, really.
I never thought I'd grow up
to be a home-wrecker,
let alone to cause so much pain
that they'd do this.
You were having an affair
with her husband?
I'm not proud of it.
We do love each other.
We are going to get married.
Does John know you're here?
It's been strange since she died.
It's been like how it was
when they were married.
He'd get angrier and angrier cos
she'd just spend all his money.
He'd come home and find diggers
in the garden
moving the swimming pool
to a sunnier side of the house
and she hadn't even told him.
She'd buy Range Rovers, horses,
go shopping every couple of weeks.
Milan or New York.
He said he had no idea she was
like this when he married her.
I suppose if you know someone
like that,
you wouldn't marry them, would you?
Lovely. Um...
Bill.
Whoa, what are you doing here?
What am I doing here?
I'm here to see Steph
at the caravan. What's happened?
Someone's smashed a window
and broke into Amanda's
while she was being buried.
SHE SIGHS
They could've waited
a day out of respect.
Burglars. No morals nowadays.
What did they take?
Just the laptops.
All the valuables are still there,
but the study has been ransacked.
Constable, police business.
Go away. Go away!
I've told you I didn't kill her.
Please! I just...
KNOCKING Can I come in?
I just want to talk.
Mandy's ex contacted me
when I was in rehab.
He said he'd keep me supplied
if I spied on her for him.
Well, why would he do that?
She had something on him.
Some dodgy land deal that
he was to earn a fortune from.
He tried to buy her off,
but when I told him that
she'd said blackmailing him
was her cash cow
for the rest of her life,
then he must've lost it.
He gave me the money to get her laptops
and told me to disappear.
What was on the laptops?
These laptops contain hundreds of
e-mails about a land purchase order
that John Marlowe was lawyering
using public money
to expand Portishead Airport,
but they also show that he had
secretly purchased the land himself
and he was doing this to drive up
the price for the government.
Which is illegal.
And Amanda knew that.
You can go to prison for that.
For a long time.
And she was using this
to get more money out of him,
which is why she wasn't bothered
about being in some much debt.
She knew the big money was coming.
Yeah, but we still know
Amanda killed herself, don't we,
cos of the suicide note?
Well, it pains me to say it,
but I think Roy was right
about the pain.
She only seemed to use felt-tips,
from what I gather,
and the suicide note
was written in ink.
It's still her handwriting, though.
Yes, but who can forge signatures?
Well, no-one, cos they're unique.
I can forge Aggie's.
PAs and married couples.
I used to handwrite notes
for all the times
when she wanted things
to be a bit more personal. Yes.
Well, if I'm correct,
John Marlowe wrote the suicide note
because he had posh pens
and he had posh paper.
So, what do we do know?
Well, you two are going to have
to trap him into a confession.
Us? Us?
Well, he already knows who I am.
I take earbuds.
I can hear every word.
Come on. Stick them in.
It's just another of
her stupid ideas, Gemma.
OVER EARPIECE: 'Heard that.'
OVER HEADSET:
'Broadsword to Danny Boy.
'We are inside the building. Repeat.
We are inside the front door.'
Can I help you?
Hello. Hi.
Can we speak with John Marlowe, please?
I'm afraid Mr Marlowe is
in meetings all day today.
Can I ask what it's concerning?
His ex-wife and the purchase
of Portishead Airport.
The purchase of his ex-wife.
And Portishead Airport.
His ex-wife AND the purchase
of Portishead Airport.
All right, shut up.
His ex-wife and the purchase
of Portishead Airport.
One second.
Well done. We got there.
This way, please.
Thank you, Tracy.
What's this concerning?
We were friends with Amanda,
and before she died,
she gave us a memory stick
full of e-mails
incriminating you
in a racket buying land
for the expansion of
Portishead Airport.
What's he doing?
Does he look guilty?
Oh, just be quiet.
I haven't said anything.
If I were you, I would leave here
before I call the police.
Tell him to call the police. Fine.
BOTH: Call the police.
What e-mails?
Quote, the fifth of April, 2014.
'Fifth of April, 2014. Remember?'
'No.' "To the Minister of..."
FEEDBACK AND STATIC BUZZES
The day you e-mailed the vicar.
The Ministry of Industry.
"The owners of the land
will not settle for less..."
"..than 16 million."
"I suggest you take
that offer," un-quote.
And you support that increase
in the asking price.
Because you were the vendor.
It was two months after
you bought the land yourself.
What's he doing?
I'm picking up a pensioner.
What do you want?
To pick up a pensioner.
Which we will do later...
But now we want the deal
Amanda was getting.
The deal you killed her for.
Brilliant, Gem. Thank you.
She was always on the take from you.
You'd had enough.
But she had you by the short and
curlies, didn't she? As you do.
BOTH: As I do.
Threaten to call the police.
What are you doing?
BOTH: Calling the police.
We think that when you realised
she wasn't going to stop
demanding more money,
that you went to Carsely
to get rid of her.
When she was on her own in the church,
you took your chance.
OK. OK.
'I'm not going to prison for HER.
You...'
If you give me that,
we can come to some arrangement.
Get a confession.
Well, you should've thought of that
before you murdered her.
She was never going to stop.
'I had to kill her.'
I was never going to get rid of her
unless I did something.
Was that a confession?
Sounded like one. One what?
I think it was.
Right, get out of there.
We've got to go now.
Bye. See you.
Run! I am running!
Right, I'm calling the police.
Head down, there. Thank you.
See you all at the station.
Well done.
BISHOP PARSONS: This is a pretty
damning report, Reverend Bloxby.
Do you have anything to say
on the matter, hmm?
Where will you go?
Back into rehab.
Mum said she'll pay for another go.
Where will you park your, uh... this?
At my mum's. Ah.
Well, good luck, then.
Thanks, Agatha.
HORN BEEPING
BELLS CHIME
All People That On Earth Do Dwell
Two, three, four.
Two, three, four.
Two, three, four.
How did it go?
The bishop discussed everything
with the police
and the chapter's lawyers,
and since all parties think
that I was a victim of blackmail
and not a thief, they've decided
to draw a line under it.
ALL: Oh!
Well, if news like that
doesn't demand a peal of the bells,
I don't know what does.
So...
Look to.
Treble going.
Treble gone.
BELLS CHIME
Subtitles by Ericsson
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BELLS CHIME TUNELESSLY
DOG HOWLS
BELLS CONTINUE CHIMING NOISILY
Oh!
I'm beginning to regret
them re-hanging the bells.
What exactly are they trying to play?
We've been having
a sweepstake down the shop.
We think it may be
Jay-Z featuring Rihanna.
I wish they'd asked me
to play the bells.
I am really good at things musical.
I think they're trying to play
All People That On Earth Do Dwell.
Are they?
Who's playing it, Quasimodo?
Five Quasimodos.
TUNELESS CHIMING CONTINUES
Stop! Stop! Thank you.
Really very, very good, all of you.
Don't you think this is a bit too
ambitious for beginners, Amanda?
No, I don't.
I think the bishop when he visits
will appreciate the effort.
Is the bishop deaf? No.
I remember as a child hearing
this tune over the fields.
It'll be perfect.
But, Agatha, when you're pulling
on the sally, you don't look up.
Right.
Feel for the balance point
like you feel for
the biting point of a car.
Oh, right.
And, Mrs Josephs,
you need to improve your rhythm.
I've always been known for my rhythm.
I had three children
by the rhythm method.
It's a very different
kind of rhythm, Mrs Josephs.
HE CLEARS THROAT
Hello, ladies... and gentleman.
How's it going?
Very well, thank you.
Ah, Jez, Jez. Perfect.
If you'd watch us for a moment
and tell us what you think?
OK. OK. Are we ready?
Look to, treble's going,
and going she's gone.
BELLS CHIME TUNELESSLY
Sarah, you're not being quick enough.
Yes, I am.
No, you weren't, darling.
Um, I think Jez was right.
You were a little slow
on the sally, Sarah.
Had to be me you criticised, didn't it?
Well, you can do it yourself.
One, two, three, rest.
Rest. One, two, three, rest.
Rest. One, two...
CAT MEOWS
What are you looking at?
DOOR OPENS
I've come down to rage
about that awful woman.
Who? Amanda?
Yes. Amanda Ballard. Going on
about my lack of musicianship.
I've got grade five flute.
Congratulations.
She's taking over
the ladies' committee,
and helping raise money
to re-hang the bells,
organising work parties
to dig out the culverts
and making life perfect
and acting like a saint.
That is MY role, Agatha.
Is she spending too much time with Jez?
Yes! They are always together.
Sit down. I'll make us a cup of tea.
You know, it's a big thing for us,
the bishop coming to Carsely.
It should be me alongside him
organising it, not her.
Young widows like her should be banned,
with their pretty cardigans
and available eyes.
Can we just talked for five minutes
about how much we genuinely hate her?
I quite like her, actually.
Agatha...
She's invited me horse riding
tomorrow. Sorry.
Just to get to know her
a little bit better. Agatha!
Just ask Jez not to spend
too much time with her.
Tell him how it makes you feel.
I have! And he won't!
DOOR SLAMS
The new bells have been paid for,
which is a relief,
but I am concerned about covering
the cost of the vestry windows.
I don't know what we're going to do.
I'm sure we'll get there.
Come on. Let's pray.
Ah, here you are, Agatha.
This is Samson.
Wow.
Look at him. He's a beauty,
isn't he?
You sure I'm going to be able
to handle him?
I mean, I've not really ridden before.
Oh, no. Samson's mine. Oh.
You've got Snip.
Snip. Agatha, this is Steph.
She helps me at the stables.
Oh!
Where did you find Steph?
She was my best friend at school.
She's had a rough time.
She just got out of
her latest rehab and asked
if she could park her caravan
in the far field
and help out with the horses.
Oh.
It's nice to have a bit of company.
It's been a bit lonely since
my husband died. How did he die?
Heart attack.
He was much older than me.
Ah. All very sudden.
Do you ever think about marrying again?
Oh, I know everyone thinks
I'm looking for a man, but I'm not.
I see women guarding
their husbands against me
and acting all jealous and crazy,
but I'd never split up a marriage.
I saw it happen to my parents.
It's a real sin to do it.
A sin?
I think so.
I'll put the donation box
in the vestry. Thank you.
And I'll lock up. Don't worry.
I want to give a little ring
on the tenor bell.
It's not sliding right.
HOWLING AND THUNDER CLAPS OVER TV
BELL TOLLS Oh!
The bells.
The bells! The bells!
Oh, blimey. She's finally lost it.
I didn't think there was
a rehearsal tonight. Oh!
Hey, why don't you come, Gemma?
You might enjoy it.
We're one short.
I don't want to go bell-ringing.
Go on, Mum. Bill goes.
BELL TOLLING
It's a bit monotonous, isn't it?
What's wrong with a tune,
do you know what I mean?
Hi, Amanda?
Sorry I'm late.
Is there a light switch?
It's creepy, Mum.
It's all right. It's all right.
No, it's really creepy.
CRASHING Ah!
Amanda? I want to leave, Mum!
It's OK. Hold my hand.
Amanda?
SHE GASPS
Stay back. Don't look.
SHE SCREAMS
What is it? What's happened, Kyra?
TOLLING CONTINUES
What a way to die.
Has Gemma gone to call the police?
Yeah.
What is it?
It's a suicide note.
"It's all too unbearable.
I've gone to be with Dad."
Poor Amanda.
She was fine when we were at the
bell-ringing, wasn't she? She was.
She was fine.
I mean, that was only...
Did you see this coming? I mean,
you knew her better than anyone.
What's that supposed to mean?
That you were friends.
SHE SIGHS
Did she ever talk to you
about her dad? No.
Why would she commit suicide?
It's what people do, isn't it?
They get low and then
they top themselves.
She wasn't low, though, Gemma.
I only saw her this morning.
And I was thinking how like me she was.
She'd come to the Cotswolds
to create a perfect life.
She was nothing like you. She was.
She didn't have any children.
She was single and yet available.
Fast approaching middle-age.
You're not fast approaching
middle-age.
Thanks. You've been there years.
SHE SMACKS HER LEG
THEY CONVERSE INAUDIBLY
All I asked her... I don't know.
I don't understand
why you're talking about this.
You're just being weird.
I don't get it.
Hi.
Oh, hello. Snip's friend.
Yeah. Uh, can we come in?
No.
You know the police want
to talk to you, don't you?
Yeah, well, I never answer
the door to them, so...
You must be awfully upset
over Amanda's death.
Of course.
I mean, she was my best friend.
Did she ever do anything
like this before?
You know, try to commit suicide?
She just didn't...
Well, she didn't...
She didn't seem the type.
Yeah, well,
you didn't know her, did you?
I mean, she was one of those
up and down all the time people.
Well, I think you're wrong
because I think that she...
Steph,
if there is anything at all that
we can do to help... This is Gemma,
I'm Agatha, and, well,
I'll leave you my number.
Oh.
What are the keys for?
If you want to help,
you can muck out the horses.
I think these are the keys
to the house as well as the stables.
Come on.
Hang on. Where are you going?
To have a little nose around.
Agatha, we can't!
Oh, what's that doing there?
God, it must've cost a fortune, this.
It says she ordered that yesterday.
Now, what does that tell us?
Not a lot.
What woman would order herself
brand-new saddle
and then top herself before
she'd had the chance to use it?
I don't know.
Well, no woman I know.
She ordered that saddle
hours before she died.
She was looking forward.
She was treating herself.
She was not a woman that was
about to kill herself.
So, what are we looking for?
Evidence that she was having
an affair with Jez Bloxby. No!
I think Sarah thought they could be.
Oh, no. I can't...
What, you think he killed her?
Let's look and see what we find.
Why are we whispering?
Don't know.
God, her childhood looks
so perfect, doesn't it?
Oh, don't go through her things.
Well, what do you think we're here for?
You'd be a useless burglar.
Thank you.
It's a big old to-do list
for someone who was about
to top themselves, isn't it?
Who's Amanda Marlowe?
Maiden name?
Look at all these bills.
She must have about ten,
15 credit cards here.
There's someone coming.
DOOR CLOSES
Quick! Hide!
Who is it?
SHE GASPS Look.
She was getting money
every month from a lawyer,
not an insurance company.
So?
Well, that's what happens
when you get divorced,
not when you're widowed.
You think her husband is still alive?
He's heading for the desk.
DRAWERS CLATTERING
It's Jez!
BELLS CHIME DISCORDANT MELODY
Oh!
No, no, no, no, no, no.
No, Mary. You weren't beginning
in the right place.
Yes, she was. I was.
She's got to wait for Agatha
to pull before she begins.
She'll be waiting a long time then.
LAUGHTER Thanks for that, Gemma.
Brilliant. Really. Yes, I will!
Maybe we could try something
a little less complicated.
Can't we just give up?
No, we can't.
Reverend Bloxby made
such a song and a dance
about selling off the land
at the back of the vicarage
to pay for the bells.
The new bells are the reason
the bishop is holding
confirmation here.
Hiya.
Where were you this afternoon?
Parish visits.
Mrs Mansfield, she's still not well.
Not at Amanda's farmhouse then?
Why would I go there?
You were seen, Jez.
I don't know what you're talking about.
Jez, I feel as though
I don't know you at the moment.
First your friendship with Amanda
and now you're lying to me.
What's going on?
What friendship with Amanda?
What were you looking for
at her farmhouse? I wasn't there!
Did you find Amanda's next of kin?
We did. We found her husband.
I thought she was a widow.
Well, that's what she told everyone,
but the more you look at her life,
the more it looks like a pack of lies.
Who was he?
John Marlowe, a lawyer in Bristol.
He's much older than her,
and you wouldn't believe
how much Amanda was in debt
with the farmhouse and the horses.
She was in arrears on the lot.
No wonder she was finding
everything unbearable.
And what information
did you get on her dad?
He was a financier
in the City, Teddy Ballard.
He hanged himself when she was 21.
Oh, poor girl. It's sad how often
suicides run in families. I know.
On that note,
shall we head out to the garden?
Come on, James.
James. James,
we need to investigate this death.
No. No, we don't.
Because I think it could be murder.
Well, there was a suicide note
written in her handwriting, Agatha.
How do you know it was her handwriting?
Because I recognised it.
Look.
She was clearly under more stress
than any of us knew.
Well, I don't think she was.
James? Come on.
It's lovely out here.
HE SIGHS
I'm not going to play detective
with you any more, Agatha.
It is exactly the same.
Oh, he's right.
Hmm.
DANCE MUSIC PLAYS
PHONE RINGS
Hello.
'Roy, darling.'
What do you want, Aggie?
'This is not a good time.'
I want you to check
something out for me.
You're not my boss any more, Aggie.
Get yourself another PA.
No. Mush up her hair.
It's posh grunge. Grunge posh.
Mush the hair up.
I want you to check out
'a Teddy Ballard.' No.
He was a financier in the City
who committed suicide
'about 12 years ago.' No.
I know you're already intrigued
'as to why I'd want you to do this.'
No, I'm not.
I'm sorry, I really have to take this.
'I think it might be linked
to a recent suspicious death.'
'What was the name again?'
Teddy Ballard.
Oh, and, Roy...
'I love you.'
And I hate me, Aggie,
and I really have to go now. Bye.
What did I say about the hair?
DOOR CLOSES
Argh! Oh!
You think it's me. What?
You all think it's me who killed her.
No, no, no, no, no. No, I don't.
Well, I didn't. I didn't.
What's going to happen to me now?
She was my only friend.
What's going to happen to me?
Just let's...
Let's have a seat.
We'll have a seat, OK?
SHE SOBS
What are you here for?
To find out more about Amanda.
I don't know anything. Did you know
that her husband was still alive?
What was he like?
Don't know. Never met him.
It's very kind of you to offer
to help me with this, Agatha.
No problem.
If you'd like to come this way,
Mr Marlowe will see you know.
Thank you.
We've put together a service
for Amanda with a hymn
we believe she was fond of -
All People That On Earth Do Dwell -
but we wondered if
there was another hymn she liked
or a reading that might be
more meaningful for her.
I'm sure that will be fine.
I'm happy to pay for the funeral,
but I don't want to be
involved in arranging it.
Will you be coming?
Relations with my ex-wife
were not good, Mrs Raisin.
I don't think it would be
appropriate if I attended.
Why were they not good?
Uh, could we have a list
of her friends in Bristol
who might like to attend?
She didn't have any friends
by the time she left.
What you don't know
is that Amanda was a liar,
manipulative, underhand.
Why did you marry her?
Oh, that's not our business.
You don't really find out
the truth about the person
you've married until later.
You get taken in
by the version of themselves
they present to the world,
but it's not the real them.
Who was the real Amanda?
A princess.
She wanted a life of privilege,
but she didn't want
to work for it or pay for it,
and she'd drop anyone
if she thought they know longer
fitted into her perfect life.
Oh.
With everyone you speak to,
Amanda seems like a completely
different person. I don't know,
manipulative and underhand
seemed to sum her up for me.
Do you think Jez knew
what she was really like?
Um, I think he knows more
than he's letting on.
Do you think they were maybe
having an affair?
Sarah, I'm just saying.
All men are dogs.
It's just the unfortunate way it is.
He's just not like that.
I mean, he's under so much pressure
with this bloody bishop visit.
Do you think he had SOMETHING
to do with her death?
No. No.
No, I can't think like that.
And yet he was searching
for something in her house,
and he was the last person
to see her alive,
and you know that
he's keeping something from you.
Just saying!
'I thought we'd never get here.
'Oh!'
Oh!
Good afternoon, Your Grace.
I'm so sorry. I'm a bit stiff.
I don't think I've been in this parish
since they built that
wretched ring road.
I believe that's true.
Oh, do you know Canon Gibbons?
I almost forgot.
Well, I always forget
about him, actually.
The man has hardly any presence at all.
But he smells of pleasantry,
which is more than can be said
for the other canons at the cathedral.
HE CHUCKLES Hello.
Oh, how many for confirmation
this evening?
Three, Your Grace.
All children from the village.
Oh, it'll be over in a jiffy.
Last week in Bristol, I had 53. Oh.
It took so long
I missed Game Of Thrones.
Oh, it's nice to see it restored.
Although, as I can't remember
what it looked like before,
it makes no difference to me.
If you'd like to come back
to the vicarage, Your Grace,
Sarah has prepared a tea.
I do hope there is enough.
I didn't realise you'd be
accompanying His Grace,
Canon Gibbons. Who?
Oh, don't worry about him.
He's here to work, not stuff his face.
Now, they've found, um...
What is it?
Irregularity.
...irregularity with the accounts
about the selling of the land.
It's probably nothing.
Unless... of course
you have been stealing.
HE LAUGHS
We're sending someone round
to look through your receipts.
Well, that would be me, Your Grace.
Who? Oh, yes.
I always forget you're here.
BELLS INHARMONIOUSLY CHIME
All People That On Earth Do Dwell
MRS JOSEPHS: Keep up the good work.
The bishop loves us!
Why is everyone looking so astonished?
Well, that's actually not too bad.
Right, go. What have you got for me?
Teddy Ballard was a super-rich
financier who made a fortune
trading African currencies.
He had one daughter, Amanda,
who had this gilded childhood...
We've seen the photos.
...and went to the kind of
posh girls' school
where there were stables
for your ponies.
But unlike most bankers,
Teddy had a heart.
I didn't speak to anyone
who said he wasn't a saint.
He was a big Christian
and a big philanthropist
and he killed himself
when his firm went bust.
Was he a depressive?
No, he was broke and he felt guilty
because all the charities
he was funding became insolvent.
So, Amanda went from super-rich
to nothing overnight.
But within three months,
she'd married
a friend of her dad's -
John Marlowe, who you've met.
I have.
He's not short of a bob or two.
You know what this calls for?
A beer?
BOTH: A mood board.
Childhood home.
It's a hell of a place, that, isn't it?
Talk to me about the suicide note.
It was a suicide note.
Written on? Posh paper.
Written with? Pen.
Was the pen found in the belfry? No.
Did you spot the pen on the desk
when you illegally broke in
and snooped around the house? No.
We saw a lot of felt-tips.
Any way, the whole pen thing,
that's irrelevant.
Put that back up!
No, because it's Agatha's
murder mood board, not yours.
It's all three of our mood boards.
Fine, fine.
That's the point of it -
we're brainstorming stuff
so we all suggest things...
I'll put it out the way.
..their logical end.
Have you two finished bickering?
I'll just move it. Hey, hey, hey.
Come and have a look at this.
Who's that?
Teddy Ballard.
OK, now, this is quite exciting.
It would appear that Teddy Ballard
had set up philanthropic schools
for orphans in Africa, Ghana,
for kids who had lost their parents
during the civil war.
Now, Amanda's dad paid for the schools,
but they were run by the church,
and some of the bright kids
were brought back here
to England to go to school.
Could that be Reverend Bloxby as a boy?
If it is, he would've known
Amanda from before.
Thank you, Jeremy.
Your Grace.
Your Grace.
Did you say anomalies?
Will you lock up?
Of course. Where are you going?
I... I'm tired.
Sarah... Yeah?
You're the best thing
that's ever happened to me.
I... just want you to know that.
And you, me.
I don't think so. Yes, Jez.
When I first met you,
I thought you were the most
beautiful man I'd ever seen.
Clever. Kind.
I'm not the man you want me to be.
You are what I want.
You always have been.
I'm going for a bath.
So, Jez was the last person to see
her alive. That's right. Yeah.
So, he had the opportunity.
So, maybe he killed her and
made it look like suicide.
Yeah.
There's no-one safe in Carsely.
PHONE RINGS Jez!
Jez, can you get that?
Carsely Vicarage. 'Mrs Bloxby.'
Ah, Bishop Parsons, hello.
'Is your husband free
tomorrow morning?'
Yes, I'm sure he can be
at the cathedral in the morning.
Can I ask what it's regarding?
'We found some serious anomalies
in the report.' Oh. Right.
'Shall we say 11?' OK.
Jez?
Are you in the bath?
DOOR SLAMS Jez is gone.
He's taken the car
and he's disappeared.
Sarah, we think we ought
to call the police about Jez.
He knew Amanda before she came here.
How?
Her dad ran a school
for refugees in Africa.
Did you know?
I knew he was a war child.
Why didn't he tell me that he knew her?
Maybe that's something to do with
why he might have killed her.
If there's anything
I know about my husband,
he's not capable of murder.
He's just not.
Well, why did he run away?
I think he's been stealing.
There were some irregularities
with the sale of the land
for the restoration.
I think the bishop has found out.
I just want him back, Agatha.
I don't care what trouble he's in,
but I want him back
before he does something stupid.
'What are we looking for?'
A green Golf. A green Golf.
TYRES SCREECH
'P368 PYU.'
Got it. He's abandoned it. 'Where?'
That bus stop says Bristol.
Oh.
Jez...
Oh, God. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.
It's all right. It's all right.
Whatever you've done, we can face it.
It's all right.
I was the reason
Amanda came to Carsely.
I hadn't seen her for 20 years,
but she came looking for money
and she came up with the idea
of selling the land
around the vicarage.
That was a good thing, wasn't it?
That was going to help the church.
She pocketed a quarter of the money.
Why did you let her do that?
Because otherwise she would
tell Sarah who I really was.
My parents were executed
towards the end of the war.
Yeah, they were good people.
They fought bravely.
No. They weren't good people, Sarah.
That's what I told you.
That's what I told everybody
when I came to England
and took an English name.
Amanda knew my lie.
She knew that my parents
were the very worst people.
They fought for the government,
not the rebels.
And they tortured
and murdered innocent people.
They were notorious.
Everyone in Ghana knew their names
and everyone breathed in relief
when they were tried and executed.
I lied to you...
about who I was, who my parents were.
I lied to everybody.
I love YOU, Jez.
Not your family.
So, why did Amanda kill herself?
Well, because the diocese were
going to find out about the money.
They were already on the trail,
and I hadn't been as clever
with the accounts as I'd thought.
So, is that what you were looking for
when you went to her house,
the accounts?
No, I was looking for the file
that she said she had on me
from the orphanage.
But if you were responsible
for the accounts,
she could've denied all knowledge
and let you take the blame.
She had your secret.
Perhaps the shame of being found out
for who she really was was too much.
No. She had Jez by
the short and curlies.
She would've let him take the fall.
Agatha, not now.
You didn't know her, Agatha. I did.
And the day she died,
she was not suicidal.
SHE SIGHS
In the midst of life, we are in death.
Of whom may we seek for succour,
but of Thee, oh, Lord,
for who are sins art justly displeased?
Ashes to ashes,
earth to earth, dust to dust...
in sure and certain resurrection
of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
ALL: Amen.
BELL TOLLS
Hello? Hello. Excuse me.
Are you the receptionist from Bristol?
That's right.
Were you a friend of Amanda's?
No.
We were more like rivals,
I'm ashamed to say.
I'm here out of guilt, really.
I never thought I'd grow up
to be a home-wrecker,
let alone to cause so much pain
that they'd do this.
You were having an affair
with her husband?
I'm not proud of it.
We do love each other.
We are going to get married.
Does John know you're here?
It's been strange since she died.
It's been like how it was
when they were married.
He'd get angrier and angrier cos
she'd just spend all his money.
He'd come home and find diggers
in the garden
moving the swimming pool
to a sunnier side of the house
and she hadn't even told him.
She'd buy Range Rovers, horses,
go shopping every couple of weeks.
Milan or New York.
He said he had no idea she was
like this when he married her.
I suppose if you know someone
like that,
you wouldn't marry them, would you?
Lovely. Um...
Bill.
Whoa, what are you doing here?
What am I doing here?
I'm here to see Steph
at the caravan. What's happened?
Someone's smashed a window
and broke into Amanda's
while she was being buried.
SHE SIGHS
They could've waited
a day out of respect.
Burglars. No morals nowadays.
What did they take?
Just the laptops.
All the valuables are still there,
but the study has been ransacked.
Constable, police business.
Go away. Go away!
I've told you I didn't kill her.
Please! I just...
KNOCKING Can I come in?
I just want to talk.
Mandy's ex contacted me
when I was in rehab.
He said he'd keep me supplied
if I spied on her for him.
Well, why would he do that?
She had something on him.
Some dodgy land deal that
he was to earn a fortune from.
He tried to buy her off,
but when I told him that
she'd said blackmailing him
was her cash cow
for the rest of her life,
then he must've lost it.
He gave me the money to get her laptops
and told me to disappear.
What was on the laptops?
These laptops contain hundreds of
e-mails about a land purchase order
that John Marlowe was lawyering
using public money
to expand Portishead Airport,
but they also show that he had
secretly purchased the land himself
and he was doing this to drive up
the price for the government.
Which is illegal.
And Amanda knew that.
You can go to prison for that.
For a long time.
And she was using this
to get more money out of him,
which is why she wasn't bothered
about being in some much debt.
She knew the big money was coming.
Yeah, but we still know
Amanda killed herself, don't we,
cos of the suicide note?
Well, it pains me to say it,
but I think Roy was right
about the pain.
She only seemed to use felt-tips,
from what I gather,
and the suicide note
was written in ink.
It's still her handwriting, though.
Yes, but who can forge signatures?
Well, no-one, cos they're unique.
I can forge Aggie's.
PAs and married couples.
I used to handwrite notes
for all the times
when she wanted things
to be a bit more personal. Yes.
Well, if I'm correct,
John Marlowe wrote the suicide note
because he had posh pens
and he had posh paper.
So, what do we do know?
Well, you two are going to have
to trap him into a confession.
Us? Us?
Well, he already knows who I am.
I take earbuds.
I can hear every word.
Come on. Stick them in.
It's just another of
her stupid ideas, Gemma.
OVER EARPIECE: 'Heard that.'
OVER HEADSET:
'Broadsword to Danny Boy.
'We are inside the building. Repeat.
We are inside the front door.'
Can I help you?
Hello. Hi.
Can we speak with John Marlowe, please?
I'm afraid Mr Marlowe is
in meetings all day today.
Can I ask what it's concerning?
His ex-wife and the purchase
of Portishead Airport.
The purchase of his ex-wife.
And Portishead Airport.
His ex-wife AND the purchase
of Portishead Airport.
All right, shut up.
His ex-wife and the purchase
of Portishead Airport.
One second.
Well done. We got there.
This way, please.
Thank you, Tracy.
What's this concerning?
We were friends with Amanda,
and before she died,
she gave us a memory stick
full of e-mails
incriminating you
in a racket buying land
for the expansion of
Portishead Airport.
What's he doing?
Does he look guilty?
Oh, just be quiet.
I haven't said anything.
If I were you, I would leave here
before I call the police.
Tell him to call the police. Fine.
BOTH: Call the police.
What e-mails?
Quote, the fifth of April, 2014.
'Fifth of April, 2014. Remember?'
'No.' "To the Minister of..."
FEEDBACK AND STATIC BUZZES
The day you e-mailed the vicar.
The Ministry of Industry.
"The owners of the land
will not settle for less..."
"..than 16 million."
"I suggest you take
that offer," un-quote.
And you support that increase
in the asking price.
Because you were the vendor.
It was two months after
you bought the land yourself.
What's he doing?
I'm picking up a pensioner.
What do you want?
To pick up a pensioner.
Which we will do later...
But now we want the deal
Amanda was getting.
The deal you killed her for.
Brilliant, Gem. Thank you.
She was always on the take from you.
You'd had enough.
But she had you by the short and
curlies, didn't she? As you do.
BOTH: As I do.
Threaten to call the police.
What are you doing?
BOTH: Calling the police.
We think that when you realised
she wasn't going to stop
demanding more money,
that you went to Carsely
to get rid of her.
When she was on her own in the church,
you took your chance.
OK. OK.
'I'm not going to prison for HER.
You...'
If you give me that,
we can come to some arrangement.
Get a confession.
Well, you should've thought of that
before you murdered her.
She was never going to stop.
'I had to kill her.'
I was never going to get rid of her
unless I did something.
Was that a confession?
Sounded like one. One what?
I think it was.
Right, get out of there.
We've got to go now.
Bye. See you.
Run! I am running!
Right, I'm calling the police.
Head down, there. Thank you.
See you all at the station.
Well done.
BISHOP PARSONS: This is a pretty
damning report, Reverend Bloxby.
Do you have anything to say
on the matter, hmm?
Where will you go?
Back into rehab.
Mum said she'll pay for another go.
Where will you park your, uh... this?
At my mum's. Ah.
Well, good luck, then.
Thanks, Agatha.
HORN BEEPING
BELLS CHIME
All People That On Earth Do Dwell
Two, three, four.
Two, three, four.
Two, three, four.
How did it go?
The bishop discussed everything
with the police
and the chapter's lawyers,
and since all parties think
that I was a victim of blackmail
and not a thief, they've decided
to draw a line under it.
ALL: Oh!
Well, if news like that
doesn't demand a peal of the bells,
I don't know what does.
So...
Look to.
Treble going.
Treble gone.
BELLS CHIME
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