Such a dramatic society at a photo call for one of the student productions with Mary yellow has been stabbed and Charles is convinced that the death was murder he's just discovered that Willie was responsible for the accident to Leslie Petter which led to her 2 main parts in Darby productions being taken by her understudy Anadan come to believe it oh it's true Ana. Really actually pushed Leslie down those steps yes he did but why Mom that's what I'm trying to work out. Can you think of any reason why he might have done it no no not at all how well did you know Willie Well I mean one is anyone else in the group not particularly well now no one seems to have any particularly well it wasn't even a member of the university just brought into Mary Queen of sorts to do the music yes. You don't happen to know who it was who did bring in new story. Well perhaps James Milner will have some ideas Oh well we'll abort James's house maybe the Samantha connection I lost James I'm meeting him shortly something must talk about it. So you've got to go order me just the 1st morning for weeks I haven't had to rehearse we've got a flat to ourselves we could do absolutely anything we wanted and you have to go off and meet James Milner and well. Like I did say shortly shortly is a relative term I mean I don't have to go straightaway good. Oh your head is very beautiful thank you kindly blond and beautiful. Oh. Martin Warbucks to misbehaving most oddly Yes I know James thank you he seems to be on the edge of some sort of breakdown or if it's a breakdown it's taking a pretty strange form remember I said I was going to keep an eye on him yes well I followed him when he left here yesterday morning he knew exactly where he was going went straight down there on a mile then timed off towards Nicholson square in Nicholson Street he went into a block of flats so I mean perhaps he was visiting friends he came out 10 minutes later a man days guys in disguise different clothes were going beard but it was quite definitely him Good heavens did you go in following Yes Well we had to go well this is the disappointing bit Giles he went into the Scottish National Portrait Gallery on Queen Street you know I hung around outside about 20 minutes later he came out again return to Nicholson Street changed back into mocking Warburton and came back here. But he's up to something isn't I mean surely that makes him even more our number one suspect Well I suppose so yes yes I'm sorry James I'm scared of Charles you don't seem very excited by what I've just told you. There isn't anything you're keeping from me is that well what you mean. You invited me to take on the role of Dr Watson I think it might be a little childish of Sherlock Holmes not to confide any other suspicions he has Yes All right James that is one of the lead on following and what else you're suspicious of yes yes a bit but since it's somebody I know quite well and since I'm fairly sure it's just a misunderstanding I can clear up very quickly Well like I draw the not mention any names you know to have checked a few details right that's the way you want to do it. Yeah school you have to check your few details when. Jean will is with. What do you want there's nothing more I can tell you please just a couple of questions about your husband I think I may be on to something big deal listen Mr Paris I'm very busy I don't want to play cops and robbers please give me 5 minutes well. All right 5 minutes thank you very much. Right. I ask. Could have. All these boxes in case you going Yes The house is on the market I'll never come back here are you leaving out of that now I am moving in with a man the fuk Rupe in New Castle. When you miss it Edinburgh Yes this house I hope I never see again wrote in nice enough Look I never lived here will you only bought it a few months ago not be known to or the only times I ever saw the police it was covered with paint brushes are plaster dust or other evidence of Willie's latest ideas on home decor he had the knack of converting every place we lived into a pigsty he'd suddenly get sick of his surroundings and want to change it all smother everything with paint take off a door knock down a wall and the trouble was he never finished the job which is why this place isn't such a mess oh basically it's in pretty good condition you should get a good price for it the building society should get a good price for it. Still really must have made a few bob when he was with the band you'd think that wouldn't you but knew he spent it all not that there was that much left after all the agents and managers are taking their bites over there maybe a few song royalties Still to come but those will go on paying back bank loans and mortgage arrears so you're not exactly left a rich widow Mr Paris I can't believe that you came here to talk Homes and Gardens and domestic economy and if you didn't your 5 minutes and my patients are both running low I'm sorry but just before I ask what I really came for Tell Me Why Willie bought this house well it fitted the image of what he wanted to be so i'm selfish the great landowner in his ancestral home in front of his blazing fire. Of property. I I really wanted to ask you about Willie's sex life well it's true yeah. Well of recent years I'm afraid I'm hardly an expert on that no no I wanted to ask you about another woman I did. Take a great deal of interest in his other women I know that when he was in Darby You know when he stayed after the band split up do you know if I had to go then I assume so I can't think he stayed for the scenery you know mentioned ago we didn't discuss our private lives but I believe it was through one of the girl students that you got involved in the made a Queen of Scots you knowing Willie there was more to the relationship than just that he didn't tell you and your 5 minutes is nearly gone Mr Garrett you know if you had a girl around recently I mean in the week before he died wasn't he you know that what you want me to do see if I found Here's the pillow if necessary Yeah all right then I would say from the evidence of the dirty laundry that Willy did commit yet another desecration of our marriage bed between a Friday when I left on the Tuesday when he was killed yes all yes he'd had someone here here's on the pillow all the old familiar signs what color has blown 5 minutes. Goodbye Mr Paris we will meet again. And ship to General Venables please. Charles Paris. To Paris. Charles knowledge our own. Will to show. The rest of. What investigation charter gave us and let me add to it. It's been a suspicious death in the group you're working with Winnie Mandela I know you're investigating and you are right next to me of course. Not sure I think I may be getting somewhere good and I think I can do to help I mean anything that needs the services of a lawyer detective We also check topples to analyze hits me and around you name it and I'll do my best well that is something actually that's why I'm ringing I'm afraid it'll involve your coming up to Edinburgh them not a possible one of my crimes is in the shop and I say I'm already the official vessel of course that a client of mine would mess with that French rubbish no no no Anyway there's a film contract when I go shooting this chap I could arrange to have to come up and discuss it but I'm busy good and but he's not tonight at all you mean he's going to be footing the bill John I really must say on behalf of Othello I know damn well wanting to see what they're paying him for the movie he can set legal services against tax I mean really I'm doing a favor. You know you really want to get into films child that's where the money is thank you if you're going to work coming up after this week not a lot no other talk of maybe directing had a gobbler at the theatre or less the soul bit of a good dear child I do wish you'd get your career together to extreme general could we get back to the subject yes of course now by the way have you met up with fronts as yet Francis don't like remember yeah man. Oh no she's coming up to Edinburgh isn't she yes read it last week and Frances toter about it organizing a school trip to the festival was that it yes oh my God I completely forgotten Do I gather from your time that you got some interest on the go that well I see look how soon do you think you'll be able to get up here Joe Wed of public and web her usual magic out at 7 o'clock because going to Caprica out so I'll check into the North British total general the Northbridge it will be for we are right in the middle of a festival you know you underestimate probably. Make sure there are 9 Ok 0 one thing don't have you got a small Cassatt recorder I see him conversation you want secretly recorded you want to I'm well you go on a course I have jobs you forget I'm a solicitor It's a tour of the trade. So I hoped I'd find you here we are housing up in the men's Dole the 2 to 5 let me get a couple of hours in the whole. Look about to me and you coming on the Flat out the review Well no that's it you see I actually can't make it tonight would you mind if Never mind I could do with some sleep anyway. There's always tomorrow yes you have a get back to rehearsal kiss. Do you think you saw those who come on it was it me Martin does it matter you know I suppose who are they what is your culture. Hello Tom and James. Yes biota I've spoken to them more than once about that front door if that gets fragmented I get complaints from the neighbors did you see oh it was yes Martin Morton. Talking about Martin Warburton I followed him again this morning from here yes he went straight down to the Nicholson Street flat again and came out in the disguise pretty when you go this time the palace of Hollywood types it's bizarre pressure to go to the National Portrait Gallery in Hollywood in disguise I have no idea you know Charles I'm convinced Martin's our modern Hollywood house was the scene of David Ritz tacky and I still think there's some strange tie up in Martin's mind between what's happening know and the manic we know Scott story now if that is it's very windy rich it was only the 1st in a sequence a muchness So you think we should be on the lookout for more carbon copy deaths you sound I'm convinced jobs were still following your other lead or did you get anything from Gene Mariella Maybe a few pointers and you're still keeping your suspicions to yourself James I'm sorry but by the end of this evening I will know one way or the other Ok spill the beans what dirty deed have you dragging up here to perpetrate listen gentled is your firm engage in any big food productions of the moment of course we are big film productions of the publisher's bread and butter or perhaps I should say caviar and what are you setting up right now well this is colossal Andreozzi picture we've been getting together for years and stopped shooting in Spain in October about the Americans are still dragging their feet and the finance I see have you got a stake in the picture the partnership pounds good so it wouldn't be too difficult for you to pose as a film producer. It would hardly be a pose right now what I wanted to do tonight is go to review called Brown Dobby it's of the Masonic Hall in lowest in place on yes has to get started 11 now there's a girl in the show called Anna Duncan which is a good actress but I mean even if you don't think so I want you to go round after the performance introduce yourself as a film producer and so you'd like to talk to us about a few projects you know would it be possible to me to for lunch tomorrow and tomorrow you take her out to lunch I'll fill you in on what you say to her that's terrific I mean perhaps I could use a false name no I don't think that's Mrs regional. But what we say at the lunch that's the conversation you want recorded Yes that's the one where a child you can rely on me is to cover the city Japanese record right guard I slip it in my jacket pocket and then run the microphone lead up through the line into my buttonhole and then I wear a combination to hide the actual microphone and Bob's your uncle use it a lot do you know yes Charles invaluable in getting a record of sticky negotiations you are totally without morality onto job well I am a solicitor old boy yeah. So I'm combining business with pleasure and meeting a few people enjoying the festival and maybe thinking a bit about coasting for the new movie Oh yes I have some more champagne Thank you . Were not wonderful to write 5 provinces you just gotta take what you can get yes. And it's funny you know in the film business how little things going to hold you up. I mean this new movie we've got the director we've got the star signed up the script on it 14th draft and any needs cosmetic changes everyone's raring to go and now are delayed because the director confines the right actress for one part. I mean it's not that I don't want to stop but it's one of those it's really telling good for the best newcomer Awards you know and I mean yes the director is determined to get an unknown and I can see if he's right but it's on it's taking too long that he's been through additions and screen test and he's got his money back out and is a girl left in the country is not seen but he just hasn't found one who is right what is the part well the girls. I don't have around 20 perhaps and she's having an affair with this complete bastard and James caught being without actually got at least we've got him signed up anyway the James Caan guy to get into a fight towards the end of the film and get stabbed and then the Go has to express is very complex motion. I'm so sorry. I shouldn't be talking like this do you believe me I stabbed him a bit near him isn't it sorry insensitive that story about something else. You know I'm sorry I shouldn't mention it it must have been awful for everyone in the group yes it was such a terrible shock even when it's not someone that you you know particularly well I'm going to someone really close I suppose it must be frightening yes that's the trouble every tragedy leaves someone behind. I suppose there's some Mariella was on it yeah well I suppose he must've had a girl somewhere yes he had to go you don't mean that you yes. Willie and I were. Lovers. I'm so sorry I had no idea I wouldn't raise the matter if I had had me in a way it's better for me to talk about it it's been so terrible since he died bottling up all my emotions yes I am sorry it must have been awful for you to be that but you do mean that you have those denture on a button still going on it was still going on. He had been killed it would still be going on now. Oh God. I feel terrible for having talked about the film because you are in almost exactly the same position as the girl and you except of course that for the girl in the film the emotions even more complex and I love I was a bastard and actually a criminal but I tell the director I think the characters ever drawn. Nobleman would stay with him like that I don't know but surely when he was no saint I knew his faults he could be cruel really evil. Do we keep things and then say done them for me what you mean recently he nearly killed someone for me. Killed. It was a girl in our group who would have been in the review you saw she had the part I'm playing. One day I musta said something to do that made him think I was jealous of her but I wasn't but he got this idea in his head what to do he pushed her down some stone steps she broke her leg she couldn't play the part she was meant. For God You see you were wrong when you said I didn't know what it's like To love a boss did. I do to my cost. Yes yes I see. Look I have some more champagne. You were wrong when you said I didn't know what it's like To love a bust. I do. To Mike. I see now you've got to hand it to a Charles she's good at lactose isn't she. Did your god much more oh yes we haven't got the sweet course yet that she did perk up a bit then I bet she did after she'd finished her old dition Well let's hear the next installment which button do I press now it's all right I'll do that rather tricky controls on this machine designed for a little Japanese fingers you know. That a pretty girl that blonde hair is almost navy blue out there you know well I thought I did. Ok now let's hear a bit. If you want to go into the professional theater. I had gone into office for sort of thing. Didn't have to play had to go there to go left and there were 2 on how well my role in the proceedings has just become clear I don't understand is the oldest cliche in the business the casting couch Oh I wouldn't bother to listen to any more of it after there's nothing else of interest. Yes And as I knew from last night the show comes down to a 50. As I say not just what was that nothing there's no point you can't switch the damn thing on. Top of that for a drink or something if you. Know it's British don't Princes Street. People in the bars. Greet I look forward to. Now Charles there's no need for you to look at me like that but don't get the wrong impression or I thought was if you were planning a confrontation with him you'd want to know where she was and down at the hotel would be joining convenient. I happened to say come you didn't think I would but I'm a married man Ok to not have a perfect relationship and I would hate for ever to get any misleading. Hello cha. Who. Thought we'd fix to meet up at the front yet. Just as well I've seen you actually pick because I would be there to later I've got to meet someone in the North British hotel Yes I know it's an altar of mine is only 30 pretty fully you're visiting your own top Osment I'd be rehearsing all day has it been another opportunity. To get back to the flat as soon as I can on the I like. You're going to the North British to see General Venables you're going to see him because you think it's a big film producer who can help you with your career. And you're probably planning to go to bed with me in the same way that you went to bed with me. Because I sometimes direct plays I see. You said Gerald analyser Yes I did and he isn't really a film producer the part he was talking about doesn't exist well he's a sort of occasional film producer but no the part doesn't. That was a dirty trick because suppose I should have realized it was stupid to get involved with some of your age old men always get clinging and Jenna Good God do you think I set all this up just to some elaborate Sharod to test your affection for me to come think of any other reason why I should do it I suggested up to get certain information from the like was like the fact that you and Willie Mariella were lovers at least he was my age you see you are jealous jealous of someone who's dead anyway it was all over with Willie and me it was just something that happened while we were in Darby you told General it was still going on when really died you have been spying carefully haven't you. That wasn't true I just said that to sound more like the girl in the film why did you enlisted up did he wanted to and no he got clinging to kept doing things to try and get me back things like nobbling Leslie so that you got her parts in the show that was about Willie's level of subtlety did you suggested I didn't not you didn't mention that she was playing a couple of good parts that you would understand who. May have said that yes but I never intended when you know of course. Listen I know you're in serious trouble but now you me Murder is a serious business. Are you accusing me of not. Yes. I am. In part 4 of so much blood from just Matthews was Charles Paris James Milner Alan Norton and a donkey on him Tom some general Venables Jeremy a child Jean Mario Francis Lowe. So much blood was adapted from his book by Simon Brett and produced by Martin Fisher. And you can hear the penultimate episode at the same time tomorrow how do you fancy a double 07 day before Christmas across