Taggart

Morning, madam.

Have you seen this man at all?

Oh, I got stuck in a roadblock.

Some rapist escaped from car stairs.

Please look to my boot. As if I'd keep a rapist in my boot.

You'd keep three.

Sir.

It's lucky the paper boy noticed the broken window.

That's his statement.

Statement?

More like a novel.

Just being thorough.

Like your old fella.

What do you make of this lot?

Well, she was obviously entertaining somebody.

That's for the furniture.

Walter Geist.

A philosophical problem is posed by these antitheses.

Does the world have a structure, as we suppose, or are things in it really

unconnected, thrown together only by chance?

To say good comes from evil.

truth from error, logic from unlogic, reason from unreason, all this looks not

just unclear and perhaps dangerous, but is also contradictory.

Yet, good does come from evil in individual cases.

The upshot is that history has a structure, depending neither on logical

necessities nor on chance, but on us.

But what exactly does each individual contribute?

Okay, that's everything for today.

For next week, can you prepare some questions for criticism of Star?

I'm going to the lock.

Coming?

Just because she'll be there.

He wore a mask.

I think it was made of leather.

The clothes were all black.

They smelled old.

Steel.

He was just waiting for me.

Downstairs.

Waiting.

He turned the lights off at the mains.

And he tried.

He tried.

It's all right. Just take your time.

You must think I'm very foolish.

No.

Mary, a guy escaped from car stairs last night.

He used to live about here.

We have to know if he's your attacker.

I didn't see his face.

You were entertaining somebody last night.

The furniture was all moved up against the doors and windows. He was waiting

me.

Who bought you the champagne and roses?

I... I don't want him to know.

Boyfriend?

Need to know his name, Mary.

I don't want you to.

Is he that important, sir?

Aye, it's important.

Please.

We have to eliminate him, Mary.

You don't believe me, do you?

None of you believe me. Of course we do.

We just want to talk to him.

He's married.

What's his name, Mary?

What made you want to follow him?

Ah, shoes fitted.

They were size 14.

Chief Inspector.

It's the policy of the female and child unit to believe rape victims. Not bully

them. Suggest they're lying.

Just wanted her name, that's all.

You think she's making it up? About the masked man?

She could have good reason to.

The furniture, the broken window.

You think she did all that?

She could be covering up for him.

Romantic dinner, he misinterprets the invitation.

Oh, I suppose that makes it all right.

That was a trip.

Brilliant. You shall see India.

I hardly hear my bed.

It's great to be back.

She's old enough to be your mother.

She inspires me.

What are you writing?

A poem.

Can I read it?

This is rubbish.

Help!

Help!

I can't swim!

Help!

Help!

Help!

Help!

Here, catch.

What's going on here?

Here. You and your pal.

Come back here again with the apology.

No one's ever written a poem for me before.

You are cold.

Would you like a drink?

A vodka.

Large one.

You teach dancing?

I've a pupil in a few minutes, but I wouldn't worry about it.

What about you?

No, thanks. I've got to go.

See you, Patrick.

What's wrong with your friend?

He's jealous.

Of your technique?

You're very beautiful.

You're very forward. What do you do?

I'm at university.

Kevin, baby, I'm here.

Shit.

It's some kind of accident.

He fell out of a boat.

Hairless. Ground falling from a boat.

Cigarette, son.

No, thanks.

You're looking great today, Kim.

Let's just worry about the heel being cold, eh, Brian?

How many of you went?

Me and two trumps.

Well, that's great.

Thanks very much.

Peter. Sir.

The boyfriend wasn't the attacker, then?

No. A florist in Rutherland, 60 pushing 40, just about ready to take advantage

of a bus pass.

How did Coldwell get out?

He walked out.

You arrested him four years ago. You think it's him?

Nah. He wasn't that inventive. He's had four years in car stairs to invent.

By the way, who's the new boy?

It's Mike Jarden.

Sergeant Jordan's son.

Yeah, who is he?

It's a boy I joined the police force with.

Retired, no health.

Eastie bones make him a need.

It's a wonder he survived.

Are they all old, the people you teach?

No, I teach children's classes as well.

Much prefer it. They've nothing to unlearn.

Plus, if an aerobics teacher comes in.

Did you never think of going on the stage as a dancer?

I did at one time.

My parents were ballroom dancers. It was all I knew from the age of three.

So when they died, they left me some money. I took ten years' lease on the

That guy this afternoon.

He never took his eyes off you.

Brian, you're pleased to have lessons.

I'm a businesswoman, you know.

My dad's an advocate.

Lives in Perth.

I'm only here because of him.

And I'm only here because of you.

And I'll have to go.

Why?

I have a husband who waits up for me.

There was a reason I asked you out.

I think we've drunk it.

Another reason.

Well?

I mean, what did he want, pulling all that stuff out of my fridge?

If he wanted something, I'd have given him something.

You did?

A sore head?

Well, you saw where his eyes.

I'm not forgetting.

You know how eyes bore through you sometimes?

I'd recognize them a year from now.

And what about his build?

The average?

I know that's not much help.

But honestly, why me?

I mean, I'm no string chicken.

You were alone.

That's enough for some men.

That's him finished, sir. Okay.

Right, you can go in now.

Do you want to make a list of things that are missing?

My son would be over like a shot if he knew about this.

He's in Saudi Arabia.

On an engineering contract.

You should have believed Mary Emery from the start.

There were circumstances.

Yeah, one of which is you know nothing about feminine psychology.

So my wife always tells me. It's an identical pattern.

Entry through a small window, furniture moved, refrigerated, lights.

It's not Caldwell, it's I'm Sophie of Bath.

If you think he's a nutter, why don't you just say he's a nutter?

Look, why would Caldwell come back here?

His parents are dead, he's got no girlfriend.