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After the Major's performance that second night,

you told police you heard the Ingrams arguing.

Yes. I remember it very clearly.

After all, it was so, like, odd.

I mean, you'd be happy, wouldn't you,

if you'd just become millionaires?

No, I'm sorry, but it's just so obvious, the signals!

- We'll talk later! - Well, that's what I heard.

I reckon, I know you haven't asked,

but I reckon the plan was for him to stop a few questions earlier.

So there wouldn't be so much, um, attention.

But he couldn't help himself.

And she might have been annoyed at him.

Because... well, look where we are.

The memory's a funny thing, isn't it?

An incredible feat of engineering.

It sits inside the medial temporal lobe.

And its most impressive function is its filing system.

It's better than anything a super computer could do.

Another of my favourite facts,

given that that's what this trial is all about,

right answers, wrong answers.

Knowledge.

Truth is that when we're remembering something...

...we're not actually recalling the original event.

What we're doing is remembering the last time we remembered it.

So we are constantly wiping our pasts

and editing together a new one.

One that can make sense to us now, in the present.

All memories are therefore, by definition...

...a lie. They change. We change them.

Which isn't a crime, a conspiracy. Just...

...human nature.

We can project guilt, say,

back onto an event that was in fact perfectly innocent.

I'm sorry, but it's really bad. The signal's, um...

We'll talk later!

I am asking you all to try and resist

a more entertaining falsehood

in favour of a less extraordinary truth.

That Major Ingram simply knew the answers to those questions.

And that's why he got them right.

OK, let's go.

Diana?

We should tell you, we have taken in two other parties for questioning.

Your brother, Mrs Ingram,

and another contestant in the studio.

Another conte...? Why? Who?

Here's a transcript of your appearance, provided by Celador.

It shows, quite clearly, moments where a cough can be heard,

and then you, Charles, choosing a different answer.

Why did you change your mind so often?

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm ju...

I'm just sort of hovering above all this looking down,

seeing how absurd it all is. It's a game show.

This isn't a laughing matter, Major Ingram, it's a million pounds.

- Your change of answer? - Have you ever seen the show?

That's what makes the show, that's what the audience want to watch,

that's what the producers want. It's the... the, um...

- the... the... the... - Tension.

- ...drama. The tension. Exactly. - Mrs Ingram.

The book you're writing with Adrian details ways of,

at the very least, bending the rules or in some cases circumventing...

Improving your chances, that's all.

I have to say, and please don't take offence,

it wasn't the most gripping read of my life.

Well, it's not for people who...

Do you know, I do take some offence, actually.

Presumably you've benefitted from this manual, Charles?

I haven't, I haven't read...

I haven't actually got through it yet.

Do you know who Tecwen Whittock is?

No.

You have no idea your wife telephoned this man

on several occasions, including the night before

and the morning of your second appearance on the show,

- at which he was also present? - He's just a man, a fan of the show.

Who just happened to be a Fastest Finger First contestant

on the same show?

A show where coughing was heard

on occasions that correlate with moments that you, Charles,

changed your mind?

How long has this relationship with...

It's not a relationship! It was...

...contact with someone who under...

Who was just a fan of the show.

And I know you might think that's stupid or boring or silly,

but I don't care. It's not bloody illegal, is it?

We just...

We just liked something a lot for a bit. That's all.

Oh, my God.

Can you park as close as you can, please?

Diana.

- Were you cheating? - Did you cheat?

Diana? Di...

Can you step away from the house, please?

I'm not... I'm not sure where the law is on this, but I don't...

Cheat! Cheat!

Get away from the house, please.

How they even got here, I mean, who told them?

It's a nightmare. This is a nightmare, isn't it?

I mean, they... They actually think we did it, don't they?

They're looking at all the pieces and putting them together like a...

You know, like that man that you... you called, right?

On your phone. Oh, my God, on the night of the show!

I mean, they have that on record.

I don't "know him" know him, Charles.

What they were suggesting, implying.

I've never spent any actual time with him. Adrian did.

Oh, Adrian! Of course! It's Adrian, always!

You follow the smoke and you follow the sound of screams

and there he is, and there you are, in your little... little...

- What? What? - ..family thing.

And I didn't even want to go on the bloody show!

I just got... sucked into it.

Why didn't you tell me you were... having conversations with him?

I thought you were chatting with him. I thought it was just...

It was just a phone call. They don't know what we were talking about.

It could have been anything.

All right, let's try this, OK? I'm the prosecuting lawyer, right?

And I'm asking you, "Mrs Ingram, this man,

"who your husband had barely any idea

"of the extent of the contact you had with him,

"what did you speak about that night?"

I'd just say that we were both in groups of fans,

and he was on the show the next day, so why wouldn't I call him?

Because it's about perception, Diana.

- It's about how it looks. - And how does it look?

What are you saying, and why are you saying it like that?

Because I'm angry! I'm angry!

And not saying it, it's the bloody policeman who's saying it.

Saying it right...

Saying it right in front of me.

And in front of the other...

...in front of the other policeman. My...

That my wife...

I mean, have you... Do you have any idea how that feels?

What they were implying and suggesting?

Are you asking me if I...?

Yeah, why not? I mean, you love questions.

Well, there are some things...

There are some questions you should just know the answer to.

- Major Ingram, Mrs Ingram. - Oh... How did you guess?

Oh, I don't need to guess, your faces are in all the papers.

Come in. Come in.

Now, do you want a tea, coffee? Vodka?

I was kidding.

Unless of course you do, in which case, I wouldn't judge.

Um, you were recommended to us by Philip Jones in Reading.

But we... we never thought a high-profile barrister

would touch our case with a barge pole, because... Well, given that...

Oh, given that your trial's already begun in the papers.

- Yeah. - And the press.

Yes, well, if I represent you,

we're gonna have to fight this sort of thing every step of the way.

- It's new state of play. - What's the new state of play?

Justice as entertainment.

How the police communicate with the press.

How the press communicate with the police.

I don't suppose you think it was a coincidence

that reporters were there only minutes after you were charged?

Following your, er, did I get this right?

The "dawn raid" on your property?

It's a form of arrest

that's normally associated with murderers and paedophiles.

The narrative of your guilt is already being written

by forces far beyond your control.

Now, I would be happy to represent you if you want,

because, and forgive the presumption,

I have already started looking into your case in some detail and...

...Major Ingram, Mrs Ingram...

I think something here really stinks.

Secrets To Help You Win At Millionaire, by Diana Ingram.

The things we missed. We pull on this one tiny thread

and what unravels is a whole bloody world of...

- God, we were stupid. - Not stupid, trusting. That's all.

Liddiment says he never wants to see another "effing middle-class wanker"

on the show ever again.

What are they doing?

Parents verses kids at physical and mental agility games.

That's the worst idea I've ever heard.

It's new ideas.

Well, Millionaire won't last forever.

Well, we're on the front page of every newspaper in the world.

It might.

An Army Major, his wife, and a college lecturer

have gone on trial...

The production staff became suspicious after they noticed