[Sitting on the edge of the desk] You don't have to be at the press conference.
[Sighs] Who has a motive for wanting to cause Mike Balfour distress, the money apart?
And why return the clothes at all, and in that way?
[Nodding at the tape player] Are you suggesting that's David Balfour's voice?
It's well disguised if it is.
If you're accusing David Balfour of kidnapping and murdering his brother's child, be careful.
Get a comparison voiceprint first, that's an order.
You forget, sir, I'm off this case! [The phone rings. Taggart answers it.] Taggart.
[At the other end] Jim, we received a tape of the baby crying. The letter, it suggests the kidnapper didn't see what happened in the park.
[Puts the phone down] The kidnapper's been in contact again.
[Gets up from the desk and picks up the phone handset] They'll have telexed that by now. [He dials a number] ...Get me the Press Association in London. [Checks his watch, then turns to Taggart and shakes his head] We're not going to make it.
Anything you want to say to Jo, you can say in front of me.
[Seeing Jo and David walk past the doorway] Jo? David? [They enter the living room]
What's it about now? The kidnapping?
Not quite. We found the trunk we were looking for - we wonder if you recognise it. [Livingstone shows Jo a photo of the trunk.]
Are you quite sure? [He shows her another photo.]
It was never in O'Donnell's room?
[Finally snapping] Why don't you people ever believe me?
Satisfied? She's been through enough because of him! [Nodding at David]
Listen, you'll have to excuse me, I've got stuff to pack. [Starts to leave the room]
David? [David stops in his tracks] Where are you taking your money abroad? Oh, this is Detective Sergeant Livingstone, I don't think you've met.
How'd you know I was going abroad?
I figured a fellow like you would have bought a car if you hadnae intended on leaving the country.
We hear your brother approached you about the ransom?
I knew nothing about it until this morning.
I didn't tell anyone. Mike... wanted it kept secret from the police and the press.
And you refused to help him?
It's my money! He never helped me!
He did. For a year after you were in prison.
Bet you'd do anything to get back at him, wouldn't you? Anything at all.
Because I've been accused before. Okay... I hate my brother, but I don't hate him that much! And I'd never hurt a kid. I know who could have done it. [Taggart's glances at David] Norman Burt. [Sheila's husband] He... got out of Barlinnie a week before me. Ask Jo.
Just because he had towels in his bike box?
He goes swimming. That was a confidence placed in me by a client. Thank you, David, thank you very much(!)
He's a wee man. Used to work in the Peebles' shipyard. Turned to burglary when he lost his job.
Jo Peebles recognised that trunk!
Yeah, I know she did. [They drive off.]
I'm positive. [They watch as Norman gets onto his motorbike with a female colleague.]
Do you believe [David] Balfour?
Well, I can't see him hurting his brother's child, could you?
It's just odd that he hasn't been in contact with him since.
The perfect place. We'll give them one minute.
Did you ever read Sherlock Holmes, The Silver Blaze?
A paradox. [Taggart observes Norman and the woman getting the towels out the bike box] The curious incident of a dog in the night-time.
Enthrall me(!) [Norman and the woman run into the silo]
The dog did nothing in the night-time. That was the curious incident. [Confused, Taggart takes down his binoculars to glance at Livingstone, before turning his attention back to the silo.]
Where the baby? [He's stunned to find Norman and the woman naked, covering their modesty with the towels, but no baby.]
NNorman
Well, give me a chance to get my trousers on!
NNorman
It was a place to go, that's all. Rosie's married, so we couldn't go to her place. Except one night we managed when her husband was away. You won't tell my wife, will you? I'd sooner go back inside.
[Getting up from his chair] I think we owe you an apology, Norman. [Motions for Livingstone to open the door.]
[As Norman is about to leave the room] How well did you know David Balfour in prison?
NNorman
Why? Who was it that shopped me? It was Balfour, wasn't it?
NNorman
Just because I had a go at him the day he got out.
[Taking Norman back into the interview room] What kind of a go? [Livingstone closes the door again.]
NNorman
I reminded him that there's some people come out to nothing. Do I look like the sort of man who would kill a child? Kidnap anyone? Where would I put a baby? In my bike box? Him working out his compensation money before she was even found. [Taggart's eyes light up] If you ask me, he was lucky. I wish it was mine that'd been found dismembered beneath the floorboards
NNorman
I said I wish it was mine that...
No, no, no. About the compensation money.
NNorman
He used to work out how much he'd be entitled to when she was found.
[Turns to Livingstone, who glances back at Taggart, then turns back to Norman] That confident, was he?
NNorman
That's why I said he was lucky. It happened one day, like he said it would.
I'm just going to get a fingerprint set from June Balfour's car in the multistorey.
Yes, there were. [He starts going through a filing cabinet]
Peter, get me the report on the handbag that was found near the body.
Nah. Burt was a last-minute decoy.
By a desperate man. [He finds what he's looking for and puts the report on a desk.]
Jim, what are we looking for?
The reason the dog did nothing in the night-time, sir.
There's one thing David Balfour should have done that he hasn't.
Especially as he's going abroad.
He's never asked about the burial of his wife's remains.
The head wasn't cut off to disguise the fact that it was Margaret Balfour, it was cut off to disguise the fact it wasn't.
Jim, we found Margaret Balfour's thumbprint on the bag and the wedding ring.
Yes, and there it is there, and there, and there, and there! [Pointing to the fingerprints] O'Donnell didn't murder Margaret Balfour. Whoever that body is, Margaret Balfour was in on the killing.
NONewsreader on Radio
...in Glasgow today, there are still fears for the baby's life. The ransom has been increased and as yet there's no further information from the kidnappers. [Dougie turns the radio off.]
WWPC
Sssh, Mrs. Balfour. Don't give up hope.
Hello? ...No, sorry, I think you've got the wrong number. ...Hold on. [Holds out the handset] June, it's for you. It's your mother. [June looks startled.]
I thought I recognised it. I just didn't connect it with Dalmally Road at that time.
That's because it wasn't there, Jo. It arrived later, when you moved here.
[Finds a record in her books] Ah, that's the couple, the Ritchies. [She hands the book over the Taggart.]
Do you remember anything about them?
[Shrugs] Only that they took the place for a few weeks. It was due for demolition and there was a whole series of short lets. [Taggart passes the book to Livingstone.]
Do you remember what they looked like?
[Reading from the book] 8th September 1976 - that's just after the trial.
And after David Balfour's conviction.
You mean they brought the body in? But how...?
The body wasn't Margaret Balfour's.
See, it was well known locally, Jo, that 16 Dalmally Road was a hostel for ex-cons, and at the time of Margaret Balfour's disappearance, you'd had to move out and re-let.
[Handing the book back to Jo] All part of her plan to fool everybody.
Why did David need your car four days ago?
He said he wanted to visit Margaret's mother on the coast. Wasn't that the truth?
Aye, it was the truth all right. [He goes to the phone to make a call.]
SSinclair
What's going on?
WWPC
It's all right, I've just phoned the station. They're getting in touch with Mr. Taggart right away.
SSinclair
[to Dougie] Well, where are they?
Don't know. See, we can't understand it. June got a phone call from her mother, but June's mother's dead.
SSinclair
And you've no idea where they've gone?
They wouldn't say. [The phone rings again. Dougie answers.] Hello? ...It's for you. [He hands the receiver to Sinclair.]
SSinclair
Yes, sir? Oh, I've just got here.
[At the other end of the line in Jo Peebles' office] What? ...He didn't say where? ...Oh, it makes sense to me all right! It means the kidnapper's finished his game. You can pack up. [He replaces the receiver]
And Fred [O'Donnell] had nothing to do with it?
Nothing. The fact that he had your car that night, that he drove along that road, just, er, just coincidental.
Christopher! [Grabbing him and clutching him tight in relief. Meanwhile, Mike cannot help but look daggers at David.]
[to Fiona] You stay here, darling.
Do you know what you've put us through? Have you got any idea?
[Desperately] I was gonna bring him back to you. I didnae want the police, I didnae know they knew. I didn't want any of us caught!
I'm gonnae kill you, ya bastard!
Oi! [Mike stops a nanosecond before he can deliver the fatal blow. Both he and David turn their heads towards Taggart.] Don't do it, he's not worth it. [Having been caught, Mike throws the plank away.]
Margaret Balfour. [Referencing the picture of her as a teenager] Sixteen years have changed you... or maybe you've changed yourself. [He places the photo on the armrest of the settee next to Margaret.]
MMargaret
We destroyed all the later pictures.
RMrs. Robertson
[About Fiona] Take her out.
[To Fiona] Come on, hen. [Taggart leads Fiona to a waiting PC, who takes her out of the room so he and Livingstone can interrogate Margaret.]
How long have you known, Mrs. Robertson?
RMrs. Robertson
That Margaret was alive? For years.
You let David stay in prison for a... for a murder he never committed?
Because if you told the truth, you, David and Mike would've gone inside for conspiracy to defraud.
MMargaret
Mike and David wanted my insurance money to start a car hire business.
So it had to look as if you'd died? Your car abandoned in a lay-by, the knife, the blood...
MMargaret
It was meant to look as though I'd been... killed by a stranger. David wasn't meant to go to prison for it. No-one was.
[Tuts] Poor David. He must've loved you a lot to carry the can for you.
RMrs. Robertson
When David came to see me three weeks ago, he... told me about the body. How it was Mike who put it there.
MMargaret
We both did, mum. [Christopher briefly starts crying. Margaret sighs] Mike picked a girl up in a railway station in London. We never even knew her name. Mike just made sure she was my height, age...
You killed a total stranger?
MMargaret
It was the only way to free David.
MMargaret
After the trial.
And then you brought the body back to Glasgow in a trunk, planted it in a house you thought was going to be demolished, and left your wedding ring by the body.
MMargaret
David was convicted on evidence that he'd buried me. Circumstantial evidence that was wrong. Mike said if my body was to be found somewhere where David couldn't have put it... [Christopher squeals] Mike went to see David in prison. Told him what we'd done. Told him he'd only have to wait.
Why did you look after the baby, Mrs. Robertson?
RMrs. Robertson
They're my grandchildren, aren't they? Even though I've never been allowed to see them... send them presents, anything. They didn't know I even existed.
RMrs. Robertson
[Choking back the tears] David told me you'd gone on holiday and couldn't take the baby. I never knew the truth... until I heard it on the news.
OOfficer
Sir, we're ready to go.
MMargaret
Did David really want our money?
No, all he wanted was revenge, because you married his brother. Calling the police was the only thing he thought you'd never dare to do.
[Noticing Taggart has a dourer expression than usual] You ought to look pleased!
Because we got it right? I was happier when we were wrong.
