David, Bill and others in “Unfinished Business”

I thought that was for your plants.

Oh... er... Just, er... testing. [Takes another swig. David sits at the kitchen table] You'll be off soon?

I get the impression people are trying to get rid of me.

[Chuckles as he joins David at the table] Made any plans yet? You know what I would do if I had your money? I'd go and live in Monte-Carlo.

Monte-Carlo?

Uh-huh. Always had a great fascination for Monte-Carlo. But I suppose I'll still be here... as long as Jo allows me.

I might go to London.

Aah, there's a city! Oh, I spent a good few years there.

Me and my brother had this... dream once. It was more than that... We were going to go into the car hire business, you know? Go tae London, buy a couple of flash cars... it never come off. Suppose I might go abroad - Spain, Portugal, France... [Alan enters]

Taggart's here to see you.

Tell him I don't want to talk to him.

You tell him.

You here?

I've got nothing to say to you.

You've said it all through the papers. Maybe that's the coward's way.

If I said what I really felt, it'd be libellous.

How long have you been here now? Two weeks? Sit down. [David does so in an armchair opposite Taggart.] You didn't come here just 'cos it was a place to stay... I need your help. [David scoffs.] You find that funny?

No. What I find funny is you coming here to ask me. Why should I help the police do a job they should'ha done nine years ago?

Why did O'Donnell bring her body back twenty miles from the lay-by to Dalmally Road? How could he use Jo Peebles' car without her suspecting anything? Why did she trust him so much? You've got more opportunity to talk to her than I have.

You think she knew?

There were two other people in that house - George Cunningham and Jo Peebles. Cunningham's been in and out of mental hospitals for years. I doubt he'll tell us anything.

Are you saying Jo can?

[Pauses] Well... let's say there's too much that doesn't make sense about what O'Donnell did and why he did it.

There's a lot that didn't make sense about what I was supposed to have done. I didn't hear you asking those questions then.

Why did you confess to me? [The telephone rings in another room.]

You've never been interrogated have you?

Ah, no. No.

I just went along wi' it, to get some sleep.

...Sorry.

Well, you're nine years too late.

[To David] You. Phone. [He leaves.]

Hello?

Hello, David? It's Mike. Look, I need to talk. Somewhere private.