1 00:00:00,043 --> 00:00:03,403 'It is now five days since the Labour MP John Stonehouse 2 00:00:03,443 --> 00:00:05,203 'disappeared off this beach in Florida...' 3 00:00:06,603 --> 00:00:09,043 I just wondered if you'd... heard anything? 4 00:00:09,083 --> 00:00:11,683 Nothing at all, I'm afraid. 5 00:00:11,723 --> 00:00:14,803 We have reason to suppose that this isn't your real name. 6 00:00:14,843 --> 00:00:17,043 Who's Dums, Joe? 7 00:00:17,083 --> 00:00:18,163 CRIES 8 00:00:18,203 --> 00:00:20,683 We can't have one of our MPs faking his own death 9 00:00:20,723 --> 00:00:23,003 and then reappearing on the other side of the world! 10 00:00:23,043 --> 00:00:26,803 He is our majority, Betty. He has to be made to see sense. 11 00:00:26,843 --> 00:00:29,283 Maybe it was me you, er, you really wanted to get away from? 12 00:00:29,323 --> 00:00:31,043 No, of course not! 13 00:00:31,083 --> 00:00:33,363 How marvellous to see you both! 14 00:00:33,403 --> 00:00:37,043 I thought we were going to be together! The two of us! 15 00:00:37,083 --> 00:00:39,043 It's just a few details to iron out. 16 00:00:39,083 --> 00:00:43,203 John Stonehouse, I have an order for your extradition 17 00:00:43,243 --> 00:00:48,123 to the United Kingdom to face 15 charges of forgery, theft and fraud. 18 00:00:56,363 --> 00:01:01,523 So as you know, Mr Stonehouse, this programme is about people 19 00:01:01,563 --> 00:01:04,763 who have gone missing in mysterious circumstances. 20 00:01:04,803 --> 00:01:11,483 Now, it's possible that some of our viewers might not know who you are. 21 00:01:12,963 --> 00:01:15,883 Really? Do you think so? 22 00:01:17,043 --> 00:01:19,163 It is possible. 23 00:01:19,203 --> 00:01:21,883 So it's very important to tell your story 24 00:01:21,923 --> 00:01:25,403 as simply and clearly as you can. 25 00:01:25,443 --> 00:01:27,803 Simply. Clearly. 26 00:01:27,843 --> 00:01:29,523 Got it. 27 00:02:01,483 --> 00:02:04,283 Mr Stonehouse! Mr Stonehouse! 28 00:02:04,323 --> 00:02:07,203 How does it feel to be finally out on bail, Mr Stonehouse? 29 00:02:07,243 --> 00:02:09,563 I have no complaints about the way I've been treated. 30 00:02:09,603 --> 00:02:12,043 No, my accommodation was quite satisfactory 31 00:02:12,083 --> 00:02:14,603 and the food unexpectedly nutritious. 32 00:02:14,643 --> 00:02:17,723 What I-What I would take issue with, though, is the, erm... 33 00:02:17,763 --> 00:02:22,283 is the way in which my applications for bail have been repeatedly denied 34 00:02:22,323 --> 00:02:24,563 in a manner in which I can only conclude as, erm, 35 00:02:24,603 --> 00:02:25,883 politically motivated. 36 00:02:25,923 --> 00:02:28,243 It was the... It was the humbug and hypocrisy 37 00:02:28,283 --> 00:02:31,883 that I witnessed in politics that caused my breakdown, 38 00:02:31,923 --> 00:02:34,923 and now it's that hypocrisy and humbug 39 00:02:34,963 --> 00:02:38,803 that is trying to deny me now a fair hearing. Thank you. 40 00:02:38,843 --> 00:02:41,923 Did you have a message you'd like to send to the public? 41 00:02:41,963 --> 00:02:43,843 Wake up, England! 42 00:02:43,883 --> 00:02:44,963 Thank you. 43 00:02:45,003 --> 00:02:47,003 CLAMOURING 44 00:02:51,723 --> 00:02:53,763 Hello, darling. 45 00:02:58,803 --> 00:03:00,403 HE CHUCKLES 46 00:03:00,443 --> 00:03:03,843 Welcome home. Welcome home. Welcome home, Dad. 47 00:03:03,883 --> 00:03:06,443 Oh, thank you! Oh, Lord! Look at that! 48 00:03:06,483 --> 00:03:08,843 Look at that. That's wonderful. 49 00:03:08,883 --> 00:03:11,283 Ah! Wonderful to be back. 50 00:03:11,323 --> 00:03:13,003 CHUCKLES 51 00:03:13,043 --> 00:03:19,403 Erm, yes, even-even though it took an absurdly long time to-to... 52 00:03:19,443 --> 00:03:21,483 to sort out the, er, 53 00:03:21,523 --> 00:03:26,123 the-the misunderstandings surrounding my case, 54 00:03:26,163 --> 00:03:27,723 it... I have to say, 55 00:03:27,763 --> 00:03:32,123 I found the experience extraordinarily interesting. 56 00:03:32,163 --> 00:03:36,443 Talking to people, as one does, and lending an ear, 57 00:03:36,483 --> 00:03:41,083 it became obvious that-that-that a lot of them, the vast majority, 58 00:03:41,123 --> 00:03:45,443 I daresay, don't deserve to be in prison. 59 00:03:45,483 --> 00:03:47,123 They don't deserve it. 60 00:03:47,163 --> 00:03:49,563 They're there through no fault of their own, 61 00:03:49,603 --> 00:03:55,243 and through an unfortunate series of...of...of... 62 00:03:55,283 --> 00:03:58,363 Misunderstandings? Misunderstandings. 63 00:03:58,403 --> 00:03:59,883 Exactly so! 64 00:04:02,163 --> 00:04:06,123 RADIO: 'Demonstrations are currently being held up and down the country. 65 00:04:06,163 --> 00:04:08,603 'In other news: Six weeks after his sensational return 66 00:04:08,643 --> 00:04:12,443 'to the UK, MP John Stonehouse was released on bail from Brixton prison 67 00:04:12,483 --> 00:04:13,483 'this morning, 68 00:04:13,523 --> 00:04:16,043 'effectively holding the fate of the Government in his hands.' 69 00:04:16,083 --> 00:04:17,483 SHE TURNS RADIO OFF 70 00:04:31,563 --> 00:04:33,363 Just like old times. 71 00:04:35,803 --> 00:04:37,723 Not quite. 72 00:04:40,203 --> 00:04:42,763 I know the conditions of your bail 73 00:04:42,803 --> 00:04:44,643 forbid you from seeing Sheila Buckley, 74 00:04:44,683 --> 00:04:48,603 but let me make my position perfectly clear. 75 00:04:50,003 --> 00:04:54,843 You are not to see her again, either now or in the future, 76 00:04:54,883 --> 00:04:57,163 in or outside of work. 77 00:04:58,283 --> 00:05:00,043 Is that understood? 78 00:05:01,123 --> 00:05:02,683 Absolutely! 79 00:05:02,723 --> 00:05:04,603 One hundred percent. 80 00:05:09,643 --> 00:05:10,963 Hm. 81 00:05:28,363 --> 00:05:30,083 CLEARS HIS THROAT 82 00:05:30,123 --> 00:05:33,723 I think I'm just going to pop out for a quick stroll, 83 00:05:33,763 --> 00:05:36,963 if you don't mind? Just to clear my head. 84 00:05:38,363 --> 00:05:39,483 Hm. 85 00:06:51,323 --> 00:06:55,443 BARBARA TALKS QUIETLY: I just don't know what the best thing to do is. 86 00:06:55,483 --> 00:06:59,643 I know people are saying that he's making a laughing stock of us. 87 00:06:59,683 --> 00:07:01,763 All of us. 88 00:07:01,803 --> 00:07:06,723 I just want to do whatever possible to keep the family together, 89 00:07:06,763 --> 00:07:11,563 try to act normally, no matter how abnormal the situation is. 90 00:07:13,363 --> 00:07:15,723 Well, that's very reassuring. 91 00:07:15,763 --> 00:07:17,443 Thank you. 92 00:07:17,483 --> 00:07:20,683 No, it-it means a lot, really. 93 00:07:22,203 --> 00:07:25,443 All right, well, er... better go. 94 00:07:25,483 --> 00:07:27,163 Speak soon. 95 00:07:27,203 --> 00:07:28,603 Bye. 96 00:07:32,603 --> 00:07:35,123 Good morning, darling! SHE YELPS 97 00:07:35,163 --> 00:07:36,723 Oh! 98 00:07:42,243 --> 00:07:46,443 The Ayes to the right, three hundred and sixteen. 99 00:07:46,483 --> 00:07:49,763 The Noes to the left, three hundred and sixteen. 100 00:07:49,803 --> 00:07:51,363 CHEERING 101 00:07:52,803 --> 00:07:56,483 The Ayes to the right, three hundred and sixteen. 102 00:07:56,523 --> 00:07:59,883 The Noes to the left, three hundred and sixteen. 103 00:07:59,923 --> 00:08:03,163 CHEERING 104 00:08:03,203 --> 00:08:05,683 Order. Order! 105 00:08:06,923 --> 00:08:11,243 That's the second time in a week that Stonehouse has defied the whips 106 00:08:11,283 --> 00:08:14,123 and missed the vote, Prime Minister. 107 00:08:15,923 --> 00:08:17,683 Prime Minister? 108 00:08:20,443 --> 00:08:23,523 Tell me, Betty... 109 00:08:23,563 --> 00:08:26,443 do you ever wonder what happens... 110 00:08:26,483 --> 00:08:28,163 afterwards? 111 00:08:29,403 --> 00:08:30,963 Afterwards, Prime Minister? 112 00:08:31,003 --> 00:08:33,083 You know, Goodnight Vienna and all that. 113 00:08:34,403 --> 00:08:40,923 Do the lucky ones, or the virtuous ones, really go to a better place? 114 00:08:42,683 --> 00:08:44,803 Do you mean the House of Lords, Prime Minister? 115 00:08:44,843 --> 00:08:47,723 HE CHUCKLES 116 00:08:47,763 --> 00:08:51,443 Maybe I do, Betty. Maybe I do. 117 00:08:51,483 --> 00:08:54,083 John Stonehouse, Prime Minister... 118 00:08:55,243 --> 00:08:56,963 If he misses another vote, 119 00:08:57,003 --> 00:08:59,603 then the Tories could table a motion of no confidence, 120 00:08:59,643 --> 00:09:02,283 and if that happens, we'll be well and truly... 121 00:09:02,323 --> 00:09:04,043 I know exactly where we'll be, Betty. 122 00:09:04,083 --> 00:09:05,923 Let me see if I've got this straight. 123 00:09:05,963 --> 00:09:07,363 In order to stay in power, 124 00:09:07,403 --> 00:09:09,883 we need the support of someone who's either off his rocker 125 00:09:09,923 --> 00:09:13,243 or pretending to be off his rocker, or else sufficiently off his rocker 126 00:09:13,283 --> 00:09:16,043 not to be able to tell whether he's really off his rocker or not. 127 00:09:16,083 --> 00:09:17,883 There, does that about cover it? 128 00:09:17,923 --> 00:09:19,643 Yes. 129 00:09:20,883 --> 00:09:24,963 It's time to bring the awkward sod back to heel. 130 00:09:55,923 --> 00:09:57,323 Hello, darling. 131 00:10:01,323 --> 00:10:03,483 You're late. 132 00:10:03,523 --> 00:10:06,243 Well, you know what it's like when you, er... 133 00:10:06,283 --> 00:10:10,763 meet old chums and start, er... chatting away and... 134 00:10:12,803 --> 00:10:15,243 ..chewing the fat. 135 00:10:15,283 --> 00:10:17,523 Time flies, so... 136 00:10:36,123 --> 00:10:37,923 Just, er... 137 00:10:40,563 --> 00:10:42,363 ..clear my head. 138 00:10:52,043 --> 00:10:57,003 Yes, of course you're scared, darling. That's perfectly natural. 139 00:10:58,283 --> 00:11:02,203 No, I don't expect you to wait indefinitely. Absolutely not. 140 00:11:02,243 --> 00:11:05,123 No, no, no. It's just a matter of timing. 141 00:11:07,443 --> 00:11:09,083 'Darling. Hello? Are you there?' 142 00:11:09,123 --> 00:11:10,163 Yes. 143 00:11:10,203 --> 00:11:12,363 'Oh, it's all right. I thought we'd been cut off.' 144 00:11:14,323 --> 00:11:16,403 I miss my Dums... 145 00:11:16,443 --> 00:11:18,563 'I miss my Dums, too. 146 00:11:18,603 --> 00:11:21,563 'Terribly. Terribly. It's like an ache.' 147 00:11:21,603 --> 00:11:23,523 What sort of an ache? 148 00:11:25,363 --> 00:11:27,443 Just a... 149 00:11:27,483 --> 00:11:31,083 Just a sort of all-over sort of ache. 150 00:11:35,603 --> 00:11:38,123 I miss the touch of you. 151 00:11:38,163 --> 00:11:40,963 'Feeling you beside me. 152 00:11:41,003 --> 00:11:44,043 'Your arms wrapped around me.' 153 00:11:44,083 --> 00:11:45,363 Do you? 154 00:11:45,403 --> 00:11:47,163 'Mmm.' 155 00:11:47,203 --> 00:11:49,523 And I miss the things you do to me. 156 00:11:51,123 --> 00:11:55,403 What-What sort of things? 157 00:11:55,443 --> 00:11:58,163 The way you make me forget myself. 158 00:12:01,763 --> 00:12:03,523 Do I? 159 00:12:03,563 --> 00:12:05,763 You know you do. 160 00:12:05,803 --> 00:12:07,683 'Just be patient, my love.' 161 00:12:07,723 --> 00:12:09,683 Just for a little while longer. 162 00:12:09,723 --> 00:12:12,563 I promise you, nothing can stand in our way. 163 00:12:13,763 --> 00:12:16,283 SHE SIGHS 164 00:12:17,403 --> 00:12:20,243 Bye. Bye, darling. Bye. Bye. 165 00:12:46,883 --> 00:12:48,123 Before I call upon 166 00:12:48,163 --> 00:12:50,483 the Right Honourable Gentleman for Walsall North 167 00:12:50,523 --> 00:12:55,123 to make a personal statement, I want to make one thing clear. 168 00:12:55,163 --> 00:12:58,643 In light of his particular circumstances, 169 00:12:58,683 --> 00:13:02,643 he must stick to the wording of his prepared statement. 170 00:13:02,683 --> 00:13:05,763 I will not tolerate any deviations. 171 00:13:07,563 --> 00:13:11,643 I am very grateful, Mr Speaker, for agreeing to my request. 172 00:13:11,683 --> 00:13:12,683 The, erm... 173 00:13:12,723 --> 00:13:14,723 The events surrounding my disappearance 174 00:13:14,763 --> 00:13:17,363 have caused a great deal of press interest. 175 00:13:17,403 --> 00:13:20,323 Erm... enormous press interest... 176 00:13:20,363 --> 00:13:23,843 all round the world, and I feel I owe it to the House 177 00:13:23,883 --> 00:13:26,763 to offer an explanation for my... my behaviour. 178 00:13:26,803 --> 00:13:28,923 CLEARS HIS THROAT 179 00:13:28,963 --> 00:13:30,923 In the latter half of last year, 180 00:13:30,963 --> 00:13:36,003 I suffered a complete mental breakdown. 181 00:13:37,043 --> 00:13:42,363 This breakdown was analysed by an eminent psychologist in Australia 182 00:13:42,403 --> 00:13:48,683 and described by her as a form of emotional suicide. 183 00:13:48,723 --> 00:13:51,883 It took the form of attempting to destroy 184 00:13:51,923 --> 00:13:55,443 the personality of John Stonehouse, 185 00:13:55,483 --> 00:14:01,043 because that personality had become intolerable to him. 186 00:14:01,083 --> 00:14:06,443 The nature and the scale of Stonehouse's idealism 187 00:14:06,483 --> 00:14:09,603 proved incompatible with the day-to-day realities 188 00:14:09,643 --> 00:14:11,163 of political life... 189 00:14:11,203 --> 00:14:12,523 The Right Honourable Gentleman 190 00:14:12,563 --> 00:14:14,963 is departing from his prepared statement. 191 00:14:15,003 --> 00:14:17,243 Mr Speaker, I made one or two small textual changes, 192 00:14:17,283 --> 00:14:18,723 just for clarity, nothing more. 193 00:14:18,763 --> 00:14:22,403 The Right Honourable Gentleman must say only what has been passed by me! 194 00:14:22,443 --> 00:14:28,683 Just being in the Chamber became physically painful 195 00:14:28,723 --> 00:14:33,243 because it was a reminder of my lost ideals... 196 00:14:34,523 --> 00:14:38,843 ..of my belief in the fundamental goodness of human nature, 197 00:14:38,883 --> 00:14:45,443 a belief that was sorely and continually tested 198 00:14:45,483 --> 00:14:49,323 by the behaviour of my parliamentary colleagues. 199 00:14:49,363 --> 00:14:51,523 MURMOURING 200 00:14:51,563 --> 00:14:53,883 During my time at Westminster, 201 00:14:53,923 --> 00:14:57,523 I have come to see the House of Commons 202 00:14:57,563 --> 00:15:03,203 as riddled with deceit, corruption, and hypocrisy. 203 00:15:03,243 --> 00:15:04,483 Once again, 204 00:15:04,523 --> 00:15:08,083 the Right Honourable Gentleman is departing from the agreed text! 205 00:15:08,123 --> 00:15:11,723 Parliamentary democracy, our great gift to the world, 206 00:15:11,763 --> 00:15:14,923 has been reduced to nothing more than a charade. 207 00:15:14,963 --> 00:15:18,203 Every five years the people of this country elect people 208 00:15:18,243 --> 00:15:19,843 to represent them. 209 00:15:19,883 --> 00:15:22,483 They do so in the belief that these representatives 210 00:15:22,523 --> 00:15:24,723 are acting in their own best interests. 211 00:15:24,763 --> 00:15:27,683 In reality, they're doing nothing of the sort. 212 00:15:27,723 --> 00:15:30,403 In reality, the vast majority of MPs - 213 00:15:30,443 --> 00:15:34,603 and I have to include myself in this - are no better than robots. 214 00:15:34,643 --> 00:15:37,683 I will not... I will not tolerate this any more! 215 00:15:37,723 --> 00:15:40,683 Docile, unthinking machines. 216 00:15:40,723 --> 00:15:44,443 Voting on issues they don't understand after debates 217 00:15:44,483 --> 00:15:46,203 which they do not listen to. 218 00:15:46,243 --> 00:15:49,883 Deluding themselves that they have anyone's welfare at heart 219 00:15:49,923 --> 00:15:52,243 except, perhaps, their own... 220 00:15:52,283 --> 00:15:55,163 The Right Honourable Gentleman will be seated. 221 00:16:05,003 --> 00:16:07,563 On the 15th of October last, 222 00:16:07,603 --> 00:16:11,603 Sheila Buckley wrote the following letter to John Stonehouse: 223 00:16:11,643 --> 00:16:15,563 "My darling Dums, 224 00:16:15,603 --> 00:16:19,483 "Whichever way you turn, I'll be there for you. 225 00:16:19,523 --> 00:16:24,523 "Rest assured that I will do anything in my power to help.' 226 00:16:26,803 --> 00:16:29,363 On the eighth of November last, 227 00:16:29,403 --> 00:16:33,443 John Stonehouse wrote the following letter to Sheila Buckley: 228 00:16:33,483 --> 00:16:35,723 "My darling Dums, 229 00:16:35,763 --> 00:16:39,323 "The thought of being with you is the only thing 230 00:16:39,363 --> 00:16:43,003 "that keeps me going through this vale of hardship." 231 00:16:49,923 --> 00:16:53,723 I find that there is a case to answer against both of you. 232 00:16:53,763 --> 00:16:54,963 As a result, 233 00:16:55,003 --> 00:17:00,443 you will be committed to the Central Criminal Court to stand your trial 234 00:17:00,483 --> 00:17:02,563 on charges of deception and theft. 235 00:17:18,603 --> 00:17:20,283 Barbara? 236 00:17:26,363 --> 00:17:28,283 BARBARA: You're sleeping in the spare room. 237 00:17:28,323 --> 00:17:30,123 SIGHS 238 00:19:00,723 --> 00:19:04,403 'The number you have dialled is not in service at this time.' 239 00:19:08,963 --> 00:19:13,043 RINGING 240 00:19:14,443 --> 00:19:16,563 Hello? 241 00:19:16,603 --> 00:19:18,443 Yes, this is he. 242 00:19:20,163 --> 00:19:22,723 Prime Minister! 243 00:19:22,763 --> 00:19:26,203 No, no, no, no, I wasn't asleep. 244 00:19:26,243 --> 00:19:28,563 No, far from it, in fact. 245 00:19:28,603 --> 00:19:30,083 Tomorrow? 246 00:19:30,123 --> 00:19:31,483 Yes, of course. 247 00:19:31,523 --> 00:19:32,723 Course. 248 00:19:33,723 --> 00:19:36,163 I heard your speech, John. 249 00:19:36,203 --> 00:19:38,883 Bit drastic, there's no getting away from that, 250 00:19:38,923 --> 00:19:42,763 but there was some good stuff in there. Food for thought. 251 00:19:45,203 --> 00:19:47,963 You and me, we may have had our spats, 252 00:19:48,003 --> 00:19:51,043 but beneath it all we're very alike. 253 00:19:51,083 --> 00:19:55,003 Both men of high ideals. Too high, possibly. 254 00:19:55,043 --> 00:19:57,523 Too trusting for our own good. 255 00:19:57,563 --> 00:19:59,883 Worn down by all the back-stabbing. 256 00:19:59,923 --> 00:20:02,363 That's what I was trying to get at. 257 00:20:02,403 --> 00:20:05,283 And you did get at it, John! Bang on the money. 258 00:20:05,323 --> 00:20:09,763 All the duplicity, the treachery of our so-called colleagues. 259 00:20:09,803 --> 00:20:11,883 The sheer bloody nastiness of them... 260 00:20:11,923 --> 00:20:14,843 Exactly so! Exactly! 261 00:20:14,883 --> 00:20:16,603 What a pair we are, eh? 262 00:20:16,643 --> 00:20:18,643 CHUCKLING 263 00:20:22,043 --> 00:20:24,523 That whole business in Miami... 264 00:20:24,563 --> 00:20:26,523 Again, a bit drastic. 265 00:20:26,563 --> 00:20:28,443 Well, more than a bit drastic, let's face it. 266 00:20:28,483 --> 00:20:31,163 But, erm, it couldn't have been easy for you. 267 00:20:31,203 --> 00:20:32,923 Took a lot of guts. 268 00:20:32,963 --> 00:20:36,803 Well, I really didn't feel like I had any choice. 269 00:20:36,843 --> 00:20:39,043 I'm sure you didn't, John. I'm sure you didn't. 270 00:20:40,923 --> 00:20:43,403 Something broke. 271 00:20:43,443 --> 00:20:45,723 Something broke inside. 272 00:20:45,763 --> 00:20:48,763 The old John Stonehouse... 273 00:20:48,803 --> 00:20:50,883 had to die. 274 00:20:52,323 --> 00:20:54,043 No, I can see that. 275 00:20:55,363 --> 00:20:56,763 Can you? 276 00:20:56,803 --> 00:20:58,283 Well, of course. 277 00:20:58,323 --> 00:21:00,883 Which of us truly knows who we really are? 278 00:21:00,923 --> 00:21:03,163 Take me, for instance. What do you see? 279 00:21:05,363 --> 00:21:06,883 What am I, John? 280 00:21:09,763 --> 00:21:13,883 Well, you-you're the Prime Minister, Prime Minister. 281 00:21:13,923 --> 00:21:15,323 Don't I know it! 282 00:21:16,643 --> 00:21:18,803 No, I mean apart from all that. 283 00:21:20,683 --> 00:21:22,683 I'll tell you what I am. 284 00:21:24,123 --> 00:21:27,363 I'm the big fat spider in the corner of the room. 285 00:21:28,963 --> 00:21:31,043 Sometimes I speak when I'm asleep. 286 00:21:32,403 --> 00:21:35,083 Sometimes I may tell you to go to the Charing Cross Road 287 00:21:35,123 --> 00:21:36,963 and kick a blind man. 288 00:21:38,443 --> 00:21:40,483 Would you do that for me? 289 00:21:43,043 --> 00:21:46,323 Well, if you really wanted me to, Prime Minister. 290 00:21:49,683 --> 00:21:52,163 I knew I could rely on you... 291 00:21:52,203 --> 00:21:54,163 when the chips were down. 292 00:21:56,883 --> 00:21:59,563 So, then... 293 00:21:59,603 --> 00:22:01,923 no more silly buggers, eh? 294 00:22:03,763 --> 00:22:06,363 No more silly buggers. 295 00:22:06,403 --> 00:22:08,683 That's the spirit. 296 00:22:08,723 --> 00:22:11,723 Well, I won't take up any more of your valuable time. 297 00:22:11,763 --> 00:22:13,723 I have enjoyed our little chin-wag. 298 00:22:13,763 --> 00:22:15,123 Thank you. 299 00:22:26,163 --> 00:22:28,163 You're quite right, of course. 300 00:22:29,363 --> 00:22:31,043 Prime Minister? 301 00:22:31,083 --> 00:22:33,523 What you said about politics. 302 00:22:33,563 --> 00:22:35,923 About what it does to you. 303 00:22:35,963 --> 00:22:38,883 The price you pay... 304 00:22:38,923 --> 00:22:43,723 After a while, something does get broken. 305 00:22:47,723 --> 00:22:50,803 'Following his defection to the United States last month, 306 00:22:50,843 --> 00:22:53,803 'the former Czech spymaster Alexander Marek 307 00:22:53,843 --> 00:22:56,763 'has given his first television interview.' 308 00:22:56,803 --> 00:22:59,803 'Can you tell me what your duties were at the Czech embassy?' 309 00:23:02,003 --> 00:23:06,083 'I was in charge of recruiting politicians.' 310 00:23:06,123 --> 00:23:09,683 'Recruiting British politicians to spy for the Czechs?' 311 00:23:09,723 --> 00:23:11,323 'Huh.' 312 00:23:11,363 --> 00:23:14,323 'And how did you do that?' 313 00:23:17,363 --> 00:23:18,523 'Sex. 314 00:23:19,803 --> 00:23:22,323 'That was the most effective way. 315 00:23:23,523 --> 00:23:27,923 'Erm... One of our agents would seduce the politician. 316 00:23:27,963 --> 00:23:32,843 'We would film him having sex with a hidden camera, 317 00:23:32,883 --> 00:23:37,963 'and then we would tell him that if he didn't cooperate, 318 00:23:38,003 --> 00:23:41,963 'then we would send the film to his wife.' 319 00:23:43,283 --> 00:23:47,003 'And how senior were these politicians?' 320 00:23:47,043 --> 00:23:49,363 'Very senior.' 321 00:23:50,603 --> 00:23:55,723 'Are you saying that ministers of the Crown were Czech spies?' 322 00:23:55,763 --> 00:23:58,843 'Well... only one.' 323 00:24:00,403 --> 00:24:05,923 'And are you able to identify this senior politician?' 324 00:24:09,003 --> 00:24:10,323 'Um...' 325 00:24:22,923 --> 00:24:25,403 SIGHS 326 00:24:35,323 --> 00:24:37,123 SHOUTS: I'm going out! 327 00:26:32,443 --> 00:26:33,803 What are you doing? 328 00:26:33,843 --> 00:26:35,803 You know we're not supposed to see each other. 329 00:26:35,843 --> 00:26:37,963 I know. I know, I'm sorry, darling. 330 00:26:38,003 --> 00:26:39,683 I just couldn't bear not to see you. 331 00:26:39,723 --> 00:26:42,643 Anyway, I thought you'd be at the House of Commons. 332 00:26:42,683 --> 00:26:45,003 Really? Why? 333 00:26:45,043 --> 00:26:48,083 'The Prime Minister's resignation has caused widespread astonishment. 334 00:26:48,123 --> 00:26:49,603 'Suggestions that he might be ill, 335 00:26:49,643 --> 00:26:51,643 'even that he might have become disillusioned, 336 00:26:51,683 --> 00:26:53,723 'have been dismissed as unfounded speculation. 337 00:26:53,763 --> 00:26:55,323 'What's not in doubt, though, 338 00:26:55,363 --> 00:26:58,403 'is that his resignation has plunged the country into a fresh crisis. 339 00:26:58,443 --> 00:27:01,683 'Having lost its majority in the House of Commons, the Government...' 340 00:27:01,723 --> 00:27:03,083 But I just saw him! 341 00:27:03,123 --> 00:27:05,163 Who? Wilson. Yesterday. 342 00:27:05,203 --> 00:27:07,123 I went to see him yesterday. 343 00:27:07,163 --> 00:27:08,763 What did he say? 344 00:27:08,803 --> 00:27:11,083 He said that he understood. 345 00:27:11,123 --> 00:27:13,243 That he felt the same way as I do. 346 00:27:15,403 --> 00:27:17,523 This is all down to me! 347 00:27:27,803 --> 00:27:30,203 Mmm. 348 00:27:30,243 --> 00:27:32,323 Well, omelette, of course, 349 00:27:32,363 --> 00:27:37,163 but there's something... something unusual in there, 350 00:27:37,203 --> 00:27:39,483 something I wouldn't have expected. 351 00:27:39,523 --> 00:27:41,363 Give up? 352 00:27:41,403 --> 00:27:42,963 I give up. 353 00:27:43,003 --> 00:27:44,683 Anchovies! 354 00:27:44,723 --> 00:27:46,643 Anchovies! 355 00:27:46,683 --> 00:27:48,963 I would never have guessed that. 356 00:27:49,003 --> 00:27:52,163 How clever you are! You're so clever. 357 00:27:52,203 --> 00:27:53,283 Mm! 358 00:27:54,443 --> 00:27:57,123 You've got to go. 359 00:27:57,163 --> 00:27:59,323 I know. I know... 360 00:27:59,363 --> 00:28:01,723 I know. I just can't see the point any more. 361 00:28:01,763 --> 00:28:03,083 Argh! 362 00:28:10,403 --> 00:28:12,563 People often ask me, 363 00:28:12,603 --> 00:28:16,963 what does the English National Party stand for? 364 00:28:17,003 --> 00:28:18,843 My answer is simple. 365 00:28:18,883 --> 00:28:23,683 We stand for everything that makes England great: 366 00:28:23,723 --> 00:28:28,243 its tolerance, its good manners, its love of nature, 367 00:28:28,283 --> 00:28:34,203 and of course its rich and diverse folk-dancing heritage. 368 00:28:34,243 --> 00:28:40,443 At this time of great uncertainty, we believe that a return 369 00:28:40,483 --> 00:28:46,163 to traditional virtues represents our best hope for the future. 370 00:28:46,203 --> 00:28:51,763 So my friends, don't delay, join with us today - 371 00:28:51,803 --> 00:28:55,803 and Let's Make England Merry Again! 372 00:28:55,843 --> 00:28:57,843 MUSIC PLAYS 373 00:29:32,243 --> 00:29:35,163 "I will not continue... 374 00:29:35,203 --> 00:29:38,603 "I am not prepared to continue... 375 00:29:39,963 --> 00:29:42,323 "With the Prime Minister's resignation, 376 00:29:42,363 --> 00:29:47,163 "I cannot in all conscience continue to support a government 377 00:29:47,203 --> 00:29:50,243 "I disagree with on so many issues, 378 00:29:50,283 --> 00:29:52,883 "a government whose only concern... 379 00:29:54,163 --> 00:29:59,323 "..whose sole concern seems to be surviving from week to week... 380 00:30:03,563 --> 00:30:09,843 "I have therefore decided to resign the Labour Whip and join the..." 381 00:30:09,883 --> 00:30:12,403 English National Party? 382 00:30:12,443 --> 00:30:13,923 John, they're fascists! 383 00:30:13,963 --> 00:30:16,163 No, no, that's the National Front. 384 00:30:16,203 --> 00:30:18,323 The English National Party is quite different. 385 00:30:18,363 --> 00:30:19,603 What do they believe in? 386 00:30:19,643 --> 00:30:22,003 A devolved English Parliament... 387 00:30:22,043 --> 00:30:24,763 Erm... abolition of income tax... 388 00:30:24,803 --> 00:30:26,523 Morris dancing... 389 00:30:27,643 --> 00:30:30,003 And do you know, I've-I've also... 390 00:30:30,043 --> 00:30:32,803 I've also been giving a lot of thought to the future. 391 00:30:32,843 --> 00:30:35,363 After all this has been sorted out... John... 392 00:30:35,403 --> 00:30:38,043 ..and I have to say I'm feeling quite optimistic about things, 393 00:30:38,083 --> 00:30:39,683 about things in general. John! 394 00:30:39,723 --> 00:30:41,763 And of course, I don't deny that there are problems. 395 00:30:41,803 --> 00:30:43,403 Practical problems. Money, for one. 396 00:30:43,443 --> 00:30:46,843 And, of course, there's the children... John! But I really do... 397 00:30:52,363 --> 00:30:55,763 Let's not look too far into the future, shall we? 398 00:30:55,803 --> 00:30:57,403 Right. 399 00:30:57,443 --> 00:30:59,443 You know what they say about happiness. 400 00:31:01,243 --> 00:31:04,923 You have to snatch at it before it flies away. 401 00:31:07,763 --> 00:31:10,323 I hadn't heard that, as a matter of fact. 402 00:31:12,883 --> 00:31:15,363 Snatch at it, you say? 403 00:31:16,643 --> 00:31:18,523 Whoo, there it goes... 404 00:31:20,083 --> 00:31:22,603 Whoo, gone round again. I've got it. 405 00:31:31,963 --> 00:31:34,563 Course you're right, darling, as always. 406 00:31:36,123 --> 00:31:38,323 I do know what happiness is. 407 00:31:39,883 --> 00:31:41,603 It's being right here with you. 408 00:31:45,603 --> 00:31:48,203 You won't do anything rash, will you? 409 00:31:48,243 --> 00:31:49,883 What do you mean? 410 00:31:49,923 --> 00:31:51,963 In court. 411 00:31:52,003 --> 00:31:54,003 You won't do anything rash. 412 00:31:55,643 --> 00:31:57,443 Darling, you have my word! 413 00:32:03,963 --> 00:32:05,363 All rise. 414 00:32:13,123 --> 00:32:14,603 You may sit. 415 00:32:18,443 --> 00:32:22,083 Your Honour, after careful consideration... 416 00:32:23,283 --> 00:32:26,843 ..I have decided to dispense with my legal team... 417 00:32:26,883 --> 00:32:28,163 GASPING 418 00:32:28,203 --> 00:32:31,643 ..my extremely efficient and able legal team 419 00:32:31,683 --> 00:32:34,243 and conduct my own defence. 420 00:32:35,723 --> 00:32:38,683 Given the complexities of my case, 421 00:32:38,723 --> 00:32:42,523 and the frankly absurd nature 422 00:32:42,563 --> 00:32:44,563 of some of the charges against me... 423 00:32:46,043 --> 00:32:49,763 ..I feel that I am the only one who can give an accurate 424 00:32:49,803 --> 00:32:54,163 and unbiased account of what really happened. 425 00:32:54,203 --> 00:32:59,443 Mr Stonehouse, I strongly advise you to reconsider your decision. 426 00:32:59,483 --> 00:33:01,123 In my experience, 427 00:33:01,163 --> 00:33:04,843 defendants who insist on conducting their own defence 428 00:33:04,883 --> 00:33:10,483 invariably end up doing themselves a lot more harm than good. 429 00:33:16,043 --> 00:33:18,723 Sit down, please. 430 00:33:35,963 --> 00:33:40,363 Mr Stonehouse, I warned you at the start of this trial 431 00:33:40,403 --> 00:33:43,163 that in choosing to conduct your own defence, 432 00:33:43,203 --> 00:33:45,723 you were making a grave mistake. 433 00:33:47,043 --> 00:33:51,643 No, Mr Stonehouse, I have heard more than enough from you. 434 00:33:51,683 --> 00:33:54,763 As a result of your constant interruptions, 435 00:33:54,803 --> 00:33:56,563 your meandering digressions 436 00:33:56,603 --> 00:34:00,923 and your insistence on contesting every tiny detail 437 00:34:00,963 --> 00:34:02,723 of the prosecution's case, 438 00:34:02,763 --> 00:34:05,963 a trial that was scheduled to last three weeks 439 00:34:06,003 --> 00:34:08,763 has dragged on for almost four months, 440 00:34:08,803 --> 00:34:12,883 at the end of which you have been found guilty 441 00:34:12,923 --> 00:34:18,323 on 18 of the 21 counts you faced. 442 00:34:18,363 --> 00:34:20,363 Throughout your trial, 443 00:34:20,403 --> 00:34:24,723 you have sought to lay the blame for what you insisted on calling 444 00:34:24,763 --> 00:34:30,443 your travails at the hands of almost anyone apart from yourself. 445 00:34:30,483 --> 00:34:35,363 However, I am quite satisfied that the blame is yours 446 00:34:35,403 --> 00:34:37,883 and yours alone. 447 00:34:37,923 --> 00:34:43,803 While I do not claim to be an expert in mental illness, 448 00:34:43,843 --> 00:34:48,083 I rather doubt if anyone committing emotional suicide 449 00:34:48,123 --> 00:34:51,523 has cynically committed fraud, 450 00:34:51,563 --> 00:34:56,483 obtained two false passports and hatched a sophisticated scheme 451 00:34:56,523 --> 00:35:00,523 to start a new life on the other side of the world. 452 00:35:00,563 --> 00:35:04,643 There are those who will say that your fall from grace 453 00:35:04,683 --> 00:35:06,963 is punishment enough. 454 00:35:07,003 --> 00:35:09,763 But given the severity of your offences, 455 00:35:09,803 --> 00:35:15,803 I believe I have no choice but to pass the maximum possible sentence. 456 00:35:16,843 --> 00:35:21,843 I am therefore sentencing you to seven years imprisonment. 457 00:35:21,883 --> 00:35:24,043 MURMOURING 458 00:35:25,163 --> 00:35:28,523 Sheila Buckley, while I have no doubt 459 00:35:28,563 --> 00:35:31,403 that you aided Mr Stonehouse in his plan, 460 00:35:31,443 --> 00:35:34,523 I am satisfied that you were prompted 461 00:35:34,563 --> 00:35:38,683 more by your devotion to him than by any malicious intent. 462 00:35:39,723 --> 00:35:45,203 I am therefore giving you a two-year suspended sentence. 463 00:36:06,043 --> 00:36:08,163 Hello. John Stonehouse! 464 00:36:14,843 --> 00:36:16,963 I don't suppose there's a hanger? 465 00:36:33,603 --> 00:36:35,083 Good night. 466 00:36:36,723 --> 00:36:41,683 I tried to bring in some food, but I'm afraid they took it away. 467 00:36:41,723 --> 00:36:44,003 For examination, they said. 468 00:36:44,043 --> 00:36:46,403 Probably looking for bolt-cutters. 469 00:36:48,003 --> 00:36:50,403 No, don't worry about bringing me anything, darling. 470 00:36:50,443 --> 00:36:52,763 Just you being here is more than enough. 471 00:36:52,803 --> 00:36:56,163 Just being able to touch you, even over this... 472 00:36:56,203 --> 00:36:58,443 horrid table... 473 00:36:59,683 --> 00:37:01,683 Do you know the most extraordinary thing? 474 00:37:02,843 --> 00:37:05,723 Since I've been here, I feel - 475 00:37:05,763 --> 00:37:08,323 and I know this is gonna sound ridiculous - 476 00:37:08,363 --> 00:37:11,123 but for the first time in my life I feel free. 477 00:37:11,163 --> 00:37:16,083 It's incredibly liberating being treated as just one of the crowd, 478 00:37:16,123 --> 00:37:18,483 just as an ordinary human being. 479 00:37:21,603 --> 00:37:24,083 You'll never be ordinary for me. 480 00:37:25,163 --> 00:37:28,843 Well, there's ordinary and ordinary, of course. 481 00:37:31,963 --> 00:37:35,523 What do you think prompted your husband's behaviour? 482 00:37:36,883 --> 00:37:39,963 Well, that's a very difficult question to answer. 483 00:37:40,003 --> 00:37:42,083 Er... 484 00:37:42,123 --> 00:37:45,723 I have been reading about something called the male menopause, 485 00:37:45,763 --> 00:37:49,603 and I... and I wonder if that might have something to do with it. 486 00:37:51,843 --> 00:37:56,363 May I ask, what are your feelings for your husband? 487 00:37:59,363 --> 00:38:01,563 Sadness... 488 00:38:01,603 --> 00:38:03,363 Pity. 489 00:38:04,683 --> 00:38:06,883 And... anger? 490 00:38:10,803 --> 00:38:12,603 Yes... 491 00:38:12,643 --> 00:38:14,243 Anger. 492 00:38:17,003 --> 00:38:19,363 "Intolerable"? 493 00:38:19,403 --> 00:38:21,043 I'm sorry. 494 00:38:21,083 --> 00:38:24,963 "The petitioner in the divorce action, Barbara Susan Stonehouse, 495 00:38:25,003 --> 00:38:29,363 "finds it intolerable to live with the respondent, 496 00:38:29,403 --> 00:38:31,403 "John Thomson Stonehouse." 497 00:38:32,883 --> 00:38:36,803 It's funny what we choose to focus on, isn't it? 498 00:38:36,843 --> 00:38:40,763 You see, the key word there for me is "adultery". 499 00:38:45,723 --> 00:38:48,923 But then so much of a marriage is what you choose not to notice. 500 00:38:52,723 --> 00:38:55,283 Did you really think I didn't know, John? 501 00:38:57,323 --> 00:38:59,283 About your secrets? 502 00:38:59,323 --> 00:39:01,563 The things you tried to hide. 503 00:39:03,003 --> 00:39:06,363 I saw what I wanted to see, at least to begin with. 504 00:39:10,083 --> 00:39:12,483 But do you know the strangest thing? 505 00:39:13,683 --> 00:39:15,603 Is I think you knew. 506 00:39:15,643 --> 00:39:17,683 On-On some level, 507 00:39:17,723 --> 00:39:23,283 I-I think you knew that I could see through all your-your little veils, 508 00:39:23,323 --> 00:39:28,403 and you didn't like it. You didn't like it one little bit. 509 00:39:29,763 --> 00:39:34,683 And so you-you kept squirreling more and more things away, 510 00:39:34,723 --> 00:39:36,523 bigger and bigger secrets 511 00:39:36,563 --> 00:39:40,603 until finally you came to the biggest secret of the lot. 512 00:39:42,923 --> 00:39:45,563 Well, I didn't see that one coming. 513 00:39:49,443 --> 00:39:51,563 No. You, er... 514 00:39:51,603 --> 00:39:53,643 You really got me there. 515 00:40:00,163 --> 00:40:02,003 I do... 516 00:40:02,043 --> 00:40:03,843 I do love you, you know. 517 00:40:03,883 --> 00:40:05,883 SHE LAUGHS 518 00:40:11,643 --> 00:40:13,843 You know, for once, I actually believe you. 519 00:40:15,443 --> 00:40:20,323 You thought you could have it all, didn't you, John? 520 00:40:20,363 --> 00:40:22,883 Everything your heart desired. 521 00:40:26,043 --> 00:40:28,443 But in the end... 522 00:41:13,403 --> 00:41:15,203 Hello? 523 00:41:18,203 --> 00:41:19,803 Hello, everyone. 524 00:41:19,843 --> 00:41:21,363 I'm here! 525 00:41:23,403 --> 00:41:25,523 Where is everybody? 526 00:41:28,403 --> 00:41:30,483 Where have you all gone? 527 00:41:34,643 --> 00:41:36,643 HEARTBEAT 528 00:41:39,323 --> 00:41:43,443 Quick. Warden in. Warden. Warden! 529 00:41:43,483 --> 00:41:47,843 Warden! We need a warden in here! We need someone in here. 530 00:41:57,083 --> 00:41:59,843 PANTS 531 00:42:18,603 --> 00:42:19,803 Heart. 532 00:42:23,523 --> 00:42:25,443 You remember Sheila? 533 00:42:25,483 --> 00:42:26,883 She's a... 534 00:42:26,923 --> 00:42:28,843 friend of Dad's. 535 00:43:15,883 --> 00:43:17,923 Here we go again. 536 00:43:17,963 --> 00:43:20,923 It's the nightly bedtime story. 537 00:43:24,203 --> 00:43:26,083 Nearly there, John. 538 00:43:26,123 --> 00:43:27,683 Nearly there, Dave. 539 00:43:29,123 --> 00:43:31,443 How are you feeling? 540 00:43:34,723 --> 00:43:36,283 Happy. 541 00:43:36,323 --> 00:43:38,403 Happy and... 542 00:43:38,443 --> 00:43:40,163 thankful. 543 00:43:43,683 --> 00:43:45,643 Soppy sod. 544 00:45:05,083 --> 00:45:06,843 Goodbye, darling. See you this evening. 545 00:45:06,883 --> 00:45:08,403 Good luck! 546 00:45:08,443 --> 00:45:10,843 I don't want Daddy to go! 547 00:45:10,883 --> 00:45:14,763 Don't you worry, darling boy. I'll be back as soon as you know it, 548 00:45:14,803 --> 00:45:20,043 and I promise I will never, ever, ever go away again. 549 00:45:21,563 --> 00:45:28,083 # Maybe it is raining Where our train will ride 550 00:45:28,123 --> 00:45:34,963 # Oh the little travellers Are warm and snug inside 551 00:45:35,003 --> 00:45:41,563 # Rocking, rolling, riding Out along the bay 552 00:45:41,603 --> 00:45:48,563 # All bound for Morningtown Many miles away... # 553 00:45:50,123 --> 00:45:51,323 Bye. 554 00:46:17,283 --> 00:46:19,243 HE SIGHS 555 00:46:19,283 --> 00:46:21,083 Mr Stonehouse? 556 00:46:24,723 --> 00:46:26,563 Mr Stonehouse? 557 00:46:30,923 --> 00:46:32,643 Mr Stonehouse? 558 00:46:36,443 --> 00:46:38,403 Mr Stonehouse? 559 00:46:38,443 --> 00:46:40,083 Are you all right? 560 00:47:31,643 --> 00:47:33,643 Subtitles by accessibility@itv.com