New Tricks s02e05 Episode Script
Creative Problem Solving
WOMAN: So, to sum up, Creative Problem Solving.
Techniques that allow us to move forward as individuals, as teams, as an organisation.
- Right.
- One last thing before we finish.
Ugh! Could you stand up, please? Right, you catch it, you come up with a different use for it.
If you get stuck, use the checklist.
Don´t censor.
Um Cut the bottom off, attach four strings, tie them to a silk canopy.
- Hot air balloon.
- Great.
Sterilise, crush, melt and mince 100 bottles, providing fibrous polyester strands, which we weave into a fleece.
No, I´m sorry, me brain´s gone blank.
Relax, use the checklist.
You have an idea, Gerry.
I haven´t.
If it´s sexual, it´s perfectly normal.
No, I´m sorry, sweetheart, nothing.
- Don´t block, Gerry.
- I´m not.
- You have the answer.
- I haven´t.
- What are you holding? - Eh? - Say it, Gerry.
- What? What´s in your hand? It´s a bottle, for Christ´s sake! It´s all right, it´s okay Doesn´t really matter if you´re old and grey It´s all right, I say, it´s okay Listen to what I say It´s all right, doing fine Doesn´t really matter if the sun don´t shine It´s all right, I say, it´s okay We´re getting to the end of the day I´m really flattered you asked me, Elise, but you understand it is taking a big risk and I want to be sure you´ve thought about the consequences.
Absolutely.
Don´t want time to think about it? I know what I want, Jack.
Always have.
(MOBILE RINGING) Sorry.
Oh, shit.
- Hello? - SANDRA: Where the hell are you, Jack? - SANDRA: Thanks, take care.
- Thank you.
- Bye.
- Bye-bye.
- Hello.
- Goodbye.
Sorry I´m late.
You´re not just late, you missed the entire workshop.
Oh, dear, what a pity.
Now, what do you think this is? Crystallised narcotic? You apply heat, it dissolves into a liquid, allow that to evaporate, leaving a powder ready for sale on the streets.
JACK: No.
It´s an extremely rare, uncut red diamond.
Didn´t know you could get red diamonds.
- Where did you get it from? - Social worker, Elise Allen.
She recovered it from a Peabody flat in 1982.
The tenant, John Newman, died, leaving no traceable next of kin.
She was responsible for clearing his flat.
- Did she know it was a diamond? - Elise thought it was a crystal.
Go on, how much? Astound me.
Well, for insurance purposes, say £15 million.
What? - Give it here.
- 15 million for a lump of carbon? For a piece of history.
That diamond was around before the dinosaurs.
- Here.
- Oh! Oh, bloody hell! A salute would suffice, guys.
- Where´s the diamond? - JACK: It was stolen.
- What? - Here it is.
Tosser.
In 1982, thieves broke into the Poultry vaults in the City.
Poultry vaults.
That rings a bell.
November the 14th, 1982.
They forced open 12 safety deposit boxes.
Got away with millions.
No one was caught.
Who officially owns it? Polestar Insurance made a £7.
5 million payout to a gentleman in 1983.
So officially, it´s theirs.
Furthermore, there were four smaller red diamonds, also uncut, also never found.
They were part of the same haul.
Yeah, but who was John Newman? And what was he doing with a stolen diamond? That is a case for UCOS.
John Newman was somehow connected with the Poultry vaults robbery.
He might even have done it.
- Nice pad.
- Yes.
Husband was a very successful architect.
He left her well cared for.
- So she´s single.
- Widowed.
Elise.
Elise Allen, this is Gerry Standing.
- Lovely to meet you.
- You, too.
- Come in.
- Thank you.
John Newman was peeling potatoes in his flat.
He had a heart attack and died.
- Who found him? - A WPC broke in and found him dead.
Any signs of forced entry, foul play, injuries? The coroner recorded natural causes.
He´d been on sickness benefit for two years.
- How long before they found him? - Not long.
The potato peelings blocked the sink, it overflowed and flooded the flat below.
Presumably, if there´s no next of kin, a load of stuff must get binned.
Ninety percent of it.
Anything of value goes to the Chancellor.
Unless, of course, it happens to be a £15 million red diamond.
I know I shouldn´t have taken it, but if I hadn´t, it would´ve been sitting at the bottom of a landfill.
Why did you take it? I was upset.
The sum total of a man´s life sitting there in five bin bags waiting to be dumped.
Did you get any feeling for the man? I mean, socially? Was he rich, poor? He had half a dozen handmade suits.
There were family photos, but none of his family or friends came forward.
- What about the funeral? - No one turned up.
So, when did you realise that the crystal was in fact a diamond? When I retired, I took a course in jewellery design.
The tools we used were the same as the ones in Newman´s box.
I started to wonder about the crystal.
There was a box? Ah! Got it! Thank you.
- Here we go.
- Thank you.
JACK: That´s John Newman.
SANDRA: There´s another roll of film here.
BRIAN: And these are jeweller´s tools.
He made regular trips from London to Antwerp and Geneva.
Sell the diamonds in Antwerp, deposit the money in a Swiss bank account.
This airline ticket´s for Antwerp, December the 7th, 1982.
A trip to sell the stolen diamond? Hold on.
Problem.
This was also stamped in Antwerp Airport, The day of the robbery.
So John Newman couldn´t have stolen the diamond.
But was possibly connected to the person who did.
Okay.
So we need to find out who the original suspects were and establish a connection with Newman.
Maybe there´s somebody on the Peabody Estate remembers him.
You and Gerry go and find out.
Brian, you and I will check through the old case files - Hang on! and see what we can come up with.
I´d rather go with Jack.
It´s more interesting work.
Maybe I can arrange for the flying squad to take you out for lunch? No, it´s just I can´t work him out.
I thought that maybe if I got inside his home, I might get inside his head.
Okay, fine, fine.
Gerry and I will do the donkey work.
Oh, I see.
I´m not creative enough - to talk to the public.
- Let´s just get on with it, shall we, Gerry? Yes, Ma´am.
Fran Hunter used to live underneath Newman, moved into the flat when he died.
- Why did she do that? - Better view? Miss Hunter? We´re from UCOS.
- We phoned earlier.
- Hello.
We appreciate you allowing us to look at the flat.
Well, it´s nice to have visitors once in a while.
- Oh, mezuzah.
- Say that again? Mezuzah, it´s a token that protects Jewish households.
I always wondered what that was.
JACK: Did you know John Newman? Well, he kept himself to himself.
Do you recognise either of these two? Daughter and grandchild, possibly.
Did you ever see him with other people? Friends? Family? Well, to be honest, I don´t remember much about him at all.
I didn´t hear a peep out of him until the night he died.
- What happened? - Well, I remember ´cause it was the night that JR was shot.
And Dallas was just about to start, and there this shouting match going on up here.
I lived below Mr Newman in those days.
Was it a violent row? - Was stuff being thrown? - No.
In fact, by the time I got up here, they´d stopped, and Dallas was just about to start, so I left it.
I went back in, watched Dallas, I was just about to get up and the ceiling collapsed, and half the Thames landed on my head.
Now, Dallas started at 8:30.
So, how long for the sink to overflow? That´d leave 50 minutes.
The coroner put time of death between nine and 10.
I´d put it close to 8:30.
That´s how long it would take for the water to pool under the floorboards and flood.
That means he would have had his heart attack immediately after the shouting.
- Or maybe because of it.
- Oh, it´s terrible, really.
I mean, I lived side by side with him all those years and the only thing I can tell you about the man is that he always looked really smart - and that he was Jewish.
- You never said he was Jewish.
Well, I assume he was.
It was him that put up that mez, mez - Mezuzah.
mezuzah thing.
Gerry! Come here a minute.
Thanks, I´ll hold.
Have you ever had a suit tailor-made? Yeah, yeah.
I used to treat myself when I got married.
And do men talk to their tailors? Listen, he´s measuring your inside leg, of course you´re gonna talk to him.
So would you say that your tailor knew you? I´d say he had the measure of me.
Ha ha.
Oh, look at this, can´t keep a good criminal down, can you? Les Spitz.
Prime suspect for the Poultry vaults diamond robbery.
East End boy made good, or bad, depending how you look at it.
- Do you know him? - Know of him.
Persil-white now, virtually establishment.
Jewellery trade.
Why was he a suspect? Well, he pulled a similar stunt a few years before.
You know, I saw Spitz once getting out of his bloody great big white Merc.
And I thought, ´´This is a mug´s game.
´´I´m supposed to be the good guy and I´m driving a Ford Capri.
´´ - Would you have swapped? - Cars, definitely.
Hang on.
Yeah, okay.
Mm-hm.
Thank you, that´s great.
John Newman´s tailor, Sid Goldberg, still runs a family business along with his daughter Ruth Goldberg in Savile Row.
Oh.
Now, if Newman had half a dozen suits made, well, that´s a lot of time to talk to your tailor, innit? Three, two, one, go.
(MOUTHING) - Is he all right? - Don´t worry, it´s part of his method.
Now, the diamond was in full view.
The person he was arguing with saw it and left it.
He trusted John Newman with the diamond.
But what about the four other diamonds? If Elise took the big one, what happened to the smaller ones? Elise wasn´t the only person in the flat, there was the WPC, Miss Hunter, the ambulance service, maintenance - The burglars.
the burglars.
Burglars, what burglars? Well, they broke into the flat, ripped up the floor boards, the light fittings, even the plumbing.
All Mr Newman´s stuff had been moved out so I don´t know what they thought they´d find.
I´d hazard a guess.
Good.
Pin them up there.
And tell Mr Freeman that if he wants it ready for the opening, he has to come in for a fitting.
Speak.
Yes.
The chocolate leather and it has to be flexible.
Good.
- Ah.
Where were we? - John Newman.
Take a good look.
No, still no.
He had half a dozen of your suits hanging in his wardrobe when he died.
- So he must have been quite a good customer.
- Average.
Six suits, that´s two winter weight, two summer, one morning, one formal.
Ruth, I´m busy.
Excuse me.
New Bond Street´s still waiting for the black cashmere.
I need an invoice.
- I´ll find it.
I´ll find it.
- Okay.
You deal with it, Sid.
Does the name Leslie Spitz mean anything to you? I do not know Leslie Spitz, and I can´t remember John Newman.
Sid´s lying.
- How do you know? - Woman´s intuition.
You wouldn´t have picked up on it.
If I have so little intuition, how come I´m the only one who´s picked up on Jack and Elise? What about Jack and Elise? Haven´t you noticed how many times he says her name? He´s got a very bad case of mentionitis.
I´ve known Elise for 30 years.
- She is professional, meticulous - I´m not saying she took the diamonds.
- I don´t think she did.
- Elise came to me because she wanted the case cleared up.
Exactly.
We don´t even know if the four diamonds were in the flat.
Elise is not capable of any I was just bouncing ideas around, I´m not saying (CLEARING THROAT) How did you get on? Sid Goldberg doesn´t remember a client John Newman.
I bet he remembers a client called Josef Nieumann.
Forensics couldn´t come up with a match for John Newman.
But Interpol came up with a perfect match for Josef Nieumann, a diamond cutter from Amsterdam.
Oil and diamond dust left an almost perfect print on the box.
Nieumann was imprisoned in a concentration camp in 1943, where he came into contact with the criminal underworld.
After the war, he became a small-time racketeer and diamond handler.
Sometime in the ´50s he came over to the UK and changed his name to John Newman.
New birth certificate, new passport, the lot.
- So he laundered his old identity.
- That´s right.
- Who do you think you are, Rolf Harris? - It´s a mind map.
Symbols and pictures allow the brain to connect with an idea on a deeper level than words.
Lists kill the creative process.
Come on, Elise, I´ll buy you a drink I´m Sandra.
Good night, Brian.
Gerry, that was pathetic, mate.
And Shearer´s in the box, he´s unmarked, it´s a goal! (ALL YELLING) (CAR HORN BLARING) On me head! Oh, nearly! - Good morning.
- Referee, there´s a car on the pitch! Play is a very important part of creativity.
Yeah, well, right now I´m more interested in crime.
I´ve just had Nieumann´s film developed.
SANDRA: Josef.
JACK: The family.
Elise assumed it was his daughter and granddaughter.
SANDRA: Looks like a wedding.
BRIAN: Yeah, that´s Igeth Synagogue.
Now, let me enhance that.
Do you remember? Michael Fagan, shinned up the drainpipe into Her Majesty´s bedroom? Yeah, then sat on the bed and asked for a cigarette, didn´t he? The 7th of June, 1982.
So, we got a date, we got a synagogue and we got a wedding party.
Whoever got married knew Josef.
For centuries, diamonds have been central to Jewish survival.
You couldn´t escape with an oak chest or a dinner service, but a diamond Well, our man small enough to be concealed on the body and redeemable for cash anywhere in the world.
You say he moved here in the 1950s? Is that a problem? Well, by 1950, the cutting industry had moved to Antwerp.
Unless In the ´40s, diamond cutting was a protected industry.
Jewish refugees were allowed to set up factories, if they taught war veterans the trade.
So the government needed experienced cutters to teach them? His name was Josef Nieumann.
Or he may have called himself John Newman.
Anglicised his name.
Blend in.
Made it easier to do business with non-Jews.
So you do remember him? Remember him? No.
Way before my time.
Your best bet is the archives.
This way.
You see, you take those mental leaps and Jack´s thorough.
I mean, basically, I´m the only one in the team who´s not creative.
Gerry, it takes a lot of creativity to be unfaithful, and you´ve been very successful at that.
Yeah.
Yeah, you´re right.
Eh up, 7th of June ´82 was our friendly tailor´s wedding.
´´Groom, Sidney Goldberg.
´´Best Man, Josef Nieumann.
´´Bridesmaid, Ruth Nieumann.
´´ So Josef knew Sidney Goldberg, and had a daughter or granddaughter.
Yeah.
Same age and name as Sid´s daughter.
Yeah.
Ruth.
Josef was Sid Goldberg´s best man.
- And Ruth - Ruth Goldberg is Josef Nieumann´s daughter.
And the woman in the picture is her mother? She died in 1981, motor neurone disease.
They were never married.
She was 28 years younger than Josef.
So why did Sid lie? My assistant tells me you´ve been asking about Ruth.
That´s right.
Ruth Nieumann.
Yes.
I was, er, protecting Ruth.
No, you were wasting police time.
Well, she has her father up there on a pedestal.
I mean, he could do no wrong.
- But he did.
- But he did good things, too.
He was the best diamond cutter of his generation.
He taught war veterans to cut diamonds.
- How long did he work with the veterans? - Three years.
- And then? - Then Schrama´s, London diamond merchants.
They wanted a cutter to teach the apprentices.
- When did he stop working for Schrama´s? - 1980.
Why did he stop working in 1980? His girlfriend was sick.
He was 58 and looking after a small child and he couldn´t cope.
So my wife and I looked after Ruth.
- Why you? - Well, he was my cousin.
So what was Josef doing whilst you were looking after Ruth? Getting ready for a new life.
He was taking Ruth back to Holland.
- When? Did he have a date? - November the 27th, 1982.
Ruthie was so excited.
She sat there with her little case and her sandwiches.
And she sat with her coat on just waiting for him but he never came.
Because he died two days earlier.
Why didn´t you come forward? He was your cousin, best man at your wedding, he trusted you with his daughter, and yet you didn´t attend his funeral? I don´t buy it, Sid.
Josef he compartmentalised his life.
I was afraid that if he was investigated, the authorities would end up taking Ruthie from me.
Why disrupt her life any more? What did you know about his other life? Oh, in the camps he picked up ways of surviving.
He fenced things for favours.
And when he came out he, well, he didn´t change all those ways.
We´re not judging him, Sid, we´re just trying to find out who he was working with.
- Do you remember any names? - No.
Leslie Spitz? - You´ve already asked me about him.
- I´m asking you again.
About 40, at least he would´ve been back then.
Drove a white Mercedes.
I remember a white Mercedes.
Josef wanted us to use it for the wedding but I wasn´t gonna drive to the synagogue in a German car.
- Do you remember who owned the car? - No idea, no.
Okay.
Thank you very much.
Oh, uh, just a minute.
Josef´s apprentice.
Now, his father had a white Mercedes.
I´ll ring your PA, fix a fitting for your evening suit.
Excellent.
- And once again, thank you.
- Pleasure.
- Is this about my father? - What do you remember about him? His hands were rough from the diamonds, he smelt gorgeous, always had mint imperials in his pockets.
It´s not going to help you with your investigation, is it? Did you meet any of his friends? Do you remember the name Leslie Spitz? I was six when my father died.
My parents are just ghosts.
I´ve no funny stories, there´s no family friends, no junk in the attic, just one big blank.
What has Sid told you about your father? I know that Dad dabbled in the black market after the war.
What if it turned out to be more than dabbling? I´d prefer it if he were a war hero, but if it turns out he was involved in the child slave trade, so be it.
At least I´d know the truth.
JACK: I wonder if Josef ever intended picking his daughter up? What? November the 27th? It´s unlikely.
He had a return air ticket to Antwerp for December the 7th, didn´t he? - Yeah.
- Get them to check those dates.
And you´re absolutely sure about those dates? Great.
Thank you very much.
You´ve made two old men very happy.
What you got? Right, Nieumann worked for the diamond merchant Schrama.
- Yeah? - And his apprentice from 1979 till he left in 1980 was Ray Spitz.
- Les Spitz´s son.
- Yes! - Coincidence? - Oh, yes.
So, what´s Spitz Junior up to these days? Diamond dealer, Bond Street.
He´s also a member of the Diamond Exchange.
Must be good, then.
So we´ve established a connection but how do we prove that Les Spitz was behind this robbery? We coax him out with a diamond.
I´d come out to play for 15 million quid, wouldn´t you? SANDRA: Especially if I still have the four little stones.
You get to Spitz Senior through Spitz Junior.
Gerry, how creative are you feeling? There you go, how´s that, then, eh? What? I can´t Look, if I´m going to town, I´ve gotta wear a tie.
Get with the times, Dad.
That´s it, that´s a lot better.
Oh, no.
Belt.
- Eh? - Belt.
What? That´ll be perfect.
Let´s go and see what the mums say.
Yeah, all right.
(CHATTERING AND LAUGHING) Ahem! Ta-da! There you go, girls.
Eat your heart out.
Oh, dear! Another woman, Gerry? Or do you think this suit would be better for Bond Street, eh? So she´s quite a bit younger, then? If you must know, my boss has asked me to marry her.
What? - Morning.
- Morning.
- You look nice.
- Thank you.
Not as nice as him, mind.
- What the bloody hell have you come as? - Just as you ordered.
Your extraordinarily rich and handsome fiancé looking to get a priceless red diamond cut and set for his beautiful bride-to-be.
- And what have you come as? - He´s right.
You can´t go fishing with a million pound diamond in a £100 suit.
You just said I looked nice! Well, it is nice, but not a million dollars.
- Your name? - Jacqueline Driver.
Where did he propose? Somerset House outdoor skating rink on the 12th of November.
I´ll definitely take these, thank you.
- Your name? - Nick Logan.
Where did you meet Jackie? At a dinner party thrown by a mutual friend of ours.
What´s her favourite colour? Brian, I´ve been married three times and I´ve absolutely no idea what any of my ex-wives´ favourite colour was.
- I think that says a lot, Gerry.
- Oh, shut up.
Jackie´s favourite colour is blue.
- What line of work is he in? - Scrap metal.
Be honest.
- No, I don´t think you´ve got the cleavage for it.
- Guys.
- How did he get into it? - Family business.
- Does she work? - Yeah, she runs a training - Company.
company, specialising in creative problem solving.
Why did you decide to marry her? I just looked at her one day and knew this was the lady I wanted to grow old with.
- Do you live together? - Yeah.
- Ah.
Now, that´s the one.
- Yeah! Now you´re talking.
Don´t ever do that again.
WOMAN: Can I help you? Yeah, we´ve come to see Mr Spitz.
Morning.
Hello, Nick Logan and my fiancée Jackie Driver.
Georgina Day.
Do you have an appointment with Mr Spitz? No, we don´t, but we have a diamond that we´d like valued and we´ve been advised that he´s the man to see.
Well, Mr Spitz is busy at the moment, but perhaps if I took an initial look? Sure, yeah.
We believe it´s a red diamond.
Well, it´s certainly not a red diamond.
How can you be so sure? Red diamonds are so rare.
You just don´t get them.
No, I´ve been in this business all my life and I´ve never You know, I I think I´d like Mr Spitz to have a second look.
- Could I say who recommended you? - Mr Fishgrund.
Right.
Mr Fishgrund? Yeah.
Bob Fishgrund.
The Nags Head darts champion, three years on the trot.
- Oh, sorry, Brian, didn´t mean to wake you.
- I was incubating.
Many creative insights follow a period of incubation when the conscious mind is attending to other issues.
Diamond cuts.
Designers patent them the way you patent an invention.
The Parker Brilliant.
The Peruzzi cut.
Oh, by the way, Elise is on her way over.
What, now? Elise! What a nice surprise.
I was just passing this way.
I thought you might like to have lunch.
Oh, thanks very much.
I´ll get me coat.
- More the merrier.
- Yes.
This engagement lark´s a load of old bollocks, it´s just a test.
How many times have you failed that test, Gerry? Three.
And not once did any of them throw the ring back at me.
Nah.
Like I said, it´s a no return.
Ray Spitz.
I´m sorry to keep you.
I believe you have a stone you´d like me to look at? Where did you get it? I was owed a lot of money and the debt was paid off with the diamond.
So no paperwork, no GIA certification? No, I´m afraid not, no.
Is it a genuine red? Well, I´d like to take it to the Diamond Exchange, run a few further tests on it.
Would that No, that´s no problem, is it, babe? We haven´t got anything else planned.
No.
No, I´m afraid that it´s trade only.
Ah.
But this is an exceptional case Let me see, let me see what, erm, what I can do.
There´s about three people in the world could do it.
The Cullinan diamond was the largest ever found, it´s the size of a fist.
The owner, Asscher, took a year just looking at it, working out how to cut it.
Oh, no, thanks.
Gotta watch my figure.
How about I watch your figure and you eat this? On the big day the room was so tense that when the cutter struck the stone, Asscher fainted dead away.
Amazing.
Have you had your medication today? The Diamond Exchange.
The sight holders buy lots or parcels at a fixed price from the Central Selling Organisation.
And the divided lots are then re-sold here on the Exchange.
This whole industry runs on trust.
And everyone knows everyone.
Most of them are family.
I think I´d want a bit more security than that.
The greatest security is secrecy.
It´s a closed community.
A stranger here can only mean one of two things, either I´ve disgraced myself and you´ve come to clear my desk or I´ve hit the jackpot.
So how did you get into the diamond trade, Mr Spitz? Oh, Ray, please.
Oh, Nick and Jackie.
I was apprenticed to John Newman.
He was one of the best cutters in the business.
Till he lost his nerve.
- What happened? - Oh, in 1980 he´d he´d spent weeks working out how to cut this really beautiful pink diamond.
He got it on the wheel, got his blade in, and crack.
It shattered.
He never worked again.
- What business are you in, Nick? - Scrap metal.
You know, tankers, oil rigs.
Anything big and metal, we dismantle it.
- And how about you, Jackie? - I run creativity workshops.
Is Nick creative? You should see what he can do with an empty coke bottle.
It´s, um, it´s a genuine four carat red.
Do you have any idea of the value? Cash value? No, no idea at all, no.
Well, name your price, 10 million upwards.
Wow! - 10 million? - At least, yes.
What will you do? Will you keep the stone, or sell it? I couldn´t walk around with a £10 million rock on my finger, I´d be terrified.
So would I! Well I, I can advise you on the cutting and if you do decide to sell, my father could bring interested parties to the table.
Jack Halford? Bill Tyson, Serious Fraud.
What can I do for you? We´ve heard that you´re investigating Leslie Spitz.
He´s one of the leads in the diamond robbery we´re looking into.
Spitz is an ongoing investigation for Serious Fraud.
We know he´s getting laundered money out the country, but we don´t know how or where he´s putting it.
(BRIAN BURPING) As long as the file on Spitz is open, we need you to go softly, softly and run any plans by us.
I´ll get the guvnor to give you a call.
It´s a waiting game.
He´ll trip up eventually, they always do.
- Stop the car, Gerry! - What? Stop the bloody car! Sandra No, listen, listen, don´t Police! Get out the car! Oh, dear, oh, Lord.
Our insurance company have provided their own security.
I tried to tell you.
- You knew? - Well, yeah.
You bloody knew? Seat belt.
Insurance.
So I slam on the anchors.
She´s out of the car like a shot, she gets the geezer, and bangs him up against the car, gets the ID card and then Gerry brought you up to speed, has he? Yeah, I was just about to do that.
Yeah, the There´s a window polished on the side of the stone which apparently means that someone had considered cutting it before.
And in 1980, Josef shattered a very pricey pink diamond, along with his confidence.
He never worked again.
Well, where would he have got the nerve from to cut a red stone? Well, if he wasn´t fit to cut it maybe he was fencing it for Spitz.
JACK: Or double-crossing him.
- Here.
- What? Oh, thanks.
The Bell and Crown? When did you go there? Elise took me and Jack for lunch.
What´s his secret, eh? I mean, Elise is different class, isn´t she? She´s gorgeous.
He´s not interested.
Well, or else he hasn´t noticed.
Well, he´s mad.
Or scared.
Happens sometimes after a dry spell.
Happened to me once when I split up with Alison.
Birds throwing themselves at me but I just didn´t have the bottle.
Well, the sexual impulse is like a weed, apparently.
It never really dies.
What never really dies? No, we were just saying that after a dry spell it´s not easy to get back in the saddle.
Well, if it´s just sex you´re after, Gerry, there´s plenty out there.
No, we´re talking about you, Jack.
You´re talking about me having sex? Lads, please! We were just saying, Elise fancies you.
It is a professional relationship based on mutual respect.
- Nevertheless - You´re too young to understand, Gerry.
Look, I may not be the most creative person here but I do know women.
- And she fancies you.
- She´s widowed, the kids have moved away, she´s lonely.
Anyway, you´re missing the point.
I´m married.
Yeah, but Now then, what cut is this? Princess, no.
All brilliant.
I was trying to impress you with carat.
Should´ve gone for something smaller and flawless.
Aye, aye, aye, aye.
There´s a tiny inclusion here.
They´ve tried to hide it with the setting but you can still see it.
- Clarity´s not good either.
- Shut up, Brian! I don´t care if it the cut is brilliant or Princess or bloody rump.
When you bought me this ring, I thought it was the most beautiful thing I´d ever seen and I still do so don´t you start spoiling it for me.
Sorry.
In a way, Josef was the prototype of the multinational crook.
Dutch by birth, British by naturalisation, Jewish by religion, lived in Belgium, Germany.
Paved the way for Spitz and son.
You know, it is just possible that Spitz Junior´s business is legitimate.
Not a chance.
Spitz would have groomed that kid from the nursery to take over his empire.
Yeah, well, I got the impression he really loved his work.
You know, I could get used to this lifestyle.
- Not on a police pension, you couldn´t.
- No.
Ready? You know, you should wear skirts more often, you´ve got good legs.
What are you doing looking at my legs? Well, no, I wasn´t looking at your legs, I was looking at your skirt, and I just noticed your legs.
- Okay, so you weren´t looking at my legs.
- No.
Why, what´s wrong with them? - Leslie Spitz.
You must be Jacqueline.
- Yes.
- And I must offer you my congratulations.
- Thank you, it is an incredible stone.
I was referring to the engagement.
- Leslie Spitz.
- Nick Logan.
Hello, Nick.
After you.
GERRY: Family firm, is it? LESLIE: No, I´ve retired.
RAY: Do you have the stone? GERRY: Mm-hm.
Faceted cuts bring out the, um, the lustre, the fire in the stone.
But with a coloured stone like this, you want to cut it to bring out the intensity.
How long will he take to cut? Well, if it takes more than seven weeks, there´s something wrong.
You´re looking at a a step cut.
This is basically a Sunflower Emerald.
Well, with these steep facets, you see, you can keep the weight in the sides.
Which is always good.
The dealer wants carat because that´s pure profit.
But the cutter wants the best possible cut for the stone.
My son trained as a cutter, the prima donnas of the diamond trade.
Every stone is unique, another shot at perfection.
Whoever cuts this stone, it´ll change their life.
I think a pendant setting would be absolutely spectacular with the main stone falling about here.
All you´d need is four little red diamonds, about a carat each, to frame it.
Leslie Spitz was letting us know he had the other four diamonds.
- How are we gonna play this? - Let him make the first move.
Come to us.
Look at this.
This card from Josef´s box.
It looks like Josef was planning a Sunflower Emerald cut for the diamond, which is exactly what Spitz Junior´s suggesting.
Poor old Nieumann.
He invents the perfect cut for the perfect stone and then bang, has a heart attack.
- What a bummer.
- Kismet.
It could´ve changed his life.
Spitz and son had a disagreement about whether to go for the perfect cut or cash.
Maybe 20 odd years ago, Spitz Senior had the same argument with Josef.
Or maybe Josef was planning to nick the diamond from Spitz in order to fund his new life with Ruth? Thank you for these.
It seems your father was involved, Ruth.
- In what, exactly? - Handling stolen diamonds.
One? A dozen? Shiploads? One definitely, but there are still four smaller red diamonds missing.
Just one? I was steeling myself for a lot worse.
One worth 15 million.
Right.
So now I know.
It´s almost a relief.
If these photos jog your memory, Ruth, anything, doesn´t matter how small or incidental, will you call me? Sure.
Okay.
Thanks.
(MOBILE RINGING) Gerry.
to get ready.
Where? The Atlantic? Bloody hell, hope he´s paying.
All right, pick me up at 7:30.
Bye.
- Hi, there.
- Hello.
- Sorry to keep you waiting.
- Some champagne, Dad? I don´t think I´ll join you.
I´ll (SPEAKING FRENCH) Well, then.
Ray why don´t you take Jacqueline to see the paintings.
You´ll enjoy them.
He´s a young artist but he´s very good.
Thank you, but I´m perfectly happy to stay here.
No, really, go and look at the paintings.
I didn´t want to embarrass you in front of your, what is she, your - Fiancée.
- Oh, yes, you still want to play games.
It´s all right.
Eh? In one house, I opened a book and I found 500 quid inside.
- Tell me you didn´t take it.
- Oh, yeah.
Of course not, Jack.
How´s the investigation going? I didn´t invite you out to dinner to talk about work.
I Thank you.
Thank you.
I, um I just want you to know that I I really value our professional relationship, but I also consider that, well, you and I Oh, it´s the other way round, the spritzer´s for me.
Thank you.
Elise, I hope that we´re good friends, I Jack But perhaps I´ve given you the wrong impression.
- But I really enjoy your company.
- Jack, stop.
- How would you cut the diamond? - I wouldn´t, I´d get rid of it.
You ever heard of Maslow´s hierarchy of needs? No.
No, I haven´t.
No.
It´s a pyramid.
At the bottom you´ve got the basic needs, food, sex, somewhere to sleep.
You satisfy those needs and another need pops up, security, love.
In the middle you have esteem, knowledge, then creativity.
That´s where my son is stuck.
He´d be happy to cut that diamond for you.
But you know the really beautiful thing isn´t a isn´t a red stone.
It´s cash.
Well, I´m not at all creative and I´d much rather have the cash.
But Jackie has set her heart on that pendant that you described.
Well, the only problem is where do we get the four little red diamonds? Oh, I think I´ll have the rib eye.
What do you fancy? - Sea bass.
- Just what the doctor ordered.
Sea bass and salad, no pudding, glass of red wine and lots of water.
- Do you have to watch your diet? - Well, yes and no.
No, thank you.
I´d much rather have the steak with big fat chunky chips.
Flower, mister, for the lady? For your lady love? Yes, well, you´ve got the discipline, I just have the good intentions.
I have my bad days.
When I´m upset I head straight for the steak, wine, chips, chocolate mousse.
Please.
Here.
You have to pick a flower.
(JACK SIGHING) - Thank you.
- Thank you.
- Jack? - Jack, what? Thank you.
Elise.
You´re a dear friend, you´re a beautiful woman, you´re interesting, you´re great company.
- I would make any man proud.
- You certainly would.
Except you.
Mary was always the woman I loved, and always will be.
- What is it you want? - Do some business with you.
This business is based on trust, I don´t trust you.
I´d need more to go on.
Look, we both know that that diamond is dodgy.
And your point is? I´d like to do a deal on the four reds.
- You wanna buy or you wanna sell? - Buy.
You´re making me an offer? I haven´t got them.
I didn´t finish telling you about Maslow´s hierarchy.
At the top of the pyramid is self-actualisation.
When you´ve become everything you are capable of becoming, yeah? I´ve done that.
Well, I´m very happy for you.
Is there a punch line? I don´t need to deal in dodgy diamonds.
Why would I do that? Have I got ´´bloody idiot´´ burned into my forehead? Do you know what I notice? On top of the pyramid? No.
The world is full of scum like you grubbing around at the base, grabbing onto people like me and my family, trying to get a leg up.
Makes me sick.
(SPEAKING FRENCH) And you you take your tart and your stinking diamond and you stay away from my family.
Hm? What a cock-up.
- It´s my fault.
- Wasn´t your fault.
If I´d been more creative, we could´ve had Spitz.
No, it was my fault.
I assumed he had the diamonds, he assumed we had.
No, we all assumed he had the diamonds.
And that he would wanna buy the big one.
Will you stop trying to take the blame? I´m in charge.
It´s my call.
All right, then.
- It´s your fault.
- Thanks.
Oh, shit! - What are you doing? - Going to get some cigarettes.
- Oh.
Right.
Good night, Gerry.
- Good night.
See you in the morning.
Yeah.
(DOORBELL BUZZING) (GROANING) Gerry? Oh, my God! Who did this? - Spitz´s boys.
- Right, well, we´d better get you to hospital.
No, thanks.
Look, you can´t keep punching the living daylights out of villains now that you´re a granddad.
Well, I didn´t.
It was the other way round.
- Grape? - Could you break one off for us, please? And I do hope you haven´t ruined that lovely suit.
You said you didn´t like it.
- Who said that? - You looked lovely in it! Where´s that doctor? You couldn´t go and find him for us, could you? - I´ve gotta get out of here.
- Are you all right? Okay.
Thanks very much.
- Gerry´s boss, aren´t you? - Yes.
Are you Carole? Alison You should be ashamed of yourself.
Putting a man his age in that position.
Well, unfortunately it goes with the job and Gerry What would´ve happened if he´d been seriously injured? Who´s gonna take care of his family then? - How is he? - Like you care! He´s just a stepping stone for you and your fancy career, isn´t he? Doesn´t bother you that he´s a father and a grandfather.
- He did pass a police fitness test.
- Gerry, fit? He can´t even bend down and tie up his own shoelaces ´cause his gut gets in the way.
Yeah, well, he could do with losing a few pounds, I suppose.
And he was treated for gout at Christmas.
Oh, please, make this stop.
Excuse me.
You won´t be happy until he´s on his knees in the knackers yard.
How are you feeling? Look, girls, give us a minute, will you? We´ve got some work to talk about.
- We´ll be just outside.
- Lovely, yeah, smashing.
Thank you.
See what I have to put up with? Cor blimey, I don´t remember it hurting this much before.
- Oh, that´s age dulling the memory.
- Oh, thanks very much.
Strickland´s closed down the case.
Oh, that really makes me feel good about being beaten up.
And Ruth called.
She wants to meet.
What do I tell her? That her dad cared more about the diamond than he did about her? Or that the real villains got away? On the bright side, the insurance company did get their diamond back.
Oh, well, that´s smashing.
Oh, I´m so thrilled that the insurance companies aren´t out of pocket.
There´s still a chance that Serious Fraud will trace Spitz´s Swiss bank account and get him out that way.
Listen why don´t we get Interpol to look at Nieumann´s Swiss bank account? - When was it last used? - 1982.
Well, I bet you a tenner that that account is still active.
Oh, good thinking.
(GERRY GROANING) - Oh, sorry.
I´m really sorry.
- No, no.
Are you okay, sweetheart? Oh, that really Ow! - Blimey! - I´m sorry.
It´s all right.
Leave me alone.
So option A, he was a double-crossing thief and a fence.
Or option B, he was a brilliant diamond cutter who gave up his career to care for my mum.
We´ll probably never know the truth.
And who was planning a new life with his daughter.
- Why didn´t you bring this in sooner? - Doesn´t that mean he was coming for me? Well, without proof we can never know for definite.
I can.
I have proof.
The four missing red diamonds.
He hid them in his child´s bracelet.
He risked his daughter´s safety just to smuggle those bloody diamonds out? I don´t think the diamonds were more important than his daughter.
- They were his survival strategy.
- How do you mean? Well, in the camps he was useful if he had something to pass on, and if he was useful, he wasn´t killed.
So he´d been repeating that survival strategy ever since.
Yes! They´ve got him.
- How? - Josef´s bank account is still active.
- Hey! - Deposits and withdrawals made have been traced to a property development in southern Spain owned by - Leslie Spitz.
- Yep.
We got the bastard.
Guvnor.
Back down at the bottom of the pyramid again, eh, Les? Still, prison will look after all your basic needs.
With grateful thanks from Polestar Insurance head office.
I just handed it to Jack.
They should have the cheque.
Well, I´d very happily accept But it´s against police policy and we were only doing our job.
Weren´t we, Gerry? - Could always treat me to a fabulous meal.
- But that would be a date, Jack.
Friends go Dutch.
So the Creative Problem Solving course worked then, did it? Yeah.
SCAMPER: Substitute, combine, adapt, modify, put to another use, eliminate, reverse.
You twigged the Swiss bank account had been P´d, put to another use.
How does he remember all that stuff? I´m sorry, but Oh, of course, the diamond.
Brian has it in the safe.
And it couldn´t be in safer hands.
He´s stuck to that diamond like a limpet.
(WHISPERING) What´s the problem? I can´t remember the number.
It´s all right, it´s okay Doesn´t really matter if you´re old and grey It´s all right, I say, it´s okay Listen to what I say It´s all right, doing fine Doesn´t really matter if the sun don´t shine It´s all right, I say, it´s okay We´re getting to the end of the day Hi tech, low tech, take your pick ´Cause you can´t teach an old dog a brand new trick I don´t care what anybody says #At the end of the day #
Techniques that allow us to move forward as individuals, as teams, as an organisation.
- Right.
- One last thing before we finish.
Ugh! Could you stand up, please? Right, you catch it, you come up with a different use for it.
If you get stuck, use the checklist.
Don´t censor.
Um Cut the bottom off, attach four strings, tie them to a silk canopy.
- Hot air balloon.
- Great.
Sterilise, crush, melt and mince 100 bottles, providing fibrous polyester strands, which we weave into a fleece.
No, I´m sorry, me brain´s gone blank.
Relax, use the checklist.
You have an idea, Gerry.
I haven´t.
If it´s sexual, it´s perfectly normal.
No, I´m sorry, sweetheart, nothing.
- Don´t block, Gerry.
- I´m not.
- You have the answer.
- I haven´t.
- What are you holding? - Eh? - Say it, Gerry.
- What? What´s in your hand? It´s a bottle, for Christ´s sake! It´s all right, it´s okay Doesn´t really matter if you´re old and grey It´s all right, I say, it´s okay Listen to what I say It´s all right, doing fine Doesn´t really matter if the sun don´t shine It´s all right, I say, it´s okay We´re getting to the end of the day I´m really flattered you asked me, Elise, but you understand it is taking a big risk and I want to be sure you´ve thought about the consequences.
Absolutely.
Don´t want time to think about it? I know what I want, Jack.
Always have.
(MOBILE RINGING) Sorry.
Oh, shit.
- Hello? - SANDRA: Where the hell are you, Jack? - SANDRA: Thanks, take care.
- Thank you.
- Bye.
- Bye-bye.
- Hello.
- Goodbye.
Sorry I´m late.
You´re not just late, you missed the entire workshop.
Oh, dear, what a pity.
Now, what do you think this is? Crystallised narcotic? You apply heat, it dissolves into a liquid, allow that to evaporate, leaving a powder ready for sale on the streets.
JACK: No.
It´s an extremely rare, uncut red diamond.
Didn´t know you could get red diamonds.
- Where did you get it from? - Social worker, Elise Allen.
She recovered it from a Peabody flat in 1982.
The tenant, John Newman, died, leaving no traceable next of kin.
She was responsible for clearing his flat.
- Did she know it was a diamond? - Elise thought it was a crystal.
Go on, how much? Astound me.
Well, for insurance purposes, say £15 million.
What? - Give it here.
- 15 million for a lump of carbon? For a piece of history.
That diamond was around before the dinosaurs.
- Here.
- Oh! Oh, bloody hell! A salute would suffice, guys.
- Where´s the diamond? - JACK: It was stolen.
- What? - Here it is.
Tosser.
In 1982, thieves broke into the Poultry vaults in the City.
Poultry vaults.
That rings a bell.
November the 14th, 1982.
They forced open 12 safety deposit boxes.
Got away with millions.
No one was caught.
Who officially owns it? Polestar Insurance made a £7.
5 million payout to a gentleman in 1983.
So officially, it´s theirs.
Furthermore, there were four smaller red diamonds, also uncut, also never found.
They were part of the same haul.
Yeah, but who was John Newman? And what was he doing with a stolen diamond? That is a case for UCOS.
John Newman was somehow connected with the Poultry vaults robbery.
He might even have done it.
- Nice pad.
- Yes.
Husband was a very successful architect.
He left her well cared for.
- So she´s single.
- Widowed.
Elise.
Elise Allen, this is Gerry Standing.
- Lovely to meet you.
- You, too.
- Come in.
- Thank you.
John Newman was peeling potatoes in his flat.
He had a heart attack and died.
- Who found him? - A WPC broke in and found him dead.
Any signs of forced entry, foul play, injuries? The coroner recorded natural causes.
He´d been on sickness benefit for two years.
- How long before they found him? - Not long.
The potato peelings blocked the sink, it overflowed and flooded the flat below.
Presumably, if there´s no next of kin, a load of stuff must get binned.
Ninety percent of it.
Anything of value goes to the Chancellor.
Unless, of course, it happens to be a £15 million red diamond.
I know I shouldn´t have taken it, but if I hadn´t, it would´ve been sitting at the bottom of a landfill.
Why did you take it? I was upset.
The sum total of a man´s life sitting there in five bin bags waiting to be dumped.
Did you get any feeling for the man? I mean, socially? Was he rich, poor? He had half a dozen handmade suits.
There were family photos, but none of his family or friends came forward.
- What about the funeral? - No one turned up.
So, when did you realise that the crystal was in fact a diamond? When I retired, I took a course in jewellery design.
The tools we used were the same as the ones in Newman´s box.
I started to wonder about the crystal.
There was a box? Ah! Got it! Thank you.
- Here we go.
- Thank you.
JACK: That´s John Newman.
SANDRA: There´s another roll of film here.
BRIAN: And these are jeweller´s tools.
He made regular trips from London to Antwerp and Geneva.
Sell the diamonds in Antwerp, deposit the money in a Swiss bank account.
This airline ticket´s for Antwerp, December the 7th, 1982.
A trip to sell the stolen diamond? Hold on.
Problem.
This was also stamped in Antwerp Airport, The day of the robbery.
So John Newman couldn´t have stolen the diamond.
But was possibly connected to the person who did.
Okay.
So we need to find out who the original suspects were and establish a connection with Newman.
Maybe there´s somebody on the Peabody Estate remembers him.
You and Gerry go and find out.
Brian, you and I will check through the old case files - Hang on! and see what we can come up with.
I´d rather go with Jack.
It´s more interesting work.
Maybe I can arrange for the flying squad to take you out for lunch? No, it´s just I can´t work him out.
I thought that maybe if I got inside his home, I might get inside his head.
Okay, fine, fine.
Gerry and I will do the donkey work.
Oh, I see.
I´m not creative enough - to talk to the public.
- Let´s just get on with it, shall we, Gerry? Yes, Ma´am.
Fran Hunter used to live underneath Newman, moved into the flat when he died.
- Why did she do that? - Better view? Miss Hunter? We´re from UCOS.
- We phoned earlier.
- Hello.
We appreciate you allowing us to look at the flat.
Well, it´s nice to have visitors once in a while.
- Oh, mezuzah.
- Say that again? Mezuzah, it´s a token that protects Jewish households.
I always wondered what that was.
JACK: Did you know John Newman? Well, he kept himself to himself.
Do you recognise either of these two? Daughter and grandchild, possibly.
Did you ever see him with other people? Friends? Family? Well, to be honest, I don´t remember much about him at all.
I didn´t hear a peep out of him until the night he died.
- What happened? - Well, I remember ´cause it was the night that JR was shot.
And Dallas was just about to start, and there this shouting match going on up here.
I lived below Mr Newman in those days.
Was it a violent row? - Was stuff being thrown? - No.
In fact, by the time I got up here, they´d stopped, and Dallas was just about to start, so I left it.
I went back in, watched Dallas, I was just about to get up and the ceiling collapsed, and half the Thames landed on my head.
Now, Dallas started at 8:30.
So, how long for the sink to overflow? That´d leave 50 minutes.
The coroner put time of death between nine and 10.
I´d put it close to 8:30.
That´s how long it would take for the water to pool under the floorboards and flood.
That means he would have had his heart attack immediately after the shouting.
- Or maybe because of it.
- Oh, it´s terrible, really.
I mean, I lived side by side with him all those years and the only thing I can tell you about the man is that he always looked really smart - and that he was Jewish.
- You never said he was Jewish.
Well, I assume he was.
It was him that put up that mez, mez - Mezuzah.
mezuzah thing.
Gerry! Come here a minute.
Thanks, I´ll hold.
Have you ever had a suit tailor-made? Yeah, yeah.
I used to treat myself when I got married.
And do men talk to their tailors? Listen, he´s measuring your inside leg, of course you´re gonna talk to him.
So would you say that your tailor knew you? I´d say he had the measure of me.
Ha ha.
Oh, look at this, can´t keep a good criminal down, can you? Les Spitz.
Prime suspect for the Poultry vaults diamond robbery.
East End boy made good, or bad, depending how you look at it.
- Do you know him? - Know of him.
Persil-white now, virtually establishment.
Jewellery trade.
Why was he a suspect? Well, he pulled a similar stunt a few years before.
You know, I saw Spitz once getting out of his bloody great big white Merc.
And I thought, ´´This is a mug´s game.
´´I´m supposed to be the good guy and I´m driving a Ford Capri.
´´ - Would you have swapped? - Cars, definitely.
Hang on.
Yeah, okay.
Mm-hm.
Thank you, that´s great.
John Newman´s tailor, Sid Goldberg, still runs a family business along with his daughter Ruth Goldberg in Savile Row.
Oh.
Now, if Newman had half a dozen suits made, well, that´s a lot of time to talk to your tailor, innit? Three, two, one, go.
(MOUTHING) - Is he all right? - Don´t worry, it´s part of his method.
Now, the diamond was in full view.
The person he was arguing with saw it and left it.
He trusted John Newman with the diamond.
But what about the four other diamonds? If Elise took the big one, what happened to the smaller ones? Elise wasn´t the only person in the flat, there was the WPC, Miss Hunter, the ambulance service, maintenance - The burglars.
the burglars.
Burglars, what burglars? Well, they broke into the flat, ripped up the floor boards, the light fittings, even the plumbing.
All Mr Newman´s stuff had been moved out so I don´t know what they thought they´d find.
I´d hazard a guess.
Good.
Pin them up there.
And tell Mr Freeman that if he wants it ready for the opening, he has to come in for a fitting.
Speak.
Yes.
The chocolate leather and it has to be flexible.
Good.
- Ah.
Where were we? - John Newman.
Take a good look.
No, still no.
He had half a dozen of your suits hanging in his wardrobe when he died.
- So he must have been quite a good customer.
- Average.
Six suits, that´s two winter weight, two summer, one morning, one formal.
Ruth, I´m busy.
Excuse me.
New Bond Street´s still waiting for the black cashmere.
I need an invoice.
- I´ll find it.
I´ll find it.
- Okay.
You deal with it, Sid.
Does the name Leslie Spitz mean anything to you? I do not know Leslie Spitz, and I can´t remember John Newman.
Sid´s lying.
- How do you know? - Woman´s intuition.
You wouldn´t have picked up on it.
If I have so little intuition, how come I´m the only one who´s picked up on Jack and Elise? What about Jack and Elise? Haven´t you noticed how many times he says her name? He´s got a very bad case of mentionitis.
I´ve known Elise for 30 years.
- She is professional, meticulous - I´m not saying she took the diamonds.
- I don´t think she did.
- Elise came to me because she wanted the case cleared up.
Exactly.
We don´t even know if the four diamonds were in the flat.
Elise is not capable of any I was just bouncing ideas around, I´m not saying (CLEARING THROAT) How did you get on? Sid Goldberg doesn´t remember a client John Newman.
I bet he remembers a client called Josef Nieumann.
Forensics couldn´t come up with a match for John Newman.
But Interpol came up with a perfect match for Josef Nieumann, a diamond cutter from Amsterdam.
Oil and diamond dust left an almost perfect print on the box.
Nieumann was imprisoned in a concentration camp in 1943, where he came into contact with the criminal underworld.
After the war, he became a small-time racketeer and diamond handler.
Sometime in the ´50s he came over to the UK and changed his name to John Newman.
New birth certificate, new passport, the lot.
- So he laundered his old identity.
- That´s right.
- Who do you think you are, Rolf Harris? - It´s a mind map.
Symbols and pictures allow the brain to connect with an idea on a deeper level than words.
Lists kill the creative process.
Come on, Elise, I´ll buy you a drink I´m Sandra.
Good night, Brian.
Gerry, that was pathetic, mate.
And Shearer´s in the box, he´s unmarked, it´s a goal! (ALL YELLING) (CAR HORN BLARING) On me head! Oh, nearly! - Good morning.
- Referee, there´s a car on the pitch! Play is a very important part of creativity.
Yeah, well, right now I´m more interested in crime.
I´ve just had Nieumann´s film developed.
SANDRA: Josef.
JACK: The family.
Elise assumed it was his daughter and granddaughter.
SANDRA: Looks like a wedding.
BRIAN: Yeah, that´s Igeth Synagogue.
Now, let me enhance that.
Do you remember? Michael Fagan, shinned up the drainpipe into Her Majesty´s bedroom? Yeah, then sat on the bed and asked for a cigarette, didn´t he? The 7th of June, 1982.
So, we got a date, we got a synagogue and we got a wedding party.
Whoever got married knew Josef.
For centuries, diamonds have been central to Jewish survival.
You couldn´t escape with an oak chest or a dinner service, but a diamond Well, our man small enough to be concealed on the body and redeemable for cash anywhere in the world.
You say he moved here in the 1950s? Is that a problem? Well, by 1950, the cutting industry had moved to Antwerp.
Unless In the ´40s, diamond cutting was a protected industry.
Jewish refugees were allowed to set up factories, if they taught war veterans the trade.
So the government needed experienced cutters to teach them? His name was Josef Nieumann.
Or he may have called himself John Newman.
Anglicised his name.
Blend in.
Made it easier to do business with non-Jews.
So you do remember him? Remember him? No.
Way before my time.
Your best bet is the archives.
This way.
You see, you take those mental leaps and Jack´s thorough.
I mean, basically, I´m the only one in the team who´s not creative.
Gerry, it takes a lot of creativity to be unfaithful, and you´ve been very successful at that.
Yeah.
Yeah, you´re right.
Eh up, 7th of June ´82 was our friendly tailor´s wedding.
´´Groom, Sidney Goldberg.
´´Best Man, Josef Nieumann.
´´Bridesmaid, Ruth Nieumann.
´´ So Josef knew Sidney Goldberg, and had a daughter or granddaughter.
Yeah.
Same age and name as Sid´s daughter.
Yeah.
Ruth.
Josef was Sid Goldberg´s best man.
- And Ruth - Ruth Goldberg is Josef Nieumann´s daughter.
And the woman in the picture is her mother? She died in 1981, motor neurone disease.
They were never married.
She was 28 years younger than Josef.
So why did Sid lie? My assistant tells me you´ve been asking about Ruth.
That´s right.
Ruth Nieumann.
Yes.
I was, er, protecting Ruth.
No, you were wasting police time.
Well, she has her father up there on a pedestal.
I mean, he could do no wrong.
- But he did.
- But he did good things, too.
He was the best diamond cutter of his generation.
He taught war veterans to cut diamonds.
- How long did he work with the veterans? - Three years.
- And then? - Then Schrama´s, London diamond merchants.
They wanted a cutter to teach the apprentices.
- When did he stop working for Schrama´s? - 1980.
Why did he stop working in 1980? His girlfriend was sick.
He was 58 and looking after a small child and he couldn´t cope.
So my wife and I looked after Ruth.
- Why you? - Well, he was my cousin.
So what was Josef doing whilst you were looking after Ruth? Getting ready for a new life.
He was taking Ruth back to Holland.
- When? Did he have a date? - November the 27th, 1982.
Ruthie was so excited.
She sat there with her little case and her sandwiches.
And she sat with her coat on just waiting for him but he never came.
Because he died two days earlier.
Why didn´t you come forward? He was your cousin, best man at your wedding, he trusted you with his daughter, and yet you didn´t attend his funeral? I don´t buy it, Sid.
Josef he compartmentalised his life.
I was afraid that if he was investigated, the authorities would end up taking Ruthie from me.
Why disrupt her life any more? What did you know about his other life? Oh, in the camps he picked up ways of surviving.
He fenced things for favours.
And when he came out he, well, he didn´t change all those ways.
We´re not judging him, Sid, we´re just trying to find out who he was working with.
- Do you remember any names? - No.
Leslie Spitz? - You´ve already asked me about him.
- I´m asking you again.
About 40, at least he would´ve been back then.
Drove a white Mercedes.
I remember a white Mercedes.
Josef wanted us to use it for the wedding but I wasn´t gonna drive to the synagogue in a German car.
- Do you remember who owned the car? - No idea, no.
Okay.
Thank you very much.
Oh, uh, just a minute.
Josef´s apprentice.
Now, his father had a white Mercedes.
I´ll ring your PA, fix a fitting for your evening suit.
Excellent.
- And once again, thank you.
- Pleasure.
- Is this about my father? - What do you remember about him? His hands were rough from the diamonds, he smelt gorgeous, always had mint imperials in his pockets.
It´s not going to help you with your investigation, is it? Did you meet any of his friends? Do you remember the name Leslie Spitz? I was six when my father died.
My parents are just ghosts.
I´ve no funny stories, there´s no family friends, no junk in the attic, just one big blank.
What has Sid told you about your father? I know that Dad dabbled in the black market after the war.
What if it turned out to be more than dabbling? I´d prefer it if he were a war hero, but if it turns out he was involved in the child slave trade, so be it.
At least I´d know the truth.
JACK: I wonder if Josef ever intended picking his daughter up? What? November the 27th? It´s unlikely.
He had a return air ticket to Antwerp for December the 7th, didn´t he? - Yeah.
- Get them to check those dates.
And you´re absolutely sure about those dates? Great.
Thank you very much.
You´ve made two old men very happy.
What you got? Right, Nieumann worked for the diamond merchant Schrama.
- Yeah? - And his apprentice from 1979 till he left in 1980 was Ray Spitz.
- Les Spitz´s son.
- Yes! - Coincidence? - Oh, yes.
So, what´s Spitz Junior up to these days? Diamond dealer, Bond Street.
He´s also a member of the Diamond Exchange.
Must be good, then.
So we´ve established a connection but how do we prove that Les Spitz was behind this robbery? We coax him out with a diamond.
I´d come out to play for 15 million quid, wouldn´t you? SANDRA: Especially if I still have the four little stones.
You get to Spitz Senior through Spitz Junior.
Gerry, how creative are you feeling? There you go, how´s that, then, eh? What? I can´t Look, if I´m going to town, I´ve gotta wear a tie.
Get with the times, Dad.
That´s it, that´s a lot better.
Oh, no.
Belt.
- Eh? - Belt.
What? That´ll be perfect.
Let´s go and see what the mums say.
Yeah, all right.
(CHATTERING AND LAUGHING) Ahem! Ta-da! There you go, girls.
Eat your heart out.
Oh, dear! Another woman, Gerry? Or do you think this suit would be better for Bond Street, eh? So she´s quite a bit younger, then? If you must know, my boss has asked me to marry her.
What? - Morning.
- Morning.
- You look nice.
- Thank you.
Not as nice as him, mind.
- What the bloody hell have you come as? - Just as you ordered.
Your extraordinarily rich and handsome fiancé looking to get a priceless red diamond cut and set for his beautiful bride-to-be.
- And what have you come as? - He´s right.
You can´t go fishing with a million pound diamond in a £100 suit.
You just said I looked nice! Well, it is nice, but not a million dollars.
- Your name? - Jacqueline Driver.
Where did he propose? Somerset House outdoor skating rink on the 12th of November.
I´ll definitely take these, thank you.
- Your name? - Nick Logan.
Where did you meet Jackie? At a dinner party thrown by a mutual friend of ours.
What´s her favourite colour? Brian, I´ve been married three times and I´ve absolutely no idea what any of my ex-wives´ favourite colour was.
- I think that says a lot, Gerry.
- Oh, shut up.
Jackie´s favourite colour is blue.
- What line of work is he in? - Scrap metal.
Be honest.
- No, I don´t think you´ve got the cleavage for it.
- Guys.
- How did he get into it? - Family business.
- Does she work? - Yeah, she runs a training - Company.
company, specialising in creative problem solving.
Why did you decide to marry her? I just looked at her one day and knew this was the lady I wanted to grow old with.
- Do you live together? - Yeah.
- Ah.
Now, that´s the one.
- Yeah! Now you´re talking.
Don´t ever do that again.
WOMAN: Can I help you? Yeah, we´ve come to see Mr Spitz.
Morning.
Hello, Nick Logan and my fiancée Jackie Driver.
Georgina Day.
Do you have an appointment with Mr Spitz? No, we don´t, but we have a diamond that we´d like valued and we´ve been advised that he´s the man to see.
Well, Mr Spitz is busy at the moment, but perhaps if I took an initial look? Sure, yeah.
We believe it´s a red diamond.
Well, it´s certainly not a red diamond.
How can you be so sure? Red diamonds are so rare.
You just don´t get them.
No, I´ve been in this business all my life and I´ve never You know, I I think I´d like Mr Spitz to have a second look.
- Could I say who recommended you? - Mr Fishgrund.
Right.
Mr Fishgrund? Yeah.
Bob Fishgrund.
The Nags Head darts champion, three years on the trot.
- Oh, sorry, Brian, didn´t mean to wake you.
- I was incubating.
Many creative insights follow a period of incubation when the conscious mind is attending to other issues.
Diamond cuts.
Designers patent them the way you patent an invention.
The Parker Brilliant.
The Peruzzi cut.
Oh, by the way, Elise is on her way over.
What, now? Elise! What a nice surprise.
I was just passing this way.
I thought you might like to have lunch.
Oh, thanks very much.
I´ll get me coat.
- More the merrier.
- Yes.
This engagement lark´s a load of old bollocks, it´s just a test.
How many times have you failed that test, Gerry? Three.
And not once did any of them throw the ring back at me.
Nah.
Like I said, it´s a no return.
Ray Spitz.
I´m sorry to keep you.
I believe you have a stone you´d like me to look at? Where did you get it? I was owed a lot of money and the debt was paid off with the diamond.
So no paperwork, no GIA certification? No, I´m afraid not, no.
Is it a genuine red? Well, I´d like to take it to the Diamond Exchange, run a few further tests on it.
Would that No, that´s no problem, is it, babe? We haven´t got anything else planned.
No.
No, I´m afraid that it´s trade only.
Ah.
But this is an exceptional case Let me see, let me see what, erm, what I can do.
There´s about three people in the world could do it.
The Cullinan diamond was the largest ever found, it´s the size of a fist.
The owner, Asscher, took a year just looking at it, working out how to cut it.
Oh, no, thanks.
Gotta watch my figure.
How about I watch your figure and you eat this? On the big day the room was so tense that when the cutter struck the stone, Asscher fainted dead away.
Amazing.
Have you had your medication today? The Diamond Exchange.
The sight holders buy lots or parcels at a fixed price from the Central Selling Organisation.
And the divided lots are then re-sold here on the Exchange.
This whole industry runs on trust.
And everyone knows everyone.
Most of them are family.
I think I´d want a bit more security than that.
The greatest security is secrecy.
It´s a closed community.
A stranger here can only mean one of two things, either I´ve disgraced myself and you´ve come to clear my desk or I´ve hit the jackpot.
So how did you get into the diamond trade, Mr Spitz? Oh, Ray, please.
Oh, Nick and Jackie.
I was apprenticed to John Newman.
He was one of the best cutters in the business.
Till he lost his nerve.
- What happened? - Oh, in 1980 he´d he´d spent weeks working out how to cut this really beautiful pink diamond.
He got it on the wheel, got his blade in, and crack.
It shattered.
He never worked again.
- What business are you in, Nick? - Scrap metal.
You know, tankers, oil rigs.
Anything big and metal, we dismantle it.
- And how about you, Jackie? - I run creativity workshops.
Is Nick creative? You should see what he can do with an empty coke bottle.
It´s, um, it´s a genuine four carat red.
Do you have any idea of the value? Cash value? No, no idea at all, no.
Well, name your price, 10 million upwards.
Wow! - 10 million? - At least, yes.
What will you do? Will you keep the stone, or sell it? I couldn´t walk around with a £10 million rock on my finger, I´d be terrified.
So would I! Well I, I can advise you on the cutting and if you do decide to sell, my father could bring interested parties to the table.
Jack Halford? Bill Tyson, Serious Fraud.
What can I do for you? We´ve heard that you´re investigating Leslie Spitz.
He´s one of the leads in the diamond robbery we´re looking into.
Spitz is an ongoing investigation for Serious Fraud.
We know he´s getting laundered money out the country, but we don´t know how or where he´s putting it.
(BRIAN BURPING) As long as the file on Spitz is open, we need you to go softly, softly and run any plans by us.
I´ll get the guvnor to give you a call.
It´s a waiting game.
He´ll trip up eventually, they always do.
- Stop the car, Gerry! - What? Stop the bloody car! Sandra No, listen, listen, don´t Police! Get out the car! Oh, dear, oh, Lord.
Our insurance company have provided their own security.
I tried to tell you.
- You knew? - Well, yeah.
You bloody knew? Seat belt.
Insurance.
So I slam on the anchors.
She´s out of the car like a shot, she gets the geezer, and bangs him up against the car, gets the ID card and then Gerry brought you up to speed, has he? Yeah, I was just about to do that.
Yeah, the There´s a window polished on the side of the stone which apparently means that someone had considered cutting it before.
And in 1980, Josef shattered a very pricey pink diamond, along with his confidence.
He never worked again.
Well, where would he have got the nerve from to cut a red stone? Well, if he wasn´t fit to cut it maybe he was fencing it for Spitz.
JACK: Or double-crossing him.
- Here.
- What? Oh, thanks.
The Bell and Crown? When did you go there? Elise took me and Jack for lunch.
What´s his secret, eh? I mean, Elise is different class, isn´t she? She´s gorgeous.
He´s not interested.
Well, or else he hasn´t noticed.
Well, he´s mad.
Or scared.
Happens sometimes after a dry spell.
Happened to me once when I split up with Alison.
Birds throwing themselves at me but I just didn´t have the bottle.
Well, the sexual impulse is like a weed, apparently.
It never really dies.
What never really dies? No, we were just saying that after a dry spell it´s not easy to get back in the saddle.
Well, if it´s just sex you´re after, Gerry, there´s plenty out there.
No, we´re talking about you, Jack.
You´re talking about me having sex? Lads, please! We were just saying, Elise fancies you.
It is a professional relationship based on mutual respect.
- Nevertheless - You´re too young to understand, Gerry.
Look, I may not be the most creative person here but I do know women.
- And she fancies you.
- She´s widowed, the kids have moved away, she´s lonely.
Anyway, you´re missing the point.
I´m married.
Yeah, but Now then, what cut is this? Princess, no.
All brilliant.
I was trying to impress you with carat.
Should´ve gone for something smaller and flawless.
Aye, aye, aye, aye.
There´s a tiny inclusion here.
They´ve tried to hide it with the setting but you can still see it.
- Clarity´s not good either.
- Shut up, Brian! I don´t care if it the cut is brilliant or Princess or bloody rump.
When you bought me this ring, I thought it was the most beautiful thing I´d ever seen and I still do so don´t you start spoiling it for me.
Sorry.
In a way, Josef was the prototype of the multinational crook.
Dutch by birth, British by naturalisation, Jewish by religion, lived in Belgium, Germany.
Paved the way for Spitz and son.
You know, it is just possible that Spitz Junior´s business is legitimate.
Not a chance.
Spitz would have groomed that kid from the nursery to take over his empire.
Yeah, well, I got the impression he really loved his work.
You know, I could get used to this lifestyle.
- Not on a police pension, you couldn´t.
- No.
Ready? You know, you should wear skirts more often, you´ve got good legs.
What are you doing looking at my legs? Well, no, I wasn´t looking at your legs, I was looking at your skirt, and I just noticed your legs.
- Okay, so you weren´t looking at my legs.
- No.
Why, what´s wrong with them? - Leslie Spitz.
You must be Jacqueline.
- Yes.
- And I must offer you my congratulations.
- Thank you, it is an incredible stone.
I was referring to the engagement.
- Leslie Spitz.
- Nick Logan.
Hello, Nick.
After you.
GERRY: Family firm, is it? LESLIE: No, I´ve retired.
RAY: Do you have the stone? GERRY: Mm-hm.
Faceted cuts bring out the, um, the lustre, the fire in the stone.
But with a coloured stone like this, you want to cut it to bring out the intensity.
How long will he take to cut? Well, if it takes more than seven weeks, there´s something wrong.
You´re looking at a a step cut.
This is basically a Sunflower Emerald.
Well, with these steep facets, you see, you can keep the weight in the sides.
Which is always good.
The dealer wants carat because that´s pure profit.
But the cutter wants the best possible cut for the stone.
My son trained as a cutter, the prima donnas of the diamond trade.
Every stone is unique, another shot at perfection.
Whoever cuts this stone, it´ll change their life.
I think a pendant setting would be absolutely spectacular with the main stone falling about here.
All you´d need is four little red diamonds, about a carat each, to frame it.
Leslie Spitz was letting us know he had the other four diamonds.
- How are we gonna play this? - Let him make the first move.
Come to us.
Look at this.
This card from Josef´s box.
It looks like Josef was planning a Sunflower Emerald cut for the diamond, which is exactly what Spitz Junior´s suggesting.
Poor old Nieumann.
He invents the perfect cut for the perfect stone and then bang, has a heart attack.
- What a bummer.
- Kismet.
It could´ve changed his life.
Spitz and son had a disagreement about whether to go for the perfect cut or cash.
Maybe 20 odd years ago, Spitz Senior had the same argument with Josef.
Or maybe Josef was planning to nick the diamond from Spitz in order to fund his new life with Ruth? Thank you for these.
It seems your father was involved, Ruth.
- In what, exactly? - Handling stolen diamonds.
One? A dozen? Shiploads? One definitely, but there are still four smaller red diamonds missing.
Just one? I was steeling myself for a lot worse.
One worth 15 million.
Right.
So now I know.
It´s almost a relief.
If these photos jog your memory, Ruth, anything, doesn´t matter how small or incidental, will you call me? Sure.
Okay.
Thanks.
(MOBILE RINGING) Gerry.
to get ready.
Where? The Atlantic? Bloody hell, hope he´s paying.
All right, pick me up at 7:30.
Bye.
- Hi, there.
- Hello.
- Sorry to keep you waiting.
- Some champagne, Dad? I don´t think I´ll join you.
I´ll (SPEAKING FRENCH) Well, then.
Ray why don´t you take Jacqueline to see the paintings.
You´ll enjoy them.
He´s a young artist but he´s very good.
Thank you, but I´m perfectly happy to stay here.
No, really, go and look at the paintings.
I didn´t want to embarrass you in front of your, what is she, your - Fiancée.
- Oh, yes, you still want to play games.
It´s all right.
Eh? In one house, I opened a book and I found 500 quid inside.
- Tell me you didn´t take it.
- Oh, yeah.
Of course not, Jack.
How´s the investigation going? I didn´t invite you out to dinner to talk about work.
I Thank you.
Thank you.
I, um I just want you to know that I I really value our professional relationship, but I also consider that, well, you and I Oh, it´s the other way round, the spritzer´s for me.
Thank you.
Elise, I hope that we´re good friends, I Jack But perhaps I´ve given you the wrong impression.
- But I really enjoy your company.
- Jack, stop.
- How would you cut the diamond? - I wouldn´t, I´d get rid of it.
You ever heard of Maslow´s hierarchy of needs? No.
No, I haven´t.
No.
It´s a pyramid.
At the bottom you´ve got the basic needs, food, sex, somewhere to sleep.
You satisfy those needs and another need pops up, security, love.
In the middle you have esteem, knowledge, then creativity.
That´s where my son is stuck.
He´d be happy to cut that diamond for you.
But you know the really beautiful thing isn´t a isn´t a red stone.
It´s cash.
Well, I´m not at all creative and I´d much rather have the cash.
But Jackie has set her heart on that pendant that you described.
Well, the only problem is where do we get the four little red diamonds? Oh, I think I´ll have the rib eye.
What do you fancy? - Sea bass.
- Just what the doctor ordered.
Sea bass and salad, no pudding, glass of red wine and lots of water.
- Do you have to watch your diet? - Well, yes and no.
No, thank you.
I´d much rather have the steak with big fat chunky chips.
Flower, mister, for the lady? For your lady love? Yes, well, you´ve got the discipline, I just have the good intentions.
I have my bad days.
When I´m upset I head straight for the steak, wine, chips, chocolate mousse.
Please.
Here.
You have to pick a flower.
(JACK SIGHING) - Thank you.
- Thank you.
- Jack? - Jack, what? Thank you.
Elise.
You´re a dear friend, you´re a beautiful woman, you´re interesting, you´re great company.
- I would make any man proud.
- You certainly would.
Except you.
Mary was always the woman I loved, and always will be.
- What is it you want? - Do some business with you.
This business is based on trust, I don´t trust you.
I´d need more to go on.
Look, we both know that that diamond is dodgy.
And your point is? I´d like to do a deal on the four reds.
- You wanna buy or you wanna sell? - Buy.
You´re making me an offer? I haven´t got them.
I didn´t finish telling you about Maslow´s hierarchy.
At the top of the pyramid is self-actualisation.
When you´ve become everything you are capable of becoming, yeah? I´ve done that.
Well, I´m very happy for you.
Is there a punch line? I don´t need to deal in dodgy diamonds.
Why would I do that? Have I got ´´bloody idiot´´ burned into my forehead? Do you know what I notice? On top of the pyramid? No.
The world is full of scum like you grubbing around at the base, grabbing onto people like me and my family, trying to get a leg up.
Makes me sick.
(SPEAKING FRENCH) And you you take your tart and your stinking diamond and you stay away from my family.
Hm? What a cock-up.
- It´s my fault.
- Wasn´t your fault.
If I´d been more creative, we could´ve had Spitz.
No, it was my fault.
I assumed he had the diamonds, he assumed we had.
No, we all assumed he had the diamonds.
And that he would wanna buy the big one.
Will you stop trying to take the blame? I´m in charge.
It´s my call.
All right, then.
- It´s your fault.
- Thanks.
Oh, shit! - What are you doing? - Going to get some cigarettes.
- Oh.
Right.
Good night, Gerry.
- Good night.
See you in the morning.
Yeah.
(DOORBELL BUZZING) (GROANING) Gerry? Oh, my God! Who did this? - Spitz´s boys.
- Right, well, we´d better get you to hospital.
No, thanks.
Look, you can´t keep punching the living daylights out of villains now that you´re a granddad.
Well, I didn´t.
It was the other way round.
- Grape? - Could you break one off for us, please? And I do hope you haven´t ruined that lovely suit.
You said you didn´t like it.
- Who said that? - You looked lovely in it! Where´s that doctor? You couldn´t go and find him for us, could you? - I´ve gotta get out of here.
- Are you all right? Okay.
Thanks very much.
- Gerry´s boss, aren´t you? - Yes.
Are you Carole? Alison You should be ashamed of yourself.
Putting a man his age in that position.
Well, unfortunately it goes with the job and Gerry What would´ve happened if he´d been seriously injured? Who´s gonna take care of his family then? - How is he? - Like you care! He´s just a stepping stone for you and your fancy career, isn´t he? Doesn´t bother you that he´s a father and a grandfather.
- He did pass a police fitness test.
- Gerry, fit? He can´t even bend down and tie up his own shoelaces ´cause his gut gets in the way.
Yeah, well, he could do with losing a few pounds, I suppose.
And he was treated for gout at Christmas.
Oh, please, make this stop.
Excuse me.
You won´t be happy until he´s on his knees in the knackers yard.
How are you feeling? Look, girls, give us a minute, will you? We´ve got some work to talk about.
- We´ll be just outside.
- Lovely, yeah, smashing.
Thank you.
See what I have to put up with? Cor blimey, I don´t remember it hurting this much before.
- Oh, that´s age dulling the memory.
- Oh, thanks very much.
Strickland´s closed down the case.
Oh, that really makes me feel good about being beaten up.
And Ruth called.
She wants to meet.
What do I tell her? That her dad cared more about the diamond than he did about her? Or that the real villains got away? On the bright side, the insurance company did get their diamond back.
Oh, well, that´s smashing.
Oh, I´m so thrilled that the insurance companies aren´t out of pocket.
There´s still a chance that Serious Fraud will trace Spitz´s Swiss bank account and get him out that way.
Listen why don´t we get Interpol to look at Nieumann´s Swiss bank account? - When was it last used? - 1982.
Well, I bet you a tenner that that account is still active.
Oh, good thinking.
(GERRY GROANING) - Oh, sorry.
I´m really sorry.
- No, no.
Are you okay, sweetheart? Oh, that really Ow! - Blimey! - I´m sorry.
It´s all right.
Leave me alone.
So option A, he was a double-crossing thief and a fence.
Or option B, he was a brilliant diamond cutter who gave up his career to care for my mum.
We´ll probably never know the truth.
And who was planning a new life with his daughter.
- Why didn´t you bring this in sooner? - Doesn´t that mean he was coming for me? Well, without proof we can never know for definite.
I can.
I have proof.
The four missing red diamonds.
He hid them in his child´s bracelet.
He risked his daughter´s safety just to smuggle those bloody diamonds out? I don´t think the diamonds were more important than his daughter.
- They were his survival strategy.
- How do you mean? Well, in the camps he was useful if he had something to pass on, and if he was useful, he wasn´t killed.
So he´d been repeating that survival strategy ever since.
Yes! They´ve got him.
- How? - Josef´s bank account is still active.
- Hey! - Deposits and withdrawals made have been traced to a property development in southern Spain owned by - Leslie Spitz.
- Yep.
We got the bastard.
Guvnor.
Back down at the bottom of the pyramid again, eh, Les? Still, prison will look after all your basic needs.
With grateful thanks from Polestar Insurance head office.
I just handed it to Jack.
They should have the cheque.
Well, I´d very happily accept But it´s against police policy and we were only doing our job.
Weren´t we, Gerry? - Could always treat me to a fabulous meal.
- But that would be a date, Jack.
Friends go Dutch.
So the Creative Problem Solving course worked then, did it? Yeah.
SCAMPER: Substitute, combine, adapt, modify, put to another use, eliminate, reverse.
You twigged the Swiss bank account had been P´d, put to another use.
How does he remember all that stuff? I´m sorry, but Oh, of course, the diamond.
Brian has it in the safe.
And it couldn´t be in safer hands.
He´s stuck to that diamond like a limpet.
(WHISPERING) What´s the problem? I can´t remember the number.
It´s all right, it´s okay Doesn´t really matter if you´re old and grey It´s all right, I say, it´s okay Listen to what I say It´s all right, doing fine Doesn´t really matter if the sun don´t shine It´s all right, I say, it´s okay We´re getting to the end of the day Hi tech, low tech, take your pick ´Cause you can´t teach an old dog a brand new trick I don´t care what anybody says #At the end of the day #