Bullseye
Teleplay by Eric Paice
Directed by Peter Hammond
Murders
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Transport
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| Houseboat | - |
Minutiæ
Brigadier Williamson tells George the War Office has never had a faulty weapon from Anderson's, then pulls the trigger with no report, the hammer just clicks.
Steed made quite a tidy profit on those Anderson's shares! He'd already made 12% by the beginning of the episode - he tells Cathy he's already made between £5,000 and £6,000 when the stock is worth £50,000 (which seems to be around the 36/6 mark, as Cade is later heard to tell his broker it's reached 36/9, see below). Assuming Cade buys Cathy out at the figure offered her by Young (45/-) he would have made another 23% - 40% in all, nearly £18,000. Even if Cade sold for the 43/- he offered the Brigadier, Steed would have still made a total profit of around 34% or £15,000.
Cade tells his broker to keep buying when the stock is 36/9, until it reaches 41/6. He then answers another call and he instructs the caller to make a further offer to Anderson's shareholders - two Cade's Holdings A shares per share, plus a cash offer of 1/-; he further instructds them to stress that it's the final offer.
Cade shows Cathy that his office is kept at 72°F to simulate his hotel suite in the Bahamas, the sunlight coming in the blinds artificially created by a 2kW carbon lamp. He says there are many other thing in the room but as she only has four minutes she'd better make it up.
George tells Cathy that the rifle has a telescopic sight and when she says she prefers an open sight he tells her the Brigadier is the same - with the amount of practice he puts in he doesn't need them. He also tells her that the old-fashioned butts are just for the directors to take pot-shots with, the real testing being done on an open range with precision cameras.
The inspector - could it be Inspector Marsh from Brief for Murder? - admits that there's a slight disparity in the times between her coming into the butts and Reynold's time of death, although forensic science would show that there's no hard and fast rules for short term rigor mortis.
Jean rings Young after finding the Brigadier, saying she "can't take this place anymore", she had thought the Brigadier was asleep when she brought in his letters and then she saw all the blood.
