New Tricks2003

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Det. Supt. Sandra Pullman:
Nine-o-two p.m. seventh of February 2004. This is the seven p.m. train from Charing Cross to Dover and it's two hours into its journey.

Brian Lane:
Two hours? Shouldn't they be in Dover by now?

Det. Supt. Sandra Pullman:
Yeah, it should be, but a couple of miles out of the station someone pulled the emergency handle. Now watch this.

Det. Supt. Sandra Pullman:
[showing train security video] Four seconds. It takes four seconds to go through that first door, along the short connecting corridor and then into the buffet-car. Four seconds. This guy here is Doctor Philip Mackenna; he's a physics professor at University College London. He was due to catch the ferry from Dover to Calais and then another train to Paris, where he was going to speak at a conference on theoretical physics the following evening. Now keep watching. He talks to the blind man; then he gets up, and he heads to the buffet-car. Four seconds. [long pause] Doesn't matter how long you wait. Philip Mackenna never comes through that door and he hasn't been seen since.