Taggart, Series 1

Jo:
I thought I recognised it. I just didn't connect it with Dalmally Road at that time.

Taggart:
That's because it wasn't there, Jo. It arrived later, when you moved here.

Jo:
[Finds a record in her books] Ah, that's the couple, the Ritchies. [She hands the book over the Taggart.]

Taggart:
Do you remember anything about them?

Jo:
[Shrugs] Only that they took the place for a few weeks. It was due for demolition and there was a whole series of short lets. [Taggart passes the book to Livingstone.]

Taggart:
Do you remember what they looked like?

Jo:
No.

Livingstone:
[Reading from the book] 8th September 1976 - that's just after the trial.

Taggart:
And after David Balfour's conviction.

Jo:
You mean they brought the body in? But how...?

Livingstone:
The body wasn't Margaret Balfour's.

Taggart:
See, it was well known locally, Jo, that 16 Dalmally Road was a hostel for ex-cons, and at the time of Margaret Balfour's disappearance, you'd had to move out and re-let.

Livingstone:
[Handing the book back to Jo] All part of her plan to fool everybody.

Jo:
But whose body was it?

Taggart:
We don't know yet.

Livingstone:
Why did David need your car four days ago?

Jo:
He said he wanted to visit Margaret's mother on the coast. Wasn't that the truth?

Taggart:
Aye, it was the truth all right. [He goes to the phone to make a call.]