Cast List
Len Scapp (Photographer): Graham
Dick O'Neary (Lexicographer): Tommy
George Jarvis (Assistant Director): Chris R.
Gypsy Rose (Gypsy! + Psychologist): Helen
Jonathon Hayward (Lawyer): Phil
Edward Gotripp (Psychiarist): Chris W.
James Hogshead (Freelance Journalist & Writer): Mel
John Roberts (Musicologist in Pitt Rivers): Matt
A little while has passed since the previous, urm, escapade.
Gypsy Rose keeps track of Jimmy Davenport (useful contact and possible innocent).
Gerald introduces Edward to the existing rabble. Rupert Kelleway at the Ashmolean has been on a dig in Palestine, and has returned, but his mind is somewhat disturbed, after a bout of malaria. He is confined in the Royal Marsden Hospital. Being observers of the arcane, Gerald would like us to go and talk to Rupert. One of the dig members actually passed away. He has details of the dig personnel (funded by Baring's bank, with people from University College, London).
There may be a link between Baring's and the Templars' in the previous fiasco. Roberts is vaguely aware of Kelleways existence.
Hayward was in Cairo during the Great War, so may know odd facts about the area, if necessary.
Kelleway's consultant is Anthony Wood. Gotripp makes an appointment to visit them. Due to it being 3pm already, it will be difficult to get to the hospital that day.
Scapp & Hogshead to visit the Foreign and Colonial Office.
Rose to visit the University College.
Jarvis to go to Barings'.
Roberts intends to visit the Bodleian
Gotripp and and Hayward visit Kelleway.
Roberts and O'Neary
Barings have interests in Palestine and Northern Africa. McCleod is a Senior Vicepresident of the bank (or equivalent thereof). Jarvis makes an appointment to see somebody later that day.
Roberts is looking for details on the Massada uprising: how it started, and why they went there.
Rose, at UCL, visits John Fielding, who has a little office in the archeology block. She asks him "What happened?" with the hope that he'll waffle on for hours. Fielding is about 30, fit, tall, and appears slightly stressed. This increases when Rose brings up the subject of the expedition, and produces the draft notes from the expedition. A lot of stuff was found, but Rose doesn't understand the details. No human remains were found at all, he lies, but there was a particularly fine shofar discovered. Roberts may be interested in this, later. Fielding and Sir Charles have been on many expeditions previously, to the Palestine area, which is very hot, unpleasant, and with a high risk of Malaria. She gives him a contact address at Magdalen. Fielding, it turns out, was at St. John's College.
Scapp & Hogshead at the Foreign office make inquiries about a trip to Palestine: dangerous diseases, native uprisings, that sort of thing. Malaria only crops up around the Red Sea. They ask if they can talk to one of the liasons, and arrange an appointment with Miss Cullens (the only female liason) on Thursday.
Jarvis is apparently intending work in the Middle East. They talk business for a while, and the banker suggests the Jarvis may need to talk to their insurance department, including shipping bodies home! The expedition to Palestine was a particular interest of McLeod, and Jarvis manages to arrange lunch with McLeod at 12.30 on Friday.
At the Royal Marsden, there's a fair haired young man asleep on the bed, his face etched with lines of deep worry. Rather than waking him, Gotripp has a look at the case notes, which don't match any description of malaria, but seem, rather to be of shell-shock, or or such traumatic experience. Gotripp and Hayward pass themselves off as a doctor and assistant (yeah, right!). Kelleway claims he's suffered from malaria, but seems to be somewhat vague of the details. Asking about Dr. Westfield almost provokes a memory of her death, but the memory of being told of this is more solid. Gotripp suggests hypnotism... and the doctor tries to put it off until the following morning, due to some ulterior motive of his own. Kelleway asks if Gotripp is leaving, and mentions a diary that he seems to have lost. Hayward pockets a sample, hopefully of Kelleway's medicine.
Since everbody's been put off until at least the next day, they all rendezvous at Scapp's studio in London.
A certain amount of discussion takes place about the location of Kelleway's diary: it could be in amongst his possessions (in his office, maybe?), or just mixed in the general equipment of the expedition (and maybe still in transit). Or maybe somebody's already claimed it. There is no obvious connection between the Barings' management and the hospital organisation.
Rose wants to check on the shipments returning from Palestine.
Gotripp has a return appointment at the hospital.
Jarvis looks for newspaper reports about previous misadventures for Barings' sponsored expeditions.
All of the equipment was shipped back to UCL along with the personnel.
Hayward finds that Menahem (of the Zealots) was murdered by his own son [I think].
Gotripp finds the Kelleway has had an "episode" during the night, and is now in a catatonic stupor. The supervising doctor is very willing for Gotripp to make an examination. Nobody claims to know what's really happened. They haven't located Kelleway's next of kin.
Scapp discusses Kelleway with Gerald. He is an orphan, with no siblings. He has occasionally mentioned an Aunt Agatha. Rose checks this up in the telephone directory, and finds a Miss A. Kelleway who lives in Stanton Harcourt. She plans to go selling clothespegs in the vicinity.
There is a very confused plan to rescue Kelleway, and finally a plan arrives to transfer him out "first thing" in the morning.
Rose, despairing of the planning of the others, wanders into UCL, and makes her way to Sir Charles office. She attempts to pick the lock, but breaks her hatpin off in the lock. She then considers whether to break the glass of the Moncrieff's door, but decides against it, instead departing back to Oxford.
O'Neary, Scapp and Hogshead turn up at the security desk of the hospital, and hand over some papers for the transfer of Kelleway, who's in ward 3C. After some witty banter with the guard, they go up to the ward. Kelleway is still comatose, and put in a wheelchair. His clothes are collected. At the door, Scapp asks if there are any more effects, and the guard notices a "do not move" note attached to Kelleways record. He suggests they should discuss the transfer with Doctor Wood. Amazingly, things go wrong here. Scapp clubs the guard with the butt of his bowie knife, inneffectually. The guard fortunately trips over his own chair whilst getting up, and lands Scapp a solid punch. Hogshead pushes Kelleway for the door, and O'Neary steers Scapp out, pushing a gurney into the guards path. They get out, with Scapp clutching the patient file, and Jarvis drives off.
Roberts talks his way into Kelleway's office in the Ashmolean museum, and finds Aunt Agatha's address amongst the assorted papers. He makes a copy of it.
Gotripp assists Scapp, improving his condition, and thinks that the drugs will wear off in a few hours. O'Neary (foolishly!) volunteers his flat for Kelleways recovery.
In the depths of Stanton Harcout, a gaily coloured caravan rolls up. A disapproving housekeeper answers Miss Kelleway's door, and attempts to turn her away. Rose says she is there on Rupert Kelleway's behalf, and manages to get invited into the house. They discuss matters that might calm Kelleway down, and it is revealed that he has a favourite teddy-bear and likes rice pudding. Agatha mentions receiving Kelleway's diary, and lets Rose copy out the relevant passages. Agatha describes Rupert as the "Son she never had", and there's a knock on the door. A cleric arrives, it is the Reverend Johnathan Wenderby, from St. Barnabas' Church in Jericho. Rose attempts to talk her way out calmly, but Wenderby invites her to stay, with somewhat ominous overtones. She makes her excuses and leaves anyway, heading southwards.
O'Neary and Gotripp stay at O'Neary's flat in Jericho. Jarvis, Hayward and Roberts head for Kelleway's flat in Park Town. Scapp and Hogshead return to London for their meeting with Miss Cullen.
At the flat, Jarvis doesn't think they place is being watched. Roberts finds that the back door of the building is unlocked. They enter, and sneak up to Kelleway's floor. Roberts, in disbelief, looks under the doormat, and finds a key. They enter. They flat is dusty, and has the unmistakable smell of an owner in Palestine. There is some post stacked neatly on a table. Jarvis and Hayward pore through the mass of paperwork on the bureau (which includes some paperwork on the caving club). Jarvis and Hayward hear somebody coming up the stairs, and Jarvis quickly locks the door. And then bolts it, when he realises that somebody is trying to pick the lock. Roberts desparately looks for some other exit.
The door is kicked open, and Roberts clambers out of the window onto the window ledge below. Three men rush in and Jarvis tries to duck out past them. The third man turns on his heels, and gestures toward Jarvis, who rushes for the stairs. Out of the window, Hayward carefully climbs down, but Jarvis falls off into the rose bush, and staggers out, bleeding. Jarvis suddenly feels pain as the last man waves threateningly at him. The first two thugs follow Hayward and Roberts out of the window. Jarvis feels more of the burning sensation, and finally gets down the stairs to the front door. He mets up with Haywards and Roberts out the front, and everybody runs like mad. The cultists glare at them while remaining outside the house.
Rose recovers from the dizzyness she's been feeling since leaving Agatha's and hears a car approaching. She turns quickly away along a narrow bridle path, and eventually reaches the Gypsy encampment at Newbury. She telephones O'Neary, on reverse charges. Kelleway is still unconcious.
Scapp and Hogshead interview Miss Cullen. She is vague in the area of finds, and has some memory gaps. She doesn't wish to return to the site. Scapp takes some photographs for the purported newpaper article. She seems to overreact to his flash.
Jarvis takes the train back to London, as he's got his meeting with McLeod the next day.
Back at Aunt Agatha's, the house is deserted. Rose sees her basket of clothespegs of the kitchen table, and the door is open. She goes in, and realises that she can smell blood. As she enters the hall, she finds the housekeeper lying a pool of blood, having been stabbed through the chest... Rose steps around the body and checks the rest of the house. There's no sign of Aunt Agatha, nor of the original diary. She rescues the clothespegs, and realises that one (dum dum dum!) is missing! Rose goes to tell the people in the next house that there's a dead body, and rushes off before the police decide to make an unwarrented accusation.
Kelleway awakes, and asks Gotripp to untie him. Gotripp and O'Neary attempt to calm him down, and give him some rice pudding. Kelleway eyes up the window, and Gotripp surreptitiously moves into the way. Kelleway gradually calms down, and Gotripp hypnotises him, to find out what's actually happened to his memory. McLeod has already hypnotised him to implant false memories. They get a full description of what happened in the dig, which traumatises Gotripp and O'Neary somewhat. The zealots and the horribly tentacly thing made off with the mystic Hammer. McLeod then hypnotised the archeologists to make them forget the attack. Gotripp points out that the zealots may wish to free Palestine from British occupation.
O'Neary and Gotripp attempt to wake Kelleway, who spoings out of the window, with disasterous, SAN-destroying effects. oh dear, oh dear. And now they've got a body, with leaky brains to worry about. Oh god. The milkman delivers.
Jarvis and McLeod talk about archeology in Palestine, and history in Balliol. Jarvis brings the conversation round to McLeod's latest dig, who intends to go back to finish what he's started. With more men, and more specialised equipment. Jarvis proposes a joint expedition, and McLeod suggests leaving in three weeks. McLeod explains that he knows Gerry Pearce, and meanwhile fiddles with an especially shiny spoon. McLeod says that Aunt Agatha Kelleway is spending some time in his company, and suggests an exchange of personnel. [Oh dear, oh dear. Can this go any more wrong?] As they get up to leave, Hogshead and Snapp notice some swarthy men approaching the club. Snapp races off toward the nearest police telephone box. One of the men starts sketching a symbol on the wall with a piece of chalk, and "something very curious happens." The wall grows dark and shimmery, and another, larger man steps straight out of the wall, carrying a large sledgehammer, apparently made of gold.
The hammer comes around, and McLeod's car is smashed to flinders [ooh, good word!] just as Jarvis and McLeod emerge. Scapp drives up and Jarvis pushes McLeod (and the others) into the car. The Hammer smashes into the road, sending a shockwave along the street. Scapp drives as though he's being chased by the forces of hell. They briefly discuss the insurance of his car, and McLeod reveals that the large man is of Jewish origin. McLeod is let out on a nearby corner, with promises to met the others again.