by John Glover
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Episode 10 - "25B Main Street Part 2" (May 18th 11:25am)
"Who the 'ell are you"
shouted
Yaxley at the intruder. Shocked, the other man turned to go. "Sorry" he stammered.
Yaxley wasn't standing for that. "Hang on a minute. You can't just walk off like that. This is my room. What the hell are you doing!"
, really".
Yaxley Farcett leaned back in the chair and laughed. The characters he had met so far; Jak, Clunch, Hummer, Su and now this Worthington bloke had all seemed a mite bizarre on first meeting, but somehow he couldn't help but like them. "Come in" he said "I think Columbo is about to start. Let's watch it together and you can tell me all about this damn place I've been shipwrecked on".
As Columbo smoked his cigars and annoyed his suspects with his repeated requests for ‘just one more question’, Brian kept digging Yaxley in the ribs and telling him what was about to happen. He even told him how the murderer had actually carried out the crime ten minutes before the end.
'For someone who doesn't watch television, you're a bit of an expert' noted Yaxley. Brian grinned and crumbs fell from his mouth, lodging in the stubble on his chin. He had got through a
whole packet of chocolate hob nobs since the last advert break, cramming them in one after the other.
'Detective programmes are my favourite' he said. 'Watch 'em all I do. Always get it right. Never known to get one wrong. Mind you, 'The Sweeney' were a bit difficult because they dint always have a criminal. Sometimes it were just about that Jack Regan's personal life. He were a hard bugger weren't he? I was ever so pleased when he got promoted to Inspector Morse'.
Yaxley smiled. Brian was turning out to be an amiable companion. A big, fat, stubbly and slightly smelly companion but good fun to be with all the same.
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