WEBVTT - Episode 5: Starting Over 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:09.400 A quick warning. This story contains adult themes and strong language. 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:17.279 Summer nineteen ninety seven. Somewhere in the Alps. It's a 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:20.760 beautiful day and a young man is sitting in a 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:30.120 white van. He's expecting a call any second from his boss. 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:35.879 Once he gets the call, the operation is on, but 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:42.040 timing is everything. Until he gets the call, he has 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:47.880 to sit tight. He looks out the window. The view 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:53.279 is stunning. Majestic peaks rise up on either side of 0:00:53.320 --> 0:01:00.440 a vast glacial lake. Beyond that the border, but he's 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:04.200 not here for the view. He checks his map yet again. 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:09.000 It'll take around twenty minutes to drive to the border crossing. 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:12.720 He turns to check the back of the van. The 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:17.440 bags are there, bags big enough to carry a lot of. 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:22.920 Cash, millions for hundreds of thousands of certain currencies. 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:28.920 And the man in the van, Yes, it's Lars, Lilah 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:33.600 and Evelyn's trusty butler. And it's the first time he's 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:35.840 told this story on the record. 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:41.920 I remember distinctly finding out the specific weight and volume 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:45.200 of dollars uros pounds. 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:50.960 Lars lets out a long breath and glances at his phone. Nothing. 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:56.960 Everything is going to be okay, he tells himself. It's simple. 0:01:57.640 --> 0:02:00.840 All he has to do is drive over the border, 0:02:01.280 --> 0:02:05.320 pick up the cash, and sneak back. You were being 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:11.880 asked to smuggle. Yes, the most important thing is this. 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:17.959 He can only make the crossing at a very specific time. 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:23.160 When a customs official who had been bribed and prepared 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:28.000 would let us through both ways without checking the vehicle. 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:41.160 Lars waits and waits. There's a problem, something has gone wrong. 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:52.240 The mission is aborted. Lars has to get out of 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:58.720 there fast, but Lilah and Evelyn's butler is rather enjoying 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:02.880 the thrill of it all. In fact, this is exactly 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:06.800 the sort of adventure he's always dreamed of. Did you 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:08.280 realize what you were doing? 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:09.040 Yes? 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:11.600 I did it with my eyes open, knowing that this 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:12.480 is not good. 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:13.800 It was illegal. 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:14.480 Yes. 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:21.400 Now we haven't found anyone who can corroborate all this, 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:28.160 but if it's true, it makes me wonder. Was there 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:33.280 far more to Evelyn's swindling operation than meets the eye? 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:46.560 Was it far larger than anyone new from usg Audio 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:52.119 Blanchard House and exactly right, media, this is royal swindle. 0:03:53.040 --> 0:04:39.960 I'm Becky Milligan. Episode five, starting over six months later 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:48.960 spring nineteen ninety eight, the Hague Holland Evelyn, Lilah, and 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:53.040 their loyal butler Lars, are on the run. They know 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:56.560 that back in the UK, Detective Jim Frost is well 0:04:56.600 --> 0:05:01.680 and truly onto them. The the trio are having breakfast 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:07.520 in a rather modest hotel. It's not smart or exclusive, 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:12.400 and the service is far from impeccable. In fact, it's 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:16.560 rather run down. This is not what Lilah has become 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:21.520 accustomed to, and it's not the life Evelyn has always promised. 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:23.640 Her miserable little hotel. 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:27.640 Was, But the couple don't have much choice because their 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:30.599 pot of cash has almost run dry. 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:32.000 Horrible place. 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:36.919 Just a few more days, Evelyn reassures Lilah. Normally, of 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:40.080 course they'd be staying in a five star hotel and 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:44.679 just not paying the bill. But after Sopwell House, Evelyn 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:49.440 isn't taking the risk anyway. She's expecting funds to be 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:53.520 wired from America any day now, a windfall. 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:56.560 There was a huge amount of money coming in, and 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:59.480 Evelyn said, we are going to be fine, don't worry. 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:03.520 Organized more money and we will be all to survive 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:04.400 for a long time. 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:10.000 And it really is a huge amount. Now, it's not 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:14.720 entirely clear where this cash is coming from. But on 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:19.440 that cassette which Evelyn recorded for her never published memoir, 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:25.920 she says an American associate owed her fifty million US dollars. 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:29.920 If she's about to call in that debt, it will 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:35.040 set the couple up for life, a life of real luxury. 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:39.960 Lila will want for nothing. Evelyn will deliver on her 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:46.800 wedding day promise. So despite the horrid hotel and Lilah sulking, 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:57.159 everything is looking pretty peachy. Except a whole week goes 0:06:57.200 --> 0:07:01.600 by and there's no sign of any money in Evelyn's account. 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:06.280 Probably wise not to stay in one place for too long, 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:11.360 Evelyn thinks. So it's back in the car lars at 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:11.840 the wheel. 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:15.920 We continued from there to Amsterdam, stayed for one week 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:17.600 at the Tulip Hotel. 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:25.080 Another city, another cheap hotel. Evelyn keeps reassuring Lilah. But 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:28.920 another week goes by, still no sign of the money. 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:35.640 Evelyn is chasing her American contact, Come on, where's the cash. 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:42.560 Then at last the money lands in Evelyn's account. But 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:50.600 there's a problem the money. It's not millions, far from it. Actually, 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:56.200 it's little more than a few grand that's it. Evelyn 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:59.680 has no idea what has gone wrong, but she doesn't 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:03.000 have to to find out. The longer they stay put, 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:06.480 the greater the risk of being tracked down by Jim 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:10.760 Frost in the UK. They have to get going. But 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:14.800 where they need a place which is far away, a 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:18.280 safe haven where no one will know who they are. 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:23.040 Evelyn and Lilah discuss where on earth that could be? 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:27.040 Where do you want to go? As I don't know, Jen, 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:30.040 and we haven't been near to Auckland, why don't we 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:32.000 try there? That might be really nice? 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:34.320 And I suppose it was a place where you the 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:36.079 police went after you yet. 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:38.199 Well, au Gusto. 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:43.520 So that's decided New Zealand it is. 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:50.760 We paid our hotel bill. What's far as I knowing you? 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:54.000 M you ever thought about that? 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:59.480 Very funny, Lilah. Lilah and Evelyn are packing up, ready 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:02.920 to leave, but there is one thing they have to do. 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:11.800 It's Lars, with his sweet smile and blonde hair. He's 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:15.440 not going with them. It's time to bid farewell to 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:22.000 their loyal butler, their confidante. Lars holds his arms up 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:23.360 to the two women. 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:26.800 I gave him a hag, sort of a hag. Well, 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:30.640 I don't quite know what Lar's called tugs, but sideways hag, 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:33.160 you know, the sort of thing I said. You know, 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:36.040 this brings to an endo lovely relationship. 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:40.400 Lars has been with them for over a year. The 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:41.520 bonds are deep. 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:48.760 It was horrible, was absolutely horrible. It was like saying 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:54.880 goodbye to a really really, really really really best friend person, 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:59.679 not a battle. He was too sweet, just too lovely, 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:03.199 and we didn't want to see the last of him. 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:08.160 So not just a butler and also not just a friend. 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:13.400 Lars has become an accomplice. Don't forget this guy was 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:17.800 willing to smuggle money across borders for our duo. The 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:21.600 two women tell him to return to Sweden and lie 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:26.679 low for Lars. It's the end of the adventure. 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:32.000 Time to ride into the sunset and disappear. 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:38.680 So as Lars boards his playing to Sweden, Evelyn and 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:43.080 Lilah are boarding their plane to New Zealand, a brand 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:46.959 new place and a fresh start. It's just what they 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:54.320 do over and over again. They want to get as 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:58.360 far away from Detective Jim Frost as possible. 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:02.360 Goodbye crowl Goodbye England, Goodbye what is that? 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:14.400 And Hello New Zealand. Lilah is impressed. She loves their 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:15.080 new home. 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:18.560 Look at this place. They messed sweep all the roads 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:21.160 every day. It was gorgeous. 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:28.640 And so their new life begins. But it's not so easy. Remember, 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:33.240 they've hardly got any cash. Their money just about stretches 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:37.200 to a small motel. Lilah has to wash their clothes 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:41.120 in a communal laundry, and there's certainly no room service. 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:46.240 This is not a suite at the Berkley. They've really 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:49.760 come down in the world, and it's tough for the couple, 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:53.560 not only because they're running out of money, but also 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:59.840 because Evelyn, the confident, funny chatterbox. Evelyn, well, she's not 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:01.200 quite herself. 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:04.800 Everyone wants to get some things sorted out in her head. 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:07.360 She said, I haven't got anyone here. I need to 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:09.880 talk to someone about what's going on in my life. 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:13.200 But that someone isn't Lilah. 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:15.760 I'll tell you all right yet, I'm fine, you sure 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:18.319 talk to me. I don't need to talk to you. 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:19.680 I'll talk to someone else. 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:24.679 Lilah's hurt. Those intimate chats they used to have in 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:28.320 bed late at night, those haven't happened for a while. 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:33.240 They've been together for years and it's never been like 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:38.960 this before. They've always been so in love, Evelyn's always 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:44.040 been so doting. Now it feels like they're drifting further 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:51.880 and further apart. Then Lilah has an idea, an idea 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:55.199 which will get Evelyn out of the house, meet people, 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:59.040 take her out of herself. They could join a local 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:00.720 lesbian so social. 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:04.760 Group, and I said, we really should. In that way, 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:08.480 we'll get fringed, we'll be able to talk our own language. 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:12.080 It should be quite fun. Would you like to do it? Yes? 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:16.720 Yes, yes, So that's what they do, and it is fun. 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:27.760 But then something happens, something unexpected. Evelyn meets someone, a 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:32.280 woman from the lesbian group. They start spending time together, 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:37.520 and at first it's fine, they're just friends. Lila doesn't mind. 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:41.800 But then I said, I've got to go out with 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:46.199 them more often, and I thought, Hello, something's going on here. 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:51.480 And I think that they've been sleeping together. Whatever they 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:52.040 were doing. 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:55.600 Now, we have no idea whether that's true or not, 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:59.480 but in any case, Lila doesn't feel good about it. 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:03.319 Oh well, I think I felt jealous. I would have 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:05.120 felt jealous because it wasn't nice. 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:08.120 Lilah realizes something. 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:12.120 I said to him, I'm unneasing you anti dalling. 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:18.480 But on the other hand, now Evelyn is feeling a 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:23.520 bit better. Magically, their cash flow improves as well. And 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:27.480 if the money's coming in, that always makes Lila feel 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:30.760 a bit better too. Do you start going shopping again 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:33.160 and having a bit of cash? Of course, of course 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:38.840 on clothes, furniture, fancy food and all the lovely things 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:43.120 that Lilah loves. Not only that, they move to a 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:47.320 new part of town, one of the most desirable suburbs 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:53.240 in New Zealand, with friendly neighbors and most importantly, very 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:58.480 rich friendly neighbors. There's just one thing, a question which 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:02.560 it seems Lila never stops to ask, where is all 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:18.520 the money coming from? Meanwhile, back in England, Detective Constable 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:22.480 Jim Frost has no idea that Evelyn and Lilah have 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:26.560 fled to New Zealand. He's still busy gathering evidence about 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:31.440 their antics with the Horsey set, and he's made another breakthrough. 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:37.760 He's obtained Evelyn's bank statements and their dynamite. 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:41.760 We can see money is coming in from investors, and 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:44.280 we can see Evelyn and Lilah having a whale of 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:47.200 a time on this one particular shopping spry eight thousand 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:48.640 pounds in a day at John Lewis. 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:52.360 John Lewis is like the British version of Macy's. 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:56.160 Buying curtains and bits and bobs and furniture. God knows 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:57.760 what they were doing it they didn't have a house. 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:03.600 This is real evidence, in black and white, in print, 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:10.360 there for everyone to see. Jim can categorically show that. 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:13.200 None of the money was invested, not one dime, not 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:16.240 one penny he was invested. No, No, they just spent 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:17.320 it on having a good time. 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:21.320 And in a court case before a judge and jury, 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:23.680 he calculates. 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:27.520 That's cast iron evidence, which is so compelling. You know 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:29.400 you're you're onto a winner. 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:34.360 Really, he thinks he's got everything he needs to put 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:44.760 our duo behind bars. But of course, when he goes 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:48.480 back to Evelyn and Lilah's last known address. 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:53.360 We found out that they disappeared, vanished. 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:59.400 Jim kicks himself. He realizes that decision to call Evelyn 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:05.800 in question her, well, it's backfired big time, and now 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:06.720 he knows it. 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:09.520 I was pissed off. We were all pissed off. 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:13.360 And that's putting it mildly. He's been working on this 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:14.880 case for months. 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:17.560 I know that I've got the evidence to convict them, 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:18.840 and I don't want to lose that. 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:25.320 But Jim's dogged. Remember he's a thief taker. He isn't 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:28.880 about to throw in the towel. Far from it. 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:31.240 That was just not gonna happen because I wasn't gonna 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:31.720 let them go. 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:37.440 But for now, Detective Jim Frost has no idea whatsoever 0:17:37.960 --> 0:17:43.560 where his thieves are hiding away, no clues, in fact, 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:53.000 no leads at all. Auckland, New Zealand. 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:57.480 Marine Prague was a very old and established street in 0:17:57.560 --> 0:17:59.560 a very old established suburb in. 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:04.679 Bay Lilah and Evelyn's new neighborhood, A perfect place to 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:08.879 hide a bungalow in the back of beyond deep in 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:15.000 suburbia where nothing ever happens. Meet the couple's new neighbors, 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:17.600 Katherine and Greg Buckley. 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:21.360 We were number forty and ours was a little nineteen 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:25.680 sixties brick and tile place, quite low to the ground. 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:29.120 They were number forty two, so slightly uphill of us. 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:31.720 There was a big hedge between us and these was 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:34.400 one of the slightly grander bungalows. 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:40.400 A few days after Evelyn and Lila move in, Katherine 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:42.400 and Greg pop round to welcome them. 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:46.800 We're not muffin bakers, Greg and I. But if you 0:18:46.800 --> 0:18:48.399 were a muff and baker, you would have arrived with 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:49.320 your box of muffins. 0:18:49.320 --> 0:18:49.800 But we didn't. 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:51.080 We just arrived and said hi. 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:53.320 They meet Lila first. 0:18:53.800 --> 0:18:56.600 Well, she's just this beamy, smiley little woman. 0:18:57.160 --> 0:19:00.600 Little does she know who she's really dealing with, though 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:04.040 she does sense Lila's concealing something. 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:06.880 I'm a natural red head, and I think I can 0:19:06.920 --> 0:19:09.200 spotted not natural red head. 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:17.119 But of course Lilah's concealing much more than that. Lilah 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:21.400 tells them that Evelyn is a financial advisor. Right, okay, 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:25.440 pretty well to do, thanks Catherine. But then she notices 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:29.280 the decor inside the house. Now she doesn't want to 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:32.000 come across as a snob, but when she pokes her 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:34.240 head in the door, she thinks. 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:37.680 You know that weird, like not stylish, not classy at all. 0:19:38.359 --> 0:19:40.560 And the most outstanding thing for me was that there 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:43.480 were just like little China ornaments everywhere. 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:48.119 It was quite old Lady Nana style. Now Lilah would 0:19:48.200 --> 0:19:52.480 certainly take issue with that description. She loves her new 0:19:52.560 --> 0:19:55.720 house and she's got it just how she wants it. 0:19:56.200 --> 0:19:59.440 Gorgeous, a gay guar's house, what can I say? 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:03.480 Of course, Greg and Catherine don't let on. They find 0:20:03.520 --> 0:20:10.840 it all rather chintzy. And more importantly, their kids love 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:12.680 Evelyn and Lila's dogs. 0:20:13.320 --> 0:20:18.600 They had the fattest little pug one or two two two. 0:20:19.400 --> 0:20:21.639 They could barely move they were. 0:20:21.520 --> 0:20:26.119 So fed, probably overfeed clearly, you know, the apples of 0:20:26.160 --> 0:20:26.719 their eye. 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:29.960 But the kids don't care how fat the pugs are. 0:20:30.280 --> 0:20:33.240 They just love playing with them and taking them for walks. 0:20:33.480 --> 0:20:35.760 But you couldn't walk them very fat because to drag 0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:37.840 them the poor little things hit you know, leagues about 0:20:37.880 --> 0:20:38.800 three inches long. 0:20:39.080 --> 0:20:41.520 They just love the dogs and this quaint old lady 0:20:41.560 --> 0:20:42.320 in the house. 0:20:42.560 --> 0:20:52.719 Quaint old lady. That's Lilah they're talking about. But Lila 0:20:53.040 --> 0:20:57.000 is happy. She's loving life in the suburbs. Cash is 0:20:57.040 --> 0:21:00.520 abundant and they're a long long way from the clutches 0:21:00.560 --> 0:21:04.359 of Detective Jim Frost in England. All that business with 0:21:04.440 --> 0:21:08.480 the Horsey set feels like another lifetime, all in the past. 0:21:09.359 --> 0:21:13.240 Their new neighborhood in Marine Parade is the perfect place 0:21:13.280 --> 0:21:16.960 to keep their heads down and their mouths shut. And 0:21:17.040 --> 0:21:19.840 as far as all their neighbors are concerned, Evelyn and 0:21:19.880 --> 0:21:23.000 Lilah are just a couple of sweet old ladies from 0:21:23.080 --> 0:21:30.560 Australia with a pair of pugs. Until it's a regular 0:21:30.640 --> 0:21:34.679 day in marine parade in Auckland. Katherine is out front 0:21:34.920 --> 0:21:38.800 when she bumps into Evelyn and Lilah's landlord, Kevin, who 0:21:38.880 --> 0:21:40.080 she knows well. 0:21:40.720 --> 0:21:42.800 And he said, oh, I've just got something to let 0:21:42.840 --> 0:21:45.240 you know. And he came either and he didn't stand 0:21:45.280 --> 0:21:46.280 on the street and chat. 0:21:47.000 --> 0:21:52.439 He insists they go inside, which is very unusual. He says, 0:21:52.920 --> 0:21:54.639 it's about your new neighbors. 0:21:55.280 --> 0:21:58.000 How much of you had to do with Evelyn and Layla. 0:21:58.560 --> 0:22:01.560 Catherine looks at him perplexed. 0:22:01.359 --> 0:22:03.320 And I said, oh, you know, not match the dogs 0:22:03.320 --> 0:22:05.280 and waving over the fence and what have you. 0:22:05.359 --> 0:22:10.560 And he said, well, don't now she's listening like coul 0:22:11.200 --> 0:22:17.560 carry on, fill me in, don't what. As Kevin speaks, 0:22:18.080 --> 0:22:24.760 Catherine's eyes widen. She can't believe it. Evelyn and Lilah, 0:22:24.920 --> 0:22:31.320 he says, are known fraudsters. Kevin warns her. 0:22:31.680 --> 0:22:34.639 Do not let them talk you into doing anything with money. 0:22:35.040 --> 0:22:38.560 Don't let them borrow money from you, don't suggest that 0:22:38.720 --> 0:22:41.240 you know you can invest with them, just have nothing 0:22:41.240 --> 0:22:41.880 to do with them. 0:22:42.480 --> 0:22:46.920 Then Kevin says, one last thing. They have to keep 0:22:46.960 --> 0:22:53.359 this information to themselves. They cannot they must not talk 0:22:53.440 --> 0:22:54.000 about it. 0:22:54.480 --> 0:22:56.880 We weren't supposed to go Blair Blair Blair because Auckland's 0:22:56.880 --> 0:22:58.200 a small town. 0:22:58.160 --> 0:23:01.480 And that's it. Kevin says goodbye and shuts the front 0:23:01.520 --> 0:23:07.239 door behind him. Catherine stunned, she replays the conversation in 0:23:07.320 --> 0:23:18.160 her head. Known fraudsters, the question is known by whom 0:23:18.200 --> 0:23:22.159 who knows where they are? Well, I can tell you 0:23:22.200 --> 0:23:25.640 one thing. It's not Detective Jim Frost in the UK. 0:23:26.480 --> 0:23:32.960 He still has no idea where they're hiding out. For 0:23:33.080 --> 0:23:37.240 Evelyn and Lilah, life carries on as normal. There's no 0:23:37.440 --> 0:23:42.520 sign at all that trouble might be brewing. Catherine and 0:23:42.560 --> 0:23:47.639 Gregg prove to be rather good at keeping secrets. No 0:23:48.160 --> 0:23:52.720 in Marine Parade, everything's as it always has been. Evelyn 0:23:52.760 --> 0:23:56.560 and Lilah have plenty of money coming in, so Evelyn 0:23:56.760 --> 0:24:04.360 decides to treat herself. One morning, she turns to Lilah. 0:24:03.440 --> 0:24:06.240 She said, look, I want a flet tummy. I think 0:24:06.280 --> 0:24:08.000 I need to go and have a flet tummy. 0:24:09.000 --> 0:24:13.439 Evelyn has always been generous with her money, well not 0:24:13.760 --> 0:24:18.560 her money exactly, but for once she actually wants to 0:24:18.560 --> 0:24:26.120 do something for herself. Evelyn decides to have liposuction. It's 0:24:26.160 --> 0:24:31.240 a cosmetic procedure, kind of like vacuuming fat from her 0:24:31.280 --> 0:24:35.719 belly and then followed up with a tummy tuck. She 0:24:35.800 --> 0:24:42.040 books herself into a private hospital. On the day of 0:24:42.080 --> 0:24:45.879 the procedure, all seems to be going well. The doctor 0:24:45.880 --> 0:24:48.399 says they'll be in touch once Evelyn is out of 0:24:48.440 --> 0:24:52.280 the operating room, so Lila goes home and takes a nap. 0:24:56.400 --> 0:24:59.600 Lila wakes up. She expects the voice on the other 0:24:59.680 --> 0:25:02.159 end of the call to be the doctor at Evelyn's 0:25:02.160 --> 0:25:07.879 private hospital, but it isn't. It's from a public hospital 0:25:08.520 --> 0:25:09.960 and it's an emergency. 0:25:10.680 --> 0:25:14.439 We've got evil unburdening here. Do you know who? And 0:25:14.480 --> 0:25:17.600 I said, yes, I do. Why Oh, They've just brought 0:25:17.600 --> 0:25:18.840 her in in an ambulance. 0:25:19.359 --> 0:25:23.600 Lilah rushes to the public hospital. She finds Evelyn in 0:25:23.640 --> 0:25:28.199 her room in terrible pain. Something has gone wrong with 0:25:28.280 --> 0:25:30.520 the operation, very wrong. 0:25:31.440 --> 0:25:35.639 She was looking really bad and she was just everything 0:25:35.680 --> 0:25:37.439 about it was just awful. 0:25:38.160 --> 0:25:40.720 Evelyn is not okay. 0:25:41.000 --> 0:25:44.560 Larly, I feel terrible. I feel terrible. I'm dying. I'm dying. 0:25:44.560 --> 0:25:45.879 I'm dying. I know I'm dying. 0:25:46.240 --> 0:25:47.040 Were you scared? 0:25:47.480 --> 0:25:50.200 Oh? Yes, because she was dying. 0:25:50.640 --> 0:25:55.119 I swear the wound from the stomach procedure has opened 0:25:55.560 --> 0:26:01.400 and become very seriously infected. And then even worse, they 0:26:01.440 --> 0:26:09.280 discover Evelyn's had a stroke in her apartment. Lila shows 0:26:09.280 --> 0:26:12.159 me a photo of the wound taken at the time. 0:26:13.000 --> 0:26:18.240 It's really shocking to see a huge wound gaping open, 0:26:19.040 --> 0:26:24.080 red and raw and weeping. The way Lilah tells it, 0:26:24.400 --> 0:26:27.840 Evelyn was discharged in a pretty dire state. 0:26:28.880 --> 0:26:32.639 So that was the wound, right, That is shocking. I 0:26:34.040 --> 0:26:36.240 actually dicked that up for her. 0:26:36.440 --> 0:26:38.320 I don't know how you did that, because that looks right. 0:26:38.560 --> 0:26:41.399 Look, I don't know. I just do things. You just 0:26:41.440 --> 0:26:44.080 do it anyway. I was able to put two fists 0:26:44.119 --> 0:26:45.440 in who bury. 0:26:45.640 --> 0:26:54.320 Into the wound in Oh. Evelyn eventually comes home, but 0:26:54.760 --> 0:26:57.200 she's a shell of the woman she used to be. 0:26:58.119 --> 0:27:01.959 She needs a lot of care and tension, and Lilah 0:27:02.040 --> 0:27:04.480 spends all her time looking after her. 0:27:05.240 --> 0:27:09.160 I would wait night and day looking after her, feeding her, 0:27:09.280 --> 0:27:12.040 cleaning her up, doing her wounds. 0:27:12.880 --> 0:27:17.919 Slowly, very slowly. Evelyn begins to improve, but there's no 0:27:18.040 --> 0:27:23.679 money coming in. They're falling on hard times. Unless Lila 0:27:23.800 --> 0:27:28.240 can earn they'll be thrown out of the bungalow. So 0:27:28.400 --> 0:27:31.360 Lilah does what she knows best. 0:27:33.400 --> 0:27:38.280 I opened another little B and D place within the 0:27:38.359 --> 0:27:39.399 house that when we're living. 0:27:40.200 --> 0:27:47.000 Of course, yes, Lilah brings bondage and discipline to Marine Parade. 0:27:47.640 --> 0:27:48.800 Did you get some customers? 0:27:49.240 --> 0:27:49.440 Oh? 0:27:49.520 --> 0:27:52.560 Yes, right, and what was your name there? 0:27:53.640 --> 0:27:54.480 Madame's Via. 0:27:55.440 --> 0:27:59.920 So you return to the old job, hehew, Madame zav 0:28:00.080 --> 0:28:02.280 The era is back in business. 0:28:03.000 --> 0:28:05.200 And I was doing maybe an hour, hour and a 0:28:05.240 --> 0:28:09.000 half a work a day, and that was bringing in 0:28:09.040 --> 0:28:14.480 maybe three hundred dollars a day from one client. And 0:28:14.880 --> 0:28:18.000 our great clients, they really were, they were excellent. 0:28:18.880 --> 0:28:22.040 Now, Catherine and Greg might know that they're living next 0:28:22.040 --> 0:28:25.800 door to known fraudsters, and of course Evelyn and Lilah 0:28:25.880 --> 0:28:30.160 have no idea. Katherine and Greg know that, but Catherine 0:28:30.200 --> 0:28:34.159 and Greg have absolutely no idea. Lila is running a 0:28:34.200 --> 0:28:39.960 B and D business right next door to them. So 0:28:40.120 --> 0:28:44.600 things are starting to get very interesting in Marine Parade. 0:28:45.160 --> 0:28:48.960 More interesting than they've been in a very, very long time, 0:28:51.200 --> 0:28:56.200 and things are about to get even more interesting. So 0:28:56.480 --> 0:29:01.400 Evelyn's recovering and Lilah's working because the cash run dry, 0:29:01.480 --> 0:29:04.480 and Lilah hopes that as soon as Evelyn is back 0:29:04.480 --> 0:29:07.800 on her feet, things will all go back to normal. 0:29:09.240 --> 0:29:13.680