Alice

I mean, he's fantastic in it.

But things weren't perfect, as their downstairs neighbors, the Christies, would later attest.

Neither Tim nor Beryl were particularly good at fulfilling the expected roles of a married couple in 1940s London.

Beryl was a terrible homemaker and wasn't good at managing finances.

I just have to pause there for a moment because I feel personally attacked.

But 1940s, she wasn't good at money and she wasn't good at keeping the home.

Tim made that last part particularly difficult, the money aspect, because he was drinking away most of the money he earned

as a truck driver.

Not good.

You can't have someone who's not good with money and someone who also drinks it away.

And when Tim was drunk, he got loud and he got angry.

Their arguments became legendary and the violence between them had a number of witnesses.

Things came to a head in 1949 when Beryl discovered she was again pregnant.

Okay.

So we're going to dive into the first timeline.

That might just be a glimmer for you that this is going to be a wild ride.

A little foreshadowing that there's perhaps more than one timeline.

You were really excited.

I was going to say, we should have put a gun somewhere back here with the crooked art so that people kept looking at it saying, does it go off?

Okay.