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So Alice, this is the final episode. I am really relieved you said that because it's just been very tense. It kind of feels like a toxic environment

You know, it's just not working. No, I mean of the series. Yes, me too. Do we need to talk?

Can't wait for the next one. Oh God

Sunday, the 1st of December 1991 10pm, Hope and Circus. In his office at the Daily Mirror, Richard

Stott answers the ringing phone. There's nothing unusual about the paper's editor taking calls at this late hour,

but there's nothing ordinary about what he's told by the mysterious caller.

The four horsemen are in the vanway. The eagle has landed. Before Stott can reply, the line goes dead.

The 48-year-old runs his fingers through his jet-black hair, then anxiously wraps them on his desk.

Strangers this message may sound. He's pretty sure he knows what it means.

The vanway is where the Daily Mirror's van's line up to collect copies of the paper for distribution.

The messenger is letting him know that the agents of the apocalypse are upon them.

Stott curses himself. He's been in denial for too long.

He picks up a copy of the Daily Mirror, published the day after Robert Maxwell's sudden death.

His heart sinks as he reads the headline he personally wrote. The man who saved the mirror.

Now nearly a month later, Stott feels like a damn fool.

He spent the days immediately following his proprietors' demise, writing gushing tributes.

He wasn't alone. Numerous politicians, business leaders and royals reacted with messages of sorrow.

Russian President Gorbachev and British Prime Minister John Major among them.

US President George Bush extolled his humanitarian endeavours and on wavering fight against oppression.

But soon Ruehm has started circulating that Maxwell's business dealings had been far from scrupulous.

This week, the independent runner-story claiming the serious fraud squad is looking into Maxwell's finances.

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