Deadly Affair The
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Mr Fennan, we know it's idiotic, |
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but when the Foreign Secretary finds |
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it's like London airport |
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to say that there's a bomb |
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and somebody's got to do a check. |
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- Was the letter anonymous? |
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Was it literate? |
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Oh, yes, properly spelt, |
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- Handwriting? |
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An Olivetti portable. Westminster postmark. |
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And what exactly did it allege? |
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It said that you were a member |
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and that you were still secretly sympathetic |
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- But my dear Mr... |
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Practically everybody was a member |
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- Half the present Cabinet were Party... |
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You know, Mr Dobbs, when you're young, |
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you hitch the wagon |
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to whatever star looks likely |
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When I was an undergraduate, |
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the wagon was social justice, |
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We perambulated with banners. |
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A few of us fought in Spain. |
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I still believe it was a good wagon, |
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We had faith and hope and charity. |
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A wrong faith, a false hope |
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but I still think the right sort of charity. |
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Our eyes were dewy with it. |
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Who opened them? |
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- Ann? |
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Oh, Bill! I'm sorry. |
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Well, I hope you're wide awake, old boy, |
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because your subject Fennan |
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But when I was in the park |
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he was as happy as a bloody lark. |
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I liked him. |
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and I as good as promised him |
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What on Earth makes them think |
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- Body position. |
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- How long? |
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Ann took the car |
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- Does the Adviser know yet? |
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Oh, hell. |
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Well, I'll be as quick as I can. Bye. |
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Ann? |
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I want to go to... |
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Oh, Lord, that's my own car coming back. |
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- There you are, five bob, all right? |
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- Good night. |
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Are you arriving or leaving, Charles? |
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Leaving. Just the office. There's a flap on. |
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You have a good evening? |
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Yes, |
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I'm afraid so. |
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Who was it this time? |
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Oh, I see. Somebody I know. |
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Do you want the car? |
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- Darling... |
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Back? |
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I turned your fire on. It's bloody cold. |
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Oh, Charlie, you're in the nick of time. |
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What for? |
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To stop the Adviser |
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He just left Scotland Yard |
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There was a squabble going on |
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Special Branch says Special Branch. |
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CID says CID. |
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Poor old Surrey police |
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Well, what does the Foreign Office say? |
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Oh, Foreign Office think |
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The death of a loyal |
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Well, he was, Bill. |
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Worried sick and driven to suicide |
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by the Gestapo methods |
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You know that's a load of bull. |
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I had a perfectly friendly interview |
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I left him happy. |
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Well, if you tell that to the Adviser, |
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He's scared enough |
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If this department starts even hinting |
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and then it turned out to be wrong... |
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Tell us exactly what happened. |
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Fennan and his wife lived down in... |
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Surrey. |
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At Walliston, I know that! |
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She went to the local theatre alone |
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She came home about 10:45, |
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He left a sealed letter |
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Has it been opened? |
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- Appleby. |
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- Yes, Adviser. |
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Save a kitten for me, darling! |
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Thank you. |
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The police believe it to be |
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- Do you? |
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The point is, |
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It's unfortunate |
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we are now answerable |
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with whom our current relations |
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If, of course, there are facts |
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which point to Fennan's suicide for reasons |
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I shall be happy to hear about them. |
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- Have they opened his suicide letter? |
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It was typed on Fennan's own machine |
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and signed with what's indubitably |
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It carries not only the date, January the 3rd, |
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That's a little unusual. |
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A methodical man |
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"My dear Minister, after some hesitation |
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"I cannot spend my remaining years |
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"I realise that I am the victim of |
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"Yours sincerely, Samuel Fennan." |
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- May I have your comments? |
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- He must have been raving mad. |
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But so did he when I interviewed him! |
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He was a little over-talkative perhaps, |
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but I put that down |
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Quite. |
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That's why I suggested |
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which was rather public anyhow, |
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and conduct the interview |
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Then I may take it that his suicide |
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came as a complete surprise to you. |
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- You find no explanation? |
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- You have no idea who denounced him? |
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- He was married, you know. |
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A somewhat unusual woman. |
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Suffered rather badly |
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which rather adds to our embarrassment. |
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It seems conceivable that she might be able |
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- I think you ought to go and see her. |
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But she thinks that I'm responsible |
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If you want police cooperation at Walliston, |
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we've put in Inspector Mendel down there |
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I don't think you've worked with him before. |
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- He's a CID man. I thought he'd retired. |
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That makes it easier for him |
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the police and us. |
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- Sir, the Minister is calling. |
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- Martin? |
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- Any progress? |
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I have the man in charge of the case |
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He will be with the widow |
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Good. Keep me informed. |
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Yes, naturally. |
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- Right. |
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Could you see her at 8:15? |
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- Do you really think that this woman will... |
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You better go home now |
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If I can. |
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My dear Dobbs, |
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We authorized the security check. |
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You conducted it. |
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- Except Mrs Fennan. |
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I'm sorry, love. I was in a huff. |
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- About me? |
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There's a fellow at the Foreign Office |
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They want me to go down |
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in four hours. |
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Poor darling. When will you be back? |
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How long would you like me to stay away? |
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I'll phone you before I start home. |
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- Do you want to know who it is? |
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Why not? |
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We tried that before. |
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Knowing gives a shape to the jealousy. |
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I don't want that sort of distraction |
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I suppose I ought to shave. |
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You ought to kick me out. |
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We tried that before, too. |
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Yes. |
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We missed one another. |
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Good night, Ann. |
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Mrs Fennan? |
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My name is Dobbs. |
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I see. |
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The police rang. Asked if I minded. |
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I didn't know what to say. Come in. |
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Who can one ask to clean such things? |
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Sit down. |
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If you're too warm, |
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Oh, thank you. |
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You're the man |
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I'm the man who recommended |
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Cleared? Of what? |
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Your husband was a communist |
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His recent promotion at the Foreign Office |
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gave him access |
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Some busybody |
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and we had no option but to follow it up. |
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I was only doing my duty. |
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- To whom, Mr Dobbs? |
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Check. |
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Sounds like a game, doesn't it? |
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- It's not a game, Mrs Fennan. |
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You treat people like wooden pawns. |
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You plot their moves. |
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You write their names on papers, |
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and then you put the papers into files. |
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But sometime the names have |
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as well as records. |
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And generally |
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very ordinary human motives |
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to justify their sad little dossier |
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and their make-believe sins. |
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And when that happens, |
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Yes, when that happens, |
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Then go back to Whitehall |
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and look for more spies |
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because you have no place |
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You dropped a bomb from the sky, |
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but don't come down here |
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Mrs Fennan, you've had a terrible loss. |
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You can't have slept all night. |
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Thank you, |
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Anyway, sleep is not a luxury I enjoy. |
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I am conscious of my body 20 hours a day. |
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As for my loss... |
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- Are you married, Mr Dobbs? |
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Maybe you would describe your wife |
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I don't possess her. I love her. |
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You see, for six years in camps, |
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except for a comb and a toothbrush, |
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and a comb was of no use |
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I loved my husband. |
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But I have the experience |
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Mrs Fennan, |
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was almost a formality. |
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I'm sure that he enjoyed it. |
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Well, that's not the impression he gave me. |
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What? |
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No, he was terribly upset |
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when he came back home at 7:00 last night. |
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He said he couldn't face the theatre, |
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and made me go by myself. |
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He took a sedative tablet. |
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- Who's that now? |
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He said that he might ring me down here. |
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- Would you like me to take it for you? |
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- Walliston 294? |
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Good morning, sir. Exchange here. |
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- My what? |
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Oh, yes! Thank you very much. |
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Yes, it was for you. |
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It was your 8:30 alarm call |
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What? |
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Somebody who cannot sleep |
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did that surprise you, Mr Dobbs? |
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- Yes, a little. |
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You see, I have an appalling memory, |
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so the call was not to wake me, |
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like a knot in a handkerchief. |
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What was it that you had to remember? |
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You see, I almost forgot that, too. |
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I had to remember |
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that Samuel was short of sherry, |
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and that I should call the wine merchant |
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It won't be necessary anymore. |
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Well, I've already intruded too long, |
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If my chief should call, |
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that I shall be at the Walliston police station |
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After that, I shall take your advice |
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and return to Whitehall |
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Stand up. |
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- Morning, sir. |
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Mr Dobbs, sir. |
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- Stand up! |
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I've a message from your department. |
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- Thanks. |
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Here's Mendel. Asleep on duty. |
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He's not a proper policeman anymore. |
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- Make yourself at home. |
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Would you like me out, too, sir, |
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No. We'll let the Adviser |
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while we do something |
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Someone at the Fennan house |
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by the Walliston Exchange |
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I want to find out |
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and, if possible, by whom. |
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- Number, please. |
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And I want to find out |
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for a morning alarm call, |
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and if so, let's have all the details. |
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- Can I help you? |
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- Supervisor? |
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Walliston CID here. |
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There's been a burglary in Merridale Lane, |
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and we think |
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that's Walliston 294, |
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Would you find out whether that number |
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say, 6:00 yesterday evening? |
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- 6:00. I'll check that, sir. |
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Photostat of the suicide note. |
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They're sending the original |
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and a copy to Marlene Dietrich. |
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Marlene Dietrich? Who's that? |
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Sorry, sir. |
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Pretty general in the Branch |
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- Very sorry, sir. |
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And don't call me sir. |
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Typed on his own portable. |
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- What make? |
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Well, so was the anonymous letter |
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Well, it's a pretty common make. |
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- Hello, caller? |
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- I have some information. |
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The only thing we have down |
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Oh, yes? |
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It was made for 8:30 in the morning. |
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I wonder when she asked for that. |
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- 7:55 last night. |
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- It was a man who made the call, sir. |
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- Girl's quite sure it was a man? |
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Oh, I see. Well, that fixes that, doesn't it? |
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We'll have to think again, won't we? |
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- You've been very kind. Bye-bye. |
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Samuel Fennan asked |
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about two and a half hours |
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An Olivetti portable! |
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And so was the letter |
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Yes, Dobbs, Olivetti's are two a penny. |
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That is exactly my point! |
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I think we ought to give the facts |
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And have a murder case plastered |
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before it turns out we misled the police? |
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Before the department makes a fool of itself, |
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let us at least try |
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- By all means! |
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Fennan came home last night at 7:00 |
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and told his wife |
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Fact: He took a sedative |
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and sent his wife off to the theatre alone. |
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Hypothesis, my hypothesis: |
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He thought the sedative |
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so he asked the exchange |
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to give him an alarm call at 8:30 |
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And then committed suicide! |
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It all hangs together nicely, doesn't it? |
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I will also hazard the hypothesis |
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that the sedative depressed him |
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and that he accordingly shot himself |
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between 10:30 and his wife's return |
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The 8:30 alarm call is neither here nor there. |
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Then why did she have to lie about it? |
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Why did she say it was for her |
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Because she thought, |
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that you would use the alarm call |
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as a means of evading |
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And she meant to have |
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She's a bereaved woman, Dobbs, |
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Like the Foreign Office and the police, |
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- Have you anything further to say? |
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- Please say it. |
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Fact: You are known to the Foreign Office |
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Hypothesis, my hypothesis: |
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Hello, darling. |
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Back so soon? |
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How was it? |
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Well, it was all right, pretty hectic. |
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I'm sorry I forgot to phone. |
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- Morning, Mrs Bird! |
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- Guess who's blown into London. |
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- Guess. Please. |
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Dieter Frey! |
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Servus, Charles. |
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Oh, Dieter! |
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Dieter! |
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Oh, welcome back! |
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It must be two years. |
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Yes. We went to that first night, |
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Oh, that awful old actor |
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at the Lyric Hammersmith! |
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What did The Times say? |
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Oh, yes, he said, |
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"was infinitely more terrifying |
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Why did we ever go? |
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Well, we went because this illiterate |
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What? That from a man |
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Have you, Charles? I never knew. |
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Yes, Faust. |
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I could still quote them. |
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We used them as the key |
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when I was operating him in Austria |
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Dieter was only 18 then, |
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but he appeared |
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Well, not to mention |
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If it's war memories, I'll do the laundry list. |
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They were very good days, Charles. |
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I hate to say it about a war, |
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The issue seemed clearer, |
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- I had a brilliant agent in play. |
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And I was happy about what I was doing. |
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What are you doing now? |
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I'm resigning from the Home Office. |
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Why? |
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Civil servant was found shot. |
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This one? |
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For reasons which I don't approve, |
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wants me to report it as suicide. |
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- And you couldn't. |
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Can you find another job? |
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Well, I suppose so. |
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But I'm so angry that I've a good mind |
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Unofficially, of course. |
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You mean follow it up alone? |
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Yes. Unless you'd care to join me, |
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And be fired by my boss? |
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I'll bump off your boss |
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All right. Which department? |
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We cope mostly with aliens. |
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- Like me? |
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What we call undesirable aliens |
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Am I outstaying mine? |
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Ann! |
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Would you call Dieter |
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Desirable. |
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Two years ago he was something in zinc. |
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Now he's something in chocolate. |
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- Amreins from Zurich. |
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- How long you staying? |
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Business lunches, business dinners, |
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Who knows, |
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- Oh, tycoon? |
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Veering to the right, at last! |
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As the money comes in, |
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a little further to the right |
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I'm a socialist capitalist. |
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Auf Wiedersehen, Charles. |
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- Give me a call if you can spare the time. |
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Thank you again for the chocolates. |
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Bye, Mr Dobbs. See you again tomorrow. |
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Bye, Mrs Bird. |
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I must follow her! |
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Yes, follow her |
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Using shop windows as reflectors |
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- if the suspect stops, too. |
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Your pupil still remembers the handbook. |
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See you again, Dieter. When? |
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- I'll send you one of our postcards. |
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Postcards? |
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Dieter invented a special way |
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during the war. |
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- Did it work? |
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He never makes mistakes, does he? |
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I think he made one just now. |
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He kissed your hand. |
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You offered him your cheek. |
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And for the first time in... |
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What is it, seven years? |
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He didn't kiss you on the cheek, |
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as if he had something to hide. |
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Does it have to be Dieter of all people? |
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Yes. |
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- And in this house? |
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Can I only invite people |
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or do I have to check them |
00:35:02 |
It's my house as much as yours! |
00:35:03 |
It's not my house! It's not your house! |
00:35:07 |
It doesn't have to be used for... |
00:35:08 |
We only used it for meeting! |
00:35:11 |
I don't want to hear what you were |
00:35:18 |
I wouldn't mind so much if it was |
00:35:23 |
without a thought in his thick skull except... |
00:35:28 |
It's the... |
00:35:30 |
It's the nice ones that I'm terrified of. |
00:35:38 |
Oh, Ann. |
00:35:41 |
Why does it have to be Dieter suddenly? |
00:35:45 |
Like this, after all these years? |
00:35:50 |
He never wanted me before. |
00:35:55 |
And he does now? |
00:35:58 |
Yes, Charles. |
00:36:01 |
When did he tell you? |
00:36:05 |
How did you happen to meet? |
00:36:10 |
He phoned yesterday morning, about noon, |
00:36:16 |
to ask you and me to lunch. |
00:36:18 |
I said you were out on a job, |
00:36:21 |
Doesn't his friendship... |
00:36:28 |
Do you love him? |
00:36:32 |
It's very easy to love Dieter. |
00:36:35 |
Well, we both of us know that. |
00:36:39 |
If I could love one man, |
00:36:44 |
But you can't, can you? |
00:36:47 |
Are you asking me to try? |
00:36:49 |
No, not again, I... |
00:36:52 |
It's not much fun being with you, |
00:36:56 |
But I've never held your appetites |
00:37:00 |
The un-addicted shouldn't blame |
00:37:05 |
I'm just relieved |
00:37:11 |
I wish it were curable. |
00:37:15 |
- Short of locking you up. |
00:37:21 |
I'm going to lock myself out for a bit |
00:37:24 |
- Darling... |
00:37:26 |
I'm just being practical. |
00:37:30 |
- I resigned from the department. |
00:37:33 |
And until I clear this thing up |
00:37:36 |
I'll just be hanging around here, |
00:37:39 |
snivelling about my own personal life |
00:37:42 |
Well, I want to settle this squalid little mess |
00:37:46 |
with the department once and for all |
00:37:49 |
and not to the satisfaction |
00:37:53 |
sanctimonious, bureaucratic nits! |
00:37:55 |
There's been an injustice done |
00:37:57 |
And it'll give me something different |
00:37:59 |
- Different? |
00:38:01 |
- Until you and Dieter... |
00:38:05 |
Why don't you settle |
00:38:07 |
by telling me I'm a nymphomaniac slut! |
00:38:09 |
Kick me out, |
00:38:11 |
but without the feeling |
00:38:16 |
How can you be so bloody aggressive |
00:38:20 |
and so gentle about me? |
00:38:34 |
I've always thought that |
00:38:37 |
being aggressive |
00:38:40 |
and being gentle was the way to keep you. |
00:38:47 |
Well, I've lost my job, haven't I? |
00:40:25 |
Mendel? |
00:40:29 |
Mendel. |
00:40:36 |
Trouble. |
00:40:40 |
No, it's these ants. |
00:40:43 |
I was awake half the night |
00:40:47 |
Here, I'll let you in. |
00:40:59 |
- Come on in. |
00:41:01 |
No, I was flattered you phoned. |
00:41:05 |
I made up a bed for you. |
00:41:07 |
It's not exactly what you're used to, |
00:41:12 |
Come on in. |
00:41:15 |
Oh, God. |
00:41:18 |
- A bit niffy, is it? |
00:41:22 |
Well, it is a bit of a menagerie, isn't it? |
00:41:27 |
Oh, I like these. |
00:41:29 |
Yeah, I prefer the odd ones. |
00:41:34 |
- Did you say trouble? |
00:41:38 |
I was followed, second time today. |
00:41:41 |
Big fair-haired chap |
00:41:45 |
I threw him off near Putney Hill. |
00:42:11 |
He's been booked twice for tax evasion, |
00:42:13 |
once for receiving |
00:42:16 |
four times drunk and disorderly, |
00:42:20 |
He's my type, so leave him to me. |
00:42:23 |
Have you got 10 quid? |
00:42:24 |
Scarr! |
00:42:27 |
Scarr! |
00:42:38 |
Well, he's got to be here. |
00:42:51 |
Here we are. |
00:42:58 |
Scarr! |
00:43:03 |
- Hello, dear. Who are you? |
00:43:06 |
- Eunice? Eunice who? |
00:43:08 |
- Is your dad in? |
00:43:10 |
- Your mum then? |
00:43:12 |
- How many have you then, dear? |
00:43:15 |
- Where are they? |
00:43:17 |
I see. Thank you, dear. |
00:43:34 |
That's funny. I smell copper. |
00:43:36 |
- Adam Scarr? |
00:43:39 |
Would you care to join me and my colleague |
00:43:43 |
It won't take a minute. |
00:43:45 |
- What'll you have? |
00:43:48 |
I see the ladies' glasses is empty, you know. |
00:43:50 |
- Gin and hot. |
00:43:52 |
- Okay, guv'nor. |
00:43:54 |
We've got the constabulary |
00:43:58 |
I always did say |
00:44:00 |
They come bloody miles to see you. |
00:44:07 |
Well, I think you're better out of this. |
00:44:10 |
Wait for me in the car, will you? |
00:44:13 |
Sit down. |
00:44:16 |
Your health, friend. |
00:44:19 |
If you are a friend. |
00:44:22 |
XEL 390. That your car? |
00:44:27 |
Well? |
00:44:29 |
Well, in a manner of speaking, squire, |
00:44:31 |
What the hell do you mean, |
00:44:34 |
- It's on hire. |
00:44:36 |
Times is hard, squire. |
00:44:38 |
- The cost of living, rising stock. |
00:44:40 |
- Fifteen. |
00:44:41 |
Done. |
00:44:42 |
Well, three weeks ago, |
00:44:46 |
A small Scotsman he was. Good shoes. |
00:44:50 |
Posh umbrella |
00:44:52 |
He paid the deposit, took the car, |
00:44:55 |
Daylight robbery, isn't it? |
00:44:56 |
When you hired the car to this Scotsman, |
00:45:01 |
Insurance, name and address, so on? |
00:45:04 |
False, all false, skipper. |
00:45:06 |
He gave an address in Ealing, |
00:45:08 |
and a name, |
00:45:11 |
McTavish, Andrew McTavish. |
00:45:13 |
Now, you've a record |
00:45:17 |
and I know where to find you. |
00:45:19 |
So if you've told me a pack of lies |
00:46:20 |
Who the hell are you? |
00:46:24 |
Hey, you! Come back here! |
00:46:39 |
Name's Dobbs, Charles Dobbs. |
00:46:41 |
Broken right hand |
00:46:43 |
- Look after him, he's important. |
00:46:46 |
I'll be in with the details. |
00:47:00 |
Don't you just stand there. |
00:47:03 |
Scarr! Come outside! |
00:47:20 |
Now look, guv'nor... |
00:47:25 |
Come on, move along. Pick it up. |
00:47:30 |
Nothing to see. Come on. |
00:48:01 |
Recognise anything? Stolen, was it? |
00:48:05 |
By a small Scotsman with good shoes |
00:48:08 |
Decent of him to bring it back, wasn't it? |
00:48:13 |
You've mistaken your bloody market, Scarr. |
00:48:42 |
So, the Scotsman called himself Blondie, |
00:48:47 |
- What's your problem, skipper? |
00:48:50 |
The biggest bloody problem |
00:48:52 |
Contravention of the Road Traffic Act. |
00:48:56 |
Offences under the Official Secrets Act. |
00:49:01 |
Don't go over the bloody moon. |
00:49:04 |
I am, Scarr, I am. |
00:49:06 |
You heard that ambulance just now. |
00:49:08 |
There's a man dying in it, |
00:49:11 |
There's another one dead in Surrey, |
00:49:13 |
and for all I know, |
00:49:16 |
and you're the poor bastard |
00:49:20 |
He might want to put that right, mightn't he? |
00:49:21 |
Not so bloody loud. |
00:49:24 |
Look, I'm in a nice way of business |
00:49:27 |
The pickings is small, but regular. |
00:49:30 |
- At least it were till this bloke come along. |
00:49:32 |
Oh, bit by bit, copper! Don't rush me. |
00:49:41 |
Six months ago he come into the garage. |
00:49:45 |
Dutch, he said he was, and in business. |
00:49:50 |
Look, I'm not pretending |
00:49:52 |
'cause you're not barmy, nor am I. |
00:49:53 |
He was cool, cool as charity. |
00:50:00 |
"Scarr," he says, "I don't like publicity. |
00:50:03 |
"I want a car, not to buy, but to borrow." |
00:50:06 |
Those weren't his exact words, |
00:50:08 |
- I'm giving you the gist of it, you know. |
00:50:11 |
Look, I owed the bookies 40 quid. |
00:50:14 |
The coppers were a bit sensitive |
00:50:17 |
and flogged over in Clapham. |
00:50:19 |
And there was Blondie standing over me |
00:50:21 |
rifling a wad of notes |
00:50:24 |
"Well, what's your proposition?" I says. |
00:50:28 |
"I'm shy," he says. |
00:50:29 |
"I wanna car that nobody'll notice, |
00:50:33 |
"Keep it teed up for me |
00:50:39 |
He give me 500 quid to buy the car, |
00:50:41 |
20 quid in advance |
00:50:44 |
and he says, "There'll be a bonus |
00:50:47 |
How was he to let you know |
00:50:50 |
Well, there wasn't none, till today. |
00:50:54 |
- He just didn't bring it back last night. |
00:50:56 |
- Tuesday? |
00:51:01 |
Didn't bring it back till today. |
00:51:03 |
What was to happen |
00:51:06 |
If you got pinched for bigamy, |
00:51:09 |
I had a phone number. |
00:51:12 |
Primrose 0042. |
00:51:14 |
- Did you ever phone? |
00:51:17 |
Has now, though, hasn't it? Eh? |
00:51:19 |
I think that's my money, isn't it? |
00:51:23 |
You stay put, Scarr. |
00:51:27 |
Why, you can count on me, skipper. |
00:51:29 |
I mean, wouldn't want to get mixed up |
00:51:32 |
- Not when jolly old England is gonna suffer. |
00:51:51 |
Hello, love. |
00:51:54 |
- You eat that nice egg I boiled you? |
00:52:00 |
- I gave some to Alice. |
00:52:02 |
- She's dying. |
00:52:05 |
We'll have to go buy you a new doll then, |
00:52:17 |
I took the liberty of telling Mr Scarr |
00:52:20 |
Oh? Did he cough up? |
00:52:23 |
He coughed. The car was hired |
00:52:26 |
No name, no address, |
00:52:30 |
An emergency telephone number |
00:52:33 |
I traced it to |
00:52:36 |
No reply. |
00:52:37 |
What do you know about this mission, Bill? |
00:52:40 |
Pure as the driven snow, |
00:52:43 |
Four blameless secretaries and a watchdog. |
00:52:45 |
- Who's the watchdog? |
00:52:47 |
If you could get a photograph? |
00:52:49 |
You never said that. |
00:52:54 |
Well, I must go now. |
00:52:55 |
If there is a photograph, |
00:52:58 |
I want to live to see the Adviser |
00:53:02 |
Dr Avers, please. Dr Avers. |
00:53:10 |
Fog's coming up. |
00:53:13 |
Mendel, I'm going to theorise. |
00:53:16 |
I like facts myself, but go ahead. |
00:53:19 |
Let us assume, what is by no means proven, |
00:53:22 |
and the attempted murder of me |
00:53:26 |
So, what circumstances |
00:53:29 |
before Fennan's death? |
00:53:32 |
One: Before the interview |
00:53:36 |
Fennan and I had never met. |
00:53:39 |
Two: The Foreign Office |
00:53:42 |
but did not, did not, repeat, |
00:53:44 |
know in advance |
00:53:48 |
So Fennan had no prior knowledge |
00:53:52 |
nor had anybody |
00:53:55 |
My own department. |
00:54:00 |
Three: I met Fennan in his office. |
00:54:05 |
And then we went into the park |
00:54:09 |
So a possible conclusion |
00:54:12 |
Somebody who was so violently opposed |
00:54:15 |
that he did what Blondie did to me. |
00:54:17 |
Mendel, who is Blondie? Mendel. |
00:55:08 |
Were you on a job, Charles? |
00:55:12 |
No, you're not to worry. |
00:55:15 |
They're letting me out tomorrow. |
00:55:17 |
- Dieter said he thought you might be. |
00:55:22 |
Then what were you doing |
00:55:26 |
Getting drunk. |
00:55:28 |
Because you couldn't get drunk at home. |
00:55:33 |
You can come home, Charles. |
00:55:40 |
I'm trying to tell you if you're really all right, |
00:55:47 |
I think it's better. |
00:55:53 |
Where to? |
00:55:58 |
- Switzerland? |
00:56:06 |
Is he going back? |
00:56:09 |
He will be, in a day or two. |
00:56:17 |
Would it upset you very much |
00:56:23 |
Yes, I think it would. |
00:56:38 |
Don't fly if there's a fog. |
00:56:47 |
- Double, double... |
00:56:50 |
...toil and trouble. |
00:56:52 |
- Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. |
00:56:57 |
Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf. |
00:57:01 |
Witches' mummy, maw and gulf |
00:57:04 |
Of the ravin'd salt sea shark. |
00:57:07 |
Root of hemlock digg'd i' the dark. |
00:57:11 |
Liver of blaspheming Jew, |
00:57:14 |
Gall of goat and slips of yew, |
00:57:17 |
Sliver'd in the moon's eclipse... |
00:57:20 |
Slivered! |
00:57:23 |
Slivered in the moon's eclipse, |
00:57:26 |
Nose of Turk |
00:57:30 |
and Tartar's lips. |
00:57:33 |
Finger of birth-strangled babe |
00:57:36 |
Ditch-deliver'd by a drab, |
00:57:39 |
Make our gruel thick and slab: |
00:57:42 |
Add thereto a tiger's chaudron, |
00:57:49 |
For the ingredients of our cauldron! |
00:57:52 |
- Double, double... |
00:57:55 |
...toil and trouble. |
00:57:57 |
- Fire burn. |
00:58:06 |
Terry, I presume that |
00:58:09 |
"And cauldron bubble," |
00:58:13 |
And it would help me considerably |
00:58:17 |
if the cauldron were allowed |
00:58:20 |
Yes, yes, all right. Okay. Virgin! |
00:58:23 |
- Let's have that dry ice, shall we? |
00:58:29 |
That one's your best bet. |
00:58:30 |
She's the local solicitor's |
00:58:33 |
You know, it's all the kinky boots |
00:58:36 |
Daddy pays the tuition fees, so we put her |
00:58:44 |
- Sorry. |
00:58:46 |
- Where have you been? |
00:58:52 |
Buying the tiger's chaudron. |
00:58:54 |
I looked up chaudron |
00:58:58 |
It's calves' liver. |
00:59:03 |
Well, you said you wanted something |
00:59:07 |
Mummy can keep it in the fridge |
00:59:14 |
All right, witches! |
00:59:17 |
Let's take it |
00:59:21 |
And Bert, let's have some thunder |
00:59:22 |
Now, come on everybody, |
00:59:25 |
All right. One, "Double..." |
00:59:28 |
Double, double toil and trouble! |
00:59:31 |
- Bend your knees as you go round. |
00:59:35 |
The fire's gone out. |
00:59:36 |
That does it. That's it. |
00:59:41 |
Virgin. |
00:59:43 |
Come over here. |
00:59:46 |
Now look, ducky, |
00:59:48 |
it's not very plausible |
00:59:51 |
that if the cauldron bubbles, |
00:59:56 |
Well, the lightning blew a fuse, |
00:59:59 |
All right. Bijou coffee break, everybody. |
01:00:01 |
Bert, I want to run through |
01:00:05 |
that's the owl's scream, cricket's cry, cat... |
01:00:08 |
Not you, Virgin. There's a fan over here |
01:00:11 |
You're back in five minutes, everybody. |
01:00:16 |
- Miss... |
01:00:19 |
Sorry. Oh! |
01:00:22 |
Can I give you a hand or anything? |
01:00:25 |
Take a rock. |
01:00:26 |
Bert, it's "Thrice the brinded cat |
01:00:29 |
We've only got it twice. |
01:00:31 |
Well, tell the first witch to say, |
01:00:34 |
"Twice the brinded cat hath mew'd." |
01:00:39 |
My name's Savage. |
01:00:43 |
Oh, gosh, what have I done? |
01:00:45 |
Nothing, apart from being able to help me |
01:00:49 |
I've a client who wants to check |
01:00:53 |
on the night of Tuesday, January the 3rd. |
01:00:56 |
- Oh, that's easy. She was here as usual. |
01:00:59 |
Yes, she has this standing order |
01:01:01 |
every first and third Tuesday of the month. |
01:01:03 |
Was Mrs Fennan, would you say, |
01:01:05 |
on intimate terms |
01:01:09 |
Well, gosh, yes, I should think so. |
01:01:12 |
- Is he? |
01:01:14 |
but he's foreign, too, |
01:01:17 |
Musical? |
01:01:18 |
Well, he has this music case just like hers, |
01:01:22 |
and they leave them in the cloakroom and |
01:01:26 |
- Could you describe him to me? |
01:01:29 |
He's big and madly foreign, |
01:01:34 |
I thought he's super. |
01:01:36 |
Didn't turn up? When? |
01:01:38 |
Oh, last Tuesday. |
01:01:41 |
I thought he must have flu or something. |
01:01:43 |
Well, thank you, Miss Bumpus. |
01:01:49 |
"What is that noise? |
01:01:53 |
One of them was me. |
01:01:55 |
Very good, too. |
01:01:58 |
Good morning, sir. |
01:02:05 |
A large dry sherry? |
01:02:07 |
Yes, please. |
01:02:09 |
- And a lager for me. |
01:02:21 |
How did it really happen? |
01:02:24 |
Didn't Ann tell you? |
01:02:30 |
She said you pretended to be robbed. |
01:02:33 |
I didn't want her to be worried. |
01:02:37 |
Are you worried? |
01:02:40 |
Is it the Fennan case? |
01:02:42 |
Look, this isn't what I wanted |
01:02:43 |
Oh, Charles, please! |
01:02:46 |
In any other country, |
01:02:49 |
- This is a ridiculously British scene. |
01:02:53 |
Well, I've never played it before. |
01:02:57 |
because I was certain |
01:03:01 |
- She just wanted to go to bed with them. |
01:03:05 |
Did she tell you that she loved you? |
01:03:15 |
Yes. |
01:03:19 |
- Do you love her? |
01:03:26 |
I'm not a child. |
01:03:30 |
I know that real love doesn't just explode. |
01:03:35 |
If it grows at all, it will grow slowly. |
01:03:39 |
That's why I thought we could, |
01:03:44 |
How long? Her last longest was 11 days. |
01:03:54 |
I don't want you to be hurt. |
01:03:58 |
Thank you. I can look after myself! |
01:04:02 |
Then there's only one thing |
01:04:05 |
Can you look after Ann? |
01:04:14 |
Thank you. |
01:04:15 |
Do you wish to order, sir? |
01:04:20 |
No. |
01:04:26 |
The other occupant of the stalls |
01:04:29 |
- It fits. |
01:04:32 |
They carried identical music cases, |
01:04:37 |
and picked them up after the show. |
01:04:39 |
- Switching cloakroom tickets is an old trick. |
01:04:42 |
Everything that Blondie's done |
01:04:44 |
except that he didn't turn up |
01:04:47 |
So, Blondie might have murdered Fennan |
01:04:51 |
Well, that's purely hypothetical. |
01:04:59 |
Mention of a photograph here, eh? |
01:05:12 |
That's him. |
01:05:14 |
Don't wave it about like a bloody flag. |
01:05:17 |
- I snitched it from files. |
01:05:19 |
Well, his name's Harek, Karl Harek. |
01:05:23 |
Came here as a grateful refugee |
01:05:26 |
His record's as clean as a vestal virgin's. |
01:06:31 |
All clear. |
01:06:38 |
If anything has to be touched, |
01:06:41 |
We haven't the remotest right to be here. |
01:07:02 |
One extension telephone on a table desk |
01:07:05 |
Not even a bloody filing cabinet, |
01:07:09 |
However, an Olivetti portable. |
01:07:15 |
Something odd here. |
01:07:17 |
One, two, three, four, |
01:07:21 |
five typewriters all uncovered. |
01:07:24 |
Now it's conceivable that one secretary |
01:07:28 |
So someone's been examining them. |
01:07:30 |
Mendel. |
01:07:32 |
We're thinking that somebody saw |
01:07:35 |
of the anonymous letter |
01:07:38 |
And that somebody suspects |
01:07:40 |
that that letter could have been typed |
01:07:44 |
- Eh, Mendel? |
01:07:46 |
All we know is five typewriters |
01:07:49 |
- Yes, but what do you think? |
01:08:06 |
The caretaker. |
01:08:31 |
That's Harek. |
01:08:34 |
One of us has got to report that. |
01:08:37 |
Then we're in trouble. |
01:08:39 |
We could tip them off anonymously. |
01:08:42 |
- That seems to be the fashion nowadays. |
01:08:45 |
"Hello? This is a friend here. |
01:08:48 |
"I've just seen a corpse |
01:08:50 |
"so I thought I'd give Scotland Yard |
01:08:52 |
Brilliant. Are you sure you know |
01:08:59 |
Mendel, I think it's time I broke Elsa Fennan. |
01:09:17 |
You could have let me know |
01:09:19 |
- I thought it safer not to let you know. |
01:09:22 |
Can I come in? We haven't much time. |
01:09:30 |
You hurt your hand? |
01:09:33 |
Harek hurt it. |
01:09:35 |
- Who? |
01:09:38 |
He was carrying a cosh |
01:09:43 |
What are you trying to say? |
01:09:50 |
Night after I left you, Harek tried to kill me. |
01:09:53 |
Night after that, |
01:09:57 |
for coming down to meet you at the theatre. |
01:09:59 |
Seems he was trying to kill anybody |
01:10:01 |
who could connect him |
01:10:03 |
Or with the wife who helped Fennan |
01:10:08 |
Now somebody's killed him. |
01:10:11 |
Somebody who thinks |
01:10:14 |
by denouncing your husband to |
01:10:20 |
No. |
01:10:21 |
You told me, Mrs Fennan, |
01:10:23 |
Well, what kind of games did you |
01:10:27 |
when you started to feed the bosses? |
01:10:29 |
They get their strength |
01:10:32 |
Do you really believe that you can control |
01:10:35 |
That you can stop the dance? |
01:10:39 |
What kind of daydreams did you dream, |
01:10:43 |
that had so little of the world in them? |
01:10:55 |
Look at me. |
01:10:59 |
Look at me. |
01:11:04 |
What dreams did they leave me? |
01:11:11 |
I dreamt of children. |
01:11:15 |
I had none. |
01:11:18 |
I dreamt of a beautiful body. |
01:11:22 |
They marked it. |
01:11:27 |
That's when Samuel found me. |
01:11:31 |
He pitied me, he loved me |
01:11:36 |
and he took me away. |
01:11:39 |
He had dreams. |
01:11:43 |
I had none but him. |
01:11:55 |
One year ago in Mürren, on a skiing holiday, |
01:12:02 |
Samuel met that Sonntag. |
01:12:05 |
Sonntag? Sunday? |
01:12:08 |
- Did you ever meet this man? |
01:12:10 |
- Then how did you know his cover name? |
01:12:14 |
What else did your husband tell you? |
01:12:17 |
Well, he told me that Sonntag was his... |
01:12:22 |
- His control? |
01:12:25 |
That he provided the money |
01:12:32 |
But Samuel used to send the money |
01:12:36 |
to the oppressed. |
01:12:40 |
To the poor. |
01:12:44 |
That's the kind of daydreamer he was, |
01:12:49 |
In fact, he never quite grew up after Oxford. |
01:12:53 |
And Sonntag could lead him like a child. |
01:12:58 |
Did your husband ever meet him again |
01:13:02 |
Well, if he did, he never told me. |
01:13:03 |
- Did Sonntag ever come to England? |
01:13:06 |
- Could he be in England now? |
01:13:08 |
Could he have seen your husband |
01:13:10 |
and thought |
01:13:12 |
- Samuel was not a traitor. |
01:13:15 |
Samuel never thought in terms of countries. |
01:13:17 |
- Could Sonntag have told Harek to kill me? |
01:13:21 |
- Did your husband ever describe him? |
01:13:25 |
Why would Samuel give me |
01:13:28 |
You don't even know |
01:13:30 |
And your job was to help your husband |
01:13:34 |
He had helped me. He needed help, |
01:13:39 |
- Mrs Fennan, I understand, but please... |
01:13:45 |
Now go and kill Sonntag. |
01:13:51 |
Don't think I'm on your side. |
01:13:55 |
I'm a battlefield for you, toy soldier. |
01:14:01 |
You can march over me, |
01:14:03 |
you can bomb me full of holes |
01:14:06 |
you can burn me, you can make me barren, |
01:14:10 |
but never pity me, Mr Dobbs, never. |
01:14:14 |
Never tell me you understand my feelings. |
01:14:19 |
Now, go away and kill. |
01:14:28 |
- Any news? |
01:14:30 |
You were right about one of them. |
01:14:32 |
Fennan's suicide note |
01:14:35 |
were both typed on his own Olivetti, |
01:14:38 |
- Key pressures aren't the same. |
01:14:41 |
Well, I've seen the autopsy on Harek. |
01:14:43 |
He wasn't thrown down that lift shaft alive, |
01:14:48 |
by what's called a single degree |
01:14:53 |
Where do you want to go? |
01:14:56 |
Well, will you chaperone me to my home? |
01:14:59 |
- Letters and things like that. |
01:15:02 |
Did Elsa Fennan break? |
01:15:04 |
I don't know. |
01:15:21 |
Bill! |
01:15:24 |
Sorry to barge in, love, but I've been |
01:15:28 |
Finally I rang here just after you spoke |
01:15:31 |
She's gone now, but she said I could wait. |
01:15:35 |
I'll be with you in a second. |
01:15:37 |
Help yourself to a drink. |
01:15:38 |
- I have. What can I get you two? |
01:15:41 |
Not before sundown. Might drop off. |
01:15:45 |
Where the hell has Mrs Bird put my mail? |
01:15:50 |
All right, what's odd? |
01:15:52 |
What's odd, Charlie, is the subscription list |
01:15:56 |
I was there on a routine visit this morning. |
01:15:59 |
It suddenly hit me that I might as well check |
01:16:02 |
in the way of files during the six months |
01:16:06 |
Do you know, during the first five months |
01:16:09 |
he took home quite a heap of policy files |
01:16:12 |
but during the last month |
01:16:16 |
non-secret digests of foreign policy |
01:16:19 |
that anyone could have read |
01:16:22 |
- It fits. |
01:16:24 |
All right. Mendel's right. |
01:16:26 |
It could fit. It could mean one of two things. |
01:16:31 |
Elsa told me this morning that her husband |
01:16:35 |
and that because she loved him |
01:16:39 |
All right! Either she was telling the truth, |
01:16:43 |
in which case Fennan was a spy. |
01:16:47 |
Or Elsa was lying. She was the spy. |
01:16:53 |
Fennan got wind of it. He couldn't endure it. |
01:16:58 |
and denounced himself in a letter, |
01:17:04 |
- Now, why on Earth... |
01:17:07 |
anybody, in Security |
01:17:09 |
without burning his boats |
01:17:12 |
Perhaps somebody |
01:17:14 |
enough to be able to get |
01:17:16 |
instead of a pair of handcuffs and |
01:17:21 |
- Who typed the suicide note? |
01:17:24 |
when he committed the murder |
01:17:27 |
And signed it? |
01:17:28 |
You're not going to tell me |
01:17:30 |
that Harek couldn't have obtained |
01:17:34 |
Are you suggesting that Elsa may have |
01:17:39 |
That's rather a ghoulish thought, Charlie. |
01:17:42 |
She's had rather a ghoulish life. |
01:17:47 |
It's quite possible, of course, |
01:17:48 |
she didn't know |
01:17:51 |
but even if she did know, look, |
01:17:53 |
as a young Jewish girl gets broken |
01:17:58 |
they pull off her wings, |
01:17:59 |
and when she can only crawl |
01:18:02 |
But she survives. |
01:18:05 |
Crippled in mind as well as in body. |
01:18:09 |
She grows older, she looks around |
01:18:13 |
She sees that all her suffering |
01:18:17 |
She sees her persecutors prospering. |
01:18:23 |
Is she a communist? |
01:18:27 |
I don't think she likes labels. |
01:18:30 |
I think she wants to help build one society |
01:18:37 |
I think she wants peace. |
01:18:40 |
The communists have a way |
01:18:45 |
I want to find the communist |
01:18:53 |
Mendel, would you be prepared... Oh. |
01:18:57 |
Mendel, would you be prepared to wake up? |
01:19:01 |
Sonntag! |
01:19:05 |
That's our Mendel. He only likes facts. |
01:19:08 |
That's right. Sonntag is a fact. |
01:19:12 |
Who the hell's Sonntag? |
01:19:14 |
Sonntag is the cover name for the man |
01:19:18 |
that Elsa said was operating her husband. |
01:19:21 |
She said she'd never seen him, |
01:19:26 |
Excuse me, it's from Ann. |
01:19:34 |
I think she was lying. |
01:19:39 |
Could we bluff them |
01:19:41 |
Sonntag and Elsa? |
01:19:47 |
Come with me. |
01:20:03 |
Mrs Elsa Fennan, |
01:20:05 |
34, Merridale Lane, Walliston, Surrey. |
01:20:10 |
Wish you were here. |
01:20:13 |
Signed, S. |
01:20:19 |
It's an emergency rendezvous signal. |
01:20:21 |
How can you be sure you're using |
01:20:25 |
The postcard itself is the signal, |
01:20:29 |
Now when Elsa gets that tomorrow morning, |
01:20:30 |
she's supposed to send |
01:20:34 |
to a prearranged accommodation address. |
01:20:37 |
And the ideal reply would be a ticket |
01:20:39 |
to something that's bound to happen |
01:20:43 |
Like a seat for a concert, |
01:20:46 |
or a reserved place on a train. |
01:21:04 |
She's an unusual colour. |
01:21:07 |
- I'm not sure she's going to have puppies. |
01:21:10 |
- Of course. |
01:21:48 |
Dobbs? She's bitten! |
01:21:50 |
She's taking the 10:42 bus to Victoria. |
01:23:22 |
17 and 18 in row F. |
01:23:26 |
17 and 18, oh, yes, that's fine. |
01:23:31 |
Do you have two gangway stalls |
01:23:35 |
Yes, we have F-12 and 13. |
01:24:05 |
- Did you see the envelope? |
01:24:07 |
- Could you read it? |
01:24:11 |
But as she posted it |
01:24:14 |
and as the theatre tickets were booked |
01:24:17 |
I assumed she wasn't mailing it abroad. |
01:24:19 |
Cor, that's the first time |
01:24:22 |
Yeah, it was sustained by the sight |
01:24:26 |
Then Sonntag's in London. |
01:24:27 |
He'll get the ticket |
01:24:29 |
I took the liberty of buying us |
01:24:33 |
Here. |
01:24:34 |
Me in N-18, on the gangway, |
01:24:38 |
six rows behind Elsa and Sonntag. |
01:24:40 |
A-1 and 2, front row of the dress circle |
01:24:42 |
with a view of row F in the stalls. |
01:24:45 |
Is as Elysium to a newcome soul: |
01:24:48 |
Not that I love the city or the men, |
01:24:50 |
But that it harbours him I hold so dear, |
01:24:54 |
The King, upon whose bosom let me lie, |
01:24:58 |
And with the world be still at enmity. |
01:25:02 |
What need the arctic people love starlight, |
01:25:05 |
To whom the sun shines |
01:25:09 |
Farewell base stooping to the lordly peers, |
01:25:13 |
My knee shall bow to none but to the King. |
01:25:18 |
As for the multitude, that are but sparks, |
01:25:21 |
Raked up in embers of their poverty... |
01:25:24 |
These are not men for me, |
01:25:27 |
I must have wanton poets, pleasant wits, |
01:25:31 |
Musicians, that with touching of a string |
01:25:34 |
May draw the pliant King |
01:25:39 |
Music and poetry is his delight, |
01:25:42 |
Therefore I'll have Italian masks by night, |
01:25:45 |
Sweet speeches, comedies |
01:25:48 |
And in the day, when he shall walk abroad... |
01:25:51 |
She's here, he isn't. |
01:25:52 |
Like sylvan nymphs my pages shall be clad, |
01:25:55 |
My men, like satyrs grazing on the lawns, |
01:26:01 |
Shall with their goat feet dance an antic hay. |
01:26:06 |
Sometime a lovely boy in Dian's shape, |
01:26:12 |
With hair that gilds the water as it glides, |
01:26:17 |
Crownets of pearl about his naked arms, |
01:26:21 |
And in his sportful hands an olive tree, |
01:26:26 |
To hide those parts |
01:26:30 |
Give us a kiss. |
01:26:32 |
Shall bathe him in a spring. |
01:26:35 |
Such things as these |
01:26:40 |
My dearest Lord... |
01:26:44 |
Here comes my Lord the King |
01:26:47 |
I'll stand aside. |
01:26:56 |
Why's he so bloody late? |
01:26:58 |
Lancaster! |
01:27:02 |
My liege. |
01:27:05 |
- Excuse me. |
01:27:07 |
Course, there's no reason |
01:27:09 |
He's not here for the fun of the thing. |
01:27:11 |
- Have you seen Mendel? |
01:27:12 |
If they split up when they leave, |
01:27:14 |
and Mendel will follow him. |
01:27:15 |
You're to go home and stay put |
01:27:18 |
And you can't follow Sonntag |
01:27:20 |
waving that thing |
01:27:23 |
All this supposing that he turns up at all. |
01:27:24 |
Ladies and gentlemen, |
01:27:30 |
And art thou resolute to kill the King? |
01:27:32 |
Ay, ay, and none shall know |
01:27:36 |
Then do it bravely, Lightborn, |
01:27:38 |
You shall not need to give instructions, |
01:27:44 |
I learned in Naples how to poison flowers, |
01:27:47 |
To strangle with a lawn |
01:27:51 |
To pierce the windpipe |
01:27:54 |
Or whilst one is asleep, to take a quill |
01:27:58 |
And blow a little powder in his ears, |
01:28:01 |
Or open his mouth, |
01:28:06 |
But yet I have a braver way than these. |
01:28:08 |
What's that? |
01:28:11 |
Nay, you shall pardon me, |
01:28:14 |
I care not how it is, so it be not spied. |
01:28:19 |
Take this. And never see me more. |
01:28:26 |
I'm sorry. |
01:28:27 |
Look, come on, |
01:28:38 |
He's not that ugly. |
01:28:43 |
Who is he? |
01:28:46 |
His name is Dieter Frey. |
01:28:48 |
I operated him in the war from Zurich. |
01:28:53 |
Do you mean he's on our side? |
01:28:55 |
He was on Russia's side, |
01:29:02 |
For over a month now, he's been getting |
01:29:05 |
so he must have come over to find out why. |
01:29:09 |
He was probably trailing Fennan |
01:29:11 |
when he recognised me in the park |
01:29:18 |
He found out I was. |
01:29:21 |
- How? |
01:29:28 |
- One of us ought to go back in. |
01:29:35 |
I want to be there when they realise |
01:29:38 |
that the postcard was the trap. |
01:29:43 |
All right, come on. |
01:29:45 |
These looks of thine |
01:29:49 |
I see my tragedy written in thy brows. |
01:29:52 |
Yet stay awhile, forbear thy bloody hand, |
01:29:58 |
That even then when I shall lose my life, |
01:30:00 |
My mind may be more steadfast on my God. |
01:30:04 |
What means your highness |
01:30:06 |
What means thou |
01:30:08 |
These hands were never stained |
01:30:11 |
Nor shall they now be tainted with a king's. |
01:30:17 |
Forgive my thought |
01:30:22 |
One jewel have I left, |
01:30:28 |
receive thou this. |
01:30:33 |
Still fear I, and I know not what's the cause, |
01:30:35 |
But every joint shakes as I give it thee. |
01:30:39 |
They know. |
01:30:40 |
O, if thou harbour'st murder in thy heart, |
01:30:43 |
Let this gift change thy mind, |
01:30:48 |
Know that I am a king: |
01:30:54 |
Oh, at that name I feel a hell of grief! |
01:30:57 |
Where is my crown? |
01:31:03 |
You're overwatched, my lord, |
01:31:07 |
But that grief keeps me waking, |
01:31:13 |
For these ten days |
01:31:17 |
As I speak, they fall, |
01:31:22 |
yet with fear open again. |
01:31:26 |
Say, wherefore sits thou here? |
01:31:31 |
If you mistrust me, I'll be gone, my lord. |
01:31:35 |
No, |
01:31:37 |
for if thou mean'st to murder me, |
01:31:41 |
Stay, I will sleep. |
01:31:46 |
He sleeps. |
01:32:00 |
How now, my lord? |
01:32:07 |
Something still buzzeth in mine ears |
01:32:11 |
This is the fear that makes me tremble thus. |
01:32:15 |
Say it, wherefore art thou come? |
01:32:22 |
To rid thee of thy life. |
01:32:27 |
I am too weak and feeble to resist. |
01:32:31 |
Oh, set it down, |
01:32:37 |
and stamp on it. |
01:33:31 |
How say, Lords, was not this bravely done? |
01:33:34 |
Excellent well, |
01:33:37 |
take this for thy reward. |
01:33:47 |
Come, let us cast his body in the moat, |
01:33:49 |
And bear the King's to Mortimer, |
01:34:06 |
She's not applauding. |
01:34:09 |
It's not a woman's play. |
01:34:12 |
I'll take up my position in the lobby. |
01:34:26 |
What's happening down there? |
01:35:20 |
- Yes? |
01:35:21 |
Can you meet me at the embankment end |
01:35:24 |
- Then you followed him? |
01:35:27 |
I nipped out |
01:35:30 |
Before the lights went up? |
01:35:33 |
Mendel? Mendel, hello? |
01:36:37 |
This way. |
01:36:39 |
I allowed him to spot me. |
01:36:41 |
We've got to panic him |
01:36:43 |
He has given himself away. |
01:36:44 |
While you were leaving, he strangled Elsa |
01:36:47 |
Single degree pressure |
01:36:49 |
- Oh, God. Did you tell the police? |
01:36:52 |
I'll telephone, you wait here. |
01:36:54 |
Okay. |
01:37:04 |
Servus, Charles. |
01:37:11 |
Tell your friend that if he tries that again, |
01:37:15 |
- Can I go to him? |
01:37:23 |
Me next? |
01:37:26 |
Don't force me. |
01:37:28 |
Without a gun, and only one hand, |
01:37:32 |
I couldn't even strangle |
01:37:37 |
Elsa was trying to defect. |
01:37:41 |
She typed the anonymous letter |
01:37:44 |
and drew the attention of Security. |
01:37:46 |
Fennan typed it. |
01:37:48 |
He wanted to tell us unofficially |
01:37:53 |
Somebody else knew. |
01:37:56 |
Somebody else sent a postcard. |
01:38:01 |
You sent it? |
01:38:04 |
The way I used to when we were friends, |
01:38:08 |
You trapped me. |
01:38:10 |
An hour ago, I hoped it wasn't you. |
01:38:16 |
- Why? |
01:38:21 |
You'd seen me with Fennan in the park. |
01:38:25 |
You used her to keep track of me. |
01:38:30 |
I only did |
01:38:32 |
what many other men with less justification |
01:38:39 |
How much does he know? |
01:38:41 |
Only that you're wanted. |
01:38:44 |
Then the leaks are plugged. |
01:38:49 |
I've had to hurt you, |
01:38:52 |
- In two hours, I'll be out of the country. |
01:38:57 |
Are you going back to her in Zurich? |
01:39:14 |
Charles! Charles! |
01:39:50 |
Dieter! |
01:39:53 |
Dieter! |
01:40:16 |
By the way, |
01:40:19 |
"Indicated?" |
01:40:21 |
He was on the run at the time. |
01:40:24 |
Must have been eating his own words. |
01:40:27 |
We want you back. |
01:40:30 |
Think about it. |
01:40:51 |
Ladies and gentlemen, |
01:40:55 |
Will you please fasten your seat belts? |
01:41:07 |
Departure to London by Swissair Flight 824, |
01:41:14 |
Charles! |
01:41:33 |
I got your wire. |
01:41:36 |
Yes. |
01:41:40 |
Charles, are you a little drunk? |
01:41:49 |
What happened? |
01:41:59 |
I have to tell you. |