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00:01:00How fast it! Really Johnny, for a boy who has just had measles!
00:01:13That clock's slow Granny. That makes it even later.
00:01:20I mean it's past. Honest it is. Just let me finish this chapter.
00:01:25Besides, Shakespeare's easier to understand the right way up a lot of things are.
00:01:35I shall have to shut the window.
00:01:38Just until your father's meeting is over.
00:01:40What is he quarrelling about?
00:01:42Peace, dear. It's a meeting of people interested in world peace.
00:01:46Now, good night, darling.
00:01:56Good night, darling.
00:01:57Good night, darling.
00:02:10You agree with us, but you're too much of a coward to let it be known publicly.
00:02:14Oh, dear, I was afraid John's meeting would keep you awake.
00:02:17My dear, nothing's ever kept me awake. Not even John at his noisiest.
00:02:22Oh, I'll tell you what I'm going to do.
00:02:40Nothing would induce me to sign such an impossible resolution.
00:02:43Dearly Harold, you're making yourself quite ridiculous.
00:02:45You're talking absolute nonsense.
00:02:47Don't shout. It wasn't my proposal in the first place.
00:02:49Good night.
00:02:50It will grieve to it I heard you.
00:02:52Oh, don't be ridiculous. Nobody agrees.
00:02:56Fat-headed idiot.
00:03:03Oh, no.
00:03:06Yes, they've gone.
00:03:08Again.
00:03:09What do you mean again?
00:03:10Same as last time. I made sandwiches.
00:03:15This ruddy fool started fighting before I even had a chance to read the minutes of the last meeting.
00:03:19What on earth are you going to do with those?
00:03:22Why not send them to the natives in Rhodesia?
00:03:24Rhodesia?
00:03:25The last editor of the Times was unusually concerned about them.
00:03:29Why did he go to China this time?
00:03:31It happened to be Angola.
00:03:33Sorry?
00:03:34Those idiots don't deserve good coffee.
00:03:36I hate trying to work with people who haven't got the guts to know what they do want.
00:03:41Doubt is something that's never bothered you, has it, John?
00:03:44Can be a very real thing.
00:03:46Why entertain it then?
00:03:48Comes as an uninvited guest.
00:03:50Kick it out.
00:03:51You're very metaphysical all of a sudden. What's come over you?
00:03:55Doubt.
00:03:56About me?
00:03:57About working for peace?
00:04:00No, John, of course not. Never about your ideals.
00:04:11What, John?
00:04:13Why do you not doubt the bride?
00:04:15Us?
00:04:18Us?
00:04:20In what way?
00:04:21Just us, that's all.
00:04:32Oh, John, I haven't left my hat.
00:04:35You'll come to the next meeting, won't you?
00:04:37I'm afraid I've got something on that night.
00:04:39We haven't fixed the night.
00:04:42Well, I'm filling in for busier every night next week.
00:04:45In other words, you won't come?
00:04:47Well, I'd rather not.
00:04:50Good night.
00:04:51Good night.
00:04:52Quarter-witted, half-wit.
00:05:06Well, that's the last meeting we'll have here.
00:05:09That's what upset you tonight, darling, isn't it?
00:05:11No, I didn't, man.
00:05:12Oh, that's all right, then.
00:05:14Left the noise, kept Johnny awake.
00:05:15Johnny?
00:05:16Oh, yeah, how did he?
00:05:17He goes back to school tomorrow.
00:05:19You said you'd take him to catch the 10.30.
00:05:21Tomorrow?
00:05:23Oh, darling, I can't.
00:05:24Would you mind taking him?
00:05:25Johnny would mind.
00:05:26You haven't seen anything of the boys these holidays.
00:05:29What do you mean?
00:05:30I took one to the pantomime.
00:05:32That was the Christmas holidays.
00:05:34Oh, was it?
00:05:35Oh.
00:05:36Well, I don't think they enjoyed it much anyway.
00:05:38Pantos aren't what they used to be.
00:05:40A lot of things aren't.
00:05:41Oh, I don't know.
00:05:42Kids don't change.
00:05:43Don't they?
00:05:44How would you know?
00:05:45Because, dear, strange as it may seem, I happen to have been a boy.
00:05:48Boys don't change.
00:05:50I listened to them this time.
00:05:51School stinks, the French master stinks, food stinks.
00:05:54Thank goodness there's nothing unchangeable in the world.
00:05:56John, perhaps they're right.
00:05:58Perhaps food does stink.
00:06:00Darling, all school food stinks.
00:06:02It's a jolly good thing.
00:06:03Makes them appreciate their home.
00:06:04If they've got a home.
00:06:05Well, don't you think this is a home?
00:06:07Well, the house seems so empty.
00:06:09Great.
00:06:10Let's fetch them back from school, then.
00:06:12Let's not think about the boys' own good.
00:06:13As though you were thinking of their good when you sent them away.
00:06:15What was I thinking about?
00:06:16Your own peace and quiet.
00:06:17They say they were becoming a nuisance to you around the house.
00:06:19All right, dear.
00:06:20Have them back.
00:06:21Fetch them back from school.
00:06:22Well, next week, they're soon enough.
00:06:23You're late, Johnny.
00:06:35Oh.
00:06:56OK.
00:07:05OK.
00:07:33Nothing I can get you in town, dear?
00:07:34Don't think so.
00:07:35Thank you, Mother.
00:07:36Stella, dear.
00:07:37You made a much better wife for John than he deserves.
00:07:40The fact that he is my son doesn't prevent me from saying
00:07:43you've married a self-centered, absent-minded maniac.
00:07:47Absent-minded?
00:07:48He was that before we married.
00:07:50I rather loved him for it.
00:07:52Ever since John adopted pacifism,
00:07:54I've never known him so impossibly belligerent.
00:07:57Perhaps.
00:07:59And you're not doing it to punish him?
00:08:02Doing it?
00:08:03Perhaps I ought to go away for a bit on my own.
00:08:06Have you told John?
00:08:08No, not yet.
00:08:10I suppose I've just been trying to work up the courage.
00:08:13A rather fancy courage is the one thing that John does appreciate.
00:08:19Do as you think best, dear.
00:08:33John, you're an idiot.
00:08:45Well, only five more minutes of freedom.
00:08:48Where's my CLW?
00:08:49He had a postcard from him.
00:08:51To be this term.
00:08:52Uh-huh.
00:08:53Did he say anything to you, Johnny?
00:08:54No, he wouldn't tell me.
00:08:56Expect no fixed date by now.
00:08:58Hope so.
00:08:59Doctor said I'd ease his tonic.
00:09:01You've been in bed all the holidays.
00:09:02Me?
00:09:03Not likely.
00:09:04My symptoms didn't develop until the last day.
00:09:07What symptoms?
00:09:08Red spots on my chest, eyes inflamed.
00:09:11How'd you manage that?
00:09:12I had to look straight at the sun.
00:09:14The spots were easier.
00:09:15I did it with a hairbrush.
00:09:17Your parents fell for it.
00:09:18I had a temperature, too.
00:09:20Oh.
00:09:22How?
00:09:23It's psychological.
00:09:24You put the thermometer on the radiator and think of something horrible.
00:09:27Here we are.
00:09:33That's Potter's father's plane.
00:09:35Where?
00:09:36He doesn't keep his plane down here.
00:09:38Want a bet?
00:09:39How much?
00:09:40Five quid.
00:09:41Make it 5,000.
00:09:43Look, there's Ike.
00:09:47No, it's not.
00:09:48It's Charlie Adams.
00:09:49I know his bike.
00:09:50I bet it's Ike.
00:09:51How much?
00:09:52You and me joined six from our last bet two months ago.
00:09:55Don't change the subject.
00:09:56How much?
00:09:57Drop it.
00:09:58Wasn't that Ike, Charlie?
00:10:00If it was, I'll have to report to the airfields over bones.
00:10:03What's the water like, Ike?
00:10:31Hi.
00:10:32LW.
00:10:34What's up?
00:10:35Got a message for you from Ike.
00:10:37See you in the common room, OK?
00:10:39OK.
00:10:48Good to smell the old place again, isn't it?
00:10:50Great.
00:10:51Hello.
00:10:53Well, Peyton, we missed your smiling face in class this week.
00:10:57Yes, sir.
00:10:58I've been at home, ill.
00:10:59Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.
00:11:01But I shall expect you to make up the work before Thursday.
00:11:04Thursday, sir?
00:11:05Thursday, Peyton.
00:11:06Glad you're back.
00:11:07Thank you, sir.
00:11:09Good to smell old Sykes again.
00:11:11Come on.
00:11:12Better report back.
00:11:19Come in.
00:11:22Hello, Miss Beth.
00:11:23We're back.
00:11:24Oh, sir, I see.
00:11:25Did you have a good holiday?
00:11:26Oh, not so bad.
00:11:27Except for my bronchitis.
00:11:28Oh, yes, Dr. Skillingworth was sorry to hear about all of you.
00:11:30I'll tell him you've arrived.
00:11:31He may want to speak to you.
00:11:33Speak to us?
00:11:34What about?
00:11:35Nothing in particular, I imagine.
00:11:37Well, then, don't bother him.
00:11:41Oh, don't be in a hurry, boys.
00:11:46Thank you, Miss Beth.
00:11:48We were just reporting back, sir.
00:11:51Well, come along in and tell me all about yourselves.
00:11:59Close the door, Hamden.
00:12:00Yes, sir.
00:12:04Come closer, boys.
00:12:13Well, I take it that you've all recovered from your various diseases,
00:12:16indispositions, complaints, et cetera.
00:12:19Yes, thank you, sir.
00:12:20Splendid.
00:12:21And you're all set and eager to carry on the pursuit of, uh,
00:12:24well, whatever it is you've come here to pursue.
00:12:27Yes, sir.
00:12:28Splendid.
00:12:30Payton, what on earth are you looking for?
00:12:34Nothing, sir.
00:12:41Payton, is this yours?
00:12:46No, sir.
00:12:47Are you sure?
00:12:48My parents would never permit me to chew gum.
00:12:51Oh, well, then naturally you would never indulge.
00:12:53You don't think it's mine, do you, Payton?
00:12:55No, sir.
00:12:56Then how do you imagine it got there?
00:12:58Perhaps, uh, perhaps from this bed, sir.
00:13:03Oh, come now, Payton.
00:13:06It's hardly sporting, is it, to blame it on a woman?
00:13:10Adam did, sir.
00:13:11Adam.
00:13:13Oh, that Adam.
00:13:15Hardly a good precedent to follow, Payton,
00:13:17in the light of what happened to him later on, don't you think?
00:13:20It's rather hard to explain.
00:13:23What is, the Old Testament?
00:13:24No, sir.
00:13:25What I was looking for, sir.
00:13:27And what was that, Payton?
00:13:29A microphone, sir.
00:13:31A hidden microphone.
00:13:33I was only trying to protect you.
00:13:35To protect me?
00:13:37From what, Payton?
00:13:39You never know, sir, do you?
00:13:42You're quite right, Payton.
00:13:44I never know.
00:13:46I also never know where that imagination of yours will take you.
00:13:50Yes, sir.
00:13:51Only it isn't imagination, sir.
00:13:53It's standard practice to have microphones in offices.
00:13:56Where is it standard practice, Payton?
00:13:58I saw it at the cinema yesterday, sir.
00:14:00Yesterday?
00:14:01Last week, sir.
00:14:03Before I was taken ill.
00:14:05It was very useful.
00:14:06Your illness?
00:14:07The microphone, sir.
00:14:08In case anyone is trying to get anything on you.
00:14:11So you were trying to protect me, Payton.
00:14:12Well, that's very loyal of you.
00:14:14Yes, sir.
00:14:15And I presume that if anyone were plotting against me
00:14:18or against the school,
00:14:19I could count on the loyalty of all of you.
00:14:22Oh, yes, sir.
00:14:24Is there a plot, sir?
00:14:26Well, perhaps plot is not quite the right word.
00:14:29Tell me something.
00:14:30Before you went on holiday,
00:14:32did any of you happen to receive one of these?
00:14:36Haven't you?
00:14:43No, sir.
00:14:44Payton?
00:14:46No, sir.
00:14:47Hampton?
00:14:49No, sir.
00:14:50Perhaps the Latin might give you a clue.
00:14:52Ad astra per angusta.
00:14:54Which means, Payton?
00:14:56Me, sir?
00:14:57You want me to translate?
00:14:58Well, it's not too difficult.
00:15:00Oh, no, sir.
00:15:02Add astra to the stars.
00:15:06Per angusta?
00:15:11Daventry.
00:15:16If I know what it means, sir,
00:15:17that doesn't imply that I'm implicated, does it?
00:15:20No.
00:15:21That was what was holding me back, sir.
00:15:23Oh, well, in that case, let Payton finish it.
00:15:26All right.
00:15:27But it's Daventry's turn, sir.
00:15:30To the stars, no matter what the difficulty.
00:15:33Excellent, Daventry, excellent.
00:15:35Skilly!
00:15:45Hampton!
00:15:46Skillyworth!
00:15:48Come here, both of you!
00:15:56What's the meaning of this?
00:15:58We're playing a game, sir.
00:16:00The playing fields are not outside my study.
00:16:02Come in, Hampton.
00:16:03I want to talk to you.
00:16:05Yes, sir.
00:16:06Go to your room, Richard.
00:16:08Yes, sir.
00:16:09All right, boys.
00:16:10You can go.
00:16:12Hi, Max.
00:16:13Hello.
00:16:14Hello, Johnny.
00:16:15Hello.
00:16:16What does he want?
00:16:18Operation Birdcage.
00:16:19Got a notice of a meeting.
00:16:21I'll bet young Skilly gave it to him.
00:16:23Is that why you were chasing him?
00:16:25He's trying to spy on us.
00:16:26Dr. Skilling would have been wondering where you are.
00:16:28Yes, Miss Betts.
00:16:29Listen, I've got something important to tell you.
00:16:31Mother and father had an awful row last night.
00:16:33It's not the first time.
00:16:35What about?
00:16:36Father's going to take us all away from school.
00:16:38Oh, gosh.
00:16:39When?
00:16:40Next week.
00:16:41That's what they said.
00:16:42Max!
00:16:43Yes, Miss Betts.
00:16:44I'll tell Ike.
00:16:45See you later.
00:16:50Hampton.
00:16:55Oh, come on, boy.
00:16:56Come on.
00:16:57You're not afraid of me, are you?
00:17:02Yes, sir.
00:17:03Why?
00:17:04Have I ever caned you, except when you deserved it?
00:17:07No, sir.
00:17:08I see.
00:17:09You're afraid of me now because you've done something
00:17:11that deserves a caning.
00:17:12Is that it?
00:17:13Not yet, sir.
00:17:14Not yet?
00:17:15Then you're planning something.
00:17:18Planning something?
00:17:20Why, sir?
00:17:23That's right.
00:17:24It's your brother, Icarus, that does most of the planning,
00:17:28doesn't he?
00:17:29Usually, sir.
00:17:30That's right.
00:17:31As far as you know, Hampton, and I don't ask you
00:17:33to betray any confidences, is Icarus worried
00:17:36about anything just now?
00:17:37The only thing I know that he's worried about, sir,
00:17:39is the position of the individual in current society.
00:17:44Oh.
00:17:46Did that worry you?
00:17:47No, sir.
00:17:48I'm more the fascist type.
00:17:49At least, that's what Icarus thinks.
00:17:51Well, it is the fascist type that you are
00:17:53pursuing my son just now.
00:17:55No, sir.
00:17:56Is that anything to do with it?
00:17:58No, sir.
00:17:59Is that anything to do with it?
00:18:03Did young Skilly, did your son give you this, sir?
00:18:06Is that the way the school thinks of my son?
00:18:09As an informer, as a spy?
00:18:11School, sir?
00:18:12I can't say, sir.
00:18:13Well, you'd better get that out of your head.
00:18:15Do you understand?
00:18:16Yes, sir.
00:18:18And I'm to take it that that has no connection, whatever,
00:18:21with Icarus's present worries.
00:18:24What makes you think he's worried about anything, sir?
00:18:27He hasn't looked at all well this term.
00:18:29And that's because he's on a fast.
00:18:31A fast?
00:18:34But for what reason?
00:18:35An experiment.
00:18:37A calorie consumption in relation to mental activity.
00:18:41Oh.
00:18:43Oh, dear, dear, dear, dear.
00:18:45Well, that's, that's, that's very bad.
00:18:47That's very, very bad news indeed.
00:18:51I'm afraid this school couldn't stand
00:18:53any increase of mental activity on the part of Icarus.
00:18:57I know that I couldn't.
00:19:00And I think you'd better warn him about that, Hamden.
00:19:03Yes, sir.
00:19:04Is that all?
00:19:06I hope so.
00:19:08I most sincerely hope so.
00:19:10For your sake, for his, and for the school.
00:19:14All right, Hamden, you may go.
00:19:16Thank you, sir.
00:19:18It just came from Maxie.
00:19:20Now what did she say?
00:19:22School stinks.
00:19:23Food stinks.
00:19:24Old Skillingworth stinks.
00:19:25Do you know what I mean?
00:19:26Skilling's son is a fifth columnist, always carrying tales.
00:19:29Don't want to go on to university.
00:19:31University stinks.
00:19:33Wants to go to Sandhurst.
00:19:35Sandhurst?
00:19:36That's a brilliant idea.
00:19:37I suppose he thinks peace stinks.
00:19:40What's this about Icarus?
00:19:42Seems he's started it.
00:19:44What's this about Icarus?
00:19:46Seems he started on a five-day farce.
00:19:48A farce?
00:19:49Now what?
00:19:50Another of his experiments.
00:19:51You ought to be used to Icarus by now.
00:19:53Shocking writing.
00:19:57Johnny was very strange when I said goodbye.
00:19:59Kissed me twice.
00:20:01You don't think he overheard us last night?
00:20:04He couldn't possibly have understood what we were yelling about.
00:20:07I didn't myself.
00:20:09Didn't you?
00:20:10I don't think you did either.
00:20:13What's come over you, darling?
00:20:17I told you last night.
00:20:19No, you didn't.
00:20:20You just said something about having some sort of doubts about something or other.
00:20:23I think you're just tired.
00:20:25Maybe you've caught something.
00:20:26That's right.
00:20:27I'm suffering from chronic indigestion, migraine, gastritis,
00:20:29and I'm probably sickening from measles.
00:20:31It can all be explained away physically.
00:20:32Well, there's no need to be sarcastic.
00:20:34I don't even know what we're talking about yet.
00:20:36Well, don't let that stop you.
00:20:37It doesn't usually.
00:20:39I think the Americans call it marriage fatigue.
00:20:41Marriage fatigue?
00:20:44Well, it's lucky we haven't both caught it at the same time, isn't it?
00:20:48I don't know how to get you down, darling.
00:20:50We'll get over it.
00:20:54Oh, to be in England now that April's there.
00:20:57And whoever wakes in England sees some morning unaware
00:21:00the lowest boughs in the brush will shoot.
00:21:06Our valiant neighbors are a trifle early today.
00:21:11What seems to be the trouble, Brown?
00:21:12Excuse me, sir.
00:21:13Those aren't valiants.
00:21:14They're heavy-page victors.
00:21:16You seem to disagree, Smith.
00:21:17They aren't victors, sir.
00:21:18They're Canberras.
00:21:19They carry the hydrogen bomb.
00:21:21Now, that's very interesting.
00:21:23But this happens to be a class in English poetry.
00:21:26Hamden, will you proceed, please?
00:21:29That the lowest boughs in the brush would sheave
00:21:31round the elm-tree boulder in tiny leaf
00:21:34while the chapinch sings on the orchard bough
00:21:36in England now.
00:21:39Not bad, Hamden.
00:21:41Any questions?
00:21:42Please, sir.
00:21:43Yes, Warren?
00:21:44If the hydrogen bomb falls near here, sir.
00:21:46If the hydrogen bomb falls near here, Warren,
00:21:49you probably won't have to worry about the low mark
00:21:52I'm giving you for asking a stupid question.
00:21:55Any more questions?
00:21:59D-Day minus five.
00:22:02You say you found this in the changing room, Kirkland?
00:22:05Yesterday afternoon, sir, after practice.
00:22:07Well, that seems to indicate that D-Day,
00:22:09whatever that is, is still in the future.
00:22:12Aquila non capit muscas.
00:22:15Does that suggest anything to your fine classical mind,
00:22:17Kirkland?
00:22:18A fair translation would be, an eagle does not concern
00:22:21himself with the insects.
00:22:24Not much help, is it?
00:22:26Well, gentlemen, I just thought that I ought to warn you
00:22:28that something seems to be afoot.
00:22:31Though I don't think we need take it too seriously just yet.
00:22:34You're playing with fire, you know, sir?
00:22:36Well, it may be, Elipse, especially as I suspect
00:22:39that the eagle in question is our old friend, Icarus.
00:22:42Hamden has always been a disturbing influence.
00:22:44In my opinion, sir, you'll be doing the school a great
00:22:47service by getting rid of him this time.
00:22:49Well, we may have to do that, Sykes.
00:22:52I might add that I'll do everything I possibly
00:22:54can to avoid it.
00:22:56After 35 years of teaching, I still prefer the eagle,
00:22:59well, to the parrot.
00:23:06Listen, this is important.
00:23:34Listen, this is important. We've just had a meeting with Ike.
00:23:37Indeed, he has been advanced. It's tomorrow.
00:23:40Tomorrow? Oh, gosh.
00:23:42Because your father's taking us away from school?
00:23:44Yes. We've just found out something.
00:23:46Old Skiller's coming down to London tomorrow to a governor's meeting.
00:23:49That makes it perfect.
00:23:51Have you got all the signatures?
00:23:54Here. All except Daddy Fisher.
00:23:56He's only nine and a half.
00:23:58And Teddy Logan. He's in the sick room.
00:24:00Okay. We've got perfectly everybody at our house.
00:24:03Except Young Skiller and a few Robin types.
00:24:05And you can't talk to anything?
00:24:07I don't know. I may have to give him another punch on the nose to make him shut up.
00:24:10What's the hour?
00:24:12Fourteen twenty-two exact.
00:24:14We'd better synchronize.
00:24:15Okay.
00:24:22Now, my friend, let me warn you
00:24:25that there can be no lasting social gains in the East
00:24:30until the position of woman has been changed
00:24:32or the position of woman.
00:24:34Woman has been changed.
00:24:36Women have been made to be important, organized, and mature.
00:24:39Now, my friend, it's up to you.
00:24:41There can be no lasting social...
00:24:43Darling, listen to this, will you? It's for the Anglo-Asian Society.
00:24:47But now, my friend, let me warn you
00:24:50that there can be no lasting social gains in the East
00:24:54until the position of woman has been changed.
00:24:57The position of woman where?
00:24:59In the East, of course.
00:25:01You mean Kent, Essex, Suffolk?
00:25:04Darling, you weren't listening. I said this was the Anglo-Asian Society.
00:25:08Sorry. Did Uncle Darcy get the Brahms quintet to us or to you or to me?
00:25:12Look, if you don't want to help me, dear...
00:25:14Go ahead, go ahead.
00:25:18Woman must be made to feel important,
00:25:21not only to her husband and children...
00:25:23Excuse me, John. Would you say that again?
00:25:25Yes, of course, dear.
00:25:27Woman must be made to feel important,
00:25:30not only to her husband...
00:25:32Is that funny, dear?
00:25:34Yes, very.
00:25:36Do you want me to have them fed off this?
00:25:38What are you doing?
00:25:40Sorting the records, some of them are mine.
00:25:42I'm supposing they are.
00:25:44I might want to take them with me.
00:25:46Where?
00:25:48I don't know yet.
00:25:50Oh, good heavens, Stella.
00:25:52What have I done now?
00:25:54You haven't done anything, John.
00:25:56You haven't been a drunkard or beaten me up or been unfaithful.
00:25:58I'm just going away.
00:26:00But why?
00:26:02I want to go now while we still respect each other.
00:26:04I think you've gone quietly mad.
00:26:06Oh, if it helps you to think that, don't let me stop you.
00:26:08Maybe in a way I have.
00:26:10That's why I can't stand it any longer.
00:26:12Hey, hey, hey.
00:26:14Don't touch me, John. Leave me alone.
00:26:16It's perfectly all right.
00:26:18Stella, you're all muddled up. Would you like me to get you some bread?
00:26:20No, I would not. I wish you'd stop implying there's something wrong with me.
00:26:22Well, isn't there? I mean, there must be.
00:26:24I'm perfectly sound in wind, in limb and in mind.
00:26:28Sorry I went emotional on you.
00:26:30You're not really serious about this.
00:26:32Yes.
00:26:36Well, you've thought about the boys.
00:26:38Of course I've thought about the boys.
00:26:40I'm not going to cut my throat or banish myself to Timbuktu.
00:26:42I'll be around somewhere.
00:26:44You want me to renew your subscription to the library?
00:26:48Is that important?
00:26:50It's overdue.
00:26:52Take this to Switzerland the year after Icarus was born.
00:26:56It doesn't change much.
00:26:58You've got to find out what time it is.
00:27:00I'll be back.
00:27:02I'll be back.
00:27:04I think we've got to go.
00:27:06I'm afraid so.
00:27:08No, no.
00:27:10We'll go on.
00:27:12I'll be back.
00:27:14I'll be back.
00:27:16I'll be back.
00:27:18You'd better be.
00:27:20You haven't changed much.
00:27:22I have.
00:27:25Good holiday, wasn't it?
00:27:26That was when you broke your leg.
00:27:29Was it?
00:27:31It was the worst holiday we ever had.
00:27:51Remember that?
00:28:05Stella, I wish I knew what this was all about.
00:28:07I suppose if I worked up into a flaming row,
00:28:10put on a wild bit of stereogram,
00:28:12sobbing violently out of your life forever...
00:28:14Oh, be reasonable, can't you?
00:28:15Just what I'm being.
00:28:16I'm trying to be decently grown up.
00:28:18About what?
00:28:20About being a cipher.
00:28:21About being ignored.
00:28:22About having no apparent significance in your life.
00:28:24I don't know what you want from a wife,
00:28:25but whatever it is,
00:28:26I don't seem to be able to give it.
00:28:27Maybe it's sex, maybe it's interest.
00:28:28Now, Stella!
00:28:29You've now stellared me for too many years.
00:28:32My dear, I'm probably a completely inadequate human being.
00:28:35I'm sure any man is when confronted
00:28:37with the complexities of the female mind
00:28:39and the female nervous system under restraint.
00:28:42My nerves are all right.
00:28:44I am perfectly calm and cool.
00:28:46I know, dear, I know.
00:28:47You're controlling yourself.
00:28:49That's what causes the stress.
00:28:50I am not controlling myself!
00:28:52Fine, fine, let yourself go,
00:28:53that's just what you need.
00:28:54You are the most frustrating,
00:28:55pig-headed, insensitive,
00:28:56hulk of complacent masculinity
00:28:58any woman ever had to suffer!
00:28:59You're a jobber now!
00:29:00A what?
00:29:01A jobber now!
00:29:02A jobber now, nice!
00:29:03You're not even a jobber now,
00:29:04you're a...
00:29:07For you and I together to make this world...
00:29:12Now, let's get this clear.
00:29:19I'm sorry, Mr. Hamden.
00:29:20Dr. Skillingworth,
00:29:21there happens to be a front door to this house.
00:29:24I have been ringing the bell for five minutes.
00:29:27Do come in, Dr. Skillingworth,
00:29:29I'll open the door.
00:29:31Let me handle this,
00:29:32then I've got something to say to you.
00:29:36Well, what's the trouble now, Dr. Skillingworth?
00:29:37If the school needs more money...
00:29:38The subject of my visit is not finance.
00:29:40Then would you be so kind as to arrange
00:29:42an appointment for a more convenient hour,
00:29:44or perhaps the subject could be handled by post?
00:29:46As you wish, Mr. Hamden.
00:29:48I should have preferred to talk to you first,
00:29:49before expelling your son.
00:29:51Expelling?
00:29:52Which son?
00:29:53Maximilian.
00:29:54Maxi?
00:29:56Please, come in, Dr. Skillingworth.
00:29:58Thank you, Mrs. Hamden.
00:30:03Will you please explain yourself, sir?
00:30:05I know, Mr. Hamden,
00:30:06that you are an avowed pacifist.
00:30:09But as for your son...
00:30:11The school bully is a phenomenon
00:30:13with which I am familiar and with which I can cope.
00:30:16But with the single-minded, berserk,
00:30:18bloodlust of your Maximilian,
00:30:20or, as he's known throughout the school,
00:30:22battling Maxi...
00:30:24What have you done to him?
00:30:25For the moment, I've locked him in his dormitory.
00:30:26What for?
00:30:27This morning, one of the boys
00:30:28was viciously attacked and knocked unconscious.
00:30:31But Maxi's so gentle.
00:30:32Was it a little boy?
00:30:34It was my son, Richard, who was attacked.
00:30:37What did he attack him for?
00:30:38Your son seems to have conceived the idea
00:30:40that I'm using my son to spy upon the other boys.
00:30:42Well, of course, that couldn't possibly be true.
00:30:45Your son, age 15, was attacked by my son, age 14.
00:30:49And you come all the way here breathing vengeance
00:30:51and threatening expulsion.
00:30:53Really, Dr. Skillingworth.
00:30:54I came here because both Max and Icarus
00:30:56are ceaseless troublemakers.
00:30:58And you, of all people, are in a very weak position
00:31:00to condone unprovoked violence.
00:31:02Me, of all people?
00:31:04Oh, I see.
00:31:05If you're not very careful, Dr. Skillingworth,
00:31:07I'll knock your block off.
00:31:08That'll teach you something about my brand of pacifism.
00:31:10John!
00:31:11Mr. Hamden, there's no use in bandying words.
00:31:13I felt it was my duty to come and talk to you personally.
00:31:15Obviously, I made an error of judgment.
00:31:17Oh, no, you don't.
00:31:18You don't wriggle out of your responsibility
00:31:19as easily as that.
00:31:20I sent you a docile little boy with, as I remember it,
00:31:23a rather sweet disposition.
00:31:25Within a few months, you've turned him,
00:31:27sure to be believed, into some kind of holy cross
00:31:29between Sugar Ray Robinson and Dracula.
00:31:31The atmosphere and background of Ferndale School
00:31:33is a comparatively moral one.
00:31:35But the background of his home, however.
00:31:37If you mean to imply, sir, that...
00:31:38John!
00:31:39A pacifist.
00:31:41A pacifist who threatens to knock people's blocks off.
00:31:44Now listen, you...
00:31:45You pedagogical puppeteer!
00:31:47Please.
00:31:49Excuse me.
00:31:51Hello.
00:31:52What?
00:31:53No.
00:31:54Ferndale.
00:31:55It's for you.
00:32:00Hello.
00:32:01Dr. Skillingworth here.
00:32:03Yes, Miss Betts.
00:32:05What?
00:32:08Shot?
00:32:10Who's been shot?
00:32:13Wait, I...
00:32:14I don't quite understand.
00:32:15Who's been shooting who?
00:32:19Hello?
00:32:20Hello?
00:32:23I seem to be cut off.
00:32:24Excuse me.
00:32:25Hello?
00:32:26Look, we've been cut off.
00:32:27Yes.
00:32:28Well, hurry up, please.
00:32:29Who's been shot?
00:32:30One of the masters, Mr. Sykes.
00:32:32Oh, how awful.
00:32:33What?
00:32:34What do you mean, it's out of order?
00:32:36It was all right a minute ago.
00:32:37Well, keep after it, please.
00:32:39I must get a taxi at once.
00:32:40No, I'll take you in the car.
00:32:41I think you'd better come, too.
00:32:43Why?
00:32:44The shot was fired by your son, Max.
00:32:48I'll get the car.
00:32:49You leave a note for Mother.
00:32:50Excuse me, I'll get my things.
00:32:58That means they've got off all right.
00:32:59You'd better get on down to the station
00:33:00and see if old Skilly's on the train.
00:33:02OK.
00:33:09I say, Lucy, any luck?
00:33:11No sign of them anywhere.
00:33:12No bikes around in the shed.
00:33:13Have you tried the pavilion?
00:33:15We're going there now.
00:33:20Oh, and get the exchange from the call box in the village
00:33:22and tell them our phone's dead.
00:33:23Did you find Dr. O'Skilly?
00:33:24He's left Mr. Sykes.
00:33:25No.
00:33:26Says it's not serious.
00:33:27Max, he's shocking him, isn't he?
00:33:29I know.
00:33:30And after you've phoned, you'd better
00:33:31meet the London train in case Dr. Skillingworth caught it.
00:33:33What did the old man say?
00:33:34Curly, this is not what he said.
00:33:37Curly, this is not a laughing matter.
00:33:38Now get cracking.
00:33:39Do you think the old man will have to fire him?
00:33:41I said get on.
00:33:42I hope not.
00:33:43Nobody likes Sykes much.
00:33:44Right.
00:33:45Now, Ruddy.
00:33:46Curly!
00:33:49Look.
00:33:53You see, Miss Betts, we may be sitting on a powder keg.
00:33:55Young Peyton's generation's a very restless one.
00:33:57Let me know if you find anything.
00:34:07Come on.
00:34:22Right, chaps.
00:34:23So far, everything's going as Iky wanted.
00:34:25But the real job's going to start when Skilly gets back.
00:34:28Did you see Curly?
00:34:29Yes, when I went down to the call box.
00:34:31They're getting their phone taped.
00:34:32And you got to a man?
00:34:33No, he was at an editorial meeting.
00:34:36But I got his secretary.
00:34:37Quite a decent old stick.
00:34:38She's going to send down a reporter right away.
00:34:40Right away?
00:34:42You cluckpotter.
00:34:43I told you not till this evening.
00:34:45Sorry.
00:34:48Who is it?
00:34:49Warren.
00:34:54Old Skilly wasn't on the train, but I saw Curly.
00:34:56And he thought he might be coming by road.
00:34:58OK.
00:35:00Go to the north wing and wait for the signal from the main gate.
00:35:03They're bound to come that way.
00:35:05Payton, you'd better get up to Skilly's office and wait there.
00:35:08As soon as he arrives, say you want to confess.
00:35:10Confess?
00:35:11Why me?
00:35:12You've got to make old Skilly think that the whole show was
00:35:14just to let Max escape from his room.
00:35:16And that the boys are on their way home.
00:35:18And that you're the only one in on it.
00:35:20Yes, and I'm the only one that'll get a beating.
00:35:23Payton, I'm ashamed of you.
00:35:24You have the chance of a lifetime to fool old Skilly
00:35:27about where the boys have really gone.
00:35:29And you're afraid of a little whacking.
00:35:31Might not be little.
00:35:32So what?
00:35:33We're all sunk if it doesn't succeed.
00:35:35Go on.
00:35:36Better get up there now and tell Miss Betts you want to see Skilly.
00:35:39All right.
00:35:40But I'm jolly well not going to confess about cutting the telephone wire.
00:35:43Get on with it.
00:35:47He's here.
00:35:48Just coming up the hill.
00:35:49Skilly and the blunt and the lady.
00:35:50Why, don't get excited.
00:35:52Probably their parents.
00:35:54Next meeting before prep.
00:36:03I've no idea when you'll be back.
00:36:05If you really want to wait, you'd better sit down.
00:36:10Thank goodness you've come.
00:36:11How is Mr. Sykes?
00:36:12Dr. Askin reports that it isn't serious.
00:36:14I want to see Max.
00:36:15Oh, this is Mr. and Mrs. Hamden.
00:36:16Miss Betts.
00:36:17Now you don't.
00:36:18That's not possible at the moment.
00:36:19I think we can make an exception.
00:36:21What do you mean, Miss Betts?
00:36:22Where is the boy?
00:36:23He's gone.
00:36:24They've all disappeared.
00:36:25Icarus, Max, and Johnny.
00:36:26Disappeared?
00:36:27No, they can't have.
00:36:28I'm terribly sorry, Mrs. Hamden.
00:36:29But boys don't just disappear.
00:36:30Oh, they're not in any hospital.
00:36:32Well, then we must find them.
00:36:33Might they be hiding somewhere?
00:36:34Couldn't we send out a search party?
00:36:35Mrs. Hamden, I shall be better able
00:36:36to answer these questions after I have
00:36:38made my own investigation.
00:36:39Well, come on, then.
00:36:40Let's make it.
00:36:41Mr. Hamden, this is not your home.
00:36:42This is a school, which I am in charge.
00:36:44A master has been shot.
00:36:45So I gather.
00:36:46Did anyone see the alleged shooting
00:36:48or know where the alleged gun was obtained?
00:36:50Please, Mr. Hamden, that these are questions,
00:36:52which I shall examine.
00:36:54Please.
00:36:55What are you doing here?
00:36:56Oh, he was waiting to see you, sir.
00:36:58I thought you'd be here.
00:37:00What are you doing here?
00:37:01He was waiting to see you, sir.
00:37:02I think he knows something about it.
00:37:03That wouldn't surprise me.
00:37:05In here, Peyton.
00:37:11I'm sure I shall find out everything very soon now.
00:37:13Meanwhile, if you and Mrs. Hamden will wait here
00:37:15as patiently as you possibly can.
00:37:20Now, don't worry still, dear.
00:37:22The boys have probably gone home.
00:37:23I'll, um, bring mother.
00:37:25I'm afraid that's not working.
00:37:27Would you like to sit down, Mrs. Hamden?
00:37:29In the armchair, Peyton.
00:37:37Well now, Peyton.
00:37:39You think you can throw some light
00:37:40on the unfortunate events of this morning?
00:37:42Yes, sir.
00:37:43Good.
00:37:44I hope so, sir.
00:37:45You may proceed.
00:37:46Yes, sir.
00:37:48I'm waiting, Peyton.
00:37:50Oh, yes, sir.
00:37:52I was in the plot, sir.
00:37:54Oh, there was a plot?
00:37:55Yes, sir.
00:37:56It was to rescue Maxie, sir.
00:37:57Rescue Maxie?
00:37:59Rescue him?
00:38:00Am I to understand that you approved of the conduct
00:38:02for which he was being punished?
00:38:04It was a fair fight, sir.
00:38:05Youngster, he'd been asking for it.
00:38:07And Maxie gave it to him.
00:38:09It was what we all thought, sir.
00:38:11Of course, it was bad, like he fell on a stone.
00:38:13What?
00:38:14But that wasn't Maxie's fault, sir.
00:38:17It was a fair fight, honestly, sir.
00:38:21All right, all right.
00:38:25Now, what part did you play in this work of rescue?
00:38:28I created a diversion, sir.
00:38:30A diversion?
00:38:31I fell down at the appointed time and wriggled about
00:38:33with horrible pains in my stomach.
00:38:37To distract attention?
00:38:38To create a diversion, sir,
00:38:40while Icarus and Johnny got him out.
00:38:42That's why I had to howl with pain,
00:38:44to drown the noise when they broke the window, sir.
00:38:47Oh, this has nothing whatever to do with D-Day.
00:38:50D-Day?
00:38:52D-Day, Peyton.
00:38:53Yes, sir.
00:38:54That means it was purely a family affair, apart from yourself.
00:38:57I should think that would be very plausible, sir.
00:38:59Oh, indeed.
00:39:04Peyton, do you know where the brothers are now?
00:39:07Oh, no, sir.
00:39:09I should imagine they might have gone home.
00:39:15And the revolver?
00:39:16Where did they get the revolver?
00:39:18Oh, it wasn't a revolver, sir.
00:39:19It was a pocket blunderbuss.
00:39:21Icarus made it.
00:39:22He's very good with his hands, sir.
00:39:24And he made it?
00:39:25Where?
00:39:27Yes, sir. In the metal shop.
00:39:28During the useful work period.
00:39:30In the best interest of the school?
00:39:32Well, of course, sir.
00:39:33Icarus has the good of the school always at heart.
00:39:35I would say.
00:39:38Oh, that's a beautiful thought, Peyton.
00:39:40Yes, sir.
00:39:42And the bullets?
00:39:44Oh, it wasn't a bullet, sir.
00:39:45It was a .2 ball bearing.
00:39:47Not really dangerous.
00:39:48Only a bit painful.
00:39:49He says some pains are necessary.
00:39:52I'm greatly relieved about that, Peyton.
00:39:55Now you're going to tell me that Icarus also made the powder in the chemistry class.
00:40:01Yes, sir.
00:40:02He's very good at chemistry.
00:40:05I suppose his parents were a bit upset.
00:40:09You're just full of beautiful thoughts, Peyton.
00:40:12Oh, thank you, sir.
00:40:16Found it in the flower bed.
00:40:18Do you mind if I see that?
00:40:19Just a minute.
00:40:20Oh, this is Mr. and Mrs. Hamban, Curley.
00:40:21Oh, yes.
00:40:22You've got three fine lads, sir.
00:40:24You don't know where they are?
00:40:25No, ma'am, but they'll turn up.
00:40:26Would you mind if I...
00:40:27No, I'd best show it in there first.
00:40:28I'll show it.
00:40:33There you are.
00:40:34A mere toy.
00:40:35Be careful, Mr. Hamban.
00:40:36It might be loaded.
00:40:37Soon find out, sir.
00:40:38May I have it, sir?
00:40:42Empty.
00:40:44Been fired.
00:40:45We gathered it head.
00:40:46A lovely job, sir.
00:40:47You should be very proud of him.
00:40:49If you had some powder here, I could show you.
00:40:51I've neither powder nor ball bearings, Peyton.
00:40:53Though, of course, I can't answer for Mr. Hamban.
00:40:55Has your investigation got you anywhere, Dr. Skellingworth?
00:40:58Have you been able to find out anything from this boy?
00:41:00You have nothing more to tell me, Peyton.
00:41:02No, sir.
00:41:03Think carefully, Peyton.
00:41:04Remember, honesty will be taken into account when I come to assess your punishment.
00:41:07Nothing more, sir.
00:41:09Very well, Peyton, you may go.
00:41:11Now, look here.
00:41:12Just one moment, Mr. Hamban, please.
00:41:13Tell me, are they all right?
00:41:15They're supersonic.
00:41:16You mean they're...
00:41:17They're...
00:41:18Well, they're all right.
00:41:21The telephone's been fixed, sir.
00:41:22The wires have been cut quite close to the school.
00:41:25Thank you, Miss Betts.
00:41:26May I?
00:41:28Hello.
00:41:29Get me Deep Door 5124, please.
00:41:39Now, listen, Mother.
00:41:40There's no need to call in the police.
00:41:42I'm handling this.
00:41:44Yes, dear.
00:41:46Goodbye.
00:41:48Why not call in the police?
00:41:50Why not call in the police?
00:41:51I don't think that would be advisable, Mrs. Hamban.
00:41:54Certainly not.
00:41:55The publicity wouldn't be good for the boys.
00:41:56No, nor for the school.
00:41:58What have you got to worry about?
00:41:59I should think every boy in England would now clamor to gain admittance.
00:42:02A school where you're taught to make guns and gunpowder.
00:42:05Where a pupil actually achieves the schoolboy's dream of shooting one of his persecutors.
00:42:10It's irresistible.
00:42:11You're sitting pretty.
00:42:12And you?
00:42:13Can't you see the headlines?
00:42:14War and peace among the Hambans.
00:42:16Pacifist progeny pedagogue.
00:42:18I think you're contemptible, both of you.
00:42:20You're not thinking about the boys at all.
00:42:22They're in trouble.
00:42:23They need help.
00:42:24Do you realize what a state they must have been in to have done a thing like this?
00:42:26And you sit there squabbling about trivialities
00:42:28because you're afraid you might get your names into the papers.
00:42:30Stella, is it?
00:42:31I'm going to the police.
00:42:32And I'm going to the papers.
00:42:34Sorry, I must forbid that, Mrs. Hamban.
00:42:38May I have the keys to the car?
00:42:39No, Mrs. Hamban.
00:42:40I don't think you're being fair to your sons.
00:42:42I'd hate to say I know them better than you,
00:42:44but I feel certain that they do know how to take care of themselves.
00:42:47Payton has implied that they've gone home, and I think he knows.
00:42:50Why not wait just for a few hours?
00:42:54All right, I'll wait for a few hours.
00:42:56If I may look in their rooms and talk to some of their friends.
00:42:59At least we might find out why they left.
00:43:02Of course, of course, Mrs. Hamban.
00:43:03You may even find something that the rest of us have overlooked.
00:43:09Yes, yes, certainly.
00:43:11Will you excuse me for a moment now, please?
00:43:13Come with me.
00:43:17Yes, Dr. Erskine.
00:43:21Oh, good.
00:43:24Oh, good.
00:43:25Tell Mr. Sykes I'll be up to see him as soon as I possibly can.
00:43:28And...
00:43:30Oh.
00:43:32But, uh, must you fill in a certificate?
00:43:37Well, I mean publicity and all that.
00:43:42Nobody is asking you to falsify anything, Dr. Sykes.
00:43:46Nobody is asking you to falsify anything, Dr. Erskine.
00:43:48But why not describe it as a ball bearing instead of as a bullet?
00:43:52Oh, look.
00:43:53Why not a foreign body lodged in the thigh?
00:43:58Yes.
00:44:00Accurate and yet unrevealing.
00:44:05All right, thank you, Dr. Erskine.
00:44:07Goodbye.
00:44:10You know, we oughtn't be doing this.
00:44:12Invading a man's privacy.
00:44:13It's not right.
00:44:15I thought we were trying to find some clues to what happened this morning.
00:44:17We know what happened, dear.
00:44:18They obviously wanted to shoot a master.
00:44:20If you're properly adjusted, you don't want to shoot masters.
00:44:23On the contrary.
00:44:26When they do show up, we'll see that they're properly adjusted to the idea
00:44:30that when you do something, you have to take the consequence.
00:44:33You always have to come out with some big, abstract, world-wide principle, don't you?
00:44:37In fact, you can't keep your own house in order.
00:44:39It doesn't seem to bother you.
00:44:40If by that you're implying that I'm not a good father...
00:44:43It doesn't bother your father at all.
00:44:44Except in a strictly biological sense.
00:44:47Talking about invading their privacy.
00:44:48One only invades a foreign country.
00:44:51I'd better keep an eye on his parents,
00:44:53so they don't snoop around too much.
00:44:56Any sign of the reporter yet?
00:44:57No.
00:44:58He comes up this afternoon.
00:44:59It'll ruin everything.
00:45:00Potter?
00:45:02You didn't tell them about Max shooting Sykes, did you?
00:45:05Don't be chronic.
00:45:06I just said that if they sent somebody over, there might be a story tonight.
00:45:13Sorry.
00:45:14Hold on, young skilly.
00:45:15Spying again, eh?
00:45:16I came to develop some pictures of the match.
00:45:18Don't be lacking.
00:45:19That's just a cover-up.
00:45:20Wait a minute.
00:45:21What are you doing here?
00:45:23What are you doing here?
00:45:25We're developing pictures.
00:45:27But you can have the room now.
00:45:28Only, don't tell anyone.
00:45:31And I mean...
00:45:33anyone that you've seen us here.
00:45:35Come on, chaps.
00:45:36We should have scared him more.
00:45:38He's scared enough.
00:45:39Okay.
00:45:40Out into the hall, one at a time.
00:45:43Hello, Frank.
00:45:45Hi there, Mr. Frank.
00:45:46Isn't he?
00:45:48That's a funny thing.
00:45:49You look just like Frank.
00:45:51Have you seen his father?
00:45:53No, not recently.
00:45:54Not that I know of.
00:45:56An interesting chap, Caesar.
00:45:58Interesting?
00:45:59What's interesting about him?
00:46:00Oh, don't you think so?
00:46:02I'm supposing he could help you.
00:46:04I don't think so.
00:46:05I don't think so.
00:46:06I don't think so.
00:46:07I don't think so.
00:46:08I don't think so.
00:46:09I don't think so.
00:46:10I don't think so.
00:46:11I don't think so.
00:46:13I'm supposing he could talk.
00:46:14It'd be very interesting to hear a statue talk, wouldn't it?
00:46:17Think of all the things he's seen around the school.
00:46:20Sometimes strange things happen.
00:46:23Even at the best of school.
00:46:25Even here.
00:46:27When I was at school,
00:46:29a boy set fire to his room
00:46:31and almost burned down the whole building.
00:46:33That must have been very exciting, sir.
00:46:35In your day.
00:46:37Yes.
00:46:39But still, not as exciting
00:46:40master eloped with another master's wife.
00:46:42You're almost even getting warm, sir.
00:46:45Warm?
00:46:46About the story up here.
00:46:47You've been sent up here by the Gazette, haven't you, sir?
00:46:50Do stay around, sir.
00:46:51We may have something for you later.
00:46:59I'm afraid you're too late.
00:47:01Your friends have already told me the whole story.
00:47:06About the shooting?
00:47:08That's right.
00:47:10Carry on, Elgin.
00:47:12Thank you very much.
00:47:14He's a reporter, you ass.
00:47:16What shall we do?
00:47:17Better tell Daventry.
00:47:18Come on.
00:47:32Oh, excuse me, sir.
00:47:33Oh, what do you want?
00:47:35I'm Daventry.
00:47:36I shared the study with Ike.
00:47:38Well?
00:47:40Got a message.
00:47:41From Icarus?
00:47:43From all three.
00:47:45Where are they?
00:47:46Can't say.
00:47:47Don't know.
00:47:48But you have got a message.
00:47:51They're scared you'll gum up the works.
00:47:53And what exactly are the works?
00:47:55Can't tell you yet.
00:47:57But what are they scared we'll do?
00:47:59Scared you'll go to the police before the mission's accomplished.
00:48:02What mission?
00:48:03It's something you especially will be proud of, sir.
00:48:06If we knew what the mission was, could we stop it now?
00:48:09That's a very interesting question.
00:48:10Confine it. We're not playing 20 questions.
00:48:12That's right, sir.
00:48:13So, uh, let's not worry.
00:48:14Huh?
00:48:16Shall I get you some tea?
00:48:17No.
00:48:18No, thank you.
00:48:20What's your first name, Daventry?
00:48:23L.W.
00:48:24What's it stand for?
00:48:25Daventry.
00:48:26Long wave.
00:48:28Fair enough.
00:48:30My old man gave me a terrible name.
00:48:32Worse than Icarus.
00:48:33People ought to think what they're doing.
00:48:35This isn't getting us anywhere.
00:48:38That's why I thought you might like some tea.
00:48:41Now you tell us where the boys have gone.
00:48:44Do you hear?
00:48:46I hear.
00:48:47Well?
00:48:49What happens to people when they grow up?
00:48:51You'd think things would get clearer and clearer, but they don't seem to at all.
00:48:54Just as Ike says.
00:48:56Grown-up people just seem to get more and more muddled.
00:48:58L.W., you're forcing us to go to the police.
00:49:01But that's just what I mean.
00:49:03If you hadn't grown up in such a muddle,
00:49:05you'd see you'd have to trust us to find our own salvation.
00:49:07Icarus said that about finding your own salvation.
00:49:11All comes from Ike.
00:49:15If you'll pardon me for saying so, sir,
00:49:17you don't know what you've got in that boy.
00:49:19Thank you very much indeed.
00:49:20Now let's get down to the point.
00:49:22John, that is the point.
00:49:24Then you will trust Ike, won't you?
00:49:26Yes, if I knew what he was doing.
00:49:28That's not trusting, that's approving.
00:49:30If you don't trust him, why do you send him to boarding school?
00:49:32Because I imagined he would be subject to proper care and supervision.
00:49:36Blimey!
00:49:37You don't like boarding school?
00:49:39Ike's got a theory that boarding school's all right for the kids,
00:49:41but they're not so good for the parents.
00:49:43If you send kids away, the parents may separate.
00:49:45Nonsense!
00:49:47Mind it.
00:49:49Oh, I am sorry, L.W.
00:49:51It happens with kids.
00:49:54You get used to it.
00:49:56Ike says, although it looks as though it's the parents who make the home for the kids,
00:50:00it's really the kids who make the home for the parents.
00:50:03Sort of paradox.
00:50:05I suppose you agree with it?
00:50:06No.
00:50:11Oh, excuse me, sir.
00:50:12Come in, come in, please.
00:50:14Take a seat.
00:50:16Tell me just one thing.
00:50:17Do you find on the whole that the present relationship between husband and wife meets with your approval?
00:50:22I don't know.
00:50:24Neither do I.
00:50:25Now, if you'll forgive us, we'll continue our search elsewhere.
00:50:28Don't mind him, L.W.
00:50:30He's very upset.
00:50:31You've just got to trust Ike.
00:50:39Blimey!
00:50:40Did thems get a nice kiss?
00:50:43What's up with you?
00:50:44That reporter's come up from the Gazette.
00:50:46Where is he?
00:50:47In O.
00:50:58Hand them over.
00:51:02Hand them over.
00:51:24Police!
00:51:27Will you be staying until around seven this evening, sir?
00:51:30Now, why do you want to know that?
00:51:32I'm the assistant editor of our school paper, sir.
00:51:34Why did you say around seven?
00:51:36I don't know.
00:51:37Perhaps we might have some news by then.
00:51:39What news?
00:51:40Well, it's hard to say exactly.
00:51:41I shall be staying in the village.
00:51:43What?
00:51:44Darling, we can't.
00:51:45I've got to get back.
00:51:46I haven't.
00:51:47But you don't mean to tell me...
00:51:48I do mean to tell you I'm not going to leave until I've got definite news.
00:51:49Darling, I have to be in town by...
00:51:53What are you writing?
00:51:54Just notes for our paper, sir.
00:51:56I'm a bit chronic in that direction.
00:51:57Oh, really?
00:51:58Let me pound in, will you?
00:52:00Now, would you tell me what you know about the boys
00:52:04if I gave you a pound for your newspaper?
00:52:07I couldn't, sir.
00:52:08Frightful lack of urge in that direction.
00:52:10It's against our idea for freedom of the press.
00:52:13Don't worry, Mrs. Handon.
00:52:14We're not worried.
00:52:18Find out where that reporter went.
00:52:20But it's absolutely idiotic.
00:52:22Why the sudden desire to stay here tonight?
00:52:24It isn't sudden.
00:52:25But there's no reason to stay.
00:52:26I'm not going to leave here until I've discovered why the boys went.
00:52:28And my speech tonight?
00:52:29Make it, by all means, if you feel like making speeches.
00:52:32You usually do.
00:52:33Well, that's a charming way to put it.
00:52:34I'm sorry, darling.
00:52:35I'm not coming home with you.
00:52:36Excuse me, Mrs. Handon.
00:52:38Have you heard anything new?
00:52:40About what?
00:52:41About the boys.
00:52:42Have you?
00:52:43What was the last you'd heard?
00:52:44We've just come from a Christmas party.
00:52:45Oh, I see.
00:52:46Just a minute, dear.
00:52:47Who are you?
00:52:48Oh, that doesn't matter.
00:52:49I'm just trying to help.
00:52:50Excuse me, sir.
00:52:51I think you ought to know that this is a reporter.
00:52:53I see.
00:52:56You've just been trying to get us to give something away, haven't you?
00:52:59Give something away?
00:53:00Never.
00:53:01We pay the market price for all information.
00:53:02But you haven't heard anything.
00:53:04The Gazette hears everything.
00:53:05The world is a vast network of spies, all in the pay of the Gazette.
00:53:09He's only trying to provoke you.
00:53:11No, you're wrong, sir.
00:53:12I'm not trying to provoke you.
00:53:14No, you're wrong, sir.
00:53:15I'm only a humble servant of our great master, truth.
00:53:19It is life which provokes Mr. Hamden,
00:53:21life which tempts us all, even schoolboys,
00:53:24into actions that will titillate the jaded palates of our three and a half million readers.
00:53:28You've been drinking.
00:53:29Continuously for 20 years.
00:53:31Does it show?
00:53:32Only in your character.
00:53:33Maybe.
00:53:34Well, we've nothing more to say to you.
00:53:35But surely, Mr. Hamden, as a father, you would prefer us to print the truth about your son.
00:53:40The only truth you know is that I am a father and I have a son.
00:53:43Good afternoon.
00:53:44And the shooting?
00:53:46I'm not going to print that.
00:53:48That depends, Mrs. Hamden, on your cooperation.
00:53:52What exactly do you want to know?
00:53:54Well, personally, nothing.
00:53:56Professionally, the scraping's at the bottom of the barrel.
00:53:58That's where the dirt collects.
00:54:00The only thing you'll collect in a minute will be a thick ear.
00:54:03Coming from you, that's really quite a story in itself.
00:54:05Can I quote you?
00:54:06I am a pacifist by nature, Mr. Hamden.
00:54:09Though not by conviction.
00:54:10You, it would appear, are the reverse.
00:54:12Excuse me, sir.
00:54:13There's a telephone call for you in the headmaster's study.
00:54:16Yes, yes, I've sent to fetch him.
00:54:19Of course, I realize...
00:54:21Here.
00:54:22Hello?
00:54:23Yes, mother?
00:54:24A telegram from the boys, eh?
00:54:26Well, read it, dear, read it.
00:54:32Arrived fairly safely?
00:54:34Oh, thank goodness.
00:54:35What does arrived fairly safely mean, dear?
00:54:37It's signed by all three.
00:54:40Where are they?
00:54:41Where's it from?
00:54:43Luxembourg.
00:54:44Luxembourg?
00:54:45Mother!
00:54:46Listen, there must be a mistake, dear.
00:54:48What?
00:54:50Right, now listen.
00:54:52Don't talk to anybody.
00:54:53They're coming straight home.
00:54:55God, how did they get there?
00:54:57Payton, that news wasn't quite what you expected, was it?
00:55:00No, sir.
00:55:01What was so unexpected about it, Payton?
00:55:03Just...
00:55:04Well, they must have gone a bit off their lines, sir.
00:55:08What exactly does that mean?
00:55:10What?
00:55:11It seemed a bit far away, sir.
00:55:13Let Payton answer, Daventry.
00:55:15That was what I thought too, sir.
00:55:18A bit off the line.
00:55:20A curious choice of words, Payton.
00:55:23Yes, sir.
00:55:24Not very good at English, sir.
00:55:27What are you doing here?
00:55:29Just listening.
00:55:30Go right ahead.
00:55:31He's a reporter.
00:55:32Yes, I'm aware of that unfortunate fact.
00:55:35It's a living...
00:55:36Why did they do it?
00:55:37Why, why, why?
00:55:38If you will all kindly leave me alone with these boys,
00:55:41I'm sure I can find the answer.
00:55:43I wish you'd let me stay.
00:55:44Most certainly not.
00:55:45There's just one factor in the story I haven't got.
00:55:48How did they get the plane they flew?
00:55:52They flew?
00:55:53I found this in your son's desk.
00:55:55I went through his desk.
00:55:57Ah, but you didn't know what these figures meant.
00:55:59This is what's called a flying log.
00:56:01Weather conditions, hours in the air,
00:56:03hours at the controls.
00:56:04He could have set the controls all by himself.
00:56:06He could have set the controls all by himself.
00:56:08He's always had Mr. Potter beside him.
00:56:10Potter.
00:56:11Potter, Potter.
00:56:12You don't mean the father of our Potter?
00:56:14Yes, sir.
00:56:15But he was very careful.
00:56:17Potter's old man's got this plane,
00:56:18and sometimes when he comes down to school...
00:56:20Icarus flies it.
00:56:22Splendid, Dr. Skillingworth.
00:56:23A nice, safe extracurriculum activity.
00:56:25Anyway, he's safe now.
00:56:26In Luxembourg.
00:56:29Potter's old man says that Ike is a natural flyer.
00:56:31That makes me very happy.
00:56:32Hello.
00:56:34What, who?
00:56:35The flying club?
00:56:36All right, what do you want?
00:56:40What?
00:56:42My boys steal an airplane.
00:56:45Don't be ridiculous.
00:56:46That's what I wanted to know.
00:56:55I'm sorry I was so hasty.
00:56:57Would you mind repeating what you just said, please?
00:57:00Where's Luxembourg?
00:57:02No.
00:57:06No.
00:57:11Why couldn't we get something to eat when we sent the telegram?
00:57:13Ike said to hurry back to the plane.
00:57:16Okay, come on.
00:57:36Ike! Ike!
00:57:42How could Ike? How could he leave us?
00:57:44Is he going to come back?
00:57:46I don't know.
00:57:47I shouldn't think so.
00:57:49The blubbing won't help anyway.
00:57:53Look.
00:57:59Sorry, but I couldn't wait.
00:58:01I must arrive before dark.
00:58:03Don't spill the beans about Tripp until then.
00:58:06Go to the best hotel and charge everything to father.
00:58:09Cheerio.
00:58:10He could have waited.
00:58:11Only a minute and we'd have been here.
00:58:13Tripp was worried about breaking your neck the next time he landed.
00:58:16Come on, silly.
00:58:17It's a decent way back to that village.
00:58:34It's gone wrong.
00:58:38Looks like it.
00:58:39It's not like Ike to let anything gum up the works.
00:58:42No, it's not like Ike.
00:58:46Trust Ike.
00:58:49Trust Ike.
00:58:53Maybe the telegram was just a blind.
00:58:55Shall we get the chaps started on the bonfire?
00:58:58That's it.
00:58:59Get the chaps together behind the pavilion.
00:59:01Get the chaps together behind the pavilion.
00:59:03You two, better phone up the other schools and tell them what's happening.
00:59:06Archdale Secondary Modern, St. David's and Westover.
00:59:09They mustn't light up till they get word from us.
00:59:11What about Potter?
00:59:12He's gone to the village to see what the parents are up to.
00:59:15Leave a message for him.
00:59:19I'll take your case.
00:59:20No, darling, you'll be late.
00:59:21I'll phone you if any news comes through.
00:59:23Goodbye.
00:59:24Bye.
00:59:31Goodbye.
00:59:48Do you want a room for tonight, please?
00:59:49Yes, sir.
01:00:01We meet again, my dear sir.
01:00:02Yes, sir, I was just reading the paper.
01:00:04A very estimable occupa...
01:00:11What's Mrs. Hamden's room number?
01:00:12Number seven, sir.
01:00:17Look at it.
01:00:18I mean, well, look at it!
01:00:20Pistol-toting sons of prominent pacifists land stolen plane in Luxembourg.
01:00:24That's great.
01:00:26All for Hamden's pacifist principles are well known, but not apparently to his sons.
01:00:31How unpleasant.
01:00:32Unpleasant?
01:00:34Well, that's a masterpiece of understatement.
01:00:36Here have I been slaving away for months trying to get somebody interested in peace.
01:00:40The boys couldn't have known about the publicity.
01:00:42No?
01:00:43I bet they were counting on it.
01:00:45They want to see screaming headlines on the...
01:00:47I don't know, I suppose the state of food in British boarding schools.
01:00:50They'll probably say they had to fly to Luxembourg to get a square meal.
01:00:53Icarus isn't a child, John.
01:00:55Does that affect his appetite?
01:00:56No, they've made me look ridiculous.
01:00:58I'm a laughing stock.
01:00:59And it was for them I was doing it.
01:01:01They'll suffer in the next war more than we will.
01:01:04They're too young to know about it, so you try to do something for them.
01:01:06Try to make life better for them.
01:01:07What do they do?
01:01:08Bring the whole darn thing clattering down on your head.
01:01:12Lucky I decided not to speak tonight.
01:01:14Yes, John.
01:01:18So far, Mr. Hamden has not been reached for comment.
01:01:22I'll comment, all right, when I get hold of that Gazette reporter.
01:01:26Come in.
01:01:30Well?
01:01:31Have you any news?
01:01:33Hardly news, but I thought you ought to know that I've reluctantly reported the matter to the local police
01:01:39and telephoned the British Embassy at Luxembourg, as we agreed.
01:01:42What did they say?
01:01:43They're doing everything they can.
01:01:45I see.
01:01:46I suppose you've seen this happy bit of up-and-coming journalism.
01:01:50Yes, I know. It's most unfortunate.
01:01:52Unfortunate?
01:01:53You know, Dr. Skillingworth, I ought to sue you for deformation of character.
01:01:57Defamation.
01:01:58I'm a writer here, and I choose my words with exactitude.
01:02:00As far as I can see, you have deformed the characters of three reasonably serious-minded boys
01:02:05into a trio of aggressive, swaggering nitwits.
01:02:08For tens of thousands of years, men have been trying to educate their children,
01:02:12and it seems they still don't know how to do it.
01:02:14I'd remind you, Mr. Hamden, that there are such things as laws of heredity
01:02:19against which teachers sometimes have to fight a constant battle.
01:02:22May I remind you...
01:02:23May I also remind you that I share you and Mrs. Hamden's worries about the boys
01:02:26more than you can possibly imagine.
01:02:28This is a fine time to remind me of that.
01:02:32Mr. Hamden, you know, I greatly admire you as a writer,
01:02:36and on many subjects I'd listen to you with due respect.
01:02:39But on the subject of education, I think it possible that I know more than you.
01:02:45On that subject, there is no development which I have not studied,
01:02:48but more than that, I have studied boys themselves
01:02:51with as much humility and as few preconceived ideas about them as possible.
01:02:57And one of my conclusions is this,
01:02:59that there is in the mind of the average intelligent boy, Mr. Hamden,
01:03:02scant respect for the achievements of the present-day adult world.
01:03:08Now, I believe it is a teacher's duty to encourage that attitude
01:03:12and to foster in the rising generation the conviction that they can do a darn sight better.
01:03:19Indeed, they must, if the world is to have many more rising generations.
01:03:26That's for your three sons.
01:03:29Well, I should like to say that, however I may be forced to act as an administrator,
01:03:34I should like to say that I have always been breathlessly fascinated by them,
01:03:39particularly by Icarus.
01:03:42Now, having said that, I hope I've also expressed something of the gratitude I feel
01:03:47to whatever fate decided you to send them to my school.
01:03:50Good night, Mr. Hamden.
01:03:52Mrs. Hamden, I'll ring you as soon as I have any news.
01:03:59It seems you have a guest.
01:04:04You've got a nerve coming in here.
01:04:06Yes, haven't I? I'd like to use your telephone.
01:04:08What for?
01:04:09Just a moment.
01:04:11Yes, hello?
01:04:12Deason here.
01:04:13When that call from Luxembourg comes through, put it on this line, please.
01:04:16They've found them?
01:04:17We've found them, the Gazette.
01:04:18Are they all right? Have you spoken to them?
01:04:20Not yet. An agency message came through.
01:04:22Well, with all due gratitude to your paper, Mr. Deason, the episode now seems to be finished.
01:04:26This is a private room.
01:04:27We're paying for this call, Mr. Hamden. We want our money's worth.
01:04:31As for the episode being finished, I think it's time for you to leave.
01:04:35Being finished, I think you underestimate the staying power of a human interest story.
01:04:39By Friday, you'll be as dead as mutton.
01:04:41But today and tomorrow, you belong to humanity.
01:04:44That's enough of that.
01:04:45Yes?
01:04:46Here it comes.
01:04:47Yes, who is it?
01:04:48Hello?
01:04:51Yes?
01:04:52Yes?
01:04:54Hello?
01:04:55Just a minute.
01:04:56Just a minute, Max. Here's your mother.
01:04:59Hello, darling.
01:05:01Are you all right?
01:05:02I'm fine, Mother. I'm just at a smashing dinner.
01:05:07We've been terribly worried. What did arrive fairly safely mean?
01:05:11Oh, that was the plane.
01:05:13Let me talk to Icarus.
01:05:14He bumped it a bit coming down. He said getting up's easier, but getting down's a bit trickier.
01:05:19Darling, Daddy wants to talk to Icarus now.
01:05:23Why can't he talk?
01:05:26Max, you're hiding something. He's been hurt.
01:05:29And Johnny wants to talk to you.
01:05:31Tell her everything's OK.
01:05:34Hello, Mum. Everything's smashing. I said everything's smashing.
01:05:38What?
01:05:40Johnny, you've got to tell me. Why isn't Icarus there?
01:05:44Where is he?
01:05:46Look, let me speak to Max again.
01:05:48She wants you to tell her.
01:05:50Hello, Mother. And don't worry about anything.
01:05:53Max, where is he?
01:05:55Let me have it, yes. Let me have it.
01:05:56Hello? Max? Daddy speaking. Where's Icarus?
01:06:02He's gone on.
01:06:04What do you mean he's gone on?
01:06:05Hello?
01:06:07You mean he's gone on in the plane alone?
01:06:11Why?
01:06:12Because he had to.
01:06:14He just came down here to find out where he was.
01:06:16But don't worry. He's probably there by now.
01:06:19He said he'd ring you up.
01:06:21He said he'd ring you up.
01:06:23Listen, Max. Where has he gone?
01:06:27Well...
01:06:29Vienna.
01:06:32Vienna?
01:06:35But why Vienna?
01:06:38Icarus will explain everything when he gets there.
01:06:40Max!
01:06:41There's nothing to worry about.
01:06:43Yes, we can spend the night.
01:06:45OK, Dad.
01:06:47I'll wait here until you hear from Icarus.
01:06:51Goodbye.
01:06:59Well, he said Icarus would ring us up when he gets there.
01:07:06Vienna's over the Alps.
01:07:08Yes.
01:07:10When ought he to get there?
01:07:13Well, it's...
01:07:15It's some time yet, darling.
01:07:22Vienna
01:07:36Maybe we could phone.
01:07:38To Vienna?
01:07:40Who to?
01:07:41The British Embassy.
01:07:43That would cost a lot.
01:07:44Get the rest of the chaps to muck in.
01:07:48Too late now.
01:07:50Get the news in the morning.
01:07:52You can't light a bonfire in the morning.
01:07:54We could ring the chapel bell.
01:07:57That's it for tonight, anyway.
01:08:01Come on.
01:08:02It'll soon be lights out.
01:08:19Hello.
01:08:28Hello.
01:08:35You asleep?
01:08:44What time is it?
01:08:46Must be around three.
01:08:50Perhaps it'll be only two in Vienna.
01:08:53No, four.
01:08:55Sun rises in the east.
01:08:58Yes, I suppose so.
01:09:00You suppose so?
01:09:03No, of course it must.
01:09:07Because I say so.
01:09:11You're unthinking.
01:09:15You know something?
01:09:16What?
01:09:18I've just decided that I don't know anything.
01:09:22No?
01:09:24A strangely peaceful feeling.
01:09:30Do you think we were wrong to send the boys away to school?
01:09:34Probably.
01:09:36I've been wrong about so many things.
01:09:40I loved it when they were at home.
01:09:42The noise.
01:09:43I loved it when they were at home.
01:09:45The noise and chaos.
01:09:48No time for anything.
01:09:52Suddenly it was just you and me again, eh?
01:09:56You were all right when you were part of the family.
01:09:59I know.
01:10:01You don't have to tell me.
01:10:04I suppose I expected you to become four people.
01:10:09Sorry.
01:10:14I'm sorry.
01:10:25That's the first afternoon edition.
01:10:30If you have any pity on the staff, you'll dismiss classes for the rest of today?
01:10:33No, no, no. The boys haven't given up hope yet.
01:10:35So let's just carry on as best we can.
01:10:38The plane was last reported as seen high above the village of Schwarz,
01:10:41in the Austrian Alps.
01:10:43But since then, there has been no further trace.
01:10:46An Austrian police official said today,
01:10:48that if the plane has made a forced landing in the region of Schwarz,
01:10:52some time must elapse before contact could be established with the flyer,
01:10:56owing to the rugged nature of the country and the lack of communication.
01:11:11You will notice that there are one or two constructions in it that you've learnt before.
01:11:14For instance, in lines five and six, you will notice an example of the genitive absolute.
01:11:18He got me now, Agisandridas.
01:11:20Under the leadership of Agisandridas.
01:11:24Daventry.
01:11:26Try and pay attention.
01:11:41LW wants you for a meeting. I'm to take over.
01:11:44Okay.
01:11:46Give the bell a real bashing when you get the signal.
01:11:49Do you really think there'll be any signal? It's nearly dark.
01:11:52Of course there'll be a signal.
01:11:54And when it comes, we'll light the biggest bonfire there's ever been.
01:11:57It's getting late, though.
01:11:59Don't you trust, Ike?
01:12:01I don't trust you.
01:12:03I don't trust you.
01:12:05I don't trust you.
01:12:07I don't trust you.
01:12:09I don't trust you.
01:12:11Well, don't you?
01:12:13Yes, I suppose so.
01:12:15There is still no news of 16-year-old Icarus Hambler,
01:12:19the schoolboy whose flight across Europe in a stolen plane
01:12:22has captured the imagination of the whole country.
01:12:25Search patrols have been sent out from Vienna,
01:12:28by Great Britain, France, the United States, and the Soviet Union.
01:12:31Yes, could you keep on trying, then, please?
01:12:34Yeah.
01:12:36I'd like it.
01:12:38Wait till you go.
01:12:40A little drink, sir.
01:12:46Waiter.
01:12:49I say, uh...
01:12:50Hello, Bill.
01:12:51Hello, Vic.
01:12:52Oh, you have...
01:12:54Mustard?
01:12:55Yep.
01:12:56Enjoy your drink.
01:12:58Come on.
01:13:08I take it you...
01:13:09No.
01:13:10No news for you.
01:13:12Your millions of readers will have to postpone their entertainment.
01:13:16Those are bitter words.
01:13:17I don't use words carelessly.
01:13:18Mr. Hampton,
01:13:20you and your wife will have the sympathy of everyone who reads this story.
01:13:23The plain, honest compassion of three and a half million people
01:13:26who will understand your sorrow and share your suffering.
01:13:29You think people like their suffering made public?
01:13:31Some do, some don't.
01:13:33Personally, I can't understand the objection.
01:13:34Perhaps you've never lost a child.
01:13:36Lost both of mine when a liner going to America was torpedoed.
01:13:40Only time I ever made the front page in person.
01:13:46Sorry.
01:13:47Oh, there's no need to be.
01:13:49Tell Mrs. Hampton we all believe the boy will come through.
01:13:59You really think he's capable of flying a plane?
01:14:01Of course.
01:14:02I don't hold with aeroplanes myself, as you know.
01:14:04I think they're quite unnecessary and most unlikely.
01:14:07But I'm sure Icarus understands them perfectly.
01:14:09They belong to his generation.
01:14:11I hope you're right.
01:14:16Another piece of humble pie.
01:14:19Our pet newshounds turned out to be quite human.
01:14:23He hasn't heard from Vienna?
01:14:25No, not yet, darling.
01:14:27Why did Icarus do it?
01:14:29Do you know what I think?
01:14:31He was worried about you.
01:14:32He was worried about us.
01:14:35He was trying to bring John and me together.
01:14:38Of all the mawkish, sentimental, conceited ideas,
01:14:42what does it matter to Icarus what you and John make of your lives?
01:14:46Mother, I do think...
01:14:47He has his own life to make.
01:14:49And it's your privilege to watch him do it and to help him.
01:14:52He's not a goody little boy wanting to bring Mama and Papa together.
01:14:57Modern sentimentality.
01:14:59I think you might show a little more consideration for Stella's feelings.
01:15:03Stella's feelings?
01:15:05What about Icarus's feelings?
01:15:07I'll not have you say he died for anything so commonplace and revolting.
01:15:13If he died, he died in his own way.
01:15:17To fulfill his own purpose.
01:15:20I see.
01:15:22And how does Icarus know what the right idea is?
01:15:26Use your loaf, Mr. Deason.
01:15:28What do you think religion and philosophy has been playing at for the last few thousand years?
01:15:32Trying to find the right idea, I suppose.
01:15:35Find it?
01:15:37They found it so often that it looks and sounds half-dead each time they drag it up again.
01:15:41Unless you're a sort of magician.
01:15:43Like, um, Ike.
01:15:45Yep. Like Ike.
01:15:48And, um, anything more on religion and philosophy?
01:15:52No, he's finished with religion for the moment.
01:15:54More concerned with politics lately.
01:15:56He didn't like politicians.
01:15:58He said they spent their whole time hacking away at trees until they forgot there was a wood.
01:16:02Tell him what he thought about newspapers.
01:16:05Well, sir, he called them comics for grown-ups.
01:16:09Oh, really?
01:16:11I mean, the trouble was they took them seriously.
01:16:13Is this to be an obituary?
01:16:16Oh, no, I wouldn't say that. We must be patient.
01:16:19Well, we're all going up to the bonfire to wait.
01:16:21The bonfire's to let the other schools know that Ike's arrived.
01:16:24They've got bonfires, too.
01:16:26Track the Spanish almada.
01:16:28Come on, chaps.
01:16:35Okay, chaps.
01:16:37Everybody up to the top of the hill to wait for the signal.
01:16:44Oh, excuse me, sir.
01:16:46Hmm?
01:16:48I was thinking...
01:16:49Maybe Ike's parents would like to come up to the hill.
01:16:52Yes, I think they might, Daventry.
01:16:54I'll go and ask them.
01:17:00Hey!
01:17:02Come on, Skilly.
01:17:15About time, too.
01:17:17I'm frozen!
01:17:19Any news yet?
01:17:21Not yet. Everyone's up at the hill.
01:17:23Seems silly to wait much longer.
01:17:25We're going to wait until we get the signal. Understand?
01:17:29I'll keep your head of it.
01:17:49I'll keep your head of it.
01:18:20Mrs. Hamden.
01:18:22Daventry here has something he'd like to show you.
01:18:28Now that Ike is...
01:18:32Well, now that Ike is not able to go on with it,
01:18:36I'd like to ask you to leave.
01:18:38Leave?
01:18:40Yes.
01:18:42I'd like to ask you to leave.
01:18:44Leave?
01:18:46Yes.
01:18:47He's not able to go on with it.
01:18:49I thought he wouldn't mind if I showed you it.
01:18:53It's the thing he went with.
01:18:55A copy of it.
01:18:59A sort of petition.
01:19:05It's been folded up.
01:19:11You read it, L.W.
01:19:13Right.
01:19:18We,
01:19:21boys,
01:19:24of Ferndale School,
01:19:27do not wish to kill the children of any other school.
01:19:32If at 18 we ought to think it right to kill other men of 18,
01:19:37then why not at 16?
01:19:38Then why not at 16?
01:19:41Why not...
01:19:43at six?
01:19:46And if we feel it wrong at 16,
01:19:48how can it be otherwise two years later?
01:19:52No.
01:19:54When we grow up,
01:19:56we do not think we will consent to kill people
01:19:59who have been at some time children of other schools.
01:20:04Men cannot always see the truth.
01:20:06Men cannot always see the truths of a simple moral proposition.
01:20:12Perhaps it's for children
01:20:15to lead the way.
01:20:20Abonesto,
01:20:23Wirum,
01:20:25Bonum,
01:20:27Nihil,
01:20:29Deterit.
01:20:34That means
01:20:36nothing deters a good man from what is right.
01:20:41It's signed Icarus Hamden.
01:20:44Almost everyone signed it.
01:20:48Why Vienna?
01:20:51Well, that's where the four powers are all sort of close to each other.
01:20:55Could have been Berlin.
01:20:57Ike chose Vienna because it seemed harder to get to.
01:21:02Did he have to fly?
01:21:04Oh, yes.
01:21:06He showed people he wasn't a coward or a sissy.
01:21:09It wasn't against you, sir,
01:21:11but he thought your way was too slow.
01:21:14He said you had to do something smashing.
01:21:17Well, that does it.
01:21:19And there's nothing any of us can do
01:21:21that will stop this getting into all the newspapers in the world.
01:21:24Let me have it.
01:21:26You'll give it back.
01:21:28It's an Ike's handwriting.
01:21:30I'll give it back. It's gold-mounted and framed.
01:21:33I feel rather like a child who's been whipped.
01:21:36More in sorrow than in anger.
01:21:40I think any self-respecting child
01:21:42would prefer to be whipped in anger.
01:21:45Don't you, Padden?
01:21:47I'd rather not be whipped at all, sir.
01:21:50Mr. Hamden, I shall go to my grave with one regret,
01:21:53that I never met him.
01:21:55But we'll give him such a write-up
01:21:57that the whole world will know him.
01:21:59And perhaps it's just cock-eyed enough
01:22:01to see things for a moment
01:22:03with the vision of a child.
01:22:05Maybe he hasn't died for nothing.
01:22:07Who says he's died?
01:22:09I think you're very aggravating, all of you.
01:22:12I suppose it's only old people and young people
01:22:14who know what faith is and really practice it.
01:22:18You've lost it.
01:22:20Icarus has it.
01:22:22Max has it.
01:22:24Johnny has it.
01:22:26And so they take off to save the world
01:22:28with the simplicity of a saint.
01:22:30And you can't see that that's exactly
01:22:31what comes up fresh in each generation.
01:22:46Come on, chaps!
01:22:48The fire!
01:22:55He's there!
01:22:57He's there!
01:22:59You certain?
01:23:01We'll find the airfield and land it on a hill
01:23:03four miles outside Vienna.
01:23:05The patrol found him,
01:23:07and he's got a full-power escort into the city.
01:23:13I can see him!
01:23:15I can see him!
01:23:17He's there!
01:23:31He's there!
01:24:01He's there!
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