- 9 months ago
Serial womanizer Miles Longstreet is asked to vet a potential new employer for their security services, Eve Hanning. While her references and answers seem to hold up, Miles becomes convinced that she is not all she appears to be and decides to investigate her further. But as he has her put under surveillance, is he being paranoid or is she really hiding a secret? Or is it him that cannot be trusted?
Starring John Castle, Barbara Kellerman, Clifford Rose, Judy Buxton, Gwen Taylor, David Langton, Holly De Jong, Sylvia Kay, Janet Key, Clive Merrison, Anna Palk, Sayo Inaba and David Rose. This is from the anthology series Storyboard and was originally broadcast on TV on August 9th 1983. Featuring a cheery John Castle and an enigmatic Barbara Kellerman (she from The Lion, the Witch & The Wardrobe), this is one I thoroughly enjoyed and is helped by a variety of familiar faces in support. Tense, absorbing and one you are never sure exactly where it is going until about two thirds of the way in, you begin to wonder if it is her that cannot be trusted or John Castle's character. I loved it - and I suspect John Castle fans will for a number of reasons.
Starring John Castle, Barbara Kellerman, Clifford Rose, Judy Buxton, Gwen Taylor, David Langton, Holly De Jong, Sylvia Kay, Janet Key, Clive Merrison, Anna Palk, Sayo Inaba and David Rose. This is from the anthology series Storyboard and was originally broadcast on TV on August 9th 1983. Featuring a cheery John Castle and an enigmatic Barbara Kellerman (she from The Lion, the Witch & The Wardrobe), this is one I thoroughly enjoyed and is helped by a variety of familiar faces in support. Tense, absorbing and one you are never sure exactly where it is going until about two thirds of the way in, you begin to wonder if it is her that cannot be trusted or John Castle's character. I loved it - and I suspect John Castle fans will for a number of reasons.
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00:00.
00:05.
00:19.
00:51...out of town, commencing at 8 o'clock.
00:56There will be roadworks on Park Lane Merrow, that's in Guildford.
01:00One-way traffic...
01:01...by automatic signals, so there'll be a delay there.
01:04And at Westrom on the A25, curb-laying has started outside Valence School.
01:10There are no diversions...
01:12It's not really a lift, darling. It's a tuck.
01:16I dreamt that damn school dream again.
01:18No, wait a minute, not school.
01:19I was home on my holidays.
01:22The skin needs to be ever so slightly tucked.
01:25Tucked up here, here, and here.
01:29You couldn't really call it a facelift.
01:32I can remember every single day of every single holiday.
01:35Everything I did.
01:37Now I can't remember a football score from last Saturday.
01:40You have a phenomenal memory, darling.
01:42Most of your cells are dead by the time you're 50.
01:46A tuck wouldn't even cost more than 3,000.
01:49Dead or dying, millions of them every day.
01:52Dead as a doornail.
01:53Why just the neck?
01:55Tell me that.
01:56Oh, just a minute.
02:03It's for you.
02:09Yes.
02:09I need you in, uh, say 9.
02:13Okay?
02:14Okay.
02:15On eastern and south end, central Church Street, the 832.
02:18And I walk along the bridge this morning at 9.33.
02:21In the North Sea, winds are easterly light.
02:24In the channel, they're northeasterly light.
02:26In both sea areas, visibility is...
02:28After I know, there's a good regular service on all nine lines this morning.
02:32Also, the buses will stretch up a good turn.
02:34The 9.53s have a short diversion away from Crescent Grove, which is closed.
02:40Ken Corner, London Transport.
02:41Lunching with an air of flame?
02:43Probably.
02:44Why?
02:45The Givenchy owner comes out when you pay for the lunch, darling.
02:48My dear, you should be the security expert.
02:50From Muscat, British Airways, and Air Canada.
02:56No, you've got it arse over tit, Whitworth.
03:09Didn't you even look at those damned hotel bills?
03:13This department must have spent twice your annual salary to get hold of those photocopies.
03:17Never any extras on any of the bills.
03:20No coffee shop, no restaurant, no room service.
03:22The bugger didn't actually stay there, did he, Whitworth?
03:26Any fool would have deduced he checked in, said hello, and then turned up again three days later to pay his bill.
03:36For God's sake, Whitworth, what did you expect our friend to do?
03:39Leave hotel bills from East Berlin around for you to find?
03:43Get out.
03:47Goodbye, Mr. Chips.
03:50Lazy, slack, incompetent, indolent, and evasive to boot.
03:53You really would make a lovely headmaster, Mr. L.
03:57The think tank lady.
03:59We have a blank slate situation.
04:01The DAD's on his way for a consultation.
04:04Sure you don't mean eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation.
04:06I suppose you believe congenital idiots like Whitworth can be entrusted with security matters.
04:11No way.
04:12But okay, so he's a thickie, Mr. L.
04:14But I mean, it's hardly his fault he doesn't live it up in luxury hotels like some people that come to mind.
04:19He's not into that, is he?
04:22Well, that's the bottom line, let's face it.
04:24The bottom.
04:26You know, Mr. L., deep down you're a Tory.
04:30Let's face it, this place is full of them.
04:33The caring society is not for you.
04:36No, it is not.
04:37What's this think tank lady you're vetting?
04:45Eve Hanning.
04:46All the preliminary reports are negative, sir.
04:48Performed 300?
04:50Impeccable.
04:50First class honours degree in economics.
04:53Three years with the merchant bankers, Grain, Lomax, Cheapside.
04:55Now city editor on the Sunday Chronicle.
04:57Assistant city editor.
04:58Go on.
04:59Married, divorced, no file from MI5.
05:02Central registry?
05:03Zero, record unmarked.
05:04Not even a driving fine.
05:08Arrested for obstructing a police horse after an anti-Vietnam demonstration, July 1971, Trafalgar Square, five pounds.
05:15Hmm.
05:16When are you seeing her?
05:17Today, 11.30.
05:18I should be able to clear her by Friday.
05:21Oh, I don't think our friends upstairs will be very happy about that, Miles.
05:25Really?
05:25Really?
05:29Any point in asking why?
05:32Not really.
05:34Oh, hello.
05:39Sunday Chronicle.
05:41Mrs. Eve Hanning, please.
05:43Let's go.
06:13the Grand Inquisitor himself the same Miles Longstreet may I
06:32I was led to expect you cigarette not giving it up I smoke one now and again to
06:44show you can take it or leave it exactly you can't it seems one of my many vices
06:51alas there's nothing about vices on your form 300 mrs. honey among the 167
07:02questions on form 300 mr. Longstreet as I can recall there is not one pertaining
07:06to the applicants vices an eccentric commission I'll take up the matter with
07:11my superiors I should so this is positive vetting have you got a dossier on me yet
07:21of course big one voluminous I prefer to call it in through my private life with
07:27a fine-tooth comb so what do you know try me ah parlor games when did I get my
07:35o-levels you got eight o-levels when you were 15 at the Royal Oak School for
07:39Girls and how many times have I changed my address in the last four years not at
07:43all very good what do I vote that's your secret
07:46all you have to do is to check my polling ticket against my registered voting
07:50number still cannot try you've flirted briefly with the CND you've protested
07:56twice outside the Chilean embassy you will once find five pounds for molesting a
08:01police horse in Trafalgar Square as I recall the incident the horse molested me no
08:07matter and in what hollow tree in Kenwood am I in the habit of hiding
08:12microfilm for comrade Krausky of the KGB that form 300 fails to about say nor does it
08:18patch safe with my screw does it who screws you you mean Charlotte I stand
08:22corrected go on you were divorced 18 months ago after a four-year marriage
08:25one doesn't appear to have had the benefits of a live-in lover since I
08:29assume one plays the field really frankly I'm more interested in why such a
08:34brilliant economist should try so hard to work in an underpaid job in a section
08:38of the M.O.D. that has been expelled at the far reaches of outer Mongolia well I
08:43understand the pension is terrific and the competition mediocre and shelter miss
08:47hardly out of Mongolia and I do prefer it to Tranmere where I have an unmarried
08:52alcoholic aunt who requires visiting at Christmas time why the think tank look
08:58your people wanted me why don't you ask them you know it isn't really a think
09:02tank now you're trying to catch me out I know what I know and you know I know what
09:07I know and you have no moral reservations I'm a moralist I'm a
09:10specialist left-wing extremists sometimes manage to combine the two do they is that
09:16what experience has taught you mr. Longstreet and I'm sorry I have a lunch date
09:21and I'm already late that nice lady in the twin set that follows me about will no
09:25doubt inform you it's with my counterpart can we continue this interview some other
09:32time over dinner perhaps
10:02how are you doing
10:12good
10:14good
10:16good
10:20good
10:24good
10:26good
10:28good
10:30good
10:34yes go on
10:36no man about the house no regular boyfriend occasional cinema or concert with
10:41acquaintances never the theater no apparent set of friends doesn't drive
10:46doesn't drive never sees her ex-husband never dates people from the office
10:51A paradigm?
11:21A paradigm?
11:51Who calls at her flat?
11:57Daily cleaner. Sometimes at weekends, tennis partners.
12:01Mousy girls in jeans and anoraks.
12:21The view inоч commercian.
12:25Any time we're around the comparing USHA to the testosteronepresa?
12:29Disgradable.
12:33It is Salesforce.
12:38Your body is in safety.
12:45It is called the level of green.
13:19First bag?
13:25Nothing of an intimate nature.
13:27Junk mail, lawyer's missives.
13:30What about?
13:31Still arguing with her ex about value and contents of the flat.
13:35Also letters from relations and the states.
13:49Do we know who he is?
14:01Not so far.
14:05Let's find out.
14:06You sure you won't stay for coffee?
14:18Impossible.
14:20I really mean coffee.
14:21Stuart has his sports day.
14:23If Natalie's on holiday, I have to pick up the lab in school before.
14:26Three.
14:26Oh, God.
14:28Children.
14:28Children are all that matters.
14:30And children.
14:31All that brings contentment.
14:33I have seen you content.
14:35Not content.
14:37Happy.
14:39Oh, well.
14:41Shall we dance?
14:41May 24th, 25th, Cheltenham.
14:54Cheltenham.
14:56I love you dearly.
14:58And you can still make love marvelously when you take the trouble.
15:01But.
15:02But?
15:03But no.
15:04One has to draw the line somewhere.
15:06Can't for the life of me see what you've got against Cheltenham.
15:08Some girls love it.
15:11Now then.
15:13June 14th, 15th, Manchester.
15:17No, can't do.
15:18John's O levels.
15:19Oh, God.
15:20It's nothing till July 30th, 31st, Manchester again.
15:24Uh-uh.
15:24Holidays.
15:26Oh, well.
15:31How's George?
15:32Drinking too much.
15:34Sally?
15:36Facelift in the offing.
15:37Not snooze.
15:38She only needs a tug.
15:40Oh, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho.
15:43Anyone new on the horizon?
15:45No, no, not really.
15:47Which means yes, but you haven't got round to seducing her yet.
15:50One day, Miles, I shall open my daily mail and read frightful things about you.
15:55I shall be a terribly shock, and so will George.
15:59Don't worry.
16:01I take care.
16:02Meeting your mistresses in the open for lunch, taking care.
16:08I dare say my employers know all about you.
16:10It's always in the same place.
16:12But not always the same girl.
16:14You're hardly a girl.
16:16I can say that again.
16:19And you?
16:20Nothing.
16:22My dear, whatever became of men?
16:24What you turned them into, my dear?
16:27Nowadays they're either queer and kinky or furtive and married.
16:31You're married.
16:32I've never furtive.
16:35It used to be fun being the cheerfully sexy, discreet other woman.
16:40Now it's sheer bloody hell.
16:42You could always fall back on your husband, my love.
16:45It's unlike you to be coarse, Miles.
16:48No one seems doomed to the self-induced orgasm.
16:51All the best-selling new manuals recommend it as being better than the real thing.
16:55Indeed, they insist that it is the real thing.
16:58I ruined your appetite, my darling.
17:01My dear, you're not with me at all today.
17:05No.
17:06What?
17:07Um, it's a case.
17:09Complications.
17:11Don't worry.
17:12You know me.
17:12Never mix business and pleasure.
17:14It's more than my job is worth, I see.
17:17Yes.
17:21I see.
17:23So, when am I seeing you again?
17:26Well, I'll tell you.
17:28You're not.
17:30Sorry.
17:31No.
17:32It's not quite enough.
17:34Be thankful I'm letting you off lightly.
17:37Why, Angie?
17:39Don't deny it.
17:41You're relieved.
17:47Take very good care, my darling.
17:55And thank you.
17:59Nobody discovered any hobbies?
18:02Besides tennis and flat hunting?
18:05Pathetic.
18:07Three field classes on the job.
18:09I could do better.
18:10Well, what do you think?
18:12Oh, I'm only grade 5A.
18:14I'm not allowed to think.
18:15Crunch-wise, I don't get the feedback, do I?
18:19Have we got appointments with her referees?
18:22Working on it, aren't I?
18:23Sending Margo, are you?
18:24Sending me.
18:25I'll start with the headmistress.
18:27That's going back a bit, surely.
18:29Rule 41A.
18:31Not according to the computer.
18:34Oh, I see.
18:35We're into, like, an ongoing situation, are we?
18:39No.
18:42Hello?
18:43Royal Oak School?
18:43May I speak to your headmistress, please?
18:47Phyllis Moorhead.
18:54Better than puffing fags or drinking gin in bed, I'm told.
18:58So?
18:59Eve gave me as a reference, did she?
19:01You were her headmistress.
19:03Oh, no.
19:05Humble art teacher, then.
19:06But you still see her?
19:09Marginally.
19:09It's a very marginal relationship, Mr. Longstreet.
19:17Eve rings me when she can't get anybody else to go to a concert with her.
19:22Bartok Quartet Cycles.
19:24The old bag gets taken off the shelf and dusted when it's Bartok Quartets.
19:28Or unaccompanied bar.
19:31When it's Ricardo Mooty, I might as well be in Mesopotamia.
19:34Was she always mad about music?
19:37Well, she would be, wouldn't she?
19:38With that extraordinary talent.
19:40What talent?
19:41For numbers.
19:42Figures.
19:45Maths was music to her.
19:47Still is.
19:49Was she popular?
19:51Not especially, as I recall.
19:55Bit hoity-toity.
19:57Still is.
19:58I hope she'd do something more artistic.
20:02Architect.
20:03Designer.
20:04Inventor.
20:05Something of that kind.
20:07Instead, she goes and marries that photographer.
20:09Goon Peter Hanning.
20:11They're divorced, actually.
20:12Never should have gotten married, should they?
20:15Is that all?
20:17Thank you, Miss Moorhead.
20:17I think so.
20:19Oh.
20:20Did Eve ever discuss politics with you?
20:23Oh, endlessly.
20:24Very left-wing in the old days, Eve Crane.
20:27Then, weren't we all in 68?
20:30Oh, God.
20:32Have I dropped a brick?
20:33Why?
20:36Don't you all have to be well to the right of Attila the Hun, your line of business?
20:39It's not essential.
20:41But it helps, eh?
20:44Well, I don't mind telling you I was a dyed-in-the-wool Marxist myself in those days.
20:48Now I'm a counsellor for my sins.
20:51S.D.P.
20:52The way of the world, Miss Moorhead.
20:54In all those years you've known Eve, would you say she's changed at all?
20:59Rarely, Mr. Longstreet.
21:01Do any of us ever change?
21:03We just adjust, don't we?
21:06Anyway, why don't you ask her photographer?
21:08And that's Lady Penelope Carter French, almost another ex-wife.
21:21It's substance is what I was after, rather than surface.
21:24Oh, well.
21:25160 F8.
21:27You weren't on Mrs. Hanning's list of referees.
21:29I wonder why.
21:30You don't.
21:31You know perfectly well why.
21:32It was an unhappy marriage?
21:33No.
21:33Oh, not at all.
21:35Unhappy divorce.
21:36Yes.
21:37Besides, we went really suited to a state of wedded bliss.
21:41Mmm.
21:41You might well, Lou.
21:42I used two diffused floodlights on that one.
21:45Separate the plane.
21:47I see.
21:47What actually caused the breakup?
21:49Oh, irreconcilable emotional differences.
21:53Some sort of rubbish like that.
21:54And I'm sure you had access to court records, Mr. Longstreet.
21:58Nothing there.
21:59A very discreet divorce.
22:01Oh, yes.
22:01Eve's a very discreet lady.
22:03She's got good reason to be a poor thing, dear.
22:05No, thank you.
22:06Mrs. Hanning doesn't strike me as a poor thing at all.
22:08Not in any sense.
22:10Oh?
22:12Well, you're obviously taking her on face value, aren't you?
22:15Same mistake I made.
22:17Lay flat on my back for that one.
22:19One, two, fifty, F8 Pentax.
22:21I tell you, Eve's not a female Philby, if that's what's absorbing you.
22:28Mind you, I wouldn't put anything past her.
22:31Made you feel inadequate, did she, Mr. Hanning?
22:34Oh, totally.
22:35In every way.
22:37Ran rings round me.
22:39Led me a terrible dance.
22:45At the time of the divorce, was there another man?
22:50Oh, whoops.
22:51Yes, you really are barking at the wrong tree there, I'm afraid.
22:54Now, you see,
22:55see, I was the naughty boy, Mr. Longstreet.
22:59There's no doubt,
23:00there's no doubt she's told you
23:02in fulsome detail.
23:05She must have suspected your naughtiness
23:07when you got together, originally.
23:11Oh, she did, yes.
23:12Yes, she always knew I was a naughty boy.
23:14That's what she liked about me.
23:17Total availability.
23:18Now, that's what I've, I've tried to get across with this one.
23:22Balcar electronic flash,
23:24white umbrella next to camera.
23:29Now, you give me one good reason
23:31why I should help Eve.
23:34Or you, for that matter.
23:35Hmm?
23:36No?
23:36You see, despite appearances,
23:39I never gossip.
23:41Never.
23:43It's the secret of my success.
23:45I'll tell you, though, who might help you.
23:51That, uh,
23:53coal fish of a merchant banker
23:55she worked for
23:56before her
23:57Fleet Street days.
24:00Yes.
24:01Not quite the plummy
24:02Mr. Clean
24:03he pretends to be.
24:04I'm seeing him tomorrow morning.
24:06But why, my dear fellow?
24:33You're one of her referees, actually.
24:35Am I?
24:36Sounds like soccer.
24:38Not my game.
24:39Should I be flattered?
24:42The assumption is, I dare say,
24:44that you'll be happy to talk about her.
24:47Eve Hanning worked for you for three years.
24:49Eve worked with me
24:51as an analyst.
24:53Brilliant at her job.
24:54We were desolate to lose her.
24:57Can't think of anything else.
24:58Why did she leave you?
25:00Me?
25:00She left the bank,
25:02Mr. Longstreet.
25:02I wonder why.
25:03Wasn't she doing well?
25:05On the contrary,
25:06maybe she thought that
25:06Fleet Street would be more exciting.
25:08We're all a bit sedate here,
25:09I'm afraid.
25:10Are you?
25:11You mean she was keen
25:12to meet a different set of people?
25:13Possibly.
25:14I didn't really know her very well.
25:17Don't think Mrs. Hanning
25:18was all that interested in people,
25:19actually.
25:20Numbers were her game.
25:22Whiskey?
25:23No, thank you.
25:25She was after more money,
25:27is that it?
25:27Hardly.
25:28Financially,
25:29she'd have done very much better here
25:30than on Fleet Street.
25:32In the long run.
25:34Always in funds, was she?
25:36Oh, yes.
25:37Very liquid.
25:38Or so it seemed to me.
25:40A very stylish dresser.
25:43Perhaps she wanted to travel.
25:45Possibly.
25:46She did go abroad for us
25:48a few times.
25:50Madrid, Zurich,
25:51Vienna,
25:52Prague,
25:53Prague.
25:54Oh, yes, Prague.
25:5576, 77.
25:58But you must know that,
26:00Mr. Longstreet.
26:02Did she travel alone?
26:06I would have to look that up.
26:07Shouldn't bother.
26:08You went with her,
26:09Sir Robert,
26:09on our very occasion.
26:10On every occasion, surely.
26:11You always had separate rooms,
26:13separate double rooms,
26:13of course.
26:14The last occasion
26:15was the spring of 77.
26:17March 19th, 20th.
26:18What a mine of information you are,
26:20to be sure.
26:21That weekend,
26:22as indeed the year before,
26:23she saw a great deal
26:24of Dr. Charpek, I believe.
26:25Charpek?
26:26Charpek.
26:27Would I know him?
26:29Didn't he invent robots or something?
26:31Dr. Vaclav Charpek, Sir Robert.
26:35He was once attached
26:36to their state bank.
26:38We're interested in him.
26:39Well, I'm not.
26:41Sorry.
26:42Anyway, surely Eve and he
26:46would meet only socially.
26:48Oh, I'm quite sure they did.
26:50But how can you be sure?
26:54And since?
26:55Since she left the bank?
26:58Haven't clapped eyes on her since.
26:59One loses touch, alas,
27:01doesn't one?
27:01Then it wasn't you
27:02who picked up Mrs. Hanning
27:04at 6.15 last Wednesday
27:06outside the Guild Hall
27:07and gave her a lift home.
27:08You really mustn't try so hard
27:10to catch me out,
27:11Mr. Longstreet.
27:12Have I caught you out, Sir Robert?
27:14It's surely not very significant
27:16that you gave a former employee
27:18a lift in your car.
27:21Precisely.
27:22Only that you would wish to deny it.
27:25Well, the truth is,
27:26for what it's worth,
27:26I do give Mrs. Hanning
27:28a lift from time to time
27:29if I run into her.
27:30And you run into her
27:31about two or three times a week,
27:32don't you, Sir Robert?
27:33There's nothing in it,
27:34I do assure you.
27:36Nothing in it?
27:38Not anymore.
27:42Look here, I'm a married man,
27:45Mr. Longstreet.
27:47I'm more in the public eye
27:48than I care to be.
27:50We advise 10 Downing Street
27:51from time to time,
27:52did you know?
27:53Yes, I did know.
27:54What I would like to confirm
27:57is that you and Eve Hanning
27:58are so very much more
27:59intimately acquainted
28:00than you wish to let on,
28:02that you, in fact,
28:04were, and still are,
28:06in love with her,
28:07and she with you.
28:08You flatter me.
28:13Eve was never in love with me.
28:15Not remotely.
28:18No, she was,
28:20if you must know,
28:22the great adventure of my life.
28:26I would gladly have left home,
28:28wife, and children for
28:29if she had raised her little finger.
28:34Well, then, that's all theory,
28:35Mr. Longstreet.
28:36And you're not interested
28:37in theories?
28:40Why theories?
28:42It was not to be.
28:44No.
28:46I had to let her go.
28:47I had no choice.
28:51The mysteries of the heart,
28:52you know?
28:59He's waiting for you in there.
29:02The DAD?
29:03Crunchwise,
29:04that is the situation scenario.
29:06Any progress on the Hanning, woman?
29:20I'm being badgered by the Cheltenham people.
29:22I ought to be able to make my recommendation
29:24the day after tomorrow, sir.
29:25Ought?
29:26Ought.
29:27You don't sound sure,
29:28I'm glad to say.
29:29I'm not yet, sir.
29:31Anything in the Trap-Eck business?
29:33I'll let you know.
29:35Yes, I'm sure you will.
29:36The day after tomorrow.
29:38Oh!
29:39Did you wish to rest
29:40your weary limbs?
29:43Mustn't overdo it, you know.
29:44No, no, no, no.
29:46I'm sorry.
29:46I'm sorry.
29:47I'm sorry.
29:48I'll let you know.
29:48No, it's not too late.
29:49I'm sorry.
29:50No, it's not too late.
29:51I'm sorry.
29:54I'm sorry.
29:55You're right.
29:56I'm sorry.
29:57You're right.
29:57What time's a journalist coming, our third referee?
30:22He isn't.
30:23Why, is he ill?
30:24Died about three weeks ago.
30:26His wife is coming instead, the widow, on the way up now.
30:31Eve Hanning doesn't seem to have any friends.
30:35I'm a friend.
30:36And my ha...
30:38Aunt Donald was very close to her.
30:42He discovered Eve for the Sunday Chronicle, did he?
30:46Oh, that happened years ago.
30:48But they were good friends.
30:51Exactly how good?
30:52You mean, did they have an affair?
30:54The idea seems to amuse you.
30:56Well, you see, of all Donald's protégés, Eve was the only one who wouldn't.
31:01Didn't.
31:02How can you be so sure, Mrs. Garroway?
31:07Take it from an old hand, Mr. Longstreet.
31:10Good.
34:06From now until 1990.
34:08The theory that gold is about to start its third bull cycle is a dangerous system.
34:12Weren't we all through?
34:24I think we may be.
34:26You mean my ordeal is over?
34:28Before long.
34:29How long?
34:30You promised to have dinner with me.
34:32On the ministry, is it?
34:33On me.
34:35It better be good.
34:37Since by now you know everything about me.
34:39And you do, don't you?
34:41You must know I'm a food freak.
34:42Oh, don't tell me your investigators didn't spot my contributions in the good food guy.
34:48No, dammit, they didn't.
34:49Someone's for the high jump.
34:50You'd better believe it.
34:51You're probably quite frightening on your home ground, Mr. Longstreet.
34:59Do you want me to drive you home first?
35:01To wash and brush up, is that what you usually get your ladies to do?
35:04It is my custom, yes.
35:06Oh, dear.
35:08Well, I'm too ravenous, I'm afraid.
35:11You'll have to take me just as I am.
35:15Filthy.
35:19Well, it's not very far.
35:21We might as well walk.
35:22Is it Indian, Chinese?
35:24I'd like to keep that as a surprise.
35:27Something.
35:36I'd like to keep that as a surprise.
36:06What a lovely place.
36:11Is this where you usually conduct your business?
36:15I've never been here before in my life.
36:17My assistant's arranged it.
36:19She has taste.
36:29And what have we here?
36:31This is sashimi, raw fish, with a special sauce.
36:36And this is toriwasa.
36:41Chicken and vegetable marinated.
36:44Marinated?
36:46And this?
36:47It's horseradish.
36:48Is it?
36:49And this must be the famous umishu.
36:53If you please.
36:54You aren't by any chance an acknowledged expert on Japanese food, are you, Eve?
37:01We haven't failed again, have we?
37:03No, Miles.
37:04I'm an innocent large.
37:06We must ask for assistance.
37:07Very delightful assistance.
37:09Enchanting.
37:09What would you suggest to follow?
37:12In fact, why don't you take us in hand?
37:15I'm sorry.
37:16Give us what you think we'd enjoy.
37:19Perhaps tonchiri and sakana chili.
37:24What is that?
37:25Sliced pork, fresh vegetables, variety of fish, and many exotic ingredients.
37:33Exotic ingredients.
37:35Exotic ingredients?
37:38I can't wait.
37:46They certainly don't make them like that anymore.
37:49Not in the West.
37:50What are those?
38:05Yes, tell us exactly what we're eating.
38:07With pleasure.
38:08This is called tofu.
38:11And what is that?
38:12It's bean curd.
38:14And what are you called?
38:17Yokiko.
38:18And what does it mean?
38:19It has no special meaning.
38:22It's just a name.
38:24And a very beautiful one, if I may say.
38:39What are you actually looking for in your procedure?
38:43We have to guard against people who lie.
38:45You mean people who need to lie?
38:48May we smoke between courses?
38:50Yes, if you please.
38:51You must feel happy.
38:56So, we may never meet again after tonight.
38:59Even if I clear you, you'll still be vetted again in two years' time.
39:03By you?
39:05Would you mind?
39:06No.
39:07Well, I find these attentions most charming.
39:15I think she likes me.
39:16Yes, I think she's a good girl.
39:17Yes, I think she does.
39:20Would you say she's a good girl?
39:22No, I would not.
39:24Would you say I'm a good girl?
39:26I'd say you were hiding something.
39:27I'd say you were hiding something.
39:29Doesn't everybody.
39:30Don't you?
39:31Why didn't you tell me you were still seeing Sir Robert Grain?
39:34Did you ask me?
39:36Well, I'm asking you now.
39:38And I thought we were having dinner.
39:40Oh, how delicious.
39:41You did give him as a referee.
39:44I don't see Sir Robert Grain.
39:46Lifts home don't count.
39:47Nor did you tell me you were friendly with Václav Čapek.
39:51He's a Wagner buff.
39:53We met in Bayreuth in 1980.
39:54And in Prague, 1977.
39:56Did we?
39:58Well, that must have been the ICF Congress, Currency Futures.
40:02Actually, come to think of it, he reminds me of you.
40:08The trouble is, we're very concerned about Čapek.
40:10Are you indeed?
40:13Look.
40:15What do you think Čapek and I did together?
40:19Trade our national defence budget?
40:36Are you complete?
40:39Thanks to you, Yokiko.
40:41You're very kind.
40:43It's been my pleasure serving you.
40:45You're very charming.
40:46How long have you been working here?
40:48For two years.
40:50The owner is my uncle.
40:51And where are you from?
40:53Tokyo?
40:54Not quite Tokyo.
40:55A small place outside of Tokyo.
40:58Are you proposing to enrol Yokiko in your ministry too?
41:02I wish I could.
41:04Do you work here every day?
41:07No, we close on Sundays.
41:09And is Sunday your favourite day?
41:12It depends on what I do on Sunday.
41:17Doesn't it?
41:22And are you head hunting for a currency expert?
41:25Someone in yens?
41:27Not all people who interest me are currency experts.
41:30But she does interest you.
41:32No more or less than she does you, Miles.
41:36I'd like to take you home.
41:40What?
41:40No dessert?
41:41I think our pretty friend indicated there was only mandarin salad or orange salad.
41:45And you want neither?
41:47Mandarin or orange salads are not among the most pressing of my needs at the moment.
41:51You are thinking of conducting further investigations in my flat?
41:57Inscrutable, you oriental security officers.
42:00We'll never know what's on your mind.
42:02You will never know what's on your mind.
42:05Shall we have more tea?
42:07Or coffee?
42:09Or the apricot liqueur?
42:11which do you think is best i prefer tea myself but one must never be afraid of trying something new
42:24it makes no sense to me no what do you have no no partner but there's no man in your life
42:48men run away from me sooner or later why i thought you'd tell me after you'd found out
42:54a bit tipsy by the way do you always flirt with others when you take a girl out always don't you
43:08doesn't necessarily work no marks for game playing not for playing your game sleeping around wait a
43:15minute why do you like it you're proud of it anyway i recognize the stance i used to do a lot of it
43:20myself as well you know i don't know did no one talk you are inefficient i was once the past mistress of
43:32the one night stand was what changed you your wife she played tit for tat no you hope i know think that's
43:40fair of course not but i'll drink to it why didn't you give your ex-husband as a referee
43:55if our positions were reversed would you have given your ex-wives she wouldn't be my ex-wife our union is
44:00indissoluble oh is it i hate this place why because it reminds me of the very soluble mr hanning
44:16is that why you're trying so hard to find somewhere else to live i want something that's mine
44:20will you come and visit me again when i've moved you know eve hanning you're quite the worst tease
44:30since i tried my luck with a danish law student in the back of a princess in 59 but it's you who's
44:36holding back because i know and you know i know oh interesting what you're waiting for one false move
44:45on my part and then what will i do nothing that's the point am i right you should have taken your kiko
44:55home then shouldn't you why because unlike me she's probably both submissive and proficient
45:05how can you tell because i can imagine her being submissive and proficient
45:11and without clothes on yes i noticed your interest i thought you were admiring her dress sense
45:21if your boss i assume you have one were to see you now would you be fired probably
45:25you're taking great risks why i must consider them worth it sorry they're not
45:34and if i think they are
45:41and if i think they are
45:53talk me through it through what
45:58with you kiko
46:01you and her pretend you're her yes
46:04yes tell me what it's like describe it imagine it describe her moving about in your arms
46:13in my arms you and her
46:15and then do anything anything you like
46:39oh
46:52oh thank you
46:53Oh, God, thank you, Miles.
47:08This is when I'd give anything for a cigarette.
47:23Can we still be friends?
47:53No. I don't suppose so.
48:10You're quite a nice man.
48:14A womanising bastard. I suppose I knew that.
48:21And, of course, you couldn't begin to understand.
48:25Believe me, it's not an easy life.
48:31Nice moments.
48:35A few nice moments.
48:40Like one or two with your Kiko tonight.
48:46It's all still taboo, of course, unless it's turned into pornography or politics.
48:51Hate all that. Can't stand Stickley labels.
48:54I can't stand most lesbians come to that.
48:58They're all so dogmatic about men, for instance.
49:04And, actually, I rather like men.
49:12Ripe, cuddly ones like you.
49:20And Dr. Charlemagne.
49:24To name it a few.
49:26Poor Miles.
49:40You need that more than me now, don't you?
49:56You need that more than a few minutes.
49:58You want to make the last four and a few minutes in my mind?
50:00That wasn't the last five minutes.
50:02You can't wait until you see each other, just for sure.
50:04I'll try again to get the last four minutes.
50:06What's the last six minutes in my mind?
50:08Let's do the last five minutes.
50:10Okay.
50:11I'm gonna wait until you see the last, four minutes in my mind.
50:15Okay.
50:16Well, Miles, what do we think?
50:33I certainly couldn't recommend clearance.
50:37Oh, that Charpeck inquiry clearly embarrassed her.
50:41As to the business in Trafalgar Square...
50:43Do sit down, Miles, and sign that.
50:45Will you?
50:53But this is Mrs. Hanning's security clearance.
50:56Yes, they seem to have changed their minds.
50:59Obstant buggers upstairs.
51:01What's more, they want someone else there, too, in Cheltenham.
51:07It needs someone with a delicate touch.
51:10Oh? Who?
51:13You.
51:15I walk at London Bridge, this morning it's 9.3.
51:18In the North Sea, winds are easterly light.
51:22In Cheltenham, they're northeasterly light.
51:24In both sea areas, visibility is...
51:25How about going out to dinner tonight?
51:27Why? Has somebody let you down?
51:30One of those Japanese places, I thought.
51:33They cost the earth, I'm told.
51:35A sort of treat.
51:37You see, I'm going to be away for a while.
51:38Well, Bahamas, is it?
51:40And you're getting touchy.
51:42Not at all.
51:44Actually, it's...
51:45Cheltenham.
51:46Your license numbers, HGF 6500.
51:49Go in.
51:50Just by 8580.
51:52You're listening to...
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