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00:00So, can you use a gun?
00:23I prefer fists. Who will I be fighting?
00:27Our enemies. Have you ever been to prison?
00:32Why'd you ask?
00:34The terms you're willing to take.
00:36What did you do?
00:39A pal saw something in a shop window they wanted.
00:43So I drove into it.
00:45It's called a smash and grab.
00:46Yes, I know. I do read the papers.
00:48It says here you've recently worked for a film actor.
00:52Yes.
00:53As his bodyguard?
00:55Amongst other things.
00:57But before that, in this bookshop.
01:06Why did you leave there?
01:09I didn't care for him.
01:11And you're happy with this arrangement?
01:14A book has his life. I have mine. It works.
01:17I'm amazed more people don't do it.
01:21I knew him.
01:23Your father. I knew him before the war.
01:26You knew him?
01:32Jack?
01:34Ah, this is...
01:36I can't... I can't...
01:38Jack, where are you going?
01:40But your previous employer trusted you?
01:46Yes.
01:47Despite your history?
01:49Because of it.
01:50Perhaps.
01:54And should we trust you?
02:00Well, I suppose you'll find out...
02:02when the next assassin comes.
02:20Laura.
02:22I never did it.
02:23Never did what?
02:24Made shillings out of ice and put them in the meter.
02:28What's all this corrosion, then?
02:31That's rust.
02:33Yes, it is.
02:35Cold, isn't it?
02:40We could burn a few.
02:41No, we couldn't.
02:42Not even the Georgette Hayes?
02:43No.
02:44Really, Nora.
02:45For someone so new to the pleasures of reading, you're fast becoming a terrible snob.
03:01What is it?
03:05Feels quiet without him.
03:11God bless the waltz again.
03:23And all who sail in her.
03:26Oh, God.
03:27Jesus.
03:28Oh, bloody hell.
03:31Do forgive me, my dear.
03:32I seem to be in a state of advanced repression.
03:35Oh, I have noticed, Victor.
03:36Just stay there.
03:37I'll fetch a cloth.
03:41Okay.
03:44Secret, sir.
03:45Dunhill or capsule.
03:50Sir?
03:53Can we talk?
03:55Thank you, sir.
04:06Here.
04:07It's for him.
04:08Oh.
04:21Please enjoy.
04:24Not enough lemon juice.
04:26Too much ice.
04:27And I did not like the way you shook it.
04:31Too violent.
04:32Mm-hmm.
04:33Mm-hmm.
04:34Of course.
04:35Excuse me.
04:39You think I'm too violent.
04:42It's a violent art.
04:46Good thing I didn't waste any gin on them, then.
04:48You're a quick learner.
04:49I'm glad you've fallen on your feet.
05:03I had no idea you'd be here.
05:05We haven't seen you in weeks.
05:07How are you?
05:08Look.
05:09I haven't got long.
05:10What...
05:11What do you want?
05:13Oh, Jack.
05:15This is silly.
05:17We miss you.
05:18We both hoped you'd found a safe birth in Archangel Lane.
05:21At home.
05:23Book at me.
05:25Well, our arrangement is unusual, I know.
05:27But as I said to you, when we first met...
05:29Love is where it falls.
05:30Hmm.
05:33And how does my father fit into all of that?
05:36Yeah.
05:38One of Mr. Book's little dalliances, was he?
05:40Well, Book needs to talk to you about your father properly.
05:43Look, our marriage protects us both.
05:46Don't we have the right to be happy?
05:47Happy?
05:49We're gallivanting off into the night.
05:51In with God knows who and you.
05:54Is that the latest, is it?
05:55That little moustache?
05:57He's Captain Ornion before the war.
05:59Oh.
06:00Dreamboat of the officer's mess, was he?
06:01Hmm.
06:02Something like that.
06:04Listing slightly now, don't I?
06:06Not in!
06:08You don't half pick him.
06:11Mrs. Pug.
06:13Well, we better not keep him waiting.
06:15Excuse me.
06:16Oh, come to my room and help me dry off.
06:29I'm wet, woman.
06:30Give me the damp cloth.
06:32Come on.
06:33Give me hands off me.
06:35I won't have it.
06:36For shame.
06:37Oh, dear sir.
06:38Oh, you've had a right mishap.
06:40Who's this?
06:41Wet trousers are against the dress code, you know?
06:43Mr. Walsingham.
06:44So, why don't you go back to your room, take the wet pants off and have a little lay down?
06:49I have never been so insulted.
06:51I'm sure you have been.
06:52A fellow like you.
06:53Ah, Victor Ornge.
06:54My old friend.
06:55I can't leave you alone for five minutes, can I?
06:58That a girl can't take a joke.
07:00Sit down.
07:01Er, can we have a couple of those?
07:03What do you call them?
07:05Four serum sours.
07:06For the two ladies.
07:07For their royal highnesses, you mean?
07:09These are on me, ladies.
07:12And may I say, you are looking superbly Balkan tonight.
07:16I salute the house of Scutari.
07:20Whichever commissar lives in it now.
07:22Take a good look, Trotty.
07:24That's what happens to you when you get dethroned by the Reds.
07:28Oh, dear.
07:30Allow me.
07:32So embarrassing.
07:33I do apologize.
07:34Not at all, not at all.
07:36Look after the pennies.
07:38And the pounds will look after themselves.
07:40What?
07:48I, er...
07:49Had a bit of luck on the horses.
07:52You, er...
07:53You know Ascot?
07:55Very well, sir.
07:57How's the going?
07:58Oh, er...
08:00Good to firm.
08:03After this, shall we, er...
08:06Hmm.
08:07Normally my favorite ellipsis, but I just think we should call it a night now, Victor.
08:11Oh, Trotty.
08:13You're no fun anymore.
08:15It's amazing how different things can look without the benefit of the blackout.
08:21Here's to Joe Stalin's next stroke.
08:24Tinkety-tonk.
08:25Tinkety-tonk.
08:35Victor!
08:38Tink!
08:40Tinkety-tonk.
08:41Oh, my God.
09:11Oh, my God.
09:41Oh, my God.
10:10A shilling.
10:11Ah.
10:12That's better.
10:15Remind me, what's the price of a green penguin crime novel?
10:22A show.
10:24Ah.
10:26That's better.
10:36Ah, success.
10:45Oh, it's you. You ready to commit her for Amos?
11:07No, Sergeant. She was just, um, rousing. I hate to seem inquisitive, but why are you here?
11:12There's a chap being killed at the walls in them. Poisoned.
11:15Dead in a pile of pound notes on the floor of the river bath.
11:18Oh, that's just our sort of thing.
11:20Don't get too excited. The inspector wants a book.
11:23A G-book. That's quiet.
11:25There's some foreign royalty involved, it seems.
11:28He says, uh, do you have anything on the Balkan rules of revenge?
11:33Specifically, the canon of Scutari.
11:37How too, too ridiculously obscure.
11:40Do you have it?
11:41Almost certainly.
11:42Mmm.
11:43And, uh, 504, he says.
11:46504.
11:47Room with a view. Well, it's alright for some, I suppose.
11:50Mrs. Book's already checked in.
11:52Where?
11:53Oh, uh, she's one of the suspects.
11:56Trouble in paradise.
11:57Is it so?
12:01Uh-oh.
12:02Uh-oh.
12:03Uh-oh.
12:05Oh, uh-oh.
12:06Oh, what a beauty.
12:32Yes, might be one of those clues.
12:34We like those.
12:36Do you mind?
12:37Yes.
12:40Do people really say, what's your poison when they're at the bar?
12:44No idea.
12:45I don't get out much.
12:46What do you mean?
12:47Look, we're at the Walsingham.
12:49So's he.
12:51Oh, yeah.
12:52Let's get him somewhere more prior.
12:54Look.
13:05Not the main entrance, please, Inspector.
13:11I'm sorry we can't be more discreet.
13:13May I suggest the service corridor?
13:15Oh, yes.
13:16Yes.
13:17Thank you, Mr. Kind.
13:18Nothing to stop by reopening the bar tomorrow, I think.
13:38Good evening, sir.
13:50Evening.
13:51You have a reservation?
13:52No, my wife.
13:54Your wife?
13:56This is Brooke.
13:56Have you seen her?
13:57I'm afraid she may be distressed.
13:59No, Brooke.
14:00Oh.
14:005-0-4, Freddie.
14:02No, I'll keep this one.
14:05What's happened, darling?
14:06What's this about a corpse?
14:07Why have I been scouring my stacks?
14:09It looks like a Vulcan blood feud.
14:11I'm not proud of myself.
14:14There was champagne.
14:15A date that raised it has ridden me re in the 2.30.
14:19Cocktails.
14:19More cocktails than men.
14:22Trotty.
14:23We live our own lives.
14:25That was always the deal.
14:26Self-flagellation is never helpful.
14:28Not nearly as much fun as someone doing it to you.
14:31Who was he?
14:33Victor.
14:34Or.
14:35Or.
14:36With two R's.
14:37Naval captain, married.
14:38I'd met him before.
14:39An air raid.
14:4041.
14:42He, uh, made a pass at me in...
14:45In...
14:45Where?
14:46Please don't make me say the F word.
14:49Foils.
14:50Yes.
14:51Oh, Trotty.
14:52I just fancied a good time.
14:55Well, there's nothing wrong with that.
14:56He turned out to be the most awful bore.
14:58Where is he now?
14:59In the morgue.
15:01Oh.
15:02One last night on the tiles.
15:04And there's something else.
15:06Look.
15:07Thank God you're here.
15:08You ready?
15:09For what?
15:09To interview royalty.
15:11It's a little irregular, isn't it?
15:13I don't care.
15:14They terrify me.
15:14I'm not going in there alone.
15:16Haven't you taken their fingerprints?
15:18I've not got Morris to do that.
15:19I may be a coward, but I'm not a fool.
15:21I have our primary text.
15:24The Canoon of Scutari.
15:25Oh, no, no, no, no.
15:26Looks expensive.
15:27Will it pay for our suite, Inspector?
15:29Oh, the late Captain had taken care of that, Mrs. Booth.
15:33You're in the room next to the princesses.
15:35Oh, what are they like?
15:36Oh, they're glamorous in a sort of disappointed and stateless kind of way.
15:41Perhaps it's time I kept a closer eye on them.
15:43And an ear, too.
15:44I should use one of those little glasses they keep by the sink.
15:47So, will this help us find he'd done it?
16:00It's a book of customary laws for remote mountain communities without a magistrate or justice.
16:05The village elders consult the text and then tell you how much reiki to provide for your daughter's wedding,
16:11what to do if your bees escape and build a nest on your labor's land, that sort of thing.
16:15And who you're allowed to kill if somebody kills your cousin.
16:25Well, what language did you think it was going to be in?
16:28Well, we have three native speakers on the premises, but they're all suspects.
16:31Who's the third?
16:32Oh, he's a rather good-looking cocktail waiter.
16:35Well, don't fret too much.
16:37The dutiful Teutonic scholar did publish a translation of it in the German.
16:40Oh, well, you certainly speak the German.
16:42In his sleep sometimes.
16:44So, where is this translation?
16:46Nora's looking for it now.
16:47It must be somewhere in the law section or social science or etiquette or propping open the door.
16:53You said there was something else.
16:55Yes.
16:55These princesses have been given gainful employment to one of the capitals dispossessed.
17:01Oh, yes.
17:03I know.
17:04Oh.
17:04And there he is.
17:14I'll turn down the bedspread.
17:16Sergeant Morris will be along soon to take a statement.
17:19Yes, of course.
17:19I'd be grateful, Mrs. Book, if you didn't leave the hotel.
17:23It's perfectly all right, Inspector.
17:25You have to do your duty.
17:26I'm here to see their royal highnesses.
17:36I'm here to see their royal highnesses.
17:38Oh, dog.
17:48Where is it?
17:51Green.
17:52Straight grained.
17:53Morocco-bound folio.
17:55With a lot of academic monographs bound inside.
17:58Slightly foxed, according to the catalogue.
18:04You're no help.
18:18They're coming, they're scutari.
18:22Oh, what would I do without you?
18:25Oh, Lord.
18:48What am I doing?
18:53What am I doing?
18:54Time for a little chat, Mrs. Book.
19:11Poof.
19:14I beg your pardon?
19:16I apologize for it.
19:19That we have sang so low.
19:22Remember the great banqueting table, Ruhia, hmm?
19:25Chairs made with bridge.
19:27As silvery as the snow on the mountaintops.
19:30Upholstered with dumb masks of soil.
19:33We've been in more awkward situations than this, haven't we, Inspector?
19:36That we have book.
19:37So, which is the policeman? You or this book?
19:41He's taking notes for me.
19:43Helping with the pitman's shorthand. So useful.
19:47Tall and red-headed.
19:49Like the poppies of our homeland.
19:53I realize that this will be very difficult for you, Your Royal Highnesses.
19:58But if there's any detail you can recall, however small, it may help us discover who killed Captain Orr.
20:04That is easy. I killed him.
20:06He did what?
20:10It is true. I switched the glasses. He drank the poison meant for one of us.
20:15We have a routine, my sister and I, to cause a distraction.
20:19I salute the house of Scutari.
20:22Whichever commissar lives in there now.
20:24Take a good luck, Trussie.
20:25That's what happens to you if you get dethroned by the Reds.
20:28Oh!
20:29Oh dear.
20:30It's so embarrassing. I do apologize.
20:33Not at all, not at all.
20:35Look after the pennies, and the pounds will look after themselves. What?
20:38It is a habit. A necessary precaution. Like this.
20:45This was the third attempt on our life since we left New York.
20:49There was a steward on the Berengaria.
20:51Can I turn over your room, Madame? So transparent.
20:55And that Salvation Army woman outside the Opera, shaking her tin box.
21:00She denied everything, of course.
21:02Who do you think is trying to kill you?
21:04The communists, of course.
21:06Opera?
21:07But they already have your palaces, your estates.
21:10Our summer house on the Adriatic.
21:13There is a lake there.
21:15When the rising sun touches it, it is like the blush.
21:19In the spring, our country was proclaimed a people's republic.
21:22They want...
21:23What's the expression?
21:25A big finish.
21:28Hence the bodyguard.
21:29And how are you finding him?
21:32As he failed to prevent an attempt on our lives,
21:34I would say he has not covered himself in glory.
21:38Don't the communists also have your other sister?
21:41We do not speak of her.
21:42Senille, yes, the youngest. She renounced her title.
21:45We do not speak of her. Red scum.
21:48She betrayed her birthright, her country, her family.
21:55Take it.
21:57Of course, if this does turn out to be the case,
22:01then your switching of the drinks will not be without consequence.
22:04We are used to being pilloried.
22:06We will take whatever comes to us.
22:08Right.
22:10Now then, in your statement,
22:12you said something about this murder being written about
22:14in the Canoon of Scutari.
22:17What does that mean?
22:18It means that a killing like this follows certain customary principles.
22:22It means the first thing you must do is arrest that cocktail waiter.
22:26Ismael Guzili.
22:28Guzili.
22:29Guzili.
22:30Guzili.
22:31Guzili.
22:32Why?
22:33He is from the mountains.
22:34These people know the rules of revenge.
22:35They are obsessed with them.
22:36You must arrest him.
22:37You must arrest him.
22:38And you must bring in any others on the staff.
22:41Of a mountain men?
22:43Yes.
22:44Yes.
22:48Well, thank you so much.
22:50This has been most helpful.
22:51So you will do as we say?
22:53No, I will not.
22:54Why?
22:55Because, Princess, I am not your subject.
22:58And in this country a man is innocent until proven guilty.
23:01Whatever altitude he was born at.
23:11Sometimes, Inspector, you make me proud to be from the gutter.
23:17I never really thought of myself as a Republican.
23:19You ever come here during the Blitz?
23:20I had to let you in if there was a raid on.
23:21Even without a tie.
23:22We used to come down to the lower bar.
23:23It's known as the Fruit Cellar.
23:24That was quite the mixed grill.
23:49You did nothing.
23:50You're supposed to be my boyfriend.
23:51And you did nothing.
23:52E.T., what do you expect me to do?
23:53Nothing.
23:54Is he the one from this morning?
24:15see what do you expect me to do?
24:17me to do? Nothing. Was he the one from this morning? Yeah. Came at me in a silk dressing
24:27gown with everything pointed north. His name is Captain Victor Orr? Not anymore. They already
24:34gave me a warning. What? Yeah, apparently shouting at lecherous customers isn't the
24:40Walsingham way. I'll speak to Mr. Kind. It was Mr. Kind who gave me the warning. One
24:47more black mark on him out of my arse. I hate this place. You know, I was doing okay
24:54here. At least I thought I was. What's the bloody point? Yeah, I'm sorry. You know, my dad
25:04was right about you, Ismael. And I should have listened to him. Leave me alone. What?
25:10Oh, my God.
25:17Oh, my God.
25:25Careful, officer. My friend borrows his jazz mags from the maitre d'. You can't shock
25:43me, sir. I've been to the windmill theatre and seen those gents with the newspapers on
25:46their laps and brought a few into the station. Been jazzing with this one, sir? Oh, no, that
26:05lot put me right off. Oh, you hate your royal family, do you? They're not my royal family.
26:08They've been nobody in royal family since 1940. Ever since they left us with that chap. Hey,
26:13Marco, what was his name? Mussolini, mate. I knew you'd know, mate. Right, oh, sir. Confiscating
26:21this is evidence. You enjoy this, don't you? It's just work, sir. Keep your temper, eh?
26:30I suppose I usually take all that aggression out on the ice cubes.
26:57Look for Mr. Book. Who? It's the Canoom of Scutari. It's Albania.
27:13Mrs. Book's out of the picture. You can't be certain of that, sir. I've read a statement
27:17and I'm satisfied it's nothing to do with her. But, sir. I'm satisfied, Maurice. Clear.
27:24So, you think it was one of us? I don't think anything yet. Signor Barberini?
27:35Okay, well, I've narrowed it down to two. A royal member of the House of Scutari. Nafia or Ruhia?
27:42Right-o. Method? Poison. Something slipped into the cocktail glass after he tried it on with Edie Rattle.
27:50That's the chambermaid, yes? So where was she when Captain Orr coughed his last?
27:54Gone already. Motive? You think of any reason why anyone would want to kill Captain Victor Orr?
27:59Are you kidding? Ed Captain was always here with different women. Usually in the same room. 504.
28:06Really? Mm-hmm. City view. Noiseless bed springs. Duchess raid for favoured patrons.
28:13And Ed Captain has been coming here for years. Usually once a week.
28:16With House Quake? You're very well informed.
28:19No secrets at the Walsingham, sir. We see all the dirty there. Because we have to clean it.
28:24Some might say, Mr. Ghazili, that it's the duty of a Grand Hotel to make sure that the private life of a guest remains private.
28:32And some might say, Inspector, that in a Grand Hotel people are usually at it like cod in a bucket.
28:38So it's a crime of passion then? No. I reckon the Captain was something in intelligence. During the war.
28:46How do you know that? They're a type. Friendly, but tell you nothing. With a drink, they'll always have what the other person's having.
28:56So why would the princesses want to kill a British spy?
29:00Because British intelligence handed over Scutari to the communist partisans. And the Captain recognized the princesses.
29:07Princesses.
29:12Who are they? Should I know them?
29:17Balkans.
29:18Same to you.
29:19Ooh.
29:21Nafia and Ruhia.
29:25Princesses of the Royal House of Scutari.
29:28Proposed by the communists and now drifting around the world like Flotsam.
29:34Flotsam.
29:35Very glamorous Flotsam.
29:37Wasn't there a scandal? They did a flit and the bullion from the National Bank somehow found its way into their hatboxes.
29:46Something of the sort.
29:49And?
29:51They're drifting our way. Or your way, to be precise.
29:56Oh, I see. In the market for a set of dictionaries, aren't they?
29:59They're staying at the Walsingen, just down the road from you.
30:03And, uh, there have been letters.
30:08Threats. Vicious ones.
30:11You should speak to the post office then.
30:14We'd be ever so grateful if you just kept an eye on them.
30:21I told you.
30:24You're just a bookseller.
30:26And I told-
30:30I reminded you that we helped find young Jack.
30:37It wasn't easy, you know.
30:50Oh, it's you.
31:01It's me.
31:03Tire for, you know.
31:05Oh, don't mention it.
31:10So, does that happen a lot then, does it?
31:14Comes with a job, doesn't it?
31:16Can I do you now, sir?
31:21I wouldn't have killed him for it, though.
31:23Somebody did.
31:25Yeah.
31:27So, which side are you on?
31:31Sorry?
31:33Which side are you on?
31:35Well, what are the options?
31:37Well, there's the management in this hotel who treat their staff like muck
31:41and give a girl a mouthful just for standing up for herself.
31:46Right.
31:48Then there's the workers.
31:49Okay, well, the workers then.
31:52Nice to hear your expression of solidarity, brother.
31:54But it's deeds, not words that count.
31:57Don't you think?
31:59Right.
32:01So, why don't you go down there to that taxi stand?
32:04Get me a nice cup of Bovril.
32:05I can't.
32:09Maybe later.
32:11I've just got to get back.
32:13To their royal bloody highnesses.
32:15Afraid so.
32:18How does it feel?
32:20Working for those parasites?
32:24Is that what they are?
32:26Well, what would you call them?
32:30Sad.
32:31I suppose.
32:33Yeah.
32:34A bit sad.
32:36Well.
32:38Speaking for myself.
32:40I'd line them up.
32:42Shoot the boogers.
33:01I could say a proper hello to you now, Edmundkind.
33:19Good evening.
33:21More than kind, I used to say.
33:24Well, that's too kind.
33:26They closed it, you know, the lower bar.
33:28The fruit cellar.
33:30Oh.
33:31What a shame.
33:32Yes, for redecoration.
33:34Though when the work will actually start, I don't know.
33:37Seems they prefer it mothballed, the management.
33:39You mean it's all still there?
33:40The mural and everything.
33:41Oh, yes.
33:43Well, you could take a look.
33:45If you'd like.
33:47Uh, I should really be getting back upstairs.
33:50Of course.
33:54I suppose a...
33:56A little peep wouldn't hurt.
34:05Well, the question is...
34:08Well, the lights work.
34:09I don't remember there being any.
34:11You never turn them off.
34:13Black-eyed, I suppose.
34:14No, no, they were just terribly unfluttering.
34:15Yes, you're right.
34:18Let's turn them off.
34:20Just a soup song.
34:26These walls could talk.
34:27Kim Strang is dead.
34:43Did you hear?
34:44Kim Strang.
34:46He used to keep his Max Factor in a gas mask box.
34:50Well, he'd been in Egypt, hadn't he?
34:53Had to keep that tan up.
34:55What happened to him?
34:56He walked into the sea at shore, I'm sorry to say.
35:00Somebody had his letters.
35:02Dreadful, really.
35:04Dreadful.
35:06And you're very married, I see.
35:09Very, very married.
35:10Congratulations.
35:12And thanks for your help with the, um, other matter.
35:14Not at all.
35:15What does Jack know?
35:17That my wife and I have an arrangement,
35:19as I knew his late father.
35:21Nothing more.
35:22He found that difficult enough to take.
35:24Ran out on us that very night.
35:25Hmm.
35:26Floated here.
35:27Where he is gainfully employed, thanks to you.
35:30And able to keep an eye on the other bodies floating around the regal scutari ones.
35:36Why do you need to keep an eye on those?
35:38It's possible they were the intended victims.
35:40Not the captain.
35:42It's a working hypothesis.
35:43Are you with the police now, Gabriel?
35:45You always were a dark horse.
35:48It makes up a substantial part of my charm.
35:50Christ, isn't that dangerous?
35:52I mean, one false step.
35:54I'm all too well aware of that, Edmund.
35:57Although I do have a special letter from Churchill.
36:02Still, you probably shouldn't be found in a dimly lit basement bar with...
36:06With a terribly handsome old friend.
36:08No, perhaps not.
36:12Double the grid.
36:13And the wall cinema isn't connected to the grid.
36:15It has its own oil-powered generators.
36:18They bring it in by the barrel.
36:19Everything depends on it.
36:20Even the plumbing.
36:21And what's a grand hotel without power and hot running water?
36:24Well, I suppose it's just a big building full of people who were rather cold and rather hungry.
36:31And very, very rich.
36:35I should get back.
36:40Me too.
36:54No big surprises on the poison front, Inspector.
37:11The deadly glass contains boring old hydrochloric acid.
37:14It can't all be virtue I say.
37:17Virtue I see.
37:19No, the thumbprint.
37:20Enough for an arrest.
37:21Enough for a hanging, maybe.
37:33Okay, thank you.
37:34Hi.
37:36Where's Edie Randall?
37:38Oh, um...
37:39I'll check.
37:42Very good, sir.
37:51Did the blessed sergeant get everything he required from you, dear?
37:58Well, I took him through it in exhausting detail.
38:02Where did you get to?
38:03I've been talking to the staff.
38:04Oh, yes.
38:05Very nice of you.
38:06The ones who served you cocktails tonight.
38:08Well, it was really only the younger one.
38:10Guzzili.
38:11If you say so.
38:12Apparently, he poured a whole round down the sink.
38:15Ice and fruit and all.
38:18Could he have tampered with the second round?
38:20Yes.
38:21Nobody was looking because of the brouhaha.
38:24Brouhaha?
38:25Yes.
38:26One of the princesses dropped her reticule.
38:28There was loose change all over the floor.
38:29Yes, I've heard about that.
38:30And after the brouhaha?
38:32Well, I dragged Victor back to the bar.
38:34He made a toast.
38:35And then there was the furore.
38:37A brouhaha and then a furore?
38:40It was very confusing.
38:42Oh, and there was a woman.
38:46A woman?
38:47I've just remembered.
38:48She handed me a cloth.
38:50Like St. Veronica on the road to Calvary?
38:53To mop up Victor Orr's trousers.
38:55There was something about the look she gave me.
39:01Poor Victor.
39:02People were recoiling in pure horror.
39:04It was burning his neck out, book.
39:06You could hear a crackle.
39:12I'm sorry you had a beastly time.
39:22I just wanted to get Stinker and wake up somewhere
39:24with clean sheets and three egg omelets.
39:26I wanted something.
39:29So I wanted him.
39:32I do love you, Mrs. Book.
39:37Ditto.
39:41Book.
39:42Yes.
39:45We never really talk.
39:47At all?
39:48But the arrangement.
39:51What's to talk about?
39:53Well, to see that all's well, that we're both okay.
39:56All is well.
39:57Look.
39:58You left a light on for me.
40:04I could be making love in this.
40:09In the dark.
40:11Has anyone told Victor Orr's wife?
40:14It's not like she was expecting him to come home.
40:17Do you know who she is?
40:18I don't really know who he was.
40:22Still.
40:24I suppose he did get us a night here.
40:27Isn't it marvelous?
40:28Hmm.
40:31No clouds to light.
40:33Nowhere for the stars to hide.
40:36We never really had a proper honeymoon, did we?
40:38Bit of a diary clash.
40:40The Luftwaffe had their hearts set on Eastbourne too.
40:43The beach was very pebbly anyway.
40:45And covered in barbed wire.
40:47Does it worry you though?
40:49Disappoint you?
40:51What?
40:53The absence of landmarks.
40:55Declarations.
40:56Grand gestures.
40:58Oh no, look.
41:01In fact, I'm gonna make one now.
41:03Who is?
41:06Let's order a bloody huge bottle of champagne.
41:16Let's go.
41:18Let's go.
41:20Let's go.
41:22Let's go.
41:24Let's go.
41:25Let's go.
41:29Got our papers.
41:31Stamped and signed.
41:32Tickets too.
41:33Can't you do anything discreetly, my love?
41:38We have five minutes till it leaves.
41:40Platform six.
41:41We're gonna be in Paris for breakfast.
41:43There are no Nazis in Paris, but there are quests all,
41:46so it's all going to be fine.
41:51I can't come with your book.
41:54For the same reason that you must leave.
41:59Is it so full here?
42:00Can I sit down here?
42:02Uh, of course.
42:03Of course.
42:04The trip to Paris is now in one minute,
42:06on the flight set.
42:20Oh, and I must return this to you, my...
42:23My...
42:26My dear fellow.
42:32I love a good book.
42:35A beautiful book.
42:37And how easy it is to...
42:39To picture myself...
42:42On some winter evening...
42:45In the country...
42:46Lying with this particular book.
42:51It moves me so much.
42:53But...
42:59But I'm afraid I cannot keep it.
43:04I know it's frailties.
43:08And some books get burned, you know?
43:10And I should not like to be responsible for the loss of this one.
43:20Because it is so dear to me...
43:23That I know it by heart.
43:41Henceforth...
43:44Wherever thou mayst roam...
43:48My blessing...
43:50Like a line of light...
43:53Is...
43:54On the waters of day and night...
43:59And like a beacon guards the home.
44:03This is the last book we're going to present in Paris.
44:06Give a look like a light red
44:09In Fran...
44:11Glen Gandoo...
44:21I think there is a place to go.
44:24But in Fran...
44:26...intro...
44:28There is so little background music sheet.
44:30But it's the first thing in white!
44:33There is the upcoming documentaries of....
45:04The Nissen.
45:17Ja, Sie sollten deutsche Dichter lesen.
45:34Ja, Sie sollten deutsche Dichter lesen.
46:04Ja, Sie sollten hier.
46:34The Canoon of Scutari.
46:36Why do you have this?
46:37I'm taking it to Mr. Book, in the next room.
46:40He's helping the police.
46:41This is most interesting.
46:43Continue.
46:44Well, he's a sort of expert witness,
46:47and he's staying here with his wife,
46:48who I believe...
46:49I meant continue on your way.
46:53Good night.
46:56Hmm.
46:56Oh, I thought you were a bottle of...
47:11How do you spare it ain't?
47:13A book for Mr. Book.
47:15What is it, dear?
47:16It's that book you wanted.
47:18Oh, very good.
47:20The lights were on the blink up here.
47:21An engineer is investigating.
47:23I do apologize for any inconvenience.
47:26Is there anything more I can do for you?
47:29Well, tracking down our champagne would be nice.
47:31Of course.
47:31Extraordinary, man.
47:38Smells nice, though.
47:40Gardenia.
47:41Capital.
47:42Just what we need.
47:44They're taking their time with that champagne, aren't they?
47:46I think they're having trouble below.
47:49With the generators.
47:50You don't need champagne, do you, Book?
47:54Just anything with footnotes.
47:56And the bibliography.
47:58Maybe an erratum slip.
48:04I used to love this place, you know.
48:09In the war, the rooms were cheap.
48:1035 shillings a night.
48:12Well, the ones nearest the V2s, anyway.
48:15Always plenty of life down in the bar.
48:17A bit too much, sometimes.
48:22And now the Walsingham is listing.
48:24Like an old ship.
48:28Well, I'd like to smash a bottle against it.
48:47Can I see her?
49:12I don't know.
49:42Let me tell the story of an old lady fair, standing sentinel across the years in the city's
49:53bonny square.
49:55Let me tell the story of the journey down to hell of the dear, dilapidated Walsingham Hotel.
50:12Some came to stay, to rest, to play.
50:21Some came to labor every day.
50:25Some came to sound the passing bell for the dear old Walsingham Hotel.
50:31But who killed Captain Victor Orr?
50:48Princess, waiter, maid, or more?
50:51Who came to sound the final bell for the dear old Walsingham Hotel?
50:58Well then, that's that.
51:14What was that?
51:18One more step and all.
51:31One more step and all.