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00:01Here's to Joe Stalin's next stroke.
00:03Tinkety-tongue.
00:08Who was he?
00:09Victor.
00:10Oh, met me for an air raid.
00:12Forty-one.
00:13It is true.
00:14I switched the glasses.
00:15He drank the poison meant for one of us.
00:17Daphia and Ruhia.
00:19We'd be ever so grateful if you'd just keep an eye on them.
00:23This was the third attempt on our life since we left New York.
00:26The first thing you must do is arrest a cocktail waiter.
00:29And you must bring in any others on the staff.
00:32Do you have a reservation?
00:34No, my wife does.
00:36Your wife?
00:39Time for a little chat.
00:41What does Jack know?
00:42My wife and I have an arrangement, as I knew his late father.
00:46Nothing more.
00:48And should we trust you?
00:50Well, I suppose you'll find out when the next assassin comes.
00:59Hello again.
01:00Hello.
01:01Fizz.
01:02For them, I presume.
01:04Who is it?
01:05It's me.
01:06Who is it?
01:07It's me.
01:08Hello again.
01:09Hello.
01:10Fizz.
01:11For them, I presume.
01:12Who is it?
01:13It's me.
01:14Hello again.
01:15Hello.
01:16Hello.
01:17Fizz.
01:18For them, I presume.
01:19Who is it?
01:20It's me.
01:21Champagne.
01:22I can't put a seed in this car.
01:23Yes.
01:24I can't put a seed in this car.
01:25I can't put a seed in this car.
01:26Who is it?
01:27For them, I presume.
01:28Who is it?
01:29Who is it?
01:30It's me.
01:31Champagne.
01:32I can't put a seed in this car.
01:34though we are here.
01:35We did not order champagne.
01:39Champagne.
01:47I can put a seat.
01:47It's hot.
01:48We will.
01:52Through here.
01:55We did not order champagne.
02:01Through here.
02:09Oh, my face.
02:16You hit him, hit.
02:18I didn't hit her.
02:27I didn't hit her.
02:29One more step and all.
02:39Well, let's all calm down, should we?
03:50Rudy, hell, that hurts.
03:51You OK?
03:52You shot her.
03:53You bloody Carpathian lunatic.
03:56I thought you had the gun.
03:57It was a champagne bottle.
04:00Oh, God.
04:02Am I going to die?
04:03It's just a graze.
04:04Luckily for you, your royal highness.
04:06This is a very, very regrettable incident, Miss.
04:10Edie Rattle.
04:11Miss Edie.
04:11We live under the constant threat of assassination.
04:14The black mantle of death hovers over us like the London fog.
04:18Sometimes we make mistakes out of fear.
04:20You must forgive us.
04:21Oh, you shouldn't forgive them.
04:23You should press charges.
04:24Don't tell me what to do, OK?
04:26I've had enough of it.
04:27I've simply had enough of it.
04:29We understand, dear.
04:30Do you?
04:31Because I've descended a ship that started with a pass and ended with me getting fired.
04:35Fired?
04:35Yeah, I've been handed my cards, haven't I?
04:37What?
04:38Why?
04:38What for?
04:39Because someone sabotaged the boilers, tipped linseed oil into them.
04:44Yeah, but why would they think that that's you?
04:45Because I have a motive.
04:47Mr. Klein gave me a mouthful for standing up to that bastard.
04:50And now I've been shot.
04:51What are you, shot?
04:53What's that?
04:54Morphine tartrate.
04:55I'm not going to have you jabbing me like a bloody pincushion.
04:57It will ease your pain.
04:58I'll live.
04:59And if you do think that I'm just going to hop on the night bus and say,
05:03oh, it must be beastly that your country hates your guts and you're forced to slum it out here in the Walsingham.
05:07Well, think again, ladies.
05:09No wonder you're so nervous around the working classes.
05:12You've done a lot to be.
05:14I'll have that morphine now.
05:19Ow!
05:21So, dear Rattle, what do you suggest?
05:25I'll stay here tonight in the Royal Suite.
05:28There are only two beds.
05:29Then I'll have the biggest and I'll have breakfast in it.
05:32I think that's a very modest demand considering the bullets in the wall.
05:35I know the importance of the rules of hospitality in your country.
05:38I've been reading up on them.
05:40That's right, Mr. Book.
05:42At home, we are obliged to take in those who need shelter.
05:45During the war, many British officers were parachuted into our territory.
05:49None were betrayed.
05:50I think I'll sleep on the sofa.
05:54Right.
05:56Now, which one of you is lending me your toothbrush?
05:58I'll get someone to come and have a look at this.
06:11It's good to see you, Jake.
06:12We lost him.
06:26We never really knew him.
06:28Of course, it was impossible to predict how he'd react, but I was hoping for...
06:31Sympathy.
06:32Understanding.
06:35That's just the way it is with some people.
06:37They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it.
06:41Huckleberry fit?
06:42Top marks.
06:43You can sleep on the left.
06:46I like that, Edie.
06:47She's sharp.
06:48Sharp as her nibs.
06:49The princess.
06:52Busy day tomorrow.
06:54Bliss has arrested Ghazili.
06:56Oh?
06:57It's a mistake.
06:58So I suspect I'll spend the morning showing him why.
07:01Clever clogs.
07:02If the shoe fits.
07:04Oh, it's the Dynaric Alps, by the way.
07:06Eh?
07:07It's the Dynaric Alps, my love.
07:09Not the Carpathians.
07:11As I said.
07:12Clever clogs.
07:12Hm.
07:13Book.
07:42Book.
07:43Finish with that mug, Sergeant.
08:10Bagged and labeled, sir.
08:12We'll return it in due course.
08:14Take a seat.
08:19Are you going to charge me?
08:21Oh, there's plenty of time for that.
08:23I've said it all already.
08:24It's in my statement.
08:26Oh.
08:27Just one thing before we start.
08:29Mr. Book here will be joining us.
08:31He's a specialist.
08:33Mr. Ghazili, it's very important that you use this interview to tell us the truth.
08:37Because if you don't, I can't be held accountable for the consequences.
08:40We know about your affair with Edie Rattle.
08:44She's given us a statement, and in doing so, has given us a possible motive.
08:49A reason for you to kill Captain Orr.
08:51Because he made a pass at Edie.
08:55It must happen like three times a day.
08:57What business are you in exactly?
09:01The antiquarian book business.
09:04I've read the Canoon of Scutari.
09:06Have you?
09:07I know it.
09:09Live by it?
09:11It's very important in my village.
09:14Let's start, then.
09:17If I said we were going to give you the third degree, what would you expect?
09:21Kicking out by the bins?
09:22Snake in the grass.
09:23What did you say?
09:24Forget the third degree.
09:25Snake in the grass.
09:26Come on, I'm waiting.
09:31Vodka.
09:31At last.
09:34Creme de menthe, lime juice, lemonade.
09:37Where's my ice?
09:38It went in first.
09:39Are you shaking this drink?
09:42Come on, come on, Mr. Gazzili.
09:44This is the waltzing.
09:45Am I shaking this drink?
09:46I'm stirring it.
09:47I'm stirring it.
09:47At a boy.
09:48At a boy.
09:49I know that.
09:51French vermouth, dry gin, grenadine, four dashes.
09:55Shaken.
09:56And what would you put in a pansy?
10:03Anisette?
10:04No, no, no, Mr. Gazzili.
10:05Look, I'm still on probation.
10:08I'm not an expert.
10:09I'd say you're not.
10:11But nor are you a murderer.
10:13Well, what makes you say that?
10:15Because he left a dirty great fingerprint on the upper part of one of those glasses.
10:20And a good cocktail waiter, as well as knowing how to mix a third degree, always handles a rock glass lower down.
10:29You made the drink for the captain, which is when you left your fingerprint on his glass.
10:34But the drink was not deadly.
10:36I'm sorry if this sounds insulting, Mr. Gazzili.
10:39But you have yet to acquire the skill to poison anyone in a crowded bar in plain sight.
10:44Particularly with just a few seconds between the inciting incident and the crime.
10:48But I'm sure you'll get there.
10:51In fact, I'd go so far as to say you were already a model employee.
10:55You're going to write me a reference now, are you?
10:57Why not?
10:59How long have the princesses been in the hotel?
11:01Four days.
11:02And you'd already noticed they always reject the first drink.
11:06So you made it out of tap water.
11:10Yes.
11:10Some employers would promote a member of staff so concerned about wastage.
11:19Well, Mr. Gazzili, seems like you can go and collect your things.
11:26Our friend here is checking out, Sergeant Morris.
11:30Very good, sir.
11:40Well, now what?
11:42Anyone could have got that hydrochloric acid into the drink.
11:46And Gazzili was too clumsy to have done it.
11:49As I discovered late last night, the Kanoon of Skutari has very strict rules about hospitality.
11:56It's taboo to harm anyone you consider your guest.
11:59Captain Orr was Gazzili's guest, strictly speaking, and the Kanoon is very strict.
12:03Did it tell you anything else useful?
12:07Oh, yes.
12:09Insult my wife in front of the headman of the village and you owe me a sheep.
12:13If my wife insults you, I owe you five.
12:20Well, I find it's usually best if people are just nice to each other.
12:26Hmm.
12:33But I love and I want to make sure that she is a good person, so I think I don't know.
12:35I'll make it up.
12:37I love it.
12:39Let's do it.
12:40I love you.
12:41I love you.
12:46I love you.
12:48I love you.
12:49I love you.
12:53I love you.
12:55I love you.
12:57I love you.
12:59I love you.
13:01I love you.
13:02I love you.
13:03you were not in the army were you you know where i was well no matter straight in your spine
13:11perhaps eh at the palace a line of soldiers would salute us just on our way to breakfast
13:17oh lucky you had a mighty a fallen and back then we weren't always looking over our shoulders
13:23we were at home with our own people you boy you must fetch the inspector why what's happened
13:29another threatening litter
13:31well you've done all right they ordered in no less than i deserve sure enough
13:47balkan mix apparently nice see those little gold rings at the end there i'll capstan man myself
13:55weren't you supposed to bring me for that bovril
13:57well i thought you had everything you needed here
13:59it's a bit rich for my blood
14:04so where was miss edie rattle when the murder took place
14:13uh having a woodbine outside according to her state
14:16having already administered the poison meant for the princesses
14:19according to my intelligence sources she's a fully paid up party member
14:24communist red as lenin's combinations
14:27what so she might have wanted them dead
14:29on behalf of the new ruling class of scutari
14:32then there's the other sister of course
14:36other sister
14:37oh yes
14:39there are three of them inspector
14:41three sisters
14:43the kingdom divided exiled monarchs i wonder
14:50anyway princess sunier went over to the other side
14:55so it could be her striking the blow for the work
14:58it's by assassinating her siblings
14:59this is where we should be looking
15:01uh in my opinion
15:03sir
15:04oh yes
15:10like the ladies didn't he captain all
15:13that's not how i would have put it
15:15still
15:17at least we have his home number now
15:20no
15:21no
15:21yes this must be his wife sylvia
15:24i don't know
15:25she's the only one without a star rating
15:27oh
15:29yeah well there's another familiar name in there too
15:32oh
15:34as you say sir
15:36oh
15:37and barberini
15:382nd of may 1940
15:40ascot racecourse
15:41four stars
15:42passionate italian
15:43sort of crossed out
15:44still legible
15:45what do you mean
15:47obvious isn't it
15:48captain all didn't just like the ladies
15:50he was a bit
15:51queer
15:52well
15:54you mean
15:55he travelled as it were on the 38 bus and the 43
15:59he met that italian barman at the races and had relations
16:03it's all there in black and white
16:05met at the races eh
16:07ascot racecourse there is entry after entry
16:10what motive
16:10blackmail
16:11obviously
16:12captain all threatened to expose barberini
16:15captain all's a married man
16:17it's all a bit
16:18it's a bit far-fetched
16:20you never know we've married men sir
16:22what's your great theory then
16:26that would be telling sergeant
16:29but speaking of mrs or
16:31i do think someone should talk to her soon
16:34i'll ask trotty
16:35if i may
16:36wives always know
16:38whatever husbands think
16:40message from that lad jack sir
16:43princesses are requesting another audience
16:46a winston churchill mask
16:54no
16:55an oria flying helmet
16:57a piccadilly jar filled entirely with toenail clippings
17:01oh
17:02yeah
17:03it's not for the faint of heart
17:05the life of a chambermaid
17:07but my dad ran a pub in bala
17:10so
17:10i've seen it all
17:12and what about
17:15the murder
17:17i know
17:18i was outside you see
17:19you can't pin victor or on me
17:22i wasn't trying to
17:23honest
17:24pity i wasn't there though
17:26i would have liked to see that one go down
17:29so you were saying
17:31you got out of the clink
17:34and then you went to work in a bookshop
17:37yeah
17:38for mr book
17:39yeah
17:41and now you're working for the scotari royal family
17:43not for much longer i don't reckon
17:47i ain't much cop as a bodyguard
17:49got anything by marks
17:53eh
17:54in your bookshop
17:56das
17:58kapital
17:59volume four
18:01now you're talking
18:03so why'd you leave
18:05i just don't think they're my sort of people
18:08no
18:09takes all sorts you know
18:11as i say
18:13the things i've seen in the walsingham
18:16maybe it's time you expanded your horizons a bit sunshine
18:20let me know if you fancy that farrell sometime yeah
18:24so-called princesses
18:49my gorge rises as i see you in the newspaper
18:53decadent bones draped in
18:56madame de bavier
18:58which will soon drip with your
19:01filthy blood
19:03yes i can see why you might feel discomforted
19:05so what will you do about it
19:09my dear lady
19:10you will address me by my proper title
19:12uh do forgive the inspector your royal highness
19:14the policeman is often a blunt tool rather than a diplomat
19:17perhaps i might as i have said
19:19this is the latest of many
19:22dripping with venom
19:24our enemies their legion
19:26can they not let us rest
19:28is it not enough
19:29that we are forced to drag our weary bones
19:32around the world
19:33like phantoms
19:34you speak of the canoon
19:36of hospitality
19:37but what are we to make of yours
19:40what welcome do we receive
19:42in your famous london
19:44wretched food
19:46wretched cold
19:47a bodyguard who fails to guard
19:49and now
19:49this
19:50i'll do what i can
19:52given my limited resources
19:54to help us
20:24MUSIC PLAYS
20:54Yes, of course, and we're terribly sorry.
21:00Well, if that's the best you can do...
21:02Oh, Miss Raffel.
21:07Yes, Mr. Kind?
21:09I heard about the unfortunate incident.
21:12That's one way of describing it.
21:15I'm okay, but I think I might indulge myself a bit more in the cream of society.
21:22As I've been fired, I can use the hotel as a guest instead.
21:25Meaning?
21:27Their Royal Highnesses.
21:28I'm to put everything in their account.
21:30Well, don't spend too much.
21:32What?
21:33Nothing. Um, Miss Raffel.
21:34Yes?
21:35Would you kindly come and see me after you've indulged yourself?
21:39Okay, Mr. Kind.
21:40E.D., can we talk?
21:53I do want to apologize for the quality of the service today.
21:57The heating is off, the menu is cold.
22:00I'm deeply sorry.
22:01Ismael, none of that is your fault.
22:05Yeah, I'm afraid it is.
22:07It was caused by the three bottles of linseed oil that I stole from your cupboard.
22:12But linseed oil is for polishing.
22:15I use it for my new old posts and my dados.
22:18Yes, I know.
22:19But I poured it into the generator.
22:22I didn't poison Victor or E.D., but I did poison the hotel.
22:26Oh, I was so angry.
22:29With myself, with that man, with this place.
22:34So I just thought I'd kill it.
22:37I'm deeply sorry.
22:39I shall confess everything to Mr. Kind, and you will not lose your job, E.D.
22:42I will not lose your job, E.D.
23:12I will not lose your job, E.D.
23:20Ah.
23:27E.D.
23:31E.D.
23:33E.D.
23:34E.D.
23:35E.D.
23:36E.D.
23:36E.D.
23:37E.D.
23:38E.D.
23:39E.D.
23:39E.D.
23:40E.D.
23:41E.D.
23:41E.D.
23:42You.
24:03You.
24:05Me.
24:06This isn't easy for me, as I'm sure you can imagine.
24:12Of course.
24:14You've just lost your husband.
24:16That boat sailed a long time ago, Mrs. Book.
24:19And you're not the first of Victor's conquests to telephone.
24:25If it makes it any easier, or you didn't, then what?
24:32Conquer.
24:36I used to come here all the time, you know, to watch you, with the latest model.
24:48Madam?
24:59You've read it.
24:59To see one's self here, assessed like livestock.
25:07You think he got what he deserved?
25:10Well, not quite, but...
25:13I mean, what a peak he was.
25:14Do you know, I'd think better of him if it was a real diary.
25:22Something with a bit of proper, adulterous passion.
25:28Don't worry, my dear, I didn't really blame you.
25:31I mean, Victor had charm to spare in his day.
25:34And I grew used to his adventures.
25:40Numb to them.
25:42So used to them, it became a sort of hobby.
25:46That sounds strange?
25:47My marriage grew cold.
25:52Well, my life grew cold.
25:55I don't really think I've felt anything since Dunkirk.
26:01So I'd come here.
26:04Where there was light and laughter.
26:07Usually.
26:08Did you not worry that he, uh, might see you?
26:16Victor hadn't noticed me in years.
26:19There was no reason to think he'd start now.
26:23Is that how you were able to?
26:28What?
26:31The poison.
26:32I mean, you were there.
26:35You, you handed me that cloth.
26:37It would have been easy for you to admit straight.
26:40I didn't kill my husband, Mrs. Book.
26:44I pitied Victor.
26:46Didn't despise him.
26:48Then who did?
26:55How was this war?
26:58He did his service in Cairo.
27:00And a stint in the Balkans.
27:03The Balkans.
27:06And before that, he was here.
27:09The home front.
27:10Whereabouts?
27:13Ascot.
27:13Ah, it is you.
27:31What did it be?
27:34What does that say?
27:37Death to parasites.
27:38Thank you for coming.
27:50Everything's off.
27:51Kippers, kidneys, kedgeri.
27:54And the radiators.
27:55They're definitely off.
27:55Oh.
27:58There's a selection of cold meat.
28:01Splendid.
28:01Well, two of those then, please, waiter.
28:03Do make sure they're properly cold.
28:05I have whoring consistency.
28:07Sir?
28:07The service.
28:08It is appalling.
28:09Well, call me Marie Antoinette.
28:11But I was expecting the lavatories to flush.
28:14Still, the heating did come on for half an hour.
28:16That was nice.
28:16You said it was urgent, Mr. Book.
28:18In a way, yes.
28:19Are you any closer?
28:21Closer.
28:22To finding out who tried to murder us?
28:24No one tried to murder you.
28:27But the letters.
28:29The threads.
28:30You said those.
28:34What?
28:36You're mad.
28:37How dare you?
28:38Do sit down, princess.
28:40The very idea that I...
28:41I said sit down.
28:44I may be more of a diplomat than the inspector.
28:47There's only so much of this exhausting auteur I can stand.
28:52When will you start?
28:54Sending the letters.
28:55Not right away, I imagine.
28:58For a while it was real.
29:03When we fled our country, there were eyes everywhere.
29:06We feared to eat or drink.
29:08We lived day by day.
29:10Shoveed into stinking cellars.
29:13The holds of filthy ships.
29:15But the threat was real, Mr. Book.
29:19In New York, we were fated.
29:21They love royalty there, as you know, precisely because they have none of their own.
29:26We were invited to all the right parties, met all the right people.
29:30But there is nothing more tragic than exile, Mr. Book.
29:34And nothing more pathetic.
29:38After a time, the invitations dried up, the parade moved on, and I realized that we had
29:45gone from being in danger to something far, far worse.
29:48We had become irrelevant.
29:52What did the new regime in Scutari have to fear from us?
29:58Why would they send assassins halfway across the globe to make a way with us?
30:03Why would anyone bother?
30:07But there is glamour in death.
30:10In danger.
30:13And so I began to write all those letters.
30:16Both to us, and to the authorities of whichever poor nation we were imposing ourselves upon.
30:22I pay a woman here a modest fee to skulk around the hotel, dropping them off now and then.
30:26Some suspected your other sister might be behind those.
30:31She's dead, Mr. Book.
30:35I saw her shot in the face.
30:39The communists never really trusted her.
30:47Then I will not lose another sister.
30:52But then there was an actual poisoning.
30:54I didn't know what to think.
30:55The figure swap the glasses, as always, and then that man, that captain, lying dead at our feet.
31:04My mind, it raced.
31:06Had it all become real?
31:09But what else could I do but continue as planned?
31:13It was very well done.
31:17At last, though, the impression of your sister's pen nibs is very distinctive.
31:21Indeed?
31:22Music nib.
31:25Narrow downstrokes, broad crossstrokes, for writing musical notation.
31:29Ah.
31:29And she's composing those rather sad and lovely little tunes of hers.
31:33And the references to your wardrobe, too.
31:36Rather specific for a desperate communist assassin.
31:39I couldn't help myself.
31:42So does this mean, then, that...
31:45Captain Orr was the intended victim.
31:50So I have to ask, Mr. Book, in the spirit of your British stories,
31:55who done it?
31:58Well, that is the question, dear lady.
32:08Sir?
32:08I'm not normally a fan of this sort of thing.
32:33Redent of the kind of thriller one finds in W.H. Smith.
32:36However, sometimes it really is best to gather everyone together.
32:41Unity of place and all that.
32:43So, on the night of the murder,
32:45Mr. Gazealy here set up a first round of two drinks.
32:48Yes.
32:49Which is rejected by the princesses and goes down the sink.
32:52Now we come to the brouhaha.
32:55And a new character enters our drama.
32:58Captain Victor Orr.
32:59Kindly represented here by Mr. Kind.
33:03In you come, Miss Rattle.
33:04Tell us what happened next.
33:06Well, there's Captain Watsit soaked in Tattinger.
33:09And he's telling me he has some extra duties for me.
33:12Which seem to involve me going to his room and leaving with some money.
33:16So I decline, of course.
33:18And I'm looking over at Ismael.
33:22I'm looking at him because, well, I think he might help me out.
33:26Do the decent.
33:27And he doesn't.
33:29What happens next, Edie?
33:31Well, I'm thinking, is the captain going to hit me?
33:33So I tell him where to get off.
33:35And then he says something.
33:38I know some threat or other.
33:39I wasn't listening.
33:41And that's when Jack here came to my rescue.
33:44And then I went outside for a smoke.
33:46Thank you, Miss Rattle.
33:47So, Mr. Ghazili then sets up two more glasses for a new round.
33:53Four Walsingham Sours.
33:57In total.
34:04Three good ones.
34:05And one, as we shall see, about to have an extra ingredient.
34:08But when precisely did one of these drinks get a dash of hydrochloric acid?
34:12Princess Nefille, you told us that you switched two of these glasses around.
34:17Which two?
34:18Like this, Mr. Book.
34:20One of ours for one of theirs.
34:24Very good.
34:25But you're not drinking yet, are you?
34:26Because you want to see someone else drink first.
34:29Which is only prudent, only sensible when there are so many assassins about.
34:33So, you have to wait a little while longer until the distraction is over.
34:38And this is the Russian roulette moment now, is it?
34:41This was not a casual murder.
34:44It was very carefully thought through.
34:46Now, we know the poison was not in Mr. Ghazili's shaker.
34:49We know that Princess Nefille deserves no reproaches.
34:52All your Royal Highness did was switch one perfectly safe and effective waltzing himself and another.
34:58In fact, I would suggest that none of these drinks would have produced anything worse than a hangover.
35:03Until the incident with the coins.
35:05That was the moment of opportunity for someone here to poison one of these cocktails.
35:10The one that he was clearly about to pick up.
35:12Yes, there was no mistake.
35:13Captain Orr had to die.
35:16Why, though?
35:17Do you remember the Arundora star?
35:25Not our finest hour, I feel.
35:28She was torpedoed by the Jerrys.
35:29Started the war?
35:31July 2nd, 1940.
35:32There was a set two on board, wasn't there?
35:34A lot of internees being sent to Australia.
35:37Canada.
35:37Canada.
35:38Fighting amongst themselves.
35:40Well, that's what it said in the Daily Express.
35:41In Parliament, too, Mr. Book.
35:43Does it mean it's true?
35:45Indeed.
35:47And amongst the passengers, your sister, Maria.
36:04Barberini, M. 12th January 1940, Ascot Racecourse.
36:1016th January, Ascot Racecourse.
36:13So it was her, Captain Ormet, at the races?
36:17Well, there was no racing during the war.
36:19Quite.
36:20Of course, Ascot's where they put the Regulation 18-B alert, wasn't it?
36:24English Nazis, German anti-Nazis, ice cream men, spaghetti house vendors, waiters who'd once said something vaguely complimentary about the cut of Il Duce's jib.
36:36All put under barbed wire.
36:38In a tournament camp.
36:40What was the case against the Barberini's, though?
36:43My parents were born in Italy.
36:45So somebody had claimed I was a fascist.
36:48Marched me out during service.
36:50Sent up north.
36:52Nobody protested.
36:54Particularly the man who ran the bar here in the Blitz.
36:56And your sister.
37:02In 1938, my father said, why not spend the summer with your Italian aunt?
37:07Go to the beach with them, to the Campo Solare, build fires, get some fresh air.
37:15They give you a nice little uniform, like the Girl Guides, but Mussolini's Girl Guides.
37:22Ah.
37:23So she brought the uniform home as a souvenir.
37:26It was enough for the men from 18-B.
37:30There it was in a wardrobe, so off she went to Ascot.
37:35She was interned because of the uniform.
37:38People do take them terribly seriously.
37:40Well, it worked for Victor.
37:42When he was in his sailor suit, people did what he said.
37:46I mean, it was charm, as well as rank.
37:49Rank charm.
37:49That's how he got Maria's name on the list for Canada.
37:53Perhaps we should be generous.
37:55Imagine he was getting her out of the camp to a new life, away from the war.
37:59No.
38:00He just wanted the troublesome lover out of the way before his wife found her.
38:05That ship was a death trap.
38:09I dream about that.
38:12Those people pushing at the barricade.
38:16The great wooden axes wrapped in barbed wire.
38:19And then the sea coming in and drowning them both.
38:23Both.
38:25Maria and the baby.
38:29His baby.
38:32I knew his name, that was all.
38:34But I couldn't find him.
38:36Messed the war.
38:37Turned everything upside down.
38:39No one was in a great hurry to help out an insignificant WAP waiter.
38:45Turned out I'd been serving in Walsingham Sours for months.
38:48Victor Orr, my old friend.
38:50I can't leave you alone for five minutes, can I?
38:54Well, the bloody girl can't take a joke.
38:56Let's have a couple of those.
38:57What do you call them?
38:59Walsingham Sours.
39:01With the two ladies.
39:02Eh, for their royal highnesses, you mean?
39:06These are on me, ladies.
39:08The man who took away my precious Maria.
39:11My beloved sister.
39:12So I did what had to be done.
39:18I prepared ice.
39:21Special ice.
39:23Oh, oh dear.
39:26So embarrassing.
39:27I do apologize.
39:29Not at all.
39:30Look after the pennies.
39:32The pounds will look after themselves.
39:34It was her birthday, you see.
39:59Maria's birthday would have been.
40:01It seemed, uh, it seemed fitting.
40:07Yes.
40:08Yes, master time.
40:12And I took the precaution of keeping some of the poisoned ice.
40:17Tinky tonk.
40:19Wait!
40:20Oh, no!
40:21Just ordinary ice allows.
40:24I'm afraid I swapped it.
40:28I'm so very, very sorry about your sister, Signor Barbarini.
40:31But murder is murder.
40:38Marco Barbarini, I'm arresting you on a charge of murder.
40:42You do not have to say anything but anything you do say may be taken down and used against you in a court of law.
40:48Do you have anything to say?
40:49Oh, by the way, Mr. Kind, the linseed oil in the generators, that was me too.
41:05Sorry.
41:05Oh, by the way, Mr. Kind, the linseed oil in the kitchen.
41:07I'm sorry.
41:08I'm sorry.
41:09I'm sorry.
41:10I'm sorry.
41:11I'm sorry.
41:12I'm sorry.
41:13I'm sorry.
41:14I'm sorry.
41:15I'm sorry.
41:16I'm sorry.
41:17I'm sorry.
41:19I'm sorry.
41:20I'm sorry.
41:22I'm sorry.
41:24Mr. Kind, you wanted a word?
41:36Ah, yes, Miss Rattle.
41:37I was thinking about your position here.
41:40Well, now I know that you were not responsible for the incident with the generators.
41:44Yes.
41:44Well, your dismissal was unnecessarily expeditious.
41:48Yes.
41:49Yes.
41:50And I wanted to say I would very much like to offer that position back to you.
41:55Well, I accept.
41:58Well, that's all very satisfactory.
41:59There's a ledger here, isn't there?
42:01A ledger?
42:02One with all the comings and goings of the staff.
42:05Might I see my entry?
42:07It's over there.
42:09Yes, of course.
42:19There I am.
42:20Edith Rattle.
42:23Reason for leaving, sabotage.
42:26Well, let us strike that from the record.
42:32Thank you, Mr. Kind.
42:34Now, Mr. Kind, I resign.
42:38You resign?
42:39Yes, I resign.
42:40Would you mind putting that in there for me?
42:42You can't resign.
42:44I believe I just did.
42:48Oh, the workers.
42:52Oh, the workers!
43:05Oh, this is quite correct.
43:07Two more, please.
43:09For those people.
43:10Missing the war, are you?
43:16I don't know what the etiquette is.
43:19Ooh, I think that's the royal summons.
43:23Well, Harris?
43:25For you, Mr. Book.
43:27For the book.
43:29Oh, thank you.
43:30What's that for?
43:36A hundred guineas.
43:37No, I mean, what's it for?
43:39Oh, our copy of the Canoon of Scutari.
43:41In our trade, it pays to specialize.
43:44It'll bounce.
43:45Well, if it doesn't, I shall give it to the Arandora Star Memorial Fund.
43:51Pleasant, thank you.
43:53What should we drink to?
43:55To us.
43:57To the Barberinis?
43:58Yes.
43:59To Marco and Maria and...
44:01All the Barberinis.
44:03The lost and the defeated.
44:06All the Barberinis.
44:08Those who bear the name and those who do not.
44:12And let there be no more drownings.
44:14Mm-hmm.
44:15He got me the job.
44:32Mr. Book.
44:35He arranged for you to take me on.
44:38The princesses were looking for a bodyguard.
44:40Gabriel asked if I could help.
44:41So, you see, he was looking out for you, despite your falling out.
44:47You know him well.
44:49We go a long way back.
44:54Looking out for me?
44:58Or manipulating me?
45:00Well, why would you think of it like that?
45:01He sought me out.
45:03Found me when I come out of prison.
45:06Set me up.
45:06Nice job.
45:08Nice home.
45:09Yes.
45:10Why?
45:11You'd have to ask him that.
45:13I'm a monster.
45:15It's the kind.
45:16I'm grateful.
45:16Of course I am.
45:17It's just...
45:19It's a lot, you know?
45:22They're set up.
45:24The way they are, Mr. and Mrs. Book.
45:26The way he is.
45:26It's hard for me to just accept it.
45:31You have a moral objection?
45:33Me?
45:35What right do I have to moralise?
45:36I think you've answered your own question.
45:39The book is kind.
45:41I mean, I know I'm kind.
45:43Edmund, kind.
45:45But I once knew a girl called Joy, and she was anything but.
45:49There's no sinister motive, Jack.
45:52They want to help.
45:54Why don't you let them?
45:55They want to help.
45:57You're stuck.
46:02What?
46:03I mean, all these are all changing.
46:11I don't know.
46:12I didn't know where did I go.
46:16What?
46:16with you in just one moment
46:27hello again
46:30oh mrs goodwin gene gene after more of the same the pimper now i'm not really sure i i think i
46:39fancy something a little different the husband not with you no the golf course no the gas
46:46the divorce courts oh oh that play you gave me a doll's house most illuminating and like you
46:57suggested it rather made me think yes i thought it might do made me realize how narrow my horizons
47:03have become or other how narrow gerald had made my horizons love doesn't always last forever
47:10alas never loved him awful man but that's all in the past now or in the hands of my solicitor
47:18anyway so what can i do for you then gene what have you got on travel travel lots of it heaps
47:27of it exotic travel i think it's time i saw a bit of the world i've got just the thing
47:34with you in just one moment sir
47:42thanks
47:55i know you run on it without tea i am really unreconstituted dust
48:05it's hard to let go of the past mr book when you have so many questions about it
48:15such as
48:16well if it wasn't for you and trotty i'd be well i'd be sleeping on the embankment
48:25but now i have a position if it's still available the royal highnesses who let you go i'll quit
48:37good for you yes the job's still yours
48:40so i've got a position
48:44cozy little room above a bookshop on archangel lane
48:50i'm thinking
48:53why me
48:57your father gave me this
49:16yes the last time i saw him
49:19in 1935
49:21the last time
49:23he died
49:26soon after
49:29i couldn't face looking at this book
49:34not for years
49:36and then the war came when i was busy
49:40rather busy
49:43it was only a few months ago that i picked it up again
49:47dared to pick it up
49:49and i found there was a little more to it than i thought
49:52what do you mean
49:55oh somewhere meek unconscious dove
50:09but sittest ranging golden hair
50:13and glad to find thyself so fair
50:17poor child
50:20that waitest for thy love
50:22he's trying to tell me you see
50:26about you
50:27about the son i never knew he had
50:32must have been taken around when you were conceived
50:46must have been taken around when you were conceived
51:00felix
51:07felix
51:14felix
51:14i've never heard his name
51:18just that
51:21just that one picture
51:25your father was a german
51:29german
51:32prussian
51:35in point of fact
51:37what was he to you
51:43mr book
51:45what was felix to me
51:48he was everything jack
51:57he was everything jack
51:57he was what the war took away
52:02he was the whole damn world
52:10how did he die
52:19i don't know
52:23shall we find out
52:34and
52:36not
52:46he
52:49but
52:49and
52:49and
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