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A Murder of Quality (1991) (Part 1) - Full HD Movie Uncut
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00:00You
00:30Every man be of good cheer, I am good fellowship, I will go with thee and be thy guide, in
00:58thy most need, to go by thy style, you are supposed to be happy, so be happy, quit, quit, eat
01:06est, timeo, go on, plum, go on, please, timeo, what, I don't know, sir, oh, sir, yes, you
01:18do, sir, what did I tell you about fearing Greeks, even when they are lending gifts, plum,
01:28I am bringing gifts to you, keep it up, sir, keep it up, sir, oh, sorry, Selby, squeeze,
01:42that's right, hold, squeeze, hold, squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, on, on, on, on, on, that's
01:48right, on, on, good, now, what has it got?
01:51An erection, sir, chain reaction, very good, well done.
01:58This delightful herb whose living green
02:07Fledges the river's lip on which we lean
02:11Ah, lean upon it lightly
02:18For who knows from what once lovely lip it springs unseen
02:28Both of you are new to my class this half
02:31Be advised that I serve sherry at my house
02:35Every Sunday evening after prayers
02:37Poets should please bring their work
02:42And be prepared to read it aloud
02:45Come on, you won't kill bolshies that way, boys
03:03Yew, I'm happy
03:19Alright, let's see
03:21You are alive with me when Christ is gone
03:29Go!
03:30Go!
03:31Go!
03:32Go!
03:33Go!
03:34Go!
03:35Go!
03:36Go!
03:37Go!
03:38Go!
03:39Go!
03:40Stella!
03:47I'm back.
03:59Go!
04:10Are you there?
04:29A flask of wine, a book of verse, and thou beside me singing in the wilderness.
04:38Good night, sweet laddies, good night.
04:41Off you all go.
04:43And create.
04:45It's the only thing.
04:50Don't mix your flavors, understand?
04:52If there's six bloods here, I want six bloods, not a cocktail.
04:55Where's the dog?
04:56Dog bowl, but no dog.
04:58Find it.
04:59Ever done a murder before, Sergeant?
05:01Not one like this, sir.
05:02What?
05:03Those are own teeth.
05:04They were, sir.
05:05Any more word of the husband?
05:07Still under sedation, sir.
05:08Doctor says give him a few more hours.
05:10Hello.
05:11Where's the rest of this?
05:14She wasn't wearing it.
05:15How is it?
05:16Not known, sir.
05:17Upstairs?
05:18No, sir.
05:19Cloak rooms?
05:20Covers?
05:21It's not in the house or the ground, sir.
05:22Well, that's all we need to do then.
05:23Standing in Carnhigh Street, wait for a lady with a blue coat without a belt, a blackjack
05:27pocket and a punch like a heavyweight meal.
05:29Forensic's best guess so far is some sort of chain or...
05:32Or what?
05:33Well, something bendy, sir.
05:34More like a rubber trunction, say.
05:36Something wangy, if you know what I mean.
05:38The curls around corners.
05:40What's this?
05:41It's Doctor Rhodes, sir.
05:42He teaches science.
05:43Wilkins thought he might have seen Mad Janie by the house earlier.
05:56You better pull her in.
05:57She's about due for it anyway.
05:58Did you want to have a look at this, sir?
05:59Yeah, bring it in.
06:00I don't know what happens.
06:01Thank you, sir.
06:20And for heaven's sake, there's nothing more to discuss.
06:35Hello?
06:36George? George, is that you?
06:40Ailsa?
06:42Ailsa Brimley?
06:45Oh, as I live and breathe.
06:48How are you?
06:49Fine. What do you want?
06:52You and your furtive little mind.
06:56Stay where you are. I'll be round in 15 minutes.
06:58You can't. I'm washing my hair.
07:00George?
07:10Put your head in here.
07:12Lower.
07:14Lower.
07:14Lower.
07:14I told Reverend Fergus at the tabernacle, but I don't think he believed me.
07:24But I'm sure you will.
07:27And you'll know I'm normal.
07:29I am so afraid of the long nights.
07:32I can't go to the police, and I'm not mad, and I know my husband is trying to kill me.
07:40The same as he killed the dog.
07:42Yours in Jesus, Stella Road.
07:45R-O-D-E.
07:46Address, Northfields, Kahn.
07:48Her husband teaches at Kahn's school.
07:51George, are you awake?
07:54How do you know he teaches at Kahn?
07:56What else is there to do in Kahn?
07:58She's a schoolmaster's wife, obviously.
08:01Brim.
08:01All right, I snooped.
08:05Northfields is a school property let to new staff.
08:08Dr. Stanley Road is the new tenant.
08:11Why Jesus?
08:13She's a Christian, George.
08:16Low church.
08:17Why does she write to you?
08:18Why doesn't she just write to Jesus?
08:21I'm her aunt.
08:23Let Auntie Barbara solve your problems.
08:27I run a little weekly mag for pious housemaids, the Christian voice.
08:31Not that anyone's got a housemaid these days.
08:33They all work in shops, but they still have problems.
08:36And husbands.
08:38How do you kill a dog?
08:41You shoot it.
08:42So why doesn't she say shoot or poison or drown?
08:48Why can't she be more graphic?
08:50It's odd.
08:51I owe her, George.
08:53I owe them all.
08:55They're maddening and contrary and unpredictable and totally real.
09:00There isn't one I'd drop down a hole, Stella Road included.
09:08Who's that fool of a wife of yours?
09:10Who's that fool of a wife of yours?
09:11Well, she usually does at the end of the year.
09:15Who's she got this time?
09:17Well, I understand he intends to act.
09:20Perhaps she should put her troubles to Barbara Fellowship.
09:23Doctor, what of, I wonder?
09:28Chemistry.
09:29Hull University, 1956.
09:32Still spying, are we, George?
09:35Well, yes.
09:36As a matter of fact, they've given me a sort of sabbatical.
09:40An honoris causa.
09:41Professor.
09:43Yes.
09:45But they have another long night.
09:47Some sort of non-conformist rutting ritual, I suppose.
09:51I want you to go and see her.
09:53I want you to go down to Cannes and see her.
09:56Find out why she thinks her old man's going to do her in, then report back to me.
10:01Oh, damn it, Brim.
10:02Why don't you go?
10:02Leave me.
10:03I can't.
10:04You know that.
10:04Why not?
10:06Let's somebody else bring out your beastly newspaper for once.
10:08I'm not clever.
10:10Not your sort of clever.
10:12When have I ever been able to disappear into the woodwork?
10:15I'd be like a cow in a china shop.
10:17You know what I am.
10:18You're the salt of the earth, Brim.
10:20And if you don't know it, I do.
10:23And so did our agents.
10:25Well, then don't argue.
10:27Terence Fielding is down at Cannes.
10:29Did you know that?
10:30Who?
10:32George.
10:34Terence Fielding, brother of our late wartime colleague Adrian George,
10:39is a housemaster at Cannes School.
10:41Oh, my good Lord.
10:42Yes, so he is.
10:45Oh, yes, I remember about Terence.
10:47There's too many appetites.
10:48We turned him down.
10:49Well, Cannes didn't.
10:52And he's the senior housemaster.
10:55And you have a line to him.
10:58So use it.
11:00So that's God's problem.
11:02On the one hand, he's totally consistent.
11:04Which we thank God or not.
11:07On the other hand, what on earth is the point of praying to someone who's so perfect he never changes his mind?
11:12A bugger.
11:14Gaslight and Coke Company.
11:15Mr. Terence Fielding, my name is George Smiley.
11:19I was a colleague of your brother Adrian's in the war.
11:22I know who you are.
11:23What do you want?
11:24Well, it's an odd matter, really.
11:27I thought I might pop down to Cannes on the morning train and we could talk about it.
11:31Oh, my brother.
11:32Well, it's about a letter a friend of mine has had from one of the Cannes wives.
11:36It's rather disturbing.
11:37What's her name?
11:40Road.
11:40Stella Road.
11:42Mrs. Road is dead.
11:44Pludgeoned by an unknown assailant for unknown reasons.
11:47We are all desolated.
11:48The boys are especially desolated.
11:51Aren't you?
11:54Mrs. Road has cast a dark shadow over my last glorious half at Cannes.
12:01Stella?
12:01Yes, not shot, not drowned, not poisoned, bludgeoned.
12:08What are you doing?
12:09I'm phoning Ben Spanow at Special Branch.
12:12She'll put me on the map with the Cannes police.
12:14I'll need you to help me pack.
12:15I'm not very good at it.
12:17You never were.
12:18There she goes, Ted.
12:44There she goes, Ted.
12:48Where are you going, Janie?
12:57What a lift, then.
13:06Bloody hell!
13:11Ah, that's how you do it.
13:13Now we know.
13:15You're all right, Nick.
13:19Cannes, please.
13:20Good morning.
13:20Can I help you?
13:21All right.
13:22Yes, me.
13:25One minute.
13:27Cannes, please.
13:28Good morning.
13:29Yes, Ian.
13:29Who's calling?
13:30When was that?
13:31One minute, please.
13:32Special Branch, sir.
13:33Commander Sparrow.
13:34You joking, Manor?
13:36No, sir.
13:36One minute, we'll put you through.
13:40Rigby?
13:42Was it a dog?
13:43Yes, sir?
13:43I see, sir.
13:44Who, sir?
13:46Cannes.
13:46Make a note of that.
13:47And the inspector would like it as of yesterday.
13:50I'll write that down.
13:51I'll see he receives all reasonable facilities, sir.
13:56That's very nice.
13:57I'm blessed.
13:58They're sending a funny, Mr. Mellor.
14:00Name is Smiley.
14:02Had a nasty war.
14:03Looks like a bookie.
14:04And a brainer commander of Special Branch.
14:05Give me his eyes for it.
14:06Give me a bloody cigarette.
14:07He thought we'd make rather a feature of it.
14:09Get some old photos of her family.
14:11The father was a fine man.
14:14Still is.
14:15His money never turned his head.
14:17That's for sure.
14:18Yeah.
14:19Play up her work for the church.
14:20It's what we call a feature article.
14:27Nancy!
14:29Nancy!
14:29Well, what can I say?
14:36You could tell them about her Hungarian refugee work.
14:40Need a lot for them.
14:43I do have one more question that bothers my editor.
14:50Mrs. Rode wrote her a very strange letter shortly before her death,
14:54claiming to know the person who was going to kill her.
14:56And who is that, then?
14:57Her husband.
15:01I don't think your editor should pay too much attention to that.
15:04But she never said anything like that to you, for instance.
15:08I would tell your editor to burn it, actually.
15:14Yes, Mr. Darcy.
15:15Can I help you, sir?
15:16Yes, Inspector.
15:18I rather hope you can.
15:22Some of your officers have been pestering my sister and myself.
15:25It's quite ridiculous.
15:27One of them asked me whether I wear galoshes.
15:30I consider the intrusion gratuitous.
15:32Do you wear galoshes?
15:34Certainly not.
15:35I'll see his discipline.
15:40There is something else I feel I should mention.
15:43Oh?
15:45It's about Mrs. Rode.
15:48Oh, yes.
15:49It concerns her letters.
15:57Oh, her private papers, I mean.
15:59Oh, yes.
16:01I trust they will not become public property merely because of the unseemly manner of her death.
16:07You mean you wrote to her?
16:08Well, only to admonish her, mildly.
16:14I thought it kinder to raise the subject directly with her.
16:17Subject?
16:18Well, she had been questioning one of my boys about his private life.
16:25Had she, though?
16:26His parents were in the throes of a divorce.
16:27She asked him impertinent details.
16:31Well, I wrote to her.
16:33I was intemperate.
16:35I warned her not to meddle.
16:37Such a letter could be misunderstood.
16:39Warned her?
16:40Yes, sir.
16:42I told her that such behavior could prejudice her husband's career.
16:46And that's all it said?
16:48Don't meddle or your husband's career will suffer?
16:50I was not so crass.
16:52Forgive me, sir.
16:55I'm not very educated, you see.
16:57But that was the drift.
16:59Crudely, yes.
17:01Well, you've nothing to worry about, then, have you?
17:10Anything else you want to tell me?
17:12Um, no.
17:14No, Russell, thank you.
17:15Well, then, you're always welcome, Mr. Darcy.
17:18Yes, will you?
17:19They lost her, sir.
17:20Who lost who?
17:21Ted Mutney and Dye.
17:22Mad Janie.
17:23She's gone to ground in Cary Forest.
17:26She was wearing an overcoat.
17:28Could have been blue.
17:29Belt?
17:30They think string, sir.
17:31Couldn't be sure.
17:32I don't want her, I know I don't.
17:35Bloody hell.
17:36Get on to criminal records.
17:39I want to check on Mr. Felix Darcy.
17:41Assistant master, current school.
17:44Find out why he writes threatening letters to ladies who get themselves killed.
17:47Maybe she heard about Alice Lawry, sir.
17:49Who?
17:49Works for the vet.
17:52Nineteen years old and always keen to oblige.
17:54They say Mr. Darcy and she are carrying on, sir.
17:57Darcy?
17:58He's a fairy.
17:59Lives with his sister and a bunch of poodles.
18:01King Charles Spaniels, actually.
18:02Did you say vet?
18:04Yeah.
18:04Major Harriman, sir.
18:05Over at Oak Drive.
18:06Miss Darcy uses him for her dogs.
18:08Dr. Road's dog?
18:10Dead, sir.
18:11Put down.
18:12Who put it down?
18:14Vet, sir.
18:14Major Harriman.
18:15Says who?
18:16What, neighbors, sir?
18:17Dr. Road was cut up rotten.
18:19So was his missus.
18:23I've gone soft.
18:26Why am I looking for a dog?
18:27I'm looking for a murderer.
18:29A forensic, sir.
18:35Smudges.
18:35It's beautiful.
18:37Give me a cigarette.
18:58Yes?
18:58Police Sergeant Mundy, madam, regarding the late Mrs. Rode.
19:02There's one or two questions we're asking everyone.
19:05There is a back door, you know.
19:14Nice of you to bring my back back.
19:17I'm a bit lost without it.
19:22I'm new, you see.
19:25Yes, sir.
19:28You know, when you're new, you have to wait for a classroom.
19:31You're a bit of a gypsy.
19:35I just, I just don't understand this.
19:38The pupil of mine, Perkins, he was never going to get above 30%.
19:42Yeah, here he is, with 70.
19:45We gave the papers to, um, young Simon Snow to correct after.
19:51No, I thought it was out of his mind.
19:57I was wrong.
20:00It's a genuine 78.
20:05Well, it's a miracle.
20:08Do you happen to own a bicycle by any chance, sir?
20:15Huh?
20:16Never bothered.
20:16Not really.
20:21Ever borrowed one?
20:25No, not really.
20:27Rather walk or take a bus.
20:30He wouldn't, he wouldn't have cheated, would he?
20:34No, not Perkins.
20:38Part worn.
20:39With a few more miles left to go, I will say.
20:42What is your own invention, sir?
20:44Seven shillings and six pence at Drew's.
20:47And the chilling goes all the way through, does it?
20:50Rubber on the outside to keep off the mud.
20:53I call that really ingenious.
20:56You're a wonderfully observant constable.
21:00Sergeant, actually.
21:02What was she killed with, by the way?
21:04I'd have thought one needed something a bloody sight heavier for a head like hers.
21:07You don't own a blue overcoat, do you, by any chance, madam?
21:13I wouldn't be seen dead in blue.
21:17You still, er, doing what you do?
21:21Oh, well, sort of, yes.
21:24I dare say, in a manner of speaking.
21:26Oh, yes, yes.
21:29I said wait.
21:32And I brought a letter for you.
21:34Yes, all right, sir.
21:36I know you're important.
21:37It's just I haven't got a lot of time for a small talk at the moment.
21:40And this is the envelope.
21:45A Barbara Fellowship is actually Miss Brimley, the editor of the magazine.
21:49She doubles as the agony aunt.
21:50Why did she bring it to you?
21:56Well, we worked together during the war.
21:58We're sort of buddies.
21:59I said wait.
22:06What sort of cable?
22:08Spell it.
22:16Have you ever heard of coaxial cable?
22:22Coaxial means having a common axis.
22:24It's cable with a copper rod in the center and a lot of fine wires around the rod.
22:29Oh, yeah?
22:30It's used a lot in telephone communication.
22:34The density of the wires create extra fields which circle around the same axis.
22:39Oh.
22:40So you can have many more telephone calls going.
22:43Then you have wires to carry them, if you see what I mean.
22:47Could you murder somebody with it?
22:49Oh, I think so.
22:50Yes.
22:51I'm sure you could.
22:54Piece of it, yes.
22:56But it would do rather well.
22:59Could you kill a dog with it?
23:00Oh, I'm sure.
23:02Are you on the technical side of your luck, then?
23:05Oh, no.
23:06God forbid.
23:13Where did you go to school?
23:15Oh, here and there.
23:17A bit in Germany.
23:18That was before the war, then.
23:21More or less.
23:29I shall have to keep this, if you don't mind.
23:38What's next on your agenda, Mr. Smiley?
23:40No, I just like to be useful.
23:44You're not, um...
23:47Reporting to someone, are you?
23:51Just to you, really.
23:53And Miss Brimley.
23:55When the time comes.
23:57It's just that we're not fond of amateurs in our profession, you see.
24:01Nor are we in ours.
24:02They are an absolute pest.
24:04He travels fastest, who travels alone, I say.
24:10I do so agree.
24:11I make it 30 or 40 blows.
24:35I could be a liar.
24:36I'm assuming the first salvo was the hardest.
24:40After that, the murderer began to run out of puff.
24:43The first blows seem to have come from the left.
24:45So probably a right-hander.
24:47But you never can really tell.
24:49Some people prefer backhand.
24:52Then, of course, the victim does tend to wriggle around.
24:55Not many of us stay still when a maniac is walloping us with a chunk of cable.
25:00We get fidgety.
25:01Fragments of copper here, more there.
25:05Bits of coloured rubber coating stuck in the bone here.
25:10Some lacerations on the shoulders, but that's probably when he bished.
25:14Am I right in thinking that he went on hitting her after she was dead?
25:19Couple of times.
25:20Looks like it.
25:22Or she, of course.
25:23Could have been a woman, using both hands.
25:25If she was an Amazon.
25:28Just.
25:28Clutch now!
25:41Clutch now!
26:08Dr. Rude, how are you today sir? I thought you were back teaching.
26:37They've laid me off for the present. I've come to see if they're going to let me have it yet. I've got a certificate from the doctor saying life's extinct.
26:48Yes, well I'm sorry about that sir. Can I ask you a question sir? It's just routine. When you're doing your teaching, do you have any occasion to use correctful cable?
27:00Oh yes. I had a demonstration sample of it somewhere.
27:08So where might we put our hands on that? I don't know. It went missing.
27:17When did you first notice it was missing sir? Ten days ago. Five. Sorry. You lose your sense of time when something like this happens. Pills I suppose.
27:35Did you advise anyone it was missing? At the time I mean?
27:41Perhaps I told Stella. I don't know. I was thinking about Perkins actually.
27:48Yes, well you told me about him. He's the lad who did so well in the exam.
27:52Makes me wonder whether I've been misjudging him all this time.
27:56Dr. Rhode? My name is Smiley. I represent the editor of the Christian Voice. Your wife was a very loyal subscriber. What we call one of our faithfuls.
28:07She won first prize for Kitchen Hints a few years, babe. She never told me that.
28:13Oh well, there you are. Modest to the end. We're planning a small celebration of her life, you see, sir.
28:20We're mentioning her family and all the old connections. I've spoken to the minister, but I'd very much like a chance to ask you a few questions.
28:29When you've been able? I mean, nothing personal. We could talk about her work for the Hungarians. Where would I find you, sir?
28:37They've all offered me hospitality. Shane, Dorothy, even Fielding. I didn't feel able to accept.
28:50Six saw the Abbey knew Mrs. McFarlane's. I'll drop by if I may.
29:00It's not like school at Mrs. McFarlane's. We have tea at six. It's more like home.
29:07Oh, so many people. It's all so kind. You wonder who she was.
29:28Well, I wear it under my blouse, don't I? It feels nice against my skin.
29:48Nobody else sees it. Except you. You haven't told anybody else.
29:56Not after Stella. And I only told her because I trusted her. She was Chappell.
30:04She said I looked happy. And I told her why. She said she was happy for me.
30:12Anyway, I liked her, didn't I? There's nothing wrong with liking people.
30:20Just because you haven't got any friends doesn't mean to say I can't, does it?
30:28Just... Just don't tell anybody else. Promise.
30:34Let me bring them all back on the wheel. Back to the station, sir.
30:38No, sir. I'm sorry, sir, but I...
30:41Turn that down, sir.
30:42You wouldn't have a cigarette by any chance, would you?
30:49Sorry, I...
30:53Northfields, Mellor. That's the Rhodes House, Mr. Smiley.
30:58She was murdered between ten past eleven and a quarter to twelve.
31:12Her husband found the body.
31:14They'd been out to a school dinner.
31:16Dr. Rhodes had to stay behind and talk some point of business.
31:19Mrs. Rhodes, well, she was bald or tired.
31:23So she went home ahead, walked by herself.
31:27There's nothing to that round here.
31:29It's a safe little town, or was.
31:33He comes home, and there she is.
31:36Still warm, naturally.
31:39You never saw blood like it.
31:41Travel blood, straight from the arteries.
31:43Clothes, hands, face.
31:45You must have been literally a bloody nightmare.
31:48Wellingtons, probably.
31:53Or overshoes.
31:55Could have been. Size ten and a half, part worn.
31:58From the spacing of the prints, we'd say six feet tall and running,
32:01but that's just guesswork.
32:02Could have been five foot tall and walking like Groucho Marx.
32:05Came in through the back garden and went God knows where.
32:09Everything vanishes in this case.
32:11People, clothing, weapons.
32:14There's no Wellington footprints out, of course.
32:17There's bicycle marks in the lane, but just about everyone round here has a bicycle.
32:21There's a piece of coaxial cable that's missing from Dr. Rhodes' possession.
32:25And there's a piece of coaxial cable that did her in.
32:27That doesn't make Dr. Rhodes a murderer.
32:30No.
32:31There's a superintendent, an OC.
32:36What's that?
32:37Cornian, an old boy.
32:39I'd like to sweep Stella Road under the carpet.
32:41There's Mad Janie, freezing in the forest somewhere.
32:45And there's Mr. Felix Darcy, the distinguished sexual athlete,
32:50who seems to have written Stella a threatening letter about something he's not letting on.
32:55There's not a motive in sight that's worth a French kiss on Putney Bridge.
32:59Say you're looking for?
33:01A weightless six-foot psychopath in Wellington's who can fly and take his clues with him on his broomstick.
33:07Stella Road wore a necklace.
33:18It's missing.
33:19Nothing else is except a blue woman's overcoat with no belt that doesn't look to anyone.
33:23A valuable necklace?
33:25Piece of junk.
33:26Bunch of green beads on a bit of string.
33:28Come on!
33:29Come on!
33:30Come on!
33:31Come on!
33:32God, I hate women, someone.
33:33It's like bloody up-and-tops.
33:35Come on!
33:36Come on!
33:37Let's support that man!
33:39Who saw the beads last?
33:41Fielding.
33:42Mr. Terence Fielding.
33:44Senior housemaster at Khan.
33:46It was his dinner party.
33:47That's his house, too.
33:49Is Fielding married?
33:50Very much not.
33:51Is he anything else?
33:53No, no.
33:54Just a capon, I expect.
33:55You know these English intellectuals.
33:57No appetites, sir.
33:59No appetites.
34:00No criminal record.
34:02Not for outsiders, that is.
34:04What's this Hungarian refugee story?
34:08Their senior wives got an appeal going for unwanted clothing.
34:13Stella Road packed it, sent it up to London.
34:19What's up, Miller?
34:20Who the devil's that?
34:21Peter Hopkins, sir, from Carey Town.
34:23He's brought you a little present back at the station.
34:25How's he doing in our parish?
34:27My God, not another one.
34:34Who found this horrible object?
34:35Me, sir.
34:36Mundy.
34:37I just happened to be passing on me bike, sir.
34:39I looked down in the ditch and there and was.
34:41My God, some weight.
34:43Forty blows, he said.
34:44An Amazon?
34:45Or a Tarzan?
34:46Or both?
34:47Forty blows, he said.
34:48Forty blows, he said.
34:49An Amazon?
34:50Or a Tarzan?
34:51Or both?
34:52A Tarzan?
34:53Or both?
34:55A Tarzan?
34:58A Tarzan?
35:00Or both?
35:01A Tarzan?
35:03A Tarzan?
35:0621, 22, bloody hell.
35:36Try it.
36:06Stella was such a nice person.
36:14One is so grateful for the adjective, and so unusual.
36:18She did such clever things with the same frock.
36:20Mrs. Hicks, you're wicked.
36:24Was she popular at Cannes?
36:26My dear, one isn't popular at Cannes, I hope.
36:29I think she was popular with the populace of Cannes.
36:32She was a Christian scientist or something.
36:34She was a Baptist, actually.
36:35Darling, how sweet.
36:38Didn't she do rather good work for the refugees?
36:41Yes, terrific.
36:42She really got it going.
36:44Who are you?
36:46Nobody, really.
36:47I'm just a rather dull civil servant, I'm afraid.
36:50Knew my brother Adrian during the war.
36:52They spied together.
36:55Adrian was the white sheep of the family.
36:57Why do you know so much about Stella?
37:00Well, I think we all do at the moment.
37:03Some of us wish we knew rather less.
37:05The only smiley I ever heard of
37:07was married to one of Lord Sorley's cousins,
37:10a tart by the name of Anne Serkham.
37:13He was in the civil service.
37:15I'm afraid there are rather a lot of us about.
37:18Stella did do jolly good work on my refugees.
37:22She didn't mind rolling up her sleeves.
37:24We called her the bag lady.
37:27She bagged up the clothes for us
37:29and made sure Posty emptied the bin every morning
37:31and off to London.
37:34Bin?
37:35Collecting bin.
37:37A hideous yellow thing near their gate.
37:40Good form isn't everything in life, Shane.
37:43I thought she was insufferable.
37:45One of those tiresome little snobs
37:47who think only the humble are virtuous.
37:49She made being holier than thou
37:51into something of a profession.
37:53Oh, I say.
37:54We've only been here two halves.
37:56Stella was kinder to us than anyone.
37:59But she was happy to be herself.
38:01So people sneered at her.
38:03Just because she was simple about the things she liked.
38:05All right, darling.
38:06No, no, no, let the girl speak.
38:09She's quite right.
38:11It doesn't matter.
38:18Blessed are the meek.
38:22Well, I'm meek as hell
38:24and I certainly haven't inherited the earth.
38:27You know, I used to regard the road sweeper
38:28as a person inferior to myself.
38:31These days I rather doubt it.
38:33Something's dirty, road sweeper makes it clean,
38:35state of the world advances.
38:36What have I done?
38:40Entrenched a ruling class that
38:42the present company accepted
38:44is possessed of neither talent nor culture.
38:48Opening young minds to wonders
38:50they'll never be able to enjoy.
38:52Faked, pretended, postured,
38:55dreamed.
38:57Khan isn't a school.
38:58It's a sanatorium for dying souls.
39:02Every day our minds atrophy and rot.
39:07You see before you a dead soul
39:10and Khan is the body I inhabit.
39:14Or did.
39:15God bless us all.
39:19And I say amen to that.
39:24I think Terence is suffering
39:25from a very bad case of last half blues.
39:29Don't you, Felix?
39:31Ah.
39:33Lucky to have made it this far,
39:34if you ask me, Terence.
39:37Khan's been good to you.
39:39Better not to forget it.
39:42You always were a little too rich
39:43for Khan's blood,
39:44weren't you, Terence?
39:50Omnis quia distis
39:51ad preces con vocumini.
39:54My dear Perkins,
39:56have you just won the marathon?
39:57Bicycling from Mrs. Hollow, sir.
39:59Extra violin.
40:00You did very well, Tim.
40:02Well done.
40:04Now, if you'll excuse me
40:05for a moment, ladies and gentlemen,
40:07I was to tend to my flock, Harry.
40:11Ah, I think it's as if I need
40:13some more port.
40:15Is that the same Perkins
40:17who did so well
40:18in his science exam?
40:20Good heavens.
40:21How on earth did you know that?
40:23Well, I was talking
40:24to poor Stanley Rowe.
40:25He was mystified.
40:26Yes, well, so was I.
40:28It was I who corrected his paper.
40:31I couldn't help wondering
40:32if he'd, well,
40:34had a little help.
40:36Well, I suppose I...
40:48Just one more.
40:55Delightful party.
40:57Nice people.
40:58I hate them all.
41:05What?
41:06Worth the journey?
41:07Very much so, eh?
41:10Why come otherwise?
41:12Indeed.
41:15So, why come?
41:20Oh, bullied into it
41:21by an old friend
41:22who couldn't come down herself
41:23and felt that something
41:24should be done.
41:25You know how it goes.
41:26You said on the phone
41:28something about a letter
41:28from Stella Rowe.
41:30Did I?
41:31Oh, yes, she went in
41:33for some competition
41:34the magazine was running
41:35and complained rather aggressively
41:37that she'd been discriminated against.
41:40It's all water under the bridge now.
41:42But you thought you'd come
41:43all the same.
41:44Yes.
41:45What was Stella really like?
41:47Well, she was common,
41:48as you heard.
41:50We're all common.
41:51Middle-class bores
41:52with upper-class pretensions
41:53and third-class degrees.
41:56She dragged us down,
41:57they said.
41:58Well, we're down already.
42:00Flat on the ground,
42:01some of us.
42:04Flat.
42:07Flatulent.
42:09Flatulentis.
42:11Flatbroke.
42:13So, what are you going to do
42:14with your retirement?
42:16Retirement?
42:17Without a pension?
42:18Oh, Venice,
42:19perhaps for a few months.
42:21Chibriani's, maybe.
42:24Buy a little place
42:24in the Dordon.
42:27Find a gorgeous boy
42:28to ease my declining years.
42:31No pension?
42:33I'm a temporary master here.
42:36Permanently temporary.
42:39In 1940,
42:41I happened to be cottage-crawling
42:42in Tasteful Hull.
42:43Cruising gentlemen's lavatories
42:47in search of temporary consolation.
42:51Mine turned out
42:52to be a very charming
42:53young policeman.
42:56I thought I might get away with it.
43:00But I reckoned
43:01without the Darces,
43:02the eyes and ears of Kahn.
43:07The governors took a lenient view.
43:10Stay on sufferance,
43:12they said.
43:12But don't expect a pension.
43:20I don't tamper
43:21with little boys.
43:24I'm not a monster.
43:26Why am I telling you all this?
43:30Because you know, don't you?
43:32Adrian tried to help me out,
43:34but your bloody office
43:35chose to turn me down.
43:37I can't think why,
43:38considering how many of us
43:39you took.
43:40perhaps that wasn't pretty enough.
43:48So what will you do?
43:51There's a possible little
43:53national trust house
43:54near Salisbury.
43:55some nice 18th century portraits,
44:00decent staircase,
44:02rather suspect furniture,
44:04and 600 pounds a year
44:06for the curator.
44:07I think it's rather appropriate
44:11that I should die in a museum.
44:13but I shall miss the warmth
44:17of human contact,
44:18naturally.
44:28You might tell me
44:29how my brother died.
44:33He was always
44:34such an example.
44:34I'm sure he did it wonderfully.
44:41Yes, he did.
44:49You're snooping.
44:52I can feel it.
44:55What do you want?
44:55gentlemen, see you, sir.
45:01Sorry about this.
45:03Just routine.
45:09Oh, George Smalley,
45:11Inspector Rigby.
45:12Evening, sir.
45:13First time in Cannes?
45:15Yes, I'm afraid it is.
45:17You can always tell an old boy.
45:18They've got the confidence.
45:20Now, sir,
45:21just one question,
45:23if you don't mind.
45:23Oh, don't worry about him.
45:28He's family.
45:31Well, sir,
45:32this briefcase here
45:33is by way of being
45:35a rough approximation
45:36to Mr. Rhodes.
45:40I believe Mrs. Rhodes,
45:41on the night of the murder,
45:43left early
45:44after your dinner party.
45:47But Mr. Rhodes,
45:49he left later.
45:50And he took the lane home?
45:52No, he took the path
45:53across the fields.
45:54He always does.
45:55A bit dark oak, isn't it?
45:56I lent him a torch.
45:59This the torch, sir?
46:01Yes.
46:03It's all yours, sir.
46:05I should get you
46:06to sign a receipt for it,
46:07but I shan't bother.
46:12During dinner, sir,
46:13where was this briefcase situated?
46:16On the marble shelf.
46:19He takes it with him everywhere.
46:22Rather silly of him.
46:23Makes him a figure of fun.
46:26And when he left?
46:28I handed it to him.
46:29Yourself?
46:30Yes, I was he people off.
46:31Put it in his hand?
46:33Yes.
46:35And the briefcase was
46:36light, was it?
46:38Just a few exam papers,
46:40I understand.
46:44No, as a matter of fact,
46:45it was as heavy as lead.
46:47I made a joke to him.
46:49I said,
46:49I can't remember now.
46:52Oh, yes, I do.
46:54I said, Christ,
46:56what have you got in there?
46:57Are you doing a bit
46:58of plumbing on the side?
46:59Have you been standing
47:06outside that door
47:07all the time?
47:08No, sir.
47:09What do you want?
47:10A mission to sound
47:11senior boy's bell, sir.
47:14Well, sound it, Tim.
47:15Sound it.
47:17Well, I mustn't keep
47:18you, gentlemen.
47:19Good night, Mr. Fielding.
47:21Good night, Mr.
47:23Smiley.
47:24Good night.
47:26Can I give you a lift
47:27somewhere, sir?
47:27Oh, no, I'm just
47:28at the sorely arms.
47:30Walk will do me good,
47:31thank you.
47:32Well, mind how you go now.
47:33These are tricky times.
47:43Well?
47:45Under the road?
47:46Oh, no, I must be off.
47:49Policemen are so
47:50bloody obvious.
47:52You better take this.
47:54Shall I come with you?
47:55Oh, no, I'll be fine.
47:58Well, take care.
47:59This isn't London, you know.
48:01Country people take the law
48:02into their own hands.
48:03Oh.
48:04You mean they break it?
48:08Good night.
48:09Good night.
48:10Hello, Perkins.
48:25Hello, Perkins.
48:39Good night, sir.
48:39Good night, sir.
48:48Good night?
48:50Is that what you wanted
48:51to say to me?
48:54It's just nice to talk
48:56to people from outside
48:57sometimes.
48:59Is there anything special
49:00you want to tell them?
49:02Not really, sir.
49:08Oh.
49:11Well, good night.
49:16Good night, sir.
49:16Good night.
49:40Good night.
49:41Good night.
49:42Good night.
51:44But I've seen the devil I have.
51:46Silver wings he has.
51:48I saw him flying, riding the wind.
51:51And the moon right behind him, right in the way.
51:54They were close as sisters, the moon and the devil.
51:58And they got blood to them you wouldn't not believe.
52:00Thank you for your help.
52:15Next time you feel the urge, phone me first.
52:16Do you mind?
52:17I'll come round with a bottle and talk you out of it.
52:19It takes 21 minutes exactly.
52:21What does?
52:22To walk from Fielding's house across the fields to Rhodes' house.
52:25Fascinating.
52:26Oh.
52:27It's Monday.
52:32Which way?
52:39Straight on.
52:40One and a half miles.
52:42You'll see a sign to Mallow's pool.
52:45Evening, sir.
52:47Good evening.
52:47There's four or five of these villages up here on a plateau, like, sir.
52:56Pontus Valum, Miser's Chord, Pile.
53:00Pile's where all the local idiots come from.
53:02Incest it is, probably.
53:05Ridden bread is a barn full of cats.
53:08There's the light.
53:09Go slow now.
53:11Left in 100 yards.
53:15In the field there on its own.
53:16Easy now.
53:18A plague church, Pile is.
53:21See, when the plague came, the villagers left their dead and burned their houses and moved away.
53:26Shut up, Ted.
53:27I saw the light, you see, sir.
53:29There's only one person lights a light in Pile Church these days.
53:41You'd better stay here.
53:43The last thing we need is you look after.
53:45Come behind me, sir.
53:47Just look out for badgers.
53:49They'll go for you this time of year.
53:52Badgers?
53:52Surely not.
53:54Just my little joke, sir.
53:55Monday, shut up with you.
53:59Alright.
54:01Okay.
54:02Now, what do you want to do in order for?
54:03No.
54:04Bye.
54:17Bye.
54:17Good.
54:18Too soon.
54:18Bye.
54:19Good.
54:20Okay.
54:20Bye.
54:21Bye.
54:22Bye.
54:25Bye.
54:28Bye.
54:29Come along, my lovely.
54:46Time for a nice car ride.
54:52Where'd you get that pretty coat from, Janie?
54:59You'd do something for him, did you, Janie?
55:08What did you do for him?
55:10He gave me a necklace.
55:13He gave me a coat to keep me warm.
55:19I'm scared, Ted Mundy.
55:22You better bloody well be scared and all.
55:26He talked to you too, did he?
55:30She did.
55:33What did she say then, Janie?
55:36No!
55:37Don't!
55:39Look!
55:40Don't!
55:40Don't!
55:41No!
55:42Ah!
55:43No!
55:43No!
55:44Ah!
55:44No!
55:45Don't!
55:46Don't!
55:47No!
55:48No!
55:49I say that Mrs. Rhodes' dog let her down completely.
55:53Run away.
55:54No absolute bloody nonsense.
55:56Rumour factory.
55:57That's what this place is.
55:58Worse than a regiment.
56:00Bloody wives at the root of it all.
56:02That's what ruined India.
56:04Yeah.
56:04So what happened?
56:06The dog wasn't even there, not within miles of the place.
56:09Hadn't been for a week or more.
56:11Yeah.
56:12Ah, Hardy.
56:15Hello, Hardy.
56:16Where was it?
56:17Here.
56:18That's him.
56:20That's your dog.
56:21Been here for, um...
56:22Oh, I don't know.
56:23Alice!
56:24How long have we had Hardy here?
56:25Uh, about a week.
56:30We're going to keep him if we can.
56:32He's my favourite.
56:33But it's a tragedy.
56:35I mean, he might have saved Mrs. Rhodes' life.
56:37There you are.
56:39There's your chum.
56:41Some of his sister's pups over for jabs.
56:44Uh-huh.
56:45Yes, she brought it over herself one afternoon.
56:48Said her husband was sick and tired of it.
56:50Said he threatened to drown it.
56:52She was scared.
56:54But no talk of putting it down.
56:56No, no, no, no.
56:58No, no.
56:58Just one of his moods, that's all.
57:00Best let it pass over.
57:02Said if he telephoned,
57:04I used to say the dog was dead.
57:05I wouldn't have said any such damn thing, of course.
57:09Not a human nature in this business.
57:12You get to know the types.
57:14And what was her type?
57:16Oh, trouble.
57:17I've had a few of those in the regiment in my time, too.
57:20Butter wouldn't melt.
57:21Holier than thou.
57:23And then all of a sudden, wallop.
57:25I'd say that she was the hysterical type.
57:27Self-dramatizing.
57:29Weeping all over the place for days on end,
57:31driving their husbands to drink.
57:33Or worse.
57:34Sunday virgins, we used to call them.
57:39ODs, most of them.
57:42Other denominations, no?
57:49So, if I may ask,
57:52what was in the briefcase
57:53when you walked home across the field?
57:57Nothing much.
57:59Exam papers, mainly.
58:01Exam papers for correction.
58:04No, no, papers I'd set for the exam the next day.
58:10I, um,
58:11have to carry it with me all the time.
58:13See, no classroom,
58:15no, uh,
58:16no locker.
58:17Nothing heavy,
58:18no heavy samples of
58:20physical aids,
58:21and,
58:21you're sure?
58:22Of course I'm sure.
58:25What's it got to do with you, anyway?
58:30What happened to your dog?
58:35She killed him.
58:38She said that
58:39she was sick of seeing all my love going on a dog.
58:42Now you can log me instead,
58:45she said.
58:47She'd taken it to, um,
58:49Harriman's
58:50to be put down.
58:53That's when I moved downstairs.
58:54I couldn't sleep with her after that.
58:56And I hated her.
59:05Yeah, I've said it now.
59:09Don't say it to anyone else.
59:11Thanks, guys.
59:12Thanks.
59:13Bye.
59:14Bye.
59:18Bye.
59:37Bye.
59:38Bye.
59:39Bye.
59:39Bye.
59:39Bye.
59:40Bye.
59:40Bye.
59:40Bye.
59:40Bye.
59:40Bye.
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