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There has been an outbreak of radiation poisoning around a North African nuclear reactor. A group of locals blame the reactor for the sickness and campaign for the plant to be shut down.
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00:00I'll get out of here.
00:23No, sir. I will make the move.
00:30Good morning, gentlemen.
00:45I don't work for this company.
00:48I've got no part in your quarrel.
00:50Would you be kind enough to let me through?
01:00Thank you very much.
01:07Thank you very much.
01:09Whatever.
01:10A nice static cabin.
01:11Let's get back here.
01:12I'll get back here.
01:13I'll get back here.
01:14Yes.
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01:32Yes.
01:33Every government has its secret service branch.
01:34America, its CIA, France, the deuxième bureau, England, MI5.
01:39A messy job, oh, that's when they usually call on me or someone like me.
01:44Oh, yes.
01:45My name is Drake, John Drake.
01:51But didn't you have any trouble getting in through the gate, Mr. Drake?
02:01Trouble?
02:03The demonstrators have a picket out there.
02:05Have they?
02:07Mr. Martin is expecting you, but at the moment he's meeting the protest committee.
02:11He asked me to bring you along in, thought it might interest you, put you in the picture.
02:15Dr. Bryant here is our technical advisor and he will give you his assurance.
02:18Yes, of course I will.
02:19I've tested repeatedly.
02:20There's not the slightest doubt in my mind.
02:22That doesn't alter the fact that my clinic received his 46th case of radiation sickness today.
02:28Dr. Leclerc, these unfortunate people have my deepest sympathy.
02:31But I must repeat that their sickness is not from a leak in the reactor.
02:34Such a leak wouldn't be a matter of mystery or conjecture, but a physical...
02:38Words, words, Dr. Bryant.
02:40Every day more men fall sick from this dreadful malady and all you could give us is words.
02:44We should very much like to help, Sheikh Ahmed.
02:46But the reactor is not the cause of...
02:48Nonsense.
02:48You know very well that radiation sickness can only be caused by a source of radioactivity.
02:54And the only source in the area is your reactor.
02:57Your witch, Dr. Bryant, may walk around with his box of tricks and tell us there is no leak of an unseen substance through thin air.
03:04But we have our means of measuring too, Mr. Martin.
03:06We measure in sick men.
03:08You must close down your reactor.
03:11I am in complete agreement.
03:13I should expect you to be, Sheikh Ahmed.
03:15Oh, and why?
03:16The power from this reactor will soon be pumping water, lighting homes, turning machinery.
03:21It will change the whole of this town's economy.
03:23There will be work and a good living for everyone.
03:25And so?
03:26Well, you will lose all your laborers.
03:27You will find it impossible to run your estates.
03:29You will face ruin.
03:30That is an unworthy suggestion, Dr. Bryant.
03:33Sheikh Ahmed has never spared himself in the interests of his people.
03:36Oh, I'm sure Dr. Bryant didn't really mean...
03:38I was merely trying to point out that he has a keener interest in this matter than any of us.
03:43I disagree.
03:44As the government's representative, I am the most interested party.
03:51We shall be meeting tomorrow to discuss the matter further, and we shall then decide what to do.
03:55If you close down the reactor, your own people will suffer, Colonel.
03:58You will be closing the door to their hopes of a better way of life.
04:01Then open your doors, Mr. Martin.
04:03Allow this committee to see over the plant.
04:04Let us satisfy ourselves that there is nothing...
04:06Just what do you imagine a bunch of fanatics is going to do?
04:09Then the responsibility rests with the government, and you must leave it to us to decide what to do.
04:13Very well, Colonel Perard.
04:17Thank you, Colonel.
04:19Well, gentlemen, I have other things to do.
04:29I must warn you, Mr. Martin, that my government is almost bound to instruct you to close down the reactor.
04:34Now, if you could take some positive step to stop this sickness, well...
04:37What kind of action do you suggest, Colonel?
04:40There is no leak.
04:41How do you imagine that we...
04:42That'll be all, thank you, Dr. Bryant.
04:43We are taking steps to find out the cause of this radiation sickness ourselves.
04:50This is Mr. John Drake, Colonel Perard.
04:53Mr. Drake is going to carry out investigations for us.
04:56How do you do, Mr. Drake?
04:57How do you do, Colonel?
04:58Are you a physicist, Mr. Drake?
04:59No.
05:01A biologist?
05:02No.
05:02Mr. Drake is a special agent.
05:04So you still insist that the fault lies outside your own organization?
05:08I wish you luck, Mr. Drake.
05:09Thank you very much indeed.
05:10Oh, Mr. Drake.
05:12Well, I should like to talk to some of the affected people.
05:15Incidentally, are you sure that Dr. Leclerc is not mistaken in her diagnosis?
05:18No.
05:19She's a good physician.
05:20Whatever else she may be.
05:21Well, then I think the first thing is a chat with her.
05:23Don't you?
05:24Right.
05:24Good morning, Doctor.
05:38Dr. Leclerc?
05:39Yes.
05:43That's better.
05:46Good morning, Matron.
05:47Oh, good morning, Doctor.
05:48No, no, no.
05:49Oh, thank you.
05:55Doctor, are you absolutely certain that there could be no other disease, however rare, with
05:59exactly the same symptoms?
06:01You'll find me one, and I'll be quite prepared to think again.
06:04Good morning, Farsi.
06:05Did you make a blood count of the Somali woman?
06:07Yes.
06:07Doctor, you're an expert in your field.
06:10The atomic people are experts on theirs.
06:12Now, they are convinced that there is no leak.
06:14So let us suppose just for a moment that the reactor plant is not to blame.
06:17Oh, really, Mr. Drake?
06:18Let us just assume it for a moment.
06:20Now, that would suggest that the victims have been infected from some other source.
06:23But what and from where?
06:25There would have to be a common factor.
06:27They're all very sick.
06:28That's the one common factor.
06:30Yes.
06:31I noticed there were no Europeans in the war just now.
06:33No.
06:34How many of them have been infected?
06:35None so far.
06:36But many Europeans work at the reactor plant.
06:38Now, how would you explain that?
06:39Very simple.
06:42Your people are wealthy, accustomed to a better diet, grow up stronger, have more resistance.
06:46Oh, do you think there's any truth in that?
06:48There could be, but none of the observations I've made so far would lead me to believe so.
06:52Mr. Drake, this is Sheikh Ahmed.
06:54How do you do, Mr. Drake?
06:54How do you do?
06:55You're on the staff of the power company?
06:57Oh, no.
06:57But I saw you in the director's office today.
06:59Yes.
07:00Are there any more cases this morning?
07:04Three.
07:05In the reception ward.
07:06Disgraceful.
07:07I'll go and see them.
07:08Their families may need help.
07:09Thank you, Ahmed.
07:10And would you talk to the almoner?
07:12He tells me our food stocks are running low again.
07:14Of course, doctor.
07:14Anything.
07:15You have only to ask.
07:23Yes.
07:24Leclerc is speaking.
07:26When?
07:27How long ago?
07:30Yes.
07:31Don't move him.
07:31I'll be right over.
07:35Well, Mr. Drake.
07:37We have our first European victim.
07:52We've come to see Mr. Johnsey.
07:54Oh, please come in.
07:54Thank you very much.
07:55You'll find him upstairs in the back room.
08:02You will be taking him away, won't you?
08:04Perhaps.
08:05Is he your husband?
08:06No, indeed he is not, young woman.
08:13What, are you here again?
08:14Good morning, Mrs. Parks.
08:15Would you be the physician, sir?
08:17No, the lady here is Dr. Leclerc.
08:18Good morning, madam.
08:19The master is in the most distressing circumstances.
08:22His respiration is weak.
08:23His pulse is irregular.
08:24He has pains in his head and a looseness in his stomach.
08:27I see.
08:28Would you take me to him?
08:30The master is a great man.
08:31And like many great men, he's a coward.
08:33Physically, you understand.
08:35Not mentally.
08:35I quite understand.
08:37I won't say anything to distress you.
08:39What's your name?
08:40Uh, Sadie, sir.
08:41All right, Sadie, shall we go and see your master now?
08:43Yes, sir.
08:44Good.
08:55Master, you must wake.
08:57There's a lady physician here.
08:59I have told her her symptoms and she says you have nothing to fear.
09:02Just lie still.
09:05I, uh, I noticed that you call him the master, not my master.
09:14That is true, sir.
09:15Mr. Yonsey is a professor at the University of Oxford.
09:18He has held the chair for literature at the University of Cairo.
09:22He's retired.
09:23And now, as you see, he lives in poverty.
09:25Does he have no pension?
09:27No, sir.
09:27He did not retire altogether in his own accord.
09:32They say he had a weakness.
09:34It was a bottle.
09:36But other great men of us.
09:37Yes, of course.
09:38Why do you call him master?
09:40He teaches me all he knows.
09:41Does he ever go out?
09:43He used to go to his club.
09:45But since he's had no money, he stays at home.
09:47What does he eat?
09:48Very little.
09:49I get him all I can.
09:50But you understand, I'm very poor as well.
09:51So you feed him?
09:52It is nothing.
09:53He feeds my mind.
09:55What do you give him?
09:57Bread.
09:58Meat is hard to get.
09:59Sometimes rice, but mostly bread.
10:02Has he eaten in the last week?
10:04Only bread.
10:04Where did you get it?
10:05From a friend.
10:06Where did your friend get it?
10:08I do not know.
10:09You must find him and ask him, mustn't you?
10:10I can't.
10:11Why not?
10:12Because he has gone away.
10:14Come on, please.
10:14You finished my doctor?
10:26Yes.
10:27An ambulance will call for the master, Sardy.
10:29You will stay with him until it arrives.
10:31I will go with him to the hospital?
10:32No, you can't do that.
10:33But if you like to call in the mornings and ask for me,
10:36I will tell you how he's doing.
10:38Well?
10:48He, um, steals the bread.
10:51Where from?
10:51The baker's in the souk.
10:53Out of quarters.
10:54That's right.
10:54What are you seeking, Effendi?
11:08A loaf of bread.
11:09Ah, then you are very hard to please.
11:12I watched you visit every stall in the market.
11:15What is that machine?
11:16Oh, this, uh, this tells me about the quality of the bread.
11:19Aye.
11:20Does he tell you that that rogue, Assam's bread, is underweight?
11:23No, it doesn't tell me that.
11:24Then you should leave your machine at home, Effendi,
11:26and use your eyes.
11:30There, you see?
11:34Why does the machine make that noise?
11:36It tells me it has good bread.
11:38Oh, then it speaks the truth.
11:39I'll buy it.
11:40Would you put it in here for me, please?
11:44Now, can you tell me where I can find the man who baked it?
11:48Uh, his name is Moham, sir.
11:51That is his door there.
11:52Thank you very much.
12:01I'm looking for the man called Moham.
12:03And you found him.
12:05And if it's about my debt to the Anglo-American bank, I...
12:09All right, nothing like that.
12:10This was made by you, was it not?
12:14Oh, oh, yes.
12:17Yes, it's fine bread.
12:19Most excellent quality.
12:20You like bread, Effendi?
12:22Oh, yes, it fascinates me.
12:24My congratulations.
12:25You have a good eye.
12:27This is indeed fine quality.
12:29The best in our wadi.
12:31Observe the thick brown crust,
12:33undulating the thin golden skin
12:36that dissolves in the touch of the lips.
12:38Oh, the richness of it.
12:40Do you fake all your bread here?
12:41Oh, yes, myself and the boy.
12:43But he was taken ill yesterday.
12:46I suppose you're very careful where you buy your flour.
12:49Oh, I buy the best I can.
12:50Now, those loaves, they're poor quality,
12:53but that one, this is a different matter.
12:56Well, uh, what flour was this made from?
12:59Well, it was but from the mills of the sheik himself.
13:01Sheik, am I?
13:03No less.
13:04Can I see some of that flour?
13:07No, I've used it all up.
13:10You look very fit.
13:12I am indeed.
13:14I suppose you enjoy the goodness of your own cooking.
13:18Oh, alas, no.
13:19My wives don't like me too fat.
13:22I have three wives,
13:23and each more demanding than the last.
13:26You have many wives, Effendi?
13:28No, not many.
13:29Oh, you're a wise man.
13:30Thank you very much for your help.
13:32It's very kind of you.
13:33Not at all.
13:34I enjoyed our little chat.
13:36Why?
13:37Such a pleasant change to speak without interruption.
13:44The sheik army's estates are way up to the north.
13:46Nevertheless, the grain that was made from was radioactive.
13:49But not contaminated by our reactor.
13:51You have to dispose of a great deal of radioactive waste, do you not?
13:54Yes.
13:55It's buried in an isolated area here.
13:57Yes, and that isolated area drains away to the north, does it not?
14:00Yes, it does.
14:01Now, supposing this waste came into contact with an underground stream
14:04which fed one of the sheik's wells from which he irrigates...
14:06Mr. Drake, we are scientists, not idiots.
14:09When we sink a shaft with the disposal of waste,
14:11we do not site it in an underground stream.
14:14No, of course not.
14:15Are you certain there couldn't have been a mistake?
14:17Yes, Mr. Drake.
14:47There, Mr. Drake.
14:49Now you have a sample of water from each of my wells.
14:53And tell me,
14:54why should you suspect the contamination comes from my estate?
14:57Was I singled out because I'm a member of the protest committee?
14:59No, we're inspecting the whole area.
15:01It will take you a lifetime.
15:03Shall I tell you where the search will end?
15:04At the reactor plant?
15:05Oh, that may be.
15:06In the meantime, we'd like permission to inspect your estates.
15:09I will give my permission with pleasure.
15:12There is just one stipulation
15:13that I and my committee should be allowed to view the reactor plant
15:17first.
15:18No, thank you.
15:19I'm sorry, but that's outside my jurisdiction.
15:22Then I'm afraid I can't help you, Mr. Drake.
15:23We must be fair about this, mustn't we?
15:25Ahmed, as a favor to me.
15:27I'm sorry, doctor.
15:28This is a matter of principle.
15:31And we wouldn't dream of outraging a principle.
15:34Thank you very much.
15:47Well, Martin, I, uh, I saw the gentleman in question.
16:14He wouldn't allow me to inspect his estates.
16:16I don't suppose you can blame him.
16:17Couldn't the police organize the search?
16:19He's a very powerful man.
16:21Yes, but you have the loaf when it was made from his flour, was it not?
16:24The loaf has gone.
16:26It's been stolen.
16:27How did that happen?
16:29Just a minute.
16:29Yes, come.
16:31Yes?
16:32Sheik Ahmed sends his apologies, sir.
16:35He feels that he was ungracious to refuse your permission to inspect the estates.
16:39He asks that you should forgive him and suggests that you come now, sir.
16:43Oh, to this time?
16:44Oh, he's most anxious to put things right as soon as possible, sir.
16:47In that case, I won't refuse his generous offer.
16:50I'll call you back later.
16:51We'll be on our way.
16:51Where are you taking me?
17:04Sheik Ahmed thought you would like to see the mills first.
17:07Why the mills in particular?
17:09Evidently, there's some question of contaminated flour.
17:11Oh, really?
17:13You didn't know.
17:17Ah, here are the mill gates.
17:21Where is he after?
17:31Oh, he'll meet us at the other gate.
17:35They can't have got my message.
17:36The door is locked.
17:37Never mind.
17:38The watchman has the key.
17:39I will go and get it.
17:40I won't be a moment.
17:51I won't be a moment.
18:16I won't keep going next.
18:18I'll be with you.
18:39And with you, my friend.
18:42You are lost?
18:43No.
18:44It is not safe for strangers to walk here alone at night.
18:50Peace be with you.
18:51I would not go that way if I were you, my friend.
18:53You might run into danger.
18:54Looks as though I've run into danger already, doesn't it?
19:14Mr. Drake.
19:27What happened to you?
19:28I waited, but you disappeared.
19:29But not permanently.
19:30Where are you going?
19:31I'm going to see Sheikh Ahmed.
19:32Oh, but it's late.
19:33I'm not sure that you wish to...
19:34Let's surprise him, shall we?
19:35Why, Mr. Drake.
19:37Good evening.
19:38Good evening.
19:39I'm sorry you didn't avail yourself of my offer to inspect my mills.
19:43My secretary tells me that he took you as far as the gate.
19:45But you disappeared while he was fetching the key.
19:47That's right.
19:48What happened, Mr. Drake?
19:49I couldn't wait.
19:50I was afraid you might have been involved in the brawl.
19:52When I returned, there were two wounded men lying in the street.
19:55That's just as well I left then, wasn't it?
19:56But we are forgetting our manners, Hashid.
19:58We have not offered Mr. Drake coffee.
20:00You're too kind.
20:02The law of hospitality demands it.
20:04Oh, incidentally, Sheikh Ahmed.
20:06Why did you want me to inspect your mills particularly?
20:08I asked to see the whole estate, didn't I?
20:10Because the rumor is being put about that my flower is radioactive.
20:14Really, Mr. Drake.
20:15If your people can't think up a more convincing story than that.
20:17It is not a rumor.
20:18You see, the sickness is being spread by loaves baked from your flower.
20:22You expect me to believe that?
20:23Where are these loaves?
20:24I should be most interested to see one.
20:26Well, isn't that one over there?
20:27I hope not, Mr. Drake.
20:31I've just been eating it.
20:32Do you understand the seriousness of all this?
20:34No.
20:35But I understand your tactics, Mr. Drake.
20:38You wish to shift the blame from the reactor company onto me.
20:41So?
20:42You find that bread baked from my flower is radioactive.
20:45Can you produce one of these loaves?
20:47Oh, now, come now.
20:48We don't have to fence with each other, do we, Sheikh Ahmed?
20:50Tomorrow, I'll arrange with the company to inspect your property,
20:53and if they find that it has been contaminated,
20:55then, of course, you will have to abandon it.
20:57Abandoned?
20:58For four or five years until they consider it fit for cultivation again.
21:01That would be a tragedy.
21:02You don't seem to take it very seriously.
21:04I find it hard to.
21:05I would have thought that you would have been concerned
21:07not only about the safety of others,
21:09but also about your own very real personal danger.
21:13Personal danger?
21:14To your health.
21:16You may have been exposed to a dangerous amount of radiation.
21:21But then you look fit enough,
21:23and I suppose you haven't experienced any of the symptoms, have you?
21:26Symptoms?
21:27No, no.
21:28Sweating of the palms,
21:30headaches, weariness of the limbs.
21:33No.
21:36Are you feeling all right?
21:37You're a little feverish.
21:38No, no.
21:39I'm tired, that's all.
21:40Oh, then I mustn't keep you from your bed.
21:42I'll say good night to you, sir.
21:43But, Mr. Blank.
21:44Yes?
21:45Nothing, it's nothing.
21:46Oh, good night, then.
21:47Peace.
21:48Go with you.
21:53My arms, legs, quick.
21:54I can hardly move them.
22:00She came, Ed.
22:02Yes.
22:03Yes, I know, but I've been delayed.
22:04I'll come as soon as I can.
22:06Your legs.
22:07High fever, yes.
22:08Very well, I'll come over.
22:09As soon as I can.
22:12He's terrified, poor man.
22:13How long will it last?
22:14How much you'll give him?
22:15The whole lot.
22:17Poor, Ahmed.
22:18I hope you haven't made a mistake, Mr. Drake.
22:20It would be a very cruel trick.
22:21There's no more than he deserves.
22:23I'm going to now.
22:24All right.
22:25But remember that you have to play it my way, won't you?
22:27Up to you, Doctor.
22:33I'm a sick man.
22:34A very sick man, I tell you.
22:35But the core couldn't have leaked.
22:36I am enough the living proof that it has.
22:38But it was safely shielded.
22:40Perhaps your men have...
22:41No, my men have made me to the letter.
22:43Dr. Leclerc.
22:44Send her in at once.
22:45And you, get back in there.
22:50Oh, Doctor, at last.
22:52I hope you've come in time.
22:53Well?
22:54There are some questions I have to ask
22:55before I can allow the doctor to treat you.
22:56Questions, I'm dying.
22:57All right, then answer them quickly.
22:58Now, the radiation sickness was spread by loaves
22:59made with your flour.
23:00We found one of those loaves.
23:01It was stolen.
23:02Shortly after your men tried to kill me.
23:03You're stocking in riddles.
23:04Doctor, I beg you to...
23:05Then let me interpret for you.
23:06You resented the reactor because you knew
23:07that there was a problem.
23:08You had to kill me.
23:09You had to kill me.
23:10You had to kill me.
23:11You had to kill me.
23:12You had to kill me.
23:13You had to kill me.
23:14You had to kill me.
23:15You had to kill me.
23:16I beg you to...
23:17Then let me interpret for you.
23:18You resented the reactor because you knew
23:20that it could ruin you.
23:21You spread the sickness to stir a popular feeling
23:23against the power company.
23:25Send in my guard.
23:30You paid an accomplice within the power company.
23:32He supplied you with radioactive core.
23:34You keep it somewhere here.
23:35Every time you wish to promote a new scare,
23:37you pollute another bag of flour and sell it.
23:39Doctor, you don't believe him.
23:41I think perhaps I do.
23:42You will start treating me immediately.
23:44Are you threatening me?
23:45Yes, Doctor, I am.
23:46You can't tell me to do anything.
23:47You'll have not much time, Sieg Ahmed.
23:49Now, where is the core?
23:54In the office.
23:55Above the mill.
23:56Who is your accomplice?
23:57Finch.
23:58Finch, come out here.
24:02Mr. Finch.
24:03Now, for mercy's sake, help me, Doctor.
24:06Drink this.
24:07You're not going to give me an injection?
24:08Nope.
24:10Drink.
24:13Why not?
24:14You're not suffering from radiation sickness.
24:15But how do you know?
24:16How can you tell?
24:17Because the pains you feel are caused by a drug
24:19which I tipped into your coffee.
24:20Phew!
24:21You'll soon feel better.
24:22Then there was nothing wrong with me?
24:24No.
24:25All this was just a trick?
24:27Yes, just a trick.
24:28Good night, Sieg Ahmed.
24:33No!
24:34You are not leaving, Mr. Drake.
24:36Nor you, Doctor.
24:37You should not have forced my secret from me.
24:39You betrayed me.
24:43Take them away.
24:46What are you going to do?
24:47What can I do?
24:50You must be joking.
24:51It's no joke, Mr. Drake.
24:52Isn't it?
24:53Colonel Perard.
24:54Colonel Perard.
24:55Colonel Perard.
24:56You can come on in now.
24:57We have your message, Mr. Drake.
24:58We're coming in.
25:06Good night once again.
25:07Good night once again.
25:37Or be on fire.
25:38It's a debate.
25:39It's a debate.
25:40No.
25:41I don't know, Dr.�.
25:42We'll have to sleep forever.
25:49Wait.
25:57Dad.
25:58I'd have to sleep.
26:00And dream of it suddenly's my own man.
26:02In this wholepark Omar
26:04Eric O' nie,
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