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First broadcast 2nd November 1980.
The Fohn Fighter is a war-plane manufactured in Eastern Europe but it is a death trap and several pilots have been killed whilst flying it.
Gordon Jackson - George Cowley
Martin Shaw - Doyle
Lewis Collins - Bodie
Stuart Wilson - Van Neikerk
Matthew Long - Martin Hope
David Swift - Sir Kenneth
Lynda Bellingham - Betty Hope
Jeremy Young - Geiser
Timothy Carlton - Seymour
Victoria Burgoyne - Kookie Girl
Raymond Brody - Hotel Receptionist
John Eastham - Barman
Len Howe - Hotel Porter
Mario Renzullo - First Youth
Ricky Wales - Second Youth
Chris Sullivan - Reporter
Simon Tasker - Boy on Bike
Juba Kennerley - Sir Peter
The Fohn Fighter is a war-plane manufactured in Eastern Europe but it is a death trap and several pilots have been killed whilst flying it.
Gordon Jackson - George Cowley
Martin Shaw - Doyle
Lewis Collins - Bodie
Stuart Wilson - Van Neikerk
Matthew Long - Martin Hope
David Swift - Sir Kenneth
Lynda Bellingham - Betty Hope
Jeremy Young - Geiser
Timothy Carlton - Seymour
Victoria Burgoyne - Kookie Girl
Raymond Brody - Hotel Receptionist
John Eastham - Barman
Len Howe - Hotel Porter
Mario Renzullo - First Youth
Ricky Wales - Second Youth
Chris Sullivan - Reporter
Simon Tasker - Boy on Bike
Juba Kennerley - Sir Peter
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00:00Now get more in together. That's right. That's lovely. Now come on Sylvia. Let's have a big smile.
00:27Let's have a big, big smile. Thank you.
00:44Hello, Geyser. Sir Kenneth. Birthday? Mm-hmm. 15.
00:52I thought it was the British public schools that segregated the sexes.
00:57The boys come later with the barbecue and the dreaded disco. You said it was urgent.
01:07The men speaking are fitters, mechanics of the Royal Air Force, stationed in Germany.
01:12Metal dust or the engine mount. You can move it around with your fist. Look, see? That's right. Was that loose?
01:19We took off the access panels. Guess what? More cracks. Scores of them.
01:24This is the flange. Right. Flange on the half bulkhead. It's all right. It's one of ours.
01:30Rivets broken, fastener sheared? To see that much damage, man, I tell you, gave me a sick feeling.
01:34Honest truth is, it's not airworthy. You agree? Right. It's been developed over dead bodies. Pilots' dead bodies. Time to call a home.
01:43Who's asking the questions? A man named who? The writer. He's correspondent on a London newspaper.
01:50No doubt it's genuine? No doubt at all. The fond fighter goes down and heads will roll. Lots of heads. Some very distinguished ones.
01:58There's no need to sound quite so jubilant. You know, as well as I say, come on. Money for this plane was scattered around Europe like a confetti.
02:05Buy him off. You think we haven't tried? Try harder. Why not? One million Swiss francs. You can't try harder than that.
02:15One million francs? What are we dealing with there? A madman? His book is published. Nails her plane, jeopardizes Western defenses,
02:23puts America back in the boxer seat, and bankrupts you all. There is one other way. Shut him up. You'd condemn that? If necessary. I'll issue the contract.
02:53Leader. You know, it's my will now. The amount of duties. Iượng and Elon quite welcome to gunapon.
02:58You think you will protect the running outside of the fucking gameeeeeee.
03:00The amount that I will have on the floats seat. To see the pakigan grateful.
03:05But there's no way me that takes the treats like a crew to get في trouset,
03:08and to convince me you let me know our ownauthority plays a campfire
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07:06I'M IN THE HOTEL
07:07ROOM NOW
07:08IT'S ROOM
07:09NUMBER 1281
07:10GET A TAP ON THE PHONE
07:11I'LL STALL ALL THE CALLS AS LONG AS I CAN
07:124-5-8
07:13BUSINESS
07:14YOUR BUSINESS
07:15IS SHOOTING PEOPLE
07:16BEAT
07:17TWEPPING THEM
07:18TWEP
07:20TWEP
07:21TWEP
07:22TERMINATE WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE
07:25GOOD OLD CIA TALK
07:27YEAH NEVER CALL A SPADE A SPADE
07:30CALL HIM A BLADDY CAFFER
07:31TRAVEL
07:32SUNSHINE HOLIDAYS
07:33TRIPS
07:34INTO BLACK TOWNSHIPS
07:35GAME RESERVES
07:36KRUGER NATIONAL PARK
07:37TEA WITH THE BEAKERS
07:39YOU'RE NOT LOOKING WELL STEVE
07:41AH SO YOU DON'T WANT TO PLAY CRICKET WITH US
07:43TOLD ME ABOUT MARTIN CLIFF
07:45CLIFF
07:47YEAH YOU SET HIS CAR ON FIRE
07:50DO YOU REMEMBER
07:51YOU FORGOT TO LET HIM OUT FIRST
07:52YOU KNOW THAT'S THE TROUBLE WITH YOU PEOPLE
07:54YOU GOT NO MANNERS
07:55YOU GOT THE WRONG MAN
07:56BURGER
07:57THAT'S WHAT YOU WERE CALLED THAT WEEKEND
07:59PICK BURGER
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08:0144
08:028
08:03WHAT'S THAT YOUR HAT SIZE?
08:04THE SOUTH AFRICAN EMBASY
08:05I'D LIKE TO TALK TO THEM
08:07WHAT'S WRONG MANN
08:08NO PHONE
08:26THE SIZE
08:27THAT'S WHAT'S WRONG
08:28THAT'S WHAT'S WRONG
08:29I'M HALENT TO THEM
08:30I'M HALENT TO THEM
08:31Please contact Mr. Smith in the hotel reception.
09:01Are you worried?
09:17You're right. Get this wrong.
09:19We'll be sued from... something they ate?
09:23Something they wrote. It fills up during the day.
09:25Which is your neck of the woods?
09:27Any of them. I do most of mine from home.
09:29The thing that would really make them jump, Martin, is the bribery angle.
09:33Oh, I don't see why. I mean, it is an accepted form of modern business.
09:36Accepted by who?
09:38Backsheesh. Trinkgeld. There are many words for it.
09:42For the last 20 years, the two American aerospace giants are estimated to have shelled out over a hundred million in, quote, questionable payments.
09:50Fact?
09:51Acknowledged and verified.
09:53You do the writing, or I'll do the worrying.
09:59The answer is not quite as important.
10:01So I don't shop in Seville Row.
10:06Lovely scan.
10:07What is it, eh?
10:08You're short on numbers this month?
10:09Dry up today.
10:10Drop off if you don't book so many.
10:11Yeah, that's it.
10:12Long as we know.
10:13You're short on numbers this month. Dry up today.
10:16Drop off if you don't book so many.
10:18Yeah, that's it.
10:20Long as we know.
10:25Where do you learn Afrikaans, man?
10:27Angola.
10:29Get a taste for the dark meat, did you?
10:31Little ravers, some of them, aren't they?
10:35You know what's gonna happen, don't you?
10:37You tell me, Soti.
10:39You're gonna push me too far.
10:41Really?
10:43Mm-hmm.
10:44What happens then?
10:45I hit ya.
10:46And I think you'll regret it afterwards.
10:48Maybe.
10:53Kefir-loving saltpile, n'ay?
11:01That's enough!
11:04Get some coffee.
11:06No.
11:09First the bull at the gate, then comes the china shop.
11:13Oh, one of these days, that temper of bullies.
11:15Save it, Dad.
11:16I've had it from experts, man.
11:20Why didn't you sit down?
11:22No.
11:24You like some coffee?
11:25No.
11:29Shave? Wash?
11:30What?
11:31No!
11:33What was the drill?
11:35Check-in, wait round the hotel till contacted.
11:38Why don't you tell me?
11:39Half the money already in a Swiss bank.
11:41That's right, I took over Hitler's account.
11:46Tell me what I want to know,
11:48and I'll have you on the next flight out of Heathrow.
11:52You know, I'd really like to believe you, man.
11:54Fanny Kirk.
11:56Yeah, sorry about that. I was taking a shower. Hang on.
12:01I'm hanging up.
12:03Yeah, back with you, sorry.
12:04Did you receive the package?
12:06Yeah, I've got it.
12:07I've got it.
12:08I'll contact you.
12:09Yeah, and how much long am I going to have to hang about to do this thing?
12:11Contact you?
12:12I'm hanging up.
12:20Yeah, back with you, Sonny.
12:22Did you receive the package?
12:24Yeah, got it.
12:25I'll contact you.
12:26Yeah, and how much longer am I going to have to hang about to do this thing?
12:29Contact you.
12:37No chance of a trace.
12:39He said 15 words.
12:4015, and they're right this much.
12:42What accent?
12:44Educated Swiss Zurich type could possibly be German.
12:47Oh, that narrows it down.
12:49Short sentences consistent with giving instructions.
12:51I think I might have worked that out.
12:54Ambition of effect.
12:56What the hell is that?
12:57These things get more high for Luton.
13:00Gap between the first and...
13:01Oh, just listen.
13:04Fartney, Carl.
13:06Yeah, sorry about that. I was taking a shower. Hang on.
13:08About time.
13:09You hear that?
13:12Yeah, it sounded like a burp.
13:14I'm hanging up.
13:17Let's go back.
13:22Fartney, Carl.
13:24Yeah, sorry about that. I was taking a shower. Hang on.
13:26Just said that.
13:27Oh, now listen.
13:29This is no time to be facetious.
13:31I'll turn up the volume a bit.
13:34Now listen.
13:34I'm hanging up.
13:39Yeah, thank you with you.
13:40Sorry.
13:40Did you receive the package?
13:44Is that it?
13:46That's it.
13:47Well, what do they say?
13:48Well, according to acoustics or phonetics or whoever,
13:53it's a hooter on a Thames pleasure boat.
13:55Oh.
13:56Used to work on the South End, run myself.
13:58Sick for a quid.
13:59Drunk and sick for two.
14:00Oh, that's when you were filling in time between Eton and Trinity.
14:03Oh, yeah.
14:04Yeah, that's right.
14:05Well, it's called the Star.
14:07It goes from Tarpier to Westminster and back.
14:09What would you do without science, eh?
14:11So?
14:12We concentrate on that area.
14:14Well, so long as he wears leather shorts with braces,
14:17hat with a feather in it and yodels,
14:19we've got a chance, haven't we?
14:19Do you know you've got beautiful eyes?
14:47It's one of my virtues.
14:48You have others?
14:50Thrift, temperance, moderation.
14:53Bye.
14:54And I'm a profligate with abnormal sexual appetites.
14:57Oh, no, that's better.
14:58You have a name?
14:59Yes.
15:00John McEnroe or Bjorn Borg.
15:01I answer to either.
15:02Pardon?
15:02You're not a tennis player?
15:03No, sorry.
15:04The headband they both wear.
15:05Oh, yes, yes.
15:07I thought maybe Pocahontas saw Minnehaha.
15:09Well, that's good.
15:09At least I spotted my son town.
15:12Would you like another drink?
15:14No, I just like the sound of the ice cubes.
15:16Hey.
15:20How will you do it?
15:21With a gun or knife?
15:23Shall we talk somewhere quieter?
15:25Hmm.
15:28Oh, this is nice.
15:31Well, for a hundred pounds in life, I should hope so.
15:37Make yourself comfortable.
15:39Oh, I will.
15:39Drink?
15:40Yes, please.
15:43No ice.
15:46I'm not very good at picking up men.
15:48Well, you're not really built for it, are you?
15:50That isn't very nice.
15:51No, no.
15:52It's a joke.
15:53You know, muscles.
15:56Built for it, picking up.
15:57Oh, do warn me.
15:59I'm not very good at getting jokes like that.
16:01With a name like Minnehaha.
16:04That's funny, haha.
16:07You're telling me about killing somebody.
16:09Do we have to talk?
16:10Yes, yes.
16:11I'm a compulsive listener.
16:12Who do I have to kill?
16:14My boyfriend.
16:16Well, ex-boyfriend.
16:18Why?
16:19Well, why not?
16:20Because women these days are supposed to be logical, haven't they told you?
16:22Look.
16:26Don't you like me?
16:28I haven't given it much thought.
16:30That isn't very nice.
16:32Look, what do you want?
16:33From you?
16:35Yes.
16:40Well, I'm lonely.
16:43A bit scared.
16:44I think you should move closer to me.
16:46And if you feel like kissing me, that'd be even better.
16:52Mm-hmm.
17:12Okay?
17:21Mm-hmm.
17:224-5.
17:45With you, 4-5?
17:46Yeah, I'm outside the target's house now.
17:48Any sign of life?
17:50Yeah, there's a man mowing his lawn.
17:51All nine square inches of it.
17:56Yeah, it's him.
18:00Sure?
18:01Yeah, I'm looking at the photo they sent round.
18:03Describe the house.
18:05What's to describe?
18:06It's your typically average suburban box.
18:10It's, uh...
18:12What's happened, 4-5?
18:154-5, come in, 4-5.
18:22Yeah, I saw our kid got interested in me.
18:23Thought he was, uh, looking at a nutcase, talking to himself.
18:26You were describing the house?
18:29Yeah.
18:29Well, it's, uh...
18:31I don't know, it's like 82 million others.
18:33It's, uh, suburban, roast and two veg on sundaes, pink loop paper.
18:38Oh, that's nice.
18:38Here comes Mrs. Hope.
18:41Oh, lovely.
18:41Cup of Thai food for the garden.
18:43How do you know?
18:44It's his wife.
18:44Well, they look married.
18:46Steve.
18:46Now they're discussing the garden.
18:51Didn't the lupines do well, Jeff?
18:53Martin, Martin, who should have his biography within one hour?
18:58Yeah, can I ask a question?
19:00Ask.
19:08What happened?
19:14Kate came back.
19:15Your question.
19:16Ah, yeah, look, see, um, man lives an averagely dreary existence in suburbia with a nice, mousy wife.
19:23Well, no, it's not quite fair.
19:24She's, um, nice.
19:27How nice?
19:28Well, you know, pleasant.
19:30And, uh, he's got 2.4 kids and he's never done anything more violent in his life than pruning spirocantha.
19:35What's so special about him?
19:37Nothing.
19:38Except a professional hitman's been contracted to kill him.
19:41Hmm.
19:46Oh, no, it's not almost.
19:55Oh, no.
19:57Oh, yeah, it's not.
19:59Man!
20:00Spider-Man!
20:00Eh!
20:00So you can look at
20:09I don't waste your film.
20:24Yeah? Who is he?
20:26A man selling manure, hop and horse in the local brewery.
20:30That sounds potent.
20:32It is. Damned expensive, though.
20:35Yeah, she thinks so too. She's not having any.
20:37Ah, the clean easy man. Where would we be without him?
20:41I'm afraid it's been one of those days, all end-to-end stuff.
20:44Who's Hope?
20:46Martin Hope, journalist.
20:49Worked at one time or another for most of the Fleet Street literates.
20:52Yeah? What, sub-editor or something?
20:55Yeah, correspondent.
20:56What exactly did they do?
20:57Fly around the world, criticising the chicken salad.
21:01Oh, and he's also published a couple of books.
21:03What bestsellers?
21:04History of the Halifax Bomber.
21:07Not even your friend, Hal Robbins, could make that sell.
21:10He'd have a good go, though, wouldn't he?
21:11No known political affiliations.
21:13Well, student red.
21:15Student blue. Cambridge. Athletics.
21:19No criminal record. No money problems.
21:21Stays in the black, just.
21:23Well, he's got £2,200 in the local building society in his wife's name.
21:27Very trusting.
21:28As of the moment, our Mr. Hope is one big disappointment.
21:33Yeah, and his wife's not bought any manure.
21:35That's another disappointment.
21:36He put a tap on his phone.
21:38Well, let's say the GPO are being very cooperative.
21:41We should have a word about my post.
21:43Maybe she doesn't love you anymore.
21:46Cruel.
21:46What is this?
21:51Oryon.
21:52Soup?
21:53With vodka.
22:01Certainly, sir.
22:05Mr. Vanya Kirk.
22:07Yes?
22:16Anything wrong?
22:18No.
22:20Then why the delay?
22:22Listen, I do things my way.
22:23You don't like it, you get yourself another boy.
22:25I'm sorry.
22:26I was not trying to tell you your business.
22:28Sounded like it.
22:29No, no.
22:30Not at all.
22:31We have every confidence.
22:33But let us say,
22:34time is of the essence.
22:36Look, you paid me to do a job.
22:39Now, I don't move
22:40until every risk has been eliminated.
22:42Everything is right.
22:43Is that understood?
22:44Understood.
22:45Now, get off my back.
22:50Trouble?
22:52I don't know what the word means.
23:06I don't know what the word means.
23:27I don't know.
23:57Bonnie?
24:27I don't know.
24:29I haven't got it.
24:30It's black tires and all right, sir.
24:32I'm sorry.
24:33I cannot give it to you.
24:34I'll have to go home and get this.
24:35It's very fine.
24:36Fine, fine.
24:37I can't help.
24:45I don't know.
25:15I can explain.
25:24I saw you go out to the shops, I thought, and, well, you know, a couple of fivers in a dresser, why not?
25:31What are you doing up there, then?
25:33Well, a filing cabinet, you know, jewellery and deed box.
25:36Never know what you look like.
25:40Can't you think of anything better to do?
25:43Yeah, well, it wasn't always like this.
25:45No?
25:50No, I, er, I used to have a duplicating shop, you know, 10p of photostat, that kind of thing.
25:58And, er, you know, I used to make copies of your Uncle Charlie's will, you know.
26:02What went wrong?
26:11Well, no, I just couldn't compete.
26:1415% VAT.
26:17Terrible.
26:17This isn't the sort of house has fivers in the dresser.
26:23Yeah, I know, but, I mean, by the time you've found that out, it's too late, isn't it?
26:26I'm sorry.
26:38I despise people like you.
26:40Yeah.
26:40What's wrong with national assistants?
26:43Well, I was self-employed, wasn't I?
26:48Any reason why I don't telephone the police?
26:51No, I suppose not.
26:52You've got children?
26:56Yeah.
26:57Two.
26:58Boys or girls?
26:59Little girls.
27:02Oh, Jane and Kelly.
27:05Great little kids.
27:08I've got a photograph here.
27:09No.
27:14Get out.
27:16Find something better to do.
27:18Sir, thanks.
27:19You're a brick.
27:27I've seen Hope's editor.
27:28He played a couple of games of golf with him once.
27:31He knows of nothing that Hope's done or is doing that would make him a target for this sort of thing.
27:35Good journalist.
27:36Copy always in time.
27:37Amenable.
27:37Doesn't hit the thine of his stuff has to be cut or altered.
27:42Hope was in Europe for a spell earlier this year.
27:45Extended leave of absence.
28:07Good morning.
28:15zat
28:37Oh, it's you.
28:48It's me.
28:49Come and see how the other half grafts.
28:51What's this?
28:53Oh, my mum always told me to bring a prezzy.
28:56Oh.
28:57Oh, very much.
28:59Yeah, well, that's the thought that counts, you know.
29:02Yeah.
29:02Yeah.
29:04You're missing something.
29:06Let's have a look.
29:07Look at that.
29:10Whatever she's selling, we need it.
29:15She'd stiffen up your chewing gum for you, wouldn't she?
29:19Pound of a penny, she's selling double glazing.
29:22Yeah, she's a 24-hour plumber, mate.
29:24A little rage around here, you know.
29:26Hey, where's Cowley?
29:28He's gone to a funeral.
29:30Oh, another one.
29:30Yeah, that's what I said.
29:32We were not amused.
29:34Oh, Johnson.
29:35What about a CI5 special?
29:38What sort?
29:39I think it's cheese and onion.
29:41On white?
29:41Well, sort of off-gray.
29:44No, thanks.
29:46I'd better go.
29:47Hey, remember the fine fighter?
29:52Widowmaker.
29:53Yeah, well, Hope's brother was killed in one of those a couple of years ago.
29:56So, that's it.
29:58So how did you find out?
30:00And what's that supposed to mean?
30:02I did a bit of the old B&E, you know.
30:04Oh, fuck, dude.
30:05What, the amateur cracksman?
30:07Poor man's raffles?
30:08Well, he was never licked.
30:10You go...
30:11How did that happen?
30:13She came back, didn't she?
30:15God, George's got to love that, ain't he?
30:17He's going to be really thrilled when the local bobbies get him on the phone, ain't he?
30:21Oh, no, they weren't involved.
30:22Oh, no?
30:23Well, I did my down on me luck bit, didn't I?
30:25You know, wife, two kids, an aged mother.
30:28And she bought it?
30:28Yeah, soft art.
30:32It's not her art that's soft, mate.
30:34Economy of the industry demands that you settle on a publication date.
30:38Then you let it happen.
30:39Somebody reviews it, that's a bonus.
30:41If they review it favorably, that's even better.
30:44But an interest from CI5, pre-publication, I'm not sure that's healthy.
30:49When's it you earn?
30:50I expect a completed manuscript in about two months.
30:53Hey, uh, what's it about?
30:57If I tell you...
30:58If you don't, your author's list is likely to be one name short.
31:02Will you exaggerate, surely?
31:03Damned if I do.
31:04A professional killer.
31:06That's how we got into this thing.
31:08Well, strictly between the two of us.
31:11For the moment, that's all I guarantee.
31:14It's an account, an expose, to use that overworked word,
31:17of an airplane used throughout the NATO defense system.
31:20Which one?
31:21The FON fighter.
31:22That's the one built by a consortium.
31:25That's him.
31:26Fuselage and tail from Germany.
31:28Nose and final assembly, France.
31:30Wings and flaps, the UK, etc.
31:31Sir Peter!
31:32Sir Peter!
31:33Bring it up!
31:34That's a damn steak and kidney pudding.
31:37What's wrong with it?
31:37It knocks them out till about four o'clock.
31:39It's deadly.
31:39How destructive a document is this?
31:44Lethal.
31:45Justified?
31:46Yes.
31:46Then I'm biased.
31:47And obviously Hope believes it.
31:49Implicitly.
31:50What does he say is wrong with the plane?
31:52Well, basically it was a rushed job.
31:54Politically expedient not to buy American, Europe flexing its newfound muscle.
31:59Short cuts, insufficient testing, flaws in design.
32:02You want me to get technical?
32:04Later, later.
32:05Wholesale bribes.
32:08Governments, royal families, ministries.
32:11Muddy footprints in the corridors of power.
32:14Clearer by the minute.
32:15He has hours of material.
32:16Tapes, interviews.
32:19No one likes the damn thing.
32:20Over 40 of them have crashed.
32:22And they're the ones we know about.
32:23Surely Hope can't be the only one to voice these doubts.
32:26Far from it.
32:27He's articulating what dozens of others feel.
32:29A top German draftsman, he worked on the engine mountings.
32:33Said much the same thing.
32:34And?
32:34He was drowned last August.
32:37Oh, lots of people drown every August.
32:40True.
32:41But not many of them are ex-Olympic swimmers.
32:50Hello, could you give me the number of Mr. Van Niecoek's room, please?
33:04Van Niecoek.
33:06Yes, hello.
33:07Hello.
33:07Dozy bastard.
33:27The best you can see?
33:30Typical, useless, absolutely.
33:32Van Niecoek's a killer, ruthless, efficient.
33:34Yeah, well, he knew that, didn't we?
33:36Now we've blown it like a bunch of bloody amateurs.
33:38Do you think he wanted it this way?
33:39I don't give a toss what he wanted.
33:41Like Churchill said, if you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen.
33:43The kitchen, yeah.
33:44And it wasn't Churchill, it was Harry Truman.
33:45Now, so what?
33:46Who cares?
33:46The point is, we've left Doyle hanging by his thumbs in the middle of all this.
33:49So we warn him.
33:50If it's not too late, another foul up, another piece of incompetence.
33:54Another piece?
33:55Yeah, that's what I said, yeah.
33:57When was the last?
33:59Well, who remembers it's all the same, isn't it?
34:01Sending boys to do a man's job.
34:03And look at this one, he hasn't even begun to shave you.
34:05You never fouled up your records away.
34:07Look, if you want my resignation, just ask for it, all right?
34:10That's all you have to...
34:10I'll tell you what I want.
34:11I want you to get on that phone warm door and stop behaving like a prima donna.
34:15I mean what I say.
34:16Now, is that clear?
34:17Oh, remember, the world is full of Monday morning footballers.
34:22On your bike, boy!
34:47I mean what you're doing?
34:50Oh!
34:51Oh!
34:53Oh!
34:54Oh!
35:02Oh!
35:06Oh!
35:08Oh!
35:10Oh!
35:11Ey!
35:14Hnie!
35:15Oh, my God.
35:45Oh, my God.
36:15Oh, I'm sorry.
36:25They said downstairs that Mr. Neekirk was still here.
36:27People get everything wrong these days.
36:29That's true.
36:30You South African?
36:31Right.
36:32So is Mr. Van Neekirk.
36:34Well, contrary to reports, there's a lot of us.
36:37Two?
36:37Consecutively in the same London hotel room.
36:44Small world.
36:47That's his jigsaw puzzle.
36:50It belongs to the hotel.
36:52Your Bible's by Gideon, jigsaw's by Insomniac's Anonymous.
36:55That's his jumper, and that's his bottle of scotch.
36:59You're a fool.
37:00You're a damn fool of questions, man.
37:01Who are you?
37:03No!
37:04No!
37:05Put it down!
37:16Get away from me!
37:17Get away from me!
37:47If you tell your wife, I leave that to you.
37:50I'm not usually so slow on the uptake.
37:52I'm sure.
37:54Hired to kill me!
37:56That's right.
37:57And there's no chance that...
37:59None at all.
38:01Carl Heller?
38:03The draftsman from Cologne?
38:04Drown.
38:04Could be a coincidence.
38:07As it could with Bonnard, the mechanic who met at Toulouse.
38:11Yes, I've got tapes of him upstairs.
38:14A critical of the plague?
38:15Savagely.
38:17Now, this is your world, Mr Cowley.
38:20Assassinations, intrigue, violence.
38:23But, to me...
38:24You're stepping on a very important toll.
38:27Yeah, I must be naive.
38:30You know, I thought they'd be grateful.
38:32Grateful?
38:33For telling them their brainchild is defective?
38:36That they'll be bankrupted, litigated against, perhaps imprisoned?
38:38All that, and you expect gratitude?
38:40Excuse me, sir.
38:48You can't leave your car there.
38:57Um, I couldn't borrow your key, please, for 1281.
39:00Uh, left mine downstairs.
39:02Well, I shouldn't, really.
39:10Uh, let's go.
39:40Thank you, sir.
40:10It was good for a few rumours.
40:12Do you ever meet that Swiss?
40:14Yes.
40:15Where do you ask?
40:16Curious.
40:17He called you last time I was doing this.
40:19He offered me some money.
40:21Two.
40:22For what?
40:24The fond book.
40:25Didn't he know you had a publisher?
40:26His money was to not publish, to not write it, in fact.
40:31How much?
40:32A million francs.
40:33It's only money.
40:35How much is that in Sterling?
40:38A lot.
40:39Proof something.
40:41That was never in doubt.
40:43Well, who wants a million francs anyway?
40:48Pass it!
40:49Could you just...
40:49I want the drink.
40:50Will you pass it?
40:51Right, so please.
40:52Uh, do you mind passing the drink, please?
40:54Thanks.
40:55String.
40:55Hi, dear.
41:204789.
41:20Could I speak to Mr. Hope, please?
41:22No, he's not at the moment. Can I take a message?
41:24No, it's a business matter. Could you tell me when you expect him back?
41:27Or unless any time. Can I say he's called?
41:29No, it's all right. Don't bother.
41:31You can catch him later, you know, at the paper.
41:33Oh, yes, of course.
41:35The Minister said you'd be in touch.
41:37Usual channels. Protects both of us, doesn't it?
41:42Mm-hm. Assuming we need protection.
41:45What's it about?
41:47The farm fighter.
41:49It's too brutal.
41:53Every crackpot in the business has a go at it.
41:55I am not in the business, and I hope you don't think...
41:57Sound of offence it wasn't meant.
42:04It looks clear enough.
42:06Kids partied the other weekend.
42:09Wonder we haven't found one of them floating about in it.
42:11What's your estimate of the plague?
42:14Pure gold. 24 carat.
42:16High time we stopped knocking our own product.
42:18As chairman of one of our biggers.
42:20Baloney, I'm a realist.
42:22Realism is the start of all progress.
42:2453 fatal crashes in 36 months. Is that realistic?
42:28What percentage was pilot error?
42:30Their criticisms are there, though, aren't they?
42:32Oh-ho-ho.
42:33All counted and paid for.
42:36Of what currency?
42:37Dollars?
42:38Rubles?
42:42You produce something you expect criticism.
42:44Have you ever wondered what reaction Leonardo got when he painted the Mona Lisa?
42:48Very nice, Mr. Da Vinci. Up to a point, but that smile.
42:52I suppose we'll have to empty it and start again.
42:58Did you know there was a book due out soon about the phone?
43:02Is there?
43:03You're sure you didn't know?
43:04You're beginning to sound like a policeman.
43:07The next thing we know, you'll be cautioning me.
43:11Should I have to?
43:12There are heavy issues at stake here, you know.
43:14I realise that.
43:16Realised it when we picked up a professional gun coming in to fulfil a contract.
43:20A contract on the man writing this book.
43:24That's quite enough.
43:26You want to reconvene this?
43:28We'll do it with solicitors and secretaries.
43:31If you think that's necessary.
43:37Hope?
43:38Mr. Hope? Yes.
43:39I'm a mechanic with the South African Air Force, so I'd like to talk to you.
43:42What about?
43:43The phone fighter.
43:45These South Africans don't have the phone.
43:47Don't they?
43:49That's what I want to talk about.
43:50When?
43:51That's a problem.
43:52I have to fly down to Joburg tonight.
43:54What about lunchtime?
43:55I'll be waiting here for you.
43:56I'll be waiting now.
44:04We'll be waiting now.
44:07We'll see you next time.
44:09Bye bye.
44:10Bye bye.
44:11Bye bye.
44:12Bye bye bye.
44:17Bye bye.
44:23Bye bye.
44:25I'm hanging up.
44:52How did you find me?
45:06I mustn't begrudge our little secrets. We followed your every step. Dropping the gun at the hotel, then the photo, the cash offer to Hope, your chat with Sir Kenneth.
45:19You were there. There, or thereabouts. You ever done the river trip up to Westmas, sir?
45:27Never. You should. Liquid history. Fascinating.
45:33Do you want a lift?
45:43How the hell did you get out of here?
45:47It's a long story.
45:49Oh, you've banged your head.
45:51I'll bang yours in a minute.
45:53I'll bang you like that.
46:00All right, where have you in it this week?
46:13Taped under the seat. Get that for me, will you?
46:22Three-seven.
46:23Message for you.
46:24Go ahead.
46:25Van de Kerk has fixed our fee with Hope at newspaper premises. Your instructions are to get there as fast as possible.
46:31Understood.
46:32As fast as possible.
46:34You think we could go somewhere quieter?
46:57Yes, why not?
46:59Any comments, Mr. Cowie?
47:12Tragedy.
47:13Incalculable loss.
47:15A man at the very height of his powers.
47:18A man at the very height of his powers.
47:38A man at the very height of his powers.
47:41A man at the very height of his powers.
47:43What are you doing tonight?
47:44I'm just gonna let him go.
48:14I'm just gonna let him go.
48:44I'm just gonna let him go.
49:14Freeze!
49:21I'm just gonna let him go.
49:30I'm just gonna let him go.
49:39Where's that crabby?
49:41Take it off.
49:44Eh?
49:45I said take it off.
49:46All right.
49:48What do you mean?
49:49I'll find it on the head, mate.
49:53Are you all right?
49:57Let's go.
49:58Let's go.
49:59Let's go.
50:00Let's go.
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