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First broadcast 13th November 1976.
An RSPCA officer is horrified when he discovers a pet shop owner has been conducting experiments on a wolf, searching for proof of lycanthropy.
Patrick Magee - Leo Raymount
Madge Ryan - Florence Raymount
Michael Kitchen - Bob Curry
Gerald James - Joe Nash
Bill Dean - Duggie Jebb
Janice Bean - Woman Customer
Patricia Mason - 2nd Woman Customer
David Elmon - Boy
An RSPCA officer is horrified when he discovers a pet shop owner has been conducting experiments on a wolf, searching for proof of lycanthropy.
Patrick Magee - Leo Raymount
Madge Ryan - Florence Raymount
Michael Kitchen - Bob Curry
Gerald James - Joe Nash
Bill Dean - Duggie Jebb
Janice Bean - Woman Customer
Patricia Mason - 2nd Woman Customer
David Elmon - Boy
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00:05BIRDS CHIRP
00:44he's not going enough what's wrong with it ventilation he's got ventilation look at it
00:49it's all clear she'll be on through and test it go on there's not enough not enough anymore you'll
00:56have him dead of pneumonia dead that's right don't you talk to me about dead ones you slaughtered one
01:01of his chums last week sent him off in a box like this never even reached the airport that wasn't
01:06my fault suffocated in transit look am i supposed to be to be responsible yes you are responsible
01:13it was a pure accident something fell down and blocked the grill some sacking so don't you come
01:20round here mr cruelty man yelling your head off at me in front of my staff should have been two
01:25grills
01:25you what two at least you know that and if your staff don't they do now all right no they're
01:32not
01:32that won't do what's wrong now get him a bigger crate something he can move around in i don't have
01:38to
01:38i'm suggesting it what else a little velvet cushion for him to sit on listen this crate is acceptable
01:45to the airline yes we'll have to then too mr jack you're not on your own in the meantime set
01:50him a
01:50good example and get this cheetah on the road well and happy and i mean happy are you running this
01:56outfit yes it might be an idea look don't you talk to me i was an animal trader when you
02:01couldn't spell
02:02cat cat i can handle them like through there now i've got big stuff lions half a dozen lions two
02:10bears
02:10three more like him cheaters hundred nod monkeys for research that's a lot of my money tied up in
02:18fur coats thing i don't look after i want to see your books books your record books now you've got
02:24no authority i'm asking i could have you flung out of here right find another claim for that
02:44vodka the only thing acts fastest not for me not while i'm on duty sir eh you know when you
02:51first
02:52came in i thought you wear a cup and i thought my god they're taking all sorts these days
02:58and i saw the cruelty badges the books you'll be lucky help yourself
03:11quarantine record it's there
03:16you're new to this area name again curry inspector curry hot on the trail i bet you suffered with that
03:25not till now
03:28oh it's all down there meticulous
03:33importation dates dates out of quarantine you won't find a thing quite a few cheetahs where do they go
03:39some for the export like chummy out there otherwise cheetah fancies is that so oh they buy them like
03:46cats not my fancy but then i don't like cats sumatran honey bears private zoos wolves same thing
03:55look inspector you're just fishing call it a day timber wolf origin hungary i told you this is
04:02legitimate trade where did this wolf go oh look look just for instance i'm sure he found a good home
04:09don't be funny it's a canine and canines of principal rabies suspects all right all right
04:18there full quarantine period and note of sale where there
04:26to the pet shop westbury road a wolf
04:32there's another one the same timber wolf romanian origin where did this one go
04:38to the pet shop westbury road if that's what it says that's where it went
04:42and there's another one
04:44so what well i don't believe it
04:46oh look i've seen that shop it's a little hole and corner place budgies and hamsters not wolves
04:51what are you suggesting you should have made it a little more convincing
04:54better address london zoo a safari park not the pet shop westbury road
04:58oh inspector cory where did these wolves really go
05:01no
05:03i think you slipped them out of quarantine and then sold them then faked these entries to put the dates
05:07right
05:08it's just the tip of the iceberg isn't it your mistake was to let it show
05:13i'm warning you i'm not going to let this drop i shall go back over every single transaction
05:17i'm on to you jeb
05:20handcuffs take me in inspector for questioning to help with your inquiry
05:24i wish i could
05:26inspector cory of the yard
05:28i shall have your license
05:37that's it exactly
05:40give him a bit more jelly eh
05:41he likes the jelly
05:44good for him
05:46he knows that
05:47don't suppose
05:51thank you very much
05:56thank you
06:01mrs florence raymound
06:03miss
06:04oh i beg your pardon
06:05miss raymound i'm inspector curry rspca
06:07is something wrong
06:08no no no no no i'd just be grateful for your help in a purely routine inquiry
06:11of course
06:12thank you
06:13it's a nice shop you've got here
06:14i keep everything in good order
06:16yes i can see
06:17plenty of fresh sawdust
06:19i always tell by that
06:21what's hiding up here mice
06:23baby hamsters
06:24a litter of them
06:25happy family
06:28hello then
06:30they're nice kittens these
06:31what's it about
06:32sorry
06:33your inquiry
06:34oh it's um
06:36rabbits i see
06:37and guinea pigs
06:41budges
06:41finches
06:42you don't you don't go anything for anything more exotic
06:46exotic
06:47well monkeys for instance
06:48no i'd never sell a monkey they're difficult pets
06:50yes quite right
06:51people don't realize
06:52exactly
06:53then they want to get rid of them have them destroyed
06:55well i don't think i need bother you anymore miss raymound
06:58what about your inquiry
07:00well you've answered it
07:01you never asked me
07:02yes i didn't you told me
07:03i don't understand
07:04no please don't worry i'll just say thank you very much and good afternoon
07:07i don't think i like this
07:08look i can assure you
07:09there's not
07:09look inspector curry
07:11if there's something going on that concerns me i'd like to know what it is
07:14it's really nothing worth upsetting
07:16please inspector
07:19well i uh i i think somebody's been using the name of your shop
07:23what how
07:25well to cover up his tracks faking entries records
07:28my shop
07:30oh please don't worry you won't be the only one i'm just getting started
07:33who is it
07:38packet of birdseed
07:39it is
07:40no the other kind
07:41my usual
07:42oh yes of course 17p
07:50thank you
07:56who it's an animal dealer
07:58gracious me
07:59miss raymond have you ever taken delivery of a
08:02hungarian timber wolf
08:06well now you see what i mean now if you get involved at all it'll be simply a formality
08:11sometimes
08:12no please put it out of your head now
08:14sometimes we get a request for an unusual pet
08:17it must have been something like that
08:20you did have one
08:22i really don't remember
08:23well this was dated only a couple of months ago i mean if you
08:26if it happened you'd hardly forget it
08:28no
08:29and there were others before that several entries all put down to the shop miss raymond
08:33you must know
08:36you'd better talk to my father
08:38your father
08:39i can't talk about it you must ask him that is if he's willing he doesn't often see people
08:44where is he
08:45in the house
08:48perhaps you could come back another time
08:49well i think perhaps i'd better see him now
08:53just a moment
08:54wait here
08:56please tell him it's important i mean to me
09:19come this way inspector thank you
09:22please tell him
09:39well you've achieved it you've got him here done what you wanted now get out
09:44Inspector Currie, my...
09:46I'll handle this.
09:48Get back to the shop.
09:53What's your name?
09:55Inspector Currie, RSPCA.
09:59Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
10:04There's no cruelty here, did you think there was?
10:07No, I was just checking some records.
10:08Oh, checking, yes.
10:11Always some little man somewhere checking something in uniform or out.
10:18Checking means preventing, is that what you do? Preventing?
10:21If they're wrong, I try.
10:22Even if they're right. Oh, I know you people, you're kind of...
10:26Are you an exception, huh?
10:28I do my job.
10:29Oh, yes.
10:31I think I'd better explain exactly why I'm here.
10:34If you are here on some proper errand, there can only be one reason for it.
10:38Well, what's she done?
10:42Who?
10:43My daughter, my lawfully engendered fool.
10:48Has she broken a bylaw, sold some rotten cat's meat?
10:51No, nothing of the kind.
10:53Pity.
10:55Not even that much life in her.
10:58Can't even offend.
11:01It's... it's not about the shop.
11:03Well, at least not directly.
11:05It's about wolves.
11:08How is it?
11:09In the course of some routine inquiries, I came...
11:11In the course of some routine inquiries.
11:14Now, there's a nice round frame.
11:16I found occasional records of wolves being delivered to this shop.
11:19Well, well...
11:20It seemed most unlikely.
11:22It would.
11:23Importer, Mr. Dougie Jerb, origin Eastern Europe.
11:25That's the best source now?
11:29You did have them.
11:31Perfectly legal transactions.
11:34What's bothering you, their political affiliations, that there were red wolves?
11:38No, no.
11:39I assure you, they were gray, as usual.
11:43But... what on earth?
11:45Beautiful creatures, splendid condition.
11:47I was very pleased with them.
11:49Properly quarantined?
11:51Of course.
11:53But where did they go?
11:54What happened to them?
11:56Oh, is that your business?
11:59This is a properly licensed establishment.
12:02We could sell them wherever we like.
12:04Where did you?
12:05What?
12:06Sell them.
12:06That didn't arise.
12:08I'd take it as a kindness if you'd tell me who they were for.
12:10Me?
12:11You.
12:12I wanted them.
12:14I kept them.
12:15Now are you satisfied?
12:19Have you still got them?
12:21Inspector, are you incapable of accepting any answer?
12:25Where are they now?
12:25Stop it, sir.
12:26Look, I'm simply...
12:27No, I will not be put to this idiotic examination.
12:30I've taken quite enough.
12:32I am sorry.
12:32My time is precious.
12:34You've heard the old canned phrase, time is money.
12:37Well, mine is pure gold.
12:39I'm sorry, I didn't...
12:40Get out.
13:01Well, talk of the devil.
13:04You've got a keen lad here, Joe.
13:05Look after him.
13:07Cheerio.
13:08Bye.
13:10What did he want?
13:11Sniffing about.
13:12Trying to find out if you'd reported him.
13:14What did you say?
13:15Nothing.
13:16I know nothing.
13:16If I did, he's not a man I'd tell things to.
13:18Tea?
13:19No, thanks.
13:21You've got something on him?
13:23I thought I had.
13:24What about?
13:25Quarantine records.
13:26Ah.
13:27No, I was wrong.
13:29Oh, that's sad.
13:30He deserves to be nailed.
13:31Still don't...
13:33Unless they were in it together...
13:35Who else?
13:36A man called Raymount.
13:38Old Raymount.
13:39Oh, you know him?
13:40Oh, you should have asked me him.
13:42He's not in anything with anybody.
13:43He's a nutcase.
13:44I've just talked to him.
13:45You talked?
13:46Well, tried.
13:47What could he possibly want with timber wolves?
13:50Wolves?
13:51Really?
13:52That's all the entries.
13:53Chief Inspector Nash.
13:55He said they weren't resold, so I...
13:57All right, put her through.
13:59Kitten up a tree.
14:01We used to hear a lot about Leo Raymount, the great scientist.
14:05Scientist?
14:05Well, self-styled.
14:06He's just an amateur.
14:07Crackpot, always trying to get his name in the papers.
14:09Hello, Mrs.
14:11Oh, still up there, is she?
14:13Oh, dear.
14:15Offered her milk, have you?
14:17And fish.
14:19Well, they all like fish.
14:21Of course they do.
14:22What was his line?
14:23His line?
14:25Eccentric pronouncements.
14:26You know, evolution, Darwin got it all wrong, etc.
14:30Look, Mrs., why not try fish?
14:33Boil up a few pilchards and let her smell them.
14:38I crossed swords a few times with him in the local press.
14:41About evolution?
14:42No, circuses, animal training.
14:44He had some very peculiar ideas.
14:46Look, Mrs.
14:47You don't suppose those wolves had...
14:49Well, give the fish smell a try.
14:52Wave the pan about under the tree.
14:54Trying to tame them or something like that,
14:56just to prove that it...
14:56Joe, those wolves, old Draymond,
14:59do you think it could possibly have been...
15:00Now, look, Mrs.,
15:00try out the fish dodge,
15:02and if she isn't there down in five minutes,
15:04I'll come round her myself.
15:06Yes, yes, of course.
15:08And yet the fire brigade too, if necessary.
15:10Yes, yes.
15:11Yes.
15:32Yes, I'd just like a few more words with your father.
15:34No, you upset him.
15:36Well, I didn't mean to.
15:38He couldn't settle to his work for ages.
15:39It was dreadful of you.
15:41Wicked.
15:42He couldn't even eat his lunch.
15:44So if there's anything you've got a right to know,
15:47you'd better ask me.
15:53It's about the wolves.
15:55Oh, yes.
15:55Your father admitted they were supplied to this shop.
15:58There were three of them over the past 18 months.
16:00Yes.
16:01What happened to them?
16:03Didn't he tell you?
16:05Well, he got rather abusive.
16:07Then I can't either.
16:08But you said a moment ago...
16:09I said things you've got a right to.
16:13Miss Raymond, these are rare wild animals.
16:15I am concerned about their condition and their welfare.
16:18What happened to them?
16:21Look, I could have the local authority come and investigate the whole thing.
16:24Are you prepared for that?
16:27Don't.
16:28Yes, I'm not here to threaten.
16:29I don't like it.
16:30I'm not even very good at it.
16:33They were needed.
16:35How?
16:36He had to have them for his work.
16:38They're not.
16:38His work?
16:39Yes.
16:39Miss Raymond, what is his work?
16:42I can't.
16:43Even if I wanted to, I couldn't.
16:46It's beyond me, you see.
16:47Quite beyond my intellectual capacity.
16:50He's so far above me.
16:52So very much cleverer.
16:54When he's tried to explain it to me, and he often has,
16:58I just couldn't grasp it.
17:00I did my best, but...
17:04Inspector Currie, I'm only a foolish woman, but I know this much.
17:07My father is a genius.
17:09I believe he's one of the greatest men in this world.
17:12Not that it does him any good.
17:14The world can't see him.
17:16It can't understand him any more than I can.
17:19His sort are never recognized in their own time.
17:23Isn't that awful?
17:25Yes.
17:25Someday, when his writing has come to be published, it'll be shame on this land.
17:30But it'll be too late.
17:32Miss Raymond.
17:32I cry about him at night.
17:34He's getting old.
17:36You look after him.
17:38Serve him.
17:39Say that.
17:42Mr. Currie, if I could somehow make it happen for him.
17:46If only I'd do just about anything.
17:51Anything.
17:53Florence?
17:55What's going on down there?
17:57Who's that?
17:58Oh, the RSPCA.
18:01Hello, Mr. Raymond.
18:03Is she giving you trouble?
18:05Trouble?
18:06Sounds like it.
18:08Mr. Raymond, I think...
18:10Oh, forget her.
18:11Come along in, Florence, make tea.
18:16Maybe some tea for our guest.
18:20Yes, Father.
18:22Mr. Currie.
18:32Sit down.
18:35Bring us some of your scones and things.
18:38Pick out the good ones.
18:42She's as slow-witted as her late mother without the mother's compensating talents.
18:48She's loyal.
18:50Mr. Currie, the loyalty of a stupid person can be a very dulling commodity.
18:57Now, this is my bedroom and my study combined.
19:01I have to keep close to my notes.
19:04Sometimes I wake in the middle of the night.
19:07That's when the best ideas come.
19:11The very best ones.
19:13The trackway over the mind is cleared of the day's rubbish and...
19:18It's a clear run down to deeper levels.
19:24Oh, sit down, sit down.
19:31I'm here to ask about your work.
19:33Ah.
19:34Exactly what sort of thing is it that you...
19:36Oh, one moment, please.
19:37Not so fast.
19:39It's a very serious thing to demand of a man.
19:41What is your work?
19:43I hope you don't mind.
19:44Your life's work.
19:45I want to evaluate it.
19:47No, nothing at all.
19:48Implied.
19:49Not at all.
19:49Young man to old man.
19:51It must be a value judgment.
19:54What does his life's labor amount to?
19:58Well, so that we make sure,
20:01because misunderstanding can be so much more dangerous than ignorance,
20:07let's find out if you are able.
20:11What qualifications have you got?
20:13A degree?
20:13Uh, no.
20:14But those little badges...
20:16Yes, we get training.
20:17Practical?
20:18Mostly.
20:19You've worked in the forestry.
20:21I've visited labs.
20:23They're not quite the same thing, Mr. Currie.
20:27You know, you're really a kind of, uh,
20:30private eye of the animal trade.
20:35If I were to use the term DNA,
20:42deoxyribonucleic acid,
20:43does it mean anything?
20:44Genetics.
20:46Oh, good, good.
20:48Is that what it's about?
20:50Ah, tea.
20:52Unwantedly prompt.
20:53I had the kettle boiling.
20:55Just put it on the floor.
20:57There, child.
20:59There.
21:01I've put milk in the cups.
21:04Now you can get back to cleaning your hamsters.
21:13One's offspring are a distorting mirror.
21:16They mock one with themselves.
21:19I have to remember I'm not that.
21:24You know, it's not very easy, Inspector, to pass one's day in a room above a backstreet pet shop
21:33and still retain the certainty.
21:38Any certainty at all?
21:40Mm-hmm.
21:41Ah, tea's less watery than usual, perhaps in your honour.
21:47Any certainty...
21:50I'm all right.
21:51It's just a sudden leaning over.
21:53She'll be coming.
21:54Don't let her in.
22:03There's nothing wrong.
22:06A touch of fever, maybe.
22:08That's quite normal with me.
22:10I've always had a very rapid metabolism.
22:15Do you know what I ought to be now?
22:18Lecturing to the British Society for the advancement of science.
22:22Oh, by rights, of course.
22:24Or flying off to some international congress.
22:28Stockholm, perhaps.
22:30Ah, yes, yes.
22:32Men have won the Nobel Prize for less significant work than mine.
22:38I will try to understand.
22:40Oh, you won't manage it.
22:42I'll do my best.
22:46My subject is lycanthropy.
22:53Well, in trouble?
22:56Ah, you can't mean it.
22:59You know what it is?
23:00I think so.
23:02Well, let's see if you've got it right.
23:06Men are supposed to be able to change from their own shape into animals.
23:11Particularly wolves.
23:14The werewolf?
23:15Yes, from the old English were for man.
23:20Man-wolf.
23:21It's a very ancient and widespread belief.
23:24Yes, but that doesn't mean that...
23:28No smoke without fire.
23:31That's a good working principle.
23:33I've always found.
23:36The fire in this case lies in the origins of mankind.
23:42The origins of mammalian life.
23:45Before it starts to take over from the dinosaur and the reptile.
23:50That's where you've got to look.
23:52You mean fossils?
23:53Good, good.
23:58The bone buried in the rock.
24:01The fossil record.
24:03You'll find many amazing examples of common ancestry there.
24:08Well, I know about, uh, like ourselves and the apes.
24:13Oh, that was last week, my dear boy.
24:16Hmm, relatively speaking.
24:18A slight recent differentiation like the rhino and the horse.
24:22No, no, I'm talking about way back before the ape-men and the man-apes, all the primates.
24:33Fifty million years or more ago.
24:36Back to those first cruel little mammals who hadn't decided what to be.
24:42They evolved this way into the lemur, and things like us, and then us.
24:51That way into the canines, the proto-wolves.
24:57The link is still there.
24:59What link?
25:01The memory of how it was.
25:05That far back?
25:06Certainly.
25:08But if...
25:10If you're trying to tell me that we can remember someone...
25:13You do.
25:14Me?
25:14Of course you do. We all do.
25:19But not with the brain.
25:22The deepest memory isn't a mental function at all.
25:25It's in the cells of the body, every single cell imprinted with the individual and the race.
25:32It's the body, not the brain, that remembers.
25:36DNA?
25:37Oh.
25:39You see, you hadn't really understood it after all.
25:42DNA, RNA, the whole spectrum of nucleic acid.
25:47No, I...
25:48No what?
25:50Well, you...
25:51You're just playing with scientific terms.
25:55Oh.
25:57Unworthy, Mr. Curley.
26:00Unworthy.
26:02Just because you happen to be out of your depth.
26:05All right, I am.
26:34Well, obviously.
26:36I can call to them, reconnect with them.
26:40So you really believe that a living individual of one species can change into an individual of another?
26:46Yes.
26:47Because that's what you're saying.
26:48And you mean that.
26:52Mr. Raymond, I...
26:53I am going to prove it.
26:56You can't.
26:58You can't.
26:58I'm nearly there.
27:02But can't you see that you're just sitting here and scribbling and picking through a lot of complete nonsense.
27:09I mean, that's all it can ever really amount to.
27:19Come in here.
27:33And...
27:33Full equipped?
27:36Without my modest private income, I couldn't have managed it.
27:40Florence's profits from the shop would hardly have.
27:43what's that for now what do you think vivisection that's exactly the emotive
27:51word I would have expected from you those wolves were thoroughly
27:55anesthetized at all times what did you do I can assure you that canis lupus
28:00fully adult and unconscious takes some lifting my parole take what did you do
28:06nothing you could object to I've told you no cruelty I have the highest
28:12professional standards you cut them up they were humanely and painlessly put to
28:19death at the proper time but before that I took some spinal fluid and some tissue
28:23from the brain and other parts and through the rest away disposal yes a
28:35souvenir if you like study my trepanning method you did all this for amusement oh
28:47no don't mistake me I took what I wanted for my own real purpose I kept tissue alive in
28:58nutrient fluid I preserved lymph freeze dried and centrifuged as a basis for oh
29:08now we come up against your lack of science what does it matter let's call it the
29:17grandma vaccine grandma yeah the term I use for it when I used to try to explain my concept to
29:26poor
29:26Florence Little Red Riding Hood don't you remember straight out of folklore a case history don't you see it
29:38it wasn't the wolf that swallowed grandma grandma was the wolf pure lycanthropy
29:45it's a fairy tale a folk memory when Little Red Riding Hood saw what was in the bed it
29:52wasn't a disguise a wolf in a mob cap no child would have been taken in by that no it
30:00was
30:00grandma all right but then grandma what big eyes you have grandma what a big nose you have now grandma
30:18what
30:20big teeth you have and all the time before the eyes of the horrified child grandma was
30:29turning into a wolf so the grandma vaccine you made it oh yes for cross injection to implant the human
30:49cell memory and the lupine DNA and pack again oh I'm running ahead of you no you're
30:56not you'd have to have a human subject well done inspector who well who was the most available
31:04yourself of course my god well there are side effects of course but they have to be born
31:13anyway it doesn't matter I'm expendable I think perhaps you better show me exactly what it is you
31:19do oh of course why not why not it's a progressive course of injections one cc two cc three cc
31:28we're up to
31:29seventy cc's now into your own veins arteries I'm a walking incubation factory
31:37you're up to the head don't be careful what's wrong side effects don't worry this stuff won't harm you even
31:46if I did drop it
31:49mr. raymond
31:53what happened he's sick he's mad he's been systematically poisoning himself no no he didn't say that I hurt him
32:02on to the couch
32:12my guess is septicemia acute blood poisoning you don't know well I'm pretty sure you're not a doctor well then
32:17get one he should be in hospital no
32:19look you need treatment it had better be soon I told you side effects who is your doctor I forbid
32:26her no one's going to interfere
32:29I'm sorry I showed you I thought you perhaps you made some limited attempt to understand obviously you're incapable
32:38miss raymond come up here please please come
32:44it's completely insane this might kill him
32:46he must be lit
32:48look I'm gonna ring the hospital and get an ambulance no
32:50it has to be done
32:51I'll do it
32:52well right away
32:54I will I promise
32:55now please go
32:57he must know you've gone
32:58I have to make a full report on all this you know that
33:09no doctors
33:17soon
33:18soon
33:19now
33:21soon
33:23now
33:35now
33:36soon
33:37soon
33:37now
33:43on the cage it was really adequate this time good good you think he's turned over a new leaf
33:52more likely the gentle pressure of bob curry's boot yeah yeah bye now news of your cheetah bobby
33:59got to the airport in decent nick and went on his way rejoicing our people saw him off
34:03doesn't make jeb a goody well of course not it's just to get you off his back oh don't worry
34:07now how were the goats emaciated there were 19 of them they'd eaten a patch bear the owner he must
34:13have lost interest his neighbors looking after them till we find him did you read my report oh no
34:19Raymond I did yes I spent half the night on it there it is under her look oh yes clear
34:22my desk
34:23of it tied up with the rope trying to get her confidence back Sarah well you think he's mad
34:33must be I thought he was nothing but talk but this god is it is there any action ought to
34:41be I'm not
34:41sure what those wretched wolves are past history pity one of them didn't get him he was equipped hmm we
34:49might try to put a case together and charge him when he comes out of hospital if he comes out
34:53he's in a
34:54bad way well perhaps that'll be the kindest solution chief inspector Nash oh who's that speaking yes he's
35:06here you want to talk to him mr. doggie jeb hello inspector curry how are we mate mr. jeb if
35:20you're
35:20ringing to claim credit for dispatching that cheetah probably yes we do know about it we've glad you've
35:24got the point hey wait a minute nothing of the sort nothing to do with that I'm trying to do
35:29you a
35:30favor favor what I said you're straight with me squire so tit for tat anything I get through the
35:38grapevine you're the first to hear a pal of mine in the business has just completed a small transaction
35:47when was this are you sure yes thank you yes yes I'll remember well the pet shop took delivery of
35:59another wolf today today I can't get any attention it's a disgrace are you a policeman no oh well
36:11somebody should do something about it oh I can't wait any longer
36:41why is he still there you promised me he's not going to hospital look the state he's in no he
36:45might
36:45be dying if he is there's nothing to be done he must be left alone it's what he wants look
36:50he's
36:50past knowing he knows and they mustn't interfere with him who people they've been against him all
36:56his life this is his time that animal what about it is my business where is it in the yard
37:03still in
37:04its cage and you knew about it when I was here yesterday it was all fixed up and you said
37:08nothing
37:09at least he couldn't touch this one I'm gonna have it removed no not yet not till it's all over
37:17mr. curry I recognized your voice that's my friend I said the one who knows about DNA
37:25you should be in hospital if you interfere you'll regret it all the days of your life
37:31mr. raymond there's a wild animal out there yes look I have to see to it the cruelty man
37:36looking for cruelty but listen to it that's a song
38:33mr. raymond i have to have that wolf on me
38:36removed. it's my duty. do you hear that mr. Raymond. call a doctor I'll do what he wants. look he'll
38:51die.
38:51only what he wants. gentlemen, I am most honored to appear before such a distinguished gathering.
39:08I am most grateful to you for your response. especially those who have differed with me in
39:17the past. Sir Donald, Professor Barbourth, most gracious. would those at the rear kindly come a
39:28little nearer the front so that they may see and hear more clearly? that's right. thank you.
39:38I am about to provide you with a rewardingly, rewardingly dramatic demonstration
39:47of, in a few moments, a few moments, the culmination of a lifetime's work, the confusion of all my
40:01critics. as in the folk tale I enjoy telling my small daughter, you gentlemen are now in the position of
40:13little red riding hood as she opens the door of her grandma's cottage. grandma, what big eyes you have.
40:24and now, and now it begins. the vindication of my theory. the proof. gentlemen, I ask you to observe closely.
40:44my shape is beginning to change. my arms are
40:50altering. now it is spreading to my head and my shoulders. my mouth is assuming the shape
41:00typical of canis, lupus. now, now my head, the jaws distending, fangs painful, spreading through all the body, the internal,
41:19all the body.
41:20organs, transformation, almost completely.
41:50it's gone. what?
41:55he's dead. no, no, no, no.
42:00mr. raymond, I'm very sorry. it can't be. i did warn you.
42:04not just like anybody else.
42:08look, it was the best thing for him.
42:11it's not over yet.
42:12all right. yes, we feel like that. we can't help it. it's a shock. i knew it would be upsetting.
42:18look, please come and sit down. always knew this part.
42:24please come and sit down. i'll fix you a drink. i've got to stay and watch.
42:28miss raymond, your father is dead.
42:31he died of acute septicemia that he brought on himself and that's all there is to it.
42:36yes.
42:44what did you expect to happen?
42:59no.
43:02he must have written these today.
43:06wolf delivered. excellent condition. a gravid female.
43:12injected it with 250 cc's of serum prepared for my own blood, centrifuged.
43:22did you know about this?
43:24of course you did. he couldn't possibly have managed it without you.
43:28a gravid female. in cub. pregnant.
43:34he's probably poisoned it. the cubs as well.
43:39miss raymond, i'm gonna have to put that wolf down so i...
43:43never mind.
44:13tsht
44:15stop
44:16This won't hurt now.
44:19Shhh.
44:21Steady, steady, steady.
44:24Alright.
44:27Shhh.
44:28Shhh.
44:29Shhh.
44:32Mm-hmm.
44:52Hello.
44:53Mr Agnew.
44:55Yes, the case of the day-old chicks.
44:57Yes, I do know about it.
45:02Yes, I know. The trucker spilt his load
45:03and your chicks were wandering about all over the motorway.
45:05I do know.
45:08Look, we're not here to help you sue the trucker.
45:12I know you lost the lot.
45:16Listen, they had their moment of freedom and I hope they enjoyed it.
45:20Better that than a life in your broiler houses with the beaks chopped off.
45:24And you too.
45:25Agnew?
45:26Yes.
45:29Old Raymount's dead.
45:31They couldn't save him.
45:32He wouldn't go to hospital.
45:35I was with him when he...
45:37He gave a brief lecture to the British Association
45:40and capped it all by turning into a wolf.
45:42What?
45:43Then he died. I think he died happy.
45:46You mean he was delirious?
45:47He was completely off his head.
45:50Do you know the last thing he did?
45:52Really did.
45:53God knows how he managed it.
45:56He shot a sample of his filthy bloodstream into that young wolf.
46:00I had to put her down, Joe.
46:01I thought that was the only thing.
46:03You were probably right.
46:04I don't know.
46:05To save suffering.
46:06No, it wasn't just that.
46:08Sarah, how about some tea? Two thirsty men in here.
46:10No, I've got to go.
46:11Have you got to?
46:12Yes.
46:13I'm gonna take the big venom, pick up the wolf's body.
46:15Can you manage?
46:16Yeah.
46:17I've got to see their doctor.
46:18Try to get a certificate out of him.
46:19Of natural causes.
46:21Can you manage them?
46:41The service will be called back.
46:41I have to sit down.
46:41You can manage them all.
46:42I am not sure to erase them up and tell them about how to be anyways,
46:43you know what you think.
46:48I am not sure to go around and say you are not a woman
46:48I am not a man.
46:49I am not sure to the man.
46:50I am not sure to be there.
46:50Are you there? Are you all right?
47:08Yes, I did it.
47:11See? Everything that was his.
47:14He's in there dead.
47:16As cold as a dead mouse or a fish.
47:19And he's nothing more than that.
47:22You showed me.
47:25His work.
47:29Rubbish. All of it. Mad rubbish.
47:33You believed in him.
47:35Yes.
47:37Am I mad too?
47:40Was that it?
47:42Both of us mad together all the time?
47:46No, no, no. It wasn't.
47:48He made me believe in it.
47:51And do you know how he did that?
47:53By despising me.
47:55Florence, you're a fool.
47:57You're an idiot.
47:58You've got no brain.
47:59Florence, you're an idiot.
48:01And I thought because he could say those things to me,
48:04his only daughter,
48:06then it must be because he was a genius and he couldn't bear my stupidity.
48:11Do you see?
48:12I had to believe he was.
48:14I thought about enough.
48:15He was a genius and I was put in the world to serve him.
48:18Please take it easy.
48:19That's why I let him say those things to me.
48:22I thought he had the right.
48:27His work.
48:30His work.
48:31As long as I can remember, he was on at me about his work.
48:36He'd show me a pleasure and proofs.
48:40And all the time I stood on a follow and I couldn't,
48:44and I couldn't, and he'd laugh at me.
48:48But I wasn't a fool.
48:50The reason I couldn't understand was that there was nothing to understand.
48:57Yes, Raymond.
48:58I'm going to say it right to his face.
49:05Look at him there.
49:06He's just nothing.
49:09Do you know what he did?
49:12He took all my life and used it up as if he had a right to it.
49:17Wasted it.
49:19Like the little animals from the shop.
49:21Oh, he used them too, you know.
49:22He'd take them and cut them up.
49:24Florence.
49:25Florence, I need two more rats.
49:27Quickly now.
49:27Miss Raymond, I don't think you should stay here.
49:29Florence, he'd say to me,
49:31you're a fool, but you've got your uses.
49:33Is there any way you can go?
49:34Any relationship?
49:34That's all I was.
49:35Something to use.
49:37Please come away.
49:37I could have married, you know.
49:39There was a man, but he wouldn't let him get near.
49:41So there was that.
49:42Oh, I did my part.
49:44I was faithful.
49:45I submitted.
49:47And you took it all.
49:50No way you took my childhood.
49:52All my childhood cut out of me and thrown away.
49:57No friends in the house.
49:59Father can't have noise.
50:00Father's working.
50:01Father's thinking.
50:02No thoughts allowed in the house except Father's thoughts.
50:06No stories even, but Father's stories.
50:08Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, tell me a story.
50:13Go on.
50:14Go on.
50:17When Little Red Riding Hood opened the door of the cottage, there in the bed was Grandma.
50:24Hello, Little Red Riding Hood.
50:27Hello, Grandma.
50:30Oh, what big eyes you've got, Grandma.
50:35All the better to see you with, my dear.
50:39What big ears you're growing now, Grandma.
50:42And what big teeth.
50:45What a big muzzle you've got now, Grandma.
50:48And what big fangs, Grandma.
50:50What big, what big, what a big muzzle.
51:08Oh, it's true.
51:11I knew.
51:11I knew it.
51:17Ah.
51:27Just for a moment.
51:29It was true.
51:54Ajaxal Hopi and happiness.
51:55I knew her my toe beside you, but I knew she was using a teenager.
51:57I knew it was pure.
52:01Just foroughing the world that got into it, it was a great loss of faith.
52:01Just for a moment.
52:01It was a great job Zooey.
52:02It was an Magi Uno story designed to buy newflowies.
52:02I knew it was inches from my heart like a child.
52:02I knew it was lit but I knew it was near the first nightmare to ask yourself.
52:04I knew it, I knew it.
52:05I knew it was.
52:09What did you draw this idea?
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