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00:00The End
00:15Careful officer, my friend borrows his jazz mags from the maitre d.
00:19You can't shock me sir.
00:21I've been to the windmill theatre and seen those gents with the newspapers on their laps.
00:25And brought a few into the station.
00:40Have you been jazzing with this one, sir?
00:42No, no, that lot put me right off.
00:43Oh, you hate your royal family, do you?
00:45They're not my royal family. They've been nobody royal family since 1940.
00:48Ever since they left us with that chap.
00:50Hey Marco, what was his name?
00:53Mussolini, mate.
00:54I knew you'd know, mate.
00:56Right-o, sir.
00:58Confiscating this as evidence.
00:59You enjoy this, don't you?
01:02It just works, sir.
01:04Keep your temper, eh?
01:07Suppose I usually take all that aggression out on the ice cubes.
01:33Book for Mr. Book?
01:35Oh.
01:37It's the Canoon of Scutari.
01:40It's the Canoon of Scutari.
01:41It's Albania.
01:50Mrs. Book's out of the picture.
01:52You can't be certain of that, sir.
01:54I've read a statement and I'm satisfied it's nothing to do with her.
01:56But, sir-
01:57I'm satisfied, Maurice.
02:00Clear.
02:07So, you think it was one of us?
02:09I don't think anything yet.
02:12Signor Barberini?
02:14Okay, well I've narrowed it down to two.
02:16A royal member of the House of Scutari.
02:18Nafia or Ruhia?
02:20Roto.
02:20Method?
02:22Poison.
02:23Something slipped into the cocktail glass after he tried it on with Edie Rattle.
02:28That's the chamber maid, yes?
02:29So where was she when Captain Orr coughed his last?
02:31Gone already.
02:33Motive?
02:33Do you think of any reason why anyone would want to kill Captain Victor Orr?
02:37Are you kidding?
02:38That captain was always here with different women.
02:40Usually in the same room.
02:42504.
02:44Really?
02:45Mm-hmm.
02:46City view.
02:47Noiseless bed springs.
02:49Duchess raid for favorite patrons.
02:51And that captain has been coming here for years.
02:53Usually once a week.
02:54Without a squake.
02:56You're very well informed.
02:57No secrets at the Walsingham, sir.
02:59We see all the dirty land.
03:01Because we have to clean it.
03:03Some might say, Mr. Ghazili, that it's the duty of a Grand Hotel to make sure that the
03:08private life of a guest remains private.
03:10And some might say, Inspector, that in a Grand Hotel people are usually at it like cod in a bucket.
03:16So it's a crime of passion then?
03:18No.
03:19I reckon the captain was something in intelligence.
03:23During the war.
03:24How do you know that?
03:26They're a type.
03:27Friendly, but tell you nothing.
03:31With a drink, they'll always have what the other person's having.
03:35So, uh, why would the princesses want to kill a British spy?
03:39Because British intelligence handed over Scutari to the Communist partisans.
03:42And the captain recognized the princesses.
03:49Who are they?
03:52Should I know them?
03:55Balkans.
03:56Same to you.
03:57Hmm.
03:59Now, Fia and Ruhia.
04:03Princesses of the royal house of Scutari.
04:06Proposed by the Communists and now drifting around the world like Flotsam.
04:13Very glamorous Flotsam.
04:15Wasn't there a scandal?
04:16They did a flit and the bullion from the National Bank somehow found its way into their hatboxes.
04:23Something of the sort.
04:27And?
04:29They're drifting our way.
04:31Or your way, to be precise.
04:33Oh, I see.
04:34In the market for a set of dictionaries, huh?
04:37They're staying at the Walsingham.
04:38Just down the road from you.
04:40And, uh, there have been letters.
04:46Threats.
04:47Vicious ones.
04:48You should speak to the post office, then.
04:52We'd be ever so grateful if you just kept an eye on them.
05:00I told you.
05:03You're just a bookseller.
05:04And I told...
05:07I reminded you that we helped find young Jack.
05:14It wasn't easy.
05:16It wasn't easy.
05:35Oh.
05:37It's you.
05:38It's me.
05:40Tough or...
05:41You know.
05:42Oh, don't mention it.
05:48So, does that happen a lot then, does it?
05:52Comes with a job, doesn't it?
05:54Can I do you now, sir?
05:58I wouldn't have killed him for it, though.
06:01Somebody did.
06:02Yeah.
06:05So...
06:06Which side are you on?
06:08Sorry?
06:10Which side are you on?
06:12Well, what are the options?
06:14Well...
06:15There's the management in this hotel who...
06:18Treat their staff like muck and...
06:20Give a girl a mouthful just for standing up for herself.
06:24Right.
06:25Then there's the workers.
06:27Okay.
06:28Well...
06:28The workers then.
06:29Nice to hear your expression of solidarity, brother.
06:32But it's...
06:33Deeds not words that count.
06:35Don't you think?
06:37Right.
06:38So why don't you go down there to that taxi stand?
06:41Get me a nice cup of Bovril.
06:45I can't.
06:47Maybe later.
06:48I just gotta get back.
06:50To their royal bloody highnesses.
06:53Afraid so.
06:55How does it feel...
06:57Working for those parasites?
07:01Is that what they are?
07:03Well, what would you call them?
07:07Sad.
07:09I suppose.
07:11Yeah...
07:12A bit sad.
07:15Well...
07:15Speaking for myself...
07:18I'd line them up.
07:20Shoot the boogers.
07:23Centers for life...
07:28Wait!
07:37Do you mind me?
07:38You're right!
07:39I have to...
07:40To...
07:53I can say a proper hello to you now, Edmund, kind.
07:57Good evening.
07:59More than kind, I used to say.
08:01Oh, well, that's too kind.
08:04They closed it, you know, the lower bar.
08:06The fruit cellar.
08:08Oh, what a shame.
08:10Yes, for redecoration.
08:11Though when the work will actually start, I don't know.
08:14Seems they prefer it mothballed, the management.
08:17You mean it's all still there, the mural and everything?
08:19Oh, yes.
08:21Well, you could take a look, if you'd like.
08:25I should really be getting back upstairs.
08:28Of course.
08:31I suppose a little peep wouldn't hurt.
08:42Well, the question is, well, the lights work.
08:47I don't remember there being any.
08:49You never turn them on.
08:50Black-eyed, I suppose.
08:51I know, they were just terribly unfloattering.
08:55Yes, you're right.
08:56Let's turn them off.
08:58Just a soup song.
09:03These walls could talk.
09:19Kim Strang is dead.
09:21Did you hear?
09:22Kim Strang.
09:24He used to keep his Max Factor in a gas mask box.
09:28Well, he'd been in Egypt, hadn't he?
09:31Had to keep that tan up.
09:33What happened to him?
09:34He walked into the sea at shore.
09:36I'm sorry to say.
09:38Somebody had his letters.
09:40Dreadful, really.
09:42Dreadful.
09:44And you're very married, I see.
09:46Very, very married.
09:48Congratulations.
09:49And thanks for your help with the other matter.
09:52Not at all.
09:53What does Jack know?
09:55That my wife and I have an arrangement, as I knew his late father.
09:59Nothing more.
10:00He found that difficult enough to take, ran out on us that very night.
10:03Hmm.
10:04Floated here.
10:05Where he is gainfully employed, thanks to you.
10:08And able to keep an eye on the other bodies floating around, the regal scutari ones.
10:14Why do you need to keep an eye on those?
10:16It's possible they were the intended victims.
10:18Not the captain.
10:19It's a working hypothesis.
10:21Are you with the police now, Gabriel?
10:23You always were a dark horse.
10:26It makes up a substantial part of my charm.
10:28Christ, isn't that dangerous?
10:30I mean, one false step.
10:32I am all too well aware of that, Edmund.
10:35Although I do have a special letter from Churchill.
10:39Still, you probably shouldn't be found in a dimly lit basement bar with...
10:44With a terribly handsome old friend.
10:46No, perhaps not.
10:49Top of the grid.
10:51And the wall cinema isn't connected to the grid.
10:53It has its own oil-powered generators.
10:56They're bringing it in by the barrel.
10:57Everything depends on it, even the plumbing.
10:59And what's a grand hotel without power and hot running water?
11:03Well, I suppose it's just a big building full of people who are rather cold and rather hungry and very,
11:09very rich.
11:13I should get back.
11:17Me too.
11:45No big surprises on the poison front, Inspector.
11:48But, uh, the deadly glass contained boring old hydrochloric acid.
11:51Oh, we can't all be virtue, I says.
11:54Virtue, I see.
11:57The thumbprint, enough for an arrest?
11:59Enough for a hanging, maybe.
12:10Okay, thank you.
12:12Bye.
12:13Where's Edie Randall?
12:15Oh, um, I'll check.
12:19Very good, sir.
12:32Did the blessed sergeant get everything he required from you, dear?
12:36Well, I took him through it in exhausting detail.
12:39Where did you get to?
12:41I mean, talking to the staff.
12:42Oh, yes, very nice of you.
12:44The ones who served you cocktails tonight?
12:46Well, it was really only the younger one.
12:49Guzzili.
12:49If you say so.
12:51Apparently, he poured a whole round down the sink, ice, some fruit and all.
12:56Could he have tampered with the second round?
12:58Yes.
12:58Nobody was looking because of the brouhaha.
13:01Brouhaha?
13:03Yes, one of the princesses dropped her reticule.
13:06There was loose change all over the floor.
13:07Yes, I've heard about that.
13:08And after the brouhaha?
13:10Well, I dragged Victor back to the bar.
13:12He made a toast.
13:13And then there was the furore.
13:15A brouhaha and then a furore?
13:18It was very confusing.
13:20Oh, and there was a woman.
13:24A woman?
13:25I've just remembered.
13:26She handed me a cloth.
13:28Like St. Veronica on the road to Calvary.
13:30To mop up Victor Orr's trousers.
13:33There was something about the look she gave me.
13:38Poor Victor.
13:40People were recoiling in pure horror.
13:42It was burning his neck out.
13:44You could hear it crackle.
13:50I'm sorry you had a beastly time.
13:59I just wanted to get Stinker and wake up somewhere with clean sheets and three egg omelets.
14:04I wanted something.
14:07So I wanted him.
14:11I do love you, Mrs. Book.
14:15Ditto.
14:19Book.
14:20Yes.
14:23We never really talk.
14:25At all.
14:26But the arrangement.
14:29What's to talk about?
14:31Well, to see that all's well, that we're both okay.
14:35All is well.
14:36Look, you left a light on for me.
14:42I could be making love in this.
14:47In the dark.
14:49Has anyone told Victor Orr's wife?
14:52It's not like she was expecting him to come home.
14:55Do you know who she is?
14:57I don't really know who he was.
15:00Still.
15:02I suppose he did get us a knight here.
15:05Isn't it marvelous?
15:07Hmm.
15:09No clouds to light.
15:10Hmm.
15:11Nowhere for the stars to hide.
15:14We never really had a proper honeymoon, did we?
15:16Bit of a diary clash.
15:18The Luftwaffe had their hearts set on Eastbourne, too.
15:21Beach was very pebbly, anyway.
15:22And covered in barbed wire.
15:24Hmm.
15:25Doesn't worry you, though.
15:27Disappoint you.
15:29What?
15:29The absence of landmarks, declarations, grand gestures.
15:36Oh, no, look.
15:38In fact, I'm going to make one now.
15:41Who is?
15:43Let's order a bloody huge bottle of champagne.
15:49Champagne.
16:06Got our papers.
16:08Stamped and signed.
16:09Tickets, too.
16:10Can't you do anything discreetly, my love?
16:16Now, five minutes till it leaves.
16:17Platform six.
16:19We're going to be in Paris for breakfast.
16:21There are no Nazis in Paris, but there are questions also.
16:24It's all going to be fine.
16:29I can't come with your book.
16:32For the same reason that you must leave.
16:37It's so full here.
16:38Can I sit here?
16:39Uh, of course.
16:58Oh, and I must return this to you, my, my, my dear fellow.
17:09I love a good book.
17:12A beautiful book.
17:17And how easy it is to picture myself on some winter evening in the country, lying with this particular book.
17:30It moves me so much.
17:37But I'm afraid I cannot keep it.
17:42I know it's royalties.
17:46And some books get burned, you know.
17:52And I should not like to be responsible for the loss of this one.
17:57Because it is so dear to me.
18:01That I know it by heart.
18:21Henceforth, wherever thou mayst roam, my blessing, like a line of light, is...
18:31It is on the waters, day and night.
18:36And like a beacon guards the home.
18:40It's false.
18:40This is what I read.
18:41It's the last editor that hasежду of the people in Paris.
18:45But she's gone.
19:00At least now.
19:50Denison.
19:54Ja, Sie sollten deutsche Dichter lesen.
20:03Ja, Sie sollten deutsche Dichter.
20:43Ja, Sie sollten deutsche Dichter lesen.
21:09Ja, Sie sollten deutsche Dichter lesen.
21:13Why do you have this?
21:14I'm taking it to Mr. Book, in the next room.
21:17He's helping the police.
21:18This is most interesting.
21:21Continue.
21:22Well, he's a sort of expert witness, and he's staying here with his wife, who I believe...
21:26I meant continue on your way.
21:31Good night.
21:33Hmm.
21:47Oh, I thought you were a bottle of highly spiriting.
21:50A book for Mr. Book.
21:52What is it, dear?
21:53It was that book you wanted.
21:55Oh, very good.
21:57The lights were on the blink up here.
21:59An engineer is investigating.
22:00I do apologise for any inconvenience.
22:04Is there anything more I can do for you?
22:06Well, tracking down our champagne would be nice.
22:08Of course.
22:14Extraordinary, man.
22:15Smells nice, though.
22:17Gardenia.
22:19Capital.
22:20Just what we need.
22:21They're taking their time with that champagne, aren't they?
22:24I think they're having trouble below.
22:27With the generators.
22:29You don't need champagne, do you, Book?
22:31Just anything with footnotes.
22:34And a bibliography.
22:36Maybe an erratum slip.
22:44I used to love this place, you know.
22:46In the war, the rooms were cheap.
22:48Thirty-five shillings a night.
22:49Well, the ones nearest the V2s, anyway.
22:53Always plenty of life down in the bar.
22:56A bit too much, sometimes.
22:59And now the Walsingham is listing.
23:01Like an old ship.
23:05Well, I'd like to smash a bottle against it.
23:31And now the Walsingham.
23:334th口.
23:332nd of theagitino mirth.
23:332nd of theagitino- hypno-iliitis.
23:392nd of theagitins.
23:392nd of theagitins.
23:515keeper babies.
23:524th口.
23:525thkę.
23:535thThe Mayor Aerial Night.
23:532nd of theagitins.
23:545thk.
24:23Let me tell the story
24:24of an old lady fair
24:26standing sentinel
24:28across the years
24:29in the city's bonny square.
24:33Let me tell the story
24:35of the journey down to hell
24:37from the dear,
24:39dilapidated
24:40Walsingham Hotel.
24:54Some came to stay,
24:56to rest,
24:57to play.
24:58Some came to labor
25:00every day.
25:02Some came to sound
25:03the passing bell
25:05for the dear old
25:07Walsingham Hotel.
25:22But who killed
25:23Captain Victor Orr?
25:25Princess,
25:26waiter,
25:27maid,
25:27or more?
25:28Who came to sound
25:30the final knell
25:31for the dear
25:33old
25:33Walsingham Hotel.
25:44Well then,
25:48that's that.
25:54What was that?
25:56Eden!
25:57Eden!
25:58Are you okay?
26:05I need you.
26:06I should burn
26:07Donovrasen.
26:08One more step,
26:09and I'll...
26:09You know...