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00:20So, can you use a gun?
00:23I prefer fists. Who will I be fighting?
00:26Our enemies. Have you ever been to prison?
00:32Why'd you ask?
00:33The terms you're willing to take.
00:35What did you do?
00:39My pals saw something in a shop window they wanted.
00:42So I drove into it. It's called a smash...
00:45Smash and rub, yes, I know. I do read the papers.
00:48It says here you've recently worked for a film actor.
00:52Yes.
00:53As his bodyguard?
00:55Amongst other things.
00:57But before that, in this... bookshop...
01:05Why did you leave there?
01:09I didn't care for it.
01:10And you're happy with this arrangement?
01:14A book has his life. I have mine. It works.
01:17I'm amazed more people don't do it.
01:20I knew him.
01:22Your father. I knew him before the war.
01:26You knew him?
01:32Jack?
01:34Ah, this is...
01:35I can't... I can't...
01:38Jack, where are you going?
01:42But your previous employer trusted you?
01:46Yes.
01:47Despite your history?
01:49Because of it.
01:51Perhaps.
01:53And should we trust you?
01:59Well, I suppose you'll find out...
02:01when the next assassin comes.
02:20Laura.
02:21I never did it.
02:23Never did what?
02:25Made shillings out of ice and put them in the meter.
02:29What's all this corrosion, then?
02:32That's rust.
02:34Yes, it is.
02:37Cold, isn't it?
02:44We could burn a few.
02:46No, we couldn't.
02:47Not even the Georgette Hayes?
02:49No.
02:49Really, Nora.
02:50For someone so new to the pleasures of reading,
02:52you're fast becoming a terrible snob.
03:00What is it?
03:04Feels quiet without him.
03:06Feels quiet without him.
03:07What is it?
03:07What is it?
03:20God bless the waltz again!
03:22And all who sail in her.
03:26Oh, God!
03:27Jesus!
03:28Oh, bloody hell!
03:31Do forgive me, my dear.
03:32I seem to be in a state of advanced repression.
03:35Oh, I have noticed, Victor.
03:36Just stay there.
03:37I'll fetch a cloth.
03:44Secret, sir.
03:45Dunhill or capsule.
03:49Sir?
03:52Can we talk?
03:54Thank you, sir.
04:05Here.
04:06It's for him.
04:08Oh.
04:20Please enjoy.
04:23Not enough lemon juice.
04:25Too much ice.
04:27And I did not like the way you shook it.
04:30Too violent.
04:32Mm-hmm.
04:33Of course.
04:35Excuse me.
04:38They think I'm too violent.
04:41It's a violent art.
04:45Good thing I didn't waste any gin on them, then.
04:49You're a quick learner.
05:02I'm glad you've fallen on your feet.
05:04I had no idea you'd be here.
05:06We haven't seen you in weeks.
05:07How are you?
05:09I haven't got long.
05:11What do you want?
05:13Oh, Jack.
05:15This is silly.
05:17We miss you.
05:19We both hoped you'd found a safe birth in Archangel Lane.
05:22A home.
05:23Book and me.
05:25Well, our arrangement is unusual, I know.
05:27But as I said to you, when we first met...
05:29Love is where it falls.
05:32And how does my father fit into all of that?
05:37One of Mr Book's little dalliances, was he?
05:39Well, Book needs to talk to you about your father properly.
05:43Look, our marriage protects us both.
05:45Don't we have the right to be happy?
05:47Happy?
05:48We're gallivanting off into the night.
05:50In with God knows who and you.
05:53Is that the latest, is it?
05:55That little moustache?
05:57He's Captain Orr. I knew him before the war.
05:59Oh, dreamboat of the officer's mess, was he?
06:01Something like that.
06:03Listing slightly now, though, eh?
06:07You don't know how to pick him.
06:10Mrs Pug.
06:12Well, we better not keep him waiting.
06:15Excuse me.
06:23Oh, come to my room and help me dry off.
06:29Unwet, woman!
06:30Give me the damn cloth.
06:31Come on.
06:32Get your ruddy hands off me.
06:34I won't have it.
06:35For shame.
06:37Oh, dear sir.
06:38Oh, you've had a right mishap.
06:40Who's this?
06:40Wet trousers are against the dress code, you know?
06:43Mr Walsingham.
06:44So, why don't you go back to your room, take the wet pants off and have a little lay down?
06:48I have never been so insulted.
06:51Sure you have been?
06:52A fella like you.
06:53Ah, Victor Orr.
06:54My old friend.
06:55I can't leave you alone for five minutes, can I?
06:58That a girl can't take a joke.
07:00Sit down.
07:00Uh, can we have a couple of girls?
07:03What do you call them?
07:04Four serum sours.
07:06For the two ladies.
07:07For their royal highnesses.
07:09You mean?
07:10These are on me, ladies.
07:12And may I say, you are looking superbly Balkan tonight.
07:16I salute the house of Scutari.
07:20Whichever commissar lives in it now.
07:22Take a good look, Trotty.
07:24That's what happens to you when you get dethroned by the Reds.
07:27Oh!
07:28Oh dear.
07:30Allow me.
07:32So embarrassing.
07:33I do apologise.
07:34Not at all.
07:35Not at all.
07:36Look after the pennies, and the pounds will look after themselves.
07:40What?
07:47I, uh, had a bit of luck on the horses.
07:51You, uh, you know Ascot?
07:54Very well, sir.
07:57How's the going?
07:58Oh, uh...
08:00Good to firm.
08:02After this, shall we, uh...
08:06Normally my favourite ellipsis, but I just think we should call it a night now, Victor.
08:11Oh, Trotty.
08:13You're no fun anymore.
08:15It's amazing how different things can look without the benefit of the blackout.
08:21Here's to Joe Stalin's next stroke.
08:24Tinkety-tong.
08:25Tinkety-tong.
08:35Victor!
08:45Victor!
10:14No.
10:16Remind me, what's the price of a green penguin crime novel?
10:22A shilling.
10:23Ah.
10:26That's better.
10:36Ah, success.
10:38Yes.
10:41Ah.
11:03Oh, it's you.
11:06You ready to commit an affray, miss?
11:08No, Sergeant.
11:09She was just, um, browsing.
11:10I hate to seem inquisitive, but why are you here?
11:13There's a chap being killed at the walls in them.
11:15Poisoned.
11:16Dead in a pile of pound notes on the floor of the river bar.
11:19Oh, that's just our sort of thing.
11:21Don't get too excited.
11:22The inspector wants a book.
11:23A G book, Esquire.
11:25There's some foreign royalty involved, it seems.
11:29He says, uh, do you have anything on the Balkan rules of revenge?
11:33Specifically, the canon of Scutari.
11:38How too, too ridiculously obscure.
11:41Do you have it?
11:41Almost certainly.
11:43Hmm.
11:44And, uh, 504, he says.
11:46504.
11:47Room with a view?
11:48Well, it's all right for some, I suppose.
11:50Mrs. Book's already checked in.
11:52Where?
11:53Oh, er, she's one of the suspects.
11:58Trouble in paradise, is it so?
12:28Oh, ho, what a beauty.
12:32Yes.
12:32Might be one of those clues.
12:34We like those.
12:36Do you mind?
12:37Yes.
12:40Do people really say, what's your poison when they're at the bar?
12:44No idea.
12:45I don't get out much.
12:46What do you mean?
12:47Look, we're at the Walsingham.
12:49So's he.
12:51Oh, yeah.
12:52Let's, uh, let's get him somewhere more prior.
12:54Yep.
13:09Not the main entrance, please, Inspector.
13:11I'm sorry we can't be more discreet.
13:13May I suggest the service corridor?
13:15Oh, yes, yes.
13:17Thank you, Mr. Kind.
13:18Oh, nothing to stop by reopening the bar tomorrow, I think.
13:35All right.
13:49Good evening, sir.
13:50Good evening, sir.
13:50Evening.
13:50You have a reservation?
13:52Uh, no, my wife.
13:54Your wife?
13:55This is book.
13:56This is book.
13:57Have you seen her?
13:57I'm afraid she may be distressed.
13:59No book.
14:00Oh.
14:01504, Freddie.
14:02Uh, no, I'll keep this one.
14:05What's happened, darling?
14:06What's this about a corpse?
14:07Why have I been scouring my stacks?
14:09Why have I been scouring my stacks in books of Balkan blood fumes?
14:10Oh.
14:11I'm not proud of myself.
14:14There was champagne.
14:15I'd date the races, riddle me re in the 2.30.
14:18Cocktails, more cocktails than men.
14:22Trotty.
14:23We live our own lives.
14:25That was always the deal.
14:26Self-flagellation is never helpful.
14:28Not nearly as much fun as someone doing it to you.
14:31Who was he?
14:33Victor.
14:34Or.
14:35Or?
14:36With two R's.
14:37Naval captain, married.
14:38I'd met him before.
14:39In an air raid.
14:4041.
14:42He, uh, made a pass at me in...
14:45In...
14:45Where?
14:46Please don't make me say the F word.
14:49Foils.
14:50Yes.
14:51Oh, Trotty.
14:52I just fancied a good time.
14:55Well, there's nothing wrong with that.
14:56He turned out to be the most awful bore.
14:58Where is he now?
14:59In the morgue.
15:01Oh.
15:02One last night on the tiles.
15:04And there's something else.
15:06Book.
15:06Thank God you're here.
15:08You ready?
15:08For what?
15:09To interview royalty.
15:11It's a little irregular, isn't it?
15:13I don't care.
15:13They terrify me.
15:14I'm not going in there alone.
15:16Haven't you taken their fingerprints?
15:18I've not got Morris to do that.
15:19I may be a coward, but I'm not a fool.
15:21I have our primary text.
15:24The Canoon of Scutari.
15:25Oh.
15:26Looks expensive.
15:27Will it pay for our suite, Inspector?
15:29Oh, the late Captain had taken care of that, Mrs. Book.
15:33You're in the room next to the princesses.
15:35Oh, what are they like?
15:36Oh, they're glamorous in a sort of disappointed and stateless kind of way.
15:40Perhaps it's time I kept a closer eye on them.
15:43And an ear, too.
15:44I shall use one of those little glasses they keep by the sink.
15:57So, will this help us find he'd done it?
16:00It's a book of customary laws for remote mountain communities without a magistrate or justice.
16:05The village elders consult the text and then tell you how much Reiki to provide for your daughter's wedding,
16:11what to do if your bees escape and build a nest on your labor's land, that sort of thing.
16:15And who you're allowed to kill if somebody kills your cousin.
16:25Well, what language did you think it was going to be in?
16:27Well, we have three native speakers on the premises, but they're all suspects.
16:31Who's the third?
16:32Oh, he's a rather good-looking cocktail waiter.
16:34Well, don't fret too much.
16:36The dutiful Teutonic scholar did publish a translation of it in the German.
16:40Oh, well, you certainly speak the German.
16:42In his sleep sometimes.
16:43So, where is this translation?
16:46Nora's looking for it now.
16:47It must be somewhere in the law section, or social science, or etiquette, or propping open the door.
16:53You said there was something else?
16:55Yes.
16:55These princesses have been given gainful employment to one of the capitals dispossessed.
17:01Oh, yes.
17:03I know.
17:10And there he is.
17:14I'll turn down the bedspread.
17:16Sergeant Morris will be along soon to take a statement.
17:19Yes, of course.
17:20I'd be grateful, Mrs. Book, if you didn't leave the hotel.
17:23It's perfectly all right, Inspector.
17:25You have to do your duty.
17:34I'm here to see their royal highnesses.
17:43I'm here to see their royal highnesses.
17:56A lot of academic monographs bound in sight, slightly foxed according to the catalogue.
18:04You're no help.
18:18Oh, that kingdom desk Atari.
18:23What would I do without you?
18:43Oh, my God.
18:55Time for a little chat, Mrs. Book.
19:11Poof.
19:14I beg your pardon?
19:16I apologize for it.
19:19That we have sang so low.
19:22Remember the great banqueting table, Ruhia, hmm?
19:25Chairs made with birch.
19:28As silvery as the snow on the mountaintops.
19:31Upholstered with dumb masks of salt.
19:33We've been in more awkward situations than this, haven't we, Inspector?
19:37That we have, Book.
19:38So, which is the policeman?
19:40You or this, Book?
19:42He's taking notes for me.
19:44Helping with the pitman's shorthand.
19:46So useful.
19:47Tall and red-headed.
19:49Like the poppies of our homelid.
19:53I realize that this will be very difficult for you, your Royal Highnesses.
19:58But if there's any detail you can recall, however small, it may help us discover who killed Captain Orl.
20:05That is easy.
20:06I killed him.
20:08He did what?
20:10It is true.
20:11I switched the glasses.
20:13He drank the poison.
20:14Meant for one of us.
20:15We have a routine, my sister and I, to cause a distraction.
20:19I salute the house of Scutari.
20:22Whichever commissar lives in there now.
20:24Take a good look, Trussie.
20:26That's what happens to you if you get dethroned by the Reds.
20:29Oh!
20:30Oh, dear.
20:31It's so embarrassing.
20:32I do apologize.
20:33Not at all, not at all.
20:35Look after the pennies, and the pounds will look after themselves.
20:38What?
20:40It is a habit, a necessary precaution.
20:43Like this.
20:46This was the third attempt on our life since we left New York.
20:50There was a steward on the Berengaria.
20:52Can I turn over your room, madame?
20:55So transparent.
20:56And that Salvation Army woman outside the opera, shaking her tin box.
21:01She denied everything, of course.
21:03Who do you think is trying to kill you?
21:05The communists, of course.
21:07Opera.
21:08But they already have your palaces, your estates.
21:11Our summer house on the Adriatic.
21:13There is a lake there.
21:15When the rising sun touches it, it is like the blush.
21:19In the spring, our country was proclaimed a people's republic.
21:23They want...
21:23What's the expression?
21:25A big finish.
21:27Ha!
21:29Hence the bodyguard.
21:30And how are you finding him?
21:32As he failed to prevent an attempt on our lives, I would say he has not covered himself in glory.
21:38Don't the communists also have your other sister?
21:42We do not speak of her.
21:43Senille, yes?
21:44The youngest.
21:45She renounced her title.
21:46We do not speak of her.
21:48Red scum.
21:49She betrayed her birthright, her country, her family.
21:55Take it.
21:59Of course, if this does turn out to be the case, then your switching of the drinks will not be
22:04without consequence.
22:05We are used to being pilloried.
22:07We will take whatever comes to us.
22:09Right.
22:10Right.
22:11Now then, in your statement, you said something about this murder being written about in the Canoon of Scutari.
22:17What does that mean?
22:18It means that a killing like this follows certain customary principles.
22:23It means the first thing you must do is arrest that cocktail waiter.
22:27Ismail Ghazili.
22:28Ghazili.
22:29Ghazili.
22:30Ghazili.
22:31Ghazili.
22:32Why?
22:32He's from the mountains.
22:34These people know the rules of revenge.
22:36They are obsessed with them.
22:37You must arrest him.
22:38And you must bring in any others on the staff.
22:42Of a mountain man?
22:44Yes.
22:44Yes.
22:48Well, thank you so much.
22:50This has been most helpful.
22:52So you will do as we say?
22:53No, I will not.
22:55Why?
22:56Because, Princess, I am not your subject.
22:58And in this country, a man is innocent until proven guilty.
23:02Whatever altitude he was born at.
23:11Sometimes, Inspector, you make me proud to be from the gutter.
23:17I never really thought of myself as a Republican.
23:20Well, it's the war, but it changed the sort.
23:23I never really thought of myself as a Jew.
23:26You ever come here during the Blitz?
23:29I had to let you in if there was a radon, even without a tie.
23:33We used to come down to the lower bar.
23:35It was known as the fruit cellar.
23:38That was quite the mixed grill.
23:40I never thought of myself as a Jew.
24:12you did nothing you're supposed to be my boyfriend and you did nothing what do you expect me to do
24:19nothing
24:23is he the one from this morning yeah came at me in a silk dressing gown with everything pointed north
24:30his name is captain victor or not anymore they already gave me a warning what yeah apparently
24:38shouting at lecherous customers isn't the walsingham way i'll speak to mr kind it was mr kind who gave me
24:46the warning one more black mark on about my arse i hate this place you know i was doing okay
24:54here
24:55at least i thought i was what's the bloody point yeah i'm sorry you know my dad was right about
25:05you
25:05ismail and i should have listened to him leave me alone
25:10what
25:15questions
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