Thriller. 27. Night Is the Time for Killing.

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First broadcast 18th January 1975.  A woman recovering from a nervous breakdown gets involved in a spy plot when she sees a corpse during a long train journey.  Judy Geeson - Helen Marlow Charles Gray - Hillary Vance James Smillie - Bob Malory (as Jim Smilie) Jeffry Wickham - Parker Edward Burnham - Minister Anthony Nash - General Jacki Piper - Bride Duncan Preston - Groom Milos Kirek - Ivan Malov Alister Williamson - Barkly Robert MacLeod - Henry Marlow Reg Pritchard - Attendant Aimée Delamain - Penelope Bill Horsley - Waiter

Transcript

00:00:00The End

00:00:51The Marlowe.

00:00:57it would help if we knew what he looks like at least we know he exists

00:01:05Yvonne Marloff Clark second class in their embassy Clark second class attached to their

00:01:10special services you'd had access to their coding system distribution and he says he's

00:01:18in possession of at least two top secret files he says you didn't try to check him out to

00:01:23verify anything he said Marloff spoke to me for no more than a minute he was on the run then

00:01:26and

00:01:26frightened he told me he wasn't in effect he had important papers but of course you checked on

00:01:33him Parker the general knows that you didn't and you have passed up the chance of getting your

00:01:38hands on something that might have proved very special you all know what these defections are

00:01:46the sudden holding corner things don't get the chance of getting everything in triplicate

00:01:59he's frightened scared silly he wants our protection

00:02:09and he shall have it

00:02:14it would help to know what he looks like

00:02:16yeah

00:02:32but

00:02:41yeah

00:02:43yeah

00:02:55Oh, my God.

00:03:16Oh, my God.

00:03:53He's late.

00:03:58Very late.

00:04:00He isn't coming.

00:04:01Oh, he's been intercepted.

00:04:06Hello?

00:04:10Parker?

00:04:11Parker, Marlowe, here.

00:04:14Listen carefully.

00:04:29That's it, Parker.

00:04:31Tomorrow morning.

00:04:33I'll make myself no to him and only to him.

00:04:37Goodbye, Parker.

00:04:39Marlowe.

00:04:47Well, what's he say?

00:04:50Instructions for another meeting.

00:04:52It'll be...

00:05:03That's all?

00:05:05He won't do it any other way.

00:05:06Paddament.

00:05:08I told you, he's a very frightened man.

00:05:13Well, we shall just have to go along with him, shan't we?

00:05:20Unless you have a better suggestion, General.

00:05:37Well, what's he say?

00:05:40I know.

00:05:42I know.

00:05:45What's he say?

00:05:48I know.

00:06:20I have both births. I distinctly told them you'd be traveling alone.

00:06:24Oh, Father.

00:06:25You need privacy. I told them that.

00:06:28Father, does it matter?

00:06:30Does anything matter?

00:06:33I'll have them fix it later.

00:06:41I reserved a table for the first sitting for dinner.

00:06:44First sitting, so you can get to bed early.

00:06:46Excuse me, please.

00:06:48That's my fault.

00:06:50Here we are.

00:06:52God, in his infinite wisdom, made us a certain agreeable size,

00:06:56but the architect of this train was clearly an atheist.

00:07:07After dinner, take a sleeping pill.

00:07:09Then tomorrow morning when you wake up, you'll be in the country.

00:07:12Country ale do you good.

00:07:15Helen.

00:07:16Super special, I love you.

00:07:19All right, Glenda.

00:07:21Have a nice time.

00:07:22Don't do anything we wouldn't do.

00:07:24There's two bubbles in training.

00:07:26Great.

00:07:28Great.

00:07:30Yes, I have some.

00:07:31Yes, I have some.

00:07:33Yes, I have some.

00:07:34Oh, my God.

00:07:35Oh, my God.

00:07:37Oh, my God.

00:07:38Hey, don't do anything wrong.

00:07:39Get it off. Come here.

00:07:45Breathing.

00:07:50Ellen, there'll be somebody else for you.

00:07:52Other chances.

00:07:53Excuse me, miss.

00:07:54Half any minute, sir.

00:07:55Oh, thank you.

00:07:57I'll be down at the weekend.

00:07:59Perhaps we could go riding.

00:08:00You used to like to ride.

00:08:02The most important thing is that you should relax.

00:08:05Now, don't think about...

00:08:07Don't think about anything.

00:08:10Bye-bye.

00:08:22My daughter's in D6.

00:08:24Ellen Morrow, I'd like you to look after her for me.

00:08:27We look after all the passengers, sir.

00:08:29No, no, special service.

00:08:30My daughter's just out of hospital.

00:08:32A nervous breakdown, so if she needs anything...

00:08:35Don't you worry, sir.

00:08:36Thanks.

00:08:37I'll look after her, sir.

00:08:41Hold it.

00:08:43Just made it, sir.

00:08:45Yes.

00:08:50And...

00:08:55D13.

00:08:56This way, sir.

00:09:15First or second sitting for dinner, sir?

00:09:17Oh, uh, neither.

00:09:20I'm swimming.

00:09:21You ought to be disturbed.

00:09:23Right.

00:09:37Oh, excuse me.

00:09:39Dinner will be ready in about half an hour, sir.

00:09:43First or second sitting.

00:09:46We'll think about it.

00:09:48Right.

00:09:53Whoopsie-dove again.

00:09:59I, uh, I guess the bar is open.

00:10:02Yes, sir, but it's that way, sir.

00:10:04We're going away, Flotter.

00:10:05Well, homing instincts must be slipping.

00:10:08Thanks.

00:10:08It's...

00:10:09I'm.

00:10:10I'm.

00:10:17I'm.

00:10:21I'm.

00:10:27I'm.

00:10:43First or second sitting for dinner?

00:10:45Second, please.

00:11:21First or second sitting, sir.

00:11:33The potatoes pulverized by the perambulations of the train, the melon mangle, and the wine shaken to its very cereals.

00:11:42Second sitting.

00:11:43Hillary!

00:11:45Hillary Vance!

00:11:47Maryam!

00:11:48Oh, you've forgotten.

00:11:50I know Mr. Miel, trying to be like this.

00:11:52It's good.

00:11:53I don't know.

00:11:53I think it was most un-gallant.

00:11:57Parents!

00:11:58There's your sac, my Pomeranian, Edith.

00:12:01Of course, my dear Edith.

00:12:03How are you?

00:12:05Edith is the Pomeranian.

00:12:07You have forgotten.

00:12:09No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:12:11I've been accused of many things in my time, but never of un-gallantry.

00:12:15Penelope!

00:12:17Tempston's mind.

00:12:18There, you see.

00:12:21Well, well, well, well, well.

00:12:23How extraordinary to find you here.

00:12:26And how pleasant, too.

00:12:28No need to ask you how you are.

00:12:29You're looking, uh, Therese elegant.

00:12:31Come on.

00:12:33And how is poor little Maud?

00:12:35Edith.

00:12:35I let her start.

00:12:37And now she's sitting on the mentorship.

00:12:39It was a very long time ago.

00:12:41Oh, longer than I care to remember.

00:12:43You haven't changed at all.

00:12:45Well, a little older.

00:12:48Considerably older.

00:12:51The manner of the voice impelled me to time.

00:12:55I, um, I would invite you in, but, uh, two in this place would render it more horrendous

00:13:00than the black hole of Calcutta.

00:13:02Perhaps later, at dinner.

00:13:04Perhaps.

00:13:05Hmm.

00:13:06I still think you've forgotten it.

00:13:08No, no, no, no, no.

00:13:08I remembered your name.

00:13:10My name, perhaps.

00:13:11But do you remember how I actually met you?

00:13:14Vividly.

00:13:15And what you said to me at the point of your own?

00:13:19I shall never forget it.

00:13:22Then tell you.

00:13:24Yes, uh, you have forgotten it.

00:13:27I shall give you time to think.

00:13:29and ask you again.

00:13:33Wait.

00:13:38It really is the most ghastly way to travel from here you'll be.

00:13:42I will probably write some very rude letters about it.

00:13:45Okay.

00:13:48Oh my gosh.

00:13:55Yeah, do you.

00:14:15Let's go.

00:14:50What is it now?

00:15:01Barkley, D-13.

00:15:03D-13?

00:15:04Across or down?

00:15:07You sound like the crossword puzzle.

00:15:09Oh, no, sir.

00:15:10D-13, compartment D-13.

00:15:13That's where I am if I'm needed.

00:15:15That, I suppose, is for starting a sprint event.

00:15:18Oh, no, sir. It's just in case.

00:15:20In case of what?

00:15:21Trouble, sir.

00:15:23Trouble.

00:15:25You may not have noticed D-13, or whatever your name is,

00:15:29but you already have very big trouble.

00:15:31Oh, in what way, sir?

00:15:33In my way.

00:15:34And that can be trouble on a grand and ghastly scale.

00:15:37You may have gathered I am unhappy,

00:15:39I am uncomfortable,

00:15:41and I am acutely aware of feeling more than slightly ridiculous.

00:15:45This whole affair is tinged with ridicule.

00:15:48It has an air of imminent disaster.

00:15:50I just popped in to see if everything was all right, sir.

00:15:54You clearly only understand the lesser Cantonese dialects of China.

00:15:58Sir?

00:15:58Well, clearly and manifestly,

00:15:59you do not understand the English language.

00:16:03You popped in to see if everything were all right,

00:16:06and I have told you,

00:16:07no, it is not all right.

00:16:09It is far from right.

00:16:10It is very wrong,

00:16:11not slightly or in several ways,

00:16:13but totally wrong.

00:16:15This place is cramped to the point of claustrophobia.

00:16:19I'm not used to being cramped.

00:16:20I am a man with a love of open space,

00:16:24inordinately fond of it to the point of fetishism,

00:16:26open space and deep luxury and warmth and haute cuisine

00:16:29and scintillating company.

00:16:34Are you witty?

00:16:36Well, sir, I...

00:16:37Certainly you are scintillating

00:16:39when your scintillator is badly in need of repair.

00:16:43You popped in to see if everything were all right.

00:16:46I have told you,

00:16:46no, it is not all right.

00:16:48So you can pop out again.

00:16:51Go on, then off your body.

00:16:53Won't be for long, sir.

00:16:54Time is relative,

00:16:55and I've already spent several decades

00:16:56in this alien environment.

00:16:58Just a few hours.

00:17:00You won't have to write any more rude letters.

00:17:02D-13.

00:17:07Rude letters?

00:17:10You'll even know how to be rude.

00:17:16Don?

00:17:46Don?

00:18:03Oh, my God.

00:18:07Daddy?

00:18:07Daddy?ta

00:18:24Miss Marlowe, dinner's now being served.

00:18:30Miss Marlowe.

00:18:42Dinner's being served, miss.

00:18:44The dining car's that way.

00:18:47What you felt, you miss?

00:18:51No, I'll be alone, Derek.

00:18:54Yes, miss.

00:19:17Oh, that's right.

00:19:18Whether you have a mantis or a o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o

00:19:20-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o.

00:19:44You're playing with aمة.

00:19:45Come on!

00:19:45If you were performing with the stars, please.

00:19:48Oh, good evening, miss.

00:19:51Merlin, Helen Merlin.

00:19:54Number four, miss.

00:19:56Number four.

00:19:59Looks as though I'm the lucky one.

00:20:19Name's Mallory.

00:20:20Bob Mallory.

00:20:53I can usually judge when a person needs to be left alone, but do you think a drink might help?

00:21:01Not a drown your sorrow, wake up tomorrow feeling like hell sort of drink, just a socially warming glass of

00:21:07wine.

00:21:12I'm sorry.

00:21:14I'm sorry.

00:21:16There's no need to be.

00:21:18Here.

00:21:25They say that tears are supposed to be good for the eyes.

00:21:29It cleans and refreshes them.

00:21:31It makes them more sparkling and beautiful than ever before.

00:21:37You must cry a lot.

00:21:40You're a stranger.

00:21:42I knew I shouldn't have packed that kangaroo.

00:21:49What about some wine?

00:21:55I think you'll find that this is a patient with a wine.

00:22:00It's been sitting around quietly here in its bottle since 1968.

00:22:05Just waiting for the right girl to come along.

00:22:09Speaking only for the wine you'll understand, I'd say that patience was a virtue.

00:22:36And furthermore, I think I can say without the kitchen or even the river over the view.

00:22:47I'm sorry.

00:22:48Sorry, I...

00:22:50I thought I heard...

00:22:52Sorry, wrong compartment.

00:23:08who is it it's me Barkley mr. Bance what do you want I'm just checking you're all right

00:23:15I've told you before I am not all right I have berry berry jungle fever on the creeping

00:23:24black death what was that I am very contagious and I wish to be left alone I see right

00:23:52we were going to be married that week he died instantly

00:23:57how long ago was that a year ago since then I've been in and out of hospital and break down

00:24:09I keep seeing his face

00:24:12dead

00:24:16I'll always sit

00:24:21I'm missing contrast but I was over here no matter how much you loved him it should be healing

00:24:29by now you don't understand I was driving the car I killed him

00:24:45I don't know why I told you all this mr. Mallory Bob you were needed to talk yes and

00:24:52they'll be needing this table people have to eat it was very nice meeting you good night well I'll see

00:24:59you tomorrow perhaps I wasn't making polite noises it was really nice talking to you good night good night

00:25:22you how much you do

00:25:26youп

00:25:28you

00:25:30you

00:25:34you

00:25:35you

00:25:39you

00:25:40you

00:26:00Yes?

00:26:00Second sitting for dinner.

00:26:02All right, thank you.

00:26:07Why, I should thank anyone for what promises to be

00:26:10an indigestible event.

00:26:11I really don't know.

00:26:16What could one say in the wild and annoying?

00:26:20The sun shining through the trees?

00:26:24Or was it the moon?

00:26:28Was it day or night?

00:26:42Take it out of here.

00:26:42Join me.

00:26:42No.

00:27:09I don't know.

00:27:09Miss Marlowe! Miss Marlowe! What is it, Miss? What's happened?

00:27:13Miss Marlowe! It's all right!

00:27:15Miss Marlowe! What's wrong?

00:27:20Helen? Helen?

00:27:26He's dead. He's just lying there.

00:27:31I think someone's killed him.

00:27:33He's in the compartment next to my bloodbath.

00:27:37Take it easy.

00:27:39All right, all right. Now just calm down.

00:27:41Calm down.

00:27:44All right?

00:27:45Let's take a look, Helen.

00:28:19No!

00:28:21No!

00:28:23No!

00:28:26No!

00:28:27No!

00:28:28No!

00:28:30No!

00:28:31No!

00:28:44No!

00:28:47No!

00:29:15No!

00:29:16No!

00:29:18No!

00:29:18He was dead.

00:29:21There was blood.

00:29:24I didn't imagine it.

00:29:26He was dead.

00:29:28I saw him.

00:29:33I saw him.

00:29:35He was all in pain.

00:29:37He was dead.

00:29:50I think it's best that you just lie down and try and get some sleep.

00:29:55I saw him.

00:29:57I saw him.

00:29:59Come on.

00:30:02Sorry to disturb you, sir.

00:30:04Very sorry.

00:30:05Nothing surprises me.

00:30:07Nothing.

00:30:09What's going on?

00:30:10Nothing for you to concern yourself about Barclay.

00:30:12Just some nonsense.

00:30:14I'm going in to dinner.

00:30:28And I'll see you tomorrow.

00:30:30Now, if you need me, I'm in the next carriage.

00:30:33E-11.

00:30:37Good night.

00:30:46What's been happening?

00:30:47She reported him dead.

00:30:49Her.

00:30:50Said she saw Mr. Valance dead.

00:30:52What?

00:30:53Murdered.

00:30:54She wouldn't get into a sweat about it, though.

00:30:56Her father told me.

00:30:57She hasn't been quite herself.

00:30:59You know what I mean?

00:31:02Is that right?

00:31:04Yeah.

00:31:06Don't freeze her.

00:31:27I shall follow the potage du jour with the most digestible fillet of meat you can find in your kitchen.

00:31:33I shall require it to be lightly dusted with black pepper and a soupçon of salt, and then grilled.

00:31:40Grilled?

00:31:41Not fried.

00:31:57I shall eat them, but the mere sight of them, sad and soggy in their respective dishes, may make the

00:32:10meat taste, by comparison.

00:32:11Uh, not better, because the word better implies an optimism I do not truly feel, but it may make it

00:32:19taste edible.

00:32:21Yes, sir.

00:32:29Try not to handle it excessively before you bring it to the table.

00:32:32I like my wine at room temperature, not body heat.

00:32:37Yes, sir.

00:32:38Oh, can I help you? Are you done, sir?

00:32:40Uh, no, I've eaten, thank you.

00:32:42Ah, my bloodhound, Barclay.

00:32:44Oh, may I call you D-13?

00:32:47Ha, ha, ha.

00:32:49You may join me for a glass of sherry, if you wish, but not for dinner.

00:32:51I prefer to dine alone.

00:32:54Particularly as you have the expression on your face of a man who has just had a wall fallen on

00:32:59you.

00:33:00I was wondering, sir.

00:33:02Encourage you.

00:33:03To wonder is to question, and to question is the first sign of a developing intellect.

00:33:08That kerfuffle with the American girl.

00:33:10Kerfuffle.

00:33:12Kerfuffle is a word I do not recognize.

00:33:15It sounds like a dance for two persons, probably at its most popular at the end of the late 20th.

00:33:22But if you were to substitute melee, contretemps, or even misunderstanding.

00:33:27Misunderstanding, sir?

00:33:27Well, of course that's what it was.

00:33:29That poor deluded girl imagined me dead, and even you can see, Barclay, that I am not head.

00:33:37Mind you, I have not yet eaten the dinner.

00:33:40It's funny, though.

00:33:41If you find it funny, Barclay, then your particular sense of humor eludes me complete.

00:33:47Yes, sir.

00:33:48Here I am.

00:33:50Have you remembered it yet?

00:33:52Uh, remembered?

00:33:55I'm terribly sorry, madam, but I'm...

00:33:57This madam again, is it who you have changed?

00:34:00You're not the same man at all.

00:34:02Not anymore.

00:34:05I should like to carry you out to the Balochistan.

00:34:10That's what you said to me in the world of Baloch.

00:34:19The Balochistan used to be the place.

00:34:23The Balochistan used to be the place.

00:34:46Miss.

00:34:49Miss.

00:34:52Could I talk to you a moment, Miss.

00:34:55My name's Barclay, Peter Barclay.

00:34:58It's about what you saw, or thought you saw.

00:35:03Perhaps you're right, Miss.

00:35:05Perhaps you did see you dead.

00:35:07I'd like to talk to you about him.

00:35:12I know you're upset.

00:35:13That's understandable.

00:35:15But I would like to talk him over.

00:35:24Look, if you change your mind, I'm in D-13.

00:35:29Barclay, D-13.

00:35:32D-13.

00:35:33D-13.

00:35:48Oh, beg your pardon, I thought this was D-13.

00:35:58Please come in, Mr. Barclay, and close the door.

00:36:08Perhaps you did see him dead.

00:36:12Like to talk it over.

00:36:15Barclay, D-13.

00:37:03You're welcome.

00:37:04Mr. Barkley?

00:37:10Mr. Barkley?

00:37:40Mr. Barkley?

00:38:04Everything to your liking, Mr. Vance.

00:38:07I should prefer to be on the Ile de France,

00:38:10toying with some Grenouille Provençal,

00:38:12washed down with the premier crew,

00:38:15Cuyé Fumé 1965.

00:38:18But the soup was just this side of mediocre.

00:38:24You may quote.

00:38:26Yes, sir.

00:38:35Mr. Barkley?

00:38:36Mr. Barkley?

00:38:49No!

00:38:51Mr. Barkley?

00:38:57Mr. Barkley?

00:39:00Mr. Barkley?

00:39:18You think I'm mad? You don't think I'm mad, do you?

00:39:22No, no, no, of course not.

00:39:25That man burst. His body's in my compartment.

00:39:29He's dead, Bob. I told you. I told you.

00:39:34Shhh. Take it easy, take it easy.

00:39:37You're good, Bob. Yes.

00:39:45Is it customary in this establishment to offer compliments to the chef?

00:39:49Well, sir, it doesn't happen often.

00:39:51Oh, you surprise me. Sir?

00:39:54That it happens at all.

00:39:57Something wrong with the meal, sir?

00:39:59If you asked me if there was something right with the meal,

00:40:02then my reply would be shorter. That I could summarise.

00:40:05The plates upon which it was served were, to the casual scrutiny,

00:40:09clean and of reasonably robust porcelain,

00:40:12and the knife was sharp,

00:40:14but quite unfairly matched against the steak.

00:40:20You may unwittingly have stumbled upon the greatest discovery since penicillin,

00:40:25a substitute for plastic.

00:40:29I don't suppose you have a cigar?

00:40:31It couldn't be classified as disgusting than masterful.

00:40:34Let's go.

00:41:13Helen.

00:41:15Helen, it's all part of your delusion, your breakdown.

00:41:18No.

00:41:21You tell me yourself you keep seeing his face.

00:41:23Now, your mind can't bear the guilt anymore, so you've substituted another face.

00:41:29No.

00:41:32No, he's...

00:41:34His body was there.

00:41:38It was there.

00:41:40The man who's sitting eating dinner right now.

00:41:44Come on.

00:41:45Come on, I'll show you.

00:41:46Then maybe you'll realise I'm right.

00:41:48Come on.

00:41:49See if you're so.

00:42:12Yeah.

00:42:13See?

00:42:18That's better.

00:42:20The poets may wax idyllic about the balmy night air,

00:42:24but as far as I'm concerned, it's good for one thing only.

00:42:27Pneumonia.

00:42:33Ah, my morbid friend.

00:42:36You are not, I trust, representing a company of undertakings.

00:42:40You will drum up no business here.

00:42:42Longevity is on my side.

00:42:45My father lived until he was 110,

00:42:48and even then we had to finally shoot him.

00:42:53A joke.

00:42:54Note it, I seldom make jokes.

00:43:14You've got some sleeping gloves.

00:43:19Take one, forget all about it.

00:43:25Helen, I'm an engineer and I build bridges, so...

00:43:28I don't understand the stresses and strength.

00:43:33Too many...

00:43:34and the ditch falls back.

00:43:41That's a joke.

00:43:59It's not easy.

00:44:04I wasn't even nervous.

00:44:04Don't be able to do this.

00:44:04I have to only one more time.

00:44:04I don't wanna make jokes.

00:44:04I'm not even nervous.

00:44:05There's no room.

00:44:05I don't need to be able to ride it straight.

00:44:05It's really safe.

00:44:09It's so bad.

00:44:10I don't wanna make jokes.

00:44:11No, I don't wanna make jokes.

00:44:23I'm sorry.

00:44:43I'm sorry.

00:45:13I'm sorry.

00:45:44Oh, Miss Marlowe.

00:45:46Are you all right, Miss?

00:45:47Oh, yes, I'm fine, thank you.

00:45:52I just wondered if I could borrow a paper or a magazine.

00:45:56Yes, of course, you can have this one.

00:45:58Oh, I'd rather have a magazine if you don't mind.

00:46:02I've got a few over here.

00:46:16This one do, Miss?

00:46:17Oh, yes, that's fine, thank you.

00:46:19You should have rung, Miss, that's what I'm here for.

00:46:22You're okay now, are you?

00:46:23Yes, I'm fine, thank you.

00:46:25You're all right.

00:46:25Mm-hmm.

00:46:26Mm-hmm.

00:47:11Oh, thank you. That'll be fine. We just didn't feel like a property.

00:47:15I understand this.

00:47:34I think she'd known her to have known.

00:47:40Oh!

00:47:42I'm so sorry.

00:47:43Here, thank you.

00:47:44Let me pick that up for you.

00:47:46It's nice to know some courtesist exists.

00:47:52My brief and incredibly unhappy years as cultural attache were full of non-incidence, of anti-climaxes and ennui.

00:48:02Come on.

00:48:02Here, come on.

00:48:06Come on.

00:48:18Come on.

00:48:21You're welcome.

00:48:23Come on.

00:48:29Come on.

00:48:31No.

00:48:32No.

00:48:43You found her lying here?

00:48:45She must have collapsed feet.

00:48:47What?

00:48:50Go to her apartment.

00:48:52She's passed out.

00:49:16Helen, what happened?

00:49:21I don't remember.

00:49:24What were you doing down at that end of the corridor?

00:49:29I went to World Magazine.

00:49:32Yeah, that's right, sir. She did.

00:49:35And then?

00:49:37I don't remember.

00:49:40I keep having these...

00:49:42these terrible dreams.

00:49:47Oh, I have that.

00:49:57I don't care.

00:50:00I'll take care of her.

00:50:03That is what you want, isn't it, for me to stay with you for a while?

00:50:05Yeah.

00:50:11Women.

00:50:13Particularly disturbed and deluded women who imagined things.

00:50:16I'm afraid you're right, sir.

00:50:17My father did warn me.

00:50:20Very sad.

00:50:22Good night.

00:50:42Vance is dead.

00:50:44I'm not mad, Pop.

00:50:52Not mad.

00:50:52Helen, you can't do this.

00:50:53They're in Honeywood.

00:50:53How would you like it?

00:50:58Men have been killed for this.

00:51:06I bought it.

00:51:11Fair go.

00:51:11Helen, you can't do this.

00:51:12This is like, lastly, on the highway road or something.

00:51:14Yes, sir.

00:51:15Caviar and vodka may all be very well, but after a little while, one pines for the simple things in

00:51:22life.

00:51:23The cahier oeuf en aspic, the pâté en truffe en gelée, the occasional Chateau Rothschild. 1926, of course.

00:51:34Right. That is that.

00:51:36I told you.

00:51:38It doesn't mean anything. Maybe they know him or something.

00:51:40Have they behaved as though they know him?

00:51:42Oh, Helen.

00:51:44Oh, someone hit me.

00:51:46You say?

00:51:48Yes. And everything I say is suspect, isn't it?

00:51:55So, even if they do know him, why keep it tight like that?

00:51:59There I am ahead of you.

00:52:02Now, look. If Vance is dead, and if Vance is alive, then there has to be two of them.

00:52:10The real one, I think, is dead. And the other one is an impasto.

00:52:15Now, if you were going to impersonate someone as acid and erudite as Vance, where would you begin?

00:52:21Put that loose. And to do that, you'd need to study recordings, wouldn't you?

00:52:29If there was a body, they must have tossed it from the train.

00:52:33No.

00:52:34No.

00:52:35Part of that?

00:52:36No, there is a body. And it's still on this train.

00:52:41Look.

00:52:42Throw a body from a train and what happens?

00:52:46Somebody finds the body. The train's stopped, then there's an investigation. Now, that's something they can't afford.

00:52:52Well, I was presuming, Helen, there was a they.

00:52:56Bob, someone hit me.

00:53:01Where would you hide a body on this train?

00:53:03One of the other compartments.

00:53:05No, it would have to be somewhere.

00:53:08Somewhere quiet and empty.

00:53:12Somewhere nobody goes.

00:53:15The luggage van.

00:53:37What's this?

00:53:42What's the door?

00:54:10So, let's go.

00:54:16For a while, though, you all must have been believing we would find something.

00:54:20It's crazy, huh?

00:54:23Yes.

00:54:25Or I am.

00:54:28Come on.

00:54:45Come on.

00:54:47Come on.

00:54:53Come on.

00:54:54Come on.

00:54:58Come on.

00:55:15Come on.

00:55:17Come on.

00:55:20Come on.

00:55:27Come on.

00:55:29Come on.

00:55:40Arriving in 20 minutes.

00:55:44Arriving in 20 minutes.

00:55:47Arriving in 20 minutes, Miss.

00:55:49Oh, thank you.

00:55:51Mr Barclay.

00:55:54Maybe sleeper.

00:55:56Oh, no.

00:55:56He was up and about earlier, hadn't he?

00:55:58He probably went to pry us some coffee out of the chef.

00:56:01Oh, thanks, Miss.

00:56:07Arriving in 20 minutes.

00:56:11Miss Marlowe, we'll be pulling in soon.

00:56:20Mr. Banks, pulling in soon.

00:56:22Right.

00:56:31All right.

00:56:44All again, sound 20 minutes.

00:56:48Good care.

00:57:03Well, which one of them is Marlowe?

00:57:05Your guess is as good as mine, General.

00:57:10Hmm.

00:57:10I gave him my word, General.

00:57:13My word.

00:57:16The train should be coming in any minute now.

00:57:34I don't trust you had any job at the trip, sir?

00:57:36If you trust that, then you must have implicit faith in miracles.

00:57:44I don't trust you had any job at the trip, sir?

00:58:07It's here.

00:58:08Why can't it?

00:58:08Because I gave him my word.

00:58:11And because one false movement, you'll scare him off.

00:58:13Marlowe will run.

00:58:13He made it perfectly clear, General.

00:58:16He saw Hilary Vance lecturer in his own country.

00:58:19Vance is unmistakable.

00:58:20And he is the only man Marlowe will hand himself over to.

00:58:26Anyway, Barclay will be tailing them.

00:58:38You've got to be found in the last one.

00:58:40You've got to be found in the last one.

00:58:50I guess he'll be found in the last one.

00:58:52How are you, Farah, Farah?

00:58:52This won't help you.

00:58:57Well, let's go.

00:58:57Your father and Farah are a dreamer.

00:59:11Oh, who ever heard of a bride without a husband?

00:59:14Never mind about that. The trunk.

00:59:16What?

00:59:16Vance's trunk. It's in the guards van, right?

00:59:18Yeah.

00:59:19Well, it's been nagging away from me all night because I came aboard this train right behind Vance,

00:59:22and I'll swear he didn't have any trunk then.

00:59:24Then someone else must have brought it on.

00:59:25Exactly, because they knew they had a purpose for it.

00:59:27Come on.

00:59:28Oh!

00:59:59Hold him!

01:00:10He's on his way out.

01:00:29Mr. Vance.

01:00:41Excuse me. Excuse me.

01:01:19Come on.

01:01:22Mr. Vance, I'm sorry to put you to this inconvenience,

01:01:26but I attended one of your lectures once and you are a very unusual man.

01:01:31I stand out like a sore thumb,

01:01:33or the last arbiter of good taste in an age of mediocrity.

01:01:37You have the papers with you?

01:01:39They promised me asylum, protection.

01:01:41Yes, yes, and you shall have it, but first I must know if you have the papers.

01:01:46They are here.

01:01:51You will understand my anxiety, I'm sure.

01:01:54You understand?

01:01:55I'm a target for them.

01:01:57It was necessary that I...

01:02:08No.

01:02:09Please.

01:02:19No!

01:02:33Please.

01:02:35Please...

01:02:36Be...

01:02:39Please.

01:02:52scarred

01:03:11I'd let her go, if I were you.

01:03:14You know what they'll say if you strangle.

01:03:20Yes, but I'm mad.

01:04:12Yes, but I'm mad.

01:04:41Yes, but I'm mad.

01:04:45Yes, but I'm mad.

01:05:42Yes, but I'm mad.

01:05:52Yes, but I'm mad.

01:06:14Yes, but I'm mad.

01:07:11Yes, but I'm mad.

01:07:44Yes, but I'm mad.

01:08:41Yes, but I'm mad.

01:08:44Yes, but I'm mad.

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