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00:01Yeah?
00:06Here's to Joe Stalin's next stroke.
00:09Tinkety-tonk.
00:13Who was he?
00:15Victor.
00:15Oh, met him before.
00:17An air raid.
00:18Forty-one.
00:18It is true.
00:19I switched the glasses.
00:20He drank the poison meant for one of us.
00:23Nafia and Ruhia.
00:25We'd be ever so grateful if you'd just keep an eye on them.
00:28This was the third attempt on our life since we left New York.
00:32The first thing you must do is arrest a cocktail waiter.
00:35And you must bring in any others on the staff.
00:39Do you have a reservation?
00:40No, my wife does.
00:42Your wife?
00:45Time for a little chat.
00:47What does Jack know?
00:48My wife and I have an arrangement, as I knew his late father.
00:53Nothing more.
00:54And should we trust you?
00:56Well, I suppose you'll find out.
00:59When the next assassin comes.
01:23Hello again.
01:24Hello.
01:26Fizz.
01:27For them, I presume.
01:31Who is it?
01:32Who is it?
01:32It's me.
01:33Who is it?
01:48It's me.
01:51Champagne?
01:51I can't.
01:53I can't put a seat.
01:54We will.
01:58Ruhia.
02:01We do not order champagne.
02:07Ruhia.
02:13We do not order champagne.
02:17Ruhia.
02:18Ruhia.
02:20Ruhia.
02:21Ruhia.
02:22Ruhia.
02:23Ruhia.
02:24Ruhia.
02:24Edy.
02:26Edy, your friend.
02:31I have not hit her.
02:33Esht Boer' Donavrassen.
02:34One more step and I'll...
02:47Well, let's all calm down, should we?
03:34One more step and I'll be right back.
04:06Oh, God.
04:08Am I gonna die?
04:09It's just a grace.
04:10Luckily for you, your royal highness.
04:12This is a very, very regrettable incident, miss.
04:16Edie Rattle.
04:17Miss Edie, we live under the constant threat of assassination.
04:20The black mantle of death hovers over us like the London fog.
04:23Sometimes we make mistakes out of fear.
04:26You must forgive us.
04:27Oh, you shouldn't forgive them.
04:28You should press charges.
04:30Don't tell me what to do, okay?
04:31I've had enough of it.
04:33I've simply had enough of it.
04:34We understand, dear.
04:36Do you?
04:37Because I've descended the ship that started with the pass and ended with me getting fired.
04:41Fired?
04:41Yeah, I've been handed my cards, haven't I?
04:43What?
04:44Why?
04:44What for?
04:45Because someone sabotaged the boilers, tip linseed oil into them.
04:50Yeah, but why would they think that that's you?
04:51Because I have a motive.
04:52Oh, Liv.
04:53Mr. Klein gave me a mouthful for standing up to that bastard.
04:56And now I've been shot.
04:57Please, shot.
04:59What's that?
05:00Morphin tartrate.
05:01I'm not going to have you jabbing me like a bloody pincushion.
05:03It will ease your pain.
05:04Oh, Liv.
05:05And if you do think that I'm just going to hop on the night bus and say,
05:09oh, it must be beastly that your country hates your guts and you're forced to slum it out here in
05:12the Walsingham.
05:13Well, think again, ladies.
05:15No wonder you're so nervous around the working classes.
05:17You damn a lot to be.
05:20I'll have that morphine now.
05:25Ow!
05:27So, dear Rattle, what do you suggest?
05:31I'll stay here tonight, in the royal suite.
05:34There are only two beds.
05:35Then I'll have the biggest, and I'll have breakfast in it.
05:37I think that's a very modest demand considering the bullets in the wall.
05:41I know the importance of the rules of hospitality in your country. I've been reading up on them.
05:45That's right, Mr. Book.
05:47At home, we are obliged to take in those who need shelter.
05:51During the war, many British officers were parachuted into our territory.
05:55None were betrayed.
05:57I'll sleep on the sofa.
06:00Right.
06:02Now, which one of you is lending me your toothbrush?
06:15I'll get someone to come and have a look at this.
06:17It's good to see you, Jake.
06:30We lost him.
06:32We never really knew him.
06:34Of course, it was impossible to predict how he'd react, but I was hoping for...
06:37Sympathy.
06:38Understanding.
06:41That's just the way it is with some people.
06:43They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it.
06:47Huckleberry Finn?
06:48Top marks.
06:49You can sleep on the left.
06:51I like that, Edie.
06:53She's sharp.
06:54Sharp as her nibs.
06:55The princess.
06:58Blizz.
06:58Busy day tomorrow.
07:00Blizz has arrested Ghazili.
07:02Oh?
07:03It's a mistake.
07:04So I suspect I'll spend the morning showing him why.
07:07Clever clogs.
07:08If the shoe fits.
07:10Oh, it's the Dynaric Alps, by the way.
07:12Eh?
07:13It's the Dynaric Alps, my love.
07:15Not the Carpathians.
07:16As I said.
07:17Clever clogs.
07:18Hmm.
07:20Hmm.
07:27Hmm.
07:30No.
07:31No.
07:45No.
07:46No.
07:48No.
07:48No.
07:48No.
07:48No.
07:48Book.
07:50His wife, Mississippi's in.
07:52In.
07:53The inspector's ready to see you now.
08:14Finish with that mug, sergeant.
08:16Bagged and labelled, sir.
08:18We'll return it in due course.
08:19Take a seat.
08:25Are you going to charge me?
08:26Oh, there's plenty of time for that.
08:29I've said it already.
08:30It's in my statement.
08:31Oh.
08:32Just one thing before we start.
08:35Mr. Book here will be joining us.
08:37He's a specialist.
08:39Mr. Ghazili, it's very important that you use this interview to tell us the truth,
08:43because if you don't, I can't be held accountable for the consequences.
08:47We know about your affair with Edie Rattle.
08:50She's given us a statement, and in doing so has given us a possible motive,
08:55a reason for you to kill Captain Orr.
08:57Because he made a pass at Edie.
09:01It must happen like three times a day.
09:05What business are you in exactly?
09:08The antiquarian book business.
09:11I've read the Canoon of Scutari.
09:13Have you?
09:14I know it.
09:15Live by it?
09:16It's very important in my village.
09:20Let's start then.
09:23If I said we were going to give you the third degree, what would you expect?
09:27Kicking out by the beans?
09:28Snake in the grass.
09:29What did you say?
09:30Forget the third degree.
09:31Snake in the grass.
09:32Come on, I'm waiting.
09:36Vodka.
09:37At last.
09:39Creme de menthe.
09:41Lime juice.
09:42Lemonade.
09:43Where's my ice?
09:44It went in first.
09:45Are you shaking this drink?
09:48Come on, come on, Mr. Ghazili.
09:50This is the waltzing.
09:51Am I shaking this drink?
09:52I'm stirring it.
09:53I'm stirring it.
09:53Atta boy.
09:54Atta boy.
09:55I know that.
09:57French vermouth.
09:58Dry gin.
09:59Grenadine.
10:00Four dashes.
10:01Shaken.
10:01And what would you put in a pansy?
10:06Pansy, pansy, pansy.
10:08Um, uh, an asset?
10:10No, no, no, Mr. Ghazili.
10:12Look, I'm still on probation.
10:13I'm not an expert.
10:15I'd say you're not.
10:16But nor are you a murderer.
10:19Well, what, what, what makes you say that?
10:21Because he left a dirty great fingerprint on the upper part of one of those glasses.
10:26And a good cocked hellwaiter, as well as knowing how to mix a third degree,
10:30always handles a rock glass.
10:34Lower down.
10:36You made the drink for the captain, which is when you left your fingerprint on his glass.
10:40But the drink was not deadly.
10:42I'm sorry if this sounds insulting, Mr. Ghazili.
10:45But you have yet to acquire the skill to poison anyone in a crowded bar in plain sight.
10:50Particularly with just a few seconds between the inciting incident and the crime.
10:55I'm sure you'll get there.
10:56In fact, I'd go so far as to say you were already a model employee.
11:01You're going to write me a reference now, are you?
11:03Why not?
11:05How long have the princesses been in the hotel?
11:07Four days.
11:08And you'd already noticed they always reject the first drink.
11:12So you made it out of tap water.
11:16Yes.
11:16Some employers would promote a member of staff so concerned about wastage.
11:25Well, Mr. Ghazili.
11:27Ha!
11:28Seems like you can go and collect your things.
11:31Yeah.
11:32Our friend here is checking out.
11:34Sergeant Morris.
11:35Very good, sir.
11:46Well, now what?
11:48Anyone could have got that hydrochloric acid into the drink.
11:52And Ghazili was too clumsy to have done it.
11:55As I discovered late last night, the Canoon of Scutari has very strict rules about hospitality.
12:01It's taboo to harm anyone you consider your guest.
12:05Captain Orr was Ghazili's guest, strictly speaking, and the Canoon is very strict.
12:09Did it tell you anything else useful?
12:12Oh, yes.
12:15Insult my wife in front of the headmen of the village, and you owe me a sheep.
12:19If my wife insults you, I owe you five.
12:26Well, I find it's usually best if people are just looking nice to each other.
12:30What?
12:32I have to...
13:04You
13:11you were not in the army were you you know where i was well no matter straight in your spine
13:17perhaps
13:17eh at the palace a line of soldiers would salute us just on our way into breakfast
13:23oh lucky you had a mighty fallen and back then we weren't always looking over our shoulders
13:29we were at home with our own people you boy you must fetch the inspector
13:34why what's happened another threatening litter
13:47well you've done all right they ordered in no less than i deserve sure enough balkan mix apparently
13:55nice see those little girl rings at the end there i'll catch that man myself weren't you supposed
14:02to bring me for that bavril i thought you had everything you needed
14:16so where was miss edie rattle when the murder took place uh having a woodbine outside according
14:21to her state having already administered the poison meant for the princesses according to
14:27my intelligence sources she's a fully paid up party member communist red as lenin's combinations
14:33what so she might have wanted them dead on behalf of the new ruling class of scutari
14:39then there's the other sister of course other sister oh yes there are three of them inspector three sisters
14:51the kingdom divided exiled monarchs i wonder
14:58anyway princess sonia went over to the other side so it could be her striking the blow for the work
15:03it's by assassinating their siblings this is where we should be looking
15:07uh in my opinion
15:09sorry
15:15oh yes
15:17like the ladies didn't he captain all
15:19that's not how i would have put it still at least we have his home number now
15:26no no yes this must be his wife sylvia what do you know she's the only one without a star
15:32rating
15:35oh yeah well there's another familiar name in there too
15:40oh as you say sir oh and barberini second of may 1940 has got race course four stars passionate
15:48italian talks crossed out still legible
15:52what do you mean obvious isn't it captain all didn't just like the ladies and he was a bit
15:57queer
16:00what you mean he traveled as it were on the 38 bus and the 43
16:05he met that italian barman at the races and had relations
16:09it's all there in black and white
16:11met at the races eh
16:13ascot race course there is entry after entry
16:16what motive
16:16blackmail obviously
16:19captain all threatened to expose barberini
16:21captain all's a married man it's all a bit
16:25it's a bit far-fetched
16:26you never know with married men sir
16:30what's your great theory then
16:33they will be telling sergeant
16:35but speaking of mrs orr i do think someone should talk to her soon
16:40i'll ask trotty if i may
16:43wives always know
16:45whatever husbands think
16:47message from that lad jack sir
16:50princesses are requesting another audience
16:58a winston churchill mask
17:00no
17:01an oria flying helmet
17:03a piccadilly jar filled entirely with toenail clippings
17:07oh
17:08yeah
17:09it's not for the faint of heart
17:11the life of a chambermaid
17:13but my dad ran a pub in bala so
17:17i've seen it all
17:20and what about
17:21the murder
17:22i know
17:24i was outside you see
17:25you can't pin victor or on me
17:28i know
17:28i wasn't trying to
17:29honest
17:31pity i wasn't there though
17:33i would have liked to see that one go down
17:36so you were saying
17:38you got out of the clink
17:40and then you went to work in a bookshop
17:43yeah
17:44for mr book
17:46yeah
17:46and now you're working for the scutari royal family
17:51not for much longer i don't reckon
17:53i ain't much cop as a bodyguard
17:57got anything by marks
18:00eh
18:00in your bookshop
18:03das
18:04capital
18:06volume four
18:07now you're talking
18:10so why'd you leave
18:12i just don't think they're my sort of people
18:14no
18:16takes all sorts you know
18:18as i say
18:19the things i've seen in the walsingham
18:23maybe it's time you expanded your horizons a bit sunshine
18:28let me know if you fancy that pot for us sometime yeah
18:53so-called princesses
18:55my gorge rises as i see you in the newspaper
19:00decadent bones draped in
19:03madame de bavier
19:06which will soon drip with your
19:08filthy blood
19:09yes i can see why you might feel discomfited
19:12so what will you do about it
19:14my dear lady
19:16you will address me by my proper title
19:18uh do forgive the inspector your royal highness
19:20the policeman is often a blunt tool rather than a diplomat
19:23perhaps i might
19:24as i have said
19:26this is the latest of many
19:29dripping with venom
19:30our enemies their legion
19:32can they not let us rest
19:34is it not enough
19:35that we are forced to drag our weary bones
19:38around the world
19:39like phantoms
19:40you speak of the canoe
19:42of hospitality
19:43but what are we to make of yours
19:46what welcome do we receive
19:48in your famous london
19:50wretched food
19:52wretched cold
19:52a bodyguard who fails to guard
19:55and now
19:55this
19:56i'll do what i can
19:58given my limited resources
20:00how
20:00how
20:29about
20:30what
20:57MUSIC CONTINUES
21:03Yes, of course, and we're terribly sorry.
21:06Well, if that's the best you can do...
21:11Oh, Miss Raffle.
21:13Yes, Mr. Kind?
21:15I heard about the unfortunate incident.
21:18That's one way of describing it.
21:20I'm okay, but I think I might indulge myself a bit more in the cream of society.
21:28As I've been fired, I can use the hotel as a guest instead.
21:31Meaning?
21:33Their Royal Highnesses.
21:34I'm to put everything in their account.
21:36Well, don't spend too much.
21:38What?
21:38Nothing. Um, Miss Rattle?
21:40Yes?
21:41Would you kindly come and see me after you've indulged yourself?
21:45Okay, Mr. Kind.
21:55E.D., can we talk?
21:59I do want to apologize for the quality of the service today.
22:03The heating is off, the menu is cold.
22:05I'm deeply sorry.
22:07Ismael, none of that is your fault.
22:10Yeah, I'm afraid it is.
22:12It was caused by the three bottles of linseed oil that I stole from your cupboard.
22:18But linseed oil is for polishing.
22:21I use it for my new oil posts and my dados.
22:24Yes, I know.
22:25But I poured it into the generator.
22:28I didn't poison Victor OED, but I did poison the hotel.
22:33I was so angry with myself, with that man, with this place.
22:39So I just thought I'd kill it.
22:43I'm deeply sorry.
22:45I shall confess everything to Mr. Kind, and you will not lose your job, E.D.
23:02You will not lose your job, E.D.
23:56You will not lose your job, E.D.
24:09You.
24:11Me.
24:15This isn't easy for me, as I'm sure you can imagine.
24:18Of course.
24:20You've just lost your husband.
24:21That boat sailed a long time ago, Mrs. Book.
24:24And you're not the first of Victor's conquests to telephone.
24:30If it makes it any easier, he didn't.
24:35Then what?
24:37Conquer.
24:45Conquer.
24:46Conquer.
24:46Conquer.
24:47Conquer.
24:47Conquer.
24:49Conquer.
24:51Conquer.
24:52Conquer.
24:53Conquer.
24:59Conquer.
25:04You've read it.
25:06to see one's self here assessed like livestock.
25:13You think he got what he deserved.
25:15Well, not quite, but...
25:19I mean, what a peak he was.
25:23Do you know, I'd think better of him if it was a real diary.
25:27Something with a bit of proper adulterous passion.
25:34Don't worry, my dear, I don't really blame you.
25:37I mean, Victor had charm to spare in his day.
25:41And I grew used to his adventures.
25:45Numb to them.
25:47So used to them, it became a sort of hobby.
25:52That sounds strange?
25:56My marriage grew cold.
25:58Well, my life grew cold.
26:00I don't really think I've felt anything since Dunkirk.
26:07So I'd come here.
26:10Where there was light and laughter.
26:13Usually.
26:15Did you not worry that he, uh, might see you?
26:22Victor hadn't noticed me in years.
26:24There was no reason to think he'd start now.
26:29Is that how you were able to?
26:34What?
26:37The poison.
26:40I mean, you were there.
26:41You-you handed me that cloth.
26:43It would have been easy for you to administer it.
26:46I didn't kill my husband, Mrs. Book.
26:50I pitied Victor.
26:51Didn't despise him.
26:54Then who did?
27:01How was this war?
27:03He did his service in Cairo.
27:06And a stint in the Balkans.
27:09The Balkans?
27:11And before that, he was here.
27:14The home front.
27:16Whereabouts?
27:18Ask it.
27:36Ah, it is you.
27:37Would it be...
27:40What does that say?
27:42Death to parasites.
27:53Thank you for coming.
27:56Everything's off.
27:57Kippers, kidneys, kedgeri, and the radiators.
28:01They're definitely off.
28:02Oh.
28:04There's a selection of cold meat.
28:06Splendid.
28:07Well, two of those then, please, waiter.
28:09Do make sure they're properly cold.
28:11I have whoring consistency.
28:12Sir?
28:13The service.
28:14It is appalling.
28:15Well, call me Marie Antoinette.
28:17But I was expecting the lavatories to flush.
28:19Still, the heating did come on for half an hour.
28:22That was nice.
28:22You said it was urgent, Mr. Book.
28:24In a way, yes.
28:25Are you any closer?
28:27Closer.
28:27To finding out who tried to murder us?
28:29No one tried to murder you.
28:33But the letters, the threads...
28:36You said those.
28:40What?
28:42You're mad.
28:43How dare you...
28:44Do sit down, princess.
28:45The very idea that I...
28:47I said sit down.
28:50I may be more of a diplomat than the inspector.
28:53There's only so much of this exhausting auteur I can stand.
28:57When did you start?
28:59Sending the letters.
29:01Not right away, I imagine.
29:04For a while it was real.
29:09When we fled our country, there were eyes everywhere.
29:12We feared to eat or drink.
29:14We lived day by day.
29:16Shoveed into stinking cellars.
29:18A hold of filthy ships.
29:21But the threat was real, Mr. Book.
29:25In New York, we were fated.
29:27They love royalty there, as you know, precisely because they have none of their own.
29:31We were invited to all the right parties, met all the right people.
29:36But there is nothing more tragic than exile, Mr. Book.
29:41And nothing more pathetic.
29:44After a time, the invitations dried up, the parade moved on, and I realized that we had
29:51gone from being in danger to something far, far worse.
29:56We had become irrelevant.
30:00What did the new regime and Scutari have to fear from us?
30:04Why would they send assassins halfway across the globe to make a way with us?
30:09Why would anyone bother?
30:13But there is glamour in death.
30:16In danger.
30:19And so I began to write all those letters.
30:21Both to us, and to the authorities of whichever poor nation we were imposing ourselves upon.
30:27I pay a woman here a modest fee to skulk around the hotel, dropping them off now and then.
30:32Some suspected your other sister might be behind those.
30:37She's dead, Mr. Book.
30:41I saw her shot in the face.
30:45The communists never really trusted her.
30:53And I will not lose another sister.
30:58But then there was an actual poisoning.
31:00I didn't know what to think.
31:02Nafiyya swapped the glasses as always, and then that man, that captain, lying dead at her feet.
31:09But my mind, it raced.
31:12Had it all become real?
31:15But what else could I do but continue as planned?
31:19It was very well done.
31:23At last, though, the impression of your sister's pen nibs is very distinctive.
31:27Indeed?
31:29Music nib.
31:30Narrow downstrokes, broad crossstrokes for writing musical notation.
31:35And she's composing those rather sad and lovely little tunes of hers.
31:39And the references to your wardrobe, too.
31:42Rather specific for a desperate communist assassin.
31:44I couldn't help myself.
31:48So, does this mean, then, that...
31:51Captain Orr was the intended victim.
31:56So, I have to ask, Mr. Book, in the spirit of your British stories, who done it?
32:03Well, that is the question, dear lady.
32:14Sir?
32:36I'm not normally a fan of this sort of thing.
32:38Read it into the kind of thriller one finds in W.H. Smith.
32:43However, sometimes it really is best to gather everyone together.
32:47Unity of place and all that.
32:49So, on the night of the murder, Mr. Ghazili here set up a first round of two drinks.
32:54Yes.
32:55Which is rejected by the princesses and goes down the sink.
32:59Now we come to the brouhaha.
33:01And a new character enters our drama.
33:03Captain Victor Orr.
33:05Kindly represented here by Mr. Kind.
33:08In you come, Miss Rattle.
33:10Tell us what happened next.
33:11Well, there's Captain Watsit soaked in Taddinger.
33:15And he's telling me he has some extra duties for me.
33:18Which seem to involve me going to his room and leaving with some money.
33:22So, I decline, of course.
33:25And I'm looking over at Ismael.
33:28I'm looking at him because, well, I think he might help me out.
33:31Do the decent.
33:32And he doesn't.
33:35What happens next, Edie?
33:37Well, I'm thinking, is the captain going to hit me?
33:39So, I tell him where to get off.
33:41And then he says something.
33:44I know some threat or other.
33:45I wasn't listening.
33:46And that's when Jack here came to my rescue.
33:50And then I went outside for a smoke.
33:52Thank you, Miss Rattle.
33:53So, Mr. Ghazili then sets up two more glasses for a new round.
33:59Four Walsingham sours.
34:03In total.
34:10Three good ones and one, as we shall see, about to have an extra ingredient.
34:14But when precisely did one of these drinks get a dash of hydrochloric acid?
34:19Princess Neffiye, you tell us that you switched two of these glasses around.
34:23Which two?
34:25Like this, Mr. Book.
34:26One of ours.
34:28Four, one of theirs.
34:30Very good.
34:31You're not drinking yet, are you?
34:32Because you want to see someone else drink first.
34:35Which is only prudent, only sensible when there are so many assassins about.
34:39So, you have to wait a little while longer until the distraction is over.
34:44And this is the Russian roulette moment now, is it?
34:47This was not a casual murder.
34:50It was very carefully thought through.
34:52Now, we know the poison was not in Mr. Ghazili's shaker.
34:55We know that Princess Neffiye deserves no reproaches.
34:58All your Royal Highness did was switch one perfectly safe and effective
35:02waltzing himself in another.
35:04In fact, I would suggest that none of these drinks would have produced anything worse than a hangover
35:08until the incident with the coins.
35:11That was the moment of opportunity for someone here to poison one of these cocktails.
35:16The one that he was clearly about to pick up.
35:18Yes, there was no mistake.
35:19Captain Orr had to die.
35:24Why the...
35:27Do you remember the Arundora star?
35:31Not our finest hour, I fear.
35:33She was torpedoed by the Jeris.
35:35Started the war?
35:36July 2nd, 1940.
35:38There was a set-to on board, wasn't there?
35:40A lot of internees being sent to Australia.
35:43Canada.
35:43Canada.
35:43Fighting amongst themselves.
35:45Well, that's what it said in the Daily Express.
35:47In Parliament, too, Mr. Book.
35:49Does it mean it's true?
35:51Indeed.
35:54And...
35:56Amongst the passengers...
36:00Your sister, Maria.
36:10Barberini, M.
36:1212th January, 1940.
36:14Ascot Racecourse.
36:1616th of January.
36:17Ascot Racecourse.
36:19Nineteen...
36:20So it was her captain Orr met at the races?
36:23Well, there was no racing during the war.
36:25Quite.
36:26Of course, Ascot's where they put the Regulation 18B alert, wasn't it?
36:30English Nazis, German anti-Nazis, ice cream men, spaghetti house vendors, waiters who'd
36:37once said something vaguely complimentary about the cut of Il Duce's jib, all put under
36:44barbed wire.
36:44In a tournament camp?
36:46What was the case against the Barberinis, though?
36:49My parents were born in Italy.
36:51So somebody had claimed I was a fascist.
36:54Marched me out during service.
36:56Sent up nof.
36:58Nobody protested.
37:00Particularly the man who ran the bar here in the Blitz.
37:03And your sister?
37:07In 1938, my father said, why not spend the summer with your Italian aunt?
37:12Go to beach with them.
37:14To the Campo Solare.
37:16Build fires.
37:18Get some fresh air.
37:21They give you a nice little uniform, like the Girl Guides, but Mussolini's Girl Guides.
37:28Ah.
37:29So she brought the uniform home as a souvenir.
37:32Hmm.
37:33It was enough for the men from 18B.
37:36There it was in a wardrobe, so...
37:39Off she went to Ascot.
37:41She was interned because of the uniform.
37:44People do take them terribly seriously.
37:46But it worked for Victor.
37:48When he was in his sailor suit, people did what he said.
37:52I mean, it was charm, as well as rank.
37:55Rank charm.
37:56That's how he got Maria's name on the list for Canada.
37:59Perhaps we should be generous.
38:01Imagine he was getting her out of the camp to a new life away from the war.
38:05No, he just wanted the troublesome lover out of the way before his wife found her.
38:11And that ship was a death trap.
38:15I dream about that.
38:18Those people pushing at the barricades.
38:22The great wooden exes wrapped in barbed wire.
38:26And then the sea coming in and drowning them both.
38:29Both?
38:31Maria and the baby.
38:35His baby.
38:38I knew his name, that was all.
38:40But I couldn't find him.
38:42Mess of the war had turned everything upside down.
38:46No one was in a great hurry to help out an insignificant WAP waiter.
38:51Turned out I'd been serving him while seeing themselves for months.
38:54Victor Orr, my old friend.
38:56I can't leave you alone for five minutes, can I?
38:59Well, the bloody girl can't take a joke.
39:02Let's have a couple of those.
39:03What do you call them?
39:05Horsing them sours.
39:06With the two ladies.
39:08Eh, for their royal highnesses.
39:10You mean?
39:12These are on me, ladies.
39:13The man who took away my precious Maria.
39:17My beloved sister.
39:21So I did what had to be done.
39:24I prepared ice.
39:26Special ice.
39:29Oh, oh dear.
39:32So embarrassing.
39:33I do apologise.
39:35Not at all.
39:36Look after the pennies.
39:38The pounds will look after themselves.
40:02It was her birthday, you see.
40:05Maria's birthday.
40:06Maria's birthday.
40:07It would have been.
40:09It seemed, uh...
40:11It seemed fitting.
40:12Yes.
40:14Yes.
40:14Yes, master Tom.
40:18And I took the precaution of keeping some of the poisoned ice.
40:23Tinky tonk.
40:24Wait!
40:26Oh no!
40:27Just ordinary ice, alas.
40:30I'm afraid I swapped it.
40:34I'm so very, very sorry about your sister, Signor Barberini.
40:39But murder is murder.
40:44Marco Barberini, I'm arresting you on a charge of murder.
40:47You do not have to say anything but anything you do say may be taken down and used against you
40:52in a court of law.
40:54Do you have anything to say?
41:03Oh, by the way, Mr. Kind, the linseed oil in the generators, that was me too.
41:11Sorry.
41:35Good work.
41:39Mr. Kind, you wanted a word?
41:42Oh yes, Miss Rattle.
41:43I was thinking about your position here.
41:46Well, now I know that you were not responsible for the incident with the generators.
41:50Yes.
41:50Well, your dismissal was unnecessarily expeditious.
41:54Yes.
41:56And I wanted to say I would very much like to offer that position back to you.
42:01Well, I accept.
42:03Well, that's all very satisfactory.
42:05There's a ledger here, isn't there?
42:07A ledger?
42:08One with all the comings and goings of the staff.
42:11Might I see my entry?
42:13It's over there.
42:15Yes, of course.
42:25There I am.
42:27Edith Rattle.
42:29Reason for leaving, sabotage.
42:32Well, let us strike that from the record.
42:38Thank you, Mr. Kind.
42:40Now, Mr. Kind, I resign.
42:44You resign?
42:45Yes, I resign.
42:46Would you mind putting that in there for me?
42:47You can't resign?
42:50I believe I just did.
42:54Oh, the workers.
42:58Oh, the workers!
43:10All this is quite correct.
43:13Two more, please.
43:15For those people.
43:20Missing the war, are you?
43:22Well, I don't know what the etiquette is.
43:25Ooh, I think that's a loyal summons.
43:29Well, Harris?
43:31For you, Mr. Book.
43:33For the book.
43:35Oh, thank you.
43:40What's that for?
43:42A hundred guineas.
43:43No, I mean, what's it for?
43:44Oh, our copy of the Canoon of Scutari.
43:47In our trade, it pays to specialize.
43:50It'll bounce.
43:51Well, if it doesn't, I shall give it to the Arandora Star Memorial Fund.
43:57Please enjoy.
43:59What should we drink to?
44:01To us.
44:02To the Barberinis?
44:04Yes.
44:05To Marco and Maria and...
44:07All the Barberinis.
44:08The lost and the defeated.
44:12All the Barberinis.
44:14Those who bear the name and those who do not.
44:18And let there be no more drownings.
44:35He got me the job.
44:38Mr. Book.
44:40He arranged for you to take me on.
44:44The princesses were looking for a bodyguard.
44:46Gabriel asked if I could help.
44:48So, you see, he was looking out for you.
44:51Despite your falling out.
44:53You know him well.
44:55We go a long way back.
45:00Looking out for me?
45:04Or manipulating me?
45:05Why would you think of it like that?
45:07He sought me out.
45:09Found me when I come out of prison.
45:11Set me up.
45:13Nice job.
45:14Nice home.
45:15Yes?
45:15Why?
45:17You'd have to ask him that.
45:19I'm a monster.
45:21Mr. Kind.
45:22I'm grateful.
45:22Of course I am.
45:23It's just...
45:25It's a lot, you know.
45:28They're set up.
45:30The way they are, Mr. and Mrs. Book.
45:31The way he is.
45:33It's hard for me to just...
45:36accept it.
45:37You have a moral objection?
45:39Me?
45:41What right do I have to moralize?
45:42I think you've answered your own question.
45:45The book is kind.
45:47I mean, I know I'm kind.
45:49Edmund, kind.
45:51But I once knew a girl called Joy and she was anything but.
45:55There's no sinister motive, Jack.
45:58They want to help.
46:00Why don't you let them?
46:29What?
46:31With you in just one moment.
46:35Hello again.
46:37Oh, Mrs. Goodwin.
46:39Jean.
46:40Jean.
46:41After more of the same?
46:42The pimpinette?
46:43No.
46:44I'm not really sure.
46:45I think I fancy something a little different.
46:48My husband not with you?
46:49No.
46:50The golf course?
46:51No.
46:51The garrick?
46:52The divorce courts.
46:54Oh.
46:56Oh.
46:58That play you gave me.
47:00A Doll's House.
47:01Most illuminating.
47:02Like you suggested, it rather made me think.
47:05Yes, I thought it might do.
47:07Made me realize how narrow my horizons have become.
47:10Or rather how narrow Gerald had made my horizons.
47:14Love doesn't always last forever, alas.
47:17I never loved him.
47:19Awful man.
47:21But that's all in the past now.
47:23Or in the hands of my solicitor, anyway.
47:25So, what can I do for you then, Jean?
47:29What have you got on travel?
47:31Travel?
47:32Lots of it.
47:33Heaps of it.
47:34Exotic travel.
47:36I think it's time I saw a bit of the world.
47:39I've got just the thing.
47:46With you in just one moment, sir.
48:00Thanks.
48:06I'll let you run on it.
48:07Without tea, I am merely...
48:10Unreconstituted dust.
48:11No.
48:17It's hard to let go of the past, Mr. Book, when you have so many questions about it.
48:22Such as?
48:23No.
48:24If it wasn't for you and Trotty, I'd be...
48:29Well...
48:30I'd be sleeping on the embankment.
48:34But now I have a position.
48:38If it's still available.
48:40The Royal Highnesses have let you go.
48:42I quit.
48:43Good for you.
48:45Yes, the job's still yours.
48:48So...
48:48I've got a position.
48:52Cozy little room.
48:54Above a bookshop on Archangel Lane.
48:56I'm thinking.
48:59I'm thinking.
49:02Why me?
49:20Your father gave me this.
49:23The last time I saw him.
49:261935.
49:28The last time?
49:31He died.
49:34Soon after.
49:38I couldn't face looking at this book.
49:40Well, for years.
49:43And then the war came and I was busy.
49:48Rather busy.
49:50It was only a few months ago that I picked it up again.
49:53Dared to pick it up.
49:56And I found there was a little more to it than I thought.
50:00What do you mean?
50:11O somewhere meek unconscious dove
50:16That sittest ranging golden hair
50:20And glad to find thyself so fair
50:24Poor child
50:26That waitest for thy love
50:30He's trying to tell me, you see.
50:32About you.
50:35About the son I never knew he had.
51:03It must have been taken around when you were conceived.
51:12Felix.
51:19Felix.
51:23I never had his name.
51:26Just that.
51:29Just that one picture.
51:34your father was a German
51:38German
51:40Prussian
51:42in point of fact
51:48what was he to you
51:49Mr. Book
51:52what was Felix to me
52:01he was everything Jack
52:06he was what the war took away
52:14he was the whole damn world
52:24how did he die?
52:28I don't know
52:38shall we find out
52:40he was you
52:45no
52:45no
52:45no
52:53no
53:28You?
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