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1982 DRAMA Anthology of Agatha Christie short stories: A law student finds his morning golf games repeatedly disturbed by a woman's cries of 'murder, help murder'--pleas that only he can hear. Starring Robin Kermode, Isabella Spade & Michael Aldridge.
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00:22I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
00:58THE END
01:07I don't know, Uncle George.
01:09You need a bit of time on the 19th, my boy.
01:11That's what you need.
01:12I just seem to get worse rather than better.
01:15Oh, bound to happen.
01:16All of us go through bad patches.
01:18Suppose so.
01:19How's the legal stuff coming along?
01:22Not bad.
01:23Started on Roman law today.
01:25Oh.
01:26You know, you don't have to stay at that hotel, do you?
01:29I know.
01:31Quite honestly, if a chap has to swat Uncle George,
01:33a boring hotel is the best place to do it.
01:37How's old Beersdale these days?
01:39He still seems to think he'll make a solicitor out of me one day.
01:43He's been very kind, matter of fact.
01:45Really?
01:46Beersdale?
01:47Yeah.
01:48First thing every morning when I get him to chambers,
01:49he takes me through some of my stuff.
01:52Well, frankly, I am not surprised.
01:55What?
01:56It's all goth, not all it should be.
01:57Wait.
01:58What?
01:59Well, here you are, getting up at crack of dawn,
02:02doing half a dozen holes before breakfast,
02:05racing off to the city, braving old Beersdale before coffee,
02:08dashing back here to fill yourself up with Roman law and hotels
02:11stodgy in the evening.
02:13Plain as a nose on me face, my boy.
02:15You're overdoing it.
02:17I don't know.
02:17My iron shots are all right.
02:18All your iron shots are all right.
02:19It's your swing.
02:21Straight left arm, follow through, and don't look up.
02:30Afternoon, Carol.
02:31Bill.
02:35Don't you ever feel a bit odd?
02:37How?
02:38This place, you know, being the old family home.
02:41It's all right for me.
02:41I never lived here.
02:42But it must be jolly odd for you, standing here propping up the bar like any old Tomlick
02:46or Harry.
02:47Oh, I say I'm sorry.
02:48Hmm?
02:48Oh.
02:50See what you mean.
02:51Old Harry.
02:53Oh, no, no.
02:54I mean, I couldn't bear all that noblest oblige house, your father, can you?
03:00Tenants, rates, good works.
03:02Oh.
03:03I've got a comfy village.
03:05Golf club on the doorstep.
03:07Decent character supper in the evening.
03:09Lord of the Manor.
03:10Oh, no, thank you, Jack.
03:13Oh, I consider myself among the most fortunate portion of humanity.
03:17And I drink a toast to the man who gambled away the family estate and left me in the enviable
03:24position I find myself today.
03:26My grandfather, Mad Harry.
03:29Isn't there some sort of scandal to do with him?
03:32I should say, confessed to murder on his deathbed.
03:35Murder?
03:36Oh, forget the whole story.
03:39Some girl mixed up in it, I think.
03:41Why Mad Harry?
03:43Guilt, they say, drove him out of his mind.
03:47Oh, good Lord, there must be more cheerful subjects than my homicidal grandfather and your golf.
03:52Uh, Jenkins.
03:54I was saying enough family in the hole.
03:57My only aberration was in marrying, you know, thanks.
04:01All right, cousin Florence.
04:03Now, wasn't there some dark secret to do with her, too?
04:05Nothing dark about it, dear boy.
04:07She eloped with a local blacksmith.
04:09Sorry, Major Hartington.
04:11Oh, hello, George.
04:12Know me nephew Jack, of course.
04:13Oh, yes.
04:14How do you do?
04:15Uh, what a felicitous encounter.
04:18Huh?
04:18My catching view, you know.
04:20Huh?
04:20Yes.
04:21I've just managed to secure a very fine Isaac Walden in a superb riviere binding.
04:25It's quarto, no foxing, very slight rubbing.
04:29Also, splendid Jorrox with full plate aquatins.
04:32Again, quarto and full calf.
04:34Ah.
04:35Now, they'll be arriving within the next few days.
04:37So, well, perhaps I might bring them along to you?
04:40No good.
04:42Join the wife in Italy tomorrow.
04:43Ah.
04:45Oh, well, perhaps I might leave them for you to examine at your leisure.
04:49Yes, yes, you could.
04:50Uh, yeah, leave them with, uh, Mrs. Emmett.
04:52Oh, right, right.
04:52Don't be put off fire.
04:54She only looks like a till of a hand.
04:55Good afternoon, Major Hartington.
04:57Now, Dr. Levington.
04:59I think I found that JW Dunn that you were looking for.
05:02Quite a stroke of luck, as a matter of fact.
05:04An experiment with time, that was the one, wasn't it?
05:08That chap's staying in my hotel.
05:10Who is he?
05:11Dr. Levington.
05:12Interesting girl.
05:13Down here to write a book or something.
05:14Todd's brought him along for a sherry a few weeks ago.
05:17Wanted to show him my collected blitz, don't you know?
05:21Do you know what he calls himself?
05:25Doctor of the soul.
05:27Doctor of the soul?
05:29Sounds a bit crackpot to me.
05:31Oh, just a minute, my boy.
05:33There are more things in heaven and earth, what?
05:36Well, I mean, take that fella, Gandy, for a start.
05:40Bow-legged little grasshopper.
05:46Hello, where's our tea?
05:48You know, Mrs. Emmett's really gone to Potiphar since your aunt went off quickly.
05:52Oh, dearly.
05:55Now, where was I?
05:58Dr. Lavington.
05:59Oh, yes, uh, Gandy.
06:03Well, now, you may think old Lavington's a bit odd, my boy, but I've had the benefit of visiting the
06:09East.
06:10Now, if you told a sensible man that Britain might lose her Indian empire to a half-naked faker and
06:16a pair of bifocals,
06:18whose only possessions were a Kashmiri shawl and the rather inadequate clothes he stood up in,
06:22he'd never have believed you, would he?
06:24Hmm?
06:25But it looks increasingly likely.
06:27Ha-ha.
06:27Power of the spirit, my boy.
06:30Where is our tea?
06:32Power of the spirit?
06:34Yes.
06:35Never underestimate it.
06:38In Madras State, I've seen chaps walking across 30 foot of red-hot coals,
06:43quite slowly and deliberately,
06:46and not only did they suffer no pain, but their feet weren't even scorched.
06:52Power of the spirit, my boy.
06:55Oh, there you are, Mrs. Emmett.
06:58Thank you very much.
07:01Thanks for the tea, Uncle.
07:03Have a good holiday.
07:05Love to want mags.
07:07Hate holidays.
07:08Stupid idea.
07:09Boats and trains and foreigners.
07:12Oh, thanks for the game.
07:14I'll try to be a bit improved for you after your trip.
07:23Straight left arm, follow through, and don't look up.
07:46It's so hard.
07:46No beingometric.
07:50You could be a bit tricky.
07:50The man.
07:50I knew it was though.
07:51There was no idea.
07:51There's a thing you could do.
07:51I wish you could do anything.
07:52Through my life, I can eat them right now,
07:54and I'm not an enemy.
07:54I think that's fine.
07:55I think I've lost my life,
07:55and I'm not under the end.
07:56I'm not самойカメal.
07:59I think that's this.
07:59I can never forget that.
08:03I have a very nice bed.
08:07Murder! Help! Murder!
08:18You hear? Yes, of course.
08:21You didn't cry out just now? No. Why should I?
08:26I see. Where did it come from?
08:29What? A cry.
08:32You must have heard it. It came from somewhere just near here.
08:34A cry? Yes.
08:35I heard nothing at all. Are you sure?
08:38Yes, of course, yes. It came from somewhere just near here.
08:42What sort of cry?
08:44It was a woman screaming, Blue Murder.
08:47Blue Murder? What is Blue Murder?
08:50Oh, I think somebody is playing a joke on you, monsieur.
08:54Finish!
08:56Finish!
08:58Finish!
08:59Excuse me. My father, he isn't well.
09:09Good morning, sir.
09:13Young man.
09:16Yes, I'm sorry.
09:17Your coat collar turned up at the back.
09:19What?
09:20Oh.
09:20I say thanks, all please.
09:29Yes, sir?
09:31Hmm?
09:32Oh.
09:34Oh, I don't know, Agnes.
09:36Corridge and toast. Nothing cooked.
09:37Right here, sir.
09:51Good evening, sir.
09:52Evening, Mr. Honnold.
09:53Thanks.
09:53Ah, yes.
09:54Do you mind if I...
09:55No, no, no.
09:56I'll be sorry.
09:58You were looking for anything in particular?
10:01What?
10:01No, no, no.
10:04Looking to see if anything happens around here.
10:06Ah, well, it depends what you mean by happens, really.
10:09The sale of work happened last Saturday,
10:11and there's a dance-up into the church all this Saturday,
10:13refreshing and voided,
10:14but you'll have to wait until Thursday for...
10:17a full-blown fate.
10:18That sort of thing, mate?
10:19Ah, no.
10:19Not exactly what I had in mind.
10:21Oh.
10:22I mean, look at the national papers.
10:24Oh, yes.
10:24Full of news.
10:25News?
10:26Full of sports and crime and scandal.
10:30I wouldn't get into my local rag anyway, stuff like that.
10:32Well, not as such.
10:34They tries to keep that sort of thing out, the Clarion and Argus.
10:38How's the tone of the area like?
10:40Well, I obviously chose the right place.
10:42Ideal for a holiday.
10:43Ah, a holiday.
10:45That sacred cow of our industrial age.
10:48Well, more of a working holiday, really.
10:50Dr Lavington, isn't it?
10:51How do you do?
10:52How do you do?
10:52I'm Hartington.
10:53You know, lots of golf to offset the revision.
10:56Ah.
10:57You see, I'm an article clerk.
10:58Got my exams soon.
10:59I thought you were working rather too hard.
11:02Too hard?
11:03Why do you say that?
11:04It shows.
11:05Does it?
11:06Well, a certain abstraction at breakfast this morning.
11:09Oh, yes.
11:11I thought, as a matter of fact, that you were on holiday here.
11:13No, no, not quite.
11:15It's true, I still practice in holes now that I've left Talley Street.
11:19For those of us lucky enough not to be involved in the industrial process
11:22to change of activity, it should be sufficient to renew the spirit
11:25if you don't overdo it.
11:27No.
11:29I'm here to write a book.
11:31Uncle George doesn't like holidays either.
11:34Hope he'll last the quarter to get frightful stink from my Aunt Mags.
11:37Ah.
11:38I suppose you're right though.
11:40For the renewal of the spirit, it's an excellent spot.
11:42Peace made manifest.
11:44In terms of dramatic incident, luckily.
11:47It's a desert.
12:00So...
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12:32Murder! Help! Murder!
12:41Mademoiselle!
12:43Mademoiselle!
12:45Yes? What is it?
12:48Oh, Mademoiselle, you heard it this time anyway.
12:52Oh, I've heard nothing.
12:53Nothing at all.
12:55But just now.
12:56I mean, you must have done.
12:58Are you all right, monsieur?
13:00What do you mean, all right?
13:02Well, are you feeling all right?
13:04I mean, have you been unwell?
13:06Oh!
13:27Don't overdo it.
13:28Only young once.
13:30I thought you were working rather too hard.
13:34Are you feeling all right, monsieur?
13:36Are you feeling all right?
13:38Murder! Help! Murder!
13:47Yes, thank you, Agnes.
13:59Excuse me, Dr. Lavington.
14:01Do you mind if I join you for a moment?
14:03I'd be delighted.
14:04Sit down.
14:10Well, what can I do for you?
14:12Just an idea I had.
14:14You know I told you I came down here to swap for my exams?
14:16Yes, although from the first moment I saw you,
14:18I thought you were an unlikely candidate for a place like this.
14:21No, my uncle lives not far away.
14:23If I feel like some home comforts, I can always...
14:26Anyway, we both like golf.
14:28And that's how I relax, you see, playing golf with him.
14:31But he's away for a week or so, and I was wondering if...
14:35You do play golf, do you?
14:36Well, to call it play is perhaps an indulgence.
14:39I struggle, but yes, I know the rules.
14:41I lack the requisite equipment, however.
14:43That's no problem.
14:44They have spare clubs for visitors.
14:46Oh.
14:46Well, I thought.
14:47I mean, I just thought, well, there I am every morning.
14:49But only if the idea appeals.
14:51I'd be delighted.
14:53You always manage to get the 8.56, don't you?
14:56Shall we say 7.50?
14:59Seven too early for you.
15:00I shall look forward to it.
15:02As a matter of fact, I've struck a small difficulty in the argument of my book.
15:05Perhaps a little fresh air and exercise might put my thoughts together.
15:08But I warn you, you must be prepared to run out the handsome winner.
15:12No, really, sir.
15:18Good second shot of yours.
15:20Right by the green.
15:21Thanks.
15:28Do you think this is all right?
15:30Yes, I say so.
15:38Good shot.
15:39Good shot.
15:39Good shot.
15:41Good shot.
15:53Good shot.
15:54Good shot.
15:54Good shot.
15:54Good shot.
15:55Good shot.
15:55Good shot.
15:56Good shot.
15:57Good shot.
15:57Good shot.
15:57Good shot.
15:58Good shot.
15:59Good shot.
16:02Good shot.
16:02Good shot.
16:02Good shot.
16:03Good shot.
16:06Good shot.
16:23Oh, bad luck.
16:52I think it'll be a good day when this misclears.
16:58You're on to the next hole, huh?
17:01Murder! Help! Murder!
17:05You were at a force surely at the last hole, didn't you?
17:13So, what was all that about?
17:15I was going to ask you the same question.
17:17Were you? You're a doctor, aren't you?
17:19Yes. Go on then.
17:21I know very little about you.
17:23The only thing I do know is that I have recognised in you all the signs of a man under
17:27considerable stress.
17:28I must confess a fascination to what that stress could be.
17:31I can tell you easily enough. I'm going off my chump.
17:35Really?
17:36I tell you I'm going mad.
17:38How curious. How very curious.
17:41Oh, that's what it is, is it? My God, you doctors.
17:44Oh, come, come, my friend.
17:46To begin with, although I've taken my medical degrees, I don't practise conventional medicine.
17:51Oh, and what do you practise? Witchcraft?
17:53Oh, let's just say that I'm not a doctor of the body, of the suma.
17:57Or the mind.
17:58Oh, that's much nearer.
17:59Although I like to use mind to describe the mechanical, the rational aspects of thought.
18:05Oh, yes, the soul. Uncle George told me. Doctor of the soul.
18:09I hear the disparagement in your voice.
18:11Well, what is a man to do?
18:12I've explained why I don't use the word mind.
18:15Psyche has been appropriated by the followers of the Viennese school.
18:19Brain is a description only of the physical organ.
18:22No soul suits me since it's a word which transcends religions and philosophies.
18:28But you may call it what you like, provided that the word you choose denotes that principle of consciousness,
18:33of self-awareness, which is deemed to be independent of this bone house, the body.
18:39All right.
18:40Now, shall I tell you what struck me as being curious?
18:42Go ahead.
18:43It is how such a well-balanced and normal young man of yourself
18:46could suffer from the delusion that he was going out of his mind.
18:49Well, I am. I've got a screw loose.
18:51Forgive me for saying so, but I don't believe it.
18:53Look, I suffer from delusion.
18:55No, sorry, can't be done.
18:55Not you.
18:56I tell you, I hear things that nobody else hears.
18:58Ah, well, that's quite different.
19:01Sorry, beg your pardon?
19:02That's different.
19:03That may not necessarily be a delusion.
19:06What?
19:06It could as easily be evidence of a sense refined beyond the ordinary.
19:11I don't understand.
19:13One man in a thousand can see the moons of Jupiter,
19:15but until Galileo made a telescope, nobody believed they were really there.
19:19Certain men can smell water in a desert miles away.
19:22Dogs can hear sounds well beyond human hearing.
19:26The sense of touch in some blind people is so refined
19:29that it enables them to perceive the color of the objects they handle.
19:33I could go on.
19:34Yes, but all I'm saying is that we do not call the possessors of these refined instruments mad.
19:39What do we call them?
19:42Must you go to the city today?
19:44Old Beersdale promised to take me through torts.
19:47I'm quite bad at torts.
19:49Then breakfast is a necessity.
19:50Get changed.
19:51I'll meet you downstairs in ten minutes.
19:54Then we can decide whether you have grounds for believing you're going mad.
19:58And we can decide whether or not to lock you up afterwards.
20:07There it is.
20:08I think I've told you everything.
20:11What I can't understand is why this morning it should come at nearly half past seven.
20:16Almost five minutes late.
20:18Yes, that is odd.
20:20What's the time by your watch?
20:248.25.
20:25That's simple enough then.
20:27Your watch is fast.
20:28Mine says 8.22.
20:30That's a very interesting and valuable point.
20:33In fact, it's vital.
20:35In what way?
20:36An obvious explanation would go something like this.
20:39On the first morning you did hear some such cry.
20:41Possibly a silly joke on somebody's part.
20:43Then on the subsequent mornings at the same time
20:45you merely suggested to yourself that you heard it.
20:48Yes.
20:49That explanation would work.
20:51Because if it was a case of autosuggestion
20:52you would have to have heard the cry when you knew or thought you knew it was 25 past.
20:57So where does that leave us?
20:58The only theory I believe fits the facts so far
21:01is that the cry locates itself very precisely in time and space.
21:05The place being in the vicinity of the cottage,
21:07the time being 25 past.
21:09Excuse me.
21:09Oh, thank you.
21:13Yes, but why me?
21:16I don't believe in ghosts.
21:18All that spook stuff, spirits wrapping on and so on.
21:21As far as I'm concerned it's a lot of rubbish.
21:22Why should I hear that damn thing?
21:24It's a curious fact that many of the best mediums
21:26are made from confirmed sceptics.
21:28It isn't by any means the case
21:29that those who are interested in occult phenomena
21:31as those who experience manifestations of it.
21:35Yes, but what are we going to do?
21:36Well, you're going up to the city to struggle with torts
21:39at which you are quite bad.
21:41If you hurry you'll manage to catch your train.
21:44I'll meet you in the dragon's head at six.
21:45Yes.
21:46Look, just one thing.
21:48What's that?
21:49Well, the girl.
21:50What about her?
21:51I'm sure she's...
21:52well, all right, you know.
21:54You didn't tell me she was pretty.
21:56Cheer up.
21:57I'm not mistaken.
21:58The mystery started well before her time.
22:11You mean you actually went to the cottage?
22:13You spoke to her?
22:14Yes, and you were quite correct.
22:16The young lady is most attractive.
22:19But the visit to the cottage was not the most informative period of my day,
22:22although I did establish two things.
22:24Yes?
22:25The Mademoiselle Marchaud, that's her name incidentally,
22:28and she's French, comes from Tours.
22:30Feliz Marchaud.
22:31Her father's very ill.
22:32Oh, yes, I know.
22:33I heard him.
22:34My establishment of the cottage possesses a reputation locally,
22:38and the Mademoiselle Marchaud is frightened of something.
22:40It's not merely her father's impending death.
22:43What is she frightened of?
22:44I don't know.
22:45I couldn't interrogate the poor girl.
22:47After leaving them, I went to the local bookseller.
22:50Mr Dodds?
22:50Yes, luckily he's something of a local historian,
22:52or I might have taken several days over it.
22:54Over what?
22:55Over the history of one of your family.
22:57Sir Harry Hartington?
22:58Mad Sir Harry, as I gather he's known hereabouts?
23:01Yes.
23:01What would you know about him?
23:02Well, he's supposed to have confessed to murder.
23:05Some girl or something.
23:06Uncle George is rather vague, you know.
23:08He did confess, on his deathbed,
23:10that 30 years before he had murdered his mistress.
23:13Say it again.
23:17Please, sir.
23:19Yes, I bring it over to you, sir.
23:26Murdered his mistress?
23:27What else did you find out?
23:28Nothing much immediately, merely the outline of the story.
23:31It was a hint that the girl was either being paid by Sir Harry,
23:34or that she had been blackmailing him shortly before she disappeared.
23:38Anyway, she seems to have had money.
23:41And one fine day she vanished off the face of the earth.
23:44A lot of woods around here then.
23:46Foresters, charcoal burners.
23:48Anyway, the woods were searched for days with no result.
23:50She was never seen or heard of again until your grandfather's confession.
23:54Thank you, Mr.
23:58So we know nothing else?
23:59Oh, yes, we do.
24:00And this is incredible.
24:01She was last seen in the place where she lived,
24:04which was the marshal's cottage.
24:13Excuse me, sir.
24:14Oh, I'm sorry to interrupt.
24:16I wouldn't normally do it for the world, naturally.
24:17What's up, Agnes?
24:19Um...
24:19Well, there's this young person who wishes to speak to.
24:22Um...
24:23It is a foreign person.
24:25Who calls herself...
24:28Please, Marsha.
24:29I'm really waiting.
24:32Anyway, it's urgent, she says.
24:34Where is she?
24:35Well, I'll put her in the lounge so she can speak to the confidential.
24:38Right.
24:38I'll come at once.
24:39I'll just put these books in my room and collect my pipe, if you don't mind.
24:42You go and make the girl at home.
24:46Admiral Selle.
24:47Monsieur.
24:48May I offer you something?
24:49A glass of sherry?
24:50Coffee, perhaps?
24:51Thank you, no, monsieur.
24:52I must not stay long.
24:53My father...
24:54Of course.
24:54Thank you, Agnes.
24:59I owe you an apology, monsieur.
25:01I'm sure you don't.
25:02Yes, I do.
25:04I doubted you and now I'm repaid.
25:06I've also heard the voice.
25:09The cry.
25:11Oh, thank God.
25:13You know Dr. Lavington, don't you?
25:15Ma'am, sir?
25:15Yes.
25:16But I didn't know...
25:17It's all right.
25:18I've told Dr. Lavington all about it.
25:20About...
25:20About what I heard.
25:22About what we heard.
25:23Yes, I've heard it too.
25:24May I ask when, mademoiselle?
25:26This morning.
25:27I was in the garden.
25:28It was nearly half past seven.
25:30I looked for you, but...
25:31Yes, I didn't play this morning.
25:32What did the voice say?
25:34Murder.
25:35Help, murder.
25:36That's it.
25:36You see, doctor?
25:39Go on, mademoiselle.
25:43Must I?
25:44Must I?
25:44I want you to tell me everything.
25:50Well, at first I did not...
25:53Oh, how do you say?
25:55Put it together with the dream.
25:57But all day I thought...
25:59What dream?
26:00Oh, it's difficult to explain.
26:04It's difficult to explain.
26:05I dream and yet I do not dream.
26:08The first time, I do not remember waking, but I was awake.
26:11There was great fear.
26:13In my nostrils was a smell.
26:15A strong smell.
26:16Like a bonfire after a rainstorm.
26:19I got up, searched the house, and there had been no fire.
26:23The next time, it was a true dream.
26:29I am in the cottage.
26:33Again there is the smell.
26:36But now I'm dreaming the smell.
26:41A girl, dressed in old-fashioned clothes, stand before me.
26:49At first I see only her face.
26:54There is beauty there, but...
26:57Much pain.
27:01Much pain.
27:04When I see that she is holding out towards me a...
27:09A tall...
27:13Jar.
27:14Jar?
27:15Yes.
27:17I look at the jar.
27:20It's beautiful.
27:23Blue pattern.
27:25With flowers.
27:28And fruits.
27:30It's...
27:32And then?
27:32I don't know.
27:37I remember her face, which is bleeding with me.
27:47And I remember my own fear.
27:50Mostly I remember the fear.
27:53How long has this been going on?
27:59It started a few weeks after we moved into the cottage.
28:07Now I...
28:09I dread the night.
28:11I think you should escort Mademoiselle Marshall home.
28:14Yes.
28:20I can hardly tell you not to worry.
28:22I don't want to trivialize your fear.
28:25All I can tell you is that you are no longer alone.
28:39Please.
28:41Don't come any further because of my father.
28:44You...
28:45You understand?
28:47Of course.
28:49I'll stand and watch until you're indoors.
28:53I think you're a good man.
28:56Oh.
28:57Terrific, yes.
28:59Will I see you again tomorrow?
29:01Mm.
29:02I want to hear what your doctor friend has to say, don't you?
29:06Yes, I do.
29:09Then I shall see you tomorrow.
29:14Goodbye.
29:15Au revoir.
29:20Damn.
29:22You're cold, sir?
29:23What?
29:24Oh, yeah.
29:25This coffee, Agnes?
29:26It's too hot, sir.
29:26Yes.
29:27Oh, as usual.
29:28Do you know, I keep telling them.
29:29Should I take it away?
29:30No, leave it.
29:31It's no bother, sir.
29:36Good morning.
29:37Good morning.
29:39Good morning, young man.
29:40You're early?
29:41Decided not to play, matter of fact.
29:42Very sensible.
29:44Actually, I've been trying to remember.
29:46You know that jar the girl was talking about?
29:49Oh, the...
29:49The one the woman in the dream was holding?
29:52Yes.
29:52I think I've seen one like it before.
29:55Really?
29:56I can't think where.
29:59Still, I've got conveyancing today.
30:01Conveyancing, eh?
30:02I'm not bad at conveyancing.
30:04Good.
30:09Got it!
30:11Yes.
30:12I hope I find you here.
30:13It's what we were talking about this morning.
30:15Uh, Mr. Hubbell.
30:16A pint, please.
30:17And what's yours?
30:18Small whiskey, if you'd be so good.
30:20A small whiskey.
30:23The blue jar.
30:24Remember?
30:26Ah, yes.
30:27The blue jar.
30:28You see, Uncle George has got one in his hallway.
30:32Has he really?
30:36Is there something wrong?
30:38No.
30:41Well, Mr. Dodds is a mine of local information.
30:44Buried treasure and goodness knows what I got from him this morning.
30:48Really?
30:49Yeah, remember I told you there were some charcoal burners in the woods around here?
30:52Yeah.
30:53Well, they used to move through the woods like gypsies, of course.
30:56But it seems they had one main camp near the village.
30:59The last of the charcoal burners left to join Ark 20 years ago now.
31:04And the campsite was turned over to new housing.
31:06When they were digging the foundations for the new houses,
31:09they came across the charcoal burners' treasure.
31:11A tin box, lots of coins, bits of gold jewelry.
31:14And most importantly, a bag of Victorian gold sovereigns.
31:18Worth hundreds today.
31:20Yes.
31:21Look, I really think this jar might be important.
31:24Hartington, I'm afraid I told you an untruth a minute ago.
31:28Something is the matter.
31:30What?
31:31I went to see the marshals this morning.
31:33Very worried about that girl.
31:36I think she might well be in danger.
31:38Oh, not danger as most people would interpret the word, but danger all the same.
31:46Power of the spirit, my boy.
31:49Beautiful.
31:51Blue pattern with flowers and fruits.
31:55Never underestimate it.
31:57Power of the spirit.
31:59I can remember my own fear.
32:02Mostly I remember the fear.
32:06You got a four, surely, at the last hole, didn't you?
32:17Just a cup of coffee, please.
32:18I'm off your legs.
32:19All right.
32:21I overslept.
32:32I've been a complete fool.
32:34What?
32:34Well, not listening to you mostly, not seeing what is under my own nose.
32:38I think the key to the whole thing might be the jar.
32:41I was trying to tell you that.
32:42Yes, I know, and I apologise.
32:43I was following a theory of my own, if you remember.
32:45I think it is essential that all three of us meet this evening.
32:49Yes, all right.
32:50Absolutely, at the pub.
32:51Yes.
32:51Good, good.
32:52I'm sorry, I really must dash.
32:53Will you organise it?
32:54Of course.
32:55Good.
33:07Well, thanks.
33:18Good.
33:22Good.
33:23Would it count for the treasure, would it, ma'am?
33:25Yes, indeed.
33:26And the smell of burning in your dream.
33:28Yet the single most persistent feature of Mademoiselle Marshall's dream
33:30was the unaccountable smell of burning.
33:33Yes, but what does it mean?
33:34Other meaning eludes me at the moment.
33:36But some things I do know.
33:38The shedding of innocent blood
33:39is at the center of the most powerful myths in the history of the occult.
33:44And not only that,
33:45the voice of thy brother's blood
33:48crieth unto me from the ground.
33:50I believe that this girl's blood cries to us now.
33:54It has waited a long time.
33:56It has at last found two sensitives,
33:57yourself and Mademoiselle Marshall,
33:59the room to make the link.
34:01Now I see.
34:03Yes, but why the blue jar, monsieur?
34:06Of all things in the dream,
34:07I seem to see it most clearly of all.
34:09What is this thing?
34:11What do you think, Artie?
34:12I'm pretty sure there's one just like it at my uncle's house.
34:15Could well have come from the family home, do you see?
34:17Now what it could have to do with this whole thing beats me.
34:20Well, it could be the key to what we don't know.
34:23A key is meaningless in itself,
34:24but can be the means to great things.
34:27The blue jar could be some link in the pattern of energies
34:31which has allowed you to hear this girl's voice.
34:35That voice requires something of us,
34:37and I believe we should listen to whatever it is.
34:39Yes, but how?
34:42Can you get hold of the jar?
34:44Of course.
34:46Uncle George won't mind.
34:47He only uses it as an umbrella stand.
34:49In any case, he's on holiday.
34:51What do you believe we can do, Doctor?
34:54Lavington.
34:56Lay to rest a perturbed spirit.
35:00If only that could be.
35:03I think we should try this out as soon as possible, Doctor.
35:05I'll run down to the house and get it straight away.
35:07Shall I meet you both at the cottage?
35:09Yes, good man.
35:12A bientot, mademoiselle.
35:15A bientot.
35:29Jack!
35:31Hi, Uncle George.
35:33Hi, Jack, dear boy.
35:33What on earth are you doing?
35:34Can I help?
35:35Uncle George.
35:37You're back early.
35:39Functed, I'm afraid.
35:41Dreadful crossing.
35:42Lost a perfectly good Pullman breakfast to the fishes.
35:44The sight of Calais,
35:45the smell of that awful French tobacco,
35:47and the sound of that pansy language.
35:49All too...
35:49Hello?
35:51Where on earth did you find that?
35:53Do you know, I thought I'd lost it.
35:56No, I had to rest up in Paris for a couple of days.
35:59Sent a wire.
36:01Indisposed.
36:02Awful card, I'm afraid, and I suppose your aunt will wreak her vengeance, but there we are.
36:07I say, you look terrible.
36:08What's up?
36:09It's a long story.
36:11You look as though you need a brandy.
36:12Come in this den and tell me all about it.
36:14By God, Jack, that is a pretty rum tail.
36:18You think there's something in it, do you?
36:20Yes, I do.
36:21Well, what did I tell you?
36:23More things in heaven than earth, eh?
36:26This, um, gal of yours, pretty, is she?
36:30She's beautiful.
36:32French, you say?
36:34Yes.
36:36Well, when you've sorted this lot out, you'd better get down to some work.
36:40Looks as though you'll have to pass your exams after all.
36:43Supporting aged foreign in-laws doesn't exactly come cheap, you know.
36:47Well, well, lad, take that damn pot of yours and keep your rendezvous.
36:51Oh, I say. Thanks, awfully, Uncle George.
36:54I say, nothing dangerous in it, is there?
36:57No.
36:58No, this chap, Lavington, knows exactly what he's doing.
37:00Oh, that's all right, then.
37:02Off you go.
37:02Thanks, awfully.
37:07Oh, hello.
37:09Good evening, then.
37:10Yeah, yeah.
37:19You've come. I was worried.
37:21I wouldn't let you down.
37:23No, I know.
37:34Listen, we must be quiet.
37:37My father, he's asleep upstairs.
37:38We must not wake him.
37:39No, of course.
37:41I've made some coffee for you.
37:45Well done, Hartington.
37:47Now, let's see if Mademoiselle Marchaud can identify it.
37:51Yes.
37:54Yes.
38:07It's all right.
38:09We're all in this together.
38:11Sit down, mademoiselle.
38:15We will need all our strength.
38:18All our clarity of mind.
38:20All our resources of will.
38:23Hartington, we've been drinking strong black coffee.
38:26And I suggest you do too.
38:30It may be a long session.
38:32It will require great concentration from us all.
38:35Yes, of course.
38:36Are you sure you're all right?
38:40Yes.
38:42And you?
38:44Yes.
38:47Sorry, that's a bit hot for me.
38:50Shall we?
38:51Take your time.
38:53You haven't told us yet what we have to do.
38:55What we have to try to do.
38:57We may not succeed.
38:59Nevertheless, we must try.
39:01Oh, yes.
39:01We must try.
39:05All our energies must combine in the corporate purpose
39:08of sensing what there is in this place.
39:11A pulse of energy.
39:12A faint residue of spirit.
39:14Half evaporated by time.
39:17Gathering itself into a voice.
39:20Yes, I see.
39:21Felice.
39:23Felice.
39:25Ah.
39:26Excuse me a moment.
39:28My father.
39:29Of course.
39:30Try to make sure he is comfortable, mademoiselle.
39:31It is essential we are not interrupted.
39:34Oui, bien sûr.
39:40Je viens, papa.
39:41Papa.
39:42Ah, felice.
39:48Right.
39:49I'm ready.
39:51Sit down, mademoiselle.
39:57Shall I?
39:58Yes.
40:10I don't mind admitting I'm a self-aprehensive.
40:15If we can lay this poor girl's spirit to rest,
40:19she will be eternally grateful.
40:25All right, we shall begin.
40:28Place your hands over the jar like this.
40:37As the eyes close,
40:39as the eyes close,
40:40unwilled,
40:41let them close.
40:44Good.
40:46As the eyes close,
40:48feel the initial drift of the spirit.
40:52Help it.
40:53Let it go.
40:54Drift on the wind.
40:58Ride your breath.
41:00Threads on the air.
41:02Alert.
41:04Silent.
41:06Seeking.
41:13We call to you through your chosen medium
41:17to reveal yourself through one of us.
41:24We,
41:25the triangle which makes the circle,
41:28the star on the void,
41:30six-handed,
41:33embracing nothing.
41:36We are one and ready.
41:40Use us.
41:43Use us.
41:46Use us.
41:51And, um, another one.
41:53Oh.
41:53Very nicely illustrated in the manner of the great Thomas Buick.
41:56Hmm.
41:57It's some of the finest woodcuts achieved outside the workshop
42:00of that, uh,
42:01finest of masters,
42:03in fact.
42:04There's an amusing chapter
42:05on Ida ducks and shovelers.
42:08Rooks, damn it.
42:09Rooks.
42:11Uh, rooks?
42:12Rooks.
42:12The voice disturbed the rooks.
42:16Jack described it to me plain as day.
42:18I knew there was something wrong.
42:20You don't disturb rooks with voices in your head.
42:23Uh,
42:24there's some sort of deception going on.
42:26But the question is,
42:28why, Dodds?
42:29Why?
42:30Uh,
42:31ah.
42:32Now, look,
42:33you're an educated sort of chap, Dodds.
42:35Perhaps you could make some sense of it.
42:36Uh, uh, yes.
42:37Well,
42:38yes,
42:38well,
42:38I'd be delighted to try.
42:40Oh, good man.
42:40Now, look,
42:41it all began with my nephew
42:42coming down to this neck of the woods
42:43to swat for his law exams,
42:45you see,
42:45and practice his golf.
42:46We are ready.
42:49We are one and ready.
42:52We have reached the hiding places of time
42:55and are ready.
42:59Without mind, we are ready.
43:02Without will, we are ready.
43:06Like your vessel, we are void.
43:08Choose one of us.
43:11Choose.
43:12Choose.
43:14Choose.
43:18I thought he'd never drink the damn stuff.
43:22Quick, ropes.
43:24Thank God.
43:27He must have a constitution like an ox.
43:30Huh.
43:33I was beginning to run out of mystical mumbo-jumbo.
43:38Never mind.
43:42We've got it.
43:50Pierre!
43:51Pierre!
43:53Pierre!
43:57Ça y est?
43:59Oui.
44:00Tout va bien.
44:03Très bien, ma petite!
44:06Oh, Pierre!
44:09Tout est prêt?
44:10Are you sure?
44:11Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, completely.
44:14Uh, all this talk about woods.
44:16Now, there were no woods around here in Victorian times.
44:19What?
44:19No, the woods that you see now,
44:21they're recent.
44:23Now, I should, I should think that Lavington invented it
44:26to, uh, well, to credit the girl's story.
44:30You mean she's his accomplice?
44:32Yes, there, there must be a key,
44:35key to it somewhere.
44:36Well, it isn't the woods,
44:38so it, uh, can't be the gypsies.
44:41No, no, no.
44:42It could be the jar, possibly.
44:44Jar?
44:47It's the jar.
44:48It's the blue jar.
44:50Ah, why?
44:54Hmm?
44:54Why?
44:58Because it has no real connection with the story.
45:02Well, don't you see?
45:03All attention has been focused on the ghost story.
45:05The blue jar's only been added as a sort of, uh, uh, footnote.
45:09Yes, in my opinion, Lavington is up to something,
45:11and it's something to do with that blue jar.
45:12Ah, yes, but it's only an old pot we keep umbrellas and walking sticks in.
45:17But is it?
45:18What do you know about it?
45:20Well, not much.
45:21I mean, it came out of the family home.
45:22It's been stuck out in the hall ever since.
45:24Has Lavington seen it?
45:26You brought him here for sherry.
45:28Oh, did I?
45:31I've, uh, got the pet with up in the spare room, as a matter of fact.
45:34Have you, indeed?
45:35Oh.
45:37I'll go and get it.
45:41Come on, you two.
45:42There's a lot to be done.
45:43Relax.
45:44He's asleep until the next day.
45:46Yeah, that's not the point.
45:46Some servant may notice it's gone.
45:49Not a minute to waste.
45:51Got the bag?
45:52Check the ropes.
45:55Cheng what?
45:56Hua.
45:57Uh, Cheng Hua.
45:59It's, uh, it's 15th century Chinese.
46:02Is it?
46:03Uh, it says here a single specimen went at auction recently for 10,000 guineas.
46:09What?
46:11So a pair.
46:14Don't tell me.
46:15Get the police.
46:17I need a drink.
46:29Right.
46:30Are we ready?
46:55They say how long they'd be.
46:57Well, he said he'd come at once.
46:59I explained that it might be a matter of life or death.
47:02It might be a matter of 10,000 guineas.
47:05Wow.
47:08Sorry to keep you waiting, Major.
47:10I couldn't find me clips.
47:11I'd just set off with me trousers and me socks when the wife calls me back.
47:14Found me clips, you see.
47:16Now, what seems to be the matter?
47:17Just get in.
47:18I'll explain as we go.
47:20I'll put this in the back, shall I?
47:21Certainly not.
47:22Lean it up against the wall.
47:23Nobody's going to pinch it.
47:30Take a shortcut through Hallow's farm.
47:32That's private property.
47:33That's right.
47:40Jack!
47:41Well, oh, never.
47:42The jar?
47:43I can't see the jar.
47:44Never mind the jar.
47:45Help me untie him.
47:48Just a moment, sir.
47:50Is the day of the supernatural over?
47:53Not quite.
47:54Especially when tricked out in new scientific language.
48:00Kindest regards from...
48:03Fellies,
48:04invalid father,
48:05and myself.
48:08Yours ever,
48:09Ambrose Lovington,
48:11doctor of the soul.
48:18You're awake at last, are you?
48:20Oh, Uncle George.
48:22Feeling all right?
48:24Yes.
48:25How long have I been?
48:26Oh, about 15 hours.
48:29Nearly lunchtime.
48:30I'm afraid Lovington's
48:32accomplices got away.
48:34What?
48:35Accomplices?
48:36I'm sorry, old boy.
48:37I'm afraid you've been conned.
48:39Not...
48:40Not for Lees.
48:42It was my blue jar they were after.
48:44Worth a small fortune, apparently.
48:46Oh, what a damned fool I've been.
48:48Oh, cheer, laden boy.
48:50Police are quite hopeful.
48:52Vases too big to hide easily,
48:54they'll probably never get it out of the country.
48:57Anyway, I've still got the other one.
48:59I say I'm sorry.
49:01Oh, that's all right.
49:02I just wish things were a bit more cheerful on the domestic front.
49:06Afraid your aunt's back.
49:07Oh, dear.
49:09Exactly.
49:10Well, not as cross as she might have been.
49:11Well, she couldn't be, really.
49:12She brought a female relative with her.
49:14Sort of, um, distant cousin of yours, actually.
49:17Portia Bickerstaff.
49:19Portia Bickerstaff.
49:21Yeah.
49:21I guess I met her about five years ago.
49:23Awful little tyke.
49:24Pigtails and a lisp.
49:26Yes, well, I'm sorry about this, old boy,
49:28but I'm afraid she's, um,
49:30expecting to play golf.
49:33And, uh, not to put too fine a point on it,
49:36she's a Surrey ladies' champion.
49:39No.
49:40Couldn't agree more.
49:44Look, uh,
49:45she wants to see her.
49:46Is it all right if I let her in?
49:48Oh, no, I'm...
49:48Look, I'll rescue you after a minute or two
49:50so you shouldn't be wasting your strength, something like that.
49:52All right.
49:54I say.
49:54Hmm?
49:56I'm sorry.
49:56Oh, don't be so damn silly.
49:58Women, what?
50:07Come in.
50:10Hello, Cousin Jack.
50:12May I call you Jack?
50:15Portia.
50:17Gosh.
50:19What?
50:20Um, yes.
50:22Oh, yes, do.
50:31He had a good time.
50:43He's attacked by the men.
50:44But he had two trials to play with her.
50:44Oh, yes.
50:44Oh, yes.
50:45Oh, yes.
50:46Oh, yes.
50:46Oh, yes, yes.
50:49Oh, yes.
50:49Oh, yes.
50:53Oh, yes.
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