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01:31You instructed me where to take shelter.
01:35Blast, sir.
01:35The unpredictable effects of blast.
01:38Unpredictable, Sergeant?
01:39Oh, absolutely, sir.
01:41Yes.
01:42Well, I'm very glad to hear it.
01:44Excellent, Sergeant.
01:45A splendid explosion.
01:47You know, he's a good man.
01:49We'll be sorry to lose him halfway through the course.
01:52I'm leaving here, sir.
01:53So your inspector, Javitt, tells me.
01:56Javitt.
01:57Hmm?
01:57Chief Inspector.
01:59Ah, Javitt.
02:00Obviously, we can't teach your sergeant everything about infernal devices in a week or two.
02:05For example, he's had no instruction in actually how to go about making one.
02:10No need for those talents at Scotland Yard.
02:13No, but he's proved a good pupil.
02:15Thank you, sir.
02:17Why did you send him on this course?
02:19That's what I've been asking myself, sir.
02:50Thank you, sir.
02:55We thought at first that it was the work of European anarchists,
02:58but it seems the explosive used was Atlas powder manufactured in Philadelphia.
03:02Any other marks, sir?
03:03Cap and cartridge made in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
03:06Irish Americans?
03:07Possibly.
03:09Fighting to bring the cause of home rule before the public.
03:12Special branch should be able to deal with them.
03:15Isn't that what they were formed for, sir?
03:17Yes.
03:18Special branch.
03:19They occupy the next room to mine.
03:22I had to give them my new telephone set and two clerical assistants.
03:25They've got brand new desks and a hat stand.
03:29Now what?
03:30What in God's name is going on?
03:35You can't go in.
03:37Oh, I didn't know it was you, sir.
03:39I didn't recognise you.
03:40What is it, constable?
03:41I'm sorry, sir.
03:42You'll have to go around the side entrance.
03:43This way until Scotland Yard's closed.
03:45There's been a bomb.
03:47There's been a bomb.
04:11As I thought, the bomb was intended for the office of special branch next door.
04:15Anybody hurt?
04:16Fortunately, no, but there have been more.
04:18Simultaneously, while we were on our way back from the Royal Arsenal, there was an explosion
04:22at the Junior Carlton Club.
04:24In strict confidence, sergeant, special branch assumed they made a mistake.
04:27The bomb was left at the rear entrance, which is virtually indistinguishable from Adair House.
04:32And Adair House is the home of the War Office Intelligence Department.
04:37Special branch in the Secret Service at the same time.
04:40And a bomb was placed at the foot of Nelson's column.
04:43Fortunately, it failed to explode.
04:44I assume from the force of this explosion, the blast being directed vertically upwards,
04:49it was placed in a roofless structure directly below the office.
04:53Yes.
04:55In the public urinal against the wall.
04:58Quite.
04:58If it wasn't bad enough, having infernal devices placed under our very...
05:02Our very...
05:03Noses.
05:04Noses.
05:07These people are not petty thieves or backyard murderers.
05:11They are well-financed, well-informed.
05:14They know as much about our own dispositions as we do ourselves.
05:17Don't like the implications of that, sir.
05:19The yard has always recognized that some of its people could be corrupt.
05:23We have reports of one of our own men hovering around railway stations
05:27and consorting with Irish-Americans in a rather high public house called The Feathers.
05:32What did you do, sir?
05:33Had him placed under surveillance by Constable Bottle of the special branch.
05:37Met him, sir. An excellent man.
05:39Not anymore.
05:40The reason I had you recalled from your explosives course at Woolwich
05:43was that last night a body was taken from the river in Limehouse Reach.
05:47It was identified as Bottle.
05:50A bullet had penetrated his brain.
05:54Why do you want me on the case, sir?
05:56Because of your association with the constable who is under suspicion.
06:01Who's that, sir?
06:02I regret to tell you, Sergeant, that it is your sometime supernumerary
06:06and satellite detective, Constable Thackeray.
06:14Thackeray?
06:14We want you to penetrate the whole dynamite conspiracy.
06:41Thank you, sir.
06:46Well, what brings you down to this pub, then?
06:49Sightseeing?
06:50It's a while since I've seen you.
06:52How's crime in Rotherhide?
06:53Keep your voice down, Sarge.
06:55If you knew the pub, you'd understand why.
06:58Well, it looks normal to me.
07:00There's more useful information to be gained from the public taproom
07:03than there is from the police gazette.
07:04You told me that.
07:05But why pick a faddest pub?
07:07You take them to the hard stuff.
07:08I don't want to sound ungrateful, Sarge.
07:11But when I was with you, I didn't get much chance for detective work.
07:14Not on my own.
07:15No, I'm mixing with them.
07:17Incognito-like.
07:18And I'm trying to gain their confidence.
07:21Succeeding?
07:22Oh, I think so.
07:27The, um, barge horse with the Piccadilly Weepers.
07:31He's an American.
07:32Says he's Irish.
07:34His family immigrated at the time of the potato famine.
07:36Oh, he keeps on buying me drinks.
07:39Far more than I can afford to buy him.
07:41Why does he buy you drinks?
07:43Oh, I don't know.
07:44He asks me questions about trains.
07:47No, me and trains.
07:48I can't walk past the station without nipping in.
07:51I saw the Sunderland the other day, all knobby with the steam coming out.
07:55Anyway, he asks me questions about stations.
07:57And then he buys me drinks.
08:00Can't make him out.
08:02I thought at first he was a pugilist.
08:04But he's got blisters on his palms, not his knuckles.
08:08A navvy?
08:09Oh, no.
08:11Not with whiskey at night, but it's a tot.
08:13Anyway, his fingernails, they're manicured.
08:16Might tell you something else, too.
08:19In his hands, they smell of spirits.
08:22Whiskey?
08:23No, Sarge.
08:24Methylated.
08:25Amateur ozman used that stuff to toughen soft skin.
08:29Looks like an athlete.
08:32Stroke?
08:33Pulling a punt pole?
08:34No, too big.
08:35Something gaily.
08:37Odds on, he'll be a hammer thrower.
08:39Can't think of anybody else who'd have blisters on their palms.
08:41Any sort of sports programme going on this afternoon?
08:44Yes.
08:45Lily Bridge Field.
08:46Hammer qualifying round.
08:48Used to throw the hammer myself once, long time ago.
08:50C Division Athletics team.
08:53Honest.
08:56Nice day for a sports meet.
09:17Come here, my harrow, please.
09:20Try this one.
09:21The shaft's from the lacquer.
09:21There's more whip in it.
09:22Yours is hickory.
09:23I'll give yours to the Englishman.
09:26Why would you do a thing like that?
09:28Maybe there's a drop of Erin blood in me.
09:46Second round!
09:53One hundred feet!
09:56One hundred feet!
10:12Ninety-six feet!
10:31Mr. Devlin, one hundred and eight feet precisely!
10:38Holy mother of God, I've never thrown anything that far in my life.
10:43Manichae, you say?
10:46Would you ever have a drink with me afterwards?
10:49That I will.
10:53All three of them.
10:54Absolutely.
10:54The Gaelic American Athletic Club.
10:57The Gaelic American Athletic Club looks like any other club.
10:59Some people can buy their way in.
11:01A social member, I see.
11:03No, we came over together.
11:05Except that we were all steerage.
11:07And we long travelled on his own ticket like a gentleman.
11:10Do you know, I never even talked to him until after we docked.
11:15I'm not saying he doesn't look like a hammer thrower.
11:18No.
11:20But until he masters the art of turning in the circle, he'll never win anything.
11:25Well, if he trains.
11:27Hmm.
11:28He trains.
11:29He trains all the hard stuff.
11:32We've been over here for three months.
11:35And except for a few throws before a competition, do you know, I've never even seen in practice.
11:40Well, you ought to encourage him for the sake of the club.
11:43Don't go about a thing like that.
11:45We're all living in something not much better than a common doss house in West Brompton.
11:49He's living in a flash hotel in Regent's Park, the Alcazar.
11:53We never meet except at competitions.
11:57So he's, uh, a man of private means, you think?
12:01Yeah, you could say that.
12:02And some.
12:04Now, let's have another drink.
12:06Danny.
12:07Come on, get on.
12:08Oh, really, I wonder, actually, if I could put this in there.
12:31Come on.
12:32Come on.
12:33Come on.
12:40Come on.
12:47Come on.
12:51Come on.
13:15are you locked out in the room sir seem to be can't think how probably left your key on the
13:20inside
13:25thank you very much sir
13:54so
14:04so
14:06so
14:06so
14:06so
14:07so
14:07so
14:08so
14:18so
14:20so
14:20so
14:20so
14:32so
14:42so
14:44so
14:45so
15:23now then mr. Devlin
15:26be so kind as to untie me
15:29don't do anything else knock on the head has given my fingers a nasty twitch
15:49come in
16:03patrick
16:04you brought us a visitor
16:07i have miss
16:09then why is he standing behind you
16:12because of what he's holding in his right hand miss
16:16a bowler hat
16:20because of what he's holding inside the bowler hat miss
16:24and what might that be
16:28little rabbit is it
16:29mr. Devlin is under a misapprehension he thinks i'm holding a dangerous little article that belongs to him
16:33but i popped it in a water bottle on the way in
16:37didn't catch your name miss
16:38it wasn't mentioned i didn't catch yours
16:41sergeant
16:43michael sergeant
16:45rosanna mcgee
16:46miss
16:49patrick
16:50why did you bring mr. sergeant here
16:52he asked too many questions about malone
16:55i got suspicious
16:57when i heard him order a cabbie
16:58to go to malone's hotel
17:01well i followed him there in our four-wheeler
17:03out he comes and asked to be taken to great scotland yard
17:07my father will no doubt wish to meet you
17:12see that our visitor is made comfortable patrick
17:14and try not to behave like a jailer
17:19he would hardly have marched you in here
17:21if he was thinking of running away
17:27handsome young woman
17:29obviously educated in england
17:31her father mr mcgee
17:33the leader of your group is he
17:36what sort of a man is he
17:39you'll find out soon enough
17:45my father daniel mcgee
17:49he was the victim of an explosives accident some time ago
17:52he lost the use of both his legs and most of his face was blown away
17:57because he can now only make inarticulate sounds
18:00you might be tempted to think him an imbecile
18:03but that would be a dangerous mistake to make
18:06mr sergeant
18:08god in his mercy preserved his intellect
18:12he will speak to you in the language of the dumb
18:15by touching his hands upon mine
18:20first you would like to know the reason for your extraordinary interest in mr malone
18:25and it better be convincing
18:28i'm interested in making contact with the dynamite conspirators
18:31and i heard of an irish american who was seen in rotherhithe asking questions about railway stations
18:36shortly before the explosion of victoria last february
18:40my father wishes to know what you would want with the dynamite is
18:43were you successful in locating them
18:45want to join them sir
18:47why
18:49well you are patently an englishman
18:50i know a rare amount about the construction of infernal machines
18:54i could be useful
18:56you also know the whereabouts of great scotland yard
18:59thought your driver's carriage was a cabiness
19:02have you seen today's edition of the times
19:04it reports that an unexploded bomb found at the foot of nelson's column
19:09have been taken to great scotland yard
19:11where it was left in the open for reasons of safety where anyone can see it
19:14now it's asking too much of a man as interested in explosives as i am to
19:18stay away from a site like that
19:19you're not an anarchist are you only if the money's right miss
19:23i'm what you might call a professional adventurer
19:32my father says that tomorrow
19:35you will have the opportunity to convince him of your worth or otherwise
19:40there is to be a small expedition
19:42i shall expect to be paid miss
19:44well paid
19:46you will get what is due to you mr sergeant
19:50my father is planning something quite exceptionally dramatic
19:55for it we will need more dynamite this we plan to take from under the very noses of the british
20:01army
20:02mr malone there's a castle marked here near the river's edge the army has a vast store of
20:08explosives there guarded by a few bored soldiers
20:11every thursday at two o'clock an army quartermaster accompanied by a single guard drives a wagon
20:16loan the provisions to the castle you and i mr sergeant will contrive to meet them and join the british
20:21army
20:36put your hands above your heads
20:55and keep your hands above your heads
20:55papers
21:20Sorry about this, son.
21:27All in a good course.
21:33You see that you're a fast mover.
21:35We'll be supposed to tackle him together.
21:43My God, there's enough stuff here above the entire British Isles.
21:47All we want is the number one, son.
21:49Take this.
22:09New man, what are you doing?
22:11Where's the guard?
22:18Blast!
22:19There's no need for that.
22:20Just have a mouth.
23:06There's no need for that.
23:10There's no need for that.
23:26Hurry up!
23:28The army's right behind us.
23:33How have we been discovered?
23:34My friend Malone shot an officer.
23:35Oh, my God.
23:38Captain Malone.
23:48Come in.
23:50Come in.
23:50Come in.
23:51Come in.
23:54Come in.
23:57Come in.
24:05Come in.
24:20Come in.
24:22Come in.
24:24Come in.
24:25Come in.
24:32Devlin!
24:33Yeah?
24:34Are we making full speed?
24:36They have alerted the coastguards by now.
24:40And even if we do get away,
24:42Mr. Malone, I don't relish telling my father that you panicked.
24:46He was on to us.
24:47He knew something was wrong.
24:48I had to kill him.
24:49We got away. We got the dynamite.
24:58That was a lunatic thing to do.
25:00A monstrous, callous act.
25:02I know what you are now,
25:04and what you deserve.
25:06Now get below before I thrash you.
25:16Mr. Sergeant.
25:21Would you care for some breakfast?
25:22No, miss.
25:25You were very forceful when you spoke to me yesterday.
25:29Nobody has ever spoken to me like that before.
25:32Except my father.
25:35You were absolutely right.
25:38I should never have considered firing.
25:41I didn't give a thought for the dynamite.
25:44I might have killed us all.
25:46So you see, I deserved the chastisement you were ready to inflict upon me.
25:52I told my father about your behavior.
25:54Your strength, your coolness, your courage.
25:57He was very impressed.
26:01Thank you, miss.
26:03So was I.
26:05We agreed now that Mr. Malone is no longer one of us.
26:08You shall take his place.
26:10I shall want a level pony.
26:1125 pounds for each successful detonation.
26:15Payment presents no problem, Mr. Sergeant.
26:17Our organization is very well supported.
26:20We have access to over 100,000 American dollars.
26:24My father is planning something very important.
26:27The culmination of our campaign in Britain.
26:31Two emissaries from the revolutionary directorate
26:34have arrived from America on the steamship Alaska.
26:37They will be here in the morning to give the final authority.
26:40They can also decide what to do with our prisoner.
26:42Prisoner?
26:43Someone we suspect to be a policeman.
26:45What makes you think that?
26:46He must be.
26:47He possesses all the characteristics.
26:49Thick skull, bushy beard and flat feet.
26:52I think he was trying to sell information to Malone.
26:55They're not paid very much at Scotland Yard, you know.
26:59So I've heard this.
27:01Tell me, is it usual for your organization to employ the fair safe?
27:06We are not all the insipid creatures some men take us for.
27:10And besides, modern fashion gives us a distinct advantage
27:13in carrying dynamite secretly to England.
27:17So take my advice, Mr. Sargent.
27:19Have nothing to do with strange women on ocean-going steamships.
27:22Unless you're prepared for a devastating experience.
27:27But I assure you, I have nothing under my skirts that might alarm you.
27:31Not if you're the man I take you for.
27:33An adventurer.
27:56All right, good morning.
27:57All right, let's see.
28:04What is it?
28:06You don't know what your head has changed.
28:07Black Panther has lost hisê comp,
28:07but I'm actually boys and girls to suggest
28:07Maybe these inventories can get caught us
28:08I don't know if you're in!"
28:25Thackeray, you in here?
28:27Can't you tell us just let a man get a wink of sleep?
28:30Where are you, man?
28:31It's me, Kriv.
28:31Sarge?
28:34Sarge, have you come to get me out of here?
28:36Well, not exactly.
28:37Just dropped in, so to speak.
28:39What do you mean?
28:40Don't want to give the game away.
28:42They think I'm on their side, you see.
28:43You can't leave me here.
28:45You just cooperate with them for the time being.
28:47Yeah, but they'll keep me here forever.
28:49They think I'm in the force.
28:50They've got other things on their mind.
28:52I've got to go now, but keep your wits about you
28:54and don't do anything until I give you the word.
28:56Oh.
28:57No half-baked heroics now.
29:34It's a warm night, Rosanna.
29:37I couldn't sleep at all.
29:38I was wondering if you wanted a bit of company.
29:41You'd soon tell me if I wasn't welcome, wouldn't you?
29:44But I have seen a bit of the world, young Rosanna.
29:47Patrick, what are you doing?
29:50I heard footsteps.
29:51Yes.
29:52I don't know why.
29:54Maybe someone's broken in.
29:56Is the prisoner secure?
29:58Yeah.
29:59Yeah, I checked him.
29:59He's safe.
30:00And the doors?
30:01And they're all locked.
30:03Then we'd all be much better off if you would stop imagining intruders
30:07and keeping everybody awake.
30:08I didn't imagine anything.
30:09Good night.
30:10God bless.
30:40Mr. Sargent, our visitors from America have arrived.
30:46May I introduce to you Mr. Miller and Mr. Cass.
30:55Sir, you want to take over from Malone, huh?
30:57If the terms are right.
31:00You know how to make infernal devices?
31:02That's right.
31:03You've got until six o'clock tonight to prove it.
31:06Ah, now, that's not very long to make a bombing.
31:09You won't be making one.
31:10You'll be making two identical devices.
31:14We'll pick whichever one we want to test.
31:20If it were, I'd like to make a bomb.
31:21If it works, we'd put the other to real use.
31:26And then you'll blow up the folly with your first bomb
31:29to show Mr. Cass and Mr. Miller how competent you are.
31:32But both bombs must be identical.
31:35And they must both work.
31:36Your reputation depends upon it.
31:53Oh, Mr. Sargent, my skirt is caught up in the beastly brambles.
32:01Lace as delicate as that wasn't meant for promenading in the woods, you know.
32:04No.
32:05If you'll just move your foot a fraction.
32:07Ah!
32:13I trust that your bomb-making is more a strain than your love-making, Mr. Sargent,
32:19else you'll blow us all up.
32:21Much as I'm flattered by such a display of passion, I must plead to be released upon this occasion.
32:33Did you come into my room last night?
32:35Your room, miss?
32:36I was sure I heard you crossing the floorboards on your way back to bed, and father was very restless.
32:41Not unless I was sleepwalking, miss.
32:43Oh, I see.
32:44My mistake.
32:46Your folly.
32:49At precisely six o'clock tonight, you must blast that out of existence.
33:00Right.
33:01I reckon about five pounds of explosive will blow that.
33:05So I shall need ten pounds in all, five for each.
33:20And I'll just set that one.
33:27Six o'clock.
33:30What time is it now?
33:37Six o'clock.
33:46Let's go.
34:35Magnificent! Magnificent!
34:38A work of genius!
34:45Late?
34:48It's less than a minute after six now.
34:50Then your watch is wrong.
34:52But if you set the mechanism by it, then I suppose we can't blame you.
34:56In future, all timepieces will be synchronized by my watch.
35:15Do you propose to take the submarine boat under the battleship and with some sort of harness
35:20on the conning tower, attach the bomb underneath it?
35:23Unreliable.
35:24Perhaps you can suggest a better way of doing it.
35:28How much explosive have you got in the store?
35:31Over 200, wait.
35:32And this is Mr. Cass's proposal.
35:36Instead of trying to do clever underwater tricks with hooks and harnesses, we make sure that
35:41the bomb is lodged in the right place by converting the submarine into the biggest and most devastating
35:47infernal machine in history.
35:49In other words, we stuffed the subboat full of dynamite.
35:56Destroyed the submarine boat.
36:00It's taken me nearly a year to assemble it.
36:02I appreciate your sentiments, Mr. Devlin.
36:05Now be quiet.
36:06Mr. Sergeant's estimable bomb will act as the detonator.
36:11So, gentlemen and lady, we sail at six o'clock tomorrow morning.
36:17Nice.
36:18The bomb will explode at exactly ten o'clock.
36:21Blow up the Lovidian and everyone on it.
36:28But who'll navigate the sub?
36:30Good question.
36:31Of course, we'll need a navigator.
36:33I mean, there's only me and Mr. McGee who know how it operates.
36:38Well, it's simple enough, but...
36:43No.
36:45Oh, no.
36:46No, no.
36:48I suggest, Mr. Devlin, that you pilot it.
36:51To within a mile or so.
36:53Then you can get out.
36:54We'll have your launch close by.
36:56Oh, right.
36:57Oh, well, that's...
36:58That's fine.
36:59Anyone can take it in the last few yards.
37:04Yes, but who?
37:07Is it too much to ask that one of you should volunteer to steer the submarine boat to its place
37:12below the Leviathan?
37:13And so join the ranks of those who've laid down their lives for the cause?
37:19It seems to me that this is an opportunity for a patriot whose life has been spent dedicated to the
37:27fulfillment of such a moment of history.
37:30I refer, Miss McGee, to your father.
37:33Will you make this sacrifice, Mr. McGee?
37:35No.
37:36No.
37:37No.
37:37He volunteered.
37:39Can't ask him.
37:40Clearly volunteered.
37:41You've got no right to ask him.
37:42He's given enough already.
37:43I'll take that woman out.
37:45Go on.
37:45You can't do something out to a man.
37:46There's no reason for him to do it.
37:48You want to get somebody else.
37:50He's already on the phone.
37:52All right, Mr. Miller.
37:54I'll take it.
37:55Come on.
38:00Now, this is the plan.
38:02I won't allow it.
38:02I won't allow it.
38:03You're going to have company in that submarine boat.
38:05That policeman you've taken prisoner.
38:07He'll be tied up and heavily drugged with chloral, of course.
38:10Well, it's a convenient way to get rid of them.
38:17Me down.
38:18I've got to stop them.
38:19Put me down.
38:20Rosanna, I'll make sure that your father's all right.
38:24How?
38:24All this talking to him with your hands, this nonsense, a masquerade.
38:27He can't communicate a word to you, can he?
38:28If he could, he would have told you I was in your room last night.
38:32He saw me.
38:33Now, can he still navigate that submarine?
38:36Yes.
38:37Would he?
38:38My father was a genius.
38:40There was nothing he couldn't do,
38:42but his injuries are much more serious than anyone has realised.
38:45His brain was irretrievably damaged in that accident.
38:49Mr. Sergeant, my father is like a child,
38:51capable of performing the simplest instructions, but that is all.
38:54Why did you go on letting them think he could run the organisation?
38:56I knew if they found out he was useless to them that they'd kill him.
39:01I'll make sure that he's safe.
39:03All right.
39:05Yes, I...
39:06I must just, er...
39:08Yes.
39:15Thackeray!
39:16Well, well.
39:18Another copper.
39:20Don't move.
39:22Or Mr. Miller will blow your ugly English head apart.
39:25Starting from here.
39:42Mr. Miller is working for help to pull out.
39:42The During the High School of Cases which is a visual problem.
39:43Yeah, that's wonderful.
39:52Where is the electrician anytime located?
39:53No, no.
39:54Okay, jackpot.
39:55Yes, thank you.
40:10So, you will accompany Taqueria McGee on the last bit of the voyage.
40:15They took two gallant protectors of the realm, actually manning the machine that destroys
40:20the Leviathan, the pride of the British fleet.
40:22There won't be enough recognisable pieces of any of your left for the authorities to appreciate
40:27the situation.
40:29You may all find yourselves with a police escort before the day is much older.
40:33Shut up, copper.
40:34You're a dead man.
40:35I have the decency to behave like one.
40:52Everything all right?
40:55In my opinion, she should stay submerged for the last couple of miles.
40:59You think McGee is up to navigating it that far?
41:07He invented it, didn't he?
41:09And who do you think's been steering it so far, hmm?
41:23The bombs bolted into the hull.
41:26I don't think I won't go off and set off the rest of the dynamite.
41:33One thing Mr. Miller and I are experts at, it's setting a timer.
41:37you come up here.
41:49Wake up, packery!
41:51You've got to untie me, man!
42:03Where are we, fella?
42:07In a submarine!
42:12Slap underneath the leviathan.
42:23How does this damn thing work?
42:35We'll decide to suffocate today.
43:15Come on, Zachary! Wake up!
43:17Come on, Zachary! Wake up!
43:20Come on, Zachary! Wake up!
43:24Wake up!
43:52PIPHAS
43:55PIPHAS
44:02POPHAS
44:05PIPHAS
44:05PIPHAS
44:13plainly, take over!
44:21PIPHAS
44:40I don't know.
44:56I don't know.
45:38I don't know.
45:40No doubt, no doubt at all, that she was never an instigator of crime.
45:45Women are all too easily led, Sergeant.
45:48I have suggested, and I'm certain my suggestion will be accepted, that Special Branch should keep an eye on them
45:54both.
45:55It'll give them something to do.
45:57Yes, sir.
45:59You'll be pleased to hear, Sergeant, that no action is to be taken against Constable Thackeray.
46:03Where did the submarine run aground, sir, finally?
46:06Two miles away, Swan School Marshes.
46:09Wasn't Thackeray's fault, sir.
46:11He was still under the influence.
46:12Me?
46:13Of the claw.
46:15Ah.
46:16I appreciate that, Sergeant.
46:18First-rate man, Thackeray.
46:19I've always said so.
46:22What I still don't understand, Sergeant, is how you managed to construct two identical infernal machines,
46:28one of which blew a folly to bits while the other failed to detonate,
46:32particularly when you didn't know which device was to be used for which purpose.
46:35Well, sir, when I made the machines, I made sure that neither of them would work.
46:40I took all the powder from the cartridges that the pistols fired.
46:44But the folly was totally demolished.
46:46That one went off.
46:47I'm afraid not, sir.
46:48That box is still lying intact under the ruins.
46:51I simply removed a couple of bricks from the base of the folly,
46:54put in a few discs of Atlas powder, and attached a slow match.
46:58Oh, is that all?
46:59I thought it was something clever.
47:02However, I don't wish to think that your work has gone unnoticed, Sergeant.
47:06Sergeant, the Commissioner himself has gone so far as to make a personal recommendation.
47:10And I have agreed.
47:11You will be relieved of all normal duties for the next three weeks.
47:16Instead, you will complete the explosives course of the Woolwich Arsenal.
47:21You begin tomorrow morning at the point you left off.
47:25Creators and...
47:26Blast!
47:36Blast!
47:37Blast!
47:45Blast!
47:55Blast!
48:03Blast!
48:33VIOLIN PLAYS
48:40VIOLIN PLAYS
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