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Classy, intelligent, witty political drama series about the fascinating, ruthless businessman/politician sir John Wilder who becomes Special Envoy (the original name of the series was "Special Envoy'') - ambassador for special situations and trade - and has to deal with the equally ruthless competition. His wife is the witness, trying to support him without interfering much, while his handsome secretary is too ambitious for his own good. The sequel to "The Plane Makers". Starring Patrick Wymark, Barbara Murray, Jack Watling, Michael Jayston, Clifford Evans, Peter Barkworth, George Sewell, Ian Holm, Richard Hurndall, Barrie Ingham, Donald Burton, Norma Ronald, Robin Bailey, James Maxwell, Rachel Herbert, William Devlin, Philip Madoc, Norman Tyrrell, John Brooking, Peter Hughes, Peggy Sinclair, Ralph Michael. Written by Peter Draper, Wilfred Greatorex, Edmund Ward, John Bowen, Raymond Bowers.
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04:13SINDY
04:13DID YOU KNOW
04:14ABOUT THE BIG DIFFER
04:15IT IS SO BIG
04:16THAT WHEN YOU GET
04:17YOUR TICKET
04:18THEY SELL YOU
04:23WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT?
04:25OH, JUST SOMETHING
04:26I HAVE IN MIND
04:27THAT'S CASUAL THERE
04:28HE'S AWAY
04:29HE'S NOT VERY WELL
04:29I'M AFRAID
04:30I KNOW
04:31NO, IT'S JUST
04:32SOMETHING THAT'S COME UP
04:35WOULD YOU LIKE TO
04:35TAKE A MUG OF COFFEE
04:36WITH ME TOMORROW MORNING
04:38POSSIBLY
04:38SAY 11
04:40ALL RIGHT
04:40WELL IF I CAN'T
04:42MAKE A MUG OF COFFEE
04:43AT 11
04:43AND PERHAPS
04:45WE MIGHT
04:45TAKE A DISH OF TEA
04:47AT FOUR
04:48SORRY
04:49I WAS LATE
04:49OH, YOU DIDN'T MISS MUCH
04:51HOW DO YOU ENJOY
04:52THE PICTURES?
04:53WELL, THEY WEREN'T
04:54PICTURES ACTUALLY
04:55WELL, SCULTURES
04:56THEN
04:57MACHINES
04:58WHAT DO YOU MEAN
04:59LIKE COMBINE HARVESTERS?
05:01COMPUTERS
05:02GOOD GOD
05:03YOU'RE NOT GOING TO
05:03COVER THE WALLS
05:04WITH THOSE NOW
05:04IT WAS AN EXHIBITION
05:06OF CYBERNETICS
05:08REALLY?
05:11HOW WOULD YOU LIKE A
05:12TRIP TO SWITZERLAND?
05:14WELL, YOU KNOW I WOULD
05:16WHEN?
05:17I DON'T KNOW
05:18IT'S AN IDEA OF
05:19JASON FOWLER'S
05:20I'M GOING TO SPEAK
05:21TO HIM ABOUT IT
05:21TOMORROW MORNING
05:25I THOUGHT CYBERNETICS
05:27WAS ONE OF
05:28LINCOLN DOWLING'S
05:29PROVINCES
05:29YES
05:30HE TOOK ME
05:31OH
05:33BUT YOU WOULDN'T
05:34HAVE WANTED
05:34TO TAKE ME NOW
05:35WOULD YOU?
05:36HUH?
05:38YOU
05:38CAN TAKE ME
05:39TO SWITZERLAND
05:40WHAT ARE YOU UP TO
05:41FOWLER?
05:42UP TO MY DEAD
05:43UP TO
05:44JASON
05:44DO YOU TAKE SUGAR?
05:46YES PLEASE
05:48DID YOU KNOW THAT
05:49BETWEEN THEM
05:49SOUTH AFRICA AND RUSSIA
05:51CONTROL 30%
05:52OF THE WORLD'S
05:53FREE GOLD?
05:54YES
05:54THAT'S RATHER A
05:56DISTURBING THOUGHT
05:57DON'T YOU FIND?
05:58NO
05:58NO?
05:59WELL, MOST PEOPLE DO
06:00I HAVEN'T NOTICED
06:02MY WIFE'S
06:03CLEANING WOMAN
06:03GETTING ETHERICAL OVER
06:05THE IDEA
06:05WELL, MOST PEOPLE
06:06ARE CONCERNED
06:06HOW IS YOUR WIFE
06:09BY THE WAY?
06:09OH, COME TO THE POINT
06:10JASON
06:12I READ THE MOST
06:13INTERESTING ARTICLE
06:14BY A SWISS BANKER
06:16ACTUALLY
06:16I HAD A TALK WITH HIM
06:17AND HE WAS OVER IN
06:18LONDON SOME WEEKS AGO
06:20HE SEEMED TO ME
06:21TO HAVE GOT THE
06:21MEASURE OF IT
06:23FOR WHAT?
06:25WELL, HE MADE THE POINT
06:25THAT IN ALL PROBABILITY
06:26THE WORLD WOULD
06:27DIVIDE ITSELF UP
06:28INTO TWO NATIONS
06:29WHITE ON THE ONE HAND
06:30AND COLORED
06:31THAT IS TO SAY
06:33NEGRO, CHINESE, INDIAN
06:34AND THE REST
06:35ON THE OTHER
06:36SOUTH AFRICA WOULD ALMOST
06:37CERTAINLY BE TAKEN OVER
06:38BY THE COLORED RACES
06:40TOGETHER WITH ITS GOLD
06:42AND THAT WOULD PUT
06:43THE RUSSIANS
06:44WHO ARE WHITE
06:45IN OUR CAMP
06:46TOGETHER WITH THEIR GOLD
06:47UNLESS OF COURSE
06:48THE COLORED RACES
06:51WERE ALIGNED
06:52TO COMMUNIST
06:53CHINA
06:53NOT A DEPENDABLE
06:56HYPOTHESIS
06:57HER BISSELMAN
06:58WHO?
06:59THIS, UH
07:00SWISS BANKER FELLOW
07:01HE MADE THE POINT
07:03THAT IF WE DON'T MOVE
07:03AWAY FROM GOLD
07:04DURING THE NEXT 50 YEARS
07:05WE COULD FIND OUR
07:06FINANCIAL SYSTEM
07:07AT THE MERCY OF
07:08UNTOLERABLE BLACKMAL
07:09WHAT DOES HE SUGGEST?
07:11HE HAS SEVERAL IDEAS
07:13ONE OF THEM BEING
07:13PAPER GOLD
07:14I THOUGHT WE ALREADY
07:15HAD THAT
07:17REPRESENTED IN THE
07:17FLIRTING RATE OF EXCHANGE
07:19HE WANTS TO TAKE
07:19THESE IDEAS FURTHER
07:20BUT IT'S THE PRINCIPLE
07:21HE'S PUTTING FORWARD
07:22THAT IS MOST INTERESTING
07:24YOU SEE THE FINANCIAL
07:25STRUCTURE OF THE
07:26WESTERN WORLD
07:26IS IN A SHAMBLES
07:27AND LIKELY TO GET WORSE
07:28EVERYONE IS TRYING
07:29TO FIND A WAY THROUGH
07:30NOW HERE IS A MAN
07:31WHO'S COMING FORWARD
07:33WITH SOME ORIGINAL
07:34AND UNORTHODOX
07:35THINKING
07:37DON'T YOU THINK
07:38THAT'S INTERESTING?
07:40FASCINATING
07:43WELL THANK YOU FOR THE
07:44COFFEE JASON
07:44YOU'RE GOING
07:45I CAN'T QUITE SEE
07:47WHAT ELSE YOU WANT ME
07:48FOR
07:48BUT I HADN'T FINISHED
07:49OH
07:51THERE'S TO BE A CONFERENCE
07:52WELL MORE OF A
07:53SEMINAR REALLY
07:53TO BE HELD IN GENEVA
07:54NEXT WEEK
07:55UNDER THE UNOFFICIAL
07:57AUSPICES OF THE
07:57WORLD BANK
07:59AND YOU THOUGHT
08:00THAT I MIGHT LIKE
08:01TO GO THERE
08:01WHY?
08:02I DIDN'T ASSUME
08:03WE'D WANT TO GO AT
08:04ALL WILDER
08:05I THOUGHT PERHAPS
08:06YOU MIGHT BE CONCERNED
08:07TO DO SOMETHING
08:08FOR THE DEPARTMENT
08:09HER MISTLEMAN WAS
08:10TO HAVE ADDRESSED
08:11THIS SEMINAR
08:12ON THE SUBJECT
08:12WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT
08:13BUT I NOW LEARN
08:14HE ISN'T
08:15SO?
08:16WELL I SUPPOSE
08:17PRESSURE'S BEEN
08:17BROUGHT TO BEAR ON HIM
08:18POSSIBLY BY THE SWISS
08:20THEMSELVES
08:20WHO HATE HIM
08:21BECAUSE THEY THINK
08:21HE'S A RENEGADE
08:22POSSIBLY BY THE FRENCH
08:23BY THE GERMANS
08:25OR EVEN THE AMERICANS
08:27WHY ARE THESE GREAT NATIONS
08:29LOWERING OVER THIS
08:30TINY GNOME
08:31FROM ZURICH?
08:32WELL BECAUSE
08:32IT'S JUST THE SORT OF THING
08:34THE PRESS MIGHT SEIZ ON
08:35AND MAKE MUCH OF
08:37WHY SHOULDN'T WE WANT
08:38THEM TO MAKE MUCH OF IT?
08:39BECAUSE THERE HAS TO BE
08:40A CHANGE IN THE FINANCIAL
08:41STRUCTURE
08:43I TOGETHER WITH MY COLLEAGUES
08:45IN FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS
08:45HAVE BEEN ASKED
08:46TO PUT OUR VIEWS FORWARD
08:47NOW WE KNOW WHAT MIGHT
08:48HAPPEN
08:49WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WILL
08:50HAPPEN
08:51A LITTLE PUBLICITY
08:52MIGHT DRIVE THESE OTHER
08:53NATIONS OUT INTO THE OPEN
08:55WHICH IS HEALTHY
08:56AND YOU WANT ME TO GO
08:58AND PERSUADE THIS
08:59EH
09:00ECONOMIC MARTIN LUTHER
09:02TO STAND UP AND BE COUNTED
09:03WELL I THINK IT WOULD BE
09:04A GOOD THING IF HE DID
09:05SPEAK ON THE SUBJECT
09:07NO
09:07I WONDERED WHETHER YOU
09:08WOULD LIKE TO TAKE ON
09:09THE COMBINED MIGHT
09:10OF THE FRENCH, SWISS,
09:12GERMANS
09:12AND AMERICANS
09:14WOULD YOU?
09:16NO
09:17THANK YOU FOR THE COFFEE
09:18JASON
09:19AND BY THE WAY
09:20THAT OTHER INTERPRETER
09:21WHO SENT ME
09:22WAS AS DREARY
09:23AS THE REST
09:24AND HE ALSO HAD ADENOIDS
09:27HAVE THEM
09:27TAKE A MEDICAL FIRST
09:29WOULD YOU?
09:37WEST GERMANY
09:39I LIKE WEST
09:42GERMANY
09:42VERY MUCH
09:45HOPE YOU LIVE TO SEE IT
09:48HOW LONG SHALL WE BE THERE FOR
09:50SIR JOHN
09:51HOW MANY LANGUAGES
09:52DO YOU ACTUALLY SPEAK?
09:54FRENCH,
09:55ITALIAN AND GERMAN
09:57DO YOU COUGH
09:58IN ALL THESE LANGUAGES?
10:01BRONCHITIS
10:04WELL WHEN YOU'VE COME TO THINK OF IT
10:06THERE MAY BE A CLUE HERE
10:10WHY DID YOU ASK HOW LONG WE'D BE THERE?
10:12THE HOSPITAL HAVE ALLOCATED ME A BED
10:15TOWARDS THE END OF NEXT MONTH
10:16OF COURSE IT DOESN'T MATTER
10:17I MEAN I CAN ALWAYS
10:19ACCEPT IT
10:20ACCEPT IT
10:21BUT I AM PRIVATE
10:23SIR JOHN
10:23THEY'LL FIND ME
10:24THANK YOU
10:24THANK YOU
10:25SIR JASON
10:26WILL BE IN TOUCH WITH YOU
10:27THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR COMING
10:30SINCE YOUR TIME
10:31IS MUCH MORE VALUABLE THAN MINE
10:41DON
10:42DON
10:42YOU CALLED MASTER
10:44OH
10:46TAKE A MEMO TO JASON FOWLER WILL YOU
10:49YOU'RE SAYING WHAT
10:50QUOTE
10:51GOVERNMENT EVEN IN ITS BEST STATE
10:54IS BUT A NECESSARY EVIL
10:56IN ITS WORST STATE
10:58AN INTOLERABLE ONE
11:00UNQUOTE
11:00TOM PAIN
11:02YOU ARE WELL READ
11:03UH
11:04WHAT'S FOWLER DONE NOW
11:06WHY HE'D IMAGINE
11:08THAT I SHOULD
11:09WANT TO SPEND THREE WEEKS
11:10WITH A MAN
11:11I WOULDN'T EVEN TAKE A
11:12CUP OF COFFEE WITH
11:13IN A BRYTON SNACK BOW
11:15I CAN'T IMAGINE
11:16THERE'S A SHORTER TOM PAIN
11:17QUOTATION
11:17EVERYBODY PREFER TO USE IT
11:18WHAT'S THAT
11:19THESE ARE THE TIMES
11:20THAT TRY MEN'S SOUL
11:21NO NO NO
11:22JUST BRING HIM
11:23AND TELL HIM
11:23I'LL MAKE MY OWN ARRANGEMENTS
11:25THERE'S ANOTHER INTERPRETER
11:26HERE TO SEE YOU
11:27YOU NEVER KNOW
11:28MAYBE MR. RIGHT
11:33ALL RIGHT
11:33I'LL
11:34I'LL SEE HIM
11:36EM
11:37SHOW HIM IN
11:38MRS. WATERS
11:39WILL YOU
11:39DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR
11:41JOHN
11:41I WON'T KNOW
11:42UNTIL I SEE IT
11:50OH
11:51MAYBE YOU'VE JUST SEEN IT
11:53SIR JOHN WILDER
11:54SIR JOHN WILDER
11:54THIS IS SIR JOHN WILDER
11:56I'M THE MAN WHO THOUGHT
11:57THE NEXT BREAKTHROUGH
11:58WOULD BE IN COLOUR RADIO
12:06WHO'S THAT
12:06YOU MAY WELL ASK MR. HENDERSON
12:08I GATHER SIR JASON
12:09SENT HER OVER AS A LAST RESORT
12:11AS A LAST RESORT
12:12I WOULDN'T MIND RESORTING TO
12:13HER FATHER'S LORD WESSEX
12:14AH
12:15I THOUGHT SEX WOULD BE IN IT SOMEWHERE
12:16WELL
12:17UH
12:19SHALL WE SIT DOWN
12:21OK
12:24EM
12:33ARE YOU NERVOUS?
12:35COURSE I'M NOT NERVOUS
12:36KATE
12:36DON'T SNAP MY HEAD OFF
12:38EVERYONE GETS NERVOUS AT INTERVIEWS
12:40WELL I SURE YOU THAT I'M NOT IN THE LEAST
12:42FINE
12:43A BIT POMPOUS ISN'T IT
12:45I SURE YOU I'M NOT IN THE LEAST
12:46YOU SOUND LIKE MY FATHER
12:49HOW OLD ARE YOU?
12:51TWENTY HOW OLD ARE YOU?
12:53HAS THAT ANY BEARING ON IT?
12:55HAS MINE
12:56JASON TOLD ME YOU WANTED AN INTERPRETER
12:58I CAN SPEAK FOUR LANGUAGES
13:00SO IT WOULDN'T REALLY MATTER
13:00IF I WAS 85 WOULD IT?
13:03DO YOU WANT THIS JOB?
13:05NO
13:07WELL THEN
13:08IF YOU'RE NOT KEEN
13:09I SUGGEST WE
13:10NO NO NO
13:11SIT DOWN A MINUTE
13:18HOW MANY LANGUAGES DO YOU ACTUALLY SPEAK?
13:20FRENCH, GERMAN, RUSSIAN, ITALIAN
13:22VERY UP-TIGHT, AREN'T YOU?
13:25WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
13:26A SORT OF
13:27POOR
13:29WELL IT'S ONLY A JOB ISN'T IT?
13:31YOU MIGHT AS WELL TRY AND GET SOME FUN OUT OF IT
13:34IS THAT WHAT YOU THINK?
13:36SURE
13:36YOU SEE THEM ALL THE TIME
13:38SEE WHAT?
13:39PEOPLE WHO GO ABOUT THEIR JOBS AS IF THEY WERE IN PRISON
13:42THEY SEEM TO THINK THEIR GOOD TIME IS COMING WHEN THEY RETIRE
13:45BUT THEY FORGET
13:46THEY'RE GONNA BE SO OLD
13:49WELL IT'S LIKE BEING GOOD ALL YOUR LIFE BECAUSE YOU'LL GET YOUR REWARD IN HEAVEN
13:53IF THERE'S NO HEAVEN
13:54YOU'VE BEEN SWINDLED
13:56OH
13:57SEE
13:57YOU'RE NOT SO UP-TIGHT NOW
14:01NO
14:01NO
14:07DO YOU REALLY WANT THIS JOB?
14:10SURE
14:11WHY?
14:11I NEED THE MONEY
14:12I'D LIKE TO GO TO BOND
14:14AND JASON THOUGHT I MIGHT GET A BIT OF SKIING
14:17DO THEY SKI IN BOND?
14:19JASON SEEMED TO THINK WE MIGHT BE GOING TO SWITZERLAND FOR TWO OR THREE DAYS FIRST
14:25THREE DAYS
14:27ALL RIGHT
14:32THE JOB IS YOURS
14:34I-I-I CAN'T GUARANTEE THE SKI
14:37AND WHAT'S YOUR NAME?
14:40PERPETUA
14:40OH GOOD GOD
14:42ISN'T IT A DOG?
14:44MY FATHER CHOSE IT
14:45HE'S HOOKED ON HISTORY
14:46AND IT'S THE NAME OF A THIRD CENTURY VIRGIN MARTER
14:49REALLY?
14:51A FATE THAT IS HARDLY LIABLE TO OVERTAKE YOU I SHOULD
14:55OH NO
14:56I'M NOT GONNA BE ANYONE'S MARTER
14:58I'M ON THE PILL
15:00YOU SAID QUITE DEFINITELY THAT IF YOU WENT AT ALL WE'D BOTH GO
15:06IT JUST TURNS OUT THAT IT ISN'T POSSIBLE
15:08IT'LL BE ALL BUSINESS
15:10I SHAN'T HAVE ANY SPARE TIME AT ALL
15:12I BOUGHT ALL THESE THINGS
15:17WELL YOU CAN WEAR THEM WHEN WE GO DOWN TO VISIT TONY IN SOOL
15:22APRISKI IN WEYMOUTH
15:26I'M SORRY BUT THERE YOU ARE
15:28YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DON'T YOU JOHN?
15:31YOU'RE A-
15:31BUT I'VE MADE ARRANGEMENTS TO GO WITH YOU
15:34WELL IT TURNS OUT THAT I SHAR'T BE NEEDING YOU
15:37WHY DO I HAVE TO EXPLAIN EVERYTHING TWICE TO EVERYBODY?
15:40JASON TOLD ME I COULD ASSUME I WOULD BE
15:42THAT MIGHT TEACH YOU NOT TO ARRANGE YOUR LIFE
15:44ROUND THE ASSUMPTIONS OF JASON FOWLER
15:47IT'S LIKELY THAT I MIGHT HAVE TO HANDLE THIS
15:49IN A QUITE UNORTHOX WAY
15:52AND I DON'T WANT THE FULL MIGHT AND POMPOSITY
15:55OF THE FOREIGN OFFICE BREATHING DOWN MY NECK
15:58I SHALL TAKE DON WITH ME
16:00I SEE
16:02THERE'S NO NEED TO BE SO UPTIGHT ABOUT IT
16:04OF WHAT?
16:07UPSET
16:07OH NOT IN THE LEAST UPSET
16:09AND YOU'LL SIMPLY HAVE TO REARRANGE THINGS THAT'S ALL
16:15YES
16:15YOU DON'T APPEAR TO BE FIGURING VERY PROMINENTLY
16:18AMONGST THIS WEEK'S MOST POPULAR PEOPLE
16:20HE'S PROBABLY ANNOYED THAT HE WON'T GET ANY SKIING
16:23ARE YOU GOING FOR THE SKIING?
16:25I DON'T SKI
16:27OH DON DO SOMETHING FOR ME WILL YOU
16:30FIND OUT ALL YOU CAN ABOUT HER
16:33HER
16:34WISSELMAN
16:35WHAT MAN?
16:37WISSELMAN
16:38HE'S A
16:40A BANKER FROM ZURICH
16:43WISSELMAN
16:45GASELSCHER
16:45YEAH I'LL SEE WHAT I CAN DO
16:46THERE'S NOT MUCH YOU CAN LEARN ABOUT THE SWISS
16:47THEY GET PAUL AND THEY DIE
16:49NOTHING MUCH SEEMS TO HAPPEN IN BETWEEN
16:50EXCEPT THEY GROW RICHER
16:51I'LL SEE WHAT YOU CAN DO
16:53AND ARRANGE A MEETING FOR ME WITH HIM NEXT WEEKEND
16:55ALL RIGHT
16:55SHALL I BOOK THE AIR TICKETS?
16:57YEAH IF YOU WOULD
16:57HOW MANY?
16:58YEAH
16:59WELL ONE
17:00ONLY YOURS
17:01I SHALL
17:01TAKE THE ROSE
17:04GENTLY DOWN THERE
17:05AND YOU CAN FLY OUT ON FRIDAY
17:07YOU AND PAMELA
17:08TAKING A BIT OF A HOLIDAY
17:09ARE YOU?
17:09YEAH
17:10OH NO NO NO
17:11PAMELA
17:12IS NOT COMING
17:13WELL SHE SAID SHE WAS
17:14WELL?
17:15YES WELL IT'S
17:16UM
17:19WELL IT BE
17:20WITH ONE THING OR ANOTHER
17:22OH AND YOU'RE GOING TO SIT
17:23BY YOURSELF
17:24IN THE BACK OF A ROLLE
17:25ALL THE WAY TO GENEVA
17:27NO I SHALL
17:28PROBABLY TAKE THE
17:30INTERPRETER WITH ME
17:31OH I SEE
17:34AND THAT'S YOUR IDEA OF
17:36TAKING IT GENTLY IS IT?
17:39WELL I CAN'T SOUND HERE YAPPING ABOUT IT
17:41YOU MAKE YOUR OWN ARRANGEMENTS WILL YOU?
17:44AND I'LL MAKE MINE
17:48ARE YOU ALL RIGHT
17:50SIR JOHN?
18:08YOU KNOW JOHN
18:09YOU GO ON LIKE THIS
18:10AND YOU FIND YOURSELF OVERDRAWN AT THE BLOOD BANK
18:24ALL ALONE IN YOUR MASTER'S MONASTIC SELL?
18:27Hello, Armerton. What are you doing round here?
18:30My master's upstairs, taking tea with the Great Bly.
18:33A somewhat immovable feast, so I dropped in for a gossip.
18:35While they haggle over who's to have the chocolate biscuit.
18:37Have you any gossip?
18:38My dear, I wish I had.
18:41I hear the Off-White Knight has taken to the road again.
18:44Tilting up windmills.
18:46Is that what they call him?
18:47It's quite nice, isn't it?
18:48Jay Wilder, the Off-White Knight.
18:50My own.
18:51Very good.
18:53What do you call Lord Bly?
18:54Well, being directly over us, we call him the Lord of Barber.
18:57That's nice.
18:59Is it true the Knight took a dolly girl with him?
19:03Where did you hear that?
19:04It was murmured at me in a discotheque by a depraved adolescent.
19:08Friend of the aforesaid dolly of the first part.
19:10I had no idea.
19:12How dull you've become!
19:14It's your devotion to affairs of state.
19:16What affairs are you devoting yourself to?
19:18My dear, if I could only speak.
19:22So you sit here, do you?
19:24Doing your good works while your master is paddling in the pool of permissive society.
19:28Down at the shallow end where the children play.
19:30What have you heard?
19:31I think you'll find that these days even to venture in the shallow end puts you in over your head.
19:35She's only twenty.
19:36But the poor man could drown.
19:39Who is she?
19:41Perpetua Cataline.
19:42Lord Wessex's wayward youngest.
19:45Cheltenham Ladies College.
19:46A brief but startling term in Zurich.
19:49Sussex University.
19:50Grosvenor Square Riots.
19:52Reed's Queen.
19:53Nova.
19:53And the Black Dwarf.
19:54Smokes pot.
19:55Takes the pill.
19:56Intends refusing to vote.
19:58And the King's Road passes straight through her flat.
20:00In short, the product Emily Pankhurst gave her entire life to allow its head.
20:04My God.
20:05Well, may you call on your deity.
20:07I hope Sir John is.
20:09Well, there you are, my dear.
20:09I've given you my gossip.
20:10Have you none to give me?
20:12None at all.
20:13Oh, dear.
20:14Lady Wilder is on the phone for you, Mr. Dowling.
20:18You lie to me, Lincoln.
20:37Lady Wilder is on the phone for you.
20:40Come on.
20:40And you stay.
20:45Can't you let me out your head?
20:50I can't believe you are.
20:53Don't let me in.
20:53The world is now.
20:57I can't believe me.
20:59Let me out my head.
21:02I'm in the highest number of years.
21:04Did you let me out your head?
21:17Connecting doors, did you stipulate that?
21:20I, er, I didn't actually ask for them, no.
21:24Sir, can I order a drink?
21:27Of course.
21:28I thought I ought to ask nicely, it's a bit like being out with Daddy.
21:31Look, I didn't specifically ask for connecting doors.
21:35Okay, okay, okay.
21:37Go and have your bar.
21:40Do you want a drink?
21:44All right.
21:47I'll, er, I'll have a scotch.
21:50If you can manage it.
21:52Don't get so screwed up, baby.
21:55Is it supposed to be a secret from me why you're doing all this?
21:59Can I, er, give you a lift?
22:01Oh, thank you.
22:03Tell me.
22:05Is it true that Wilder took Perpetua Catalina to Geneva with it?
22:09It is.
22:10I understood it was you who sent her to see him.
22:12Yes, it was.
22:13Yes, I got tired of him sending back every interpreter that I suggested.
22:18And I thought the sight of their mini skirted thighs would bring him out in a hot sweat.
22:22I gather they did.
22:23And make Switzerland a little more inviting.
22:26Well, I did feel that was a bit naughty of me.
22:28You see, I imagined he'd be travelling with a party of you.
22:31And that with you there to keep an eye on him,
22:33her inaccessibility would drive him mad.
22:36He seems to have spiked your guns.
22:39Yes.
22:41She's a very pretty girl.
22:43Very.
22:44And sexy.
22:46Extremely.
22:48Do you, er...
22:52Do you think she, er...
22:54Oh, I wouldn't be surprised.
22:56No.
22:58You know, Lincoln, much as I disapprove of Wilder.
23:02Oh, there are times when I could wish I were he.
23:08Are you ready?
23:22Hey, where are you?
23:23I need zipping up.
23:24I won't be a minute.
23:25Hey.
23:25Good.
23:36Eh.
23:38Uh.
23:40Uh.
23:45Yeah.
23:49Hey.
23:50Uh.
23:51Uh.
23:53Uh.
24:06Oh, s'il vous plaît.
24:07Oui.
24:08Pouvez-vous me...
24:09Mais certainement.
24:19Merci.
24:20Je vous en prie.
24:24Ah, dinner.
24:26So, we're eating here, I take it.
24:29You don't mind.
24:30Why, don't mind where I eat, as long as I don't have to pay for it.
24:33There's dancing downstairs in the restaurant.
24:36I don't dance.
24:38No, but I do.
24:41Well, we might try it later on.
25:13But I have no idea what I want to do.
25:14Merde it.
25:14I don't think I saw you, but I'm sorry to hear you.
25:15I know they have to be a
25:15know where
25:15you're a young man. I think
25:15where you are. I don't know
25:15where you are. I will
25:17do it. I have to be a
25:34Tell me, did you see a lot of Ronald Coleman movies when you were young?
25:51I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry.
26:24Now, what time did you get in last night, or should I say this morning?
26:29Oh, God, it is going to be like being out with Daddy.
26:32All right, let's go, good old.
26:38Is Sir John at the hotel?
26:39Ah, no, sir. I have a message for you. Sir John Wilder is spending the weekend at St. Moritz.
26:43He will not be arriving until Monday.
26:48Oh, blimey.
27:02I can't.
27:02Why not?
27:03Well...
27:04Look, we take the train to Poole, we pick up the boat, sail it down to Salcombe,
27:07and stay the night with these friends of mine, and catch the train back on Sunday.
27:10It's perfectly respectable.
27:11Oh, I didn't think for a minute it wouldn't.
27:13Then what?
27:14Oh, I...
27:15Look, if you're worried, no one need ever know.
27:18I don't think I want to do things anymore that people don't have to know about.
27:21All right.
27:23Just seemed a pleasant way of spending the weekend.
27:25Yes.
27:26Yes, I'm sure it would be.
27:30Did you know that I had an affair a couple of years ago?
27:33No.
27:34I just wondered if it might be in one of those dossiers government departments are so fond of drawing up
27:38nowadays.
27:39Tell me about it.
27:42Well...
27:44I did it because of John, really.
27:46I think I said to myself, if he can do so-and-so, I can do such-and-such and
27:51the hell with it.
27:53Well, it wasn't much of an affair, really, looking back at it.
27:56I mean, there was never really any chance of my going away with him.
28:02I wasn't prepared to give up what I'd got.
28:05So it was rather sneaky, really.
28:08Don't you think?
28:10I don't believe you.
28:12All right.
28:13I think you probably did love him.
28:16He was just an infant.
28:18What does that mean?
28:20I'm just telling you what happened.
28:22I don't care what you're not prepared to give up.
28:28Lincoln, you're a bloody fool.
28:31All right.
28:32Let's just take it I might be.
28:34I'm sure I'm not the only one about.
28:49You hate to judge me.
28:51Well, at least I'm trying.
28:53Come on, let's sit down.
28:54No, no, no.
28:55Let's wait till the end of the dark.
28:56All right, guys, together.
28:59Let's see where we all come from.
29:14Well, at least you're a tryer.
29:16Hmm?
29:17Shall I tell you how to do the dances these days?
29:21How?
29:21Except by losing two souls.
29:24You do them as if you wanted to do them.
29:27Just let yourself go.
29:28The thing about dancing now is that if you're enjoying it,
29:32you're doing it right.
29:33You're too aware of yourself.
29:35Well, thanks for the advice.
29:37No time.
29:39Go a little, baby.
29:42Do you have to call me baby?
29:44Oh, come on.
29:45You're not the great John Wilder here.
29:47You're just some cat out dancing with a bird.
29:50I don't even understand the language.
29:53Cat is you.
29:55Bird is me.
29:58Does the cat get the bird?
30:02That's better.
30:13It means you've grabbed me where I live.
30:19I like you.
30:23I couldn't get any reply.
30:26Well, I expect they thought we wouldn't get this far in this kind of weather.
30:29Probably.
30:30Anyway, we're stuck here for the night.
30:32It's 20 miles to Salcombe.
30:33Where are we?
30:34Brixham.
30:36I suppose I'd better go and find a hotel.
30:39Why?
30:40Well, the only two bunks there are in here.
30:43What are you trying to tell me?
30:45That you snow?
30:52Well, when I was 18, when was this guy in Zurich, he was about 30.
30:58He taught me pretty well all I know about men.
31:02And he never touched me.
31:05And you know what?
31:06When he got married, he named his first kid after me.
31:09Isn't that fantastic?
31:12I think all girls look for is a father figure to lean against.
31:16Young girls.
31:19I suppose it's a way of saying they really did love their fathers.
31:23Fathers are usually such a famous.
31:27Mine is.
31:32That was all over and the pieces put together again.
31:36I said to myself, never, no more.
31:40Never.
31:41Never, no more.
31:44And if I did, after saying that to myself,
31:49I don't think I'd be able to trust anything I thought ever again.
31:54Anyway, it's different now.
31:58Things have changed.
32:01The better.
32:03As better as things ever are.
32:05John's changed too.
32:08Seems to need me more.
32:12So.
32:15I'm sorry.
32:21Good night.
32:27Good night.
32:35You're a funny person.
32:37Why?
32:38So neat.
32:39Neat shirt.
32:41Neat suit.
32:42Neatly tied tie.
32:45Neat watch strap.
32:47It's as if you thought it was possible to tidy up the whole of life and make some order out
32:51of it.
32:52Now isn't it?
32:53Well, deliver it as it comes.
32:55You didn't give me this job just because I speak four languages.
33:00No, no, not entirely.
33:02No, I knew that, that first day in your office.
33:07Why did you come?
33:11Because the grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do their embrace.
33:17Who wrote that?
33:18And remarkable, solid sender if there ever was one.
33:22But at my back I always hear time's winged chariot hurrying near, and yonder all before us lie deserts of
33:31vast eternity.
33:33If we had world enough and time, this coyness lady were no crime.
33:40My love is of a birth as rare as tears of objects strange and high.
33:54It was begotten by despair upon impossibility.
34:03Nothing's impossible, David.
34:11Hey, look at the time.
34:15You bet.
34:27John, John, we've been looking everywhere for you.
34:30This is Herr Vistleman.
34:31How do you do?
34:32Well, Herr Vistleman wanted to meet you to have a chat.
34:34Yes, first thing tomorrow, Don, if you'll excuse us.
34:38Yeah, but John.
34:43Oh, I'm sorry.
34:45Not at all.
34:47There are, thank God, still some things equally important as money.
34:51Of course, as a banker, I always ask myself how much costs such a thing.
35:07Oh, you a bar.
35:11Good morning, Don.
35:13Yes, so it would seem.
35:17That's a bit strong, isn't it?
35:19It is.
35:20Hi, ma'am.
35:21Oh, hello.
35:25What did you want me for, darling?
35:27Well, I...
35:32I...
35:34I wondered if you felt...
35:39I wondered if you felt more inclined...
35:42How old would you say I was?
35:44I mean, if you didn't know me and you...
35:47met me in a bar, what age would you put me at?
35:51Well, this morning.
35:52Oh, so about 83, give or take a year or two?
35:56I mean...
35:57if you saw me in a bar, say, with...
36:02that girl...
36:04and I said I was 49, what would you think?
36:06Oh, come now, John.
36:0849 is young...
36:09for a dirty old man.
36:13I thought you were supposed to stay in Geneva till I got there.
36:16I've got here a whistleman downstairs.
36:18Hello.
36:19Tomorrow morning.
36:20John, you said this morning he's come all the way from Geneva
36:22and I promised him faithfully.
36:25Ready?
36:27Uh, look, wait a while downstairs.
36:30I might have to see somebody.
36:32It won't take more than half an hour. Just wait for me.
36:34Crazy, I'm not sitting around in the snow waiting for you.
36:37I might get my backside frozen off and I need it.
36:40Now, look, just wait for me downstairs.
36:42I won't be more than half an hour.
36:44Cool it, baby, cool it.
36:46You're coming unglued.
36:48You do what you have to do. No fuss.
36:50I can go up with that dolly instructor. Ciao.
36:55Perpetua!
36:56Perpetua!
36:57Perpetua!
36:59Look, Don.
37:00Uh, find...
37:01Uh, visceral man.
37:02Uh, find out.
37:03John, tonight will do.
37:05Don't be a bloody fool.
37:06Anyway, you know it'll take more than half an hour.
37:11You reckon so?
37:13And you don't ski, remember?
37:23John, um, look, uh...
37:25When in Rome...
37:26Yes, well, take it, gentlel.
37:27You know, you're overdoing things.
37:29You know what it is that sits at the bottom of the sea and shakes?
37:32What?
37:33A nervous wreck.
37:37All right, I'll see him now.
37:39All right.
37:41Oh, Don.
37:43Tell that girl that the skiing is off.
37:46I...
37:47I want her to interpret.
37:48But he speaks English.
37:49Don!
37:49Just go and tell her.
37:51All right, all right.
37:53But, John, you can't keep a girl of her age away from all the dolly young men in the world.
37:58Nor that your age.
37:59You get them?
38:00Yes.
38:01Happy ending.
38:03They'll take the boat on so we can catch the train back if we want to.
38:05Well, that's that.
38:07I shall miss this boat.
38:08We don't have to catch the train if we don't want to.
38:10I think we should.
38:12There aren't those many trains on a Sunday morning.
38:15I hope you weren't too disappointed with your trip.
38:18Of course not.
38:18It was, as I said, it would be a pleasant way of spending the weekend.
38:26I've still got some washing up to do.
38:28Will you tell him how you spend the weekend?
38:31Probably not.
38:32Well, there isn't very much to tell, is there?
38:34Only if it comes up, and it probably won't.
38:37Ahoy!
38:38Hey, you out of bed yet?
38:40Hello, old chap.
38:41We thought you'd gone amok on start point.
38:43Oh, hello.
38:44Lincoln, darling, we imagined you feeding fishes.
38:46Oh, I can't as well get into these flies.
38:48Steady the old sea legs.
38:49This is a friend of ours staying with us.
38:51Pamela, darling.
38:53What are you doing here?
38:56And Lincoln, darling.
38:57You know each other?
38:59Oh, isn't that wonderful?
39:01Great.
39:03You have no idea how I was dreading this train journey back.
39:08It takes hours.
39:09I was overjoyed when I saw it was you two.
39:12Was the train crowded coming down?
39:15Oh, but of course you came by boat.
39:17I expect that was a bit crowded too, wasn't it?
39:20Still, that could be quite pleasant.
39:24Who's steering?
39:25Aunt May.
39:26Yes, marvellous navigator.
39:28Actually, it was a bit crowded, but I managed to squeeze into the after cabin,
39:31and May and Pamela had the main cabin.
39:34May had to go over to Torquay first thing this morning, or you'd have met her.
39:37I don't know where we'd have been without her in that storm.
39:40Incredible woman for her age.
39:41What is her age?
39:43Sixty-nine.
39:44She's unbelievably good at splicing ropes.
39:47And spiking guns.
39:49And that's an old nautical term.
39:51Yes, I had heard the phrase.
39:55You come all the way from England to try to persuade me to do something which I had never had
40:00any intention of doing anyway.
40:03You didn't intend to speak?
40:05Oh, I shall address them, yes.
40:06But I have not yet decided upon what subject I shall address them.
40:12You mean other interests have perhaps persuaded you?
40:15Oh, there has been no pressure put upon me whatsoever, of any kind, by anyone.
40:21Oh, from the Americans?
40:22No.
40:23Or the French?
40:24None at all.
40:25From your own country?
40:27Ah, here I am regarded as eccentric.
40:29And why did you change your mind?
40:31I haven't changed my mind.
40:34Sir John, you have seen an article of mine in which I put forward the two nations' hypothesis and the
40:40idea of paper gold.
40:42But it was only a hypothesis, an amusing idea.
40:46It's not even wholly true.
40:48Gold is fairly evenly distributed over the whole world.
40:52If it is on the land, it is probably also under the sea.
40:55If we need it enough, we can always find it.
40:57That is also my idea.
40:59Oh, may I...
41:03You know what magazine I wrote it for?
41:06No.
41:07It was for Ampersand.
41:11But it's a satirical magazine.
41:15Oh, the basis of the article is quite feasible.
41:19The idea is possible.
41:21It is just that it is not immediately probable.
41:26I think you are the only ones who have taken it seriously.
41:29The collapse of Stout Party.
41:33Where did you read the article, Sir John?
41:35I haven't read it, as a matter of fact.
41:37You were told about it. May I ask by whom?
41:41By a colleague of mine.
41:43Would I know him?
41:44His name is Jason Fowler.
41:47Ah, Fowler.
41:50He and I have had a long and interesting discussion upon this subject
41:53when I was in London last month.
41:56I think I have made the mistake of thinking that that discussion was also hypothetical.
42:03I am afraid nobody appreciates my sense of humour.
42:07Well, what do you mean by that?
42:08Well, I understand your suggestion, Fowler, has to put in a report
42:12on the reorganisation of international currencies.
42:15He gave me a long and boring lecture about it.
42:18I expect he was trying it on the dog.
42:22He struck me as a man who needed an idea.
42:26Perhaps because for years an idea has been expected of him
42:29and he has never been able to deliver.
42:32I suppose it would be a great help to him
42:34to be able to quote from something as respectable
42:36as a conference of the World Bank.
42:39Herr Wisserman,
42:41if you are looking for a subject for your lecture,
42:44how about the manipulation of ideas
42:47by government officials for their own ends?
42:51Now, that is a good idea.
42:56Now, if you will excuse me,
42:58since I am here,
42:59I think I will try and recapture some of my lost youth
43:02on the nursery slopes.
43:04It has been very nice meeting you.
43:06Es hat mich sehr, Herr Freud.
43:08Auf Wiedersehen.
43:09There was a man.
43:15Nice fellow.
43:16Are you going to listen to his speech?
43:18What for?
43:20Fowler only asked me to persuade him to talk.
43:22He didn't say on what subject.
43:24I thought he was dishy.
43:26Pretty nearly the greatest thing since sliced bread.
43:29Oh, come along, Perpetua baby.
43:31Get your slide area off that sofa
43:34and zip it into your ski pants.
43:37There's no snow in the King's Road, booby baby.
43:42Get him.
43:43You know, suddenly,
43:45I think you're getting on the ball again, Jackson.
43:49Thank God she got out at Reading.
43:51I was terrified she'd invite us up for drinks.
43:54Lincoln.
43:55Yes?
43:56Who did John go to Switzerland with?
43:59With?
44:00Well, he took Henderson with him.
44:02Nobody else?
44:04I really don't know.
44:05Why?
44:06Well, I just thought it was odd
44:08that he didn't want you to go with him.
44:11Or me?
44:12I've no idea.
44:15Good for you.
44:17Are we there?
44:18Yes, just about.
44:23Would you like to come to my place first for a drink?
44:26Oh, I think I'd better get back.
44:28Thanks for a super weekend.
44:30And everything.
44:31Nonsense.
44:33I'm going to Cheltenham tomorrow for the day.
44:35I don't suppose she'd like to come.
44:38Think about it.
44:39We can always take Aunt May with us.
44:43You know, I'll see you in London the day after tomorrow.
44:45You're leaving today?
44:47Yes, I'm catching a plane this afternoon.
44:49Oh.
44:52Taking a few little gifts home with you, are you?
44:54Well, I bought...
44:55We bought some little things.
44:59When she knew that my ambassador's status gave me customs immunity, there was no stopping her.
45:05Yeah, as well all the most desirable properties cost the earth these days.
45:08Mm-hmm.
45:09You know, you're looking tired, John.
45:11Well, this is the altitude.
45:13Oh, you think so?
45:15Well, have you tried doing the Watuzzi, or whatever it's called, three nights in a row?
45:19I haven't tried doing it three minutes in a row.
45:22I'll tell you something, Don, which is quite true.
45:26That a man is as young as he feels, and...
45:30I feel like death.
45:31Well, perhaps you're a little overdrawn at the fun bank.
45:34Hey, John, you pick all good old to drive like hell.
45:37We could stop the night at that place that had that discotheque, huh?
45:39Oh, we'll see.
45:40John, John, look.
45:42Try taking it easy, will you?
45:45You know what they say?
45:47Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down.
46:02Give me a ring, huh?
46:05Okay.
46:06Okay.
46:07Only not next week.
46:08Next week I'm in a demonstration for war on want.
46:12As long as you know what you want.
46:15What the hell are they?
46:18Do you really think we will get all that stuff through without paying duty?
46:21My dear child, I've told you I have diplomatic immunity.
46:25God, don't start getting pompous again just because we're back in England.
46:31Good day, sir. I have to ask you if you're familiar with this document.
46:35I have read it.
46:37Perhaps you both just step outside and stand beside the car, sir.
46:43I think you'll find I have diplomatic immunity.
46:49You'd just wait a moment, sir.
46:54Now what?
46:56Don't panic.
47:03Good day, sir John, madam.
47:06Good day.
47:07Is everything all right?
47:09Perfectly, sir.
47:10Spend it.
47:11But we would be very grateful if you would step outside and stand beside your car, sir.
47:15I'm on her majesty's diplomatic service.
47:19Oh, yes, sir.
47:20Well then, what's all this about?
47:22If you would just step outside, sir, perhaps we could explain.
47:27I'm damned if I will.
47:29Look, fetch somebody with more authority, your superior.
47:32I'm afraid there's no one here with more authority, sir.
47:36I'm sorry, sir, but I must insist.
47:40You mean you're not prepared to take that on its face value?
47:43Oh, we take nothing on face value, sir.
47:46After all, for all we know, the young lady could be an underage, unfrocked nun.
47:50Couldn't she, sir?
47:53Don!
47:55Look, Don.
47:56Get hold of Fowler.
47:58Get hold of Fowler this minute.
47:59I can't find him.
48:01Well, what's wrong?
48:04Oh, Lord.
48:06Here.
48:07Yes, yes, right away.
48:09He's claiming what?
48:12Oh, well, I'm afraid he can't do that.
48:15No, you see, he isn't actually accredited.
48:18Well, not to any particular country, you see.
48:22Well, I'm terribly sorry, but I'm afraid that's his problem.
48:27Look, John, I've...
48:29I've got hold of Fowler, but, um...
48:33He said what?
48:35Oh, all right, Don.
48:38All right.
48:40I'll see Fowler when I get back to London.
49:04Well, Sir John, you'll be pleased to hear we haven't found anything, other than the thing that's in the boot.
49:08No?
49:11Well, let me tell you something that you'll be less pleased to hear.
49:15I could have told you that without all this officious nonsense.
49:19And if this is the gateway to England,
49:22the country would be far better off if they put you back in your laboratory jar in which you've obviously
49:27spent half your life.
49:29We get a great many diplomats through here, Sir John.
49:31If they all paid their duty, perhaps the country would be able to afford the formaldehyde.
49:39All right. Put the bloody thing back together again.
49:41I'm afraid not, sir.
49:43Although we have the right to take the car apart if we think it necessary,
49:46it is not incumbent on us to have to reassemble it again.
49:50Thank you, sir.
49:52Oh, baby.
49:54That customs immunity.
49:57I don't think the vaccine took.
50:02These things are yours, I think.
50:05You bought them.
50:08You pay the duty.
50:11Baby.
50:12And good old.
50:13Give her a spanner.
50:54THE END
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