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First broadcast 9th August 1973.
Master at Arms Heron's extension for service is turned down due to a black mark from HMS Boadicea's Commander Murton.
Donald Burton - Commander Mark Nialls
David Savile - Lieutenant Commander Beaumont
Don Henderson - Master at Arms Heron
Norman Eshley - Lieutenant Last
Graeme Eton - Lieutenant Wakelin
Malcolm Terris - Commander Murton
Heather Canning - Maura
Patricia Mort - Peggy Carter
James Cosmo - Leading Regulator Fuller
David Neal - Lieutenant Commander Hopwood
Forbes Collins - Master at Arms Wilson
Ron Pember - AB Adge
Richard Hampton - Flag Lieutenant
Terence Sewards - The Major
Peter Longbow - Fleet Operations Officer
Jonathan Gardner - Leading Writer
Maurice Quick - Flag Officer, Gibralter
Master at Arms Heron's extension for service is turned down due to a black mark from HMS Boadicea's Commander Murton.
Donald Burton - Commander Mark Nialls
David Savile - Lieutenant Commander Beaumont
Don Henderson - Master at Arms Heron
Norman Eshley - Lieutenant Last
Graeme Eton - Lieutenant Wakelin
Malcolm Terris - Commander Murton
Heather Canning - Maura
Patricia Mort - Peggy Carter
James Cosmo - Leading Regulator Fuller
David Neal - Lieutenant Commander Hopwood
Forbes Collins - Master at Arms Wilson
Ron Pember - AB Adge
Richard Hampton - Flag Lieutenant
Terence Sewards - The Major
Peter Longbow - Fleet Operations Officer
Jonathan Gardner - Leading Writer
Maurice Quick - Flag Officer, Gibralter
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00:12What I don't like is getting used to you again.
00:17You get used to someone and you can't let go.
00:21Look at you.
00:23You're quite comfy, like another pillow.
00:28Well, it's the last time, as far as I'm concerned.
00:31It is Frank, I mean it.
00:35You've got to make up your mind.
00:39I told you.
00:40I'm 40 years old, so my service time is nearly up.
00:44But if I'm taking on for another five...
00:49It's when you like, where you like.
00:53You don't even get out of bed to say it.
00:58What's wrong with you and me deciding like normal people?
01:02Well, they've got to take me on again.
01:05They've just got to.
01:06Then it means more of everything.
01:08And if you don't?
01:10Don't.
01:10Get taken on in the Navy?
01:12Oh, I haven't thought about that.
01:14So where does that leave me?
01:21Sometimes I think you're all like children.
01:23You've been in the Navy for years and years and years,
01:26and you haven't even thought what you're going to do when you get out.
01:29You haven't, have you?
01:30No.
01:31Not at all?
01:32No.
01:34Well, it's not good enough for me, Frank.
01:38Matrons on the wards this morning, we have got a sad on.
01:42Doesn't it ever occur to you that perhaps, just as a remote possibility,
01:47I might like to think of getting married?
01:53But don't get out of bed, will you?
01:56No inconvenience.
01:57Don't lift a finger.
01:59You don't want to go back on board with eye strain.
02:02Any expression on your face that doesn't say if,
02:05but all may be, and you'll exhaust yourself.
02:07Where have you been?
02:08Rent her mouth?
02:10Leave the key.
02:11Leave the key.
02:27Harrison?
02:31I like the suit, Harrison.
02:32Jolly good.
02:33Nothing like an elegant ship's company.
02:35Carry on.
02:40Rightio, Hoppy.
02:45Right.
03:01Mail's aboard, and the skipper wants to see 1100 in his cabin.
03:06Mm-hmm.
03:33Joe, I never thought what you'd do if you had to go outside.
03:37Me? I've only just signed on again.
03:41Look, the recommendations you'll get from this skipper, they couldn't turn you down.
03:44They couldn't.
03:45Well, it doesn't only depend on him.
03:49Depends on lots of things.
03:51Your face has to have fitted in a lot of places.
03:54God, come 1100 you'll be laughing.
03:58Well, you won't get the report done worrying about me, will you?
04:06Good morning, Monji. What's new?
04:08Not very good, I'm afraid, sir. It's Commander Merton and Baudissier. The paint.
04:12The paint?
04:13Well, number one, ask the base supply officer for green deck paint, but all they've got left is black.
04:17I'd rather gather Commander Merton collared the lot.
04:20Hmm, murky. He would.
04:22We should have got the demands in earlier.
04:23Oh, we did, sir, but I understand Commander Merton and the base supply officer are chums.
04:28Ah, yes, they've both done the naval attaché a bit, but in Murky's case, it's a bit of a come
04:32-down for him to be at sea at all.
04:33Does us a favour from time to time. What else is there?
04:35You've seen the letter from Admiralty about Heron?
04:37Yes, I'm seeing him at 1100.
04:39And there's an invitation from Garrison ashore. We're invited.
04:43Army do.
04:44The buzz is that one of Commander Merton's exes will be there.
04:47Her brother's fleet operations officer, Northwood.
04:50Hanky Carter.
04:51Yes, sir. Do you know her?
04:53Oh, only by repute.
04:55Will you be coming, sir?
04:57Sounds a bit torrid.
04:59Well, that's the lot, sir.
05:06I'd like to see Niles' face when he gets his nasty black paint.
05:10Withdrawn, chap, isn't he?
05:11Withdrawn? Niles?
05:13Never let his hair down.
05:15Awfully competent, of course.
05:17It's not enough, is it?
05:18Do you know what I mean?
05:19Oh, exactly.
05:21I can't help, Finney, the wrong sort of chap gets on these days.
05:24It's rather as if there's a race of accountants being bred.
05:27There's no dash or style anymore.
05:31The machines are eating us up, Willie.
05:33All the fun's gone out of things.
05:35It's a different navy.
05:37Something has passed, Willie.
05:39And where it has gone to, I do not know.
05:46Master.
05:47Mm-hmm.
05:48Oh, all right.
05:49Yeah.
05:50Mm-hmm.
06:05What's up with the jolly?
06:07Oh, he's up for another five.
06:09Been like a girl before the wedding all forenoon.
06:11Climb, he's bound to get it, ain't he?
06:13Oh, Frank.
06:14I was with him in Ganges, you know.
06:16Yeah.
06:17He was an instructor boy there.
06:19Well, real pusser he was then.
06:20They used to put him on the mast to straighten it out.
06:24Nah.
06:25He's bound to get took on.
06:26He's bound to.
06:27I don't know, I.J.
06:28Well, I'll tell you what.
06:29If I was Philip, mate, I'd have him on the yacht.
06:33Thank you, Jenkins.
06:34Thank you, sir.
06:37Come in, Master.
06:41What'll it be, gin or scotch?
06:42No, thank you, sir.
06:44Oh, come on.
06:45I'd rather not, sir.
06:47Well, sit down, then.
06:48Thank you, sir.
06:50Thank you, sir.
06:53In every case, there's an application for extended service, as you probably know.
06:57A board at Admiralty considers the service record of the applicant.
07:01The man's career is very thoroughly surveyed and gone into.
07:06That isn't the only thing, however.
07:08A primary consideration must be the needs of the service.
07:12You've always been straight with me, sir.
07:15There's no need to flannel.
07:18For everything that happens, there's a reason, Master.
07:20It's no, isn't it, sir?
07:23My application for extended service has been turned down.
07:27Yes.
07:29I bloody knew somehow.
07:30I just did.
07:36I will have that drink now, sir, if you don't mind.
08:05Cheers.
08:07You see, I know what it is.
08:09There's one ropey report in my file.
08:12I put up a real black once.
08:13Yes, I noticed that.
08:14And that must have done it.
08:17One black in 25 years.
08:22I had it read to me once,
08:25unsatisfactory in many respects.
08:26This isn't like you, Master.
08:28Prayed on me, then.
08:31When I was a petty officer,
08:33I could have gone in for a commission.
08:36But I'd have been able to stay in at least another five years as an officer.
08:39And why didn't you?
08:40I didn't fancy the wardroom.
08:42All the people in it.
08:43Then.
08:44Oh, I made a mistake, all right.
08:46I thought a civvy yacht was being provisions out of ship's stores.
08:49And I jumped in before I had proof.
08:51You mean provisions were being stolen?
08:52Yes.
08:53A big gaff-ribbed yawl lying alongside.
08:55I got choked off pretty severe.
08:57Half the wardroom thought I was too swift.
09:00I got the cold shoulder.
09:02There was a two-ringer running the show.
09:05But he went off his back like water.
09:07I don't think you'd better go on in this vein.
09:08His name was Merton.
09:12Him.
09:13In the boat of Seer, across the way from us now.
09:16He gave me a report I'd never had before or since.
09:21Yes, well, this is old ships now, a long time ago.
09:23Yes.
09:24My advice to you is not to let one setback culler your whole service career.
09:29I didn't, sir.
09:32I tell you, frankly, I could never have run this ship in the same spirit if you hadn't been here.
09:36And in every respect, you've had a successful career.
09:41It's easy to say that from where you're sitting.
09:45But I haven't got a service career anymore.
09:50Sir.
09:55Yes.
09:57Ah, excuse me, sir.
09:58No, it's all right, Derek.
09:59The master and I had just finished.
10:01Sir.
10:08Sir.
10:19How do you take it?
10:21Not very well.
10:23He had a...
10:25two, six, four once.
10:26It wasn't up to much.
10:26Just one.
10:28A run-in with an officer.
10:31I didn't attempt to get to the bottom of it.
10:33I was so surprised at his attitude.
10:35He just changed in front of me.
10:37How was this, sir?
10:37Oh.
10:39Years ago.
10:41Curious thing is, we know the chap.
10:43Murky.
10:46Oh, what a morning.
10:47What a bloody morning.
10:49I think I won't go to this garrison, Doval.
10:54Tell her the absolute truth, Hoppy.
10:56The reason I gave La Carta the slip was that she got too clausey.
11:00Marriage is not for me, do you follow?
11:02I think I do so, Just.
11:04Sir, what I thought was I'd give her a bit of a whirl for the sake of appearances,
11:07and then I'm pushing off up to Willie's.
11:09Willie's?
11:10The flag lieutenant.
11:12Now, what I thought you might do was, well, offload.
11:16Not exactly the word, but there are times when a commanding officer must be able to count in his first
11:20lieutenant.
11:21What?
11:21Me, sir, with Miss Carter.
11:23Yes, Hoppy.
11:23Be very grateful.
11:25Then it's out of the question, sir.
11:26What?
11:27It's not my scene, sir.
11:29You mean you're not going?
11:30No, sir.
11:31But the admiral will be there.
11:32Sorry, sir.
11:33Don't you like parties, Hoppy?
11:35I find it all very juvenile, sir.
11:38I'm not at all sure.
11:39That's not a criticism for me, Hopwood.
11:41Quite unintended, sir.
11:43Excuse me, sir.
11:44The master at arms is waiting outside for the customs lists.
11:46He wants to go over to here.
11:54Juvenile, the whole essence of the service.
12:09Yes?
12:11Hello, Frank.
12:14Hello, Tuck.
12:16That's here on ashore tonight.
12:18It's like a mad ass over with us.
12:20Mokey's not speaking.
12:21And the jimmy fell out again.
12:24Hey, what's up?
12:27I've had it.
12:29Hey?
12:31Turned down.
12:32Well, you're five.
12:33Yeah.
12:34You turned down?
12:35I just heard.
12:38Bet you've been the blue eyes aboard here.
12:42Oh, they must be full up.
12:45They must have too many.
12:48What you need is a drink.
12:50I was going to give the Nebraska a look over.
12:52How do you get on, master?
12:54Not now, edge.
13:00I'll see you later, then.
13:02Eh?
13:02To Nebraska.
13:04You on?
13:05I bet it.
13:07Make it early.
13:14Make your hand to dinner.
13:34Are you sure you invited Baudis here as captain?
13:36Come on a moment, but of course.
13:38And he said he'd come.
13:39Well, you never can tell with old Mokey, you know.
13:42Why, do you know?
13:43Very well.
13:45Barry Nellie put my foot in it there, didn't I?
13:47I beg your pardon.
13:50Oh, um, just a minute.
13:55Hello, Clive.
13:56Peggy!
13:57Doing your thing again?
13:59Slipping away?
14:00Not at all.
14:02Good.
14:04Well, there's no dinner here.
14:05Oh, is there not?
14:07I, uh, I thought we might go after the rock, as we used to.
14:10Haven't you heard?
14:11Closed.
14:11It's being redecorated.
14:12I don't think I could stand any of your little jokes tonight.
14:14Look, I want to talk to you seriously.
14:16Hello, sir.
14:17Nice moment.
14:18Excuse me.
14:19Good evening, Mokey.
14:20What's the form?
14:20I particularly want to tell you, I bought from Percy Keane in Moscow.
14:24So now you know where you are.
14:27You're not left wondering anymore.
14:31Well, I've come to a decision, too.
14:35I'm leaving this.
14:36I've been abroad long enough.
14:43Look.
14:44You've had a bump.
14:47All right.
14:48Leave it behind you.
14:50Don't brood.
14:52After 25 years.
14:54All right.
14:54You've got to change your ideas.
14:56We all have to, Frank.
14:59You have to.
15:00I have to.
15:03The important thing is to stay on your feet.
15:06Yeah.
15:08Well, it is.
15:12Anyway.
15:14Now you know where you stand, don't you?
15:17I know what I bloody feel.
15:18I didn't mean that.
15:21I'm going home, too.
15:28All smiles.
15:30Very bright and chipper.
15:32What does that mean?
15:36Leave it alone, Frank.
15:38The Navy.
15:40You've finished with it.
15:42And it's finished with you.
15:44Now forget it.
15:45Just like that.
15:45Yes.
15:48Now, haven't you got anything to say to me?
15:54Oh, I'm sorry.
15:57I don't usually bring all my troubles ashore.
16:00Never mind that.
16:03What have you got to say to me, Frank?
16:08Well, I haven't got anything to say to you.
16:12I said, I'm going home, too.
16:16Well, what do you want me to do?
16:20Oh, God.
16:24All right, listen.
16:25Listen to what?
16:27You don't want the Navy.
16:28You want another mother.
16:31Look, you make up your mind, and then you come to me, and not before.
16:34I've been around long enough that I've got feelings, you know, feelings like people have.
16:39Well, let's go and have a drink.
16:42Why?
16:43Well, I said I'd meet Wilson.
16:46Yeah, you know, old Tug is an old shipmate.
16:48And what am I?
16:49Oh, Maura, come on.
16:50What do you want me to do?
16:51Spell it out?
16:53I will not be left hanging about for you to make up your mind.
16:58I'm telling you, I'm finished with you, Frank.
17:00Finished.
17:01I told Tug we'd meet him.
17:02You told Tug?
17:04Oh, it's everything, isn't it?
17:07Everything.
17:08And nothing.
17:10And now it's what will people say.
17:13Well, go on.
17:15Go and cry on his shoulder.
17:17Mine's reserved.
17:18I just happened to go for men.
17:20You know, the sort who don't need uniforms to tell me what they are, master.
17:29Oh, poor old Tug.
17:33If it happened to anyone else, I think it'd jolly funny.
17:35But she keeps turning up.
17:37It's not just place to place.
17:39It's continent to continent.
17:40You must have what it takes, Murky.
17:41Why don't you just tell her?
17:42Have.
17:43It says I don't know my own mind.
17:48Oh, Clyde, the major has invited us to dinner.
17:51I said you might like to come.
17:52Well, I am rather tied up.
17:54Don't lie, Murky.
17:55Not here, Peggy.
17:56Where, then?
17:57For goodness sake, don't make a seat.
17:59Why not?
17:59Because I couldn't stand it.
18:00Excuse me.
18:01Flag officers are just right.
18:03I don't believe we've met Niles, hero.
18:05You're Miss Carter, I believe.
18:07Niles?
18:08You were a year behind my brother, a doctor.
18:10Well, what's the thought?
18:12Are we going up to the rock and on?
18:13Oh, couldn't we just leave it for a moment?
18:14Well, we do have to book, you know.
18:15Oh, nonsense.
18:16There's always rock.
18:17Or two, or three.
18:19Are you booking a table or a bed?
18:21Well, that depends on what turns you on.
18:23Just keep you pretty.
18:25You are a little tryer.
18:28I'll see you later.
18:29I'll give you a little try.
18:35If only she'd leave.
18:38Murky, could you and I have a chat?
18:41Anything I'll chat.
18:41You were in the Hesperus in 1965.
18:44What do you remember about an RPO called Herod?
18:48Shop.
18:49I'm afraid so.
18:52You think you've got problems?
18:55You haven't begun.
18:57You think what my last two years have been like?
19:01Two years of play acting.
19:04Gloves.
19:06Visiting cards.
19:08Sent.
19:10You know, murky.
19:12Hello, master.
19:13What are you going to have?
19:15Anybody ask you to come in here?
19:28Whatever you say, chap was too swift and overstepped the mark.
19:31Well, he thinks the report he got then has been held against him.
19:34Quite right.
19:35If these chaps are not up to scratch, they've got to go.
19:37Well, good lord, impractical.
19:39You'll be stealing.
19:40Can you imagine that?
19:41Perhaps he misunderstood.
19:43Can't have masters at all.
19:44To misunderstand, that's all there is to it.
19:47The Admiralty are not fooled, you know.
19:48And I'm very surprised that you should think they are.
19:53One mistake.
19:54Just one mistake.
19:57You're done for.
20:02What am I going to do when I go outside, Tug?
20:07Traffic warden.
20:08Kept in uniform all his life.
20:13How many sea jobs have you had in the past ten years?
20:17What, me?
20:18Yeah, you.
20:19I've been at sea nearly all the time.
20:22Three lots of general service in the Far East.
20:24Oh, come off it, Frank.
20:25That was what you wanted.
20:28Yeah.
20:30Well, I was wrong, wasn't I?
20:33Smashing runner, sure.
20:35Sick all over me number ones.
20:37Lost me payback.
20:38You can stuff that.
20:38Oh, come on, Frank.
20:39I said stuff it.
20:41Jack Maharty.
20:43I've had you and all.
20:47Have another drink.
20:48I will get my own.
20:49And I went, but I have some.
21:07Have another drink sense, Jack.
21:09Yeah.
21:20If I met him now, I'd really give him the rough edge of my tongue.
21:27I'd really put him on the square.
21:31If anyone needs a going over, he does.
21:33His bloody voice.
21:35I'll tell you what you want to do.
21:36Pack it up.
21:38Look at you.
21:40You've been pusser so long, it stinks.
21:50Now, where are you going?
21:56Why?
21:59What are you going to do about it?
22:04Eh?
22:07I'm surprised you don't go ashore with him.
22:10He likes a smart lad.
22:12Come on, Frank.
22:29A bit of a tiger, aren't we?
22:32Huh?
22:35I did a tiger.
22:56How is it that you...
22:57Oh, here's Miss Cotter.
22:58Well, Clyde?
22:59I'd much prefer it if you went on with a major.
23:02Oh, my God, you're selfish.
23:04Perhaps I'll pop up later.
23:05And a liar.
23:06Thanks, darling.
23:07You've no understanding of people's feelings.
23:09And more than that, you're mean.
23:11Yes, mean.
23:13What's the matter with you?
23:14I've got the major to come.
23:15It won't cost you a sue.
23:18Look at you, just standing there.
23:21You're not only mean, you're a dreadful bootlicker.
23:24It's a kind of vulgarity you have.
23:27Oh, you fraud.
23:30Oh, come on.
23:35I'm sorry, no.
23:38Isn't it awful?
23:43What the hell is going on here?
23:45Derek, sort it out.
23:47Chug him out.
23:47Get him out.
23:48Let him out.
23:49Uh, Murky.
23:50It's all right.
23:52I'm over the worst.
23:53She can terrorize the major.
23:55Ah.
23:55Now, what was all that about?
23:56Oh, that, um, thank you.
23:58That was just some drunken civilian.
24:02Awful do this, what?
24:04Have you noticed how the army never makes?
24:06The army?
24:07Yes.
24:08I, uh, thought of going on up to Wilmette.
24:09Won't you come?
24:10Uh, well, uh...
24:12You know, I've quite revised my judgment on you tonight.
24:14Welcome your company.
24:16All right.
24:17Splendid.
24:18Uh, are you leaking, Derek?
24:20You're buzzing about like a fly in the wrong hands.
24:22Uh, no, sir.
24:23Everything all right?
24:24Yes, sir.
24:25I'm, uh, going on up to the flag left in this with Commander Merton.
24:30Don't worry, Derek.
24:32All right, Willie.
24:39I'm, uh, going on up to the flag right away.
25:03Up to the flag, Lieutenant.
25:05What happened to Heron?
25:07Well, Bordesier's master had followed him.
25:09Caught up with him.
25:10Took him back on board.
25:11It all seemed to be covered up all right, sir.
25:14You, uh, didn't tell Murky, did you?
25:16No, no, no, no, no.
25:18Something else happened.
25:20What, sir?
25:20Murky something.
25:23We had some serious drinking, and Murky...
25:28I can't remember.
25:29You know, the odd thing is, the moment I felt myself getting sorry for Murky, I knew instinctively it was
25:33dangerous.
25:36Wilson, do you realize where we are?
25:38Uh, Gibraltar, sir.
25:39Yes, yes, where exactly?
25:41In the pen, sir.
25:42We are within sight of the flag officer's window, Wilson.
25:45Oh, yes, sir.
25:46Then why do our working parties look as if they're on a knocking shop detail?
25:49Clamp down, man.
25:51Especially on the brow.
25:52Caps and things.
25:53I want to torch it, Wilson.
25:55Torch it.
25:56Aye, aye, sir.
25:58You good, uh, run last night?
26:00Uneventful, sir.
26:02Good.
26:04I want you to take this letter,
26:07and deliver it personally to Commander Niles on board here.
26:11And be grateful, Wilson.
26:12There are still men of daring to command you.
26:15Aye, aye, sir.
26:16Five hundred quid, sir.
26:18Five hundred.
26:18You didn't agree to it, sir.
26:20I must have, but I've never met five hundred quid in my life on anything.
26:23You couldn't have agreed to it.
26:26I remember.
26:28Me saying that we'd get home before him.
26:31No bother.
26:32Murky saying,
26:34are you prepared to bet on it?
26:37Five hundred pounds.
26:38Oh, Murky's been taking people to the laundry for years,
26:41and if I went over there now,
26:42he'd get as much pleasure in my trying to get out of it as he would in winning.
26:45What are you going to do about it?
26:46There's only one thing I can do.
26:49Get home before him.
26:59Leave that till later.
27:01Shon't be a sec.
27:02I said leave it.
27:11You're lucky I followed you last night.
27:13If you'd got hold of Murky,
27:14you could say goodbye to even Traffic Warden.
27:18And Maura.
27:20What about her?
27:21Maura?
27:22She rang me this morning.
27:23What have you done there?
27:25I don't know.
27:26Listen.
27:27If it hadn't been for your skipper and the number one,
27:29you'd have been up for contempt.
27:30Well, I was up to here with it.
27:32It's more than that, Frank.
27:34Look,
27:36who else knows about it?
27:40Murky doesn't.
27:41Apart from your skipper and the number one,
27:43it's just me and Adge.
27:45Adge?
27:45How to get somebody to bring you in over the brow.
27:48And what's happened to you, man?
27:53Maura's going home.
27:55You'd better write.
27:57Yeah.
27:58Surely, if they were on a bender,
28:00Murky wouldn't hold him to it.
28:02You know him?
28:04No.
28:05I'll take it from me.
28:07It's on.
28:12Excuse me, sir.
28:13I've been hearing something about a fast passage home.
28:16Is it right if we go below normal limits on fuel consumption?
28:18No.
28:19I don't want any more rooms broken.
28:22Well, then it is on, sir.
28:23Just prepare me a passage at economical speed.
28:27It's on.
28:39If you're serious, sir,
28:41I'd better get the pilot to lay off a course.
28:43Okay.
28:44Take tanks.
28:48It's a flag officer, sir.
28:51Oh.
29:01Oh, blast.
29:04He, um, wants to see me before we slip.
29:08Why?
29:11Not could be.
29:14He couldn't help my hair.
29:18Shouldn't take more than 20 minutes.
29:21We slip in 20 minutes, sir.
29:24I shall belong.
29:27Ask the harbormaster if he can slip now.
29:33Not yet 12 o'clock, sir.
29:34No, as I'm still as sure.
29:37The exigencies of the service are not my responsibility, number one.
29:41At 1,200 we move.
29:43No wet nursing.
29:44I'm still as sure.
29:44No wet nursing.
29:47Slower stern port.
29:49Slow stern port.
29:58Sport 10.
30:00Sport 10.
30:0210 and long wheel up.
30:19Now then, chaps, it's tally-tally-what's-it-or-what.
30:29Where's the flag, lieutenant?
30:30He's just gone down the corridor, sir. He won't be long.
30:32Well, he's sent for me.
30:33He'll be back immediately, sir.
30:48What on earth is he doing?
30:52Flag officer couldn't have found out.
30:57Flag officer wouldn't bother with a thing like that himself.
31:00What's the picture?
31:03I want to know where the flag, lieutenant, is, and I want to know now.
31:06All I know is, sir, he just went down the corridor.
31:08Is the admiral here?
31:10No, sir.
31:11He's not here. Then where is he?
31:12He's playing tennis with the BSO, sir.
31:14Tennis?
31:15Yes, sir. He generally does on a Wednesday.
31:17Hello, sir.
31:18Oh, my God, I've got a head this morning.
31:21What can I do for you?
31:29Search me.
31:30Well, he can't want me on the tennis court.
31:32Who sent it at your office?
31:33Well, I recognize the writing.
31:35It's the BSOs.
31:39Murky.
31:40What?
31:40Murky bloody Merton.
31:41He must have put him up to it.
31:42Now he's got nearly an hour's start.
31:44Oh, well, you've had it then.
31:46I want to make a phone call.
31:48Phone call?
31:49To Peggy Carter.
31:51Peggy Carter?
31:52Do you think just for once you can pull your finger out, will he?
32:15I've rung on 3-0 revolution, sir.
32:17I've made telegraphs being passed.
32:19Special seat dutymen are closed up.
32:21Very good.
32:22With an hour's start at high speed, she'll be about 30 miles away,
32:24and she's bound to have opened up.
32:26I think we'd better just take the ship to sea, pilot.
32:29Aye, aye, sir.
32:31Let go, stern rope and back spring.
32:34Right.
32:35This will be a good exercise for us all in discipline.
32:39Slow head port.
32:40Starboard 10.
32:43Slow head port.
32:45Starboard 10.
32:47Starboard 10, Master of Arms.
32:53Starboard 10, sir.
32:54Sorry, sir.
32:5710, I'll stop at wheel on, sir.
33:00Port engine slow ahead.
33:02Sharpen up in the wheelhouse.
33:04If that happens again, I'll have a change of crew down there.
33:25I should think he's cast off now
33:26doing his little bit
33:29the higher start he has no much of a chance
33:30I didn't think it was part of the
33:32rules to give him a chance
33:35dear boy when one plays for keeps
33:36one simply can't let one's mind run on
33:39traditional lines
33:41yes
33:43I just wanted to check sir
33:45you've ordered 14 knots
33:46yes less than half speed
33:47yes
33:48are we even going to make a go of it sir
33:49yes
33:52I'm afraid I don't quite understand
33:54go the course and the speed
33:56see that they're both maintained
33:59aye aye sir
34:01what do you want
34:03presentation clock
34:04oh well of course
34:05if it's like that
34:06it is
34:08after all
34:09captain's coming
34:24I am
34:26I come to tell you that nobody knows how you've come aboard
34:28except Wilson and me
34:30oh and
34:32nobody will know either
34:34and you'll never catch me
34:36putting my hat on
34:37with an old shipmate
34:40never
34:55come in
34:58come in
35:09come in
35:15I have a number of things to say to you Heron
35:17quite a number
35:19I don't mind telling you I have a clear view of my duty
35:22that I should proceed formally against you
35:25what kind of example are you to junior race
35:27to anybody at all
35:29have you nothing to say
35:32I'm sorry sir
35:33you're sorry
35:35is that an explanation
35:36I was drunk sir
35:39would you stand before a court marshal and say that
35:44how many times have you stood at my table and heard that piffling excuse from some ordinary seaman
35:48you're a master at arms man
35:52when all you can say is you were drunk
35:57might as well now give my mind of this commander merton business
36:02so I understand that if you had any evidence of theft or a breach of the regulations you would have
36:05proceeded with it
36:06but you had no such evidence at any time am I right
36:08yes sir
36:09so you were wrong then
36:10yes sir
36:10but not as wrong as you were last night
36:14what you attempted was inexcusable don't you see that
36:17yes sir
36:17then why
36:21when you have nothing to say
36:23not one word except that you were
36:27there's no need for me to miss my words
36:30your conduct has made me review every opinion I have afforded you
36:35here's what I said last
36:38a first class senior rate in all respects
36:42he is the very best type of master at arms
36:45firm, fair, good humored
36:49and well respected by seniors and juniors alike
36:53well respected
36:56he has the best interests of the service at heart at all times
36:59that phrase reoccurs in most of these reports
37:03except one
37:05unsatisfactory in many respects
37:07is too inclined to jump to hasty conclusions
37:09I know that one by heart sir
37:15after last night there's no doubt in my mind
37:16which of these reports is the more accurate
37:18no doubt at all
37:19but what I cannot for the life of me understand
37:21is how this side of you comes to the fore now
37:24what is it man
37:25how can you stand there and say nothing
37:29it's going outside sir
37:31I'm dead leery of it
37:34leery?
37:35I'm scared sir
37:37I've been in the navy since I was 15
37:41what am I going to do sir?
37:45I've always been passer
37:46well except for
37:47except for last night
37:49and you admit you were in the wrong?
37:50yes sir
37:51totally in the wrong?
37:51yes sir
37:52and commander merton?
37:53I could never prove anything sir
37:54so you were wrong about that as well
37:57I could never prove anything sir
37:58there is nothing unnatural in disliking people
38:00nothing at all
38:01it's human
38:01but there is law
38:02there are procedures
38:03rules
38:04you broke those rules last night
38:06and you must have broken them before
38:07admit it
38:07makes no difference sir
38:09I've still got to go outside
38:11and that's the main thing?
38:13yes sir
38:14then I pity you
38:18if you can go to pieces
38:19because of something that happened
38:20donkeys years ago
38:21and there's one man you dislike
38:23enough to make you risk a court marshal
38:26what's going to happen to you outside?
38:28I don't know
38:32sir
38:33the ratio of dislikable people
38:34is far greater outside the navy than in it
38:36you will not be
38:38wet nursed by queen's regulations in civilian life
38:40there are even people who laugh at you
38:42for entertaining any ideas of loyalty
38:44I don't know sir
38:47you see
38:48I don't know about anything
38:50when it comes to it
38:52outside
38:53so what are you going to do?
38:54give up?
38:55moan?
38:56find another chip?
38:57perhaps it'll be me next time
38:58no sir
38:59so what are you going to do?
39:01I don't know sir
39:03I can't
39:05think straight
39:06I don't know where I am in my mind
39:10sir
39:17I'll tell you what to do
39:23firstly though it had occurred to me that I should proceed formally against you
39:27I have decided against that
39:30for your sake and for the sake of the service
39:34thank you sir
39:39but that's not enough
39:42you have to stand on your own feet
39:45man
39:48what about the blokes you've served with?
39:49now you've let them down
39:51what do you think about them?
39:52the best blokes in the world sir
39:54because we're choosy
39:56we're down what have to be
39:57we don't have anybody in this lot
39:59it's made us what we are
40:01and we can face
40:03anything afterwards
40:04anything at all
40:06because of what we've been
40:09I believe that too sir
40:11then you have to live
40:12by what you believe
40:17that's all I can give you
40:21except to say that I've never doubted you have what it takes
40:25even though I've made mistakes myself
40:28came like a blow to the jaw sir
40:31floored me
40:33the floor is no place for you master
40:37it's the same for all of us
40:38I've got to go outside sometime too
40:42so we have to be experts at getting up off the floor
40:45all of us
40:46well I'll
40:49I'll come round in time I expect sir
40:53thanks
40:57would it be in order sir
40:58for me to request
41:00to remain in hero
41:02till the end of this commission
41:05I'll take advice on that
41:09carry on then master
41:11sir
41:14oh the
41:16bird of sears ahead of us at the moment
41:18you know about that
41:19well I've heard the buzz sir
41:22well I'll tell you something
41:24with a bit of luck
41:25she is not going to get home before us
41:27I've
41:28done my best to fix it
41:32I'll drink to that sir
41:38there we are
41:39finister
41:41jolly good asparagus to be had thereabouts
41:43did you know
41:47oh well
41:47it can't all be mime of information I suppose
41:53probably won't see him before he ties up
42:01what I guess is he'll turn up Washington
42:04drive straight in
42:07probably so
42:10in which case we want to be well out of the way
42:15out of the way
42:17I don't even want to see him on radar
42:19you have to be lost
42:22lost
42:22yes
42:25I don't want to be anywhere near that corner of the bank
42:29certainly not in the approaches to the channel when he is
42:36I know all about it
42:38the only thing I have available is the bodicea which is in the area
42:40it's either her or hero but since bodicea is nearer I'll send her
42:46yes
42:46I'll do it now
42:55about your oil slick signal
42:57make to bodicea divert and investigate
43:02repeat separately to hero and add
43:05always glad to do a favor for a lady
43:36I suppose you've come to apologize
43:38I suppose you've come to apologize
43:38I haven't felt that I've exactly carried you with me for some time
43:41I'm very sorry sir
43:42what is it
43:43signal from fleet operations officer Northwood sir
43:46no
43:52divert and investigate
43:54they can't
43:55they can't do it
43:57it's an errand boy's job
43:58perhaps they thought you were rather good at investigating oil slick sir
44:00don't be a fool hopper
44:01what about the bet man
44:02quite against queen's regulations sir
44:04perhaps you'd accept that as my official view
44:13yes
44:18fleet ops sir
44:21bodicea divert and investigate an oil slick
44:23yes
44:25yes
44:26it ends always glad to do a favor for a lady sir
44:29good
44:29now we can start winding on some revolutions
44:31yes sir but what does it mean sir
44:33it means fleet operations have found a convenient chore for him
44:36sir
44:37well I didn't tell you before because I didn't want to raise your hopes
44:40but the gamble was that fleet operations could find murky a job in the channel
44:45did you bring fleet ops and jib
44:47no not him
44:48his sister
44:51sister
44:51hmm
44:52I took a leaf out of murky's book and uh
44:54had a quiet word in what you might call the right quarter
44:58Peggy Carter
45:00Peggy Carter
45:03pilot
45:03go up to 26 knots
45:20yes
45:23at HMS bodicea sir
45:25entering harbor now
45:26splendid
45:39right
45:40fight the still
45:50carry on
45:52have a
46:31well done very formidable fuller thank you master make it quite clear that you are there to speak
46:37personally to the captain under my instructions you brought the satchel yes master and if commander
46:43merton asks why the satchel what are you going to say the captain rather thought it paying cash
46:49master glad to see his face sir oh i think we'll give the master that pleasure thank you sir carry
46:55on sir sir uh not going to keep the money of course sir you must be joking i wouldn't be
47:02surprised if we
47:02don't have a little party with a few goodbyes to say who lies again then eh heard from your party
47:15that's private lucky coming to the wedding all the lads just me about time just a smasher
47:33well on the whole
47:36not a bad way to end a foreign run
47:38you
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