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00:00Uh, uh, well, well, well.
00:35Good morning.
00:36Good morning.
00:37Good morning.
00:38Right, can I help you?
00:40Yes, your face, my arse.
00:44No, I said, can I help you?
00:47Oh, I see.
00:48Um, yes, I'd like some information, please.
00:50Yes?
00:51Well?
00:51Well, what?
00:52I'd like some information, please.
00:54Yes, but what sort of information would you like?
00:56Well, what sort have you got?
01:00Thank you, pardon?
01:00What sort of information have you got?
01:02Well, we have all sorts.
01:03Such as?
01:04Such as the average weight of an adult rabbit?
01:09Oh, I mean, I never knew that.
01:14You never knew what?
01:15I never knew rabbits had an average weight.
01:17Oh, yes.
01:19You've got any other information?
01:20Well, yes, but you have to ask me questions, you see.
01:22Oh, and then you'll tell me the answers.
01:24That's right.
01:24If I ask the questions.
01:25Right.
01:27Right, what's the name?
01:28Yes.
01:28What's the name of the man who taught me English at school?
01:34That really isn't the kind of thing.
01:36Ah, ah, yeah.
01:38All right, his name's Colin Drip.
01:40That's right.
01:42Drippy, you used to call him.
01:44Drippy.
01:45God, that takes me back a bit.
01:47Oh, now, yeah, there was a bloke in our class.
01:49What was his name?
01:51Adams, Atisham, Bennett, Connor, Brent, Hodson.
01:55Oh, Hodson, that's it, Ned Hodson.
01:57God, blubber, he used to drive old Drippy up the wall.
02:00Do you know what he used to do?
02:01Yes.
02:04I wonder what happened to him.
02:05He married a girl called Susan Trite, and they now live in Fenton, near Worcester.
02:10I don't think I ever met her.
02:11Yes, he did.
02:12July the 4th, 1972, on top of a number 29 bus going down the Garbouldersham Road.
02:18She told you about the Bay City Rollers, and you were in love with her until the following Wednesday.
02:26You've got quite a lot of information, then.
02:29We do try to provide a service.
02:31Anything else?
02:32Yes.
02:33Can you tell me...
02:34Yes.
02:36Can you tell me how to be happy?
02:39How to be happy?
02:40How to be happy.
02:42I'm afraid that information is restricted.
02:45But you do have it?
02:46Oh, yes.
02:47But it's restricted?
02:48That's right.
02:50Contented?
02:51Yes, thank you.
02:53No, have you got any information on how to be contented?
02:56Um, yes, we do have information on that.
02:58Well, can I have it, please?
02:59I'm afraid it is a secret.
03:00Oh, go on.
03:02Oh, all right.
03:03The secret of contentment is...
03:05Yes?
03:06...not to ask any questions.
03:10Oh, well...
03:11I, um, I haven't actually met her, of course.
03:14It's one of my biggest regrets, in many ways, as a matter of fact.
03:20Uh, what are those new ones that gets black and white?
03:24Um, but I was away on business when we got married.
03:27And, um, we've both been so frantically busy since then.
03:32Uh...
03:32It doesn't have to be like this, you know.
03:34I know what she looks like, of course.
03:36And the vehicle does belong to you, does it, sir?
03:39Yes.
03:39Mm-hmm.
03:40Were you driving it at the time?
03:42Uh, yes, I was, yes.
03:43All right.
03:44Just have your name, please, sir?
03:45Right, uh, hold on a second.
03:48Ready?
03:49Yes.
03:50My name is Derek.
03:57What are you doing?
03:59That's my name.
04:00What is?
04:01This.
04:02Derek.
04:06What?
04:08Derek.
04:10Is your name?
04:11Yes.
04:12What kind of name is that?
04:14Well, it's my name.
04:16A bit unusual, isn't it, Mr, uh...
04:22If I had a pound for every time someone had said that to me...
04:26Um...
04:26How do you spell...
04:29Mr...
04:31It's as it sounds.
04:34Yeah, but if you wouldn't mind spelling it for me...
04:36Well, I mean, can't you...
04:37I would be very grateful if you would spell it for me.
04:39All right, then.
04:40N-I-P-P-L hyphen E.
04:50Nipple.
04:52Beg your pardon?
04:54Nipple.
04:55Nipple?
04:56Where?
04:57What are you talking about?
04:58N-I-P-P-L-E...
05:01Hyphen E.
05:02Hyphen E.
05:03My book spells Nipple.
05:05It does not spell...
05:08Have you gone mad?
05:10What are you talking about?
05:11I thought the modern policeman was supposed to be a highly trained law enforcement unit.
05:15You can't even spell.
05:17All right, Mr Nipple, if I can have your address, please.
05:22Your address, please.
05:23You're talking to me?
05:24Yes.
05:24You want to know my address?
05:25Yes, please.
05:26Or do you want to know Mr Nipple's address?
05:29Your address, please.
05:30My address, right.
05:31My address is number 22...
05:36King's leg.
05:37Watch it.
05:38Watch it?
05:39Just watch it.
05:39Watch what, for heaven's sake?
05:40Do you realise that assaulting a police officer is a very serious offence?
05:43Yes, I imagine it probably is.
05:45Very serious.
05:46But giving your address to a policeman, on the other hand, probably isn't so serious.
05:48Or is it?
05:49Perhaps the law's changed since I last looked.
05:51Perhaps the Home Secretary has had to take stern measures against the rising tide of people
05:55giving their address to policemen whenever they're asked.
05:58All right, all right.
05:58Let's just check this with you, shall we, Mr...
06:02Yes?
06:03Your address is 22...
06:11King's Lynn.
06:12Oh, no, no.
06:13What's the matter with you?
06:15It's 22...
06:17King's Lynn.
06:19Oh, I'm sorry.
06:19I thought it was 22...
06:24King's Lynn.
06:24Well, it isn't.
06:28Handwriting.
06:28Well, get a typewriter.
06:30Well, I think we can afford a typewriter, sir.
06:33Do you know, it's funny.
06:33From some angles, it looks like 22...
06:41King's Lynn.
06:46Yeah, well, like you say, sir, we should get a typewriter.
06:50That was too hard.
06:52Well, you must admit, difficult address to get a hang of, isn't it?
06:55Never mind the frigging sketch.
06:56That was too hard.
06:57That really hurt.
06:58Oh, dear James.
07:02He's just a child, really.
07:07To another angle, it might easily look like a liquid.
07:10Until you drink it.
07:11So let's talk instead about flexibility of language.
07:14Linguistic elasticity, if you like.
07:16Yes, I think I said earlier that our language, English...
07:18As spoken by us.
07:19As we speak it, yes, certainly, defines it.
07:21We are defined by our language, if you will.
07:24Hello.
07:25We're talking about language.
07:28Perhaps I can illustrate my point.
07:30Let me at least try.
07:32Here's a question.
07:38Um...
07:38What is it?
07:39Ah, um, well, my question is this.
07:43Is our language, English, capable...
07:46Is English capable of sustaining demagoguery?
07:51Demagoguery?
07:51Demagoguery.
07:52And by demagoguery, you mean?
07:53By demagoguery, I mean demagoguery.
07:55I thought so.
07:55I mean, um, highly charged, oratory, persuasive, whipping-up rhetoric.
08:00Listen to me, listen to me.
08:01If Hitler had been British, would we, under similar circumstances, have been moved, charged
08:07out, fired up by his inflammatory speeches, or would we simply have laughed?
08:11Is English too ironic to sustain Hitlerian styles?
08:16Would his language simply run false in our ears?
08:18We're talking about things ringing false in our ears.
08:21Um, may I compartmentalise?
08:23I hate to, but may I?
08:24May I?
08:26Is our language a function of our British cynicism, tolerance, resistance to false emotion, humour,
08:33and so on?
08:33Or do those qualities come extrinsically, extrinsically, um, from the language itself?
08:40It's a chicken and egg problem.
08:41We're talking about chickens, we're talking about eggs.
08:44Um, let me start a leveret here.
08:46Um, there's language, and there's speech.
08:50Um, there's, there's chess, and there's a game of chess.
08:55Mark the difference for me.
08:56Mark it, please.
08:58We've moved on to chess.
09:01Imagine a piano keyboard, um, 88 keys, only 88, and yet, and yet, hundreds of new melodies,
09:07new tunes, new harmonies, are being composed upon hundreds of different keyboards every
09:10day in Dorset alone.
09:13Our language, tiger, our language, hundreds of thousands of available words, frillions
09:20of legitimate new ideas, hmm, so that I can say the following sentence and be utterly
09:25sure that nobody has ever said it before in the history of human communication.
09:29Hold the newsreader's nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers.
09:38Perfectly ordinary words, but never before put in that precise order.
09:44A unique child delivered of a unique mother.
09:52And yet, oh, and yet, we all of us spent all our days saying to each other the same things
09:58time after weary time.
10:00I love you, don't go in there, get out, you have no right to say that, stop it, why should
10:04I, that hurt, help, Marjorie is dead.
10:09That surely is a thought to take out for a cream tea on a raining Sunday afternoon.
10:13So, so do you, language is more than just a means of communication?
10:15Oh, of course it is, of course it is, of course it is, of course it is, of course it
10:17is.
10:19Language is my mother, my father, my husband, my brother, my sister, my whore, my mistress,
10:22my check-out girl, language is a complimentary moist lemon-scented cleansing square or a
10:27handy freshen-up pipette.
10:29Language is the breath of God.
10:32Language is the dew on a fresh apple.
10:34It's the soft rain of dust that falls into a shaft of morning light as you pluck from
10:38an old bookshelf a half-forgotten book of erotic memoirs.
10:43Language is the creek on a stair.
10:45It's a spluttering match held to a frosted pane.
10:47It's, it's a half-remembered childhood birthday party.
10:50It's the warm, wet, trusting touch of a leaking nappy, er, the hulk of a charred panzer,
10:56the underside of a granite boulder, the first downy growth on the upper lip of a Mediterranean
11:00girl.
11:01Er, it's cobwebs, long since overrun by an old Wellington boot.
11:06No, no.
11:07No, no.
11:46No, no.
11:47America, America
11:52The States
11:56States
11:57The States
12:00The States
12:03The States
12:06America
12:10America
12:20Well, thank you.
12:22That was the unmistakable sound.
12:24All right, now, my next guest wrote his first novel way back in 1972.
12:30The Year of Flair, Susie Quattro, The Glitter Band, all that stuff.
12:33He's been writing ever since.
12:35He's got a new one coming out now.
12:36He's a bit of a cult dude with the Sapporo and Sashimi set.
12:39So let's now say a big high to Richard Morley.
12:52Take the weight off your paragraphs.
12:57Now, this novel, what's it called?
12:59Well, the novel I've just written is called The Emperor of Disgust.
13:03Emperor of Disgust. Well, that sounds pretty heavy.
13:05Heavy?
13:06So, what's it about?
13:08Well, haven't you read it?
13:10Well, I mean, for the viewers at home. I mean, obviously they haven't read it.
13:13Well, how come they've done it? It hasn't been published till tomorrow, is it?
13:17Well, it's not very easy to describe the plot exactly, because it's quite complicated.
13:21Yeah, highbrow stuff, I'll bet. So, where's it set?
13:25Well, it's in a number of, you know, different countries over several centuries.
13:29Yeah, yeah.
13:30Tell me, do you use a word processor?
13:33It's something I've always wanted to know about writers.
13:35You know, do you use a pencil, pen, typewriter, what?
13:38Well, I do use a word processor, yes.
13:40I used to use a typewriter, but I discovered that...
13:42Yeah, how many novels have you had, in fact, actually published?
13:45Well, The Emperor of Disgust will be my seventh novel.
13:49Seventh?
13:49So, you take it pretty seriously, then?
13:52Well, yes, I do. Yes, I take it very seriously.
13:54It's my living, you see, it's my job.
13:56Yeah.
13:57Where do you get your characters from? Real life?
13:59Well, it's, I suppose, a sort of amalgam, in ways.
14:01You're going to put me in one of your books, are you?
14:04Well, I think I might, actually, yes.
14:07Yeah?
14:09I have to say, I think you're one of the most repellent
14:11and flatulent-minded people in my life.
14:13In many respects, ideal fodder for a novelist.
14:19I don't know what you're laughing at.
14:20I find you vapid, irrelevant, and a waste.
14:24Yeah, now, seriously, Richard...
14:26I am being serious.
14:27I am being serious, you repulsive ball of spittle.
14:30And who told you you could call me Richard?
14:32Hmm?
14:33You know, I mean, you're rotting in hell
14:34and you haven't the first idea about it, have you?
14:37Now, your last book...
14:39Well, last book, you don't know anything
14:40about any of the books I've written
14:41except what that daffy researcher you sent round tells you.
14:43Your head is so full of pappy drivel and greasy bigotry
14:46and, you know, crass-brash ignorance.
14:50There's not room in it left for a single idea, is there?
14:53This is brilliant.
14:55Oh, it's brilliant, is it?
14:56I suppose it's good television, is it?
14:58I suppose it shows you at the cutting edge
15:00of dangerous broadcasting.
15:01Well, let me tell you,
15:02I found you about as dangerous as a chocolate hobnob.
15:07Look at you, sitting there like a fat, smug...
15:10Oh, I've forgotten the next bit now.
15:14No, no.
15:14Oh, look, Vince, we go live on air in ten minutes.
15:17He's supposed to know this.
15:19Come on!
15:20Let's have a script.
15:21Script, come on.
15:22Ten minutes, come on.
15:24It's a fat, smug git who's just won a BAFTA.
15:27Look at you, sitting there like a fat, smug git
15:29who's just won a BAFTA.
15:30Have you any idea how degrading
15:33and totally meaning to the human spirit
15:35people like you really are?
15:37All right, then, uh, I'll ask you, you know,
15:39where the book's on sale, I'm actually costs.
15:41Um, then we'll play you out.
15:43After that's a bit of chat.
15:44Blah-de-blah-de-blah-de-blah.
15:46And what's next?
15:50Hello, Control.
15:51Oh, hello, Tony.
15:52How are you today?
15:54Very well, thank you, as it happens, Control.
15:56Good.
15:58Yes.
16:00So, what can I do you for?
16:04Well, this just came through Flash from Berlin, sir.
16:07I thought perhaps you might like to take a look at it.
16:09Flash from Berlin, eh?
16:11Yes, perhaps I'd better had.
16:12We've got quite a few important agents in Berlin, haven't we?
16:15So it might be something quite urgent, I expect.
16:18Yes.
16:19Yes.
16:20Yes.
16:27I see Valerie has decoded it for me.
16:30That's very kind of her.
16:31Saves me quite a lot of work.
16:33I must remember to thank her.
16:34That would certainly be a nice gesture, sir.
16:38Well, I don't know if you had a chance to glance at this
16:41before thoughtfully bringing it in to me, Tony.
16:43But, um, it's quite an urgent communication
16:47from Firefly, our network chief in Berlin.
16:49Yes, I did just have time to glance at the codename.
16:52Firefly is under deep cover.
16:54Has something quite important happened to make him break it?
16:57Yes, I'm afraid it has.
16:59It seems as if the entire network
17:01has been penetrated by an enemy agent.
17:04Oh, no.
17:06I'm afraid so.
17:07It seems that Glow Worm was shot trying to escape into the west.
17:11Um, Firefly himself is holed up in a safe house
17:14somewhere towards the east of that city.
17:16So, the whole network's been blown.
17:18Eh, I'm afraid so.
17:20It's a thundering nuisance.
17:22It really is thundering.
17:24Yes.
17:25I'm severely vexed.
17:26I don't mind telling you.
17:29I expect a coffee would come in welcome, then.
17:33Well, it couldn't hurt, could it?
17:34No, not one.
17:36I'll get Valerie onto it.
17:38That's ever so kind of you, Tony.
17:42Let's hope it's not going to be another one of those days, eh, Control?
17:45Like Thursday.
17:46Oh, that's all we need.
17:48I don't know.
17:49See you then, Tony.
17:50Bye.
17:53Ooh, suck it.
18:19What are you doing?
18:22What on earth are you doing?
18:25What do you mean?
18:27What is that cloth cap there for?
18:29Well, it's for the money.
18:31Money?
18:32What money?
18:32What are you talking about?
18:33What are you doing?
18:35Well, I'm busking, aren't I?
18:37Busking?
18:37Busking?
18:38I'm busking.
18:39Busking what?
18:40Well, I play the mouth organ and people give me money.
18:43They give you money?
18:45People give you money for playing the mouth organ like that?
18:49They actually give you money?
18:51They pay you?
18:52Well, some of them do.
18:54There's no harm in that.
18:55No harm in that?
18:57No harm in that, he says.
18:59You sit there, sprawl against a paving stone, blowing through spittle, and people actually
19:06pay you?
19:07It's unbelievable.
19:08Oh, look, if you don't like it, you don't have to listen or give me anything, you know.
19:11Not like it?
19:12How could I like it?
19:13It's the most pathetic noise I've ever heard.
19:16And people give you money for it?
19:18Well, it's kindness as well, isn't it?
19:20They're just being kind.
19:21Just being kind?
19:22Just being kind?
19:23What do you mean, just being kind?
19:25If they were just being kind, they'd put a bullet through your head, wouldn't they?
19:30That's what I call being kind.
19:32Put you out of your misery.
19:34You're very insulting, you know.
19:35Yes, I know.
19:36Of course I'm insulting.
19:38I'm very insulting indeed.
19:40Especially to smelly, squalid, poor people who can't play the harmonica properly.
19:45We share the same planet.
19:47Why can't you let me be?
19:48Share the same planet?
19:50Have you gone mad share the same planet?
19:53What are you talking about?
19:54The planet I inhabit is full of fast cars, restaurants, holidays in Barbados, and fine wines.
20:01Your planet is full of bottles of meths, howling harmonicas, and grimy doss houses.
20:06It's not the same planet at all.
20:07How dare you suggest otherwise?
20:09Well, you may not think it's the same planet, but it is.
20:12You couldn't have one without the other.
20:13Couldn't have one without the other?
20:14What are you talking about?
20:15Are you saying I depend upon you?
20:17Of course you do.
20:17All your wealth is entirely propped up on the rotting hulk of my poverty.
20:22And one day, it will give way and you'll come crashing down with it.
20:25Rotting hulk?
20:26Rotting hulk?
20:27Have you gone mad rotting hulk?
20:30Is this communist talk?
20:32Are you a communist?
20:33Do you want me to call a policeman?
20:35It's a crime to be a communist anyway.
20:36I'm not.
20:38Not a crime to be a communist?
20:41Of course it's a crime to be a communist.
20:43This is 1989.
20:44Communists are the enemies of democracy.
20:47They should be locked away.
20:48Well, what's so good about democracy?
20:50What's so good about democracy?
20:53What's so good about democracy, ladies and gentlemen?
20:56Democracy is freedom of thought and belief and speech.
21:00That's what's so good about it, you degraded heap of smelliness.
21:04Get out of my way before I set fire to you.
21:07Just on a job, clean yourself up.
21:09It's demeaning to have the harmonica played at one by a heap of litter.
21:15Here, hold on, hold on.
21:16Hold on, hold on, what do you mean hold on?
21:19Have you ever seen a television programme called On the Streets with Bibby?
21:23On the Streets with Bibby?
21:25On the Streets with Bibby?
21:28Oh, you mean the one with the hidden cameras?
21:31That's the one, yeah.
21:32Oh!
21:33You're not Bibby Devis, are you?
21:35Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
21:39Oh, are you really Bibby Pevis?
21:42No.
21:45Well, I might have been.
21:48Today we're going to be concentrating on the hands.
21:51Now, we use our hands so often in our everyday lives
21:54that it's all too easy to take them for granted
21:57and just forget about them altogether.
21:59And that could obviously be fairly dangerous.
22:01So, first of all, as always, make sure you're absolutely comfortable.
22:05Now, this is very important, otherwise you may find it rather uncomfortable.
22:09So, very comfortable, very relaxed.
22:14Now, just watch me this time and then we'll try and do it together.
22:19We start with the right hand on the knee
22:21and we move the hand, like this.
22:28And rest.
22:30Now, you'll have noticed that I did the exercise twice.
22:34It's very important that you don't try to do it twice in one go.
22:37You should always aim to build up the routine gradually.
22:41Never overdo it.
22:43Now, try it with me this time.
22:47And rest.
22:49Now, be very careful when you put your hand back on your knee
22:52because you could so easily bruise yourself.
22:55It's not a bad idea to cover the knee with a few sheets of cotton wool
23:00so as to avoid internal hemorrhaging.
23:03And if you don't have any cotton wool,
23:05a continental duvet will do almost as well.
23:08But do please make sure it's a soft one.
23:10Now, if you have any doubts about your ability to perform this exercise,
23:14do please consult your GP.
23:16But make sure he's a gentle GP.
23:19Tomorrow we'll concentrate on the left hand.
23:23I'm sorry.
23:24I do not speak English.
23:33Calm down, John.
23:34We're not going to get anywhere if I run it.
23:35Don't tell me to calm down.
23:37Damn it, Peter.
23:38I want answers and I want them fast.
23:40Answers?
23:41A bit late for all that, don't you think?
23:43What the hell's happened to you, Peter?
23:45You know as well as I do,
23:46there's no such word as a bit late for all that, don't you think?
23:50Agreed.
23:51So, shoot.
23:51What have we got here?
23:53Marjorie wants control of Derwent Enterprises.
23:55And from where I'm sitting, she's going to get it.
23:58Marjorie.
23:59Jesus, Peter.
24:00Marjorie's just a kid.
24:02Tell that to the board.
24:04You watch me.
24:05I might just do that.
24:07Well, good luck to you.
24:09Meaning?
24:10Meaning they'll laugh in your face, John, like they did me.
24:13Marjorie's got them eating out of her hand.
24:15Then I'll go to old man Derwent himself.
24:18Oh, come off it, John.
24:20No one's even spoken to old man Derwent in years.
24:23A man's a recluse.
24:24It's over, I tell you.
24:25Marjorie's wild and she hasn't even fired a shot.
24:28Listen to me, Peter.
24:29Marjorie may have won the war,
24:31but she hasn't won the battle.
24:35Damn it, John.
24:36You're up to something.
24:37I've seen that luck before.
24:38You're damn right I'm up to something.
24:40Damn it.
24:41What?
24:42What are you up to?
24:42Something.
24:44I thought so.
24:45I want you on my side for this, Peter.
24:47I'm yours, John.
24:48You know that.
24:48I haven't finished yet.
24:49It's absolutely mandatory that you buy into my way of working.
24:53Things could get a little hairy over the next 48.
24:56You know me, John.
24:57Hairy is as hairy does.
24:59Good to hear you.
25:01Now, call O'Neill.
25:03Get him to postpone the meeting.
25:04What shall I tell him?
25:05Tell him any damn thing you like.
25:07Just buy me some time.
25:11It's good to have you back, John.
25:13Save the pretty speeches till later on, Peter.
25:15You've got a long night ahead of us.
25:16Just like old times, eh?
25:18Sure, Peter.
25:18Sure.
25:19You know, it's funny.
25:20I drove through High Wycombe just the other day.
25:23Yes, Peter here.
25:24Get me O'Neill.
25:25And fast.
25:25And fast.
25:27Say again?
25:28Damn it.
25:29What?
25:29O'Neill's out of town.
25:31Can't be reached.
25:31Damn it.
25:32To hell I'm back.
25:33Damn blast and double damn.
25:35We're going to try Amsterdam.
25:36No.
25:37But, I mean, come on, Peter.
25:39You're not thinking straight.
25:40Amsterdam is too obvious.
25:42Marjorie was never obvious.
25:44That's why I loved her.
25:47My God, here's a turn-up.
25:49I never thought I'd hear an old war horse like you talk about love.
25:52Love's nothing to be afraid of, Peter.
25:54You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the boardroom and the bedroom are just two sides of the
25:59same agenda.
26:02I wonder.
26:04Try me.
26:04Shoot.
26:05Put it together.
26:06If we were to act fast, a block of part-paid ordinaries funneled through Geneva.
26:12A carefully staged pre-release of IDL preference stock through the back door, underpinned by a notional rights issue.
26:20Who the hell would be wincing then?
26:23Damn it, John.
26:24It's starting to add up.
26:26You want me to try Sydney?
26:27Stay awake, Peter.
26:28Peter, he'll be in Australia by now.
26:31Damn it!
26:33But, William, won't they trace it back to us?
26:35A ploy like that?
26:36No.
26:36It'll have Seagrove's handwriting all over it.
26:38And back again.
26:40But that still leaves us with Marjorie.
26:43Yeah.
26:44Marjorie.
26:45What's she after?
26:47I gave up trying to understand Marjorie years ago, Peter.
26:51Yeah?
26:52Women.
26:53Marjorie's not women, Peter.
26:55No, of course not, John.
26:56I beg your pardon, I meant no offence.
26:57Something I've always been meaning to ask you.
27:00How did you manage to keep Nancy for so long?
27:05I've never been Nancy, John.
27:10Your wife, Peter.
27:11Oh, Nancy!
27:12Oh, you know.
27:14You take the rough with the smooth, you do your best.
27:16You cover all the angles.
27:18You keep on grafting long hours.
27:20You think you know, but of course you don't.
27:22They talk about stress.
27:22I tell them I'm married to it.
27:25You have a daughter, I believe.
27:27Yeah.
27:27Yeah.
27:28Henrietta.
27:28Did he?
27:29Did he?
27:29I'm sorry to hear that.
27:34That must have hurt.
27:35That must have hurt like hell on a jet ski.
27:38You never had kids of your own, I believe.
27:40You're wrong, Peter.
27:41You're so damn wrong.
27:42Oh, I thank you, pardon.
27:43You're standing in my children right now.
27:48I think I may have misheard that, John.
27:51The company, Peter.
27:52Oh, the company.
27:53Yeah.
27:53I gave this company everything I've got.
27:56Damn it!
27:56New York should have run by now.
27:58Relax, John.
27:59It's still early.
28:00Yeah, but it's not going to stay early for long.
28:03New York will come through, John.
28:04I know they will.
28:05I hope so.
28:06I hope so.
28:06There are six million people out there.
28:11Really?
28:12What do they want?
28:14Who knows?
28:17Peter?
28:18What?
28:19I say we go with it.
28:21Damn it, I agree.
28:24If New York rings, tell them a penalty.
28:27Right.
28:28I'll get on to Susan.
28:29Now, let's get the hell out of here.
28:32Are you sure?
28:32Yeah, yeah, yeah.
28:34I don't think even we two can maintain a level of intense work without coming down for a space.
28:39Damn it, you're right.
28:40Besides, I could use a drink.
29:09I don't think so.
29:14I don't think so.