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Bookish Season 1 Episode 5
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00:00So, can you use a gun?
00:23I prefer fists. Who will I be fighting?
00:27Our enemies.
00:29Have you ever been to prison?
00:32Why do you ask?
00:34The terms you're willing to take.
00:36What did you do?
00:39My pals saw something in a shop window that I wanted.
00:43So I drove into it.
00:45It's called a smash and grab.
00:46Yes, I know. I do read the papers.
00:48It says here you've recently worked for a film actor.
00:52Yes.
00:53As his bodyguard?
00:55Amongst other things.
00:57But before that, in this bookshop...
01:06Why did you leave there?
01:09I didn't care for him.
01:11And you're happy with this arrangement?
01:14A book has his life. I have mine. It works.
01:17I'm amazed more people don't do it.
01:20I knew him.
01:23Your father. I knew him before the war.
01:26You knew him?
01:32Jack?
01:34No, this is... I can't... I can't...
01:38Jack, where are you going?
01:43But your previous employer trusted you?
01:46Yes.
01:47Despite your history?
01:49Because of it.
01:51Perhaps.
01:52And should we trust you?
02:00Well, I suppose you'll find out...
02:02When the next assassin comes.
02:04The End
02:21Nora.
02:22I never did it.
02:23Never did what?
02:25Made shillings out of ice and put them in the meter.
02:29What's all this corrosion, then?
02:33That's rust.
02:34Yes, it is.
02:37Cold, isn't it?
02:44We could burn a few.
02:45No, we couldn't.
02:46Not even the Georgette Hayes?
02:48No.
02:49Really, Nora.
02:50For someone so new to the pleasures of reading,
02:51you're fast becoming a terrible snob.
03:00What is it?
03:05Feels quiet without him.
03:16No.
03:21God bless the waltz again.
03:23And all who sail in her.
03:26Oh, God.
03:27Jesus.
03:28Oh, bloody hell.
03:31Do forgive me, my dear.
03:32I seem to be in a state of advanced repression.
03:35Oh, I had noticed, Victor.
03:36Just stay there.
03:38I'll fetch a cloth.
03:39Yes.
03:45Secret, sir.
03:46Dunhill or capsule?
03:50Sir?
03:53Can we talk?
03:55Thank you, sir.
04:06Here.
04:07Spit in.
04:09Oh.
04:21Please enjoy.
04:24Not enough lemon juice.
04:26Too much ice.
04:27And I did not like the way you shook it.
04:31Too violent.
04:33Of course.
04:35Excuse me.
04:39They think I'm too violent.
04:42It's a violent art.
04:46Good thing I didn't waste any gin on them, then.
04:50You're a quick learner.
04:51I'm glad you've fallen on your feet.
05:04I had no idea you'd be here.
05:06We haven't seen you in weeks.
05:07How are you?
05:08Look.
05:09I haven't got long.
05:10What...
05:11What...
05:12What do you want?
05:14Oh, Jack.
05:16This is silly.
05:18We miss you.
05:19We both hoped you'd found a safe birth in Archangel Lane.
05:22A home.
05:24Booker me.
05:25Well, our arrangement is unusual, I know.
05:27But as I said to you, when we first met...
05:29Love is where it falls.
05:30Hmm.
05:32And how does my father fit into all of that?
05:37One of Mr Book's little dalliances, was he?
05:40Well, Book needs to talk to you about your father properly.
05:43Look, our marriage protects us both.
05:46Don't we have the right to be happy?
05:47Happy?
05:49Well, gallivanting off into the night.
05:50In with God knows who and you.
05:53Give me that rock, Captain.
05:54Is that the latest, is it?
05:55Fellow with a moustache?
05:57It's Captain Ornion before the war.
05:59Oh.
06:00Dreamboat of the officer's mess, was he?
06:01Hmm.
06:02Something like that.
06:04Listing slightly now, though, eh?
06:06Slotty!
06:08You don't half pick'em.
06:11Mrs Bug.
06:12Well, we better not keep him waiting.
06:15Excuse me.
06:17Oh, come to my room and help me dry off.
06:29Unwet, woman.
06:31Give me the damn cloth.
06:32Come on.
06:33Get your ruddy hands off me.
06:35I won't have it.
06:36For shame.
06:37Oh, dear, sir.
06:38Oh, you've had a right mishap.
06:40Who's this?
06:41Wet trousers are against the dress code, you know?
06:43This is the Walsingham.
06:44So, why don't you go back to your room,
06:46take the wet pants off and have a little lay down?
06:49I have never been so insulted.
06:51Sure you have been?
06:52A fella like you.
06:53Ah, Victor Orr.
06:54My old friend.
06:55I can't leave you alone for five minutes, can I?
06:58That a girl can't take a joke.
07:00Sit down.
07:01Uh, can we have a couple of girls?
07:03What do you call them?
07:04Four serum sours.
07:06For the two ladies.
07:07For their royal highnesses, you men.
07:10These are on me, ladies.
07:12And may I say, you are looking superbly Balkan tonight.
07:16I salute the house of Scutari.
07:19Whichever commissar lives in it now.
07:22Take a good look, Trotty.
07:24That's what happens to you when you get dethroned by the Reds.
07:27Oh!
07:28Oh, dear.
07:30Allow me.
07:32So embarrassing.
07:33I do apologize.
07:34Not at all.
07:35Not at all.
07:36Look after the pennies,
07:37and the pounds will look after themselves.
07:40What?
07:48I, er,
07:49had a bit of luck on the horses.
07:52You, er,
07:53you know, Ascot?
07:54Very well, sir.
07:57How's the going?
07:58Oh, er,
08:00good to firm.
08:02After this, shall we, er...
08:04normally my favorite ellipsis,
08:08but I just think we should call it a night now, Victor.
08:11Oh, Trotty.
08:13You're no fun anymore.
08:15It's amazing how different things can look without the benefit of the blackout.
08:21Here's to Joe Stalin's next stroke.
08:24Tinkety-tonk.
08:25Tinkety-tonk.
08:35Victor!
08:55Oh, there's a lot,
08:57little blackout.
08:58You're sick!
08:59You're not looking for!"
09:01ugg stitches
09:08Seen
09:18Ascot
09:19าย
09:55This is a Deutschmark.
09:58Yes.
10:00This is Chinese.
10:03Oh.
10:04And this is a button.
10:09It's a very nice button.
10:12Nora, have you been taking shillings from this tin?
10:15No.
10:16Remind me, what's the price of a green penguin crime novel?
10:22A shilling.
10:25Ah.
10:27That's better.
10:36Ah.
10:38Success.
10:38Oh, it's you.
11:05You ready to commit an affray, miss?
11:08No, Sergeant.
11:08She was just, um, browsing.
11:11I hate to seem inquisitive, but why are you here?
11:13There's a chap being killed at the walls in them.
11:15Poisoned.
11:16Dead in a pile of pound notes on the floor of the river bath.
11:19Oh.
11:19That's just our sort of thing.
11:21Don't get too excited.
11:22The inspector wants a book.
11:24A G-book, Esquire.
11:25There's some foreign royalty involved, it seems.
11:29He says, uh, do you have anything on the Balkan rules of revenge?
11:34Specifically, the canon of Skatari.
11:37How too, too ridiculously obscure.
11:41Do you have it?
11:41Almost certainly.
11:42Mm.
11:43And, uh, 504, he says.
11:46504.
11:47Room with a view?
11:48Well, it's all right for some, I suppose.
11:50Mrs. Book's already checked in.
11:52Why?
11:53Oh, uh, she's one of the suspects.
11:56Trouble in paradise, he says so.
12:26Oh, what a beauty.
12:32Yes.
12:32Might be one of those clues.
12:34We like those.
12:36Do you mind?
12:37Yes.
12:40Do people really say, what's your poison when they're at the bar?
12:44No idea.
12:45I don't get out much.
12:46What do you mean?
12:47Look, we're at the well-singham.
12:49So's he.
12:51Oh, yeah.
12:52Let's, uh, let's get him somewhere more private.
12:54Yep.
12:56Not the main entrance, please, Inspector.
13:11I'm sorry we can't be more discreet.
13:13May I suggest the service corridor?
13:15Oh, yes.
13:16Yes.
13:17Thank you, Mr. Kind.
13:18Uh, nothing to stop by reopening the bar tomorrow, I think.
13:20Good evening, sir.
13:50Evening.
13:51You have a reservation?
13:52Uh, no, my wife.
13:54Your wife?
13:56Mrs. Book.
13:56Have you seen her?
13:57I'm afraid she may be distressed.
13:59No, Book.
14:00Oh.
14:005-0-4, Freddie.
14:02Uh, no, I'll keep this one.
14:05What's happened, darling?
14:05What's this about a corpse?
14:07Why have I been scouring my stacks for books of Balkan blood feuds?
14:10Oh, I'm not proud of myself.
14:14There was champagne.
14:15A date that races, riddle me re in the 2.30.
14:19Cocktails, more cocktails than then.
14:22Shorty, we live our own lives.
14:25That was always the deal.
14:26Self-flagellation is never helpful, and not nearly as much fun as someone doing it to you.
14:30Who was he?
14:32Victor.
14:34Or.
14:35Or.
14:36With two R's.
14:37Naval captain, married, had met him before.
14:39In an air raid, 41.
14:42He, uh, made a pass at me in...
14:45In...
14:45Where?
14:46Please don't make me say the F word.
14:49Foils.
14:50Yes.
14:51Oh, trotty.
14:52I just fancied a good time.
14:55Well, there's nothing wrong with that.
14:56You turned out to be the most awful bore.
14:58When is he now?
14:59In the morgue.
15:01Oh.
15:02One last night on the tiles.
15:04And there's something else.
15:06Book.
15:07Thank God you're here.
15:08You ready?
15:09For what?
15:09To interview royalty.
15:11It's a little irregular, isn't it?
15:13I don't care.
15:13They terrify me.
15:14I'm not going in there alone.
15:16Haven't you taken their fingerprints?
15:18I've not got Morris to do that.
15:19I may be a coward, but I'm not a fool.
15:21I have our primary text.
15:24The Canoon of Scutari.
15:25Oh, no, no, no.
15:26Looks expensive.
15:27Will it pay for our suite, Inspector?
15:29Oh, the late Captain had taken care of that, Mrs. Book.
15:33You're in the room next to the princesses.
15:35Oh, what are they like?
15:36Oh, they're glamorous in a sort of disappointed and stateless kind of way.
15:41Perhaps it's time I kept a closer eye on them.
15:43And an ear, too.
15:44I should use one of those little glasses they keep by the sink.
15:51So, will this help us find he'd done it?
16:00It's a book of customary laws for remote mountain communities without a magistrate or justice.
16:05The village elders consult the text and then tell you how much reiki to provide for your daughter's wedding,
16:11what to do if your bees escape and build a nest on your labor's land, that sort of thing.
16:15And who you're allowed to kill if somebody kills your cousin.
16:20Ah.
16:25Well, what language did you think it was going to be in?
16:27Well, we have three native speakers on the premises, but they're all suspect.
16:31Who's the third?
16:32Oh, he's a rather good-looking cocktail waiter.
16:34Well, don't fret too much.
16:37The dutiful Teutonic scholar did publish a translation of it in the German.
16:40Oh, well, you certainly speak the German.
16:42In his sleep sometimes.
16:44So, where is this translation?
16:46Nora's looking for it now.
16:47It must be somewhere in the law section or social science or etiquette or propping open the door.
16:53You said do something else?
16:55Yes.
16:55These princesses have been given gainful employment to one of the capital's dispossessed.
17:01Oh, yes.
17:03I know.
17:06Oh, yes.
17:06Oh, yes.
17:06Oh, yes.
17:07Oh, yes.
17:07Oh, yes.
17:07Oh, yes.
17:07Oh, yes.
17:07Oh, yes.
17:07Oh, yes.
17:07Oh, yes.
17:07Oh, yes.
17:08Oh, yes.
17:08Oh, yes.
17:09Oh, yes.
17:09Oh, yes.
17:10Oh, yes.
17:11Oh, yes.
17:11Oh, yes.
17:12Oh, yes.
17:14I'll turn down the bedspread.
17:16Sergeant Morris will be along soon to take a statement.
17:19Yes, of course.
17:20I'd be grateful, Mrs. Book, if you didn't leave the hotel.
17:23It's perfectly all right, Inspector.
17:25You have to do your duty.
17:26I'm here to see their royal highnesses.
17:40Enter.
17:45Oh, dog.
17:48Where is it?
17:51I mean, straight-grained, Morocco-bound folio with a lot of academic monographs bound inside, slightly foxed according to the catalogue.
18:04You're no help.
18:18They're coming, they're scotari.
18:22Oh!
18:23What would I do without you?
18:43Oh, please.
18:45Time for a little chat, Mrs Book.
18:58Poof.
19:11I beg your pardon?
19:15I apologize for it, that we have sunk so low. Remember the great banketing table through here, hmm? Chairs made with birch. As silvery as the snow on the mountaintops. Upholstered with dumb masks or so.
19:33Oh, we've been in more awkward situations than this, haven't we, Inspector?
19:36That we have book.
19:37So, which is the policeman? You or this book?
19:41Well, he's taking notes for me. Helping with the...
19:44Uh, Pittman's shorthand. So useful.
19:46Tall and red-headed. Like the poppies of our homeland.
19:53I realize that this will be very difficult for you, your Royal Highnesses. Uh, but if there's any detail you can recall, however small, it may help us discover who killed Captain Awe.
20:04That is easy. I killed him.
20:07He did what?
20:09It is true. I switched the glasses, he drank the poison meant for one of us. We have a routine, my sister and I, to cause a distraction.
20:19I salute the house of Scutari. Whichever commissar lives in it now. Take a good look, Trotty. That's what happens to you if you get dethroned by the Reds.
20:28Oh! Oh dear.
20:30It's so embarrassing. I do apologize.
20:33Not at all, not at all. Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves, what?
20:39It is a habit, a necessary precaution. Like this.
20:44This was the third attempt on our life since we left New York. There was a steward on the Berengaria.
20:52Can I turn over your room, Madame? So transparent.
20:56And that Salvation Army woman outside the Opera, shaking her tin box.
21:01She denied everything, of course.
21:03Who do you think is trying to kill you?
21:05The communists, of course.
21:06Opera?
21:07Um, but they already have your palaces, your estates.
21:10Our summer house on the Adriatic. There is a lake there. When the rising sun touches it, it is like the blush.
21:19In the spring, our country was proclaimed a people's republic. They want...
21:23What's the expression? A big finish. Ha!
21:28Hence the bodyguard.
21:30And how are you finding him?
21:32As he failed to prevent an attempt on our lives, I would say he has not covered himself in glory.
21:38Don't the communists also have your other sister?
21:42We do not speak of her.
21:43Senille. Yes, the youngest. She renounced her title.
21:46We do not speak of her. Red scum. She betrayed her birthright, her country, her family.
21:55Take it.
21:57Of course, if this does turn out to be the case, then your switching of the drinks will not be without consequence.
22:05We are used to being pilloried. We will take whatever comes to us.
22:08Right. Right.
22:11Now then, in your statement, you said something about this murder being written about in the Canoon of Scutari.
22:16What does that mean?
22:18It means that the killing like this follows certain customary principles.
22:22It means the first thing you must do is arrest that cocktail waiter.
22:27Ismael Guzzili.
22:28Guzzili.
22:29Gu... Gu... Guzz... Guzzili.
22:30Gu... Guzzili.
22:31Gu... Guzzili.
22:32Why?
22:33He's from the mountains. These people know the rules of revenge. They are obsessed with them. You must arrest him.
22:38And you must bring in any others on the staff.
22:41Other... mountain men?
22:43Yes.
22:48Well, thank you so much. This has been most helpful.
22:51So you will do as we say?
22:53No, I will not.
22:54Why?
22:55Because, Princess, I am not your subject.
22:57And in this country a man is innocent until proven guilty.
23:01Whatever altitude he was born at.
23:03Well, sometimes, Inspector, you make me proud to be from the gutter.
23:16I never really thought of myself as a Republican.
23:19Well, it's the war that changed the sort.
23:22I never really thought of myself as a Jew.
23:24You ever come here during the Blitz?
23:27I had to let you in if there was a radon, even without a tie.
23:32We used to come down to the lower bar.
23:34It's known as the Fruit Cellar.
23:37That was quite the mixed grill.
23:40No.
23:41Well, I can't go.
23:52Check out housekeeping.
23:54You can't change the town.
23:55Hmm.
24:01There's a lot back there.
24:03you did nothing you're supposed to be my boyfriend and you did nothing what do you
24:17expect me to do nothing is he the one from this morning yeah came at me in a silk dressing game
24:27with everything pointed north his name is captain Victor or not anymore they already gave me a
24:35warning what yeah apparently shouting at lecherous customers isn't the Walsingham way
24:41I'll speak to mr. kind it was mr. kind who gave me the warning one more black mark on about my arse
24:48I hate this place you know I was doing okay here at least I thought I was what's the bloody point
24:59yeah I'm sorry you know my dad was right about you Ismael and I should have listened to him leave me
25:09alone
25:11what
25:14I'm
25:16oh
25:18yeah
25:20yeah
25:23yeah
25:25yeah
25:27yeah
25:29yeah
25:31yeah
25:33yeah
25:35yeah
25:37Careful, officer. My friend borrows his jazz mags from the maitre d'.
25:42You can't shock me, sir.
25:43I've been to the windmill theatre and seen those gents with the newspapers on their laps.
25:47And brought a few into the station.
26:02Been jazzing with this one, sir?
26:04Oh no, that lot put me right off.
26:06Oh, you hate your royal family, do you?
26:07They're not my royal family. They've been nobody royal family since 1940.
26:11Ever since they left us with that chap.
26:13Hey, Marco, what was his name?
26:15Mussolini, mate.
26:16I knew you'd know, mate.
26:18Right-o, sir. Confiscating this is evidence.
26:22You enjoy this, don't you?
26:24It's just work, sir. Keep your temper, eh?
26:29I suppose I usually take all that aggression out on the ice cubes.
26:36Book for Mr. Book.
26:37Who?
26:38It's the Canoon of Scutari.
26:39It's Albania.
26:40It's the Canoon of Scutari.
26:41It's Albania.
26:42It's the Canoon of Scutari.
26:43It's Albania.
26:44It's the Canoon of Scutari.
26:45It's the Canoon of Scutari.
26:49It's the Canoon of Scutari.
26:50It's Albania.
26:51It's the Canoon of Scutari.
26:56It's the Canoon of Scutari.
26:57It's the Canoon of Scutari.
26:58It's the Canoon of Scutari.
26:59It's Albania.
27:00Mrs. Book's out of the picture.
27:01You can't be certain of that, sir.
27:02I've read a statement and I'm satisfied it's nothing to do with her.
27:03But, sir...
27:04I'm satisfied, Maurice.
27:05Clear.
27:06So, you think it was one of us?
27:19I don't think anything yet.
27:34Signor Barberini?
27:36Okay, well, I've narrowed it down to two.
27:39A royal member of the House of Scutari.
27:41Nafia or Ruhia?
27:42Right-o. Method?
27:44Poison. Something slipped into the cocktail glass
27:47after he tried it on with Edi Rattle.
27:50That's the chamber maid, yes?
27:52So where was she when Captain Orr coughed his last?
27:54Gone already.
27:55Motive?
27:56Think of any reason why anyone would want to kill Captain Victor Orr?
28:00Are you kidding?
28:01That captain was always here with different women.
28:03Usually in the same room.
28:05504.
28:06Really?
28:07Mm-hmm.
28:08City view.
28:09Noiseless bed springs.
28:11Duchess raid for favorite patrons.
28:13And that captain has been coming here for years.
28:15Usually once a week.
28:17Without a squake.
28:18You're very well informed.
28:19No secrets at the Walsingham, sir.
28:21We see all the dirty there.
28:23Because we have to clean it.
28:25Some might say, Mr. G-g-gazooley,
28:28that it's the duty of a grand hotel
28:30to make sure that the private life of a guest remains private.
28:32And some might say, Inspector,
28:34that in a grand hotel,
28:35people are usually at it like cod in a bucket.
28:38So it's a crime of passion then?
28:40No.
28:41I reckon the captain was something in intelligence.
28:45During the war.
28:46How do you know that?
28:48They're a type.
28:49Friendly, but tell you nothing.
28:52With a drink,
28:54they'll always have what the other person's having.
28:57So why would the princesses want to kill a British spy?
29:01Because British intelligence handed over Scutari
29:03to the communist partisans.
29:05And the captain recognized the princesses.
29:12Who are they?
29:13Should I know them?
29:15Balkans.
29:18Same to you.
29:19Hmm.
29:20Now, Fia and Ruhia,
29:24princesses of the royal house of Scutari,
29:28composed by the communists
29:30and now drifting around the world like Flotsam.
29:34Very glamorous, Flotsam.
29:36Wasn't there a scandal?
29:38They did a flit
29:39and the bullion from the National Bank
29:41somehow found its way into their hatboxes.
29:45Something of the sort.
29:49And?
29:51They're drifting our way.
29:53Or your way, to be precise.
29:55Oh, I see.
29:56In the market for a set of dictionaries, huh?
29:59They're staying at the Walsingham,
30:00just down the road from you.
30:02And, uh,
30:04there have been letters.
30:08Threats.
30:09Vicious ones.
30:11You should speak to the post office, then.
30:14We'd be ever so grateful
30:16if you just...
30:19kept an eye on them.
30:23I told you.
30:25You're just a bookseller.
30:27An item.
30:30I reminded you
30:32that we helped find young Jack.
30:37It wasn't easy, you know.
30:38I...
30:59Oh.
31:00It's you.
31:02It's me.
31:03Taff, or...
31:04you know?
31:05I don't mention it.
31:08Mm.
31:11So, does that happen a lot then, does it?
31:15Comes with a job, doesn't it?
31:17Can I do you now, sir?
31:19Mm.
31:21I wouldn't have killed him for it, though.
31:24Somebody did.
31:25Yeah.
31:27So...
31:29Which side are you on?
31:31Sorry?
31:32Which side are you on?
31:35Well, what are the options?
31:37Well...
31:38There's the management in this hotel
31:40who...
31:41treat their staff like muck
31:42and...
31:43give a girl a mouthful
31:44just for standing up for herself.
31:47Right.
31:49Then there's the workers.
31:50Okay, well...
31:51the workers, then.
31:52Nice to hear your expression of solidarity, brother.
31:55But it's...
31:56deeds not words that count.
31:57Don't you think?
32:00Right.
32:01So why don't you go down there
32:02to that taxi stand?
32:04Get me a nice cup of Bovril.
32:08I can't.
32:10Maybe later.
32:11I just gotta get back.
32:13To their royal bloody highnesses.
32:15Afraid so.
32:18How does it feel?
32:20Working for those parasites?
32:21Parasites.
32:24Is that what they are?
32:26Well, what would you call them?
32:30Sad.
32:32I suppose.
32:34Yeah.
32:35A bit sad.
32:37Well...
32:39Speaking for myself...
32:41I'd line them up.
32:43Shoot the boogers.
32:51I can say a proper hello to you now, Edmundkind.
33:07Good evening.
33:08I can say a proper hello to you now, Edmundkind.
33:20Good evening.
33:21More than kind, I used to say.
33:24Oh, well, that's too kind.
33:26They closed it, you know, the lower bar.
33:29The fruit cellar.
33:31Oh, what a shame.
33:32Yes, for redecoration.
33:34Though when the work will actually start, I don't know.
33:36It seems they prefer it mothballed, the management.
33:39You mean it's all still there, the mural and everything?
33:42Oh, yes.
33:43Well, you could take a look, if you'd like.
33:47I should really be getting back upstairs.
33:50Of course.
33:54I suppose a little peep wouldn't hurt.
33:58Well, the question is, well, the lights work.
34:10I don't remember there being any.
34:11You never turn them on.
34:13Blackhead, I suppose.
34:14I know, they were just terribly unfloattering.
34:17Yes, you're right.
34:19Let's turn them off.
34:21Just a soup song.
34:22These walls could talk.
34:42Kim Strang is dead.
34:44Did you hear?
34:45Kim Strang.
34:45He used to keep his Max Factor in a gas mask box.
34:51Well, he'd been in Egypt, hadn't he?
34:53Had to keep that tan up.
34:55What happened to him?
34:57He walked into the sea at shore.
34:58I'm sorry to say.
35:00Somebody had his letters.
35:03Dreadful, really.
35:05Dreadful.
35:07And you're very married, I see.
35:09Very, very married.
35:10Congratulations.
35:11And thanks for your help with the, um, other matter.
35:15Not at all.
35:15What does Jack know?
35:17That my wife and I have an arrangement,
35:20as I knew his late father.
35:22Nothing more.
35:23He found that difficult enough to take,
35:24ran out on us that very night.
35:26Hmm.
35:27Floated here.
35:28Where he is gainfully employed, thanks to you.
35:31And able to keep an eye on the other bodies
35:32floating around the regal Scutari ones.
35:36Why do you need to keep an eye on those?
35:38Well, it's possible they were the intended victims.
35:40And not the captain.
35:42It's a working hypothesis.
35:44Are you with the police now, Gabriel?
35:46You always were a dark horse.
35:49It makes up a substantial part of my charm.
35:51Christ, isn't that dangerous?
35:53I mean, one false step.
35:55I am all too well aware of that, Edmund.
35:58Although I do have a special letter from Churchill.
36:02Still, you probably shouldn't be found
36:04in a dimly lit basement bar with...
36:06With a terribly handsome old friend.
36:08No, perhaps not.
36:10Top of the grid.
36:14And the wall cinema isn't connected to the grid.
36:16It has its own oil-powered generators.
36:18They bring it in by the barrel.
36:20Everything depends on it, even the plumbing.
36:22And what's a grand hotel without power
36:23and hot running water?
36:26Well, I suppose it's just a big building
36:28full of people who are rather cold
36:30and rather hungry
36:31and very, very rich.
36:33I should get back.
36:40Me too.
36:41No big surprises on the poison front, Inspector.
36:55No big surprises on the poison front, Inspector.
37:11The deadly glass contains boring old hydrochloric acid.
37:14Oh, it can't all be virtue, I say.
37:17Virtue, I see.
37:19The thumbprint, enough for an arrest.
37:22Enough for a hanging, maybe.
37:23Me?
37:33Okay, thank you.
37:34Hi.
37:36Where's Edie Wretel?
37:38Oh, um, I'll check.
37:42Very good, eh?
37:43Did the blessed sergeant get everything
37:57he required from you, dear?
37:59Well, I took him through it
38:00in exhausting detail.
38:02Where did you get to?
38:04I mean, talking to the staff.
38:05Oh, yes, very nice of you.
38:07The ones who served you cocktails tonight.
38:09Well, it was really only the younger one.
38:11Guzili.
38:12If you say so.
38:13Apparently, he poured a whole round
38:16down the sink, ice and fruit and all.
38:18Could he have tampered with the second round?
38:20Yes.
38:21Nobody was looking because of the brouhaha.
38:24Brouhaha?
38:25Yes, one of the princesses dropped her reticule
38:28that was loose change all over the floor.
38:30Yes, I've heard about that.
38:31And after the brouhaha?
38:32Well, I dragged Victor back to the bar.
38:34He made a toast.
38:36And then there was the furore.
38:38A brouhaha and then a furore?
38:40It was very confusing.
38:42Oh, and there was a woman.
38:47A woman?
38:48I've just remembered.
38:48She handed me a cloth.
38:51Like St. Veronica on the road to Calvary.
38:53To mop up Victor Orr's trousers.
38:55There was something about the look she gave me.
39:01Poor Victor.
39:02People were recoiling in pure horror.
39:05It was burning his neck out, book.
39:06You could hear it crackle.
39:12I'm sorry you had a beastly time.
39:14I just wanted to get Stinker and wake up somewhere
39:25with clean sheets and three egg omelets.
39:27I wanted something.
39:29So I wanted it.
39:31I do love you, Mrs. Book.
39:38Ditto.
39:41Book.
39:43Yes.
39:46We never really talk.
39:47Talk?
39:48But the arrangement.
39:51What's to talk about?
39:53Well, to see that all's well, that we're both okay.
39:57All is well.
39:58Look, you left the light on for me.
40:00I could be making love in this.
40:09In the dark.
40:12Has anyone told Victor Orr's wife?
40:15It's not like she was expecting him to come home.
40:18Do you know who she is?
40:19I don't really know who he was.
40:23Still.
40:25I suppose he did get as a knight here.
40:28Isn't it marvelous?
40:29No.
40:31No clouds tonight.
40:33Oh.
40:33No way for the stars to hide.
40:36We never really had a proper honeymoon, did we?
40:39Bit of a diary clash.
40:40The Luftwaffe had their hearts set on Eastbourne, too.
40:43Beach was very pebbly, anyway.
40:45And covered in barbed wire.
40:48Doesn't worry you, though.
40:49Disappoint you.
40:51What?
40:52The absence of landmarks.
40:55Declarations.
40:56Grand gestures.
40:59Oh, no.
40:59Look.
40:59In fact, I'm going to make one now.
41:03Please.
41:06Let's order a bloody huge bottle of champagne.
41:11I've got our papers.
41:30Stamped and signed.
41:32Tickets, too.
41:33Can't you do anything discreetly, my love?
41:38We have five minutes till it leaves.
41:40Platform six.
41:42We're going to be in Paris for breakfast.
41:44There are no Nazis in Paris, but there are quests also.
41:47It's all going to be fine.
41:48I can't come with you, Buck.
41:55For the same reason that you must leave.
42:00It's so full here.
42:01Can I see myself?
42:02Uh, of course.
42:03Oh, and I must return this to you, my...
42:23My, my dear fellow.
42:32I love a good book.
42:35A beautiful book.
42:37And how easy it is to picture myself on some winter evening in the country, lying with this particular book.
42:51It moves me so much.
42:59But I'm afraid I cannot keep it.
43:04I know it's frailties.
43:08And some books get burned, you know.
43:15And I should not like to be responsible for the loss of this one.
43:17Because it is so dear to me
43:22That I know it by heart.
43:43Henceforth,
43:45Wherever thou mayst roam,
43:47My blessing,
43:50Like a line of light,
43:54It's on the waters,
43:55Day and night.
43:59And like a beacon guards the home.
44:03This is the last hour
44:04We're going to pass on to the day of Paris
44:07Of life next.
44:17Ereal.
44:19And as soon as possible,
44:24Until then,
44:25And the walking,
44:26Ar Ukraine,
44:27Being a friend,
44:27He was going to have to believe that
44:29That was the last place of the night of France.
44:33hmm,
44:33That was like,
44:38That's coming too much to be ,
44:38Of course,
44:39The way please,
44:40get beers,
44:41e pluck too many.
44:42Kinda hope to put the light in
44:43Then you will see what comes your name in the hall,
44:46I don't know.
45:16Yes, you should read German letters.
45:46Mr. Kind.
46:07I'm doing the rounds, explaining about the situation.
46:12Be so good as to move around a little less silently, it arouses suspicion.
46:16Forgive me, Your Royal Highness. It's my training, you see.
46:19It's mine too.
46:22An engineer is investigating. I do apologize for any inconvenience.
46:26We are accustomed to hardship.
46:29What are you carrying? Show me.
46:33This is the Canoon. The Canoon of Scutari. Why do you have this?
46:37I'm taking it to Mr. Book, in the next room. He's helping the police.
46:41This is most interesting. Continue.
46:44Well, he's a sort of expert witness, and he's staying here with his wife, who I believe...
46:49I meant, continue on your way.
46:53Good night.
46:56Oh, I thought you were a bottle of mighty spiriting.
47:13A book for Mr. Book.
47:15What is it, dear?
47:16It's that book you wanted.
47:18Oh, very good.
47:19The lights were on the blink up here.
47:21An engineer is investigating. I do apologize for any inconvenience.
47:26Is there anything more I can do for you?
47:28Well, tracking down our champagne would be nice.
47:30Of course.
47:36Extraordinary man. Smells nice, though.
47:39Gardenia. Capital. Just what we need.
47:43They're taking their time with that champagne, aren't they?
47:46I think they're having trouble below with the generators.
47:51You don't need champagne, do you, Book?
47:54Just anything with footnotes.
47:56And a bibliography.
47:58And maybe an erratum slip.
48:01I used to love this place, you know.
48:08In the war, the rooms were cheap.
48:1035 shillings a night.
48:12Well, the ones nearest the V2s, anyway.
48:15Always plenty of life down in the bar.
48:18A bit too much, sometimes.
48:21And now the Walsingham is listing.
48:24Like an old ship.
48:26Well, I'd like to smash a bottle against it.
48:30Hm.
48:33Ugh.
49:38Let me tell the story of an old lady fair, standing sentinel across the years in the city's
49:53bonny square.
49:54Let me tell the story of the journey down to hell from the dear, dilapidated Walsingham
50:04Hotel.
50:05Some came to stay, to rest, to play.
50:20Some came to labor every day.
50:25Some came to sound the passing bell for the dear old Walsingham Hotel.
50:31But who killed Captain Victor Orr?
50:47Princess, waiter, maid, or more?
50:51Who came to sound the final bell for the dear old Walsingham Hotel?
50:58Well then, that's that.
51:12What was that?
51:19Edith!
51:20Edith!
51:20Are you okay?
51:21Edith!
51:29Edith!
51:30Oh, nein!
51:31One more step and all!
51:32Oh, my God.
52:02I don't know.
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