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Bookish Season 1 Episode 6
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00:00Here's to Joe Starlin's next stroke.
00:09Tinkety-tongue.
00:14Who was he?
00:15Victor.
00:16Paul.
00:17Met him before an air raid.
00:18Forty-one.
00:19It is true.
00:20I switched the glasses.
00:21He drank the poison meant for one of us.
00:23Nafia and Ruhia.
00:25We'd be ever so grateful if you'd just keep an eye on them.
00:29This was the third attempt on our life since we left New York.
00:32The first thing you must do is arrest a cocktail waiter.
00:35And you must bring in any others on the staff.
00:38Do you have a reservation?
00:40No, my wife does.
00:42Your wife?
00:46Time for a little chat.
00:47What does Jack know?
00:49My wife and I have an arrangement, as I knew his late father.
00:53Nothing more.
00:54And should we trust you?
00:56Well, I suppose you'll find out.
00:59When the next assassin comes.
01:00Hello again.
01:01Hello.
01:02Fizz.
01:03For them, I presume.
01:04Who is it?
01:05It's me.
01:06Hello again.
01:07Hello.
01:08Fizz.
01:09For them, I presume.
01:10Who is it?
01:11It's me.
01:12Who is it?
01:13It's me.
01:14Who is it?
01:15It's me.
01:16Hello again.
01:17Hello.
01:18Hello.
01:19Fizz.
01:20For them, I presume.
01:21Who is it?
01:22It's me.
01:23Champagne?
01:24I could put a seed in it.
01:25Hello. Fizz. For them, my Brazil.
01:31Who is it? It's me.
01:51Champagne.
01:55We do not order champagne.
02:03Oh, yeah.
02:21Oh, my face.
02:23I need it.
02:25I need it.
02:31I need it.
02:33I need it.
02:35One more step and I'll...
02:37I need it.
02:47Well, let's all calm down.
02:49I need it.
02:51I need it.
02:53Well, let's go...
04:05Oh, God.
04:08Am I going to die?
04:09It's just the greys.
04:10Luckily for you, your royal highness.
04:12This is a very, very regrettable incident, miss.
04:16Edie Rattle.
04:17Miss Edie, we live under the constant threat of assassination.
04:20The black mantle of death hovers over us like the London fog.
04:24Sometimes we make mistakes out of fear.
04:26You must forgive us.
04:28Oh, you shouldn't forgive them.
04:29You should press charges.
04:30Don't tell me what to do, okay?
04:32I've had enough of it.
04:33I've simply had enough of it.
04:35We understand, dear.
04:36Do you?
04:37Because I've descended the ship that started with the pass and ended with me getting fired.
04:41Fired?
04:41Yeah, I've been handed my cards, haven't I?
04:43What?
04:44Why?
04:44What for?
04:45Because someone sabotaged the boilers, tipped linseed oil into them.
04:50Yeah, but why would they think that that's you?
04:51Because I have a motive.
04:53Mr. Klein gave me a mouthful for standing up to that bastard.
04:56And now I've been shot.
04:57What are you, shot?
04:59What's that?
05:00Morphine tartrate.
05:01I'm not going to have you jabbing me like a bloody pincushion.
05:03It will ease your pain.
05:04I'll live.
05:05And if you do think that I'm just going to hop on the night bus and say,
05:09oh, it must be beastly that your country hates your guts and you're forced to slum it out here in the wall.
05:13Well, think again, ladies.
05:15No wonder you're so nervous around the working classes.
05:18You damn a lot to be.
05:20I'll have that morphine now.
05:25Ow!
05:27So, dear Rattle, what do you suggest?
05:31I'll stay here tonight in the royal suite.
05:34There are only two belts.
05:35Then I'll have the biggest.
05:36And I'll have breakfast in it.
05:38I think that's a very modest demand considering the bullets in the wall.
05:41I know the importance of the rules of hospitality in your country.
05:44I've been reading up on them.
05:46That's right, Mr. Book.
05:48At home, we are obliged to take in those who need shelter.
05:51During the war, many British officers were parachuted into our territory.
05:55None were betrayed.
05:58I'll sleep on the sofa.
06:00Right.
06:01Now, which one of you is lending me your toothbrush?
06:15I'll get someone to come and have a look at this.
06:17It's good to see you, Jake.
06:18We lost him.
06:32We never really knew him.
06:34Of course, it was impossible to predict how he'd react, but I was hoping for...
06:37Sympathy.
06:38Understanding.
06:39That's just the way it is with some people.
06:43They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it.
06:47Huckleberry Finn?
06:48Top marks.
06:49You can sleep on the left.
06:50I like that, Edie.
06:53She's sharp.
06:54Sharp as her nibs.
06:55The princess.
06:58Is he dead tomorrow?
07:00Bliss has arrested Ghazili.
07:02Oh?
07:03It's a mistake.
07:04So I suspect I'll spend the morning showing him why.
07:07Clever clogs.
07:09If the shoe fits.
07:10Oh, it's the Dynaric Alps, by the way.
07:12Eh?
07:13It's the Dynaric Alps, my love.
07:15Not the Carpathians.
07:17As I said.
07:18Clever clogs.
07:19Hm.
07:43Book.
07:49This way, Mr. Dilley.
07:52The inspector's ready to see you now.
08:13Finish with that mug, Sergeant.
08:16Bagged and labelled, sir.
08:18We'll return it in due course.
08:20Take a seat.
08:25Are you going to charge me?
08:27Oh, there's plenty of time for that.
08:29I've said it all already.
08:30It's in my statement.
08:32Oh.
08:33Just one thing before we start.
08:35Mr. Book here will be joining us.
08:37He's a specialist.
08:39Mr. Ghazili, it's very important that you use this interview
08:42to tell us the truth.
08:43Because if you don't, I can't be held accountable
08:45for the consequences.
08:47We know about your affair with Edie Rattle.
08:51She's given us a statement.
08:52And in doing so, has given us a possible motive.
08:55A reason for you to kill Captain Orr.
08:58Because he made a pass at Edie.
09:01It must happen like three times a day.
09:05What business are you in exactly?
09:08The antiquarian book business.
09:10I've read the Kanoon of Skutari.
09:13Have you?
09:14I know it.
09:15Live by it?
09:17It was very important in my village.
09:20Let's start then.
09:23If I said we were going to give you the third degree,
09:25what would you expect?
09:27Kicking out by the bins?
09:28Snake in the grass.
09:29What did you say?
09:30Forget the third degree.
09:31Snake in the grass.
09:32Come on, I'm waiting.
09:37Vodka.
09:37At last.
09:38Creme de menthe, lime juice, lemonade.
09:43Where's my ice?
09:44It went in first.
09:46Are you shaking this drink?
09:48Come on, come on, Mr. Gazzilli.
09:50This is the waltzing.
09:51Am I shaking this drink?
09:52I'm stirring it.
09:53I'm stirring it.
09:53Atta boy.
09:54Atta boy.
09:55I know that.
09:57French vermouth, dry gin, grenadine,
10:00four dashes.
10:01Shaken.
10:02And what would you put in a pansy?
10:04And he said?
10:10No, no, no, Mr. Gazzilli.
10:12Look, I'm still on probation.
10:14I'm not an expert.
10:15I'd say you're not.
10:17But nor are you a murderer.
10:19Well, what makes you say that?
10:21Because he left a dirty great fingerprint
10:23on the upper part of one of those glasses.
10:26And a good cocktail waiter,
10:28as well as knowing how to mix a third degree,
10:31always handles a rock glass lower down.
10:35You made the drink for the captain,
10:38which was when you left your fingerprint
10:39on his glass.
10:40But the drink was not deadly.
10:43I'm sorry if this sounds insulting, Mr. Gazzilli,
10:45but you have yet to acquire the skill
10:47to poison anyone in a crowded bar in plain sight,
10:50particularly with just a few seconds
10:52between the inciting incident and the crime.
10:55But I'm sure you'll get there.
10:57In fact, I go so far as to say
10:58you were already a model employee.
11:01You're going to write me a reference now, are you?
11:03Why not?
11:05How long have the princesses been in the hotel?
11:08Four days.
11:09And you'd already noticed
11:10they always reject the first drink,
11:12so you made it out of tap water.
11:16Yes.
11:17Some employers would promote a member of staff
11:19so concerned about wastage.
11:26Well, Mr. Gazzilli,
11:28seems like you can go and collect your things.
11:31Our friend here's checking out, Sergeant Morris.
11:36Very good, sir.
11:46Well, now what?
11:48Anyone could have got that hydrochloric acid
11:50into the drink.
11:52And Gazzilli was too clumsy to have done it.
11:54As I discovered late last night,
11:58the Kanoon of Scutari has very strict rules
12:00about hospitality.
12:02It's taboo to harm anyone you consider your guest.
12:05Captain Orwell was Gazzilli's guest,
12:07strictly speaking,
12:08and the Kanoon is very strict.
12:09Did it tell you anything else useful?
12:13Oh, yes.
12:15Insult my wife in front of the headman of the village
12:17and you owe me a sheep.
12:19If my wife insults you,
12:22I owe you five.
12:27Well, I find it's usually best
12:28if people are just nice to each other.
12:31Mm.
12:32Oh, no, no, no, no.
13:02You were not in the army, were you?
13:14You know where I was.
13:15Well, no matter. Straight on your spine, perhaps?
13:18Eh, at the palace, a line of soldiers would salute us just on our way to breakfast.
13:23Oh, lucky you. Had a mighty a-fallen.
13:26And back then, we weren't always looking over our shoulders.
13:30We were at home with our own people.
13:32You, boy. You must fetch the inspector.
13:35Why? What's happened?
13:35Another threatening letter.
13:43Well, you've done all right.
13:49They ordered in. No less than I deserve.
13:53Sure enough.
13:54Balkan mix, apparently.
13:56Nice.
13:57See those little girl rings at the end there?
13:59I'm a capstan man myself.
14:00Weren't you supposed to bring me for that, Bavril?
14:04Well, I thought you had everything you needed here.
14:08It's a bit rich for my blood.
14:10So where was Miss E.D. Rattle when the murder took place?
14:20Uh, having a woodbine outside, according to her state.
14:22Having already administered the poison?
14:24Meant for the princesses.
14:27According to my intelligence sources, she's a fully paid-up party member.
14:31Communist.
14:32Red as Lenin's combinations.
14:33What? So she might have wanted them dead?
14:36On behalf of the new ruling class of Scutari.
14:40Then there's the other sister, of course.
14:43Other sister?
14:44Oh, yes.
14:45There are three of them, Inspector.
14:48Three sisters.
14:51The kingdom divided.
14:54Exiled monarchs, I wonder.
14:56Anyway, Princess Sunie went over to the other side.
15:02So it could be her striking the blow for the work is by assassinating her siblings.
15:06This is where we should be looking.
15:08In my opinion.
15:10Sir.
15:10Oh, yes.
15:17Like the ladies, didn't they, Captain Hall?
15:20That's not how I would have put it.
15:23Still.
15:25At least we have his home number now.
15:27No?
15:27No.
15:28Yes, this must be his wife, Sylvia.
15:30What do you know?
15:31She's the only one without a star rating.
15:35Oh.
15:35Yeah, well, there's another familiar name in there, too.
15:38Oh.
15:41As you say, sir.
15:42Oh.
15:43And Barberini, 2nd of May 1940, Ascot racecourse.
15:47Four stars, passionate Italian.
15:49So it was crossed out.
15:50It's still legible.
15:52What do you mean?
15:54Obvious, isn't it?
15:55Captain Hall didn't just like the ladies.
15:57He was a bit queer.
16:00What?
16:01You mean he travelled, as it were, on the 38 bus and the 43?
16:05He met that Italian barman at the races and had relations.
16:10It's all there in black and white.
16:12Met at the races, eh?
16:13Ascot racecourse.
16:14There is entry after entry.
16:16What motive?
16:17Blackmail, obviously.
16:19Captain Hall threatened to expose Barberini.
16:21Captain Hall's a married man.
16:23It's all a bit...
16:24It's a bit far-fetched.
16:26You never know with married men, sir.
16:28What's your great theory, then?
16:33That we'll be telling, Sergeant.
16:36But speaking of Mrs. Orr, I do think someone should talk to her soon.
16:41I'll ask Trotty, if I may.
16:43Wives always know.
16:45Whatever husbands think.
16:47Message from that lad, Jack, sir.
16:50Princesses are requesting another audience.
16:52A Winston Churchill mask.
17:01No.
17:02An Auria flying helmet.
17:04A piccadilly jar filled entirely with toenail clippings.
17:08Oh.
17:08Yeah.
17:10It's not for the faint of heart, the life of a chambermaid.
17:14But my dad ran a pub in Bala, so...
17:17I've seen it all.
17:19And what about the murder?
17:23I know.
17:24I was outside, you see.
17:26You can't pin Victor Orr on me.
17:28I wasn't trying to.
17:29Honest.
17:31Pity I wasn't there, though.
17:33I would have liked to see that one go down.
17:37So you were saying,
17:38you got out of the clink,
17:40and then you went to work in a bookshop.
17:43Yeah.
17:44For Mr. Book.
17:46Yeah.
17:47And now you're working for the Scatari royal family?
17:51Not for much longer, I don't reckon.
17:54I ain't much cop as a bodyguard.
17:57Got anything by marks?
18:00Eh?
18:01In your bookshop.
18:04Das Kapital.
18:06Volume 4.
18:08Now you're talking.
18:09Hmm.
18:11So why'd you leave?
18:12I just don't think they're my sort of people.
18:15No?
18:15It takes all sorts, you know.
18:19As I say.
18:20The things I've seen in the Welsingham.
18:24Maybe it's time you expanded your horizons a bit, sunshine.
18:28Let me know if you fancy that pop real sometime, yeah?
18:30Yeah.
18:30So-called princesses.
18:43My gorge rises as I see you in the newspaper.
18:59You're decadent bones draped in Madame de Baviers,
19:05which will soon drip with your filthy blood.
19:09Yes, I can see why you might feel discomfited.
19:13So, what will you do about it?
19:15My dear lady, why-
19:16You will address me by my proper title.
19:18Do forgive the inspector, your royal highness.
19:20The policeman is often a blunt tool rather than a diplomat.
19:24Perhaps I might-
19:24As I have said, this is the latest of many dripping with venom.
19:31Our enemies, they're a legion.
19:33Can they not let us rest?
19:34Is it not enough that we are forced to drag our weary bones around the world like phantoms?
19:40Yes, you speak of the canoon, of hospitality, but what are we to make of yours?
19:47What welcome do we receive in your famous London?
19:51Wretched food, wretched cold, a bodyguard who fails to guard.
19:55And now, this.
19:57I'll do what I can, given my limited resources.
20:00I'll do what I can, given my limited resources.
20:30I'll do what I can, given my limited resources.
21:00Yes, of course, and we're terribly sorry.
21:06Well, if that's the best you can do.
21:11Oh, Miss Raffle.
21:13Yes, Mr. Kind?
21:15I heard about the unfortunate incident.
21:18That's one way of describing it.
21:21I'm okay, but I think I might indulge myself a bit more in the cream of society.
21:28As I've been fired, I can use the hotel as a guest instead.
21:32Meaning?
21:33Their Royal Highnesses.
21:34I'm to put everything in their account.
21:36Well, don't spend too much.
21:38What?
21:39Nothing.
21:39Um, Miss Rattle.
21:40Yes?
21:41Would you kindly come and see me after you've indulged yourself?
21:45Okay, Mr. Kind.
21:46Edi, can we talk?
21:59I do want to apologize for the quality of the service today.
22:03The heating is off.
22:04The menu is cold.
22:06I'm deeply sorry.
22:07Ismail, none of that is your fault.
22:11Yeah, I'm afraid it is.
22:13It was caused by the three bottles of linseed oil that I stole from your cupboard.
22:18But linseed oil is for polishing.
22:20I use it for my new old posts and my dados.
22:24Yes, I know.
22:25But I poured it into the generator.
22:28I didn't poison Victor or Edi, but I did poison the hotel.
22:33I was so angry.
22:35With myself, with that man.
22:38With this place.
22:40So I just thought I'd kill it.
22:43I'm deeply sorry.
22:45I shall confess everything to Mr. Kind, and you will not lose your job, Edi.
22:50I shall confess everything to Mr. Kind, and you will not lose your job.
23:20I shall confess everything to him.
23:21I shall confess everything to Mr. Kind.
23:23I shall confess everything to Mr. Kind.
23:25I shall make your job tomorrow.
23:26Uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uhh-uh.
23:29Okay, let's go.
23:59You.
24:11Me.
24:15This isn't easy for me, as I'm sure you can imagine.
24:18Of course.
24:20You've just lost your husband.
24:22That boat sailed a long time ago, Mrs. Book.
24:25And you're not the first of Victor's conquests to telephone.
24:29If it makes it any easier, and you didn't, then what?
24:38Conquer.
24:45I used to come here all the time, you know.
24:49To watch you.
24:51With the latest model.
24:54Madam?
24:59You've read it.
25:07To see one's self here assessed like livestock.
25:13You think he got what he deserved?
25:16Well, not quite, but...
25:18I mean, what a pig he was.
25:23Do you know, I'd think better of him if it was a real diary.
25:28Something with a bit of proper, adulterous passion.
25:30Don't worry, my dear, I didn't really blame you.
25:37I mean, Victor had charm to spare in his day.
25:42And I grew used to his adventures.
25:46Numb to them.
25:48So used to them, it became a sort of hobby.
25:51That sounds strange.
25:56My marriage grew cold.
25:58Or my life grew cold.
26:01I don't really think I've felt anything since Dunkirk.
26:07So I'd come here.
26:10Where there was light and laughter.
26:14Usually.
26:14Did you not worry that he, uh, might see you?
26:22Victor hadn't noticed me in years.
26:25There was no reason to think he'd start now.
26:29Is that how you were able to?
26:34What?
26:37The poison.
26:40I mean, you were there.
26:41You handed me that cloth.
26:43It would have been easy for you to administer it.
26:46I didn't kill my husband, Mrs. Book.
26:50I pitied Victor.
26:52Didn't despise him.
26:54Then who did?
27:01How was this war?
27:04He did his service in Cairo.
27:06And a stint in the Balkans.
27:09The Balkans?
27:10And before that, he was here.
27:15The home front.
27:16Whereabouts?
27:19Ascot.
27:19Ah, it is you.
27:38Would it be...
27:39What does that say?
27:43Death to parasites.
27:44Thank you for coming.
27:56Everything's off.
27:57Kippers, kidneys, kedgeri.
28:00And the radiators.
28:01They're definitely off.
28:02Oh.
28:04There's a selection of cold meat.
28:07Splendid.
28:07Well, two of those then.
28:08Please wait on.
28:09Do make sure they're properly cold.
28:11I have whoring consistency.
28:13Sir?
28:13The service.
28:14It is appalling.
28:15Well, call me Marie Antoinette.
28:17But I was expecting the lavatories to flush.
28:20Still, the heating did come on for half an hour.
28:22That was nice.
28:22You said it was urgent, Mr. Book.
28:25In a way, yes.
28:26Are you any closer?
28:27Closer.
28:28To finding out who tried to murder us?
28:30No one tried to murder you.
28:33But the letters.
28:35The threads.
28:36You said those.
28:37What?
28:42You're mad.
28:43How dare you?
28:44Do sit down, princess.
28:46The very idea that I...
28:47I said sit down.
28:50I may be more of a diplomat than the inspector.
28:53There's only so much of this exhausting auteur I can stand.
28:58When did you start?
29:00Sending the letters.
29:02Not right away, I imagine.
29:04For a while it was real.
29:05When we fled our country, there were eyes everywhere.
29:12We feared to eat or drink.
29:15We lived day by day.
29:16Shoveed into stinking cellars.
29:19A hold of filthy ships.
29:22But the threat was real, Mr. Book.
29:25In New York, we were fated.
29:27They love royalty there, as you know, precisely because they have none of their own.
29:31We were invited to all the right parties, met all the right people.
29:36But there is nothing more tragic than exile, Mr. Book.
29:41And nothing more pathetic.
29:44After a time, the invitations dried up, the parade moved on, and I realized that we had gone from being in danger to something far, far worse.
29:54Because we had become irrelevant.
30:01What did the new regime and Scutari have to fear from us?
30:05Why would they send assassins halfway across the globe to make a way with us?
30:09Why would anyone bother?
30:13But there is glamour in death.
30:16In danger.
30:17And so I began to write all those letters, both to us and to the authorities of whichever poor nation we were imposing ourselves upon.
30:28I pay a woman here a modest fee to skulk around the hotel, dropping them off now and then.
30:33Some suspected your other sister might be behind those.
30:38She's dead, Mr. Book.
30:39I saw her shot in the face.
30:45The communists never really trusted her.
30:53And I will not lose another sister.
30:58But then there was an actual poisoning.
31:00I didn't know what to think.
31:01A figure swap the glasses, as always, and then that man, that captain, lying dead at her feet.
31:10My mind, it raced.
31:12Had it all become real?
31:15But what else could I do but continue as planned?
31:19It was very well done.
31:23At last, though, the impression of your sister's pen nibs is very distinctive.
31:27Indeed?
31:28Music nib.
31:31Narrow downstrokes, broad crossstrokes for writing musical notation.
31:35Ah.
31:36And she's composing those rather sad and lovely little tunes of hers.
31:39And the references to your wardrobe, too.
31:42Rather specific for a desperate communist assassin.
31:45I couldn't help myself.
31:49So does this mean, then, that...
31:51Captain Orr was the intended victim.
31:54So I have to ask, Mr. Book, in the spirit of your British stories,
32:01who done it?
32:04Well, that is the question, dear lady.
32:07Sir?
32:11Sir?
32:15Sir?
32:15You
32:36I'm normally a fan of this sort of thing
32:39Redent of the kind of thriller one finds in W.H. Smith
32:42However, sometimes it really is best to gather everyone together
32:46Unity of place and all that
32:49So on the night of the murder, Mr. Ghazili here set up a first round of two drinks
32:54Yes
32:55Which is rejected by the princesses and goes down the sink
32:58Now we come to the brouhaha
33:01And a new character enters our drama
33:03Captain Victor Orr, kindly represented here by Mr. Kind
33:08In you come, Miss Rattle, tell us what happened next
33:11Well, there's Captain Watsit soaked in Taddinger
33:15And he's telling me he has some extra duties for me
33:18Which seem to involve me going to his room and leaving with some money
33:22So I decline, of course
33:25And I'm looking over at Ismael
33:28I'm looking at him because, well, I think he might help me out
33:31Do the decent
33:32And he doesn't
33:34What happens next, Evie?
33:36Well, I'm thinking, is the captain going to hit me?
33:39So I tell him where to get off
33:41And then he says something
33:44I know some threat or other
33:45I wasn't listening
33:46And that's when Jack here came to my rescue
33:49And then I went outside for a smoke
33:52Thank you, Miss Rattle
33:53So, Mr. Ghazili then sets up two more glasses for a new round
33:59Four Walsingham Sours
34:01In total
34:04Three good ones
34:11And one, as we shall see, about to have an extra ingredient
34:14But when precisely did one of these drinks get a dash of hydrochloric acid?
34:19Princess Nefie
34:20You told us that you switched two of these glasses around
34:23Which two?
34:25Like this, Mr. Book
34:26One of ours
34:28Four, one of theirs
34:30Very good
34:31But you're not drinking yet, are you?
34:32Because you want to see someone else drink first
34:35Which is only prudent, only sensible
34:36When there are so many assassins about
34:39So, you have to wait a little while longer
34:41Until the distraction is over
34:44And this is the Russian roulette moment now, is it?
34:47This was not a casual murder
34:50It was very carefully thought through
34:51Now, we know the poison was not in Mr. Ghazili's shaker
34:55We know that Princess Nefie deserves no reproaches
34:58All Your Royal Highness did was switch
35:00One perfectly safe and effective Walsingham Sour for another
35:04In fact, I would suggest that none of these drinks
35:07Would have produced anything worse than a hangover
35:09Until the incident were the coins
35:11That was the moment of opportunity for someone here
35:13To poison one of these cocktails
35:15The one that he was clearly about to pick up
35:18Yes, there was no mistake
35:19Captain Orr had to die
35:21Why, though?
35:23Do you remember the Aaron Doris star?
35:31Not our finest hour, I fear
35:33She was torpedoed by the Jeris
35:35Started the war
35:36July 2nd, 1940
35:38There was a set two on board, wasn't there?
35:40A lot of internees being sent to Australia
35:42Canada
35:43Canada
35:44Fighting amongst themselves
35:45Well, that's what it said in the Daily Express
35:47In Parliament, too, missed the book
35:49Does it mean it's true?
35:50Indeed
35:51And
35:55Amongst the passengers
35:57Your sister, Maria
36:02Barberini, M
36:1212th January, 1940
36:13Ascot Racecourse
36:1516th of January
36:17Ascot Racecourse
36:19Nineteen
36:20So it was her, Captain Orr met at the races
36:23Well, there was no racing during the war
36:25Quite
36:26Of course, Ascot's where they put the Regulation 18-B alert, wasn't it?
36:30English Nazis
36:31German anti-Nazis
36:33Ice cream men
36:34Spaghetti house vendors
36:36Waiters who'd once said something
36:39Vaguely complimentary about the cut of Il Duce's jib
36:42All put under barbed wire
36:44In a tournament camp
36:46What was the case against the Barberinis, though?
36:49My parents were born in Italy
36:50So someone here claimed there was a fascist
36:53Marched me out during service
36:56Sent up north
36:57Nobody protested
36:59Particularly the man who ran the bar here in the Blitz
37:03And your sister?
37:08In 1938, my father said
37:10Why not spend the summer with your Italian aunt?
37:13Go to the beach with them
37:14To the Campo Solare
37:15Build fires
37:18Get some fresh air
37:19They give you a nice little uniform
37:23Like the girl guides, but
37:25Mussolini's girl guides
37:27Ah
37:28So she brought the uniform home as a souvenir
37:32It was enough for the men from 18-B
37:35There it was in a wardrobe, so
37:38She went to escort
37:40She was interned because of the uniform
37:44People do take them terribly seriously
37:46But it worked for Victor
37:47When he was in his sailor suit
37:50People did what he said
37:51I mean, it was charm
37:54As well as rank
37:55Rank charm
37:56That's how he got Maria's name on the list for Canada
37:58Perhaps we should be generous
38:01Imagine he was getting her out of the camp
38:03To a new life away from the war
38:05He just wanted the troublesome lover out of the way
38:08Before his wife found her
38:09And that ship
38:12Was a death trap
38:14I dream about that
38:16Those people
38:19Pushing at the barricade
38:21Great wooden exes
38:24Wrapped in barbed wire
38:25And then the sea coming in
38:28And drowning them both
38:29Both?
38:31Maria and the baby
38:32His baby
38:36I knew his name
38:39That was all
38:39But I couldn't find him
38:41Messed at the war
38:43Turned everything upside down
38:45No one was in a great hurry
38:47To help out an insignificant
38:48WAP waiter
38:49Turned out I'd been serving
38:52In Walsingham Sowers for months
38:54Victor Orr
38:55My old friend
38:56I can't leave you alone
38:58For five minutes
38:59Can I?
39:00Well the bloody girl
39:01Can't take a joke
39:02Let's have a couple of those
39:04What do you call them?
39:05Walsingham Sowers
39:06With the two ladies
39:08For their royal highnesses
39:11You mean?
39:12These are on me ladies
39:13The man who took away my precious Maria
39:15My beloved sister
39:18So I did what had to be done
39:23I prepared ice
39:26Special ice
39:28No
39:29Oh dear
39:30So embarrassing
39:33I do apologize
39:34Not as all
39:36Look after the pennies
39:38And the pounds
39:39Will look after themselves
39:40It was her birthday
40:04You see
40:04Maria's birthday
40:07Would have been
40:08It seemed
40:10It seemed fitting
40:12Yes
40:13Yes
40:14Master of time
40:15And I took the precaution
40:19Of keeping some of the poisoned ice
40:21Tinky tonk
40:24Wait
40:25No
40:26No
40:26Just ordinary ice
40:28And less
40:29I'm afraid I swapped it
40:32I'm so very very sorry about your sister
40:36Signor Barberini
40:37But murder is murder
40:41Marco Barberini
40:45I'm arresting you on a charge of murder
40:47You do not have to say anything but anything
40:49You do say may be taken down
40:51And used against you in a court of law
40:53Do you have anything to say
40:55Ah by the way Mr. Kind
41:05The linseed oil in the generators
41:08That was me too
41:10Sorry
41:11Go for that
41:37Mr. Kind
41:40You wanted a word
41:42Ah yes
41:42Miss Rattle
41:43I was thinking about your position here
41:45Well now I know that you were not responsible for the incident with the generators
41:49Yes
41:50Well your dismissal was unnecessarily expeditious
41:53Yes
41:55Yes
41:56And I wanted to say I would very much like to offer that position back to you
42:00Well
42:01Well I accept
42:03Well that's all very satisfactory
42:05There's a ledger here isn't there
42:07A ledger
42:08One with all the comings and goings of the staff
42:10Might I see my entry
42:12It's over there
42:14Yes of course
42:16Thank you
42:20There I am
42:26Edith Rattle
42:29Reason for leaving
42:30Sabotage
42:31Well let us strike that
42:33From the record
42:34Thank you Mr. Kind
42:40Now Mr. Kind
42:42I resign
42:43You resign?
42:45Yes I resign
42:46Would you mind putting that in there for me?
42:48You can't resign?
42:50I believe I just did
42:53Oh the workers
42:55Oh the workers
42:59Oh the workers
43:01All this is quite correct
43:11Two more please
43:14For those people
43:16Oh
43:18Missing the war are you?
43:21I don't know what the etiquette is
43:23Oh I think that's the royal summons
43:26What else?
43:28For you Mr. Book
43:30For the book
43:32Oh thank you
43:34What's that for?
43:41A hundred guineas
43:42No I mean what's it for?
43:44Oh our copy of the Canoon of Scutari
43:46In our trade it pays to specialise
43:49It'll bounce
43:50Well if it doesn't I shall give it to the Arandora Star Memorial Fund
43:54Please enjoy
43:57Thank you
43:58What should we drink to?
44:00To us
44:02To the Barberinis
44:03Yes
44:04To Marco and Maria and
44:06All the Barberinis
44:07The lost and the defeated
44:11All the Barberinis
44:13Those who bear the name
44:15And those who do not
44:16And let there be no more drownings
44:19He got me the job
44:36Mr. Book
44:39He arranged for you to take me on
44:42The princesses were looking for a bodyguard
44:45Gabriel asked if I could help
44:47So you see he was looking out for you
44:50Despite your falling out
44:52You know him well
44:54We go a long way back
45:00Looking out for me
45:02Or manipulating me
45:05Why would you think of it like that?
45:07He sought me out
45:08Found me when I come out of prison
45:10Set me up
45:12Nice job
45:14Nice home
45:15Yes
45:16Why?
45:17You'd have to ask him that
45:18I'm a monster
45:20Mr. Kind
45:21I'm grateful
45:22Of course I am
45:23It's just
45:24It's a lot
45:26You know
45:27They're set up
45:28The way they are
45:30Mr. and Mrs. Book
45:31The way he is
45:32It's hard for me to just
45:35Accept it
45:37You have a moral objection?
45:38Me?
45:39What right do I have to moralise?
45:42I think you've answered your own question
45:44The book is kind
45:46I mean I know I'm kind
45:48Edmund kind
45:50But I once knew a girl called Joy
45:52And she was anything but
45:54There's no sinister motive Jack
45:57They want to help
45:59Why don't you let them?
46:01Things
46:10I met her
46:14It's a complete
46:20Where is she's having fun?
46:25with you in just one moment
46:33hello again
46:36oh mrs goodwin
46:39jean jean
46:40after more of the same
46:42the pimpernel
46:43i'm not really sure i think i fancy something a little different
46:48the husband not with you
46:49no
46:50the golf course
46:51no
46:51the garrick
46:52the divorce courts
46:54oh
46:55oh
46:57that play you gave me
47:00a doll's house
47:01most illuminating
47:02like you suggested it
47:04rather made me think
47:05yes i thought it might do
47:07made me realize how narrow my horizons have become
47:10or rather
47:10how narrow gerald have made my horizons
47:14love doesn't always last forever alas
47:17never loved him
47:18awful man
47:20but that's all in the past now
47:23or in the hands of my solicitor anyway
47:25so what can i do for you then jean
47:28what have you got on travel
47:31travel
47:32lots of it
47:33heaps of it
47:34exotic travel
47:36i think it's time i saw a bit of the world
47:39i've got just the thing
47:41with you in just one moment sir
47:48thanks
48:01i know you run on it
48:07without tea
48:08without tea i am merely
48:09unreconstituted dust
48:11it's hard to let go of the past
48:18mr book
48:19when you have so many questions about it
48:21such as
48:23if it wasn't for you and trotty
48:26i'd be
48:27well
48:28i'd be sleeping on the embankment
48:32but now i have a position
48:36if it's still available
48:39the royal highnesses have let you go
48:42i'll quit
48:43good for you
48:44yes the job's still yours
48:47so
48:48i've got a position
48:50cozy little room
48:53above a bookshop on archangel lane
48:56i'm thinking
48:59why me
49:03your father gave me this
49:22the last time i saw him
49:251935
49:27the last time
49:29he died
49:32soon after
49:35i couldn't face looking at this book
49:40not for years
49:42and then the war came
49:45and i was busy
49:46rather busy
49:49it was only a few months ago
49:52that i pick it up again
49:53dared to pick it up
49:55and i found there was a little more to it than i thought
49:58what do you mean
50:01oh somewhere
50:13meek unconscious dove
50:15but sittest ranging golden hair
50:19and glad to find thyself so fair
50:23poor child
50:26that waitest for thy love
50:28he's trying to tell me
50:31you see
50:32about you
50:34about the sun i never knew he had
50:38about the sun i never knew he had
50:46about the sun i never knew he had
50:50It must have been taken around when you were conceived.
51:13Felix.
51:14Felix.
51:20Felix.
51:24I never had his name.
51:27Just that.
51:30Just that one picture.
51:34Your father was a German.
51:38German.
51:41Prussian.
51:43In point of fact.
51:49What was he to you, Mr. Book?
51:53What was Felix to me?
52:02He was everything, Jack.
52:05He was what the war took away.
52:15He was the whole damn world.
52:25How did he die?
52:27I don't know.
52:39Shall we find out?
52:57I do know.
52:59Let's do that.
53:01Where do we connect to?
53:03He able to come alright.
53:04Of the words, we need to remember...
53:06..the man to practice.
53:08100% in history office.
53:09It was a perfect sense.
53:10It was supposed to be lucky.
53:11I didn't think so.
53:16I bet he may have a place.
53:17For more than 100%.
53:19You?
53:29You?