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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 tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea
01:54We do not order the champagne
02:24I need it
02:26I need it
02:32I need it
02:34One more step and all
02:46Well, let's all calm down should we?
02:54We'll be right back
03:54Oh, Rudy, hell, that hurts.
03:57You okay?
03:58You shot her.
03:59You bloody Carpathian lunatic.
04:02I thought you had the gun.
04:03It was a champagne bottle.
04:06Oh, God.
04:08Am I gonna 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
04:39and 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,
04:49tipped 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 gonna 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 gonna hop on the night bus
05:08and say, oh, it must be beastly that your country hates your guts
05:11and you're forced to slum it out here in the Wallsium.
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!
05:27Sorry, dear Rattle.
05:29What 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
05:39considering the bullets in the war.
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.
06:01I know 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,
06:36but I was hoping for...
06:37Sympathy.
06:38Understanding.
06:41That'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 fit?
06:48Top marks.
06:49You can sleep on the left.
06:52I like that, Edie.
06:53She's sharp.
06:54Sharp as her nibs.
06:55The princess.
06:58Busy day 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.
07:08If 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.
07:19Book.
07:48Book.
07:49Finish 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.
08:40Mr. Ghazili, it's very important that you use this interview to tell us the truth.
08:43Because if you don't, I can't be held accountable for the consequences.
08:46We know about your affair with Edie Rattle.
08:50She's given us a statement and in doing so has given us a possible motive, a reason for you to kill Captain Hall.
08:57Because he made a pass at Edie Rattle.
08:58Because he made a pass at Edie.
09:01It must happen like three times a day.
09:05What business are you in exactly?
09:07The antiquarian book business.
09:11I've read the Canoon of Scutari.
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, what 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.
09:33Vodka.
09:37At last.
09:40Creme 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.
09:53At a boy.
09:55At a boy.
09:55I know that.
09:57French vermouth, dry gin, grenadine, four dashes.
10:01Shaken.
10:02And what would you put in a pansy?
10:07Pansy, pansy, pansy.
10:08Um, uh, and 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 on the upper part of one of those glasses.
10:25And a good cocktail waiter, as well as knowing how to mix a third degree, always handles a rock glass lower down.
10:35You made the drink for the captain, which is when you left your fingerprint on 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 to poison anyone in a crowded bar in plain sight.
10:50Particularly with just a few seconds between the inciting incident and the crime.
10:54But I'm sure you'll get there.
10:57In fact, I'd go so far as to say you 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 they always reject the first drink.
11:12So you made it out of tap water.
11:16Yes.
11:16Some employers would promote a member of staff so concerned about wastage.
11:24Well, Mr. Gazzilli, seems like you can go and collect your things.
11:32Our friend here is checking out, Sergeant Morris.
11:36Very good, sir.
11:46Well, now what?
11:48Anyone could have got that hydrochloric acid into the drink.
11:52And Gazzilli was too clumsy to have done it.
11:54As I discovered late last night, the Kanoon of Scutari has very strict rules about hospitality.
12:02It's taboo to harm anyone you consider your guest.
12:05Captain Orr was Gazzilli's guest, strictly speaking, and 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 and you owe me a sheep.
12:19If my wife insults you, I owe you five.
12:27Well, I find it's usually best if people are just nice to each other.
12:31Oh.
12:39Oh.
12:39What was the last time?
12:45I'm really excited that the meal was going to be fine.
12:50I was so proud.
12:56Where did you go?
12:59I was so proud of you.
13:03I was so proud of you guys.
13:07you were not in the army were you you know where i was well no matter straight in your spine
13:17perhaps at the palace a line of soldiers would salute us just on our way into breakfast
13:23oh lucky you had a mighty fallen and back then we weren't always looking over our shoulders
13:29we were at home with our own people you boy you must fetch the inspector why what's happened
13:35another threatening litter
13:37well you've done all right they ordered in no less than i deserve sure enough balkan mix apparently
13:55nice see those little gold rings at the end there i'm a capstan man myself weren't you supposed to
14:02bring me for that bavril i thought you had everything you needed here
14:05it's a bit rich for my blood
14:10so where was miss edie rattle when the murder took place uh having a wood by an outside according
14:21to her state having already administered the poison meant for the princesses according to my
14:27intelligence sources she's a fully paid up party member communist red is lenin's combinations so she
14:34might have wanted them dead on behalf of the new ruling class of scutari then there's the other sister
14:41of course other sister oh yes there are three of them inspector three sisters
14:49the kingdom divided exiled monarchs i wonder
14:56anyway princess sonia went over to the other side so it could be her striking the blow for the work is by assassinating her siblings this is where we should be looking in my opinion
15:09oh yes
15:16like the ladies didn't he captain all that's not how i would have put it
15:22still at least we have his home number now
15:26no no yes this must be his wife sylvia what you know she's the only one without a star rating
15:34oh yeah well there's another familiar name in there too
15:39oh as you say sir oh and barberini second of a 1940 has got racecourse four stars passionate italian sort of crossed out still legible
15:52what do you mean obvious innit captain all didn't just like the ladies and he was a bit queer
15:59what you 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
16:09it's all there in black and white
16:11met at the races eh
16:12ascot racecourse there is entry after entry
16:15what motive?
16:16blackmail obviously
16:18captain all threatened to expose barberini
16:20captain all's a married man
16:22it's all a bit
16:23it's a bit far-fetched
16:25you never know with married men sir
16:29what's your great theory then?
16:32they will be telling sergeant
16:35but speaking of mrs orr i do think someone should talk to her soon
16:39i'll ask trotty if i may
16:42wives always know
16:44whatever husbands think
16:46message from that lad jack sir
16:49princesses are requesting another audience
16:52a winston churchill mask
17:00no
17:01an aurea flying helmet
17:03a piccadilly jar filled entirely with toenail clippings
17:07oh
17:08yeah
17:09it's not for the faint of heart
17:11the life of a chambermaid
17:13but my dad ran a pub in bala so
17:16i've seen it all
17:18and what about
17:21the murder
17:22i know
17:23i was outside you see
17:25you can't pin victor or on me
17:27i know i wasn't trying to honest
17:29pity i wasn't there though
17:31i would have liked to see that one go down
17:34so you were saying
17:37you got out of the clink
17:39and then you went to work in a bookshop
17:42yeah
17:43for mr book
17:44yeah
17:45yeah
17:46and now you're working for the scatari royal family
17:49not for much longer i don't reckon
17:52i ain't much cop as a bodyguard
17:54got anything by marks
17:58eh
18:00in your bookshop
18:02das capital
18:04volume four
18:06now you're talking
18:08hmm
18:09so why'd you leave
18:11i just don't think they're my sort of people
18:14no
18:15takes all sorts you know
18:17as i say
18:19the things i've seen in the walsingham
18:21maybe it's time you expanded your horizons a bit sunshine
18:26let me know if you fancy that bar for us sometime yeah
18:39so called princesses
18:54my gourd rises as i see you in the newspaper
18:58decadent bones draped in madame de bavier
19:05which will soon drip with your filthy blood
19:08yes i can see why you might feel discomfited
19:11so what will you do about it
19:14my dear lady
19:15why
19:16you will address me by my proper title
19:17uh
19:18do forgive the inspector your royal highness
19:20the policeman is often a blunt tool rather than a diplomat
19:23perhaps i might
19:24as i have said
19:25this is the latest of many
19:28dripping with venom
19:30our enemies their legion
19:32can they not let us rest
19:34is it not enough
19:35that we are forced to drag our weary bones
19:37around the world
19:39like phantoms
19:40you speak of the canoon
19:42of hospitality
19:43but what are we to make of yours
19:46what welcome do we receive
19:48in your famous london
19:50wretched food
19:51wretched cold
19:52a bodyguard who fails to guard
19:54and now
19:55this
19:56i'll do what i can
19:58given my limited resources
20:00there's
20:08or
20:09or
20:11this
20:13he says
20:16will
20:19comees
20:19will
20:21it
20:24yes
20:25will
20:27they
20:28who
20:59Yes, 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.
22:07Ismael, 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.
22:21I use it for my new oil 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, with 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.
22:48I will not lose your job, Edi.
23:18I will not lose your job, Edi.
23:48You.
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.
24:31If it makes it any easier, he didn't.
24:35Then what?
24:38Conquer.
24:38Conquer.
24:45I used to come here all the time, you know.
24:49To watch him.
24:51With the latest model.
24:54Madam?
25:04You'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...
25:19I mean, what a peak 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.
25:51Numb to them.
25:52I mean, that sounds strange.
25:56My marriage grew cold.
25:58Well, my life grew cold.
26:01I don't really think I've felt anything since Dunkirk.
26:05So I'd come here.
26:10Where there was light and laughter.
26:13Usually.
26:16Did 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.
26:26Is that how you were able to?
26:34What?
26:37The poison.
26:40I mean, you were there.
26:41You, you 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.
26:54And who did?
26:56How was this war?
27:04He did his service in Cairo.
27:06And a stint in the Balkans.
27:09The Balkans?
27:12And before that, he was here.
27:15The home front.
27:16Whereabouts?
27:19Ascot.
27:26Ah, 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, please, waiter.
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 threats.
28:36You said those.
28:40What?
28:42You're mad.
28:43How dare you?
28:44Do sit down, princess.
28:46The very idea that I...
28:47I said sit down.
28:48I 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.
29:09When we fled our country, there were eyes everywhere.
29:12We feared to eat or drink.
29:15We lived day by day.
29:16We shoved into stinking cellars.
29:19The holds 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.
29:30Because they have none of their own.
29:32We were invited to all the right parties.
29:34Met all the right people.
29:36But there is nothing more tragic than exile, Mr. Book.
29:40And 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.
29:59What did the New Rezim and Scutari have to fear from us?
30:04Why would they send assassins halfway across the globe to make a way with us?
30:10Why would anyone bother?
30:13But there is glamour in death.
30:16In danger.
30:17And so I began to write all those letters.
30:22Both 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.
30:36She's dead, Mr. Book.
30:41I 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.
31:01And a 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.
31:23And last, though, the impression of your sister's pen nibs is very distinctive.
31:27Indeed?
31:29Music nib.
31:30Narrow 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.
31:45Oh, I 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, who done it?
32:04Well, that is the question, dear lady.
32:14Sir?
32:15I'm not normally a fan of this sort of thing.
32:38A man.
32:39Renonant of the kind of thriller one finds in W.H. Smith.
32:41However, 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.
32:55Yes.
32:55Which is rejected by the princesses and goes down the sink.
32:59Now we come to the brouhaha.
33:01And a new character enters our drama.
33:03Captain Victor Orr.
33:05Kindly represented here by Mr. Kind.
33:09In you come, Miss Rattle.
33:10Tell us what happened next.
33:12Well, there's Captain Watsit soaked in tapinger.
33:16And he's telling me he has some extra duties for me.
33:19Which seem to involve me going to his room and leaving with some money.
33:23So, 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.
33:32Do the decent.
33:32And he doesn't.
33:35What happens next, Edie?
33:37Well, 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.
33:47And that's when Jack here came to my rescue.
33:50And then I went outside for a smoke.
33:52Thank you, Miss Rattle.
33:54So, Mr. Ghazili then sets up two more glasses for a new round.
33:59Four Walsingham sours.
34:02In total.
34:10Three good ones and 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, you tell us that you switched two of these glasses around.
34:24Which two?
34:25Like this, Mr. Book.
34:27One of ours for 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 when there are so many assassins about.
34:39So, you have to wait a little while longer until the distraction is over.
34:44And this is the Russian roulette moment now, is it?
34:46This was not a casual murder.
34:50It was very carefully thought through.
34:52Now, 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 one perfectly safe and effective waltzing himself for another.
35:04In fact, I would suggest that none of these drinks would have produced anything worse than a hangover.
35:09Until the incident with the coins.
35:11That was the moment of opportunity for someone here to poison one of these cocktails.
35:16The one that he was clearly about to pick up.
35:18Yes, there was no mistake.
35:19Captain Orr had to die.
35:22Why the...
35:23Do you remember the Arundora star?
35:31Not our finest hour, I fear.
35:34She was torpedoed by the Jeris.
35:35Started the war.
35:37July 2nd, 1940.
35:39There was a set two on board, wasn't there?
35:40A lot of internees being sent to Australia.
35:43Canada.
35:43Canada.
35:44Fighting amongst themselves.
35:46Well, that's what it said in the Daily Express.
35:48In Parliament, too, missed the book.
35:49Does it mean it's true?
35:51Indeed.
35:53And amongst the passengers, your sister, Maria.
36:10Barberini, M.
36:1212th January, 1940.
36:14Ascot Racecourse.
36:1616th of January.
36:18Ascot Racecourse.
36:1919...
36:20So it was her, Captain Ormet, at the races.
36:23Well, there was no racing during the war.
36:25Quite.
36:26Of course, Ascot's where they put the Regulation 18B look, wasn't it?
36:30English Nazis, German anti-Nazis, ice cream men, spaghetti house vendors, waiters who'd once
36:38said something vaguely complimentary about the cut of Il Duce's jib, all put under barbed wire.
36:44An internment camp.
36:45What was the case against the Barberini's, though?
36:47What was the case against the Barberini's, though?
36:48My parents were born in Italy.
36:51So someone here claimed there was a fascist.
36:53Marched me out during service.
36:55Sent up nov.
36:57Nobody protested.
36:59Particularly the man who ran the bar here in the Blitz.
37:02And your sister?
37:04In 1938, my father said, why not spend the summer with your Italian aunt?
37:12Go to the beach with them, to the Campo Solare, build fires, get some fresh air.
37:19They give you a nice little uniform, like the girl guides, but Mussolini's girl guides.
37:28Ah.
37:29So she brought the uniform home as a souvenir.
37:32Hm.
37:33It was enough for the men from 18B.
37:36There it was in a wardrobe, so off she went to Ascot.
37:40She was interned because of the uniform.
37:44People do take them terribly seriously.
37:46Well, it worked for Victor.
37:48When he was in his sailor suit, people did what he said.
37:51I mean, it was charm, as well as rank.
37:54Rank charm.
37:55That'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 to a new life away from the war.
38:05He just wanted the troublesome lover out of the way before his wife found her.
38:09And that ship was a death trap.
38:14I dream about that.
38:17Those people pushing at the barricades.
38:21The great wooden exes wrapped in barbed wire.
38:25And then the sea coming in and drowning them both.
38:29Both?
38:30Maria and the baby.
38:33His baby.
38:36I knew his name, that 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 to help out an insignificant WAP waiter.
38:49Turned out I'd been serving in Walsingham Sowers for months.
38:53Victor Orr, my old friend.
38:55I can't leave you alone for five minutes, can I?
38:59Well the bloody girl can't take a joke.
39:01Let's have a couple of those, what do you call them?
39:04Walsingham Sowers.
39:06With the two ladies.
39:08Eh, for their royal highnesses.
39:10You mean?
39:11These are on me ladies.
39:13The man who took away my precious Maria.
39:17My beloved sister.
39:22So I did what had to be done.
39:24I prepared ice.
39:26Special ice.
39:28Oh, oh dear.
39:31So embarrassing.
39:33I do apologize.
39:34Not at all.
39:35Look after the pennies.
39:37And the pounds will look after themselves.
39:40What?
39:41It was her birthday, you see.
40:05Maria's birthday.
40:07Would have been.
40:09It seemed, um, it seemed fitting.
40:12Yes.
40:13Yes, Master of Time.
40:18And I took the precaution of keeping some of the poisoned ice.
40:22Tinky-tonk.
40:24Wait!
40:25No!
40:26Just ordinary ice allows.
40:30I'm afraid I swapped it.
40:34I'm so very, very sorry about your sister, Signor Barbarini.
40:38But murder is murder.
40:41Marco Barbarini, I'm arresting you on a charge of murder.
40:47You do not have to say anything but anything you do say may be taken down and used against you in a court of law.
40:53Do you have anything to say?
41:03Ah, by the way, Mr. Kind.
41:05The linseed oil in the generators.
41:08No.
41:09That was me too.
41:10Sorry.
41:11Sorry.
41:13The linseed oil in the
41:40You wanted a word?
41:42Ah, yes, Miss Rattle. I was thinking about your position here.
41:46Well, now I know that you were not responsible for the incident with the generators.
41:50Yes.
41:51Well, your dismissal was unnecessarily expeditious.
41:54Yes.
41:55Yes. And I wanted to say I would very much like to offer that position back to you.
42:01Well, I accept.
42:04Well, that's all very satisfactory.
42:05There's a ledger here, isn't there?
42:07A ledger?
42:07One with all the comings and goings of the staff.
42:11Might I see my entry?
42:13It's over there.
42:15Yes, of course.
42:25There I am.
42:28Edith Rattle. Reason for leaving, sabotage.
42:32Well, let us strike that from the record.
42:38Thank you, Mr. Kind.
42:40Now, Mr. Kind, I resign.
42:44You resign?
42:45Yes, I resign. Would you mind putting that in there for me?
42:49You can't resign.
42:51I believe I just did.
42:54Oat the workers.
42:59Oat the workers!
43:00All this is quite correct.
43:13Two more, please.
43:15For those people.
43:20Missing the war, are you?
43:23I don't know what the etiquette is.
43:24Oh, I think that's the royal summons.
43:30What else?
43:31For you, Mr. Book.
43:33For the book.
43:35Oh, thank you.
43:36What's that for?
43:42A hundred guineas.
43:43No, I mean, what's it for?
43:45Oh, our copy of the Canoon of Scutari.
43:47In our trade, it pays to specialize.
43:50It'll bounce.
43:51Well, if it doesn't, I shall give it to the Arandora Star Memorial Fund.
43:55Please enjoy.
43:59What should we drink to?
44:01To us.
44:03To the Barberinis?
44:04Yes.
44:05To Marco and Maria and...
44:07All the Barberinis.
44:09The lost and the defeated.
44:12All the Barberinis.
44:15Those who bear the name and those who do not.
44:18And let there be no more drownings.
44:20Mm-hmm.
44:25He got me the job.
44:38Mr. Book.
44:41He arranged for you to take me on.
44:44The princesses were looking for a bodyguard.
44:46Gabriel asked if I could help.
44:48So, you see, he was looking out for you.
44:51Despite your falling out.
44:53You know him well.
44:55We go a long way back.
45:01Looking out for me.
45:04Or manipulating me.
45:06Well, why would you think of it like that?
45:07He sought me out.
45:09Found me when I come out of prison.
45:12Set me up.
45:14Nice job.
45:15Nice home.
45:15Yes.
45:16Why?
45:17You'd have to ask him that.
45:19I'm a monster.
45:21It's the kind.
45:22I'm grateful.
45:23Of course I am.
45:23It's just, it's a lot, you know.
45:28They're set up.
45:30The way they are, Mr. and Mrs. Book.
45:32The way he is.
45:34It's hard for me to just accept it.
45:38You have a moral objection?
45:39Me?
45:41What do I have to moralise?
45:42I think you've answered your own question.
45:45Book is kind.
45:47I mean, I know I'm kind.
45:49Edmund, kind.
45:51But I once knew a girl called Joy, and she was anything but.
45:56There's no sinister motive, Jack.
45:58They want to help.
46:00Why don't you let them?
46:01They want to be sure to answer those.
46:26with you in just one moment
46:33hello again
46:36oh mrs goodwin jean jean after more of the same the pimpinette i'm not really sure i i think i
46:46fancy something a little different my husband not with you no the golf course no the garrick
46:52the divorce courts oh oh that play you gave me a doll's house most illuminating and like you
47:03suggested it rather made me think yes i thought it might do made me realize how narrow my horizons
47:09have become or other how narrow gerald have made my horizons love doesn't always last forever
47:16or less never loved him awful man but that's all in the past now or in the hands of my
47:24solicitor anyway so what can i do for you then jean what have you got on travel travel lots
47:32of it heaps of it exotic travel i think it's time i saw a bit of the world i've got just
47:40the thing with you in just one moment sir
47:48thanks
48:01i know you run on it without tea i mean unreconstituted dust
48:11it's hard to let go of the past mr book when you have so many questions about it
48:22such as
48:23well if it wasn't for you and trotty i'd be well i'd be sleeping on the embankment
48:32but now i have a position
48:36if it's still available the royal highnesses who let you go
48:42i'll quit good for you yes the job's still yours
48:47so i've got a position cozy little room above a bookshop on archangel lane i'm thinking
48:59why me
49:03your father gave me this
49:22the last time i saw him 1935
49:27the last time he died soon after
49:35i couldn't face looking at this book not for years
49:44and then the war came and i was busy
49:48rather busy it's only a few months ago that i pick it up again dared to pick it up
49:55and i found there was a little more to it than i thought
50:00what do you mean
50:12oh somewhere weak unconscious dove
50:17but sittest ranging golden hair
50:19and glad to find thyself so fair
50:25poor child
50:27that waitest for thy love
50:30he's trying to tell me you see about you
50:36brother's son i never knew he had
50:49he must have been taken around when you were conceived
51:13felix
51:19felix
51:24i've never heard his name
51:27just that
51:30just that one picture
51:34your father was a german
51:38german
51:41prussian
51:42in point of fact
51:43what was he to you mr book
51:52what was felix to me
52:01he was everything jack
52:03he was what the war took away
52:14he was the whole damn world
52:24how did he die
52:25i don't know
52:37i don't know
52:39shall we find out
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52:51or
52:52what was he
52:53not
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