Knuckle by David Hare

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Knuckle It’s the 1920s and Curly Delafield, a young arms merchant, is determined to discover the secret behind the disappearance of his sister Sarah. Delafield's investigations uncover a web of corruption under the placid setting of Guildford, where his father lives in suspicious circumstances with his housekeeper, Mrs Dunning. Will Delafield unfold the mystery of his sister's disappearance .... and is his father involved? Curly Delafield .... James Laurenson Jenny Wilbur .... Kika Markham Grace Dunning .... Sheila Grant Patrick Delafield .... Charles Gray Max Dupree .... Nigel Anthony Barman .... Walter Hall Porter .... Sian Probert Compere (Lomax) .... Alan Dudley Written by David Hare First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 1981     Do you enjoy the variety on Oldtuberadio? Like, Share and Subscribe to be notified of our new shows #radio #crime #thriller #drama To Support this channel please visit https://www.buymeacoffee.com/oldtuberadio https://ko-fi.com/oldtuberadio98 https://www.patreon.com/oldtuberadio https://locals.com/Oldtuberadio

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00:00:00Knuckle, by David Hare, with James Lawrenson as Curly, Charles Gray as his father, and

00:00:20Kika Markham as Jenny.

00:00:30Ladies and gentlemen, dance to the music of Michael Lomax and the Freshman Three.

00:00:43Farman.

00:00:44Sir.

00:00:45I'm having a lemonade.

00:00:46Fresh lemon?

00:00:47Fresh lemon.

00:00:48And a scotch for the lady.

00:00:50Is your name Curly?

00:00:53Yes.

00:00:54You look like your sister.

00:00:56The Shadow of the Moon.

00:00:58Is this still the only club in Guildford?

00:01:00This is it.

00:01:01Did Sarah come here?

00:01:03You know Sarah.

00:01:04No, I don't.

00:01:05That's the whole point.

00:01:06I haven't seen her for 12 years.

00:01:07I haven't seen anyone.

00:01:08What made you come back?

00:01:10Was she friendly with men?

00:01:12In a way.

00:01:13She went for a particular kind.

00:01:15I remember.

00:01:16You know.

00:01:17Still the same kind.

00:01:18These had a kind of Neanderthal glee.

00:01:21That's them.

00:01:22And she was only eight at the time.

00:01:25Did your father ask you to do this?

00:01:28Where was she working?

00:01:30She'd been working as a nurse in a psychiatric hospital.

00:01:33Dangerous job.

00:01:34Have you seen your father?

00:01:35Not yet.

00:01:36I'm staying with Patrick from tonight.

00:01:37I see.

00:01:38How long has she been gone?

00:01:40You take your conversation at a fair old lip.

00:01:42I'm transistorized.

00:01:43Your drinks.

00:01:44Okay.

00:01:45How long has she been gone?

00:01:46Eight weeks.

00:01:47Where exactly did she disappear?

00:01:48Between Eastbourne and Pevensey Bay.

00:01:49There's a stretch of beach about a mile long.

00:01:50Just dune and shingle.

00:01:51It's called the Crumbles.

00:01:52Has she been to Eastbourne before?

00:01:53I don't know.

00:01:54What do the police have to say?

00:01:55They think if she did drown herself in Eastbourne,

00:01:56it would be six weeks yet before she was washed up in Hearn Bay.

00:01:59A tribute to the strength of the English Channel.

00:02:00And Sarah's extraordinary buoyancy.

00:02:01Have a cigarette.

00:02:02No, thank you.

00:02:03Was she suicidal?

00:02:04I don't know what it means.

00:02:05Down in the dumps.

00:02:06She was paranoid.

00:02:07Of a particularly lethal type.

00:02:08Go on.

00:02:09I know your beauty.

00:02:10I know you don't know yourself.

00:02:11Right.

00:02:12It's just as if my doctor doesn't have any questions.

00:02:17To the right.

00:02:18What about you?

00:02:19Oh, I'm okay.

00:02:20I love about you.

00:02:21I don't know you.

00:02:23I'm sorry.

00:02:24You love me.

00:02:25It's kind of a thing.

00:02:26Don't tell me you.

00:02:27I don't know you.

00:02:29I know you don't like me, she used to say, begging you to say, of course I like you.

00:02:33If you didn't say that, she was finished, and if you did say that, she didn't believe you.

00:02:37And once she couldn't believe that, she couldn't believe anything.

00:02:40And she was the nurse?

00:02:41Yes.

00:02:42Have a cigarette.

00:02:43No, thank you. I'll have one of my own.

00:02:50But not what you'd call suicidal.

00:02:53She was depressed. So, everyone's depressed.

00:02:56She used to say life was a plush repertoire. Fair enough.

00:02:58Fair enough.

00:03:00She used to say, this is a very pretentious girl.

00:03:02She used to say she'd recognize a moment of happiness because she remembered having one five years ago,

00:03:07and if another came along, she could compare.

00:03:11When was that?

00:03:12Don't know. One evening before dusk, she felt happy for about twenty minutes.

00:03:20Well.

00:03:21Well, what she said. More than her fair share.

00:03:25Special friends, did she have?

00:03:35A journalist called Dupree.

00:03:37Who else?

00:03:37Just me.

00:03:39Not happy, not liked, pretentious.

00:03:41We all told her she was pretentious, and she said, certainly I am. That's because the world is unduly modest.

00:03:47Yeah, well, there you are.

00:03:48You left home much earlier, she said.

00:03:53When I was fifteen.

00:03:54She said you took four dozen rifles from the school cadet corps and sold them to the IRA.

00:03:58That's an old story. It's not necessarily true.

00:04:01Then sold the IRA to the British police.

00:04:03That sounds more like me. I was loud. Had the second half of the pint, that sort of thing.

00:04:07It's Hawaiian night in the Paradise Room.

00:04:09Smoked twenty a day.

00:04:10Sweet music and good food.

00:04:11But I've...

00:04:12The Paradise Room is situated on the first floor, just beyond William Tell's Alpine Grotto.

00:04:18Hurry up to heaven!

00:04:23Are you afraid?

00:04:25Why?

00:04:26If she was dead, does that frighten you?

00:04:28I'm not afraid.

00:04:30They found a purse on the beach, and a coat, which is how they know she was there.

00:04:34And inside the purse, they found two railway tickets, returns to Victoria, which means she was with someone.

00:04:39Which may mean she was killed.

00:04:42Is that consistent with how she lived?

00:04:44Sarah, sure.

00:04:46Like all women, hanging out on it.

00:04:48Longs to be raped.

00:04:49Isn't that what you think?

00:04:50All right.

00:04:51Well?

00:04:52Did she live with you?

00:04:55She moved into my flat.

00:04:57She left Guilford to avoid her father.

00:05:00She ran away to Serbiton.

00:05:02Don't laugh.

00:05:03She couldn't gesture as big as you.

00:05:06Venezuela, wherever it was.

00:05:07Peru.

00:05:09She ran away to Serbiton.

00:05:11That's the scale of her life.

00:05:14Had she been to Eastbourne before?

00:05:15Often.

00:05:16Why?

00:05:17You could breathe in Eastbourne.

00:05:19That's what she said.

00:05:20You didn't tell me that before.

00:05:21I was waiting for you to uncurl your lip.

00:05:24Well, that's how I keep it.

00:05:25It catches crumbs.

00:05:30What do you do for a living?

00:05:33I manage this club.

00:05:35Who owns it?

00:05:35A man called Malloy.

00:05:37Runs it on the side.

00:05:38What else does he do?

00:05:39What does everyone do in Guilford?

00:05:41Work in the city.

00:05:43Right.

00:05:44Friend of Sarah's.

00:05:45Friend of us all.

00:05:46This is our home.

00:05:47I used to come here.

00:05:49Yes?

00:05:50One time, I...

00:05:51Pissed in a bottle and made them sell it as martini.

00:05:54You knew.

00:05:55You're a legend.

00:05:56Sold like a bomb.

00:05:57Do you know what Sarah said about you?

00:05:59She's a nice girl.

00:06:00She said, whenever you stood up,

00:06:02there were two greasy patches on the seat of your chair.

00:06:05I'm here for her sake.

00:06:14That's all.

00:06:16Nobody asked you.

00:06:18And now I'm here, I won't be put off.

00:06:20Nobody told me.

00:06:21Do you know?

00:06:22I read it for myself in an English newspaper.

00:06:24Well, I reckon I'm far enough away from you all...

00:06:26Don't count me.

00:06:27...to be the best person to find out what happened.

00:06:29I hold no brief for the home counties nor its inhabitants.

00:06:32Best left to the police.

00:06:33Well, they don't have my equipment.

00:06:34The steel-tipped boot, you know.

00:06:35The knuckle-duster.

00:06:36I can tell you've been out of the country.

00:06:38Ladies and gentlemen,

00:06:40for each and every one of us,

00:06:42there must surely come the day when...

00:06:44we'll gather liars.

00:06:52Dance.

00:06:53Dance with you?

00:06:54What, that'll go home to my father.

00:06:56You're squat and ugly.

00:06:57I am repulsive, that's true.

00:06:59Well, there you are.

00:07:02What I say is,

00:07:03don't piss in the well.

00:07:06One day you may want to drink from it.

00:07:17Good evening.

00:07:18We haven't met yet.

00:07:19My name is Curly, Patrick's son, Curly.

00:07:22They let you into the country, all right.

00:07:25No trouble.

00:07:26Where's Pa?

00:07:27Upstairs.

00:07:28Have you lived here long?

00:07:29About a year.

00:07:30Excuse me.

00:07:31Patrick?

00:07:33Patrick?

00:07:34Somebody to see you?

00:07:36Your son.

00:07:37I've given you your old room.

00:07:38Next to the boiler.

00:07:40Your father is greatly looking forward to seeing you.

00:07:45Patrick is a very Christian man.

00:07:48Curly!

00:07:49How wonderful.

00:07:51How good to see you.

00:07:52I'm over here.

00:07:53Of course you are.

00:07:54Yes.

00:07:55Well.

00:07:58Yes.

00:07:59In the heart of sadness, joy.

00:08:02Sit down.

00:08:04Have you met Mrs. Dunning?

00:08:05Oh, yes, indeed.

00:08:07Grace, as we call her.

00:08:08I mean, that's her name, Grace.

00:08:09Sits pretty.

00:08:12Good.

00:08:15I saw Jenny.

00:08:16Nice girl.

00:08:16Yes.

00:08:17A brightly painted object.

00:08:19So, tell me what you know.

00:08:20It was good of you to come.

00:08:22I was between wars.

00:08:23I was happy to come.

00:08:24As you say.

00:08:25Well?

00:08:26I only know what you've read in the paper.

00:08:28They say 15,000 Englishmen disappear every year.

00:08:33I've never seen again.

00:08:35Amazing.

00:08:35She'd had a row with you.

00:08:36Oh, that was a year ago.

00:08:38She left home.

00:08:39A year ago.

00:08:40She was 21.

00:08:42She was bound to leave.

00:08:43What were the reasons?

00:08:44Curly.

00:08:45Take the light bulb out of my eyes.

00:08:49Goodness me.

00:08:51Let's take it a little more slowly.

00:08:55She was suicidal.

00:08:57Who says that?

00:08:58My father can't be trusted, Mrs. Dunning.

00:09:01He drops people like eggs.

00:09:02I'm not expected to run her life.

00:09:04Tell me the truth.

00:09:05She wasn't impressed with my profession, the merchant bank.

00:09:09Didn't care much for yours, either.

00:09:11No.

00:09:11But it's more glamorous than just making money.

00:09:14Just making money.

00:09:15I'm trying to see it from her point of view.

00:09:18Is that why she left?

00:09:19I suppose.

00:09:20Did she threaten to kill herself?

00:09:21She was self-critical, as you know.

00:09:28She thought she was a hateful kind of a person.

00:09:31She used to say she contracted one of Surrey's contagious diseases.

00:09:36Moral gum rot.

00:09:37Internal decay.

00:09:39Well, that's easy to say.

00:09:41She could say it, but nobody else.

00:09:43That's the point.

00:09:43So here we have paranoia.

00:09:47The fear of other people pointing out to you what you've been saying all the time about yourself.

00:09:52Much louder.

00:09:53Much longer.

00:09:54And you?

00:09:55What?

00:09:55What did you think?

00:09:57I thought it was rather lame propaganda.

00:10:01Mrs. Dunning, I think we could afford a cup of tea.

00:10:04Of course.

00:10:04Not for me.

00:10:05Really?

00:10:06I always have my love at four.

00:10:07It is a quarter to midnight.

00:10:09Another would be decadence.

00:10:11Right, Mrs. D?

00:10:12Fine.

00:10:14I'll go and make it.

00:10:15Mrs. Dunning, use my father's old tea bag, if you like.

00:10:23Curly.

00:10:26You don't change.

00:10:27I recur.

00:10:29Curly?

00:10:30Business, Father.

00:10:31Nothing at the human level, please.

00:10:32After all these years, it would be hard to take.

00:10:34Just tell me what you said to Sarah.

00:10:38I've always thought that life was a volatile thing, you know.

00:10:44You should tread light.

00:10:47That's not a point of view Sarah could understand.

00:10:50I think everyone's entitled to their own illusions.

00:10:53Sarah thought not.

00:10:54Sarah thought everyone should know everything.

00:10:59She told the bishop that his son was known as Mabel and the toast of the Earl's Court wrote.

00:11:04I see.

00:11:05She said it was best he should know.

00:11:08What does she look like?

00:11:09She's thin and angular.

00:11:11Wears grubby white jeans.

00:11:13Her hair, as if it's just been caught in a blaze.

00:11:18And the same expression of shock.

00:11:21Old bones and big lips.

00:11:24Does that help?

00:11:25I don't know.

00:11:26How long since you saw her?

00:11:29Twelve years since I saw either of you.

00:11:33I hadn't seen her for six months.

00:11:35She went to live with Jenny.

00:11:39Then one day the police came to my door.

00:11:43Do you think she's dead?

00:11:45I do, rather.

00:11:47It's my experience of life that it never misses a trick.

00:11:50And murdered, as well, I expect.

00:11:52But she was like a buzzsaw in the inner ear.

00:11:57Some man she talked to on the beach.

00:12:00What about the police?

00:12:01That's the current theory.

00:12:03There's apparently a man well-known in Eastbourne called Dawson.

00:12:06Known as Dopey.

00:12:08Always out on the street.

00:12:09Reads the Bible to children.

00:12:11Shows them the meat hook he keeps in his Mac.

00:12:14Used to be a Burris Faire.

00:12:16Some years ago.

00:12:17Is there any evidence?

00:12:19Lord, no, no.

00:12:20No evidence.

00:12:20Sounds rather easy, but it's all they've got.

00:12:24There is a boyfriend.

00:12:25Dupree?

00:12:25Yeah.

00:12:26Not the right type.

00:12:27Not the right type for Sarah, eh?

00:12:29Curly, you know better than that.

00:12:30Not the right type to kill, I imagine.

00:12:32Which type is that?

00:12:33Dupree is a remarkably fine young man.

00:12:36Solid sort of chap.

00:12:37As you say.

00:12:38Must have been great for Sarah.

00:12:39Do you know that...

00:12:40Pa!

00:12:40The police visit me every night at eight.

00:12:45I will, of course, pass on to you everything they discover to help your private search for justice.

00:12:51It's not justice I'm after.

00:12:53I wish you well.

00:12:54Then tell me the truth.

00:12:55What about the club?

00:12:58That man who owns it?

00:13:00Malloy.

00:13:00Do you know him?

00:13:01Of course.

00:13:01The stockbroker.

00:13:03Not very successful.

00:13:04His hands tremble.

00:13:06It's bad for business.

00:13:07Is that why he bought the club?

00:13:08I should think so.

00:13:10It's almost my age, but he seems to enjoy the company of young people.

00:13:14What does that mean?

00:13:16Currie, how long were you in?

00:13:17Why did Sarah leave home?

00:13:19You tell me why she left.

00:13:21Life with Sarah was constant self-justification.

00:13:25I don't propose to start all over with you.

00:13:31When did the Scots' haddock arrive?

00:13:35Grace?

00:13:35I think the smell of starch and clean living when you come in that door.

00:13:39I bet she dabs Dettol behind her ears.

00:13:41Mrs Dunning is a pillar of strength.

00:13:43The best housekeeper I've had.

00:13:47You can say anything at all to me.

00:13:48Anything you like.

00:13:49Grace, you have a very large mouth and a very small heart.

00:13:54You can say that.

00:13:55She wouldn't mind.

00:13:56If it were true, you could say that.

00:13:57Which is not.

00:13:58Punchbag, eh?

00:14:00Do you think, Curly, while you're here,

00:14:03a guest in my house, you could suppress the all-singing, all-dancing,

00:14:08all-fornicating side of your character which burst out so tellingly before you left?

00:14:12We do hope you've grown up.

00:14:16I was told to get walnut whips.

00:14:19Your father said you loved them.

00:14:20I wasn't saying we should have them today.

00:14:22You emphasised the point.

00:14:24Twelve years ago, after all.

00:14:26Mrs Dunning,

00:14:29you have a very large mouth.

00:14:34And a very small heart.

00:14:37That's what your father always says.

00:14:42I think I must be going to bed.

00:14:43You haven't told me about Sarah.

00:14:45There's plenty of time.

00:14:46You do want me to help?

00:14:47Curly, I do.

00:14:48Indeed, I do.

00:14:50Then that's what I shall do.

00:14:51Help and then go.

00:14:52Excellent.

00:14:53Well, wait and see if you measure up.

00:14:55Car.

00:14:55Uh-huh.

00:14:56Well, we'll talk tomorrow.

00:14:58Grace, my Henry James.

00:15:01By the bed.

00:15:03The light will go out at a quarter past twelve.

00:15:08And now, we'll have a cup of tea.

00:15:21Sod the tea.

00:15:26I came after Sarah.

00:15:29I formed the impression of a tremendously vital girl.

00:15:34Vital?

00:15:35Well, she seemed to care so much about the world.

00:15:40Sarah and I went to a Martello Tower on Alboro Beach

00:15:43when we were youngish.

00:15:45I think I was thirteen.

00:15:47There was a poodle playing inside,

00:15:48which followed us to the top.

00:15:50Sarah and me,

00:15:51we didn't have a great deal in common,

00:15:53but at that moment, together,

00:15:55we simultaneously conceived the idea

00:15:58of throwing the poodle over the side of the tower.

00:16:02Well, I can't tell you why,

00:16:05but it was a hypnotic idea.

00:16:07Just to see it fall.

00:16:09So, we lifted this grey thing up to the edge.

00:16:13Then we released at either end

00:16:14at exactly the same moment.

00:16:16It's the firing squad idea.

00:16:17You don't know who's responsible.

00:16:18We felt terrible.

00:16:24Worse for the dog.

00:16:25Bad for the dog, also.

00:16:28But also terrible for us.

00:16:32The only barbaric thing I've ever done.

00:16:34You've quite a reputation as a barbarian.

00:16:37Ignorance.

00:16:39Ignorance and jealousy.

00:16:41Don't tell Pa.

00:16:45A wonderful man.

00:16:48A cultured man.

00:16:49I'm sure he's cultured,

00:16:50but what good does that do?

00:16:51His culture in large...

00:16:52Mrs Dunning, who ran Auschwitz?

00:16:55A pack of bloody intellectuals.

00:16:57I must go up.

00:16:58Is he your...

00:17:00beau?

00:17:01You must have lived in his shadow

00:17:03when you were a child.

00:17:06We thought he was a fool.

00:17:07Such a tremendously clever man.

00:17:10The trick of making money

00:17:11is only a trick.

00:17:14He said he thought

00:17:15you'd have grown up.

00:17:19Do the police always call?

00:17:22At eight o'clock.

00:17:23That's it.

00:17:24A typical evening

00:17:25since Sarah.

00:17:29What's he doing?

00:17:30You're reading his book.

00:17:34Did you never like him?

00:17:36Not very much.

00:17:38I wonder why all the words

00:17:39my generation believed in,

00:17:41words like honour and loyalty,

00:17:43are now just a joke.

00:17:45I guess it's because

00:17:46of some of the characters

00:17:47they've knocked around with.

00:17:50Good night.

00:17:51Good night.

00:17:52Good night.

00:18:00Excellent.

00:18:03Good weapon, sir.

00:18:04We'll take 2,000 Manliker Carcano

00:18:06carbon and ammunition,

00:18:071,500 Tokarevs,

00:18:081,400 Mosin Nagans,

00:18:10what few bolt-action Marsas

00:18:11you've got,

00:18:12and the rest of the Lee-Enfields.

00:18:13Knock-down job law.

00:18:14Hmm?

00:18:15My client is also in the market

00:18:16for .30-06 Springfield rifles

00:18:19with extra-long

00:18:20chrome-plated beinets,

00:18:21believe it or not.

00:18:22And he'd also like

00:18:23an antique Marsa

00:18:24Nazi K-Series Luger

00:18:25for himself,

00:18:26as he's a bit of a raving

00:18:27lunatic on the side.

00:18:29And he'll be paying cash,

00:18:30Swiss fracks.

00:18:31Anything you say,

00:18:32Mr. Delfield?

00:18:32Thank God help

00:18:33the poor bloody natives.

00:18:35Every man has his own gun.

00:18:39That's not a metaphor.

00:18:41That's a fact.

00:18:43There are hundreds of millions

00:18:45of guns in the world

00:18:46in some kind of working order.

00:18:48I don't pick the fights.

00:18:50I just equip them.

00:18:51People are going to fight anyway.

00:18:52They're going to kill each other

00:18:53with or without my help.

00:18:55There isn't a civilization

00:18:57you can name

00:18:57that hasn't operated

00:18:58at the most staggering cost

00:19:00in human life.

00:19:02It's as if we need

00:19:03so many dead

00:19:04like axle grease

00:19:06to make civilization

00:19:09work at all.

00:19:11I'm not ashamed

00:19:11of the trade, Max,

00:19:12even if I'm a little tired of it.

00:19:14If every man on Earth

00:19:15has a gun already,

00:19:16does he really need

00:19:16a second one?

00:19:18So,

00:19:19now we can talk.

00:19:22I asked Jenny

00:19:23what's Curly's attitude

00:19:25to his profession

00:19:26and she said,

00:19:26well,

00:19:27he says every man

00:19:28has his own gun.

00:19:29That's not a metaphor.

00:19:30That's a fact.

00:19:31It's my party piece.

00:19:32You sell guns,

00:19:33people come up to you.

00:19:34They can spot

00:19:35a moral issue.

00:19:36And I'm a tissue

00:19:37of moral issues.

00:19:39It's like having

00:19:39a very loud suit.

00:19:40You get used to it.

00:19:41I have to get the subject

00:19:42out of the way.

00:19:42Yeah, okay.

00:19:44So talk.

00:19:46Well,

00:19:46Sarah worked over there

00:19:48in that lovely old house

00:19:50and by all accounts

00:19:51was a very fine nurse.

00:19:52What would you say

00:19:53was wrong with her?

00:19:54Well,

00:19:54why does there have

00:19:54to be something wrong?

00:19:56Sarah was unhappy,

00:19:57that's all.

00:19:57She needed character massage.

00:19:59She wasn't ill?

00:19:59Ill?

00:20:00Mentally.

00:20:01Look,

00:20:01I've written stories

00:20:02about that hospital

00:20:03for the national newspapers.

00:20:06One about a man

00:20:06who wrapped his hands

00:20:08in copper wire

00:20:09and plugged himself

00:20:10into the mains.

00:20:10Another who believes

00:20:11there's a colony of rats

00:20:12lodged in his stomach wall.

00:20:14He drinks Domestos.

00:20:17Friend.

00:20:19So if a girl's unhappy

00:20:20because her father

00:20:21sits smiling all day

00:20:22with his arse

00:20:23and a bucket of cream

00:20:24and because she thinks

00:20:25her brother's

00:20:26a 24-carat shark,

00:20:27I don't get very worked up.

00:20:29As far as I'm concerned,

00:20:29she's just ambling

00:20:30around the foothills

00:20:31of the thing.

00:20:32Unlikely to come

00:20:33to very much harm.

00:20:34Is that true

00:20:34about why she was unhappy?

00:20:36Certainly.

00:20:36I'd heard she was

00:20:37living with you.

00:20:39Neanderthal type.

00:20:40Well?

00:20:41Yeah, well,

00:20:41she stopped over.

00:20:42A lucky girl.

00:20:43She was free.

00:20:44Do you think

00:20:45she's run away?

00:20:46No, I don't.

00:20:47Do you think

00:20:47she's killed herself?

00:20:49I don't understand

00:20:50your involvement.

00:20:51I'm her brother.

00:20:52I thought you

00:20:52was just axle police.

00:20:52Hello, this is different.

00:20:53Make civilisation work?

00:20:54You think she killed herself?

00:20:55Mr Delafield.

00:20:56Mr Dupree,

00:20:57one shark to another,

00:20:58tell me the truth.

00:20:59I'm not a shark.

00:21:01And I don't think

00:21:02she killed herself.

00:21:05But of course

00:21:06she had threatened this.

00:21:08Go on.

00:21:09Well, she wasn't

00:21:10quite mature.

00:21:11She had a misleading reputation.

00:21:13She was known

00:21:14as Lego Becerra.

00:21:16Well, that was fine

00:21:16by me,

00:21:17but it wasn't true.

00:21:18In fact,

00:21:19she was more possessive

00:21:20than she appeared.

00:21:22She blackmailed me

00:21:23by saying

00:21:24she'd kill herself

00:21:25if I left her.

00:21:28Well, so...

00:21:28So, when I first heard

00:21:29she disappeared,

00:21:30I was terrified.

00:21:32But as soon as

00:21:33I heard about the purse...

00:21:34Oh, of course.

00:21:34...the two railway tickets

00:21:35on the beach...

00:21:36Right.

00:21:36...I knew she couldn't

00:21:36have killed herself.

00:21:37So,

00:21:38that's all right.

00:21:41Ah,

00:21:42it's beautiful here.

00:21:45The trees,

00:21:47the grass,

00:21:48that house.

00:21:50Yes,

00:21:51it's a lovely place

00:21:51to go mad.

00:21:54There's a woman in there

00:21:54who thinks she's Napoleon.

00:21:56Sure, that I can understand.

00:21:57But who the hell

00:21:58did Napoleon think he was,

00:21:59hmm?

00:22:02Mr. Dupree,

00:22:03I'm told you're a communist.

00:22:04What would you say?

00:22:05Well, I'm not a communist,

00:22:06exactly.

00:22:06But that sort of thing.

00:22:07Oh, certainly.

00:22:08And you lived with Sarah?

00:22:08Off and on.

00:22:09While entertaining other women.

00:22:10That's true.

00:22:10Oh, fair enough.

00:22:11I'm not accusing you.

00:22:12It seems a reasonable way of life.

00:22:14Well?

00:22:15I just don't understand

00:22:16why a middle-aged,

00:22:17God-loving merchant banker

00:22:18should describe the lazy,

00:22:20promiscuous,

00:22:20self-righteous Bolshevik

00:22:21who's meanwhile

00:22:22screwing his daughter

00:22:23as a remarkably fine young man.

00:22:26No?

00:22:26No.

00:22:27Oh, perhaps Patrick

00:22:28just liked me.

00:22:29Max,

00:22:30what's happened to Malloy?

00:22:33What?

00:22:34The owner of the club,

00:22:35Malloy,

00:22:35what's happened to him?

00:22:36I don't know.

00:22:38Why would it be

00:22:39he doesn't answer his door?

00:22:41And where was he

00:22:42on the night Sarah disappeared?

00:22:45Where is he now?

00:22:47Where indeed were you?

00:22:48Do you have an alibi?

00:22:49Of course.

00:22:49I mean, all good questions.

00:22:50Plus,

00:22:51how does Jenny come into all this?

00:22:53Well, Sarah's best friend,

00:22:54that's all.

00:22:55Not bad looking, Jenny.

00:22:57If you say so.

00:22:58Oh, Max.

00:22:59Oh, nothing to do with me.

00:23:00You're not saying

00:23:01you've missed Jennifer.

00:23:02You, of all people,

00:23:03Max must have noticed.

00:23:04I mean, being so intelligent

00:23:05and ambitious,

00:23:07yet choosing to go on

00:23:08living in this town

00:23:09when you don't have to,

00:23:10letting yourself become

00:23:11the Guilford Stringer,

00:23:12tying yourself down,

00:23:13why would that be,

00:23:13Max Millian?

00:23:15Max, well.

00:23:15Well, Max.

00:23:18Jenny and Sarah.

00:23:20Of course,

00:23:21one would see them

00:23:21side by side.

00:23:22An unfair comparison.

00:23:25Jenny so bright

00:23:26and capable

00:23:26and lovely.

00:23:28Sarah ungainly

00:23:29with a slight moustache.

00:23:30and politically erratic.

00:23:36But Sarah was always

00:23:37lost leader.

00:23:40And I'm afraid

00:23:41it seems to fit

00:23:42that she was killed,

00:23:44no doubt,

00:23:44by some frightfully

00:23:45maladjusted person.

00:23:48And I promise you,

00:23:50that's what I really think.

00:23:52Well, I don't doubt

00:23:53your account.

00:23:54I just doubt

00:23:56the intense sense

00:23:57of relief

00:23:58with which you tell it.

00:24:02I'll see you tomorrow.

00:24:04Same time.

00:24:05Same place.

00:24:06No, I don't think...

00:24:06Tomorrow.

00:24:09You chew all the meat

00:24:10until you hit

00:24:11the lump of gristle.

00:24:13I've been to see

00:24:16Max Dupree.

00:24:18Come in.

00:24:20Come in.

00:24:22I'm reading a music score.

00:24:24Most enjoyable.

00:24:25Great.

00:24:27The horns

00:24:28have just come in.

00:24:30Would you like a drink?

00:24:31Do you want to know

00:24:31what Dupree said?

00:24:33I have an idea.

00:24:34That's all right.

00:24:36He's very hopeful.

00:24:39He hopes

00:24:40she was murdered.

00:24:40Everyone hopes that.

00:24:44Including you.

00:24:48Not because you want her dead.

00:24:49I didn't say that.

00:24:50But given that she is dead,

00:24:51you want her murdered

00:24:52because then it's nobody's fault

00:24:53except some poor psychopath

00:24:54and there's nothing

00:24:55anybody can do about those.

00:24:57Whereas,

00:24:58if she killed herself,

00:24:59she's going to squat

00:25:00on your shoulders

00:25:01for the rest of your life.

00:25:05Have a drink.

00:25:06I never touch it.

00:25:07Time?

00:25:0810-2.

00:25:09The police will be here

00:25:10at 8.

00:25:11Are you staying?

00:25:11I'll stay

00:25:12as long as I can.

00:25:13You're living here.

00:25:14No, but I couldn't

00:25:15last an evening.

00:25:17I'd be pressed,

00:25:18Father,

00:25:19to put my finger

00:25:20on the quality

00:25:20that makes you

00:25:21impossible

00:25:21to spend an evening with.

00:25:23That subject's taboo.

00:25:25Anything else

00:25:26is all right.

00:25:27Sit down.

00:25:28Have you read much

00:25:35Henry James,

00:25:36hmm?

00:25:37Washington Square?

00:25:38No.

00:25:39Oh.

00:25:40Tremendous quality

00:25:42of civilization.

00:25:43That's what it is.

00:25:45Oh.

00:25:47Well, I'm not getting

00:25:48very far.

00:25:50She turns out

00:25:50to be a hysterical

00:25:51kind of person

00:25:52whom nobody likes.

00:25:53Least of all,

00:25:53Max,

00:25:54who's meant to be

00:25:54the boyfriend.

00:25:55There's none

00:25:57of the innocence

00:25:58that that word suggests.

00:25:59In fact,

00:26:00an outright narcissist.

00:26:02And in love

00:26:02with Jenny,

00:26:03I would say,

00:26:04because he thought

00:26:04they would look good

00:26:05together,

00:26:05walking past mirrors,

00:26:06that sort of thing.

00:26:09For myself,

00:26:09I'd like to meet

00:26:10Malloy,

00:26:12as he must have

00:26:12seen Sarah

00:26:13every night

00:26:14in the club.

00:26:16But to Malloy,

00:26:17everybody has

00:26:18disappeared.

00:26:19Time?

00:26:20A bit later.

00:26:21Yes, my friends.

00:26:23Vanished.

00:26:24My day spent

00:26:24battering at his door,

00:26:25but he has gone.

00:26:26What's gun running

00:26:27like, for Christ's sake?

00:26:29Sit down.

00:26:31I'm asking.

00:26:32I don't run them,

00:26:33I sell them.

00:26:33It's a perfectly

00:26:34legal profession

00:26:35like selling insurance.

00:26:37Is there a great

00:26:38deal of travel?

00:26:39A lot.

00:26:40I was in Acton

00:26:42today.

00:26:43Acton?

00:26:44There are

00:26:44150,000 guns

00:26:46in Acton,

00:26:46West London,

00:26:47a warehouse

00:26:48off the A40.

00:26:49I always thought

00:26:50you were in Peru.

00:26:51I go where there

00:26:52is a war.

00:26:53Acton.

00:26:54All people want one.

00:26:56Huh.

00:26:57I thought you were

00:26:58in danger.

00:26:59There's no danger.

00:27:00The people who

00:27:01supply the arms

00:27:02should not be

00:27:02confused with the

00:27:03soldiers.

00:27:03In the trade,

00:27:04we tend to keep

00:27:06the soldiers

00:27:06at some distance.

00:27:07They bring bad luck.

00:27:11Pa?

00:27:12Yes?

00:27:14What do you like

00:27:15so much about Max?

00:27:16Max called me.

00:27:18He said he'd seen you.

00:27:19All you've succeeded

00:27:20in doing is

00:27:21putting his back up.

00:27:23I'd miscalculated

00:27:24your particular talents

00:27:25seem quite useless

00:27:26in this matter.

00:27:27Listen, don't...

00:27:27You haven't grown up.

00:27:28You'll never grow up

00:27:29until you appreciate

00:27:30the value of tact.

00:27:32I'm off.

00:27:32Sit down.

00:27:35That's typical.

00:27:37You've no self-control.

00:27:41You should be happy

00:27:42to sit

00:27:42and be humiliated.

00:27:44And be humiliated.

00:27:46If you wish to destroy

00:27:47an ant heap,

00:27:48you do not use dynamite.

00:27:50You read them,

00:27:51Henry James.

00:27:52Just so.

00:27:53It's a question of noise.

00:27:56There's a saying

00:27:57in our trade,

00:27:58or there ought to be,

00:27:59in the city.

00:28:00The saying is,

00:28:01the exploitation

00:28:02of the masses

00:28:03should be conducted

00:28:04as quietly as possible.

00:28:06Quite right.

00:28:07I'll tell you

00:28:10of an incident

00:28:10before she left.

00:28:12It made me admire

00:28:13my own daughter.

00:28:16I don't handle money,

00:28:17as you know.

00:28:17I mean actual notes.

00:28:19For various reasons

00:28:20to do with grace,

00:28:22I came home

00:28:23with five hundred

00:28:24and ones.

00:28:26I'm a romantic.

00:28:28I put them

00:28:29in the piano,

00:28:30played Sheherazada,

00:28:32and went to bed.

00:28:34The next morning

00:28:36they'd gone,

00:28:36and so had Sarah.

00:28:38She'd run away

00:28:39to Surbiton.

00:28:40I was furious.

00:28:43It was rude

00:28:44and messy

00:28:44and loud.

00:28:47But,

00:28:48last week

00:28:49I went to her flat

00:28:50for the first time.

00:28:51I went into the kitchen.

00:28:53She pasted them

00:28:54to the wall.

00:28:58I admired the elegance

00:29:00of that gesture.

00:29:01It was perfectly

00:29:02discreet.

00:29:04bless her.

00:29:11I saw a girl

00:29:12once in a bar

00:29:14in Laos

00:29:14whose trick

00:29:15was an inverted sphincter.

00:29:18She smoked a cigarette

00:29:19through her arse.

00:29:22It summed up for me

00:29:24the pleasures

00:29:25of the world.

00:29:27You get the idea.

00:29:28Do you know what

00:29:31Sam said?

00:29:32Sam?

00:29:32Sam Cummings,

00:29:33International Arms King.

00:29:34Ah.

00:29:35Sam said to me,

00:29:36open up,

00:29:37let them have it.

00:29:38Sam said to me,

00:29:39that's what civilization

00:29:40was, is,

00:29:41and always will be.

00:29:41Open up,

00:29:42let them have it.

00:29:44That is why mine

00:29:45is the only business

00:29:46that will last forever.

00:29:48Oh, goodness me.

00:29:49He said that to me

00:29:50when I was 15.

00:29:51Are you sure

00:29:55you won't have a drink?

00:29:56That's all do.

00:29:56I never touch it.

00:29:57I like the taste

00:29:58of whiskey.

00:29:58Good whiskey, Dad,

00:29:59but that's all I like.

00:30:00I don't like the effects.

00:30:03Look,

00:30:04I'll show you something.

00:30:06Cigarettes,

00:30:07two kinds.

00:30:09Cigars.

00:30:12Sweets.

00:30:12Condoms.

00:30:19Do you know

00:30:19what I say?

00:30:20No.

00:30:22No pleasure

00:30:22that isn't more

00:30:23pleasurable

00:30:24for being denied.

00:30:26Don't use any of them.

00:30:27Goodness me.

00:30:29I need nothing.

00:30:30Good.

00:30:31You are growing up.

00:30:35Did you ever talk

00:30:36to Sarah

00:30:36after she left?

00:30:38We met once.

00:30:40Neutral ground,

00:30:41Trafalgar Square,

00:30:43we talked about,

00:30:44I can't tell you.

00:30:46What?

00:30:47We talked about

00:30:48what we believed.

00:30:49How disgusting.

00:30:50I suppose you have

00:30:51to get your hands

00:30:52dirty sometimes.

00:30:53And what did she believe?

00:30:54I can't remember.

00:30:55Well, no wonder

00:30:55as you paid such

00:30:56close attention

00:30:57to her views

00:30:57of the court.

00:30:58Hush, hush, hush.

00:30:59Over the top.

00:31:00You're over the top again.

00:31:02We don't know

00:31:03she's dead.

00:31:04And if she is,

00:31:05there's no purpose

00:31:06to be served

00:31:06by booting your way

00:31:07through the local population

00:31:09like a mad hussar.

00:31:10This is England.

00:31:11Surrey,

00:31:11your approach

00:31:12is wrong.

00:31:13You're peg-legging along,

00:31:14screaming your head off,

00:31:16fifteen paces

00:31:17behind the local police.

00:31:19You've no idea.

00:31:20Jesus.

00:31:21I try to wipe

00:31:22my slate

00:31:23as clean as yours.

00:31:23Alcohol,

00:31:24sex,

00:31:24I have left behind,

00:31:25but I still

00:31:26can't quite manage

00:31:27your state of zen.

00:31:28I still have a smudge

00:31:30of indignation.

00:31:31I left this house

00:31:32because I was sick to death

00:31:33with Lord Earthly

00:31:34bloody perfection.

00:31:35If only you would admit to it.

00:31:37What?

00:31:37Just something.

00:31:38Just own up.

00:31:40For instance,

00:31:41to your genius

00:31:42for mislaying your children.

00:31:44Curly.

00:31:44I can't stand it.

00:31:45Please.

00:31:46I thought when I came back

00:31:47you might be showing

00:31:48just a little petticoat

00:31:49below your hem,

00:31:50but no.

00:31:51Perfection.

00:31:52I'm clocking out.

00:31:53Going.

00:31:54Curly.

00:31:56Yes?

00:31:58Please take your condoms

00:31:59off my table.

00:32:05The lemonade,

00:32:06is it, sir?

00:32:07No.

00:32:08Yes,

00:32:09I'll stick to lemonade.

00:32:10Pleasure to serve you,

00:32:11Mr. Telefield.

00:32:16You know,

00:32:17this can be a pretty

00:32:18wild bar

00:32:19some nights.

00:32:21Lordy.

00:32:22A little too wild

00:32:24without a pause.

00:32:27Oh, yes.

00:32:28Everyone needs

00:32:29peace

00:32:30nowadays, eh?

00:32:32Who is this creep?

00:32:33Right, Mr. Delafield?

00:32:35And a scotch,

00:32:36I suppose,

00:32:36for the lady.

00:32:37I'm talking about

00:32:38a hot rod,

00:32:40Mr. Delafield.

00:32:42As you call it

00:32:43in the trade.

00:32:45Oh, naturally,

00:32:45you've got the security boys.

00:32:47Private army, you know.

00:32:48But

00:32:48they don't have the lead.

00:32:50No.

00:32:51Perhaps you could

00:32:52cross my palm

00:32:53with metal,

00:32:55Mr. Delafield.

00:32:55Perhaps.

00:32:58Open up.

00:32:58Let them have it.

00:32:59Right, Mr. Delafield.

00:33:01Your drinks.

00:33:04Oh, thank you, sir.

00:33:05Most generous.

00:33:06Where is she?

00:33:07Over there, sir.

00:33:08The table in the corner.

00:33:09Thanks.

00:33:10Hello, Jenny.

00:33:18Well, potato face,

00:33:20your lucky day.

00:33:21This is repulsive speaking.

00:33:23I'm offering you a night

00:33:24I'm offering you a night on the tiles.

00:33:25What do you say?

00:33:25We could maybe both

00:33:26go look for Malloy.

00:33:27You can find Malloy

00:33:28down the mortuary.

00:33:30The wrists are cut

00:33:31with the razor blade.

00:33:33Not easy.

00:33:34You really have to go at them.

00:33:35He went at them

00:33:36so it looked like gardening shears.

00:33:38The only way to do it.

00:33:39Jen.

00:33:42Who the hell am I?

00:33:43I bet you don't even know

00:33:44my second name.

00:33:47Have another scotch.

00:33:49What's it to you?

00:33:51So that is why

00:33:52he does not answer the door

00:33:54because he is lying

00:33:55on the floor

00:33:55with a suicide note

00:33:57bequeathing me

00:33:58the shadow of the moon.

00:34:02Malloy had ears

00:34:03like a dachshund

00:34:04and a voice like

00:34:05two trees rubbing together.

00:34:06In short,

00:34:08a slob.

00:34:08He liked to put

00:34:10a brown paper bag

00:34:10over his head.

00:34:11This will amuse you.

00:34:13Then take all his clothes off.

00:34:15He did this in the company

00:34:16of other Englishmen

00:34:16of the same age and class.

00:34:18They ran round in circles

00:34:19with straps.

00:34:20They never saw

00:34:20each other's faces.

00:34:21Malloy said

00:34:22the pleasure

00:34:23was not in the whipping

00:34:24or in the paper bags.

00:34:27The pleasure was

00:34:28in going to the stock exchange

00:34:29next day

00:34:30and trying to work out

00:34:31which of your colleagues

00:34:32you'd whipped

00:34:33the night before.

00:34:35He was funny.

00:34:37I liked him.

00:34:38Jen.

00:34:40He sat in this bar

00:34:42gin dripping

00:34:44from his chin

00:34:45from his eyes

00:34:46gin in the palms

00:34:47of his hands

00:34:47talking about

00:34:49England

00:34:50and the need

00:34:51to be whipped.

00:34:52Who found him?

00:34:54I sent for the police.

00:34:56Does the note explain

00:34:57anything to do with

00:34:58Sarah

00:34:59the disappearance?

00:35:00It depressed him

00:35:02he says that.

00:35:02But does he...

00:35:03But he knew

00:35:03nothing concrete.

00:35:06He told me that

00:35:07when he was alive.

00:35:08The note's mostly

00:35:09about my getting the club.

00:35:10He'd only bought it

00:35:11originally

00:35:11so that I could manage it.

00:35:13I was out of a job

00:35:14so he set me up

00:35:15a bauble.

00:35:16Now what did you do

00:35:17in return?

00:35:17I did nothing.

00:35:19He was never my lover.

00:35:21It was Sarah

00:35:22he had.

00:35:24She was

00:35:24mad about him.

00:35:26He spilled a whole bottle

00:35:27of gin all over her.

00:35:28She never washed

00:35:29for weeks.

00:35:30Sentimental.

00:35:30What the hell

00:35:31was she doing?

00:35:31If you shut up

00:35:32I'll tell you.

00:35:34She thought he was

00:35:35like Patrick

00:35:36only human.

00:35:38She was obsessed

00:35:39with her father

00:35:40because he was

00:35:41so complete.

00:35:42Sarah used to say

00:35:42he had a personality

00:35:43like a pebble.

00:35:44There was no way in.

00:35:47Then she met Molloy

00:35:48a man from her

00:35:50father's world

00:35:51from her father's

00:35:52class

00:35:52of her father's age

00:35:53a man like her father

00:35:55but able to be

00:35:57agonized

00:35:58capable of guilt.

00:36:00She was enthralled.

00:36:02How long did it last?

00:36:03A few weeks.

00:36:04Then...

00:36:05There was a row

00:36:05a few months ago.

00:36:07What about?

00:36:08Sarah said it was

00:36:09about the whipping

00:36:10that she'd just

00:36:11found out.

00:36:12Did you believe her?

00:36:12No.

00:36:13The whipping would have

00:36:14been an added attraction.

00:36:16Another weakness.

00:36:17She'd have loved him more.

00:36:19Then she lied.

00:36:22Sarah never lied.

00:36:23She said people

00:36:24should know everything.

00:36:28Have you ever met

00:36:30my father?

00:36:31Yes.

00:36:33Have you seen

00:36:33inside the city of London?

00:36:36Inside the banks

00:36:37and the counting houses?

00:36:39It's perfect.

00:36:41A man with silver hair

00:36:43and suits with velvet pockets

00:36:45oiling down

00:36:46padded corridors.

00:36:47all their worries

00:36:49papered over

00:36:49with ten-pound nets

00:36:50and brillianteen.

00:36:53But my father

00:36:54moved as silkily

00:36:56as anyone.

00:36:58A clear leather desk

00:37:00in a book-lined room.

00:37:03A golden inkwell.

00:37:05That was all.

00:37:07That

00:37:08and the sound of money

00:37:10gathering like moss

00:37:11on the side

00:37:11of a wet building.

00:37:12He made his money

00:37:15with silent indolence.

00:37:16Part of a club.

00:37:17In theory a speculator

00:37:18but who ever heard

00:37:19of an English speculator

00:37:20who actually speculated

00:37:21and lost?

00:37:26Sarah would know

00:37:26what I'm talking about.

00:37:32The two of you.

00:37:34So I chose guns.

00:37:35The noisiest profession

00:37:36I could find.

00:37:36I used to set up

00:37:37a client's demonstration

00:37:38of the AR-10.

00:37:40The fire-tracer boards

00:37:41at tin cans

00:37:41filled with gasoline.

00:37:42You ever see a tracer

00:37:43bullet hit a bean can

00:37:44full of petrol?

00:37:45It is better than

00:37:45a John Wayne movie.

00:37:46The oohs, the ahs.

00:37:48I used to saddle up

00:37:49and ride into the sunset

00:37:50leaving the range

00:37:51of smouldering ruin.

00:37:53We sold a hell

00:37:53of a lot of guns.

00:37:56Ah, poor Sarah.

00:37:59I just know

00:38:00what she felt.

00:38:05Let me smell your scotch.

00:38:06Did anyone

00:38:12love Sarah?

00:38:16Bomb business.

00:38:18Look what I got out of it.

00:38:20The Michael Lomax trio

00:38:22scraping their balls off

00:38:23in an upstairs room.

00:38:24Dip so.

00:38:26Tell me who killed her.

00:38:29It would only have needed

00:38:31the barest suggestion.

00:38:33If you asked her,

00:38:33she would have covered herself

00:38:35in kerosene

00:38:36and set light to it

00:38:37to win your affection.

00:38:40How Malloy could have

00:38:41touched her?

00:38:42You know what Bernie said?

00:38:43Bernie?

00:38:44Bernie Kornfeld said to me,

00:38:45humanity's a nasty racket

00:38:47to be in.

00:38:48Miss Wilbur.

00:38:54See?

00:38:55I even know your second name.

00:38:57I know everything.

00:38:58I know it all.

00:38:58I know dwelling place,

00:38:59size, a flat name,

00:39:00a dog,

00:39:00even dogs diet,

00:39:01even dogs distaste

00:39:02for meaty chunks.

00:39:05I'm propositioning you.

00:39:09You'd be the first

00:39:10for some time.

00:39:12Some years.

00:39:12The first, in fact,

00:39:15since the sheikh

00:39:17of Mina Saeed's daughter.

00:39:19She went with an arms deal.

00:39:22What about Malloy?

00:39:24Laying Malloy aside,

00:39:28that's a very nice leg.

00:39:32I've got another one

00:39:33just like it.

00:39:34What about Sarah?

00:39:37Laying Sarah aside.

00:39:39I see.

00:39:44My dear.

00:39:44What did you get out of it?

00:39:47Hopefully some change

00:39:48from a pound.

00:39:50Listen, punk face.

00:39:52I wouldn't buy

00:39:53what you've got

00:39:54if it was on

00:39:55refrigerated display.

00:39:57I don't suppose

00:39:58I'd be selling

00:39:59under those conditions.

00:40:02You come with me.

00:40:04Me? Jane?

00:40:05I'll show you the world.

00:40:06Take me to Isbund,

00:40:07then, tonight.

00:40:09It's late.

00:40:10Don't you want to go?

00:40:11Go sometime.

00:40:12How about how

00:40:13you were the best man

00:40:14for the job?

00:40:16All right.

00:40:17I'll get Patrick's car.

00:40:19I'll get a wrap.

00:40:23Meaty chucks.

00:40:24Mrs. Dunning.

00:40:39I love it

00:40:40when you call me that.

00:40:44I'm going to...

00:40:47Ward.

00:40:49You'll see.

00:40:50I called in

00:40:57on the police.

00:40:59Ah.

00:41:00No news of Sarah.

00:41:03I want to borrow the car.

00:41:05I've taken the keys.

00:41:06Oh.

00:41:07Yes.

00:41:09Right.

00:41:09Well, Mrs. Dunning,

00:41:16I'd better put your clothes on.

00:41:22Hallelujah.

00:41:24Hallelujah.

00:41:26Enjoy your swim.

00:41:27Did you?

00:41:29So,

00:41:30this is it.

00:41:31The crumbles.

00:41:32Christ.

00:41:33It's strange.

00:41:34It's cold.

00:41:37Cold for September?

00:41:38Cold for one o'clock

00:41:39in the morning.

00:41:40What do you see?

00:41:41I see suffering

00:41:43and pain

00:41:44and men not happy

00:41:45with their lot.

00:41:46Do you?

00:41:46I do.

00:41:48I see heavy scowls

00:41:49and fists raised in anger

00:41:50and I see tears of sorrow

00:41:52and of indignation.

00:41:54I see men with axes

00:41:55in their backs,

00:41:56acids steaming off

00:41:57their skins,

00:41:58needles in their eyeballs,

00:41:59tripping on barbed wire,

00:42:00falling on broken bottles.

00:42:02That's what I see.

00:42:03Ah, Eastbourne.

00:42:04Quite unchanged.

00:42:05I see the living dead.

00:42:07What do you see

00:42:08that's nice?

00:42:09Nice?

00:42:10Yeah, you know,

00:42:11nice.

00:42:12I see men

00:42:13born happy.

00:42:15It just doesn't show.

00:42:18I'm going to get dressed.

00:42:19I'm cold.

00:42:20Stay.

00:42:20Why?

00:42:21Sit.

00:42:22The colder you get,

00:42:23the more you will enjoy being warm.

00:42:24Oh, yeah.

00:42:25The essence of pleasure

00:42:25is self-denial.

00:42:28I come to England

00:42:29maybe once a year.

00:42:30It's a shabby little island,

00:42:32delighted with itself.

00:42:34A few months ago

00:42:35I decided to return.

00:42:36I'm getting dressed.

00:42:38I was ready for England.

00:42:40I was attracted by news

00:42:41of the property racket,

00:42:42slapping people on top of people

00:42:44like layers of lasagna.

00:42:46Think about what I'm saying.

00:42:47Don't think about the cold.

00:42:49Forget the cold.

00:42:50Listen to Curly.

00:42:50When I got back

00:42:51I found this country

00:42:52was a jam pot

00:42:52for swindlers

00:42:53and cons and racketeers.

00:42:54Not just property.

00:42:56Boarding houses

00:42:57and bordellos

00:42:58and nightclubs

00:42:59and crooked charter flights.

00:43:01Private clinics.

00:43:02Horsehair wigs

00:43:03and tin can motorcars.

00:43:06Venereal cafes

00:43:07with ice cream

00:43:08made from whale blubber

00:43:09and sausages

00:43:09full of sawdust.

00:43:10Forget the cold.

00:43:11Listen to Curly.

00:43:12Money can be harvested

00:43:13like rotten fruit.

00:43:14People are aching

00:43:15to be fleeced.

00:43:17But those of us

00:43:18who do it

00:43:19must learn

00:43:19the quality

00:43:20of self-control.

00:43:22Curly,

00:43:22is that why

00:43:23you came back?

00:43:24Wherever I've travelled,

00:43:26wherever I've been

00:43:26there's been a

00:43:27tiny echo

00:43:28in my mind.

00:43:30The noise

00:43:30in my father's office,

00:43:32the slight squelch

00:43:33of Dad's hands

00:43:34in the meat.

00:43:35Why did you come back?

00:43:37I came back

00:43:38because I'm ready.

00:43:39I've grown up.

00:43:42What about Sarah?

00:43:44Sarah?

00:43:45Yeah,

00:43:46well,

00:43:46that as well.

00:43:49When I went

00:43:50to get the car

00:43:50Dad

00:43:52was with

00:43:53Mrs Dunning.

00:43:56I even detected

00:43:57a moment of shame.

00:43:58He's getting old.

00:43:59The first crack

00:44:00in the pebble

00:44:01made me sad.

00:44:03You should see

00:44:04her thighs

00:44:05like putting your hand

00:44:06between two slices

00:44:07of liver.

00:44:07You horrible

00:44:08little man.

00:44:11Sarah was

00:44:11wide open.

00:44:14An ever-open wound.

00:44:16Her face was so

00:44:17open

00:44:19it just begged

00:44:20to be kicked.

00:44:22You had to put

00:44:23the boot in it.

00:44:23All right.

00:44:24She was so naive.

00:44:26She used to tell

00:44:27Patrick your wealth

00:44:28is built on the

00:44:29suffering of the poor

00:44:30and she expected

00:44:31an answer.

00:44:31All right.

00:44:32All right!

00:44:33Always ready

00:44:34with an innocent

00:44:35question.

00:44:35Why don't you

00:44:36share what you've got?

00:44:37Why can't people

00:44:38run their own lives?

00:44:40Why persist

00:44:40with a system

00:44:41you know to be wrong?

00:44:42How can you bear

00:44:43to be rich

00:44:43when so many

00:44:44people are poor?

00:44:45Did she say that?

00:44:46Well,

00:44:48what did she expect?

00:44:50Doesn't she know

00:44:51there's a war on?

00:44:52She was asking

00:44:53for it.

00:44:54Do you know

00:44:54what Bernie said?

00:44:55No.

00:44:55Bernie Kornfeld

00:44:55said to me,

00:44:56Curly,

00:44:56he said,

00:44:57there is nothing

00:44:57in this world

00:44:57so lovely

00:44:58it can't be

00:44:59chateau.

00:44:59Right.

00:45:00Right.

00:45:03And this is

00:45:04where she died.

00:45:07Return,

00:45:07John Bloom,

00:45:08to your kingdom.

00:45:09Jack Cotton,

00:45:10arise from your grave.

00:45:12You know your way around.

00:45:14I know them all.

00:45:15Their names

00:45:16and I wonder about

00:45:17the state of their souls.

00:45:18All right.

00:45:21I called in on the police

00:45:23when I was getting the car.

00:45:24The railway tickets

00:45:24were first class.

00:45:27Can you imagine

00:45:28Sarah?

00:45:29First?

00:45:29Never.

00:45:30God.

00:45:31Have you spoken to him?

00:45:33Couldn't.

00:45:35Look at the night.

00:45:36Yeah.

00:45:37Just look at the water.

00:45:39You don't want

00:45:39to be like them,

00:45:40Curly.

00:45:41Do you?

00:45:43It's such a

00:45:44beautiful night.

00:45:46Isn't it lovely?

00:45:47Oh,

00:45:48this is the loveliest

00:45:48it gets.

00:45:50I'll take you home.

00:45:52You look wonderful.

00:45:54Curly.

00:45:54Old bean.

00:45:55Is that what you say?

00:45:56What?

00:45:56Is that what you say

00:45:57to a girl you want?

00:45:58Old bean.

00:45:58Sure.

00:45:59I see.

00:46:01Well.

00:46:03Let's go.

00:46:04Curly.

00:46:06What?

00:46:07First class.

00:46:08Yes, I know.

00:46:10It could have been Malloy.

00:46:11No.

00:46:12Not his manner.

00:46:13He would never,

00:46:14especially with her.

00:46:15She wouldn't allow him.

00:46:16So?

00:46:17I thought of nothing else.

00:46:18Why didn't you ask him?

00:46:19I will.

00:46:21Are you afraid?

00:46:22That's what I asked you

00:46:23when we first met.

00:46:24I thought of this place

00:46:25gives me the creeps.

00:46:27Let's go.

00:46:28Pass me my clothes.

00:46:31No.

00:46:32I'm going to keep them.

00:46:34Remember?

00:46:36The essence of pleasure

00:46:37is self-denial.

00:46:38Oh, Jenny, come on.

00:46:40So, I'm taking your car keys

00:46:42and I'm driving off.

00:46:43You can stay here.

00:46:44For Christ's sake.

00:46:45Back up, walk.

00:46:46Christ.

00:46:47Forget the cold.

00:46:48At least it's too curly.

00:46:50Patrick's not the only man

00:46:52who travels first class.

00:46:54Christ.

00:46:57Christ.

00:46:58Oh, Christ.

00:47:06Control yourself.

00:47:10Control.

00:47:13I am a pebble

00:47:15with self-control.

00:47:19Eastbourne is a grey city.

00:47:21The lights shine less bright

00:47:22than in L.A.

00:47:23I wanted to be

00:47:24on the Santa Monica freeway

00:47:25stopping over at Sloppy Joe's

00:47:27for pastrami on rye

00:47:28and one cheese and tomato

00:47:29and eat a rec burger.

00:47:31I wanted to be in Caracas

00:47:32paying $25 for a Venezuelan sauna.

00:47:36I wanted to be

00:47:37in the Persian mountains

00:47:38playing poker

00:47:38with curd gorillas

00:47:39for lumps of hashish

00:47:40as big as a man's brain.

00:47:44I wanted to be

00:47:45in that bar in Laos

00:47:46watching that old

00:47:47inverted sphincter

00:47:48puffing

00:47:49and inhaling

00:47:50puffing

00:47:52and inhaling.

00:47:54a last

00:47:56inverted monument

00:47:57to human ingenuity

00:47:58that not even the Americans

00:48:00could bomb

00:48:00into submission.

00:48:04The spring of 1924,

00:48:07April 12th,

00:48:08a man called

00:48:09Patrick Marne

00:48:10lived in London,

00:48:11went to an ironmonger's,

00:48:12bought a meat saw

00:48:13and a ten-inch knife.

00:48:15He then went

00:48:16to Waterloo Station,

00:48:18collected his suitcase

00:48:18and then took a train

00:48:20to Eastbourne.

00:48:21Waiting in Eastbourne,

00:48:23a Miss Emily Kay,

00:48:25a young stenographer

00:48:26he'd met in London.

00:48:28The idea was

00:48:29to rent a small cottage

00:48:30on the beach

00:48:31to conduct what Marne

00:48:32referred to

00:48:33as a love experiment.

00:48:36Miss Kay had prepared

00:48:37for the experiment

00:48:38by selling some bonds

00:48:40she owned

00:48:40and giving them

00:48:41to Mr Marne.

00:48:43The cottage they rented

00:48:44was on the stretch of beach

00:48:45known as the Crumbles.

00:48:46They moved in.

00:48:48The experiment lasted

00:48:49three days.

00:48:51On the following Tuesday,

00:48:53Marne strangled her

00:48:54and dismembered her body.

00:48:57He packed some pieces

00:48:58tightly into old boxes

00:49:00and filled biscuit tins

00:49:01with her innards.

00:49:03He attempted to boil down

00:49:05her fat in open saucepans.

00:49:07In the middle of the night,

00:49:09in savage weather

00:49:10with thunder crashing outside,

00:49:12he placed her severed head

00:49:13on the fire.

00:49:15The intense heat

00:49:16of the flames

00:49:16caused the eyes

00:49:17of the dead woman

00:49:18to open.

00:49:20At Marne,

00:49:21a 33-year-old soda fountain salesman

00:49:23ran from the house

00:49:25for the first time

00:49:26horrified.

00:49:28He returned to London.

00:49:30Later,

00:49:30he was arrested

00:49:31and executed.

00:49:34Would anyone in the family

00:49:36have heard that story before?

00:49:38Well, Constable,

00:49:40Patrick's the most highly educated.

00:49:43Glad you could make it.

00:49:44How was the funeral, Max?

00:49:47Subdued.

00:49:48Anyone there?

00:49:48Just Malloy's mother.

00:49:49No one else?

00:49:50And Jenny.

00:49:51And Jenny, ah.

00:49:52Yeah.

00:49:52How was that?

00:49:53What?

00:49:54In black.

00:49:54Did that give you

00:49:54any kind of a buzz?

00:49:55I look, listen...

00:49:56Oh, ignore it.

00:49:57Proceed.

00:49:58I'd like to hear your alibi

00:49:59for the night Sarah disappeared.

00:50:01It's dull.

00:50:01Oh, yeah, I'm sure it's dull.

00:50:03That is not the point.

00:50:04That's a terrible cold you've got.

00:50:06And now you mentioned it?

00:50:07Yes, I got left on the beach,

00:50:08you see,

00:50:09reconstructing the crime.

00:50:10Alibi.

00:50:11I spent the evening

00:50:12with a man called Hart.

00:50:14H-A-R-T.

00:50:16A vet.

00:50:17Well, not a vet, exactly.

00:50:19Michael Hart is a spiritualist.

00:50:20He claims that through animals

00:50:22we may talk to the, uh,

00:50:23the other side.

00:50:24Go on.

00:50:25The dead.

00:50:26Animals have a psychic flair

00:50:27for communicating with the dead.

00:50:28Oh, I see.

00:50:29So your alibi can be confirmed

00:50:31by a reliable doc.

00:50:32No, no.

00:50:33Confirmed by your father.

00:50:35It was at his house.

00:50:36Yes?

00:50:37You should talk to him.

00:50:39It was Sarah's idea.

00:50:41I was working on a series

00:50:42about modern religions.

00:50:43Also Sarah's idea.

00:50:45She loved shopping around.

00:50:47She suggested taking Hart

00:50:48and his famous Alsatian

00:50:50to Patrick's.

00:50:51The idea was

00:50:52she would come with me.

00:50:53I just wanted to get her

00:50:54in the same room as her father.

00:50:56But she funked out,

00:50:57so, uh,

00:50:58I was left with Mr. Delafield.

00:51:00He wanted to communicate

00:51:02with his dead wife,

00:51:04your mother.

00:51:06I thought the whole thing

00:51:07was in very bad taste.

00:51:08Patrick was quite serious

00:51:09throughout.

00:51:10Hart's Alsatian

00:51:11kept snarling at him

00:51:13and fell asleep.

00:51:15Without Sarah,

00:51:16the whole exercise was hollow.

00:51:17She knew you were both there?

00:51:18Oh, yes.

00:51:19She pushed us into it.

00:51:19And she went off to Eastbourne, meanwhile?

00:51:21We later found out, yes.

00:51:22Did it occur to you afterwards

00:51:23she could have planned suicide

00:51:24all along

00:51:25and set you two up

00:51:25as a final gag?

00:51:26Yes.

00:51:27Rather an elaborate gag.

00:51:28Yeah, yeah.

00:51:28Muttering away to an Alsatian.

00:51:29But typical.

00:51:30Yeah, from what you say.

00:51:30Typical of her.

00:51:31No longer a nutcase.

00:51:34A chick with your father, eh?

00:51:36Yeah.

00:51:39As Brigadier General Bolivar

00:51:41Valerino of Panama

00:51:42said to me,

00:51:43put it there, pal.

00:51:45Oh, what's it to be?

00:51:47Tomorrow, same time,

00:51:48same place?

00:51:49I don't think so.

00:51:49I don't think I want

00:51:50to see you again, Max.

00:51:51Something of the magic

00:51:52has died.

00:51:53Well, well.

00:51:55Abandoning the investigation?

00:51:57Thinking about it.

00:51:58That's what your father

00:51:58said you'd do.

00:52:00Did he say that?

00:52:01He said being back in England

00:52:02made you want a nice job.

00:52:03I'm looking for an opening,

00:52:05certainly.

00:52:05I don't know what

00:52:06armed salesmen

00:52:07usually move on to.

00:52:08Allied professions,

00:52:09the church, you know,

00:52:10the law.

00:52:10I'll see you someday.

00:52:11Not if I see you first.

00:52:14Keep young and beautiful.

00:52:16I thought you were curly.

00:52:26What I say is

00:52:27the world is a rice pudding.

00:52:29It's just waiting to be skinned.

00:52:31You've met him, too.

00:52:32Oh, yes.

00:52:33My dear.

00:52:34The bar's closed.

00:52:36First place.

00:52:37Where's the people?

00:52:38Gone home.

00:52:39Not a soul here.

00:52:42Scotch.

00:52:43Max.

00:52:43You look funny without her.

00:52:46I feel funny.

00:52:47No longer the parrot

00:52:48on the shoulder.

00:52:49I get through whole sentences

00:52:50without interruption.

00:52:50I warned you.

00:52:51What?

00:52:51That she'd kill herself.

00:52:52Oh, that.

00:52:53That.

00:52:55Scotch.

00:52:56I think she said,

00:52:58Max, I'm going to kill myself

00:52:59and you said,

00:53:00just show me.

00:53:01And she did.

00:53:03How many times

00:53:04did I tell you...

00:53:04Often.

00:53:05You leapt at the opportunity.

00:53:06I was pointing out...

00:53:07You did best all round.

00:53:08What do you mean?

00:53:09Well, this place.

00:53:11You win the shadow of the moon.

00:53:13I see.

00:53:14Well, so you're happy.

00:53:16Max.

00:53:16Now the lover is buried.

00:53:17He was not my lover.

00:53:18He just left you the club.

00:53:19It was nothing to do with it.

00:53:20Tell that to Mrs. Malloy.

00:53:21Malloy married...

00:53:22Malloy's mother.

00:53:24At the funeral.

00:53:26Mrs. Malloy.

00:53:27What are you talking about?

00:53:29I have a photo of you

00:53:30in a gym slip

00:53:31with a straw hat

00:53:32and black socks.

00:53:33What about Mrs. Malloy?

00:53:35This is a knife.

00:53:38Kiss me.

00:53:42Hands behind head.

00:53:45Now sit down.

00:53:46Now keep your hands there.

00:53:49I sit myself down.

00:53:51Now don't move.

00:53:54There aren't many girls left in Guildford.

00:53:56No.

00:53:57Speak up.

00:53:58I said no.

00:53:59Not many.

00:53:59The ones who used to come here

00:54:01and the ones who didn't come here

00:54:02were rubbish.

00:54:03That leaves you.

00:54:05Oh, Jenny.

00:54:06What happens to people?

00:54:09I don't know.

00:54:10When we came here as teenagers,

00:54:11you and me and Sarah,

00:54:12you never knew what would happen.

00:54:15It seemed the most ambiguous place in the world,

00:54:17like falling into satin in the dark.

00:54:20And look at it now.

00:54:23Tell me what you think of Curly.

00:54:26You know he's looking for Sarah already.

00:54:28I didn't know that.

00:54:30He's everything the world wasn't going to be.

00:54:33Blustering and sneering

00:54:34and insincere.

00:54:36Is that what you really want?

00:54:38He's never touched me, Max.

00:54:41Tell me about Mrs. Malloy.

00:54:44Do you really know nothing?

00:54:47She's in hospital.

00:54:49She may not have been crazy when she went in,

00:54:51but she's certainly crazy now.

00:54:54Jennifer.

00:54:56I find your innocence unforgivable.

00:55:01Take off your clothes.

00:55:04No.

00:55:04Then lie down on the floor.

00:55:09Close your eyes.

00:55:10Open your mouth.

00:55:12Praise the Lord.

00:55:13And thank God you're British.

00:55:15Good night.

00:55:18Good night.

00:55:20Young women in Guildford must expect to be threatened.

00:55:24Men here lead ugly lives,

00:55:25and girls are the only touchstones left.

00:55:28Cars cruise beside you as you walk down the pavement.

00:55:32My breasts are often touched on commuter trains.

00:55:35The doctor says he needs to undress me completely

00:55:37to vaccinate my arm.

00:55:39Men often spill drinks in my lap

00:55:41or brush cigarettes against my bottom.

00:55:44I expect this to go on.

00:55:46I expect to be bumped, bruised,

00:55:49followed, assaulted,

00:55:51stared at and propositioned for the rest of my life,

00:55:54while at the same time offering

00:55:56sanctuary, purity,

00:55:58reassurance,

00:56:00prestige,

00:56:01the only point of loveliness

00:56:03in men's ever-darkening lives.

00:56:08Ah, there you are, Curly.

00:56:10You're getting very hard to find.

00:56:12Porter, get my luggage, will you?

00:56:14And a taxi.

00:56:15Yes, sir.

00:56:16They tell me your heart's gone out of it,

00:56:18the investigation.

00:56:19Can't do it all the time.

00:56:20Even thinking of a job.

00:56:22Insurance.

00:56:23Something like Lloyd's.

00:56:24Well, I've been up to town just to talk it over.

00:56:26Costs a lot of money.

00:56:27A hundred thousand entrance fee.

00:56:28That's all a chap needs.

00:56:29Buy himself a slice of security.

00:56:31I brought you the keys to your car.

00:56:33Here.

00:56:34Little man.

00:56:36Jenny.

00:56:37And some information.

00:56:40I've been to see a Mrs. Malloy.

00:56:42She's 73.

00:56:43Initials E.R. Malloy,

00:56:44as she said, like the Queen.

00:56:46Am I keeping you?

00:56:46No, no.

00:56:48Malloy's mother lived in one house

00:56:50for the whole of her life.

00:56:51A Victorian house

00:56:52in the centre of Guildford.

00:56:53At the age of 68,

00:56:54she transferred the house

00:56:55into her son's name.

00:56:56Tax Dodge.

00:56:57You avoid death duties.

00:56:59Standard practice round here.

00:57:01She put it in her son's name,

00:57:03but she went on living there herself.

00:57:05So,

00:57:06central Guildford,

00:57:08torn apart, as you know,

00:57:09and some developers

00:57:10bought the rest of the block.

00:57:12It tempted Malloy.

00:57:14He held the deeds.

00:57:15There was only one obstacle.

00:57:18His mother.

00:57:19He held out for a couple of months,

00:57:20then suddenly cracked.

00:57:21He had her committed.

00:57:23Was she mad?

00:57:23Oh, Curly, come on.

00:57:25Was she mad?

00:57:25She was mad when enough people

00:57:27needed her to be.

00:57:28Let's face it,

00:57:28she was pushed.

00:57:30Malloy signed the committal order.

00:57:31Is there any actual evidence

00:57:32that she was pushed?

00:57:33Oh, Curly.

00:57:34How much did he make?

00:57:35Four hundred thousand.

00:57:37She was pushed.

00:57:39And another property thrown in,

00:57:41a run-down old barn

00:57:42on the other side of the town.

00:57:44A nightclub called

00:57:45The Shadow of the Moon.

00:57:47Mrs Malloy in the mental hospital

00:57:48sent her nurse on an errand.

00:57:49The nurse was Sarah.

00:57:51Where the old woman's house

00:57:53had been,

00:57:53she found 17 floors

00:57:54of prestige offices

00:57:55crowned with

00:57:56an antique supermarket.

00:57:58She went back to the hospital.

00:57:59Everyone should know everything.

00:58:02That's what she said.

00:58:03She told the old woman

00:58:04her house had gone.

00:58:06If she wasn't mad before,

00:58:08she certainly is now.

00:58:10Sarah was electrified

00:58:11when she found out.

00:58:12No wonder she rowed with Malloy.

00:58:13Can you imagine?

00:58:14Her friend Malloy,

00:58:15one of life's losers,

00:58:16turns out to be a shark.

00:58:18She would have flipped.

00:58:19She would have told everyone,

00:58:20but the amazing thing is

00:58:21she didn't.

00:58:23For the first time in her life,

00:58:25she kept something secret

00:58:27from me.

00:58:29from everyone.

00:58:32Except Max.

00:58:35Max was a journalist.

00:58:37He would have said,

00:58:38what a wonderful story.

00:58:39Stock broker swindles

00:58:40his own mother

00:58:41in property deal,

00:58:41but the story never appeared.

00:58:43I think he went to Malloy

00:58:44and blackmailed him.

00:58:47Do you want to go back to London?

00:58:49How do you know all this?

00:58:51Partly from Max.

00:58:52Did you tell him?

00:58:52He...

00:58:52What?

00:58:53Signaled he knew.

00:58:54How?

00:58:56With a knife.

00:58:57He came to the club last night.

00:58:58He thought I knew...

00:58:59Well, what made him think that?

00:59:00Because Malloy was in love with me.

00:59:01That's why he left

00:59:02the shadow of the moon to me.

00:59:03Max thought it was

00:59:04because Malloy was my lover.

00:59:05Whereas, in fact...

00:59:06It was because he was

00:59:07never my lover.

00:59:08Yes, that makes perfect sense

00:59:09round here.

00:59:10So, if Max did blackmail

00:59:12Malloy, you're saying

00:59:12he only had one problem?

00:59:14The old problem

00:59:15we have met before.

00:59:16How to close Sarah's mouth.

00:59:18Sarah will want to know

00:59:19why Max hasn't published

00:59:20the story.

00:59:21How to shut her up.

00:59:22What a beautiful girl

00:59:24this Sarah is.

00:59:25Niagara, Vesuvius,

00:59:27grinding on against injustice

00:59:28and the misery of the world.

00:59:29Max's only problem?

00:59:31Yeah.

00:59:33Is that what happened?

00:59:37Why take it to the Crumbles?

00:59:38Because in 1924

00:59:40there was a particularly

00:59:41disgusting murder there.

00:59:43Well, exactly.

00:59:44I mean...

00:59:44Why draw attention to yourself?

00:59:45The Crumbles' worst possible place

00:59:47is the Wembley Stadium

00:59:47of murder already.

00:59:48Right.

00:59:52What do you mean

00:59:53Max had a knife?

00:59:54I've just said it.

00:59:55Tell me.

00:59:57What happened?

00:59:58Why should I?

00:59:59Jenny?

00:59:59He never came near.

01:00:00Jenny?

01:00:03I'm not telling you the truth.

01:00:04I wouldn't expect it.

01:00:05I don't like to be honest.

01:00:06It's not in my nature.

01:00:07Go on.

01:00:09I'd heard a bit about Malloy.

01:00:11Not about his mother,

01:00:12that surprises me,

01:00:12but about his house.

01:00:14You see,

01:00:14on a crooked deal

01:00:15a blackmailer

01:00:15will have a choice of targets.

01:00:17Malloy or the property company

01:00:18or the man

01:00:20who finances

01:00:20the property company.

01:00:23That old Victorian house,

01:00:26Patrick's money

01:00:27bought it.

01:00:32Max

01:00:32blackmails Patrick.

01:00:34Congratulations.

01:00:36Max gets rid of Sarah

01:00:38then forces Patrick

01:00:39into confirming

01:00:39his ludicrous alibi

01:00:41about the dog.

01:00:42You're very quick.

01:00:43I seem to have lost

01:00:44my luggage.

01:00:44Which one will you

01:00:45go for first?

01:00:45You're very keen.

01:00:46You're getting frightened,

01:00:47Curly.

01:00:48Is that what it is?

01:00:49Losing your nerve?

01:00:50Frightened to hurt your father?

01:00:51Frightened to face up to him?

01:00:52Face up to Patrick.

01:00:55What luggage?

01:00:57All my things.

01:00:58I'm moving down here.

01:00:58Get a job.

01:00:59Get a house.

01:00:59I like the atmosphere.

01:01:01Don't stare at me, kid.

01:01:04Oh, listen.

01:01:04The story's ridiculous.

01:01:05It's full of holes.

01:01:06If Max went to blackmail my father,

01:01:08he would just have said

01:01:09he didn't know...

01:01:09But for the property company,

01:01:10conning an old woman

01:01:11is bad publicity.

01:01:12It happens all the time.

01:01:13It's called business practice.

01:01:15People go to the wall.

01:01:16Nobody would believe them.

01:01:17They'd say they didn't know.

01:01:18Just a matter of keeping

01:01:19a nerve and a plausible story.

01:01:20Who's to say it's plausible?

01:01:21Well, exactly.

01:01:22Newspapers can be bought.

01:01:23Judges can be lent on.

01:01:25Politicians can be stuffed

01:01:26with truffles and cognac.

01:01:27Life's a racket.

01:01:28That we know.

01:01:28Christ, I'll make a person

01:01:30out of you, yes.

01:01:31Oh, forget it.

01:01:32Listen, Sugar Plum.

01:01:36The horror of the world

01:01:37is there are no excuses left.

01:01:41There was a time

01:01:42when men who ruined other men

01:01:44could claim they were

01:01:45ignorant or simple

01:01:46or believed in God

01:01:48or life was very hard

01:01:50and we didn't know

01:01:50what we were doing.

01:01:51But now,

01:01:52everybody knows the tricks.

01:01:54The same shabby hands

01:01:55have been played over and over

01:01:56and men who persist

01:01:57in old ways

01:01:58of running their countries

01:01:59or their lives,

01:02:00those men now

01:02:01do it in the full knowledge

01:02:03of what they're doing

01:02:04so that at last

01:02:06greed and selfishness

01:02:07and cruelty

01:02:08stand exposed

01:02:09in white neon.

01:02:10Men are bad

01:02:11because they want to be.

01:02:13No excuses left.

01:02:15You mean

01:02:16you're not going to see him?

01:02:18No, I'm not.

01:02:21Well, why not

01:02:22just say that?

01:02:24I'd like to have

01:02:25known you better, Curly.

01:02:31Your trunk, sir.

01:02:35Moving down here,

01:02:36are you, sir?

01:02:38No.

01:02:39Change of plan.

01:02:39Left luggage.

01:02:4024 hours.

01:02:46Give me a scotch.

01:02:47Right away, sir.

01:02:48And don't be so bloody pleasant.

01:02:51Sir.

01:02:58Now,

01:03:00go upstairs,

01:03:02knock politely

01:03:03on her door

01:03:03and tell her

01:03:04there's something

01:03:06slimy to see her.

01:03:08Sir.

01:03:09Right away, sir.

01:03:14For God's sake, Lomax,

01:03:16give us all a break.

01:03:18Just shut up.

01:03:19It's not as if

01:03:23anyone was dancing

01:03:23up there.

01:03:25Just looks like

01:03:26the bloody Titanic.

01:03:29She says...

01:03:30Yes,

01:03:31Barman.

01:03:32She says...

01:03:34piss off,

01:03:35sir.

01:03:38White naked,

01:03:39do-good,

01:03:40cock-shriddling cow.

01:03:41She wants you to go, sir.

01:03:43Do you want to make

01:03:43something of it, Barman?

01:03:44Sir?

01:03:46I'm glad

01:03:47I didn't sell you a gun.

01:03:49Mike,

01:03:49get scraping.

01:03:52Down I go.

01:03:54Come on,

01:03:55everybody.

01:03:56Let's

01:03:56bossen over.

01:04:07Hello, Max.

01:04:09Hello.

01:04:09Sorry to drag you out here

01:04:10in the middle of the night.

01:04:11That's all right.

01:04:12Barely ten minutes' notice.

01:04:13That's all right.

01:04:13No, it's not.

01:04:14You should be angry.

01:04:15You're an innocent party.

01:04:16Act angry.

01:04:18Story is you murdered Sarah.

01:04:19We don't believe that,

01:04:20do we, Max?

01:04:20We don't think you're

01:04:21the murdering time.

01:04:22Look, if you think...

01:04:23What a knife, eh?

01:04:25Every man has his own gun.

01:04:26That's not a metaphor.

01:04:27That's a fact.

01:04:27Only some have more guns

01:04:28than others,

01:04:29and he has mine.

01:04:31Gun beats knife.

01:04:33Give it to me.

01:04:36Thanks.

01:04:36I have a bottle

01:04:38in my pocket.

01:04:39Remove it.

01:04:43And put it down there.

01:04:46And stay down.

01:04:49I think you took money, Max.

01:04:50That was your crime.

01:04:51It's not the local customer

01:04:52I observed.

01:04:52In England,

01:04:53they don't take money,

01:04:54they make money.

01:04:54Spot the difference.

01:04:55It's a country of opportunity.

01:04:57Everyone can run

01:04:57a racket of their own.

01:04:59Say I have discovered

01:05:00some property developers

01:05:01have used unusual pressures

01:05:02to achieve their aims.

01:05:03I don't go out

01:05:04and ask for a share

01:05:05of their money.

01:05:06I go out and find

01:05:07a defences old cow

01:05:08of my own to swindle.

01:05:09That is the creative

01:05:10thing to do.

01:05:11I'd never taken money before.

01:05:12Well, I don't care.

01:05:13Your back is snapped.

01:05:14From now till the millennium,

01:05:15they have your number.

01:05:16Have a drink.

01:05:18No, thank you.

01:05:18Have a drink.

01:05:23I don't think you have it

01:05:25in you to kill,

01:05:25but Christ,

01:05:26you have it in you to wheedle.

01:05:28Have another drink.

01:05:31Sarah told you

01:05:33about the deal.

01:05:34You were to investigate,

01:05:35but you didn't go to Malloy,

01:05:36you went to Patrick

01:05:37for cash.

01:05:38Now, I have one question.

01:05:39Why did Patrick consider?

01:05:41How should I now?

01:05:41Please don't lie to me, Max.

01:05:43Have another drink.

01:05:46Why did Patrick

01:05:47give you the money?

01:05:49He'd just...

01:05:50Have another drink.

01:05:54Why did Patrick bother?

01:05:56He should have kept his nerve.

01:05:57He had a perfectly

01:05:57plausible story.

01:05:59Drink.

01:06:03You're just about ready

01:06:04to tell me the truth.

01:06:05It's a half-baked sort of scandal

01:06:05that I can't quite understand,

01:06:06and that's why I'm asking

01:06:07for your help.

01:06:08He could have said he never knew.

01:06:11Is that not what people say

01:06:12in such circumstances?

01:06:13He...

01:06:14He did...

01:06:14I understand he arranged

01:06:17the bridging loan

01:06:18for the building.

01:06:18He would barely

01:06:19have been implicated.

01:06:20No...

01:06:20Drink.

01:06:23You're just about ready

01:06:25to tell me the truth.

01:06:27It's a half-baked sort of scandal

01:06:29that I can't quite understand,

01:06:31and that's why I'm asking

01:06:32for your help.

01:06:32Have another cigarette.

01:06:35Have two.

01:06:36Ever tried smoking

01:06:37through your ear?

01:06:38Go on.

01:06:39Try.

01:06:40You like it?

01:06:41Or how about nostril smoking?

01:06:43Go on.

01:06:43Have a go.

01:06:44Stick it up your nostril.

01:06:44Go on.

01:06:46Now, drink.

01:06:50You're just about ready

01:06:51to tell me the truth.

01:06:57They put a dog in.

01:06:59Dog?

01:07:01Heart.

01:07:01A spiritualist?

01:07:03Yes.

01:07:05He uses dogs

01:07:06for other purposes.

01:07:07The ones who talk

01:07:08to the dead?

01:07:09Could also be hired out

01:07:10on eviction jobs.

01:07:11But Molloy sold out.

01:07:12Not at first.

01:07:14He wouldn't be bought,

01:07:15so they decided

01:07:16to flush him out of the house.

01:07:19Mrs. Molloy

01:07:19was at the cinema.

01:07:20Molloy was alone.

01:07:22Heart stole the fuses

01:07:24and then put an Alsatian in.

01:07:25What happened?

01:07:27Molloy blew it apart

01:07:28with a shotgun.

01:07:29God almighty.

01:07:30He did it in the dark.

01:07:32It was the fight of his life.

01:07:34He knew it was hard.

01:07:35He phoned him.

01:07:37I'm going to be sick.

01:07:38Don't be sick.

01:07:40That means

01:07:41Patrick wasn't there

01:07:43that night.

01:07:44And it wasn't his dog.

01:07:46And it's not even publicly

01:07:48his profit.

01:07:49You had nothing on him.

01:07:50Why did he pay?

01:07:51I had something on him.

01:07:53I had Sarah on him.

01:07:55He was terrified

01:07:56she'd find out

01:07:57that he was behind

01:07:57and he was thinking of Sarah.

01:08:00He paid up.

01:08:02He loved her.

01:08:03Mistake.

01:08:04On the last day,

01:08:05Sarah found out.

01:08:07It had been...

01:08:08It had been...

01:08:09Like holding Niagara.

01:08:11Yeah.

01:08:11Everyone should know everything.

01:08:13Yes.

01:08:13How did she take it?

01:08:15She was possessed.

01:08:18She'd killed a dog before.

01:08:21Yes.

01:08:21When she was a child.

01:08:23Yes.

01:08:23She kept saying

01:08:23what happens to dogs.

01:08:24What happens to dogs.

01:08:25What happens to people.

01:08:27finish the bottle.

01:08:31I...

01:08:32Finish.

01:08:41Now get up.

01:08:45I can't.

01:08:48Take your empties and go.

01:08:52The time was coming

01:08:53when I'd have to face Patrick.

01:08:55Patrick was no longer

01:08:57perfect.

01:08:59I had found a way in.

01:09:02In the thick,

01:09:02densely carpeted air

01:09:03of a merchant bank

01:09:04I had glimpsed for a second

01:09:06the implausible face

01:09:07of a man

01:09:08who loved his own daughter.

01:09:12I was in.

01:09:16Curly?

01:09:17Happy birthday.

01:09:18Did you just wake me up?

01:09:20Come in.

01:09:20Sit down.

01:09:21What's happened?

01:09:22I have my fingers

01:09:23on your throat.

01:09:24Feel anything?

01:09:25There's been a development.

01:09:28Stray dog.

01:09:29About a year ago

01:09:30someone decided

01:09:31to flush out Malloy.

01:09:33Well?

01:09:34I know what you're talking about

01:09:36and I didn't condone

01:09:38their methods.

01:09:39Stupid.

01:09:40I was appalled.

01:09:42You didn't know

01:09:42at the time?

01:09:43I run a merchant bank.

01:09:45I sanctioned the purchase

01:09:46not the method

01:09:48of purchase.

01:09:48He brought you

01:09:49the corpse.

01:09:49Oh, the dead dog.

01:09:52He left it on my doorstep.

01:09:54A tuppany gesture.

01:09:55I didn't know

01:09:56that you were behind it.

01:09:57Well, he worked in the city,

01:09:58remember?

01:09:58He could fight his way through.

01:10:00He knew the roots.

01:10:00Why did he sell

01:10:01after he'd blown the dog apart?

01:10:03It was his victory.

01:10:03Why did he not seize it?

01:10:04Why do people give in?

01:10:08Because they recognize

01:10:09the way things are.

01:10:10He'd made his point.

01:10:11He'd planted his tiny flag

01:10:13on the hillside.

01:10:15To hold onto the house

01:10:16would have meant

01:10:16turning your life

01:10:17into a battlefield.

01:10:18A constant act

01:10:19of self-assertion.

01:10:20Nobody wants to live like that.

01:10:22Straining endlessly

01:10:23to make your point.

01:10:25And why?

01:10:26He already had

01:10:26the moral victory.

01:10:27Weren't you ashamed?

01:10:29He had the righteousness.

01:10:30I had the house.

01:10:32Peace with honor.

01:10:34That is the phrase.

01:10:36It means surrender.

01:10:38Would have a very special kind.

01:10:40With the sweet heart

01:10:41of your integrity intact.

01:10:44He had that.

01:10:46I had?

01:10:47Well, so far it's nudging

01:10:49into its third million.

01:10:51This moral victory,

01:10:52the fight of his life,

01:10:53wasn't much use

01:10:54in his dying year.

01:10:55It wasn't my fault.

01:10:57Peace with honor.

01:10:58Peace with shame.

01:11:00It's a very thin line.

01:11:02Matter of believing

01:11:02your own propaganda.

01:11:05And all for a girl.

01:11:06Everyone loves Jenny.

01:11:08Stick to your story,

01:11:10I used to say,

01:11:11when I met Molloy

01:11:11later in the street

01:11:12in the last days

01:11:14of alcoholic collapse.

01:11:16I told him,

01:11:17stick to your story.

01:11:18You killed the dog.

01:11:20You revealed my corruption.

01:11:22Great victory.

01:11:24Old man.

01:11:25Curly life is pain.

01:11:31Pure and simple.

01:11:33Pain.

01:11:35Around,

01:11:37below,

01:11:38all pain.

01:11:41But we have a choice.

01:11:43Either to protest noisily,

01:11:45to scream against the pain,

01:11:47to rattle and wail,

01:11:48or else,

01:11:49to submerge that pain,

01:11:52to channel it,

01:11:53preferably in someone else's direction.

01:11:56If I admitted everything

01:11:58that has happened in my life,

01:11:59laid it out in a field

01:12:00like the contents of an air disaster,

01:12:02would it really help?

01:12:03Go back to Sarah.

01:12:04No.

01:12:05Everyone should know everything.

01:12:08That's what I believe.

01:12:10Very well.

01:12:12You went to Max.

01:12:13No, not at all.

01:12:13He came to me.

01:12:15Saying he knew about Mrs. Molloy

01:12:17and the dog.

01:12:19He had nothing to fear.

01:12:21We could have denied all knowledge.

01:12:22We sent him away.

01:12:23It was rubbish.

01:12:24But,

01:12:25as an afterthought,

01:12:27he said he'd tell Sarah.

01:12:31Curly,

01:12:32you may not believe it.

01:12:34The city of London

01:12:35once enjoyed a reputation

01:12:37for unimpeachable integrity.

01:12:39My word is my bond,

01:12:40so fabulously wealthy

01:12:42as to be almost beyond wealth.

01:12:44But,

01:12:45in the last twenty years,

01:12:46we've been dragged through the mud

01:12:48like everyone else.

01:12:50The wide boys and profiteers

01:12:53have sullied our reputation.

01:12:55We work now like stallholders

01:12:57against a barrage of abuse.

01:13:01Who is to set standards?

01:13:03Curly.

01:13:04Who is to lead?

01:13:07You have to be able to believe.

01:13:10My daughter should not be given

01:13:11the chance to doubt.

01:13:12We were honest men.

01:13:15We are honest men.

01:13:19She had always abused me,

01:13:21but she had never been able to fault me.

01:13:23I had to buy Max.

01:13:27Do you understand?

01:13:28For her sake.

01:13:29How did you buy him?

01:13:29Oh,

01:13:30package.

01:13:32Rather lurid.

01:13:33I got him a job

01:13:34in London

01:13:35and a series of leads

01:13:37on my younger,

01:13:38less scrupulous colleagues.

01:13:39Gave him a little money.

01:13:41Is that all?

01:13:41No,

01:13:42we negotiated...

01:13:44What?

01:13:45A large anonymous donation

01:13:47to an anarchist party

01:13:48of his own choosing.

01:13:50On those terms,

01:13:52he could take it.

01:13:53Do you see?

01:13:54Go on.

01:13:54What was it?

01:13:55Apart from Sarah.

01:13:56Apart from Sarah.

01:13:58That was it.

01:14:02Sarah.

01:14:05Unquenchable.

01:14:06Like you.

01:14:08The two of you,

01:14:09like woodpeckers.

01:14:11Nothing will stop you.

01:14:12In her case,

01:14:13it was pity for the world

01:14:14and yours disgust.

01:14:16One thing fires you,

01:14:18Curly,

01:14:19the need to ensure

01:14:20everyone is as degraded

01:14:23as you are.

01:14:26Go on.

01:14:27Well,

01:14:27Max was like the rest of us.

01:14:28He got warmed down

01:14:29by the endless wanting to know.

01:14:32Now she wanted to know

01:14:33why the story had never appeared.

01:14:35He told her,

01:14:38Your father is financing the building.

01:14:41I have been paid off.

01:14:42The law was paid off.

01:14:44A dog is dead.

01:14:45Everyone should know everything.

01:14:49She went mad.

01:14:52The tog in particular.

01:14:54She was obsessed with the dog.

01:14:57She went straight to Victoria.

01:15:00I followed as soon as I could.

01:15:03I got into Eastbourne

01:15:04at midnight.

01:15:06The last train down.

01:15:06It was too late to travel the hotel,

01:15:08so I went down to the promenade.

01:15:11By the railings,

01:15:11there was a girl

01:15:12in a light-coloured raincoat.

01:15:14She had black, frizzy hair.

01:15:15She wandered away,

01:15:16and I started to follow her.

01:15:18I had no choice.

01:15:19What did she say?

01:15:20She said nothing.

01:15:22Go on.

01:15:22We walked a procession of two through acres of bungalows to the open land,

01:15:31a flat, rocky path stretching away to the sea,

01:15:35the distance between us religiously observed.

01:15:37She sat down on the concrete jetty.

01:15:44Those who wish to reform the world should first know a little bit about it.

01:15:47I told her some stories of life in the city,

01:15:49the casual cruelty of each day.

01:15:53Takeover bids,

01:15:54redundancies,

01:15:55men ruined overnight,

01:15:57jobs lost,

01:15:57trusts betrayed,

01:15:58reputations smashed.

01:16:01And I asked,

01:16:02what I've always asked,

01:16:04how will that ever change?

01:16:06Tell me of any society that has not operated in this way.

01:16:08Five years after a revolution,

01:16:11the same pattern.

01:16:12The weak go to the wall.

01:16:14The pursuit of money is a force for progress.

01:16:16It's always been the same.

01:16:17The making of money.

01:16:18The breaking of man.

01:16:19The two together,

01:16:20always the sound of progress.

01:16:22The making of money,

01:16:24the breaking of men.

01:16:27I didn't do it.

01:16:28Somebody else won't.

01:16:30And what did she say?

01:16:32Oh, she said nothing.

01:16:35We watched the dawn.

01:16:37If I'd moved towards the jetty,

01:16:40she would have thrown herself in.

01:16:42At 5.30,

01:16:44she was calm.

01:16:46She still said nothing.

01:16:48I took the decision.

01:16:49I walked into the town.

01:16:51I rang Hart from the Cavendish

01:16:52and told him to come and collect her.

01:16:54Then I took a train up to town.

01:16:55What?

01:16:56I had a meeting.

01:16:57Money.

01:16:59Hart arrived to look after her

01:17:00at a quarter past seven.

01:17:02He followed my instructions

01:17:03to the beach.

01:17:05She was gone.

01:17:06Her raincoat was on the jetty.

01:17:09It was the only article of clothing

01:17:10she'd been wearing.

01:17:12It's safe to say

01:17:13she killed herself.

01:17:16The suicide was calculated

01:17:17from the start.

01:17:19Not uncommon.

01:17:19She challenged Max to come to Eastbourne.

01:17:23Two malicious gestures.

01:17:26She had chosen to die

01:17:27at a place famous for a ghastly murder.

01:17:30And second,

01:17:31she had left two first-class tickets behind.

01:17:34The clearest possible way of saying

01:17:36someone else is involved.

01:17:39That was me.

01:17:40She had to bang down her flag

01:17:44like everyone else.

01:17:46How do I know this is true?

01:17:48For all I know,

01:17:49you travelled down with her,

01:17:50you could have killed her.

01:17:51Is that what you think?

01:17:55No.

01:17:57I believe you absolutely.

01:17:59The story has just the right amount

01:18:00of quiet.

01:18:02She slipped obligingly into the sea.

01:18:08An English murder.

01:18:10Who needs ropes or guns or daggers?

01:18:14We can trust our victims

01:18:15to pass quietly in the night,

01:18:17slip away into the bottle

01:18:18or the loony bin,

01:18:19just fall away

01:18:22with barely the crack of a knuckle

01:18:24as they go.

01:18:26I'm sure that you

01:18:28were sixty miles away.

01:18:30I didn't go to the police.

01:18:32I rigged up the alibi

01:18:33with heart and max.

01:18:35You left her to die.

01:18:36No!

01:18:38That's what the police would have said.

01:18:39That's what you did.

01:18:40It was a knife-edge decision.

01:18:42In the morning light,

01:18:44to stay or go,

01:18:46I had to decide which was better.

01:18:48Then something she said

01:18:49made up my mind for me.

01:18:50She did speak.

01:18:52Just once.

01:18:53What did she say?

01:18:54A single thing.

01:18:57What I despise most,

01:18:59she said,

01:19:00is your pretense.

01:19:02to be civilised.

01:19:06I was reassured.

01:19:08Same old propaganda.

01:19:10The noise of someone

01:19:12who's going to live.

01:19:13The same old drivel.

01:19:15So I left.

01:19:16In fact.

01:19:18She meant it.

01:19:20And that is the nail

01:19:21on which my life is hung.

01:19:23She meant it.

01:19:26But I see no reason

01:19:29to drag it out in public.

01:19:31Sure.

01:19:31If I wish to continue...

01:19:33Making money.

01:19:33The facts must be suppressed.

01:19:36The girl is dead.

01:19:37It makes no difference now.

01:19:38I possess a lethal combination

01:19:42of facts.

01:19:44Suppose I go to the press.

01:19:46The old woman.

01:19:47The dog.

01:19:48Abandoning your daughter

01:19:49on the beach.

01:19:50Mrs. Dunning.

01:19:50You let it out.

01:19:55You ruin me.

01:19:56He left his daughter

01:19:58to kill herself.

01:20:00A despicable thing to do.

01:20:02Bad publicity.

01:20:04I leave my job.

01:20:06What happens?

01:20:07Someone else pops up

01:20:08in my place.

01:20:08Life covers up pretty fast.

01:20:10Only the people bleed.

01:20:13Mrs. Dunning.

01:20:16Both of you

01:20:17did well.

01:20:19You wrung from me

01:20:20the same confession.

01:20:22You wanted me to say

01:20:23I was degraded.

01:20:26Well.

01:20:28I am.

01:20:31Okay.

01:20:33Now can I please

01:20:34go back to work?

01:20:36You must be quiet, perhaps.

01:20:37I'm so sorry.

01:20:38You must stay calm.

01:20:40I'm sorry.

01:20:41I'm sorry.

01:20:41Better go to bed.

01:20:42Sorry.

01:20:43That's all right.

01:20:44You'll be fine.

01:20:45I just want to say...

01:20:46Shh, shh, shh.

01:20:48Be quiet.

01:20:50Come to bed.

01:20:51Let me say...

01:20:51Shh, shh, shh.

01:20:53Quiet, please.

01:20:55Let everyone be quiet.

01:20:58All right, Pat.

01:20:59Oh, my darling.

01:21:01Good night.

01:21:03Good night.

01:21:05And we'll try to forget

01:21:07you were ever disturbed.

01:21:08You were ever disturbed.

01:21:12Under the random surface

01:21:13of events

01:21:14lie steel-gray explanations.

01:21:16The more unlikely

01:21:17and implausible the facts,

01:21:18the more rigid

01:21:18the obscene geometry below.

01:21:20I was holding my father's life

01:21:24in my hands.

01:21:26I had to make up my mind.

01:21:28If I ditched my father

01:21:29to tell the newspapers

01:21:29the story of those days,

01:21:30all I would be doing

01:21:31would be to bang down

01:21:32my tiny little flag

01:21:33on the same mountainside

01:21:34as Sarah.

01:21:37Somewhere,

01:21:38every so often in this world,

01:21:39there will appear

01:21:39this tiny little weed

01:21:40called morality.

01:21:42It will push up quietly

01:21:44through the tarmac,

01:21:45and there my father

01:21:46will be waiting

01:21:46with a cement grinder

01:21:47and a shovel

01:21:48to concrete it over.

01:21:50It is inadequate.

01:21:52It cannot help us now.

01:21:55There are no excuses left.

01:21:59Two sides.

01:22:01Two sides only.

01:22:02Lloyd's of London

01:22:03was beckoning me.

01:22:04I could feel

01:22:04its soft fiscal embrace.

01:22:06I wanted its quiet

01:22:07and surety.

01:22:08I would sit in Lloyd's

01:22:09and wait for the end.

01:22:10I lay back.

01:22:14But I wanted Jenny beside me.

01:22:17I wanted to rest my head

01:22:18between her legs.

01:22:21I was ready

01:22:22to chase the same shadow,

01:22:23to tread the same path

01:22:25as Dupree and Malloy,

01:22:26all of us,

01:22:27after the same one thing,

01:22:29the hard, bright,

01:22:30glittering girl

01:22:31who ran the shadow

01:22:32of the moon.

01:22:35I talked to Patrick.

01:22:36What did he say?

01:22:37He knew nothing,

01:22:38it turned out.

01:22:39You mean?

01:22:39He really is

01:22:40completely innocent.

01:22:42What about Malloy?

01:22:43That was quite

01:22:44another business.

01:22:45I see.

01:22:45Nothing to do with it

01:22:46or with Patrick.

01:22:47He didn't know.

01:22:49Why did she kill herself?

01:22:51Well,

01:22:52you said it.

01:22:53She was paranoid.

01:22:54I think she got depressed.

01:22:55Nothing to do with Malloy?

01:22:56No.

01:22:57Or Patrick?

01:22:57No.

01:22:58I see.

01:22:59She just wasn't quite

01:23:00cut out for things.

01:23:01No.

01:23:01Looking back,

01:23:01it was inevitable.

01:23:02You understand?

01:23:03Oh, yes.

01:23:04Some people,

01:23:05you can see it coming.

01:23:06I got a letter this morning.

01:23:08Shall I read it to you?

01:23:09Please.

01:23:09Let us rejoice in the ugliness of the world.

01:23:20Strangely, I am not upset.

01:23:22I am reassured.

01:23:23I think I left a finger

01:23:24pointing on the beach.

01:23:26Jenny,

01:23:27keep a pat on the flat of his back,

01:23:29on his knees,

01:23:30keep him confessing,

01:23:32keep the wound fresh.

01:23:33I walked five miles before I found any clothes.

01:23:39Insist we are degraded.

01:23:42Resist all those who tell you otherwise.

01:23:44At all costs,

01:23:46fight innocence.

01:23:48Forbid ignorance.

01:23:50Startle your children.

01:23:52Appal your mothers.

01:23:54Know everything.

01:23:56Love everything.

01:23:58Especially decay.

01:23:59Especially decay.

01:24:01Insist on decay.

01:24:03I have twice been debauched in the open road.

01:24:07I am travelling at this moment through France.

01:24:10Don't tell Pat.

01:24:12Goodbye, sweet friends.

01:24:15Goodbye.

01:24:15I think it's from her.

01:24:20I don't know anyone else.

01:24:24He called me up.

01:24:25Who?

01:24:26Patrick.

01:24:28What did he say?

01:24:29He said,

01:24:30don't look so worried.

01:24:32No, no.

01:24:32This was yesterday.

01:24:34Ah.

01:24:35He said he'd like to buy this place.

01:24:37The club?

01:24:38Yeah.

01:24:38What did he say?

01:24:40He's offering a very good price.

01:24:41Oh, I'm sure.

01:24:42It's a crummy sort of building,

01:24:43as you can see.

01:24:44Yeah.

01:24:45You know.

01:24:45Yeah.

01:24:46Some whiskey stains and a few tears.

01:24:49Jenny.

01:24:50I said no.

01:24:52Jenny.

01:24:54Show.

01:24:56Oh, Jenny.

01:24:59Thanks for your help.

01:25:01What?

01:25:02Sarah.

01:25:04Well.

01:25:06I had a long talk with Michael Hart

01:25:11about Molloy

01:25:13and the dog

01:25:16and Patrick's behavior on the beach.

01:25:23I know everything.

01:25:26So do you.

01:25:36Keep your chin up.

01:25:38And you.

01:25:40I liked your legs.

01:25:44I've always liked your legs.

01:25:47Goodbye.

01:25:49Goodbye.

01:25:50Why should I feel ashamed of myself?

01:25:56Why should I feel inferior?

01:25:59Why should I feel anything?

01:26:03Jenny would go to the newspaper.

01:26:06They didn't believe her.

01:26:09And anyway,

01:26:10Sarah was alive.

01:26:11It was autumn again.

01:26:15In the mean square mile of the city of London,

01:26:17they were making money.

01:26:21Back to my guns.

01:26:22In Knuckle by David Hare,

01:26:41Curly was played by James Lawrenson,

01:26:43Patrick by Charles Gray,

01:26:44and Jenny by Keika Markham.

01:26:47Nigel Antony was Max,

01:26:48and Sheila Grant, Grace.

01:26:50Other parts were played by Alan Dudley,

01:26:53Walter Hall,

01:26:54and Sean Probert.

01:26:56The Michael Lomax trio were Mike Steer,

01:26:59Bernard Shaw,

01:27:00and John Richards.

01:27:01The play was adapted for radio by Walter Hall.

01:27:05Knuckle was a BBC World Service drama production

01:27:08directed by Dick and Reed.

01:27:10The.

01:27:26John inspector.

01:27:27The.

01:27:28View.

01:27:28The.

01:27:29The.

01:27:30The.

01:27:33The.

01:27:34The.

01:27:35The.

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