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(Distant train passes)
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Seven o'clock Friday, they bring the
money out and walk to the van, here.
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(Second boy) The butcher's shop's here,
opposite the church.
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(Third boy) Only two old geezers with
all that money. Who's doing the tyres?
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(First boy) We can hide
anywhere in here.
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(Air hisses)
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(Coughs)
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(Man) Wait! Hey! Oh, no, you don't!
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- (Boy) Let go!
- Ah, you won't get that from me, chum!
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(Yells and bangs)
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No! You won't have it from me, boy!
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Right! Got it!
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(Whistle)
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(Rumpole) "But trailing clouds
of glory do we come
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"From God, who is our home
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"Heaven lies about us in our infancy!
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"Shades of the prison-house
begin to close
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- "Around the growing Boy"
- Rumpole!
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You're not talking about your son,
I hope! You're never referring to Nick.
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What? "Shades of the prison-house
begin to close"? No, not round our boy.
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Not Nick. Shades of the public-school
house have closed round him.
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The 1,000 quid-a-year remand home!
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He is breaking up this morning.
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Ah! Shades of the prison-house
begin to open up for the hols!
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Nick has to be met at Victoria at 11:15
and given lunch.
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When he went back to school,
you promised him a show.
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- You haven't forgotten?
- Of course I haven't!
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The only show I can offer
is a robbery with violence,
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number two court at the Old Bailey.
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Oh, I wish it was a murder!
Nick so enjoyed my murders.
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I must fly! Daddy gets so crotchety
if anybody's late
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and he does love his visits!
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Our father who art in Horsham...
Give the old sweetheart my regards.
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"Old sweetheart" is hardly the way you
used to refer to your Head of Chambers.
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It's difficult to remember to call
my Head of Chambers "Daddy".
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(Woman hollers) Tell Nick I'll be back
in time to give him his supper!
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Your wish is my command!
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(Woman) Try not to make the kitchen
look as if it's been bombed!
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I hear, oh, Master of the Blue Horizon!
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(Door slams)
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She Who Must Be Obeyed.
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Ah!
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(Doors clank)
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Son!
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- Dad!
- Hello, son!
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Got special permission to see you,
you being a lad of tender years.
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You've got to know the ropes here.
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- Mum all right, is she?
- Of course she is. Come over here.
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She's got your best jacket
out the cleaners. Take that off.
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Now, remember, stand up straight,
hands out of your pockets.
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The red judge at the Old Bailey
is called My Lord.
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Don't call him Sir or Your Honour.
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Don't show your ignorance.
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Peanuts Molloy is giving evidence
for the prosecution.
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Don't worry. Your brief will take care
of him. We got you the best there is.
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Mr Rumpole?
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Remember, stand up straight and do
what Mr Rumpole says. Good luck!
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We're all out there. The whole family's
behind you. Don't forget that tie!
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Yes, right you are, then!
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Oh, we've got your indecent-assault
papers, Mr Erskine-Brown.
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Really, Albert? I told you I wanted
something civil. I'm sick of crime.
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A person who's sick of crime
is sick of life!
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Mr Frobisher, you're doing
your nuisance at Bloomsbury court.
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- Civil work! That's what I need.
- It's marked not before two o'clock.
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I can see that. One has to hang about
so to do a nuisance nowadays.
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I shall go to the library, Albert,
to look up some law. Morning, Rumpole.
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- Hello, George!
- Coming to the library?
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The library? I'd rather spend the day
in the morgue, old man!
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- Anything for me?
- No, Mr Maclay. Another day off for you!
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Ah! Your "dangerous and careless"
is on the mantelpiece, Mr Hoskins.
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- No cheques, I suppose, Albert?
- Not today, Mr Hoskins. Henry!
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Mr Tree? You want me at
Clerkenwell Court with Mr Hoskins?
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We don't want you near any court!
Not till we've learnt to clean our nails
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and shine our shoes of a morning.
You could make me a cup of instant.
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(Mutters) I didn't go into law
to make coffee!
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No! No cheques for me either.
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You know the saying,
"crime doesn't pay".
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Well, not for a very long time!
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Tony, if you're not busy,
why don't you join me at the Bailey?
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- You can take a note or something.
- You wouldn't mind?
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I'd be grateful. Where are we, Albert?
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The robbery's 11:30,
court number two, before Everglade.
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- Mr Guthrie Featherstone against you.
- Oh, agin me, Featherstone!
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Apparently! I had an all-night sitting
down at the House last night.
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Your robbery won't be much of a worry.
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Oh, no, except perhaps
to young Jim Timson.
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Oh, Albert, Mrs Rumpole's gone down
to see her father in... er... Horsham.
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My aunt had a whore shop in Teasham!
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- How is Wystan? Any better?
- No, just about the same, Uncle Tom.
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- And how's young Nicky?
- Oh, splendid. Ah! Nick!
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Albert, he's breaking up today. He'll need
meeting at Victoria at 11:15
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and if you bring him along, he can watch
some of the robbery in number two.
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Your son's going to be in the audience,
is he? I'd better be brilliant.
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I wouldn't bother.
It's his old dad he's come to see.
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(Scornful laugh) Touch�, Rumpole,
Distinctement touch�!
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(Rumpole) Better get down to the Bailey!
- I'll walk with you.
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Won't you need a stretcher
after an all-night sitting
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with the Gas-Mains Enabling Bill,
or whatever?
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- Tony, see you later on.
- Oh, right.
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(Frantic typing and phones ringing)
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- You've been at this a while, Rumpole.
- Oh, yes, quite a while.
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(Rumpole huffs)
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You never thought of taking silk?
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What? Rumpole, QC? Not on your nelly!
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Rumpole "Queer Customer", that's what
they'd be bound to call me.
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You could, with your seniority.
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- (Man) Morning.
- Morning!
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Oh, I dare say... if I played golf
with the right judges,
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put up for Parliament.
They might make me an artificial silk
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or, at any rate, a nylon.
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Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot.
You did put up for Parliament.
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Yes.
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- You've never thought of it?
- No, never!
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I have the honour to be an Old Bailey
hack! That's quite enough for me.
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Lord Attlee dies!
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(Rumpole) 'In Newgate Street
the City Fathers
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'a stately law court did decree,
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'and... there it is.
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'The dome and the blindfold lady.
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'Yes, well, it's much better she doesn't
see all that's going on.
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'Complete with murals, marble statues
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'and underground accommodation for
some of the choicest villains in London.
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'Terrible things go on here.
Horrifying things!
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'Why is it I never go through these
portals without a thrill of pleasure,
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'a slight tremble of excitement?
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'A slight tremble of excitement?
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'Why does it always seem a much jollier
place than my flat in Gloucester Road,
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'under the strict rule
of She Who Must Be Obeyed? '
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- Morning, Harry!
- Morning, gentlemen!
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I'll have to give up, I'll have to give up,
you know. Crocked up, I'm afraid!
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Oh, nonsense, Daddy,
you'll go on for years!
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No, Hilda, no. They'll have to start
looking for another Head of Chambers.
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Rumpole's the senior man,
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that is, apart from Uncle Tom and
he doesn't really practise nowadays.
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Your husband the senior man,
how time flies!
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I recall when he was the junior man,
my pupil.
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You said he was the best youngster
on bloodstains you'd ever known.
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Rumpole? Oh, yes. Your husband
was pretty good on bloodstains.
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Shaky, though, on the law
of landlord and tenant.
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What sort of practice has he now?
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Oh, he has a tremendously busy
practice! Rumpole hardly stops.
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- He's in court today.
- Which court?
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- I believe today it's... the Old Bailey.
- It's always the Old Bailey, isn't it?
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- Most of the time. I suppose so.
- Not a frightfully good address!
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Not exactly the SW1
of the legal profession.
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Rumpole only went to the Bailey today
because he knows the family.
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It seems
they've got a young boy in trouble.
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- Son gone wrong?
- Mmm.
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Very sad, that. Especially if he comes
of a really good family.
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(Voices echo)
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(Rumpole) 'Ah, the Timsons,
en famille in all their glory.
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'It's like a school reunion. I've never
seen so many ex-clients at one go.'
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- Mr Rumpole!
- Ah, Mr Bernard.
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- You're instructing me.
- Always in a Timson case!
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Nothing but the best for the Timsons!
Best solicitor, best barrister going.
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- Shall I do the honours?
- Yes, do.
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- Vi, my wife.
- (Rumpole) 'I got Vi off on handling
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'after the Croydon bank raid.
There was really no evidence.'
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(Fred) Uncle Cyril.
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- Long time...
- 'What was his last outing?
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'Carrying housebreaking instruments
by night? '
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Uncle Dennis.
You remember Den, surely?
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(Rumpole) 'Oh, yes. Conspiracy
to forge log books.'
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And Den's Doris...
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(Rumpole) 'Could it have been receiving
a vast quantity of stolen scampi?
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'Yes, acquitted by a majority.'
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Yours truly, Frederick Timson, father.
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(Rumpole) 'We slipped up with Fred's
last spot of bother. I was away with flu.'
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Well, shall we all sit down?
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(Rumpole) 'Frobisher took over. He got
three years. Must have just got out.'
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(Fred) Now you know
the whole family, Mr Rumpole.
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(Rumpole) 'A family to breed from,
or the Bailey would go out of business.'
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...from time to time! I'm sure you'll
do your very best for young Jimbo.
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He's a good boy. Ever so good
to me while Dad was away.
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(Rumpole) 'Head of the family at 14,
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'with Dad off on one
of his regular visits to Her Majesty.'
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It's young Jim's first appearance,
like, at the Bailey.
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(Rumpole) 'His bar mitzvah!
His first Communion.'
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All those other boys
got clean away with it!
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Well, that's a bit of luck. They can't be
asked if Jimbo was one of the party.
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The identification by the butcher
is hopeless.
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Would you have a photographic
impression of a young hopeful
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that struck you on the skull
with a cricket stump?
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All they've really got is Jim's alleged
confession to Peanuts Molloy.
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- Peanuts Molloy! Little grass!
- Chalky White fit him up with that!
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- Chalky?
- Chief Detective Inspector White.
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Why would Inspector White
want to fit up Jimbo?
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- Because he's a Timson!
- Because he's the apple of our eye!
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Being as how he's the baby
of the family.
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Chalky'd fit up his mother if it'd get him
a smile off his superintendent...
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- Morning, Fred!
- Morning, Chief Inspector.
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- Morning, Mrs Timson.
- Morning, Chief Inspector.
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Mr Timson, I think we'll shift our ground.
Remove, good friends!
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(Rumpole) Now, then, Mr Timson,
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how exactly do you say Chief Inspector
Chalky White fitted up your Jimbo?
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- Which is the coffees?
- Ah, thank you, love. Just for me.
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All right? That's it. Thank you.
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He put that grass Peanuts into Jim's
painting class in the remand home.
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I see. So, your Jimbo was supposed
to pour out his heart to Peanuts.
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"We..." Thank you.
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"We planned to do the old blokes
and snatch the takings."
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As if I'd raise Jim to talk like that!
In the nick! The Timsons ain't stupid!
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His dad's always told him, say nothing
to anyone inside. Bound to be a grass.
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That's right. Fred's always brought him
up proper, eh, Den?
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- Just like he should be.
- Especially the Molloys!
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- The Molloys!
- They're noted grasses. Always were.
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The Molloys is beyond the pale.
Well known for it!
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Look, how did this? Hah! How did this
family feud begin exactly?
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Peanuts' grandad. He shot my father
over the Streatham Co-op robbery.
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- Pre-war, that was.
- Streatham Co-op?
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I believe I was in that. There wasn't
much honour shown among thieves.
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Then you can understand.
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No Timson has even spoke
to a Molloy ever since.
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You're sure Jimbo wouldn't say
a word to Peanuts?
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I'd give you my word of honour!
Ain't that good enough for you?
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No Timson would ever speak to
a Molloy, not under any circumstances!
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- No!
- No, never.
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- Me, speak to Peanuts?
- (Rumpole) Yes.
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No Timson don't speak to no Molloy.
It's a point of honour, like.
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Ever since the Streatham Co-op case,
eh? Your grandfather?
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- Dad told you about that?
- Yes, Dad told me.
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He wouldn't let me speak to no Molloy.
He wouldn't put up with it, like.
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Well, Jimbo... what's the defence?
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Well, I never done it.
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That's an interesting defence.
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Somewhat unusual, isn't it?
For the Timsons.
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- I've got my alibi, ain't I?
- Ah, yes, your alibi.
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- Dad reckoned it was pretty good.
- Yes. Let's hear it again.
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(Bernard and Jim) Straight after school...
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"Straight after school on that Friday,
June 2nd, I went to tea at my Aunt Doris'
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"and arrived there at exactly
half-past five.
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"At six o'clock my Uncle Den came
home from work, with my Uncle Cyril.
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"At seven, when this alleged crime
took place,
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"I was sat round the TV
with my aunty and two uncles.
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"I well remember. We was watching
The Newcomers."
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(Rumpole) 'The family gave him
that alibi.
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'Clubbed together for it,
like a new bicycle.'
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- Thank you.
- Thank you.
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(Indictinct chatter)
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- (Whispers) We can't use that alibi.
- Why not?
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Well, you just think about it.
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Call the aunties and uncles and
cross-examine them on their records,
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the jury will see the lad comes from
a family of villains
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who keep a cupboard full of alibis
for all occasions.
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Yes, of course you're right.
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Of course, the infuriating thing
about the alibi is
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it might even be true!
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(Indistinct murmurs)
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(Polite cough)
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(Judge) Mr Featherstone.
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May it please you, My Lord.
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Members of the jury,
I appear in this case to prosecute.
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The defendant is represented by my
learned friend, Mr Horace Rumpole.
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Mr... who did you say, Mr Featherstone?
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Er... Mr Rumpole, My Lord,
R-U-M-P...
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(Rumpole) 'That's right, spell it out
for him, old darling.
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00:19:56,320 --> 00:20:00,472
'Mr Justice Everglade,
known to his few friends as Florrie,
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'is a stranger to the Old Bailey.
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00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:05,550
'His father was Lord Chancellor
at the time
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'Jim's grandfather was doing over
the Streatham Co-op.
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'Educated Winchester and Balliol.
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00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:15,309
'Cracks the Times crossword
in the opening of an egg.
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'Most happy with trust companies
suing each other
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'over "nice" points of the law.
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'Here for a fortnight's slumming
down the Old Bailey.
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(Chuckles) 'Wonder what
he'll make of Peanuts Molloy? '
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(Featherstone)... carrying their takings
to a grey Austin van,
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parked in Fawcett Yard,
just around the corner.
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Members of the jury,
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I think it only fair you should know
that it is alleged
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that Timson took part in this attack
with other youths, not so far arrested...
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00:20:51,120 --> 00:20:54,237
(Rumpole) "'The boy stood
on the burning deck..."'
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It is right that you should tell the jury,
Mr Featherstone. Perfectly proper.
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- If Your Lordship pleases.
- (Rumpole) 'The old chums' league?
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00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:07,112
- 'Fellow members of the Athenaeum? '
- I'm most grateful to your Lordship...
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00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:10,556
(Rumpole) 'Why not crawl up on
the bench and black his boots? '
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So, I imagine the young man's defence
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is that he wasn't ejusdem generis
with the other lads?
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I'm sorry, My Lord,
you asked about the defence?
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Mr... Rumpole.
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I am reluctant to intrude on your
confidential conversation
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with my learned friend, My Lord,
but as Jim Timson's counsel,
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I thought that perhaps I might know
a little more about his case
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than the counsel for the prosecution.
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I imagine your client says he was not
ejusdem generis with the others?
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00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:47,272
Ejusdem generis, My Lord?
Oh, yes, he's always saying that.
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00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:51,479
Ejusdem generis is a phrase
in constant use in his part of Brixton.
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(Voice hollers) Yes!
(Usher) Silence!
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- Well done, Dad!
- Thanks, Nick. Lovely to see you.
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- Sorry I couldn't turn on a murder!
- That's all right.
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Nevertheless, there is strong evidence
against him.
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00:22:06,120 --> 00:22:08,395
(Polite coughs)
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Members of the jury,
this case isn't based
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on any alleged confession to the police,
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or indeed to anyone in authority.
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I shall be calling a young man, Molloy,
of the same age as the defendant
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to whom, you will hear, he admitted
his guilt in the clearest possible terms.
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- Not the easiest sort of case.
- (Featherstone) This young man...
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- Is that your client, Dad?
- Yes, in the dock. As usual.
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00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:42,592
- Oh, my client's invariably in the dock.
- He ought to be in the fifth form.
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00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:46,116
(Featherstone)... and fell into
conversation with Timson...
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00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:51,991
Oh, dear! Old Florrie Everglade
doesn't know his business,
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not giving us time
to get a decent lunch!
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00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:59,715
- This is fine, honestly.
- One thing you can say against crime,
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the restaurant facilities
aren't up to much.
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00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:06,992
- Did you want lunch in the Bar Mess?
- Not with you here! Never!
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00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:10,197
I'd rather die than have lunch
in the Bar Mess!
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00:23:10,360 --> 00:23:13,318
It's like the prefects' room
in a junior public school. Oh!
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Not your prefects' room, of course!
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- Talking about school...
- Mmm.
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00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:26,469
- Um...
- What? Trouble?
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00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:29,518
- Bit of trouble, yes.
- Let me tell you at once,
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00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:33,992
there's no need to say a word that might
be taken down and used in evidence.
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00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:37,277
You know the old vicarage
opposite the school house?
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00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:40,159
It's been empty for years.
It's falling to pieces.
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00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:44,359
- You helped it fall?
- We used to get in, Sunday evenings.
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- Used it for parties.
- "Get in"? How, exactly?
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The kitchen window.
Didn't need much opening.
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00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:56,428
That's a technical break-in
under the Forcible Entries Act.
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00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:59,558
What time did you effect this entry?
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00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:01,790
Pretty late. After chapel.
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00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:05,157
Burglary at common law
and, of course, civil trespass.
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00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:09,836
What... er... what sort of parties, exactly?
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00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:11,956
We had a poker school.
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00:24:12,120 --> 00:24:15,874
- You haven't run into bankruptcy?
- I owe Crabtree �2.10.
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00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:17,996
We let a lot of people play.
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00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:21,709
Contrary to the Betting, Gaming
and Lotteries Act 1963.
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00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:24,269
We used to get
a bottle of cherry brandy in.
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Serving liquor on unlicensed premises.
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00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:32,674
Crabtree asked a couple of girls from the
village. Bagnold never heard about that.
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00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:35,957
There's no evidence of girls!
As far as your case goes,
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there is no reason to suppose
the girls existed!
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00:24:39,120 --> 00:24:42,112
As for the other charges,
they are serious.
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00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:49,436
- Yes, I suppose they are, rather.
- You were walking past the place.
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00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:52,478
You heard a noise
and went in to investigate.
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00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:57,714
Dad, Bagnold came in
and found us playing poker!
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00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:00,917
I know! "My Lord, my client
was only playing poker
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00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:05,232
"so as not to appear too pious, while
he lectured his fellow sixth-formers
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00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:08,472
"against the evils of gambling
and cherry brandy!"
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00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:12,269
- Dad, be serious.
- Don't you want me to defend you?
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00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:16,991
No! Bagnold's not going to call in
the police, or anything like that.
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00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:20,152
- What's he going to do?
- I'll miss next term's exeat.
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00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:24,916
Do some extra work. I just thought I
should tell you before you get a letter.
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00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:30,430
Yes, thanks, Nick. Thank you,
I'm glad you told me.
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00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:34,991
- So, there's no question of the police?
- Please! Of course not!
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00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:39,631
Bagnold doesn't want any trouble.
After all, we're still at school.
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00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:43,634
Still at school... Of course you are.
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00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:49,158
You and young Timson, yes!
I'm sorry. Stupid of me.
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00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:52,437
The fish and chips don't look too bad!
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- (Rumpole) May I call you Peanuts?
- If you like.
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00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:59,599
- You go to the same school as Jim?
- Yeah.
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00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:01,876
- But you're not friends?
- Not really.
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00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:05,635
No, the, er...
You don't speak to each other.
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00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:09,076
The Timsons and Molloys are like
the Montagues and Capulets.
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00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:13,552
- What did you say they were?
- Not ejusdem generis, My Lord.
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00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:16,598
- (Laughter)
- (Usher) Silence!
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00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:19,320
Peanuts,
how would you describe yourself?
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00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:23,109
- Is that a proper question?
- I mean, artistically.
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00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:26,909
Are you a latter-day Impressionist?
Do your oils in little dots?
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00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:30,868
Or perhaps an abstract? White squares
on a white background?
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00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:35,477
Or perhaps watches melting in the
desert, like dear old Salvador Dali?
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00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:40,316
- I don't know what you're saying!
- Neither, I confess, My Lord, do I.
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00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:43,438
(Rumpole) 'Sit quietly.
All will be revealed.'
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00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:48,037
Are you a dedicated artist?
The Rembrandt of the remand home?
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00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:52,478
- I hadn't done no art before.
- No, that's what I rather thought.
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00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:56,792
So, are we to understand, that when
Jimbo poured out his heart to you,
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00:26:56,960 --> 00:26:59,793
- it was at your first painting lesson?
- Yeah.
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00:26:59,960 --> 00:27:04,351
- How long had you been on remand?
- Couple of months. Done for affray.
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00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:06,476
I didn't ask you that.
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00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:09,996
I'm sure the reasons for being
on remand were entirely creditable.
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00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:14,676
What I want to know is, why this
sudden fascination with the arts?
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00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:16,876
Well, the chief screw...
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00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:20,635
So, you were told to join the painting
school and get next to Jimbo?
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00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:23,109
- (Peanuts) Something like that, yeah.
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00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:28,354
- What did he say?
- "Something like that", My Lord.
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00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:33,674
And you were there not in pursuit of art
but in pursuit of evidence.
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00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:37,753
You knew that very well and supplied
your masters with what they wanted.
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00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:40,878
- Jimbo never said a word to you!
- My Lord, I don't know quite
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00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:44,157
what my learned friend is saying.
Is he suggesting...
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00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:50,236
It's an old trick! Put your suspect...
bang him up with a notable grass,
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00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:53,517
if you're pushed for evidence.
They do it with grown-ups!
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00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:58,310
- Now they're trying it with children!
- Your language is foreign to me.
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00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:01,313
Then let me try
and make myself clear, My Lord.
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00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:06,998
I'm suggesting that the witness was
put into the painting class as a trap.
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00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:10,914
You're suggesting Mr Molloy was not
a genuine amateur painter?
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00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:14,629
No indeed, My Lord,
merely an amateur witness.
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00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:19,351
- (Laughter)
- I see. Go on, Mr Rumpole.
389
00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:24,514
What did you first say to Jim
as you drew your easel alongside?
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00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:28,514
- I don't remember.
- No? But you did say something?
391
00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:33,037
- You were on speaking terms?
- We was speaking about the Stones.
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00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:35,156
What stones were those?
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00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:37,276
The Rolling Stones!
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00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:40,512
A great deal of this case is taking place
in a foreign tongue!
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00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:45,239
Oh, er, jazz musicians, as I understand,
My Lord, of some notoriety.
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00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:49,313
Their notoriety hasn't reached me.
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00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:52,152
Yes, go on.
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00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:54,834
We talked about their
Hammersmith concert.
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00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:57,992
We'd both been to it
and we talked about that.
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00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:01,914
Then Jim said he and the other blokes
had done up the butchers.
401
00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:04,036
Jim said...
402
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:06,953
he and the other "blokes"
403
00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:09,873
had "done" the butchers.
404
00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:14,276
Well...
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00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:18,876
Would this be a convenient moment
to adjourn, Mr Rumpole?
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00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:22,794
(Rumpole) 'Convinient for Peanuts.
He'll have his second wind tomorrow.'
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00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:26,839
- (Judge) Mr Rumpole?
- Yes, My Lord, perfectly convenient.
408
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:29,673
If Your Lordship pleases.
409
00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:32,559
That was very good, Hilda.
410
00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:36,429
Yes, bit of an improvement on
the Old Bailey canteen, Nick, eh?
411
00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:40,991
- That's not saying much, I'm afraid!
- I'd better see about clearing up.
412
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:44,994
Grandpa sent you his love, Nick.
Will you remember to write?
413
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:48,038
He's definitely retiring
as Head of Chambers.
414
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:51,988
He quite appreciates
that you're the senior man.
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00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:54,628
- Dad...
- Yes, old son.
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00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:57,439
Will you be cross-examining
Peanuts tomorrow?
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00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:02,958
I'll try to keep it going, but I feel I've
shot my bolt as far as Peanuts goes.
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00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:06,999
- You really think he's lying?
- If not, it's a damn good imitation!
419
00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:10,755
Nick enjoyed the show,
even though it was only a robbery.
420
00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:14,708
I wish you'd been there when I was
cross-examining on the bloodstains
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00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:16,836
in the Penge bungalow murder.
422
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:19,753
Nick wasn't born
when you did the Penge murder.
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00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:23,071
No, I know. Bad luck, old son!
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00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:25,515
- You were great with that judge!
- Old Florrie!
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00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:29,229
An extraordinary judge kept talking Latin.
Dad was teasing him.
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00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:31,960
You want to be careful
how you tease judges,
427
00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:34,759
if you're to be Head of Chambers.
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00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:36,876
Head of Chambers, Dad? Honestly?
429
00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:41,079
- I suppose it's possible.
- Can I come tomorrow? To the Bailey?
430
00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:44,357
- Of course you can.
- Your dental appointment's tomorrow!
431
00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:48,479
Eleven o'clock you've got to be
in Harley Street, to see Mr Drage.
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00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:52,872
She Who Must Be Obeyed!
433
00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:57,750
Never mind! You won't miss much.
It's a pretty run-of-the-mill case.
434
00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:01,913
Although, as I'm sure you've noticed,
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00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:06,278
it does have one rather
extraordinary feature.
436
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:08,749
Go on, Watson.
You interest me strangely.
437
00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:11,150
- Do you still read those tales?
- Not lately.
438
00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:14,995
Do you remember I read them to you
after She had ordered you to bed?
439
00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:18,391
- When you weren't busy with murders.
- Walks on Hampstead Heath.
440
00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:22,075
- You were Holmes and I was Watson.
- I remember one walk.
441
00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:25,789
Tell me, Holmes, what, in your opinion
442
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:31,876
was the most remarkable evidence
given by the witness... Peanuts Molloy?
443
00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:35,316
When he said they were talking
about the Rolling Stones.
444
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:38,040
You astonish me, Holmes!
445
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:40,873
Watson, we were led to believe
they were enemies.
446
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:45,795
You know, the families
weren't ejusdem generis.
447
00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:48,428
Go on, go on!
Have a bit more of this.
448
00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:51,637
It stimulates the detective abilities.
449
00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:54,314
There they were,
chatting about a concert.
450
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:56,755
Didn't that strike you
as strange, Watson?
451
00:31:56,920 --> 00:32:00,390
If you ask me,
it struck me as bloody rum!
452
00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:04,314
They'd both been to the concert.
That doesn't mean anything necessarily.
453
00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:07,631
- I mean, I was at that concert.
- Were you indeed?
454
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:09,995
I got time off from school.
455
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:12,276
I don't recall you mentioning it.
456
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:15,034
I said I was going to the Festival Hall.
457
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:18,556
Oh, very wise!
As far as your mother's concerned,
458
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:21,712
I should think that
at the Hammersmith Odeon
459
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:26,635
they probably re-enact the worst
excesses of the Roman Empire.
460
00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:29,519
I don't suppose you saw Peanuts
or Jimbo there?
461
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:32,148
There were about 2,000 fans,
all screaming.
462
00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:37,314
Yes, of course.
I don't know if that helps
463
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:42,076
I mean, if they were old mates,
Jimbo might have confided in him.
464
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:46,313
No, Peanuts was lying!
And you spotted it.
465
00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:49,916
You've got the instinct!
You've got a nose for the evidence.
466
00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:53,595
Your career at the Bar is bound to be
brilliant. Tell me, old man,
467
00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:56,149
when are you taking silk?
468
00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:57,992
(Rumpole laughs)
469
00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:03,831
Mr Wystan was good enough to send
me a letter from Horsham Hospital.
470
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,753
Ah, yes. Old Daddy's
not quite up to snuff.
471
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:09,229
- He mentions his retirement.
- Really?
472
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:12,278
We'll manage well with you
as Head of Chambers.
473
00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:14,396
Oh, do you think so?
474
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:18,712
There's not much we won't be able
to sort out over a glass in Pommeroy's.
475
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:21,235
And we'll welcome Master Nick
into Chambers?
476
00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:24,153
Well, he's certainly showing
some legal aptitude.
477
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:28,757
It'll be a real family affair, Mr Rumpole,
if you ask me. Like father, like son.
478
00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:32,794
Like father, like son. How very nice.
479
00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:35,918
- Mr Rumpole, I've checked that date.
- Yes?
480
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:42,754
You clever old darling! Thank you
very much, Mr Bernard!
481
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:48,157
(Rumpole) When Jim told you
he'd done up the butchers,
482
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:50,390
did he say the date that it happened?
483
00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:53,996
My Lord, the date is clearly set out
in the indictment.
484
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:56,230
My Lord, I am cross-examining
485
00:33:56,400 --> 00:34:00,279
on behalf of my young client,
who is charged with a serious offence!
486
00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:04,115
I'd be grateful if my learned friend
did not volunteer information
487
00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:06,874
known to all of us in court,
except the witness!
488
00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:09,713
Very well. Please go on, Mr Rumpole.
489
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:11,632
(Sighs heavily)
490
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:14,792
- Did he tell you the date?
- He never told me when.
491
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:18,714
- I thought it was in the summer.
- (Rumpole) In the summer.
492
00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:22,873
Are you... a fan of the Rolling Stones,
Peanuts?
493
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:25,634
- Yeah.
- Remind me, they were...
494
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:28,109
- The musicians!
- 'Shut up, Featherstone.'
495
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:30,748
Ah, thank you, Mr Featherstone.
496
00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:36,511
- And, er... and is Jim, too, a fan?
- He was, yeah.
497
00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:40,150
(Rumpole) Did you discuss music
before you met on remand?
498
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:43,676
- Before the nick? Oh, yeah!
- At school together?
499
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:47,879
- Yeah.
- And, er... in quite a friendly way?
500
00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:51,635
(Peanuts) Well, we was all right, yeah.
501
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:55,270
- Did you ever go to a concert with him?
- (Peanuts) We went...
502
00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:59,592
- Now, think carefully.
- We went to one or two concerts.
503
00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:02,638
- In the evening?
- (Peanuts) Yeah.
504
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:05,360
Would you call at his home, collect him?
505
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:07,476
- You're joking!
- (Rumpole) What?
506
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:10,791
- (Peanuts) You must be joking!
- I'm not joking at all.
507
00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:13,758
- I wouldn't call at his home!
- The families don't speak.
508
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:18,311
- You wouldn't be welcome there!
- The Montagues and the Capulets?
509
00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:23,838
If Your Lordship pleases.
Your Lordship puts it extremely aptly.
510
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,195
(Mouths inaudibly)
511
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:28,920
What would you do if going
to a concert together?
512
00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:32,152
We'd leave school together,
and just hang around the caffs.
513
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:34,914
- Hang around the caffs?
- Caf�s, Mr Rumpole?
514
00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:39,551
(Rumpole) Yes, of course, the caf�s,
My Lord. Before you went up West?
515
00:35:39,720 --> 00:35:45,477
If Your Lordship would allow me to
translate, the West End of London.
516
00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:47,915
Yeah!
517
00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:52,198
So, you wouldn't be separated when
you went to a concert together?
518
00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:54,316
- We hung around.
- Did that happen
519
00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:57,472
when you saw the Rolling Stones
at Hammersmith Odeon?
520
00:35:57,640 --> 00:35:59,471
- Yeah.
- That was this summer?
521
00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:01,631
- Yeah.
- You left school together?
522
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:04,917
And hung around the caffs.
Then we went up to the Odeon.
523
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:09,437
- You were together the whole evening?
- I told you, didn't I?
524
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:13,149
(Rumpole) Yes, indeed, you told me.
Thank you very much.
525
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:18,553
My Lord, perhaps my learned friend
might be interested in knowing the date
526
00:36:18,720 --> 00:36:22,838
of the only Rolling Stones concert
at the Hammersmith Odeon this year.
527
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:26,072
He might like to compare it
with the date of the offence,
528
00:36:26,240 --> 00:36:28,993
so conveniently set out in the indictment.
529
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:31,116
(Whispers around the court)
530
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:42,672
But you had an alibi! You had a proper,
reasonable, truthful alibi!
531
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:47,960
And, joy of joys, it even came from the
prosecution. Why the hell not tell me?
532
00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:52,318
- Me dad wouldn't have liked it.
- Your dad wouldn't have liked it!
533
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:55,711
And because of that, you were prepared
to be found guilty,
534
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:58,952
to be convicted of robbery
with violence?
535
00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:04,148
- Dad got the family to alibi me.
- Keep it in the family!
536
00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:08,029
Oh, well, I'd better collect me things.
Anyway, thanks, Mr Rumpole.
537
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:10,953
Dad said I could rely on you
to win the day. Cheers!
538
00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:15,830
No, wait! I didn't win the day!
It was luck, it was a sheer fluke, Jimbo!
539
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:19,310
- It'll never happen again!
- You're joking, Mr Rumpole!
540
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:23,996
Me Dad told me about you.
Says you never let the Timsons down.
541
00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:28,790
Do you think that's what I'm here for?
To help you in a career like your dad's?
542
00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:32,430
God, I shouldn't have asked those
questions, or found out that date!
543
00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:34,955
Then you'd really be happy,
wouldn't you?
544
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:38,669
Then you'd really follow
in your dad's footsteps all your life!
545
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:42,549
Sharp spells in borstal to learn
the mysteries of housebreaking
546
00:37:42,720 --> 00:37:45,598
and then on to a solid life of crime!
547
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:47,751
Oh, you might do really well!
548
00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:51,435
You might end up in Parkhurst
in the maximum-security wing,
549
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:56,993
doing a glamorous 20 years
and a hero to the screws!
550
00:37:57,160 --> 00:37:59,674
We've got his things at the gate.
Come on, Timson.
551
00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:04,072
- You can't stay here all night.
- Well, I've got to go.
552
00:38:04,240 --> 00:38:08,199
I don't know how to face me dad, really,
me being so friendly with Peanuts.
553
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:14,755
No, Jim, wait! Just a minute,
just a minute. Look, come here.
554
00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:18,390
Listen, if you're pleased
with the way I did your case...
555
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:22,189
- I am! Frankly, I'm quite satisfied.
- Oh, I'm glad.
556
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:24,476
Would you consider doing me a favour?
557
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:29,316
- Why? Aren't we on Legal Aid?
- Of course we're on Legal Aid! Listen,
558
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:32,233
haven't you ever thought about
leaving home?
559
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:35,995
- I couldn't do that! Not ever!
- Why not?
560
00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:39,118
Me mum depends on me,
like when Dad goes away.
561
00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:42,238
Well, she depends on me then
as head of the family.
562
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:44,356
Head of the family!
563
00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:48,312
Cheers!
564
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:50,436
(Door squeaks open)
565
00:38:51,720 --> 00:38:54,837
(Chalky) Don't look so miserable,
Mr Rumpole. You won.
566
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:58,959
Nobody won, Inspector,
but truth emerges sometimes,
567
00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:01,076
even down the Old Bailey.
568
00:39:01,240 --> 00:39:03,959
But he's a Timson. Runs in the family.
569
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:09,592
- We'll get him... sooner or later.
- Yes, I suppose you will.
570
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:12,320
There we are. Thanks very much.
Hello, George!
571
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:15,597
(George) Hello, Rumpole. Join us.
(Tony) Marvellous win.
572
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:21,198
- Yes, I hear you've had a splendid win!
- "Trailing clouds of glory, do we come!"
573
00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:25,717
- Be years before you get the cheque!
- What was it about? I forget.
574
00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:29,190
You don't get paid for years
at the Old Bailey! I told my grocer,
575
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:32,511
"If you had to wait as long to be paid
for a pound of sugar
576
00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:35,831
"as we do for an armed robbery..."
577
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:40,596
Albert tells me he's had a letter from
Wystan... and I'd like to say, Rumpole,
578
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:44,878
we'd all like to say, you'll make
a splendid Head of Chambers!
579
00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:47,600
"Shades of the prison-house
begin to close
580
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:50,354
"Around the growing Boy
But He beholds the light,
581
00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:54,069
"and whence it flows
and sees it in his joy..."
582
00:39:54,240 --> 00:39:57,357
Rumpole quotes Wordsworth.
Does it quite often.
583
00:39:57,520 --> 00:40:00,512
But does the growing boy
behold the light, George,
584
00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:04,434
or is the old sheep of the Lake District
being unduly optimistic?
585
00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:08,718
Well, I think it'll be refreshing to have
a Head of Chambers who quotes poetry.
586
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:11,189
(Laughter)
587
00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:14,557
- Have you seen The Times?
- Haven't had time. The crossword!
588
00:40:14,720 --> 00:40:16,870
Guthrie Featherstone, he's taken silk.
589
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:20,350
(Featherstone) It's the stockings
that are the problem!
590
00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:24,752
Yes! Yes! They would be!
591
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:27,559
- Keeping them up.
- I do understand.
592
00:40:27,720 --> 00:40:31,269
- Yes. Well, Marigold...
- Who?
593
00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:34,318
- My wife, Marigold.
- A wife?
594
00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:37,590
My wife, Marigold!
595
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:41,594
(Shouts) Oh, that Marigold! Yes.
596
00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:45,799
She's a nurse, you know,
and she put me in touch with this shop
597
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:49,873
which supplies suspender belts
to nurses! Amongst other things!
598
00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:52,270
- Really?
- Yes, yes! Yards of elastic
599
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:55,113
for the larger ward sister! Ha ha ha!
600
00:40:55,280 --> 00:41:00,957
- Well, it works miraculously!
- A suspender belt! You sexy devil!
601
00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:03,634
Lord, I'd never realised
the full implications
602
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:06,792
of rising to the height
of the legal profession.
603
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:09,713
(Tom) Some time since we had
champagne in Chambers.
604
00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:11,836
(Hoskins) Or a silk in Chambers.
605
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:17,393
(Tom) I recall, George, you'll like this,
we had a fellow here called Bulstrode -
606
00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:20,518
it was before you were born -
and someone gave him 100 guineas
607
00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:23,319
for six months' pupillage.
Know what he did?
608
00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:25,675
- No.
- Stood champagne all round.
609
00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:30,994
The next day he ran off to Calais with
his clerk and we never saw them again!
610
00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:33,355
Thank you. Whose pupil were you?
I forget.
611
00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:37,559
- He was my pupil, Uncle Tom.
- Well, George wouldn't do that!
612
00:41:37,720 --> 00:41:40,757
- At least, I don't think. Would you?
- I missed the start.
613
00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:44,435
I was telling him about Bulstrode.
Someone gave him...
614
00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:48,752
(George) I do remember. Albert.
(Tom)... 100 guineas, and, er...
615
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:54,552
Ah! Ah, Albert, well met!
By Jove, you do look distinguished!
616
00:41:54,720 --> 00:41:57,871
One has to cut a certain figure
down the House of Lords.
617
00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:00,600
Hope I'll have the same pleasure
with you, sir.
618
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:03,797
Never, Albert, I promise you! Not ever.
619
00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:07,873
Now, Henry, we don't want you
getting Miss Marchbanks tiddly.
620
00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:11,555
- You may fill me up.
- You wouldn't rather a glass of instant?
621
00:42:11,720 --> 00:42:14,359
- Now, now...
- Thank you, Henry.
622
00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:18,195
- There you go, sir.
- Lovely.
623
00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:21,397
Your husband's star has risen
so quickly, Mrs Featherstone.
624
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:24,472
Only ten years and he's an MP
and leading counsel.
625
00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:27,598
It's the PR, you see.
Guthrie's frightfully good at the PR.
626
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:30,558
- At the what?
- Guthrie always says
627
00:42:30,720 --> 00:42:34,872
the important thing at the Bar is
to be polite to your instructing solicitor.
628
00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:37,508
- Don't you find that?
- Polite to solicitors?
629
00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:41,036
- That never occurred to me.
- Guthrie admires you so!
630
00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:43,156
He admires your style of advocacy.
631
00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:45,788
It makes a change
from bowing three times
632
00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:48,838
and offering to black the judge's boots.
633
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:52,754
He says you're most amusing out
of court. Don't you quote poetry?
634
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:57,755
Only at moments of great sadness,
madam. Or extreme elation!
635
00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:01,356
Guthrie so looks forward
to leading you in his next big case.
636
00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:04,273
Leading me? Did you say leading me?
637
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:07,955
He has to have a junior now.
He wants the best available.
638
00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:11,430
- Now he's a leader.
- Now he's left the Junior Bar.
639
00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:14,239
Just for a pair of knee breeches,
he left us.
640
00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:19,713
Just for an elastic suspender belt,
as supplied to the nursing profession.
641
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:24,636
- Rumpole.
- Ah, my learned leader!
642
00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:29,078
- Could I have a word?
- Of course. Would you excuse me?
643
00:43:29,240 --> 00:43:32,357
- Marigold!
- (George) Marigold, come and join us.
644
00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:35,676
(Rumpole) Well, old chap...
645
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:40,550
- Albert, I tell you what... Hello.
- Hello, Uncle Tom.
646
00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:48,916
I just wanted to say that
I don't see why recent events
647
00:43:49,080 --> 00:43:52,709
should make any difference
to the situation in Chambers.
648
00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:56,873
- You're the senior man in practice.
- "Ah, you wrong me, Brutus.
649
00:43:57,040 --> 00:43:59,793
"You said an older soldier,
not a better."
650
00:43:59,960 --> 00:44:05,512
- A quotation, Rumpole! Very apt.
- Is it?
651
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:09,514
No, what I mean is,
that I don't see why, um...
652
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:11,636
all this should make any difference.
653
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:14,360
You'll have my full support
as Head of Chambers.
654
00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:17,671
- Oh, that...
(AIbert) Mr Wystan! Mr Wystan's here!
655
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:21,674
- Henry, a chair for Mr Wystan.
- (Featherstone) Come along in.
656
00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:24,718
(Indistinct chatter)
657
00:44:24,880 --> 00:44:27,792
(George) You look wonderful.
So good to see you.
658
00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:33,398
Albert... AIbert wrote to me
about this little celebration.
659
00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:35,516
I was determined to be with you
660
00:44:35,680 --> 00:44:40,629
and the doctor's given permission
for one glass of champagne.
661
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:43,473
Champagne coming up, sir!
There we are.
662
00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:46,837
- Glad you could come!
- Great change in Chambers!
663
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:52,393
Now we have a silk!
Guthrie Featherstone, QC MP.
664
00:44:52,560 --> 00:44:55,438
(AIl) Guthrie Featherstone, QC MP!
665
00:44:55,600 --> 00:44:59,957
# For he's a jolly good fellow
For he's a jolly good fellow
666
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:05,035
# For he's a jolly good fellow
And so say all of us
667
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:08,033
- # And so say all of us... #
- Thank you! Thank you.
668
00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:11,556
(Wystan) You have brought
a great distinction to Chambers.
669
00:45:11,720 --> 00:45:13,950
Isn't that nice, Guthrie?
670
00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:16,076
When I was a young man...
671
00:45:16,240 --> 00:45:18,959
- Remember when we were young?
(Uncle Tom) Vaguely.
672
00:45:19,120 --> 00:45:23,477
We used to hang around in Chambers
for weeks on end. I well recall
673
00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:28,589
we used to occupy ourselves with
an old golf ball and a mashie niblick,
674
00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:31,354
trying to get chip shots
into the waste bin.
675
00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:33,795
- Still does, Uncle Tom.
- Albert was a boy.
676
00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:39,717
- A mere child, Mr Wystan.
- We used to pray for work, any work.
677
00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:44,271
We were tempted to crime.
Only way we could get into court.
678
00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:49,150
As you grow older, you discover,
it's not having any work that matters,
679
00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:51,276
it's the quality that counts.
680
00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:53,670
Hear! Hear! We should do more civil.
681
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:58,391
Guthrie Featherstone, QC MP,
will command briefs in all divisions.
682
00:45:58,560 --> 00:46:01,313
- Hear! Hear!
- Planning, contract, even Chancery.
683
00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:03,038
Come, now, Wystan!
684
00:46:03,200 --> 00:46:06,715
(Wystan) I was afraid after I've gone
these Chambers might become known
685
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:08,632
as merely a criminal set.
686
00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:11,712
- Disgraceful!
- There's no doubt about it,
687
00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:16,670
too much criminal work does rather
lower the standing of a chambers.
688
00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:19,991
- Couldn't you install pithead baths?
- Oh, Horace.
689
00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:22,879
We could all have a good scrub down
after the Bailey.
690
00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:24,792
(Laughter)
691
00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:28,714
Horace Rumpole, and I mean
no disrespect to my son-in-law...
692
00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:31,235
(Rumpole bellows) Daddy!
(George) Rumpole!
693
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:34,790
...practises almost
exclusively in the criminal courts.
694
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:38,953
One doesn't get the fascinating points
of law, not in criminal work.
695
00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:42,795
I've thought we should try to attract
some lucrative tax cases.
696
00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:48,034
Ah, tax cases!
Tax cases make the world go round.
697
00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:52,671
I mean, compared to the wonderful
world of tax, crime's totally trivial!
698
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:58,358
What does it matter if a boy loses
a year, two years of his life, hmm?
699
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:03,275
Totally unimportant! Anyway, he'll grow
up to be banged up for a good five,
700
00:47:03,440 --> 00:47:09,037
shut up with his chamberpot in some
hole we prefer not to think about.
701
00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:13,352
Now, then, Horace, your practice no
doubt requires a good deal of skill.
702
00:47:13,520 --> 00:47:17,513
Skill? Who said anything about skill?
Any fool can do it!
703
00:47:17,680 --> 00:47:21,639
It's only a matter of life and death.
Crime, it's a sort of game.
704
00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:25,031
I mean, how can you compare it
to the real world
705
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:28,272
of offshore securities
and deductible expenses?
706
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:32,069
(Wystan) All you young men
in chambers can learn enormously
707
00:47:32,240 --> 00:47:34,390
from Rumpole when it comes to crime.
708
00:47:34,560 --> 00:47:37,711
(Rumpole) God! You make me sound
just like Fred Timson!
709
00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:39,916
- Ah, champers!
- Who's Fred Timson?
710
00:47:40,080 --> 00:47:42,469
The Timsons are
Rumpole's favourite family.
711
00:47:42,640 --> 00:47:45,313
An industrious clan
of South London criminals.
712
00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:49,189
- (Wystan) South London criminals?
- Do we really want Timson types
713
00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:52,636
forever hanging round our waiting room?
I merely ask it.
714
00:47:52,800 --> 00:47:56,349
(Loud sarcastic tone) Do you really,
merely ask it? Excuse me.
715
00:47:56,520 --> 00:48:00,274
The Timsons and their like
are no doubt grist to Rumpole's mill
716
00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:02,590
but it's the balance that counts.
717
00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:05,274
- There we are, sir!
- Now, er...
718
00:48:05,440 --> 00:48:08,352
you'll be looking for
a new Head of Chambers.
719
00:48:08,520 --> 00:48:13,275
I'd like you all to think it over carefully
and put your views to me in writing.
720
00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:18,639
We should all try and remember it's
the good of the Chambers that matters.
721
00:48:18,800 --> 00:48:22,998
- Are we still looking?
- Not the feelings, however deep,
722
00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:25,628
of any particular person.
723
00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:29,156
- The good of Chambers.
- (AIl) The good of Chambers!
724
00:48:31,560 --> 00:48:33,516
Guthrie Featherstone...
725
00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:36,240
Head of Chambers?
726
00:48:38,520 --> 00:48:40,636
By universal acclaim.
727
00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:44,190
(Sighs)
728
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:46,316
I'm sorry.
729
00:48:46,480 --> 00:48:49,074
Oh, he can have the headaches...
730
00:48:49,240 --> 00:48:52,277
trying to work out Albert's
extraordinary bookkeeping.
731
00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:55,034
If only you could have become a QC.
732
00:48:55,200 --> 00:48:58,829
QC... CT, that's good enough for me.
733
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:01,753
CT? Whatever's CT?
734
00:49:01,920 --> 00:49:03,672
Counsel for the Timsons.
735
00:49:03,840 --> 00:49:07,469
Oh, Rumpole, you're impossible!
736
00:49:07,640 --> 00:49:09,596
You're not in court today?
737
00:49:09,760 --> 00:49:14,356
No, not today. It must be time
to see Nick off.
738
00:49:14,520 --> 00:49:18,479
What are you reading? "The Mysterious
Adventures of the Speckled Band"?
739
00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:24,118
"Industrial Soci..." Sociology, Nick?
740
00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:27,477
Bagnold was talking about what
I should read if I get into Oxford.
741
00:49:27,640 --> 00:49:29,596
It's very interesting.
742
00:49:31,240 --> 00:49:33,390
You astonish me, old...
743
00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:38,069
- I'll ring for the taxi.
- (Hilda) Of course you'll read law.
744
00:49:38,240 --> 00:49:41,550
I thought perhaps PPE,
then go on to Sociology.
745
00:49:41,720 --> 00:49:44,439
Well, we're going to keep it in the family!
746
00:49:44,600 --> 00:49:49,037
PPE sounds very good, Nick,
very good indeed.
747
00:49:49,200 --> 00:49:53,318
(Growls) For God's sake, let's stop
keeping it in the family!
748
00:49:58,160 --> 00:50:02,039
That's what's wrong, Nick,
that's the devil of it.
749
00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:05,272
They're all being born around
us all the time,
750
00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:09,638
little Mr Justice Everglades,
little Timsons.
751
00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:12,439
(Tersely) Little Guthrie Featherstones.
752
00:50:12,600 --> 00:50:16,673
All being set off to follow
in their fathers' footsteps.
753
00:50:24,320 --> 00:50:26,595
Well, let's have no more of that.
754
00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:30,548
No more following
in fathers' footsteps, hmm?
755
00:50:30,720 --> 00:50:33,837
- See you at half term, then.
- Right.
756
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:36,230
(Nick) Victoria Station, please.
757
00:50:44,360 --> 00:50:46,112
No more.
758
00:50:46,280 --> 00:50:49,376
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