1 00:00:40,810 --> 00:00:44,380 (orchestral music) 2 00:00:55,230 --> 00:00:57,730 (man snoring) 3 00:01:01,470 --> 00:01:02,640 - Let me out. 4 00:01:03,670 --> 00:01:04,670 Let me out! 5 00:01:06,810 --> 00:01:11,240 No. No! Let me out! 6 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:14,380 Please let me out! Let me out! 7 00:01:15,650 --> 00:01:18,280 (theme music) 8 00:01:48,250 --> 00:01:48,280 - [Tape] A beautiful village. 9 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:53,520 A kind of English Shangri-la man could get lost in forever. 10 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:56,620 I got a room at the village inn, the Columbine. 11 00:01:56,620 --> 00:01:56,660 There's a sign over the inn. 12 00:01:56,660 --> 00:02:01,330 A painting of a girl dressed as a columbine. 13 00:02:01,330 --> 00:02:05,430 Her face is haunting. It's obviously a very old painting. 14 00:02:06,370 --> 00:02:08,200 I wonder who she was. 15 00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:09,900 By the way, the inn serves the best 16 00:02:09,900 --> 00:02:12,140 bitter beer I've tasted in this country. 17 00:02:18,540 --> 00:02:21,550 (orchestral music) 18 00:02:49,310 --> 00:02:51,740 (cash register ringing) 19 00:02:51,740 --> 00:02:55,250 (patrons murmuring) 20 00:02:55,250 --> 00:02:57,450 - [Innkeep] Well, good morning, sir. What can I get ya? 21 00:02:57,450 --> 00:02:58,780 - I'd like a room if you've got one. 22 00:02:58,780 --> 00:03:00,850 - [Innkeep] Oh, I think we might manage that. 23 00:03:00,850 --> 00:03:02,760 How long would you be wanting it for, sir? 24 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:04,390 - Oh, a few days I imagine. 25 00:03:04,390 --> 00:03:05,730 - [Innkeep] Righty-o. 26 00:03:05,730 --> 00:03:06,660 Why, Jenny. 27 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:10,830 Show this gentleman up to number three, will you please? 28 00:03:10,830 --> 00:03:12,330 - Alright, this way, sir. 29 00:03:18,740 --> 00:03:21,740 (orchestral music) 30 00:03:43,830 --> 00:03:45,460 - [Jenny] I'll bring the money back for you, sir. 31 00:03:45,460 --> 00:03:46,870 - [Man] Yeah, that's alright. 32 00:03:49,970 --> 00:03:51,540 - Everything alright, sir? 33 00:03:51,540 --> 00:03:54,870 - Yes, fine, thank you. - Good. 34 00:03:54,870 --> 00:03:56,480 - Anything I can get ya, sir? 35 00:03:56,480 --> 00:03:59,410 - Yes, I'd like a glass of your bitter beer. 36 00:03:59,410 --> 00:04:01,850 - Certainly. Would you like a half pint or a pint, sir? 37 00:04:01,850 --> 00:04:03,580 - Oh, a pint, I think. 38 00:04:03,580 --> 00:04:04,620 My grandfather always told me, 39 00:04:04,620 --> 00:04:06,720 "never do anything good by halves." 40 00:04:07,850 --> 00:04:10,360 - So, you've heard all about our beer, have ya? 41 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:12,760 - No, it's just that I'm an optimist. 42 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:15,530 - Aye, Jack's pints are a bit optimistic, too. 43 00:04:15,530 --> 00:04:16,730 Just you wait 'til the froth gone down 44 00:04:16,730 --> 00:04:19,400 on that one and see how much you got left. 45 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:21,270 - I'll put less froth on my beer 46 00:04:21,270 --> 00:04:23,840 when you put more cream in your milk, Bill Gurney. 47 00:04:27,010 --> 00:04:29,910 - To tell you the truth, gentlemen, I like the froth. 48 00:04:29,910 --> 00:04:31,410 - So do we, but we'll never do 49 00:04:31,410 --> 00:04:33,580 to let old Jack Woodridge know that. 50 00:04:33,580 --> 00:04:33,610 American are you? 51 00:04:33,610 --> 00:04:37,550 - Yes. Robert McCabe. Mind if I sit down? 52 00:04:37,550 --> 00:04:39,620 - Make yourself at home. 53 00:04:40,290 --> 00:04:40,320 (men yelling) 54 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:42,820 - Not there, though, if you pardon us. 55 00:04:42,820 --> 00:04:46,630 That's old Fred's chair. - Fred? 56 00:04:46,630 --> 00:04:49,830 - The local handyman, rat catcher, jack-of-all-trades. 57 00:04:49,830 --> 00:04:51,430 Pretty fair poacher, too! 58 00:04:51,430 --> 00:04:51,460 But don't say nothing about that. 59 00:04:51,460 --> 00:04:53,870 - If he found anyone sitting in his chair 60 00:04:53,870 --> 00:04:55,370 he'd think the end of the world had come. 61 00:04:55,370 --> 00:04:57,770 - He did find someone, mind, a few months back. 62 00:04:57,770 --> 00:04:59,640 Another American gentleman like yourself. 63 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:01,740 Though I'm afraid he didn't start 64 00:05:01,740 --> 00:05:04,540 from the back of the bunk as you all over again! 65 00:05:04,540 --> 00:05:04,580 - An American you said? 66 00:05:04,580 --> 00:05:09,580 - [Bill] That's right. Jim Starling. Came from Chicago. 67 00:05:09,580 --> 00:05:10,950 Very fond of him we were. 68 00:05:10,950 --> 00:05:13,650 - Someone else was very fond of him, too. 69 00:05:13,650 --> 00:05:15,090 - Hey, can I get you another, sir? 70 00:05:15,090 --> 00:05:17,020 - I'm fine, thank you. Who's that? 71 00:05:17,020 --> 00:05:18,990 Ms. Dominie, up at the manor. 72 00:05:18,990 --> 00:05:21,860 - [Patron] Donny Lansford, Jonathon Lansford's niece. 73 00:05:21,860 --> 00:05:24,500 You can just see the manor from here. 74 00:05:24,500 --> 00:05:26,830 - [Bill] Their family goes back centuries. 75 00:05:26,830 --> 00:05:29,370 Mr. Jonathon owns everything around here 76 00:05:29,370 --> 00:05:30,470 as far as the eye can see. 77 00:05:30,470 --> 00:05:32,410 - As far as the eye can see. 78 00:05:32,410 --> 00:05:33,840 - A genuine English squire, huh? 79 00:05:33,840 --> 00:05:36,780 - Well, not exactly. But I'll tell ya this, 80 00:05:36,780 --> 00:05:39,810 he behaves more like one than if he was one. 81 00:05:39,810 --> 00:05:40,780 - What do you mean? 82 00:05:40,780 --> 00:05:42,480 - Well, it's like this, see. 83 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:45,790 Lansford family's got roots here and Bavaria. 84 00:05:45,790 --> 00:05:48,920 - Lots of intermarrying. Combining fortresses. 85 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:50,860 - So, you get half and half! 86 00:05:50,860 --> 00:05:52,730 - And when Ms. Dominie's father died, 87 00:05:52,730 --> 00:05:53,990 and her father-- 88 00:05:53,990 --> 00:05:56,130 - He gets the other half, the German half. 89 00:05:56,130 --> 00:05:57,730 Not English at all. 90 00:05:57,730 --> 00:05:58,930 - Jonathon Lansford? 91 00:05:58,930 --> 00:06:01,100 - Ah, it used to be Johann. 92 00:06:01,100 --> 00:06:02,400 - [Patron] They changed it to Jonathon. 93 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:02,430 - Yeah, that's right, he's a foreigner. 94 00:06:02,430 --> 00:06:05,810 - Yes, but he's a nice enough chap mind, just the same! 95 00:06:05,810 --> 00:06:08,610 (patrons talk overlapping) 96 00:06:08,610 --> 00:06:10,480 - This other American, Jim, uh... 97 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:11,410 - [Patron] Stone. - Stone! 98 00:06:11,410 --> 00:06:12,610 Did he stay up at the house? 99 00:06:12,610 --> 00:06:15,050 - Oh, no. But he might as well have done, 100 00:06:15,050 --> 00:06:16,120 he was up there that often. 101 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:16,150 (patrons laughing) 102 00:06:16,150 --> 00:06:18,820 - There was a time when we all thought 103 00:06:18,820 --> 00:06:20,790 Jim Stone would be settling down here. 104 00:06:20,790 --> 00:06:22,760 - Either that or she'd be off 105 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:24,990 to America with him riding off. 106 00:06:24,990 --> 00:06:25,020 - What happened? 107 00:06:25,020 --> 00:06:28,760 - Come along, now, time gentlemen, please. 108 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:29,830 Let's have your glasses or we shall 109 00:06:29,830 --> 00:06:30,900 have the law down on us. 110 00:06:30,900 --> 00:06:33,370 - Get away, we've time for another. 111 00:06:33,370 --> 00:06:34,900 - You certainly have not, I've got 112 00:06:34,900 --> 00:06:36,800 my license to think about. 113 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:39,110 Sir, I wonder if you'd mind signing 114 00:06:39,110 --> 00:06:40,970 the register while you're about it. 115 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:43,110 - Nice to talk to you. 116 00:06:43,110 --> 00:06:46,050 - [Group] Nice to talk to you, sir. 117 00:06:46,050 --> 00:06:47,650 - Hey, what was all that about? 118 00:06:47,650 --> 00:06:50,620 Since when did you keep licensing hours? 119 00:06:50,620 --> 00:06:53,050 - You know perfectly well that Mr. Lansford does 120 00:06:53,050 --> 00:06:56,520 not like his private affairs discussed with strangers. 121 00:06:56,520 --> 00:06:59,530 (unsettling music) 122 00:07:44,940 --> 00:07:44,970 - [Tape] I'm beginning to regret 123 00:07:44,970 --> 00:07:49,210 the time I spent vacationing in the rest of Europe 124 00:07:49,210 --> 00:07:52,180 when all the time Dominie was here, 125 00:07:52,180 --> 00:07:54,980 kind of waiting for me. 126 00:07:54,980 --> 00:07:57,920 The face of her ancestor looking down from the inside. 127 00:07:59,220 --> 00:08:03,020 I can't bear to think that I might not have come here. 128 00:08:03,020 --> 00:08:06,860 Never have met her. Strange, isn't it? 129 00:08:06,860 --> 00:08:08,860 The ways we meet our fate. 130 00:08:08,860 --> 00:08:12,830 And this is my fate, I've... I feel it. 131 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:16,170 That's the end of this tape. 132 00:08:16,170 --> 00:08:18,540 I'm sending it to you by the afternoon mail. 133 00:08:44,630 --> 00:08:47,630 (unsettling music) 134 00:08:50,970 --> 00:08:52,910 - I should say it does work! 135 00:08:54,140 --> 00:08:56,180 My old uncle was using it until 136 00:08:56,180 --> 00:08:58,680 the day he died last year. 137 00:08:58,680 --> 00:09:00,280 Do you know with his powder flask, 138 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:03,080 and a few rounds of ball shot, 139 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:05,080 well, he could pick the legs off a fly. 140 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:05,990 (patrons laughing) 141 00:09:05,990 --> 00:09:07,550 You ask ol' Fred there. 142 00:09:08,790 --> 00:09:09,720 - [Robert] Fred? 143 00:09:11,090 --> 00:09:12,220 Fred with the chair? 144 00:09:12,220 --> 00:09:13,330 - The very same, sir. 145 00:09:16,530 --> 00:09:18,230 - Thank you. - Thank you. 146 00:09:19,230 --> 00:09:20,600 - They tell me one of my countrymen 147 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:22,130 nearly started a war in here. 148 00:09:22,940 --> 00:09:24,040 - How's that, sir? 149 00:09:25,070 --> 00:09:26,840 - When he sat in your chair. 150 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:31,010 - Oh that, oh yes. Yes indeed. 151 00:09:32,550 --> 00:09:34,150 He did make up for it, though. 152 00:09:34,150 --> 00:09:35,810 - Oh, let me get you a beer. 153 00:09:35,810 --> 00:09:38,120 - Oh, that's very kind of you, sir. Thank you. 154 00:09:44,560 --> 00:09:48,130 Now that's better. That is much better. Isn't it? Isn't it? 155 00:09:49,090 --> 00:09:50,730 Sally me ol' girl. 156 00:09:52,130 --> 00:09:55,800 I caught her in one of my traps once. 157 00:09:55,800 --> 00:09:58,670 And look at her, she looked at me so old fashioned 158 00:09:58,670 --> 00:10:01,740 I did not have the heart to kill her. 159 00:10:01,740 --> 00:10:03,880 Go on in home, there's a girl. 160 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:05,950 Now then, what was that you were saying, sir, 161 00:10:05,950 --> 00:10:08,150 about your American friend? 162 00:10:08,150 --> 00:10:09,980 - Oh, he wasn't a friend, I didn't know him. 163 00:10:09,980 --> 00:10:13,090 But they tell me he was very popular. 164 00:10:13,090 --> 00:10:14,790 - Very popular he was, I don't remember 165 00:10:14,790 --> 00:10:16,620 any other stranger that was ever 166 00:10:16,620 --> 00:10:18,320 invited so often up to the manor. 167 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:19,260 - Fred! 168 00:10:20,890 --> 00:10:23,830 - Are you on business in these parts, are you? 169 00:10:23,830 --> 00:10:26,170 - No, I'm a painter. Sort of. 170 00:10:27,270 --> 00:10:29,300 I'd love to see the inside of that house. 171 00:10:29,300 --> 00:10:31,770 - Get another? - Yeah. Excuse us. 172 00:10:31,770 --> 00:10:34,970 - I'm afraid you will never manage that, sir. 173 00:10:36,810 --> 00:10:37,740 - Why not? 174 00:10:42,010 --> 00:10:43,980 Put that on my bill, please. - Yes, certainly, sir. 175 00:10:43,980 --> 00:10:46,090 - Thank you. Why not? 176 00:10:47,190 --> 00:10:51,260 - Because you won't be invited. That's why. 177 00:10:52,260 --> 00:10:54,290 Mr. Lansford was close enough before, 178 00:10:54,290 --> 00:10:56,800 but he's been washy ever since the American went. 179 00:10:57,800 --> 00:11:01,270 And yet nowadays he don't see nobody. 180 00:11:01,270 --> 00:11:01,300 No more than Ms. Dominie. 181 00:11:01,300 --> 00:11:05,140 And yet it used to be such a fine old household, 182 00:11:05,140 --> 00:11:07,140 always full of people and parties. 183 00:11:08,110 --> 00:11:09,270 - Why did it change? 184 00:11:10,710 --> 00:11:13,280 Nobody knows. It seems in a way 185 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:15,950 as if a great kind of sorrow fell on that house, 186 00:11:15,950 --> 00:11:19,250 when Mr. Lansford became responsible for Ms. Dominie, 187 00:11:19,250 --> 00:11:20,990 that was after her parents died. 188 00:11:22,190 --> 00:11:23,990 - This Mr. Uh... - Lansford. 189 00:11:23,990 --> 00:11:26,830 - Lansford. What's he like? 190 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:30,100 - He's a scholar and a gentleman. 191 00:11:31,260 --> 00:11:35,000 He owns the family bank in the city, 192 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:37,100 but he spends most of his time in the estate, 193 00:11:37,100 --> 00:11:39,440 just runs it like it were a business. 194 00:11:40,870 --> 00:11:41,810 - Is he married? 195 00:11:42,910 --> 00:11:43,410 - Divorced. 196 00:11:44,810 --> 00:11:47,710 Yeah, he's got plenty of money, yes, Mr. Jonathon. 197 00:11:48,910 --> 00:11:50,480 But he don't have much luck. 198 00:11:51,780 --> 00:11:54,950 Even his blessed rats are bigger 199 00:11:54,950 --> 00:11:57,960 and stronger than anyone else's. 200 00:11:57,960 --> 00:11:59,020 - His rats? 201 00:12:00,260 --> 00:12:02,460 - I'll put that one on your bill as well, sir. 202 00:12:02,460 --> 00:12:04,400 - Thank you. - Oh, thank you, sir. 203 00:12:07,100 --> 00:12:08,170 Yes, well, you see, sir. 204 00:12:09,740 --> 00:12:14,710 I am by way of being unofficial rat catcher in these parts. 205 00:12:15,710 --> 00:12:17,240 Well it'll be about six months ago, 206 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:18,710 he asked me to come up to the manor 207 00:12:18,710 --> 00:12:20,510 and set some chain traps in the cellar. 208 00:12:20,510 --> 00:12:22,780 I did, and it worked, too, 'cause Ms. Dominie 209 00:12:22,780 --> 00:12:25,050 told me the rats had all been disposed of. 210 00:12:25,050 --> 00:12:27,850 And she said, "I wouldn't be wanted no more." 211 00:12:29,050 --> 00:12:30,220 - So? - Well. 212 00:12:33,290 --> 00:12:38,200 One of my little moonlight walks about two months ago, 213 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:42,330 I heard them chains still rattlin'. 214 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:48,210 - Well it was, they reset the trap and it was a new rat. 215 00:12:50,110 --> 00:12:51,280 Don't you think? 216 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:54,480 - Evening, Fred. - Good evening, Ben. 217 00:12:56,050 --> 00:12:59,180 If you don't mind I'll just say goodnight to you then, sir. 218 00:12:59,180 --> 00:12:59,220 - Finish your beer! 219 00:12:59,220 --> 00:13:01,990 - No, no, thank you very kindly, sir, 220 00:13:01,990 --> 00:13:04,520 I'll just be saying good evening to you, sir! 221 00:13:14,930 --> 00:13:17,440 - Who's that? - That's Ben Kroom. 222 00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:19,810 Been with Mr. Jonathon for years. 223 00:13:21,110 --> 00:13:23,080 He's Mr. Jonathon's game keeper. 224 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:25,380 - And old Fred's the local poacher. 225 00:13:25,380 --> 00:13:28,550 (Robert laughing) - I see. 226 00:13:33,990 --> 00:13:36,990 (orchestral music) 227 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:45,460 My arm, some barbed wire, I wondered if I could-- 228 00:14:45,460 --> 00:14:48,190 - I'm sorry, there's nobody here who can help you. 229 00:14:48,190 --> 00:14:48,230 - But my arm, it's-- 230 00:14:48,230 --> 00:14:51,660 - You better go to the doctor in the village. 231 00:14:51,660 --> 00:14:53,230 - Who is it, Ms. Faversham? 232 00:14:53,230 --> 00:14:55,070 - It's just a stranger, Ms. Dominie, 233 00:14:55,070 --> 00:14:56,970 it's nothing for you to worry about. 234 00:14:59,500 --> 00:15:04,210 - It's alright. Sorry to have bothered you. 235 00:15:09,150 --> 00:15:11,050 - Heavens, that looks alarming. 236 00:15:11,050 --> 00:15:11,080 You'd better sit down. 237 00:15:11,080 --> 00:15:15,350 Ms. Haversham, some water, and antiseptic, and a bandage. 238 00:15:20,930 --> 00:15:20,960 How did it happen? 239 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:24,030 - I got careless with some barbed wire. 240 00:15:26,130 --> 00:15:28,370 On the stairs just now you looked 241 00:15:28,370 --> 00:15:29,940 at me as though you knew me. 242 00:15:32,140 --> 00:15:33,070 - How could I? 243 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:45,180 There. Thankfully it wasn't your painting arm. 244 00:15:45,180 --> 00:15:47,090 - You'd make a good nurse. 245 00:15:47,090 --> 00:15:48,720 - I used to think I'd like to be a surgeon. 246 00:15:50,090 --> 00:15:53,460 Strange, isn't it? How few women surgeons there are? 247 00:15:55,730 --> 00:15:56,660 - Yes. 248 00:15:59,630 --> 00:16:04,670 What a fantastic atmosphere. The tone of the whole thing! 249 00:16:07,740 --> 00:16:12,240 I mean the color top. The paints are talking. 250 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:17,750 Could I use it? - What? 251 00:16:17,750 --> 00:16:21,720 - This room? It'd make a great background for a painting. 252 00:16:23,560 --> 00:16:24,460 From here. 253 00:16:27,090 --> 00:16:28,060 No. 254 00:16:31,530 --> 00:16:35,630 From here, yes. Yes, you get the full depth, 255 00:16:35,630 --> 00:16:37,640 fading away to mysterious shadows, 256 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:41,670 and you, there, in the foreground. 257 00:16:43,510 --> 00:16:46,580 You would have to be the centerpiece, of course. 258 00:16:46,580 --> 00:16:49,350 The room is beautiful but it's nothing without you. 259 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:56,490 I'll make it noon with the sun streaming in, 260 00:16:56,490 --> 00:16:59,560 yes, catching your hair, standing just like that! 261 00:17:03,330 --> 00:17:08,070 Maybe with a book in your hand sort of brooding. Enigmatic. 262 00:17:10,640 --> 00:17:11,470 - They're Jonathon's. 263 00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:15,340 First editions, mostly, and all Edgar Allan Poe. 264 00:17:17,480 --> 00:17:20,250 Jonathon says he's still an underestimated writer. 265 00:17:21,350 --> 00:17:24,520 What do you think? - I never read him. 266 00:17:24,520 --> 00:17:24,550 - Not even "The Pit and the Pendulum?" 267 00:17:27,390 --> 00:17:30,120 - I don't get much time for reading. Any reading at all. 268 00:17:30,120 --> 00:17:32,520 - Then why don't you take your education in hat? 269 00:17:34,230 --> 00:17:37,530 - Maybe you could read them to me in the cellars. 270 00:17:40,530 --> 00:17:41,500 For atmosphere. 271 00:17:43,070 --> 00:17:45,800 - No. Jonathon wouldn't allow that. 272 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:50,410 But you can come and paint if you like. 273 00:17:50,410 --> 00:17:52,510 I'm sure Jonathon couldn't object to that. 274 00:17:54,280 --> 00:17:55,210 Tomorrow then? 275 00:17:57,420 --> 00:18:01,120 - Tomorrow. I look forward to it! 276 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:11,060 - You shouldn't, you know. Overdo it. 277 00:18:12,100 --> 00:18:14,470 Mr. Jonathon wouldn't like that. 278 00:18:14,470 --> 00:18:16,800 - Chat with a passing stranger? 279 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:18,470 Where's the harm in that? 280 00:18:18,470 --> 00:18:21,870 - Oh, it's disturbing you. Overexciting you. 281 00:18:23,310 --> 00:18:26,710 Look at you, Ms. Dominie, your cheeks are all flushed. 282 00:18:26,710 --> 00:18:29,450 - A bit of color back in them, that must be good. 283 00:18:29,450 --> 00:18:30,850 - Well, all the same, Ms. Dominie, I must-- 284 00:18:30,850 --> 00:18:35,350 - You fuss too much. - I care for you, Ms. Dominie. 285 00:18:36,150 --> 00:18:37,360 I look after you. 286 00:18:46,630 --> 00:18:48,570 - What was he doing here? - He hurt himself. 287 00:18:48,570 --> 00:18:50,340 - Did she see him? 288 00:18:50,340 --> 00:18:53,340 - It's all right. I was here most of the time. 289 00:18:53,340 --> 00:18:55,240 - Yeah, well there'll be trouble 290 00:18:55,240 --> 00:18:57,640 when Mr. Jonathon hears about it, I promise you. 291 00:19:01,210 --> 00:19:02,910 - He's coming again. Tomorrow. 292 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:06,420 - Oh, no, not if Mr. Jonathon 293 00:19:06,420 --> 00:19:08,590 has anything to do with it he won't. 294 00:19:08,590 --> 00:19:10,890 - Oh, he'll come. Mr. Jonathon 295 00:19:10,890 --> 00:19:12,890 didn't cross along a thing like that. 296 00:19:14,290 --> 00:19:16,430 - Can I see? - No. 297 00:19:16,430 --> 00:19:21,330 Just stand there and relax. Talk if you want to. 298 00:19:22,300 --> 00:19:25,570 - What about? - Oh, I don't know. 299 00:19:25,570 --> 00:19:27,370 What do girls usually talk about? 300 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:32,410 Boyfriends? - Don't be boring. 301 00:19:33,310 --> 00:19:34,880 Can you get any of the books in? 302 00:19:35,910 --> 00:19:38,150 - What's boring about boyfriends? 303 00:19:38,150 --> 00:19:41,620 - Let me see. I want to see. I insist on seeing! 304 00:19:41,620 --> 00:19:43,520 - It doesn't look like anything yet! 305 00:19:45,390 --> 00:19:47,160 - It never will look like anything. 306 00:19:48,190 --> 00:19:50,260 You don't know the first thing about it! 307 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:51,000 So what are you playing at? 308 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:55,330 Why did you say you were an artist in the first place? 309 00:19:55,330 --> 00:19:57,940 - I needed to get into this house. Talk to you. 310 00:19:57,940 --> 00:20:00,970 - For heavens' sake why? Why didn't you just come and call? 311 00:20:02,510 --> 00:20:03,540 - Would I have gotten in? 312 00:20:04,740 --> 00:20:08,510 - No, I suppose not. Jonathon's very protective. 313 00:20:09,610 --> 00:20:12,780 What was it you wanted to talk about? 314 00:20:12,780 --> 00:20:13,850 - Jim Stone. 315 00:20:15,420 --> 00:20:16,720 - I don't know what you're talking about. 316 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:20,190 - I think you do. I'm a detective. 317 00:20:20,190 --> 00:20:22,190 Jim Stone disappeared, I know he was 318 00:20:22,190 --> 00:20:24,530 in this village, and I know he met you. 319 00:20:24,530 --> 00:20:26,630 - I think you better leave. 320 00:20:26,630 --> 00:20:27,830 It's not a very pleasant thing to do, 321 00:20:27,830 --> 00:20:30,670 tricking your way into a private house. 322 00:20:30,670 --> 00:20:31,900 I've never heard of him. 323 00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:40,350 - [Jim] I've found my Snow White. 324 00:20:40,350 --> 00:20:44,350 Her name is Dominie Lansford. Wow. 325 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:49,920 She lives at the big house. 326 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:51,920 She's like everything else around here. 327 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:55,260 - Stop it! Shut it off! 328 00:20:55,260 --> 00:20:59,630 I never want to hear his voice again! Who are you? 329 00:21:01,330 --> 00:21:02,800 What do you really want? 330 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:05,000 - I told you. I'm a detective. 331 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:07,470 But my name's not McCabe, it's Stone. 332 00:21:09,340 --> 00:21:13,480 The same as my brother. - Jim Stone is your brother? 333 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:15,880 - That's what stopped you yesterday. The likeness. 334 00:21:16,980 --> 00:21:19,750 Jim and I worked together, our own business. 335 00:21:19,750 --> 00:21:22,490 He was taking a sabbatical holiday over here, 336 00:21:22,490 --> 00:21:24,420 but he always kept in touch with me, 337 00:21:24,420 --> 00:21:25,420 let me know where he was. 338 00:21:25,420 --> 00:21:29,530 After he reached this village the messages stopped. 339 00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:34,030 That was two months ago, and Jim didn't come home. 340 00:21:37,270 --> 00:21:39,670 You do know him, don't you? - Yes. 341 00:21:41,070 --> 00:21:43,910 - Why did you say you never wanted to hear his voice again? 342 00:21:47,050 --> 00:21:47,980 Why? 343 00:21:49,810 --> 00:21:53,790 - Would you say I was pretty, Mr. Stone? Attractive? 344 00:21:55,050 --> 00:21:55,990 - Yes, I would. 345 00:21:57,390 --> 00:22:00,490 - I'm twenty-two. Almost twenty-three. 346 00:22:02,460 --> 00:22:05,560 Since I grew up I've had three serious boyfriends. 347 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:08,770 I mean ones I really cared about. 348 00:22:10,570 --> 00:22:11,940 I couldn't hold any of them. 349 00:22:13,310 --> 00:22:14,640 - How do you mean "hold?" 350 00:22:16,310 --> 00:22:17,710 - They all walked out on me. 351 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:20,550 Walked out of my life, disappeared. 352 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:25,450 Have you any idea what effect that has on one? 353 00:22:25,450 --> 00:22:26,820 - Kids are funny like that. 354 00:22:28,420 --> 00:22:29,990 - Jim Stone wasn't a kid. 355 00:22:32,360 --> 00:22:34,630 I thought he was the one. I really did. 356 00:22:38,060 --> 00:22:41,470 He was strong. He loved me. Really loved me. 357 00:22:44,570 --> 00:22:48,370 Or so I thought. I certainly loved him. 358 00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:52,680 I swore I'd hold onto him, even if I had to... 359 00:22:54,350 --> 00:22:55,650 - Even if you had to what? 360 00:22:57,750 --> 00:22:58,780 - What is all this? 361 00:23:00,120 --> 00:23:02,550 Kroom tells me you've undertake by an artist. 362 00:23:05,820 --> 00:23:08,560 You know, if I wanted a painting of my niece, 363 00:23:09,890 --> 00:23:12,760 I'm quite capable of commissioning one myself. 364 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:18,840 Who are you? What on earth do you want here? 365 00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:21,970 - He's a detective, Jonathon. He's looking for Jim Stone. 366 00:23:22,970 --> 00:23:24,410 - What do you mean "looking for him?" 367 00:23:24,410 --> 00:23:25,780 He's back in America, isn't he? 368 00:23:25,780 --> 00:23:27,110 - No, Mr. Lansford, he isn't. 369 00:23:28,150 --> 00:23:29,950 He was last heard of in this village. 370 00:23:29,950 --> 00:23:32,980 That was two months ago, since then, nothing. 371 00:23:32,980 --> 00:23:35,450 Ms. Dominie tells me that he walked out of here, 372 00:23:35,450 --> 00:23:37,490 suddenly, for no reason. 373 00:23:37,490 --> 00:23:39,190 - I didn't say for no reason. 374 00:23:40,490 --> 00:23:42,130 There was a telephone call from America, 375 00:23:42,130 --> 00:23:43,030 wasn't there, Jonathon? 376 00:23:43,030 --> 00:23:45,430 - Yes. Yes, there was. 377 00:23:45,430 --> 00:23:47,170 - What was the call about? 378 00:23:47,170 --> 00:23:48,570 - I don't know. 379 00:23:49,830 --> 00:23:52,600 - One thing we do know was evidently about 380 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:54,540 something more important than me. 381 00:24:01,610 --> 00:24:05,080 - Mr. Lansford. I'm not only a detective, 382 00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:06,720 I'm Jim Stone's brother. 383 00:24:09,090 --> 00:24:11,160 There was no phone call from the states. 384 00:24:12,420 --> 00:24:13,190 - I know. 385 00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:15,930 - But she just said that there was! 386 00:24:15,930 --> 00:24:17,700 - You have someone walk out on you 387 00:24:17,700 --> 00:24:19,860 for no reason is one thing, Mr. Stone. 388 00:24:20,930 --> 00:24:22,700 To have him do it after a possibly 389 00:24:22,700 --> 00:24:25,070 traumatic telephone call is quite another. 390 00:24:26,170 --> 00:24:29,040 At least I should imagine it helps a little. 391 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:30,480 - You mean she was lying? 392 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:33,810 - You're a man of plain judgments, aren't you? 393 00:24:33,810 --> 00:24:37,550 Well, quite conceivably, Dominie believes it by now. 394 00:24:38,780 --> 00:24:41,920 - I think people know when they're lying, don't you? 395 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:43,590 - Not always, Mr. Stone. 396 00:24:44,660 --> 00:24:46,790 Not when the lie eases the pain of loss. 397 00:24:49,060 --> 00:24:52,960 To quote your own poet, Edgar Allan Poe. 398 00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:57,640 "With great loss brings an iciness. 399 00:24:59,900 --> 00:25:03,210 A sinking. A sickening of the heart." 400 00:25:05,780 --> 00:25:08,550 To relieve it with a lie is a small offense. 401 00:25:09,850 --> 00:25:11,580 Do you read Poe, Mr. Stone? 402 00:25:11,580 --> 00:25:13,150 - No, I don't. 403 00:25:13,150 --> 00:25:14,520 - It's a most subtle mind. 404 00:25:15,620 --> 00:25:17,860 He stayed here once, you know? As a child. 405 00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:21,530 I like to think that this house might have given him 406 00:25:21,530 --> 00:25:24,700 the ideas for some of his finer stories, 407 00:25:24,700 --> 00:25:26,600 "The Fall of the House of Usher" for instance. 408 00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:29,800 But no doubt he was told that the foundations 409 00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:33,610 of this house have been unstable for centuries. 410 00:25:34,570 --> 00:25:36,510 I perpetuate that he planted the germ 411 00:25:36,510 --> 00:25:41,550 of the much more perilously crumbling house of Usher. 412 00:25:43,950 --> 00:25:46,080 It's the part of pain, you know. 413 00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:47,190 - No, I didn't know. 414 00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:53,830 - I don't mean he celebrated it. He understood its sorrow. 415 00:25:55,190 --> 00:26:00,030 He could forgive anything that people might do to avoid it. 416 00:26:00,030 --> 00:26:02,030 Yes, he knew all about the sufferings 417 00:26:02,030 --> 00:26:03,270 of the ultra sensitive. 418 00:26:05,770 --> 00:26:09,070 De Beranger has written a preface to Usher. 419 00:26:10,740 --> 00:26:13,080 I translate it for you. 420 00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:14,950 "His heart was like a hanging lute. 421 00:26:16,580 --> 00:26:19,350 The gentlest touch and it quivered." 422 00:26:20,850 --> 00:26:22,650 Reading him can be quite a therapy. 423 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:26,620 I recommended it to Dominie, but instead 424 00:26:26,620 --> 00:26:28,360 of soothing agitation it seemed to increase it. 425 00:26:28,360 --> 00:26:29,960 - Mr. Lansford, exactly when did 426 00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:31,700 my brother leave this village? 427 00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:33,730 - I don't know. 428 00:26:36,630 --> 00:26:40,070 I headed off to London on business for a few days. 429 00:26:42,740 --> 00:26:44,740 When I came back he had gone. 430 00:26:44,740 --> 00:26:46,140 - What you were saying two nights ago 431 00:26:46,140 --> 00:26:49,110 about rats at the manor. 432 00:26:49,110 --> 00:26:54,150 - Aye, we know all about that, don't we Sally, me ol' girl? 433 00:26:54,150 --> 00:26:58,220 We know all... Why, what'd I say about 'em? 434 00:26:59,660 --> 00:27:02,860 - About one of them still rattling in its chain trap. 435 00:27:02,860 --> 00:27:05,060 - Did I say that? - Yes, you did! 436 00:27:06,030 --> 00:27:10,100 - Oh, well if you is to ask me, 437 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:15,610 that might have been no rat. 438 00:27:15,610 --> 00:27:16,640 - What do you mean? 439 00:27:17,780 --> 00:27:20,780 - The noise it was making! 440 00:27:20,780 --> 00:27:23,980 - No, you said it was just the rattling of the trap! 441 00:27:23,980 --> 00:27:25,380 - I never did. 442 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:31,790 I never said that it was just the rattling. 443 00:27:34,390 --> 00:27:38,930 - What else then? - There were groans. 444 00:27:41,630 --> 00:27:44,070 Weren't there, Sally? Groans. 445 00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:48,170 - You mean human groans? 446 00:27:50,170 --> 00:27:55,080 - Well, I certainly do not mean there were rats groans. 447 00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:58,780 (laughing) Rats groans. 448 00:27:58,780 --> 00:28:00,390 - What do you think was making them? 449 00:28:00,390 --> 00:28:02,750 - Oh, now that would be telling. 450 00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:07,990 But it's not from the ol' eyes sattin' on my set. 451 00:28:09,130 --> 00:28:14,070 Did you know that that house. It is haunted? 452 00:28:15,170 --> 00:28:20,240 Yes, sir. Did I ever tell you that house-- 453 00:28:24,910 --> 00:28:25,840 - No. 454 00:28:28,810 --> 00:28:29,750 You never did. 455 00:28:33,380 --> 00:28:36,390 (drunken mumbling) 456 00:28:36,390 --> 00:28:37,320 What? 457 00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:43,730 - And that is not the only thing that I could tell you. 458 00:28:47,500 --> 00:28:50,440 About that house. 459 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:52,900 - Looks like you'll be needing that little old 460 00:28:52,900 --> 00:28:55,240 rat of his to take him home tonight. 461 00:28:57,010 --> 00:28:59,210 - He keeps talking about noises 462 00:28:59,210 --> 00:29:01,410 from the cellar of the manor house. 463 00:29:01,410 --> 00:29:03,380 Groans or something like that. 464 00:29:03,380 --> 00:29:05,350 - Everybody knows about that. 465 00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:08,390 Why, it's the foundations. 466 00:29:08,390 --> 00:29:10,390 They're not safe, they haven't been for years. 467 00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:15,460 You know they keep settling, resettling, complaining like. 468 00:29:17,900 --> 00:29:18,830 - I see. 469 00:29:21,430 --> 00:29:24,440 - [Innkeeper] Come along there, gentlemen, please. 470 00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:27,000 Come on, Fred, lets be having those glasses. 471 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:28,870 Come on, Fred, come on! Come along! 472 00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:31,040 Jives, gentlemen, please. 473 00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:32,910 Let's bring up your glasses, please. 474 00:29:32,910 --> 00:29:35,310 (drunken mumbling) 475 00:29:35,310 --> 00:29:39,450 - I heard groans. 476 00:29:39,450 --> 00:29:43,390 - [Jim] I've now met Jonathon Lansford, Dominie's guardian. 477 00:29:43,390 --> 00:29:46,790 He seems to be trying to tell me something about Dominie. 478 00:29:46,790 --> 00:29:51,760 Trying to warn me in some way, but I'm not sure about what. 479 00:29:52,930 --> 00:29:55,930 (orchestral music) 480 00:30:36,370 --> 00:30:39,210 (birds flapping) 481 00:31:35,230 --> 00:31:37,970 (rock landing) 482 00:31:42,270 --> 00:31:47,080 - [Kroom] There's no one there. You're imagining things. 483 00:31:58,220 --> 00:32:00,960 (trap closing) 484 00:32:24,950 --> 00:32:29,320 It's probably a fox. I'll set the dogs on it. 485 00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:30,960 Tear it to pieces. 486 00:32:41,570 --> 00:32:44,240 (dog barking) 487 00:32:49,110 --> 00:32:51,580 (dog barking) 488 00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:07,220 (dog growling) 489 00:33:16,770 --> 00:33:18,270 - The rabbits are doing a fierce 490 00:33:18,270 --> 00:33:19,770 amount of damage to me this year. 491 00:33:19,770 --> 00:33:23,410 - It's not the rabbits I'm interested in. It's the foxes. 492 00:33:23,410 --> 00:33:26,280 We nearly caught one last night, you know, but it got away. 493 00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:28,280 Got a sore foot today, I shouldn't wonder. 494 00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:28,310 (patrons laughing) 495 00:33:28,310 --> 00:33:31,780 Still, we're keeping the dogs out all night 496 00:33:31,780 --> 00:33:35,690 from now on and I'll be carrying a gun myself. 497 00:33:37,090 --> 00:33:39,460 - How do you tackle foxes in America, Mr. Stone? 498 00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:43,160 - Oh, it's not as easy there, Mr. Whidden. 499 00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:44,560 Our foxes shoot back. 500 00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:47,570 (patrons laughing) 501 00:33:54,710 --> 00:33:56,640 - I must speak to you. 502 00:34:01,150 --> 00:34:03,480 - We'd better go to my room. 503 00:34:11,020 --> 00:34:13,560 What was it you wanted to talk to me about? 504 00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:16,360 - You must leave. Go away today. 505 00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:18,630 - Any particular reason? 506 00:34:20,030 --> 00:34:23,630 - I think I'm... I think I might get fond of you. 507 00:34:26,140 --> 00:34:28,410 - That sounds like a good reason for staying. 508 00:34:28,410 --> 00:34:33,480 - Please. I mustn't. I musn't want you. 509 00:34:35,380 --> 00:34:37,280 It's for your own sake. 510 00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:41,190 - You're mad, bad, and dangerous to know, is that it? 511 00:34:41,190 --> 00:34:44,220 - Don't joke. I've decided I must 512 00:34:44,220 --> 00:34:47,490 never want anyone again. It's the only way. 513 00:34:48,860 --> 00:34:53,300 - The only way to what? Dominie, you're not making sense. 514 00:34:53,300 --> 00:34:55,230 - Just go, that's all. 515 00:34:55,230 --> 00:34:57,670 - I'll go when I've found out what happened to my brother. 516 00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:00,270 - You're very like your brother. 517 00:35:01,310 --> 00:35:04,210 I got quite a jolt when I saw you. 518 00:35:04,210 --> 00:35:06,710 - I got a jolt when I saw you. 519 00:35:16,390 --> 00:35:18,120 (door opening) 520 00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:20,260 - Dominie, I've been looking all over for you. 521 00:35:20,260 --> 00:35:23,290 If I hadn't seen your horse outside I would-- 522 00:35:23,290 --> 00:35:24,500 You've forgotten, haven't you? 523 00:35:24,500 --> 00:35:26,360 We're lunching with the Ridel's. 524 00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:28,200 - No, Jonathon, I haven't forgotten. 525 00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:29,630 I'll go back and get changed. 526 00:35:30,570 --> 00:35:32,340 - Goodbye, Mr. Stone. - Goodbye. 527 00:35:34,870 --> 00:35:36,770 - What did she come to see you about? 528 00:35:36,770 --> 00:35:37,740 - That's none of your business. 529 00:35:37,740 --> 00:35:38,880 - Oh, please. 530 00:35:39,780 --> 00:35:41,210 - She told me to go away. 531 00:35:42,510 --> 00:35:43,750 - She said that? 532 00:35:45,550 --> 00:35:47,350 - The sooner the better, she said. 533 00:35:48,690 --> 00:35:50,320 - Than I shall do as she says. 534 00:35:53,220 --> 00:35:56,190 - What do you know about man traps, Mr. Lansford? 535 00:35:57,860 --> 00:36:00,260 - What kind did you have in mind, Mr. Stone? 536 00:36:08,910 --> 00:36:10,510 - Fred's late, isn't he? 537 00:36:10,510 --> 00:36:13,180 - Yes. Yes, he is. 538 00:36:13,180 --> 00:36:16,180 Still, the later he is, the less it'll cost you in drinks. 539 00:36:16,180 --> 00:36:18,580 (patrons laughing) 540 00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:23,350 - I was looking forward to another of his tall stories. 541 00:36:23,350 --> 00:36:25,620 - Yes, well is there anything I can get you, sir? 542 00:36:25,620 --> 00:36:30,660 - Yes, a beer, please. - Right. 543 00:36:33,330 --> 00:36:34,270 - Evening. 544 00:36:38,470 --> 00:36:39,370 What? 545 00:36:45,340 --> 00:36:48,510 You won't tell him, right? Will you? Huh? 546 00:36:52,220 --> 00:36:54,190 - Where does Fred live? - Fred? 547 00:36:54,190 --> 00:36:56,350 Well, just down the village by the pond. 548 00:36:56,350 --> 00:36:58,790 Sir, you've left your drink! 549 00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:54,780 (vacuum cleaning) 550 00:37:55,810 --> 00:37:59,650 - He was a rascal! He was a proper rascal. 551 00:37:59,650 --> 00:38:01,450 - But you're going to miss him. 552 00:38:01,450 --> 00:38:01,490 - Yes. 553 00:38:01,490 --> 00:38:03,790 - [Jenny] Well, you couldn't not like him, 554 00:38:03,790 --> 00:38:03,820 the old fella, really. 555 00:38:03,820 --> 00:38:07,260 - [Innkeeper] If he hadn't had that one drink too many. 556 00:38:07,260 --> 00:38:09,730 - [Jenny] I knew he'd end up in that pond one day. 557 00:38:09,730 --> 00:38:12,260 - [Innkeeper] He's gonna be missed, this old Fred. 558 00:38:12,260 --> 00:38:14,870 He's the best rat catcher this old village ever had. 559 00:38:16,770 --> 00:38:18,970 (suspenful music) 560 00:38:18,970 --> 00:38:24,040 - Rats. 561 00:39:01,650 --> 00:39:04,380 - Hmm. Dry. 562 00:39:06,050 --> 00:39:08,390 - Its never been in the water, has it? 563 00:39:08,390 --> 00:39:12,560 - Yeah, but Fred always kept him in his pocket. Always. 564 00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:14,690 - That's another thing I thought. 565 00:39:14,690 --> 00:39:19,100 Anyway, the police should be interested. Don't you think? 566 00:39:21,870 --> 00:39:23,470 - Use your phone. 567 00:39:26,370 --> 00:39:28,870 (car zooming) 568 00:39:32,010 --> 00:39:34,650 (car honking) 569 00:39:46,090 --> 00:39:48,490 (cars accelerating) 570 00:39:48,490 --> 00:39:51,400 (cars screeching) 571 00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:20,560 (car honking) 572 00:40:28,470 --> 00:40:31,030 (car skidding) 573 00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:34,170 - Get that inside you. 574 00:40:36,940 --> 00:40:38,580 You know, that was as pretty a piece 575 00:40:38,580 --> 00:40:40,810 of driving as I've ever seen. 576 00:40:40,810 --> 00:40:44,920 I enjoyed it. - You enjoyed it? 577 00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:46,880 What the devil were you trying to do? 578 00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:49,820 - Invite you to a party! - What? 579 00:40:49,820 --> 00:40:51,760 - I called on you here, heard you'd driven off, 580 00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:53,960 thought I'd catch you up. And you turned it 581 00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:55,760 into a most enjoyable race. 582 00:40:56,830 --> 00:40:58,860 Well, I suppose it was my fault really. 583 00:40:58,860 --> 00:41:01,700 A race or any kind of chAllange I can never resist it. 584 00:41:04,030 --> 00:41:06,600 - Yesterday you were asking me to clear off, 585 00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:08,210 today you're inviting me to a party. 586 00:41:08,210 --> 00:41:10,870 - Ah, correction, yesterday Dominie was telling you to go, 587 00:41:10,870 --> 00:41:12,840 today I am asking you to a party. 588 00:41:13,910 --> 00:41:16,510 Well, I do like company. Occasionally. 589 00:41:16,510 --> 00:41:19,880 - And occasionally you give sudden impromptu parties? 590 00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:21,720 That alcohol was the best, don't you think? 591 00:41:22,850 --> 00:41:24,990 And this one promises to be particular fun. 592 00:41:26,190 --> 00:41:30,060 It's fancy dress. And the theme? Well, you guess. 593 00:41:30,860 --> 00:41:32,060 Edgar Allan Poe. 594 00:41:32,060 --> 00:41:34,100 - I don't know anything about him, I told you. 595 00:41:34,100 --> 00:41:38,170 - Oh, well then, come as anything you like! 596 00:41:38,170 --> 00:41:41,470 Oh, you will come, won't you? 597 00:41:41,470 --> 00:41:42,610 - I'll think about it. 598 00:41:46,910 --> 00:41:48,750 There was a package on the front seat of my car. 599 00:41:48,750 --> 00:41:48,780 Is it still there? 600 00:41:48,780 --> 00:41:52,750 - Oh, I'm afraid the dog ran off with it. 601 00:41:52,750 --> 00:41:54,790 - I'm sorry. Was it important? 602 00:41:55,820 --> 00:41:57,290 - Not anymore. - Oh, good. 603 00:41:57,290 --> 00:42:00,520 I'll see you tonight then. Nine for nine-thirty. 604 00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:04,030 Perhaps you will come as one of your 605 00:42:04,030 --> 00:42:07,760 wild American heroes, what about that? Bye. 606 00:42:28,220 --> 00:42:30,790 - Davy Crockett, king of the wild frontier. 607 00:42:31,290 --> 00:42:31,320 - You got it in one. 608 00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:35,830 - Now I know why you wanted to borrow that old hat, 609 00:42:35,830 --> 00:42:37,190 but there's something missing, though, sir, 610 00:42:37,190 --> 00:42:39,230 just come here a minute. 611 00:42:39,230 --> 00:42:43,870 Look, why don't you try that, sir? And try the old gun, too. 612 00:42:49,070 --> 00:42:52,040 - Well, how do I look? 613 00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:55,810 - If I was an apache, sir, I'd run a mile. 614 00:42:55,810 --> 00:42:57,150 - Hope you have a good time, sir. 615 00:42:57,150 --> 00:42:58,250 - Thank you. 616 00:42:58,250 --> 00:43:01,120 - Columbine Inn. Yes, he's here. 617 00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:03,690 It's for you, sir. It's Ms. Dominie. 618 00:43:08,590 --> 00:43:11,860 - Hello? - You mustn't come tonight. 619 00:43:11,860 --> 00:43:13,200 - Why not? 620 00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:14,900 - I mustn't see you again ever. 621 00:43:42,730 --> 00:43:45,730 (thunder rumbling) 622 00:43:51,700 --> 00:43:53,270 - Good evening, Mr. Stone. 623 00:43:53,270 --> 00:43:55,810 And welcome to the world of Edgar Allan Poe. 624 00:43:55,810 --> 00:43:58,340 (group laughing) 625 00:43:58,340 --> 00:44:00,380 "Much of madness, and more of sin, 626 00:44:00,380 --> 00:44:02,750 and horror the soul of the plot." 627 00:44:02,750 --> 00:44:04,410 I'm afraid Edgar Allan Poe always 628 00:44:04,410 --> 00:44:06,650 puts it so much better than anyone else. 629 00:44:07,950 --> 00:44:11,050 With a breath of front eclectic fresh air draw rebels. 630 00:44:11,050 --> 00:44:13,990 The frontiersman? Most appropriate. 631 00:44:13,990 --> 00:44:15,330 - What are you supposed to be? 632 00:44:15,330 --> 00:44:19,200 - Oh, I'm Hop-Frog. - Hop-Frog. 633 00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:21,700 - Oh, sorry, I forgot you're not an aficionado. 634 00:44:21,700 --> 00:44:23,400 Hop-Frog was the court jester, 635 00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:25,270 who hoisted the king and his court men, 636 00:44:25,270 --> 00:44:27,140 ironed them, and burned them alive. 637 00:44:28,170 --> 00:44:29,240 Ah, here we are. 638 00:44:30,040 --> 00:44:30,970 Thank you. 639 00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:39,850 Yes, my other guests, I fear have the most 640 00:44:39,850 --> 00:44:41,650 regrettable lack of imagination. 641 00:44:43,020 --> 00:44:47,720 They've all decided to come as the Mask of the Red Death. 642 00:44:47,720 --> 00:44:49,430 The one with the plague, if you remember. 643 00:44:49,430 --> 00:44:52,960 Oh, sorry, sorry, you don't remember. 644 00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:55,170 Yes, the plague that invaded finally 645 00:44:55,170 --> 00:44:57,800 even the sea of the nastetic road of Prince Prospero. 646 00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:02,840 I suppose if Poe were writing today he would have 647 00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:04,410 substituted television, hmm? 648 00:45:05,880 --> 00:45:07,310 What a detective. 649 00:45:07,310 --> 00:45:08,950 (Jonathon laughing) 650 00:45:08,950 --> 00:45:11,380 That's all or something. 651 00:45:11,380 --> 00:45:14,050 - Maybe he wouldn't have written it at all today. 652 00:45:14,050 --> 00:45:16,120 You can't seal yourself off anymore. 653 00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:22,430 - There's some of my guests who 654 00:45:22,430 --> 00:45:24,260 already know, and others who don't. 655 00:45:25,060 --> 00:45:26,200 - Evening, Mr. Stone. 656 00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:28,800 - Oh, hello. 657 00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:31,000 - This is the time of masks, you see. 658 00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:35,040 They lend mystery to even the most brazen of personalities. 659 00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:37,910 Your own, Mr. Stone. 660 00:45:37,910 --> 00:45:38,980 That's a rather ineffective 661 00:45:38,980 --> 00:45:41,080 disguise in your case, I'm afraid. 662 00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:44,780 And that costume, well, you're quite distinctive. 663 00:45:44,780 --> 00:45:46,450 - When was the last time you threw one of these parties? 664 00:45:46,450 --> 00:45:48,120 - Here's your mask, Mr. Stone. 665 00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:50,120 - I said when was the last time? 666 00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:51,890 - Oh, I throw them from time to time 667 00:45:51,890 --> 00:45:56,230 when the world gets particularly boring. Don't you say? 668 00:46:02,470 --> 00:46:06,200 Yes, and here we have that new voluptuous world 669 00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:11,240 of the fear that-- (thunder rumbling) 670 00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:16,210 Like that. 671 00:46:18,980 --> 00:46:21,520 Murders in the remote. 672 00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:24,020 A little disappointing that one to hold the storm. 673 00:46:24,020 --> 00:46:26,420 An animal can have no fun. 674 00:46:26,420 --> 00:46:28,890 Without conscience, murder is quite flavorless. 675 00:46:28,890 --> 00:46:31,330 - Are you speaking from theory, I take it? 676 00:46:35,470 --> 00:46:35,500 - I am really very sorry we didn't 677 00:46:35,500 --> 00:46:40,770 get acquainted sooner. You make an amusing companion. 678 00:46:40,770 --> 00:46:42,340 - Where's Dominie? 679 00:46:42,340 --> 00:46:44,240 - Well, you disappoint me. I was understood 680 00:46:44,240 --> 00:46:45,840 that lovers could detect each other 681 00:46:45,840 --> 00:46:47,340 even through a lead casket. 682 00:46:47,340 --> 00:46:48,480 - Who said we were lovers? 683 00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:51,980 - Well, you can't help it with Dominie. 684 00:46:51,980 --> 00:46:52,920 - Dominie? 685 00:46:54,380 --> 00:46:55,320 Dominie? 686 00:46:57,090 --> 00:46:58,390 (Jenny laughing) 687 00:46:58,390 --> 00:47:00,420 - Hello, Mr. Stone. - Oh, sorry! 688 00:47:00,420 --> 00:47:02,030 I thought you were Dominie. 689 00:47:04,900 --> 00:47:06,330 - You enjoying the party, Mr. Stone? 690 00:47:06,330 --> 00:47:07,360 - Yes, thank you. 691 00:47:19,510 --> 00:47:20,910 - I told you not to come. 692 00:47:21,950 --> 00:47:23,480 - The last message I got from my brother 693 00:47:23,480 --> 00:47:26,050 was that he was coming to a party at this house. 694 00:47:28,250 --> 00:47:31,050 Dominie, the other men who walked out on you, 695 00:47:31,050 --> 00:47:33,390 did they do it after a party to you? 696 00:47:33,390 --> 00:47:36,160 (crowd yelling) 697 00:47:43,900 --> 00:47:43,930 - [Jonathon] We come now, ladies and gentlemen, 698 00:47:43,930 --> 00:47:48,870 to the effects in the case of Mr. Valdemar, 699 00:47:48,870 --> 00:47:50,940 who you will all remember was the man 700 00:47:50,940 --> 00:47:53,910 whose mind was kept alive by a hypnotist 701 00:47:53,910 --> 00:47:56,450 for seven months after his body had died. 702 00:47:57,450 --> 00:48:00,450 Mr. Valdemar, can you explain to us 703 00:48:00,450 --> 00:48:03,250 what are you feelings or wishes? 704 00:48:04,390 --> 00:48:08,960 - For gods' sake, put me to sleep! Or wake me up! 705 00:48:10,290 --> 00:48:12,600 I tell you that I am dead! 706 00:48:12,600 --> 00:48:14,660 (crowd gasping) 707 00:48:14,660 --> 00:48:16,370 - But the hypnotist you may remember 708 00:48:16,370 --> 00:48:18,900 then made the requisite mesmetic passes 709 00:48:18,900 --> 00:48:22,010 to release Mr. Valdemar from his trance. 710 00:48:22,910 --> 00:48:25,410 For what occurred then, however, 711 00:48:25,410 --> 00:48:30,080 as Mr. Poe says, it is quite impossible 712 00:48:30,080 --> 00:48:33,550 that any human being could have been prepared. 713 00:48:33,550 --> 00:48:36,350 (crowd gasping) 714 00:49:02,650 --> 00:49:03,580 - Dominie? 715 00:49:17,730 --> 00:49:20,130 (echoing) 716 00:49:40,550 --> 00:49:41,480 Dominie! 717 00:49:43,650 --> 00:49:47,560 - We come now to our second tumble, Mr. Stone. 718 00:49:48,630 --> 00:49:49,560 - Where's Dominie? 719 00:49:49,560 --> 00:49:50,760 - The title of our second tumble 720 00:49:50,760 --> 00:49:54,030 is "The Cask of Amontillado." 721 00:49:54,030 --> 00:49:55,630 Which you have never read, either. 722 00:49:55,630 --> 00:49:57,670 Which is a great fitting for you. 723 00:49:57,670 --> 00:49:59,140 - Your stories bore me, Mr. Lansford. 724 00:49:59,140 --> 00:50:00,970 - It's a pity, because if you had read it 725 00:50:00,970 --> 00:50:02,240 you would never have allowed yourself 726 00:50:02,240 --> 00:50:03,340 to be lured down to the cellars. 727 00:50:03,340 --> 00:50:03,370 - Nobody lured me! 728 00:50:03,370 --> 00:50:07,280 - In the story, Fortunado was lured down by his enemy 729 00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:09,450 by a request to sample a fine sherry. 730 00:50:09,450 --> 00:50:11,010 - I don't drink sherry! 731 00:50:11,010 --> 00:50:13,380 - Naturally, the lure for you was different. 732 00:50:13,380 --> 00:50:15,150 You thought Dominie would help you 733 00:50:15,150 --> 00:50:16,450 solve the mystery of your brother. 734 00:50:17,650 --> 00:50:20,390 I can't quite tell you the way Poe does, of course, 735 00:50:20,390 --> 00:50:23,290 but in the story "The Cask of Amontillado," 736 00:50:23,290 --> 00:50:27,200 it begins with Fortunado's enemy getting him drunk. 737 00:50:27,200 --> 00:50:28,600 - There are two big differences. 738 00:50:28,600 --> 00:50:30,570 I'm not Fortunado and I'm not drunk. 739 00:50:30,570 --> 00:50:32,370 - No, you're not drunk, Mr. Stone. 740 00:50:33,540 --> 00:50:37,470 You're drunk with a refinement of my own. 741 00:50:38,480 --> 00:50:40,540 That second glass of champagne. 742 00:51:06,740 --> 00:51:09,740 Help me with him, and tell Kroom to get ready. 743 00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:42,740 - I'm sorry, Ms. Dominie, the champagne's run out. 744 00:51:42,740 --> 00:51:42,770 I'd have fetched some more, 745 00:51:42,770 --> 00:51:46,210 but the cellar door seems to be locked. 746 00:51:46,210 --> 00:51:48,210 - I'll get you the key. 747 00:51:49,150 --> 00:51:51,880 (crowd murmuring) 748 00:52:06,100 --> 00:52:08,770 (menacing music) 749 00:52:46,640 --> 00:52:48,840 - In the story, Fortunado pleaded. 750 00:52:51,310 --> 00:52:53,480 The chain is measured to perfection. 751 00:52:54,610 --> 00:52:57,850 - It won't work. Many people know I'm here. 752 00:52:57,850 --> 00:53:01,150 - And then Kroom puts on your hat, jacket, and mask, 753 00:53:01,150 --> 00:53:03,650 a great many people will see you leave, Mr. Stone. 754 00:53:04,890 --> 00:53:07,160 Or did I forgot to tell you, 755 00:53:07,160 --> 00:53:09,560 to sorry ends of the victim being bricked in. 756 00:53:09,560 --> 00:53:11,830 Walled up. Alive. 757 00:53:12,960 --> 00:53:15,430 - That's how it was done with my brother, was it? 758 00:53:17,600 --> 00:53:19,270 - Does nothing ever that prized in your life 759 00:53:19,270 --> 00:53:21,540 to find that it has been taken away from you? 760 00:53:22,640 --> 00:53:26,180 A wife. A loving children. Your brother. 761 00:53:29,610 --> 00:53:31,980 My excellent sister. 762 00:53:31,980 --> 00:53:35,220 Dominie's a progulent prize, I can't-- 763 00:53:35,220 --> 00:53:37,620 I can't ever let anyone take her away. 764 00:53:39,890 --> 00:53:41,360 - Kroom and Ms. Faversham won't 765 00:53:41,360 --> 00:53:42,890 keep their mouths shut forever. 766 00:53:44,360 --> 00:53:46,360 - I do this to protect myself and my possessions. 767 00:53:46,360 --> 00:53:48,260 Kroom and Faversham do it for money. 768 00:53:50,930 --> 00:53:55,870 Oh, the candle, by the way, some of their refinements. 769 00:53:57,870 --> 00:53:59,980 You can either have the light or the air. 770 00:54:01,440 --> 00:54:04,450 When it's lit it's burning up precious oxygen. 771 00:54:04,450 --> 00:54:07,780 Put it out, and you're the dark. 772 00:54:08,850 --> 00:54:09,790 That much sooner. 773 00:54:14,690 --> 00:54:16,430 Goodbye, Mr. Stone. 774 00:54:20,230 --> 00:54:21,000 Forever. 775 00:54:24,570 --> 00:54:24,600 - Ms. Dominie's bringing the key. 776 00:54:24,600 --> 00:54:27,600 - He's not there, are you sure the door's locked? 777 00:54:27,600 --> 00:54:29,310 - Well, I thought it was, miss. 778 00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:40,850 - Ah, just what I was coming for, sir! 779 00:54:40,850 --> 00:54:43,620 - (speaking German) Spread the good cheer, Woodbridge! 780 00:54:43,620 --> 00:54:45,320 This is a celebration! 781 00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:48,020 - What are we celebrating? 782 00:54:48,020 --> 00:54:51,460 - What do we ever celebrate, Dominie? Your perfection. 783 00:54:51,460 --> 00:54:53,900 - I was looking for Robert Stone. 784 00:54:53,900 --> 00:54:56,530 - He must be around somewhere. 785 00:55:47,350 --> 00:55:48,120 - Help! 786 00:55:51,020 --> 00:55:51,920 Help! 787 00:55:55,890 --> 00:55:58,460 - Now, the prisoner had managed to smear 788 00:55:58,460 --> 00:56:01,330 his bonds with his food, and while the ax swung 789 00:56:01,330 --> 00:56:03,900 lower and lower, the rats in his cell were 790 00:56:03,900 --> 00:56:05,770 gnawing away the ropes! 791 00:56:05,770 --> 00:56:08,370 He got free in the nick of time! 792 00:56:08,370 --> 00:56:11,610 But if his bonds had been of steel. 793 00:56:13,940 --> 00:56:13,980 - Have you seen Robert Stone? 794 00:56:13,980 --> 00:56:18,750 - Mr. Stone? Yes. I saw him leave a little while back. 795 00:56:19,350 --> 00:56:19,380 - Are you sure? 796 00:56:19,380 --> 00:56:21,750 - There's no mistaking that outfit of his. 797 00:56:22,020 --> 00:56:22,050 - Where was I? 798 00:56:22,050 --> 00:56:27,520 - I believe you was fiddling about in that desk over there. 799 00:56:29,660 --> 00:56:32,500 (Robert panting) 800 00:58:54,770 --> 00:58:55,740 (champagne popping) 801 00:58:55,740 --> 00:58:58,570 (crowd laughing) 802 00:59:38,050 --> 00:59:40,580 (explosion) 803 00:59:42,150 --> 00:59:43,220 - Excuse me. 804 00:59:52,600 --> 00:59:55,260 (rubble falling) 805 01:00:06,780 --> 01:00:08,610 You know, it's a curious thing. 806 01:00:08,610 --> 01:00:11,350 I had the distinct feeling I'd underestimated you. 807 01:00:11,350 --> 01:00:13,950 (gun firing) 808 01:00:15,380 --> 01:00:18,690 (bullet ricocheting) 809 01:00:20,820 --> 01:00:22,290 Just a little to the left, I see. 810 01:00:22,290 --> 01:00:24,730 It takes a slight direction to the right. 811 01:00:24,730 --> 01:00:27,130 (gun firing) 812 01:01:01,830 --> 01:01:02,970 - Look out! 813 01:01:02,970 --> 01:01:05,000 (rubble falling) 814 01:01:05,000 --> 01:01:07,870 (glass breaking) 815 01:01:12,310 --> 01:01:15,380 (Dominie screaming) 816 01:01:18,810 --> 01:01:21,750 (crowd screaming) 817 01:01:40,340 --> 01:01:43,210 (crowd coughing) 818 01:01:45,440 --> 01:01:48,140 - Help him! Help him! 819 01:01:51,080 --> 01:01:53,950 (house creaking) 820 01:01:57,390 --> 01:02:00,290 (crowd screaming) 821 01:02:26,420 --> 01:02:29,250 (wall collapsing) 822 01:02:29,250 --> 01:02:32,320 (suspenseful music)