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That one over there is great.

Dad does get the job.

So?

Will he have to go to work every day?

Yes, of course he will.

Why?

He'll be like all the other people.

Like all the other parents.

Will he be your father just like he always is?

Yeah.

It won't be the same.

No one else's dad has been on the TV except Sharon's.

And that was only because they wanted

to see who he voted for in the election.

And anyway, you won't be a famous man's wife anymore.

Don't exaggerate, darling.

He's not famous.

A few people around here have seen him on television, that's all.

And anyway, it's...

What?

I'm myself.

Just like you're yourself.

No, you're not.

You're my mummy.

Mrs. Alan Wood.

And I'm your daughter.

And those are your things that you're putting in all to us.

And for heaven's sake, Judy, be careful.

Sorry.

Come on, come on.

Judy.

I can manage.

Why don't you, um...

go get an ice cream or something.

Want an ice cream?

Yeah.

Here you go.

Thanks, Mom.

Bye.

Mr. Machine Is that your name?

Oh, how it echoes in my head

Was I the fool

to have believed

that I was lucky.

That we

had wed.

Oh, no I know you're scared.

I know you're tired.

Hold on to the simple dream

You don't give me much of a chance, do you?

To do what?

To rediscover you, myself, what we have together.

Look.

You are going to get our dirty clothes

cleaned and spun dry in a lovely machine

instead of taking them down to the river

and beating them to death with stones.

And I am going to try and learn to provide for the two of you

by operating machines that take the place of human beings.

Now, that is about the size of it.

A sail out to the last machine.

Do you see that bloke clocking your legs?

I might do it myself if I didn't know you.

I know you pretty well too.

Every inch of your body.

I could be very bored.

Oh, I think I'm pretty boring if the truth be told.

Most actors are.

They only exist inside someone else's personality.

Something I'm going to have to investigate this afternoon.

Kiss me.

Wish me a warrior's luck.

Good luck.

Judy?

I didn't have any orange wine.

So I got this, but it's not half as nice.

Judy, I really want to get out of here for a while.

This noise is giving me a little headache.

Shall I come with you?

No. I'll go by myself.

Would you bring the stuff back when it's ready?

Won't be long.

No.

I won't.

I might take you to the park later.

All right.

Okay?

Bye.

These dogs

run away and hide

or sail out to the mass machine

Yes, I'm scared.

Perhaps it's gone

all that I have

been living for

so go ahead

and join your crowd.

And that my love

is your mistake.

You put the cxx in first.

Look.

I'll show you.

Then a bleach if you want any. Do you?

Um, I don't know because my sister usually

does my washing and she's married. Oh.

- Yes, better. - Okay.

Hello, control 2403 calling.

Get me 580352,

and go straight to extension 52,

and get Miss Pearson on the line please,

and call me back.

Blue Charlie receiving?

Yes, Mr. Kramer

Oh, I do

Cancel all my appointments for this afternoon

Are you ill, Mr. Kramer?

No, not at all.

But you may say I'm in conference and not to be disturbed.

Or you may say I've gone mad and had to be destroyed.

And if it's urgent call me at home

But please don't go through the switchboard I

I understand, Mr. Kramer

You're a very good secretary, Adele.

Thank you, Mr. Kramer.

Thank you.

Excuse me I wonder if you could help me

Can you tell me the way to Stonehenge?

No, I'm sorry.

It must be due south from here

No, I mean...

No, no, it must be south

I know it's 84 miles.

Why don't you go and ask a policeman?

Well, they may think I'm making fun of them.

I think you're being rather trying.

No, no I didn't understand what you said. Try, try, try

It's an expression.

It means to annoy or to irritate.

Oh, look.

I don't wish to try you.

Look, I think you've got the wrong idea.

I didn't come to the park to be picked up,

and you weren't looking for Stonehenge.

But I intend to one day,

and then I have to know how to get there

And I had to speak to you.

Why?

Because you remind me of someone.

The girl you met in the park last week, no doubt

Why don't you ask her the way to Stonehenge?

Please, understand me.

My intention is not to insult you.

I'm very sincere.

May I introduce myself?

My name is Raoul Krimer May I give you my card, please?

You can reach me at any time you like.

It's very important for me.

In my office,

at my home

and in my car.

I will wait for you.

And understand I don't make a habit of this.

Will you do me this favor?

Lord Charley receiving.

Go ahead, caller, you are connected.

Hello? Mr. Krimer?

Speaking.

My name is Jennifer Wood.

We met in Hyde Park, do you remember?

Yes, I remember.

I wanted to apologize. I don't know...

I accept your apology.

On one condition.

That you meet me at the same spot where you left me

Wearing the same clothes.

In, let me see, 30 seconds from

now!

Hello.

Hello.

I thought you were a curb-crawler.

Do I seem like one?

No, not really.

You looked at me like a human being.

It's changed.

Were you going anywhere special just now?

Meeting some person, or...?

No, I was just wondering about...

not thinking too much.

Existing.

Yeah, I see.

It's, uh...

It's good to get away from the normal life sometimes.

Explore other avenues of oneself.

Especially for women, because so many demands are made on them all the time.

Yes.

Sometimes it's quite difficult to...

keep up with the whole thing.

Yes.

Is that the reason why your eyes

look so sad when I pass you up in the street?

Well, it was you, wasn't it?

Yes.

You're very persistent.

I had to speak to you.

Why?

Because I thought for a moment...

you were that, uh... that other person.

I think you're...

It's incredible.

The likeness is fantastic.

It's extraordinary.

I mean, the...

The way your hair falls.

The way you walk and so on.

I'm so glad that you called me.

Isn't it a lovely day, isn't it?

Yes, I suppose it is.

Yeah.

You haven't... you haven't seen it at all.

You haven't seen it at all.

All your thoughts were in walls.

But... but... Now, now, now you can see it in a way.

Look at the beautiful colors.

Look at the little leaf.

Still moist.

In another month, it will have an autograph of diesel oil.

But... but at this moment... nothing will spoil its perfection.

Do you everywhere agree?

You should.

No, not so many.

Oh, yes, there are.

In this park alone, there are hundreds.

But take six of them.

Mix them together.

It will look sensational with your color.

You're very definite.

Well, color is my business.

I deal in textiles.

Think of a material.

Any... anything you like.

Cotton.

Yes.

What does it suggest to you?

Little girls in summer dresses.

Nurses and clean sheets.

Yes, you see.

Everything clean, starched.

Now think of the opposite.

Silk jersey.

Yes, exactly.

Fluid, soft, following every movement of your body.

Very, very expensive.

Not for little girls in nurses.

You see the difference?

You see how it... it refers to certain images?

- When I was a... a little girl... - Yes?

I used to think it would be lovely to be dressed in snow.

It would be like feathers.

All warm and light.

That's how it feels when you are freezing to death.

I was caught once in a blizzard up in the mountains.

Do you like the mountains?

I like the space.

I like the stillness.

I spent so many times in buildings, small, tiny rooms.

Looking on to other buildings, so whenever I can, I get away.

I have a house overlooking trees, grounds.

Do you like to see it?

It's not far from here.

We can... can get something to eat at the patisserie, if you like.

- Well, come in now. - No.

Why?

You have nothing to fear from me.

All right.

You have a beautiful car.

Yes.

But it's wasted in London here.

I like to drive fast, especially during the night.

To the coast and coming back just in time for breakfast.

Lovely.

Thank you.

Are you comfortable?

Yes, thank you.

Jennifer.

People usually call me Jenny.

Jenny.

Good.

I like you to be comfortable with me, Jenny.

You know the 30 is rather an advanced age

at which to enter the computer industry.

The average age of our group here is 21 and a half.

Once your learning curve diminishes, you become

redundant in the demanding field of the programmer.

Hamlet is the most emotionally and

physically demanding part in Shakespeare.

It's also the longest.

It's rarely attempted before the age of 30

because it demands maturity as well as stamina from the actor.

I would have thought that proved something.

But we're not looking for someone to play Hamlet, Mr. Wood.

Our recruiting program runs into thousands

and must be based on average ability.

One of the essential qualities in this field is discipline.

What do you know about the structure of a computer?

What I've managed to pick up in four weeks of concentrated study.

It has five basically distinct units or departments.

Input, control, storage, arithmetic and output.

Pulling over piles of manuals and teach yourself books.

All digital computers have this structure in common.

Oh, thank God I've got a photographic memory.

Have you had any experience in the use of digital computers?

One of my great interests is war games

where computers are used for combat simulation.

Quite, yes.

The club I belong to has a fairly simple one for the use of members.

No computer could have known about the night at Waterloo, though.

Or that Napoleon was suffering from piles.

What can you tell me about a war game called Stage?

The letters stand for Simulation of Total Global Exchange.

This game was run by the U.S.

Department of Defense and begun in 1960.

It took three years to prepare, five months to play,

and altogether 160,000 instructions were given.

The results were said to confirm the belief

that the United States would prevail in the event of total nuclear war.

All specific results and diagrams have been coded top secret by the Pentagon.

What would I do without Jenny?

What would she do without me?

We could survive, but with heavy losses, I suppose.

What are your other outside interests?

I go to the cinema and the theater.

I drive a car.

If I could afford it, I would buy an island in some unpopulated sea,

have a string of Arab horses, and ride

bareback at the water's edge at sunrise.

Thank you very much.

We will continue with your written aptitude test,

which will be conducted by a senior woman assessor.

All right, follow me.

Nnnn?

Under the water!

Those are water lilies, those are.

Where do you expect them to grow?

Are there any fish?

Well, there used to be quite a few, but they had

a cat who used to scoop them up with its paw.

There might be a few left.

Who's in that little house?

That's our painting studio.

You come away from there.

It's lovely.

It's got paint brushes and things.

Can I go in?

No, you can't.

You come away from there.

The only time I ever saw a mad was when the cat got in there

after a bird and knocked their things all over the floor.

I bet there must be a big, flat goldfish somewhere in there.

You want this coke?

You come up here like a good girl and get it.

Nnnnnnnnnnn?

Not on a Wednesday.

He's at his surgery.

She's at art school, and the kids have a dancing class.

Is she a real artist?

Does she get paid for it?

Of course she does.

She teaches and everything.

You know, they had photographers here once for some magazine.

Trampled all over my periwinkle

by the tree over there, trying to get pictures of her through the glass.

Do they paint as well?

The children?

Oh, fiddle about a bit.

But, uh, she pins it up on the wall.

Doesn't look like much to me, though.

Do they have pocket money?

Never asked.

How much do you get?

Oh, I don't get any.

I save up my birthday presents.

I've got a cash box.

Most children have piggy banks, but I've got a proper cash box with a key.

Proper little miser, aren't you?

Good afternoon, Mr. Wood.

Please, sit down.

You'll find the test in the left-hand side of the desk, in the folder.

You're more than 21 and a half, that's for sure.

If there's anything you don't understand, please ask me.

Is that clear?

Yes.

Yes, I think so. Thank you.

Please start now.

You may smoke if you wish.

Not bad, though.

Pity the legs, Aidan.

That'd be quite spectacular.

Professor Brainstorm went round to his friend Colonel Deadshot

with the catapult cavaliers to tell him about the machines.

And he made the Colonel's head go round and round so rapidly, explaining

everything at once that he had to put his hat on even though he was indoors.

Is there anything wrong, Mr. Wood?

Er, no.

No, I just thought of something funny.

I see.

You do realise, I suppose, that a great deal

depends upon your rating in the aptitude test?

Yes.

Yes, I do realise that, thank you.

I wonder if you ever laugh.

Probably only at other people's discomfiture.

Let's try about two.

A has saved 5,200 pounds...

How the hell do they do it?

He's never saved a penny.

Jenny's idea of housekeeping is buying the

most expensive meat because it's easy to

cook and loading up a basket in the supermarket with

things we don't need because they're not special offer.

Shit.

The temperature at midday was around 80 degrees.

But the hottest time was four o'clock.

The sand would be too hot to walk on and

the sea like somebody's warm bathwater.

All those brown bodies stretched out on the beach.

You never see women like that in England.

The man is in prison.

One door leads from his cell to three and the other to the gallows.

One of two guards will come into the cell.

One is a compulsive liar.

The other always tells the truth.

So the prison is allowed.

Only one question.

How can he ensure his freedom?

Freedom?

Freedom.

The man is in prison.

One door leads to freedom.

One to the gallows.

The guard comes in here.

That's it.

The question we're all faced with.

To be or not to be.

Because life depends on making the right decisions.

Maybe if I hadn't got married.

Life without Jenny.

Without coming home to her.

What would it mean?

Do I love her?

She makes demands on my time, my attention that I can't fulfill.

I probably do the same to her.

I haven't been able to make love to her for weeks.

What is love anyway?

Possession.

We're not generous enough with each other.

I am a prisoner of my own lack of success.

Maybe...

Your time is up, Mr. Wood.

Please sign and hand in your paper.

Don't worry if you've not managed to complete.

This will not necessarily count against you.

That's lucky.

I'm afraid I didn't find it very easy.

Would you like something to drink?

Thank you.

Ah, clouded over a bit.

Well, can't sit around here eating all day.

What can I do?

First get you some boots.

No point in getting your feet all covered in mud.

Try these on.

I'll keep them here for my brother.

Does he come here with you?

Mmm...

Sometimes.

On a Saturday.

If there's no football.

Oh!

They're a bit big.

Hello... Hello!

NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

What would it be like to have money?

Strange, it's all so new.

All that marble.

Swedish.

They have a reputation for being depressive.

He must be...

over 40.

I shouldn't have come.

Sometimes I want to run away.

Leave everything.

Go off on my own.

Don't be responsible, just be taken care of.

I wonder why she left.

Women don't have a fair deal.

We got married too young.

I've had no life of my own.

I suppose I could have had a career.

It's not enough just being a wife.

I wonder if Alan's ever unfaithful to me.

Sugar.

Thank you.

In the building, we have the most powerful computer in the UK.

It can perform three million additions in a second.

When I first came here,

I found the whole idea of number crunching extraordinary.

Now it seems quite routine.

Do you know that in a few years' time,

there could be a file on everyone in the country

giving a complete breakdown of their habits, history,

political affiliations and financial status, etc.,

available nationwide by computer?

Yes, well I'm afraid I find that rather an imposition.

Does it mean we shall also progress to the computer

that can give a spontaneous answer to questions?

That seems unlikely.

As you know, a computer can only process

information that has been programmed to receive.

It isn't a duplication of the human power of imaginative thought.

What response does it give to a spontaneous question?

Can you type?

Two fingers.

That machine is connected to a central processor.

Type your question.

Press the button marked send.

As you see, it has rejected your instruction.

It isn't programmed to give any opinion.

Shall we go, Mr. Wood?

Why were you laughing during the test this afternoon?

I was thinking of a book I sometimes read to my daughter.

It's about a professor who invents things,

and he has a military friend who finds the

professor's explanations of his inventions totally incomprehensible.

Hooray, said the Colonel,

who hadn't been listening much because he knew the

professor's explanation would make his

head go round and round, and he just had

his hair washed, so he preferred to stay still.

Doesn't that make you laugh?

Not really.

I mean, it's for children, isn't it?

Would you say you've outgrown childish things?

No.

Do you like cartoon films, for instance?

Yes.

I like Tom and Jerry.

What about Snow White? Did you see that?

Yes, of course.

What did you think of it?

It was so long ago.

Did you find it sadistic?

I suppose the witch was rather horrifying,

but as one becomes old enough to

rationalize, all those things take on a proper perspective.

What would you like?

Oh, I'll get them.

Well, thank you.

Whiskey and water.

Ask him to charge it to Essex 401.

Always lifting things.

Do you lift your girlfriend?

Sometimes.

What's she called?

Heather.

Is she heavy?

Light as a feather.

Heather, Heather, light as a feather,

ready and willing in all kinds of weather.

I sent that to her on a card once, but she didn't like it.

She thought I was trying to make fun of her.

I bet I'm as heavy as she is.

Well, you're only a little girl.

I'm tall for my age.

You can pick me up if you want.

Jenny.

Wow.

Where are you, Jenny?

Funny name.

If he kissed me, would I respond?

He's only a considerate lover.

Heavens, I'm considering him as a lover.

Why him?

It's incredible.

It's fantastic.

I could never imagine that.

I saw some clues upstairs.

It was your wife you imagined you saw on the street, wasn't it?

Well, I knew it was impossible.

It's amazing.

Do I really still like her?

It's fantastic.

It's like I know her.

What happened?

Did she leave yet?

I was never in love with my wife when I married her.

But I was in the beginning of my career and I needed money.

She was rich.

And she loved me.

People have married for less.

And everything seemed to be all right.

She was happy.

She was pregnant.

And she got a child.

I didn't treat her as she deserved.

I was away a lot.

There were many opportunities there.

Sometimes there were certain other women.

She found out about one of those affairs.

No sense.

No reproaches.

She just left.

She took Gabriel with her. And...

And...

And I was...

Alone.

To do as I...

As I liked.

And I thought that I...

I discovered that I was in love with my own wife after nine years marriage.

That she had gone.

I couldn't concentrate on nothing else.

I tried to get her back. And...

I behaved like a schoolboy.

I sent her long letters.

Flowers.

Cables.

In the beginning everything comes straight back.

But finally she...

Agreed to...

Meet me for dinner.

And I think it was at that time she discovered that I was desperate.

And...

Eventually six months after the breakup

she returned.

And everything was...

Marvelous.

Fantastic.

She...

She wanted another child.

And she was pregnant again.

And...

And then I bought this house.

And I...

Rushed through the work just to get it finished in time.

But there were complications with...

with the pregnancy.

It was... thought that termination...

Would be necessary.

But after a week she...

She came home again.

They had decided against the operation.

It was fantastic.

It was marvelous.

We had a little party here.

And... Just a few friends.

Because she wasn't strong enough for a bigger one.

And...

Four days after that she was dead.

It was cancer.

Terminal cancer.

They never tell you when it's so...

serious.

And...

Well, this was one year ago.

And I...

I... sent Gabriel away at school in Switzerland.

I found it shouldn't be an easy way.

But I...

Well, you know.

But when... There isn't.

Such cases.

Or...

But I went through one day...

And the next.

I've been taught to be graceful for the moment.

And so when I saw you today...

I'm sorry.

I don't know what to say.

Well, I... I loved her very much.

I'm sorry.

Speaking.

Oh, Adele.

I think I'd better get up to them and see if I can push them a little.

And you better get on to New York.

No, I'll deal with that myself.

That's fine.

And if it's important, I'll call you back tonight.

Good, Adele.

Bye.

Well, if it's confirmed, that means minimum six

weeks delay from the day they are back in production.

Well, circulate the others.

Offer the usual ten percent delay bonus.

Well, you've already booked a flight.

That is fine.

Good.

And if it's important, I'll call you back tonight.

Good.

Bye.

You will not be able to see what I'm supposed to do.

Wait.

I don't want to see that, darling.

Good.

I will call you back at 7 o'clock.

Merci, mademoiselle.

Do you think Sherlock Holmes would have been a good programmer?

Perhaps.

I think Dr. Watson would have been better.

Holmes is what we in the industry call a whiz kid.

What's wrong with that?

We don't want genius in computers, Mr. Wood.

We want plodders.

People who take pains.

And we want logical minds.

Not temperamental, excitable characters that can't be relied upon.

My wife says I'm too logical.

Earthbound while she soars into great flights of fantasy.

Do you feel that you and your wife are compatible?

Do you mean do we have matching hobbies... or do we enjoy making love?

I'm merely trying to ascertain the

nature of your domestic life, Mr. Wood.

The computer industry is a demanding one.

And we like to ensure that there's a stable background.

Well, just what is your idea of a stable background?

I don't... A nice, tidy, antiseptic apartment...

with life arranged neatly in rows in geometrical progression.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

Especially emotion.

My domestic life is variable, Mrs. Walker.

Like most people's.

Sometimes there is cake for tea and...

sometimes we get drunk and we argue in the most bitter manner...

about the most trivial things.

I love my wife and sometimes I can't stand the sight of her.

Is that what you wanted to know?

I did not wish to probe into matters of a personal nature.

Oh, look.

Let's not pretend that these games we're playing

are for any other reason than to do just that.

You agreed this afternoon to a further interview.

It has to be conducted within the proper terms of reference.

Is something the matter?

It's just a headache.

Shall we continue?

If there is any point.

Do you...

Do you go through...

How many of these interviews do you go through a week?

The initial number runs into several figures

with the batches from university and so on.

It's only by a rigorous process of selection

that we can tell if we have any suitable answers.

It's a beautiful material.

When I was a child, my mother used to spend all summer preserving things.

Fruit mostly.

Green gages, victoria plum, damson.

Hundreds of bottles on shelves in the garage.

With handwritten labels and a file of comments on each year's vintage.

Well, one year a whole row of tomatoes exploded.

Wham.

Just like that.

One after the other.

But the funny thing was, she'd put best since 1948 in the file.

And it was the jars that were faulty.

It was the little washers in the lids.

And ever since then, she's filed tomatoes under unpredictable.

My wife, on the other hand, buys everything in supermarkets.

So that if anything goes wrong, she can get a replacement.

And a free packet of detergent.

What are your feelings about women's liberation, Mr. Wood?

I like women to be women.

Vive la différence.

Within that frame of reference, they can do as they please.

Do you believe in marital fidelity?

Yes, I believe in it.

It is an ideal.

For both partners, or only the woman?

What I said is an ideal, in which case it must apply equally.

Most men seem to regard infidelity as their prerogative.

Most men have a very old-fashioned idea about women.

Now...

I want to ask you a question.

Yes?

Are you attracted by me?

Why do you ask that?

Because I think you are.

I think you are getting a great deal of

pleasure out of asking me these questions.

Out of the feeling of power that it gives you.

And I think what you would really want... is for me to make love to you.

No.

No, you want to have me...

as one of the perquisites of the executive suite.

Please!

Please...

Jesus!

The sun likes the look of...

the blue sky.

He's sad.

What's happening on earth?

Judy!

How about giving those plants of yours a drink then?

Judy?

Where's she gone to?

You come back here at once!

Bloody kids and all, I say.

Come on out.

I know you're in here.

I told you not to be messing.

Now come on out.

All right, let go of me.

I'm not heavy, am I?

All right, you're not heavy.

Now let go of me.

Don't let go of me.

I should have spanked you.

You wouldn't like that, would you?

Being spanked like a naughty girl with her knickers down?

Get your boots on.

You help me.

You had me.

You shouldn't do that.

You're going to get yourself in a lot of trouble one of these days.

Now...

get... get your boots on and get out

there and water those plants, will you?

- I told my dad. - Just you get out

there and water those plants, will you?

Perhaps by the pool.

Oh, dear.

Hello.

Nnnnnnnnn together

You give a lot to yourself when you make love.

It is not worthwhile otherwise.

It is the only way.

People are so...

surprising.

What are you thinking of?

You don't give me much of a chance, do you?

To do what?

To rediscover... you...

myself... what we have together.

Why did you marry?

Why does anyone get married?

I was in love and I was pregnant.

Is it a good marriage?

I don't know.

I love him.

It is difficult, isn't it?

I mean, it is really difficult... to live with someone all the time.

Sometimes...

there is...

just nothing in the day.

What are you going to do this afternoon?

Um... I don't know.

I might go in the... park or something.

I'll see you later.

Well, I think I... I saw something of that when I...

when I met you this afternoon.

You feel a need to express yourself, don't you?

No, something like that.

With me, you have felt free.

We built something

beautiful together.

No obligations.

Marriage can never be like that.

Isn't it so?

Your neck and shoulders are completely knotted up.

Come on, sit up.

Now, turn.

That's it.

Now, relax.

Let yourself go.

Completely.

That's it.

I feel as if I've known you for a very long time.

And I don't want to go home now.

Stay.

That's better.

Come on, relax.

Relax.

Did you know that your head...

is one tenth of your total body weight?

Eh?

Relax.

That's it.

That's better.

There.

Lovely.

If you want something...

really want it...

just a little bit of advice.

Do it.

And enjoy the moment.

Then you'll regret nothing.

Don't give them too much now.

I won't.

You nearly finished?

Why?

I've got something for you.

What is it?

A present.

I haven't finished this yet.

Don't you want to know what it is?

Can I guess?

You'll never get it right.

Stop.

Bring the can over here.

Then you can see what it is.

It's in the greenhouse.

You go in first.

What's the matter?

Not frightened, are you?

A great big girl like you?

That's an azalea, that is.

Azalea Mollis.

That you saw growing over there.

Very delicate.

You'll have to look after it.

A warm room.

No drafts.

Cost you five quid in a shop.

Now, don't go messing about with it.

I don't hand them out like sweets.

Come to that, you'd better not tell

anyone you came up today, because I'm not

supposed to bring anyone without special permission.

Except my brother.

It'll be our secret.

Eh?

Supposing I tell?

If you do, I'll come straight round and fetch it back.

I thought you knew how to keep a secret.

I do, really.

All right, then.

Our secret.

Make sure you keep it safe.

No answer?

No,

there's no answer.

I've got to hope nothing's happened.

Shall I drive you somewhere else?

I guess she probably is in the park with some of the kids.

I see.

It's just round the corner from the house.

Does she like you?

I don't know.

She's...

Some people say so.

She's very pretty.

To look at Gabriel is to look at old pictures of myself.

I hope he will take on a little likeness

of his mother when he gets older.

So do I.

I think you mean it.

I think you mean it.

You have to get dressed.

You have something one doesn't find very often, believe me.

I sometimes interview 70 applicants in a week.

Some of them exactly what we're looking for.

Not one has the ability you have.

Oh.

Do you think I'm a genius?

Let's say I think you'd be better at

playing Sherlock Holmes than Dr. Watson.

How about Dawn Moore?

A very perceptive lady.

And a delicious bed partner.

Once you've relaxed, I think I'd better go.

Yes, I think perhaps you should.

Your wife will be wondering how you got on.

I want to give you something before you leave.

This is my favorite silk.

This is hand woven.

For me? It's beautiful.

You can never nnnnnn

don't duplicate because it's...

good making in just small amounts.

Well, thank you.

It's beautiful.

I didn't know it was silver.

I spent a whole afternoon just cleaning it up.

Spirits of salt and ammonia and then wadding.

I really rather enjoyed it.

Are you sure you want me to have it?

I've been taking rather a lot of pills.

Maybe now I won't need them.

Some of them, anyway.

If I don't have the box, I might forget to take them all together.

I hope things will be better for you.

You remember Holmes, not Watson.

Yes.

Will you be all right now?

Yes.

I think perhaps I will.

I should be away a little...

this year.

You think we shall meet again?

Perhaps.

I would like to think so.

The professor tripped over a discarded actor and fell on the machinery.

All the scenery and stock came down at once.

The orchestra collapsed in a musical heap and the curtain

came right down and fell in folds over the footlights.

I fear, Deadshot, that my excursions into the

realms of theatrical art have not been all together.

Successful, said the professor the next day.

But that's where he was wrong.

The audience had thought everything had been done on purpose, for fun,

and had laughed so much some of them had to stay the

night at the theatre as they felt too weak to go home.

And the show ran for three thousand

performances, all different,

with special people behind the scenes ready to cut a

rope or throw a brick into the works if

things threatened to go right instead of wrong.

The end.

Good night, little one.

You coming soon?

Another one.

Can I?

No.

No, it's late.

I'm tired.

You should have been asleep hours ago.

Don't go yet.

Not for a minute.

You like your azalea?

Mmm, yes.

It's beautiful.

Would have cost five pounds in a shot.

Who told you that?

I know how much they cost.

Are you sure there's nothing else you want to tell me?

Mmm, yes.

I love you.

Good night, Miss Willard.

Good night.

Sleep tight.

Yes.

Are you glad it's all over?

Yes.

I always said you were a genius.

Oh, bloody hell now she tells me.

That telegram from Stanley.

I'm sure it's a job.

Yes.

They probably want me to do a recruitment job for Liveware.

What's that?

People!

That's what they call them in the computer business.

I love it because it was a present from you.

Even if you stole it.

Do I love this piece of silk because it was a present from you?

I don't know.

I hoped you'd like it.

The rule I learned today.

One must question everything.

Why didn't you come to bed?

You didn't knock it off, did you?

No.

I know.

You've been weaving it yourself in the afternoons.

Like the lady of Sherlock.

Perhaps.

Come on.

Of course I love it.

There's a sensuous feel about it.

It's like stroking you.

Does it suit me?

Actually it does.

It also suits me.

It's mine.

I could take it back.

It was a present.

Exactly.

Alan, do you love me?

Yes.

How do you know?

Because I told you this morning.

But now?

That is not a reason.

I ask myself a lot of questions today.

I think I've discovered that you are inevitable.

Marriage is so difficult.

Oh, it's impossible.

Oh, you have to re-center every day.

Oh, God.

And we... we're still two people.

What is it that you want to do?

It's what happens

when you put words to a machine.

This long NNN

Because it's more absorbing

than how many beans make five

when they're all trawling on an express train

and the temperature is varying ten degrees

every three hours.

You're crazy.

What is love, Alan?

I still don't know.

Do you?

No, I still don't know.