1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,074 -= www.OpenSubtitles.org =- 2 00:01:24,100 --> 00:01:25,432 Oh, yes. Mr. Scott. 3 00:01:25,434 --> 00:01:27,900 Thank you, sergeant. Sir. 4 00:01:32,805 --> 00:01:34,471 Mr. Scott, sir. 5 00:01:34,473 --> 00:01:37,005 Well, Mr. Scott. You must be anxious to get at it. 6 00:01:37,007 --> 00:01:40,008 I thought you'd take a day or two to get settled before showing up. 7 00:01:40,010 --> 00:01:43,276 Mrs. Scott seemed to have that department pretty well in hand. I see. 8 00:01:43,278 --> 00:01:46,745 Nothing like somewhere to go while the curtains are being hung, eh? 9 00:01:46,747 --> 00:01:48,513 That's about it, sir. I know what you mean. 10 00:01:48,515 --> 00:01:51,915 Did you find a nice flat? Have they fixed you up with a good office here? 11 00:01:51,917 --> 00:01:54,651 - Quite all right on both counts. - Good. 12 00:01:54,653 --> 00:01:56,585 You'll want to take a good look around before you take over. 13 00:01:56,587 --> 00:02:00,654 Find out what's going on. Then when you're ready, we'll have a talk. 14 00:02:00,656 --> 00:02:03,390 - Pretty thing, isn't it? - Yes. It's the new reindeer, isn't it, sir? 15 00:02:03,392 --> 00:02:08,060 - Not hard to recognize by that tail. - It's made of the same metal as the plane. 16 00:02:08,062 --> 00:02:10,528 - A new alloy they've developed. - Very nice. 17 00:02:10,530 --> 00:02:12,696 Major Pearl will show you everything you want to see. 18 00:02:12,698 --> 00:02:16,365 He knows more about the place than I do. You're in good hands with him. 19 00:02:16,367 --> 00:02:18,633 We sometimes call him "The pearl of great price." 20 00:02:18,635 --> 00:02:21,868 Good. I'm in your hands. I thought we'd start in just after lunch. 21 00:02:21,870 --> 00:02:25,670 - In an hour, a little more. You could make a start. - Yes, sir. 22 00:02:25,672 --> 00:02:28,606 Fine. I'll see you in the mess at 1:00. Buy you a Sherry. 23 00:02:28,608 --> 00:02:32,709 I'm so glad you're here, Mr. Scott. I've been looking forward to it. 24 00:02:32,711 --> 00:02:35,143 So have I, sir John. 25 00:02:35,145 --> 00:02:37,845 That's the original building... The balloon shed. 26 00:02:37,847 --> 00:02:41,914 Began here with balloons in the '70s. That's a very long time. 27 00:02:41,916 --> 00:02:44,849 All the strength tests to check safety factor grouped here. 28 00:02:44,851 --> 00:02:48,552 Lot of work just to find out if the engineer mucked up his mathematics. 29 00:02:48,554 --> 00:02:50,586 Nothing much to see until something breaks. 30 00:02:50,588 --> 00:02:54,388 And that always happens when you're somewhere else. 31 00:02:55,557 --> 00:03:00,125 Not much point in this. Flying boats are pretty well obsolete, of course. 32 00:03:00,127 --> 00:03:02,760 Part of boffins' paradise, this is. Mind your step. 33 00:03:02,762 --> 00:03:05,528 You know, the scientist lads. Basic research. 34 00:03:05,530 --> 00:03:08,264 The kind who eat their porridge with a slide rule. 35 00:03:08,266 --> 00:03:10,865 Built their own heaven here, lightning and all, 36 00:03:10,867 --> 00:03:12,967 to find out what happens when you get hit by it. 37 00:03:12,969 --> 00:03:16,903 Didn't put in any archangels, but it wouldn't surprise me if they'd tried. 38 00:03:41,356 --> 00:03:44,689 What... what's that? 39 00:03:44,691 --> 00:03:47,490 Vibration test. What? 40 00:03:47,492 --> 00:03:49,792 Vi... 41 00:03:52,495 --> 00:03:54,528 Now, this is the test to... 42 00:03:54,530 --> 00:03:57,796 No, no, no, no! Now, major Pearl... uh, Mr. Honey. 43 00:03:57,798 --> 00:04:00,632 This is Mr. Scott. He'll be in charge of metallurgy. 44 00:04:00,634 --> 00:04:02,799 So you'll be working under him. How do you do? 45 00:04:02,801 --> 00:04:05,134 - I don't allow... - Quite an arrangement you've got there. 46 00:04:05,136 --> 00:04:07,902 - It's the tail group of the new rutland reindeer. - Yes, yes. 47 00:04:07,904 --> 00:04:09,737 - What are you doing to it? - I'm vibrating it. 48 00:04:09,739 --> 00:04:13,106 I mean, what are you after? What do you expect to happen to it? 49 00:04:13,108 --> 00:04:16,408 I expect the tail to fall off. Excuse me, please. 50 00:04:26,784 --> 00:04:29,184 Right, Mr. Scott. 51 00:04:34,623 --> 00:04:36,455 - This way. - Who in the world is he? 52 00:04:36,457 --> 00:04:39,024 That's Mr. Honey. Mr. Theodore Honey. He's a yank. 53 00:04:39,026 --> 00:04:41,025 Rhodes scholar, I think. But he's been here forever. 54 00:04:41,027 --> 00:04:44,862 What's all this about expecting the tail of the new reindeer to fall off? 55 00:04:44,864 --> 00:04:46,128 They're already in service. 56 00:04:46,130 --> 00:04:50,364 Old honey has some wild hair in his ear that vibration might cause metal fatigue someday... 57 00:04:50,366 --> 00:04:53,967 By breaking down the aluminum atom in light alloy structures. 58 00:04:53,969 --> 00:04:55,801 Couldn't vibrate anything little to find out. 59 00:04:55,803 --> 00:04:59,037 All boffins are a bit crackers, but I suppose he's the worst. 60 00:04:59,039 --> 00:05:01,705 Airscrews are down there, if you care to see them. 61 00:05:01,707 --> 00:05:03,907 Of course, they're as dead as the dodo bird. 62 00:05:03,909 --> 00:05:06,708 Same as the engines. We'll be all jet in no time. 63 00:05:21,553 --> 00:05:24,220 Good night, Mr. Honey. 64 00:05:24,222 --> 00:05:26,554 Oh. 65 00:05:28,291 --> 00:05:32,492 There you are. Hurry up there, please. Hurry. 66 00:05:32,494 --> 00:05:34,926 Four only. 67 00:05:44,133 --> 00:05:46,900 Mr. Honey. Can I give you a lift? 68 00:05:46,902 --> 00:05:49,334 Why, I seem to be going your way. 69 00:05:49,336 --> 00:05:51,269 Oh. Oh, no. No, thank you. 70 00:05:51,271 --> 00:05:53,370 I wouldn't want to take you out of your way. 71 00:05:53,372 --> 00:05:57,874 - Where do you live? - In Farnham. It's quite a way. 72 00:05:57,876 --> 00:05:59,307 I go right through there. 73 00:05:59,309 --> 00:06:03,176 I-I'll get a bus at the next stop. I wouldn't want to trouble you. 74 00:06:03,178 --> 00:06:07,113 It's no trouble at all. Come on. Jump in. 75 00:06:15,052 --> 00:06:19,853 - Why don't you throw those in the back? - Uh, thank you. 76 00:06:23,123 --> 00:06:28,525 I was quite interested in that experiment of yours, with the reindeer tail group. 77 00:06:28,527 --> 00:06:30,860 Would you like to tell me just what your idea is? 78 00:06:30,862 --> 00:06:35,196 It's rather difficult to explain a thing like that in words of one syllable. 79 00:06:35,198 --> 00:06:40,366 Well, I have managed as much as two syllables on occasion, Mr. Honey. 80 00:06:40,368 --> 00:06:42,233 Well, to put it as simply as I can. 81 00:06:42,235 --> 00:06:45,603 The purpose of my work has been to arrive at an end result... 82 00:06:45,605 --> 00:06:47,804 For the original theoretical hypotheses... 83 00:06:47,806 --> 00:06:50,306 Of Kerslinger of Bale and Schilgarde of Uppsala. 84 00:06:50,308 --> 00:06:53,107 In which they postulate vibration as a source of energy. 85 00:06:53,109 --> 00:06:57,176 I reasoned that since this energy does not appear in any of the ordinary forms... 86 00:06:57,178 --> 00:06:59,178 Such as heat or electrical potential, 87 00:06:59,180 --> 00:07:00,779 it must be absorbed by the metal itself... 88 00:07:00,781 --> 00:07:05,682 And that sufficient absorption would result in nuclear fission of the aluminum atom... 89 00:07:05,684 --> 00:07:10,018 In an isotopic form with crystalline affinities. 90 00:07:10,020 --> 00:07:11,618 I see. 91 00:07:11,620 --> 00:07:14,988 - And that means the tail will fall off. - Exactly. 92 00:07:14,990 --> 00:07:17,789 Oh, h-here's where I live. 93 00:07:32,903 --> 00:07:35,103 Thank you very much. 94 00:07:35,105 --> 00:07:37,604 You wouldn't... Would you care to come in? 95 00:07:37,606 --> 00:07:39,238 Thank you. I'd like to. 96 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:43,007 Oh, I'm afraid all I can offer you is some Sherry. 97 00:07:43,009 --> 00:07:44,708 That'd be very nice. 98 00:07:44,710 --> 00:07:47,076 Probably not very good. I've had it quite a while. 99 00:07:47,078 --> 00:07:50,278 Perhaps it's time we tested it to see if it's suffering from fatigue. 100 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:53,881 Oh, that wouldn't happen to Sherry. Well... 101 00:08:07,259 --> 00:08:09,591 Uh... 102 00:08:11,628 --> 00:08:14,127 Oh, I'm so sorry. 103 00:08:17,532 --> 00:08:20,765 It's the one next door. It's very easy to do, you know. 104 00:08:20,767 --> 00:08:23,100 You're new to Farnham, Mr. Honey. 105 00:08:23,102 --> 00:08:26,402 We've lived here 11 years. 106 00:08:27,271 --> 00:08:30,404 I have it all planned... What to have for dinner. 107 00:08:30,406 --> 00:08:32,105 Don't you bother with... 108 00:08:32,107 --> 00:08:35,474 - Hello. - You don't remember where we put that Sherry, dear? 109 00:08:35,476 --> 00:08:36,808 The top cupboard, behind the dishes. 110 00:08:36,810 --> 00:08:40,377 - You said it would be out of Mrs. Higgins's way. - Really? 111 00:08:40,379 --> 00:08:44,012 I didn't notice any... Up on the top. 112 00:08:44,014 --> 00:08:46,481 Oh! Oh, yeah. 113 00:08:46,816 --> 00:08:48,848 Oh, never mind. I'll get that later. 114 00:08:48,850 --> 00:08:51,784 I knew it must be somewhere. I never really forget anything. 115 00:08:51,786 --> 00:08:54,786 Dear, would you get some glasses, please? Come in, won't you? 116 00:08:54,788 --> 00:08:57,488 We haven't had to look for it for quite some time. 117 00:08:57,490 --> 00:08:59,422 The last guest we had was Dr. Gillingsworth... 118 00:08:59,424 --> 00:09:01,657 From the Bacteriological Institute, just before Christmas. 119 00:09:01,659 --> 00:09:05,960 - I'm afraid I'm giving you a good deal of trouble. - Oh, no. Not at all. 120 00:09:05,962 --> 00:09:08,328 Won't you sit down? Elspeth? 121 00:09:08,330 --> 00:09:13,031 There we are. Okay. Say when. 122 00:09:18,937 --> 00:09:21,737 I guess Mrs. Higgins did find it. I'll get some more. 123 00:09:21,739 --> 00:09:25,740 - I wish you wouldn't bother. - Oh, no. It's no trouble. It's around the corner. 124 00:09:25,742 --> 00:09:30,009 It needs some... Elspeth, will you entertain Mr... 125 00:09:30,011 --> 00:09:32,176 - I don't believe you told me your name. - Scott. 126 00:09:32,178 --> 00:09:36,612 Scott, this is my daughter, Elspeth. I'll be right back. 127 00:09:41,551 --> 00:09:44,151 Uh... it's, uh... yeah. 128 00:09:44,153 --> 00:09:47,319 Won't you sit down, Mr. Scott? 129 00:09:47,321 --> 00:09:51,388 Uh, just where would you suggest? 130 00:09:51,390 --> 00:09:55,592 Oh, I'm so sorry. It's my father's work. 131 00:09:55,594 --> 00:09:57,559 You have to be very careful. 132 00:09:57,561 --> 00:10:01,428 It might be something very important. 133 00:10:02,731 --> 00:10:04,697 - There. - Thank you. 134 00:10:04,699 --> 00:10:08,099 I seems as though your father does quite a good deal of work. 135 00:10:08,101 --> 00:10:10,533 Yes, it's very hard being a scientist. 136 00:10:10,535 --> 00:10:11,867 One has to think a great deal. 137 00:10:11,869 --> 00:10:16,303 The world would have made scarcely any progress at all if it hadn't been for scientists. 138 00:10:16,305 --> 00:10:19,072 I see. The scientists do the thinking for the world. 139 00:10:19,074 --> 00:10:21,740 And the rest of us just live in it, is that it? 140 00:10:21,742 --> 00:10:25,309 Yes. When my father's thinking, I keep very quiet. 141 00:10:25,311 --> 00:10:28,345 What about your mother? Does she help you keep quiet? 142 00:10:28,347 --> 00:10:31,146 My mother is dead, Mr. Scott. A V2 in the war. 143 00:10:31,148 --> 00:10:35,282 I'm very sorry indeed, Elspeth. You must miss her very much. 144 00:10:35,284 --> 00:10:38,051 Yes, I do. My father does more, I think. 145 00:10:38,053 --> 00:10:43,021 I try to do things for him the way she did, but I'm not very good at it yet. 146 00:10:43,023 --> 00:10:45,956 You see, I'm still a little young. 147 00:10:47,025 --> 00:10:51,092 I'd like to show you the house, if you would like to see it. 148 00:10:51,094 --> 00:10:53,260 That would be very nice. 149 00:10:53,262 --> 00:10:55,494 This is the living room, of course. 150 00:10:55,496 --> 00:10:59,163 - Would you like to see my room? - Yes, I would. Very much. 151 00:10:59,165 --> 00:11:01,431 This way, please. 152 00:11:01,433 --> 00:11:06,535 And this is where you sit quietly while he does his thinking. 153 00:11:06,537 --> 00:11:08,869 Yes. 154 00:11:09,238 --> 00:11:12,205 - What do you do? - Well, sometimes I think. 155 00:11:12,207 --> 00:11:14,272 And then I'm training Theodore. That's Theodore. 156 00:11:14,274 --> 00:11:19,175 It's a kind of experiment to determine his capacity for the association of ideas. 157 00:11:19,177 --> 00:11:22,645 I tie his food on the string to see how long it will take him... 158 00:11:22,647 --> 00:11:25,947 To learn to ring the bell when he's hungry. 159 00:11:25,949 --> 00:11:28,615 It's a very little bell. So it isn't noisy. 160 00:11:28,617 --> 00:11:31,751 It doesn't matter very much whether he learns to or not... 161 00:11:31,753 --> 00:11:34,352 Because he's really quite a nice little fish. 162 00:11:34,354 --> 00:11:37,521 Yes. Well, what else do you like to do? 163 00:11:37,523 --> 00:11:38,954 Don't you ever play games? 164 00:11:38,956 --> 00:11:43,223 Oh, yes. We nearly always do after dinner. We have a schedule for it. 165 00:11:43,225 --> 00:11:45,726 Sch... oh, yeah. What sort of games do you play? 166 00:11:45,728 --> 00:11:49,361 - Oh, like about what things are pentamerous. - Penta... 167 00:11:49,363 --> 00:11:50,862 Oh, how do you play that? 168 00:11:50,864 --> 00:11:54,164 You take turns in finding things that have five of everything... 169 00:11:54,166 --> 00:11:56,032 Until one of you can't find any more. 170 00:11:56,034 --> 00:12:00,268 Then he loses. It's part of the science of numerics. 171 00:12:00,270 --> 00:12:02,769 Oh, what other games do you play? 172 00:12:02,771 --> 00:12:06,105 Oh, well, there's pyramidology. 173 00:12:06,107 --> 00:12:07,271 - Pyramid... - "ology." 174 00:12:07,273 --> 00:12:10,941 - Pyramidology. Oh. - That's the science of the great pyramid. 175 00:12:10,943 --> 00:12:15,377 My father made it up too... the game, I mean. Here it is. 176 00:12:15,379 --> 00:12:17,077 Excuse me. 177 00:12:17,079 --> 00:12:20,080 It was built in the year 3234 B.C. 178 00:12:20,082 --> 00:12:21,713 And it's very scientific. 179 00:12:21,715 --> 00:12:24,482 It was built in direct relationship to the stars, 180 00:12:24,484 --> 00:12:26,316 so it has an astronomical significance. 181 00:12:26,318 --> 00:12:29,352 It's the only known architectural example of squaring the circle. 182 00:12:29,354 --> 00:12:33,722 That is, the area of the base is exactly equal to that of a circle, 183 00:12:33,724 --> 00:12:36,657 with the height of the structure as its radius. 184 00:12:36,659 --> 00:12:39,192 It has the most wonderful maths in it. 185 00:12:39,194 --> 00:12:42,561 - I'm sure it must be great fun. - It is. I have the most fun... 186 00:12:42,563 --> 00:12:46,030 Elspeth, what have you done with Mr. Scott there? 187 00:12:46,032 --> 00:12:48,532 We're just coming, father. We'd better go now. 188 00:12:48,534 --> 00:12:51,200 He may be looking for something like the corkscrew. 189 00:12:51,202 --> 00:12:55,137 And he really isn't very good at finding things. 190 00:12:55,671 --> 00:12:58,571 - Oh, here. I'll get that out of your way. - Oh, no, don't... 191 00:12:58,573 --> 00:13:01,639 I'm afraid it's become a little cluttered in here. 192 00:13:01,641 --> 00:13:05,608 Oh, why didn't I see that? I think I'd better leave this. 193 00:13:05,610 --> 00:13:09,445 This is some correspondence I've been having with Tanggye, a Tibetan. 194 00:13:09,447 --> 00:13:12,079 And the Abbe Delville in Louvain. 195 00:13:12,081 --> 00:13:14,214 It's on the theory of numbers. 196 00:13:14,216 --> 00:13:15,914 In 1742, Goldbach postulated... 197 00:13:15,916 --> 00:13:20,651 That every positive, even integer is a sum of two primes. 198 00:13:20,653 --> 00:13:23,587 It's been verified to 10.000, but never proved. 199 00:13:23,589 --> 00:13:26,956 We're trying to prove it. Yes, I'd want to know where to find that. 200 00:13:26,958 --> 00:13:30,925 By all means. It sounds interesting. But isn't it a little pointless? 201 00:13:30,927 --> 00:13:35,595 Quite. That's the beauty of it. Here's something very interesting. 202 00:13:35,597 --> 00:13:40,231 This is Rutherford. Yes, I wanted to finish this. 203 00:13:40,233 --> 00:13:45,168 Yes. He identifies the ten lost tribes with the Scythians. 204 00:13:45,170 --> 00:13:48,970 - Quite conclusively too. - Nice to read aloud to Elspeth. 205 00:13:48,972 --> 00:13:51,605 Oh, yes, I do. Yes. 206 00:13:51,607 --> 00:13:53,839 Light alloy structures and hysteresis. 207 00:13:53,841 --> 00:13:57,609 You know where that goes, dear. And this one. 208 00:13:57,611 --> 00:14:00,143 Oh. Oh, I... 209 00:14:04,715 --> 00:14:08,016 Yeah. 210 00:14:16,024 --> 00:14:20,358 One of the more difficult of the sciences, I should imagine. 211 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:23,526 Hmm? What's that? Oh. Oh, yes, yes. 212 00:14:23,528 --> 00:14:25,528 You know, I didn't find that very satisfactory. 213 00:14:25,530 --> 00:14:29,998 They seem to have such different problems with their children than I've ever had with Elspeth. 214 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:32,966 - You haven't found parenthood very difficult then? - Not at all, really. 215 00:14:32,968 --> 00:14:36,602 Of course, I've been very systematic about it. I laid out a schedule. 216 00:14:36,604 --> 00:14:38,970 So much work, so much sleep, so much play. 217 00:14:38,972 --> 00:14:42,372 - Pyramidology. - Pyramid... yes, yes. 218 00:14:42,374 --> 00:14:44,307 What's been your experience in holidays? 219 00:14:44,309 --> 00:14:48,510 I mean, do you send her away where she can be with other children? 220 00:14:48,512 --> 00:14:50,478 Do you have any children, Mr. Scott? 221 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:53,213 No, but I hope to. But I'd value your opinion. 222 00:14:53,215 --> 00:14:57,649 I used to send her away with other children, but I don't do that anymore. 223 00:14:57,651 --> 00:15:00,284 She never seemed to like it very much anyway. 224 00:15:00,286 --> 00:15:03,853 I think perhaps that was because the other children's minds... 225 00:15:03,855 --> 00:15:06,821 Weren't well enough organized to interest her. 226 00:15:06,823 --> 00:15:08,889 She's really much happier here. 227 00:15:08,891 --> 00:15:11,390 She's quite good at being by herself. 228 00:15:11,392 --> 00:15:13,125 Her... her mind... 229 00:15:13,127 --> 00:15:17,628 Is really developing quite remarkably, Mr. Scott. 230 00:15:18,564 --> 00:15:22,231 I think she'll be a very fine woman. 231 00:15:22,233 --> 00:15:25,434 Yes. I'm sure she will be. 232 00:15:26,936 --> 00:15:30,604 Well, I'd be... better be getting along. 233 00:15:30,606 --> 00:15:32,705 I'll look in at your office in a few days' time. 234 00:15:32,707 --> 00:15:36,407 I'd like to hear more about that experiment of yours... about the tail falling off. 235 00:15:36,409 --> 00:15:39,209 - What did you want to know about it? - Just a little more detail. 236 00:15:39,211 --> 00:15:43,445 - When you expect failure to occur... - I probably have that here. 237 00:15:43,447 --> 00:15:46,380 I think that it's here someplace. 238 00:15:46,382 --> 00:15:49,316 I think... here it is. 239 00:15:49,318 --> 00:15:54,720 Yes. 2.76 times "K" over "L." That's the time factor. 240 00:15:54,722 --> 00:15:57,221 It's in B.T.I. Units, of course. 241 00:15:57,223 --> 00:16:00,122 That's, let's see... 242 00:16:00,124 --> 00:16:03,558 That's... 1.440. 243 00:16:03,560 --> 00:16:05,358 - 1.440 what? - Hours. 244 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:09,561 You don't mean you expect the reindeer tail to fall off in 1.400 hours? 245 00:16:09,563 --> 00:16:10,695 No, no. 1.440. 246 00:16:10,697 --> 00:16:14,065 But, Mr. Honey. A lot of aircraft have flown many millions of Miles... 247 00:16:14,067 --> 00:16:16,466 Without the tails coming off any of them because of vibration... 248 00:16:16,468 --> 00:16:22,037 Mr. Scott. You asked me for the evaluation in time of my "U" subscript "M" symbol. 249 00:16:22,039 --> 00:16:24,938 The mathematical answer is 1.440 hours to failure... 250 00:16:24,940 --> 00:16:29,141 For the specific tail plane under test on which my calculations are based. 251 00:16:29,143 --> 00:16:30,842 Now, how long has your test been running? 252 00:16:30,844 --> 00:16:34,778 832 hours, 14 minutes and seven seconds, as of shutdown tonight. 253 00:16:34,780 --> 00:16:37,547 They don't allow me to run it more than eight hours a day. 254 00:16:37,549 --> 00:16:40,682 The people in the neighborhood complain about the racket at night. 255 00:16:40,684 --> 00:16:43,650 Yes, but you know, of course, that an aircraft in commercial service... 256 00:16:43,652 --> 00:16:45,952 Is likely to pile up flying hours faster than your experiment. 257 00:16:45,954 --> 00:16:49,587 - That's probably quite true. - Then why didn't you insist on a 24-hour basis? 258 00:16:49,589 --> 00:16:54,090 I did insist on it originally, but they decided to do it for eight hours. 259 00:16:54,092 --> 00:16:57,226 Yes. But you hadn't given them your 1.440 hour figure. 260 00:16:57,228 --> 00:17:01,128 Well, I never include detail on my preliminary report. 261 00:17:01,130 --> 00:17:02,995 Science is in no hurry, Mr. Scott. 262 00:17:02,997 --> 00:17:07,199 I'm working on a principle, which, if I'm correct, will be true for all time. 263 00:17:07,201 --> 00:17:12,002 But whether I reach it a day or so later or earlier is not important. 264 00:17:12,004 --> 00:17:16,872 But it might be important for the 50 or so people who take off in these reindeers every day. 265 00:17:16,874 --> 00:17:21,876 You don't understand. I'm a scientist. And science is very exacting. 266 00:17:21,878 --> 00:17:24,277 It requires the utmost concentration. 267 00:17:24,279 --> 00:17:26,178 I can't be concerned about people. 268 00:17:26,180 --> 00:17:30,381 I... why, if a doctor is trying to find out a cure for a disease. 269 00:17:30,383 --> 00:17:35,585 What would happen if he let himself be upset about everybody that got sick and died? 270 00:17:35,587 --> 00:17:37,686 He'd never get any work done at all. 271 00:17:37,688 --> 00:17:39,754 People must be someone else's concern. 272 00:17:39,756 --> 00:17:42,055 - I can't let it be mine, Mr. Scott. - But... 273 00:17:42,057 --> 00:17:44,657 You can find my preliminary report in the files. 274 00:17:44,659 --> 00:17:48,393 And I... I don't wish to add anything more to it at the present time. 275 00:17:48,395 --> 00:17:54,264 If you'll excuse me, I think... I think I'd better be getting home. 276 00:17:58,669 --> 00:18:00,969 Father. 277 00:18:02,805 --> 00:18:05,205 Oh. 278 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:07,939 It's very easy to do, you know. 279 00:18:07,941 --> 00:18:10,608 - Well, good-bye, Elspeth. - Good-bye, Mr. Scott. 280 00:18:10,610 --> 00:18:13,176 Good-bye, Mr. Honey. 281 00:18:37,296 --> 00:18:40,529 Excuse me, please, gentlemen. 282 00:18:40,531 --> 00:18:42,564 Rub her down, Ned. 283 00:18:42,566 --> 00:18:47,200 Don't give her any water till she stops sweating. 284 00:18:47,202 --> 00:18:49,268 Scotty! No! 285 00:18:49,270 --> 00:18:51,836 - What are you doing here? - Ah, Bill, hello. 286 00:18:51,838 --> 00:18:54,571 I've been watching that plane. I guessed it was you. How are you? 287 00:18:54,573 --> 00:18:58,141 What are you doing here? Have you come here for a job? No, I got one. 288 00:18:58,143 --> 00:19:01,243 You have? That calls for a drink. Well, it's a little early. 289 00:19:01,245 --> 00:19:04,311 Rosie? Customers. What are you gonna fly, Scotty? 290 00:19:04,313 --> 00:19:06,980 - No more flying. Matrimony set in. - Grounded, eh? 291 00:19:06,982 --> 00:19:09,448 How'd it happen? Or perhaps you'd sooner not talk about it. 292 00:19:09,450 --> 00:19:13,552 - You wait till you see her. - Really? I'm glad to see you can take it so well. 293 00:19:13,554 --> 00:19:16,153 Rosie. Scotty, meet Rosie. She's a spy. 294 00:19:16,155 --> 00:19:19,922 Wait till you see her bedroom. It's absolutely papered in blueprints, isn't it? 295 00:19:19,924 --> 00:19:22,491 - Oh, Mr. Penworthy. - "Oh, Mr. Penworthy." 296 00:19:22,493 --> 00:19:24,592 - Two large scotches, please. - Yes, sir. 297 00:19:24,594 --> 00:19:26,860 - What is your job, Scotty? - Head of metallurgy. 298 00:19:26,862 --> 00:19:28,527 Don't tell me you're polishing your pants. 299 00:19:28,529 --> 00:19:31,096 Don't tell me you're one of those crawling little desk blokes. 300 00:19:31,098 --> 00:19:33,630 Always was, Pen. Went back to it when I got out. 301 00:19:33,632 --> 00:19:37,967 - This is vodka. - Oh, Mr. Penworthy! 302 00:19:37,969 --> 00:19:40,668 Well, off we go. Off we go. 303 00:19:41,203 --> 00:19:43,769 Don't you like desk blokes, bill? Listen, Scotty. 304 00:19:43,771 --> 00:19:46,571 Pilots and desks, dogs and cats... natural enemies. 305 00:19:46,573 --> 00:19:49,706 They've got one theme song... you can laugh. "Pilot's error." 306 00:19:49,708 --> 00:19:54,643 Anything goes wrong with their calculations and there's a smashup, pilot's error. 307 00:19:54,645 --> 00:19:58,112 - Rosie. You remember Harry Ward? - Yes, I do. 308 00:19:58,114 --> 00:19:59,379 Look what they did to him. 309 00:19:59,381 --> 00:20:03,482 He was piloting that reindeer when it flew into the hill at Labrador a couple months ago. 310 00:20:03,484 --> 00:20:08,285 All in little pieces. Nothing to go on. Pilot dead, so... pilot's error. 311 00:20:08,287 --> 00:20:10,420 You don't think it was pilot's error. 312 00:20:10,422 --> 00:20:12,754 With Harry Ward, Scotty? You can't be serious. 313 00:20:12,756 --> 00:20:15,556 They said he was dropping off altitude in an overcast. 314 00:20:15,558 --> 00:20:18,524 He wouldn't do a crazy thing like that if he tried. 315 00:20:18,526 --> 00:20:23,127 Rosie! If you can tear yourself away from the salt mines... 316 00:20:23,129 --> 00:20:26,629 We would like a couple of "wodkas." 317 00:20:26,631 --> 00:20:27,963 Oh, Mr. Penworthy! 318 00:20:27,965 --> 00:20:31,899 Seven to 10 degrees angle of descent, motors full on when he hit the hill. 319 00:20:31,901 --> 00:20:34,801 Obviously he was in control. Dropping off altitude in the overcast. 320 00:20:34,803 --> 00:20:36,968 Pilot's error. He didn't reckon on that hill. 321 00:20:36,970 --> 00:20:38,869 Do you know how many hours it had flown, with tests? 322 00:20:38,871 --> 00:20:42,538 How many hours it had flown, with tests. Yes, I can tell you that. Certainly. 323 00:20:42,540 --> 00:20:47,275 Just one minute. They flew a lot of tests, simulated flights in weather. 324 00:20:47,277 --> 00:20:53,346 Uh, total number of flying hours before estimated time of crash: 325 00:20:53,348 --> 00:20:55,980 1.407. 326 00:20:55,982 --> 00:20:58,716 - 1.407? - That's right. 327 00:20:58,718 --> 00:21:00,750 Have you any photographs of the wreckage? 328 00:21:00,752 --> 00:21:04,587 How many would you like to see? We cover everything here, Mr. Scott. 329 00:21:04,589 --> 00:21:07,388 We leave nothing out, I assure you. 330 00:21:07,390 --> 00:21:10,690 Reindeer crash. Photographs of wreckage. 331 00:21:10,692 --> 00:21:14,193 - Any particular part of the wreck? - Yes, the tail plane. 332 00:21:14,195 --> 00:21:18,229 I want to see a photograph of the tail plane. 333 00:21:18,231 --> 00:21:21,264 Yes, I remember now. They didn't find the tail plane. 334 00:21:21,266 --> 00:21:23,065 Nothing unusual in that, I assure you. 335 00:21:23,067 --> 00:21:25,399 The plane turned over as it hit the hill, caught fire. 336 00:21:25,401 --> 00:21:28,902 Wreckage spread all over the place. Thick undergrowth. You can't see 10 feet. 337 00:21:28,904 --> 00:21:32,404 - The investigation... - Thanks very much. I'm much obliged. 338 00:21:32,406 --> 00:21:34,838 All right. We send someone to Labrador. 339 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:38,241 Comb through that godforsaken country for a section of the tail spar... 340 00:21:38,243 --> 00:21:41,910 And take a fine hiding from the taxpayers when we find there's nothing to it. 341 00:21:41,912 --> 00:21:47,547 All the ruddy decisions to make and never one you can be sure about. 342 00:21:47,549 --> 00:21:49,214 One thing you do know: 343 00:21:49,216 --> 00:21:52,116 A boffin has to be a bit balmy to be a boffin. 344 00:21:52,118 --> 00:21:56,252 The line between genius and being just plain crackers is so thin, 345 00:21:56,254 --> 00:22:00,421 you never know which side you're on, nor when they've crossed it either. 346 00:22:00,423 --> 00:22:03,090 Tchaikovsky, I'm told, one day began to eat raw goldfish. 347 00:22:03,092 --> 00:22:07,093 And Molière discovered suddenly that he was better off standing on his head. 348 00:22:07,095 --> 00:22:08,593 Oh, we've had it here too. 349 00:22:08,595 --> 00:22:12,697 A fine time all the papers had when one of our boffins started pinching girls in the park. 350 00:22:12,699 --> 00:22:17,867 And now our Mr. Honey informs us that reindeers will fall apart after 1.400 hours... 351 00:22:17,869 --> 00:22:20,001 And holds the time figure out on us. 352 00:22:20,003 --> 00:22:21,602 If I did things like that, they'd lock me up. 353 00:22:21,604 --> 00:22:26,439 How long before this infernal machine of his is due to prove something, one way or the other? 354 00:22:26,441 --> 00:22:29,908 - Weeks yet, sir. - Get it on a 24-hour basis today. 355 00:22:29,910 --> 00:22:32,943 Better get someone to handle the complaints when they start coming in too. 356 00:22:32,945 --> 00:22:36,246 - Very good, sir. - How many hours have the other reindeers in flight done? 357 00:22:36,248 --> 00:22:39,147 Not nearly as many, sir. The one in Labrador was the prototype. 358 00:22:39,149 --> 00:22:41,349 It did all the tests. That's why it's got so many hours. 359 00:22:41,351 --> 00:22:45,719 The others were delivered in a group to the airlines just before they went into service. 360 00:22:45,721 --> 00:22:47,252 They can't have done more than 500. 361 00:22:47,254 --> 00:22:48,586 That's the best news I've had today. 362 00:22:48,588 --> 00:22:52,322 I don't want the job of asking the airline to ground their nice, new fleet... 363 00:22:52,324 --> 00:22:55,024 With no more to go on than what Mr. Honey says. 364 00:22:55,026 --> 00:22:56,924 Well, that's it. Oh, wait a minute. 365 00:22:56,926 --> 00:23:00,194 You know who we're sending to Labrador, don't you? 366 00:23:00,196 --> 00:23:01,794 That's right. Mr. Theodore Honey. 367 00:23:01,796 --> 00:23:05,731 He's the one who started all this. Maybe a good, hard climb will do him good. 368 00:23:05,733 --> 00:23:10,301 Still, he knows what he's looking for better than anyone. Get him started soon as you can. 369 00:23:10,303 --> 00:23:12,302 I'll give him the good news right away, sir. 370 00:23:12,304 --> 00:23:16,538 Passengers for flight 26 for Gander and Montreal: 371 00:23:16,540 --> 00:23:19,474 Will you please have your embarkation slips ready... 372 00:23:19,476 --> 00:23:22,409 And proceed to the exit door for boarding the aircraft? 373 00:23:22,411 --> 00:23:26,445 - That it? - Yes. You'll have to go through that door. 374 00:23:27,147 --> 00:23:29,881 Every stitch he has in the world is in that bag. 375 00:23:29,883 --> 00:23:32,782 You can't say he squanders what he makes on himself. 376 00:23:32,784 --> 00:23:34,517 Well... have a good trip, Mr. Honey. 377 00:23:34,519 --> 00:23:37,418 - Don't worry. We'll look after Elspeth. - That's very kind of you. 378 00:23:37,420 --> 00:23:39,353 - They'll look after you, dear. - Yes, I know. 379 00:23:39,355 --> 00:23:42,154 - Have you got your sandwich? - Oh, yes. Yes, yes, I have. 380 00:23:42,156 --> 00:23:46,323 Tomato, cheese, and there was some nice fish. 381 00:23:47,592 --> 00:23:51,326 - Good-bye, daddy. - Good-bye, dear. 382 00:23:52,996 --> 00:23:57,497 I'm afraid I didn't bring a handkerchief. 383 00:23:57,499 --> 00:24:01,666 I'm sorry. We were in such a hurry packing. 384 00:24:03,302 --> 00:24:05,768 - Mr. and Mrs. Brook Holter? - That's right. 385 00:24:05,770 --> 00:24:07,469 Thank you. Come along. 386 00:24:07,471 --> 00:24:10,571 - Your name, please, sir? - Uh, Honey. Theodore Honey. 387 00:24:10,573 --> 00:24:13,407 And your embarkation slip, please? 388 00:24:17,512 --> 00:24:19,811 Miss, uh, Teasdale. 389 00:24:19,813 --> 00:24:22,580 Oh, yes. Miss Teasdale. 390 00:24:22,582 --> 00:24:24,447 Uh, uh... 391 00:24:24,449 --> 00:24:27,683 - Thank you, sir. - Oh. 392 00:24:48,101 --> 00:24:50,567 Thank you. 393 00:24:55,673 --> 00:24:59,573 Fasten your safety belts. No smoking, sir, until we take off. 394 00:24:59,575 --> 00:25:02,108 - No smoking. - I'm so sorry. 395 00:25:02,110 --> 00:25:04,409 Fasten your safety belts. 396 00:25:04,411 --> 00:25:09,646 Would you like to take your coat off, sir? You'll be more comfortable. 397 00:25:09,648 --> 00:25:11,414 That's right. 398 00:25:11,416 --> 00:25:15,984 We haven't many passengers on this trip, so you can use this seat for your things. 399 00:25:15,986 --> 00:25:18,552 - Oh, thank you. - Fasten your safety belt, please. 400 00:25:18,554 --> 00:25:20,654 - Pardon? - I'll just help you do it. 401 00:25:20,656 --> 00:25:23,822 - That's it. - Don't want you to fall out. 402 00:25:23,824 --> 00:25:29,526 - All right now? - Yes, thank you. You're very kind. 403 00:25:31,596 --> 00:25:35,263 I'll be back after we take off to help you get out of that. 404 00:25:35,265 --> 00:25:38,031 Thank you. 405 00:26:24,136 --> 00:26:27,803 May I have your... may I have your attention, please? 406 00:26:27,805 --> 00:26:31,038 You may unfasten your seat belts now and smoke, if you like. 407 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:34,174 My name is Marjorie Corder. This is Peggy Miller. 408 00:26:34,176 --> 00:26:37,943 We're here to do anything we can to make your trip pleasant and comfortable. 409 00:26:37,945 --> 00:26:41,612 We'll be glad to give you refreshments and drinks quite free of charge... 410 00:26:41,614 --> 00:26:45,414 And although we both might regret it personally, no tipping is permitted. 411 00:26:45,416 --> 00:26:49,917 Thank you, and we're glad to have you aboard. 412 00:26:52,087 --> 00:26:54,953 - Here you are, miss Teasdale. - Thank you. 413 00:26:54,955 --> 00:26:58,656 - Anything we can do for you? - No. Thank you very much. 414 00:26:59,958 --> 00:27:02,124 Don't you want to get rid of that now? 415 00:27:02,126 --> 00:27:04,658 Might as well make yourself comfortable. 416 00:27:04,660 --> 00:27:06,426 Here's the button to adjust your seat. 417 00:27:06,428 --> 00:27:08,895 Here's the switch for your reading light, when you want it. 418 00:27:08,897 --> 00:27:13,131 We'll serve dinner soon, but maybe you'd like some sandwiches and coffee? 419 00:27:13,133 --> 00:27:16,066 - Well, I... I... - We have milk too, if you'd rather. 420 00:27:16,068 --> 00:27:19,835 I think a little coffee would be nice. I brought some sandwiches. 421 00:27:19,837 --> 00:27:22,404 - My daughter made them. Her name's Elspeth. - Oh. 422 00:27:22,406 --> 00:27:25,606 Well, now, they're probably much better than ours then. 423 00:27:25,608 --> 00:27:28,741 - You sure you didn't bring your own coffee? - No. 424 00:27:28,743 --> 00:27:30,876 I'll get you some. Uh, miss... 425 00:27:30,878 --> 00:27:34,745 Miss, weren't you... Isn't that Monica Teasdale? 426 00:27:34,747 --> 00:27:37,881 - That-that one you were just talking to? - Yes, it is. 427 00:27:37,883 --> 00:27:41,683 She's crossed with us often. A great many of the film stars do. 428 00:27:41,685 --> 00:27:43,283 - Oh? - Are you a fan of hers? 429 00:27:43,285 --> 00:27:47,253 I didn't mean... I never go to films, really, not since... 430 00:27:47,255 --> 00:27:48,987 I... I haven't gone in years. 431 00:27:48,989 --> 00:27:51,456 Would you like me to take over your autograph book? 432 00:27:51,458 --> 00:27:56,526 Oh, no, no. I don't even have one. I wouldn't want to trouble her. 433 00:27:56,528 --> 00:28:00,929 Oh, all right. I'll be back with your coffee. 434 00:28:07,969 --> 00:28:09,969 - Oop! - Oh, excuse me. 435 00:28:09,971 --> 00:28:14,072 Didn't mean to wish the baby on you, but I've got one making his first trip. 436 00:28:14,074 --> 00:28:16,774 Sometimes they're worse. Brought his own sandwiches. 437 00:28:16,776 --> 00:28:19,041 Hey, the skipper can't find his cloud glasses. 438 00:28:19,043 --> 00:28:22,410 He thinks he may have dropped them in here. Have a look around for them. 439 00:28:22,412 --> 00:28:26,313 - He's quite a bit worried. Almost ran into a big one. - Oh, no, you don't. 440 00:28:26,315 --> 00:28:28,013 No new-girl jokes here. She's doing fine. 441 00:28:28,015 --> 00:28:32,850 If you've come for coffee, help yourself. We give pilots service. Co-pilots, no. 442 00:28:32,852 --> 00:28:34,952 Oh, so you're on her side. 443 00:28:34,954 --> 00:28:36,752 - Which one's the boffin? - The boffin? 444 00:28:36,754 --> 00:28:39,254 Scientific bloke from Farnborough. Radio said he was aboard. 445 00:28:39,256 --> 00:28:42,756 Sam thinks he ought to look around. Courtesy of the trade and all that. 446 00:28:42,758 --> 00:28:45,592 - What's his name? - Theodore Honey, believe it or not. 447 00:28:45,594 --> 00:28:48,794 Don't tell me where he is. Two-to-one, I can find him. 448 00:28:48,796 --> 00:28:51,796 I'll take the uncombed bloke halfway down the starboard side. 449 00:28:51,798 --> 00:28:53,964 Looks as though he didn't have a mother. 450 00:28:53,966 --> 00:28:57,933 - Mr. Honey, in 21. - Twen... See? Can't miss. 451 00:28:57,935 --> 00:28:59,734 From Farnborough. I've been a bright Lassie. 452 00:28:59,736 --> 00:29:02,802 I've been talking to him as though he'd never seen a plane before. 453 00:29:02,804 --> 00:29:06,337 I'll question the master intelligence. I suppose he speaks our language. 454 00:29:06,339 --> 00:29:08,939 - Let him have his coffee first. - All right. 455 00:29:08,941 --> 00:29:11,540 I'll come down for him when we've hit the step. 456 00:29:11,542 --> 00:29:13,675 We'll only give him the sixpenny tour. 457 00:29:13,677 --> 00:29:17,277 He may ask a few questions we can't answer. 458 00:29:21,915 --> 00:29:26,516 Here you are, Mr. Honey. No idea you were an expert on aviation. 459 00:29:26,518 --> 00:29:30,852 I deserve a prize for talking to you as though you've never flown before. 460 00:29:30,854 --> 00:29:32,553 Well, I never have flown before. 461 00:29:32,555 --> 00:29:35,621 What I know about airplanes is more when they're in pieces. 462 00:29:35,623 --> 00:29:37,155 Well, you seem to be quite famous. 463 00:29:37,157 --> 00:29:41,791 Captain Samuelson sent down word he'd like to show you over the plane... flight deck and all. 464 00:29:41,793 --> 00:29:44,459 - They don't do that for everyone. - You're all being very nice... 465 00:29:44,461 --> 00:29:47,829 I think you'd be interested. These new reindeers are beautifully equipped. 466 00:29:47,831 --> 00:29:51,198 - Radar and everything. - Is this a reindeer we're in? 467 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:54,466 That's right. A nice, new, shiny one. 468 00:29:54,468 --> 00:29:56,634 I think I'd like to see it very much. 469 00:29:56,636 --> 00:30:02,572 The copilot will be down for you, but don't hurry. Enjoy Elspeth's sandwiches. 470 00:30:15,383 --> 00:30:18,183 Over here, pressure analyzer for the cabin. 471 00:30:18,185 --> 00:30:21,385 - Now, will you come this way, Mr. Honey? - Thank you, captain. 472 00:30:21,387 --> 00:30:24,286 You're welcome. Will you step down, please? 473 00:30:24,288 --> 00:30:25,787 The engine instruments are here. 474 00:30:25,789 --> 00:30:28,622 Hank can tell if a cylinder misfires just once, and which one it is. 475 00:30:28,624 --> 00:30:33,325 I think he can take a reading on whether his girlfriend's out with someone else or not. 476 00:30:33,327 --> 00:30:35,226 Now, then. Mind the hatch, sir. Find it, Mac? 477 00:30:35,228 --> 00:30:38,962 Yup. Fuses keep blowing on the undercarriage safety circuit. 478 00:30:38,964 --> 00:30:40,730 Here we have the radar screen, sir. 479 00:30:40,732 --> 00:30:44,065 Radio altimeter, radio compass, D.F. Loop. Excuse me, sir. 480 00:30:44,067 --> 00:30:47,468 The R.C. Repeater, which is duplicated on the pilot's panel, just in case. 481 00:30:47,470 --> 00:30:50,770 Ah, yes. Well, I don't suppose many things go wrong these days. 482 00:30:50,772 --> 00:30:54,272 Almost never. Won't even use reconditioned engines in this line. 483 00:30:54,274 --> 00:30:57,374 We get new ones every 600 hours. Mmm. They're pretty things. 484 00:30:57,376 --> 00:30:58,975 They're really obsolete though, aren't they? 485 00:30:58,977 --> 00:31:03,845 They're good enough for me. Not a cylinder's missed a take yet, and this is the third set. 486 00:31:03,847 --> 00:31:07,480 Have me out of a job if they don't kick up a little something soon. 487 00:31:07,482 --> 00:31:10,483 Well, I wouldn't think that that would hap... 488 00:31:10,485 --> 00:31:13,785 - Did you say "the third set"? - That's right. 489 00:31:13,787 --> 00:31:15,787 But I thought the reindeers were new on this run. 490 00:31:15,789 --> 00:31:18,388 They are, on this run, but this was one of the first two built. 491 00:31:18,390 --> 00:31:22,090 The builders wanted experience with the ship before turning the fleet over to this line. 492 00:31:22,092 --> 00:31:25,793 - We were loaned out a while on the South American run. - Well, for how long? 493 00:31:25,795 --> 00:31:31,463 Quite a while. Tell me exactly how many hours this airplane has flown. 494 00:31:31,465 --> 00:31:34,899 Certainly. It's right here. 495 00:31:36,668 --> 00:31:40,136 Now, 1,422 up to takeoff. 496 00:31:40,138 --> 00:31:43,905 - Anything else, sir? - But... 497 00:31:45,275 --> 00:31:46,673 No, I... 498 00:31:46,675 --> 00:31:51,410 - We have dual A.D.F. Indicators... - That's enough. 499 00:32:04,322 --> 00:32:08,156 Well, did you learn all about airplanes? 500 00:32:11,693 --> 00:32:13,959 Mr. Dobson. I must speak to the captain at once. 501 00:32:13,961 --> 00:32:16,694 Captain Samuelson's very busy, Mr. honey. If there's something I can do... 502 00:32:16,696 --> 00:32:21,030 Please tell the captain I have every reason to believe this airplane's in serious danger. 503 00:32:21,032 --> 00:32:25,867 - I insist on speaking to him, please. - I'll see what I can do. 504 00:32:39,346 --> 00:32:43,147 What's all this about? I understand you're not very happy about something. 505 00:32:43,149 --> 00:32:47,283 Captain, this airplane and everybody in it's in very serious danger. 506 00:32:47,285 --> 00:32:48,717 And you must turn back at once. 507 00:32:48,719 --> 00:32:53,087 - Um, what sort of danger? - I've been working on a theory on nuclear fission. 508 00:32:53,089 --> 00:32:55,521 I used the tail plane of a reindeer as a basis. 509 00:32:55,523 --> 00:32:58,623 According to my calculations, it'll fail in 1.440 hours. 510 00:32:58,625 --> 00:33:02,760 - I see. But this is a theory. - I've done a great deal of work on this. 511 00:33:02,762 --> 00:33:06,929 This airplane has flown 1.422 hours as of takeoff. 512 00:33:06,931 --> 00:33:08,763 The tail plane can fail at any moment. 513 00:33:08,765 --> 00:33:12,733 I don't believe you realize the very strict procedures under which an airline operates. 514 00:33:12,735 --> 00:33:17,336 - Have you ever heard of an airworthiness certificate? - But this is something entirely new. 515 00:33:17,338 --> 00:33:20,304 - This is... nobody knows anything about this. - Why don't they know? 516 00:33:20,306 --> 00:33:24,307 It would seem very strange if Farnborough wouldn't let us in on a problem like that. 517 00:33:24,309 --> 00:33:27,043 Have they definitely accepted your theory? 518 00:33:27,045 --> 00:33:29,411 Well, there is no proof, no. Not the way you mean it. 519 00:33:29,413 --> 00:33:33,280 That's the reason I'm on my way to Labrador right now, to investigate that crash. 520 00:33:33,282 --> 00:33:36,416 - Labrador? - That airplane crashed at 1.407 hours... 521 00:33:36,418 --> 00:33:37,849 Within hours of my calculations. 522 00:33:37,851 --> 00:33:41,152 - Less time than this airplane has flown. - You know the tail group failed? 523 00:33:41,154 --> 00:33:43,119 The tail group wasn't found with the wreckage. 524 00:33:43,121 --> 00:33:45,654 - Every minute that we spend... - But the truth of the matter is... 525 00:33:45,656 --> 00:33:49,723 That apart from the coincidence of the crash, all of this is just your opinion. 526 00:33:49,725 --> 00:33:54,359 Look. Would you feel happier if we went down together and had a look at the tail spar? 527 00:33:54,361 --> 00:33:57,260 It won't do any good. It'll happen very suddenly. 528 00:33:57,262 --> 00:34:00,263 One moment the tail plane spar will be perfectly normal, 529 00:34:00,265 --> 00:34:04,866 and the next moment the whole character of the metal will change. 530 00:34:04,868 --> 00:34:07,534 And the tail will break off, captain, quite suddenly, 531 00:34:07,536 --> 00:34:09,969 and you'll go into a dive from which you can't recover. 532 00:34:09,971 --> 00:34:12,837 Your only chance, captain, is to turn back immediately. 533 00:34:12,839 --> 00:34:16,639 You can cut your inboard engines to break up the vibration frequency, 534 00:34:16,641 --> 00:34:18,807 land at the first available airport. 535 00:34:18,809 --> 00:34:23,143 If you don't do it, captain, this airplane's gonna crash into the sea. 536 00:34:23,145 --> 00:34:25,911 We're all going to be killed. 537 00:34:29,783 --> 00:34:31,681 I see. 538 00:34:31,683 --> 00:34:33,282 Tell you what I'll do. 539 00:34:33,284 --> 00:34:35,916 I'll radio back a full report of all you've told me. 540 00:34:35,918 --> 00:34:38,151 And if London tells me to turn back, I will. 541 00:34:38,153 --> 00:34:41,253 Meanwhile, I'll cut the inboard motors, as you suggest. 542 00:34:41,255 --> 00:34:44,089 It'll make us late at Gander. But I'll take that responsibility. 543 00:34:44,091 --> 00:34:48,826 But I warn you, there won't be anyone at the airport to make a decision like that. 544 00:34:48,828 --> 00:34:53,763 At this time of day, they'll find it very difficult to find anyone who can. 545 00:34:53,765 --> 00:34:57,866 Very well, captain. Let's wish ourselves luck. 546 00:35:08,442 --> 00:35:15,445 Well, I've heard a good many strange things in my life, but that's way ahead by a mile. 547 00:35:18,850 --> 00:35:20,982 Well, you better put it on the horn to London, Peter. 548 00:35:20,984 --> 00:35:24,384 I wouldn't miss unloading a report like that on the boys for half my pension. 549 00:35:24,386 --> 00:35:30,756 Right. Well, it'll give them something to think about anyway. Here it goes. 550 00:35:30,758 --> 00:35:33,325 London radio from flight 26. 551 00:35:33,327 --> 00:35:36,026 - London radio from flight 26. - Okay, Sam? 552 00:35:36,028 --> 00:35:41,563 - Yeah. - London radio from flight 26. Over. 553 00:35:51,973 --> 00:35:54,639 Hey, Marjorie. I've got news for you. Your boffin's crackers. 554 00:35:54,641 --> 00:35:57,708 What's the matter? Did he ask you some questions you couldn't answer? 555 00:35:57,710 --> 00:36:00,443 Clean off his rocker. He says the tail's gonna fall off. 556 00:36:00,445 --> 00:36:02,244 - He didn't. - He did, and with variations. 557 00:36:02,246 --> 00:36:05,980 Sam thinks you oughta keep an eye on him in case he gets violent. 558 00:36:05,982 --> 00:36:07,548 He didn't seem to be like that. 559 00:36:07,550 --> 00:36:10,116 He thinks we ought to stop it vibrating. Ruddy little squirt. 560 00:36:10,118 --> 00:36:15,053 I'd like to vibrate him. Sam says ring through if you need help. 561 00:37:05,894 --> 00:37:10,363 - May I look in here for just a moment? - Go ahead. 562 00:37:14,568 --> 00:37:18,635 - Is there anything I can do to help? - No. 563 00:37:21,839 --> 00:37:24,439 Thank you very much. 564 00:37:29,845 --> 00:37:31,877 What... what... what's all that about? 565 00:37:31,879 --> 00:37:36,146 Liked the tour they gave him, I suppose, so he's having one of his own. 566 00:37:36,148 --> 00:37:39,082 Coffee, Sam? No. No, thanks. Not just now. 567 00:37:39,084 --> 00:37:44,119 I, um, want to get some cigarettes from my bag. 568 00:38:21,884 --> 00:38:25,050 Miss Teasdale? Miss Teasdale? 569 00:38:25,852 --> 00:38:26,951 Huh? 570 00:38:26,953 --> 00:38:30,353 You don't know me, but Honey's my name. Theodore Honey. 571 00:38:30,355 --> 00:38:34,723 I just couldn't help... I'd like to talk to you. 572 00:38:34,725 --> 00:38:36,691 Of course. I'd be very pleased. 573 00:38:36,693 --> 00:38:41,428 I've always... Mrs. honey and I, we've always... 574 00:38:41,430 --> 00:38:43,729 I've always felt I owed you a great deal. 575 00:38:43,731 --> 00:38:46,031 Your pictures meant a lot to my wife and I... 576 00:38:46,033 --> 00:38:49,666 That's why I want to talk to you. You're very kind. 577 00:38:49,668 --> 00:38:53,268 It's, uh... may I? Certainly. 578 00:38:53,270 --> 00:38:56,070 It... it's about the condition of this airplane. 579 00:38:56,072 --> 00:38:58,004 I'm afraid we're in very serious danger. 580 00:38:58,006 --> 00:39:02,108 I... I'm rather afraid the tail may drop off at any moment. 581 00:39:02,110 --> 00:39:04,742 - Now, when that happens, there may be... - Is that so? 582 00:39:04,744 --> 00:39:07,410 Yes. When that happens, there may be a little time, 583 00:39:07,412 --> 00:39:09,445 so go to the men's room and sit on the floor. 584 00:39:09,447 --> 00:39:14,382 The partition is very rigid because the stove is bolted to the floor on the other side. 585 00:39:14,384 --> 00:39:16,384 Now, if you survive the first impact, 586 00:39:16,386 --> 00:39:19,386 try to get out of the escape hatch and get to a life raft. 587 00:39:19,388 --> 00:39:23,355 They may pick you up when they search for us in the morning. 588 00:39:23,357 --> 00:39:26,224 That's certainly very interesting. 589 00:39:26,226 --> 00:39:28,625 Go to the men's room. Yes. 590 00:39:28,627 --> 00:39:31,160 Sit on the floor. 591 00:39:35,130 --> 00:39:36,461 Oh, no. 592 00:39:36,463 --> 00:39:38,362 - According to these calculations... - Look, Mr. Honey. 593 00:39:38,364 --> 00:39:43,232 I'm afraid miss Teasdale's very tired. We really ought to let her rest for a while. 594 00:39:43,234 --> 00:39:46,867 Yes, I'm a little tired. But thank you very much, Mr. Honey. 595 00:39:46,869 --> 00:39:50,170 Please, Mr. Honey. I'm sorry. I was only trying to help. 596 00:39:50,172 --> 00:39:54,106 I'm sure you were. Some other time perhaps. 597 00:39:57,243 --> 00:39:59,810 - You shouldn't have done that, Mr. Honey. - It's quite clear I shouldn't. 598 00:39:59,812 --> 00:40:03,546 I'm sure you don't want to alarm people. You might even cause a panic. 599 00:40:03,548 --> 00:40:07,515 You won't do it again, will you? No, no. I won't do it again. 600 00:40:07,517 --> 00:40:11,818 I know you're very worried. Isn't there anything I can do? 601 00:40:11,820 --> 00:40:14,053 - You know all about this, don't you? - Yes. 602 00:40:14,055 --> 00:40:18,689 The pilot had to tell me. You've been very kind to me. I'm sorry I made trouble. 603 00:40:18,691 --> 00:40:22,958 Oh, no, Mr. Honey. You really didn't make any trouble. It's only that... 604 00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:27,094 I think I'd like to tell you what I was trying to tell miss Teasdale. 605 00:40:27,096 --> 00:40:29,762 Well, do, if it'll make you feel any better. 606 00:40:29,764 --> 00:40:33,499 Well, I think I know more about this than either you or the captain. 607 00:40:33,501 --> 00:40:35,032 I think I know what's going to happen. 608 00:40:35,034 --> 00:40:40,069 If it does, at this altitude, there'll be less than three minutes before we hit the water. 609 00:40:40,071 --> 00:40:42,104 Now, there's one place in this airplane... 610 00:40:42,106 --> 00:40:45,239 Where a person would have a chance to survive that impact. 611 00:40:45,241 --> 00:40:48,308 Come with me. 612 00:40:49,209 --> 00:40:51,242 Now, at the first sign of trouble, go in here... 613 00:40:51,244 --> 00:40:54,477 And sit on the floor with your back against the partition. 614 00:40:54,479 --> 00:40:56,245 See, this parti... Here, I'll show you. 615 00:40:56,247 --> 00:41:00,548 This partition is very rigid, because the stove here is bolted to the floor. 616 00:41:00,550 --> 00:41:04,751 I've tried to tell miss Teasdale that, because I felt that I owed her something. 617 00:41:04,753 --> 00:41:07,987 But now I want you to know. I won't talk to anybody else. 618 00:41:07,989 --> 00:41:10,588 It's good of you to have told me all this, Mr. Honey. 619 00:41:10,590 --> 00:41:13,456 No one's worried about me like that for quite a while. 620 00:41:13,458 --> 00:41:16,258 Yes, but you will remember what I told you when it happens. 621 00:41:16,260 --> 00:41:18,158 I'll certainly remember. I can't promise to do it. 622 00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:22,328 I'm one of the crew, and there are quite a few things to do if anything happened. 623 00:41:22,330 --> 00:41:25,163 But thank you just the same. Do it if you can, though. 624 00:41:25,165 --> 00:41:27,898 I think we're going to be all right, Mr. Honey. No. 625 00:41:27,900 --> 00:41:31,001 But in any event, there's nothing we can do about it. 626 00:41:31,003 --> 00:41:34,636 It's kind of you to worry about me, but please don't. 627 00:41:34,638 --> 00:41:38,939 Why don't you try and get some rest instead? 628 00:41:38,941 --> 00:41:41,474 Yes, I'll try. 629 00:41:45,879 --> 00:41:50,180 I think that crisis is over now, miss Teasdale. I don't think it'll happen again. 630 00:41:50,182 --> 00:41:51,681 What's the matter with that little man? 631 00:41:51,683 --> 00:41:55,583 I think he was just trying to do something for you. I'm afraid he's got some odd ideas. 632 00:41:55,585 --> 00:41:59,953 He certainly has. He told me to sit on the floor in the men's room. 633 00:41:59,955 --> 00:42:01,820 If that isn't an odd idea, I'd like to meet one. 634 00:42:01,822 --> 00:42:05,957 I think he was trying to tell you the best place to be if there was an accident. 635 00:42:05,959 --> 00:42:10,160 Is that what I ought to do? I think he's right about it being the safest place. 636 00:42:10,162 --> 00:42:13,295 But if he's right about that, he may be right about the tail falling off. 637 00:42:13,297 --> 00:42:17,798 - Who is he? Just one of the passengers. - Some kind of scientist, I think. 638 00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:19,666 - You know, they don't often track. - Oh. 639 00:42:19,668 --> 00:42:24,469 The altitude, miss Teasdale, sometimes causes a nervous state in certain passengers. 640 00:42:24,471 --> 00:42:27,871 I'm sure that it had that effect on Mr. Honey for a while. But he's quiet now. 641 00:42:27,873 --> 00:42:32,741 That's more than I am. There's about to be another passenger on this plane in a nervous state. 642 00:42:32,743 --> 00:42:36,176 I assure you, there's nothing to be alarmed about. Captain Samuelson's... 643 00:42:36,178 --> 00:42:41,013 Listen, dear. The scientist says this plane is going to crash. The captain says it isn't. 644 00:42:41,015 --> 00:42:43,882 Your vote doesn't count, because you have to string along with the captain. 645 00:42:43,884 --> 00:42:48,285 That leaves it a tie. 646 00:42:50,755 --> 00:42:54,790 What's that? He seems to be saving fuel. 647 00:42:54,792 --> 00:42:56,824 I imagine... he wouldn't do that without a reason. 648 00:42:56,826 --> 00:42:59,393 I thought you said he didn't believe it. All I meant... 649 00:42:59,395 --> 00:43:04,663 Just a minute. If I am going to meet my maker, I would like to know about it. 650 00:43:04,665 --> 00:43:09,766 I'll tell you what you can do. You can get a cup of coffee. Bring it to me over there. 651 00:43:09,768 --> 00:43:12,835 No, miss Teasdale, I've just got him quiet, please. 652 00:43:12,837 --> 00:43:14,403 Right now, I don't want him quiet. 653 00:43:14,405 --> 00:43:17,605 There are lots of things I want him to talk about. I wouldn't... 654 00:43:17,607 --> 00:43:18,939 Now just go and get the coffee. 655 00:43:18,941 --> 00:43:24,409 Mr. honey, I was only half awake. And I only half heard what you were trying to tell me. 656 00:43:24,411 --> 00:43:27,779 May I sit down for a minute? Yes, certainly. 657 00:43:27,781 --> 00:43:29,212 Thank you. 658 00:43:29,214 --> 00:43:30,980 - Would you like a cigarette? - No, thank you. 659 00:43:30,982 --> 00:43:34,615 Now, she tells me you're a scientist. You care for a Lozenge? 660 00:43:34,617 --> 00:43:36,550 Lozenge? No, thank you. 661 00:43:36,552 --> 00:43:39,652 Right. Will do. Listening out. 662 00:43:39,654 --> 00:43:42,388 Airport said they can't make any decision about turning back. 663 00:43:42,390 --> 00:43:44,122 And they've never heard of any trouble with the tail. 664 00:43:44,124 --> 00:43:47,792 They'll try and contact someone at a higher level at the airline or ministry. 665 00:43:47,794 --> 00:43:49,459 But it may take some time. 666 00:43:49,461 --> 00:43:51,727 Till then they want you to use your own judgment. 667 00:43:51,729 --> 00:43:54,361 They also want us to keep an eye out for a small boat. 668 00:43:54,363 --> 00:43:58,297 Some crackpot trying to sail the Atlantic single-handed. Fine. 669 00:43:58,299 --> 00:43:59,598 He may be in trouble. Mm-hmm. 670 00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:04,702 Well, if we see him, we'll stop and ask him what we ought to do about it. 671 00:44:09,574 --> 00:44:13,808 All right, now, I estimate it would require a speed of 420 Miles an hour... 672 00:44:13,810 --> 00:44:15,309 To bring the forces into equilibrium. 673 00:44:15,311 --> 00:44:20,012 This could be attained by a downward flight path of seven degrees below the horizontal. 674 00:44:20,014 --> 00:44:22,314 That angle would keep us from plunging straight in. 675 00:44:22,316 --> 00:44:26,050 Although, at that speed, the impact would be rather severe. 676 00:44:26,052 --> 00:44:28,885 See? I see. 677 00:44:29,220 --> 00:44:30,586 I don't see at all, of course. 678 00:44:30,588 --> 00:44:35,089 But I do understand that when you think something out, you don't stop halfway, do you? 679 00:44:35,091 --> 00:44:39,459 But the pilot... he should understand you. Why doesn't he turn back? 680 00:44:39,461 --> 00:44:41,060 Well, it was rather difficult for the pilot. 681 00:44:41,062 --> 00:44:45,863 You see, I imagine that all this may sound a little improbable if you haven't studied it. 682 00:44:45,865 --> 00:44:47,396 Would it help if I would talk to him? 683 00:44:47,398 --> 00:44:52,666 No. No, I don't think so. I think we're quite near to the point of no return anyway. 684 00:44:52,668 --> 00:44:59,138 The point of no return? That's where it's as short to go on as it is to turn back. 685 00:44:59,140 --> 00:45:03,774 Oh. I thought you meant something else. 686 00:45:03,776 --> 00:45:07,143 Miss Teasdale, would you like your coffee in your own seat? 687 00:45:07,145 --> 00:45:11,846 No, put it over here. Oh, as a matter of fact, let's go back there... 688 00:45:11,848 --> 00:45:14,715 Where we won't wake anybody no matter how much we talk. 689 00:45:14,717 --> 00:45:17,283 Where I can say my prayers if I feel like it. All right? 690 00:45:17,285 --> 00:45:21,386 Yes, miss Teasdale. Good. We can all stop worrying who's going to sit where. 691 00:45:21,388 --> 00:45:23,888 Come on, Mr. Honey. 692 00:45:33,397 --> 00:45:36,497 That's it. Halfway, just. 693 00:45:36,499 --> 00:45:39,399 Okay. 694 00:45:39,401 --> 00:45:40,866 Oh, Peter. Yes, sir? 695 00:45:40,868 --> 00:45:43,435 If they call you again, tell them to tell the high-ups... 696 00:45:43,437 --> 00:45:45,936 They needn't bother making a decision about turning back. 697 00:45:45,938 --> 00:45:48,571 All right, sir. Next stop, Gander. 698 00:45:48,573 --> 00:45:50,838 Right. 699 00:45:52,741 --> 00:45:56,842 I had a canary once, didn't have any tail. 700 00:45:56,844 --> 00:45:59,743 It flew all right. 701 00:46:09,385 --> 00:46:10,817 Funny. 702 00:46:10,819 --> 00:46:15,487 I would have thought I'd feel quite differently being right up against it like this. 703 00:46:15,489 --> 00:46:16,821 My mind is going twice as fast, 704 00:46:16,823 --> 00:46:22,225 as though it were trying to catch up with all the thinking it didn't get around to. 705 00:46:22,227 --> 00:46:23,392 All those people there... 706 00:46:23,394 --> 00:46:29,796 Makes you wonder... Which one you would pick out to save if you were God... 707 00:46:29,798 --> 00:46:33,332 And which one wouldn't matter much. 708 00:46:34,801 --> 00:46:36,867 - What are you thinking? - Oh, I don't know. 709 00:46:36,869 --> 00:46:39,435 I never thought much about things like that. 710 00:46:39,437 --> 00:46:41,703 No. You didn't have much time. 711 00:46:41,705 --> 00:46:45,272 You were so busy with your multiplication table. 712 00:46:45,274 --> 00:46:49,608 But you had a chance to play God for a little while. 713 00:46:49,610 --> 00:46:53,844 Why did you pick me out when you decided to save someone? 714 00:46:53,846 --> 00:46:55,946 Oh, but you ought to live. 715 00:46:55,948 --> 00:46:59,715 I mean, the work you do, you should keep on doing it. 716 00:46:59,717 --> 00:47:03,984 Oh, the work. No, I don't think I'll buy that. 717 00:47:03,986 --> 00:47:07,486 A few cans of celluloid in a junk heap someday. 718 00:47:07,488 --> 00:47:10,889 Has been fun. But that's about all. 719 00:47:10,891 --> 00:47:13,790 No, the work you do... If you could have finished that, 720 00:47:13,792 --> 00:47:17,959 all these people and lots more wouldn't be in the spot they're in right now. 721 00:47:17,961 --> 00:47:22,362 That's the kind of work that should be finished. 722 00:47:22,364 --> 00:47:24,897 No. I think I'd pick you. 723 00:47:24,899 --> 00:47:29,233 Well, that's very nice of you to say that, miss Teasdale, 724 00:47:29,235 --> 00:47:32,034 but I think it'll be all right about the work. 725 00:47:32,036 --> 00:47:36,570 The work will get done. I think it'll be all right about me. 726 00:47:36,572 --> 00:47:40,574 Haven't you any family? Yes, I have Elspeth. That's my little girl. 727 00:47:40,576 --> 00:47:42,575 - Oh, you have a little girl? - Yeah. 728 00:47:42,577 --> 00:47:43,876 That's worth a lot to come back to. 729 00:47:43,878 --> 00:47:46,978 Oh, yes. Well, I didn't mean that I wouldn't like to. 730 00:47:46,980 --> 00:47:50,448 We're really very fond of one another. 731 00:47:50,450 --> 00:47:52,749 What I... what I mea... I-I... 732 00:47:52,751 --> 00:47:58,487 - I've been thinking about that. And I... - She's 12 now. 733 00:47:58,489 --> 00:48:00,322 Her character's formed, I think. 734 00:48:00,324 --> 00:48:04,758 Mary did that mostly. She... That's my wife. 735 00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:08,293 I-I wish it didn't have to be like that, but I... 736 00:48:08,295 --> 00:48:13,397 She's developed to such a point, I-I... I think she's gonna be all right. 737 00:48:13,399 --> 00:48:16,832 Of course, I-I've been able to help in a lot of things. 738 00:48:16,834 --> 00:48:21,035 She's much more soundly developed than most children her age. 739 00:48:21,037 --> 00:48:25,972 Really has a remarkable grasp of crystallography. 740 00:48:25,974 --> 00:48:28,474 Well, that's very good, of course. What is it? 741 00:48:28,476 --> 00:48:32,977 It's quite fundamental. It's always been odd to me that schools don't teach it. 742 00:48:32,979 --> 00:48:39,248 No I-I've really had to help her in almost everything she knows worth knowing. 743 00:48:39,250 --> 00:48:42,017 Has she got a compact? A-a what? 744 00:48:42,019 --> 00:48:43,985 A compact. Oh, a compact. 745 00:48:43,987 --> 00:48:46,853 I don't know. Why? Never mind. 746 00:48:48,423 --> 00:48:52,323 - That isn't it? - Mm-mmm. No. 747 00:48:54,126 --> 00:49:00,528 Some more minutes, and each one is 748 00:49:02,098 --> 00:49:05,031 You know what I was thinking about just then? 749 00:49:05,033 --> 00:49:07,833 All the people who'll come to my funeral. 750 00:49:07,835 --> 00:49:09,867 That'll be quite an occasion. 751 00:49:09,869 --> 00:49:13,136 - Do you have a family, miss Teasdale? - No. 752 00:49:13,138 --> 00:49:15,137 Not even a husband at the moment. 753 00:49:15,139 --> 00:49:18,506 But there's my agent. Oh, he'll be so sad. 754 00:49:18,508 --> 00:49:21,775 He had five more years to go at 10%. 755 00:49:21,777 --> 00:49:25,511 And then there's Loreen Colvin. Oh, she'll cry the most. 756 00:49:25,513 --> 00:49:27,012 She'll give a beautiful performance, 757 00:49:27,014 --> 00:49:31,248 and then she'll try to get the part in the picture I was going to make. 758 00:49:31,250 --> 00:49:35,084 I suppose that's why I don't feel the way I thought I would. 759 00:49:35,086 --> 00:49:37,352 I would have stopped working quite a while ago... 760 00:49:37,354 --> 00:49:40,354 If I could have figured out what to do with myself. 761 00:49:40,356 --> 00:49:43,255 I was married three times, but it never came to anything. 762 00:49:43,257 --> 00:49:46,758 I wouldn't be surprised if it was all my fault. 763 00:49:46,760 --> 00:49:49,626 Maybe Providence is trying to tell me something. 764 00:49:49,628 --> 00:49:55,998 Maybe it took a first-class high dive into the middle of the Atlantic to make me quit. 765 00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:58,432 But maybe I'd rather it ended with a big splash. 766 00:49:58,434 --> 00:50:04,770 No, no. You've made people happy you don't even know about. 767 00:50:04,772 --> 00:50:05,871 Like my wife, Mary. 768 00:50:05,873 --> 00:50:11,475 She took me to see one of your pictures that last night before the bomb came. 769 00:50:11,477 --> 00:50:14,543 She talked about it a lot when we got home. 770 00:50:14,545 --> 00:50:18,679 You made that last night very happy for her. 771 00:50:18,681 --> 00:50:21,547 That's worth doing, miss Teasdale. 772 00:50:22,016 --> 00:50:23,715 You know, when we used to go to pictures, 773 00:50:23,717 --> 00:50:26,750 we used to walk right out on 'em when Mary didn't like them. 774 00:50:26,752 --> 00:50:31,386 We never walked out on one of your pictures. 775 00:50:34,491 --> 00:50:37,290 Mr. Honey, this is not exactly... 776 00:50:37,292 --> 00:50:40,026 The best compliment I've ever had. 777 00:50:40,028 --> 00:50:44,095 Maybe it's the nicest. That's why I had to tell you what I did. 778 00:50:44,097 --> 00:50:46,563 I have to do everything I can for you. 779 00:50:46,565 --> 00:50:49,899 You mean it too, don't you? 780 00:50:59,074 --> 00:51:03,442 You scientists are always so busy figuring out new things. 781 00:51:04,678 --> 00:51:07,611 Why don't you figure out a mascara that won't run? 782 00:51:07,613 --> 00:51:12,381 Oh, well, I'm afraid that's a little out of my field. 783 00:51:12,383 --> 00:51:16,283 Oh, I'll be as good as new in a minute. 784 00:51:16,752 --> 00:51:19,619 Thanks, for holding my hand. 785 00:51:27,726 --> 00:51:32,861 I wouldn't mind seeing something. I don't care very much what. 786 00:51:32,863 --> 00:51:38,398 Newfoundland ought to be around here somewhere, if I haven't added wrong. 787 00:51:38,400 --> 00:51:40,432 - How late are we? - An hour and 28 minutes. 788 00:51:40,434 --> 00:51:43,668 Well, it's about time I got them on their feet, isn't it? 789 00:51:43,670 --> 00:51:47,537 Leave 'em alone. This stuff's got gander airfield closed in. 790 00:51:47,539 --> 00:51:50,338 We may have to sit up here till it breaks. 791 00:51:50,340 --> 00:51:52,139 Oh, fine. 792 00:51:52,141 --> 00:51:55,541 - Want some coffee? - No. 793 00:52:11,556 --> 00:52:13,955 We'll start the inboard motors to land. 794 00:52:13,957 --> 00:52:16,490 - Hank, go and feather two and three. - Yes, sir. 795 00:52:16,492 --> 00:52:18,991 - How long? - Oh, about half an hour. 796 00:52:18,993 --> 00:52:21,059 I'll get them cracking back there. 797 00:52:21,061 --> 00:52:23,593 Oh, I'll take that coffee now. Thanks. 798 00:52:23,595 --> 00:52:25,261 Right. Take it, Sam. 799 00:52:25,263 --> 00:52:28,429 Call Gander tower. Tell them I want the runway cleared. 800 00:52:28,431 --> 00:52:31,565 Tell them I'm coming straight in on a direct approach. Okay. 801 00:52:31,567 --> 00:52:34,633 They're asking for an emergency landing. What's up? 802 00:52:34,635 --> 00:52:36,434 I don't know. He said it was a long story. 803 00:52:36,436 --> 00:52:39,969 Better phone A.O.A. Flight 52 and tell them to keep circling. 804 00:52:39,971 --> 00:52:42,770 I'll look after things down here. 805 00:52:49,477 --> 00:52:53,544 Good. Hello. 806 00:53:01,685 --> 00:53:04,185 Miss Teasdale? 807 00:53:04,187 --> 00:53:07,453 Miss Teasdale. We land in 20 minutes. 808 00:53:08,122 --> 00:53:12,723 - Would you like some coffee? - Twenty minutes? 809 00:53:12,725 --> 00:53:15,292 We're that close? 810 00:53:15,294 --> 00:53:20,362 - We're still all in one piece. - Yes, it's a lovely, clear night. 811 00:53:20,364 --> 00:53:23,964 So it is. The stars are out. 812 00:53:26,500 --> 00:53:30,101 I'll go back to my seat. 813 00:53:31,570 --> 00:53:34,938 - Would you like some coffee, Mr. Honey? - No, thank you. 814 00:53:34,940 --> 00:53:37,639 You did have rather a lot, didn't you? 815 00:53:37,641 --> 00:53:42,542 I'm sorry you had to be so worried, but I think we're quite all right now. 816 00:53:42,544 --> 00:53:43,676 We're all very lucky. 817 00:53:43,678 --> 00:53:48,579 You'll go back to your seat and fasten your safety belt for the landing, won't you? 818 00:53:48,581 --> 00:53:50,980 Yes. 819 00:53:54,085 --> 00:53:57,685 Gear down. Gear down, sir. Watch the undercarriage switch, sir. 820 00:53:57,687 --> 00:54:00,920 Safety locks are out. 821 00:54:11,230 --> 00:54:14,130 Full flaps. Full flaps, sir. 822 00:54:38,683 --> 00:54:39,748 Reverse pitch. 823 00:54:39,750 --> 00:54:45,419 Looks all right to me. I don't know what he was in such a hurry about. 824 00:55:08,839 --> 00:55:13,140 Right, sir. 825 00:55:23,182 --> 00:55:24,447 Quite a night, Mr. Honey. 826 00:55:24,449 --> 00:55:29,217 I guess you must have multiplied someplace where you should have divided. 827 00:55:30,620 --> 00:55:32,518 Miss Teasdale. How long do we stay here? 828 00:55:32,520 --> 00:55:36,555 - About an hour, I think, sir. - Thank you. 829 00:55:37,957 --> 00:55:43,025 - Yes, we can. Right there. - Thank you. 830 00:56:04,144 --> 00:56:09,012 Mr. Honey, will you come with me, please? 831 00:56:09,014 --> 00:56:12,014 Will you come too, miss Corder? 832 00:56:12,016 --> 00:56:15,017 Well, what was the trouble? Any news for me from London? 833 00:56:15,019 --> 00:56:17,151 No, not a thing. No, that'd make it too easy. 834 00:56:17,153 --> 00:56:19,186 - Where's the A.R.B. Inspector? - Well, he's probably asleep. 835 00:56:19,188 --> 00:56:23,455 Get him up. I want that aircraft inspected as no aircraft's been inspected in history. 836 00:56:23,457 --> 00:56:25,355 Every ruddy inch of her. Down to the last rivet. 837 00:56:25,357 --> 00:56:28,691 Dobson, break it to the passengers there's going to be a delay. 838 00:56:28,693 --> 00:56:30,725 Aye, aye, sir. Miss Corder? Sir? 839 00:56:30,727 --> 00:56:33,160 If, as I expect, this inspection is satisfactory and we take off, 840 00:56:33,162 --> 00:56:36,262 I'm taking responsibility for refusing to carry Mr. Honey on the flight, 841 00:56:36,264 --> 00:56:38,797 as I consider his presence an unnecessary hazard. 842 00:56:38,799 --> 00:56:40,898 I'll arrange that all other flights leaving this airfield... 843 00:56:40,900 --> 00:56:42,733 Are adequately informed about him before they carry him. 844 00:56:42,735 --> 00:56:46,535 It's your responsibility to see he doesn't get in touch with any of the passengers. 845 00:56:46,537 --> 00:56:50,971 I don't want them alarmed by what, in my opinion, are groundless, unnecessary fears. 846 00:56:50,973 --> 00:56:53,039 Got that? Yes, sir. 847 00:56:53,041 --> 00:56:55,407 Right. Let's go. 848 00:56:57,778 --> 00:57:01,178 Well, I feel rather like a policewoman. Don't like it very much. 849 00:57:01,180 --> 00:57:04,413 Well, I don't want to make any more trouble for you, miss Corder. 850 00:57:04,415 --> 00:57:07,082 Where do you want me to go? I know an office. 851 00:57:07,084 --> 00:57:10,150 Come on. Let's try and make it the nicest arrest that's ever happened. 852 00:57:10,152 --> 00:57:14,620 Are we going to leave on time? We're late already, you know. 853 00:57:14,622 --> 00:57:18,123 There'll be a short delay. The captain wants an inspection, that's all. 854 00:57:18,125 --> 00:57:19,423 It won't take long. Mr. Honey... 855 00:57:19,425 --> 00:57:21,792 They say it'll be two hours. It means it'll be three hours. 856 00:57:21,794 --> 00:57:24,994 Just once... I'd like to tell somebody what this is going to cost me. 857 00:57:24,996 --> 00:57:29,464 Some coffee, please. The one I liked best was the one where you killed your husband. 858 00:57:29,466 --> 00:57:32,600 - I thought that was smashing. - Yes, I liked that too. 859 00:57:37,405 --> 00:57:39,270 Well, that's nice and comfortable. 860 00:57:39,272 --> 00:57:43,106 I'll bring you something to eat, if you like. Bacon and eggs all right? 861 00:57:43,108 --> 00:57:44,807 Yes, that'd be very nice. 862 00:57:44,809 --> 00:57:47,009 I think it's better that you stay here, Mr. Honey. 863 00:57:47,011 --> 00:57:49,577 Some of the passengers get very upset about delays. 864 00:57:49,579 --> 00:57:52,845 They might find out it was you and say things they didn't really mean. 865 00:57:52,847 --> 00:57:58,983 - Well, I'll do anything you say, miss Corder. - Good. I'll be back in no time. 866 00:58:03,788 --> 00:58:06,121 Sorry. 867 00:58:19,264 --> 00:58:23,565 I brought your bag in from the plane. You really do travel light, don't you? 868 00:58:23,567 --> 00:58:25,500 Do you think the captain's going on? 869 00:58:25,502 --> 00:58:27,300 I suppose so. Unless they find something wrong. 870 00:58:27,302 --> 00:58:30,002 Now come on, while it's hot. But they won't find anything wrong. 871 00:58:30,004 --> 00:58:32,837 I told him that. I wish people didn't think they knew everything. 872 00:58:32,839 --> 00:58:37,240 You mean, you really believe it's going to crash whether they find anything or not? 873 00:58:37,242 --> 00:58:38,908 Yes, yes. I do believe that. 874 00:58:38,910 --> 00:58:42,176 Well, I've told him. He'll have to make his own decision now. 875 00:58:42,178 --> 00:58:46,012 Just one thing I'd like to get clear. How sure are you about this? 876 00:58:46,014 --> 00:58:48,681 You said it was going to happen last night, and it didn't. 877 00:58:48,683 --> 00:58:51,749 And you said you really didn't have any proof. Well, I-I'm quite sure. 878 00:58:51,751 --> 00:58:55,352 I've worked it out through three different channels, and the results all agree. 879 00:58:55,354 --> 00:58:58,721 Of course, I won't know until the evidence of my test. 880 00:58:58,723 --> 00:59:04,926 But I-I-I suppose if the captain goes ahead, that miss Teasdale will go too. 881 00:59:04,928 --> 00:59:06,526 I expect she will. 882 00:59:06,528 --> 00:59:10,362 I-I-I think she believed me for a little time last night. 883 00:59:10,364 --> 00:59:11,730 Then I... then I don't think she did. 884 00:59:11,732 --> 00:59:16,033 You know, it would be nice if you and Captain Samuelson could argue this out... 885 00:59:16,035 --> 00:59:19,169 And get together on whether it's going to fall apart or not. 886 00:59:19,171 --> 00:59:25,139 This is getting cold. That plane in labrador, that was proof in a way. 887 00:59:26,242 --> 00:59:29,142 I suppose there was a stewardess on that one too. 888 00:59:29,144 --> 00:59:32,611 Yes. Yes, I knew them both very well. 889 00:59:34,314 --> 00:59:37,547 Couldn't you believe me, miss Corder? 890 00:59:37,549 --> 00:59:40,282 You've been so very kind, and you... 891 00:59:40,284 --> 00:59:43,818 You ought to live and get married and bring up a family. 892 00:59:43,820 --> 00:59:46,052 You'd be very good at that. 893 00:59:46,054 --> 00:59:48,487 Well, thank you very much for that, Mr. Honey. 894 00:59:48,489 --> 00:59:52,790 You said that just about as nicely as anybody could. 895 00:59:52,792 --> 00:59:57,059 You know, I'd almost not go if it would help you stop worrying. 896 00:59:57,061 --> 01:00:00,661 But it's my job. And there's no way of making sure. 897 01:00:00,663 --> 01:00:04,430 And I don't think it's right to walk out on something like that. 898 01:00:04,432 --> 01:00:05,697 Do you know what I mean? 899 01:00:05,699 --> 01:00:09,266 I think everything will be all right if Captain Samuelson says so. 900 01:00:09,268 --> 01:00:11,901 He knows a great deal about aircraft. 901 01:00:11,903 --> 01:00:16,104 Now why don't you eat that up? It'll make you feel better. 902 01:00:18,607 --> 01:00:19,739 All right? 903 01:00:19,741 --> 01:00:24,142 Attention, please. Passengers, reindeer flight 26. 904 01:00:24,144 --> 01:00:28,178 Please be ready to board your plane in 20 minutes for the flight to Montreal. 905 01:00:28,180 --> 01:00:34,883 Flight 26, please be ready to board your plane in 20 minutes for Montreal. 906 01:00:36,453 --> 01:00:38,452 Well, I'd better be going. 907 01:00:38,454 --> 01:00:43,122 I won't lock you in, if you promise not to speak to any of the passengers. 908 01:00:43,124 --> 01:00:45,457 I won't. Well, good-bye, Mr. Honey. 909 01:00:45,459 --> 01:00:51,062 We'll see you in Montreal. And please, don't worry. 910 01:01:16,015 --> 01:01:18,147 No danger, of course. Once we're in the air. 911 01:01:18,149 --> 01:01:21,983 That's okay. Keep a man standing by the lever here on both taking off and landing, 912 01:01:21,985 --> 01:01:26,353 so nobody catches a coat on it or anything. Right. I'll see to that. 913 01:01:26,355 --> 01:01:29,989 - What are you doing here? - Captain, I-I just have to... 914 01:01:29,991 --> 01:01:32,724 Well, now that you're here, I want you to listen. 915 01:01:32,726 --> 01:01:34,358 I've told the inspector here all that you told me. 916 01:01:34,360 --> 01:01:39,028 Now, if you've anything to add, I want to hear it now, and I want him to hear it. 917 01:01:39,030 --> 01:01:40,895 No, sir. I-I don't... I don't have anything to add. 918 01:01:40,897 --> 01:01:45,932 As London doesn't take your opinion sufficiently seriously to order this aircraft grounded, 919 01:01:45,934 --> 01:01:48,567 I'm flying her on to Montreal. 920 01:01:48,569 --> 01:01:50,367 And I want you to get off and stay off. 921 01:01:50,369 --> 01:01:53,269 Captain, you mustn't take off in this airplane. You can't do it. 922 01:01:53,271 --> 01:01:55,637 Believe me, mathematics is a very exact science. 923 01:01:55,639 --> 01:01:58,306 You explained that already. Captain, it'll be just like the one in Labrador. 924 01:01:58,308 --> 01:02:01,941 - The stewardess, all these people... - You said that the last time. 925 01:02:01,943 --> 01:02:04,176 Leave that alone, you fool! 926 01:02:04,178 --> 01:02:08,078 Cut the prop! 927 01:02:32,130 --> 01:02:36,030 That swine. He wanted it wrecked. That inhuman swine! 928 01:02:36,032 --> 01:02:39,499 Cut that out! What'd you let him loose for? 929 01:02:39,501 --> 01:02:42,869 Better take him out of this before the passengers find out he did it. 930 01:02:42,871 --> 01:02:46,538 You'd better come with me, Mr. Honey. 931 01:02:49,875 --> 01:02:55,344 It just folded up. It just folded right up and sat down. 932 01:03:03,719 --> 01:03:06,286 Oh, there'll really be a delay for everybody now, won't there? 933 01:03:06,288 --> 01:03:11,657 I don't think there's any doubt about that. Tell me why... 934 01:03:12,626 --> 01:03:14,424 - He did do it, didn't he? - Yes, I'm afraid he did. 935 01:03:14,426 --> 01:03:17,326 If you believe in something, you believe in doing something about it, don't you? 936 01:03:17,328 --> 01:03:21,395 Well, they wouldn't listen to me and the lever was right there, so I just... pulled it. 937 01:03:21,397 --> 01:03:24,730 That's sticking your neck out pretty far, if you just thought it was going to crash. 938 01:03:24,732 --> 01:03:27,832 I tried to get them to ground the airplane. They wouldn't listen to me. 939 01:03:27,834 --> 01:03:29,433 The lever was just right there. So I just... 940 01:03:29,435 --> 01:03:31,701 You just pulled it. Don't those things cost an awful lot of money? 941 01:03:31,703 --> 01:03:36,071 A tremendous amount of money! Oh, this is going to cause a great deal of trouble, but... 942 01:03:36,073 --> 01:03:38,772 I should think it might. I-I don't know what they're going to do. 943 01:03:38,774 --> 01:03:41,307 I've never had any experience with anything like this before. 944 01:03:41,309 --> 01:03:46,511 I should think nobody has. I think this is a kind of a world's record. 945 01:03:46,513 --> 01:03:48,979 You didn't do that one for yourself either, did you? 946 01:03:48,981 --> 01:03:52,381 You could have been sitting right here on the ground when we took off. 947 01:03:52,383 --> 01:03:55,851 Looks to me like this was the men's room deal multiplied by quite a lot. 948 01:03:55,853 --> 01:04:00,221 Look, you keep him here. Some of the passengers won't be too pleased about all this. 949 01:04:00,223 --> 01:04:03,223 I'd like to find out what the payoff's going to be. 950 01:04:03,225 --> 01:04:04,924 Come to think of it. I think I ought to. 951 01:04:04,926 --> 01:04:07,859 Well, it's very nice of you not to be angry about the delay. 952 01:04:07,861 --> 01:04:13,196 Oh, it's worth it. You don't meet a world record every day. 953 01:04:16,567 --> 01:04:20,868 Well, I don't know whether to be glad or sorry I didn't lock the door. 954 01:04:20,870 --> 01:04:22,536 It never occurred to me you'd do anything like that. 955 01:04:22,538 --> 01:04:27,172 Well, it never occurred to me either! I suppose the airline will be very angry. 956 01:04:27,174 --> 01:04:30,041 That, I'm afraid, is probably quite an understatement. 957 01:04:30,043 --> 01:04:33,309 I can't imagine what the establishment will think. 958 01:04:33,311 --> 01:04:36,711 I suppose I'd better let them know what I've done. 959 01:04:36,713 --> 01:04:38,746 I imagine they'll hear about it. Uh-huh. 960 01:04:38,748 --> 01:04:43,249 Man kills airplane. There's apt to be quite a lot in the papers about that. 961 01:04:43,251 --> 01:04:45,416 Oh, dear. Well, Elspeth'll find out about it. 962 01:04:45,418 --> 01:04:46,984 I can't imagine what she'll think either. 963 01:04:46,986 --> 01:04:51,554 Look, Mr. Honey, we'll probably be sent back to London for reassignment... 964 01:04:51,556 --> 01:04:53,822 After they've sent another plane to pick up the passengers. 965 01:04:53,824 --> 01:04:57,825 Would it help if I went to see your little girl and told her you were all right? 966 01:04:57,827 --> 01:05:01,594 Would you do that for me? There's no telling what she'll hear, is there? 967 01:05:01,596 --> 01:05:05,763 Well, whatever she hears, I imagine she'll understand. 968 01:05:05,765 --> 01:05:09,133 Well, I wish I did. 969 01:05:23,744 --> 01:05:27,211 I would suggest that it is the solemn duty... 970 01:05:27,213 --> 01:05:30,146 For anyone who can find anything remotely humorous in all this... 971 01:05:30,148 --> 01:05:31,981 To share it with those of us who are less fortunate. 972 01:05:31,983 --> 01:05:36,150 Why, I couldn't help it, sir. Old Honey dropping a reindeer right on its belly. 973 01:05:36,152 --> 01:05:37,951 It's very funny. I see your point. 974 01:05:37,953 --> 01:05:39,584 But I can't precisely enjoy it at the moment. 975 01:05:39,586 --> 01:05:45,188 I don't remember another day like it. Half England's been on the telephone to me today. 976 01:05:45,190 --> 01:05:46,856 I think if one more person, friend or enemy, 977 01:05:46,858 --> 01:05:50,925 calls to ask if I've heard that our Mr. Honey has wrecked an aircraft at Gander... 978 01:05:50,927 --> 01:05:56,029 By pulling up the undercart, I'll... 979 01:05:56,765 --> 01:06:00,499 We'd better sort some kind of order out of all this. 980 01:06:01,034 --> 01:06:03,833 The chairman of the airline, sir David Moon, calling you, sir. 981 01:06:03,835 --> 01:06:05,501 I thought I said I'd take no more calls today. 982 01:06:05,503 --> 01:06:09,537 He said I was to take the telephone to you no matter where you were. 983 01:06:09,539 --> 01:06:11,872 All right. I'll take it. 984 01:06:11,874 --> 01:06:14,340 Hello. Yes, yes. Put him through. 985 01:06:14,342 --> 01:06:18,142 There are quite a few other calls, sir. You surprise me. 986 01:06:18,144 --> 01:06:19,610 Huh, the other half's getting in fast. 987 01:06:19,612 --> 01:06:23,980 The minister, the A.R.B., the treasury. Every newspaperman in the empire. 988 01:06:23,982 --> 01:06:25,681 Hello? 989 01:06:25,683 --> 01:06:27,982 Oh, hello. Hello, sir David. 990 01:06:27,984 --> 01:06:31,818 It's nice to hear from you. Oh, yes. That I very much heard. 991 01:06:31,820 --> 01:06:33,686 I have no way of knowing what he could have been thinking of. 992 01:06:33,688 --> 01:06:38,756 We'll get him back for the inquiry, and then perhaps when I've talked to him, I could... 993 01:06:38,758 --> 01:06:40,724 oh, I don't think you could mean that, sir David. 994 01:06:40,726 --> 01:06:46,761 No, no. I'm not at all prepared to assume he's a lunatic. At least, not yet. 995 01:06:46,763 --> 01:06:47,962 Yes, I quite realize that. 996 01:06:47,964 --> 01:06:51,798 But I don't think there's anything to be gained by losing our tempers. 997 01:06:51,800 --> 01:06:55,268 I want... hello? Hello! 998 01:06:56,270 --> 01:07:00,071 Where are the papers? I thought you'd want to see them, sir John. 999 01:07:00,073 --> 01:07:02,138 I'm not so sure. 1000 01:07:02,140 --> 01:07:04,106 Ah, here we are... "David and Goliath. 1001 01:07:04,108 --> 01:07:07,241 Mr. Theodore Honey as David brings down the reindeer single-handed." 1002 01:07:07,243 --> 01:07:10,210 There was one that called him the galahad of the airways. This is better. 1003 01:07:10,212 --> 01:07:14,146 Sir David's idea, eloquently put, was there isn't enough money in the Bank of England... 1004 01:07:14,148 --> 01:07:17,047 To pay for the damage done to themselves and British Aviation... 1005 01:07:17,049 --> 01:07:19,716 By the implication of the safety of their aircraft. 1006 01:07:19,718 --> 01:07:22,951 He did manage to sandwich in they wouldn't guarantee to bring him back, 1007 01:07:22,953 --> 01:07:24,752 that he refused to allow any more of their passengers... 1008 01:07:24,754 --> 01:07:28,454 To travel with an irresponsible madman who went about wrecking airplanes. 1009 01:07:28,456 --> 01:07:31,322 Suggested the R.A.F. Might carry him. They were equipped to take risks. 1010 01:07:31,324 --> 01:07:33,324 I can lay that on, sir, if he really means it. 1011 01:07:33,326 --> 01:07:35,058 He means it. We'll have him back for the inquiry. 1012 01:07:35,060 --> 01:07:38,761 - Miss Teasdale is here to see you, sir. - Teasdale? Who's miss Teasdale? 1013 01:07:38,763 --> 01:07:40,595 Miss Monica Teasdale, the film star, sir. 1014 01:07:40,597 --> 01:07:43,397 What's a film star doing here? Tell her I'm sorry. I can't... 1015 01:07:43,399 --> 01:07:46,565 Hand her over to major Pearl. She said she wanted to see you about Mr. Honey. 1016 01:07:46,567 --> 01:07:49,800 She crossed on the plane with him last night. But how can she be here? 1017 01:07:49,802 --> 01:07:51,835 Ask her to wait two minutes. I'll see her. 1018 01:07:51,837 --> 01:07:54,870 Well, gentlemen, there's one thing we can settle. 1019 01:07:54,872 --> 01:07:56,338 You must send someone else off to Labrador. 1020 01:07:56,340 --> 01:07:59,673 We mustn't show up at that inquiry without supporting evidence of some kind. 1021 01:07:59,675 --> 01:08:04,643 But for heaven's sake, send someone who can keep his mind on what he's trying to do. 1022 01:08:04,645 --> 01:08:05,644 No more boffins. 1023 01:08:05,646 --> 01:08:09,480 It is my opinion, sir John, that even this trouble should not lead us... 1024 01:08:09,482 --> 01:08:11,882 To saying that all scientists are foolish men and not to be trusted. 1025 01:08:11,884 --> 01:08:15,384 From what department did the gentleman come who took a bath in the public fountain... 1026 01:08:15,386 --> 01:08:19,787 And subsequently conceived the brilliant idea of pinching girls in the park? 1027 01:08:19,789 --> 01:08:21,155 I ask you to remember, sir John, 1028 01:08:21,157 --> 01:08:24,056 that the last time we decide not ever to mention this incident again. 1029 01:08:24,058 --> 01:08:26,358 All right. All right. I think that's all for today, gentlemen, 1030 01:08:26,360 --> 01:08:29,693 except for finding out what film stars have to do with all this. 1031 01:08:29,695 --> 01:08:30,527 Johnson? Yes? 1032 01:08:30,529 --> 01:08:32,529 - Ask miss Teasdale to come in. - Very good, sir. 1033 01:08:32,531 --> 01:08:35,030 Mr. Scott, I'd like you to stay. Good day, gentlemen. 1034 01:08:35,032 --> 01:08:38,032 Sir John, I assure you... Good night. 1035 01:08:49,843 --> 01:08:53,243 - Miss Teasdale, sir John. - How do you do, sir John? 1036 01:08:53,245 --> 01:08:55,678 - How kind of you to see me. - Not at all, miss Teasdale. 1037 01:08:55,680 --> 01:08:57,378 Let me present Mr. Scott. How do you do? 1038 01:08:57,380 --> 01:09:01,181 You're his boss, aren't you? I've heard a great deal about you. 1039 01:09:01,183 --> 01:09:02,414 Sit down, please. Thank you. 1040 01:09:02,416 --> 01:09:05,316 Did we hear correctly that you were on the plane last night with Mr. Honey? 1041 01:09:05,318 --> 01:09:07,550 That's right. Well, I don't understand. How did you get back here? 1042 01:09:07,552 --> 01:09:09,785 There was a plane coming through headed this way, and I got on it. 1043 01:09:09,787 --> 01:09:13,254 But if you want to know why I'm here, that would take a lot longer to tell you. 1044 01:09:13,256 --> 01:09:16,990 Did he ask you to give us any message? No. He doesn't know I'm here. 1045 01:09:16,992 --> 01:09:21,526 If you can give us any idea of what really happened, we shall be very grateful indeed. 1046 01:09:21,528 --> 01:09:24,295 They were going to take off, although he told them they shouldn't. 1047 01:09:24,297 --> 01:09:26,829 The lever was right there. He just pulled it. 1048 01:09:26,831 --> 01:09:28,497 You have never seen such a commotion in your life. 1049 01:09:28,499 --> 01:09:32,233 I guess a thing like that has never happened before in the history of the world. 1050 01:09:32,235 --> 01:09:34,735 Fortunately, no. Have you known Mr. Honey long? 1051 01:09:34,737 --> 01:09:37,136 No. I just met him last night, right after we took off. 1052 01:09:37,138 --> 01:09:39,204 He came to tell me that he thought we were in trouble. 1053 01:09:39,206 --> 01:09:42,839 But why should he want to alarm you when there was nothing you could do about it? 1054 01:09:42,841 --> 01:09:45,374 He thought there was something I could do. 1055 01:09:45,376 --> 01:09:48,576 He gave me his reasons, and they were good enough for me. 1056 01:09:48,578 --> 01:09:51,778 Did you believe him? What did he do? Explain his theory? 1057 01:09:51,780 --> 01:09:53,446 He did. And I believed him. 1058 01:09:53,448 --> 01:09:56,281 - Did you understand it? - Not a word. 1059 01:09:56,283 --> 01:09:58,082 Then I don't understand. 1060 01:09:58,084 --> 01:10:01,684 Oh, it isn't so hard, sir John. 1061 01:10:01,686 --> 01:10:03,519 I don't know much about mathematics, 1062 01:10:03,521 --> 01:10:06,053 but I know when a man knows what he's talking about. 1063 01:10:06,055 --> 01:10:08,188 Have you a light? Oh, of course. 1064 01:10:08,190 --> 01:10:10,822 May I smoke? Certainly. 1065 01:10:11,524 --> 01:10:13,657 I don't understand a thing about his theory. 1066 01:10:13,659 --> 01:10:16,025 But I've learned quite a lot about Mr. Honey, 1067 01:10:16,027 --> 01:10:19,161 and I know he isn't crazy like they're saying out there. 1068 01:10:19,163 --> 01:10:23,464 That funny little man is brave and kind and on the level. 1069 01:10:23,466 --> 01:10:25,998 And he believed what he was telling me. 1070 01:10:26,000 --> 01:10:28,633 But even I can see it's going to be awfully easy... 1071 01:10:28,635 --> 01:10:31,501 To settle a lot of things by throwing him to the wolves, 1072 01:10:31,503 --> 01:10:34,369 to say he's crazy and let it go at that. 1073 01:10:34,371 --> 01:10:37,872 That's why I wanted to meet the people he worked for... 1074 01:10:37,874 --> 01:10:41,007 To see if they're going to stand by him. 1075 01:10:41,009 --> 01:10:42,575 Somebody's got to, you know. 1076 01:10:42,577 --> 01:10:46,377 Miss Teasdale, I'd like to pay you a compliment. 1077 01:10:46,379 --> 01:10:51,114 You believe in things too, and that's very nice to see. But I have to add this. 1078 01:10:51,116 --> 01:10:53,549 I don't know whether Mr. Honey's right or wrong. 1079 01:10:53,551 --> 01:10:56,083 Neither does Mr. Scott, any more than you do. 1080 01:10:56,085 --> 01:10:57,317 There's no way of knowing. 1081 01:10:57,319 --> 01:11:02,087 But that certainly doesn't mean we're going to back up Mr. Honey blindly. 1082 01:11:02,089 --> 01:11:04,254 There's a matter called the truth which has to be served. 1083 01:11:04,256 --> 01:11:06,889 It's a difficult thing, the truth, in a case like this. 1084 01:11:06,891 --> 01:11:10,591 And the most I can promise you is we'll do our utmost to get at it. 1085 01:11:10,593 --> 01:11:14,894 And we hope it's going to be on Mr. Honey's side. 1086 01:11:15,830 --> 01:11:19,664 Well, the truth is a good deal, anyway. 1087 01:11:20,266 --> 01:11:24,834 I don't think there was much need in my coming, but I'm glad I did. 1088 01:11:25,570 --> 01:11:28,836 Thank you, sir John, for giving me your time. Good-bye. 1089 01:11:28,838 --> 01:11:30,604 Thank you, miss Teasdale. Good-bye. 1090 01:11:30,606 --> 01:11:34,673 I'll see you to your car. Thank you. 1091 01:11:40,279 --> 01:11:45,114 He means the trouble is going to be pretty bad. I'm afraid so. 1092 01:11:45,116 --> 01:11:47,349 Isn't there anything I could do for Mr. Honey? 1093 01:11:47,351 --> 01:11:50,819 Where can I find his little girl? I could go there and tell her that he's all right. 1094 01:11:50,821 --> 01:11:54,087 Oh, I think that would be very nice. I'll tell your driver where to go. 1095 01:11:54,089 --> 01:11:57,622 Oh, please don't bother. They'll tell me at the gate. Oh, all right. 1096 01:11:57,624 --> 01:12:02,325 Bye, Mr. Scott. And thank you. Good-bye, miss Teasdale. 1097 01:12:22,208 --> 01:12:25,475 Mr. Honey! 1098 01:12:55,498 --> 01:12:59,132 Mr. honey? Of course I know him. Where have you put him? 1099 01:12:59,134 --> 01:13:03,935 He seems rather odd, sir John. I wasn't sure you wished to see him. 1100 01:13:06,004 --> 01:13:10,138 Sir John, I want to protest very strongly. Why has my work been taken out of my hands? 1101 01:13:10,140 --> 01:13:11,639 Supposing we go somewhere where we can chat. 1102 01:13:11,641 --> 01:13:15,041 I'm not in the habit of going around wrecking things. You ought to know that. 1103 01:13:15,043 --> 01:13:19,611 Hold on for a minute, Mr. Honey. Come this way with me. 1104 01:13:19,613 --> 01:13:21,813 Mr. Scott, I must borrow you for a few minutes. 1105 01:13:21,815 --> 01:13:26,116 A friend of yours has arrived. Hello, Mr. Honey. 1106 01:13:26,118 --> 01:13:27,417 Yes. Come this way, Mr. Honey. 1107 01:13:27,419 --> 01:13:32,821 So, as far as we're concerned, there's one decision to be made and one only. 1108 01:13:32,823 --> 01:13:36,023 Whether we should allow the remaining reindeers to go on flying. 1109 01:13:36,025 --> 01:13:39,358 If they're to be grounded, that must be done at half your estimate. 1110 01:13:39,360 --> 01:13:41,059 We dare not cut safety finer than that. 1111 01:13:41,061 --> 01:13:45,395 The inquiry has been deferred until the last possible moment for making that decision, 1112 01:13:45,397 --> 01:13:50,132 which fortunately gives time enough for your test to reach the 1.440 mark, 1113 01:13:50,134 --> 01:13:51,333 plus some margin of error. 1114 01:13:51,335 --> 01:13:55,369 That's why it isn't yours anymore, or anyone else's. Too much depends on it. 1115 01:13:55,371 --> 01:13:59,472 If your test is a success, the airline and everyone else will be very grateful to you. 1116 01:13:59,474 --> 01:14:05,677 If it isn't, or we don't get supporting evidence of some kind from Labrador, then... 1117 01:14:05,679 --> 01:14:10,047 and this is the difficult part, Mr. Honey, so I'll put it bluntly. 1118 01:14:10,049 --> 01:14:13,449 Since none of them believe for a moment the test will succeed, 1119 01:14:13,451 --> 01:14:15,484 they feel it imperative that they should be prepared... 1120 01:14:15,486 --> 01:14:18,219 To issue as effective and as sweeping a statement as possible... 1121 01:14:18,221 --> 01:14:22,555 To offset the almost ruinous publicity that reindeers have received. 1122 01:14:22,557 --> 01:14:26,058 That yours was the act of an irresponsible, unbalanced mind, 1123 01:14:26,060 --> 01:14:27,625 which they believe to be true. 1124 01:14:27,627 --> 01:14:31,195 And they want the supporting opinion of qualified psychologists. 1125 01:14:31,197 --> 01:14:37,465 In other words, they wish to test you as well as the tailpiece. 1126 01:14:38,701 --> 01:14:43,669 To see if I'm insane? That's right. 1127 01:14:45,139 --> 01:14:48,439 Do you think I'm insane? I don't think you are, Mr. Honey. 1128 01:14:48,441 --> 01:14:52,175 Any more than I think you make a habit of going about wrecking things. 1129 01:14:52,177 --> 01:14:53,943 But there's no way to know that. 1130 01:14:53,945 --> 01:14:56,244 I'd hate to have them look me over at the moment. 1131 01:14:56,246 --> 01:15:00,381 But just now, I haven't the right to take anything for granted. 1132 01:15:00,383 --> 01:15:01,547 Please understand this. 1133 01:15:01,549 --> 01:15:06,050 I couldn't refuse without making it look like a blind defense of my staff. 1134 01:15:06,052 --> 01:15:10,421 But you can refuse if you like. That's your right. 1135 01:15:11,556 --> 01:15:13,556 No, I won't refuse. 1136 01:15:13,558 --> 01:15:15,391 Let them pry and poke if they want to. 1137 01:15:15,393 --> 01:15:19,127 Tell them I'll be in my office if they want to see me. 1138 01:15:19,129 --> 01:15:22,195 What about you, Mr. Scott? Do you think I'm ins... 1139 01:15:22,197 --> 01:15:26,898 No, there'd be no way for you to know either, would there? 1140 01:15:41,778 --> 01:15:45,145 Who is it? Who's that? 1141 01:15:45,147 --> 01:15:47,814 Oh, Mr. Honey. Oh, I beg your pardon. 1142 01:15:47,816 --> 01:15:49,448 Mr. Honey, it's me, Marjorie Corder. 1143 01:15:49,450 --> 01:15:52,917 We didn't expect you back tonight. I stayed with Elspeth. Somebody had to. 1144 01:15:52,919 --> 01:15:56,352 Well, that's very kind... you must be tired. Have you had anything to eat? 1145 01:15:56,354 --> 01:15:59,121 I don't... you probably didn't. I'll get you something. 1146 01:15:59,123 --> 01:16:01,922 We had lobster for supper. Do you like cold lobster? But I can manage. 1147 01:16:01,924 --> 01:16:07,493 It keeps me in practice. Now, why don't you go upstairs and take a look at Elspeth? 1148 01:16:44,624 --> 01:16:47,524 Well, did you notice anything? Well, she was asleep. 1149 01:16:47,526 --> 01:16:49,925 Anything different. I meant, about the house. 1150 01:16:49,927 --> 01:16:53,294 Well, you-you haven't got your clothes on. 1151 01:16:53,296 --> 01:16:55,896 No, in the room. The curtains. 1152 01:16:55,898 --> 01:17:01,567 Curtains? Why... well, where did this come from? 1153 01:17:01,569 --> 01:17:03,935 Well, that was a present from miss Teasdale. 1154 01:17:03,937 --> 01:17:06,404 Miss Teasdale? What? Is she here too? 1155 01:17:06,406 --> 01:17:07,937 No, she went to London for the night. 1156 01:17:07,939 --> 01:17:11,640 She got some lovely things for Elspeth's room too. Why don't you eat your supper? 1157 01:17:11,642 --> 01:17:15,943 Well, what did she want to do a thing like that for? I think you'd be surprised. 1158 01:17:15,945 --> 01:17:18,311 I imagine you were glad to see Farnborough again. 1159 01:17:18,313 --> 01:17:20,646 Did you stop by the laboratory? Yes, yes. I looked in. 1160 01:17:20,648 --> 01:17:24,348 Well, you don't seem exactly happy about that. Was there something wrong there? 1161 01:17:24,350 --> 01:17:27,216 No, no. Yes, yes, there was something wrong. 1162 01:17:27,218 --> 01:17:31,686 I-I can't expect to get any work done with people standing around peering at me. 1163 01:17:31,688 --> 01:17:33,854 I-I'm now known as the galahad of the airways. 1164 01:17:33,856 --> 01:17:40,726 Now, I-I-I heard someone saying, "imagine old honey collecting a poppy like Monica Teasdale." 1165 01:17:40,728 --> 01:17:43,127 Well, I expect they were just trying to be friendly. 1166 01:17:43,129 --> 01:17:47,497 I thought you were rather a galahad when you told miss Teasdale and me... 1167 01:17:47,499 --> 01:17:49,232 What to do in case there was an accident. 1168 01:17:49,234 --> 01:17:52,667 It's not such a bad thing to be. Here. Shall I do that for you? 1169 01:17:52,669 --> 01:17:55,735 No, I can manage here. You know, it's my fault anyway. 1170 01:17:55,737 --> 01:18:00,072 If you do anything wrong, you have no one to blame but yourself. 1171 01:18:04,843 --> 01:18:08,510 Just what-what was it that you thought you did wrong? 1172 01:18:08,512 --> 01:18:10,244 You did think there'd be a crash, didn't you? 1173 01:18:10,246 --> 01:18:14,381 Yes, but what I should have done is offer my hypothesis to the captain in an orderly manner... 1174 01:18:14,383 --> 01:18:17,116 And let him make his own decision, but I didn't do that. 1175 01:18:17,118 --> 01:18:18,617 No, when they wouldn't listen to me, 1176 01:18:18,619 --> 01:18:22,419 I kept thinking about you, lying dead up there in Labrador, like that other stewardess... 1177 01:18:22,421 --> 01:18:23,353 And miss Teasdale, and all the rest of them. 1178 01:18:23,355 --> 01:18:29,558 I wasn't orderly at all... not at all... and the lever was right there so I pulled it. 1179 01:18:29,560 --> 01:18:32,626 And that seemed wrong to you? Of course it seemed wrong! 1180 01:18:32,628 --> 01:18:36,328 How is anybody going to take my work seriously if I go around doing things like that? 1181 01:18:36,330 --> 01:18:39,897 Do you know that they're saying I'm crazy now? And I don't blame them! 1182 01:18:39,899 --> 01:18:44,467 You don't mean that if you had it all to do again, 1183 01:18:44,469 --> 01:18:46,569 you'd just let it go ahead and crash? 1184 01:18:46,571 --> 01:18:50,738 Well, that's just the point. I'd probably do the same thing over again. 1185 01:18:51,774 --> 01:18:54,673 I'm evidently quite a weak character, miss Corder. 1186 01:18:54,675 --> 01:18:58,076 The mistake I made was ever leaving Farnborough. 1187 01:18:58,078 --> 01:19:00,944 If I just hadn't left there, and if this all dies down, 1188 01:19:00,946 --> 01:19:05,480 I swear to you, I'm never going to leave my laboratory again. 1189 01:19:06,182 --> 01:19:08,948 Well, I think I'm a little sorry about that. 1190 01:19:08,950 --> 01:19:13,851 I know you have to be a scientist. I know you have important work to do. 1191 01:19:13,853 --> 01:19:16,587 But you're a person too, Mr. Honey. 1192 01:19:16,589 --> 01:19:19,655 Well, it's evidently quite difficult to be a person, miss Corder. 1193 01:19:19,657 --> 01:19:24,058 Yes, I suppose it is, but... Oh, well, never mind. 1194 01:19:24,060 --> 01:19:26,927 I expect you know what you're doing. I must clear this up. 1195 01:19:26,929 --> 01:19:29,028 You'd better get some rest. You'll need it. 1196 01:19:29,030 --> 01:19:32,964 Well, good night, miss Corder. Good night, Mr. Honey. 1197 01:19:32,966 --> 01:19:36,367 Well, I better get my things out of your way. Things? What... 1198 01:19:36,369 --> 01:19:39,435 my clothes and things. I'll move into Elspeth's room. 1199 01:19:39,437 --> 01:19:42,770 Well, uh, why, you mean you've been staying in my... oh. 1200 01:19:42,772 --> 01:19:46,640 Well, what's the matter? Well, I was just thinking of you, miss Corder. 1201 01:19:46,642 --> 01:19:49,141 Don't you think people will talk? 1202 01:19:49,143 --> 01:19:50,509 Oh, I see. 1203 01:19:50,511 --> 01:19:53,811 Well, I'm a nurse, you know. You have to be to be a stewardess. 1204 01:19:53,813 --> 01:19:58,548 Would it make it any better if I got hold of my nurse's uniform... 1205 01:19:58,550 --> 01:20:00,783 And put it on for the neighbors to see? 1206 01:20:00,785 --> 01:20:02,316 Well, I suppose that would be... 1207 01:20:02,318 --> 01:20:07,586 Well, that's what I'll do then. I'd like to come back just to see how things turn out. 1208 01:20:07,588 --> 01:20:11,456 Good night, Mr. honey. Yes. 1209 01:20:28,470 --> 01:20:32,537 Well! Who's sick? No one. I... 1210 01:20:32,539 --> 01:20:34,505 We had quite a problem last night. 1211 01:20:34,507 --> 01:20:36,239 Mr. Honey arrived back in the small hours. 1212 01:20:36,241 --> 01:20:41,109 He was so old-school about us both staying here. It was very sweet really. 1213 01:20:41,111 --> 01:20:44,579 And this has to do with explaining the situation to the neighbors. 1214 01:20:44,581 --> 01:20:47,047 I had to run over to Guildford this morning to get it. 1215 01:20:47,049 --> 01:20:50,183 It looks as if I missed something by going up to London last night. 1216 01:20:50,185 --> 01:20:54,119 Where is he? I suppose he couldn't wait to get down to Farnborough this morning... 1217 01:20:54,121 --> 01:20:57,855 To see his playthings again. Well, that's exactly what happened. 1218 01:20:57,857 --> 01:20:59,656 I'd like to hear about it. Some coffee left? 1219 01:20:59,658 --> 01:21:03,625 Why don't you come in there? Why, what's the matter with... 1220 01:21:03,627 --> 01:21:07,394 Oh, you've been busy. I had nothing else to do. 1221 01:21:07,396 --> 01:21:11,196 It looks as though he wears one suit and goes to sleep in the other. 1222 01:21:11,198 --> 01:21:14,566 I don't know how long it can be since he bought something for himself. 1223 01:21:14,568 --> 01:21:18,535 I thought you were the one who thought a man shouldn't have things done for him. 1224 01:21:18,537 --> 01:21:22,371 That goes for his character, but not necessarily his trousers. 1225 01:21:22,373 --> 01:21:26,240 That's very domestic. You're full of surprises. 1226 01:21:26,242 --> 01:21:29,609 Tell me something. I've been thinking about it. 1227 01:21:29,611 --> 01:21:33,179 How would you go about getting him to make it under his own steam? 1228 01:21:33,181 --> 01:21:35,213 That's what you were holding out for, as I remember it. 1229 01:21:35,215 --> 01:21:38,382 I don't think that part of it is really any of my business. 1230 01:21:38,384 --> 01:21:41,717 It's just that... I don't know. We talked a lot last night, 1231 01:21:41,719 --> 01:21:46,387 and he seemed like a little boy who's had his first fight and got hurt. 1232 01:21:46,389 --> 01:21:48,255 And so he says, "I'll never fight again." 1233 01:21:48,257 --> 01:21:51,257 Well, he can't keep on running back to his laboratory. 1234 01:21:51,259 --> 01:21:53,758 That's all right for the scientist, but not for him. 1235 01:21:53,760 --> 01:21:56,127 He will get into trouble if he does that now. 1236 01:21:56,129 --> 01:21:59,329 And I don't think he can make himself do it, really. 1237 01:21:59,331 --> 01:22:02,498 I think he's better than that. 1238 01:22:03,067 --> 01:22:05,433 You must have talked quite a bit. 1239 01:22:05,435 --> 01:22:10,136 Funny that a kid like you would bother to see so much in anybody like him. 1240 01:22:10,138 --> 01:22:14,539 It's not so funny, really. You get around, being a stewardess. 1241 01:22:14,541 --> 01:22:15,740 That doesn't cover it. 1242 01:22:15,742 --> 01:22:18,374 You've been married, or a lot in love sometime or other, haven't you? 1243 01:22:18,376 --> 01:22:21,410 I don't think that has anything to do with it. What was it? 1244 01:22:21,412 --> 01:22:26,547 Oh, you've heard it before. He was shot down over Arnheim. We'd been married a month. 1245 01:22:26,549 --> 01:22:32,184 Sure, that says it. Maybe it says even more than you think it does. 1246 01:22:32,186 --> 01:22:35,853 Well, this'll take some thinking about. 1247 01:22:35,855 --> 01:22:38,921 And I'll have time for that. I'm leaving for California tonight. 1248 01:22:38,923 --> 01:22:42,356 There was a flock of cables at the Dorchester when I got there. 1249 01:22:42,358 --> 01:22:43,657 The studio wants to get going. 1250 01:22:43,659 --> 01:22:47,860 This is a little sudden, isn't it? What about all the things you talked about? 1251 01:22:47,862 --> 01:22:50,629 Helping him to find an answer and everything? 1252 01:22:50,631 --> 01:22:53,764 I meant it. Don't think I didn't. And I still do. 1253 01:22:53,766 --> 01:22:56,665 Maybe it would have been the best chance I'll ever have... 1254 01:22:56,667 --> 01:22:58,500 To be a lot of things I'd like to be. 1255 01:22:58,502 --> 01:23:02,102 Only I suppose you can't do a thing like that just a little bit... 1256 01:23:02,104 --> 01:23:04,571 Mixing into other people's lives, I mean. 1257 01:23:04,573 --> 01:23:07,940 You can start something maybe you can't finish. 1258 01:23:07,942 --> 01:23:12,043 What got me was his being so anxious to save me for posterity. 1259 01:23:12,045 --> 01:23:15,179 I've never had anything do my self-esteem so much good. 1260 01:23:15,181 --> 01:23:18,981 So, I'd better go back and give posterity another break. 1261 01:23:18,983 --> 01:23:24,652 It won't hurt to wait a while and see how things work out. 1262 01:23:25,087 --> 01:23:27,152 That box in there is a dress for Elspeth. 1263 01:23:27,154 --> 01:23:30,954 I saw it in a window, and it just yelled to belong to her. 1264 01:23:30,956 --> 01:23:35,158 Tell her I'll write, will you? Aren't you going to wait and see them? 1265 01:23:35,160 --> 01:23:38,226 No, I don't think so. I might weaken. 1266 01:23:38,761 --> 01:23:40,793 Hello, miss Teasdale. Look who's here. Sugar plum. 1267 01:23:40,795 --> 01:23:43,729 Hello, miss Corder. I hurried. I-I hoped you'd be back. 1268 01:23:43,731 --> 01:23:47,965 Well, here I am. Don't you look pretty? Am I really all right? 1269 01:23:47,967 --> 01:23:51,434 I've never seen an apple blossom look quite as sweet. 1270 01:23:51,436 --> 01:23:53,235 Here's a present for you, honey. 1271 01:23:53,237 --> 01:23:57,338 Oh, I really shouldn't have another one. May I look? 1272 01:23:57,340 --> 01:23:58,472 Of course. 1273 01:23:58,474 --> 01:24:01,607 Why don't you take it up to your room and look at it there? 1274 01:24:01,609 --> 01:24:04,475 That'll be nicer. All right, I will. 1275 01:24:04,477 --> 01:24:09,046 It's... it's like Christmas, only much more so. 1276 01:24:12,884 --> 01:24:14,782 Well. 1277 01:24:14,784 --> 01:24:17,317 Does that mean good-bye then? Sure. 1278 01:24:17,319 --> 01:24:18,618 There's no use making anything of it. 1279 01:24:18,620 --> 01:24:21,987 That's one thing you learn in my business... how to get off. 1280 01:24:21,989 --> 01:24:26,590 I wish you wouldn't go. Maybe I'll be back. Never can tell. 1281 01:24:26,592 --> 01:24:29,458 You're a nice kid, Marjorie. I have an idea you know what's going on. 1282 01:24:29,460 --> 01:24:36,730 You might let me know. I'll get the price on a laboratory or two, just in case. 1283 01:24:38,100 --> 01:24:41,400 Well, good luck. 1284 01:24:41,402 --> 01:24:45,002 Keep on telling her she's pretty, will you? 1285 01:24:45,004 --> 01:24:49,005 I will, Monica. Right. 1286 01:24:57,013 --> 01:24:59,846 Honey, I... 1287 01:25:05,252 --> 01:25:09,019 It sounds discouragingly healthy to me. What's your zero hour exactly? 1288 01:25:09,021 --> 01:25:14,723 2:00 this afternoon. Let me know the minute it even shivers. 1289 01:26:15,672 --> 01:26:21,307 Well, it hasn't got much longer. The day of inquiry has just begun. 1290 01:26:37,088 --> 01:26:39,720 Oh, I-I'm afraid I'd forgotten you were here. 1291 01:26:39,722 --> 01:26:41,621 I'm sorry. I should have let you know. 1292 01:26:41,623 --> 01:26:46,057 Well, I let elspeth stay down for a while. What happened? 1293 01:26:46,059 --> 01:26:48,893 Nothing. Nothing happened at all. 1294 01:26:48,895 --> 01:26:52,896 My figures clearly said the tail should fall off, and the tail didn't fall off. 1295 01:26:52,898 --> 01:26:57,532 I-I-it's seven percent above my figure. I-it didn't fall off. 1296 01:26:57,534 --> 01:27:02,102 Oh, I'm sorry. Well, what happens now? 1297 01:27:02,104 --> 01:27:06,505 Well, I-I-I've been thinking about that on the way home. 1298 01:27:06,507 --> 01:27:07,639 I'll go to the inquiry, 1299 01:27:07,641 --> 01:27:12,576 and I'll stand up, and I'll explain my figures to a group of very angry men, 1300 01:27:12,578 --> 01:27:16,011 and then they'll reject the whole thing. 1301 01:27:16,013 --> 01:27:17,946 Then I'll sit down. 1302 01:27:17,948 --> 01:27:22,849 I'll sit down and listen to them say that I'm insane because of what I did in Gander. 1303 01:27:22,851 --> 01:27:27,152 And perhaps I am. I-I'm not sure, you know. 1304 01:27:27,154 --> 01:27:30,387 A qualified psychiatrist will testify to that. 1305 01:27:30,389 --> 01:27:34,656 I talked to three of them this afternoon. They... 1306 01:27:34,658 --> 01:27:36,758 No, that was yesterday, wasn't it? 1307 01:27:36,760 --> 01:27:40,026 But they showed me a page of ink blots and asked me... 1308 01:27:40,028 --> 01:27:42,094 If it reminded me of elephants or tigers. 1309 01:27:42,096 --> 01:27:48,064 Well, I... it didn't remind me of elephants or ti... it was just ink blots. 1310 01:27:48,066 --> 01:27:53,768 I-I-I think that the truth is only that I-I've made a mistake somewhere in my work. 1311 01:27:53,770 --> 01:28:00,073 I-I don't know where it is, but I have to have time to find out where the mistake is. 1312 01:28:00,075 --> 01:28:02,541 But there won't be any time. 1313 01:28:02,543 --> 01:28:03,909 And my work'll be thrown out in anger, 1314 01:28:03,911 --> 01:28:08,846 and a principle that might've had one grain of truth in it will be lost. 1315 01:28:08,848 --> 01:28:14,417 But I'll sit there. I'll sit there, and I won't say a word. 1316 01:28:14,419 --> 01:28:16,385 And then what? 1317 01:28:16,387 --> 01:28:18,352 Well, there's other work to be done. 1318 01:28:18,354 --> 01:28:20,754 And I'll get back to doing it somewhere. I... 1319 01:28:20,756 --> 01:28:23,288 With everything just as it was? 1320 01:28:23,290 --> 01:28:27,024 Yes. I'm rather glad it's over. 1321 01:28:27,026 --> 01:28:28,825 But you can't do that. 1322 01:28:28,827 --> 01:28:30,893 You can't just sit there and say nothing. 1323 01:28:30,895 --> 01:28:35,463 If you believe something is right, you have to do it if you want to live with yourself. 1324 01:28:35,465 --> 01:28:39,466 If you don't, you'll have to pay for it sooner or later, and so will Elspeth. 1325 01:28:39,468 --> 01:28:43,302 What about elspeth? Everything is just to be as it was for her too? 1326 01:28:43,304 --> 01:28:47,171 Yes, she was very glad to have it that way. She was very happy. 1327 01:28:47,173 --> 01:28:50,440 Oh, it's as simple as that. I see. 1328 01:28:50,442 --> 01:28:53,141 Well, I'm sorry. It's the wrong time to talk. 1329 01:28:53,143 --> 01:28:56,276 There isn't very much point either. 1330 01:28:56,845 --> 01:29:02,047 It's my last day, you know. But I'd rather say good-bye when you come back. 1331 01:29:02,049 --> 01:29:05,016 I start my job again tomorrow. 1332 01:29:05,018 --> 01:29:07,450 Funny if they put me back on reindeers. 1333 01:29:07,452 --> 01:29:10,518 That really would be gander all over again, wouldn't it? 1334 01:29:10,520 --> 01:29:12,553 No, but you wouldn't do that? 1335 01:29:12,555 --> 01:29:15,988 Supposing I did. Would you let me? 1336 01:29:32,970 --> 01:29:35,069 Hello. 1337 01:29:35,071 --> 01:29:37,971 It's time to get ready for school, isn't it? 1338 01:29:37,973 --> 01:29:41,640 Yes. Did the tail fall off, father? 1339 01:29:41,642 --> 01:29:44,241 No, dear, it didn't. 1340 01:29:44,243 --> 01:29:48,278 You mustn't worry about it. It will someday. 1341 01:29:48,280 --> 01:29:52,814 Oh, I don't know, dear. I-I suppose it will. 1342 01:29:54,449 --> 01:29:59,484 Is anything the matter? No. I was just thinking. 1343 01:30:00,487 --> 01:30:01,886 What about? 1344 01:30:01,888 --> 01:30:07,257 Nothing. Just about the impermanence of events and things like that. 1345 01:30:07,259 --> 01:30:09,391 What do you mean, dear? 1346 01:30:09,393 --> 01:30:11,893 Well, about it's all being over. 1347 01:30:11,895 --> 01:30:15,195 Miss Teasdale's gone, and miss Corder will be, 1348 01:30:15,197 --> 01:30:17,397 and the people out in front... 1349 01:30:17,399 --> 01:30:20,232 And everybody wanting to talk to me at school... 1350 01:30:20,234 --> 01:30:23,334 that sort of thing isn't very permanent, is it? 1351 01:30:23,336 --> 01:30:29,472 It's-it's like Christmas... everybody very nice to everybody else for a little while, 1352 01:30:29,474 --> 01:30:31,907 but then it doesn't last. 1353 01:30:31,909 --> 01:30:33,974 Why is that, father? 1354 01:30:33,976 --> 01:30:36,142 Oh, I don't know, dear. 1355 01:30:36,144 --> 01:30:39,310 Don't they talk to you all the time in school? 1356 01:30:39,312 --> 01:30:42,745 Oh, no. I'm a swot, you know. 1357 01:30:42,747 --> 01:30:46,548 Oh, I didn't know you were a swot. What is a swot? 1358 01:30:46,550 --> 01:30:48,982 Well, a swot is rather the sort of person... 1359 01:30:48,984 --> 01:30:52,451 People don't talk to very much because they're different. 1360 01:30:52,453 --> 01:30:55,821 Like my intellectual quotient being too high. 1361 01:30:55,823 --> 01:30:58,022 Well, do you mind being a swot? 1362 01:30:58,024 --> 01:31:01,591 Oh, no. But it was exciting, rather not being. 1363 01:31:01,593 --> 01:31:04,760 Everybody wanting me to get them autographs and things. 1364 01:31:04,762 --> 01:31:08,662 But if things like that are so impermanent, like Christmas, 1365 01:31:08,664 --> 01:31:11,630 then it would be much better if... 1366 01:31:11,632 --> 01:31:13,465 I was thinking. 1367 01:31:13,467 --> 01:31:16,467 I put away the things miss Teasdale gave me. 1368 01:31:16,469 --> 01:31:20,404 And I was thinking maybe if I didn't go to school anymore, 1369 01:31:20,406 --> 01:31:22,471 I'm sure I'd learn much more here with you, 1370 01:31:22,473 --> 01:31:26,006 because there wouldn't be other things to think about and... 1371 01:31:26,008 --> 01:31:30,443 Things being impermanent and... 1372 01:31:30,445 --> 01:31:36,213 Dear, what? Well, you mustn't do that. What-what's the matter, dear? 1373 01:31:36,215 --> 01:31:38,215 Go away! 1374 01:31:43,754 --> 01:31:45,053 Well, are you sick, dear? 1375 01:31:45,055 --> 01:31:47,287 I'm all right. 1376 01:31:47,289 --> 01:31:50,889 Please, go away and leave me alone. 1377 01:32:09,205 --> 01:32:12,705 I insist that to ground the reindeer fleet even for 24 hours... 1378 01:32:12,707 --> 01:32:17,408 Would be a tacit admission of the charge that we have been flying unsafe aircraft. 1379 01:32:17,410 --> 01:32:21,110 And I refuse to deal such a deathblow to British transatlantic aviation... 1380 01:32:21,112 --> 01:32:25,680 On what is now the unsupported opinion of Mr. Theodore Honey. 1381 01:32:25,682 --> 01:32:29,716 I'd suggest that the kindest thing that can be said of Mr. Honey... 1382 01:32:29,718 --> 01:32:31,317 Is that his is an unstable mind... 1383 01:32:31,319 --> 01:32:36,387 With an obsession that can carry him to great extremes, as we have well seen in Gander. 1384 01:32:36,389 --> 01:32:39,389 I submit it is not only fair, but imperative, 1385 01:32:39,391 --> 01:32:44,359 that an immediate finding to that effect be issued by this board. 1386 01:32:46,296 --> 01:32:48,428 Well, gentlemen. My view is that I... 1387 01:32:48,430 --> 01:32:49,929 Mr. chairman, I would like to try... 1388 01:32:49,931 --> 01:32:54,332 Now, wait a minute, Mr... Mr. chairman. I'm going to say something. 1389 01:32:54,334 --> 01:32:57,535 Now it isn't hard to see what you're going to decide, and you can't do that. 1390 01:32:57,537 --> 01:33:02,739 Now you're talking about me because of what I did in Gander. And this isn't personal. 1391 01:33:02,741 --> 01:33:05,674 I didn't invent the mathematics that made me believe what I did. 1392 01:33:05,676 --> 01:33:08,742 And I still believe that there's truth in my work... test or no test. 1393 01:33:08,744 --> 01:33:11,811 When you believe in something, that's what you've got to do, isn't it? 1394 01:33:11,813 --> 01:33:13,711 If you want to live with yourself. 1395 01:33:13,713 --> 01:33:15,679 Now I don't know what I'm going to do about this. 1396 01:33:15,681 --> 01:33:19,481 I thought I might write The Times a letter. I don't think they'd understand either. 1397 01:33:19,483 --> 01:33:23,250 So, the first thing I'm going to do is to resign right here and now... 1398 01:33:23,252 --> 01:33:24,851 So the establishment won't be mixed up in it. 1399 01:33:24,853 --> 01:33:28,253 And then, every time a reindeer is going to take off that shouldn't, 1400 01:33:28,255 --> 01:33:30,088 I'm going out there and wreck it. 1401 01:33:30,090 --> 01:33:32,622 Now, you may put me in jail... you may put me in jail, 1402 01:33:32,624 --> 01:33:34,991 but they wrote a lot about me when I wrecked that one in Gander. 1403 01:33:34,993 --> 01:33:38,626 They'll write more about me here. And people just won't get on those airplanes. 1404 01:33:38,628 --> 01:33:40,260 And I'm going to tell you something else. 1405 01:33:40,262 --> 01:33:42,394 The minute anything does happen to one of these reindeers, 1406 01:33:42,396 --> 01:33:44,629 you're going to have to think of something better to say... 1407 01:33:44,631 --> 01:33:47,697 Than anything I've heard here this afternoon. 1408 01:33:47,699 --> 01:33:49,632 That's all. 1409 01:33:49,634 --> 01:33:53,868 Good day. That's all. 1410 01:33:55,638 --> 01:34:00,506 Well, gentlemen... 1411 01:34:05,745 --> 01:34:08,244 Good afternoon. 1412 01:34:08,946 --> 01:34:12,313 You know, there was some Sherry around here someplace. 1413 01:34:12,315 --> 01:34:14,715 I rather thought I'd have some. 1414 01:34:14,717 --> 01:34:18,784 Uh, it's over by that bookcase over there. 1415 01:34:18,786 --> 01:34:21,051 Oh. 1416 01:34:21,920 --> 01:34:25,353 Is it over? Yes, yes, it's over. 1417 01:34:25,355 --> 01:34:28,956 I didn't stay for the end. I made a speech, and then I left. 1418 01:34:28,958 --> 01:34:34,193 What about? Oh, a whole lot of things. Pretty good speech too. 1419 01:34:34,795 --> 01:34:37,594 So you couldn't just sit there, then? No. 1420 01:34:37,596 --> 01:34:42,097 Are there any glasses? Oh, here are some. No. 1421 01:34:42,099 --> 01:34:46,567 I, uh... I resigned. 1422 01:34:47,036 --> 01:34:50,669 You didn't. Well, I couldn't just sit there, could I? 1423 01:34:50,671 --> 01:34:52,904 Well, what-what are you going to do to live on? 1424 01:34:52,906 --> 01:34:56,006 There's Elspeth. Have you got any money at all, Mr. Honey? 1425 01:34:56,008 --> 01:34:58,541 Well, I don't know how much, but... Where's your book? 1426 01:34:58,543 --> 01:35:01,476 Book? Well, it's right there. 1427 01:35:04,446 --> 01:35:07,380 Do you know how much money you have to live on? 1428 01:35:07,382 --> 01:35:09,347 No. Three pounds, 13 and 6. 1429 01:35:09,349 --> 01:35:14,084 No, wait. You haven't put anything in the bank for months. 1430 01:35:14,086 --> 01:35:15,852 What do you do with your money? 1431 01:35:15,854 --> 01:35:20,722 I-I think there's some over here in one of these. 1432 01:35:20,724 --> 01:35:22,924 There. Here's some. 1433 01:35:22,926 --> 01:35:25,425 Here's some more here. 1434 01:35:28,296 --> 01:35:33,563 March, January. Two, three. Seven months! 1435 01:35:33,565 --> 01:35:37,400 You haven't put anything into the bank for seven months. 1436 01:35:37,402 --> 01:35:40,535 You have lots of money. 1437 01:35:40,537 --> 01:35:43,069 I shouldn't have worried, should I? 1438 01:35:43,071 --> 01:35:46,005 You don't need anyone. Yeah, well... 1439 01:35:46,007 --> 01:35:48,272 Yes, you do. What's the matter? You're not going to cry? 1440 01:35:48,274 --> 01:35:53,476 I can't go away and leave you and go back to work. It isn't safe. 1441 01:35:53,478 --> 01:35:56,512 You've got to have somebody looking after you. 1442 01:35:56,514 --> 01:36:00,248 I'm going to marry you and-and live here, 1443 01:36:00,250 --> 01:36:03,016 whether you have a job or not. 1444 01:36:03,018 --> 01:36:06,319 Well... you... 1445 01:36:10,357 --> 01:36:11,389 Thank you. 1446 01:36:11,391 --> 01:36:15,125 Yes, and he'll probably do it too. We'd better go see him before... 1447 01:36:15,127 --> 01:36:16,860 Your secretary sent this over, sir John. 1448 01:36:16,862 --> 01:36:20,095 She tried you at the meeting, but they wouldn't put her through. 1449 01:36:20,097 --> 01:36:23,163 She said it was very urgent. Why, thank you. 1450 01:36:26,301 --> 01:36:30,068 Where is sir David Moon? I hope he hasn't left. 1451 01:36:30,070 --> 01:36:32,536 I can't wait for this. It's from Nixon in Labrador. 1452 01:36:32,538 --> 01:36:36,639 He says they found the tail spar, and it's a fatigue fracture if ever he saw one. 1453 01:36:36,641 --> 01:36:40,409 Sir John, I've had the most incredible piece of information. You haven't heard mine. 1454 01:36:40,411 --> 01:36:44,345 They've just made the first test flight on our plane at gander after it was repaired. 1455 01:36:44,347 --> 01:36:46,079 It made a perfect landing on the airport, 1456 01:36:46,081 --> 01:36:48,314 and the tail collapsed while it was taxiing to the hangar. 1457 01:36:48,316 --> 01:36:52,583 - I could hardly believe it, and I... - Perhaps this will help you. 1458 01:36:57,921 --> 01:37:02,622 We've received two messages from Labrador and Gander which bear you out completely. 1459 01:37:02,624 --> 01:37:04,156 Oh? Well, that's good. 1460 01:37:04,158 --> 01:37:07,258 You-you know, I can't see where I could have gone wrong in this. 1461 01:37:07,260 --> 01:37:10,660 I've worked it out through three different channels. Didn't you hear me? 1462 01:37:32,212 --> 01:37:35,378 Ah, temperature. Temperature! 1463 01:37:35,380 --> 01:37:37,580 That's it. That's a variable factor, isn't it? 1464 01:37:37,582 --> 01:37:40,515 If that plane in gander had been flying in the tropics... 1465 01:37:40,517 --> 01:37:41,782 This test is in a heated shed. 1466 01:37:41,784 --> 01:37:47,253 It would have collapsed on schedule if I'd lowered the temperature 40 degrees. 1467 01:37:48,305 --> 01:38:48,236 Support us and become VIP member to remove all ads from www.OpenSubtitles.org