1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:22,000 ["Deutsch 2 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:40,000 It's as sharp as a real car heart, isn't it? 3 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:41,000 Marvellous! 4 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:42,000 Do you remember? 5 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:44,000 She used to cook for the Kaiser before the war. 6 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:47,000 And when it all started, she had to say the word. 7 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:50,000 She had to say the word. 8 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:53,000 You see, Gus, Bob was the star. 9 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:55,000 Sit back to the center of the fetch these ages. 10 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:57,000 You go head right down the fetch of yourself. 11 00:00:57,000 --> 00:00:59,000 You just go in and it misses the shuttle's room. 12 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:01,000 Must be under our tips there. 13 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:02,000 Poor little Belgium. 14 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:04,000 That little frog's made of force. 15 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:06,000 Does he just be here? 16 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:07,000 You only? 17 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:09,000 Yes, just a new stunt with Freddie Bryan. 18 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:10,000 Oldbury House. 19 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:11,000 A good friend? 20 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:12,000 Her turn. 21 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:15,000 Filling in some bloody battles you've offered liberally. 22 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:17,000 Being silly in the depth on mosquitoes. 23 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:19,000 Sitting in the North Sea, waiting for the grand fleet to come out 24 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:21,000 and give battle as they work. 25 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:22,000 They've got this service. 26 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:23,000 Let's get a sneak in. 27 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:25,000 Must be a feeling of shame, Mrs. Trotter. 28 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:27,000 Yes, shame and anger. 29 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:33,000 When I look around in this room and see the faces of these gallant young men going off to face death with such courage, 30 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:36,000 I am bitterly ashamed of my country's neutrality. 31 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:39,000 Well, I shouldn't feel too bad about it, Mr. Brewster. 32 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:42,000 After all, the Americans have sought a neutral on our side, aren't they? 33 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:45,000 Well, their hearts and minds are with you. 34 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:49,000 I firmly believe that the sinking of the Lucetani would bring their physical support too. 35 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:51,000 As I wrote to my sister-in-law... 36 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:52,000 Yes, always, Mrs. Trotter. 37 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:54,000 The letter from her the other day. 38 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:56,000 Oh, well enough, thank you, but worried. 39 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:01,000 Since the Zephyr on the tax, she appears to think that the country is under continuous aerial bombardment. 40 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:06,000 I am obliged to reassure of my safety by writing to her at least once a week, or she would suspect the worst. 41 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:08,000 Oh, dear. 42 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:10,000 I don't know. 43 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:12,000 Oh, I'm so sorry about that. 44 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:13,000 I should think so. 45 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:17,000 This is a party, not a band of hope-me-ting, it's a moron. 46 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:31,000 It was very kind of you to invite me to your celebration, Mrs. Trotter. 47 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:34,000 May I inquire as to just what the occasion is? 48 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:37,000 Oh, it's not my part, in it's young Freddie Briden's. 49 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:39,000 The naval left him the top of the major. 50 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:42,000 He's been posted off to join the ship tonight. 51 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:45,000 I swear, if I was a younger man, I'd volunteer myself. 52 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:47,000 You're doing your bit, Mr. Brewster. 53 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:51,000 Well, let's steal. We get from America to make the shells and guns. 54 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:55,000 We got enough shirk as ever on to get to uniform before we started Americans. 55 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:58,000 But one in the hotel is it happens, but that was an accident. 56 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:01,000 I wonder, Mrs. Trotter, if... 57 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:05,000 Well, I hesitate to ask less you consider it an example of American brushness. 58 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:07,000 Oh, you can't get a shot for asking. 59 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:11,000 I would like to, well, to do my bit in a small way, if I may. 60 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:16,000 Mrs. Trotter, may I pay for Lieutenant Briden's party? Please, I intend no offense. 61 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:20,000 I'm not sure if he delighted. No treating Lord and a plan to the painting. 62 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:21,000 I'll see it goes on your bill. 63 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:27,000 I'd feel privileged. I would also like to shake the hand of Lieutenant Briden and wish him safe waters. 64 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:29,000 Oh, this is enough, right? I'll bring him home. 65 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:30,000 Thank you. 66 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:33,000 Freddie, somebody who wants to meet you, say Bonne Bauge. 67 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:36,000 To the light, is Louis. He just point me in his direction. 68 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:39,000 Well, in your state, you sit down again. 69 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:41,000 You wouldn't see in which direction I was pointing to. 70 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:43,000 I'd say, but I don't think you've got time, really. 71 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:46,000 You're Lord, you're right. I've got a train to catch. Half past six stars. 72 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:48,000 Six stars hasn't even brought my bags down yet. 73 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:50,000 Well, we missed that one. It's six, fifteen already. 74 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:55,000 Oh, I don't know. I could drive him to Chanton Cross at no time. In fact, I could drive him down to a folkster. 75 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:58,000 When you're in your state, my bus, no you don't. 76 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:01,000 Mary-Man, you pop outside your star, the next train to post. 77 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:04,000 Well, I'm certain they're yes, but I'm putting gas bottles. 78 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:05,000 You get on with it. 79 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:09,000 And you can ask Mary to make a post-aculture a big one. 80 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:11,000 Mr. Broster. 81 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:13,000 This is Lieutenant Briden. 82 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,000 Mr. Broster. 83 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:17,000 Mr. Broster. 84 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:19,000 This is Louis. 85 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:21,000 The daughter. 86 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:22,000 The daughter. 87 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:24,000 I'm here on Indian Street. 88 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:25,000 I'm here. 89 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:26,000 I'm here. 90 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:27,000 I'm here. 91 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:28,000 I'm here. 92 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:29,000 I'm here. 93 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:30,000 I'm here. 94 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:33,000 There was a very kind thought you had, Mr. Broster. 95 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:35,000 My pleasure, Mrs. Trotter. 96 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:37,000 And most likable fellow young Briden. 97 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:39,000 I wish we'd had time to get better acquainted. 98 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:40,000 Oh, well. 99 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:43,000 Good evening, Mrs. Trotter. 100 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:45,000 Some excitement, a good scene. 101 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:49,000 Just saying someone off to defend his country, Mr. Applebee. 102 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:53,000 Mr. Broster. This is a more champagne lift. 103 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:54,000 Oh, thank you. 104 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:01,000 All right, yes, Lord. 105 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,000 Yes, Mr. Stauff? 106 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:05,000 Oh, Stovis. 107 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:06,000 Get your coat on. 108 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:07,000 Looks martish. 109 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:08,000 I'll be in. 110 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:17,000 He's a shirker. 111 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:18,000 This way he is. A shirker. 112 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:23,000 If you feel so strongly about it, Mrs. Trotter, I'm surprised that you gave Mr. Applebee a room. 113 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:26,000 It was Mary that done that. I wasn't here when he arrived, you see. 114 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:27,000 He was limping. 115 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:30,000 She thought maybe he'd been discharged because of a war wound. 116 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:32,000 He had a bit of trouble about it. A war back. 117 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:34,000 I've been careful ever since. 118 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:39,000 If the benting made its guess register, I'll have spotted him for a shirker straight away. 119 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:42,000 But we don't. 120 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:44,000 So was the war before a fair nap. 121 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:48,000 I've been meant to chuck him out ever since. I just haven't got around to it. 122 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:51,000 Still, if Mr. Applebee was unfit for active service. 123 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:54,000 He told the maidry sprain his ankle for all of us. 124 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:57,000 He's got a job at the Foreign Office translating things. 125 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:00,000 A cushy bellet for the duration. He makes me feel ashamed. 126 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:03,000 Well, why should you feel ashamed? 127 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:07,000 Well, it's a funny thing, Mr. Bruce. I don't come from the upper cross myself. Not my long chute. 128 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:10,000 But they've always been my salt. I've stood up for them. 129 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:12,000 Even if some of the things that are better weren't true. 130 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:16,000 I have long held at the English aristocracy as an ornament to your society. 131 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:19,000 And I speak as a Republican voting American. 132 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:23,000 And when it came to this country's hour of need, they didn't need to be asked twice. 133 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:26,000 I felt proud of him, Mr. Bruce. I really did. 134 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:29,000 I know there's a lot of old men dying out there in France. 135 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:32,000 But a pair of little blue bloods been spilled into the ground as well. 136 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:37,000 Yes, one has only to look at the casually list to see the terrible toll among the officers. 137 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:40,000 And Mr. Bleednapop, he's making sure his name's not on it. 138 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:42,000 Most likely used his connections to keep out of it. 139 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:45,000 That makes him even worse from the ordinary shirk, huh? 140 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:49,000 When he goes, I won't have him back. And he might be going sooner than he thinks. 141 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:58,000 I'm not going to be able to do that. 142 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:00,000 I'm not going to be able to do that. 143 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:02,000 I'm not going to be able to do that. 144 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:04,000 I'm not going to be able to do that. 145 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:06,000 I'm not going to be able to do that. 146 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:08,000 I'm not going to be able to do that. 147 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:10,000 I'm not going to be able to do that. 148 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:12,000 I'm not going to be able to do that. 149 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:14,000 I'm not going to be able to do that. 150 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:16,000 I'm not going to be able to do that. 151 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:18,000 I'm not going to be able to do that. 152 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:20,000 I'm not going to be able to do that. 153 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:22,000 I'm not going to be able to do that. 154 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:24,000 I'm not going to be able to do that. 155 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:26,000 I'm not going to do that. 156 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:44,000 Bartlett. 157 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:47,000 Nice to see you again. Thank you. 158 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:49,000 I think we might have our discussion here. 159 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:51,000 pond Maxwell does my office. 160 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:53,000 Careful drink, the full-length. 161 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:55,000 I'm sure. Disgusting beverage, I agree. 162 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:58,000 But as a lifelong T-total, I've become reconciled 163 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:01,000 to being punished for the sin of total abstinence. 164 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:03,000 Totalities? To be deplored in anything? 165 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:04,000 Except more? 166 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:06,000 Sherry of Auntilario? 167 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:07,000 And a cell, sir. 168 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:08,000 Say this. 169 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:11,000 Good, but God, waitresses in the Earth and the Earth. 170 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:13,000 Oh, the present conflict has reached a stage 171 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:15,000 of unimaginable ferocity. 172 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:17,000 I imagine naval intelligence, officer, 173 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:21,000 might have a very clear view of just how ferocious it could become. 174 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:23,000 Well, the U-boats could become a decisive factor. 175 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:25,000 Mm. Still. 176 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:28,000 They're unlikely to be torpedoed at the Admiralty. 177 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:29,000 They'll come to think of it. 178 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:30,000 I've just fired one of the war on this. 179 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:32,000 Really? What if you were trying to sink? 180 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:34,000 Or suggestion a proposal of mine reeling 181 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:36,000 foliage and futility? 182 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:37,000 This Brussels business? 183 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:39,000 Nurse Cavill affair. 184 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:40,000 You have some long driving? 185 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:43,000 Some years I've heard a British nurse has been charged with spying. 186 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:45,000 She isn't a spy, of course. 187 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:49,000 She's certainly offended against the German military code. 188 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:51,000 Has been a suggestion that we might 189 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:52,000 mount a military operation to rescuer. 190 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:53,000 Oh, difficult. 191 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:55,000 The Russians ought not difficult, impossible. 192 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:57,000 Her idea is quite preposterous, 193 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:59,000 and I've had to say so in very direct terms. 194 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:00,000 There's very important people. 195 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:04,000 But when a woman is threatened with a firing squad, 196 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:06,000 emotion overcomes reason. 197 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:07,000 You don't really think a German will shoot her? 198 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:09,000 Oh, they wouldn't be there today. 199 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:11,000 They might pronounce the sentence. 200 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:16,000 But did we modify it in the light of diplomatic protests 201 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:18,000 when the neutrals, the Americans have already indicated such a move? 202 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:20,000 And we believe that Spain will do likewise. 203 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:23,000 But a military operation preposterous? 204 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:25,000 Oh, I see, but of course you at a bad time. 205 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:26,000 I didn't chat these days. 206 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:28,000 It's always a bad time. 207 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:31,000 Well, your health figures and yours. 208 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:36,000 Now, how can I do for you? 209 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:39,000 Well, I'd like the cooperation of the other intelligence branches, 210 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:41,000 the police and where. 211 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:43,000 And I'd like it with a minimum of red tape 212 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:45,000 since I'm dealing with them out of some urgency. 213 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:48,000 You've heard of the Q-ships? 214 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:51,000 Gunboats disguised as tramp steamer. 215 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:53,000 You know, our most effective weapon against the submarine. 216 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:55,000 Crews dress him up to you. 217 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:57,000 Keep as far away as possible from other naval personnel 218 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:59,000 until nobody what they are. 219 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:01,000 They have strict operational instructions 220 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:03,000 in the event that their vessel is torpedoed. 221 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:05,000 They have to give the... 222 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:08,000 ...comherence of being a stricken, defenseless merchantman 223 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:11,000 until the submarine's services to finish them off as shellfire. 224 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:15,000 At that point, the U-boat becomes vulnerable to their own concealed guns. 225 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:17,000 Science scheme. 226 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:19,000 We know the German Navy is short of torpedoes. 227 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:21,000 They wouldn't waste two on a tramp. 228 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:23,000 Yes, they did. That's just the point. 229 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:26,000 Our Q-ship, the men-eye trader, was torpedoed twice in the channel 230 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:28,000 and the U-boat didn't service. 231 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:29,000 Taking no chances. 232 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:31,000 Oh, I was more than that, much more. 233 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:34,000 At same day, the U-boat itself was sunk by a destroyer 234 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:36,000 and some of the crew were taking prisoner. 235 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:38,000 I was present when they were being interrogated. 236 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:40,000 It soon became clear that the submarine commander 237 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:43,000 knew very well what the men-eye trader was. 238 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:44,000 Good Lord. 239 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:46,000 How could he? 240 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:49,000 Well, there were no survivors from the Q-ship, 241 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:52,000 but I questioned several relatives, and one, 242 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:55,000 and more than an inkling of the vessel's purpose. 243 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:57,000 The, uh... 244 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:00,000 ...we also have one of the, uh, officers. 245 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:03,000 Lieutenant Brydon, a receiver of that, I promise. 246 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:07,000 In which he described his training, said where he was being sent, 247 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:10,000 and worst of all, named the ship. 248 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:13,000 Anyone really could have made an intelligence kit. 249 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:17,000 Poor, indiscreet, dead, chappy. 250 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:20,000 I suppose she talked about it all in with the plane? 251 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:24,000 She says not, and I'm inclined to believe her. 252 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:30,000 So, the other possibility is that Lieutenant Brydon himself did the talking. 253 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:32,000 If so, to whom? 254 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:34,000 Mm. 255 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:36,000 May I see the letter? 256 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:38,000 Oh, yes, too. 257 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:42,000 Oh, I didn't know you were here, sir. 258 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:43,000 I just got in the bedroom. 259 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:45,000 I'll come back and finish in your letter, if you like. 260 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:46,000 And now I'm off again in a minute. 261 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:49,000 Where's the maid who usually does my room? 262 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:51,000 She's been off sick for the past few days. 263 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:54,000 Can't get a replacement or the more going into the room. 264 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:57,000 She's been off sick for the past few days. 265 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:00,000 Can't get a replacement or the more going into the room. 266 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:03,000 She's been off sick for the past few days. 267 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:06,000 Can't get a replacement or the more going into the room. 268 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:10,000 Ah, the war. Not a weirdest some business, it is, to be sure. 269 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,000 Weirdies? 270 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:14,000 I've got a beerie, some, sir. 271 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:19,000 The drabness of it all, once our eyes get quite sick of the sight of all that khaki. 272 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:23,000 Damnly difficult to get a decent meal, even, still, I suppose, the benting's doing its best 273 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:25,000 to maintain some sort of standards. 274 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:27,000 We'll be managing all right. 275 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:30,000 Some things are a bit short, but Mrs. Trotter knows how to get all to them. 276 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:32,000 Mr. Maryman says it's all the four of us. 277 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:37,000 Maryman? Oh, the happy, go-lucky octogenarian with the super-stained thumb. 278 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:39,000 What does he know about it? 279 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:42,000 Well, he would. Seeing as how he'd been to see. 280 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:45,000 Is Nelson's cabin boy, perhaps? 281 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:48,000 No, he was a steward on a liner once. 282 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:52,000 Anyway, he says that the Germans are sinking all our ships because they want to starve us out. 283 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:56,000 That very uncivil of them, I believe, the British blockade has the same object. 284 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:58,000 Oh, but that's different. 285 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:03,000 I mean, after what the Germans did in Belgium and places like that, you want to ask us what about that? 286 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:05,000 Well, they're not bothered if you don't mind. 287 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:07,000 There's others after bother. 288 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:10,000 Them that's in the trench is getting killed. 289 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:12,000 For me? 290 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:14,000 Oh, no, no. 291 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:16,000 I don't know that sort of thing, no. 292 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:17,000 Mr. come out the cushion. 293 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:22,000 Of course. And now that I look more closely, I can see that it isn't pure white. 294 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:25,000 More of a lightish brown still, perhaps, there's no more. 295 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:30,000 More of a lightish brown still, perhaps, that indicates a qualified contempt. 296 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:33,000 I told you, sir, it came out of the cushion. 297 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:35,000 And you shouldn't speak to me like that, especially when... 298 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:37,000 Especially when? 299 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:40,000 Especially when you're the only one in this place that ever gives me a smile. 300 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:41,000 I didn't say that, sir. 301 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:43,000 You didn't have to. What's your name? 302 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:45,000 Mary Phillips, sir. 303 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:49,000 Then I think you should know, Mary Phillips, that I do not consider the opinions of servants 304 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:53,000 be they favorable or otherwise to be matters of any consequence. 305 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:55,000 Do I make myself clear? 306 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:59,000 You use some long words to tell me to mind my own business. 307 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:01,000 I appear to have been understood. 308 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:11,000 That's the rules, all done, mama. Is there anything else? 309 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:15,000 No, if you go and enjoy yourself, you haven't had a day off in weeks, have you? 310 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:16,000 I won't be back late. 311 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:18,000 Don't you think I'm not here, isn't it? 312 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:22,000 No. No, for a month. This is his last. 313 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:25,000 I don't know why he hasn't written. 314 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:27,000 Well, I expect he's busy out there in France. 315 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:30,000 They're all busy out there in France. 316 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:34,000 Oh, well, it's sick, mama. 317 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:37,000 I had someone talk in the other night. 318 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:41,000 Seems it's going to be a big battle soon, if it hasn't started already. 319 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:43,000 It's somewhere called Lou's. 320 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:47,000 Never do it, but still, he might not be in it. 321 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:49,000 Well, er, that's where the guards are. 322 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:52,000 Since Charlie's in the guards, that means he'll be in the battle, don't it? 323 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:53,000 Oh, no. 324 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:56,000 Probably be well away from the fighting in the Rhianne with all the generals. 325 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:59,000 If there's a fire plummet, be there, Mary, appeal a thick of it. 326 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:02,000 I didn't mean I meant with him being so important. 327 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:04,000 Yeah, yeah, no, what do you mean? 328 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:07,000 Oh, I'm sorry I've fluffed the air noise. 329 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:10,000 Just I wish I knew where it was, isn't it? 330 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:13,000 Are they not allowed to see that sort of thing, are they? 331 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:15,000 No, we made good a letter from a young man this morning. 332 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:17,000 Are they said anything by the time they'd censored it? 333 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:19,000 Just that he missed, don't thank them for the socks. 334 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:22,000 Well, at least she knew who was alive. 335 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:25,000 Oh, he was, when he wrote it. 336 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:26,000 Lou's. 337 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:28,000 Miss, look it up on the map. 338 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:31,000 Oh, what's that, ma'am? 339 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:33,000 Moved. 340 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:37,000 Maybe this drive mugged from Flanders. 341 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:43,000 From where he is, where they all are, most of them. 342 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:46,000 Mrs Cochrane was on at meet the sign of the pledge, says she has. 343 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:48,000 Well, that won't be much of a sacrifice. 344 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:50,000 She never is more like lassist to help. 345 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:52,000 Oh, no, not that pledge. 346 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:55,000 The other one, where you promise not to go out with any man who is in a uniform. 347 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:57,000 Which also be a fun thing. 348 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:00,000 Still, shows her arts in the right place. 349 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:02,000 I'll be off now. 350 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:04,000 Morning, there you go. 351 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:16,000 Lovely. 352 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:24,000 Is Mrs Trotter in star? 353 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:26,000 One moment, eh? 354 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:28,000 Oh, you can go first without. 355 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:29,000 Really cool. 356 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:34,000 Mr Rapple is outside, madam. 357 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:35,000 What does it feel seen? 358 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:37,000 Yeah, all right, show me. 359 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:38,000 I'm sorry. 360 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:41,000 Good evening, Mrs Trotter. 361 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:43,000 I apologize and I've interrupted your meal. 362 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:45,000 You're off? Where you want? 363 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:49,000 I'd like a word with a maid who cleaned my room this morning. 364 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:51,000 Mary, I think she's called. 365 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:54,000 She is, and your count is a night off. 366 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:00,000 Oh, if you see Gaspar, tell him to get his coat on, really. 367 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:03,000 All right, you'll leave that for now. 368 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:06,000 Mr Star wants you to take her under post. 369 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:08,000 All right, Mr Rappleby. 370 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:10,000 I'll ask her back when she comes in. 371 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:13,000 I'd be obliged. Good night. 372 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:16,000 When are you leaving, Mr Rappleby? 373 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:19,000 A direct question. Why do you ask? 374 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:22,000 Because I need the room for someone else. 375 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:24,000 Now, that's only half true. 376 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:27,000 Because I need the room for someone else. 377 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:29,000 Now, that's only half true. 378 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:31,000 Because your ear under false pretenses, that's why. 379 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:34,000 It's the policy of this hotel to take only servicemen, 380 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:37,000 or then that's been wounded in the war, and you're neither. 381 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:41,000 Your persistence as a recruiting officer can only be admired, Mrs Trotter. 382 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:44,000 You've got to be persistent with them that won't take a hint. 383 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:47,000 The management of this hotel reserves the right to refuse admission. 384 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:50,000 But hardly the right to evict without good reason. 385 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:52,000 I've given you the reason. 386 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:54,000 And I'd love to start. Chuck you out, it needs me. 387 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:58,000 Then I should feel obliged to make the circumstances very public indeed. 388 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:01,000 Now, what do you want to hang a bet where you're not wanted? 389 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:03,000 Plenty of other hotels, let's choose it. 390 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:07,000 But few, I imagine, whose kitchens can provide such fulsome 391 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:11,000 if unpatriotic fare as the bentings. 392 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:15,000 Do you mean unpatriotic? 393 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:18,000 Come, come, Mrs Trotter. You know perfectly well, what I mean. 394 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:22,000 I'm not afraid of fiddling a little bit here and there. 395 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:24,000 We feed fighting men here. 396 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:27,000 Like Bantam Cox, if they can afford it. 397 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:31,000 But in these times of scarcity and deprivation of certain, 398 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:35,000 public aprobrium attaches to those who manage to avoid both. 399 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:41,000 I'm sure for the sake of your guests, if not for yourself, that you would not wish to attract it. 400 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:43,000 Oh, you're a clever dick, aren't you? 401 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:46,000 You wouldn't come out of it too well, neither. 402 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:51,000 Yes, but as I'm sure we'd both agree, I am a creature without shame. 403 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:54,000 Good night, Mrs Trotter. 404 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:02,000 Beans, ma'am. The tour? 405 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:05,000 Undercooked. I can give him a bit of cabbage as well. 406 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:07,000 See that the life's spoiled out of it. 407 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:11,000 Mr Apple Bismenya receives my personal attention from now on. 408 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:15,000 Oh, a merriman, since curry since short supply, I'll have to make doing a barley water. 409 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:16,000 Bali water? 410 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:20,000 Mmm, ma'am. I never thought you'd serve me like that. I don't know. You can bring yourself to do it. 411 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:22,000 I'm gritting my teeth, Merrick. 412 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:27,000 I won't see that his room's done last, if it's done at all, because we're short of staff, because there's a war on. 413 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:32,000 Excuse me, Mrs Trotter. There's a left tenant Bartlett. Royal Navy would like a word. I've shown him into your room. 414 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:36,000 You know, I'll be there. Play out there. Is it a minute? Take it down, Mrs Cochran. Oh, Linda. 415 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:39,000 I'll just gotta save some cabbage for his dinner. 416 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:41,000 Tom. 417 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:45,000 To serve a gentleman with beans and cabbage and barley water, I'd be ashamed to look a bit of the eye. 418 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:46,000 Where's gas pine? 419 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:49,000 Well, I'm sorry. I can't let you out that information. 420 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:53,000 If you could, Mrs Trotter, I assure you you would be helping the war, if it. 421 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:58,000 War or no war? The business of the guests that stay at the benton is private. 422 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:01,000 You're not checking up on those that hasn't registered. 423 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:03,000 My duties have nothing to do with the National Register. 424 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:06,000 Well, that's just as well, because you'd be wasting your time. 425 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:09,000 Oh, I guess rather, too old. Or in uniform or foreigners. 426 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:10,000 Foreigner? 427 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:14,000 Well, Americans. They're not strictly foreigners in a manner of speaking. 428 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:18,000 It's their manner of speaking that makes them foreigners, but I take your meaning. 429 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:23,000 Mrs Trotter, I can officially requisition the hotel records if I have to. 430 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:26,000 But I'd rather rely on your cooperation. 431 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:35,000 Made with intelligence? Some to do with Spine, isn't it? 432 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:36,000 In essence, yes. 433 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:39,000 Well, I'm not having you, Spine or Marcus. 434 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:42,000 Question is, are any of them spying on us? 435 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:52,000 I don't know. I don't know. What's it all coming to? 436 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:56,000 First bar, he warded out, so, sir, I don't know. 437 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:02,000 Freddy Briden. 438 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:06,000 His young fool's milk, they with the fool's horse. 439 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:10,000 I think he said they'd go with all that. 440 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:14,000 He got shot down in one of them, observation balloons. 441 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:18,000 Oh, go. Any of you, one of them. 442 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:22,000 I don't think it's going to do with the benton. 443 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:24,000 Got no spars here. 444 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:27,000 Only secret. We've got my recipe for quail pudding. 445 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:30,000 Cars and build, didn't care much for that, as I remember. 446 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:35,000 The line of mine, Quires, is a tenuous one, Mrs Trotter, but it's the best we have at the moment. 447 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:42,000 With the high-ranking military people who have here, all to be a German fly on the wall when they're talking. 448 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:49,000 Well, I'd like to take this, and I must ask you for a completeness to be your staff, including any that may have left recently. 449 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:52,000 Here, I'll have a seat to it. Good. 450 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:57,000 For one further thing, you will understand that what I have told you is completely confidential. 451 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:59,000 It must go no further. 452 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:02,000 And that is not a request. 453 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:10,000 Star, Major? 454 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:13,000 Go on to the dispense for a cup of tea, can I help? 455 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:15,000 Yeah, I'll be a pleasure. 456 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:17,000 Ask Maryman to send you an appot for me. 457 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:24,000 Are you sure, Mr Maryman? 458 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:26,000 Of course, I'm sure I got eyes, not that bad. 459 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:30,000 Oh, I'm Maryman. Mrs Trotter's back. She ducked tea in the parlour of runs. 460 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:31,000 Major? 461 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:34,000 What do you make of this, sir? 462 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:38,000 It's a German newspaper. 463 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:40,000 Are we poised, Mike? Can you read German? 464 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:43,000 Well, not exactly fluent, you know, but enough. 465 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:48,000 Says they're winning the war. 466 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:49,000 They're winning liars. 467 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:52,000 Says it'll be all over in 18 months. 468 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:56,000 There's a bit here about the Allies mistreating German prisoners of war. 469 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:58,000 I say, Star, we're enough to forget this. 470 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:01,000 Well, we keep our newspapers. Mrs Cochran uses them to clean out the oven. 471 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:03,000 I just happen to come across it in the bundle. 472 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:05,000 This is only a fortnight out, how enough to get here. 473 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:08,000 That's what we use, Mr Merriman thinks. He saw gaspar breeding it. 474 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:11,000 Well, not thinks I saw with him. That's a fact. 475 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:14,000 And he looked guilty when I called him, told him the times because I found him slacking. 476 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:17,000 What would he be doing with a German newspaper? Gaspar's a Belgian. 477 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,000 Says he is. 478 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:21,000 Now, look, this could be very serious. 479 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:25,000 There is some suspicion that the Germans may have planted spies among the refugees. 480 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:26,000 What I tell you. 481 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:28,000 Well, nothing much so far. 482 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:31,000 Just that you caught gaspar breeding a paper when he should have been working. 483 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:33,000 And he looked guilty, which is no more than I'd expect. 484 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:35,000 But the date of this thing needs some explaining. 485 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:37,000 Well, he's a spy, that explains. 486 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,000 He's a blooming careless way. We left that line at bay. 487 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:41,000 Just what does he get out to at night? 488 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:43,000 Well, that's right. I'd like to know. 489 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:46,000 Big mistake putting him up there in that topmost attic. Zippernans. 490 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:47,000 What about them? 491 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:49,000 Well, easy enough to signal Zippernans up there. 492 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:50,000 Perfect place for him. 493 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:52,000 Bring a bomb down on top of us one of these nights. 494 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:54,000 He'd get killed himself. 495 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:56,000 Oh, he's probably made some arrangements. 496 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:57,000 We're in to avoid that. 497 00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,000 By telling you this, he gets up to something. 498 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,000 A couple of times, like coming over late at night. 499 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,000 And there's the lights placed away, does that he? 500 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:04,000 See those plays you like? 501 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:08,000 The Strel 502 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,000 This had better be investigated before it goes into further. 503 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:12,000 I will undertake to do so. 504 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:16,000 In the meantime, on no, I can't let gaspar see your suspicious. 505 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:18,000 And we'll keep this whole matter to ourselves. 506 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:20,000 No, no, T, no, no, right. 507 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:25,000 No progress at all, I've read. 508 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:27,000 I had to take Mrs. Trot under my confidence, 509 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:28,000 as some extended. 510 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:29,000 She's promised to keep an eye on printing hard, 511 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,000 but I'm not very hopeful. 512 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:33,000 Although I did have another look at that letter 513 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:34,000 that Tenebriven sent to his fiancé. 514 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:35,000 Yeah? 515 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:38,000 Yes, I noticed the letter was dated the 14th. 516 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,000 But post-mart, the 15th. 517 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:42,000 While is it significant? 518 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,000 I'll bet you'll ever get to post letters, 519 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:46,000 carry them butt in my pocket today. 520 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:47,000 That's true. 521 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:49,000 I'm grasping at straws on this, Rick. 522 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:51,000 Not many much start with our inquiries 523 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:52,000 at the Benticle Leadership Room. 524 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:53,000 They already have. 525 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:56,000 The Roodelac Kultur Brussels. 526 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:58,000 Edith Cowell's hospital. 527 00:24:58,000 --> 00:24:59,000 Paul Eddy. 528 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:01,000 If I'm visiting the Governor General, 529 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,000 it's not noted for his sentimentality. 530 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:05,000 I think she'll be sure. 531 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:07,000 You don't sound particularly outraged at the sort. 532 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,000 Oh, and it has to be realistic. 533 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:11,000 And assisting the escape of Allied prisoners 534 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:12,000 and as cowellers are some values, 535 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,000 the prisoner herself, she's not. 536 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:15,000 That'll mark her. 537 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,000 That's a different story. 538 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:20,000 You could add a hundred thousand volunteers to the colors 539 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:23,000 and produce the most significant effect on world opinion. 540 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,000 That is very realistic. 541 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:27,000 The viewer is not simply my own. 542 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:30,000 I've heard it expressed much higher levels. 543 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:35,000 I think I should go to a monastery after the war. 544 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:39,000 I doubt if you'd find one with a reputation for making seltzer. 545 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:42,000 But what bearings does this have on the bentic? 546 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,000 It hasn't been quite a lot. 547 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:47,000 When Nurse Cavill was arrested, 548 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:51,000 more than 30 Belgians' villains were arrested at the same time. 549 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:55,000 It's one being Mademoiselle Justine Gaspar. 550 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:57,000 You recognize the name? 551 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,000 Yes. 552 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:02,000 I saw it on that list, Mrs. Trotter gave me. 553 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:05,000 There's a waiter at the bentic named Gaspar. 554 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,000 He's her brother. 555 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:10,000 We checked his record most carefully and there's no doubt. 556 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:14,000 A lady is a present being held in the prison of Saljil 557 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,000 while the German military authorities 558 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,000 decide whether or not she should stand trial. 559 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:22,000 It would hardly have circumstances that would predispose him to spy for them. 560 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:26,000 It would if the alternative was having his sister shot. 561 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:37,000 I'm sorry sir, I'm running out of stamps. 562 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:40,000 Perhaps Mrs. Trotter's got something out of her. 563 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:44,000 Mr. Brewster, how are you? 564 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:46,000 Oh, yes, show me, sir. 565 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:48,000 Good evening, Mrs. Trotter. 566 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:52,000 I do apologize for disturbing you on what must seem a trivial matter. 567 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:54,000 It's always a pleasure to see you, Mr. Brewster. 568 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:55,000 What can I do for you? 569 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:58,000 Well, our most anxious to get this letter off tonight to my sister 570 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:00,000 and I appear to have run out of postage stamps. 571 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,000 No, that's easy enough. 572 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,000 Hey, I help yourself. 573 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,000 Can I be quite a few for a minute, aren't you? 574 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:08,000 No, you have them on the bent ink. 575 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:10,000 Oh, thank you. 576 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,000 Big glasses on there as well? 577 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,000 All right, that's most kind of you. 578 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:15,000 Oh, I guess, pal. 579 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:19,000 You have, by Mr. Brewster's letter in the post on your way out. 580 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:20,000 Oh, thank you. 581 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:21,000 Miss you. 582 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:22,000 So, here. 583 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:23,000 Brandi, see you. 584 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:24,000 Lovely. 585 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:25,000 All right. 586 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:30,000 Miss you? 587 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:32,000 Oh, just going to empty. 588 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:34,000 Miss you? 589 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:35,000 No. 590 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:36,000 Oh, just going to empty it, guys, pal. 591 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:37,000 Ah. 592 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:41,000 Nothing. 593 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:46,000 Oh, well, you wouldn't mind taking Fred from a stroll, would you? 594 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:47,000 He's looking a bit restless. 595 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:48,000 Stolen? 596 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:49,000 Yeah, a walk. 597 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:50,000 A run. 598 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:52,000 A-stolency walk. 599 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:54,000 A-mafic plesillo. 600 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:57,000 A-messio's monkey Fred. 601 00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,000 A-stolency walk. 602 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:00,000 A-mafic plesillo. 603 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:02,000 Okay. 604 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,000 How long is usually gone? 605 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,000 Usually about ten minutes. 606 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:13,000 There's a few lamp standers between here in the post office. 607 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:14,000 So, Fred, you slow him down. 608 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:16,000 No, I don't like it, Major. 609 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:17,000 I don't like it at all. 610 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:18,000 Well, don't you like it. 611 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:20,000 Don't like Fred getting mixed up in this sort of thing. 612 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,000 I mean, it's bad enough you sneaking up in a guest bar. 613 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:24,000 I was room when he was out, but he used Fred. 614 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:25,000 Are you not sneaking anywhere? 615 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:27,000 I'm conducting an investigation. 616 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:29,000 And may I remind you of the both yourself and Fred 617 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,000 your self and friend are under military orders. 618 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:32,000 My orders. 619 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:07,000 I have every intention of reporting the matter to the proper authorities if I find anything 620 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:09,000 to justify such action. 621 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:14,000 If not, then we can assume that madammen was mistaken and there's no harm done. 622 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:15,000 Evening. 623 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:16,000 Travel in. 624 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:25,000 Now, see you get some decent run. 625 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:26,000 Yes. 626 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:27,000 I'll leave you. 627 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:28,000 Fred. 628 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:29,000 Hey, Jack. 629 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:30,000 Hello there. 630 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:32,000 I'm going to move you. 631 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:33,000 Hey, what now? 632 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:34,000 Yeah, come on. 633 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:36,000 We're going to take a minute. 634 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:38,000 Ah, good evening, Madam. 635 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:39,000 Oh, hello, Mr. Trotta. 636 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:40,000 Hello. 637 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:57,000 Mr. Trotta has suggested that you might be kind enough to offer me some money. 638 00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:00,000 I'm not going to offer you some advice on a little project I have in mind. 639 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:01,000 Here comes it, Madam. 640 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:02,000 What do you want, friend? 641 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:03,000 Oh, well, thank you, Madam. 642 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:04,000 It's been a fact time. 643 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:05,000 I'd rather push for time. 644 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:07,000 Oh, where are you off to? 645 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:08,000 Oh, no. 646 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:09,000 Really? 647 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:10,000 I thought I'd go and look at the bus. 648 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:12,000 The noise is under the bonnet. 649 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:14,000 Hey, pitch stock out there. 650 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:15,000 Freezing calm. 651 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:16,000 Chug the door comes in here. 652 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:18,000 You let that right. 653 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:21,000 What are you waiting for? 654 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:25,000 There they are, Mr. Brewster. 655 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:27,000 You tell him what you have in mind. 656 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:33,000 I imagine I am in regular, well indeed, weekly correspondence with my sister, who is the 657 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:37,000 President of the Milwaukee Ladies Arts and Literature Society. 658 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:42,000 And in the course of my correspondence, I have described to her at some length the heroic 659 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:47,000 sacrifices being made by the people of these gallant islands in their struggle against the 660 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:48,000 forces of darkness. 661 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:52,000 A struggle, sir, which I firmly believe should be America's too. 662 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:53,000 Oh, very thoughtful. 663 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,000 Oh, no, no, no, not at all, sir. 664 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,000 It is my constantly stated conviction. 665 00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:00,000 And at last, it is bearing some fruit. 666 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:01,000 However small. 667 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:07,000 Now, my sister, whose name, by the way, is Sarah, has used my notes as a basis of a lecture 668 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:08,000 to her society. 669 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:11,000 And the Milwaukee Ladies were impressed, sir. 670 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:12,000 Oh, yes, indeed. 671 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:13,000 They were impressed. 672 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:14,000 They're good. 673 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:16,000 And they reached a unanimous decision, Major. 674 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:18,000 They want to help. 675 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,000 But it's extremely kind of. 676 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:22,000 I don't quite see how they can. 677 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:23,000 Well, use your loaf. 678 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:28,000 They want to send over food parcels and comforts and woolies and things like that for the troops. 679 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:30,000 I'd rather be very much appreciated. 680 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,000 And I'm glad she would have got to do with me. 681 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:35,000 Well, you said you, since you finished with the refugees, you've gone into supply. 682 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:36,000 Oh, not that kind of supply. 683 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:37,000 Well, he's a brilliant. 684 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:42,000 Well, you could supply him with whatever the Milwaukee Ladies, what's his name, sends over. 685 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:45,000 I can assure him I do that I have nothing to do with that sort of thing. 686 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:48,000 Well, some of your brass-setted friends, although as... 687 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:56,000 Did he come back yet? 688 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:58,000 No, but you better look nippy. 689 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:09,000 Damn. 690 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:23,000 I'm sorry. 691 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:48,000 Tell your sister that her thought is much appreciated, Mr. Brewster. 692 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:50,000 Me and the Major are making queries. 693 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,000 A pleasure, Mr. Strzotter. A pleasure. 694 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:57,000 Major, I'll do what I can. 695 00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:01,000 That's all you then. 696 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:04,000 I've never known you a refusal to drink before. 697 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:08,000 Lisa, I have a matter of the utmost seriousness to report to you. 698 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:15,000 Well... 699 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:17,000 I have just made a search of Gaspar's room. 700 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:18,000 You've lost. 701 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:20,000 Believe me, I had good grounds for doing so. 702 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:26,000 And if it turns out I was right, he has some letters hidden under some shirts in his chest of drawers. 703 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:29,000 They are this evening's post from the Bintix mailbox. 704 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:30,000 Did you know? 705 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:34,000 Because one of them is a letter I wrote myself to my Tefa accountant. 706 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:40,000 First bar, Bec. 707 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:41,000 Oh, you get mad. 708 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:42,000 All right. 709 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:43,000 Come on. 710 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:49,000 I'm sorry. 711 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:05,000 Hey, we're here. I'm sure that I saw them. 712 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:08,000 You're not there now. 713 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,000 Why don't you take them? 714 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:12,000 I just wanted to come back and find them missing. 715 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:15,000 I don't want them suspicious before I even formed the authorities. 716 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:16,000 They already know. 717 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:17,000 What? 718 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:20,000 I had a visit from a noble officer a few days ago. 719 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:23,000 Lieutenant Bart clicked something to do with intelligence. 720 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:25,000 Seems they've had their eye on the Binting. 721 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,000 The intelligence manager told me. 722 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:30,000 No, I shouldn't have, because he said not to. 723 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:31,000 Come on. 724 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:33,000 Don't want him walking in, I'm not sure. 725 00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:35,000 He's got Fred with him. 726 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:36,000 I'm in front. 727 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:48,000 That's past back, madam. 728 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:56,000 Do you want anything? Say anything? 729 00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,000 Just that he'd taken Fred for a walk around the house. 730 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:00,000 He's got a feeling he's here for a merriman. 731 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,000 Oh, very fine, that no one had up. 732 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:04,000 Right, star, mum, Sir Word. 733 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:08,000 I think I better take this run by hand immediately. 734 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:11,000 Well, there's time when I at Bartlett left his office hours ago. 735 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:14,000 Probably, but even as they can't contact him, he'll get it first thing in the morning. 736 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:16,000 You all right? 737 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:18,000 Hey, Major. 738 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,000 I might do think I guess more in the first place. 739 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:47,000 I'm going to go ahead and get a little bit of water. 740 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:50,000 I'm going to go ahead and get a little bit of water. 741 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:53,000 I'm going to go ahead and get a little bit of water. 742 00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:56,000 I'm going to go ahead and get a little bit of water. 743 00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:59,000 I'm going to go ahead and get a little bit of water. 744 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:02,000 I'm going to go ahead and get a little bit of water. 745 00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:05,000 I'm going to go ahead and get a little bit of water. 746 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:08,000 I'm going to go ahead and get a little bit of water. 747 00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:10,000 I'm going to go ahead and get a little bit of water. 748 00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:13,000 Where is he, Mr. Starr? Where is he? 749 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:15,000 You sent him out to walk the dog. 750 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:17,000 Look, I got six early in the morning. 751 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:18,000 It caused the sways. 752 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:19,000 It's supposed to help me with the breakfast, Tracy. 753 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:20,000 It's my dog, dogs. 754 00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:21,000 And Fred's out in the hole. 755 00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,000 What are you talking about? 756 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:24,000 Gaspar, that's what I'm talking about. 757 00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:25,000 No sign of him anywhere. 758 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:26,000 Never is what he's wanted. 759 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:27,000 Perhaps he's slept in. 760 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:29,000 Well, if he has, I'm not running all the way up to his room to work. 761 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:31,000 I'm going to go ahead and get a little bit of water. 762 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:33,000 I'm going to go ahead and get a little bit of water. 763 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,000 I'm going to go ahead and get a little bit of water. 764 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:37,000 I'm going to go ahead and get a little bit of water. 765 00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:39,000 Well, if he has, I'm not running all the way up 766 00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:40,000 to his room to work in it. 767 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:41,000 Not much point to that, Mr. Maryman. 768 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:43,000 I've just been up in his doors locked. 769 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:44,000 Oh. 770 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:54,000 Well, that was it. 771 00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:58,000 He's locked on the inside. The keys still there. 772 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:00,000 Major. 773 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:01,000 Do you smell anything? 774 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:06,000 Good work. 775 00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:14,000 I'll give an ambulance. 776 00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:18,000 Bit late for that. 777 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:21,000 Ah, good morning, Mrs. Frother. 778 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:25,000 I hurried round as soon as I received your note. 779 00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:28,000 I was in the room. 780 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:31,000 I was in the room. 781 00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:33,000 I was in the room. 782 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:35,000 Ah, good morning, Mrs. Frother. 783 00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:37,000 I hurried round as soon as I received your note. 784 00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:40,000 I'd like to speak to Gaspar. 785 00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:43,000 It's all right. You just missed him. 786 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:46,000 That right job they did get the corpse down the back stairs 787 00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:51,000 with that sharp turn to say that I didn't take about the front. 788 00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:54,000 Still, I expect we'd all need the same way. 789 00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,000 Use the service interest when you're alive. 790 00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:57,000 Use it when you're dead. 791 00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:59,000 Good enough for Gaspar, though. 792 00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:02,000 Oh, I don't know. You can talk like that, Mr. Maryman. 793 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:04,000 You got no feelings, you have? 794 00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:06,000 It was a nice little man, Mrs. Gaspar. 795 00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:09,000 Gaspar himself. Why did he go into a thing like that? 796 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:11,000 I expect he had his reasons. 797 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:13,000 I expect he had. 798 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:15,000 And I wonder you're not ashamed the way you treated him. 799 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:18,000 With him a refugee that lost everything when the Germans came. 800 00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:20,000 Here, here. Don't you get all of me, my girl. 801 00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:23,000 All you will be thinking about now is the tips you'll get the people who used to give him. 802 00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:27,000 Because he didn't go round with his feet tripping over his face like some I could mention, but won't. 803 00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:29,000 Hey, hey. Nice little man, was he? 804 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:33,000 That's all you know. I could tell you what you're thinking about your Mr. Gaspar if I don't mind. 805 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:36,000 And he'd all be lies and gossip. Never had a kind word to say from you. 806 00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:40,000 And I was right. You're Mr. Mr. Benjem, what a spy. Didn't know that, did you? 807 00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:41,000 Don't talk rubbish. 808 00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:44,000 What was he doing? Read the German newspaper. Call the man of myself. 809 00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:46,000 Star on the major, talk so, too. 810 00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,000 German newspaper? When was this? 811 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:51,000 Oh, few days ago, Farron, the pile over there. 812 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:52,000 So that's where it got to. 813 00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:53,000 What? 814 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:55,000 Mr. Applebee was looking for it. 815 00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:56,000 Right? 816 00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:58,000 I took it by my statement, I was cleaning his room. 817 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:01,000 He asked Mrs. Trotter if I'd seen it. I looked but I couldn't find it anywhere. 818 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:04,000 The word was strapped to me, what was he like that for? 819 00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:06,000 Oh, something to do with his job. 820 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,000 Oh, maybe you think he's a spy. 821 00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:15,000 That being so, it would seem that you were on the right track for the wrong reasons. 822 00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:17,000 Great pity. 823 00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:20,000 Because if Gaspar wasn't working on his own, then he probably wasn't. 824 00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:22,000 He might have led us to his accomplices. 825 00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:23,000 You and your aunt, are you? 826 00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:25,000 Yes, as I've last night. 827 00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:30,000 When he left the hotel, he was followed by plain clothes detective. 828 00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:34,000 He went round to the post office, posted some letters and returned. 829 00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:37,000 I'm told he had a dog with him at stars. He was taking it for a walk. 830 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,000 Rather a strange walk, he would see him. 831 00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:44,000 Gaspar returned to the hotel, went in by the back entrance. 832 00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:47,000 A few minutes later he emerged, walked round and came in by the front. 833 00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:49,000 Can you think of any reason why he should do that? 834 00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:51,000 Well, no, I can't imagine. 835 00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:54,000 Well, I believe in Ken. You left the light on in his room. 836 00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:57,000 He'd have seen it from the street, nipped up the back stairs to see what was going on. 837 00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:58,000 Well, Jove, yes. 838 00:39:58,000 --> 00:39:59,000 All right. 839 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:03,000 And while I was collecting you, he could have gone in and removed the letters. 840 00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:04,000 That's possible. 841 00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:07,000 In which case, since they're no longer in his room, they must be concealed somewhere in the hotel. 842 00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:09,000 All destroyed, head, or flushed down the what's it. 843 00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:12,000 I'd rather mustn't have browned and seemed my taffacount. 844 00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:14,000 He was becoming quite insistent about that check. 845 00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:16,000 He'll be very guarded in your explanations major. 846 00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:19,000 I don't want Gaspar's death to be viewed as other than an accident. 847 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:20,000 Of course. 848 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:21,000 I don't understand. 849 00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:23,000 What was Gaspar doing with the letters? 850 00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:25,000 Well, I think that's really obvious, Mrs. Trotter. 851 00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:29,000 He was in the habit of collecting the mail from Starr for delivery to the post office. 852 00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:33,000 Instead, he would take it up to his room, pick up the previous day's mail, 853 00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:36,000 which had already been scrutinized, and post that instead. 854 00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:39,000 Greatful little Belgian. 855 00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:44,000 Without going into detail, I think I may say we suspect he was under some pressure. 856 00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:49,000 Well, Mrs. Trotter, I have some further inquiries to make elsewhere meantime, 857 00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:51,000 and I would like to return later, if I may. 858 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,000 Yes, of course I'll be here. 859 00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:57,000 In fact, I'm giving a little dinner party tonight if you'd care to join us. 860 00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:00,000 Well, the greatest of pleasure. 861 00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:02,000 Yes, she's in, Mr. Appleby. 862 00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:04,000 I'll just see if she's free. 863 00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:11,000 So that's Mr. Appleby's in. 864 00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:12,000 Yes. 865 00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:15,000 Oh, Mr. Appleby. 866 00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:17,000 Come down to compliment the cook. 867 00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:21,000 The memory of your recent cuisine will stay with me always. 868 00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:25,000 No, that's not why I'm here. I will be leaving tomorrow. 869 00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:28,000 Oh, OK, you've been ready. 870 00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:30,000 And another hotel, have you? 871 00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:33,000 Let's say that your gentle prodding has caused some thought. 872 00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:37,000 I have decided to respond to the country's call. 873 00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:43,000 Well, I think that's a splendid idea, and I'm very glad to hear it. 874 00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:44,000 I thought you might be. 875 00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:48,000 And now, since I've announced my intention of marching towards the sound of the gunfire, 876 00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:52,000 do think that this evening's dinner might be a little more adventurous. 877 00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:54,000 You shall have the best we can offer. 878 00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:57,000 In fact, I'll do even better than that. 879 00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:00,000 Mrs. Trotto would like you to go straight in, so thank you. 880 00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:04,000 Oh, Star, it's possible that a communication will arrive for me during the course of the evening. 881 00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:06,000 Will you see I get a minute to do? 882 00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:07,000 Very little. 883 00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:08,000 Oh, I'll be right. 884 00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:09,000 I'll be right back. 885 00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:10,000 I'll be right back. 886 00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:11,000 I'll be right back. 887 00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:13,000 Oh, I'll be right back. 888 00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:16,000 Mr. Bartlett, you know the major. 889 00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:19,000 This is Mr. Applebee and Mr. Brewster. 890 00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:21,000 I'm proud to shake your hand, sir. 891 00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:23,000 Or that of any other British naval officer. 892 00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:26,000 Thank you, I would hate to sail under false colors, Mr. Brewster. 893 00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:30,000 My job tends to be civil service rather than senior service. 894 00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:32,000 I am with naval intelligence. 895 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:34,000 How fascinating. 896 00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:37,000 And have you learned any interesting secrets lately? 897 00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:44,000 I confess the only worthwhile intelligence I've gathered recently is information that soon brandy will only be available on a doctor's prescription. 898 00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:45,000 Good God. 899 00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:49,000 As a T-totaler, I view the prospect with a complacency bordering on Sputmus. 900 00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:50,000 Well, I don't. 901 00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:54,000 Do you hear that, Maryman? You get the cellar filled up before it happens. 902 00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:55,000 Bloody hell. 903 00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:14,000 If you will excuse me, Mrs. Tropper, I will decline the brandy excellence as it is. 904 00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:19,000 I have an early start in the morning. I'd like to have a clear head, but thank you for a memorable meal. 905 00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:21,000 Just taking the taste of cabbage, why is it? 906 00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:25,000 It's fit for the prodigal son, except that he was returning whilst I'm leaving. 907 00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:28,000 Mr. Applebee's off tomorrow to join up. 908 00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:29,000 Oh, good man. 909 00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:30,000 Army? 910 00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:31,000 I'm in. 911 00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:32,000 I'm in. 912 00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:33,000 I'm in. 913 00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:34,000 I'm in. 914 00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:35,000 I'm in. 915 00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:38,000 It would seem that I have inadvertently misled you, Mrs. Tropper. 916 00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:41,000 I am not volunteering for the armed forces. 917 00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:42,000 Mrs. Lead? 918 00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:46,000 What was that about the country's call and marching towards the gunfire? 919 00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:49,000 Spot of shooting at my uncle's estate in Norfolk. 920 00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:51,000 Good evening, gentlemen. 921 00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:53,000 My thanks once again, Mrs. Tropper. 922 00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:58,000 Mrs. Lid, what was it about the country's call and marching towards the gunfire? 923 00:43:58,000 --> 00:43:59,000 Oh, I'm sorry. 924 00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:02,000 Oh, in my Norfolk. 925 00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:03,000 Good evening, gentlemen. 926 00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:06,000 My thanks once again, Mrs. Tropper. 927 00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:12,000 Oh, never mind, my dear. 928 00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:14,000 Fellowes abounders, no more of a said. 929 00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:16,000 There's plenty more to be said. 930 00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:19,000 Say it in the morning, pit it as spoil a pleasant evening. 931 00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:20,000 You are, I will. 932 00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:22,000 Yes, Starr. What are you up? 933 00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:24,000 A noteful lieutenant bound, bitman. 934 00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:26,000 It is shocking. 935 00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:30,000 At least not at all typical of the spirit I find around me. 936 00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:33,000 Well, it's getting a good deal, too, Tippin' a little of the mint ink. 937 00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:35,000 Know what the place is coming to, what we... 938 00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:36,000 Shurkerson. 939 00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:39,000 Spies? 940 00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:41,000 Spies, Lieutenant? 941 00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:45,000 Yes, yes, the Belgian way term is to Brewster. 942 00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:46,000 Gaspar. 943 00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:48,000 He was a spy. 944 00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:49,000 The one who had the accident? 945 00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:50,000 Yes. 946 00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:53,000 It is certain that he was engaged in some clandestine activity 947 00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:54,000 of the Germans. 948 00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:59,000 His death was more likely suicide in the face of imminent discovery. 949 00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:00,000 Or, so we believe. 950 00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:03,000 You do amaze me, sir. 951 00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:06,000 Still, I can scarcely credit that he would be in possession 952 00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:08,000 of any valuable information. 953 00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:12,000 He had access to every letter in the hotel mailbox. 954 00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:15,000 And as the place is full of top brass, I imagine, quite a lot 955 00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:17,000 could be gleaned from their correspondence. 956 00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:20,000 But how did he get hold of the post? 957 00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:22,000 Star would give it to him to take to the post office. 958 00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:24,000 I think that little bleeder sitting up there, 959 00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:26,000 steaming open my guest letters. 960 00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:29,000 Oh, nothing so primitive, Mrs. Trotter. 961 00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:30,000 Oh, no. 962 00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:32,000 Yeah. 963 00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:34,000 Then we've come across these before. 964 00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:39,000 You simply push it under the flap at the envelope and twist. 965 00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:41,000 To a letter is wrapped round these prongs. 966 00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:43,000 You see, he would pull it out. 967 00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:45,000 Letter can be returned in the same way without disturbing 968 00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:46,000 the ceiling envelope. 969 00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:48,000 Most ingenious, but it would take a double of a time. 970 00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:49,000 Oh, yes. 971 00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:52,000 Even the practice would take half the night to work through, say, 972 00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:53,000 20 letters. 973 00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:55,000 That's the one we was fit for his work in the morning. 974 00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:58,000 Oh, Gaspar didn't do it. 975 00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:02,000 Oh, he's accomplished with the insomniac, someone in the hotel. 976 00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:03,000 Hi. 977 00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:06,000 Are you saying, sir, that an enemy agent is in residence 978 00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:08,000 at this very moment? 979 00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:11,000 I should say that is a reasonable conclusion on the evidence. 980 00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:12,000 What evidence? 981 00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:15,000 You saw last night's male and Gaspar's drawer major. 982 00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:17,000 I think we can presume that it wasn't posted last night. 983 00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:19,000 True? 984 00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:22,000 But one letter was. 985 00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:25,000 And as you know, all overseas male is censored. 986 00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:28,000 And as the event has been under some suspicion, 987 00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:32,000 we asked the censors to keep a very close watch on LA letters 988 00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:34,000 written on hotel, no paper. 989 00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:35,000 And they'll find one? 990 00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:40,000 Yes, from Mr. Brewster to some relatives in Milwaukee, 991 00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:43,000 the date and the postmark were the same. 992 00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:46,000 The letter was posted on the night it was written last night. 993 00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:48,000 Now, there's an extraordinary thing. 994 00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:51,000 How do you suppose that came about? 995 00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:52,000 Well, there are two possibilities. 996 00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:55,000 One, Gaspar's intimate a mistake. 997 00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:57,000 The other that he thought his accomplice 998 00:46:57,000 --> 00:46:59,000 would already be aware of the letter's contents. 999 00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:03,000 Well, now I don't see how he could think that. 1000 00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:04,000 I do. 1001 00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:06,000 You gave it to him, in here. 1002 00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:13,000 It would seem to me that you are implying something very serious, 1003 00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:15,000 and I would warn you against any further 1004 00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:16,000 such speculation. 1005 00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:18,000 I am an American citizen. 1006 00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:19,000 Oh, you are indeed, Mr. Brewster. 1007 00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:23,000 Yes, from Milwaukee, a city which has, I believe, 1008 00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:26,000 quite a substantial German population. 1009 00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:29,000 The proportion of our citizens are of German origin. 1010 00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:31,000 I must tell you, sir, that your letter already 1011 00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:35,000 is in the hands of our experts in room 40 OB. 1012 00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:39,000 And our decoders have already made some progress. 1013 00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:41,000 I really don't think I'm prepared to sit here 1014 00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:45,000 and listen to this slanderous and preposterous 1015 00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:46,000 nonsense any longer. 1016 00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:48,000 If you will excuse me, Mrs. Tropper. 1017 00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:51,000 Do sit down, man, and finish your brandy. 1018 00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:53,000 The detective's outside, or in no hurry. 1019 00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:21,000 Star, which is Mr. Appleby's room? 1020 00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:24,000 My apologies for disturbing you, Mr. Appleby. 1021 00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:24,000 Not at all. 1022 00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:26,000 What can I do for you? 1023 00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:27,000 Well, I have this. 1024 00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:29,000 I believe it is yours. 1025 00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:32,000 I thought you might need it. 1026 00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:34,000 It's very kind of you. 1027 00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:35,000 It's no importance. 1028 00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:38,000 Now, may I ask how you came by? 1029 00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:40,000 I have been pursuing a certain matter. 1030 00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:41,000 The Benton, can it? 1031 00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:43,000 It came my way. 1032 00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:47,000 You left the table too early. 1033 00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:51,000 Mr. Brewster has just been arrested for spying. 1034 00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:53,000 Well, well. 1035 00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:58,000 Such doings, Norfolk will seem excessively dull. 1036 00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:02,000 I entertain some doubts about you, Mr. Appleby. 1037 00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:07,000 But only briefly, Sir Edwin Vickers assured me of your bona fide. 1038 00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:08,000 Vickers? 1039 00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:09,000 Don't believe I know him? 1040 00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:10,000 Nor he you. 1041 00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:12,000 But he knows about you. 1042 00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:13,000 Austrian mother? 1043 00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:15,000 Educated in Heidelberg, fluent in German? 1044 00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:18,000 Well informed about the country and its people. 1045 00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:21,000 From what a knowledgeable fellow your friend sounds. 1046 00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:25,000 Still, I'm obliged to ensure you that I'm not a spy. 1047 00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:29,000 He assured me that you were, sir. 1048 00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:32,000 Talkative fellow to it, would seem. 1049 00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:34,000 He had to tell me you understand. 1050 00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:37,000 My inquiries might have jeopardized the very brave service 1051 00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:39,000 you were entering this country. 1052 00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:43,000 You were resting between your travels, he said. 1053 00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:46,000 And my travels resume tomorrow. 1054 00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:47,000 Germany? 1055 00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:50,000 Norfolk. 1056 00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:53,000 Quite so. 1057 00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:56,000 Then I wish you a better luck than Mr. Brewster. 1058 00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:58,000 In Norfolk. 1059 00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:00,000 Thank you, Lieutenant. 1060 00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:03,000 I imagine the most hazardous part of the journey will be getting past 1061 00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:06,000 Mrs. Trotter in the morning. 1062 00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:09,000 Well, that was a...