1 00:02:32,986 --> 00:02:35,108 This is the universe. 2 00:02:36,239 --> 00:02:38,231 Big, isn't it? 3 00:02:39,367 --> 00:02:42,403 Thousands of suns, millions of stars,... 4 00:02:43,246 --> 00:02:48,157 ...separated by immense distances and by thin floating clouds of gas. 5 00:02:49,752 --> 00:02:52,623 The starlight makes the gas transparent. 6 00:02:52,755 --> 00:02:57,583 Where there are no stars it appears as dark, obscuring clouds... 7 00:02:58,928 --> 00:03:01,550 ...like that great black cone over there. 8 00:03:03,433 --> 00:03:05,010 Hello,... 9 00:03:05,143 --> 00:03:07,135 ...there's a nova. 10 00:03:07,270 --> 00:03:09,262 A whole solar system exploded. 11 00:03:09,897 --> 00:03:13,729 Someone must've been messing about with the uranium atom. 12 00:03:13,860 --> 00:03:17,311 No, it's not our solar system, I'm glad to say. 13 00:03:24,412 --> 00:03:28,789 Ah, those are called a globular cluster of stars. 14 00:03:29,542 --> 00:03:31,333 Rather fine. 15 00:03:36,633 --> 00:03:39,170 Down here in the right-hand corner,... 16 00:03:39,302 --> 00:03:42,885 ...see that little chap rather like a boy scout's badge? 17 00:03:43,014 --> 00:03:47,225 It's a mass of gas expanding at thousands of cubic miles a minute. 18 00:03:55,985 --> 00:03:58,607 Ah, here we are, we're getting nearer home. 19 00:03:58,738 --> 00:04:00,731 The moon, our moon,... 20 00:04:00,865 --> 00:04:02,858 ...in the first quarter,... 21 00:04:02,992 --> 00:04:05,448 ...and here's the Earth, our Earth,... 22 00:04:05,578 --> 00:04:07,737 ...moving around in its place,... 23 00:04:07,872 --> 00:04:11,323 ...part of the pattern, part of the universe. 24 00:04:12,293 --> 00:04:14,286 Reassuring, isn't it? 25 00:04:18,675 --> 00:04:21,130 It's night over Europe. 26 00:04:21,260 --> 00:04:23,716 The night of the 2nd May, 1945. 27 00:04:23,846 --> 00:04:26,135 That point of fire is a burning city. 28 00:04:26,265 --> 00:04:28,970 It had a thousand-bomber raid an hour ago. 29 00:04:37,735 --> 00:04:40,522 And here, rolling in over the Atlantic,... 30 00:04:40,655 --> 00:04:42,861 ...is a real English fog. 31 00:04:43,783 --> 00:04:46,404 I hope all our aircraft got home safely. 32 00:04:47,537 --> 00:04:51,202 Even the big ships sound frightened. 33 00:04:51,332 --> 00:04:54,286 Listen to all the noises in the air. 34 00:04:54,419 --> 00:04:57,918 "This was their finest hour." 35 00:04:58,047 --> 00:05:00,419 Listen... 36 00:05:00,550 --> 00:05:03,171 Listen... 37 00:05:03,678 --> 00:05:06,133 "Request your position." 38 00:05:06,347 --> 00:05:09,134 "Come in, Lancaster. Come in, Lancaster." 39 00:05:09,267 --> 00:05:13,395 "Position nil. Repeat, nil. Age 27. Very important." 40 00:05:13,521 --> 00:05:17,982 "Education violently interrupted. Religion - Church of England." 41 00:05:18,109 --> 00:05:22,107 "Politics - Conservative by nature, Labour by experience." 42 00:05:22,238 --> 00:05:24,859 - "What's your name?" - I cannot read you. 43 00:05:24,991 --> 00:05:26,568 Cannot read you. 44 00:05:26,701 --> 00:05:29,785 Request your position. Can you see our signals? 45 00:05:29,912 --> 00:05:35,583 "Give me my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon,... 46 00:05:35,710 --> 00:05:39,542 ...My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation,... 47 00:05:39,672 --> 00:05:43,919 ...My gown of glory, hope's true gage, And thus I'll take my pilgrimage." 48 00:05:44,052 --> 00:05:46,044 "Sir Walter Raleigh wrote that." 49 00:05:46,179 --> 00:05:50,259 "I'd rather have written that than flown through Hitler's legs." 50 00:05:50,391 --> 00:05:53,807 I cannot understand you. 51 00:05:53,936 --> 00:05:58,314 Hello, Lancaster. We are sending signals. Can you see our signals? 52 00:05:58,441 --> 00:06:01,477 Come in, Lancaster. Come in, Lancaster. 53 00:06:36,145 --> 00:06:40,642 But at my back I always hear Time's wingèd chariot hurrying near. 54 00:06:40,775 --> 00:06:44,559 And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. 55 00:06:44,696 --> 00:06:47,732 Andy Marvell. What a marvel! What's your name? 56 00:06:47,865 --> 00:06:51,199 Are you receiving me? Repeat, are you receiving me? 57 00:06:51,327 --> 00:06:54,162 Request your position. Come in, Lancaster. 58 00:06:54,288 --> 00:06:58,120 I can't give you my position. Instruments gone, crew gone. 59 00:06:58,251 --> 00:07:00,457 Except Bob, my sparks. He's dead. 60 00:07:00,586 --> 00:07:04,086 The rest bailed out on my orders. Time 03.35. Get that? 61 00:07:04,215 --> 00:07:05,793 Crew bailed out 03.35 62 00:07:05,925 --> 00:07:08,712 "Station - Warrenden. Bomber Group - A, G." 63 00:07:08,845 --> 00:07:12,427 Station - Warrenden. Bomber Group - A, Apple, G, George. 64 00:07:12,557 --> 00:07:14,680 They'll be sorry about Bob. We liked him. 65 00:07:14,809 --> 00:07:19,436 Hello, G, George. Hello, G, George. Are you all right? 66 00:07:19,564 --> 00:07:22,434 Are you going to try to land? Do you want a fix? 67 00:07:22,567 --> 00:07:26,695 Name's not G, George, it's P, Peter. Peter D Carter. D's for David. 68 00:07:26,821 --> 00:07:31,150 Squadron Leader Peter Carter. Can't land - undercarriage is gone. 69 00:07:31,284 --> 00:07:33,407 I'm bailing out, I'm bailing out. 70 00:07:33,536 --> 00:07:36,786 - "Take a telegram." - Received your message. 71 00:07:36,914 --> 00:07:39,750 - We can hear you. - "Telegram to my mother." 72 00:07:39,876 --> 00:07:43,576 "Mrs Michael Carter, 88 Hampstead Lane, London Northwest." 73 00:07:43,713 --> 00:07:45,706 88 Hampstead Lane, London. 74 00:07:46,549 --> 00:07:48,542 Tell her that I love her. 75 00:07:48,676 --> 00:07:53,054 You'll have to write this, but I want her to know I love her very much. 76 00:07:53,181 --> 00:07:55,886 I've never shown it to her, not really,... 77 00:07:56,017 --> 00:07:59,053 ...but I've loved her always right up to the end. 78 00:07:59,187 --> 00:08:02,852 "Give my love to my two sisters, too. Don't forget them." 79 00:08:04,817 --> 00:08:07,355 Received your message. We can hear you. 80 00:08:07,487 --> 00:08:11,567 Are you wounded? Repeat, are you wounded? Are you bailing out? 81 00:08:11,699 --> 00:08:13,656 - What's your name? - June. 82 00:08:13,785 --> 00:08:18,530 Yes, I'm bailing out, but there's a catch. I've got no parachute. 83 00:08:18,665 --> 00:08:22,164 H-Hello? Hello, Peter, do not understand. 84 00:08:23,836 --> 00:08:26,209 Hello? Hello, Peter, can you hear me? 85 00:08:26,339 --> 00:08:29,672 "Hello, June, don't be afraid. It's quite simple." 86 00:08:29,801 --> 00:08:32,422 We've had it and I'd rather jump than fry. 87 00:08:32,553 --> 00:08:36,551 After the first thousand feet I shan't know anything, anyway. 88 00:08:36,683 --> 00:08:39,304 "I say, I hope I haven't frightened you." 89 00:08:40,436 --> 00:08:43,058 - No, I'm not frightened. - "Good girl!" 90 00:08:43,189 --> 00:08:46,772 Your sparks, you said he was dead. Hasn't he got a chute? 91 00:08:46,901 --> 00:08:49,855 Cut to ribbons. Cannon shell. Are you pretty? 92 00:08:49,988 --> 00:08:51,565 Not bad. 93 00:08:51,698 --> 00:08:54,271 - "Can you hear me well?" - Yes. 94 00:08:54,409 --> 00:08:58,786 You've got guts. I've known dozens of girls, been in love with some. 95 00:08:58,913 --> 00:09:02,745 But an American girl I've never seen and never shall see... 96 00:09:02,875 --> 00:09:05,283 ...will hear my last words. 97 00:09:05,420 --> 00:09:06,962 "Rather sweet." 98 00:09:07,088 --> 00:09:10,124 June, if you're around when they pick me up,... 99 00:09:10,258 --> 00:09:11,918 ...turn your head away. 100 00:09:12,051 --> 00:09:16,001 But perhaps we can do something, Peter. Let me report it. 101 00:09:16,139 --> 00:09:19,971 "No, no-one can help. Only you. Let me do this in my own way." 102 00:09:20,101 --> 00:09:23,268 "I want to be alone with you. Where were you born?" 103 00:09:23,396 --> 00:09:25,223 - Boston. - "Mass?" 104 00:09:25,356 --> 00:09:26,305 Yes. 105 00:09:26,441 --> 00:09:30,652 History was made there. Are you in love with anybody? No, don't answer. 106 00:09:30,778 --> 00:09:32,937 I could love a man like you, Peter. 107 00:09:33,072 --> 00:09:36,773 I love you, June, you're life. Do you live on the station? 108 00:09:36,909 --> 00:09:40,409 No, in a big house five miles from here. Lee Wood House. 109 00:09:40,538 --> 00:09:42,495 - "Old house?" - Yes, very old. 110 00:09:42,623 --> 00:09:46,538 I'll come and see you as a ghost! You're not frightened of ghosts? 111 00:09:46,669 --> 00:09:48,461 I'm not frightened. 112 00:09:48,588 --> 00:09:51,708 - "What time will you be home?" - I'm on duty till 6. 113 00:09:51,841 --> 00:09:55,625 I have breakfast in the mess, then I have to cycle half an hour. 114 00:09:55,762 --> 00:09:57,754 I often go along the sands. 115 00:09:57,889 --> 00:09:59,881 This is such nonsense! 116 00:10:00,016 --> 00:10:03,136 It's the best sense I ever heard. I was lucky to get you. 117 00:10:03,269 --> 00:10:06,721 Can't be helped about the parachute. I'll have wings soon. 118 00:10:06,856 --> 00:10:10,521 Hope they haven't gone modern. I'd hate to have a prop instead! 119 00:10:10,652 --> 00:10:13,606 - "What's the next world like?" - Oh, Peter! 120 00:10:13,738 --> 00:10:16,692 "I think it starts where this one leaves off." 121 00:10:16,824 --> 00:10:20,822 Or where it could if we listened to Plato, Aristotle and Jesus. 122 00:10:20,953 --> 00:10:25,781 With all our earthly problems solved but with greater ones worth solving. 123 00:10:25,917 --> 00:10:29,250 I'm signing off now, June. Goodbye. Goodbye, June. 124 00:10:29,379 --> 00:10:31,952 Hello, G for George. Hello, G, George! 125 00:10:32,090 --> 00:10:34,082 Hello, G, George! 126 00:10:34,217 --> 00:10:36,755 Hel... 127 00:10:40,515 --> 00:10:42,258 So long, Bob, I'll see you in a minute. 128 00:10:42,433 --> 00:10:45,138 You know what we wear by now - prop or wings. 129 00:11:13,715 --> 00:11:16,585 A prop... or wings. 130 00:11:17,719 --> 00:11:18,881 Prop... 131 00:11:19,012 --> 00:11:20,803 ...or wings. 132 00:11:20,930 --> 00:11:22,508 Prop... 133 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:24,633 ...or wings. 134 00:11:25,768 --> 00:11:28,176 A prop... or wings. 135 00:11:30,231 --> 00:11:33,434 Prop... or wings. 136 00:11:34,527 --> 00:11:35,902 Prop... 137 00:11:36,029 --> 00:11:37,820 ...or wings. 138 00:12:04,599 --> 00:12:06,176 Vrrrrrrm! 139 00:12:09,479 --> 00:12:11,886 - Aghh! - Oh, bad luck, old boy. 140 00:13:03,241 --> 00:13:05,233 Name and rank. 141 00:13:48,202 --> 00:13:52,117 Come on, fellas, break it up, spread out. 142 00:13:52,248 --> 00:13:53,956 Room with bath. 143 00:13:54,083 --> 00:13:56,788 - Do you have USO shows here? - No, we don't. 144 00:13:56,919 --> 00:14:00,538 OK, we'll stay. Officers' quarters, of course. 145 00:14:00,673 --> 00:14:05,668 - We're all the same here, Captain. - Excuse me,... brother. 146 00:14:12,935 --> 00:14:14,928 Take over. 147 00:14:15,063 --> 00:14:19,606 - I wish I could make a phone call. - From here that'd be long distance. 148 00:14:19,734 --> 00:14:21,727 Flying Officer Trubshaw. 149 00:14:21,861 --> 00:14:25,859 You can't wait here. You must be mistaken about your captain. 150 00:14:25,990 --> 00:14:30,284 - If anyone's mistaken, it's not me. - Mistakes don't happen here. 151 00:14:30,411 --> 00:14:33,496 - This is the Aircrew Section? - You should know. 152 00:14:33,623 --> 00:14:36,244 Peter couldn't have got away with it. 153 00:14:38,503 --> 00:14:41,124 Besides, you checked his invoice for me. 154 00:14:41,255 --> 00:14:43,793 Yes, it was against the regulations. 155 00:14:43,925 --> 00:14:48,172 Regulations are made to be broken. He was due half an hour after me. 156 00:14:48,304 --> 00:14:50,926 This is his section. He hasn't reported. 157 00:14:51,057 --> 00:14:53,844 He's either AWOL or there's been a mistake. 158 00:14:53,977 --> 00:14:57,143 There hasn't been a mistake here for 1,000 years. 159 00:14:57,271 --> 00:14:59,763 Oh? So there have been mistakes? 160 00:14:59,899 --> 00:15:02,604 The girl here before me was here 640 years. 161 00:15:02,735 --> 00:15:04,313 Holy smoke! 162 00:15:04,445 --> 00:15:08,941 If the records don't balance, alarm bells ring in the Records Office. 163 00:15:09,075 --> 00:15:11,483 I bet they do. Proper flap, eh? 164 00:15:11,619 --> 00:15:12,994 Yes. 165 00:15:24,549 --> 00:15:26,588 That's only the living records. 166 00:15:26,718 --> 00:15:28,710 Everyone on Earth has a file. 167 00:15:28,845 --> 00:15:32,759 Russian, Chinese, black or white, Republican or Democrat. 168 00:15:32,890 --> 00:15:37,517 Holy smoke! If anyone had said clerks worked up here just like on Earth... 169 00:15:37,645 --> 00:15:40,101 Everyone here can start how they like. 170 00:15:41,607 --> 00:15:43,399 Heaven, isn't it? 171 00:15:47,322 --> 00:15:49,113 You see? 172 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:54,198 There are millions of people on Earth who'd think it heaven to be a clerk. 173 00:15:54,329 --> 00:15:56,321 And don't say "Holy smoke". 174 00:15:56,456 --> 00:16:00,074 - Why not? - There's no smoke without fire... 175 00:16:00,209 --> 00:16:03,661 ...and we don't call smoke... holy. 176 00:16:05,173 --> 00:16:07,794 Thanks for the gen,... Section Officer. 177 00:16:07,925 --> 00:16:10,547 Boy, oh, boy, home was nothin' like this! 178 00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:15,217 Mine was. 179 00:16:21,814 --> 00:16:23,392 Sign here. 180 00:16:23,524 --> 00:16:27,024 All right, I don't want to start those bells ringing! 181 00:17:31,426 --> 00:17:33,418 I wonder where I report. 182 00:19:14,988 --> 00:19:17,443 Oh, I always hoped there would be dogs. 183 00:19:51,858 --> 00:19:53,850 Good morning. 184 00:19:53,985 --> 00:19:55,562 Morning. 185 00:19:55,695 --> 00:19:57,688 Where do I go from here? 186 00:19:59,407 --> 00:20:01,779 - Huh?! - I'm new, I only just arrived. 187 00:20:01,909 --> 00:20:05,243 - Where do I report? - You mean the aerodrome? 188 00:20:05,371 --> 00:20:07,364 Aerodrome? 189 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:16,881 Where am I? This place, what's it called? 190 00:20:17,008 --> 00:20:19,001 - The Burrows. - Where? 191 00:20:19,135 --> 00:20:21,128 - Lee Wood. - Lee Wood? 192 00:20:21,262 --> 00:20:23,469 - Yeah. - Do you know Lee Wood House? 193 00:20:23,598 --> 00:20:27,263 That's it - where the smoke is, behind those trees. 194 00:20:27,393 --> 00:20:31,343 - Is that the quickest way? - There's a track. See that bike? 195 00:20:36,903 --> 00:20:40,272 - Who is it? - Dunno. One of the Yank girls. 196 00:20:40,406 --> 00:20:42,399 They live up at the house. 197 00:20:47,246 --> 00:20:49,868 Here, Jock! 198 00:20:58,341 --> 00:20:59,919 Hi! 199 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:09,178 Hello. 200 00:21:09,310 --> 00:21:11,718 Hello yourself. What's wrong? 201 00:21:15,358 --> 00:21:17,149 You're June. 202 00:21:24,742 --> 00:21:26,534 You're Peter! 203 00:21:29,622 --> 00:21:31,615 How did you get here? 204 00:21:31,749 --> 00:21:35,829 I'm glad you're safe. What did you do? What happened? 205 00:21:35,962 --> 00:21:38,085 - I just don't know. - Are you hurt? 206 00:21:38,214 --> 00:21:39,958 My head feels a bit queer. 207 00:21:41,134 --> 00:21:44,550 There's a little cut in your hair. It's nothing much. 208 00:21:45,596 --> 00:21:47,589 Oh, Peter, it was a cruel joke. 209 00:21:47,724 --> 00:21:49,716 If it was, it was on me. 210 00:21:49,851 --> 00:21:52,721 I've been crying ever since we said goodbye. 211 00:21:52,854 --> 00:21:56,305 - Don't cry, darling. - Oh, Peter, darling. 212 00:22:08,411 --> 00:22:11,447 91,716 invoiced. 213 00:22:12,248 --> 00:22:15,534 91,715 checked in. 214 00:22:15,668 --> 00:22:18,788 - Conductor 71. - It could've 'appened to anybody. 215 00:22:18,921 --> 00:22:20,499 How did it happen? 216 00:22:20,632 --> 00:22:24,047 Everything was calculated but for the accursed fog! 217 00:22:24,177 --> 00:22:27,593 The pilot jumped, he got lost in the fog, I missed him. 218 00:22:29,557 --> 00:22:31,265 Flying Officer Trubshaw. 219 00:22:37,982 --> 00:22:40,769 You've been waiting all day for your pilot. 220 00:22:40,902 --> 00:22:44,520 Yes, ma'am. Over the Channel, there was a ruddy peasouper! 221 00:22:44,656 --> 00:22:45,687 Ah-ha! 222 00:22:45,823 --> 00:22:47,863 Oh, excuse the language, ma'am. 223 00:22:47,992 --> 00:22:51,824 It was so thick, you could've stepped out of the kite and walked on it! 224 00:22:51,954 --> 00:22:54,955 - Sacré brouillard! - And he, the skipper,... 225 00:22:55,083 --> 00:22:58,167 ...ordered everybody to bail out over the coast. 226 00:22:58,294 --> 00:23:01,461 He knew his brolly... chute... had been written off. 227 00:23:01,589 --> 00:23:03,629 It was hit as he was bandaging me. 228 00:23:03,758 --> 00:23:05,751 But he didn't tell the others. 229 00:23:05,885 --> 00:23:08,506 I only knew because I'd bought it by then. 230 00:23:08,638 --> 00:23:11,129 I mean, I was... dead. 231 00:23:12,100 --> 00:23:13,973 I understand. 232 00:23:14,102 --> 00:23:16,094 I knew he'd be clocking in here. 233 00:23:16,229 --> 00:23:20,440 I thought I'd stooge around and wait for him. Er, this young lady... 234 00:23:20,566 --> 00:23:22,559 ...is not to blame at all. 235 00:23:23,361 --> 00:23:26,896 - I'm sorry if I broke the rules. - Thank you. 236 00:23:28,783 --> 00:23:31,535 19 hours and 50 minutes have elapsed. 237 00:23:31,661 --> 00:23:35,493 Don't you know that any slip must be reported immediately? 238 00:23:35,623 --> 00:23:38,458 - I lost my head. - Not long in the service. 239 00:23:38,584 --> 00:23:41,538 I joined in the so-called Second Germinal... 240 00:23:41,671 --> 00:23:44,921 ...of the so-called glorious French Revolution. 241 00:23:45,049 --> 00:23:47,042 I see. Natural death. 242 00:23:48,261 --> 00:23:50,253 I lost my head. 243 00:23:52,515 --> 00:23:54,508 The case is not so simple. 244 00:23:54,642 --> 00:23:56,434 - Non? - No. 245 00:23:56,561 --> 00:23:58,553 He's fallen in love. 246 00:23:58,688 --> 00:24:00,147 Ahhhh! 247 00:24:00,273 --> 00:24:01,471 Oh. 248 00:24:01,607 --> 00:24:03,684 - It complicates things. - True. 249 00:24:03,818 --> 00:24:06,190 - You must do your best. - Oui, madame. 250 00:24:06,321 --> 00:24:08,776 - Proceed to Earth immediately. - Oui. 251 00:24:08,906 --> 00:24:11,860 You'll explain your grave error to Carter... 252 00:24:11,993 --> 00:24:14,780 - ...and ask him to follow you. - Oui, madame. 253 00:24:14,912 --> 00:24:15,944 Wait! 254 00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:19,165 Your captain is not an unreasonable man, I hope. 255 00:24:19,292 --> 00:24:23,040 The skipper? Oh, no, ma'am... unless he's had a few! 256 00:24:23,171 --> 00:24:25,459 Er... pardon? 'Ad a few? 257 00:24:25,590 --> 00:24:28,460 - Beers. - Oh, la bière! 258 00:24:28,593 --> 00:24:31,629 Scotch being hard to come by, you know. 259 00:24:31,763 --> 00:24:33,720 - Naturellement! - By the way,... 260 00:24:33,848 --> 00:24:35,924 ...would you give Peter a message for me? 261 00:24:36,059 --> 00:24:37,601 Avec plaisir. 262 00:24:37,727 --> 00:24:39,720 Just say, "What ho". 263 00:24:39,854 --> 00:24:41,017 Bon. 264 00:24:55,244 --> 00:24:59,538 One is starved for Technicolor up there. 265 00:25:03,670 --> 00:25:06,291 What a night for love! 266 00:26:16,075 --> 00:26:17,867 Drink, darling? 267 00:26:44,145 --> 00:26:45,723 Mon ami. 268 00:26:49,317 --> 00:26:50,894 Evening. 269 00:26:53,071 --> 00:26:55,692 I think I keep this for a little. 270 00:26:55,823 --> 00:26:58,065 And how are you, my friend? 271 00:26:58,201 --> 00:27:00,193 Never been better. 272 00:27:00,328 --> 00:27:02,735 - June, wake... - She cannot wake. 273 00:27:02,872 --> 00:27:06,537 We are talking in space, not in time. 274 00:27:08,544 --> 00:27:11,118 - Are you cracked? - Look at your watch. 275 00:27:12,173 --> 00:27:16,301 It has not moved since you said so charmingly "Drink, darling?" 276 00:27:16,427 --> 00:27:18,420 Nor will it move,... 277 00:27:18,554 --> 00:27:21,805 ...nor will anything move... 278 00:27:21,933 --> 00:27:24,969 ...until we have finished our little talk. 279 00:27:25,103 --> 00:27:27,095 It is only a trick. 280 00:27:28,272 --> 00:27:29,850 Who are you? 281 00:27:29,983 --> 00:27:33,019 We should've met yesterday at 04.10, mon cher. 282 00:27:33,569 --> 00:27:35,562 Unfortunately I missed you. 283 00:27:35,697 --> 00:27:38,152 You couldn't have because I wasn't here. 284 00:27:38,282 --> 00:27:41,651 I bring you a message from Mr Trubshaw. 285 00:27:43,705 --> 00:27:45,080 Bob? 286 00:27:45,206 --> 00:27:47,697 - Bob's dead. - Oh, yes, he's dead. 287 00:27:48,626 --> 00:27:50,619 He says... "What ho!" 288 00:27:50,753 --> 00:27:54,087 That sounds like Trubshaw. But he is dead, isn't he? 289 00:27:54,215 --> 00:27:57,382 - En effet. But how? Why? - Cannon shell. 290 00:27:57,510 --> 00:27:59,633 And what should happen to a man... 291 00:27:59,762 --> 00:28:03,463 ...who jumps from his aircraft without his parachute? 292 00:28:03,599 --> 00:28:05,177 How do you know? 293 00:28:05,310 --> 00:28:07,979 But it is I who am telling you, my friend. 294 00:28:08,104 --> 00:28:09,682 It is I! 295 00:28:09,814 --> 00:28:11,807 Your time was up,... 296 00:28:11,941 --> 00:28:16,021 ...but I missed you because of your ridiculous English climate. 297 00:28:16,154 --> 00:28:17,731 I am French. 298 00:28:19,282 --> 00:28:21,987 - But what do you want now? - You, my friend. 299 00:28:22,118 --> 00:28:24,111 - What for? - To conduct you. 300 00:28:24,245 --> 00:28:26,617 - Where to? - To the training centre. 301 00:28:26,748 --> 00:28:29,369 - Training for what? - For another world. 302 00:28:32,211 --> 00:28:34,204 You don't mean...? 303 00:28:34,339 --> 00:28:38,751 But, my dear friend, that is just what I do mean. 304 00:28:38,885 --> 00:28:41,720 Oh, this is absolutely fantastic! 305 00:28:41,846 --> 00:28:44,337 June! 306 00:28:44,474 --> 00:28:45,636 June! 307 00:28:49,228 --> 00:28:51,517 All right, and what if I refuse to go? 308 00:28:51,648 --> 00:28:54,898 But you cannot refuse. Your time was up. 309 00:28:55,026 --> 00:28:58,858 Now, by mistake, you overstayed by about,... 310 00:28:58,988 --> 00:29:01,195 ...speaking in time, of course,... 311 00:29:01,324 --> 00:29:02,901 ...20 hours. 312 00:29:03,034 --> 00:29:07,826 The advantage was exclusively yours. You lost nothing, you only gained. 313 00:29:07,955 --> 00:29:09,747 What about her? 314 00:29:15,171 --> 00:29:16,962 Exquise. 315 00:29:17,090 --> 00:29:20,044 You will see her again when her time comes. 316 00:29:22,512 --> 00:29:27,387 She will live to be... ninety-seven. I looked her up in the files. 317 00:29:27,517 --> 00:29:31,135 - I'm in love with her. - But, my friend, what is love? 318 00:29:31,270 --> 00:29:33,263 The feeling of the moment,... 319 00:29:33,398 --> 00:29:35,604 ...but I represent eternity. 320 00:29:35,733 --> 00:29:37,940 The law of this world and the other. 321 00:29:38,069 --> 00:29:40,358 - Good, but what is law? - Law is law. 322 00:29:40,488 --> 00:29:42,777 - Law is based on reason. - That is so. 323 00:29:42,907 --> 00:29:46,406 Now, yesterday I wasn't in love. Today I am. 324 00:29:46,536 --> 00:29:49,371 But what is love? How many people are in love? 325 00:29:49,497 --> 00:29:51,869 Soldiers, airmen, how many sailors? 326 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:55,166 Do they protest when their time is up? No, they don't. 327 00:29:55,295 --> 00:29:57,999 - They have no right, but I have. - Why? 328 00:29:58,131 --> 00:30:01,215 Look, I've fallen in love because of your mistake. 329 00:30:01,342 --> 00:30:04,545 I'm in a different position from what I was in last night. 330 00:30:04,679 --> 00:30:06,672 I expected to die, I was ready to die. 331 00:30:06,806 --> 00:30:09,297 It wasn't my fault I didn't, it was yours! 332 00:30:09,434 --> 00:30:12,007 - What government do you represent? - None! 333 00:30:12,145 --> 00:30:13,888 What laws govern the place? 334 00:30:14,022 --> 00:30:16,595 I cannot express any political views. 335 00:30:16,733 --> 00:30:19,271 A respectable place must have law of appeal. 336 00:30:19,402 --> 00:30:22,273 - Be reasonable! Appeal to whom? - You find out. 337 00:30:22,405 --> 00:30:26,153 - It has never been done! - Is that any reason why it can't be done? 338 00:30:26,284 --> 00:30:29,285 You are determined to get me into... the salad. 339 00:30:29,412 --> 00:30:31,535 What about the salad you got me into? 340 00:30:31,664 --> 00:30:35,282 Now, look here, you don't want me to use force, do you? 341 00:30:35,418 --> 00:30:37,411 Oh, well, you can always try. 342 00:30:38,046 --> 00:30:41,296 - I think I leave you for a little. - That's the form. 343 00:30:41,424 --> 00:30:45,089 - I shall report for instructions. - Now you're talking! 344 00:30:45,219 --> 00:30:48,256 And... do not fall any deeper in love now. 345 00:30:48,389 --> 00:30:50,382 You have been warned. 346 00:30:50,516 --> 00:30:52,509 She is... 347 00:30:52,644 --> 00:30:54,221 ...charming. 348 00:30:54,354 --> 00:30:56,809 You know, I think you're not a bad chap. 349 00:30:57,815 --> 00:30:59,808 Do you play chess? 350 00:30:59,942 --> 00:31:01,318 Yes. 351 00:31:01,444 --> 00:31:03,022 So do I. 352 00:31:03,154 --> 00:31:05,147 We could play every day. 353 00:31:06,366 --> 00:31:08,358 Some other time. 354 00:31:09,827 --> 00:31:11,820 Next time, perhaps? 355 00:31:13,539 --> 00:31:15,532 Au revoir, mon ami. 356 00:31:21,631 --> 00:31:23,623 No, thank you, darling. 357 00:31:23,758 --> 00:31:26,083 "No, thank you" what? 358 00:31:27,637 --> 00:31:29,676 You just asked me to have a drink. 359 00:31:34,310 --> 00:31:35,888 Did I? 360 00:31:39,565 --> 00:31:41,558 Yes, I remember I did. 361 00:31:44,362 --> 00:31:48,360 - What's the matter with me? - What is it? Is it your head again? 362 00:31:48,491 --> 00:31:50,282 Might be, yes. 363 00:31:51,327 --> 00:31:54,198 An odd thing happened while you were asleep. 364 00:31:54,330 --> 00:31:56,204 I haven't been asleep. 365 00:31:56,332 --> 00:31:59,002 Didn't you hear us talking? 366 00:31:59,127 --> 00:32:00,585 No. 367 00:32:00,712 --> 00:32:02,704 Who was there to talk to? 368 00:32:02,839 --> 00:32:06,290 - They sent somebody. - They? Who are they? 369 00:32:07,677 --> 00:32:09,670 I don't know. 370 00:32:12,557 --> 00:32:14,549 June, do I look cracked? 371 00:32:15,977 --> 00:32:18,183 Not to me, darling. Are you? 372 00:32:19,063 --> 00:32:21,601 There was a ten-tenths' fog last night. 373 00:32:21,733 --> 00:32:24,687 - That's right, isn't it? - You know there was. 374 00:32:24,819 --> 00:32:28,484 - I did bail out without a parachute. - That's your story. 375 00:32:28,614 --> 00:32:31,651 - So how can I be alive? - I give up. 376 00:32:31,784 --> 00:32:35,449 - I don't know and I don't care. - My parachute was shot up. 377 00:32:35,580 --> 00:32:39,079 When I came to, I had none. Anyway, why wasn't I drowned? 378 00:32:39,208 --> 00:32:41,830 No need to prove to me you ought to be dead. 379 00:32:41,961 --> 00:32:44,452 I ought to be according to this character. 380 00:32:44,589 --> 00:32:48,172 This conductor they sent after me said he missed me in the fog. 381 00:32:48,301 --> 00:32:51,136 Bad luck for them, good luck for me. 382 00:32:51,262 --> 00:32:54,429 I said I'd appeal. He's gone to get instructions. 383 00:32:54,557 --> 00:32:56,550 It's not my fault I'm not dead! 384 00:32:56,684 --> 00:33:00,100 It's not my fault I found you and fell in love with you. 385 00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:04,433 Maybe he wasn't here at all! 386 00:33:04,567 --> 00:33:06,560 Hey, you, Frenchman! 387 00:33:06,694 --> 00:33:08,687 Where are you?! 388 00:33:10,323 --> 00:33:13,277 - What is it? - Ohh, I've got an awful headache. 389 00:33:23,211 --> 00:33:24,788 June? 390 00:33:24,921 --> 00:33:26,960 June, you're there, aren't you? 391 00:33:27,090 --> 00:33:29,925 Yes, Peter, of course I'm here. 392 00:33:32,178 --> 00:33:34,171 I... thought I'd lost you. 393 00:33:41,396 --> 00:33:43,388 Dr Reeves's residence. 394 00:33:43,523 --> 00:33:45,515 Oh, good morning, Miss June. 395 00:33:45,650 --> 00:33:49,944 Yes, isn't it? The doctor's up in his thing - his camera obscura. 396 00:33:50,071 --> 00:33:54,448 He's got his new lens from the shop today. It makes a lovely picture. 397 00:33:54,575 --> 00:33:57,909 He's taken the big white garden table to project on. 398 00:33:58,037 --> 00:34:01,987 He'll be glad you're coming over. He's showing it to the dogs. 399 00:34:02,125 --> 00:34:04,331 Ah, nice day. 400 00:34:05,503 --> 00:34:08,041 Hmm, Mrs Bedwell's ducks out too early. 401 00:34:08,172 --> 00:34:11,043 She'll lose all the eggs if she's not careful. 402 00:34:11,175 --> 00:34:15,387 Ahh, the start of the cycling season. There's a hefty young girl. 403 00:34:15,513 --> 00:34:19,178 Time Mrs Tucker went to get our rations. There she is. 404 00:34:19,309 --> 00:34:23,437 Ooh, the Vicar and his sister - not coming here, I hope. No. Good. 405 00:34:23,563 --> 00:34:27,395 Quite a queue at the butcher's. Must have some offal. 406 00:34:27,525 --> 00:34:33,065 Wonderful how the kids love playing in the splash. The same in my day. 407 00:34:33,197 --> 00:34:35,404 That tree ought to come down. 408 00:34:40,371 --> 00:34:42,494 Old Mary looking quite skittish. 409 00:34:42,623 --> 00:34:45,245 Sally Allgood getting herself dated up. 410 00:34:45,376 --> 00:34:47,784 Ah, here's June, here she comes. 411 00:34:48,713 --> 00:34:50,919 She walks in beauty like the night. 412 00:34:52,050 --> 00:34:55,632 Only she's cycling and the sun is out. Nice girl. 413 00:34:55,762 --> 00:34:59,012 Worth a hatful of ambassadors in Lee Wood, anyway. 414 00:35:07,940 --> 00:35:09,933 Come on up! 415 00:35:20,662 --> 00:35:22,239 Hello, Doc. 416 00:35:22,372 --> 00:35:24,863 Hello, June. Come in, shut the door. 417 00:35:29,671 --> 00:35:31,663 Surveying your kingdom? 418 00:35:31,798 --> 00:35:34,419 A village doctor has to know everything. 419 00:35:34,550 --> 00:35:38,382 You'd be surprised how many diagnoses I've formed up here. 420 00:35:38,513 --> 00:35:41,051 I love looking at the village from here. 421 00:35:41,182 --> 00:35:43,175 Looks so different. 422 00:35:43,309 --> 00:35:47,556 That's because you see it all clearly and at once, as in a poet's eye. 423 00:35:47,689 --> 00:35:49,147 I want to talk to you. 424 00:35:49,273 --> 00:35:51,765 So you said, but it's none of my business. 425 00:35:51,901 --> 00:35:54,273 Dr McEwen says it's right up your street. 426 00:35:54,404 --> 00:35:58,104 This is my street, a village street. I'm a village doctor. 427 00:35:58,241 --> 00:36:00,233 Only because you like living here. 428 00:36:00,368 --> 00:36:04,235 McEwen says what you don't know about neurology would fill a peanut. 429 00:36:04,372 --> 00:36:05,747 I'm a good guesser. 430 00:36:05,873 --> 00:36:08,364 Your guesses are in famous magazines... 431 00:36:08,501 --> 00:36:11,419 ...like that "Brain" I've seen in your library. 432 00:36:11,546 --> 00:36:14,084 - Dr McEwen says... - I know what he says. 433 00:36:14,215 --> 00:36:17,169 - I had a talk with him on the phone. - Oh, did you? 434 00:36:17,302 --> 00:36:19,294 After I'd talked to you. 435 00:36:19,429 --> 00:36:23,806 This is the RAF's business. Carter should rejoin his station today. 436 00:36:23,933 --> 00:36:26,768 - I know. - What's it got to do with you? 437 00:36:26,894 --> 00:36:28,887 Oh, I'm just interested. 438 00:36:29,022 --> 00:36:30,397 Oh, I see. 439 00:36:30,523 --> 00:36:32,812 Strictly speaking, he's a RAF case. 440 00:36:32,942 --> 00:36:35,943 He's not a case, he's a person, a very fine person. 441 00:36:36,070 --> 00:36:37,814 I want you to see him, Frank. 442 00:36:37,947 --> 00:36:41,612 I don't want just anyone mauling him and asking him questions. 443 00:36:41,743 --> 00:36:44,281 I want you. I'm sure the RAF would say... 444 00:36:44,412 --> 00:36:47,662 I know what they'd say. I spoke to his CO this morning. 445 00:36:47,790 --> 00:36:49,830 - Oh, Frank! - And to his Group MO. 446 00:36:49,959 --> 00:36:52,581 - Fortunately, he's heard of me. - Frank! 447 00:36:52,712 --> 00:36:56,045 If you'd done that earlier, I'd have told you earlier. 448 00:36:56,174 --> 00:37:00,468 You can't kidnap RAF officers just cos you like the shape of their nose! 449 00:37:00,595 --> 00:37:03,845 Not his nose, his voice. I fell for that before I saw him. 450 00:37:03,973 --> 00:37:06,381 He believes he jumped with no parachute? 451 00:37:06,517 --> 00:37:08,510 - Yes. - He has hallucinations? 452 00:37:08,645 --> 00:37:10,933 During these bouts, does he go pale? 453 00:37:11,064 --> 00:37:14,018 - Yes, yes, he did. - He has headaches... here? 454 00:37:14,150 --> 00:37:16,190 I think so. You'd better ask him. 455 00:37:16,319 --> 00:37:19,071 - But he definitely sees things? - And hears. 456 00:37:19,197 --> 00:37:22,281 All right. Did you tell him he was talking rubbish? 457 00:37:22,408 --> 00:37:23,784 - No. - Quite right. 458 00:37:23,910 --> 00:37:26,317 He's not. He's talking very logically. 459 00:37:26,454 --> 00:37:28,447 Then he can't be in love. Bye. 460 00:37:31,125 --> 00:37:32,703 - Frank... - Yes? 461 00:37:32,835 --> 00:37:34,828 He has a very cute nose, too! 462 00:37:34,963 --> 00:37:37,335 - I'll be over about teatime. - Right. 463 00:37:59,070 --> 00:38:01,063 It's Dr Reeves. Let's go! 464 00:38:32,854 --> 00:38:34,645 Yippeeeee! 465 00:38:45,325 --> 00:38:49,239 - That's not how to spell Shakespeare. - Who are you, his agent? 466 00:38:49,412 --> 00:38:52,283 You spotted snakes with double tongue, 467 00:38:52,415 --> 00:38:54,787 Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen; 468 00:38:56,252 --> 00:38:59,087 Newts and blind-worms... er... 469 00:38:59,213 --> 00:39:01,253 Do no wrong. 470 00:39:01,382 --> 00:39:04,668 ...do no wrong, Come not near our fairy queen. 471 00:39:04,802 --> 00:39:07,887 You can never bring in a wall. What say you, Bottom? 472 00:39:08,014 --> 00:39:10,137 - Some guy or other... - No, no, no! 473 00:39:10,266 --> 00:39:13,849 My dear Private Logan, Bottom's not a gangster. Watch! 474 00:39:13,978 --> 00:39:16,185 Some man or other must present wall: 475 00:39:16,481 --> 00:39:20,644 and let him have some plaster or some loam or some rough-cast about him... 476 00:39:20,818 --> 00:39:22,396 ...to signify wall;... 477 00:39:22,528 --> 00:39:24,735 ...and let him hold his fingers thus... 478 00:39:24,864 --> 00:39:28,648 ...and through that cranny shall Pyramus and Thisby whisper. 479 00:39:28,785 --> 00:39:31,192 - Try that, my boy. - Can I do the business? 480 00:39:31,329 --> 00:39:33,452 - It's as well, yes. - Oh, brother! 481 00:39:33,581 --> 00:39:36,416 Some man or other must present wall: 482 00:39:36,542 --> 00:39:41,335 and let him have some plaster or some loam or some rough-cast about him... 483 00:39:41,464 --> 00:39:43,172 ...to signify wall. 484 00:40:05,571 --> 00:40:06,734 Check. 485 00:40:12,495 --> 00:40:13,954 Peter? 486 00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:15,658 Check. 487 00:40:20,712 --> 00:40:23,167 Oh, dear, I didn't see that one coming. 488 00:40:26,217 --> 00:40:28,340 - Good afternoon. - Hello, Frank. 489 00:40:28,469 --> 00:40:30,676 Squadron Leader Carter - Dr Reeves. 490 00:40:30,805 --> 00:40:34,055 - Do I get some tea? - It's ordered. Ginger cookies. 491 00:40:34,183 --> 00:40:36,556 - Good. Who's winning? - June's good. 492 00:40:36,686 --> 00:40:39,224 But he's winning. Sit down, everybody. 493 00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:43,978 Thank you. 494 00:40:53,328 --> 00:40:55,320 - I've told Peter. - What? 495 00:40:55,455 --> 00:40:57,993 Who you are, what you are, all about you. 496 00:40:58,124 --> 00:41:01,078 - Tall order. - And I've told you all about him. 497 00:41:01,210 --> 00:41:03,666 - Has she read your poems? - What poems? 498 00:41:03,796 --> 00:41:06,122 Didn't you know? This is Peter Carter. 499 00:41:06,257 --> 00:41:09,128 - I didn't know. - We hadn't got around to that. 500 00:41:09,260 --> 00:41:12,297 I haven't got much modern stuff, but you're there. 501 00:41:12,430 --> 00:41:15,301 - Good. - I like your viewpoint, your English. 502 00:41:15,433 --> 00:41:18,054 - I hope we shall have some talks. - So do I. 503 00:41:18,186 --> 00:41:20,095 Let's get down to this thing. 504 00:41:20,229 --> 00:41:23,645 You've never had any visions or hallucinations before? 505 00:41:23,775 --> 00:41:25,767 - Never. - What were you before? 506 00:41:25,902 --> 00:41:27,894 I did European History at Oxford. 507 00:41:28,029 --> 00:41:30,983 - Both parents alive? - My mother. 508 00:41:31,115 --> 00:41:33,357 - Brothers, sisters? - Two sisters. 509 00:41:33,493 --> 00:41:36,114 What was the cause of your father's death? 510 00:41:36,245 --> 00:41:37,823 Same as mine. 511 00:41:37,955 --> 00:41:39,747 - Brain? - No, war. 512 00:41:39,874 --> 00:41:41,499 - When? - 1917. 513 00:41:41,626 --> 00:41:44,247 - You're... er... 29? - 27. 514 00:41:44,379 --> 00:41:46,170 - Called up? - Volunteered. 515 00:41:46,297 --> 00:41:48,788 - Trained in Canada. Ops in '41. - Bomber? 516 00:41:48,925 --> 00:41:51,546 Coastals, then instructor, back to bombers. 517 00:41:51,678 --> 00:41:53,836 - Must've done a good many ops? - 67. 518 00:41:53,972 --> 00:41:57,138 They let you go back with your experience and seniority? 519 00:41:57,266 --> 00:41:59,473 - New job. Master bomber. - Tricky? 520 00:41:59,602 --> 00:42:02,010 - Somebody's got to do it. - Hmm. 521 00:42:04,941 --> 00:42:07,147 Now... about these headaches. 522 00:42:07,276 --> 00:42:09,483 - When did they start? - Headaches? 523 00:42:09,612 --> 00:42:14,404 I know you get them and you've told nobody about them, especially your MO. 524 00:42:14,534 --> 00:42:18,116 - What else do you know? - I know about your eyes. 525 00:42:18,246 --> 00:42:20,867 - You know a good deal. - Like to know more. 526 00:42:22,041 --> 00:42:23,619 All right. 527 00:42:26,045 --> 00:42:28,832 Now, these headaches, when did they start? 528 00:42:28,965 --> 00:42:30,542 - Six months ago. - Bad? 529 00:42:30,675 --> 00:42:32,169 - Not at first. - Where? 530 00:42:32,302 --> 00:42:35,219 - Here. - Frontal and temporal. 531 00:42:35,346 --> 00:42:38,431 Did you ever have a rather nasty bang on the head? 532 00:42:38,558 --> 00:42:40,550 - I don't think so. - Sure? 533 00:42:40,685 --> 00:42:42,843 The usual one - dropped as a baby. 534 00:42:42,979 --> 00:42:45,268 Has that spoilt everything for you? 535 00:42:45,398 --> 00:42:49,063 - Yes, I'm afraid it does. - I'll see what I can cook up. 536 00:42:49,193 --> 00:42:52,230 - Do you mind if I try something? - No, go ahead. 537 00:42:52,363 --> 00:42:55,815 Now... er... just face this way. Don't move. 538 00:42:57,577 --> 00:43:00,661 Now, don't move your eyes, look straight ahead. 539 00:43:00,788 --> 00:43:02,911 - Check. - What are you looking at? 540 00:43:03,041 --> 00:43:06,244 - The girl with red hair and legs! - Right, I've got her. 541 00:43:06,377 --> 00:43:08,749 - Don't take your eyes off her. - Easy! 542 00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:13,008 Without moving your eyes, what can you see on the extreme right? 543 00:43:13,134 --> 00:43:15,127 - Fireplace. - In the centre? 544 00:43:15,261 --> 00:43:17,254 - Girl. - Extreme left? 545 00:43:18,598 --> 00:43:20,175 Windows? 546 00:43:20,308 --> 00:43:22,099 - Curtains? - Yes. 547 00:43:22,226 --> 00:43:23,804 - Colour? - Red. 548 00:43:24,812 --> 00:43:26,604 Right, that'll do. 549 00:43:26,731 --> 00:43:29,518 If you've quite done staring at that girl's legs... 550 00:43:29,651 --> 00:43:31,643 You've got to do as the doctor says. 551 00:43:31,778 --> 00:43:34,862 Confidentially, they're rather knock-kneed. 552 00:43:37,950 --> 00:43:39,113 Hmm. 553 00:43:39,243 --> 00:43:41,236 - Any loss of appetite? - No. 554 00:43:41,371 --> 00:43:43,363 - Nor of thirst? - No fear. 555 00:43:43,498 --> 00:43:46,617 You've been eating and drinking more than usual. 556 00:43:46,751 --> 00:43:51,579 - You've just seen my mess bills! - And you've... seen something. 557 00:43:51,714 --> 00:43:53,873 - Someone. - Clearly? 558 00:43:54,008 --> 00:43:55,586 As clear as I see you. 559 00:43:55,718 --> 00:43:58,838 - Had such an hallucination before? - No, thanks. 560 00:43:58,972 --> 00:44:03,883 Do you believe in the survival of human personality after death? 561 00:44:04,018 --> 00:44:06,390 I thought you said you read my verses. 562 00:44:06,521 --> 00:44:08,348 Do you? 563 00:44:08,481 --> 00:44:12,479 I don't know, I've never thought about it. Do you? 564 00:44:12,610 --> 00:44:15,481 I don't know. I've thought about it too much. 565 00:44:21,411 --> 00:44:24,328 - I thought I was asked to tea. - It isn't time yet. 566 00:44:24,455 --> 00:44:26,662 Past my time. One last question. 567 00:44:26,791 --> 00:44:31,500 It may sound silly, but have you imagined recently... 568 00:44:31,629 --> 00:44:35,212 ...that you've smelt something that couldn't be there? 569 00:44:35,341 --> 00:44:37,417 What an extraordinary thing! 570 00:44:37,552 --> 00:44:39,343 - What is? - How did you know? 571 00:44:39,470 --> 00:44:41,048 A long shot. You have? 572 00:44:41,180 --> 00:44:43,932 Yes. It was so silly, I'd never have told you. 573 00:44:44,058 --> 00:44:47,593 It might explain everything abnormal you've seen and heard. 574 00:44:47,729 --> 00:44:51,596 But it still can't explain how I can jump without a parachute and be alive. 575 00:44:51,733 --> 00:44:55,565 No, but there might be a possible explanation even of that. 576 00:44:55,695 --> 00:44:59,562 Now, this heavenly messenger, you saw him quite clearly? 577 00:44:59,699 --> 00:45:01,692 I told you, as clear as I see you. 578 00:45:01,826 --> 00:45:04,447 This smell you imagined was at the same time? 579 00:45:04,579 --> 00:45:06,571 Yes, it was particularly strong. 580 00:45:06,706 --> 00:45:08,449 - A pleasant smell? - Yes. 581 00:45:08,583 --> 00:45:11,074 - Could you place it? - Fried onions. 582 00:45:11,210 --> 00:45:14,793 And this messenger, he hasn't turned up again? 583 00:45:14,922 --> 00:45:16,500 - No, but he will. - When? 584 00:45:16,633 --> 00:45:21,793 - He picks his own time and stops it. - Peter's appealed against his call-up. 585 00:45:21,929 --> 00:45:25,797 - That's the spirit. Don't give in. - I won't. 586 00:45:25,933 --> 00:45:28,721 I'm lucky June knew you. Thank you for coming. 587 00:45:28,853 --> 00:45:31,344 June has lucky friends. I've got bad news. 588 00:45:31,481 --> 00:45:33,806 - Why the grin? - You're going with me. 589 00:45:33,941 --> 00:45:36,018 - Where? - My house. For two reasons. 590 00:45:36,152 --> 00:45:38,358 I want to meet this chap next time... 591 00:45:38,488 --> 00:45:40,646 ...and I like a nice girl in the house. 592 00:45:40,782 --> 00:45:44,032 She only comes to borrow a book and she's a slow reader! 593 00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:46,865 - What about my CO? - I've fixed it with him. 594 00:45:46,996 --> 00:45:50,081 Besides, until we get this settled, I'm your CO. 595 00:45:50,208 --> 00:45:52,496 At my house, you get your tea at 4.30. 596 00:45:52,627 --> 00:45:55,296 Tea break! 597 00:45:55,421 --> 00:45:57,414 Here you get it at five. 598 00:45:58,633 --> 00:46:00,210 Sinkers, Doc? 599 00:46:00,343 --> 00:46:01,921 Thank you. 600 00:46:02,053 --> 00:46:04,544 We're shaping, Frank, we're shaping! 601 00:46:24,575 --> 00:46:26,568 Ohhh! 602 00:46:31,499 --> 00:46:33,492 Ah-ha! 20-all! 603 00:46:42,510 --> 00:46:44,503 21-20. Sorry. 604 00:46:44,637 --> 00:46:47,175 - You're sorry, my foot! Ready? - Ready. 605 00:46:50,727 --> 00:46:53,597 - Nearly. - Nearly doesn't count. 21-all. 606 00:46:56,357 --> 00:46:58,149 - I'll be... - Count 10. 607 00:46:58,276 --> 00:47:00,268 I wonder if Peter's a good player. 608 00:47:00,403 --> 00:47:03,439 - Ask him when he wakes. - He's been asleep 2½ hours. 609 00:47:03,573 --> 00:47:05,565 - He'll wake at 11. - How do you know? 610 00:47:05,700 --> 00:47:07,906 - I gave him a tablet. - How can you tell? 611 00:47:08,036 --> 00:47:10,443 - I know the patient. - Do you know him? 612 00:47:10,580 --> 00:47:12,572 - I think so. - Tell me about him! 613 00:47:12,707 --> 00:47:15,542 Are we playing table tennis or are we not? 614 00:47:15,668 --> 00:47:17,708 - All right, your serve. - Ready? 615 00:47:17,837 --> 00:47:19,830 - Ready. - Ohh! 616 00:47:19,964 --> 00:47:21,542 Your game. 617 00:47:22,884 --> 00:47:25,173 Now tell me what you think about him. 618 00:47:25,303 --> 00:47:28,090 - I think he's fascinating. - So do I. 619 00:47:28,222 --> 00:47:30,215 Not biologically. Medically. 620 00:47:30,350 --> 00:47:32,342 - Have a drink? - Love one. 621 00:47:41,069 --> 00:47:43,061 What do the books say, Doc? 622 00:47:44,197 --> 00:47:46,236 I see a dark stranger in his life. 623 00:48:01,798 --> 00:48:03,921 Do you know what's wrong with him? 624 00:48:05,093 --> 00:48:06,884 Yes, I think I do. 625 00:48:07,011 --> 00:48:09,004 Is he... going to be all right? 626 00:48:09,138 --> 00:48:11,594 He'll be all right. Here's your drink. 627 00:48:11,724 --> 00:48:14,180 Will he have any more hallucinations? 628 00:48:14,310 --> 00:48:16,303 - Yes. - How do you know? 629 00:48:16,437 --> 00:48:19,474 Because this conductor promised to come back. 630 00:48:19,607 --> 00:48:22,312 - Will that make him worse? - Why should it? 631 00:48:22,443 --> 00:48:26,523 I don't know. Seeing things, arguing about his own life. 632 00:48:26,656 --> 00:48:30,570 - Talking to a non-existent man... - He does exist for him. 633 00:48:30,702 --> 00:48:34,035 He's not going mad? His brain isn't being affected? 634 00:48:34,163 --> 00:48:36,203 It is, but not in the way you mean. 635 00:48:36,332 --> 00:48:39,119 That's why I asked him about his sense of smell. 636 00:48:39,252 --> 00:48:41,043 I saw it was important. 637 00:48:41,170 --> 00:48:44,207 He's having highly organised hallucinations... 638 00:48:44,340 --> 00:48:47,092 ...comparable to an experience of actual life. 639 00:48:47,218 --> 00:48:50,005 A combination of vision, hearing and idea. 640 00:48:50,138 --> 00:48:54,218 To a neurologist, it points directly to the sense of smell or taste. 641 00:48:54,350 --> 00:48:58,218 Once that connection's established, we know where to look. 642 00:48:58,354 --> 00:49:02,767 I want to find out one thing more in his history. I'll find it out later. 643 00:49:02,900 --> 00:49:04,276 Now... 644 00:49:06,446 --> 00:49:09,316 - I'm not going to tell you any more. - Thanks. 645 00:49:10,491 --> 00:49:13,611 - But how did he survive the jump? - I don't know. 646 00:49:13,745 --> 00:49:16,995 If we could find out and tell him, it would save him. 647 00:49:17,123 --> 00:49:20,872 It would help, but the main thing is for him to win his case. 648 00:49:21,002 --> 00:49:23,837 - Are you serious? - Perfectly serious. 649 00:49:23,963 --> 00:49:26,170 - We must help him to win it. - How? 650 00:49:26,299 --> 00:49:29,466 It depends on what message the conductor brings. 651 00:49:29,594 --> 00:49:32,085 But... suppose he loses his case? 652 00:49:32,221 --> 00:49:33,799 Oh, that's absurd! 653 00:49:33,931 --> 00:49:37,098 If we see he's losing or we think he's going to lose,... 654 00:49:37,226 --> 00:49:40,595 ...we'll find out the reason he survived or we'll invent one. 655 00:49:40,730 --> 00:49:42,723 We'll have a couple of drinks... 656 00:49:42,857 --> 00:49:46,308 ...and we'll invent the greatest lie in medical history. 657 00:49:46,444 --> 00:49:48,900 - Care for another game? - I don't mind. 658 00:49:49,030 --> 00:49:51,236 - Don't worry. See that bell? - Yes. 659 00:49:51,366 --> 00:49:53,821 He'll ring it if he gets another visit. 660 00:49:53,951 --> 00:49:55,944 - Fine. - Come on, your serve. 661 00:50:04,837 --> 00:50:06,830 - Ready? - Uh-huh. 662 00:50:15,014 --> 00:50:16,592 One-love. 663 00:50:48,047 --> 00:50:50,040 Doc, he's here! June! 664 00:50:56,973 --> 00:50:58,348 Doc? 665 00:51:37,263 --> 00:51:39,588 Eh bien, mon cher, comment ça va? 666 00:51:39,724 --> 00:51:41,302 Not too good. 667 00:51:41,434 --> 00:51:43,427 Not too good. Ah. 668 00:51:44,562 --> 00:51:49,105 I would not bother to ring that bell if I were you. Nothing will happen. 669 00:51:49,233 --> 00:51:51,606 A little trick of mine. You remember? 670 00:51:51,736 --> 00:51:53,314 After all,... 671 00:51:53,446 --> 00:51:55,439 ...what is time? 672 00:52:07,585 --> 00:52:09,578 A mere... tyranny. 673 00:52:10,588 --> 00:52:13,375 Let me know if you're going to do that again. 674 00:52:13,508 --> 00:52:16,129 - Looks good. - Very good. Know the author? 675 00:52:16,260 --> 00:52:18,752 No, but I often have a game with Philidor. 676 00:52:18,888 --> 00:52:21,759 - Philidor? - The greatest chess master ever. 677 00:52:21,891 --> 00:52:24,845 A Frenchman. Come along and I'll introduce you. 678 00:52:24,978 --> 00:52:26,353 - Good. - Splendid! 679 00:52:26,479 --> 00:52:29,397 - You've got good news for me. - How did you guess? 680 00:52:29,524 --> 00:52:32,015 You wouldn't entice me with Philimor... 681 00:52:32,151 --> 00:52:35,401 - Philidor. - ...if you had the right to conduct me. 682 00:52:35,530 --> 00:52:37,107 - True. - Well? 683 00:52:37,240 --> 00:52:40,276 Speaking officially, I have good news for you. 684 00:52:40,410 --> 00:52:41,572 Good! 685 00:52:41,703 --> 00:52:44,657 - You can appeal to the High Court. - Splendid! 686 00:52:44,789 --> 00:52:49,332 The trial will be très chic. In three days so you can prepare your case. 687 00:52:49,460 --> 00:52:51,038 Better and better. 688 00:52:51,170 --> 00:52:53,792 - Do not be too pleased. - Is there a catch? 689 00:52:53,923 --> 00:52:55,916 The prosecuting counsel. 690 00:52:56,050 --> 00:53:00,000 I am not permitted to offer advice or give a personal opinion but... 691 00:53:00,138 --> 00:53:02,344 - Who is this counsel? - Be prepared. 692 00:53:02,473 --> 00:53:04,051 - For what? - A shock. 693 00:53:04,183 --> 00:53:07,635 - Tell me the worst. Who is it? - Abraham Farlan. 694 00:53:07,770 --> 00:53:09,763 - Come again? - Abraham Farlan! 695 00:53:09,897 --> 00:53:11,475 - Never heard of him. - No? 696 00:53:11,607 --> 00:53:13,434 - Never. - He lives in Boston. 697 00:53:13,568 --> 00:53:15,857 - I've never been. - Massachusetts. 698 00:53:15,987 --> 00:53:20,696 - I've never been there! - Abraham Farlan died in Boston in 1775. 699 00:53:20,825 --> 00:53:23,281 Does that date convey anything to you? 700 00:53:23,411 --> 00:53:25,238 Lexington, Concord. 701 00:53:25,371 --> 00:53:28,989 You are good at history. The American War of Independence. 702 00:53:29,125 --> 00:53:31,877 - Oh, he was killed? - By a British bullet. 703 00:53:32,003 --> 00:53:34,790 Oh. He might be... prejudiced. 704 00:53:34,922 --> 00:53:37,129 Hmm. He hates your guts. 705 00:53:37,258 --> 00:53:40,425 And he hates the guts of every Englishman. 706 00:53:40,553 --> 00:53:44,218 And he hates this little affair with the Boston-born girl. 707 00:53:44,349 --> 00:53:46,057 It's not a little affair. 708 00:53:46,184 --> 00:53:49,350 Ohh, a big affair he will hate even more! 709 00:53:49,479 --> 00:53:51,685 - I'll appeal against him. - No good! 710 00:53:51,814 --> 00:53:54,981 We had to choose a good man. Our honour is at stake. 711 00:53:55,109 --> 00:53:57,731 Non, you must choose a good man for yourself. 712 00:53:57,862 --> 00:54:00,234 - As defending counsel? - Precisely. 713 00:54:00,365 --> 00:54:04,197 - Can I choose anybody? - Anybody who's ever lived on earth. 714 00:54:04,327 --> 00:54:06,319 Everybody is at your disposal. 715 00:54:06,454 --> 00:54:09,490 - You can choose me. - That would suit your book. 716 00:54:09,624 --> 00:54:13,456 Do not waste time. Abraham Farlan is piling up his case already. 717 00:54:13,586 --> 00:54:16,373 You can choose Socrates, William Pitt,... 718 00:54:16,506 --> 00:54:18,498 ...you can choose Henry VIII. 719 00:54:18,633 --> 00:54:20,625 Oh, Madame Du Barry. 720 00:54:20,760 --> 00:54:24,176 - She knows all about love. - Rather a one-track mind. 721 00:54:24,305 --> 00:54:26,843 You are a good chess player. Philidor. 722 00:54:26,975 --> 00:54:28,552 I'll think it over. 723 00:54:28,685 --> 00:54:30,891 By the way, I'd like to borrow this. 724 00:54:31,020 --> 00:54:33,428 It's not mine, it belongs to the doctor. 725 00:54:33,564 --> 00:54:35,604 - Oh, doctors. - What about them? 726 00:54:35,733 --> 00:54:38,604 They give me a great deal of trouble in my job. 727 00:54:45,702 --> 00:54:49,236 - He was here! He tricked us! - Yes, he was... here. 728 00:54:51,165 --> 00:54:53,158 And these were on the floor. 729 00:54:53,293 --> 00:54:55,285 Peter, sit down. 730 00:55:00,133 --> 00:55:01,295 Now... 731 00:55:01,426 --> 00:55:03,003 ...look up. 732 00:55:03,136 --> 00:55:05,508 You've been doing some hard talking. 733 00:55:05,638 --> 00:55:06,801 I have. 734 00:55:06,931 --> 00:55:09,138 - You didn't give in to anything? - No. 735 00:55:09,267 --> 00:55:11,888 - That's the spirit. - Can I stay overnight? 736 00:55:12,020 --> 00:55:14,890 - Yes, I'll tell Mrs Tucker. - I don't need much. 737 00:55:15,023 --> 00:55:17,015 Now, let's see. 738 00:55:18,693 --> 00:55:21,398 Hmm. I'll tell Mrs Tucker you're staying. 739 00:55:21,529 --> 00:55:25,194 Dr Reeves, can I stay in here? I want to be near these books. 740 00:55:25,325 --> 00:55:27,364 Of course. I'll fix up a camp bed. 741 00:55:29,162 --> 00:55:30,739 Great news, darling. 742 00:55:30,872 --> 00:55:32,995 - I'm allowed to appeal. - Really? 743 00:55:33,124 --> 00:55:35,117 June, I don't want to leave you. 744 00:55:35,251 --> 00:55:38,702 Darling, why should you? Everything will be all right. 745 00:55:38,838 --> 00:55:41,874 - If I can get a good counsel. - Of course you will. 746 00:55:42,008 --> 00:55:44,795 It's very important. I don't want to lose you. 747 00:55:44,927 --> 00:55:49,008 I don't intend to let you go. No-one can take you. I won't let them. 748 00:55:49,140 --> 00:55:51,975 A judgement against me would be backed up... 749 00:55:52,101 --> 00:55:55,138 ...by all the power of this world and of the other. 750 00:55:56,481 --> 00:55:58,058 Drink this. 751 00:55:58,191 --> 00:56:01,145 - Peter's got the right to appeal. - Splendid. 752 00:56:01,277 --> 00:56:02,855 - Smell anything? - Yes. 753 00:56:02,987 --> 00:56:04,565 - Fried onions? - Yes. 754 00:56:04,697 --> 00:56:06,690 Good. Drink that up. 755 00:56:07,241 --> 00:56:09,234 - Any headache? - Mm. 756 00:56:09,369 --> 00:56:11,361 Tell me tomorrow what he said. 757 00:56:11,496 --> 00:56:13,073 No, he said... 758 00:56:14,165 --> 00:56:15,956 - Good heavens! - What is it? 759 00:56:16,084 --> 00:56:19,334 - He got my Hundred Best Games. - Alekhese's chess book! 760 00:56:19,462 --> 00:56:22,083 - You sure? - Certain. He had it in his hand. 761 00:56:22,215 --> 00:56:24,006 - What a nerve! - A bit cool. 762 00:56:24,133 --> 00:56:27,004 - Now, get to bed. - I want to talk to you first. 763 00:56:27,136 --> 00:56:31,264 No, have a long sleep. Tomorrow, you'll feel as fresh as a daisy. 764 00:56:31,391 --> 00:56:34,475 - You don't believe a word I say! - Of course we do! 765 00:56:34,602 --> 00:56:38,434 My dear friend, here on Earth I am your defending counsel. 766 00:56:38,564 --> 00:56:41,815 As your counsel, I believe everything you tell me. 767 00:56:50,952 --> 00:56:53,075 - Dr Gaerlter. - Hello, Dr Reeves. 768 00:56:53,204 --> 00:56:56,240 You make your rounds the hard way. Give me a coupe! 769 00:56:56,374 --> 00:56:59,161 - Is Dr McEwen free? - He's going to operate. 770 00:56:59,294 --> 00:57:03,374 He hasn't started yet. I imagine he'll see you in the washroom. 771 00:57:27,196 --> 00:57:30,150 - Hello, Frank, what's new? - Deterioration. 772 00:57:30,283 --> 00:57:32,275 We ought to operate tonight. 773 00:57:32,410 --> 00:57:35,327 Impossible, we're swamped. Sure of your diagnosis? 774 00:57:35,455 --> 00:57:39,666 Certain. He had slight concussion two years ago - no aftereffects. 775 00:57:39,792 --> 00:57:41,785 The X-ray's inconclusive. 776 00:57:41,919 --> 00:57:46,297 You know about these hallucinations coupled with a sense of smell. 777 00:57:46,424 --> 00:57:50,469 It points to arachnoid adhesions involving the olfactory nerve. 778 00:57:50,595 --> 00:57:52,634 A tricky op. I've never seen one. 779 00:57:52,764 --> 00:57:55,551 I have - at the Hospital de la Pitié in Paris. 780 00:57:55,683 --> 00:57:58,055 I've made some notes for the surgeon. 781 00:57:58,186 --> 00:58:00,807 It'll be Dr Leiser, a fine neurosurgeon. 782 00:58:00,938 --> 00:58:03,809 - Leiser, good man. - We can't manage tonight. 783 00:58:03,941 --> 00:58:06,018 There's no crisis in such a thing. 784 00:58:06,152 --> 00:58:08,145 - Any day will do. - No, it won't. 785 00:58:08,279 --> 00:58:10,770 I'll tell you why and why there is a crisis. 786 00:58:10,907 --> 00:58:13,824 I'm afraid his brain may be permanently affected. 787 00:58:13,951 --> 00:58:15,327 Insanity? 788 00:58:15,453 --> 00:58:16,828 - Yes. - Why? 789 00:58:16,954 --> 00:58:21,581 Because his trial is on for tonight. He hasn't found anyone to defend him. 790 00:58:21,709 --> 00:58:25,789 He spends all his time in my library. He only sleeps when I drug him. 791 00:58:25,922 --> 00:58:28,164 The boy has a fine mind but it's taxed. 792 00:58:28,299 --> 00:58:30,790 That's the trouble, it's too good a mind. 793 00:58:30,927 --> 00:58:33,881 A weak mind isn't strong enough to hurt itself. 794 00:58:34,013 --> 00:58:36,765 Stupidity has saved many a man from going mad. 795 00:58:36,891 --> 00:58:38,469 Yes, you're right there. 796 00:58:38,601 --> 00:58:42,100 He's had several talks with this heavenly messenger. 797 00:58:42,230 --> 00:58:45,681 Hallucinations, but you never saw such an imagination! 798 00:58:45,817 --> 00:58:50,111 I've been taking tips on the other world - law, system, architecture. 799 00:58:50,238 --> 00:58:54,236 Interestingly, he never crosses the limits of his imagination. 800 00:58:54,367 --> 00:58:57,736 - I don't get you. - Nothing he invents is fantastic. 801 00:58:57,870 --> 00:59:00,492 It's invention, but logical invention. 802 00:59:00,623 --> 00:59:04,751 The keystone to his invention is that the trial takes place tonight. 803 00:59:04,877 --> 00:59:07,415 He must win or lose his case tonight. 804 00:59:07,547 --> 00:59:10,880 We ought to operate tonight. No use shaking your head. 805 00:59:11,009 --> 00:59:15,469 We need to find a counsel to save him losing his case or we may lose him! 806 00:59:34,115 --> 00:59:36,108 What about... 807 00:59:36,242 --> 00:59:37,820 ...him? 808 00:59:39,245 --> 00:59:40,823 Lincoln? 809 00:59:40,955 --> 00:59:45,332 No, it's hardly fair to drag him in. I don't believe he'd be prejudiced. 810 00:59:47,003 --> 00:59:48,580 Plato. 811 00:59:50,173 --> 00:59:52,878 How would you like to be defended by Plato? 812 00:59:53,009 --> 00:59:55,002 Nobody knew more about reasoning. 813 00:59:55,136 --> 00:59:58,968 He was 81 when he died. He might be too old to think love important. 814 00:59:59,098 --> 01:00:03,559 Do you think so? Anyhow, Plato had very elementary ideas about love. 815 01:00:03,686 --> 01:00:06,094 Besides, didn't he quote Sophocles... 816 01:00:06,230 --> 01:00:09,896 ...when someone asked him if he could still appreciate a woman? 817 01:00:10,026 --> 01:00:13,774 - What did the old boy say? - "I'm glad to be rid of all that." 818 01:00:13,905 --> 01:00:17,025 "It's like escaping from bondage to a raving madman." 819 01:00:17,158 --> 01:00:18,189 Tut! 820 01:00:18,326 --> 01:00:20,817 These Greeks - cold as their marble. 821 01:00:20,953 --> 01:00:25,497 If he had been French... Richelieu, for example. Irresistible at 80! 822 01:00:25,625 --> 01:00:27,416 How about Richelieu? 823 01:00:27,543 --> 01:00:30,959 No, I never liked him much in "The Three Musketeers". 824 01:00:40,264 --> 01:00:42,423 Solomon. 825 01:00:43,726 --> 01:00:45,185 Solomon? 826 01:00:46,062 --> 01:00:48,019 Non? 827 01:00:48,147 --> 01:00:52,062 Mais, mon Dieu, who do you want? You have only a few hours left! 828 01:00:52,193 --> 01:00:56,107 It sounds a grand idea to have all these great men to choose from,... 829 01:00:56,239 --> 01:00:59,193 ...but what do they know of our problems today? 830 01:00:59,325 --> 01:01:01,117 True. Very little. 831 01:01:01,244 --> 01:01:04,198 Besides, I think it ought to be an Englishman. 832 01:01:04,330 --> 01:01:07,830 Nobody famous, but somebody with his head screwed on. 833 01:01:09,711 --> 01:01:11,288 Screwed? 834 01:01:11,421 --> 01:01:14,172 - Now, this Abraham... er...? - Farlan. 835 01:01:14,299 --> 01:01:16,042 Was he a famous man? 836 01:01:16,175 --> 01:01:18,631 First American killed by a British bullet. 837 01:01:18,761 --> 01:01:21,513 I mean, was he a great philosopher or statesman? 838 01:01:21,639 --> 01:01:24,474 - He was a schoolteacher. - There, you see! 839 01:01:24,600 --> 01:01:28,847 Now, Plato would probably talk about perceptions and causations. 840 01:01:30,231 --> 01:01:31,809 Pardon? 841 01:01:31,941 --> 01:01:34,728 - Over your head, too? - Definitely. 842 01:01:34,861 --> 01:01:36,853 It's quite simple... 843 01:01:40,116 --> 01:01:43,865 By the way, why are you so interested in my winning my case? 844 01:01:43,995 --> 01:01:45,370 I? 845 01:01:45,496 --> 01:01:47,288 Yes, you! 846 01:01:55,048 --> 01:01:57,918 And why am I being taken up this... stairway? 847 01:02:01,429 --> 01:02:03,635 I'm not being taken for a ride, am I? 848 01:02:03,765 --> 01:02:07,050 - What a suggestion! - Take that bit of barley sugar away. 849 01:02:07,185 --> 01:02:11,265 I don't like it or your suggestions! I'll go back before it's too late. 850 01:02:11,397 --> 01:02:13,390 Peter! Peter! 851 01:02:13,524 --> 01:02:15,102 Peter! 852 01:02:15,234 --> 01:02:16,978 Peter! 853 01:02:17,111 --> 01:02:19,104 Peter...! 854 01:02:19,238 --> 01:02:20,614 Peter! 855 01:02:23,368 --> 01:02:25,360 Peter, come back! 856 01:02:26,537 --> 01:02:28,329 Peter, Peter! 857 01:02:28,456 --> 01:02:29,701 Peter! 858 01:02:29,832 --> 01:02:31,825 Peter, Peter! 859 01:02:31,960 --> 01:02:33,751 Come back! 860 01:02:34,712 --> 01:02:37,713 - Peter! - Peter, come back! 861 01:02:38,800 --> 01:02:40,792 Peter, come back! 862 01:02:41,928 --> 01:02:44,549 Peter! Peter, come back! 863 01:02:46,808 --> 01:02:48,800 Peter! Peter! 864 01:02:48,935 --> 01:02:50,726 Come back! 865 01:02:50,853 --> 01:02:52,846 Peter, Peter, come back! 866 01:02:52,981 --> 01:02:55,306 Peter! Peter! 867 01:02:55,441 --> 01:02:58,359 Peter, my darling, come back to me! 868 01:03:05,910 --> 01:03:07,903 He almost got me! 869 01:03:36,566 --> 01:03:38,558 He'll be all right in a moment. 870 01:03:38,693 --> 01:03:42,144 Why isn't the ambulance here? It was due half an hour ago. 871 01:03:42,280 --> 01:03:46,278 Phone Dr McEwen, say we must operate tonight. It's life or death. 872 01:03:46,409 --> 01:03:50,870 Tell him about the ambulance. Telegraph his mother and two sisters. 873 01:03:50,997 --> 01:03:52,989 - Yes, Doctor. - That's all. 874 01:03:55,710 --> 01:03:57,288 Now, Peter... 875 01:03:57,420 --> 01:04:00,207 - Where's June? - Phoning. Back in a moment. 876 01:04:00,340 --> 01:04:02,000 - He almost got me. - I know. 877 01:04:02,133 --> 01:04:05,051 Crafty beggar. I got away by the skin of my teeth. 878 01:04:05,178 --> 01:04:08,214 Don't let anybody fool you into giving up this case! 879 01:04:08,348 --> 01:04:11,598 You were promised a fair trial. Don't give in! Promise? 880 01:04:11,726 --> 01:04:14,217 - Got no counsel. - We'll find the right man. 881 01:04:14,354 --> 01:04:18,268 - They can't start without counsel. - They may appoint some stooge. 882 01:04:18,399 --> 01:04:20,558 - Nonsense. - Or let it go by default. 883 01:04:20,693 --> 01:04:23,730 We'll find somebody. They can't start till then. 884 01:04:23,863 --> 01:04:25,238 Nobody famous! 885 01:04:25,365 --> 01:04:27,772 No, that'd be the worst thing we could do. 886 01:04:27,909 --> 01:04:30,696 - How about a pal of yours? - Might find somebody. 887 01:04:30,828 --> 01:04:32,655 - Your radio operator? - Bob? 888 01:04:32,789 --> 01:04:34,580 Yes. Think it over. 889 01:04:34,707 --> 01:04:36,747 - You couldn't get through? - No. 890 01:04:36,876 --> 01:04:39,497 It's the storm. They always cut the phone off. 891 01:04:39,629 --> 01:04:42,962 - I'll go on my bike. - No, you're more valuable here. 892 01:04:43,091 --> 01:04:45,795 If the ambulance comes, don't wait for me. 893 01:04:45,927 --> 01:04:47,919 And if I meet it, I'll come back. 894 01:04:48,054 --> 01:04:50,426 Go to him, don't allow him to despair. 895 01:04:50,556 --> 01:04:52,549 His life is in your hands. 896 01:05:19,294 --> 01:05:22,164 - Where's Frank? - He won't be long, darling. 897 01:05:22,297 --> 01:05:26,543 I must talk to him. I don't think Bob's the right man. 898 01:05:26,676 --> 01:05:28,669 I'll tell him you said so. 899 01:05:28,803 --> 01:05:30,677 - Do you know Bob? - No. 900 01:05:30,805 --> 01:05:32,798 He was my sparks. 901 01:05:34,017 --> 01:05:37,267 - Highly operational type. - We'll find somebody. 902 01:05:38,938 --> 01:05:42,437 - Time's nearly up. - Frank'll come up with something. 903 01:05:42,567 --> 01:05:44,358 I wish he'd hurry. 904 01:05:52,493 --> 01:05:54,984 Look out! 905 01:06:02,545 --> 01:06:04,123 Dr Reeves! 906 01:06:10,011 --> 01:06:12,965 Get the fire extinguishers and the blankets! 907 01:06:21,856 --> 01:06:24,228 - Can I help you, sir? - Watch the road! 908 01:06:52,387 --> 01:06:54,878 He never saw us until it was too late. 909 01:06:55,014 --> 01:06:57,007 He turned off to save us. 910 01:06:57,141 --> 01:06:59,846 Gosh, I feel bad about it. He was a fine man. 911 01:06:59,978 --> 01:07:01,970 You couldn't help it. 912 01:07:02,105 --> 01:07:04,809 He was interested in this case, wasn't he? 913 01:07:04,941 --> 01:07:06,518 Yes. 914 01:07:06,651 --> 01:07:08,940 I saw his notes he left for Dr Leiser. 915 01:07:09,070 --> 01:07:11,109 It was a fine piece of diagnosis. 916 01:07:11,239 --> 01:07:13,611 He left notes for the operation, too. 917 01:07:13,741 --> 01:07:16,612 - Dr Leiser is very good, isn't he? - The best. 918 01:07:19,998 --> 01:07:21,160 Frank... 919 01:07:23,543 --> 01:07:25,334 I'm here, darling. 920 01:07:26,462 --> 01:07:28,254 Where's Frank? 921 01:07:31,676 --> 01:07:33,669 He's... gone ahead. 922 01:07:37,974 --> 01:07:39,966 He's had an accident. 923 01:07:44,731 --> 01:07:46,308 Hasn't he? 924 01:07:48,443 --> 01:07:49,605 Yes,... 925 01:07:49,736 --> 01:07:51,527 ...a bad accident. 926 01:07:55,658 --> 01:07:57,450 Is he dead? 927 01:08:00,705 --> 01:08:02,496 Yes, he's dead. 928 01:08:19,641 --> 01:08:21,633 All right, boys, step lively. 929 01:08:24,103 --> 01:08:25,895 Okay, Doc. 930 01:08:27,023 --> 01:08:29,016 - Easy. - All right. 931 01:08:35,239 --> 01:08:37,232 All right, guys, lead the way. 932 01:09:11,901 --> 01:09:14,772 - An atropine injection, Sister? - Yes, 100. 933 01:09:14,904 --> 01:09:17,940 - Is this the cranial case? - Yes, that's right. 934 01:09:19,117 --> 01:09:22,283 Hello, Squadron Leader. We're all ready for you. 935 01:11:05,723 --> 01:11:07,716 - Dr Reeves? - Yes. 936 01:11:07,850 --> 01:11:09,843 Permit me to return your book. 937 01:11:09,978 --> 01:11:11,769 - Ho-ho! - Ah-ha! 938 01:11:11,896 --> 01:11:15,063 - So it's you! - I will introduce you to Philidor. 939 01:11:15,191 --> 01:11:18,275 Cher colleague, a special case. Court of Appeal. 940 01:11:18,444 --> 01:11:21,018 - I will deliver Dr Reeves. - As you wish. 941 01:11:22,156 --> 01:11:23,734 Merci. 942 01:11:26,285 --> 01:11:28,077 Be of good cheer, friend. 943 01:11:28,204 --> 01:11:31,240 One of the best men in the service. Your compatriot. 944 01:11:31,374 --> 01:11:33,165 - What's his name? - John... 945 01:11:33,293 --> 01:11:37,160 - Bunyan! Yes, of course! - And... er... how is dear Peter? 946 01:11:38,089 --> 01:11:40,082 Oh, he has a fighting chance. 947 01:11:40,216 --> 01:11:42,007 Oh-oh. 948 01:11:49,976 --> 01:11:51,968 - Dr Frank Reeves. - Yes. 949 01:11:52,103 --> 01:11:54,938 You are familiar with Squadron Leader Carter's case? 950 01:11:55,064 --> 01:11:56,227 I am. 951 01:11:56,357 --> 01:11:58,564 He has chosen you to be his counsel. 952 01:11:59,319 --> 01:12:01,110 I hoped he would. 953 01:12:01,237 --> 01:12:02,945 - Do you accept? - I do. 954 01:12:03,072 --> 01:12:05,742 You have very little time to prepare your case. 955 01:12:05,867 --> 01:12:07,859 What facilities do you wish? 956 01:12:07,994 --> 01:12:11,445 I should like to see my client and get his instructions. 957 01:12:11,581 --> 01:12:14,582 I subpoena Flying Officer Trubshaw as a witness. 958 01:12:14,709 --> 01:12:16,287 Certainly. 959 01:12:16,419 --> 01:12:21,710 Conductor 71, you will take Dr Frank Reeves to Squadron Leader Carter. 960 01:12:45,948 --> 01:12:47,111 Psst! 961 01:13:17,438 --> 01:13:19,561 - Hello, Bob. - Wotcher, skipper. 962 01:13:19,691 --> 01:13:23,190 I didn't expect to see you - not yet. Not up there, either. 963 01:13:23,319 --> 01:13:25,312 Well, it was Doc Reeves's idea. 964 01:13:25,446 --> 01:13:27,984 - I subpoenaed him. Let's talk. - Right. 965 01:13:28,116 --> 01:13:32,030 - You sure they won't miss me? - Miss you? You know me, mon ami. 966 01:13:32,161 --> 01:13:35,198 That surgeon's very neat, very neat indeed. 967 01:13:35,331 --> 01:13:36,909 I like his work. 968 01:13:37,041 --> 01:13:39,449 - You're in good hands, Peter. - I know. 969 01:13:39,585 --> 01:13:41,625 - Look... - I know what's coming. 970 01:13:41,754 --> 01:13:44,376 - Are you sure I'm the best man? - Quite sure. 971 01:13:44,507 --> 01:13:46,998 Aren't you afraid I may be out of my depth? 972 01:13:47,135 --> 01:13:49,127 - No. - Or that I'm no lawyer? 973 01:13:49,262 --> 01:13:50,211 No. 974 01:13:50,346 --> 01:13:54,011 - If he gets onto politics, I'm sunk. - You must have something. 975 01:13:54,142 --> 01:13:57,926 - Oh, just a little common sense. - That's rare - it'll do me. 976 01:13:58,062 --> 01:13:59,225 - Say yes! - Well... 977 01:13:59,355 --> 01:14:02,356 - He has no choice. - What are we talking about, then? 978 01:14:02,483 --> 01:14:04,476 All right, I need evidence. 979 01:14:10,825 --> 01:14:12,616 Look at her. 980 01:14:12,744 --> 01:14:14,535 Holy smoke! 981 01:14:14,662 --> 01:14:17,497 - What? - She looks like a nice girl. 982 01:14:17,623 --> 01:14:20,541 - She is a nice girl. - Hardly your type, skip. 983 01:14:21,753 --> 01:14:23,745 I've fallen in love with her. 984 01:14:23,880 --> 01:14:25,872 Her accent is foreign,... 985 01:14:26,007 --> 01:14:28,000 ...but it sounds sweet to me. 986 01:14:29,260 --> 01:14:31,965 We were born thousands of miles apart,... 987 01:14:32,096 --> 01:14:34,385 ...but we were made for each other. 988 01:14:34,515 --> 01:14:37,137 That's an excellent piece of prose. 989 01:14:37,268 --> 01:14:38,727 Sorry. 990 01:14:38,853 --> 01:14:40,846 Nothing to be ashamed of. 991 01:14:40,980 --> 01:14:43,602 May I kiss her? Just in case, you know. 992 01:14:43,733 --> 01:14:46,189 You may, but she will not know it. 993 01:14:46,319 --> 01:14:48,110 Doesn't matter. 994 01:14:49,947 --> 01:14:55,072 These English! What is the good of kissing a girl if she does not feel it? 995 01:15:03,711 --> 01:15:04,874 Look! 996 01:15:05,004 --> 01:15:07,246 - What? - The evidence you wanted. 997 01:15:08,424 --> 01:15:10,216 Her tears. 998 01:15:11,719 --> 01:15:13,842 Oh, I wish I could take one with me. 999 01:15:13,972 --> 01:15:16,344 You are counsel, you can do as you wish. 1000 01:15:16,474 --> 01:15:19,095 Why don't we wrap it up and take it with us? 1001 01:15:20,436 --> 01:15:22,014 Permit me. 1002 01:15:29,612 --> 01:15:31,190 That's it. 1003 01:15:31,322 --> 01:15:33,694 The only real bit of evidence we have. 1004 01:15:34,701 --> 01:15:37,405 Quick, we must not keep the court waiting. 1005 01:18:05,310 --> 01:18:08,310 The Court of Appeal sits to consider the case... 1006 01:18:08,438 --> 01:18:10,596 ...of the Department of Records... 1007 01:18:10,732 --> 01:18:14,564 ...versus Squadron Leader Peter David Carter of the RAF. 1008 01:18:14,694 --> 01:18:18,739 He claims negligence and superior rights and responsibilities... 1009 01:18:18,865 --> 01:18:20,904 ...arising out of that negligence. 1010 01:18:21,034 --> 01:18:25,327 He is appealing for remission of the date of his term on Earth... 1011 01:18:25,455 --> 01:18:28,159 ...and for a reconsideration of his case. 1012 01:18:28,291 --> 01:18:30,912 It has been decided to allow this appeal. 1013 01:18:31,044 --> 01:18:34,792 It is for the jury to decide whether it shall be successful. 1014 01:18:35,923 --> 01:18:38,877 Owing to the interest aroused by the case... 1015 01:18:39,010 --> 01:18:41,631 ...there is an unusually large audience. 1016 01:18:41,763 --> 01:18:45,463 We can, of course, seat everyone who wishes to be present. 1017 01:18:45,600 --> 01:18:50,096 The front rows are reserved for those with a special interest in the case. 1018 01:18:50,229 --> 01:18:54,938 Members of the jury, do not allow yourselves to be influenced... 1019 01:18:55,068 --> 01:18:57,060 ...by anything but the facts... 1020 01:18:57,195 --> 01:18:59,187 ...and by your conscience. 1021 01:18:59,322 --> 01:19:03,735 You'll have assistance from the court to help you arrive at your verdict. 1022 01:19:05,161 --> 01:19:08,577 The counsel for the prosecution will take his place. 1023 01:19:34,524 --> 01:19:37,608 The counsel for the defence will take his place. 1024 01:19:46,661 --> 01:19:49,531 I call upon the prosecution to open the case. 1025 01:19:54,335 --> 01:19:57,087 Your Honour, members of the jury,... 1026 01:19:57,213 --> 01:19:59,206 ...this case has three issues. 1027 01:20:00,174 --> 01:20:03,045 Peter D Carter, an Englishman,... 1028 01:20:03,177 --> 01:20:07,127 ...should have died on the second day of May, 1945,... 1029 01:20:07,265 --> 01:20:11,393 ...at ten after four of the clock, British Double Summer Time. 1030 01:20:11,519 --> 01:20:13,097 Due to an oversight,... 1031 01:20:13,229 --> 01:20:17,606 ...which I hasten to state is contrary to the traditions of a great service,... 1032 01:20:19,652 --> 01:20:21,645 ...the defendant did not die. 1033 01:20:21,779 --> 01:20:24,650 Therefore, issue No.1, who is responsible? 1034 01:20:24,782 --> 01:20:27,653 When summoned to report 20-odd hours later,... 1035 01:20:27,785 --> 01:20:31,237 ...the defendant refused to accompany Conductor 71,... 1036 01:20:31,372 --> 01:20:35,240 ...giving as his reason that in the time which he had borrowed... 1037 01:20:35,376 --> 01:20:38,294 ...he had accumulated new responsibilities... 1038 01:20:38,421 --> 01:20:41,755 ...of an allegedly important and permanent nature. 1039 01:20:41,883 --> 01:20:45,133 He claimed, in fact, that in these 20 hours... 1040 01:20:45,261 --> 01:20:49,093 ...a young lady of good American stock... 1041 01:20:49,223 --> 01:20:51,216 ...had fallen in love with him. 1042 01:20:52,018 --> 01:20:54,011 Therefore issue No.2. 1043 01:20:54,145 --> 01:20:56,351 Are we to believe this? 1044 01:20:56,481 --> 01:20:58,723 Furthermore, he states... 1045 01:20:58,858 --> 01:21:00,898 ...in these borrowed 20 hours... 1046 01:21:01,027 --> 01:21:03,732 My lord, I object to the word "borrowed",... 1047 01:21:03,863 --> 01:21:06,484 ...which counsel is using so emphatically. 1048 01:21:06,616 --> 01:21:11,194 To borrow means to get temporary use of something without being the true owner. 1049 01:21:11,329 --> 01:21:16,121 My client didn't get, he was given the 20 hours in question. 1050 01:21:16,250 --> 01:21:18,741 He didn't use something he didn't own. 1051 01:21:18,878 --> 01:21:20,871 He was the owner of his own life. 1052 01:21:22,548 --> 01:21:24,126 The next points are,... 1053 01:21:24,258 --> 01:21:28,719 ...is this young Englishman in love with this girl of American stock? 1054 01:21:28,846 --> 01:21:32,132 Even more important, is she in love with him? 1055 01:21:32,266 --> 01:21:35,018 Why stress their nationalities? 1056 01:21:35,144 --> 01:21:37,386 Very important, sir. Extremely important. 1057 01:21:37,522 --> 01:21:39,977 - Why? - Because we are talking of love. 1058 01:21:40,108 --> 01:21:44,485 It can happen between an Englishman and an American girl. 1059 01:21:44,612 --> 01:21:46,605 And... er... vice versa. 1060 01:21:46,739 --> 01:21:48,317 Possibly. 1061 01:21:48,449 --> 01:21:51,534 But what are these love affairs, Dr Reeves? 1062 01:21:51,661 --> 01:21:55,279 Men and women thousands of miles away from home,... 1063 01:21:55,415 --> 01:21:58,285 ...away from the love they left behind. 1064 01:21:58,418 --> 01:22:01,502 Minute sparks instead of scorching flames,... 1065 01:22:01,629 --> 01:22:06,375 ...fading, shabby wigs instead of the rich gold of a woman's hair. 1066 01:22:06,509 --> 01:22:09,380 The love of the moment, Dr Reeves. 1067 01:22:09,512 --> 01:22:11,220 Do I call it love? 1068 01:22:11,347 --> 01:22:14,467 Once in a thousand times, perhaps. 1069 01:22:14,600 --> 01:22:17,471 And how many end in lasting marriage? 1070 01:22:17,603 --> 01:22:19,395 One in ten thousand. 1071 01:22:20,064 --> 01:22:23,065 - My case, sir! - That, sir, is for you to prove. 1072 01:22:23,192 --> 01:22:27,060 When our men and women came to your country as your allies,... 1073 01:22:27,196 --> 01:22:29,652 ...it was not to become your prisoners. 1074 01:22:29,782 --> 01:22:33,780 May I bring you up to date? We're living in the 20th century, not the 18th. 1075 01:22:33,911 --> 01:22:35,904 May I bring you up to date, sir? 1076 01:22:36,748 --> 01:22:38,740 We are not alive at all. 1077 01:22:38,875 --> 01:22:40,666 Good point. 1078 01:22:40,793 --> 01:22:42,786 And I am up to date, sir. 1079 01:22:42,920 --> 01:22:46,040 I've been watching you English from upstairs. 1080 01:22:46,174 --> 01:22:48,879 Your wars, your politics, your busyness. 1081 01:22:49,010 --> 01:22:52,177 From the tax on tea in 1766... 1082 01:22:52,305 --> 01:22:54,297 ...to a certain report... 1083 01:22:54,432 --> 01:22:58,809 ...on England by five members of the United States Senate in 1944. 1084 01:22:58,936 --> 01:23:02,436 The defendant has nothing to do with tea or senators. 1085 01:23:02,565 --> 01:23:04,558 But other Englishmen had, sir. 1086 01:23:04,692 --> 01:23:08,026 Is Peter D Carter what you'd call a good Englishman? 1087 01:23:08,154 --> 01:23:09,529 Yes, sir. 1088 01:23:10,907 --> 01:23:12,899 Do you see this glass? 1089 01:23:13,034 --> 01:23:17,328 Out of it Benedict Arnold drank the health of King George III. 1090 01:23:19,916 --> 01:23:23,581 Does it break because it is faulty or because it is glass? 1091 01:23:25,213 --> 01:23:29,590 Can I tear this paper because it is defective or because it is paper? 1092 01:23:29,717 --> 01:23:32,043 We are all as God made us, sir,... 1093 01:23:32,178 --> 01:23:35,927 ...but our ancestors had a deal to do in shaping us as well. 1094 01:23:36,057 --> 01:23:37,385 I quite agree. 1095 01:23:37,517 --> 01:23:39,509 The jury will please note that. 1096 01:23:39,644 --> 01:23:43,344 My lord, may I ask where Mr Farlan's grandfather was born? 1097 01:23:43,481 --> 01:23:46,932 - The question is irrelevant. - Could it have been England? 1098 01:23:47,068 --> 01:23:49,226 You need not answer that question. 1099 01:23:49,362 --> 01:23:51,401 I prefer to answer, Your Honour. 1100 01:23:51,531 --> 01:23:54,982 Grandfather left England, sir, because he didn't like it. 1101 01:23:55,118 --> 01:23:58,035 Granddad would've liked it even less today. 1102 01:23:58,162 --> 01:23:59,740 Listen. 1103 01:24:00,915 --> 01:24:02,908 "Well, here we are at Lord's... " 1104 01:24:03,042 --> 01:24:05,664 The voice of England in 1945. 1105 01:24:07,422 --> 01:24:09,960 "And here let me say that the weather... 1106 01:24:10,091 --> 01:24:13,590 ...is more like cricket weather - it's stopped raining. " 1107 01:24:13,720 --> 01:24:17,848 "Play has been resumed and the crowd of about 50,000 people... 1108 01:24:17,974 --> 01:24:21,058 ...have discarded their macs and umbrellas... 1109 01:24:21,185 --> 01:24:26,809 ...and settled down to enjoy the game which to people all over the world... 1110 01:24:26,941 --> 01:24:30,986 ...more truly represents all that's English than anything else. " 1111 01:24:31,112 --> 01:24:34,196 Do you admit that this is an English voice, sir? 1112 01:24:34,324 --> 01:24:39,069 "Wally Hammond played a delightful... " 1113 01:24:45,710 --> 01:24:47,703 The voice of America in 1945. 1114 01:24:47,837 --> 01:24:49,830 1115 01:24:52,091 --> 01:24:54,499 1116 01:24:54,636 --> 01:24:57,209 1117 01:24:59,974 --> 01:25:03,343 1118 01:25:03,478 --> 01:25:05,470 1119 01:25:06,230 --> 01:25:07,393 1120 01:25:07,523 --> 01:25:10,145 1121 01:25:10,276 --> 01:25:12,483 1122 01:25:14,906 --> 01:25:18,357 we'll have a life of ease... 1123 01:25:18,493 --> 01:25:20,485 I don't understand a word. 1124 01:25:21,913 --> 01:25:23,490 Nor do I. 1125 01:25:26,542 --> 01:25:30,457 But for England I'm ready to call John Donne, Dryden, Pope,... 1126 01:25:30,588 --> 01:25:33,672 ...Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley and Keats,... 1127 01:25:33,800 --> 01:25:35,377 ...Tennyson, Bridges... 1128 01:25:35,510 --> 01:25:38,546 And Milton and Shakespeare. I concede your point. 1129 01:25:38,680 --> 01:25:40,921 You've already called Peter Carter. 1130 01:25:41,057 --> 01:25:43,928 - Is he a poet? - He will be if you give him time. 1131 01:25:44,060 --> 01:25:47,227 - We are here to decide that, sir. - I can't deny it. 1132 01:26:37,780 --> 01:26:40,817 Can the new world return to the old? 1133 01:26:40,950 --> 01:26:44,449 Should the vibrant humour of a young American girl... 1134 01:26:44,579 --> 01:26:46,785 ...be stifled in the pages of Punch? 1135 01:26:47,498 --> 01:26:49,871 Should the swift tempo of her life... 1136 01:26:50,001 --> 01:26:52,955 ...be slowed to the crawl of a match of cricket? 1137 01:26:53,087 --> 01:26:55,709 Should her accustomed native comfort... 1138 01:26:55,840 --> 01:26:59,838 ...perforce conform to England's warm drinks, cold rooms,... 1139 01:26:59,969 --> 01:27:03,469 ...draughty windows, smoky chimneys, faulty plumbing? 1140 01:27:03,598 --> 01:27:07,382 Two million houses have no windows, frequently no roof or walls. 1141 01:27:07,518 --> 01:27:11,516 This court is concerned with the life and death of Peter Carter,... 1142 01:27:11,648 --> 01:27:14,435 ...not with past history or present plumbing. 1143 01:27:14,567 --> 01:27:18,185 - Hear, hear! - Peter Carter's character, sir,... 1144 01:27:18,321 --> 01:27:22,947 ...like every other human being was formed by a chain of circumstances. 1145 01:27:23,076 --> 01:27:26,943 As Benjamin Franklin said, for want of a nail, the shoe was lost. 1146 01:27:27,080 --> 01:27:29,203 For want of a shoe, the horse was lost. 1147 01:27:29,332 --> 01:27:31,538 For want of a horse, the rider was lost. 1148 01:27:31,668 --> 01:27:33,874 For want of a rider, the message was lost. 1149 01:27:34,003 --> 01:27:38,464 For want of a message, the kingdom was lost. All for want of a nail! 1150 01:27:39,634 --> 01:27:42,421 You've heard of Benjamin Franklin, sir? 1151 01:27:42,553 --> 01:27:44,546 In George Washington's words,... 1152 01:27:44,681 --> 01:27:47,136 "Labour to keep alive in your breast... 1153 01:27:47,266 --> 01:27:50,885 ...that little spark of celestial fire called conscience." 1154 01:27:51,020 --> 01:27:53,690 That could not have been said by an Englishman. 1155 01:27:53,815 --> 01:27:55,807 What was George Washington? 1156 01:27:56,317 --> 01:27:58,310 Conscience, Mr Farlan. 1157 01:27:58,444 --> 01:28:02,312 Are you insinuating that something is wrong with my conscience? 1158 01:28:02,448 --> 01:28:04,156 - I am. - Your Honour, I protest. 1159 01:28:04,283 --> 01:28:08,067 I am trying to give a full picture of this case to the jury. 1160 01:28:08,204 --> 01:28:10,410 You are trying to prejudice the jury, sir. 1161 01:28:10,540 --> 01:28:15,083 I see that they've been selected from many races, creeds and nationalities. 1162 01:28:15,211 --> 01:28:18,662 I cannot believe them interested in ancient grudges... 1163 01:28:18,798 --> 01:28:22,249 ...nor in present grumblings about draughty windows. 1164 01:28:22,385 --> 01:28:24,378 I don't need to prejudice the jury. 1165 01:28:24,512 --> 01:28:27,548 They're already prejudiced and with good reason! 1166 01:28:27,849 --> 01:28:32,178 You can't pick one that isn't. Look closely at the members of the jury. 1167 01:28:34,272 --> 01:28:37,890 - The first member is... - Jean-Marie Barault, French! 1168 01:28:38,026 --> 01:28:41,893 Has a century passed without war between England and France? 1169 01:28:42,030 --> 01:28:46,490 - The second member is... - Gregorius Johannes Bund, sir. 1170 01:28:46,617 --> 01:28:50,283 The Boer War, Dr Reeves. The third member is... 1171 01:28:50,413 --> 01:28:52,702 - Ivan Berdei, Russki. - What? 1172 01:28:52,832 --> 01:28:54,623 I am Russian. 1173 01:28:54,751 --> 01:28:58,535 The Crimean War, Dr Reeves. And you, sir? 1174 01:28:58,671 --> 01:29:00,249 Chang Chi Min, Peking. 1175 01:29:00,381 --> 01:29:03,833 Don't forget England's attack on China in 1857. 1176 01:29:04,135 --> 01:29:06,341 Occupying unprotected Peking. 1177 01:29:06,471 --> 01:29:08,214 And you, sir? 1178 01:29:08,348 --> 01:29:10,554 Raha Tejpalal from the Punjab. 1179 01:29:10,683 --> 01:29:12,972 Think of India, Dr Reeves. 1180 01:29:13,102 --> 01:29:14,894 Think of India. 1181 01:29:15,021 --> 01:29:17,097 And you, sir, you are...? 1182 01:29:17,231 --> 01:29:19,141 James Monaghan, Irish. 1183 01:29:22,570 --> 01:29:25,275 Choose a new jury anywhere, Dr Reeves. 1184 01:29:25,406 --> 01:29:28,740 It will always be prejudiced against your country. 1185 01:29:28,868 --> 01:29:33,530 My lord, I wish to take counsel for the prosecution's advice. 1186 01:29:33,665 --> 01:29:37,330 I challenge the jury and request that a new one be chosen. 1187 01:29:37,460 --> 01:29:39,618 Chosen from where, Dr Reeves? 1188 01:29:39,754 --> 01:29:42,245 - Mr Farlan said anywhere. - Except England. 1189 01:29:42,382 --> 01:29:46,675 Why not? Where else have the rights of the individual been held so high? 1190 01:29:46,803 --> 01:29:50,752 In America, sir, where these rights are held to be inalienable! 1191 01:29:50,890 --> 01:29:53,511 I doubt if you have more freedom than England. 1192 01:29:53,643 --> 01:29:56,893 An Englishman thinks as he likes in religion and politics. 1193 01:29:57,021 --> 01:30:01,315 It isn't what a man thinks and says, it's when and where and to whom. 1194 01:30:01,442 --> 01:30:06,816 A man with a flint and steel striking sparks over a wet blanket is one thing,... 1195 01:30:06,948 --> 01:30:09,818 ...but striking them over a tinderbox is another! 1196 01:30:09,951 --> 01:30:15,158 An American baby sucks in freedom with the milk of the breast at which he hangs. 1197 01:30:15,289 --> 01:30:19,833 A man can see further, sir, from the top of Boston State House,... 1198 01:30:19,961 --> 01:30:24,872 ...and see more worth seeing than from the pyramids, turrets and steeples... 1199 01:30:25,008 --> 01:30:27,000 ...of all the places of the world. 1200 01:30:27,135 --> 01:30:29,127 No smoke, sir,... 1201 01:30:29,262 --> 01:30:30,970 ...no fog, sir,... 1202 01:30:31,097 --> 01:30:35,095 ...and a clean sweep from the outer light and the sea beyond... 1203 01:30:35,226 --> 01:30:37,432 ...to the New Hampshire mountains! 1204 01:30:37,562 --> 01:30:40,183 Yes, sir, there are great truths... 1205 01:30:40,315 --> 01:30:43,565 ...higher than mountains and broader than seas... 1206 01:30:43,693 --> 01:30:46,860 ...that people look for from the tops of our hills! 1207 01:30:46,988 --> 01:30:48,980 America, sir,... 1208 01:30:49,115 --> 01:30:52,318 ...is the only place where man is full grown! 1209 01:31:06,549 --> 01:31:09,170 Then I choose a jury of Americans. 1210 01:31:13,056 --> 01:31:17,136 Of Americans, sir, selected from every walk of American life. 1211 01:31:17,268 --> 01:31:20,435 If one has fought in the Wars of Independence,... 1212 01:31:20,563 --> 01:31:25,190 ...I want one who has fought with us against our enemies in this century. 1213 01:31:25,401 --> 01:31:29,529 If the third has a mind that can only think 170 years back,... 1214 01:31:29,656 --> 01:31:33,071 ...I want the fourth to be thinking 170 years ahead. 1215 01:31:33,201 --> 01:31:35,407 I cannot deny that I hope,... 1216 01:31:35,536 --> 01:31:39,830 ...that I know that this jury will be prejudiced in favour of my case... 1217 01:31:39,958 --> 01:31:44,287 ...for I am pleading for the rights of the individual against the system. 1218 01:31:44,420 --> 01:31:47,291 But it is also against the law, Dr Reeves,... 1219 01:31:47,423 --> 01:31:49,630 ...the eternal law of the universe. 1220 01:31:49,759 --> 01:31:54,635 Nothing is stronger than the law. The whole universe is built upon it. 1221 01:31:54,764 --> 01:31:58,429 This is a court of justice, not of law. 1222 01:31:58,559 --> 01:32:03,056 My lord, I ask for a new jury of American citizens. 1223 01:32:04,899 --> 01:32:06,892 Do you agree, Mr Farlan? 1224 01:32:07,026 --> 01:32:09,398 I'd welcome such a jury, Your Honour. 1225 01:32:09,529 --> 01:32:11,521 The jury will stand. 1226 01:32:14,283 --> 01:32:18,780 The jury will retire and a new jury will take their place. 1227 01:32:25,128 --> 01:32:27,619 Robert Dupont, American citizen. 1228 01:32:33,386 --> 01:32:36,422 Lt Pete Vandereyk, American citizen. 1229 01:32:41,894 --> 01:32:44,516 Alexander Barbanov, American citizen. 1230 01:32:50,653 --> 01:32:52,693 George Wong, American citizen. 1231 01:32:59,037 --> 01:33:01,029 Jefferson Lincoln Brown,... 1232 01:33:01,164 --> 01:33:03,156 ...American citizen. 1233 01:33:06,336 --> 01:33:09,372 Patrick Aloysius Mahoney, American citizen. 1234 01:33:13,509 --> 01:33:15,502 The jury will be seated. 1235 01:33:16,346 --> 01:33:18,338 Counsel for the defence. 1236 01:33:19,641 --> 01:33:22,262 Here in this rose is my case. 1237 01:33:22,393 --> 01:33:25,478 What is my case? I entirely agree with Mr Farlan. 1238 01:33:25,605 --> 01:33:29,603 Has Peter Carter fallen in love during the allotted extra... 1239 01:33:29,734 --> 01:33:31,109 Borrowed. 1240 01:33:31,277 --> 01:33:34,231 ...disputed extra 20 hours he had or hasn't he? 1241 01:33:34,364 --> 01:33:38,444 Has someone - the name is unimportant - fallen in love with him? 1242 01:33:38,576 --> 01:33:42,111 Now, here are two young people who would never have met... 1243 01:33:42,246 --> 01:33:44,239 ...but for a mistake higher up,... 1244 01:33:44,374 --> 01:33:48,241 ...penalised for the most natural and simple thing in the world. 1245 01:33:48,378 --> 01:33:49,955 They fell in love. 1246 01:33:50,088 --> 01:33:52,080 Here in this tear... 1247 01:33:52,215 --> 01:33:55,631 ...are love and truth and friendship. 1248 01:33:55,760 --> 01:33:59,509 Those qualities alone can build a new world today... 1249 01:33:59,639 --> 01:34:02,556 ...and must build a better one tomorrow. 1250 01:34:02,684 --> 01:34:04,676 That is my case... 1251 01:34:04,811 --> 01:34:09,389 ...and, upon it, I demand a verdict that Peter Carter shall live. 1252 01:34:11,109 --> 01:34:14,857 Your Honour, we feel the defendant and this young girl... 1253 01:34:14,988 --> 01:34:17,443 ...should be given a chance to be heard. 1254 01:34:17,573 --> 01:34:20,325 My lord, nothing is impossible. 1255 01:34:25,123 --> 01:34:27,115 The court will adjourn. 1256 01:35:41,157 --> 01:35:45,618 No reason to be without the dimension of time. They will not disturb us. 1257 01:35:45,745 --> 01:35:49,446 It would help establish a true picture of the conditions. 1258 01:35:49,582 --> 01:35:51,290 Very well. 1259 01:35:56,172 --> 01:35:58,745 - I call Squ... - My diagnosis was right. 1260 01:35:58,883 --> 01:36:04,222 Fine avascular meningeal adhesions binding the optic nerve to the brain. 1261 01:36:04,347 --> 01:36:06,885 Similar adhesions between chiasm and brain. 1262 01:36:07,016 --> 01:36:10,385 Did I tell you about my operation? 1263 01:36:10,520 --> 01:36:12,726 Dr Reeves, we are not here... 1264 01:36:12,855 --> 01:36:16,604 ...to check your diagnosis, but to question this young man. 1265 01:36:16,734 --> 01:36:18,276 Quite right. 1266 01:36:18,403 --> 01:36:21,320 I call Squadron Leader Peter D Carter. 1267 01:36:23,491 --> 01:36:26,741 - Hello, Peter. - Hello, Frank. How's the op going? 1268 01:36:26,869 --> 01:36:29,657 - Fine. Leiser's a good man. - He'd better be! 1269 01:36:29,789 --> 01:36:32,541 Peter Carter, you are on the witness stand. 1270 01:36:32,667 --> 01:36:35,917 - You are under oath, understand? - Yes, Mr Farlan. 1271 01:36:36,045 --> 01:36:38,619 - You know me, sir? - No mistaking you. 1272 01:36:41,843 --> 01:36:44,215 Your smile is not unattractive, sir. 1273 01:36:44,345 --> 01:36:47,595 Did you use it to enamour this young American lady? 1274 01:36:47,724 --> 01:36:50,262 - I love her, sir. - Answer the question. 1275 01:36:50,393 --> 01:36:53,928 Would you repeat the question? It had "enamoured" in it. 1276 01:36:54,063 --> 01:36:56,056 Never mind the exact question. 1277 01:36:56,190 --> 01:37:00,140 Did you consciously try to influence the emotions of this American lady? 1278 01:37:00,278 --> 01:37:03,777 - We fell in love before we met. - You claim you love her. 1279 01:37:03,906 --> 01:37:05,780 - I do. - Can you prove it? 1280 01:37:06,075 --> 01:37:08,697 Well, give me time, sir. 50 years will do. 1281 01:37:08,828 --> 01:37:10,536 But can you prove it? 1282 01:37:10,663 --> 01:37:14,163 Can a starving man prove he's hungry except by eating? 1283 01:37:14,292 --> 01:37:16,284 Would you die for her? 1284 01:37:16,419 --> 01:37:18,328 I would! 1285 01:37:18,463 --> 01:37:20,669 But... er... I'd rather live. 1286 01:37:22,258 --> 01:37:23,836 Young devil! 1287 01:37:23,968 --> 01:37:26,922 Your Honour, I apologise for the expression. 1288 01:37:27,055 --> 01:37:29,462 - Your witness. - No questions. 1289 01:37:29,599 --> 01:37:31,556 Conductor 71. 1290 01:37:31,684 --> 01:37:34,389 - Monsieur? - Is the young lady available? 1291 01:37:34,520 --> 01:37:36,430 She sleeps. 1292 01:37:36,564 --> 01:37:38,640 Sleeps? The jury will note that. 1293 01:37:38,775 --> 01:37:40,767 I put her to sleep. 1294 01:37:40,902 --> 01:37:42,479 Indeed? Why? 1295 01:37:42,612 --> 01:37:44,604 To enable you to call her, sir. 1296 01:37:44,739 --> 01:37:46,732 The jury will please note that. 1297 01:37:46,866 --> 01:37:48,859 I do call her, Your Honour. 1298 01:37:55,333 --> 01:37:59,081 You are before the High Court in the case of Peter Carter. 1299 01:37:59,212 --> 01:38:02,628 You have been called as a witness by the prosecution. 1300 01:38:03,257 --> 01:38:05,250 You will tell the truth. 1301 01:38:05,385 --> 01:38:09,050 This gentleman is counsel for the prosecution. 1302 01:38:11,432 --> 01:38:13,425 Child, where were you born? 1303 01:38:13,559 --> 01:38:15,137 In Boston, sir. 1304 01:38:15,269 --> 01:38:18,436 - Do you know this man? - I think so. 1305 01:38:18,564 --> 01:38:21,565 - You think so? - I only met him a few days ago. 1306 01:38:21,693 --> 01:38:23,685 You hardly know him. 1307 01:38:23,820 --> 01:38:26,145 How can you think you love him? 1308 01:38:26,280 --> 01:38:28,273 - But I do love him. - Nonsense. 1309 01:38:28,408 --> 01:38:31,362 I object. Counsel will withdraw the expression. 1310 01:38:31,494 --> 01:38:34,614 It's all right, he's right. There's no sense in love. 1311 01:38:35,957 --> 01:38:38,163 Wisdom still flowers in Boston. 1312 01:38:39,752 --> 01:38:43,750 - Can you prove that you love him? - How can I? 1313 01:38:43,881 --> 01:38:46,088 Would you be willing to die for him? 1314 01:38:46,217 --> 01:38:47,166 Yes. 1315 01:38:48,761 --> 01:38:51,881 Would you take his place in the balance sheet? 1316 01:38:52,015 --> 01:38:53,473 - Yes. - Don't believe her! 1317 01:38:53,599 --> 01:38:55,592 - Stand aside! - You've no right! 1318 01:38:55,727 --> 01:38:58,562 - How dare you address me like that! - You must obey. 1319 01:38:58,688 --> 01:39:00,562 Of all the dirty tricks! 1320 01:39:00,690 --> 01:39:04,189 - This is contempt of court! - Don't answer any more questions. 1321 01:39:04,319 --> 01:39:08,447 Do you realise you've forfeited any chance of winning your case? 1322 01:39:08,573 --> 01:39:10,565 You won't get June as well! 1323 01:39:11,659 --> 01:39:16,321 Your Honour, members of the jury... I'm afraid he really does love her. 1324 01:39:16,456 --> 01:39:17,831 Your witness. 1325 01:39:21,669 --> 01:39:24,291 June, you know me well. Do you trust me? 1326 01:39:24,422 --> 01:39:26,047 Yes, Frank, I trust you. 1327 01:39:26,174 --> 01:39:30,088 It is absolutely necessary you take Peter's place in the other world. 1328 01:39:30,219 --> 01:39:31,678 Have you gone mad?! 1329 01:39:31,804 --> 01:39:35,387 If you love him, step onto this staircase and come with us. 1330 01:39:35,516 --> 01:39:38,553 - You are mad! - It is the only way to prove your love. 1331 01:39:38,686 --> 01:39:40,228 - I do love him. - No! 1332 01:39:40,355 --> 01:39:42,478 - I ask you to restrain him. - Granted. 1333 01:39:42,607 --> 01:39:43,982 June. 1334 01:39:51,074 --> 01:39:53,066 Take care, Dr Reeves. 1335 01:39:53,201 --> 01:39:57,068 In the whole universe nothing is stronger than the law. 1336 01:40:03,795 --> 01:40:05,337 Goodbye, darling. 1337 01:40:30,613 --> 01:40:34,860 Yes, Mr Farlan, nothing is stronger than the law in the universe,... 1338 01:40:34,993 --> 01:40:37,863 ...but on Earth nothing is stronger than love. 1339 01:40:46,462 --> 01:40:50,460 Members of the jury, as Sir Walter Scott is always saying,... 1340 01:40:50,591 --> 01:40:54,257 ..."In peace, love tunes the shepherd's reed,... 1341 01:40:54,387 --> 01:40:57,174 ...in war, he mounts the warrior's steed." 1342 01:40:57,307 --> 01:41:00,224 "In halls, in gay attire is seen,... 1343 01:41:00,351 --> 01:41:03,021 ...in hamlets, dances on the green." 1344 01:41:03,146 --> 01:41:06,431 "Love rules the court, the camp, the grove... 1345 01:41:06,566 --> 01:41:08,772 ...and men below and saints above." 1346 01:41:08,901 --> 01:41:12,152 "For love is heaven, and heaven is love." 1347 01:41:12,989 --> 01:41:15,527 Will you please consider your verdict? 1348 01:41:17,618 --> 01:41:19,991 Case for the defendant, Your Honour. 1349 01:41:20,121 --> 01:41:21,699 Bravo! 1350 01:41:21,831 --> 01:41:23,824 The appeal is granted. 1351 01:41:23,958 --> 01:41:28,170 There now remains the new date on Squadron Leader Carter's file. 1352 01:41:28,296 --> 01:41:30,288 Will both counsel approve it? 1353 01:41:33,343 --> 01:41:37,257 - Does that satisfy you, Dr Reeves? - Very generous, my lord. 1354 01:41:37,388 --> 01:41:39,381 Do you agree, Mr Farlan? 1355 01:41:40,141 --> 01:41:43,676 Isn't that a little too much, Your Honour? I agree. 1356 01:41:43,811 --> 01:41:48,058 My lord, I hope this will not establish a precedent. 1357 01:41:48,191 --> 01:41:50,183 - I object! - Er, you, sir. 1358 01:41:50,318 --> 01:41:53,105 - You, sir. - The rights of the common man... 1359 01:41:53,237 --> 01:41:55,444 - The uncommon man. - Exactly! 1360 01:41:55,573 --> 01:41:59,238 The rights of the uncommon man must always be respected. 1361 01:41:59,369 --> 01:42:01,160 Exactly! 1362 01:42:08,962 --> 01:42:10,753 Keep his head firm. 1363 01:42:11,464 --> 01:42:14,169 - Tell the nurse I'll send the notes. - Yes, sir. 1364 01:42:17,887 --> 01:42:20,722 - Congratulations. - An interesting case. 1365 01:42:28,356 --> 01:42:29,934 Peter,... 1366 01:42:30,066 --> 01:42:32,901 ...don't forget your book. 1367 01:43:06,352 --> 01:43:07,930 Frank... 1368 01:43:09,480 --> 01:43:10,939 Frank... 1369 01:43:13,109 --> 01:43:14,687 Frank. 1370 01:43:30,543 --> 01:43:32,002 Hello. 1371 01:43:33,087 --> 01:43:34,546 Hello. 1372 01:43:34,672 --> 01:43:36,831 We won. 1373 01:43:36,966 --> 01:43:38,959 I know, darling. 1374 01:43:47,769 --> 01:43:49,761 Subtitles by Visiontext