1 00:02:20,584 --> 00:02:23,167 - He's arrived - Yes, yes. 2 00:02:32,292 --> 00:02:35,626 There he is. He's here. There! You see? etc. 3 00:03:16,834 --> 00:03:19,251 I see the other one! 4 00:03:37,084 --> 00:03:38,959 Stop! 5 00:03:42,792 --> 00:03:46,792 Stay behind the others. 6 00:03:55,667 --> 00:03:57,542 What is it? 7 00:04:00,209 --> 00:04:02,209 What's he doing? 8 00:04:02,792 --> 00:04:04,876 He's got a suitcase 9 00:04:35,042 --> 00:04:36,126 There! 10 00:04:36,667 --> 00:04:39,626 - Don't move. - What are you doing here? 11 00:04:40,501 --> 00:04:43,501 Ah… nothing. Give me a moment… 12 00:04:43,542 --> 00:04:45,584 I can explain everything 13 00:04:47,042 --> 00:04:49,584 We'll open his suitcase? 14 00:04:49,626 --> 00:04:50,751 Yes! 15 00:05:14,626 --> 00:05:16,584 And your French is not good. 16 00:05:19,334 --> 00:05:22,334 I'm sorry, we were forced to take advantage of your light. 17 00:05:23,667 --> 00:05:25,667 The plane was losing fuel. 18 00:05:26,626 --> 00:05:29,709 I'm afraid I'm supposed to be… eighty miles further on. 19 00:05:30,417 --> 00:05:33,876 Do you think… could you tell me where I am? 20 00:05:33,959 --> 00:05:38,584 You've landed near a village called St Benoît. It's close to a town called Poitiers, all right? 21 00:05:39,251 --> 00:05:41,459 Yes, I think I have heard of it, you know… 22 00:05:52,751 --> 00:05:55,126 So, how do I look? 23 00:05:56,209 --> 00:05:59,959 I'd rather not look at you too closely. It's an element of risk we don't need to take. 24 00:06:00,876 --> 00:06:05,292 In my experience, it's best... it really is best... if you just obey the rules. 25 00:06:08,459 --> 00:06:12,126 I'll take you to the village. Then you must make your own way. 26 00:06:23,376 --> 00:06:25,626 How long have you been here? 27 00:06:25,751 --> 00:06:27,917 About a year, off and on. 28 00:06:29,959 --> 00:06:31,501 How's everyone at home? 29 00:06:32,001 --> 00:06:33,542 They're fine. 30 00:06:33,584 --> 00:06:34,917 The boss? 31 00:06:35,042 --> 00:06:38,709 He's fine. He, um… gave me some cufflinks at the aerodrome. 32 00:06:39,209 --> 00:06:41,042 Told me my chances. 33 00:06:41,084 --> 00:06:42,501 Fifty-fifty? 34 00:06:42,917 --> 00:06:45,584 - Yes. - He's getting out of touch. 35 00:06:48,126 --> 00:06:49,834 How's it been? 36 00:06:49,876 --> 00:06:53,334 Well… the Germans are still here 37 00:06:53,459 --> 00:06:58,209 Well, I suppose that's our brief. Keep them here… keep them occupied. 38 00:06:58,376 --> 00:07:01,417 - Keep them from the front. - Worst thing about the job. 39 00:07:01,459 --> 00:07:04,501 The more successful you are, the longer it goes on. 40 00:07:10,126 --> 00:07:13,584 A friend… 41 00:07:15,042 --> 00:07:18,042 a friend who was here used to say, "Never kill a German, 42 00:07:18,084 --> 00:07:21,667 always shoot him in the leg. That way, he goes to hospital, where he has to be looked after; 43 00:07:21,959 --> 00:07:24,376 he'll use up enemy resources. 44 00:07:25,209 --> 00:07:29,126 But a dead soldier is forgotten… and replaced." 45 00:07:29,251 --> 00:07:31,834 - Right. Let's go… - Okay. 46 00:07:37,209 --> 00:07:42,334 Goodbye… and good luck, eh? 47 00:07:54,459 --> 00:07:58,334 Cafés are bad meeting places... much less safe than they seem. 48 00:07:58,501 --> 00:08:01,209 And don't go near Bourges, it's very bad for us. 49 00:08:01,251 --> 00:08:04,667 And don't carry anything in toothpaste tubes... it's the first place they look. 50 00:08:05,292 --> 00:08:08,167 And don't laugh too much. An Englishman's laugh just doesn't sound the same. 51 00:08:08,209 --> 00:08:10,334 Are they still teaching you to broadcast on the lavatory? 52 00:08:10,376 --> 00:08:11,667 - Yes. - Well, don't. 53 00:08:11,709 --> 00:08:13,334 The whole dodge is badly out of date. 54 00:08:13,376 --> 00:08:16,709 Gestapo have been crashing into lavatories for a full two months now. 55 00:08:17,751 --> 00:08:20,959 Never take the valley road beyond Poitiers. I'll show you the side road. 56 00:08:21,292 --> 00:08:25,501 And that's it, really. The rest, you know… or will learn. 57 00:08:41,126 --> 00:08:42,501 Get out. 58 00:09:13,876 --> 00:09:15,542 Where's your gun? 59 00:09:15,667 --> 00:09:19,417 - Let's get going. Come on. - I'm sorry… I'm so sorry… 60 00:09:19,501 --> 00:09:22,751 - I'm so frightened! - Let's get going. Quickly. 61 00:09:22,792 --> 00:09:27,126 I'm not an agent, I'm only a courier, I just carry messages to certain circuits. 62 00:09:27,167 --> 00:09:30,751 I came tonight... it's my first drop... there's literally no-one else. 63 00:09:30,792 --> 00:09:32,876 I can't tell you the mess in Poitiers! 64 00:09:32,917 --> 00:09:36,376 My... my f... friend that I told you about, he's been taken to Buchenwald today, 65 00:09:36,417 --> 00:09:39,209 he was the wireless operator. His name is Tony… 66 00:09:39,251 --> 00:09:40,876 - I need to talk… - Can't talk. 67 00:09:40,917 --> 00:09:44,667 I need to talk, What's the point, what's the point of following the rules? 68 00:09:44,834 --> 00:09:50,084 I don't… want to die. I don't, don't want to die like that… 69 00:10:49,292 --> 00:10:51,209 Un ciel pommelé. 70 00:10:54,376 --> 00:10:56,626 What do we call it? 71 00:10:56,709 --> 00:10:58,667 A mackerel sky. 72 00:11:00,376 --> 00:11:02,084 Hm… 73 00:11:03,584 --> 00:11:07,667 I don't have to go on. I'll stay if you like. 74 00:11:24,001 --> 00:11:28,251 - Do you have a code-name? - Yes, it's "Lazar". 75 00:11:28,292 --> 00:11:29,501 Hm. 76 00:11:32,251 --> 00:11:36,251 - Would you like some tea? - Yes, very much. 77 00:11:47,751 --> 00:11:52,251 Am I right? Is this your first trip? 78 00:13:53,334 --> 00:13:55,042 Bonjour Susan. 79 00:13:55,084 --> 00:13:56,709 Bonjour. 80 00:14:30,917 --> 00:14:33,584 - Bonjour! - Bonjour… 81 00:14:41,167 --> 00:14:43,001 Ah, bonjour, Susan. 82 00:14:43,667 --> 00:14:45,667 Bonjour, Monsieur Villon. 83 00:14:47,001 --> 00:14:49,876 I was just going through the post. 84 00:15:35,876 --> 00:15:38,792 And yesterday's shipment... it got there okay? 85 00:15:38,876 --> 00:15:40,001 Yes. 86 00:16:39,417 --> 00:16:41,417 Au revoir. 87 00:16:59,501 --> 00:17:01,126 He's dead! 88 00:18:47,292 --> 00:18:49,251 Yes. He's dead. 89 00:18:50,334 --> 00:18:51,792 Ah! Brock. 90 00:18:53,084 --> 00:18:54,542 - Good morning. - Morning. 91 00:18:54,667 --> 00:18:56,917 This is very much Third Secretary stuff, I'm afraid. 92 00:18:57,167 --> 00:19:00,126 There's a man called Radley… dropped dead in the foyer. 93 00:19:00,209 --> 00:19:02,876 British. Would you mind doing the honours? 94 00:19:02,959 --> 00:19:04,876 - Not at all. - Thanks a lot. 95 00:19:05,126 --> 00:19:08,167 Oh... there's a widow, by the way. 96 00:19:09,251 --> 00:19:10,501 Really? 97 00:19:18,709 --> 00:19:20,001 British Embassy. 98 00:19:22,042 --> 00:19:23,459 Heart attack. 99 00:19:30,501 --> 00:19:33,542 - And the widow? - Over there, sir. 100 00:19:39,709 --> 00:19:40,751 Mrs Radley? 101 00:19:44,042 --> 00:19:46,709 I'm afraid your husband's had a heart attack. 102 00:19:47,501 --> 00:19:48,709 I thought so. 103 00:19:48,876 --> 00:19:51,126 Everyone at the Embassy will do all they can. 104 00:19:51,501 --> 00:19:54,126 The police would now like to take the body away. 105 00:19:55,334 --> 00:19:56,542 I shall go with them. 106 00:19:56,917 --> 00:19:59,667 Or course, I mean, you're welcome, if you'd like, if you want to… 107 00:19:59,709 --> 00:20:01,209 come with me to the mortuary… 108 00:20:01,251 --> 00:20:02,751 No. 109 00:20:05,917 --> 00:20:08,001 I'm sure you can cope. 110 00:20:08,959 --> 00:20:10,667 Merci. 111 00:20:23,376 --> 00:20:24,584 Mr Brock. 112 00:20:24,626 --> 00:20:27,792 Will I see you? Will you come to the Embassy? 113 00:20:27,834 --> 00:20:30,917 Yes, of course. This shouldn't take long. 114 00:20:40,459 --> 00:20:43,042 Ah, Brock. Join us. You're welcome. 115 00:20:43,084 --> 00:20:44,251 Ambassador. 116 00:20:44,292 --> 00:20:47,917 I've just been conveying to Mrs Radley the government's condolences. 117 00:20:48,209 --> 00:20:50,584 A uniquely upsetting experience. 118 00:20:50,667 --> 00:20:51,584 Quite. 119 00:20:51,626 --> 00:20:53,917 But at least for him, it was painless. 120 00:20:54,001 --> 00:20:59,584 I would hope. He was packing the car. We were planning to move on this morning. 121 00:20:59,792 --> 00:21:04,876 We only had two weeks… we were hoping to make Innsbruck... at least if our travel allowance would last. 122 00:21:05,501 --> 00:21:08,001 It was our first holiday since the war. 123 00:21:08,167 --> 00:21:09,751 Brock, a handkerchief. 124 00:21:09,876 --> 00:21:11,209 No. 125 00:21:12,709 --> 00:21:16,459 I was… persuaded to opt for an embalming. 126 00:21:16,709 --> 00:21:19,501 I'm afraid it may involve you in some small extra cost. 127 00:21:20,167 --> 00:21:22,667 Excuse me, but you'll have to explain the point. 128 00:21:22,709 --> 00:21:25,667 - I'm sorry? - Of the embalming, I mean. 129 00:21:26,001 --> 00:21:31,917 Well... ah... particularly in the summer, it avoids a possibility of the body exploding at a bad moment. 130 00:21:32,209 --> 00:21:36,209 I mean, any moment would be bad, that goes without saying, but... on the aeroplane, say. 131 00:21:36,251 --> 00:21:37,084 I see. 132 00:21:37,126 --> 00:21:40,626 Mm. You see, normally the body's simply washed, and, uh… 133 00:21:41,084 --> 00:21:42,792 I don't know how much detail you want me to provide… 134 00:21:42,834 --> 00:21:46,167 - I think it would be better if... - No, no, I would like to know. 135 00:21:47,001 --> 00:21:50,834 Tony was a doctor. He would want me to know. 136 00:21:53,334 --> 00:21:56,584 Well, to be honest, I was… … surprised at how little there is to do. 137 00:21:56,626 --> 00:22:01,292 There's a… small bottle of spirit... colourless... and they simply give the body a wash. 138 00:22:01,626 --> 00:22:03,292 The only other thing is the stomach. 139 00:22:03,334 --> 00:22:06,334 Now, if there's been a meal... a recent meal… - Tony had eaten... 140 00:22:06,376 --> 00:22:12,126 at breakfast, I think. Erm, you insert a pipe into the corpse's stomach to let the gasses out. 141 00:22:12,584 --> 00:22:15,834 They insert it and there's a strange sort of ssssssigh… 142 00:22:15,876 --> 00:22:18,501 - I think… - It almost leaves no mark. 143 00:22:18,584 --> 00:22:23,417 Apparently, when the morgue attendants are bored sometimes they set light to the gas for a joke. 144 00:22:23,459 --> 00:22:26,626 - Makes one hell of a bang! - Shall we all have a drink? 145 00:22:28,459 --> 00:22:31,292 But I'm sure it didn't happen in this particular case. 146 00:22:31,876 --> 00:22:33,251 No. 147 00:22:33,709 --> 00:22:37,042 There is gin… there is tonic… Yes? 148 00:22:37,084 --> 00:22:38,126 Thank you. 149 00:22:40,876 --> 00:22:44,542 I'm afraid we do need to discuss the practical arrangements. 150 00:22:44,792 --> 00:22:49,042 The whole subject is very distressing… but do you want the body flown back? 151 00:22:49,417 --> 00:22:52,667 Well, I can hardly stash it in the boot of the car. 152 00:22:53,542 --> 00:22:58,167 What the Third Secretary is saying… not buried on foreign soil. 153 00:22:58,667 --> 00:22:59,542 No. 154 00:22:59,584 --> 00:23:00,959 Quite. 155 00:23:01,584 --> 00:23:04,209 You see, for the moment, the Government picks up the bill. 156 00:23:04,251 --> 00:23:08,709 But later, we will have to charge it to the estate. If there is an estate. 157 00:23:10,126 --> 00:23:12,417 I'm sorry... I don't mean to interfere. 158 00:23:13,292 --> 00:23:15,834 Well, I think we now understand your needs. 159 00:23:16,334 --> 00:23:18,501 I'll have a word with the travel people… 160 00:23:18,667 --> 00:23:21,167 and make a booking for tomorrow morning's flight, if that suits? 161 00:23:21,209 --> 00:23:22,167 Yes, of course. 162 00:23:22,209 --> 00:23:24,209 You will be travelling back with the body, I assume? 163 00:23:24,251 --> 00:23:25,251 Yes. 164 00:23:25,959 --> 00:23:29,584 No other dependants? Children…? 165 00:23:29,626 --> 00:23:30,792 No. 166 00:23:41,417 --> 00:23:42,876 He doesn't like you. 167 00:23:43,876 --> 00:23:44,834 I'm sorry? 168 00:23:45,084 --> 00:23:46,376 The Ambassador. 169 00:23:46,459 --> 00:23:50,626 Oh, well, no. I don't think he's over the moon about you. 170 00:23:51,959 --> 00:23:53,667 I shouldn't have said that. 171 00:23:53,709 --> 00:23:58,084 No, it's just that… Darwin thinks that disasters are examinations in etiquette; 172 00:23:59,751 --> 00:24:02,709 - which fork to use in an earthquake. - Darwin?! 173 00:24:02,751 --> 00:24:04,542 - Is that his name? - Hm… 174 00:24:04,917 --> 00:24:06,667 the mission all think it's God's joke. 175 00:24:06,709 --> 00:24:11,917 God dashing off a modern Darwin who is in every respect less advanced than the last. 176 00:24:13,292 --> 00:24:18,334 I'm sorry. We sit about in the evenings and polish our jokes. 177 00:24:18,459 --> 00:24:20,792 Brussels is rather a debilitating town. 178 00:24:20,917 --> 00:24:22,667 Mm. 179 00:24:24,209 --> 00:24:26,667 Is this a bad posting for you? 180 00:24:26,709 --> 00:24:29,084 Well, I had hoped for something more positive. 181 00:24:29,292 --> 00:24:30,667 Fresher air. 182 00:24:31,459 --> 00:24:35,876 The flag still flies over a quarter of the human race and I would have liked to have seen it, really 183 00:24:36,084 --> 00:24:39,334 Whereas here… we're left with the problems of the war. 184 00:24:39,376 --> 00:24:43,001 - I wasn't his wife. - No. 185 00:24:44,417 --> 00:24:48,001 - Had you realised that? - I thought it possible. 186 00:24:48,542 --> 00:24:50,459 What about… Darwin? 187 00:24:50,501 --> 00:24:54,042 - Did he realise? - Lord, no. It would never occur to him. 188 00:24:54,542 --> 00:24:56,542 We met during the war. 189 00:24:56,584 --> 00:25:01,542 Tony was a wireless operator for the S.O.E. I was a courier… 190 00:25:02,042 --> 00:25:05,501 motoring together it was easier to say we were man and wife. 191 00:25:06,084 --> 00:25:10,334 In fact, I was barely even his mistress. 192 00:25:12,667 --> 00:25:15,751 He rang me a few weeks ago, and… 193 00:25:15,792 --> 00:25:20,167 I was amazed that people in our organisation didn't know each other all that well. I mean... 194 00:25:20,209 --> 00:25:22,792 even now you don't know who most of your colleagues were. 195 00:25:24,042 --> 00:25:28,459 Perhaps you were in it. Perhaps I met you. 196 00:25:29,959 --> 00:25:31,334 I don't know. 197 00:25:33,417 --> 00:25:36,251 Those of us who went through this kind of war… 198 00:25:36,876 --> 00:25:40,667 I do think we have something in common. It's a kind of… 199 00:25:41,501 --> 00:25:44,501 impatience. We don't suffer fools. 200 00:25:44,792 --> 00:25:48,417 Back in England, the people who stayed behind can seem childish, and a little… 201 00:25:48,459 --> 00:25:51,959 silly. I think that's why Tony wanted to get away. 202 00:25:52,084 --> 00:25:53,876 If you haven't suffered… 203 00:25:56,501 --> 00:26:04,126 … Well. So, driving through Europe at least I knew I'd be able to act as I pleased for a while. That's all. 204 00:26:04,792 --> 00:26:06,334 May I ask you a question? 205 00:26:07,584 --> 00:26:10,084 Yes. Of course. 206 00:26:10,501 --> 00:26:14,542 - If you are not his wife... did he have one? - Oh... yes. 207 00:26:14,584 --> 00:26:16,626 - I see. - And three children. 208 00:26:17,459 --> 00:26:21,292 I had to lie about those. I couldn't claim them, somehow. 209 00:26:21,626 --> 00:26:24,084 She lives in Crediton in Devon. 210 00:26:24,126 --> 00:26:27,292 She believes Tony was travelling alone. I… 211 00:26:28,167 --> 00:26:35,501 think he told her he needed two weeks by himself. That's what I was hoping you could do for me… 212 00:26:36,376 --> 00:26:37,459 Ah. 213 00:26:38,959 --> 00:26:40,626 … phone her. 214 00:26:41,209 --> 00:26:45,959 I've written the number down. I'm afraid I did it before I came. 215 00:26:50,167 --> 00:26:51,417 And lie? 216 00:26:53,292 --> 00:26:58,501 Well, yes… I would prefer it if you lied. But it's up to you. 217 00:27:01,001 --> 00:27:05,001 All right. it doesn't matter. 218 00:27:05,417 --> 00:27:09,376 - No, that's not what I said. - Please, it... it doesn't matter. 219 00:27:13,834 --> 00:27:15,584 Why did you choose me? 220 00:27:15,626 --> 00:27:18,751 - What? - For the job. You didn't choose Darwin? 221 00:27:19,917 --> 00:27:22,417 Well, I might have done. 222 00:27:31,209 --> 00:27:34,209 You don't think you wear your suffering a little heavily? 223 00:27:34,959 --> 00:27:38,834 This smart club of people you belong to who had a very bad war? 224 00:27:38,876 --> 00:27:41,459 I know it must put you on a different level from the rest of us. 225 00:27:41,501 --> 00:27:43,376 You won't shame me, you know. 226 00:27:44,584 --> 00:27:50,584 There's no point. I wasn't particularly fond of Tony. 227 00:27:51,084 --> 00:27:55,834 But we had known some sorrow together… and I came with him. 228 00:27:56,709 --> 00:28:03,917 And it seemed a shocking injustice when he fell in the lobby. Unjust for him, of course. But also for his wife. 229 00:28:04,459 --> 00:28:09,751 Bitterly unfair if she had to have the news from me. Unfair for life. 230 00:28:11,459 --> 00:28:13,792 So, I approached the Embassy. 231 00:28:15,876 --> 00:28:21,334 It makes no difference. Lie or don't lie. 232 00:28:21,792 --> 00:28:25,292 It's a matter of… indifference. 233 00:28:33,376 --> 00:28:39,876 Would you… um, perhaps... we could have dinner? Just so we can talk. 234 00:28:39,917 --> 00:28:45,709 No. If I told you anything about myself now you would only think I was pleading. 235 00:28:47,501 --> 00:28:50,334 I'll just say, "look at me." 236 00:28:52,292 --> 00:28:56,334 Don't creep round the furniture. Look at me, and make a judgement. 237 00:29:04,042 --> 00:29:06,501 Well, that's done. 238 00:29:06,834 --> 00:29:10,292 - First flight tomorrow morning, without a hitch. - Thank you very much. 239 00:29:11,001 --> 00:29:17,834 If there's anything else… there is a small chapel attached to the Embassy… if you'd care to visit it before you go. 240 00:29:17,876 --> 00:29:20,417 - Thank you. - Excuse me. 241 00:29:26,751 --> 00:29:29,376 Have you been posted here long? 242 00:29:29,834 --> 00:29:32,709 Oh, no, not at all. Just a few months. 243 00:29:32,917 --> 00:29:38,917 Before that, Djakarta. We were hoping for something sunny… but Brussels came along… 244 00:29:39,042 --> 00:29:44,001 er, not that we're complaining. They've certainly got things going here. 245 00:29:44,042 --> 00:29:47,542 - Really? - Oh yes. New Europe. 246 00:29:47,584 --> 00:29:52,126 Reconstruction. Massive work of reconstruction. 247 00:29:52,167 --> 00:29:58,084 Marvellous time to be alive in Europe. No end of it. Roads to be built. 248 00:29:58,126 --> 00:30:02,917 People to be educated. Land to be tilled. Lots to get on with. 249 00:30:05,834 --> 00:30:07,001 Have another gin. 250 00:30:08,251 --> 00:30:11,626 Your wife is asking if you're ready to go the reception, sir? 251 00:30:11,667 --> 00:30:14,876 - Right. - And she wants your advice on her face. 252 00:30:15,709 --> 00:30:21,334 Oh. Goodbye, Mrs Radley. I'm sorry this hasn't been a happier day. 253 00:30:24,876 --> 00:30:27,584 - I'll lock up after you, sir. - Thank you. 254 00:30:32,376 --> 00:30:41,292 I've put in a call to England. There's an hour's delay. I've decided to lie. 255 00:31:00,376 --> 00:31:03,292 - I've told you before, get off! - Oi! 256 00:31:10,876 --> 00:31:12,167 Taxi? 257 00:31:12,209 --> 00:31:16,584 - Could have done with you earlier. - It's all right. We're almost there. 258 00:32:04,667 --> 00:32:07,042 Goodness. 259 00:32:12,042 --> 00:32:14,501 I expected something grander. 260 00:32:15,167 --> 00:32:18,167 - Why? - I don't know. 261 00:32:19,584 --> 00:32:21,917 I'm a single working woman. 262 00:32:22,417 --> 00:32:25,667 Over there you're out of touch with how tough it is at home. 263 00:32:26,292 --> 00:32:30,417 - It's worse than the war. - No doubt. Well… 264 00:32:30,584 --> 00:32:32,876 I've only got two days to put up with it. 265 00:32:38,209 --> 00:32:42,167 Do you… may I come back next weekend? 266 00:32:42,334 --> 00:32:50,376 Oh… is that what you're going to do? Commute on the cross-channel ferry? 267 00:32:51,209 --> 00:32:55,251 - What's wrong with that? - Nothing. 268 00:32:56,792 --> 00:32:59,126 But the winter gets rough. 269 00:33:21,042 --> 00:33:24,834 Right, let's 'ave a look. One more, darlin', that's yer lot. 270 00:33:35,209 --> 00:33:38,459 My gawd… Oh, dear. 271 00:33:39,126 --> 00:33:41,626 She didn't get them on the rations, did she…? 272 00:33:59,876 --> 00:34:05,001 Mr Medlicott. Mr Medlicott…? 273 00:34:05,584 --> 00:34:08,084 I'm afraid you've confused your Guyanas. 274 00:34:08,126 --> 00:34:11,959 - I beg your pardon? - French... 275 00:34:14,126 --> 00:34:18,459 French Guyana… is not in Africa. 276 00:34:19,167 --> 00:34:22,126 The Himalaya is coming from Cape Town, you see. 277 00:34:22,167 --> 00:34:24,501 But you have it from Panama. 278 00:34:25,167 --> 00:34:29,876 Ah, yes… quite. Quite so. That is, of course, what I intended. 279 00:34:29,959 --> 00:34:33,834 - Quite. Shall I correct it? - And is there anything else? 280 00:34:36,876 --> 00:34:40,751 Well, the Mooltan is due at twelve from Bombay. I should think... 281 00:34:43,209 --> 00:34:45,834 - Miss Park! - Yes? 282 00:34:46,167 --> 00:34:51,376 Oh, I'm sorry, Mr Medlicott, I must be a little bit late. It's because, um… 283 00:34:51,626 --> 00:34:56,334 - I've been finding the work a bit much. - Miss Park, you only joined us yesterday. 284 00:34:56,376 --> 00:35:00,459 The shock… the pace… I… 285 00:35:00,501 --> 00:35:03,626 - And your clothes? - Yes, I haven't been home. 286 00:35:03,667 --> 00:35:06,334 - But, that was yesterday, Miss Park… - Yes, well, it's just… 287 00:35:06,667 --> 00:35:12,501 oh, God, you know what it's like. Last night there was this really nice-looking boy. 288 00:35:12,542 --> 00:35:14,584 It was lovely… 289 00:35:14,709 --> 00:35:18,501 Well, Mr Medlicott, if you were his boss this morning… come on, be grateful! 290 00:35:18,542 --> 00:35:21,334 You'd be saying, "Isn't your hem a bit high?" 291 00:35:24,876 --> 00:35:28,042 I don't mind being sacked. Work's going out of fashion. 292 00:35:28,084 --> 00:35:29,209 Oh, really? 293 00:35:29,251 --> 00:35:32,167 Certainly. In a few years, nobody's going to work. 294 00:35:32,751 --> 00:35:35,501 How are you going to live, then? 295 00:35:36,667 --> 00:35:37,959 Oh, by the way… 296 00:35:38,001 --> 00:35:40,626 … is there any room for me at your place? 297 00:35:41,917 --> 00:35:47,667 I did live somewhere, but I had to move out. I was disappointed in love. That happens to girls… 298 00:35:47,751 --> 00:35:49,792 - Oh, yes… - Mackerel, please, love. 299 00:35:49,834 --> 00:35:51,959 Right, 'ere you are, love… 'alf a pound. 300 00:35:52,084 --> 00:35:54,251 I can't stand queues. 301 00:35:55,459 --> 00:35:58,459 - What about you? - Oh, I have a boyfriend. 302 00:35:58,876 --> 00:36:00,959 - A diplomat. - Golly. 303 00:36:01,001 --> 00:36:04,876 - Yes, but he's only here at weekends. - I don't mind, I can make myself scarce. 304 00:36:05,417 --> 00:36:09,542 At heart, I'm a novelist. I can't help it, that's what I am… I think. 305 00:36:09,584 --> 00:36:12,959 The writer has to experience every kind of degradation. 306 00:36:13,001 --> 00:36:15,501 It's really the degradation that attracted me to the job. 307 00:36:17,001 --> 00:36:20,251 You have to live it before you can write it. 308 00:36:24,626 --> 00:36:30,167 This is the place. Look, it's super. If you want to know what's going on you need to come here. 309 00:36:30,209 --> 00:36:33,334 - Haven't you heard about it? - No, no I haven't. 310 00:36:33,376 --> 00:36:36,209 Oh, yes. Everyone comes. 311 00:36:44,167 --> 00:36:47,376 - Is this him? - Yes. 312 00:36:48,042 --> 00:36:50,751 He's not very glamorous. 313 00:36:52,709 --> 00:36:55,626 No... but he's very kind. 314 00:36:58,042 --> 00:37:00,376 - Here you go. - Ouch. 315 00:37:26,751 --> 00:37:28,126 Alice! Hullo, Alice… 316 00:37:28,167 --> 00:37:30,042 - Mick! Darling! - How are you? 317 00:37:30,084 --> 00:37:31,251 Brilliant. 318 00:37:33,459 --> 00:37:37,501 This is a bloody disgrace! There'll be a riot here pretty soon. 319 00:37:37,542 --> 00:37:40,501 It's absolutely open bloody provocation. 320 00:37:42,292 --> 00:37:45,334 I'm sorry, I'm lost. Why's he so angry? 321 00:37:45,376 --> 00:37:47,792 - He's a revivalist. - What? 322 00:37:47,834 --> 00:37:51,542 - A revivalist... - Revivalists are peop... sorry. Please. 323 00:37:52,334 --> 00:37:58,459 There are two schools of thought. The revivalists; they say you can only play music the way it sounded… 324 00:37:58,501 --> 00:38:00,501 … originally in New Orleans. 325 00:38:00,542 --> 00:38:03,709 For them, nothing happens after 1919. 326 00:38:07,626 --> 00:38:10,084 That saxophone… it's unforgivable. 327 00:38:10,167 --> 00:38:12,626 - Ah! - Should be a clarinet. 328 00:38:13,417 --> 00:38:16,792 Me, I'm mainstream… I don't care. 329 00:38:19,376 --> 00:38:21,251 Susan, I think that's Alistair… 330 00:38:22,126 --> 00:38:24,209 … you know, the one who's supposed to have hair on his shoulder blades 331 00:38:24,251 --> 00:38:26,459 and apparently can crack walnuts in his armpits. 332 00:38:28,876 --> 00:38:32,126 Oh, well, he'll never be short of friends. 333 00:38:32,917 --> 00:38:34,917 I'm going to go and find out. 334 00:38:48,709 --> 00:38:51,584 I don't know why you pretend to be so enthusiastic. You don't like jazz. 335 00:38:51,626 --> 00:38:55,334 I do! I'm grateful for anything that's got a bit of life to it. 336 00:38:55,417 --> 00:38:57,709 - Compared to work! - Well, exactly. 337 00:38:59,167 --> 00:39:01,959 Charlie Ventura! It's their names that I like. 338 00:39:02,001 --> 00:39:02,792 Oh, I see. 339 00:39:02,834 --> 00:39:08,501 "Down by the riverside, Down by the riverside…" 340 00:39:16,459 --> 00:39:18,709 Did we order this? 341 00:39:18,876 --> 00:39:20,834 You don't order here. 342 00:39:23,167 --> 00:39:25,542 If you need someone younger I'm sure I can help you. 343 00:39:25,584 --> 00:39:29,376 Oh, I don't like young men. You're through and out the other side in no time at all. 344 00:39:29,417 --> 00:39:33,584 - That's the fun of it. - Yes. I've noticed your flair for agonised young men. 345 00:39:33,876 --> 00:39:37,001 I think you get them in bulk from tuberculosis wards. 346 00:39:41,167 --> 00:39:42,709 Do you think this place is all right? 347 00:39:42,751 --> 00:39:44,251 It's wonderful. 348 00:39:46,709 --> 00:39:49,334 It's only three hours till I'm back on the boat. 349 00:39:57,084 --> 00:39:59,126 Do you hate my living with Susan? 350 00:39:59,626 --> 00:40:01,876 No. What makes you say that? 351 00:40:02,417 --> 00:40:06,459 Men are threatened by friendship between women. They fear our mystery. 352 00:40:06,709 --> 00:40:08,251 Read it in a book. 353 00:40:08,751 --> 00:40:10,917 Well… somehow I think I can cope. 354 00:40:13,501 --> 00:40:17,251 - Are you very rich? - No, not really. 355 00:40:18,334 --> 00:40:23,376 I just have a talent for the Stock Exchange. Money sticks to my fingers. I triple my income… 356 00:40:23,417 --> 00:40:26,542 - … what can I do? - It must be very tiresome. 357 00:40:26,584 --> 00:40:29,042 Hm. I'm acclimatising, you know. 358 00:40:31,084 --> 00:40:35,167 I think everyone's going to be rich very soon. Once we get over the effects of the war, 359 00:40:35,209 --> 00:40:37,001 it's going to be coming out of everyone's ears. 360 00:40:37,042 --> 00:40:39,376 - Is that what you think? - I'm absolutely sure. 361 00:40:41,292 --> 00:40:43,626 I do enjoy these weekends, you know. 362 00:40:44,167 --> 00:40:49,709 Susan leads such an interesting life. Books, conversation, people like you… 363 00:40:52,001 --> 00:40:55,959 The Foreign Office can make you feel pretty isolated… 364 00:40:56,001 --> 00:40:59,251 also, to be honest, can make you feel pretty small. You can imagine… 365 00:40:59,292 --> 00:41:01,959 - Yes. - … till I met Susan. 366 00:41:02,001 --> 00:41:08,042 The day I met her, I realised you must always do what you want. If you want something, you must get it. 367 00:41:08,084 --> 00:41:10,334 I think that's a wonderful way to live... don't you? 368 00:41:10,376 --> 00:41:11,917 I do. 369 00:41:12,126 --> 00:41:16,917 You all right, darling? Shall we go home? 370 00:41:17,251 --> 00:41:19,042 In a minute. 371 00:41:34,959 --> 00:41:39,959 Oh, Alice! Alice, I'm sorry, I meant to ring you. 372 00:41:40,001 --> 00:41:42,001 - Why? - I can't come on your boat. 373 00:41:42,042 --> 00:41:43,834 Oh, Susan…! 374 00:41:43,876 --> 00:41:48,626 Medlicott's left me in charge while he goes off to "goff", as he calls it. 375 00:41:48,667 --> 00:41:51,834 But we've got it for the whole day. We're gonna go up to Kew. 376 00:41:52,251 --> 00:41:54,834 Well, I hope he trips over his sticks. 377 00:41:56,667 --> 00:42:00,584 He sits there every day, staring at me. 378 00:42:00,626 --> 00:42:06,167 I know he's longing to leap across the desk and rub his wretched old body all over my ledgers. 379 00:42:06,209 --> 00:42:12,501 He wants to take my ears and squeeze them against his great thick tweeds until they bleed. 380 00:42:13,334 --> 00:42:18,626 God! It would be something. At least it would be something. 381 00:42:21,501 --> 00:42:26,709 Oh, God, Alice. I need to move on. 382 00:42:26,751 --> 00:42:30,126 Then do. Why all the drama? Just go. 383 00:42:30,376 --> 00:42:35,709 I do it all the time. The trouble is, I go before people even notice I've come. 384 00:42:36,501 --> 00:42:38,709 But you could make an impact. 385 00:42:39,334 --> 00:42:41,626 No, it's not that. 386 00:42:48,126 --> 00:42:51,209 I asked because I thought it might cheer you up a bit. 387 00:42:52,334 --> 00:42:59,292 But I want to change everything… and I don't know how. 388 00:43:17,417 --> 00:43:19,501 Shall I tell you how my book begins? 389 00:43:20,917 --> 00:43:21,584 Well… 390 00:43:21,626 --> 00:43:25,334 There's a woman in a rape trial, and the story is true… 391 00:43:25,626 --> 00:43:29,959 and the book begins at the moment where she has to tell the court 392 00:43:30,001 --> 00:43:32,834 what the accused has said to her on the night of the rape. 393 00:43:33,876 --> 00:43:38,417 And she finds that she can't bring herself to say the words out loud. So… 394 00:43:38,459 --> 00:43:44,542 the judge suggests she write them down on a piece of paper and it be handed round the court...which she does. 395 00:43:45,209 --> 00:43:48,459 And it says: "I want to have you…" 396 00:43:50,334 --> 00:43:52,459 "… I must have you now." 397 00:43:53,501 --> 00:43:54,584 So… 398 00:43:57,417 --> 00:44:00,834 so the jury all read it and pass it on. 399 00:44:01,251 --> 00:44:06,084 At the end of the second row there's a woman jurist who's fallen asleep at the boredom of the trial, 400 00:44:06,126 --> 00:44:11,709 so the man next to her has to nudge her awake and hand her the slip of paper… which he does. 401 00:44:11,751 --> 00:44:16,251 She wakes up… and she looks at it… then at him… 402 00:44:16,292 --> 00:44:21,209 she smiles… and puts it in her handbag! 403 00:44:25,001 --> 00:44:28,667 Cheese omelette! Made from powder, I'm afraid. 404 00:44:28,709 --> 00:44:31,001 That woman is my heroine! 405 00:44:31,167 --> 00:44:32,417 Yes, well… 406 00:44:32,459 --> 00:44:35,292 Well… at least it's a three-spoon omelette. 407 00:44:39,334 --> 00:44:41,334 Sod this stuff! 408 00:44:45,417 --> 00:44:50,417 How am I meant to have any artistic bloody insight when I can't get any halfway decent drugs? 409 00:44:51,542 --> 00:44:55,126 It's because I'm the only bohemian in London, people take advantage of me. 410 00:44:55,167 --> 00:45:00,167 Perhaps one day Raymond will be posted to Morocco… bring some back in his bag. 411 00:45:00,209 --> 00:45:02,542 I don't think that's really on. 412 00:45:02,584 --> 00:45:06,126 Nobody would notice, from what you say. 413 00:45:06,584 --> 00:45:09,084 - No-one else eating? - Are they not very sharp? 414 00:45:09,501 --> 00:45:11,501 The ones I've met are buffoons. 415 00:45:11,542 --> 00:45:14,792 - Susan, please. - Well, it's you who calls them buffoons. 416 00:45:14,834 --> 00:45:20,126 That man Darwin… how he needs three young men from public schools to strap him into his surgical support… 417 00:45:20,167 --> 00:45:22,126 I told you that in confidence…! 418 00:45:22,626 --> 00:45:23,917 … in gloves. 419 00:45:23,959 --> 00:45:25,584 Really? 420 00:45:25,626 --> 00:45:29,917 - Darwin is not a buffoon. - From your own lips! 421 00:45:30,251 --> 00:45:34,084 He has slight problems of adjustment to the modern age. 422 00:45:36,834 --> 00:45:38,459 You are laughing. 423 00:45:40,751 --> 00:45:43,251 I'm not laughing. 424 00:45:43,292 --> 00:45:47,209 There is a slight smile at the corner of your mouth. 425 00:45:48,334 --> 00:45:51,042 No, there is not. There is absolutely no smile. 426 00:45:52,209 --> 00:45:56,709 Alice, I will paraphrase it. Let me paraphrase Raymond's view of his boss. 427 00:45:56,751 --> 00:46:02,751 It is, in paraphrase, in sum… that he would not trust him to stick his prick into a bucket of lard. 428 00:46:05,542 --> 00:46:08,001 Well, is he a joke, or is he not? 429 00:46:08,084 --> 00:46:09,209 Certainly he is a joke. 430 00:46:09,251 --> 00:46:10,959 - Thank you. - He's a joke between us. 431 00:46:11,001 --> 00:46:13,459 He is not a joke to the entire world. 432 00:46:17,709 --> 00:46:19,501 I think perhaps I'd better push off. 433 00:46:19,542 --> 00:46:22,167 I wish you would stop using those words. 434 00:46:22,209 --> 00:46:23,334 What? 435 00:46:24,167 --> 00:46:28,126 Words… like "push off". You're always saying it. 436 00:46:28,251 --> 00:46:31,751 "Bit of tight corner"… "One hell of a spot". They don't belong. 437 00:46:31,792 --> 00:46:34,001 - What do you mean? - They are not your words. 438 00:46:34,042 --> 00:46:37,417 - Well, I'm none too keen on your words, either. - Oh, yes... which? 439 00:46:37,626 --> 00:46:41,584 - The words you've been using this evening. - What... such as? 440 00:46:41,667 --> 00:46:45,667 - You know perfectly well. - No... come on, tell me, what words have I used? 441 00:46:46,667 --> 00:46:51,751 Words like… "bucket of lard". 442 00:47:08,709 --> 00:47:10,834 I don't know why you let her live with you. 443 00:47:10,876 --> 00:47:16,376 I like her. She makes me laugh. 444 00:47:27,417 --> 00:47:32,834 I'm sorry. I was awful. I apologise. 445 00:47:33,959 --> 00:47:37,084 But the work I do is not entirely contemptible. 446 00:47:37,376 --> 00:47:42,167 Of course our people are dull. They're stuffy, they're… death. 447 00:47:42,792 --> 00:47:45,084 But what other world do I have? 448 00:47:46,251 --> 00:47:49,667 I think of France more than I can tell you. 449 00:47:52,001 --> 00:47:53,626 I often think of it. 450 00:47:53,667 --> 00:47:56,376 - I'm sure. - People I met for only an hour or two. 451 00:47:57,376 --> 00:48:04,251 Great kindnesses. Bravery. The fact that you could meet someone for an hour or two… 452 00:48:05,042 --> 00:48:07,626 see the very best of them… 453 00:48:08,417 --> 00:48:12,084 … and then move on. 454 00:48:13,292 --> 00:48:15,417 Can you understand? 455 00:48:16,626 --> 00:48:19,917 - Susan… - I think that we should try a winter apart. 456 00:48:20,626 --> 00:48:25,126 I really do. I think it's all a bit easy this way. These weekends… 457 00:48:25,167 --> 00:48:29,626 nothing is tested. A test would be good. 458 00:48:29,667 --> 00:48:33,167 And what better test than a winter apart? 459 00:48:34,542 --> 00:48:36,042 A winter together. 460 00:48:38,084 --> 00:48:43,501 I would love to come to Brussels, you know that. I would love to come… 461 00:48:43,626 --> 00:48:45,792 if it weren't for my job. 462 00:48:46,709 --> 00:48:50,584 The shipping office is very important to me. I do find the work fulfilling. 463 00:48:50,626 --> 00:48:53,667 And I couldn't let Mr Medlicott down. 464 00:48:54,376 --> 00:48:56,334 I know how you hate the winter crossings. 465 00:48:56,376 --> 00:48:58,292 - High seas. - Please don't patronise me, Susan… 466 00:48:58,334 --> 00:49:01,501 Anyway, perhaps in the spring it would be nice to meet. 467 00:49:01,542 --> 00:49:03,542 Please... don't insult my intelligence. 468 00:49:03,834 --> 00:49:06,834 I know you better than you think. 469 00:49:07,709 --> 00:49:14,001 When you start talking longingly about the war… some deception usually follows. 470 00:49:34,126 --> 00:49:36,209 Goodbye. 471 00:50:15,876 --> 00:50:19,167 The Coronation's rather a special affair… 472 00:50:23,126 --> 00:50:25,334 - I do apologise. - Good morning. 473 00:50:25,376 --> 00:50:28,959 I have the whole thing here, lunch for six hundred. Tomorrow's menu. 474 00:50:29,751 --> 00:50:33,167 I've checked titles in Debrett and the precedence, as we discussed. 475 00:50:33,209 --> 00:50:35,584 We were just talking about the order of toasts. 476 00:50:35,626 --> 00:50:38,792 Ah, well, I've suggested the loyal toast before the pudding… 477 00:50:39,167 --> 00:50:40,917 … and leave all the others till after the cheese. 478 00:50:40,959 --> 00:50:43,334 I wonder, does anyone have any suggestions? 479 00:50:46,126 --> 00:50:48,209 - Hello, how are you? - Have I missed anything? 480 00:50:48,251 --> 00:50:49,084 Nothing. 481 00:50:49,126 --> 00:50:53,417 I was going to make the rather unconventional suggestion that we split the toasts up. 482 00:50:53,459 --> 00:50:58,834 Perhaps offer just one before we have our pudding, then leave the others until the end of the meal. 483 00:50:59,251 --> 00:51:01,959 An excellent suggestion from Viscount Tampan. 484 00:51:02,001 --> 00:51:05,001 - I trust we all agree. - Yes, yes… 485 00:51:05,417 --> 00:51:08,834 Now, there is the question of police routing… 486 00:51:09,167 --> 00:51:12,834 Gosh, I mean, didn't that take the bally biscuit! 487 00:51:12,876 --> 00:51:15,126 Oh, it was nothing. Honestly. 488 00:51:16,001 --> 00:51:21,459 I was wondering... Susan, do you have somewhere to watch tomorrow? 489 00:51:21,542 --> 00:51:24,376 I was hoping you might be able to come and watch the whole thing with me. 490 00:51:24,417 --> 00:51:26,834 Mater and Pater have a house right bang on the route. 491 00:51:26,959 --> 00:51:30,834 - You'd get a really first-class view. - Oh, Ashley, how nice. I'd really like it. 492 00:51:31,084 --> 00:51:33,459 - I'll ring you tomorrow, all right? - Super. 493 00:51:42,792 --> 00:51:44,376 Five hundred cheese graters? 494 00:51:47,001 --> 00:51:51,751 I've got five hundred cheese graters parked round the side. Interested? 495 00:51:51,792 --> 00:51:53,501 No, I'm afraid you're too late. 496 00:51:54,001 --> 00:51:57,417 - We took a consignment a week ago. - Oh. 497 00:51:57,542 --> 00:52:01,459 But we are using your spoons tomorrow, at our banquet. 498 00:52:01,501 --> 00:52:04,834 - I wish I could see it. - Yes. Yes, I wish you could, too. 499 00:52:09,667 --> 00:52:11,334 Be out of a job after this, then? 500 00:52:11,376 --> 00:52:16,417 Yes... well, I am. Ah, but I'm thinking of going into advertising. 501 00:52:18,001 --> 00:52:21,042 - Nice. - Yes, I met some people on the Coronation Committee. 502 00:52:21,084 --> 00:52:25,376 I doubt if it'll stretch me… but it might be a way of having some fun. 503 00:52:34,751 --> 00:52:36,917 So, you'd better tell me how I can help. 504 00:52:38,626 --> 00:52:43,834 Well, I'm looking for a father. I, erm, I want to have a child. 505 00:52:47,167 --> 00:52:50,709 Look... it really is… much easier than it sounds. I mean, 506 00:52:51,042 --> 00:52:55,126 marriage is not involved… or even looking after it. Er… 507 00:52:55,167 --> 00:52:57,959 you don't even have to see the pregnancy through. I mean… 508 00:52:58,001 --> 00:53:00,209 conception would be the end of the job. 509 00:53:05,834 --> 00:53:07,709 You don't want to. 510 00:53:09,167 --> 00:53:13,626 No... no, I'd be delighted. 511 00:53:15,626 --> 00:53:17,709 I'm lucky to be asked. 512 00:53:17,751 --> 00:53:19,292 Not at all. 513 00:53:20,542 --> 00:53:26,792 It's just, um… your own people. Friends... you must have friends? 514 00:53:26,834 --> 00:53:30,292 - Yes, it's, um… - I mean… no… go on, say. 515 00:53:31,542 --> 00:53:35,751 Well… I'm afraid I'm quite strong-minded, as you know… 516 00:53:36,292 --> 00:53:41,917 and so with the men that I've met at work, or… my friends, as you'd say… 517 00:53:42,376 --> 00:53:48,042 I usually feel that I'm holding myself in for fear of literally… blowing them out of the room. 518 00:53:48,084 --> 00:53:55,126 I mean… they are kind… they are able, but… I don't see why I should have to compromise. 519 00:53:56,084 --> 00:54:01,709 I don't see why I should have to make some sad and… decorous marriage, just to have a child. 520 00:54:02,584 --> 00:54:04,959 I don't think any woman should have to do that. 521 00:54:05,584 --> 00:54:08,251 - You don't have to get married. - Ah, well… 522 00:54:08,542 --> 00:54:11,417 You just go off with 'em. You don't tell 'em. 523 00:54:13,251 --> 00:54:18,626 Yes, I did think that. But then I thought it would be dishonest… 524 00:54:19,501 --> 00:54:23,126 and so I had the idea of asking someone whom I barely knew. 525 00:54:30,292 --> 00:54:34,251 - I'd really like to know… - Yes? 526 00:54:37,334 --> 00:54:41,417 … why you chose me. I mean, how often have you met me? 527 00:54:41,459 --> 00:54:46,584 Yes… that's the whole point. 528 00:54:47,459 --> 00:54:51,917 With Alice a few times? Alice says what? I'm clean… 529 00:54:52,501 --> 00:54:56,667 obedient… haven't got any morons in the family… 530 00:54:56,709 --> 00:55:00,959 - It's not as calculated as that. - Not as calculated as that? 531 00:55:02,251 --> 00:55:06,334 Several hundred of us, was there? All got notes, did we…? 532 00:55:06,376 --> 00:55:07,834 No… 533 00:55:08,167 --> 00:55:14,001 Saying "Come and meet me at the Embankment… tell no-one… bring no friends…" 534 00:55:14,917 --> 00:55:17,876 I thought with all this secrecy you must at least be after nylons. 535 00:55:17,917 --> 00:55:20,917 Oh, I'll buy nylons, if that's what you want. 536 00:55:22,251 --> 00:55:23,584 Why me? 537 00:55:27,001 --> 00:55:29,959 - I like you. - And…? 538 00:55:32,209 --> 00:55:37,917 I love you. I chose you because I don't see you very much... 539 00:55:38,417 --> 00:55:47,209 barely ever see you. We live at opposite ends of town. It's… different worlds. 540 00:55:47,709 --> 00:55:51,376 - Different class. - Yes. That comes into it. 541 00:56:03,917 --> 00:56:08,751 - Five hundred cheese graters. - How much? 542 00:56:10,001 --> 00:56:15,084 Something over the odds. Bit over the odds. Not much. 543 00:56:16,917 --> 00:56:18,376 Done. 544 00:56:20,709 --> 00:56:25,042 Don't worry. The Coronation will pay. 545 00:56:44,459 --> 00:56:48,126 - Great sky. - Yes… it's a mackerel sky. 546 00:56:48,167 --> 00:56:52,126 That's what they call it. A mackerel sky… 547 00:56:54,292 --> 00:56:58,001 It can't be what you want. Not deep down. 548 00:56:58,667 --> 00:57:00,126 No… 549 00:57:01,917 --> 00:57:03,209 I didn't think so. 550 00:57:03,251 --> 00:57:07,001 No… deep down, I'd do the whole damn thing myself. 551 00:57:08,626 --> 00:57:11,917 But there you are. You're second best. 552 00:58:33,459 --> 00:58:40,251 The hour of eleven is approaching, not only in London but in every corner of the world. 553 00:58:40,292 --> 00:58:45,959 The prayers and thoughts of the people are centred onto this young Queen of England. 554 00:58:46,001 --> 00:58:51,709 This gracious lady, upon whom such burdens of responsibility are to rest, 555 00:58:51,959 --> 00:58:55,709 and who bears them with such royal grace. 556 00:58:56,626 --> 00:58:58,042 The Queen. 557 01:00:06,042 --> 01:00:08,292 Oh... sorry. 558 01:00:10,959 --> 01:00:13,584 You all right? 559 01:00:15,001 --> 01:00:17,001 Has your latest chum left you? 560 01:00:17,542 --> 01:00:19,876 Yes, as they all do. 561 01:00:20,334 --> 01:00:23,001 He went back to his wife. 562 01:00:25,084 --> 01:00:29,626 I suppose if they didn't, I'd stop wanting them. 563 01:00:34,042 --> 01:00:37,084 I had this idea that lust… 564 01:00:38,501 --> 01:00:41,084 that lust was very good. 565 01:00:41,126 --> 01:00:45,001 And could be made simple and cheering and light. 566 01:00:46,876 --> 01:00:49,792 Perhaps I'm simply out of my time. 567 01:00:53,959 --> 01:00:57,001 We ought to do something. Why don't we go out? 568 01:00:58,667 --> 01:00:59,876 Mm. 569 01:01:04,376 --> 01:01:06,667 What about you? 570 01:01:09,251 --> 01:01:12,001 Oh, I need to move on. 571 01:01:17,959 --> 01:01:19,792 Is that for you? 572 01:01:20,459 --> 01:01:22,709 No. He's at home. 573 01:01:23,834 --> 01:01:26,584 Mm. Well, there are other people, you know. 574 01:01:47,959 --> 01:01:50,209 I've got so much work to do. 575 01:01:50,251 --> 01:01:53,376 - Who was it? - Nobody. Wrong house. 576 01:01:58,001 --> 01:01:59,876 What do you think? 577 01:02:03,376 --> 01:02:07,626 I wish she were more, um… ordinary. 578 01:02:07,667 --> 01:02:11,209 - Who? - Well, that woman. 579 01:02:13,334 --> 01:02:15,459 Dog's ordinary. 580 01:02:16,376 --> 01:02:21,501 Oh, God, yes… the dog's ordinary, no question. I'm just worried… 581 01:02:21,542 --> 01:02:24,001 will the audience identify? 582 01:02:24,667 --> 01:02:28,542 Well, that depends, of course, how… ordinary they are, really. 583 01:02:32,792 --> 01:02:35,626 Does the dog bowl have to be pink? 584 01:02:46,042 --> 01:02:48,084 … yes, the airbrushed ones… 585 01:02:48,251 --> 01:02:49,792 Lovely lunch… come on… 586 01:02:52,042 --> 01:02:54,334 It's good for you… 587 01:02:56,792 --> 01:02:59,084 All right, five minutes everybody. 588 01:02:59,501 --> 01:03:01,917 Get that bloody dog back!! 589 01:03:06,334 --> 01:03:07,876 Can't something be done about that dog? 590 01:03:07,917 --> 01:03:10,417 - Please... can you stay? - What do you mean? 591 01:03:10,459 --> 01:03:12,126 You can't just walk out. 592 01:03:12,167 --> 01:03:15,126 I've put sirloin steak in the bowl but the dog still won't go near it. 593 01:03:15,167 --> 01:03:17,876 - You always walk out. - What do you mean? 594 01:03:18,459 --> 01:03:21,126 Look, if we just took them out for a drink. 595 01:03:21,167 --> 01:03:24,042 Do you have any idea of the effort I've had to put into this? 596 01:03:24,126 --> 01:03:27,792 The price I have to pay for sitting here pretending to be stupid all day. 597 01:03:28,001 --> 01:03:32,001 For God's sake, Roland... look at that reconstituted yuck. What's it made from? 598 01:03:32,126 --> 01:03:34,959 Account executives' brains? Is that how they make it? 599 01:03:36,042 --> 01:03:41,334 I have tried. I have. I have tried for months to sink to the level of this enterprise. 600 01:03:42,084 --> 01:03:43,626 Well, forget it. 601 01:03:44,417 --> 01:03:46,959 The dog has taste. 602 01:03:47,584 --> 01:03:49,209 I'm going to go home. 603 01:04:01,792 --> 01:04:03,126 Hullo, Alice. 604 01:04:03,167 --> 01:04:05,542 Mick... hello! 605 01:04:05,792 --> 01:04:08,751 Gosh, how are you? I haven't seen you for ages. 606 01:04:08,792 --> 01:04:09,626 No. 607 01:04:10,334 --> 01:04:12,751 No, well, actually, I… I was looking for Susan. 608 01:04:12,792 --> 01:04:14,042 Susan? 609 01:04:14,876 --> 01:04:16,334 Hello, Susan. 610 01:04:17,417 --> 01:04:20,751 I thought I'd… come and say Happy New Year. 611 01:04:23,626 --> 01:04:25,834 I'll pay for this later. 612 01:04:29,126 --> 01:04:30,042 Come on. 613 01:04:41,584 --> 01:04:43,126 Susan. Please let me talk to you. 614 01:04:43,167 --> 01:04:44,792 What possible good could it do? 615 01:04:48,834 --> 01:04:51,501 I asked Mick to father a child, that's what we're talking about. 616 01:04:51,542 --> 01:04:52,126 Oh, Christ! 617 01:04:52,167 --> 01:04:55,167 Well, we have tried for over eighteen months is that right? 618 01:04:55,209 --> 01:04:57,084 - Right. - And we have failed… 619 01:04:57,126 --> 01:04:59,709 which leaves us both feeling pretty stupid. 620 01:05:00,417 --> 01:05:04,667 Pretty wretched, I should say… speaking for myself. And there is a point of… 621 01:05:04,709 --> 01:05:08,042 decency, at which the experiment should stop. 622 01:05:12,834 --> 01:05:15,542 - Susan… - The idea was fun, it was simple. 623 01:05:15,584 --> 01:05:17,917 It depended on two adults behaving like adults. 624 01:05:17,959 --> 01:05:19,042 It just feels bad. 625 01:05:19,084 --> 01:05:20,709 - It feels very bad to be used… - I would have stopped it months ago. 626 01:05:20,751 --> 01:05:22,251 I would have stopped it after the second month. 627 01:05:22,292 --> 01:05:23,667 You come out feeling dirty. 628 01:05:23,709 --> 01:05:26,126 Well, how do I feel? What am I meant to feel? 629 01:05:26,167 --> 01:05:30,084 Crawling about in your tiny bedroom… paper thin walls, your mother sitting downstairs… 630 01:05:30,126 --> 01:05:31,376 Keep my mum out of this. 631 01:05:31,417 --> 01:05:34,084 Scrabbling about on bombsites, d'you think I enjoy all that? 632 01:05:34,126 --> 01:05:37,459 Yeah. Very much. I think you do. 633 01:05:53,001 --> 01:05:54,834 - Look, I just think that… - I know what you think. 634 01:05:54,876 --> 01:05:56,834 You think I enjoy slumming around. 635 01:05:57,959 --> 01:06:00,626 Then why have I not looked for another father? 636 01:06:01,667 --> 01:06:05,792 Because the whole exploit… has broken my heart. 637 01:06:06,501 --> 01:06:08,167 You think it's my fault. 638 01:06:08,209 --> 01:06:12,709 Oh, Lord! Is that what you're worried about? 639 01:06:12,792 --> 01:06:15,126 You think it's something to do with me? 640 01:06:15,626 --> 01:06:21,417 That was part of it. Never having to have to drag through this kind of IDIOT argument. 641 01:06:23,001 --> 01:06:27,334 you don't under... you don't understand the figures in my mind. 642 01:06:31,126 --> 01:06:33,709 Mick, will you go now, please? 643 01:06:34,459 --> 01:06:38,376 You people are cruel. Both of you. 644 01:06:38,417 --> 01:06:41,042 - Mick… - You're cruel and dangerous. 645 01:06:41,084 --> 01:06:46,084 And you fuck people up… this girl here with her string of married men, all fucked up… 646 01:06:46,126 --> 01:06:48,417 … all fucking ruined because of this tart. 647 01:06:49,042 --> 01:06:50,626 And you… 648 01:06:51,959 --> 01:06:53,376 You... 649 01:06:59,042 --> 01:07:01,334 Jesus Christ! 650 01:07:03,501 --> 01:07:04,792 Now… 651 01:07:04,834 --> 01:07:09,126 if we are to consider the exchange of trade delegations with Romania… 652 01:07:12,417 --> 01:07:18,876 … then one of the… concessions… that we would anticipate would be... a trade-weighted guarantee… 653 01:07:20,001 --> 01:07:24,542 in the area of exports and rates of exchange… 654 01:07:25,626 --> 01:07:27,667 to use the Mannhein comparison. 655 01:07:29,626 --> 01:07:32,876 - Brock speaking. - Raymond... it's Alice. 656 01:07:32,917 --> 01:07:35,542 - Sorry? - Alice, Alice Park. 657 01:08:24,459 --> 01:08:29,126 They waited all night in their ships, till in the morning the signal came. 658 01:08:29,167 --> 01:08:30,876 The invasion was on. 659 01:08:30,917 --> 01:08:33,001 British and French troops were finally on the move. 660 01:08:33,042 --> 01:08:34,834 - Excuse me, sir… - The background to these events… 661 01:08:34,876 --> 01:08:36,792 Do you want me to make up a bed for you? 662 01:08:37,501 --> 01:08:38,584 No. 663 01:08:43,584 --> 01:08:45,209 I'm going out to dinner. 664 01:08:51,501 --> 01:08:54,792 Now, after the British decision to take part in an invasion of Egypt, 665 01:08:54,834 --> 01:08:57,376 back home the whole country is torn apart. 666 01:08:57,417 --> 01:09:01,001 There is uproar in Parliament... and not just in Parliament. 667 01:09:01,042 --> 01:09:03,542 In the street, stranger argues with stranger… 668 01:09:03,584 --> 01:09:09,417 … about the wisdom of a policy that has led to a pitch of public dissent unknown for many generations. 669 01:09:09,584 --> 01:09:12,709 Nationwide there is a feeling of shame. 670 01:09:12,751 --> 01:09:15,501 Condemned unanimously in the United Nations, 671 01:09:15,542 --> 01:09:18,834 the British Government still insists that it will see the operation through 672 01:09:18,876 --> 01:09:23,626 in spite of world-wide criticism and its isolation from its own American allies. 673 01:09:23,667 --> 01:09:26,626 Tonight, as the military situation worsens… 674 01:09:32,792 --> 01:09:34,626 - Good evening, sir. - Good evening. 675 01:09:34,751 --> 01:09:36,292 - Thank you. - Leonard. 676 01:09:36,334 --> 01:09:38,751 - How good of you to come. - Not at all. 677 01:09:38,792 --> 01:09:41,792 Our little gathering… we scarcely dared hope. Please. 678 01:09:48,209 --> 01:09:51,417 - Leonard, you know Monsieur Aung, of course. - Mr Darwin… 679 01:09:51,459 --> 01:09:54,501 - Rangoon. - Now First Secretary, Burmese Embassy. 680 01:09:54,542 --> 01:09:58,917 An honour, a privilege… a moment in my career. I shake your hand. 681 01:09:58,959 --> 01:10:01,751 - Good, good. Well… - Leonard, do sit down. 682 01:10:02,209 --> 01:10:03,709 Thank you. 683 01:10:04,751 --> 01:10:06,834 I'll just tell my wife that you're all here. 684 01:10:13,792 --> 01:10:15,292 She's coming. 685 01:10:15,334 --> 01:10:16,876 Why isn't she here? 686 01:10:17,876 --> 01:10:20,417 Is it affairs of state that made you late? 687 01:10:21,626 --> 01:10:23,042 Precisely. 688 01:10:23,126 --> 01:10:24,626 Say no more. 689 01:10:24,667 --> 01:10:27,042 At home you would not be forgiven. 690 01:10:27,084 --> 01:10:32,084 In Burma we say, "If you cannot be on time, do not come at all." 691 01:10:32,501 --> 01:10:34,126 Really? 692 01:10:34,209 --> 01:10:35,667 Good evening. 693 01:10:35,709 --> 01:10:37,209 Oh, hello, Alice. 694 01:10:38,917 --> 01:10:41,501 Er, but, of course, the English... it is different. 695 01:10:41,542 --> 01:10:45,042 At your command... the lion make its bed with the lamb. 696 01:10:45,126 --> 01:10:46,834 Hardly. 697 01:10:46,876 --> 01:10:50,042 Ah... Darwin of Djakarta! 698 01:10:50,084 --> 01:10:53,209 To have met the man, to have been alone with him. 699 01:10:53,251 --> 01:10:55,834 I shall dine in on this for many years. 700 01:10:55,959 --> 01:10:57,709 Dine out on this. 701 01:11:00,292 --> 01:11:04,209 The English language... she is a demanding mistress, yes? 702 01:11:04,251 --> 01:11:05,501 If you like. 703 01:11:05,542 --> 01:11:08,584 And… no-one controls her so well as you, sir. 704 01:11:08,626 --> 01:11:11,126 You beat her and the bitch obeys. 705 01:11:11,167 --> 01:11:14,459 Good, good, the language of the world. 706 01:11:15,459 --> 01:11:17,917 Oh, Alice, I hear you... you've become a teacher? 707 01:11:18,001 --> 01:11:22,459 Only sort of a teacher: I teach English to foreign students. 708 01:11:22,959 --> 01:11:25,167 How very interesting. 709 01:11:25,251 --> 01:11:28,792 Not really. The only fun is in trying to mislead them. 710 01:11:29,334 --> 01:11:33,042 I tell them the English are a cheerful and outgoing people. 711 01:11:33,417 --> 01:11:39,626 When you first meet an Englishman for the first time you must at once embrace him and kiss him on both cheeks. 712 01:11:40,876 --> 01:11:42,417 Oh, really? 713 01:11:42,501 --> 01:11:45,792 That's what I tell them. Then I let them loose on the world. 714 01:11:46,917 --> 01:11:48,751 Good evening, everyone. 715 01:11:49,334 --> 01:11:52,709 Leonard… how good of you to make an appearance. 716 01:11:53,542 --> 01:11:55,376 I'm only sorry to have been delayed. 717 01:11:55,459 --> 01:11:59,459 Brock says you're all ragged with fatigue. I hear you've been having the most frightful week. 718 01:11:59,501 --> 01:12:00,876 It has been. Yes. 719 01:12:00,917 --> 01:12:04,417 Well, don't worry. Here at least you can relax. You've met Monsieur Aung? 720 01:12:04,834 --> 01:12:06,459 Indeed. 721 01:12:06,501 --> 01:12:08,167 You can forget everything. 722 01:12:08,209 --> 01:12:10,167 The words "Suez Canal" will not be spoken. 723 01:12:10,292 --> 01:12:11,959 That will be an enormous relief. 724 01:12:12,001 --> 01:12:14,292 - They are banned, you will not hear them. - Thank you, my dear. 725 01:12:14,334 --> 01:12:16,542 "Nasser" … nobody will mention his name. 726 01:12:16,584 --> 01:12:17,626 Quite. 727 01:12:17,667 --> 01:12:21,667 nobody will say "blunder" … or "folly"… or "fiasco" 728 01:12:21,834 --> 01:12:24,459 Nobody will say… "international laughing stock". 729 01:12:25,542 --> 01:12:27,376 You are among friends, Leonard. 730 01:12:30,667 --> 01:12:32,751 Shall we all have dinner? 731 01:12:33,292 --> 01:12:36,001 No-one will say, "death-rattle of the ruling class". 732 01:12:36,501 --> 01:12:39,667 We will stick our lips together with marrons glacés. 733 01:12:41,709 --> 01:12:43,501 I hope you understand. 734 01:13:03,626 --> 01:13:08,126 I'm sorry. I did ask her to calm down. She's been giving me hell all week. 735 01:13:08,167 --> 01:13:10,084 She knows how closely you've been involved. 736 01:13:10,126 --> 01:13:12,376 Do you think we could leave the subject, Brock? I'm eager for a drink. 737 01:13:12,417 --> 01:13:13,584 Yes, of course. 738 01:13:13,626 --> 01:13:15,459 Who on earth is that appalling wog? 739 01:13:15,501 --> 01:13:18,376 I mean, in all honesty, Raymond, what are you trying to do to me? 740 01:13:18,417 --> 01:13:19,542 I'm sorry, sir. 741 01:13:19,584 --> 01:13:24,876 This week of all weeks. He had his tongue so far up my fundament all you could see of him were the soles of his feet. 742 01:13:25,084 --> 01:13:27,251 - And Madame Aung! - I know. 743 01:13:27,292 --> 01:13:31,042 Traditional dance, she tells us about, in the highlands of Burma. 744 01:13:32,542 --> 01:13:34,417 And the plot of Lohengrin. 745 01:13:45,292 --> 01:13:47,334 Mental illness, is it, your wife? 746 01:13:48,084 --> 01:13:51,959 No... no, she just feels very strongly. 747 01:13:52,042 --> 01:13:53,876 But has there been mental illness. 748 01:13:53,959 --> 01:13:55,917 Not really. A breakdown. 749 01:13:55,959 --> 01:13:57,209 Yes? 750 01:13:57,292 --> 01:14:01,834 Mm. She'd been living… very foolishly. 751 01:14:02,667 --> 01:14:04,959 A "loose set" in Pimlico. 752 01:14:05,042 --> 01:14:07,126 A series of jobs. Not eating. 753 01:14:07,251 --> 01:14:10,167 We got engaged when she was still quite ill. 754 01:14:10,251 --> 01:14:12,167 I've tried to help her back up. 755 01:14:12,209 --> 01:14:14,001 Well, that sounds very good. 756 01:14:14,084 --> 01:14:16,709 Second marriage, of course, often stabilises… 757 01:14:16,792 --> 01:14:18,001 What? 758 01:14:18,292 --> 01:14:20,917 Well, the chap in Brussels. The stiff. 759 01:14:21,001 --> 01:14:22,709 Oh... yes. 760 01:14:22,792 --> 01:14:24,959 You don't have to be ashamed. 761 01:14:25,167 --> 01:14:26,751 I'm not, its… 762 01:14:26,876 --> 01:14:31,792 In the diplomatic service, it's not as if a mad wife were any kind of professional disadvantage. 763 01:14:32,167 --> 01:14:34,834 On the contrary... it almost guarantees promotion. 764 01:14:35,126 --> 01:14:36,542 Yes, well… 765 01:14:36,584 --> 01:14:40,501 Some of these senior men… their wives are absolutely barking. 766 01:14:41,417 --> 01:14:44,126 I take the word "gouache" to be the giveaway. 767 01:14:44,459 --> 01:14:48,917 When they start drifting out of the room saying "I'm just off to do my gouache, dear"… 768 01:14:49,959 --> 01:14:52,376 then you know you've lost them for good and all. 769 01:14:52,417 --> 01:14:54,084 Yes, well… 770 01:14:55,792 --> 01:14:57,584 Susan is not mad. 771 01:14:58,792 --> 01:15:00,501 No. No. 772 01:15:02,834 --> 01:15:05,042 Do you want to tell me what's upsetting you? 773 01:15:06,584 --> 01:15:08,584 Yes, I will tell you. 774 01:15:08,917 --> 01:15:10,626 We have been betrayed. 775 01:15:11,792 --> 01:15:16,709 We claim to be intervening as a neutral party in a dispute between Israel and Egypt. 776 01:15:17,459 --> 01:15:19,792 Last Monday the Israelis launched their attack. 777 01:15:20,751 --> 01:15:26,417 On Tuesday we issued our ultimatum, saying that both sides withdraw to either side of the Canal. 778 01:15:28,626 --> 01:15:32,001 But, Raymond, the Israelis, they weren't anywhere near the Canal. 779 01:15:33,167 --> 01:15:35,584 They'd have to advance a hundred miles to make their retreat. 780 01:15:35,626 --> 01:15:37,459 Who told you that? 781 01:15:38,626 --> 01:15:42,334 Last week the Foreign Secretary went abroad. I was not briefed. 782 01:15:43,584 --> 01:15:48,876 We believe he met with the French and the Israelis… urged the Israelis to attack. 783 01:15:51,001 --> 01:15:53,292 I think the entire war is a fraud. 784 01:15:53,876 --> 01:15:56,917 Cooked up by the British as an excuse for seizing the Canal. 785 01:15:57,292 --> 01:16:02,876 And we... we, who are to execute this policy... even we were not told. 786 01:16:06,751 --> 01:16:08,917 Well… what difference does it make? 787 01:16:09,334 --> 01:16:10,959 My dear boy. 788 01:16:11,584 --> 01:16:13,501 I mean it. It makes no difference. 789 01:16:13,542 --> 01:16:14,959 I was lied to. 790 01:16:15,084 --> 01:16:17,667 Yes, but you were against it from the start. We all were. 791 01:16:18,459 --> 01:16:22,584 The Foreign Office hated the operation from the very first mention… so what difference does it make now? 792 01:16:22,626 --> 01:16:24,459 All the difference in the world. 793 01:16:24,542 --> 01:16:26,084 None at all. 794 01:16:26,167 --> 01:16:28,959 The Government lied to me. They are not in good faith. 795 01:16:29,792 --> 01:16:31,459 I see… 796 01:16:31,626 --> 01:16:36,626 I see. So what you're saying is that the British may do anything, doesn't matter how ludicrous, doesn't matter how silly… 797 01:16:36,709 --> 01:16:38,542 so long as they do it in good faith. 798 01:16:38,584 --> 01:16:44,959 Yes. I wouldn't have minded how damned stupid it was, I... I would have even defended it if only it had been honestly done. 799 01:16:48,459 --> 01:16:50,459 But this time we're cowboys 800 01:16:53,001 --> 01:16:55,917 And when the British are the cowboys… 801 01:16:56,417 --> 01:16:59,126 then, in truth, I fear for the future of the globe. 802 01:17:05,334 --> 01:17:07,376 Are you going to resign? 803 01:17:16,334 --> 01:17:21,084 Madame Aung has been enthralling us with the story of the new Bergman film at the Everyman. 804 01:17:21,959 --> 01:17:23,292 Ah… 805 01:17:23,334 --> 01:17:24,501 Ah, yes. 806 01:17:24,542 --> 01:17:27,876 Apparently it's about depression… isn't that right, Madame Aung? 807 01:17:28,001 --> 01:17:31,459 I do feel the Norwegians are very good at that sort of thing. 808 01:17:34,292 --> 01:17:36,751 Oh... I don't think we have the whole attention of the men. 809 01:17:38,167 --> 01:17:39,542 I'm sorry. 810 01:17:39,626 --> 01:17:41,834 Yes, their minds are elsewhere. 811 01:17:41,917 --> 01:17:43,959 They were probably drafting a telegram. 812 01:17:44,042 --> 01:17:47,667 That's what they do, before they drop a bomb… along the Suez… 813 01:17:47,709 --> 01:17:50,584 They send their targets notice in a telegram. 814 01:17:51,126 --> 01:17:53,376 Now, what does that indicate to you, Monsieur Aung? 815 01:17:54,292 --> 01:17:57,667 I'll tell you what it indicates to me: bad conscience. 816 01:17:58,584 --> 01:18:01,417 They don't even have the guts to make a war anymore. 817 01:18:02,376 --> 01:18:05,667 Perhaps Madame Aung will tell us the story of the film. 818 01:18:06,459 --> 01:18:08,709 It's something I'd be very eager… … to hear. 819 01:18:10,751 --> 01:18:12,792 I feel the others have already heard it. 820 01:18:12,876 --> 01:18:15,459 Oh, go ahead. We like the bit in the mental ward. 821 01:18:15,542 --> 01:18:16,709 Ah, yes… 822 01:18:16,792 --> 01:18:20,167 Raymond'll like it. He got me out of the bin… didn't you, dear? 823 01:18:20,209 --> 01:18:21,501 Yes, yes. 824 01:18:21,542 --> 01:18:25,084 That's where he proposed to me. A moment of weakness… of mine, I mean. 825 01:18:25,334 --> 01:18:26,876 Susan… please. 826 01:18:26,917 --> 01:18:29,376 I married him because he reminded me of my father. 827 01:18:29,417 --> 01:18:30,417 Really? 828 01:18:30,459 --> 01:18:34,251 Yes, at that point I didn't realise just what a shit my father was. 829 01:18:35,459 --> 01:18:38,542 Sorry she has a sort of psychiatric cabaret. 830 01:18:40,792 --> 01:18:44,334 That's very good… There's something about Suez which... 831 01:18:44,376 --> 01:18:46,251 Will you please be quiet? 832 01:18:50,876 --> 01:18:52,709 The story of the film? 833 01:18:54,001 --> 01:18:55,751 There's a woman… 834 01:18:55,876 --> 01:18:57,709 … who despises her husband. 835 01:19:02,126 --> 01:19:04,001 Is it getting a bit chilly in here? 836 01:19:06,501 --> 01:19:11,084 October nights. Those poor parachutists… 837 01:19:12,126 --> 01:19:15,501 I do know how they feel. Even now. 838 01:19:17,709 --> 01:19:23,876 Cities, fields, trees… farms… dark spaces… 839 01:19:25,751 --> 01:19:32,001 lights. The parachute opens. We descend. 840 01:19:34,751 --> 01:19:42,251 Of course, we were comparatively welcome. I mean... we did make it our business to land in countries where we were wanted. 841 01:19:43,376 --> 01:19:48,584 Certainly the men were. Some of the relationships... I can't tell you… 842 01:19:48,626 --> 01:19:54,459 I remember a colleague telling me of the heat… of the... smell of a particular young girl. 843 01:19:55,834 --> 01:19:58,626 The hot, wet, smell, he said… 844 01:19:59,292 --> 01:20:04,376 and nothing since. Nothing since then. 845 01:20:05,084 --> 01:20:11,334 I can't see the Egyptian girls, somehow… no. Not in Egypt. Not now. 846 01:20:13,751 --> 01:20:16,251 I mean, there were broken hearts when we left. 847 01:20:17,917 --> 01:20:22,167 I mean, there are girls today who mourn Englishmen who died in Dachau… 848 01:20:24,959 --> 01:20:28,667 who died naked in Dachau. Men with whom they had spent a single night. 849 01:20:34,334 --> 01:20:40,001 Well… even for myself, I do like to make a point of… sleeping with people I don't know. 850 01:20:42,001 --> 01:20:45,126 I find, once you get to know them, you don't want to sleep with them anymore. 851 01:20:45,334 --> 01:20:49,792 Please, can you stop. Can you stop fucking talking for five fucking minutes on end. 852 01:20:49,834 --> 01:20:51,417 Well, I would stop, I would stop. 853 01:20:51,459 --> 01:20:56,792 I would stop fucking talking if I ever heard anybody else say anything worth fucking stopping talking for! 854 01:20:59,959 --> 01:21:02,251 I'm sorry. I apologise. I really must go. 855 01:21:04,834 --> 01:21:06,626 Monsieur Aung, farewell. 856 01:21:08,542 --> 01:21:11,959 We are behind you, sir. There is wisdom in your expedition. 857 01:21:12,042 --> 01:21:13,209 Thank you. 858 01:21:13,251 --> 01:21:17,376 May I say, sir… these Gyps need whipping, and you are the man to do it. 859 01:21:17,417 --> 01:21:20,251 Thank you very much, Monsieur. Madame Aung… 860 01:21:21,126 --> 01:21:23,001 We never really met. 861 01:21:23,126 --> 01:21:25,251 No, no, we never really met, that's true. 862 01:21:25,292 --> 01:21:30,209 Nevertheless, before I go perhaps I might be permitted to put you right on a point of fact: 863 01:21:31,001 --> 01:21:36,501 Ingmar Berman is not a bloody Norwegian. He is a bloody Swede. 864 01:21:38,042 --> 01:21:39,876 Goodnight, everybody. 865 01:21:47,042 --> 01:21:48,501 He's going to resign. 866 01:21:55,792 --> 01:21:58,834 Ah! Isn't this an exciting week! 867 01:22:00,459 --> 01:22:03,042 Don't you think? I mean, isn't this thrilling? 868 01:22:03,084 --> 01:22:07,417 Everything is up for grabs. At last. We will see come changes. Thank the Lord. 869 01:22:08,917 --> 01:22:15,209 Now, I can get you more dinner. There's ham and chicken, and... pickles, and lettuce, and tomatoes… 870 01:22:15,584 --> 01:22:21,459 … and there are a couple of pheasants in the fridge. Ooh... and there are bottles and bottles and bottles of claret from the cellar. 871 01:22:21,667 --> 01:22:24,459 Why not? There is plenty. 872 01:22:26,584 --> 01:22:28,251 Shall we eat again? 873 01:23:18,209 --> 01:23:19,917 Welcome, Miss Park. 874 01:23:19,959 --> 01:23:21,334 Hello. 875 01:23:29,167 --> 01:23:33,292 Mrs Brock will be down. She always rests in this part of the day. 876 01:23:35,417 --> 01:23:37,042 In the afternoon? 877 01:23:37,292 --> 01:23:41,667 Yes. And the morning. She rests in her room until dusk. 878 01:23:42,501 --> 01:23:44,834 She finds the light too disturbing. 879 01:23:45,709 --> 01:23:47,084 And Raymond? 880 01:23:47,209 --> 01:23:48,834 Please wait. 881 01:23:57,084 --> 01:23:58,501 Miss Park is here. 882 01:24:00,209 --> 01:24:01,834 Tell her I'll be with her soon. 883 01:24:02,001 --> 01:24:03,542 Right, sir. 884 01:24:10,001 --> 01:24:12,959 Please. Mr Brock will be with you soon. 885 01:24:53,292 --> 01:24:55,501 Susan! There you are! 886 01:24:58,001 --> 01:25:02,876 Alice! Oh, Alice! how nice to see you. 887 01:25:02,917 --> 01:25:04,709 Gosh, how exciting. 888 01:25:05,417 --> 01:25:08,626 Oh, excuse me, I've just been… sorting these books out. 889 01:25:09,042 --> 01:25:10,459 Why, Alice. 890 01:25:10,501 --> 01:25:12,251 Raymond, hello! 891 01:25:12,751 --> 01:25:14,084 You all right, darling? 892 01:25:14,126 --> 01:25:16,542 Yes, thank you, I'm fine. 893 01:25:17,376 --> 01:25:19,876 Susan's lifeline: her room full of books. 894 01:25:21,251 --> 01:25:25,501 I can't tell you have much we've been looking forward to your visit. It's ages since we saw anyone. 895 01:25:25,542 --> 01:25:28,417 I'm not surprised, Jesus, the price of the tickets! 896 01:25:28,542 --> 01:25:31,917 Well, well, if you need money… … you must ask us. 897 01:25:33,292 --> 01:25:36,542 No, I'm not… I didn't mean that. 898 01:25:39,334 --> 01:25:44,292 Susan. So, tell me about it. How's it been? Has it been fun here? 899 01:25:44,501 --> 01:25:46,917 God, I've missed you. I'm longing to hear everything. 900 01:25:47,751 --> 01:25:50,042 Well, I'm very happy. 901 01:25:51,751 --> 01:25:54,417 Darling, could you pass me that book, please? 902 01:26:22,917 --> 01:26:26,834 It's extraordinary... a perfect amphitheatre. 903 01:26:27,292 --> 01:26:31,292 It's a style that's been around for almost two thousand years, and it's still there. 904 01:26:31,459 --> 01:26:33,376 Really it's extraordinary. 905 01:26:33,459 --> 01:26:35,292 Can we get out and have a look? 906 01:26:35,417 --> 01:26:38,126 Get out? Well, yes. 907 01:26:43,209 --> 01:26:44,792 Are you not coming? 908 01:26:44,917 --> 01:26:46,084 I've seen it. 909 01:26:46,167 --> 01:26:47,459 I'd rather stay. 910 01:27:17,834 --> 01:27:20,834 I'm afraid we've fallen into bad habits here at night-time. 911 01:27:20,917 --> 01:27:22,667 We like to play Scrabble. 912 01:27:22,751 --> 01:27:24,334 Lord, no! 913 01:27:24,376 --> 01:27:30,209 Yes… Do you play? Susan will never forgive me. Last week I got "juxtapose". 914 01:27:30,292 --> 01:27:32,126 Mmm…? Unbelievable. 915 01:27:32,209 --> 01:27:36,084 Nine letters including the "J" and the "X". Which, I'm afraid, was on a triple. 916 01:27:36,167 --> 01:27:38,042 It's almost unheard of! 917 01:27:38,084 --> 01:27:40,584 Well, one day, no doubt, she'll get her revenge. 918 01:27:43,042 --> 01:27:44,626 D'you think this is best? 919 01:27:45,792 --> 01:27:47,542 What? What do you mean? 920 01:27:47,959 --> 01:27:49,584 For Susan. 921 01:27:49,667 --> 01:27:51,584 No... let her say. 922 01:27:52,792 --> 01:27:54,334 Sedation. 923 01:27:55,292 --> 01:27:56,667 Look… 924 01:27:57,626 --> 01:28:00,417 I don't like the life people live now in London. 925 01:28:00,584 --> 01:28:04,584 All that money... does nobody good. It rots them. 926 01:28:04,667 --> 01:28:07,167 Does untold damage, as well you know. 927 01:28:08,084 --> 01:28:15,084 Life becomes… excitable, and flashy. Decadent. Frenzied. Diseased. 928 01:28:15,876 --> 01:28:19,917 Here, there is peace and quiet. A level way of living. 929 01:28:21,376 --> 01:28:23,792 I think you'll find it suits Susan very well. 930 01:28:23,834 --> 01:28:25,334 If you call it "living". 931 01:28:25,376 --> 01:28:28,209 And the country itself is so… … extraordinarily fascinating. 932 01:28:28,251 --> 01:28:30,751 You could spend a lifetime here and still not get to know it. 933 01:28:31,501 --> 01:28:33,792 Which is why we're so pleased we're staying. 934 01:28:35,126 --> 01:28:37,584 Our tour has been extended another two years. 935 01:28:48,417 --> 01:28:50,167 I've left my job. 936 01:28:50,417 --> 01:28:51,917 Oh, really? 937 01:28:52,001 --> 01:28:54,376 Being a teacher; I decided to throw it all in. 938 01:28:54,417 --> 01:28:57,709 I'm starting a home for women who are victims of domestic violence. 939 01:28:57,959 --> 01:28:59,251 Really? 940 01:28:59,292 --> 01:29:01,959 A place where they can be safe from their husbands. 941 01:29:04,626 --> 01:29:07,959 What a wonderful idea. What will you do? 942 01:29:08,167 --> 01:29:12,667 I'll run it. I will. I've decided it's time… to do good. 943 01:29:16,501 --> 01:29:19,751 What was that phrase about… … "having to move on"? 944 01:29:20,751 --> 01:29:22,417 Oh, yes. 945 01:29:23,501 --> 01:29:27,376 I felt such relief. Just for a while not to think of yourself. 946 01:29:29,959 --> 01:29:31,917 Shall we go back to the car? 947 01:29:33,001 --> 01:29:34,251 Hm. 948 01:29:57,584 --> 01:29:59,376 It's what I want to do. 949 01:30:00,209 --> 01:30:02,792 Please, Susan, let's just sit and talk about this! 950 01:30:02,876 --> 01:30:04,709 No. Not just at the moment. 951 01:30:04,792 --> 01:30:06,584 Please, if we can...just talk it over. 952 01:30:07,501 --> 01:30:11,251 Susan. Susan. Come back! 953 01:30:14,459 --> 01:30:17,292 Raymond. Raymond, what's happening? 954 01:30:19,584 --> 01:30:21,417 Leonard Darwin is dead. 955 01:30:22,334 --> 01:30:23,959 Oh, no. Awful. 956 01:30:25,459 --> 01:30:27,959 Susan wants to go to the funeral. In England. 957 01:30:30,042 --> 01:30:33,251 Damn you. This is your fault. 958 01:30:39,542 --> 01:30:43,417 Man, that is born of woman, hath but a short time to live. 959 01:30:44,626 --> 01:30:47,501 He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower. 960 01:30:48,792 --> 01:30:51,792 He fleeth and never continueth in one stay. 961 01:30:53,542 --> 01:30:56,334 In the midst of life… we are in death. 962 01:30:58,042 --> 01:31:01,376 Of whom may we seek for succour… but of thee, O Lord, 963 01:31:02,126 --> 01:31:04,876 … who for our sins are justly displeased… 964 01:31:07,709 --> 01:31:10,251 Even when you die they don't forgive you. 965 01:31:13,001 --> 01:31:16,792 He spoke his mind over Suez. That's why nobody is here today. 966 01:31:42,584 --> 01:31:45,251 I knew if I came over I would never return. 967 01:32:09,084 --> 01:32:13,417 Darling, I think the driver is ready. We have to be at Heathrow. We've only an hour… to get there… 968 01:32:13,542 --> 01:32:15,751 Raymond, I've decided to stay. 969 01:32:19,334 --> 01:32:22,167 Please, before you say anything, if you could just… think about it. 970 01:32:23,459 --> 01:32:25,542 I knew we were going to be treated to some such nonsense. 971 01:32:25,626 --> 01:32:26,751 Not at all. 972 01:32:26,792 --> 01:32:28,584 I have to tell you that this is out of the question… 973 01:32:29,626 --> 01:32:32,292 Have you any idea of the implications of what you're suggesting? 974 01:33:08,626 --> 01:33:10,126 Now, who do you know? 975 01:33:10,209 --> 01:33:12,209 I'm sure you'll see some familiar faces. 976 01:33:14,959 --> 01:33:16,834 Hang on... I'll just get you a drink. 977 01:33:18,834 --> 01:33:20,251 … and Tony died? 978 01:33:20,376 --> 01:33:21,917 Yes, that's right. 979 01:33:21,959 --> 01:33:24,667 In Brussels? And you were with him? 980 01:33:24,959 --> 01:33:26,542 Was he your best friend? 981 01:33:27,167 --> 01:33:30,876 He was my only friend. Apart from one other. 982 01:33:36,917 --> 01:33:38,959 And it doesn't look as if he's coming today. 983 01:33:43,876 --> 01:33:48,542 You were one of the few women in Special Operations to be flown into France? 984 01:33:48,626 --> 01:33:49,917 Yes. 985 01:33:49,959 --> 01:33:55,251 And, er... one of the youngest. At the time, what did you feel you were fighting for? 986 01:33:56,876 --> 01:33:59,251 Well, I suppose we were fighting for freedom. 987 01:34:01,376 --> 01:34:04,626 But, I'm not saying… um, please, it wasn't a grand idea. 988 01:34:04,792 --> 01:34:08,417 It was in us. It was bred in us. 989 01:34:09,001 --> 01:34:12,001 We were fighting for a world which could be better. 990 01:34:12,542 --> 01:34:15,417 I suppose, in spite of everything, you must miss those days. 991 01:34:16,376 --> 01:34:20,667 Not really, no. We don't think about them much. 992 01:34:32,084 --> 01:34:34,292 Sir Andrew will see you now, Mrs Brock. 993 01:34:35,834 --> 01:34:37,959 He only has a few moments, I'm afraid. 994 01:34:42,542 --> 01:34:44,126 Ah, Mrs Brock. 995 01:34:44,167 --> 01:34:45,376 Sir Andrew. 996 01:34:45,417 --> 01:34:46,584 How do you do? 997 01:34:46,626 --> 01:34:49,292 We have met. The Queen's garden party. 998 01:34:49,376 --> 01:34:51,001 That's right. 999 01:34:51,042 --> 01:34:54,834 And I heard you on the wireless only recently… how extraordinary it must have been. 1000 01:34:55,667 --> 01:34:57,834 This must seem a very strange request. 1001 01:34:58,292 --> 01:35:00,001 If you could leave us, Begley. 1002 01:35:00,084 --> 01:35:01,334 Sir. 1003 01:35:02,292 --> 01:35:04,626 Just shuffle some paper for a while. 1004 01:35:12,501 --> 01:35:16,542 Sir Andrew, as you know, I take very little interest in my husband's professional life… 1005 01:35:16,667 --> 01:35:17,959 Indeed. 1006 01:35:18,001 --> 01:35:22,792 … but... for the first time in my husband's career I am beginning to feel the need to intervene. 1007 01:35:23,251 --> 01:35:25,167 I had a message, yes. 1008 01:35:25,626 --> 01:35:27,709 I hope you appreciate my loyalty… 1009 01:35:27,792 --> 01:35:30,167 - Oh, yes. - … coming here at all. 1010 01:35:30,584 --> 01:35:33,959 Brock is a man who has seen me through some very difficult times. 1011 01:35:34,167 --> 01:35:35,834 I am told. 1012 01:35:36,001 --> 01:35:38,626 But this is a matter on which I need to go behind his back. 1013 01:35:41,334 --> 01:35:45,959 It's my impression that since our recall from Jordan he is in some way being penalised. 1014 01:35:47,501 --> 01:35:53,501 I do understand the Foreign Service now; I know my husband could never come to ask what his prospects are. 1015 01:35:54,667 --> 01:35:59,792 Signs… indications are all you are given. Your stock is rising; your stock is falling. 1016 01:35:59,834 --> 01:36:01,459 Yes. 1017 01:36:04,042 --> 01:36:07,542 Brock has been allocated to a fairly lowly job… 1018 01:36:07,751 --> 01:36:10,126 backing up the EEC negotiating team. 1019 01:36:10,167 --> 01:36:11,751 He's part of the push into Europe, yes. 1020 01:36:11,792 --> 01:36:15,292 And the foreign posts he's since been offered have not been glittering. 1021 01:36:15,334 --> 01:36:17,542 We offered him Monrovia. 1022 01:36:17,584 --> 01:36:21,209 Monrovia. Yes. He took that to be an insult. 1023 01:36:22,167 --> 01:36:23,459 Was he wrong? 1024 01:36:24,001 --> 01:36:25,917 Monrovia… is not an insult. 1025 01:36:27,001 --> 01:36:28,084 But…? 1026 01:36:28,167 --> 01:36:30,584 Monrovia… is more in the nature of a test. 1027 01:36:30,667 --> 01:36:34,084 A test of nerve, it's true. If a man is stupid enough to accept Monrovia… 1028 01:36:34,417 --> 01:36:38,709 then he probably deserves Monrovia. That is how we think. 1029 01:36:39,292 --> 01:36:40,542 But you... 1030 01:36:40,626 --> 01:36:42,501 And Brock refused. 1031 01:36:42,917 --> 01:36:46,001 Had we wanted to insult him there are far worse jobs. 1032 01:36:46,084 --> 01:36:47,876 And in this building, too. 1033 01:36:48,001 --> 01:36:50,792 In my view, town-twinning is the coup de grace. 1034 01:36:50,834 --> 01:36:54,709 I'd rather be a martyr to the tsetse fly than have to twin Rotherham with Bergen op Zoom. 1035 01:36:55,084 --> 01:36:56,792 You are evading me. 1036 01:36:57,626 --> 01:37:00,459 I'm sorry. It's a habit, as you might say. 1037 01:37:03,167 --> 01:37:06,167 Your husband has never been a flier, Mrs Brock. 1038 01:37:07,584 --> 01:37:11,167 Everyone is streamed. A slow stream, a fast stream. 1039 01:37:11,209 --> 01:37:12,584 My husband is "slow"? 1040 01:37:12,667 --> 01:37:14,042 Slow-ish. 1041 01:37:14,501 --> 01:37:19,542 Well, what is he? First Secretary struggling towards counsellor. At 41, it's not remarkable, you know. 1042 01:37:19,584 --> 01:37:20,917 - But it's got worse. - You think? 1043 01:37:21,042 --> 01:37:23,834 In the last six months. He's never been excluded from his work before. 1044 01:37:23,876 --> 01:37:25,584 Oh, does he feel that? 1045 01:37:26,584 --> 01:37:28,334 I think you know he does. 1046 01:37:29,334 --> 01:37:32,167 Well, I'm sure the intention was not to punish him. 1047 01:37:33,917 --> 01:37:36,584 We have had some trouble placing him; it's true. 1048 01:37:37,126 --> 01:37:39,334 The rather startling decision to desert his post. 1049 01:37:43,001 --> 01:37:44,584 That was not his fault. 1050 01:37:44,626 --> 01:37:45,959 We were told. 1051 01:37:46,209 --> 01:37:49,751 We were sympathetic. Psychiatric reasons… 1052 01:37:49,834 --> 01:37:52,417 I was daunted at the prospect of returning to Jordan. 1053 01:37:52,459 --> 01:37:56,876 Or course. Arab psychiatry… I shudder at the thought. A heavy-handed people at the best of times. 1054 01:37:56,959 --> 01:38:01,251 Look, we understood. Family problems. Our sympathy goes out… 1055 01:38:01,292 --> 01:38:03,917 But you are blocking his advance. 1056 01:38:04,084 --> 01:38:06,792 Mrs Brock. Believe me, I recognise your tone. 1057 01:38:07,667 --> 01:38:09,959 Women have come in here and used it before. 1058 01:38:10,001 --> 01:38:12,876 I am very keen he should not suffer on my account. 1059 01:38:12,917 --> 01:38:16,876 I also have read the stories in your file, so nothing in your manner is likely to amaze. 1060 01:38:17,417 --> 01:38:21,751 When you have chosen a particular course, when there is something that you very badly want… 1061 01:38:22,542 --> 01:38:27,292 but in this matter I must tell you, Mrs Brock, it is more than likely you have met your match. 1062 01:38:29,959 --> 01:38:32,667 We are speaking of achievement at the highest level. 1063 01:38:33,376 --> 01:38:36,084 No-one can be expect to be cosseted, through. 1064 01:38:36,417 --> 01:38:40,959 It's not enough to be… clever. Everyone here is clever; everyone is gifted… 1065 01:38:41,042 --> 01:38:47,667 … everyone is diligent. These are simply the minimum skills. Far more important… is an attitude of mind. 1066 01:38:51,251 --> 01:38:59,334 Along the corridor, I boast a colleague who in 1945 advised the Government not to accept the Volkswagen works as war reparation… 1067 01:39:00,126 --> 01:39:03,126 as the Volkswagen plainly had no commercial future. 1068 01:39:05,084 --> 01:39:09,834 I must tell you, unlikely as it may seem, that man has risen to the very, very top. 1069 01:39:11,834 --> 01:39:13,667 Perhaps you begin to understand. 1070 01:39:13,709 --> 01:39:14,709 You are saying… 1071 01:39:14,751 --> 01:39:19,001 I am saying that certain qualities are valued here above a simple gift for being right or wrong. 1072 01:39:20,751 --> 01:39:23,334 Qualities… that are sometimes hard to define. 1073 01:39:23,376 --> 01:39:27,834 What you are saying is that nobody may speak. Nobody may question. 1074 01:39:29,209 --> 01:39:32,042 Certainly tact is valued very high. 1075 01:39:33,042 --> 01:39:40,251 Sir Andrew. Do you never find it in yourself to despise a profession in which nobody may speak their mind? 1076 01:39:41,667 --> 01:39:44,376 But that is the nature of the service, Mrs Brock. 1077 01:39:45,001 --> 01:39:46,959 It is called "diplomacy". 1078 01:39:48,417 --> 01:39:51,667 And in its practice the English lead the world. 1079 01:39:55,751 --> 01:40:00,792 The irony is… when there was an Empire to administer there was six-hundred of us in this place. 1080 01:40:02,334 --> 01:40:05,001 Now it's to be dismantled, and there are six thousand. 1081 01:40:06,667 --> 01:40:12,917 As our power declines, the fight among us for access to that power becomes a little more urgent, a little more ugly, perhaps. 1082 01:40:14,209 --> 01:40:17,584 As our Empire collapses, there is little to believe in. 1083 01:40:18,584 --> 01:40:20,542 Behaviour… is all. 1084 01:40:23,334 --> 01:40:25,751 This is a lesson which you both must learn. 1085 01:40:25,792 --> 01:40:27,667 I must thank you for your frankness, Sir Andrew. 1086 01:40:27,709 --> 01:40:28,876 Not at all. 1087 01:40:29,084 --> 01:40:31,626 I must, however, warn you of my plan. 1088 01:40:33,209 --> 01:40:38,376 If Brock is not promoted within the next… six days… I am intending to shoot myself. 1089 01:40:39,126 --> 01:40:43,709 Now, thank you, and I shan't stay for the drink. I'm due for a reception for Australia Day. 1090 01:40:43,751 --> 01:40:44,834 Begley. 1091 01:40:44,876 --> 01:40:46,834 I always like to see just how rude I can be. 1092 01:40:46,959 --> 01:40:51,417 Not that the Australians ever notice, so it does become a sort of Zen sport… don't you think? 1093 01:40:51,751 --> 01:40:54,542 John, I wonder, could you give me a hand. If you could take Mrs Brock to the surgery. 1094 01:40:54,584 --> 01:40:58,459 Oh, no, people will be waiting for me at Australia House. I can't let them down. 1095 01:40:58,542 --> 01:41:01,751 It will be packed full of angry people, all searching for me, all saying… 1096 01:41:01,876 --> 01:41:06,292 "Where… where is she…? What a let down. I only came here to be insulted and now there's no chance…" 1097 01:41:06,334 --> 01:41:08,376 Leave me alone! 1098 01:41:10,584 --> 01:41:12,792 I think you have destroyed my husband… 1099 01:41:14,292 --> 01:41:15,709 you see? 1100 01:41:31,209 --> 01:41:33,209 Tea, I think, Miss Simpson. 1101 01:41:35,459 --> 01:41:37,792 Begley, will you get me Raymond Brock's file? 1102 01:41:37,959 --> 01:41:39,292 Yes, sir. 1103 01:41:54,959 --> 01:41:56,501 You all right, darling? 1104 01:41:56,542 --> 01:41:58,501 Yes, fine. 1105 01:41:59,042 --> 01:42:00,542 Been out? 1106 01:42:01,126 --> 01:42:02,501 To the pictures. 1107 01:42:04,376 --> 01:42:05,584 Goodnight. 1108 01:42:05,751 --> 01:42:06,792 Goodnight. 1109 01:42:11,042 --> 01:42:12,917 - Good morning, Margaret. - Good morning, Mr Brock 1110 01:42:22,459 --> 01:42:27,459 Now, I know we're all aching to get away for the weekend… but I'm afraid we're going to have to give this most of the day. 1111 01:42:28,084 --> 01:42:32,584 EEC fishing policy: theory and practice. All right? 1112 01:42:41,126 --> 01:42:43,542 So, if we look at page thirty of the briefing… 1113 01:42:46,626 --> 01:42:48,584 I beg your pardon, Raymond. 1114 01:43:12,667 --> 01:43:14,001 Brock, sir. 1115 01:43:14,542 --> 01:43:16,167 Ah, Brock. 1116 01:43:17,792 --> 01:43:20,334 I need to talk to you about the incident yesterday. 1117 01:43:20,542 --> 01:43:21,876 Incident? 1118 01:43:22,501 --> 01:43:24,709 These are the pension scheme details you asked for. 1119 01:43:25,001 --> 01:43:26,667 Do you want drinks sent in, sir? 1120 01:43:26,709 --> 01:43:28,084 What incident is this? 1121 01:43:28,126 --> 01:43:30,084 No, it's not going to take long. 1122 01:44:49,167 --> 01:44:52,166 I need to ask you to move out of here. 1123 01:44:52,167 --> 01:44:54,667 I'm in temporary need of this room. 1124 01:44:54,709 --> 01:44:56,375 You can go wherever you like. 1125 01:44:56,376 --> 01:44:58,584 And pretty soon also you're welcome to return. 1126 01:45:00,209 --> 01:45:02,334 You'd better tell me what you've done to your hand. 1127 01:45:02,376 --> 01:45:05,417 Well, oh… I've been taking some paper from the walls. 1128 01:45:07,709 --> 01:45:09,459 What have you actually done? 1129 01:45:10,376 --> 01:45:13,126 You're always telling me how bad money is for us… 1130 01:45:13,542 --> 01:45:17,376 you yourself say it… it's money that does it, it's money that rots. 1131 01:45:17,501 --> 01:45:21,459 Well, then, isn't this the moment for one small gesture? 1132 01:45:22,042 --> 01:45:25,876 Now… what's the best way to start stripping this room? 1133 01:45:26,834 --> 01:45:30,334 Susan. Please. There is some Nembutal in the desk. 1134 01:45:30,376 --> 01:45:33,084 The… lease on this house... what, six years, is it? 1135 01:45:33,126 --> 01:45:35,167 It's, it's perfect for Alice… 1136 01:45:36,084 --> 01:45:39,834 … suit her needs… all her homeless mothers. 1137 01:45:39,959 --> 01:45:42,334 This place would be just the thing. 1138 01:45:43,542 --> 01:45:49,334 If we laid out mattresses… mattresses on the floor… by our own hands… 1139 01:45:49,417 --> 01:45:51,501 of our own free will. 1140 01:45:53,126 --> 01:45:56,876 An Iranian vase. A small wooden Buddha. 1141 01:45:57,584 --> 01:46:01,376 Twelve marble birds, copied from an Ottoman king. 1142 01:46:02,001 --> 01:46:04,084 What possible use can they be to us? 1143 01:46:04,417 --> 01:46:07,292 Look. Look out the window! Throw them all away. 1144 01:46:08,292 --> 01:46:12,459 Cutlery, crockery, lampshades, books, books, books… 1145 01:46:13,917 --> 01:46:16,334 Encyclopaedias, clutter. Meaningless. 1146 01:46:22,084 --> 01:46:24,001 A universe of things. 1147 01:46:24,292 --> 01:46:31,376 Mosquito nets, golf clubs, china, marble, glass. Mementoes in stone… 1148 01:46:31,834 --> 01:46:34,126 What is this shit? 1149 01:46:34,417 --> 01:46:38,126 What are these godforsaken bloody awful things? 1150 01:46:39,459 --> 01:46:43,792 Your life is… selfish… self-interested gain. 1151 01:46:43,917 --> 01:46:46,667 That is the most charitable interpretation to hand. 1152 01:46:46,709 --> 01:46:50,126 You claim to be protecting some personal ideal… 1153 01:46:50,209 --> 01:46:54,334 always at a cost of almost infinite pain to everyone around you. 1154 01:46:54,792 --> 01:46:58,917 You are selfish… brutish… unkind. 1155 01:46:59,126 --> 01:47:04,417 Jealous of other people's happiness as well, determined to destroy other ways of happiness they find. 1156 01:47:05,292 --> 01:47:09,917 I've spent fifteen years of my life trying to help you… 1157 01:47:10,417 --> 01:47:12,584 just trying to be kind. 1158 01:47:12,876 --> 01:47:17,417 And my great comfort has been that I was waiting for some indication from you… 1159 01:47:17,542 --> 01:47:21,834 some sign, perhaps, that you valued this kindness of mine. 1160 01:47:22,917 --> 01:47:24,959 Some love... perhaps? 1161 01:47:31,667 --> 01:47:33,209 Insane. 1162 01:47:37,084 --> 01:47:39,584 And yet, I shan't really ever give up. 1163 01:47:40,209 --> 01:47:42,751 I won't surrender till you're well again. 1164 01:47:42,834 --> 01:47:48,876 And that, to me, would mean your admitting one thing: that in the life you have lived, you have utterly failed. 1165 01:47:49,251 --> 01:47:52,834 Failed in the very, very heart of your life. 1166 01:47:53,042 --> 01:47:56,542 Admit that, and then you might really move on. 1167 01:48:00,167 --> 01:48:04,834 Which is the braver, to live as I do… or never, ever to face life, like you? 1168 01:48:04,917 --> 01:48:09,417 This is the doctor's number, my dear. With my permission, he can put you inside. 1169 01:48:11,667 --> 01:48:14,959 I plan to play as dirtily and ruthlessly as you. 1170 01:48:15,334 --> 01:48:17,917 And this time I'm not giving in. 1171 01:48:38,417 --> 01:48:41,917 It's Easter weekend. The doctor's away. 1172 01:48:47,001 --> 01:48:49,292 Susan, please… 1173 01:48:51,751 --> 01:48:53,417 Susan! 1174 01:49:07,501 --> 01:49:09,084 Oh… 1175 01:49:11,001 --> 01:49:13,084 Raymond… 1176 01:49:14,084 --> 01:49:16,292 Raymond… look at me. 1177 01:52:06,209 --> 01:52:11,126 Don't... don't take your clothes off, whatever you do. 1178 01:52:12,292 --> 01:52:14,334 No. 'Course not. 1179 01:52:14,667 --> 01:52:16,667 That would spoil it hopelessly for me. 1180 01:52:16,709 --> 01:52:19,042 No, I'm just going to get my cigarettes. 1181 01:52:19,917 --> 01:52:21,459 I roll my own, you know. 1182 01:52:23,501 --> 01:52:24,917 Goodness me. 1183 01:52:24,959 --> 01:52:27,834 I tell you, there are no fucking flies on me. 1184 01:52:41,959 --> 01:52:43,876 Do you know how I found you? 1185 01:52:43,959 --> 01:52:45,251 Umm…? 1186 01:52:45,292 --> 01:52:47,209 Through the BBC. 1187 01:52:48,667 --> 01:52:51,167 I just happened to catch that programme, a few months ago. 1188 01:52:53,876 --> 01:52:56,251 They told me you were married and living in London now. 1189 01:52:57,209 --> 01:52:58,834 They gave me an address. 1190 01:52:58,959 --> 01:53:01,209 No, I left it weeks ago. 1191 01:53:02,584 --> 01:53:05,459 Yes, I know. I went round. 1192 01:53:08,459 --> 01:53:10,626 I went round and saw the man. 1193 01:53:13,709 --> 01:53:15,917 Was he angry? 1194 01:53:16,584 --> 01:53:19,751 Angry? No. He just seemed… 1195 01:53:19,959 --> 01:53:22,251 very sorry not to be with you. 1196 01:53:32,459 --> 01:53:34,876 Listen, I have to tell you… 1197 01:53:36,542 --> 01:53:38,542 I've not always been well. 1198 01:53:40,084 --> 01:53:44,251 I have a weakness. I like to lose control. 1199 01:53:46,042 --> 01:53:47,501 And… 1200 01:53:49,084 --> 01:53:51,167 and I've been letting it happen… 1201 01:53:52,792 --> 01:53:54,751 well, a number of times. 1202 01:53:56,292 --> 01:53:59,001 I did actually shoot someone about eight years ago. 1203 01:53:59,042 --> 01:54:00,876 Goodness me… 1204 01:54:00,959 --> 01:54:02,709 … did you hurt him? 1205 01:54:02,751 --> 01:54:04,959 Fortunately, no. 1206 01:54:05,459 --> 01:54:08,167 At least, that's what we kept telling him. 1207 01:54:10,042 --> 01:54:13,042 Raymond went round, gave him some money in notes. 1208 01:54:15,834 --> 01:54:19,209 It was after Raymond's kindness that I felt I had to get engaged. 1209 01:54:22,084 --> 01:54:23,167 Why do people... 1210 01:54:25,042 --> 01:54:26,417 What? 1211 01:54:27,626 --> 01:54:28,834 Marry? 1212 01:54:31,667 --> 01:54:33,667 I don't know. 1213 01:54:36,042 --> 01:54:37,709 Are you? 1214 01:54:37,751 --> 01:54:39,417 What? 1215 01:54:39,459 --> 01:54:40,959 No. It's… 1216 01:54:41,001 --> 01:54:43,751 - Go on, ask me anything at all. - … nothing. I don't want to know. 1217 01:54:48,084 --> 01:54:50,001 Do you still see him? 1218 01:54:51,459 --> 01:54:53,167 Gracious, no. 1219 01:54:54,459 --> 01:54:57,084 I've stripped away everything, everything I've known. 1220 01:54:59,959 --> 01:55:02,834 The only dignity is in living alone. 1221 01:55:04,667 --> 01:55:07,251 The clothes you stand in… 1222 01:55:07,376 --> 01:55:09,376 and the world you can see. 1223 01:55:10,667 --> 01:55:12,334 Oh, Susan… 1224 01:55:12,417 --> 01:55:14,251 Don't. Please, don't. 1225 01:55:16,376 --> 01:55:18,834 I want to believe in you. 1226 01:55:19,876 --> 01:55:21,626 So tell me nothing. 1227 01:55:23,334 --> 01:55:25,001 That's best. 1228 01:55:26,792 --> 01:55:29,626 Someone gave me this grass. D'you want some? 1229 01:55:30,334 --> 01:55:31,709 No. 1230 01:55:41,501 --> 01:55:43,917 I don't know what I'd expected… 1231 01:55:45,292 --> 01:55:47,792 what I'd… hoped for at the time I returned. 1232 01:55:50,251 --> 01:55:54,542 Some sort of… edge to the life that I lead. Some… 1233 01:55:55,001 --> 01:55:57,792 some sort of feeling that their death was worthwhile. 1234 01:56:08,251 --> 01:56:10,542 Someday I must tell you… 1235 01:56:11,042 --> 01:56:12,751 I haven't done well. 1236 01:56:14,542 --> 01:56:17,751 I gave in. Always. 1237 01:56:18,376 --> 01:56:20,834 All along the line. 1238 01:56:20,917 --> 01:56:22,584 Suburb. 1239 01:56:22,709 --> 01:56:24,209 Wife. 1240 01:56:34,667 --> 01:56:38,126 I work for a corporate bureaucracy as well. 1241 01:56:38,167 --> 01:56:40,709 Oh, Lazar, I'm sorry. 1242 01:56:41,209 --> 01:56:43,209 I'm just about to go. 1243 01:56:44,709 --> 01:56:47,626 I've eaten nothing so I just… 1244 01:56:47,834 --> 01:56:49,167 go. 1245 01:56:58,709 --> 01:57:00,709 I hate this life that we lead. 1246 01:57:00,792 --> 01:57:03,042 Oh, God… here I go. 1247 01:57:06,167 --> 01:57:07,542 Kiss me. 1248 01:59:22,251 --> 01:59:23,876 Bonjour, mademoiselle. 1249 01:59:24,042 --> 01:59:25,417 Bonjour! 1250 01:59:25,459 --> 01:59:27,126 You're looking at the village? 1251 01:59:27,167 --> 01:59:28,501 Yes 1252 01:59:28,667 --> 01:59:32,376 I've climbed the hill to have a better view. 1253 01:59:32,667 --> 01:59:35,042 I've climbed the hill to have a better view. 1254 01:59:37,167 --> 01:59:39,959 I've only spoken French for months on end. 1255 01:59:40,626 --> 01:59:43,417 You are English? So young! 1256 01:59:43,501 --> 01:59:44,751 Just so. 1257 01:59:44,834 --> 01:59:47,126 You are glad the war is over, eh? 1258 01:59:47,209 --> 01:59:49,334 You will soon be going home? 1259 01:59:49,417 --> 01:59:50,626 Yes. At last. 1260 01:59:50,667 --> 01:59:52,251 You go to the party for the victory? 1261 01:59:52,292 --> 01:59:55,167 Soon, yes, I'm hoping. I'm very keen to go. 1262 01:59:55,459 --> 01:59:57,542 Myself, I work. 1263 02:00:00,334 --> 02:00:02,292 The Frenchman works or starves. 1264 02:00:07,084 --> 02:00:10,084 Have you ever seen anything as beautiful as this? 1265 02:00:14,126 --> 02:00:17,001 The English… have no feeling... yes? 1266 02:00:17,459 --> 02:00:19,334 Are stiff… 1267 02:00:20,167 --> 02:00:24,417 They hide them. Hide them from the world. 1268 02:00:25,251 --> 02:00:27,292 Hah. It's stupid. 1269 02:00:28,042 --> 02:00:30,251 Stupid... yes, it may be… 1270 02:00:31,626 --> 02:00:33,959 but things will quickly change. 1271 02:00:34,751 --> 02:00:38,001 We have grown up. We will improve our world. 1272 02:00:39,292 --> 02:00:40,792 Eh, well… 1273 02:00:48,167 --> 02:00:49,959 Perhaps… 1274 02:00:51,959 --> 02:00:55,209 perhaps you like some soup with us. My wife. 1275 02:00:56,251 --> 02:00:57,626 All right. 1276 02:01:02,209 --> 02:01:04,667 The walk is down the hill. 1277 02:01:04,751 --> 02:01:06,292 My friend… 1278 02:01:08,667 --> 02:01:12,209 there will be days and days and days like this.