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Thank you.

Move. All right, then.

All right, come on, get moving. Okay, okay, take it easy.

Don't try to get a job on any other ship on this dock.

If I see you and that creep again within a block from here, I'll turn you in like

I should be doing now.

Now get moving.

What's the matter?

Oh, don't listen to him. Come on. Now, you heard what he said. Don't try and

get a job on these docks again.

Now, we'll never get home. I'll get you home.

No.

I nearly killed a guy. Come on. Come on.

What's happening to me?

Now, look, I know some digs around about here.

They'll be all right for a couple of nights. See? Now, I'm scared.

Look, son, look, you're all right. No more of that talk.

This is a big town, isn't it? There are 20 miles of docks here. I'll get you

home. I promise you. Let's see that old smile again. Come on.

Well, you stick to me. I'll be okay as long as you stick to me. Yeah, sure,

I'll stick to you.

Mitch, the Living Leaks, that's what they call me. Come.

Let the low lights be burning Send a gleam across the way

Some who died struggling seamen, you may rescue, you may serve.

Dark the night of sin has settled.

I want to hear that again.

Another floppy bit? An inexpensive girl you are.

Beer, Harry?

Beer for you, Lord.

Stop it.

I said stop it.

What's the matter with him?

He must be of his chum.

Good pay to trap.

What did you say?

You heard what I said. Take it easy.

Mitch, tell him to stop the music.

Smash your head.

Forget it. What do you mean, forget it?

That's what I say.

Forget it.

Finish your beer.

Mitch, you're not so at me, are you?

No. No, of course not.

I didn't mean to blow off like that. I never meant it. No, sure you didn't.

Look, I'll tell you what, Eddie.

You go on to the digs, and I'll see you later, eh?

Ant!

Spent about time, too. Me and Dad... Stop!

There's a man up the road.

He's dead.

It was a fight.

He tried to catch me.

Who?

The other one. The one who killed him.

I hid in the slipway.

They ran past. There were two of them. Two?

I only saw the one who did it.

He was a big man.

He was wearing a raincoat.

I'd know him anyway.

We've got to get help.

How?

I know.

The whistle.

The peace whistle. Of course.

They're about to see you.

Quick, get in the cabin.

Open up.

I've got a police whistle.

Go away or I'll blow it.

Don't move.

I'm not going to hurt you.

Open up.

That's all I'm asking.

Open up.

Anybody else at home? My brother.

He's gone for the police.

Left you alone?

Where is he?

He's away.

On business.

Until?

Until? Next week.

Your husband?

Not here.

Where is he?

Dead?

Well, if he wasn't what I bedded him, he will be by now.

I didn't want to bother you, ladies.

You happen to have two things that I need.

That motor crew's lying alongside.

Is she running?

No.

No petrol.

You got any coming?

Not until Monday. How much?

37 gallons.

The high water Monday, just after nine.

It'll be dark, too.

Can't stay here until Monday.

And now the other thing.

Belongs to me anyway.

My description.

You know, you shouldn't walk around here late at night.

You might see something that doesn't concern you.

Did you?

I saw murder.

That's your word for it, not mine. I'll stick to my word for it.

Well, we'll talk about it, shall we?

Himmich.

Come on down, it's okay.

Got a friend with me. I hope you don't mind.

This is Dinty Massouri.

Take a look around.

You got any charts?

No.

Is this your home?

Yes.

Move around?

Yes.

Cloud charts.

It's okay in the nose, sir.

In the nose.

Straighten out and fly right, bud.

What's your name?

Daphne Stirling.

Is she your sister?

Yes.

Mrs. Watchit to you. And no funny jokes about it either.

May we know yours?

It's Gillis.

He's Mitchell Gillis.

Is it okay in the tail?

Yeah, sure.

Yeah, this is not a bad little setup, huh?

Got a swell bathroom back there with real water and everything.

Yeah, it's all right in the tail.

How far do you think you'll get?

Where are we going, Denny?

Home.

Where's home?

Missouri, USA.

In a 30-foot river launch?

Her job is just to get us out from here.

He's a commander. He was in the American Navy.

Is that so very remarkable?

Yeah.

He's an Australian.

My son's just gone to Australia.

Yes, he's working on a farm there.

Indy's the farmer, eh? Yeah, that's right.

I'm the farmer.

30 foot, that's not a very big launch.

I can't swim.

You won't have to swim.

Why don't you stop that yelling?

That guy, Mitch. You shouldn't have done it. You shouldn't have done it, Mitch.

Look, I said I'd get you to Missouri, didn't I?

All right, I'll get you to Missouri.

Yeah. Yeah, sure.

I could use a wash, I know that.

Is it okay if I...

Sure. Go ahead.

And that's exactly what happened.

Well, I suppose if he drew his knife on you, there was no need to kill him.

Have you ever had to fight for your life?

Okay. Yeah.

I guess I'm hungry more than anything.

That police whistle, where is it?

We don't know.

If we did, we would have blown it.

Start looking, please.

Hey, you know Missouri?

I assure you, it's God's own state, Missouri.

Why, it has a population of over three million persons.

It covers an area of 69,420 square miles.

That's a lot of land.

Missouri's on the... It's on a river, and mostly we grow wheat, maize, and

mine coal and raise cattle.

You don't know any of that. You're making it up.

Sure I know. Here, it's written here.

Mitch wrote it. He got it in a book.

Is your name really Dinty Missouri?

I don't use my real name, no.

But I remember my farm.

Wheat I remember.

Walking through wheat.

Sliding it through my hands, hard and strong and smooth, like it was wearing

silk. Gold and silk as far as you can see.

Space.

Lots of space.

Mitch, you'll find it.

You mean you don't know where it is, except it's in Missouri?

Mitch will find it. He can do anything.

Have you lost your memory or something?

I'm not worried, because I'm going to get it back.

I'm going to have an operation as soon as I get home.

You can, you know.

It's something making like pressure, you see.

Whatever made you tired of a dump like this?

My brother's an engineer.

He's working on the new dock.

You do anything for a living?

Work at Lake Street.

A newspaper?

What do you write about?

Gossip.

You'll have something to gossip about now, won't you?

You want to know what I do?

I suppose you'd call me a salesman, really.

What do you sell?

Guns, mostly.

Suits you.

It's a living.

It's what I do best.

Is this your brother?

I'm afraid war wasn't what he did best.

No, sorry.

A good day.

There are less honorable.

But you may learn to your cost.

I was in a plane crash, see.

On a take-off.

And when I come to, I couldn't remember nothing.

I only know from what Mitch told me.

And then I started acting all crazy, and then we knew.

After that... Well, all I want is to get home.

Doesn't he know who you are?

No, we only just met before take-off. When all I said about myself was I was

from Missouri.

How about you're just going to be in trouble. That's good enough for him.

Well, then...

Why does he... Hey, what's the matter? You curious about him or something?

Thames are.

Always after him. Wanting him.

But, sister, you're wasting your time.

We're going to Missouri.

I want to go, Mitch.

I don't like it here.

No, it's okay.

We'll rest up here for a while.

All the cabins up here?

Yes.

The first one's empty. He could have that.

Thanks.

Okay, Diddy.

How about you?

I'm going to stay right here.

Watch over your wall.

All right, ladies.

You can go to bed now.

But leave your doors open.

Oh, so that's it, is it?

You'll be quite safe.

You'll be all right here, eh?

You won't get anywhere talking to her.

Dames, they've got tongues as long as your arm.

Italian nuts.

Ah, she doesn't worry me.

She could. I've seen you looking at her.

Go on. Turn in.

Good night.

I heard a dog howling, see? So I come out, and I found him.

I see him, isn't he?

Let's have a look at his book.

Yeah, Jim Field, that's him. He shipped dogs last night.

He's been in a fight, that's what. Every time he comes home, he gets into

trouble. Come in and smashed up my calf one time.

I got a little calf up the road there. If I'd have known it was his dog, I

wouldn't have... You know anyone who might have a grudge against him, apart

from yourself, that is?

Oh, blimey, he doesn't. He's usually around with a little chap, sir. Yeah,

that's right, that's right, Skinner.

Where can I find him? He lives on a boat here on the creek.

Better bring him in, officer.

Shafto, you wait for the ambulance.

Mitch! Mitch!

Mitch!

Yeah? What is it? Mitch, there was another guy with Field, wasn't there?

Oh. You don't have to worry about him. Yeah, but he might go to the cops. No,

not him. He's too deep in himself to go to any cops. Yeah, but he might do

something. No, he'll give us a wide berth. That's what he'll do.

Even if he knew where we were, which he doesn't.

Now look, you go back to sleep. Come on.

We've got a tough trip ahead and I want you good and rested.

Lie down.

Well, I guess you know what you're doing, Mitch.

You always do.

Yeah.

What are you doing here?

Mr. Gillis, I've been thinking. Well, was it really self-defense?

Why? Well, you can give yourselves up and get it all straightened out.

We have wonderful brain surgeons in London.

Now, look, Florence Nightingale.

It's the one thing in Dinty's life, this operation.

If he has to come out of it, cured or not cured, and find the cops at his

bedside, he wants them to have Missouri accents.

If he dies, he wants to be buried in Missouri.

He's ill.

He can't see it sensibly.

You could talk him round.

What's the M stand for?

Mary.

How old are you, Daphne Mary?

Seventeen.

Now listen to me.

This little dinty, who you want to nurse, he's a sweet guy, but he's very

sick.

He's not always responsible for what he does.

It's not his fault.

See?

He wouldn't hurt anyone.

Not if he's left alone.

He mustn't be worried.

So my advice to you, sweet little 17, is to stay out of things that you don't

understand. I understand more than you think.

I know if you kill a man, it's murder.

Of course it was murder.

If it wasn't, why won't you give yourselves up?

There's a warrant out for Dinty back in Sydney.

Guy kept picking on him. Ended in a fight and the man got hurt.

He can be extradited from here, not from the States.

Ahoy, Wolsey.

It's the police.

Hello, are you all right?

I'm sorry.

Go on.

Tell him it's okay.

Sorry calling you up, Miss Sterling. All right, check, seeing the light.

Yes. Yes, I'm all right, thank you.

Good night.

Good night.

Go to bed, Daphne, Mary.

I want to talk to your sister.

Well?

Are you prejudiced?

Or just plain stupid?

I didn't mean to kill Field.

It was an accident.

Why can't you believe that?

Tell me you're a writer.

You must know something about people.

I should be more ready to believe you if I thought you cared that he was dead.

I do care.

Of course I care.

But he isn't the first man that I've killed.

And he's the last one that I can cry over. Is that straight enough for you?

You say I ought to know something about people.

But you're just a little outside my experience.

Would you like an interview?

This is the first time I've met a gun runner.

Just how do you qualify for your kind of life?

Qualify?

You start by sharing sheep in Western Australia.

And afterwards, you buy and sell government surplus to try and get rich

quick.

And then get out. But you don't.

Are you going back to that life?

That depends on you.

Yes, it might.

You still don't believe me?

You break in here with a knife, you carry a gun, and you terrify three

women. Why should I believe you?

I wouldn't murder.

Well, I have nothing to be frightened of, have I?

I can leave this barge any time I want.

I'd play it safe if I were you.

Oh, I'm not particularly afraid to die.

Or at least I don't think so.

That's the river police Eddie

Okay

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I thought you weren't afraid to die.

They'll be back.

I want to get out of here.

There'll be more of them back. They'll be here.

Yeah, that's right.

Let's go. There's something about this place.

It smells of death.

Yes.

You used to see it on some men during the war and you always knew they

wouldn't come back.

What's she yammering about?

No one's going to die. We're going to Missouri.

Of course we are. It's going to be all right. She's only trying to rattle us.

I'll fix her. Dinty.

I'll fix her. Let me go. Sit down, Dinty. Sit down.

You're all right.

All right.

I'm sorry. I didn't mean it.

I don't want to hurt anybody. I just want to get home.

You'll get home.

I promise you.

Will he?

I'll leave him alone.

Don't try and get me through him. Don't shout at me.

I think you're afraid.

Afraid?

Cover her mouth!

Good night.

What are you sweating for?

Oh, quit worrying, will you?

I've never seen you sweat before.

Look, let me handle this.

Oh, be quiet, you two.

Now then, how's it all going to end, eh?

Now look, you want to help us, don't you? You haven't answered me. How's it

all going to end?

I want to take a look at that launch out there before it gets too light.

You got a torch?

What do you do about Sunday papers?

They're left at the wharf gates. Uh-huh.

Okay, thanks.

Now, look, Dandy.

Take care of these two for me, will you?

Yes, sure.

I won't be long.

You can see me through the portal.

I'm going out there. No, you stay here and have a rest.

He won't leave you.

You get off to bed now, eh, Dev?

Nobody's steady, dear, are you? Not for that.

No.

But we've been in some mighty rough places.

And we're going to be in a lot more.

Sometimes it helps to show a gun.

You don't understand.

I do.

As long as you only show it.

Yeah, sure, sure.

But I do.

I ain't loaded.

Mitch, he... Don't let me have shells.

Anyway, I couldn't hit the end of a barn, not the mess I'm in.

You know something?

If I can't get home...

I'm going to kill myself.

Oh, no, that's not the way to talk.

Well, what's the use?

Like this.

Fast as I try and build myself back into a man, I'm full of bits.

I get some thoughts and study them.

And then they're gone.

Like birds.

Nothing.

No dignity.

Like a little dog or something trailing around.

You know something?

I can't live like this.

I can't take no more.

Where is he?

He's gone to bed.

No, you leave him alone. He's had quite enough of you for now.

Yeah. You do your own shooting. Got that boy into quite enough trouble as it is.

It's all right. I know it's empty.

No, wait a minute.

I don't want to talk to you.

No life, sir.

We'll get the man before we get the knife.

You think he might still be in the area, sir?

Why, would you still be in the area?

No, sir.

Come on.

So they're in now, deep.

Uh-huh.

Where'd they sign on with you?

Algiers.

Gillis paid for the little guy, but not for him to work.

But to go as a passenger.

They were going all the way to the States.

What happened? Well, we were kidding the little guy about his being too delicate

to work his way across.

Boys were having a little fun, because the little guy didn't know how to take

it, see?

And then finally, one day at chow, the little guy picks up a knife from a table

and shouts, Leave me alone! Leave me alone!

Just like that.

Red, he's always a great one for laughs.

He made a sort of a wisecrack.

I don't remember what.

Then the little guy starts off for him with a knife.

Oh, we were all over him before he knew what had happened.

Of course, the guys, they wanted to teach the creep a little lesson.

And then Gillis came in, pulled us off the little guy.

Then his face went kind of funny.

He looked like he could have taken on the whole crew.

When we pulled in here, out.

I've had enough trouble on this ship.

Oh, what a hangover.

I must be getting old.

Can you give us a description of him?

Sure, I can give you a description.

You don't think I like a couple of creeps running around loose like that,

do you?

Know anything about that barge over there?

No, sir.

Well, get on to the tennis division at Blackwall and tell them to investigate.

Right, sir. You never know.

Yes?

I'd like to say something that I haven't said very often.

I'd like to say that I'm sorry.

Sorry that we've had to take over your barge like this and keep you trapped

here.

Now, that's what you wanted me to do, wasn't it?

Lose my temper. I don't care what you do, what you feel, or anything about

you. No, nor about anything else that's outside your little world.

Will you go now, please? You look at life from a safe harbour, don't you?

Roger Moffat predicts that a modified H look will be worn this season.

At the 30th birthday of the Horseshoe Club, Lady Mary Rennick enjoyed herself

popping the balloons with a cigarette.

That's your little world, isn't it? I don't want to discuss me.

What do you know about me?

You ever look closely at this dock?

But the sort of life that goes on round about here?

No. That wouldn't fit in a gossip column, would it?

Nor a boy like Dinty.

I don't want... You don't want to know and you don't want to hear.

During the war, Dinty was a hero.

Now he's what the Yanks call a bum, a creep. I don't want you to come in here

and I don't want to listen to you.

You want to be on a little perch high above the sawdust.

Well, you can't be.

None of us can.

It would do you good to be thrown off it.

Get out.

Have you got me, Skinner, yet? No, sir. I got a list of the ocean-darp crew from

Captain Vander Eyck. And he says the field tangled the two men who boarded

the ship at Algiers.

One of them with a head injury.

Well? Well, said rang a bell. There are two men wanted in Sydney for an offence

under the Fugitive Offenders Act.

Here's their file.

John Mitchell Gillis, an Australian, and Jeff Lloyd, an American from West

Plains, Missouri.

Now, Lloyd has a head injury, and Gillis is believed to be taking him home. Dung

runners? Yes.

The Australian police traced them back to Indochina.

What's more, they answer the description of these two men of Captain Vander

Eyck's. And look, sir, last heard of in Algiers.

Well, what are you hanging about for? Bring him in.

Yes, sir.

I suppose I ought to get a watch put on forts and airfields. Do, Mr Crawford.

There's a rumour going around I've got to congratulate you on suffering a sad

loss during the night.

That's right.

Very sad.

The cops paid your visit?

Not yet.

Been here?

They will be.

Of course, Ewan Field was here last night.

No doubt about that.

Oh, no doubt about that, Charlie.

But I didn't go down that road with him. Went straight off home. Don't fancy

being out late and so.

Now, you're nervous, aren't you?

Shocking.

Funny you should mention about going off home, because I saw you go.

You was the last to leave.

Yes, that's right, Charlie.

They sound happy enough. That's Miss Sterling, sir. Always at the piano.

She can play, too.

Better leave it to the Thames Division, I suppose.

Oh, put that away. We're not interested.

Don't go on, Dick. Get him down here.

Hello?

Oh,

it's you, Sergeant.

Can I come aboard, Mrs. Watchet?

Of course.

Yes. Come on down.

If they ask, Miss Stirling's gone ashore.

And play it straight.

what we've done now, eh? Ah, it's nothing to worry about, Mrs. Watchit.

Oh, good afternoon, Miss.

No, no, it's just that there was a wee bit of trouble up the road last night

and... Oh, yes.

Yes, we've seen it in the paper.

Mr. and Miss Sterling are sure, are they?

He's away and Miss Sterling's gone out to tea.

Well,

we just wondered if you'd heard anything last night, you know, voices or... No,

we heard nothing.

Won't you sit down?

Oh, thank you, Miss.

We got the description of two men.

Now, there's one... Ah, yes, height, six foot one or two inches, big build, brown

hair, blue eyes, wearing a belted raincoat, a dark shirt and grey

trousers.

Have you seen him anywhere?

Not to notice.

Oh, here's the other one.

Short, wiry chap, dark hair, hazel eyes,

wind-cheater jacket, light denim trousers and wearing a seaman's wool

cap.

You can't have that, because that's Mr.

Sterling's.

Oh, foiled again.

Yes.

Do you think they did it, these two?

Oh, I wouldn't exactly say that, miss.

You know, I've often wondered what sort of a place you had down here. It's

pretty nifty.

Oh, don't go in there. I haven't tied it up there today yet. It's Sunday.

Oh, the skeleton in your cupboard, eh?

Right, sir.

Well... If you should have anything to report, you will get in touch, won't

you? At Blackwall, you know, the pier.

I see that someone's made a hole in your skylight.

Oh, yes.

My big feet.

Well, we'll have to be a bit more careful.

You might get hurt.

Well, ta-ta.

Goodbye, Sergeant.

Did they hear anything last night, Rutherford?

No, sir.

Nothing to report.

I shouldn't laugh if I was you. He wasn't missing much.

That's right, Mitch.

They got our descriptions.

Yeah. But they haven't got us, have they? Miss Anne was out last night, too.

We'd only want someone to have seen her and start putting two and two together.

It's early days yet, you know.

Where do you think you're going?

I'm going to call them back.

Can't you learn nothing?

It isn't him I'm afraid of. It's this man.

And that's what he's banking on.

I'm going to take care of her.

Leave her, Dindy.

If she wants a showdown, she's going to have one.

No need to go out into the cold.

Here.

They won't have got so far, they won't hear that.

Go on.

Blow it.

But if you do...

Please, I... No, I can't.

Mitch, get on your feet.

Leave him alone, Dinty.

Get on your feet! Leave him alone.

I don't get it.

Come and help me make the tea.

I couldn't do it.

I... I couldn't do it.

You did kill that man, didn't you?

No, I didn't.

I got the knife away from him and then he must have fallen on it.

I couldn't help it. I swear I couldn't. It was an accident.

You must believe that.

Let me go.

You've got to help me.

Anne.

Now will you go, both of you?

We haven't a chance of getting out of the country.

Not without that launch.

You know that.

All right.

You can stay until it's dark.

I'll give you that much chance.

Would you like a drink?

Hello, dear.

Whiskey?

Pink gin.

Do you know these men?

Do you know these men? Answer me.

Are they in trouble?

What time did you come in here last night?

I haven't got the foggiest.

You were in here about ten. You had a drink with a man named Field.

Now, what happened after these two fellas came in? What happened? Nothing

happened.

Was there a fight?

Fight? No.

I think you'd better be helpful.

Now, look here.

I'm just a girl coming to a pub and having a drink. I haven't done anything,

so why pick on me? I think you'd better be helpful.

I don't want to be helpful that way.

We've seen you down at the station before, haven't we?

You don't want to come down to me again, do you?

What do you want to know?

Come in.

Miss Sterling, Dinty's all in. I can't drag him off through the streets

tonight. We'd never make it.

I've got to have that launch.

Perhaps there's some petrol on the wharf. No, there isn't any there.

I can look somewhere else, if you'll only give me time. You're not getting

that boat.

I'm not asking for myself.

Look, I'm not so inhuman as you think I am. All I'm trying to do is to force you

to give yourself up.

There's no need to worry about Dinty. No need?

No one who's heard his story is going to allow him to be sent back to Australia.

He'll be considered unfit for trial and flown home far sooner than you'll get

him there.

That's not certain.

And if it isn't, he won't listen to it. Then you must make him listen.

Oh, I can't.

There'd be delays.

My trial for one.

He'd be a witness.

We'd be separated.

I'm the only security that he has in the world.

If I left him, he'd go nuts. Well, he's not the only one to be considered.

There's you.

It doesn't matter about me.

But it does matter to... It does?

Why did you... What's that?

Hey, boy. Hey.

Hey. Come here. Hey, boy. Here.

That's Field's dog.

I know.

I don't think he's alone.

Did you see someone with Field?

No, I didn't. He's there, all right.

Here. Here.

Don't go.

Hold it!

Just what are you up to?

Just offering me services, Captain.

What services?

Well, it's like this, see?

I've been working for you.

Scouting.

So I could give you a warning, see if the cops was getting close.

That's why I come now.

They know who you are. Got you from Australia.

You want to get out of here, Captain?

What's that to you?

Here. I'll show you something.

See him? That's the battling butcher.

Used to fight at the old ring, Blackfriars.

Signed, see?

To Archie Skinner, best wishes.

And him here is a wrestler.

Fellow from Bethnal Green, Jimmy Duggan.

And this one here is the Stepney kid.

Signed again, see?

To Archie Skinner, best wishes from the kid.

Here.

There's a lace of his glove.

And this button.

That's off Sid Sharp, a bowfeller, weightlifter.

And this one here is off of Jim Field.

I got a whole box full of them.

Photos, souvenirs.

And you done, Jim, didn't you?

Can you get me some gas?

Petrol.

Tonight? Right now.

Enough to take me downriver.

Easy. Well, don't bring it down this way. It's too risky.

Take it to your boat and I'll fetch it in the dinghy.

Give me a signal.

Show a light.

I'll come over.

I'm your man, Cap. Just one thing.

Cash on delivery.

We've seen you, Cap.

I don't trust him.

I do.

I met his sort before.

Little pilot fish.

No, he'll take your money and go straight to the police.

He wouldn't dare.

Not with you around.

Oh, give yourself up, please.

I can't.

I shouldn't have mixed you up in all this.

Better get back, come on.

There it is. Don't go.

It's a trap. I'm sure it is.

I won't be long.

There's a copper up there.

I got your gas.

You're quite a guy.

How much?

Only what you can spare, Cap.

Scuttle that bunny hut of yours and buy yourself the Queen Mary.

But don't double-cross me or anybody else aboard that barge or I'll...

You better get off.

Who's that?

That deuce Gannett?

I'll hit them off.

They've got nothing on me.

What's going on here? Oh, just a little mishap.

Let's have a look. Wait a minute. What are you doing trespassing on my estate?

You all wandered up at Arbor Square, but I want to know what's going on down

there.

What's this here?

It's me pram.

What are you doing with it at this time of night?

I'm taking it for a walk.

Taking who?

My little mishap.

None of your lip.

Hmm, I see.

Hope you're satisfied.

No, I'm not. I think you'd better come along with me. The inspector wants to

see you.

Come on.

Okay. Do they fit?

Yes, sure, fine.

I'll dry these for you.

Now, you'll have to stay until the petrol comes tomorrow.

By then, they're sure to have found you.

Yeah.

I think I've known all along that we wouldn't be able to pull it off.

Why do you look after Dinty? Why do you do so much for him?

Doing something for Dinty was doing something for myself.

Nobody does anything for any other reason.

When I was 25...

I was in charge of 30 men on a ship.

There were problems, but they were tangible problems.

When I came out, I found there was another war on.

The war of survival.

And that was one that I couldn't cope with.

So I settled for the satisfaction you get from knowing that you can't sink any

lower.

Meeting Dinty was like finding myself.

Because he believed in me.

He... he had faith in me.

Oh, well, he'll be rid of us soon now, anyway.

I was in love once, but I was hurt. I was hurt so badly that I didn't want to

feel again to let myself be vulnerable.

But now I do.

I want to understand.

I want to give.

Anybody about you? No, it's too early. But I'm frightened what's going to

happen today.

Talk to Dinty and try and persuade him.

No.

It's no use.

But don't I come into this now?

No.

We can't love each other, Anne.

Anne, like me, I'm on the run.

But you needn't be.

I'll make you an early cuppa, Miss Anne.

You wouldn't be happy with him, dear.

He's no use to a woman, a man like that. Yes, he is, Rosalie. He could be.

Oh,

hello, Daph. Good morning, darling.

Well, I think I'll just go and see if Dinty would like a cuppa.

You forgot something last night.

There's no such thing as privacy in this boat.

Oh, Daphne.

You didn't have to have him in your cabin to let him kiss you.

Darling, don't, don't touch me.

You're wrong. You'll talk. I don't know nothing, I tell you.

Keeping me hanging about here all night.

I'm a businessman.

I got my... All right, all right. You can go.

Come in.

The notices have arrived, sir.

Okay. Get them up.

Well, going away for a wrist cure now, are you?

I traced their lodging, sir. The landlady says they went out Saturday

evening. Haven't been back since.

Here's their kit.

Nothing much in this one. A shaving tackle, change of clothing.

And this paper with Missouri written all over it.

This one belongs to Gillis, no doubt about that.

J.M. Gillis.

And look, sir.

That's him, all right.

Good-looking devil, isn't he?

Tough luck, in a way.

Win or lose, he won't get Lloyd home now. If we don't charge him, the

Australian police will.

They've dropped the charge.

It was only Lloyd they wanted anyway.

Dropped the charge? Sir, but he's dangerous.

On condition that the Yanks took him in hand, which they agreed to do, so... But

he's got to get clear with us first.

Mr. Skinner, I thought I told you to go.

All right, all right, I'm going.

Tailing Crawford.

Right, sir.

Do you think he knows something, sir?

What do you think would induce a man to hold his tongue?

Money. Yes.

And he's carrying plenty of it.

And now Mr. Skinner has got some information that Giddes might pay a lot

more to know.

Dinty?

Dinty, can I come in?

Yeah, you can come in.

Didn't he?

Mitchell's in love with Anne.

Are you crazy?

She is. I heard them talking.

I knew. I knew she was after him.

Listen, I heard her say if you went to the police, you'd be sent home to

Missouri by plane.

You'd like that. You'd like to fly.

Sure, I'd like to fly.

Well, shall we go then?

There's no one in the saloon. We can get away and... Hey, why didn't Mitch tell

me we were going home by plane?

Mitchell's not coming.

I'm going to take you.

You come with me. You know me.

No, thanks very much, Stephanie, but I... I'd rather go with Mitch.

He doesn't want to go to Missouri now.

He wants to stay with Anne.

But we don't care. We are going to the plane.

Then I'm going to tell the police about him. Mitch wouldn't leave me.

Don't get so excited.

It's a trick. Mitch wouldn't leave me. He's gone with Anne.

He has left you.

Mitch!

Mitch! Mitch!

Yes?

What's the matter?

Daphne. She said you'd gone.

With her.

She wanted me to go on the plane.

Is it true, Mitch, I'm going home?

Yes, if you give yourself up. Then Mitchell can do the same. He'll be free,

safe. You want him to be safe, don't you, Dinty?

Yeah, sure, sure, sure I want him safe.

But, Mitch, is it a fact I'm going home?

No.

No, it isn't a fact.

Perhaps, yes, but... Hey, perhaps that ain't good enough.

No, I never said it was.

Now, look, Dinty, don't listen to what they say.

You listen to what I tell you, don't you?

It's for your own good, Dinty.

Mitch, you're going to give yourself up.

I'll get you home first.

There's no hurry.

Yeah, sure.

Sure, there's no hurry.

Look, I'll tell you.

After I'm cured, we'll come back.

I'll get you off.

I saw it. I was there.

I'll get you back to Missouri, Mitch. I'll get you back.

Oh, yeah.

There was something else.

You ain't in love with her, are you?

No.

Somebody's been fooling me.

Somebody has.

I wouldn't lie to you, would I?

No, you wouldn't lie.

But we've got to watch her.

She's trying to break us up. So from now on, you don't talk to her, huh?

Left the tap on in the bathroom.

Stand off for me, will you?

Sure.

I had to say that.

I know.

Why do you look after Binti? Why do you do so much for him?

Right, sir. Here, wait a minute.

Look, if you were an expert on small craft, how would you get out of the

country? Well, I'd get down to the coast and steal a boat.

Or pick up one here, on the river.

Miss Stirling has a launch.

If he was on the wharf on Saturday night, he could have spotted that, then

he could have come back and picked it up any night and dropped out on an ebb tide

into the river and no one the wiser.

Tell Rutherford, whilst he's seeing Miss Stirling, to pick up her boat.

Right, sir.

I'll be at the station if you want me.

Do get off, Mitchell, for heaven's sake.

I've told you.

We can't go until that collier pulls out.

Yeah, that's right.

We want to sneak down under the stern. Is it unusual for that launch of yours

to be seen downriver?

No, I often go down.

They wouldn't think anything of it.

Let me know where you're going.

As soon as I can, I'll make for Mexico.

You'll be safe there.

I'll come to you.

Ready, my son?

Got our map?

Yeah, Mitch.

I got it.

I couldn't get here before. The police had a tail on me.

He fell in a pothole. Cool language.

You could hear it through the mud.

I got news for you, Cap. How about Lloyd?

Who? Lloyd!

Jeff Floyd, West Plains, Missouri.

Well, Mr. Levin said something about the Australian police had dropped a charge

on condition the Yanks took him over.

Then you needn't go.

That's only what he says.

I wouldn't lie to you, mate.

Now look, Mitch, I'm scared.

They'll try and separate us.

You'll get me home. You can do anything.

We've got my hometown now and my name.

She only wants to break us up. For goodness sake, Dinty, think of Mitch.

Will you stop arguing?

Rosalie, take a look on deck, will you? See if it's all clear.

But you don't. Please.

Oh, no cap, no charge. I've got enough.

I'm going to the fight game.

Promote in.

Yes, okay.

Oh, wait a minute.

Cops! You don't let me come behind you. I'm nothing.

And try and keep Monday, will you?

I'm sorry to trouble you again, Miss Sterling, but we've got reason to

believe that those two fellas we're looking for may try to get away by the

river. Now, what about your launch?

Don't you think I'd better take her up to the pier for the night? There's no

point in you taking any risk, is there?

No.

The only thing is that I'm going to fetch my brother in her at galleon's

reach. I was just going when you... Well, can't you phone him and tell him

to come back by land?

But there isn't a telephone there.

I'll tell you what I suggest.

When you come back, don't tie up here, but go straight up to Black Wall.

Would that not be better?

Yes. Yes, I'll do that.

All right, well, good night, then. Good night, and thank you.

By the way, did you go ashore at all on Saturday night?

Saturday?

Yes, as a matter of fact, I did.

Funny you didn't think to mention it.

There wasn't any point.

If I'd seen anyone or heard anything, naturally, but there wasn't a soul.

What time did you get back here?

I don't really know.

I didn't notice. I had no reason to.

I see.

Well, I'm afraid I'll have to report it, but I expect it'll be all right.

Well, good night, then.

Good night.

Oh, that was narrow.

You're crazy to go down, Mitchell.

I only kept the boat in case, but now... You keep out of this!

Didn't he?

Get in the boat now.

But watch your step.

You didn't attempt to explain to him, to reassure him.

No.

I might have done, if they didn't have this.

But what's that got to do with it? Because they'll tell him all about

himself. And I don't want him to know.

Not until he's home, until he's cured.

And I'm right there with him. But why?

Because I don't believe he has a farm.

It's what he wants, not what he's got.

Do you know what's ingrained in his skin?

Coal dust.

He's a miner.

He'll have a farm, all right.

I'll see to that. I've got the dough. But I've got to stick by him. You

understand that, don't you?

Oh, Rutherford.

Did you get the boat?

Well, that seems reasonable enough if she wants it.

Did you find out if it was her on the last bus?

It was, mm-hmm.

No, well, leave it for now.

Fine, thanks. Goodbye.

A young woman misses a killing by that much.

Yet she doesn't find it worth talking about.

Neither does her sister, nor her maid.

Knowing the female sex, that strikes me as very odd.

I've been thinking, sir.

Rutherford said she was out to tea yesterday afternoon.

Well? When we were down by her barge, do you remember there was someone playing

the piano?

That PLA chap said it was her, but if she was out to tea... That's it. So if

she wasn't playing, who was?

That's what I mean, sir.

Aye, George.

If you're right, Shafto, we've got them.

Mitch, let's go.

I'll come with you. I'll take the wheel and you can hide. You can't do that. Our

first stop's Portugal.

Well, I'll get back somehow.

She ain't coming.

Let her go, didn't he?

No, no.

First to Casablanca, then Rio, then Missouri.

No, I promise. No, you ain't going nowhere.

You're staying right here.

No, no, it's loaded.

Give it to me, Missouri.

Tie her up, Mitch.

Do as I say. I mean it. I mean it, too.

Give it to me.

Get it, Mitchell. He won't shoot you.

Stand still everybody and go to your cabin.

It's all right. She's not coming

Where

you

going I'm going home

Hey,

just a minute. I'll do him, Tompkins.

Come on, driver.

He's in there, sir. Night watcher's been shot.

Get him out.

ABGY5, PB3, Levins.

I'm at Dock Street.

Send an ambulance at once.

Where is he?

Where is he? Is this Gillis? Where is he?

He's in there.

I've got to go to him. Sorry, Gillis. All right, men, get in our van. No,

wait, you don't understand.

He's ill. He doesn't know what he's doing.

Listen, Gillis, as far as I'm concerned, there's a man in there with a loaded

revolver. He's already shot and wounded one innocent man.

What do you want me to do? Wait till he shoots another?

Let me speak to him.

All right.

Thank you.

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