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Trial and error

Subtitles by Seglora

He handed me a box of chocolates

Is that professional for a judge to send chocolates?

I never get chocolates

Interesting,do you ever get chocolates? Chocolates? Good Heavens,no

All the same,I love the case

-You can come anytime -When in doubt,that's great

Probation officer,any time, day and night,cheek really

Yeah

I said Constable Anderson, he said "Who is Constable Anderson"

I said just the most beautiful constable in police force

-Who said that? -Yes I did,Constable Anderson

I did say that

Let's stop it now

Or I give it to a policeman

He is a good boy,he is a really good boy, he would do nothing like that

Always been a good boy to me

He ain't got on my property, will you press on it,His Worship

I don't know who brought in there

Mr Morgenhall to see Mr Fowle,Order

Fowle

He is my

Thank you

Ah,Mr Fowle

Not trying to escape,I pray

Epping Forest

What was that you said?

I think I can see Epping Forest

I've no doubt that you can,my dear fellow,

Why should you want to

See Epping Forest

It is the home stretch

Is it?

I thought I could got a glimpse of the green between the chimneys and that shed

Look,get down,get down, it is not wise to be up here

Forever trying to look out, come along

The mean sweeping wind around quite treacherous

Treacherous?

Yes,you never know what a nasty sweeping wind can do

I do not want anything of that sort to catch you before..

Before what?

You just sit there

Quietly,relaxed in the warm and I shall introduce myself

I am Morgenhall

Morgenhall?

Yes,Morgenhall Barrister

I'm sorry

Why?

Barrister,that's very bad

I question you,why is that so bad?

If your stamp goes wrong it's a long fall

Why do you say that?

Different for an individual like me, I only kept a small seed shop

Yes,yes I see

Mr Fowle,we are going to remain very calm

we are going to remain very lucid and we are going to arrive at..

Bird's birdseed of course

I'm sorry,what was that you said?

Bird seed

Individuals down our way kept birds mostly,budgies and canaries

The budgies talked

Lot of

Lonely people down our way

They kept them for the talk

Mr Fowle

I am a barrister

Tragic

I'm here to help you

We'll help each other

Dear Fowle

I can see,Fowle, I can quite see how you become bewildered

You think that I am in trouble as well

There has some very good news to you,I am free

I can leave here whenever I like

Can you?

Of course I can,yes,whenever I like, the police,the police are my friends

Family all well?

I never married

Well paid up?

A bit weak on earnings perhaps,can be allowed in the business,nothing at all

This case will soon put an end to all that

Which case?

Your case

-My? -Case

Your case,Mr Fowle

Oh,that is not important

-What? I beg you pardon -Flavours gone out of it

But we are just in the beginning

I can't believe it's get me concerned

Mr Fowle

Mr Fowle

It is your concern

Never ever let yourself forget that

You see that is why you are in here

I just can't seem to bother with it

You seem,if I may say so Mr Fowle,to have adopted an unpleasantly selfish attitude

Selfish?

Dog in mendra

Dog in mendra?

Yes I mean,unenthusiastic

What do you mean unenthusiastic?

Fowle the light-head

I am sorry Fowle

I didn't mean that,I'm sorry

But it is so much about nowadays, so much of this ready made entertainment

All these free billions, National health, Television

Not the spirit of fraud as it used to be

Did you feel that?

Fowle,whatever I've done,I've always been master keen on my work

I never lost the vision power in all my disappointments

I've never ever lost the love of the job

The position in life to which you've obtained to

Precisely

Years of study I had to take

Years of study

Nothing suddenly drop into my lap

No,no I've never studied

Years of study

Years of study

Lean years

Yes

I fed mainly on herring and strong tea

Want to hear some Latin?

Only if it is not too much trouble

Not in the least,listen

Understand it?

No good I am low scholar

He had to be,I mean I had to be

Of course we all had to be in my day

Then we'd sit for the examinations

Long dreaded finals

We were a tense ego crowd,Mr Fowle

Ruggerblues famed illness, rowing men fainted

those who survived tackled the questions

Very year,very searching,search you,search you questions

Define wreck,describe murder, give your views on adultery

half a page please on indecent assault

write on one side of the paper only, never answer two questions at once,no

-They stamped you ideas, -No cheating,Fowle

No trying to get a glimpse of the other fellow's celluloid cuff

Or creeping out for a look at a book in the student's loo

But when it was over,went on vacation, it was a beautiful long summer

Pleasant for you and desperate round of tennis parties

We all tried to snatch at pleasure that summer,if I remember rightly

But we were anxiously waiting

At last the results,the results of the examinations

What did it say?

I passed

-Well done -Third class

Obviously you scraped home

That's what I thought

That was I thought,Mr Fowle when they painted my name up on London chambers

It was my own room,soon it would be filled with clients

Criminals,financiers,mysterious ladies in distress

So I wrote to the only woman in my life

To tell her,perhaps in five years time

when I've built up my practice, I might make a certain proposal

Meanwhile I could afford to kill a little time with the crossword

Doing some pretty big cases now?

Dance of large fruit,two words,3 and 5

You're not still at it?

I'm still waiting for a brief

But you must be better at crossword now

Not very much as the years passed

there come to the close you can no longer understand

-So all that training? -Wasted,the talents rust

And the lady?

Went down with her ship

Tragic

Yes,it was

Tragic that my wife was never called up

Fowle you mustn't talk like that of your poor lady wife

Don't need to carry on about me

We must carry on about you

That's what I'm here for

You are here to..

I'm here to defend you

Can't be done

Why ever not?

I know who killed her

Who?

Me

Really,Mr Fowle

I have all the respect in the world for your opinions

But we must face this

-You are a man with very little education -That's true

In any one of your of yards of you to see that

you are a person of,well, very limited intelligence

Agreed,agreed quite frankly

You think you killed your wife

Seems so to me

Mr Fowle look at yourself objectively

On questions on bird seed,that I have no doubt at all that you maybe incredible

But on a vital point like this might you not be mistaken?

Don't answer that

Before you drop the bomb of a reply

Consider who will be wounded

Are the innocents to suffer?

I only want to be honest

But you appear honest,Mr Fowle

You've broken through the narrow fabric of honesty

You are free to be kind, to be human and to do good

Yes,but what I did to her was..

Mr Fowle,she is passed out of your life

You've set up new relationships

You've picked out me

-Picked out? -Yes,selected

I didn't know

You,of course not,that's the whole beauty of the thing,you didn't know me

You came to me under a system of chance

invented like a foot ball pools,to even out the harsh inequalities of the world

You see,you,dear Fowle, are my first dock brief

-Your dock.. -Dock brief

-Yes -Could you perhaps brief

Explain the dock brief? Yes of course I can,yes

Now then

Criminals who have no money, no friends,luckily you are one of them

Are entitled to chose any barrister sitting in the courts to defend them

Barrister gets the brief and is remunerated on a modest scale

Busy lawyers,wealthy lawyers,lawyers with nice well paid cases coming on

Leave the court at the dabble when the dock brief is about to begin in the wing

We are regulars who are not processed on

I've been a regular for years

We sit and we hope

We hope one day to be chosen

It's not etiquette,you see, however badly you want to work

to wave at the prisoner or whistle

or try to catch his eye by hoisting some sort of little flavours

-I didn't know -Yes,yes

But what you can do is chose the most advantageous seat

The seat any criminal would naturally point at

It's the seat under the window

and for ten years my old friend Tuppy Morgan bagged it each day at ten

Almost once a year a criminal pointed him out

Mr Fowle,Tuppy would have limped on that seat for what he is

But this morning,possibly a cold, perhaps death kept him indoors

So I had his place and you spotted me no doubt

My glasses polished,my profile drawn and learned in front of the great window

I never noticed

I never noticed

But when they asked you to chose a lawyer

Lawyer? I just shut my eyes and pointed

So even you,Mr Fowle,didn't chose me

Not all together

Law is a haphazard business isn't it?

Yes,it's a

It does seem a bit chancy

Of course,Mr Fowle,you are very fortunate

Oh,yes,yes

I must confess you hurt me temporarily

Mind you've kind of kept me in ignorance

Anyway what is doe is done

Fowle

Yes,Sir

Try to remember that you are dealing with a fellow man

And all the hopes that I've pinned on you

Yes,I will,of course I will

Better.Good.Now come along. Let's get down to business.

-Get our minds in order -Yes

Sort things out

Ah there,with this..

This wife of yours

-Doris? -Doris

A bitter,unsympathetic woman?

No,no,no,she was always cheerful

She loved to joke

If I were you I should be very careful about that,Fowle

But I will,but if you known Doris, she laughed all day

And all night

All night

In what sort of,what sort of jokes, did this start as a peck

All sorts

Pictures in the paper

Jokes on the wireless,laughs in crackers

She kept them from Christmas to Christmas

And tossed them out in August

Yes

Radio jokes

If we'd have had the telly

Dear old me

Yes,no telly

No

You couldn't share them,Fowle?

Not to the

Not to the same extent

I

I did not always see the funny points

No point

And then of course you would quarrel violently?

Oh no,no

Don't look so miserably, partner,what happened?

She said that every night when I came home

If you could take out that miserable face

Yes,yes I can see that there are certain Sunday evening appearance to you

Cat got your tongue!

Where is tune of that old fiddle played

Where's the fuse box

" I say you've got no nose"

"How does he smell?"

"Disgusting"

"Can you tell me what it got 22 legs, 2 wings and yellow all over?"

"I don't know"

"A Chinese football team"

You see I couldn't always laugh

She'd be doubled up across the table

Gasping as her lungs was full of water

"From the Sunday papers"

"Dig this,and you greet them with wild oats"

Laugh at it,won't you be spinning like a roll

Then she go under bubbling like a drowning woman

Made meals difficult?

Indigestible

I would have laughed

The jokes never tickled me

Tickled her,didn't they?

Anything did,anything a little comic

Her names was misfortune

-Names? -Yes,she remarked on that

On our wedding day

Over,over here please, would you,thank you very much

Round here,round by the tree, thank you that's much better

There,you over there,Sir

Group yourselves around the happy couple,yes

You stay on the edge,Sir,very nice

You stay with the young people behind,yes

And the children in front,yes,come along children,hurry up,thank you very much

That's fine

Madame,please

Mother

Madame there is the reception later

would you come along and have your photograph next please,thank you very much

Put yourselves next to your husband there on the end,thank you that's lovely

Everybody smile

All right,Mrs Fowle

Now we are cock and hen,aren't we old bird

Cock and hen!

She laughed so hard,we couldn't get straight nap for the photograph

Fond of puns,I gather you're trying to say

Any sort of joke

I had a little

Aviary out there back

She got funnier

I spent more time with my birds

Budgies are little

Like little parrots

They have

Circle around their eyes

Gives them a sort of

Sad tired look

I found them very

Restful and sympathetic

Until one of them spoke out at me

What did it say?

Don't look so miserable, it might never happen

She taught it during the day, while I was out at work

It didn't mean to irritate

It was wrong of her,Fowle, to lead on your birds like that

-Yes -Yes

It wasn't him that brought me to it,it was

Bateson,the lodger

Another man?

At long last

-Good Evening -Good Evening

This is the Fowle house?

It is Mrs Fowle?

Yes,it's right,come in

Fowle

Let me introduce myself,I'm Frank Bateson

I need a room,it just so happens I saw the ad Mr Fowle put up down the seed shop

You know,you must try the budgie I require

You said that?

That appeals to me,becuase I like a joke

You do?

I am ex police,and if I say some of myself, they call me the scream of the station

And if you could make a copper laugh

Wasn't that a risk?

Slight perhaps but he went all right but look what happened

They were always laughing together

Share madness

Yes,he knew more jokes than she did

Trying to steal her away before your eyes

That's what I thought

Yes,yes I could see it all now

A crime of passion

Unfaithful wife,crime passionel, in flagranti

Of course you wouldn't know what that means

Anyway,don't worry,I should have it reduced to manslaughter in a jiffy

Wronged husband,and it is never a dry eye in the jury about

Continue

He is ever so sweet

He gives everything to his birds

Galling for you,of course

Terribly galling

I thought always well,they were getting so friendly

Yes,I thought I would have longer to wait

Go,go,go with Sid Wagner and the Ringers

I spent more and more time with my birds

I'd used to come home late and

Always be careful to scrounge the gravel at the front door

So they could

I went to bed early

Left them with a light program

On Sunday mornings I suggested she took him breakfast in bed

You trusted them and they deceived you

They deceived me,all right

Have you conclusive evidence?

They deceived me and I trusted them to do the right thing

This basically after I'd seen, what I've seen in there

-In the bedroom -Fowle

-Must we,I mean -The evidence

Yes I know but

I suppose we must,we must,yes

Two nice kidneys

Lovely,it is

Look at that!

Lovely pair of eyes

You are dreadful

Got more scathing there

Come on make yourself comfortable dear

When were you born anyway

September the first of..

Don't tell us you are a virgin

Come on what does it say?

Laughter leads to love

The weekend offers much scope to your cheerful disposition

A touch of romances in store on Sunday mornings

Seeing them like that

You'd think he'll do the right thing,wouldn't you?

But he didn't

Mr Fowle

I'm not sure that I'm getting the drift of your evidence

We he first put his knee under her, I'd thought she'd do the decent thing

I thought that

I'd have peace in my little home at last

While I said would be dead silent

The end of that happy laughter

No sound but the twitter of the budgies

And the squeak of my own shoes

From within only

Mr Fowle

You wanted them to?

You must admit

My hopes were raised pretty high then

One evening I came home

Hello

Bateson

Bateson

I say,where is Bateson?

Gone,I turned him out

Why?

Because he was getting too familiar I couldn't have that

May like my laugh,thank god, I'm still respectable

No, hate you

The safety in marriage

I realize I did wrong

You could have left?

Who would have fed the birds?

I'd thought was upper most

That's not a crime of passion

No,if you put it like that no

Fowle

I've worked and I've waited for you

Now you're the only case I've got

And the most difficult

I'm sorry

I mean a man could crack his head up against a case like you

and still be far from a solution

Can't you see how twelve honest hearts will snap like steel

when they learned that you ended up your wife because she wouldn't leave you

But if she'd left there wouldn't have been the need

There is no doubt about it, no doubt about it

As I look at you now

I can see that you are an unsympathetic figure

Yes,but there it is

Yes,yes

I should need a brilliant straight to save you

Brilliant stroke,unexpected move

Something pulled out of a hat

Fowle

Fowle

I have it,quite brilliant

The surprise witness

Which is?

Yes,the surprise witness

Picture the scene

The court room is silent

The jury about to seek the accused prosecution flushed with victory

But wait,now it's my turn

Look at me,Fowle

My Lord

If your Lordship pleases

What do you want?

For heaven's sake,Fowle

You expect to do this

entirely out off the cuff without some form of rehearsal?

-No -Come along

Like that,just

Put this all over your head to simulate the Whig

Already you appear anonymous

And vaguely alarming

Now,Fowle,Fowle

I want you to forget your own personality

You are the judge

You are Sir Tommy Banter

A small alarmed man

A man who served with distinction in the great war,come along

But sentencing soldiers to long term in prison

In line with capital punishment

Corporal punishment

Punishment,punishment

A man without friends

Unexpectedly adored by a great niece three years old

-I am -You are

Him

My Lord I ask Your Lordship's leave to call the surprise witness

-Certainly -What?

Certainly

For heavens sake,Fowle,this is like bulls fighting with the kitten

Here is a regular application by the defence

Something that might toss the trial in the prisoner's favour

and prevent you catching your connection at Charing Cross

Your breakfast is like a lead weight on your stomach

The dog bit your ankle on the way downstairs

now then blind yourself with rage and terrible justice

Now you may not call the surprise witness

That's better

My Lord,if your Lordship would listen to me

Certainly not,you've had your chance,let's get on with it

My Lord,justice must not only be done but must clearly be seen to be done

No one knows as yet what my surprise witness will say

Perhaps he will say that the prisoner there

is as guilty in his black heart as Your Lordship thinks

But perhaps,gentlemen of the jury

Perhaps we may have trapped an innocent

If so shall we deny the one door through he which he may walk to freedom?

Public outcry would never die down

Hear,hear

Hear,hear

What was that?

The public outcry

Yes,excellent but don't forget you are the judge

Silence,and I'll have all those noisy people put out

Very well,you may call your witness

But keep it short

Call the surprise witness

I swear to tell the truth the whole truth

What is your name?

Herbert Fowle

The surprise witness

You mean I need a different name?

Yes,precisely

Yes,we're stuck there,aren't we?

But surely you can think of something

Come along now,come along

Martin Jones

Very good,yes,very good

Now Mr Martin Jones

I believe that you knew Mr Fowle?

All my life

Always found him to be respectful

Quietly spoken man and clean living

Mr Jones,Mr Martin Jones, where was Mr Fowle when the crime took place?

He was

My Lord,would Your Lordship sharpens his pencil and take this down?

You dear say that to him?

Fearlessness,Mr Fowle,the first essential in an advocate

Is Your Lordship's pencil poised?

Yes,get on with it

Where was the accused?

In your home perhaps?

In my home

All the evening?

Playing whist

I went to collect him

And we left Mrs Fowle happy and well

Further to which,when I returned with him

Mrs Fowle had been removed to the County of General Hospital

My Lord I demand the prisoner being released

Certainly,starting with the prisoner's vault

release the prisoner and reduce all police officers in court to the rank of PCs

Oh,dear ,oh dear

-Well,Fowle -Yes,Sir

Aren't you going to thank me?

I..

Words don't come easily to you,do they?

No,very hard

Anyway,anyway

I think we pulled your chestnuts out of the fire

All we have to do know is to, make sure this fellow Jones

Yes,but

I know

Fowle be a good fellow, don't interrupt my thinking

No,I

-I only wanted to remind -What?

We have no surprise witness, we've made him up?

-Fowle? -Yes,Sir

It's a remarkable thing but with no legal training at all

You put your finger on the one fatal weakness in our defence

I was afraid it might be so

Yes,so

Hurling me better,just give in

We do not give in

Fowle,not when my life depends on this case

I forgot

Whatever,we must try

Yes,yes

Again,rain,rain

Go to work

It'll come to me,you know

It will come to me in an illuminated rash

That's the way I always do the crossword

Don't give up,hard,reletless brain work

I had it

-Bateson -The lodger

Bateson the lodger,I never did like him

under a ruthless cross examinations

you never know,he might confess that it was he

You see the flash

You certainly looks much happier

I am,much happier

And once I begin my ruthless cross-examination

Would you like to try?

Fowle,you and I are learning to muck in splendidly together wit this.

Forward march

-Mr Bateson -Yes,Sir

Take your hands out of your pockets when you address the court,will you?

Mr Bateson

I understand you were on very friendly terms with the Prisoner's wife

Yes we had a few bits of laughs together,yes

And was the association of an entirely innocent nature?

Yes,innocent laughs,the Christmas cracker variety

Jokes without offence

And who told those jokes?

Did you have to sit very close to Mrs Fowle?

How do you mean?

Did you sit beneath her?

I don't understand

Did she perch upon your knees?

What was that?

Shocked breathing from the jury

Answer my question Bateson!

You're trying to trap me

I'm not tying,Bateson,succeeding

She may have rested on my knees

Once or twice

And you loved her guiltily?

I might have done

And you planned to take her away with you?

I did ask her

And when she refused

Just a moment where is all this leading to?

Your Lordship asks me, My Lord,it is our case

that it was this man,Bateson

enraged by the refusal of the prisoner's wife to go away with him

who struck the fatal blow

Now do you see where we got to

I do

It's masterly I think you have to agree

Of course

No flaws in this one

No flaws,no flaws really,Sir

-Perhaps little hitch -Hitch

Yes,come along,if it is a hitch,break it down

I don't really like,Sir

No,come along,Fowle,break it down if you think there is any hitch

See what you,come along

I can't really after you've been so kind

Fowle,listen to me,all my life I'd stood up against the winds of privacies

and I'm quite used to it now come along speak up

Tell me

As soon as he left my house, Bateson was stopped by a police officer

he'd lifted an alarm clock of me

remains of a bottle of port, they booked him in straight away

You mean there wasn't time

Hardly

Two hours later the next door neighbour observed Mrs Fowle at the washing

Then I came home

Fowle

Do you want to help me?

Yes,of course I do hope I've shown that

You will keep on putting on these difficulties

Oh dear,oh dear,oh dear

Oh dear I knew you would be upset

No,it is not that I am upset, no it's just as I

Well,crave a little help you know

Encouragement

You win this case,Sir

Brilliant mind like yours

Yes,thank God,it is too brilliant,yes

And all that training

Yes,yes,years of it,years, hard,hard training

You've solve it,Sir

Tuppy Morgan

You know what I've heard,Tuppy Morgan,eh

Wilfred,if ever they give you a break,my dear fellow

always attack the medical evidence

Always attack a doctor

Remember,the jury is full of rheumatism and arthritis

disgusting gastric complaints, and they just love

to see a medical man pulled through it, so go for the doctor,go for the doctor

Go for the doctor

Would you like to try?

No,why me?

I don't know what a police doctor looks like

They usually got nicotine fingers, small men,stinking of ether and carbolic

Do you think I should try?

I'd enjoy it

Doctor,did you say the lady died of heart failure

No

Come along, doctor,don't fence with me

her heart wasn't normal when you examined it,was it?

She was dead

So it had stopped

Yes

Then her heart had failed

Well,I

She had died indeed of heart failure

But

And heart failure might have been brought on by a fit,

I say a fit of laughter at a curiously rich joke on the wireless

Very kind,Fowle

Very kind,but

I'll know,I'll know

don't think my attack on the doctor was at all convincing

A bit unlikely but clever

-Clever,clever -Too clever

Too clever,no,no

We are not going to win this case on science file

Science must be thrown out of the window

I mean as I asked those questions

I could see that I wasn't even convincing you of your own innocence

No,no

But you do respond to emotions,Fowle?

You do

As I do

You know the

magic of oratory

The wonderful,wonderful power of words

Now you are talking

And I shall talk

If I only could hear someone with words as grand as print

A golden tongue

A voice like a liar to charm you out of hell

Yes,you lost me there

for a minute

I was just

I was just drawing on the riches of my classical education

Comforts me on my things

And places of that sort

But I shall speak to the jury quite simply

Quite simply

I shall say

Yes?

Anyway I wouldn't disappoint you

-No,no -No,no,no

No,no I shall talk for a day

Perhaps even two days

Two days

And at the end I shall say quite simply

The closing words

Yes,just closing words

To clinch the argument

The final,final irrefutable argument

I agree it

You will hear it,Fowle,you will hear it

You will hear it in court

And as I sink back exhausted,and wipe the real tears of my glasses

Judge is summing up

Members

Members of the jury

Straggling with emotions,poor old fellow

Members of the jury

I can't add

Anything

To the words what the barrister said

Go out,and consider your verdict

-They left the box -Yes

Just for the moment

I wonder how long they will be out

Been out for long time

It must seem to be a long time for you,the suspect

If they won't disagree

-I don't see how they can -Don't you

Members of the jury,have you considered your verdict?

We have

Do you find the prisoner guilty or not guilty?

Not guilty

-Well done,Wilfred,your income secured -Congratulations

The journalists,dart off to their little telephones

And what now?

They make you a judge buy you probably too busy

There is a queue of solicitors on the stairs

my old clerk,my old clerk writes on my next brief

A thousands guineas to divorce a Duchess

There is always the questions of new clothes

laying down the port

Fowle,wonderful new life you brought me

Yes,it will be your greatest day

Yes it will

Yes it will be my greatest day

We've got to taking him up

Look here,I haven't finished with him,can't you see that?

Can't help that,he's been called on

I think you know they must want us for the trial

The trial,yes,yes,yes

We are not worried about that,are we?

-No,not if you say so -Yes

All right,this way

Don't come with us,Sir,unless you want to land in the dock

How stupid of me,I forgot,yes

The upstanding in court

Herbert Fowle,you are charged that on 3rd day of June last

you did wilfully murder Doris Fowle

at the Nest Jubilee Road, Epping,in the county of Essex

Herbert Fowle,do you plead guilty or not guilty?

Not guilty

My Lord,members of the jury, this is a most unusual case

And a case that,My Lord,I feel

-Mr Wilfred Morgenhell -Hall My Lord

Morgenhall,My Lord

Yes,Mr Morgenhall,take it that you don't appear to prosecute

Prosecute Mr Fowle? Heaven forbid,My Lord,no

Then we must allow Mr Perkins to open the case,mustn't we?

If you could just be a little patient

Yes,of course My Lord,my patience

I oblige to Your Lordship

May I please My Lord,members of the jury

I appear in this case to prosecute and my learned friend,Mr Morgenhall

as I hope you now understand is here to defend the prisoner

It is My Lord,members of the jury

This is a shocking case, a truly appalling case

In the case of the defendant Fowle

One is dealing with a particular brutal type

A man who apparently was quite unable to take a joke

And so it begins

when the defendant Fowle advertises for a humorous type lodger

You

Win your case,Mr Morgenhall?

No

What I should have said was

It appears,Your Lordship

Members of the jury

I should have said

This poor man,innocent man,stands accused

I could have got him off

I know I could have got him off

It was simply questions of the right words

The right words to sway the jury

If only I had said Members of the Jury

Is there one among you who does not crave for peace

Don't you all long for a quiet life without jokes of any sort

Members of the jury

Gentlemen of the jury

Have you never been tempted, those of you with wives of your own

Yes,Sir

What do you want,Sir?

Yes,half of mild

Anything else,Sir?Thanks for the change

Members of the jury

The case is called to decide

Beg your pardon

Let me

That's right passed

-May I? -I beg you pardon

-Kleenex? -Yes,by all means

Keep it

-Loads of soda -Yes,Trixie

Members of the jury

Before I was so rudely interrupted

Look at the prisoner, members of the jury

Has he hurt you?

Has he done you the slightest harm

Is he not the mildest of men?

He merely took it upon himself to regulate his domestic affairs

An Englishman's home is his castle

Do any of you feel a primitive urge, members of the jury?

To be revenged upon this gentle bird fancier

Do you really? Do you really want to put an end

to this small seed merchant

One who in happier days might have passed unnoticed among you

He is in your hands,members of the jury

Why not let him go now

Let him walk out into the sunshine

A free man

Poor,Fowle

It'll be taking this very much to heart

Hello,Sir

Hello,Fowle

Hadn't expect to find you out

Just temporary I was with the Governor

Do you have some complaints,did you?

No,not at all, the truth he sent for me

You went in fear and trembling

Well Fowle,he said this will surprise you but

The Home Office came through on the phone about you this morning

And

That's Government Department,isn't it?

Yes,yes,yes

It appears that they do,

in his words,come through from time to time,just on business of course

On that old Blighter

He said quite frankly,he admitted

It shocked him as much it shocked me

The drill is

As he faced it

Reprieve

Reprieve?

Yes,he said so

It's all over

I'm free

But why should you be freed?

Hello,there

Thank you

It seems that the trial was of no good at all

No good?

But why?

No particular reason

Mr Fowle,it must be a reason,nothing happens in law without a reason

You won't care to hear

Tell me why this Governor, who knows nothing of the Law

should have called our one and only trial together no good

Mr Fowle,you must answer me

my legal career may depend on it

if I'm not to have wasted my life on useless trials

You really want to know?

Yes,yes

He said that the..

The barrister they chose for me

Was no good,an old crock,in his words

That he never said a word in my defence

So my case never got to the jury

He said the whole thing was

ever so null and void but I better be careful in the future

Don't you see

If I had a barrister,who had asked questions

Made clever speeches

I'll be dead as mutton

Your artfulness paid off

The artful way you handled it

The dumb tactics

It saved me

I'm alive

So are you

I'm free

To go back to your birds

Mr Morgenhall

I think the door is opened for some time

Yes

I suppose it is unlikely that you'll marry again

Unlikely,yes

I suppose it is not impossible

that you might commit some rather more trivial offence

The man can not live,Mr Morgenhall

without committing some trivial offence almost daily

Yes,I know well,we may meet again, you may need my services

I may indeed

The future may not be so black

The sun is shining

Yes

After you,Mr Morgenhall,please

Oh no

But a man of your education should go first

No,you lead the way,Mr Fowle

Very well

Yes,lead the way

And as your legal adviser I will follow ever discreet distance

in order to iron out such little tangles as you may hope to leave in your wake

Yes

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