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{\an8}Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap.
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{\an8}In my opinion, a second-rate murder mystery.
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{\an8}Not that I've seen it, you understand.
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But it's a whodunit.
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You've seen one, you've seen 'em all.
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You know the drill.
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An interminable prologue
in which all the key players are introduced.
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You get a sense of the world they inhabit...
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and then the most unlikable character
gets bumped off.
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There's been a murder?
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Cue the entrance
of a world-weary detective...
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who comes in and pokes his nose around.
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Talks to witnesses.
Takes a couple of wrong turns.
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And then gathers all the suspects
in the drawing room...
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and points the finger at the least likely
chump because of the way the guy...
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I don't know...
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ties his shoelaces.
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Now you've seen our play,
you're an accomplice to murder.
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And so, we ask you to remember...
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that it is very much in your interests...
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not to tell a soul outside of this theater...
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who done it.
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But what do I know?
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The Limeys, they just lap it up.
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The play's a smash hit.
Not to mention a cash cow.
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Right there is the milkmaid in chief,
Petula Spencer.
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This lavish affair is a party to celebrate
the 100th performance.
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No wonder film producer John Woolf wants to
turn the play into a major motion picture.
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Here he is now in the arms of his slightly
paranoid wife.
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I sense that death is close at hand.
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It's probably just a draft.
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This is where I come in.
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Leo Kopernick's the name.
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Big-shot Hollywood director.
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Hired to make the film adaptation
marginally less boring than the play.
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Easier said than done when the writer's
a giant pompous ass.
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Mervyn Cocker-Norris.
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I say, you're rather tall.
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Am I? Haven't really thought about it,
to be honest.
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Is that what happened here?
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Sort of.
I had a bit of an accident backstage.
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Sure, he's educated
and he knows a lot of $10 words...
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but it's like he's never seen
a film before...
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let alone try to write one.
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No one important.
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You know, at times you do rather overdo
the temperamental Neapolitan.
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That's a nice jacket.
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Say, why don't you scare me up a real drink,
will you, kid?
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Like a pint of rye or bourbon...
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or motor oil, if you have to.
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Yeah. Hop to it, now.
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In England, that actually counts
as good service.
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I was stationed here during the war...
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and, if anything, the locals are
more uptight now...
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than when they had the Luftwaffe overhead.
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Mervyn?
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Shouldn't you be home?
I thought we had a deadline.
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I thought so too.
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But then our esteemed director
tore up the screenplay...
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and told me to start all over again.
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He's of the opinion that
a modern audience will walk out in protest...
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if they're not served
at least one violent death...
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in the opening frames.
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Suffice to say,
we are no longer on speaking terms.
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Merv!
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London's most sensitive writer.
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How is The Mousetrap, huh?
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Did they catch the guy who did it?
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I will not stand here and be insulted.
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Well, I guess he's gonna go over there
and be insulted.
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What passes for glamour in these parts.
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Sheila Sim and Dickie Attenborough.
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Kid likes the sound of his own voice.
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Even money, he makes a speech.
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I suppose I ought to say a few words.
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Not too many.
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-When have I ever?
-Our wedding, remember?
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-We almost missed the honeymoon.
-Yes.
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Darlings, you're ever so kind.
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I'd like to ask you all
to raise a metaphorical bat...
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to the old pavilion.
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The Mousetrap is 100, not out.
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-Cheers!
-Cheers!
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I tell you what else is 100 not out.
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Petula's mother.
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The old kook's just crazy about seafood.
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They just brought out more langoustines.
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Excuse me, I just need to deal with that.
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-Mother! Please, you've had quite enough.
-Hi.
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Now, I'm not one to tell tales
out of school...
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but the girls over here, they go wild
for an American accent...
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and the promise of a pair of nylons.
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But the husbands...
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Right. I think it's time someone
taught you a lesson.
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...they're not so easily won over.
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It's only fair to warn you
that I learned to box in the RAF.
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Yeah? Well, I learned to fly a plane
in Gleason's Gym.
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All of which explains...
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in an admittedly roundabout fashion...
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how I come to be in the theater's backstage
area in need of a change of clothes.
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Hello?
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Hello?
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Aw, jeez.
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I guess I should have seen this coming.
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It's always the most unlikable character
who gets bumped off.
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It's a whodunit.
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You've seen one, you've seen 'em all.
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We're closed.
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Clear off.
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Honestly.
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Oh, I'm so sorry, sir.
Inspector Stoppard, sir.
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Sorry, I was under strict instructions
not to let anyone in.
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Just open the door.
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Yes, sir. Of course.
Sorry, I didn't recognize you, sir.
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I've actually just been transferred myself.
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Thought it was Leeke and Priestley
on rotation tonight.
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Careful, sir.
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In you come.
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-Constable.
-Stalker, sir.
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God, you're all wet through, sir.
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Hope you don't catch a cold after that.
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Yep, after you, sir.
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Victim's name is Leo Kopernick, sir.
The film director.
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Suspected Communist,
blacklisted in Hollywood...
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so he came out here
to work on a picture for John Woolf.
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You know John Woolf, the film producer.
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He made The African Queen
with Humphrey Bogart.
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"Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are
put in this world to rise above."
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That didn't sound anything like Bogart.
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No, that was Katharine Hepburn, sir.
She's in it too. Wonderful actress.
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I go to the pictures quite a lot, actually.
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It's the escape, I suppose.
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-The romance of the silver screen.
-Yes, thank you, Constable.
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Yes, sir.
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Signs of a struggle.
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Actually, sir, I believe that happened
when Mrs. Boyle was killed.
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Mrs. Boyle? Who's...
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Yes, sir.
She's that woman in the front row there.
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Well, she seems to have bounced back.
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Sorry, sir. No, she was killed in the play.
Also strangled.
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Not that I've seen it,
although I would like to.
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It's an Agatha Christie,
and I do like a good murder.
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Yes, thank you, Constable.
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Yes, sir.
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A ski did that, sir.
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They use it in the play, apparently.
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As I said, I haven't seen it.
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And then the large dent in the cranium
is a sewing machine.
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Seems he was killed
in the costume store initially...
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and then he was deposited here.
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Staged, so to speak.
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Sorry, sir.
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Yeah, that's the ski
that he took in the face, sir.
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And I'm afraid it was downhill from there.
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Sorry, sir.
That one just came out on its own.
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Seems he came down here
for a change of clothes.
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Why?
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It was a party to celebrate
the 100th performance, sir.
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The other nought must have...
When the victim upset the sponge.
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And he then proceeded
to sit in the assortment of crustaceans.
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I'm told he was intoxicated, sir,
as a newt.
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This was actually a lot more fun
than I thought it would be.
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Then he left. No one saw him again
until the body was discovered.
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That's correct, sir.
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Perhaps they were all in on it together, sir?
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Looks like the killer tried to
pull out the victim's tongue.
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Why would anyone do a thing like that?
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Excuse me, Chief Inspector.
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It's just "Inspector."
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Yes. Of course. Inspector.
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I hate to interrupt, I do.
There really is nothing worse...
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Petula Spencer, sir.
Prominent theater impresario.
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Yes, thank you, Constable.
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Tell me, how much longer
do you intend to keep us all hostage here?
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Or is that the idea?
"Let the galled jade wince."
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Gather all the suspects under one roof...
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and then interrogate each of us in turn
until the mystery is solved?
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Mervyn Cocker-Norris, overrated playwright.
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Celebrated playwright.
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Oh, I'm so sorry, sir.
I can't read me own handwriting.
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Not that we are suspects, necessarily.
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Are we suspects?
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It was just a reference to Agatha Christie
and her penchant for denouement...
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in which the detective gathers the...
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I dare say, that's not...
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-Please continue.
-Yes, thank you, Mervyn.
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Inspector, I want you to know
that I have nothing but the utmost respect...
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for the Metropolitan Police.
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But, well, do you think
you might be finished in time...
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-for curtain up tomorrow night?
-Oh, for goodness' sake.
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John Woolf, esteemed film producer.
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Yes, thank you, Constable.
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This is a murder investigation.
Surely that takes precedence...
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sold out or not.
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Yes, it's all going to plan for you,
isn't it, Woolfie?
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You want the run to end.
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I want nothing of the sort.
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It's the decent thing to do, that's all.
Close the theater out of respect for Leo.
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Such a tragic loss.
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Inspector, I implore you not to overreact.
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I would hate to have to go
over your head and...
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talk directly to your superiors.
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We wouldn't want that, now would we, madam?
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But I'm afraid that under the circumstances,
as a precaution...
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Precaution?
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He's already dead.
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He is, madam.
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But until we have an idea
as to a likely motive...
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who's to say this is the end of it?
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What is that supposed to mean?
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We are no longer merely suspects.
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We are also potential victims.
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Oh, God, I wasn't in that, was I?
I must look dreadful.
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Excuse me, sir.
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Stoppard!
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My office.
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Hello, sir.
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What in God's name possessed you
to close down the Ambassadors?
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Protocol, sir. It's a crime scene.
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No, it's a public relations disaster,
is what it is.
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Public what, sir?
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-Stalker!
-Sir.
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Not to put too fine a point on...
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-Yes, please.
-Here.
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Not to put too fine a point on it,
Inspector...
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but your latest blunder is front page news.
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{\an8}Fleet Street is all over this,
like hot jam on a Devonshire scone.
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You are slap-bang in the crosshairs.
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{\an8}Now, we need to do everything we can...
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{\an8}to make sure the bullet doesn't miss you
and hit me.
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-Yeah, of course, sir. Yes.
-Good.
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Then you'll inform the theater at once.
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Well, I thought as a precaution, I...
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The Home Secretary is a close,
personal friend of Agatha Christie.
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His brother-in-law is Rex Harrison.
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-Wonderful actor.
-Yes, thank you, Constable.
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Sir.
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It's actually worked in our favor
to have the press distracted like this.
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It means we can keep a lid
on the Rillington Place murders.
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Rillington Place murders. Yes.
What's that?
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Blimey.
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Haven't you heard?
We have a serial killer on the loose.
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You didn't think all of this was for you,
now, did you?
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-No, of course...
-No.
245
00:17:30,551 --> 00:17:31,385
Of course not.
246
00:17:31,844 --> 00:17:35,347
Well, have all the resources been allocated
to this other investigation?
247
00:17:35,556 --> 00:17:37,140
No, not all of them, no.
248
00:17:38,016 --> 00:17:40,894
I understand you met WPC Stalker last night?
249
00:17:41,103 --> 00:17:42,187
I did, yes.
250
00:17:42,396 --> 00:17:44,064
-Constable.
-Inspector.
251
00:17:44,231 --> 00:17:46,859
A very capable officer.
252
00:17:48,110 --> 00:17:50,612
Or at least she will be
once she gets the proper instruction.
253
00:17:51,613 --> 00:17:54,157
Sorry, sir, I'm not sure I...
You don't mean you want me to...
254
00:17:54,324 --> 00:17:55,158
Yes, I do.
255
00:17:55,325 --> 00:17:56,952
I'd like you to show her the ropes.
256
00:17:57,327 --> 00:18:00,122
I'm hoping some of her enthusiasm
for police work might rub off on you.
257
00:18:01,123 --> 00:18:03,083
But the bullet, sir. Is that why...
258
00:18:03,250 --> 00:18:05,502
This is not a debate, Stoppard.
259
00:18:05,878 --> 00:18:10,632
I have a reputation as a modernizer.
I have to be seen to keep it up.
260
00:18:10,799 --> 00:18:13,385
I have said in public...
261
00:18:13,594 --> 00:18:16,638
that I think women are
the future of the force.
262
00:18:16,805 --> 00:18:19,183
Absolutely, sir, I agree.
263
00:18:19,933 --> 00:18:22,144
-But we're not looking for stolen sweets...
-Sweets.
264
00:18:22,311 --> 00:18:23,896
...or a lost bleeding bicycle.
265
00:18:24,062 --> 00:18:25,063
This is a murder investigation...
266
00:18:25,230 --> 00:18:26,690
and she is inexperienced.
267
00:18:26,857 --> 00:18:30,152
They were inexperienced in the war.
268
00:18:30,777 --> 00:18:32,779
Ask Jerry how that turned out.
269
00:18:32,946 --> 00:18:34,198
Yes, sir. But...
270
00:18:34,364 --> 00:18:38,702
-That will be all.
-Thank you.
271
00:18:39,536 --> 00:18:40,746
-Commissioner.
-Inspector.
272
00:18:41,914 --> 00:18:42,915
Constable.
273
00:18:43,081 --> 00:18:44,333
Inspector.
274
00:18:45,125 --> 00:18:46,919
-Commissioner.
-Constable.
275
00:18:47,628 --> 00:18:49,421
Sorry again about last night, sir.
276
00:18:49,588 --> 00:18:51,298
-With the rain and everything...
-Water under the bridge, Constable.
277
00:18:51,465 --> 00:18:52,508
No harm done.
278
00:18:59,723 --> 00:19:00,724
You all right?
279
00:19:00,891 --> 00:19:04,853
Yeah. Do we have an address for the victim?
280
00:19:05,062 --> 00:19:09,149
Yep. It is "Laurel Canyon, Hollywood, USA."
281
00:19:10,776 --> 00:19:13,195
Where was he staying in England, Constable?
282
00:19:16,949 --> 00:19:17,991
Right.
283
00:19:38,804 --> 00:19:42,975
If I am honest, Monsieur Kopernick,
he was not a very good guest.
284
00:19:43,141 --> 00:19:44,268
In arrears, was he?
285
00:19:44,643 --> 00:19:47,437
Non, but he did not pay for his room.
286
00:19:47,896 --> 00:19:49,231
Monsieur Woolf did.
287
00:19:51,859 --> 00:19:53,569
What part of France are you from, sir?
288
00:19:54,570 --> 00:19:55,404
Belgium.
289
00:19:56,196 --> 00:19:57,197
Ah, right.
290
00:20:04,663 --> 00:20:05,914
Oh, my, my.
291
00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:09,835
What a bloody pigsty.
292
00:20:10,335 --> 00:20:12,963
They don't clean the rooms at the Savoy?
293
00:20:13,172 --> 00:20:15,132
Hélas, not this one.
294
00:20:17,050 --> 00:20:18,385
The maids, they refuse.
295
00:20:19,386 --> 00:20:23,056
We offer them more money,
but still they say non.
296
00:20:24,016 --> 00:20:27,311
There was an incident.
297
00:20:28,687 --> 00:20:30,647
Always avec Monsieur Kopernick...
298
00:20:30,814 --> 00:20:32,065
there was an incident.
299
00:20:53,378 --> 00:20:54,880
Thank you, Constable.
300
00:20:55,422 --> 00:20:56,840
Sorry, sir.
301
00:20:57,132 --> 00:20:59,468
Did one of these incidents ever turn violent?
302
00:21:00,135 --> 00:21:02,346
Oui. Une fois.
303
00:21:04,264 --> 00:21:05,933
How dare you call me a bad writer!
304
00:21:06,141 --> 00:21:07,434
I didn't say that. I said it's bad writing.
305
00:21:07,601 --> 00:21:09,937
I did the best I could
within the confines of the genre...
306
00:21:10,103 --> 00:21:11,480
and Woolf loved it!
307
00:21:11,647 --> 00:21:14,024
Woolf wouldn't know a good script
if it came up and bit him on the ass.
308
00:21:14,191 --> 00:21:16,652
-It's horseshit!
-No, it isn't! Not all of it!
309
00:21:16,818 --> 00:21:18,195
All right, what I read is horseshit!
310
00:21:19,071 --> 00:21:21,031
You mean you didn't even finish it?
311
00:21:21,198 --> 00:21:23,825
I read enough, pal, to know that
nobody gets killed in the first 10 pages!
312
00:21:23,992 --> 00:21:25,953
You charlatan! Give it back!
313
00:21:26,119 --> 00:21:27,454
-Listen. Listen to me. Listen!
-Give...
314
00:21:27,621 --> 00:21:29,331
We need to go
in a completely different direction!
315
00:21:36,588 --> 00:21:40,259
I'll kill you for this, Kopernick,
you bastard!
316
00:21:43,804 --> 00:21:46,223
That's that then, sir.
It's as good as a confession.
317
00:21:46,890 --> 00:21:49,226
Let's not jump to conclusions, Constable.
318
00:21:49,810 --> 00:21:51,061
No, sir.
319
00:21:51,228 --> 00:21:53,564
The least we can do
is talk to this other party.
320
00:21:53,730 --> 00:21:55,524
Yes, sir. Cocker-Norris, sir.
321
00:21:58,235 --> 00:22:01,238
Tell me, do you write everything down
in that little notebook?
322
00:22:01,905 --> 00:22:03,866
Only if it's important, sir.
323
00:22:04,032 --> 00:22:05,659
How do you know if it's important?
324
00:22:09,246 --> 00:22:10,998
Well, I'll just sort of put everything in...
325
00:22:11,999 --> 00:22:15,002
as we go, and then down the line
when we know what's important...
326
00:22:15,169 --> 00:22:17,045
we'll know that it's already in the notebook.
327
00:22:20,132 --> 00:22:21,425
So you do write everything down.
328
00:22:21,592 --> 00:22:22,593
Yeah, everything.
329
00:22:23,427 --> 00:22:24,553
That's what I thought.
330
00:22:37,357 --> 00:22:40,903
Make yourself comfortable.
You're just in time for elevenses.
331
00:23:21,693 --> 00:23:23,820
You must excuse the désordre...
332
00:23:24,446 --> 00:23:26,281
it's research for the film adaptation.
333
00:23:26,657 --> 00:23:29,326
Police statements, court reports,
newspaper cuttings.
334
00:23:29,910 --> 00:23:32,371
The Mousetrap is actually
based on a real-life case.
335
00:23:33,038 --> 00:23:34,039
Nettle tea?
336
00:23:34,581 --> 00:23:37,417
I appreciate you've not yet had time
to come to terms...
337
00:23:37,584 --> 00:23:38,836
with the death of Mr. Kopernick, but...
338
00:23:39,002 --> 00:23:40,754
Is it true his tongue was pulled out?
339
00:23:40,921 --> 00:23:43,757
I'm afraid I can't divulge details
of an ongoing investigation.
340
00:23:43,924 --> 00:23:45,092
It was disgusting.
341
00:23:48,387 --> 00:23:49,221
What?
342
00:23:59,231 --> 00:24:02,818
That's Gio. Nephew of mine. Very hotheaded.
343
00:24:03,652 --> 00:24:05,362
I wonder if it isn't all the fumes.
344
00:24:05,529 --> 00:24:06,738
You know, from the chemicals.
345
00:24:06,905 --> 00:24:08,574
He's an amateur taxidermist.
346
00:24:09,199 --> 00:24:11,618
He has a fascination with the macabre.
347
00:24:12,661 --> 00:24:14,454
I call it his Stymphalian Bird series.
348
00:24:16,164 --> 00:24:19,710
Macabre in a strictly "ornithological" sense,
that is.
349
00:24:22,838 --> 00:24:24,464
You wanted to ask me about Leo?
350
00:24:24,631 --> 00:24:26,884
We heard there was an argument
at the Savoy...
351
00:24:27,050 --> 00:24:28,635
and I noticed you had the other half of this.
352
00:24:34,725 --> 00:24:37,561
Inspector, that was a contretemps,
nothing more.
353
00:24:37,978 --> 00:24:40,022
Read that part. Yeah.
354
00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:43,567
"I'll kill you for this, Kopernick,
you bastard."
355
00:24:47,029 --> 00:24:48,071
Well, obviously, I...
356
00:24:48,363 --> 00:24:49,740
Taken out of context, I...
357
00:24:50,282 --> 00:24:54,036
Those words were spoken in anger
and under extreme provocation.
358
00:24:54,953 --> 00:24:57,247
We had creative differences, that's all.
359
00:24:59,583 --> 00:25:01,210
How did you like The Mousetrap?
360
00:25:02,002 --> 00:25:03,587
Oh, yeah, the play?
361
00:25:03,754 --> 00:25:05,672
Yeah, I didn't see it yet.
362
00:25:05,839 --> 00:25:07,841
-Well, if you'd like, I can précis this...
-No, no, no.
363
00:25:08,008 --> 00:25:10,511
I got the basics. It's a whodunit, right?
364
00:25:11,470 --> 00:25:14,306
So, you got a dead body, a detective...
365
00:25:14,473 --> 00:25:17,309
and then all the suspects
rather conveniently...
366
00:25:17,476 --> 00:25:19,561
end up in a remote country house together.
367
00:25:20,145 --> 00:25:21,146
In a nutshell.
368
00:25:21,313 --> 00:25:24,566
Our task will be to present
this improbable series of events...
369
00:25:24,733 --> 00:25:26,401
to an audience of moderate intelligence...
370
00:25:26,568 --> 00:25:28,946
in a manner that does not cause
too much offense.
371
00:25:29,154 --> 00:25:30,447
Easy.
372
00:25:30,614 --> 00:25:31,823
Flashbacks.
373
00:25:32,241 --> 00:25:33,742
No.
374
00:25:34,368 --> 00:25:35,452
No what?
375
00:25:35,619 --> 00:25:36,912
No flashbacks.
376
00:25:37,412 --> 00:25:40,582
They are crass, lazy, and they interrupt
the flow of the story.
377
00:25:40,749 --> 00:25:44,294
In my opinion, they are the last refuge
of a moribund imagination.
378
00:25:44,878 --> 00:25:48,215
Whatever next? A caption that says,
"Three weeks later"?
379
00:25:51,844 --> 00:25:54,263
Merv. Merv, will you come on?
380
00:25:54,429 --> 00:25:55,681
This is crazy. Will you open the door?
381
00:25:55,848 --> 00:25:57,558
I'm not coming out until Woolf gets here.
382
00:26:00,060 --> 00:26:01,228
What is it this time?
383
00:26:01,395 --> 00:26:02,521
I'll tell you what it is.
384
00:26:02,896 --> 00:26:04,064
I pitched a new ending...
385
00:26:04,231 --> 00:26:06,942
Cockamamie-Novice over here
locks himself in the bathroom.
386
00:26:07,109 --> 00:26:08,735
Is this instead of the car chase?
387
00:26:08,902 --> 00:26:13,490
As well as. I think he thinks "denouement"
is French for "shootout."
388
00:26:14,157 --> 00:26:17,160
Will you at least hear me out first,
and then tell me you don't like it?
389
00:26:18,203 --> 00:26:21,456
Come on, I storyboarded it for you.
Come on, have a seat.
390
00:26:21,957 --> 00:26:24,960
Why can't we just have the detective
gather everyone in the drawing room...
391
00:26:25,127 --> 00:26:27,462
and then reveal to them who did it?
392
00:26:27,629 --> 00:26:30,507
Why? 'Cause it's old, it's tired.
393
00:26:30,716 --> 00:26:31,925
It's been done a thousand times.
394
00:26:32,092 --> 00:26:35,345
So then who explains to the audience
what on Earth's going on?
395
00:26:35,512 --> 00:26:36,346
No one.
396
00:26:36,513 --> 00:26:37,931
I don't know. The killer.
397
00:26:38,473 --> 00:26:39,892
Now you see what I have to put up with?
398
00:26:40,058 --> 00:26:41,393
Will you please have a seat?
399
00:26:42,019 --> 00:26:44,563
So, a remote country house.
400
00:26:44,730 --> 00:26:48,025
We got all the suspects gathered
in the drawing room, right?
401
00:26:48,192 --> 00:26:50,110
So far, soporific.
402
00:26:50,652 --> 00:26:53,030
Suddenly, the lights go out.
403
00:26:54,072 --> 00:26:58,035
Our hero grips his Colt Special,
edges into the hall.
404
00:26:59,703 --> 00:27:01,997
The killer's got a hostage,
can't get a clear shot.
405
00:27:02,998 --> 00:27:04,333
Suddenly, kaboom!
406
00:27:04,499 --> 00:27:06,126
The place goes up in flames.
407
00:27:07,294 --> 00:27:08,295
Blam! Blam!
408
00:27:08,462 --> 00:27:09,922
Our hero plugs the killer.
409
00:27:10,088 --> 00:27:11,256
One in the gut!
410
00:27:11,423 --> 00:27:12,424
One in the knee!
411
00:27:13,175 --> 00:27:14,301
{\an8}Then, all of a sudden...
412
00:27:16,512 --> 00:27:17,930
{\an8}His goddamned gun jams.
413
00:27:18,305 --> 00:27:19,473
He's a sittin' duck.
414
00:27:21,266 --> 00:27:22,309
Sorry, not that one.
415
00:27:23,310 --> 00:27:24,478
I'm sorry about this.
416
00:27:25,437 --> 00:27:26,563
He's a sittin' duck.
417
00:27:27,773 --> 00:27:30,484
Our killer, dying but not dead...
418
00:27:31,527 --> 00:27:32,611
takes aim.
419
00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:34,905
Boom! He fires.
420
00:27:35,239 --> 00:27:36,240
Out of nowhere...
421
00:27:36,698 --> 00:27:39,326
our hero cop's partner dives in slow motion!
422
00:27:39,576 --> 00:27:40,577
Takes a bullet!
423
00:27:42,621 --> 00:27:48,293
Our hero cradles his partner
like a father would his child.
424
00:27:48,585 --> 00:27:51,296
His face a gumbo of emotions.
425
00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:55,384
We hold on the inferno...
426
00:27:56,969 --> 00:27:59,596
and we pan left, to a dead butler.
427
00:28:01,890 --> 00:28:03,851
Hank Williams plays us out.
428
00:28:05,018 --> 00:28:06,019
"I Saw The Light."
429
00:28:13,986 --> 00:28:14,820
You hate it.
430
00:28:14,987 --> 00:28:16,405
No, no, I don't hate it.
431
00:28:16,613 --> 00:28:17,531
But you don't love it.
432
00:28:17,698 --> 00:28:18,699
Of course he doesn't!
433
00:28:18,949 --> 00:28:20,075
It's preposterous...
434
00:28:20,242 --> 00:28:22,286
and totally out of keeping
with the rest of the film.
435
00:28:22,619 --> 00:28:23,620
Oh, who cares?
436
00:28:23,787 --> 00:28:25,664
The audience only ever remembers
the last 20 minutes.
437
00:28:25,831 --> 00:28:27,124
Oh, poppycock.
438
00:28:27,416 --> 00:28:28,709
Hitchcock, actually.
439
00:28:28,917 --> 00:28:30,377
How does he get the gun?
440
00:28:30,836 --> 00:28:31,837
He's a cop!
441
00:28:32,004 --> 00:28:33,881
Police are not armed in England.
442
00:28:34,298 --> 00:28:36,383
What?
How do they kill the bad guys?
443
00:28:36,550 --> 00:28:40,679
They don't. They ask them
to stop in the name of the law.
444
00:28:42,306 --> 00:28:45,642
Well, he fought in the war,
so he kept his service revolver.
445
00:28:46,101 --> 00:28:48,937
God damn it, we're gonna have to
pick this up another time.
446
00:28:50,814 --> 00:28:52,482
Say, Merv.
447
00:28:53,317 --> 00:28:56,111
You wouldn't want to lend me this pad,
would you?
448
00:28:56,278 --> 00:28:57,279
Just for the night.
449
00:28:57,988 --> 00:29:00,824
Only I got this dame parked outside
I wanna impress.
450
00:29:01,158 --> 00:29:03,202
As in, she actually is a dame.
451
00:29:04,286 --> 00:29:05,954
And, well, you know.
452
00:29:06,914 --> 00:29:09,458
My place ain't exactly the Savoy.
453
00:29:09,625 --> 00:29:12,002
I thought his place exactly was the Savoy.
454
00:29:12,169 --> 00:29:14,671
No, he didn't take up residence there
till a month later.
455
00:29:15,172 --> 00:29:17,508
And the production company footed the bill
when he did.
456
00:29:18,342 --> 00:29:21,178
How he finagled that,
I'll never know.
457
00:29:21,345 --> 00:29:24,056
Either I need a new agent,
or he had dirt on Woolf.
458
00:29:29,728 --> 00:29:31,146
Did you ever meet these women?
459
00:29:32,231 --> 00:29:33,232
Who were they?
460
00:29:33,732 --> 00:29:35,984
Girls he met during the war
who had low standards...
461
00:29:36,193 --> 00:29:37,486
and even lower self-esteem.
462
00:29:37,653 --> 00:29:38,987
I never had the pleasure.
463
00:29:41,406 --> 00:29:42,407
Oh, wait.
464
00:29:43,867 --> 00:29:44,701
Tell a lie.
465
00:29:47,204 --> 00:29:48,664
Merv! Come on.
466
00:29:48,830 --> 00:29:51,750
When I said we should tear up the script,
I didn't mean literally!
467
00:29:55,879 --> 00:29:57,130
Hello, Leo.
468
00:29:57,297 --> 00:29:58,423
What is that doing here?
469
00:29:59,675 --> 00:30:01,051
He was Kopernick's son!
470
00:30:01,218 --> 00:30:02,469
Peas in a pod.
471
00:30:03,053 --> 00:30:04,054
And the mother?
472
00:30:04,221 --> 00:30:07,683
I didn't get a good look.
A plain girl, rather homely.
473
00:30:08,475 --> 00:30:09,935
Dark hair, glasses...
474
00:30:10,102 --> 00:30:11,144
thick lenses.
475
00:30:12,396 --> 00:30:13,939
So there we have it, sir.
Cherchez la femme.
476
00:30:14,106 --> 00:30:14,982
What?
477
00:30:15,148 --> 00:30:16,608
It's Belgian, sir.
It means, "Look for the woman."
478
00:30:16,775 --> 00:30:19,111
I know what it means, Constable. What woman?
479
00:30:19,278 --> 00:30:21,405
The mother of Kopernick's illegitimate son.
480
00:30:21,738 --> 00:30:25,075
Cocker-Norris couldn't remember her name,
but I bet it's in that little black book.
481
00:30:25,242 --> 00:30:27,286
You know, the one that you found
in the hotel room, sir.
482
00:30:27,452 --> 00:30:28,954
If we find her, we have our answer.
483
00:30:29,121 --> 00:30:30,956
We need to get a police sketch artist
down here at once...
484
00:30:31,123 --> 00:30:32,416
before he forgets anything.
485
00:30:35,836 --> 00:30:37,379
I'm doing it again, aren't I, sir?
486
00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:40,757
-Jumping to conclusions.
-Conclusions, yeah. Little bit.
487
00:30:40,924 --> 00:30:41,925
Sorry.
488
00:30:42,509 --> 00:30:43,510
Constable.
489
00:30:45,804 --> 00:30:47,681
I have a very important mission for you.
490
00:30:49,057 --> 00:30:51,310
I need you to find a telephone box.
491
00:30:51,476 --> 00:30:52,477
Call the station.
492
00:30:52,853 --> 00:30:55,439
Get an address for John Woolf,
the film producer.
493
00:30:55,689 --> 00:30:56,899
And I'll wait for you here.
494
00:30:57,316 --> 00:30:59,484
"Romulus Films, Soho," sir.
I wrote it down.
495
00:31:00,569 --> 00:31:01,987
-You did?
-Mm-hmm.
496
00:31:04,781 --> 00:31:06,241
Right.
497
00:31:06,408 --> 00:31:08,035
Well done.
Thank you.
498
00:31:09,453 --> 00:31:10,287
Shall we?
499
00:31:22,382 --> 00:31:23,467
Telegram came for you.
500
00:31:26,637 --> 00:31:27,638
Bad news?
501
00:31:27,804 --> 00:31:28,722
It's the studio.
502
00:31:28,889 --> 00:31:30,766
Grace Kelly's doing a Hitchcock picture
for Warner...
503
00:31:30,933 --> 00:31:32,601
so it's Dial M for Maybe Next Time.
504
00:31:32,768 --> 00:31:34,228
-Grace Kelly?
-Yes.
505
00:31:34,394 --> 00:31:35,521
For the part you promised Sheila?
506
00:31:35,687 --> 00:31:36,897
Yes, that's right.
507
00:31:37,981 --> 00:31:40,150
Which is why this is such good news.
508
00:31:42,694 --> 00:31:43,654
Ann?
509
00:31:44,112 --> 00:31:44,947
Darling, what's the matter?
510
00:31:45,113 --> 00:31:47,449
You do know a promise is only a promise
if you keep it.
511
00:31:47,616 --> 00:31:48,450
What do you mean?
512
00:31:48,659 --> 00:31:49,826
I mean you promised me a night out
months ago.
513
00:31:49,993 --> 00:31:51,119
I have been so busy lately.
514
00:31:51,286 --> 00:31:52,371
Yes, I know. I am your assistant.
515
00:31:52,538 --> 00:31:54,164
I promise,
as soon as I have a moment to spare...
516
00:31:54,331 --> 00:31:55,707
Well, you're free on Wednesday.
517
00:31:55,874 --> 00:31:57,376
-Am I? Are you sure?
-Yes.
518
00:31:57,543 --> 00:31:59,086
-I thought I was...
-No.
519
00:31:59,253 --> 00:32:00,712
No, well, you should know.
520
00:32:00,879 --> 00:32:02,548
You are my assistant, after all.
521
00:32:02,714 --> 00:32:04,383
Well, that's settled, then. It's a date.
522
00:32:04,550 --> 00:32:05,926
I promise I will take you out.
523
00:32:06,093 --> 00:32:07,302
I'm afraid, Mr. Woolf,
you really must be going now...
524
00:32:07,469 --> 00:32:08,554
otherwise you'll be late.
525
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:09,763
Right. Thank you.
526
00:32:11,682 --> 00:32:13,684
No, I'm serious.
You do actually need to get back to Romulus.
527
00:32:13,851 --> 00:32:14,852
-Right. Okay. Yes.
-Yes.
528
00:32:24,152 --> 00:32:26,947
This is exciting, isn't it, sir?
529
00:32:27,114 --> 00:32:28,031
I'd say this is the type of thing...
530
00:32:28,198 --> 00:32:30,450
that made you want to
become a police officer, was it?
531
00:32:34,079 --> 00:32:38,375
Me? I just sort of fell into it, really.
532
00:32:38,542 --> 00:32:41,753
They needed people after the war,
and I needed the money, so...
533
00:32:43,338 --> 00:32:46,300
No, it's true.
The hours can be unsociable...
534
00:32:46,466 --> 00:32:48,135
but I can't type
or stand the sight of blood...
535
00:32:48,302 --> 00:32:50,596
so that ruled out secretary for me.
536
00:32:57,102 --> 00:32:58,687
You don't mind if I pick your brains,
do you, sir?
537
00:32:58,854 --> 00:33:00,772
Only I have sergeants' exams in a month...
538
00:33:00,939 --> 00:33:03,317
and I just have one or two questions
that I'd love to run by you.
539
00:33:03,483 --> 00:33:06,403
Actually, Constable,
I've just remembered that I have a...
540
00:33:07,362 --> 00:33:08,614
dentist appointment.
541
00:33:09,531 --> 00:33:11,366
Sorry, sir. I didn't know you were suffering.
542
00:33:11,533 --> 00:33:12,618
Just a routine checkup.
543
00:33:12,784 --> 00:33:14,286
-What shall I do, sir?
-Wait here.
544
00:33:14,453 --> 00:33:16,371
But what if Woolf turns up, sir?
545
00:33:16,955 --> 00:33:19,541
Won't be long. And you have your...
546
00:33:19,708 --> 00:33:20,542
notebook.
547
00:33:23,253 --> 00:33:24,379
Keep your eyes peeled.
548
00:33:24,546 --> 00:33:25,380
Yes, sir.
549
00:33:55,619 --> 00:33:56,620
-Gin.
-Gin?
550
00:33:56,787 --> 00:33:58,121
Yeah, please.
551
00:34:09,591 --> 00:34:11,385
You're joking.
552
00:34:14,096 --> 00:34:15,222
Oh, no.
553
00:34:21,353 --> 00:34:22,353
Oh, God.
554
00:34:40,789 --> 00:34:42,666
Follow this up with another, please.
555
00:35:25,918 --> 00:35:27,294
There you are, Constable.
556
00:35:28,879 --> 00:35:30,964
I've been looking all over for you.
557
00:35:33,926 --> 00:35:35,636
So, I gather it was you...
558
00:35:35,802 --> 00:35:40,182
that paid for Mr. Kopernick's
rather extravagant hotel suite.
559
00:35:40,349 --> 00:35:42,017
Nothing unusual in that, Inspector.
560
00:35:42,684 --> 00:35:47,189
I'm afraid a producer is expected to
indulge the whims of the talent.
561
00:35:47,356 --> 00:35:50,150
Especially when they're American.
562
00:35:50,317 --> 00:35:53,070
But still, a pretty penny,
a room at the Savoy.
563
00:35:53,237 --> 00:35:54,238
Par for the course.
564
00:35:54,404 --> 00:35:56,365
When I was in the Congo...
565
00:35:56,532 --> 00:35:57,574
for The African Queen...
566
00:35:57,741 --> 00:36:01,620
Huston and Bogart refused to drink the water.
567
00:36:01,787 --> 00:36:03,455
Insisted on bourbon...
568
00:36:03,622 --> 00:36:04,873
even to brush their teeth.
569
00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:07,584
Not so easy to get hold of in the jungle,
I can assure you.
570
00:36:09,086 --> 00:36:11,839
You know, Constable Stalker here
is a great admirer of that film.
571
00:36:12,005 --> 00:36:13,173
Aren't you, Constable?
572
00:36:15,634 --> 00:36:17,135
It's a marvelous film, sir.
573
00:36:17,302 --> 00:36:19,179
Why, thank you, Constable.
574
00:36:19,847 --> 00:36:20,931
Encyclopedia.
575
00:36:21,098 --> 00:36:22,808
Cinematic encyclopedia up there.
576
00:36:22,975 --> 00:36:24,476
-I wouldn't say that.
-Yeah.
577
00:36:24,685 --> 00:36:25,811
Right.
578
00:36:25,978 --> 00:36:27,271
Being humble.
579
00:36:27,437 --> 00:36:28,772
I'm not.
580
00:36:28,939 --> 00:36:31,275
So, it's not true
that Kopernick had dirt on you?
581
00:36:37,281 --> 00:36:38,782
Who told you that?
582
00:36:59,887 --> 00:37:02,472
Well, now what do we have here?
583
00:37:04,725 --> 00:37:06,393
Woolfie?
584
00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:10,105
Sittin' in a quiet corner,
all very nice and intimate.
585
00:37:12,274 --> 00:37:14,568
Say, you wouldn't mind if I joined you,
would you?
586
00:37:15,110 --> 00:37:16,403
Not at all, old boy.
587
00:37:18,071 --> 00:37:21,408
And you must be Mrs. Woolf, huh?
588
00:37:21,575 --> 00:37:23,493
Swell to make your acquaintance.
589
00:37:23,660 --> 00:37:26,580
No, no. Leo, this is Ann.
590
00:37:26,747 --> 00:37:27,915
She's my assistant.
591
00:37:30,501 --> 00:37:31,752
Workin' late, huh?
592
00:37:33,879 --> 00:37:34,963
If you'll excuse me...
593
00:37:35,839 --> 00:37:36,840
I'm sorry.
594
00:37:39,384 --> 00:37:40,719
You have a nice night, now.
595
00:37:44,348 --> 00:37:45,349
Well, now.
596
00:37:47,643 --> 00:37:49,353
This puts me in a tough spot.
597
00:37:51,813 --> 00:37:54,274
That I'm afraid I'm gonna have to
take advantage of.
598
00:37:56,902 --> 00:38:00,113
He asked to be put up at the Savoy,
and I agreed.
599
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:02,616
I knew it wouldn't be for long.
600
00:38:02,783 --> 00:38:05,536
That is, just until I found
the right moment to...
601
00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:08,163
tell my wife.
602
00:38:10,582 --> 00:38:12,960
I see. Well...
603
00:38:13,126 --> 00:38:15,045
we'll be in touch if there's anything else.
604
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:19,174
Constable.
605
00:38:19,550 --> 00:38:20,634
Shall we?
606
00:38:28,350 --> 00:38:31,937
But, sir, Woolf killed Kopernick
to hush up the affair. Case closed.
607
00:38:32,104 --> 00:38:35,023
I think if that was the case,
he wouldn't have volunteered the information.
608
00:38:36,233 --> 00:38:38,318
So, then he's in the clear?
609
00:38:38,485 --> 00:38:39,319
No, not necessarily.
610
00:38:39,486 --> 00:38:41,697
He might have killed Kopernick
for another reason entirely.
611
00:38:43,782 --> 00:38:44,616
I tell you...
612
00:38:45,075 --> 00:38:47,828
I'll never get the hang of this
in time for sergeants' exams.
613
00:38:54,042 --> 00:38:55,169
Constable, about earlier.
614
00:38:55,377 --> 00:38:57,880
I know it looked like
I'd just come out of the pub.
615
00:38:58,046 --> 00:38:59,882
You had just come out of the pub.
616
00:39:00,048 --> 00:39:01,675
That's right.
617
00:39:01,842 --> 00:39:04,761
But I'd only gone in there
to get rid of the taste of the mouthwash.
618
00:39:04,928 --> 00:39:06,680
So you had a gin, sir.
619
00:39:08,098 --> 00:39:09,933
It's an antiseptic. I had a filling.
620
00:39:10,100 --> 00:39:11,977
I thought you said it was a routine checkup.
621
00:39:13,854 --> 00:39:17,024
I see we've read the chapter
on interrogation techniques.
622
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:19,651
Sir...
623
00:39:19,818 --> 00:39:22,112
I know I haven't done anything yet
to impress you...
624
00:39:22,279 --> 00:39:26,575
or to inspire any confidence, and...
625
00:39:26,742 --> 00:39:28,827
I know you'd probably rather
that I wasn't on the case.
626
00:39:28,994 --> 00:39:32,289
But I didn't ask
to be put on this case either, sir.
627
00:39:32,456 --> 00:39:34,666
I was nervous, and I still am...
628
00:39:34,833 --> 00:39:36,752
and I'm probably trying a bit too hard.
629
00:39:36,919 --> 00:39:39,421
But, you know, even if I do make mistakes...
630
00:39:39,588 --> 00:39:40,839
or if I jump to conclusions...
631
00:39:41,006 --> 00:39:43,800
or talk a little bit too much,
that has been said...
632
00:39:43,967 --> 00:39:48,805
I just want you to know
that you can trust me.
633
00:39:48,972 --> 00:39:49,973
Sir.
634
00:39:53,977 --> 00:39:55,062
Okay. Good.
635
00:41:17,352 --> 00:41:18,604
You're joking.
636
00:41:20,272 --> 00:41:22,232
-Constable.
-Commissioner.
637
00:41:22,399 --> 00:41:23,400
Stoppard about?
638
00:41:24,026 --> 00:41:25,694
No, sir. He's not yet made it in
this morning.
639
00:41:25,861 --> 00:41:26,945
It's almost eleven o'clock.
640
00:41:27,696 --> 00:41:29,781
He had a dentist appointment, sir.
641
00:41:29,948 --> 00:41:32,409
A filling, I think he said it was.
A molar, it might have been?
642
00:41:32,576 --> 00:41:35,454
I have been summoned to the Home Secretary.
643
00:41:35,621 --> 00:41:36,914
He wants a debrief.
644
00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:38,373
I said I had good news.
645
00:41:45,714 --> 00:41:47,841
Have you seen the play, sir?
646
00:41:50,219 --> 00:41:51,220
Yes.
647
00:41:51,386 --> 00:41:53,305
I'm afraid I took the wife for her birthday.
648
00:41:54,264 --> 00:41:57,392
Of course, it didn't fool me for a moment.
I knew who did it right away.
649
00:41:59,311 --> 00:42:01,104
She was baffled, though.
650
00:42:01,271 --> 00:42:03,649
Even after the chap explained everything.
651
00:42:03,815 --> 00:42:06,944
It was a trying night for all concerned.
652
00:42:08,445 --> 00:42:09,738
I'll stick to flowers in future.
653
00:42:09,947 --> 00:42:11,782
Yes, always a safe bet, sir.
654
00:42:14,451 --> 00:42:15,494
Sorry.
655
00:42:15,661 --> 00:42:16,662
Police.
656
00:42:16,828 --> 00:42:18,705
Please try to be more careful, sir.
657
00:42:26,380 --> 00:42:27,756
Good morning.
658
00:42:28,507 --> 00:42:30,133
-Commissioner.
-Inspector.
659
00:42:31,927 --> 00:42:33,387
Is it wise to eat so many mints?
660
00:42:33,554 --> 00:42:34,388
How do you mean, sir?
661
00:42:35,138 --> 00:42:36,515
Well...
662
00:42:36,682 --> 00:42:38,058
haven't you just been to the dentist?
663
00:42:40,102 --> 00:42:41,228
Yes, that's right, sir.
664
00:42:41,395 --> 00:42:42,938
Yeah. It was just a checkup.
665
00:42:45,107 --> 00:42:47,317
Although I did have a filling as well.
666
00:42:48,068 --> 00:42:49,862
Since I was there.
667
00:42:50,028 --> 00:42:51,780
I've come down here for an update, Inspector.
668
00:42:51,947 --> 00:42:53,907
-We have good news, sir.
-We do?
669
00:42:54,741 --> 00:42:56,410
Yes, sir. Isn't that what you told
the Home Secretary?
670
00:42:56,743 --> 00:43:00,789
Yes, that's what I told the Home Secretary
on the telephone.
671
00:43:00,956 --> 00:43:02,457
I came down here to get it.
672
00:43:03,584 --> 00:43:05,210
So we don't have good news?
673
00:43:05,377 --> 00:43:06,420
We do have a witness, sir.
674
00:43:06,587 --> 00:43:07,629
To the murder?
675
00:43:07,796 --> 00:43:09,965
Yeah, that would be nice, wouldn't it?
676
00:43:10,132 --> 00:43:12,551
No. One of the ushers
saw a suspicious character.
677
00:43:13,135 --> 00:43:14,720
He's waiting for us inside.
678
00:43:15,512 --> 00:43:16,889
Very well.
679
00:43:17,055 --> 00:43:20,267
I'll tell the Home Secretary
we have a promising lead.
680
00:43:20,434 --> 00:43:22,853
And I'll rely on you
not to make a liar out of me.
681
00:43:23,812 --> 00:43:25,272
-Constable.
-Commissioner.
682
00:43:25,439 --> 00:43:26,940
Inspector.
683
00:43:27,107 --> 00:43:28,108
Commissioner.
684
00:43:30,736 --> 00:43:31,737
Constable.
685
00:43:31,904 --> 00:43:32,905
Inspector.
686
00:43:36,283 --> 00:43:37,868
So, Dennis...
687
00:43:38,035 --> 00:43:40,162
I understand that you saw something
the other night.
688
00:43:40,329 --> 00:43:42,206
-Yeah.
-What'd you see?
689
00:43:42,372 --> 00:43:45,167
Well, I'd gone to get a bottle of Scotch
for the dead man.
690
00:43:45,959 --> 00:43:49,713
This was before, you know, he died.
691
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:50,881
And then you came back...
692
00:43:51,089 --> 00:43:52,758
and that's when you saw
the suspicious character?
693
00:43:52,925 --> 00:43:53,926
Exactly.
694
00:43:54,092 --> 00:43:56,053
Well, sort of.
695
00:43:56,220 --> 00:43:58,889
I didn't get a very good look, if I'm honest.
696
00:43:59,056 --> 00:44:02,434
He had on, like, a darkish overcoat.
697
00:44:02,601 --> 00:44:04,686
I see. Anything else?
698
00:44:06,939 --> 00:44:08,690
A pair of trousers.
699
00:44:08,857 --> 00:44:10,526
And a hat.
700
00:44:10,692 --> 00:44:12,486
It was on his head.
701
00:44:13,237 --> 00:44:14,738
Right. Yeah.
702
00:44:14,947 --> 00:44:17,407
Yeah. A soft, felt hat.
703
00:44:19,034 --> 00:44:20,244
What about a physical description?
704
00:44:20,410 --> 00:44:23,163
Was he a tall man? Short? Thick set?
705
00:44:24,248 --> 00:44:25,415
Just average, I'd say.
706
00:44:25,582 --> 00:44:27,584
Average height or average build?
707
00:44:29,670 --> 00:44:30,921
Both?
708
00:44:31,797 --> 00:44:32,923
No, don't ask me.
709
00:44:33,090 --> 00:44:35,092
I don't know. I'm asking you.
710
00:44:36,635 --> 00:44:38,887
Average height...
711
00:44:39,054 --> 00:44:40,180
medium build.
712
00:44:40,389 --> 00:44:42,558
Would you say like the Inspector?
713
00:44:42,724 --> 00:44:43,600
Yeah.
714
00:44:43,809 --> 00:44:44,893
Suppose so. Pretty much.
715
00:44:45,060 --> 00:44:47,604
So what did he do that made you suspicious?
716
00:44:48,438 --> 00:44:50,440
It wasn't so much what he did...
717
00:44:50,607 --> 00:44:53,569
it was more, you know, the way he did it.
718
00:44:54,528 --> 00:44:56,196
Right. How'd he do it?
719
00:44:56,613 --> 00:44:58,907
Well, sort of...
720
00:44:59,992 --> 00:45:01,577
suspiciously.
721
00:45:05,706 --> 00:45:07,624
This has been great.
722
00:45:07,791 --> 00:45:09,376
Off you go.
723
00:45:10,043 --> 00:45:11,211
-Thank you.
-Thank you.
724
00:45:11,378 --> 00:45:12,379
Thank you.
725
00:45:14,214 --> 00:45:15,215
That was good.
726
00:45:15,382 --> 00:45:17,801
Do you think that went well?
727
00:45:19,261 --> 00:45:21,763
I think it's time we talk to that actor
who had a fight with Kopernick.
728
00:45:21,930 --> 00:45:23,223
Mr. Attenborough, sir?
729
00:45:23,390 --> 00:45:25,309
That's the one.
Famous, is he?
730
00:45:25,475 --> 00:45:28,478
You're pulling my leg, sir.
You've never heard of Dickie?
731
00:45:28,645 --> 00:45:32,649
Richard Attenborough? Pinkie Brown?
Brighton Rock? You must have.
732
00:45:32,816 --> 00:45:35,110
"You wanted a recording of my voice.
Well, here it is.
733
00:45:35,277 --> 00:45:37,070
"What you want me to say is 'I love you.'"
734
00:45:37,237 --> 00:45:38,572
Keep in mind...
735
00:45:38,739 --> 00:45:41,658
that we're here to conduct an interview
as part of a murder investigation...
736
00:45:41,825 --> 00:45:44,536
not an article for Sight & Sound magazine,
yes?
737
00:45:44,745 --> 00:45:45,746
Yes, sir.
738
00:45:47,915 --> 00:45:48,916
Come in, darling.
739
00:45:51,376 --> 00:45:52,794
Inspector Stoppard.
740
00:45:52,961 --> 00:45:55,839
I say, a real-life detective.
741
00:45:56,006 --> 00:45:57,966
Scotland Yard and everything.
742
00:45:58,133 --> 00:45:59,218
And you are?
743
00:46:03,347 --> 00:46:05,265
This is...
744
00:46:05,432 --> 00:46:07,059
-Constable Stalker.
-Stalker.
745
00:46:09,353 --> 00:46:11,021
I like the way you did that.
746
00:46:11,230 --> 00:46:12,231
Very natural.
747
00:46:12,898 --> 00:46:16,193
I hope you don't mind, sir,
but I just want to say bravo.
748
00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:18,445
And encore.
749
00:46:19,530 --> 00:46:20,447
All right, thank you, Constable.
750
00:46:20,614 --> 00:46:21,865
Yes, thank you, Constable.
751
00:46:22,032 --> 00:46:24,868
Are you a lover of theater?
I can get you tickets if you like.
752
00:46:26,119 --> 00:46:28,163
I would like, sir. Yes. Very much.
753
00:46:29,039 --> 00:46:31,124
It would be good to get
a professional take on it.
754
00:46:31,792 --> 00:46:33,794
Yeah. I have so many questions.
755
00:46:33,961 --> 00:46:35,337
I have one or two of my own.
756
00:46:35,671 --> 00:46:37,339
I dare say that you do.
757
00:46:38,257 --> 00:46:42,970
I understand that you and Kopernick
came to blows the night in question.
758
00:46:43,136 --> 00:46:46,014
Was there a particular reason
for the ill feeling?
759
00:46:46,181 --> 00:46:48,725
Tell me, Inspector,
did you get your limp during the war?
760
00:46:51,562 --> 00:46:52,563
It's very slight.
761
00:46:52,729 --> 00:46:56,233
I noticed it the other night
when you were on stage. I...
762
00:46:56,400 --> 00:46:59,069
Well, I thought I might borrow it,
if you don't mind.
763
00:46:59,236 --> 00:47:02,364
It's always good for the lead character
to have a physical defect.
764
00:47:02,531 --> 00:47:05,117
Speaks to a troubled soul.
765
00:47:05,617 --> 00:47:08,704
It was me, Inspector.
You need look no further.
766
00:47:08,871 --> 00:47:11,164
-I arrest you for the murder of Leo...
-No, no, no.
767
00:47:11,331 --> 00:47:12,541
No. Not yet.
768
00:47:12,708 --> 00:47:13,709
Sorry, sir.
769
00:47:13,876 --> 00:47:16,628
I was the particular reason
for the ill feeling.
770
00:47:16,795 --> 00:47:20,299
Yes, well, Leo had his eye on Sheila,
you see. And I took exception.
771
00:47:20,465 --> 00:47:22,301
He was a real hound, Inspector.
772
00:47:26,138 --> 00:47:27,848
Come on, play nice.
773
00:47:28,056 --> 00:47:29,057
Maybe I can help you.
774
00:47:29,892 --> 00:47:30,934
Help me?
775
00:47:31,101 --> 00:47:32,102
To do what?
776
00:47:32,728 --> 00:47:35,063
Bag the lead role in the film
of The Mousetrap.
777
00:47:36,648 --> 00:47:37,900
Top billing.
778
00:47:38,066 --> 00:47:39,026
Make you a star.
779
00:47:39,193 --> 00:47:41,528
But I have bagged the lead role.
780
00:47:41,737 --> 00:47:43,071
Yeah, who told you that, Woolfie?
781
00:47:43,238 --> 00:47:44,990
He is the producer.
782
00:47:45,157 --> 00:47:46,491
Honey, he just cuts the checks.
783
00:47:46,950 --> 00:47:47,951
I'm the director.
784
00:47:48,243 --> 00:47:50,704
Without me, there is no movie.
You understand?
785
00:47:50,871 --> 00:47:52,831
You got a problem, buddy?
786
00:47:53,999 --> 00:47:55,876
Keep the change. And the glass.
787
00:47:56,210 --> 00:47:58,587
And the studio, don't they have a say in it?
788
00:47:58,754 --> 00:48:01,965
Rumor is they want to put a name
in the picture...
789
00:48:02,132 --> 00:48:04,343
that people have heard of.
790
00:48:04,510 --> 00:48:06,803
Bona fide Hollywood star.
791
00:48:06,970 --> 00:48:09,556
They like Grace Kelly. You ever heard of her?
792
00:48:13,185 --> 00:48:14,478
Don't worry.
793
00:48:15,521 --> 00:48:17,022
They can be talked round.
794
00:48:18,190 --> 00:48:21,443
I've got a very silver tongue.
795
00:48:26,657 --> 00:48:27,658
I won't lie, Inspector.
796
00:48:27,824 --> 00:48:31,745
I was not entirely sorry to learn
of his demise, but I had no part in it.
797
00:48:31,912 --> 00:48:34,248
Much like the film adaptation
of The Mousetrap, it would seem.
798
00:48:34,414 --> 00:48:35,832
Come now, darling, you don't know that.
799
00:48:35,999 --> 00:48:37,626
Woolf promised you the role.
800
00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:40,045
He's a man of his word.
He went to Eton.
801
00:48:40,712 --> 00:48:41,713
Wake up, Dickie.
802
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:43,715
He's a man of whatever word
will get his film made.
803
00:48:43,882 --> 00:48:47,553
And that contract business with Choo
is coming apart at the seams.
804
00:48:47,719 --> 00:48:49,096
-Choo?
-Bless you, sir.
805
00:48:49,263 --> 00:48:51,390
No, as in Petula Spencer.
806
00:48:51,723 --> 00:48:53,809
She sold Woolf the film rights.
807
00:48:53,976 --> 00:48:56,937
Well, about those tickets.
Is there a day that suits you better?
808
00:48:57,104 --> 00:48:59,857
I'm generally free
on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
809
00:49:00,023 --> 00:49:00,858
And Thursdays.
810
00:49:01,024 --> 00:49:02,985
Well, thank you, sir.
Thank you, madam.
811
00:49:03,151 --> 00:49:04,611
No, no, not at all.
We'll be sure to let you know...
812
00:49:04,778 --> 00:49:06,780
if anything else springs to mind.
813
00:49:06,947 --> 00:49:09,408
I'm sure it's always
the insignificant detail...
814
00:49:09,575 --> 00:49:12,953
that catches the killer in the end.
Isn't that so, Inspector?
815
00:49:16,456 --> 00:49:20,127
I don't usually have a lot on
on weekends either.
816
00:49:20,294 --> 00:49:22,713
Or Mondays. For the tickets.
817
00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:24,256
-Constable.
-Sir.
818
00:49:24,339 --> 00:49:25,257
Right.
819
00:49:59,374 --> 00:50:00,667
She'll see you now.
820
00:50:02,294 --> 00:50:04,379
So, you own this theater?
821
00:50:04,546 --> 00:50:06,840
Yes. Humble beginnings.
822
00:50:07,758 --> 00:50:09,092
You'll have to excuse Mother.
823
00:50:09,259 --> 00:50:13,430
She's not been herself since Father died,
in the first Great War.
824
00:50:14,014 --> 00:50:16,141
It's been a long 30 years.
825
00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:17,976
It's nice that you gave her a job.
826
00:50:18,519 --> 00:50:20,604
Well, how else is she gonna pay the rent?
827
00:50:21,063 --> 00:50:23,106
I let her have the spare room
at a discount as it is.
828
00:50:23,857 --> 00:50:25,943
Yes, no. You can stop there.
829
00:50:26,193 --> 00:50:28,862
We get the idea. Bravo.
830
00:50:29,279 --> 00:50:33,075
I understand that you handled the sale
of The Mousetrap film rights to John Woolf?
831
00:50:33,283 --> 00:50:35,744
Yes, that's right. I did. Wait... Why?
832
00:50:36,662 --> 00:50:37,829
What's he been saying?
833
00:50:38,664 --> 00:50:40,165
Oh, he's such a crybaby.
834
00:50:41,208 --> 00:50:44,211
Honestly, he acts
as though I put a gun to his head.
835
00:50:48,382 --> 00:50:50,175
Hang on a minute. Is this important?
836
00:50:50,342 --> 00:50:51,468
I doubt it. What does it say?
837
00:50:51,885 --> 00:50:54,304
"No motion picture based on the stage play
The Mousetrap...
838
00:50:54,471 --> 00:50:57,933
"is to enter into production
until a minimum of six months have elapsed...
839
00:50:58,141 --> 00:50:59,893
"since the end of its first theatrical run."
840
00:51:00,060 --> 00:51:01,770
Oh, you don't need to worry about that.
841
00:51:01,937 --> 00:51:04,147
It's a whodunit.
As soon as word gets out who did do it...
842
00:51:04,314 --> 00:51:05,941
audiences are bound to drop off.
843
00:51:06,108 --> 00:51:09,945
Come on, sign on the dotted line,
and I'll make a toast.
844
00:51:14,241 --> 00:51:18,787
Ann, darling, the next contract I sign
will be our marriage certificate.
845
00:51:18,996 --> 00:51:23,458
Well, first it'll be the divorce papers.
But then our marriage certificate.
846
00:51:26,253 --> 00:51:27,337
Edana, darling.
847
00:51:28,380 --> 00:51:29,381
What a pleasant surprise.
848
00:51:29,548 --> 00:51:31,925
You know Choo and Ann.
849
00:51:32,384 --> 00:51:33,218
I do.
850
00:51:33,385 --> 00:51:34,595
Dear girl, what on Earth
are you doing down there?
851
00:51:35,095 --> 00:51:37,472
I just fell over. Excuse me.
852
00:51:38,348 --> 00:51:41,101
Honestly, it's like having Buster Keaton
for an assistant.
853
00:51:41,268 --> 00:51:42,978
Now, I've just come from Madame Zena...
854
00:51:43,353 --> 00:51:44,980
Darling, I really wish
you wouldn't see that...
855
00:51:45,147 --> 00:51:46,273
Please don't call her a charlatan.
856
00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:47,316
I was going to say "crackpot."
857
00:51:51,361 --> 00:51:53,071
-What's this?
-It's a Tarot card.
858
00:51:53,363 --> 00:51:55,032
I can see that. What does it mean?
859
00:51:55,824 --> 00:51:56,825
Betrayal.
860
00:52:03,874 --> 00:52:05,876
Betrayal as in his affair, not the contract.
861
00:52:06,293 --> 00:52:08,462
That was above board. Is above board.
862
00:52:08,837 --> 00:52:11,215
Agatha insisted on that clause, not me.
863
00:52:11,381 --> 00:52:14,718
No, she's fiercely protective
of her own work, you see, because...
864
00:52:14,885 --> 00:52:16,428
Well, she has to be.
865
00:52:16,803 --> 00:52:18,555
People get so riled up.
866
00:52:18,722 --> 00:52:20,390
She's had death threats, you know.
867
00:52:20,557 --> 00:52:23,435
Poor girl can't write
so much as a letter to The Times...
868
00:52:23,602 --> 00:52:25,270
without a deluge of legal action...
869
00:52:25,437 --> 00:52:28,607
and spurious claims she stole this plot
or that character.
870
00:52:28,899 --> 00:52:30,734
Isn't that what happened here, though?
871
00:52:30,901 --> 00:52:33,320
Isn't The Mousetrap based on a true story?
872
00:52:34,404 --> 00:52:37,699
Yes. Well, originally. I mean, tangentially.
873
00:52:38,242 --> 00:52:40,118
In any case, that's the reason...
874
00:52:40,285 --> 00:52:42,829
Woolf was so keen
to shut the theater the other night.
875
00:52:42,996 --> 00:52:47,000
He can't make his film
until the play ends its run in the West End.
876
00:52:47,167 --> 00:52:50,295
As it is, what with the play
being such a phenomenal success...
877
00:52:50,462 --> 00:52:53,215
he's stuck in theatrical purgatory.
878
00:52:54,550 --> 00:52:56,218
He's a ruthless customer, is Woolf.
879
00:52:57,177 --> 00:52:59,721
He'll stop at nothing to get his film made.
880
00:53:05,936 --> 00:53:07,437
It's definitely Woolf, sir.
881
00:53:08,272 --> 00:53:10,315
Well, not 100%.
882
00:53:10,482 --> 00:53:14,069
More like 73-74%, I'd say.
883
00:53:14,862 --> 00:53:18,490
He killed Kopernick in the theater
to force it to close down...
884
00:53:18,657 --> 00:53:20,367
so that he could make his film.
885
00:53:20,534 --> 00:53:22,452
He could marry his mistress.
886
00:53:22,619 --> 00:53:24,329
And then he could get shot of a blackmailer.
887
00:53:24,496 --> 00:53:26,123
It's not Woolf. It's too elaborate.
888
00:53:26,290 --> 00:53:28,208
Burn the place down, if that's what you want.
889
00:53:28,375 --> 00:53:30,794
Besides, doesn't he need a director
to make a film?
890
00:53:31,753 --> 00:53:34,506
Well, then it's back to Cocker-Norris.
Process of elimination.
891
00:53:35,465 --> 00:53:36,842
No, it's not Mervyn.
892
00:53:37,009 --> 00:53:38,760
Yeah, but the tongue business.
893
00:53:39,553 --> 00:53:41,346
And he clearly didn't like Leo, did he?
894
00:53:44,349 --> 00:53:47,227
People don't rip out other people's tongues
because of creative differences.
895
00:53:47,394 --> 00:53:48,896
They do it out of revenge...
896
00:53:49,897 --> 00:53:51,481
or rage because they've lost a loved one.
897
00:53:51,648 --> 00:53:52,649
They can't forgive or forget...
898
00:53:52,816 --> 00:53:55,277
so they just stew and fester
alone in the dark...
899
00:53:55,444 --> 00:53:59,114
until finally it all comes out
in a sudden, frenzied act of violence.
900
00:54:04,703 --> 00:54:07,664
How did you get the limp, sir?
If you don't mind me asking.
901
00:54:08,916 --> 00:54:11,376
In the war. Got shot in the Italian Alps.
902
00:54:13,670 --> 00:54:14,880
Sounds painful.
903
00:54:16,340 --> 00:54:17,341
What do you...
904
00:54:19,718 --> 00:54:20,719
Sorry, sir.
905
00:54:20,886 --> 00:54:23,055
No, that's very funny.
906
00:54:24,681 --> 00:54:26,808
Is there a Mr. Stalker, Stalker?
907
00:54:27,601 --> 00:54:29,686
I'm afraid he died in the war, sir.
908
00:54:31,730 --> 00:54:32,731
Children?
909
00:54:32,898 --> 00:54:33,899
A boy and a girl.
910
00:54:34,399 --> 00:54:35,442
Can't be easy.
911
00:54:36,527 --> 00:54:38,946
What about you? Do you have any family, sir?
912
00:54:40,489 --> 00:54:43,825
I came close, once.
Yeah, I had an unfaithful wife.
913
00:54:45,702 --> 00:54:48,789
She was eight months pregnant
when she told me I wasn't the father.
914
00:54:50,749 --> 00:54:52,751
I'd made a cot and everything.
915
00:54:53,877 --> 00:54:56,088
That's awful, sir. I'm sorry.
916
00:54:59,383 --> 00:55:01,218
-Landlord.
-Yes, sir?
917
00:55:01,385 --> 00:55:02,219
Another round.
918
00:55:02,636 --> 00:55:03,512
Oh, I don't know.
919
00:55:03,679 --> 00:55:07,474
Should we maybe get going, sir?
Got work tomorrow.
920
00:55:10,185 --> 00:55:12,813
Go on, steer off before I call the police!
921
00:55:14,773 --> 00:55:16,441
Sorry again. Thank you.
922
00:55:17,317 --> 00:55:19,152
Are you sure you're all right to drive, sir?
923
00:55:19,319 --> 00:55:20,445
Absolutely.
924
00:55:21,613 --> 00:55:23,699
I could run you home if you like.
925
00:55:37,713 --> 00:55:40,757
Now. Just gonna pop you there.
926
00:55:41,675 --> 00:55:43,552
I can take it from here, Constable.
927
00:55:48,599 --> 00:55:49,600
Sir.
928
00:55:56,231 --> 00:55:57,232
There we go.
929
00:57:13,350 --> 00:57:14,518
Morning, sir.
930
00:57:15,644 --> 00:57:16,645
What do you want?
931
00:57:18,355 --> 00:57:20,774
The other night, sir. The dead Yank.
932
00:57:20,941 --> 00:57:23,986
Inspector Stoppard got the call
and not Leeke or Priestley.
933
00:57:24,903 --> 00:57:25,904
So?
934
00:57:35,664 --> 00:57:40,043
Leeke was in Skegness on his honeymoon,
and Priestley took the Rillington Place call.
935
00:57:42,296 --> 00:57:43,297
What time?
936
00:57:44,923 --> 00:57:48,051
Half-past 11:00. Book at Bedtime was on.
937
00:57:53,891 --> 00:57:56,101
Did you ever meet Stoppard's wife, sir?
938
00:57:57,060 --> 00:57:58,061
I did.
939
00:57:58,228 --> 00:58:00,105
You don't happen to remember her name,
do you?
940
00:58:07,279 --> 00:58:08,405
It was...
941
00:58:10,490 --> 00:58:11,992
Mrs. Stoppard.
942
00:58:14,870 --> 00:58:15,871
Brilliant.
943
00:58:33,388 --> 00:58:34,932
Hello, is this Abigale?
944
00:58:37,059 --> 00:58:38,185
Hello, is this Beryl?
945
00:58:38,352 --> 00:58:40,521
I am a friend of Leo Kopernick's.
946
00:58:41,980 --> 00:58:42,981
Beryl?
947
00:58:44,608 --> 00:58:46,485
Is Geraldine there by any chance?
948
00:59:13,846 --> 00:59:14,972
-Oh, Constable.
-Sir.
949
00:59:15,848 --> 00:59:18,100
Did Dickie ever come through
on those theater tickets?
950
00:59:18,267 --> 00:59:20,936
I thought of going,
and maybe the play's the thing.
951
00:59:21,728 --> 00:59:24,940
Ties this all together.
Would you like to tag along?
952
00:59:25,274 --> 00:59:26,316
Yes, sir.
953
00:59:28,777 --> 00:59:29,736
What is it, Constable?
954
00:59:30,654 --> 00:59:31,738
Nothing, sir.
955
00:59:32,906 --> 00:59:35,158
Do you want a cup of tea?
956
00:59:36,827 --> 00:59:37,995
Listen to me, Stalker.
957
00:59:38,537 --> 00:59:42,457
No one is ever going to
take you seriously as a police officer...
958
00:59:42,624 --> 00:59:44,126
if you act like a tea-lady, do you hear me?
959
00:59:44,293 --> 00:59:45,627
Yes, sir. Thank you, sir.
960
00:59:45,794 --> 00:59:47,296
Milk and two sugars.
961
00:59:51,842 --> 00:59:52,843
Commissioner.
962
01:00:00,392 --> 01:00:04,563
I said, "Who do you want? Agatha Christie
or Mervyn Cocker-Norris?
963
01:00:04,730 --> 01:00:07,482
"Anyone can do her, but only I can do me."
964
01:00:09,818 --> 01:00:13,447
The Mousetrap in the house style, as it were.
965
01:00:13,614 --> 01:00:17,743
I'll take the bare bones of the story,
a rather mundane tale of child abuse...
966
01:00:17,910 --> 01:00:19,203
and make it my own.
967
01:00:23,081 --> 01:00:24,082
Here we are.
968
01:00:25,751 --> 01:00:27,211
These aren't together, sir.
969
01:00:28,670 --> 01:00:30,464
Well, we can cover more ground that way.
970
01:00:30,631 --> 01:00:31,673
Keep your eyes peeled.
971
01:00:31,840 --> 01:00:32,841
Yes, sir.
972
01:00:43,352 --> 01:00:44,353
Cheers.
973
01:00:57,241 --> 01:00:58,242
Hello?
974
01:01:01,620 --> 01:01:02,621
Hello?
975
01:01:03,372 --> 01:01:04,831
Is anyone there?
976
01:01:05,791 --> 01:01:08,043
Who's calling at this late hour?
977
01:01:09,253 --> 01:01:10,254
Yes?
978
01:01:10,838 --> 01:01:11,839
All right then.
979
01:01:12,923 --> 01:01:16,635
That was Scotland Yard.
They're sending out an inspector.
980
01:01:16,927 --> 01:01:21,265
In this unseasonable blizzard?
What on Earth for?
981
01:01:22,641 --> 01:01:23,642
Good Lord.
982
01:01:25,894 --> 01:01:27,896
-Inspector.
-Thank you.
983
01:01:29,398 --> 01:01:30,399
Good evening.
984
01:01:32,609 --> 01:01:34,945
I am Detective Sergeant Trotter.
985
01:01:35,779 --> 01:01:37,155
Please excuse the limp.
986
01:01:37,322 --> 01:01:40,117
An old war wound playing up in the cold.
987
01:01:40,284 --> 01:01:42,828
I'm assuming you were warned of my arrival?
988
01:01:44,288 --> 01:01:47,499
Apropos of nothing, I'm a magistrate.
989
01:01:47,666 --> 01:01:50,419
Also, he looks too young to be an inspector.
990
01:01:50,586 --> 01:01:53,630
Well, I'm old enough to
remember the Corrigan Case.
991
01:01:53,797 --> 01:01:57,217
Yes, a dreadful business.
992
01:01:57,759 --> 01:02:01,305
Two brothers who put their faith
in the British social services.
993
01:02:01,930 --> 01:02:05,017
A sorry tale of abuse that ended in tragedy.
994
01:02:06,560 --> 01:02:08,103
Yes, it was in all of the papers.
995
01:02:08,270 --> 01:02:09,479
Gio, I can't sit through this again.
996
01:02:09,688 --> 01:02:11,815
I'm sorry. Will you excuse me?
997
01:02:11,982 --> 01:02:15,402
One died, the other left traumatized.
998
01:02:16,904 --> 01:02:21,200
I shudder to think what an ordeal like that
might do to a vulnerable mind.
999
01:02:21,408 --> 01:02:23,785
Won't be a moment.
I'm just going to try and catch Mervyn.
1000
01:02:23,952 --> 01:02:25,662
Oh, bother. I forgot the tea.
1001
01:02:25,829 --> 01:02:28,916
By God,
that has to be the worst cup of tea...
1002
01:02:29,082 --> 01:02:30,542
I've ever had.
1003
01:02:32,044 --> 01:02:33,629
I agree.
1004
01:02:34,379 --> 01:02:37,799
Did you make it in a teapot or a plant pot?
1005
01:02:38,133 --> 01:02:40,093
-Pardon me. Excuse me. Thank you. Sorry.
-Oh, dear.
1006
01:02:40,427 --> 01:02:42,429
-Pardon me. Excuse me. Sorry.
-I've already had another disaster...
1007
01:02:42,596 --> 01:02:44,014
in the kitchen.
1008
01:02:44,765 --> 01:02:48,101
I left out the steak pieces
in my steak and kidney pie.
1009
01:02:49,478 --> 01:02:50,479
Gloves.
1010
01:02:51,021 --> 01:02:52,523
Kidney pie just doesn't have
the same ring to it.
1011
01:02:52,689 --> 01:02:54,274
Sorry. Excuse me. Pardon me.
1012
01:02:54,441 --> 01:02:55,692
Excuse me. Terribly sorry.
1013
01:02:56,777 --> 01:02:58,487
Bleeding gloves.
I'm so sorry.
1014
01:02:58,654 --> 01:03:02,324
There they are.
Thank you. Sorry. Sorry. Terribly sorry.
1015
01:03:02,491 --> 01:03:03,825
I'm beginning to think
it was a dreadful mistake to skip lunch.
1016
01:03:03,992 --> 01:03:05,452
Excuse me.
1017
01:03:06,787 --> 01:03:08,622
I'll open a tin of peas.
1018
01:03:45,242 --> 01:03:47,160
We interrupt Book at Bedtime...
1019
01:03:47,703 --> 01:03:51,415
to warn residents
in the Colney Hatch area of London...
1020
01:03:51,582 --> 01:03:55,002
to be on the lookout for an escaped lunatic.
1021
01:04:12,853 --> 01:04:13,854
You startled me.
1022
01:04:15,564 --> 01:04:16,732
You startled me.
1023
01:04:52,643 --> 01:04:53,977
Turn the lights on.
1024
01:05:19,336 --> 01:05:21,463
Stop in the name of the law!
1025
01:05:32,182 --> 01:05:33,267
Bollocks!
1026
01:05:37,771 --> 01:05:39,773
Well, that's a good thing.
The limp, was it too much?
1027
01:05:42,609 --> 01:05:43,610
Oh, God.
1028
01:05:43,777 --> 01:05:45,737
Oh, sorry, sir.
I thought you were somebody else.
1029
01:05:45,904 --> 01:05:47,072
No, no, it's all right.
1030
01:05:47,364 --> 01:05:48,657
And thank you for the tickets.
1031
01:05:48,824 --> 01:05:49,908
Very welcome.
1032
01:06:39,958 --> 01:06:41,084
There ya go.
1033
01:06:41,376 --> 01:06:42,503
Bottoms up.
1034
01:06:42,669 --> 01:06:43,670
Cheers.
1035
01:06:48,842 --> 01:06:50,511
What brings you
to this neck of the woods?
1036
01:06:50,677 --> 01:06:52,513
Oh, a murder investigation.
1037
01:06:52,679 --> 01:06:54,890
Yeah? Anyone I know?
1038
01:06:56,225 --> 01:06:57,226
You.
1039
01:07:00,896 --> 01:07:02,147
I'm sorry, I thought...
1040
01:07:02,314 --> 01:07:04,399
No, no, no. It's all right. It's all right.
1041
01:07:05,984 --> 01:07:07,736
Say, Inspector.
1042
01:07:09,112 --> 01:07:11,657
Tell me, was anyone...
1043
01:07:13,408 --> 01:07:15,827
you know, sad to see me go?
1044
01:07:22,459 --> 01:07:23,335
Figures.
1045
01:07:31,593 --> 01:07:33,387
I'm sorry, sir, you can't go in there.
1046
01:07:34,513 --> 01:07:36,014
You can only go in if you have a ticket.
1047
01:07:36,181 --> 01:07:37,975
I had a ticket. It was in my pocket.
1048
01:07:38,600 --> 01:07:41,812
That's... I could have sworn
I had on a pair of trousers.
1049
01:07:42,312 --> 01:07:43,564
I had trousers on.
1050
01:07:45,440 --> 01:07:46,400
Where's my ticket?
1051
01:07:46,942 --> 01:07:49,403
I'm sorry, sir. I can't let you in
unless you have a ticket.
1052
01:07:49,570 --> 01:07:51,864
I had a ticket.
I just don't have it on me.
1053
01:07:52,030 --> 01:07:53,991
Let me in!
Stop mucking about.
1054
01:07:54,157 --> 01:07:55,617
-I've gotta go in.
-No, please, sir.
1055
01:07:58,662 --> 01:07:59,955
You. I know you.
1056
01:08:01,665 --> 01:08:02,666
What are you doing?
1057
01:08:04,376 --> 01:08:06,086
Sir. Sir.
1058
01:08:06,253 --> 01:08:07,212
I've got a ticket!
1059
01:08:12,759 --> 01:08:14,136
The hell is going on?
1060
01:08:17,805 --> 01:08:19,015
What am I doing here?
1061
01:08:19,975 --> 01:08:21,475
What happened to my trousers?
1062
01:08:21,643 --> 01:08:22,935
You asked me to press them, sir.
1063
01:08:23,103 --> 01:08:24,104
I did?
1064
01:08:24,270 --> 01:08:25,564
Yes, sir. You were adamant.
1065
01:08:28,483 --> 01:08:29,902
How long have I been here?
1066
01:08:30,444 --> 01:08:31,528
Eighteen hours.
1067
01:08:35,741 --> 01:08:37,533
My head is killing me.
1068
01:08:37,701 --> 01:08:39,368
It's bloody freezing in here.
1069
01:08:41,455 --> 01:08:42,622
Did you make an arrest?
1070
01:08:44,166 --> 01:08:45,167
We did.
1071
01:08:45,876 --> 01:08:47,586
Who was it? Was it Gio?
1072
01:08:47,752 --> 01:08:48,754
Gio?
1073
01:08:49,421 --> 01:08:52,716
Yeah, Gio. The Italian chap, the killer.
1074
01:08:52,883 --> 01:08:55,636
The man in a darkish overcoat,
soft felt hat...
1075
01:08:55,801 --> 01:08:57,304
I chased out the theater.
1076
01:08:57,470 --> 01:08:59,305
Inspector, that man was you.
1077
01:08:59,848 --> 01:09:00,682
What?
1078
01:09:01,099 --> 01:09:04,019
You are the man in the darkish overcoat...
1079
01:09:04,228 --> 01:09:07,356
and the soft felt hat
that Constable Stalker here...
1080
01:09:08,023 --> 01:09:09,566
chased from the theater.
1081
01:09:10,817 --> 01:09:13,569
I'm sorry, I'm not following.
1082
01:09:13,737 --> 01:09:15,488
I think I might have a concussion.
1083
01:09:15,697 --> 01:09:16,823
Or the shakes?
1084
01:09:21,995 --> 01:09:23,538
No, this is ridiculous.
1085
01:09:23,705 --> 01:09:27,709
What possible reason could I have
for strangling a playwright?
1086
01:09:27,876 --> 01:09:30,170
I haven't seen anything he's done.
1087
01:09:30,337 --> 01:09:34,049
No, but Mervyn saw the woman
who visited Kopernick at the Savoy.
1088
01:09:35,008 --> 01:09:36,009
So?
1089
01:09:36,718 --> 01:09:37,719
Inspector...
1090
01:09:38,136 --> 01:09:40,639
have you spoken to Joyce lately?
1091
01:09:41,265 --> 01:09:42,390
Joyce?
1092
01:09:42,558 --> 01:09:43,559
Your wife.
1093
01:09:43,725 --> 01:09:44,725
Ex-wife.
1094
01:09:44,893 --> 01:09:47,020
Yes. I met her once at a police social.
1095
01:09:47,229 --> 01:09:49,898
A plain girl.
1096
01:09:50,064 --> 01:09:51,066
Very homely.
1097
01:09:51,274 --> 01:09:53,527
What does Joyce have to do with anything?
1098
01:09:53,694 --> 01:09:56,530
Her name was in Leo's little black book, sir.
1099
01:09:56,989 --> 01:10:00,117
Oh, come on.
You don't seriously think that Leo and...
1100
01:10:00,284 --> 01:10:02,536
Didn't your wife leave you for a Yank?
1101
01:10:02,953 --> 01:10:05,247
Leo was an American G.I.
1102
01:10:05,789 --> 01:10:08,500
Will you listen to yourselves?
You hear what you're sayin'?
1103
01:10:09,835 --> 01:10:10,836
Constable.
1104
01:10:16,508 --> 01:10:18,719
"They do it out of revenge or rage...
1105
01:10:18,969 --> 01:10:20,721
"because they have lost a loved one...
1106
01:10:20,888 --> 01:10:22,931
"and can't forgive or forget.
1107
01:10:23,473 --> 01:10:25,767
"So they just stew and fester...
1108
01:10:25,934 --> 01:10:29,605
"until it all comes out
in a sudden, frenzied act of violence."
1109
01:10:32,357 --> 01:10:34,151
You wrote that down.
1110
01:10:37,237 --> 01:10:39,406
That was a private conversation.
1111
01:10:40,657 --> 01:10:42,576
Well, I thought it could be important, sir.
1112
01:10:44,161 --> 01:10:45,537
Unbelievable.
1113
01:10:48,207 --> 01:10:49,374
We found her.
1114
01:10:49,541 --> 01:10:50,876
-Who?
-Joyce.
1115
01:10:51,043 --> 01:10:52,794
Joyce. Joyce is here?
1116
01:10:52,961 --> 01:10:53,795
Constable.
1117
01:11:12,439 --> 01:11:13,857
That's not my wife.
1118
01:11:14,942 --> 01:11:15,859
I'm sorry?
1119
01:11:16,068 --> 01:11:17,569
I said that's not my wife.
1120
01:11:17,945 --> 01:11:19,738
But it is your ex-wife.
1121
01:11:20,447 --> 01:11:22,950
Never seen that woman before in my life.
1122
01:11:25,077 --> 01:11:26,328
But your name is Joyce?
1123
01:11:28,080 --> 01:11:29,540
Well, it's a common name.
1124
01:11:31,500 --> 01:11:32,793
-'Course it is.
-Yeah.
1125
01:11:34,545 --> 01:11:35,546
'Course it is.
1126
01:11:38,048 --> 01:11:40,384
Well, Inspector, in that case, I believe...
1127
01:11:40,926 --> 01:11:42,511
you are owed an apology.
1128
01:11:45,806 --> 01:11:46,807
Constable.
1129
01:11:49,601 --> 01:11:50,894
Yes, sir. O' course.
1130
01:11:51,103 --> 01:11:53,063
I'm so sorry, sir.
1131
01:11:53,230 --> 01:11:57,150
I just got the wrong end of the stick,
and I have no excuse. I just...
1132
01:11:57,317 --> 01:11:59,862
I jumped to conclusions again. I'm so sorry.
1133
01:12:05,325 --> 01:12:08,245
Commissioner,
why don't you run along back to the office...
1134
01:12:08,412 --> 01:12:09,872
look over the quarterly accounts.
1135
01:12:10,038 --> 01:12:11,999
Let me handle the murder investigation.
1136
01:12:12,165 --> 01:12:13,333
Inspector.
1137
01:12:16,753 --> 01:12:17,754
Sorry.
1138
01:12:52,581 --> 01:12:53,957
It's Dickie and Sheila.
1139
01:12:54,208 --> 01:12:57,211
Hello, Woolf. Didn't expect to see you here.
1140
01:13:01,924 --> 01:13:03,217
Perhaps, it is...
1141
01:13:03,383 --> 01:13:05,552
Miss Rams... bottom.
1142
01:13:06,053 --> 01:13:08,013
Get that...
1143
01:13:15,187 --> 01:13:19,566
If you have broken down,
there is a garage not 15 miles from here.
1144
01:13:19,858 --> 01:13:21,527
No, we're here for dinner.
1145
01:13:21,693 --> 01:13:23,237
I don't think so, sir.
1146
01:13:23,862 --> 01:13:26,156
This is Winterbrook House?
1147
01:13:26,573 --> 01:13:27,866
The Christie residence?
1148
01:13:28,700 --> 01:13:29,701
It is.
1149
01:13:29,868 --> 01:13:30,744
We have an invitation.
1150
01:13:30,911 --> 01:13:31,954
We do, yes.
1151
01:13:33,956 --> 01:13:36,166
Richard Attenborough.
Friends call me "Dickie."
1152
01:13:44,007 --> 01:13:46,218
I do hope you haven't traveled far.
1153
01:13:50,222 --> 01:13:52,140
Fellowes! Who is it?
1154
01:13:52,307 --> 01:13:54,893
No one, sir. Tinkers.
1155
01:13:55,060 --> 01:13:58,981
What, in this unseasonable blizzard?
Come on, man. Open sesame.
1156
01:13:59,815 --> 01:14:01,608
Richard Attenborough.
Friends call me "Dickie."
1157
01:14:01,775 --> 01:14:03,777
Max Mallowan, eminent archaeologist.
1158
01:14:03,944 --> 01:14:05,195
Good God, man, you're frozen solid.
1159
01:14:05,362 --> 01:14:06,738
-It's cold. It's cold, yes.
-Come in.
1160
01:14:06,905 --> 01:14:08,532
-Hello, Sheila Sim.
-Hello.
1161
01:14:08,907 --> 01:14:10,242
-John Woolf.
-How do you do?
1162
01:14:10,492 --> 01:14:11,493
Ann Saville.
1163
01:14:11,660 --> 01:14:13,328
We're friends of Petula. Spencer.
1164
01:14:13,579 --> 01:14:15,289
Oh, yes. I know Choo.
1165
01:14:16,039 --> 01:14:18,542
We thought we'd been invited for dinner.
1166
01:14:18,709 --> 01:14:20,627
Yes, we received this...
1167
01:14:21,253 --> 01:14:23,380
but apparently, not from you.
1168
01:14:23,547 --> 01:14:24,673
Extraordinary.
1169
01:14:25,507 --> 01:14:28,135
You know who's going to love this? Agatha.
1170
01:14:28,302 --> 01:14:30,095
It's just like one of her confections.
1171
01:14:30,262 --> 01:14:33,140
She's in the kitchen now
trying to figure out some new ending.
1172
01:14:34,016 --> 01:14:36,059
It helps to do the dishes, apparently.
1173
01:14:40,063 --> 01:14:42,983
Hello. Who else didn't we invite to dinner?
1174
01:14:43,150 --> 01:14:44,401
Ah, it's Petula.
1175
01:14:44,568 --> 01:14:45,819
Why, so it is.
1176
01:14:46,695 --> 01:14:48,155
Come in out of the cold, Choo!
1177
01:14:48,322 --> 01:14:49,948
What on Earth have you got there?
1178
01:14:51,074 --> 01:14:52,159
It's not Mother, is it?
1179
01:14:52,326 --> 01:14:53,660
'Fraid so.
1180
01:14:54,036 --> 01:14:55,037
Oh, God.
1181
01:14:55,871 --> 01:14:57,581
Better make that eight for dinner, Fellowes,
and let Agatha know.
1182
01:14:57,706 --> 01:14:58,624
Yes, sir.
1183
01:14:58,832 --> 01:14:59,917
And get a shovel to clear the path.
1184
01:15:00,083 --> 01:15:01,001
Yes, sir.
1185
01:15:01,168 --> 01:15:02,169
And do we have enough coal?
1186
01:15:02,336 --> 01:15:03,879
Yes, sir. Three bags full, sir.
1187
01:15:04,046 --> 01:15:05,923
-Hello, Maxie.
-Hello, darling.
1188
01:15:06,590 --> 01:15:08,467
Oh, it's a full house.
1189
01:15:08,926 --> 01:15:09,927
Yes.
1190
01:15:10,093 --> 01:15:10,969
Mother.
1191
01:15:11,136 --> 01:15:13,096
Come on in.
Straight through to the drawing room.
1192
01:15:13,263 --> 01:15:14,473
-Here.
-Now...
1193
01:15:14,640 --> 01:15:17,893
I have a rather potent
Mesopotamian aperitif...
1194
01:15:18,060 --> 01:15:19,895
that'll have you thawed out in a jiffy.
1195
01:15:45,587 --> 01:15:48,090
I'm sorry again
that you had to find out like this.
1196
01:15:48,257 --> 01:15:50,592
Oh, I can't say it came as a surprise.
1197
01:15:51,677 --> 01:15:53,428
Leo was a bad seed.
1198
01:15:54,388 --> 01:15:55,889
Always in trouble, he was.
1199
01:15:56,974 --> 01:15:58,851
He picked a fight the night he took us out.
1200
01:15:59,268 --> 01:16:01,144
Mervyn Cocker-Norris at the hotel.
1201
01:16:01,937 --> 01:16:03,772
No. At the pictures.
1202
01:16:13,448 --> 01:16:17,494
He turned on this tall fella
who came in after us and shouted...
1203
01:16:17,661 --> 01:16:19,580
"What are you following me for, buddy?"
1204
01:16:20,330 --> 01:16:24,960
And... Did he know a good dentist,
'cause he was about to lose a lot of teeth.
1205
01:16:27,838 --> 01:16:30,174
Right, who's ready for a top-up?
1206
01:16:30,340 --> 01:16:31,175
No.
1207
01:16:31,341 --> 01:16:34,636
Where's the old girl?
Not gonna play the recluse card, is she?
1208
01:16:34,803 --> 01:16:36,972
Oh, no, no, no. She'll be down soon enough.
1209
01:16:39,349 --> 01:16:40,767
That will be Fellowes.
1210
01:16:40,934 --> 01:16:42,436
The man's an oaf.
1211
01:16:46,899 --> 01:16:48,567
A tall fella, you say?
1212
01:16:49,902 --> 01:16:51,486
Had a funny accent.
1213
01:16:53,322 --> 01:16:54,323
Italian?
1214
01:16:54,489 --> 01:16:55,699
No, not that funny.
1215
01:16:55,866 --> 01:16:57,117
More like...
1216
01:16:59,077 --> 01:17:00,495
a village idiot.
1217
01:17:04,917 --> 01:17:07,044
I'm sorry, but you have to get out.
1218
01:17:09,755 --> 01:17:11,673
No. Good heavens. No.
1219
01:17:22,309 --> 01:17:24,436
Scotland Yard, Sergeant Bakewell speaking.
1220
01:17:24,603 --> 01:17:25,729
Yes, Stoppard here.
1221
01:17:31,151 --> 01:17:32,444
Police, stand back.
1222
01:17:32,778 --> 01:17:33,779
He keeps a key...
1223
01:17:34,696 --> 01:17:35,822
under the mat.
1224
01:17:40,452 --> 01:17:42,204
Let me guess, Inspector.
1225
01:17:42,371 --> 01:17:43,622
You're after an address.
1226
01:17:44,248 --> 01:17:45,249
How did you know that?
1227
01:17:45,415 --> 01:17:48,585
Constable Stalker, sir. She called just now
for the same information.
1228
01:17:49,837 --> 01:17:50,921
Stalker?
1229
01:17:59,888 --> 01:18:00,889
Agatha?
1230
01:18:01,098 --> 01:18:02,391
Gosh, is she all right?
1231
01:18:35,132 --> 01:18:37,259
Where's Agatha? What have you done with her?
1232
01:18:45,058 --> 01:18:46,602
-It was the usher, sir.
-I know.
1233
01:18:46,768 --> 01:18:48,270
He was under our noses all this time.
1234
01:18:48,437 --> 01:18:50,480
-Is he in?
-No, sir. But I found this.
1235
01:18:50,689 --> 01:18:53,233
-If we get going now, sir, we can...
-I can take it from here, Constable.
1236
01:18:53,442 --> 01:18:54,860
Oh, right. And me, sir?
1237
01:18:55,027 --> 01:18:56,236
Go back to the station.
1238
01:18:57,487 --> 01:18:58,530
Yes, sir.
1239
01:18:58,697 --> 01:18:59,698
Oh, and, Constable?
1240
01:18:59,865 --> 01:19:00,866
Yes, sir?
1241
01:19:01,366 --> 01:19:03,118
Make a start on the paperwork.
1242
01:19:05,120 --> 01:19:06,121
Yes, sir.
1243
01:19:19,384 --> 01:19:22,054
Is it me, or does he look awfully familiar?
1244
01:19:22,596 --> 01:19:25,807
It's Dennis.
He's an usher from the Ambassadors.
1245
01:19:26,683 --> 01:19:28,227
Oh, Dennis!
1246
01:19:28,393 --> 01:19:29,686
So nice to see you.
1247
01:19:29,853 --> 01:19:32,606
This is a strange coincidence.
What are you doing here?
1248
01:19:33,607 --> 01:19:34,775
Well, I invited you.
1249
01:19:35,692 --> 01:19:36,693
Oh, my God.
1250
01:19:37,528 --> 01:19:39,154
You killed Leo and Mervyn!
1251
01:19:39,905 --> 01:19:40,906
I did.
1252
01:19:41,490 --> 01:19:43,867
I wanted to stop the film and the play.
1253
01:19:43,951 --> 01:19:45,410
What film? What play?
1254
01:19:45,494 --> 01:19:46,453
The Mousetrap!
1255
01:19:46,620 --> 01:19:48,163
Now, look here, Dennis.
1256
01:19:48,330 --> 01:19:50,999
We all have strong opinions on the theater.
1257
01:19:51,166 --> 01:19:54,461
In a sense, that's what it's there for,
to provoke emotion.
1258
01:19:54,920 --> 01:19:57,464
And I appreciate
you don't care for The Mousetrap.
1259
01:19:57,714 --> 01:20:00,884
I'll be the first to admit
it's not exactly Hamlet.
1260
01:20:01,260 --> 01:20:03,470
But you must see...
1261
01:20:04,012 --> 01:20:05,848
that this is a bit of an overreaction.
1262
01:20:06,014 --> 01:20:07,724
That's not what this is.
1263
01:20:07,891 --> 01:20:10,310
Then, what is this?
1264
01:20:10,769 --> 01:20:13,188
It's not your story to tell, is it?
It's mine.
1265
01:20:13,355 --> 01:20:14,606
Oh, I might have known.
1266
01:20:14,773 --> 01:20:18,443
A disgruntled writer.
Don't tell me, you had the idea first?
1267
01:20:18,610 --> 01:20:20,737
No. It happened to me.
1268
01:20:20,904 --> 01:20:23,490
I'm sorry, I am completely lost.
I don't have a theatrical background.
1269
01:20:23,991 --> 01:20:26,368
You're not Dennis Corrigan, are you?
1270
01:20:30,539 --> 01:20:32,082
Oh, you poor boy.
1271
01:20:32,875 --> 01:20:33,792
How do you mean?
1272
01:20:33,959 --> 01:20:36,295
He lost his brother in real life.
1273
01:20:36,503 --> 01:20:38,338
Dreadful business, it was.
1274
01:20:38,505 --> 01:20:40,716
It was years ago, now.
I told you about it.
1275
01:20:40,883 --> 01:20:43,010
It was the case The Mousetrap was based on.
1276
01:20:43,177 --> 01:20:45,470
Inspired by, Mother. And loosely.
1277
01:20:46,096 --> 01:20:47,764
Oh, but you're an usher.
1278
01:20:47,931 --> 01:20:50,058
You had to watch that play night after night.
1279
01:20:50,601 --> 01:20:52,144
It must've been torture.
1280
01:20:53,228 --> 01:20:54,855
I thought it would help.
1281
01:20:55,939 --> 01:20:58,192
He was only six when he died, my brother.
1282
01:20:58,358 --> 01:21:00,694
The Mousetrap is actually based
on a real-life case.
1283
01:21:00,861 --> 01:21:04,907
Neglected and left for dead by the people
who were supposed to look after us.
1284
01:21:06,033 --> 01:21:09,411
It sold a lot of newspapers,
but no one cared about us.
1285
01:21:11,663 --> 01:21:14,124
I thought the play would be different.
1286
01:21:14,291 --> 01:21:16,543
A famous writer was going to tell our story.
1287
01:21:16,710 --> 01:21:20,130
Two brothers who put their faith
in the British social services.
1288
01:21:20,297 --> 01:21:23,091
But when I saw what Agatha Christie
had done...
1289
01:21:23,258 --> 01:21:27,012
used our pain and suffering as a motive
for a deranged killer...
1290
01:21:28,055 --> 01:21:30,849
my brother's death reduced
to a cheap sideshow...
1291
01:21:31,016 --> 01:21:32,476
There's been a murder?
1292
01:21:32,643 --> 01:21:35,771
...I knew he wouldn't be able to rest
in peace until the play ended.
1293
01:21:36,438 --> 01:21:38,857
But it didn't.
1294
01:21:39,024 --> 01:21:42,027
It just went on, and on, and on.
1295
01:21:42,194 --> 01:21:44,446
The Mousetrap is 100, not out.
1296
01:21:44,613 --> 01:21:47,574
When I heard about the film adaptation,
I just snapped.
1297
01:21:48,492 --> 01:21:51,119
Without me, there is no movie.
You understand?
1298
01:21:51,286 --> 01:21:52,329
You got a problem, buddy?
1299
01:21:52,496 --> 01:21:54,289
I killed the director to stop the film...
1300
01:21:55,290 --> 01:21:58,377
and thought a corpse on the stage
would put an end to the play.
1301
01:22:00,295 --> 01:22:02,256
But they didn't even close the theater.
1302
01:22:02,422 --> 01:22:04,800
Do you think you might be finished in time
for curtain up tomorrow night?
1303
01:22:05,425 --> 01:22:08,428
And Mervyn's new ideas for the film
made me sick to my stomach.
1304
01:22:08,971 --> 01:22:12,975
I'll take the bare bones of the story,
a rather mundane tale of child abuse...
1305
01:22:13,141 --> 01:22:14,518
and make it my own.
1306
01:22:14,893 --> 01:22:16,103
He left me no choice.
1307
01:22:18,063 --> 01:22:19,106
You startled me.
1308
01:22:19,273 --> 01:22:20,691
I had to kill him, too.
1309
01:22:23,443 --> 01:22:25,279
I thought that would be the end of it.
1310
01:22:25,863 --> 01:22:28,282
But you all just carried on like nothing
had happened.
1311
01:22:29,908 --> 01:22:31,368
Shame on you.
1312
01:22:33,161 --> 01:22:36,623
Well, maybe you'll take notice if I kill
Agatha Christie herself.
1313
01:22:40,836 --> 01:22:42,171
Oh, I think she's tryin' to say something.
1314
01:22:42,337 --> 01:22:44,673
Oh, for God's sake, let her out.
I'll stop the film.
1315
01:22:44,840 --> 01:22:46,717
And the play. This is barbaric.
1316
01:22:47,050 --> 01:22:48,051
Fine.
1317
01:22:55,434 --> 01:22:56,435
Edana?
1318
01:22:57,352 --> 01:22:59,396
Darling, what are you doing here?
1319
01:22:59,563 --> 01:23:03,317
I followed you.
I suppose I was going to make a scene.
1320
01:23:03,525 --> 01:23:04,693
Hello, Ann.
1321
01:23:05,444 --> 01:23:08,822
Then this beanpole assaulted me,
and I woke up in a carpet.
1322
01:23:08,989 --> 01:23:11,617
If you're not Agatha Christie,
where the hell is she?
1323
01:23:11,783 --> 01:23:13,410
Good God, man. You mean you don't know?
1324
01:23:13,577 --> 01:23:16,163
What kind of a bumbling,
half-witted psychopath are you?
1325
01:23:16,330 --> 01:23:18,498
Will you be quiet! Please!
1326
01:23:18,957 --> 01:23:20,501
Let me think!
1327
01:23:20,667 --> 01:23:21,502
Yes, of course!
1328
01:23:21,710 --> 01:23:24,713
Of course.
Why don't you come in and sit down, Dennis?
1329
01:23:25,547 --> 01:23:27,132
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1330
01:23:27,299 --> 01:23:29,676
Have a little moment to yourself.
1331
01:24:39,913 --> 01:24:40,914
What?
1332
01:25:03,145 --> 01:25:04,146
Well...
1333
01:25:05,564 --> 01:25:07,858
I, for one, believe that...
1334
01:25:08,650 --> 01:25:10,694
Dennis here is owed an apology.
1335
01:25:11,486 --> 01:25:14,323
-Yes.
-He's right, of course.
1336
01:25:14,489 --> 01:25:15,699
The truth is the truth.
1337
01:25:15,866 --> 01:25:18,911
It is not to be manipulated or played with...
1338
01:25:19,077 --> 01:25:20,621
and certainly not for entertainment.
1339
01:25:20,787 --> 01:25:22,206
-No, no.
-No, no.
1340
01:25:22,372 --> 01:25:25,334
-Art is supposed to reveal the truth...
-Yes.
1341
01:25:25,501 --> 01:25:27,085
-Yeah.
-...not pervert it.
1342
01:25:27,920 --> 01:25:31,840
How would Agatha Christie like it
if someone took one of her stories...
1343
01:25:32,007 --> 01:25:36,303
and twisted it and corrupted it
just for the hell of it?
1344
01:25:37,262 --> 01:25:38,680
She wouldn't.
1345
01:25:38,847 --> 01:25:42,809
I think that we should all feel
thoroughly ashamed of ourselves.
1346
01:25:42,976 --> 01:25:44,228
Oh, here we are.
1347
01:25:44,394 --> 01:25:45,270
Tea for everyone.
1348
01:25:45,437 --> 01:25:46,522
There you are, my dear.
1349
01:25:46,730 --> 01:25:48,398
Sorry to have kept you.
1350
01:25:48,565 --> 01:25:50,609
No, no, please don't get up,
not on my account.
1351
01:25:51,318 --> 01:25:52,236
There, there.
1352
01:25:52,402 --> 01:25:54,613
-No, no, no, it's fine.
-Be careful.
1353
01:25:54,780 --> 01:25:58,242
Just as it was.
I think it was that way.
1354
01:25:58,408 --> 01:26:01,537
It is so nice to see you again, Agatha,
in spite of the circumstances.
1355
01:26:01,703 --> 01:26:04,331
No, no, no, not that one.
No, that's for Dennis.
1356
01:26:08,168 --> 01:26:09,545
It is Dennis, isn't it?
1357
01:26:10,963 --> 01:26:11,964
There we are.
1358
01:26:12,506 --> 01:26:14,341
I put an extra lump in.
1359
01:26:15,217 --> 01:26:16,468
Thank you.
1360
01:26:16,635 --> 01:26:18,303
Everyone else, help themselves.
1361
01:26:20,556 --> 01:26:22,391
Now, Dennis.
1362
01:26:22,558 --> 01:26:25,435
How can I help?
Why don't we sit here and drink our tea...
1363
01:26:25,602 --> 01:26:28,188
and discuss the matter like civilized people?
1364
01:26:30,190 --> 01:26:32,067
I want you to stop The Mousetrap.
1365
01:26:32,234 --> 01:26:34,987
Oh, I am sorry, but that I cannot do. No.
1366
01:26:35,445 --> 01:26:38,365
I'm afraid it goes against
everything I hold dear in life.
1367
01:26:38,991 --> 01:26:41,201
Yes. I'm a writer, you see.
1368
01:26:41,368 --> 01:26:44,538
I can't be told what to write
or what not to write.
1369
01:26:44,705 --> 01:26:47,583
It would be a denial of one's freedom.
1370
01:26:48,709 --> 01:26:52,546
Do you see, Dennis? Do drink up.
1371
01:27:18,030 --> 01:27:19,281
Good God, Fellowes.
1372
01:27:20,949 --> 01:27:22,159
Get up. Get up.
1373
01:27:22,367 --> 01:27:23,911
Now, look here, young man, I...
1374
01:27:24,912 --> 01:27:25,746
Max!
1375
01:27:47,059 --> 01:27:48,101
-Yes, good idea...
-Yes.
1376
01:27:48,727 --> 01:27:50,854
Oh, my God. Now what's happened?
1377
01:28:09,623 --> 01:28:10,624
Dennis.
1378
01:28:12,793 --> 01:28:15,128
Put the popular author down, please, Dennis.
1379
01:28:15,671 --> 01:28:16,964
No.
1380
01:28:21,093 --> 01:28:23,512
Sheila, darling, now's hardly the time.
1381
01:28:23,679 --> 01:28:25,597
Dickie, I need a light.
1382
01:28:25,764 --> 01:28:27,099
But you don't smoke.
1383
01:28:27,891 --> 01:28:29,226
Dickie.
1384
01:29:04,511 --> 01:29:05,345
Look out!
1385
01:29:07,014 --> 01:29:08,015
No, Dennis!
1386
01:29:08,932 --> 01:29:10,475
Don't do it, please!
1387
01:29:16,523 --> 01:29:17,566
Darling!
1388
01:29:19,276 --> 01:29:22,905
It's all right. He's dead. It's over.
1389
01:29:26,491 --> 01:29:27,492
Sir...
1390
01:29:28,827 --> 01:29:29,953
I'm bleedin'.
1391
01:29:33,165 --> 01:29:36,877
Hang in there, Constable.
Sergeant's exam's in a month.
1392
01:29:37,544 --> 01:29:39,588
It's funny, sir.
I actually... I don't feel anything.
1393
01:29:39,755 --> 01:29:41,089
I think it mighta just been a nick.
1394
01:29:41,256 --> 01:29:43,675
Yeah. Just the nick of time, I'd say.
1395
01:29:44,051 --> 01:29:45,052
Very good.
1396
01:29:46,261 --> 01:29:47,387
I'm sorry, Constable.
1397
01:29:48,472 --> 01:29:52,976
I haven't been altogether honest or open
or loyal or fair to you as a partner.
1398
01:29:53,477 --> 01:29:56,855
Truth be told,
I haven't been a partner at all, you know.
1399
01:29:57,689 --> 01:29:58,690
Sir, you don't have to say that.
1400
01:29:58,857 --> 01:30:00,692
No, I want you to know...
1401
01:30:00,859 --> 01:30:02,110
I do trust you.
1402
01:30:02,277 --> 01:30:04,988
Thank you, sir. That does mean a lot.
1403
01:30:05,155 --> 01:30:08,784
But when I say that I can't feel anything,
I think what I mean is that...
1404
01:30:09,618 --> 01:30:11,954
I don't think the bullet hit me, sir.
1405
01:30:12,120 --> 01:30:13,163
What do you mean?
1406
01:30:14,206 --> 01:30:15,415
Did you...
1407
01:30:16,750 --> 01:30:18,710
-Oh, I see.
-Oh, no. Yeah.
1408
01:30:18,877 --> 01:30:20,754
Oh. Well, you're right again, Constable.
1409
01:30:20,921 --> 01:30:21,922
Are you all right, sir?
1410
01:30:22,089 --> 01:30:23,298
I think you better call an ambulance.
1411
01:30:23,465 --> 01:30:24,466
Yep.
1412
01:30:25,968 --> 01:30:27,970
Yes, I don't feel so good.
1413
01:30:29,847 --> 01:30:31,640
A shoot-out and a big explosion.
1414
01:30:32,266 --> 01:30:35,310
Perhaps it's for the best
that Mervyn wasn't alive to see it.
1415
01:30:36,436 --> 01:30:37,437
Quite.
1416
01:31:08,385 --> 01:31:11,138
It's okay, everyone, I'm fine.
1417
01:31:16,310 --> 01:31:20,397
Now that's what I call
a Leo Kopernick ending.
1418
01:31:22,274 --> 01:31:24,693
But before we go our separate ways...
1419
01:31:24,860 --> 01:31:28,655
you'll be wanting to know what
became of the heroes of this tale.
1420
01:31:31,491 --> 01:31:37,497
Constable Stalker, as advertised, sat
her sergeant's exams in the spring of 1953.
1421
01:31:40,334 --> 01:31:42,169
She aced them.
1422
01:31:44,129 --> 01:31:47,049
Detective Inspector George Stoppard.
1423
01:31:47,508 --> 01:31:53,180
Inspector Stoppard was awarded
the King's Police and Fire Services Medal.
1424
01:31:54,348 --> 01:31:57,100
Harrold Scott received a Knighthood.
1425
01:32:00,854 --> 01:32:06,652
The play, if you can believe it,
is still going strong in London's West End.
1426
01:32:08,028 --> 01:32:11,907
Over 10 million people have sat through
The Mousetrap.
1427
01:32:12,115 --> 01:32:15,452
Two brothers who put their faith
in the British social services.
1428
01:32:16,662 --> 01:32:19,998
A sorry tale of abuse that ended in tragedy.
1429
01:32:22,501 --> 01:32:24,503
Well, now that you've seen our film...
1430
01:32:24,753 --> 01:32:27,297
you are an accomplice to murder.
1431
01:32:27,464 --> 01:32:30,342
And so we ask you to remember
that it is very much in your interest...
1432
01:32:30,509 --> 01:32:32,219
not to tell a soul outside of this...
1433
01:32:32,886 --> 01:32:34,179
Sir.
Sorry.
1434
01:32:34,346 --> 01:32:36,807
But I've missed the endin' once.
1435
01:32:36,974 --> 01:32:38,350
I don't wanna miss it again.
1436
01:32:38,517 --> 01:32:41,061
No, of course not. I'm sorry. Sorry.