0:00:02 > 0:00:03There's some talk against your boy.
0:00:03 > 0:00:05If the woman that's come between you and Sylvia
0:00:05 > 0:00:07is our little suffragette...
0:00:07 > 0:00:10I want you to swear on your St Anthony that you won't leave me.
0:00:10 > 0:00:12I'll do no such thing.
0:00:12 > 0:00:14- Will you be my mistress tonight? - Yes!
0:00:14 > 0:00:16My husband is going out to war tomorrow.
0:00:16 > 0:00:19But I'd keep off the grass.
0:00:19 > 0:00:21You cannot conceive of the explosives
0:00:21 > 0:00:23the armies throw at each other.
0:00:23 > 0:00:25Had the stuffing knocked out of me.
0:00:25 > 0:00:27- GUNSHOT - I won't take his money.
0:00:27 > 0:00:30- You usually forgive a fellow who shoots himself.- I don't.
0:00:30 > 0:00:33Couldn't you bring yourself to seduce that little kitchen maid?
0:00:33 > 0:00:36There'd have been a chance for us.
0:00:36 > 0:00:38What I stand for is gone.
0:00:38 > 0:00:43And yet I may not say this is an accursed war.
0:00:43 > 0:00:50This programme contains some strong language.
0:00:50 > 0:00:57This programme contains some scenes which some viewers may find upsetting
0:01:11 > 0:01:13Edward's command is at Rouen,
0:01:13 > 0:01:16or "somewhere in France", we're supposed to say.
0:01:16 > 0:01:19Bertram tells me you lost a window during the last raid?
0:01:19 > 0:01:21- Are you going to the Sackvilles'? - I thought so.
0:01:21 > 0:01:25..it's also to tell the French, best shut up about the single command.
0:01:25 > 0:01:27No, no votes for you I'm afraid.
0:01:27 > 0:01:29It's going to be for married women over 30.
0:01:29 > 0:01:32It's a serious problem on the whole front.
0:01:32 > 0:01:34Horses decimated by pink-eye.
0:01:34 > 0:01:36You should put that fellow, Hotchkiss,
0:01:36 > 0:01:38in charge of the horse lines.
0:01:38 > 0:01:42The warhorse needs to be hardened. Mollycoddling will ruin him.
0:01:42 > 0:01:45Hotchkiss is the man you need in France.
0:01:45 > 0:01:47Hotchkiss?
0:01:47 > 0:01:50You'll find him in Horse World, advertising embrocation.
0:01:50 > 0:01:51"Get hold of Hotchkiss!"
0:01:53 > 0:01:55The Comet will back you.
0:01:56 > 0:01:58The Comet's first edition, My Lord.
0:01:58 > 0:02:04General, Sylvia wants a pass to the Infantry Base Depot in Rouen.
0:02:04 > 0:02:06She wants to see her husband.
0:02:06 > 0:02:09Strictly out of bounds to wives, I'm afraid, Mrs Tietjens.
0:02:09 > 0:02:11Hmm, and what about mistresses?
0:02:11 > 0:02:15I bet there's a few of those behind the lines.
0:02:15 > 0:02:17I think it's jolly unfair.
0:02:17 > 0:02:19Here you are, Bertram.
0:02:19 > 0:02:23Might as well spoil your dinner as your breakfast!
0:02:23 > 0:02:28The Comet exposes the scandal of our out-of-touch command in Flanders.
0:02:28 > 0:02:29I'm sure it does,
0:02:29 > 0:02:32but it's your own fault for building up General Perry in the first place.
0:02:32 > 0:02:35Wait until the German spring offensive
0:02:35 > 0:02:38gives him a bloody nose, Beichen, and then we can bring him home.
0:02:38 > 0:02:41Is that why you're keeping the Commander-in-Chief
0:02:41 > 0:02:42short of troops, Bertram?
0:02:42 > 0:02:47If we gave Perry the men, he'd lose half of them in a week.
0:02:47 > 0:02:49If I had my way, we'd let the French go to blazes.
0:02:49 > 0:02:51Quite.
0:02:51 > 0:02:53There won't always be a European war,
0:02:53 > 0:02:56but there'll always be an Empire.
0:02:56 > 0:02:58What about Salonika, Bertram?
0:02:58 > 0:03:00Salonika?
0:03:00 > 0:03:03Nathan, isn't that where your people originally...
0:03:03 > 0:03:05Not originally, my dear!
0:03:05 > 0:03:08THEY ALL LAUGH POLITELY
0:03:08 > 0:03:09I say, it would be nice
0:03:09 > 0:03:12if we could forget the war just for five minutes...
0:03:12 > 0:03:14TRUMPETS AND CANNON FIRE
0:03:16 > 0:03:18I give up!
0:03:18 > 0:03:21- Move to adjourn.- Come on, my dear.
0:03:21 > 0:03:24GUNFIRE AND EXPLOSION
0:03:25 > 0:03:28NEARBY EXPLOSION
0:03:28 > 0:03:29Mother!
0:03:29 > 0:03:32- I'm just finishing.- It'll be the finish of you if you don't...
0:03:32 > 0:03:35EXPLOSION Mother!
0:03:39 > 0:03:40I'm writing to Christopher.
0:03:43 > 0:03:46At least HE isn't in the casualty lists.
0:03:46 > 0:03:47I always look.
0:03:47 > 0:03:49Of course he's not. He's not in the fighting.
0:03:49 > 0:03:52His brother got him into a job looking after horses!
0:03:52 > 0:03:55EXPLOSIONS CONTINUE
0:03:55 > 0:03:56TRUMPETS PLAY
0:03:56 > 0:03:58There's the all-clear.
0:04:00 > 0:04:03Sylvia, I need you to rally round.
0:04:03 > 0:04:05Johnny's behaving appallingly.
0:04:05 > 0:04:08Oh, what, you mean about your divertissement?
0:04:08 > 0:04:10It's not a divertissement.
0:04:10 > 0:04:12I'm bolting!
0:04:12 > 0:04:14Oh, Bobbie!
0:04:15 > 0:04:17You mean you and...?
0:04:18 > 0:04:20But he's...
0:04:20 > 0:04:21It's not his fault he's a Jew.
0:04:21 > 0:04:25Fat, I was going to say. It's his fault he's fat.
0:04:25 > 0:04:27He wants to marry me.
0:04:27 > 0:04:30So I need you to get Johnny over the hump.
0:04:31 > 0:04:34No, just take him out and about.
0:04:34 > 0:04:37He's a good old sausage.
0:04:38 > 0:04:40I want to do my best for him.
0:04:41 > 0:04:46That's all very well, but I've a mind to visit Christopher in France.
0:04:47 > 0:04:49I've written to General Campion.
0:04:58 > 0:05:01I wish Tietjens would write to his damned wife,
0:05:01 > 0:05:03or, at any rate, stop her from writing to me.
0:05:03 > 0:05:06It's not my job to reassure the wives of officers
0:05:06 > 0:05:08their husbands are still alive, damn it.
0:05:08 > 0:05:10It's bad enough having to write to them when they're not.
0:05:10 > 0:05:13There's a movement order come in for Captain Tietjens, sir,
0:05:13 > 0:05:16from the War Office, Room G14-R.
0:05:16 > 0:05:19- It was mis-routed and has only now caught up, I'm afraid. - Movement? To where?
0:05:19 > 0:05:21Divisional horse transport.
0:05:21 > 0:05:24Well, you can tell Room G14-R, whoever the hell they are,
0:05:24 > 0:05:26that I'm not parting with Captain Tietjens!
0:05:26 > 0:05:28He's the only officer on the base
0:05:28 > 0:05:31who can get his draft into marching order on time.
0:05:31 > 0:05:33Not that he isn't a confounded nuisance.
0:05:33 > 0:05:38I could give them Captain McKechnie when he's back from divorce leave.
0:05:38 > 0:05:41He's sane enough for horses, isn't he?
0:05:41 > 0:05:43Captain McKechnie HAS returned from leave, sir,
0:05:43 > 0:05:45but he omitted to get divorced.
0:05:46 > 0:05:47How DARE he not get divorced!
0:05:47 > 0:05:52He told me his wife was co-habiting with an...Egyptian, wasn't it?
0:05:52 > 0:05:54Some sort of dago, anyway.
0:05:54 > 0:05:57No, sir, an EGYPTOLOGIST. They've agreed to share her.
0:05:57 > 0:06:00That dirty dog! I'll strip him of his commission!
0:06:03 > 0:06:07A damn fine officer when he isn't going mad,
0:06:07 > 0:06:09and a Vice Chancellor's Latin prize man, as well.
0:06:11 > 0:06:14Another brilliant fellow, like Tietjens.
0:06:15 > 0:06:16That's a thought.
0:06:18 > 0:06:19They can be brilliant together.
0:06:21 > 0:06:24BELL RINGS
0:06:32 > 0:06:34Does "subter" take the accusative or the ablative?
0:06:34 > 0:06:38Both. Accusative when it's "under" as a motion,
0:06:38 > 0:06:41and ablative when it's "under" as a state.
0:06:48 > 0:06:51"... pictured at Lady Hazlitt's Ball
0:06:51 > 0:06:53"with the Honourable Johnnie Pelham..."
0:06:53 > 0:06:54"..Mrs Christopher Tietjens,
0:06:54 > 0:06:57"whose husband is in hospital at the Front"!
0:06:58 > 0:07:00Sylvia must have told them that herself.
0:07:01 > 0:07:02HE SCOFFS
0:07:02 > 0:07:05The paper wouldn't put the knife into her.
0:07:05 > 0:07:07Women like Sylvia are the jam on their bread and butter.
0:07:07 > 0:07:10But why would she do that?
0:07:10 > 0:07:12To let him know she's on the warpath.
0:07:14 > 0:07:18Well, don't worry about Christopher, it was only pneumonia,
0:07:18 > 0:07:19and not at the Front.
0:07:19 > 0:07:22He's 100 miles from the nearest German trench.
0:07:22 > 0:07:26His job is kitting out fresh troops on their way to the fighting.
0:07:26 > 0:07:28Nothing to worry about but air raids.
0:07:28 > 0:07:29But are they dropping bombs on him?
0:07:29 > 0:07:34My dear, they're dropping bombs on you, and yet here you are.
0:07:34 > 0:07:39But I thought Christopher was looking after horses somewhere safe.
0:07:39 > 0:07:41That's the War Office for you.
0:07:41 > 0:07:46But an Infantry Base Depot is a soft posting,
0:07:46 > 0:07:48so long as you're not sent back to your battalion.
0:07:48 > 0:07:50Anything but the trenches!
0:07:52 > 0:07:55THEY ROAR AND SCREAM
0:07:57 > 0:07:58Move it, move it, move it!
0:08:01 > 0:08:03Shoulder...arms!
0:08:04 > 0:08:07Present...arms!
0:08:07 > 0:08:09Shoulder...arms!
0:08:11 > 0:08:13Quick...march!
0:08:13 > 0:08:18Left, right, left, right, left, right, left, right...
0:08:32 > 0:08:34Hmm.
0:08:34 > 0:08:37General Campion is attaching Captain McKechnie to my unit
0:08:37 > 0:08:40for rations and discipline. What's that about?
0:08:40 > 0:08:41I can't say as I can say, sir.
0:08:42 > 0:08:45"A Vice-Chancellor's Latin prize man".
0:08:45 > 0:08:47Well, I'm sure that will come in useful(!)
0:08:49 > 0:08:51fire-extinguishers.
0:08:51 > 0:08:52We indented the Royal Engineers.
0:08:52 > 0:08:54Sir.
0:08:54 > 0:08:58The Royal Engineers said, as per army directive 1BDR 3417,
0:08:58 > 0:09:02for fire-extinguishers, we should apply to Ordnance.
0:09:02 > 0:09:04Ordnance said there's no provision for them
0:09:04 > 0:09:06for Canadian units passing through an Infantry Base Depot,
0:09:06 > 0:09:09and that the proper course would be to obtain them
0:09:09 > 0:09:11from a civilian firm and charge them against barrack damages.
0:09:11 > 0:09:13- Yes, sir.- I have here a letter
0:09:13 > 0:09:17from the leading British manufacturer of fire-extinguishers,
0:09:17 > 0:09:19telling me that they have been forbidden by the War Office
0:09:19 > 0:09:23to sell fire-extinguishers to anyone but to the War Office direct.
0:09:23 > 0:09:26- Thank God we have a navy. - Yes, sir.
0:09:27 > 0:09:29Cardiff Police Office...
0:09:29 > 0:09:340-9 Morgan is outside, sir. Application for compassionate leave.
0:09:34 > 0:09:37His wife has sold their laundry business to someone, name of Evans.
0:09:37 > 0:09:39Now she can't get the money.
0:09:39 > 0:09:41True in as far as it goes.
0:09:41 > 0:09:44The police say his wife is now living with Mr Evans,
0:09:44 > 0:09:46a prize-fighter, and we should keep 0-9 Morgan here
0:09:46 > 0:09:48if we know what's good for him. In he comes.
0:09:48 > 0:09:50Sir.
0:09:53 > 0:09:570-9 Morgan, present yourself to the officer, at the double!
0:10:02 > 0:10:03Well now, 0-9 Morgan...
0:10:04 > 0:10:09..because there are things I have to discuss with Christopher,
0:10:09 > 0:10:12and what is the point in being permanent secretary
0:10:12 > 0:10:15of the Department of Transport if you can't transport me -
0:10:15 > 0:10:19I put it like that - between London and Rouen?
0:10:19 > 0:10:20This is family business, Mark.
0:10:22 > 0:10:24I have to go to the office.
0:10:27 > 0:10:29SHE SIGHS
0:10:40 > 0:10:42As far as I'm concerned,
0:10:42 > 0:10:44Groby is Christopher's to do what he likes with.
0:10:44 > 0:10:47So if you can produce his written authorisation,
0:10:47 > 0:10:51I have no objection to your living at Groby.
0:10:51 > 0:10:54But, of course, if what you say is true,
0:10:54 > 0:10:57he might want to live at Groby with Miss Wannop.
0:11:00 > 0:11:03Well, that's why I'm asking you now...
0:11:03 > 0:11:05I'm afraid you overestimate my authority,
0:11:05 > 0:11:07which does not extend to France,
0:11:07 > 0:11:10and in any case, does not exceed General Campion's
0:11:10 > 0:11:13in matters that concern the army. Thank you for coming to see me.
0:11:20 > 0:11:22Utter nonsense!
0:11:22 > 0:11:25I'll buy a ticket at the station!
0:11:25 > 0:11:26See if they can stop me.
0:11:29 > 0:11:30Never known a woman like her.
0:11:30 > 0:11:32She says she's going to come and see for herself!
0:11:32 > 0:11:36On no account... On NO account is Mrs Tietjens
0:11:36 > 0:11:40to be allowed within 50 miles of Rouen. Understood?
0:11:40 > 0:11:43Inform the War Office, the Provost Marshal, the port authorities
0:11:43 > 0:11:44and the rail authorities.
0:11:44 > 0:11:47I will not have skirts around my HQ!
0:11:47 > 0:11:52More importantly, General Perry is now on the telephone twice a day.
0:11:52 > 0:11:55He has troops who were due to be relieved weeks ago,
0:11:55 > 0:11:57and I have troops waiting for Ordnance
0:11:57 > 0:11:59to supply them with eyebrow tweezers
0:11:59 > 0:12:01while our political masters keep changing their minds
0:12:01 > 0:12:03whether to send them up the line
0:12:03 > 0:12:07or ship them to Salonika or Mesopotamia or Timbuktu!
0:12:07 > 0:12:12But I have one draft of Canadian troops
0:12:12 > 0:12:15ready to go to the Front today.
0:12:15 > 0:12:18That's the draft prepared by Captain Tietjens's unit.
0:12:18 > 0:12:22Captain Thurston, do I have the trains or do I not?
0:12:22 > 0:12:26You have the trains, sir, and the co-operation of the French railway,
0:12:26 > 0:12:29going east to the Front, certainly.
0:12:29 > 0:12:32I want these troops on their way to Flanders before London can blink!
0:12:32 > 0:12:33Oui, mon general.
0:12:33 > 0:12:36Champagne at two o'clock!
0:12:38 > 0:12:39Which train, Madam?
0:12:39 > 0:12:42Oh, I don't know. Dover, I expect.
0:12:45 > 0:12:46Sylvia!
0:12:46 > 0:12:50Potty! What are you doing here?
0:12:50 > 0:12:52- King's Messenger!- King's Messenger?
0:12:52 > 0:12:55Yes. Glorified postman, really, but frightfully important!
0:12:55 > 0:12:59Locked carriages, private cabins, saluted through the gate.
0:12:59 > 0:13:00Oh!
0:13:00 > 0:13:01Where are you off to?
0:13:01 > 0:13:03Where are you?
0:13:03 > 0:13:06This way, sir.
0:13:07 > 0:13:09Gosh, I've missed you, Sylvia.
0:13:10 > 0:13:15MARCHING BAND PLAYS
0:13:34 > 0:13:37Thank you. Captain.
0:13:41 > 0:13:42Good day to you, gentlemen.
0:13:42 > 0:13:45Everyone got a glass? Splendid.
0:13:45 > 0:13:47PHONE RINGS
0:13:49 > 0:13:54Well, then, it's been our pleasure to fit out you and your men
0:13:54 > 0:13:56for the task ahead. Somebody deal with that telephone.
0:13:56 > 0:14:01It's a great task, and thanks to Captain Tietjens and his unit,
0:14:01 > 0:14:06you Canadians go to the front in good order.
0:14:06 > 0:14:10You will be relieving soldiers who've been in the trenches for many weeks.
0:14:10 > 0:14:15Believe me, 3,000 fresh troops under keen, young officers
0:14:15 > 0:14:19is just what the Hun doesn't want to face in our part of the line.
0:14:19 > 0:14:23Discipline and training will keep you alive. Remember it.
0:14:23 > 0:14:25I'll be at the railhead to see you off.
0:14:25 > 0:14:29Form-up at 2000, air raids permitting.
0:14:34 > 0:14:38That's in the event of there being no further orders. Thank you!
0:14:41 > 0:14:42Captain Tietjens, come with me!
0:14:45 > 0:14:47The draft has been countermanded.
0:14:47 > 0:14:48I'll find out what's going on,
0:14:48 > 0:14:51but you'd better be ready to get the men back under canvas tonight.
0:14:51 > 0:14:53- Yes, sir. May I ask...? - No, you may not.
0:14:55 > 0:14:59MARCHING BAND PLAYS
0:15:10 > 0:15:15I can't tell you where overseas these new orders will be taking you,
0:15:15 > 0:15:19but, believe me, the war where you're going is every bit as important
0:15:19 > 0:15:25as the war in Flanders and you WILL get your chance at the Hun.
0:15:25 > 0:15:29PHONE RINGS
0:15:29 > 0:15:32I dare say you're disappointed. Stop that telephone.
0:15:36 > 0:15:40But I know that you Canadians will enjoy the challenge
0:15:40 > 0:15:43and some rather warmer weather.
0:15:44 > 0:15:47That's, er, a clue for you.
0:15:47 > 0:15:50You will form your men up at 1700 hours
0:15:50 > 0:15:51for the march to the railhead.
0:15:51 > 0:15:53We'll try to send you off by 1900,
0:15:53 > 0:15:56before the expected air raid.
0:15:56 > 0:15:58That's all, gentlemen. Good luck!
0:15:59 > 0:16:03It was Major Perowne, sir, calling for a driver. He's at the station.
0:16:03 > 0:16:04Good.
0:16:04 > 0:16:07And... And he's got Mrs Tietjens with him.
0:16:26 > 0:16:31WHISPERS: I will break you for this. I will smash you.
0:16:31 > 0:16:36General! How lovely! We've all been missing you.
0:16:37 > 0:16:39Tietjens.
0:16:39 > 0:16:42May I ask a small favour for my orderly?
0:16:42 > 0:16:45His mother's come from Montreal to say goodbye to him.
0:16:48 > 0:16:50A pass to leave the camp?
0:16:50 > 0:16:52If he misses the draft, you'll get me shot.
0:16:52 > 0:16:54She's lost two sons already.
0:16:54 > 0:16:57He could see her and still be back in time for the draft.
0:17:00 > 0:17:04EXPLOSIONS AND SCREAMS
0:17:04 > 0:17:07If I could scream louder than the bombs, that would fix it,
0:17:07 > 0:17:08then I'd be all right.
0:17:08 > 0:17:10McKechnie, control yourself!
0:17:10 > 0:17:12She sold it to some bugger called Evans.
0:17:12 > 0:17:15If I thought it was William Evans of Castell Coch, I'd desert.
0:17:15 > 0:17:19Don't talk that way, Morgan! You'll get your leave soon.
0:17:19 > 0:17:20Midnight before we can march them out.
0:17:20 > 0:17:23It's not right to keep men hanging about. They don't like it.
0:17:23 > 0:17:26For heaven's sake, can't you set an example?!
0:17:31 > 0:17:32Lost the fuckers!
0:17:32 > 0:17:34Not so much swear words, 0-5 Thomas.
0:17:39 > 0:17:41Now that it's gone quiet, sir,
0:17:41 > 0:17:43we could send one of the runners to the sergeant-cook,
0:17:43 > 0:17:45tell him we're going to indent for the draft's suppers.
0:17:45 > 0:17:48We can send the other one with the 128s to the quarter.
0:17:48 > 0:17:51Send the runner to Depot and say that if candles are not provided
0:17:51 > 0:17:53for my orderly room by return of bearer,
0:17:53 > 0:17:57I, Captain Tietjens, commanding Number XVI Casual Battalion,
0:17:57 > 0:18:00will bring the whole matter of supplies before Base HQ tonight.
0:18:00 > 0:18:04Come on, you two, 0-9 Morgan to the cookhouse at the double.
0:18:04 > 0:18:05- Yes, Sarge.- Move yourselves!
0:18:05 > 0:18:08What's it all about? That's what I want to know!
0:18:08 > 0:18:10You're no sort of soldier!
0:18:10 > 0:18:14They say up at HQ that your wife's got hold of your friend,
0:18:14 > 0:18:15the general.
0:18:15 > 0:18:17I know all about you.
0:18:18 > 0:18:21You are very much mistaken if you think the general a friend of mine.
0:18:21 > 0:18:23I haven't a friend in the world.
0:18:23 > 0:18:26Sergeant-Major, make sure the Canadian troops
0:18:26 > 0:18:28don't leave their dug-outs till the All Clear!
0:18:30 > 0:18:32HE PANTS AND WHIMPERS
0:18:32 > 0:18:34Look, are you mad?
0:18:34 > 0:18:36Stark staring?
0:18:38 > 0:18:41If you let yourself go, you'll go further than you wish.
0:18:41 > 0:18:44CANNONS FIRE
0:18:44 > 0:18:47They must imagine that they've found the Hun again.
0:18:48 > 0:18:52I must say, you look divine in your uniform.
0:18:52 > 0:18:53Enchante, Madam.
0:18:53 > 0:18:57I knew le brave Capitaine and his wife in London before the war,
0:18:57 > 0:19:02and didn't we see each other somewhere in France in 1912?
0:19:04 > 0:19:07Here in Rouen, Madame. Extraordinaire!
0:19:07 > 0:19:09Does Christopher know I'm here?
0:19:09 > 0:19:12No. As soon as his draft leaves for the station,
0:19:12 > 0:19:14he'll have a few hours to come to the hotel.
0:19:14 > 0:19:17Failing that, all my officers are under orders
0:19:17 > 0:19:20to attend my regular entente cordiale party tomorrow.
0:19:20 > 0:19:22Why can't I see him now?
0:19:22 > 0:19:25You may have noticed there's an air raid.
0:19:25 > 0:19:27Isn't that normal where the war is?
0:19:27 > 0:19:30The Captain's on duty and can't leave the camp.
0:19:30 > 0:19:34I've booked you the room next to his. There's a connecting door.
0:19:34 > 0:19:38If Christopher is billeted at the hotel, why doesn't he sleep there?
0:19:38 > 0:19:40He bunks down in the hut lines.
0:19:40 > 0:19:42We're working under difficult circumstances.
0:19:42 > 0:19:44Are we?
0:19:44 > 0:19:46EXPLOSIONS AND SCREAMS
0:19:51 > 0:19:53Don't think I'm afraid of a bit of shrapnel.
0:19:53 > 0:19:56They ought to let my orderly room have tin hats.
0:19:56 > 0:19:59Headquarters are full of Huns doing the Huns' work.
0:19:59 > 0:20:03Do you believe that tripe? It's the English doing it.
0:20:03 > 0:20:05NEARBY EXPLOSION
0:20:07 > 0:20:08HE PANTS
0:20:08 > 0:20:11Nearly got me, surely to goodness, but I did run, I did run!
0:20:11 > 0:20:13All right, Thomas.
0:20:13 > 0:20:16You can go into shelter with the Colonial troops, if you like.
0:20:16 > 0:20:19No, I'll wait for my mate, 0-9 Morgan, Captain, sir.
0:20:21 > 0:20:24I was in for the Foreign Office before all this began.
0:20:24 > 0:20:26I suppose you speak seven languages.
0:20:26 > 0:20:30Five. And Latin and Greek, of course.
0:20:30 > 0:20:33- AEROPLANE APPROACHES - Here it comes.
0:20:33 > 0:20:34EXPLOSION
0:20:36 > 0:20:39- Here's another bloomin' casualty. - 0-9 Morgan?
0:20:45 > 0:20:46Oh, poor fucking 0-9 Morgan!
0:20:46 > 0:20:48Surely to goodness, I didn't even recognise him!
0:20:48 > 0:20:50Get out from under him, blast!
0:20:50 > 0:20:51This ain't your job, sir.
0:20:53 > 0:20:55You'll get all sticky.
0:21:01 > 0:21:05Bugler, call two sanitary lance-corporals and four men!
0:21:24 > 0:21:25Thomas.
0:21:28 > 0:21:300-9 Morgan was your mate?
0:21:31 > 0:21:33He was a good pal.
0:21:34 > 0:21:36Poor old bugger.
0:21:37 > 0:21:40But you would not like, surely to goodness,
0:21:40 > 0:21:42to go to mess with your shoes all bloody.
0:21:44 > 0:21:46If I'd given him leave,
0:21:46 > 0:21:48he would not be dead now.
0:21:48 > 0:21:51No, surely he would not.
0:21:53 > 0:21:55But it is all one.
0:21:56 > 0:21:58Your honour is a good captain.
0:22:03 > 0:22:07I know why Christopher doesn't sleep at the hotel.
0:22:07 > 0:22:10He's got his mistress in Rouen, with the child.
0:22:11 > 0:22:14How old is that child now? Five?
0:22:14 > 0:22:15No. Of course not.
0:22:15 > 0:22:16I know nothing about...
0:22:16 > 0:22:19If you're talking about Miss Wannop, I'm not prepared to...
0:22:19 > 0:22:21Even if his treatment of you has been...
0:22:21 > 0:22:25Yes, Miss Wannop, Christopher's little suffragette.
0:22:25 > 0:22:26SHE LAUGHS
0:22:26 > 0:22:29I've nothing against them being pro-German,
0:22:29 > 0:22:31I have German friends myself.
0:22:31 > 0:22:32I say, steady on.
0:22:32 > 0:22:35Yes, stop doing...what does your mother call it? Shower-baths.
0:22:35 > 0:22:38Is Sylvia pulling the strings of the shower-bath?
0:22:38 > 0:22:41I say, I say, they've got the vote, though.
0:22:41 > 0:22:43Saw it in the Sketch.
0:22:43 > 0:22:45Will you vote, Mrs Tietjens?
0:22:48 > 0:22:50I am not going to the hotel
0:22:50 > 0:22:52until I have seen Christopher with my own eyes.
0:23:29 > 0:23:31There's a note from your foul General.
0:23:33 > 0:23:34What does it say?
0:23:42 > 0:23:45"For God's sake. Can't you control your woman?"
0:23:47 > 0:23:50Well, it didn't say it was private.
0:23:50 > 0:23:51"You are more trouble to me
0:23:51 > 0:23:54than all the rest of my command put together."
0:24:05 > 0:24:10Give me the rhyme-words for a sonnet.
0:24:10 > 0:24:11That's the scheme of it.
0:24:13 > 0:24:15I know what a damn sonnet is. What's your game?
0:24:15 > 0:24:18Give me 14 end-rhymes of a sonnet and I'll write a sonnet.
0:24:18 > 0:24:19In two and a half minutes.
0:24:19 > 0:24:23If you do, I'll translate it into Latin hexameters in under three minutes.
0:24:23 > 0:24:26Get on with it then! A, B, B, A. A, B...
0:24:26 > 0:24:27Yes, what is it?!
0:24:29 > 0:24:30Good God, who are you?
0:24:30 > 0:24:32Hotchkiss.
0:24:32 > 0:24:35They said to find you. Are you Captain Tietjens?
0:24:35 > 0:24:37Don't you know how to address an officer?
0:24:37 > 0:24:39Oh, yes, sorry.
0:24:39 > 0:24:40Sir!
0:24:40 > 0:24:43- How long have you been in the army? - Two weeks.
0:24:43 > 0:24:44There you are.
0:24:45 > 0:24:48Two and a half minutes from now.
0:24:53 > 0:24:56I have to go to Division horse line, and I seem to have been
0:24:56 > 0:25:01put in charge of taking your soldiers to some place called Bailleul...
0:25:01 > 0:25:02Er, sir.
0:25:13 > 0:25:15I shall endeavour to be, er... swift.
0:25:18 > 0:25:21There's pink-eye running rife in all the service horses.
0:25:21 > 0:25:24I've made a study of it. I was sent for by the War Office.
0:25:24 > 0:25:28I suppose Lord Beichen knew about me from my publications.
0:25:28 > 0:25:31I'm a professor of equine studies.
0:25:31 > 0:25:33Well, you're a stout fellow.
0:25:33 > 0:25:35You should talk to Colonel Johnson.
0:25:35 > 0:25:38You'll find him in 16 IBD Mess.
0:25:38 > 0:25:39He'll be interested to meet you.
0:25:41 > 0:25:45He's got a Hun horse captured on the Marne. I ride Schomburg, myself.
0:25:45 > 0:25:48Well, if you say so. Many thanks.
0:25:48 > 0:25:50Two minutes and 11 seconds.
0:25:53 > 0:25:56I'm not starting till I've checked it's a sonnet.
0:25:58 > 0:25:59GSO 2, sir.
0:26:01 > 0:26:04You understand I've not read it.
0:26:04 > 0:26:06I'll turn it into Latin in the time stipulated when I'm free.
0:26:06 > 0:26:08KNOCK ON DOOR
0:26:11 > 0:26:13The Canadian draft has not left yet!
0:26:13 > 0:26:15We shall be strafed to hell.
0:26:15 > 0:26:18We had to wangle everything, sir. Desert boots, malaria powders,
0:26:18 > 0:26:20and then unwangle everything in a hurry
0:26:20 > 0:26:23when it was changed back to Bailleul.
0:26:23 > 0:26:25It makes you wonder who's in charge, sir.
0:26:25 > 0:26:30Ah, I see you're there, McKechnie. Feeling well? Feeling fit?
0:26:32 > 0:26:38Look here, can you spare me 10 or 20 minutes?
0:26:38 > 0:26:40It's not exactly a service matter.
0:26:41 > 0:26:45You have to come down to the gate. I hate to keep a woman waiting.
0:26:45 > 0:26:46You mean, your...?
0:26:46 > 0:26:48As it happens, I was spotted at the station
0:26:48 > 0:26:51and now my French lady-friend thinks I've got an English mistress.
0:26:51 > 0:26:52Come on!
0:26:52 > 0:26:55Are you dragging me there to deal with your absurd love-life?
0:26:55 > 0:26:57Mine? It's yours!
0:26:57 > 0:27:00The poor woman is in a dreadful state of anxiety about you.
0:27:00 > 0:27:04You haven't written to her once, she says.
0:27:04 > 0:27:06You can't mean Miss Wannop?
0:27:10 > 0:27:11Do you swear it?
0:27:11 > 0:27:12Cross my heart, Miss.
0:27:12 > 0:27:15I saw the captain with my own eyes this very morning, Miss!
0:27:15 > 0:27:17I've been dreadfully worried about him.
0:27:17 > 0:27:19You're welcome to wait in the guardroom, Miss.
0:27:19 > 0:27:21No, it's perfectly all right.
0:27:21 > 0:27:25I don't want to disturb Captain Tietjens when he's on duty,
0:27:25 > 0:27:27so long as he's all right.
0:27:27 > 0:27:30You've all been absolutely sweet.
0:27:49 > 0:27:51Oh, God! Sylvia!
0:27:52 > 0:27:55Dammit! She's taken the car!
0:28:06 > 0:28:10FAINT SOUND OF MARCHING
0:28:43 > 0:28:46'Battalion, halt!'
0:28:55 > 0:28:57KNOCKS AT DOOR
0:28:57 > 0:28:58Sylvia!
0:29:00 > 0:29:02Sylvia!
0:29:04 > 0:29:05Dash it!
0:29:15 > 0:29:18BUGLE PLAYS
0:29:21 > 0:29:23SOUND OF MARCHING
0:29:25 > 0:29:28The draft's come back!
0:29:28 > 0:29:30Oh, for the love of God!
0:29:32 > 0:29:36By the way, did you give a pass to a Canadian?
0:29:36 > 0:29:39- Why?- He missed the curfew and the Redcaps nabbed him.
0:29:40 > 0:29:43A few minutes before the curfew, you witnessed this prisoner
0:29:43 > 0:29:45saying goodbye to his mother,
0:29:45 > 0:29:47and the prisoner called you a damn brute for no reason,
0:29:47 > 0:29:51least of all because you made some discourteous comment
0:29:51 > 0:29:53- about the old lady, is that right? - Yes, sir!
0:29:53 > 0:29:55Then, having engaged the prisoner in conversation,
0:29:55 > 0:29:59by no means calling him "a blankety-blank colonial conscript",
0:29:59 > 0:30:02you discovered it was 11:02,
0:30:02 > 0:30:04so very properly charged him with being off-base
0:30:04 > 0:30:06and "conduct prejudicial".
0:30:06 > 0:30:07Sir!
0:30:09 > 0:30:11Mark the charge sheet as "case explained". Dismiss!
0:30:11 > 0:30:12Sir!
0:30:14 > 0:30:16I am a hair's breadth
0:30:16 > 0:30:19from recommending a court of inquiry into your conduct.
0:30:19 > 0:30:23If there is any, ANY repetition, by God, you will regret it.
0:30:23 > 0:30:26Witnesses dismiss!
0:30:34 > 0:30:37Provost-Marshall won't like it, sir.
0:30:37 > 0:30:40General O'Hara loves his police like his own ewe-lambs.
0:30:40 > 0:30:44The French railwaymen going on strike was a bit of luck
0:30:44 > 0:30:46for that Canadian lad, though, and lucky for me, too!
0:30:46 > 0:30:49They heard a rumour the draft was for overseas.
0:30:49 > 0:30:52If anyone needs me I'm going to ride Schomburg to the Hotel de la Poste
0:30:52 > 0:30:56to take my wife to the General Campion's tea party for the locals.
0:31:02 > 0:31:05What the hell is the Colonel's horse doing in horse standings?
0:31:05 > 0:31:08Don't you know Schomburg by now?
0:31:08 > 0:31:12Yes, sir. The 'oss has been put in 'oss-standings by orders of Lieutenant Hotchkiss.
0:31:12 > 0:31:14Did you tell him that it was my orders
0:31:14 > 0:31:16that Schomburg be kept warm in the stables of the farm
0:31:16 > 0:31:18behind XVI IBD?
0:31:18 > 0:31:20The lieutenant says 'osses have to be hardened, sir.
0:31:20 > 0:31:24He also says how any departure from his orders would be visited
0:31:24 > 0:31:28by the extreme displeasure of Lord Beicham, KCVO, etc.
0:31:28 > 0:31:30Well, listen carefully.
0:31:30 > 0:31:33I am going to ride Schomberg over to the Hotel de la Poste,
0:31:33 > 0:31:35so saddle him up and meet me there,
0:31:35 > 0:31:37where you will take him back to the farm stables.
0:31:37 > 0:31:39Make sure the windows are closed and stop up any chinks.
0:31:39 > 0:31:42Give him oatmeal and water, hot as he can take it.
0:31:42 > 0:31:47Finally, if Lieutenant Hotchkiss makes any comments, refer him to me.
0:31:47 > 0:31:48Yes, sir.
0:31:54 > 0:31:55How can you forget?
0:31:55 > 0:31:58It's the very place where you left me and ruined my life!
0:31:58 > 0:32:00So fair's fair.
0:32:03 > 0:32:06Will you leave your door unlocked tonight?
0:32:09 > 0:32:11There's Christopher!
0:32:11 > 0:32:15I can see him in the glass. He's seen me, too.
0:32:15 > 0:32:17Good God, what are we going to do?
0:32:17 > 0:32:19What'll HE do? He'll smash me to pieces!
0:32:19 > 0:32:21He wouldn't do anything to you.
0:32:21 > 0:32:23A decent man doesn't hit girls.
0:32:23 > 0:32:26Damn his chivalry!
0:32:26 > 0:32:28So as not to embarrass me, he'll leave it to me.
0:32:33 > 0:32:35Pardon. I did not see madame.
0:32:35 > 0:32:38Dites a ce monsieur que je suis occupee.
0:32:44 > 0:32:45He looks ill.
0:32:45 > 0:32:46What's he doing?
0:32:46 > 0:32:49Giving me the social backing he thinks it's his duty as my husband to give.
0:32:49 > 0:32:54He's Jesus Christ calling on the woman taken in adultery.
0:32:54 > 0:32:57By all the saints, I'll make that wooden face wince yet.
0:32:57 > 0:32:59I'll bring him to heel.
0:33:00 > 0:33:02He's going upstairs.
0:33:04 > 0:33:07He's probably gone to wreck your bedroom.
0:33:07 > 0:33:08SHE SCOFFS
0:33:08 > 0:33:11It's no use trying to awaken sentimental memories in me.
0:33:11 > 0:33:14Does Christopher have a girl in this town?
0:33:14 > 0:33:19No, he's too much of a stick. He never even goes to Madame Suzette's.
0:33:20 > 0:33:24Now, look here, will you let me come to your room tonight or not?
0:33:24 > 0:33:25SHE LAUGHS
0:33:25 > 0:33:27What's your game?
0:33:27 > 0:33:30Hell and hounds, you can't have come here for HIM!
0:33:30 > 0:33:32What's your game?
0:34:36 > 0:34:39I'm going to tidy up before the General's tea party. Wait for me.
0:34:39 > 0:34:41I won't look like I can't find a man to escort me.
0:34:41 > 0:34:44Campion will send me to the trenches if it looks like that.
0:34:44 > 0:34:47Do you mean you wouldn't die for me, Potty?
0:34:47 > 0:34:49Hang it all, what a cruel fiend you are.
0:34:49 > 0:34:54I'm a woman desperately trying to get her husband back.
0:34:54 > 0:34:56If Christopher would throw his handkerchief to me,
0:34:56 > 0:34:59I would follow him round the world in my shift.
0:34:59 > 0:35:01No, you wouldn't.
0:35:02 > 0:35:05You're just wanting to make him squeal.
0:35:07 > 0:35:10For that I'll leave my door unlocked, and be damned to you.
0:35:10 > 0:35:14I don't say you'll get anything, or like what you get,
0:35:14 > 0:35:15but it's up to you.
0:35:26 > 0:35:29Colonel, may I introduce you to Monsieur Dupree,
0:35:29 > 0:35:31Regional Manager of the railway.
0:35:31 > 0:35:34Railways? Oh dear, oh dear. What's going on with you chaps? Look!
0:35:34 > 0:35:38Hating the Hun has to come first, otherwise what's the giddy limit?
0:35:38 > 0:35:41IN FRENCH:
0:35:45 > 0:35:46Well, why do you treat her so damnably?
0:35:46 > 0:35:48Sir, I don't have to discuss my private life..
0:35:48 > 0:35:52I mean, for heaven's sake, Sylvia is the finest, the cleanest...
0:35:52 > 0:35:53My dear!
0:35:55 > 0:35:58Come to do your bit for the Grand Alliance?
0:35:58 > 0:36:00You've already seen each other.
0:36:00 > 0:36:04- Yes, I made time to stop off at the hotel, sir.- Good.
0:36:04 > 0:36:06Sir, if I may trouble you...
0:36:09 > 0:36:11CONVERSATION INAUDIBLE
0:36:12 > 0:36:15Well, I suppose I should thank you for being clear.
0:36:17 > 0:36:18I don't understand you.
0:36:20 > 0:36:23You didn't come back to the hotel to sleep.
0:36:23 > 0:36:26You prefer all the fun of camping out with your Boy Scouts, do you?
0:36:26 > 0:36:29Or did you spend the night with your mistress
0:36:29 > 0:36:32in her little nest in this frightful town?
0:36:32 > 0:36:35I hardly got any sleep anywhere.
0:36:35 > 0:36:37There was a railway strike. I was landed with 3,000 men
0:36:37 > 0:36:40I'd despatched to the front lines three hours earlier.
0:36:40 > 0:36:43- The French way of telling us that... - I'll scream if you don't stop.
0:36:43 > 0:36:44Sorry.
0:36:46 > 0:36:48I've forgotten how...
0:36:50 > 0:36:51..how to be at peace, I suppose.
0:36:56 > 0:36:57How is Michael?
0:36:57 > 0:36:58He hasn't written to me.
0:36:58 > 0:37:00He hardly knows you.
0:37:02 > 0:37:05I came to settle things between us.
0:37:07 > 0:37:08Will you come to the hotel tonight?
0:37:10 > 0:37:13See? Still sealed.
0:37:17 > 0:37:20I'll send a driver for you in the morning, 0800.
0:37:20 > 0:37:21Where am I going?
0:37:21 > 0:37:24You're going to the station and think yourself lucky.
0:37:26 > 0:37:28I will.
0:37:28 > 0:37:29You've been sweet.
0:37:36 > 0:37:40Hurry up, girls! The bell's about to go. Come on.
0:37:41 > 0:37:43Come on, hurry up.
0:37:50 > 0:37:54So does the new law mean you'll vote in the next election, Miss?
0:37:54 > 0:37:58If I'm old enough. I won't be 30 for...years!
0:37:58 > 0:38:00Do you know Mrs Pankhurst, Miss?
0:38:00 > 0:38:04She's your heroine, isn't she, Miss?
0:38:04 > 0:38:06Well, I don't know, Annie. I'm certainly not hers.
0:38:06 > 0:38:08She said the other day that pacifism was a disease.
0:38:08 > 0:38:12You wouldn't be a pacifist if your sweetheart was in the war,
0:38:12 > 0:38:13would you, Miss?
0:38:13 > 0:38:15More than ever, of course.
0:38:17 > 0:38:19Hurry up, the bell will go in a minute.
0:38:19 > 0:38:21Have you got a sweetheart in the war, Miss?
0:38:22 > 0:38:23I...
0:38:23 > 0:38:24SHE SHRIEK
0:38:24 > 0:38:27THE GIRLS LAUGH
0:38:32 > 0:38:34MUSIC PLAYS
0:38:50 > 0:38:51Captain Tietjens.
0:38:56 > 0:38:58I got your report on the Canadian prisoner.
0:38:58 > 0:39:04I must say, marking "case explained" on a charge sheet I signed myself
0:39:04 > 0:39:06is pretty strong.
0:39:06 > 0:39:08If you would see fit, sir, to instruct your men
0:39:08 > 0:39:10not to call Colonial troops "damned conscripts..."
0:39:10 > 0:39:13- They are damned conscripts! - No, sir, not one of them.
0:39:13 > 0:39:15Voluntarily enlisted.
0:39:16 > 0:39:19Why, you insolent...!
0:39:19 > 0:39:20You haven't heard the last of it!
0:39:20 > 0:39:22Sir!
0:40:06 > 0:40:07Christopher.
0:40:08 > 0:40:11You look half dead.
0:40:11 > 0:40:12Not far off it.
0:40:13 > 0:40:15Have you had dinner?
0:40:15 > 0:40:19Mmm. I vamped an old fool of a general over a cutlet.
0:40:19 > 0:40:21Then the air raid started and he went off to order everybody about.
0:40:21 > 0:40:23General O'Hara.
0:40:23 > 0:40:24Just had the pleasure.
0:40:24 > 0:40:26What have you been doing?
0:40:26 > 0:40:28Since I saw you? Let me think.
0:40:28 > 0:40:31Well, I have inspected 2,934 toothbrushes,
0:40:31 > 0:40:33most of which were clean,
0:40:33 > 0:40:35as the soldiers use their button-brushes for their teeth,
0:40:35 > 0:40:38to keep their toothbrushes clean for inspections.
0:40:38 > 0:40:40So you betrayed me with a battalion!
0:40:42 > 0:40:44You want a brandy? I'll ring down.
0:40:44 > 0:40:47- Rum and hot water, if you would. - Of course. Would you like to bathe?
0:40:48 > 0:40:50I think I would, you know.
0:40:50 > 0:40:51EXPLOSIONS AND GUNFIRE
0:40:53 > 0:40:56It's sheer cheek putting a gun where people of quality
0:40:56 > 0:40:58might be wishing to sleep or converse.
0:41:14 > 0:41:18They're not answering. I'll try again.
0:41:21 > 0:41:24I've brought a few letters for you.
0:41:24 > 0:41:25Two from Mrs Wannop,
0:41:25 > 0:41:27who doesn't realise her daughter is your mistress,
0:41:27 > 0:41:29and one from your brother, Mark, which begins,
0:41:29 > 0:41:31"Your bitch of a wife came to see me".
0:41:31 > 0:41:34You should read that first, it's what I came to see you about.
0:41:34 > 0:41:35Thank you.
0:41:35 > 0:41:38The War Office brilliantly sent it on to the flat.
0:41:38 > 0:41:40I've always understood that your idea of a marriage
0:41:40 > 0:41:45- is that a husband and wife should be able to read each others' letters.- Of course.
0:42:02 > 0:42:04I'll go...
0:42:31 > 0:42:34EXPLOSIONS AND GUNFIRE
0:42:42 > 0:42:44KNOCK AT DOOR
0:42:53 > 0:42:55- Monsieur.- Thank you.
0:43:01 > 0:43:02What is it?
0:43:06 > 0:43:08The draft has been brought forward.
0:43:08 > 0:43:11I have to be at the camp by 4:30.
0:43:15 > 0:43:17It's ridiculous that a man of your ability
0:43:17 > 0:43:18should be at the beck and call
0:43:18 > 0:43:21of a lot of gaga old fools like the one downstairs.
0:43:21 > 0:43:25You shouldn't be here at all. You're not fit.
0:43:25 > 0:43:29Nobody posted to a Base Depot is fit. That's why we're here.
0:43:33 > 0:43:36I'm sorry you felt you had to come all this way to settle something
0:43:36 > 0:43:39I'd be perfectly happy for you to have settled for yourself.
0:43:40 > 0:43:45Groby is at your disposal if you want to live there with Michael,
0:43:45 > 0:43:47and, of course, with sufficient income to keep it up.
0:43:47 > 0:43:50That means you don't intend to live there yourself.
0:43:51 > 0:43:54Or you intend to get killed.
0:43:56 > 0:44:00I should warn you that if you do get killed, I shall cut down the cedar.
0:44:00 > 0:44:02It darkens the drawing room and the rooms above.
0:44:07 > 0:44:09At last I changed the expression on your face.
0:44:09 > 0:44:12I haven't the slightest intention of getting killed.
0:44:14 > 0:44:16But it's not really up to me.
0:44:16 > 0:44:19If I were to be sent back to my battalion...
0:44:24 > 0:44:27Your brother refers to me as "that whore".
0:44:31 > 0:44:37I haven't had a man, Christopher, for five years and more.
0:44:37 > 0:44:38Not one.
0:44:41 > 0:44:43I haven't let myself be kissed, or touched.
0:44:46 > 0:44:48Not once, not since Perowne.
0:44:50 > 0:44:52Potty Perowne!
0:44:54 > 0:44:56Can you see how I must have been feeling,
0:44:56 > 0:44:58to go off with a fool like Potty?
0:45:00 > 0:45:02I was not in my senses.
0:45:04 > 0:45:07I broke under your forbearance,
0:45:07 > 0:45:09your permanent well-mannered forgiveness
0:45:09 > 0:45:15for my doing the dirty on you when I married you, not knowing...
0:45:15 > 0:45:19Still don't know whether my child was yours or Gerald Drake's.
0:45:24 > 0:45:27You forgave...without mercy.
0:45:29 > 0:45:34To scream blue murder and throw me out would have been a kindness
0:45:34 > 0:45:40compared to five years under your roof, banished from your comfort.
0:45:42 > 0:45:44SHE SCOFFS
0:45:44 > 0:45:46Look what you've brought me to.
0:45:48 > 0:45:52Throwing myself at you in my whore's trousseau!
0:45:55 > 0:46:02My heat must have put a spell on all the sentries and ticket-inspectors...
0:46:04 > 0:46:10..the musk of five years' wanting a man.
0:46:13 > 0:46:14They must have smelled it.
0:46:17 > 0:46:18Well...
0:46:22 > 0:46:23..don't bother now.
0:46:29 > 0:46:30I've changed my mind...
0:47:13 > 0:47:15SHE LAUGHS
0:47:15 > 0:47:18What's going on?
0:47:20 > 0:47:22Get into bed. I didn't see who it was.
0:47:22 > 0:47:26Potty, I expect. I'd forgotten about him!
0:47:26 > 0:47:29Where is the hussy?
0:47:29 > 0:47:32This is my wife's room. I must ask you to leave this instant.
0:47:32 > 0:47:35We'll see whether she's your wife or not!
0:47:35 > 0:47:37Leave this room!
0:47:37 > 0:47:40You assaulted an officer.
0:47:40 > 0:47:43- Are you drunk? - By God, I'll have you for that!
0:47:43 > 0:47:45If you do not take General O'Hara away,
0:47:45 > 0:47:47I will order you to arrest him for drunkenness.
0:47:47 > 0:47:51Consider yourself under arrest! Return to your quarters!
0:47:51 > 0:47:54SHE LAUGHS
0:47:54 > 0:47:58Well! What a lark!
0:47:58 > 0:47:59I am under arrest.
0:48:01 > 0:48:04Why must you...? Everywhere you go..
0:48:04 > 0:48:07Oh, Potty asked for it.
0:48:07 > 0:48:08I'm sure he did.
0:48:09 > 0:48:10I asked for it, too.
0:48:12 > 0:48:13Sylvia, I...
0:48:15 > 0:48:18I'm so sorry.
0:48:18 > 0:48:21SIREN WAILS
0:48:27 > 0:48:30THE BAND PLAYS
0:48:49 > 0:48:52'He said they could have as much coal as they wanted
0:48:52 > 0:48:54'at 1914 pithead prices.'
0:48:59 > 0:49:00I notice, Captain Tietjens,
0:49:00 > 0:49:03that you have no fire-extinguishers on your unit.
0:49:03 > 0:49:05You're aware of the disastrous consequences
0:49:05 > 0:49:07that would follow a conflagration?
0:49:07 > 0:49:08Yes, sir.
0:49:08 > 0:49:12I was informed by Ordnance that there is no provision
0:49:12 > 0:49:15for fire-extinguishers for Dominion troops under an Imperial officer.
0:49:15 > 0:49:18So, I applied, as advised, to a civilian firm...
0:49:18 > 0:49:21I didn't ask for your memoirs. Make a note, Levin.
0:49:21 > 0:49:24Go and get your belt.
0:49:24 > 0:49:27You can go round your cookhouses with me in a quarter of an hour.
0:49:27 > 0:49:28You can tell your sergeant-cook.
0:49:30 > 0:49:34You are aware, sir, that I am under arrest?
0:49:34 > 0:49:37I gave you an order to perform a duty!
0:49:38 > 0:49:40Sir!
0:49:47 > 0:49:48You're doing splendidly.
0:49:48 > 0:49:50You understand, you're released from arrest
0:49:50 > 0:49:52if you're given an order to perform a duty.
0:49:52 > 0:49:55Of course I understand. It's the last thing I want!
0:49:55 > 0:49:58You can't refuse! A court martial would be... He'd be...
0:49:58 > 0:50:00He thinks the world of...
0:50:00 > 0:50:02What did Perowne say?
0:50:02 > 0:50:04Perowne told General O'Hara...
0:50:04 > 0:50:06Oh, I couldn't possibly!
0:50:06 > 0:50:09He told O'Hara he went to Mrs Tietjens's room at her invitation?
0:50:09 > 0:50:13- It's impossible to believe anything against...- No, it's true. He did.
0:50:13 > 0:50:15But my wife was after fun, not adultery.
0:50:16 > 0:50:19What has she told the General?
0:50:19 > 0:50:23The general has not seen Mrs Tietjens. He couldn't trust himself.
0:50:23 > 0:50:26- He said she'd twist him round her little finger.- He's learning.
0:50:26 > 0:50:28He refused to let Perowne speak.
0:50:28 > 0:50:30He said Perowne could choose between going up the line
0:50:30 > 0:50:32and being broke by his regiment.
0:50:32 > 0:50:33My God.
0:50:33 > 0:50:37He believes so absolutely in Mrs Tietjens.
0:50:37 > 0:50:39It's broken the General's heart.
0:50:39 > 0:50:42Something he heard from the Capitaine, the liaison officer...
0:50:43 > 0:50:46You! Put that down and tell Sergeant Case
0:50:46 > 0:50:49- to report to my quarters at the double.- Yes, sir.
0:50:55 > 0:50:58I'm supposed to ask you, was O'Hara drunk?
0:50:59 > 0:51:02The General is anxious for your opinion.
0:51:02 > 0:51:05He and O'Hara graduated together from Sandhurst.
0:51:05 > 0:51:07Then, O'Hara was not drunk.
0:51:07 > 0:51:10Campion will be immensely gratified.
0:51:11 > 0:51:14As Provost-Marshal, he had the right to enter my room.
0:51:14 > 0:51:18I pushed him out, which is an assault on a senior officer.
0:51:18 > 0:51:22I'd be happy to plead guilty to that. And to being drunk, of course.
0:51:22 > 0:51:25An officer doesn't strike generals sober.
0:51:25 > 0:51:27Your mania for taking the blows...
0:51:27 > 0:51:31I'd rather be broken than have this hell raked up. Case!
0:51:31 > 0:51:34General Campion will be going round the cook-house in 15 minutes.
0:51:34 > 0:51:36- Right, sir! - Don't serve out white clothing.
0:51:36 > 0:51:38The General likes to see them in white.
0:51:38 > 0:51:41He won't know white clothing has been countermanded, sir.
0:51:41 > 0:51:42If you do that, one of your cooks
0:51:42 > 0:51:44will tuck a dirty piece of clothing into a locker
0:51:44 > 0:51:46where the General will find it.
0:51:46 > 0:51:49Yes, sir, there's always one piece of clothing left in a locker
0:51:49 > 0:51:52for GOCIC's inspection and General Campion will always find it.
0:51:52 > 0:51:53I've seen him do it three times.
0:51:55 > 0:51:58- This time, the man it belongs to goes for a court martial.- Sir!
0:52:14 > 0:52:16Sit down.
0:52:19 > 0:52:24Captain Tietjens, I would be glad of your careful attention.
0:52:24 > 0:52:27This afternoon, you will receive a movement order.
0:52:28 > 0:52:31You are not to regard it as a disgrace. It is a promotion.
0:52:31 > 0:52:34I am requesting General Perry to give you the appointment
0:52:34 > 0:52:36of second-in-command of the VIth Battalion of his regiment.
0:52:38 > 0:52:39What's your medical category?
0:52:39 > 0:52:41Permanent base, sir. My chest is rotten.
0:52:41 > 0:52:44I should forget that if I were you.
0:52:44 > 0:52:46The second-in-command of a battalion has nothing to do
0:52:46 > 0:52:50- but sit about in armchairs waiting for the colonel to be killed. - If you say so, sir.
0:52:50 > 0:52:51Who is your sergeant-cook?
0:52:51 > 0:52:52Sergeant Case, sir.
0:52:54 > 0:52:58Sergeant Case? He was in the Drums when we were in Delhi.
0:52:58 > 0:53:01He ought to be at least a Quartermaster now,
0:53:01 > 0:53:04but there was a woman he called his "sister".
0:53:04 > 0:53:06He still sends money to his "sister", sir.
0:53:08 > 0:53:12He went absent over her when he was a Colour-Sergeant.
0:53:13 > 0:53:14Reduced to the ranks.
0:53:16 > 0:53:1720 years ago, that must be.
0:53:20 > 0:53:23God help you, Chrissie, there's nothing else I can do.
0:53:25 > 0:53:26I can't put you on my staff.
0:53:27 > 0:53:31You crossed General O'Hara in some row over his redcaps,
0:53:31 > 0:53:33never mind threatening him with arrest,
0:53:33 > 0:53:35so now you've a black spot against your name
0:53:35 > 0:53:38as regards access to Intelligence.
0:53:38 > 0:53:41Next, dammit, the commander of the 9th French army
0:53:41 > 0:53:43is an intimate friend of mine,
0:53:43 > 0:53:46but in the face of your confidential report
0:53:46 > 0:53:49from your time in French liaison, that's blocked.
0:53:49 > 0:53:51If you examine the detail of the report, sir,
0:53:51 > 0:53:53you will see the unfavourable inclusion is initialled
0:53:53 > 0:53:58by an Intelligence Officer, Major Drake, who...doesn't like me.
0:53:58 > 0:54:02What difference does that make? Not many officers DO like you.
0:54:02 > 0:54:05Are you aware that there's one hell of a strafe put in against you
0:54:05 > 0:54:08by a RASC Second-Lieutenant called Hotchkiss?
0:54:08 > 0:54:10That was about Schomburg, sir.
0:54:10 > 0:54:13I'd rather die than subject any horse for which I'm responsible
0:54:13 > 0:54:16to the damnable theories of Lieutenant Hotchkiss!
0:54:16 > 0:54:18It looks as if you WILL die on that account.
0:54:19 > 0:54:23There was a request from your brother, Mark, through Room G14-R
0:54:23 > 0:54:27of the War Office that you be given command of the horse lines
0:54:27 > 0:54:28of the 19th Division,
0:54:28 > 0:54:31but the 19th Division's attached to Fourth Army now,
0:54:31 > 0:54:34and it's Fourth Army horses that Hotchkiss is to play with.
0:54:35 > 0:54:37How can I send you there to be under his orders?
0:54:37 > 0:54:39Yes, sir. You cannot.
0:54:39 > 0:54:43I can send you home, in disgrace, or I can send you to your battalion.
0:54:43 > 0:54:45You're finished here.
0:54:45 > 0:54:47I cannot have men commanded by an officer with a private life
0:54:47 > 0:54:51as incomprehensible and embarrassing as yours.
0:54:51 > 0:54:52Yes, sir.
0:54:53 > 0:54:55I took that woman to be a saint!
0:54:57 > 0:54:59I swear she IS a saint!
0:54:59 > 0:55:02There is no accusation against Mrs Tietjens, sir!
0:55:02 > 0:55:04By God, there is!
0:55:05 > 0:55:06You let me think...
0:55:07 > 0:55:10I remember every word of our conversation in Rye,
0:55:10 > 0:55:14letting me think Sylvia had gone abroad to look after her mother.
0:55:14 > 0:55:18Sylvia and Perowne were seen together by Capitaine Thurston
0:55:18 > 0:55:22at the Hotel de la Poste in 1912!
0:55:22 > 0:55:23Can you beat it?
0:55:25 > 0:55:26Were they?
0:55:29 > 0:55:35Well, what is one to do when a woman is unfaithful? Sir.
0:55:36 > 0:55:38Divorce the harlot!
0:55:40 > 0:55:42Or live with her, like a man!
0:55:43 > 0:55:46What sort of a fellow wouldn't see that?
0:55:46 > 0:55:48But there is...or used to be...
0:55:50 > 0:55:52..among families of position...
0:55:53 > 0:55:54..a certain...
0:55:55 > 0:55:57Well?
0:55:58 > 0:56:01Call it, parade!
0:56:01 > 0:56:02Was there?
0:56:06 > 0:56:09Well, there are no more parades for that regiment.
0:56:11 > 0:56:16It held out to the last man, but you were him.
0:56:19 > 0:56:22MARCHING BAND STRIKES UP
0:56:51 > 0:56:55- Open that, will you, my man? - Yes, sir.
0:57:02 > 0:57:04I hope you had a good visit, Miss.
0:57:04 > 0:57:05Very good, thank you.
0:57:06 > 0:57:08Did the draft get off, do you know?
0:57:08 > 0:57:13It did, Miss. Captain Tietjens' draft, at five o'clock.
0:57:13 > 0:57:16You know the army, then, Miss? The lingo?
0:57:16 > 0:57:20I should say so! I'm the Captain's lady.
0:57:44 > 0:57:48What do you think it's like, when you know this is it? Death!
0:57:50 > 0:57:52You are surely not in love with Christopher? You mustn't be.
0:57:52 > 0:57:56Every word Christopher Tietjens and I ever said to each other
0:57:56 > 0:57:58was a declaration of love.
0:57:58 > 0:58:01- GUNFIRE - You feel no pain.
0:58:01 > 0:58:03But if my husband thinks he can throw me over for that
0:58:03 > 0:58:06scrub-faced ladies' champion of the regular bowel movement...
0:58:06 > 0:58:09He's the only man who perhaps wouldn't.
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