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-The military are in central Alexandria.

-Are we going to war?

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Egyptian forces are swarming the Canal!

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And what is the truth, Mr Hafiz?

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If you come onto our programme,

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perhaps you'd have the chance to tell the country.

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If I'm interviewed by a gentleman.

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One young woman in particular

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has caught the eye of a certain leading man,

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actor Adam Le Ray.

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So without further ado I ask you to raise your glasses to my beautiful fiance.

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They will kill me

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'if they know I'm talking to you.'

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This is Mr...?

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Kish. Thomas Kish.

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This is for Bel...

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..not for you.

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You're still an arse.

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Don't be frightened.

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Gravity.

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You have a natural gravity.

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FOOTSTEPS

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DOOR BURSTS OPEN

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Who sent you? Did they send you?

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MEGAPHONE: Come out quietly, you are surrounded.

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Hey, Johnny!

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You didn't think I'd give up that easily, did you?

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Oh, please, no!

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FAKED FOOTSTEPS

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He's going to jump!

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FOOTSTEPS QUICKEN

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Don't shoot! Please don't shoot!

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GUNSHOT

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THUD OF A BODY Argh!

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FOOTSTEPS EXIT

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He's gone.

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The man who knew,

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he's gone.

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APPLAUSE

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Smoke around these lights again and you won't be back next week.

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Three o'clock.

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And how are you enjoying playing the part, Mr Le Ray?

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Well, it's very exciting. Terrific.

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One does one's best with the script.

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You're staring.

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He was surprisingly good.

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For a man in mourning.

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-Great show, Ron.

-Bloody actors.

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Ron.

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What are we doing here?

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-The drinks are free.

-Oh, good.

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-She's coming over.

-Hector's awful.

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He says you've declined, but I refuse to believe it.

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Tell me you will come this weekend?

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She's very persistent. I did try.

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Wasn't my husband simply brilliant last night?

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-You dropped that second question.

-Talk to Lix.

-I did.

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So, what did you think of our Man Who Knew?

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Wasn't it ridiculous?

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-I knew who'd done it five minutes in, didn't I, Hector? I said.

-Yes.

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Don't tell Adam. He's one of my brother's bestest friends

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and he's had a terrible time.

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It's all tres, tres tragique.

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Tell me more. I'm going to grab that.

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Oh, here comes our shadow again.

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And even when we are not working, you are always near.

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We just cannot shake you, Mr McCain.

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Remaining vigilant.

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Miss Rowley's worried you have no life outside of work.

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None as captivating as Miss Rowley and The Hour.

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Damn fine programme last night,

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I must say.

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Transatlantic telephone cable systems have never seemed so interesting.

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No, I thought the live call was a stroke of genius.

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Thank you. It was Miss Rowley's idea.

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Wallace, there you are. Do excuse me.

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Wallace, I hear you're shooting this weekend.

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Wave and smile.

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I hate that man.

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On the contrary, it's a mark of how well you are doing

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that you've rattled McCain's cage.

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Please come this weekend.

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The people are awful

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and you'll be screaming to go home by Sunday, but...

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Darling, this man is brilliant.

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You didn't tell me they were all so interesting.

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Did you know a python could swallow a baby whole if it had a mind to?

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No.

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Well, she won't be persuaded.

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-A Town Like Alice is opening at The Coronet.

-We could go next weekend.

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I'm driving down with Daddy tonight,

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but Hector's bringing the car first thing.

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I know he'd like the company.

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-And you must come, too, Mr Lyon.

-I must.

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You might find it quicker on the train.

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Surely not.

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Come on, darling.

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-You hate the country.

-I lied.

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Excuse me.

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Mr Kish?

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We've missed you.

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You're surprisingly elusive.

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And yet you are here tonight.

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Yes.

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Everyone says how hard you work at the World Service, yet whenever

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I try to get hold of you you're never at your desk.

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I hope they pay you overtime, whoever they are.

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Were you following me yesterday?

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Coming out of Embankment station?

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Why would I do that?

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You knew Ruth Elms.

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I have you on film with her

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with her and Peter Darrall.

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It looks like it was a sunny day.

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You sat at my desk with her obituary stuck on the wall.

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You said, "What a pretty girl".

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She was.

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Both are now dead.

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That might unsettle some people.

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Did you kill him?

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Peter Darrall?

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Yes.

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Every time we played at cards.

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The holiday I presume you are referring to was more of a weekend.

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I don't recall anyone making a film.

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Perhaps, Mr Lyon, we might have a drink sometime.

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Steady. Steady!

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Ladies was blocked.

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Is he good looking, do you think?

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Do you classify that as a good-looking face?

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It's all to do with symmetry.

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The balance of the left and right of your face.

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The more even you are, the more beautiful you are.

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You see this eyebrow?

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It's wider than me other one.

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And my nose, I've got a dip right here.

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But a good looking person, it would all be the same. Equal.

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Hmmm.

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He doesn't really do much for me, but...

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Isaac! Just the man.

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Tomorrow, I want you in.

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It's Saturday.

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Your commitment has been duly noted,

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Mr Albert has had a film of mine for weeks, I gave it to him

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to look over. Pick it up first thing. Don't let it out of your sight.

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-Magpie!

-Damn.

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Six to your two.

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What are you scribbling, Freddie?

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I'm surprised we can lure you away from your desk.

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"What is he writing?" I often ask myself.

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Mainly the words that will come out of your mouth.

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Whenever Sissy thrusts those hot little sheets of paper into my hand, I wonder if at last I'll find out

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why Mr Lyon is so intrigued by a debutante's suicide.

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My first girlfriend was a debutante.

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I wrote her pages of God-awful poetry to her during the war.

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Line?

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Line?

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Happily forgotten.

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I don't think I've ever been sent love poetry.

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Yes, you have.

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I do not know what it is about you

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That closes and opens

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Only something in the...

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No, can't remember the rest.

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-NEWSREADER:

-'British and French governments are in close discussion

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'in an attempt to resolve the crisis in Egypt. The Suez Canal Company has constructed...

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'But the power remains in Colonel Nasser's hands

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'and there is growing unease as to which direction he will take.'

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You're late. Daddy's furious.

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Leave the bags.

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Jemima!

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Darling!

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Ooh, you're freezing! You're all freezing.

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You've missed the morning's drive.

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Sorry, darling.

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Come, come.

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The pictures, I know. Daddy thinks they're awfully creepy, but they're all Mummy's relatives.

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Thieves and liars every one of them.

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Each room is a different decor.

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Not entirely to modern taste,

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but poor Mummy has very little imagination.

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Miss Rowley, this is you,

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and you're in the green one.

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I wasn't sure if you were together, but Hector thought not.

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Even so, I've put you close. We're tres liberal here.

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Er, thank you, but there was really no need.

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-One never can tell how things will work out.

-DOOR OPENS AND SLAMS

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Bugger!

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How the hell did Hector get out of it?

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He hasn't. I've sent him off to change.

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Ralphie, meet our guests. This is my brother.

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-He's a monster.

-Hello.

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-Nice to meet you.

-Hello.

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I've been sent back. Wrong socks.

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Did you tell Mother Adam was coming down?

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Ralphie, don't be boring.

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She's invited those appalling Roedean girls again.

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Good! We're a little short of girls. You did bring a dress?

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Mummy!

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Ralphie, don't be mean. She's lying down. Lunch is at one,

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then we always have a big walk afterwards.

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C'est magnifique!

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Shut up and go and change, please.

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Swot!

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It's Saturday. Leave immediately.

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Mr Lyon wanted me in.

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Curiouser and curiouser.

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And I had some work to do on my Jackson Pollock piece.

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Hmm...

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LIFT BELL RINGS

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Mr Kish. Almost a full house. No-one told me to expect you in.

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Didn't they?

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I rather enjoy the place to myself at the weekend.

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-I've got the most horrible wallpaper. What's yours like?

-Remind me to lock that.

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And your bed's softer than mine.

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What are we doing here?

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I don't know.

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I've missed a gripping Saturday of Scrabble with mon papa...

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Then sardines on toast for afters in front of the TV. What's your excuse?

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GUNSHOT

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Oh, Christ!

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I won't actually have to hold a gun, will I?

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THEY LAUGH

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KNOCK AT DOOR

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Settling in?

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Oh, yes, very well, thank you.

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-You'll need boots. It gets pretty muddy this time of the year.

-Thank you.

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Well, see you later, at lunch.

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Oh, what?

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He's being kind.

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The Man Who Knew...

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..shoots for real.

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And I didn't even bring a dress.

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You can have mine.

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Oh, hell!

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I'm surprised hell can spare him.

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It was shot on 8mm.

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Mr Albert said it was professionally developed, but he doesn't think over here.

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The scratches on the lens could be sand.

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And the pot looks eastern.

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What else?

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I don't know. I've left the rest of the notes on your desk.

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Then go and get them.

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I can't. He's sitting at it.

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Who?

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Mr Kish.

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He's in? What's he doing?

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Eating a sandwich.

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If it's of any interest, I think he's been drinking.

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It takes one to know one, sweetheart.

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What do I do?

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Just watch him, and don't let that film out of your sight.

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Away! Away!

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May I?

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Yes, please.

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We saw your show last night.

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You do that news programme.

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The odd outside broadcast.

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Did you like it, The Man Who Knew?

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Ingenious title.

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We're still waiting on the reviews. You haven't got today's paper?

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-No.

-Have we met before?

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I covered your engagement party. Frederick Lyon.

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Adam Le Ray.

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My condolences on your loss.

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Ralph, whose idea was it to sit me next to a journalist?

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Marnie arranged the seating.

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We're all friends here.

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You've known each another a long time.

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No, not long.

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It was all a bit of a whirlwind.

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Still...

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Leave the boy alone, Mr Lyon.

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It's the weekend. And he's an awfully good shot.

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You wouldn't want to get on the wrong side of him.

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Gold reserves have taken a tumble. Down £800,000 since July.

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Does Eden know what he's going to do about it?

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Let's solve this problem in Egypt, shall we, Wallace?

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Then I will talk to you about gold.

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When are you going to solve it?

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The Soviets have just sent in "volunteers"

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to help Nasser run the Canal.

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-That's very worrying, darling.

-Please do not worry yourself, dear Mrs Sherman.

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I can assure you there is a solution in hand and our Prime Minister

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will guide us through this crisis.

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You and your boys at Westminster have been feeding us that line for weeks.

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It's grown a little tired.

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We've offered Nasser Egyptian representation

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on the Suez Canal Company board with a share in its profits.

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And any pact is seen by Nasser as veiled colonialism.

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The truth is you don't know what to do. He's doing too little to provoke a war,

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but just enough to provoke our Prime Minister.

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And why you think it is a good idea to let him on air

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exposing his frailty is...

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I'm sure Angus

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would dutifully pass on your good thoughts to the Prime Minister.

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Well, someone ought to, otherwise he may not take the country with him.

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Marilyn Monroe has been sick with gastritis.

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They've delayed the shooting of The Sleeping Prince for four days.

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Olivier is apparently livid.

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I'd have gastritis if I was married to that Mr Miller.

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And his plays! Hector and I went to see one last week. What was it called again?

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It escapes me now.

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GUNSHOTS

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GUNSHOTS

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GUNSHOTS

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GUNSHOT

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Oh, damn!

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Bad luck!

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Yes, wrong weight. I prefer something lighter.

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Stop fussing, Angus.

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You're a little liverish today.

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I've never understood the point of shooting.

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That's cos you live in London.

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The only thing they shoot in London is films or each other.

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It grows on you.

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Especially if you manage to...

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GUNSHOTS

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When you actually hit something.

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Did you get a chance to talk to him?

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I thought you'd be interested.

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I'm not an idiot.

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-I know you think you're on to something with Ruth Elms.

-I am.

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Well, you won't have much luck with Adam.

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It's obvious as hell he wasn't in love with her.

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Well, then he's a fool.

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Girls like Ruth Elms are a rare breed.

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You don't get it, do you?

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You'll see.

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He comes alive after dinner.

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GUNSHOT

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Marnie's got us all dancing in the dining room.

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You shoot, we jive. How many did you miss?

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As many as I could. I don't like shooting things.

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How do you think they killed that beef you had for lunch?

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With boredom.

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Are you going to help me pluck them?

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No, sorry.

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I have to jive.

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Isaac, you've been slurping that coffee for nearly an hour.

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Surely, it's gone cold by now?

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Mr Fendley.

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Working the weekend? Very good.

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Mr Lyon wanted me to cover a couple of things.

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Oh? And what might those be?

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What's he paying you?

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A pint and a bag of chips.

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You've been had.

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He's not sure about Mr Kish.

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Then he's just one on Mr Lyon's very long list.

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You are the definition of enigma, Mr Lyon.

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You clean a gun as if you've done it before.

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Your father?

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A poacher, I bet.

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Tell me your secret, do.

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Did you put pressure on Clarence to drop my interview with Lord Elms?

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It was you, wasn't it?

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The buck stops with your producer, I'd say.

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You will encourage Miss Rowley and her team to work WITH us, Hector?

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That's a little presumptuous, isn't it? What do you mean, "will"?

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It is to be advised.

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Things in Suez will only get worse

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and the BBC may find itself

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coming under increasing pressure in the coming weeks if they don't.

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You are a guest in my family's house, Angus.

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Don't outstay your welcome.

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Angus?

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Got a light?

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The Lord Elms film didn't blow.

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Did it?

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I'm starving, so you'll have to wait until after dinner if you want a fight.

0:21:410:21:45

I couldn't run them both.

0:21:500:21:52

I couldn't risk Hafiz and Lord Elm speaking out of turn.

0:21:530:21:56

It's censorship.

0:21:580:21:59

It is political sabotage...

0:21:590:22:01

-Hafiz was the better story. You would have done the same thing.

-No.

0:22:010:22:04

Yes.

0:22:040:22:06

But I can't even get near him now.

0:22:060:22:09

He refuses even to take my calls.

0:22:100:22:12

Can you let it go just for one weekend?

0:22:120:22:15

Gist.

0:22:150:22:16

Bright, tree,

0:22:180:22:19

rest,

0:22:210:22:22

tribe, tone.

0:22:220:22:23

Stone, rover.

0:22:240:22:26

How the hell do you bloody decode it?

0:22:270:22:30

I don't know because I'm not a spy.

0:22:300:22:32

Well, it can't be that difficult.

0:22:320:22:34

Are you all right?

0:22:370:22:38

Bloody dog hair.

0:22:400:22:41

What's he doing now?

0:22:490:22:50

Translating Nasser's rejection of Menzies' proposals.

0:22:500:22:53

Clarence is in, talking to Lix.

0:22:530:22:55

'Have you told him anything?'

0:22:550:22:57

No.

0:22:570:22:58

Er, yes, not much.

0:22:580:23:00

Not good, Mr Wengrow.

0:23:000:23:01

Not good. Please, will you not just...

0:23:010:23:05

Oh, I've seen it all before.

0:23:050:23:06

Not on me.

0:23:060:23:08

-Who are you talking to?

-Isaac.

-Ask what he's working on?

-Pollock.

0:23:080:23:11

-He's getting up.

-To do what?

0:23:120:23:14

To put his wrapper in the bin.

0:23:160:23:18

Isaac, anything else in?

0:23:180:23:19

A Swedish ship scuttled in King George Dock, Hull.

0:23:200:23:24

Mine's squished over everything in my bag.

0:23:240:23:26

Apparently, it's on fire.

0:23:260:23:29

'Tell him that Pollock'

0:23:290:23:31

only runs if he can get an interview.

0:23:310:23:33

He died four weeks ago. It's all right, Isaac.

0:23:330:23:38

Oh.

0:23:380:23:40

I was worried you might not have towels.

0:23:410:23:44

I forgot toothpaste.

0:23:460:23:47

Careful not to get any on your silk.

0:23:490:23:50

Is it, silk?

0:23:500:23:52

One can't tell any more,

0:23:520:23:53

what with all the marvellous new cheap synthetics.

0:23:530:23:57

-Damn, he's leaving.

-Follow him.

0:24:010:24:04

'How the hell does Lix know what you're doing as well?'

0:24:040:24:06

Obvious, darling. He's hardly Poirot.

0:24:060:24:08

'Don't let him follow him with the film.'

0:24:080:24:11

Tell him to lock it in my desk drawer.

0:24:110:24:13

'Lix, do you hear?'

0:24:130:24:15

God! Marnie just saw me coming out of you bathroom.

0:24:300:24:34

And?

0:24:350:24:36

I think Marnie's fun.

0:24:370:24:39

I'm sorry.

0:24:420:24:43

I should have told you the truth about the Lord Elms film.

0:24:470:24:49

Yes.

0:24:510:24:52

Just because you're one of them,

0:24:540:24:56

don't act like them.

0:24:560:24:58

I won't.

0:24:590:25:00

I promise.

0:25:020:25:03

What if I've got it wrong?

0:25:140:25:15

What if there's nothing in this bloody crossword and I'm bored and...

0:25:150:25:19

Avoiding a grown-up life?

0:25:190:25:20

You?

0:25:200:25:22

You're right.

0:25:250:25:28

A momentary lapse.

0:25:280:25:29

They're very even.

0:25:440:25:46

Your ears.

0:25:490:25:50

CLOCK CHIMES

0:25:500:25:54

Dinner.

0:25:540:25:56

Darling?

0:25:580:26:00

-I knew it.

-What?

0:26:050:26:07

Miss Rowley and Mr Lyon.

0:26:080:26:09

I've just seen her coming out of his bathroom.

0:26:090:26:12

Really?

0:26:140:26:15

Didn't I say?

0:26:170:26:18

What's wrong?

0:26:220:26:23

Don't put me near McCain at dinner.

0:26:250:26:27

What?

0:26:450:26:47

Nothing.

0:26:480:26:50

Freddie...

0:26:500:26:52

You can't possibly wear that jacket.

0:26:530:26:55

And those shoes.

0:26:560:26:58

It's a little long in the leg but you should make up for it

0:27:010:27:03

with the shoes

0:27:030:27:04

The jacket would be...

0:27:040:27:06

Here's one of my old ones.

0:27:110:27:13

I was a little trimmer then.

0:27:130:27:15

I mean, no-one gives a monkey's what you wear. It's bloody ridiculous.

0:27:170:27:20

We're just sitting down to eat.

0:27:200:27:21

No-one's getting married or buried or anything but we just do it.

0:27:210:27:25

We just obey these ridiculous rules, because Christ help us if we don't.

0:27:250:27:28

It's only a suit.

0:27:300:27:31

You need cufflinks.

0:27:340:27:35

-Here.

-Thank you.

0:27:410:27:43

CLOCK CHIMES

0:27:430:27:44

She's a wonderful woman...

0:27:470:27:49

Bel.

0:27:490:27:50

Yes.

0:27:550:27:56

Well, don't be late. There's never enough soup.

0:27:590:28:02

'And now for news from abroad. Talks between the Five Nations Suez Committee and Colonel Nasser

0:28:030:28:09

'failed dramatically last night

0:28:090:28:10

'when the Egyptian President rejected the proposals put to him

0:28:100:28:14

'by Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies.

0:28:140:28:16

'On flying back to London...'

0:28:160:28:17

Looks likes he's turned down your proposal.

0:28:170:28:20

May I use your telephone?

0:28:200:28:22

Of course. In the hall.

0:28:220:28:24

'Australia will have nothing to do...'

0:28:250:28:27

The only reason they sent Menzies is because America won't help. And now look. Complete farce.

0:28:270:28:33

If Eisenhower wasn't running for re-election the Americans

0:28:330:28:36

would have stood by us more instead of hiding behind the United Nations and opening the door to Russia.

0:28:360:28:41

Perhaps the President knows something we don't.

0:28:410:28:45

Like how to win an election.

0:28:450:28:47

That was a very good point you made earlier, though.

0:28:510:28:54

Can you inform the Prime Minister I'm trying to get hold of him?

0:28:550:28:58

This country's become far too entrenched in what it thinks it's entitled to.

0:28:580:29:03

Perhaps it needs the likes of you and I to shake things up a bit.

0:29:050:29:08

I'm off.

0:29:120:29:13

-All quiet?

-Israel is becoming increasingly jumpy.

0:29:130:29:16

They don't like the Soviets in their back yard.

0:29:160:29:19

They'll be in Suez before us at this rate.

0:29:190:29:22

I saw.

0:29:220:29:24

Does Edith ever see you?

0:29:240:29:25

I pity that poor woman, Clarence, I really do.

0:29:250:29:28

And who should I pity, Lix?

0:29:280:29:30

No-one. That's the way I like it.

0:29:310:29:33

-Has Mr Kish gone?

-No, not yet.

0:29:330:29:36

World Service speak very highly of him.

0:29:390:29:41

Well, his Arabic's brilliant.

0:29:410:29:43

Though I haven't found a single programme he's worked on

0:29:430:29:46

in the eight years he's been at the BBC.

0:29:460:29:48

Night-night.

0:29:510:29:52

Mr Kish.

0:30:010:30:03

Still here?

0:30:030:30:04

I'm just making final amendments

0:30:040:30:06

to Nasser's rejection of Menzies' proposals.

0:30:060:30:09

Lix wanted it all down.

0:30:090:30:10

What we have ever to do with ease, we must first do with diligence.

0:30:120:30:15

So beautiful on the page.

0:30:170:30:19

There are 28 basic letters.

0:30:190:30:22

It's the style that varies the form.

0:30:220:30:24

It's remarkable.

0:30:260:30:27

I think so. Yes.

0:30:270:30:29

Kish? Hungarian?

0:30:290:30:31

Russian. On my father's side.

0:30:310:30:34

Don't work too late.

0:30:360:30:37

I'll be off then.

0:31:260:31:27

Good night, Mr Wengrow.

0:31:290:31:31

Night.

0:31:310:31:33

-You don't dance, Angus?

-No.

0:31:460:31:49

Don't dance. Can't shoot.

0:31:490:31:51

What are you doing here?

0:31:520:31:54

Eden's called an emergency meeting. I may have to leave early.

0:31:540:31:57

Well, we'll try not to miss you too much.

0:31:570:32:00

They're insisting everyone attends.

0:32:000:32:02

They again?

0:32:020:32:03

The mysterious they.

0:32:030:32:06

THEY don't want you to know who THEY are, do they, Angus?

0:32:060:32:10

Have you read it? Middle section.

0:32:100:32:13

Adam Le Ray has all the charisma and threat of a carpetbagger.

0:32:140:32:17

One can forgive Mr Le Ray most things

0:32:170:32:20

but a basic lack of talent

0:32:200:32:22

is suspect in a man so devoid of anything else.

0:32:220:32:25

Well, I just did what you said.

0:32:270:32:29

And now the papers crucify me.

0:32:310:32:33

You need to go to bed. Hector, take him up.

0:32:340:32:36

Yes, I think sleep would do him good.

0:32:360:32:38

You said marry her and everything would be all right.

0:32:380:32:42

-Now she's dead!

-Get him out.

0:32:420:32:44

Freddie, could you?

0:32:440:32:47

I'm all right. I remember you now.

0:32:470:32:50

Get him out!

0:32:520:32:54

I DID WHAT YOU SAID!

0:32:540:32:56

I'm going to be sick.

0:33:050:33:06

What was he talking about?

0:33:060:33:08

God knows.

0:33:080:33:09

What do you mean?

0:33:090:33:11

-Slap him.

-Really?

0:33:110:33:14

Ow!

0:33:150:33:17

HE LAUGHS

0:33:170:33:18

Ow! Bastard!

0:33:180:33:20

What the hell did you mean? You did what he said? Who?

0:33:200:33:24

Was it McCain?

0:33:240:33:25

What did McCain tell you to do?

0:33:250:33:27

Marry her. Marry her.

0:33:270:33:29

Ruth?

0:33:290:33:30

Shh, shh!

0:33:300:33:32

Well, you didn't think it was for love, did you?

0:33:340:33:37

A girl in trouble and me.

0:33:390:33:41

What?!

0:33:410:33:43

If I married her then no-one would know what I am.

0:33:500:33:53

You should have bloody cared.

0:33:590:34:01

You should have bloody loved her!

0:34:010:34:04

Let him sleep it off.

0:34:040:34:06

Is he all right?

0:34:160:34:18

Why do you let him get drunk like that? Every time, Ralph!

0:34:180:34:21

We were just having a bit of fun.

0:34:210:34:22

Oh, yes, of course. Always fun. No. Leave him.

0:34:220:34:25

Did you hear what he said?

0:34:320:34:33

-These silent deals are struck all the time, Freddie.

-No.

0:34:370:34:40

Then consider yourself fortunate.

0:34:400:34:42

One learns to recognise it.

0:34:440:34:46

A slow deadening in the eyes.

0:34:460:34:49

An acceptance of defeat.

0:34:490:34:51

I lived with the Elms family.

0:34:530:34:55

During the war.

0:34:550:34:57

On and off.

0:34:580:34:59

My mother, she worked as a secretary for Lord Elms

0:35:010:35:04

before she met my father.

0:35:040:35:07

They took me in during the Blitz.

0:35:080:35:10

The odd summer. Christmas.

0:35:100:35:12

I hated shooting then.

0:35:130:35:14

I don't understand this world.

0:35:150:35:17

I've never understood it.

0:35:170:35:19

How any of you live.

0:35:210:35:23

There lies the rub.

0:35:230:35:24

GIGGLING

0:35:240:35:27

Have you seen them?

0:35:270:35:28

-Who?

-Any of them.

0:35:280:35:30

LAUGHTER AND CHATTER

0:35:300:35:33

67, 68, 69...

0:35:410:35:45

FOOTSTEPS

0:35:450:35:47

Sardines.

0:35:470:35:49

Oh, God. I'm so sorry.

0:35:490:35:51

Why do grown-ups insist on playing party games?

0:35:550:35:58

Didn't we do enough of that as children?

0:35:580:36:01

I never had parties as a child.

0:36:010:36:03

-Everyone had birthday parties.

-Not me.

0:36:030:36:06

-Well, not until I met Marnie.

-Oh, you're in it for the cake.

0:36:060:36:10

97!

0:36:130:36:15

98...

0:36:170:36:19

99...

0:36:190:36:21

Coming!

0:36:230:36:24

Not here!

0:37:320:37:33

GIGGLING

0:37:340:37:36

Shh!

0:37:360:37:37

Sardines!

0:38:450:38:46

DOOR BANGS Bel?

0:38:550:38:58

Precautionary measure.

0:39:030:39:05

Revert...

0:39:120:39:13

to Brightstone.

0:39:150:39:16

"Better rovers tonight."

0:39:210:39:22

"Sherbet, invert, grotto."

0:39:220:39:24

"Brighteners veto tort."

0:39:240:39:26

It's a fair point, but... it just jumps out at you.

0:39:260:39:31

Mm. Like "observe trotenite".

0:39:310:39:33

Why would you marry someone you didn't love?

0:39:370:39:40

Are you asking?

0:39:410:39:43

Because you were lonely.

0:39:460:39:47

Because you had to.

0:39:470:39:49

-Because you were in trouble.

-Pregnant.

0:39:500:39:53

Is that... That is what trouble means?

0:39:530:39:58

Poor innocent boy.

0:39:580:40:00

Because you had something to hide.

0:40:080:40:10

Because there was a promise of a career at the end of it.

0:40:100:40:13

Because the person that you loved... was doing something they shouldn't.

0:40:160:40:22

Because the person that you loved... was a spy passing secrets.

0:40:220:40:26

Freddie, it's one o'clock in the morning.

0:40:260:40:28

He knows. He knows.

0:40:280:40:32

Revert to Brightstone.

0:40:320:40:33

You need to sleep.

0:40:330:40:35

Good idea.

0:40:380:40:40

Not with me.

0:40:420:40:44

Boring Moneypenny!

0:40:440:40:47

And stop calling me that!

0:40:470:40:49

I don't know what it is about you

0:40:520:40:55

That closes and opens

0:40:550:40:57

Only something in me understands the voice of your eyes

0:40:580:41:01

Is deeper than all roses

0:41:010:41:03

Nobody, not even the rain

0:41:050:41:07

Has such small hands.

0:41:070:41:11

EE Cummings.

0:41:120:41:14

That's the one.

0:41:150:41:16

Hector,

0:41:220:41:24

you've just missed a wonderful game of Sardines.

0:41:240:41:27

Where were you?

0:41:270:41:28

Nowhere.

0:41:300:41:32

I'm awfully tired. Aren't you?

0:41:450:41:47

Yes.

0:41:520:41:54

PHONE RINGS

0:41:580:42:01

Hello.

0:42:060:42:07

Frederick?

0:42:070:42:08

Sorry?

0:42:100:42:11

Frederick?

0:42:110:42:13

Everyone is still asleep here.

0:42:150:42:18

HE WHIMPERS

0:42:180:42:20

Let me come with you.

0:42:340:42:35

It's fine. Stay. He's all right.

0:42:350:42:38

Someone broke in last night and he's just a bit shaken up.

0:42:380:42:41

-Mrs B went over straight away.

-Ready?

0:42:410:42:44

Really.

0:42:510:42:52

Can you slow down a bit?

0:43:100:43:11

You're very interesting to me, Mr Lyon.

0:43:110:43:14

I'd be more interesting alive than dead.

0:43:140:43:16

For all your socialist principles,

0:43:160:43:18

no-one does as well as you without help.

0:43:180:43:20

Please just... Let me out here. I'll take the train.

0:43:210:43:24

Don't be ridiculous. There's only one. It won't get you to London until next week.

0:43:240:43:28

You think you heard something last night?

0:43:280:43:32

Hmmm.

0:43:320:43:34

What you actually heard were the drunk ramblings of an actor

0:43:340:43:37

whose career is faltering at the starting gate.

0:43:370:43:40

-I give The Man Who Knew a week.

-I think you're wrong.

0:43:410:43:44

I think Adam Le Ray's a very interesting man with a lot to say for himself

0:43:440:43:48

and I plan to listen and find out as much as I can.

0:43:480:43:51

I'm a big supporter of the spirit of inquiry.

0:43:510:43:54

A different time, I may well have offered you a job.

0:43:540:43:57

Work with us, Freddie.

0:43:570:43:59

I'd rather not. The hours are appalling and the people are tedious.

0:43:590:44:02

HE LAUGHS

0:44:020:44:04

I don't think it's privilege you dislike.

0:44:040:44:07

I think it's fear that in spite of it, you still won't be let in.

0:44:070:44:11

-Drive carefully, won't you, darling?

-We will.

0:44:250:44:29

-Safe journey. Bye, my dears.

-Bye, Mummy.

0:44:290:44:33

KNOCK ON DOOR

0:44:330:44:34

Shall I take these?

0:44:370:44:38

You really don't have to drive me.

0:44:380:44:41

I insist.

0:44:410:44:43

Look after him. Precious cargo.

0:45:000:45:03

Drive carefully.

0:45:080:45:09

Yes. Do be careful, Hector.

0:45:110:45:13

Let's get you a cup of tea.

0:46:040:46:06

What are you doing here?

0:46:500:46:51

There was a break-in.

0:46:510:46:52

At my father's.

0:46:540:46:55

Good grief! I'm so sorry. Is he all right?

0:46:550:46:57

He's sleeping. I just needed to get out.

0:46:570:46:59

-Was anything taken?

-Nothing.

0:46:590:47:01

Except a photo of me with my mother.

0:47:010:47:04

What's your excuse?

0:47:040:47:06

Oh, dinner with a dreadful great aunt.

0:47:060:47:08

I'm stalling for as long as I can, but...

0:47:080:47:11

-The Egyptians have issued a new set of proposals.

-Is Isaac in?

0:47:110:47:14

Somewhere, knee-deep in Pollock.

0:47:140:47:17

No, I can't put it off any longer. She gets rather spiteful if I'm not there by the entree.

0:47:220:47:26

Did he give you the film?

0:47:260:47:28

No, he didn't.

0:47:280:47:29

He hasn't been seen all day, our Mr Kish.

0:47:370:47:40

Be careful, Freddie.

0:47:400:47:42

It's Sunday. Look sad.

0:47:430:47:44

Go home or people will talk.

0:47:460:47:48

Are you going to say anything?

0:48:050:48:06

You haven't spoken the whole journey.

0:48:060:48:09

Bel...

0:48:150:48:16

..just say if you want this.

0:48:190:48:21

DOOR OPENS

0:49:140:49:17

I left my raincoat.

0:49:210:49:22

Perhaps we could go for that drink now?

0:49:270:49:30

Coffee. I want coffee.

0:49:320:49:34

They really, really do the best.

0:49:340:49:37

Shall we?

0:49:390:49:41

Good night!

0:50:520:50:53

Did you break into my house last night, Mr Kish?

0:51:150:51:18

Of course I didn't, Mr Lyon.

0:51:190:51:22

You're lying.

0:51:220:51:24

You came into my house

0:51:250:51:28

and you frightened my father.

0:51:280:51:29

Is that what you do?

0:51:310:51:32

Frighten people?

0:51:340:51:35

You've got a very active imagination, Mr Lyon.

0:51:350:51:37

I don't think so.

0:51:370:51:39

Who do you work for?

0:51:410:51:43

The same people you do, Mr Lyon.

0:51:440:51:46

Then why are you spying on me?

0:51:460:51:48

You look like you were very good friends.

0:51:520:51:54

With Ruth and Peter.

0:51:560:51:58

You must miss him.

0:52:030:52:04

I do.

0:52:070:52:08

Then why aren't you helping me?

0:52:080:52:10

I know you know something. Something you're not telling me. Why?

0:52:100:52:13

I could help you.

0:52:180:52:19

You can't help me.

0:52:220:52:23

You are an amateur, Mr Lyon.

0:52:250:52:28

You know nothing about me. I know everything about you.

0:52:300:52:33

I know that you live with your father.

0:52:340:52:36

That you go to the launderette on Wednesdays.

0:52:360:52:39

That you have no luck with girls. You work too much.

0:52:390:52:42

You don't know what you've got yourself into,

0:52:420:52:45

and now you know too much.

0:52:450:52:47

You're in the middle of a very dangerous world

0:52:500:52:53

but you have convinced yourself that you are somehow immune.

0:52:530:52:56

You're not.

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We can do this one of two ways.

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You can stop playing games with me and tell me everything you know...

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Or?

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You don't have to do this, Mr Kish.

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Mr Kish?

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It is the confession, not the priest that gives us absolution.

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My mother always said that to me. It always worked.

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Stolen cake.

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"Bum" scrawled on a piece of paper.

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If you kill me you might not meet someone so interested in the truth!

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I don't want to die in the bloody office!

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Mr Kish.

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He knows.

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It's you, isn't it? What do you know?

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Huh?

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Better rovers tonight.

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Brighteners veto tort.

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Sherbet invert grotto!

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Revert to Brightstone.

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It's Brightstone, isn't it?

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What is BRIGHTSTONE?

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Who.

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The question is who?

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BODY THUDS

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PHONE RINGS

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Hello?

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'Can I come over?'

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Freddie, it's nearly midnight.

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Is it?

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'Go to bed.'

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I can't.

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I can't sleep.

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Are you all right?

0:57:040:57:06

Yes.

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'Night.'

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DIALLING TONE

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Tom never mentioned you.

0:57:390:57:41

No, he wouldn't have. We'd only recently met.

0:57:410:57:44

You went to see his wife?! Are you insane?

0:57:440:57:47

I was delivering my condolences.

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You know, I didn't think she'd last as long as she has.

0:57:530:57:56

Douglas said you thought a lady would be easier to steer.

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Yesterday and again this morning. Blue car, black interior.

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-What?!

-Why am I being followed?

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Miss Rowley?

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-Audacious.

-Papers are in.

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At worst, it was an accident.

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There are no accidents...

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apparently.

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