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First broadcast 6th March 1981.

Lady Eileen "Bundle" Brent is a pert, aggressive young aristocrat who insinuates herself into a series of murders, stolen state secrets, and a mysterious secret society.

John Gielgud as Marquess of Caterhan
Harry Andrews as Superintendent Battle
Cheryl Campbell as Lady Eileen 'Bundle' Brent
James Warwick as Jimmy Thesiger
Terence Alexander as George Lomax
Christopher Scoular as Bill Eversleigh
Lucy Gutteridge as Lorraine Wade
Leslie Sands as Sir Oswald Coote
Joyce Redman as Lady Coote
Brian Wilde as Tredwell
Rula Lenska as Countess Radzky
Noel Johnson as Sir Stanley Digby
Robert Longden as Gerry Wade
John Vine as Ronny Devereux
James Griffiths as Rupert 'Pongo' Bateman
Hetty Baynes as Vera
Sarah Crowden as Helen
Lynne Ross as Nancy
Thom Delaney as Terence O'Rourke
Norwich Duff as Howard Phelps
Sandor Elès as Count Andras
Douglas W. Iles as John Bauer
Charles Morgan as Dr. Cartwright
John Price as Alfred
Roger Sloman as Stevens
Jacob Witkin as Mr Mosgorovsky

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00:00:00The End
00:01:00Oh, sorry. I say, Treadwell, am I the, am I the last down?
00:01:12No, sir. Mr. Wade has not come down yet, sir.
00:01:15Lazy blighter. Fresh coffee, sir.
00:01:18Well done, Treadwell.
00:01:19I'm afraid I'm a bit late, Lady Coot. What?
00:01:31Sir Oswald says there's nothing for a young man getting on in the world but punctual habits.
00:01:36Well, he should know, shouldn't he?
00:01:38I mean, steel king of Europe, knighted in the New Year's honours list.
00:01:43He must have been very punctual in his habits.
00:01:45Oh, he still is.
00:01:47But for all that, we haven't got a home of our own, just rented accommodation.
00:01:50Oh, the home of the Marcus of Caterham is hardly rented accommodation, Lady Coot.
00:01:55Chimneys is one of the most beautiful houses in Sussex.
00:01:57Simply oozing with history.
00:01:59No, I don't know so much about the history, but there's a lot of dump about.
00:02:02Oh, I know. I'm a very lucky woman.
00:02:05It's nice to have somewhere to invite young people to, my goddaughter and her friends.
00:02:09It's lonely being a lady.
00:02:10My husband and I never had any children of our own, you see.
00:02:14Well, if you can manage without me, I'll just go and pick some roses for his desk.
00:02:20It's the only thing the gardener here will let me do.
00:02:23I'm glad you're here, Mr. Thessager.
00:02:32Must make a nice change from the Foreign Office.
00:02:35Oh, actually, I'm not at the Foreign Office.
00:02:37The others are.
00:02:38Gerry, Ronnie and Bill, but not me.
00:02:41Oh, what do you do then?
00:02:44Nothing, actually.
00:02:47I'm a sort of man about town, I suppose.
00:02:50Oh, that'll be why you don't have to get up in the morning.
00:02:54Come on, we'll be first.
00:02:55Come on, you stop.
00:02:56One can follows another to ring the bell.
00:03:01One...
00:03:01Oh, good morning, Pongo, old chap.
00:03:04Turn that incredible mind of yours to tell you from...
00:03:07I wish you wouldn't use that ridiculous name down here.
00:03:09I'm not a guest.
00:03:10I'm Sir Oswald's private secretary, and in that capacity, my name is Rupert Bateman.
00:03:15Sorry.
00:03:15The fact that we had the misfortune to be at school together is not one that should subject me to ridicule.
00:03:20My apologies, old chap.
00:03:21If you could persuade your friend, Mr. Wade, to appear for breakfast before noon, it would considerably enhance the domestic harmony of the household.
00:03:28And another thing, would you kindly leave Sir Oswald's copy of the Times alone?
00:03:32I think I'll go and make myself agreeable to those blasted girls.
00:03:36Do you know where they are?
00:03:37Touching from the noise coming from the lake, I would say they were attempting, without much success, to punt at him.
00:03:44Jimmy!
00:03:45Jimmy!
00:03:46Where's Jerry?
00:03:47You don't mean to say he's not up yet.
00:03:49If he's not careful, he'll miss breakfast altogether one day.
00:03:52I'll just lunch or tea instead when he rolls down.
00:03:55It's very, very naughty of him.
00:03:57Why is God the more terrible?
00:03:59We'll get him out of bed for you.
00:04:01We'll pull him out.
00:04:02Come on, Jimmy.
00:04:02Come on, Jimmy.
00:04:07Teach you there.
00:04:08Now, I've got a much better idea.
00:04:14We'll do something tomorrow morning, you know?
00:04:16Get him at seven, crack of dawn.
00:04:17That's when dawn cracks us.
00:04:19It's wonderful.
00:04:19Just how do you suggest we achieve this miracle?
00:04:23Oh, cold water, judiciously applied.
00:04:25You don't know, Jerry.
00:04:26If Niagara Falls were to land flat on his face, he'd only turn over and go back to sleep again.
00:04:30Well, we must think of something subtler than cold water.
00:04:34Who's got any brains?
00:04:36Oh, Lord.
00:04:43Pongo.
00:04:47Pongo!
00:04:49Pongo was always the one for brains.
00:04:53Here's misfortune from his youth.
00:04:55Look at him.
00:04:56Just like the white rabbit.
00:04:57He hasn't got any whiskers.
00:05:00I say Pongo, old chap.
00:05:02Pongo!
00:05:03Pongo!
00:05:05I really am in the greatest possible hurry.
00:05:10I have to take some papers up to town for Sir Oswald.
00:05:12It's Saturday.
00:05:13We can't all work at the Foreign Office.
00:05:15I will only keep you a moment.
00:05:16Then you have brains.
00:05:19We need them.
00:05:22What exactly is the problem?
00:05:24My friend, Jerry Wade.
00:05:25Any sign of him yet?
00:05:31No, my lady.
00:05:32It's very late.
00:05:34Yes, my lady.
00:05:35I suppose he will come down sometime, Treadwell.
00:05:38Oh, undoubtedly, my lady.
00:05:40It was 11.30 yesterday morning when Mr. Wade came down.
00:05:44Now it's quarter to twelve.
00:05:47Yes, my lady.
00:05:48Well, it's very hard to look on you, Treadwell.
00:05:50I am accustomed to the ways of young gentlemen, my lady.
00:05:56But it's not right, Treadwell, having to clear away and then get lunch on the table by one o'clock.
00:06:01I don't know how they do with these young people.
00:06:03Hardly give themselves time to work up an appetite.
00:06:06I don't know what the answer is, I'm sure.
00:06:08An alarm clock.
00:06:14Now, if you'll excuse me.
00:06:20One alarm clock?
00:06:21It would take about a dozen to disturb Jerry Wade.
00:06:24Why not?
00:06:25We'll all go into Market Basin and buy one alarm clock each.
00:06:31Who said we hadn't got any brains?
00:06:45Morning, Mrs. Lady Kuhn.
00:06:48Where are the others?
00:06:49Punting.
00:06:50Hmm?
00:06:50On the lake, I believe.
00:06:52It's rather early in the morning for punting, isn't it?
00:06:54Not so very early in the morning.
00:06:56I'm afraid I was a bit late in coming down.
00:06:58It is extraordinary, but wherever I happen to be staying, I'm always the last one down.
00:07:03Very extraordinary.
00:07:04I don't know why it is.
00:07:04I can't think I'm sure.
00:07:05Why don't you just get up?
00:07:06I don't know why it is.
00:07:07I don't know why it is.
00:07:08I don't know why it is.
00:07:09I don't know.
00:07:09Why don't you just get up?
00:07:10I don't know why it is.
00:07:11Vera, you hide these in your room.
00:07:28I've got an extra one for Lady Coot.
00:07:30She's suffered most.
00:07:31I've got one of the fungal.
00:07:31I'm worried what is idea.
00:07:33How many is that altogether?
00:07:34Eight.
00:07:41Well, that ought to wake him.
00:07:56Come on.
00:07:58Tintin abulation.
00:08:00Ten across.
00:08:02One can follows another to ring the bell.
00:08:04Not now, Jimmy.
00:08:05There's a good chap.
00:08:09Four tricks in the rubber.
00:08:10I think I was very lucky to get four tricks there.
00:08:12Well, Pete, part of the joy we are playing.
00:08:14Oh, not really.
00:08:15It's just that I'm lucky at the game.
00:08:16You'd have to be lucky playing the way you do.
00:08:18You've got no card censor, Joe.
00:08:20I know, dear.
00:08:20You're always telling me.
00:08:21And you owe me and Mr. Wade eight pounds and ten shillings.
00:08:24Do I?
00:08:24Seventeen hundred.
00:08:25That's eighteen pounds, ten.
00:08:27That's correct, isn't it, Mr. Wade?
00:08:28Perfectly correct, Lady Coot.
00:08:30Well, I don't know about you lot.
00:08:32But after that, I need a drink.
00:08:35Messager?
00:08:36Oh, whiskey and splash.
00:08:37Thirsty work, dancing.
00:08:38Wait, that goes for me, too.
00:08:41Have you ever played solo, Whist, Mr. Wade?
00:08:43Now, that's a real game.
00:08:45And Gobelmire's ruthless when she plays it, Mr. Wade.
00:08:47She once went miser with three aces in her hand.
00:08:51It's very subtle.
00:08:52Don't be cheeky, Vera.
00:08:55Good news from Swansea, sir.
00:08:57The tests are conclusive.
00:08:58It works.
00:08:59I always thought it would.
00:09:01Bennett will bring the formula back to you personally on Monday.
00:09:04Say he gives to bed about twelve.
00:09:05How long do you think we ought to give him?
00:09:07About an hour?
00:09:08It should be all right.
00:09:09Do you think we ought to set them so there's one glorious and whatnot or to go at intervals?
00:09:13Oh, five minute intervals.
00:09:15Starting at half past six.
00:09:17I...
00:09:18I suppose it is a good idea.
00:09:20Oh, mustn't weaken it.
00:09:21Come on, let's not look suspicious.
00:09:25Cheers.
00:09:26Cheers.
00:09:27Cheers.
00:09:27Cheers.
00:09:29Cheers.
00:09:29I thought he'd never put his light out, but I've put my head around the door and he's
00:09:42sound off.
00:09:43How about it?
00:09:44Where's Bill?
00:09:44Getting the girls.
00:09:45Clocks.
00:09:49You're master.
00:09:50You're set.
00:09:51What was those little knobs?
00:09:52It took me earth.
00:09:52Well done.
00:09:53Who's going to do the deed?
00:09:57Pongo, of course, walks like a cat.
00:09:59Haven't you noticed?
00:10:00Get him, will you, Bill?
00:10:01Bill!
00:10:02Shh!
00:10:02Now then, Pongo's best, because if Jerry should happen to wake up, Pongo will think of some
00:10:07rotten, silly thing to allay his suspicions.
00:10:09Something's I thought.
00:10:11Exactly.
00:10:12Good girl, guys, I have to be up at five thirty!
00:10:14Shh!
00:10:16Sir Oswald believes that two hours' work daily before breakfast, including Sundays, is worth
00:10:21two percent on the annual turnover.
00:10:23What an impressive thought.
00:10:24Now then, as soon as you get it over with, as soon as you get back to bed.
00:10:27One, open the door.
00:10:30One, two.
00:10:32Buckle my shoes.
00:10:33Two, two, one with you.
00:10:34In you go.
00:10:35In you go.
00:10:44Three, four.
00:10:53Look at the door.
00:10:54Two, four.
00:10:55Shh!
00:10:58Oh, spin it.
00:10:59Five, six.
00:11:15Pick up, Steve.
00:11:19I say, all those clocks ticking away make a devil of a row.
00:11:22Hope he doesn't wake up.
00:11:24Even old Jerry Assese is couldn't fail to miss it, surely.
00:11:27I've sometimes thought that, well, Jerry can't be quite the ass he makes himself out to.
00:11:32You do this for your subtle.
00:11:34Right, sir.
00:11:35Oh!
00:11:38Eight.
00:11:39Eight.
00:11:43Eight.
00:11:44Eight.
00:11:45Eight.
00:11:46Eight.
00:11:47Eight.
00:11:48Eight.
00:11:49Eight.
00:11:50Eight.
00:11:51Eight.
00:11:52Eight.
00:11:53Eight.
00:11:54Eight.
00:11:55Eight.
00:11:56Eight.
00:11:56Eight.
00:11:56Eight.
00:11:57Eight.
00:11:57Eight.
00:12:23Eight.
00:12:26Eight.
00:12:26Eight.
00:12:26This is a bit beyond anything.
00:12:28I don't understand it.
00:12:28The first one woke me.
00:12:29Well, the jokes are jokes that this is carrying.
00:12:31It's not bad you for.
00:12:33It's not like Jerry, is it?
00:12:37Excuse me, sir.
00:12:38What's up, Treadwell?
00:12:43Mr. Wade, not having come down, sir,
00:12:46I took the liberty of sending John up to his room.
00:12:50Yes.
00:12:52I'm afraid, sir, the poor young gentleman.
00:12:56Must have died in his sleep.
00:13:02No, that is impossible.
00:13:05That fool John has made a mistake.
00:13:06He's asleep, that's all, just asleep.
00:13:08No, sir, John made no mistake.
00:13:10Dr. Cartwright is here.
00:13:12He would like to see you in the drawing room,
00:13:14if you'd be so good, sir.
00:13:16Jerry!
00:13:18Bill, Bill, look after the girls.
00:13:21I understand that you were a great friend, Mr. Wade.
00:13:24His greatest friend.
00:13:25Do you know if he was in the habit of taking stuff
00:13:27to make him sleep?
00:13:29No, he always slept like a top.
00:13:30You never heard him complain of sleeplessness?
00:13:32Never.
00:13:34Hmm.
00:13:35There would have to be an inquest, I'm afraid.
00:13:39Well, how did he die?
00:13:41I should say an overdose of chloral.
00:13:45Stuff was by the bed.
00:13:47And a bottle of the glass.
00:13:49Any question of foul play?
00:13:51Any cause to suspect it?
00:13:53None whatsoever.
00:13:57And suicide?
00:13:59Certainly not.
00:14:00No troubles that you know of.
00:14:01Money troubles?
00:14:02A woman?
00:14:04Hmm.
00:14:06Now, about relations.
00:14:08Well, he only has a sister.
00:14:10A half-sister, rather.
00:14:12She lives at Dean Manor, about 25 miles from here.
00:14:14I suppose you're about the best of all I have, now.
00:14:21Look, there's something I want to tell you.
00:14:24Something I think you should know.
00:14:25Oh?
00:14:26About Jerry?
00:14:28Yes.
00:14:29The thing is, I don't know whether I ought to.
00:14:31Well, perhaps you'd better not.
00:14:33Well, I'm bound by a kind of promise, you see.
00:14:35Why don't you just get it off your chest?
00:14:39No, it's no good, Jimmy.
00:14:40I can't.
00:14:40Just as you like.
00:14:53What's she like?
00:14:55This girl, Jerry's sister.
00:14:59Matt!
00:15:00Matt!
00:15:01Mr. Thestager, what a lovely surprise.
00:15:14You mustn't mind, lady.
00:15:16She's just had some puppies, and she's very suspicious.
00:15:19This is Ronnie Devera, Miss Wade.
00:15:20You're Ronnie!
00:15:22Jerry talks about you a lot.
00:15:23You're all over at Chimneys, aren't you?
00:15:25Well, why hasn't he come with you?
00:15:27I'm afraid we have some bad news for you.
00:15:31Jerry?
00:15:38He's dead.
00:15:43How?
00:15:45When?
00:15:46Last night.
00:15:47It seems he, uh, it must have been an accident.
00:15:52He seems to have taken an overdose of chloral.
00:15:55A sleeping draught, Jerry.
00:15:56I can't believe it either.
00:15:57Look here.
00:15:59Would you like to come with us now?
00:16:01If you'd rather not, I'm sure...
00:16:02Of course I must come.
00:16:04Only I need to be alone a little first.
00:16:10I have my own car.
00:16:11I'll follow in half an hour.
00:16:12It was very kind of you to come.
00:16:17Can't have been easy.
00:16:27I've been to see him.
00:16:30Are you going in?
00:16:33Oh, I don't think so.
00:16:35I think all his friends should.
00:16:37Why?
00:16:38It's a sign of respect.
00:16:39Very well.
00:17:09Did you notice the clocks?
00:17:33Yes, I did.
00:17:33Well, who...
00:17:36Who do you think arranged them like that?
00:17:38All in a row?
00:17:39All the servants tidying up, I suppose.
00:17:41The funny thing is that...
00:17:42There are seven of them, not eight.
00:17:46One of them's missing.
00:17:49Inconsiderate, that's what I call it.
00:17:50Distinctly inconsiderate.
00:17:52People have to die somewhere.
00:17:53Well, they don't need to die in my house.
00:17:55Lots of people have.
00:17:57Masses of stuffy old great-grandfathers and grandmothers.
00:18:00That's quite different.
00:18:01Of course, I expect family to die here.
00:18:04But I do object to strangers.
00:18:15You know, I appreciate getting back to Treadwell more than I can say.
00:18:18That man studies my comfort in the most marvelous manner.
00:18:21I met Jerry Wade once.
00:18:24He was a friend of Bill's.
00:18:25You'd have liked him, Father.
00:18:27No, I shouldn't.
00:18:28I don't like anyone who dies in my house on purpose to annoy me.
00:18:33What happened to the inquest, do you know?
00:18:35Death by misadventure.
00:18:37Oh, they had to show some consideration for the sister's feelings, I suppose.
00:18:41Was there a sister?
00:18:42Yeah, half-sister, I believe.
00:18:44She was much younger.
00:18:46Old Wade ran away with her mother.
00:18:48He was always doing that sort of thing.
00:18:50No woman ever appealed to him unless she belonged to some other man.
00:18:53Well, I'm glad that's one bad habit you haven't got.
00:18:56Oh, by the way,
00:18:58what nervous are you?
00:19:01This fellow died in your bed, you know.
00:19:03Oh.
00:19:04My bed?
00:19:05Yours.
00:19:05Why did he have to die in my bed?
00:19:08Just what I said.
00:19:09Damned inconsiderate.
00:19:10Everyone damned inconsiderate nowadays.
00:19:12Well, not that I mind.
00:19:14Why should I?
00:19:15Why should I?
00:19:16I should mind very much.
00:19:17I should dream of things, you know.
00:19:19Yeah.
00:19:20Spectral hands and clanking chains.
00:19:24Well, great Aunt Louisa died in your bed.
00:19:26And when do you do and see her spook hovering over you?
00:19:29I do sometimes.
00:19:30Especially after lobster.
00:19:32Well, thank heavens, I'm not superstitious.
00:20:24September the 21st.
00:20:27Why, surely that was...
00:20:28Tell Lorraine,
00:20:30I will be down on Wednesday.
00:20:32I'm feeling awfully fit
00:20:33and rather pleased with myself all round.
00:20:35It'd be heavenly to see you.
00:20:36Look here.
00:20:37Do forget what I said about the seven dials.
00:20:39I thought it was going to be more or less of a joke,
00:20:41but it isn't anything about it.
00:20:44I'm sorry I ever said anything about it.
00:20:46It's not the kind of business kids like you ought to be mixed up in.
00:20:50Something else I wanted to tell you about.
00:20:51I'm so sleepy I can't keep my eyes.
00:20:53All I'm saying is please be careful.
00:21:17Me?
00:21:18I mean, why?
00:21:21Look, there was something worrying, Jerry.
00:21:23Not the kind of thing that would make him want to...
00:21:26It was to do with the department.
00:21:29So I can't really...
00:21:30Talk about it.
00:21:31No, I understand.
00:21:34Sometimes Jerry'd come back here from the Foreign Office,
00:21:36quiet, tired.
00:21:38Not at all the kind of person he went around pretending to be.
00:21:41He couldn't talk either.
00:21:43He'd walk the dogs.
00:21:46In the evening we'd read.
00:21:48Play music.
00:21:52He'd go back to London feeling better.
00:21:54You were very close, weren't you?
00:21:57We both of us had rotten childhoods.
00:22:00He brought us together, I suppose.
00:22:02Lorraine.
00:22:03I know this is not the time.
00:22:05Not after what you've been through in the past few days.
00:22:07But I'm not going to rest until I find the devils that killed Jerry.
00:22:13Killed him.
00:22:17And when I've done that,
00:22:19may I come back?
00:22:22Yes, of course.
00:22:34Good night, Ronnie.
00:22:35Good night.
00:22:37Father, I'm going up to town in the Delage.
00:22:40Can't stand the monotony down here any longer.
00:22:42Well, you only came home yesterday.
00:22:44I know.
00:22:44It seems more like a hundred years.
00:22:46I've forgotten how dull the country could be.
00:22:48I don't agree with you.
00:22:49It's peaceful, that's what it is.
00:22:51Peaceful.
00:22:52And extremely comfortable.
00:22:54I don't want comfort.
00:22:55I want excitement.
00:22:57In my experience,
00:22:58people who go around looking for trouble
00:22:59usually find it.
00:23:00Don't do something.
00:23:05I don't know.
00:23:07I don't know.
00:23:08I don't know.
00:23:08I don't know.
00:23:39seven dials tell
00:23:54who tell who
00:23:58tell
00:24:02shot shot how could he have been i don't know how he could have been but he was
00:24:26we really shouldn't go about shooting people you know they don't like it i dare say some of them
00:24:31richly deserve it but it only leads to trouble in the end father you haven't been listening to a
00:24:36word i said i did not shoot him well if you didn't who did nobody knows but that's nonsense a man can't
00:24:42be run over and shot without anyone doing it he wasn't run over i thought you said he was i said
00:24:46i thought i had well who was he this man anyone we know police found papers in his wallet his name
00:24:53was ronnie devora he worked in the foreign office ah well that explains it
00:24:57what was it you said he said just before he died seven dials tell jimmy thesiger
00:25:09how many things last words your grandfather said pass the mustard and off he went just like that
00:25:15you don't know jimmy thesiger do you thesiger thesiger one of the yorkshire thesiger that's what
00:25:24i'm asking you do pay attention father this is very important ah your great aunt selena married a
00:25:31thesiger what use is that to me it wasn't much use to her if i remember rightly you're impossible
00:25:35i shall have to ask bill he knows everybody wish i could remember exactly what jerry wade said in that
00:25:42letter something about a joke the seven dials business wasn't a joke oh god i heard someone
00:25:49mention seven dials recently me father 30 seconds ago oh i knew i'd heard it before
00:25:54i sent the letter on to her it was a puzzling sort of letter not the kind of brother usually writes to
00:26:00a sister what sister half sister no blood relation at all ah very pretty girl so they tell me
00:26:07that would explain it that's honey in the times hmm no mention of ronnie devra there's not a word
00:26:20about a shooting or an accident or anything you think there'd be something
00:26:24got it got what seven dials knew it sounded familiar george lomax george lomax
00:26:36called in here yesterday when you were out running that chap over seemed very worried
00:26:39seems he's got some sort of political shindig at his place next week and he got a warning letter
00:26:44what sort of warning letter oh the where trouble ahead that sort of nonsense written from seven
00:26:49dials said he was off to london to consult scotland yard about it
00:26:53he would you're not off again things to do father things to do
00:26:59father what'd you say the name of that tame policeman friend of yours was battle
00:27:07a young lady sir has called to see you oh don't be a fool stims it's the middle of the night
00:27:21no sir it is 11 30 o'clock in the morning and a young lady has called to see you
00:27:28do you know why stims i couldn't say sir i suppose you couldn't
00:27:33do you think i ought to get up and see this lady
00:27:41yes i suppose i better she uh she didn't give her name no sir
00:27:48well what's she like stevens the young lady sir is most undoubtedly strictly com
00:27:55ufo if i may use the expression you may use it stevens your friend's pronunciation if i may
00:28:02say so is extremely good oh much better than mine i am gratified to hear it sir i have lately been
00:28:09taking a correspondence course in french have you really stevens you're a remarkable chap oh uh run my
00:28:19bath would you and see the young lady has a pot of tea and the uh morning paper
00:28:25if you will wait in here miss
00:28:33another one she declines to give her name sir but says her business is important
00:28:38this is odd stevens i mean two girls turning up damned odd
00:28:43uh what was i up to last night i mean what time did i come home just upon five o'clock
00:28:50sir nothing more ah well i suppose i better go and face the fairer moans if i might suggest
00:28:57sir not in our stocking feet
00:28:59oh really stevens i say i've only just thought are you by any chance lorraine wade how clever of
00:29:10you to know i've only just realized you're in mourning i'm terribly sorry i'm bundle brent
00:29:15you've sent me jerry's letter that's what i've come to see jimmy about i tried to get hold of ronnie
00:29:20davra he was jerry's best friend you know but they see he isn't there he's dead i'm terribly sorry
00:29:26dead he was shot i'm afraid yesterday that's why i've come to see you
00:29:31oh ronnie shot just before he died he tried to say something it was a message to you he said seven
00:29:42dials tell jimmy thesager seven dials it was in that letter bundle found it in her desk she kindly
00:29:50sent it on to me bundle lady eileen brent jimmy thesager it was what my friends call me sorry
00:29:56bill eversley gave me your address oh yes of course it's that bit there do forget what i said
00:30:03about the seven dials business what was it he wanted you to forget i'd open a letter of his
00:30:09by mistake it had some address of the seven dials at the head of it i realized it wasn't for me so i
00:30:14put it back in the envelope without reading it jerry didn't seem to mind much he laughed he asked me if
00:30:21i'd ever heard of the mafia and then said wouldn't it be queer if a society like that started
00:30:25here in england i'm beginning to see the seven dials must be the headquarters of some sort of
00:30:31secret society jerry knew that if that society suspected you had any knowledge of its activity
00:30:37you'd be in danger that's why he was so anxious you should forget what he told you and he was
00:30:41quite right now look here you've done your bit you've delivered ronnie's message it's different
00:30:47for me i was ronnie's pal for god's sake you keep out of it you and bundle do you think for one
00:30:52minute i keep out of it someone killed my brother killed do you think it was murder ronnie did he
00:30:56was sure of it when did he tell you this the night before last he took me out to dinner and yesterday
00:31:03somebody shot him now will you please understand why should anyone want to kill jerry wade
00:31:09well i could make a shrewd guess jerry spoke excellent german didn't he perfect i think in
00:31:18reality jerry was pretty high up in the secret service after all he was at the foreign office
00:31:22and i remember saying at chimneys he couldn't be quite the ass he made himself out to be he wasn't
00:31:27and if you're right then the thing's bigger than we thought this seven dials business isn't
00:31:33merely criminal it's international codders what i knew there was something i've forgotten codders
00:31:41uh george lomax his majesty's under secretary of state for foreign affairs ronnie's boss and
00:31:46bill heversley's well codders is having some sort of political shindig next week and he's had a warning
00:31:52letter from seven dollars too now what do you think that points to something's going to happen that's
00:31:55what i think so someone's got to go agreed do you think i could work it through bill he's bound to
00:32:01be there as codders right hand man which young man interested in politics anxious to stand for
00:32:06parliament you mean that sort of thing might work hmm too bad you can't be there don't be too sure
00:32:13what about me oh you're not in on this act i'm just to go and wait i knew you'd understand three of
00:32:19us forcing our way and might look rather suspicious you do see that don't you i suppose so then it's
00:32:25settled you do nothing superintendent battle could you give me a list of secret societies that have
00:32:35their headquarters in seven dials strictly speaking lady i there's no such place as seven dials nowadays
00:32:42most of it was pulled down and rebuilt the same i should very much like to know what put that
00:32:47neighborhood into your head a man was shot yesterday i thought i'd run over him sir ronald
00:32:54ever oh you know about it why was there nothing about it in the papers it'll be in the papers tomorrow
00:32:59playing the time are you it'll be in the papers tomorrow when he was dying he mentioned the seven
00:33:07dials thank you i'll make a note today leave it all to you we are the professionals and i'm only an amateur
00:33:12well i meant have your professional skill and knowledge but i have one advantage over you
00:33:20i can work in the dark of course if you won't give me a list of your secret societies come now lady i
00:33:27i never said that you should have a list a whole lot
00:33:32but brothers of saint sebastian the wolfhounds the comrades of peace the friends of oppression
00:33:46children of moscow the herrings comrades of the foreign half a dozen more
00:33:55you're giving me this because you know it's not the slightest use to me
00:33:57you want me to leave the whole thing alone i should prefer it i said just now that an
00:34:05amateur could do things a professional couldn't you didn't contradict me that's because you're an
00:34:11honest man superintendent battle you knew i was right please if there's a chance for an amateur
00:34:17let me have it what you propose is dangerous and when i say dangerous i mean dangerous i've grasped
00:34:23that i'm not a fool no i'll give you one little clue i think mr bill eversley will be able to tell
00:34:33you all you want to know about seven dollars bill i tell you bundle nobody goes there anymore it's
00:34:40boring really and my god you can get tired of fried fish fried fish what are you talking about seven
00:34:46dance club of course what are you talking about club it used to be a sunny sort of district it's all
00:34:51cleaned up now but seven dance club keeps the old atmosphere fried fish and chips general squad
00:34:59awfully handy to get out after a show good we're going there tonight
00:35:08what i want to know is why you're so unwilling
00:35:10willing painfully so what's the guilty secret guilty
00:35:15see such an awfully mixed bunch artists you know all sorts of odd women i tell you bundle it's played
00:35:24out i don't believe it comes here now is that it i told you sir
00:35:31i don't have haddock and chips i'd much rather go to the ritz come on i'd much rather go up
00:35:54up the stairs you said there was a background room it might be raided
00:35:59bundle they're not
00:36:01it's
00:36:09it's
00:36:15It's Alfred, isn't it?
00:36:24Will you be put my tummies?
00:36:25Yes, ma'am.
00:36:26How are you, Alfred?
00:36:28Nicely, thank you, your ladyship.
00:36:35When did you leave, Alfred?
00:36:37About a month ago, my lady.
00:36:40Chance of bettering myself.
00:36:41It's seen a pity not to take it.
00:36:43Quite greater.
00:36:44Quite greater.
00:36:45I hope you're not going to regret this bundle.
00:37:03I told you you wouldn't like it.
00:37:05It's not quite what I expected, that's all.
00:37:10Has Jimmy Thursday been in touch with you?
00:37:12About going down to Wyvern Abbey next weekend?
00:37:13He has.
00:37:15The long rigmarole he wants me to stuff Codders with about wanting to see the political light or some such rubbish.
00:37:21Have you got him an invitation?
00:37:25I told Codders he was richer than Rothschild, and if there's one thing Codders is dedicated to, it's party funds.
00:37:31This meeting at Codders' place.
00:37:32This meeting at Codders' place.
00:37:33Anything special?
00:37:34Oh, usual sort of muck.
00:37:35People who have to be impressed, that sort of thing.
00:37:38The air minister and his secretary, Rourke, Sir Oswald and Lady Coote.
00:37:41And the mysterious Countess, young, beautiful and Hungarian.
00:37:47What is old Codders up to, we ask ourselves?
00:37:51Nothing very interesting of his running true to form.
00:37:53Now I'm going to thank you for an interesting evening and throw you out.
00:37:58Wait, it isn't late.
00:38:02I know, but I've got a long day ahead of me tomorrow.
00:38:05What are you going to do?
00:38:06That depends.
00:38:07But I can tell you this, Bill.
00:38:09I'm not going to let the grass grow under my feet.
00:38:12It never does.
00:38:14Somehow those clocks have always given me the shivers.
00:38:16I dream of them sometimes.
00:38:19Silly, isn't it?
00:38:20Seven clocks, Monroe.
00:38:22Not seven clocks.
00:38:24Seven dials.
00:38:25Don't you see there's a pattern to it?
00:38:27I think your friend Ronnie was on to it.
00:38:29He was trying to tell you.
00:38:30Seven dials.
00:38:33Tell Jimmy Thersinger.
00:38:36Bundle, are you sure that's all he said?
00:38:38Quite sure.
00:38:39Death concentrates the mind most wonderfully.
00:38:42It's the inquest tomorrow.
00:38:43I'm a witness.
00:38:44Well, may I come with you?
00:38:45Last respects and all that.
00:38:46I'd be glad of the company.
00:38:50Jerry Wade.
00:38:52Ronnie.
00:38:54Makes you wonder who's going to be next.
00:38:56I suppose you know what you're doing here is dead against the law.
00:38:59We've only been raided twice, Ronnie.
00:39:00I'm not talking about gambling.
00:39:01There's more than that.
00:39:02Probably a great deal more than you know.
00:39:07I'm going to ask you a discreet question, Alfred,
00:39:09and I should like the truth, please.
00:39:10How much were you paid for leaving chimneys?
00:39:12It was like this, my lady.
00:39:18The Russian gentleman, Mr. Mosgorowski, who owns this club,
00:39:21he come down to chimneys on one of our open days,
00:39:23and it seems he liked the way I showed people around the house.
00:39:26He offered me £100 to leave that instant moment and come here and look after this club.
00:39:30And three times the wages I earned as a footman, my lady.
00:39:33Well, I do see Alfred difficult to refuse.
00:39:35But did he say who was to take your place at chimneys?
00:39:38Mr. Mosgorowski knew of a young chap,
00:39:40been in good service and ready to come any minute,
00:39:42so I mentioned his name to Mr. Treadwell
00:39:45and everything was settled pleasantly.
00:39:47You don't want to be sent to penal servitude, do you, Alfred?
00:39:50Oh, Lord, my lady, you don't mean...
00:39:51I want to help you, Alfred,
00:39:53and if things go wrong, well, I'll put a good word for you.
00:39:54Anything I can do, my lady.
00:39:56I should be only too pleased.
00:39:58Right.
00:39:58I mean, I would anyway.
00:39:58I want to go over this place from top to bottom.
00:40:02Hey!
00:40:25Look through there.
00:40:28What's in here?
00:40:37That's used as a getaway, your ladyship.
00:40:40There's a room through there with a door under some stairs
00:40:43when it comes out in the next street.
00:40:45It's the way the gentry goes when there's a raid.
00:40:47Don't the police know about it?
00:40:49It's a culling door, you see, my lady.
00:40:51It just looks like a cupboard, that's all.
00:40:53Take me in there.
00:40:53I can't.
00:40:54Mr. Mosgorowski...
00:40:56Mr. Mosgorowski, he has the key.
00:41:00There are other keys, Alfred.
00:41:01Shouldn't have to send a footman that.
00:41:03Let's see a skype route, my lady.
00:41:28It's locked.
00:41:32There's only one key unlocks that door.
00:41:33Truly.
00:41:35Highly ingenious, that is.
00:41:36Looks all right when it's open.
00:41:37Shelves, ledgers and that.
00:41:39Nobody would ever suspect.
00:41:41But you touch the right spot and the whole thing swings open.
00:41:47Self-proofed.
00:41:48I wouldn't know, my lady.
00:41:50You won't find no dirt.
00:41:52Not to speak of.
00:41:54Mr. Mosgorowski, he ordered the place to be swept out this morning
00:41:58and I did it while he waited.
00:41:59This morning, hey?
00:42:00That means it's going to be used tonight.
00:42:02Alfred, you've got to find me a place in here to hide.
00:42:05It's impossible, my lady.
00:42:06Look, you'll get me into trouble and I'll lose my job.
00:42:08You'll lose your job anyway if you go to prison.
00:42:10But, my lady, there ain't no place to hide.
00:42:12What's that?
00:42:12Surplus.
00:42:14Stuff we don't use.
00:42:15Look, you can see for yourself.
00:42:21There's no place in there as a cat could hide.
00:42:24Alfred, get a large tray and carry all this lot downstairs.
00:42:29Quickly, there's no time to lose.
00:42:30But, my lady, you can't.
00:42:32It's getting late.
00:42:32The cooks will be here any minute.
00:42:33Then don't waste time talking.
00:42:35You need a large tray and a bracing bit.
00:42:39And two dry martinis.
00:42:41What for?
00:42:42Me.
00:42:45Shouldn't you be doing your homework?
00:42:59No.
00:43:00A chap can only concentrate for so long.
00:43:02Besides, I bet Bundle's burning up politics enough for two.
00:43:07Confusion to our enemies.
00:43:08And there's a bit of a tight fit.
00:43:18Alfred, shut the door.
00:43:20Let me see what I can see.
00:43:26I suppose that'll have to do.
00:43:27Now, you take that and give me that.
00:43:32Now, shut the door.
00:43:32But, my lady, they'll find you if they open the door.
00:43:37They won't open the door because you're going to lock it and take away the key.
00:43:40And if, by chance, Mr. Mosgorowski should ask for the key...
00:43:43Tell him it's lost.
00:43:44But, my lady, you'll be taken bad.
00:43:46You'll faint.
00:43:47I never faint.
00:43:49Now, lock me in.
00:43:50Now, lock me in.
00:44:20Now, lock me in.
00:44:21Now, lock me in.
00:44:22Now, lock me in.
00:44:23Now, lock me in.
00:44:24Now, lock me in.
00:44:25Now, lock me in.
00:44:26Now, lock me in.
00:44:27Now, lock me in.
00:44:28Now, lock me in.
00:44:29Now, lock me in.
00:44:30Now, lock me in.
00:44:31Now, lock me in.
00:44:32Now, lock me in.
00:44:33Now, lock me in.
00:44:34Now, lock me in.
00:44:35Now, lock me in.
00:44:36Now, lock me in.
00:44:37Now, lock me in.
00:44:38Now, lock me in.
00:44:39Now, lock me in.
00:44:40Now, lock me in.
00:44:41Now, lock me in.
00:44:42Now, lock me in.
00:44:43Now, lock me in.
00:44:44Now, lock me in.
00:44:45Now, lock me in.
00:44:46Now, lock me in.
00:44:47I've had much difficulty in getting away tonight.
00:45:01I am not like number four here, my own master.
00:45:04One o'clock's being a great success.
00:45:07I congratulate you on taking the risk.
00:45:09Unless one takes risks.
00:45:11Where is the mysterious number seven, then?
00:45:13Aren't we going to need him tonight, either?
00:45:15I'm beginning to believe there's no such person.
00:45:17I should not advise you to think that, my friend.
00:45:19I agree with number one.
00:45:21Where is our president?
00:45:22He who called us into being, why do we never see him?
00:45:25Number seven has his own ways of working.
00:45:27So you always say.
00:45:28And I will say more.
00:45:29I pity the man or woman who comes up against him.
00:45:33Now shall we get on with our business?
00:45:41The seven dials.
00:45:45First, to our absent comrade number two.
00:45:50I wish he could have been with us tonight.
00:45:53There is danger.
00:45:54Great danger.
00:45:56Number three, you have the plans of Whiteland Abbey.
00:45:59Yes, sir.
00:46:08And the list of guests.
00:46:10Mr. Stanley Digby, Mr. Terence O'Rourke, Sir Oswald and Lady Coote, Mr. Bittman, Contest
00:46:23Hradsky, Mr. Eversley, Mr. James Tessinger.
00:46:27Who is Mr. James Tessinger?
00:46:28The usual complete young ass.
00:46:31I see.
00:46:32I suppose there is no doubt whatever of the value of Eberhard's invention.
00:46:36None whatever.
00:46:38Commercially, it should be worth millions.
00:46:40And internationally, well, one knows only to wear the greed of nations.
00:46:45Veritable gold mine.
00:46:47Well worth a few lives.
00:46:49You've all seen the plans.
00:46:51But you've all agreed to the original scheme.
00:46:54Good.
00:46:56By the way, I hear something about a letter of Gerald Wade's that has been found.
00:47:01A letter that mentions this organization.
00:47:04Who found it?
00:47:05Ford Caterham's daughter, Lady Eileen Brent.
00:47:09Power should have been known to that.
00:47:10It was very careless of him.
00:47:12Who was the letter written to?
00:47:13His sister, Eberhard.
00:47:16Unfortunate.
00:47:17But it cannot be helped now.
00:47:19There is just one last thing to be said.
00:47:22A message from number seven.
00:47:27Why, when Eberhard may be our last chance,
00:47:30if we do not achieve our object there,
00:47:33the opportunity may not repeat itself.
00:47:36So, Commercy, I must ask you
00:47:38to pledge yourselves,
00:47:40your skills,
00:47:41and, if necessary,
00:47:43your lives
00:47:44to that which number seven has asked of us.
00:47:56Took poor Alfred nearly now to bring her around.
00:47:59Cramp was the worst.
00:48:00Finally, it just isn't the sort of business
00:48:01for a girl to get mixed up in.
00:48:03But look what I found out.
00:48:04Yeah, wouldn't have done you much good, would it,
00:48:05if they'd find you out.
00:48:06The absent number two is obviously Bower,
00:48:14our footman.
00:48:16He'll probably be unfrocked,
00:48:18or unclocked,
00:48:19or whatever it is you call it,
00:48:21for not spotting that letter.
00:48:22Very careless of him.
00:48:24I shouldn't be at all surprised if he wasn't the one
00:48:29that murdered poor old Jerry Wade.
00:48:31I wonder if they'll ever find out.
00:48:33The German inventor's name was Eberhard.
00:48:38Eberhard, yes.
00:48:40Why?
00:48:41Well, he's just coming back to me.
00:48:42Eberhard had a patent process.
00:48:44He's applied to steel.
00:48:45Something that toughens a wire
00:48:46so much that it becomes
00:48:47as strong as a steel bar.
00:48:50His idea was that the weight of an airplane
00:48:52would be so enormously reduced
00:48:53so the cost of flying
00:48:54would be revolutionized.
00:48:56He offered his invention
00:48:58to the German government,
00:48:59but they didn't believe it had worked
00:49:00so they turned him down.
00:49:02So now he's offering it
00:49:03to our government.
00:49:05They're taking Sir Oswald Coote's
00:49:06expert opinion on it.
00:49:08That's what this meeting is all about.
00:49:09Nothing to do with politics at all.
00:49:11That's just a cover.
00:49:13They're going to discuss
00:49:13Eberhard's plans or process
00:49:15or whatever it is.
00:49:16Formula, I think formula is a good point.
00:49:17And Eberhard's formula
00:49:18will be at Wyvern Abbey
00:49:19and the Seven Dials
00:49:20are out to steal it.
00:49:21The Russians said
00:49:23it would be worth millions.
00:49:24I suppose it would be.
00:49:27Well, worth a few lives.
00:49:30That's what the other man said.
00:49:32And you said they knew
00:49:33about my being there.
00:49:35Yes.
00:49:36The Americans said not to worry.
00:49:38You were only the usual kind of ass.
00:49:41Ah, I'm glad you told me that.
00:49:43Gives me what you might call
00:49:44a personal interest in the case.
00:49:51I say, Stevens,
00:49:58would you go out
00:49:58and buy me a pistol?
00:50:00Pistol, sir?
00:50:03What kind of pistol
00:50:04would you be requiring, sir?
00:50:06The kind where you put
00:50:07your finger on the trigger
00:50:08and it goes bang
00:50:09and goes on going bang
00:50:10until you take it off?
00:50:11An automatic, sir.
00:50:13If you say so, Stevens,
00:50:14an automatic.
00:50:16Oh, and I should like it to be
00:50:17a blue-nosed one.
00:50:18In American fiction,
00:50:20the hero always takes
00:50:21his blue-nosed automatic
00:50:22from his hip pocket.
00:50:24If you say so, sir.
00:50:31My dear, I can't tell you
00:50:33how pleased I am
00:50:33to welcome you
00:50:34to Wyvern Abbey.
00:50:34I was both surprised
00:50:35and delighted
00:50:36when your aunt
00:50:36told me about
00:50:37your interesting politics.
00:50:38Well, I wanted to come very much.
00:50:39Do you know Thessager?
00:50:40Quite a young fellow,
00:50:41but a remarkable grasp
00:50:42of foreign policy.
00:50:43I knew, Mr. Thessager.
00:50:44I'm the secretary
00:50:45of the air minister
00:50:46that's just turned into the drive.
00:50:47Oh, excuse me
00:50:47for one moment, won't you?
00:50:48Bill, Bill.
00:50:54Look here.
00:50:55You mustn't be angry,
00:50:56but I've just told Bill
00:50:57about our little stunt.
00:50:58Bill?
00:50:59Well, Bill was one of the lads,
00:51:00you know.
00:51:01Jerry was a pal of his
00:51:02and so was Ronnie.
00:51:03Well, I knew that.
00:51:04Oh, but you think it's a pity?
00:51:06Sorry.
00:51:06Oh, yes, not that.
00:51:07It's a...
00:51:08He's all right,
00:51:09but Bill's a born blunderer.
00:51:11Not mentally very agile.
00:51:13But if you forget one thing,
00:51:14Bill's got a very hefty fist,
00:51:16which might come in handy.
00:51:17Oh, well.
00:51:18Perhaps you're right.
00:51:19How did he take it?
00:51:20Oh, he clutched his head a lot.
00:51:21I mean, the facts
00:51:22took some driving home,
00:51:23but by repeating the thing
00:51:24in words of one syllable,
00:51:25I eventually got through.
00:51:26And now he's with us
00:51:27to the death,
00:51:28as you might say.
00:51:29Lady Eileen,
00:51:30may I present
00:51:32the air minister,
00:51:33Sir Stanley Dickley,
00:51:34Sir Stanley,
00:51:35Lady Eileen Brent.
00:51:36Delighted to meet you,
00:51:38Lady Eileen.
00:51:39How do you do?
00:51:40That is Mr. Terence,
00:51:41O'Rourke,
00:51:41Stanley's personal assistant.
00:51:42How do you do,
00:51:43Mr. O'Rourke?
00:51:44And Mr. James,
00:51:45that's a joke.
00:51:46How do you do?
00:51:47How do you do?
00:51:47How do you do?
00:52:00Superintendent Beckel.
00:52:01That's right,
00:52:05Lady Eileen.
00:52:06What are you doing here?
00:52:07Keep an eye on things.
00:52:09That warning letter,
00:52:10you know,
00:52:10fairly put the wind up
00:52:11Mr. Lomax.
00:52:12Nothing would do for him
00:52:13but that I should
00:52:14come down myself.
00:52:16Don't you think
00:52:17you might be here?
00:52:18You think I might be recognized?
00:52:19Well, I did think so, yes.
00:52:20Put them on their guard, eh?
00:52:22Well, Lady Eileen,
00:52:23why not?
00:52:24Why not?
00:52:24We don't want
00:52:25any unpleasantness, do we?
00:52:27Don't want to be too clever.
00:52:29Just, uh,
00:52:30show any light-fingered gentry
00:52:31that might be about the place.
00:52:33Well, just show them
00:52:33somebody's on the spot,
00:52:34so to speak.
00:52:36It's a great mistake
00:52:37to be too clever.
00:52:39The great thing is
00:52:40not to have any
00:52:41unpleasantness
00:52:42this weekend.
00:52:51Hello, Bumble.
00:52:52I've seen you before
00:52:53but I've been kept
00:52:53with my nose to the brine stone
00:52:55the whole blessed afternoon.
00:52:56Carers have stayed
00:52:57heavy tonight?
00:52:57Oh, I don't know
00:52:59what your fellow's like.
00:53:00Looks a good natured,
00:53:01little chap,
00:53:01but God,
00:53:02this is absolutely impossible.
00:53:03Drive, drive, drive
00:53:05from morning to night.
00:53:06Everything you do
00:53:06is wrong
00:53:07and everything you
00:53:07haven't done
00:53:08you ought to have done.
00:53:09Quite like a quotation
00:53:10from the prayer book.
00:53:11Nobody knows
00:53:12what I have to put up with.
00:53:13Oh, entertaining
00:53:13the countess, eh?
00:53:14Oh, poor Bill,
00:53:15that must have been
00:53:15a sad strain
00:53:16to a misogynist
00:53:17like yourself.
00:53:18What's this?
00:53:18What's this?
00:53:19After tea,
00:53:20the countess asked Bill
00:53:21to show her around
00:53:21the interesting old place.
00:53:23Ah, yes, the countess.
00:53:24Where is she?
00:53:25If I'm any judge of a woman,
00:53:26she's waiting
00:53:26for the very last moment
00:53:27before she makes her entrance.
00:53:29I thought Irishmen
00:53:30were supposed to be
00:53:30better judges of horses.
00:53:31The countess
00:53:32which you studied,
00:53:33Lady Abbey.
00:53:33Who exactly is she,
00:53:34anyway?
00:53:36Hungarian Youth Party,
00:53:37a widow,
00:53:38and very, very rich.
00:53:39Perhaps that's why
00:53:40Cottes is cultivating her.
00:53:43Bonsoir.
00:53:44Countess.
00:53:47Countess?
00:53:48I think you'll be interested.
00:53:50I've found a map
00:53:51of the Abbey
00:53:52in the 14th century.
00:53:54How very clever of you,
00:53:55Mr. Bateford.
00:53:57Countess?
00:54:01Monsieur Lomax,
00:54:02I have fallen in love
00:54:03with your beautiful house.
00:54:08Enchanté, monsieur.
00:54:09Madame.
00:54:09Bonsoir.
00:54:16How do you do?
00:54:18See what I mean?
00:54:21In my country,
00:54:22my party had money
00:54:23but no organization.
00:54:25That is why
00:54:25I have come to your country
00:54:26to study the way
00:54:28in which things are done.
00:54:29Well, my husband says
00:54:30nothing can be done
00:54:31without regular hours.
00:54:32He declares
00:54:32he would never have got
00:54:33anywhere without them.
00:54:35Doesn't he, Mr. Bateman?
00:54:36Now, if you ladies
00:54:37would be kind enough
00:54:38to excuse us,
00:54:38we have something important
00:54:39to discuss in my study.
00:54:40Oh, Rock, I shall lead you.
00:54:41Go.
00:54:41Bateman!
00:54:46Bundle, I've got to talk.
00:54:51I just can't believe
00:54:52what Jimmy's just told me.
00:54:54You and that seven dials,
00:54:56don't...
00:54:56I knew you were
00:54:57the most frightful sport
00:54:58but really,
00:54:59I think...
00:55:00Heavenly!
00:55:01I'll tell you later.
00:55:04Sir Oswald?
00:55:06I think if you
00:55:07would be kind enough
00:55:08to take the chair.
00:55:10Sorry, sir.
00:55:12Sit down, sit down.
00:55:24Sir?
00:55:36There we are, gentlemen.
00:55:40That's what it's all about.
00:55:43The Aberhart formula.
00:55:46It works.
00:55:47It most definitely works.
00:55:49That piece of paper
00:55:50is worth a fortune
00:55:51to somebody.
00:55:52So, who has the formula now?
00:56:05Oh, Rock,
00:56:05for safekeeping.
00:56:06He and the minister
00:56:07are taking it back up to London
00:56:08in the morning.
00:56:09Ah, then one thing's quite clear.
00:56:10Any funny business
00:56:11there's going to be
00:56:12will be tonight.
00:56:13We've got to be on the alert.
00:56:14We'll divide the night
00:56:15into two watches.
00:56:16Right, you are.
00:56:17We'll take first duty.
00:56:18Shall we spin for it?
00:56:19Might as well.
00:56:20All right, here goes.
00:56:21Um,
00:56:23hedge you first,
00:56:24I second,
00:56:25tails vice versa.
00:56:26Eh?
00:56:28Tails.
00:56:28Oh, damn,
00:56:29you get first watch
00:56:30and probably all the fun
00:56:31that's going.
00:56:31No, you never know.
00:56:32Criminals are very uncertain.
00:56:34Where are their rooms?
00:56:35Do we know?
00:56:35West wing.
00:56:36All,
00:56:37almost self-contained.
00:56:39Right.
00:56:39What time shall I wake you?
00:56:41Uh,
00:56:41three-thirty.
00:56:42That's about fair,
00:56:43I think.
00:56:44About me?
00:56:45Nothing doing.
00:56:46You go to bed and sleep.
00:56:49Thank you very much.
00:56:51Good night.
00:56:52Good old bundle.
00:56:54Thought we might have
00:56:55trouble with her.
00:56:56You know how keen
00:56:57she is to be in everything.
00:57:00I thought you took it wonderfully.
00:57:02Yeah,
00:57:02so did I.
00:57:03It staggered me.
00:57:04Don't forget.
00:57:18Three-thirty.
00:57:20You're still alive,
00:57:22that is.
00:57:22I may be an ass,
00:57:23but I'm not nearly as much
00:57:24of an ass as I look.
00:57:26That's all you said
00:57:26about Jerry Wade,
00:57:27do you remember?
00:57:28That very night.
00:57:30Oh,
00:57:30shut up,
00:57:30you fool.
00:57:31I haven't got any tact.
00:57:33Of course I've got tact.
00:57:35I'm a blooding diplomat.
00:57:36All diplomats have tact.
00:57:38You must be still
00:57:38at the novel stage.
00:57:41Look here,
00:57:42you will be all right
00:57:43and all that,
00:57:44but generally,
00:57:45it's all very well ragging,
00:57:46but when I think
00:57:48of poor old Jerry
00:57:49and then poor old Ronnie.
00:57:53I can say
00:57:54I shall have to show you
00:57:55Leopold,
00:57:56a real genuine
00:57:57blue-nosed automatic.
00:57:58No,
00:57:58is it really?
00:57:59Yes.
00:58:00Stephen,
00:58:00my man,
00:58:01got him for me.
00:58:02You just press the button
00:58:02and Leopold does the rest.
00:58:03Oh,
00:58:04do be careful,
00:58:05my gentleman.
00:58:06Don't go shooting it off
00:58:07at the wrong person.
00:58:09It's our old,
00:58:10old DP walking
00:58:11asleep or anything.
00:58:12That would be
00:58:13most unfortunate.
00:58:14Ah.
00:58:14Ah.
01:00:17Thank you, for instance, Lady Arlene.
01:00:20Oh, well, you're not going to send me back, are you?
01:00:25Well, I'm rather sick about that because I wanted to go round to the West Wing.
01:00:30Perhaps you're not the only one who'd be wanting to do that.
01:00:33Now, if you'll excuse me, Lady Arlene, I think it's about time you were getting back to bed.
01:00:42Same way?
01:00:45Same way.
01:04:41Jimmy?
01:04:46Jimmy?
01:04:47Jimmy?
01:05:17Jimmy?
01:05:24Bill?
01:05:29Bill?
01:05:33Bill?
01:05:34Bill?
01:05:35Bill?
01:05:37Bill?
01:05:39Bill!
01:05:44Bill!
01:05:47I've been there!
01:05:48I've been there!
01:05:49I've been there!
01:05:50I've been there!
01:05:51Bill!
01:05:52Bill!
01:05:53Bill!
01:05:54Bill!
01:05:55Bill!
01:05:56Bill!
01:05:57Where are you?
01:05:58Yeah?
01:05:59Yeah?
01:06:00Quick!
01:06:01Quick!
01:06:02They're killing each other!
01:06:04Oh, do be quick!
01:06:17Jimmy!
01:06:18Jimmy!
01:06:19He's dead!
01:06:21What on earth?
01:06:22I was fast asleep!
01:06:23Damn row woke me up!
01:06:24Oh, God!
01:06:25Excuse me, sir!
01:06:26I think I've been to see you as well!
01:06:27Bill!
01:06:28Where have you been?
01:06:29I'm not sure, but I think I'm free!
01:06:30Bill!
01:06:31Bill!
01:06:32Bill!
01:06:33Bill!
01:06:34Bill!
01:06:35Bill!
01:06:36Bill!
01:06:37Bill!
01:06:38Bill!
01:06:39Bill!
01:06:40Bill!
01:06:41Bill!
01:06:42Bill!
01:06:43Bill!
01:06:44Bill!
01:06:45Bill!
01:06:46Bill!
01:06:47Bill!
01:06:48Bill!
01:06:49Bill!
01:06:50Bill!
01:06:51Bill!
01:06:52Bill!
01:06:53Bill!
01:06:54The damn thing's locked!
01:06:55Will somebody kindly tell me what's going-
01:06:56Bill!