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The Play That Goes Wrong | November 2nd 2023 7PM
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HillviewTV Team
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June 17, 2024
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The one act play that goes wrong November 2, 7PM
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0:00
Anyways, I don't want to take too much time.
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So, yeah, you know, it's funny.
0:05
This year, it's very strange.
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The situation is strange.
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I think most of you probably know about it.
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I probably got the email from Miss O 'Brien and maybe
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from the district office.
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But we were, you know, here at Hillview Drama, we were between two productions.
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We were trying to decide which one we were going to do.
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We were going to do The Little Mermaid.
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in kind of like a dystopian Hunger Games
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kind of fight to the death sort of situation,
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or we were also considering doing Romeo and Juliet,
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but we were going to cast,
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now this was really going to be spectacular,
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we were going to cast a Joe Biden-like character
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as Romeo and a Donald Trump type for Juliet.
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That was vetoed anyways.
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Because we couldn't make up our minds,
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the Cornell...
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Polytechnic Drama Society swooped in and rented the pack.
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So, you know, we're going to have to, and I was kind of mad about it,
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but then I realized when I found out they were doing nine casts,
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I thought, now this is a group that's after my own heart.
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So we're pretty happy about it.
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Yeah, nine casts, and they actually have a fifth-grade cast,
1:19
which I thought was daring.
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That's going to happen.
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to be performing week after next so the way it's going to work tonight there's
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going to be a cast
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that goes first and then there'll be an intermission everything will be reset
1:36
and then another cast
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will go and I believe their show is about 52 minutes or 53
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minutes so I mean it's wacky I
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would never do anything like that crazy
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people doing but you know more power to them so um a
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couple things no flash photography please
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and um no food or drink in the PAC so if you bought food just put it aside please and
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wait
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until we go outside to have it um otherwise I'm going to turn it over to to
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the folks from uh
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from England who are here I guess their theaters are at a premium
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because they came all the way
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over here so anyway
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Welcome to the Cornell Polytechnic Society, and thank
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you for coming.
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So, enjoy.
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Ladies and gentlemen.
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couple of announcements. Number one, turn off your phones. Secondly, if
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anyone finds
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a Lady Gaga CD box set in the auditorium, I need that back. Please hand it to me at
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the end of the performance. Enjoy the show. Clear.
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Leave it. Just leave it. We need...
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We haven't got time.
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Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Cornell Polytechnic Drama
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Society's
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full production of The Murder at Havasham Manor.
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I would like to personally welcome you to what will be my directorial debut and
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my first
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production as head of the Drama Society.
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We are particularly excited to present this place.
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because for the first time in society's history we have managed to find
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a play that fits the
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company's numbers perfectly. If we're honest, a lack of
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numbers has hampered past productions,
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such as last year's Shukoff play, Two Sisters, or
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Last Christmases, The Line and the Wardrobe,
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and of course our summer musical, Cut.
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It may also interest you to know that this will be the first time society has been able to
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stage a play of this scale.
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It's no question we usually have to contend with a small budget,
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such as in last year's presentation of Roe Dolls, James and the
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Peach.
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Of course, during the run of that particular show, the Peach spoiled,
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and we were forced to present a hastily devised alternative entitled James.
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Where's your peach?
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Finally, we can afford to stage a play as it should be,
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and which, may I say, has been exceptionally well cast.
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I'm sure no one will forget the casting difficulties we've faced before,
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such as in last year's Christmas presentation of Snow White
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and the Tall Broad Gentleman.
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Or indeed, our previous year's pantomime,
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another Disney classic,
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Ugly and the Beast.
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I forgot all my lines! What am I going to do?
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Just raise on your hand or something. Get off.
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But now, on with the main event, which I am confident will be our best show yet.
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So, without further ado, please put your hands together for Susie
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H .K. Brideswell's thrilling whodunit,
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The Murder at Havisham Manor.
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Ow.
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Charlie? Are you ready? We're all waiting downstairs to raise a glass to your engagement.
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Charlie? Come along now, Charlie. You've been in there for hours now. If I didn't know
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any better, I'd say you're having second thoughts about the wedding. Hang it on, Charlie.
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If you won't come out, I'll come in. Darn it, he's locked the door. Hand me those keys,
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Perkins. Here they are, Mr. Coleymore. Let's get this door.
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open. We're coming in, Charlie. We're coming in. There
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we are. We're in. But what's this?
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Charles, unconscious? Asleep, Charlie, Mr. Corleymore. Darn it, Perkins, I hope
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so. I'll
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check his pulse. Blast, I knew something was wrong. It's so unlike Charles to disappear
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like this. Sir, he's dead.
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Dead Donna Perkins, he can't be. He's my closest friend.
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He's not breathing, sir, and there's no hint of a heartbeat.
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I am dumbfounded. He was right as rain an hour ago.
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I don't understand. He was fit as a fiddle. He can't have died. It doesn't make
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any sense.
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Of course it makes sense. He's been murdered.
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Good God, where's Florence?
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In the dining room, sir.
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Shall I fetch her?
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The last thing it needs for her to have one of her hysterical episodes.
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Do you think it was murder, sir?
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Perhaps it was suicide?
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Charlie, not possible.
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There was never a man more zest for life than Charles.
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He was young, kind, and soon be married.
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Why on earth would he commit suicide?
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But why on earth would anyone murder him?
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Charles was such a good man.
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true philanthropist. He never had an enemy in his life. Until today, it seems.
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Hang it
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all, Perkins. Charles Havisham was murdered in cold blood in this very room on this very
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day in this very room. Shall I telephone the police,
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Mr. Collymore? No, the police wouldn't
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make it out here for days in this snowstorm.
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I'll telephone Inspector Cotta. He lives just on the other side of the village.
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He'll be here in next to no time. Hand me the receiver, Peckins.
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Thank you, Peckins.
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Give me Inspector Cotta.
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I know it's late.
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Sir, I don't care about the weather. It's just been a murder.
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Someone's murdered Charles Havisham.
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That's right, thank you. He's on his way.
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Inspector Carter?
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They say he's the best darn inspector in the district. He'll crack this casing quick.
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Very good sir, and what shall I do?
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Lock every door, man. Not a soul gets out of Habersham Manor until the killer is found.
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At once, sir!
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And assemble everyone in here.
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Right away, sir.
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Good God, just an hour into the engagement party, there's already been a murder.
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Get out, Florence!
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You can't be in here!
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No, I can't believe what I'm seeing.
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My God, he looks so frail lying there.
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I'm sorry, Florence.
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It's a shock to us all.
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His skin is cold to the touch.
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No, no, touch him, Florence!
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You mustn't!
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Unhand me!
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Oh, Charles, one last embrace.
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I cannot bear to see my sister in such grief.
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Who could do such a thing the night of our engagement party?
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Cecil, quick, your brother's dead.
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This way, Master Eversham.
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I'm coming, Miss Collymore.
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It can't be.
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Calm yourself, Cecil.
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Pour him a stiff drink, Perkins.
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Right away, sir.
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Oh, my God, he's drunk the whole bottle.
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There's not a drop.
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Let's go.
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Ehhhhh
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Ehhh
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Eft
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Hang it, there's another one on the shelf
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Of course, sir
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This one's
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It's horrifying I mean who on earth would have the motivation
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to murder Charles Havisham
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I can't imagine
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It's on
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thinkable right here in his own private rooms at Havasham Manor. It's terrible. Just a week
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after our engagement. Just your drink will be ready in a second, Mr.
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Havasham. Here you go.
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He was a good brother. Oh, that's
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the best whiskey I've ever tasted. Have another to calm your nerves.
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Thank you, Perk.
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Oh my Charles, my Charles, my head is spinning.
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I'm gonna become hysterical.
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Calm down, Florence.
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Another whiskey, sir?
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I can't believe Charles sat up here alone drinking
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when he was supposed to be downstairs with us.
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My brother wasn't as happy as he led people to believe.
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Underneath that cheerful masterly,
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darker side to the man that nobody knew about.
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It's true. His smile was often just a...
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For God!
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I was fortunate enough to be one of the only men he ever truly confided in.
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I've lost a heel friend today.
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Hang it all, Perkins. I knew Charles ever since school.
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I don't know how I'll ever recover from this.
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You'll move back home with me. I'm your brother and I'll have it no other way.
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Perkins is right. My brother was full of parents with melancholy and resentment.
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There's no doubt in my mind it was suicide.
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Cecil, how could you say that? It was murder. Murder in the first degree.
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Nonsense. The man was full of paranoia and jealousy, and I can prove it.
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Perkins, hand me the journal from the mantelpiece.
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Why? Look at the last entry.
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I fear Florence does not love me.
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The night of our engagement party, despair engulfs my soul.
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But I love Charles with all my heart.
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As I said, driven mad of paranoia and jealousy.
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The inspector!
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Thank heavens he's here.
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What a terrible snowstorm.
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Good evening, I'm Inspector Carter.
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Take my case.
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Yes, Inspector.
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This must be Charles Havisham.
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I'm sorry, this must have given you all a terrible shock.
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It did. We're all still reeling.
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Naturally. Are any of you the deceased's immediate family?
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I'm so sorry.
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I'm Havisham. I'm his brother.
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I'm Florence Collymore. I'm his fiancée.
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Tonight was our engagement party.
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What a sad, sad thing.
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You, have you poured everyone a stiff drink?
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Yes, Inspector.
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Let us raise a glass to the man we all love.
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To Charles.
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Charles!
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Delicious.
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Excellent.
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Listen, you all must be distraught, but forgive me.
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The sooner I can begin my inquiries, the sooner we can get to the bottom of this ghastly business.
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Do you be so kind as to bring the body downstairs so I can examine it?
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Yes, Inspector.
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I'll lend you a hand, Perkins.
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Then lock all the doors to the house and prepare this room.
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I'll collect my inquiries in here afterwards.
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Any ideas on the cause of...
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inspector could be a number of things suffocation strangulation poison
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before
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fully examining the body I wouldn't like to say
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How could someone do it?
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Try not to think about it, Miss Collymore.
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Once I've finished downstairs, I'll speak to each of you individually.
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Then perhaps you can get some space to calm your nerves.
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Thank you, Inspector. This is all much more than I can bear.
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I'll return presently.
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As soon as I...
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I've finished examining the body.
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Thank God they've all gone.
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Don't say a word.
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If they find out about us, we'll be suspect.
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You and I are having an affair. What of it? It doesn't mean we killed him.
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Of course not, but that's what the inspector will think.
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It's fine. Everything will be the same, just as it was.
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Except, now you won't be forced to marry my beastly brother.
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And soon, we can be together and not keep secrets.
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But while we're here, just the two of us, let me steal a quick embrace.
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Cecil, we can't. If we were caught, it'd be the end.
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Oh, Florence.
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Victor McCormick has a pencil. What on earth is going on in here?
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Sorry, I felt flustered.
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Cecil was cooling my brow.
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Just cooling her brow.
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I don't see how my sister's brow is any business of yours.
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Have a sham.
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Don't be a prig, Tom.
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Cecil's only trying to help.
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Yes, Tom.
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Very well, then.
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I have...
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the pencil.
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Thank God he's gone.
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That man's such a nuisance.
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He's my brother.
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Let me look at you just once.
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Oh, Thethel.
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Sorry to disturb you, Miss Corleymore, Mr. Havisham.
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I've come to collect the seeds to lock us all in storage.
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They're by the telephone, Perkins.
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Think, Dennis, think!
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I shall lock the doors
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out once!
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You don't think Perkins suspects us?
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do you? That old fool, of course not. Oh, Cecil, love makes me forget myself.
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What in God's name? Sorry, I was about to faint. Cecil
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caught me.
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You know, I don't appreciate you trying to get your hands on my sister the night of her fiance's
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death. You ought to take better care of her than Collymore.
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I'm overcome. I haven't got time for
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this. I have the inspector's note.
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and I'll be on my way.
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Blasted interruptions.
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Kiss me Cecil.
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Oh Florence, you make my heart beat on my chest.
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You guys send me into a dream.
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Oh Cecil.
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Sorry to interrupt again, Mr. Havisham, Ms. Coleymore.
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I've just come to prepare the room.
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Put them on the mantelpiece, Perkins.
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at last we're alone oh Cecil let's
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run away from here far away together soon my love we must be
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careful we mustn't arise suspicion
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Cecil, tell me, who do you think killed Charles?
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There's no doubt in my mind.
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He was killed by a brother, Thomas Collymore.
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My brother, what a devil of a situation this is.
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Not so fast, Inspector.
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But why would Thomas want Charles?
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Isn't it obvious?
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He was always bitter and possessive when it came to you.
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He didn't like the idea of his best friend marrying his sister.
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He started together tonight to gauge a party and it drove him half mad and he snapped and
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But if it is, Thomas, what happens if he finds out about you and I?
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There's no question in my mind.
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He would try and kill us, just like he killed Charles.
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Oh, I feel faint again.
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Don't worry, Florence, follow my lead.
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I'm sorry to have kept you, but now I've examined the body more closely, our interviews
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can proceed.
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and Charles's personal effects. Where do you
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want them, Inspector? Set them down on the
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mantelpiece. As you wish, Inspector. Ooh,
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shiny lights! Don't go, Perkins.
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I'd like to ask
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you a few questions first. Mr. Havisham, Ms. Collin,
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perhaps you'd be so kind as give us a moment's privacy.
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Well, don't just stand there, Perkins.
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I don't smoke.
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But you go ahead.
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How are you feeling, Perkins?
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A little shaken, sir, but...
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Dang it.
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But...
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Be fine!
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You were close with Charles Havisham.
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Yes, sir. Very close.
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You don't appear very upset by his death.
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On the...
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Kuntay!
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I barely take it in.
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Oh, he was such a kindly, charming man.
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It's true.
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You met him?
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Once. Briefly at the local police...
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Evening, inspector.
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Once. Briefly at the local police station.
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Of course they didn't notice.
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Police station. He came in...
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I lived.
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He came in as a consultant on a fraud case I was working on.
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I see.
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How long have you been working at Habersham, Manna?
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80 years!
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80?
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Three years?
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Eight years.
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Eight years. And have you enjoyed your time here?
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My time with Habersham has been a joy.
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I feel that since I've come here, I've not only been seen as a butler, but as a friend, a
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confidant.
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If you need me again, I'll be in my quarters.
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Exits.
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Perhaps you could fetch Florence Collymore on your way out.
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No need, Inspector. I'm already here.
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Don't ask too much of me. You feel fragile as glass.
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Don't harass her, Carter. She's been through a lot tonight.
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At last, Collymore, you found me a pencil.
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Yes, Inspector.
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Thank you. And my notebook?
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I knew I left them somewhere.
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Now I must speak to Miss Collymore alone.
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Very well, then. I'll be in the library, Florence.
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Don't fret, Miss Collymore.
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My questions will be brief and to the point,
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and then you can get some rest.
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Firstly, how old are you, Miss Collymore?
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Twenty-one.
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I'll make a note of that.
23:46
How long ago did you first meet your fiancée?
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Only seven months ago, but my brother's known him for years.
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When were you due to be married?
23:55
In the new year.
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Well, that's enough notes for now, I think, Miss Connemore.
24:00
When you love someone, there's no such thing as rushing, Inspector.
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Did you ever think you were rushing into this marriage?
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Why wouldn't I love him?
24:07
Did you love him, then?
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How could anyone have benefited?
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Can you think of anyone who might have benefited from your fiancé's death?
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Not even Cecil!
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Don't tell me to calm down!
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Calm down, Miss Connemore.
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I wasn't having an affair! Don't you raise your voice to me, Inspector!
24:24
You were having an affair!
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What letter?
24:26
Then how do you explain the letter on the mantelpiece?
24:28
I didn't write that letter.
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You wrote that letter!
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You read my letter? Where did you find it?
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Addressed to Cecil, written in your hand, declaring your love for him, and how the thought of marrying Charles
24:39
repulsed you.
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Charles read it?
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You read my letter? Where did you find it?
24:44
In Charles' pocket.
24:46
Charles read it? Then it was suicide?
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Or a murder, conceived by you and Cecil Havisham, so you could run away together.
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How could you even say such a thing?
24:55
It's true, Cecil and I were having an affair.
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We loved each other, but that's all.
24:59
Neither of us wanted to hurt Charles, let alone kill him.
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It's my job to ask difficult questions, Miss Collymore.
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I'm sorry if this upsets you.
25:07
Upsets me? How dare you?
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My fiancée was murdered in this very room a matter of hours ago,
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and I find your manner most of a fitting.
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I shall make a formal complaint.
25:16
Scotland Yard.
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Scotland Yard will not listen to the complaints of a murderess.
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You diabolical beast.
25:22
How can you?
25:23
I shan't stand for this.
25:24
Accuse me again and you'll be sorry.
25:26
What's all this shouting?
25:27
What is this, Inspector?
25:31
I'm merely interviewing Miss Collymore, nothing more.
25:35
Florence!
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Calm down!
25:38
Stop shouting!
25:41
She's having another...
25:43
Having a...
25:44
hysterical episode snap out of it you're hysterical
25:50
come back here this instance
25:56
she's run off I'll fetch her back you stay here Seth so
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I dare say the
26:02
inspector has some questions for you you were Charles's brother after all I'm
26:08
sorry inspector she's badly shaken we all are
26:12
It's been quite a night, and it's getting late.
26:15
Eleven o'clock already.
26:18
Well, Inspector, do you have any questions for me?
26:20
Oh, yes, Mr. Havisham.
26:22
Similar questions to those I asked Miss Collymore.
26:24
Fire away, Inspector. I'm at your service.
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Indeed. You and your brother. Did you get along well?
26:29
Up and down. Since Father died, our relationship was rather more strained.
26:32
It was no secret that Father cared for Charles more than myself.
26:35
This is your father in the portrait, is it not?
26:44
He looks the spit of Charles, doesn't he?
26:46
He did, ever since he was quite young.
26:49
You were the junior by four years?
26:51
Almost four, yes.
26:53
And didn't I know it, Charles patronized and embarrassed me throughout our childhood.
26:56
He always thought he knew best, and Father always took his side.
26:59
If he didn't get his way, he was unbearable.
27:01
He sounds far from the ideal, brother.
27:04
It sounds like you hated one another.
27:07
I won't lie, Inspector.
27:08
Charles and I never truly saw eye to eye.
27:10
But if you're suggesting it has something to do with his death, you're mistaken.
27:15
It is a dark night, Cecil.
27:19
You can barely even make out the trees.
27:22
What are you saying, Inspector?
27:24
I'm saying, Cecil, that tonight would be the perfect night for you to murder your brother.
27:30
Inspector, please.
27:31
Me and my brother had our differences, but deep down we cared for one another.
27:34
And yet you had an affair with his...
27:36
Fiancé?
27:38
What our nurse gave you that idea?
27:40
The letter I found in Charles' pocket from Miss Collymore to yourself.
27:44
You know about that?
27:45
As, it seems, did Charles.
27:48
Well, bravo, Inspector!
27:50
You found out about Florence and I, but it proves nothing.
27:52
We didn't have a thing to do with his death, but I can tell you who does.
27:57
Thomas Collymore!
27:58
But he and Charles were old friends, were they not?
28:01
He's a dangerously unhinged man with a devil of a temper and Florence's assist-
28:04
I've said it before and I'll say it again. He couldn't give up his sister to any man.
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Much less his old school chum. Tonight's engaging party made him lash out at Charles.
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A cry of passion, perhaps?
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Thank you, Cecil. You've been most helpful.
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Perhaps you could fetch Thomas Collymore.
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I'm going to need to follow more than one line of inquiry at a time to get to the bottom of this.
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At once, Inspector. Anything to help the progress of your investigation.
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Hey!
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Young and old Charles, who could have killed you?
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Everyone under this blasted roof seems guilty.
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That's strange. There's something underneath these cushions.
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A ledger?
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Oh, you think it's funny, don't you?
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You understand the countless
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How's we had to go on this?
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I've actually never even been on a play of this game,
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let alone directing it.
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I want a Juilliard for this.
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A ledger.
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With Charles's initials inscribed onto the cover.
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What's inside, let's see.
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Notes, bill.
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What's this?
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That last will and testament of Charles Havisham
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Dicted only today
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Let me see
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I, Charles Havisham
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Hereby amend my last will and testament
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To leave my money
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Havisham manor
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And all its contents and grounds to one
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Good Lord
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Thomas Collymore for you, Inspector
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Thank you, Cecil
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Tell me, did Charles have a study where he kept his papers?
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Second order to the right, Inspector
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I'll return presently.
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Take your time, Inspector.
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Did you find Florence?
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She ran out to the grounds.
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Tell me, Thomas.
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What were your feelings about Florence's and Charles' engagement?
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I was overjoyed, of course.
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I love Florence and I love Charles.
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But Thomas, I couldn't have known that you're protective of your sister.
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I'll get it.
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Good evening.
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It's for you.
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What the devil is it?
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You're a contents inspector.
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And now it's 30 in the evening?
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Yes, Thomas Cullimore speaking, this is inconvenient, yes!
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My recent deposits, one of them, discrepancies, what
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are you talking about man, gone, gone
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9,000 pounds stolen, good god man, Perkins get in here!
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Yes? Sir?
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Perkins, please read my bank book.
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Your bank book, sir.
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Thank you, Perkins.
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How could you allow this to happen? This is an absolute disgrace.
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I shall report you to your superiors.
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Who am I speaking with?
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Mr. Fitzroy?
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I'll write that name down.
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Fitz?
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Oh, Roy.
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I'll have you know that this telephone call has put me in a very difficult position.
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I shall hang out the phone this instant.
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What is it, Collymore?
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Money stolen from my accounts.
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Good Lord!
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Nine thousand pounds stolen from my private savings.
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Most irregular.
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This evening could get no worse.
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First I...
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I find myself on the edge of finance or ruin.
32:49
First I find my oldest friend murdered in cold blood
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and now I find myself in the edge of finance or ruin.
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This evening could get no worse.
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Thomas, I have a confession.
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I wasn't going to say anything,
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but while the inspector seems to found out
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and blast it, I'm tired of keeping secrets.
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Spit it out, Cecil.
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Well, Florence and I are having an affair.
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You and my sister?
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Calm down, Collymore.
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I always knew you were a snake in the grass.
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It's not what you do.
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think we're in love my sister does not love you your own brother's fiance disgusting
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no wonder
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your father hated you don't speak about my father that
33:25
way carlymore well it seems there's no doubt
33:28
about who killed charles anymore it
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was his own little brother in a fit of jealous rage i
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should stop for this carlymore you'll be sorry you have a lady
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finger on my sister Habisham.
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You'll be sorry!
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Good shot to the library!
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Oh dear god what's going on
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I don't know inspector I was in here when I had
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schemes from downstairs. Get in here now Florence it's not safe down there.
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Thomas I'm frightened. What's going on?
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Is it obvious? Cecil has lost control.
34:41
Kessel? Surely not.
34:43
He killed Charles tonight, driven mad by his love for you.
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And now he knows we've found him out.
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Kess, I cannot bear it. Kessel would not do such a thing.
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Of course he would, the blastered lunatic.
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You used to trust people, Tom. You've changed.
34:58
This is a fine mess, sir! The worst night I've
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seen in eighty!
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Eight years of service.
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Save me, brother, save me.
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I shan't let anyone hurt a hair on your head, Florence.
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I'm panicking.
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I cannot believe that Kessel?
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Cecil!
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Cecil is doing this.
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Try to stay calm, Mr. Collymore.
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I shall faint.
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You shan't faint, confound it what a devil of a situation this is!
35:37
Not so fast, Inspector!
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We're all going to survive tonight.
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You hear me?
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Take cover!
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Great Scott!
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Dear heavens!
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I, me!
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Don't panic.
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Cecil's crossing the landing.
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We must lock him out.
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Where are the keys to the door, Perkins?
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Here they are, sir!
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Shiny!
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Here they are, sir!
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Hand them to me before Cecil...
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Good lord!
36:38
Cecil's dead? A double murder!
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Time of death? Quarter to midnight.
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Cecil, no, no, I loved him.
36:58
I loved him. I know it was wrong. I know it was engaged to Charles, but Cecil was mine, and I
37:06
was his. I loved him.
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There, there, Miss Collymore.
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Through tears, how will I go on?
37:19
But who could have killed him?
37:20
That's a good question, Mr. Collymore.
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And one we need to answer quickly.
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if we all want to get out of this house alive.
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Oh, Inspector, you've given me a chill.
37:30
Perkins, pour us on another scotch.
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Of course, Inspector.
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Now, is there anyone else still on the grounds
37:43
other than the four of us?
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Not a soul.
37:45
The saw four go home on the weekend,
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except for Perkins, of course.
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Good God, I needed that.
37:52
Does anyone have access to the grounds?
37:54
No one, Inspector.
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I'm the only one with the master key, and as instructed, I locked and bolted the doors as
38:01
soon as you arrived.
38:02
Then who could have killed him?
38:04
That's a good question, Mr. Collymore.
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And one we need to answer quickly if we all want to get out of this house alive.
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Oh, Inspector, you've given me a chill.
38:16
Parkins, pour us all another scotch.
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Of course, Inspector.
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Now, tell me, is there anyone you...
38:22
know, still on the grounds other than the four of us.
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Not a soul.
38:28
The staff all go home on the weekends except for Perkins,
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of course.
38:34
Good God, I needed that.
38:36
Does anyone have access to the grounds?
38:39
No one, Inspector.
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I'm the only one with a master key and arson truck
38:43
that I locked and vaulted the doors as soon as he arrived.
38:47
Then who could have killed him?
38:48
That's so good.
38:50
Good question, Mr. Paulie Moore.
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And one we need to answer quickly if we all want to get out
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of this house alive.
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Oh, Inspector, you've given me a chill.
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Perkins, pour us all another scotch.
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Of course, Inspector.
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Now, tell me, is there anyone you know still on the grounds other than
39:12
the four of us?
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Not a soul.
39:16
The staff all go home on the weekends except for Perkins.
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Huggins, of course.
39:22
Good God, I needed that.
39:24
Does anyone have access to the grounds?
39:27
No one, Inspector.
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I'm the only one with the master key and has the trick that I locked and bolted the doors as soon as he arrived.
39:35
Then who could have killed him?
39:37
That's a good question, Mr. Collymore.
39:42
And one we need to answer quickly if we all want to get out of here.
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house alive. Oh, Inspector, you've given me a chill. Perkins,
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pour us all another scotch. Of course, Inspector. Now,
39:57
tell me, is there anyone you know still on the grounds other than the four of us?
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Not ourselves. The staff will go home on the weekends except for
40:08
Perkins, of course. Good God,
40:13
I needed that.
40:14
That's-
40:14
anyone have access to the grounds. No one inspector. I'm
40:19
the only one with a messy key and as instructed I locked and bolted the doors as soon as you hived.
40:27
Then who could have killed him? No one could have killed
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him except for the people in this room.
40:42
You're right, it's one of us.
40:45
Dear God, I'm stuck in a room full of murderers.
40:50
Blast and blimey!
40:52
One of you killed Charles and Cecil Habersham tonight,
40:56
and we shan't leave this house until the matter is solved.
40:59
You! Take this body outside.
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Yes, sir!
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I'll lend your hand, Perkins.
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Thank you.
41:53
So, let's go over the facts.
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Oh, it is such a terrible night.
41:58
Florence, you were engaged to Charles, a man who, according to your letter, you despised.
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Not only this, but you were having an affair with his brother.
42:07
Cecil!
42:09
Cecil?
42:10
It seems plausible to me that you both killed Charles so you could be together.
42:15
Oh, stupid inspector.
42:17
Cecil's dead too now, and I certainly didn't kill...
42:19
What's going on in...
42:20
You're lying, Florence!
42:23
You killed him!
42:27
She's having another one of her hysterical episodes.
42:30
Try to relax, Miss Corleymore.
42:43
Florence, behave with some decorum.
42:46
Remember yourself.
42:52
Someone ought to fetch a medication.
42:57
Someone's locked the door.
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Good God, we're trapped.
43:10
You killed your fiancé, Florence.
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What do you have to say for yourself?
43:20
I'm an honorable warrant, Inspector!
43:24
You're lying, Florence!
43:25
You killed him!
43:27
I won't stand another second of this, Inspector!
43:30
You're all beast!
43:31
Did you enjoy killing your husband, Miss Collymore?
43:34
How dare you make such an accusation, Inspector?
43:37
Calm down, Florence.
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Really, if I can't get off the door, I shall descend from the window.
43:44
My God, she's trying to climb out of the window.
43:49
Florence, stay here.
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You must answer for your crimes.
43:54
You can't leave, Florence.
43:56
You need to...
43:59
inspect and discover why Charles and Cecil were
44:04
murdered.
44:06
You can't leave. We won't-
44:09
I am no murderer!
44:12
Calm down, Miss Collymore. Both you and Cecil have plausible motives for the murder, but
44:17
not the true motive.
44:18
What are you saying, Inspector?
44:20
I'm saying that the true motive belongs to Perkins.
44:23
Perkins?
44:25
Oui, Inspector!
44:27
You, Perkins, a little earlier I stumbled upon Charles' newly written Last
44:32
Will and Testament,
44:33
dated only today, declaring that he wanted to make Perkins the sole beneficiary
44:39
of his inheritance.
44:40
Surely not.
44:41
Perkins?
44:42
This is all a mistake.
44:44
Save your pleadings for the police station.
44:47
Cuff him, Thomas.
44:56
I'll drive you there myself as soon as no storm has passed.
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That won't be for hours. The snow is at its peak.
45:04
It's not me, I tell you.
45:06
Surely Perkins didn't kill Cecil as well.
45:13
Cecil found him out and Perkins killed him to keep him quiet.
45:17
This is all a misunderstanding. I didn't kill anyone, but I
45:22
know.
45:23
who has...
45:26
You know who killed Charles?
45:27
I do! Who?
45:29
The inspector
45:31
did!
45:35
What on earth?
45:38
It's you
45:39
and I know why. Shut your mouth,
45:41
Perkins. You did it because Charles knew
45:43
about the police money. You are
45:47
embeasling.
45:49
Nonsense.
45:50
Uh.
45:51
You mentioned you had several
45:54
Wenday vows with Charles before?
45:57
At the local police station.
45:58
You said he was a consultant on the fraud case you were working on.
46:01
What of it?
46:02
Charles came home that night very intrigued by the whole case.
46:07
He found out the reason why no arrests were made was because the man committing the fraud
46:12
WAS YOURSELF!
46:14
You were the embeazling?
46:16
No wait, that can't be right.
46:18
The poor potato!
46:19
You were the poop-a-tator!
46:21
You can't prove it!
46:23
But Charles Corden, that's why you killed him!
46:29
I know your secret, Inspector!
46:32
What are you going to do now?
46:33
Kill me too?
46:35
I will!
46:37
Confound it!
46:39
What a devil of a situation this is!
46:41
Not so fast, Inspector!
46:49
Charles!
46:50
Mr. Havisham.
46:51
Charlie, I thought you were dead.
46:53
You're alive? It's not possible.
46:55
Oh, I'm afraid it is. You couldn't kill me that, Steve.
47:00
Easily.
47:01
How did you survive?
47:03
I simply didn't drink the poisoned water you left out for me this afternoon.
47:07
How did you know it was me?
47:09
I told Perkins. We've been working together all along.
47:12
After we last spoke at the police station, it was clear you thought I was...
47:16
was on to you. It was at this point I became afraid you tried to kill me. For months now
47:20
I've had my guard up, and tonight you fell into my trap. You were hiding in this ground
47:25
ever since this afternoon when you planted the poison. I thought it was strange
47:30
you got
47:31
here so quickly in such terrible weather. And then you found his will
47:36
in the ledger
47:37
and decided to pin it on me. You darn crafty devil. Crafty
47:42
indeed. Perkins here is as
47:44
innocent as I am. Remove those handcuffs
47:46
this instant.
47:58
Drop the gun, Inspector.
48:00
Aye, me!
48:01
Never! I came here to kill you,
48:04
Charles, and I won't leave until the job
48:06
is done. It's over, Inspector.
48:08
I could prove your guilt in a second.
48:09
I have the evidence in my study.
48:12
Fetch the papers, Perkins.
48:15
Yes, sir!
48:27
Whoops!
48:32
Lower your weapon, Inspector.
48:34
It's over.
48:35
Please, Inspector, you're frightening me!
48:38
You ought to be frightened.
48:40
You monster, you tried to kill Charles and you killed Cecil.
48:45
How could you?
48:46
I'll admit, I didn't try to kill Charles.
48:49
But I never went anywhere near Cecil.
48:51
In fact, when I discovered you and he were having an affair,
48:54
I was overjoyed.
48:56
I had the perfect man to pin it on.
48:58
Until my accomplice blundered in.
49:01
It's true.
49:01
And your accomplice, I regret to say,
49:04
has been my friend ever since we were at school.
49:06
Isn't that right, Thomas?
49:08
Collymore. All right, it's true. I'm the inspector's accomplice. I helped to move
49:12
the money. Brother, I'm surprised at you. Brother, I'm surprised at
49:18
you. I don't know
49:18
what you've become. I'm so ashamed. I met Inspector Carter here down at my club a
49:23
few months ago. We found between us we could easily, we could steal money from
49:27
the police's sundry funds accounts easily. Carter had the axes and I had the
49:30
facility to move the money fast and keep it secure. Or so I thought until tonight.
49:38
I don't know what page we're on, mate!
49:42
As for Cecil...
49:44
As for Cecil's a crime of passion, simple as that.
49:46
Cecil, but I loved him, he was my only...
49:53
Thank you, Perkins.
49:54
Now fetch my pipe from the study.
49:56
Yes, sir!
49:58
Now I...
50:01
Now I hold in my hand
50:02
a written list of every...
50:04
modulent transaction Thomas Collymore and Inspector Carter made.
50:08
This can't be true. I won't believe it. This can't be true.
50:12
I won't believe it. I can't believe it.
50:14
But it is true. When I found out he was interfering with you,
50:17
Florence, my own sister, well, it was more than I could bear.
50:20
Your sordid affair sickened me, Florence.
50:22
No, Charlie, you mustn't. I made a mistake.
50:25
Please take me back. It'll be all over again.
50:28
Take back a woman who has betrayed me? Never.
50:30
Charlie, you're all I have.
50:32
Blimey, please, don't cast any time
50:36
My friend just picked me, let me be alive
50:41
Best of it all, Peckins
50:43
Charlie, I cannot bear it
50:44
Charlie, I cannot bear it another second
50:47
Look at me
50:49
Silence, Florence, you are nothing to me now
50:52
This is the worst night of my life
50:54
No, this is the worst night of my life
50:57
No, it's just the worst of mine
51:02
But Thomas, Carter had you fooled, didn't he?
51:05
What do you mean?
51:06
He never intended to share the money with you.
51:08
Let me summarize.
51:10
I love you, Shirley!
51:14
Inspector Carter knew I discovered you and he were both embezzling police money.
51:18
So you hatched a plan to kill me, planting poison water for me to drink.
51:23
Then mistakenly believing I was dead, Inspector Carter tried to kill
51:28
me.
51:28
My murder on Cecil and Florence because of their affair.
51:31
Until your accomplice, Thomas, landed in and shot my brother Cecil.
51:36
Carter then tried to pin my murder on Perkins instead after finding my will in the ledger.
51:41
Ah, take me back, Charlie, if you know what's good for you.
51:45
Except what you didn't know, Thomas,
51:48
was that the inspector made a £9,000 withdrawal from your private accounts this morning
51:52
and after framing someone for my murder, planned to flee, taking...
51:56
Every penny.
51:58
I think it's time to open your attaché case, Inspector.
52:12
The nine thousand pounds!
52:14
He allowed you to take all the risk by storing the stolen money in your private accounts.
52:18
Isn't that right, Inspector?
52:20
All right, it's true.
52:22
I forged your signature at the bank and took out every-
52:25
I didn't bargain your accountant catching on this quickly and telephoning you so soon.
52:30
You rogue, I trusted you. You made a mistake at the account. I'm afraid you're lost.
52:37
Bang! Ah, my fingers!
52:40
The officers are waiting in!
52:43
Oh, I got stuck! Dad nabbit!
52:45
Oh, the officers are waiting in!
52:58
The officers are waiting in
53:04
the hall, sir!
53:08
Excellent. Escort my fiancé downstairs, Perkins. I wish to have a word with
53:13
Thomas in private.
53:15
Yes, sir.
53:22
Thomas, you're not the man I knew from Eaton
53:24
You've become greedy and jealous
53:26
I'm sorry, Charles
53:27
I feel as though I'm about to pass out
53:29
There's a glass of water next to the telephone
53:32
Oh, thank you, Charles
53:33
Ever the kind host
53:35
Drink it up
53:36
Most kind
53:37
Tell me, Thomas
53:38
One thing
53:40
Anything, Charles
53:41
I shall tell no more lies
53:42
The glass of poison water the inspector left out for me
53:45
What do you suppose I did with it?
53:47
Well, I don't know
53:49
What do you mean? You didn't give him the... Charlie? Charlie, no! No, no!
54:00
Oh, how I wish this could have ended differently.
54:04
Thomas, your lies and deceits have led you inexorably to this end.
54:08
If men allow their conscience to be governed by avarice, then death and destruction shall prevail.
54:14
Betrayed by my brother.
54:17
Bop-bop-bop-bop her face
54:27
Betrayed by my fiancée
54:29
and almost murdered by my oldest friend.
54:32
Let us hope we never again see a murder at Havoshem Manor.
54:45
Thank you.
