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A law student finds his morning golf games repeatedly disturbed by a woman's cries of 'murder, help murder'--pleas that only he can hear. Starring: Michael Aldridge, Robin Kermode, Derek Francis.
A law student finds his morning golf games repeatedly disturbed by a woman's cries of 'murder, help murder'--pleas that only he can hear. Starring: Michael Aldridge, Robin Kermode, Derek Francis.
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00:00To be continued...
00:30Hard cheese, my boy, hard cheese.
01:00I don't know, Uncle George.
01:04You need a bit of time on the 19th, my boy. That's what you need.
01:08I just seem to get worse rather than better.
01:10Oh, bound to happen. All of us go through bad patches.
01:13I suppose so.
01:15How's the legal stuff coming along?
01:17Not bad.
01:18Started on Roman law today.
01:21You don't have to stay at that hotel, do you?
01:24I know.
01:26Quite honestly, if a chap has to swat Uncle George, a boring hotel is the best place to do it.
01:32How's old Beersdale these days?
01:35He still seems to think he'll make a solicitor out of me one day.
01:38He's been very kind matter of fact.
01:40Really? Beersdale?
01:42Yeah.
01:43First thing every morning when I get into chambers he takes me through some of my stuff.
01:46Well, frankly, I am not surprised.
01:50Why?
01:51It's all goth, not all it should be.
01:53Why?
01:54Well, I mean, here you are, getting up at crack of dawn, doing half a dozen holes before breakfast,
02:00racing off to the city, braving old Beersdale before coffee,
02:03dashing back here to fill yourself up with Roman law and hotel stodgy in the evening.
02:08Clean as a nose on me face, my boy. You're overdoing it.
02:12I don't know. My iron shots are...
02:13All your iron shots are all right. It's your swing.
02:16Straight left arm, follow through, and don't look up.
02:25Afternoon, Carol. Bill.
02:30Don't you ever feel a bit odd?
02:32Pardon?
02:33This place, you know, being the old family home.
02:36It's all right for me. I never lived here, but it must be jolly odd for you,
02:39standing here propping up the bar like any old Tomlick or Harry.
02:42Oh, I say I'm sorry.
02:43Hmm?
02:44Oh!
02:45See what you mean.
02:46The old Harry.
02:47No, no, no.
02:49I mean, I couldn't bear all that noblest oblige out your father, can you?
02:55Tenants, rates, good works.
02:57Oh, I've got a comfy village.
03:00Golf club on the doorstep, decent character supper in the evening.
03:04Lord of the manor, what? Oh, no, thank you, Jack.
03:07Oh, I consider myself among the most fortunate portion of humanity.
03:12And I drink a toast to the man who gambled away the family estate
03:17and left me in the enviable position I find myself today.
03:21My grandfather, Mad Harry.
03:23Isn't there some sort of scandal to do with him?
03:27I should say, confessed to murder on his deathbed.
03:30Murder?
03:31Oh, forget the whole story.
03:33Some girl mixed up in it, I think.
03:36Why Mad Harry?
03:38Guilt, they say, drove him out of his mind.
03:41Oh, good Lord, there must be more cheerful subjects
03:44than my homicidal grandfather and your golf.
03:47Uh, Jenkins.
03:49No, no, no, sane enough family in the hole.
03:52My only aberration was in marrying, you know, thanks.
03:55All right, cousin Florence.
03:57Now, wasn't there some dark secret to do with her, too?
03:59Nothing dark about it, dear boy.
04:01She eloped with a local blacksmith.
04:03Sorry, Major Hartington.
04:05Oh, hello, George.
04:06Know me nephew Jack, of course.
04:08Oh, yes.
04:09How do you do?
04:10Uh, what a felicitous encounter.
04:12Huh?
04:13My catching view, you know.
04:14Huh?
04:15Yes.
04:16I've just managed to secure a very fine Isaac Walden
04:18in a superb Riviere binding.
04:20It's quarto, no foxing, and a very slight rubbing.
04:23Also, splendid Jorrox with full plate aquatins.
04:27Again, quarto and full calf.
04:29Ah.
04:30Now, they'll be arriving within the next few days,
04:32so, well, perhaps I might bring them along to you?
04:35No good.
04:36Joining the wife in Italy tomorrow.
04:38Ah.
04:39Oh, well, perhaps I might leave them for you to examine at your leisure.
04:43Yes, yes, you could.
04:45Uh, yeah, leave them with, uh, Mrs. Emmett.
04:47Oh, right, right.
04:48Don't be put off fire.
04:49She only looks like Attila the Hand.
04:50Good afternoon, Major Hartington.
04:52Now, Dr. Levington.
04:54I think I found that JW Dunn that you were looking for.
04:57Quite a stroke of luck, as a matter of fact.
04:59An experiment with time, that was the one, wasn't it?
05:01That chap's staying in my hotel.
05:05Who is he?
05:06Dr. Levington.
05:07Interesting girl.
05:08Down here to write a book or something.
05:10Dodds brought him along for a sherry a few weeks ago.
05:12Wanted to show him my collected blitz, don't you know?
05:16Do you know what he calls himself?
05:19Doctor of the soul.
05:21Doctor of the soul?
05:24Sounds a bit crackpot to me.
05:26Oh, just a minute, my boy.
05:28There are more things in heaven and earth, what?
05:31Well, I mean, take that fellow, Gandy, for a start.
05:36Bow-legged little grasshopper.
05:41Hello, where's our tea?
05:43You know, Mrs. Emmett's really gone to Potiphar since your aunt went off to Italy.
05:47Now, where was I?
05:52Dr. Levington.
05:54Huh?
05:55Oh, yes, uh, Gandy.
05:58Well, now, you may think old Levington's a bit odd, my boy.
06:02But I've had the benefit of visiting the East.
06:05Now, if you told a sensible man
06:07that Britain might lose her Indian Empire
06:10to a half-naked faker and a pair of bifocals
06:13whose only possessions were a Kashmiri shawl
06:15and the rather inadequate clothes he stood up in,
06:17he'd never have believed you, would he?
06:19Hmm?
06:20But it looks increasingly likely.
06:22Power of the spirit, my boy.
06:25Where is our tea?
06:28Power of the spirit?
06:29Yes.
06:30Never underestimate it.
06:33In Madras State,
06:35I've seen chaps walking across 30 foot of red-hot coals
06:39quite slowly and deliberately
06:41and not only did they suffer no pain,
06:43but their feet weren't even scorched.
06:47Power of the spirit, my boy.
06:51Oh, there you are, Mrs. Emmett.
06:53Thank you very much.
06:55Thanks for the tea, Uncle.
06:58Have a good holiday.
07:00Love to Aunt Mags.
07:02Hate holidays.
07:03Stupid idea.
07:04Boats and trains and foreigners.
07:06Oh, thanks for the game.
07:08I'll try to be a bit improved for you after your trip.
07:10Straight left arm, follow through and don't look up.
07:40Murder!
07:41Help!
07:42Murder!
07:43Help!
07:44Murder!
07:45Yeah.
07:47Yeah.
07:48Murder! Help! Murder!
08:13Yeah? Yes, of course.
08:15You didn't cry out just now?
08:18No. Why should I?
08:20I see.
08:22Where did it come from?
08:24What?
08:25A cry.
08:26You must have heard it. It came from somewhere just near here.
08:29A cry?
08:30Yes.
08:31I heard nothing at all. Are you sure?
08:33Yes, of course, yes.
08:35It came from somewhere just near here.
08:37What sort of cry?
08:39It was a woman, screaming blue murder.
08:41Blue murder? What is blue murder?
08:45Oh, I think somebody's playing a joke on you, monsieur.
08:54Excuse me. My father, he isn't well.
08:57Oh, good morning, sir.
09:06Young man.
09:08Yes, I'm sorry.
09:09Your coat collar turned up at the back.
09:11What? Oh, I say thanks all please, sir.
09:24Yes, sir?
09:26Hmm?
09:27Oh.
09:28Oh, I don't know, Agnes.
09:30Corridge and toast. Nothing cooked.
09:32Right here, sir.
09:33Good evening, sir.
09:34Good evening, Mr. Humble.
09:35Thanks.
09:36Ah, yes, sir.
09:37Do you mind if I...
09:38No, no, no.
09:39I'll be silent.
09:40You were looking for anything in particular?
09:55What?
09:56No, no, no.
09:58Looking to see if anything happens around here.
10:01Ah, well, it depends what you mean by happens, really.
10:03The sale of work happened last Saturday,
10:05and there's a dance-up in the church hall this Saturday,
10:07professionally provided,
10:09but you'll have to wait until Thursday for full-blown fate.
10:12That sort of thing mean?
10:13Uh, no, not exactly what I had in mind.
10:15Oh.
10:16I mean, look at the national papers.
10:18Oh, yes.
10:19Full of news.
10:20News?
10:21Well, sports and crime and scandal.
10:24Well, I wouldn't get into my local rag anyway,
10:26stuff like that.
10:27Well, not as such.
10:28They tries to keep that sort of thing out,
10:30the Clarion and Argus.
10:31Low as the tone of the area like.
10:34Well, I obviously chose the right place.
10:36Ideal for a holiday.
10:37Ah, a holiday.
10:39That sacred cow of our industrial age.
10:42Well, more of a working holiday, really.
10:44Dr. Lavington, isn't it?
10:45How do you do it?
10:46How do you do?
10:47I'm Hartington.
10:48You know, lots of golf to offset the revision.
10:50Ah.
10:51You see, I'm an article clerk.
10:53Got my exams soon.
10:54I thought you were working rather too hard.
10:56Too hard?
10:57Why do you say that?
10:58It shows.
10:59Does it?
11:00Well, a certain abstraction at breakfast this morning.
11:03Oh, yes.
11:04I thought, as a matter of fact, that you were on holiday here.
11:07No, no, not quite.
11:09It's true I still practice in Hove,
11:11now that I've left Talley Street.
11:13For those of us lucky enough not to be involved in the industrial process,
11:16the change of activity should be sufficient to renew the spirit,
11:19if you don't overdo it.
11:21No.
11:23I'm here to write a book.
11:26Uncle George doesn't like holidays either.
11:28Hope he lasts the quarter to get frightful stick from my Aunt Mags.
11:31Ah.
11:32I suppose you're right, though.
11:34For the renewal of the spirit, it's an excellent spot.
11:37Peace made manifest.
11:39In terms of dramatic incident, luckily.
11:42It's a desert.
11:44Very simple.
11:45All right.
11:47Shane Jolie.
11:50Listen, you're ready to go.
11:51Come here to work.
11:52You're ready.
11:53Well, let's get started.
11:54Come here to go.
11:55I'll have a moment.
11:56Let's go.
11:57Bye.
11:58Bye.
11:59Bye.
12:00Bye.
12:01Bye.
12:02Bye.
12:03Bye.
12:04Bye.
12:05Bye.
12:07Bye.
12:08Bye.
12:09Bye.
12:11Bye.
12:12Bye.
12:13Murder! Help! Murder!
12:36Padmissal!
12:38Padmissal!
12:40Yes? What is it?
12:43Oh, mademoiselle, you heard it this time, anyway.
12:46Oh, I've heard nothing.
12:48Well...
12:49Nothing at all.
12:50But just now.
12:51I mean, you must have done.
12:53Are you all right, monsieur?
12:55What do you mean, all right?
12:57Well, are you feeling all right? I mean, have you been unwell?
13:13Don't overdo it. Only young once. I thought you were working rather too hard.
13:28Are you feeling all right, monsieur? Are you feeling all right?
13:33Murder! Help! Murder!
13:42Uh, yes, thank you, Agnes.
13:54Excuse me, Dr. Lavinson.
13:56Do you mind if I join you for a moment?
13:58I'd be delighted.
13:59Sit down.
14:05Well, what can I do for you?
14:07Just an idea I had.
14:09You know I told you I came down here to swap for my exams?
14:11Yes, although from the first moment I saw you
14:13I thought you were an unlikely candidate for a place like this.
14:16No, my uncle lives not far away.
14:18If I feel like some home comforts I can always...
14:21Anyway, we both like golf.
14:23And that's how I relax, you see, playing golf with him.
14:26He's away for a week or so and I was wondering if...
14:30You do play golf, do you?
14:31Well, to call it play is perhaps an indulgence.
14:33I struggle, but yes, I know the rules.
14:36I lack the requisite equipment, however.
14:38That's no problem. They have spare clubs for visitors.
14:40Ah.
14:41Well, I thought.
14:42I mean, I just thought that there I am every morning.
14:44But only if the idea appeals.
14:46I'd be delighted.
14:47You always manage to get the 8.56, don't you?
14:51Shall we say 7.50?
14:53It's 7 too early for you.
14:55I shall look forward to it.
14:56As a matter of fact, I've struck a small difficulty in the argument of my book.
14:59Perhaps a little fresh air and exercise might put my thoughts together.
15:03But I warn you, you must be prepared to run out the handsome winner.
15:06No, really, sir.
15:11Good signal shot of yours.
15:14Right by the green.
15:15Thanks.
15:23Do you think this is all right?
15:25Yes, I say so.
15:33Good shot.
15:41Good shot.
15:42Good shot.
15:43Good shot.
15:44How did I not answer this test?
15:45orted to camera Appreciate your enquiry array.
15:46alternatively?
15:47great baller we're looking to Hon hurricane.
15:48you have to prepare your blind mind or be frosting,
15:51good shot of you.
15:52All right, I am fine with you.
15:53gauge this test I am.
15:54OK, será.
15:55Now, there is all right.
15:56Good shot.
15:58We'll wait for further exams.
15:59Place you next to our link.
16:00Firstly, you'll find the nowhere.
16:02This, again, the property is where you're lucky.
16:04Oh, bad luck.
16:34I think it'll be a good day when this misclears.
16:52You're on to the next hole, huh?
16:55Murder! Help! Murder!
17:00You were to fall surely at the last hole, didn't you?
17:04Yes.
17:07So, what was all that about?
17:10I was going to ask you the same question.
17:12Were you?
17:13You're a doctor, aren't you?
17:14Yes.
17:15Go on then.
17:16I know very little about you.
17:18The only thing I do know is that I have recognised in you all the signs of a man under considerable stress.
17:23I must confess a fascination to what that stress could be.
17:27I can tell you easily enough. I'm going off my chump.
17:30Really?
17:31I tell you I'm going mad.
17:33I'm curious. I'm very curious.
17:35Oh, that's what it is, isn't it?
17:37My God, you doctors.
17:39Oh, come, come, my friend.
17:41To begin with, although I've taken my medical degrees, I don't practice conventional medicine.
17:46Oh, and what do you practice? Witchcraft?
17:48Oh, let's just say that I'm not a doctor of the body, of the suma.
17:52Or the mind.
17:53Oh, that's much nearer.
17:54Although I like to use mind to describe the mechanical, the rational aspects of thought.
18:00Oh, yes, the soul. Uncle George told me, doctor of the soul.
18:03I hear the disparagement in your voice.
18:05Well, what is a man to do?
18:07I've explained why I don't use the word mind.
18:09Psyche has been appropriated by the followers of the Viennese school.
18:13Brain is a description only of the physical organ.
18:16Now, soul suits me since it's a word which transcends religions and philosophies.
18:22But you may call it what you like, provided that the word you choose denotes that principle of consciousness,
18:28of self-awareness, which is deemed to be independent of this bone house, the body.
18:33All right.
18:34Now, shall I tell you what struck me as being curious?
18:37Go ahead.
18:38It is how such a well-balanced and normal young man of yourself could suffer from the delusion that he was going out of his mind.
18:43Well, I am. I've got a screw loose.
18:45Forgive me for saying so, but I don't believe it.
18:47Look, I suffer from delusion.
18:49No, sorry, can't be done. Not you.
18:50I tell you, I hear things that nobody else hears.
18:52Ah, well, that's quite different.
18:55Sorry, beg your pardon?
18:57That's different. That may not necessarily be a delusion.
19:00What?
19:01It could as easily be evidence of a sense refined beyond the ordinary.
19:05I don't understand.
19:07One man in a thousand can see the moons of Jupiter.
19:10But until Galileo made a telescope, nobody believed they were really there.
19:14Certain men can smell water in a desert miles away.
19:17Dogs can hear sounds well beyond human hearing.
19:21The sense of touch in some blind people is so refined that it enables them to perceive the colour of the objects they handle.
19:27I could go on.
19:29Yes, but all I'm saying is that we do not call the possessors of these refined instruments mad.
19:34What do we call them?
19:36Must you go to the city today?
19:38Old Beersdale promised to take me through torts.
19:41I'm quite bad at torts.
19:43Then breakfast is a necessity.
19:45Get changed.
19:46I'll meet you downstairs in ten minutes.
19:49Then we can decide whether you have grounds for believing you're going mad.
19:53And we can decide whether or not to lock you up afterwards.
19:56There it is.
19:57I think I've told you everything.
19:58What I can't understand is why this morning it should come at nearly half past seven.
20:11Almost five minutes late.
20:13Yes, that is odd.
20:15What's the time by your watch?
20:178.25.
20:19Well that's simple enough then.
20:21Your watch is fast.
20:22Mine says 8.22.
20:24Now that's a very interesting and valuable point.
20:27In fact it's vital.
20:29In what way?
20:30Well an obvious explanation would go something like this.
20:33On the first morning you did hear some such cry.
20:36Possibly a silly joke on somebody's part.
20:38Then on the subsequent mornings at the same time you merely suggested to yourself that you heard it.
20:43Yes.
20:44That explanation would work.
20:45Because if it was a case of auto-suggestion you would have to have heard the cry when you knew or thought you knew it was 25 past.
20:51So where does that leave us?
20:52Well the only theory I believe fits the facts so far is that the cry locates itself very precisely in time and space.
20:59The place being in the vicinity of the cottage the time being 25 past.
21:04Excuse me.
21:05Oh thank you.
21:08Yes.
21:09But why me?
21:10I don't believe in ghosts.
21:12All that spook stuff spirits wrapping on and so on.
21:15As far as I'm concerned it's a lot of rubbish.
21:17Why should I hear that damn thing?
21:18It's a curious fact that many of the best mediums are made from confirmed skeptics.
21:22It isn't by any means the case that those who are interested in occult phenomena as those who experience manifestations of it.
21:29Yes but what are we going to do?
21:31Well you're going up to the city to struggle with torts at which you are quite bad.
21:35If you hurry you'll manage to catch your train.
21:38I'll meet you in the dragon's head.
21:40Six.
21:41Yes.
21:42Look just one thing.
21:43What's that?
21:44Well the girl.
21:45Not about her.
21:46I'm sure she's well all right you know.
21:49You didn't tell me she was pretty.
21:51Cheer up.
21:52If I'm not mistaken the mystery started well before her time.
21:56You mean you actually went to the cottage?
22:08You spoke to her?
22:09Yes and you were quite correct.
22:10The young lady is most attractive.
22:13But the visit to the cottage was not the most informative period of my day.
22:17Although I did establish two things.
22:19Yes.
22:20The Mademoiselle Marchaud.
22:21That's her name incidentally.
22:22And she's French.
22:23Comes from Tours.
22:24Feliz Marchaud.
22:25Her father's very ill.
22:26Oh yes I know.
22:27I heard him.
22:28My establishment of the cottage.
22:30Possesses a reputation locally.
22:32And the Mademoiselle Marchaud is frightened of something.
22:34And it's not merely her father's impending death.
22:37What is she frightened of?
22:38I don't know.
22:39I couldn't interrogate the poor girl.
22:41After leaving them I went to the local bookseller.
22:44Mr Dodds?
22:45Yes luckily he's something of a local historian.
22:47I might have taken several days over it.
22:48Over what?
22:49Over the history of one of your family.
22:51Sir Harry Hartington.
22:52Mad Sir Harry as I gather he's known hereabouts.
22:55Yeah.
22:56What would you know about him?
22:57Well he's supposed to have confessed to murder.
23:00Some girl or something.
23:01Uncle George is rather vague you know.
23:02He did confess.
23:03On his deathbed.
23:04But 30 years before he had murdered his mistress.
23:08Say it again.
23:12Please.
23:13Yes I'll bring it over to you sir.
23:14Bird it is mistress.
23:15What else did you find out?
23:16Nothing much immediately.
23:17Merely the outline of the story.
23:18It was a hint that the girl was either being paid by Sir Harry.
23:19Or that she had been blackmailing him shortly before she disappeared.
23:20Anyway.
23:21She seems to have had money.
23:22In one fine day she vanished off the face of the earth.
23:23Lot of woods around here then.
23:24Foresters.
23:25Charcoal burners.
23:26Anyway the woods were searched for days with no result.
23:27She was never seen or heard of again.
23:28Due to her grandfather's confession.
23:29Thank you mister.
23:30So we know nothing else.
23:31Oh yes we do.
23:32And this is incredible.
23:33This is incredible.
23:34This is incredible.
23:35This is incredible.
23:36This is incredible.
23:37And this is incredible.
23:38This is incredible.
23:39It was a hint that the girl was either being paid by Sir Harry.
23:40Or that she had been blackmailing him shortly before she disappeared.
23:41Anyway.
23:42She seems to have had money.
23:43And one fine day she vanished off the face of the earth.
23:44A lot of woods around here then.
23:45Foresters.
23:46Charcoal burners.
23:47Anyway the woods were searched for days with no result.
23:49She was never seen or heard of again due to her grandfather's confession.
23:50Thank you Mr.
23:51So we know nothing else?
23:54Oh yes we do.
23:55And this is incredible.
23:56She was last seen in the place where she lived which was the marshal's cottage.
24:08Excuse me sir.
24:09I'm sorry to interrupt.
24:10I wouldn't normally do it for the world naturally.
24:12What's up Agnes?
24:13Um.
24:14Well there's this young person who wishes to speak to.
24:17Um.
24:18Just a foreign person.
24:19Who calls herself.
24:23Please Marsha.
24:27Anyway it's urgent she says.
24:29Where is she?
24:30Well put her in the lounge so she can speak to her confidential.
24:32Right.
24:33I'll come at once.
24:34I'll just put these books in my room and collect my pipe if you don't mind.
24:37You go and make the girl at home.
24:41Admiral Selle.
24:42Monsieur.
24:43May I offer you something?
24:44A glass of sherry?
24:45Coffee perhaps?
24:46Thank you no monsieur.
24:47I must not stay long.
24:48My father.
24:49Of course.
24:50Thank you Agnes.
24:54I owe you an apology monsieur.
24:56I'm sure you don't.
24:57Yes I do.
24:58I doubted you and I am repaid.
25:01I've also heard the voice.
25:04The cry.
25:05Oh thank god.
25:06You know Dr Lavington don't you?
25:09Ma'am'selle.
25:10Yes.
25:11But I didn't know.
25:12It's alright I've told Dr Lavington all about it.
25:14About?
25:15About what I heard.
25:16About what we heard.
25:17Yes I've heard it too.
25:18May I ask when ma'am'selle?
25:20This morning.
25:21I was in the garden.
25:22It was nearly half past seven.
25:23I looked for you.
25:24I guess I didn't play this morning.
25:26What did the voice say?
25:28Murder.
25:29Help murder.
25:30That's it.
25:31You see doctor?
25:34Go on madem'selle.
25:38Must I?
25:39I want you to tell me everything.
25:45Well at first I did not...
25:48How do you say?
25:50Put it together with the dream.
25:51But all day I thought...
25:52The dream?
25:53What dream?
25:57It's difficult to explain.
26:00I dream and yet I do not dream.
26:03The first time I do not remember waking but I was awake.
26:06There was great fear.
26:08In my nostrils was a smell.
26:10A strong smell.
26:11Like a bonfire after a rainstorm.
26:14I got up, searched the house and there had been no fire.
26:18The next time it was a true dream.
26:24I am in the cottage.
26:28Again there is the smell.
26:31But now I'm dreaming the smell.
26:36A girl.
26:38Dressed in old-fashioned clothes stand before me.
26:44At first I see only her face.
26:49There is beauty there but...
26:51Much pain.
26:55Much pain.
26:56When I...
26:57When I see that she is holding out towards me a...
27:03A tall...
27:06Jar.
27:08Jar?
27:09Yes.
27:11I look at the jar.
27:12I look at the jar.
27:16It's beautiful.
27:18Blue pattern.
27:21With flowers.
27:23And fruits.
27:26And then?
27:28I don't know.
27:29I remember her face which is bleeding with me.
27:35And I remember my own fear.
27:45Mostly I remember the fear.
27:48How long has this been going on?
27:49How long has this been going on?
27:55It started a few weeks after we moved into the cottage.
27:58Now I...
28:03I dread the night.
28:05I think you should escort to Mademoiselle Marshall home.
28:09Yes.
28:11I can hardly tell you not to worry.
28:17I don't want to trivialize your fear.
28:20All I can tell you is that you are no longer alone.
28:35Please.
28:37Don't come any further because of my father, you...
28:40You understand?
28:42Of course.
28:44I'll stand and watch until you're indoors.
28:47I think you're a good man.
28:50Oh.
28:52Terrific, yes.
28:54Will I see you again tomorrow?
28:57I want to hear what your doctor friend has to say, don't you?
29:01Yes, I do.
29:04Then I shall see you tomorrow.
29:07Goodbye.
29:10Au revoir.
29:15Damn!
29:17You're cold, sir?
29:18What?
29:19Oh, yeah.
29:20This coffee, Agnes?
29:21Yes, too hot, sir?
29:22Yes.
29:23Oh, as usual.
29:24Do you know, I keep telling them.
29:25Should I take it away?
29:26No, I'll leave it.
29:27It's no bother, sir.
29:31Good morning.
29:33Good morning, young man.
29:35You're early.
29:36Decided not to play, matter of fact.
29:37Very sensible.
29:38Actually, I've been trying to remember.
29:41You know that jar the girl was talking about?
29:44Oh, the one the woman in the dream was holding?
29:47Yes.
29:48I think I've seen one like it before.
29:50Really?
29:51I can't think well.
29:54Still, I've got conveyancing today.
29:56Conveyancing, eh?
29:57I'm not bad at conveyancing.
29:58Good.
29:59Got it!
30:00Oh, yes.
30:01I hope I find you here.
30:02It's what we were talking about this morning.
30:03Uh, Mr. Hubbell, a pint, please.
30:04And what's yours?
30:05Small whiskey, if you'd be so good.
30:06A small whiskey.
30:07The blue jar.
30:08Remember?
30:09Ah, yes.
30:10The blue jar.
30:11You see, Uncle George has got one in his hallway.
30:14Has he really?
30:15Is there something wrong?
30:16No.
30:17Well, Mr. Dodds is a mine of local information.
30:21Buried treasure and goodness knows what I got from him this morning.
30:24Really?
30:25Yeah, remember I told you there was some charm.
30:28You see, Uncle George has got one in his hallway.
30:29Has he really?
30:30Is there something wrong?
30:33No.
30:36Well, Mr. Dodds is a mine of local information.
30:39Buried treasure and goodness says what I got from him this morning.
30:42Really?
30:43Yeah, remember I told you there were some charcoal burners in the woods round here?
30:46Yeah.
30:48Well, they used to move through the woods like gypsies, of course.
30:51But it seems they had one main camp near the village.
30:54The last of the charcoal burners left to join Ark 20 years ago now.
30:58And the campsite was turned over to new housing.
31:00When they were digging the foundations for the new houses,
31:03they came across the charcoal burners' treasure,
31:06a tin box, lots of coins, bits of gold jewellery,
31:08and most importantly, a bag of Victorian gold sovereigns.
31:12Worth hundreds today.
31:14Yes.
31:15Look, I really think this jar might be important.
31:18Huntington, I'm afraid I told you an untruth a minute ago.
31:22Something is the matter.
31:24What?
31:25I went to see the marshals this morning.
31:27I'm very worried about that girl.
31:29I think she might well be in danger.
31:32Oh, not danger as most people would interpret the word,
31:35but danger all the same.
31:41Power of the spirit, me boy.
31:43Beautiful.
31:45Blue pattern with flowers and fruits.
31:49Never underestimate it.
31:51Power of the spirit.
31:53I can remember my own fear.
31:56Mostly I remember the fear.
32:00You got a four surely at the last hole, didn't you?
32:03Just a cup of coffee, please.
32:04I'm awfully late.
32:05All right.
32:06I overslept.
32:08I've been a complete fool.
32:09What?
32:10Well, not listening to you mostly, not seeing what was under my own nose.
32:14I think the key to the whole thing might be the jar.
32:17I was trying to tell you that.
32:18Yes, I know, and I apologize.
32:19I was following a theory of my own, if you remember.
32:20I think it is essential that all three of us meet this evening.
32:21Yes, all right.
32:22Absolutely.
32:23At the pub.
32:24Good.
32:25Good.
32:26Good.
32:27Good.
32:28Good.
32:29Good.
32:30Good.
32:31Good.
32:32Good.
32:33Good.
32:34Good.
32:35Good.
32:36Good.
32:37Good.
32:38Good.
32:39Good.
32:40Good.
32:41Good.
32:42Good.
32:43Good.
32:44Good.
32:45Good.
32:46Good.
32:47Good.
32:48Good.
32:49Good.
32:50Good.
32:51Would you organize it?
32:52Good.
32:53Good.
32:58Good.
33:00Good.
33:01Good.
33:02Good.
33:03Thanks.
33:10Let us suppose, the events were as follows.
33:12Bad Sir Harry paid the Chakra Burners not only to do away with the girl, but to get rid of the body also.
33:17That would account for the treasure, would it, Mum?
33:19Yes, indeed. And the smell of burning in your dream.
33:22Yet the single most persistent feature of Mademoiselle Marshall's dream was the unaccountable smell of burning.
33:27Yes, but what does it mean?
33:29Other meaning eludes me at the moment.
33:31But some things I do know.
33:33The shedding of innocent blood is at the centre of the most powerful myths in the history of the occult.
33:39And not only that, the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
33:45I believe that this girl's blood cries to us now. It has waited a long time.
33:50It has at last found two sensitives, yourself and Mademoiselle Marshall, the room to make the link.
33:56Now I see.
33:57Yes, but why the blue charm, Monsieur?
34:00Of all things in the dream, I seem to see it most clearly of all.
34:04What is this thing?
34:06What do you think, Artie?
34:07Well, I'm pretty sure there's one just like it at my uncle's house.
34:10Could well have come from the family home, do you see?
34:12Though what it could have to do with this whole thing beats me.
34:15It could be the key to what we don't know.
34:17A key is meaningless in itself, but can be the means to great things.
34:22The blue charm could be some link in the pattern of energies which has allowed you to hear this girl's voice.
34:29That voice requires something of us, and I believe we should listen to whatever it is.
34:34Yes, but how?
34:36Can you get hold of the jar?
34:38Of course.
34:40Uncle George won't mind. He only uses it as an umbrella stand. In any case, he's on holiday.
34:45What do you believe we can do, Doctor?
34:48Lavington.
34:50Lay to rest a perturbed spirit.
34:55If only that could be.
34:57I think we should try this out as soon as possible, Doctor.
35:00I'll run down to the house and get it straight away.
35:02Shall I meet you both at the cottage?
35:03Yes, good man.
35:05Bientôt, mademoiselle.
35:08Bientôt.
35:23Jack!
35:26Hi, Uncle George.
35:27Hey, Jack, dear boy, what on earth are you doing? Can I help?
35:30Uncle George, you're back early.
35:33Functed, I'm afraid.
35:35Dreadful crossing.
35:36Lost a perfectly good Pullman breakfast to the fishes.
35:39The sight of Calais and the smell of that awful French tobacco
35:42and the sound of that pansy language all too...
35:44Hello?
35:45Where on earth did you find that?
35:47You know, I thought I'd lost it.
35:50No, I had to rest up in Paris for a couple of days.
35:54Sent a wire.
35:55Indisposed.
35:56Awful card, I'm afraid.
35:58And I suppose your aunt will wreak her vengeance, but there we are.
36:01I say, you look terrible.
36:03What's up?
36:04It's a long story.
36:05You look as though you need a brandy.
36:07Come in this den and tell me all about it.
36:09My God, Jack, that is a pretty rum tail.
36:12You think there's something in it, do you?
36:14Yes, I do.
36:15Well, what did I tell you?
36:17More things in heaven and earth, eh?
36:20Well, this gal of yours, pretty, is she?
36:25She's beautiful.
36:27French, you say?
36:28Yes.
36:31Well, when you've sorted this lot out, you'd better get down to some work.
36:34Looks as though you'll have to pass your exams after all.
36:37Supporting aged foreign in-laws doesn't exactly come cheap, you know.
36:41Well, well, lad, take that damn pot of yours and keep your rendezvous.
36:45Oh, I say.
36:46Thanks, Awfully.
36:48I say, nothing dangerous in it, is there?
36:51No.
36:52No, this chap Lovington knows exactly what he's doing.
36:54Oh, that's all right then.
36:56Off you go.
36:57Thanks, Awfully.
36:58Oh, hello.
36:59Uh, what do you mean?
37:00Uh, dear.
37:01Here.
37:02Oh, you've come.
37:03I was worried.
37:04I wouldn't let you down.
37:05No, I know.
37:14Oh, you've come.
37:15I was worried.
37:16I wouldn't let you down.
37:17No, I know.
37:28Listen, we must be quiet.
37:31My father, he's asleep upstairs.
37:33We must not wake him.
37:34No, of course.
37:35I've made some coffee for you.
37:40Well done, Hartington.
37:42Now, let's see if Mademoiselle Marchaud can identify it.
37:47Yes.
37:58Oh!
38:03It's all right.
38:04We're all in this together.
38:06Sit down, mademoiselle.
38:10We will need all our strength.
38:12All our clarity of mind.
38:14All our resources of will.
38:17Hartington, we've been drinking strong black coffee.
38:20And I suggest you do too.
38:25It may be a long session.
38:27It will require great concentration from us all.
38:29Yes, of course.
38:31Are you sure you're all right?
38:35Yes.
38:37And you?
38:38Yes.
38:42Sorry, that's a bit hot for me.
38:45Shall we...
38:46Take your time.
38:48You haven't told us yet what we have to do.
38:50What we have to try to do.
38:52We may not succeed.
38:53Nevertheless, we must try.
38:55Oh, yes.
38:56We must try.
39:00All our energies must combine in the corporate purpose of sensing what there is in this place.
39:06A pulse of energy.
39:07A faint residue of spirit.
39:09Half evaporated by time.
39:12Gathering itself into a voice.
39:14Yes, I see.
39:15Felice.
39:16Felice.
39:17Felice.
39:19Oh.
39:21Excuse me a moment.
39:22My father.
39:23Of course.
39:24Try to make sure he is comfortable, mademoiselle.
39:26It is essential we are not interrupted.
39:28Yes, of course.
39:35I come, father.
39:39Felice.
39:43Right.
39:44I'm ready.
39:46Sit down, mademoiselle.
39:47Shall I?
39:48Yes.
40:05I don't mind admitting I'm self apprehensive.
40:07If we can lay this poor girl's spirit to rest, she will be eternally grateful.
40:20Right, we shall begin.
40:22Place your hands over the jar like this.
40:24As the eyes close, unwilled, let them close.
40:39Good.
40:41As the eyes close, feel the initial drift of the spirit.
40:47Help it.
40:48Let it go.
40:50Drift on the wind.
40:51Ride your breath.
40:55Threads on the air.
40:57Alert.
40:59Silent.
41:01Seeking.
41:09We call to you through your chosen medium.
41:13To reveal yourself through one of us.
41:18We.
41:20The triangle which makes the circle.
41:23The star on the void.
41:25Six-handed.
41:27Embracing.
41:29Nothing.
41:31We are one and ready.
41:34Use us.
41:36Use us.
41:38Use us.
41:40Use us.
41:42And, um, another one.
41:47Oh.
41:48Very nicely illustrated in the manner of the great Thomas Buick.
41:52It's some of the finest woodcuts achieved outside the workshop of that, uh, finest of masters, in fact.
41:59There's an amusing chapter on either ducks and shovelers.
42:03Rooks, dammit. Rooks.
42:05Uh, Rooks?
42:07Rooks.
42:08The voice disturbed the Rooks.
42:11Jack described it to me plain as day.
42:13I knew there was something wrong.
42:15You don't disturb Rooks with voices in your head.
42:17Uh, there's some sort of deception going on.
42:21But the question is why, Dodds?
42:23Why?
42:25Uh, ah.
42:27Now look, you're an educated sort of chap, Dodds.
42:29Perhaps you could make some sense of it.
42:31Uh, uh, yes.
42:32Well, uh, yes.
42:33Well, I'd be delighted to try.
42:34Oh, good man.
42:35Now look, it all began with my nephew coming down to this neck of the woods to swat for his law exams, you see, and practice his golf.
42:40We are ready.
42:43We are one and ready.
42:47We have reached the hiding places of time and are ready.
42:53Without mind, we are ready.
42:57Without will, we are ready.
43:00Like your vessel, we are void.
43:04Choose one of us.
43:05Choose.
43:06Choose.
43:07Choose.
43:08Choose.
43:09Choose.
43:14I thought he'd never drink the damn stuff.
43:17Quick, Ropes.
43:19Thank God.
43:22He must have a constitution like an ox.
43:28I was beginning to run out of mystical mumbo-jumbo.
43:33Never mind.
43:35Don't forget it.
43:37Don't forget it.
43:45Pierre!
43:46Pierre!
43:48Pierre!
43:53It's all right?
43:55Yes.
43:56It's all right.
43:58Very good, my little girl.
44:02Oh, Pierre!
44:03Are you sure?
44:06Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, completely.
44:08All this talk about woods.
44:11Now, there were no woods around here in Victorian times.
44:14What?
44:14No, the woods that you see now, they're recent.
44:18Now, I should think that Lavington invented it to credit the girl's story.
44:25You mean she's his accomplice?
44:27Yes, there must be a key, key to it somewhere.
44:31Yeah, well, it isn't the woods, so it can't be the gypsies.
44:37It could be the jar, possibly.
44:39Jar?
44:42It's the jar. It's the blue jar.
44:46Why?
44:49Why?
44:53Because it has no real connection with the story.
44:57Well, don't you see? All attention has been focused on the ghost story.
45:00The blue jar's only been added as a sort of old footnote.
45:04Yes, in my opinion, Lavington is up to something,
45:05and it's something to do with that blue jar.
45:08Yes, but it's only an old pot.
45:09We keep umbrellas and walking sticks in.
45:12But is it?
45:13What do you know about it?
45:15Well, not much.
45:16I mean, it came out of the family home.
45:17It's been stuck out in the hall ever since.
45:19Has Lavington seen it?
45:21You brought him here for sherry.
45:22Oh, did I?
45:25I've got the pet with up in the spare room, as a matter of fact.
45:28Have you, indeed?
45:30Oh.
45:32I'll go and get it.
45:36Come on, you two.
45:37There's a lot to be done.
45:38Relax.
45:39He's asleep until the next day.
45:41Yeah, that's not the point.
45:41Some servant may notice it's gone.
45:44Not a minute to waste.
45:45Got the bag?
45:47Check the ropes.
45:48Cheng what?
45:51Hua.
45:52Cheng Hua.
45:54It's 15th century Chinese.
45:57Is it?
45:58It says here,
45:59a single specimen went at auction recently
46:01for 10,000 guineas.
46:03What?
46:06So a pair.
46:09Don't tell me.
46:10Get the police.
46:12I need a drink.
46:18Right.
46:25Are we ready?
46:26Ready?
46:48They say how long they'd be.
46:52Well, he said he'd come at once.
46:54I explained that it might be a matter of life or death.
46:57It might be a matter of 10,000 guineas.
47:00Wow.
47:03Sorry to keep you waiting, Major.
47:05I couldn't find me clips.
47:06I'd just set off with me trousers and me socks
47:08when the wife calls me back.
47:09Found me clips, you see.
47:11Now, what seems to be the matter?
47:12Just get in.
47:13I'll explain as we go.
47:15I'll put this in the back, shall I?
47:16Certainly not.
47:17Lean it up against the wall.
47:18Nobody's going to pinch it.
47:24Take a shortcut through Hallow's farm.
47:27That's private property.
47:28That's right.
47:35Jack!
47:36Well, or never.
47:37The jar?
47:38I can't see the jar.
47:39Never mind the jar.
47:40Help me untie him.
47:43Just a moment, sir.
47:44Is the day of the supernatural over?
47:48Not quite.
47:50Especially when tricked out in new scientific language.
47:55Kindest regards from
47:56fellies,
47:59invalid father,
48:00and myself.
48:03Yours ever,
48:04Ambrose Lovington,
48:06doctor of the soul.
48:07Awake at last,
48:14are you?
48:15Oh, Uncle George.
48:17Feeling all right?
48:18Yeah.
48:20How long have I been?
48:21Oh, about 15 hours.
48:23Nearly lunchtime.
48:26I'm afraid Lovington's
48:27accomplices got away.
48:29What?
48:30Accomplices?
48:31I'm sorry, old boy.
48:32I'm afraid you've been conned.
48:34Not...
48:35Not for leaves.
48:36It was my blue jar they were after.
48:39Worth a small fortune, apparently.
48:41Oh, what a damn fool I've been.
48:43Oh, cheer up, my boy.
48:45Police are quite hopeful.
48:47Vases too big to hide easily,
48:49they'll probably never get it out of the country.
48:52Anyway, I've still got the other one.
48:54I say, I'm sorry.
48:56Oh, that's all right.
48:57I just wish things were a bit more cheerful
48:59on the domestic front.
49:01Afraid your aunt's back.
49:02Oh, dear.
49:04Exactly.
49:05Well, not as cross as she might have been.
49:06Well, she couldn't be, really.
49:07She brought a female relative with her.
49:09Sort of, um,
49:10distant cousin of yours, actually.
49:12Portia Bickerstaff.
49:14Portia Bickerstaff.
49:16Yeah.
49:16I guess I met her about five years ago.
49:18Awful little tyke.
49:19Pigtails and a lisp.
49:21Yes, well, I'm sorry about this, old boy,
49:23but I'm afraid she's, um, expecting to play golf.
49:28And, uh, not to put too fine a point on it,
49:31she's, uh, Surrey ladies' champion.
49:33No.
49:35Couldn't agree more.
49:39Look, uh,
49:40she wants to see her.
49:41Is it all right if I let her in?
49:43Oh, no, I'm...
49:43Look, I'll rescue you after a minute or two,
49:45say you shouldn't be wasting your strength,
49:46something like that.
49:47All right.
49:49I say.
49:49Hmm?
49:51I'm sorry.
49:51Oh, don't be so damn silly.
49:53Women, what?
50:02Come in.
50:06Hello, Cousin Jack.
50:07May I call you Jack?
50:11Portia.
50:12Gosh.
50:14What?
50:15Um, yes.
50:17Oh, yes, do.
50:18Oh, yes, do.
50:19Oh, yes, do.
50:19Oh, yes, do.
50:20Oh, yes, do.
50:20Oh, yes, do.
50:21Oh, yes, do.
50:21Oh, yes, do.
50:22Oh, yes, do.
50:22Oh, yes, do.
50:23Oh, yes, do.
50:23Oh, yes, do.
50:23Oh, yes, do.
50:24Oh, yes, do.
50:25Oh, yes, do.
50:25Oh, yes, do.
50:26Oh, yes, do.
50:27Oh, yes, do.
50:27Oh, yes, do.
50:28Oh, yes, do.
50:28Oh, yes, do.
50:29Oh, yes, do.
50:30Oh, yes, do.
50:31Oh, yes, do.
50:32Oh, yes, do.
50:33Oh, yes, do.
50:34Oh, yes, do.
50:35Oh, yes, do.