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MAN: "Critic".
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From the Latin "criticus".
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And the Greek "kritikós".
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"Via krités", a judge.
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(GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING)
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(FLASHBULB POPS)
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- Your seats, Mr Erskine.
- Tom.
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- Curtain?
- 10:40
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- Oh.
- Provided we go up on time.
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Well, ensure it, hmm?
I have a deadline!
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MR ERSKINE:
The drama critic is feared
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and reviled for the judgement
he must bring.
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But the truth
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is imperative.
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A critic must be cold
and perfectly alone.
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(TYPEWRITER BELL DINGS)
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Only the greats
are remembered.
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(SHIP'S HORN BLARES)
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I must tell you,
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when you go to the theatre,
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in the dramas presented,
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you'll find many a murderer
with cold blood.
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(HUMS)
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But do take notice
of the occasional killer
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- with a conscience.
- (WATER SPLASHING)
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(CHARCOAL SCRATCHING)
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I shall need
two more sessions.
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Can you find the time?
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For immortality, who wouldn't?
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(CHUCKLES)
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(LIGHT CRACKLES)
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(PEACOCK CALLING IN DISTANCE)
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You vicious old bastard.
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(FOOTSTEPS CRUNCHING
ON GRAVEL)
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My father enjoyed
indulging this newspaper.
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But times are harder now.
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We're going to have
to economise
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across all departments,
I'm afraid.
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However, if we trim the fat,
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we can restore The Chronicle
to its rightful place
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as the most read family
newspaper in the country.
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So…
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let's resume our mission
with renewed vigour, eh?
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MAN: No more
inexplicable expenses.
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No more long lunches.
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No late copy.
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He's dragging the paper
into the 20th century.
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- How dare he.
- (BOTH CHUCKLE)
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MAN: Be warned.
MAN 2: Hmm?
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Watch your backs.
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He won't come
after the old guard.
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- We are the bloody paper!
- (SNICKERS)
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He won't have pirates
on board.
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We must all show loyalty
to the cause.
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The sole historical cause
of The Chronicle
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is to compete for readers
with the Daily fucking Mail.
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- MAN: Mm-hmm.
- Fascists.
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Loyalty!
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I've been with
this festering organ 40 years!
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Forty-three.
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Hmm.
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Mm.
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He should show loyalty to us.
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He's Robespierre in a top hat.
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- (ALL CHUCKLE)
- Madame la Guillotine, salut!
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Nh, don't, Jim.
Don't, you're plastered.
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- Stephen.
- Good afternoon.
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Oh.
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David.
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Viscount Brooke, I should say.
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My condolences again.
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We all adored your father.
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Thank you.
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I remember
when mine passed away.
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He was an insignificant man,
but his absence was profound.
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(CHUCKLES DRUNKENLY)
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You know,
your father gave me the job
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right here in the club.
(CHUCKLES)
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Over, er, lunch… No, dinner.
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And he squeezed
my young cheeks,
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and, "Jimmy,
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"I hereby anoint you
my chief drama critic."
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(CHUCKLES)
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Hmm.
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Working tonight?
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The White Devil.
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Best seen sober, I suspect.
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Not necessarily.
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MAN: That is the half,
Mr Cooper.
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That is the half.
Thirty minutes.
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Half an hour,
ladies and gents.
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- (INDISTINCT TALKING)
- Half an hour, Mrs Reverly.
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- Half an hour. Half an hour.
- All right, Lennie.
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LENNIE: Tell him half.
Half an hour, Miss Land.
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- Fuck off, Lennie.
- I'll do my best.
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WOMAN: Excuse me.
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(SIGHS) I'm too old for this.
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From your secret admirer.
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- Who is he, Miss?
- Oh, it's a mystery.
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I could travel to the Orkneys
and act in a stable,
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two dozen white roses would
appear on the first night.
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Have them.
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"Unto my lord the duke,
The best of welcome.
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"More lights!
Attend the duke."
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(GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING)
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TOM: I'm in the mood
for Jacobean tragedy.
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Not often I say that.
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JIMMY: Done badly, this play
could drive a nun to arson.
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MAN 1: Mr Erskine?
MAN 2: Mr Erskine?
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LENNIE: Five minutes,
White Devil company.
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That's the five.
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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
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You will be a sensation.
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Don't expect a good notice
in The Chronicle.
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At least,
not for my performance.
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Jimmy Erskine's
never liked me.
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Well, tonight,
the beast will experience
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- a Damascene conversion.
- (EXHALES)
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Ready? Have courage.
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(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)
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"Unto my lord the duke,
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"The best of welcome.
More lights."
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Where's Mr Erskine?
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(WHISPERS) Over there.
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How's his portrait
coming along?
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(IN NORMAL VOICE) Quite well.
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His face is more interesting
than his opinions.
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(SCOFFS) I love him.
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He's gutsy.
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Viscount at one o'clock.
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JIMMY: Shame his lady wife
never attends.
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Perhaps she's got
a prior engagement
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with a keg of lithium.
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(BOTH SNICKER)
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(MYSTERIOUS MUSIC FADES IN)
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Your best of rest.
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Unto my lord the duke,
The best of welcome.
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Attend the duke.
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- (STIFLED LAUGHTER)
- More lights!
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- Flamineo.
- FLAMINEO: My lord.
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Quite lost, Flamineo.
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(JIMMY GROANS SOFTLY)
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Now to the act of blood.
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There's but three Furies
found in spacious hell…
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(DIALOGUE MUTED)
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(INHALES, EXHALES DEEPLY)
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(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)
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(WOMAN CLEARS THROAT)
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I think I prefer this play
to his other one.
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- His other one?
- Well, his other famous one.
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Duchess of Malta.
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- Malfi.
- Oh, yes!
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(LAUGHING) Duchess of Malfi.
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Jew of Malta.
Duchess of Malfi.
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Same era, though.
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Webster is Jacobean.
Marlowe, Elizabethan.
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Oh, a slightly pedantic
distinction.
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It's the correct one.
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Well, I'm sure we can agree
on tonight's performance
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thus far.
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I… I just adore Nina Land.
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She's such
a mercurial actress.
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I'm… I'm…
I'm sure you'll be
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dipping that famous nib
in nectar tonight.
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(CHUCKLES NERVOUSLY)
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No need for the prussic acid.
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- (LAUGHS NERVOUSLY)
- Excuse me.
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Meadows! (GRUNTS)
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Will you remove
that lunatic baggage?
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I'm so sorry, Mr Erskine.
What seems to be the problem?
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Ah, no, not "seems".
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She invaded my table,
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she besieged me
with her opinions,
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and stole my nuts!
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I must have silence!
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I must be protected
from the general public!
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Move her, move her.
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(LOUDY) Run!
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(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)
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O, happy they
who never saw the court,
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Nor ever knew great man
but by report.
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- (GRUNTS)
- I recover,
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like a spent taper…
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- (TENSE MUSIC PLAYS)
- … for a flash.
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But instantly go out.
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The rack, the gallows,
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- and the torturing wheel…
- (JIMMY SIGHS)
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… shall be but sound sleeps
to me.
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Here's my rest,
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I limb'd this night-piece
and it was my best.
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GIOVANNI: Remove the bodies.
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See my honoured lord.
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Let guilty men remember
their black deeds
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Do lean on crutches
made of slender reeds.
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(APPLAUSE)
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JIMMY: No…
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Replace with, er, "succubus".
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(MUMBLES) Cut all that shit.
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- This shit?
- No, that shit.
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Oh.
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There is no "e"
in "somnambulant".
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There never has been,
God help us, never will be.
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(HUMS)
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Change "damp squib" to…
(INHALES)
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"wet blanket". No, no. Help?
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- Er, "sopping"?
- Perfect, yes.
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No, "sodden". Yes. (CHUCKLES)
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All right, get typing.
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"Sodden".
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BOY: That was the longest play
in the world.
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WOMAN:
Longer than life itself.
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- BOY: How long is life?
- Endless.
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As long as you eat
your vegetables.
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(BOY CHUCKLES)
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GIRL: Wasn't Nina Land
the greatest?
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She's magical.
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You should paint her.
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STEPHEN: Mm.
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I think you've got secrets.
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STEPHEN: You're very direct.
GIRL: You raised me to be.
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STEPHEN: True.
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But I don't.
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GIRL: I wouldn't mind
if you did.
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Not if she makes you happy.
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I love your mother. (EXHALES)
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Said unconvincingly.
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STEPHEN: Your father
seemed to enjoy it.
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STEPHEN'S WIFE: Mm.
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Brutal play.
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- Mm.
- Extraordinary.
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All that wailing and gnashing.
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You are aware it was written
in the early 17th century?
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I had gleaned it.
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People don't wail and gnash
nowadays.
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- Well, we don't.
- Well, if we don't…
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I mean, we are representative
of everyone.
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Oh, must you?
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(SIGHS)
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(SOFT CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING)
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JIMMY: All right,
come on, Tom, hurry up.
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Ah, thank you.
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"The Duke of Bracciano's
steatopygous form"?
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From the Greek.
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"Excessive flesh
on the buttocks."
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I doubt our readers
are familiar with the word.
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I doubt our readers can read.
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Change it, please.
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Replace with "fat-arsed".
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(CHATTER AND LAUGHTER)
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You can't leave
the bloody party!
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Sorry. Exhausted.
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The producers tell me
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the vibrations
are extremely positive.
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It's opening night.
257
00:14:23,530 --> 00:14:24,990
We're a hit!
258
00:14:25,073 --> 00:14:27,158
Even the beast
gave me the nod.
259
00:14:27,242 --> 00:14:29,578
Caught my eye
as he scarpered up the aisle.
260
00:14:29,661 --> 00:14:31,997
Hmm. Probably thinking
of all the vile things
261
00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:33,498
he'll say about me.
262
00:14:34,374 --> 00:14:36,710
Well, if you can't
enjoy the moment,
263
00:14:37,460 --> 00:14:39,588
you'd best fuck off. Hmm.
264
00:14:41,464 --> 00:14:43,341
Love you! (BLOWS KISS)
265
00:14:46,928 --> 00:14:49,180
(FAINT PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
266
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MAN: A word of advice.
267
00:15:15,540 --> 00:15:18,043
Brooke told me it's the best
thing he's seen all season.
268
00:15:20,795 --> 00:15:23,131
But he's not
the paper's drama critic.
269
00:15:23,882 --> 00:15:25,133
Not yet.
270
00:15:26,968 --> 00:15:28,762
What do you know?
271
00:15:32,474 --> 00:15:34,434
He's begun culling
the old lags.
272
00:15:35,602 --> 00:15:36,811
And he's not so keen on you.
273
00:15:37,604 --> 00:15:39,314
Nor does he like your…
274
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proclivities.
275
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Family paper.
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Be careful.
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00:15:52,202 --> 00:15:55,038
(MIDNIGHT, THE STARS AND YOU
BY AL BOWLLY PLAYING)
278
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♪ Midnight
with the stars and you ♪
279
00:16:27,570 --> 00:16:29,614
- ♪ Midnight ♪
- (WHISTLING)
280
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♪ And a rendezvous ♪
281
00:16:34,411 --> 00:16:39,833
♪ Your eyes
held a message tender ♪
282
00:16:39,916 --> 00:16:42,919
♪ Saying, "I surrender ♪
283
00:16:43,545 --> 00:16:47,090
♪ "All my love to you" ♪
284
00:16:47,173 --> 00:16:49,342
- (POLICE ALARM BELL RINGING)
- Raid! Get down.
285
00:16:49,426 --> 00:16:51,094
POLICEMAN: Stop there!
286
00:16:51,177 --> 00:16:53,555
(DOGS BARKING)
287
00:16:53,638 --> 00:16:56,099
MAN: Get off! Get off me!
288
00:16:57,267 --> 00:16:59,102
POLICEMAN: And you,
you little pansy, come here!
289
00:16:59,185 --> 00:17:01,187
(SONG CONTINUES PLAYING)
290
00:17:02,689 --> 00:17:05,650
♪ I'll be remembering you ♪
291
00:17:05,734 --> 00:17:08,778
♪ Whatever else I do ♪
292
00:17:09,529 --> 00:17:11,656
♪ Midnight ♪
293
00:17:11,740 --> 00:17:14,159
♪ With the stars and you ♪
294
00:17:14,242 --> 00:17:16,619
- (KNOCK AT DOOR)
- No baths after 10:00.
295
00:17:16,703 --> 00:17:17,746
NINA: Sorry!
296
00:17:17,829 --> 00:17:20,290
Well, turn the taps off before
you wake the whole house.
297
00:17:21,624 --> 00:17:24,002
- (SONG ENDS)
- (BIRDS CHIRPING)
298
00:17:28,840 --> 00:17:31,384
(MUFFLED VOICES ARGUING
AND BABY CRYING)
299
00:17:33,511 --> 00:17:34,763
(SIGHS HEAVILY)
300
00:17:36,347 --> 00:17:37,640
NINA: Thank you.
301
00:17:53,948 --> 00:17:55,033
(SIGHS)
302
00:18:08,087 --> 00:18:12,050
JIMMY: The vamping
and shrieking Miss Nina Land
303
00:18:12,133 --> 00:18:16,596
attempts Vittoria with all
the grace of a startled mule.
304
00:18:17,430 --> 00:18:21,684
There's not a single moment
of stillness nor subtlety.
305
00:18:22,727 --> 00:18:25,438
After three long hours,
306
00:18:25,522 --> 00:18:28,733
when Miss Land finally,
blessedly, expires,
307
00:18:29,275 --> 00:18:32,570
her death is akin
to a deflated dirigible.
308
00:18:38,243 --> 00:18:40,870
- (PHONE RINGING)
- (CHEWING LOUDLY)
309
00:18:42,372 --> 00:18:44,207
(KNOCK AT DOOR)
310
00:18:44,290 --> 00:18:45,625
LANDLADY: Miss Land?
311
00:18:47,669 --> 00:18:48,962
Visitor!
312
00:18:51,172 --> 00:18:53,675
(GROANS) It's a disaster.
He's so important.
313
00:18:53,758 --> 00:18:55,468
- NINA: I know.
- (SIGHS)
314
00:18:55,552 --> 00:18:57,095
What did you think?
315
00:18:57,679 --> 00:18:59,055
Last night?
316
00:19:00,265 --> 00:19:02,809
Well, I… I told you.
I… I raved.
317
00:19:02,892 --> 00:19:04,018
But?
318
00:19:04,727 --> 00:19:06,688
I'm your most
ardent supporter.
319
00:19:06,771 --> 00:19:08,064
- It's irrelevant.
- Mum.
320
00:19:08,147 --> 00:19:09,774
Well, I thought you were
a touch too florid
321
00:19:09,858 --> 00:19:11,693
with your hands. You know…
322
00:19:12,110 --> 00:19:14,028
And… And you pushed a bit…
323
00:19:14,112 --> 00:19:15,572
bit too hard at times.
324
00:19:15,655 --> 00:19:18,616
But you looked striking.
325
00:19:20,326 --> 00:19:21,494
And…
326
00:19:22,412 --> 00:19:24,122
You were very audible.
327
00:19:24,205 --> 00:19:27,917
I mean, every syllable,
clear as a bell.
328
00:19:28,001 --> 00:19:29,168
(SCOFFS)
329
00:19:29,252 --> 00:19:34,090
Nina, you're 30…
oomph years old,
330
00:19:34,173 --> 00:19:35,216
you're a spinster,
331
00:19:35,300 --> 00:19:38,386
you're living in a squalid
one little room.
332
00:19:38,469 --> 00:19:40,889
I mean,
life is passing you by.
333
00:19:40,972 --> 00:19:43,892
- I'm perfectly content.
- Well, you're patently not.
334
00:19:53,026 --> 00:19:54,235
You should talk to him.
335
00:19:55,111 --> 00:19:56,613
We don't talk to critics.
336
00:19:57,238 --> 00:19:58,406
It's not the done thing.
337
00:19:58,489 --> 00:20:01,492
- Confront him and have it out.
- You're bloody mad!
338
00:20:01,576 --> 00:20:04,454
Deal with the odious man
before he insults you again.
339
00:20:04,537 --> 00:20:06,789
You've got 10 days
before you open Twelfth Night.
340
00:20:06,873 --> 00:20:08,499
Do it now!
341
00:20:08,583 --> 00:20:10,001
I wish you'd stop meddling.
342
00:20:10,084 --> 00:20:11,127
I'm not meddling.
343
00:20:12,754 --> 00:20:13,922
I'm mothering.
344
00:20:15,214 --> 00:20:17,467
(SUSPENSEFUL CLASSICAL
MUSIC PLAYING)
345
00:20:18,843 --> 00:20:19,969
(DOOR SHUTS)
346
00:20:28,269 --> 00:20:29,646
(SIGHS)
347
00:20:54,295 --> 00:20:55,713
No, no, no.
348
00:21:03,846 --> 00:21:06,641
(BREATHLESSLY)
What do you require from me?
349
00:21:06,724 --> 00:21:08,059
I have
a very important meeting.
350
00:21:08,142 --> 00:21:09,143
Please make it brief.
351
00:21:09,227 --> 00:21:11,020
- I want an apology.
- (SCOFFS)
352
00:21:11,104 --> 00:21:12,355
For expressing my opinion?
353
00:21:12,438 --> 00:21:14,148
For the manner
of its expression.
354
00:21:14,232 --> 00:21:15,900
The rudeness, the disrespect.
355
00:21:15,984 --> 00:21:18,736
One of my many solemn duties
is to entertain the reader.
356
00:21:18,820 --> 00:21:20,154
At my expense?
357
00:21:20,238 --> 00:21:21,698
Well, it's not just you,
is it?
358
00:21:22,281 --> 00:21:24,701
I write, what,
half a million words a year?
359
00:21:24,784 --> 00:21:28,287
Oh, mea culpa
if 12 of them offended you.
360
00:21:28,371 --> 00:21:30,415
Over the last 10 years,
361
00:21:30,498 --> 00:21:32,583
you've compared me
to livestock,
362
00:21:32,667 --> 00:21:34,836
creatures of the sea,
and an extinct bird.
363
00:21:34,919 --> 00:21:38,172
You've said my voice
is "fluting", "grating",
364
00:21:38,256 --> 00:21:40,008
"girlish" and "manly".
365
00:21:40,091 --> 00:21:42,844
You've described me as plump
and emaciated.
366
00:21:42,927 --> 00:21:44,470
Which is it, damn you?
367
00:21:44,554 --> 00:21:48,558
Last season, "Her Mrs Elvestad
is glamourous but ungainly.
368
00:21:48,641 --> 00:21:50,101
"She doesn't seem to know
how to walk."
369
00:21:50,184 --> 00:21:51,436
How to walk?
370
00:21:51,519 --> 00:21:53,563
You've been dishing it out
to me for a decade
371
00:21:53,646 --> 00:21:55,356
and now it's going to stop.
372
00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:57,108
Oh, are you retiring?
373
00:21:57,191 --> 00:21:59,068
Oh, I'm tight enough
to scratch your eyes out!
374
00:21:59,152 --> 00:22:00,570
Oh, I wouldn't try.
375
00:22:00,653 --> 00:22:02,280
You stand before
the junior vice-captain
376
00:22:02,363 --> 00:22:03,364
of the Wigan Boxing Club.
377
00:22:03,448 --> 00:22:05,074
You all right, Miss?
He's a bit weird, this one.
378
00:22:05,158 --> 00:22:06,743
This is
a private conversation.
379
00:22:06,826 --> 00:22:07,827
Weird?
380
00:22:07,910 --> 00:22:09,412
Oh, be a good chap
and bugger off.
381
00:22:09,495 --> 00:22:10,621
The lady's perfectly safe.
382
00:22:10,705 --> 00:22:12,790
Oh… Oh, tell.
383
00:22:13,583 --> 00:22:14,584
(WHISPERS) Please.
384
00:22:14,667 --> 00:22:16,044
MAN: He likes it rough.
385
00:22:17,503 --> 00:22:18,921
NINA: Does he, now?
386
00:22:28,097 --> 00:22:29,557
Apologise.
387
00:22:31,017 --> 00:22:32,310
I won't, Miss Land.
388
00:22:32,393 --> 00:22:35,021
I will fight to the death
for freedom of thought
389
00:22:35,104 --> 00:22:37,190
and its public expression.
390
00:22:37,273 --> 00:22:39,442
"Erskine of The Chronicle
391
00:22:39,525 --> 00:22:42,320
"pays trade for rough sex."
392
00:22:42,403 --> 00:22:44,030
(SIGHS)
393
00:22:44,113 --> 00:22:45,531
Why do you like that?
394
00:22:46,282 --> 00:22:48,076
I daresay you can imagine.
395
00:22:49,035 --> 00:22:50,953
You spoke it last night.
396
00:22:52,830 --> 00:22:55,541
"My soul,
like a ship in a black storm,
397
00:22:56,167 --> 00:22:58,211
"Is driven,
I know not whither."
398
00:23:00,797 --> 00:23:02,423
Humiliation.
399
00:23:03,257 --> 00:23:04,509
Danger.
400
00:23:08,429 --> 00:23:10,515
I think you understand.
401
00:23:11,349 --> 00:23:13,601
(PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
402
00:23:13,684 --> 00:23:15,728
Don't take
what I write to heart.
403
00:23:15,812 --> 00:23:18,106
There are other critics,
albeit lesser ones,
404
00:23:18,189 --> 00:23:19,732
who think you're spectacular.
405
00:23:19,816 --> 00:23:21,776
I'm not interested in them.
406
00:23:21,859 --> 00:23:24,237
- I follow you.
- Me? (SCOFFS)
407
00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:26,030
I'm a monster, I'm weird.
408
00:23:26,114 --> 00:23:27,365
You most certainly are.
409
00:23:28,199 --> 00:23:31,035
But I grew up reading you.
410
00:23:31,744 --> 00:23:33,913
I wanted to act
because of you.
411
00:23:34,372 --> 00:23:35,832
You're mocking me.
412
00:23:37,458 --> 00:23:38,835
You formed me.
413
00:23:40,962 --> 00:23:42,046
Well…
414
00:23:43,214 --> 00:23:46,008
that's a terribly flattering
thing to say.
415
00:23:46,634 --> 00:23:49,262
You write so tenderly and…
and passionately
416
00:23:49,345 --> 00:23:51,639
about the plays
and the actors who move you.
417
00:23:52,473 --> 00:23:56,185
And yet you dismiss those who
disappoint you so ruthlessly.
418
00:23:57,478 --> 00:23:59,397
As if you've been betrayed.
419
00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:03,776
This little England lowers
its standards every day.
420
00:24:04,986 --> 00:24:06,320
In my footling way,
421
00:24:06,404 --> 00:24:08,322
I'm attempting
to maintain them.
422
00:24:08,406 --> 00:24:10,908
I so wanted
to meet your standards.
423
00:24:12,577 --> 00:24:14,287
But you think I'm appalling?
424
00:24:17,957 --> 00:24:19,709
I'm afraid so.
425
00:24:19,792 --> 00:24:21,544
(SIGHS)
426
00:24:21,627 --> 00:24:23,045
I might dissolve.
427
00:24:26,799 --> 00:24:29,010
There is art in you,
Miss Land.
428
00:24:30,011 --> 00:24:34,182
My disappointment is
in your failure to access it.
429
00:24:36,893 --> 00:24:38,686
You know where I live.
430
00:24:39,812 --> 00:24:41,981
You may visit if you wish.
431
00:24:51,282 --> 00:24:53,492
- (PHONES RINGING)
- (INDISTINCT CHATTERING)
432
00:24:55,244 --> 00:24:57,121
Dorothy. (SNIFFS)
433
00:25:03,628 --> 00:25:05,546
Joan! Good afternoon.
434
00:25:05,630 --> 00:25:06,756
Jimmy.
435
00:25:08,132 --> 00:25:09,550
(SOFTLY) Yes.
436
00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:19,936
MAN: Good luck.
(SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)
437
00:25:29,904 --> 00:25:32,531
La commedia è finita.
438
00:25:39,872 --> 00:25:41,165
(DOOR OPENS)
439
00:25:43,042 --> 00:25:44,085
Jimmy.
440
00:25:45,878 --> 00:25:47,255
(SIGHS LOUDLY)
441
00:25:48,422 --> 00:25:49,757
Tone it down.
442
00:25:54,762 --> 00:25:56,597
(PEN SCRATCHING ON PAPER)
443
00:26:01,477 --> 00:26:03,813
Er, what exactly?
444
00:26:05,690 --> 00:26:07,275
The unpleasantness.
445
00:26:07,900 --> 00:26:09,402
The extravagance.
446
00:26:10,945 --> 00:26:12,530
Less.
447
00:26:12,613 --> 00:26:14,949
C… Could you be
more specific?
448
00:26:15,032 --> 00:26:17,243
In order that I may obey.
449
00:26:22,206 --> 00:26:23,791
(CLEARS THROAT)
"Warning. Hold your breath
450
00:26:23,874 --> 00:26:25,251
"as you pass
the Duke's Theatre
451
00:26:25,334 --> 00:26:27,420
"for here is untreated
theatrical sewage.
452
00:26:28,963 --> 00:26:30,298
"A play of elemental passion
453
00:26:30,381 --> 00:26:33,134
"has been reduced to the scale
of a sodden sock."
454
00:26:35,094 --> 00:26:38,764
Well, it's my responsibility
to discourage our readers from
455
00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:41,809
wasting their wages on tripe.
456
00:26:41,892 --> 00:26:43,394
Never mind all that.
457
00:26:44,145 --> 00:26:46,897
We're discussing
the extremity of your style.
458
00:26:46,981 --> 00:26:50,192
But that's why people read me,
you know.
459
00:26:50,985 --> 00:26:53,821
I wither and I effuse.
460
00:26:55,072 --> 00:26:57,783
And the proud tradition
of this paper,
461
00:26:57,867 --> 00:27:00,286
established
by your dear father…
462
00:27:00,369 --> 00:27:01,912
Yes, I know
he was fond of you.
463
00:27:01,996 --> 00:27:03,748
He was also fond
of Sir Oswald Mosley.
464
00:27:03,831 --> 00:27:06,167
You can't compare me with him.
465
00:27:06,250 --> 00:27:08,627
Anyone who threatens the
reputation of this newspaper
466
00:27:08,711 --> 00:27:09,795
is an undesirable.
467
00:27:09,879 --> 00:27:11,672
Oh, so it's a witch hunt?
468
00:27:11,756 --> 00:27:12,798
Jim!
469
00:27:13,424 --> 00:27:14,800
Don't break the law.
470
00:27:15,509 --> 00:27:17,094
Don't cause a stink.
471
00:27:18,763 --> 00:27:20,056
Be kinder.
472
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:23,809
More beauty, less beast.
473
00:27:24,602 --> 00:27:25,936
Final warning.
474
00:27:28,189 --> 00:27:29,523
NINA: Stay.
475
00:27:30,358 --> 00:27:33,444
If I think so,
I think the same of you.
476
00:27:33,527 --> 00:27:36,280
Think thou right.
I am not what I am.
477
00:27:37,114 --> 00:27:39,450
I… I would you…
478
00:27:39,533 --> 00:27:40,534
Yes?
479
00:27:40,618 --> 00:27:41,619
"Were as I would have you be."
480
00:27:41,702 --> 00:27:42,703
Were as I would…
481
00:27:42,787 --> 00:27:44,372
would you were
as I would have you be.
482
00:27:44,455 --> 00:27:45,873
Break them.
483
00:27:45,956 --> 00:27:47,583
Lunch, everyone.
That's lunch, please.
484
00:27:47,666 --> 00:27:49,210
Back in an hour. Thank you.
485
00:27:50,795 --> 00:27:53,005
We must all get over
that review
486
00:27:53,089 --> 00:27:54,882
and focus on this show.
487
00:27:54,965 --> 00:27:57,593
- I know my lines.
- I know you know them.
488
00:27:57,676 --> 00:27:59,261
Why can't you say them?
489
00:27:59,345 --> 00:28:00,846
- I am.
- Heavily.
490
00:28:00,930 --> 00:28:02,390
Where's the lightness?
491
00:28:02,473 --> 00:28:04,266
- Where's the wit?
- (SNAPS FINGERS)
492
00:28:05,684 --> 00:28:06,685
(SIGHS)
493
00:28:06,769 --> 00:28:08,479
(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)
494
00:28:24,662 --> 00:28:26,163
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
495
00:28:26,956 --> 00:28:28,624
I'm going mad without you.
496
00:28:31,293 --> 00:28:33,212
Hello.
Could you tell her I miss her?
497
00:28:34,380 --> 00:28:35,381
Could you tell him
498
00:28:35,464 --> 00:28:36,674
he's married
with two children?
499
00:28:39,802 --> 00:28:40,845
STEPHEN: Please.
500
00:28:42,596 --> 00:28:43,764
Thank you.
501
00:28:44,682 --> 00:28:47,059
- Nina…
- I'm in rehearsals.
502
00:28:47,143 --> 00:28:49,437
I'm being dreadful,
and we open in two days.
503
00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:51,313
As we discussed at length,
504
00:28:51,397 --> 00:28:53,441
I won't be your mistress
any more.
505
00:28:54,900 --> 00:28:56,360
We were lovers.
506
00:28:59,238 --> 00:29:00,739
You were my lover.
507
00:29:03,325 --> 00:29:04,827
Go home to your family.
508
00:29:10,458 --> 00:29:11,959
(LIVELY JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING)
509
00:29:12,042 --> 00:29:13,794
MEN: More! More!
510
00:29:13,878 --> 00:29:15,671
… well, I say…
511
00:29:15,754 --> 00:29:18,090
- More!
- MEN: More!
512
00:29:18,174 --> 00:29:21,260
(DRUNKEN INDISTINCT CHANTING)
513
00:29:22,136 --> 00:29:23,679
(LAUGHTER)
514
00:29:23,762 --> 00:29:25,514
JIMMY:
If I can't write freely,
515
00:29:25,598 --> 00:29:26,849
I can't write at all.
516
00:29:28,142 --> 00:29:30,811
- Don't resign.
- Well, there's no need.
517
00:29:30,895 --> 00:29:33,772
(CHUCKLES) He'll be rid of me
as soon as he finds an excuse.
518
00:29:33,856 --> 00:29:34,857
Oh.
519
00:29:35,608 --> 00:29:37,776
(SLURRED)
I am on the scaffold,
520
00:29:37,860 --> 00:29:40,029
black cloth bag over my head
521
00:29:40,112 --> 00:29:43,699
and the frigid fart's
just fumbling for the lever.
522
00:29:43,782 --> 00:29:45,576
(MEN LAUGH)
523
00:29:45,659 --> 00:29:46,660
TOM: We should turn back.
524
00:29:46,744 --> 00:29:48,662
JIMMY: They don't
own the streets.
525
00:29:48,746 --> 00:29:49,788
Not yet.
526
00:29:49,872 --> 00:29:52,333
We have the right
to walk here.
527
00:29:52,958 --> 00:29:55,169
- Come on.
- Well, I'm turning back.
528
00:29:55,252 --> 00:29:57,129
- Let go.
- No!
529
00:29:57,922 --> 00:29:59,882
(MEN CHATTERING)
530
00:30:05,304 --> 00:30:06,305
All right?
531
00:30:07,264 --> 00:30:09,433
Oh, yes. How are you?
532
00:30:10,017 --> 00:30:12,228
- I'm all right.
- I'm so glad.
533
00:30:15,648 --> 00:30:17,066
Who's your friend, then?
534
00:30:17,149 --> 00:30:19,860
I'll tell you about mine
if you tell me about yours.
535
00:30:19,944 --> 00:30:21,904
(GROUP CHUCKLES)
536
00:30:24,615 --> 00:30:26,909
Tell your friend to go home.
537
00:30:27,409 --> 00:30:28,702
Oh, but I'm taking him home.
538
00:30:28,786 --> 00:30:30,287
He lives in this environ.
539
00:30:32,081 --> 00:30:33,541
You're a cheeky old queer,
ain't ya?
540
00:30:34,583 --> 00:30:38,921
May I return the compliment
and say how splendid you look
541
00:30:39,004 --> 00:30:41,298
with your badges and crests
542
00:30:41,382 --> 00:30:43,342
and crisp black shirt?
543
00:30:43,425 --> 00:30:45,052
Did you iron it yourself?
544
00:30:45,761 --> 00:30:47,638
- Getcha! Go on!
- (GROUP LAUGHS)
545
00:30:47,721 --> 00:30:49,974
- (MOCKING LAUGHTER)
- MAN 2: Go on, now!
546
00:30:50,933 --> 00:30:53,394
JIMMY: Stop it! (LAUGHING)
547
00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:56,897
I'm… I'm gonna die!
548
00:30:56,981 --> 00:30:58,274
You could've got us killed!
549
00:30:58,857 --> 00:31:00,776
Oh, don't be silly.
550
00:31:00,859 --> 00:31:02,444
They could've killed us.
551
00:31:02,528 --> 00:31:06,156
Nobody gets murdered
in Bloomsbury. (LAUGHS)
552
00:31:07,575 --> 00:31:09,785
You're a maniac
with a death wish.
553
00:31:09,868 --> 00:31:11,620
It's true!
554
00:31:11,704 --> 00:31:12,913
(JIMMY GRUNTS)
555
00:31:13,539 --> 00:31:15,207
Stop that now.
556
00:31:15,291 --> 00:31:19,086
He who lives in fear
dies of shame.
557
00:31:20,337 --> 00:31:21,755
Who said that?
558
00:31:21,839 --> 00:31:24,258
Me. Just now.
559
00:31:24,341 --> 00:31:26,677
Just scribble it down
for the memoirs.
560
00:31:27,511 --> 00:31:31,807
I will never let anything bad
happen to you.
561
00:31:34,852 --> 00:31:35,853
MAN: (IN DISTANCE) Oi!
562
00:31:35,936 --> 00:31:36,979
TOM: There's police
on the way.
563
00:31:37,062 --> 00:31:39,690
- Oh, sod the law!
- Quiet!
564
00:31:39,773 --> 00:31:42,276
Home's this way. Oh! Oh, fuck!
565
00:31:42,359 --> 00:31:45,070
- (WHISTLE BLOWING)
- (JIMMY LAUGHING)
566
00:31:47,197 --> 00:31:49,617
Please get up.
We have to move.
567
00:31:49,700 --> 00:31:51,910
- Give me a kiss and I will.
- Oh, get up!
568
00:31:51,994 --> 00:31:54,705
Kiss me, you gorgeous bastard.
569
00:31:54,788 --> 00:31:57,207
- And then you'll get up?
- Yes.
570
00:31:58,751 --> 00:32:01,045
- (WHISTLE BLOWS)
- (MEN CLAMOURING)
571
00:32:01,128 --> 00:32:03,380
That's it, you filthy queers!
572
00:32:03,464 --> 00:32:05,090
Get hold of him.
573
00:32:05,174 --> 00:32:07,009
Get up, you dirty old sod!
574
00:32:08,719 --> 00:32:09,887
(GROANS)
575
00:32:09,970 --> 00:32:11,180
- (DOOR SLAMS)
- OFFICER 1: Round!
576
00:32:11,263 --> 00:32:12,806
OFFICER 2:
I'll check 'em for lipstick.
577
00:32:27,696 --> 00:32:30,032
(FOOTSTEPS RECEDING)
578
00:32:30,115 --> 00:32:31,575
MAN: Are you a homosexual?
579
00:32:33,285 --> 00:32:34,828
No.
580
00:32:37,081 --> 00:32:39,833
Have you ever engaged
in unnatural practices?
581
00:32:40,584 --> 00:32:41,585
No.
582
00:32:43,962 --> 00:32:46,507
Your young friend,
Thomas Turner,
583
00:32:47,549 --> 00:32:49,134
claims he's your secretary.
584
00:32:49,927 --> 00:32:51,595
What are his duties?
585
00:32:51,679 --> 00:32:53,514
(MUFFLED SHOUTING)
586
00:32:54,390 --> 00:32:57,184
Typing, filing, research.
587
00:32:58,686 --> 00:33:01,230
- And does he do shorthand?
- (OFFICER SNICKERS)
588
00:33:01,313 --> 00:33:02,523
(MAN TUTS)
589
00:33:04,024 --> 00:33:06,360
Is he a proficient secretary?
590
00:33:06,985 --> 00:33:09,405
- He is first-rate.
- First-rate?
591
00:33:14,576 --> 00:33:17,287
You seem surprised
by his competence.
592
00:33:19,498 --> 00:33:21,750
Is it due to
the colour of his skin?
593
00:33:23,252 --> 00:33:26,422
Is it correct that you
co-habit with your secretary?
594
00:33:28,465 --> 00:33:29,550
He's my lodger.
595
00:33:32,094 --> 00:33:33,721
Do you share a bedroom?
596
00:33:33,804 --> 00:33:34,972
No.
597
00:33:36,348 --> 00:33:38,058
He sleeps on the sofa.
598
00:33:38,976 --> 00:33:41,770
How long has he been
sleeping on your sofa?
599
00:33:42,688 --> 00:33:43,981
Six years.
600
00:33:44,940 --> 00:33:47,067
- How's his back bearing up?
- (OFFICER SNICKERS)
601
00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:50,738
Where'd you find him,
Mr Erskine?
602
00:33:51,447 --> 00:33:53,657
- Was he trade?
- No!
603
00:33:55,367 --> 00:33:57,870
I understand
you enjoy the theatre.
604
00:33:58,912 --> 00:34:01,331
I do not enjoy the theatre.
605
00:34:01,415 --> 00:34:04,293
I'm the chief drama critic
of The Daily Chronicle.
606
00:34:04,376 --> 00:34:06,003
(DOOR UNLOCKS)
607
00:34:06,837 --> 00:34:08,255
(WHISPERS)
His lawyer's here, sir.
608
00:34:11,341 --> 00:34:12,926
(DOOR LOCKS SHUT)
609
00:34:13,802 --> 00:34:16,555
Lambert, thank you.
610
00:34:17,973 --> 00:34:20,100
The police were in the mood
to charge you.
611
00:34:20,184 --> 00:34:21,226
JIMMY: Hmm.
612
00:34:21,310 --> 00:34:23,061
I had to tell Brooke.
613
00:34:23,145 --> 00:34:25,314
Needed him to pull strings.
614
00:34:25,397 --> 00:34:26,815
(JIMMY GROANS)
615
00:34:28,025 --> 00:34:30,027
- Had to, Jim.
- Yeah.
616
00:34:30,736 --> 00:34:32,279
Can't have you two
going to prison.
617
00:34:32,362 --> 00:34:33,363
(CHUCKLES)
618
00:34:37,826 --> 00:34:39,578
Dorothy.
619
00:34:41,163 --> 00:34:42,873
- Terms.
- JIMMY: Uh-huh.
620
00:34:42,956 --> 00:34:44,583
And one month's notice.
621
00:34:50,506 --> 00:34:51,632
(SCOFFS)
622
00:34:53,258 --> 00:34:54,885
What did you expect?
623
00:34:57,095 --> 00:34:59,223
You were found committing
an indecent act
624
00:34:59,306 --> 00:35:01,141
in a public place.
625
00:35:01,225 --> 00:35:03,519
You resisted arrest and
assaulted a police officer.
626
00:35:04,311 --> 00:35:06,021
You're in full breach
of your contract.
627
00:35:08,190 --> 00:35:10,317
The terms are significantly
more generous
628
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:12,653
than those I advised
Viscount Brooke to offer.
629
00:35:18,075 --> 00:35:20,077
(CLOCK CHIMING)
630
00:35:26,875 --> 00:35:29,127
- Oh, Tom.
- TOM: Oh, Jim…
631
00:35:34,174 --> 00:35:36,468
No first nights.
632
00:35:36,552 --> 00:35:38,345
No dinners.
633
00:35:38,428 --> 00:35:39,721
No life.
634
00:35:39,805 --> 00:35:42,099
(OPERATIC MUSIC
PLAYING FAINTLY)
635
00:35:42,683 --> 00:35:44,810
I'm walking dead.
636
00:35:44,893 --> 00:35:48,230
Oh, come on. Enough self-pity.
637
00:35:49,231 --> 00:35:51,316
Well, you know my debts.
638
00:35:53,193 --> 00:35:56,071
I live like a king
on a pauper's wage.
639
00:35:57,823 --> 00:36:00,742
When the fall comes,
it'll sweep me under.
640
00:36:00,826 --> 00:36:02,327
Where's your spirit?
641
00:36:05,581 --> 00:36:06,915
Where's your fight?
642
00:36:14,172 --> 00:36:15,382
Fuck 'em!
643
00:36:18,135 --> 00:36:19,636
TOM: That's the spirit.
644
00:36:20,387 --> 00:36:21,680
(SLURPING)
645
00:36:27,644 --> 00:36:30,230
Stephen,
I'm here for my sitting.
646
00:36:30,314 --> 00:36:31,440
Oh.
647
00:36:32,566 --> 00:36:34,276
I have got the right day?
648
00:36:35,027 --> 00:36:36,361
Well, yes, but…
649
00:36:38,447 --> 00:36:40,407
Perhaps you should contact
Viscount Brooke's office.
650
00:36:48,707 --> 00:36:50,500
Are you going
to eat that chop?
651
00:36:51,376 --> 00:36:52,669
(JIMMY GRUNTS)
652
00:37:03,472 --> 00:37:04,723
How's unemployment?
653
00:37:05,933 --> 00:37:09,561
Wake at noon, hunk of bread,
mug of sherry,
654
00:37:10,479 --> 00:37:11,605
back to bed.
655
00:37:16,777 --> 00:37:18,654
Still go to the opera?
656
00:37:18,737 --> 00:37:20,072
Can't afford it.
657
00:37:26,453 --> 00:37:28,246
You must have
something on him?
658
00:37:29,498 --> 00:37:31,750
Ethos of the club.
659
00:37:31,833 --> 00:37:34,086
We don't machinate
against fellow members.
660
00:37:34,836 --> 00:37:36,672
Yes, we do.
661
00:37:37,297 --> 00:37:38,507
(SIGHS)
662
00:37:38,590 --> 00:37:40,884
Brooke is known
as a very decent fellow.
663
00:37:41,426 --> 00:37:42,928
Look how he's cared
for his bonkers bride
664
00:37:43,011 --> 00:37:44,554
all these years.
665
00:37:44,638 --> 00:37:45,931
The man's a saint.
666
00:37:47,015 --> 00:37:48,600
Don't be sloppy.
667
00:37:49,434 --> 00:37:51,228
No one is a saint.
668
00:37:52,020 --> 00:37:53,605
Literature teaches us that.
669
00:37:53,689 --> 00:37:54,856
Romeo?
670
00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:57,693
Betrays entire
Montague dynasty
671
00:37:57,776 --> 00:37:59,486
for his own selfish lust.
672
00:37:59,569 --> 00:38:01,655
- Oliver Twist.
- Class traitor.
673
00:38:02,406 --> 00:38:03,740
Causes death of Nancy.
674
00:38:04,324 --> 00:38:05,659
You're deranged.
675
00:38:08,412 --> 00:38:09,830
(SIGHS)
676
00:38:09,913 --> 00:38:13,458
All men have secrets.
677
00:38:14,751 --> 00:38:16,128
I'll find his.
678
00:38:16,837 --> 00:38:19,089
(SENTIMENTAL CLASSICAL
MUSIC PLAYING)
679
00:38:19,172 --> 00:38:22,384
ORSINO: Come, boy, my thoughts
are ripe in mischief.
680
00:38:23,343 --> 00:38:26,388
I'll sacrifice the lamb
that I do love,
681
00:38:26,471 --> 00:38:28,724
to spite a raven's heart
within a dove.
682
00:38:29,850 --> 00:38:33,228
And I, most jocund,
apt, and willingly,
683
00:38:33,311 --> 00:38:36,064
To do you rest,
a thousand deaths would die.
684
00:38:36,148 --> 00:38:38,525
(SENTIMENTAL MUSIC CONTINUES)
685
00:38:39,401 --> 00:38:41,278
(NINA BREATHES DEEPLY)
686
00:38:41,361 --> 00:38:42,362
(BELL RINGS)
687
00:38:42,446 --> 00:38:45,615
WOMAN: Fifteen minutes,
please. Back at 4:20.
688
00:38:48,243 --> 00:38:50,037
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
689
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:51,246
(DOOR BELL RINGS)
690
00:39:00,422 --> 00:39:01,757
Nina Land.
691
00:39:03,341 --> 00:39:04,843
JIMMY: What does she want?
692
00:39:05,802 --> 00:39:07,054
Sounds weepy.
693
00:39:08,889 --> 00:39:10,307
Let her in.
694
00:39:11,516 --> 00:39:13,560
Do a good deed for once, huh?
695
00:39:14,311 --> 00:39:15,604
Welcome!
696
00:39:15,687 --> 00:39:18,231
Um, I was just passing.
Sorry if it's too late.
697
00:39:18,315 --> 00:39:19,858
Oh, we receive at all hours.
698
00:39:19,941 --> 00:39:22,360
- (CHUCKLES)
- This is Tom.
699
00:39:22,444 --> 00:39:23,820
- Hello.
- Hello.
700
00:39:24,613 --> 00:39:26,198
Oh. Thank you.
701
00:39:31,328 --> 00:39:33,246
- You were an actor?
- Mm-hmm.
702
00:39:33,872 --> 00:39:35,332
For two years.
703
00:39:36,374 --> 00:39:38,251
My zenith was Laertes.
704
00:39:39,044 --> 00:39:40,504
In Dundee.
705
00:39:45,801 --> 00:39:46,802
Oh.
706
00:39:47,886 --> 00:39:49,387
JIMMY: Oscar Wilde, of course.
707
00:39:50,514 --> 00:39:53,600
I saw him once
when I was young.
708
00:39:53,683 --> 00:39:55,310
I made a pilgrimage
to the stage door
709
00:39:55,393 --> 00:39:57,938
of the Theatre Royal
and waited for hours.
710
00:39:59,231 --> 00:40:02,109
And then he appeared.
711
00:40:02,192 --> 00:40:04,653
Rolling up Suffolk Street,
quite alone…
712
00:40:06,863 --> 00:40:08,532
in the clear bright sunshine.
713
00:40:10,117 --> 00:40:11,701
A king.
714
00:40:11,785 --> 00:40:14,913
Were he to command me
to give him my body and soul
715
00:40:14,996 --> 00:40:17,833
right there, I would have
done it… (CHUCKLES)
716
00:40:19,126 --> 00:40:20,210
gratefully.
717
00:40:21,128 --> 00:40:24,297
But… (SIGHS) he swept by.
718
00:40:25,632 --> 00:40:28,385
I wasn't pretty enough
to engage his eye. Hmm.
719
00:40:37,185 --> 00:40:39,187
Henry James. (SNIFFS)
720
00:40:39,896 --> 00:40:41,731
JIMMY: Well, attributed.
721
00:40:41,815 --> 00:40:43,358
His last words.
722
00:40:44,484 --> 00:40:48,405
NINA: "So here it is at last,
the distinguished thing"?
723
00:40:49,322 --> 00:40:50,323
Death.
724
00:40:54,578 --> 00:40:57,038
Oh, forgive me. Come on.
725
00:40:57,122 --> 00:40:59,207
- Now, do sit down.
- (SOBS SOFTLY)
726
00:41:05,255 --> 00:41:07,215
Has something happened?
727
00:41:08,758 --> 00:41:10,844
(SIGHS) I've got the fear.
728
00:41:12,012 --> 00:41:13,013
Ah.
729
00:41:13,555 --> 00:41:15,223
And we open tomorrow night.
730
00:41:16,224 --> 00:41:19,352
You're the last person in the
world I should tell. (EXHALES)
731
00:41:19,436 --> 00:41:20,687
Hmm.
732
00:41:20,770 --> 00:41:23,398
Or the only one that you can,
huh?
733
00:41:28,028 --> 00:41:29,279
Drink?
734
00:41:37,913 --> 00:41:39,289
(GULPING)
735
00:41:46,588 --> 00:41:48,298
(INHALES DEEPLY)
736
00:41:48,381 --> 00:41:50,383
- (GLASS THUDS)
- (EXHALES)
737
00:41:51,801 --> 00:41:53,637
Another, hmm?
738
00:41:56,097 --> 00:41:59,476
You're too keen to please.
(CLEARS THROAT)
739
00:42:01,269 --> 00:42:03,271
Now, when an actor
tries too hard,
740
00:42:03,355 --> 00:42:06,066
it sends mustard gas
through the house.
741
00:42:07,025 --> 00:42:08,526
You have to trust.
742
00:42:08,610 --> 00:42:10,820
And it's very difficult
to trust, but…
743
00:42:13,240 --> 00:42:17,535
the courage to give
of the self entirely
744
00:42:18,703 --> 00:42:20,538
is what
all great actors share.
745
00:42:20,622 --> 00:42:24,668
I mean those with the capacity
to conjure the sublime.
746
00:42:26,253 --> 00:42:30,090
You have to trust
that we are present to you.
747
00:42:32,217 --> 00:42:35,553
That we're sensitive
to your deepest sufferings,
748
00:42:37,222 --> 00:42:40,684
your gentlest feelings,
your most intimate thoughts.
749
00:42:41,559 --> 00:42:45,563
But you must trust
that we can perceive all this
750
00:42:46,773 --> 00:42:48,400
without your help.
751
00:42:51,236 --> 00:42:52,570
Less.
752
00:42:54,906 --> 00:42:55,991
(CHUCKLES)
753
00:42:56,074 --> 00:43:00,495
It's a dagger to the soul,
but "less" is the only note.
754
00:43:04,416 --> 00:43:06,126
NINA: (AS OLIVIA)
What is your parentage?
755
00:43:06,876 --> 00:43:09,462
Above my fortunes,
yet my state is well.
756
00:43:09,546 --> 00:43:11,006
I'm a gentleman.
757
00:43:11,089 --> 00:43:13,049
I'll be sworn thou art.
758
00:43:13,133 --> 00:43:14,134
(PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
759
00:43:14,217 --> 00:43:17,012
Thy tongue, thy face,
760
00:43:17,095 --> 00:43:19,764
thy limbs, actions, and spirit
761
00:43:19,848 --> 00:43:21,850
do give thee five-fold blazon.
762
00:43:21,933 --> 00:43:23,643
(LAUGHS) Whew!
763
00:43:23,727 --> 00:43:25,687
- (AUDIENCE LAUGHS)
- Not too fast.
764
00:43:25,770 --> 00:43:28,273
Soft, soft.
765
00:43:29,566 --> 00:43:32,610
(SIGHS) Unless the master
were the man.
766
00:43:33,945 --> 00:43:35,363
How now?
767
00:43:35,447 --> 00:43:38,450
Even so quickly
may one catch the plague?
768
00:43:39,326 --> 00:43:42,287
O, methinks I feel
this youth's perfections
769
00:43:42,370 --> 00:43:44,414
with an invisible
and subtle stealth
770
00:43:44,497 --> 00:43:46,708
- to creep in at mine eyes…
- (BREATHING HEAVILY)
771
00:43:50,128 --> 00:43:51,421
TOM: He's crying.
772
00:43:51,504 --> 00:43:54,674
NINA: (AS OLIVIA)
Well, let it be.
773
00:44:01,306 --> 00:44:03,767
Er, Mr Erskine,
I've reserved a private room
774
00:44:03,850 --> 00:44:05,560
for you through here.
775
00:44:05,643 --> 00:44:07,354
I do hope it will suit.
776
00:44:07,437 --> 00:44:08,813
Well, thank you, Graham.
777
00:44:08,897 --> 00:44:10,607
That's really
very thoughtful of you.
778
00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:15,070
(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)
779
00:44:15,153 --> 00:44:18,073
Erm, I didn't catch your name.
780
00:44:18,156 --> 00:44:20,742
- Ivan.
- Ivan.
781
00:44:20,825 --> 00:44:22,494
Would you invite the Viscount
782
00:44:22,577 --> 00:44:24,746
to join us
in the private room?
783
00:44:27,874 --> 00:44:29,042
JIMMY: Mm.
784
00:44:30,585 --> 00:44:32,504
We should throw a dinner
for you.
785
00:44:33,630 --> 00:44:35,090
A celebration
for your retirement.
786
00:44:36,383 --> 00:44:38,259
I would be honoured.
787
00:44:38,343 --> 00:44:40,345
Will you continue to write?
788
00:44:40,428 --> 00:44:41,888
JIMMY: Oh, no, no, no.
789
00:44:42,639 --> 00:44:44,516
I couldn't work
for another paper.
790
00:44:45,892 --> 00:44:48,395
But, er, I might start
my memoirs.
791
00:44:48,478 --> 00:44:49,562
BROOKE: Hmm.
792
00:44:51,022 --> 00:44:53,942
Well, break a leg.
793
00:45:00,907 --> 00:45:02,200
Enjoying the show?
794
00:45:02,283 --> 00:45:03,284
Very much.
795
00:45:03,993 --> 00:45:06,287
Some fine acting on display.
796
00:45:07,956 --> 00:45:09,833
(INHALES)
Yes, I particularly…
797
00:45:12,669 --> 00:45:15,088
- Sorry?
- No, I, er…
798
00:45:15,171 --> 00:45:16,339
Hmm?
799
00:45:17,549 --> 00:45:20,176
I was going to say,
I thought, er,
800
00:45:20,260 --> 00:45:23,263
the Olivia and Viola
were both excellent.
801
00:45:23,346 --> 00:45:25,390
Oh, Miss Nina Land.
802
00:45:27,183 --> 00:45:28,685
Er, which one?
803
00:45:29,769 --> 00:45:30,937
Olivia.
804
00:45:32,105 --> 00:45:33,773
Olivia, is she?
805
00:45:35,775 --> 00:45:39,195
She has
a very particular talent.
806
00:45:40,697 --> 00:45:42,782
- Do you think?
- Oh, yes.
807
00:45:42,866 --> 00:45:44,159
And she's beloved.
808
00:45:44,868 --> 00:45:47,871
Whenever I've been
a touch harsh about her,
809
00:45:47,954 --> 00:45:48,955
(INHALES)
810
00:45:49,038 --> 00:45:53,334
sacks of angry mail arrive
from her devoted supporters.
811
00:45:53,418 --> 00:45:55,336
Are you a devotee?
812
00:45:56,629 --> 00:45:59,340
I… I don't think
I've ever seen her before.
813
00:45:59,424 --> 00:46:02,093
Oh, but you have,
you know, here.
814
00:46:04,471 --> 00:46:05,972
In The White Devil.
815
00:46:06,055 --> 00:46:07,599
Twice, I believe.
816
00:46:09,225 --> 00:46:10,477
Yes, of course.
817
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:13,938
And I seem to recall
you attended Hedda Gabler
818
00:46:14,022 --> 00:46:15,273
at The Globe.
819
00:46:16,191 --> 00:46:17,650
Last season.
820
00:46:18,818 --> 00:46:20,528
Nina Land was
821
00:46:20,612 --> 00:46:25,325
"an indecently fetching"
Mrs Elvestad.
822
00:46:25,408 --> 00:46:26,868
(CHUCKLING)
823
00:46:29,537 --> 00:46:31,539
Well, I… I'm quoting
your father. (CHUCKLES)
824
00:46:31,623 --> 00:46:35,585
Well, that doesn't make me
a devotee.
825
00:46:37,045 --> 00:46:38,796
Oh. Oh, no.
826
00:46:40,757 --> 00:46:42,175
Of course not.
827
00:46:49,933 --> 00:46:51,392
Final para.
828
00:46:52,185 --> 00:46:53,811
(JIMMY HUMS)
829
00:46:55,230 --> 00:46:58,566
TOM: "Miss Nina Land's
magnificent Olivia."
830
00:46:58,650 --> 00:46:59,776
(CONTINUES HUMMING)
831
00:47:00,276 --> 00:47:02,153
- Really?
- (LIGHTER CLICKS)
832
00:47:03,279 --> 00:47:05,448
I move mysteriously, hmm.
833
00:47:07,033 --> 00:47:10,161
In my valedictory weeks,
why not be generous?
834
00:47:11,287 --> 00:47:13,164
Huh? (CHUCKLES)
835
00:47:14,916 --> 00:47:17,627
JIMMY: Attention to those
who have heeded
836
00:47:17,710 --> 00:47:19,504
my recent warning
837
00:47:19,587 --> 00:47:22,382
regarding a foul stench
emanating from the Aldwych.
838
00:47:22,465 --> 00:47:27,178
I am most pleasantly surprised
to report good news.
839
00:47:28,304 --> 00:47:30,765
I must stand and applaud
840
00:47:30,848 --> 00:47:34,102
Miss Nina Land's
magnificent Olivia.
841
00:47:34,852 --> 00:47:36,688
She now offers a performance
842
00:47:36,771 --> 00:47:40,024
of such astonishing,
delightful nuance…
843
00:47:40,108 --> 00:47:41,150
(PHONE RINGING)
844
00:47:41,234 --> 00:47:43,444
… and depth of feeling
that I fear…
845
00:47:43,528 --> 00:47:44,737
LANDLADY: Miss Land!
846
00:47:44,821 --> 00:47:46,823
(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)
847
00:47:50,743 --> 00:47:51,869
(WHISPERS) Go.
848
00:47:55,415 --> 00:47:56,833
- (DOOR CLOSES)
- Hello?
849
00:47:56,916 --> 00:47:58,751
JIMMY: Good morning,
Miss Land.
850
00:47:58,835 --> 00:48:00,670
Oh, hello.
851
00:48:00,753 --> 00:48:03,256
Oh, and thank you
for what you said.
852
00:48:04,007 --> 00:48:06,676
Did you really mean it,
or did you take pity?
853
00:48:06,759 --> 00:48:08,261
Oh, I never lie.
854
00:48:09,262 --> 00:48:11,389
And this is only
the beginning.
855
00:48:11,472 --> 00:48:14,100
Great success awaits you.
856
00:48:16,227 --> 00:48:17,770
- (EXHALES)
- Er, Nina?
857
00:48:19,022 --> 00:48:20,148
Yes,
858
00:48:20,815 --> 00:48:21,816
Jimmy?
859
00:48:23,443 --> 00:48:27,989
I have something
a little delicate to discuss.
860
00:48:29,032 --> 00:48:31,659
One could say it's a part.
861
00:48:32,535 --> 00:48:33,703
NINA: In a play?
862
00:48:34,329 --> 00:48:37,248
No, no, no. Er, a performance.
863
00:48:41,502 --> 00:48:45,089
Consider a man of around 60,
864
00:48:45,173 --> 00:48:46,924
powerful, rich.
865
00:48:48,176 --> 00:48:50,261
But catastrophically married.
866
00:48:51,095 --> 00:48:53,014
And it transpires
867
00:48:54,474 --> 00:48:56,392
that he's secretly obsessed
868
00:48:56,476 --> 00:49:00,104
with a vivacious
younger woman.
869
00:49:02,106 --> 00:49:03,608
Which part do I play?
870
00:49:04,609 --> 00:49:06,778
(BOTH LAUGH)
871
00:49:08,279 --> 00:49:09,656
Who is he?
872
00:49:10,198 --> 00:49:12,075
Viscount Brooke.
873
00:49:14,410 --> 00:49:16,496
- Your proprietor?
- Mm-hmm.
874
00:49:16,579 --> 00:49:18,623
- Do you know him?
- (GRUNTS SOFTLY)
875
00:49:18,706 --> 00:49:20,500
Decent chap, handsome.
876
00:49:21,626 --> 00:49:23,169
Wife barking…
877
00:49:24,087 --> 00:49:26,798
- in the aristocratic mode.
- And?
878
00:49:30,385 --> 00:49:32,220
I want you to please him.
879
00:49:36,349 --> 00:49:38,059
Coyness doesn't suit you.
880
00:49:39,394 --> 00:49:41,187
You want me to fuck him.
881
00:49:41,270 --> 00:49:43,064
(LAUGHS WHEEZILY)
882
00:49:43,690 --> 00:49:44,982
That's my girl there.
883
00:49:49,445 --> 00:49:51,656
I'm afraid I must
decline the role.
884
00:49:53,157 --> 00:49:54,992
I don't want to play
a prostitute.
885
00:49:55,076 --> 00:49:58,413
Oh, dearest Nina, there's
no vulgar cash involved.
886
00:49:58,496 --> 00:50:01,249
I'm asking you to do me
a little service.
887
00:50:02,709 --> 00:50:04,252
And in return,
888
00:50:05,378 --> 00:50:07,797
you will gain
my unyielding favour.
889
00:50:09,549 --> 00:50:11,926
Stunning reviews.
890
00:50:12,802 --> 00:50:14,303
Acclaim.
891
00:50:14,387 --> 00:50:16,305
"The actress
of her generation."
892
00:50:17,432 --> 00:50:19,642
And we might start
with an interview
893
00:50:19,726 --> 00:50:22,645
for my "Backstage Whispers'"
column.
894
00:50:23,730 --> 00:50:28,526
And my chum, Cecil,
will photograph you.
895
00:50:29,193 --> 00:50:30,987
Only the best for Nina.
896
00:50:33,114 --> 00:50:35,658
And there'll be parties,
897
00:50:35,742 --> 00:50:39,036
gatherings, entrées, dinners.
898
00:50:39,120 --> 00:50:42,123
All that's required
to make you a star.
899
00:50:43,166 --> 00:50:45,793
Everything you crave.
900
00:50:47,003 --> 00:50:48,379
And deserve.
901
00:50:51,466 --> 00:50:54,469
An immortal of the stage
and screen.
902
00:50:57,346 --> 00:50:58,973
I can't do it.
903
00:50:59,056 --> 00:51:01,100
- It's not me.
- It's a part.
904
00:51:01,184 --> 00:51:03,644
- It's not you.
- (SIGHS)
905
00:51:06,856 --> 00:51:11,486
Your cruel profession
bestows glory on its young.
906
00:51:11,569 --> 00:51:14,280
And time has no pity.
907
00:51:14,363 --> 00:51:18,034
It will define you
or cast you out.
908
00:51:18,117 --> 00:51:19,452
(EXHALES SHARPLY)
909
00:51:19,535 --> 00:51:21,537
(PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
910
00:51:23,956 --> 00:51:25,500
JIMMY: I blame the writers.
911
00:51:25,583 --> 00:51:28,169
Repertoire is so lacking
in parts
912
00:51:28,252 --> 00:51:29,670
for the mature actress.
913
00:51:29,754 --> 00:51:32,548
And between playing
the soubrette and the old maid
914
00:51:32,632 --> 00:51:35,718
lie decades of waste.
915
00:51:38,387 --> 00:51:40,389
Except for the select.
916
00:51:46,604 --> 00:51:49,899
You said you yearn
to meet my standards.
917
00:51:49,982 --> 00:51:51,776
Well, here they are.
918
00:51:58,366 --> 00:51:59,992
JOAN: Miss Land.
919
00:52:00,076 --> 00:52:01,202
NINA: Hello.
920
00:52:06,541 --> 00:52:09,293
Congratulations.
You're the hit of the season.
921
00:52:09,377 --> 00:52:11,128
Oh, thank you so much.
922
00:52:24,976 --> 00:52:26,143
(DOOR OPENS)
923
00:52:26,227 --> 00:52:27,353
JOAN: Miss Land.
924
00:52:27,436 --> 00:52:29,105
Welcome.
925
00:52:29,188 --> 00:52:30,356
NINA: Hello.
926
00:52:31,148 --> 00:52:32,441
Have a seat.
927
00:52:32,525 --> 00:52:33,693
Thank you.
928
00:52:39,156 --> 00:52:41,075
It's so kind of you to see me.
929
00:52:41,158 --> 00:52:42,410
Not at all.
930
00:52:43,411 --> 00:52:45,913
I… I've come here
to beg a favour.
931
00:52:45,997 --> 00:52:47,915
I… I don't suppose
you've seen my photograph
932
00:52:47,999 --> 00:52:49,000
in your paper today?
933
00:52:49,876 --> 00:52:51,627
My rather demanding mother
934
00:52:51,711 --> 00:52:54,255
has requested a print
for her birthday next week.
935
00:52:54,338 --> 00:52:56,257
- (CHUCKLES COYLY)
- I see.
936
00:52:57,341 --> 00:52:59,260
Perhaps I could offer you
some tickets
937
00:52:59,343 --> 00:53:01,053
for these plays I'm in?
938
00:53:03,180 --> 00:53:05,933
Well, to be honest, I've…
I've seen both of them.
939
00:53:07,435 --> 00:53:08,728
And you were…
940
00:53:10,563 --> 00:53:11,731
excellent.
941
00:53:12,106 --> 00:53:13,274
Oh.
942
00:53:14,233 --> 00:53:16,193
I might blush. (CHUCKLES)
943
00:53:18,654 --> 00:53:20,781
Well, we mustn't disappoint
your mother.
944
00:53:22,491 --> 00:53:24,285
How can I possibly thank you?
945
00:53:25,703 --> 00:53:28,122
Perhaps you could have supper
with me?
946
00:53:28,205 --> 00:53:30,041
I could give you
the photograph?
947
00:53:31,292 --> 00:53:33,544
A very reasonable exchange.
948
00:53:34,754 --> 00:53:37,506
Right, well, if, er,
you give Joan your details,
949
00:53:37,590 --> 00:53:38,966
she can organise us.
950
00:53:39,592 --> 00:53:42,303
She has the most spectacular
flowers on her desk.
951
00:53:44,805 --> 00:53:47,558
Yes, her sister's a florist.
952
00:53:49,685 --> 00:53:52,271
I have a secret admirer
who's been sending me
953
00:53:52,355 --> 00:53:56,275
two dozen white roses every
opening night since 1928.
954
00:53:57,944 --> 00:53:59,987
And he's never
made himself known?
955
00:54:03,032 --> 00:54:04,867
Isn't it mysterious?
956
00:54:11,916 --> 00:54:13,918
(SOFT CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING)
957
00:54:17,129 --> 00:54:18,673
Just there, please.
958
00:54:18,756 --> 00:54:20,174
(NINA CHUCKLES)
959
00:54:21,550 --> 00:54:23,302
- Thank you. Thank you so much.
- Thank you, Miss Land.
960
00:54:35,439 --> 00:54:36,899
BROOKE: Thank you.
961
00:54:38,025 --> 00:54:39,235
(CUP CLINKS)
962
00:54:40,069 --> 00:54:41,404
(EXHALES)
963
00:54:42,363 --> 00:54:43,739
Shall I, um…
964
00:54:45,366 --> 00:54:46,951
fetch the photograph?
965
00:54:50,162 --> 00:54:52,081
You go. I'll follow.
966
00:55:05,970 --> 00:55:07,388
(DOOR OPENS)
967
00:55:10,975 --> 00:55:12,518
(SIGHS HEAVILY)
968
00:55:30,161 --> 00:55:31,954
- May I take your coat?
- Hmm.
969
00:55:39,503 --> 00:55:40,755
For you.
970
00:55:45,009 --> 00:55:46,635
Would you like a drink?
971
00:55:48,387 --> 00:55:49,597
Later.
972
00:56:16,582 --> 00:56:18,542
(YAWNS)
973
00:56:22,046 --> 00:56:24,048
(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)
974
00:56:26,258 --> 00:56:27,468
(EXHALES)
975
00:56:45,736 --> 00:56:47,530
- (WATER SPLASHES)
- (EXHALES)
976
00:56:50,074 --> 00:56:51,951
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
977
00:56:54,912 --> 00:56:56,163
(SHUDDERS)
978
00:56:58,165 --> 00:56:59,208
(EXHALES)
979
00:57:00,876 --> 00:57:02,545
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
980
00:57:07,466 --> 00:57:09,301
- (SWITCH CLICKS)
- Too… Too bright.
981
00:57:09,385 --> 00:57:10,845
(NINA GROANS QUIETLY)
982
00:57:12,012 --> 00:57:13,764
Er, I have to get home.
983
00:57:14,473 --> 00:57:16,767
Well, shall I send
for the car?
984
00:57:16,851 --> 00:57:18,060
No, thank you.
985
00:57:32,449 --> 00:57:33,576
Here.
986
00:57:34,535 --> 00:57:36,579
- (EXHALES)
- (JEWELLERY CLINKS)
987
00:57:36,662 --> 00:57:38,289
Thank you. (CHUCKLES)
988
00:57:38,831 --> 00:57:40,332
Where did you put my coat?
989
00:57:41,375 --> 00:57:43,252
- Your coat is here.
- Oh.
990
00:57:44,211 --> 00:57:45,754
(NINA CLEARS THROAT)
991
00:57:51,427 --> 00:57:53,095
You've forgotten something.
992
00:57:59,059 --> 00:58:00,686
Oh. (CHUCKLES)
993
00:58:02,646 --> 00:58:05,399
Look, I'm old, I'm married.
994
00:58:06,984 --> 00:58:08,360
I'm very grateful.
995
00:58:10,696 --> 00:58:11,947
But don't see me again
996
00:58:12,031 --> 00:58:13,616
if it's not something
you want.
997
00:58:15,409 --> 00:58:17,161
Are you saying
you don't want to?
998
00:58:18,579 --> 00:58:20,122
You know I'm besotted.
999
00:58:22,875 --> 00:58:25,461
Well, then…
see you tomorrow.
1000
00:58:44,605 --> 00:58:48,067
- (DOG BARKS IN DISTANCE)
- (MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING)
1001
00:58:51,946 --> 00:58:53,322
I won't do it again.
1002
00:58:53,405 --> 00:58:55,491
Not tonight, not ever.
1003
00:58:55,574 --> 00:58:57,868
You'll play as cast,
as agreed.
1004
00:58:57,952 --> 00:58:59,536
As contracted.
1005
00:59:01,330 --> 00:59:03,249
You told me to please him.
1006
00:59:03,332 --> 00:59:04,375
I did.
1007
00:59:04,458 --> 00:59:07,044
He's very grateful.
He doesn't need more.
1008
00:59:07,878 --> 00:59:10,506
Our great partnership
is in its infancy.
1009
00:59:11,715 --> 00:59:15,219
Brooke expects you tonight.
Don't let me down.
1010
00:59:16,512 --> 00:59:17,972
Or what?
1011
00:59:18,722 --> 00:59:21,100
Well, if you
don't do my bidding,
1012
00:59:21,183 --> 00:59:24,228
I'd be obliged
to withdraw my favour.
1013
00:59:26,855 --> 00:59:28,941
And you'd suffer its opposite.
1014
00:59:45,124 --> 00:59:47,209
It's not just wrong,
it's evil.
1015
00:59:47,293 --> 00:59:49,420
I'm fighting for my life here.
1016
00:59:49,503 --> 00:59:50,629
She's done enough!
1017
00:59:50,713 --> 00:59:52,715
Once is never enough!
1018
00:59:54,466 --> 00:59:56,051
You're the help.
1019
00:59:56,135 --> 00:59:58,220
You're my squire. (SCOFFS)
1020
00:59:58,304 --> 01:00:00,347
If you're not with me,
you're against me!
1021
01:00:03,309 --> 01:00:05,269
- Nina.
- Go away.
1022
01:00:05,352 --> 01:00:06,562
I can't.
1023
01:00:07,187 --> 01:00:09,690
You're a good egg,
more or less.
1024
01:00:09,773 --> 01:00:12,651
And I'm vain, selfish
and madly ambitious.
1025
01:00:12,735 --> 01:00:14,236
And this is news?
1026
01:00:14,320 --> 01:00:16,405
I'm driven in ways
I don't understand.
1027
01:00:16,488 --> 01:00:19,325
I need things it doesn't occur
to you to want.
1028
01:00:19,408 --> 01:00:20,534
I'm trouble.
1029
01:00:21,285 --> 01:00:22,494
Stay away.
1030
01:00:35,841 --> 01:00:37,217
(KNOCKING AT DOOR)
1031
01:00:44,308 --> 01:00:46,226
Apologies for the lateness
of the hour,
1032
01:00:46,310 --> 01:00:49,855
but it, er, is a matter
of some importance.
1033
01:00:50,564 --> 01:00:51,940
Well, it'll have to wait,
I'm busy.
1034
01:00:52,649 --> 01:00:54,234
No, you're not.
1035
01:00:55,069 --> 01:00:57,363
- I can assure you, I am.
- She is not coming.
1036
01:01:00,157 --> 01:01:01,700
- Who?
- (SCOFFS)
1037
01:01:02,618 --> 01:01:03,952
Let's not, eh?
1038
01:01:04,578 --> 01:01:07,289
I can confirm she arrived
downstairs, but then
1039
01:01:07,998 --> 01:01:09,833
the flighty
little thing departed.
1040
01:01:12,336 --> 01:01:13,337
What?
1041
01:01:13,420 --> 01:01:15,422
(MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING)
1042
01:01:18,467 --> 01:01:20,469
(VEHICLE APPROACHING)
1043
01:01:39,405 --> 01:01:40,739
The vulnerable young actress
1044
01:01:40,823 --> 01:01:42,699
you lured to this room
last night?
1045
01:01:42,783 --> 01:01:46,620
The poor innocent woman
that you took advantage of?
1046
01:01:48,205 --> 01:01:50,624
The sweet girl you assaulted?
1047
01:01:50,707 --> 01:01:53,085
Or so she will say.
1048
01:01:54,002 --> 01:01:55,212
In court.
1049
01:01:57,089 --> 01:01:59,508
- That's not true.
- True or false,
1050
01:02:00,259 --> 01:02:01,718
it's the same scandal.
1051
01:02:03,095 --> 01:02:05,597
But please, don't despair,
1052
01:02:06,140 --> 01:02:07,349
good Viscount.
1053
01:02:08,434 --> 01:02:09,893
I'm here to help.
1054
01:02:09,977 --> 01:02:11,395
(CAR DEPARTS)
1055
01:02:17,276 --> 01:02:19,153
BROOKE: Your employment,
1056
01:02:19,236 --> 01:02:21,697
a reprieve
with a modest pay rise
1057
01:02:22,990 --> 01:02:24,450
is acceptable.
1058
01:02:25,576 --> 01:02:28,495
Reinstate Hugh Morris
as opera critic? No.
1059
01:02:29,663 --> 01:02:31,665
He was drowning,
and you know it.
1060
01:02:34,501 --> 01:02:37,963
Your reinclusion
in the portrait is impossible.
1061
01:02:38,046 --> 01:02:39,298
We've selected another man.
1062
01:02:40,424 --> 01:02:41,842
Get rid of him.
1063
01:02:43,218 --> 01:02:45,262
"Twelve Distinguished
Gentlemen of the Club."
1064
01:02:45,345 --> 01:02:46,972
Are you sure you qualify?
1065
01:02:48,223 --> 01:02:49,224
Most certainly.
1066
01:02:51,977 --> 01:02:54,354
How on earth
do you live with yourself?
1067
01:02:55,439 --> 01:02:57,316
Well, it's a struggle.
1068
01:02:58,275 --> 01:03:00,861
Now, returning to the, er…
the portrait. I…
1069
01:03:02,029 --> 01:03:04,072
I have a number
of, er, letters
1070
01:03:05,699 --> 01:03:09,369
stamped and addressed
to your wife, your daughter,
1071
01:03:09,453 --> 01:03:13,665
the club secretary,
the editor of the Daily Mail,
1072
01:03:13,749 --> 01:03:15,417
and other assorted ghouls.
1073
01:03:15,501 --> 01:03:18,170
Now, please… (EXHALES)
1074
01:03:18,253 --> 01:03:19,922
don't oblige me to slip them
1075
01:03:20,005 --> 01:03:21,715
into the post box downstairs.
1076
01:03:27,012 --> 01:03:28,096
I suppose I…
1077
01:03:30,807 --> 01:03:32,100
I should assume…
1078
01:03:33,852 --> 01:03:35,854
Miss Land
doesn't even like me?
1079
01:03:39,191 --> 01:03:41,276
Do you know,
we've never discussed it.
1080
01:03:43,237 --> 01:03:44,363
Shall I ask her?
1081
01:03:49,368 --> 01:03:50,494
STEPHEN: Who is he?
1082
01:03:50,577 --> 01:03:52,788
(MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING)
1083
01:03:52,871 --> 01:03:54,206
Don't ask.
1084
01:03:55,958 --> 01:03:58,794
If you ever loved me,
don't ask.
1085
01:04:02,256 --> 01:04:04,049
(NINA SIGHS HEAVILY)
1086
01:04:05,133 --> 01:04:06,552
I miss you.
1087
01:04:08,053 --> 01:04:09,263
What?
1088
01:04:12,182 --> 01:04:13,475
I miss you.
1089
01:04:19,898 --> 01:04:22,192
(MELANCHOLY MUSIC CONTINUES)
1090
01:04:32,452 --> 01:04:34,121
(DOOR OPENS)
1091
01:04:41,545 --> 01:04:43,046
Where were you?
1092
01:04:44,423 --> 01:04:46,216
I slept at the studio.
1093
01:04:48,176 --> 01:04:49,469
Alone?
1094
01:04:51,430 --> 01:04:52,431
No.
1095
01:04:55,517 --> 01:04:57,603
So your affair has resumed?
1096
01:04:59,271 --> 01:05:00,647
I think so.
1097
01:05:05,444 --> 01:05:06,862
Who is she?
1098
01:05:09,323 --> 01:05:10,657
I can't say.
1099
01:05:13,410 --> 01:05:15,162
Well, then pack.
1100
01:05:21,960 --> 01:05:23,462
BROOKE: He'll be back.
1101
01:05:25,088 --> 01:05:27,174
He won't survive poverty.
1102
01:05:27,841 --> 01:05:29,426
He'll make a virtue of it.
1103
01:05:30,886 --> 01:05:32,721
He's always resented
our wealth,
1104
01:05:34,431 --> 01:05:37,100
our name, our standing.
1105
01:05:39,728 --> 01:05:41,563
I should never
have married a Jew.
1106
01:05:42,439 --> 01:05:43,607
Cora!
1107
01:05:45,817 --> 01:05:47,653
Spare me your disapproval.
1108
01:05:51,531 --> 01:05:53,659
(GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING)
1109
01:06:21,645 --> 01:06:23,105
What?
1110
01:06:23,188 --> 01:06:25,190
I'd be most grateful
if you'd now include him.
1111
01:06:26,566 --> 01:06:29,111
- Why?
- My father would've wanted it.
1112
01:06:30,320 --> 01:06:32,531
(INHALES SHARPLY)
He loved a character.
1113
01:06:33,490 --> 01:06:35,325
Though he never much
cared for mine.
1114
01:06:38,036 --> 01:06:39,871
I'll step down,
it'll be a clean dozen.
1115
01:06:39,955 --> 01:06:41,665
You can paint me out
1116
01:06:41,748 --> 01:06:43,500
and stick him in.
1117
01:06:44,876 --> 01:06:46,920
I don't mean
to diminish your art.
1118
01:06:48,922 --> 01:06:49,923
Fine.
1119
01:06:50,841 --> 01:06:52,509
But I don't approve.
1120
01:06:52,592 --> 01:06:54,720
And I don't deserve
immortality.
1121
01:06:56,179 --> 01:06:58,265
All my achievements
have been due to nepotism.
1122
01:07:01,643 --> 01:07:03,311
Item two.
1123
01:07:04,479 --> 01:07:05,480
Cora.
1124
01:07:06,982 --> 01:07:09,192
I know my daughter
can be tricky.
1125
01:07:09,276 --> 01:07:11,236
She has her ways.
But the thing of it is…
1126
01:07:13,739 --> 01:07:15,866
- it's really not her fault.
- David.
1127
01:07:17,242 --> 01:07:18,660
I can't go back.
1128
01:07:20,787 --> 01:07:22,038
May I know who she is?
1129
01:07:23,623 --> 01:07:25,041
If she's going to be
stepmother
1130
01:07:25,125 --> 01:07:27,753
to my grandchildren, I'd like
to know something about her.
1131
01:07:30,088 --> 01:07:32,048
But, er,
don't feel obliged, I…
1132
01:07:33,258 --> 01:07:34,551
I really shouldn't pry.
1133
01:07:35,177 --> 01:07:36,803
- Always the gent.
- (CHUCKLES)
1134
01:07:37,804 --> 01:07:38,972
It's a curse.
1135
01:07:39,055 --> 01:07:41,057
(PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
1136
01:07:45,896 --> 01:07:47,564
She's an actress.
1137
01:07:47,647 --> 01:07:49,024
- Oh.
- We met last year.
1138
01:07:49,107 --> 01:07:50,525
She happened
to come to my opening.
1139
01:07:50,609 --> 01:07:53,695
Actually, you saw her in those
productions at the Duke's.
1140
01:07:56,448 --> 01:07:57,449
Oh?
1141
01:07:58,575 --> 01:07:59,868
Nina Land.
1142
01:08:06,583 --> 01:08:07,959
(SCOFFS SOFTLY)
1143
01:08:08,919 --> 01:08:10,003
She was…
1144
01:08:11,671 --> 01:08:12,964
very fine.
1145
01:08:14,299 --> 01:08:15,967
I have to admit, I am…
1146
01:08:17,552 --> 01:08:19,304
I'm head over heels.
1147
01:08:22,265 --> 01:08:24,392
(PENSIVE MUSIC CONTINUES)
1148
01:08:33,068 --> 01:08:34,277
David?
1149
01:08:36,863 --> 01:08:38,156
(INHALES SHARPLY)
1150
01:08:39,616 --> 01:08:42,035
I really shouldn't say this,
but, er…
1151
01:08:46,748 --> 01:08:48,416
I wish you good fortune.
1152
01:08:55,298 --> 01:08:57,300
(PENSIVE MUSIC CONTINUES)
1153
01:09:17,571 --> 01:09:19,489
(DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES)
1154
01:09:23,910 --> 01:09:25,954
You… You open it.
1155
01:09:28,832 --> 01:09:31,251
- It's personal, Miss.
- We're intimates.
1156
01:09:31,334 --> 01:09:33,712
You see me at my worst
every day.
1157
01:09:35,547 --> 01:09:37,048
"Dear Miss Land,
1158
01:09:37,132 --> 01:09:39,259
"late last night,
I received a visit…"
1159
01:09:39,342 --> 01:09:41,094
BROOKE:
… from your co-conspirator.
1160
01:09:42,220 --> 01:09:45,140
I daresay you can imagine
my disappointment.
1161
01:09:47,517 --> 01:09:49,060
My personal feelings aside,
1162
01:09:49,144 --> 01:09:51,521
I'm writing to tell you
that I fear no good will come
1163
01:09:51,605 --> 01:09:53,565
from your association
with this man.
1164
01:09:55,942 --> 01:09:57,611
I urge you to end it.
1165
01:10:09,080 --> 01:10:10,540
(EXHALES)
1166
01:10:19,966 --> 01:10:21,092
Tom!
1167
01:10:24,387 --> 01:10:25,639
I've been used.
1168
01:10:26,056 --> 01:10:27,974
We all get used, darling.
1169
01:10:28,058 --> 01:10:29,601
Use him back.
1170
01:10:29,684 --> 01:10:30,936
You've done his bidding,
1171
01:10:31,019 --> 01:10:32,354
now get what you want
from him.
1172
01:10:41,237 --> 01:10:43,323
The whole thing's disgusting.
1173
01:10:43,406 --> 01:10:45,784
I'm disgusting,
he's disgusting,
1174
01:10:45,867 --> 01:10:47,744
and you're disgusting
for letting him do it.
1175
01:10:48,995 --> 01:10:50,246
Sleep on it.
1176
01:11:05,011 --> 01:11:07,138
(PENSIVE MUSIC CONTINUES)
1177
01:11:15,021 --> 01:11:17,482
- (GUNSHOT ECHOES)
- (BIRDS' WINGS FLUTTER)
1178
01:11:17,565 --> 01:11:19,526
(BIRDS SQUAWKING IN DISTANCE)
1179
01:11:24,531 --> 01:11:26,324
(CLOCK TICKING)
1180
01:11:28,451 --> 01:11:29,744
(PERSON SNIFFLING)
1181
01:11:43,008 --> 01:11:44,801
- (PHONE RINGING)
- (SNORING)
1182
01:11:44,884 --> 01:11:46,177
(RECEIVER CLICKS)
1183
01:11:49,305 --> 01:11:51,558
- (CONTINUES SNORING)
- Jim.
1184
01:11:57,397 --> 01:11:59,691
(MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING)
1185
01:12:04,738 --> 01:12:06,031
STEPHEN: Nina Land.
1186
01:12:08,033 --> 01:12:09,242
She was…
1187
01:12:10,869 --> 01:12:11,995
very fine.
1188
01:12:16,166 --> 01:12:18,251
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
1189
01:12:27,844 --> 01:12:29,596
My father-in-law
committed suicide.
1190
01:12:29,679 --> 01:12:31,639
I know. I'm so sorry.
1191
01:12:32,807 --> 01:12:34,100
You knew?
1192
01:12:34,184 --> 01:12:35,643
I mean, I…
1193
01:12:35,727 --> 01:12:36,895
I didn't know he…
1194
01:12:37,645 --> 01:12:39,898
I… I just knew he was dead.
1195
01:12:42,025 --> 01:12:43,693
When did you find out?
1196
01:12:47,906 --> 01:12:49,282
This afternoon.
1197
01:12:53,787 --> 01:12:56,414
His secretary sent a message
to stage door.
1198
01:12:57,791 --> 01:12:59,793
And why would Joan do that?
1199
01:13:00,210 --> 01:13:02,670
Why would she inform you
of his death?
1200
01:13:09,886 --> 01:13:12,055
(BELL TOLLING IN DISTANCE)
1201
01:13:19,646 --> 01:13:20,814
Did you…
1202
01:13:22,732 --> 01:13:24,192
Were you in love with him?
1203
01:13:24,859 --> 01:13:26,653
I didn't know him.
1204
01:13:29,697 --> 01:13:31,199
Then why? (SNIFFS)
1205
01:13:39,874 --> 01:13:41,501
(TEARFULLY) I'm too ashamed.
1206
01:13:43,920 --> 01:13:45,380
Let me explain.
1207
01:13:47,423 --> 01:13:48,758
There's no need.
1208
01:13:53,805 --> 01:13:56,474
- Why be so predictable?
- Why be so cheap?
1209
01:14:05,775 --> 01:14:07,318
(OBJECT THUDS)
1210
01:14:11,739 --> 01:14:13,491
(CRIES QUIETLY)
1211
01:14:17,787 --> 01:14:20,039
(FOOTSTEPS CRUNCHING
ON GRAVEL)
1212
01:14:41,311 --> 01:14:43,354
You and I are cursed.
1213
01:14:43,438 --> 01:14:45,106
Drawn to weak men.
1214
01:14:45,857 --> 01:14:47,483
Let him have the children.
1215
01:14:48,234 --> 01:14:51,738
You can have more with a man
who's worthy of you.
1216
01:15:00,622 --> 01:15:01,706
Dear Jimmy.
1217
01:15:03,166 --> 01:15:04,918
We met in this room.
1218
01:15:05,001 --> 01:15:07,545
Oh, now what an occasion
that was.
1219
01:15:08,546 --> 01:15:10,548
You're absolutely
full of shit.
1220
01:15:11,507 --> 01:15:13,635
You are absolutely right.
(CHUCKLES)
1221
01:15:14,886 --> 01:15:16,846
Rattle the old memory box,
will you?
1222
01:15:16,930 --> 01:15:18,681
It was my 10th birthday.
1223
01:15:19,557 --> 01:15:21,517
(EXHALES) Of course.
1224
01:15:23,728 --> 01:15:26,231
You should know
I intend to oversee the paper.
1225
01:15:28,024 --> 01:15:29,025
Excellent.
1226
01:15:29,108 --> 01:15:32,445
The new Chronicle will be
a platform for common sense
1227
01:15:32,528 --> 01:15:34,239
and measured debate.
1228
01:15:36,991 --> 01:15:38,952
(INHALES) A source tells me
1229
01:15:39,035 --> 01:15:41,496
that a few weeks
after you were fired,
1230
01:15:41,579 --> 01:15:43,331
my late father reinstated you
1231
01:15:43,414 --> 01:15:45,291
with a new contract
on improved terms.
1232
01:15:48,920 --> 01:15:50,380
I will honour your contract.
1233
01:15:51,381 --> 01:15:53,174
But no more fisticuffs
with the law.
1234
01:15:54,968 --> 01:15:56,970
And if you must practise
your perversion,
1235
01:15:58,805 --> 01:16:00,306
behind closed doors.
1236
01:16:02,100 --> 01:16:05,103
I gratefully accept
your generous terms.
1237
01:16:10,400 --> 01:16:12,360
(ENGINE DRONING)
1238
01:16:15,488 --> 01:16:17,949
(JIMMY HUMS MERRILY)
1239
01:16:19,242 --> 01:16:21,911
Must you hum?
The man killed himself.
1240
01:16:22,912 --> 01:16:25,039
Don't you read the newspapers?
1241
01:16:25,957 --> 01:16:28,084
It was a shooting accident.
1242
01:16:28,167 --> 01:16:29,711
You drove him to it.
1243
01:16:29,794 --> 01:16:31,921
He pulled the fucking trigger!
1244
01:16:33,381 --> 01:16:35,133
Have you no shame?
1245
01:16:37,343 --> 01:16:39,470
I merely fought for my job
1246
01:16:39,554 --> 01:16:42,557
as all working men must do
in these dark days.
1247
01:16:43,391 --> 01:16:44,976
I'm handing in my notice.
1248
01:16:45,059 --> 01:16:46,602
Four weeks and I'm off.
1249
01:16:46,686 --> 01:16:48,146
Oh, for God's sake, man.
1250
01:16:48,896 --> 01:16:51,733
You've got the second best job
in London.
1251
01:16:51,816 --> 01:16:52,942
- What?
- (SNIFFS)
1252
01:16:53,026 --> 01:16:55,653
Well, in theatrical London.
1253
01:16:56,237 --> 01:16:58,823
You write for a…
a right-wing rag!
1254
01:16:58,906 --> 01:17:00,867
With readers.
1255
01:17:00,950 --> 01:17:04,329
Our loathsome paper
has millions of readers.
1256
01:17:04,829 --> 01:17:06,497
And we are forming
1257
01:17:06,581 --> 01:17:08,958
the aesthetic taste
of generations.
1258
01:17:10,043 --> 01:17:13,671
The Fascists may come and go,
but theatre is eternal.
1259
01:17:13,755 --> 01:17:16,090
It matters more than politics.
1260
01:17:17,717 --> 01:17:19,177
More than society.
1261
01:17:19,260 --> 01:17:21,179
It's life itself!
1262
01:17:21,262 --> 01:17:23,556
- (YELLS)
- (LAUGHS)
1263
01:17:28,936 --> 01:17:30,104
- Whoa!
- JIMMY: Oh, Christ!
1264
01:17:31,272 --> 01:17:32,398
Hey!
1265
01:17:33,608 --> 01:17:35,109
JIMMY: Darling,
what a lovely surprise.
1266
01:17:35,193 --> 01:17:37,653
I want to talk to you, Jim.
1267
01:17:37,737 --> 01:17:39,280
- Splendid!
- Here's good.
1268
01:17:39,364 --> 01:17:42,200
No, no, no. Up here. Come on.
Yes. Yep.
1269
01:17:42,283 --> 01:17:44,035
- There.
- NINA: Oh. Oh.
1270
01:17:44,660 --> 01:17:45,661
JIMMY: It's slippery.
NINA: No.
1271
01:17:45,745 --> 01:17:47,080
JIMMY: There we are, yes.
1272
01:17:47,163 --> 01:17:50,041
It's a bit slippery here.
Yes. Good.
1273
01:17:50,124 --> 01:17:51,250
(GIGGLES)
1274
01:17:52,168 --> 01:17:54,128
(INDISTINCT CHATTERING INSIDE)
1275
01:17:56,547 --> 01:17:58,716
Excuse me.
Is Nina Land still inside?
1276
01:17:58,800 --> 01:18:00,885
She was indisposed
tonight, sir.
1277
01:18:00,968 --> 01:18:02,136
The understudy went on.
1278
01:18:04,847 --> 01:18:07,225
Yes, that's right.
You help yourself.
1279
01:18:14,357 --> 01:18:15,525
(SNIFFS)
1280
01:18:15,608 --> 01:18:16,818
(SIGHS HEAVILY)
1281
01:18:19,320 --> 01:18:20,530
(JIMMY SIGHS)
1282
01:18:23,783 --> 01:18:26,119
You do know we killed him?
1283
01:18:26,202 --> 01:18:27,745
No, we didn't!
1284
01:18:27,829 --> 01:18:29,705
Do you even care
that he's dead?
1285
01:18:30,790 --> 01:18:32,083
Of course I do.
1286
01:18:34,085 --> 01:18:35,336
It's terribly sad.
1287
01:18:36,337 --> 01:18:37,630
It really is.
1288
01:18:39,298 --> 01:18:41,968
And our indirect involvement
in the matter
1289
01:18:42,051 --> 01:18:44,720
is all terribly secret.
1290
01:18:46,264 --> 01:18:47,849
He was quite a nice chap.
1291
01:18:48,724 --> 01:18:51,018
Sweet, in a way.
1292
01:18:52,520 --> 01:18:55,690
He was so excited,
it was all over in a minute.
1293
01:18:55,773 --> 01:18:58,067
Have you come here to grieve?
1294
01:18:58,151 --> 01:19:00,319
You see,
I have been at the funeral,
1295
01:19:00,903 --> 01:19:04,740
and I've done a considerable
amount of grieving already.
1296
01:19:04,824 --> 01:19:06,909
- Was Stephen there?
- Hmm?
1297
01:19:06,993 --> 01:19:08,953
His son-in-law.
1298
01:19:09,036 --> 01:19:11,622
Stephen Wyley?
1299
01:19:12,707 --> 01:19:15,042
(FALTERS) Do you know him?
1300
01:19:15,126 --> 01:19:16,961
I know him very well.
1301
01:19:19,297 --> 01:19:21,883
He found out
about me and Brooke.
1302
01:19:21,966 --> 01:19:23,050
Did you tell him?
1303
01:19:23,676 --> 01:19:25,219
No. Why… Why would I?
1304
01:19:25,303 --> 01:19:27,221
'Cause you're the beast.
1305
01:19:27,305 --> 01:19:29,474
- (BISCUIT THUDS)
- Stop that.
1306
01:19:30,224 --> 01:19:31,601
Don't!
1307
01:19:31,684 --> 01:19:34,145
- (NINA GRUNTS)
- (PLATE CLATTERING)
1308
01:19:35,563 --> 01:19:38,149
I'm going to run you
a cold bath.
1309
01:19:39,317 --> 01:19:40,902
And you're going
to remove your make-up,
1310
01:19:40,985 --> 01:19:42,987
as professionals do.
1311
01:19:43,070 --> 01:19:44,405
And then you're going
to lie in that bath
1312
01:19:44,489 --> 01:19:45,490
until you sober up.
1313
01:19:45,573 --> 01:19:48,367
And then we will have
a constructive conversation
1314
01:19:48,451 --> 01:19:51,329
about your wonderful
new career.
1315
01:19:53,498 --> 01:19:54,874
I won't be long.
1316
01:19:55,708 --> 01:19:57,543
NINA: (SOFTLY)
I'm going to the police.
1317
01:19:59,128 --> 01:20:00,922
(LOUDLY)
I'm going to the police!
1318
01:20:01,005 --> 01:20:02,965
What? You what?
1319
01:20:03,049 --> 01:20:05,426
I'm gonna tell them
everything about the case.
1320
01:20:05,510 --> 01:20:06,886
Might help with the case.
1321
01:20:06,969 --> 01:20:08,763
There is no case!
1322
01:20:08,846 --> 01:20:10,223
The man's in the ground.
1323
01:20:10,306 --> 01:20:13,267
But it's important.
People need to know the truth.
1324
01:20:14,268 --> 01:20:15,978
I'll go to the papers.
1325
01:20:16,062 --> 01:20:17,146
That's better.
1326
01:20:17,230 --> 01:20:19,232
Stop. Think.
1327
01:20:20,816 --> 01:20:21,901
It's over.
1328
01:20:23,319 --> 01:20:24,487
He's dead.
1329
01:20:26,572 --> 01:20:28,950
The distinguished thing.
1330
01:20:29,033 --> 01:20:30,660
Precisely.
1331
01:20:31,953 --> 01:20:35,164
What will it say
when we meet it?
1332
01:20:36,374 --> 01:20:37,833
How will it judge us?
1333
01:20:38,751 --> 01:20:40,920
There's no Judgement Day.
1334
01:20:41,003 --> 01:20:44,715
Here is life.
No God, no justice.
1335
01:20:44,799 --> 01:20:46,300
Just t…
1336
01:20:47,134 --> 01:20:49,554
two people in a room.
1337
01:20:51,556 --> 01:20:53,432
We did what we did,
1338
01:20:54,767 --> 01:20:56,769
and now we have
to live with it.
1339
01:20:56,852 --> 01:20:58,980
(REFLECTIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
1340
01:21:07,029 --> 01:21:09,115
NINA: It's fucking freezing!
1341
01:21:09,198 --> 01:21:10,616
JIMMY: It'll do you good.
1342
01:21:10,700 --> 01:21:12,535
(WATER SPLASHING)
1343
01:21:13,536 --> 01:21:15,621
Do you share your baths
with Tom?
1344
01:21:17,665 --> 01:21:20,001
- Not for years.
- (NINA LAUGHS)
1345
01:21:21,752 --> 01:21:23,170
Where is he?
1346
01:21:23,921 --> 01:21:26,257
He'll be back soon.
1347
01:21:26,340 --> 01:21:28,301
(HUMS DISTRACTEDLY)
1348
01:21:28,384 --> 01:21:30,386
You've got a little boat.
(CHUCKLES)
1349
01:21:30,469 --> 01:21:32,847
And you're welcome
to play with it.
1350
01:21:33,931 --> 01:21:35,433
(SHUDDERS)
1351
01:21:35,516 --> 01:21:37,685
NINA: Can I add
some hot water, please?
1352
01:21:38,561 --> 01:21:40,771
JIMMY: You're not sober yet.
1353
01:21:40,855 --> 01:21:42,690
Oh, come on!
1354
01:21:43,858 --> 01:21:45,443
JIMMY: Fine!
1355
01:21:45,526 --> 01:21:48,404
- NINA: Mm.
- (BREATHES HEAVILY)
1356
01:21:48,487 --> 01:21:50,323
Did you really love my Olivia
1357
01:21:50,406 --> 01:21:52,408
or did you just rave
to enlist me?
1358
01:21:52,491 --> 01:21:53,909
(SIGHS)
1359
01:21:53,993 --> 01:21:55,953
I thought
you were magnificent!
1360
01:21:56,037 --> 01:21:57,622
(GRUNTS SOFTLY)
1361
01:21:57,705 --> 01:22:00,291
- I always will.
- Really?
1362
01:22:01,542 --> 01:22:04,086
Well, yes. (GRUNTS)
1363
01:22:06,964 --> 01:22:09,133
Maybe I should tell
Stephen's wife
1364
01:22:09,216 --> 01:22:11,427
about her father,
1365
01:22:12,178 --> 01:22:14,680
and me, and you.
1366
01:22:14,764 --> 01:22:15,765
(GRUNTS)
1367
01:22:15,848 --> 01:22:18,100
And why would you do that?
1368
01:22:18,976 --> 01:22:22,438
'Cause you've driven me mad,
and you've broken my heart.
1369
01:22:22,521 --> 01:22:24,065
(GRUNTING RESTLESSLY)
1370
01:22:24,148 --> 01:22:27,026
Yes, I'm going to confess
everything to Cora.
1371
01:22:27,109 --> 01:22:29,362
How do you like that, Jimmy?
1372
01:22:29,445 --> 01:22:31,197
(JIMMY BREATHES HEAVILY)
1373
01:22:42,375 --> 01:22:43,376
(KEYS JANGLING)
1374
01:22:43,459 --> 01:22:44,585
(DOOR OPENS)
1375
01:22:48,005 --> 01:22:49,215
TOM: Jimmy?
1376
01:22:49,882 --> 01:22:51,384
JIMMY: We're here.
1377
01:22:53,886 --> 01:22:56,305
(JIMMY PANTING)
1378
01:23:05,064 --> 01:23:06,440
(JIMMY GRUNTS)
1379
01:23:08,567 --> 01:23:10,111
TOM: I should call
for the police.
1380
01:23:10,194 --> 01:23:12,863
Oh, no, wait. Now, think.
1381
01:23:12,947 --> 01:23:15,991
No one knows she's here.
1382
01:23:16,075 --> 01:23:19,245
- No. No…
- (MUMBLES)
1383
01:23:19,328 --> 01:23:20,705
I owe you my life.
1384
01:23:22,164 --> 01:23:23,416
But I won't.
1385
01:23:25,501 --> 01:23:26,502
Oh…
1386
01:23:27,962 --> 01:23:30,297
You think
you won't be implicated?
1387
01:23:31,674 --> 01:23:34,260
Think the law
won't assume foul play?
1388
01:23:34,343 --> 01:23:36,220
A couple of queers
with a corpse?
1389
01:23:37,138 --> 01:23:39,557
Huh?
Well, I don't matter, but…
1390
01:23:40,349 --> 01:23:44,478
Oh, no, no, man,
think about your future.
1391
01:23:47,356 --> 01:23:51,569
Just one final task,
and then I promise
1392
01:23:52,820 --> 01:23:54,947
I will set you free.
1393
01:23:55,030 --> 01:23:57,074
(SOMBRE MUSIC PLAYING)
1394
01:24:10,671 --> 01:24:12,047
(GRUNTS)
1395
01:24:17,720 --> 01:24:19,597
(BREATH TREMBLING)
1396
01:24:28,022 --> 01:24:30,316
(SOUND OF WATER DRIPPING)
1397
01:24:35,571 --> 01:24:38,199
- (SOUND OF WATER SPLASHING)
- (INHALES)
1398
01:24:51,712 --> 01:24:53,714
(SOMBRE MUSIC FADING OUT)
1399
01:25:05,267 --> 01:25:07,144
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
1400
01:25:08,145 --> 01:25:10,272
(DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE)
1401
01:25:16,612 --> 01:25:18,447
Are you here to visit Nina?
1402
01:25:20,407 --> 01:25:22,409
I'm a friend. Stephen Wyley.
1403
01:25:24,119 --> 01:25:27,206
I'm, um, Annabel Land,
her mother.
1404
01:25:28,249 --> 01:25:29,416
Well, hello.
1405
01:25:30,125 --> 01:25:31,877
Hello! Good to meet you.
1406
01:25:33,087 --> 01:25:35,339
The dragon says
that she's not here.
1407
01:25:35,422 --> 01:25:37,007
So I've been…
I've been waiting all night.
1408
01:25:42,263 --> 01:25:43,764
Are you a close friend?
1409
01:25:45,599 --> 01:25:48,352
She… hasn't mentioned me?
1410
01:25:51,021 --> 01:25:54,650
Well, we… we've had
a sort of a falling out.
1411
01:25:54,733 --> 01:25:56,819
But, er, I'm completely
mad about her.
1412
01:25:56,902 --> 01:25:58,863
I've come
to beg her forgiveness.
1413
01:26:07,663 --> 01:26:10,666
She was found on a beach
last night in Kent.
1414
01:26:14,420 --> 01:26:17,464
Police said her alcohol levels
1415
01:26:17,548 --> 01:26:19,091
were really high.
(VOICE BREAKS)
1416
01:26:22,970 --> 01:26:24,263
Yeah, she…
1417
01:26:26,015 --> 01:26:27,975
She took her own life.
1418
01:26:28,934 --> 01:26:31,020
She'd attempted it before…
1419
01:26:32,897 --> 01:26:34,607
when she was 16.
1420
01:26:40,446 --> 01:26:42,656
(MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING)
1421
01:26:48,412 --> 01:26:50,414
(FOOTSTEPS RECEDING)
1422
01:26:52,416 --> 01:26:54,418
CORA: This drowned actress.
1423
01:26:55,336 --> 01:26:57,922
Is her passing a great loss
to the British theatre?
1424
01:26:58,547 --> 01:27:00,799
An ordinary girl
from ordinary stock.
1425
01:27:00,883 --> 01:27:03,802
A girl like our readers, who,
I don't know, lost her way.
1426
01:27:05,471 --> 01:27:06,931
- Write it up, then.
- Hmm.
1427
01:27:07,014 --> 01:27:08,515
An appreciation.
1428
01:27:09,892 --> 01:27:11,894
(TYPING)
1429
01:27:29,870 --> 01:27:31,872
(CONTINUES TYPING)
1430
01:27:40,339 --> 01:27:41,382
(TYPING STOPS)
1431
01:27:42,591 --> 01:27:43,968
(SIGHS SOFTLY)
1432
01:27:50,349 --> 01:27:51,767
(DOOR OPENS)
1433
01:27:53,978 --> 01:27:55,020
(DOOR CLOSES)
1434
01:27:55,104 --> 01:27:57,231
(CHURCH BELL TOLLING)
1435
01:28:01,402 --> 01:28:04,029
(MIDNIGHT, THE STARS AND YOU
BY AL BOWLLY PLAYING)
1436
01:28:12,413 --> 01:28:14,164
(LIGHTER CLICKS)
1437
01:28:22,131 --> 01:28:23,549
(LAUGHTER)
1438
01:28:30,431 --> 01:28:33,058
JIMMY: The death of
any promising young actress
1439
01:28:33,142 --> 01:28:34,518
is always a shock.
1440
01:28:35,019 --> 01:28:38,105
Regarding Miss Nina Land's
recent passing,
1441
01:28:38,188 --> 01:28:40,482
it's tantamount to tragedy.
1442
01:28:40,566 --> 01:28:42,484
I raved about her.
1443
01:28:42,568 --> 01:28:46,238
And all too briefly,
she tasted glory.
1444
01:28:47,364 --> 01:28:50,576
Who knows what demons
drove poor Nina
1445
01:28:50,659 --> 01:28:52,828
to her lonely grave.
1446
01:28:52,911 --> 01:28:55,122
Perhaps the same demons
1447
01:28:55,205 --> 01:28:56,999
with which
she summoned greatness
1448
01:28:57,082 --> 01:29:00,627
in her final performances
on the London stage.
1449
01:29:05,674 --> 01:29:11,764
♪ Midnight
with the stars and you ♪
1450
01:29:12,389 --> 01:29:17,269
♪ Midnight and a rendezvous ♪
1451
01:29:17,352 --> 01:29:19,396
(TYPING)
1452
01:29:19,480 --> 01:29:25,235
♪ Your eyes
held a message tender ♪
1453
01:29:25,319 --> 01:29:32,326
♪ Saying, "I surrender
all my love to you" ♪
1454
01:29:33,786 --> 01:29:40,125
♪ Midnight
brought us sweet romance ♪
1455
01:29:40,876 --> 01:29:42,669
♪ I know ♪
1456
01:29:42,753 --> 01:29:46,423
- (KNOCK AT DOOR)
- ♪ All my whole life through ♪
1457
01:29:46,507 --> 01:29:47,716
(MUSIC STOPS ABRUPTLY)
1458
01:29:52,971 --> 01:29:54,807
I'm sorry
if my letter upset you.
1459
01:29:55,933 --> 01:29:57,976
Why have you stayed silent
so long?
1460
01:29:59,686 --> 01:30:01,146
I was his accomplice.
1461
01:30:02,773 --> 01:30:04,566
In telling you,
I risk imprisonment.
1462
01:30:05,734 --> 01:30:07,236
And yet here you are.
1463
01:30:09,363 --> 01:30:10,697
I have a conscience.
1464
01:30:11,782 --> 01:30:13,242
(SCOFFS SOFTLY)
1465
01:30:14,159 --> 01:30:15,702
You seem surprised.
1466
01:30:18,330 --> 01:30:20,207
A man with a conscience
would have stopped Mr Erskine
1467
01:30:20,290 --> 01:30:21,458
a long time ago.
1468
01:30:22,292 --> 01:30:23,544
He was my friend.
1469
01:30:25,045 --> 01:30:26,880
I greatly admired him.
1470
01:30:26,964 --> 01:30:28,382
And he was kind to me.
1471
01:30:33,637 --> 01:30:34,805
So…
1472
01:30:38,767 --> 01:30:41,603
The letters he used
to blackmail your father.
1473
01:30:57,619 --> 01:31:00,164
I assume you'll be wanting
compensation?
1474
01:31:00,247 --> 01:31:02,416
(SOMBRE MUSIC PLAYING)
1475
01:31:06,795 --> 01:31:08,797
(MUFFLED INDISTINCT
CHATTERING)
1476
01:31:10,924 --> 01:31:12,843
(FLASHBULB POPS)
1477
01:31:16,054 --> 01:31:17,931
(FLASHBULB POPS)
1478
01:31:26,732 --> 01:31:27,983
No.
1479
01:31:30,944 --> 01:31:32,237
Justice.
1480
01:31:42,080 --> 01:31:44,374
(HAMMERING ON DOOR)
1481
01:31:46,168 --> 01:31:48,420
(INSISTENT HAMMERING ON DOOR)
1482
01:31:57,888 --> 01:31:59,848
(PHONES RINGING)
1483
01:32:06,563 --> 01:32:08,690
(PLAINTIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
1484
01:32:11,235 --> 01:32:12,694
(CELL DOOR SLAMS)
1485
01:32:15,113 --> 01:32:16,406
JIMMY: Tom,
1486
01:32:17,366 --> 01:32:19,409
did you follow the trial?
1487
01:32:20,661 --> 01:32:23,080
Did you see
how I protected you?
1488
01:32:24,539 --> 01:32:27,960
"No, Your Honour,
I acted alone."
1489
01:32:30,087 --> 01:32:32,756
I do regret the unpleasantness
with Miss Land.
1490
01:32:34,216 --> 01:32:36,593
But, you see,
she couldn't be trusted.
1491
01:32:36,677 --> 01:32:38,345
I had no choice.
1492
01:32:40,806 --> 01:32:43,475
In fact, I rather liked her.
1493
01:32:47,187 --> 01:32:49,398
Despite her crimes
against the theatre,
1494
01:32:49,481 --> 01:32:52,609
she was sensationally gorgeous
when drunk.
1495
01:32:55,320 --> 01:32:58,824
As for Mr Wyley
and his oily little brush,
1496
01:32:59,992 --> 01:33:01,994
glad to be
out of his awful painting.
1497
01:33:02,077 --> 01:33:05,664
Immortality in their company?
No, thanks.
1498
01:33:08,458 --> 01:33:09,751
To the matter.
1499
01:33:10,919 --> 01:33:13,755
I've left you
my entire estate.
1500
01:33:15,090 --> 01:33:19,553
It's not much. Furnishings,
minor works of art, books.
1501
01:33:21,054 --> 01:33:24,057
And I've appointed you
my literary executor.
1502
01:33:27,227 --> 01:33:29,813
Notoriety might inspire
publication
1503
01:33:29,896 --> 01:33:32,190
of my uncollected essays.
1504
01:33:33,066 --> 01:33:34,818
You'll find them in the file
1505
01:33:34,901 --> 01:33:37,404
you labelled
"miscellaneous shit".
1506
01:33:43,410 --> 01:33:47,039
I encourage you to continue
your education in the theatre.
1507
01:33:48,165 --> 01:33:50,751
I believe you have a talent
for the trade.
1508
01:33:53,920 --> 01:33:57,424
I once thought you were
too kind to plunge the dagger.
1509
01:33:58,383 --> 01:33:59,551
Events have revealed
1510
01:33:59,634 --> 01:34:02,054
you're made of stronger stuff
than I knew.
1511
01:34:06,808 --> 01:34:07,976
Tom,
1512
01:34:09,394 --> 01:34:11,396
- you know where I am.
- (APPLAUSE)
1513
01:34:12,147 --> 01:34:13,315
Do visit.
1514
01:34:15,275 --> 01:34:16,485
Please.
1515
01:34:17,986 --> 01:34:20,822
I won't be here forever.
1516
01:34:22,282 --> 01:34:23,700
(LIGHT CRACKLES)
1517
01:34:31,875 --> 01:34:34,294
(SENTIMENTAL CLASSICAL
MUSIC PLAYING)
1518
01:38:48,006 --> 01:38:50,008
(SOMBRE MUSIC PLAYING)