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Cheers.
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[chimes tinkling]
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[narrator] The earliest
documented instance
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of an animal speaking
like a human
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was in the 5th century BC,
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by the Greek physician Ctesias,
who wrote,
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"In my travels to India,
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I encountered a parrot
about as large as a hawk,
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with a human tongue and voice,
a dark red beak, a black beard,
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and blue feathers up to a neck,
which is red like cinnabar.
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It speaks Indian like a native
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and if taught Greek,
speaks Greek."
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In 1962, a budgerigar
named Sparkie Williams
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held the world record
for the largest vocabulary
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of a talking bird.
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Stupid bastard.
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[narrator]
At the time of his death,
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he knew 531 words.
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Stupid bastard. Silly bugger.
Stupid bastard.
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Like I told you,
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he is a very, very,
very good boy.
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That's not important right now.
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[narrator] In 1995,
a budgerigar named Park
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was credited by Guinness's
Book of World Records
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as having the largest
vocabulary of any bird.
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Never shake a baby bird,
that would surely be absurd.
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Konnichiwa!
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[narrator] While the budgerigar
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can be taught the most words,
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it is believed by many
that the hill myna
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sounds most similar
to a human when it speaks.
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Hello, how are you?
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[humanly laugh]
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Hello, how are you?
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[narrator] Crows are considered
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some of the most intelligent
animals on Earth.
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Come on.
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[narrator] And they can learn,
in some cases,
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to mimic human speech
and laughter.
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What a good boy.
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[narrator] And while most often
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when one thinks of an animal
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speaking like a human...
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[scream-like bleat]
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[narrator]
...one thinks of a bird.
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[scream-like yowl]
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[guttural yowl]
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[narrator] Some other animals
can produce sounds
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that are remarkably
like the ones we make.
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[grunting snorts]
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[narrator] These are very
isolated occurrences, however.
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The result of coincidence
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rather than anything supernatural.
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vocalizations]
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You are considered to be
the world's foremost expert
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in parapsychology.
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A field of research I will admit
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I was unfamiliar with
until quite recently.
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Well, most are.
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Hm.
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There is something
I have been dying to ask,
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no pun intended,
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since we arranged
this interview.
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I hope my, uh, nomenclature
is not too crude.
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Well, what is it?
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Well, do you believe in ghosts?
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Well, the answer
to that question
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is actually quite complicated.
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How so?
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Do you believe
that ghosts are real?
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Well, now that is an entirely
different question
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with an even more
complicated answer.
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I'm afraid I'm a bit lost.
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Aren't we all?
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Allow me to respond
to your inquiry
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with a question for you.
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And that is, how do you define
that term, "real"?
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Well, it is, I suppose,
what I can see, what I can feel.
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Hear, smell.
What is obviously around me.
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Precisely.
What you can see,
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what you can feel,
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what is around you.
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- Right.
- Now, allow me
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to elucidate further
with a short exercise.
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- All right.
- Suppose when I look
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into the corner of the room,
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I see a man standing there
looking back at me.
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But there's no one there.
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[Dr. Fodor] So you say.
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But what if I could see someone?
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Can you?
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For the purpose
of this demonstration,
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yes, I see, as I said, a man.
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He is old with a heavy beard.
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Blue eyes. [laughs]
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He is making faces at me now.
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He is waggling his tongue.
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Right, but, uh, but there is
no one there.
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Do you see anyone there?
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What? So you cannot see him,
neither can he.
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And yet I can.
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So is he real or not?
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Well, no.
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But I say he is.
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But he is not.
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But I...
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say he is.
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That you two cannot see anyone
is irrelevant
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as far as I am concerned.
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You could bring
a thousand people in here
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and ask them all
if they see someone
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and they could all say no,
and yet I can.
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So to me, he is real.
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I think I understand now.
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Good. However...
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Oh, God, what now?
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My field of research with
regard to this scenario
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I have concocted
has little to do with the fact
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that you two cannot see
anyone in the corner.
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In fact, it does not
really matter that I can.
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What I am concerned with...
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What I am obsessed
with understanding is,
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why I can see that man?
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Do you understand?
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Not at all.
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[rain pattering]
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[sighs]
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Anne, hello.
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How was it?
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[grunting sigh]
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A drink, please.
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I see.
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Would you prefer
the Burns or the Calvert?
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The Calvert to start.
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[gentle music
plays quietly nearby]
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Now after the day
you've had,
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probably in no mood to have me
read your letters to you.
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Well... you might as well.
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Otherwise, they'll just...
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continue to accumulate.
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Yes.
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Right.
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[sighs, clears throat]
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"Dear Dr. Fodor,
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I do hope this letter
finds you well.
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My name is--"
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S-Sorry, Anne.
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If you could skip
the pleasantries,
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I'm not in the mood.
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Certainly. Yeah.
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"I live in the town
of Dundee, Scotland
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with my son Oliver.
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When we moved
into the cottage on--"
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All right.
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Here is what we will do.
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You will read the letter
to yourself,
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then you will take a moment.
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And then you will summarize it
for me.
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Ye... yes, sir.
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How short would you prefer
this summary to be?
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Four sentences or less.
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- How does that sound?
- Four. Yes.
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[vehicle drives past outside]
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[muttering]
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[clock chiming]
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Oh.
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Right, I think I've got it.
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Oh, does that count as one
of my four sentences?
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- No.
- Excellent.
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A young Scottish boy.
He sees his dead grandmother.
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Mother doesn't believe.
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Mother finds dead grandmother's
necklace on her pillow...
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One, two, three.
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...and the boy suffers at school
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because of his visions.
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Next.
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[mumbling]
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[thunder rumbling]
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Right.
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Library in Calcutta.
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Ghost of the former caretaker
said to haunt the history wing.
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Books strewn around.
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Photograph of phantasm enclosed.
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[Dr. Fodor sighs]
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[Anne] See? It's there.
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Oh, for fuck's sake.
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Next.
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Oh, golly. Right.
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[hums softly]
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Isle of Man.
Family living in a farmhouse.
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Claim a talking mongoose
lives in their barn.
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Creature's name is Gef.
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A talking mongoose.
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Yes.
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The creature,
whose name is Gef,
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resembles a mongoose
or some other member of--
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May I?
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Thank you.
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"Dear Dr. Fodor, greetings.
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I hope this letter finds you...
The Isle of Man.
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Let me begin by saying that
the earliest documented instance
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of an animal
speaking like a human
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was in the 5th century BC
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by the Greek philosopher
Ctesias--"
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This is from Dr. Harry Price.
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Yes, I-I believe he-he-he
visited the Irving family
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and investigated
the creature.
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Gef.
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"And while he did not see it,
he heard it.
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And the Irvings, and many
of the other townspeople
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are utterly convinced
that the creature does exist."
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[tense music playing]
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[thunder rumbling]
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- Would you pour me another?
- Oh, yes.
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[thunder rumbles loudly]
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[soft, fantastical music plays]
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[Dr. Fodor] "And while
he did not see it,
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he heard it.
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And the Irvings, and many
of the other townspeople
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are utterly convinced
that the creature does exist."
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[music drops off suddenly]
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A talking...
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mongoose.
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[lively piano music playing]
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[indistinct chatter nearby]
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I, uh, ordered you a gin rickey.
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I dimly recall a fondness for...
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Thank you.
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Apologies for my lateness.
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I took a circuitous route,
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to ensure I was not
being followed.
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Why on Earth
would anyone follow you?
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[Dr. Price] I don't know.
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I did not wish to be seen
together in this...
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public place.
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Have I become that unpopular
with your peers?
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I'm afraid so.
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The London Spiritualist Alliance
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do not take kindly to your new
clinical methods of research.
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So...
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The mongoose.
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Gef.
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[chuckles]
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Well, I-I must admit I found
your letter to be intriguing.
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[scoffs]
In my nearly 30 years
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of investigating
unnatural occurrences,
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this is perhaps
the strangest case
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I have ever encountered.
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Really?
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Mr. Irving, who owns the farm
upon which Gef resides,
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had written me 16 letters
over the past four years,
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describing the antics
of this bizarre creature.
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Strange that
he never wrote to me.
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Ah, the Irving family
are peculiar.
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Just to be clear,
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did you witness this creature
during your investigation?
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Did you observe it
speaking like a human?
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00:15:14,348 --> 00:15:15,392
[clicks tongue] No.
272
00:15:15,523 --> 00:15:16,872
No.
273
00:15:17,003 --> 00:15:19,962
But I did hear it.
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00:15:20,093 --> 00:15:21,050
You did?
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00:15:21,181 --> 00:15:23,009
Yes. Once.
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From another room.
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00:15:25,576 --> 00:15:27,056
From another room?
278
00:15:28,014 --> 00:15:30,581
And you're certain
it was the creature you heard,
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00:15:30,712 --> 00:15:32,061
not someone else?
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I suppose it could have been.
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00:15:35,369 --> 00:15:38,459
We were informed
by one of the townspeople
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that the daughter, Voirrey,
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00:15:40,940 --> 00:15:44,160
is an adept ventriloquist.
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00:15:45,422 --> 00:15:46,554
I'm sorry.
285
00:15:46,684 --> 00:15:48,599
I know how all this sounds.
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00:15:50,427 --> 00:15:51,689
[sighs]
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00:16:00,568 --> 00:16:01,699
What's this?
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[Dr. Price] My journal.
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00:16:02,962 --> 00:16:05,007
It contains notes I took
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00:16:05,138 --> 00:16:10,882
during the investigation
of the Irving family, and Gef.
291
00:16:13,189 --> 00:16:15,365
[lighthearted piano music
plays in pub]
292
00:16:17,237 --> 00:16:19,152
An adept ventriloquist.
293
00:16:20,370 --> 00:16:23,547
[both laugh]
294
00:16:24,113 --> 00:16:25,332
[groans]
295
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The people of Cashen's Gap
are nearly unanimous
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in their belief in-in Gef.
297
00:16:32,992 --> 00:16:37,474
Many have encountered
the creature, or so they say.
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00:16:39,085 --> 00:16:40,129
Interesting.
299
00:16:43,741 --> 00:16:45,526
You know who you remind me of?
300
00:16:46,527 --> 00:16:47,571
Who's that?
301
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Harry Houdini.
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00:16:49,965 --> 00:16:51,271
[snorts]
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00:16:51,401 --> 00:16:53,795
I'm far less clever than he was.
304
00:16:53,925 --> 00:16:56,624
Perhaps, but your lives
have been quite similar,
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00:16:56,754 --> 00:16:58,060
in some ways.
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00:16:59,801 --> 00:17:01,324
I recall,
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before you became a skeptic.
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00:17:03,761 --> 00:17:05,241
I am not a skeptic.
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00:17:05,372 --> 00:17:07,765
[Dr. Price] Before you became
what you are,
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I distinctly remember
you telling me
311
00:17:10,029 --> 00:17:14,033
the story of the seance
you participated in.
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00:17:14,685 --> 00:17:18,341
With a voice medium,
William Cartheuser.
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00:17:18,472 --> 00:17:21,214
You became disillusioned,
with Cartheuser,
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00:17:21,910 --> 00:17:24,521
with all mediums, as we know.
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00:17:24,652 --> 00:17:26,132
And yet, you spoke
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00:17:26,262 --> 00:17:29,483
of the overwhelming
emotional impact
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00:17:29,613 --> 00:17:31,876
of encountering...
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your departed father.
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00:17:35,141 --> 00:17:36,577
What has this to do
with Houdini?
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00:17:36,707 --> 00:17:40,407
[Dr. Price]
Humans are obsessed with death.
321
00:17:40,537 --> 00:17:45,020
And with what does
or does not come after it.
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You investigate
unnatural occurrences
323
00:17:48,154 --> 00:17:50,330
under the guise of understanding
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00:17:50,460 --> 00:17:56,945
why humans project
these phantasms into reality.
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00:17:57,772 --> 00:18:03,647
Why they are incapable of
letting go of these delusions,
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00:18:03,778 --> 00:18:04,996
as you call them.
327
00:18:05,693 --> 00:18:06,737
Yes.
328
00:18:07,999 --> 00:18:12,091
I think you still
just miss your father.
329
00:18:17,792 --> 00:18:19,924
Houdini was deeply affected
330
00:18:20,055 --> 00:18:23,363
by the death of his mother,
as you know.
331
00:18:24,494 --> 00:18:26,583
He visited a medium
332
00:18:26,714 --> 00:18:30,065
hoping he might be able
to communicate with her.
333
00:18:31,501 --> 00:18:34,243
[table rattling]
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00:18:34,374 --> 00:18:36,463
[tense music playing]
335
00:18:38,508 --> 00:18:42,338
And he realized
that the medium was a fraud.
336
00:18:42,469 --> 00:18:45,776
So he sought to disprove
all mediums,
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00:18:45,907 --> 00:18:47,865
to expose all psychics
338
00:18:47,996 --> 00:18:51,565
and spiritualists
as opportunists,
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00:18:51,695 --> 00:18:54,176
who prey upon the bereaved.
340
00:18:55,786 --> 00:18:59,703
He would attend seances
in disguise,
341
00:18:59,834 --> 00:19:03,664
and would leap forth
and explain to those present
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00:19:03,794 --> 00:19:06,014
how they were being duped...
343
00:19:06,145 --> 00:19:08,016
You are a fraud!
344
00:19:08,147 --> 00:19:10,453
[Dr. Price] ...demonstrating
the fraudulent methods
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00:19:10,584 --> 00:19:12,890
the mediums employed.
346
00:19:13,021 --> 00:19:14,327
I've heard these stories.
347
00:19:14,457 --> 00:19:17,068
[Dr. Price]
But he wanted to believe.
348
00:19:17,199 --> 00:19:20,028
He wanted to be mystified.
349
00:19:20,159 --> 00:19:24,598
He wanted to find one
who did understand
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00:19:24,728 --> 00:19:29,777
so he could communicate
with his dead mother.
351
00:19:29,907 --> 00:19:33,650
Did you know
that he and his wife, Bess,
352
00:19:33,781 --> 00:19:35,870
devised a message
353
00:19:36,479 --> 00:19:38,960
which one or the other
would relay,
354
00:19:39,090 --> 00:19:42,616
via medium, after they passed?
355
00:19:43,225 --> 00:19:47,186
Supposedly they told no one
this message.
356
00:19:47,316 --> 00:19:49,057
[Dr. Fodor]
I did not know this, no.
357
00:19:49,623 --> 00:19:51,625
[whispers indistinctly]
358
00:19:54,236 --> 00:19:55,977
[Dr. Price] After Houdini died,
359
00:19:56,107 --> 00:20:00,677
Bess visited a medium
named Arthur Ford.
360
00:20:00,808 --> 00:20:04,594
And he informed her
he had received a message
361
00:20:04,725 --> 00:20:07,206
from her late husband.
362
00:20:08,946 --> 00:20:10,209
Is that right?
363
00:20:10,687 --> 00:20:14,256
[Dr. Price] Bess confirmed
that the message was,
364
00:20:14,387 --> 00:20:19,609
in fact, the code,
which only she and Harry knew.
365
00:20:19,740 --> 00:20:21,655
[music fades]
366
00:20:26,486 --> 00:20:30,054
So, what do you think
about that?
367
00:20:30,185 --> 00:20:33,144
[lighthearted piano music
resumes in pub]
368
00:20:33,275 --> 00:20:35,364
I don't think anything
about that.
369
00:20:43,851 --> 00:20:45,113
Anne!
370
00:20:45,244 --> 00:20:48,203
[whimsical, pensive music
playing]
371
00:20:48,334 --> 00:20:49,770
[door slams shut]
372
00:20:52,425 --> 00:20:54,253
Ow! Who put that there?
373
00:20:56,907 --> 00:20:58,039
Anne!
374
00:21:00,084 --> 00:21:02,696
[footsteps]
375
00:21:04,132 --> 00:21:05,351
Is everything all right?
376
00:21:05,481 --> 00:21:07,831
We are going
to the Isle of Man.
377
00:21:08,876 --> 00:21:09,920
Golly!
378
00:21:10,617 --> 00:21:12,619
[train whistle blows]
379
00:21:12,749 --> 00:21:15,491
[dramatic music playing]
380
00:21:16,492 --> 00:21:18,102
[Dr. Fodor]
"The most extraordinary part
381
00:21:18,233 --> 00:21:19,452
of this amazing case
382
00:21:19,582 --> 00:21:22,063
is that Mr. Irving
has kept a sort of diary
383
00:21:22,193 --> 00:21:24,152
in the form of letters
of Gef's doings,
384
00:21:24,283 --> 00:21:26,937
and it rivals
the Arabian Nights
385
00:21:27,068 --> 00:21:31,420
in the fantastic improbabilities
which the record contains.
386
00:21:31,551 --> 00:21:34,597
Before me are 200
quarto typed sheets,
387
00:21:34,728 --> 00:21:37,121
and every page
describes a miracle.
388
00:21:37,252 --> 00:21:40,211
I will mention some of the most
interesting incidents."
389
00:21:43,606 --> 00:21:45,521
[train whistle blows]
390
00:21:46,696 --> 00:21:50,265
[Dr. Price] In June 1932,
Gef began killing rabbits,
391
00:21:50,396 --> 00:21:51,832
for the family.
392
00:21:51,962 --> 00:21:53,137
He strangled them,
393
00:21:53,268 --> 00:21:54,965
and thoughtfully
left them outside
394
00:21:55,096 --> 00:21:58,534
in a convenient position
on the wall.
395
00:21:58,665 --> 00:22:01,885
During the next year or so,
he slaughtered scores of them
396
00:22:02,016 --> 00:22:04,627
and the faunal equilibrium
of the district
397
00:22:04,758 --> 00:22:07,500
was in danger of being upset.
398
00:22:09,371 --> 00:22:10,894
In 1934,
399
00:22:11,025 --> 00:22:14,245
Gef began making little trips
to the nearest town
400
00:22:14,376 --> 00:22:16,422
and on his return,
told the farmer
401
00:22:16,552 --> 00:22:19,033
what certain people
have been doing.
402
00:22:19,163 --> 00:22:21,427
This was proved to be correct.
403
00:22:21,557 --> 00:22:24,908
Then he became clairvoyant
and told the farmer
404
00:22:25,039 --> 00:22:28,869
what was happening ten miles
away without leaving the farm.
405
00:22:28,999 --> 00:22:31,785
Questioned as to whether
he was a "spirit,"
406
00:22:31,915 --> 00:22:36,442
Gef said
"I am an earthbound spirit."
407
00:22:36,572 --> 00:22:40,141
In July of the same year,
Gef began doing tricks.
408
00:22:40,271 --> 00:22:43,927
A person would go outside
onto the farmhouse's porch
409
00:22:44,058 --> 00:22:46,060
and place some pennies
on a stone.
410
00:22:46,190 --> 00:22:48,671
Gef, with his eye
to the door's peephole,
411
00:22:48,802 --> 00:22:52,501
would then say whether
they were heads or tails up.
412
00:22:53,197 --> 00:22:55,461
Sometimes he was right.
413
00:22:56,549 --> 00:22:59,290
Voirrey has even attempted
to photograph him.
414
00:22:59,421 --> 00:23:02,337
But just as she was about
to press the button,
415
00:23:02,468 --> 00:23:06,297
he darted off and was not
heard from for days.
416
00:23:06,428 --> 00:23:09,170
Gef explained that he is afraid
of being caught.
417
00:23:09,300 --> 00:23:11,955
Not by the camera,
but by a trap.
418
00:23:12,086 --> 00:23:14,305
Hence his timidity.
419
00:23:15,698 --> 00:23:18,788
Sometimes Gef follows
the Irvings to the nearest town
420
00:23:18,919 --> 00:23:20,311
when they go marketing.
421
00:23:20,442 --> 00:23:23,402
But always keeps
on the far side of the hedge,
422
00:23:23,532 --> 00:23:26,970
though he chats gaily
all the time.
423
00:23:29,582 --> 00:23:34,543
In March, 1935,
I received some fur and hairs
424
00:23:34,674 --> 00:23:38,504
which Gef had kindly plucked
from his back and tail,
425
00:23:38,634 --> 00:23:41,115
and was asked to identify it.
426
00:23:42,203 --> 00:23:45,424
I forwarded it
to Professor Julian Huxley,
427
00:23:45,554 --> 00:23:49,471
who handed it to
Mr. F. Martin Duncan, F.Z.S.,
428
00:23:49,602 --> 00:23:52,648
the authority on hair and fur.
429
00:23:52,779 --> 00:23:54,911
In a letter to me, he says:
430
00:23:55,042 --> 00:23:57,653
I have carefully examined them microscopically
431
00:23:57,784 --> 00:24:00,439
and compared them
with hairs of known origin.
432
00:24:01,004 --> 00:24:03,398
As a result,
I can very definitely state
433
00:24:03,529 --> 00:24:06,532
that these specimen hairs
never grew upon a mongoose,
434
00:24:07,184 --> 00:24:11,058
nor are they those of a rat,
rabbit, hare, squirrel,
435
00:24:11,188 --> 00:24:14,931
or other rodent,
or sheep, goat, or cow.
436
00:24:15,758 --> 00:24:18,761
I am inclined
that these hairs have probably
437
00:24:18,892 --> 00:24:22,983
been taken from
a longish-haired dog or dogs.
438
00:24:24,419 --> 00:24:26,856
[Dr. Price] Mr. Irving wrote
that he would be delighted
439
00:24:26,987 --> 00:24:30,599
to see me and would make
all arrangements for my visit.
440
00:24:30,730 --> 00:24:32,993
Unfortunately,
on receipt of the letter
441
00:24:33,123 --> 00:24:36,518
announcing my decision,
Gef suddenly disappeared.
442
00:24:37,171 --> 00:24:39,521
At the end of the month,
he was still missing,
443
00:24:39,652 --> 00:24:41,697
but I decided
not to alter my plans.
444
00:24:41,828 --> 00:24:43,482
And as I wanted a witness
445
00:24:43,612 --> 00:24:46,093
in case Gef should put
in an appearance,
446
00:24:46,223 --> 00:24:50,227
I asked Mr. R.S. Lambert,
the editor of The Listener,
447
00:24:50,358 --> 00:24:52,229
if he would accompany me.
448
00:24:52,969 --> 00:24:55,755
Upon our arrival to the Isle,
we decided to visit
449
00:24:55,885 --> 00:24:57,800
the haunt of Gef right away.
450
00:24:57,931 --> 00:25:00,499
As we approached,
Mr. Lambert and I
451
00:25:00,629 --> 00:25:05,242
were startled by an animal
bounding toward us.
452
00:25:06,287 --> 00:25:08,245
But it was only Ralph,
453
00:25:08,376 --> 00:25:10,117
the Irving's
three-year-old dog,
454
00:25:10,247 --> 00:25:13,076
who had heard
his master's voice.
455
00:25:14,948 --> 00:25:19,213
We at last reached the house
and were introduced to Voirrey,
456
00:25:19,343 --> 00:25:23,739
a good-looking girl of 17
who we found very intelligent,
457
00:25:23,870 --> 00:25:26,002
shy, and rather quiet.
458
00:25:26,133 --> 00:25:29,092
Mrs. Irving is a charming
and dignified lady
459
00:25:29,223 --> 00:25:30,920
who gave us a friendly welcome
460
00:25:31,051 --> 00:25:34,358
and asked us
to make ourselves at home.
461
00:25:34,489 --> 00:25:37,797
Mr. Irving was a successful
Liverpool businessman
462
00:25:37,927 --> 00:25:39,407
who, at the beginning
of the War,
463
00:25:39,538 --> 00:25:40,756
bought the farmstead,
464
00:25:40,887 --> 00:25:43,846
hoping to make a living
breeding sheep.
465
00:25:43,977 --> 00:25:45,805
As we sat around
the paraffin lamp
466
00:25:45,935 --> 00:25:48,416
in the small,
dark-paneled parlor,
467
00:25:48,547 --> 00:25:51,201
we heard the Gef story
all over again.
468
00:25:51,332 --> 00:25:53,900
Mr. Lambert and I
plied the Irvings
469
00:25:54,030 --> 00:25:57,033
with innumerable questions
and received answers
470
00:25:57,164 --> 00:25:58,905
which invariably tallied
471
00:25:59,035 --> 00:26:02,604
with what Mr. Irving
had recorded in his letters.
472
00:26:03,997 --> 00:26:09,089
The family was heartbroken
by Gef's continued absence.
473
00:26:09,219 --> 00:26:11,700
Mrs. Irving
was convinced the mongoose
474
00:26:11,831 --> 00:26:13,746
was still about the house.
475
00:26:14,442 --> 00:26:18,141
Probably listening
to every word we were saying.
476
00:26:20,666 --> 00:26:22,450
She addressed
a few words to Gef
477
00:26:22,581 --> 00:26:24,408
in the hope that her appeal
478
00:26:24,539 --> 00:26:27,455
would strike a sympathetic
chord somewhere.
479
00:26:27,586 --> 00:26:30,066
There was no response.
480
00:26:30,197 --> 00:26:31,807
Then I addressed
a little speech
481
00:26:31,938 --> 00:26:34,201
to the four walls
of the living room,
482
00:26:34,331 --> 00:26:36,159
hoping Gef would hear me.
483
00:26:36,290 --> 00:26:39,772
I pointed out that we had come
a long way on his account,
484
00:26:39,902 --> 00:26:43,079
and that we were entitled
to some manifestation.
485
00:26:43,210 --> 00:26:45,734
A few words,
a scream, a squeak,
486
00:26:45,865 --> 00:26:48,998
or just a simple scratch
behind the paneling.
487
00:26:49,129 --> 00:26:52,349
I even invited him
to throw something at me.
488
00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:54,569
But all to no purpose.
489
00:26:54,700 --> 00:26:58,355
Gef was definitely
not in a talking mood.
490
00:27:01,271 --> 00:27:04,753
Neither Mr. Lambert
nor I slept very well.
491
00:27:04,884 --> 00:27:07,626
The mongoose problem
obsessed our minds
492
00:27:07,756 --> 00:27:09,932
and made sleep difficult.
493
00:27:10,063 --> 00:27:13,544
Was the whole affair
a fraud from A to Z?
494
00:27:13,675 --> 00:27:16,460
Was it a plot
lasting four years?
495
00:27:16,591 --> 00:27:18,985
If so, what was the motive?
496
00:27:19,115 --> 00:27:21,335
Were the Irvings engaged
in a clever,
497
00:27:21,465 --> 00:27:23,946
picturesque conspiracy?
498
00:27:24,077 --> 00:27:26,993
Was there any
sort of animal at all?
499
00:27:27,123 --> 00:27:30,083
Was there any real evidence whatsoever
500
00:27:30,213 --> 00:27:32,085
that Gef had been heard?
501
00:27:32,215 --> 00:27:33,477
If a plot...
502
00:27:33,608 --> 00:27:35,436
there was no apparent motive,
503
00:27:35,566 --> 00:27:37,351
no financial gain.
504
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:39,788
[tense music playing]
505
00:27:39,919 --> 00:27:42,051
[rooster crowing]
506
00:27:42,182 --> 00:27:45,838
The next morning we awoke to
the news that Gef had returned
507
00:27:45,968 --> 00:27:48,623
and been talking
throughout much of the night.
508
00:27:48,754 --> 00:27:51,191
Incidentally,
Gef had informed the farmer
509
00:27:51,321 --> 00:27:54,194
that he had taken
a sly glance at me
510
00:27:54,324 --> 00:27:58,024
and did not like how I looked.
511
00:27:58,154 --> 00:28:01,027
So I was told to stand
in a certain position
512
00:28:01,157 --> 00:28:04,508
on the floor and cry out
"I believe in you, Gef!"
513
00:28:05,161 --> 00:28:07,468
I believe in you, Gef!
514
00:28:07,598 --> 00:28:10,123
There came a shrill scream
from upstairs.
515
00:28:10,253 --> 00:28:13,213
So once again I called out,
this time saying
516
00:28:13,343 --> 00:28:15,563
"Won't you come down?
I believe in you!"
517
00:28:15,694 --> 00:28:16,999
To which Gef replied,
518
00:28:17,130 --> 00:28:19,349
"No, I don't mean to stay long,
519
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:21,047
as I don't like you!"
520
00:28:21,177 --> 00:28:22,744
As the mongoose was talking,
521
00:28:22,875 --> 00:28:25,965
Mr. Lambert crept
toward the stairs.
522
00:28:26,095 --> 00:28:27,401
But unfortunately,
523
00:28:27,531 --> 00:28:29,446
the top stair
had a loose tread,
524
00:28:29,577 --> 00:28:32,058
which he stepped on
and went tumbling down,
525
00:28:32,188 --> 00:28:34,147
making a terrible noise.
526
00:28:34,277 --> 00:28:37,585
Gef shrieked out
"He is coming!" and vanished.
527
00:28:38,455 --> 00:28:41,110
[dramatic music playing]
528
00:28:44,157 --> 00:28:46,768
The Irvings
were kindness personified,
529
00:28:46,899 --> 00:28:51,077
and did everything for us,
except produce Gef.
530
00:28:53,209 --> 00:28:56,473
Mr. Irving personally
conducted us over the house
531
00:28:56,604 --> 00:28:59,041
and pointed out Gef's haunts.
532
00:28:59,650 --> 00:29:02,088
We saw numerous peepholes,
533
00:29:02,218 --> 00:29:04,090
cracks through which Gef
threw things
534
00:29:04,220 --> 00:29:05,961
at doubting visitors.
535
00:29:06,657 --> 00:29:08,834
Squint-holes
through which the mongoose
536
00:29:08,964 --> 00:29:10,357
watches the Irvings.
537
00:29:10,487 --> 00:29:12,272
We saw the runs behind paneling
538
00:29:12,402 --> 00:29:14,883
by which Gef can skip, unseen,
539
00:29:15,014 --> 00:29:17,277
from one room to another.
540
00:29:17,407 --> 00:29:19,105
The fact that every room
is paneled
541
00:29:19,235 --> 00:29:22,456
makes the whole house
one enormous speaking-tube,
542
00:29:22,586 --> 00:29:25,459
with walls
like sounding-boards.
543
00:29:27,853 --> 00:29:30,856
In Voirrey's room
we were shown Gef's "sanctum,"
544
00:29:30,986 --> 00:29:32,988
which was a boxed partition,
545
00:29:33,119 --> 00:29:35,817
on top of which Gef
was said to dance
546
00:29:35,948 --> 00:29:39,995
to the gramophone
and bounce his favorite ball.
547
00:29:41,170 --> 00:29:44,695
By speaking into one of the
many apertures in the panels,
548
00:29:44,826 --> 00:29:46,175
it should be possible
549
00:29:46,306 --> 00:29:47,698
to convey the voice
550
00:29:47,829 --> 00:29:49,788
to various parts of the house.
551
00:29:53,530 --> 00:29:56,490
Apparently,
Gef often does this.
552
00:29:56,620 --> 00:29:58,274
[brakes squeak]
553
00:29:58,405 --> 00:30:00,711
[engine putters, shuts off]
554
00:30:05,586 --> 00:30:06,630
Can I fetch you a drink?
555
00:30:06,761 --> 00:30:09,329
Thank you.
No, um, I'm exhausted.
556
00:30:09,459 --> 00:30:11,897
I think I'm going
to retire early.
557
00:30:12,027 --> 00:30:13,681
Tomorrow should be interesting.
558
00:30:15,117 --> 00:30:17,554
I'm going to go to
the, uh, pub for a nightcap.
559
00:30:17,685 --> 00:30:18,991
Unless there's anything else
you might need?
560
00:30:20,079 --> 00:30:21,689
Uh, no, by all means.
561
00:30:21,820 --> 00:30:25,998
And, um, if you happen to see
any talking mongeese...
562
00:30:26,128 --> 00:30:27,129
[chuckles softly]
563
00:30:28,914 --> 00:30:30,480
It's mongooses,
I believe.
564
00:30:31,090 --> 00:30:33,788
Well, if you happen to see
any of either then,
565
00:30:34,528 --> 00:30:35,746
inform me right away.
566
00:30:35,877 --> 00:30:37,400
Yes, of course.
567
00:30:37,531 --> 00:30:39,707
- Night.
- Good night.
568
00:30:42,884 --> 00:30:44,320
[door opens]
569
00:30:44,799 --> 00:30:46,192
[dog barking]
570
00:30:51,588 --> 00:30:52,807
Good evening.
571
00:30:55,462 --> 00:30:58,030
- And to you.
- Is the bar closed?
572
00:30:59,770 --> 00:31:01,685
What would you like to drink,
m'dear?
573
00:31:03,905 --> 00:31:05,080
A whiskey.
574
00:31:06,603 --> 00:31:08,954
I dunno if it's good whiskey
I'm afraid.
575
00:31:09,780 --> 00:31:11,347
Well, shouldn't we wait for...
576
00:31:11,478 --> 00:31:12,522
For whom?
577
00:31:13,610 --> 00:31:15,699
[music plays softly nearby]
578
00:31:15,830 --> 00:31:17,223
[grunting]
579
00:31:18,833 --> 00:31:20,356
[chair creaking]
580
00:31:20,487 --> 00:31:22,619
[grunts, sighs]
581
00:31:30,758 --> 00:31:32,891
Here to see ol' Gef, right?
582
00:31:34,370 --> 00:31:36,633
I am the assistant
to Dr. Nandor Fodor,
583
00:31:36,764 --> 00:31:38,766
the world's
foremost parapsychologist.
584
00:31:38,897 --> 00:31:40,942
And we are here
to investigate a possible
585
00:31:41,073 --> 00:31:42,683
supernatural occurrence
586
00:31:42,813 --> 00:31:44,903
involving an entity known as,
587
00:31:45,555 --> 00:31:47,383
yes, Gef.
588
00:31:47,514 --> 00:31:48,558
Hm.
589
00:31:49,472 --> 00:31:51,126
Gef ain't supernatural.
590
00:31:53,172 --> 00:31:54,651
He's an earth spirit.
591
00:31:56,436 --> 00:31:58,177
Told me that hisself, he did.
592
00:32:00,092 --> 00:32:01,397
Have you encountered him?
593
00:32:03,051 --> 00:32:04,270
Indeed I have.
594
00:32:05,749 --> 00:32:06,794
Once.
595
00:32:07,838 --> 00:32:09,710
Were near two years past now.
596
00:32:11,842 --> 00:32:14,149
Did you see him?
Can you describe him?
597
00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:16,630
Were but only
for the briefest of moments.
598
00:32:18,632 --> 00:32:20,764
And outta the corner
of me eye.
599
00:32:22,810 --> 00:32:24,072
Oh, I see.
600
00:32:24,203 --> 00:32:25,334
But I heard him speak.
601
00:32:25,465 --> 00:32:27,815
[gentle, suspenseful music
playing]
602
00:32:27,946 --> 00:32:29,208
Clear as day.
603
00:32:38,739 --> 00:32:41,394
It were after the funeral rites
Father Penzen read
604
00:32:41,524 --> 00:32:43,048
for my beloved Helen.
605
00:32:44,963 --> 00:32:46,007
[Anne] Is that your wife?
606
00:32:46,138 --> 00:32:47,182
[man] Aye.
607
00:32:49,358 --> 00:32:51,186
Nigh onto 30 years.
608
00:32:52,535 --> 00:32:54,363
It was consumption took her...
609
00:32:56,148 --> 00:32:57,410
before her time.
610
00:32:58,063 --> 00:32:59,760
I am very sorry.
611
00:32:59,890 --> 00:33:01,457
I'd had a few that day.
612
00:33:02,284 --> 00:33:04,504
I wasn't copin' too well
with her loss.
613
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:07,202
So by's time
the rites had been read,
614
00:33:07,333 --> 00:33:09,378
I had to piss somethin' fierce.
615
00:33:09,509 --> 00:33:12,468
[church bell tolling]
616
00:33:14,122 --> 00:33:16,298
So I went 'round the side
of that old church,
617
00:33:17,299 --> 00:33:18,518
where I'd be outta sight.
618
00:33:20,607 --> 00:33:23,784
And it was when I was standin'
there, pissin',
619
00:33:27,005 --> 00:33:28,223
that I heard him.
620
00:33:30,530 --> 00:33:32,227
- Gef?
- Aye.
621
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:35,230
[gentle piano notes resonate]
622
00:33:35,361 --> 00:33:37,841
[sorrowful instrumentals
playing]
623
00:33:39,756 --> 00:33:41,802
He recited a poem to me.
624
00:33:44,805 --> 00:33:50,028
And even now, rememberin',
I get a bit blubbery.
625
00:33:51,725 --> 00:33:53,422
[shuddering breath]
626
00:33:57,122 --> 00:34:00,560
[Gef] "I dreamed that one
had died in a strange place
627
00:34:00,690 --> 00:34:02,257
Near no accustomed hand
628
00:34:02,388 --> 00:34:04,912
And they had nailed
the boards above her face
629
00:34:05,043 --> 00:34:07,001
The peasants of that land
630
00:34:07,132 --> 00:34:09,873
Wondering to lay her
in that solitude
631
00:34:10,004 --> 00:34:11,788
And raised above her mound
632
00:34:11,919 --> 00:34:14,965
A cross they had made
out of two bits of wood
633
00:34:15,096 --> 00:34:17,185
And planted cypress round
634
00:34:17,316 --> 00:34:20,406
And left her
to the indifferent stars above
635
00:34:20,536 --> 00:34:23,148
Until I carved these words
636
00:34:23,278 --> 00:34:27,108
She was more beautiful
than thy first love
637
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:31,069
But now lies under boards..."
638
00:34:36,161 --> 00:34:38,467
That were the day
I finally quit drinkin'.
639
00:34:42,036 --> 00:34:43,559
[sips, swallows loudly]
640
00:34:47,041 --> 00:34:48,956
That poem was by Yeats,
wasn't it?
641
00:34:49,435 --> 00:34:50,523
It's "A Dream of Death."
642
00:34:50,653 --> 00:34:51,741
Aye.
643
00:34:53,178 --> 00:34:56,833
But it weren't only the poem
itself that struck me so.
644
00:34:59,009 --> 00:35:00,315
It were that voice.
645
00:35:02,796 --> 00:35:04,841
That voice
that got inside of me.
646
00:35:07,192 --> 00:35:12,110
Felt like it were playin' up
my spinal cord like piano keys.
647
00:35:13,372 --> 00:35:14,460
I see.
648
00:35:14,590 --> 00:35:15,591
I'd been numb.
649
00:35:16,418 --> 00:35:17,419
See?
650
00:35:20,074 --> 00:35:22,120
Unaccepting that she were gone.
651
00:35:25,993 --> 00:35:30,084
It were the first time I allowed
myself to feel the pain.
652
00:35:33,261 --> 00:35:34,610
I needed to.
653
00:35:36,134 --> 00:35:37,396
I needed to.
654
00:35:38,136 --> 00:35:39,615
I understand.
655
00:35:42,966 --> 00:35:45,360
[breathes unevenly]
656
00:35:47,841 --> 00:35:50,974
Ya wanna know the strangest
part of the whole story, though?
657
00:35:54,195 --> 00:35:56,719
There's something stranger
than what you just told me?
658
00:35:58,199 --> 00:35:59,331
Aye.
659
00:36:01,071 --> 00:36:04,162
My Helen passed in April of '33.
660
00:36:05,554 --> 00:36:08,731
Good Friday,
if you can believe it.
661
00:36:10,211 --> 00:36:11,386
Oh.
662
00:36:12,082 --> 00:36:15,782
That poem, Yeats, as you know,
663
00:36:17,827 --> 00:36:20,917
it weren't published
until the summer of '34.
664
00:36:22,223 --> 00:36:23,224
Oh.
665
00:36:24,182 --> 00:36:25,139
Hm.
666
00:36:25,270 --> 00:36:26,706
You don't believe me, do ya?
667
00:36:28,142 --> 00:36:30,710
Well, it was a very sad story.
668
00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:31,928
[man] Aye.
669
00:36:32,059 --> 00:36:34,366
[solemn piano melody playing]
670
00:36:35,628 --> 00:36:37,891
You must understand,
Dr. Fodor has instilled in me
671
00:36:38,021 --> 00:36:40,023
a tremendous skepticism.
672
00:36:40,154 --> 00:36:41,503
[grunts]
673
00:36:41,634 --> 00:36:43,810
He always says,
"Believe only that
674
00:36:43,940 --> 00:36:45,681
which can be seen and heard,
675
00:36:45,812 --> 00:36:50,120
touched, detected
by instruments of science.
676
00:36:50,251 --> 00:36:51,992
Believe not words,
677
00:36:52,122 --> 00:36:56,257
but provable, observable facts."
678
00:37:00,870 --> 00:37:02,568
And that's how ya live, then?
679
00:37:05,962 --> 00:37:07,964
I mean, Dr. Fodor
is a brilliant man.
680
00:37:12,578 --> 00:37:14,928
Your story's as sad as mine,
I think.
681
00:37:17,191 --> 00:37:18,366
In its own way.
682
00:37:23,806 --> 00:37:25,678
[music ends]
683
00:37:25,808 --> 00:37:27,332
[shrill animal call
in the distance]
684
00:37:28,246 --> 00:37:29,377
[groans]
685
00:37:29,508 --> 00:37:30,509
[echoing owl call]
686
00:37:33,512 --> 00:37:34,687
[sighs]
687
00:37:34,817 --> 00:37:36,863
[owl trilling]
688
00:37:38,604 --> 00:37:41,389
[dramatic music playing]
689
00:37:50,442 --> 00:37:51,486
[car horn honks]
690
00:37:53,096 --> 00:37:54,576
[brakes squeak]
691
00:38:02,192 --> 00:38:03,846
Hey. Hey.
692
00:38:05,892 --> 00:38:07,894
- You must be Dr. Fodor.
- Yeah. Hello.
693
00:38:08,024 --> 00:38:09,591
- You must be Anne.
- How do you do?
694
00:38:09,722 --> 00:38:10,984
Delighted to make
your acquaintance!
695
00:38:11,114 --> 00:38:12,638
Welcome to Cashen's Gap!
696
00:38:12,768 --> 00:38:14,204
I see you've already met
our mayor!
697
00:38:15,249 --> 00:38:16,685
We're all very excited
that you're here.
698
00:38:16,816 --> 00:38:18,557
Dr. Price spoke
quite highly of you.
699
00:38:18,687 --> 00:38:20,298
Now, he was a lovely man,
he was.
700
00:38:20,428 --> 00:38:21,995
Oh. Indeed.
701
00:38:22,125 --> 00:38:23,388
Best of luck to you.
702
00:38:23,518 --> 00:38:25,041
Oh, thank you, Maurice.
703
00:38:25,172 --> 00:38:26,304
Mayor.
704
00:38:28,088 --> 00:38:29,785
Have to drive you
rest of the way to the house
705
00:38:29,916 --> 00:38:31,221
if that's all right with you.
706
00:38:31,352 --> 00:38:33,267
The, uh, grade can be a bit more
707
00:38:33,398 --> 00:38:35,400
uneven at times, I'm afraid.
708
00:38:35,922 --> 00:38:37,358
I think we will be fine.
709
00:38:40,143 --> 00:38:41,797
The warmth of this winter
in particular,
710
00:38:41,928 --> 00:38:44,757
makes it very suitable
for cultivation of apricots.
711
00:38:44,887 --> 00:38:47,063
Delicious little darlings,
if you've never had 'un.
712
00:38:48,195 --> 00:38:49,936
- I think I'm gonna be sick.
- Oh, gosh.
713
00:38:50,066 --> 00:38:53,940
And here, closer to the water,
the soil's a lot lighter,
714
00:38:54,070 --> 00:38:57,335
more akin to sand, so
the cherry trees just love it.
715
00:38:57,465 --> 00:38:58,684
You can see 'em there.
716
00:39:01,034 --> 00:39:02,209
What?
717
00:39:04,385 --> 00:39:06,605
[gentle dramatic music playing]
718
00:39:13,263 --> 00:39:15,570
And with how warm it's been,
as I mentioned,
719
00:39:15,701 --> 00:39:18,530
you know, the fruit's
just been growin' so well.
720
00:39:18,660 --> 00:39:20,270
Last year was more profitable
than the previous,
721
00:39:20,401 --> 00:39:21,924
which had been more profitable
than the previous.
722
00:39:22,055 --> 00:39:24,187
And this year, you know,
set to be the best yet.
723
00:39:24,318 --> 00:39:27,234
You know, it's more work,
but it's rewarding, in its way.
724
00:39:27,365 --> 00:39:30,280
Oh, Dr. Fodor,
this is my wife, Margaret.
725
00:39:30,411 --> 00:39:32,326
Maggie,
this is Dr. Nandor Fodor,
726
00:39:32,457 --> 00:39:33,762
and his assistant, Anne.
727
00:39:33,893 --> 00:39:36,678
It's a real pleasure
to meet ya, Dr. Fodor.
728
00:39:36,809 --> 00:39:41,248
Dr. Price spoke so admiringly
of ya in his letters.
729
00:39:41,379 --> 00:39:43,729
I wanted to have read your book
before you arrived,
730
00:39:43,859 --> 00:39:46,035
but when I ordered it
from Pavel's in town,
731
00:39:46,166 --> 00:39:48,429
they said it'd be a month
before a copy came.
732
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:52,564
Well, that is very kind,
and, uh, entirely unnecessary.
733
00:39:53,913 --> 00:39:56,611
And aren't you
a beautiful thing?
734
00:39:57,220 --> 00:39:59,614
Such eleemosynary eyes.
735
00:39:59,745 --> 00:40:00,876
Hello.
736
00:40:01,703 --> 00:40:03,923
Married, are you? Hmm?
737
00:40:04,967 --> 00:40:06,752
[laughs] Oh. Oh, no.
738
00:40:07,405 --> 00:40:09,015
I'm sor... I'm...
739
00:40:09,145 --> 00:40:11,191
No. [splutters] I'm-I'm-I'm...
740
00:40:11,321 --> 00:40:13,323
I'm Dr. Fodor's assistant.
741
00:40:13,454 --> 00:40:14,934
[laughs]
742
00:40:15,064 --> 00:40:17,502
I didn't mean to each other,
silly girl.
743
00:40:17,632 --> 00:40:20,026
Though by your reaction,
perhaps I touched
744
00:40:20,156 --> 00:40:22,811
on a subject
that's a wee bit sore.
745
00:40:22,942 --> 00:40:23,943
For God's sake.
746
00:40:24,073 --> 00:40:25,423
I meant are you married at all!
747
00:40:25,553 --> 00:40:27,294
You've a figure suitable
for birthin'.
748
00:40:27,425 --> 00:40:28,426
Um...
749
00:40:28,556 --> 00:40:30,079
May I see your hand?
750
00:40:30,210 --> 00:40:31,385
Oh, gosh, yes.
751
00:40:31,516 --> 00:40:34,214
So, your love line...
Oh, here.
752
00:40:34,344 --> 00:40:35,781
All right, all right,
that's enough of that.
753
00:40:35,911 --> 00:40:37,522
They haven't come all this way
to hear you prattle on.
754
00:40:37,652 --> 00:40:38,610
I'm sorry.
755
00:40:38,740 --> 00:40:41,047
And you must be Voirrey.
756
00:40:41,743 --> 00:40:43,397
Pleased to meet you,
Dr. Fodor.
757
00:40:43,528 --> 00:40:47,183
Dr. Price mentioned that you are
an accomplished ventriloquist.
758
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:50,012
Oh. [laughs nervously]
759
00:40:50,143 --> 00:40:52,450
I wouldn't consider
myself accomplished, sir.
760
00:40:53,189 --> 00:40:54,713
Self-taught, are we?
761
00:40:55,453 --> 00:40:58,934
Yes, sir. Used to make my dolls
talk, when I was a girl.
762
00:40:59,065 --> 00:41:00,414
One day I scared
my friend, Saoirse,
763
00:41:00,545 --> 00:41:02,721
'cause she thought
they were really talkin'.
764
00:41:02,851 --> 00:41:03,939
Fascinating.
765
00:41:04,070 --> 00:41:05,941
Oh, this is my hand, Errol.
766
00:41:06,072 --> 00:41:08,553
He, uh, sees to the house,
tends the crops with me.
767
00:41:08,683 --> 00:41:10,119
He lives in the guest house.
768
00:41:10,250 --> 00:41:11,904
I'm honored to make your
acquaintance, Dr. Fodor.
769
00:41:12,034 --> 00:41:13,471
And I yours.
770
00:41:13,601 --> 00:41:15,124
And who are these?
771
00:41:15,255 --> 00:41:16,822
Ralph and Rolf.
772
00:41:16,952 --> 00:41:18,650
Which one is this?
773
00:41:18,780 --> 00:41:19,738
That's Rolf.
774
00:41:19,868 --> 00:41:21,479
[Dr. Fodor] Rolf?
775
00:41:21,609 --> 00:41:22,915
[chuckles]
776
00:41:23,045 --> 00:41:25,526
Well, thank you
for introducing us
777
00:41:25,657 --> 00:41:28,747
to your lovely family,
uh, Mr. Irving.
778
00:41:28,877 --> 00:41:31,097
We have, as you said,
traveled a great distance,
779
00:41:31,227 --> 00:41:32,838
in the hope that we might meet
780
00:41:32,968 --> 00:41:34,840
another member
of your household.
781
00:41:34,970 --> 00:41:37,538
Yes, of course,
you're here to see Gef.
782
00:41:37,669 --> 00:41:38,974
Indeed.
783
00:41:39,105 --> 00:41:41,499
Now, uh, is the creature here?
May we see him?
784
00:41:42,064 --> 00:41:43,805
Creature? Uh, well.
785
00:41:43,936 --> 00:41:46,286
Gef is always here,
you know, you might say.
786
00:41:46,416 --> 00:41:48,375
He's always about. Um...
787
00:41:49,463 --> 00:41:51,552
But he is not currently
in the house.
788
00:41:51,683 --> 00:41:55,121
At the moment.
He left about a week ago.
789
00:41:55,251 --> 00:41:57,079
Shortly after we informed him
you were comin' actually.
790
00:41:57,210 --> 00:41:59,821
He, um, he gets a bit upset,
you know, when we bring
791
00:41:59,952 --> 00:42:01,431
experts in to see him.
792
00:42:01,562 --> 00:42:03,129
Yeah, he sees it as an insult.
793
00:42:03,259 --> 00:42:04,739
He says he knows he exists,
so why's he got
794
00:42:04,870 --> 00:42:05,827
to prove it to anyone else?
795
00:42:05,958 --> 00:42:07,307
Ah.
796
00:42:07,437 --> 00:42:09,222
Nothin' to worry about,
you know, I assure you!
797
00:42:09,352 --> 00:42:11,920
As I said, Gef's always here,
this is his home.
798
00:42:12,051 --> 00:42:14,096
If I had to guess,
I would say the wee rascal's
799
00:42:14,227 --> 00:42:16,055
probably watchin' us right now.
800
00:42:16,185 --> 00:42:17,839
Yeah.
801
00:42:17,970 --> 00:42:19,014
Tryin' to get the measure of ya.
802
00:42:19,145 --> 00:42:21,451
[laughter]
803
00:42:22,496 --> 00:42:24,150
No, but there's a cave,
804
00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:25,630
about half a mile
up the mountain,
805
00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:27,675
and often that
when he's not in the house
806
00:42:27,806 --> 00:42:29,329
that's where I'll find him.
807
00:42:29,459 --> 00:42:31,374
That's almost certain
where he's gonna be.
808
00:42:33,246 --> 00:42:35,074
Anyway, come inside
and have a cuppa tea.
809
00:42:35,204 --> 00:42:37,555
My wife's baked a raspberry
tart you've just got to taste.
810
00:42:37,685 --> 00:42:40,035
Oh, that sounds lovely.
811
00:42:40,166 --> 00:42:41,471
Come on. Come on.
812
00:42:42,516 --> 00:42:44,997
[gentle, pensive music playing]
813
00:43:03,058 --> 00:43:05,017
I've found that when Gef's not
here in the house with us,
814
00:43:05,147 --> 00:43:06,627
oftentimes he can be
found in a cave
815
00:43:06,758 --> 00:43:08,411
toward the top of the mountain.
816
00:43:08,542 --> 00:43:11,327
And I'd wager
that's where he is now.
817
00:43:11,458 --> 00:43:12,546
I see.
818
00:43:13,416 --> 00:43:14,766
A bit of a hike
to get there, though.
819
00:43:14,896 --> 00:43:16,289
You know, it's all uphill,
820
00:43:16,419 --> 00:43:17,638
the trail's a bit uneven.
821
00:43:18,334 --> 00:43:19,509
Doesn't bother Gef
much, I presume,
822
00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:20,728
with his quick
little feet.
823
00:43:20,859 --> 00:43:22,034
But might prove a bit
more trying
824
00:43:22,164 --> 00:43:23,426
for our awkward
human paws.
825
00:43:23,557 --> 00:43:25,385
[laughs]
826
00:43:25,515 --> 00:43:29,563
So... not here at the moment,
as we've determined.
827
00:43:30,869 --> 00:43:32,610
Don't know what else
to do with the day.
828
00:43:33,306 --> 00:43:34,481
Well...
829
00:43:35,264 --> 00:43:36,744
let's see that cave.
830
00:43:41,140 --> 00:43:43,664
Do you know how many breeds
of sheep there are in the world?
831
00:43:45,579 --> 00:43:47,929
I confess I do not.
832
00:43:48,060 --> 00:43:49,452
Many thousands.
833
00:43:52,064 --> 00:43:53,587
Although only a rare few
834
00:43:53,718 --> 00:43:55,154
are what we call
"fine wool"
835
00:43:55,284 --> 00:43:56,808
but they're not
as common here.
836
00:43:56,938 --> 00:43:59,332
Although I've had a lot
of success with Rambouillet,
837
00:43:59,462 --> 00:44:01,769
although they generally
don't prefer the rain.
838
00:44:04,163 --> 00:44:05,381
Fascinating.
839
00:44:07,166 --> 00:44:08,515
What's fascinating?
840
00:44:08,646 --> 00:44:09,821
Sheep.
841
00:44:09,951 --> 00:44:11,431
Oh. Oh.
842
00:44:11,561 --> 00:44:14,652
[pensive music continues]
843
00:44:22,442 --> 00:44:24,531
All right. Here we are.
844
00:44:24,662 --> 00:44:26,968
One of Gef's favorite
hiding spots.
845
00:44:28,317 --> 00:44:29,362
Gef!
846
00:44:30,450 --> 00:44:32,365
Gef! You in there, old boy?
847
00:44:32,495 --> 00:44:35,673
I got Dr. Fodor and his lovely
assistant here to see you.
848
00:44:36,282 --> 00:44:37,936
See, the cave goes in
a fair bit.
849
00:44:38,066 --> 00:44:39,981
Because he ain't answerin'
and we can't see him,
850
00:44:40,112 --> 00:44:41,809
doesn't mean he ain't here.
851
00:44:41,940 --> 00:44:43,724
[wind blowing]
852
00:44:46,771 --> 00:44:48,990
You know, perhaps--
you don't have to, of course,
853
00:44:49,121 --> 00:44:52,254
but perhaps if you
announce yourself to him,
854
00:44:52,385 --> 00:44:55,127
just say there's absolutely
no doubt in your mind he's real
855
00:44:55,257 --> 00:44:57,520
and that might assuage
any concerns he may have,
856
00:44:57,651 --> 00:44:59,131
and convince him
to show himself.
857
00:45:01,133 --> 00:45:02,917
What exactly would you
like me to say?
858
00:45:03,048 --> 00:45:05,093
Just that.
Just tell him who you are,
859
00:45:05,224 --> 00:45:06,573
and that you're certain
he's real,
860
00:45:06,704 --> 00:45:07,879
and that you mean
no harm to him.
861
00:45:08,009 --> 00:45:09,315
Not here to
vivisect him or anything.
862
00:45:09,445 --> 00:45:10,969
Let's just say hello.
863
00:45:11,099 --> 00:45:12,622
- Hello?
- Hm.
864
00:45:12,753 --> 00:45:15,495
Hello. Very well.
865
00:45:23,155 --> 00:45:24,330
Hello.
866
00:45:25,897 --> 00:45:26,898
Hello, Gef.
867
00:45:27,028 --> 00:45:28,638
[laughs]
868
00:45:28,769 --> 00:45:31,032
- Go on, go on.
- Right. [clears throat]
869
00:45:31,816 --> 00:45:34,470
My name is Dr. Nandor Fodor.
870
00:45:35,254 --> 00:45:36,603
And, um...
871
00:45:37,604 --> 00:45:40,433
Mr. Irving has instructed me
to inform you
872
00:45:40,563 --> 00:45:44,654
that I believe that,
uh, you exist.
873
00:45:44,785 --> 00:45:46,134
And, uh...
874
00:45:48,049 --> 00:45:52,880
I would add that, um, if you are
currently residing in this cave,
875
00:45:53,011 --> 00:45:56,928
would you be amenable
to venturing out
876
00:45:57,058 --> 00:45:59,582
so that we may converse?
877
00:46:01,976 --> 00:46:04,239
I am very excited
878
00:46:04,370 --> 00:46:06,024
to make your acquaintance.
879
00:46:09,418 --> 00:46:10,593
- How was that?
- That was brilliant.
880
00:46:10,724 --> 00:46:11,986
- Really good.
- Brilliant.
881
00:46:12,117 --> 00:46:13,248
Yeah.
882
00:46:13,379 --> 00:46:15,076
You know, if he is in there,
883
00:46:15,207 --> 00:46:17,165
I've absolutely
no doubt in my mind
884
00:46:17,296 --> 00:46:18,340
that speech is certain
to draw him out.
885
00:46:18,471 --> 00:46:19,777
Really?
886
00:46:25,434 --> 00:46:27,785
Damn. Oh, damn.
887
00:46:28,698 --> 00:46:29,961
What?
888
00:46:30,091 --> 00:46:32,137
I'm truly sorry, Dr. Fodor.
I really am.
889
00:46:32,790 --> 00:46:35,096
Appears our little friend
isn't here at the moment.
890
00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:37,446
Perhaps he is in town.
891
00:46:37,577 --> 00:46:39,753
You know, probably slipped past
us as we were climbing up.
892
00:46:40,319 --> 00:46:41,929
Could be back at the house,
playing in Voirrey's room.
893
00:46:42,060 --> 00:46:43,235
He's got a little space there...
894
00:46:43,365 --> 00:46:45,063
Yeah, I know. I know.
895
00:46:45,193 --> 00:46:47,326
I did read Dr. Price's diary.
896
00:46:47,456 --> 00:46:48,806
Indeed. Well...
897
00:46:49,807 --> 00:46:52,331
Seeing as Gef isn't gonna
grace us with his presence,
898
00:46:52,897 --> 00:46:55,029
maybe we should venture
into the cave anyway?
899
00:46:57,597 --> 00:47:00,600
You see, one unfortunate
characteristic of Gef
900
00:47:00,730 --> 00:47:02,820
is that he can be a bit
of a thief at times.
901
00:47:02,950 --> 00:47:04,996
You know,
often we'll find this or that,
902
00:47:05,126 --> 00:47:07,563
trinket or bauble missing,
a trifle from the kitchen.
903
00:47:07,694 --> 00:47:09,783
Others in town have reported
similar incidents.
904
00:47:09,914 --> 00:47:11,045
Maybe...
905
00:47:11,524 --> 00:47:14,048
he has been ferreting away
some of his plunder here?
906
00:47:15,136 --> 00:47:16,268
Yeah.
907
00:47:17,312 --> 00:47:19,140
Please, after you.
908
00:47:20,141 --> 00:47:21,664
Well, I'll just leave
my bag here,
909
00:47:21,795 --> 00:47:24,232
because if you fall
I'll need my hands.
910
00:47:24,363 --> 00:47:25,407
[Dr. Fodor] Yes, you go first.
911
00:47:25,538 --> 00:47:27,105
- Be careful.
- Yes.
912
00:47:27,235 --> 00:47:29,542
Yes, yes, as I suspected.
913
00:47:30,238 --> 00:47:32,110
A veritable trove
of ill-gotten goods.
914
00:47:32,806 --> 00:47:34,112
Come on, come see.
915
00:47:34,590 --> 00:47:35,809
Oh, yeah.
916
00:47:37,028 --> 00:47:38,507
God.
917
00:47:38,638 --> 00:47:40,161
Yes, look at this.
918
00:47:42,903 --> 00:47:43,991
I would say...
919
00:47:45,166 --> 00:47:47,908
unquestionably,
that's Gef's as well.
920
00:47:48,039 --> 00:47:50,128
Want to take that back to London
with you, for testing?
921
00:47:50,258 --> 00:47:51,694
Thank you, Mr. Irving.
922
00:47:51,825 --> 00:47:54,262
I'll make sure this gets
safely back to London.
923
00:47:54,393 --> 00:47:55,655
Yeah.
924
00:47:56,308 --> 00:47:59,267
I did once
see a mongoose in India, 1929.
925
00:47:59,398 --> 00:48:00,878
Oh, right. Did it talk?
926
00:48:01,008 --> 00:48:03,358
[soft, dramatic music playing]
927
00:48:06,274 --> 00:48:08,537
[laughs]
928
00:48:08,668 --> 00:48:10,017
What are you laughing at?
929
00:48:10,931 --> 00:48:11,932
Nothing.
930
00:48:14,282 --> 00:48:17,329
Was there a pair of women's
undergarments back there?
931
00:48:18,417 --> 00:48:21,028
[laughs]
932
00:48:23,378 --> 00:48:25,467
Look, from what I hear,
everybody on this island
933
00:48:25,598 --> 00:48:27,034
has their Gef story.
934
00:48:27,165 --> 00:48:29,428
An account of their encounter
with this creature.
935
00:48:29,558 --> 00:48:30,733
Tell me yours.
936
00:48:32,779 --> 00:48:35,434
- I got no Gef story.
- No?
937
00:48:35,913 --> 00:48:37,305
I find that incredible,
938
00:48:37,436 --> 00:48:39,829
considering you reside
on the Irving Farm.
939
00:48:42,310 --> 00:48:43,921
I got no Gef story.
940
00:48:45,139 --> 00:48:46,706
You and I both know...
941
00:48:48,316 --> 00:48:49,796
there ain't no Gef.
942
00:48:50,797 --> 00:48:52,016
What did you just say?
943
00:48:52,146 --> 00:48:53,843
[Errol laughs]
944
00:48:53,974 --> 00:48:55,367
What did you just say?
945
00:48:59,110 --> 00:49:01,199
Oh, golly. Oh golly, lemonade.
946
00:49:01,329 --> 00:49:02,852
Um, I'm going to need
to use the loo
947
00:49:02,983 --> 00:49:04,506
before we brave
that road again.
948
00:49:04,637 --> 00:49:06,508
Could you just...
Thank you.
949
00:49:06,639 --> 00:49:08,206
[indistinct conversation]
950
00:49:08,336 --> 00:49:10,556
Just... Thank you!
951
00:49:10,686 --> 00:49:11,949
[whimpers softly]
952
00:49:14,952 --> 00:49:16,257
All right.
953
00:49:16,388 --> 00:49:20,305
[Voirrey]
♪ Someday I'll find you ♪
954
00:49:20,435 --> 00:49:23,873
♪ Moonlight behind you ♪
955
00:49:24,004 --> 00:49:29,923
♪ True to the dream
I am dreaming ♪
956
00:49:30,054 --> 00:49:32,360
♪ As I draw near you ♪
957
00:49:32,491 --> 00:49:35,929
♪ You'll smile a little smile ♪
958
00:49:36,060 --> 00:49:38,801
♪ For a little while ♪
959
00:49:39,759 --> 00:49:41,108
Just like that.
960
00:49:42,980 --> 00:49:46,461
♪ Someday, I'll find you ♪
961
00:49:47,027 --> 00:49:51,205
♪ Moonlight behind you ♪
962
00:49:56,645 --> 00:49:58,691
Oh. Hello, Ms. Anne.
963
00:49:58,821 --> 00:50:00,954
Hello, Voirrey.
Uh, sorry for the intrusion.
964
00:50:01,085 --> 00:50:04,305
I was just coming upstairs
and I heard you singing.
965
00:50:04,436 --> 00:50:05,437
[clears throat]
966
00:50:08,875 --> 00:50:09,919
May I come in?
967
00:50:17,057 --> 00:50:18,885
Gosh, you have such
a lovely room.
968
00:50:19,929 --> 00:50:22,149
That was Noel Coward, the song?
969
00:50:23,846 --> 00:50:25,239
You have a lovely voice.
970
00:50:26,110 --> 00:50:28,503
Thank you. So do you.
971
00:50:29,678 --> 00:50:31,985
Oh. Well, that's very kind
of you to say.
972
00:50:34,857 --> 00:50:38,470
Would you mind telling me
a bit more about your talent?
973
00:50:39,036 --> 00:50:40,602
I could teach you if you like.
974
00:50:40,733 --> 00:50:42,387
It's quite simple, really.
975
00:50:42,952 --> 00:50:44,519
I'm not sure I'd be any good.
976
00:50:44,650 --> 00:50:45,999
[Gef] It's quite simple.
977
00:50:47,479 --> 00:50:48,958
I promise.
978
00:50:49,089 --> 00:50:52,179
You... you just...
you just did it. [laughs]
979
00:50:52,310 --> 00:50:53,876
That's incredible.
980
00:50:55,095 --> 00:50:57,924
Keep your mouth mostly closed.
981
00:50:58,055 --> 00:50:59,491
Your tongue loose.
982
00:50:59,621 --> 00:51:01,145
There are certain sounds
that are easier to make
983
00:51:01,275 --> 00:51:02,363
without moving your lips.
984
00:51:02,494 --> 00:51:03,538
[Anne] Oh.
985
00:51:03,669 --> 00:51:04,713
Try it.
986
00:51:05,279 --> 00:51:06,454
Now?
987
00:51:06,585 --> 00:51:09,066
Now. Speak.
988
00:51:10,415 --> 00:51:11,590
Hello.
989
00:51:11,720 --> 00:51:12,808
Hello.
990
00:51:12,939 --> 00:51:13,896
Hello.
991
00:51:14,027 --> 00:51:15,637
[both laugh]
992
00:51:15,768 --> 00:51:18,162
Yes. I should need a bit
more practice, I think.
993
00:51:18,292 --> 00:51:19,467
Indeed.
994
00:51:19,946 --> 00:51:21,991
The way you throw your voice?
995
00:51:22,731 --> 00:51:24,342
It's a marvel.
996
00:51:24,472 --> 00:51:25,778
It is.
997
00:51:26,735 --> 00:51:30,087
That is something I would be
very interested in learning.
998
00:51:30,217 --> 00:51:31,653
I could teach you the theory,
I think.
999
00:51:31,784 --> 00:51:33,960
But it requires a lot
of practice.
1000
00:51:34,091 --> 00:51:35,440
Oh, I'm sure.
1001
00:51:37,006 --> 00:51:39,966
Humans can actually determine
from whence a sound comes.
1002
00:51:40,575 --> 00:51:43,709
We hear it with our eyes
as much as we do our ears.
1003
00:51:44,449 --> 00:51:48,017
Sound has no direction,
only modulation.
1004
00:51:49,062 --> 00:51:51,673
Sounds that are further away
sound different...
1005
00:51:52,239 --> 00:51:53,284
than those nearby.
1006
00:51:54,502 --> 00:51:59,551
Oh. Gosh. It's...
it's fascinating.
1007
00:52:01,640 --> 00:52:05,557
♪ Someday, I'll find you ♪
1008
00:52:05,687 --> 00:52:09,387
♪ Moonlight behind you ♪
1009
00:52:10,301 --> 00:52:15,697
[Gef] ♪ True to the dream
I am dreaming ♪
1010
00:52:18,483 --> 00:52:19,658
[gasps]
1011
00:52:21,399 --> 00:52:22,661
You are a wonder.
1012
00:52:23,357 --> 00:52:24,532
Why don't you give it a try?
1013
00:52:24,663 --> 00:52:26,578
Oh, I have no idea how.
1014
00:52:29,972 --> 00:52:31,148
[Voirrey] Just try.
1015
00:52:32,714 --> 00:52:35,804
Focus all your attention
on to that spot on the wall,
1016
00:52:38,242 --> 00:52:39,591
and make it sing.
1017
00:52:40,679 --> 00:52:41,810
Make it sing.
1018
00:52:43,160 --> 00:52:44,857
- I don't know how.
- Try.
1019
00:52:46,989 --> 00:52:49,166
[hums softly]
1020
00:52:50,515 --> 00:52:52,778
♪ Moonlight behind... ♪
1021
00:52:52,908 --> 00:52:54,910
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
1022
00:52:55,041 --> 00:52:57,043
Put your voice into the space.
1023
00:52:57,652 --> 00:52:59,350
Make the space sing.
1024
00:53:02,179 --> 00:53:04,572
All right. But I don't think
it's going to work.
1025
00:53:04,703 --> 00:53:05,747
[clears throat]
1026
00:53:07,575 --> 00:53:12,014
♪ Someday, I'll find you ♪
1027
00:53:12,145 --> 00:53:16,889
♪ Moonlight behind you ♪
1028
00:53:17,019 --> 00:53:23,374
[Gef] ♪ True to the dream
I am dreaming ♪
1029
00:53:23,504 --> 00:53:28,596
♪ As I draw near you
You'll smile a little smile ♪
1030
00:53:29,423 --> 00:53:32,078
♪ For a little while ♪
1031
00:53:32,905 --> 00:53:34,559
They're, um, they're
gonna be waiting for me.
1032
00:53:34,689 --> 00:53:36,213
I have to go.
1033
00:53:40,086 --> 00:53:42,306
[soft, mysterious music playing]
1034
00:53:42,436 --> 00:53:43,698
[door closes]
1035
00:53:45,439 --> 00:53:47,659
[leaves rustling in the breeze]
1036
00:53:59,410 --> 00:54:00,672
[Dr. Fodor grunts]
1037
00:54:05,372 --> 00:54:09,028
I sincerely apologize
for having brought you here.
1038
00:54:09,158 --> 00:54:10,769
Oh, there's no need
to apologize.
1039
00:54:11,248 --> 00:54:12,379
They're very kind people.
1040
00:54:12,510 --> 00:54:14,381
[laughs]
1041
00:54:14,512 --> 00:54:16,601
Lunatics. The lot of them.
1042
00:54:16,731 --> 00:54:18,646
Particularly the patriarch.
1043
00:54:18,777 --> 00:54:21,823
I remain entirely mystified
as to their motives,
1044
00:54:21,954 --> 00:54:26,350
but am certain that
this is an inexplicable farce.
1045
00:54:27,916 --> 00:54:30,615
The only one among them
with any sense whatsoever
1046
00:54:30,745 --> 00:54:33,052
would seem
to be their man, Errol.
1047
00:54:34,053 --> 00:54:35,750
Well, I think they're all
very kind.
1048
00:54:36,447 --> 00:54:37,491
There was...
1049
00:54:39,319 --> 00:54:41,582
There was a pair
of undergarments
1050
00:54:41,713 --> 00:54:43,236
in that cave today.
1051
00:54:43,367 --> 00:54:44,716
Did you notice that?
1052
00:54:45,630 --> 00:54:48,241
A woman's small clothes.
1053
00:54:52,027 --> 00:54:54,508
Do you really think
there's no possible chance
1054
00:54:54,639 --> 00:54:55,770
they're telling the truth?
1055
00:54:56,554 --> 00:54:58,207
I beg your pardon.
1056
00:54:58,338 --> 00:55:00,601
I know today was unusual.
1057
00:55:01,167 --> 00:55:05,127
And I know that
the Irvings are unusual.
1058
00:55:05,258 --> 00:55:08,000
This thought keeps going round
and round in my head.
1059
00:55:08,130 --> 00:55:09,567
Why?
1060
00:55:10,219 --> 00:55:12,700
If it is as you said
and it's all a great charade,
1061
00:55:12,831 --> 00:55:15,486
then what is
the Irvings' motive?
1062
00:55:16,530 --> 00:55:19,925
Ere the arrival of Gef--At the alleged arrival!
1063
00:55:20,055 --> 00:55:22,144
Ere the alleged incident,
1064
00:55:23,232 --> 00:55:26,061
the Irvings were
a well-to-do family,
1065
00:55:26,192 --> 00:55:30,370
they've a pristine reputation
they're financially secure.
1066
00:55:31,240 --> 00:55:32,546
Didn't strike me as con artists.
1067
00:55:32,677 --> 00:55:34,113
[laughs]
1068
00:55:34,243 --> 00:55:36,245
If they were charging
admission, perhaps.
1069
00:55:38,857 --> 00:55:41,860
Do you really have
no theories whatsoever?
1070
00:55:41,990 --> 00:55:43,862
Now that you've met them.
1071
00:55:43,992 --> 00:55:48,040
If it were an individual person
suffering from these delusions--
1072
00:55:48,170 --> 00:55:51,304
if it were just Mr. Irving
espousing the existence
1073
00:55:51,435 --> 00:55:53,219
of this creature
at the behest of his family
1074
00:55:53,350 --> 00:55:56,091
and the townspeople,
then perhaps I could formulate
1075
00:55:56,222 --> 00:55:58,137
a thorough
psychological evaluation.
1076
00:55:58,267 --> 00:56:01,401
But the fact that
it is the entire family,
1077
00:56:01,532 --> 00:56:03,708
the entire town,
it would seem...
1078
00:56:04,709 --> 00:56:07,320
So you think it is some
sort of mass hysteria?
1079
00:56:09,975 --> 00:56:12,107
And you do not believe,
1080
00:56:13,457 --> 00:56:15,502
it is in the realm
of possibility
1081
00:56:15,633 --> 00:56:18,723
that the Irvings are telling
the truth and that Gef is real?
1082
00:56:20,072 --> 00:56:21,465
Do you?
1083
00:56:27,775 --> 00:56:29,211
[knocking on door]
1084
00:56:32,563 --> 00:56:33,564
Anne?
1085
00:56:34,434 --> 00:56:35,957
Is everything...
1086
00:56:36,741 --> 00:56:38,873
Sorry to disturb you
so late, sir.
1087
00:56:39,787 --> 00:56:41,398
But there's a call for you.
1088
00:56:43,008 --> 00:56:44,270
A call?
1089
00:56:44,401 --> 00:56:46,751
[ominous music playing]
1090
00:56:47,795 --> 00:56:49,188
At this hour?
1091
00:56:49,318 --> 00:56:50,363
From whom?
1092
00:56:50,494 --> 00:56:51,843
Is it from America?
1093
00:56:53,148 --> 00:56:55,107
Not from America, sir.
1094
00:56:55,237 --> 00:56:56,804
The call...
1095
00:56:57,892 --> 00:56:59,067
it is from...
1096
00:57:01,200 --> 00:57:02,244
him.
1097
00:57:15,693 --> 00:57:16,737
[clears throat]
1098
00:57:17,869 --> 00:57:19,131
[stammers] Hello.
1099
00:57:19,261 --> 00:57:21,394
[line crackling]
1100
00:57:22,787 --> 00:57:25,442
Hello, this is Dr. Nandor Fodor.
1101
00:57:29,489 --> 00:57:30,708
There does not appear
to be anyone
1102
00:57:30,838 --> 00:57:32,753
on the other end of the line.
1103
00:57:32,884 --> 00:57:34,842
[Gef] Dr. Fodor... Yes.
1104
00:57:34,973 --> 00:57:38,672
Yes. Hello. Uh...
with whom am I speaking, please?
1105
00:57:38,803 --> 00:57:40,413
[Gef] I am a freak!
1106
00:57:40,544 --> 00:57:42,371
I have hands and I have feet!
1107
00:57:42,502 --> 00:57:44,852
And if you ever saw me,
you would be paralyzed,
1108
00:57:44,983 --> 00:57:48,900
petrified, mummified,
and turned to a pillar of salt!
1109
00:57:49,030 --> 00:57:50,205
All right.
1110
00:57:50,336 --> 00:57:52,077
[Gef] I am the fifth dimension!
1111
00:57:52,207 --> 00:57:54,427
I am the eighth wonder
of the world.
1112
00:57:54,558 --> 00:57:56,342
I can split an atom.
1113
00:57:56,473 --> 00:57:57,865
Uh, yes. Uh...
1114
00:57:57,996 --> 00:58:00,172
Gef, is-is that you?
1115
00:58:00,302 --> 00:58:02,348
[Gef] I am the Holy Ghost!
1116
00:58:03,262 --> 00:58:05,656
Yes, that-that-that
is wonderful.
1117
00:58:05,786 --> 00:58:11,052
Uh, Gef, I went today
with Mr. Irving to a cave
1118
00:58:11,183 --> 00:58:14,752
where you have, uh, previously
been observed and, uh...
1119
00:58:15,317 --> 00:58:17,798
well, had you been there, you
would have heard me proclaim,
1120
00:58:17,929 --> 00:58:23,064
in no uncertain terms,
my sincere belief in your...
1121
00:58:24,196 --> 00:58:26,372
uh, well, existence.
1122
00:58:29,593 --> 00:58:32,465
Um, and so I suppose
I should say,
1123
00:58:32,596 --> 00:58:35,033
I would very much like
to meet you in person,
1124
00:58:35,163 --> 00:58:37,252
if you were so inclined.
1125
00:58:37,383 --> 00:58:41,866
Um, I promise you,
I have no malicious intentions
1126
00:58:41,996 --> 00:58:43,650
towards you whatsoever.
1127
00:58:46,174 --> 00:58:48,960
[Gef]
I shall never see you again.
1128
00:58:49,090 --> 00:58:50,352
Again?
1129
00:58:52,093 --> 00:58:55,444
Did-did you see me today
at-the-at the cave?
1130
00:59:00,928 --> 00:59:02,408
[Gef] Your father.
1131
00:59:06,368 --> 00:59:07,544
What about him?
1132
00:59:10,590 --> 00:59:12,766
[Gef] Hm. That's what
your father said to you.
1133
00:59:12,897 --> 00:59:14,463
Before you left.
1134
00:59:14,594 --> 00:59:17,423
I shall never see you again.
1135
00:59:17,554 --> 00:59:20,687
[breathing unevenly]
1136
00:59:21,906 --> 00:59:22,950
What?
1137
00:59:25,300 --> 00:59:26,737
[Gef] Tomorrow.
1138
00:59:26,867 --> 00:59:32,046
Tomorrow I shall let you
see me.
1139
00:59:33,831 --> 00:59:36,094
How could you know
that about my father?
1140
00:59:37,443 --> 00:59:38,662
[line clicks]
1141
00:59:38,792 --> 00:59:39,924
Hello?
1142
00:59:40,054 --> 00:59:43,318
[tense, dramatic music playing]
1143
01:00:12,478 --> 01:00:16,003
I am-- I mean, was
something of a public figure
1144
01:00:16,134 --> 01:00:21,400
and some scientific
and pseudo-scientific journals
1145
01:00:21,530 --> 01:00:23,881
have published articles
about me, haven't they?
1146
01:00:24,011 --> 01:00:25,709
And... [sighs]
1147
01:00:25,839 --> 01:00:27,188
theoretically, if you wish
1148
01:00:27,319 --> 01:00:29,364
to discover certain facts
about my life,
1149
01:00:29,495 --> 01:00:32,106
how I left Budapest
for New York,
1150
01:00:32,237 --> 01:00:34,108
and then, surmise how...
1151
01:00:34,239 --> 01:00:36,937
a-a certain conversation
may have gone.
1152
01:00:37,764 --> 01:00:41,376
[stammers]
1153
01:01:01,658 --> 01:01:03,964
Fine morning to the both of you!
I trust you slept soundly?
1154
01:01:04,095 --> 01:01:05,009
Yes. Thank you.
1155
01:01:05,139 --> 01:01:06,271
No.
1156
01:01:07,272 --> 01:01:08,447
Oh.
1157
01:01:14,932 --> 01:01:17,369
I'll admit I was very surprised,
waking to hear
1158
01:01:17,499 --> 01:01:20,067
the news that Gef had extended
an invitation to you personally!
1159
01:01:20,198 --> 01:01:22,200
What? He called
you on the phone, did he?
1160
01:01:22,896 --> 01:01:25,507
Someone called me last night. Yes.
1161
01:01:25,638 --> 01:01:27,379
I wonder whose telephone
he accosted for that purpose,
1162
01:01:27,509 --> 01:01:28,641
the wee devil.
1163
01:01:28,772 --> 01:01:30,164
The Guileys, I'd wager.
1164
01:01:30,295 --> 01:01:31,426
They've got an old
candlestick phone
1165
01:01:31,557 --> 01:01:33,385
right next to the window
in their foyer.
1166
01:01:33,515 --> 01:01:35,866
It would've been easy for him
to slip in and dial you.
1167
01:01:35,996 --> 01:01:37,519
He's got such
nimble little fingers.
1168
01:01:37,650 --> 01:01:39,173
Does he now?
1169
01:01:45,745 --> 01:01:47,573
[soft music playing nearby]
1170
01:01:49,967 --> 01:01:51,577
Hmm. Hmm.
1171
01:01:52,839 --> 01:01:53,840
Hmm.
1172
01:01:56,364 --> 01:01:57,888
Here we are.
1173
01:01:58,018 --> 01:01:59,803
Hmm.
Thank you, love.
1174
01:02:01,239 --> 01:02:03,720
Uh, will Voirrey
be joining us today?
1175
01:02:03,850 --> 01:02:07,680
I-I'm afraid she's not
feeling well, poor girl.
1176
01:02:07,811 --> 01:02:09,595
She's got a mild allergy
to ragwort,
1177
01:02:09,726 --> 01:02:12,076
if you can believe that.
1178
01:02:12,206 --> 01:02:15,122
So summers can be a bit...
1179
01:02:15,732 --> 01:02:17,168
I see.
1180
01:02:19,300 --> 01:02:21,215
Oh! I nearly forgot!
1181
01:02:21,346 --> 01:02:22,695
[clears throat]
1182
01:02:34,533 --> 01:02:38,102
Encyclopaedia of Psychic Science.
1183
01:02:38,232 --> 01:02:39,886
What a mouthful!
1184
01:02:40,017 --> 01:02:41,975
It arrived at
Pavel's yesterday,
1185
01:02:42,106 --> 01:02:44,412
shortly before
their usual closing time.
1186
01:02:44,543 --> 01:02:47,546
But they waited for me
to rush over and pick it up.
1187
01:02:48,547 --> 01:02:50,941
[sighs] I can't wait to read it!
1188
01:02:51,419 --> 01:02:54,118
I'll give you my honest
thoughts, when I've finished.
1189
01:02:55,815 --> 01:02:57,164
Yesterday, you say.
1190
01:02:58,862 --> 01:03:01,255
Well, I, uh,
I hope you enjoy it.
1191
01:03:02,213 --> 01:03:04,519
"The only comprehensive survey
1192
01:03:04,650 --> 01:03:07,827
of every kind of psychical
phenomena known to mankind".
1193
01:03:07,958 --> 01:03:09,960
[both chuckle]
1194
01:03:10,090 --> 01:03:13,093
Well, I presume
Gef's not in it.
1195
01:03:13,790 --> 01:03:16,357
So you'll have to write
a sequel after today.
1196
01:03:19,230 --> 01:03:21,972
[whimsical music playing]
1197
01:03:23,277 --> 01:03:25,497
Looks like you weren't the only
one Gef called last night!
1198
01:03:33,635 --> 01:03:35,159
Well, it's, uh...
1199
01:03:35,289 --> 01:03:37,161
It's a pleasure to receive
so many of you here today.
1200
01:03:37,291 --> 01:03:39,206
I hope you'll excuse
my not having provided
1201
01:03:39,337 --> 01:03:40,947
adequate refreshments
for the occasion.
1202
01:03:41,078 --> 01:03:43,036
And, had my wife and I known
so many of you were comin',
1203
01:03:43,167 --> 01:03:44,951
we'd have tea and biscuits
for the lot of ya.
1204
01:03:45,082 --> 01:03:47,345
Gef failed to inform us
he had spoken to so many of you.
1205
01:03:48,302 --> 01:03:49,695
Called me in the dead
of night, he did!
1206
01:03:50,348 --> 01:03:52,089
Asked after sister
and her drinkin'.
1207
01:03:52,219 --> 01:03:54,265
How in the bloody hell
did he know about that?
1208
01:03:55,570 --> 01:03:57,137
[woman] Called me Candy.
1209
01:03:57,268 --> 01:03:59,313
Nobody's called me that
since me grandma
1210
01:03:59,444 --> 01:04:00,967
passed on 20 years ago!
1211
01:04:01,098 --> 01:04:03,100
Yes! Yes, I know
we're all very excited!
1212
01:04:03,230 --> 01:04:05,972
But please, please.
Now as I was saying...
1213
01:04:06,103 --> 01:04:07,844
We've got guests who've
traveled a great distance
1214
01:04:07,974 --> 01:04:11,021
in order to investigate
our friend Gef.
1215
01:04:11,630 --> 01:04:14,763
That's Dr. Nandor Fodor
and his assistant, Anne.
1216
01:04:14,894 --> 01:04:17,636
Now, Dr. Fodor is one
of the world's leading experts
1217
01:04:17,766 --> 01:04:19,899
in the field of the paranormal.
1218
01:04:20,030 --> 01:04:23,860
A term I think we can all agree,
aptly describes our friend Gef.
1219
01:04:24,817 --> 01:04:26,210
Now as we all know,
1220
01:04:26,340 --> 01:04:28,081
Gef can be a bit
of a skittish fellow at times.
1221
01:04:28,212 --> 01:04:29,735
I mean,
I was genuinely surprised
1222
01:04:29,866 --> 01:04:31,955
he was open to this viewing. So...
1223
01:04:32,085 --> 01:04:34,783
Unfortunately,
it is all gonna be a bit brief.
1224
01:04:34,914 --> 01:04:36,611
While I'd like you all
to be able to talk,
1225
01:04:36,742 --> 01:04:38,309
you know,
if we all start shouting
1226
01:04:38,439 --> 01:04:41,268
he's just gonna get
agitated and run off. So...
1227
01:04:41,399 --> 01:04:43,444
Do I have your agreement
from the lot of you
1228
01:04:43,575 --> 01:04:46,186
that you're gonna do your best
to remain calm?
1229
01:04:46,317 --> 01:04:47,318
Yes.
1230
01:04:47,448 --> 01:04:48,841
- Yeah.
- Really?
1231
01:04:48,972 --> 01:04:50,016
Well, yeah.
1232
01:04:50,147 --> 01:04:51,104
[man] Yeah.
1233
01:04:51,235 --> 01:04:52,932
Right then.
1234
01:04:53,063 --> 01:04:54,194
This way, please.
1235
01:04:56,718 --> 01:04:58,633
[whimsical music playing]
1236
01:05:09,470 --> 01:05:11,385
Right.
Just take a step back, please.
1237
01:05:11,951 --> 01:05:13,605
It's a bit dark in here,
isn't it?
1238
01:05:13,735 --> 01:05:16,216
Now, we're gonna
take back the sheet.
1239
01:05:16,347 --> 01:05:17,522
But I think it's only fair
1240
01:05:17,652 --> 01:05:18,784
that we allow
our distinguished guests
1241
01:05:18,915 --> 01:05:20,046
to be the first to address Gef.
1242
01:05:21,830 --> 01:05:23,049
Go on.
1243
01:05:24,921 --> 01:05:26,966
[crowd gasping]
1244
01:05:30,752 --> 01:05:33,799
Is-is that him?
There? In the box?
1245
01:05:33,930 --> 01:05:35,888
That little...
little tuft of fur?
1246
01:05:36,019 --> 01:05:37,934
Looks like he's bein'
a bit shy after all.
1247
01:05:38,760 --> 01:05:42,112
Well, can you tell him
to come out so we can see him?
1248
01:05:42,242 --> 01:05:45,680
[Gef] Can you tell him
to come out so we can see him?
1249
01:05:47,856 --> 01:05:50,685
Ask him your question now,
before he has a change of heart.
1250
01:05:50,816 --> 01:05:55,212
Uh, yes, Gef. Hello. Thank you
for letting us meet you in...
1251
01:05:56,213 --> 01:05:57,649
person at last.
1252
01:05:57,779 --> 01:06:00,782
Um, Mr. Irving said that
we could ask you a question.
1253
01:06:00,913 --> 01:06:02,393
Is-is that all right?
1254
01:06:02,523 --> 01:06:04,961
[Gef] Hmm... yes.
1255
01:06:06,092 --> 01:06:08,703
Right.
When we spoke on the telephone
1256
01:06:08,834 --> 01:06:11,184
the other night, uh,
you said something.
1257
01:06:11,315 --> 01:06:13,491
You repeated something
that my father said to me
1258
01:06:13,621 --> 01:06:15,493
a long time ago.
1259
01:06:15,623 --> 01:06:18,322
Um, how did you know
that he said those words?
1260
01:06:18,452 --> 01:06:22,630
How did you know that he told me
he would never see me again?
1261
01:06:22,761 --> 01:06:26,939
[Gef] I have seen beyond
the bounds of infinity
1262
01:06:27,070 --> 01:06:30,595
and drawn down
demons from the stars.
1263
01:06:30,725 --> 01:06:35,556
I have harnessed the shadows
that stride from world to world
1264
01:06:35,687 --> 01:06:41,475
to sow death and madness.
1265
01:06:42,476 --> 01:06:43,869
[James] Come on,
get him outside.
1266
01:06:44,000 --> 01:06:45,131
Let's give him some air.
1267
01:06:45,262 --> 01:06:47,264
This may be a bullshit.
Take a look.
1268
01:06:49,657 --> 01:06:51,442
I am-- I am deeply sorry,
Dr. Fodor.
1269
01:06:51,572 --> 01:06:53,444
All the commotion
will have scared poor Gef off.
1270
01:06:53,574 --> 01:06:56,795
But as I said to you before,
he always returns, in time.
1271
01:06:56,925 --> 01:07:00,320
[dramatic music playing]
1272
01:07:02,540 --> 01:07:05,456
[loud rustling on barn roof]
1273
01:07:06,805 --> 01:07:09,329
[footsteps retreating]
1274
01:07:16,336 --> 01:07:18,251
You have been here all along.
1275
01:07:19,948 --> 01:07:22,386
You know that
this is a great farce.
1276
01:07:23,648 --> 01:07:26,694
You know that
these people are mad.
1277
01:07:27,956 --> 01:07:29,784
And yet you do nothing.
1278
01:07:29,915 --> 01:07:31,308
You indulge them.
1279
01:07:32,135 --> 01:07:33,179
So do you.
1280
01:07:34,354 --> 01:07:37,488
I am here in the name
of scientific research.
1281
01:07:37,618 --> 01:07:38,706
If you say so.
1282
01:07:38,837 --> 01:07:40,534
[Dr. Fodor laughs]
1283
01:07:40,665 --> 01:07:42,536
None of this bothers you.
1284
01:07:42,667 --> 01:07:44,799
These people obsessed
with an entity that they cannot
1285
01:07:44,930 --> 01:07:46,671
even reliably prove is real.
1286
01:07:46,801 --> 01:07:49,717
That it is adults
perpetuating this nonsense.
1287
01:07:49,848 --> 01:07:52,416
Men and women who are,
for all intents and purposes,
1288
01:07:52,546 --> 01:07:54,983
ordinary, functioning
members of society.
1289
01:07:56,072 --> 01:07:57,551
Why do you care so much?
1290
01:07:58,944 --> 01:08:01,903
It is my job to care.
To understand.
1291
01:08:04,036 --> 01:08:07,953
All anyone wants in this
world... is to be happy.
1292
01:08:09,476 --> 01:08:10,912
Maybe you'd be happy
if you let people believe
1293
01:08:11,043 --> 01:08:12,392
what they want to believe.
1294
01:08:13,959 --> 01:08:17,832
Your perspective is endearing
but childishly simplistic.
1295
01:08:18,311 --> 01:08:22,315
Who in this world
is happier than a child, hmm?
1296
01:08:23,490 --> 01:08:24,535
Maybe...
1297
01:08:25,753 --> 01:08:28,104
simple ain't so bad, eh?
[laughs]
1298
01:08:28,234 --> 01:08:30,323
But these people are lying!
1299
01:08:30,454 --> 01:08:31,716
Oh, everyone lies.
1300
01:08:31,846 --> 01:08:33,065
They are intentionally,
1301
01:08:33,196 --> 01:08:35,763
inexplicably misleading others!
1302
01:08:36,503 --> 01:08:38,114
People love that mongoose.
1303
01:08:38,244 --> 01:08:39,811
The one that does not exist.
1304
01:08:40,551 --> 01:08:42,161
- Yeah.
- Yeah. [laughs]
1305
01:08:44,859 --> 01:08:47,775
Well, I intend to expose
that they're lying.
1306
01:08:49,429 --> 01:08:50,474
Okay.
1307
01:08:55,261 --> 01:08:57,307
You must be
a lot of fun at parties.
1308
01:08:57,437 --> 01:08:58,482
Excuse me?
1309
01:09:01,659 --> 01:09:05,053
I am invited to and attend
many parties.
1310
01:09:05,184 --> 01:09:06,881
More than you,
I would wager!
1311
01:09:07,012 --> 01:09:10,624
And I have many interesting
conversations at these parties!
1312
01:09:10,755 --> 01:09:12,931
Enlightening,
entertaining discussions
1313
01:09:13,061 --> 01:09:14,802
with people
from every field of study
1314
01:09:14,933 --> 01:09:16,064
and strata of society.
1315
01:09:16,195 --> 01:09:17,457
Yeah.
1316
01:09:17,936 --> 01:09:20,068
When you walk away,
they call you an asshole.
1317
01:09:24,638 --> 01:09:25,813
Asshole.
1318
01:09:31,776 --> 01:09:33,647
[Dr. Fodor] Whereby,
I previously stated
1319
01:09:33,778 --> 01:09:35,258
that the housekeeper, Errol,
1320
01:09:35,388 --> 01:09:37,260
was the only person
at the Irving estate
1321
01:09:37,390 --> 01:09:40,045
with even an ounce of sense...
1322
01:09:40,176 --> 01:09:42,395
I rescind that statement now.
1323
01:09:42,526 --> 01:09:45,268
I believe he may be
the craziest of them all.
1324
01:09:46,007 --> 01:09:48,401
"Why do you care so much?"
1325
01:09:48,532 --> 01:09:50,142
he had the gall to ask me.
1326
01:09:51,926 --> 01:09:55,582
With casual disregard
for my almost 20 years
1327
01:09:55,713 --> 01:09:57,410
of research in this field.
1328
01:09:58,063 --> 01:09:59,673
Research which, I may say,
1329
01:09:59,804 --> 01:10:02,198
has proven invaluable to many.
1330
01:10:06,680 --> 01:10:09,727
"Let people believe what
they want to believe."
1331
01:10:09,857 --> 01:10:12,860
That doesn't seem like
the worst advice in the world.
1332
01:10:16,255 --> 01:10:18,039
Should I have remained a lawyer?
1333
01:10:18,866 --> 01:10:21,042
You always said
you hated practicing law.
1334
01:10:21,173 --> 01:10:22,261
[Dr. Fodor] I did.
1335
01:10:22,914 --> 01:10:24,350
My father...
1336
01:10:24,481 --> 01:10:27,440
his dream was that I remain
in Budapest
1337
01:10:27,571 --> 01:10:29,225
and marry Hanna Varga.
1338
01:10:31,139 --> 01:10:33,185
A simple life.
1339
01:10:35,231 --> 01:10:36,797
Would that have made you happy?
1340
01:10:37,972 --> 01:10:39,017
No.
1341
01:10:41,106 --> 01:10:43,108
But I might still be
with my father now
1342
01:10:43,239 --> 01:10:46,764
and not on this accursed island
chasing an imaginary mongoose.
1343
01:10:52,204 --> 01:10:53,945
He's not imaginary.
1344
01:10:56,208 --> 01:10:57,253
I'm sorry. What?
1345
01:10:58,819 --> 01:11:00,038
Gef.
1346
01:11:00,908 --> 01:11:02,954
I think he not only exists,
1347
01:11:03,084 --> 01:11:04,782
much as the Irvings
have described him,
1348
01:11:04,912 --> 01:11:06,479
but I'm certain of it.
1349
01:11:06,610 --> 01:11:08,220
You're certain of it?
1350
01:11:08,351 --> 01:11:11,397
[soft music playing nearby]
1351
01:11:21,277 --> 01:11:24,018
You had better
not fucking be serious.
1352
01:11:25,324 --> 01:11:26,673
Good night, Nandor.
1353
01:11:26,804 --> 01:11:28,501
It's Dr. Fodor!
1354
01:11:29,502 --> 01:11:30,851
And good night!
1355
01:11:34,246 --> 01:11:36,161
[creaking, door shuts]
1356
01:11:37,423 --> 01:11:39,338
[tense music playing]
1357
01:11:39,469 --> 01:11:41,122
Maurice!
1358
01:11:43,081 --> 01:11:44,300
Dr. Fodor.
1359
01:11:46,214 --> 01:11:49,740
I have just received a call
from the Irving family.
1360
01:11:52,482 --> 01:11:53,831
I see.
1361
01:11:53,961 --> 01:11:56,050
And they have requested that I
1362
01:11:56,181 --> 01:12:00,707
come up to the-- to perform
some further investigation,
1363
01:12:00,838 --> 01:12:02,622
at their residence.
1364
01:12:02,753 --> 01:12:06,452
So I will need you
to drive me up to the farm.
1365
01:12:07,018 --> 01:12:08,976
It's a bit late, isn't it?
1366
01:12:09,107 --> 01:12:14,286
Hmm. Oh, and I will need
to borrow this.
1367
01:12:15,983 --> 01:12:17,985
[tense music continues]
1368
01:12:26,864 --> 01:12:27,908
Gef!
1369
01:12:29,345 --> 01:12:30,911
Are you here, Gef?
1370
01:12:33,349 --> 01:12:35,786
Gef! It's your friend,
Dr. Fodor!
1371
01:12:37,701 --> 01:12:40,573
I'd just love to speak
with you for a moment.
1372
01:12:42,488 --> 01:12:44,925
I'll let you steal
my underpants!
1373
01:12:45,056 --> 01:12:46,318
[James] Dr. Fodor?
1374
01:12:47,972 --> 01:12:50,975
Is everything all right?[Dr. Fodor] Ah!
1375
01:12:51,628 --> 01:12:54,021
Feeling better,
are we, Voirrey?
1376
01:12:54,152 --> 01:12:55,849
You know, I must confess,
we weren't expecting
1377
01:12:55,980 --> 01:12:57,895
another visit from you
this evening.
1378
01:12:58,983 --> 01:13:00,332
Where is Gef?
1379
01:13:00,463 --> 01:13:01,899
He's not here at the moment.
1380
01:13:02,029 --> 01:13:03,640
I'm afraid today's excitement
scared him off.
1381
01:13:03,770 --> 01:13:05,772
But if you return tomorrow
at a reasonable hour...
1382
01:13:05,903 --> 01:13:08,209
- Gef!
- Dr. Fodor! Please!
1383
01:13:08,340 --> 01:13:12,649
I need... I need to come inside
for some further investigation.
1384
01:13:12,779 --> 01:13:14,912
I don't think that's a good idea
to allow you in our home
1385
01:13:15,042 --> 01:13:17,044
at this time,
in your condition.
1386
01:13:17,175 --> 01:13:18,568
Oh, in my condition?
1387
01:13:18,698 --> 01:13:19,960
Hmm.
1388
01:13:20,091 --> 01:13:22,310
Well, very well.
If you will not let me in,
1389
01:13:22,441 --> 01:13:26,010
I will conduct my own
investigation out here.
1390
01:13:26,140 --> 01:13:27,272
Gef!
1391
01:13:30,797 --> 01:13:32,799
I'm going to check
the barn.
1392
01:13:35,062 --> 01:13:36,412
Go and alert
the constable.
1393
01:13:36,542 --> 01:13:38,239
Dr. Fodor!
1394
01:13:38,370 --> 01:13:39,980
I've instructed Margaret
to go and alert the constable.
1395
01:13:40,111 --> 01:13:41,982
Now I would advise you
1396
01:13:42,113 --> 01:13:43,941
to accompany Maurice
back to his car,
1397
01:13:44,071 --> 01:13:45,333
and he can take you
back to your inn,
1398
01:13:45,464 --> 01:13:47,597
where you can
sleep this off.
1399
01:13:49,947 --> 01:13:51,122
[blows raspberry]
1400
01:13:55,126 --> 01:13:56,344
Oh, Gef!
1401
01:13:57,781 --> 01:13:59,086
Little Geffer?
1402
01:14:02,002 --> 01:14:03,351
I want to talk to you!
1403
01:14:04,962 --> 01:14:06,877
We can talk more
about my father!
1404
01:14:08,835 --> 01:14:11,403
I'll-- I'll give you
a signed copy of my book!
1405
01:14:11,925 --> 01:14:13,231
Dr. Fodor! No!
1406
01:14:13,361 --> 01:14:15,581
[music builds]
1407
01:14:20,281 --> 01:14:22,109
Apologies, my friend.
1408
01:14:22,240 --> 01:14:24,155
[music drops off suddenly]
1409
01:14:31,902 --> 01:14:33,338
[grunts softly]
1410
01:14:36,820 --> 01:14:38,343
[groans, winces]
1411
01:14:38,474 --> 01:14:41,259
Ah. Ow. [winces]
1412
01:14:41,955 --> 01:14:42,913
Ah.
1413
01:14:43,043 --> 01:14:44,610
[panting]
1414
01:14:44,741 --> 01:14:47,744
[church bell tolling]
1415
01:14:49,485 --> 01:14:50,703
Hello?
1416
01:14:51,791 --> 01:14:52,792
Hello!
1417
01:14:54,620 --> 01:14:58,276
[Gef] Sounds like someone got
a bit hammered this evening.
1418
01:14:58,406 --> 01:15:00,017
[giggles]
1419
01:15:01,018 --> 01:15:06,110
Georgie Porgie, pudding and pie.
Where do we go after we die?
1420
01:15:06,240 --> 01:15:07,328
Who's there?
1421
01:15:07,459 --> 01:15:09,417
[Gef giggles]
1422
01:15:10,549 --> 01:15:12,246
[Gef]
If only you were little like me,
1423
01:15:12,377 --> 01:15:15,641
you could squeeze between
these bars and be free!
1424
01:15:16,294 --> 01:15:18,339
[chuckling]
1425
01:15:21,081 --> 01:15:22,430
This is madness.
1426
01:15:25,825 --> 01:15:27,871
Gef, is it?
1427
01:15:28,001 --> 01:15:29,960
[Gef chuckles]
1428
01:15:31,439 --> 01:15:34,486
I refuse to participate
in this...
1429
01:15:35,487 --> 01:15:37,358
farce any longer.
1430
01:15:38,664 --> 01:15:39,665
Hello?
1431
01:15:40,840 --> 01:15:41,841
Hello!
1432
01:15:43,495 --> 01:15:45,628
I require the use
of a telephone,
1433
01:15:45,758 --> 01:15:49,066
so I may call my assistant
to arrange my release.
1434
01:15:51,111 --> 01:15:53,984
I have an account at
the, uh, Abbey Bank in London,
1435
01:15:54,114 --> 01:15:57,553
if I am required
to post some kind of bond.
1436
01:15:59,903 --> 01:16:01,469
Or, if you would prefer,
1437
01:16:01,600 --> 01:16:06,518
my attorney is Marlon Sandersen,
Esquire, in New York City.
1438
01:16:06,649 --> 01:16:08,955
I can assure you
I will be placing a call to him
1439
01:16:09,086 --> 01:16:11,436
if I am not released immediately.
1440
01:16:16,572 --> 01:16:19,096
Right, right. So be it.
1441
01:16:21,707 --> 01:16:23,361
[Gef chuckles]
1442
01:16:23,491 --> 01:16:24,623
Damn you!
1443
01:16:25,232 --> 01:16:26,538
Whoever you are!
1444
01:16:26,669 --> 01:16:28,714
How did you know
what my father said to me?
1445
01:16:30,324 --> 01:16:32,022
Did-did-did you read my book?
1446
01:16:32,152 --> 01:16:33,806
[Gef chuckles]
1447
01:16:33,937 --> 01:16:36,548
What-what do you hope
to gain...
1448
01:16:36,679 --> 01:16:37,854
from this...
1449
01:16:37,984 --> 01:16:39,682
insanity?
1450
01:16:39,812 --> 01:16:44,164
Is it-is it some kind of...
financial incentive? Or...
1451
01:16:44,861 --> 01:16:46,819
do you just crave attention?
1452
01:16:48,386 --> 01:16:50,954
That's it. That's it, isn't it?
It's...
1453
01:16:52,172 --> 01:16:54,044
Well, then show yourself!
1454
01:16:54,174 --> 01:16:57,351
If you are able to squeeze
through these bars,
1455
01:16:57,482 --> 01:16:59,223
like you say,
then step into the corridor
1456
01:16:59,353 --> 01:17:00,659
and let me look at you!
1457
01:17:00,790 --> 01:17:03,357
Let me get
a good look at you, Gef!
1458
01:17:08,580 --> 01:17:11,801
I intend to publish an article
1459
01:17:12,584 --> 01:17:15,892
about this entire incident
on my return to London.
1460
01:17:16,414 --> 01:17:17,676
And...
1461
01:17:17,807 --> 01:17:19,417
the tone of that article,
1462
01:17:19,547 --> 01:17:21,549
the way in which I portray you
1463
01:17:21,680 --> 01:17:25,205
and the Irving family
and this entire accursed island
1464
01:17:25,336 --> 01:17:27,381
shall be determined
by this moment
1465
01:17:27,512 --> 01:17:29,949
and whether or not
you let me look upon you.
1466
01:17:39,002 --> 01:17:40,220
Please!
1467
01:17:40,351 --> 01:17:42,005
[Gef chuckles]
1468
01:17:42,135 --> 01:17:44,311
[Gef] What if there
is nothing after this?
1469
01:17:44,442 --> 01:17:47,880
No Heaven, no Hell.
Just nothing.
1470
01:17:48,011 --> 01:17:52,406
No awareness of the fact
that we were ever aware at all.
1471
01:17:52,537 --> 01:17:55,409
Stop it! Please!
1472
01:17:57,847 --> 01:17:59,805
Just show yourself.
1473
01:18:00,719 --> 01:18:03,113
Just for a moment, please. Just...
1474
01:18:04,201 --> 01:18:06,420
Just show me that you're real.
1475
01:18:06,551 --> 01:18:10,207
Just a-a-a tuft
of your little tail.
1476
01:18:13,645 --> 01:18:17,649
W-Wait!
What if you scratch my arm?
1477
01:18:17,780 --> 01:18:20,957
With your claws,
just a little scratch. Please.
1478
01:18:21,522 --> 01:18:23,655
Please, I'm begging you.
Just a little scratch,
1479
01:18:23,786 --> 01:18:25,657
with your little claws.
1480
01:18:25,788 --> 01:18:28,399
[Gef] I don't want to hurt you.
1481
01:18:28,529 --> 01:18:30,749
Even though you want to hurt me.
1482
01:18:30,880 --> 01:18:32,185
I don't!
1483
01:18:32,316 --> 01:18:34,057
I don't want to hurt you.
1484
01:18:34,187 --> 01:18:35,623
What do you mean?
1485
01:18:36,233 --> 01:18:38,278
I mean you no harm.
1486
01:18:38,409 --> 01:18:41,238
And I don't mind. Really. Just--
1487
01:18:41,368 --> 01:18:44,023
I'm asking, I am begging you, please.
1488
01:18:44,154 --> 01:18:47,157
Just scratch my arm, there.
Just on the wrist.
1489
01:18:47,940 --> 01:18:49,942
[squelching slice]
Ow! Ow!
1490
01:18:54,860 --> 01:18:57,820
[sobbing]
1491
01:18:57,950 --> 01:19:00,344
[solemn music playing]
1492
01:19:05,044 --> 01:19:06,132
Thank you.
1493
01:19:09,309 --> 01:19:10,789
You all right?
1494
01:19:13,661 --> 01:19:16,099
Yeah. [clears throat]
I think it is time
1495
01:19:16,229 --> 01:19:18,754
that I returned to London.
1496
01:19:21,104 --> 01:19:23,367
[engine puttering]
1497
01:19:26,500 --> 01:19:29,503
[dramatic music playing]
1498
01:19:39,992 --> 01:19:42,995
[train whistle blowing]
1499
01:19:59,142 --> 01:20:01,579
After careful consideration,
1500
01:20:01,709 --> 01:20:03,537
I've decided that upon
returning to London,
1501
01:20:03,668 --> 01:20:06,366
I will be tending my resignation
as your assistant.
1502
01:20:08,673 --> 01:20:10,283
Because of the mongoose.
1503
01:20:10,414 --> 01:20:11,676
Yes.
1504
01:20:13,765 --> 01:20:15,506
And because I am unhappy.
1505
01:20:19,902 --> 01:20:21,338
So am I.
1506
01:20:22,948 --> 01:20:24,820
[train whistle blows]
1507
01:20:27,648 --> 01:20:31,870
I will offer my wholehearted recommendation
1508
01:20:32,001 --> 01:20:34,786
to any future
prospective employers
1509
01:20:34,917 --> 01:20:37,702
should they contact me
regarding you.
1510
01:20:37,833 --> 01:20:39,443
Thank you.
1511
01:20:39,573 --> 01:20:40,923
And...
1512
01:20:43,621 --> 01:20:44,840
I will miss you.
1513
01:20:47,712 --> 01:20:49,801
I will miss you too, Nandor.
1514
01:20:51,281 --> 01:20:53,196
Well, then don't leave.
1515
01:20:53,326 --> 01:20:56,025
I have already decided.
1516
01:20:56,155 --> 01:20:58,549
Well, then undecide.
1517
01:21:03,815 --> 01:21:06,600
Do you really, really, really
want me to stay?
1518
01:21:07,819 --> 01:21:11,083
I would be utterly lost
without you.
1519
01:21:17,698 --> 01:21:18,743
Well...
1520
01:21:21,093 --> 01:21:22,834
Were I to consider staying,
1521
01:21:25,315 --> 01:21:28,318
I should require a raise in pay
by a dollar an hour.
1522
01:21:29,145 --> 01:21:30,450
Oh. [sighs]
1523
01:21:32,888 --> 01:21:33,976
Fine.
1524
01:21:34,106 --> 01:21:36,282
[Anne] And a letter
of introduction
1525
01:21:36,413 --> 01:21:39,068
to Dr. Elliot Weaving
of the University of Kent's
1526
01:21:39,198 --> 01:21:40,721
Paranormal Research Department.
1527
01:21:40,852 --> 01:21:42,593
I despise that man.
1528
01:21:42,723 --> 01:21:44,160
[Anne] He respects you.
1529
01:21:45,813 --> 01:21:47,598
Fine. Anything else?
1530
01:21:47,728 --> 01:21:48,860
[Anne] Yes.
1531
01:21:50,688 --> 01:21:54,648
You must consider...
the possibility, at least,
1532
01:21:55,823 --> 01:21:57,173
that Gef is real.
1533
01:21:59,740 --> 01:22:02,004
I wish you the best
in all your future endeavors.
1534
01:22:03,657 --> 01:22:04,702
[Anne] Fine!
1535
01:22:06,051 --> 01:22:07,096
A dollar an hour?
1536
01:22:07,226 --> 01:22:08,227
[Dr. Fodor] Yes.
1537
01:22:08,358 --> 01:22:09,881
And the letter of introduction.
1538
01:22:10,751 --> 01:22:12,057
Reluctantly, yes.
1539
01:22:13,667 --> 01:22:14,930
Then I accept.
1540
01:22:16,932 --> 01:22:18,281
Welcome back.
1541
01:22:30,423 --> 01:22:31,903
[exhales]
1542
01:22:32,034 --> 01:22:33,426
[sighs]
1543
01:22:37,474 --> 01:22:38,954
The Calvert, was it?
1544
01:22:39,084 --> 01:22:44,394
It was. But, um, I regret
to inform you that, uh...
1545
01:22:47,136 --> 01:22:50,313
I've quit drinking.[laughs] Oh.
1546
01:22:50,443 --> 01:22:52,445
The trip was that bad?
1547
01:22:54,534 --> 01:22:56,710
From Mr. James Irving.
1548
01:22:56,841 --> 01:22:58,321
Oh, God.
1549
01:22:58,799 --> 01:22:59,975
[clears throat]
1550
01:23:01,063 --> 01:23:03,065
"Dr. Fodor,
1551
01:23:03,195 --> 01:23:04,588
while your trip
to Dalby Mountain
1552
01:23:04,718 --> 01:23:06,329
began somewhat auspiciously,
1553
01:23:06,459 --> 01:23:08,548
the way in which you made
your departure was..."
1554
01:23:08,679 --> 01:23:10,246
Blah, blah, blah.
1555
01:23:10,376 --> 01:23:13,205
"I regret to inform you
that I have employed
1556
01:23:13,336 --> 01:23:15,077
the honorable Karl Leibovitz,
1557
01:23:15,207 --> 01:23:17,557
an attorney from Leeds
who specializes
1558
01:23:17,688 --> 01:23:20,647
in litigating cases
involving libel, slander,
1559
01:23:20,778 --> 01:23:22,214
and defamation suits."
1560
01:23:22,345 --> 01:23:24,477
Oh. Incredible.
1561
01:23:24,608 --> 01:23:26,958
Uh, blah, blah
and we get to the-- ah, yes.
1562
01:23:27,089 --> 01:23:29,352
"I inform you of all this
not as a threat,
1563
01:23:29,482 --> 01:23:32,181
but as a piece of information
for you to keep in mind
1564
01:23:32,311 --> 01:23:34,444
when and if you ever decide
to publish an account
1565
01:23:34,574 --> 01:23:37,360
chronicling your time
at Cashen's Gap."
1566
01:23:39,362 --> 01:23:40,406
Oh.
1567
01:23:42,887 --> 01:23:45,324
You want me to order you
a glass of water?
1568
01:23:45,455 --> 01:23:46,717
Uh, please.
1569
01:23:48,719 --> 01:23:51,069
What about Gef himself?
1570
01:23:51,200 --> 01:23:53,463
Have you heard from the bastard?
1571
01:23:53,593 --> 01:23:57,597
He calls me once a week,
at least.
1572
01:23:57,728 --> 01:24:01,210
[laughs]
He called me about a month ago.
1573
01:24:01,340 --> 01:24:03,777
Told me that I had left
one of my shoes behind,
1574
01:24:03,908 --> 01:24:06,128
and that he was keeping it safe
in his little cave,
1575
01:24:06,258 --> 01:24:08,173
should I ever care to return.
1576
01:24:08,782 --> 01:24:10,436
Son of a bitch!
1577
01:24:13,396 --> 01:24:17,704
Gef has become a bit
of a local celebrity.
1578
01:24:18,270 --> 01:24:20,664
Did you hear about the case
of R.S. Lambert
1579
01:24:20,794 --> 01:24:23,623
and the British
Broadcasting Company?
1580
01:24:23,754 --> 01:24:25,277
Indeed.
1581
01:24:25,408 --> 01:24:27,888
[Dr. Price] And did you hear
that after you left,
1582
01:24:28,019 --> 01:24:31,240
a filmmaker by the name
of Roger Sanz
1583
01:24:31,370 --> 01:24:34,634
brought a film crew to the Isle
1584
01:24:34,765 --> 01:24:39,161
to attempt to obtain evidence
of Gef
1585
01:24:39,857 --> 01:24:42,990
via motion pictures?
1586
01:24:43,121 --> 01:24:44,470
Did I hear!
1587
01:24:44,601 --> 01:24:46,690
The Haunting
of the Isle of Man.
1588
01:24:47,256 --> 01:24:48,822
I attended
the film's premiere,
1589
01:24:48,953 --> 01:24:50,476
if you could call it that.
1590
01:24:50,607 --> 01:24:52,304
[narrator]
On the remote Isle of Man,
1591
01:24:52,435 --> 01:24:54,132
a little seen but much heard
little creature
1592
01:24:54,263 --> 01:24:56,265
going by the name of Gef
is fast becoming
1593
01:24:56,395 --> 01:24:59,094
as famous a mystery
as the Loch Ness Monster,
1594
01:24:59,224 --> 01:25:01,052
only this elusive
creature talks,
1595
01:25:01,183 --> 01:25:03,533
baffling experts
with his sinister
1596
01:25:03,663 --> 01:25:05,839
and powerful pronouncements.
1597
01:25:06,753 --> 01:25:08,233
I saw it shortly thereafter.
1598
01:25:08,364 --> 01:25:09,626
[both laugh]
1599
01:25:09,756 --> 01:25:12,281
I think it, uh, unequivocally
1600
01:25:12,411 --> 01:25:15,588
puts the mystery of Gef's
existence to rest.
1601
01:25:22,769 --> 01:25:24,467
Will you be publishing
an article
1602
01:25:24,597 --> 01:25:26,251
about your experience, then,
1603
01:25:26,382 --> 01:25:32,214
considering how litigious our
friend Mr. Irving has become?
1604
01:25:32,344 --> 01:25:34,433
I think I will, yes.
1605
01:25:34,564 --> 01:25:35,652
Hmm.
1606
01:25:35,782 --> 01:25:38,133
A braver man than I!
1607
01:25:39,743 --> 01:25:44,530
Well, I will portray the Irvings
and their imaginary pet
1608
01:25:44,661 --> 01:25:47,359
in a far kinder hue
than they deserve.
1609
01:25:47,490 --> 01:25:50,971
And though my time
at the farm was admittedly...
1610
01:25:51,624 --> 01:25:53,322
horrific,
1611
01:25:53,452 --> 01:25:57,413
as the weeks and months pass,
I recall with...
1612
01:25:57,543 --> 01:26:02,200
more and more fondness
my bizarre time there.
1613
01:26:02,331 --> 01:26:04,811
[laughs] I feel the same.
1614
01:26:08,032 --> 01:26:10,295
And in the end,
1615
01:26:10,426 --> 01:26:13,037
do you feel as though
you understand any better
1616
01:26:13,168 --> 01:26:17,259
the phenomena that is Gef?
1617
01:26:17,389 --> 01:26:21,828
Or the motives of the Irvings?
1618
01:26:23,090 --> 01:26:24,179
Perhaps.
1619
01:26:25,789 --> 01:26:28,922
Why is it that we write,
Dr. Price?
1620
01:26:29,053 --> 01:26:30,533
Hmmm.
1621
01:26:31,969 --> 01:26:37,061
To chronicle our experiences,
I suppose?
1622
01:26:37,627 --> 01:26:39,150
To remember.
1623
01:26:40,586 --> 01:26:44,111
Perhaps you can recall
every detail
1624
01:26:44,242 --> 01:26:45,983
of the cases
you've investigated,
1625
01:26:46,113 --> 01:26:47,941
but I fear...
1626
01:26:48,072 --> 01:26:53,556
entire sections of my life
have faded from view.
1627
01:26:53,686 --> 01:26:56,472
[laughs]
That is not what I meant.
1628
01:26:56,602 --> 01:26:58,125
To journal certainly,
1629
01:26:58,256 --> 01:27:01,259
but why do we publish
our writings?
1630
01:27:02,086 --> 01:27:03,783
To remember, you said.
1631
01:27:03,914 --> 01:27:08,440
No, we publish our writings
to be remembered.
1632
01:27:08,571 --> 01:27:10,268
We do not speak of it, often,
1633
01:27:10,399 --> 01:27:13,271
but we want our names
to be known.
1634
01:27:13,402 --> 01:27:16,187
To be recognized
within our field, and without.
1635
01:27:16,318 --> 01:27:18,929
I do not want fame!
1636
01:27:19,059 --> 01:27:20,452
Neither do I.
1637
01:27:20,583 --> 01:27:22,759
But we would not publish
our findings,
1638
01:27:22,889 --> 01:27:25,631
we would not write novels,
Dr. Price,
1639
01:27:25,762 --> 01:27:28,634
if we did not wish them
to be read.
1640
01:27:31,637 --> 01:27:33,596
It is incredibly ironic
1641
01:27:33,726 --> 01:27:37,469
that one of the most profound
questions I have ever been asked
1642
01:27:37,600 --> 01:27:40,646
was by none other
than Gef himself.
1643
01:27:40,777 --> 01:27:42,300
You're kidding!
1644
01:27:43,823 --> 01:27:45,042
No.
1645
01:27:46,130 --> 01:27:49,220
"What if there is nothing
after this?"
1646
01:27:49,742 --> 01:27:51,266
the creature entreated.
1647
01:27:53,180 --> 01:27:56,880
"No Heaven, no Hell.
Just nothing.
1648
01:27:58,142 --> 01:28:01,406
No awareness that
we were ever aware at all."
1649
01:28:04,844 --> 01:28:06,846
A grim query!
1650
01:28:06,977 --> 01:28:08,283
[Dr. Fodor] Indeed.
1651
01:28:09,762 --> 01:28:12,852
What if there is nothing
before or after?
1652
01:28:15,115 --> 01:28:16,943
What if this is all there is?
1653
01:28:19,903 --> 01:28:21,252
If that is so, then...
1654
01:28:21,383 --> 01:28:24,168
all that is left
after our bodies die
1655
01:28:24,299 --> 01:28:25,909
are the things we leave behind.
1656
01:28:26,039 --> 01:28:29,478
In your case, and in mine,
it is our writings.
1657
01:28:29,608 --> 01:28:31,958
The tales of the bizarre places
we have been,
1658
01:28:32,089 --> 01:28:34,918
the-the people and phenomena
we have observed.
1659
01:28:35,048 --> 01:28:37,442
That we have experienced
these things,
1660
01:28:37,573 --> 01:28:39,009
is what makes us unique,
1661
01:28:39,139 --> 01:28:41,751
among the two billion or so
people on this planet.
1662
01:28:43,230 --> 01:28:45,232
What, then,
makes the Irvings unique?
1663
01:28:46,625 --> 01:28:48,714
For what will they
be remembered?
1664
01:28:50,803 --> 01:28:53,763
[wind blowing]
1665
01:28:53,893 --> 01:28:56,374
[dramatic music playing]
1666
01:31:58,382 --> 01:32:00,079
[music fades]
1667
01:32:00,210 --> 01:32:03,343
[tense, whimsical music playing]
1668
01:33:38,438 --> 01:33:40,615
[music fades]
1669
01:33:45,141 --> 01:33:48,405
[bright jazz music playing]
1670
01:33:52,583 --> 01:33:58,415
Yeah, I just wanted to give out,
uh, a shout to the entire...
1671
01:33:58,545 --> 01:34:00,069
well, almost,
1672
01:34:00,199 --> 01:34:04,595
the entire cast and crew,
uh, on the production
1673
01:34:04,726 --> 01:34:07,076
of Nandor Fodor
and the Talking Mongoose.
1674
01:34:07,206 --> 01:34:10,862
An extraordinary cast,
incredible crew, amazing DOP.
1675
01:34:10,993 --> 01:34:14,300
Extraordinary costumes, set.
I mean, everything was amazing.
1676
01:34:14,431 --> 01:34:16,738
Um, apart from working
with Adam. Um...
1677
01:34:16,868 --> 01:34:20,872
'cause he is a bit of a diva,
to say the least.
1678
01:34:21,003 --> 01:34:23,701
I've been in this business
for over 40-plus years.
1679
01:34:23,832 --> 01:34:25,137
I've worked with some
great actors,
1680
01:34:25,268 --> 01:34:26,617
great writers, directors,
1681
01:34:26,748 --> 01:34:28,488
all kinds of great people.
1682
01:34:28,619 --> 01:34:31,187
But I've never worked
with a complete [bleep].
1683
01:34:32,188 --> 01:34:34,799
And the guy who wins that prize
is a guy called Adam Sigal.
1684
01:34:34,930 --> 01:34:37,454
Who calls himself a director.
1685
01:34:37,584 --> 01:34:40,500
Really, really challenging guy, yeah.
1686
01:34:40,631 --> 01:34:42,720
You get a project
1687
01:34:42,851 --> 01:34:46,202
and you read it
and you get excited about it
1688
01:34:46,332 --> 01:34:48,334
and the money is good
and all that stuff,
1689
01:34:48,465 --> 01:34:50,685
and then you get there
and there's just...
1690
01:34:52,121 --> 01:34:53,949
this guy at the helm.
1691
01:34:56,691 --> 01:34:59,476
The man's a fool.
Couldn't direct traffic.
1692
01:35:00,172 --> 01:35:01,652
And I was like, "Oh, by the way,
1693
01:35:01,783 --> 01:35:06,222
there's two words that
I wanted to just swap around,
1694
01:35:06,352 --> 01:35:08,920
because I just think it might
fly a little bit better."
1695
01:35:09,051 --> 01:35:13,359
And he said, "What the [bleep]
did you say about my script?"
1696
01:35:13,969 --> 01:35:15,492
If something wasn't going right,
1697
01:35:15,622 --> 01:35:18,103
he would just stand up
and shout,
1698
01:35:18,234 --> 01:35:19,801
and then just storm off,
1699
01:35:19,931 --> 01:35:21,890
and you wouldn't see him
for hours.
1700
01:35:22,020 --> 01:35:23,979
And then when he was ready
to come on set,
1701
01:35:24,109 --> 01:35:25,502
he wouldn't come back on set.
1702
01:35:25,632 --> 01:35:28,723
He would just send back
an Alsatian called Gavin,
1703
01:35:29,898 --> 01:35:32,030
who he then would scream
from the other room,
1704
01:35:32,161 --> 01:35:34,119
"Gavin's now directing!"
1705
01:35:35,251 --> 01:35:38,689
And you can tell, obviously,
when watching the movie,
1706
01:35:38,820 --> 01:35:41,039
the parts that are directed
by a dog.
1707
01:35:41,170 --> 01:35:42,737
Because they're better!
1708
01:35:43,302 --> 01:35:45,304
I... I can't talk right now.
1709
01:35:45,435 --> 01:35:46,958
He grabbed me
by the back of my hair.
1710
01:35:47,089 --> 01:35:51,397
He slammed my face down
really hard on my desk.
1711
01:35:52,659 --> 01:35:54,096
That was day one.
1712
01:35:54,226 --> 01:35:59,014
Uh, Adam Sigal
is a [bleep] bubble,
1713
01:35:59,144 --> 01:36:01,059
and I wish that mother[bleep]
1714
01:36:01,190 --> 01:36:02,844
would just [bleep] off
back to Florida
1715
01:36:02,974 --> 01:36:04,541
with the rest
of the [bleep] alligators
1716
01:36:04,671 --> 01:36:06,543
and [bleep] hicks that
he hangs out with.
1717
01:36:06,673 --> 01:36:07,718
What a [bleep]!
1718
01:36:07,849 --> 01:36:10,199
What a [bleep]!
1719
01:36:11,113 --> 01:36:14,812
[bright jazz music continues]
1720
01:36:21,427 --> 01:36:22,777
[music ends]