1 00:00:52,394 --> 00:00:54,560 - Goodnight, tom. - Goodnight, mr pelham. 2 00:08:49,727 --> 00:08:50,602 Thank you. 3 00:08:51,519 --> 00:08:52,894 Thank you. 4 00:09:18,935 --> 00:09:20,727 Jim, I think he's gone. 5 00:09:51,894 --> 00:09:55,060 Whats the matter with the bloody thing, looks as though we've got two heartbeats there now. 6 00:10:13,560 --> 00:10:15,185 Ah, that's better. 7 00:10:49,102 --> 00:10:50,852 I hope you're not going back to the office too soon. 8 00:10:50,935 --> 00:10:52,685 Of course not. Good as new. 9 00:10:52,810 --> 00:10:53,935 Goodbye, daddy. 10 00:10:54,227 --> 00:10:54,894 Goodbye, darlings. 11 00:10:54,977 --> 00:10:58,185 Michael, will you please go back and finish your breakfast. You'll be late for school... 12 00:10:58,352 --> 00:10:59,644 You too, James. 13 00:11:01,727 --> 00:11:03,769 Why did we have to have the same sort of car again? 14 00:11:04,060 --> 00:11:05,019 L'm used to them. 15 00:11:05,310 --> 00:11:08,519 Damned good motor cars... Didn't seem any point in changing. 16 00:11:08,894 --> 00:11:11,435 - L'll put that on your tombstone. - What? 17 00:11:11,727 --> 00:11:14,935 - Don't forget the seatbelt. - I don't forget things like that... 18 00:11:15,102 --> 00:11:17,102 Not important things. 19 00:11:18,810 --> 00:11:21,144 Like - kissing me goodbye. 20 00:11:23,644 --> 00:11:25,477 - Goodbye, darling. - Take care. 21 00:11:42,227 --> 00:11:45,435 - Alex. - Sorry... sorry, mr chairman, gentlemen. 22 00:11:45,769 --> 00:11:47,269 Traffic, I'm afraid. 23 00:11:47,310 --> 00:11:50,644 No, no, we hadn't really started. I was just bringing pel up to date... 24 00:11:50,810 --> 00:11:53,269 Apart from saying how glad we are to have him back. 25 00:11:53,769 --> 00:11:56,310 So, well now, that's... everybody... 26 00:11:56,769 --> 00:12:01,185 There it is then, on the table. Do we merge with electronics general or don't we? 27 00:12:01,894 --> 00:12:06,560 Pel, look... it's quite simple... the offer's there. E.G.O. Have made it. They want it - we want it... 28 00:12:07,019 --> 00:12:10,060 Just a question of agreeing a statement, i should have thought. 29 00:12:12,060 --> 00:12:16,269 - What d'you think, Freddie? - If a merger's right, and we can make it look right, 30 00:12:16,352 --> 00:12:18,977 presumably we come out of it smelling like roses... 31 00:12:19,185 --> 00:12:21,269 And with a few extra pennies in the bank, eh Hugh? 32 00:12:21,602 --> 00:12:23,394 Well, it's in our own best interests. 33 00:12:23,560 --> 00:12:26,977 In the best interests of our shareholders. That's what you meant, Hugh. 34 00:12:27,019 --> 00:12:28,227 If I'd meant that I'd have said that. 35 00:12:28,769 --> 00:12:32,352 Shall I take it, then, that it's the feeling of this board that the proposed merger with e.G.O. 36 00:12:32,394 --> 00:12:34,852 Is a forward-looking step for the good of all'? 37 00:12:35,269 --> 00:12:37,644 It's not quite as simple as that, Charles... 38 00:12:38,977 --> 00:12:40,769 I've thought a good deal about it lately... 39 00:12:41,144 --> 00:12:42,685 Would you mind if I said my piece? 40 00:12:43,185 --> 00:12:44,352 We've all been waiting for it, pel. 41 00:12:44,477 --> 00:12:47,852 The one word I haven't heard mentioned so far is 'takeover'. 42 00:12:48,060 --> 00:12:48,894 No... no... no... 43 00:12:49,144 --> 00:12:52,352 - A takeover - that's what it is. - Not as I see it. 44 00:12:52,435 --> 00:12:53,227 “.8 merger. 45 00:12:53,394 --> 00:12:55,269 Joint partnership, I'd say. 46 00:12:55,602 --> 00:12:59,935 A takeover... however you like to dress it up that's what it is, staring you in the face. 47 00:13:00,227 --> 00:13:02,727 - Well, I don't agree, but... - Look at the facts... 48 00:13:02,810 --> 00:13:06,894 E.G.O. Isn't out to do anybody any favours. Never have been... 49 00:13:07,144 --> 00:13:08,769 Until recently... 50 00:13:09,227 --> 00:13:12,852 ...and since we entered into marine electronics we've not exactly set the shipping world on fire. 51 00:13:12,894 --> 00:13:16,644 A nice, steady old firm, Freeman, pelham and Dawson. One or two bright young lads coming up. 52 00:13:16,685 --> 00:13:19,560 - Thank you. - But that's... about it... 53 00:13:19,727 --> 00:13:22,310 - Until recently. - What d'you mean? 54 00:13:22,852 --> 00:13:25,769 What have we got recently that they haven't? 55 00:13:26,060 --> 00:13:29,435 - You mean our new marine automation system? - I mean just that. 56 00:13:29,644 --> 00:13:31,477 But that's top secret! 57 00:13:31,602 --> 00:13:33,269 Perhaps we only think it's top secret. 58 00:13:36,435 --> 00:13:39,269 But how? Alex, how? 59 00:13:39,477 --> 00:13:42,685 How do most leaks leak? Through an open mouth. 60 00:13:42,810 --> 00:13:45,060 I think this is a very serious allegation... 61 00:13:45,227 --> 00:13:47,727 And if pel can't substantiate it, he should withdraw it. 62 00:13:47,769 --> 00:13:48,977 All right, I withdraw it, fine. 63 00:13:49,144 --> 00:13:52,852 No... no... I think this whole matter's got to be thoroughly investigated... 64 00:13:52,977 --> 00:13:56,685 It could affect our whole bargaining position. Our own security's got to be checked. 65 00:13:57,019 --> 00:14:00,310 Perhaps we can probe e.G.O. For any indications that they know of our new system. 66 00:14:00,644 --> 00:14:04,435 I know some of their chaps socially... Ashton, for instance. 67 00:14:04,644 --> 00:14:05,685 I could chat him up, I suppose. 68 00:14:05,810 --> 00:14:08,935 Right. Er, soft-pedal it, though. We still want it to go through. 69 00:14:09,185 --> 00:14:11,394 But we've got to know where we stand... 70 00:14:11,769 --> 00:14:13,935 Right, thank you, gentlemen. 71 00:14:18,102 --> 00:14:20,852 If you ask me, pei, you're stirring up a lot of trouble about nothing. 72 00:14:21,727 --> 00:14:22,977 Perhaps. 73 00:14:23,102 --> 00:14:26,227 I hope you're feeling quite fit again? I was a bit worried about you. 74 00:14:26,602 --> 00:14:28,102 Walked right by me in cheapside last week. 75 00:14:28,144 --> 00:14:29,685 Last week, b.J.? 76 00:14:29,769 --> 00:14:33,685 Wednesday... cut me stone dead. Anyway, glad you're all right. 77 00:14:36,185 --> 00:14:38,060 Silly old sod. I was in Spain last week. 78 00:14:38,310 --> 00:14:40,435 If e.G.O. Get him they won't need the secret weapon. 79 00:14:40,602 --> 00:14:42,727 - Good to see you, pel. - Thank you, Freddie... 80 00:14:42,810 --> 00:14:44,185 Well, I'm going for a swim, doctor's orders. You coming? 81 00:14:44,352 --> 00:14:45,644 Why not. 82 00:14:48,310 --> 00:14:51,477 We've got it. Great shot, Timothy! 83 00:15:08,435 --> 00:15:11,477 Have you clocked David Bailey in the bikini? 84 00:15:13,769 --> 00:15:16,894 Oh, d'you know, I think she'd like to point her camera in your direction, 85 00:15:17,102 --> 00:15:19,227 - if you'll forgive the expression. - Oh, sure. 86 00:15:19,352 --> 00:15:21,310 Pity you're a happily married man... 87 00:15:21,477 --> 00:15:24,060 What would you do if she was to give you the old exposure meter treatment? 88 00:15:24,394 --> 00:15:27,102 Oh, I'd probably give her f8 at 1000th of a second... 89 00:15:27,477 --> 00:15:28,310 Great! 90 00:15:28,852 --> 00:15:29,977 Hold it while I check... 91 00:15:30,227 --> 00:15:32,185 - What about Ashton? When are you seeing him? - This evening. 92 00:15:32,227 --> 00:15:33,852 Give me a call if you get anything out of him. 93 00:15:33,977 --> 00:15:34,769 Hold it! 94 00:15:34,935 --> 00:15:35,644 Can you move in... Some more... come on. 95 00:15:35,685 --> 00:15:37,727 - You'll be in this evening, will you? - Yes, we very rarely go out. 96 00:15:37,852 --> 00:15:40,060 Oh! I'm sorry. 97 00:15:44,602 --> 00:15:46,644 I'd say f4... 98 00:15:46,685 --> 00:15:48,644 With a very slow shutter. 99 00:15:56,769 --> 00:16:02,060 D'you know this? Lt's pel's latest craze. He played it all the time in hospital. Drove the nurses mad. 100 00:16:25,060 --> 00:16:27,727 L'm sorry frank. I've no idea why he's so late... 101 00:16:27,977 --> 00:16:30,019 I'm worried about him driving anyway. 102 00:16:46,935 --> 00:16:47,935 Thank you, Luigi. 103 00:16:48,185 --> 00:16:49,810 - Where are the boys? - Oh, there you are! 104 00:16:50,435 --> 00:16:52,769 - Now what does that mean? - Hallo, daddy. 105 00:16:52,852 --> 00:16:54,394 L've done a painting of your car all smashed up. 106 00:16:54,477 --> 00:16:57,435 Oh Michael, you're covered in it, can't I leave you for a second? 107 00:16:57,602 --> 00:16:58,852 I said you'd be cross. 108 00:16:58,935 --> 00:17:00,602 Mummy, has that man gone yet? 109 00:17:01,102 --> 00:17:03,894 No, he hasn't... now, will you both go back upstairs again at once 110 00:17:03,977 --> 00:17:05,560 go on! And wash that paint off, Michael. 111 00:17:05,602 --> 00:17:07,019 Has who gone? 112 00:17:07,352 --> 00:17:10,352 Frank bellamy. You asked him for a drink. 113 00:17:10,519 --> 00:17:12,810 - I did? - Why didn't you tell me? 114 00:17:12,977 --> 00:17:14,602 Because I didn't ask him. 115 00:17:14,769 --> 00:17:16,977 Ah, there you are, old love. 116 00:17:17,227 --> 00:17:18,519 Hallo, frank. What a pleasant surprise. 117 00:17:18,727 --> 00:17:21,644 What, surprised I'm still here? 118 00:17:21,727 --> 00:17:24,144 No, I'm... l'm sorry. Sorry I'm late. You had a drink? 119 00:17:24,352 --> 00:17:27,394 Just finished the third, Eve and I have been getting quietly smashed. 120 00:17:27,435 --> 00:17:30,644 - Good - then you'll have another. - Oh, no... no... no... l'm off. Can't drink and drive, old love. 121 00:17:30,727 --> 00:17:32,394 Well, I'm sorry... what else can I say? 122 00:17:32,644 --> 00:17:37,477 Don't give it another thought. Lt's not often I get a pretty woman to myself! 123 00:17:38,935 --> 00:17:41,060 - Keep him guessing, eh? - Yes, 124 00:17:41,269 --> 00:17:43,644 goodbye frank and I'm sorry about the muddle. 125 00:17:43,769 --> 00:17:45,019 I must go and hurl the children into bed. 126 00:17:45,144 --> 00:17:48,019 Frank I had no idea. It must have gone completely out of my mind. 127 00:17:48,269 --> 00:17:51,977 Oh, that's all right, old son. I say, I'm... l'm sorry I landed you in it. 128 00:17:52,102 --> 00:17:53,102 You don't want an alibi, do you? 129 00:17:53,310 --> 00:17:55,519 - No, why should I? - Oh, just asking. 130 00:17:55,644 --> 00:17:59,185 You know I thought after last Thursday you might have.. Made it away. 131 00:17:59,435 --> 00:18:00,977 What on earth's last Thursday got to do with it? 132 00:18:01,310 --> 00:18:03,768 Oh, you are a cagey old sod, aren't you... 133 00:18:03,769 --> 00:18:05,685 You don't have to play it straight with me, you know. 134 00:18:05,977 --> 00:18:08,435 I was there, remember?...At the club. 135 00:18:08,894 --> 00:18:10,852 I won't forget that game of snooker in a hurry. 136 00:18:11,060 --> 00:18:13,435 Nor the little party we had afterwards... 137 00:18:14,977 --> 00:18:19,935 But don't worry, old son... Prenez garde... prenez garde... 138 00:18:35,185 --> 00:18:37,477 You can read until daddy comes up. 139 00:18:38,185 --> 00:18:40,144 - Go and settle them, will you? - Yes, in a minute. 140 00:18:40,269 --> 00:18:42,435 Why have you taken up with frank bellamy again? 141 00:18:42,644 --> 00:18:44,102 I might ask the same of you. 142 00:18:44,477 --> 00:18:46,435 - I didn't invite him. - Nor did I. 143 00:18:46,519 --> 00:18:48,977 He bores me to tired sobs. You must have asked him. 144 00:18:49,060 --> 00:18:51,102 Darling, I'm telling you, I didn't. 145 00:18:51,269 --> 00:18:53,227 Frank bellamy has got mental b.O. 146 00:18:53,352 --> 00:18:55,394 Well, why would he turn up here unless you invited him? 147 00:18:55,477 --> 00:18:57,810 Probably after you. You seemed Matey enough together. 148 00:18:58,019 --> 00:19:00,394 - Well I had to entertain him, didn't I? - God, whats that? 149 00:19:02,602 --> 00:19:03,560 Cleaning ticket. 150 00:19:03,769 --> 00:19:05,852 Well, the bloody pin stuck in my neck... 151 00:19:05,977 --> 00:19:09,560 Now look, darling... he says I invited him last Thursday at the club. Right? 152 00:19:09,602 --> 00:19:13,519 Now, just ask yourself... Where was I last Thursday... 153 00:19:13,602 --> 00:19:17,019 On holiday, right? Not at the club, right? 154 00:19:17,060 --> 00:19:17,935 You sure? 155 00:19:17,977 --> 00:19:20,227 Now don't you start. Am I sure what? 156 00:19:20,310 --> 00:19:23,102 - Sure he said at the club? - He said at the club. 157 00:19:23,185 --> 00:19:26,644 Well, don't get at me. I've just had him breathing heavily down my neck for an hour... 158 00:19:27,310 --> 00:19:28,602 Read the riot act, will you? 159 00:19:34,019 --> 00:19:36,560 Daddy, what lies at the bottom of the sea and quivers? 160 00:19:36,644 --> 00:19:37,894 Oh god, not riddles! 161 00:19:37,935 --> 00:19:38,852 Dvou give up? 162 00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:41,852 All right, what does lie on the bottom of the sea and quiver? 163 00:19:41,894 --> 00:19:43,185 A nervous wreck! 164 00:19:43,769 --> 00:19:46,810 - Lt's for you. - Ho... ho... ho... l'm coming. 165 00:19:46,852 --> 00:19:49,727 Right, books away, lie down, go to sleep... 166 00:19:51,935 --> 00:19:55,394 And you, monster... nervous wreck! 167 00:19:56,727 --> 00:19:59,185 Sleep tight boys, see you in the morning. 168 00:20:01,685 --> 00:20:02,685 It's Alex. 169 00:20:02,769 --> 00:20:05,435 Yes, Alex? Don't tell me I stood him up too? 170 00:20:06,394 --> 00:20:07,560 Well, did he admit it? 171 00:20:08,727 --> 00:20:09,769 Well, what did he say? 172 00:20:11,269 --> 00:20:13,144 Tonight? I've just got in... 173 00:20:14,519 --> 00:20:15,894 ...o.K. Alex... o.K. 174 00:20:16,060 --> 00:20:18,226 - No dinner? - Sorry, darling. Crisis. 175 00:20:18,227 --> 00:20:21,310 You mean another crisis? Apart from the Italian one in the kitchen? 176 00:20:21,435 --> 00:20:22,435 Charles has called a meeting. 177 00:20:22,519 --> 00:20:23,852 Can't it wait until after dinner? 178 00:20:23,935 --> 00:20:25,934 No, apparently not. Lt's pretty important. 179 00:20:25,935 --> 00:20:28,394 - Oh dear, I wish to god... - I'll be back soon as I can. 180 00:20:28,435 --> 00:20:30,019 Drive carefully. 181 00:20:31,352 --> 00:20:32,685 L'll drive carefully. 182 00:21:26,394 --> 00:21:28,185 You mean Ashton actually admitted it? 183 00:21:29,977 --> 00:21:31,394 You know Ashton... 184 00:21:32,185 --> 00:21:35,644 He gave a few clues across and down, and left me to fill in the blanks. 185 00:21:35,810 --> 00:21:36,727 But you're convinced? 186 00:21:36,894 --> 00:21:40,810 Mm... l'm convinced that e.G.O. Know we've made the breakthrough. 187 00:21:40,852 --> 00:21:44,144 - I can't believe it. - Lt's inconceivable. Lt's top secret. 188 00:21:44,227 --> 00:21:44,727 Yes. 189 00:21:45,935 --> 00:21:47,394 So there has been a leak. 190 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:53,269 Well, I don't know, I'm getting too old for this jungle... how could it happen, pel? 191 00:21:53,894 --> 00:21:57,601 Come on, Charles. Espionage isn't all James bond and her majesty's secret service. 192 00:21:57,602 --> 00:21:58,977 Industry goes in for it too, you know. 193 00:21:59,477 --> 00:22:02,394 They could be shooting at us right now from across the street... 194 00:22:03,435 --> 00:22:06,894 Infra-red film rifle Mikes... 195 00:22:08,019 --> 00:22:09,143 Pick up every word. 196 00:22:09,144 --> 00:22:13,352 Look... it's obvious that somethings going on... Though god know I don't want to believe it... 197 00:22:13,685 --> 00:22:15,810 So we have to take decisions. 198 00:22:16,602 --> 00:22:19,644 It's inconceivable that there could have been a leak at board level... 199 00:22:20,394 --> 00:22:22,269 So... where could it originate? 200 00:22:22,644 --> 00:22:24,560 Research? The labs? 201 00:22:25,394 --> 00:22:27,227 - ...Alex? - Well, that's an obvious guess. 202 00:22:27,644 --> 00:22:32,269 If there's a leak if then we've got to try and trace it as fast as possible... 203 00:22:32,477 --> 00:22:34,685 Find out the extent and then plug it... 204 00:22:35,977 --> 00:22:38,352 In the meantime, we'll have to play it very carefully. 205 00:22:39,394 --> 00:22:41,019 What else did Ashton say, Alex? 206 00:22:42,144 --> 00:22:45,102 Well, he plays his cards very close to the chest... 207 00:22:46,394 --> 00:22:49,477 He could have a full house or be bluffing on a pair of twos... 208 00:22:49,894 --> 00:22:51,602 I have learned one thing, however... 209 00:22:52,144 --> 00:22:54,852 E.G.O. Have a large tender out at the moment. 210 00:22:54,977 --> 00:22:55,685 Who to? 211 00:22:56,227 --> 00:22:58,310 Some characters with snow on their boots. 212 00:22:58,519 --> 00:23:03,394 Their bid is to supply the Soviet shipping industry with monitoring components. 213 00:23:03,519 --> 00:23:04,560 What's the point, then'? 214 00:23:04,769 --> 00:23:08,602 The point is, dear tom, that our breakthrough in marine automation would be the clincher. 215 00:23:08,727 --> 00:23:11,310 Well, if they need us so badly they'll have to up the ante. 216 00:23:11,352 --> 00:23:14,852 Once they get us they'll eat us with not even a burp. 217 00:23:15,602 --> 00:23:17,185 All right, listen... 218 00:23:18,060 --> 00:23:20,227 I've always held with certain principles in business... 219 00:23:20,727 --> 00:23:24,394 And I do not propose to negotiate any further until this matter's resolved. 220 00:23:25,352 --> 00:23:27,477 Their offer will not be put to the shareholders. 221 00:23:28,394 --> 00:23:32,477 Alex. If there's been a leak, you and pel have damned well got to find out how it happened. 222 00:23:37,185 --> 00:23:38,227 That you, darling? 223 00:23:40,685 --> 00:23:41,352 Darling? 224 00:23:50,644 --> 00:23:52,019 What are all the lights on for? 225 00:23:52,102 --> 00:23:54,060 I don't like being in the house on my own. 226 00:23:54,435 --> 00:23:58,477 Well, you're not exactly on your own, are you? There's Maria and Luigi and the boys... 227 00:23:58,519 --> 00:23:59,519 Who were you going to telephone? 228 00:23:59,602 --> 00:24:04,101 The police... l don't know how to shout 'help' in Italian... l'll get your dinner. 229 00:24:04,102 --> 00:24:05,809 It doesn't matter now. I don't want it now, I'm past it. 230 00:24:05,810 --> 00:24:07,601 Well you'd better go and put it down the wastemaster then 231 00:24:07,602 --> 00:24:09,852 because if they find it in the morning they're going back to sorrento. 232 00:24:09,894 --> 00:24:14,144 - Oh, screw them. I'll eat it for breakfast. - Lt's pasta. It'll be cement by breakfast... 233 00:24:14,769 --> 00:24:18,144 You know I read in a book it's a sign of middle age when a man starts switching off lights. 234 00:24:18,185 --> 00:24:19,269 I am middle-aged. 235 00:24:19,310 --> 00:24:21,435 You're just grumpy, that's all, and I'm going to get you something to eat. 236 00:24:21,477 --> 00:24:22,935 I honestly don't want anything. 237 00:24:23,394 --> 00:24:26,102 Well, you'll have to go down and dispose of the pasta... 238 00:24:30,602 --> 00:24:33,227 Don't make a noise, otherwise they'll come out and investigate. 239 00:24:33,310 --> 00:24:37,769 Look, if I can't Chuck some spaghetti down the bloody sink in my own house I'm going to emigrate. 240 00:25:06,477 --> 00:25:08,185 Did you see a car when you came in? 241 00:25:09,019 --> 00:25:10,394 Car? What car? 242 00:25:10,602 --> 00:25:13,060 A silvery car. Lt's been outside all evening... 243 00:25:13,977 --> 00:25:16,144 ...a beautiful, long, low, silvery car. 244 00:25:16,602 --> 00:25:18,144 Well, what's it got to do with us? 245 00:25:18,977 --> 00:25:22,477 Nothing... it was just... dreamy. 246 00:25:23,685 --> 00:25:25,394 For god's sake! 247 00:25:26,685 --> 00:25:28,810 Get into bed and I'll massage your back. 248 00:25:29,144 --> 00:25:31,602 - I want to go to bed to sleep. - It'll put you to sleep. 249 00:25:33,185 --> 00:25:34,769 Yes, we've heard that before. 250 00:25:35,602 --> 00:25:37,144 L'll just massage your neck. 251 00:25:39,727 --> 00:25:40,685 It's no good, Eve. 252 00:25:46,060 --> 00:25:48,310 I don't want you to make love to me. 253 00:25:54,769 --> 00:25:57,644 You're a super girl, you know that, don't you? 254 00:25:58,019 --> 00:26:02,435 No, I'm not... L'm an average, grasping married woman. 255 00:26:03,435 --> 00:26:04,602 And what am I? 256 00:26:05,477 --> 00:26:08,685 You're an above-average, overworked young executive. 257 00:26:14,269 --> 00:26:16,102 Who doesn't make love to his wife very often. 258 00:26:17,685 --> 00:26:19,144 I didn't say that. 259 00:26:20,394 --> 00:26:21,602 I said it for you. 260 00:26:23,102 --> 00:26:24,185 It doesn't matter. 261 00:26:25,352 --> 00:26:26,769 It isn't that I don't love you. 262 00:26:27,810 --> 00:26:31,060 No, I know. We're just used to each other, i suppose. 263 00:26:37,144 --> 00:26:38,852 You'd like another baby, wouldn't you? 264 00:26:39,519 --> 00:26:40,144 Yes 265 00:26:42,727 --> 00:26:44,602 I thought you were worried about your figure. 266 00:26:46,685 --> 00:26:48,310 L've got over that. 267 00:26:54,852 --> 00:26:56,935 D'you suppose this happens to lots of people? 268 00:26:57,144 --> 00:26:58,310 I expect so... 269 00:26:59,477 --> 00:27:01,352 But I don't care about other people. 270 00:27:01,894 --> 00:27:03,269 I only care about us... 271 00:27:04,185 --> 00:27:05,769 What's going to happen to us. 272 00:27:06,102 --> 00:27:07,227 What is, do you think? 273 00:27:08,227 --> 00:27:09,435 I don't know... 274 00:27:10,644 --> 00:27:13,852 I only hope that whatever it is, it doesn't last too long, that's all. 275 00:27:24,394 --> 00:27:27,184 I do assure you, the decision wasn't taken lightly, sir Arthur... 276 00:27:27,185 --> 00:27:29,935 It was only after very lengthy and protracted discussions that 277 00:27:29,977 --> 00:27:32,977 we decided against recommending your offer to our shareholders. 278 00:27:33,144 --> 00:27:34,269 Oh I see... 279 00:27:34,810 --> 00:27:39,685 Well, I was definitely led to understand that it would be acceptable to your people. 280 00:27:39,769 --> 00:27:44,101 I don't know the source of your information, but obviously a board decision could not be known in advance. 281 00:27:44,102 --> 00:27:45,477 Oh no, no, no, of course not. 282 00:27:45,519 --> 00:27:50,059 Er, pelham, I'd like to ask you a question which you may or may not feel you can answer. 283 00:27:50,060 --> 00:27:50,685 Go ahead. 284 00:27:50,727 --> 00:27:53,810 Were you, yourself, in favour of accepting our offer? 285 00:27:55,227 --> 00:27:58,185 I don't think there'd be any breach in my telling you... I was against it. 286 00:27:58,769 --> 00:28:02,102 - I thought you said pelham was in favour? - That's what I was led to believe. 287 00:28:02,394 --> 00:28:05,935 Now look, pelham, let's not close the door completely... 288 00:28:06,060 --> 00:28:09,143 Perhaps I could persuade my people to improve our offer. 289 00:28:09,144 --> 00:28:12,643 Say, another two shillings a share... And a bigger holding in e.G.O... 290 00:28:12,644 --> 00:28:15,268 Well, I will, of course, report this conversation to my board, but... 291 00:28:15,269 --> 00:28:18,352 ...quite frankly I think you'd be wasting your time to pursue the matter any further. 292 00:28:18,435 --> 00:28:21,769 Ah, maybe, but get back to me as soon as you've discussed it with the board, will you? 293 00:28:21,810 --> 00:28:23,977 - L'll do that. - Right, goodbye. 294 00:28:25,894 --> 00:28:28,852 On what basis is our tender to the Russians being computed... 295 00:28:29,102 --> 00:28:31,685 - With or without their new process? - With 296 00:28:33,227 --> 00:28:34,227 we've got to have it... 297 00:28:36,060 --> 00:28:39,685 Mm? Speaking......Right, I'll be right up. 298 00:28:40,019 --> 00:28:43,435 There you are, the Soviet trade attache is in my office now. 299 00:28:43,519 --> 00:28:46,352 Pelham is obviously the stumbling block. 300 00:28:47,060 --> 00:28:52,560 I can't understand it. What the hell is pelham playing at? I thought I'd got him in my pocket. 301 00:28:52,769 --> 00:28:57,810 Well, my job could depend on landing this contract yours too. 302 00:28:58,519 --> 00:29:00,560 We'll have to try a little friendly persuasion. 303 00:29:00,602 --> 00:29:01,852 Don't involve me. 304 00:29:01,935 --> 00:29:03,727 Of course not, sir Arthur. 305 00:29:08,269 --> 00:29:11,727 Yes, Charles, he took it quite well... ...Offered to improve the terms. 306 00:29:11,852 --> 00:29:14,144 - Come down will you, please? - Straight away. 307 00:29:14,727 --> 00:29:18,227 Charles wants us both to go up to rugby to see if the leak comes from the works end... 308 00:29:18,310 --> 00:29:20,519 Research and development particularly. 309 00:29:21,602 --> 00:29:24,935 Alex... would you say there's anything strange about me? 310 00:29:25,227 --> 00:29:26,894 No more than usual. Why? 311 00:29:26,935 --> 00:29:30,602 You remember after the board meeting, b.J. Accused me of cutting him dead last Wednesday? 312 00:29:30,685 --> 00:29:33,727 - But you didn't get back from Spain till Sunday. - Precisely... 313 00:29:34,185 --> 00:29:37,644 Now frank bellamy says I played snooker with him at the club on Thursday. 314 00:29:37,769 --> 00:29:41,227 Oh, he's having you on. Hah, you know what a boring old joker he is. 315 00:29:41,394 --> 00:29:42,852 Yes, you can say that again. 316 00:29:43,227 --> 00:29:45,060 Well, you can always check up at the club. 317 00:29:45,935 --> 00:29:49,144 I might do that. I'm no bloody good at snooker anyway. 318 00:30:05,227 --> 00:30:06,519 Good evening, mr pelham. 319 00:30:06,935 --> 00:30:08,019 Oh, good evening, Bert. 320 00:30:08,185 --> 00:30:09,685 You - er - looking for a game? 321 00:30:09,769 --> 00:30:10,434 Maybe. 322 00:30:10,435 --> 00:30:14,144 I doubt if anyone'll take you on after last Thursday. What a great game that was, sir. 323 00:30:14,269 --> 00:30:15,268 Game? What game? 324 00:30:15,269 --> 00:30:17,810 Well, with er with mr bellamy, of course. 325 00:30:18,310 --> 00:30:20,852 - You did say Thursday? - Yes, Thursday. 326 00:30:20,977 --> 00:30:24,727 You and mr bellamy had won a frame each and decided on a decider. 327 00:30:25,852 --> 00:30:29,019 Ah! A generous break. How's Eve these days? 328 00:30:29,144 --> 00:30:30,019 Fine. 329 00:30:30,977 --> 00:30:32,227 Love to see her again. 330 00:30:36,977 --> 00:30:38,394 You must come in for a drink. 331 00:30:38,894 --> 00:30:39,935 My blue's on... 332 00:30:42,019 --> 00:30:43,144 Oh, blast! 333 00:30:44,394 --> 00:30:45,644 Bad luck! 334 00:30:45,935 --> 00:30:48,352 - When, old love? - Why not Monday? 335 00:30:50,227 --> 00:30:52,894 - About six thirty. - Lt's a date. 336 00:31:12,185 --> 00:31:13,434 You've never played so well, sir. 337 00:31:13,435 --> 00:31:17,269 - I wasn't here on Thursday. I was in - ah, pelham, here's the fiver I owe you. 338 00:31:17,644 --> 00:31:18,394 What for? 339 00:31:18,477 --> 00:31:21,227 I bet you five quid you wouldn't beat frank bellamy last Thursday. 340 00:31:21,310 --> 00:31:23,852 Did me a power of good to see his pants taken down. 341 00:32:27,185 --> 00:32:27,852 Pei! 342 00:32:28,269 --> 00:32:29,060 Hello darling. 343 00:32:29,477 --> 00:32:31,310 You look quite done in. What is it? 344 00:32:32,602 --> 00:32:35,935 - I don't know. It all sounds too preposterous for words. - What does? 345 00:32:36,602 --> 00:32:39,269 Oh, I called in at the club, to check on that story of frank bellamy's. 346 00:32:39,394 --> 00:32:41,477 Oh, pel, you didn't take it seriously? 347 00:32:41,519 --> 00:32:44,560 - Well, not really, until I went there. - Well, what happened? 348 00:32:44,602 --> 00:32:48,144 The marker confirmed that I played snooker with frank last Thursday. 349 00:32:48,727 --> 00:32:50,144 That's impossible... 350 00:32:51,019 --> 00:32:53,977 Frank must have put him up to it. What a bore these practical jokers are. 351 00:32:54,019 --> 00:32:57,644 - One of the members handed me five pounds. - What on earth for? 352 00:32:57,727 --> 00:32:58,935 A bet on the game with bellamy... 353 00:32:59,019 --> 00:33:03,144 Oh, it's really too preposterous. Grown men indulging in these sorts ofjokes. 354 00:33:03,185 --> 00:33:04,685 I suppose it must be something like that. 355 00:33:17,602 --> 00:33:19,519 This is a serious matter, mr pelham... 356 00:33:22,269 --> 00:33:24,310 - Very - that's why we've come up here. 357 00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:26,060 We've never had a leak before. 358 00:33:26,102 --> 00:33:29,144 We're not suggesting that anyone here is implicated. 359 00:33:29,227 --> 00:33:33,519 I think it would be most useful, Henry, if you outlined the way the experiment was organised. 360 00:33:33,852 --> 00:33:39,352 The project was to develop equipment for a new monitoring and data-logging system. 361 00:33:39,394 --> 00:33:42,435 Slocombe worked on the materials, hardware, etc and 362 00:33:42,477 --> 00:33:45,394 Rogers developed the monitoring ware and equipment. 363 00:33:45,519 --> 00:33:47,352 Who co-ordinated the work? 364 00:33:48,060 --> 00:33:48,977 I did. 365 00:33:50,769 --> 00:33:55,644 So, you were the only one who had complete knowledge of the nature of the work being undertaken? 366 00:33:58,477 --> 00:33:59,394 That is correct. 367 00:34:05,685 --> 00:34:07,602 Thank you, Henry, you've been most helpful. 368 00:34:08,102 --> 00:34:09,560 But the cat's still out of the bag. 369 00:34:09,644 --> 00:34:13,810 Don't worry. We'll nail him if it takes every one of his nine lives.Come on, we're due at personnel. 370 00:34:13,977 --> 00:34:14,852 Bye Henry. 371 00:34:15,852 --> 00:34:19,310 - What the hell did they have to go over all that again for? - All what? 372 00:34:19,435 --> 00:34:20,852 The details of the experiment. 373 00:34:21,185 --> 00:34:23,644 Science doesn't mean a bloody thing to these money boys. 374 00:34:23,727 --> 00:34:26,060 But I told it all to him before. 375 00:34:26,435 --> 00:34:28,977 He was up here asking questions about ten days ago. 376 00:34:29,227 --> 00:34:29,894 Who? 377 00:34:31,227 --> 00:34:31,977 Pelham 378 00:34:32,644 --> 00:34:34,310 there's been a leak, that's all... 379 00:34:34,769 --> 00:34:38,435 Something we were working on, top secret, has apparently got out to a competitor. 380 00:34:39,019 --> 00:34:42,769 The firm was making a profit before you invented the thing, so presumably it will again... 381 00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:46,519 You can invent something else and be more careful next time. 382 00:34:46,685 --> 00:34:47,894 Yes. 383 00:34:48,644 --> 00:34:52,394 I don't care about 'the business'. All I care about is you and me. 384 00:34:53,852 --> 00:34:56,644 Unless, of course, you've invented something to hold a marriage together. 385 00:34:59,477 --> 00:35:01,394 Like another baby, I suppose. 386 00:35:02,310 --> 00:35:03,519 Anything else, sir? 387 00:35:03,769 --> 00:35:06,185 - No, just the check please. - Very good, sir. 388 00:35:10,477 --> 00:35:12,477 What d'you want to do now? Go home, or what? 389 00:35:12,727 --> 00:35:15,352 No, I don't want to go home. I want to enjoy myself for once. 390 00:35:15,394 --> 00:35:16,394 What does that mean? 391 00:35:16,685 --> 00:35:18,726 Oh, anything... gamble... 392 00:35:18,727 --> 00:35:23,519 I'd like to do something reckless like, lose five pounds in one mad spin of the wheel... 393 00:35:24,144 --> 00:35:27,227 ...anything to stop us being so bloody dreary and suburban. 394 00:35:30,852 --> 00:35:34,019 All right then, let's go upstairs. 395 00:35:34,519 --> 00:35:35,810 Will you play too? 396 00:35:36,519 --> 00:35:39,644 No, I'll watch... One gambler's enough in any family... 397 00:35:40,519 --> 00:35:42,519 ...especially a suburban family. 398 00:35:43,185 --> 00:35:45,394 Faites vos jeux, mesdames et messieurs... faites vos jeux. 399 00:35:46,227 --> 00:35:47,560 Rien ne vas plus 400 00:35:49,352 --> 00:35:52,019 trente six Rouge, pair et passe. 401 00:35:55,185 --> 00:35:56,852 You can't win in the long run... 402 00:35:56,935 --> 00:35:58,809 ...suppose I shouldn't say that as the manager... 403 00:35:58,810 --> 00:36:01,434 Lt's a disease, you know. Take mr Martin over there... 404 00:36:01,435 --> 00:36:04,185 Nice man. Always loses steadily... 405 00:36:04,269 --> 00:36:08,935 Always come back to the table for one last bet. Has to have that last one, then he can go home... 406 00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:15,269 Rien ne vas plus. 407 00:36:24,394 --> 00:36:27,269 Vin cinq, Rouge impair et passé. 408 00:36:37,060 --> 00:36:39,477 L'm sorry, that's mine. I won that. 409 00:36:39,519 --> 00:36:42,394 L'm sorry, I did... L'm sorry. 410 00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:15,102 Apparently, madam, the croupier says he placed the bet himself... final cinq... l'm so sorry... 411 00:37:19,769 --> 00:37:21,144 Thank you for supporting me... 412 00:37:21,894 --> 00:37:23,810 Cash those in for me. I'll get my wrap. 413 00:37:31,602 --> 00:37:34,227 - Oh, hello, Eve darling. - Oh, hello, frank. 414 00:37:34,269 --> 00:37:38,227 The old boy's striking it rich again. Two nights in a row. 415 00:37:38,602 --> 00:37:39,560 What does that mean? 416 00:37:39,602 --> 00:37:42,769 Ah! Oh, good old frank puts his foot in it again, ha ha... 417 00:37:42,810 --> 00:37:45,310 ...well, I thought he must have told you of his fantastic win last night. 418 00:37:45,394 --> 00:37:49,852 Why don't you get lost, you bloody great overgrown schoolboy. We're tired of your damn silly jokes. 419 00:37:53,435 --> 00:37:54,727 Not so lucky tonight, sir. 420 00:37:54,769 --> 00:37:56,935 I haven't been playing, that's my wife's. 421 00:37:58,185 --> 00:37:59,977 You didn't tell me you were married. 422 00:38:02,769 --> 00:38:04,602 At the swimming pool? Should I have done? 423 00:38:04,685 --> 00:38:08,102 Oh, not then, but I never did ask you, did I? 424 00:38:11,352 --> 00:38:13,060 I don't suppose I'll see you again. 425 00:38:13,685 --> 00:38:16,060 No, we've had the wedding photographs taken. 426 00:38:16,852 --> 00:38:18,810 Well, call me if you change your mind. 427 00:38:24,185 --> 00:38:25,310 What did she say? 428 00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:28,060 Nothing. Nothing important... 429 00:38:28,685 --> 00:38:30,769 Here your winnings. 430 00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:33,352 Well, we must do this more often. 431 00:38:33,935 --> 00:38:38,102 Why bother to cook up all these fantastic lies about frank bellamy? 432 00:38:38,227 --> 00:38:39,644 They are not lies. 433 00:38:39,685 --> 00:38:42,768 If you want to go out gambling and womanising on your own why don't you say so? 434 00:38:42,769 --> 00:38:44,434 Because I don't and I didn't. 435 00:38:44,435 --> 00:38:46,310 Don't shout, you'll wake the children. 436 00:38:46,477 --> 00:38:49,060 I have not been in that club since we were there together six months ago. 437 00:38:49,227 --> 00:38:51,727 Well, you seem on very intimate terms with the customers. 438 00:38:51,769 --> 00:38:55,684 For god's sake Eve, I've told you, she came up and mistook me for somebody else. Lt's as simple as that. 439 00:38:55,685 --> 00:38:57,977 What d'you want me to say? That I'm seeing her in office hours? 440 00:38:58,019 --> 00:38:59,727 It's possible. I don't know what you do. 441 00:38:59,852 --> 00:39:01,393 I just work hard, that's all. 442 00:39:01,394 --> 00:39:05,185 Well, so do I, and I'm sick of it. Sick of this house and sick of pretending that everything's fine. 443 00:39:05,352 --> 00:39:07,144 If you want other women you can have them. 444 00:39:07,685 --> 00:39:10,310 Eve I don't want other women. 445 00:39:10,352 --> 00:39:11,977 Well, you certainly don't want me... 446 00:39:12,185 --> 00:39:14,769 Lt's the boys' half-term. I'm taking them home with me in the morning. 447 00:39:14,977 --> 00:39:16,852 It'll give you a chance to see all you want of her. 448 00:39:17,060 --> 00:39:20,519 How many bloody times do I have to tell you. I've never seen her. 449 00:39:36,060 --> 00:39:36,894 Morning, Philip. 450 00:39:38,352 --> 00:39:40,060 Good morning, mr pelham. 451 00:39:40,144 --> 00:39:40,977 Are you going to be long? 452 00:39:41,519 --> 00:39:42,852 How do you mean, sir? 453 00:39:43,394 --> 00:39:44,935 Well, before you can do me. 454 00:39:46,394 --> 00:39:47,685 Do you, sir? 455 00:39:47,810 --> 00:39:48,894 My hair. 456 00:39:49,185 --> 00:39:52,144 But I did your hair yesterday, mr pelham. 457 00:39:53,435 --> 00:39:56,977 Yesterday? But my appointment was for today. 458 00:39:57,519 --> 00:39:58,560 Excuse me sir. 459 00:39:59,019 --> 00:40:04,227 Yes, sir, but if you remember you rang up yesterday and asked if I could take you then instead. 460 00:40:20,810 --> 00:40:22,852 Does my hair look as if it's been cut? 461 00:40:23,019 --> 00:40:24,477 You didn't want much off sir... 462 00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:26,810 Well, I can take a little more if you'd like. 463 00:40:26,852 --> 00:40:30,727 No... No, it doesn't matter... 464 00:40:35,435 --> 00:40:38,394 ...l, er I must have forgotten. 465 00:41:05,435 --> 00:41:07,935 Ah, here's your hat and umbrella, mr pelham. 466 00:41:08,519 --> 00:41:12,060 Oh... sorry, sir. I er I thought... 467 00:41:12,185 --> 00:41:14,644 Wait a minute... Did I give you those? 468 00:41:14,727 --> 00:41:17,644 Well, I thought you did, sir......About an hour ago. 469 00:41:22,102 --> 00:41:24,310 Pel... You look as if you need another drink... 470 00:41:25,477 --> 00:41:27,060 I thought you'd gone down to play snooker. 471 00:41:40,644 --> 00:41:41,352 Where is he? 472 00:41:43,435 --> 00:41:45,143 - Is he here? - Ls who here? 473 00:41:45,144 --> 00:41:45,935 Where are you? 474 00:41:45,977 --> 00:41:48,894 What have you come back for, pelham? Made me miss my shot. 475 00:42:10,019 --> 00:42:10,935 Who are you? 476 00:42:25,727 --> 00:42:26,477 Pei! 477 00:42:32,394 --> 00:42:33,435 Come on! 478 00:42:36,185 --> 00:42:38,019 I wondered what had happened to you... 479 00:42:40,394 --> 00:42:42,185 Finish your drink and we'll get some lunch. 480 00:43:00,394 --> 00:43:02,351 The afternoon mail, mr pelham. 481 00:43:02,352 --> 00:43:04,185 - Thank you. - Tea? 482 00:43:04,394 --> 00:43:05,644 Yes please. 483 00:43:07,477 --> 00:43:08,519 Miss bird 484 00:43:08,810 --> 00:43:12,810 have you noticed anything strange about me lately? Since I've been back? 485 00:43:12,852 --> 00:43:16,227 - Strange? - Odd... strange. Unlike my usual self? 486 00:43:16,269 --> 00:43:18,352 Oh no, mr pelham. You're always the same. 487 00:43:18,602 --> 00:43:20,727 The girls say we could set the clocks by you. 488 00:43:20,852 --> 00:43:21,894 Do they indeed. 489 00:43:41,269 --> 00:43:42,019 L'm going out. 490 00:43:42,060 --> 00:43:43,560 - What about your tea? - To hell with it! 491 00:44:00,144 --> 00:44:01,602 Ah, good afternoon, sir. 492 00:44:01,977 --> 00:44:04,602 I believe this was bought here. 493 00:44:05,310 --> 00:44:08,977 Ah, yes... I remember you buying it quite well, sir. 494 00:44:09,894 --> 00:44:10,560 Me'? 495 00:44:11,644 --> 00:44:13,644 Oh yes, I remember it particularly... 496 00:44:14,269 --> 00:44:19,644 When I told you it's believed to have once belonged to lady Hamilton you replied... 'How very appropriate'. 497 00:44:19,769 --> 00:44:21,477 Rather tickled me, sir. 498 00:44:21,852 --> 00:44:22,769 Really... 499 00:44:23,602 --> 00:44:25,769 - Did you send it? - Oh yes sir, as instructed. 500 00:44:25,894 --> 00:44:29,685 - Oh, anything wrong, sir? - No... no... 501 00:44:30,227 --> 00:44:32,310 Perhaps you could tell me who you sent it to? 502 00:44:34,310 --> 00:44:37,019 L've forgotten which particular lady. 503 00:44:37,269 --> 00:44:38,685 Really, sir? 504 00:44:39,977 --> 00:44:41,185 Ah yes, here we are 505 00:44:41,227 --> 00:44:44,852 a miss Julie Anderson, 47 cheyne street, Chelsea sir. 506 00:45:27,435 --> 00:45:29,477 As you can see, I was expecting you... 507 00:45:30,602 --> 00:45:32,185 Well, you'd better come in. 508 00:45:43,727 --> 00:45:45,560 Go on in. Fix yourself a drink. 509 00:47:37,769 --> 00:47:39,852 That was a give-away, wasn't it? 510 00:47:40,394 --> 00:47:41,977 Having your record on?... 511 00:47:45,102 --> 00:47:47,644 I should have known, shouldn't I, that you'd be married... 512 00:47:48,185 --> 00:47:52,394 You're a sod like all men... But a better-looking sod than most 513 00:47:56,810 --> 00:47:59,352 look, be fair, I didn't make a scene last night... 514 00:47:59,602 --> 00:48:02,394 That rates nine out of ten for good behaviour. 515 00:48:03,352 --> 00:48:05,435 You're clever, I'll say that for you. 516 00:48:06,769 --> 00:48:08,602 Thank you sir, she said. 517 00:48:10,185 --> 00:48:11,227 Who put you up to it? 518 00:48:11,852 --> 00:48:14,310 - Put me up to it? - That's what I said 519 00:48:15,185 --> 00:48:17,435 what on earth are you talking about? 520 00:48:17,769 --> 00:48:20,435 - Listen, just tell me the name. - What name? 521 00:48:20,644 --> 00:48:23,685 What are you talking about? Let go of me! 522 00:48:23,810 --> 00:48:27,309 Is it blackmail? Ls that why you faked the photograph? And bought the record? 523 00:48:27,310 --> 00:48:29,102 - You bought the record! - I bought nothing! 524 00:48:29,227 --> 00:48:31,894 I didn't buy that jewellery and I've never been in this house before. 525 00:48:32,852 --> 00:48:35,185 - Get out of here! You're mad! - Now listen to me, listen! 526 00:48:36,352 --> 00:48:38,685 L - I saw you for the first time at the pool that day. 527 00:48:38,977 --> 00:48:44,060 That was the first time. I thought you were a very attractive girl. The sort of girl I might fall for if I weren't married. 528 00:48:44,352 --> 00:48:45,394 But I am married. 529 00:48:46,060 --> 00:48:48,727 It's not a brilliant marriage and I'm not a brilliant husband... 530 00:48:49,019 --> 00:48:53,435 But I have a wife and two kids... And I want to know what's behind all this. 531 00:48:53,519 --> 00:48:56,352 And I suppose you didn't sleep with me, either? 532 00:49:01,685 --> 00:49:04,060 - Do what? - Sleep with me! 533 00:49:04,394 --> 00:49:05,269 In there... 534 00:49:05,477 --> 00:49:06,727 ...on that bed... 535 00:49:06,769 --> 00:49:10,227 You made love to me four nights ago... You stayed until three in the morning... 536 00:49:10,310 --> 00:49:12,560 And the next day you sent me this... 537 00:49:12,644 --> 00:49:15,144 So don't you ask me what I'm up to! Get out... 538 00:49:15,352 --> 00:49:18,935 Go play your sick jokes on someone else. Get out, before I call the police. 539 00:49:19,185 --> 00:49:20,852 But none of that's true... 540 00:49:21,685 --> 00:49:22,394 I didn't 541 00:49:23,310 --> 00:49:24,894 I swear to you I didn't. 542 00:49:24,935 --> 00:49:26,310 Get out! 543 00:50:07,102 --> 00:50:09,102 Pel, I...Oh, sorry. 544 00:50:09,310 --> 00:50:10,644 O.K. Alex, come in. 545 00:50:10,977 --> 00:50:12,185 Are you feeling all right? 546 00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:16,144 Yes... l just didn't fancy lunch, that's all. 547 00:50:16,269 --> 00:50:19,519 You're letting this stupid business get you down, you know. Have you heard from Eve? 548 00:50:19,685 --> 00:50:22,394 Yes, I've spoken to her on the phone. 549 00:50:22,894 --> 00:50:26,227 Have you convinced her that you're not leading a double life? 550 00:50:27,644 --> 00:50:28,977 Hope so... 551 00:50:29,685 --> 00:50:34,519 How can I give her any rational explanation when l......Don't have one myself? 552 00:50:35,019 --> 00:50:36,644 But she's coming back? 553 00:50:37,560 --> 00:50:40,894 Yes, at the end of the week. The boys have to go back to school. 554 00:50:41,310 --> 00:50:42,352 Good... 555 00:50:42,560 --> 00:50:45,810 I've, erm, I've just come back from lunch with Ashton... 556 00:50:46,727 --> 00:50:49,019 They don't seem to understand our refusal... 557 00:50:49,477 --> 00:50:50,352 Oh? 558 00:50:50,602 --> 00:50:52,935 - Did you get anything about the leak? - Not a thing. 559 00:50:53,310 --> 00:50:56,394 He seemed obsessed by the fact that you'd... Misled them. 560 00:50:57,394 --> 00:50:59,477 Me misled them? What the devil's he talking about? 561 00:50:59,644 --> 00:51:00,685 I don't know... 562 00:51:00,852 --> 00:51:02,144 He seemed quite insistent... 563 00:51:02,602 --> 00:51:04,310 Why don't you go and see him? 564 00:51:05,394 --> 00:51:07,644 See him? You bet I will! 565 00:51:12,977 --> 00:51:15,935 - Ah, good to see you, pelham... sit down, cigar? - No, thanks. 566 00:51:16,227 --> 00:51:18,185 I think you owe me an explanation. 567 00:51:18,602 --> 00:51:19,352 Of what? 568 00:51:19,560 --> 00:51:23,435 Of why you suggested to Tony Alexander that i had misled you over my attitude to the takeover. 569 00:51:23,852 --> 00:51:27,310 Well, you must admit things haven't gone... Quite as we'd planned. 570 00:51:27,477 --> 00:51:29,269 What the hell do you mean? 571 00:51:29,894 --> 00:51:33,602 Well, things haven't gone... Quite as we'd hoped, have they? 572 00:51:33,894 --> 00:51:35,894 - We'd hoped? - Yes... 573 00:51:35,977 --> 00:51:37,852 I thought we understood each other, you and I. 574 00:51:38,060 --> 00:51:39,935 Understood...? What are you getting at? 575 00:51:40,852 --> 00:51:44,019 Do I have to remind you of our previous conversations?...Three in all. 576 00:51:44,185 --> 00:51:48,477 You do indeed... L've no recollection whatsoever. None. 577 00:51:48,644 --> 00:51:50,227 No? 578 00:51:50,977 --> 00:51:56,810 You don't recollect your somewhat whimsical suggestion as to where for security reasons we should have our first meeting? 579 00:51:58,560 --> 00:52:01,269 Since we are to set the electronics industry ablaze, you said, 580 00:52:01,477 --> 00:52:03,810 - how about... - The monument 581 00:52:04,310 --> 00:52:08,685 it commemorates the starting place of the great fire of London in 1666. 582 00:52:08,894 --> 00:52:10,935 Not many people know that. 583 00:52:11,227 --> 00:52:14,852 This cloak and dagger stuff is all very well, pelham, but come to the point... 584 00:52:15,144 --> 00:52:16,185 What are you offering? 585 00:52:16,560 --> 00:52:18,019 What do you think? 586 00:52:18,227 --> 00:52:20,352 You've made it, the breakthrough? 587 00:52:23,310 --> 00:52:25,685 It'll revolutionise the system. 588 00:52:26,477 --> 00:52:29,685 Costs will be halved... Efficiency up thirty per cent. 589 00:52:30,144 --> 00:52:31,477 Really... 590 00:52:33,435 --> 00:52:36,352 Our second meeting was even more way out. 591 00:53:00,644 --> 00:53:02,185 You can carry your board? 592 00:53:02,477 --> 00:53:04,060 Naturally I can. 593 00:53:04,310 --> 00:53:06,935 - And for yourself? - Managing director. 594 00:53:07,352 --> 00:53:10,227 - Of e.G.O.? - Of course. 595 00:53:10,310 --> 00:53:12,894 - What else? - Fifty thousand a year. 596 00:53:13,144 --> 00:53:15,477 - Is that all? - No... 597 00:53:15,769 --> 00:53:18,644 Thirty thousand e.G.O. Preference shares. 598 00:53:18,894 --> 00:53:20,935 My dear fellow, you're asking for the earth. 599 00:53:20,977 --> 00:53:22,352 - Ladies and gentlemen welcome to the London planetarium. 600 00:53:22,394 --> 00:53:24,810 - Sssh! - Welcome to the London planetarium. 601 00:53:25,310 --> 00:53:27,935 The earth and the stars... 602 00:53:28,810 --> 00:53:32,935 Thousands upon thousands of suns......And the nearest 603 00:53:33,019 --> 00:53:34,102 out sud 604 00:53:34,227 --> 00:53:36,810 ninety-three million miles away... 605 00:53:37,227 --> 00:53:40,560 And the earth......A tiny speck in space... 606 00:53:40,602 --> 00:53:43,519 ...and man, a speck upon the speck... 607 00:53:43,685 --> 00:53:48,060 Thirty-five thousand for the first year. Plus the m.D.Ship... Fifty thousand by the end of the second. 608 00:53:48,269 --> 00:53:51,394 - Agreed... shares? - Thirty thousand 'b'. 609 00:53:51,602 --> 00:53:55,185 - Non-voting? You must be joking. - I neverjoke. 610 00:53:57,560 --> 00:54:00,769 For a man who neverjokes you're a bundle of fun. 611 00:54:02,810 --> 00:54:06,852 Now look, Ashton, I don't know what this is all about, what you hope to gain by discrediting me 612 00:54:07,060 --> 00:54:11,935 but if you repeat one word, one syllable, of this preposterous Alice-through-the looking-glass fairy story, 613 00:54:12,019 --> 00:54:14,810 I'll slap a writ on you for defamation of character 614 00:54:14,935 --> 00:54:20,269 and believe me, I'll ask such damages you won't even be able to afford your taxi fare back from court. 615 00:54:21,185 --> 00:54:24,310 One thing before you go, pelham... 616 00:54:24,769 --> 00:54:27,602 - Lt's been agreed. - What has? 617 00:54:27,810 --> 00:54:32,269 The shares... the thirty thousand preference you specified. 618 00:54:38,269 --> 00:54:40,144 Get me Alexander. 619 00:54:40,352 --> 00:54:42,102 Ashton phoned me himself... 620 00:54:42,310 --> 00:54:44,227 Immediately after his meeting with pei. 621 00:54:44,394 --> 00:54:47,144 L've never heard anything so preposterous in all my life. 622 00:54:47,310 --> 00:54:49,894 Are you suggesting that pel's been playing a double game? 623 00:54:50,144 --> 00:54:51,144 L'm afraid so... 624 00:54:51,269 --> 00:54:55,602 I think this extraordinary story of his about someone going around impersonating him is... 625 00:54:55,810 --> 00:54:57,685 Simply something he's invented as a sort of cover-up. 626 00:54:57,852 --> 00:54:59,102 I refuse to believe it. 627 00:54:59,269 --> 00:55:03,394 Ashton stated categorically that pei had been in negotiations with him. 628 00:55:03,602 --> 00:55:05,935 They're trying to blackmail him into going ahead with the merger. 629 00:55:06,227 --> 00:55:08,769 If a slander like this got around, pel would be finished... ruined. 630 00:55:09,019 --> 00:55:11,310 Yes, that's what they're after. He would have to resign. 631 00:55:11,519 --> 00:55:13,769 If that's what they're up to, pel should slap a writ on them... 632 00:55:13,977 --> 00:55:15,560 Ashton's story is a clear slander. 633 00:55:15,769 --> 00:55:18,769 - Unless it's true. - I'm convinced it's not. 634 00:55:19,144 --> 00:55:22,810 - Then how could they hope to get away with it? - This business of pel's double... 635 00:55:22,935 --> 00:55:25,019 Mightn't this be a bit of Ashton's work? 636 00:55:25,227 --> 00:55:29,519 You mean if pel went for him in court, Ashton could plead that it was a case of mistaken identity? 637 00:55:29,894 --> 00:55:34,060 Exactly, and that's why he's been creating all this evidence of the existence of pel's double. 638 00:55:34,310 --> 00:55:37,977 Then they must actually have got hold of someone who is pel's spitting image... 639 00:55:38,394 --> 00:55:40,144 Ls that likely? 640 00:55:40,394 --> 00:55:43,685 - Pel believes it. - Well, I'm afraid it's all too damned outlandish for me. 641 00:55:44,060 --> 00:55:46,519 Then we're left with only one alternative... 642 00:55:47,269 --> 00:55:48,935 Pel's guilty. 643 00:55:58,310 --> 00:56:01,144 - Mr Alexander in? - I'm afraid he had to go out, mr pelham. 644 00:56:01,227 --> 00:56:03,019 - L've got to see him. - Well, he'll be at home this evening. 645 00:56:03,144 --> 00:56:04,102 Fine. 646 00:56:07,977 --> 00:56:09,352 Call my home. 647 00:56:19,227 --> 00:56:20,352 Hullo... 648 00:56:20,477 --> 00:56:22,310 Oh, mr pelham here. I won't be in... 649 00:56:22,435 --> 00:56:24,352 Yes, sir. What name shall I say? 650 00:56:24,394 --> 00:56:26,852 - What do you mean? - I say what name shall I say? 651 00:56:26,977 --> 00:56:28,685 I know you did. What the devil did you say it for? 652 00:56:28,727 --> 00:56:31,269 L'm afraid I do not hear you very well... 653 00:56:31,394 --> 00:56:34,310 I will get mr pelham if you wish to speak to him... 654 00:56:34,519 --> 00:56:36,102 But please to give your name. 655 00:56:36,352 --> 00:56:38,894 My name is pelham... I rang... 656 00:58:26,685 --> 00:58:28,019 Luigi... has anyone...? 657 00:58:28,977 --> 00:58:29,977 ...l mean... 658 00:58:30,060 --> 00:58:31,435 Are there any messages for me? 659 00:58:31,685 --> 00:58:34,435 A man... He did ring up, sir. 660 00:58:34,644 --> 00:58:37,894 - Who? Who? - Well, there was, how you say 661 00:58:38,185 --> 00:58:40,310 - confusion... about the name. - Well? 662 00:58:40,560 --> 00:58:42,435 I was going to get you, sir... 663 00:58:42,602 --> 00:58:44,769 ...when he put the phone down. 664 00:58:45,810 --> 00:58:48,644 You were going to get me? 665 00:58:48,727 --> 00:58:50,394 Si, senori. 666 00:58:50,769 --> 00:58:52,894 You were in your room. 667 00:59:00,477 --> 00:59:01,727 When was this? 668 00:59:01,852 --> 00:59:04,352 Just before you went out. 669 00:59:05,685 --> 00:59:08,102 - Went out, you say? - Yes, sir... 670 00:59:08,185 --> 00:59:10,269 A short time ago. 671 00:59:12,810 --> 00:59:14,602 Did you see me go? 672 00:59:14,727 --> 00:59:17,227 No, sir. I was in the kitchen with Maria. 673 00:59:17,435 --> 00:59:21,227 I heard you cross the hall, then the front door go... Bang. 674 00:59:25,185 --> 00:59:26,227 Thank you, Luigi. 675 01:00:50,352 --> 01:00:51,644 Same collar... 676 01:00:52,227 --> 01:00:53,810 Same tie... 677 01:00:54,602 --> 01:00:56,810 Both exactly the same... 678 01:00:59,477 --> 01:01:01,685 ...the same as I'm wearing now. 679 01:01:02,644 --> 01:01:05,727 But thousands of businessmen wear that kind of stiff collar. 680 01:01:05,977 --> 01:01:08,810 Of course they do i have one for every working day of the week. 681 01:01:09,019 --> 01:01:11,185 The tie's not all that uncommon. 682 01:01:11,519 --> 01:01:12,727 Of course it isn't, but don't you see... 683 01:01:12,894 --> 01:01:16,227 Each night when I get home from the office, i take off this. 684 01:01:16,435 --> 01:01:19,852 I get into something more comfortable a sweater, a scarf, like you... 685 01:01:20,352 --> 01:01:22,727 And every morning, I put on a clean stiff collar... 686 01:01:22,935 --> 01:01:25,185 But always the same tie. 687 01:01:26,352 --> 01:01:27,769 Well? 688 01:01:28,852 --> 01:01:30,894 I arrived home this evening... 689 01:01:31,060 --> 01:01:33,310 ...after that phone call to Luigi... 690 01:01:36,352 --> 01:01:38,477 And found this on the bed. 691 01:01:40,019 --> 01:01:42,560 Couldn't it have been the collar you wore yesterday? 692 01:01:42,894 --> 01:01:45,144 That went to the laundry this morning... 693 01:01:45,935 --> 01:01:47,644 I only have one of these. 694 01:01:48,727 --> 01:01:51,435 I wear the same tie to the office every day. 695 01:01:54,019 --> 01:01:56,810 Well, you're certainly a creature of habit. 696 01:01:57,227 --> 01:01:59,769 How do you account for the phone conversation with Luigi? 697 01:02:00,185 --> 01:02:04,227 He asked me my name so that he could fetch mr pelham to talk to me... 698 01:02:04,519 --> 01:02:08,852 Then when I got home he... was surprised to see me. 699 01:02:09,644 --> 01:02:14,019 Swore he'd... Heard me in my room a few moments earlier. 700 01:02:15,560 --> 01:02:16,727 Pel... 701 01:02:18,144 --> 01:02:20,185 Have you seen your doctor? 702 01:02:21,269 --> 01:02:22,935 This morning. 703 01:02:23,310 --> 01:02:24,935 Well? 704 01:02:27,685 --> 01:02:30,394 He talked to me just like you... 705 01:02:30,727 --> 01:02:32,769 Nice and soothing. 706 01:02:33,602 --> 01:02:35,935 An old nanny's voice... 707 01:02:37,644 --> 01:02:39,769 Just before you're going to bed... 708 01:02:41,269 --> 01:02:43,935 Just before the lights go out. 709 01:02:45,852 --> 01:02:50,102 Afterwards, in the dark... You haven't got anybody to listen to... 710 01:02:51,435 --> 01:02:55,102 - ...all you've got is yourself. - Well, what did he say, pei'? 711 01:02:58,227 --> 01:02:59,269 Who? 712 01:02:59,560 --> 01:03:01,310 The doctor. 713 01:03:02,977 --> 01:03:06,560 Oh, he said there was nothing wrong with me physically... 714 01:03:07,227 --> 01:03:08,977 - But... - But what? 715 01:03:10,477 --> 01:03:12,894 He suggested I saw a psychiatrist. 716 01:03:14,894 --> 01:03:16,644 I think you should. 717 01:03:18,769 --> 01:03:22,019 - Why? - Well, you must admit it's a pretty tall story. 718 01:03:22,185 --> 01:03:23,894 He might be able to help you. 719 01:03:26,435 --> 01:03:29,269 - Well, that's certainly more than you bloody well do. - Pel! 720 01:03:29,310 --> 01:03:32,435 Don't worry, Alex I can work it out for myself. 721 01:03:44,977 --> 01:03:46,977 Well, mr pelham... 722 01:03:47,185 --> 01:03:50,519 We seem to be faced with several alternatives, do we not? 723 01:03:51,435 --> 01:03:54,477 First of all there is the possibility, however unlikely, that... 724 01:03:54,852 --> 01:03:59,310 ...there is an actual double dogging your footsteps. Lf that is the case then I can be of very little help to you. 725 01:03:59,352 --> 01:04:03,810 - But, er.. Could there be another explanation? - There could... 726 01:04:04,435 --> 01:04:05,852 ...there could. 727 01:04:08,144 --> 01:04:11,602 Have you ever heard of 'illusion des sosies'? 728 01:04:13,977 --> 01:04:20,352 'Illusions of doubles'. That's how the French psychiatrist, capgras, describes this...Clinical condition. 'Sosies'. 729 01:04:20,644 --> 01:04:22,352 French for 'double'. 730 01:04:22,519 --> 01:04:23,852 But how does it affect me? 731 01:04:24,019 --> 01:04:28,269 You could be suffering from this sort of psychosis delusion of doubles. 732 01:04:28,394 --> 01:04:30,102 - I could? - Yes, indeed... 733 01:04:30,269 --> 01:04:33,894 Misidentification with a familiar person in this case, yourself 734 01:04:34,227 --> 01:04:38,019 - is a classical symptom in these cases. - Ls it? 735 01:04:38,102 --> 01:04:42,977 L have a patient in hospital who suffers from this delusional misidentification. 736 01:04:43,102 --> 01:04:45,644 Every time his wife comes to visit him... 737 01:04:45,685 --> 01:04:49,810 He claims she is not his wife, but resembles her as a double. 738 01:04:50,560 --> 01:04:52,769 Interesting, eh? 739 01:04:53,977 --> 01:04:55,894 Then I have a woman patient... 740 01:04:56,227 --> 01:05:01,310 Who claims her son is not her son, but a double who has done away with her son... 741 01:05:03,310 --> 01:05:07,102 Delusional misidentification. 742 01:05:08,060 --> 01:05:12,935 It's... quite a common schizophrenic symptom. 743 01:05:14,227 --> 01:05:16,060 Then you think I'm mad? 744 01:05:17,060 --> 01:05:21,810 No... Such emotive words... 745 01:05:22,394 --> 01:05:26,477 ...do not figure in the modern medical dictionary, mr pelham. 746 01:05:27,644 --> 01:05:30,935 - But that's what you mean. - Not at all... 747 01:05:31,394 --> 01:05:36,352 Yours does not seem to be a classic case... There is one important difference. 748 01:05:36,435 --> 01:05:37,769 What? 749 01:05:39,394 --> 01:05:42,894 That you do not claim to have seen the double yourself. 750 01:05:43,019 --> 01:05:45,560 Other people have. 751 01:05:45,852 --> 01:05:48,352 - Is that important? - It could be. 752 01:05:48,477 --> 01:05:50,102 Mr pelham... 753 01:05:50,727 --> 01:05:54,269 I'd like you to come into my clinic for a few days for exhaustive tests. 754 01:05:54,977 --> 01:06:00,019 We cannot rule out the possibility of some physical brain malfunction due to your accident. 755 01:06:00,394 --> 01:06:01,977 But the doctors said there was no damage. 756 01:06:02,310 --> 01:06:05,560 Nevertheless, I would like to make my own tests... 757 01:06:06,352 --> 01:06:09,769 And give you some psychotherapy. Just for a few days. 758 01:06:10,185 --> 01:06:13,352 I don't know... l'll have to think about it. 759 01:06:15,894 --> 01:06:20,935 Very well, mr pelham, if you wish me to help you let me know. 760 01:06:23,060 --> 01:06:24,560 That is my card. 761 01:06:24,685 --> 01:06:26,644 Ring me, day or night, if you decide you need my help. 762 01:06:27,602 --> 01:06:29,977 I will, thank you, doctor Harris... 763 01:06:31,769 --> 01:06:34,935 But I'm sure there must be some rational explanation. 764 01:06:35,269 --> 01:06:36,810 There must be. 765 01:06:38,144 --> 01:06:41,602 I have to find out... I have to... 766 01:06:48,727 --> 01:06:52,435 Hallo children. We didn't expect to see you till Saturday, mrs pelham. 767 01:06:52,560 --> 01:06:55,060 The children wanted to see their father before school starts again. 768 01:06:55,144 --> 01:06:59,519 Mr pelham telephoned, signora; He will not be home till late. 769 01:07:00,685 --> 01:07:02,269 I see. 770 01:08:26,935 --> 01:08:28,519 Oh, it's you again... 771 01:08:29,227 --> 01:08:31,102 What have you come back for? 772 01:08:32,227 --> 01:08:34,810 Well... come on in you can't stand there all night. 773 01:08:42,227 --> 01:08:46,310 Huh, you are funny... You're never the same man twice. 774 01:08:57,519 --> 01:08:59,685 What did you come back for? 775 01:08:59,727 --> 01:09:00,769 I... er.. 776 01:09:01,977 --> 01:09:03,894 - I wanted to talk to you. - Talk? 777 01:09:04,060 --> 01:09:05,519 Why now? 778 01:09:06,394 --> 01:09:08,477 You've only just left. 779 01:09:09,644 --> 01:09:12,144 - Left? - I mean you've only been gone two minutes, 780 01:09:12,227 --> 01:09:13,352 gone? 781 01:09:14,352 --> 01:09:16,310 Two minutes...? 782 01:09:17,894 --> 01:09:20,269 You mean I was here? 783 01:09:20,394 --> 01:09:22,394 Actually here, with you? 784 01:09:22,477 --> 01:09:26,102 Of course... Here with me. 785 01:09:45,977 --> 01:09:47,810 I don't remember being here 786 01:09:48,185 --> 01:09:51,144 - I don't remember. - What d'you mean? 787 01:09:51,227 --> 01:09:52,477 What is it? 788 01:09:56,602 --> 01:09:58,477 Is all this true? 789 01:09:58,935 --> 01:10:01,769 All these times I've been coming here sleeping with you? 790 01:10:02,810 --> 01:10:05,227 You don't remember? 791 01:10:08,560 --> 01:10:09,852 None of it. 792 01:10:13,810 --> 01:10:15,519 It's not possible... 793 01:10:16,394 --> 01:10:18,019 It's not possible. 794 01:10:21,477 --> 01:10:23,769 Are you sick or something? 795 01:10:28,185 --> 01:10:30,685 - Help me. - Oh darling, whats the matter? 796 01:10:32,269 --> 01:10:35,019 - L'm drowning. - What can I do? 797 01:10:36,685 --> 01:10:42,060 - Aha... telephone... telephone this number. - Yes, of course. 798 01:10:42,102 --> 01:10:43,227 Who is it? 799 01:10:43,310 --> 01:10:45,060 Just ring, it's a doctor. 800 01:10:45,102 --> 01:10:47,102 What shall I say? 801 01:10:47,685 --> 01:10:50,185 Tell him to come and fetch me. 802 01:10:53,435 --> 01:10:56,894 These drugs will help us, mr pelham. 803 01:10:58,269 --> 01:11:02,644 Now we can often probe deeper, in a few days... 804 01:11:02,769 --> 01:11:05,560 ...than we used to do in months or even years. 805 01:11:07,185 --> 01:11:10,852 You won't know very much about what's happening to you in the next few days... 806 01:11:11,227 --> 01:11:16,394 By the end of it, I'll know more about you than you do yourself. 807 01:12:21,310 --> 01:12:22,602 Who is it? 808 01:12:43,810 --> 01:12:46,102 Oh god, you frightened me. 809 01:12:47,394 --> 01:12:49,644 Why didn't you say it was you, pei'? 810 01:12:53,935 --> 01:12:55,227 Mr pelham. 811 01:12:55,852 --> 01:12:57,519 Good morning, miss bird. 812 01:12:57,602 --> 01:12:59,769 You gave me quite a shock. I didn't see you come in. 813 01:12:59,977 --> 01:13:03,019 - I was in bright and early. - You said you'd be away for a few days, I... 814 01:13:03,185 --> 01:13:05,144 I didn't expect you. 815 01:13:05,227 --> 01:13:09,144 L've been summoned by the board. To account for my misdemeanours, no doubt. 816 01:13:09,310 --> 01:13:10,894 Oh, mr pelham! 817 01:13:11,060 --> 01:13:14,769 So if you'll bring in the correspondence, miss bird, I'll have time to deal with it before the meeting... 818 01:13:14,894 --> 01:13:17,935 ...whilst you make me a cup of your delicious coffee. 819 01:13:18,060 --> 01:13:20,644 Yes... yes of course, mr pelham. 820 01:13:29,227 --> 01:13:33,977 This is perhaps the most unhappy moment of my professional career. 821 01:13:34,602 --> 01:13:42,185 But allegations have been made and it is only proper that pel should have the opportunity to answer to them, here, before this board. 822 01:13:43,394 --> 01:13:50,144 It would be nice to think, Charles, that business today is the simple, gentlemanly affair you still seem to believe it to be 823 01:13:50,685 --> 01:13:52,894 lt's not, I'm afraid. 824 01:13:53,310 --> 01:13:57,394 Before we consider the ethics of the matter, we want to know the facts. 825 01:13:57,769 --> 01:14:00,435 Do you deny Alex's allegations? 826 01:14:01,727 --> 01:14:03,685 Of course not. 827 01:14:09,060 --> 01:14:12,977 Do you mean to say, pei, that you admit having these secret negotiations with e.G.O... 828 01:14:13,227 --> 01:14:16,227 While you were opposing the merger here. With your own board? 829 01:14:16,269 --> 01:14:19,810 Ifl hadn't... You'd have happily closed at a ridiculously low figure. 830 01:14:20,060 --> 01:14:21,560 L've nearly doubled it for you. 831 01:14:21,769 --> 01:14:24,769 By disclosing the company's most secret information? 832 01:14:25,310 --> 01:14:26,977 That's what they are paying for. 833 01:14:27,310 --> 01:14:30,185 But supposing the deal hadn't gone through. They'd have known we had it. 834 01:14:30,394 --> 01:14:32,644 I made sure it did go through... 835 01:14:32,935 --> 01:14:34,977 At the right price. 836 01:14:35,144 --> 01:14:36,227 Something in that. 837 01:14:36,310 --> 01:14:40,769 But pel! What I don't understand is why you had to go about it in such an underhand way? 838 01:14:41,727 --> 01:14:45,769 If I hadn't stood out against you here, the first price would have been accepted. 839 01:14:45,810 --> 01:14:48,227 We had to turn it down, don't you see? 840 01:14:48,310 --> 01:14:50,352 But you'd already told them about the new system. 841 01:14:50,435 --> 01:14:52,685 That's what made them so determined to get us. 842 01:14:52,810 --> 01:14:55,310 L must say, I'll be glad to get out of it all. 843 01:14:55,352 --> 01:14:58,602 You're right, pel... Business is an alien world these days. 844 01:14:58,769 --> 01:15:03,019 Alien world or not, pel's got a damn good deal out of them for us. 845 01:15:03,060 --> 01:15:07,769 Pel... You know how worried I've been about all this business. 846 01:15:08,019 --> 01:15:11,644 The allegations I've made against you were because I couldn't understand your behaviour. 847 01:15:12,269 --> 01:15:15,435 Now I know your motives I owe you an apology. 848 01:15:17,810 --> 01:15:20,060 I think we owe him a vote of thanks. 849 01:15:20,227 --> 01:15:23,810 I think it's just as well there's no place for me in this new set-up. 850 01:15:23,935 --> 01:15:29,019 L'm afraid I can't accept this modern business concept that the ends justify the means. 851 01:15:29,644 --> 01:15:34,894 L'm sorry, pel... you and I have been friends and colleagues for more years than I care to remember... 852 01:15:35,060 --> 01:15:37,560 But I don't recognise the man sitting there. 853 01:15:43,394 --> 01:15:46,394 Don't tell me it's this double of yours, pel. 854 01:15:47,935 --> 01:15:51,644 L'm afraid that's a mystery that still has to be cleared up. 855 01:15:53,019 --> 01:15:58,227 However, I can assure you, Charles, that the only Harold pelham... 856 01:15:58,310 --> 01:16:01,144 Is the one sitting here. 857 01:16:04,560 --> 01:16:06,935 - What have you found out? - Hm... 858 01:16:07,560 --> 01:16:10,602 ...you won't remember much about the past few days, mr pelham. 859 01:16:10,852 --> 01:16:11,935 But... 860 01:16:12,060 --> 01:16:15,435 I think I now know quite a lot about your problems. 861 01:16:16,102 --> 01:16:19,394 Mr pelham, we are all, in a sense, more than one man. 862 01:16:19,602 --> 01:16:23,144 Different and often conflicting aspects of our character 863 01:16:23,227 --> 01:16:26,310 are constantly fighting for supremacy. 864 01:16:27,477 --> 01:16:30,185 We must try and resolve that conflict. 865 01:16:30,519 --> 01:16:35,852 You are a man of... rigid habits. Almost puritanical in the strictness of your principles 866 01:16:36,102 --> 01:16:39,227 ...both in business and your private life. 867 01:16:39,269 --> 01:16:42,477 This may not be apparent in your outward demeanour... 868 01:16:42,685 --> 01:16:47,769 But it is manifest at its most extreme in your rejection of sex. 869 01:16:49,435 --> 01:16:51,560 Even with your own wife. 870 01:16:53,894 --> 01:16:56,227 - It wasn't always like that. - No... 871 01:16:56,435 --> 01:17:03,519 I believe that basically you are a sexual man. A man who enjoys life, who has, shall we say... panache. 872 01:17:04,769 --> 01:17:07,227 But you have fought against this... 873 01:17:07,519 --> 01:17:11,269 In the way you dress, the sort of car you drive... 874 01:17:11,477 --> 01:17:13,894 ...the life you live. 875 01:17:14,144 --> 01:17:18,060 I would like you to release this other side of your character. The,erh 876 01:17:18,352 --> 01:17:20,435 man who likes to show off, a bit... 877 01:17:20,810 --> 01:17:24,560 To dress colourfully... to enjoy, without guilt... 878 01:17:25,185 --> 01:17:28,060 ...all the pleasures of life. 879 01:18:06,852 --> 01:18:08,519 Oh come on, one more! 880 01:18:08,560 --> 01:18:12,644 No. I'm going to take you home. I don't want you cracking up on me again. 881 01:18:13,060 --> 01:18:14,852 Besides, there's another reason: 882 01:18:15,477 --> 01:18:17,269 ...our new toy. 883 01:18:23,852 --> 01:18:26,227 You told me you hadn't seen it. 884 01:18:26,560 --> 01:18:30,477 - Seen what? - The car like this I told you about. 885 01:18:32,019 --> 01:18:34,227 I must have second sight. 886 01:19:12,019 --> 01:19:14,060 Well, you're going, mr pelham... 887 01:19:14,394 --> 01:19:16,269 I hope we've been of some help to you. 888 01:19:16,560 --> 01:19:17,644 I hope so. 889 01:19:17,727 --> 01:19:20,644 Your immediate reaction to these phenomena could be most important. 890 01:19:20,894 --> 01:19:24,602 Should anything occur again I want you to phone me immediately... day or night. 891 01:19:24,810 --> 01:19:26,560 - Very well, doctor. - Oh... 892 01:19:26,810 --> 01:19:29,269 I don't like the look of all that. 893 01:19:29,685 --> 01:19:30,727 - Of all what? - Your clothes... 894 01:19:30,810 --> 01:19:34,602 ...the bowler hat and the umbrella and your er tie and starched collar. 895 01:19:36,269 --> 01:19:40,894 These things symbolise all that we want to get rid of. 896 01:19:42,310 --> 01:19:44,435 Be yourself, mr pelham... 897 01:19:44,685 --> 01:19:47,102 Don't be a slave to convention. 898 01:21:01,894 --> 01:21:03,519 Yes, mr pelham? 899 01:21:08,185 --> 01:21:11,310 Will you... come in, miss bird? 900 01:21:17,269 --> 01:21:18,477 Yes, mr pelham? 901 01:21:20,894 --> 01:21:22,269 What's this'? 902 01:21:22,727 --> 01:21:26,477 Why, the, er, e.G.O. Letter you dictated after yesterday's board meeting... 903 01:21:26,602 --> 01:21:28,977 ...confirming that their offer had been accepted. 904 01:21:29,269 --> 01:21:31,685 Is there anything wrong with it? 905 01:21:32,977 --> 01:21:34,227 Whats the matter? 906 01:21:34,727 --> 01:21:35,935 Are you ill? 907 01:21:37,810 --> 01:21:39,435 Can I get you something? 908 01:21:44,227 --> 01:21:47,435 Yes, get... my home, please. 909 01:21:48,810 --> 01:21:50,144 Certainly. 910 01:21:54,102 --> 01:21:56,852 Oh, there is one other thing, mr pelham. 911 01:21:57,435 --> 01:21:59,852 Will you be taking me with you? 912 01:22:01,394 --> 01:22:03,019 Taking you? 913 01:22:03,227 --> 01:22:06,644 When you go to electronics general as managing director. 914 01:22:11,227 --> 01:22:15,227 We'll... talk... in the morning, miss bird. 915 01:22:15,269 --> 01:22:17,769 Get me my home, please. 916 01:22:40,769 --> 01:22:42,894 Hallo... 917 01:22:44,769 --> 01:22:47,560 Hallo, who's that? 918 01:22:47,602 --> 01:22:49,727 This is pelham speaking... who's that? 919 01:22:50,352 --> 01:22:56,935 No... no, I... I... I... I... I'm pelham. I... I... I'm speaking from my office... 920 01:22:58,102 --> 01:23:01,519 - Who are you? - I've told you. I'm pelham. 921 01:23:02,644 --> 01:23:05,310 But I'm pelham... I am! 922 01:23:05,394 --> 01:23:07,102 There's no need to shout. 923 01:23:07,310 --> 01:23:10,477 Your name may be pelham, but I am Harold pelham 924 01:23:10,685 --> 01:23:12,852 of Freeman, pelham and Dawson. 925 01:23:15,102 --> 01:23:18,852 Let... let... let me speak to my wife. 926 01:23:19,060 --> 01:23:23,435 Your wife! What on earth would your wife be doing here? 927 01:23:25,102 --> 01:23:30,894 Well... well... be- because - I - we live there. 928 01:23:30,977 --> 01:23:35,560 Get off the line unless you want trouble......Just get off the line! 929 01:23:55,519 --> 01:23:57,894 Get dr Harris to my house at once! 930 01:23:57,935 --> 01:23:58,935 Certainly, mr pelham. 931 01:24:29,435 --> 01:24:32,227 Who is he? Where is he? I want to see him. 932 01:24:32,727 --> 01:24:34,185 What is it, Luigi? 933 01:24:49,185 --> 01:24:51,477 Who on earth are you? 934 01:24:55,560 --> 01:24:57,685 Who are you? 935 01:25:00,560 --> 01:25:03,227 L'm... pelham. 936 01:25:04,560 --> 01:25:06,769 Oh, it's you 937 01:25:07,727 --> 01:25:10,894 I told you about the phone call just now, Alex. 938 01:25:10,977 --> 01:25:12,102 Yes. 939 01:25:13,435 --> 01:25:15,394 Alex... 940 01:25:15,435 --> 01:25:18,435 Tell him... Go on, tell him, you know me. 941 01:25:18,560 --> 01:25:20,227 You must know me. 942 01:25:22,394 --> 01:25:24,102 But this is mr pelham... 943 01:25:24,310 --> 01:25:26,019 What do you want with him? 944 01:25:26,352 --> 01:25:29,269 L'm pelham... lam pelham! 945 01:25:29,394 --> 01:25:32,602 Don't shout. Shouting will get you nowhere. 946 01:25:34,394 --> 01:25:36,394 Look at that tie, Alex... 947 01:25:36,727 --> 01:25:38,935 Have you Eve seen me wearing a frightful thing like that? 948 01:25:39,102 --> 01:25:40,477 Never. 949 01:25:40,810 --> 01:25:42,727 - Have you, Luigi? - No, sir. 950 01:25:43,477 --> 01:25:46,227 But... I only bought it today, I wanted to be different. 951 01:25:46,435 --> 01:25:49,185 We're not interested in your sartorial taste... 952 01:25:49,352 --> 01:25:52,727 Remember all this, Alex, if eventually there is a police case. 953 01:25:52,810 --> 01:25:53,977 Police... 954 01:25:54,769 --> 01:25:55,977 I'll go to the police. 955 01:25:56,060 --> 01:25:58,644 - Daddy... daddy... what's happening? - What's going on out here? 956 01:26:03,352 --> 01:26:05,810 Who on earth is that? 957 01:26:06,852 --> 01:26:08,269 Eve... 958 01:26:09,019 --> 01:26:11,727 It's the fellow who's been impersonating pei. 959 01:26:14,394 --> 01:26:16,560 Eve... you know it's me. 960 01:26:18,227 --> 01:26:20,685 How did he get here? What does he want? 961 01:26:20,810 --> 01:26:24,185 That's what we're trying to find out, darling. 962 01:26:24,894 --> 01:26:26,394 It's a conspiracy... 963 01:26:27,102 --> 01:26:29,144 You're trying to drive me mad 964 01:26:29,602 --> 01:26:32,644 I am pelham... I am pelham! 965 01:26:32,769 --> 01:26:35,185 - Mummy, I'm frightened. - Daddy... who is he? 966 01:26:35,227 --> 01:26:37,727 - Why does he look like you? - I'll tell you later, son. 967 01:26:37,852 --> 01:26:41,769 - Make him go away. - Take them away, darling. 968 01:26:42,102 --> 01:26:46,602 - Eve, Mike, Jamie. - Go with them, Alex. 969 01:26:47,602 --> 01:26:49,977 You may go too, Luigi. 970 01:27:07,935 --> 01:27:10,977 You made a mistake about that tie. 971 01:27:13,060 --> 01:27:16,102 I could have been seen wearing it, but didn't. 972 01:27:17,852 --> 01:27:19,644 ...and that suit... 973 01:27:20,644 --> 01:27:24,477 ...the city expects certain conventions, you know. 974 01:27:25,477 --> 01:27:27,227 Why have you done this to me? 975 01:27:27,310 --> 01:27:28,519 Don't you see? 976 01:27:29,352 --> 01:27:31,102 Don't you yet see? 977 01:27:32,977 --> 01:27:35,185 I am you. 978 01:27:38,185 --> 01:27:41,144 You died on that operating table... 979 01:27:41,685 --> 01:27:44,519 ...for a few moments you actually died... 980 01:27:44,560 --> 01:27:46,269 That let me out... 981 01:27:46,394 --> 01:27:49,019 Unfortunately you came to life again... 982 01:27:49,477 --> 01:27:52,602 So now there are two of us... 983 01:27:53,769 --> 01:27:56,102 It can't go on, you know... 984 01:27:56,185 --> 01:27:58,810 One of us'll have to go. 985 01:27:59,810 --> 01:28:04,144 For Christ's sake! Who are you'? Who are you'? 986 01:28:04,394 --> 01:28:08,644 L've just told you... L'm Harold pelham 987 01:28:08,769 --> 01:28:12,602 of Freeman, pelham and Dawson. 988 01:28:13,894 --> 01:28:16,144 Now I'm going to phone the police. 989 01:28:16,269 --> 01:28:22,269 No... no... l'm going to the police. I am... lam. 990 01:28:26,894 --> 01:28:28,144 Mr pelham! 991 01:28:28,477 --> 01:28:29,727 Mr pelham! 992 01:28:34,727 --> 01:28:36,019 Mr... 993 01:28:36,477 --> 01:28:38,019 ...pelham... 994 01:33:07,144 --> 01:33:12,144 Subtitles created by and network distributing limited