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Silence. Be upstanding in court.

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All persons who have anything
to do before my lords,

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the queen's justices of oyer and
terminer and general jail delivery

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for the jurisdiction of the
Central Criminal Court

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draw near and give your attendance.
God save the queen.

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What a beautiful day. I've been hoping
for a bit of sun for our homecoming.

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It's worth having the fog just to appreciate
the sunshine. Is there a draught?

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- Shall I roll up the window?
- Roll up your mouth. You talk too much.

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If I'd known how much you talked
I'd never have come out of my coma.

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- This thing weighs a ton.
- Now, now.

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We've been flat on our back for two
months, we'd better be careful.

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Lovely, lovely. It must be perfectly lovely
to live and work in the Inns of Court.

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How lucky you lawyers are.

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I almost married a lawyer. I was
in attendance for his appendectomy

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and we became engaged as
soon as he could sit up.

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And then peritonitis set
in and he went like that.

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He certainly was a lucky lawyer.

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Teeny-weeny steps, now. Remember
we had a teeny-weeny heart attack.

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Oh, shut up!

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Williams, my cane.

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Here he comes!

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Good afternoon. Thank you very
much. Everybody back to work.

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Sir Wilfrid, if you don't mind, I'd like
to read you a poem to welcome you back.

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Very touching. You can recite it
after office hours in your own time.

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Now back to work.
What's the matter with you?

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Nothing. I'm just happy that
you're your old self again.

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Any more sentimentality around here,
I shall go back to the hospital!

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They won't take him back. He wasn't
really discharged, you know,

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he was expelled for conduct
unbecoming a cardiac patient.

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Put these in water, blabbermouth!
Come on in, Carter.

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Look at this room.
It's ugly, old and musty.

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But I never knew I could
miss anything so much.

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- Missed you too, you musty old buzzard.
- Oh, thank you, sir.

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I'm not a religious man, but when they
carted you off, I went out and lit a candle.

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- Why, thank you, Carter.
- Actually, sir, I was lighting it for myself.

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If anything happened to you, what
would happen to me, after 37 years?

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37 years!
Has it been all that long?

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Yes, sir. This is 1952, that was in October
1915. The Shepherd's Bush murder.

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The chemist accused of putting
cyanide in his uncle's toothpaste.

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My first murder trial. I was more
frightened than the defendant.

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First time I rose to make an objection,
my wig fell off. Where's my wig?

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Right here.

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- I've guarded it with me life.
- I hope it still fits.

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I lost 30lbs in that
wretched hospital.

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Still, I suppose my
head isn't any smaller.

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What's all this?

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- We've put it in mothballs.
- Mothballs? Am I not to practise again?

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Of course. The solicitors have
been breaking down our doors.

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- I've got some interesting briefs for you.
- That's better.

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Divorce case, a tax appeal, and an
important marine insurance claim.

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- Nice smooth matters with excellent fees.
- No, Carter.

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I'm sorry, but you're not to undertake
any criminal cases. Your doctors have...

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Doctors! They've deprived me of
alcohol, tobacco, female companionship.

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If only they'd let me do
something worthwhile!

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Sorry, sir.

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Might as well get a bigger box,
more mothballs, put me away too.

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- 2:30, Sir Wilfrid. Time for our little nap!
- Oh, get out!

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Beddy-bye. We'd better go upstairs
now, get undressed and lie down.

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- We? What a nauseating prospect.
- Upstairs, please.

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Are you aware that,
while on my sickbed,

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I seriously considered strangling you
with one of your own rubber tubes.

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I would then have admitted the crime,
retained myself for the defence.

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My lord, members of the jury, I hereby
enter a plea of justifiable homicide.

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For four months this alleged angel
of mercy has pored, probed,

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punctured, pillaged and
plundered my helpless body

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while tormenting my mind with
a steady drip of baby talk.

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Come along now,
like a good boy. Oh, no.

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Take your hands off me,
or I'll strike you with my cane.

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- You wouldn't, it might break your cigars.
- What cigars?

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- The ones you're smuggling in your cane.
- Cane?

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You could be jailed for this.
You had no search warrant.

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In hospital he'd hide cigars
and brandy all over the place.

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We called him Wilfrid the fox.

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- I'm confiscating these.
- Can't I have just one?

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No. Upstairs.

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A few puffs after meals? Please.

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I'll do it. Some dark night when her back
is turned, I'll snatch her thermometer

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and plunge it between her shoulder
blades. So help me, I will.

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Oh, no, sir. You mustn't walk up. We've
installed something for you here. It's a lift.

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A lift? I'm sick of this plot
to make me a helpless invalid.

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I think it's a splendid idea.
Let's try it, shall we?

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Out of there. I'll try it. It's my
lift because it was my heart attack.

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Here you are. Simply press this
button for up and this one for down.

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Carter, I warn you, if this
contraption should collapse,

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if the barrister should
fall off the bannister...

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Remarkable. Smoothest
flight I've had in years.

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- Upsy-daisy!
- Once more to get the feel of the controls.

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Good afternoon. Is it
possible to see Sir Wilfrid?

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I didn't make an appointment,
but this is urgent.

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If it's about a brief, I'm sorry, but we're
full. Sir Wilfrid has all that he can handle.

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I'm sure he'll want this brief.

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Serious criminal matter.

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Absolutely not, Mr Mayhew.
Sir Wilfrid is still convalescent.

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He can't accept anything of
an overstimulating nature.

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Put me on a diet of bland
civil suits. Hello, Mayhew.

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Hello. Distressing news
about your health.

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It's tragic. You'd better get
a man with younger arteries.

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If you could just give us a few minutes.
This is Mr Leonard Vole.

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- He's in rather a ghastly mess, I'm afraid.
- How do you do, Mr Vole?

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Well, according to Mr Mayhew,
I'm not doing at all well.

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Sir Wilfrid! Sir Wilfrid!

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- You're dawdling again!
- Oh, shut up!

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Sorry, Mayhew. Try me again when
you've something not too stimulating.

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Like a postman bitten
by a stray dog.

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I wish you could help us, Wilfrid, but I
quite understand. Take care of yourself.

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Mayhew! Mayhew!

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Oh, no. Sir Wilfrid, please.

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Don't worry, we won't take the
brief, but an old friend needs help.

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Surely I can give him
a word of advice.

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Come on, I'll give you five minutes.
No, no, I don't want you, just Mayhew.

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Our nap! Sir Wilfrid! Our nap!

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You go ahead. Start it without me.

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This is your fault. You
should not have permitted it.

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It is not my fault. I distinctly
told Sir Wilfrid no criminal cases.

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Well, if it's anyone's fault,
I expect it's mine.

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Seems silly to me, but Mr
Mayhew thinks it's very urgent.

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- He thinks I may be arrested any minute.
- Arrested for what?

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Well, for murder.

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Oh!

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It's the case of Emily French. You've
probably seen reports in the press.

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Middle-aged widow, well-off, living
with a housekeeper at Hampstead.

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Mr Vole had been with her earlier.

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When the housekeeper returned,
she found her dead,

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struck on the back of
the head and killed.

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Vole seems caught in a web
of circumstantial evidence.

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Perhaps if I gave you the details you'd
suggest the strongest line of defence.

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- I'd probably think better with a cigar.
- Of course.

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No previous convictions. He's of good
character with an excellent war record.

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- You'd like him a lot.
- They've confiscated the matches. A light.

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The defence may tum on establishing
an alibi for the night of the murder.

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- I haven't got any. Let me get you some.
- Lord, no! You don't know Miss Plimsoll.

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This will take all our cunning.

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Young man!

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Come here, please.

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Your solicitor and I feel you may be able
to enlighten me on an important point.

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- Yes. Thank you.
- Sir Wilfrid!

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You're not in bed yet? Upstairs!

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- Give me a match.
- Sorry, I never carry them.

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- What? You said I'd like him.
- But I do have a lighter.

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You're quite right, Mayhew,
I do like him. Thank you.

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Can you imagine Miss Plimsoll's
face if she saw me now?

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Then let's make absolutely
sure that she doesn't.

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Splendid. All the instincts
of a skilled criminal.

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- Thank you, sir.
- Here.

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Whether or not you murdered
a middle-aged widow,

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you certainly saved the life
of an elderly barrister.

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I haven't murdered anybody.
It's absurd.

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Christine, that's my wife, she thought
I may be implicated and needed a lawyer.

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That's why I went to see Mr Mayhew.
Now he thinks he needs a lawyer

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and now I have two lawyers.
It's rather silly.

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I am a solicitor.
Sir Wilfrid is a barrister.

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Only a barrister can actually
plead a case in court.

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- Oh, I see.
- She shall not even find the ashes.

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- Sit down.
- Thank you.

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I saw in the paper that Mrs French had
been found dead with her head bashed in.

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It also said the police were anxious to
interview me since I visited that evening.

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- Naturally, I went to the police station.
- Did they caution you?

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I don't quite know. They asked
if I'd like to make a statement

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and said they'd write it down and it might
be used against me. Is that a caution?

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Well, it can't be helped now.

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- They seemed quite satisfied.
- They seemed satisfied, Mr Vole.

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He thinks that he made a statement and
that's the end of it. Isn't it obvious

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that you will be regarded as the principal
suspect? I'm afraid you'll be arrested.

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I've done nothing!
Why should I be arrested?

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This is England! You don't get arrested
or convicted for crimes you haven't done.

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We try not to make a habit of it.

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But it does happen,
though, doesn't it?

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Of course. There was that case of that
fellow, whatshisname, Adolph Beck.

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In jail for years and they suddenly
found it was another chap.

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- He'd been innocent!
- Unfortunate, but restitution was made.

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He received a pardon, a bounty from the
crown, and was restored to normal life.

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That's all right for him. What if it
had been murder? What if he'd hanged?

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How would they have restored
him to his normal life then?

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Mr Vole, you must not take
such a morbid point of view.

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It's just when you say these things are
closing in on me, it's like a nightmare.

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Relax. You're in the hands of the finest,
most experienced barrister in London.

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Let's get this straight. I may have
done something highly unethical.

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I've taken your cigar but I'm
not taking your case. I can't.

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I'm forbidden. My doctors would never
allow it. I'm truly sorry, young man.

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But if you'd like the case
handled by these chambers,

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- I'd recommend Mr Brogan-Moore.
- Yes. A very able man.

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- I second Sir Wilfrid's recommendation.
- All right, sir, if you say so.

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Hold this.

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Carter?

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I would like to see Brogan-Moore here
as soon as he comes in from court.

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Sir Wilfrid, I have never
known such insubordination.

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Not even as a nurse during the war.

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What war was that?
The Crimean War, no doubt.

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You'll like Brogan-Moore, he's had
excellent training. Under me.

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This morning I had no lawyers at
all and now suddenly I have three.

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We should explain that I
have very little money.

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I shan't be able to pay
all the costs and fees.

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We'll get a fourth
lawyer to sue you.

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He won't get very much.
I haven't had a job in four months.

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- What sort of work do you do?
- Well, uh...

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My last job was as a mechanic. The
foreman kept riding me all the time.

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- I took it as long as I could, then I quit.
- And before that?

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I worked in a department store, in toys,
demonstrating children's building sets.

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Of course, it lasted only during Christmas.
Before that I tested electric blankets.

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- Electric blankets?
- I suppose you think I'm a bit of a drifter.

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It's true, in a way,
but I'm really not like that.

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My army service unsettled me. That and
living abroad. I was stationed in Germany.

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It was fine there, though.
That's where I met my wife.

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She was an actress, and a good one.
She's a wonderful wife to me, too.

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But I haven't been much of
a provider, I'm afraid.

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Somehow, I just don't seem able to settle
down now I've come back to this country.

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- If I could just put my eggbeater across.
- Eggbeater?

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Yes, sir. I, uh, I'm a bit of an inventor.
Nothing big, just little household things.

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Pocket pencil sharpeners,
key chain flashlights.

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But my best is really
this eggbeater.

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It not only beats, it also
separates the yolk from the white.

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Is that really desirable?

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If you were a housewife,
you'd see it right away.

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The trouble is, I need money for
manufacturing and promotion.

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I was really hoping that's what Mrs
French might do for me after I met her.

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- Exactly how did you meet Mrs French?
- That's rather funny in itself.

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It was 3 September. I remember
because it's my wife's birthday.

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I was window-shopping
in Oxford Street,

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daydreaming about what I'd buy
for her, if I had any money.

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- You really like this one?
- Very much.

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- You don't think it's too mad?
- Mad?

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Not at all. Daring, perhaps. I wouldn't
recommend it to every woman. But you?

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- Why shouldn't you attract attention?
- You think so?

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Absolutely. But if I could
suggest one little thing.

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Perhaps we could tip it and bring it back
a bit like that. Show more of your face.

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- My bus. Goodbye.
- Good...

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You buy that hat. I insist.

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Actually, it was a ridiculous sort of hat-
a silly thing with ribbons and flowers.

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I'm constantly surprised that women's
hats do not provoke more murders.

00:18:36.665 --> 00:18:37.951
Go on, please.

00:18:38.125 --> 00:18:40.605
I was only trying to be nice
to make her feel good.

00:18:40.836 --> 00:18:43.043
I never dreamed I'd see
her again. Or the hat.

00:18:43.255 --> 00:18:45.417
- But you did?
- Yes, a few weeks later.

00:18:45.633 --> 00:18:51.083
Again, by accident. I was peddling my
eggbeaters and business was a little slow.

00:19:14.787 --> 00:19:17.711
Would you mind, madam? Your hat.

00:19:17.957 --> 00:19:20.244
- Oh, it's you!
- Hello!

00:19:20.459 --> 00:19:23.702
It's your fault, you know.
You chose it yourself.

00:19:23.963 --> 00:19:26.125
- May I?
- Sure, if you like.

00:19:30.094 --> 00:19:34.577
Thank you. It's such a bother taking
it off and putting it back on again.

00:19:34.890 --> 00:19:39.737
That chap is Jesse James. They've led
him into an ambush. It's not at all cricket.

00:19:40.062 --> 00:19:42.463
- Don't worry, he shoots his way out.
- He does?

00:19:42.690 --> 00:19:45.375
- I've seen it. I got to the movies a lot.
- You do?

00:19:45.609 --> 00:19:50.740
I get restless so I go out. Then I find
I've no place to go so I go to the movies.

00:19:51.073 --> 00:19:55.123
Sometimes I see the same one
two or three times. Ooh.

00:19:55.411 --> 00:19:57.937
- Toffee?
- Oh, yes, please.

00:19:58.164 --> 00:20:01.054
At this time you had no idea
that Mrs French was well-off?

00:20:01.292 --> 00:20:04.341
No. Absolutely not. We were
sitting in the cheap seats.

00:20:04.587 --> 00:20:08.273
All I knew was she seemed to be very
lonely, had no friends whatsoever.

00:20:08.549 --> 00:20:11.234
She and her husband lived
abroad in British Nigeria.

00:20:11.469 --> 00:20:15.872
He was in the colonial service.
He died in '45, of a heart attack.

00:20:16.182 --> 00:20:19.345
Please, Mayhew, not when
I'm smoking. Go on, young man.

00:20:19.602 --> 00:20:22.685
Well, they finally
polished off Jesse James,

00:20:22.938 --> 00:20:26.260
and after we left the movie she
invited me to her house for tea.

00:20:30.321 --> 00:20:34.121
I think it's the most fascinating thing
I've ever seen. Janet, come and look.

00:20:34.408 --> 00:20:36.376
I've seen eggbeaters before, ma'am.

00:20:36.577 --> 00:20:39.547
But this beats so quickly
and it separates too!

00:20:39.788 --> 00:20:42.712
It must be cen-trifugal or
centrifugal, which is it?

00:20:42.958 --> 00:20:45.484
It's specific gravity,
but it whips cream too.

00:20:45.711 --> 00:20:48.715
Did you hear that, Janet?
It whips cream too.

00:20:48.964 --> 00:20:51.365
We must have one. Is it expensive?

00:20:51.592 --> 00:20:54.914
Compliments of the inventor,
manufacturer and sole distributor.

00:20:55.179 --> 00:20:59.025
Thank you. We'll use it constantly,
won't we, Janet?

00:20:59.308 --> 00:21:03.757
Come, we'd better get out of here.
Janet doesn't like visitors in her kitchen.

00:21:10.778 --> 00:21:12.348
Ha!

00:21:14.406 --> 00:21:17.535
It's a bit chilly in here, isn't it?
Shall we have a fire?

00:21:17.785 --> 00:21:19.753
Why not?

00:21:19.954 --> 00:21:22.525
This is a charming room.

00:21:22.748 --> 00:21:26.878
Hubert and I collected all these
things when we lived in Africa.

00:21:27.169 --> 00:21:29.331
Hubert was my husband.

00:21:30.506 --> 00:21:33.157
Well, now, there's a loveable chap.

00:21:33.384 --> 00:21:35.785
That's the mask of
the witch doctor.

00:21:36.011 --> 00:21:38.412
He wore it when he pulled
our servants' teeth.

00:21:38.639 --> 00:21:42.246
So Hubert used to call
him a witch dentist.

00:21:43.352 --> 00:21:46.561
- Hubert was so witty.
- Yes, I can see that.

00:21:46.814 --> 00:21:48.942
Oh, here's tea.

00:21:51.443 --> 00:21:56.005
- Let's use our good silver and china.
- Oh, no, don't bother, Mrs French.

00:21:56.323 --> 00:21:59.213
- This is perfectly all right.
- Lemon or milk, please?

00:21:59.451 --> 00:22:01.818
- I don't really care.
- Would you prefer sherry?

00:22:02.037 --> 00:22:04.005
- That'd be fine.
- We've no' got any.

00:22:04.206 --> 00:22:08.370
Oh, but we have. There's that bottle,
the one we bought last Christmas.

00:22:08.669 --> 00:22:13.470
If you care for an eggnog there's a wasted
egg in the kitchen ready and separated.

00:22:13.799 --> 00:22:18.487
Do sit down. Don't mind Janet, Mr Vole.
It's just that she's terribly Scotch.

00:22:18.804 --> 00:22:22.206
Oh, is she? I thought she
came with the collection.

00:22:23.434 --> 00:22:27.234
You know, maybe I'll take
a glass of sherry myself.

00:22:27.521 --> 00:22:30.206
I feel like Christmas, somehow.

00:22:31.525 --> 00:22:36.008
After that I saw her once or twice a week.
She always kept a bottle of sherry for me.

00:22:36.322 --> 00:22:39.246
We'd talk, play canasta,
listen to gramophone records,

00:22:39.492 --> 00:22:41.620
Gilbert and Sullivan mostly.

00:22:41.827 --> 00:22:45.991
It's so weird to think of her now,
lying in that living room, murdered.

00:22:46.290 --> 00:22:50.659
I assure you she's been moved by now.
To leave her would be unfeeling, unlawful,

00:22:50.961 --> 00:22:52.929
and unsanitary.

00:22:55.591 --> 00:22:58.197
Tell Sir Wilfrid about the
evening of the murder.

00:22:59.053 --> 00:23:01.579
I went around to see her
about eight o'clock.

00:23:01.806 --> 00:23:04.650
She fixed a sandwich,
we talked, listened to The Mikado.

00:23:04.892 --> 00:23:08.817
I left about nine. I walked home.
I got there about half past.

00:23:09.104 --> 00:23:13.075
I can prove that. I can swear to it, in or out
of court, in the witness box, anywhere!

00:23:13.359 --> 00:23:15.930
How much money did you
get from Mrs French?

00:23:16.153 --> 00:23:18.155
- Nothing.
- The truth. How much?

00:23:18.364 --> 00:23:21.971
- Why should she give me any money?
- Because she was in love with you.

00:23:22.243 --> 00:23:24.211
That's ridiculous. She liked me.

00:23:24.411 --> 00:23:27.335
She pampered me like an aunt.
But that's all, I swear.

00:23:27.581 --> 00:23:30.232
- Why didn't you tell her you had a wife?
- I did!

00:23:30.459 --> 00:23:33.668
But you never took your wife along
when you went there. Why not?

00:23:33.921 --> 00:23:35.685
- Because...
- Because what?

00:23:35.881 --> 00:23:39.328
Because she was under the impression
we didn't get along too well.

00:23:39.593 --> 00:23:41.914
- Is that true?
- No! We love each other.

00:23:42.138 --> 00:23:45.938
- Then how did she get that impression?
- She just seemed to want to believe it.

00:23:46.225 --> 00:23:49.513
- You never corrected her. Why?
- I was afraid she'd lose interest.

00:23:49.770 --> 00:23:53.013
Because she was rich, and
you were after her money.

00:23:53.274 --> 00:23:55.276
Well, yes, in a way.

00:23:55.985 --> 00:24:00.627
I was hoping for a loan for my new
invention. Just a few hundred pounds.

00:24:00.948 --> 00:24:04.111
An honest business proposition,
that's all. Is that so wicked?

00:24:04.368 --> 00:24:06.450
You knew it was the
housekeeper's day off?

00:24:06.662 --> 00:24:09.268
- Well, yes.
- You went there because she'd be alone?

00:24:09.498 --> 00:24:11.944
No, because I thought
she might be lonely.

00:24:12.168 --> 00:24:15.809
All right, lonely. You and the rich
lonely widow all alone in that house

00:24:16.088 --> 00:24:18.853
with a gramophone
blaring The Mikado.

00:24:19.091 --> 00:24:21.662
Perhaps you turned up the
volume to drown her cries.

00:24:21.886 --> 00:24:26.335
- When I left her she was alive!
- When Janet came back she was dead.

00:24:26.640 --> 00:24:30.440
The house had been ransacked! It said
in the papers. It must've been a burglar.

00:24:30.728 --> 00:24:33.937
I didn't do it. No matter how bad
things look, I didn't do it!

00:24:34.190 --> 00:24:38.354
You must believe me.
You do believe me, don't you?

00:24:39.528 --> 00:24:41.576
I do now, but I wasn't sure.

00:24:41.780 --> 00:24:45.148
That's why I subjected your eyes
and my arteries to that ordeal.

00:24:45.409 --> 00:24:47.616
- I'm sorry.
- That's all right.

00:24:47.828 --> 00:24:51.594
As for things looking bad, they don't
look bad, Mr Vole, they look terrible.

00:24:51.874 --> 00:24:56.038
- Apparently you've no alibi at all.
- But I have. I left Mrs French's at nine.

00:24:56.337 --> 00:24:59.546
- By bus or underground?
- No, I walked. It was a fine night.

00:24:59.799 --> 00:25:02.723
- Did anyone see you?
- Christine saw me when I got home.

00:25:02.968 --> 00:25:07.929
It was 9.26. I know because I went right to
work on a clock I've been tinkering with.

00:25:08.265 --> 00:25:10.916
- My wife will tell you.
- Your wife loves you, yes?

00:25:11.143 --> 00:25:13.384
Very much. We're
devoted to each other.

00:25:13.604 --> 00:25:18.644
You realise, Mr Vole, the testimony of a
devoted wife does not carry much weight.

00:25:18.984 --> 00:25:21.635
People might think Christine
would lie on my account?

00:25:21.862 --> 00:25:25.662
It has been known, Mr Vole.
Blood is thicker than evidence.

00:25:27.034 --> 00:25:31.642
- Ah, Brogan-Moore. Come in, come in.
- So good to have you out of hospital.

00:25:31.956 --> 00:25:36.644
I didn't get a full pardon, I'm out on
parole. You know Mr Mayhew, I believe.

00:25:36.961 --> 00:25:39.646
- This is his client, Mr Leonard Vole.
- How do you do?

00:25:39.880 --> 00:25:42.167
- How do you do?
- The Emily French murder.

00:25:42.383 --> 00:25:44.670
- Oh, how do you do?
- Badly, thank you.

00:25:44.885 --> 00:25:48.776
A mass of circumstantial evidence.
No alibi whatsoever. It's a hot potato.

00:25:49.056 --> 00:25:51.297
- Tossing it into your lap.
- Much obliged.

00:25:51.517 --> 00:25:54.521
Your line of defence,
however, will be lack of motive.

00:25:54.770 --> 00:25:57.774
You will agree that we can rule
out a crime of passion, hm?

00:25:58.023 --> 00:26:00.708
That leaves us with a
murder for profit.

00:26:00.943 --> 00:26:04.914
If Mr Vole had been sponging off Mrs
French, why cut off the source of supply?

00:26:05.197 --> 00:26:09.646
Or, if he'd been hoping for a golden egg,
why kill the goose before it was laid?

00:26:09.952 --> 00:26:12.876
No motive. No motive whatsoever.

00:26:14.540 --> 00:26:19.341
- You find some flaw in this reasoning?
- No, no, it's very sound as far as it goes.

00:26:19.670 --> 00:26:23.880
Well, it's all yours. You'll find Mr Vole
very responsive and quite candid.

00:26:24.175 --> 00:26:27.418
So candid, he's already told me
we'll have to sue him for our fees.

00:26:27.678 --> 00:26:31.364
Oh, we'll simply put a
lean on Mr Vole's £80,000.

00:26:31.640 --> 00:26:35.884
- What £80,000?
- The £80,000 Mrs French left you.

00:26:36.187 --> 00:26:37.313
Left me?

00:26:37.480 --> 00:26:42.441
They opened Mrs French's bank
vault today and found her will.

00:26:43.486 --> 00:26:47.650
- Congratulations.
- £80,000!

00:26:47.948 --> 00:26:51.395
And I was worried about a couple of
hundred for that silly eggbeater.

00:26:51.660 --> 00:26:53.628
I must call Christine.

00:26:57.792 --> 00:26:59.237
Oh.

00:26:59.418 --> 00:27:02.308
This doesn't make things look
any better for me, does it?

00:27:02.546 --> 00:27:05.868
- No. I wouldn't think so.
- So now they'll say I did have a motive.

00:27:06.133 --> 00:27:11.458
They will indeed. £80,000 makes
for a very handsome motive.

00:27:11.806 --> 00:27:14.377
I thought you were crazy but
now they will arrest me!

00:27:14.600 --> 00:27:16.568
It's not unlikely.

00:27:23.984 --> 00:27:27.272
As a matter of fact, it's quite likely.
They're on their way up now.

00:27:27.530 --> 00:27:31.899
I knew nothing about that will. I'd no idea
she'd any intention of leaving me money.

00:27:32.201 --> 00:27:36.445
- If I didn't know, how can it be a motive?
- We'll certainly bring that out in court.

00:27:36.747 --> 00:27:41.116
- It's our old friend Inspector Hearne.
- Chief Inspector as of last month.

00:27:41.418 --> 00:27:44.945
Chief Inspector? They must think
a lot of you at Scotland Yard.

00:27:45.214 --> 00:27:47.785
You're getting the
deluxe treatment.

00:27:48.008 --> 00:27:53.174
- Oh, in here, Chief Inspector.
- Sorry to disturb you in your chambers.

00:27:53.514 --> 00:27:57.121
That's perfectly all right. I never
object to the actions of the police

00:27:57.393 --> 00:28:01.079
- except once in a great while in court.
- Yes, sir, I still have the scars.

00:28:01.355 --> 00:28:03.722
You know Mr Mayhew,
Mr Brogan-Moore.

00:28:03.941 --> 00:28:08.344
This is Leonard Vole. You'd better search
him, he may be armed with an eggbeater.

00:28:08.654 --> 00:28:11.225
- Is your name Leonard Vole?
- Yes, it is.

00:28:11.448 --> 00:28:16.932
I have a warrant for your arrest on
the charge of murdering Emily French.

00:28:17.288 --> 00:28:22.089
I must warn you that anything you say
may be taken down and used in evidence.

00:28:22.418 --> 00:28:25.262
Well, I'm ready.
Must I be handcuffed?

00:28:25.504 --> 00:28:27.905
That won't be necessary, sir.

00:28:28.132 --> 00:28:31.534
I've never been arrested before,
not even for walking a dog off a lead

00:28:31.802 --> 00:28:35.488
- or having a beer after hours.
- There's no disgrace in being arrested.

00:28:35.764 --> 00:28:40.930
Kings, prime ministers, archbishops,
even barristers have stood in the dock.

00:28:45.608 --> 00:28:49.454
- Somebody better call my wife.
- I will, don't worry.

00:28:49.737 --> 00:28:51.865
I'll go too, see you're
properly charged.

00:28:52.072 --> 00:28:54.882
- You will see to it that he is well-treated?
- We will.

00:28:55.117 --> 00:28:58.758
Would you like a cigar? Pardon me.

00:28:59.997 --> 00:29:04.764
- That's very kind of you, Sir Wilfrid.
- I'd better not. It would constitute a bribe.

00:29:06.587 --> 00:29:08.555
We ought to be going, Mr Vole.

00:29:12.927 --> 00:29:16.773
One thing I've learned for sure, never
look in a window with women's hats.

00:29:17.056 --> 00:29:19.024
Good day, sir.

00:29:21.060 --> 00:29:23.267
Makes a very nice
impression, doesn't he?

00:29:23.479 --> 00:29:27.609
- Yes, rather. Give him the monocle test?
- Passed with flying colours.

00:29:27.900 --> 00:29:31.302
I hope he does as well in the dock.
This is sticky, you know.

00:29:31.570 --> 00:29:35.256
Of course. The prosecution will blast
in with their heaviest artillery.

00:29:35.533 --> 00:29:39.902
All you'll have is one little popgun,
an alibi furnished by his wife.

00:29:40.204 --> 00:29:42.206
Isn't that an intriguing challenge?

00:29:42.414 --> 00:29:46.260
I think I'd like it more if it was less
of a challenge and less intriguing.

00:29:47.294 --> 00:29:52.255
Miss Plimsoll has issued an ultimatum.
In bed in one minute or she'll resign.

00:29:52.591 --> 00:29:55.834
Splendid. Give her a month's pay
and kick her down the stairs.

00:29:56.095 --> 00:29:59.099
Either you take care of yourself
or I, too, shall resign.

00:29:59.348 --> 00:30:01.828
This is blackmail.
But you're quite right.

00:30:02.059 --> 00:30:06.030
For my first day this has already been
rather hectic. I should be in bed.

00:30:10.234 --> 00:30:14.000
I'd better get in touch with Mrs Vole
and have her come over. Will you sit in?

00:30:14.280 --> 00:30:20.242
Thank you, no. I'm in no condition to cope
with emotional wives drenched in tears.

00:30:21.495 --> 00:30:26.535
Miss Plimsoll, how alluring you look,
waiting like a hangman on the scaffold.

00:30:26.876 --> 00:30:29.038
Take me, I'm yours.

00:30:31.297 --> 00:30:31.866
Oh!

00:30:32.006 --> 00:30:36.409
About Mrs Vole. Handle her gently,
especially when you tell her of the arrest.

00:30:36.719 --> 00:30:41.281
Bear in mind she's a foreigner, so prepare
for hysterics, even a fainting spell.

00:30:41.599 --> 00:30:45.604
Better have smelling salts ready,
box of tissues and a nip of brandy.

00:30:45.895 --> 00:30:49.297
I do not think that
will be necessary.

00:30:52.485 --> 00:30:54.965
I never faint in case
I don't fall gracefully,

00:30:55.196 --> 00:30:58.882
and I never use smelling salts
because they puff up the eyes.

00:30:59.158 --> 00:31:01.559
I'm Christine Vole.

00:31:01.785 --> 00:31:04.311
How do you do?
This is Mr Brogan-Moore.

00:31:04.538 --> 00:31:06.506
How do you do?

00:31:06.707 --> 00:31:09.631
- I am Wilfrid Robarts.
- How do you do?

00:31:09.877 --> 00:31:12.687
My dear Mrs Vole, I'm afraid
we have bad news for you.

00:31:12.922 --> 00:31:17.723
- Don't be afraid, I'm quite disciplined.
- There's nothing to be alarmed about yet.

00:31:18.052 --> 00:31:21.499
Leonard has been arrested and
charged with murder. Is that it?

00:31:21.764 --> 00:31:25.086
- Yes.
- I knew he would be, I told him so.

00:31:25.351 --> 00:31:27.877
I'm glad you're showing
such fortitude.

00:31:28.103 --> 00:31:31.073
Call it what you like.
What is the next step?

00:31:31.774 --> 00:31:34.300
Your husband will have to
stand trial, I'm afraid.

00:31:34.527 --> 00:31:39.533
Will you explain the procedure?
Mr Brogan-Moore will lead the defence.

00:31:39.865 --> 00:31:41.196
Oh?

00:31:41.367 --> 00:31:44.098
- You will not defend Leonard?
- Regrettably not.

00:31:44.328 --> 00:31:46.808
My health, or, rather,
the lack of it, forbids me.

00:31:47.039 --> 00:31:52.284
It is regrettable. Mr Mayhew described
you as champion of the hopeless cause.

00:31:55.673 --> 00:31:59.473
Is it, perhaps, that this
cause is too hopeless?

00:32:06.684 --> 00:32:11.485
I'll have a serious talk with Dr Harrison.
It was a mistake to let you come back here.

00:32:11.814 --> 00:32:14.340
I should have taken you to
a rest-home or a resort.

00:32:14.567 --> 00:32:16.934
Some place quiet,
far off, like Bermuda.

00:32:17.153 --> 00:32:19.997
Shut up. You just want to see
me in those nasty shorts.

00:32:20.239 --> 00:32:23.402
Come now, Sir Wilfrid,
you must not think of it.

00:32:23.659 --> 00:32:27.505
You must get ready for sleep,
think beautiful thoughts.

00:32:28.539 --> 00:32:33.784
Now, let's get undressed. Put these on,
tops and bottoms, while I make your bed.

00:32:34.128 --> 00:32:37.052
After your rest we'll
have a nice cup of cocoa.

00:32:37.298 --> 00:32:40.268
Then perhaps we'll have a
walk around the square.

00:32:40.509 --> 00:32:43.080
You know, I feel sorry
for that nice Mr Vole.

00:32:43.304 --> 00:32:47.673
And not just because he was arrested,
but that wife of his. She must be German.

00:32:47.975 --> 00:32:52.458
That's what happens when we let our
boys cross the Channel. They go crazy.

00:32:52.771 --> 00:32:57.174
The government should do something
about foreign wives. Like an embargo.

00:32:57.485 --> 00:33:01.251
How else can we take care of our own
surplus. Don't you agree, Sir Wilfrid?

00:33:01.530 --> 00:33:03.851
All right. Hop in!

00:33:05.034 --> 00:33:07.355
Sir Wilfrid?

00:33:10.247 --> 00:33:11.931
Sir Wilfrid!

00:33:12.124 --> 00:33:13.853
Come back!

00:33:14.293 --> 00:33:18.855
Yes, of course I knew that Leonard had
been seeing Mrs French quite frequently.

00:33:19.173 --> 00:33:20.299
Go on.

00:33:20.466 --> 00:33:24.073
I knew when he came home with a pair
of green socks she'd knitted for him.

00:33:24.345 --> 00:33:27.428
That's quite natural. I'm sure
a jury will find it endearing.

00:33:27.681 --> 00:33:31.527
Leonard can be very endearing.
He hates that particular shade of green

00:33:31.811 --> 00:33:33.893
and the socks were
two sizes too large,

00:33:34.104 --> 00:33:36.710
but he wore them just the
same to give her pleasure.

00:33:36.941 --> 00:33:38.909
Leonard has a way with women.

00:33:39.109 --> 00:33:44.673
I only hope he has an all-woman jury.
They will carry him from court in triumph.

00:33:45.032 --> 00:33:49.879
A simple acquittal will do. Now, you know
Mrs French left your husband money?

00:33:50.204 --> 00:33:52.206
Yes. A lot of money.

00:33:52.414 --> 00:33:57.102
Of course, your husband had no
previous knowledge of this bequest?

00:33:57.419 --> 00:33:59.581
Is that what he told you?

00:33:59.797 --> 00:34:02.198
Surely you're not
suggesting different?

00:34:02.424 --> 00:34:06.315
Oh, no, no. I do not
suggest anything.

00:34:06.595 --> 00:34:12.238
Clearly, she had come to look upon your
husband as a son or favourite nephew.

00:34:13.102 --> 00:34:16.788
You think Mrs French looked upon
Leonard as a son? Or a nephew?

00:34:17.064 --> 00:34:20.591
I do. An entirely natural and
understandable relationship.

00:34:20.860 --> 00:34:24.103
What hypocrites you
are in this country.

00:34:26.031 --> 00:34:28.318
Pardon me, Brogan-Moore.

00:34:28.534 --> 00:34:32.983
- Do you mind if I ask you a question?
- Go right ahead, Sir Wilfrid.

00:34:33.289 --> 00:34:37.180
You realise your husband's entire
defence rests on his word and yours?

00:34:37.460 --> 00:34:40.748
- I realise that.
- And that the jury will be quite sceptical

00:34:41.005 --> 00:34:44.976
of the word of a man accused of murder
when supported only by that of his wife?

00:34:45.259 --> 00:34:47.990
- I realise that too.
- Let us, then, at least make sure

00:34:48.220 --> 00:34:51.906
- the two are not in conflict.
- By all means, let's.

00:34:52.183 --> 00:34:54.754
I assume you want to
help your husband?

00:34:54.977 --> 00:35:00.427
Of course I want to help Leonard. I want
to help Mr Brogan-Moore and to help you.

00:35:00.774 --> 00:35:04.745
There. Isn't that more
comfortable for you?

00:35:05.529 --> 00:35:08.692
Now, Mrs Vole.
This is very important.

00:35:08.949 --> 00:35:12.715
On the night of the murder your husband
came home before 9:30. Correct?

00:35:12.995 --> 00:35:16.283
Precisely. Isn't that
what he wants me to say?

00:35:16.540 --> 00:35:18.429
Isn't it the truth?

00:35:18.626 --> 00:35:20.435
Of course.

00:35:20.628 --> 00:35:23.438
But when I told the police,
I do not think they believed me.

00:35:23.672 --> 00:35:26.755
Maybe I didn't say it well.
Maybe because of my accent.

00:35:27.009 --> 00:35:29.216
My dear Mrs Vole, in our courts

00:35:29.428 --> 00:35:32.591
we accept the evidence of witnesses
who speak only Bulgarian

00:35:32.848 --> 00:35:35.374
and who must have an interpreter.

00:35:35.601 --> 00:35:38.764
We accept the evidence of
deaf-mutes who cannot speak at all,

00:35:39.021 --> 00:35:41.308
as long as they tell the truth.

00:35:41.524 --> 00:35:44.767
You're aware that when you're in
the witness box you will be sworn

00:35:45.027 --> 00:35:47.997
- and you will testify under oath?
- Yes.

00:35:48.239 --> 00:35:51.960
Leonard came home at 9.26 precisely
and did not go out again.

00:35:52.243 --> 00:35:57.204
The truth, the whole truth and nothing
but the truth. Is that better?

00:35:58.916 --> 00:36:03.877
- Mrs Vole, do you love your husband?
- Leonard thinks I do.

00:36:04.213 --> 00:36:07.820
- Well, do you?
- Am I already under oath?

00:36:08.092 --> 00:36:11.301
Whatever your gambit may be,
do you know that, under British law,

00:36:11.554 --> 00:36:15.445
you cannot be called to give
testimony damaging to your husband?

00:36:15.724 --> 00:36:17.852
How very convenient.

00:36:18.060 --> 00:36:20.142
We are dealing with
a capital crime.

00:36:20.354 --> 00:36:23.995
The prosecution will try
to hang your husband.

00:36:25.234 --> 00:36:27.805
He is not my husband.

00:36:34.243 --> 00:36:36.644
Leonard and I went through
a form of marriage,

00:36:36.871 --> 00:36:40.637
but I had a husband living somewhere
in East Germany, in the Russian zone.

00:36:40.916 --> 00:36:44.716
- Did you tell Leonard?
- I did not. It would have been stupid.

00:36:45.004 --> 00:36:48.975
He would not have married me and I'd
have been left to starve in the rubble.

00:36:49.258 --> 00:36:51.784
But he did marry you and
brought you safely here.

00:36:52.011 --> 00:36:54.218
Don't you think you
should be grateful?

00:36:54.430 --> 00:36:56.478
One can get very
tired of gratitude.

00:36:56.682 --> 00:36:59.288
Your husband loves you
very much, does he not?

00:36:59.518 --> 00:37:02.681
Leonard? He worships
the ground I walk on.

00:37:02.938 --> 00:37:05.066
And you?

00:37:05.274 --> 00:37:07.561
You want to know too much.

00:37:07.776 --> 00:37:10.143
Auf Wiedersehen, gentlemen.

00:37:11.322 --> 00:37:16.533
Thank you for coming in, Mrs Vole.
Your visit has been most reassuring.

00:37:16.869 --> 00:37:21.397
Do not worry, Sir Wilfrid. I will give him
an alibi and I shall be very convincing.

00:37:21.707 --> 00:37:26.508
There will be tears in my eyes when I say
"Leonard came home at 9.26 precisely."

00:37:26.837 --> 00:37:30.558
You're a very remarkable
woman, Mrs Vole.

00:37:31.801 --> 00:37:34.168
And you're satisfied, I hope?

00:37:35.596 --> 00:37:41.000
- I'm damned if I'm satisfied!
- Care for a whiff of those smelling salts?

00:37:41.352 --> 00:37:43.798
That woman's up to something.
But what?

00:37:44.021 --> 00:37:47.912
The prosecution will break her down in
no time when she's in the witness box.

00:37:48.192 --> 00:37:51.560
This case is going to be rather like
the charge of the Light Brigade

00:37:51.821 --> 00:37:55.462
or one of those Japanese
suicide pilots. Quite one-sided.

00:37:55.741 --> 00:37:58.062
With the odds all
on the other side.

00:37:58.285 --> 00:38:00.731
I haven't got much
to go on, have I?

00:38:00.955 --> 00:38:03.435
The fact is, I've got nothing.

00:38:04.625 --> 00:38:06.753
Let me ask you something.

00:38:06.961 --> 00:38:10.329
Do you believe Leonard
Vole is innocent?

00:38:13.425 --> 00:38:15.393
Do you?

00:38:16.846 --> 00:38:19.167
Do you?

00:38:19.390 --> 00:38:21.358
I'm not sure.

00:38:21.559 --> 00:38:25.006
Oh, I'm sorry, Wilfrid.
Of course, I'll do my best.

00:38:25.271 --> 00:38:27.956
It's all right, Brogan-Moore.

00:38:28.190 --> 00:38:30.761
I'll take it from here.

00:38:32.153 --> 00:38:37.000
I have called Dr Harrison and given him
a report on your shocking behaviour.

00:38:37.324 --> 00:38:39.691
- Give me a match, Miss Plimsoll.
- Sir Wilfrid!

00:38:39.910 --> 00:38:42.834
Did you hear me? A match!

00:39:14.737 --> 00:39:20.506
Mr Mayhew. Sir Wilfrid. I'm told you are
going to represent me. I'm very grateful.

00:39:20.868 --> 00:39:26.034
I struck a bargain with my doctors. They
exile me to Bermuda as soon as we finish.

00:39:26.373 --> 00:39:28.899
- Thank you.
- There's hope that we'll both survive.

00:39:29.126 --> 00:39:31.288
- Get into these. We need a photograph.
- Why?

00:39:31.504 --> 00:39:33.472
This is what you were
wearing that night.

00:39:33.672 --> 00:39:37.438
We'll circulate a photo on the chance
that someone saw you on your way home.

00:39:37.718 --> 00:39:40.085
Over here against the wall, please.

00:39:42.681 --> 00:39:45.446
Hold it. One more
in profile, please.

00:39:45.684 --> 00:39:49.086
Do we really need this? My wife knows
what time I came home that night.

00:39:49.355 --> 00:39:51.961
A disinterested witness
may be of more value.

00:39:52.191 --> 00:39:54.956
Yes, of course, Christine
is an interested witness.

00:39:55.194 --> 00:39:57.401
I'll pick up the negatives later.
Thank you.

00:39:57.613 --> 00:40:01.584
I don't understand it.
Why hasn't she come to see me?

00:40:02.910 --> 00:40:06.312
Won't they let her see me?
I mean, it's been two weeks now.

00:40:06.580 --> 00:40:09.106
Mayhew, give me the reports.

00:40:09.333 --> 00:40:12.382
Have you been talking to her?
Is there something the matter?

00:40:12.628 --> 00:40:17.555
I want to read a portion of the evidence
of Janet McKenzie, the housekeeper.

00:40:21.804 --> 00:40:25.251
"Mr Vole helped Mrs French
with her business affairs,

00:40:25.516 --> 00:40:27.564
particularly her
income tax returns."

00:40:27.768 --> 00:40:30.578
Oh, yes, I did. Some of those
forms are very complicated.

00:40:30.813 --> 00:40:33.976
There's also a hint you may have
helped her draft her new will.

00:40:34.233 --> 00:40:37.123
Well, that's not true!
If Janet said that she's lying.

00:40:37.361 --> 00:40:39.967
She was always against me,
I don't know why!

00:40:40.197 --> 00:40:46.159
It's obvious. You threw an eggbeater into
the wheels of her Victorian household.

00:40:46.537 --> 00:40:50.144
Now, this cut in your wrist. You
say you cut yourself with a knife?

00:40:50.416 --> 00:40:53.977
Well, that's true, I did. I was
cutting bread and the knife slipped.

00:40:54.253 --> 00:41:00.704
But that was two days after. Christine
was there. She'll tell them in her evidence.

00:41:02.219 --> 00:41:06.224
Are you keeping something from me?
Is she ill? Was she shocked?

00:41:06.515 --> 00:41:10.406
All things considered, she took it well.
Though that may be only on the surface.

00:41:10.686 --> 00:41:14.054
Wives are often profoundly
disturbed at such a time.

00:41:14.315 --> 00:41:17.205
Yes, it must be hard. We've
never been separated before.

00:41:17.443 --> 00:41:21.607
- Not since our first meeting.
- How did you meet your wife, Mr Vole?

00:41:21.906 --> 00:41:23.874
In Germany in 1945.

00:41:25.075 --> 00:41:30.525
It's rather funny. The very first time
I saw her, the ceiling fell right in on me.

00:41:30.873 --> 00:41:34.480
I was stationed outside Hamburg,
with an RAF maintenance unit.

00:41:34.752 --> 00:41:40.077
I'd just installed a shower in the officers'
billet, so they gave me a weekend pass.

00:41:43.719 --> 00:41:44.686
Come on!

00:41:44.845 --> 00:41:46.335
<i>♪ Join the party</i>

00:41:46.514 --> 00:41:49.484
<i>♪ Have a hearty glass of rum</i>

00:41:49.725 --> 00:41:53.207
<i>♪ Don't ever think about tomorrow</i>

00:41:53.479 --> 00:41:56.449
<i>♪ For tomorrow may never come</i>

00:41:57.733 --> 00:42:00.896
<i>♪ When I find me a happy place</i>

00:42:01.153 --> 00:42:04.077
<i>♪ That's where I wanna stay</i>

00:42:04.323 --> 00:42:10.933
<i>♪ Time is nothing as long as
I'm living it up this way</i>

00:42:11.330 --> 00:42:15.972
<i>♪ I may never go home any more</i>

00:42:16.293 --> 00:42:19.581
<i>♪ Dim the lights and
start locking the door</i>

00:42:19.839 --> 00:42:23.002
<i>♪ Give your arms to me
Give your charms to me</i>

00:42:23.259 --> 00:42:26.706
<i>♪ After all that's
what sailors are for</i>

00:42:26.971 --> 00:42:31.772
<i>♪ I've got kisses and kisses galore</i>

00:42:32.101 --> 00:42:35.264
<i>♪ That have never
been tasted before</i>

00:42:35.521 --> 00:42:38.650
<i>♪ if you treat me right
This could be the night</i>

00:42:38.899 --> 00:42:40.389
<i>♪ I may never go home</i>

00:42:40.693 --> 00:42:42.138
<i>♪ I may never go home</i>

00:42:42.444 --> 00:42:44.048
<i>♪ I may never go home</i>

00:42:44.363 --> 00:42:45.808
<i>♪ I may never go home</i>

00:42:45.990 --> 00:42:49.358
<i>♪ I may never go home any more</i>

00:42:53.414 --> 00:42:57.942
<i>♪ I may never go home any more</i>

00:42:58.252 --> 00:43:01.301
Hey, Fräulein, show us some legs.

00:43:01.547 --> 00:43:05.518
They rob you blind and then
throw you a ruddy sailor!

00:43:05.801 --> 00:43:09.203
- Come on, let's see 'em.
- We want legs!

00:43:10.097 --> 00:43:13.180
Come help the cabaret
out of her trousers!

00:43:13.434 --> 00:43:16.643
All right, Fräulein, if you
won't show 'em, I will.

00:43:43.631 --> 00:43:47.795
All right, outside, everybody.
Come on, let's go.

00:44:01.732 --> 00:44:02.779
Come on.

00:44:04.693 --> 00:44:07.458
Bring him round to the other truck.

00:44:11.659 --> 00:44:14.583
We'll be back, baby! We'll be back!

00:44:52.116 --> 00:44:54.084
Gesundheit.

00:45:01.000 --> 00:45:03.651
- What are you looking for?
- My accordion.

00:45:03.878 --> 00:45:05.880
Oh, let me help you.

00:45:09.216 --> 00:45:13.062
- I think I found it.
- Step on it again, it's still breathing.

00:45:14.930 --> 00:45:17.251
I'm terribly sorry.

00:45:17.475 --> 00:45:19.682
You better go. We've
had trouble enough.

00:45:19.894 --> 00:45:23.785
Well, it's your own fault. That costume
in the picture gave the boys ideas

00:45:24.064 --> 00:45:28.274
- then those trousers let them down hard.
- That costume went in the first raid.

00:45:28.569 --> 00:45:31.971
Then raid by raid, my other dresses,
and now you've bombed my trousers.

00:45:32.239 --> 00:45:34.207
Cigarette? Gum?

00:45:43.250 --> 00:45:45.457
You're burning my nose.

00:45:45.669 --> 00:45:48.070
- Oh, I'm sorry.
- That's all right.

00:45:48.297 --> 00:45:50.743
How about a cup of coffee?
I've got a tin of coffee.

00:45:50.966 --> 00:45:52.456
How much?

00:45:52.635 --> 00:45:54.717
I don't know. What's
the rate of exchange?

00:45:54.929 --> 00:45:58.729
- Depends whether it's fresh or powdered.
- It's instant coffee.

00:45:59.016 --> 00:46:00.984
Got any hot water at your place?

00:46:01.185 --> 00:46:04.473
- Sometimes.
- Let's take a chance. Where do you live?

00:46:04.730 --> 00:46:06.300
Nearby.

00:46:07.233 --> 00:46:08.997
Come.

00:46:15.449 --> 00:46:17.497
Sorry, it's the maid's night off.

00:46:17.701 --> 00:46:21.183
This is pretty horrible.
In a gemütlich sort of way.

00:46:21.455 --> 00:46:24.902
Oh, it's fine now. I used to
have a roommate. A dancer.

00:46:25.167 --> 00:46:28.410
She had luck, she married a Canadian.
She now lives in Toronto.

00:46:28.671 --> 00:46:31.322
She has a Ford automobile.

00:46:31.549 --> 00:46:34.519
Make yourself comfortable,
the stove is slow these days.

00:46:34.760 --> 00:46:37.889
That's all right,
I've got a weekend pass.

00:46:38.139 --> 00:46:41.621
No, not that chair. It holds up the
beam and that holds up the ceiling.

00:46:41.892 --> 00:46:44.179
You'd better sit down on the cot.

00:46:44.395 --> 00:46:46.045
The cot?

00:46:46.230 --> 00:46:49.632
Getting more gemütlich all
the time. Are you married?

00:46:49.900 --> 00:46:51.743
- Why?
- Well, the, um...

00:46:51.944 --> 00:46:54.470
Oh, that. No, no, I'm not married.

00:46:54.697 --> 00:46:58.463
I just wear it when I'm working. Gives
a little protection with all the men.

00:46:58.742 --> 00:47:03.304
- Didn't work too well tonight, did it?
- No, tonight was bad.

00:47:03.622 --> 00:47:05.784
But it's getting better.

00:47:09.587 --> 00:47:12.636
- Where's the coffee?
- Ah, coffee, ja voll.

00:47:12.882 --> 00:47:18.844
Finest Brazilian blend. The same brand
that Field Marshal Montgomery drinks.

00:47:35.821 --> 00:47:38.222
Is that a fair rate of exchange?

00:47:38.449 --> 00:47:40.417
Very fair.

00:47:41.410 --> 00:47:45.540
Would you be interested
in having the whole tin?

00:47:45.831 --> 00:47:47.799
I would.

00:47:56.884 --> 00:48:00.684
- How are you fixed for sugar?
- I could use some.

00:48:00.971 --> 00:48:02.655
Milk?

00:48:02.848 --> 00:48:04.612
Sure.

00:48:06.435 --> 00:48:08.597
Milk. Sugar.

00:48:09.855 --> 00:48:12.176
It's a pleasure to do
business with you.

00:48:12.399 --> 00:48:14.163
Yeah.

00:48:19.323 --> 00:48:23.169
I also carry biscuits,
powdered eggs,

00:48:23.452 --> 00:48:27.821
- bacon, marmalade.
- I don't know if I can afford it.

00:48:28.124 --> 00:48:32.095
Don't worry, we'll work out
something, like an instalment plan.

00:48:32.378 --> 00:48:35.746
<i>♪ I may never go home any more</i>

00:48:42.012 --> 00:48:44.902
I'm terribly sorry.
Now you have no ceiling.

00:48:45.141 --> 00:48:48.907
- Maybe I can fix it, I'm good at it.
- Why fix it? It's not raining.

00:48:49.186 --> 00:48:50.472
Ooh.

00:48:50.646 --> 00:48:53.616
- Are you all right?
- I think so. My head aches a little.

00:48:53.858 --> 00:48:56.065
Maybe I can fix it.

00:48:56.277 --> 00:48:58.245
I'm good at it.

00:49:04.452 --> 00:49:07.262
I had a weekend pass,
a month's pay in my pocket.

00:49:07.496 --> 00:49:11.182
- And she already had a wedding ring.
- Yes, that's right.

00:49:11.459 --> 00:49:14.622
We got married. When I got out
of the service I brought her here.

00:49:14.879 --> 00:49:18.600
It was wonderful. I rented
a little flat, Edgware Road.

00:49:18.883 --> 00:49:22.251
First time she saw it, she was so
happy she broke down and cried.

00:49:22.511 --> 00:49:27.039
Naturally. She had a solid roof over
her head and a British passport.

00:49:27.349 --> 00:49:32.719
You don't know her, how she feels about
me. You will when she gives evidence.

00:49:33.063 --> 00:49:37.785
Mr Vole, I must tell you I am not
putting her in the witness box.

00:49:38.944 --> 00:49:40.867
You're not? Why not?

00:49:41.071 --> 00:49:44.678
She's a foreigner, unfamiliar with
the subtleties of our language.

00:49:44.950 --> 00:49:47.271
The prosecution could
easily trip her up.

00:49:47.495 --> 00:49:50.499
I hear it may be Mr Myers for the
crown. We can't take chances.

00:49:50.748 --> 00:49:54.798
Quite. We'd better be going. Miss Plimsoll
is waiting in the car with her pills

00:49:55.085 --> 00:49:58.453
- and a Thermos of lukewarm cocoa.
- Officer.

00:49:58.714 --> 00:50:03.197
- But Christine must give evidence.
- Mr Vole, you must learn to trust me.

00:50:03.511 --> 00:50:08.153
For no other reason than I'm a mean,
ill-tempered old man who hates to lose.

00:50:08.474 --> 00:50:11.045
Let us wish each other luck.

00:50:16.482 --> 00:50:22.046
Look, I can't face this without Christine.
I tell you, I need her. Without her I'm sunk.

00:50:23.614 --> 00:50:26.982
Touching, isn't it? The way
he counts on his wife.

00:50:27.243 --> 00:50:32.010
Yes. Like a drowning man
clutching at a razor blade.

00:50:47.555 --> 00:50:52.721
Leonard Stephen Vole, you are
charged on indictment for that you,

00:50:53.060 --> 00:50:57.031
on the 14th day of October,
in the county of London,

00:50:57.314 --> 00:51:00.124
murdered Emily Jane French.

00:51:00.359 --> 00:51:02.965
How say you, Leonard Stephen Vole?

00:51:03.195 --> 00:51:06.165
Are you guilty or not guilty?

00:51:08.451 --> 00:51:09.862
Not guilty.

00:51:11.871 --> 00:51:13.919
Members of the jury,

00:51:14.123 --> 00:51:18.731
the prisoner stands indicted for
that he, on the 14th day of October,

00:51:19.044 --> 00:51:21.809
murdered Emily Jane French.

00:51:22.047 --> 00:51:25.654
To this indictment he
has pleaded not guilty.

00:51:25.926 --> 00:51:29.567
And it is your charge to say,
having heard the evidence,

00:51:29.847 --> 00:51:32.737
whether he be guilty or not.

00:51:37.104 --> 00:51:40.347
Members of the jury, by the
oath which you have just taken,

00:51:40.608 --> 00:51:44.010
you have sworn to try this
case on the evidence.

00:51:44.278 --> 00:51:46.804
You must shut out from
your minds everything

00:51:47.031 --> 00:51:50.478
except what will take
place in this court.

00:51:50.743 --> 00:51:54.145
You may proceed for the
prosecution, Mr Myers.

00:51:54.413 --> 00:51:57.815
May it please you, my lord.
Members of the jury,

00:51:58.083 --> 00:52:02.645
I appear in this case with my learned
friend, Mr Barton, for the prosecution.

00:52:02.963 --> 00:52:06.729
And my learned friends Sir Wilfrid
Robarts and Mr Brogan-Moore

00:52:07.009 --> 00:52:08.977
appear for the defence.

00:52:13.057 --> 00:52:15.298
I trust we are not to be deprived

00:52:15.518 --> 00:52:18.328
of the learned and stimulating
presence of Sir Wilfrid?

00:52:18.562 --> 00:52:22.726
My lord, may I assure my learned friend
that Sir Wilfrid is in the Old Bailey.

00:52:23.025 --> 00:52:26.108
He's slightly incapacitated,
but will be in his seat presently.

00:52:26.362 --> 00:52:31.323
My lord, may I express my regret that Sir
Wilfrid is even slightly incapacitated.

00:52:31.659 --> 00:52:36.870
You may, Mr Myers. You may also proceed
with the case for the prosecution.

00:52:37.206 --> 00:52:39.368
Thank you, my lord.

00:52:39.583 --> 00:52:43.383
The facts in this case are simple
and, to a point, not in dispute.

00:52:43.671 --> 00:52:47.642
You will hear how the prisoner made
the acquaintance of Mrs Emily French,

00:52:47.925 --> 00:52:49.450
a woman of 56.

00:52:49.635 --> 00:52:53.879
How he was treated by her with
kindness and even affection.

00:52:54.181 --> 00:52:56.661
On the night of October 14 last,

00:52:56.892 --> 00:53:00.738
between 9:30 and 10,
Mrs French was murdered.

00:53:01.981 --> 00:53:04.427
Medical testimony will
be introduced to prove

00:53:04.650 --> 00:53:07.859
that death was caused by a blow
from a blunt and heavy instrument,

00:53:08.112 --> 00:53:10.638
and it is the case
for the prosecution

00:53:10.865 --> 00:53:13.948
that the blow was dealt by
the prisoner, Leonard Vole.

00:53:14.201 --> 00:53:16.169
That's not true! I didn't do it!

00:53:18.914 --> 00:53:21.565
Among the witnesses,
you will hear police evidence,

00:53:21.792 --> 00:53:25.478
also the evidence of Mrs French's
housekeeper, Janet McKenzie,

00:53:25.754 --> 00:53:28.439
and from the medical and
laboratory experts,

00:53:28.674 --> 00:53:34.124
and the evidence of the murdered woman's
solicitor, who drew her final will.

00:53:34.472 --> 00:53:38.113
I now call Chief Inspector Hearne,
Criminal Investigation Department,

00:53:38.392 --> 00:53:41.123
- New Scotland Yard.
- Chief Inspector Hearne.

00:53:41.353 --> 00:53:44.323
- Chief Inspector Hearne.
- Chief Inspector Hearne.

00:54:02.374 --> 00:54:06.857
This is ridiculous. Just nervous heartburn.
I always get it the first day of a trial.

00:54:07.171 --> 00:54:09.742
240 above 130. You
shouldn't be here at all.

00:54:09.965 --> 00:54:12.969
- I should be in court, the trial's begun.
- Syringe, please.

00:54:13.219 --> 00:54:15.540
Be a good, brave boy, Sir Wilfrid.

00:54:15.763 --> 00:54:19.449
It may interest you to know that I
am descended from a warrior family

00:54:19.725 --> 00:54:24.891
which traces its brave past back
to Richard the Lion-Hearted.

00:54:27.483 --> 00:54:29.611
You're to have a calcium
injection daily,

00:54:29.819 --> 00:54:33.540
- tranquillising pill every hour.
- I'll set my wristwatch alarm.

00:54:33.823 --> 00:54:37.669
Any pain or shortness of breath, pop
one of these nitroglycerin tablets

00:54:37.952 --> 00:54:40.603
under your tongue. Oh, and
I'll leave you some...

00:54:40.830 --> 00:54:44.915
That's enough, Doctor. The judge
will be asking for a saliva test.

00:54:45.209 --> 00:54:49.612
Carter, I'd better take that
Thermos of cocoa with me.

00:54:49.922 --> 00:54:52.653
- Helps me wash down the pills.
- Let me see it, please.

00:54:52.883 --> 00:54:58.049
My learned patient is not above
substituting brandy for cocoa.

00:54:58.389 --> 00:55:00.835
It is cocoa. So sorry.

00:55:01.058 --> 00:55:03.982
If you were a woman, Miss Plimsoll,
I would strike you.

00:55:04.228 --> 00:55:06.799
Take care of this, Carter.

00:55:08.566 --> 00:55:12.093
Now, Sir Wilfrid, in the courtroom,
you must avoid overexcitement.

00:55:12.361 --> 00:55:13.726
Yes, Doctor, yes, yes.

00:55:13.904 --> 00:55:16.510
Watch your temper. Keep
your blood pressure down.

00:55:16.740 --> 00:55:21.109
Thank you, Doctor, I shall be quite safe,
what with the pills and the cocoa.

00:55:21.412 --> 00:55:23.380
Come along, Carter.

00:55:24.623 --> 00:55:27.513
From the body temperature
and other factors,

00:55:27.751 --> 00:55:31.358
we placed the time of death
at between 9:30 and 10pm,

00:55:31.630 --> 00:55:36.921
approximately 30 minutes before Janet
McKenzie returned home and called us.

00:55:37.761 --> 00:55:43.165
Death was instantaneous, caused by one
blow from a heavy and blunt instrument.

00:55:43.517 --> 00:55:45.599
Were there any signs of a struggle?

00:55:45.811 --> 00:55:48.052
None. Just the one blow.

00:55:48.272 --> 00:55:52.072
Would that indicate that the murderer
had taken Mrs French by surprise?

00:55:52.359 --> 00:55:55.522
My lord, I must object.

00:55:56.489 --> 00:56:00.016
My learned friend refers to the
assailant as "the murderer".

00:56:00.284 --> 00:56:03.731
We have not yet determined whether
the assailant was a man or a woman.

00:56:03.996 --> 00:56:06.840
It could quite conceivably
have been "the murderess".

00:56:07.082 --> 00:56:12.805
Mr Myers, Sir Wilfrid has joined us just in
time to catch you on a point of grammar.

00:56:13.172 --> 00:56:15.254
Please rephrase your question.

00:56:15.466 --> 00:56:21.269
Yes, my lord. Inspector, is it
your opinion that the assailant,

00:56:21.639 --> 00:56:25.644
whether he, she or it, had
taken Mrs French by surprise?

00:56:25.935 --> 00:56:28.063
My lord, I am taken by surprise

00:56:28.270 --> 00:56:32.958
that my learned friend should try to solicit
from the witness an opinion, not a fact.

00:56:33.275 --> 00:56:36.085
Quite so. You'll have to do
better than that, Mr Myers.

00:56:36.320 --> 00:56:38.561
My lord, I withdraw the
question entirely.

00:56:38.781 --> 00:56:41.352
- Is that better?
- That's much better.

00:56:47.289 --> 00:56:49.098
Silence! Silence!

00:56:52.461 --> 00:56:55.271
Very well, Inspector, let
us proceed with the facts.

00:56:55.506 --> 00:56:59.750
After establishing the cause and the
time of death, what did you then do?

00:57:00.052 --> 00:57:03.738
A search was made, photographs were
taken and the premises fingerprinted.

00:57:04.014 --> 00:57:08.019
- What fingerprints did you discover?
- I found the fingerprints of Mrs French,

00:57:08.310 --> 00:57:12.599
those of Janet McKenzie, and some which
later proved to be those of Leonard Vole.

00:57:12.898 --> 00:57:15.026
- No others?
- No others.

00:57:15.234 --> 00:57:19.842
Did you say the room had the appearance
that a robbery had been committed?

00:57:20.156 --> 00:57:25.322
Yes. Things were strewn about and the
window had been broken near the catch.

00:57:25.661 --> 00:57:29.507
There was glass on the floor,
and fragments were found outside.

00:57:29.790 --> 00:57:35.035
The glass outside was not consistent with
the window being forced from the outside.

00:57:35.379 --> 00:57:41.830
You're saying that someone made it look as
if it had been forced from the outside?

00:57:42.219 --> 00:57:46.429
My lord, I must object. My learned friend
is putting words in the witness' mouth.

00:57:46.724 --> 00:57:49.534
After all, if he insists on
answering his own questions,

00:57:49.768 --> 00:57:53.056
the presence of the witness
would seem superfluous.

00:57:53.314 --> 00:57:55.681
Quite. Don't you
think so, Mr Myers?

00:57:55.900 --> 00:57:57.868
Yes, my lord.

00:57:59.069 --> 00:58:00.434
Inspector,

00:58:00.613 --> 00:58:04.095
did you ascertain if any of the
murdered woman's property was missing?

00:58:04.366 --> 00:58:07.336
According to the housekeeper,
nothing was missing.

00:58:07.578 --> 00:58:12.982
In your experience, Inspector,
when burglars or burglaresses

00:58:13.334 --> 00:58:17.100
break into a house, do they
leave without taking anything?

00:58:17.379 --> 00:58:18.460
No, sir.

00:58:18.631 --> 00:58:21.441
- Do you produce a jacket, Inspector?
- Yes, sir.

00:58:21.675 --> 00:58:23.837
Is that the jacket?

00:58:27.139 --> 00:58:30.825
- Yes, sir.
- That is exhibit P1, my lord.

00:58:31.101 --> 00:58:33.069
Where did you find this, Inspector?

00:58:33.270 --> 00:58:35.750
That is the jacket found
in the prisoner's flat,

00:58:35.981 --> 00:58:38.382
which I handed to our lab
to test for bloodstains.

00:58:38.609 --> 00:58:40.976
- And did you find any bloodstains?
- Yes.

00:58:41.195 --> 00:58:43.675
Though an attempt had been
made to wash them out.

00:58:43.906 --> 00:58:45.715
What tests were made?

00:58:45.908 --> 00:58:49.958
First to determine if the
stains were human blood,

00:58:50.246 --> 00:58:52.567
then to classify it
by group or type.

00:58:52.790 --> 00:58:55.361
And was the blood of a
particular group or type?

00:58:55.584 --> 00:58:58.394
Yes, sir. It is type O.

00:58:58.629 --> 00:59:01.792
And did you subsequently test
the blood of the dead woman?

00:59:02.049 --> 00:59:04.290
- Yes, sir.
- What type was that?

00:59:05.803 --> 00:59:08.124
The same. Type O.

00:59:08.347 --> 00:59:11.988
Thank you, Inspector.
No further questions.

00:59:12.268 --> 00:59:17.115
Inspector, you say the only fingerprints
you found were those of Mrs French,

00:59:17.439 --> 00:59:19.760
Janet McKenzie and Leonard Vole.

00:59:19.984 --> 00:59:24.751
In your experience, when a burglar breaks
in, does he usually leave fingerprints

00:59:25.072 --> 00:59:27.359
- or does he wear gloves?
- He wears gloves.

00:59:27.575 --> 00:59:29.816
So the absence of
fingerprints in a robbery

00:59:30.035 --> 00:59:32.163
- would hardly surprise you?
- No, sir.

00:59:32.371 --> 00:59:36.217
Can't we surmise the burglar might
have entered a presumably empty house,

00:59:36.500 --> 00:59:39.106
suddenly encountered Mrs
French and struck her,

00:59:39.336 --> 00:59:42.545
then, realising she was dead,
fled without taking anything?

00:59:42.798 --> 00:59:45.278
I submit, my lord, that
it is entirely impossible

00:59:45.509 --> 00:59:49.912
to guess what went on in the mind
of some entirely imaginary burglar.

00:59:50.222 --> 00:59:52.384
With or without gloves.

00:59:52.600 --> 00:59:56.366
Let us not surmise, Sir Wilfrid,
but confine ourselves to facts.

00:59:58.856 --> 01:00:02.941
Inspector, when you questioned the
prisoner as to the stains on his jacket,

01:00:03.235 --> 01:00:07.126
did he not show you a
recently-healed scar on his wrist,

01:00:07.406 --> 01:00:11.968
- saying he had cut himself slicing bread?
- Yes, sir, that is what he said.

01:00:12.286 --> 01:00:14.937
And were you not told the
same thing by his wife?

01:00:15.164 --> 01:00:18.885
- Yes, sir. But afterwards...
- Just a simple yes or no, please.

01:00:19.168 --> 01:00:21.455
Did the prisoner's
wife show you a knife

01:00:21.670 --> 01:00:25.561
and tell you that her husband had
cut his wrist while slicing bread?

01:00:25.841 --> 01:00:30.290
- Yes, sir.
- I will ask you to examine this knife.

01:00:34.683 --> 01:00:38.210
Just test the edge of it
with your finger. Carefully!

01:00:38.479 --> 01:00:42.325
You agree that the point and the
cutting edge are razor-sharp?

01:00:42.608 --> 01:00:44.975
- Yes, sir.
- Now, if such a knife were to slip,

01:00:45.194 --> 01:00:48.118
might it not inflict a cut
that would bleed profusely?

01:00:48.364 --> 01:00:49.525
Yes, sir, it might.

01:00:49.698 --> 01:00:54.625
Inspector, you stated that the bloodstains
on the prisoner's jacket were analysed,

01:00:54.954 --> 01:00:59.721
as was the blood of Mrs French, and
they were both found to be of group O.

01:01:00.042 --> 01:01:02.409
- That is correct.
- However,

01:01:02.628 --> 01:01:05.950
if the prisoner's blood were
also of this same group,

01:01:06.215 --> 01:01:08.821
then the stains on his jacket
may well have resulted

01:01:09.051 --> 01:01:11.657
from the household accident
he described to you.

01:01:11.887 --> 01:01:14.208
Yes, sir.

01:01:14.431 --> 01:01:18.072
Did you examine the
prisoner's blood, Inspector?

01:01:18.352 --> 01:01:19.842
No, sir.

01:01:21.605 --> 01:01:24.370
I have here a certificate

01:01:24.608 --> 01:01:28.738
stating that Leonard Stephen
Vole is a blood donor

01:01:29.029 --> 01:01:31.236
at the North London Hospital.

01:01:31.449 --> 01:01:34.737
And that his blood is group O.

01:01:39.540 --> 01:01:41.907
Thank you, Inspector.

01:01:44.962 --> 01:01:49.490
Inspector, granted that the cut on
the wrist was caused by that knife,

01:01:49.800 --> 01:01:52.770
is there anything to show
whether it was an accident

01:01:53.012 --> 01:01:56.937
or done deliberately after the murder
to account for the bloodstains?

01:01:57.224 --> 01:01:59.909
- Oh, really, my lord!
- I withdraw the question.

01:02:00.144 --> 01:02:01.509
You may stand down.

01:02:04.440 --> 01:02:07.330
- Call Janet McKenzie.
- Janet McKenzie.

01:02:07.568 --> 01:02:10.333
- Janet McKenzie.
- Janet McKenzie.

01:02:33.761 --> 01:02:36.446
I swear by Almighty God
that the evidence...

01:02:39.058 --> 01:02:42.301
...the truth, the whole truth
and nothing but the truth.

01:02:42.561 --> 01:02:45.644
Carter. Carter. Pill. Pill.

01:02:45.898 --> 01:02:49.266
- Your name is Janet McKenzie?
- Aye, that's my name.

01:02:49.527 --> 01:02:54.328
- When did you first come to London?
- That was many years ago. 28 years ago.

01:02:54.657 --> 01:02:58.981
- Where do you live?
- Now that Mrs French, poor soul, is dead,

01:02:59.286 --> 01:03:02.893
I've moved in with my niece
at 19 Glenister Road.

01:03:03.165 --> 01:03:06.294
You were companion-housekeeper
to the late Mrs Emily French?

01:03:06.544 --> 01:03:09.593
I was her housekeeper!
I've no opinion of companions,

01:03:09.839 --> 01:03:13.002
poor feckless bodies, afraid of
a bit of honest domestic work.

01:03:13.259 --> 01:03:18.265
I meant you were on friendly terms, not
altogether those of mistress and servant.

01:03:18.597 --> 01:03:21.601
Aye. Ten years I was with
her and looked after her.

01:03:21.851 --> 01:03:24.422
She knew me and she trusted me.

01:03:24.645 --> 01:03:27.410
Many's the time I prevented
her doing a foolish thing.

01:03:27.648 --> 01:03:32.336
Please tell us, in your own words, about
the events of the evening of October 14.

01:03:33.237 --> 01:03:37.128
It was a Friday and my night out. I was
going to see my niece at Glenister Road,

01:03:37.408 --> 01:03:41.697
which is about five minutes' walk.
I left the house at half past seven.

01:03:41.996 --> 01:03:46.081
I promised to take her a dress
pattern that she admired.

01:03:46.375 --> 01:03:49.857
- Och, is this thing necessary?
- An excellent question.

01:03:50.129 --> 01:03:54.373
However, it has been installed at
considerable expense to the taxpayers,

01:03:54.675 --> 01:03:58.202
so let us take advantage of it.
Please continue.

01:03:58.471 --> 01:04:02.112
Well, when I got to my niece's,
I found I'd left the pattern behind.

01:04:02.391 --> 01:04:05.679
So after supper I slipped back
to get it as it was no distance.

01:04:05.936 --> 01:04:09.099
I got back to the
house at 25 past 9.

01:04:09.356 --> 01:04:11.597
I let myself in and went
upstairs to my room.

01:04:11.817 --> 01:04:16.823
As I passed the sitting room, I heard the
prisoner in there, talking to Mrs French.

01:04:17.156 --> 01:04:21.127
No, it wasn't me!
It wasn't my voice!

01:04:21.410 --> 01:04:23.378
Talking and laughing they were.

01:04:23.579 --> 01:04:26.981
But it was no business of mine, so I
went upstairs to fetch my pattern.

01:04:27.249 --> 01:04:30.537
Now, let us be very
exact as to the time.

01:04:30.795 --> 01:04:34.561
You say that you re-entered
the house at 25 past 9?

01:04:34.840 --> 01:04:39.084
Aye. The pattern was on a shelf in my
room next to my clock so I saw the time.

01:04:39.386 --> 01:04:43.675
- And it was 25 past 9.
- Go on, please.

01:04:43.974 --> 01:04:49.743
I went back to my niece. Och, she was
delighted with the pattern. Si...

01:04:51.857 --> 01:04:57.944
Simply delighted. I stayed until 20 to 11,
then I said good night and I come home.

01:04:58.322 --> 01:05:01.963
I went into the sitting room to see
if the mistress wanted anything

01:05:02.243 --> 01:05:04.211
before she went to bed.

01:05:04.411 --> 01:05:08.780
And there she was, dead. And
everything tossed hither and thither.

01:05:09.083 --> 01:05:11.893
Did you really think that a
burglary had been committed?

01:05:12.128 --> 01:05:14.096
My lord, I must protest!

01:05:14.296 --> 01:05:18.301
I will not allow that question
to be answered, Mr Myers.

01:05:18.592 --> 01:05:22.358
Miss McKenzie, were you aware that
Leonard Vole was a married man?

01:05:22.638 --> 01:05:25.403
No, indeed. And neither
was the mistress.

01:05:25.641 --> 01:05:27.609
- Janet!
- My lord, I must object.

01:05:27.810 --> 01:05:32.577
What Mrs French knew or did not know is
pure conjecture on Janet McKenzie's part.

01:05:34.275 --> 01:05:36.562
Let me put it this way.
You formed the opinion

01:05:36.777 --> 01:05:40.145
that Mrs French thought Leonard
Vole was a single man?

01:05:40.406 --> 01:05:43.774
- Have you any facts to support this?
- The books that she ordered.

01:05:44.034 --> 01:05:48.722
A life of the Baroness Burdett-Coutts,
and the one about Disraeli and his wife.

01:05:49.039 --> 01:05:52.930
Both of them about women that married
men years younger than themselves. Oh!

01:05:53.210 --> 01:05:56.737
- I knew what she was thinking.
- I'm afraid we cannot admit that.

01:05:57.006 --> 01:05:59.532
Why?

01:05:59.758 --> 01:06:04.764
Members of the jury, it is possible for
a woman to read The Life of Disraeli

01:06:05.097 --> 01:06:09.068
without contemplating marriage
with a man younger than herself.

01:06:11.645 --> 01:06:16.776
Were you aware of the arrangements Mrs
French made to dispose of her money?

01:06:17.109 --> 01:06:20.477
She had her old will revoked
and a new one drawn up.

01:06:20.738 --> 01:06:23.059
I heard her calling Mr Stokes,
her solicitor.

01:06:23.282 --> 01:06:26.126
He was there at the time.
The prisoner, I mean.

01:06:26.744 --> 01:06:30.066
You heard Mrs French and the
prisoner discussing her new will?

01:06:30.331 --> 01:06:33.062
Yes. He was to have all
her money, she told him,

01:06:33.292 --> 01:06:37.536
as she had no near relations nor
anybody that meant to her what he did.

01:06:37.838 --> 01:06:41.126
- When did this take place?
- On October 8.

01:06:41.383 --> 01:06:44.546
One week to the day
before she was murdered.

01:06:44.804 --> 01:06:47.933
Thank you. That concludes
my examination.

01:06:48.974 --> 01:06:51.545
Not just yet, Miss McKenzie.

01:06:52.728 --> 01:06:55.777
Would you...? Thank you.

01:06:56.023 --> 01:07:00.233
Miss McKenzie, you have given
evidence about two wills.

01:07:00.528 --> 01:07:02.496
In the old will, that
which was revoked,

01:07:02.696 --> 01:07:06.382
were you not to receive the
bulk of Mrs French's estate?

01:07:06.659 --> 01:07:07.820
That's so.

01:07:07.993 --> 01:07:12.123
Whereas in the new will, except for a
bequest to you of a small annuity,

01:07:12.414 --> 01:07:15.941
the principal beneficiary is
the prisoner, Leonard Vole.

01:07:16.210 --> 01:07:19.851
It'll be a wicked injustice if he
ever touches a penny of that money.

01:07:20.131 --> 01:07:24.295
It is entirely understandable that you
are antagonistic to the prisoner.

01:07:24.593 --> 01:07:27.073
I'm not antagonistic to him.

01:07:27.304 --> 01:07:31.150
He's a shiftless, scheming rascal.
But I'm not antagonistic to him.

01:07:32.351 --> 01:07:34.319
I suggest you formed this opinion

01:07:34.520 --> 01:07:38.161
because his friendship with Mrs French
cost you the bulk of her estate.

01:07:38.441 --> 01:07:42.446
- I've never liked him.
- Your candour is refreshing.

01:07:42.736 --> 01:07:45.342
Now. On the night of October 14

01:07:45.573 --> 01:07:48.736
you say you heard the prisoner
and Mrs French talking together.

01:07:48.993 --> 01:07:52.315
- What did you hear them say?
- I didn't hear what they actually said.

01:07:52.580 --> 01:07:55.026
You mean you only heard the voices?

01:07:55.249 --> 01:07:57.980
- The murmur of voices?
- They were laughing.

01:07:58.210 --> 01:08:01.214
What makes you say the man's
voice was Leonard Vole's?

01:08:01.464 --> 01:08:05.674
- I know his voice well enough.
- The door was closed, was it not?

01:08:05.968 --> 01:08:09.290
- Aye, that's so.
- You were in a hurry to get the pattern

01:08:09.555 --> 01:08:12.365
so you probably walked quickly
past the closed door,

01:08:12.600 --> 01:08:15.206
yet you are sure you heard
Leonard Vole's voice?

01:08:15.436 --> 01:08:18.121
I was there long enough
to hear what I heard.

01:08:18.355 --> 01:08:24.317
Come, I'm sure you don't wish to suggest
to the jury that you were eavesdropping.

01:08:24.695 --> 01:08:27.141
It was him in there.
Who else could it have been?

01:08:27.364 --> 01:08:31.494
What you mean is that you wanted it to
be him. That's the way your mind worked.

01:08:31.786 --> 01:08:35.711
Now, tell me, did Mrs French sometimes
watch television in the evening?

01:08:35.998 --> 01:08:38.888
Yes. She was fond of a
talk or a good play.

01:08:39.126 --> 01:08:42.255
Wasn't it possible when you
returned home and passed the door,

01:08:42.505 --> 01:08:44.587
what you really heard
was the television

01:08:44.799 --> 01:08:47.279
and a man and woman's
voices and laughter?

01:08:47.510 --> 01:08:51.799
There was a play called Lover's
Leap on the television that night.

01:08:53.140 --> 01:08:57.384
- It was not the television.
- Oh, why not?

01:08:57.686 --> 01:09:02.533
Because the television was away being
repaired that week, that's why.

01:09:13.369 --> 01:09:15.178
Silence! Silence!

01:09:16.956 --> 01:09:19.960
Odd. It's not time yet.

01:09:20.209 --> 01:09:23.133
If my learned friend has no
further questions, I'd like...

01:09:23.379 --> 01:09:26.349
I have not quite finished.

01:09:26.590 --> 01:09:31.039
You are registered, are you not, under
the National Health Insurance Act?

01:09:31.345 --> 01:09:34.952
Aye, that's so. Four and
sixpence I pay out every week.

01:09:35.224 --> 01:09:38.148
That's a terrible lot of money
for a working woman to pay.

01:09:38.394 --> 01:09:41.204
I am sure that many agree with you.

01:09:41.439 --> 01:09:47.606
Miss McKenzie, did you recently apply
to the National Health Insurance for...

01:09:47.987 --> 01:09:51.469
- ...a hearing aid?
- For... for what?

01:09:51.740 --> 01:09:54.630
I protest against the way in
which this question was put!

01:09:54.869 --> 01:09:57.839
I will repeat the
question, my lord.

01:09:58.080 --> 01:10:03.803
I asked you in a normal tone of voice,
audible to everyone in open court,

01:10:04.170 --> 01:10:08.858
did you apply to the National
Health Insurance for a hearing aid?

01:10:09.175 --> 01:10:10.176
Yes, I did.

01:10:10.342 --> 01:10:12.663
- Did you get it?
- Not yet.

01:10:12.887 --> 01:10:17.973
However, you state that you walked past
a door, which is four inches of solid oak,

01:10:18.309 --> 01:10:21.392
you heard voices,
and you are willing to swear

01:10:21.645 --> 01:10:24.615
that you could distinguish
the voice of...

01:10:24.857 --> 01:10:26.985
...the prisoner, Leonard Vole.

01:10:27.193 --> 01:10:29.161
Who? Who?

01:10:30.446 --> 01:10:32.414
No further questions.

01:10:34.867 --> 01:10:37.154
Och, maybe you could
help me, Your Lordship.

01:10:37.369 --> 01:10:41.294
Six months ago I applied for my hearing
aid, and I'm still waiting for it.

01:10:41.582 --> 01:10:46.349
My dear Miss McKenzie, considering the
rubbish that is being talked nowadays,

01:10:46.670 --> 01:10:49.514
you are missing very little.
You may stand down now.

01:10:52.301 --> 01:10:55.430
Call Police Constable Jeffries.

01:10:55.679 --> 01:10:59.809
- Police Constable Jeffries.
- Police Constable Jeffries.

01:11:10.528 --> 01:11:13.259
I swear by Almighty God that
the evidence I shall give

01:11:13.489 --> 01:11:18.370
shall be the truth, the whole
truth and nothing but the truth.

01:11:31.841 --> 01:11:34.606
Mr Myers, does that
conclude your case?

01:11:34.844 --> 01:11:39.645
No, my lord. I now call the final witness
for the prosecution, Christine Helm.

01:11:40.349 --> 01:11:43.637
- Christine Helm!
- Christine Helm.

01:11:55.406 --> 01:11:57.374
Christine.

01:12:08.294 --> 01:12:10.900
I swear by Almighty God that
the evidence I shall give

01:12:11.130 --> 01:12:14.612
shall be the truth, the whole
truth and nothing but the truth.

01:12:14.884 --> 01:12:17.410
My lord, I have the
most serious objection

01:12:17.636 --> 01:12:21.561
to this witness being summoned,
as she is the wife of the prisoner.

01:12:21.849 --> 01:12:23.851
I call my learned
friend's attention

01:12:24.059 --> 01:12:28.428
to the fact that I summoned
not Mrs Vole, but Mrs Helm.

01:12:28.731 --> 01:12:32.656
- Your name, in fact, is Christine Helm?
- Yes. Christine Helm.

01:12:32.943 --> 01:12:36.425
And you have been living as the
wife of the prisoner, Leonard Vole?

01:12:36.697 --> 01:12:39.268
- Yes.
- Are you actually his wife?

01:12:39.909 --> 01:12:41.399
No.

01:12:41.577 --> 01:12:45.901
I went through a marriage ceremony
with him, but I already had a husband.

01:12:46.207 --> 01:12:48.733
- He's still alive.
- Christine, that's not true!

01:12:48.959 --> 01:12:52.281
There is proof of a marriage between
the witness and the prisoner,

01:12:52.546 --> 01:12:55.390
but is there any proof of a
so-called previous marriage?

01:12:55.633 --> 01:13:01.037
My lord, the so-called previous
marriage is, in fact, well-documented.

01:13:01.388 --> 01:13:07.157
Mrs Helm, is this a certificate of marriage
between yourself and Otto Ludwig Helm,

01:13:07.520 --> 01:13:12.048
the ceremony having taken place
in Breslau on 18 April 1942?

01:13:12.358 --> 01:13:15.089
Yes, that is the paper
of my marriage.

01:13:15.319 --> 01:13:21.008
I don't see any reason why this witness
should not be qualified to give evidence.

01:13:25.454 --> 01:13:29.823
You're willing to give evidence against
the man you've been calling your husband?

01:13:30.126 --> 01:13:31.537
Yes.

01:13:32.253 --> 01:13:35.860
You stated to the police that on the
night that Mrs French was murdered,

01:13:36.132 --> 01:13:41.172
Leonard Vole left the house at 7:30
and returned at 25 minutes past 9.

01:13:41.512 --> 01:13:44.038
Did he, in fact,
return at 25 past 9?

01:13:45.808 --> 01:13:48.857
No. He returned at ten
minutes past ten.

01:13:49.103 --> 01:13:53.586
Christine, what are you saying?
It's not true. You know it's not true!

01:13:57.361 --> 01:13:59.409
Silence!

01:13:59.613 --> 01:14:01.581
I must have silence.

01:14:03.075 --> 01:14:05.965
As your counsel will tell you,
Vole, you will very shortly

01:14:06.203 --> 01:14:09.047
have an opportunity of
speaking in your own defence.

01:14:09.290 --> 01:14:13.261
Leonard Vole returned, you say,
at ten minutes past ten.

01:14:13.544 --> 01:14:16.946
- And what happened next?
- He was breathing hard, very excited.

01:14:17.214 --> 01:14:19.820
He threw off his coat and
examined the sleeves.

01:14:20.050 --> 01:14:22.178
Then he told me to wash the cuffs.

01:14:22.386 --> 01:14:24.468
- They had blood on them.
- Go on.

01:14:24.680 --> 01:14:27.570
- I said "What have you done?"
- What did the prisoner say?

01:14:27.808 --> 01:14:29.970
He said "I've killed her."

01:14:30.186 --> 01:14:34.510
Christine! Why are you lying?
Why are you saying these things?

01:14:34.815 --> 01:14:38.820
- What an awful woman.
- She's evil. I've known it all along.

01:14:42.239 --> 01:14:45.561
If the defence so desires,
I will adjourn for a short time

01:14:45.826 --> 01:14:48.875
so that the prisoner may
gain control of himself.

01:14:49.121 --> 01:14:52.728
My lord is most gracious, but
pray let the witness continue.

01:14:53.000 --> 01:14:57.085
We are all of us caught up in the
suspense of this horror fiction.

01:14:57.379 --> 01:15:01.100
To have to hear it in instalments
might prove unendurable.

01:15:01.383 --> 01:15:04.193
- Proceed, Mr Myers.
- Mrs Helm,

01:15:04.428 --> 01:15:09.036
when the prisoner said "I have killed her",
did you know to whom he referred?

01:15:09.350 --> 01:15:12.081
It was that woman he had
been seeing so often.

01:15:12.311 --> 01:15:16.873
When questioned by the police, you told
them that the prisoner returned at 9.25.

01:15:17.191 --> 01:15:19.478
Yes. Because Leonard
asked me to say that.

01:15:19.693 --> 01:15:21.695
But you've changed
your story now. Why?

01:15:21.904 --> 01:15:24.032
I cannot go on lying to save him.

01:15:24.240 --> 01:15:27.449
I said to the police what he wanted
because I'm grateful to him.

01:15:27.701 --> 01:15:30.352
He married me and brought
me to this country.

01:15:30.579 --> 01:15:33.503
What he has asked me to do I
have because I was grateful.

01:15:33.749 --> 01:15:36.673
It was not because he was your
husband and you loved him?

01:15:36.919 --> 01:15:38.887
I never loved him.

01:15:39.463 --> 01:15:42.512
It was gratitude, then, that
prompted you to give him an alibi

01:15:42.758 --> 01:15:46.126
- in your statement to the police?
- That is it. Exactly.

01:15:46.387 --> 01:15:49.789
- But now you think it was wrong to do so.
- Because it is murder.

01:15:50.057 --> 01:15:52.105
That woman, she was a
harmless old fool,

01:15:52.309 --> 01:15:54.755
and he makes of me an
accomplice to the murder.

01:15:54.979 --> 01:15:58.825
I cannot come into court and swear that
he was with me at the time it was done.

01:15:59.108 --> 01:16:01.679
I cannot do it! I cannot do it!

01:16:01.902 --> 01:16:04.064
Then this is the truth?

01:16:04.280 --> 01:16:07.682
That Leonard Vole returned that
night at ten minutes past ten,

01:16:07.950 --> 01:16:09.952
he had blood on the
sleeves of his coat,

01:16:10.161 --> 01:16:14.132
and that he said to you
"I have killed her"?

01:16:15.958 --> 01:16:17.642
That is the truth.

01:16:17.835 --> 01:16:20.884
That is the truth, before God?

01:16:21.130 --> 01:16:23.178
That is the truth.

01:16:23.757 --> 01:16:25.725
Thank you.

01:16:31.015 --> 01:16:34.417
Mrs Vole, or Mrs Helm, which
do you prefer to be called?

01:16:34.685 --> 01:16:36.653
- It does not matter.
- Does it not?

01:16:36.854 --> 01:16:40.745
In this country we are inclined to take
a rather more serious view of marriage.

01:16:41.025 --> 01:16:46.031
However, it would appear that when you
first met the prisoner in Hamburg

01:16:46.363 --> 01:16:50.687
- you lied to him about your marital status.
- I wanted to get out of Germany, so...

01:16:50.993 --> 01:16:53.963
You lied, did you not?
Just yes or no, please.

01:16:54.205 --> 01:16:56.173
- Yes.
- Thank you.

01:16:56.373 --> 01:16:59.343
And in arranging the marriage,
you lied to the authorities?

01:16:59.585 --> 01:17:02.395
I, um, did not tell the
truth to the authorities.

01:17:02.630 --> 01:17:04.792
- You lied to them?
- Yes.

01:17:05.007 --> 01:17:09.217
And in the ceremony, when you swore to
love, honour and cherish your husband,

01:17:09.512 --> 01:17:11.913
- that too was a lie?
- Yes.

01:17:12.139 --> 01:17:15.268
And when the police questioned
you about this wretched man

01:17:15.518 --> 01:17:17.839
who believed himself
married and loved,

01:17:18.062 --> 01:17:20.463
- you told them...
- I told them what he wanted me to.

01:17:20.689 --> 01:17:24.375
You told them that he was at home
with you at 25 minutes past 9,

01:17:24.652 --> 01:17:28.782
- and now you say that that was a lie?
- Yes, a lie!

01:17:29.073 --> 01:17:33.283
And when you said that he had accidentally
cut his wrist, again, you lied?

01:17:33.577 --> 01:17:38.265
- Yes!
- And today you told a new story entirely.

01:17:38.582 --> 01:17:41.984
The question is, Frau Helm, were
you lying then, are you lying now?

01:17:42.253 --> 01:17:45.860
Or are you not, in fact,
a chronic and habitual liar?!

01:17:49.677 --> 01:17:53.841
Carter, Carter! The other
pill. Under the tongue.

01:17:54.140 --> 01:17:58.304
My lord, is my learned friend to be
allowed to bully and insult the witness?

01:17:58.602 --> 01:18:02.652
Mr Myers, this is a capital charge
and, within the bounds of reason,

01:18:02.940 --> 01:18:06.911
I should like the defence
to have every latitude.

01:18:10.239 --> 01:18:12.719
My lord, may I also
remind my learned friend

01:18:12.950 --> 01:18:16.716
that his witness, by her own admission,
has already violated so many oaths

01:18:16.996 --> 01:18:20.762
that I am surprised the Testament
did not leap from her hand

01:18:21.041 --> 01:18:23.612
when she was sworn here today.

01:18:23.836 --> 01:18:27.966
I doubt if anything is to be gained
by questioning you any further.

01:18:28.257 --> 01:18:30.305
That will be all, Frau Helm.

01:18:35.347 --> 01:18:39.636
Mrs Helm, I presume you know the
meaning of the English word "perjury"?

01:18:39.935 --> 01:18:43.417
- In German, the word is Meineid.
- Yes. Meineid.

01:18:43.689 --> 01:18:45.691
It means to swear
falsely under oath.

01:18:45.900 --> 01:18:47.629
And are you aware, Mrs Helm,

01:18:47.818 --> 01:18:52.585
that the penalty in this country for
perjury is a heavy term of imprisonment?

01:18:52.907 --> 01:18:55.274
Yes, I'm aware.

01:18:55.493 --> 01:19:00.055
Mindful of this fact, I ask you once more,
is the evidence that you have given

01:19:00.372 --> 01:19:03.854
the truth, the whole truth
and nothing but the truth?

01:19:04.126 --> 01:19:06.015
So help me, God.

01:19:07.254 --> 01:19:11.498
Then that, my lord, is the
case for the prosecution.

01:19:29.443 --> 01:19:33.129
- Want a tissue?
- Yes, thanks.

01:19:33.405 --> 01:19:37.933
It's the first murder trial
I've ever been to. It's terrible.

01:19:38.244 --> 01:19:39.166
Silence.

01:19:41.455 --> 01:19:45.016
Sir Wilfrid. Are you
ready for the defence?

01:19:47.336 --> 01:19:50.977
My lord, members of the jury,

01:19:51.257 --> 01:19:56.218
the prosecution has very ably presented
against the prisoner, Leonard Vole,

01:19:56.554 --> 01:20:00.764
a case with the most overwhelming
circumstantial evidence.

01:20:01.058 --> 01:20:04.460
Among the witnesses you have
heard Chief Inspector Hearne,

01:20:04.728 --> 01:20:09.609
who has given his testimony in a fair and
impartial manner, as he always does.

01:20:09.942 --> 01:20:14.664
He has put before you a clever theory
of how this crime was committed.

01:20:14.989 --> 01:20:18.789
Whether it is theory or
actual fact, however,

01:20:19.076 --> 01:20:21.522
you will decide for yourselves.

01:20:22.663 --> 01:20:25.667
And then you have heard the
evidence of Janet McKenzie,

01:20:25.916 --> 01:20:29.921
a worthy and devoted housekeeper who
has suffered two most grievous losses.

01:20:30.212 --> 01:20:32.453
One, the death of her
beloved mistress

01:20:32.673 --> 01:20:38.123
and, second, in being deprived
of an inheritance of £80,000,

01:20:38.471 --> 01:20:41.156
which she'd fully
expected to receive.

01:20:41.390 --> 01:20:45.076
I will not comment
further on her evidence,

01:20:46.270 --> 01:20:50.116
but will express only my
deepest sympathy for her

01:20:50.399 --> 01:20:53.164
in both these... mishaps.

01:20:54.236 --> 01:20:59.720
And most damaging of all, the prosecution
has produced a surprise witness,

01:21:00.075 --> 01:21:04.558
one Christine Helm, whom the prisoner
brought from the rubble of her homeland

01:21:04.872 --> 01:21:09.400
to the safety of this country, giving her
his love and the protection of his name.

01:21:09.710 --> 01:21:13.317
I objected to her testimony because
a wife cannot give evidence

01:21:13.589 --> 01:21:15.990
harmful to her husband.

01:21:16.217 --> 01:21:22.623
But it has been proven that her marriage
to Mr Vole was fraudulent and bigamous.

01:21:23.015 --> 01:21:28.943
Therefore, her evidence must be
admitted and you must consider it.

01:21:29.313 --> 01:21:32.078
For what it is worth.

01:21:33.818 --> 01:21:38.062
Such is the prosecution's case.
Now it is the tum of the defence.

01:21:38.364 --> 01:21:42.289
We could present, on behalf of the
prisoner, witnesses to his character,

01:21:42.576 --> 01:21:46.376
his war record, the lack of criminal
or evil association in his past.

01:21:46.664 --> 01:21:52.148
However, only one witness
can shed new light

01:21:52.503 --> 01:21:55.268
on this tragic riddle.

01:21:56.465 --> 01:21:58.433
The prisoner himself.

01:21:59.969 --> 01:22:02.051
Members of the jury,

01:22:02.263 --> 01:22:05.710
I call Leonard Stephen Vole.

01:22:25.119 --> 01:22:28.328
I swear by Almighty God that the
evidence I give will be the truth,

01:22:28.581 --> 01:22:31.630
- the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
- No.

01:22:32.960 --> 01:22:36.965
- Is your name Leonard Stephen Vole?
- It is.

01:22:37.256 --> 01:22:40.226
- Where do live?
- 620 Edgware Road.

01:22:40.468 --> 01:22:45.554
Leonard Stephen Vole, did you or did you
not on the night of October 14 last,

01:22:45.890 --> 01:22:48.052
murder Emily Jane French?

01:22:48.726 --> 01:22:52.492
- I did not.
- Thank you, that will be all.

01:22:54.815 --> 01:22:59.104
Have you, in fact, concluded your
examination of the prisoner, Sir Wilfrid?

01:22:59.403 --> 01:23:04.489
The prisoner has endured three days
of profound mental agony and shock.

01:23:04.825 --> 01:23:07.226
The defence feels his
faculties should be spared

01:23:07.453 --> 01:23:10.900
for the cross-examination by my
learned friend for the prosecution.

01:23:11.165 --> 01:23:13.930
This is not a plea
for any indulgence.

01:23:14.168 --> 01:23:17.092
I am confident that no matter
how searching this may be,

01:23:17.338 --> 01:23:20.103
the prisoner will withstand it.

01:23:21.717 --> 01:23:25.244
At the time you made the acquaintance
of Mrs French, were you employed?

01:23:25.513 --> 01:23:27.481
- No, sir.
- How much money did you have?

01:23:27.681 --> 01:23:29.683
- A few pounds.
- Did she give you any?

01:23:29.892 --> 01:23:30.654
No.

01:23:30.810 --> 01:23:32.938
- Did you expect to receive any?
- No, sir.

01:23:33.145 --> 01:23:37.867
Did you know that in her new will,
you were the beneficiary of £80,000?

01:23:38.192 --> 01:23:39.353
No, I didn't.

01:23:39.527 --> 01:23:44.215
Now, Mr Vole, when you went to visit
Mrs French for the last time,

01:23:44.532 --> 01:23:47.695
did you wear a trench
coat and a brown hat?

01:23:48.786 --> 01:23:52.313
- Yes, I did.
- Was it this coat and hat?

01:23:54.125 --> 01:23:55.092
Yes, sir.

01:23:55.251 --> 01:24:00.257
My lord, the defence, in its efforts
to establish an alibi for the prisoner,

01:24:00.589 --> 01:24:03.718
circulated this photograph,
hoping to bring forth a witness

01:24:03.968 --> 01:24:07.051
who had seen him leaving Mrs
French's house or entering his own

01:24:07.304 --> 01:24:09.784
at the times that he has stated.

01:24:10.015 --> 01:24:13.337
Apparently, this splendid
effort was without results.

01:24:13.602 --> 01:24:15.889
However, the defence
will be pleased to learn

01:24:16.105 --> 01:24:19.188
that, at the last moment,
a witness has come forward,

01:24:19.442 --> 01:24:23.925
and that the prisoner had been seen
wearing this coat and this hat.

01:24:24.238 --> 01:24:29.449
Lamentably, he had not been seen on the
night of the murder but one week before.

01:24:29.785 --> 01:24:33.915
On the afternoon of October 8, were you
not in a travel agency in Regent Street?

01:24:34.206 --> 01:24:38.097
And did you not make inquiries about
prices and schedules of foreign cruises?

01:24:38.377 --> 01:24:41.540
Supposing I did?
It's not a crime, is it?

01:24:41.797 --> 01:24:45.768
Not at all. Many people go on a cruise
when they can afford to pay for it.

01:24:46.051 --> 01:24:50.898
- But you couldn't pay for it, could you?
- Well, I was hard up. I told you that.

01:24:51.223 --> 01:24:56.263
And yet you came to this particular
travel agency with a clinging brunette?

01:24:56.604 --> 01:24:58.925
A clinging brunette, Mr Myers?

01:24:59.815 --> 01:25:01.817
My lord, the lady was
so described to me.

01:25:02.026 --> 01:25:06.315
She was very affectionate with the
prisoner, constantly clinging to his arm.

01:25:06.614 --> 01:25:08.503
Oh.

01:25:09.325 --> 01:25:13.728
You then admit that you made inquiries
about expensive and luxurious cruises?

01:25:14.038 --> 01:25:16.120
How did you expect to
pay for such a thing?

01:25:16.332 --> 01:25:19.461
- I don't know. It was...
- If you don't know, perhaps I can help.

01:25:19.710 --> 01:25:23.920
On the morning of the very same day,
you heard Mrs French change her will,

01:25:24.215 --> 01:25:26.502
- leaving you the bulk of her money.
- I didn't!

01:25:26.717 --> 01:25:29.687
And in the afternoon, you
started plans to dispose of it.

01:25:29.929 --> 01:25:32.057
No! It was nothing of the kind.

01:25:32.264 --> 01:25:35.313
I was in a pub and I met a girl.
I don't even remember her name.

01:25:35.559 --> 01:25:37.607
We had a drink and
walked out together.

01:25:37.812 --> 01:25:43.615
We passed the window and saw the fancy
posters, all blue seas and palm trees.

01:25:43.984 --> 01:25:49.070
The Grecian isles or somewhere. We went
in for fun and I started asking for folders.

01:25:49.406 --> 01:25:53.127
Well, the man gave me a funny look
because I did look a bit shabby.

01:25:53.410 --> 01:25:56.698
Anyway, it irritated me, so I kept
asking for the swankiest tours,

01:25:56.956 --> 01:26:00.324
all deluxe and cabin on the boat
deck, but it was just an act!

01:26:00.584 --> 01:26:04.589
An act? You knew that in a week
you were going to inherit £80,000!

01:26:04.880 --> 01:26:09.249
No! it wasn't that way at all. It was
make-believe and childish but...

01:26:09.552 --> 01:26:13.796
it was fun and I enjoyed it. I never thought
of killing anyone or inheriting any money.

01:26:14.098 --> 01:26:17.898
It's just a coincidence that Mrs French
should be killed only one week later?

01:26:18.185 --> 01:26:20.552
I told you! I didn't kill her!

01:26:21.272 --> 01:26:25.197
Do you know any reason why Christine
Helm should give the evidence she has

01:26:25.484 --> 01:26:29.170
- if it were not true?
- No. I don't know why my wife...

01:26:30.030 --> 01:26:35.070
I don't know why I still call her my wife.
She must be lying or out of her mind.

01:26:35.411 --> 01:26:37.937
She seemed remarkably
sane and self-possessed.

01:26:38.164 --> 01:26:42.488
- But insanity is all you can suggest?
- I don't understand it.

01:26:42.793 --> 01:26:45.239
Oh, God! What's happened?
What's changed her?

01:26:45.463 --> 01:26:49.388
Very effective, I'm sure. But in
this court we deal with fact.

01:26:49.675 --> 01:26:52.485
And the fact, Mr Vole, is that
we've only your word for it.

01:26:52.720 --> 01:26:55.530
That you left Mrs French's
house at the time you say,

01:26:55.765 --> 01:27:00.373
that you came home at 5 and 20 minutes
past 9, and that you did not go out again!

01:27:00.686 --> 01:27:03.735
Somebody must have seen me in the
street or going in the house!

01:27:03.981 --> 01:27:08.191
One would think so. But the only person
who did see you come home that night

01:27:08.486 --> 01:27:11.649
says it was ten past ten and that
you had blood on your hands.

01:27:11.906 --> 01:27:14.796
- I cut my wrist!
- You cut your wrist deliberately!

01:27:15.034 --> 01:27:17.002
No, I didn't! I didn't do anything.

01:27:17.203 --> 01:27:20.013
But you make it sound as though
I did. I can hear it myself.

01:27:20.247 --> 01:27:22.375
You came home at ten past ten!

01:27:22.583 --> 01:27:26.793
No, I didn't! You've got to believe me.
You've got to believe me!

01:27:27.087 --> 01:27:29.215
You killed Emily French!

01:27:29.423 --> 01:27:31.664
No, I didn't! I didn't do it!

01:27:31.884 --> 01:27:35.605
I didn't kill her!
I never killed anybody!

01:27:35.888 --> 01:27:40.291
God, it's like a nightmare.
Some ghastly, horrible dream.

01:27:46.148 --> 01:27:48.515
Good evening, Sir Wilfrid.
How did it go today?

01:27:48.734 --> 01:27:50.896
Oh, Sir Wilfrid.

01:27:51.112 --> 01:27:56.243
I'm from Hawks and Hill, sir, and I've
brought your Bermuda shorts for a fitting.

01:27:57.493 --> 01:27:58.460
What?

01:27:58.619 --> 01:28:02.988
- You'd better slip these on, Sir Wilfrid.
- I'm in the middle of a murder trial.

01:28:03.290 --> 01:28:07.181
It'll all be over by the afternoon, and
the boat train doesn't go until 9.40.

01:28:07.461 --> 01:28:10.749
You work it out. You know my shape,
you've stabbed it often enough.

01:28:11.006 --> 01:28:15.375
Upstairs. You need a lukewarm
bath and your calcium injection.

01:28:15.678 --> 01:28:18.522
And there's a lot more
packing to be done.

01:28:19.598 --> 01:28:24.240
It's ridiculous having boat reservations.
The jury may be out for days.

01:28:24.562 --> 01:28:28.726
Not on this case, I'm afraid.
It seems too open-and-shut.

01:28:30.943 --> 01:28:34.425
I watched when Frau Helm was on
the stand. They didn't like her.

01:28:34.697 --> 01:28:38.782
No, but they believed her. They liked
Leonard Vole but they didn't believe him.

01:28:39.076 --> 01:28:42.205
And that travel agency business
doesn't help either. Cigar?

01:28:42.455 --> 01:28:43.263
No.

01:28:43.414 --> 01:28:46.099
- Wilfrid, do you think she lied?
- Well, don't you?

01:28:46.333 --> 01:28:47.619
I'm not sure.

01:28:47.793 --> 01:28:51.400
I am. She lied. Whether she calls
it Meineid or perjury, she lied.

01:28:51.672 --> 01:28:56.519
The only question is why. What's
her game? What is she up to? What?

01:28:57.303 --> 01:29:02.264
I hope that in your final speech you
won't become too emotionally involved.

01:29:02.600 --> 01:29:05.410
- You must think of your condition.
- He's right.

01:29:05.644 --> 01:29:09.046
I want to see you save yourself.
This isn't going to be your last case.

01:29:09.315 --> 01:29:12.922
Yes, it is. But until it's over,
I'm still a barrister.

01:29:13.194 --> 01:29:16.880
My client's life is at stake.
That's all that matters... his life.

01:29:17.156 --> 01:29:19.921
He's entitled to the
best that I can do.

01:29:20.159 --> 01:29:24.050
If I can't stand up to make my final
appeal for him, I'll make it sitting down.

01:29:24.330 --> 01:29:28.494
If I become short of breath I'll take a pill,
or two pills, or all of them and the box too.

01:29:36.550 --> 01:29:39.520
- Yes?
- This Sir Wilfrid Robarts' place?

01:29:39.762 --> 01:29:43.050
- Well, yes, it is.
- Let me talk to the old geezer.

01:29:43.307 --> 01:29:47.517
- Who is this speaking, please?
- Never you mind. Let me talk to 'im.

01:29:47.812 --> 01:29:51.214
I'm afraid that's impossible. What
is the nature of your business?

01:29:51.482 --> 01:29:54.645
It's business all right. I've got
something to sell 'im, I 'ave.

01:29:54.902 --> 01:29:56.108
Well, really, madam!

01:29:56.278 --> 01:29:59.168
And what I want to sell 'im,
believe me, 'e'll want to buy.

01:29:59.406 --> 01:30:02.967
- It's got to do with that Leonard Vole.
- Leonard Vole?

01:30:03.244 --> 01:30:05.406
It's about that German wife.

01:30:05.621 --> 01:30:09.023
I've got the goods on
her and it's for sale.

01:30:10.960 --> 01:30:14.726
This is Wilfrid Robarts speaking.
Now, what is this all about?

01:30:15.005 --> 01:30:17.246
Well, hello, ducky.

01:30:17.466 --> 01:30:20.276
What is this you said
about Mrs Leonard Vole?

01:30:20.511 --> 01:30:24.232
I'm not just saying.
I've got it in black and white.

01:30:24.515 --> 01:30:27.359
- You've got what?
- Listen to this carefully, ducks.

01:30:27.601 --> 01:30:30.969
I'm at the buffet at Euston Station
at the far end of the bar.

01:30:31.230 --> 01:30:34.518
I'll be here for 30 minutes because
that's when me train leaves.

01:30:34.775 --> 01:30:37.938
If you want the lowdown on that
German bag, get yourself here.

01:30:38.195 --> 01:30:40.641
What lowdown?
What do you know about her?

01:30:40.865 --> 01:30:42.947
Uh-uh. Not on the phone.

01:30:43.159 --> 01:30:47.244
You'd better get on over here,
and bring plenty of money.

01:30:48.038 --> 01:30:51.247
Now, just a moment! Hello? Hello?

01:30:53.252 --> 01:30:58.816
That's... bilge. Some drunken crank.
You get those in every murder trial.

01:30:59.175 --> 01:31:03.544
Giving me an ultimatum, Euston Station in
30 minutes. Got the lowdown on Mrs Vole.

01:31:03.846 --> 01:31:05.610
Balderdash.

01:31:05.806 --> 01:31:11.051
I'm too old and too sick to
go on a wild-goose chase.

01:31:11.395 --> 01:31:14.160
- Come on, Mayhew.
- Where to, Sir Wilfrid?

01:31:14.398 --> 01:31:17.368
Euston Station, where do you think?

01:31:19.111 --> 01:31:21.034
Now, sir?

01:31:21.238 --> 01:31:23.002
Shortly.

01:31:23.991 --> 01:31:25.481
Cigar!

01:31:26.452 --> 01:31:28.420
Sir Wilfrid, where are you going?

01:31:28.621 --> 01:31:33.149
Your bath, your massage,
your dinner, your injection!

01:31:33.459 --> 01:31:35.427
Thank you, Miss Plimsoll.

01:32:01.487 --> 01:32:04.411
- You wouldn't be Sir Wilfrid, would you?
- I would.

01:32:04.657 --> 01:32:09.219
Didn't recognise you without your wig.
Lovely you all look in them wigs.

01:32:09.537 --> 01:32:11.778
Two o' yer? I'm not
talking to two o' yer.

01:32:11.997 --> 01:32:14.443
This is Mr Mayhew,
Leonard Vole's solicitor.

01:32:14.667 --> 01:32:17.591
- Well, that's all right, then.
- And your name, please?

01:32:17.837 --> 01:32:23.082
No need for mine. If did give you a name
it mightn't be the right one, might it?

01:32:23.425 --> 01:32:27.510
'Ave a drink, boys. Two whiskies
for me gen'lmen friends.

01:32:27.805 --> 01:32:30.285
Now what is this information
you allegedly have?

01:32:30.516 --> 01:32:34.805
You realise that you're duty-bound to
give any evidence that you might have?

01:32:35.104 --> 01:32:39.553
- Come off it. Did you bring any money?
- What is it you have, madam?

01:32:39.859 --> 01:32:44.183
Letters. Letters that German wife
of 'is wrote. That's what I've got.

01:32:44.488 --> 01:32:49.130
- Letters written to the prisoner?
- To the prisoner? Don't make me laugh.

01:32:49.452 --> 01:32:53.218
Poor bleeder, he's been took in by 'er
all right. And these letters prove it.

01:32:53.497 --> 01:32:58.458
If we could see these letters, we could
advise you as to how pertinent they are.

01:32:58.794 --> 01:33:01.445
Well, I don't expect you...

01:33:04.758 --> 01:33:08.649
Well, as I say, I don't expect you to
buy without seeing, but fair's fair.

01:33:08.929 --> 01:33:13.298
If these letters get the boy off,
it's £100 for me, right?

01:33:13.601 --> 01:33:18.289
If these letters contain information useful
to the defence, I'm prepared to offer £10.

01:33:18.606 --> 01:33:21.894
What? Ten bleeding pounds
for letters like these?

01:33:22.151 --> 01:33:24.882
Take that piece of glass
out o' yer eye. Good night.

01:33:25.112 --> 01:33:27.160
If these help prove my
client's innocence,

01:33:27.364 --> 01:33:30.766
£20 should, I think, not be an
unreasonable sum for your expenses.

01:33:31.035 --> 01:33:33.959
50 and it's a bargain. That's
if you're satisfied with 'em.

01:33:34.205 --> 01:33:36.492
- £40.
- All right, blast yer.

01:33:36.707 --> 01:33:39.472
'Ere, take 'em.
Nice little lot there.

01:33:39.710 --> 01:33:41.678
How do we know these
are from Mrs Vole?

01:33:41.879 --> 01:33:46.043
Oh, she wrote 'em all right.
It's all fair an' square.

01:33:48.803 --> 01:33:51.568
I 'ope they fix 'er
good and proper.

01:33:53.557 --> 01:33:57.278
I've had messages from Mrs Vole.
It looks like her handwriting.

01:33:57.561 --> 01:33:59.928
Good heavens, look at this.

01:34:02.608 --> 01:34:04.576
Juicy, ain't they?

01:34:04.777 --> 01:34:08.577
- There's one that's even better.
- How did you get hold of these?

01:34:08.864 --> 01:34:11.834
What's the difference so long
as she gets what's coming?

01:34:12.076 --> 01:34:15.125
- What have you got against her?
- Ha!

01:34:15.371 --> 01:34:18.659
I'll give you something
to dream about, mister.

01:34:19.875 --> 01:34:22.242
Want to kiss me, ducky?

01:34:26.006 --> 01:34:26.768
Ha!

01:34:26.924 --> 01:34:30.724
- I didn't suppose you would.
- Christine Vole did that to you?

01:34:31.011 --> 01:34:35.778
Not 'er, the chap I was going with. He was
a bit younger than me but I loved 'im.

01:34:36.100 --> 01:34:40.901
Then she come along, started seeing 'im
on the sly. Then one day he cleared out.

01:34:41.230 --> 01:34:46.441
I found 'em together. I said what I thought
of 'er and he cut me face up proper.

01:34:46.777 --> 01:34:50.987
- Did you go to the police about it?
- Who, me? Not likely.

01:34:51.282 --> 01:34:56.812
It wasn't 'is fault. It was all 'ers, gettin'
'im away from me, turnin' 'im against me.

01:34:57.163 --> 01:35:01.885
But I waited me time to pay
'er back. And it's come now.

01:35:02.209 --> 01:35:07.295
I'm deeply sorry, deeply sorry. We'll
make it another £5 for the letters.

01:35:07.631 --> 01:35:11.795
'Olding out on me, were yer?
I knew I was being soft with yer.

01:35:12.094 --> 01:35:15.541
Cold-blooded vindictiveness.
Read this one.

01:35:17.641 --> 01:35:20.121
Unbelievable.

01:35:20.352 --> 01:35:24.482
We'd better have the full name of the man
to whom these were addressed, Miss...

01:35:24.774 --> 01:35:26.697
Miss, um...

01:35:26.901 --> 01:35:28.710
Where is she?

01:35:34.784 --> 01:35:40.348
On that train, I should think. Doesn't want
her other cheek slashed. Can't blame her.

01:35:42.958 --> 01:35:44.960
- Care for another, sir?
- Hm?

01:35:45.169 --> 01:35:47.137
Good idea.

01:35:56.222 --> 01:35:57.667
Silence!

01:35:57.848 --> 01:35:59.896
Be upstanding in court.

01:36:01.018 --> 01:36:03.624
All persons who have anything
to do before my lords,

01:36:03.854 --> 01:36:05.902
the queen's justices
of oyer and terminer

01:36:06.107 --> 01:36:09.953
and general jail delivery for the
jurisdiction of the Central Criminal Court,

01:36:10.236 --> 01:36:14.400
draw near and give your attendance.
God save the queen.

01:36:28.420 --> 01:36:31.583
Since the defence has called
but one witness, the prisoner,

01:36:31.841 --> 01:36:34.162
it has the right to be heard last.

01:36:34.385 --> 01:36:40.427
Mr Myers, if you are ready, let us have
the final address for the prosecution.

01:36:40.808 --> 01:36:45.018
My lord, members of the jury,
I will be brief in my final speech

01:36:45.312 --> 01:36:49.840
because I think we've proved so obvious
a case of murder against Leonard Vole,

01:36:50.151 --> 01:36:53.439
that a verdict of guilty must be
the only possible conclusion.

01:36:54.196 --> 01:36:57.757
I will briefly summarise
these facts...

01:37:03.664 --> 01:37:05.871
You'd better begin again, Mr Myers.

01:37:06.542 --> 01:37:10.672
That is, if Sir Wilfrid is at all
interested in our proceedings.

01:37:10.963 --> 01:37:15.252
I am, indeed, my lord. The speech for
the crown, however, is premature.

01:37:15.551 --> 01:37:20.352
I ask that the case for the defence be
reopened. And that a witness be recalled.

01:37:20.681 --> 01:37:24.402
I most strenuously object to the case
being reopened at this final stage.

01:37:24.685 --> 01:37:27.814
Evidence of a startling nature
has come into my possession.

01:37:28.063 --> 01:37:31.351
The course my learned friend
proposes is quite unprecedented.

01:37:31.609 --> 01:37:35.250
I have anticipated this objection and
can meet it with ample precedent.

01:37:35.529 --> 01:37:41.093
There is the king vs Stillman, reported
in the criminal appeal reports of 1926

01:37:41.452 --> 01:37:43.773
at page 463.

01:37:43.996 --> 01:37:48.081
Also, the king vs Porter in volume one
of the king's bench division reports,

01:37:48.375 --> 01:37:51.663
1942 at page 153.

01:37:51.921 --> 01:37:54.686
And lastly there is the case
of the king vs Sullivan

01:37:54.924 --> 01:37:58.849
in which this issue was raised, which
I'm sure Your Lordship will remember,

01:37:59.136 --> 01:38:01.616
since you appeared
for the prosecution.

01:38:01.847 --> 01:38:06.375
I did? Oh, yes, before
Mr Justice Swindon.

01:38:06.685 --> 01:38:08.847
What is this new
evidence, Sir Wilfrid?

01:38:09.063 --> 01:38:11.065
Letters, my lord.

01:38:11.273 --> 01:38:14.243
Letters written by Christine Helm.

01:38:16.695 --> 01:38:20.142
My lord, the prosecution
continues its objection.

01:38:20.407 --> 01:38:23.809
If my memory serves me well,
Your Lordship's similar objection

01:38:24.078 --> 01:38:27.685
in the king against
Sullivan was sustained.

01:38:29.708 --> 01:38:33.155
Your memory, for once,
serves you ill, Mr Myers.

01:38:33.420 --> 01:38:37.789
My objection then was overruled
by Mr Justice Swindon.

01:38:38.092 --> 01:38:41.141
As yours is now, by me.

01:38:47.643 --> 01:38:49.771
Call Christine Helm.

01:38:50.646 --> 01:38:52.250
Christine Helm.

01:38:52.440 --> 01:38:55.125
- Christine Helm.
- Christine Helm.

01:39:11.834 --> 01:39:16.635
If you still have doubts about Mr Vole, I
wouldn't mind betting you a box of cigars.

01:39:16.964 --> 01:39:20.810
Mrs Helm, you appreciate
you are still under oath?

01:39:21.093 --> 01:39:22.254
Yes.

01:39:22.428 --> 01:39:27.912
- Do you know a man named Max?
- I don't know what you mean.

01:39:28.267 --> 01:39:32.113
It's a simple question. Do you or
do you not know a man called Max?

01:39:32.396 --> 01:39:34.603
Max? Certainly not.

01:39:34.815 --> 01:39:38.501
It's a fairly common name and yet
you've never known a man named Max?

01:39:38.778 --> 01:39:41.179
In Germany, perhaps,
but a long time ago.

01:39:41.405 --> 01:39:48.015
I shall not ask you to go back that far.
Just a few weeks, to... October 20 last.

01:39:49.914 --> 01:39:52.758
- What have you got there?
- A letter.

01:39:53.000 --> 01:39:55.241
I suggest that on October 20

01:39:55.461 --> 01:39:58.670
- you wrote a letter...
- I don't know what you're talking about.

01:39:58.923 --> 01:40:02.291
- ...Addressed to a man named Max.
- I did nothing of the sort.

01:40:02.551 --> 01:40:06.476
The letter was but one of a
series written to the same man.

01:40:07.473 --> 01:40:09.521
Lies! All lies!

01:40:09.725 --> 01:40:13.696
You seem to have been, well, let us
say, on intimate terms with this man.

01:40:13.979 --> 01:40:16.630
How dare you say a thing like that?
It isn't true!

01:40:16.857 --> 01:40:22.148
I'm not concerned with the general trend
of this correspondence, only one letter.

01:40:22.488 --> 01:40:27.176
"My beloved Max, an extraordinary
thing has happened."

01:40:27.493 --> 01:40:30.337
"I believe all our
difficulties may be ended."

01:40:30.579 --> 01:40:33.059
I will not stand here and
listen to a pack of lies!

01:40:33.290 --> 01:40:36.976
That letter's a forgery.
It isn't even my letter paper!

01:40:37.253 --> 01:40:39.460
- It isn't?
- No!

01:40:39.672 --> 01:40:42.960
I write my letters on small blue
paper with my initials on it.

01:40:47.179 --> 01:40:48.669
Like this?

01:40:51.434 --> 01:40:56.565
This is a bill from my tailor for a pair
of extremely becoming Bermuda shorts.

01:40:58.357 --> 01:41:02.646
Wilfrid the fox! That's what we
call him and that's what he is.

01:41:02.945 --> 01:41:07.109
Now, Mrs Helm, you've been kind
enough to identify your letter paper.

01:41:07.408 --> 01:41:12.130
Now, if you like, I can have an
expert identify your handwriting.

01:41:12.455 --> 01:41:14.264
Damn you!

01:41:14.832 --> 01:41:17.722
- Damn you!
- Leave her alone!

01:41:17.960 --> 01:41:20.088
- Damn you!
- Mrs Helm!

01:41:20.296 --> 01:41:23.664
Let me go! Let me get
out of here! Let me go!

01:41:23.924 --> 01:41:25.289
- Mrs Helm!
- Let me go!

01:41:25.468 --> 01:41:28.074
Usher, get the witness a chair.

01:41:34.477 --> 01:41:40.439
Sir Wilfrid, will you now read the letter
in question so that the jury may hear it?

01:41:45.738 --> 01:41:50.824
"My beloved Max, an extraordinary
thing has happened."

01:41:51.160 --> 01:41:54.687
"All our difficulties
may soon be solved."

01:41:54.955 --> 01:41:59.836
"Leonard is suspected of murdering
the old lady I told you about."

01:42:00.169 --> 01:42:05.778
"His only hope of an alibi
depends on me and me alone."

01:42:07.051 --> 01:42:13.058
"Suppose I testify that he was not at
home with me at the time of the murder,

01:42:13.432 --> 01:42:17.153
that he came home with
blood on his sleeves,

01:42:17.436 --> 01:42:21.202
and that he even admitted to
me that he'd killed her?"

01:42:21.482 --> 01:42:24.804
"Strange that he always said he
would never let me leave him."

01:42:25.069 --> 01:42:28.551
"But now, if this succeeds,
he will be leaving me

01:42:28.823 --> 01:42:32.544
because they will
take him away forever

01:42:32.827 --> 01:42:37.389
and I shall be free and
yours, my beloved."

01:42:37.706 --> 01:42:42.348
"I count the hours until we
are together. Christine."

01:42:45.589 --> 01:42:49.389
Mrs Helm? Will you go
back to the witness box?

01:42:59.728 --> 01:43:04.768
I now ask you again, Christine
Helm, did you write this letter?

01:43:05.109 --> 01:43:08.238
Christine, tell him you didn't
write it. I know you didn't.

01:43:08.487 --> 01:43:12.458
Please answer my question.
Did you write this letter?

01:43:12.741 --> 01:43:14.470
Before answering, Mrs Helm,

01:43:14.660 --> 01:43:19.826
I wish to warn you that the law regarding
perjury in this country is very severe.

01:43:20.166 --> 01:43:23.613
If you have already committed
perjury in this courtroom,

01:43:23.878 --> 01:43:27.360
I strongly advise you not
to add to your crime.

01:43:27.631 --> 01:43:31.238
But, if this letter has
not been written by you,

01:43:31.510 --> 01:43:35.071
then now is the time
to state this fact.

01:43:37.725 --> 01:43:39.807
I wrote the letter.

01:43:42.396 --> 01:43:46.162
And that, my lord, is the
case for the defence.

01:43:54.158 --> 01:43:57.446
I keep asking which is harder,
your head or your arteries?

01:43:57.703 --> 01:43:59.785
Stop pressing your luck,
you're overdue.

01:43:59.997 --> 01:44:03.968
We're all packed and ready. I hope
the jury won't take all afternoon.

01:44:04.251 --> 01:44:05.412
I concede.

01:44:05.586 --> 01:44:08.669
- Congratulations, here are your cigars.
- Not yet.

01:44:08.923 --> 01:44:12.291
Come on, it's all over,
wrapped up neat and tidy.

01:44:12.551 --> 01:44:15.839
- What's wrong?
- It's a little too neat, too tidy,

01:44:16.097 --> 01:44:20.068
and altogether too symmetrical,
that's what's wrong with it.

01:44:20.351 --> 01:44:23.480
- The jury is back.
- You're not worried about the verdict?

01:44:23.729 --> 01:44:27.734
It's not their judgment
that worries me, it's mine.

01:44:28.109 --> 01:44:29.873
Come along.

01:44:30.903 --> 01:44:32.871
Where's my Wig?

01:45:01.892 --> 01:45:04.259
The prisoner will stand up.

01:45:06.897 --> 01:45:11.664
Members of the jury, are you
all agreed upon your verdict?

01:45:13.404 --> 01:45:14.610
We are.

01:45:14.780 --> 01:45:18.865
Do you find the prisoner at the
bar, Leonard Stephen Vole,

01:45:19.160 --> 01:45:23.529
guilty or not guilty of the
murder of Emily Jane French?

01:45:27.626 --> 01:45:28.991
Not guilty, m'lord.

01:45:49.064 --> 01:45:50.350
Silence!

01:45:50.649 --> 01:45:52.333
Silence!

01:45:55.321 --> 01:45:58.962
Leonard Stephen Vole, you
have been found not guilty

01:45:59.241 --> 01:46:03.644
of the murder of Emily
Jane French on October 14.

01:46:03.954 --> 01:46:08.278
You are hereby discharged and
are free to leave the court.

01:46:19.345 --> 01:46:22.554
Persons with anything more to
do before the queen's justices

01:46:22.807 --> 01:46:24.969
of oyer and terminer
and jail delivery

01:46:25.184 --> 01:46:29.951
for the jurisdiction of the Central
Criminal Court may depart the area.

01:46:38.864 --> 01:46:42.425
Thank you. Yes, we'll talk later.
Thank you, Mr Mayhew.

01:46:42.701 --> 01:46:45.102
Thank you, Mr Brogan-Moore. Carter.

01:46:45.329 --> 01:46:48.617
Thank you, Sir Wilfrid, for everything.
You were wonderful.

01:46:48.874 --> 01:46:52.560
- I'd say we were lucky all around.
- Yeah.

01:46:52.837 --> 01:46:56.523
I have your belongings. Sign the receipt,
Mr Vole, and we can release you.

01:46:56.799 --> 01:46:59.803
"Mr Vole." They didn't call
me Mr when they charged me.

01:47:00.052 --> 01:47:05.013
- I'll go with you, I have your hat and coat.
- Let's go before they change their mind!

01:47:14.692 --> 01:47:17.821
Chipper, isn't he? An hour ago,
he had one foot on the gallows

01:47:18.070 --> 01:47:20.118
and the other on a banana peel.

01:47:20.322 --> 01:47:23.405
You ought to be very proud,
Wilfrid. Aren't you?

01:47:23.659 --> 01:47:26.549
Not yet. We've disposed
of the gallows,

01:47:26.787 --> 01:47:30.712
but there's still that banana peel
somewhere, under somebody's foot.

01:47:44.472 --> 01:47:48.955
- Every word you said was a lie!
- You ought to be locked up! Liar!

01:47:49.268 --> 01:47:52.477
You'd better wait here until we
get rid of that crowd, madam.

01:47:52.730 --> 01:47:54.698
Thank you.

01:47:58.527 --> 01:48:01.690
Ready, sir?
Miss Plimsoll will be waiting.

01:48:01.947 --> 01:48:07.272
Let me finish the last of the cocoa while
I'm still beyond her jurisdiction.

01:48:07.620 --> 01:48:11.830
Would you excuse me,
Brogan-Moore, Carter? Thank you.

01:48:38.943 --> 01:48:42.868
I never thought you British could get
so emotional. Especially in public.

01:48:43.155 --> 01:48:45.601
- I apologise for my compatriots.
- It's all right.

01:48:45.825 --> 01:48:49.591
I don't mind being called names or pushed
around or even kicked in the shin.

01:48:49.870 --> 01:48:52.111
But I have a ladder in
my last pair of nylons.

01:48:52.331 --> 01:48:56.461
In case you are not familiar with our
prison regulations, no silk stockings.

01:48:56.752 --> 01:48:58.880
Prison? Will I go to prison?

01:48:59.088 --> 01:49:02.570
You heard the judge. You will
certainly be charged with perjury,

01:49:02.842 --> 01:49:07.006
- tried for it, and to prison you shall go.
- Well, it won't be for life, will it?

01:49:07.304 --> 01:49:10.786
If I were appearing for the
prosecution, it would be.

01:49:11.058 --> 01:49:14.904
You loathe me, don't you?
Like the people outside.

01:49:15.187 --> 01:49:18.191
What a wicked woman I am,
and how brilliantly you exposed me

01:49:18.441 --> 01:49:22.969
and saved Leonard's life. The great
Sir Wilfrid Robarts did it again.

01:49:23.279 --> 01:49:28.809
Well, let me tell you something.
You didn't do it alone. You had help.

01:49:30.119 --> 01:49:31.769
What are you driving at?

01:49:31.954 --> 01:49:34.798
I'm not driving at anything.
Leonard is free and we did it.

01:49:35.040 --> 01:49:36.405
- We?
- Remember?

01:49:36.584 --> 01:49:40.111
When you said that no jury would believe
an alibi given by a loving wife,

01:49:40.379 --> 01:49:44.304
no matter how much she swore he was
innocent? That gave me the idea.

01:49:44.592 --> 01:49:46.117
What idea?

01:49:46.302 --> 01:49:50.626
The idea that I should be a witness, not
for my husband, but for the prosecution.

01:49:50.931 --> 01:49:54.731
That I should swear Leonard was guilty
and that you should expose me as a liar

01:49:55.019 --> 01:49:59.104
because only then would they
believe Leonard was innocent.

01:49:59.398 --> 01:50:02.959
So now you know the whole
story, Sir Wilfrid.

01:50:08.407 --> 01:50:12.457
I'll give yer something
to dream about, mister.

01:50:12.745 --> 01:50:15.316
Want to kiss me, ducky?

01:50:19.168 --> 01:50:23.093
I suspected something,
but not that.

01:50:23.380 --> 01:50:26.270
- Never that!
- Thank you for the compliment.

01:50:26.509 --> 01:50:30.116
It's been a long time since I acted
and I never played such a vital role.

01:50:30.387 --> 01:50:33.152
All those blue letters!

01:50:33.390 --> 01:50:36.872
It took me hours to write them,
to invent Max. There never was a Max.

01:50:37.144 --> 01:50:39.511
There's never been
anyone but Leonard.

01:50:39.730 --> 01:50:41.892
My dear, could you
not have trusted me,

01:50:42.108 --> 01:50:45.908
worked with me truthfully and
honourably? We would have won.

01:50:46.195 --> 01:50:49.005
I could not run that risk.
You thought he was innocent.

01:50:49.240 --> 01:50:52.289
And you knew he was innocent.
I understand.

01:50:52.535 --> 01:50:55.698
No, Sir Wilfrid, you do
not understand at all.

01:50:55.955 --> 01:50:58.322
I knew he was guilty.

01:51:01.836 --> 01:51:04.680
That can't be true! No!

01:51:06.006 --> 01:51:08.327
Listen to me, once and for all.

01:51:08.551 --> 01:51:11.157
He came home after ten,
he had blood on his sleeves,

01:51:11.387 --> 01:51:14.709
he said he had killed the woman,
only I could save him. He pleaded.

01:51:14.974 --> 01:51:17.978
And you saved him? A murderer?

01:51:18.227 --> 01:51:20.275
Again, you don't understand.

01:51:20.479 --> 01:51:22.447
I love him.

01:51:28.320 --> 01:51:30.607
I told you she was an actress.
And a good one.

01:51:30.823 --> 01:51:32.393
Leonard!

01:51:32.575 --> 01:51:35.624
I knew she'd do something,
but I just didn't know what or how.

01:51:35.870 --> 01:51:37.838
Leonard, Leonard.

01:51:39.957 --> 01:51:45.248
- Fooled you completely, didn't she?
- It was you, Vole, who fooled me.

01:51:45.588 --> 01:51:51.038
Oh, easy. Easy. We both got out of
this alive, let's stay this way.

01:51:51.385 --> 01:51:54.753
- Where are your pills?
- You've made a mockery of English law.

01:51:55.014 --> 01:51:58.143
Who did? You got me off and
I can't be tried again for this.

01:51:58.392 --> 01:52:02.795
- That's English law too, isn't it?
- You can't touch him now. Nobody can.

01:52:03.105 --> 01:52:05.711
The scales of justice may
tip one way or another,

01:52:05.941 --> 01:52:08.945
but ultimately they balance out.
You'll pay for this.

01:52:09.195 --> 01:52:13.200
Ultimately's a long way off. I'd rather pay
for it as soon as possible and in cash.

01:52:13.491 --> 01:52:17.860
Suppose we double your fee? There'll be
lots of money once the will goes through.

01:52:18.162 --> 01:52:21.006
I'm not cheap, I want everybody
to get something out of it.

01:52:21.248 --> 01:52:24.695
There's Janet McKenzie.
We'll get her that new hearing aid.

01:52:24.960 --> 01:52:29.761
And we'll get you a new one of these.
18-carat gold if they make them.

01:52:30.091 --> 01:52:33.652
And when they try you for perjury
there'll be £5,000 for the defence.

01:52:33.928 --> 01:52:38.490
I don't care, just so we'll be together.
You don't know what I've been through.

01:52:38.808 --> 01:52:43.575
Standing in the witness box, having to
face you, saying I never loved you.

01:52:43.896 --> 01:52:45.057
What is it, Leonard?

01:52:45.231 --> 01:52:48.952
The luggage is in the car and we've only
20 minutes to catch the boat train.

01:52:49.235 --> 01:52:51.715
This is a nice young lady
I met during the trial.

01:52:51.946 --> 01:52:53.232
Len!

01:52:53.405 --> 01:52:55.009
Oh, Len!

01:52:55.199 --> 01:52:56.769
Len...

01:52:58.452 --> 01:53:02.013
Oh, Len, they've been trying to keep
me away. It's had me nearly crazy.

01:53:02.289 --> 01:53:04.690
Leonard, who's this girl?

01:53:04.917 --> 01:53:07.523
I'm not this girl, I'm his girl.

01:53:07.753 --> 01:53:09.517
Tell her, Len.

01:53:09.713 --> 01:53:13.081
Leonard, is this the girl who was
with you in the travel bureau?

01:53:13.342 --> 01:53:16.391
The girl you said you hardly knew,
didn't even know her name?

01:53:16.637 --> 01:53:21.120
That's right. That's who I am and I know
all about you. You're not his wife.

01:53:21.434 --> 01:53:25.564
Never have been. You're years older than
he is. We've been together for months

01:53:25.855 --> 01:53:31.544
and we're going away on a cruise, just
like they said in court. Tell her, Len.

01:53:31.902 --> 01:53:36.703
- Yes, Len, tell me yourself.
- All right, Diana, come along.

01:53:37.032 --> 01:53:39.638
You can't, not after what
I've done. I won't let you.

01:53:39.869 --> 01:53:42.713
I saved your life getting
you out of Germany,

01:53:42.955 --> 01:53:46.038
you got me out of this mess,
so we're even. It's over now.

01:53:46.292 --> 01:53:50.661
Don't, Leonard! Don't leave me!
Don't, Leonard! Don't!

01:53:50.963 --> 01:53:53.728
Full yourself together. They'll
have you up for perjury.

01:53:53.966 --> 01:53:58.369
Don't make it worse or they'll
try you as an accessory.

01:53:58.679 --> 01:54:00.886
And you know what that means.

01:54:01.098 --> 01:54:05.581
I don't care. Let them. Let them try me
for perjury, or an accessory, or...

01:54:06.771 --> 01:54:09.342
- Ready?
- Or better yet...

01:54:09.565 --> 01:54:11.488
let them try me for...!

01:54:11.692 --> 01:54:13.456
Argh!

01:54:35.091 --> 01:54:39.460
- Call a doctor.
- It's no use. No doctor can help now.

01:54:40.679 --> 01:54:43.000
- What happened?
- She killed him.

01:54:43.224 --> 01:54:45.147
Killed him?

01:54:45.351 --> 01:54:47.513
She executed him.

01:54:49.230 --> 01:54:51.710
Carter, what have you
done with the luggage?

01:54:51.941 --> 01:54:57.425
I sent it on ahead to the station,
and I've got a cab waiting outside.

01:55:04.203 --> 01:55:08.003
- A remarkable woman.
- You can just barely catch the boat train.

01:55:08.290 --> 01:55:11.931
Better bring the luggage back,
and you can dismiss the cab.

01:55:12.211 --> 01:55:15.181
We are not going yet, are we?

01:55:17.716 --> 01:55:20.481
Thank you, Miss Plimsoll.

01:55:20.719 --> 01:55:23.290
Get Brogan-Moore to my
chambers, and Mayhew too.

01:55:23.514 --> 01:55:27.644
We're appearing for the defence
in the trial of Christine Vole.

01:55:27.935 --> 01:55:29.699
Sir Wilfrid?

01:55:29.895 --> 01:55:32.466
You've forgotten your brandy.

01:55:55.254 --> 01:55:57.097
The management of
this theatre suggests

01:55:57.298 --> 01:56:01.383
that for the greater entertainment of
friends who have not yet seen the picture,

01:56:01.677 --> 01:56:04.726
you will not divulge to anyone
the secret of the ending

01:56:04.972 --> 01:56:07.623
of "Witness For The Prosecution".

01:56:12.563 --> 01:56:30.533
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