Dangerous Afternoon (1961) - full transcript
A boarding house run by a former criminal who's made ammends since she's become paralysed is home to a group of older women - all whom also have criminal pasts. Word soon arrives that a former associate of the ail housemistress is looking for her - with plans of blackmail.
(Dramatic Piano Music)
(Whimsical Music)
yes that's the one I want.
i'll wrap it for you. thank you.
get your medicine mrs roberts oh thank
you how much will it be mr brown? A schilling.
look out here she comes. hello mrs sprule. well my
dear here i am again hope i'm not too soon no
it's just ready for you oh that is nice we were
always so quick. 86 please thank you thank you
what a nicely arranged counter
this is isn't it? yes isn't it?
thank you i'll just get your medicines
that's a pretty box of soap isn't it?
yes isn't it? here we are. thank you goodbye i'll
give you two and six please. thank you so much.
lovely weather isn't it? yes lovely. the sun's
so good for old people like me you know
puts new life into us
here we are thank you so much goodbye bye-bye
well what did she pinch this time? bottle of
midnight ecstasy 2706 our ring miss frost
(Whimsical Music)
don't it look lovely? it ought to. trouble
arctating with it yeah get me some more water
william it's a good thing she ain't having no
candles on it you'd have to be three times as
egg she had you say that you'd get your ear
clipped you'd have to catch me first you'd
best get on with your work mrs call we'll find
you where you will catch it might be nothing new
maisy hello hello what mom i should think
so indeed what are you wasting your time
here for go and shake the hall mats it
should have been done hours ago all right
all right what all right mom cheeky sausage
baggage that needs our bottom tanning
hmm you've done a nice job there eddie
good enough for an old mole buzz like her
yeah no picking i like a bit of sugar
you look down today what's the matter i
suppose you've forgotten what day tomorrow is
tomorrow ten years since poor old dan
took the nine o'clock walk so it is
put a damn they did not have anged him if
you only hadn't gone out that night after
the welbeck sparklers he might have been with
us now we both told him to leave his gum behind
i could have got my hands on the rather that
turned to me now these guts out i bet you would it
was always the savage one there nice surprise for
tea when she gets her presents if she does get him
louisa louisa yes dear i saw you come here i was
just going up to my room dear come here yes dear
where have you been just out for a little walk
dear that's all it's such a beautiful day did you
go to any shops oh yesterday i went to have my
indigestion mixture made up they made it up for
me straight away it was nicer than they're always
so obliging i'm going upstairs now to take a dose
i've had a little pain across my left shoulder and
that always means i've eaten too quickly i do eat
quickly you know it seems something i can't help
it's a habit i cannot break myself off it's not
the only habit you can't break yourself up what do
you mean dear you'll know quite well what i mean
did you get anything else beside your medicine
anything else oh no dear where's your bag my back
oh i must have put it down somewhere go and get it
does it matter dear very much go and get it
i don't expect it's very far away round here
devon blast here it is shut the door
i don't know how i came to leave it outside
give it to me oh really dear give it to me
nothing else eh it's a very pretty bottle did you
pay for it i'm sure i must have the shop doesn't
think you did oh but i know i intended to you're
a wicked old woman and i'm very angry with you
i shall return this to the shop and if it happens
again i shall think seriously of sending you away
altogether after all it was only a little bottle
of scent i see i suppose a little bottle of scent
may not seem much to one who used to run her own
troop of shoplifters but that's not the point i
spend my money giving you a good home for the
sake of old times on condition that you behave
yourselves and cut the old stuff out as i've done
where would you be now where would you all be if
it wasn't for me one of these days instead of
bringing me up the shops will send to the police
and you'll go back to clink and deserve to i
won't do it again i won't really i promise i won't
something seems to come over me and i don't know
what i'm doing it's no good trying that stuff
on me you know perfectly well what you're doing
you're as artful as a wagon load of monkeys and
your old fingers are still as quick as lightning
here's your bag i shall stop a shilling a week
out of your pocket money for a month to punish
you and you're not to go to any shops without my
special permission it's only a week since
i had to pay for those stockings you took
now go to your room and think over your sins i
won't do it again i won't i won't i won't i won't
oh mr brown this is miss brown speaking yes
yes i found what you were asking me about
(Upbeat Music)
i'll have to take this back and get another one
oh that's better
hmm
oh i wish you'd knock before you come in knock
me foot had quite a busy morning haven't you
we should go away i won't take a minute i'll
have this no you won't put it down it's just
what i want to take down i'm sure she'll
like it i won't have you in my room again
don't be absurd i won't play patience with you
anymore oh yes you will you want to bob yesterday
oh oh go away this'll do nicely what
are you giving her dear go to the devil
both of you i'll write her a
nice little note so shall i oh
(Train)
excuse me can you direct me to eldon road
please elden road you're set straight over
the level crossing and the second on the
right thanks very much uh i'm looking
for a house called primrose lodge oh yes
that's the boarding house for old ladies
it's right at the end on the left
thanks very much goodbye goodbye
would you like to cut your cake
miss castle oh isn't it pretty
may have my presence first of course
but how charming thank you so much not at
all it's from mrs judson how good of her
and i got you this i'm so sorry i didn't have
time to wrap it up thank you so much mrs pruer
it's wonderful oh you've all been so good
to me isn't it wonderful miss frost yes very
louisa oh you and i must have
another little talk later on
oh dear had a postcard from spike this morning
it was remembers my birthday oh poor spike there
wasn't another con man in the same street with him
he had the surest eye for a mug i've ever known
what a combination we made my looks and his
charm but that 10-year stretch finished him
he never got over it yes maisie it's a gent to
see you miss gent what gent well he wouldn't
give his name he sent this note and he's
waiting in the hole excuse me thank you
i'll see him in my room if you liz will forgive me
good afternoon good afternoon oh i stick
oh thank you i hope there's nothing wrong you
never can pick up anything from her face i
sought a seven-year sentence without batting
an eyelid sentences oh hello mrs johnson
thank you so much for the book i i am looking
forward to reading it so glad you liked it i
thought you would when i first saw it perhaps
you'll lend it to me when you're finished with it
so and so mr burling man
hello butch you're looking well retirement
on the land seems to agree with you
not butch um not emma butch george
burling now the tissue of roster
sit down crofton farm west selby wilts and so
butch barrett is now farmer george burling of
wiltshire the honest countryman of the
life have they made you a church warden
as a matter of fact they have i'm so glad i always
felt that was your ultimate destiny do you help
to count the collection i used to uh vicar does it
himself now i see and what has lured you away from
the safety of wheelchair i've come to tell you
something yes george what jane henton's out oh yes
it's almost time isn't it i only heard a couple
of days ago she's been out a month and the first
thing she did when she got back was to ask
after a certain person me yes thank you butch
that's where she's living i thought you might like
to know thank you it's fine seeing you again emma
edition we've had some times together you and me
we have george you were wonderful often think of
it now nothing too dangerous for you nerves of
steel you had even the boys were scared of you
do you remember that night you dodged
the dicks but walking a six-inch girder
a hundred foot up with five thousand
quids worth of sparklers in your hands
i wasn't a [ __ ] then you haven't changed
and spin it i can see that i shouldn't like
to be in jean hinton's shoes if she tries any
tricks on you perhaps she won't notice he's wise
if you ever want anything done or organized
for the sake of old times let me know my phone
numbers on that paper i gave you thank you george
and now if you ring the bell
maybe i'll bring you in some tea
comfortable all the houses yes
i bought it three years ago
you bought it to make home for myself and some
of my old friends who fallen on lean times
by the way you better keep an eye on
your wallet while you're here my wallet
it's gone has it who have you seen since you
came in only the maid and an old woman who came
through the hall when i was waiting she dropped
a stick and i picked it up for it you don't mean
the sheep i'm afraid so she's over 80 but lifelong
habits die hard you know catching me of all people
theo i'm afraid years of honesty
have rather blunted you george
never mind i'll get it back for you after two
then that's settled there's only one thing uh
can you get out there by the end of the month
jack oh yes sir i can manage that all right good i
can't thank you enough sir all the ball for giving
me this wonderful chance we think we've made the
right choice now it's up to you to prove we have
i shall certainly do my best sir what about your
girl uh what's the name freda i'm gonna marry
her and take her with you well that's the general
idea sir we've got a whole fortnight ahead of us
that's newspaperman talk girls there's a rule like
more time than that to prepare for the great day
i'm not frieda sir she's very sensible that's
blended it's not as if she had any real ties she's
on her own oh she's a painter really what does
she paint uh well she's a pre-impressionalist uh
i'm not quite sure what that is but i think it
means painting things before you see them i think
yes yes i do understand at least i think
i do but well what is it oh it's the first
split second impression of a mountaintop oh
yes yes of course but where's the mountain top
oh it's there but you can't see it now the brain
hasn't had time to sort out what it thinks it
ought to see from what it actually does oh
oh that explains it then how very clever
it's called pre-impressionalism it's what
you see before you know what you're seeing
oh danny don't see what that is
hello western double five double three oh
hello jack no this is june just a minute
hello darling oh what's the matter you're not
ill or something are you no i never felt better
in my life now listen i've got some wonderful
news i can't tell you the telephone but i must
see you tonight you're not going out are
you of course not if you're coming around
yes we'll be alone just you me and a couple of
kippers is that all right okay darling see you
i wonder what's happened to him he
says he's got some wonderful news
well i'd better go and do some shopping or joan
dear would you come and help me oh yes of course
oh i better bring out letty promised
i can't see you this evening
well dear i'll be off oh george
pass the telephone will you
hello oh hello darling i see yes of
course i understand give my laptop
my side absolutely fine yes see you tomorrow bye
well george thanks again for everything very
friendly of you don't be daft you thanking me
don't forget anytime wait i'll have to
get you wallet back that's the least
i can do or george be a pallet in that door for me
anyone else want any more coffee me bring
me a cup thing must we we'll break the spell
all right don't untangle yourselves
i'll do it here's the cups
that's it thanks dude did you show the bunch yes
come on let's down this record's divine knock out
do you mind
oh no jack
darling these horrors only dropped in for a minute
or two they're going now are we yes you are i told
you when jack came we got to clear out yours
and yours you can go and cuddle somewhere else
no one else will have us i'm not surprised come on
are you sure you wouldn't like us to stay outside
sorry about the washing up wait send it on don't
worry see the margin thanks for the hospitality
well done if i haven't said turn that thing on
oh all right do you like the big sweetie no not
yet let's um let's talk first oh of course
now what's this wonderful news they've made
an assistant news editor on the canadian daily
post what do you think about that darling that's
marvelous you'll be chief editor in no time
well i wouldn't go as far as to say that but
they won't be out there by the end of the month
so we'll have to get married in a fortnight
you know what in a fortnight was a philip
asked me if we couldn't of course i said yes
oh did you now are you telling me you're prepared
to take to the altar a girl dressed in a fortnight
you look just as lovely to me dressed
in less than a fortnight well let me
tell you something no frieda you're not going back
i'd marry you tomorrow if you ask me
i don't know what aunt lett is going to say only
last week she was saying she hoped we wouldn't
get married in a hurry we can't i don't let it
stand in the way she isn't even your real art
i mean it's only a courtesy title i know
darling when you think of all she's done for me
ever since my parents went down in that boat when
i was two she's cared for me and provided for me
and she was just their best friend i know she's
been wonderful even when she went away for a
long time for seven years she left money for my
school fees and for my training i owe her a debt
of gratitude well it isn't as though she was
hard up and couldn't be properly looked after
that means she's got the house and all her old
friends around her look i tell you what let's take
a run over there tonight and tell her all right
how do you think she's gonna take it oh come on
oh maisie be at the end poster says
right away for me thank you ma'am
unless freedom idea and jack to what a
lovely surprise how are you i'm very well
i'll come sit down by the
fire oh an army thank you
i didn't expect to see you tonight but it's
very pleasant well we just wanted to see you
that's right well i can see you're both bursting
with excitement so perhaps one of you would better
tell me what it's all about jack's been offered
a wonderful job on the new canadian newspaper
this opening in montreal but that's splendid
congratulations jack thank you shall i save
your breath by guessing the rest they want him
out there as soon as possible and you've got to
get married right away is that it in a fortnight
why not that's plenty of time there i told you sir
but luckily when i spoke to you you were anxious
for us not to hurry oh i'm afraid i was just being
selfish but it's your happiness and jacks that
really matters it's the idea of leaving you and
going so far away oh you mustn't worry
about that i should be perfectly all right
so that's settled now if you'll hand the
drinks darling we'll celebrate the good news
yes good afternoon my name is miss
berry i telephoned this morning about
a room oh yes so good afternoon
miss betty do come in thank you
your room's quite ready amazing this is miss betty
afternoon miss take a bag up to a room paula
yes mom if you come upstairs miss betty i show
you a room i'm sure you like it i hope so if
i'm comfortable i may stay indefinitely how
nice jar dear
oh thank you dear
as i was saying vicar i should be only too charmed
to do anything i can to help thank you i was sure
you would i told my wife before i came out we
could rely on primrose lodge always glad to help
you certainly are nice to enjoy my wednesday cup
of tea in this quiet congenial atmosphere yeah you
can't play that can't believe what you know quite
well what i mean that oh can't i i didn't note no
but i did i'm sweet aren't they yes aren't they
no now tell me uh what exactly is it you want me
to do well we hoped you would again take charge of
the lucky dip you know under your management last
year it took four times as much as it has ever
done before oh very gratifying yes you have if i
may say so no financially green fingers uh natural
genius for extracting money from even the most
reluctant of pockets yes she's always been able to
do that i'm sure she has a very happy thought well
now my dearest castle if you're already perhaps
we could get on and uh see the plan for the stalls
well i'll put my hat and coat on and meet you
in the fall oh vicar i have something for you
this is the small contribution i promised you
for the sunday school outing i dare miss frost
you really are the most wonderful person good
work seem to come naturally to i wish all my
parishioners will actually that might be a
rash wish figure i'd take my chance on this
oh no you don't that's fiddling what take
it back all right i'll play that one oh no
that i don't know ladies ladies these little
bickerings cannot possibly add to the enjoyment
of the contest she fiddled i didn't no no no
we must have no more quality huh you know the
game will be far more pleasantly played in
atmospheric tranquility king on the queen
thank you vicar that's very good yes well now
your quits i won i'm not going to play with you
again oh come come now we mustn't mind losing some
time i don't mind losing but i do not like being
oh all fiddled then she didn't fiddle
though what else she calls is i don't
know what will the thicker think of
you well we must all make an answer
sometimes now mr spool and miss berger
i'm sure you'll have another game tonight
now come along now kiss and be friends i
wouldn't kiss it for the five pound note
as i was speaking metaphorically i am going
to my room i think you'd better miss burst
it is difficult for us who are so much younger to
have patience or the little tantrums of the aged
but we must do our best mustn't we poor oh dear
yes we must that's right well goodbye mr austin
thank you once again goodbye baker oh would you
mind opening that door for me before you go oh god
ah i think i'll go for a walk all this excitement
you know yes of course and now remember allowances
for the old monty you can afford to yes yes
you're quite right yes thank you the government
good afternoon vicar good afternoon
mrs coleman is our new guest
miss berry mr porcelain vicar how'd you do miss
betty a new addition to this happy little fold
i hope you'll be very comfortable thank
you i hope so i'm waiting for this cattle
oh i see i show you the lounge and i'll
bring you some tea thank you please
this is the lounge oh yes we shall do our
best to make you feel at home thank you
if you'll excuse me now certainly
so you found me yes i found you why are you in
that thing i was knocked down by a car my back
was hurt they say i shouldn't walk again your back
was hurt when you dropped over the prison wall
lucky for you your pals were waiting to get you
away you didn't stop to help the one behind you
it was each by himself i know that's why
i'm here you haven't ordered much heavily
how did you find out where i was just luck
i had an anonymous tip off did you no doubt
you've been thinking you were pretty safe
tucked away here under another name but you must
have known i get you sooner or later i suppose
nice comfortable little hideout do yourself
well don't pity having it found out
there you are thank you just made
how much have you got salted away not much
don't give me that i know better it's true
there was that notting hill
job worth quite a lot that was
at the grove gardens the last one before
they pulled you in you must have got quite
a slice out of that how much that's my
business the business has been enlarged
you've got a partner it'll bit company for you
think of all the talks we can have about old times
i don't want to talk about old times they've
gone it won't do you any harm to be reminded
from now onwards it's halves so you're putting the
blank on me you're surprised what did you expect
i could give the police a
nice little bit of information
not that they'd know the name of frost but there's
another name they'd know and be glad to hear it
some time ago i would have been a dangerous person
i've tried that on but i've changed since then i'm
not like i was i'm very gentle and kind gentleman
kind my foot the leopard can't change its spots
now i come to think of it i saw a woman in the
hall i couldn't help thinking i'd seen her before
look here what is this place what do you mean
there's something queer about it i believe it's
a genuine boarding house who owns it you yes
i own it i see i run it as a home of rest for
some of my old friends who've fallen on bad time
very charitable now we know where we stand
i'll be seeing a lot of you miss frost
i enjoyed our little chat
i think it's going to look a treat very nice the
only thing that gets up my nose is that old sour
guts is going to have any of it only what she does
evil choker yes keep stirring this for me milby
it's not eating little choker two bottles
of whiskey went up to a room this morning
that's her bell if she thinks i'm going
to answer it she'll find out she's wrong
why she anyway she ain't one of us we don't
take real borders i'll tell you something
i was only doing what i was told to do tell to do
miss floss told me if anyone named berry phoned up
i was to give her a room yeah i'm ready for
that man i'll tell you something else eddie
i believe she's just waiting
until all this is over
i came on unaware the other night and i
haven't seen that look in our face since
well you know when it always meant
danger daisy that's her again
where's that slap of a girl what's your
calling where's my tea what's in there i
told you to bring it up to my room if you
want to brought up special you've got to
wait till i've done all the ending rounds my
key comes first and i'm going to have it first
oh hello amazing me hello where's my aunt she's in
her room miss would you like me to bring you some
tea oh i'd love sweet all right bring it in get
my teeth first do you hear i could not bear in the
way you're shouting if i have any more source from
you you'll get a week's notice don't worry maisie
there's only one person in this house who can give
you a notice what did you say i said there's only
one person in this house who can give anyone
notice and that's miss frost oh it is is it
we'll see about that oh hello aunt letty
hallelujah soccer young madam good thing
when she's out of the way she's not the only one i
should think really aren't letting she's the limit
that [ __ ] of a maid's got to go media is not
a [ __ ] she's a kind-hearted hard-working girl
you're my own business now listen to me miss
berry the way i'll letty let you speak to her
is her business but if i were in her place
you'd be out on the street before you know
how you got there oh i should should i well just
ask your aunt letty wire not out in the street and
see if she tells you go on oscar frida ah letty
indeed what do you mean by that peter please go
you've got a lot to do come back again earlier
tomorrow morning but i hate leading you like
this it's all right please do as i say i'm sorry
you've had the journey for nothing very well
you think i don't know no what how old is she 21
good looking fellow benny harmon wasn't he you
disappeared after he was shot in that gang fight
two years wasn't it before you
came back into the game again
never fancied another man afterwards did you what
do you want i'll tell you what i want and what i'm
going to get i'm going up to my room to write out
a little agreement giving me a half share in this
place and i'm going to bring it down here after
dinner for you to sign i see or else or else your
daughter might get to know things that would
be a nasty shock to her and to mr jack loring
well do you sign
yes i'll sign good always best
to know when you're beaten
there you are daddy thank you you don't mind
about one or two of the girls and boys coming
in for last drink do you no of course not you
look rather worried what's the matter oh it's all
i wish i knew what was happening
that woman gets worse and worse and
aunt let he just submits to it all oh
perhaps she's got some sort of hole over her
how could she have i don't know i nearly lost my
temper this afternoon she said something that what
well she came into our letter's room and
made a scene and i said i didn't know how
unless he put up with it and she said aunt
letty indeed in a nasty sneering sort of way
or aren't you look most upset i
never seen her look like that before
and then she told me to go as quickly
as possible never mind darling
you'll soon be away from it all that's
what worries me the idea of going away
oh i wish i knew what was happening
don't have to worry anymore
let me take your coat hello jack hello bunch
hello jacob okay sweetie well we've brought
you something that bunch has made specially for
you she was too bashful to bring it by so oh how
sweet of you i thought you might like a nice piece
of sculpture wherever you're going to live there
it's mother love oh thank you darling
there you are i've written it out
twice you sign one i sign the other
i see half the money in the bag too eh taking
your panda flesh so would you in my place
i suppose here's the pen
come on you know the alternative suppose i let
you take it don't try bluffing me i reckon i'm
being pretty reasonable you know you give
every penny you've got to keep that girl
from knowing the truth i suppose if i've got
to i've got to i'll make the best of it hmm
that's the sensible way of looking at it you've
got [ __ ] just where i want you very well
it is
give me the pen
you up here's your half now how about having
a drink with me to celebrate the partnership
all right get me a glass from the sideboard
nothing like a drop of whiskey no only
old fergie's gone to bed eh yes there's
no one up at you with me other night's
young there's another bottle upstairs
cheers partner cheers geez
well now we're all happy and comfortable
and just so as you can't pull any tricks
i'll tell you what else i've done what else
i've written two letters one to scotland yard
and the other to miss freda mayberry or mrs
jack loring as the case may be and i'm going
to post them to a friend of mine in the morning
they're to be sent off if anything happens to me
i see so it'll be in your
interest to keep me alive and well
my friend's going to telephone every monday
just to see that i'm all right a very good idea
draws your teeth all right there's
only one thing wrong with it
what's that you should have done it before
it'll do now it won't look at me gene
what for i want to look at your eyes
why yes it's all right why why are you
looking at me like that what's the matter gene
oh what have you done to me if
you don't sit down you'll fall
that's right you're a fool jean you won't
have known me better you've done done me
your whiskey while your back was turned getting
the glass no you was trying to move you can't
you thought you were being very clever when you
got that tip off where i was booking a room under
the name of berry and coming along here to take me
by surprise you see you didn't take me by surprise
i brought you here you you you brought me yes that
tip-off came from me and you fell for it hook line
and sinker you walked right into it i thought i'd
rather have you here under my eye than going about
looking for me if you've been sensible and not
pushed me too far you might have got away with it
but you signed your death one this
afternoon when you threatened freda
the partnership is dissolved no one in
this house will know what's happened
this is bushy double four six eight one i
want west celeb wheelchair nine five three
is it true
hey
well is it true macy told me she went in with a
morning tea and found her things all gone on the
bed hadn't been slept in then miss frost said
that there'd been a telephone call last night
about somebody being ill and she pecked up at once
then someone called for her in the car and
took her ball oh she's gone she's gone crazy
you and i aren't talkers hetty you
bet we're not we just take things
to the [ __ ] doesn't do to talk or even
think sometimes i have another cup of tea
we both slept well last night didn't hear
anything did we not a thing you know she
said a strange thing to me the other day oh did
she what she said if anything happened to her
she'd made all arrangements for you and me
to carry on with this place she said that
yes
yes a head-on collision no doubt both going
too fast one car turned right over man and
woman killed the driver of the other car taken to
hospital badly injured in concussion oh yes sir
the dead man was george burling croton farm west
selby i've checked up on him sir very respectable
church ordinance and cyprians sir nothing whatever
to show who the woman was well medium height
late 40s dark haired dr sporting will be over
soon so to make his report i'll ring you back
very good sir he's a doctor now
well goodbye chief constable will
be over soon i think she might get the
council to widen that corner after this
hold up uh-huh got some time for a cover oh joy
good to talk to some people yes sir uh no thanks
well we've checked up on burling uh the owner
of crofton farm west selby warden of the parish
church highly respected oh was he well perhaps
you'd like to do a bit more checking up well done
on how your highly respected church warden came
to be driving about with a dead body at that time
of night dead body yeah that woman wasn't killed
in the crash she was dead when it happened
was she now i've been on dr feldman the
county pathologist he'll be along at once
probably want to open her up meanwhile i
should make a few more inquiries about mr
george burling if i were you i'll do that
all right well that's your luck no thanks
miss freighter my gray yeah that's us
could you put them down here please
someone here please
thank you oh it's wonderful news aren't litty
but what happened she had a telephone call
packed up and went straight off in a friend's
car do you know where she's gone i think so
oh but don't let's talk about her anymore
come in miss it's come i just took it in
i'll miss can i have just one little peep you can
come and help me try it on oh miss may i thank you
then i'm gonna show it to
the old dears in the lounge
my dear it's quite beautiful turn around oh it's
perfect doesn't she look lovely i've smothered
i can't help the you paul spike spike caroline
i'm sorry
my dear we want you to accept this little wedding
present from the four of us with our love and best
wishes for your happiness oh how sweet of
you thank you very much i must open it now
oh it's lovely look at letty isn't
it lovely yes beautiful thank you all
very much now go and take that dress off and
then come to my room all right i won't be long
louisa yes dear will you just
push me to my room please austere
what's the matter with you i
might have worn a dress like
that if the spike hadn't gone to clink go
to blazes with spike oh sorry dear sorry
dare dear thank you louisa yes dear that was
a very nice little present you gave to freda
i'm so glad you liked it where
did you get it let me get it
let me look oh stubs in china
yeah you are paid you paid for it
well of course dear how else do you think we
could have got it that's what i was wondering
we've been saving up on the quiet ever since they
were engaged so as to have enough my dear louisa
i see right thank you goodbye it was murder all
right there's no doubt about that she had enough
of the stuff inside her to kill two people we sent
their fingerprints along to the yard inspector
cranes just had the results yes george burling
was really ned barrett and the barrack gang was
smashed ten years ago the woman was gene hinton
who was leased in prison two months back gene
hinton sir wasn't she the woman in that escape
business yes that's right with them randall one of
the smartest jewel thieves in the business climb a
wall like a cat and she got away but hinton didn't
and got an extra sentence now we know where she
went when she was released but three weeks ago
she disappeared and there hasn't been a sign
ever since then looks as though she was trying
to blackmail this fellow burling or barrett and
that he arranged to meet her and then killed her
and was trying to do away with the body
probably going to bury it on the farm
sounds all right but what we've got to find
out is where she spent the last three weeks
thank you music
yes mad in your eye same deal
dear come on you battle eggs
louisa iron is the voice of the turtle i
don't have oh but why not i like it it's
lovely you've had quite enough already oh but it
makes me feel so young that's what i'm afraid of
goodbye darling i'll write you as soon as we get
there and thank you for everything goodbye my dear
and may you always be happy
say goodbye to everyone darling be good jack
keep her close to you always whatever happens
i promise i will i know how you've
loved and cared for her all these years
i called in at the offices of the green
funnel line the other day and asked to
see a list of the passengers on the
princess delphine when she went down
the two names i was looking
for weren't on the list
i'll take care of them come on
mr porsche to see you mr pawson but
this time he says it's very important
very well show him in of course
good morning vicar this is nearly cool miss
frost have you seen the paper not yet then you
don't know no what about miss berry miss betty
my dear vic what are you talking about sister
thank you then you don't know that you've
been harboring a criminal in this house
criminal really vic listen to this miss rust
it has been established that the woman whose
body was found in the wrecked car after the
collision near marshmallow last week did not
die as a result of the accident but had been
poisoned several hours before she has now been
identified by her fingerprints as gene hinton who
had been released from holloway prison six weeks
ago after serving a sentence of several years
well well the there's a photograph this hinton
was in fact uh miss berry oh really baker i don't
believe that there's a picture i see for yourself
oh i admit it's like her but of course it's
not the same woman i don't agree with you miss
frost i think it is the same there are one two
other points other surprising facts have come
to light the owner of the car george burling of
crofton farm west sultan butcher who was killed
outright in the crash was in reality an ex-gang
leader by the name of butch barrett and both he
and the dead woman hinton had been associates of a
notorious woman jewel thief by the name of randall
who'd escaped from prison five years ago and
was never caught the police think it is possible
that after release gene hinton might have made
contact with randall and anyone who recognizes
his photograph and remembers seeing her within the
last weeks is asked to communicate at once with
the police really miss frost even if you don't
believe miss berry was the woman i consider it
your duty to inform the police my dear vicar i i
really don't want to be bothered with this at all
even if miss berry was gene hinton she's dead
now and he couldn't do any good letting the
police know she's been staying here it'll only
cause a lot of unpleasantness but someone is
about to tell them i mean she must have
been seen about you no she never went out
i'm sorry miss foster cause you any unpleasantness
but if you refuse to inform the police i consider
it my duty as vicar of this parish to do
so myself why well they want to know where
she spent the last weeks they think that
she may have tried to make contact with
ms frost
why did she come here to this house
was it to find to find emma randall
you know i never said emma
that was a slip a bad one
you it was blackmail i suppose yes
well what are you going to do nothing
the next steps are up to you i shall not take them
so far as i'm concerned i shall seal this with
a seal of confession i realize of course that if
nothing is said you may escape the judgment of men
but there is another judgment
miss frost that no one can escape
i leave you to act as your conscience dictates
goodbye
yes? there's a lady
asking to see you sir lady
name of frost she's in a wheelchair
she says it's important. all right show her in
now the inspector will see you m'am
morning madam what can i do for you?
i have something to tell you inspector
(Dramatic Piano Music)
Someone needs to stop Clearway Law.
Public shouldn't leave reviews for lawyers.
(Whimsical Music)
yes that's the one I want.
i'll wrap it for you. thank you.
get your medicine mrs roberts oh thank
you how much will it be mr brown? A schilling.
look out here she comes. hello mrs sprule. well my
dear here i am again hope i'm not too soon no
it's just ready for you oh that is nice we were
always so quick. 86 please thank you thank you
what a nicely arranged counter
this is isn't it? yes isn't it?
thank you i'll just get your medicines
that's a pretty box of soap isn't it?
yes isn't it? here we are. thank you goodbye i'll
give you two and six please. thank you so much.
lovely weather isn't it? yes lovely. the sun's
so good for old people like me you know
puts new life into us
here we are thank you so much goodbye bye-bye
well what did she pinch this time? bottle of
midnight ecstasy 2706 our ring miss frost
(Whimsical Music)
don't it look lovely? it ought to. trouble
arctating with it yeah get me some more water
william it's a good thing she ain't having no
candles on it you'd have to be three times as
egg she had you say that you'd get your ear
clipped you'd have to catch me first you'd
best get on with your work mrs call we'll find
you where you will catch it might be nothing new
maisy hello hello what mom i should think
so indeed what are you wasting your time
here for go and shake the hall mats it
should have been done hours ago all right
all right what all right mom cheeky sausage
baggage that needs our bottom tanning
hmm you've done a nice job there eddie
good enough for an old mole buzz like her
yeah no picking i like a bit of sugar
you look down today what's the matter i
suppose you've forgotten what day tomorrow is
tomorrow ten years since poor old dan
took the nine o'clock walk so it is
put a damn they did not have anged him if
you only hadn't gone out that night after
the welbeck sparklers he might have been with
us now we both told him to leave his gum behind
i could have got my hands on the rather that
turned to me now these guts out i bet you would it
was always the savage one there nice surprise for
tea when she gets her presents if she does get him
louisa louisa yes dear i saw you come here i was
just going up to my room dear come here yes dear
where have you been just out for a little walk
dear that's all it's such a beautiful day did you
go to any shops oh yesterday i went to have my
indigestion mixture made up they made it up for
me straight away it was nicer than they're always
so obliging i'm going upstairs now to take a dose
i've had a little pain across my left shoulder and
that always means i've eaten too quickly i do eat
quickly you know it seems something i can't help
it's a habit i cannot break myself off it's not
the only habit you can't break yourself up what do
you mean dear you'll know quite well what i mean
did you get anything else beside your medicine
anything else oh no dear where's your bag my back
oh i must have put it down somewhere go and get it
does it matter dear very much go and get it
i don't expect it's very far away round here
devon blast here it is shut the door
i don't know how i came to leave it outside
give it to me oh really dear give it to me
nothing else eh it's a very pretty bottle did you
pay for it i'm sure i must have the shop doesn't
think you did oh but i know i intended to you're
a wicked old woman and i'm very angry with you
i shall return this to the shop and if it happens
again i shall think seriously of sending you away
altogether after all it was only a little bottle
of scent i see i suppose a little bottle of scent
may not seem much to one who used to run her own
troop of shoplifters but that's not the point i
spend my money giving you a good home for the
sake of old times on condition that you behave
yourselves and cut the old stuff out as i've done
where would you be now where would you all be if
it wasn't for me one of these days instead of
bringing me up the shops will send to the police
and you'll go back to clink and deserve to i
won't do it again i won't really i promise i won't
something seems to come over me and i don't know
what i'm doing it's no good trying that stuff
on me you know perfectly well what you're doing
you're as artful as a wagon load of monkeys and
your old fingers are still as quick as lightning
here's your bag i shall stop a shilling a week
out of your pocket money for a month to punish
you and you're not to go to any shops without my
special permission it's only a week since
i had to pay for those stockings you took
now go to your room and think over your sins i
won't do it again i won't i won't i won't i won't
oh mr brown this is miss brown speaking yes
yes i found what you were asking me about
(Upbeat Music)
i'll have to take this back and get another one
oh that's better
hmm
oh i wish you'd knock before you come in knock
me foot had quite a busy morning haven't you
we should go away i won't take a minute i'll
have this no you won't put it down it's just
what i want to take down i'm sure she'll
like it i won't have you in my room again
don't be absurd i won't play patience with you
anymore oh yes you will you want to bob yesterday
oh oh go away this'll do nicely what
are you giving her dear go to the devil
both of you i'll write her a
nice little note so shall i oh
(Train)
excuse me can you direct me to eldon road
please elden road you're set straight over
the level crossing and the second on the
right thanks very much uh i'm looking
for a house called primrose lodge oh yes
that's the boarding house for old ladies
it's right at the end on the left
thanks very much goodbye goodbye
would you like to cut your cake
miss castle oh isn't it pretty
may have my presence first of course
but how charming thank you so much not at
all it's from mrs judson how good of her
and i got you this i'm so sorry i didn't have
time to wrap it up thank you so much mrs pruer
it's wonderful oh you've all been so good
to me isn't it wonderful miss frost yes very
louisa oh you and i must have
another little talk later on
oh dear had a postcard from spike this morning
it was remembers my birthday oh poor spike there
wasn't another con man in the same street with him
he had the surest eye for a mug i've ever known
what a combination we made my looks and his
charm but that 10-year stretch finished him
he never got over it yes maisie it's a gent to
see you miss gent what gent well he wouldn't
give his name he sent this note and he's
waiting in the hole excuse me thank you
i'll see him in my room if you liz will forgive me
good afternoon good afternoon oh i stick
oh thank you i hope there's nothing wrong you
never can pick up anything from her face i
sought a seven-year sentence without batting
an eyelid sentences oh hello mrs johnson
thank you so much for the book i i am looking
forward to reading it so glad you liked it i
thought you would when i first saw it perhaps
you'll lend it to me when you're finished with it
so and so mr burling man
hello butch you're looking well retirement
on the land seems to agree with you
not butch um not emma butch george
burling now the tissue of roster
sit down crofton farm west selby wilts and so
butch barrett is now farmer george burling of
wiltshire the honest countryman of the
life have they made you a church warden
as a matter of fact they have i'm so glad i always
felt that was your ultimate destiny do you help
to count the collection i used to uh vicar does it
himself now i see and what has lured you away from
the safety of wheelchair i've come to tell you
something yes george what jane henton's out oh yes
it's almost time isn't it i only heard a couple
of days ago she's been out a month and the first
thing she did when she got back was to ask
after a certain person me yes thank you butch
that's where she's living i thought you might like
to know thank you it's fine seeing you again emma
edition we've had some times together you and me
we have george you were wonderful often think of
it now nothing too dangerous for you nerves of
steel you had even the boys were scared of you
do you remember that night you dodged
the dicks but walking a six-inch girder
a hundred foot up with five thousand
quids worth of sparklers in your hands
i wasn't a [ __ ] then you haven't changed
and spin it i can see that i shouldn't like
to be in jean hinton's shoes if she tries any
tricks on you perhaps she won't notice he's wise
if you ever want anything done or organized
for the sake of old times let me know my phone
numbers on that paper i gave you thank you george
and now if you ring the bell
maybe i'll bring you in some tea
comfortable all the houses yes
i bought it three years ago
you bought it to make home for myself and some
of my old friends who fallen on lean times
by the way you better keep an eye on
your wallet while you're here my wallet
it's gone has it who have you seen since you
came in only the maid and an old woman who came
through the hall when i was waiting she dropped
a stick and i picked it up for it you don't mean
the sheep i'm afraid so she's over 80 but lifelong
habits die hard you know catching me of all people
theo i'm afraid years of honesty
have rather blunted you george
never mind i'll get it back for you after two
then that's settled there's only one thing uh
can you get out there by the end of the month
jack oh yes sir i can manage that all right good i
can't thank you enough sir all the ball for giving
me this wonderful chance we think we've made the
right choice now it's up to you to prove we have
i shall certainly do my best sir what about your
girl uh what's the name freda i'm gonna marry
her and take her with you well that's the general
idea sir we've got a whole fortnight ahead of us
that's newspaperman talk girls there's a rule like
more time than that to prepare for the great day
i'm not frieda sir she's very sensible that's
blended it's not as if she had any real ties she's
on her own oh she's a painter really what does
she paint uh well she's a pre-impressionalist uh
i'm not quite sure what that is but i think it
means painting things before you see them i think
yes yes i do understand at least i think
i do but well what is it oh it's the first
split second impression of a mountaintop oh
yes yes of course but where's the mountain top
oh it's there but you can't see it now the brain
hasn't had time to sort out what it thinks it
ought to see from what it actually does oh
oh that explains it then how very clever
it's called pre-impressionalism it's what
you see before you know what you're seeing
oh danny don't see what that is
hello western double five double three oh
hello jack no this is june just a minute
hello darling oh what's the matter you're not
ill or something are you no i never felt better
in my life now listen i've got some wonderful
news i can't tell you the telephone but i must
see you tonight you're not going out are
you of course not if you're coming around
yes we'll be alone just you me and a couple of
kippers is that all right okay darling see you
i wonder what's happened to him he
says he's got some wonderful news
well i'd better go and do some shopping or joan
dear would you come and help me oh yes of course
oh i better bring out letty promised
i can't see you this evening
well dear i'll be off oh george
pass the telephone will you
hello oh hello darling i see yes of
course i understand give my laptop
my side absolutely fine yes see you tomorrow bye
well george thanks again for everything very
friendly of you don't be daft you thanking me
don't forget anytime wait i'll have to
get you wallet back that's the least
i can do or george be a pallet in that door for me
anyone else want any more coffee me bring
me a cup thing must we we'll break the spell
all right don't untangle yourselves
i'll do it here's the cups
that's it thanks dude did you show the bunch yes
come on let's down this record's divine knock out
do you mind
oh no jack
darling these horrors only dropped in for a minute
or two they're going now are we yes you are i told
you when jack came we got to clear out yours
and yours you can go and cuddle somewhere else
no one else will have us i'm not surprised come on
are you sure you wouldn't like us to stay outside
sorry about the washing up wait send it on don't
worry see the margin thanks for the hospitality
well done if i haven't said turn that thing on
oh all right do you like the big sweetie no not
yet let's um let's talk first oh of course
now what's this wonderful news they've made
an assistant news editor on the canadian daily
post what do you think about that darling that's
marvelous you'll be chief editor in no time
well i wouldn't go as far as to say that but
they won't be out there by the end of the month
so we'll have to get married in a fortnight
you know what in a fortnight was a philip
asked me if we couldn't of course i said yes
oh did you now are you telling me you're prepared
to take to the altar a girl dressed in a fortnight
you look just as lovely to me dressed
in less than a fortnight well let me
tell you something no frieda you're not going back
i'd marry you tomorrow if you ask me
i don't know what aunt lett is going to say only
last week she was saying she hoped we wouldn't
get married in a hurry we can't i don't let it
stand in the way she isn't even your real art
i mean it's only a courtesy title i know
darling when you think of all she's done for me
ever since my parents went down in that boat when
i was two she's cared for me and provided for me
and she was just their best friend i know she's
been wonderful even when she went away for a
long time for seven years she left money for my
school fees and for my training i owe her a debt
of gratitude well it isn't as though she was
hard up and couldn't be properly looked after
that means she's got the house and all her old
friends around her look i tell you what let's take
a run over there tonight and tell her all right
how do you think she's gonna take it oh come on
oh maisie be at the end poster says
right away for me thank you ma'am
unless freedom idea and jack to what a
lovely surprise how are you i'm very well
i'll come sit down by the
fire oh an army thank you
i didn't expect to see you tonight but it's
very pleasant well we just wanted to see you
that's right well i can see you're both bursting
with excitement so perhaps one of you would better
tell me what it's all about jack's been offered
a wonderful job on the new canadian newspaper
this opening in montreal but that's splendid
congratulations jack thank you shall i save
your breath by guessing the rest they want him
out there as soon as possible and you've got to
get married right away is that it in a fortnight
why not that's plenty of time there i told you sir
but luckily when i spoke to you you were anxious
for us not to hurry oh i'm afraid i was just being
selfish but it's your happiness and jacks that
really matters it's the idea of leaving you and
going so far away oh you mustn't worry
about that i should be perfectly all right
so that's settled now if you'll hand the
drinks darling we'll celebrate the good news
yes good afternoon my name is miss
berry i telephoned this morning about
a room oh yes so good afternoon
miss betty do come in thank you
your room's quite ready amazing this is miss betty
afternoon miss take a bag up to a room paula
yes mom if you come upstairs miss betty i show
you a room i'm sure you like it i hope so if
i'm comfortable i may stay indefinitely how
nice jar dear
oh thank you dear
as i was saying vicar i should be only too charmed
to do anything i can to help thank you i was sure
you would i told my wife before i came out we
could rely on primrose lodge always glad to help
you certainly are nice to enjoy my wednesday cup
of tea in this quiet congenial atmosphere yeah you
can't play that can't believe what you know quite
well what i mean that oh can't i i didn't note no
but i did i'm sweet aren't they yes aren't they
no now tell me uh what exactly is it you want me
to do well we hoped you would again take charge of
the lucky dip you know under your management last
year it took four times as much as it has ever
done before oh very gratifying yes you have if i
may say so no financially green fingers uh natural
genius for extracting money from even the most
reluctant of pockets yes she's always been able to
do that i'm sure she has a very happy thought well
now my dearest castle if you're already perhaps
we could get on and uh see the plan for the stalls
well i'll put my hat and coat on and meet you
in the fall oh vicar i have something for you
this is the small contribution i promised you
for the sunday school outing i dare miss frost
you really are the most wonderful person good
work seem to come naturally to i wish all my
parishioners will actually that might be a
rash wish figure i'd take my chance on this
oh no you don't that's fiddling what take
it back all right i'll play that one oh no
that i don't know ladies ladies these little
bickerings cannot possibly add to the enjoyment
of the contest she fiddled i didn't no no no
we must have no more quality huh you know the
game will be far more pleasantly played in
atmospheric tranquility king on the queen
thank you vicar that's very good yes well now
your quits i won i'm not going to play with you
again oh come come now we mustn't mind losing some
time i don't mind losing but i do not like being
oh all fiddled then she didn't fiddle
though what else she calls is i don't
know what will the thicker think of
you well we must all make an answer
sometimes now mr spool and miss berger
i'm sure you'll have another game tonight
now come along now kiss and be friends i
wouldn't kiss it for the five pound note
as i was speaking metaphorically i am going
to my room i think you'd better miss burst
it is difficult for us who are so much younger to
have patience or the little tantrums of the aged
but we must do our best mustn't we poor oh dear
yes we must that's right well goodbye mr austin
thank you once again goodbye baker oh would you
mind opening that door for me before you go oh god
ah i think i'll go for a walk all this excitement
you know yes of course and now remember allowances
for the old monty you can afford to yes yes
you're quite right yes thank you the government
good afternoon vicar good afternoon
mrs coleman is our new guest
miss berry mr porcelain vicar how'd you do miss
betty a new addition to this happy little fold
i hope you'll be very comfortable thank
you i hope so i'm waiting for this cattle
oh i see i show you the lounge and i'll
bring you some tea thank you please
this is the lounge oh yes we shall do our
best to make you feel at home thank you
if you'll excuse me now certainly
so you found me yes i found you why are you in
that thing i was knocked down by a car my back
was hurt they say i shouldn't walk again your back
was hurt when you dropped over the prison wall
lucky for you your pals were waiting to get you
away you didn't stop to help the one behind you
it was each by himself i know that's why
i'm here you haven't ordered much heavily
how did you find out where i was just luck
i had an anonymous tip off did you no doubt
you've been thinking you were pretty safe
tucked away here under another name but you must
have known i get you sooner or later i suppose
nice comfortable little hideout do yourself
well don't pity having it found out
there you are thank you just made
how much have you got salted away not much
don't give me that i know better it's true
there was that notting hill
job worth quite a lot that was
at the grove gardens the last one before
they pulled you in you must have got quite
a slice out of that how much that's my
business the business has been enlarged
you've got a partner it'll bit company for you
think of all the talks we can have about old times
i don't want to talk about old times they've
gone it won't do you any harm to be reminded
from now onwards it's halves so you're putting the
blank on me you're surprised what did you expect
i could give the police a
nice little bit of information
not that they'd know the name of frost but there's
another name they'd know and be glad to hear it
some time ago i would have been a dangerous person
i've tried that on but i've changed since then i'm
not like i was i'm very gentle and kind gentleman
kind my foot the leopard can't change its spots
now i come to think of it i saw a woman in the
hall i couldn't help thinking i'd seen her before
look here what is this place what do you mean
there's something queer about it i believe it's
a genuine boarding house who owns it you yes
i own it i see i run it as a home of rest for
some of my old friends who've fallen on bad time
very charitable now we know where we stand
i'll be seeing a lot of you miss frost
i enjoyed our little chat
i think it's going to look a treat very nice the
only thing that gets up my nose is that old sour
guts is going to have any of it only what she does
evil choker yes keep stirring this for me milby
it's not eating little choker two bottles
of whiskey went up to a room this morning
that's her bell if she thinks i'm going
to answer it she'll find out she's wrong
why she anyway she ain't one of us we don't
take real borders i'll tell you something
i was only doing what i was told to do tell to do
miss floss told me if anyone named berry phoned up
i was to give her a room yeah i'm ready for
that man i'll tell you something else eddie
i believe she's just waiting
until all this is over
i came on unaware the other night and i
haven't seen that look in our face since
well you know when it always meant
danger daisy that's her again
where's that slap of a girl what's your
calling where's my tea what's in there i
told you to bring it up to my room if you
want to brought up special you've got to
wait till i've done all the ending rounds my
key comes first and i'm going to have it first
oh hello amazing me hello where's my aunt she's in
her room miss would you like me to bring you some
tea oh i'd love sweet all right bring it in get
my teeth first do you hear i could not bear in the
way you're shouting if i have any more source from
you you'll get a week's notice don't worry maisie
there's only one person in this house who can give
you a notice what did you say i said there's only
one person in this house who can give anyone
notice and that's miss frost oh it is is it
we'll see about that oh hello aunt letty
hallelujah soccer young madam good thing
when she's out of the way she's not the only one i
should think really aren't letting she's the limit
that [ __ ] of a maid's got to go media is not
a [ __ ] she's a kind-hearted hard-working girl
you're my own business now listen to me miss
berry the way i'll letty let you speak to her
is her business but if i were in her place
you'd be out on the street before you know
how you got there oh i should should i well just
ask your aunt letty wire not out in the street and
see if she tells you go on oscar frida ah letty
indeed what do you mean by that peter please go
you've got a lot to do come back again earlier
tomorrow morning but i hate leading you like
this it's all right please do as i say i'm sorry
you've had the journey for nothing very well
you think i don't know no what how old is she 21
good looking fellow benny harmon wasn't he you
disappeared after he was shot in that gang fight
two years wasn't it before you
came back into the game again
never fancied another man afterwards did you what
do you want i'll tell you what i want and what i'm
going to get i'm going up to my room to write out
a little agreement giving me a half share in this
place and i'm going to bring it down here after
dinner for you to sign i see or else or else your
daughter might get to know things that would
be a nasty shock to her and to mr jack loring
well do you sign
yes i'll sign good always best
to know when you're beaten
there you are daddy thank you you don't mind
about one or two of the girls and boys coming
in for last drink do you no of course not you
look rather worried what's the matter oh it's all
i wish i knew what was happening
that woman gets worse and worse and
aunt let he just submits to it all oh
perhaps she's got some sort of hole over her
how could she have i don't know i nearly lost my
temper this afternoon she said something that what
well she came into our letter's room and
made a scene and i said i didn't know how
unless he put up with it and she said aunt
letty indeed in a nasty sneering sort of way
or aren't you look most upset i
never seen her look like that before
and then she told me to go as quickly
as possible never mind darling
you'll soon be away from it all that's
what worries me the idea of going away
oh i wish i knew what was happening
don't have to worry anymore
let me take your coat hello jack hello bunch
hello jacob okay sweetie well we've brought
you something that bunch has made specially for
you she was too bashful to bring it by so oh how
sweet of you i thought you might like a nice piece
of sculpture wherever you're going to live there
it's mother love oh thank you darling
there you are i've written it out
twice you sign one i sign the other
i see half the money in the bag too eh taking
your panda flesh so would you in my place
i suppose here's the pen
come on you know the alternative suppose i let
you take it don't try bluffing me i reckon i'm
being pretty reasonable you know you give
every penny you've got to keep that girl
from knowing the truth i suppose if i've got
to i've got to i'll make the best of it hmm
that's the sensible way of looking at it you've
got [ __ ] just where i want you very well
it is
give me the pen
you up here's your half now how about having
a drink with me to celebrate the partnership
all right get me a glass from the sideboard
nothing like a drop of whiskey no only
old fergie's gone to bed eh yes there's
no one up at you with me other night's
young there's another bottle upstairs
cheers partner cheers geez
well now we're all happy and comfortable
and just so as you can't pull any tricks
i'll tell you what else i've done what else
i've written two letters one to scotland yard
and the other to miss freda mayberry or mrs
jack loring as the case may be and i'm going
to post them to a friend of mine in the morning
they're to be sent off if anything happens to me
i see so it'll be in your
interest to keep me alive and well
my friend's going to telephone every monday
just to see that i'm all right a very good idea
draws your teeth all right there's
only one thing wrong with it
what's that you should have done it before
it'll do now it won't look at me gene
what for i want to look at your eyes
why yes it's all right why why are you
looking at me like that what's the matter gene
oh what have you done to me if
you don't sit down you'll fall
that's right you're a fool jean you won't
have known me better you've done done me
your whiskey while your back was turned getting
the glass no you was trying to move you can't
you thought you were being very clever when you
got that tip off where i was booking a room under
the name of berry and coming along here to take me
by surprise you see you didn't take me by surprise
i brought you here you you you brought me yes that
tip-off came from me and you fell for it hook line
and sinker you walked right into it i thought i'd
rather have you here under my eye than going about
looking for me if you've been sensible and not
pushed me too far you might have got away with it
but you signed your death one this
afternoon when you threatened freda
the partnership is dissolved no one in
this house will know what's happened
this is bushy double four six eight one i
want west celeb wheelchair nine five three
is it true
hey
well is it true macy told me she went in with a
morning tea and found her things all gone on the
bed hadn't been slept in then miss frost said
that there'd been a telephone call last night
about somebody being ill and she pecked up at once
then someone called for her in the car and
took her ball oh she's gone she's gone crazy
you and i aren't talkers hetty you
bet we're not we just take things
to the [ __ ] doesn't do to talk or even
think sometimes i have another cup of tea
we both slept well last night didn't hear
anything did we not a thing you know she
said a strange thing to me the other day oh did
she what she said if anything happened to her
she'd made all arrangements for you and me
to carry on with this place she said that
yes
yes a head-on collision no doubt both going
too fast one car turned right over man and
woman killed the driver of the other car taken to
hospital badly injured in concussion oh yes sir
the dead man was george burling croton farm west
selby i've checked up on him sir very respectable
church ordinance and cyprians sir nothing whatever
to show who the woman was well medium height
late 40s dark haired dr sporting will be over
soon so to make his report i'll ring you back
very good sir he's a doctor now
well goodbye chief constable will
be over soon i think she might get the
council to widen that corner after this
hold up uh-huh got some time for a cover oh joy
good to talk to some people yes sir uh no thanks
well we've checked up on burling uh the owner
of crofton farm west selby warden of the parish
church highly respected oh was he well perhaps
you'd like to do a bit more checking up well done
on how your highly respected church warden came
to be driving about with a dead body at that time
of night dead body yeah that woman wasn't killed
in the crash she was dead when it happened
was she now i've been on dr feldman the
county pathologist he'll be along at once
probably want to open her up meanwhile i
should make a few more inquiries about mr
george burling if i were you i'll do that
all right well that's your luck no thanks
miss freighter my gray yeah that's us
could you put them down here please
someone here please
thank you oh it's wonderful news aren't litty
but what happened she had a telephone call
packed up and went straight off in a friend's
car do you know where she's gone i think so
oh but don't let's talk about her anymore
come in miss it's come i just took it in
i'll miss can i have just one little peep you can
come and help me try it on oh miss may i thank you
then i'm gonna show it to
the old dears in the lounge
my dear it's quite beautiful turn around oh it's
perfect doesn't she look lovely i've smothered
i can't help the you paul spike spike caroline
i'm sorry
my dear we want you to accept this little wedding
present from the four of us with our love and best
wishes for your happiness oh how sweet of
you thank you very much i must open it now
oh it's lovely look at letty isn't
it lovely yes beautiful thank you all
very much now go and take that dress off and
then come to my room all right i won't be long
louisa yes dear will you just
push me to my room please austere
what's the matter with you i
might have worn a dress like
that if the spike hadn't gone to clink go
to blazes with spike oh sorry dear sorry
dare dear thank you louisa yes dear that was
a very nice little present you gave to freda
i'm so glad you liked it where
did you get it let me get it
let me look oh stubs in china
yeah you are paid you paid for it
well of course dear how else do you think we
could have got it that's what i was wondering
we've been saving up on the quiet ever since they
were engaged so as to have enough my dear louisa
i see right thank you goodbye it was murder all
right there's no doubt about that she had enough
of the stuff inside her to kill two people we sent
their fingerprints along to the yard inspector
cranes just had the results yes george burling
was really ned barrett and the barrack gang was
smashed ten years ago the woman was gene hinton
who was leased in prison two months back gene
hinton sir wasn't she the woman in that escape
business yes that's right with them randall one of
the smartest jewel thieves in the business climb a
wall like a cat and she got away but hinton didn't
and got an extra sentence now we know where she
went when she was released but three weeks ago
she disappeared and there hasn't been a sign
ever since then looks as though she was trying
to blackmail this fellow burling or barrett and
that he arranged to meet her and then killed her
and was trying to do away with the body
probably going to bury it on the farm
sounds all right but what we've got to find
out is where she spent the last three weeks
thank you music
yes mad in your eye same deal
dear come on you battle eggs
louisa iron is the voice of the turtle i
don't have oh but why not i like it it's
lovely you've had quite enough already oh but it
makes me feel so young that's what i'm afraid of
goodbye darling i'll write you as soon as we get
there and thank you for everything goodbye my dear
and may you always be happy
say goodbye to everyone darling be good jack
keep her close to you always whatever happens
i promise i will i know how you've
loved and cared for her all these years
i called in at the offices of the green
funnel line the other day and asked to
see a list of the passengers on the
princess delphine when she went down
the two names i was looking
for weren't on the list
i'll take care of them come on
mr porsche to see you mr pawson but
this time he says it's very important
very well show him in of course
good morning vicar this is nearly cool miss
frost have you seen the paper not yet then you
don't know no what about miss berry miss betty
my dear vic what are you talking about sister
thank you then you don't know that you've
been harboring a criminal in this house
criminal really vic listen to this miss rust
it has been established that the woman whose
body was found in the wrecked car after the
collision near marshmallow last week did not
die as a result of the accident but had been
poisoned several hours before she has now been
identified by her fingerprints as gene hinton who
had been released from holloway prison six weeks
ago after serving a sentence of several years
well well the there's a photograph this hinton
was in fact uh miss berry oh really baker i don't
believe that there's a picture i see for yourself
oh i admit it's like her but of course it's
not the same woman i don't agree with you miss
frost i think it is the same there are one two
other points other surprising facts have come
to light the owner of the car george burling of
crofton farm west sultan butcher who was killed
outright in the crash was in reality an ex-gang
leader by the name of butch barrett and both he
and the dead woman hinton had been associates of a
notorious woman jewel thief by the name of randall
who'd escaped from prison five years ago and
was never caught the police think it is possible
that after release gene hinton might have made
contact with randall and anyone who recognizes
his photograph and remembers seeing her within the
last weeks is asked to communicate at once with
the police really miss frost even if you don't
believe miss berry was the woman i consider it
your duty to inform the police my dear vicar i i
really don't want to be bothered with this at all
even if miss berry was gene hinton she's dead
now and he couldn't do any good letting the
police know she's been staying here it'll only
cause a lot of unpleasantness but someone is
about to tell them i mean she must have
been seen about you no she never went out
i'm sorry miss foster cause you any unpleasantness
but if you refuse to inform the police i consider
it my duty as vicar of this parish to do
so myself why well they want to know where
she spent the last weeks they think that
she may have tried to make contact with
ms frost
why did she come here to this house
was it to find to find emma randall
you know i never said emma
that was a slip a bad one
you it was blackmail i suppose yes
well what are you going to do nothing
the next steps are up to you i shall not take them
so far as i'm concerned i shall seal this with
a seal of confession i realize of course that if
nothing is said you may escape the judgment of men
but there is another judgment
miss frost that no one can escape
i leave you to act as your conscience dictates
goodbye
yes? there's a lady
asking to see you sir lady
name of frost she's in a wheelchair
she says it's important. all right show her in
now the inspector will see you m'am
morning madam what can i do for you?
i have something to tell you inspector
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