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00:06Oh, it's in the coffee.
00:10Everyone else has drunk it. They seem to be fine.
00:19Not entirely awful.
00:21Oh, so it's in the cup added afterwards.
00:25You'd think so, wouldn't you?
00:28So indiscriminate.
00:31I just heard. Jessie?
00:34Poisoned!
00:35Oh, God!
00:36Was it meant for me?
00:38I don't know.
00:39The new schedule, Mr. Howard.
00:42Mr.
00:44You can go, Jack.
00:46That'll be the end of shooting for the day.
00:49Okay.
00:53Quiet.
00:55Let's call it a day, shall we, Trotty?
01:05What's the matter with him?
01:07What happened?
01:07I don't know.
01:09He's been rather off with me all day.
01:27Nora, are we diversifying?
01:29Just catching up on my reading.
01:34He is mud in your eye.
01:38I'm still a child.
01:39Your uncle will have my guts for garters.
01:42I'll go to bed.
01:44Are you all right?
01:46Long day.
01:47What's wrong with your usual diet of blood and guts?
01:51Got a bit bored.
01:53They're starving a woman to death in pinge.
01:57Nora, a favour.
01:59Where are those film almanacs?
02:02You mean the magazines that girl bought?
02:04No, no.
02:05We have a stack of almanacs.
02:06Early films.
02:07From when they still called them Flickers.
02:09If memory serves, between William Freeze Green
02:12and How Green Was My Valley.
02:14Right.
02:26There she is.
02:29Christiana Edmunds.
02:36Ad Astra Asper.
02:41What?
02:45Nothing.
02:59And the staircase doesn't go anywhere.
03:01Oh, it's all right.
03:03These people never go upstairs.
03:04Sounds like home.
03:06No ceiling, though.
03:08The rooms in films never have ceilings.
03:10Why is that, eh?
03:11It stopped the light getting in.
03:13Continuity, Mr. Book.
03:15Oh.
03:17Sorry.
03:18How is the life of a standard?
03:21Static.
03:22Jack, a word in your shell like.
03:28Jack.
03:28Jack.
03:29Back into the light.
03:30Yes.
03:32Ah.
03:33Mr. McKendrick.
03:34Glad to see you looking hale and hearty.
03:36Fully recovered, I hope?
03:37Yes.
03:37Thanks to Mrs. Book.
03:39When I went into the picture business, I never thought it would be so bad for my nerves.
03:42It's exhausting.
03:43More exhausting than running.
03:44Oh, much more.
03:45Near the end, though, now.
03:46Armory.
03:46Yes.
03:47I'm so sorry, Mr. Book.
03:48Would you excuse me?
03:49I'm rather busy.
03:50Of course.
03:50Oh, what is the, uh, story so far, Mr. Howard?
03:54We've been having a passionate affair of the intellect, Madeline and I.
03:58But then this telegram comes.
04:00A telegram of doom.
04:01And what do you know?
04:02Her husband's been found in a Japanese POW camp.
04:05Oh, bad luck.
04:06Yes.
04:06And he's on his way back to Blighty with his ribs sticking out, but still very much a going
04:09concern, love-wise.
04:10And so she tells me she has to leave me.
04:12And what do you say?
04:13Nothing.
04:14Of course.
04:14Writers never want to write those bits.
04:16They're like a nice, clean reaction shot.
04:19Something swelling in the soundtrack.
04:22Positions, please.
04:23But, credit due.
04:24Jesse listened.
04:25So instead of standing there catching flies, I gird my loins and go stoically back to work.
04:30Like Uncle Vanya.
04:33I'm sure that's what Jesse had in mind.
04:35Ask him.
04:37Am I to that?
04:40What did I do to die today?
04:42What did I do to come?
04:43Hold it, Billy.
04:44A minute or two to do.
04:46What did I do to die today?
04:48What did I do to die?
04:50Scene 34, take one.
04:54And.
04:56Action.
04:56Now the telegram is here.
04:58The one I think we knew would always come.
05:01Is this the end of the affair?
05:02Oh, don't say that word, Stuart.
05:05You know that it lads me.
05:07I shall think of us.
05:08She said Stuart.
05:09You said Stuart.
05:10What?
05:10You said Stuart.
05:11Cut.
05:12Let's do it again.
05:13Close positions, please.
05:14Close positions.
05:15Billy.
05:16Yes, Mr McKendree.
05:17Run this one.
05:18Would you call of nature?
05:23You've got it.
05:24You've got it.
05:25Quiet, please.
05:32And.
05:33Action.
05:35Don't say that word, Tony.
05:37You know that it hurts me.
05:39There's still time, you know.
05:42Time for what?
05:43To do the right thing.
05:45Stop the filming.
05:47I've been aware for a while about a certain secret relationship in your life.
05:52Oh, we are not.
05:53She isn't.
05:54I'm not with Sandra.
05:56With Strychnine.
05:58I've read those grave little paragraphs in the Farsity Sporting Review.
06:03How you took it as a stimulant to get you through those last agonizing yards of the race.
06:08Rather reckless, really.
06:10Your father wasn't very pleased, was he?
06:12No.
06:13So I got into trouble.
06:14So what?
06:15And then there's Christiana Edmonds.
06:18The heroine of your new film script.
06:21Household name, once.
06:22Fell in love with a doctor.
06:24And believed that he was in love with her.
06:27A pure fantasy.
06:28And she thought she could help him escape from his wife by bringing her a box of poison chocolate creams.
06:34Which the wife spat out just in time.
06:37And her poison of choice?
06:40Strychnine, of course.
06:42Bit of a leitmotif, isn't it?
06:45I've had a lot of time to think.
06:47Too much, I dare say.
06:49And I think we've been living in a kind of a dream.
06:53It's time for that dream to end.
06:56You must stay here with your books.
07:00And I...
07:02I must go back to my husband.
07:06I simply must.
07:24You didn't mean to kill poor Barbara Markham.
07:27And that might save you from the gallows.
07:31But you couldn't make the same argument about what's happening here, could you?
07:35Well, this is your very last chance, Jesse.
07:44Oh, damn, damn, damn you.
07:47Book.
07:48Ow!
07:49How was that?
07:50It was bloody painful.
07:51Hey, fuck.
07:52Oh, well.
07:55Too late now.
07:57You all right, Stu?
07:59It was on the cash register.
08:00It went right into me when I pressed the button.
08:07Oh, my God.
08:09Oh, my God.
08:10You.
08:11I have a name, Mr. Howard.
08:16This is what happened to that girl.
08:18No.
08:19Barbara Markham swallowed Strychnine.
08:21This time the poison was on a pin from the cash register,
08:24so it would go straight into the bloodstream.
08:27If Jack and Billy hadn't followed my instructions perfectly
08:31and swapped it with a clean one.
08:34The ping page told me where to look.
08:36But it was Billy who found it.
08:38You should be grateful he's so diligent, Mr. Howard,
08:41considering how bloody rude you are to him.
08:44You should thank him too, Jessie.
08:47One less name on the chance sheet next to little Barbara Markham.
08:54It was for you, my love.
08:56All for you.
08:58What?
08:59So we could be together.
09:00And I could make you a bigger star than ever.
09:03Not in cheap trash like this, but in a real film or masterpiece.
09:07What the hell are you talking about?
09:09He's been obsessed with you for years, Mr.
09:12Dair.
09:13Used to write letters to picture-goer.
09:15Under a pseudonym, of course.
09:17Basilisk.
09:18His family crest.
09:21And all those books he read in the shop last year.
09:23That's how he came up with his magnum opus.
09:28Unfortunately, he left a little trace behind.
09:32He saw that we were getting a little too close to the truth,
09:35and that's why he suddenly tasted something strange in his coffee.
09:39He faked the poisoning.
09:41He could have said,
09:43bitter almonds.
09:45Like people do in the films.
09:47But you chose to twitch.
09:50Because you knew that Barbara Markham had been killed by strychnine.
09:54You were familiar with the effects.
09:56They're pretty ugly, aren't they, Trotty?
09:57Yes.
09:58Spasms.
09:58A sort of breathless agitation.
10:00I'll never forget it.
10:02You put in a good performance, Jessie.
10:05But let me give you a note, Mr. Director.
10:08It takes a few minutes for the spasms to start.
10:11Your timing was out.
10:15Ad Astra Per Aspera.
10:18Through hardship to the stars.
10:20Your family motto.
10:22You got to the stars, didn't you, Jessie?
10:25Or to the only star that mattered to you.
10:28Sandra Dare.
10:29My family has money.
10:31So much money.
10:32That's how I bought my way into this filthy industry.
10:35I could have financed her picture, Sandra.
10:38But he was spoiling it.
10:41Him.
10:43What better publicity?
10:45A tragic widow overcoming her grief.
10:48Tackling the part of a lifetime alongside the brilliant young writer.
10:52Writer-director.
10:54Writer-director.
10:55Who consoled her.
10:56It's a scene.
10:59Deranged.
11:00Oh, you poor fool.
11:02It would be a whole new Sandra Dare, my darling.
11:04Playing your own age.
11:06No makeup, a true character part to show your real range.
11:09No makeup?
11:10Are you mad?
11:11I'm Sandra Dare.
11:14So was him.
11:15He killed that poor girl.
11:18Yes.
11:18And Noreena Bean.
11:20No, not Noreena Bean.
11:22What?
11:24Not Noreena Bean, the girl with the poison pen.
11:26Jesse has a cast iron alibi.
11:28He was in his office, his secretary by his side, passing him the carbon paper, typing out a way to
11:34murder you, Mr. Howard.
11:36Then who did do it?
11:37Where did we find her?
11:39Bottom of the stairs.
11:40Which lead where?
11:43Prop store.
11:44Offices.
11:45The vault.
11:47The vault.
11:48Yes.
11:50Wherein lies some of the forgotten remnants of British cinema.
11:54And one film in particular.
11:55I found the reference in an old movie almanac back in Archangel Lane.
12:00What film?
12:01Kitty Wins the Calcutta Sweep.
12:04What?
12:04The hell is that?
12:06It's the film I found in your room.
12:11Sandra.
12:22Billy, call Bowstreet.
12:24Get Bliss here.
12:25Yes, Mr. Burke.
12:38You never loved her, Stuart.
12:40Not like I did.
12:41It's a long time since I've done this for real.
12:56There and no, goes in the bank.
13:08What where we've got here?
13:10No!
13:12Oh!
13:15That's not what he's done!
13:20Who is this, or why?
13:24Sandra?
13:29Sandra, it's all over.
13:32Why don't you come out and explain?
13:43I wasn't Sandra Dare back then.
13:51I was Deirdre Pittock.
14:02It was so long ago.
14:07The film was lost and then Norena discovered it.
14:18And then I discovered her.
14:30It was pure chance.
14:36I was going back to my dressing room and I saw this person an extra.
14:44And then I recognized her.
14:50And I saw what she had in her sweaty hands.
14:55I had never been so angry, not in all my life.
15:02No!
15:03Give it to me!
15:07No!
15:08No!
15:08Damn it!
15:09No!
15:19She hit that step like a fairground coconut.
15:22She died instantly.
15:26But it was an accident.
15:30I swear.
15:32It was an accident.
15:36But there it was.
15:40The monster print.
15:54This business will forgive you a lot of things, but...
16:00I'm not getting old.
16:02Are you smoking, Sandra?
16:08When nitrate film burns, Sandra, it makes its own oxygen.
16:16You think I don't know that, Mr. Book?
16:20I'm a veteran of the silver screen.
16:25That's why they keep it in an asbestos bolt.
16:29If you drop that cigarette, Sandra, you'll go up like a torch.
16:34And Trotty and I won't escape unscathed.
16:40And neither will Stuart.
16:43Stuart.
16:46Darling.
16:49It doesn't have to be like this.
16:54She would have told him all my secret.
17:00That I was making films when Lennon was in office.
17:06They would have made me box office poison.
17:10And I've told you.
17:13I want to go on and on.
17:16Light up the town.
17:17Explode!
17:28Sandra.
17:29That script that Jesse wrote.
17:31I've read it.
17:33It's about a woman who makes...
17:36a terrible moral mistake.
17:40But she faces her fate with dignity.
17:45Inspector Bliss will be here soon.
17:48And you'll be under arrest.
17:51But before he arrives...
17:54I could save you a little bit of humiliation.
17:58What do you say?
18:02Let's go out to the tank.
18:05Bring that film.
18:07The one with you as a 17-year-old with your whole life ahead of you.
18:12If all this business made you what you've become.
18:19Oh no, Mr. Book.
18:22Ah.
18:25I've always had it in me.
18:28I've always been a star.
18:31I think that's what the camera saw.
18:35And why they've always loved me.
18:38Hmm.
18:41Just give me a moment, will you?
18:54Not bad.
19:13That's long enough.
19:14Keep the bloody door in.
19:54Come on.
19:55Come on.
19:57Come on.
19:59Come on.
20:00Come on.
20:24Who?
20:36Come on.
20:38Come on.
20:39Oh no.
21:00It's a tragedy, really.
21:02Well, they...
21:04Well, they hang.
21:06Jesse McKendrick, undoubtedly.
21:09But I'm sure the jury will be kind to Miss Dare.
21:13It was an accident, after all.
21:19Now you're a free man, Mr. Howard.
21:22Just what I wanted.
21:24What a cost.
21:27Mind you.
21:29Tragic ex-fiancé.
21:30Broken-hearted leading man.
21:32Suddenly single.
21:40What is it?
21:44It was an accident, wasn't it?
21:47Marina Beanstaff.
21:49Well, you shall never know, Inspector.
21:54After all, Sandra Dare is a terribly good actress.
22:08I'm gonna go see you weak.
22:08Letit's go.
22:12Here's another thing.
22:16There's another thing.
22:17It's going to be two years ago.
22:17Gracias, me outside.
22:17Let' go out.
22:17Hold on, aren't there?
22:17All right.
22:17Come on, aren't there?
22:18generator 2 to 41 years ago.
22:19All right, go!
22:19Let's go.hin'
22:19going to Capcom. Tell me
22:24to you. Jaghalten.
22:26I won't
22:26win. I'll tell
22:27Watch out. We're
22:27going to do
22:27this.
22:35Hello, Jack.
22:38What's up?
22:40Jack, we need to tell you something.
22:43I'm sorry we didn't say it before, but we wanted to let you settle in, and it's a delicate matter.
22:48It's about our relationship.
22:53Oh.
22:56Well, I think I've guessed it.
22:59Is it that obvious?
23:01Well, it wasn't at first, but...
23:04Yeah.
23:07I found a photograph.
23:10A photograph?
23:12My dad.
23:17You have a photo of my dad.
23:20It's just like the one that I have.
23:26And this.
23:28I know I shouldn't have taken it.
23:30I'm sorry, but with the picture, I...
23:34Eric Percival Banks, your first husband...
23:42Is this him?
23:45Amount.
23:49Amount.
23:59Amount.
25:30I'm so sorry.
25:42Then what's all this about?
25:46Jack.
25:50We have rather a lot to tell you.
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