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00:00:00The End

00:00:37The End

00:01:12Oh, fast it. Really, Johnny, for a boy who's just had measles.

00:01:16That clock's slow, Granny.

00:01:18That makes it even later.

00:01:19I mean, it's fast. Honest, it is.

00:01:22Just let me finish this chapter.

00:01:24No, dear.

00:01:26Besides, Shakespeare's easier to understand the right way up.

00:01:29A lot of things are.

00:01:35I shall have to shut the window.

00:01:39Just until your father's meeting is over.

00:01:41What are they quarreling about?

00:01:43Peace, dear.

00:01:44It's a meeting of people interested in world peace.

00:01:47Now, good night, darling.

00:01:56Good night, darling.

00:01:58Good night, darling.

00:02:00Good night, darling.

00:02:10Oh, dear, I was afraid John's meeting would keep you awake.

00:02:17My dear, nothing's ever kept me awake.

00:02:19Not even John at his noisiest.

00:02:24Good night.

00:02:40Nothing would induce me to sign such an impossible resolution.

00:02:44Really, Harold, you're making yourself quite ridiculous.

00:02:46You're talking absolute nonsense.

00:02:48Don't shout.

00:02:48It wasn't my proposal in the first place.

00:02:50Good night.

00:02:51It will agree to it.

00:02:52I heard you.

00:02:52Oh, don't be ridiculous.

00:02:53Nobody agrees.

00:02:57Fat-headed idiot.

00:03:03Oh, no.

00:03:07Yes, they've gone.

00:03:09Again.

00:03:10What do you mean, again?

00:03:11Same as last time.

00:03:12I made sandwiches.

00:03:16Those ruddy fools started fighting

00:03:18before I even had a chance to read the minutes of the last meeting.

00:03:20What on earth are you going to do with those?

00:03:22Why not send them to the natives in Rhodesia?

00:03:25Rhodesia?

00:03:25The last letter to the Times was unusually concerned about them.

00:03:30Or was it Indochina this time?

00:03:32It happened to be Angola.

00:03:34Sorry.

00:03:35Those idiots don't deserve good coffee.

00:03:37I hate trying to work with people who haven't got the guts to know what they do want.

00:03:42Doubt is something that's never bothered you, has it, John?

00:03:45Hmm?

00:03:45It can be a very real thing.

00:03:47Why entertain it, then?

00:03:49Comes as an uninvited guest.

00:03:51Kick it out.

00:03:53You're very metaphysical all of a sudden.

00:03:54What's come over you?

00:03:56Doubt.

00:03:57About me.

00:03:58About working for peace.

00:04:01No, John, of course not.

00:04:02Never about your ideals.

00:04:12What, um, what have you left out of the bride?

00:04:17Us.

00:04:19Us?

00:04:21On what way?

00:04:22Just us, at all.

00:04:33Well, John, I left my hair.

00:04:36You'll come to the next meeting, won't you?

00:04:38I'm afraid I've got something on that.

00:04:39We haven't fixed the night.

00:04:42Well, I'm feeling I'm getting to a busier every night next week.

00:04:45In other words, you won't come.

00:04:48Well, I'd rather not.

00:04:50Good night.

00:04:51Good night.

00:04:53Quarter-witted half-wit.

00:05:01Well, that's the last meeting we'll have here.

00:05:09That's what upset you tonight, darling, isn't it?

00:05:11No, I didn't mind.

00:05:12Oh, that's all right, then.

00:05:14Left the noise kept Johnny awake.

00:05:16Johnny?

00:05:17Oh, yeah, how is he?

00:05:18He goes back to school tomorrow.

00:05:20You said you'd take him to catch the 10.30.

00:05:22Tomorrow?

00:05:23Oh, darling, I can't.

00:05:25Would you mind taking him?

00:05:25Johnny would mind.

00:05:27You haven't seen anything of the boys these holidays.

00:05:29What do you mean?

00:05:30I took one of the pantomime?

00:05:32That was the Christmas holidays.

00:05:34Oh, really?

00:05:35Oh.

00:05:36Oh, well, I don't think they enjoyed it much anyway.

00:05:39Pantos aren't what they used to be.

00:05:40A lot of things aren't.

00:05:42Oh, I don't know.

00:05:42Kids don't change.

00:05:44Don't they?

00:05:45How would you know?

00:05:46Because, dear, strange as it may seem, I happen to have been a boy.

00:05:49Boys don't change.

00:05:50I listen to them this time.

00:05:52School stinks, the French master stinks, food stinks.

00:05:55Thank goodness there's something unchangeable in the world.

00:05:57John, perhaps they're right.

00:05:59Perhaps food does stink.

00:06:00Darling, all school food stinks.

00:06:03It's a jolly good thing.

00:06:04Makes them appreciate their home.

00:06:05If they've got a home.

00:06:07Well, don't you think this is a home?

00:06:08Well, the house seems so empty.

00:06:10Great.

00:06:11Let's fetch them back from school, then.

00:06:12Let's not think about the boys' own good.

00:06:14So you were thinking of their good when you sent them away?

00:06:16What was I thinking about?

00:06:16Your own peace and quiet.

00:06:17They were becoming a nuisance to you round the house.

00:06:19All right, dear.

00:06:20Have them back.

00:06:21Fetch them back from school.

00:06:22The next week, they're soon enough.

00:06:23You're awake, Johnny!

00:06:56Okay.

00:06:58Okay.

00:07:00Okay.

00:07:33Nothing I can get you in town, dear?

00:07:35I don't think so.

00:07:36Thank you, Mother.

00:07:37Stella, dear.

00:07:39You made a much better wife for John than he deserves.

00:07:41The fact that he is my son doesn't prevent me from saying you've married a self-centered,

00:07:45absent-minded maniac.

00:07:48Absent-minded?

00:07:49He was that before we married.

00:07:51I'd rather loved him for it.

00:07:53Ever since John adopted pacifism, I've never known him so impossibly belligerent.

00:07:58Perhaps.

00:08:00No, I'm not doing it to punish him.

00:08:03Doing it?

00:08:05Perhaps I ought to go away for a bit on my own.

00:08:09Have you told John?

00:08:10No, not yet.

00:08:12I suppose I've just been trying to work up the courage.

00:08:15A rather fancy courage is the one thing that John does appreciate.

00:08:21Do as you think best, dear.

00:08:33John, you're an idiot.

00:08:45Well, only five more minutes for freedom.

00:08:48That's my CLW.

00:08:49I have a postcard from him.

00:08:51To be this term.

00:08:52Uh-huh.

00:08:53Have you said anything to you, Johnny?

00:08:54No, you wouldn't tell me.

00:08:56Expect me to fix the date by now.

00:08:58Hope so.

00:08:59Doctor said I needed a tonic.

00:09:01Have you been in bed all the holidays?

00:09:02Me?

00:09:03Not likely.

00:09:05My symptoms didn't develop until the last day.

00:09:07What symptoms?

00:09:08Red spots on my chest.

00:09:10Eyes inflamed.

00:09:11How do you manage that?

00:09:13I had to look straight at the sun.

00:09:14The spots were easier.

00:09:16I did it with a hairbrush.

00:09:17What's that so, boy?

00:09:18I had a temperature, too.

00:09:20Oh.

00:09:22How?

00:09:23It's psychological.

00:09:24You put the thermomix on the radiator and think of something horrible.

00:09:28Here we are.

00:09:34That's Potter's father's plane.

00:09:36Well, he doesn't leave his plane down here.

00:09:39Want a bet?

00:09:40How much?

00:09:41Five quid.

00:09:42I'll make it five thousand.

00:09:44Look, there's 80.

00:09:48No, it's not.

00:09:49It's Charlie Adams.

00:09:50I know his bike.

00:09:51I bet it's 80.

00:09:52How much?

00:09:53You and me joined six from our last bet two months ago.

00:09:56Don't change the subject.

00:09:57How much?

00:09:58Trupple.

00:10:00What's that, Icy Curley?

00:10:01If it was, I'll have to report to the airfields out of bounds.

00:10:05What's the one, Icy, then?

00:10:21What's the one, Icy?

00:10:32Icy, Icy, Icy, Icy, Icy, Icy.

00:10:35What's up?

00:10:36I've got a message for you from Icy.

00:10:38I'll see you in the common room, okay?

00:10:40Okay.

00:10:49Good to smell the old place again, isn't it?

00:10:50Great.

00:10:52Hello.

00:10:54Well, Payton, we missed your smiling face in class this week.

00:10:57Yes, sir.

00:10:58I've been at home, ill.

00:11:00Oh, I'm sorry to hear that, but I shall expect you to make up the work before Thursday.

00:11:04Thursday, sir?

00:11:05Thursday, Payton.

00:11:07Glad you're back.

00:11:08Thank you, sir.

00:11:10Good to smell old Sykes again.

00:11:11Come on, better report back.

00:11:20Come in.

00:11:22Hello, Miss Bess.

00:11:23We're back.

00:11:24Hmm, sir, I see.

00:11:25Did you have a good holiday?

00:11:26Well, not so bad.

00:11:27Except for my bronchitis.

00:11:28Oh, yes, Dr. Skillingworth was sorry to hear about all of you.

00:11:31I'll tell him you've arrived.

00:11:32He may want to speak to you.

00:11:33Speak to us?

00:11:34What about?

00:11:35Nothing in particular, I imagine.

00:11:37Well, then.

00:11:39Don't bother him.

00:11:43Oh, don't be in a hurry, boys.

00:11:46Thank you, Miss Bess.

00:11:48We were just reporting back, sir.

00:11:52Well, come along in and tell me all about yourselves.

00:11:59Close the door, Hamden.

00:12:00Yes, sir.

00:12:04Come closer, boys.

00:12:14Well, I take it that you've all recovered from your various diseases, indispositions, complaints, etc.

00:12:20Yes, thank you, sir.

00:12:21Splendid.

00:12:21And you're all set and eager to carry on the pursuit of, uh, well, whatever it is you've come here

00:12:26to pursue.

00:12:28Yes, sir.

00:12:29Splendid.

00:12:31Paton, what on earth are you looking for?

00:12:34Nothing, sir.

00:12:42Paton, is this yours?

00:12:46No, sir.

00:12:47Are you sure?

00:12:48My parents would never permit me to chew gum.

00:12:51Oh.

00:12:52Well, then, naturally, you would never indulge.

00:12:54You don't think it's mine, do you, Paton?

00:12:56No, sir.

00:12:57Then how do you imagine it got there?

00:12:58Perhaps.

00:13:00Perhaps Miss Bess, sir.

00:13:03Oh, come now, Paton.

00:13:06That's hardly sporting, is it?

00:13:08To blame it on a woman.

00:13:10Adam did, sir.

00:13:12Adam.

00:13:13Oh, that Adam.

00:13:15Hard to be a good precedent to follow, Paton, in the light of what happened to him later on, don't

00:13:19you think?

00:13:21It's rather hard to explain.

00:13:23What is?

00:13:24The Old Testament?

00:13:25No, sir.

00:13:25What I was looking for, sir.

00:13:28And what was that, Paton?

00:13:30A microphone, sir.

00:13:32A hidden microphone.

00:13:33I was only trying to protect you.

00:13:36To protect me?

00:13:38From what, Paton?

00:13:40Never know, sir, do you?

00:13:43You're quite right, Paton.

00:13:45I never know.

00:13:47I also never know where that imagination of yours will take you.

00:13:50Yes, sir.

00:13:52Only it isn't imagination, sir.

00:13:54It's standard practice to have microphones in offices.

00:13:57Where is it standard practice, Paton?

00:13:59I saw it at the cinema yesterday, sir.

00:14:01Yesterday?

00:14:02Last week, sir.

00:14:03Before I was taken ill.

00:14:05It was very useful.

00:14:07Your illness?

00:14:07The microphone, sir.

00:14:09In case anyone is trying to get anything on you.

00:14:11So you're trying to protect me, Paton.

00:14:13Well, that's very loyal of you.

00:14:14Yes, sir.

00:14:16And I presume that if anyone were plotting against me or against the school, I could count on the loyalty

00:14:21of all of you.

00:14:23Oh, yes, sir.

00:14:25Is there a plot, sir?

00:14:26Well, perhaps plot is not quite the right word.

00:14:30Tell me something.

00:14:31Before you went on a holiday, did any of you happen to receive one of these?

00:14:37Haven't they?

00:14:43No, sir.

00:14:44Payton?

00:14:46No, sir.

00:14:47Hampton.

00:14:49No, sir.

00:14:51Perhaps the Latin might give you a clue.

00:14:52Ad Astra Per Angusta, which means, Payton?

00:14:56Me, sir?

00:14:57Yes.

00:14:57You want me to translate?

00:14:58Well, it's not too difficult.

00:15:00Oh, no, sir.

00:15:03Ad Astra to the stars.

00:15:06Per Angusta?

00:15:11Devontry.

00:15:16If I know what it means, sir, that doesn't imply that I'm implicated, does it?

00:15:21No.

00:15:22That was what was holding me back, sir.

00:15:24Oh, well, in that case, let Payton finish it.

00:15:27All right.

00:15:28But it's Devontry's turn, sir.

00:15:31To the stars, no matter what the difficulty is.

00:15:34Excellent, Devontry.

00:15:36Skilly!

00:15:49Come here, both of you.

00:15:56What's the meaning of this?

00:15:59We're playing a game, sir.

00:16:01The playing fields are not outside my study.

00:16:03Come in, Hampton.

00:16:03I want to talk to you.

00:16:06Yes, sir.

00:16:07Go to your room, Richard.

00:16:08Yes, sir.

00:16:10All right, boys, we'll go.

00:16:16Hi, Max.

00:16:17Hello.

00:16:17Hello, Johnny.

00:16:18Hello.

00:16:19What does he want?

00:16:21Operation Birdcage.

00:16:22Got a notice of a meeting.

00:16:24I'll bet young Skilly gave it to him.

00:16:26Is that why you were chasing him?

00:16:28He's trying to spy on us.

00:16:29Dr. Skilly would have wondered where you are.

00:16:31Yes, Miss Betts.

00:16:32Listen, I've got something important to tell you.

00:16:35Mother and father had an awful row last night.

00:16:37It's not the first time.

00:16:38What about?

00:16:39Father's going to take us all away from school.

00:16:41Oh, gosh.

00:16:42When?

00:16:43Next week.

00:16:43That's what they said.

00:16:44Max!

00:16:45Yes, Miss Betts.

00:16:47I'll tell Ikey.

00:16:48See you later.

00:16:53Oh, Hampton.

00:16:58Oh, come on, boy.

00:16:59Come on.

00:17:00You're not afraid of me, are you?

00:17:04Yes, sir.

00:17:06Why?

00:17:08Have I ever caned you?

00:17:10Except when you deserved it.

00:17:12No, sir.

00:17:13I see.

00:17:13You're afraid of me now because you've done something that deserves a caning.

00:17:16Is that it?

00:17:16Not yet, sir.

00:17:18Not yet?

00:17:19And you were planning something.

00:17:22Planning something?

00:17:24Not I, sir.

00:17:27Yes, that's right.

00:17:28It's your brother, Icarus, that does most of the planning, doesn't he?

00:17:33Usually, sir.

00:17:34As far as you know, Hampton, and I don't ask you to betray any confidences,

00:17:38is Icarus worried about anything just now?

00:17:41The only thing I know that he's worried about, sir, is the...

00:17:44the position of the individual in current society.

00:17:47Oh.

00:17:49Does that worry you?

00:17:51No, sir, I'm more the fascist type.

00:17:52At least that's what Icarus thinks.

00:17:55Well, it is the fascist type that you were pursuing my son just now.

00:17:58No, sir.

00:17:59Has that anything to do with it?

00:18:04Young Skilly, did your son give you this, sir?

00:18:07Is that the way the school thinks of my son?

00:18:09As an informer, as a spy?

00:18:11School, sir?

00:18:12I can't say, sir.

00:18:13Well, you'd better get that out of your head, do you understand?

00:18:16Yes, sir.

00:18:19And I have to take it that that has no connection or whatever with, uh, with Icarus's present worries.

00:18:25What makes you think he's worried about anything, sir?

00:18:27He hasn't looked at all well this term.

00:18:30And that's because he's on a fast.

00:18:32A fast?

00:18:34But for what reason?

00:18:36An experiment.

00:18:37A calorie consumption in relation to mental activity.

00:18:41Oh.

00:18:43Oh, dear, dear, dear, dear.

00:18:45Well, that's, that's, that's very bad.

00:18:48That's very, very bad news indeed.

00:18:51I'm afraid this school couldn't stand any increase of mental activity in the part of Icarus.

00:18:57I know that I couldn't.

00:19:00And I think you'd better warn him about that, Hamden.

00:19:04Yes, sir.

00:19:05Is that all?

00:19:07I hope so.

00:19:09I most sincerely hope so.

00:19:11For your sake, for his, and for the school.

00:19:14All right, Hamden, you may go.

00:19:17Thank you, sir.

00:19:23This just came from Maxie.

00:19:25Now, what'd you say?

00:19:27School stinks.

00:19:28Food stinks.

00:19:29Old Skillingworth stinks.

00:19:31Do you know what I mean?

00:19:31Skilly's son is a fifth columnist, always carrying tales.

00:19:35Don't want to go on to university.

00:19:36University stinks.

00:19:38Or have to go to Sandhurst.

00:19:40Sandhurst, that's a brilliant idea.

00:19:42So he thinks peace stinks.

00:19:45What's this about Icarus?

00:19:46Seems he started on a five-day fast.

00:19:49A fast?

00:19:49Now what?

00:19:50Another of his experiments ought to be used to Icarus by now.

00:19:53Shocking writing.

00:19:57Johnny was very strange when I said goodbye.

00:20:00Kissed me twice.

00:20:01You don't think he overheard us last night?

00:20:04Well, he couldn't possibly have understood what we were yelling about.

00:20:07I didn't myself.

00:20:09Didn't you?

00:20:11I don't think you did either.

00:20:13What's come over you, darling?

00:20:17I told you last night.

00:20:19No, you didn't.

00:20:20You just said something about having some sort of doubts about something or other.

00:20:24I think you're just tired.

00:20:26Maybe you've caught something.

00:20:27That's right.

00:20:27I'm suffering from chronic indigestion, migraine, gastritis, and I'm probably sickening from measles.

00:20:31It can all be explained away physically.

00:20:33Well, there's no need to be sarcastic.

00:20:34I don't even know what we're talking about yet.

00:20:36Well, don't let that stop you.

00:20:37It doesn't usually.

00:20:39I think the Americans call it marriage fatigue.

00:20:41Marriage fatigue?

00:20:44Well, it's lucky we haven't both called it the same time, isn't it?

00:20:49I don't need to get you down, darling.

00:20:50We will get over it.

00:20:55Oh, to be in England now that April's there.

00:20:57And whoever wakes in England sees some morning unaware.

00:21:01The lowest bowels in the brushwood sheet.

00:21:07Our valiant neighbours are a trifle early today.

00:21:11What seems to be the trouble, Brown?

00:21:13Excuse me, sir.

00:21:13Those aren't valiant, so how do you paint pictures?

00:21:16You seem to disagree, Smith.

00:21:18They aren't pictures, sir.

00:21:19They're Canberras.

00:21:20They carry the hydrogen bomb.

00:21:22Now, that's very interesting.

00:21:23But this happens to be a class in English poetry.

00:21:26Hamden, will you proceed, please?

00:21:29Let the lowest bowels in the brushwood sheet

00:21:31around the own tree bowler in tiny leaf

00:21:34while the chapinch sings on the orchard bow

00:21:36in England now.

00:21:39Hmm.

00:21:40Not bad, Hamden.

00:21:42Any questions?

00:21:43Please, sir.

00:21:44Yes, Warren?

00:21:45If the hydrogen bomb falls near here, sir.

00:21:47If the hydrogen bomb falls near here, Warren,

00:21:49you probably won't have to worry

00:21:51about the low mark I'm giving you

00:21:53for asking a stupid question.

00:21:55Any more questions?

00:21:59D-Day minus five.

00:22:02You say you found this in the changing room, Kirkland?

00:22:05Yesterday afternoon, sir, after practice.

00:22:07Well, that seems to indicate that D-Day,

00:22:09whatever that is,

00:22:11is still in the future.

00:22:13Aquila known Capit Muscas.

00:22:15Does that suggest anything to your fine classical mind, Kirkland?

00:22:18A fair translation would be,

00:22:20an eagle does not concern himself with the insects.

00:22:24Not much help, is it?

00:22:26Well, gentlemen, I just thought that I ought to warn you

00:22:29that something seems to be afoot.

00:22:31Though I don't think we need to take it too seriously,

00:22:33just yet...

00:22:34You're playing with fire, you know, sir.

00:22:36Maybe you live safe.

00:22:37Especially as I suspect

00:22:39that the eagle in question is our old friend Icarus.

00:22:42Hamden has always been a disturbing influence.

00:22:44In my opinion, sir,

00:22:45you'll be doing the school a great service

00:22:47by getting rid of him this time.

00:22:48Well, we may have to do that, Sykes.

00:22:51I might add that I'll do everything I possibly can to avoid it.

00:22:55After 35 years of teaching,

00:22:57I still prefer the eagle

00:22:58well to the parrot.

00:23:47Listen, this is important.

00:23:49that makes it perfect.

00:23:51You've got all the signatures.

00:23:54Here.

00:23:55Well, it's at Betty Fisher.

00:23:56He's only nine in the house.

00:23:58And Teddy Logan,

00:23:59he's in the circle.

00:24:00Okay.

00:24:01We've got practically everybody at our house.

00:24:03He's at Young's getting a few rotten types.

00:24:05And you can't talk to anything.

00:24:07You don't know.

00:24:08I may have to give him another punch on the nose

00:24:09to make him shut up.

00:24:11With zero hour.

00:24:12At 14.22 exact.

00:24:14We better synchronize.

00:24:15Okay.

00:24:22Now, my friend,

00:24:23let me warn you

00:24:25that there can be

00:24:27no lasting social gain in the East

00:24:29until a position of woman has been changed.

00:24:32Until a position of woman,

00:24:34woman has been changed.

00:24:36Well, I'm going to make it a few important

00:24:37and I'm going to help you with the children.

00:24:39Now, my friend,

00:24:40there can be no lasting social gain.

00:24:43Darling, listen to this, will you?

00:24:44It's for the Anglo-Asian Society.

00:24:47But now, my friend,

00:24:49let me warn you

00:24:50that there can be no lasting social gains in the East

00:24:54until the position of woman has been changed.

00:24:57The position of woman where?

00:24:59In the East, of course.

00:25:01You mean Kent, Essex, Suffolk?

00:25:04Darling, you weren't listening.

00:25:05I said this was the Anglo-Asian Society.

00:25:08Sorry.

00:25:08Did Uncle Darcy get the Brahms Quintet to us

00:25:11or to you or to me?

00:25:12Look, if you don't want to help me, dear...

00:25:14Go ahead, go ahead.

00:25:18Woman must be made to feel important,

00:25:21not only to her husband and children...

00:25:23Excuse me, John.

00:25:24Would you say that again?

00:25:25Yes, of course, dear.

00:25:27Woman must be made to feel important,

00:25:29not only to her husband...

00:25:32Is that funny, dear?

00:25:33Yes, very.

00:25:34Um, do you want Beat Hobson's third or fifth?

00:25:38What are you doing?

00:25:39Sorting the records.

00:25:40Some of them are mine.

00:25:42I'm supposing they are.

00:25:43I might want to take them with me.

00:25:46Where?

00:25:47I don't know yet.

00:25:49Oh, good heavens, Stella.

00:25:51What have I done now?

00:25:53I haven't done anything, John.

00:25:55I haven't been a drunkard or beaten me up

00:25:56or been unfaithful.

00:25:57I'm just going away.

00:25:58But why?

00:26:00I want to go now while we still respect each other.

00:26:04I think you've gone quietly mad.

00:26:06Oh, if it helps you to think that,

00:26:07don't let me stop you.

00:26:09Maybe in a way I have.

00:26:11That's why I can't stand it any longer.

00:26:13Hey, hey, hey.

00:26:13No, don't touch me, John.

00:26:14Leave me alone.

00:26:15Perfectly all right.

00:26:16Darling, you're all muddled up.

00:26:17Now, would you like me to get you some bread?

00:26:18No, I would not.

00:26:18I wish you'd stop implying there's something wrong with me.

00:26:21Well, isn't there?

00:26:21I mean, there must be.

00:26:23I'm perfectly sound,

00:26:24in wind, in limb, and in mind.

00:26:28Sorry I went emotional on you.

00:26:30You're not really serious about this.

00:26:32Yes.

00:26:36Well, you've thought about the boys.

00:26:38Of course I've thought about the boys.

00:26:39They're not going to cut my throat

00:26:40or banish myself to Timbuktu.

00:26:42I'll be around somewhere.

00:26:55You want me to renew your subscription to the library?

00:27:00Is that important?

00:27:01It's overdue.

00:27:16It's taken in Switzerland.

00:27:18The year after Icarus was born.

00:27:21It hasn't changed much.

00:27:22I have.

00:27:25Good holiday, wasn't it?

00:27:26That was when you broke your leg.

00:27:29Was it?

00:27:30It was the worst holiday we ever had.

00:27:34Oh.

00:27:59Remember there?

00:28:05Stella, I wish I knew what this was all about.

00:28:07I suppose I worked up into a flaming row,

00:28:10put on a wild bit of stereo,

00:28:12and ran sobbing violently out of your life forever.

00:28:14Oh, be reasonable, can't you?

00:28:15Just what I'm being,

00:28:16I'm trying to be decently grown up.

00:28:18About what?

00:28:19About being a stifer.

00:28:21About being ignored.

00:28:22About having no apparent significance in your life.

00:28:24I don't know what you want from a wife,

00:28:25but whatever it is,

00:28:26I don't seem to be able to give it.

00:28:27Maybe it's sex, maybe it's intellect.

00:28:28Now, Stella!

00:28:28You've lous-tellered me for too many years!

00:28:31My dear,

00:28:32I'm probably a completely inadequate human being.

00:28:35I'm sure any man is

00:28:36when confronted with the complexities of the female mind

00:28:39and the female nervous system

00:28:41under restraint.

00:28:42My nerves are all right.

00:28:44I am perfectly calm and cool.

00:28:46I know, dear, I know.

00:28:47You're controlling yourself.

00:28:48That's what causes the stress.

00:28:49I am not controlling myself!

00:28:51Fine, fine, let yourself go.

00:28:52That's just what you need.

00:28:53You are the most frustrating,

00:28:55pig-headed, insensitive, Holcomb.

00:28:56Complacent masculine

00:28:57that any woman ever had to suffer.

00:28:59You're a jobber now.

00:29:00A what?

00:29:00A jobber now!

00:29:01A jobber now? Nice.

00:29:02You're not even a jobber now, you're a...

00:29:06For you and I together to make this...

00:29:11Now, let's get this clear.

00:29:19Sorry, Mr. Hayes.

00:29:20Dr. Skillingworth,

00:29:21there happens to be a front door to this house.

00:29:24I have been ringing the bell for five minutes.

00:29:27Do come in, Dr. Skillingworth,

00:29:29I'll open the door.

00:29:31Let me handle this,

00:29:32then I've got something to say to you.

00:29:35Well, what's the teller now, Dr. Skillingworth?

00:29:37If the school needs more money...

00:29:38The subject of my visit is not finance.

00:29:40Then would you be so kind

00:29:41as to arrange an appointment

00:29:42for a more convenient hour,

00:29:43or perhaps the subject could be handled by post?

00:29:46As you wish, Mr. Hamden.

00:29:47Though I should have preferred to talk to you first,

00:29:49before expelling your son.

00:29:51Expelling?

00:29:52Which son?

00:29:53Maximilian.

00:29:54Maxie!

00:29:56Please, come in, Dr. Skillingworth.

00:29:58Thank you, Mrs. Hamden.

00:30:03Would you please explain yourself, sir?

00:30:05I know, Mr. Hamden,

00:30:07that you are an avowed pacifist.

00:30:09But as for your son,

00:30:11the school bully is a phenomenon

00:30:13with which I'm familiar

00:30:14and with which I can cope.

00:30:15But with the single-minded,

00:30:18berserk, bloodlust of your Maximilian,

00:30:20or, as he's known throughout the school,

00:30:23battling Maxie.

00:30:24What have you done to him?

00:30:24For the moment,

00:30:25I have locked him in his dormitory.

00:30:26What for?

00:30:27This morning, one of the boys

00:30:28was viciously attacked

00:30:29and knocked unconsciously.

00:30:30I remember Max is so gentle.

00:30:32Was it a little boy?

00:30:34It was my son, Richard,

00:30:35who was attacked.

00:30:37What did he attack him for?

00:30:38Your son seems to have conceived

00:30:39the idea that I'm using my son

00:30:41to spy upon the other boys.

00:30:42Well, of course,

00:30:42that couldn't possibly be true.

00:30:43It could not possibly be true!

00:30:46Your son, age 15,

00:30:47was attacked by my son, age 14.

00:30:49And you come all the way here

00:30:50breathing vengeance

00:30:51and threatening expulsion.

00:30:53Really, Dr. Skillingworth,

00:30:55I came here because both Max and Icarus

00:30:57are ceaseless troublemakers.

00:30:58And you, of all people,

00:31:00are in a very weak position

00:31:01to condone unprovoked violence.

00:31:03Me, of all people?

00:31:04Oh, I see.

00:31:05If you're not very careful,

00:31:07Dr. Skillingworth,

00:31:07I'll knock your block off.

00:31:08That'll teach you something

00:31:09about my brand of pacifism.

00:31:10John!

00:31:11John!

00:31:11Mr. Hamden,

00:31:12there's no use in bandying words.

00:31:13I felt it was my duty

00:31:14to come and talk to you personally.

00:31:16Obviously, I made an error of judgment.

00:31:17Oh, no, you don't.

00:31:18You don't wriggle out

00:31:18of your responsibility

00:31:19as easily as that.

00:31:20I sent you a docile little boy

00:31:23with, as I remember it,

00:31:24a rather sweet disposition.

00:31:26Within a few months,

00:31:26you've turned him,

00:31:27as you ought to be believed,

00:31:28into some kind of holy cross

00:31:29between Sugar Ray Robinson

00:31:30and Dracula.

00:31:31The atmosphere and background

00:31:33of Ferndale School

00:31:33is a comparatively moral one.

00:31:35But the background

00:31:36of his home, however.

00:31:37If you mean to imply, sir,

00:31:38that my...

00:31:39A pacifist.

00:31:40A pacifist

00:31:41who threatens

00:31:42to knock people's blocks off.

00:31:44Now, listen, you...

00:31:45you...

00:31:46Pedagogical Poppinger, eh?

00:31:48Excuse me.

00:31:51Hello.

00:31:51What?

00:31:53No.

00:31:54Ferndale.

00:31:55It's for you.

00:31:59Hello.

00:32:00Dr. Skillingworth here.

00:32:02Yes, Miss Betts.

00:32:05What?

00:32:07Shot.

00:32:09Who's been shot?

00:32:13Wait, I...

00:32:13I don't quite understand.

00:32:16Who's been shooting who?

00:32:19Hello?

00:32:20Hello?

00:32:23I seem to be cut off.

00:32:24I seem to...

00:32:25Give me a minute.

00:32:25Hello?

00:32:26Look, we've been cut off.

00:32:27Yes.

00:32:28Well, hurry up, please.

00:32:29Who's been shot?

00:32:30One of the masters,

00:32:32Mr. Sykes.

00:32:32Oh, how awful.

00:32:33Yes, what?

00:32:34What do you mean,

00:32:35out of order?

00:32:36It was all right a minute ago?

00:32:37Well, keep after it, please.

00:32:38I must get a taxi at once.

00:32:40No, I'll take you in the car.

00:32:41I think you'd better come, too.

00:32:43Why?

00:32:44The shot was fired

00:32:45by your son, Max.

00:32:48I'll get the car.

00:32:49You leave a note for Mother.

00:32:50Excuse me.

00:32:50I'll get my things.

00:32:58That means they've got off, all right.

00:32:59You'd better get on down to the station

00:33:01and see if old Skilly's on the train.

00:33:02Okay.

00:33:12I say, Lucy, any luck?

00:33:15No sign on them anywhere.

00:33:16Now, bikes aren't in the shed.

00:33:17Have you tried the pavilion?

00:33:18We're going there now.

00:33:23Oh, and get the exchange

00:33:24from the call box in the village

00:33:26and tell them our phone's dead.

00:33:27Did you find Dr. Oskine?

00:33:28He's with Mr. Sykes now.

00:33:30Says it's not serious.

00:33:31Max is shocking, isn't he?

00:33:32I know.

00:33:33And after you've phoned,

00:33:34you'd better meet the London train

00:33:35in case Dr. Skillingworth caught it.

00:33:36What did the old man say?

00:33:38Curly, this is not a laughing matter.

00:33:40Now, get cracking.

00:33:41Do you think the old man

00:33:41will have to fire him?

00:33:42I said get on.

00:33:43I hope not.

00:33:44Nobody likes Sykes much.

00:33:46Right, you're ready, but...

00:33:47Curly!

00:33:50Look.

00:33:54You see, Miss Betts,

00:33:55we may be sitting on a powder keg.

00:33:57Young Peyton's generation

00:33:58is a very restless one.

00:33:59Let me know if you'll find anything.

00:34:01Let me know if you'll find anything.

00:34:02Let me know if you'll find anything.

00:34:10Let me know if you'll find anything.

00:34:22All right, chaps.

00:34:23So far, everything's going as I can want it.

00:34:26But the real job's going to start

00:34:27when Skilly gets back.

00:34:28Did you see Curly?

00:34:29Yes, when I went down to the call box.

00:34:31They're getting their phone taped.

00:34:32And you got your old man?

00:34:34No, he was at an editorial meeting.

00:34:35But I got his secretary.

00:34:37Quite a decent old stick.

00:34:38She's going to send down

00:34:39a reporter right away.

00:34:40Right away?

00:34:42You crap, I told her.

00:34:43not till this evening.

00:34:45Sorry.

00:34:48Who is it?

00:34:49Warren.

00:34:54Old Skilly wasn't on the train,

00:34:56but I saw Curly,

00:34:56and he thought he might be coming by road.

00:34:58Okay.

00:35:00Go to the north wing

00:35:01and wait for the signal

00:35:02from the main gate.

00:35:03They're bound to come that way.

00:35:05Peyton,

00:35:05you'd better get out to Skilly's office

00:35:07and wait there.

00:35:08As soon as he arrives,

00:35:09say you want to confess.

00:35:10Confess?

00:35:11Why me?

00:35:12You've got to make old Skilly

00:35:13think that the whole show

00:35:14was just to let Max

00:35:15escape from his room

00:35:16and that the boys

00:35:17are on their way home

00:35:18and that you're

00:35:19the only one in on it.

00:35:20Yes, and I'm the only one

00:35:21that'll get a beating.

00:35:23Peyton, I'm ashamed of you.

00:35:24You have the chance

00:35:25of a lifetime

00:35:26to fool old Skilly

00:35:27about where the boys

00:35:28have really gone.

00:35:29And you're afraid

00:35:30of a little whacking.

00:35:31Might not be little.

00:35:32So what?

00:35:33Go all sunk

00:35:34if it doesn't succeed.

00:35:35Go on.

00:35:36Better get up there now

00:35:37and tell Miss Betts

00:35:38you want to see Skilly.

00:35:40All right.

00:35:40But I'm jolly

00:35:41who I'm not going to

00:35:42confess about cutting

00:35:42the telephone wire.

00:35:43Get on with it.

00:35:47He's here.

00:35:48Just coming up the hill.

00:35:49Skilly and the Blunk

00:35:50and the lady.

00:35:50Oh, I don't get excited.

00:35:52Probably their parents.

00:35:54Next meeting

00:35:55before prep.

00:36:05I've no idea

00:36:06when you'll be back.

00:36:07If you really want to wait,

00:36:07you'd better sit down.

00:36:12Thank goodness you've come.

00:36:13How is Mr. Sykes?

00:36:14Dr. Erskine reports

00:36:15that it isn't serious.

00:36:15I want to see Max.

00:36:16Oh, this is Mr.

00:36:17Mrs. Hamden,

00:36:18Miss Betts.

00:36:19How do you do?

00:36:19Oh, that's not possible

00:36:20at the moment.

00:36:21I think we can make an exception.

00:36:23What do you mean, Miss Betts?

00:36:24Where is the boy?

00:36:25He's gone.

00:36:26They've all disappeared.

00:36:27Icarus, Max, and Dr.

00:36:28They've disappeared.

00:36:28No, they can't.

00:36:29I'm terribly sorry, Mrs. Hamden.

00:36:30But boys don't just disappear.

00:36:32Oh, they're not in any

00:36:33of the school buildings.

00:36:33Well, then we must find them.

00:36:35Might they be hiding somewhere?

00:36:36Couldn't we send out a search party?

00:36:37Mrs. Hamden,

00:36:38I shall be better able

00:36:39to answer these questions

00:36:40after I have made

00:36:41my own investigation.

00:36:42Oh, come on then.

00:36:42Let's make it.

00:36:43Mr. Hamden,

00:36:44this is not your home.

00:36:45This is a school

00:36:45of which I am in charge.

00:36:47A master has been shot.

00:36:48So I gather.

00:36:49Did anyone see

00:36:50the alleged shooting

00:36:51or know where

00:36:52the alleged gun was obtained?

00:36:53Pete, Mr. Hamden,

00:36:54that these are questions

00:36:55which I shall exa-

00:36:57Peyton!

00:36:58What are you doing here?

00:37:00He was waiting to see you, sir.

00:37:01I think he knows

00:37:02something about it.

00:37:03That wouldn't surprise me.

00:37:05In here, Peyton.

00:37:10I'm sure I shall find out

00:37:12everything very soon now.

00:37:13Meanwhile,

00:37:13if you and Mrs. Hamden

00:37:14will wait here

00:37:15as patiently as you possibly can.

00:37:20Now, don't worry still,

00:37:21dear.

00:37:21The boys have probably

00:37:22gone home.

00:37:23I'll, um,

00:37:24ring mother.

00:37:25I'm afraid that's not working.

00:37:26Would you like to sit down,

00:37:27Mrs. Hamden?

00:37:28Sit down, Peyton.

00:37:31In the armchair, Peyton.

00:37:39Well, now, Peyton,

00:37:40you think you can throw

00:37:42some light on the unfortunate

00:37:43events of this morning?

00:37:44Yes, sir.

00:37:45Good.

00:37:45I hope so, sir.

00:37:47You may proceed.

00:37:48Yes, sir.

00:37:50I'm waiting, Peyton.

00:37:52Yes, sir.

00:37:54I was in the plot, sir.

00:37:56Oh, there was a plot?

00:37:57Yes, sir.

00:37:57It was to rescue Maxie, sir.

00:37:58Rescue him?

00:38:00Am I to understand

00:38:01that you approved

00:38:01of the conduct

00:38:02for which he was being punished?

00:38:03It was a fair fight, sir.

00:38:05Young Scalipi

00:38:06asked him for it

00:38:06and Maxie gave it to him.

00:38:09It was what we all thought, sir.

00:38:11Of course, it was bad

00:38:12like he fell on a stone.

00:38:13What?

00:38:14But that wasn't Maxie's fault, sir.

00:38:16It was a fair fight, honestly, sir.

00:38:20All right, all right.

00:38:25Now, what part did you play

00:38:26in this work of rescue?

00:38:27I created a diversion, sir.

00:38:29A diversion?

00:38:30I fell down at the appointed time

00:38:32and wriggled about

00:38:32with horrible pains

00:38:33in my stomach.

00:38:36To distract attention?

00:38:37To create a diversion, sir.

00:38:39While Icarus and Johnny

00:38:40got him out.

00:38:41That's why I had to

00:38:42howl with pain.

00:38:43To drown the noise

00:38:43when they broke the window, sir.

00:38:46Oh, this is nothing

00:38:47whatever to do with D-Day.

00:38:50D-Day?

00:38:51D-Day, Peyton.

00:38:52No, sir.

00:38:54That means it was

00:38:54purely a family affair

00:38:55apart from yourself.

00:38:56I should think

00:38:57that would be very plausible, sir.

00:38:59Oh, indeed.

00:39:04Peyton,

00:39:05do you know

00:39:06where the brothers are now?

00:39:07Oh, no, sir.

00:39:09I should imagine

00:39:10they might have gone home.

00:39:12Oh, sir.

00:39:14Oh, sir.

00:39:15And the revolver?

00:39:16Where did they get the revolver?

00:39:18Oh, it wasn't the revolver, sir.

00:39:19It was a pocket blunderbuss.

00:39:21Icarus made it.

00:39:22He's very good

00:39:22with his hand, sir.

00:39:24And he made it?

00:39:25Where?

00:39:26Oh, here, sir.

00:39:27In the metal shop

00:39:28during the useful work period.

00:39:30In the best interest

00:39:31of the school?

00:39:32Oh, of course, sir.

00:39:33Icarus has the good

00:39:34of the school

00:39:34always at heart,

00:39:35I would say.

00:39:38Oh, that's a beautiful

00:39:39thought, Peyton.

00:39:41Yes, sir.

00:39:42And the bullets?

00:39:44Oh, it wasn't

00:39:44a bullet, sir.

00:39:45It was a 0.2 ball bearing.

00:39:47Not really dangerous,

00:39:48only a bit painful.

00:39:49He says some pains

00:39:50are necessary.

00:39:51I'm greatly relieved

00:39:53of that, Peyton.

00:39:56Now you're going

00:39:56to tell me

00:39:57that Icarus

00:39:57also made the powder

00:39:59in the chemistry class.

00:40:01Oh, yes, sir.

00:40:02He's very good

00:40:03at chemistry.

00:40:05I suppose

00:40:06his parents

00:40:06were a bit upset.

00:40:09You're just full

00:40:10of beautiful thoughts,

00:40:11Peyton.

00:40:12Oh, thank you, sir.

00:40:16Found it in the flowerbed.

00:40:18Yes.

00:40:18Do you mind

00:40:18if I see that?

00:40:19Just a minute.

00:40:20Oh, this is Mr.

00:40:20and Mrs. Hamden, Curley.

00:40:21Oh, yes.

00:40:22You've got three fine lads, sir.

00:40:24You don't know where they are?

00:40:25No, ma'am,

00:40:25but they'll turn up.

00:40:26Yes.

00:40:26Would you mind

00:40:26if I know?

00:40:27Oh, I'd best show it

00:40:27in there first.

00:40:28I'll show it.

00:40:33There you are.

00:40:33Come here, toy.

00:40:34Be careful, Mr. Hamden.

00:40:36It might be loaded.

00:40:37Soon find out, sir.

00:40:38May I have it, sir?

00:40:42Empty.

00:40:44Been fired?

00:40:44We gathered it had.

00:40:46A lovely job, sir.

00:40:47You should be very proud of him.

00:40:49If you had some powder here,

00:40:50I could show you.

00:40:51I have neither powder

00:40:52nor ball bearings, Peyton,

00:40:53though of course

00:40:54I can't answer

00:40:54for Mr. Hamden.

00:40:56Has your investigation

00:40:57got you anywhere,

00:40:58Dr. Skillingworth?

00:40:58Have you been able

00:40:59to find out anything

00:41:00from this boy?

00:41:00You have nothing more

00:41:01to tell me, Peyton.

00:41:02No, sir.

00:41:03Think carefully, Peyton.

00:41:04Remember, honesty

00:41:05will be taken into account

00:41:06when I come

00:41:06to assess your punishment.

00:41:07Nothing more, sir.

00:41:09Very well, Peyton.

00:41:10You may go.

00:41:11Now look here.

00:41:12Just one moment,

00:41:13Mr. Hamden, please.

00:41:13Help me.

00:41:14Are they all right?

00:41:15Oh, they're supersonic.

00:41:16You mean they're...

00:41:18They're...

00:41:18Well, they're all right.

00:41:23The telephone's been fixed, sir.

00:41:25The wires had been cut

00:41:25quite close to the school.

00:41:27Thank you, Miss Betts.

00:41:28May I?

00:41:30Hello.

00:41:31Get me deep there.

00:41:325124, please.

00:41:41Now listen, Mother.

00:41:43There's no need

00:41:43to call in the police.

00:41:45I'm handling this.

00:41:47Yes, dear.

00:41:48Goodbye.

00:41:50Why not call in the police?

00:41:51No, I don't think

00:41:52that would be advisable,

00:41:53Mrs. Hamden.

00:41:54Well, certainly not.

00:41:54The publicity wouldn't

00:41:55be good for the boys.

00:41:56No, nor for the school.

00:41:57Well, what have you

00:41:58got to worry about?

00:41:59I should think

00:42:00every boy in England

00:42:00would now clamour

00:42:01to gain admittance.

00:42:02A school where you're

00:42:03taught to make guns

00:42:04and gunpowder

00:42:05where a pupil

00:42:06actually achieves

00:42:07the schoolboy's dream

00:42:08of shooting

00:42:08one of his persecutors.

00:42:09Oh, it's irresistible.

00:42:11You're sitting pretty.

00:42:12And you?

00:42:12Can't you see the headlines?

00:42:14War and peace

00:42:14among the Hamdens.

00:42:16Pacifist, progeny,

00:42:17pedagog.

00:42:18I think you're contemptible,

00:42:20both of you.

00:42:20You're not thinking

00:42:20about the boys at all.

00:42:22They're in trouble.

00:42:22They need help.

00:42:23Do you realise

00:42:24what a state they must have been

00:42:25in to have done

00:42:25a thing like this

00:42:26and you sit there

00:42:27squabbling about trivialities

00:42:28because you're afraid

00:42:28you might get your names

00:42:29into the papers?

00:42:30Stella, is it...

00:42:31I'm going to the police

00:42:32and I'm going to the papers.

00:42:34Sorry, I must forbid that,

00:42:35Mrs. Hamden.

00:42:38Can I have the keys to the car?

00:42:39No, Mrs. Hamden,

00:42:40I don't think you're being

00:42:41fair to your sons.

00:42:42I'd hate to say

00:42:43I know them better than you

00:42:44but I feel certain

00:42:45that they do know

00:42:46how to take care of themselves.

00:42:47Peyton has implied

00:42:48that they've gone home

00:42:49and I think he knows.

00:42:50Why not wait

00:42:51just for a few hours?

00:42:54All right, I'll wait

00:42:55for a few hours.

00:42:56If I may look in their rooms

00:42:58and talk to some

00:42:59of their friends.

00:43:00At least we might find out

00:43:01why they left.

00:43:02Oh, but of course,

00:43:03of course, Mrs. Hamden.

00:43:04You may even find something

00:43:05that the rest of us

00:43:05have overlooked.

00:43:09Yes, yes, certainly.

00:43:11Will you excuse me

00:43:12for a moment now, please?

00:43:14Come, sir.

00:43:20Yes, Dr. Erskine.

00:43:24Oh, good.

00:43:27Oh, good.

00:43:28Tell Mr. Sykes

00:43:29I'll be up to see him

00:43:30as soon as I possibly can

00:43:32and...

00:43:33Oh.

00:43:35But, uh,

00:43:36must you fill in

00:43:37a certificate?

00:43:39Well, I mean

00:43:40publicity and all that.

00:43:44Nobody is asking you

00:43:45to falsify anything,

00:43:46Dr. Erskine,

00:43:47but why not describe it

00:43:48as a ball bearing

00:43:49instead of as a bullet?

00:43:50Oh, look.

00:43:52Why not

00:43:53a foreign body

00:43:54lodged

00:43:55in the thigh?

00:43:58Yes.

00:44:00Accurate

00:44:00and yet

00:44:01unrevealing.

00:44:05All right.

00:44:05Thank you, Dr. Erskine.

00:44:07Goodbye.

00:44:09You know,

00:44:10we oughtn't be doing this.

00:44:12Invading a man's privacy,

00:44:13it's not right.

00:44:14I thought we were

00:44:14trying to find some clue

00:44:15as to what happened

00:44:16this morning.

00:44:17We know what happened, dear.

00:44:18They obviously wanted

00:44:18to shoot a master.

00:44:20If you're properly adjusted,

00:44:21you don't want

00:44:21to shoot masters.

00:44:22On the contrary.

00:44:25When they do show up,

00:44:27we'll see that

00:44:27they're properly adjusted

00:44:29to the idea

00:44:30that when you do something,

00:44:31you have to take

00:44:31the consequence.

00:44:32You always have to come out

00:44:33with some big abstract

00:44:35worldwide principle,

00:44:36don't you?

00:44:37In fact,

00:44:37you can't keep

00:44:38your own house in all

00:44:39that doesn't seem

00:44:39to bother you.

00:44:40If by that,

00:44:40you're implying

00:44:41that I'm not a good father...

00:44:42I doubt whether

00:44:43you're a father at all,

00:44:44except in the strictly

00:44:45biological sense.

00:44:47Talking about

00:44:47invading their privacy,

00:44:49one only invades

00:44:49a foreign country.

00:44:51I'd better keep

00:44:52an eye on Ike's parents

00:44:53so they don't snoop

00:44:54around too much.

00:44:56Any sign of the reporter yet?

00:44:57No.

00:44:58He comes up

00:44:58the soft and new

00:44:59and it'll ruin everything.

00:45:01Potter?

00:45:02You didn't tell them

00:45:03about Mac shooting Sykes,

00:45:04did you?

00:45:05Don't be chronic.

00:45:06I just said

00:45:07that if they sent

00:45:07somebody over,

00:45:08there might be

00:45:09a story tonight.

00:45:14Sorry.

00:45:14Hold on, young skilly.

00:45:15Spying again, eh?

00:45:17I came to develop

00:45:18some pictures of the match.

00:45:19Don't be lacking.

00:45:20That's just a cover-up.

00:45:21Wait a minute.

00:45:22What are you doing here?

00:45:23What are you doing here?

00:45:26We're developing pictures.

00:45:28But you can have

00:45:28the room now.

00:45:29Only, don't tell anyone.

00:45:31And I mean

00:45:33anyone that you've

00:45:34seen us here.

00:45:35Come on, chaps.

00:45:37We should have

00:45:37scared him more.

00:45:38He's scared enough.

00:45:40Okay.

00:45:41Out into the hall

00:45:41one at a time.

00:45:53Hello, Frank.

00:45:55Hi there,

00:45:56Mr. Frank.

00:45:57Isn't it?

00:45:58That's a funny thing.

00:45:59You look just like Frank.

00:46:01You suffered as father?

00:46:03No, not recently.

00:46:04Not that I know of.

00:46:06Interesting chap,

00:46:07Caesar.

00:46:08Interesting?

00:46:08What's interesting about him?

00:46:10Oh, don't you think so?

00:46:12I was supposing

00:46:12he could talk.

00:46:13It'd be very interesting

00:46:14to hear a statue talk,

00:46:15wouldn't it?

00:46:17Think of all the things

00:46:17he's seen around the school.

00:46:20Sometimes strange things happen.

00:46:22Even at the best of school.

00:46:24Even here.

00:46:27When I was at school,

00:46:29a boy set fire to his room

00:46:31and almost burnt down

00:46:31the whole building.

00:46:33That must have been

00:46:33very exciting, sir.

00:46:35In your day.

00:46:37Yes.

00:46:38But still,

00:46:39not as exciting as when

00:46:40a master eloped

00:46:41with another master's wife.

00:46:42You're almost even

00:46:43getting warm, sir.

00:46:45Warm?

00:46:46About the story up here.

00:46:47You've been sent up here

00:46:48by the Gazette,

00:46:49haven't you, sir?

00:46:50Do stay around, sir.

00:46:51We may have something

00:46:52for you later.

00:46:59I'm afraid

00:47:00you're too late.

00:47:01Your friends have already

00:47:02told me the whole story.

00:47:06About the shooting?

00:47:08That's right.

00:47:09But...

00:47:10Carry on, Elcher.

00:47:11Thank you very much.

00:47:14He's a reporter, you ass.

00:47:16What'll we do?

00:47:17Better tell Daventry.

00:47:18Come on.

00:47:32Oh, excuse me, sir.

00:47:33Oh, what do you want?

00:47:35I'm Daventry.

00:47:36I share the study with Ikey.

00:47:37Well?

00:47:40Got a message.

00:47:41From Icarus?

00:47:43From all three.

00:47:45Where are they?

00:47:46Can't say.

00:47:48Don't know.

00:47:48But you have got a message.

00:47:51Their schedule

00:47:52will come up the works.

00:47:53Then what exactly

00:47:54are the works?

00:47:55Can't tell you yet.

00:47:57But what are they

00:47:57scared we'll do?

00:47:59Schedule go to the police

00:48:00before the mission's accomplished.

00:48:02What mission?

00:48:04It's something you

00:48:04especially will be proud of, sir.

00:48:06If we knew what the mission was,

00:48:07could we stop it now?

00:48:09That's a very interesting question.

00:48:10Conflict, we're not

00:48:11playing 20 questions.

00:48:12That's right, sir.

00:48:13So, uh, let's not worry.

00:48:15Huh?

00:48:16Shall I get you some tea?

00:48:17No.

00:48:18No, thank you.

00:48:20What's your first name, Daventry?

00:48:23L.W.

00:48:24What does it stand for?

00:48:26Daventry?

00:48:26Long wave.

00:48:28Fair enough?

00:48:30My old man gave me

00:48:31a terrible name.

00:48:32Worse than Icarus.

00:48:33People ought to think

00:48:34what they're doing.

00:48:35This isn't getting us anywhere.

00:48:38That's why I thought

00:48:39you might like some tea.

00:48:41Now you tell us

00:48:42where the boys have gone.

00:48:44Do you hear?

00:48:45I hear.

00:48:46Well?

00:48:49What happens to people

00:48:50when they grow up?

00:48:51You'd think things

00:48:52would get clearer and clearer,

00:48:53but they don't seem to at all.

00:48:54Just as Ike says.

00:48:56Growing up, people just seem

00:48:57to get more and more muddled.

00:48:58L.W.,

00:48:59you're forcing us

00:49:00to go to the police.

00:49:01But that's just what I mean.

00:49:03If you hadn't grown up

00:49:04in such a muddle,

00:49:05you'd see you'd have to trust us

00:49:06to find our own salvation.

00:49:08He could have said that

00:49:08about finding your own salvation.

00:49:11It all comes from Ike.

00:49:15If you'll pardon me

00:49:16for saying so, sir,

00:49:17you didn't know

00:49:18what you got in that boy.

00:49:19Thank you very much indeed.

00:49:21Now let's get down

00:49:22to the point.

00:49:22John, that is the point.

00:49:24Then you will trust Ike,

00:49:25won't you?

00:49:26Yes, if I knew

00:49:27what he was doing.

00:49:28That's not trusting,

00:49:29that's approving.

00:49:30If you don't trust him,

00:49:31why do you send him

00:49:32to boarding school?

00:49:32Because I imagined

00:49:33he would be subject

00:49:34to proper care and supervision.

00:49:37Blimey.

00:49:38You don't like boarding school?

00:49:40Ike's got a theory

00:49:40that boarding school's

00:49:41all right for the kids,

00:49:42but they're not so good

00:49:43for the parents.

00:49:44If you send kids away,

00:49:45the parents may separate.

00:49:46Nonsense.

00:49:48Mind it.

00:49:50Oh, I am sorry, L.W.

00:49:52It happens to be

00:49:53kids.

00:49:54You get used to it.

00:49:57Ike says,

00:49:58although it looks as though

00:49:59it's the parents

00:49:59who make the home

00:50:00for the kids,

00:50:00it's really the kids

00:50:01who make the home

00:50:02for the parents.

00:50:03Sort of paradox.

00:50:05I suppose you agree with it?

00:50:07No.

00:50:11Oh, excuse me, sir.

00:50:12Come in, come in, please.

00:50:14Take a seat.

00:50:16Tell me just one thing.

00:50:17Do you find on the whole

00:50:18that the present relationship

00:50:19between husband and wife

00:50:20meets with your approval?

00:50:22I don't know.

00:50:24Neither do I.

00:50:25Now, if you'll forgive us,

00:50:25we'll continue our search elsewhere.

00:50:28Don't mind him, L.W.

00:50:30He's very upset.

00:50:31You've just got to trust Ike.

00:50:39Blimey.

00:50:39Did him get a nice kiss?

00:50:42What's up with you?

00:50:43That reporter's come up

00:50:44from the Gazette.

00:50:46Where is he?

00:50:46In O.

00:51:04Hampton.

00:51:26Will you be staying

00:51:27until around seven

00:51:28this evening, sir?

00:51:30Now, why do you want

00:51:31to know that?

00:51:32I'm the assistant editor

00:51:33of our school paper, sir.

00:51:34Why did you say

00:51:34around seven?

00:51:35Oh, I don't know.

00:51:37Perhaps we might have

00:51:38some news by then.

00:51:38What news?

00:51:40Well, it's hard to say exactly.

00:51:41I should be staying

00:51:42in the village.

00:51:43What?

00:51:44Dali, we can't.

00:51:44I've got to get back.

00:51:45I haven't.

00:51:46But you don't mean

00:51:46to tell me that you...

00:51:47I do mean to tell you

00:51:47I'm not going to leave

00:51:48until I've got definite news.

00:51:49Dali, I have to be in town by...

00:51:53What are you writing?

00:51:54Just notes for our paper, sir.

00:51:56I'm a bit chronic

00:51:56in that direction.

00:51:57Oh, really?

00:51:58Let me a pound in, will you?

00:52:00Now, um, would you tell me

00:52:02what you know about the boys

00:52:03if I gave you a pound

00:52:06for your newspaper?

00:52:07I couldn't, sir.

00:52:08Frightful lack of urge

00:52:09in that direction.

00:52:10It's against our idea

00:52:11for freedom of the press.

00:52:13Don't worry, Mrs. Handen.

00:52:14We're not worried.

00:52:18Find out where that reporter went.

00:52:24But it's absolutely idiotic.

00:52:26Why the sudden desire

00:52:27to stay here tonight?

00:52:28It isn't sudden.

00:52:29But there's no reason for staying.

00:52:30I'm not going to leave here

00:52:31until I've discovered

00:52:31why the boys went.

00:52:32And my speech tonight?

00:52:34Make it by all means

00:52:34if you feel like making speeches.

00:52:36You usually do.

00:52:37Well, that's a charming way to put it.

00:52:38I'm sorry, darling.

00:52:39I'm not coming home with you.

00:52:40Excuse me, Mr. Hamden.

00:52:43Have you heard anything new?

00:52:44About what?

00:52:45About the boys?

00:52:46Have you?

00:52:46What was the last you'd heard?

00:52:48We've just come from

00:52:48Micros is studying.

00:52:49Just a minute, dear.

00:52:50Who are you?

00:52:51Oh, that doesn't matter.

00:52:52I'm just trying to help.

00:52:53Excuse me, sir.

00:52:55I think you ought to know

00:52:56that this is a reporter.

00:52:57I see.

00:53:00You've just been trying

00:53:01to get us to give something away,

00:53:02haven't you?

00:53:03Give something away?

00:53:03Never.

00:53:04We pay the market price

00:53:05for all information.

00:53:06But you haven't heard anything.

00:53:07The Gazette hears everything.

00:53:09The world is a vast network of spies

00:53:11all in the pay of the Gazette.

00:53:13He's only trying to provoke you.

00:53:14Oh, you're wrong, sir.

00:53:15I'm only a humble servant

00:53:17of our great master, Truth.

00:53:19It is life which provokes, Mr. Hamden.

00:53:21Life which tempts us all,

00:53:23even schoolboys,

00:53:24into actions that will titillate

00:53:26the jaded palates

00:53:27of our three and a half million readers.

00:53:28You've been drinking

00:53:29continuously for 20 years.

00:53:31Does it show?

00:53:32Only in your character.

00:53:33Maybe.

00:53:34We've nothing more to say to you.

00:53:35But surely, Mr. Hamden,

00:53:36as a father,

00:53:37you would prefer us

00:53:38to print the truth

00:53:39about your son.

00:53:40The only truth you know

00:53:41is that I am a father

00:53:42and I have a son.

00:53:43Good afternoon.

00:53:44And the shooting?

00:53:46I'm not going to print that.

00:53:47That depends,

00:53:48Mrs. Hamden,

00:53:49on your cooperation.

00:53:52What exactly do you want to know?

00:53:54Well, personally, nothing.

00:53:56Professionally,

00:53:56the scraping's at the bottom

00:53:57of the barrel.

00:53:58That's where the dirt collects.

00:54:00The only thing you'll collect

00:54:01in a minute

00:54:01will be a thick ear.

00:54:02Coming from you,

00:54:03that's really quite a story

00:54:04in itself.

00:54:04Can I quote you?

00:54:06I'm a pacifist by nature,

00:54:07Mr. Hamden.

00:54:08Though not by conviction.

00:54:10You, it would appear,

00:54:11are the reverse.

00:54:12Excuse me, sir.

00:54:13There's a telephone call

00:54:14for you

00:54:14in the headmaster's study.

00:54:17Yes, yes.

00:54:17I've sent to fetch him.

00:54:19Of course I realise

00:54:21you're here.

00:54:22Hello?

00:54:23Yes, Mother?

00:54:25A telegram from the boys, eh?

00:54:27Well, read it, dear.

00:54:28Read it.

00:54:32Arrived fairly safely.

00:54:34Oh, thank goodness.

00:54:35What does arrive

00:54:36fairly safely mean, dear?

00:54:38It's signed by all three.

00:54:40Where are they?

00:54:41Where's it from?

00:54:43Luxembourg.

00:54:44Luxembourg!

00:54:45Luxembourg!

00:54:46Mother!

00:54:46Listen, there must be

00:54:47a mistake, dear.

00:54:48What?

00:54:50Right, now listen.

00:54:52Don't talk to anybody

00:54:53coming straight home.

00:54:55Oh, on earth

00:54:55did they get there?

00:54:57Peyton, that news

00:54:58wasn't quite what you expected,

00:54:59was it?

00:55:00No, sir.

00:55:01What was so unexpected

00:55:02about it, Peyton?

00:55:04Just that...

00:55:05Well, they must have

00:55:05gone a bit off their line, sir.

00:55:08What exactly does that mean?

00:55:12Well, it seemed

00:55:13a bit far away, sir.

00:55:14Let Peyton answer,

00:55:15Devontree.

00:55:16That was what I thought, too, sir.

00:55:19A bit off the line.

00:55:20A curious choice of words,

00:55:22Peyton.

00:55:24Yes, sir.

00:55:25Not very good at English, sir.

00:55:28What are you doing here?

00:55:30Just listening.

00:55:31Go right ahead.

00:55:32He's a reporter.

00:55:34Yes, I'm aware

00:55:34of that unfortunate fact.

00:55:36It's a living.

00:55:37Why did they do it?

00:55:38Why, why, why?

00:55:39If you will all kindly

00:55:40leave me alone

00:55:41with these boys,

00:55:42I'm sure I can find

00:55:44the answer.

00:55:44I wish you'd let me stay.

00:55:45Most certainly not.

00:55:46There's just one fact

00:55:47in the story

00:55:48I haven't got.

00:55:49How did they get

00:55:51the plane they flew?

00:55:53They flew?

00:55:54I found this

00:55:55in your son's desk.

00:55:57I went through his desk.

00:55:58Ah, but you didn't know

00:55:59what these figures meant.

00:56:00This is what's called

00:56:01a flying log.

00:56:02Weather conditions,

00:56:04hours in the air,

00:56:05hours at the controls.

00:56:06Icarus at the controls

00:56:07all by himself.

00:56:07He's always had

00:56:08Mr. Potter beside him.

00:56:09Potter.

00:56:10Potter, Potter.

00:56:12You don't mean

00:56:13the father of our Potter?

00:56:14Yes, sir.

00:56:15But he was very careful.

00:56:17Potter's old man's

00:56:18got this plane

00:56:18and sometimes

00:56:18when he comes down

00:56:19to school...

00:56:20Icarus flies it.

00:56:22Splendid, Dr. Skillingworth.

00:56:23A nice, safe,

00:56:24extracurriculum activity.

00:56:25Anyway, he's safe now.

00:56:26In Lutsome, boy.

00:56:28Potter's old man

00:56:29says the dike

00:56:30is a natural flyer.

00:56:30That makes me very happy.

00:56:32Hello.

00:56:34What?

00:56:34Who?

00:56:35The flying club?

00:56:37All right,

00:56:37what do you want?

00:56:40What?

00:56:42My boys

00:56:43steal an aeroplane.

00:56:45Don't be ridiculous.

00:56:46That's what

00:56:47I wanted to know.

00:56:55I'm sorry

00:56:55I was so hasty.

00:56:57Would you mind

00:56:57repeating

00:56:57what you just said,

00:56:59please?

00:57:01Where's Luxembourg?

00:57:02No.

00:57:10Why couldn't we

00:57:11get something to eat

00:57:12when we sent the telegram?

00:57:13Like he said,

00:57:13to hurry back

00:57:14to the plane.

00:57:16Okay, come on.

00:57:36Ike, Ike.

00:57:43How could Ike?

00:57:45How could he leave us?

00:57:46Is he going to come back?

00:57:47I don't know.

00:57:49I shouldn't think so.

00:57:51The blubbing

00:57:51won't help anyway.

00:57:54Look.

00:58:00Sorry,

00:58:01but I couldn't wait.

00:58:02As must arrive

00:58:03before dark.

00:58:04Don't spill

00:58:05the beans

00:58:05of our trip

00:58:05until then.

00:58:07Go to the best hotel

00:58:08and charge everything

00:58:09to father.

00:58:10Cheerio.

00:58:11He could have waited

00:58:12only a minute

00:58:13when we'd have been here.

00:58:14Perhaps he was worried

00:58:15about breaking your neck

00:58:16the next time he landed.

00:58:17Come on, silly.

00:58:18It's a decent way

00:58:19back to that village.

00:58:36It's gone wrong.

00:58:39Looks like it.

00:58:41It's not like Ike

00:58:42to let anything

00:58:42come up the works.

00:58:44No, it's not like Ike.

00:58:47Trust Ike.

00:58:50Trust Ike.

00:58:54Maybe the telegram

00:58:55was just a blind.

00:58:56Shall we get the chap's

00:58:57starters on the bonfire?

00:58:59That's it.

00:59:01Get the chaps together

00:59:02behind the pavilion.

00:59:03You two better phone up

00:59:04the other schools

00:59:04and tell them

00:59:04what's happening.

00:59:05Archdale Secondary Modern,

00:59:07St. David's,

00:59:07and Westover.

00:59:09They mustn't light up

00:59:10till they get word

00:59:10from us.

00:59:11What about Potter?

00:59:12He's gone to the village

00:59:13to see what the parents

00:59:14were up to.

00:59:14Leave a message for him.

00:59:18I'll take your case.

00:59:19No, darling,

00:59:20you'll be late.

00:59:20I'll phone you

00:59:21if any news comes through.

00:59:22Goodbye.

00:59:23Bye.

00:59:47Want a room for tonight, please?

00:59:49Yes, sir.

01:00:01We meet again,

01:00:02my dear, sir?

01:00:03Yes, sir.

01:00:03I was just reading the paper.

01:00:04A very estimable occup...

01:00:11What's Mrs. Hamden's room number?

01:00:12Number seven, sir.

01:00:17Look at it.

01:00:18I mean,

01:00:18well,

01:00:18look at it.

01:00:20Pistol-toting sons

01:00:21of prominent pacifists

01:00:22land stolen plain

01:00:23in Luxembourg.

01:00:24That's great.

01:00:26Orpah Hamden's

01:00:27pacifist principles

01:00:28are well-known,

01:00:29but not apparently

01:00:30to his sons.

01:00:31How unpleasant.

01:00:32Unpleasant?

01:00:33Well,

01:00:34that's a masterpiece

01:00:35of understatement.

01:00:36Here have I been

01:00:37slaving away for months

01:00:38trying to get somebody

01:00:39interested in peace.

01:00:40The boys couldn't

01:00:40have known about

01:00:41the publicity.

01:00:42No?

01:00:43I bet they were

01:00:44counting on it.

01:00:45They want to see

01:00:45screaming headlines

01:00:46on the,

01:00:47I don't know,

01:00:48I suppose the state

01:00:48of food in British

01:00:49boarding schools.

01:00:50They'll probably say

01:00:51they had to fly to

01:00:51Luxembourg

01:00:52to get a square meal.

01:00:53Icarus isn't a child,

01:00:54John.

01:00:55Does that affect

01:00:55his appetite?

01:00:57No,

01:00:57they've made me

01:00:57look ridiculous.

01:00:58I'm a laughingstock.

01:00:59And it was for them

01:01:00I was doing it.

01:01:01They'll suffer in the next

01:01:02war more than we will.

01:01:04They're too young

01:01:04to know about it,

01:01:05so you try to do

01:01:06something for them,

01:01:06try to make life

01:01:07better for them.

01:01:07What do they do?

01:01:08Bring the whole darn

01:01:09thing clattering

01:01:10down on your head.

01:01:12Lucky I decided

01:01:13not to speak tonight.

01:01:14Yes,

01:01:15John.

01:01:18So far,

01:01:19Mr. Hamden

01:01:19has not been

01:01:20reached for comment.

01:01:22I'll comment,

01:01:23all right,

01:01:23when I get a hold

01:01:24of that Gazette reporter.

01:01:26Come in.

01:01:30Well?

01:01:31Have you any news?

01:01:34Hardly news,

01:01:35but I thought

01:01:35you ought to know

01:01:36that I've

01:01:37reluctantly reported

01:01:38the matter

01:01:38to the local police

01:01:39and telephoned

01:01:40the British embassy

01:01:41at Luxembourg

01:01:42as we agreed.

01:01:42What did they say?

01:01:44They're doing

01:01:44everything they can.

01:01:45I see.

01:01:46I suppose you've

01:01:47seen this happy bit

01:01:49of up-and-coming

01:01:49journalism.

01:01:51Yes, I know.

01:01:52It's most unfortunate.

01:01:53Unfortunate?

01:01:54You know,

01:01:54Dr. Skillingworth,

01:01:55I ought to sue you

01:01:56for deformation

01:01:57of character.

01:01:57Deformation.

01:01:58I'm a writer,

01:01:59dear,

01:01:59and I choose

01:01:59my words

01:02:00with exactitude.

01:02:01As far as I can see,

01:02:02you have

01:02:02deformed the characters

01:02:03of three reasonably

01:02:04serious-minded boys

01:02:06into a trio

01:02:06of aggressive,

01:02:07swaggering nitwits.

01:02:08For tens of thousands

01:02:10of years,

01:02:10men have been trying

01:02:11to educate their children

01:02:12and it seems

01:02:13they still don't know

01:02:14how to do it.

01:02:15I might remind you,

01:02:16Mr. Hamden,

01:02:16that there are such things

01:02:17as laws of heredity

01:02:18against which teachers

01:02:20sometimes have to fight

01:02:21a constant battle.

01:02:22May I remind you...

01:02:22May I also remind you

01:02:23that I share you

01:02:24and Mrs. Hamden's

01:02:25worries about the boys

01:02:26more than you can

01:02:26possibly imagine.

01:02:28This is a fine time

01:02:28to remind me of that.

01:02:32Mr. Hamden,

01:02:33you know,

01:02:34I greatly admire you

01:02:35as a writer

01:02:36and on many subjects

01:02:37I'd listen to you

01:02:38with due respect.

01:02:39But on the subject

01:02:40of education,

01:02:42I think it possible

01:02:43that I know

01:02:44more than you.

01:02:46On that subject,

01:02:46there is no development

01:02:47which I have not studied,

01:02:49but more than that,

01:02:49I have studied boys

01:02:51themselves

01:02:51with as much humility

01:02:53and as few preconceived

01:02:55ideas about them

01:02:56as possible.

01:02:58And one of my conclusions

01:02:59is this,

01:02:59that there is in the mind

01:03:00of the average

01:03:01intelligent boy,

01:03:02Mr. Hamden,

01:03:04scant respect

01:03:04for the achievements

01:03:05of the present-day

01:03:06adult world.

01:03:08Now, I believe

01:03:09it is a teacher's duty

01:03:10to encourage

01:03:11that attitude

01:03:12and to foster

01:03:14in a rising generation

01:03:15the conviction

01:03:16that they can do

01:03:17a darn sight better.

01:03:20Indeed, they must

01:03:21if the world

01:03:22is to have many more

01:03:23rising generations.

01:03:26That's for your

01:03:27three sons.

01:03:29Well, I should like

01:03:30to say that,

01:03:31however I may be

01:03:32forced to act

01:03:33as an administrator,

01:03:35I should like to say

01:03:36that I have always

01:03:37been breathlessly

01:03:38fascinated by them,

01:03:41particularly by Icavus.

01:03:43Having said that,

01:03:45I hope I've also

01:03:46expressed something

01:03:47of the gratitude

01:03:47I feel.

01:03:49To whatever fate

01:03:50I decided you

01:03:51to send them

01:03:52to my school.

01:03:52Good night,

01:03:53Mr. Hamden.

01:03:54Mrs. Hamden,

01:03:55I'll ring you

01:03:56as soon as I have

01:03:57any news.

01:04:00Good.

01:04:01Seems you have a guest.

01:04:06You've got a nerve

01:04:06coming in here?

01:04:09Yes, haven't I?

01:04:10I'd like to use

01:04:10your telephone.

01:04:11What for?

01:04:12Just a moment.

01:04:14Yeah, hello?

01:04:14Deason here.

01:04:16When that call

01:04:16from Luxembourg

01:04:17comes through,

01:04:18put it on this line,

01:04:18please.

01:04:19They found them?

01:04:19We found them,

01:04:20the Gazette.

01:04:21Are they all right?

01:04:21Have you spoken to them?

01:04:22Not yet.

01:04:23An agency message

01:04:23came through.

01:04:24Well, with all due

01:04:25gratitude to your paper,

01:04:26Mr. Deason,

01:04:27the episode now

01:04:28seems to be finished.

01:04:29This is a private room.

01:04:30We're paying for this call,

01:04:32Mr. Hamden.

01:04:32We want our money's worth.

01:04:34As for the episode

01:04:34being finished,

01:04:35I think you underestimate

01:04:36the staying power

01:04:37of a human interest story.

01:04:39By Friday,

01:04:40you'll be as dead as mine.

01:04:41But today and tomorrow,

01:04:42you belong to humanity.

01:04:43That's enough of that.

01:04:45Yes?

01:04:46Here it comes.

01:04:47Yes?

01:04:47Oh, yes?

01:04:48Hello?

01:04:51Yes?

01:04:52Yes?

01:04:53Hello?

01:04:54Just a minute.

01:04:55Just a minute, Max.

01:04:56Here's your mother.

01:04:59Hello, darling?

01:05:00Are you all right?

01:05:02I'm fine, Mother.

01:05:04I'm just for smashing dinner.

01:05:07We've been terribly worried.

01:05:09What did arrive

01:05:09fairly safely mean?

01:05:11Oh, that was the plane.

01:05:13Let me talk to Icarus.

01:05:14Ike, he bumped it a bit

01:05:14coming down.

01:05:16He said getting up's easy,

01:05:17but getting down's

01:05:17a bit trickier.

01:05:19Darling, Daddy wants

01:05:19to talk to Icarus now.

01:05:23Why can't he talk?

01:05:26Max, you're hiding something.

01:05:27He's been hurt.

01:05:30And she only wants to

01:05:31talk to you.

01:05:32Tell her everything's okay.

01:05:35Hello, Mum.

01:05:36Everything's smashing.

01:05:37I said everything's smashing.

01:05:39What?

01:05:41Johnny, you've got to tell me.

01:05:43Why isn't Icarus there?

01:05:45Where is he?

01:05:47Look, let me speak to Max again.

01:05:49She wants you to tell her.

01:05:50Hello, Mother.

01:05:52Don't worry about anything.

01:05:54Max, where is he?

01:05:55Let me have it, yes.

01:05:56Let me have it.

01:05:57Hello?

01:05:58Max?

01:05:58Daddy speaking.

01:06:00Where's Icarus?

01:06:03He's gone on.

01:06:05What do you mean, he's gone on?

01:06:06Hello?

01:06:08You mean, he's gone on

01:06:10in the plane alone?

01:06:12Why?

01:06:13Because he had to.

01:06:15He just came down here

01:06:16to find out where he was.

01:06:17But don't worry.

01:06:19He's probably there by now.

01:06:21He said he'd ring you up.

01:06:23Listen, Max.

01:06:24Where?

01:06:25Where has he gone?

01:06:27Well, Vienna.

01:06:32Vienna?

01:06:35But, uh, why?

01:06:37Why Vienna?

01:06:38Ikey will explain everything

01:06:39when he gets there.

01:06:40Max!

01:06:41There's nothing to worry about.

01:06:43Yes, we can spend the night.

01:06:45Okay, Dad.

01:06:47I'll wait here

01:06:47until you hear from Ikey.

01:06:50Goodbye.

01:06:59Well, he said Icarus would ring us up

01:07:03when he gets there.

01:07:06Vienna's over the Alps.

01:07:08Yeah.

01:07:10When ought he to get there?

01:07:12Hmm?

01:07:13Well, not, uh,

01:07:15not sometime yet, darling.

01:07:19I mean,

01:07:36maybe we could phone.

01:07:37To Vienna.

01:07:39Who do?

01:07:41The British Embassy.

01:07:42That would cost a lot.

01:07:44Get the rest of the chaps to muck in.

01:07:47Too late now.

01:07:50Get the news in the morning.

01:07:51You can't light a bonfire in the morning.

01:07:54We could ring the chapel bell.

01:07:57That's it for tonight anyway.

01:08:01Come on.

01:08:02Soon be lights out.

01:08:09Come on.

01:08:13Come on.

01:08:34You sleep?

01:08:43Tell him, is it?

01:08:46It must be around three.

01:08:51That would be only two in Vienna.

01:08:54No, four.

01:08:56Sun rises in the east.

01:08:59Yes, I suppose so.

01:09:01You suppose so?

01:09:05No, of course, we must.

01:09:08Because I say so?

01:09:12He wasn't thinking.

01:09:16You know something?

01:09:19What?

01:09:21I've just decided

01:09:22that I don't know anything.

01:09:24No?

01:09:27Strangely peaceful feeling.

01:09:33Do you think we were wrong

01:09:34to send the boys away to school?

01:09:37Probably.

01:09:39I've been wrong about so many things.

01:09:42I loved you when they were at home.

01:09:45Noise and chaos.

01:09:47No time for anything.

01:09:51Suddenly it was just, uh,

01:09:53you and me again, eh?

01:09:55You were all right

01:09:56when we were part of the family.

01:09:59No, no.

01:10:00You don't have to tell me.

01:10:03I suppose I expected you

01:10:05to become four people.

01:10:08Sorry.

01:10:24That's the first afternoon edition.

01:10:29If you have any pity on the staff,

01:10:30you'll dismiss classes for the rest of today.

01:10:32No, no, no.

01:10:33The boys haven't given up hope yet,

01:10:35so let's just carry on as best we can.

01:10:38The plane was last reported

01:10:39as seen high above the village of Schwarz

01:10:41in the Austrian Alps.

01:10:43But since then,

01:10:44there has been no further trace.

01:10:46An Austrian police official said today

01:10:48that if the plane has made a forced landing

01:10:50in the region of Schwarz,

01:10:52some time must elapse

01:10:53before contact could be established

01:10:54with the flyer,

01:10:56owing to the rugged nature of the country

01:10:57and the lack of communication.

01:11:20You will notice

01:11:21that there are one or two constructions in it

01:11:23that you've learnt before.

01:11:24For instance,

01:11:25in lines five and six,

01:11:26you will notice an example

01:11:27of the agility of absolute.

01:11:28He got me now,

01:11:30Agisandridas.

01:11:31Under the leadership of Agisandridas.

01:11:35Daventry,

01:11:37try and pay attention.

01:11:51L.W. wants you for meeting.

01:11:53I'm to take over.

01:11:54Okay.

01:11:56Give the bell a real bashing

01:11:57when you get the signal.

01:11:58Do you really think there'll be any signal?

01:12:00It's nearly dark.

01:12:02Of course there'll be a signal.

01:12:03And when it comes,

01:12:04we'll light the biggest bonfire

01:12:05there's ever been.

01:12:07It's getting late, though.

01:12:09Don't you trust, Ike?

01:12:11Well, don't you?

01:12:12Yes, I suppose so.

01:12:15There is still no news of 16-year-old

01:12:17Icarus Hamlet,

01:12:19the schoolboy whose flight across Europe

01:12:20in a stolen plane

01:12:21has captured the imagination

01:12:23of the whole country.

01:12:24Search patrols have been sent out

01:12:26from Vienna

01:12:27by Great Britain,

01:12:28France,

01:12:28the United States

01:12:29and the Soviet Union.

01:12:31Yes, could you keep on trying, then, please?

01:12:34Too many people.

01:12:34Yeah.

01:12:36I'd like it.

01:13:08I take it you...

01:13:09No, no news for you.

01:13:12Your millions of readers

01:13:13will have to postpone

01:13:14their entertainment.

01:13:16Those are bitter words.

01:13:17I don't use words carelessly.

01:13:18Mr. Hampton,

01:13:19you and your wife

01:13:20will have the sympathy

01:13:21of everyone who reads this story.

01:13:23The plain, honest,

01:13:24comparison of three and a half

01:13:25million people

01:13:26who will understand your sorrow

01:13:27and share your suffering.

01:13:29You think people like

01:13:29their suffering made public?

01:13:31Some do, some don't.

01:13:33Personally, I can't understand

01:13:34the objection.

01:13:34Perhaps you've never lost a child.

01:13:36Lost both of mine

01:13:37when Alina going to America

01:13:38was torpedoed.

01:13:40Only time I ever made

01:13:41the front page in person.

01:13:46Sorry.

01:13:47No need to be.

01:13:49Tell Mrs. Hampton

01:13:50we all believe

01:13:50the boy will come through.

01:13:59You really think he's capable

01:14:00of flying a plane?

01:14:01Of course.

01:14:02I don't hold with aeroplanes

01:14:04myself, as you know.

01:14:05I think they're quite unnecessary

01:14:06and most unlikely.

01:14:08But I'm sure

01:14:09Icarus understands them perfectly.

01:14:10They belong to his generation.

01:14:12I hope you're right.

01:14:17Well, another piece of humble pie.

01:14:20Our pet newshounds

01:14:22turned out to be quite human.

01:14:24He hasn't heard from Vienna.

01:14:26No, not yet, darling.

01:14:28Why did Icarus do it?

01:14:30Do you know what I think?

01:14:33He was worried about us.

01:14:35He was trying to bring

01:14:36John and me together.

01:14:38Of all the mawkish,

01:14:39sentimental, conceited ideas,

01:14:42what does it matter to Icarus

01:14:44what you and John

01:14:45make of your lives?

01:14:46Mother, I do think...

01:14:47He has his own life to make.

01:14:49And it's your privilege

01:14:50to watch him do it

01:14:51and to help him.

01:14:52He's not a goody little boy

01:14:55wanting to bring

01:14:55the maw and the pa together.

01:14:57Oh, modern sentimentality.

01:15:00I think you might share

01:15:01a little more consideration

01:15:02for Stella's feelings.

01:15:04Stella's feelings?

01:15:06What about Icarus' feelings?

01:15:09I'll not have you say

01:15:10he died for anything

01:15:11so commonplace and revolting.

01:15:14If he died,

01:15:15he died in his own way.

01:15:18To fulfill his own purpose.

01:15:22I see.

01:15:24And how does Icarus know

01:15:26what the right idea is?

01:15:28Use your loaf, Mr. Deeson.

01:15:30What do you think

01:15:30religion and philosophy

01:15:31has been playing at

01:15:32for the last few thousand years?

01:15:34Trying to find

01:15:36the right idea, I suppose.

01:15:38Find it?

01:15:39They found it so often

01:15:40that it looks and sounds

01:15:41half-dead each time

01:15:42they drag it up again.

01:15:43Unless you're sort of magician.

01:15:46Like, um, Ikey?

01:15:47Yep.

01:15:48Like Ikey.

01:15:50And, um,

01:15:51anything more

01:15:52on, uh, religion

01:15:53and philosophy?

01:15:54No, he's finished

01:15:55with religion for the moment.

01:15:56More concerned

01:15:56with politics lately.

01:15:57He didn't like politicians.

01:15:59He said they spent

01:15:59their whole time

01:16:00hacking away at trees

01:16:01until they forgot

01:16:02there was a wood.

01:16:03Tell him what he thought

01:16:04about newspapers.

01:16:06Well, sir,

01:16:07he called them

01:16:08comics for grown-ups.

01:16:10Oh, really?

01:16:12I mean, the trouble was

01:16:12they took them seriously.

01:16:15Is this to be an obituary?

01:16:17Oh, no,

01:16:17I wouldn't say that.

01:16:19We must be patient.

01:16:21Well,

01:16:22we're all going up

01:16:22to the bonfire to wait.

01:16:23The bonfire's

01:16:24to let the other schools

01:16:25know that Ikey's arrived.

01:16:26They've got bonfires, too.

01:16:28Take the Spanish home,

01:16:28right?

01:16:29Come on, chaps.

01:16:37Okay, chaps.

01:16:39Everybody up to the top

01:16:40of the hill

01:16:40to wait for the signal.

01:16:46Oh, excuse me, sir.

01:16:48Hmm?

01:16:49I was thinking

01:16:50maybe Ikey's parents

01:16:52would like to come

01:16:52up to the hill.

01:16:53Yes, I think

01:16:54they might, Daventry.

01:16:55I'll go and ask them.

01:17:01Hey!

01:17:03Come on, Scully.

01:17:16About time, too.

01:17:18I'm frozen.

01:17:19Any news yet?

01:17:21Not yet.

01:17:22Everyone's up

01:17:22at the hill.

01:17:23Seems silly

01:17:24to wait much longer.

01:17:26We're going to wait

01:17:27until we get the signal.

01:17:28Understand?

01:17:29Well, I'll keep you ahead of them.

01:17:54So, tell you why?

01:17:58OK.

01:17:59Well, let's go.

01:18:02THE END

01:18:33Mrs. Hempden, Deventer here has something he'd like to show you.

01:18:41Now that Ike is...

01:18:45Well, now that Ike is not able to go on with it,

01:18:49I thought he wouldn't mind if I showed you it.

01:18:53It's the thing he went with.

01:18:55A copy of it.

01:18:59A sort of petition.

01:19:04It's been folded up.

01:19:10You read it, L.W.

01:19:16Right.

01:19:21We...

01:19:24Boys...

01:19:27Ferndale School...

01:19:29Do not wish to kill the children of any other school.

01:19:34If at 18 we ought to think it right to kill other men of 18,

01:19:39then why not at 16?

01:19:43Why not...

01:19:44at 6?

01:19:48And if we feel it wrong at 16,

01:19:50how can it be otherwise two years later?

01:19:54No.

01:19:56When we grow up,

01:19:58we do not think we will consent to kill people

01:20:01who have been at some time children of other schools.

01:20:06Men cannot always see the truths of a simple moral proposition.

01:20:12Perhaps it's for children...

01:20:15to lead the way.

01:20:20Abonesto...

01:20:23Wiram...

01:20:24Bonum...

01:20:28Nihil...

01:20:29Deteret.

01:20:33That means...

01:20:36nothing deters a good man from what is right.

01:20:40It's signed Icarus Hamden.

01:20:43Almost everyone's signed it.

01:20:48Icarus Hamden.

01:20:49Why Vienna?

01:20:51Well, that's where the four powers are all sort of close to each other.

01:20:54Could have been Berlin.

01:20:57Icarus Hamden.

01:20:57Icarus Hamden because it seemed harder to get to.

01:21:01Did he have to fly?

01:21:03Oh, yes.

01:21:05He had to show people he wasn't a coward or a sissy.

01:21:08It wasn't against you, sir,

01:21:10but he thought your way was too slow.

01:21:13He said you had to do something smashing.

01:21:17Well, that does it.

01:21:19And there's nothing any of us can do that'll stop this getting into all the newspapers in the world.

01:21:24Let me have it.

01:21:25You'll give it back.

01:21:27It's in Icarus' handwriting.

01:21:28I'll give it back.

01:21:29It's a gold-mounted and framed.

01:21:33I feel rather like a child who's been whipped, more in sorrow than in anger.

01:21:40I think any self-respecting child would prefer to be whipped in anger.

01:21:45Don't you, Peyton?

01:21:47I'd rather not be whipped at all, sir.

01:21:50Mr. Hamden, I shall go to my grave with one regret.

01:21:53That I never met him.

01:21:55But we'll give him such a write-up that the whole world will know him.

01:21:58And perhaps it's just cockeyed enough to see things for a moment with a vision of a child.

01:22:04Maybe he hasn't died for nothing.

01:22:07Who says he's died?

01:22:09I think you're very aggravating, all of you.

01:22:12I suppose it's only old people and young people who know what faith is and rarely practice it.

01:22:18You've lost it.

01:22:20Icarus has it.

01:22:21Max has it.

01:22:23Johnny has it.

01:22:24And so they take off to save the world with the simplicity of a saint.

01:22:29And you can't see that that's exactly what comes up fresh in each generation.

01:22:46Come on, chaps!

01:22:48The fire!

01:22:55He's there!

01:22:57He's there!

01:22:58Are you certain?

01:22:58Yes, they just telephoned in.

01:23:00Icarus couldn't find the airfield and landed on a hill four miles outside.

01:23:04Viena.

01:23:04A patrol found him and he's got a four-power escort into the city.

01:23:12He's got it!

01:23:15I can get it!

01:23:16He's got it!

01:23:17I've been caught there!

01:23:41The End

01:24:12The End

01:24:35The End

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