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(UPBEAT PIANO MUSIC)

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♪ If I was leaning
on a rainbow ♪

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♪ Where stars shine
and moonbeams glow ♪

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♪ I could leave my
troubles, forget my woes ♪

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♪ If I was leaning
on a rainbow ♪

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(HUMMING)

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♪ If I was sitting
on top of the world ♪

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♪ With fine wine,
diamonds and pearls ♪

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♪ Ain't nobody would
bring me down ♪

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♪ If I was sitting
on top of the world ♪

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(UPBEAT PIANO MUSIC)

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CHARLES: <i>Oh.</i>

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<i>Uh.</i>

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<i>Come on, you blithering idiot.</i>

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<i>There's only 26 letters
in the damned alphabet.</i>

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<i>All you've gotta do is put
them in the right bloody order.</i>

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(SIGHS)

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Write something.

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Anything.

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(SIGHS)

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(SOFT LIGHT MUSIC)

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(KEYS STRIKING)

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(SOFT LIGHT MUSIC)

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Right.

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Music.

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(UPBEAT SWING MUSIC)

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Charles.

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(SIGHS)

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Think.

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(UPBEAT SWING MUSIC)

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Charles?

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Darling?

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Charles? They can
hear you in Timbuktu!

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(UPBEAT SWING MUSIC)

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(NEEDLE SCRATCHES)

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(SIGHS)

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Much obliged.

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(SIGHS)

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If you insist on living
like a nocturnal animal,

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at least be civil enough
to hide your tracks.

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Morning, Edith.

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Good morning, ma'am.

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Oh, he's finally
gone through with it.

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EDITH: Oh yes.
Scandalous, isn't it?

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On the contrary, I
think giving up the throne

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for love is awfully romantic.

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I'll have a grilled grapefruit
and a strong coffee please.

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Mr. Condomine's
asked for his eggs

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to be brought out
to his study again.

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Well, given his
mood, I hope they're

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being served sunny side up.

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Here we go.

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Two soft-boiled eggs.
For William Shakespeare.

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And what does Her Majesty
want this morning?

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She's sticking to the
Hollywood diet.

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Hollywood diet.

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It'll take a lot more
than an exotic fruit

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to turn her into Greta Garbo.

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Oh.

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And don't dilly-dally
in the garden, Edith.

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He'll only send it back,
if the toast is cold.

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(UPBEAT LIGHT MUSIC)

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I'm not a bad man.

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I mean, yes, I like
to flirt a bit.

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And the occasional flutter.

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(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

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Excuse me, sir.
Your breakfast.

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CHARLES: Edith.

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Yes, sir?

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Would you remind Edna
that the word 'toast'

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is derived from
the Latin 'tostare',

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meaning 'to scorch' or
'to roast'?

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Whereas this... is a
cold, hard piece of bread.

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Apologies, sir.

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Thank you.

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Do you need anything else?

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Divine intervention.

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(UPBEAT LIGHT MUSIC)

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It's wonderfully
patriotic, Harold.

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You've really excelled yourself.

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And I'm certain the
judges will agree.

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(CHARLES SCREAMING)

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Oh!

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(UPBEAT LIGHT MUSIC)

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How was it so easy for you,

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my Manhattan muse?

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(DOOR CREAKS OPEN)

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Charles (CHUCKLES).

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You really should be
praying to Cadmus

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and not decapitating him.

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I'm sorry.

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You've been commissioned to
write a 90-page screenplay,

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not <i>War and Peace.</i>

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I'm at my wits' end.

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I just don't understand
how it can be so problematic

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to adapt a story that
you've already written.

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(SIGHS)

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I'm sorry, Charles. I
just don't know how long

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I can go on like
this, with you stuck

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in an imaginary world and
me alone in the real one.

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I miss you.

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I miss us.

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So do I.

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(SOFT FLUTE MUSIC)

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Look at that.

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Just found it
amongst some papers.

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It's sweet of you to
try and spare my feelings.

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And a little naive.

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Why?

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Because you imagine that I
mind you thinking of Elvira.

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Well, don't you?

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(LAUGHS) No. I'm not in
the least bit jealous of her.

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I just wonder if I died,
whether you'd continue

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to look at photographs of me.

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Darling.

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You're not the dying type.

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Ha!

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He's simply
incorrigible, Violet.

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I found him mooning over
pictures of Elvira yesterday.

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Elvira?

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He's been shirking work
and pining for the ex-wife.

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Ah!

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Oh!

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Game, set and match.

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There's really nothing
to feel insecure about.

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Elvira may have been
very attractive,

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but the poor woman's gone.

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As has the spark
in our relationship.

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Charles is a man.

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You can't expect him to juggle

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more than one thing at a time.

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My advice... leave him
to worry about the words

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and find someone else
to shake your sheets.

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Oh come on, don't be a prude.

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One must be practical for a
marriage to run the course.

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Do you remember
what you learnt

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in our last lesson,
Mrs. Bradman?

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Strong, firm grip.
How could I forget?

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(LIGHT MUSIC)

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(CHUCKLING)

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So, what seems to be
the trouble, old chap?

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Things don't seem to be
flowing as they used to.

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Oh.

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Name me a wordsmith who
hasn't wrestled with a bout

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of writer's block
once in a while, eh.

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And the truth is,
it's not just the words

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that have dried up.

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Hm-hm.

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Big Ben's stopped chiming.

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Hm.

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Mr. Peasbody's
got stage fright.

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Oh, you poor fellow.

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It's like playing
billiards with a rope.

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(PILLS RATTLING)

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Try a couple of these.

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Should put some
fuel back in your tank.

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CHARLES: What are they?

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Benzedrine sulfate.

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(COUGHS) amphetamine.

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Enhances cheerfulness,

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alertness, and as
Violet would testify,

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does wonders for your libido.

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Sounds too good to be
true. Is it habit forming?

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No, not at all. Been
using them for years.

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(UPBEAT LIGHT MUSIC)

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Ah.

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Ah, slow down.

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Charles, you'll give
us both a coronary.

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I've never
felt more alive.

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Why? What's happened?

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I decided to take your advice

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and look on the positives.

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Surely it's better
to be up than down.

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I just don't want
you to exhaust yourself

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before the medium show
at the theater tonight.

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Ugh.

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Nobody in their right mind
would waste a perfectly

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pleasant evening
pretending to be fascinated

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by someone holding a
one-way conversation.

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- Ah.
- Ah.

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(THEATRE BELL RINGS)

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ANNOUNCER: <i>Ladies and
gentlemen, please take your seats.</i>

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<i>This evening's performance
will commence in two minutes.</i>

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Isn't that your cook?

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And your maid?

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Oh yes. So it is.

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Poor Edith.

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She's been very taken
with this sort of thing

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since she lost her brother
fighting the fascists in Spain.

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Primitive superstition
can be very persuasive.

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Especially with the
emotionally susceptible.

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Hm.

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(DRAMATIC SHOW MUSIC)

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(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)

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Ladies and gentlemen,

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welcome to an evening
that will change

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your perceptions of
the world we inhabit.

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(AUDIENCE MURMURING)

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That will answer, irrefutably,

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the question that has
confounded mankind

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since the dawn of time.

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(DREAMY MUSIC)

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Is there life after death?

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No.

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(DREAMY MUSIC)

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There she is.

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(DREAMY MUSIC)

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Mesdames et messeurs, bonsoir.

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From the Great Pyramid
of Cholula in the West

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to Mount Taishan in the east,

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from Whanganui-a-Tara
in the south

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to Uppsala in the north,

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I have traveled the globe,

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communing with gurus,
swamis and shaman.

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These wise sages have guided me

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to a deeper dimension

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where finally I
experienced an epiphany

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and broke through
to the other side.

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(DREAMY MUSIC)

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(AUDIENCE GASPING)

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I am certain that everyone here

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has sensed the spirits of
their departed loved ones.

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And I am certain we all wish

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we could communicate
with them again

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to say the things
we never got to say.

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- I've got it. Sorry.
- Shh.

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Tonight, I will use the
precious mystical gift

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to make that possible.

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(SHRIEKS)

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Bugger!

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(ROPE WHOOSHING)

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(SCREAMING)

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(AUDIENCE GASPING)

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(MADAME ARCATI GROANING)

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Madame Arcati.

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Oh, it's a conjuring trick.

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I told you. She's a fraud.

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That's an
outrageous accusation.

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I merely lost contact.

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Charles was right. It
was all a put-up job.

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(AUDIENCE BOOING)

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Where'd he go?

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(FLASHBULB POPPING)

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Please, please.

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(REPORTERS SHOUTING)

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Madame Arcati has
just been through

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a very traumatic experience.

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Please just... Please.

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I would
ask you to respect

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her privacy at this
difficult time.

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MANDEEP: <i>Oh, my giddy aunt!</i>

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MADAME ARCATI: <i>I've
told you, Mandeep,</i>

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<i>I don't want to
see a living soul.</i>

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My name is Charles Condomine.

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I'm an award-winning writer.

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And especially not
the gutter press.

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Look, I'm not a reporter.
I write crime novels,

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and screenplays.

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Well, I can't abide
fiction or fantasy.

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Madame Arcati?

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I'm not here to
question your integrity.

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Faking an exotic accent doesn't
mean your gift isn't real.

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I fully understand that, like
me, you occasionally have

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to employ a certain
artistic license

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to entertain the masses.

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They expect me to
deliver a spectacle,

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a transcendental miracle,
night after night.

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Of course, of course. There's
no need to justify yourself.

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I'm a believer.

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I'm simply here to
invite you to conduct

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a private seance at my home.

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Well. I'm not a traveling
banjo player, Mr. Condomine.

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I don't do requests.

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Well, there might be some
influential guests attending.

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Could be the perfect
opportunity to fend off

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any bad publicity from
tonight's unfortunate events.

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When were you wishing
this to take place?

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As soon as possible.

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Then I suggest this Thursday,

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midsummer night, the solstice.

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The sacred turning
point of the seasons.

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Perfect.

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I told her how
profoundly interested I was

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in anything to do
with the occult,

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and she blossomed like a rose.

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Well, hosting an evening
with a professional charlatan

00:15:25.114 --> 00:15:26.616
sounds like an absolute scream.

00:15:26.650 --> 00:15:27.983
Doesn't it?

00:15:28.017 --> 00:15:29.852
But will it get you closer
to finishing your screenplay?

00:15:29.885 --> 00:15:31.253
Well, I need the
old girl to show me

00:15:31.287 --> 00:15:32.756
a few tricks of the trade.

00:15:32.788 --> 00:15:34.356
That's what's gonna make
my new hero truly unique.

00:15:34.391 --> 00:15:36.526
What's so unique about him?

00:15:36.559 --> 00:15:37.359
He's dead.

00:15:37.394 --> 00:15:38.193
Dead?

00:15:38.227 --> 00:15:39.396
As a doornail.

00:15:39.429 --> 00:15:41.196
He's the victim of a
vicious unsolved murder

00:15:41.230 --> 00:15:43.332
and communicates with the
living through a medium

00:15:43.365 --> 00:15:45.635
who helps bring people
back from beyond the grave.

00:15:45.669 --> 00:15:48.237
Maybe she could resurrect
your career at the same time.

00:15:48.270 --> 00:15:49.439
Daddy's on the warpath.

00:15:49.472 --> 00:15:50.674
He's certain to
find another writer

00:15:50.707 --> 00:15:52.308
if you don't deliver soon.

00:15:54.411 --> 00:15:57.012
(THUNDER RUMBLES)

00:15:57.046 --> 00:15:59.982
(MYSTERIOUS MUSIC)

00:16:18.802 --> 00:16:20.503
Is anybody there?

00:16:24.741 --> 00:16:27.142
Is anybody there?

00:16:27.176 --> 00:16:30.879
One rap for yes,
two raps for no.

00:16:33.416 --> 00:16:34.216
(BANGING)

00:16:34.249 --> 00:16:35.084
Ooh.

00:16:36.553 --> 00:16:38.187
Is that you, Maia?

00:16:38.220 --> 00:16:39.188
Who's Maia?

00:16:39.221 --> 00:16:41.123
My spirit guide.

00:16:41.156 --> 00:16:43.325
She was Tutankhamun's wet nurse.

00:16:44.561 --> 00:16:46.228
I do hope she's
not still lactating.

00:16:46.261 --> 00:16:48.063
(CHORTLING)

00:16:48.097 --> 00:16:52.167
I would ask you not to
be flippant, Dr. Bradman.

00:16:52.201 --> 00:16:56.305
She may be in Shamballa, but
the woman still has feelings.

00:16:56.338 --> 00:16:59.074
Please forgive
me, Madame Arcati.

00:16:59.108 --> 00:17:00.643
I didn't mean to cause offense.

00:17:01.578 --> 00:17:03.747
(MYSTERIOUS MUSIC)

00:17:03.780 --> 00:17:07.450
(SPEAKING ARABIC)

00:17:12.555 --> 00:17:14.724
(SPEAKING ARABIC...)

00:17:22.164 --> 00:17:24.834
(TABLE BANGING)

00:17:24.868 --> 00:17:27.369
Now we're getting somewhere.

00:17:29.304 --> 00:17:31.373
Is it me you wish to speak to?

00:17:31.408 --> 00:17:33.777
(TABLE RATTLING)

00:17:33.810 --> 00:17:36.446
Is it Dr. Bradman?
Or perhaps one

00:17:36.479 --> 00:17:38.848
of his less fortunate patients?

00:17:38.882 --> 00:17:41.518
(TABLE RATTLING)

00:17:41.551 --> 00:17:42.752
Mrs. Bradman?

00:17:42.786 --> 00:17:44.687
(TABLE RATTLING)

00:17:46.489 --> 00:17:47.690
Mrs. Condomine?

00:17:47.724 --> 00:17:49.324
(TABLE RATTLING)

00:17:49.358 --> 00:17:50.926
Oh, behave yourself, Maia.

00:17:52.595 --> 00:17:53.830
Mr. Condomine?

00:17:56.866 --> 00:17:58.768
(TABLE BANGING)

00:17:58.802 --> 00:18:00.603
It appears that
someone wishes to speak

00:18:00.637 --> 00:18:03.305
to you, Mr. Condomine.

00:18:03.338 --> 00:18:04.874
Do you know anyone
who has recently

00:18:04.908 --> 00:18:06.942
passed over to the other side?

00:18:06.975 --> 00:18:08.210
Only my old literary agent,

00:18:08.243 --> 00:18:09.412
but it's unlikely
he'd make contact.

00:18:09.446 --> 00:18:11.581
He died owing me a
fortune in royalties.

00:18:11.614 --> 00:18:13.817
(GROUP GIGGLING)

00:18:13.850 --> 00:18:16.886
Are you Mr. Condomine's
literary agent.

00:18:17.854 --> 00:18:20.790
(TABLE RATTLING)

00:18:20.824 --> 00:18:22.459
No.

00:18:22.492 --> 00:18:24.059
I'm afraid we've drawn a blank.

00:18:26.429 --> 00:18:29.532
Is there anyone on the other
side you think of often?

00:18:30.633 --> 00:18:33.536
(MYSTERIOUS MUSIC)

00:18:36.773 --> 00:18:38.273
No, well, there's
nothing for it.

00:18:38.307 --> 00:18:40.008
I shall have to
go into a trance.

00:18:42.545 --> 00:18:44.980
This is the moment I hate.

00:18:45.013 --> 00:18:47.383
Are, are you nervous, or?

00:18:47.417 --> 00:18:49.419
When I was a child,
I used to be sick.

00:18:50.687 --> 00:18:51.888
Mm-hm.

00:18:51.921 --> 00:18:53.590
Now let's see,
what have we here?

00:18:55.123 --> 00:18:57.460
Oh, Brahms. No, that's
too dark and depressing.

00:18:58.761 --> 00:19:00.797
Rachmaninoff. No, too florid.

00:19:03.031 --> 00:19:04.734
Oh no, this is better.

00:19:04.767 --> 00:19:05.768
<i>Always.</i>

00:19:07.069 --> 00:19:08.370
Does it have to be that song?

00:19:08.404 --> 00:19:11.474
Well Maia likes a tune
she can hum along to.

00:19:11.508 --> 00:19:15.344
("ALWAYS" INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)

00:19:20.383 --> 00:19:22.519
(HUMMING)

00:19:25.488 --> 00:19:27.557
♪ Always ♪

00:19:32.996 --> 00:19:36.633
♪ I'll be loving you Always ♪

00:19:36.666 --> 00:19:37.600
(THUNDER)

00:19:37.634 --> 00:19:42.472
♪ With a love
that's true Always ♪

00:19:42.505 --> 00:19:44.908
♪ Then the things you plan ♪

00:19:44.941 --> 00:19:47.410
♪ Need a helping hand ♪

00:19:47.443 --> 00:19:49.111
♪ I will understand ♪

00:19:49.144 --> 00:19:52.482
(MADAME ARCATI WHIMPERS)

00:19:54.149 --> 00:19:56.486
(SCREAMING)

00:19:57.554 --> 00:19:58.588
Crikey.

00:19:58.621 --> 00:20:00.355
(STORM RAGING)

00:20:00.390 --> 00:20:02.458
(SCREAMING)

00:20:02.492 --> 00:20:04.293
(WHIMPERING)

00:20:05.895 --> 00:20:07.497
What the devil's going on?

00:20:07.530 --> 00:20:09.364
Must be a power cut.

00:20:12.167 --> 00:20:16.305
Madame Arcati? Madame
Arcati, can you hear me?

00:20:16.338 --> 00:20:17.272
Is she breathing?

00:20:17.306 --> 00:20:19.909
She's having some sort of fit.

00:20:19.943 --> 00:20:21.778
Please, do something,
Dr. Bradman.

00:20:24.212 --> 00:20:25.949
(FINGERS SNAPPING)

00:20:25.982 --> 00:20:27.016
(ELECTRICITY SPARKING)

00:20:27.050 --> 00:20:27.984
Oh.

00:20:28.017 --> 00:20:29.318
Oh, thank goodness.

00:20:29.351 --> 00:20:30.553
What happened?

00:20:30.587 --> 00:20:31.688
Apart from the French
windows blowing open,

00:20:31.721 --> 00:20:32.989
nothing supernatural.

00:20:33.022 --> 00:20:36.325
Something
substantial took place.

00:20:36.358 --> 00:20:38.494
I can feel it in my base chakra.

00:20:38.528 --> 00:20:40.530
Probably trapped wind.

00:20:40.563 --> 00:20:42.865
(SNIFFING)

00:20:42.899 --> 00:20:44.734
No poltergeists, at any rate.

00:20:45.835 --> 00:20:47.670
Any apparitions?

00:20:47.704 --> 00:20:49.338
Uh, not that we saw.

00:20:49.371 --> 00:20:50.740
What about ectoplasm?

00:20:50.773 --> 00:20:52.207
I'm not quite
sure what that is.

00:20:52.240 --> 00:20:55.645
A supernatural viscous
substance that exudes

00:20:55.678 --> 00:20:58.514
from the body of one in
a spiritualistic trance

00:20:58.548 --> 00:21:02.819
and forms the material for
the manifestation of spirits.

00:21:02.852 --> 00:21:05.054
No, I definitely would
have remembered that.

00:21:05.088 --> 00:21:05.888
Mm-hm.

00:21:07.590 --> 00:21:09.859
Well. I suppose I should get
going before the storm rolls in.

00:21:09.892 --> 00:21:11.226
Would you care for
some refreshments

00:21:11.259 --> 00:21:12.695
before you return to your hotel?

00:21:12.729 --> 00:21:16.365
Oh. no, thank you, Mrs. Condomine.
I like to travel light.

00:21:16.399 --> 00:21:17.700
Congratulations,
Madame Arcati.

00:21:17.734 --> 00:21:19.535
It was a thrilling evening.

00:21:19.569 --> 00:21:23.673
I'm well aware of the irony
in your voice, Dr. Bradman.

00:21:23.706 --> 00:21:26.375
May I be so bold as to remind
you that modern medicine

00:21:26.409 --> 00:21:29.612
is a recent phenomena, and
that physicians have found

00:21:29.646 --> 00:21:33.449
value in scientifically
inexplicable practices

00:21:33.483 --> 00:21:36.052
since the beginning
of civilization?

00:21:36.085 --> 00:21:36.886
Quite so.

00:21:37.920 --> 00:21:40.355
Well, good night, everyone.

00:21:41.391 --> 00:21:43.960
I'm sorry so little eventuated.

00:21:43.993 --> 00:21:47.697
Probably something to
do with a cosmic flux.

00:21:47.730 --> 00:21:50.033
Thank you so much for agreeing
to do this, Madame Arcati.

00:21:50.066 --> 00:21:52.702
It's been an education
on so many levels.

00:21:52.735 --> 00:21:55.071
<i>Merci, Monsieur Condomine.</i>

00:21:56.873 --> 00:21:57.874
<i>Et au revoir.</i>

00:22:01.276 --> 00:22:04.614
(FOOTSTEPS RECEDING)

00:22:04.647 --> 00:22:06.015
(LAUGHING)

00:22:06.049 --> 00:22:08.017
Sh, sh sh, sh sh sh.

00:22:08.051 --> 00:22:09.819
She might hear us, sh.

00:22:09.852 --> 00:22:11.654
I can't. Really, I can't.

00:22:11.688 --> 00:22:17.259
(WIND BLOWING AND
THUNDER)

00:22:17.292 --> 00:22:19.829
(SIGHS)

00:22:19.862 --> 00:22:23.231
I can't quite put my
finger on it, Donald.

00:22:23.265 --> 00:22:25.601
I've never experienced
anything like it in my life.

00:22:27.003 --> 00:22:29.105
It genuinely felt as if

00:22:30.973 --> 00:22:32.809
something tremendous
had happened.

00:22:38.748 --> 00:22:39.582
Oh well.

00:22:41.117 --> 00:22:42.317
Maybe next time.

00:22:44.887 --> 00:22:46.456
Good night, my love.

00:22:46.489 --> 00:22:49.058
(GENTLE MUSIC)

00:22:50.059 --> 00:22:52.662
(WIND BLOWING, THUNDER)

00:22:54.497 --> 00:22:57.467
(THUNDER CRASH)

00:22:57.500 --> 00:23:00.103
(RAIN PELTING)

00:23:03.906 --> 00:23:06.576
Did you get everything you
need for your screenplay?

00:23:06.609 --> 00:23:10.480
Oh, everything
and more (CHUCKLES).

00:23:10.513 --> 00:23:13.315
You're not thinking of turning
in for the night, are you?

00:23:13.348 --> 00:23:14.150
What?

00:23:15.718 --> 00:23:16.986
Wouldn't it be
prudent to get down

00:23:17.019 --> 00:23:18.988
the ideas whilst
they're still fresh?

00:23:22.125 --> 00:23:24.794
Yes, well, absolutely.

00:23:24.827 --> 00:23:29.732
I shall, fix myself
a drink and dig in.

00:23:29.766 --> 00:23:31.467
<i>Carpe diem,</i>
darling.

00:23:32.168 --> 00:23:33.636
(CHUCKLES)

00:23:33.669 --> 00:23:34.771
<i>Carpe diem.</i>

00:23:36.739 --> 00:23:39.008
(DOOR OPENING AND CLOSING)

00:23:39.041 --> 00:23:41.611
(STORM RAGING)

00:23:45.481 --> 00:23:48.316
(RECORD SKIPPING)

00:23:55.357 --> 00:23:58.293
(THUNDER RUMBLING)

00:23:59.529 --> 00:24:02.865
(SOFT MYSTERIOUS MUSIC)

00:24:10.940 --> 00:24:14.043
(THUNDER CRASH)

00:24:17.446 --> 00:24:18.481
Jesus Christ.

00:24:20.216 --> 00:24:21.117
ELVIRA: Charles?

00:24:23.286 --> 00:24:25.121
What on Earth have you done?

00:24:27.557 --> 00:24:30.593
The room looks like
a giant peach melba.

00:24:33.095 --> 00:24:34.964
And where's my Italian
chandelier gone?

00:24:39.802 --> 00:24:40.603
What?

00:24:40.636 --> 00:24:42.805
(BUZZING)

00:24:51.981 --> 00:24:52.815
Oh, God.

00:24:56.219 --> 00:24:57.587
Hello.

00:24:57.620 --> 00:25:00.355
(WIND WHISTLING)

00:25:01.958 --> 00:25:05.061
Please tell me you haven't
ruined the rest of the house.

00:25:05.094 --> 00:25:06.562
No.

00:25:06.596 --> 00:25:07.763
(SIGH)

00:25:07.797 --> 00:25:11.334
My Moroccan mosaics. Charles.

00:25:11.366 --> 00:25:13.769
One weekend away and
the whole place has had

00:25:13.803 --> 00:25:16.572
the life and soul
sucked out of it.

00:25:16.606 --> 00:25:17.607
This can't be happening.

00:25:17.640 --> 00:25:18.908
I must be hallucinating.

00:25:18.941 --> 00:25:20.943
Well, judging from
the decor, I would say

00:25:20.977 --> 00:25:23.546
that's the understatement
of the century.

00:25:23.579 --> 00:25:26.916
(SOFT MYSTERIOUS MUSIC)

00:25:29.719 --> 00:25:32.255
I should have known
this wasn't down to you.

00:25:35.024 --> 00:25:35.858
Who is she?

00:25:37.460 --> 00:25:38.895
It's not what you think.

00:25:38.928 --> 00:25:43.666
Please do not humiliate
either one of us any further.

00:25:43.699 --> 00:25:45.067
If you've got
something to tell me,

00:25:45.101 --> 00:25:47.303
be a man and spit it out.

00:25:49.305 --> 00:25:52.808
Elvira... You're dead.

00:25:52.842 --> 00:25:54.543
How dare you?

00:25:54.577 --> 00:25:55.845
(ELVIRA GRUNTS)

00:25:57.647 --> 00:25:58.581
(GASP)

00:25:59.315 --> 00:26:02.285
(SCREAMING)

00:26:02.318 --> 00:26:03.252
(GASP)

00:26:04.388 --> 00:26:06.956
(RAIN TAPPING)

00:26:11.160 --> 00:26:13.329
The last thing I
remember is competing

00:26:13.362 --> 00:26:16.299
in the South Downs
point-to-point.

00:26:16.332 --> 00:26:19.735
That's right, and the
conditions were treacherous,

00:26:19.769 --> 00:26:22.104
and as with most things, you
refused to listen to reason.

00:26:22.138 --> 00:26:24.106
Well I couldn't miss
the most prestigious meet

00:26:24.140 --> 00:26:25.508
of the season, Charles.

00:26:25.541 --> 00:26:27.276
Well, you paid the ultimate
price for your folly

00:26:27.310 --> 00:26:28.945
and fell at the final fence,

00:26:28.978 --> 00:26:31.914
instantly breaking your neck.

00:26:31.948 --> 00:26:32.949
The whole episode
was very distressing

00:26:32.982 --> 00:26:35.184
for everyone involved.

00:26:35.217 --> 00:26:39.021
Well, presumably not as
distressing as it was for me.

00:26:39.055 --> 00:26:40.890
They did rename the
jump in your honor.

00:26:40.923 --> 00:26:42.792
Oh.

00:26:42.825 --> 00:26:44.060
How thoughtful.

00:26:47.029 --> 00:26:48.197
I don't understand.

00:26:48.230 --> 00:26:50.900
If I'm dead, then how
and why am I here?

00:26:50.933 --> 00:26:52.868
I have absolutely no idea.

00:26:55.204 --> 00:26:57.106
Maybe you're a ghost.

00:26:57.139 --> 00:27:00.710
What? No! (CRIES).

00:27:00.743 --> 00:27:02.379
Please, don't get hysterical.

00:27:02.412 --> 00:27:03.479
Hysterical?

00:27:04.381 --> 00:27:06.482
Concerned, more like.

00:27:06.515 --> 00:27:08.351
Procrastination is the
thief of time, Charles,

00:27:08.385 --> 00:27:10.586
and yours is running out.

00:27:10.619 --> 00:27:11.520
Who's she?

00:27:11.554 --> 00:27:12.655
My wife, Ruth.

00:27:12.688 --> 00:27:14.156
Yes? Are you all right?

00:27:14.190 --> 00:27:15.324
I'm your wife.

00:27:15.358 --> 00:27:16.325
Not anymore.

00:27:16.359 --> 00:27:17.860
Why? What's the matter?

00:27:17.893 --> 00:27:20.663
Ruth, I'm not speaking to
you. I'm talking to Elvira.

00:27:20.696 --> 00:27:21.897
Elvira?

00:27:21.931 --> 00:27:23.099
Yeah, surely you can see her.

00:27:23.132 --> 00:27:24.600
She's standing
right next to you.

00:27:24.633 --> 00:27:26.335
Charles, what are you
playing at? Elvira's dead.

00:27:26.369 --> 00:27:29.271
Ugh, why does everyone
have to keep saying that?

00:27:29.305 --> 00:27:30.573
Elvira, darling, this is Ruth.

00:27:30.606 --> 00:27:32.174
Ruth, darling, this is Elvira.

00:27:32.208 --> 00:27:33.909
Are you drunk?

00:27:33.943 --> 00:27:36.480
Ruth, Elvira is here
with us in the room.

00:27:36.512 --> 00:27:39.315
Madame Arcati must have summoned
her up during the seance.

00:27:39.348 --> 00:27:43.953
Madame Arcati's a fraud.
You said so yourself.

00:27:43.986 --> 00:27:48.190
I'm going to bed, and I
suggest that you retire too.

00:27:48.224 --> 00:27:50.726
Finally some time to ourselves
so we can get reacquainted.

00:27:50.760 --> 00:27:52.828
That's a thoroughly
immoral suggestion.

00:27:52.862 --> 00:27:57.333
Oh, I wasn't for a moment
insinuating we share a bed.

00:27:57.366 --> 00:27:58.502
No...

00:27:58.534 --> 00:27:59.935
I've come to terms with
your recent inability

00:27:59.969 --> 00:28:01.471
to perform in that department.

00:28:02.538 --> 00:28:04.040
Hm.

00:28:04.073 --> 00:28:06.308
I can't imagine you ever
did with that sourpuss.

00:28:06.342 --> 00:28:08.478
Be quiet. You're behaving
like a guttersnipe.

00:28:08.512 --> 00:28:12.014
It is your behavior,
Charles, that is unpardonable.

00:28:12.048 --> 00:28:14.183
(CLEARS THROAT) Good night.

00:28:14.216 --> 00:28:15.718
Hooray.

00:28:15.751 --> 00:28:17.253
What a frightful woman.

00:28:17.286 --> 00:28:19.855
I can only assume it was
a marriage of convenience?

00:28:21.657 --> 00:28:22.459
(CHARLES SIGHS)

00:28:22.492 --> 00:28:23.325
Hmm.

00:28:23.359 --> 00:28:24.827
I've gone mad.

00:28:24.860 --> 00:28:27.296
That's what it is
Stark raving mad.

00:28:27.329 --> 00:28:30.266
(THUNDER RUMBLING)

00:28:34.270 --> 00:28:37.441
It will ruin your life if you
allow it to get hold of you.

00:28:37.474 --> 00:28:38.741
Once and for all, Ruth,

00:28:38.774 --> 00:28:41.277
last night had nothing
to do with alcohol.

00:28:41.310 --> 00:28:43.012
I wasn't in the least drunk.

00:28:43.045 --> 00:28:45.881
Something very peculiar
happened to me.

00:28:45.915 --> 00:28:47.451
A one-off psychic delusion,

00:28:47.484 --> 00:28:49.251
likely brought on
by work pressure.

00:28:49.285 --> 00:28:51.821
A deadline doesn't explain
why when I calmly suggested

00:28:51.854 --> 00:28:53.589
that you should return to
bed, you said with a most

00:28:53.622 --> 00:28:55.157
disgusting leer that it
was an immoral suggestion.

00:28:55.191 --> 00:28:57.760
I thought I was
talking to Elvira.

00:28:57.793 --> 00:28:59.728
Well, if you were, I can
only say it conjures up

00:28:59.762 --> 00:29:01.531
a fragrant picture of
your first marriage.

00:29:01.565 --> 00:29:03.732
My first marriage
was perfectly charming.

00:29:03.766 --> 00:29:05.968
And it's in the worst possible
taste for you to sneer at it.

00:29:06.001 --> 00:29:07.670
I'm not nearly so interested
in your first marriage

00:29:07.703 --> 00:29:09.772
as you think I am.

00:29:09.805 --> 00:29:11.273
In fact, its your
second marriage

00:29:11.307 --> 00:29:12.808
that's absorbing
me at the moment.

00:29:12.842 --> 00:29:14.143
It's headed for the rocks.

00:29:17.113 --> 00:29:18.347
(EXHALING)

00:29:18.381 --> 00:29:22.151
Well, it's 155 over
99. It is quite high.

00:29:22.184 --> 00:29:23.185
(EXHALING)

00:29:23.219 --> 00:29:24.421
I'm not surprised,

00:29:24.454 --> 00:29:26.088
given the intensity
of the hallucination.

00:29:27.790 --> 00:29:30.693
I genuinely believed Elvira
was in the room talking to me.

00:29:31.627 --> 00:29:34.431
She was as real as you or I.

00:29:34.464 --> 00:29:36.932
Probably best you stop taking
the tablets, old chap.

00:29:40.269 --> 00:29:41.804
Darling.

00:29:41.837 --> 00:29:44.173
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

00:29:44.206 --> 00:29:47.444
I hate to see you so upset.

00:29:47.477 --> 00:29:49.712
Please accept my heartfelt
apology for anything untoward

00:29:49.745 --> 00:29:51.847
I might have said last night.

00:29:51.881 --> 00:29:52.882
Or this morning.

00:29:54.250 --> 00:29:57.454
Apology accepted. Let's
never mention it again.

00:29:58.455 --> 00:30:00.856
How are you feeling?

00:30:00.890 --> 00:30:03.792
I believe Dr. Bradman
might have solved the riddle.

00:30:04.727 --> 00:30:06.729
Ah, well, thank goodness.

00:30:06.762 --> 00:30:09.932
Now, let's go and
see your father.

00:30:09.965 --> 00:30:11.167
I want to check he
likes my new idea

00:30:11.200 --> 00:30:12.435
before committing
it to the page.

00:30:12.469 --> 00:30:14.737
I do not want to be late.

00:30:14.770 --> 00:30:17.373
(UPBEAT MUSIC)

00:30:27.450 --> 00:30:28.851
RUTH: Charles?

00:30:30.719 --> 00:30:33.289
(BELL RINGING)

00:30:33.322 --> 00:30:35.925
And so, you see, Henry,
it's only through the medium

00:30:35.958 --> 00:30:37.460
that the killer can
be brought to justice,

00:30:37.494 --> 00:30:39.762
based on new evidence that he
gathers from beyond the grave.

00:30:39.795 --> 00:30:42.331
I like the premise,
Charles, but not enough

00:30:42.364 --> 00:30:44.668
to wait another six
months to see a script.

00:30:44.700 --> 00:30:47.236
Charles will deliver
in a few weeks, Daddy.

00:30:47.269 --> 00:30:48.505
You have my word.

00:30:50.105 --> 00:30:51.441
And mine.

00:30:51.474 --> 00:30:53.242
- HITCHCOCK: Cut!
- ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: And we've cut!

00:30:53.275 --> 00:30:55.445
Right, come on, let's go and
watch the next scene.

00:30:55.478 --> 00:30:58.582
I think Hitch will be the
perfect director for our film.

00:30:58.615 --> 00:31:01.283
Just don't get under his feet.

00:31:01.317 --> 00:31:03.620
Come on, darling.

00:31:03.653 --> 00:31:05.721
ASSISTANT: <i>Bring Miss Withers
some makeup, please.</i>

00:31:05.754 --> 00:31:07.923
HENRY: <i>Googie, darling,
how lovely to see you.</i>

00:31:07.957 --> 00:31:09.426
Charles Condomine.

00:31:09.459 --> 00:31:11.428
Ah, I'm a big fan of
your books, Mr. Condomine.

00:31:11.461 --> 00:31:13.128
When can we expect
Detective Flowers

00:31:13.162 --> 00:31:14.730
to crack his next case?

00:31:14.763 --> 00:31:18.033
Ah, Charles has actually made
the leap into screenwriting.

00:31:18.067 --> 00:31:19.134
With Daddy's help.

00:31:19.168 --> 00:31:20.069
Oh, how exciting.

00:31:20.102 --> 00:31:21.471
(RUTH LAUGHS)

00:31:21.504 --> 00:31:23.673
I'd die to play one of your
strong-willed female characters.

00:31:23.707 --> 00:31:26.075
Where do you draw
your inspiration from?

00:31:26.108 --> 00:31:27.977
Where do you think? (LAUGHS)

00:31:28.010 --> 00:31:31.180
Oh, how romantic,
to marry your muse.

00:31:31.213 --> 00:31:34.817
Not so romantic
to replace her.

00:31:34.850 --> 00:31:36.252
Why don't you tell her
the truth, Charles,

00:31:36.285 --> 00:31:38.220
that you're an astral bigamist?

00:31:38.254 --> 00:31:40.490
Be quiet. Stop
behaving like a harlot.

00:31:41.658 --> 00:31:42.659
I beg your pardon?

00:31:43.627 --> 00:31:44.960
Admit it, Charles.

00:31:44.994 --> 00:31:47.564
All of your female
characters are based on me.

00:31:47.597 --> 00:31:50.132
You always were vain
and self-obsessed.

00:31:50.165 --> 00:31:52.702
How dare you speak to
my leading lady like that?

00:31:52.736 --> 00:31:54.870
No, no no.

00:31:54.903 --> 00:31:55.572
(THUD)

00:31:57.006 --> 00:31:59.542
(GROUP CHATTERING)

00:31:59.576 --> 00:32:02.244
Get a grip, Charles.
What on earth is going on?

00:32:02.278 --> 00:32:03.112
Elvira is here.

00:32:05.515 --> 00:32:06.782
I can see her.

00:32:06.815 --> 00:32:08.284
She's right there.

00:32:08.317 --> 00:32:11.521
I insist you go home
immediately and lie down.

00:32:11.554 --> 00:32:13.255
I have no desire to go to bed

00:32:13.289 --> 00:32:14.524
in the middle of the afternoon.

00:32:14.557 --> 00:32:16.593
My, how things have changed.

00:32:16.626 --> 00:32:18.628
I remember a time
when we could barely

00:32:18.662 --> 00:32:20.863
drag ourselves out
of our double divan.

00:32:20.896 --> 00:32:23.633
Stop being indecent.
Get out of my sight.

00:32:23.667 --> 00:32:26.436
How dare you speak to
my daughter like that!

00:32:26.469 --> 00:32:27.537
No, I wasn't speaking to her.

00:32:27.570 --> 00:32:29.805
Get off my set.

00:32:29.838 --> 00:32:30.640
You're in trouble now.

00:32:30.674 --> 00:32:31.741
Don't be so infantile.

00:32:31.775 --> 00:32:34.143
I'll give you infantile.

00:32:34.176 --> 00:32:35.144
Ooh!

00:32:35.177 --> 00:32:36.178
Ooh.

00:32:36.211 --> 00:32:37.012
Oww!

00:32:37.046 --> 00:32:37.880
Ah.

00:32:38.914 --> 00:32:41.685
(ENGINE ROARING)

00:32:41.718 --> 00:32:42.985
Does it hurt?

00:32:44.320 --> 00:32:45.921
Only if I breathe.

00:32:45.954 --> 00:32:47.990
Let me see it, darling.

00:32:48.023 --> 00:32:49.325
What about now?

00:32:49.358 --> 00:32:50.593
Oh, God!

00:32:52.161 --> 00:32:54.263
I suggest you take
yourself to your study.

00:32:54.296 --> 00:32:55.565
The only way my father
will forgive you

00:32:55.598 --> 00:32:57.767
is if you deliver an
Oscar-worthy script.

00:32:57.801 --> 00:32:59.436
How am I supposed to
write in this state?

00:32:59.469 --> 00:33:00.869
Well you better try.

00:33:00.903 --> 00:33:03.839
Either start typing and
prove you're not barking mad,

00:33:03.872 --> 00:33:05.775
or I'll be forced
to call Dr. Bradman

00:33:05.809 --> 00:33:08.277
and have you referred
to a nerve specialist.

00:33:08.310 --> 00:33:10.714
Ruth, I'm not in
the least neurotic.

00:33:10.747 --> 00:33:11.681
And never have been.

00:33:11.715 --> 00:33:13.616
Well, psychoanalyst, then.

00:33:13.650 --> 00:33:15.184
Ugh.

00:33:15.217 --> 00:33:17.721
I refuse to endure months
of expensive humiliation,

00:33:17.754 --> 00:33:19.288
only to be told at the end of it

00:33:19.321 --> 00:33:21.323
that at the age of four I was
in love with my rocking horse.

00:33:21.357 --> 00:33:23.626
Don't take that flippant tone
with me, Charles Condomine.

00:33:23.660 --> 00:33:25.695
I'm not the one who
started seeing things.

00:33:25.729 --> 00:33:27.029
Ah, so you do believe me then?

00:33:27.062 --> 00:33:28.263
Of course I don't.

00:33:28.297 --> 00:33:30.265
There's no such thing
as ghosts or ghouls.

00:33:31.200 --> 00:33:33.770
(DREAMY MUSIC)

00:33:36.271 --> 00:33:39.007
(BURNING, CRACKLING)

00:33:46.248 --> 00:33:48.117
I call upon Donald Keeling,

00:33:49.853 --> 00:33:51.388
Second Lieutenant

00:33:52.722 --> 00:33:56.626
in the 92nd Regiment
of Gordon Highlanders.

00:33:58.293 --> 00:34:02.965
Who died on February
the 27th, 1881,

00:34:05.234 --> 00:34:07.269
at the Battle of Majuba Hill.

00:34:09.071 --> 00:34:09.972
Come forth

00:34:11.441 --> 00:34:13.510
and make yourself known to me.

00:34:15.645 --> 00:34:20.517
Cecily, your ever devoted wife.

00:34:23.453 --> 00:34:25.087
(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

00:34:27.956 --> 00:34:31.994
Donald... Is that you?

00:34:32.027 --> 00:34:34.664
HOUSEKEEPER: It's housekeeping.
Do you need fresh towels?

00:34:35.931 --> 00:34:38.535
(SLOW MUSIC)

00:34:43.473 --> 00:34:46.008
(KEYS STRIKING)

00:34:46.041 --> 00:34:48.611
(UPBEAT MUSIC)

00:34:50.647 --> 00:34:51.748
(ZIP!)

00:34:54.451 --> 00:34:56.285
What are you doing here?

00:34:56.318 --> 00:34:58.755
Despite removing
every trace of me,

00:34:58.788 --> 00:35:00.790
this is still my home.

00:35:00.824 --> 00:35:03.091
Besides, I have no
idea how to get back

00:35:03.125 --> 00:35:05.428
even if I wanted to.

00:35:05.462 --> 00:35:07.062
Are you saying you're
staying indefinitely?

00:35:07.095 --> 00:35:08.465
Why?

00:35:08.498 --> 00:35:10.299
Would you hate it
so much if I did?

00:35:11.568 --> 00:35:14.269
Honestly, Charles, I
really am a little hurt.

00:35:14.303 --> 00:35:16.439
You're the only one who
could have called me back.

00:35:16.473 --> 00:35:19.074
I most emphatically did
not send for you, Elvira.

00:35:21.376 --> 00:35:23.646
(LIGHT MUSIC)

00:35:23.680 --> 00:35:26.348
(BIRDS SINGING)

00:35:28.618 --> 00:35:29.819
Ruth and I are
about to celebrate

00:35:29.853 --> 00:35:31.721
our fifth wedding
anniversary together.

00:35:31.754 --> 00:35:33.423
Five?

00:35:33.456 --> 00:35:34.557
What is that, leather?

00:35:35.692 --> 00:35:36.659
Wood.

00:35:36.693 --> 00:35:38.193
Watch out for the splinters.

00:35:39.762 --> 00:35:42.499
(LIGHT MUSIC)

00:35:42.532 --> 00:35:43.833
Mrs. Condomine.

00:35:56.713 --> 00:35:57.981
I'll call Dr. Bradman, see

00:35:58.013 --> 00:36:00.148
if he'll accompany
us to the sanitarium.

00:36:00.182 --> 00:36:02.284
Ruth, please, listen to me.

00:36:02.317 --> 00:36:03.753
I haven't gone mad.

00:36:03.786 --> 00:36:05.955
The ghost of my first wife,
Elvira, has crossed over

00:36:05.989 --> 00:36:07.155
from the other side and is here

00:36:07.189 --> 00:36:08.357
in the room with us right now.

00:36:08.391 --> 00:36:09.859
Yes, dear.

00:36:09.893 --> 00:36:12.160
I know. I see her
perfectly well,

00:36:12.194 --> 00:36:14.263
along with the zebras
and chimpanzees

00:36:14.296 --> 00:36:16.365
hiding under the piano.

00:36:16.399 --> 00:36:18.701
Ruth, I have always
looked upon you as a woman

00:36:18.735 --> 00:36:21.336
of perception and understanding.

00:36:21.370 --> 00:36:22.939
I am, but if you say
you're not drinking,

00:36:22.972 --> 00:36:25.742
there must be something
pressing on your brain.

00:36:26.643 --> 00:36:27.911
Elvira, do something to reveal

00:36:27.944 --> 00:36:29.913
that you really
are here, please.

00:36:29.946 --> 00:36:31.614
She's going to
have me committed.

00:36:33.416 --> 00:36:36.184
Do you remember when we
first heard our song, Charles?

00:36:37.520 --> 00:36:41.691
♪ I'll be loving
you Always, Oooh ♪

00:36:41.724 --> 00:36:44.827
(UPBEAT PIANO MUSIC)

00:36:58.508 --> 00:37:00.009
See? What did I tell you?

00:37:00.043 --> 00:37:01.243
It's a cruel trick, Charles,

00:37:01.276 --> 00:37:03.111
using some sort
of auto suggestion

00:37:03.145 --> 00:37:05.448
or hypnotism to scare me.

00:37:05.481 --> 00:37:07.584
It isn't. I swear
it isn't. Darling.

00:37:10.620 --> 00:37:11.921
Darling.

00:37:11.955 --> 00:37:13.556
Elvira, do something
else, for God sake.

00:37:13.590 --> 00:37:14.891
Oh, anything to oblige.

00:37:15.892 --> 00:37:17.259
(MYSTERIOUS MUSIC)

00:37:17.292 --> 00:37:18.327
(LIPSTICK POPS OPEN)

00:37:19.829 --> 00:37:20.597
Look.

00:37:20.630 --> 00:37:23.499
(MYSTERIOUS MUSIC)

00:37:25.969 --> 00:37:27.102
RUTH: Lord.

00:37:27.135 --> 00:37:29.806
(MYSTERIOUS MUSIC)

00:37:29.839 --> 00:37:30.540
Ahh!

00:37:31.874 --> 00:37:34.811
(SCREAMING)

00:37:34.844 --> 00:37:36.579
Adios, interloper.

00:37:36.613 --> 00:37:37.747
(DOOR SLAMS)

00:37:38.481 --> 00:37:39.482
Oops.

00:37:39.515 --> 00:37:40.683
(CHARLES SIGHS)

00:37:40.717 --> 00:37:43.218
(MYSTERIOUS MUSIC)

00:37:44.319 --> 00:37:45.822
(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

00:37:45.855 --> 00:37:47.724
MAN: <i>I'm afraid we
need the room back.</i>

00:37:47.757 --> 00:37:49.692
I told you I'll
be packed and ready

00:37:49.726 --> 00:37:51.728
to go within an hour.

00:37:51.761 --> 00:37:54.329
(UPBEAT MUSIC)

00:38:02.605 --> 00:38:03.773
(MANDEEP SIGHS)

00:38:06.241 --> 00:38:09.012
Ah, thank God I caught you.

00:38:09.045 --> 00:38:10.847
You are my only hope.

00:38:10.880 --> 00:38:12.915
Something terrible
has taken place.

00:38:12.949 --> 00:38:15.385
You heard strange
noises in the night?

00:38:15.418 --> 00:38:17.319
Boards creaking? Doors slamming?

00:38:17.352 --> 00:38:20.222
A subdued moaning
in the passages?

00:38:20.255 --> 00:38:22.058
Eh, no, none of those.

00:38:22.091 --> 00:38:23.126
Oh.

00:38:23.158 --> 00:38:25.561
But, it appears that
after the seance

00:38:25.595 --> 00:38:27.930
my husband's first wife, Elvira,

00:38:27.964 --> 00:38:32.267
who died seven years
ago, is back among us.

00:38:32.300 --> 00:38:38.775
At last. A genuine
materialization.

00:38:38.808 --> 00:38:42.177
I knew something stupendous
had happened to me that night.

00:38:42.210 --> 00:38:44.514
I felt it in my spinal cortex.

00:38:44.547 --> 00:38:48.685
Oh, after all these years
of, of spiritual devotion,

00:38:48.718 --> 00:38:52.789
I've finally been
rewarded (KISSES).

00:38:52.822 --> 00:38:55.458
I appreciate the pride
in your achievement,

00:38:55.491 --> 00:38:56.759
but I would like to
point out it's making

00:38:56.793 --> 00:38:58.661
my position in my
home untenable,

00:38:58.695 --> 00:39:01.698
and I hold you
entirely responsible.

00:39:01.731 --> 00:39:04.467
Oh, forgive me,
Mrs. Condomine.

00:39:04.500 --> 00:39:06.602
I'm being abominably selfish.

00:39:06.636 --> 00:39:09.639
Just to help me get
this clear in my mind,

00:39:09.672 --> 00:39:13.109
y-you yourself have not
seen this manifestation?

00:39:13.142 --> 00:39:18.614
No, but Charles claims
he can see and talk to her.

00:39:18.648 --> 00:39:21.249
Well, if the emotional
connection is strong,

00:39:21.283 --> 00:39:23.486
that is sometimes possible.

00:39:23.519 --> 00:39:25.088
What?

00:39:25.121 --> 00:39:28.991
It can sometimes develop

00:39:29.025 --> 00:39:31.594
into a level ten,

00:39:31.627 --> 00:39:34.097
something I've never
even dared dream of.

00:39:36.766 --> 00:39:40.536
Can he, by any
chance, touch her?

00:39:42.739 --> 00:39:44.507
I sincerely hope not.

00:39:46.909 --> 00:39:48.411
Why?

00:39:48.444 --> 00:39:49.912
Can that happen?

00:39:49.946 --> 00:39:54.150
Well. if the returning spirit
feels welcome... it can

00:39:56.018 --> 00:40:01.557
gradually become
physically... substantial.

00:40:02.725 --> 00:40:04.259
Thank you, Mrs. Bradman.

00:40:04.292 --> 00:40:06.963
Well, please do let me know
if you hear from her.

00:40:06.996 --> 00:40:08.164
(PHONE HANGING UP)

00:40:11.067 --> 00:40:13.603
She's not there either.

00:40:13.636 --> 00:40:15.370
I remember when you
couldn't wait to spend

00:40:15.404 --> 00:40:17.607
an afternoon alone with me.

00:40:17.640 --> 00:40:20.610
Please refrain from
playing with my affections.

00:40:20.643 --> 00:40:21.844
I feel strange enough.

00:40:21.878 --> 00:40:23.846
So you do still
find me attractive?

00:40:23.880 --> 00:40:25.148
Elvira, please.

00:40:26.816 --> 00:40:28.050
This isn't appropriate.

00:40:29.018 --> 00:40:30.086
Look into my eyes.

00:40:31.921 --> 00:40:33.256
(SOFT MUSIC)

00:40:33.288 --> 00:40:35.323
And tell me you don't
love me anymore.

00:40:38.094 --> 00:40:39.962
I shall always love
the memory of you.

00:40:39.996 --> 00:40:43.199
Memories are about
the past, Charles.

00:40:43.232 --> 00:40:44.366
But I'm here.

00:40:45.367 --> 00:40:47.136
And this is the present.

00:40:48.538 --> 00:40:50.173
Why don't we take the boat out

00:40:50.206 --> 00:40:52.608
like we used to
and get some air?

00:40:55.077 --> 00:40:57.013
I can't. I'm on a deadline.

00:40:58.381 --> 00:41:01.284
What are you writing? Checks?

00:41:01.316 --> 00:41:02.518
I'll have you know
I've been commissioned

00:41:02.552 --> 00:41:04.453
to adapt my first
novel for the screen.

00:41:05.521 --> 00:41:06.856
Your first novel?

00:41:08.858 --> 00:41:10.259
Nearly wore my
fingers to the bone

00:41:10.293 --> 00:41:12.195
committing this
story to the page.

00:41:12.228 --> 00:41:13.696
Let's face it, darling.

00:41:13.729 --> 00:41:15.498
It's not a coincidence
that you haven't published

00:41:15.531 --> 00:41:18.835
a word since my demise.

00:41:18.868 --> 00:41:21.571
I won't deny, you did have
a certain flair for plot.

00:41:21.604 --> 00:41:22.772
Mm-hmm.

00:41:22.805 --> 00:41:23.606
And character.

00:41:23.639 --> 00:41:25.007
And?

00:41:26.142 --> 00:41:27.109
And dialogue.

00:41:27.143 --> 00:41:28.177
Right.

00:41:28.211 --> 00:41:30.713
(WATER LAPPING)

00:41:30.746 --> 00:41:33.583
(LIGHT MUSIC)

00:41:33.616 --> 00:41:35.017
The biggest problem
you have is the twist

00:41:35.051 --> 00:41:36.185
into the third act.

00:41:36.219 --> 00:41:37.553
It isn't dramatic
enough, which is why you

00:41:37.587 --> 00:41:40.022
don't have a satisfying climax.

00:41:40.056 --> 00:41:41.424
Tell me something
I don't know.

00:41:41.457 --> 00:41:42.992
Wouldn't it be smarter
to put the whole thing

00:41:43.025 --> 00:41:45.494
on its head and reveal
the husband as the killer?

00:41:46.596 --> 00:41:47.763
Oh that's good.

00:41:47.797 --> 00:41:49.866
Or, what would
be more interesting

00:41:49.899 --> 00:41:51.667
is if it's the wife
who set him up.

00:41:53.569 --> 00:41:55.771
Why would the wife send
her husband to the gallows?

00:41:55.805 --> 00:41:57.039
It's obvious, darling.

00:41:57.073 --> 00:41:59.141
Susan Rutherford becomes
the prime suspect

00:41:59.175 --> 00:42:01.777
when her alibi fails to
materialize, and we naturally

00:42:01.811 --> 00:42:04.280
assume that she's trying
to protect the reputation

00:42:04.313 --> 00:42:06.215
of the foreign secretary,
whose aspirations

00:42:06.249 --> 00:42:08.918
of becoming the prime minister
would be severely compromised

00:42:08.951 --> 00:42:12.788
if it was revealed that
he was having an affair.

00:42:12.822 --> 00:42:15.858
But, in reality, nothing could
be further from the truth,

00:42:15.892 --> 00:42:18.127
which is what we learn
from the victim himself.

00:42:18.160 --> 00:42:20.863
And it's only through the medium
that they can work it out.

00:42:22.064 --> 00:42:23.165
Work what out?

00:42:23.199 --> 00:42:24.166
That she's pregnant
with the dead

00:42:24.200 --> 00:42:25.234
foreign secretary's child.

00:42:27.536 --> 00:42:29.205
Oh, that's good.

00:42:29.238 --> 00:42:30.506
Mm.

00:42:30.539 --> 00:42:33.709
(LAUGHS) Well even I
didn't see that one coming.

00:42:33.743 --> 00:42:35.011
Of course you didn't, darling.

00:42:35.044 --> 00:42:36.178
You're just the writer.

00:42:39.048 --> 00:42:42.285
I'm afraid, Mrs.
Condomine, the time has come

00:42:42.318 --> 00:42:44.520
for me to admit quite frankly,

00:42:44.553 --> 00:42:47.423
I haven't the foggiest
idea how to send her back.

00:42:48.824 --> 00:42:51.093
I have my own personal
reasons for wishing

00:42:51.127 --> 00:42:53.629
to communicate
with the departed,

00:42:53.663 --> 00:42:56.265
but I never for a moment
considered the possibility

00:42:56.299 --> 00:42:58.467
of having to send someone back.

00:42:58.501 --> 00:43:01.470
Well I suggest
that you find a way.

00:43:01.504 --> 00:43:04.473
I refuse to share my
husband with anyone,

00:43:04.507 --> 00:43:06.842
especially his dead ex-wife.

00:43:06.876 --> 00:43:09.045
Well if I thought for a
moment that your husband

00:43:09.078 --> 00:43:11.480
wished to get in
touch with the spirit

00:43:11.514 --> 00:43:13.816
of his dead ex-wife,
I would have of course

00:43:13.849 --> 00:43:15.051
consulted you first.

00:43:15.084 --> 00:43:17.053
After all, <i>noblesse oblige</i>.

00:43:17.086 --> 00:43:18.955
He had no intention of
getting in touch with her.

00:43:18.988 --> 00:43:20.156
I can assure you.

00:43:20.189 --> 00:43:21.490
The whole thing was
planned in order

00:43:21.524 --> 00:43:24.560
to get material for
his new project.

00:43:24.593 --> 00:43:28.364
Am I to understand I was
invited in the spirit of mockery?

00:43:28.398 --> 00:43:29.999
He merely wanted
to make some notes

00:43:30.032 --> 00:43:31.734
of the tricks of the trade.

00:43:31.767 --> 00:43:33.035
Tricks of the trade?

00:43:33.069 --> 00:43:35.439
I've never been so
insulted in my life.

00:43:35.471 --> 00:43:37.073
I'm sorry, that
all came out wrong.

00:43:37.106 --> 00:43:39.608
I'm, I'm rather overwrought
with the whole affair.

00:43:41.811 --> 00:43:43.813
Please, I implore
you to help us.

00:43:45.781 --> 00:43:47.650
I will go to the
Spiritual Alliance

00:43:47.683 --> 00:43:51.320
on my way back to Sussex
and ask them for guidance.

00:43:51.354 --> 00:43:56.158
Sussex? You can't abandon
us in our hour of need.

00:43:56.192 --> 00:43:57.927
Well, due to my
recent circumstances,

00:43:57.960 --> 00:44:00.229
I can no longer
afford to stay here,

00:44:00.262 --> 00:44:01.431
but you can contact me.

00:44:03.232 --> 00:44:06.302
I can cover your hotel
bill, and any expenses,

00:44:06.335 --> 00:44:09.171
till this terrifying
ordeal has been resolved.

00:44:09.205 --> 00:44:10.506
(LIGHT MUSIC)

00:44:10.539 --> 00:44:12.708
(PEN SCRIBBLING)

00:44:12.742 --> 00:44:16.045
(TYPEWRITER CLACKING)

00:44:16.078 --> 00:44:17.313
ELVIRA: <i>Susan
Rutherford leans</i>

00:44:17.346 --> 00:44:18.681
<i>over the foreign secretary.</i>

00:44:19.682 --> 00:44:21.517
Don't stop.

00:44:21.550 --> 00:44:26.255
'The Soviet Union can wait.'
Says the foreign secretary.

00:44:26.288 --> 00:44:30.192
He turns, and looks
at Susan longingly.

00:44:30.226 --> 00:44:33.529
'This can't, ' he
whispers urgently.

00:44:33.562 --> 00:44:35.931
(TYPEWRITER CLACKING)

00:44:35.965 --> 00:44:39.368
And then... he starts to slowly

00:44:41.037 --> 00:44:41.871
unbutton

00:44:42.972 --> 00:44:45.141
her silk blouse,

00:44:45.174 --> 00:44:49.912
as they start to
passionately kiss.

00:44:52.715 --> 00:44:55.684
Okay. That takes us up
to the first act turn.

00:44:58.287 --> 00:45:00.356
You can't just stop mid-flow.

00:45:00.390 --> 00:45:03.259
I'm tired, and I'm thirsty,

00:45:03.292 --> 00:45:05.561
and I want to go into
town and drink Negronis

00:45:05.594 --> 00:45:07.497
like we used to.

00:45:07.531 --> 00:45:09.899
But it's, it's getting late.

00:45:09.932 --> 00:45:11.634
You really have got a
little too comfortable

00:45:11.667 --> 00:45:12.968
in your slippers, Charles.

00:45:14.136 --> 00:45:16.705
(UPBEAT MUSIC)

00:45:19.375 --> 00:45:24.213
♪ The price of inspiration ♪

00:45:24.246 --> 00:45:28.418
♪ Would be too high ♪

00:45:28.452 --> 00:45:34.323
♪ If, to inspire my creation, ♪

00:45:34.356 --> 00:45:37.827
♪ we had to say goodbye ♪

00:45:37.860 --> 00:45:40.464
♪ If you're putting
pen to paper ♪

00:45:40.497 --> 00:45:42.499
♪ A singer with a song ♪

00:45:42.532 --> 00:45:44.166
♪ nothing's got the rhythm
for the line ♪

00:45:44.200 --> 00:45:45.935
What do you want, Elvira?

00:45:45.968 --> 00:45:47.236
- Want?
- Hmm.

00:45:47.269 --> 00:45:49.705
I don't know what you mean.

00:45:49.738 --> 00:45:51.774
I remember whenever you
were overwhelmingly demure,

00:45:51.807 --> 00:45:54.110
it usually meant that
you wanted something.

00:45:54.143 --> 00:45:57.680
It's horrid of you
to be so suspicious.

00:45:57.713 --> 00:46:01.317
All I want is to
be alone with you.

00:46:01.350 --> 00:46:04.053
I can't deny, I do feel rather
peculiar seeing you again.

00:46:06.655 --> 00:46:09.024
I've missed you
more than life itself.

00:46:11.093 --> 00:46:12.194
I've missed you too.

00:46:14.063 --> 00:46:15.331
My American dream.

00:46:20.102 --> 00:46:23.339
I was utterly heartbroken
after the accident.

00:46:28.478 --> 00:46:29.613
The truth is, I
don't believe I ever

00:46:29.645 --> 00:46:30.980
really got over losing you.

00:46:34.584 --> 00:46:35.684
Do you love Ruth?

00:46:37.454 --> 00:46:38.320
Of course I do.

00:46:40.689 --> 00:46:42.291
As much as you loved me?

00:46:44.326 --> 00:46:45.761
Don't be silly.

00:46:48.565 --> 00:46:50.567
It's entirely different.

00:46:53.002 --> 00:46:55.572
I'm so glad.

00:46:55.605 --> 00:46:58.040
Nothing could have ever been
quite the same, could it?

00:47:00.142 --> 00:47:02.244
(SOFT PIANO MUSIC)

00:47:02.278 --> 00:47:04.079
(EXHALING)

00:47:06.081 --> 00:47:07.517
Let's go to SoHo.

00:47:10.019 --> 00:47:12.556
Swap the slippers for
some dancing shoes?

00:47:13.390 --> 00:47:17.627
(UPBEAT DANCE MUSIC)

00:47:17.661 --> 00:47:21.163
♪ You gotta give a
little, take a little ♪

00:47:21.197 --> 00:47:24.200
♪ Let your poor heart
break a little ♪

00:47:24.233 --> 00:47:29.606
♪ That's the story of,
that's the glory of love ♪

00:47:29.639 --> 00:47:32.975
♪ You gotta laugh a
little, cry a little ♪

00:47:33.008 --> 00:47:35.911
♪ Let the clouds
roll back a little ♪

00:47:35.945 --> 00:47:41.317
♪ That's the story of,
that's the glory of love ♪

00:47:41.350 --> 00:47:46.288
♪ As long as there's the two of us
we got the world and all its charms ♪

00:47:46.322 --> 00:47:47.823
CHARLES: I think
I'm gonna be sick.

00:47:47.856 --> 00:47:48.824
Oh, God.

00:47:48.857 --> 00:47:49.892
RUTH: Charles!

00:47:49.925 --> 00:47:51.060
(BRAKES SQUEALING)

00:47:51.827 --> 00:47:53.862
(ENGINE GUNNING)

00:47:53.896 --> 00:47:56.700
I love being back
behind the wheel of a car.

00:47:56.732 --> 00:47:58.801
Can't say the
feeling's mutual.

00:47:58.834 --> 00:48:00.470
Charles?

00:48:00.503 --> 00:48:02.505
Where on earth have you
been? I've been worried sick.

00:48:02.539 --> 00:48:05.040
It's too bad
it's not terminal.

00:48:05.074 --> 00:48:08.545
I wanted to clear my head,
so I took a long drive.

00:48:08.578 --> 00:48:10.513
In the passenger seat?

00:48:10.547 --> 00:48:14.149
Look, let's not quarrel
when we should be celebrating.

00:48:14.183 --> 00:48:15.985
I finished the first
act of my screenplay,

00:48:16.018 --> 00:48:18.187
and it's rather good.

00:48:18.220 --> 00:48:20.356
My screenplay more like.

00:48:20.390 --> 00:48:22.124
How did you manage
that in a day?

00:48:24.226 --> 00:48:25.629
Elvira helped me.

00:48:25.662 --> 00:48:28.130
Do you mean to tell me
that not only has she bullied

00:48:28.163 --> 00:48:30.132
her way back over the threshold,

00:48:30.165 --> 00:48:32.935
she's trying to work
with you now as well?

00:48:32.968 --> 00:48:34.136
What do you mean trying?

00:48:34.169 --> 00:48:35.639
I've written 15
books in your name.

00:48:35.672 --> 00:48:38.207
Elvira, this is neither
the time nor the place.

00:48:38.240 --> 00:48:40.809
Oh, this is intolerable.

00:48:40.843 --> 00:48:43.912
Elvira, now you listen to me.

00:48:43.946 --> 00:48:44.714
Darling?

00:48:44.748 --> 00:48:45.548
I... Yes?

00:48:45.582 --> 00:48:47.016
She's over there.

00:48:47.049 --> 00:48:47.883
Right.

00:48:51.954 --> 00:48:53.623
Now listen here, Elvira.

00:48:53.657 --> 00:48:55.425
I've been to see Madame Arcati.

00:48:55.458 --> 00:48:56.992
She's going to send you back

00:48:57.026 --> 00:48:59.962
to wherever it is she
regrettably dragged you from.

00:49:01.096 --> 00:49:01.930
Charles?

00:49:01.964 --> 00:49:02.699
(RUTH CRIES)

00:49:02.732 --> 00:49:03.566
Charles?

00:49:04.601 --> 00:49:05.602
(DOOR SLAMMING)

00:49:05.635 --> 00:49:06.969
Don't.

00:49:07.002 --> 00:49:09.406
(OMINOUS MUSIC)

00:49:13.876 --> 00:49:16.546
(CLOCK TICKING)

00:49:20.550 --> 00:49:22.818
Darling, please don't be upset.

00:49:22.851 --> 00:49:25.655
Upset? You've just spent
the night with your ex-wife.

00:49:25.689 --> 00:49:27.923
How do you expect me to feel?

00:49:27.956 --> 00:49:29.258
Ecstatic.

00:49:29.291 --> 00:49:30.627
Oooh.

00:49:30.660 --> 00:49:34.930
Our dream of going to Hollywood
is finally within our grasp.

00:49:34.963 --> 00:49:36.165
As soon as I deliver
this screenplay,

00:49:36.198 --> 00:49:37.434
we'll be crossing the Atlantic

00:49:37.467 --> 00:49:39.669
quicker than you can
say Sunset Boulevard.

00:49:41.904 --> 00:49:44.940
Think of the glitz.
The glamour.

00:49:46.308 --> 00:49:49.078
The good times
we're gonna share.

00:49:49.111 --> 00:49:52.014
You won't be reading about
other people's lives anymore.

00:49:52.047 --> 00:49:53.483
They'll be reading about ours.

00:49:54.517 --> 00:49:56.919
(SOFT MUSIC)

00:50:04.561 --> 00:50:07.397
And you can't
do it without her?

00:50:08.565 --> 00:50:10.533
Of course I can.

00:50:10.567 --> 00:50:12.167
It'll just be a lot
quicker this way.

00:50:15.070 --> 00:50:17.306
There's really no need
for you to be jealous.

00:50:18.775 --> 00:50:21.845
You're the one I love.

00:50:21.877 --> 00:50:24.079
Forgive me that I
don't tell you enough.

00:50:27.650 --> 00:50:29.419
Now that the words are flowing,

00:50:29.452 --> 00:50:32.888
I feel unblocked
in other areas too.

00:50:32.921 --> 00:50:35.324
(SOFT MUSIC)

00:50:39.161 --> 00:50:41.330
Promise me you
can't touch her.

00:50:43.800 --> 00:50:46.870
Darling, she's a ghost.

00:50:49.304 --> 00:50:51.875
And besides, the only woman
I want to touch is you.

00:50:53.610 --> 00:50:56.044
(SOFT MUSIC)

00:51:09.158 --> 00:51:11.728
(BELL TOLLS)

00:51:14.597 --> 00:51:17.232
(CLOCK TICKING)

00:51:19.268 --> 00:51:22.037
(BIRDS SQUAWKING)

00:51:22.070 --> 00:51:24.741
(CLOCK TICKING)

00:51:25.608 --> 00:51:27.610
(GROANING)

00:51:29.846 --> 00:51:33.716
(GENTLE DREAMY MUSIC)

00:51:33.750 --> 00:51:36.419
Listen here, lady.

00:51:36.453 --> 00:51:39.021
You may have summoned
me into this world,

00:51:39.054 --> 00:51:42.826
but there's no way I'm going
to let you send me back again.

00:51:44.494 --> 00:51:45.929
I'm here to stay.

00:51:46.896 --> 00:51:47.730
Is that clear?

00:51:48.932 --> 00:51:51.099
(YAWNING)

00:51:57.507 --> 00:51:58.508
(GASPS)

00:51:58.541 --> 00:52:01.778
(LIGHT MUSIC)

00:52:01.811 --> 00:52:04.079
(SNIFFING)

00:52:05.582 --> 00:52:08.050
(LIGHT MUSIC)

00:52:09.853 --> 00:52:10.653
Oh.

00:52:11.454 --> 00:52:12.455
Mm.

00:52:13.355 --> 00:52:14.156
Hmm.

00:52:14.189 --> 00:52:17.125
(LIGHT MUSIC)

00:52:17.159 --> 00:52:19.696
(WIND BLOWING)

00:52:22.599 --> 00:52:26.235
How dare you ignore me,
you meddling old crone?

00:52:26.268 --> 00:52:29.439
Either you leave me in
your peace to live my life,

00:52:29.472 --> 00:52:32.040
or I'll haunt you
until the day you die.

00:52:32.976 --> 00:52:35.745
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

00:52:44.119 --> 00:52:46.689
The Tower. Symbol of chaos,

00:52:48.290 --> 00:52:49.191
destruction

00:52:50.827 --> 00:52:51.961
and devastation.

00:52:54.464 --> 00:52:55.364
(SIGHS)

00:52:56.231 --> 00:52:59.234
(BIRDS SINGING)

00:52:59.268 --> 00:53:01.938
(CLOCK TICKING)

00:53:02.972 --> 00:53:05.842
(SOFT BREATHING)

00:53:05.875 --> 00:53:06.843
Wakey-wakey.

00:53:06.876 --> 00:53:07.644
(SOUND OF SHEARS)

00:53:07.677 --> 00:53:09.111
Rise and shine.

00:53:10.914 --> 00:53:13.683
What was I, Charles?
The warm-up act?

00:53:13.716 --> 00:53:16.853
(SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC)

00:53:17.787 --> 00:53:19.856
If I was you, I'd keep it there.

00:53:24.259 --> 00:53:25.728
Good afternoon, ma'am.

00:53:25.762 --> 00:53:27.864
I'm going to have
to correct you, Edith.

00:53:27.897 --> 00:53:30.633
It's not a good afternoon.
It's a glorious one.

00:53:32.234 --> 00:53:33.870
Shall I prepare lunch?

00:53:33.903 --> 00:53:35.337
Ah, yes please.
You read my mind.

00:53:35.370 --> 00:53:36.873
I'm absolutely famished.

00:53:36.906 --> 00:53:40.108
I'd like a cheese and pickle
platter. With extra pickle.

00:53:41.811 --> 00:53:42.912
Yes, ma'am.

00:53:42.946 --> 00:53:43.980
(LIGHT MUSIC)

00:53:44.013 --> 00:53:44.681
Oh.

00:53:46.416 --> 00:53:48.317
What happened to your leg?

00:53:48.350 --> 00:53:49.852
Oh, I slipped
down the staircase.

00:53:49.886 --> 00:53:51.387
You really must
refrain from doing

00:53:51.421 --> 00:53:52.622
everything at the double.

00:53:52.655 --> 00:53:54.156
You're not in the
navy, you know.

00:53:54.189 --> 00:53:55.625
I wasn't hurrying, ma'am.

00:53:55.658 --> 00:53:58.260
There was axle grease smeared
all over the top step.

00:54:04.934 --> 00:54:06.769
HENRY: <i>Yes, her
agent loves the pitch,</i>

00:54:06.803 --> 00:54:09.338
<i>thinks it would be a
perfect vehicle for her.</i>

00:54:09.371 --> 00:54:10.740
Seriously? Greta Garbo?

00:54:10.773 --> 00:54:12.775
HENRY: <i>Yes.</i>

00:54:12.809 --> 00:54:15.110
Mata Hari speaking my words
would be a dream come true.

00:54:15.143 --> 00:54:17.480
HENRY: <i>Charles, are
you still on track?</i>

00:54:17.513 --> 00:54:18.948
Yes, absolutely
still on track.

00:54:18.982 --> 00:54:20.148
I'll send the next ream of pages

00:54:20.182 --> 00:54:21.784
over as I reach the
second act turn.

00:54:21.818 --> 00:54:23.019
HENRY: <i>Don't let me down.</i>

00:54:23.052 --> 00:54:25.021
Thank you, Henry.
And I appreciate your

00:54:25.054 --> 00:54:26.789
continued patience and belief.

00:54:26.823 --> 00:54:27.490
HENRY: <i>Splendid.</i>

00:54:27.523 --> 00:54:28.223
Goodbye, g...

00:54:28.256 --> 00:54:29.559
(RING TONE...)

00:54:33.997 --> 00:54:36.666
(BIRDS SINGING)

00:54:39.769 --> 00:54:42.839
(UPBEAT LIGHT MUSIC)

00:54:52.280 --> 00:54:54.316
(SIGHS)

00:54:54.349 --> 00:54:56.853
(LIGHT MUSIC)

00:55:10.800 --> 00:55:11.634
(SIGHS)

00:55:12.902 --> 00:55:15.405
(LIGHT MUSIC)

00:55:17.740 --> 00:55:19.207
Elvira, what are you doing?

00:55:19.241 --> 00:55:21.577
Greta Garbo speaking my words?

00:55:21.611 --> 00:55:23.012
Darling, what am
I supposed to say?

00:55:23.046 --> 00:55:25.548
That I've got a ghostwriter?

00:55:26.549 --> 00:55:27.717
Stop it.

00:55:27.750 --> 00:55:29.118
Elvira, that's one
of our wedding gifts.

00:55:29.152 --> 00:55:31.454
Not ours, Charles, Hers.

00:55:34.157 --> 00:55:35.725
(PANTING)

00:55:35.758 --> 00:55:37.225
You care more about
breaking china

00:55:37.259 --> 00:55:39.162
than you do about
breaking my heart.

00:55:41.564 --> 00:55:43.700
(CHUCKLING)

00:55:43.733 --> 00:55:46.669
Elvira, I was unwaveringly
loyal and faithful

00:55:46.703 --> 00:55:48.905
to you in all our
years of marriage.

00:55:48.938 --> 00:55:50.907
What was I supposed
to do after you died?

00:55:50.940 --> 00:55:53.308
Become a recluse and
wear a black armband

00:55:53.341 --> 00:55:54.544
for the rest of my life?

00:55:55.778 --> 00:55:56.813
(CRASH!)

00:55:58.147 --> 00:56:00.383
Ma'am, the garden
judges are here.

00:56:01.283 --> 00:56:02.350
Ah.

00:56:02.385 --> 00:56:03.218
Thank you, Edith.

00:56:04.087 --> 00:56:06.589
(LIGHT MUSIC)

00:56:07.657 --> 00:56:09.792
(GIGGLING)

00:56:09.826 --> 00:56:12.562
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

00:56:15.098 --> 00:56:17.700
Oh, we've been sabotaged.

00:56:19.035 --> 00:56:20.670
(WHIP CRACKS)

00:56:21.571 --> 00:56:24.107
(LIGHT MUSIC)

00:56:24.140 --> 00:56:27.309
(PASSERSBY CHATTERING)

00:56:27.342 --> 00:56:29.846
(LIGHT MUSIC)

00:56:35.985 --> 00:56:38.721
Oh, that is an
outrageous suggestion.

00:56:38.755 --> 00:56:41.057
As the national director
of the Spiritual Alliance,

00:56:41.090 --> 00:56:42.759
my job is to protect
the reputation

00:56:42.792 --> 00:56:45.161
of genuine psychic practitioners,
not undermine them.

00:56:45.194 --> 00:56:46.429
CALLER: <i>I see.</i>

00:56:46.462 --> 00:56:49.499
And I vow, along with
my friend Harry Houdini,

00:56:49.532 --> 00:56:53.368
to investigate and expose
every fraudulent spiritualist

00:56:53.402 --> 00:56:54.570
operating in this country.

00:56:54.604 --> 00:56:55.538
CALLER: <i>Very good sir.</i>

00:56:55.571 --> 00:56:56.338
(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

00:56:56.371 --> 00:56:57.540
Come in.

00:56:57.573 --> 00:56:58.741
(DOOR CREAKING)

00:56:58.775 --> 00:57:00.342
Madame Arcati here
to see you, sir.

00:57:00.375 --> 00:57:01.376
CALLER: <i>Thank you very
much for your time, sir.</i>

00:57:01.410 --> 00:57:03.813
Yes... well no-no-no,
thank you.

00:57:03.846 --> 00:57:04.847
CALLER: <i>Thank you.</i>

00:57:04.881 --> 00:57:06.382
Always a pleasure to
talk to the press.

00:57:06.415 --> 00:57:07.784
CALLER: <i>Goodbye, sir.</i>

00:57:07.817 --> 00:57:08.951
Well you've got a cheek,

00:57:08.985 --> 00:57:11.788
showing your face
while you're suspended.

00:57:11.821 --> 00:57:13.523
I'm sorry to turn
up unannounced,

00:57:13.556 --> 00:57:16.559
but I urgently
need your guidance.

00:57:16.592 --> 00:57:20.730
I have pulled off a
level-ten manifestation.

00:57:22.231 --> 00:57:24.200
And was this before
or after you conned

00:57:24.233 --> 00:57:26.402
800 people into paying
to see you levitate?

00:57:26.435 --> 00:57:28.070
No, really, you must
believe me, Harry.

00:57:28.104 --> 00:57:32.008
And it is possible this
presence has a physical form.

00:57:32.041 --> 00:57:34.610
(TYPEWRITER CLACKING)

00:57:34.644 --> 00:57:36.245
Margot, where
are the scissors?

00:57:36.279 --> 00:57:38.514
Drawer.

00:57:38.548 --> 00:57:41.918
So you're telling me that the
first level-ten manifestation

00:57:41.951 --> 00:57:45.454
reported in over three
centuries was the result

00:57:45.488 --> 00:57:47.256
of an ordinary
common-or-garden seance.

00:57:47.290 --> 00:57:48.524
Yes, that is correct.

00:57:50.293 --> 00:57:52.428
What did you use as a guide?

00:57:52.461 --> 00:57:56.799
Oh, um, this. <i>The</i>
<i>Art of the Seance.</i>

00:57:56.833 --> 00:57:57.633
Ohh.

00:57:57.667 --> 00:58:00.169
(LIGHT MUSIC)

00:58:00.203 --> 00:58:01.404
Can you help me?

00:58:01.437 --> 00:58:03.439
Yes, Madame Arcati,
yes, I think I can.

00:58:03.472 --> 00:58:05.842
Do you have your
membership card?

00:58:05.875 --> 00:58:07.310
Membership card, eh...

00:58:10.046 --> 00:58:11.814
Yes.

00:58:11.848 --> 00:58:13.049
I'm going to start
by terminating

00:58:13.082 --> 00:58:15.284
your membership with
immediate effect.

00:58:15.318 --> 00:58:19.856
This is no place for
fantasists or frauds.

00:58:19.889 --> 00:58:22.992
Margot. Madame
Arcati's leaving now.

00:58:23.025 --> 00:58:26.195
(SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC)

00:58:32.802 --> 00:58:35.972
Meet me at Temple
Square in an hour.

00:58:39.775 --> 00:58:41.911
(BELL TOLLS)

00:58:49.385 --> 00:58:51.888
MARGOT: Chapter four,
page nine, paragraph six.

00:58:57.026 --> 00:58:59.262
(GASPS) A banishing spell.

00:58:59.295 --> 00:59:02.131
Oh, Margot, thank you.

00:59:02.164 --> 00:59:03.566
We don't have long.

00:59:03.599 --> 00:59:04.800
I need to replace it in the safe

00:59:04.834 --> 00:59:06.802
before Mr. Price
returns from lunch.

00:59:06.836 --> 00:59:10.406
It's recorded in
ancient Druidic text.

00:59:10.439 --> 00:59:12.675
I'm a little rusty,
but I'll do my best.

00:59:12.708 --> 00:59:14.911
Oh, oh wait.

00:59:14.944 --> 00:59:18.180
(PASSERSBY CHATTERING)

00:59:22.318 --> 00:59:25.955
Take Ceridwens's
brew of Devil's Claw.

00:59:26.956 --> 00:59:27.857
Devil's Claw.

00:59:27.890 --> 00:59:30.526
Poisoned root of Aconite.

00:59:30.559 --> 00:59:31.994
MADAME ARCATI: Oh, yes.

00:59:32.028 --> 00:59:34.430
Elixir of Vervain flowers.

00:59:34.463 --> 00:59:37.600
Verr..Oh, yes, of course,
that's the enchanter's plant.

00:59:37.633 --> 00:59:40.136
(LIGHT MUSIC)

00:59:45.074 --> 00:59:48.110
The sacrificial offering
is at its strongest

00:59:48.144 --> 00:59:49.312
with a waning moon.

00:59:49.345 --> 00:59:51.948
A waning moon.

00:59:51.981 --> 00:59:54.083
Sprinkle black salt
on a stone altar.

00:59:55.251 --> 00:59:56.452
Salt.

00:59:56.485 --> 00:59:59.855
Then lay the freshly torn
bladder of a carnivore.

00:59:59.889 --> 01:00:01.157
The bl-bladder?

01:00:03.225 --> 01:00:05.127
Oh, no.

01:00:05.161 --> 01:00:07.563
Freshly torn bladderwort.

01:00:07.596 --> 01:00:08.798
Oh.

01:00:08.831 --> 01:00:12.268
Of the carnivorous aquatic
Utricularia plant family.

01:00:12.301 --> 01:00:13.769
Oh, thank heaven.

01:00:13.803 --> 01:00:16.138
I thought for a minute I was going
to have to get my hands dirty.

01:00:16.172 --> 01:00:16.839
(MARGOT LAUGHS)

01:00:17.540 --> 01:00:20.410
(LIGHT MUSIC)

01:00:20.444 --> 01:00:22.712
<i>Au revoir</i>, Madame Arcati.

01:00:24.246 --> 01:00:25.081
Good luck.

01:00:27.316 --> 01:00:30.387
(UPBEAT PARTY MUSIC)

01:00:32.788 --> 01:00:34.523
Will you excuse me?

01:00:36.225 --> 01:00:37.394
What about Clark Gable?

01:00:37.427 --> 01:00:39.996
He'd make a dashing
Detective Frank Flowers.

01:00:40.029 --> 01:00:42.064
Good actor, terrible breath.

01:00:42.098 --> 01:00:43.032
Oh.

01:00:43.065 --> 01:00:44.300
Very tricky for
the leading ladies.

01:00:44.333 --> 01:00:45.735
I was thinking Cary Grant.

01:00:45.768 --> 01:00:47.404
Now we're talking.

01:00:47.437 --> 01:00:49.839
I look forward to making his
acquaintance at the premiere.

01:00:49.872 --> 01:00:51.007
Well I'm afraid
you're getting ahead

01:00:51.040 --> 01:00:52.341
of yourself there, Mrs. Bradman.

01:00:52.375 --> 01:00:55.111
Even I can't make a
film without a script.

01:00:55.144 --> 01:00:57.813
Be rather like trying to perform
surgery without a patient.

01:00:57.847 --> 01:00:59.081
(LAUGHS)

01:00:59.115 --> 01:01:00.850
The typewriter can be a
cruel and demanding mistress.

01:01:00.883 --> 01:01:02.118
Yes, well, let's hope that's

01:01:02.151 --> 01:01:04.320
the only affair
Charles is having.

01:01:04.353 --> 01:01:05.855
(CHUCKLING)

01:01:05.888 --> 01:01:08.524
(DRINK FIZZING)

01:01:09.959 --> 01:01:11.495
Hello, Daddy.

01:01:11.527 --> 01:01:13.362
Time for a speech.

01:01:13.397 --> 01:01:14.464
Ah.

01:01:14.498 --> 01:01:16.866
(CROWD APPLAUDING)

01:01:16.899 --> 01:01:18.167
(DRINK FIZZING)

01:01:18.200 --> 01:01:21.137
Ladies and gentlemen.
Ladies and gentlemen.

01:01:22.605 --> 01:01:24.907
Ha-ha. Oh.

01:01:24.940 --> 01:01:27.276
As a writer, people
are always expecting me

01:01:27.309 --> 01:01:29.446
to come up with lots of words.

01:01:29.479 --> 01:01:31.013
Hm.

01:01:31.047 --> 01:01:33.049
Well, today I'm sure you'll
all be relieved to hear

01:01:33.082 --> 01:01:35.951
that I'm going to keep
things short and sweet.

01:01:35.985 --> 01:01:37.186
Just like my wife.

01:01:37.219 --> 01:01:38.954
(LAUGHING)

01:01:38.988 --> 01:01:41.624
If I were to create a
character as beautiful,

01:01:41.657 --> 01:01:44.960
as poised, as perfect as Ruth,

01:01:44.994 --> 01:01:48.297
my fans would accuse me
of straying into fantasy.

01:01:48.330 --> 01:01:49.399
Oh.

01:01:49.433 --> 01:01:51.033
But thankfully we
are all here today

01:01:51.067 --> 01:01:53.969
to celebrate the fact
that Ruth is my reality,

01:01:54.003 --> 01:01:58.240
and has been for
five fabulous years.

01:01:58.274 --> 01:02:01.077
So, let us be
upstanding, upstandingly,

01:02:01.110 --> 01:02:04.914
and raise our
glasses to true love.

01:02:04.947 --> 01:02:07.950
- True love.
- True love.

01:02:07.983 --> 01:02:09.118
True love.

01:02:09.151 --> 01:02:10.286
(GROUP APPLAUDING)

01:02:10.319 --> 01:02:11.353
Never dies.

01:02:13.122 --> 01:02:15.691
(UPBEAT MUSIC)

01:02:17.960 --> 01:02:20.397
♪ I wish I could I
shimmy like my sister Kate ♪

01:02:20.430 --> 01:02:22.998
♪ She can shake like
a jelly on a plate ♪

01:02:23.032 --> 01:02:25.334
♪ My mama wanted to
know last night ♪

01:02:25.367 --> 01:02:27.770
♪ Why all the boys
treat Kate so nice ♪

01:02:27.803 --> 01:02:30.139
♪ All the boys in
the neighborhood ♪

01:02:30.172 --> 01:02:32.341
♪ Know that she
can shimmy good ♪

01:02:32.374 --> 01:02:34.478
♪ You may be late but
you'll be up to date ♪

01:02:34.511 --> 01:02:37.146
♪ When you can shimmy like
my sister Kate, oh yeah ♪

01:02:37.179 --> 01:02:39.449
♪ Shimmy like my sister Kate ♪

01:02:39.483 --> 01:02:42.284
♪ I went to a dance
with sister Kate ♪

01:02:42.318 --> 01:02:44.620
♪ Everyone thought
that she was great ♪

01:02:44.653 --> 01:02:45.788
♪ I looked around for
something new ♪

01:02:45.821 --> 01:02:46.755
Lord Almighty.

01:02:46.789 --> 01:02:48.290
Ruth, what on earth
are you doing?

01:02:48.324 --> 01:02:49.658
Cooling off.

01:02:49.692 --> 01:02:52.294
All that dancing got
me hot and sticky!

01:02:54.230 --> 01:02:56.198
Everybody's looking.

01:02:56.232 --> 01:02:59.168
I didn't know it was going
to be one of those parties.

01:02:59.201 --> 01:03:00.903
You're as wet as
an otter's pocket.

01:03:00.936 --> 01:03:02.238
What happened to your dress?

01:03:02.271 --> 01:03:04.707
Well what happened
to yours, Daddy?

01:03:05.841 --> 01:03:06.909
Everybody!

01:03:06.942 --> 01:03:08.110
Yes, that's lovely, darling.

01:03:08.144 --> 01:03:09.579
I'm not sure the fish
are enjoying this.

01:03:09.613 --> 01:03:12.314
Why don't you come upstairs
and have a little lie-down, hm?

01:03:12.348 --> 01:03:14.016
Only if you're
going to join me.

01:03:15.217 --> 01:03:17.420
(LAUGHING)

01:03:19.389 --> 01:03:22.559
Oh, make love to me like
it was the first time.

01:03:24.628 --> 01:03:25.995
Whee!

01:03:26.028 --> 01:03:28.632
Does Mr. Peasbody want
to come out and play?.

01:03:29.732 --> 01:03:30.567
Oh!

01:03:31.300 --> 01:03:31.967
Ah.

01:03:33.436 --> 01:03:34.803
Well, I'm not
surprised she doesn't

01:03:34.837 --> 01:03:36.772
like to do it with
the lights on.

01:03:36.805 --> 01:03:37.873
Don't be so vulgar, Elvira.

01:03:37.907 --> 01:03:38.707
(GASP)

01:03:38.741 --> 01:03:39.576
She's in here?!

01:03:41.010 --> 01:03:43.746
Now you listen to me,
you low-rent hussy.

01:03:43.779 --> 01:03:46.650
This is my party, my bedroom,

01:03:46.682 --> 01:03:49.985
my house, and Charles
is my husband.

01:03:51.687 --> 01:03:52.788
What did she say?

01:03:52.821 --> 01:03:54.023
She apologized unreservedly

01:03:54.056 --> 01:03:56.025
and has taken herself
back downstairs.

01:03:56.058 --> 01:03:57.026
Oh.

01:03:57.059 --> 01:03:58.160
You should have been
an actor, Charles.

01:03:58.194 --> 01:03:59.496
You really are rather good.

01:04:01.096 --> 01:04:02.331
I'm sorry, Charles.

01:04:02.364 --> 01:04:05.267
I'm just... I'm not
in the mood anymore.

01:04:06.001 --> 01:04:06.835
(SIGHS)

01:04:09.138 --> 01:04:09.972
I am.

01:04:10.973 --> 01:04:11.807
Oh.

01:04:13.776 --> 01:04:16.613
(ROOSTER CROWING)

01:04:17.780 --> 01:04:20.383
(FISH SIZZLING)

01:04:22.419 --> 01:04:25.522
(EDNA HUMMING)

01:04:25.555 --> 01:04:28.558
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

01:04:28.592 --> 01:04:29.725
(SIGHS)

01:04:29.758 --> 01:04:30.926
Morning, darling.

01:04:32.596 --> 01:04:34.263
You look shattered.

01:04:34.296 --> 01:04:37.366
Yes, had a bit
of a restless night.

01:04:37.400 --> 01:04:38.635
Yes.

01:04:38.668 --> 01:04:40.670
Yes, I thought you were
thrashing around a bit.

01:04:43.272 --> 01:04:45.874
I had Edna prepare Norfolk
kippers, your favorite.

01:04:45.908 --> 01:04:47.677
Hm, that's very sweet.

01:04:47.711 --> 01:04:49.679
I could do with
something hearty.

01:04:49.713 --> 01:04:53.916
I fear I rather overdid
on the bubbles yesterday.

01:04:53.949 --> 01:04:56.553
The party went by in
a bit of a blur.

01:04:58.254 --> 01:04:59.054
Hm.

01:04:59.855 --> 01:05:01.056
What are you stuck on?

01:05:01.090 --> 01:05:03.460
22 down. Greek
god of retribution.

01:05:03.493 --> 01:05:06.328
Seven letters. Third
letter M, seventh letter S.

01:05:07.397 --> 01:05:08.230
(SIGHS)

01:05:09.298 --> 01:05:10.332
Oh, Nemesis.

01:05:11.534 --> 01:05:12.368
Hmm.

01:05:13.737 --> 01:05:16.305
(EDNA HUMMING)

01:05:22.412 --> 01:05:23.245
(GASPS)

01:05:24.614 --> 01:05:25.749
Ah!

01:05:25.781 --> 01:05:28.117
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

01:05:28.150 --> 01:05:30.487
(SCREAMING)

01:05:31.588 --> 01:05:32.589
(THUMP)

01:05:36.225 --> 01:05:38.395
What on Earth has happened?

01:05:38.428 --> 01:05:41.030
She said the place is cursed.

01:05:41.063 --> 01:05:42.632
(KNIVES VIBRATING)

01:05:42.666 --> 01:05:43.600
(RUTH GASPS)

01:05:43.633 --> 01:05:45.334
EDNA: Not safe!
Not safe at all!

01:05:45.367 --> 01:05:46.670
Edna? Ah.

01:05:47.903 --> 01:05:48.772
You can't leave us!

01:05:48.804 --> 01:05:50.005
EDNA: You can keep your job.

01:05:50.039 --> 01:05:51.574
No, I'm getting out of here.

01:05:51.608 --> 01:05:52.374
Go away!

01:05:52.409 --> 01:05:53.510
(CRACKLING, BURNING)

01:05:53.543 --> 01:05:54.910
I'm having nothing to do with
you, Go away!

01:05:54.943 --> 01:05:56.546
Stay Edna. Please.

01:05:56.579 --> 01:05:59.014
You stick your bleeding
job up your bum!

01:05:59.783 --> 01:06:02.452
(SEAGULLS CALLING)

01:06:06.889 --> 01:06:09.291
(SOFT MUSIC)

01:06:12.328 --> 01:06:13.228
(CAT MEOWING)

01:06:13.262 --> 01:06:14.930
Ah, there you are.

01:06:15.898 --> 01:06:17.066
There you are.

01:06:17.900 --> 01:06:19.402
Now, to work.

01:06:20.969 --> 01:06:22.472
(SOFT MUSIC)

01:06:22.505 --> 01:06:24.039
(CAT MEOWS)

01:06:24.973 --> 01:06:25.974
Yes.

01:06:26.008 --> 01:06:29.345
(SOFT MYSTERIOUS MUSIC)

01:06:32.816 --> 01:06:35.317
(CAT PURRING)

01:06:38.153 --> 01:06:38.987
Hmm.

01:06:39.656 --> 01:06:40.590
Where are you?

01:06:40.623 --> 01:06:41.957
(TYPEWRITER CLICKING)

01:06:41.990 --> 01:06:43.827
(FRENCH ACCENT) - Detective,
I don't see how you can blame a girl

01:06:43.859 --> 01:06:46.228
for falling in love
with the right guy

01:06:46.261 --> 01:06:47.863
for the wrong reasons.

01:06:47.896 --> 01:06:51.133
(NEW YORK ACCENT) But what about
that poor sap of a husband of yours?

01:06:51.166 --> 01:06:52.535
Guys like him are
a dime a dozen.

01:06:52.569 --> 01:06:54.269
What was he, the right
guy at the wrong place

01:06:54.303 --> 01:06:55.638
at the wrong time?

01:06:55.672 --> 01:06:59.476
(FRENCH ACCENT) - Oh, Detective,
just being close to you,

01:06:59.509 --> 01:07:03.312
I feel as if I am
completely naked.

01:07:03.345 --> 01:07:06.014
How do you always manage
to see right through me?

01:07:06.048 --> 01:07:08.050
(TYPEWRITER CLACKING)

01:07:08.083 --> 01:07:11.053
(NEW YORK ACCENT) I see
things just the way they are.

01:07:11.086 --> 01:07:13.390
The rest of the
world needs bifocals.

01:07:16.826 --> 01:07:17.861
I'm not sure about
that last line.

01:07:17.893 --> 01:07:20.397
It feels too, florid.

01:07:20.430 --> 01:07:23.265
Need something simple
and to the point,

01:07:23.298 --> 01:07:28.303
like... 'That's my job,
sweetie. I just do it.'

01:07:30.607 --> 01:07:32.675
Ha.

01:07:32.709 --> 01:07:35.377
Whatever you prefer. It's
your name on the script.

01:07:35.412 --> 01:07:37.881
(TYPEWRITER CLACKING)

01:07:37.913 --> 01:07:39.449
(CHARLES HUMMING)

01:07:39.482 --> 01:07:42.485
And fade to black.

01:07:42.519 --> 01:07:44.119
(TYPEWRITER RINGING)

01:07:44.153 --> 01:07:45.187
Mm.

01:07:45.220 --> 01:07:47.089
Well, dare I say,

01:07:47.122 --> 01:07:49.592
I think the film's gonna be
even better than the book.

01:07:49.626 --> 01:07:51.528
And we finished ahead
of the deadline.

01:07:52.662 --> 01:07:54.464
Just wait till I tell Ruth.

01:07:54.497 --> 01:07:55.297
Mmm.

01:07:55.330 --> 01:07:57.834
(LIGHT MUSIC)

01:07:59.402 --> 01:08:01.438
Let's not tell her just yet.

01:08:05.875 --> 01:08:06.975
(GASPS)

01:08:08.143 --> 01:08:10.145
Oh, for heaven's sake.

01:08:11.346 --> 01:08:12.482
Fiddlesticks.

01:08:12.515 --> 01:08:14.216
Oh. Ah!

01:08:16.486 --> 01:08:18.086
Damn and blast.

01:08:18.120 --> 01:08:19.456
Oh, you alright, darling?

01:08:19.489 --> 01:08:21.056
Knowing you're working fingers
to the bone makes it easier

01:08:21.089 --> 01:08:23.526
for me to enjoy a few
blisters and burns.

01:08:27.530 --> 01:08:29.198
Out of suffering have emerged

01:08:29.231 --> 01:08:30.934
the strongest souls, my dear.

01:08:33.035 --> 01:08:35.070
I've nothing to serve
for lunch, I'm afraid.

01:08:35.103 --> 01:08:36.238
Oh, please don't
worry about it.

01:08:36.271 --> 01:08:38.441
I'm not in the least hungry.

01:08:38.475 --> 01:08:40.309
Dare I ask how it's
going over there?

01:08:42.110 --> 01:08:44.346
The finishing line
is almost in sight.

01:08:44.380 --> 01:08:45.782
Oh, thank goodness.

01:08:45.815 --> 01:08:48.618
I don't like you alone
with her one iota,

01:08:48.651 --> 01:08:50.553
but if it means
you're going to be able

01:08:50.587 --> 01:08:51.888
to deliver the damn script,

01:08:51.921 --> 01:08:53.790
then I can just
about tolerate it.

01:08:55.357 --> 01:08:57.393
You and I do make
a good team, darling.

01:08:57.427 --> 01:08:58.260
Hm.

01:09:02.030 --> 01:09:05.033
I'd like us to move our beds
back together.

01:09:05.067 --> 01:09:06.268
Permanently.

01:09:07.837 --> 01:09:11.541
I think if we're going to be
separated during the days,

01:09:11.574 --> 01:09:14.076
the least we could do is
spend our nights together

01:09:14.109 --> 01:09:15.945
as, as man and wife.

01:09:18.180 --> 01:09:19.649
I should like nothing more.

01:09:22.752 --> 01:09:24.420
I'm going to take a walk.

01:09:25.488 --> 01:09:26.723
Try to clear my head.

01:09:28.123 --> 01:09:30.627
(LIGHT MUSIC)

01:09:33.763 --> 01:09:34.931
(SIGHS)

01:09:36.900 --> 01:09:39.602
Remember when we used to
play hide-and-seek along here?

01:09:39.636 --> 01:09:42.639
And your reward when
you found me? (LAUGHS)

01:09:46.976 --> 01:09:48.343
(GASP)

01:09:48.377 --> 01:09:49.846
Look. Isn't he handsome?

01:09:52.047 --> 01:09:53.650
He's magnificent.

01:09:55.618 --> 01:09:58.287
He can sense me.

01:09:58.320 --> 01:10:00.823
How wonderful not be
frightened of the unknown.

01:10:00.857 --> 01:10:04.494
(LIGHT MUSIC)

01:10:04.527 --> 01:10:06.796
You're not frightened,
are you, Charles?

01:10:07.897 --> 01:10:09.465
Of what?

01:10:09.499 --> 01:10:11.434
Falling back in love.

01:10:13.368 --> 01:10:15.270
How is that possible
when we're existing

01:10:15.304 --> 01:10:16.839
on two different planes?

01:10:18.073 --> 01:10:19.074
I'm alive, and you're...

01:10:19.107 --> 01:10:21.276
Don't. Don't say it.

01:10:21.310 --> 01:10:24.514
(SOFT MUSIC)

01:10:24.547 --> 01:10:27.684
I'm so sorry, Elvira, there's
no easy way to say this.

01:10:31.086 --> 01:10:34.490
But I'm struggling to
see a future in us.

01:10:35.223 --> 01:10:37.994
(BIRDS CHIRPING)

01:10:41.163 --> 01:10:44.333
(SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC)

01:10:48.404 --> 01:10:51.774
You know, Charles, when you
give someone an eternity ring,

01:10:51.808 --> 01:10:54.343
it's supposed to be a
love that lasts forever.

01:10:56.779 --> 01:10:57.914
Charles?

01:10:57.947 --> 01:11:00.315
(SOFT MUSIC)

01:11:04.921 --> 01:11:07.490
(WATER LAPPING)

01:11:07.523 --> 01:11:10.225
(BIRDS CHIRPING)

01:11:12.194 --> 01:11:14.363
(PLATE SMASHING)

01:11:16.032 --> 01:11:19.435
(SOFT SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

01:11:29.078 --> 01:11:30.278
(SIGHS)

01:11:31.313 --> 01:11:34.050
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

01:11:34.917 --> 01:11:36.653
Charles, watch out!

01:11:37.954 --> 01:11:39.455
(CHARLES PANICKING)

01:11:39.489 --> 01:11:40.322
Damn.

01:11:41.524 --> 01:11:42.759
(CHARLES GROANING)

01:11:44.494 --> 01:11:46.562
She's dangerous, Charles.

01:11:46.596 --> 01:11:48.865
Edna was almost scalped.

01:11:48.898 --> 01:11:50.500
And look what happened to Edith.

01:11:50.533 --> 01:11:52.568
What are you suggesting?

01:11:52.602 --> 01:11:55.405
It's blindingly obvious
that Elvira came here

01:11:55.438 --> 01:11:58.107
for one purpose and
one purpose only.

01:11:58.141 --> 01:12:00.877
She came here to have
you to herself, forever.

01:12:02.078 --> 01:12:03.913
Ow! How?

01:12:03.946 --> 01:12:05.815
By killing you off, of course.

01:12:05.848 --> 01:12:07.116
That's absurd.

01:12:07.150 --> 01:12:08.718
Do you really think
the cabinet climbed up

01:12:08.751 --> 01:12:10.987
onto the roof and jumped
off of its own accord?

01:12:11.020 --> 01:12:13.690
Elvira might be prone
to temper tantrums,

01:12:13.723 --> 01:12:15.458
but she still loves me.

01:12:15.491 --> 01:12:17.727
She'd never wish me any harm.

01:12:17.760 --> 01:12:19.028
Ah.

01:12:19.062 --> 01:12:22.065
If you were dead, it would
be her final triumph over me.

01:12:22.098 --> 01:12:24.634
She'd have you all to herself
on her beastly astral plane,

01:12:24.667 --> 01:12:26.402
and I'd be left high and dry.

01:12:26.436 --> 01:12:29.772
She's probably planning some
sort of spiritual remarriage.

01:12:29.806 --> 01:12:33.208
(SOFT SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

01:12:34.376 --> 01:12:36.112
What are we gonna do?

01:12:36.145 --> 01:12:41.084
Yes, the guest's name
is Madame Arcati, room 14.

01:12:41.117 --> 01:12:42.719
CLERK: <i>One moment.</i>

01:12:42.752 --> 01:12:43.953
<i>I'm sorry, but she
left yesterday.</i>

01:12:43.986 --> 01:12:46.522
Oh dear. Did she
leave any messages?

01:12:46.556 --> 01:12:48.057
CLERK: <i>I'm afraid not.</i>

01:12:48.091 --> 01:12:48.891
Thank you.

01:12:48.925 --> 01:12:50.159
(PHONE HANGING UP)

01:12:50.193 --> 01:12:51.928
She checked out yesterday.

01:12:51.961 --> 01:12:52.795
(CHARLES WHIMPERS)

01:12:54.997 --> 01:12:56.165
Well, there's nothing for it.

01:12:56.199 --> 01:12:57.767
I shall have to get
myself arrested.

01:12:57.800 --> 01:12:59.267
Spend the night locked
up in the cells.

01:12:59.301 --> 01:13:01.804
No. We just have
to create our own

01:13:01.838 --> 01:13:03.305
safe place for the night.

01:13:04.272 --> 01:13:05.074
Right.

01:13:05.875 --> 01:13:07.744
(BIRDS CHIRPING)

01:13:07.777 --> 01:13:09.545
Now, gently does it.

01:13:10.713 --> 01:13:11.714
Oh.

01:13:12.448 --> 01:13:14.016
(SNIFFING)

01:13:16.052 --> 01:13:17.887
Oh, precious.

01:13:19.655 --> 01:13:20.423
Herba veneris.

01:13:21.924 --> 01:13:24.427
Nature's divine protector.

01:13:24.460 --> 01:13:26.462
(BIRDS SINGING)

01:13:26.496 --> 01:13:28.296
(SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC)

01:13:28.330 --> 01:13:30.633
(DOG BARKING AND OWL HOOTING)

01:13:36.973 --> 01:13:37.874
What are you doing with that?

01:13:37.907 --> 01:13:39.041
I've just removed all the heavy

01:13:39.075 --> 01:13:40.510
and sharp objects for a reason.

01:13:40.543 --> 01:13:42.545
I thought you could keep
going with your script

01:13:42.578 --> 01:13:44.247
while we're holed up in here.

01:13:44.279 --> 01:13:47.683
Ah, umm... I've already
finished it.

01:13:47.717 --> 01:13:51.487
(GASPS) Well, I thought you
said you were struggling.

01:13:51.521 --> 01:13:53.723
On reflection, I
think I was overthinking

01:13:53.756 --> 01:13:55.958
through the whole thing.

01:13:55.992 --> 01:13:57.593
I'll give the manuscript
a quick read and drive it

01:13:57.627 --> 01:13:58.795
over to the studio first
thing in the morning.

01:13:58.828 --> 01:14:01.531
Oh, Charles, what
wonderful news.

01:14:01.564 --> 01:14:04.299
Daddy's gonna be over
the moon. As am I.

01:14:04.332 --> 01:14:05.568
Thank you, darling.

01:14:05.601 --> 01:14:08.604
(CHUCKLES) Now we can both
focus on banishing Elvira

01:14:08.638 --> 01:14:11.207
into oblivion once and for all.

01:14:11.240 --> 01:14:12.708
Not a moment too soon.

01:14:12.742 --> 01:14:15.244
Two's company.
Three's a nightmare.

01:14:15.278 --> 01:14:16.012
(RUTH CHUCKLES)

01:14:16.045 --> 01:14:16.846
(KISS)

01:14:18.080 --> 01:14:19.916
(SOFT MYSTERIOUS MUSIC)

01:14:19.949 --> 01:14:21.150
Nearly there.

01:14:21.184 --> 01:14:25.688
(SOFT MYSTERIOUS MUSIC)

01:14:25.721 --> 01:14:29.392
Vervain and dill hinder
witches from their will.

01:14:30.226 --> 01:14:33.563
(SOFT MYSTERIOUS MUSIC)

01:14:41.404 --> 01:14:43.940
(BIRDS CALLING)

01:14:43.973 --> 01:14:46.642
(PHONE RINGING)

01:14:51.848 --> 01:14:52.949
(GASP)

01:14:56.252 --> 01:14:57.086
Charles.

01:14:59.422 --> 01:15:00.256
Charles.

01:15:01.991 --> 01:15:04.660
(PHONE RINGING)

01:15:08.164 --> 01:15:11.133
(PHONE RINGING)

01:15:11.167 --> 01:15:13.336
(SNORING)

01:15:14.237 --> 01:15:16.806
(PHONE RINGING)

01:15:16.839 --> 01:15:20.209
(SOFT MYSTERIOUS MUSIC)

01:15:20.243 --> 01:15:22.879
(PHONE RINGING)

01:15:26.215 --> 01:15:28.885
(PHONE RINGING)

01:15:29.819 --> 01:15:30.987
Hello?

01:15:31.020 --> 01:15:33.356
MADAME ARCATI:
<i>Mrs. Condomine, I have news.</i>

01:15:33.389 --> 01:15:35.958
Doors are opening, and
change is in the air.

01:15:35.992 --> 01:15:38.027
<i>This is no time for
riddles, Madame Arcati.</i>

01:15:38.060 --> 01:15:40.029
<i>We've been urgently
trying to contact you.</i>

01:15:40.062 --> 01:15:42.431
Charles's life is
in grave danger.

01:15:42.465 --> 01:15:45.034
Elvira is trying to murder him.

01:15:45.067 --> 01:15:47.837
I feared she might
become a malevolent spirit.

01:15:47.870 --> 01:15:50.339
That's putting it
mildly. Where are you?

01:15:50.373 --> 01:15:51.807
In Sussex.

01:15:51.841 --> 01:15:54.210
I've gathered everything
together and now I'm ready.

01:15:54.243 --> 01:15:55.444
<i>For what?</i>

01:15:55.478 --> 01:15:56.979
Well, to send her
back, of course.

01:15:57.013 --> 01:15:59.548
Stay put, Madame Arcati.
I'll come and collect you.

01:16:00.683 --> 01:16:02.718
(SHRIEKING)

01:16:03.886 --> 01:16:05.087
The telephone woke me.

01:16:05.988 --> 01:16:07.723
Apologies if I scared you.

01:16:07.757 --> 01:16:10.359
Ah, when Mr. Condomine
wakes up, tell him I've gone

01:16:10.394 --> 01:16:13.796
to fetch Madame Arcati and I
shall be back before lunch.

01:16:13.829 --> 01:16:16.766
(WHISPERS) Madame Arcati...
before...

01:16:16.799 --> 01:16:18.402
(ENGINE REVVING)

01:16:19.502 --> 01:16:22.505
(UPBEAT LIGHT MUSIC)

01:16:29.145 --> 01:16:31.314
(SNORING)

01:16:34.750 --> 01:16:37.520
(SNORING CONTINUES)

01:16:37.553 --> 01:16:40.890
(SOFT MYSTERIOUS MUSIC)

01:16:48.197 --> 01:16:50.733
(SNORING)

01:16:52.335 --> 01:16:53.936
(MYSTERIOUS MUSIC)

01:16:53.970 --> 01:16:56.205
Don't hurt me, I beg you.

01:16:56.238 --> 01:16:58.307
You all right in
there, Mr. Condomine?

01:16:58.341 --> 01:17:00.076
I've never stopped loving you.

01:17:00.109 --> 01:17:01.677
Oh.

01:17:01.711 --> 01:17:04.381
I don't know what to say, sir.

01:17:04.414 --> 01:17:07.950
You have a funny way
of showing it, Charles.

01:17:07.984 --> 01:17:09.485
I was gonna put your
name on the manuscript

01:17:09.518 --> 01:17:12.154
before I delivered it
this morning, I promise.

01:17:12.188 --> 01:17:13.923
That won't be necessary, sir.

01:17:13.956 --> 01:17:15.392
I'm a woman, Charles.

01:17:15.425 --> 01:17:16.892
We're used to not getting
the credit we deserve.

01:17:16.926 --> 01:17:19.762
No, I insist. I'll get changed
and leave straightaway.

01:17:19.795 --> 01:17:22.131
Mrs. Condomine left
in the car a while ago.

01:17:22.164 --> 01:17:24.700
She said she would
be back by lunchtime.

01:17:24.734 --> 01:17:25.968
(GASP)

01:17:26.002 --> 01:17:28.270
Elvira, what have you done?

01:17:28.304 --> 01:17:31.040
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

01:17:33.209 --> 01:17:34.343
(SCREAMS)

01:17:35.711 --> 01:17:38.047
(SCREAMING)

01:17:39.315 --> 01:17:40.716
(SPLASH)

01:17:40.750 --> 01:17:41.584
Oops.

01:17:43.352 --> 01:17:47.656
(SOFT PIANO MUSIC)

01:17:47.690 --> 01:17:52.462
♪ There are some things
that are out of my control ♪

01:17:54.096 --> 01:17:59.101
♪ Like the wind and
the rain and the snow ♪

01:18:00.770 --> 01:18:07.176
♪ You've completely
over-powered my soul ♪

01:18:07.209 --> 01:18:11.680
♪ There are some things
that are out of my control ♪

01:18:13.916 --> 01:18:18.921
♪ You make it summer
every day of the year ♪

01:18:20.390 --> 01:18:26.796
♪ One glance from you and
the clouds disappear ♪

01:18:26.829 --> 01:18:32.735
♪ Like forces of nature
we were meant to be here ♪

01:18:32.768 --> 01:18:39.675
♪ Now this flame in my
heart burns for you ♪

01:18:39.708 --> 01:18:43.779
♪ There are some things
that are out of my control ♪

01:18:45.482 --> 01:18:51.787
♪ Passing time, the
seasons, growing old ♪

01:18:51.821 --> 01:18:58.227
♪ You've completely
over-powered my soul ♪

01:18:58.260 --> 01:19:03.132
♪ There are some things
that are out of my control ♪

01:19:04.934 --> 01:19:07.336
Mr. Condomine, I would
just like to say that

01:19:07.369 --> 01:19:11.575
I reproach myself bitterly.

01:19:11.607 --> 01:19:13.843
You are not to
blame, Madame Arcati.

01:19:13.876 --> 01:19:16.045
The fault lies squarely
on my shoulders.

01:19:17.447 --> 01:19:19.483
It was my ambition and ego

01:19:19.516 --> 01:19:22.885
that dragged us into
this unbearable mess.

01:19:22.918 --> 01:19:24.488
And that's something I
shall have to live with

01:19:24.521 --> 01:19:25.721
for the rest of my life.

01:19:27.089 --> 01:19:29.493
The last time I spoke
with Mrs. Condomine,

01:19:29.526 --> 01:19:31.760
your life was in danger.

01:19:31.794 --> 01:19:33.262
I urge you to come and see me

01:19:33.295 --> 01:19:35.532
at your earliest
possible convenience.

01:19:35.565 --> 01:19:37.400
Here is my card.

01:19:37.434 --> 01:19:38.267
I'll be waiting.

01:19:40.269 --> 01:19:42.705
You're not going to
stay for refreshments?

01:19:42.738 --> 01:19:45.509
Oh, please don't think
me rude, but I prefer

01:19:45.542 --> 01:19:48.210
to contemplate the
passing of a spirit

01:19:48.244 --> 01:19:50.012
in my own private way.

01:19:50.045 --> 01:19:54.384
(MOURNERS MURMURING)

01:19:54.417 --> 01:19:57.319
My sincerest condolences,
Mr. Condomine.

01:20:03.292 --> 01:20:05.227
Shouldn't that
be congratulations?

01:20:06.762 --> 01:20:08.398
What the hell
are you doing here?

01:20:08.431 --> 01:20:10.332
Have you no shame?

01:20:10.366 --> 01:20:13.470
It was an accident, Charles.
I was trying to kill you.

01:20:13.503 --> 01:20:15.505
How can you be so heartless?

01:20:16.772 --> 01:20:18.542
Death does that to you.

01:20:18.575 --> 01:20:20.910
You know, you can always
tell how well regarded

01:20:20.943 --> 01:20:24.013
someone is by the
attendance at their funeral.

01:20:24.046 --> 01:20:25.247
What's that supposed to mean?

01:20:25.281 --> 01:20:27.584
Bit of a poor turnout
today, if you ask me.

01:20:27.617 --> 01:20:29.018
I barely counted forty people.

01:20:30.953 --> 01:20:32.054
That does it.

01:20:32.087 --> 01:20:33.756
(ELVIRA SHRIEKING)

01:20:33.789 --> 01:20:35.559
Come here!

01:20:35.592 --> 01:20:38.227
(LAUGHS) Just like old times,
Charles.

01:20:38.260 --> 01:20:41.363
Ahh! With you chasing me
round the garden!

01:20:41.398 --> 01:20:43.365
Only today there's gonna
be a different outcome!

01:20:43.400 --> 01:20:45.334
(YELLS)

01:20:45.367 --> 01:20:48.304
(SOFT PIANO MUSIC)

01:20:51.240 --> 01:20:53.042
- Will you excuse me?
- Of course.

01:20:53.976 --> 01:20:57.046
(MOURNERS MURMURING)

01:21:02.117 --> 01:21:05.054
I'm sorry for your
loss, Mr. Mackintosh.

01:21:05.087 --> 01:21:07.890
Ruth was a fine woman,
and a good friend.

01:21:09.091 --> 01:21:11.060
I'm going to miss her deeply.

01:21:11.093 --> 01:21:14.763
Thank you, Mrs. Bradman. I
know she was fond of you too.

01:21:16.232 --> 01:21:17.833
I can't quite
believe she's gone.

01:21:20.202 --> 01:21:22.405
My mother always said
that time is a physician

01:21:22.439 --> 01:21:24.273
that heals every grief.

01:21:24.306 --> 01:21:27.243
(SOFT PIANO MUSIC)

01:21:31.715 --> 01:21:32.915
(MALLET WHOOSHING)

01:21:32.948 --> 01:21:34.183
Ohh!

01:21:34.216 --> 01:21:35.784
You never were
much of an opponent

01:21:35.818 --> 01:21:37.654
on the croquet lawn, Charles.

01:21:38.488 --> 01:21:40.122
You repulse me.

01:21:43.125 --> 01:21:45.194
I'm going to kill you.

01:21:45.227 --> 01:21:46.429
(CROWD PANICKING)

01:21:46.463 --> 01:21:48.163
(PLATES CRASHING)

01:21:48.197 --> 01:21:50.634
Don't be an imbecile.
I'm already dead.

01:21:50.667 --> 01:21:52.268
You better fetch
your medicinal bag

01:21:52.301 --> 01:21:55.070
before someone else gets killed.

01:21:55.104 --> 01:21:59.442
Edna was right.
This place is cursed.

01:21:59.476 --> 01:22:01.877
I can't bear to
see you ever again.

01:22:01.910 --> 01:22:03.446
The feeling's mutual, Charles.

01:22:03.480 --> 01:22:07.651
With age and disappointment,
you've become a pompous ass.

01:22:07.684 --> 01:22:10.085
Charles, Charles!

01:22:11.787 --> 01:22:13.088
Everything's gonna be splendid.

01:22:13.122 --> 01:22:14.056
Not while she's
here, it won't.

01:22:14.089 --> 01:22:15.958
Not while who's here?

01:22:15.991 --> 01:22:16.825
Elvira!

01:22:23.433 --> 01:22:24.601
(EXHALES)

01:22:25.435 --> 01:22:28.103
(HEART BEATING)

01:22:35.311 --> 01:22:36.413
Where am I?

01:22:36.446 --> 01:22:37.447
In the loony bin.

01:22:40.717 --> 01:22:43.052
(SCREAMING)

01:22:45.622 --> 01:22:48.290
(MUFFLED SCREAMING)

01:22:48.324 --> 01:22:50.660
(SCREAMING)

01:22:50.694 --> 01:22:52.395
There's no point in
struggling, Charles.

01:22:52.429 --> 01:22:55.964
The more you thrash around,
the longer they'll keep you in.

01:22:55.998 --> 01:22:57.266
Why am I here?

01:22:57.299 --> 01:22:59.001
You've been sectioned under
the Mental Treatment Act

01:22:59.034 --> 01:23:02.104
and held under mandatory
observation for the next 28 days.

01:23:02.137 --> 01:23:04.808
I hope you rot in hell.

01:23:04.840 --> 01:23:07.076
It's not wise
to be bad-tempered

01:23:07.109 --> 01:23:08.745
with the only person
who can help you.

01:23:08.778 --> 01:23:10.979
I'd rather eat my own
tongue than ask you for help.

01:23:11.013 --> 01:23:12.716
Hmm, You might
just get to do that.

01:23:12.749 --> 01:23:14.883
Dr. McEwan is planning on
taking you down the corridor

01:23:14.917 --> 01:23:17.620
in 15 minutes for
electric shock treatment.

01:23:17.654 --> 01:23:19.422
- What?
- Mm.

01:23:19.456 --> 01:23:21.624
No! No, come back. Wait.

01:23:23.593 --> 01:23:25.094
ELVIRA: Of course,
there's usually a way

01:23:25.127 --> 01:23:26.696
around these things.

01:23:26.730 --> 01:23:28.197
What do you want from me?

01:23:31.100 --> 01:23:33.470
I know you're never going
to forgive me, Charles,

01:23:33.503 --> 01:23:36.105
and being stuck in
purgatory with you grieving

01:23:36.138 --> 01:23:39.609
over another woman is a
fate worse than death.

01:23:39.642 --> 01:23:41.910
I couldn't agree more.

01:23:41.944 --> 01:23:44.980
Which is why I want a divorce.

01:23:45.981 --> 01:23:47.015
With pleasure.

01:23:48.752 --> 01:23:51.153
And I know just the person
who can execute that.

01:23:56.559 --> 01:23:58.428
(STRAPS TIGHTENING)

01:23:58.461 --> 01:24:01.431
(GROANING)

01:24:01.464 --> 01:24:02.364
Good.

01:24:02.399 --> 01:24:05.635
(ALARM BELL RINGING)

01:24:05.668 --> 01:24:07.804
(UPBEAT DRAMATIC MUSIC)

01:24:07.837 --> 01:24:09.572
Oh, move over.

01:24:09.606 --> 01:24:11.441
No way I'm putting my
life in your hands again.

01:24:11.474 --> 01:24:13.375
Don't flatter
yourself, Charles.

01:24:13.410 --> 01:24:15.445
When I think of what might
have happened if I'd succeeded

01:24:15.478 --> 01:24:17.714
in getting you to the other
side, it makes me shudder.

01:24:17.747 --> 01:24:20.215
Nothing but bickering and
squabbling for eternity.

01:24:23.218 --> 01:24:24.754
Drive.

01:24:24.788 --> 01:24:27.724
(UPBEAT DRAMATIC MUSIC)

01:24:27.757 --> 01:24:29.559
(GEARS SHIFTING)

01:24:31.260 --> 01:24:32.961
Looking back on
our married years,

01:24:32.995 --> 01:24:34.497
I can see now with
horrid clarity,

01:24:34.531 --> 01:24:36.433
they were nothing but a mockery.

01:24:36.466 --> 01:24:39.436
You were feckless,
irresponsible,

01:24:40.269 --> 01:24:42.806
morally unstable.

01:24:42.839 --> 01:24:44.339
I think I realized that before
we left Budleigh Salterton.

01:24:44.373 --> 01:24:46.643
Nobody but a monumental
bore would have thought

01:24:46.676 --> 01:24:49.278
of going to Budleigh
Salterton for a honeymoon.

01:24:49.311 --> 01:24:50.713
What's the matter
with Budleigh Salterton?

01:24:50.747 --> 01:24:53.315
Seven hours a day
on a damn golf course

01:24:53.348 --> 01:24:56.719
and a three-piece orchestra
playing <i>Merrie England.</i>

01:24:56.753 --> 01:24:59.154
I'm surprised you didn't
complain at the time.

01:24:59.188 --> 01:25:00.657
I remember you being
quite good at that.

01:25:00.690 --> 01:25:02.090
I did complain.

01:25:02.124 --> 01:25:04.627
But you wouldn't listen.

01:25:04.661 --> 01:25:07.397
That's why I took a
romantic stroll on the moors

01:25:07.430 --> 01:25:09.866
with Captain Bracegirdle.

01:25:09.899 --> 01:25:11.200
What a blind fool I was.

01:25:12.735 --> 01:25:14.369
Did he make love to you?

01:25:14.404 --> 01:25:16.371
Only very discretely.

01:25:16.406 --> 01:25:17.874
(GEARS SHIFTING, GRINDING)

01:25:22.044 --> 01:25:26.014
Mr. Condomine. I'm so
relieved you've arrived safely.

01:25:26.048 --> 01:25:27.484
Follow me.

01:25:27.517 --> 01:25:29.853
Tonight the moon is full, and
we must harness its power.

01:25:29.886 --> 01:25:30.986
We're both ready to perform

01:25:31.019 --> 01:25:32.755
the banishment
ceremony immediately.

01:25:34.591 --> 01:25:35.425
She's here?

01:25:36.559 --> 01:25:37.827
Yes.

01:25:37.861 --> 01:25:40.864
Are you sure she's
amenable to the process?

01:25:40.897 --> 01:25:41.865
- Yes.
- Yes.

01:25:43.198 --> 01:25:46.536
(SOFT MYSTERIOUS MUSIC)

01:25:48.270 --> 01:25:54.109
With this magic smoke I
invoke the spirit of moon fire,

01:25:54.142 --> 01:25:57.947
dancer of time, mistress
of endings and beginnings.

01:25:57.981 --> 01:25:59.214
(COUGHS)

01:25:59.248 --> 01:26:03.151
To return our sacred sister
to her rightful sphere.

01:26:04.420 --> 01:26:05.555
Still here?

01:26:05.588 --> 01:26:06.456
- Yes.
- Yes.

01:26:09.626 --> 01:26:12.695
To you, the spirit of earth.

01:26:12.729 --> 01:26:14.363
To you, the element of air.

01:26:15.899 --> 01:26:18.535
To you, the force of water.

01:26:18.568 --> 01:26:20.703
To you, the power of fire.

01:26:21.671 --> 01:26:24.206
And the gift of enchanter's dew.

01:26:24.239 --> 01:26:27.175
(SOFT LIGHT MUSIC)

01:26:29.579 --> 01:26:30.914
She still here?

01:26:30.947 --> 01:26:32.180
Yes.

01:26:32.214 --> 01:26:34.182
Yes.

01:26:34.216 --> 01:26:37.587
Ghostly specter,
ghoul and fiend,

01:26:37.620 --> 01:26:39.756
never more be thou convened.

01:26:40.590 --> 01:26:43.258
Wolfsbane and holy rite,

01:26:43.292 --> 01:26:45.227
banish thee into the night.

01:26:48.798 --> 01:26:51.034
Oh, bladderwort, bladderwort.

01:26:51.066 --> 01:26:52.067
Bladderwort.

01:26:53.302 --> 01:26:54.303
Oh.

01:26:54.336 --> 01:26:55.170
Oh yes.

01:26:56.338 --> 01:26:57.172
Yes.

01:26:58.140 --> 01:27:00.375
And bladderwort.

01:27:00.410 --> 01:27:02.077
(GASPS)

01:27:02.110 --> 01:27:04.847
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

01:27:06.315 --> 01:27:07.249
Ruth.

01:27:07.282 --> 01:27:08.017
Ruth?

01:27:08.051 --> 01:27:09.251
(RUTH SIGHS)

01:27:09.284 --> 01:27:10.520
Darling, I'm so
happy to see you again.

01:27:13.022 --> 01:27:14.824
Blast. How could I
have been such a duffer?

01:27:14.857 --> 01:27:17.259
Something must have
gone hideously wrong.

01:27:17.292 --> 01:27:19.161
Yes, not for the first time.

01:27:19.194 --> 01:27:20.663
You hussy.

01:27:20.697 --> 01:27:22.097
Darling.

01:27:22.130 --> 01:27:25.300
Save yourself the
effort. I'm already dead.

01:27:25.334 --> 01:27:27.202
And more to the
point, so are you.

01:27:27.235 --> 01:27:29.072
You popped your
clogs last Tuesday.

01:27:29.104 --> 01:27:31.139
Don't be so insensitive.

01:27:31.173 --> 01:27:32.609
Darling, are you in any pain?

01:27:34.343 --> 01:27:36.779
Charles, what happened to me?

01:27:38.615 --> 01:27:39.749
There was a car accident.

01:27:39.782 --> 01:27:42.685
Which, I have to
admit, I had a hand in.

01:27:42.719 --> 01:27:43.886
I'm sorry, Ruth.

01:27:43.920 --> 01:27:46.254
I'm afraid sorry
doesn't quite cut it.

01:27:46.288 --> 01:27:49.659
Well, even so, in the
spirit of complete openness,

01:27:49.692 --> 01:27:51.628
I'd also like to
apologies for conducting

01:27:51.661 --> 01:27:55.098
an affair with Charles
right under your nose.

01:27:55.130 --> 01:27:57.567
Well, technically, we
are still married, so...

01:27:57.600 --> 01:28:00.937
Stop it, Elvira. Ruth has
been through quite enough.

01:28:00.970 --> 01:28:03.205
What are they
saying, Mr. Condomine?

01:28:03.238 --> 01:28:04.407
Not now, Madame Arcati.

01:28:04.440 --> 01:28:05.942
Things are becoming
quite strained.

01:28:05.975 --> 01:28:08.544
You know, I should have
squeezed malum citrea

01:28:08.578 --> 01:28:10.013
at the crucial point.

01:28:10.046 --> 01:28:12.048
That's lemon juice. Lemon juice.

01:28:12.081 --> 01:28:13.416
(THROAT CLEARING)

01:28:13.449 --> 01:28:15.350
The only reason he was able
to get through that screenplay

01:28:15.385 --> 01:28:17.387
in five days flat is
because I wrote it.

01:28:18.488 --> 01:28:19.489
Yes...

01:28:19.522 --> 01:28:21.189
Charles, is that true?

01:28:21.223 --> 01:28:23.860
Not exactly.

01:28:23.893 --> 01:28:26.161
And Charles didn't want
to tell you we'd finished

01:28:26.194 --> 01:28:28.865
because he wanted to spend
more time alone with me.

01:28:28.898 --> 01:28:29.732
(GASP)

01:28:30.298 --> 01:28:31.333
Ugh.

01:28:31.366 --> 01:28:32.468
Charles.

01:28:33.368 --> 01:28:35.237
Let's not fight, darling.

01:28:35.270 --> 01:28:37.607
Which darling are
you referring to?

01:28:37.640 --> 01:28:39.341
But after everything
I put up with,

01:28:39.374 --> 01:28:40.877
how could you do that to me?

01:28:40.910 --> 01:28:43.780
It's not that
straightforward, darlings.

01:28:43.813 --> 01:28:45.515
I mean, really, Charles,

01:28:45.548 --> 01:28:47.684
you never loved Elvira or me.

01:28:47.717 --> 01:28:51.219
The only person that
you loved is yourself.

01:28:51.253 --> 01:28:52.689
No.

01:28:52.722 --> 01:28:54.991
Finally, something
we do agree on.

01:28:57.593 --> 01:28:58.895
If you wrote the script,

01:29:00.463 --> 01:29:02.165
did he write any of those books?

01:29:02.197 --> 01:29:03.032
No, not a word.

01:29:03.066 --> 01:29:04.400
He took all the glory?

01:29:04.434 --> 01:29:05.802
Aren't you staying
for the second act?

01:29:05.835 --> 01:29:07.036
I think it's best I leave.

01:29:07.070 --> 01:29:10.205
Hell hath no fury
like a woman scorned.

01:29:10.238 --> 01:29:11.339
Try two of them.

01:29:12.775 --> 01:29:14.077
Good luck with the lemons.

01:29:16.612 --> 01:29:17.513
Where did he go?

01:29:18.781 --> 01:29:20.616
Huh, he can run...

01:29:20.650 --> 01:29:22.018
But he can't hide.

01:29:22.051 --> 01:29:24.987
(SPIRITS LAUGHING)

01:29:29.092 --> 01:29:32.428
(SOFT MYSTERIOUS MUSIC)

01:29:37.100 --> 01:29:40.036
Ghostly specter,
ghoul or fiend,

01:29:40.069 --> 01:29:42.939
never more be thou convened.

01:29:42.972 --> 01:29:46.209
Bladderwort, wolfsbane
and holy rite,

01:29:47.275 --> 01:29:49.946
banish thee into the night.

01:29:49.979 --> 01:29:53.216
(FIRE RAGING)

01:29:53.248 --> 01:29:56.152
(MYSTERIOUS MUSIC)

01:30:00.288 --> 01:30:01.691
(EMOTIONAL MUSIC)

01:30:04.326 --> 01:30:05.260
Donald?

01:30:15.605 --> 01:30:18.574
(BIRDS SINGING)

01:30:20.910 --> 01:30:23.646
(ROMANTIC MUSIC)

01:30:36.259 --> 01:30:38.661
Alright, I'm gonna start
with this medium shot here.

01:30:38.694 --> 01:30:40.696
Then I'm gonna come
a little closer, okay?

01:30:40.730 --> 01:30:42.265
Alright, let's
have some passion.

01:30:42.297 --> 01:30:43.633
Alright, roll camera.

01:30:45.535 --> 01:30:46.803
(BELL RINGING)

01:30:46.836 --> 01:30:48.738
- Quiet, please.
- Quiet, please. Sound running.

01:30:48.771 --> 01:30:50.506
ASSISTANT:
Scene 84, take one.

01:30:50.540 --> 01:30:51.339
(BOARD CLAPPING)

01:30:51.373 --> 01:30:53.176
CECIL: And action.

01:30:53.209 --> 01:30:56.311
GARBO: Just being close
to you, Frank,

01:30:56.344 --> 01:30:58.815
I feel as if I'm
completely naked.

01:31:00.216 --> 01:31:04.487
How do you always manage
to see right through me?

01:31:05.521 --> 01:31:07.557
CLARK: That's
my job, sweetie.

01:31:07.590 --> 01:31:08.391
I just do it.

01:31:09.826 --> 01:31:10.793
CECIL:
Cut.

01:31:10.827 --> 01:31:12.161
(BELL RINGS)

01:31:12.195 --> 01:31:12.995
CECIL: Reset.

01:31:15.031 --> 01:31:18.100
I'm not, er... I'm not
feeling the last line.

01:31:19.502 --> 01:31:21.237
Boy wonder, what else you got?

01:31:21.270 --> 01:31:23.172
Uh... wh... uhh...

01:31:27.276 --> 01:31:31.447
What about... 'I see things
just the way they are.

01:31:31.480 --> 01:31:33.783
The rest of the
world needs bifocals.'

01:31:36.485 --> 01:31:37.820
I love it.

01:31:37.854 --> 01:31:39.422
Okay, reset.

01:31:39.455 --> 01:31:40.756
Make-up.

01:31:40.790 --> 01:31:42.124
I wanna move in closer.

01:31:42.158 --> 01:31:43.693
(BELL RINGING)

01:31:43.726 --> 01:31:45.862
You're a genius, Charles.

01:31:45.895 --> 01:31:48.865
Audiences are gonna devour
the whole spiritualist angle.

01:31:48.898 --> 01:31:49.732
Yes.

01:31:52.134 --> 01:31:55.905
Just a shame Ruth
isn't here to enjoy it.

01:31:55.938 --> 01:31:59.374
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

01:31:59.408 --> 01:32:03.012
Mr. Condomine. Hedda
Hopper, <i>Los Angeles Times.</i>

01:32:03.045 --> 01:32:03.880
Oh.

01:32:05.882 --> 01:32:07.016
Hello.

01:32:07.049 --> 01:32:08.718
How does it feel to
be the talk of the town?

01:32:08.751 --> 01:32:10.152
Oh, that's awfully sweet
of you, but I'm not sure

01:32:10.186 --> 01:32:12.221
anybody's really interested
in the lowly writer.

01:32:12.255 --> 01:32:13.723
(GIGGLING)

01:32:13.756 --> 01:32:15.725
Oh, I have a hunch that
my 35 million readers

01:32:15.758 --> 01:32:19.528
will be enthralled by the
story of a serial plagiarist.

01:32:19.562 --> 01:32:21.130
Plagiarist?

01:32:21.163 --> 01:32:23.499
I know you revel in gossip
and scandal, Miss Hopper,

01:32:23.532 --> 01:32:24.800
but that's a
completely outrageous

01:32:24.834 --> 01:32:26.469
and unfounded accusation.

01:32:26.502 --> 01:32:28.337
There is nothing
unfounded about the writ

01:32:28.371 --> 01:32:30.373
that Senor Morales is serving.

01:32:30.406 --> 01:32:32.708
Would you care to
comment on the fact

01:32:32.742 --> 01:32:35.578
that your 15 Detective
Frank Flowers whodunnits

01:32:35.611 --> 01:32:38.981
are based word for word on
the Inspector Francisco Flores

01:32:39.015 --> 01:32:42.451
crime novels, which are
bestsellers across all of Mexico?

01:32:42.485 --> 01:32:45.054
Say cheese, Mr. Condomine.

01:32:45.087 --> 01:32:46.756
(FLASHBULBS POPPING)

01:32:46.789 --> 01:32:49.258
CHARLES: You.

01:32:49.292 --> 01:32:51.127
Don't look so
shocked, Charles.

01:32:51.160 --> 01:32:52.962
You and I both know
there's no such thing

01:32:52.995 --> 01:32:55.031
as an original story.

01:32:55.064 --> 01:32:56.265
How could you?

01:32:56.299 --> 01:32:57.500
CECIL: Can't
you just be quiet?

01:32:57.533 --> 01:32:59.302
I'm trying to make
a picture here.

01:32:59.335 --> 01:33:02.972
You scheming little witch.

01:33:03.005 --> 01:33:04.974
So much for the
famous British charm.

01:33:06.208 --> 01:33:10.146
♪ I'll be loving you Always ♪

01:33:10.179 --> 01:33:11.547
♪ With a love
that's true... ♪

01:33:11.580 --> 01:33:12.281
Stop it. Stop it.

01:33:12.315 --> 01:33:13.049
♪ Always ♪

01:33:13.883 --> 01:33:15.518
Stop it! No.

01:33:15.551 --> 01:33:18.721
ELVIRA: Your first novel?
Greta Garbo speaking my words?

01:33:18.754 --> 01:33:19.889
Stop it!

01:33:19.922 --> 01:33:21.557
ELVIRA: You and I both know
there's no such thing

01:33:21.590 --> 01:33:22.892
as an original story.

01:33:22.925 --> 01:33:23.826
RUTH: Promise
you can't touch her.

01:33:23.859 --> 01:33:25.294
ELVIRA: I'm a woman, Charles.

01:33:25.328 --> 01:33:26.762
We're used to not getting
the credit we deserve.

01:33:26.796 --> 01:33:29.532
RUTH: The only person
that you loved is yourself.

01:33:29.565 --> 01:33:30.400
(ENGINE REVS)

01:33:30.434 --> 01:33:31.767
(BRAKES SQUEALING)

01:33:31.801 --> 01:33:32.635
Ooh.

01:33:36.939 --> 01:33:38.641
What the hell do you
think you're doing?

01:33:38.674 --> 01:33:40.444
You could have killed me.

01:33:40.476 --> 01:33:41.477
I just did.

01:33:43.413 --> 01:33:44.680
Oh.

01:33:44.714 --> 01:33:47.016
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

01:33:47.049 --> 01:33:47.883
Oh.

01:33:51.320 --> 01:33:54.458
Nobody will ever
forget you, Charles.

01:33:54.490 --> 01:33:56.492
They'll remember
what a fraud you were.

01:33:56.525 --> 01:33:57.360
Always.

01:33:58.995 --> 01:34:01.398
♪ Au revoir, auf wiedersehen ♪

01:34:01.431 --> 01:34:03.566
♪ We'll never meet again ♪

01:34:03.599 --> 01:34:06.102
♪ Heaven's kinda
nice for roaming ♪

01:34:06.135 --> 01:34:08.137
RUTH: Farewell,
Mr. Peasbody!

01:34:08.170 --> 01:34:09.372
(ELVIRA LAUGHING)

01:34:09.406 --> 01:34:10.940
CHARLES: You can't
just leave me here.

01:34:10.973 --> 01:34:12.074
(RUTH YELPS)

01:34:12.108 --> 01:34:14.343
♪ Off to paradise
we're strolling ♪

01:34:14.377 --> 01:34:15.611
(RUTH SCREAMS. LAUGHS)

01:34:15.644 --> 01:34:18.482
♪ Hanging off the
chandeliers all evening ♪

01:34:18.514 --> 01:34:21.385
♪ While you lie in my web
of lies you're weaving ♪

01:34:21.418 --> 01:34:22.486
<i>Read all about it.</i>

01:34:22.518 --> 01:34:23.652
Read all about it.

01:34:23.686 --> 01:34:25.287
Murdered British
crime writer revealed

01:34:25.321 --> 01:34:27.189
to be serial plagiarist.

01:34:29.258 --> 01:34:32.061
Oh, poor Charles.
How dreadful.

01:34:34.163 --> 01:34:36.332
It's like a plot from
one of his novels.

01:34:36.365 --> 01:34:38.367
Or perhaps from
someone else's.

01:34:38.402 --> 01:34:41.405
(UPBEAT HORN MUSIC)

01:34:45.674 --> 01:34:47.411
MADAME ARCATI:
Is anybody there?

01:34:48.478 --> 01:34:50.112
Is anybody there?

01:34:50.146 --> 01:34:53.549
One knock for yes,
two knocks for no.

01:34:53.582 --> 01:34:55.385
CHARLES: Yes, I'm here.

01:34:55.419 --> 01:34:57.920
Whatever happened to leaving
someone to rest in peace?

01:34:57.953 --> 01:35:00.356
MADAME ARCATI: Mr.
Condomine, I simply wanted

01:35:00.390 --> 01:35:02.892
to apologize for any
part I may have played

01:35:02.925 --> 01:35:05.061
in your untimely demise.

01:35:05.094 --> 01:35:06.829
CHARLES: You weren't behind
the wheel, Madame Arcati.

01:35:06.862 --> 01:35:08.964
MADAME ARCATI:, No,
but I fear I may have

01:35:08.998 --> 01:35:10.633
put fuel in the tank.

01:35:10.666 --> 01:35:12.368
CHARLES: Well, <i>c'est la vie</i>.

01:35:12.402 --> 01:35:15.539
MADAME ARCATI: I also
wanted to express my gratitude.

01:35:15.604 --> 01:35:18.074
Without you, I would
still be searching.

01:35:18.107 --> 01:35:19.175
CHARLES: Well,
at least one of us

01:35:19.208 --> 01:35:21.277
is enjoying a happy ending.

01:35:21.310 --> 01:35:24.680
MADAME ARCATI: May
I be so bold as to ask

01:35:24.713 --> 01:35:26.816
what it's like on
the other side?

01:35:26.849 --> 01:35:27.650
RUTH: Charles.

01:35:27.683 --> 01:35:28.717
ELVIRA: Charles.

01:35:28.751 --> 01:35:29.952
CHARLES: Complicated.

01:35:32.456 --> 01:35:35.459
(SOFT, JAZZY TUNE)

01:35:36.759 --> 01:35:38.861
♪ Your hand is on my hand ♪

01:35:38.894 --> 01:35:41.465
♪ When I'm putting
pen to paper ♪

01:35:41.498 --> 01:35:43.766
♪ We're in harmony ♪

01:35:43.799 --> 01:35:46.168
♪ Trumpets in a band ♪

01:35:46.202 --> 01:35:48.505
♪ Soprano and a tenor ♪

01:35:48.538 --> 01:35:52.241
♪ Where you are is where I am ♪

01:35:52.274 --> 01:35:56.513
(UPBEAT PIANO)

01:35:56.546 --> 01:36:01.485
♪ My fellow, isn't it
swell to be with me ♪

01:36:04.421 --> 01:36:10.560
♪ You were made to
stand in the shade ♪

01:36:10.594 --> 01:36:16.165
♪ Now you're the
notes of my symphony ♪

01:36:16.198 --> 01:36:20.302
♪ Our fingers intertwine when
I go to paint the picture ♪

01:36:20.336 --> 01:36:22.439
♪ We're a vintage wine ♪

01:36:22.472 --> 01:36:25.007
♪ The hourglass in the sand ♪

01:36:25.040 --> 01:36:27.143
♪ A blessed gin and tonic ♪

01:36:27.176 --> 01:36:31.747
♪ Where you are is where I am ♪

01:36:31.780 --> 01:36:35.619
♪ Where you are is where I am ♪

01:36:42.691 --> 01:36:44.260
(UKULELE MUSIC)

01:36:44.293 --> 01:36:48.030
♪ I'm the top banana
in the greenhouse ♪

01:36:48.063 --> 01:36:51.133
♪ I'm the cream
on the apple pie ♪

01:36:51.167 --> 01:36:54.571
♪ It's hard to be humble
when you're genius ♪

01:36:54.604 --> 01:36:58.073
♪ Eclipses the
stars in the sky ♪

01:36:58.107 --> 01:37:01.478
♪ I'm light on my feet, the
toast of German Street ♪

01:37:01.511 --> 01:37:05.080
♪ I'm the prince of Piccadilly,
dear, you'll wanna meet ♪

01:37:05.114 --> 01:37:08.518
♪ So if you wanna say ahoy ♪

01:37:08.552 --> 01:37:12.721
♪ Swing by the Savoy ♪

01:37:12.755 --> 01:37:16.025
♪ I'm the top banana
in the greenhouse ♪

01:37:16.058 --> 01:37:19.361
♪ I'm a champagne kind of guy ♪

01:37:19.396 --> 01:37:23.165
♪ I'm a champagne kind of guy ♪

01:37:25.535 --> 01:37:28.137
(GENTLE MUSIC)

01:37:33.443 --> 01:37:38.280
♪ This life flies passed ♪

01:37:38.314 --> 01:37:41.951
♪ No time to wait
in the shadows ♪

01:37:41.984 --> 01:37:46.822
♪ This love might last ♪

01:37:46.855 --> 01:37:51.160
♪ For a hit, follow the arrow ♪

01:37:51.193 --> 01:37:54.930
♪ I feel the change
in the weather ♪

01:37:54.964 --> 01:37:59.402
♪ Dark clouds are
gathering together ♪

01:37:59.436 --> 01:38:03.105
♪ You're the sun that puts
the shine in my shoes ♪

01:38:03.138 --> 01:38:06.710
♪ Takes away my blues ♪

01:38:06.742 --> 01:38:11.113
♪ So let's sing, do I think ♪

01:38:11.146 --> 01:38:15.084
♪ Like two birds we
belong together ♪

01:38:15.117 --> 01:38:19.723
♪ Let's dance, take a chance ♪

01:38:19.755 --> 01:38:23.359
♪ Make a moment last forever ♪

01:38:23.393 --> 01:38:25.729
♪ Let's dance ♪

01:38:25.761 --> 01:38:28.364
(UPBEAT MUSIC)

01:38:41.243 --> 01:38:44.913
♪ I feel a change
in the weather ♪

01:38:44.947 --> 01:38:49.351
♪ Dark clouds are
gathering together ♪

01:38:49.386 --> 01:38:53.022
♪ You're the sun that puts
the shine in my shoes ♪

01:38:53.055 --> 01:38:56.493
♪ And takes away my blues ♪

01:38:56.526 --> 01:39:01.398
♪ So let's sing, do I think ♪

01:39:01.431 --> 01:39:04.967
♪ Like two birds we
belong together ♪

01:39:05.000 --> 01:39:10.873
♪ Let's dance, take a chance ♪

01:39:10.906 --> 01:39:13.510
♪ Make a moment last forever ♪

01:39:13.543 --> 01:39:19.416
♪ Let's dance ♪

01:39:19.449 --> 01:39:21.751
♪ Make a moment last forever ♪

01:39:21.785 --> 01:39:27.657
♪ Let's dance ♪

01:39:27.691 --> 01:39:32.529
♪ Make a moment last forever ♪

01:39:32.562 --> 01:39:34.764
♪ Let's dance ♪

01:39:34.788 --> 01:39:45.788
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