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No! No!

- Tell his lordship! Go! - No!

No! No!

Oh, no! Go away! No!

You've found her?

- When will she die? - Now.

- I want to see it. - Stay here.

Oh, no, my lord. After the harm she has caused us?

I will see an end to her.

No!

No!

Make haste!

No!

No!

- Father, take back to thy bosom...

...this woman whom Satan has defiled.

Receive and bless her soul...

...cleanse and purify it... - No!

...In Thy holy name...

...and let no measure of Satan's power remain in her.

Master! Help thy servant!

Quickly, men, fire - burn her.

No!

Help! Help me!

Help!

Help me! Help!

You dare to challenge one who serves the master?!

No earthly thing may take that right and live.

Your life is hereby forfeited...

...and every male and female of your line is damned!

Lights.

What a load of rubbish.

Shut up. I thought it was great.

- Is it really true? - Yes.

And it actually happened in this house.

At least you saved money on the location.

Cheapskate. That's why he made it. Who's interested in a film about your family?

I am. Is that the sword you used in the movie?

Yes.

The same sword that killed most of our ancestors.

- If the stories are true. - Oh, dear.

Oh, Gary, what's the matter with you? It's an amazing story.

It loses a bit of its charm when you've seen it 15 times.

Don't you believe it?

It was 300 years ago. How can they prove anything now?

Oh, come on...

There are many more things I could tell you... Rum?

Yes.

- Are you doomed as well, Ann? - No, it's only direct descendants.

He's the one. You've only got to look at him to see he's doomed.

I don't know, this house makes me feel funny.

It's giving me a strange feeling as well.

- So that's what caused it. - Don't jest, love.

You know about my strange power, don't you?

- Do I? - Yes!

Oh, God.

Ladies and gentlemen, could I have your attention, please.

You're invited to witness the most amazing example of mesmerism ever seen by man.

Now, I think this young lady will assist me in my demonstration of my strange power.

- You wanna watch it, Carol. - You wouldn't catch me doing that.

I'm a natural skeptic, until they do it to me.

Now look at the candle, Carol, look deep into the candle and listen to my voice.

You're going to grow sleepy.

You're getting sleepy now.

This bloody comedian's beginning to get up my nose.

Shouldn't invite bogeymen to your parties, should you?

Your eyelids are getting heavy. Now go to sleep.

Go to sleep.

- You don't believe this, do you? - No!

All right then, clever clogs, you watch this.

Carol, open your eyes.

- Can you hear me, Carol? - Yes.

- What can you see? - A candle.

Now the candle is harmless, do you understand?

The flame will not hurt you, do you understand?

Yes.

Now put your hand into the flame, Carol.

Oh, you fucking sod!

Go ahead, put your hand into the flame.

Nothing's going to hurt you.

- Jesus, what was that?! - I thought she was in a trance.

- It's an intermission. - I've never jumped so high.

- And you loused up the act. - The Wind's blown a branch in the window.

I'll get something to fix it.

- Is she all right? - Of course.

Show me your hand.

A miracle.

I'd more impressed if you hypnotized someone other than her.

- So would I. - Are you suggesting a collusion?

Go on, do it with somebody else.

- Do it with me. - I'll do it with you.

- Yes, Gary, do it with Ann.

- Don't be bloody silly. - Please, Gary.

- He can't do it. - Another drink, anyone?

I want you to. I want you to hypnotize me.

Can't you do it with me?

Ow! She's got a fucking grip like steel. She's gonna break my Timex in a minute!

All right, you win, let's see what we can do.

Now sit down again.

- There's broken glass all round the house. - I've done it.

- Are you listening? - I've hypnotized your cousin.

- I'm talking about something else now. - It's true, James, look.

What we did just now was a joke, I had this in my hand - asbestos.

But Gary did the same with Ann and she zonked out.

- She's in a trance. - Do me a favour.

It's not a bloody joke! What have I got to do, kill myself?

Yes. Yes!

OK. You better watch this, James.

- James? - Yes?

Well, watch then, you pillock!

Ann, I want you to stand up.

I'm going to count to three, then you wake up.

One...

two...

three.

- Ann! - What's happening?

- I don't know. - Is she faking it?

Not with a look on her face like that.

- She must be. - Ann! One, two, three, wake up!

- Come on, Ann. - What we gonna do?

Ann, leave that sword alone!

I'm beginning to get the creeps.

- Ann? - Oh, Jesus. Ann, put that sword down!

Come on, maestro, finish what you started.

I don't know what to do. Ann, look...give me the sword.

- Don't point that like that. - Ann, look, stop it.

Wake up. One, two, three. Wake up!

- Ann? - Oh, my God!

- Ann? - Ann, put the sword down.

Enough's enough.

Ann! Stop it!

Ann!

- Ann! - Stop it!

- At least the film looks all right. - I still think it needs cutting.

- I can't find Gary. - I'm not surprised after that.

He's out looking for an agent(!)

- Very funny. - Oh, your arm, let me fix it...

No, no, it's fine. Forget it.

I'd better be off, I've got to be up early tomorrow.

- Don't be late, time is money. - That's great, coming from you.

Bye .

Bye-bye .

James!

James?!

James, I'm off now!

Where have you been? You feeling all right?

- Yes, I - I was looking for Ann. - She's probably at the hostel.

- What makes you say that? - She wouldn't be camping in the garden.

She could be wandering about out there. You saw what happened tonight...

All right! She's your cousin, you know her better than I do.

I only met her myself for the first time last week.

I don't know her, and until I do I'm not taking any chances.

Right. I'll be off then.

The studio's booked tomorrow morning so I'll come in early, OK?

Er, yes, OK.

What? That's less than the sale price.

Really? It sounds too good to be true. Where's my nearest branch?

Thanks. Come on, Betty, let's go down to Oxford Fabrics...

...and see these incredible bargains for ourselves.

They get worse.

Ann?

Ann?

This morning actress Carol Tucker,

...best known perhaps for her pan in TV's long-running series The Villagers...

...was due to begin work on a new film comedy called Take It Or Leave It.

But last night Miss Tucker was found stabbed to death...

...in the grounds of a house belonging to her film producer friend, James Garrick...

...who also owns the north London film studio you can see behind me.

- And cut. - OK?

Not in the bath, love. How can we do it if you're in the bath?

- You didn't tell me. - I just told you!

Do the back scrubbing bit and then get in the bath.

Let's just do it. Hanging round here all fucking morning.

Whose faults that? We have to keep heating up the water!

I'm not catching pneumonia for the money you pay, me darlin'.

Oh, fuckin' Ada.

- Are they still out there? - Depends who you mean.

ITN are wrapping up, the BBC have just arrived.

- Get those wankers out of there. - Why?

- Do you know what they're doing? - Bath time With Brenda.

What will the police say when they arrive?

How will they react to Bath time With Brenda?

- You just can't chuck 'em out. - Oh, really?

- That's it. - Mm.

- Oh!

- That's it... - You'll have to wrap it up.

- What them? - I'm sorry.

- What you playin' at?! - We've got a bit of a problem...

Philip made a mistake with the booking. You have to go.

- I'm booked in here till lunchtime! - I'll give you a free day.

That's no good to me!

Not now, Valentino, we're not shooting.

- What? - Eh?

I canceled a bloody nut-bar commercial for this.

Bleeding' cheek! I'm booked up all week!

I'm fed up with this. I'm a working actress.

What about me? I got money in this, ain't I?

Then they tell us it's not on.

It don't matter so much to you, does it?

Quack.

Yep.

I didn't leave my knickers in here, did I?

No more calls today, OK?

'What about your appointments?'

Cancel them.

I've got some serious thinking to do.

Vis-é-vis?

Vis-é-vis we're gonna have to tell the whole story...

...not what we told the police last night.

- I thought you told everything. - Really?

- That incident with Ann and the sword. - What about that?

Doesn't it interest you?

First that happens, then we find Carol's body.

Jesus, do you know what you're saying?

I'll have to talk to her.

James, what's the matter with you?

Why would she want to kill Carol?

Why would she want to kill me?

No reason at all. Unless there really is...

Christ, don't start that again.

Check the records, Philip, like I did.

Nearly everyone who became involved in that house died violently.

Your dear old dad died peacefully in bed.

"Peacefully"?

You didn't see his face. His eyes.

Wide-open and staring.

It was head failure, James. Head failure - nothing else.

All right. What made it fail?

Something he saw.

Something that frightened him to death.

Cor, look at my bloody skin.

Not casting any smallpox victims for this show, are they?

Come on, Viv, it's twenty past five.

- I can get a cab. - I can't afford any more bloody cabs!

God, you'd think we're auditioning for MGM!

Ann, are you coming?

- Where? - To the audition.

Not important, is it?

Only work, love. Look, it's 21 minutes past.

All right, all right.

Bye, Ann. See you at the club.

- See you, Sue. - Bye-bye. Good luck.

Ta! Viv, I'm not getting a cab!

You're a bloomin' miser.

Aren't you going?

No.

Why? You haven't been to any auditions yet.

I can't face them any more.

But anything's better than working in that awful club.

I don't have to think when I'm there.

I got my car back from the garage today, so I'm going to see my parents.

Can't put it off any longer. I can give you a lift to the club, if you want.

Thanks, I...I may not go in tonight. My head's splitting.

You're still thinking about that girl who was killed, aren't you?

It's more than that. I can't explain it now.

Is there something you haven't told me about that murder?

I don't know anything. I wasn't there.

I know but...but the night it happened, you came back here late, remember?

And you were in the bathroom.

You were washing something off your hands.

- It looked like blood. - I cut my hand. You don't think...?

No. I just had to ask.

I'm sorry. Really I am.

I feel very stupid now.

I have to go or I'll be late.

Suzy?

You haven't told anyone else about this, have you?

Of course not. Just forget I mentioned it.

See you later, OK?

- Suzy, my dear. - I'm just going out, Dolores.

Your producer friend, darling - when's he coming to see me?

I haven't had the time.

I'm so glad I ran into you, dear, because I've just been on the phone with Cecil.

I'm almost certain he wants me to do a tour next month.

Oh, that's wonderful, Dolores.

Oh, but I haven't agreed to anything with anyone yet,

because Laurence wants me to do his next film.

He's even talking about my going back to Hollywood...

...so I wouldn't want to disappoint your friend.

Dolores, I have to go.

You do understand, don't you, darling?

- One has to be nice to so many people.

Hello?

Anybody in?

Anyone in?

Hello? Is that Roman's Garage?

Hello? I can hardly hear you.

- 'What do you want?' - My car's broken down.

- Can you send somebody, please? - 'Where are you?'

About a quarter of a mile down the Clayhill Road, going south.

A yellow Ford Escort It's by the side of the road.

'Where are you speaking from?'

It's a cottage about 300 yards further down.

It's called, er...Buttercup Lodge.

- Hello? Hello, did you get that?

'Yes, we'll come and get you.'

Could you come here first, please? You see, I'm alone.

- 'You're alone?' - Yes. I found the door...

- Hello?

Hello?!

Oh!

You want a mechanic?

Hey, darling! Darling!

Hey, come here! Come here, darling. Come over here. Come on!

I'll take you to a nice club. Come on, come over here.

Come on, darling, come over here. Come on...

Darling, come over here, let's have a nice time together.

Come on, we'll have a nice time tonight. Come out with me.

I'll give you a good stiff talking to.

Hi.

- Shit, if I can get some good tips... - Hello.

Hello. I'll give up.

If that waistcoat gives up you'll get more than tips.

You look after the boys and I'll look after the men.

Don't worry about that.

Right. Come on, girls, then, let's get started.

I left two messages for you at the hostel. Why didn't you call me?

We've got to talk.

What do you want to talk about?

About that night at the house.

I don't want to discuss that.

Tell me what happened, before it's too late.

Too late for what?

I don't know what you're talking about. I've got to work to do.

Hey, Ann, the Greek freak's in tonight.

Oh, hello, darlin', what you doin' here?

Anyway, he said...

Oh, you've found my knickers, haven't you?

- I've got to go now. - Oh.

See ya.

Sit down, darling. I want you.

- That's not included in the price. - I want to pay extra for you.

How much, eh? How much do you cost?

Hey, I tell you what I want you should do.

You, er, know, er, sucking?

Hey, yeah? You do sucking for me?

OK, you do that?

I tell you...

Don't laugh. Nothing's funny on this night.

Oh, really? Not that old round the bay story again.

Hey, where are you going? Wait! Come back!

- Another gin and tonic, please. - Okey-dokey.

- Take Phil the Greek's table for me. - No way.

Is he giving you the "I tell you, in Athens I drink two bottles of ouzo,

"I swim twice round the bay, I still the best lover in Athens.

"You try. I show you."

I just can't take it tonight.

Hey, Ann, Viv just sold Max a Tizer brandy. We should celebrate.

- Greg. - Yeah.

Two tequila sunrises, two whiskeys and a beer.

Okey-dokey.

Darling, you come sit with Phil. Come sit with Phil!

I suck your tits, yes?

Stop, please, Phil!

For God's sake, leave me alone!

- I want to suck the tits! - Leave me alone!

Hey!

Know him? I was with him on the night he was killed.

Poor sod. I know we used to take the piss out of him but he was harmless really.

Know your lines, do you, Viv? Word perfect, are you, love?

- Silly bugger. - Who did it, someone from the club?

Wouldn't tell you if I knew. Must've been awful.

- Did you read how he was done in? - Yeah.

Must've been a bloody maniac.

I'm coming down now. I want no muck-ups today.

Get in your first positions.

Come on, Viv, move it.

Who told that lot to come back here?

- You did. - Since when?

You gave them a free day when you kicked them out, remember?

No, I don't.

And I suppose you don't remember telling Les I fucked up the bookings?

- Who told you that? - Who do you think?

So you believe that prick rather than me?

Look, what does it matter? Just forget them.

- They're a liability. - You're the fucking liability, mate!

I've just washed my hands.

It's not your hands I'm bothered about. Giggle giggle giggle.

Come on, it's not as if it's hard porn.

It's only soft-core garbage, isn't it?

- That you remember a few lines? - Oh, shut up.

Always moaning. Being so happy must keep you going.

- Curtis, this isn't a library. - I've got it.

- He's only got four lines... - James?

...in the whole bloody script! Vivian, try and get it right this time.

If you got somebody with a bit of brains I might be OK.

Sulking?

Let's get on with it, OK?

Strip, strip, strip.

Are you that"? Are you auburn all the way down?

- You'll soon find out. - And into the bath.

Into the bath!

- Ah, yes. - And did you turn the tap on? No.

Sorry, darlin'. Be all right on the night.

- Do I sit down here? - Is it this next?

- Don't ask me, you're supposed to know. - Keep your Stetson on.

It'll only take me a minute to find it, don't shout.

Stay where you are. I said, stay where you are!

Here, take it. Read the thing! If you can't read it just say anything...

...make it up but let's get on with it! Oh, give me strength.

- Shit!

It's burning him, it's burning him!

James?

The worst pan was the sight of his face.

I don't think I'll ever be able to forget that.

I know you're upset, Viv - it must have been horrible...

...but I wish you'd wait a bit longer.

It's not the accident. Look, there's been two murders, right?

Carol and Phil the Greek. And there's one common denominator.

- You don't know for sure. - I'm not hanging around to find out.

I don't fancy sleeping in that room all by myself.

Come with me then, you can sleep on the floor. He won't mind, he's an old friend.

But they won't send my mail on.

If you stay here the only messages they'll be sending will be messages of condolence.

Do you think she heard you?

If she did you're gonna be next.

- Don't joke about it! - I'm not joking, I'm leaving.

If you change your mind I'll be in the bathroom.

Ann, it's Suzy!

- Oh... - What's up? Are you all right?

It's blood! Look, it's blood, isn't it?!

- It's blood! - It's coming from the empty room.

Oh, let's get the police. Come on! Let's get the police.

Where you going? What you doing?

It's all right. Just...Just stay there.

- No, don't! - We've got to check.

Suzy!

Suzy!

Suzy?

Suzy, answer me!

Diana?

Is that you?

Who's there?

- I am. - Jesus, what do you want?

- I need to talk to you. - Oh, yeah? What about?

I don't know what's happening to me.

Hey...

Come on. Come on, come on, come on.

Let's go into the office.

Thanks.

You don't sense it, do you?

Here, the same feeling I had at the house.

- What house? - James's house.

I had the same feeling there.

When he told us that story about the woman who cursed the family.

I can't get it off my mind...

Listen, let's get a few things straight. First, James has a vivid imagination.

It's not imagination. Something happened that night.

- The way I was hypnotized. - You weren't hypnotized!

- I was! - Oh, come on, you weren't!

Carol and Gary were pissing about, it was a joke.

I've seen them do it a thousand times. He couldn't get a dog to roll over.

- But you... - I went into a trance.

That must have been autosuggestion or something. I don't know.

What happened? What did I do?

I can't remember anything.

- Well, didn't James tell you? - No.

That's surprising. You tried to carve him up.

Did I... Did I have the sword?

You bet you did.

I... I remember it being taken from me... and running out of the house

But I can't remember anything else after that.

Just getting back to the hostel, and the blood.

- Did I cut my hand? - Not that I remember.

Well...then where did all the blood come from?

Erm, I think you'd better be getting home. I've got to lock up.

So he was right about there being no hope.

What do you mean?

James is my only relative, did you know that?

When we go that'll be the end.

She'll have succeeded.

Shit.

Ann?

Ann? Ann, are you still here?

Ann?

Who's there?!

- James, is that you pissing about?

I see, so they both work as waitresses at the same club.

And when did you say you last saw Miss Ann Garrick?

- Open this door! - What are you doing, young man?

Men aren't allowed in here after 10:30.

- Open this door!

Come on, miss, open this door.

Do you realise who I am?

I am Dolores Hamilton. Stop terrifying my girls.

Oh, so now you recognise me.

No! No!