1 00:01:23,965 --> 00:01:25,000 Morning. 2 00:01:33,379 --> 00:01:34,275 Sergeant Perron? 3 00:01:35,689 --> 00:01:36,413 Sir. 4 00:01:36,448 --> 00:01:37,793 What are you doing here? 5 00:01:37,827 --> 00:01:39,793 Reporting for duty, sir, to Colonel Merrick, sir. 6 00:01:39,827 --> 00:01:40,965 Haven't you heard? 7 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:42,034 The war's over. 8 00:01:42,068 --> 00:01:43,620 Japanese surrender. 9 00:01:43,655 --> 00:01:45,931 Colonel Trehearne's declared a holiday from all parades. 10 00:01:45,965 --> 00:01:47,655 I'm afraid I got up rather late, sir. 11 00:01:47,689 --> 00:01:48,862 I've heard nothing yet. 12 00:01:48,896 --> 00:01:50,448 Probably go back to bed, then. 13 00:01:51,896 --> 00:01:53,206 Here's Colonel Merrick now. 14 00:01:53,241 --> 00:01:54,793 Better ask him. 15 00:02:09,172 --> 00:02:10,448 Good morning, Sergeant. 16 00:02:10,482 --> 00:02:11,655 Sir. 17 00:02:11,689 --> 00:02:13,241 There have been developments. 18 00:02:13,275 --> 00:02:15,379 Yes, sir, I've just spoken to the adjutant, sir. 19 00:02:15,413 --> 00:02:18,103 In consequence of Japan's formal surrender, 20 00:02:18,137 --> 00:02:20,310 I've been recalled to Delhi. 21 00:02:20,344 --> 00:02:22,137 I'm flying from Rampur later today. 22 00:02:22,172 --> 00:02:24,206 It's probable I shall be posted direct to Singapore. 23 00:02:24,241 --> 00:02:27,034 If so, I shall send for you, of course. 24 00:02:27,068 --> 00:02:29,620 And meanwhile, sir? 25 00:02:29,655 --> 00:02:31,413 Meanwhile... 26 00:02:31,448 --> 00:02:33,206 You're to remain in Pankot. 27 00:02:35,724 --> 00:02:37,586 Has Captain Rowan contacted you at all? 28 00:02:37,620 --> 00:02:39,482 No, sir. 29 00:02:39,517 --> 00:02:42,172 We dined last night at Colonel Layton's. 30 00:02:42,206 --> 00:02:44,310 Captain Rowan made the suggestion 31 00:02:44,344 --> 00:02:46,413 that you might care to join him at the Summer Residence, 32 00:02:46,448 --> 00:02:47,965 in preference to your temporary accommodation 33 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:49,241 at the hospital annex. 34 00:02:49,275 --> 00:02:51,965 I assumed that would be agreeable to you. 35 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:53,931 Correctly, I imagine? 36 00:02:53,965 --> 00:02:55,137 Yes, sir, entirely. 37 00:02:55,172 --> 00:02:56,620 Good. 38 00:02:56,655 --> 00:02:59,000 He'll expect you at the guest house this evening. 39 00:02:59,034 --> 00:03:00,689 In the meantime, 40 00:03:00,724 --> 00:03:03,206 INA interrogations here have been suspended, 41 00:03:03,241 --> 00:03:04,551 so you can devote yourself entirely 42 00:03:04,586 --> 00:03:06,103 to victory celebrations. 43 00:03:06,137 --> 00:03:07,275 Yes, sir. 44 00:03:07,310 --> 00:03:08,896 That seems to be all. 45 00:03:08,931 --> 00:03:10,034 At ease. 46 00:03:11,482 --> 00:03:13,862 Captain Rowan was pumping me last night 47 00:03:13,896 --> 00:03:16,000 about Mr. Kasim's INA son. 48 00:03:16,034 --> 00:03:18,068 You've read the file on Sayed Kasim, I suppose? 49 00:03:18,103 --> 00:03:19,758 No, sir. 50 00:03:19,793 --> 00:03:21,482 I thought you would have done. 51 00:03:21,517 --> 00:03:24,068 I told you it was one of our more interesting cases. 52 00:03:24,103 --> 00:03:26,241 Perhaps it's just as well you didn't. 53 00:03:26,275 --> 00:03:28,206 Otherwise, your old school friend 54 00:03:28,241 --> 00:03:31,758 might have cross-examined you rather more successfully. 55 00:03:31,793 --> 00:03:35,655 Of course, I have been trained, as he was, 56 00:03:35,689 --> 00:03:37,724 not to give away too much, 57 00:03:37,758 --> 00:03:41,482 though in a different school. 58 00:03:41,517 --> 00:03:44,448 By the way, 59 00:03:44,482 --> 00:03:45,862 I'm leaving Suleiman in your care. 60 00:03:47,068 --> 00:03:49,482 For a day or two at least. 61 00:03:49,517 --> 00:03:51,689 Make any use of him you want. 62 00:03:51,724 --> 00:03:53,137 Right, sir. 63 00:03:53,172 --> 00:03:54,724 If I'm moving on from Delhi, 64 00:03:54,758 --> 00:03:57,310 you can travel down by train together. 65 00:03:57,344 --> 00:03:58,620 Good-bye, Sergeant. 66 00:04:07,793 --> 00:04:09,310 Sahib, sahib, give me pass. 67 00:04:09,344 --> 00:04:10,827 I go to Pankot for sahib. 68 00:04:10,862 --> 00:04:12,241 Bring what he want. 69 00:04:12,275 --> 00:04:13,482 You want girl, sahib? 70 00:04:13,517 --> 00:04:14,965 I find good, clean girl. 71 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:17,310 Muslim girl, Hindu girl, nice school teacher. 72 00:04:17,344 --> 00:04:18,482 What? 73 00:04:18,517 --> 00:04:20,517 Sahib, what do you want, sahib? 74 00:04:20,551 --> 00:04:23,000 You want girl, you want boy? 75 00:04:23,034 --> 00:04:24,310 Jig-jig, gobble-gobble! 76 00:04:24,344 --> 00:04:25,413 I find it. 77 00:04:25,448 --> 00:04:28,413 Very clean and very cheap. 78 00:04:28,448 --> 00:04:29,655 You like to see good show? 79 00:04:29,689 --> 00:04:32,620 My friend, his sister, thik-hai? 80 00:04:32,655 --> 00:04:33,758 Anything else? 81 00:04:33,793 --> 00:04:35,517 Whatever sahib desires. 82 00:04:35,551 --> 00:04:37,827 What the sahib desires is that you should... 83 00:04:37,862 --> 00:04:39,655 Sahib? 84 00:04:39,689 --> 00:04:41,275 I'm sure you get the general drift. 85 00:04:41,310 --> 00:04:42,586 You... me so long. 86 00:04:42,620 --> 00:04:43,758 Bye-bye. 87 00:04:46,724 --> 00:04:48,620 Sahib? 88 00:04:53,068 --> 00:04:57,620 ♪ Do I worry 'cause we're stepping out? ♪ 89 00:04:57,655 --> 00:05:01,137 ♪ Do I worry 'cause you got me in doubt? ♪ 90 00:05:01,172 --> 00:05:03,862 ♪ Da-di-da-di-da-di-da 91 00:05:03,896 --> 00:05:06,448 ♪ Do I give a bag of beans? 92 00:05:06,482 --> 00:05:11,655 ♪ Do I stay home every night and read my magazines? ♪ 93 00:05:14,965 --> 00:05:19,241 ♪ Am I frantic because we've lost the spark? ♪ 94 00:05:19,275 --> 00:05:23,896 ♪ Is there panic when it starts turning dark? ♪ 95 00:05:23,931 --> 00:05:28,068 ♪ And when evening shadows creep ♪ 96 00:05:28,103 --> 00:05:34,724 ♪ Do I lose any sleep over you? ♪ 97 00:05:34,758 --> 00:05:37,034 ♪ Do I worry? 98 00:05:37,068 --> 00:05:41,413 ♪ You can bet your darn life... ♪ 99 00:05:43,689 --> 00:05:44,793 I do. 100 00:05:46,241 --> 00:05:47,482 Bearer! Idhar! 101 00:05:47,517 --> 00:05:50,137 Sahib, I do nothing! 102 00:05:50,172 --> 00:05:51,310 Sahib! 103 00:05:52,827 --> 00:05:55,551 Shaitan and son of shaitan! 104 00:05:55,586 --> 00:05:57,655 Sweeper's turd! 105 00:05:57,689 --> 00:05:59,241 Rejected seed 106 00:05:59,275 --> 00:06:01,206 of a diseased pig-eater! 107 00:06:01,241 --> 00:06:04,034 Or if you would prefer... 108 00:06:12,965 --> 00:06:14,758 Go on! 109 00:06:19,758 --> 00:06:20,758 Come on! 110 00:06:20,793 --> 00:06:21,827 Come on, Sarge! 111 00:06:21,862 --> 00:06:23,241 He's a bloody nuisance! 112 00:06:38,931 --> 00:06:41,103 Ah, just the man I wanted to see. 113 00:06:41,137 --> 00:06:43,034 I think this covers all my drinks. 114 00:06:43,068 --> 00:06:44,517 I'm leaving. 115 00:06:44,551 --> 00:06:46,068 So I gathered, dear, 116 00:06:46,103 --> 00:06:49,172 but not, I presume, with Miss Khyber Pass there. 117 00:06:51,965 --> 00:06:53,068 Thank you, dearie. 118 00:07:04,896 --> 00:07:06,586 Service with a smile. 119 00:07:06,620 --> 00:07:08,620 I should say you've earned yours. 120 00:07:08,655 --> 00:07:11,206 And your bar chits and the change. 121 00:07:12,448 --> 00:07:13,551 Thank you, Sophie. 122 00:07:15,172 --> 00:07:17,448 As I was saying, 123 00:07:17,482 --> 00:07:19,896 we could've sworn Count Dracula had planted you on us, 124 00:07:19,931 --> 00:07:21,310 you being a copper too. 125 00:07:21,344 --> 00:07:24,931 After what he did to my friend Pinky. 126 00:07:24,965 --> 00:07:26,655 Pinky? 127 00:07:26,689 --> 00:07:29,482 Lance Corporal Albert Pinker. 128 00:07:29,517 --> 00:07:31,344 Before your time, love. 129 00:07:34,344 --> 00:07:37,482 Posted away on Operation Zipper, which wouldn't suit her at all. 130 00:07:37,517 --> 00:07:39,137 She was very shy 131 00:07:39,172 --> 00:07:41,965 when we were doing the wards together. 132 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:44,413 That's how she first met Dracula, you see. 133 00:07:46,689 --> 00:07:50,724 I quite fancied the Count at first, fixing his arm on. 134 00:07:50,758 --> 00:07:54,896 But as for Pinky, she didn't have a clue what she was. 135 00:07:54,931 --> 00:07:59,551 I could see, but I was never one for your virgin brides. 136 00:07:59,586 --> 00:08:01,862 Pity, really, because if I had, 137 00:08:01,896 --> 00:08:05,172 this might've been a different story. 138 00:08:05,206 --> 00:08:07,000 As it was, she never breathed a word to Mother 139 00:08:07,034 --> 00:08:08,275 till it was too late. 140 00:08:11,068 --> 00:08:13,206 It seems like all her troubles began 141 00:08:13,241 --> 00:08:15,344 when she started working for Captain Samuels, 142 00:08:15,379 --> 00:08:17,068 the trick-cyclist. 143 00:08:17,103 --> 00:08:20,034 Him in the hut over there. 144 00:08:20,068 --> 00:08:23,551 That's how Pinky discovered what homosexuals are. 145 00:08:25,517 --> 00:08:28,034 From the confidential notes in the office. 146 00:08:30,068 --> 00:08:32,448 Pinky started going there after hours, 147 00:08:32,482 --> 00:08:34,793 nicking Samuels' key from his drawer 148 00:08:34,827 --> 00:08:37,068 and reading the patients' files. 149 00:08:37,103 --> 00:08:39,620 That's how he found there were other boys like he was 150 00:08:39,655 --> 00:08:41,965 and started thinking the kind of thoughts 151 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:44,103 he'd never thought before. 152 00:08:46,965 --> 00:08:49,793 Good evening, Lance Corporal. 153 00:08:49,827 --> 00:08:52,206 I take it Captain Samuels has gone. 154 00:08:52,241 --> 00:08:53,931 Yes, Major Merrick. 155 00:08:53,965 --> 00:08:55,586 Can I do anything, sir? 156 00:08:55,620 --> 00:08:59,034 Yes, perhaps you can. 157 00:08:59,068 --> 00:09:02,206 I'd like to make an appointment to see Captain Samuels. 158 00:09:02,241 --> 00:09:04,689 Tomorrow, possibly. 159 00:09:04,724 --> 00:09:06,827 Just a minute, sir. I'll get the book. 160 00:09:12,758 --> 00:09:16,068 Pinky fixed the appointment for the next afternoon. 161 00:09:16,103 --> 00:09:17,586 That's when he cottoned on 162 00:09:17,620 --> 00:09:19,241 that Merrick was asking questions 163 00:09:19,275 --> 00:09:21,379 about another of Samuels' patients. 164 00:09:21,413 --> 00:09:22,827 A woman, Pinky said. 165 00:09:22,862 --> 00:09:24,758 There was a file on her as well, 166 00:09:24,793 --> 00:09:27,827 but it wasn't one Pinky had ever read. 167 00:09:27,862 --> 00:09:31,655 His line of interest now was strictly Boy's Own. 168 00:09:31,689 --> 00:09:35,655 He started going to the bazaar at night, 169 00:09:35,689 --> 00:09:37,551 looking in shop windows, 170 00:09:37,586 --> 00:09:40,758 wondering if he'd ever meet another boy who felt like him. 171 00:09:40,793 --> 00:09:43,068 One night, just two weeks after Merrick 172 00:09:43,103 --> 00:09:45,310 first sneaked into Samuels' office, 173 00:09:45,344 --> 00:09:48,310 Pinky's moment came. 174 00:10:08,724 --> 00:10:11,448 Sahib, you want woman? 175 00:10:11,482 --> 00:10:13,206 You want boy? 176 00:10:13,241 --> 00:10:16,379 That boy looking at watches, that boy very good boy. 177 00:10:16,413 --> 00:10:18,137 Like you very much, he is telling me. 178 00:10:18,172 --> 00:10:19,068 Sahib wait here. 179 00:10:19,103 --> 00:10:20,034 Boy come. 180 00:10:20,068 --> 00:10:21,172 Sahib wait. 181 00:10:29,068 --> 00:10:30,758 For some reason, 182 00:10:30,793 --> 00:10:32,862 Miss Khyber Pass was starting a marriage bureau. 183 00:10:32,896 --> 00:10:34,931 "What was it like, love?" 184 00:10:34,965 --> 00:10:37,965 That's what I asked him afterwards. 185 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:40,034 Well, you know how it is the first time. 186 00:10:40,068 --> 00:10:42,137 Pinky was too nervous. 187 00:10:42,172 --> 00:10:45,068 The boy said Pinky being nervous put him off. 188 00:10:49,344 --> 00:10:51,137 Next time will be okay. 189 00:10:51,172 --> 00:10:53,172 You'll see. 190 00:10:53,206 --> 00:10:56,172 Come back tomorrow. 191 00:10:56,206 --> 00:10:59,310 Meet me outside Gulab Singh's at 9:00. 192 00:10:59,344 --> 00:11:00,862 We come back to my room again. 193 00:11:00,896 --> 00:11:02,241 9:00. 194 00:11:03,758 --> 00:11:05,103 How do I know you'll come? 195 00:11:05,137 --> 00:11:06,413 I promise. 196 00:11:06,448 --> 00:11:08,068 Nothing'll stop me. 197 00:11:09,379 --> 00:11:11,103 Leave me a token. 198 00:11:11,137 --> 00:11:12,862 Leave me your watch. 199 00:11:12,896 --> 00:11:15,034 Then I know you like and trust me. 200 00:11:15,068 --> 00:11:16,379 Do you want some...? 201 00:11:16,413 --> 00:11:17,758 Only your watch. 202 00:11:26,137 --> 00:11:28,965 That was the start of Pinky's great romance. 203 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:33,000 The next night, he couldn't wait for 9:00 to come. 204 00:11:33,034 --> 00:11:34,551 It was thrilling. 205 00:11:34,586 --> 00:11:36,034 He kept looking for his watch, 206 00:11:36,068 --> 00:11:39,206 then remembering why it wasn't there. 207 00:11:41,310 --> 00:11:42,896 Oh, good evening, sir. 208 00:11:42,931 --> 00:11:44,793 Did you want Captain Samuels? 209 00:11:44,827 --> 00:11:46,758 Only to make another appointment, Pinker, 210 00:11:46,793 --> 00:11:48,517 if you would be so kind. 211 00:11:48,551 --> 00:11:49,724 Yes, sir, of course. 212 00:12:03,137 --> 00:12:05,379 Uh... for tomorrow, sir? 213 00:12:06,965 --> 00:12:09,068 I think this is yours. 214 00:12:15,413 --> 00:12:17,482 My understanding from Captain Samuels was 215 00:12:17,517 --> 00:12:20,172 that these files were always kept under lock and key. 216 00:12:20,206 --> 00:12:23,586 He told me no one but himself had access to them. 217 00:12:23,620 --> 00:12:25,965 Their contents could not be disclosed to me. 218 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:28,827 Nor to anyone. 219 00:12:28,862 --> 00:12:32,413 I take it that you've managed to obtain the key. 220 00:12:32,448 --> 00:12:34,758 You were at the filing cabinet when I came at this time before! 221 00:12:34,793 --> 00:12:36,206 If you have the key, 222 00:12:36,241 --> 00:12:40,379 you'd be well advised to hand it over now. 223 00:12:40,413 --> 00:12:41,689 Yes, sir. 224 00:12:43,586 --> 00:12:45,137 Is that the only file you've removed tonight? 225 00:12:45,172 --> 00:12:47,275 Does this telephone go through to the civil exchange? 226 00:12:47,310 --> 00:12:49,000 Hospital exchange, sir. 227 00:12:49,034 --> 00:12:50,379 They can get any number. 228 00:12:50,413 --> 00:12:51,482 Right. Wait outside. 229 00:12:52,896 --> 00:12:54,000 Pinker... 230 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:00,379 You'd be wise to wait. 231 00:13:00,413 --> 00:13:02,137 Do nothing foolish. 232 00:13:08,620 --> 00:13:11,137 There was nothing Pinky could do. 233 00:13:11,172 --> 00:13:13,206 He could only think about one thing: 234 00:13:13,241 --> 00:13:16,965 the Military Police coming to march him off to prison. 235 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:35,551 How long Pinky waited, he couldn't remember. 236 00:13:35,586 --> 00:13:36,827 Perhaps 20 minutes. 237 00:13:36,862 --> 00:13:39,689 It could've been hours. 238 00:13:39,724 --> 00:13:42,931 What Merrick was doing, he couldn't even guess. 239 00:13:42,965 --> 00:13:45,586 All he could do was wait for the shame to begin. 240 00:13:53,482 --> 00:13:54,586 Idhar. 241 00:14:11,413 --> 00:14:12,724 The file was still there, 242 00:14:12,758 --> 00:14:14,793 but no key to put it back with. 243 00:14:14,827 --> 00:14:17,482 No key and no watch. 244 00:14:17,517 --> 00:14:20,344 Next day, he went sick. 245 00:14:22,068 --> 00:14:23,448 What I suggest, Pinker, 246 00:14:23,482 --> 00:14:26,034 is that you stay here for a day or two. 247 00:14:26,068 --> 00:14:29,000 These symptoms are psychosomatic. 248 00:14:29,034 --> 00:14:30,896 I believe you know that, don't you? 249 00:14:33,655 --> 00:14:37,172 I have to say, I think you were unfortunate 250 00:14:37,206 --> 00:14:39,517 to come up against that particular officer. 251 00:14:41,586 --> 00:14:43,896 Tell me, how long was Major Merrick in the office 252 00:14:43,931 --> 00:14:45,896 after he sent you out? 253 00:14:47,482 --> 00:14:49,034 I don't know, sir. 254 00:14:49,068 --> 00:14:51,793 Maybe half an hour. 255 00:14:51,827 --> 00:14:54,103 He says he was trying to telephone me 256 00:14:54,137 --> 00:14:55,827 for at least that long. 257 00:14:55,862 --> 00:14:57,965 And I was in all the time. 258 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:01,965 And the hospital exchange has no record of such a call. 259 00:15:06,310 --> 00:15:09,034 I've arranged a posting for you, by the way. 260 00:15:09,068 --> 00:15:10,689 Bombay-- Operation Zipper. 261 00:15:11,965 --> 00:15:13,655 I think that's best. 262 00:15:13,689 --> 00:15:16,448 Oh, thank you, sir! 263 00:15:16,482 --> 00:15:18,172 Oh. 264 00:15:18,206 --> 00:15:20,275 And I found this. 265 00:15:20,310 --> 00:15:22,931 Is it yours, by any chance? 266 00:15:22,965 --> 00:15:26,137 I noticed it in the filing cabinet when I was returning 267 00:15:26,172 --> 00:15:29,241 the notes you were reading when Major Merrick appeared. 268 00:15:29,275 --> 00:15:31,689 It must've slipped off. 269 00:15:31,724 --> 00:15:34,931 You should get a new strap or you'll lose it again. 270 00:15:34,965 --> 00:15:37,965 Thank you, sir. 271 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:40,103 So Merrick hadn't told about the watch. 272 00:15:40,137 --> 00:15:42,517 Or Samuels didn't choose to say. 273 00:15:42,551 --> 00:15:44,551 What did it all mean? 274 00:15:44,586 --> 00:15:46,310 He couldn't imagine. 275 00:15:46,344 --> 00:15:49,379 All he knew was that Merrick had set the whole thing up. 276 00:15:49,413 --> 00:15:52,344 A few days later, Pinky was gone. 277 00:15:54,275 --> 00:15:56,482 Operation Zipper. 278 00:15:56,517 --> 00:15:59,241 Well, bless your cotton socks, love, the war is over! 279 00:15:59,275 --> 00:16:01,379 Little Pinky's safe. 280 00:16:01,413 --> 00:16:03,413 But why all the dramas? 281 00:16:03,448 --> 00:16:08,482 The watch, Count Dracula, Miss Khyber Pass. 282 00:16:08,517 --> 00:16:11,827 Buggered, if you'll pardon the expression, dear, if I know. 283 00:16:13,965 --> 00:16:15,896 What was her name? 284 00:16:15,931 --> 00:16:17,482 Whose? 285 00:16:17,517 --> 00:16:19,034 The patient Merrick went to see Samuels about. 286 00:16:19,068 --> 00:16:20,344 You said it was a woman. 287 00:16:20,379 --> 00:16:22,862 It wasn't anyone I'd ever heard of. 288 00:16:22,896 --> 00:16:24,000 A Mrs. Bingham. 289 00:16:26,034 --> 00:16:28,344 I thought you might have the answer, 290 00:16:28,379 --> 00:16:29,586 being Mrs. Sherlock Holmes. 291 00:16:29,620 --> 00:16:32,034 No, not really. 292 00:16:32,068 --> 00:16:34,344 Well, I love you all the same. 293 00:16:36,586 --> 00:16:39,862 I suppose you wouldn't fancy a little victory celebration? 294 00:16:39,896 --> 00:16:41,689 This evening? 295 00:16:41,724 --> 00:16:44,206 At the Chinese restaurant. 296 00:16:44,241 --> 00:16:46,586 I've got to meet an old school friend. 297 00:16:46,620 --> 00:16:49,931 That's what they always say. 298 00:16:49,965 --> 00:16:53,034 Corporal Dixon's lonely VJ night, then. 299 00:16:53,068 --> 00:16:54,689 Bottoms up, love. 300 00:17:07,724 --> 00:17:10,034 Cheers, Guy. 301 00:17:10,068 --> 00:17:12,689 Roll on Aunt Charlotte and that bloody boat! 302 00:17:12,724 --> 00:17:15,931 No news on your wangled demobilization? 303 00:17:15,965 --> 00:17:17,896 No, not yet. 304 00:17:17,931 --> 00:17:21,172 So... you'd better tell me. 305 00:17:21,206 --> 00:17:24,517 Tell me about Merrick and Hari Kumar. 306 00:17:24,551 --> 00:17:26,448 Why? 307 00:17:26,482 --> 00:17:28,862 I thought it might be a good way to bring the subject up. 308 00:17:28,896 --> 00:17:30,310 The subject of Merrick. 309 00:17:30,344 --> 00:17:32,413 Why would you want to do that? 310 00:17:32,448 --> 00:17:34,931 I thought it would make it easier for you 311 00:17:34,965 --> 00:17:37,689 to ask me about Mr. Kasim's INA son. 312 00:17:37,724 --> 00:17:39,413 Merrick said you would. 313 00:17:39,448 --> 00:17:41,896 Not that I can tell you anything. 314 00:17:41,931 --> 00:17:44,931 By the way, if anybody comes to put me under arrest, 315 00:17:44,965 --> 00:17:47,551 would you be prepared to say we spent the day together? 316 00:17:47,586 --> 00:17:49,517 I think that would depend 317 00:17:49,551 --> 00:17:52,034 on what they came to arrest you for. 318 00:17:52,068 --> 00:17:54,034 Common assault on the Red Shadow. 319 00:17:54,068 --> 00:17:54,827 Merrick's servant? 320 00:17:54,862 --> 00:17:55,793 Mm-hmm. 321 00:17:55,827 --> 00:17:57,344 Didn't he go back with him? 322 00:17:57,379 --> 00:18:00,137 No, and I caught him pinching 10 chips from my jacket. 323 00:18:00,172 --> 00:18:04,620 Then in ordinary circumstances, I'd say you were safe enough. 324 00:18:04,655 --> 00:18:09,344 Are circumstances ever ordinary where Merrick's concerned? 325 00:18:09,379 --> 00:18:11,275 Who's Mrs. Bingham? 326 00:18:11,310 --> 00:18:12,827 Why? 327 00:18:12,862 --> 00:18:16,586 Tell me about Merrick and Hari Kumar first. 328 00:18:16,620 --> 00:18:17,896 That's a long story. 329 00:18:17,931 --> 00:18:19,137 So is mine. 330 00:18:19,172 --> 00:18:21,551 It might take longer than we've got. 331 00:18:21,586 --> 00:18:22,793 We're dining out. 332 00:18:22,827 --> 00:18:24,206 If that's all right. 333 00:18:24,241 --> 00:18:25,344 Should I change? 334 00:18:25,379 --> 00:18:26,965 If you add a jacket, 335 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:28,379 what you're wearing will do very well. 336 00:18:31,344 --> 00:18:35,034 Mrs. Bingham is Sarah Layton's widowed sister. 337 00:18:37,275 --> 00:18:39,310 She's just become engaged to Merrick. 338 00:18:39,344 --> 00:18:41,034 It was announced last night. 339 00:18:41,068 --> 00:18:44,241 For God's sake, Nigel, she can't marry Merrick! 340 00:18:44,275 --> 00:18:45,517 He's as mad as a hatter! 341 00:18:45,551 --> 00:18:47,482 I hope not. 342 00:18:47,517 --> 00:18:50,344 Or at least that you don't mention it to her this evening 343 00:18:50,379 --> 00:18:52,241 at the Laytons. 344 00:18:52,275 --> 00:18:54,793 That's where we're dining. 345 00:18:57,586 --> 00:19:00,241 Now this ghastly war's over, 346 00:19:00,275 --> 00:19:03,620 I suppose things will start getting back to normal. 347 00:19:03,655 --> 00:19:06,137 If anyone remembers what normal was. 348 00:19:08,275 --> 00:19:10,206 How about a game of tennis? 349 00:19:10,241 --> 00:19:12,310 It's time someone started using that court. 350 00:19:12,344 --> 00:19:14,896 Nigel, you play, don't you? 351 00:19:14,931 --> 00:19:17,172 That's rather a matter of opinion. 352 00:19:18,758 --> 00:19:20,413 When were you thinking of, Mrs. Layton? 353 00:19:20,448 --> 00:19:22,172 I was thinking of this weekend, if you can manage it. 354 00:19:22,206 --> 00:19:24,000 Sarah can find you a racquet. 355 00:19:24,034 --> 00:19:26,448 Then we can get up a foursome with young Edgar Drew. 356 00:19:26,482 --> 00:19:28,379 Oh, that would be nice, yes. 357 00:19:28,413 --> 00:19:30,034 It's hard to get together 358 00:19:30,068 --> 00:19:33,724 a set of respectable men in Pankot at present. 359 00:19:33,758 --> 00:19:35,034 Nigel told me this evening 360 00:19:35,068 --> 00:19:36,620 about your engagement to Colonel Merrick. 361 00:19:36,655 --> 00:19:38,689 I must say... 362 00:19:38,724 --> 00:19:40,655 May I offer my best wishes for your future happiness? 363 00:19:42,241 --> 00:19:44,000 Thank you, that's most kind. 364 00:19:47,379 --> 00:19:49,000 I'm sure we shall be very happy. 365 00:19:50,620 --> 00:19:53,482 Ronald's so good with my little boy. 366 00:19:56,413 --> 00:19:57,517 I suppose... 367 00:19:59,310 --> 00:20:02,034 We should've kept some of your whisky, Perron. 368 00:20:02,068 --> 00:20:03,586 VJ celebration. 369 00:20:03,620 --> 00:20:04,896 I fear we finished it last night. 370 00:20:04,931 --> 00:20:06,137 I hope you enjoyed it, sir. 371 00:20:06,172 --> 00:20:07,241 Oh, yes. 372 00:20:08,758 --> 00:20:10,655 The officer in Bombay who gave it to you-- 373 00:20:10,689 --> 00:20:14,275 you rescued from the bath-- my future son-in-law tells me 374 00:20:14,310 --> 00:20:16,586 he tried a second time and succeeded. 375 00:20:16,620 --> 00:20:18,241 Yes, I'm afraid he did. 376 00:20:22,379 --> 00:20:24,862 Odd thing, suicide. 377 00:20:24,896 --> 00:20:26,931 It's worse for the family. 378 00:20:26,965 --> 00:20:29,034 There was a havildar in my regiment. 379 00:20:29,068 --> 00:20:32,758 His widow had to leave his village and go back to her own. 380 00:20:32,793 --> 00:20:35,724 What good will come of it in the end? 381 00:20:35,758 --> 00:20:40,000 The questioning. 382 00:20:40,034 --> 00:20:41,275 Makes you wonder. 383 00:20:53,379 --> 00:20:54,793 Aren't you turning in? 384 00:20:54,827 --> 00:20:57,034 I'm leaving the file with you, you know. 385 00:20:57,068 --> 00:20:59,275 You don't have to finish it tonight. 386 00:20:59,310 --> 00:21:02,034 Leaving it? 387 00:21:02,068 --> 00:21:06,034 I've decided to go back to Rampur tomorrow. 388 00:21:06,068 --> 00:21:08,172 Whenever did you decide that? 389 00:21:08,206 --> 00:21:10,758 I suppose in the last half hour or so. 390 00:21:10,793 --> 00:21:12,241 And you don't have to leave here. 391 00:21:12,275 --> 00:21:14,620 You can hang on till you get the call to Delhi 392 00:21:14,655 --> 00:21:16,586 or Aunt Charlotte comes to the rescue. 393 00:21:16,620 --> 00:21:18,965 I've signed you in as my guest. 394 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:23,000 If you sign the steward's register before you go. 395 00:21:23,034 --> 00:21:24,206 Who pays? 396 00:21:24,241 --> 00:21:25,379 Government or you? 397 00:21:25,413 --> 00:21:27,517 Government. 398 00:21:27,551 --> 00:21:30,137 And you can drink to my future, if you like. 399 00:21:30,172 --> 00:21:32,689 I'm going back into the Political. 400 00:21:32,724 --> 00:21:36,034 I heard this afternoon I fly to Delhi on Tuesday. 401 00:21:36,068 --> 00:21:37,103 Cheers. 402 00:21:42,379 --> 00:21:44,586 Does Miss Layton know? 403 00:21:44,620 --> 00:21:48,241 She knows I'm expecting the posting. 404 00:21:48,275 --> 00:21:50,586 Did you tell her it had come? 405 00:21:50,620 --> 00:21:52,241 No. 406 00:21:52,275 --> 00:21:54,482 Somehow, the atmosphere didn't seem right. 407 00:21:54,517 --> 00:21:57,172 I'm sorry, it wasn't all that successful an evening. 408 00:21:57,206 --> 00:22:01,413 Tell me, what was it Merrick said to you about Sayed Kasim? 409 00:22:01,448 --> 00:22:05,896 Only that you had been trying to pump him. 410 00:22:05,931 --> 00:22:08,793 In fact, I asked a simple question: 411 00:22:08,827 --> 00:22:11,241 if Sayed's father wanted to see him, 412 00:22:11,275 --> 00:22:13,034 and the government thought it would be useful, 413 00:22:13,068 --> 00:22:14,172 could it be arranged? 414 00:22:14,206 --> 00:22:15,724 What did he say? 415 00:22:15,758 --> 00:22:17,620 He said his department wouldn't welcome it. 416 00:22:17,655 --> 00:22:20,034 But he thought it could be arranged 417 00:22:20,068 --> 00:22:22,034 if that was what MAK wanted, 418 00:22:22,068 --> 00:22:23,965 and the government is always keen 419 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:25,551 to give MAK what he wants. 420 00:22:25,586 --> 00:22:27,137 I see. 421 00:22:27,172 --> 00:22:31,379 I've only met the other son, Ahmed. 422 00:22:31,413 --> 00:22:33,379 Do you always carry this around with you? 423 00:22:33,413 --> 00:22:34,551 No. 424 00:22:38,862 --> 00:22:41,344 I wanted to leave it to someone as a parting gift, 425 00:22:41,379 --> 00:22:44,482 and it might as well be you. 426 00:22:44,517 --> 00:22:46,448 Sleep well. 427 00:22:46,482 --> 00:22:50,931 You'd better destroy it if Operation Bunbury snarls up 428 00:22:50,965 --> 00:22:53,275 and you're still stuck with Merrick. 429 00:22:53,310 --> 00:22:57,448 In view of that light-fingered servant of his. 430 00:22:57,482 --> 00:22:59,896 Incidentally, you never told me 431 00:22:59,931 --> 00:23:04,793 why you asked who Mrs. Bingham was. 432 00:23:04,827 --> 00:23:06,827 It's still too long a story. 433 00:23:06,862 --> 00:23:09,931 But connected in some way? 434 00:23:09,965 --> 00:23:13,896 Where Merrick is concerned, everything's connected. 435 00:23:13,931 --> 00:23:16,517 Yes, I suppose it is. 436 00:23:16,551 --> 00:23:18,689 It's all in the file. 437 00:23:18,724 --> 00:23:19,931 Good night. 438 00:23:19,965 --> 00:23:21,344 Good night, Nigel. 439 00:23:21,379 --> 00:23:22,689 Thank you. 440 00:23:22,724 --> 00:23:24,000 For everything. 441 00:23:33,413 --> 00:23:35,896 We haven't seen each other. 442 00:23:35,931 --> 00:23:37,620 I haven't seen Miss Manners 443 00:23:37,655 --> 00:23:40,862 since the night we visited the temple. 444 00:23:40,896 --> 00:23:44,413 Something's happened to her. 445 00:23:44,448 --> 00:23:47,655 Is she dead? 446 00:24:02,482 --> 00:24:03,448 Father... 447 00:24:03,482 --> 00:24:05,206 No, no, no! 448 00:24:05,241 --> 00:24:06,965 Something is wrong? 449 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:08,379 Nothing is wrong, Minister. 450 00:24:08,413 --> 00:24:10,448 All arrangements have been double checked. 451 00:24:10,482 --> 00:24:12,482 Your father is waiting here. 452 00:24:12,517 --> 00:24:14,206 Tell them to show you the room. 453 00:24:14,241 --> 00:24:16,586 Private room and no damn reception committee! 454 00:24:16,620 --> 00:24:18,034 And all these people to disperse! 455 00:24:18,068 --> 00:24:19,241 It's like a bloody circus! 456 00:24:19,275 --> 00:24:21,413 Tell them your father 457 00:24:21,448 --> 00:24:23,586 is waiting here until the room is ready. 458 00:24:23,620 --> 00:24:24,862 English tamasha! 459 00:24:24,896 --> 00:24:26,034 Always the big circus! 460 00:24:26,068 --> 00:24:27,413 Yes, Mr. Mehboob. 461 00:24:27,448 --> 00:24:28,551 Ahmed... 462 00:24:37,206 --> 00:24:39,551 Have you seen your brother, Ahmed? 463 00:24:39,586 --> 00:24:40,931 Not yet, Father. 464 00:24:40,965 --> 00:24:42,517 But I've seen the conducting officer. 465 00:24:42,551 --> 00:24:44,448 I thought I ought to warn you, it's Merrick. 466 00:24:44,482 --> 00:24:45,793 Merrick? 467 00:24:45,827 --> 00:24:47,758 Ex-police officer in the Manners case. 468 00:24:47,793 --> 00:24:49,965 The one Pandit Baba's been pestering you about. 469 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,275 Actually, I met him in Bombay about three weeks ago 470 00:24:52,310 --> 00:24:53,896 and he didn't say anything then 471 00:24:53,931 --> 00:24:56,241 about being involved in Sayed's case. 472 00:24:56,275 --> 00:24:59,758 I remember Count Bronowsky talked to me about him. 473 00:24:59,793 --> 00:25:01,448 Does he know you know him 474 00:25:01,482 --> 00:25:03,275 in connection with the Manners case? 475 00:25:03,310 --> 00:25:04,551 Yes. 476 00:25:04,586 --> 00:25:07,034 So he would assume that I know, too. 477 00:25:07,068 --> 00:25:09,206 But he must know, Minister. 478 00:25:09,241 --> 00:25:11,310 He must know that he is on the list. 479 00:25:11,344 --> 00:25:12,793 What list? 480 00:25:12,827 --> 00:25:14,620 The list of officers we may accuse 481 00:25:14,655 --> 00:25:17,896 of exceeding their duties in 1942. 482 00:25:17,931 --> 00:25:21,724 You could always say you will meet nobody except Sayed. 483 00:25:21,758 --> 00:25:24,551 What is his rank, Ahmed? 484 00:25:24,586 --> 00:25:26,241 Major, I think. 485 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:29,586 Yes, I will see him. 486 00:25:36,724 --> 00:25:38,482 Major Merrick? 487 00:25:38,517 --> 00:25:41,034 Actually, Lieutenant Colonel 488 00:25:41,068 --> 00:25:44,758 since I and your younger son last met, Mr. Kasim. 489 00:25:44,793 --> 00:25:47,137 My apologies for the delay. 490 00:25:47,172 --> 00:25:48,724 Sayed has taken breakfast. 491 00:25:48,758 --> 00:25:51,620 I hope they assured you of that. 492 00:25:51,655 --> 00:25:53,793 That question has been settled, Colonel Merrick. 493 00:25:53,827 --> 00:25:56,103 Satisfactorily, as far as I am concerned. 494 00:26:02,931 --> 00:26:05,137 Incidentally, my younger son Ahmed 495 00:26:05,172 --> 00:26:08,413 had no idea you were in any way connected with Sayed. 496 00:26:08,448 --> 00:26:11,655 Does Sayed know you know his brother? 497 00:26:11,689 --> 00:26:15,000 The one is a social acquaintance, the other is not, 498 00:26:15,034 --> 00:26:17,241 so the answer is no. 499 00:26:17,275 --> 00:26:19,413 But you are involved with the charges 500 00:26:19,448 --> 00:26:21,068 which may be brought against Sayed? 501 00:26:21,103 --> 00:26:22,689 Yes, Mr. Kasim. 502 00:26:22,724 --> 00:26:25,931 I have interviewed your son on many occasions. 503 00:26:25,965 --> 00:26:31,827 I hope he regards me, in some ways, as his friend. 504 00:26:31,862 --> 00:26:34,689 And were you present when Sayed was captured? 505 00:26:34,724 --> 00:26:37,896 No, I was out of the line by then. 506 00:26:37,931 --> 00:26:39,137 Wounded, you mean? 507 00:26:39,172 --> 00:26:42,275 Yes, um... thus. 508 00:26:42,310 --> 00:26:43,965 By INA action? 509 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:46,655 There were INA about. 510 00:26:46,689 --> 00:26:48,965 Japanese, as well. 511 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:50,206 Why do you ask? 512 00:26:50,241 --> 00:26:52,931 The reason is obvious, surely. 513 00:26:52,965 --> 00:26:55,827 A man wounded as badly as you could be forgiven 514 00:26:55,862 --> 00:26:59,758 for taking some opportunity to redress the balance. 515 00:26:59,793 --> 00:27:02,275 One does the job one is given. 516 00:27:02,310 --> 00:27:05,620 But I take your point. 517 00:27:05,655 --> 00:27:08,241 So far as it is relevant, 518 00:27:08,275 --> 00:27:12,310 I hold no one to blame for my injuries except myself. 519 00:27:12,344 --> 00:27:14,379 Certainly not your son. 520 00:27:14,413 --> 00:27:18,379 And you're not still troubled, as I understand you were, 521 00:27:18,413 --> 00:27:21,758 by incidents devised to remind you of your conduct 522 00:27:21,793 --> 00:27:23,896 as superintendent of police at Mayapore? 523 00:27:25,551 --> 00:27:27,413 Not until recently. 524 00:27:27,448 --> 00:27:29,379 Another stone? 525 00:27:31,620 --> 00:27:34,034 Forgive these questions, Colonel Merrick. 526 00:27:34,068 --> 00:27:36,275 An old lawyer's trick. 527 00:27:36,310 --> 00:27:38,172 But I have once or twice discussed the matter 528 00:27:38,206 --> 00:27:39,482 with Count Bronowsky. 529 00:27:39,517 --> 00:27:44,034 No, there's been only one stone. 530 00:27:44,068 --> 00:27:47,724 Chucking stones at British officers is rather hazardous. 531 00:27:47,758 --> 00:27:50,655 They've reverted to the subtle approach. 532 00:27:50,689 --> 00:27:52,793 The bicycle again. 533 00:27:52,827 --> 00:27:54,103 Bicycle? 534 00:27:54,137 --> 00:27:56,103 One was involved in the evidence. 535 00:27:56,137 --> 00:27:59,310 A rusty bicycle was recently left on my veranda 536 00:27:59,344 --> 00:28:02,655 with a pork chop stinking 537 00:28:02,689 --> 00:28:04,586 in the saddle bag. 538 00:28:04,620 --> 00:28:07,206 You should report such things to the police. 539 00:28:07,241 --> 00:28:11,620 I always do, but they don't trouble me. 540 00:28:11,655 --> 00:28:13,793 They are done by enemies, 541 00:28:13,827 --> 00:28:16,034 but also the enemies of law and order. 542 00:28:19,724 --> 00:28:22,206 I suppose you and I 543 00:28:22,241 --> 00:28:25,620 are potentially opponents, too, Mr. Kasim. 544 00:28:25,655 --> 00:28:27,827 You and I? 545 00:28:27,862 --> 00:28:30,344 Your party. 546 00:28:30,379 --> 00:28:32,137 Surely I'm on the list. 547 00:28:34,724 --> 00:28:36,655 What list, Colonel Merrick? 548 00:28:36,689 --> 00:28:41,655 The list of officials whose past conduct may be looked into. 549 00:28:41,689 --> 00:28:43,655 In any case, if I'm not, 550 00:28:43,689 --> 00:28:47,586 I'm sure my old friend Pandit Baba won't be happy until I am. 551 00:28:47,620 --> 00:28:51,068 He's capable of many things. 552 00:28:51,103 --> 00:28:54,896 Assassination, for instance. 553 00:28:54,931 --> 00:28:57,275 You know the man I mean, Mr. Kasim. 554 00:28:59,103 --> 00:29:00,965 I have never met him. 555 00:29:05,448 --> 00:29:07,620 Now I think I must see Sayed. 556 00:29:07,655 --> 00:29:10,034 Yes, I'll bring him. 557 00:29:10,068 --> 00:29:11,344 But not in here. 558 00:29:11,379 --> 00:29:12,827 This room is very hot. 559 00:29:12,862 --> 00:29:14,896 It is like a cell. 560 00:29:14,931 --> 00:29:16,586 I prefer to see Sayed in the courtroom. 561 00:29:16,620 --> 00:29:18,275 At least it is large and airy. 562 00:29:18,310 --> 00:29:20,586 Then you may post your guards, as many as you wish, 563 00:29:20,620 --> 00:29:22,275 outside the door. 564 00:29:47,034 --> 00:29:48,241 Come. 565 00:29:48,275 --> 00:29:49,448 Come and sit. 566 00:29:55,379 --> 00:29:57,931 Have you seen Ahmed? 567 00:29:57,965 --> 00:30:00,551 Not yet, Father, but Ronald said I would. 568 00:30:00,586 --> 00:30:01,827 Ronald? 569 00:30:01,862 --> 00:30:03,000 Ronald Merrick. 570 00:30:03,034 --> 00:30:04,586 The chap you've been talking to. 571 00:30:04,620 --> 00:30:06,034 He's quite a good fellow, really. 572 00:30:06,068 --> 00:30:08,206 Very decent to me. 573 00:30:08,241 --> 00:30:10,137 You sound like a British officer. 574 00:30:11,586 --> 00:30:13,068 How have they treated you? 575 00:30:13,103 --> 00:30:14,620 You look well. 576 00:30:14,655 --> 00:30:18,034 Who is Commandant of the fort nowadays? 577 00:30:18,068 --> 00:30:19,379 Still Major Tippet? 578 00:30:19,413 --> 00:30:20,724 I don't know, Father. 579 00:30:20,758 --> 00:30:22,344 I was there only overnight. 580 00:30:22,379 --> 00:30:24,172 You were there, too? 581 00:30:24,206 --> 00:30:26,206 Since I am going home now, 582 00:30:26,241 --> 00:30:29,655 this seemed a convenient place to tell them to bring you. 583 00:30:29,689 --> 00:30:32,034 Anyway, it gives you an outing. 584 00:30:32,068 --> 00:30:33,448 What did they tell you? 585 00:30:33,482 --> 00:30:34,827 Anything? 586 00:30:34,862 --> 00:30:36,241 Only that Government 587 00:30:36,275 --> 00:30:38,000 had given permission for us to meet. 588 00:30:38,034 --> 00:30:40,896 And the impression was that I had petitioned Government? 589 00:30:40,931 --> 00:30:42,482 Yes. 590 00:30:42,517 --> 00:30:44,862 That is not entirely accurate. 591 00:30:44,896 --> 00:30:47,103 Oh, I didn't swallow it whole. 592 00:30:47,137 --> 00:30:48,689 I know how devious they can be. 593 00:30:48,724 --> 00:30:52,172 But in this case, devious to what end? 594 00:30:52,206 --> 00:30:53,793 Come. 595 00:30:53,827 --> 00:30:57,551 Don't hold back just because I am your father. 596 00:30:57,586 --> 00:30:59,000 It would be very useful for them 597 00:30:59,034 --> 00:31:01,758 to have someone like you on their side. 598 00:31:01,793 --> 00:31:05,206 A member of Congress and a Muslim. 599 00:31:05,241 --> 00:31:08,103 Someone to denounce us all as traitors. 600 00:31:08,137 --> 00:31:10,724 Such people will be in short supply. 601 00:31:10,758 --> 00:31:12,965 Quite so. 602 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:17,827 Both major parties will stand behind the INA Hindu and Muslim. 603 00:31:17,862 --> 00:31:19,482 But whether you come to trial 604 00:31:19,517 --> 00:31:21,758 depends on the Viceroy and the C-in-C. 605 00:31:21,793 --> 00:31:24,241 What the English do is no longer important. 606 00:31:24,275 --> 00:31:27,379 We're finished with them, whether you like it or not. 607 00:31:27,413 --> 00:31:30,103 Why do you say whether I like it or not? 608 00:31:30,137 --> 00:31:32,275 What has my life been, then? 609 00:31:32,310 --> 00:31:34,517 What have I been doing, asking them to stay? 610 00:31:34,551 --> 00:31:37,689 No, not asking, but perhaps making it possible 611 00:31:37,724 --> 00:31:41,448 because you believe so much in the power of law-- 612 00:31:41,482 --> 00:31:42,931 their law. 613 00:31:42,965 --> 00:31:45,655 What angers me is that 614 00:31:45,689 --> 00:31:48,206 you can no longer help your country from inside a prison. 615 00:31:48,241 --> 00:31:53,310 It is not acountry, it is twocountries. 616 00:31:53,344 --> 00:31:55,000 Hindu and Muslim. 617 00:31:55,034 --> 00:31:57,689 A divided India? 618 00:31:57,724 --> 00:31:59,206 Yes. 619 00:32:02,862 --> 00:32:04,862 So this has happened to you also. 620 00:32:08,344 --> 00:32:10,068 Then we too are divided. 621 00:32:10,103 --> 00:32:12,620 More deeply than by the walls of a prison. 622 00:32:12,655 --> 00:32:16,137 Why must you stay loyal to Congress? 623 00:32:16,172 --> 00:32:17,862 Why? 624 00:32:17,896 --> 00:32:20,620 Do you believe, because you have supported them in the past, 625 00:32:20,655 --> 00:32:23,241 that you, a Muslim, will be allowed to remain 626 00:32:23,275 --> 00:32:24,724 when they have power? 627 00:32:24,758 --> 00:32:28,620 Congress is a Hindu party, whatever they say. 628 00:32:28,655 --> 00:32:31,275 We shall have a Hindu Raj for a British Raj. 629 00:32:31,310 --> 00:32:32,896 You are a Muslim, I am a Muslim, 630 00:32:32,931 --> 00:32:34,103 and they hate us. 631 00:32:34,137 --> 00:32:35,379 No! 632 00:32:35,413 --> 00:32:37,034 Look at my face. 633 00:32:37,068 --> 00:32:40,206 It is not the face of a Hindu or a Muslim. 634 00:32:40,241 --> 00:32:43,137 It is the face of a man who has been in prison! 635 00:32:43,172 --> 00:32:46,172 An Indian National Congressman. 636 00:32:46,206 --> 00:32:48,689 I did not go to prison for Hindus only. 637 00:32:48,724 --> 00:32:51,793 What are you asking me to do? 638 00:32:51,827 --> 00:32:53,689 To go over to the Muslim League? 639 00:32:53,724 --> 00:32:54,862 To Jinnah? 640 00:32:56,137 --> 00:32:59,827 Father, you have to choose. 641 00:33:02,068 --> 00:33:04,551 And Ahmed, what does he say? 642 00:33:04,586 --> 00:33:07,103 Ahmed is a child. 643 00:33:07,137 --> 00:33:08,965 No, he is not a child. 644 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:10,482 Not in some ways, 645 00:33:10,517 --> 00:33:14,620 but he thinks of nothing except women and hawking. 646 00:33:14,655 --> 00:33:16,310 Hawking? 647 00:33:16,344 --> 00:33:18,310 He's trained a falcon. 648 00:33:18,344 --> 00:33:20,000 It's very difficult, you know. 649 00:33:20,034 --> 00:33:21,896 He's much attached to her. 650 00:33:21,931 --> 00:33:23,344 But that is good. 651 00:33:23,379 --> 00:33:24,517 Yes. 652 00:33:30,965 --> 00:33:32,689 Perhaps we should say goodbye now, Father. 653 00:33:32,724 --> 00:33:34,551 Thank you for coming to see me. 654 00:33:34,586 --> 00:33:37,344 It is you who have come the greater distance. 655 00:33:37,379 --> 00:33:38,827 That is my duty. 656 00:33:38,862 --> 00:33:43,103 Do not rely too much on this Colonel Merrick. 657 00:33:43,137 --> 00:33:45,034 He poses as your friend. 658 00:33:45,068 --> 00:33:47,379 I rely on no Englishman. 659 00:33:47,413 --> 00:33:49,310 And he's of no importance either. 660 00:33:53,275 --> 00:33:55,344 God be with you. 661 00:34:01,137 --> 00:34:03,931 Why don't you come with me to Rampur? 662 00:34:03,965 --> 00:34:05,551 Spend a few days. 663 00:34:05,586 --> 00:34:08,103 I promised Bronowsky I'd be away only two nights. 664 00:34:08,137 --> 00:34:09,551 There's a meeting of Council tomorrow. 665 00:34:09,586 --> 00:34:11,172 "Council, Council." 666 00:34:11,206 --> 00:34:13,137 He doesn't need you. 667 00:34:13,172 --> 00:34:15,586 And it's the Nawab's car. 668 00:34:15,620 --> 00:34:17,551 I must be sure it's safely returned. 669 00:34:17,586 --> 00:34:19,896 But the driver can manage. 670 00:34:21,241 --> 00:34:23,103 But if you must go back, you must. 671 00:34:24,620 --> 00:34:26,517 See? They're connecting you onto the Rampur train. 672 00:34:26,551 --> 00:34:28,137 I'd better get down. 673 00:34:28,172 --> 00:34:29,758 You spoke to Sayed? 674 00:34:29,793 --> 00:34:31,413 Yes, Father. 675 00:34:31,448 --> 00:34:33,517 How did you find him? 676 00:34:33,551 --> 00:34:36,241 He looked very fit and cheerful, I thought. 677 00:34:36,275 --> 00:34:38,137 He says he's treated pretty well. 678 00:34:38,172 --> 00:34:39,379 I'd better get off. 679 00:34:42,413 --> 00:34:44,517 I know he's well. 680 00:34:44,551 --> 00:34:47,413 Did he say anything you feel you should tell me? 681 00:34:47,448 --> 00:34:49,758 We talked about hawking mostly. 682 00:34:49,793 --> 00:34:52,965 He wants me to join the Muslim League. 683 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:55,620 What do you think I should do? 684 00:34:55,655 --> 00:34:59,448 For everybody's sake, including my own. 685 00:34:59,482 --> 00:35:03,482 Ahmed, for once I am asking you to tell me your opinion. 686 00:35:06,068 --> 00:35:09,068 I don't understand all these ins and outs. 687 00:35:09,103 --> 00:35:12,068 Whatever happens, people will die of starvation 688 00:35:12,103 --> 00:35:14,931 or kill one another if they don't. 689 00:35:14,965 --> 00:35:17,620 It all means nothing to me, parties and suchlike. 690 00:35:19,551 --> 00:35:21,862 You'd better get down if you're not coming to Rampur. 691 00:35:25,655 --> 00:35:28,724 To me, Sayed is a man who has changed sides. 692 00:35:28,758 --> 00:35:30,620 I cannot. 693 00:35:30,655 --> 00:35:32,965 Never in my life will I go over to Jinnah. 694 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:34,620 Does that upset you? 695 00:35:34,655 --> 00:35:36,068 Why should I be upset? 696 00:35:36,103 --> 00:35:38,034 I've won my bet with Bronowsky. 697 00:35:38,068 --> 00:35:39,689 He bet me you'd go over to Jinnah, 698 00:35:39,724 --> 00:35:41,172 I bet him you wouldn't. 699 00:35:41,206 --> 00:35:43,241 He wouldn't offer stakes, though. 700 00:35:43,275 --> 00:35:45,827 We both expected me to win, really, knowing you. 701 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:50,034 Ahmed... 702 00:35:50,068 --> 00:35:51,827 Mind yourself. 703 00:35:51,862 --> 00:35:53,724 What did you mean? 704 00:35:53,758 --> 00:35:56,068 Expected or wanted me to be loyal? 705 00:35:56,103 --> 00:35:58,689 Expected or wanted? 706 00:35:58,724 --> 00:35:59,931 Ahmed... 707 00:35:59,965 --> 00:36:02,000 Expected andwanted! 708 00:36:06,137 --> 00:36:10,931 ♪ O, may this bounteous God♪ 709 00:36:10,965 --> 00:36:18,034 ♪ Through all our life be near us ♪ 710 00:36:18,068 --> 00:36:24,793 ♪ With ever joyful hearts 711 00:36:24,827 --> 00:36:31,965 ♪ And blessed peace to cheer us ♪ 712 00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:38,379 ♪ And keep us in his grace 713 00:36:38,413 --> 00:36:44,482 ♪ And guide us when perplexed ♪ 714 00:36:44,517 --> 00:36:50,655 ♪ And free us from all ills 715 00:36:50,689 --> 00:36:57,896 ♪ In this world and the next 716 00:36:57,931 --> 00:37:04,931 ♪ Amen. 717 00:37:04,965 --> 00:37:06,172 Let us pray. 718 00:37:09,344 --> 00:37:11,137 Almighty God, 719 00:37:11,172 --> 00:37:14,275 who art a strong tower of defense unto Thy servants, 720 00:37:14,310 --> 00:37:17,241 we yield Thee praise and thanksgiving... 721 00:37:17,275 --> 00:37:19,620 God bless Aunt Charlotte. 722 00:37:19,655 --> 00:37:22,241 And Godspeed Operation Bunbury. 723 00:37:22,275 --> 00:37:25,689 Please! Today! 724 00:37:25,724 --> 00:37:28,586 What I want to know is how did you manage it? 725 00:37:28,620 --> 00:37:30,103 I rang your number at the guest house. 726 00:37:30,137 --> 00:37:31,206 There was no answer there. 727 00:37:31,241 --> 00:37:32,827 I was in church. 728 00:37:32,862 --> 00:37:33,793 Church? 729 00:37:33,827 --> 00:37:35,724 I should try it sometime. 730 00:37:35,758 --> 00:37:38,482 Sergeant Perron to proceed to Deolali for UK demob. 731 00:37:38,517 --> 00:37:39,862 Some people! 732 00:37:39,896 --> 00:37:42,241 Let's find the Duty Officer. 733 00:37:42,275 --> 00:37:43,379 Even better! 734 00:37:43,413 --> 00:37:44,482 Morning, Sarge. 735 00:37:44,517 --> 00:37:46,517 Got a jammy one here for you-- his number's up. 736 00:37:46,551 --> 00:37:48,758 Good Lord, you're a sergeant, too! 737 00:37:48,793 --> 00:37:51,413 Well, I am when I'm playing soldiers. 738 00:37:51,448 --> 00:37:52,724 I'm glad you're here. 739 00:37:52,758 --> 00:37:54,068 I've been trying to get you on the phone. 740 00:37:54,103 --> 00:37:55,448 You know each other? 741 00:37:55,482 --> 00:37:56,275 Yes, we do. 742 00:37:56,310 --> 00:37:58,620 Well, that settles it! 743 00:37:58,655 --> 00:38:00,482 There's his signal. 744 00:38:00,517 --> 00:38:01,448 AB64. 745 00:38:01,482 --> 00:38:03,034 Jabs up to date. 746 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:06,620 Well, what happens now? 747 00:38:06,655 --> 00:38:08,551 Relax. 748 00:38:08,586 --> 00:38:11,310 The army's taking care of you. 749 00:38:14,275 --> 00:38:15,620 Feeling all right? 750 00:38:17,517 --> 00:38:20,000 Silly question, of course. 751 00:38:20,034 --> 00:38:22,103 They'll do you in Deolali too, 752 00:38:22,137 --> 00:38:24,034 but if you arrive there without a medical sheet, 753 00:38:24,068 --> 00:38:25,379 you'll get held up. 754 00:38:27,655 --> 00:38:28,931 Lucky chap. 755 00:38:28,965 --> 00:38:30,000 Thank you, sir. 756 00:38:31,586 --> 00:38:35,172 Just try not to get clap between here and Deolali. 757 00:38:35,206 --> 00:38:37,241 It sometimes happens. 758 00:38:37,275 --> 00:38:38,413 Yes, sir. 759 00:38:41,827 --> 00:38:43,724 Well, that's it. 760 00:38:43,758 --> 00:38:46,137 All you have to do now is to be at the station 761 00:38:46,172 --> 00:38:47,137 before midday tomorrow. 762 00:38:47,172 --> 00:38:48,793 Unless... 763 00:38:48,827 --> 00:38:51,482 If you could get down to Rampur overnight, 764 00:38:51,517 --> 00:38:53,275 you could catch the train that leaves at 8:00 in the morning. 765 00:38:53,310 --> 00:38:54,517 You'd gain over 12 hours. 766 00:38:54,551 --> 00:38:55,689 That could make a lot of difference 767 00:38:55,724 --> 00:38:56,758 at the Deolali end. 768 00:38:56,793 --> 00:38:58,413 Sounds like a good idea. 769 00:38:58,448 --> 00:39:00,172 I'll have a word with Sub-Conductor Pearson, 770 00:39:00,206 --> 00:39:02,448 find out if there's any transport going. 771 00:39:02,482 --> 00:39:04,689 Are you going back to the guest house? 772 00:39:04,724 --> 00:39:06,137 Well, I've got to pack. 773 00:39:06,172 --> 00:39:07,724 I'd ask you to lunch, 774 00:39:07,758 --> 00:39:10,517 but the food there's not much cop since Nigel left. 775 00:39:10,551 --> 00:39:13,103 I've got a lunch party at the Club I can't get out of. 776 00:39:13,137 --> 00:39:14,034 Could you manage tea? 777 00:39:14,068 --> 00:39:15,241 Perhaps. 778 00:39:15,275 --> 00:39:17,000 I'll give you a ring in any case 779 00:39:17,034 --> 00:39:18,551 about the transport. 780 00:39:18,586 --> 00:39:20,448 Yes, yes, of course. 781 00:39:20,482 --> 00:39:23,413 You said you rang before. 782 00:39:23,448 --> 00:39:25,310 Just to say hello. 783 00:39:25,344 --> 00:39:26,793 As you were on your own. 784 00:39:26,827 --> 00:39:28,448 Thank you. 785 00:39:28,482 --> 00:39:30,551 Thank you for everything. 786 00:39:33,344 --> 00:39:37,068 I envy you, Guy, but I am glad for you. 787 00:39:37,103 --> 00:39:40,172 I'm not at all sure you don't deserve a medal. 788 00:39:40,206 --> 00:39:42,137 Ronald Merrick's going to be furious! 789 00:39:49,068 --> 00:39:50,172 Salaam'a! 790 00:39:57,137 --> 00:40:00,620 Salaam'a? Salaam'a! 791 00:40:00,655 --> 00:40:02,172 Hello. 792 00:40:03,517 --> 00:40:04,689 Good Lord! 793 00:40:12,482 --> 00:40:14,034 I hope you don't mind. 794 00:40:14,068 --> 00:40:16,413 The boy was just going to wake you when I got here. 795 00:40:16,448 --> 00:40:17,862 I told him to leave you for a bit. 796 00:40:19,172 --> 00:40:20,310 Oh, that'll be cold. 797 00:40:20,344 --> 00:40:21,689 We'd better get some more. 798 00:40:25,068 --> 00:40:26,275 When did you arrive? 799 00:40:26,310 --> 00:40:28,689 About an hour ago. 800 00:40:28,724 --> 00:40:31,068 You'll be glad I let you sleep. 801 00:40:31,103 --> 00:40:32,931 I'm afraid you won't have a very comfortable trip 802 00:40:32,965 --> 00:40:34,862 if you decide to go tonight. 803 00:40:34,896 --> 00:40:38,310 The best I could do was the back of a 15-hundredweight, 804 00:40:38,344 --> 00:40:40,689 but it will take you right to the station in Rampur. 805 00:40:40,724 --> 00:40:42,034 That's wonderful. 806 00:40:42,068 --> 00:40:43,448 Here's the number you have to ring. 807 00:40:43,482 --> 00:40:45,068 The convoy leaves at 10:00 this evening. 808 00:40:45,103 --> 00:40:48,206 You should phone Sub-Conductor Pearson at about 7:00 809 00:40:48,241 --> 00:40:50,103 and he'll tell you where to go. 810 00:40:50,137 --> 00:40:51,620 If you want to go. 811 00:40:51,655 --> 00:40:54,413 Well, perhaps I'd better ring him now. 812 00:40:54,448 --> 00:40:56,034 Then we'll know how long I've got. 813 00:40:56,068 --> 00:40:58,034 He said after 6:30. 814 00:40:59,000 --> 00:40:59,827 Sahib? 815 00:41:01,551 --> 00:41:03,724 Do you want more tea, or would you prefer a drink? 816 00:41:03,758 --> 00:41:05,103 Nigel said I could make free 817 00:41:05,137 --> 00:41:06,344 so long as I didn't dine the station. 818 00:41:06,379 --> 00:41:07,551 You're not quite the station. 819 00:41:07,586 --> 00:41:09,551 No, I'm not, am I? 820 00:41:09,586 --> 00:41:11,482 I'd like a drink very much. 821 00:41:11,517 --> 00:41:13,172 Gin fizz? 822 00:41:13,206 --> 00:41:16,413 Two gin fizz and a little ice, please, Salaam'a. 823 00:41:16,448 --> 00:41:17,689 Yes, sahib. 824 00:41:25,068 --> 00:41:28,517 Can you stay and have an early meal with me? 825 00:41:30,344 --> 00:41:32,448 I suppose Nigel's shown you over the house? 826 00:41:32,482 --> 00:41:33,586 The Summer Residence. 827 00:41:36,517 --> 00:41:38,275 It's shut up now, isn't it? 828 00:41:38,310 --> 00:41:40,241 The chaukidar will always let you in. 829 00:41:40,275 --> 00:41:44,413 Most of it's plain Anglo-Indian, but there's a Moghul suite 830 00:41:44,448 --> 00:41:46,965 where they used to put up pet princes. 831 00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:48,965 The ballroom's quite small. 832 00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:50,862 They danced on the terrace, too. 833 00:41:50,896 --> 00:41:53,034 There were colored lights in the trees. 834 00:41:53,068 --> 00:41:54,758 Must have been nice. 835 00:41:54,793 --> 00:41:58,517 Oh, I should think it was all rather stiff and starchy, 836 00:41:58,551 --> 00:42:00,931 but I remember it as part of childhood. 837 00:42:00,965 --> 00:42:02,689 Of course, there hasn't been a full season 838 00:42:02,724 --> 00:42:04,793 with the Governor and his wife since '39. 839 00:42:04,827 --> 00:42:06,034 Susan and I missed that, 840 00:42:06,068 --> 00:42:08,034 being at home at school. 841 00:42:08,068 --> 00:42:11,103 Now the war's over, I suppose it'll alter even more. 842 00:42:11,137 --> 00:42:13,517 People upping sticks and going home 843 00:42:13,551 --> 00:42:17,241 or staying on and getting old and tiresome. 844 00:42:17,275 --> 00:42:19,862 What will you do, Guy? 845 00:42:19,896 --> 00:42:22,965 Go back to history. 846 00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:24,551 1830 to the Mutiny. 847 00:42:24,586 --> 00:42:26,655 That's my period. 848 00:42:26,689 --> 00:42:29,172 There's a Cambridge don waiting for me to join him. 849 00:42:29,206 --> 00:42:30,620 Just sit tight a minute, will you? 850 00:42:36,413 --> 00:42:38,000 I'm leaving tonight, Salaam'a. 851 00:42:38,034 --> 00:42:39,689 I'll sign the book before I go. 852 00:42:39,724 --> 00:42:42,172 But you should arrange supper for two. 853 00:42:42,206 --> 00:42:43,655 The memsahib will probably stay, thik-hai? 854 00:42:43,689 --> 00:42:45,344 Thik-hai, sahib. 855 00:42:45,379 --> 00:42:46,827 Here's baksheesh for you. 856 00:42:48,034 --> 00:42:50,482 And this for the other servants. 857 00:42:50,517 --> 00:42:51,896 Thank you, sahib. 858 00:42:51,931 --> 00:42:53,344 The memsahib and I might want to go over 859 00:42:53,379 --> 00:42:54,758 and look at the house in about 15 minutes. 860 00:42:54,793 --> 00:42:56,206 Will the chaukidar be there to let us in? 861 00:42:56,241 --> 00:42:58,172 Head chaukidar is always there, sahib, 862 00:42:58,206 --> 00:43:00,620 but I may go now for sahib and make sure. 863 00:43:00,655 --> 00:43:01,793 Thank you, Salaam'a. 864 00:43:01,827 --> 00:43:02,655 Thank you, sahib. 865 00:43:11,103 --> 00:43:12,862 Here we are. 866 00:43:45,689 --> 00:43:46,793 Namaste. 867 00:43:46,827 --> 00:43:47,896 Namaste. 868 00:48:21,689 --> 00:48:24,379 Shan't be long. 869 00:48:24,413 --> 00:48:27,310 I've decided I mustn't stay for supper, Guy. 870 00:48:27,344 --> 00:48:29,551 It's too late for me to ring and tell them 871 00:48:29,586 --> 00:48:30,827 or make an excuse. 872 00:48:32,344 --> 00:48:33,931 Then I'll take you home. 873 00:48:33,965 --> 00:48:36,275 No, you have too much to do. 874 00:48:36,310 --> 00:48:37,379 I'll go now. 875 00:48:37,413 --> 00:48:39,034 Now? 876 00:48:39,068 --> 00:48:41,310 Yes, I must. 877 00:48:49,655 --> 00:48:51,896 Write to me sometime. 878 00:48:51,931 --> 00:48:53,724 Let me know how you get on. 879 00:48:53,758 --> 00:48:54,793 Mmm. 880 00:48:56,862 --> 00:49:00,413 I've bought a few things for people back home. 881 00:49:00,448 --> 00:49:02,793 For Perron women. 882 00:49:02,827 --> 00:49:04,068 Um... 883 00:49:15,206 --> 00:49:16,689 I've nothing else. 884 00:49:16,724 --> 00:49:18,551 It's only a scarf. 885 00:49:18,586 --> 00:49:20,482 At least I think it is. 886 00:49:20,517 --> 00:49:21,620 Perhaps we'd better open it 887 00:49:21,655 --> 00:49:23,241 in case it's a tie for one of my uncles. 888 00:49:26,517 --> 00:49:28,275 Whatever it is, I shall like it. 889 00:49:37,137 --> 00:49:38,965 One more drink? 890 00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:40,344 No, there isn't time. 891 00:49:40,379 --> 00:49:41,586 I've got to go. 892 00:49:41,620 --> 00:49:43,034 You'll need a rickshaw. 893 00:49:43,068 --> 00:49:44,620 It's only a short walk up the hill. 894 00:49:44,655 --> 00:49:45,827 It's getting dark. 895 00:49:45,862 --> 00:49:46,965 I can't let you go alone. 896 00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:48,517 I shall be perfectly all right. 897 00:49:48,551 --> 00:49:51,310 Honestly. 898 00:49:51,344 --> 00:49:53,068 Good-bye, Guy. 899 00:50:03,586 --> 00:50:05,931 I wanted to say, 900 00:50:05,965 --> 00:50:08,793 you asked me in Bombay and I couldn't answer. 901 00:50:11,068 --> 00:50:12,758 Well, now I can. 902 00:50:12,793 --> 00:50:18,034 I do remember Hari Kumar at school in England. 903 00:50:18,068 --> 00:50:19,931 Playing cricket? 904 00:50:19,965 --> 00:50:22,448 Yes. 905 00:50:22,482 --> 00:50:24,724 I remember him very well.