1 00:01:33,028 --> 00:01:37,234 Well, a very good dinner, Sibil! Tell cook from me. 2 00:01:37,304 --> 00:01:38,344 Absolutely first class. 3 00:01:38,345 --> 00:01:40,996 Arthur, you're not supposed to say such things! 4 00:01:41,002 --> 00:01:43,640 Come come, I'm treating Gerald like one of the family. 5 00:01:43,641 --> 00:01:47,254 - I'm sure he won't object. - Go on Gerald, just do object. 6 00:01:47,315 --> 00:01:48,497 No I wouldn't dream of it. 7 00:01:48,590 --> 00:01:50,321 In fact, I insist on being one of the family now. 8 00:01:50,447 --> 00:01:53,003 I've been trying long enough, haven't I? 9 00:01:53,035 --> 00:01:55,628 - Well haven't I? You know I have! - Of course she does! 10 00:01:55,696 --> 00:01:58,180 Yes, except for all last summer when you never came near me 11 00:01:58,250 --> 00:01:59,760 and I wondered what had happened to you. 12 00:01:59,822 --> 00:02:02,719 - And I've told you. I was awfully busy... - Yes, that's what you say. 13 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:04,612 Now Sheila, stop teasing him. 14 00:02:04,613 --> 00:02:08,004 When you're married you'll realize that men with important work to do 15 00:02:08,005 --> 00:02:11,787 sometimes have to spend all their time and energy on their business. 16 00:02:11,788 --> 00:02:14,717 You'll get used to it, just as I had to. 17 00:02:14,718 --> 00:02:19,027 - I don't believe I will. So you be careful. - Oh, I will, I will. 18 00:02:19,063 --> 00:02:22,237 I'll never let business interfere with pleasure. 19 00:02:23,963 --> 00:02:25,613 What's the joke, Eric? 20 00:02:25,676 --> 00:02:27,491 I dunno. 21 00:02:27,776 --> 00:02:30,003 I suddenly felt I had to laugh. 22 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:32,476 - I'm sure you're squiffy. - I tell you I'm not. 23 00:02:32,562 --> 00:02:34,827 The words you girls pick up these days! 24 00:02:35,016 --> 00:02:36,723 If you think that's the best she can do, mother... 25 00:02:36,862 --> 00:02:39,032 - Don't be a fool, Eric. - Now stop it, you two. 26 00:02:39,033 --> 00:02:43,392 - Arthur, what about that toast of yours? - Oh, yes, of course. 27 00:02:43,421 --> 00:02:50,474 Well, here's wishing the pair of you best that life can bring... Gerald, Sheila. 28 00:02:50,510 --> 00:02:52,954 Yes, Gerald. Yes, Sheila darling, 29 00:02:53,199 --> 00:02:55,533 Our love, and very best wishes. 30 00:02:56,012 --> 00:02:58,751 - Eric! - Ah? Oh! 31 00:02:59,604 --> 00:03:01,268 Yes, all the best! 32 00:03:01,305 --> 00:03:05,933 She's got a filthy temper sometimes, but as a sister she's not bad really. 33 00:03:11,181 --> 00:03:13,135 Well I can't drink to this, can I? 34 00:03:13,234 --> 00:03:16,451 - When do I drink? - You can drink to me. 35 00:03:16,645 --> 00:03:18,288 Alright then. 36 00:03:20,916 --> 00:03:24,324 - I drink to you, Gerald. - Thank you. 37 00:03:24,881 --> 00:03:26,188 And I drink to you. 38 00:03:26,425 --> 00:03:29,991 I hope that I can make you as happy as you deserve. 39 00:03:32,883 --> 00:03:34,665 You be careful or I'll start weeping. 40 00:03:34,767 --> 00:03:37,296 Perhaps this will help you to stop it. 41 00:03:37,667 --> 00:03:39,224 You've got it! 42 00:03:39,739 --> 00:03:42,126 - It's the one I wanted! - Very one. 43 00:03:47,872 --> 00:03:49,358 Steady the buffs! 44 00:03:51,211 --> 00:03:52,689 It's wonderful. 45 00:03:53,191 --> 00:03:57,010 Look mommy, isn't it a beauty? Now I really feel engaged! 46 00:03:57,036 --> 00:04:00,577 So you should. It's a beautiful ring. Take care of it. 47 00:04:00,603 --> 00:04:03,392 I'll never let it out of my sight for an instant. 48 00:04:03,462 --> 00:04:07,179 And I'll never let you out either, business or no business. 49 00:04:08,239 --> 00:04:12,131 You know, I'm delighted about this engagement. 50 00:04:12,167 --> 00:04:14,362 Take my word for it, when you two marry 51 00:04:14,402 --> 00:04:16,399 you'll be marrying at a very good time. 52 00:04:16,895 --> 00:04:20,894 A time of steadily increasing prosperity and progress. 53 00:04:21,050 --> 00:04:22,455 I believe you're right. 54 00:04:22,569 --> 00:04:24,928 - Well what about war? - War? 55 00:04:24,965 --> 00:04:28,145 Fiddlesticks! The Germans don't want war, nobody wants war! 56 00:04:28,239 --> 00:04:29,855 There's too much at stake these days. 57 00:04:29,931 --> 00:04:32,139 Everything to lose and nothing to gain. 58 00:04:32,166 --> 00:04:36,544 - Yes I know, but still there's... - I say there isn't a chance of war! 59 00:04:37,088 --> 00:04:41,016 When you're living in 1912, you've got to think like 1912. 60 00:04:41,053 --> 00:04:44,349 Why, the world is developing so fast it'll make war impossible. 61 00:04:44,350 --> 00:04:46,225 Yes, of course dear. 62 00:04:46,439 --> 00:04:48,879 Now don't keep Gerald in here too long. 63 00:04:53,728 --> 00:04:55,778 Eric, I want you a minute. 64 00:04:56,380 --> 00:04:58,516 Sheila dear, go on into the drawing room. 65 00:04:58,956 --> 00:05:00,988 I want to have a private word with Eric. -Alright, mother. 66 00:05:01,155 --> 00:05:03,852 It's about time someone had a word with him. 67 00:05:03,853 --> 00:05:06,261 Poor old Gerald. If only he knew. 68 00:05:06,262 --> 00:05:08,977 Eric dear, don't mind what I'm going to say, 69 00:05:08,978 --> 00:05:11,755 But if I were you I shouldn't have involved a drink tonight. 70 00:05:11,822 --> 00:05:13,519 I'm perfectly alright mother. 71 00:05:13,642 --> 00:05:15,909 Yes of course you are darling, I'm not saying you aren't. 72 00:05:16,054 --> 00:05:18,428 But on a celebration like this one gets excited. 73 00:05:18,564 --> 00:05:20,783 Sometimes one doesn't notice how much one is taking. 74 00:05:21,043 --> 00:05:23,095 I only had a couple of glasses, mother. 75 00:05:23,131 --> 00:05:27,239 I dare say! That's quite enough for a boy of your age, you're not used to it. 76 00:05:27,338 --> 00:05:29,499 Look at your waistcoat, you've spilled something on it. 77 00:05:38,973 --> 00:05:42,238 - And be careful. - Don't worry, mother. 78 00:05:48,108 --> 00:05:50,110 - Have a cigar. - No, thank you. 79 00:05:50,523 --> 00:05:52,697 - Help yourself. - Thank you. 80 00:05:52,733 --> 00:05:54,975 There's something I'd like to mention, 81 00:05:55,011 --> 00:05:58,160 I've got an idea that your mother, Lady Croft, well, 82 00:05:58,300 --> 00:06:01,274 she doesn't, er, object to my girl, 83 00:06:01,310 --> 00:06:05,570 feels that you might be doing better for yourself socially. 84 00:06:05,574 --> 00:06:09,222 - Oh no Sir I'm sure you... - Oh no Gerald, that's quite alright. 85 00:06:09,297 --> 00:06:12,328 She comes from an old county family and it's only natural. 86 00:06:12,594 --> 00:06:14,507 But what I wanted to say is... 87 00:06:14,608 --> 00:06:18,550 There's a fair chance of my getting into the next honours list. 88 00:06:18,617 --> 00:06:20,669 Oh, I say, congratulations! 89 00:06:20,704 --> 00:06:24,451 It's a bit too early for that yet, so don't say anything. 90 00:06:24,583 --> 00:06:26,751 But I've had a hint or two. 91 00:06:26,787 --> 00:06:30,486 I gather there's a very good chance of a knighthood. 92 00:06:30,522 --> 00:06:32,742 So long as we behave ourselves... 93 00:06:32,743 --> 00:06:35,764 and don't get into the police courts, ahahahahaha. 94 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:39,846 - What's that about police courts? - Nothing, just a little joke, hehe! 95 00:06:40,255 --> 00:06:41,985 Doesn't seem very funny to me. 96 00:06:41,986 --> 00:06:45,681 I was just telling Gerald that now that he and Sheila are engaged, 97 00:06:45,682 --> 00:06:47,440 we must all behave ourselves. 98 00:06:47,441 --> 00:06:50,761 No scandals, no monkey business... 99 00:06:50,798 --> 00:06:54,712 - You seem a nice, well-behaved family to me. - We think we are. 100 00:06:55,313 --> 00:06:56,817 Mister Berling. 101 00:06:59,745 --> 00:07:00,887 Yes? 102 00:07:01,432 --> 00:07:06,047 - My name's Poole. Inspector Poole. - What's the meaning of this? 103 00:07:06,084 --> 00:07:07,924 There's a front door, you know! 104 00:07:07,925 --> 00:07:10,376 I want to talk to you Mister Birling, I thought I'd find you here. 105 00:07:10,377 --> 00:07:11,605 Very bright of you, I'm sure! 106 00:07:11,699 --> 00:07:13,784 People usually are in the dining room at dinner time! 107 00:07:14,415 --> 00:07:17,229 Oh well, now you're here, where's the warrant? 108 00:07:17,495 --> 00:07:19,579 Oh there's no warrant, Mister Berling. 109 00:07:19,580 --> 00:07:20,608 Well what is it then? 110 00:07:20,769 --> 00:07:22,855 I'd like some information if you don't mind. 111 00:07:23,841 --> 00:07:26,189 You'd better sit down. 112 00:07:26,434 --> 00:07:27,461 Thank you. 113 00:07:36,091 --> 00:07:37,269 Well? 114 00:07:37,306 --> 00:07:41,296 About two hours ago a young woman died in the infirmary. 115 00:07:41,297 --> 00:07:44,592 She'd been removed there this afternoon after taking poison. 116 00:07:44,593 --> 00:07:47,491 It's believed some strong disinfectant. 117 00:07:47,492 --> 00:07:51,492 - How horrible! - Yes, it wasn't a pleasant sight. 118 00:07:51,528 --> 00:07:52,430 Suicide? 119 00:07:52,456 --> 00:07:56,065 Well then, of course we don't know yet, for certain. 120 00:07:56,400 --> 00:08:02,738 They did everything they could for her in the infirmary, but she died. 121 00:08:03,723 --> 00:08:06,769 But I don't understand why you've come here, inspector? 122 00:08:10,151 --> 00:08:13,003 Like a lot of young these women who get into various kinds of trouble, 123 00:08:13,075 --> 00:08:14,591 she used more than one name. 124 00:08:14,699 --> 00:08:19,864 But her original name, her real name was Eva Smith. 125 00:08:19,891 --> 00:08:22,637 - Eva Smith? - Yes. 126 00:08:23,104 --> 00:08:25,585 - Do you remember her, mister Berling? - No. 127 00:08:26,693 --> 00:08:30,918 But I seem to remember having heard that name somewhere. 128 00:08:31,107 --> 00:08:33,639 Eva Smith. 129 00:08:34,068 --> 00:08:37,077 But it doesn't convey anything to me. 130 00:08:37,780 --> 00:08:40,471 I don't see where I come into this, inspector. 131 00:08:40,645 --> 00:08:44,097 But she was employed in your works, Mister Birling. 132 00:08:44,261 --> 00:08:46,569 Oooh, that's it! Well, of course. 133 00:08:46,658 --> 00:08:50,382 We've got several hundred young women there. They keep changing. 134 00:08:50,635 --> 00:08:53,978 Ah, but this young woman Eva Smith was a bit out of the ordinary. 135 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:57,326 I found a photograph of her in the lodgings. 136 00:08:58,379 --> 00:09:01,386 Perhaps, uh, perhaps this will help you to remember. 137 00:09:02,982 --> 00:09:05,010 Any particular reason why we shouldn't see this 138 00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:06,546 young woman's photograph, inspector? 139 00:09:06,776 --> 00:09:08,861 There might be. 140 00:09:09,528 --> 00:09:12,170 You recognize her now, don't you, Mister Berling? 141 00:09:12,614 --> 00:09:14,241 Yees! 142 00:09:14,974 --> 00:09:17,927 I remember her. She was one of my employees. 143 00:09:21,635 --> 00:09:24,361 It must've been the Autumn of 1910. 144 00:09:24,653 --> 00:09:27,947 About the time we opened our new machine shop. 145 00:09:28,761 --> 00:09:34,159 Yeah, she was out of the ordinary. An intelligent, good-looking girl. 146 00:09:34,922 --> 00:09:36,973 If fact, the foreman told me he was ready to 147 00:09:37,015 --> 00:09:38,198 promote her to what they call a.... 148 00:09:38,315 --> 00:09:40,537 a leading operator. 149 00:09:40,995 --> 00:09:46,601 Head of a small group of girls. See them? Quite a bit of spirit. 150 00:09:51,143 --> 00:09:53,913 I didn't know then that she was a troublemaker. 151 00:09:56,024 --> 00:09:58,713 It's only the girls in the lath machine job isn't it? 152 00:09:58,859 --> 00:10:01,098 - Not the whole boiling? - Only the women, sir. 153 00:10:01,192 --> 00:10:02,467 How many of them are coming up? 154 00:10:02,549 --> 00:10:03,778 A deputation of five, sir. 155 00:10:03,861 --> 00:10:06,666 - Right, you'd better show 'em in. - Right, sir. 156 00:10:17,887 --> 00:10:21,322 I understand you're dissatisfied with the money you're getting here. 157 00:10:21,358 --> 00:10:23,522 Is that so? -Yes, sir. 158 00:10:23,558 --> 00:10:25,474 How much are they getting at the moment? 159 00:10:25,625 --> 00:10:27,724 Between 22 shillings and 6 pence a week, sir. 160 00:10:27,977 --> 00:10:31,400 That's the usual rate in the industry at present, isn't it? -Yes, sir. 161 00:10:32,039 --> 00:10:33,578 You see? 162 00:10:34,060 --> 00:10:36,508 How much do you think you ought to get? 163 00:10:36,509 --> 00:10:40,449 - 25 shillings, sir. - Well I'm sorry, but it can't be done. 164 00:10:40,678 --> 00:10:42,890 Why can't it be done? 165 00:10:43,279 --> 00:10:46,487 Did you say "Why can't it be done"? 166 00:10:47,985 --> 00:10:48,797 Yes. 167 00:10:49,123 --> 00:10:52,270 I don't see why I should have to give you an explanation. 168 00:10:52,540 --> 00:10:57,255 - Well why are you seeing us then? - Alright, I'll tell you. 169 00:10:57,291 --> 00:11:00,161 If I agreed to your demands, costs would go up 10%. 170 00:11:00,162 --> 00:11:02,979 And if costs went up 10% prices would go up 10% 171 00:11:03,015 --> 00:11:06,195 a we should be unable to sell our goods against our competitors. 172 00:11:06,196 --> 00:11:08,281 If that happened the factory would close down and 173 00:11:08,332 --> 00:11:10,418 you'd be out of work. Satisfied? 174 00:11:12,367 --> 00:11:13,558 No. 175 00:11:14,814 --> 00:11:17,664 I'm afraid you'll have to remain unsatisfied 176 00:11:17,700 --> 00:11:20,953 I've told you, we're paying the usual rates. 177 00:11:20,990 --> 00:11:23,250 But what if you can't live on them? 178 00:11:23,251 --> 00:11:27,070 You'll have to go and work somewhere else. It's a free country, after all. 179 00:11:27,071 --> 00:11:30,741 What's the use of that if you can't get work somewhere else? 180 00:11:31,174 --> 00:11:34,035 I'm sorry, but that's no concern of mine. 181 00:11:47,844 --> 00:11:51,679 - There'll be trouble sir, I'm afraid. - Oh, You mean they'll strike? 182 00:11:51,680 --> 00:11:55,190 - I'm sure of it, sir. - Just back from their holidays, aren't they? 183 00:11:55,217 --> 00:11:56,094 Yes, sir. 184 00:11:56,617 --> 00:11:59,405 Yes, well it'll soon be over, they'll all be broke. 185 00:11:59,407 --> 00:12:02,038 As soon as they feel the pinch they'll be trying to come back. 186 00:12:02,059 --> 00:12:04,145 - You'll take 'em back, sir? - Yes, at the old rates. 187 00:12:05,781 --> 00:12:09,022 I won't accept the ringleaders, that girl for instance. 188 00:12:09,023 --> 00:12:12,435 She had far too much to say for herself. Get rid of her. 189 00:12:16,451 --> 00:12:20,559 So Eva Smith, together with 4 or 5 others, was discharged. 190 00:12:21,082 --> 00:12:24,461 - Is that why she killed herself? - Don't be ridiculous, Eric. 191 00:12:24,473 --> 00:12:27,938 All this happened before you'd even started in the works. 192 00:12:27,939 --> 00:12:29,950 Nearly two years ago. 193 00:12:29,986 --> 00:12:33,186 It obviously had nothing to do with the wretched girl's suicide, inspector. 194 00:12:33,275 --> 00:12:35,359 I didn't say it was suicide. 195 00:12:35,738 --> 00:12:37,278 What're you suggesting? 196 00:12:37,429 --> 00:12:39,515 I'm not suggesting anything, Mister Birling. 197 00:12:39,566 --> 00:12:43,784 I'm merely trying to trace the facts that led to the death of this girl. 198 00:12:43,785 --> 00:12:47,139 But good heavens man, I can't accept any responsibility! 199 00:12:47,140 --> 00:12:49,738 If we were all responsible for everything that 200 00:12:49,785 --> 00:12:52,687 happened to people that we'd had anything to do with... 201 00:12:52,797 --> 00:12:55,728 Well it would... It would be very awkward, wouldn't it? 202 00:12:56,772 --> 00:12:59,692 Oh yes, very awkward. 203 00:12:59,729 --> 00:13:03,169 In any case I can't see that in the circumstances you could've done anything else, sir. 204 00:13:03,213 --> 00:13:06,340 Yes he could. He could've kept her on instead of throwing her out. 205 00:13:06,539 --> 00:13:08,579 - I call it tough luck. - Rubbish! 206 00:13:08,580 --> 00:13:12,469 If you don't come down sharply on them they'll soon be asking for the earth! 207 00:13:12,471 --> 00:13:15,569 Well why shouldn't they ask for higher wages? We try for the highest possible prices! 208 00:13:15,652 --> 00:13:17,137 I don't see why she should've been sacked 209 00:13:17,175 --> 00:13:18,873 just because she had a bit more spur than the others! 210 00:13:19,107 --> 00:13:21,587 You said yourself she was a good worker. I'd have let her stay. 211 00:13:21,679 --> 00:13:24,209 Unless you brighten some of your ideas... 212 00:13:24,210 --> 00:13:29,298 you'll never be in a position to let anybody stay or to tell anybody to go! 213 00:13:31,931 --> 00:13:35,241 Well Inspector, there's nothing more I can tell you. 214 00:13:35,242 --> 00:13:38,347 I told the girl to clear it out and she went. That's the last I heard of her. 215 00:13:38,348 --> 00:13:41,643 Well have you got any ideas what happened to her after that? 216 00:13:41,867 --> 00:13:43,222 Get into trouble? 217 00:13:43,481 --> 00:13:46,028 - Go on the streets? - No, no Mister Berling, 218 00:13:46,099 --> 00:13:47,872 she didn't exactly go on the streets. 219 00:13:48,033 --> 00:13:50,502 Oh, sorry I didn't know you had someone with you. 220 00:13:50,504 --> 00:13:53,015 Alright, we'll be along in a minute, we're finished here. 221 00:13:53,016 --> 00:13:55,560 There nothing else, you know. I told you that. 222 00:13:55,938 --> 00:13:59,252 - What's this all about? - Nothing to do with you Sheila, run along. 223 00:13:59,253 --> 00:14:02,430 - Wait, please, Miss Birling. - Now look here, inspector... 224 00:14:02,431 --> 00:14:04,916 There isn't the slightest reason why my daughter should be 225 00:14:04,975 --> 00:14:07,076 dragged into this unpleasant business. 226 00:14:07,168 --> 00:14:09,071 What business? 227 00:14:09,108 --> 00:14:11,444 I'm a police inspector, Miss Berling. 228 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:16,090 This afternoon a young woman drank some poison and died in the infirmary. 229 00:14:16,091 --> 00:14:18,083 After great suffering, I'm afraid. 230 00:14:18,110 --> 00:14:21,553 - How horrible! Was it an accident? - That's what we want to find out. 231 00:14:21,608 --> 00:14:24,431 Yes, well don't tell me the girl commited suicide just because 232 00:14:24,474 --> 00:14:27,645 I dismissed her from my employment about two years ago. 233 00:14:28,189 --> 00:14:29,023 Well did you? 234 00:14:29,049 --> 00:14:32,360 Yes I did. She'd been causing trouble at the works. 235 00:14:32,397 --> 00:14:35,722 - It was quite justified. - I think you were. 236 00:14:35,723 --> 00:14:37,924 I wish you hadn't told me. What was she like? 237 00:14:37,950 --> 00:14:39,264 Yes, what was she like? 238 00:14:39,265 --> 00:14:42,810 - Quite young. 24. - Pretty? 239 00:14:42,837 --> 00:14:47,182 - Not when I saw her today, Miss Berling, but she'd been pretty. Very pretty. 240 00:14:47,219 --> 00:14:50,313 I don't really see that this inquiry gets you anywhere, inspector. 241 00:14:50,367 --> 00:14:51,742 It's what happened to her since she left. 242 00:14:51,788 --> 00:14:54,598 - Mister Berling's works that is important. - Obviously. 243 00:14:54,818 --> 00:14:56,986 And we can't help you there because we don't know. 244 00:14:56,987 --> 00:14:59,927 Are you quite sure you don't know? 245 00:14:59,984 --> 00:15:01,851 Are you suggesting that... 246 00:15:01,852 --> 00:15:05,188 One of them had something to do with this girl? 247 00:15:06,378 --> 00:15:07,135 Yes. 248 00:15:07,161 --> 00:15:10,163 So you didn't come here just to see me then? 249 00:15:10,190 --> 00:15:14,905 No. No, I'm afraid I'll have to ask you all a few more questions yet. 250 00:15:14,906 --> 00:15:16,869 Well I've told you all I know. 251 00:15:16,870 --> 00:15:21,375 So I'd be much obliged if you'd ask your questions and then clear it out. 252 00:15:24,613 --> 00:15:28,438 We were having a nice little family celebration here this evening. 253 00:15:29,058 --> 00:15:32,174 A nastiness you've made of it, haven't you? 254 00:15:33,546 --> 00:15:36,766 It is not of my making I assure you, Mister Birling. 255 00:15:39,326 --> 00:15:41,230 I don't understand, Inspector. 256 00:15:41,285 --> 00:15:44,002 You talk as if we were responsible for this poor girl's death. 257 00:15:44,372 --> 00:15:48,006 You seem to forget that we're respectable citizens and not criminals, you know. 258 00:15:48,007 --> 00:15:51,946 Ah well, sometimes there isn't as much difference as one would think. 259 00:15:51,947 --> 00:15:54,974 Indeed, if it were left to me I wouldn't know where to draw the line. 260 00:15:55,342 --> 00:15:58,013 Fortunately, it isn't left to you, is it? 261 00:15:58,014 --> 00:16:01,046 Very fortunately. I'll have to make inquiries. 262 00:16:01,970 --> 00:16:04,931 What happened to this girl after she left my father's works? 263 00:16:04,932 --> 00:16:07,001 Well she was out of work for a couple of months. 264 00:16:07,002 --> 00:16:09,042 As you can imagine, she had a very distressing time. 265 00:16:12,535 --> 00:16:16,476 - How terrible. - Then she had a wonderful stroke of luck. 266 00:16:17,630 --> 00:16:21,438 She was taken on in a shop. A good shop. Millwood's. 267 00:16:21,464 --> 00:16:26,383 Millwood's? Oh, we go there! I was there this afternoon for your benefit. 268 00:16:26,419 --> 00:16:30,663 She enjoyed working there, she liked being amongst pretty clothes. 269 00:16:30,700 --> 00:16:34,308 It seems she felt that she was making a real fresh start. 270 00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:37,712 But after two months, they told her she'd have to go. 271 00:16:37,713 --> 00:16:38,834 Not doing her work properly? 272 00:16:39,105 --> 00:16:42,550 No no, there was nothing wrong about the way she was doing her work. 273 00:16:42,627 --> 00:16:44,341 They admitted that. 274 00:16:44,431 --> 00:16:46,487 There must've been something wrong? 275 00:16:46,488 --> 00:16:51,946 No, no. All she knew was that a customer had complained about her 276 00:16:51,983 --> 00:16:54,599 and so she had to go. 277 00:16:55,711 --> 00:16:59,549 - When was this? - The end of january last year. 278 00:17:01,791 --> 00:17:04,127 What was this girl like? 279 00:17:04,218 --> 00:17:08,379 Well if you'll come over here Miss Birling, I'll show you. 280 00:17:21,374 --> 00:17:23,245 What's the matter Sheila? 281 00:17:24,174 --> 00:17:26,189 You knew it was me all the time didn't you? 282 00:17:26,272 --> 00:17:31,147 Well, I had an idea it might be. 283 00:17:31,148 --> 00:17:33,381 Did it make much difference to her? 284 00:17:33,383 --> 00:17:38,533 Yes, I'm afraid it did. You see, that was the last really steady job she had. 285 00:17:41,159 --> 00:17:46,080 - So I'm really responsible? - No, I wouldn't go as far as that. 286 00:17:46,116 --> 00:17:49,483 - No more than your father, really. - What'd you do, Sheila? 287 00:17:49,484 --> 00:17:51,112 What happened? 288 00:17:52,050 --> 00:17:54,656 I was in a filthy temper that afternoon. 289 00:17:55,175 --> 00:17:56,888 I'd been out shopping with mother. 290 00:18:02,863 --> 00:18:05,803 But I needed a new hat, so we went to Millwood's. 291 00:18:06,780 --> 00:18:09,716 I was determined to get my own way over that hat. 292 00:18:10,885 --> 00:18:13,960 The fact that I knew in my heart that mother was right and I was wrong made 293 00:18:13,961 --> 00:18:17,276 me even more obstinate and pigheaded. 294 00:18:21,249 --> 00:18:26,299 - This is the one I like best. - Oh dear. It doesn't suit you at all. 295 00:18:26,336 --> 00:18:29,252 Mother, you always say that when I choose something! 296 00:18:29,253 --> 00:18:33,224 - Surely I'm old enough to know what I want. - It's quite unsuitable. 297 00:18:33,225 --> 00:18:35,372 Pink ones are very much prettier. 298 00:18:35,373 --> 00:18:38,730 Quite charming when the assistant had it on just now. 299 00:18:38,863 --> 00:18:42,934 Why is it you girls always like things that are much too old for you? 300 00:18:42,935 --> 00:18:46,646 You need a hat like that to suit your baby face. 301 00:18:46,724 --> 00:18:50,793 Still, if you think you know best, you'll have it dear. 302 00:18:50,829 --> 00:18:54,875 Only hurry up and make up your mind. You can meet me in the tea lounge. 303 00:18:54,913 --> 00:18:57,640 Miss Francis, I know it didn't look right 304 00:18:57,697 --> 00:18:59,135 but I don't think I was wearing it properly. 305 00:18:59,236 --> 00:19:00,110 Can you show me, please? 306 00:19:00,111 --> 00:19:03,902 Yes, Miss Birling. I think it would look better like this. 307 00:19:03,903 --> 00:19:07,578 Allow me. No, I might disarrange your charming coiffure. 308 00:19:07,579 --> 00:19:10,070 Eva, put it on, will you? 309 00:19:13,849 --> 00:19:17,465 Yes, I knew it was alright. Give it to me! 310 00:19:17,791 --> 00:19:19,479 Come along! 311 00:19:30,370 --> 00:19:32,789 Alright I won't have this hat or any other! 312 00:19:33,362 --> 00:19:34,091 Oh but Miss Birling! 313 00:19:34,117 --> 00:19:36,533 I'm not going to sit here trying on hats for your amusement! 314 00:19:36,534 --> 00:19:38,791 - But I assure you... - That girl was grinning her head off! 315 00:19:38,792 --> 00:19:41,119 - Don't you teach them any manners? - Eva, you wouldn't! 316 00:19:41,120 --> 00:19:44,342 - No. I wasn't, and it isn't my fault. - I'm going to report you for impertinence! 317 00:19:44,343 --> 00:19:45,616 Well I must say that's unfair! 318 00:19:45,861 --> 00:19:47,908 It's nothing of the sort, you know perfectly well you were being insolent! 319 00:19:47,909 --> 00:19:48,982 I'm sorry if I made that impression madam, 320 00:19:48,983 --> 00:19:50,103 and I assure you nothing... 321 00:19:50,129 --> 00:19:52,464 Don't just stand there Miss Francis, do something! 322 00:19:52,465 --> 00:19:55,240 - Miss Birling, do you see anything wrong? - Yes. This girl has been abominably rude! 323 00:19:55,241 --> 00:19:57,687 And if she's still here the next time I come I'll walk straight out! 324 00:19:57,714 --> 00:19:59,487 Well, Miss Birling, I'm sure there must be some mistake... 325 00:19:59,566 --> 00:20:02,166 And once more or I'll ask my mother to close her account with you! 326 00:20:06,209 --> 00:20:08,319 It didn't seem anything very terrible at the time. 327 00:20:08,580 --> 00:20:11,375 Well of course it wouldn't, Miss Birling, at the time. 328 00:20:11,406 --> 00:20:14,341 Well how could I know what it would lead to? 329 00:20:14,445 --> 00:20:16,800 If she'd been some miserable, plain little creature, 330 00:20:16,860 --> 00:20:18,656 I don't suppose I would've done it. 331 00:20:19,058 --> 00:20:22,373 She was very pretty, and... looked as if she could take care of herself. 332 00:20:22,374 --> 00:20:25,824 In fact in kind of a way, you might be said to have been jealous of her? 333 00:20:26,857 --> 00:20:28,942 Yes I suppose I was... 334 00:20:29,964 --> 00:20:32,419 But if I could help her now, believe me I would. 335 00:20:32,420 --> 00:20:38,659 I'm sure you would, Miss Birling. But you can't. It's a great pity. She's dead. 336 00:20:39,796 --> 00:20:41,347 It's a bit sick when you come to think of it. 337 00:20:41,348 --> 00:20:43,668 Oh, I know, I know, I never done anything like that before. 338 00:20:44,342 --> 00:20:46,426 And I'll never do it again to anyone! 339 00:20:47,222 --> 00:20:49,146 Why had this to happen? 340 00:20:49,182 --> 00:20:52,178 That's what I hope to find out before I leave here, Miss Birling! 341 00:20:52,179 --> 00:20:54,911 So far we've discovered that Eva Smith 342 00:20:54,912 --> 00:20:58,222 lost one job because she was sacked out of hand by your father. 343 00:20:58,223 --> 00:20:59,845 Then she lost another one because... 344 00:20:59,944 --> 00:21:03,817 Well, for reasons which you've just described Miss Birling. 345 00:21:03,818 --> 00:21:05,547 Now she had to start again. 346 00:21:05,548 --> 00:21:07,866 She was anxious to dissociate herself from the past, 347 00:21:07,867 --> 00:21:10,031 so she changed her name to Daisy Renton. 348 00:21:10,191 --> 00:21:11,316 What? 349 00:21:12,034 --> 00:21:15,766 I said she changed her name to Daisy Renton. 350 00:21:32,100 --> 00:21:34,063 Well, Gerald? 351 00:21:34,391 --> 00:21:36,034 Well what, Sheila? 352 00:21:37,188 --> 00:21:39,296 How did you come to know this girl? 353 00:21:39,297 --> 00:21:41,127 - Eva Smith. - I didn't. 354 00:21:41,231 --> 00:21:42,926 Or Daisy Renton, and it's the same thing. 355 00:21:42,927 --> 00:21:43,969 Why should I have known? 356 00:21:44,203 --> 00:21:49,698 Oh dear Gerald, you gave yourself away as soon as he mentioned her other name. 357 00:21:49,699 --> 00:21:53,033 Alright, I knew her. Let's leave it at that. 358 00:21:53,069 --> 00:21:54,685 - I wish we could leave it at that. - But Darling. 359 00:21:54,686 --> 00:21:57,240 No, it's no use! You're not any newer, you knew her very well. 360 00:21:58,044 --> 00:22:00,651 Otherwise you wouldn't look so guilty about it. 361 00:22:03,047 --> 00:22:05,308 When did you first get to know her? 362 00:22:08,123 --> 00:22:10,645 Was it after she left Millwood's? 363 00:22:14,373 --> 00:22:16,382 Were you seeing her all last spring and summer 364 00:22:16,433 --> 00:22:19,154 during that time when you hardly came near me and said you were busy? 365 00:22:19,685 --> 00:22:20,994 Well were you? 366 00:22:21,344 --> 00:22:22,874 I'm sorry, Sheila. 367 00:22:23,346 --> 00:22:25,753 But the whole thing was over and done with last summer. 368 00:22:25,754 --> 00:22:28,371 I haven't set eyes on the girl for at least six months. 369 00:22:28,372 --> 00:22:29,968 We don't come into this business. 370 00:22:30,166 --> 00:22:31,793 Thought I didn't half an hour ago. 371 00:22:31,794 --> 00:22:33,972 You don't. Neither of us does. 372 00:22:34,485 --> 00:22:36,783 For heaven's sake, don't say anything to the inspector. 373 00:22:36,865 --> 00:22:38,522 - About you and this girl? - Yes. 374 00:22:38,871 --> 00:22:43,011 - He doesn't need to know. - But he knows. Of course he knows. 375 00:22:43,514 --> 00:22:48,186 But I hate to think how much he knows that we don't know yet. For your sake. 376 00:22:48,268 --> 00:22:50,901 Yes, I agree. It's a very distressing story. 377 00:22:50,902 --> 00:22:55,324 But I must say, inspector, that it seems an extraordinary coincidence that my husband, 378 00:22:55,360 --> 00:22:59,525 and as you tell us, Sheila, should both have come in contact with this girl. 379 00:22:59,526 --> 00:23:02,946 As you say, Missus Birling, an extraordinary coincidence. 380 00:23:03,270 --> 00:23:06,532 Of course, now we know why you're here, we should only be too glad to answer 381 00:23:06,558 --> 00:23:08,731 - any questions we can. - Thank you. 382 00:23:08,757 --> 00:23:11,227 But the rest of us, of course have never met the girl 383 00:23:11,228 --> 00:23:14,264 so I very much doubt if we should be of any great help to you. 384 00:23:14,265 --> 00:23:16,952 - No mother, please. - Why whatever's the matter, Sheila? 385 00:23:16,988 --> 00:23:19,911 I know it sounds silly, but I feel you're beginning all wrong. 386 00:23:19,912 --> 00:23:22,868 I'm afraid you'll do or say something you'll be sorry for afterwards. 387 00:23:22,869 --> 00:23:25,016 I don't know what you're talking about. 388 00:23:25,835 --> 00:23:28,181 We all started like that. 389 00:23:28,305 --> 00:23:33,522 So confident, so pleased with ourselves, until he began asking us questions. 390 00:23:33,845 --> 00:23:36,105 I don't understand about you. 391 00:23:36,142 --> 00:23:39,644 I don't know much about police inspectors, but I never imagined them like you. 392 00:23:39,645 --> 00:23:43,068 You seem to have made a great impression on this child, inspector. 393 00:23:43,069 --> 00:23:46,843 We often do in the young ones, Missus Birling. They're more impressionable. 394 00:23:47,391 --> 00:23:49,951 You're looking tired, dear. I think you ought to go to bed. 395 00:23:50,404 --> 00:23:53,574 I'm staying here until I know why that girl killed herself. 396 00:23:53,575 --> 00:23:55,425 Morbid curiosity. 397 00:23:55,461 --> 00:23:57,842 In any case, I don't suppose for a moment we can understand 398 00:23:57,843 --> 00:24:00,283 why she commited suicide. Girls of that class! 399 00:24:00,284 --> 00:24:02,463 No mother, for your own sake as well as ours, 400 00:24:02,489 --> 00:24:04,273 - you mustn't... - Mustn't what? 401 00:24:04,302 --> 00:24:05,867 Really, Sheila! 402 00:24:05,904 --> 00:24:09,084 You musnt't start building up a wall between us and that girl. 403 00:24:09,085 --> 00:24:11,260 If you do the inspector will just break it down, 404 00:24:11,261 --> 00:24:12,909 it'll be all the worse when he does. 405 00:24:12,910 --> 00:24:17,297 - I don't understand you. Do you? - Yes. 406 00:24:17,808 --> 00:24:19,989 Yes. I'm afraid she's right. 407 00:24:20,273 --> 00:24:23,214 That I consider a trifle impertinent, inspector! 408 00:24:23,476 --> 00:24:26,390 I realize that you have to conduct some sort of inquiry, 409 00:24:26,391 --> 00:24:30,379 but I must say that so far you seem to be conducting it in a rather peculiar, 410 00:24:30,380 --> 00:24:32,155 and offensive manner. 411 00:24:32,762 --> 00:24:34,877 You realize of course that my husband was. 412 00:24:37,272 --> 00:24:39,202 And that he's still a magistrate? 413 00:24:39,203 --> 00:24:41,334 Missus Birling, the inspector knows all that. 414 00:24:41,335 --> 00:24:43,983 As a magistrate, Missus Birling, your husband 415 00:24:43,984 --> 00:24:46,069 will want to take a lively interest in this inquiry. 416 00:24:46,464 --> 00:24:49,843 I'd be grateful for his help. Will he be returning shortly, do you think? 417 00:24:49,897 --> 00:24:52,306 He's just talking to my son Eric. 418 00:24:52,335 --> 00:24:55,031 He seems to be in a silly, excitable sort of mood. 419 00:24:55,098 --> 00:24:57,277 - What's the Matter with him? - Eric? 420 00:24:58,012 --> 00:25:01,547 I'm afraid he may have had rather too much to drink tonight. We were... 421 00:25:01,573 --> 00:25:06,226 - Is he used to drinking? - Of course not! He's only a boy. 422 00:25:06,548 --> 00:25:09,522 We're all boys to our mothers, Missus Birling. 423 00:25:09,558 --> 00:25:14,007 - I'd say he's a young man. - Some young men drink far too much. 424 00:25:14,008 --> 00:25:16,509 Are you insinuating that Eric is one of them? 425 00:25:16,546 --> 00:25:19,903 Mother, I'm the last person to say anything to hurt Eric, you know that. 426 00:25:19,904 --> 00:25:22,880 What's the use of blindly shutting our eyes to the facts? 427 00:25:22,881 --> 00:25:25,284 - But you, his own sister... - Eric drinks too much. 428 00:25:25,285 --> 00:25:27,702 It's no help to him merely to pretend that he doesn't. 429 00:25:27,728 --> 00:25:32,832 But it isn't true! Gerald, you know him. You know it isn't true. 430 00:25:34,282 --> 00:25:35,772 Well, Mister Croft? 431 00:25:35,809 --> 00:25:39,268 Well... lately he has been drinking rather a lot, but... 432 00:25:41,341 --> 00:25:44,674 And this is the moment you choose to tell me? 433 00:25:45,396 --> 00:25:49,859 I've been trying to persuade Eric to go to bed, but he won't. 434 00:25:49,874 --> 00:25:52,317 Now he says that you told him to wait. 435 00:25:52,318 --> 00:25:55,953 - Did you? - Yes, yes I did. -Why? 436 00:25:55,954 --> 00:25:57,363 I want to talk to him. 437 00:25:57,364 --> 00:25:59,620 Well I suggest you do it now and get it over 438 00:25:59,667 --> 00:26:00,614 I'm sorry, I can't today. 439 00:26:00,615 --> 00:26:03,331 - Now look here inspector... - He must wait his turn. 440 00:26:03,332 --> 00:26:06,325 I don't like your tone, or the way you're conducting this inquiry! 441 00:26:06,326 --> 00:26:09,579 I don't propose to give you much more rope. 442 00:26:09,693 --> 00:26:12,289 You needn't give me any rope, Mister Birling. 443 00:26:12,290 --> 00:26:14,167 Please father, please be careful! 444 00:26:14,203 --> 00:26:16,458 What is the matter with that girl? 445 00:26:16,573 --> 00:26:18,658 She's overexcited and behaving most stupidly. 446 00:26:18,837 --> 00:26:22,126 Now come along inspector, what is it you want to know? 447 00:26:22,127 --> 00:26:25,075 Well Missus Birling, as I told you Eva Smith had to leave Millwood's 448 00:26:25,076 --> 00:26:27,465 because your daughter compelled him to discharge her. 449 00:26:27,466 --> 00:26:31,066 After that she stopped being Eva Smith and became Daisy Renton. 450 00:26:31,067 --> 00:26:33,057 When did you first get to know her, Mister Croft? 451 00:26:33,093 --> 00:26:34,878 Where did you get the idea that I did know her? 452 00:26:34,879 --> 00:26:37,913 - No, it's no use, Gerald. - Alright. 453 00:26:37,949 --> 00:26:41,707 I met her first sometime in March last year at the palace theater. 454 00:26:41,708 --> 00:26:43,903 Sheila, are you sure you want to hear this? 455 00:26:43,904 --> 00:26:46,871 - Why don't you leave us? - Because I want to understand. 456 00:26:46,872 --> 00:26:51,689 Don't you see how important it is to both of us that I should understand? 457 00:26:55,645 --> 00:26:57,657 What's the matter, Mister Croft? 458 00:26:57,693 --> 00:26:59,950 Sorry, I suddenly realized... 459 00:27:00,660 --> 00:27:02,745 I'm taking it improperly that she's dead. 460 00:27:03,208 --> 00:27:05,453 Probably between us we killed her. 461 00:27:05,454 --> 00:27:07,327 Don't talk nonsense! 462 00:27:07,363 --> 00:27:10,219 Go on, Mister Croft. You met her at the Palace variety theater. 463 00:27:10,220 --> 00:27:13,633 I'd seen the only act I wanted to see, and that was bad 464 00:27:13,634 --> 00:27:15,337 so I went down to the bar to get a drink. 465 00:27:15,338 --> 00:27:19,222 The Palace bar has, I understand, an unsavoury reputation. 466 00:27:19,802 --> 00:27:24,105 Yes, it's the favorite front of uh, women of a certain sort. 467 00:27:24,141 --> 00:27:28,620 Women of a certain sort? Here in Bromley? 468 00:27:29,044 --> 00:27:33,401 Yes, Missus Birling. I'm afraid that even Bromley is not entirely free from... 469 00:27:33,402 --> 00:27:35,723 from that sort of thing. 470 00:27:36,214 --> 00:27:38,986 I think it would be better if Sheila didn't listen to this at all. 471 00:27:39,079 --> 00:27:41,280 I'm determined to listen to it, mother. I explained why. 472 00:27:43,830 --> 00:27:45,377 Go on, Gerald. 473 00:27:45,414 --> 00:27:47,775 You went down into the bar... 474 00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:00,534 I take it you're not a friend of Gerald Maggoteth? 475 00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:02,713 - Gerald Maggoteth? - No, obviously not. 476 00:29:02,714 --> 00:29:04,991 That was the amorous gentleman you were talking to. 477 00:29:04,992 --> 00:29:08,979 He seemed part of a man before me. He just came and sat down. 478 00:29:08,980 --> 00:29:10,996 How on earth did you get in such a place? 479 00:29:10,997 --> 00:29:15,181 I came to see the manager to bite a job. He told me to wait there. 480 00:29:15,182 --> 00:29:17,709 And the manager didn't come? 481 00:29:17,745 --> 00:29:21,394 - No. Did you know him? - Slightly. 482 00:29:21,430 --> 00:29:23,752 Would you like me to try and find him for you? 483 00:29:25,317 --> 00:29:27,097 Sure, you want the job then? 484 00:29:27,098 --> 00:29:31,504 No, no not in there. Selling programs or something. 485 00:29:31,540 --> 00:29:35,338 Ah, I see. You stay here and I'll try and find him for you. 486 00:29:42,702 --> 00:29:44,035 What's the matter? 487 00:29:44,369 --> 00:29:47,621 - Nothing. I'm alright. - Come and sit down. 488 00:29:52,709 --> 00:29:58,172 - Are you ill? - No, I'm alright. It's just... 489 00:29:59,398 --> 00:30:02,831 I think perhaps I may be a tiny bit faint, and it's been getting to me... 490 00:30:03,359 --> 00:30:06,673 - How many meals have you had today? - Oh, I've had a lot of meals. 491 00:30:07,270 --> 00:30:08,790 What'd you have for lunch? 492 00:30:09,773 --> 00:30:11,736 Dinner? What'd you have for dinner? 493 00:30:11,737 --> 00:30:13,625 - I had dinner alright. - What? 494 00:30:14,241 --> 00:30:15,290 WHAT? 495 00:30:15,686 --> 00:30:18,645 - Well, I.... - You had no dinner. 496 00:30:18,681 --> 00:30:21,726 Come on now, be honest. You had no dinner, now did you? 497 00:30:21,891 --> 00:30:24,354 - No, I suppose not really. - And breakfast? 498 00:30:25,082 --> 00:30:27,458 - Oh yes, I had breakfast. - What? 499 00:30:29,167 --> 00:30:31,472 - I had a cup of tea. - A cup of tea!? 500 00:30:32,376 --> 00:30:34,524 Here, take my arm. 501 00:30:37,305 --> 00:30:38,651 Oh. Thank you. 502 00:30:40,279 --> 00:30:42,474 - Where're you taking me to? - Come on. 503 00:30:46,749 --> 00:30:48,794 - That was wonderful. - What would you like now? 504 00:30:48,795 --> 00:30:51,009 - Nothing, thank you. No thank you. - A knife? 505 00:30:51,010 --> 00:30:52,647 - Coffee? - No really, I couldn't. 506 00:30:52,648 --> 00:30:54,139 The bill please, waiter. 507 00:30:54,647 --> 00:30:56,830 You know, you must've been a terribly bad cad 508 00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:59,080 to have to get sacked from both your jobs so quickly. 509 00:30:59,086 --> 00:31:00,681 Perhaps I was. 510 00:31:01,629 --> 00:31:03,576 No, I don't think I was. 511 00:31:03,613 --> 00:31:06,677 I sure you weren't. It was just bad luck. 512 00:31:07,042 --> 00:31:09,503 - Perhaps it was. - What'd you do then? 513 00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:13,113 Ooh, nothing very much. A few odd things, I managed. 514 00:31:13,114 --> 00:31:16,242 - Were you born in Bromley? - No, I was born in the country. 515 00:31:16,243 --> 00:31:18,416 My father worked on a farm. 516 00:31:18,417 --> 00:31:21,557 I lived there 'till I was fifteen. I loved it there, the country. 517 00:31:21,558 --> 00:31:25,332 - Why did you leave? - I wanted to better myself. 518 00:31:34,626 --> 00:31:37,146 Oh, oh I'm so sorry. 519 00:31:37,598 --> 00:31:40,019 I don't know why I feel so sleepy. 520 00:31:40,020 --> 00:31:43,607 It's horrid of me when you've been so nice to me. 521 00:31:43,950 --> 00:31:47,915 Not a bit. It's the food and the wine. I'll see you home. 522 00:31:47,941 --> 00:31:51,341 - Oh, no it doesn't matter though, really. - Oh yes it does! 523 00:31:51,342 --> 00:31:53,010 Wouldn't want any more Alderman Maggoteths. 524 00:31:53,011 --> 00:31:54,279 Come on. 525 00:32:04,018 --> 00:32:07,020 I've never been in a cab before. 526 00:32:09,712 --> 00:32:12,820 Well, when you're a very old lady you'll be able to tell your grandchildren. 527 00:32:12,821 --> 00:32:15,417 March the 18th, 1911. 528 00:32:15,777 --> 00:32:19,434 You'll say, "That's the day I travelled in a cab". 529 00:32:19,435 --> 00:32:22,230 Teehee. With the famous Gerald Croft. 530 00:32:22,267 --> 00:32:24,889 The old Croft of Bromley by then. 531 00:32:24,890 --> 00:32:27,435 This is Osmand Street, sir. Any particular number? 532 00:32:27,619 --> 00:32:30,351 - What number, Daisy? - Oh, this'll do beautifully. 533 00:32:40,841 --> 00:32:42,738 Good night Gerald, and thank you. 534 00:32:42,740 --> 00:32:44,882 I said I was going to see you to your front door and I meant it. 535 00:32:44,883 --> 00:32:47,436 - Now, which house is it? - No, don't bother, I'm alright. 536 00:32:47,437 --> 00:32:49,503 I insist on bothering. I don't leave a lady 537 00:32:49,504 --> 00:32:51,389 standing in the street in the middle of the night. 538 00:32:51,390 --> 00:32:53,078 Now what is the number? 539 00:32:53,323 --> 00:32:56,040 Well I don't really live on Osmand street itself, it's 540 00:32:56,523 --> 00:32:59,336 it's just around the corner. Good night. 541 00:32:59,337 --> 00:33:01,599 I said I was gong to see you to your front door. 542 00:33:01,766 --> 00:33:03,957 - Will you wait there, cabbie? - Bravo, sir. 543 00:33:10,599 --> 00:33:14,212 - Is this the corner? - No, the next one. 544 00:33:20,706 --> 00:33:23,622 - Gerald, don't come with me! - But why not? 545 00:33:24,464 --> 00:33:27,889 Well.... Daisy, tell me the truth. 546 00:33:29,127 --> 00:33:32,729 Well I... I don't really exactly live anywhere at the moment... 547 00:33:33,186 --> 00:33:36,167 I was hoping to stay with a friend of mine. 548 00:33:45,062 --> 00:33:48,471 I was turned out of my room, I couldn't pay the rent. 549 00:33:48,472 --> 00:33:50,954 I was hoping to stay with a girl I knew. 550 00:33:51,221 --> 00:33:54,654 It's too late now, I can't wake up the house at this time of night. 551 00:33:54,655 --> 00:33:58,457 But I'll be perfectly alright. It'll be getting light soon, and... 552 00:33:58,458 --> 00:34:00,616 I'll just walk around... 553 00:34:01,541 --> 00:34:03,378 Thank you Gerald. Goodbye. 554 00:34:10,129 --> 00:34:12,442 - Will you wait a moment please, cabbie? - Alright, sir. 555 00:34:15,003 --> 00:34:17,107 Now I'll tell you what actually is going to happen. 556 00:34:17,144 --> 00:34:20,366 We live, my family and I, in the country about 15 miles out, 557 00:34:20,367 --> 00:34:22,450 so I keep a little flat here in Bromley. 558 00:34:22,451 --> 00:34:25,329 It's yours until you get fixed up with another place. 559 00:34:26,563 --> 00:34:29,089 When I say yours, I mean yours. 560 00:34:29,126 --> 00:34:31,464 I shan't arrive unless I'm invited. 561 00:34:35,762 --> 00:34:37,858 - You really mean that? - Yes. 562 00:34:37,895 --> 00:34:39,655 What do you say? 563 00:34:43,417 --> 00:34:45,814 Cabbie, will you drive to 7 Arcride Terrace, please? 564 00:34:56,398 --> 00:34:59,585 That, madam, is I think all I need tell you about this... 565 00:34:59,684 --> 00:35:01,505 desirable residence. 566 00:35:01,506 --> 00:35:05,405 It has of course constant cold water, and every modern inconvenience. 567 00:35:06,343 --> 00:35:09,489 Ah, here's the keys. 'A' is for this door here, 568 00:35:09,525 --> 00:35:11,860 and 'B' is for the door downstairs. 569 00:35:14,630 --> 00:35:17,429 Here're two sovereigns for housekeeping money. 570 00:35:17,430 --> 00:35:19,085 Oh, but I couldn't! 571 00:35:19,122 --> 00:35:21,916 The flat must be kept up to its accustomed style of living, Miss Renton. 572 00:35:21,917 --> 00:35:24,586 Now, go and get 12 hours of sleep. 573 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:27,630 Look at this, we might consider the possibility of three square meals a day 574 00:35:27,667 --> 00:35:29,243 not forgetting tea. 575 00:35:31,970 --> 00:35:35,048 - Would you be coming here tomorrow? - Yes, we'll have dinner together. 576 00:35:35,169 --> 00:35:36,699 I'll be here a 7 sharp. 577 00:35:36,700 --> 00:35:37,723 Thank you. 578 00:35:38,751 --> 00:35:40,141 Good night. 579 00:35:41,366 --> 00:35:43,023 Good night. 580 00:36:02,484 --> 00:36:03,980 Miss Daisy Renton, I believe? 581 00:36:04,006 --> 00:36:06,662 Quite right. Would you be Mister Gerald Croft? 582 00:36:06,663 --> 00:36:09,241 Not if I could possibly be anyone else. 583 00:36:09,970 --> 00:36:12,279 Can't talk until I get rid of this. 584 00:36:15,482 --> 00:36:17,900 - What is it? - You'll see. 585 00:36:19,005 --> 00:36:23,058 Chicken, ham, fruit, everything. 586 00:36:23,521 --> 00:36:25,087 And a bottle of wine. 587 00:36:25,134 --> 00:36:26,831 Now, plates. 588 00:36:28,628 --> 00:36:29,902 Hello, what's this? 589 00:36:31,746 --> 00:36:35,165 I thought we'd eat here too. 590 00:36:35,256 --> 00:36:38,869 But this is wonderful! We'll have two courses, a banquet! 591 00:36:45,162 --> 00:36:48,959 You know what you've forgotten? Corkscrew. 592 00:38:31,540 --> 00:38:34,553 My hat, look at the time! I've gotta go. 593 00:38:34,554 --> 00:38:36,952 I shall only just catch that last train! 594 00:38:37,912 --> 00:38:40,874 I have to run for it. Good night, Daisy. 595 00:38:42,043 --> 00:38:43,573 Goodnight. 596 00:39:06,401 --> 00:39:08,234 And so she became your mistress? 597 00:39:08,235 --> 00:39:09,826 I suppose it was inevitable. 598 00:39:09,843 --> 00:39:11,062 Were you in love with her? 599 00:39:11,098 --> 00:39:13,215 I object to my daughter, a young, unmarried girl, 600 00:39:13,278 --> 00:39:14,619 being drawn into this affair. 601 00:39:14,620 --> 00:39:18,874 Your daughter isn't living on the moon, mother, she's here in Bromley. 602 00:39:19,062 --> 00:39:20,938 Were you in love with her? 603 00:39:23,688 --> 00:39:25,157 It's hard to say. 604 00:39:25,402 --> 00:39:28,438 I suppose I didn't feel about her the way she did about me. 605 00:39:28,439 --> 00:39:31,564 Of course not. You were the wonderful fairy prince. 606 00:39:31,565 --> 00:39:35,400 - You must've adored it, Gerald. - Yes, I admit it. 607 00:39:35,436 --> 00:39:38,347 I did for a time. Almost any man would've. 608 00:39:38,348 --> 00:39:41,386 That's about the best thing that anyone's said here tonight. 609 00:39:41,387 --> 00:39:43,417 At least it's honest. 610 00:39:43,418 --> 00:39:44,898 Thank you, Gerald. 611 00:39:50,726 --> 00:39:53,063 Is there anything else you ought to know, inspector? 612 00:39:53,079 --> 00:39:56,678 I don't think we want to know more details of this... disgusting affair. 613 00:39:56,714 --> 00:40:00,544 I'm afraid I do, Missus Berling. I'll have to know the rest of the story, Mister Croft. 614 00:40:00,545 --> 00:40:03,304 I've proceeded, I imagine, along more or less conventional lines. 615 00:40:03,330 --> 00:40:06,080 - Conventional? - There were no particular incidents. 616 00:40:06,106 --> 00:40:08,327 I supported her, though she would never accept much money. 617 00:40:08,328 --> 00:40:11,746 We were never seen together in Bromley. She insisted on that. 618 00:40:11,747 --> 00:40:16,667 But I saw her pretty frequently at the flat... 619 00:40:20,405 --> 00:40:22,804 - Have you been out somewhere? - Yes. 620 00:40:23,854 --> 00:40:25,000 Theater. 621 00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:30,637 - Was it good? - It was alright. 622 00:40:37,779 --> 00:40:39,835 What'd you do today? 623 00:40:47,208 --> 00:40:49,963 Daisy, I don't know how to tell you this, but I... 624 00:40:50,021 --> 00:40:52,106 I've simply got to talk to you. 625 00:40:52,134 --> 00:40:54,247 No, don't you talk. 626 00:40:54,802 --> 00:40:57,641 It's impossible for you, let me do the talking. 627 00:41:00,251 --> 00:41:02,586 Just tell me if I go wrong. 628 00:41:02,642 --> 00:41:06,025 - Daisy, this isn't fair! - No, leave it to me. 629 00:41:08,637 --> 00:41:13,898 This's got to end. It's wrong for both of us. 630 00:41:14,860 --> 00:41:17,052 It's better. 631 00:41:18,690 --> 00:41:21,565 You were never really in love with me, you know, just... 632 00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:25,804 just sorry for me, and that's not quite the same thing. 633 00:41:27,061 --> 00:41:29,079 And perhaps... 634 00:41:29,622 --> 00:41:33,084 I was never really in love with you. 635 00:41:33,406 --> 00:41:36,134 Just very grateful. 636 00:41:36,652 --> 00:41:39,955 I've always known it would have to end, so it's no shock. 637 00:41:39,956 --> 00:41:42,955 Even when we were happiest together having fun, 638 00:41:42,991 --> 00:41:46,653 I was always a little unhappy too, it's because I knew it would have to end. 639 00:41:46,690 --> 00:41:49,390 The only thing I didn't know was when. 640 00:41:54,147 --> 00:41:55,961 Have you found someone else? 641 00:41:57,016 --> 00:41:59,440 - Yes. - Then I must leave tomorrow. 642 00:41:59,441 --> 00:42:01,946 - You don't have to go as quickly as... - No, I'll go tomorrow. 643 00:42:01,972 --> 00:42:05,835 She might find out I was here I'll pack and go as soon as I possibly can. 644 00:42:06,461 --> 00:42:11,682 Stop it, Daisy. I know you're only trying to make it easier for me, but it's horrible. 645 00:42:13,054 --> 00:42:16,517 - I'll leave some money for you. - No, no, I don't need any money. 646 00:42:16,553 --> 00:42:18,590 Please take it Daisy, I couldn't bear it if you didn't. 647 00:42:18,626 --> 00:42:21,401 It's just something to keep you going until you get a decent job. 648 00:42:21,437 --> 00:42:23,991 Oh, don't worry about me. I'll get a job. 649 00:42:24,215 --> 00:42:26,300 - You sure? - Yes, I'm quite sure. 650 00:42:27,078 --> 00:42:29,334 Goodbye Gerald, please go quickly now. 651 00:42:31,128 --> 00:42:33,277 No, no. Please. 652 00:43:07,203 --> 00:43:08,771 I'm afraid that's all I can tell you. 653 00:43:08,806 --> 00:43:10,935 Thank you, Mister Croft. That's all I want from you. 654 00:43:11,095 --> 00:43:13,713 In that case, if you'll excuse me, I'd be glad if you'd let me go. 655 00:43:13,714 --> 00:43:14,740 Go where, home? 656 00:43:14,766 --> 00:43:17,247 No, I'd like to walk around a bit if you don't mind. 657 00:43:17,248 --> 00:43:18,905 - Certainly Mister Croft. - Gerald. 658 00:43:20,052 --> 00:43:21,891 I think you'd better take this. 659 00:43:24,172 --> 00:43:26,637 - I see. - Oh, don't misunderstand me. 660 00:43:26,638 --> 00:43:29,704 I don't dislike you as I did half an hour ago. 661 00:43:30,202 --> 00:43:34,633 In fact in some odd way I rather respect you more than I've ever done before. 662 00:43:35,293 --> 00:43:37,566 But this has made a difference. 663 00:43:37,602 --> 00:43:41,210 You and I aren't the same people who sat down to dinner here. 664 00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:43,995 We shall have to get to know each other all over again. 665 00:43:44,262 --> 00:43:49,622 No, Sheila, I'm not defending him but you must understand that a lot of young men... 666 00:43:49,648 --> 00:43:51,125 No father, please. 667 00:43:51,126 --> 00:43:55,159 - Gerald knows what I mean. - Yes, I know what you mean. 668 00:43:55,758 --> 00:44:01,461 - But I'm coming back, if I may. - You may. 669 00:44:07,909 --> 00:44:11,047 Well, let's hope that disposes of the unfortunate girl. 670 00:44:11,048 --> 00:44:14,054 I'm afraid not quite, Missus Birling. 671 00:44:14,637 --> 00:44:17,409 You never showed that photograph to Gerald, inspector. 672 00:44:17,410 --> 00:44:19,116 It wasn't necessary. 673 00:44:20,234 --> 00:44:23,030 - Is that a photograph of the girl? - Yes. 674 00:44:23,725 --> 00:44:25,934 I think you'd better have a look at her. 675 00:44:27,513 --> 00:44:30,161 - You recognize her? - No, why should I? 676 00:44:31,780 --> 00:44:33,798 You mean you don't choose to? 677 00:44:33,799 --> 00:44:36,122 I meant what I said. 678 00:44:37,542 --> 00:44:40,175 You're not telling me the truth, Missus Birling. 679 00:44:40,201 --> 00:44:41,851 I beg your pardon! 680 00:44:41,888 --> 00:44:47,292 Now look here, inspector... I won't have this! I'm a public man! 681 00:44:47,537 --> 00:44:49,218 I suggest, Mister Birling, that public men 682 00:44:49,219 --> 00:44:51,702 have responsibilities as well as privileges. 683 00:44:51,778 --> 00:44:53,728 Yes, but you weren't told to come here 684 00:44:53,729 --> 00:44:55,954 to talk to me about my responsibilities. 685 00:44:55,955 --> 00:44:58,498 Let's hope not, but I'm beginning to wonder. 686 00:44:58,499 --> 00:45:00,181 Does that meaning anything, Sheila? 687 00:45:00,182 --> 00:45:03,111 It means that we've no excuse now for putting on airs. 688 00:45:03,112 --> 00:45:06,110 Father threw this girl out because she asked for decent wages. 689 00:45:06,111 --> 00:45:09,638 I did no such thing! I sacked her because she was a troublemaker! 690 00:45:09,639 --> 00:45:11,231 Well anyways, she was sacked. 691 00:45:11,232 --> 00:45:14,477 I pushed her further out because I was in a bad temper, and she was pretty 692 00:45:14,478 --> 00:45:17,577 Gerald gives her the earth and then drops her as soon as it suits him. 693 00:45:17,578 --> 00:45:20,579 And now you're pretending you don't recognize her for herself! 694 00:45:20,580 --> 00:45:23,127 - Sheila, how dare do you! - Oh, I admit I know why you should, but I 695 00:45:23,128 --> 00:45:25,315 do very well know that you did from the way you look! 696 00:45:25,316 --> 00:45:28,574 Can't you see that you're just making tours? 697 00:45:28,575 --> 00:45:31,693 - It's the door again. - Gerald must've come back. 698 00:45:31,694 --> 00:45:34,497 - Unless your son has just gone out. - Well I'll go and see. 699 00:45:34,498 --> 00:45:38,541 Missus Birling, you are a member, a very prominent member of the. 700 00:45:38,660 --> 00:45:40,746 Blumley women's charity organization, aren't you? 701 00:45:41,217 --> 00:45:43,685 - Yes, I am. - And it's an organization to which women 702 00:45:44,046 --> 00:45:46,130 in distress may appeal for help in various forms? 703 00:45:46,849 --> 00:45:50,851 Yes, we've done a great deal of work in helping deserving cases. 704 00:45:50,852 --> 00:45:53,820 And there was a meeting of the interviewing committee, two weeks ago? 705 00:45:54,159 --> 00:45:55,810 I daresay there was. 706 00:45:55,811 --> 00:45:58,819 You know very well there was, Missus Birling. You were in the chair! 707 00:45:58,856 --> 00:46:02,157 And if I was? What business is it of yours? 708 00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:05,080 - Was it Eric? - Must've been. 709 00:46:05,413 --> 00:46:09,267 - Did you go up to his room? - Yes. And I called out on both landings. 710 00:46:09,268 --> 00:46:10,176 Must've gone out. 711 00:46:10,202 --> 00:46:13,435 - Silly boy, where could he have gone to? - Can't imagine. 712 00:46:13,436 --> 00:46:17,858 He's in one of his excitable moods. Anyway, we don't need him here. 713 00:46:17,868 --> 00:46:19,953 Oh, but we do need him here. 714 00:46:20,001 --> 00:46:23,395 - He's probably gone to cool off. - I'm sure he'll be back soon. 715 00:46:23,396 --> 00:46:25,816 - You're sure? - Reasonably sure. 716 00:46:25,842 --> 00:46:28,339 - He'll be back. - I hope so. 717 00:46:28,823 --> 00:46:30,548 Why should you hope so? 718 00:46:30,549 --> 00:46:33,907 I'll explain that when you've answered my questions, Missus Birling. 719 00:46:34,583 --> 00:46:37,130 You remember that Mister Croft told us, quite truthfully I believe, 720 00:46:37,145 --> 00:46:39,705 that he hadn't spoken to or seen Eva Smith for the last 6 months. 721 00:46:40,091 --> 00:46:43,233 But Missus Birling spoke to her and saw her only two weeks ago. 722 00:46:43,234 --> 00:46:46,833 - Mother did? - Is this true? 723 00:46:47,423 --> 00:46:49,453 Yes, quite true. 724 00:46:49,479 --> 00:46:51,609 She appealed to your organization for help. 725 00:46:51,610 --> 00:46:53,823 - Yes. - Did you give it? 726 00:46:53,849 --> 00:46:55,387 - No. - Why? 727 00:46:57,413 --> 00:46:59,230 Why, Missus Birling? 728 00:46:59,266 --> 00:47:02,116 She told me ridiculous, incredible story. 729 00:47:02,117 --> 00:47:05,384 An obvious lie. Also, she was grossly impertinent. 730 00:47:05,488 --> 00:47:06,746 - Impertinent? - Yes. 731 00:47:06,747 --> 00:47:10,277 That was one of the reasons that prejudiced me against her case. 732 00:47:10,278 --> 00:47:12,436 You admit being prejudiced against her? 733 00:47:12,437 --> 00:47:15,893 - Yes. - Mother, she's just died a horrible death. 734 00:47:15,919 --> 00:47:19,407 I'm very sorry. I think she had only herself to blame. 735 00:47:19,444 --> 00:47:22,341 Tell me, was it due to your influence as the most prominent member of the committee 736 00:47:22,342 --> 00:47:24,761 - that help was refused this girl? - Possibly. 737 00:47:24,762 --> 00:47:29,364 Come now Missus Birling. Was it or was it not your influence? 738 00:47:30,898 --> 00:47:33,464 - I didn't like her manner. - Why did she ask for help? 739 00:47:33,465 --> 00:47:35,248 You know very well why she asked for help. 740 00:47:35,274 --> 00:47:36,257 No, I don't. 741 00:47:37,021 --> 00:47:39,849 I know that she needed help, but if I wasn't there 742 00:47:39,850 --> 00:47:41,573 then I don't know why she asked it from your committee. 743 00:47:41,592 --> 00:47:45,079 I don't think we need to discuss it. 744 00:47:45,116 --> 00:47:48,243 You have no hope of not discussing it, Missus Birling. 745 00:47:48,279 --> 00:47:50,967 If you think you can bring any pressure to bear upon me, inspector, 746 00:47:51,077 --> 00:47:52,682 you're very much mistaken. 747 00:47:52,683 --> 00:47:55,566 Unlike the other three, I have nothing that I'm ashamed of 748 00:47:55,567 --> 00:47:58,111 or that won't bear investigation. 749 00:47:58,518 --> 00:48:00,304 This girl asked for assistance. 750 00:48:00,305 --> 00:48:03,495 We are required to look very carefully into the claims made upon us. 751 00:48:03,496 --> 00:48:05,894 I wasn't satisfied with this girl's tale. 752 00:48:05,895 --> 00:48:08,523 It seemed to me that she was not a good case. 753 00:48:09,158 --> 00:48:11,726 So I used my influence to have it refused. 754 00:48:11,727 --> 00:48:16,160 In spite of what's happened since, I still think that I did my duty. 755 00:48:16,161 --> 00:48:19,025 So if I don't choose to discuss it any further, 756 00:48:19,061 --> 00:48:22,648 you have no power to make me change my mind. 757 00:48:23,100 --> 00:48:26,561 I'm afraid I have that power, Missus Birling. 758 00:48:26,572 --> 00:48:28,196 No you have not! 759 00:48:28,232 --> 00:48:31,457 Simply because I've done nothing wrong, and you know it! 760 00:48:31,493 --> 00:48:35,894 If you've done nothing wrong, why are you afraid to discuss it, Missus Birling? 761 00:48:35,895 --> 00:48:39,459 How dare you say I'm afraid. 762 00:48:39,495 --> 00:48:42,624 Under the circumstances I consider I was perfectly justified! 763 00:48:42,625 --> 00:48:47,236 The girl told us a pack of lies. Made me lose all patience with her. 764 00:48:47,237 --> 00:48:50,659 She claimed elaborate, fine feelings 765 00:48:50,696 --> 00:48:55,199 and scruples, simply absurd in a girl in that position. 766 00:48:55,744 --> 00:48:58,561 She gave herself ridiculous airs. 767 00:48:59,121 --> 00:49:02,544 She'd no ridiculous airs when I saw her last. 768 00:49:02,545 --> 00:49:04,223 In the infirmary. 769 00:49:04,713 --> 00:49:08,071 Come now, Miss Birling. Let's have some facts. Facts, please! 770 00:49:08,099 --> 00:49:10,303 There was a meeting of the committee with yourself in the chair 771 00:49:10,304 --> 00:49:12,663 to which this girl appealed for help, isn't that so? 772 00:49:12,664 --> 00:49:14,459 - Yes. - Under what name? 773 00:49:14,496 --> 00:49:16,579 - Not as Eva Smith? - No. 774 00:49:16,580 --> 00:49:19,621 - Nor as Daisy Renton. - As what, then? 775 00:49:19,948 --> 00:49:21,414 Missus Birling. 776 00:49:22,461 --> 00:49:24,757 - What did you say? - Pardon? 777 00:49:25,326 --> 00:49:27,912 You called yourself Missus Birling just now. 778 00:49:29,072 --> 00:49:32,366 - I'm sorry? - That's not your husband's name, is it? 779 00:49:34,477 --> 00:49:37,141 - No. - But you know that it is mine? 780 00:49:39,044 --> 00:49:39,839 No! 781 00:49:39,865 --> 00:49:43,144 If you come here for the express purpose of being impertinent... 782 00:49:43,545 --> 00:49:46,785 No. It was the first name I thought of. 783 00:49:46,986 --> 00:49:49,045 I worked at Birling's once. 784 00:49:49,046 --> 00:49:51,007 What is your husband's name. 785 00:49:53,099 --> 00:49:54,695 I can't say. 786 00:49:55,121 --> 00:49:57,356 You can't say! 787 00:49:57,716 --> 00:50:00,052 In fact, you're not married at all, are you? 788 00:50:01,547 --> 00:50:02,771 No. 789 00:50:03,271 --> 00:50:08,254 So your whole story about a husband who deserted you is quite false, isn't it? 790 00:50:08,898 --> 00:50:10,316 Yes. 791 00:50:12,199 --> 00:50:14,249 Tissue of lies. 792 00:50:14,713 --> 00:50:17,162 Have you tried to get work? 793 00:50:17,163 --> 00:50:20,032 - I can't get work. - Why not? 794 00:50:20,805 --> 00:50:22,004 I can't say. 795 00:50:22,307 --> 00:50:25,993 If you don't confide in us we can't help you, can we? 796 00:50:25,994 --> 00:50:28,141 Now, why can't you work? 797 00:50:28,811 --> 00:50:30,631 I'm going to have a baby. 798 00:50:33,253 --> 00:50:35,094 Come along, my dear. 799 00:50:35,932 --> 00:50:39,032 You must sit down. There are plenty of chairs. 800 00:50:39,807 --> 00:50:42,138 - Sit down now. - Thank you ma'am. 801 00:50:42,363 --> 00:50:44,445 There are certain circumstances 802 00:50:44,446 --> 00:50:47,668 in which it is prudent to be seated as much as possible. 803 00:50:48,347 --> 00:50:53,586 - May we now proceed, Missus Livson? - Oh, do. 804 00:50:57,391 --> 00:51:00,654 Now, this man. Why must you lie about him? 805 00:51:00,742 --> 00:51:02,808 I didn't want to bring him into it. 806 00:51:02,809 --> 00:51:03,820 Why not? 807 00:51:04,397 --> 00:51:08,014 He didn't mean any harm, he was just silly and wild. 808 00:51:08,402 --> 00:51:10,567 Sometimes he drank too much. 809 00:51:10,839 --> 00:51:12,324 Why don't you make him marry you? 810 00:51:12,325 --> 00:51:14,801 In my opinion you should be compelled to marry him. 811 00:51:14,802 --> 00:51:17,483 It isn't that he won't marry me, we just couldn't. 812 00:51:17,484 --> 00:51:19,209 We're not of the same class. 813 00:51:19,417 --> 00:51:21,170 This's ridiculous... 814 00:51:21,609 --> 00:51:25,766 A girl in your position can't afford these fine airs and scruples. 815 00:51:25,767 --> 00:51:27,986 You don't mind coming begging for charity, 816 00:51:27,987 --> 00:51:30,878 why not go to this drunken young idler, whoever he is? 817 00:51:30,879 --> 00:51:32,630 Make him support you. 818 00:51:32,639 --> 00:51:34,518 He did. He gave me money. 819 00:51:34,519 --> 00:51:36,635 And now he won't give you anymore? 820 00:51:37,615 --> 00:51:40,117 He would, but I can't take it. 821 00:51:41,379 --> 00:51:43,536 This young ne'er-do-well, 822 00:51:43,573 --> 00:51:45,761 because of your high-falutin' notions, 823 00:51:45,796 --> 00:51:48,355 is to escape the consequences of his actions, 824 00:51:48,373 --> 00:51:52,101 and shift hist responsibility onto a charitable organization such as this. 825 00:51:52,650 --> 00:51:55,407 I think the members of this committee will agree with me 826 00:51:55,461 --> 00:51:57,646 that it would be monstrous were I to recommend 827 00:51:57,648 --> 00:52:00,176 the expenditure of our funds in such a way. 828 00:52:00,933 --> 00:52:04,515 In my opinion he should be publicly exposed. 829 00:52:04,516 --> 00:52:06,788 If you want help, young woman, 830 00:52:07,057 --> 00:52:08,959 go to him. 831 00:52:11,532 --> 00:52:16,026 So I think I was perfectly justified in advising my committee not to allow her claim. 832 00:52:16,027 --> 00:52:17,842 And you still think that? 833 00:52:17,873 --> 00:52:21,022 I'm sorry she should've come to such a horrible end, but 834 00:52:21,497 --> 00:52:24,349 I accept no blame for it at all. 835 00:52:24,350 --> 00:52:27,648 Tell me who, who do you say is to blame, then? 836 00:52:28,186 --> 00:52:30,514 First, the girl herself. 837 00:52:30,550 --> 00:52:33,490 By letting father and me have her chucked out of her jobs? 838 00:52:33,491 --> 00:52:35,460 Secondly, I blame the young man. 839 00:52:35,728 --> 00:52:37,767 He ought to be dealt with very severely. 840 00:52:37,768 --> 00:52:41,226 If the girl's death is due to anybody, then it's due to him. 841 00:52:41,228 --> 00:52:46,672 - Ah, then he's the chief culprit anyhow? - Certainly. 842 00:52:46,708 --> 00:52:50,688 In that case, he's responsible for the whole thing. The girl's death, everything. 843 00:52:50,723 --> 00:52:52,965 - He ought to be dealt with very severely. - Mother, please stop. 844 00:52:52,991 --> 00:52:55,472 You're behaving like a hysterical child, my Sheila. 845 00:52:55,501 --> 00:52:57,592 And if you would take steps to find this young man, 846 00:52:57,613 --> 00:52:59,334 make him admit his responsibilities 847 00:52:59,350 --> 00:53:02,131 instead of staying here and asking quite unnecessary questions, 848 00:53:02,132 --> 00:53:04,427 then you really would be doing your duty. 849 00:53:05,242 --> 00:53:08,280 Don't worry Missus Birling, I'll do my duty. 850 00:53:08,281 --> 00:53:12,898 - Now perhaps you'd like to say goodnight. - Not yet. I'm waiting. 851 00:53:13,497 --> 00:53:17,781 - Waiting? For what? - To do my duty. 852 00:53:28,665 --> 00:53:30,916 Oh mother, can't you see? 853 00:53:39,808 --> 00:53:43,211 Are you suggesting... My boy.... 854 00:53:43,738 --> 00:53:48,054 If it was, Missus Birling, we know what to do. You just told us. 855 00:53:49,571 --> 00:53:53,167 Yes, but.... Look here, inspector! 856 00:53:56,797 --> 00:53:59,466 Mother, I begged and begged you to stop. 857 00:54:04,270 --> 00:54:06,206 I don't believe it. 858 00:54:07,206 --> 00:54:09,093 I won't believe it. 859 00:54:09,129 --> 00:54:11,700 - Come in, Mister Birling. - What? 860 00:54:11,736 --> 00:54:13,093 I think I heard your son come in. 861 00:54:13,124 --> 00:54:15,208 I didn't hear anything. 862 00:54:16,582 --> 00:54:18,577 Oh, yes. There he is. 863 00:54:19,865 --> 00:54:20,963 Eric. 864 00:54:30,666 --> 00:54:31,844 You know, don't you? 865 00:54:31,845 --> 00:54:34,971 I don't know anything. 866 00:54:38,454 --> 00:54:39,885 Not anymore. 867 00:54:39,903 --> 00:54:43,133 Mother's been blaming everything on the young man who got this girl into trouble. 868 00:54:43,134 --> 00:54:46,058 Saying you shouldn't escape, and should be made an example of. 869 00:54:46,077 --> 00:54:47,596 That's enough, Sheila. 870 00:54:47,633 --> 00:54:50,087 You haven't made it any easier for me, have you, mother? 871 00:54:50,530 --> 00:54:52,810 You're not like that! 872 00:54:53,948 --> 00:54:56,302 Mother, what's the use of pretending? 873 00:54:56,338 --> 00:54:58,039 If you had any sense of loyalty you... 874 00:54:58,049 --> 00:54:59,707 Father, you don't have to talk to Sheila like that. 875 00:54:59,708 --> 00:55:00,938 Hold your tongue! 876 00:55:00,972 --> 00:55:03,555 - I've had about enough. - One moment please. 877 00:55:03,591 --> 00:55:06,731 You'll have plenty of time to adjust family relationships after I've gone. 878 00:55:06,785 --> 00:55:08,850 Because now, Mister Birling, I'd like to ask your son 879 00:55:08,851 --> 00:55:11,343 about his association with Eva Smith. 880 00:55:12,167 --> 00:55:14,783 Sheila, take your mother into the dining room. 881 00:55:14,861 --> 00:55:16,901 - Father, I want to hear... - You heard what I said. 882 00:55:17,493 --> 00:55:19,359 Go on Sibil. 883 00:55:30,688 --> 00:55:32,404 Could I have a drink first? 884 00:55:32,508 --> 00:55:34,593 - No you don't! - Yes. 885 00:55:34,616 --> 00:55:38,424 I know I know, this is your house and he's your son, but look at him. 886 00:55:38,425 --> 00:55:42,692 - This is one time he needs a drink. - Alright, go on. 887 00:55:43,303 --> 00:55:45,846 Now when did you first meet this girl? 888 00:55:47,521 --> 00:55:49,667 It was one night last winter. 889 00:55:50,435 --> 00:55:54,105 I'd been out with some of the chaps, I was a bit squiffy, I... 890 00:55:54,106 --> 00:55:56,357 It was late but I didn't want to go home. 891 00:55:56,358 --> 00:55:59,110 So for some reason I don't know why I, I got on a tram. 892 00:55:59,115 --> 00:56:01,398 Nevermind about trams, go on! 893 00:56:02,107 --> 00:56:03,192 Fares, please. 894 00:56:04,004 --> 00:56:05,087 Fares, please. 895 00:56:13,224 --> 00:56:13,788 How much? 896 00:56:13,814 --> 00:56:16,042 Well that depends on how far you're going, doesn't it? 897 00:56:16,079 --> 00:56:19,470 Not too far. We mustn't overdo it. 898 00:56:19,506 --> 00:56:21,145 That's nice, but you're the one that's been overdoing it. 899 00:56:21,158 --> 00:56:22,728 Come on, we'll call it toppence then. 900 00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:25,483 Yes. Yes that's very reasonable. 901 00:56:26,850 --> 00:56:30,150 Here you are, and I want 19 and 10 pence of change. 902 00:56:30,187 --> 00:56:32,856 Well I haven't got 19 and 10 pence. Stop trying to make a fool of me. 903 00:56:32,857 --> 00:56:37,186 I've had a long day. Either pay your fare or get off my tram. 904 00:56:37,187 --> 00:56:39,700 I am trying to pay my fare, and you won't let me. 905 00:56:39,701 --> 00:56:41,703 Right, I'm putting you off the next stop. 906 00:56:41,704 --> 00:56:42,866 Fares, please. 907 00:56:46,399 --> 00:56:49,068 Two tickets please, I'll pay his fare. 908 00:56:54,552 --> 00:56:59,132 You know, that was extraordinarily kind of you. If I give you this. 909 00:56:59,150 --> 00:57:02,968 No, I haven't got 19 and ten pence change either. It doesn't matter. 910 00:57:02,969 --> 00:57:06,812 Of course it matters. It's just these little things that do matter. 911 00:57:08,854 --> 00:57:12,403 - By the way, where are we? - Turning into Elmerbridge Road. 912 00:57:12,439 --> 00:57:13,865 This is where I get out. 913 00:57:14,157 --> 00:57:18,643 So do I. I always get out somewhere on Elmerbridge Road. 914 00:57:18,644 --> 00:57:20,154 That's just silly. 915 00:57:30,773 --> 00:57:34,308 No madam, I insist. This's the only place open here where I can get change 916 00:57:34,309 --> 00:57:36,690 and pay my debt. And I have no doubt 917 00:57:36,691 --> 00:57:40,161 I have no doubt that we shall find something very very delicious to eat. 918 00:57:40,179 --> 00:57:42,555 You're hungry, I'm hungry... 919 00:57:42,556 --> 00:57:44,534 - And you're hungry? - Yes. 920 00:57:44,535 --> 00:57:47,664 Yes, well there you see, everybody's hungry! Except him. 921 00:57:47,701 --> 00:57:48,541 Hello my good friend! 922 00:57:48,630 --> 00:57:51,824 Now just a minute, I want to see if I got this shipping order right. 923 00:57:51,825 --> 00:57:53,106 Now, let's have it again. 924 00:57:55,732 --> 00:57:59,484 Two penny worth of chip four times and here's your money. 925 00:58:00,107 --> 00:58:01,713 Now, what's yours? 926 00:58:02,149 --> 00:58:04,521 Goodnight, princess. 927 00:58:04,937 --> 00:58:07,173 I shall have 8 penny worth of them both. 928 00:58:07,174 --> 00:58:09,364 That guarantees me the right kind of change. 929 00:58:09,383 --> 00:58:11,485 'Birling the Businessman', they call me. 930 00:58:11,486 --> 00:58:14,015 - Oh, you are Mister Birling? - Eric, but that too. 931 00:58:14,069 --> 00:58:15,882 I worked there once. 932 00:58:15,936 --> 00:58:16,950 Did you? 933 00:58:17,406 --> 00:58:19,234 I work there now. 934 00:58:19,235 --> 00:58:21,709 - Well what happened to you? - I got the sack. 935 00:58:21,710 --> 00:58:23,680 Hmm, they didn't have a sack for me where I slept. 936 00:58:23,716 --> 00:58:27,201 And I'm so bored all day that I have to go out with the boys at night 937 00:58:27,202 --> 00:58:29,577 otherwise I'd go balmy. 938 00:58:29,578 --> 00:58:31,759 Yes of course I am a balmy I just don't know it. 939 00:58:31,760 --> 00:58:32,284 Here you are. 940 00:58:32,467 --> 00:58:35,752 Ah, your tuppence, thank you very, very much. 941 00:58:35,753 --> 00:58:40,081 And now with the compliments of the Birling esquire some delicious chish and fips. 942 00:58:40,082 --> 00:58:42,310 And now, I shall see you home. 943 00:58:43,354 --> 00:58:44,957 I shall see you home! 944 00:58:46,545 --> 00:58:49,472 Good night, monsieur de restauranteur! 945 00:58:49,889 --> 00:58:52,189 Well I'll say you are balmy! 946 00:59:00,172 --> 00:59:01,570 Well, this is it. 947 00:59:03,521 --> 00:59:05,146 Well if you don't mind me saying so, 948 00:59:08,774 --> 00:59:11,628 Now you go home like a good boy. Good night. 949 00:59:11,629 --> 00:59:15,193 But I'm not a good boy. I'm a bad boy. 950 00:59:15,384 --> 00:59:17,837 Eric, or little bundle. 951 00:59:18,513 --> 00:59:20,723 Well give me a kiss, then I'll go home. 952 00:59:22,135 --> 00:59:24,838 Alright, then. Just one. 953 00:59:27,272 --> 00:59:30,447 Now off you go, you'll get wet soon. 954 00:59:30,483 --> 00:59:33,470 You know, you've disappointed me. 955 00:59:34,292 --> 00:59:36,867 I'm very, very sad. 956 00:59:37,661 --> 00:59:39,629 You really must go home. 957 00:59:40,608 --> 00:59:42,422 I'll tell you a secret. 958 00:59:44,237 --> 00:59:46,592 I don't go home. 959 00:59:47,408 --> 00:59:48,842 Not yet. 960 00:59:49,801 --> 00:59:51,949 I must sober up first. 961 00:59:54,110 --> 00:59:56,626 I really ought to have something to eat. 962 00:59:56,663 --> 01:00:00,483 Because I'm very hungry, it's cold, and I'm tired, and... 963 01:00:01,502 --> 01:00:03,496 It's wet. 964 01:00:03,979 --> 01:00:08,358 And a nice girl wouldn't turn a dog away on a night like this. 965 01:00:09,814 --> 01:00:11,249 Alright then, 966 01:00:11,702 --> 01:00:13,120 but do be good. 967 01:00:13,779 --> 01:00:15,968 Try to be sensible. 968 01:00:19,307 --> 01:00:21,489 I won't breathe. 969 01:00:26,485 --> 01:00:28,892 - And so you stayed for a hour or two. - Yes. 970 01:00:28,928 --> 01:00:31,751 And then you met her again. -Yes. In fact you met her lots of... -Yes! 971 01:00:31,752 --> 01:00:35,943 Until one night she told you that something had happened. 972 01:00:36,303 --> 01:00:37,394 Yes. 973 01:00:37,431 --> 01:00:39,531 What did she tell you had happened? 974 01:00:39,532 --> 01:00:43,014 Oh for heaven's sake, leave me alone, all of you! 975 01:00:47,210 --> 01:00:49,233 Oh don't you start on me too! 976 01:00:49,632 --> 01:00:52,962 - Eric! - Oh stop it, stop it I tell you! All of you! 977 01:00:57,765 --> 01:00:59,614 What did she tell you? 978 01:01:00,077 --> 01:01:02,195 Come on boy, out with it! 979 01:01:02,820 --> 01:01:04,658 What is it, Eric? 980 01:01:09,555 --> 01:01:12,056 No, I couldn't be mistaken. 981 01:01:14,359 --> 01:01:17,151 Sorry Eric, but I'm quite sure. 982 01:01:19,927 --> 01:01:23,951 I'm glad you said that. I was hoping you would. 983 01:01:23,994 --> 01:01:27,893 But I can't marry you Eric, it wouldn't be right. 984 01:01:28,390 --> 01:01:30,355 You see, you don't love me, 985 01:01:31,172 --> 01:01:33,151 you were lonely. 986 01:01:33,814 --> 01:01:36,470 So was I, that's all it ever amounted to. 987 01:01:38,262 --> 01:01:40,764 No, I don't know what I'm going to do. 988 01:01:41,756 --> 01:01:43,702 But you haven't got any money. 989 01:01:44,566 --> 01:01:46,266 How? 990 01:01:48,789 --> 01:01:51,963 Promise me you won't do anything silly. 991 01:01:51,964 --> 01:01:54,456 I know you don't want to let me down, but 992 01:01:54,508 --> 01:01:56,593 you mustn't do anything stupid. 993 01:02:15,444 --> 01:02:18,231 - Oh, hello boy. Got no work to do? - Yes I have, father... 994 01:02:18,257 --> 01:02:20,436 Well, you'd better get on with it, haven't you? 995 01:02:21,512 --> 01:02:23,722 I wanted to talk to you about something though. 996 01:02:23,740 --> 01:02:26,079 I'm very busy just now, can't it wait? 997 01:02:26,929 --> 01:02:30,131 - It's rather urgent, I'm afraid. - Well, well, what is it? 998 01:02:31,528 --> 01:02:33,385 Come to ask you for a rise, father. 999 01:02:33,386 --> 01:02:36,257 A rise? Good heavens boy, you're getting 30 bob a week! 1000 01:02:36,258 --> 01:02:40,273 - What more do you want at your age? - I'm 25. 1001 01:02:41,450 --> 01:02:44,679 Other chaps my age get more than that. Gerald, for instance. 1002 01:02:44,680 --> 01:02:47,606 Yes, well Gerald's a good deal older and a good deal more responsible. 1003 01:02:47,607 --> 01:02:51,910 Anyway, I don't like to see young men having a lot of money to waste. 1004 01:02:51,911 --> 01:02:55,747 - I can't manage on it, father. - Can't manage on it? 1005 01:02:55,783 --> 01:02:58,367 You've got nothing to spend it on as far as I can see 1006 01:02:58,404 --> 01:03:01,073 - you live at home, you've got everything... - I've got debts, father. 1007 01:03:01,074 --> 01:03:04,866 Debts? Well let me tell you something. I'm not going to pay your debts 1008 01:03:04,892 --> 01:03:07,962 or anybody else's. You can save up and pay your own debts. 1009 01:03:07,963 --> 01:03:11,043 Or tell whoever you owe the money to to whistle and wait for it. 1010 01:03:12,367 --> 01:03:16,037 - It's a matter of honour, father. - Oh, so that's it, is it? 1011 01:03:16,038 --> 01:03:20,846 A debt of honour? Betting, horses, eh? Well I'll tell you something else! 1012 01:03:20,966 --> 01:03:24,808 I'm not gonna hand over this firm's money to a lot of bookmakers and that's flat! 1013 01:03:24,809 --> 01:03:27,461 You got into this mess, and you'll get out of it! 1014 01:03:27,482 --> 01:03:28,775 And it'll teach you a good lesson! 1015 01:03:28,776 --> 01:03:32,525 We'll talk about that rise when you've learned a bit of common sense! 1016 01:04:42,023 --> 01:04:45,841 Well? Come on, out with it! 1017 01:04:52,207 --> 01:04:54,168 I was the father of the child, so 1018 01:04:55,312 --> 01:04:57,842 it was up to me to stand by her as best I could. 1019 01:04:57,843 --> 01:04:59,547 What did you do? 1020 01:04:59,584 --> 01:05:01,618 I gave her some money, as I said I would. 1021 01:05:01,619 --> 01:05:03,067 How much? 1022 01:05:03,104 --> 01:05:07,309 - A suppose about 50 pounds, all told. - 50 pounds!? 1023 01:05:07,689 --> 01:05:11,035 - Where did you get 50 pounds from!? - From the office, father. 1024 01:05:11,070 --> 01:05:12,474 - From my office!? - Yes. 1025 01:05:12,475 --> 01:05:13,441 You stole it! 1026 01:05:13,442 --> 01:05:15,688 No, I went around to one or two of the firm's small debtors and 1027 01:05:15,860 --> 01:05:17,082 collected their accounts in cash and 1028 01:05:17,110 --> 01:05:18,951 gave them the receipt without a carbon copy in the book. 1029 01:05:19,147 --> 01:05:22,432 - Pocketed the money! Pinched it! - Not really. 1030 01:05:22,988 --> 01:05:26,024 - I intended to pay it back. - And you will pay it back. 1031 01:05:26,521 --> 01:05:30,025 You'll pay it back if you work for nothing for the rest of your life! 1032 01:05:30,614 --> 01:05:35,467 50 pounds! I've a very good mind to give you in charge! 1033 01:05:36,154 --> 01:05:38,322 I'm not sure it rests with you, Mister Birling. 1034 01:05:38,323 --> 01:05:40,368 Your son may have commited a criminal offense. 1035 01:05:40,369 --> 01:05:41,580 Criminal... 1036 01:05:42,898 --> 01:05:44,455 You mean... 1037 01:05:44,491 --> 01:05:47,982 Police courts? Papers? 1038 01:05:48,727 --> 01:05:50,580 No, inspector! No! 1039 01:05:51,586 --> 01:05:54,411 That's scarcely your attitude of a few minutes ago, Missus Birling. 1040 01:05:55,602 --> 01:05:59,940 Why didn't you come to me when you found yourself in this mess? 1041 01:06:01,326 --> 01:06:04,491 Because you're the last person in the world anyone could go to when they're in trouble. 1042 01:06:04,493 --> 01:06:06,655 Your trouble is that you're being spoiled! 1043 01:06:06,656 --> 01:06:09,698 You can divide the responsibility between you after I've gone. 1044 01:06:09,699 --> 01:06:12,991 Now, the girl really knew that the money you were giving her 1045 01:06:13,064 --> 01:06:15,148 was stolen, didn't she? -Yes. 1046 01:06:16,271 --> 01:06:18,200 Yes, that was the worst part. 1047 01:06:18,201 --> 01:06:22,956 She wouldn't take any more and she didn't want to see me again. 1048 01:06:23,081 --> 01:06:24,870 But how did you know that, did she tell you? 1049 01:06:24,871 --> 01:06:26,977 No. No, I never spoke to her. 1050 01:06:27,522 --> 01:06:29,933 - She told mother. - Sheila! 1051 01:06:30,266 --> 01:06:30,835 Well he has to know. 1052 01:06:30,836 --> 01:06:34,275 She told you? When did she come here? 1053 01:06:34,311 --> 01:06:37,208 Well don't just stand there, tell me! Tell me what happened! 1054 01:06:37,209 --> 01:06:40,034 I'll tell you. She applied to your mother's committee for help 1055 01:06:40,060 --> 01:06:42,461 and your mother refused that help. 1056 01:06:44,741 --> 01:06:46,702 Then you killed her! 1057 01:06:47,265 --> 01:06:50,466 She came to you to protect me, and you turned her away! 1058 01:06:50,467 --> 01:06:55,359 You killed her! And the child! My child! 1059 01:06:55,360 --> 01:06:57,134 You killed them both! 1060 01:06:57,400 --> 01:07:00,528 Eric, please! I didn't understand. 1061 01:07:00,610 --> 01:07:02,633 You don't understand anything. 1062 01:07:02,659 --> 01:07:04,618 - You never did! - Eric, don't! 1063 01:07:05,387 --> 01:07:07,462 Please. 1064 01:07:11,237 --> 01:07:16,022 Inspector, is there bound to be an inquiry? 1065 01:07:18,573 --> 01:07:20,833 Or can all this be forgotten? 1066 01:07:20,834 --> 01:07:23,371 People have short memories, Mister Birling. 1067 01:07:24,480 --> 01:07:29,275 - I'm not likely to forget it. - No. No, I don't think you will. 1068 01:07:32,288 --> 01:07:34,664 You needn't look at me, I know I shan't. 1069 01:07:34,665 --> 01:07:36,496 I started it. 1070 01:07:36,497 --> 01:07:41,336 No, No I don't think we can quite say that you started it, Miss Birling. 1071 01:07:41,389 --> 01:07:43,366 Can we, Mister Birling? 1072 01:07:44,266 --> 01:07:49,228 Inspector, I'll... I'll give thousands. Yes, thousands. 1073 01:07:49,254 --> 01:07:52,120 You're offering money at the wrong time, father. 1074 01:07:54,446 --> 01:07:58,658 It isn't only Eva Smith, father. It's all the other Eva Smiths. 1075 01:07:59,208 --> 01:08:02,216 The things we do to people without realizing it. 1076 01:08:02,553 --> 01:08:05,138 Only for once we've seen the consequences. 1077 01:08:06,186 --> 01:08:10,210 Yes, I was rather hoping one of you would say something like that. 1078 01:08:11,630 --> 01:08:14,575 I suppose if we all knew the consequences beforehand 1079 01:08:14,611 --> 01:08:18,073 we'd all be a bit more careful, eh Missus Birling? 1080 01:08:18,748 --> 01:08:22,417 But it's a pity that so often something horrible has to happen 1081 01:08:22,454 --> 01:08:24,976 before we see some things at all. 1082 01:08:25,553 --> 01:08:28,475 Do you know that not one of you is the same person that you were 1083 01:08:28,476 --> 01:08:30,569 when I first came here tonight? 1084 01:08:30,570 --> 01:08:34,218 Well now... I wonder where I left my hat? 1085 01:08:34,254 --> 01:08:37,610 I think I saw it in the dining room, Arthur. 1086 01:08:37,636 --> 01:08:39,325 Yes, that's right. 1087 01:08:39,362 --> 01:08:41,364 Thank you, Missus Berling. 1088 01:08:44,195 --> 01:08:45,627 Thank you. 1089 01:08:50,161 --> 01:08:50,785 Eric! 1090 01:08:50,811 --> 01:08:53,280 Sheila, please! I don't think I can stand anymore tonight. 1091 01:08:53,281 --> 01:08:55,936 I only want to say how sorry I am about you 1092 01:08:55,962 --> 01:08:58,186 - and that girl. - Thank you. 1093 01:09:03,841 --> 01:09:06,879 We've never been much of a brother and sister before, have we? 1094 01:09:10,122 --> 01:09:12,492 Things change, I suppose. 1095 01:09:14,294 --> 01:09:16,357 I can change. 1096 01:09:16,394 --> 01:09:19,750 Stop drinking, take my punishment over the money. 1097 01:09:19,751 --> 01:09:21,574 Try and pay it back somehow. 1098 01:09:21,575 --> 01:09:25,868 Nobody really cares about the money anymore, it's you I'm thinking of. 1099 01:09:25,869 --> 01:09:30,348 Don't let it make you feel bitter about father and mother. Don't let it Eric. 1100 01:09:30,385 --> 01:09:35,417 Alright. But you mustn't feel like that about Gerald, either. 1101 01:09:35,418 --> 01:09:39,800 - I don't any longer, not really. - Because he's in love with you, you know. 1102 01:09:40,596 --> 01:09:43,136 And you are with him, aren't you? 1103 01:09:43,173 --> 01:09:45,410 I was very much, but... 1104 01:09:45,447 --> 01:09:48,950 - after hearing about him and that girl... - That doesn't matter. 1105 01:09:48,951 --> 01:09:52,608 Gerald's alright. Well I know he puts on the grand Croft manner sometimes 1106 01:09:52,609 --> 01:09:54,566 but he's alright behind it all. 1107 01:09:54,567 --> 01:09:57,737 - You know that, don't you? - Yes. 1108 01:10:10,608 --> 01:10:12,305 Good evening, Mister Croft. 1109 01:10:12,341 --> 01:10:15,263 Oh, it's you Sergeant. Good evening. 1110 01:10:15,300 --> 01:10:17,744 - Everything alright, sir? - Yes. 1111 01:10:17,745 --> 01:10:21,286 Yes, everything's fine. Taking a stroll before I turn in. 1112 01:10:21,322 --> 01:10:26,572 - Looks like a change in the weather, sir. - Yes. Well, I'd better be going. 1113 01:10:26,609 --> 01:10:31,901 By the way, Sergeant, what sort of a fellow is this Inspector Poole? 1114 01:10:31,927 --> 01:10:36,346 Poole? Which division, sir? Well, here is Bromley. 1115 01:10:36,347 --> 01:10:38,488 There's no Inspector Poole in Bromley, Sir. 1116 01:10:38,489 --> 01:10:40,776 - Are you certain? - Positive, sir. 1117 01:10:41,384 --> 01:10:43,859 You couldn't be mistaken, could you? 1118 01:10:43,860 --> 01:10:46,017 I mean, there couldn't be a new man transferred here 1119 01:10:46,080 --> 01:10:47,154 that you didn't know anything about? 1120 01:10:47,155 --> 01:10:49,886 Impossible, Sir. I would've heard of it down at the station. 1121 01:10:50,548 --> 01:10:54,842 No, you can rest assured there is no Inspector Poole in Bromley. 1122 01:11:08,919 --> 01:11:10,475 Is the inspector still here? 1123 01:11:10,476 --> 01:11:13,237 - Inspector? What inspector? - Oh, of course you don't know, do you. 1124 01:11:13,238 --> 01:11:15,024 They're all in the dining room, sir. 1125 01:11:15,061 --> 01:11:16,699 Goodbye, Missus Birling. 1126 01:11:22,092 --> 01:11:23,980 Goodbye, Miss Birling. 1127 01:11:26,930 --> 01:11:28,373 Good night, Mister Croft. 1128 01:11:28,374 --> 01:11:29,989 Just a moment, inspector. 1129 01:11:29,990 --> 01:11:32,556 Something has happened, and I must speak to Mr and Mrs Birling. 1130 01:11:32,557 --> 01:11:34,400 Do you mind waiting? 1131 01:11:34,979 --> 01:11:38,948 Not at all Mister Croft, but it won't make any difference, you know. 1132 01:11:42,435 --> 01:11:44,568 Well, Mister Birling, where would you like me to wait? 1133 01:11:44,594 --> 01:11:45,626 Wait? 1134 01:11:47,073 --> 01:11:48,867 Well... 1135 01:11:49,427 --> 01:11:53,374 - Would you mind waiting in my study? - Certainly. 1136 01:12:00,891 --> 01:12:02,199 Thank you Mister Birling. 1137 01:12:02,263 --> 01:12:04,177 Will you take a seat? 1138 01:12:04,602 --> 01:12:07,602 I don't think we shall keep you more than a few moments. 1139 01:12:11,290 --> 01:12:15,278 - You know something? - That man isn't a police officer! 1140 01:12:16,585 --> 01:12:18,655 - What!? - Are you certain? 1141 01:12:18,681 --> 01:12:22,216 - Absolutely! - But how did you find out? 1142 01:12:22,252 --> 01:12:25,444 I met a policeman I know down the road and I asked him about the inspector. 1143 01:12:25,445 --> 01:12:27,832 He swore there was no Inspector Poole on the force here. 1144 01:12:27,833 --> 01:12:30,287 - By dingle, a fake! - Yes! 1145 01:12:30,929 --> 01:12:35,530 I knew a real inspector would never have spoken to me like that. 1146 01:12:35,531 --> 01:12:39,372 Yes, and look at the way he talked to me too, ordering me about in my own house! 1147 01:12:39,373 --> 01:12:43,941 He must've know I was an ex-Lord Mayor and a magistrate! 1148 01:12:43,942 --> 01:12:46,106 I mean, real inspectors just don't talk like that. 1149 01:12:46,143 --> 01:12:48,843 You were right, he wasn't real. There's no such inspector. 1150 01:12:48,844 --> 01:12:50,097 We've been had. 1151 01:12:50,762 --> 01:12:54,745 - I just can't believe it. - Well there's no doubt about it. 1152 01:12:56,426 --> 01:12:59,485 This makes a difference, you know. 1153 01:12:59,486 --> 01:13:01,759 I suppose we're all nice people now? 1154 01:13:01,760 --> 01:13:04,325 If you've got nothing more sensible to say than that Sheila, 1155 01:13:04,408 --> 01:13:05,629 you'd better keep quiet. 1156 01:13:05,630 --> 01:13:08,854 - She's right, though. - Yes, and you'd better keep quiet anyhow. 1157 01:13:10,921 --> 01:13:14,111 You'd better know Gerald, I stole some money. 1158 01:13:14,347 --> 01:13:16,288 And you'll pay back. 1159 01:13:16,324 --> 01:13:17,659 Oh, the money's not important, 1160 01:13:17,758 --> 01:13:19,841 it's what happened to the girl and what we all did to her that matters! 1161 01:13:19,842 --> 01:13:22,797 Harry's absolutely right. Just remember what that inspector said. 1162 01:13:22,798 --> 01:13:26,510 - But he's not an inspector! - Well he inspected us all right! 1163 01:13:27,046 --> 01:13:29,387 What do you make of this business now? 1164 01:13:29,424 --> 01:13:32,457 I suppose there are people in this town who dislike me enough to 1165 01:13:32,458 --> 01:13:34,517 arrange a put-up job of this sort. 1166 01:13:34,518 --> 01:13:36,337 What on earth are you doing? 1167 01:13:36,509 --> 01:13:39,211 - I'm gonna phone the police. - Idiot! 1168 01:13:39,212 --> 01:13:40,091 Give me that! 1169 01:13:40,231 --> 01:13:42,565 If the man's an impostor we'd better have him him arrested before he escapes, haven't we? 1170 01:13:42,647 --> 01:13:45,345 You keep out of this. And keep the police out too. 1171 01:13:45,490 --> 01:13:48,178 Anyway, he can't escape without coming out here. 1172 01:13:48,179 --> 01:13:49,453 What about the windows? 1173 01:13:49,641 --> 01:13:56,266 Impossible, they're barbed. Just a moment. 1174 01:13:56,267 --> 01:14:00,917 I'm sorry Inspector, we shan't keep you much longer. 1175 01:14:06,650 --> 01:14:08,942 Now we've got him. 1176 01:14:08,978 --> 01:14:12,547 All we have to do is to settle quietly amongst ourselves 1177 01:14:12,548 --> 01:14:15,979 what to do, and the best way to deal with him. 1178 01:14:16,032 --> 01:14:18,349 We've established he's an impostor. 1179 01:14:18,359 --> 01:14:20,232 It's the same rotten story whether we told it to a 1180 01:14:20,250 --> 01:14:22,333 police inspector or somebody else, what difference does it make? 1181 01:14:22,386 --> 01:14:25,970 It makes all the difference between a lot of stuff like this coming out in private, 1182 01:14:26,022 --> 01:14:28,089 and a downright public scandal! 1183 01:14:28,090 --> 01:14:30,183 Scandal? What does a scandal matter? 1184 01:14:30,261 --> 01:14:32,346 The girl's dead and we all helped to kill her, that's what matters. 1185 01:14:32,587 --> 01:14:34,515 But did we? Who says so? 1186 01:14:34,516 --> 01:14:36,193 There's no real evidence that we did. 1187 01:14:36,480 --> 01:14:38,247 - Of course there is! - No, there isn't! 1188 01:14:38,248 --> 01:14:41,816 Just think! A man comes here pretending to be a police officer. 1189 01:14:41,817 --> 01:14:42,778 Now what does he do? 1190 01:14:43,163 --> 01:14:46,638 Very artfully, working on bits of information he's picked up here and there, 1191 01:14:46,673 --> 01:14:48,553 he bluffs us into confessing that we've been 1192 01:14:48,577 --> 01:14:50,577 mixed up in this girl's life in one way or another. 1193 01:14:50,601 --> 01:14:52,234 And so we have. 1194 01:14:52,270 --> 01:14:54,163 But how do we know it's the same girl? 1195 01:14:54,455 --> 01:14:56,945 - We all admitted it anyway. - No we didn't! 1196 01:14:57,057 --> 01:14:58,947 We admitted something to do with a girl, 1197 01:14:58,948 --> 01:15:01,795 - but how do we know it's the same girl? - By the photograph. 1198 01:15:01,796 --> 01:15:03,687 But how do we know it's the same photograph? 1199 01:15:03,688 --> 01:15:07,037 He was very careful that Eric and I shouldn't see the one he showed to your father. 1200 01:15:07,038 --> 01:15:08,804 Now just think back. 1201 01:15:11,711 --> 01:15:14,663 Did any two of us look at the same photograph at once? 1202 01:15:14,664 --> 01:15:16,204 No. 1203 01:15:17,030 --> 01:15:18,156 - No. - No. 1204 01:15:18,182 --> 01:15:22,180 Precisely. There's no proof that it was the same photograph. 1205 01:15:22,181 --> 01:15:24,478 Therefore, no proof that it was the same girl. 1206 01:15:24,533 --> 01:15:29,156 And there isn't the slightest proof that this... Daisy Renton was really Eva Smith. 1207 01:15:29,292 --> 01:15:32,507 We've only got his word for it and he may have been lying all the time. 1208 01:15:32,508 --> 01:15:35,666 Of course! There were probably 4 or 5 different girls. 1209 01:15:35,667 --> 01:15:38,937 That doesn't matter to me. The one I knew is dead. 1210 01:15:38,938 --> 01:15:42,542 - Well, we can soon settle that. - Oh? How? 1211 01:15:44,429 --> 01:15:46,475 By ringing the infirmary. 1212 01:15:46,511 --> 01:15:51,145 Hello, will you get me the infirmary? It's urgent. No, I don't know the number. 1213 01:15:51,907 --> 01:15:54,371 Either there's a dead girl there or there isn't. 1214 01:15:54,372 --> 01:15:56,519 And if there isn't? 1215 01:15:57,154 --> 01:15:59,605 Hello? Is that the infirmary? 1216 01:16:00,837 --> 01:16:03,730 This is Mister Gerald Croft speaking, of Croft's limited. 1217 01:16:03,731 --> 01:16:07,038 We are rather worried about one of our employees. 1218 01:16:07,075 --> 01:16:09,699 Have you had a girl brought in there this afternoon 1219 01:16:09,751 --> 01:16:11,858 who commited suicide by drinking disinfectant? 1220 01:16:11,859 --> 01:16:14,311 Or... any suicide? 1221 01:16:14,312 --> 01:16:16,052 Yes, I'll wait. 1222 01:16:27,879 --> 01:16:29,078 Yes? 1223 01:16:30,818 --> 01:16:32,544 You're certain of that? 1224 01:16:33,633 --> 01:16:36,793 I see. Thank you very much. Goodbye. 1225 01:16:39,123 --> 01:16:41,169 No girl has died there today. 1226 01:16:41,170 --> 01:16:43,150 They haven't had a suicide in months. 1227 01:16:43,151 --> 01:16:47,118 What a relief! Gerald my boy, pull us out some drinks at once! 1228 01:16:47,556 --> 01:16:50,329 To think that it's all over! 1229 01:16:51,255 --> 01:16:53,507 - Is it? - Well isn't it? 1230 01:16:53,543 --> 01:16:56,059 We've just been had, that's all! 1231 01:16:56,480 --> 01:16:58,603 So nothing's really happened? 1232 01:16:58,604 --> 01:17:02,072 Just because it didn't end tragically, there's nothing to be sorry for? 1233 01:17:02,073 --> 01:17:03,396 Nothing to learn? 1234 01:17:03,432 --> 01:17:08,385 - We can all go on behaving just as we did! - Well, why shouldn't we? 1235 01:17:08,386 --> 01:17:10,113 You had begun to learn something, 1236 01:17:10,468 --> 01:17:12,553 but now you're ready to go on the same old way? 1237 01:17:12,588 --> 01:17:14,874 Oh, and you're not, eh? 1238 01:17:16,124 --> 01:17:17,167 No. 1239 01:17:17,653 --> 01:17:21,407 Because I remember what he said and how he made me feel. 1240 01:17:21,618 --> 01:17:24,365 It frightens me the way you talk. 1241 01:17:25,638 --> 01:17:27,495 It frightens me, too. 1242 01:17:27,532 --> 01:17:32,910 Just look at them! The famous younger generation who know it all! 1243 01:17:32,946 --> 01:17:35,761 They can't even take a joke! 1244 01:17:36,117 --> 01:17:40,677 I tell you, whoever that inspector is, as long as I live I shall never forget him. 1245 01:17:40,678 --> 01:17:42,954 I do! I'd forgotten all about him! 1246 01:17:42,991 --> 01:17:47,468 Oh good gracious! Now Arthur, what do you think we'd better do? 1247 01:17:47,469 --> 01:17:50,532 - We don't want any fuss or scandal. - Leave it to me my dear. 1248 01:17:50,568 --> 01:17:54,518 We'll just give him a fright and send him away with a flea in his ear. 1249 01:17:54,554 --> 01:17:56,859 After all, you know, we owe him the right! 1250 01:17:59,521 --> 01:18:00,885 Now look here, 1251 01:18:00,921 --> 01:18:03,403 I want to have a few straight words with you. 1252 01:18:03,599 --> 01:18:08,543 One or two facts have come my way, Mister so-called inspector. 1253 01:18:08,579 --> 01:18:11,590 And now it's my turn to ask you a few questions, 1254 01:18:11,799 --> 01:18:13,409 - and I don't think you're going to like. - Father. 1255 01:18:13,410 --> 01:18:15,206 You're wanted on the telephone. 1256 01:18:15,850 --> 01:18:17,887 Just a minute. 1257 01:18:21,418 --> 01:18:25,372 Mister Birling speaking. Yes, Fletcher? 1258 01:18:28,214 --> 01:18:29,502 What? 1259 01:18:37,112 --> 01:18:38,838 Here? 1260 01:18:46,616 --> 01:18:48,494 It was the police. 1261 01:18:48,986 --> 01:18:52,599 A girl has just died on her way to the infirmary. 1262 01:18:52,636 --> 01:18:55,676 After swallowing some disinfectant. 1263 01:18:56,349 --> 01:18:59,253 The police inspector is on his way here. 1264 01:18:59,776 --> 01:19:02,667 To ask some questions.