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At the beginning of time

the clock struck one.

A drop of dew and
the clock struck two.

From the dew grew a tree

and the clock struck three.

Then the tree made a door

and the clock struck four.

Then man came alive

and the clock struck five.

Count not

waste not

the hours on the clock.

Behold I stand
at the door and knock.

Is that a new Bradshaw's, Eric?

Or one of your world famous collection
of out of date railway timetables?

I have a small problem...

which I suspect this gathering
might find interesting.

Last Thursday

I was returning from
a book auction in Chester

and, learning of a delay
on the Manchester-Edinburgh line,

found it necessary to make
a rapid adjustment to my itinerary,

leaving me just three minutes
to change platforms at Crewe.

Tickets from Crewe.

Tickets from Crewe.

You're on the wrong train, sir.
This is for Glasgow.

The Edinburgh train...
It's delayed. I thought

if I got your train as far as
Carstairs I ought to be

in time to catch the
Manchester-Edinburgh on its way up.

That should work.
Enjoy your journey, sir.

Tickets from Crewe.

I could have done with you
this morning, in Taunton.

Straight forward enough, surely?

Train down
to Bristol Temple Meads...
The Bristol train
was cancelled.

Well in that case you could
take it across to...

A friend gave me a lift.

I see.
And he gave me
a timetable.

Look at this...

He marked all of the
interesting things on the map.

Did you know...

Warrington was famous for vodka?

It's also the birthplace
of George Formby.

Hmm... is it really?

Most people assume it was Wigan.

Or Formby.

But it was Warrington.

You know, with all due respect to your
friend, if all he's mentioned is vodka,

he's really only scratched
the surface of Warrington.

The Black Prince.

Remember the Black Prince?

Had all his armour made there.

Warrington was really the only place to go
if you wanted a suit of armour.

A sort of Saville Row in steel.

Goodness!

Maybe we should get off,
take a look around.

Well if think Warrington's interesting,
you wait till we get to Preston.

Lancaster,

known as the Hanging Town.

Lancaster Assizes hanged more
people than any court in the land,

except for London.

That's Carnforth.

That's where they filmed
Brief Encounter, apparently.

You're too young to
remember that, of course.

Well my Aunt went to see it with
a girlfriend and a couple of sailors,

and she told me that...

whenever the actress...

Celia Johnson.
Celia Johnson...

got a bit tearful,
the sailors would shout,

"Come on, Trevor.
Give her one!"

Sorry.

I've gone too far.

Promise I'll behave
better from now on.

I've never been to the Highlands
before, so suddenly... um...

well finding myself single again,
so to speak,

I... I thought I'd like
to see them.

So I'm going to go up as far as
Mallaig by train and then I'm catching

the coach to Inverness
and coming down the other side.

What do you think?

The West Coast is
extraordinarily beautiful.

You might well fall in love with it.

And if I were to fall in love,
what then?

Well instead of a coach
to Inverness,

you might consider taking the line
back to Tyndrum and changing for Oban.

And from there you can get
any number of boat trips:

Iona, Staffa.

It's very romantic.

Are you romantic?

I have to be in Edinburgh...

by Wednesday.

Carstairs, now approaching.

Carstairs.
Carstairs.

So it is.

It was very nice to meet you.

You were an unexpected bonus.

Well.

Thank you again.

And so you see,

I am forced
to the unlikely conclusion,

that I've fallen in love.

So?

What are you going to do?

Would you excuse me for a moment?

There are only two trains from Inverness
to Edinburgh on Wednesdays...

Edinburgh Waverley,
this is Edinburgh Waverley.

Good afternoon.

Good afternoon. Ah...

This is a surprise.
What a coincidence.

Are you catching this train?

Yes, I am.

Well it's just that it terminates here.

It's not entirely a coincidence.

It's not entirely a surprise.

I'm not really used to entertaining,
as you'll see.

What are you doing?

I was just going to give it a stir.

Good heavens.

But the bottom of the pan's
going to burn...
Sit down.

So masterful.

Masterful but wrong.
We shall see.

I might nip out for a Brillo pad
for the burn marks

on the bottom of the pan.
Don't move.

Why not?

Because I'm looking at you.

Perfect.

You're making
quite a meal of this.

That was the general idea.

You know, I was wondering.

I've never kissed a man
with a moustache before.

Hmm...

And I don't think I'm going to kiss
a man with a moustache again.

Hmm.

And if the man
removed the moustache?

Yes, that would do nicely.

I'm just going to keep looking
into those lovely brown eyes.

Why?

I don't know.

Takes my mind off the broken teeth
and the shabby clothes.

Not quite so shabby today,
actually.

Better get them off so
I don't get confused, then.

If you think
that's a good idea.
M-hmm.

I'm so happy.

Get dressed, Lomax.

No, no, no.

No!

The war's over!
Not for you, Lomax.

No! No!
This way, please.

Please... no!

Eric!
Oh, God!

Help us! For the love of God,
someone help us!

Gentlemen.

You have all fought valiantly.

You are a credit
to your country.

But I have to inform you that
General Percival has decided,

under the circumstances,
to negotiate, as it were,

a ceasefire.

He's thrown in the towel, sir?
What happens to us?

Thorlby!

We are still a fighting unit and
you will do what you're told.

You can start by destroying anything
that might be of value to the enemy.

Quickly, gentlemen.

Lomax.

What are you doing?

Might come in handy, sir.

Christ almighty.

Lomax, my friend,

I think we have just witnessed
the fall of the British Empire.

You will number off!

Beginning with number one.

One.

Two.

Three.

Four.

Five.

Six.

Seven.

Eight.

Nine.

Ten.

Jack.

Queen.

King.

Ace.

Good?

So what do you think?

I don't want
to take over completely.

You're tired.
Do you want a cup of tea?

Eric?

What have you done?

I decided, on reflection,
I preferred things
the way they were.

Eric, whatever's wrong,
you can talk to me about it.

Eric.

Please. Never, ever try to interfere
with matters that don't concern you.

There's no objection, I hope?

No. No, of course not.

Eric?

I was just wondering
if you'd paid these bills.

Eric?

Eric.

Mrs Lomax?
Mike Moffat,

Northumberland Debt Recovery.
Non-payment of rates.

These gentlemen are here
to help me. Is Mr Lomax at home?

Non-payment?
That's right, madam.

You may be aware we have visited
on two previous occasions.

No. No, I wasn't aware.
Look, my husband...

And those visits were made
after all attempts to communicate

with Mr Lomax by post
had failed.

I'm sorry, I really know
nothing about this.

But if you could
possibly leave it with me.

My husband is slightly
disorganised sometimes...

Are you in a position
to make a payment now, madam?

We are authorised to enter

the property and make
an inventory of goods.

You can't come in here.

Eric. No!

Drop it!
No, please!

Drop the knife!

Drop it, sir!

Eric!

Eric, stop!

Please, why won't you
talk to me?

Eric!

Eric, we can't live like this.

No, leave me. I'm fine!

Fourteenth of next month,
Burton.

Same time.
Alright.

Put it in your diary.
Aye, thank you Uncle.

Mr Finlay.

Mrs Lomax.

I want to know what
happened to Eric.

You have to talk to Eric.
I have.

And he changes the subject...

whenever we get close to...

He gets as far as the fall of Singapore
and then he just... he shuts down.

And then he won't...

he won't talk about
the railway. There's...

I don't know.

I was a nurse.

Twenty years.

I've seen... a lot of suffering.

You can do something
if you know what's wrong.

I'm sorry I can't help you
play Florence Nightingale.

But a lot of men went through something
you can't even begin to imagine.

You're going to have to let us just
get on and cope with it

as best we can.

My husband isn't coping.

He's a mess.

War leaves a mark, Mrs Lomax.

But I don't believe in this
code of silence that you have.

I really don't.

And you may be determined to stay
screwed up and suffer for the rest

of your life, but I don't want that
for Eric. And I can't live like that.

He's a wonderful man.

I've seen it.

I love him and I want him back.

When we came home,

Eric couldn't handle it.

So he joined the Colonial Service,

and built a dam in Africa.

He wrote to me saying
they had a narrow gauge

railway system and badly needed
more engines and rolling stock.

But only the Japanese
had the right kind,

so he was going to do without.

When he came back, he'd...

he'd come to these meetings
and just sit there.

Didn't talk at all.

He did anything

to avoid people.

Went round and round the country
collecting railway memorabilia.

I think that's how he met you.

His whole life has been trains.

Here! Here!

Here!

Water!

Here!

Here! Water, please!

Fall in, men.
Don't lag behind.

Attention!

You very lucky boys.

You engineers.

You here to help us.

If you help good,

you will have a good war here,

in this good place.

If you don't help us,

you will go back up the line.

Up the line is not a good place.

Now one by one do number,
please.

One.
Two.

Three.
Four.

Five.
Six.

Seven.
Eight.

Nine.
Ten.

Eleven.

Twelve.

Thirteen.
Fourteen.

Fifteen.
Who surrendered?

I never surrendered.

We should still be out there
fighting, now.

We're not fighting, are we?
We're working for the Japanese.

I'm not working
for the bloody Japanese.

We should get out of here.

Organise.

Fight back.

Escape?

There's more of us than them.

We could stroll out.

All of us.
Calm down, Thorlby.

It's easy enough to walk out.

Then what?

Where would you go?

Well we must be somewhere.

We haven't fallen off
the edge of the world.

Er... sir?

Why don't you sit here?

Well I counted four days,

north, from Singapore up
towards Bangkok,

which would put us
somewhere about here.

Then we turned west.

So?

Well there is no railway line
west of Bangkok.

At least there wasn't
before the war.

How do you know, Lomax?

Well you see, the British...

they thought about building
a railway that would run

all the way from where we are
here in Thailand into Burma.

It would complete a line running
all the way from China to India.

If they'd managed it, it would
have taken its place alongside

the great railway journeys
of the world.

Canadian Pacific.

Trans-Siberian.
The Orient Express.

Yeah?

Well why didn't they build it?

Well...

building a railway,

is a hard, miserable job.

It's usually done by poor
immigrant workers.

The great American railways
were built by Chinese peasants.

And even the British railways,

they were built by Irish navvies
fleeing from famine.

But sometimes,

a railway is simply too
difficult to build.

Well it's
hundred of miles to Burma...

through mountains and jungle.

The British decided,

that to build such a railway,

it would be an act not
of engineering,

but of extreme barbarity...

and cruelty.

The conditions would be
such that...

those who did not die,

might well wish that they had.

To build such a railway you would need
more than just poor immigrants.

You'd need an army...

of slaves.

And we've just become that army.

We are not slaves.

We are soldiers.
You remember that.

And we are going to do our best for
those poor bastards up the line.

Lomax, Withins,

how are we fixed for a radio?

Lomax.

That should be the one.

There we go.

There it is.

Did you get it?

Here.

That's good.

We need a battery, but, Lomax...

what else do we need?

Well I can work on an aerial.

But we must have the capacitor.

Who got that?

Jackson, I think.

But he's up the line.

Oh, great.

Major?

Major York?

It's Lomax, sir.

Signals.

What's the problem?

She's knackered, mate.

Just like the rest of us.

Jackson...

It's, um, very beautiful.

What's it called?

The river?

Ah... Maenam Kwae Yai.

Maenam Kwae Yai?

Maenam Kwae Yai.

Thank you.

Maenam Kwae Yai.

Maenam Kwai Yai.

No good. Yeah.

Ready?

What if Hitler's in London?

What do we tell the men?

I can't say it sounds very likely.

It's running!

It's working.

This is the BBC
Home and Forces program.

This is Bruce Belfidge.

The Axis forces
in the Western Desert

after twelve days and nights

of ceaseless attacks
by our land and air forces

are now in full retreat.

Their disordered columns
are being relentlessly attacked

by our land forces and by the
Allied air forces by day and night.

In the morning
there was a rumour

that German tanks were
just over the hill.

Armed patrols went
out on the road.

Trees were felled at roadblocks

and thunderbolts and lightning appeared
low over the town and began weaving...

What we
have done is rekindle a fire

in British hearts

here and all over the world

which will glow...

Major... Major York.

The Russians have
retaken Stalingrad.

Got them on the run, sir.

Sir?

Come on, sir.

We've got Hitler on the run.

That's it, sir.

And we're bombing Germany
24 hours a day,

now the US Air Force
has joined in.

The men, sir, right?

You've got to let them
know it's going our way.

We've got Hitler on the run.

Pass it round.

The Russians have taken Stalingrad.

Be careful.

... went on fighting
until they had little ammunition left.

Our troops in the north
put down a smokescreen

and under cover
they withdrew a little

while our bombers went in
in three deadly waves

to deliver a large aerial
bombardment and one

of the heaviest
of the whole campaign.

They rang the church bells at home for the
first time since the beginning of the war.

Thorlby.

Finlay.

Withins.

Lomax.

Lomax!!!

Soldier.

I think it was the bravest thing
I've ever seen.

Though I walk through
the valley of the shadow of death,

I will fear no evil.

For thou art with me.

Thy rod and thy staff,
they comfort me.

Thou prepares the table for me
in the presence of my enemies.

Surely goodness and...

mercy will follow me
for the rest of my life.

It was...

madness.

But you can talk about it.

Why can't he talk to me about it?

I told you, you couldn't possibly
imagine what he's been through.

What did I say?
What? Please, please.

Please don't shut me out.

Please.

We had him for a little while.

A week or so.

We did our best to put him
back together again.

But we knew it wasn't over.

They came for him.

The young officer.

Kempeitai.

Their secret police.

Lomax. We are satisfied
you are guilty.

You will be killed shortly,

but it will be to your advantage
to tell me the truth.

Raise your arms.

You will come with me.

And then we didn't see him
for two weeks.

He never told me
what they did to him.

There are some things,
Patti, that are so bad,

so humiliating and...

shameful...

I'm not sure you could ever
talk about them.

Especially not
to someone you love.

Or want to love.

I have to try.

Patti.

Eric.

I hope you're not planning
to throw yourself in there.

As a gentleman I'd feel obliged
to go in after you,

and that may well be
the end of me.

The men used to call me Uncle.

They thought
I'd look after them,

and I did, while we were there.

But here...

every month
I stare into those...

bitter, half-awake faces,

and I know they desperately need me
to put them back together again.

But I can't.

There's nothing
I can do for them now.

I think you do more
than you know.

Eric did something wonderful.

He stuck his neck out

to give us hope in a nightmare
5,000 miles from home.

He should have...

medals and glory.

Can't you make him
understand that?

No.

It's too late.

The only time I've seen him light up
was when you came along.

Patti...

I have something.

I think it's the most

dangerous thing I've
ever held in my hand.

You must decide...

if Eric should see it.

It's him.

The young Kempeitai officer.

And he's alive.

Nagase.

I don't know what he will do...

if we tell him.

But doesn't Eric
deserve a chance...

for justice?

Will you stand by him?

Whatever he does?

Whatever he does.

I want to.

I can't imagine anything worse
than where he is now.

It's him, isn't it?

The bastard's back in Kanburi.

Back at the scene of the crime.

Can you believe that?

He's alive?

And he's living off it!

Showing the railway to tourists.

Bridge on the bloody
River Kwai holidays.

Nagase.

I've had it translated.

Look him up.

He won't have a clue
you're coming.

Element of surprise, Eric.

Always good.

The years I've spent,

imagining I'd found him.

Making him beg.

Making him scream.

I've nursed myself to
sleep on those sounds.

And the snapping of the hyoid bone,
and the chopstick through the eye.

Your timing's off.

What do you mean?

We're not soldiers anymore, Uncle.

We're bank clerks,
school teachers,

engineers, retired persons.

If you'd come to me with this a year
ago, I'd have hunted him down.

But now I'm a husband.

And she means everything to me.

No husband would treat her
the way you do.

You punish her.

You punish her!

When we surrendered,
the Japs said we weren't men.

Real men would kill themselves.

Would die of shame.

But we said no.

We'll live to fight you.

We'll live for revenge.

But we didn't, no.

We don't live.

We're miming in the choir.

We can't love.

We can't sleep.

We're an army of ghosts.

What happened in that room?

What did they do to you?

I think you should go now.

Don't waste this.

At least one of us
deserves some peace.

It's too late for me
and the other guys but...

you were the strongest.
You were the best of us.

You do this for me.

Please.

Come on. We're walking
Finlay to the station.

You... you want me
to come with you?

I thought we'd take him along
the front, give him a little tour.

I'm not a train spotter.

I'm a railway enthusiast.

You know we met on a train.

You can't just say "a train"
when you're talking about Eric.

You have to say which train,
when it was built

where it was stopping,
how many wheels it had.

I'm going to send him a message.

Something he won't
be able to ignore.

Yes?

Oh, my God.

Alright, thank you.

It's Finlay...

Where?

Er... Warminster.

He must have caught
the Birmingham train, changed at...

Stop it. Stop it!

This is what you're
going to do, isn't it?

Isn't that what you want?

I've seen you with him.

Your secret little chats.

That's what happens
when you start interfering.

Hope you're happy.

May he have peace with God
through our Lord,

Jesus Christ, and rejoice in
the hope of the Glory of God

and not only so, but
we glory in tribulations also

knowing that tribulation

worketh patience

and patience, experience

and experience, hope...

One.

Two.

Three.

Four.
Five.

Six.

Seven.

Eight.

Nine.

Ten.

Jack.

Queen.

King.

The flowers are an offering
for the Mother of Waters.

They symbolise the desire
to atone for any evil

that the pilgrim has done in life.

I thought all
the Buddhas were fat and jolly.

No. The fat Buddha
is not this Buddha.

This Buddha is
Siddhartha Guatama.

The great Buddha, the Founder.

The fat one is a monk.

He is called Putai.

Buddha is not a name.

It is a title, like your saint,
perhaps.

Come this way, please.

I am from Japan.

I come to this place
on a pilgrimage.

This is my 57th pilgrimage.

This area was occupied
by my country during the war.

We are going to the War Museum
over in Kempeitai.

Thanks for coming.

See you.

Thank you, please.

Sir.

I'm afraid the museum is closed.

I've come a very long way.

I have a particular interest in
knowing what happened here.

What happened to these men?

It will be open again
tomorrow morning.

Perhaps you could return then?

I'm afraid this won't
keep till tomorrow.

I'm surprised
you don't recognise me.

Sit down, Mr Nagase.

Mister...

Lomax.

We won't be needing
an interpreter this time.

Of course, that wasn't your
real function last time, was it?

You will be killed shortly.

But it will be to your advantage
to answer my questions in the meantime.

How can it be to my advantage?

Your friends have already
admitted to building a radio...

in order to conspire
with our enemy.

They also said that you're
the ringleader of the plot.

He can do a lot worse...

than to kill you.

We want to know about the map.

Why did you draw a map?

Well it's a map of the railway.
He knows that.

Who's it for?

For me. It's the railway.

We know it is the railway.

Why did you draw
a map of the railway?

I'm a railway enthusiast.

Enthusiast?

I like trains.

I really like trains.

You used this
to communicate with

Thai Resistance
and their Chinese paymasters.

No, I didn't.

How could I do that?

You received information and then
passed it on to them with this.

How could I do that?

I am asking the questions.

You must answer them.

But it's a receiver.

It receives signals.

It doesn't transmit them.

How can you transmit
with a receiver?

You built this transmitter to tell
the Chinese about our railway!

So...

Which bit do you talk into?

Well if it's a transmitter
you need to talk into it. Where?

You do not ask questions.

I ask questions.

You answer the questions.

I'm just trying to help you.

Thank you.

Just tell them.

Or they will make you tell them.

First personal singular,
not third person plural. You...

tortured me, you see,
not they. You.

They were afraid you were...

No, you is second person.
You need the first person.

I tortured you,

Lieutenant Lomax.

Try it. I...

I am at a loss.

I want to ask...
No, no, you don't ask. I ask.

I ask the questions.
You answer.

Why did you build the radio?

Who helped you
to build the radio?

No one.

No one helped us.

We built it ourselves.
Liar.

You tell lies.

Why did you build the radio?!

To...

To listen to.

To hear voices.

To know what was
happening at home.

At the beginning of time

the clock struck one.

Then dropped the dew

and the clock struck two.

Who asked you to draw the map?

From the dew grew a tree

and the clock struck three.

Where did you get
the components for the radio?

Then the tree made a door

and the clock struck four.

No!

Man came alive

and the clock struck five.

Count not.

Waste not

the hours on the clock.

Behold I stand

at the door and knock.

I did not expect you
to be alive.

No, of course you didn't.
You thought you'd got away with it.

Why are you alive?

Why are we alive?

No, you.

Why are you alive?

You were a war criminal.
Why didn't they hang you?

Not a war criminal.

Just an interpreter.

You were Kempeitai,
you knew everything!

Why did they let you live?

Easy does it.

Now listen.

We intend to treat you fairly.

We are civilised human beings,

but we do need to see
that justice is done.

You're going to be transferred

to Bangkok while we look into
some of the charges

that have been made
against you.

Translator?

Yes, sir.

Kempeitai?

No, sir.

Translator.

Did you work for the Kempeitai?

Torture? Beatings?

Only translation.

Over there.

I worked for
the War Graves Commission.

They needed interpreters.

We travelled the railway.

We find dead bodies.

We identified them.

We brought them here
to be buried properly.

So you went up the line.
You buried the men you helped to kill.

That's when I saw...

so many bodies.

So very many.

I had not imagined
so many had died.

Murdered.

The word you're
looking for is murdered.

So many had been murdered.

Go on.

Murdered.

Yes.

That's what I saw.

So many murdered.

So I will speak.

I make pilgrimages.

I work for...

reconciliation.

I will not let them forget...

the tragedy of war.

The what?

The tragedy of war.

No, this wasn't a tragedy.
This was a crime.

You're not tragic.

You're a criminal.

You were an intelligent,
educated man

and you did nothing.

You're a criminal and a liar.

Mr. Lomax...

Through my work here

I have found
some peace in my life.

If I can help you...

Mr. Lomax.

I'm trying to answer these questions
because you are asking them.

But I don't think these questions
are the right questions!

No!

Mother! Mother! Mother!

Why won't you help me?
Mother!

Mother!

Alright!

Alright, I'll tell you! I'll tell you.

I'll tell you, I'll tell you.
I'll tell you.

I'll tell you, I'll tell you.

I'll tell you everything
we heard on the radio.

I'll tell you the truth.

While you're here
building your railway

American submarines
are destroying your shipping.

There's shortages
of food and fuel all over Japan.

American planes
are bombing your cities,

destroying your bridges,

your roads,

your hospitals.

And there's no one to stop them.

Your homes are burning

and your families are starving.

That is what I heard
on the radio.

You're a liar.

You tell lies.

You have no honour.

Your army is defeated.

You surrender like dogs.
Look at you.

You should be ashamed
to be alive.

If my army was defeated,

I would take my life
to save my honour.

You're getting your chance.

Any day now.

My mother was already dead,
as it happens.

All through the war,

I wrote letters home
to a dead woman.

What do you tell people?

About what you did to us?

We do not talk about it.

No one will talk about it.

Nor do we.

And you know why?

Because no one would believe it.

No one would believe
what you did to us.

You treated us like animals
because we surrendered.

You said you'd rather die...

than live without honour.

But you didn't die.

It was a lie they told us.

It was all lies.

That we would win.

We would have honour.

They lied to us.

Only you told me the truth.

No matter what we did to you,

you held on.

You showed me that

nothing's worth more
than this life.

Finlay...

He was my friend.

He was a prisoner here.

He put your life in my hands.

He wanted an end to this.

Maybe...

that is why I am alive.

For this day.

Maybe we both lived...

for this day.

You can make an end.

You are a soldier, Lomax.

You never surrendered.

I'm still at war.

I thought I'd lost you.

When Finlay died, I was scared.

I was scared that the same
might happen to you.

It was different for Finlay.

He didn't have you.

Dear Mr Lomax,

I was a member of
the Imperial Japanese Army.

We treated you and your
countrymen very, very badly.

It is a long time since
the war ended,

but for me

it is a time of suffering.

The dagger of our meeting

thrust deep into my heart.

I never forgot you.

I remember your face,

your arms,

your eyes.

I have to go back.

I want you to come with me.

I wouldn't have lasted a day here.

If you'd been here,

you'd have caused quite a stir.

You'd have outlasted
the lot of us.

I am sorry.

So sorry.

I don't want to
live that day anymore.

Neither do I.

Dear Mr Nagase,

the war has been over
for many years.

I have suffered much.

But I know
you have suffered too.

And you have been
most courageous

and brave

in working for reconciliation.

Sorry.

While I cannot forget

what happened in Kanchanaburi,

I assure you

of my total forgiveness.

Sometime the hating has to stop.