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Darling.

I'm in Calcutta.

I have waited until now to write

because I was afraid at the last moment

I might get cold feet.

You can expect me at any time now.

Surely we can give it another chance.

I still love you.

Lee.

- My doctor, my doctor.

My doctor, they're gonna fall.

They got the devil in them.

I pick them up, Tuan.

We go chase it, please, my doctor.

Please, please, please.

- No we don't go chasing it.

- Oh, why not?

- What's the matter this time?

- The plantation, Tuan Doctor.

This morning I said to myself,

as Mayor of Selim, I must go up there and mediate.

But then I said, no, no, this is wrong.

The mayor should not take sides

in plantation matters.

You see, Tuan, the difficulty is that--

- You can't make up your mind.

- Joking again.

- Tuan Doctor, when the plane comes,

you will go to the air strip to meet it?

- Yes.

- You will take me?

Please, my doctor, please.

- We'll see.

You get the parcels in.

- Yes, my doctor.

- Susie.

- Much better. - Much better.

Morning.

- Good morning, my doctor.

It arrived half an hour ago.

Everything is ready.

And there are flowers in the bungalow.

- Good.

The Biensommes have paid their bill at last.

That's not bad for tonsillitis, is it?

Anything new?

- The appendectomy is anxious to leave.

She's getting married next week.

- Is she?

How's the isolation case?

- Up two points last night,

down this morning.

- Oh, good.

There's been another case of smallpox in the valley.

I've sent Dolyan.

I'll try and get down there myself tomorrow.

I can't get any of that crowd

in the valley to take their injections.

You and I ought to get down there more often.

There's never enough time, is there?

Is there?

Anna?

Shall we do the wards?

- Yes, my doctor.

- I'm late.

Will you do the out-patients for me?

- Keep an eye on old Jan Tinn.

I don't like the sound of that lung congestion.

Yes, my doctor.

- Hey.

What's the matter, don't you like the service?

This is your patient, I think.

- All right, come on.

- Thank you.

- I take your bags, ma'am.

But the doctor said-- - All right, Kosti.

Hello.

- Hello.

- Kosti's my right-hand-man.

- Hello, Kosti. - Hello, ma'am.

- Did you have a nice trip?

- Well, thanks to the Consul there, fine.

- Dr. Windom, I presume?

- Colonel Hasbrook.

Glad to have met you at last.

- Well, I've been meaning to come over for some time.

And when I found a chance of combining duty with pleasure,

well, nothing could stop me.

- It looked as if I was going to rid in an ox cart.

But when [ told them that my name was Windom,

the red carpet was out.

You're quite a legend, you know.

- I've fixed you up with a room at the hospital.

Oh, thank you.

- Sorry, it's all we've got.

Is this the lot?

- Well, there is a little more.

- Same old Lee.

- Wrong.

Different Lee.

Kosti.

Help with the luggage.

Yes, that's it, I'm afraid.

A poor thing, but my own.

- Oh, I think it's...

It's...

- Well, aren't you going to carry her across

the threshold or something?

- All right, Kosti, let's get the bags in, huh?

A nice kid.

Where did you find him?

- Well, he was at the hospital when I first arrived.

And he attached himself to the outfit.

Oh.

- Well, first things first.

What will you have, Lee?

- Oh, something long and cool.

- Hasbrook?

- Oh, beer, please.

Iced, if you can manage it.

- I can, thanks to you.

- Me?

- Well, didn't you intervene

with the World Health boys for this?

Could be.

How is it?

- Wonderful.

The rule is, serum on one side, drinks on the other.

Well, don't get them mixed.

- I should have it at the hospital,

but Anna insists that I keep it here.

- Who's Anna?

- My head nurse.

- The matron?

- Well, sort of.

- Oh.

- Actually, we're not very strict with titles here.

- What lovely flowers.

- Oh, yes, that's the kind of wild orchid.

It grows all over the place.

- Who looks after you here?

I mean, apart from Kosti?

- Oh, the hospital staff.

They take it in turn.

They have a sort of roster.

Is that all right?

- Fine.

- They manage to look after me somehow.

How long are you staying?

- Oh, I'm off tomorrow.

Jagilla, Randang, Thetka,

Kalipon, routine tour.

The rest of the trip will be quite a let down.

- Thanks, Kosti, get the other, will you.

Lee, would you like to see your room

and change or something?

- Yes, please.

- Help yourself to a gin and penicillin.

Thank you.

- I put you in here

because it's the coolest room in the house.

And you get the east wind.

Mine's on the other side.

Well, now for the Dorchester touch.

How's that?

- How does it work?

- Well, you pump it up through there

then it goes up round.

Well, look.

In the wet season it gets a bit dodgy

because it overflows.

And then I'm afraid in the dry,

the snakes come in to keep cool.

- I say, Windom, come out here a minute.

What's going on here?

- Oh dear, it's an official welcome.

For the doctor's wife.

- I don't have to make a speech, do I?

- No, the gentleman in the topee

will make enough speeches for all of us.

Shall we do our duty?

- In the name of my people,

I, Lollivar, the Mayor of Selim

have the hon our of extending a heartfelt welcome

to one whom I hope will long be with us.

Our affection for the doctor,

who has done so much to bring health

and happiness to this village, knows no bounds.

This garland is a token...

Where's the garland?

Oh, here's the garland.

This garland is a token of our gladness

that our beloved doctor is recompensed

for this goodness by now having one beside him

to the delight his eyes, administer his needs

and comfort his heart.

- Thank you.

- Thank you, Lollivar. - Thank you very much.

- This is Colonel Hasbrook,

the Mayor of Selim.

- How do you do. - How do you do.

- Now I want you to meet a very special friend,

Father Amy an.

He's our Wise Man and we all look up him.

- He says that he's very honored you've paid us a visit

and he hopes that you will stay.

- Oh, thank him for his kindness

and tell him that I hope so too.

- Looks like trouble.

What's happened, Sergeant?

- They got out of control.

Mr. Patterson sent for me.

- Why are they injured?

- They attacked me, I hit back.

- Does Mr. Patterson know they've been hurt?

- Mr. Patterson left me to deal with it.

- Oh, did he?

Well, I'll personally make damned certain he doesn't again.

- Hmm, never a dull moment, is there?

- How as I to know that Lansang would treat them so roughly?

But everyone in the district knows

what Lansang is, why did you have to call him in?

- Because these fellows are disobeying company orders.

- All right, but they were seriously injured.

You can't employ thugs.

Surely you know how to handle your own men.

- Yes, and when you've lived in this country

as long as I have, you'll know how to handle 'em.

This is the East, not Harley Street.

Look, Windom.

You know very well what's at stake.

Rubber.

It's rubber that's made this country what it is.

These people wouldn't be able to live without it.

- We know all that. - What happens?

There's a trumped up grievance about rice.

They want to grow their own rice.

They want all the lab our, all the trouble

of growing their own rice and they've got all they need.

We dole it out to them one a month.

Plenty of rice.

No shortage of rice and they say they want to grow it.

- Well, if they want to so much,

why don't you let them?

- They don't.

Oh, why can't I make you understand?

All this rice business is just an excuse

for a couple of agitators.

- Rubbish.

The men want to do something you don't want them to do,

so you call them agitators.

- You think these people aren't affected by the Reds?

Do you think they're not in touch with them?

You think that young Vidal and Father Amy an

aren't in it up to their necks?

- As far as he's concerned-- - Well,

if you believe that, you're more naive

than I thought you were.

That's why I had to stand firm.

That's why I sacked Vidal. - You sacked him?

- Well, wouldn't you?

- But you can't sack people and have them injured

just because they hold a meeting.

- Huh?

- We're not living in the middle ages.

You're stirring up a lot of trouble for yourself.

- Look, Windom.

I'm not a fool.

Why can't you mind your own business

and keep out plantation affairs?

- When your men come into my hospital

in that condition, it is my business.

As far as them being agitators, [I talk to Jan.

Frankly, I think you're wrong.

Jan, you and I and your sister there,

have been friends for a long time

so I'm going to ask you a question.

Are you in touch with the rebels?

- My doctor, my brother is-- - No, no.

No, let him answer for himself.

- What makes you think that?

- It's not a matter of what I think,

I just want to know.

Are you and Father Amy an in sympathy with Than-Kar?

- So that is what Patterson is saying.

No, Tuan Doctor, we are not

and you should know it.

- All right, all right, don't get excited.

I just wanna know, that's all.

Sit down, Jan.

Why are you making so much trouble?

You know Mr. Patterson's quick-tempered.

Why do you go out of your way to provoke him?

- But, Doctor, |-

- I mean, for instance,

holding a meeting in the rubber sheds of all places.

Did Amy an tell you to do that?

- Father Amy an tell us to do nothing

that will cause violence.

- Of course he does.

And that's the very thing you're doing.

Have you seen your friends in the ward there?

- Will they be all right, my doctor?

- Yes.

Be no fault of yours if they are.

- I'm sorry you are angry, Tuan.

- I'm not angry, I'm just trying to help

and I think you're going about this in the wrong way.

- We hold meetings because we wish to grow our own rice.

- Yes, but why?

Mr. Patterson tells me he supplies you with it.

- Because it would cost us less.

And there would be more money for other things.

- Well, if that's all it is,

I think I can persuade him to give it to you cheaper.

- Oh, no, no, no, no.

There are other reasons.

It is difficult to explain.

It is that rice is a part of our lives.

A part of us.

You in Europe are what you are because of big things.

Your universities, your industries,

your great towns, they are important to you.

To us, the important things are very small, very simple.

Our village and our rice.

It sounds stupid to you?

- No, it sounds very sensible.

But it's gonna be difficult to explain to Mr. Patterson.

- Mr. Patterson.

Mr. Patterson will not even talk to us about it.

About rice, Mr. Patterson will have no argument.

The truth is, Mr. Patterson thinks

that if we grow our own rice,

we will be become independent of the plantation

and neglect the rubber.

- Well, wouldn't you?

- Do you think we would be so foolish?

Do you think we do not realise

what rubber means to our people?

Do you think we want to lose our living?

No, the women would grow the rice.

My doctor, the plantation will not suffer.

- Well, if you get permission, where would you grow it?

- We could rent the land from the company.

We're not asking for something we could not pay for.

- Well, if I have another talk with Mr. Patterson

and persuade him to take you back,

will you talk to the men, tell them

to carry on as if nothing's happened

and abide by the company regulations?

- I'll try.

- And I'll try.

I'd better go and take a few temperatures

and look as if I'm working.

- What are you going to do

with yourself all the time

when he's over at the hospital?

- Read, look after the house.

Learn to be a doctor's wife again.

- Lee, I think you're going to be all right.

But if by any chance you are ever up against it,

you'll let me know, won't you?

- Of course I will, George.

But it won't arise.

Thanks all the same.

- Oh, excuse me for intruding, Mrs. Windom.

I'm Anna Vidal.

I was on duty when you came this morning

so I could not greet you.

- The head nurse?

- Yes, Mrs. Windom.

- Oh, I'm sorry, I expected somebody older.

- And far less pretty.

- Oh, do, please sit down.

- Oh, no, please, I must hurry back.

But, if you will forgive me,

the doctor asked me to fetch some serum.

- Oh, of course, help yourself.

- Thank you.

Thank you for the refrigerator.

I understand its being here was your doing.

- Oh, the doctor never thinks of his own comforts.

So we try to look after him.

Your room is ready, Colonel Hasbrook.

Goodnight, Mrs. Windom.

I hope you will be happy here.

- Thank you, Anna.

- Well, it looks as though

you didn't come a moment too soon.

Well, you're tired, I must get off to bed.

Say goodnight to Alec for me, will you?

- Yes, you'll come and see me before you go in the morning?

- You just try and stop me.

- Sleep well.

Ma'am.

- What is it, Kosti?

- All right if I go to sleep now, ma'am?

- Of course.

Do you live here in the bungalow?

- Yes, ma'am.

Under the table in the kitchen.

- Where are your parents, Kosti?

- Oh, they dead long time.

Doctor my father now.

You be my mother, Lady Doctor?

- We'll see.

- Thank you, ma'am.

Goodnight, ma'am.

- Goodnight.

- Oh, he'll be all right, I think.

I'll have another look at him in the morning.

- And thank you for talking to Jan.

Except for Father Amy an, you're the only one he listens to.

- Well, let's hope what I'm talking about makes sense.

Goodnight, Anna.

- Goodnight.

- Hello.

Oh, you look tired.

-Yes, I am.

- How are the men from the plantation?

- They'll be all right.

- Oh, you're at home here, aren't you?

You're doing what you want to do?

- In most ways, yes.

Why have you come?

- Isn't it obvious?

- Yes.

It won't work you know, Lee.

- It doesn't work without you either.

That's why I came before you could reply to my letter.

Alec, I haven't come here on a sudden impulse.

I've had time to think.

- So have I.

I don't want to go through all those dreadful rows again.

I couldn't bear it and neither could you.

We've got to face it, Lee.

We'll never get together over this.

It's just that we see differently

about what a doctor's life ought to be

and what he ought to do, that's all.

- But I've changed by ideas.

I'm not ambition for you any more.

Not in the stupid way I was before.

Trying to make you a social success.

Making you live your life my way.

I won't interfere.

I just want to be with you.

- I know you mean that now, Lee.

- I want to help you.

I want to be part of your life.

- But if it didn't work in London

where it had everything in its favour,

how do you expect it to work here?

I mean, look at it.

I'm an idiot doctor, who likes

to practice in a village surrounded by jungle.

Apart from Patterson, there isn't another European

this side of the capital.

What is there for somebody like you here?

Huh?

Well, what is there?

- There's you.

- Lee, when are you going to understand

what kind of a person you are?

Heaven defend me, I'm not blaming you

but you're the sort of person that likes cities

and fun and gaiety and parties

and attention and that's wonderful

and that's right for you, but--

- I wasn't enough.

- What about your career?

- Oh, it's finished.

I'm glad I achieved my kind of success,

it made me realise how shallow it was.

I've really changed, Alec. - Oh, I've heard that before.

How many times have we all said in the great cycle,

"For ever and ever.

"I've changed.

"I won't do it again.

"Please forgive me."

Sorry, Lee, I'm not convinced.

- 'I have come back.

Doesn't that mean anything?

- I don't wanna hurt you.

Well, don't think I haven't missed you like hell

but we must come to some realization of what we are,

otherwise we'll go on torturing each other for--

- Don't you feel anything for me?

Anything at all?

- I don't know.

Honestly, I don't know.

I suppose I could try and accept some kind of--

- No, don't try for God's sake, don't try.

Don't force anything.

Just let me stay.

Let things happen.

I love you, Alec.

Goodnight.

- Goodnight.

- Well, let us know when you're coming

to the capital and we'll kill the fatted calf.

I'd better pop in.

And that goes for Lee too.

- Thanks.

- And, by the way, old boy,

if you don't mind a bit of friendly advice,

don't get involved.

- What do you mean?

- Well, local squabbles and all that sort of thing.

We mustn't forget, we're visitors.

No foreign interference.

You keep yourself busy in the hospital.

Well, so long.

- So long.

- Well?

- They're holding a meeting in the village, Tuan.

They say they've gone on strike.

- Did you hear anything about this last night

when they left the plantation?

- No, Tuan.

They told me nothing.

- Right.

- Well, what are you going to do?

-Do?

- Those men out there are on strike.

Thousands of trees waiting to be tapped

and they're not being tapped.

- Yes, yes, Mr. Patterson.

Law and order must be preserved.

I, er, that is, you could talk to the men.

- Talk to the me?

What do you think I've been doing for the last three weeks?

- Of course, in other places they would call out the troops.

But we have not troops.

Only the police.

- Then get out the police.

- Oh, but Mr. Patterson, it would be my suggestion...

Now, don't you think I make any criticism

but there are problems to this course.

- What problems?

- Well, er...

Lansang is not very popular with the people just--

- Do you wish me to wire to the authorities

that you're incapable of handling the situation?

- Oh no, please, Mr. Patterson, no, no.

What would you suggest?

- I suggest that we get the men back to work

and there's only one way to do it.

- Oh, but, Mr. Patterson, don't let us do anything

that would possibly hurt them.

Mr. Patterson.

Mr.

Mr. Patterson, this may be the wrong thing to do.

But...

- Tuan Doctor.

Tuan Doctor.

They are on strike.

We could not stop them.

Father Amy an told me to come to you.

- On strike?

- Yes.

- You'd better come inside.

What actually happened?

We held this meeting...

- Wait in my office.

Stay there 'ill I send for you.

- Yes, Tuan.

- Sorry to disturb you, Windom.

We've come for Vidal.

He's here, isn't he?

- That's right.

- Will you please call him?

- I'm not sure.

What do you want him for?

- Breach of the peace and stoppage of work.

The police must take such steps as they deem necessary.

- As you deem necessary.

In local matter, you take orders from the Mayor.

Right? - Right.

- And what orders have you given to him?

- Well, Doctor, we are all...

Well, nearly all, civilized men.

Men of good will.

But the plantation is-- - I your best customer.

I know that.

- Oh, no, no, no. - I resent that.

Mr. Mayor, Sergeant, you wait here.

Perhaps you'll allow me to come inside.

- Of course.

- Now, Doctor, what's on your mind?

- Well, it's the way you're handling the strike.

- Hmm?

- It seems perfectly simple to me.

Why not meet the men?

Listen to their grievances and talk it over.

- Out of the question.

Lansang's already taken charge of the situation.

- Yes, but violence won't help.

- What do you suggest?

Prayer?

Look, Windom.

You and I are the only white men in the district.

Let's work together as white men.

There's one way to end this strike.

If the ringleaders cool their heels in jail

for a week, the men will go back to the trees.

We've got Amy an.

We want Vidal.

- What do you mean, you've got Amy an?

- He was arrested 10 minutes ago.

No violence.

The men did nothing.

- You've taken the most respected man in the village

and put him in jail?

You must be out of your mind.

- The only thing these people respect is strength.

- Oh, that old phrase.

- Oh, this wooly-headed idealism.

- I tell you that Amy an and Vidal

are the very people who are trying

to persuade the men to go back to work.

- Well then, the me will be all the more sorry

they didn't take their advice.

Come now, Doctor, let's send for Vidal

and have an end to it.

- No, I'm sorry.

- You refuse?

- That's right, I refuse.

- Lansang, search the hospital.

- That won't be possible.

- Doctor, I don't want to cause more trouble

than necessary, but the police have a right--

- The police have no right

to remove a patient from hospital.

- Patient?

- That's right.

Jan Vidal was admitted this morning.

- What for?

- Observation.

- Ob...

Very well, Doctor.

- Oh.

But Mr. Patterson, please, er, now...

Doctor Windom.

- Jan?

Jan?

- Jan's gone.

- Uh-huh.

I'm going to the village. - What's happening?

- What is the trouble?

I tried to stop them, it was impossible, they're mad.

- You get back to your shop and get

as many sheets and towels as you can, for bandages.

Doctor Windom, Doctor Windom.

- Tuan Doctor.

- Get away.

- You must see why this has happened.

- I don't want to talk to you.

- It's Father Amy an.

Father Amy an, Tuan.

- It was Langsang.

-He did it.

- You get down to the hospital.

Get Dolyan and the ambulance as quick as you can.

- Dr. Windom?

Dr. Windom?

The men from the village have been down

to the plantation.

They've burned Mr. Patterson's bungalow.

- Is Patterson all right?

Well, he tried to stop them.

- Where is he?

- He got away in his car.

He's gone to the capital.

- Is he hurt?

No, Tuan.

- Who are the men?

- They came in a police truck.

Are you part of this?

- No, I am not.

Tuan Doctor, I assure you, I know nothing...

- What is it?

- 7040.

- Plasma, straight away.

Next.

- The end bed.

- Dressing trolley.

- Al light.

- Give me the basin.

Anna.

- Put your head down, right down.

- The theater is ready, Sister.

- I'm all right.

- The theater is ready, my Doctor.

- Mm.

- That's all we can do now.

Have you got much cleaning up to do?

- No, my Doctor.

- When you're finished, get one

of the others to take over.

Get some rest, huh?

- Goodnight.

- Tuan.

- What is it?

- I've spoken to Mr. Patterson's foreman.

He is coming to see you again in the morning.

What will they do at the capital?

- I don't know.

But you're in trouble.

- Mr. Patterson will tell the authorities only his side.

They must hear the truth.

Our side.

The men went to the plantation

because they thought Mr. Patterson

was responsible for the killing of Father Amy an.

- Never mind what they thought.

That's no reason to take the law

into your own hands.

- 80 you are against us now.

- I'm not against you

I'm not against anybody.

- I know we have done wrong, Tuan.

- I'm tired, go home, Jan.

- Hey, Sal one.

What are you doing here, hey?

- I hope you don't mind them being here.

It just seemed so horrible in the hospital

with all that going on.

Why should I mind?

- I'm so sorry, I fainted like that.

I felt-- - Well,

nobody expects you to be a nurse.

- Alec, I do so want to help you.

I wish I could do more.

- You're doing all right.

Don't worry about them, you get some sleep.

Hello, Jan.

- Tuan Doctor.

- We are already planting.

Are you not happy for us?

- Yes, it's coming along well.

Don't think they've forgotten you.

- Oh, what will they do?

What can they do?

- A lot, if they want to.

If you take my advice, you'll get

the rubber plantation going again

and repair all the damage you've done.

- We're not going back to the old days.

- I hope not.

But show them you can grow rice

and rubber at the same time.

- If we did that, my doctor, would you speak for us?

- You know I will.

I may not have to.

- I shall call the men together.

- All they're doing is growing rice.

Trespassing on your land, maybe, but fairly harmless.

I can understand the virement of your concern,

Mr. Patterson, but I must ask you to be a little patient.

- Being patient doesn't get the plantations started.

- Oh am I late?

- Come in, Colonel, come sit down.

How are you, Patterson?

- Good morning, Lieutenant.

- We were discussing the incident in Selim.

- Oh, yes.

What's the news of Windom?

Is he all right?

- Mr. Patters seems to think he's very much all right.

As a matter of fact, Colonel, that's one

of the reasons we've asked you to come.

What kind of man is this Doctor Windom?

- Well, he's remarkable, clever,

thundering good doctor.

Completely sacrifices himself for the people.

- Sacrifices himself for the people, mm.

This strike and subsequent riots,

to what extent do you suppose he's implicated?

- In no way at all.

- He's very much implicated.

Even if he didn't actually inspire the strike,

he certainly supported the leaders.

- Well, he's so close to the natives.

I mean, that a part of his job.

But you can't make me believe.

- We're not trying to make you believe anything, Colonel.

We seek information.

We'd like you to instruct your diplomatic people

to check on Doctor Windom's record.

We would like to know whether

it contains anything of a subversive nature.

- That, Commissioner, is fantastic.

- It may appear so to you.

But in these uncertain times the fantastic

has become more common than the commonplace.

- All this is getting us nowhere, Commissioner.

My company has instructed me to ask

for the protection it is entitled to.

And it would like it.

Without further delay.

- If the incident in Selim were isolated,

it could be quickly dealt with.

But it's only one of many throughout the whole district.

Colonel Lupat, perhaps you'd be kind enough

to put us in the picture.

- Willingly.

- In strict confidence. - Oh, yes, yes, yes.

- Now here is the rebel army, led by Than-Kar.

Oh, thank you.

Here, the incident in Selim.

Here, here, here and here, similar incidents.

Now we expect an attack from this area here.

In which case it will be necessary to deny them Selim.

Which sooner or later must be occupied by us in force.

- That's all very fine but in the meantime

what about the rubber?

Suppose they do further damage to the plantation?

I've been in this office for over an hour now--

- Mr. Patterson.

The rubber is as much our concern as yours.

We have the district under continual reconnaissance.

In the event of sabotage to the plantation,

you can depend on us to take immediate action.

- Oh, well, that's something.

- Do you think they'll be all right?

- Huh?

- I mean when Patterson and the police return.

- I think they've got a good chance now.

Get in, I wanna show you something.

- What is it?

- Get in.

Hey?

How do you like my beach, hey?

What?

- How do you like my beach?

-I love it.

- The current's strong.

Let's get in.

Lee.

Welcome home.

Hello, Spider One.

Pass your message.

Over.

- Hello, Norco.

Hello, Norco

Approaching Selim plantation.

Have sighted fires, vicinity rubber sheds.

Am going down to investigate.

Over.

- Hello, Norco.

Hello, Norco.

Activities suggest sabotage.

Taking action.

- Hey!

Come closer.

Come and see what we are doing.

To work for the owners and we keep our rice.

- What the hell do you think you're doing?

- Perhaps you do not know, but the government

is sending troops.

Troops, Tuan Doctor, to our village.

We are defending ourselves.

- Are you going to defend yourself against trained soldiers?

- We can defend the jail.

We can hold out for days.

- Well, what happens to the women and children

while you're holding the jail?

Now, come on, stop it, Jan, get the guns back.

Talk tot he men-- And have a celebration?

Meet the troops with cake and wine

is that what you expect us to do?

- I expect you to use a little common sense.

And give me a chance to put your case reasonably.

- Reasonably?

I seem to remember your talking

of reason before, Tuan Doctor.

We must be reasonable while we rebuild the plantation.

We must be reasonable while we wait quietly

to be machine gunned.

Now, I suppose, we must be reasonable

while they stand us against the wall.

- It makes me ashamed to hear you talk

to the doctor like that.

You know he is right.

- For you, we know, he is always right.

- He is.

And you are a fool.

If you know him as I do--

- I would worship him like a god,

I would burn incense for him

because I can't belong to him.

Anna.

Sometimes I think your sister's right and you are a fool.

All I want you to do is to lead the men out

of the village, take them up country somewhere.

When the troop comes, officials will come,

and I'll talk to them.

And I'll tell them exactly what happened here.

Not rumors, not lies, but the truth.

- We are not going to run away.

- And I'm not gonna stand here

and see women and children killed

and maimed because of your pride.

You listen to me, Jan.

Are you quite certain that you're willing

to take the responsibility for human lives?

It's something I haven't the courage to do.

You ought to think about that.

- Please, Jan.

Please, do what he says.

- This morning I thought I should go with them.

At their head, loading, counseling.

But then I thought, no.

My place is here in the village

with the people who are left behind.

Is that not right, Tuan?

- Why are you taking woman and children?

- Some of the men will not leave without their families.

Some of the women will not stay without their men.

- Have you got enough food?

- Enough for three weeks.

- When we come to get you, we'll have

to have a rendezvous for where we'll find you.

- On the south side of the Blue Mountain

there are three peaks.

Keep them on your left, until you come

to a small plateau among big rocks.

There will be three men waiting.

They will lead you to us.

We are leaving our village to you, Tuan Doctor.

Our homes, our families, our future.

We would leave them to no one else.

- Good luck.

Hey.

- Thank goodness you're back.

- What are they all doing up here?

- Oh, they've taken over the hospital.

- They can't take over the hospital.

- Oh, a Commissioner.

Someone called Belhedron came over.

He's waiting to see you.

- I'm waiting to see him.

- Alec, please.

Please be careful.

He didn't say much but he's obviously very important.

- Is he?

- Alec, you're not going in there in a temper.

-No?

Bloody cheek.

- Are you comfortable?

- Doctor Windom?

- Yes.

- Permit me to introduce myself,

Ta lit Belhedron, Commissioner of the Northern Provinces.

Colonel Lupat, in command of troops.

- What are you doing in my office?

We've been waiting for you.

- Well, that's apparent.

- We must apologise for moving in on you

but no other place was suitable.

Your hospital makes excellent headquarters,

a wall, gate, compound, offices--

- Well, what about the wards?

- Come, Doctor.

I assure you, we shall in no way interfere

with your medical work.

[I be back in a few minutes

and tell you what we're going to do.

You go along and get something to eat.

George.

- I tried to get here before Belhedron.

Where's Alec?

- Oh, he's over in the hospital with them.

He's been there for ages.

I think they're questioning him.

- Yes, I'm sure they are.

Here, look at this.

- Deeply distressed Windom's interference local affairs.

Please contact and insist

he confine himself medical activities.

- Well, that's how it's bound to look to anyone outside.

- And the way it'll look to them.

George, what'll we do?

- Well, first let me have the facts.

Tell me everything that's happened since I left,

and you'd better be quick about it.

From what you tell me, Doctor,

it would appear you sympathize with these rioters.

- Well, don't you?

Now that you know the facts?

- But Mr. Patterson told you they

were professional agitators.

Do you regard that as unimportant?

- Mr. Patterson knows nothing about his workers,

he won't even listen to them.

- So you advised them to hold a meeting?

- No, that's wrong.

They came to me for advice after they'd held a meeting.

- Why did they come to you for advice?

- Oh, I don't know.

I live in this district and I think they trusted me.

- I see.

They trusted you.

- And then he went into the hospital.

I begged him to be tactful.

- Will he be?

- Well, you know Alec, it's hardly his strong point.

- Well, it's tricky, Lee, darn tricky.

I can't do more than hold a watching brief

on behalf of a British subject.

- But surely is some--

- No, you see, this chap Belhedron

has complete authority.

However, I'll do my best.

- George, do you think that I should--

- No, no, now, don't worry.

Why did you allow the hospital

to be used as their headquarters?

- I told you, I didn't.

- You gave shelter to the strike leader

when he was wanted by the police.

- Vidal was against the strike.

- But he was their leader.

- Yes.

- And you remained on good terms with him and his men

after they had attacked Mr. Patterson

and sabotaged the rubber plantation.

- Rot. - I think the doctor--

- I think the doctor is very intelligent, Colonel.

And quite capable of expressing his own feelings.

- I told them to go to the hills,

it was my idea.

You're saying you instructed these men,

that you're in charge of their strategy?

- I didn't say anything of the kind.

- But you ordered them to go? - I did not order them.

- You urged them, then? - All right, I urged them.

- To prevent their arrest?

- To prevent further bloodshed.

And you refuse to give us information

of their whereabouts?

- Until you're more reasonable.

Certainly, yes.

- From where do you take your orders, Doctor?

- Commissioner, you're going too far.

If it's your intention to make some kind

of charge against Dr. Windom--

- Oh, shut up, George, let me handle this in my way.

If you think for one...

- Forgive me for intruding, gentlemen.

- Oh, hello, Lee, come in.

You've chosen a good moment.

Commissioner, this is Mrs. Windom.

- We met met this morning.

- Yes.

You poor things seemed to have been working here for hours,

you must be absolutely exhausted.

I felt certain you'd like to adjourn

and continue your discussion over dinner.

It's so much more comfortable in the bungalow.

- I think in the circumstances,

it would be better if-- - Oh, why not, Commissioner?

I think it's a splendid idea.

It'll give the doctor time to attend to his patients.

What do you say, Alec?

- I'm perfectly agreeable.

Perhaps it will give the Commissioner time

to concede us a point or two.

- For example, Doctor? - Well, in the first place—-

- Now, look here, Alec, I'm sure the Commissioner

will be quite reasonable.

- Shall we say eight o'clock?

- It shall not be said that I caused the doctor

to neglect his patients.

Colonel Lupat.

Thank you, Mrs. Windom.

We accept your courteous invitation.

Eight o'clock.

- George, I don't understand-- - Alec.

- All this interrogation.

Who does he think--

- I think you out to see this cable.

From the International Medical Association.

You have our complete attention, Doctor.

Tell us about it.

- Well, it happened a couple of years ago.

On an island not very far from here.

All the people on that island were our friends.

And then one day a soldier was shot

by a rebel from the mainland.

As a result a curfew was put on the village.

Well, it happened to be harvest time,

the people couldn't leave their homes.

So they had to watch through their windows,

their crops rotting away.

Nobody thought about that, or what it meant to them.

The following winter, they had to face starvation.

And now today all those people,

who were our friends, have gone over

to the other side.

And aren't we in danger of doing the same thing here?

I hate Than-Kar as much as you do.

We're all against the same sort of thing.

But are we not becoming so obsessed with what we're against

that we've forgotten what we're for?

I mean there people here, they want things.

They want freedom and dignity and independence.

And to them, the growing of rice is a symbol of that.

And what do we do, every time they stretch out their hands?

We rap them on the knuckles.

- Suppose we admit there have been mistakes on both sides.

What do you want us to do, Doctor?

- I want you to listen to the men,

give them a fair trial and let grow their own rice.

And if we do that,

you will tell us where they are?

- I'll do more than tell you where they are.

I'll bring them back.

What makes you think they will come?

Because they trust me.

- Ah, yes, of course, I was forgetting.

They trust you.

So these are your conditions?

That we give the men a fair trial,

listen to their grievances

and preserve their rice crops.

- And one other.

They you remove the troops out of the village.

- Oh, now wait a minute.

I regard the troops as an insurance policy.

If you remove them from the village--

- Yes, but surely, Patterson,

all you really want is to get the men back

to the plantation as quickly as possible.

- Yes, that's all very well

but the Commissioner gave me an under--

- Without Windom's help, the Commissioner can search about

for months and never find them.

- No, I'm sorry, gentlemen.

But if that's your attitude, I wish

to have no part of it.

- Just a minute, Mr. Patterson.

There has been no decision yet.

Mrs. Windom, I wonder if you'd excuse Colonel Lupat

and myself for a moment?

- Of course. - Thank you.

Colonel.

Very well, I agree.

Colonel Lupat will arrange for the troops

to leave in the morning.

- Good.

- In that case, gentlemen, goodnight.

Goodnight, Mrs. Windom.

- Well, Doctor, can you leave in the morning too?

- Of course, I'll bring the villagers back

as soon as I can.

- Well, if I may say so, a very happy solution.

- How long will it take you to get them?

Two, three days.

- Well in that case, wouldn't it be better

to send a messenger?

- No, I have to go myself.

- But supposed there's an emergency at the hospital?

- It's a pity to deprive you of your husband,

Mrs. Windom, but who else has such intimate knowledge

of these people?

I think it best that he should go.

Goodnight.

And thank you for your hospitality.

How you have conjured up so much elegance out

of Selim is beyond me.

- Goodnight, Lee. - Goodnight.

- Goodnight. - Goodnight.

- I'm glad about this.

- Goodnight, Doctor.

Your wife is a very skillful hostess.

- Be good.

- Goodnight.

- Phew, that's the most uncomfortable dinner I've ever had.

You were marvelous.

- Alec, I don't think you should go

and fetch the villagers back yourself.

- Why not?

- Well don't you see that by going

you get yourself even more mixed up in local politics.

- I'm not getting mixed up in politics,

as you call it, I'm simply doing what any human being

would do for the people in his village.

- That's just the point.

You continually talk of it as your village.

It's not your village.

Aren't you in danger-- - Look,

I just want to brink the people back.

Don't let's make a drama about it.

- I'm not making a drama about it.

But I'm making a stand on this one thing

because if I don't, you'll go on and on.

I'm thinking of you.

- Thank you very much, but stop thinking of me

and stop trying to make up my mind about it.

- I'm trying to stop you losing your job.

You know the most important thing in your life

is being a doctor.

- Of course it is.

But how do you think we sell these people medical science?

How do you think we even get them to take their injections?

By locking ourselves up with a lot of test tubes?

Don't you understand that a doctor's job

is being part of people's lives

as well as what he does in the hospital.

- If you're not careful you won't be a doctor at all.

They'll recall you.

- To hell with what they'll do.

Who are they?

We always talk about they.

I don't know what they'll do

but I'm perfectly certain in my mind

what I'm going to do.

- Alec, I know exactly what's going to happen--

- And stop interfering, Lee.

It's only a couple of weeks ago

you said you'd never do that again.

- A little while ago, you were very pleased

when I interfered.

When I arranged this dinner party for you.

- Stop arranging things and stop trying

to arrange my life.

I'm going to get the people back,

whether you like it or not.

If you don't like it, you can clear out

on the next plane.

- That's exactly what I will do.

- If the cramp gets any worse,

increase the antrophene.

Keep an eye on Sula.

She mustn't lose this baby.

- Is it true what they say,

that when you have brought them back,

you will have to leave Selim for good?

- They talk a lot of nonsense.

- You're sure?

- Quite sure.

You stop worrying.

- Tuan Doctor, please take care.

Here.

I'm not really superstitions, but it has kept me safe.

- Thanks, Anna.

Well, if you're not here when I get back,

thanks for the helping hand.

- My dear fellow, you helped yourself.

- Good morning, Doctor.

- Morning.

- You see.

- Good.

- A pleasant journey, Doctor.

And a successful one.

- I hope so.

- Tuan.

Tuan Doctor.

I have made a momentous decision.

You always seem to think that...

But I have decided to come with you.

As Mayor of Selim, it is my duty to be at your side.

To conduct the people to the safety of their homes.

You don't know the hills, it is easy to be lost.

Please, Tuan Doctor.

My people must know I have their interests at heart.

- All right, come on.

Kosti,.

- No, I go in front with gun

and kill all the wild animals.

Look.

Hey, hey, hey,.

Won't be a minute.

Lee?

I'm sorry about last night, I'm afraid I lost my temper.

- That's all right, I lost mine too.

It's nobody's fault really.

It's just the way we are.

You said it would happen.

- Will you be all right?

" Be all right.

- If you want to go up to the capital,

I'm sure George Hasbrook l--

- Oh, yes, I'll ask him.

Goodbye, Alec.

Good luck.

- Goodbye.

What's the matter?

- I am thinking of the faces of our villagers

when they see I am with you.

They will be surprised, hey?

I will lead the way.

- Hello.

Lee, I'm leaving.

- What, tonight?

- Yes, they want me in the capital.

- Oh.

- You look tired.

- It can be tiring having nothing to do.

- Is that the reason?

What then?

- We had a terrible row after you left last night.

- Hmm, what about?

Everything seemed to be go so well.

- Oh, same old problem.

Alec resents me saying what I think is best for him.

- Was it a serious row?

- Enough for him to suggest I go to the capital.

- I wonder if that's such a bad idea.

You can come with me.

- That's what he thought.

- Then why don't you?

I'll take you around the town and cheer you up.

It might help to get things in the right perspective.

Hot baths, cold showers.

Dinner in Chirikiri's.

Why not try it?

- No.

A little old-fashioned strategy

can be effective, you know.

You love him very much, don't you?

- Yes, I do.

- Al light.

When the two of you are ready,

shoot us the word and we'll send up a plane.

- We'll do that.

- Make it soon, Lee.

And take it easy.

- I will.

- We should go on.

- Another half hour and we'll camp for the night.

Come in, Colonel, sit down.

Thank you.

I'm afraid you'll have to move quickly

but no doubt you've accomplished the impossible.

What's the position, are they back?

They soon will be.

The first platoon's entering the village this moment

and all the troops should be here by midnight.

Good.

Here are the orders.

It's a matter of policy.

A pity it should have come now

but the instructions are quite clear.

We are to make an example of these people

to the whole country.

Show them that defying the law

is a painful and a dangerous occupation.

What about the doctor?

The doctor will have to be disappointed.

We can't help policy, Lupat.

We don't create it.

In the wet season

it gets a bit dodgy because it overflows.

And in the dry the snakes come in,

I'm afraid, to keep cool.

Mrs. Windom.

- What is it, Anna?

- Oh, I must talk to you for a moment.

It's very urgent.

I've just heard the most terrible things.

- Oh, come and sit down.

- No, no, there is no time.

What they said is all lies.

What they have promised.

What they're going to do is--

- What who is going to do?

- The Commissioner.

He has ordered the troops back into the village.

And now they're going to make an example of the men.

They will arrest Jan and the others

and they will shoot them.

- But he promised that the troops would never come back.

- Yes, he promised.

And the doctor promised Jan.

That is not it will be.

Jan and the doctor are in terrible danger.

We must do something.

- I shall go and speak to the Commissioner.

- No, don't go, please.

It will do no good.

He will say the decision is not his

but that of his Government.

What can we do?

- We must warn them.

We must stop them from coming back.

We'll go together.

Lupat.

I shall want the car at the bungalow in an hours time.

Goodnight.

- Quick.

I'll get rid of him as quickly as possible.

- My dear Mrs. Windom.

I trust I'm not intruding.

- Of course not, if it's important.

- There has been a change of plan.

- Oh.

- I want you to leave Selim for the capital, tonight.

There will be a plane available in two hours time.

An officer will escort you by car to the air strip.

- But surely you don't expect me to go without my husband?

- He will be taken to the capital

as soon as he arrives.

- Well, in that case, if you don't mind,

I think I'd rather wait and go with him.

- As you like.

But I must warn you on no account to leave your home.

The village has been sealed off.

All roads are blocked.

No one may enter or leave without a permit.

- What's going to happen?

- Nothing that need worry you.

Provided, of course, you obey my instructions.

Goodnight.

- Anna!

Anna!

- Anna.

I come with you.

I know the way.

- Kosti, no-- - Please, please, please.

I'll guide you.

I must come, please, please.

Please. - All right, then quickly.

Get in.

- I'm sorry, I...

I'm from the hospital.

I'm the doctor's wife--

- I don't understand your language.

, English.

Jan!

Jan.

We'll rest when we get to the top.

There they are.

Who are you?

- Here, untie my hands.

It's Than-Kar, isn't it?

- Uh-huh.

Here.

- Thank you.

- 80, you are Tuan Doctor.

We expected you.

Your friends from Selim have told us about you.

- Who do you mean by my friends?

- They are here.

And they will make good soldiers.

- If they're here, let me see them.

- I do not need to lie.

- Where's Vidal?

Let me speak to him.

- But certainly.

Vidal.

- What happened?

- Tell him what happened.

Tell him the truth.

- They came upon us while we waited for you.

They said we could either join them

or be their enemies.

But, Tuan, we are now part of them.

- Why didn't you fight?

- With the women and children?

No, my doctor.

They have talked with us, we have learned

to see things a different way.

We shall now fight for our liberty with cold steel.

- That's not your kind of talk.

That's his.

I thought you were against Than-Kar.

I was mistaken.

- Listen, Jan, you're falling into a trap.

It's the oldest trap in the world.

These people are not concerned with your liberty.

You'll get your rights all right,

but have you thought what you'll have

to give them in return?

- We have listened to you for too long, my doctor.

We are soldiers now.

- Soldiers.

I seem to remember a man called Amy an.

- He would have been against us.

- Because he knew that violence

and this sort of this is wrong.

- He was weak.

- Oh.

And you thought him a saint.

- The world is not made for saints, my doctor

but for fighters.

Doctor.

Tuan Doctor, Tuan Doctor.

Tuan, Tuan Doctor.

Tuan Windom, Tuan...

Tuan Doctor.

- What are you going to do to him?

Tuan Doctor!

Tuan Doctor.

- Kosti!

Kosti!

What is it?

- I'm sorry, my doctor.

It is for girls to cry, not a man.

It was so terrible, terrible.

- What was? - What they did to her.

- Who, Kosti, who?

- Anna.

She said she must find you to tell you

that Jan must not come back.

- Well, go on, what happened?

- They come near with lights and guns and they see Anna.

She tries to run away.

I hide under the bridge.

Then they...

They shoot her.

- It's understood then?

All troops withdraw to the air strip.

The bridge to be demolished at the first sign of the attack.

- Understood.

- You look as though you've had a hard journey.

- Very.

- Your friends were not good hosts?

Yes, we know about it.

I'm surprised they let you go.

- They murdered the mayor.

Poor devil, he didn't stand a chance.

- It's fortunate they did not kill you.

We all make mistakes, Doctor.

I'm glad that you've recognised yours.

You've caught the boy, good.

- Why did you shoot Anna?

- I assure you, I did not shoot the girl myself.

Yes, she's dead.

She was trying to escape, presumably to warn you.

My sentries had their instructions.

It was unfortunate, but that is war.

Any moment now, they will attack and when they do,

we shall be ready.

- How do you know they're going to attack?

- If we are not altogether perfect,

perhaps we are not quite such imbeciles

as some people seem to believe.

We shall fight them and destroy them.

- Here, in Selim?

- In Selim and everywhere.

- But this village has never--

- There is a plane leaving for the capital tomorrow morning.

My advise would be that you go with it.

I would ask you to be believe that I regret this.

- I thought you'd gone.

Lee.

- I couldn't go, Alec.

I couldn't.

Are you all right?

- Yes.

You know that Belhedron's men killed Anna?

- I was there.

We were trying to stop you from coming back.

- You needn't have bothered.

They've joined up with Than-Kar.

- I don't believe it.

Jan wouldn't do that to you.

- Well, he has.

What did you say?

Stick to doctoring, don't interfere.

Well, I made a botch of the whole thing.

- No, you haven'.

Everything you said at that dinner was right.

You knew what those people would be forced to do.

Just because we didn't want to understand,

there's going to be a war.

- Hmm.

Well, I'm getting out, Lee.

Belhedron's laid on a plane for us in the morning.

- You can't go now.

You're going to be needed in that hospital,

more than you've ever been needed.

- They can get an army doctor.

- They don't want an army doctor, they want you.

It looks like it.

- I've never heard you talk like this before.

These people are important to you.

And you are to them.

And just because they're doing something wrong,

you're going to walk out on them.

Well, you're not going to walk out on them.

I won't let you.

What is it?

Is it guns?

- All right, Kosti.

- Tuan Doctor, they are asking for you in the hospital.

Sula is having her baby.

- All right, come on.