All language subtitles for Shooting The Past 1x01

(CAMERA CLICKS)

First of all,
clearly, I don't have a video camera.

For the only time in my life,
it would have helped having one,

but it seemed a bit bloody late to buy one,
this being the last afternoon of my life.

Because I want to leave a record of
the extraordinary events of the last few days,

I'm talking into this.

Ridiculously out of date, of course.

I haven't used it
since I practised cricket commentary

at the age of 12 and three quarters.

But it does work.

It's still functioning.

It's rather good quality, in fact.

And every now and again,
I'm going to take a picture of myself.

(CAMERA CLICKS)

That's not strictly necessary, of course,
I know but...

I want to do that.

Together, they will form something
hopefully that can be kept, published,

even used by the mass media.

Not "even". I shouldn't have said that.
MUST be used by the mass media.

So why the hell should they be interested
in a chubby man wearing a cardie

talking into an old tape machine?

How can that be blazingly urgent,

vitally important?

Come on, Waldy.

You're doing really well.

So, why should we care?

0r rather,

why should Y0U care?

Because what hit me with such a wallop...
it WAS a wallop... can happen to anyone,

has happened to a lot of people.

Anybody who has suddenly lost their Job
or house, even business...

...or has Just had somebody
promoted above them.

Anybody who knows how that feels,

this is for you.

I'll Just finish this piece.

And let's get going.

So...

it's the 21st December

and we're in London.

It's slightly amazing to think
it's only a few days ago this all started.

Mmm. Made myself rather hungry
eating that now.

0K. I'll wait.

So...

...a large, 18th... century house
just outside central London.

This house was built for his mistress
by the Earl of Halifax.

When they'd finished with it,
it fell on hard times

until a 19th... century confectionary firm
rescued it.

They were famous for their toffees
and chocolates.

Apparently, the finest toffees of the age.

Like a lot of 19th... century firms,
they had philanthropic leanings,

and started an Institute for the lmprovement
of Londoners in this house.

Somehow... nobody's sure quite how...

they started collecting photographs.

This flowered during the years
into the Fallon Photo Library and Collection.

It just grew and grew.

The Institute passed into the hands
of an insurance company,

a rather benign outfit that kept themselves
in one part of the house.

The Fallon Photo Library and Collection
continued to be run as a quiet business.

And, besides,
it's an exceptionally magical place.

As you will see.

0ur friendly insurance company sells up
and leaves London.

(CLICK)

And the day comes
we have to meet our new owners.

We have no idea, nobody believes me, but
we have no idea what sort of day it would be.

No inkling

it was to be such a momentous,
mind... shattering sort of day.

They're here! They're here already.

It's 0K. No need for us to rush.

Come on, everybody! They're here!

Come on!

(CAR D00R SHUTS)

Here we are, ready for you.
You're splendidly punctual. A very good start.

...Marilyn Truman.
...(US ACCENT) Christopher Anderson.

This is 0swald Bates, who, if you like,
is second in command here.

Not that we use terms like that.
And this is Veronica.

Then the young ones.
Spig, who insists we call her that.

And Nick, who never wants
to be called anything at all.

Now, come this way.
I'm sure you want the grand tour.

(0SWALD) We'll give you the grand tour
whether you like it or not.

We've got a treat for you as well.

The grand tour!

(CL0CK CHIMES)

Fortunately, the one thing we have is space.

We do have lots of space.

Mr Anderson does have a meeting on site
in a few minutes.

Somehow, we still have in... house cooking,
even though there are only five of us.

Wicked, I know.

(0SWALD) We laid on what we thought
would appeal. Doughnuts, of course.

Californian wine for later. A full elevenses,
anyway, so you can make pigs of yourselves.

If you're starving and nothing appeals,
Molly might rustle up something hot.

Her roly... poly pudding is Justly famous.

...Miss Truman, I need to have a word.
...0f course. Fire away.

I need a private word.

So...

Ah... So, do tell me exactly what you're doing
with the rest of the building.

...It's becoming a business school, isn't it?
...Yes.

A sort of American LSE, is that right?

That is the London School of Economics.

There are a lot of suspicious colleges
dotted about this city, I gather.

The American School of This and That.
But you won't be one of those.

...A higher class of establishment, I'm sure...
...Miss Truman, please.

...I don't think you realise.
...Realise what?

That there has been... There SEEMS to have
been a maJor breakdown in communication.

Really? In what way? I don't believe so.

Here you are!
And elevenses was waiting for you.

I have no idea how this happened.

You acknowledged our letters
and said you understood.

...Every letter we sent was replied to.
...You must know this, Miss Truman.

No. (LAUGHS)

We can do this all day... a guessing game.
I've no idea what you're talking about.

You wanna sit?

No, thank you. I'm quite happy like this.

Miss Truman, the library, your business,
is being closed.

Closed?

...That's ridiculous. Who's closing it?
...It's not ridiculous. It's what is happening.

We have the correspondence.
You must have seen them.

...Why must I have seen them?
...They were addressed to Mr 0swald Bates.

...And, months ago, the notice of closure.
...Closure is impossible, clearly.

(PH0NE RINGS)

Marty.

No, I've not quite got there yet.
I'll be there in a few minutes.

Excuse me.

(0SWALD HUMS)

...Do you know what they Just told me?
...They don't like the elevenses.

...They were offended by the doughnuts.
...0swald.

Did you receive a letter
saying they were shutting us down?

Shutting us down? Absolutely not!

...Not a single word.
...Never?

Never! I promise you!

...And you didn't reply to any letters?
...If I didn't receive any, how can I reply?

I thought so.

...They can't shut us down.
...I know.

Don't accept anything.
Don't accept a single thing.

Not even their right to be in your office.

You are under contract to deliver
three days ago and they're not here.

It's not like that from this end.

I don't care if he Joined the circus, moved to
Sardinia and lost an eastern European tour.

It makes no difference.
They're not here and that's the problem.

(ANDERS0N) That wasn't part
of the package. Yeah.

...Well, I don't care. I know. It doesn't matter.
...Yeah.

As we are in my office
maybe we can deal with this first.

I told you I'd go straight over.
No, it won't be as bad as that.

I've talked to my staff and there has been
no correspondence with you, as I thought.

No prior warning. Not one hint.

They're lying to you.

You'd be advised
to make no more remarks like that.

Bill meant that that cannot be the case.
We Just checked.

We know for a fact there were four letters
sent to Mr 0swald Bates.

We were advised
he dealt with the business side.

The replies said you were taking
all necessary steps to comply.

We were taking necessary steps? What did
the letters say we were complying with?

That these buildings were to be developed,

becoming the American School of Business
for the 21st Century.

...The 21st School, for short.
...Yes, yes.

They said that the valuable pictures,
which are kept in a separate room,

we would dispose of ourselves.

And the rest of the collection, buyers
should be sought, and we left that up to you.

You can't split up the collection. You cannot,
you simply cannot split up the collection.

First, it is to be closed.
Then, it is to be split up.

There is no way I can allow that to happen.
It is unique. It is the finest...

...We have to be realistic.
...I am being realistic.

That is precisely what I am being. And I'm
telling you, there is no way that can happen.

(PH0NE RINGS)

Don't take that call, please.

(BLEEPING)

(RINGING AND BLEEPING ST0P)

I have to be on the other side of the site
in a few minutes.

I have a meeting.

(MARILYN) A few minutes. That's all I've got.

How many is a few minutes?

How many? Say, five.

At the outside. Five at the outside.

I'm not very used to time pressures like that.

Miss Truman,
this is a mix... up of communication.

Let's leave aside how it happened.
This is a shock.

I'm not going to sit here sounding outraged.
Clearly, that is not getting us anywhere.

I will say that what you have outlined
is not an option.

Splitting the collection
will never happen while I'm around.

We will have to sit down calmly

and work out an alternative home
for the collection in a sensible fashion.

Miss Truman.

If you want me to say "Call me Marilyn",
I won't say that.

Let's keep this as formal as we can.

The idea that this is our fault, though I said
I wouldn't sound outraged, is outrageous.

Miss Truman,
the situation is starker than you realise.

...I don't see how that can be possible.
...I'm afraid it is possible.

These buildings are being stripped out,
completely rebuilt.

That has to start in four days' time
if we're to meet our schedule.

Naturally, it has to start on the ground floor.
Do you understand, Miss Truman?

It means all these rooms have to be empty.

I was expecting to see everything packed up
and on the way out.

0n this time scale, there's no chance
of finding a buyer for the collection.

No chance. No.

The brutal facts are, the valuable pictures
are worth about 400,000...

pounds sterling, that is.

The rest of the collection is worth about
160,000 if you could sell every picture.

The hard economics are, #160,000 is a fraction
of what a few days' delay would cost.

And the cost of storage elsewhere
for a huge collection is enormous.

So, we'll take the valuable pictures
and the rest will have to be disposed of.

They will have to be destroyed.

Clearly it gives me no pleasure to say this.

That goes without saying.

(PH0NE RINGS)

...Miss Truman?
...(GARNETT) It's going to be a few minutes.

It's no problem. We will.

0K.

Miss Truman?

I've said I don't accept it. I can't let it happen.

(CAR D00R SLAMS)

(TAPPING 0N KEYB0ARD)

I'm thinking.
I'm desperately thinking of how to...

...of what to do...

...at this precise moment,
this absolute precise moment.

I haven't a clue.

I can't really believe
you've said what you Just have.

I mean, Just a few minutes ago,

literally a few minutes ago,

I was greeting you, everything was sunny
and we were about to make a fuss of you.

Yes, well, I have to say, I've never
encountered this situation before

in 15 years,

where people have carried on regardless
in the face of closure.

And the effect is devastating.

Clearly.

When communications were acknowledged
but nothing stirred.

Nothing stirred.
What sleepy people we must appear.

(DISTANT PH0NE RINGS)

(0SWALD CRIES 0UT)

Just to show we're not completely dopey,
I want one thing.

...And what is that?
...I want you to see the collection.

That would be interesting,
but I have a schedule...

You really should see it
before you destroy it.

I didn't cause this situation. I wish it was
other than it is. I will not be made to feel...

That was crass of me. I'm sorry.
I was getting somewhere then I said that.

You'll see the collection after your meeting.

Come on. What have you got to lose?
A quick walk?

I don't want to sound like a lawyer,
but you must accept this situation.

...I accept we have a problem.
...I need to know you understand.

...The library is closing.
...I'll understand, if you see the collection.

We'll call with a time.
It'll have to be in the next three hours.

(GARNETT) Can you believe this?

Ready for a drink now, then?

Would you like to take a bottle with you?

They'd be appalled,

absolutely appalled, if they could see this.

A full sit... down service.

(VER0NICA) I'm sure if we do our best
to be reasonable, if we do our VERY best,

they will see sense.

No way. It's Just business to them.

They're killers.
By the end of the day we'll be finished.

(0SWALD) Marilyn will handle it.

Besides, I have a plan.

...You do?
...I do. And it's simple.

We should still be here eating lunch
when they arrive.

...That's a plan?
...Very much so. A surprisingly good one.

No. Contrary to appearances, I'm serious.

If we're still here, eating a formal meal,

it will suggest that they're dealing
with irrational people, crazies.

They'll think, "What do these guys do when
faced with the biggest crisis in their life?"

They eat a five... course lunch
as if nothing has happened. Very alarming!

...0h, yeah?
...Yeah!

The one thing any business dreads...

...is dealing with people that don't respond
to rules, don't show fear,

which we won't.

These characters we're dealing with
need fear.

Everything in their life is fear.
Deadlines, hirings, firings... all fear.

Remove fear from the equation
and you're saying, "I don't care."

"I'm faced with extinction but I Just don't care."

And then they'll get worried and they'll think,

(AMERICAN ACCENT)
"These assholes could do anything.

"They could burn down the building."
Which we could.

Then our American friends would decide,
"We must be much more careful.

"We must give these guys a lot more time."

So, I've taken the liberty
of extending the menu.

After the melon, blackcurrant sorbet,
then corn on the cob and then a roast.

...We're going to eat our way to victory.
...Couldn't think of a better way.

0swald?

...Can I have a word?
...Absolutely.

Perhaps between the third and fourth courses?

So?

...So.
...0swald, they're coming back shortly.

No matter how hard I keep thinking,

if I don't have any cards to play
that is going to be that.

You don't agree with my analysis?
My eating offensive?

...Be serious, 0swald, please.
...I was making a serious point.

We have two choices. And only two.

Do something truly perverse
to make them doubt our sanity.

...Maybe we don't have to work hard at that.
...Which is the choice that I favour.

There are many successful
historical precedents.

At the battle of Austerlitz, for instance,

some Austrian deserters
sat down in the battlefield

and started having lunch while under fire.

A picnic! They escaped the firing squad
quite easily because of insanity.

What's the second choice, 0swald?

...Play dirty.
...How?

There's only one thing
those guys are interested in.

That, of course, is money.

Sex, too, probably,
though I'm not sure Spig is up to it.

...Go on.
...Well, it's extremely simple.

Blindingly obvious, in fact.

We have a few very valuable photographs.

So, instead of leaving them conveniently
in a little room for the Americans to collect,

we sprinkle them away

amongst the collection.

We lose them in all the other pictures.

Try finding them among ten million photographs
if you don't know where to look.

It'll be like finding the right piece of hay
in a haystack. They'll never do it.

You mean, "You give us more time
to find a home for the collection,

"or you don't ever find the pictures."

You've got it in one.

...That's blackmail.
...0f course.

It's great, isn't it? It's the only language
they understand.

So, where do we start?

0ur prize fish, the Man Ray.

Probably go for about 120,000?

Where shall we put it? Hmm?

In the Woolworths shop fronts of the 1950s?

If I were in Mr Anderson's position
and somebody did this,

I would immediately lose all respect for them
at a stroke.

...You think he respects us?
...He could be made to.

Are you out of your mind?

He thinks we're pathetic, dusty people from
a Ealing comedy with Margaret Rutherford.

We're bumbling prats. Well, these prats are
going to sink their teeth into his fleshy parts.

It's all prats like us can do.

...It would enrage me if somebody did this.
...We want to enrage him.

I'm not sure. I don't think we'll prevail being
this childish. Things don't work like that.

...Where don't they work like that?
...0utside. 0ut there.

0ut there? What do you know about that?
You go out even less than I do.

Do you want to save this collection or not?

It MIGHT buy us time.

I'm also not sure he won't destroy
the whole collection if he can't find them.

He'd be crackers to do that.
It would get his proJect terrible publicity.

Nobody's going to torch this place
if they can't find these. You'll see.

...A series of very quick...
...(B0TH LAUGH)

(LAUGHTER ST0PS)

So how long have I got this time?

I said I'd look at the collection
in exchange for you accepting this situation.

We'll be doing any business we need to
from here. Everything is under control.

Reassuring (!)

Before we plunge in,
I have an announcement for the employees.

We'll be conducting interviews to see
if we can employ you in our new proJect.

Nobody need be out of a Job,
subJect to interview, of course.

So it means nothing
because it's "subJect to interview".

I'm sure you can handle it.
So everybody understand that?

Let's take a look.

(BIRDS0NG)

(D00R SHUTS)

Click.

Click.

Click.

(CLICK)

(CLICK)

(CLICK)

(CLICK)

(CLICK)

...Hi.
...Hi.

(AMERICAN ACCENT) 0K, you guys!
Let's start firing!

...Firing? Nobody's firing anybody.
...No, fire away at me.

...I'll find anything within seven seconds.
...Seven seconds?

Seven seconds IS long. We'll make it five.

...I take it you're computerised.
...You think we have computers here?

It'd take years to get all this lot catalogued
and on line. It's all in here.

So shoot! As "fire" makes you nervous.
Anybody!

The giant squid always goes down well.

It's believed that nobody's photographed one
alive under water.

We have a picture taken 50 years ago of
precisely that. Want to see the giant squid?

...We'll pass.
...Some think it's a fake.

It's Just a calamari
held up close to the camera.

I think it's a real giant caught in glorious
murkiness. Do you want me to find it?

It would be a better test
if we nominated the subJect.

Just a little over... eager
to show you the squid, that's all. So, shoot!

You probably haven't a picture,
but my home town, Emporia, Virginia?

...Too easy.
...It's not a very big town.

...I'm telling you it's too easy.
...0K, our street. Lamonia Avenue. I'll bet...

Here it is. Emporia.

Jesus! There it is!

And then, zzzzt! We get closer.

Just like a computer blow... up. We zoom.

And then... zzzzt!
The main street of Emporia.

And then... zzzzt! The corner of Chestnut
Tree Avenue and Lamonia Avenue.

It really is.

A sleepy time. A sleepy place.

Were you there then? Hm?
Do you see yourself?

Your little head sticking out?
Your little freckled face?

You're there somewhere saying, "Hey, Dad.

"Let's close the local museum.
It's not worth shit!"

...Thanks for finding that.
...Come on. There's a lot to see.

We didn't get a timing for finding the picture.
So shoot again, anybody!

Shall we see the prime collection?
The really valuable pictures?

Yes, but perhaps first you'd like to see
our portrait section?

No, no, no! That's boring.
Come on! This way!

It gets worse, too.

Much more unexpected is THIS!

0ur erotica.

Mostly Edwardian and Victorian erotica.

...There are some beautiful pictures in here.
...Naughty snaps from the '20s, too.

Feels rather sad in here. A lot of yearning.

That's good, yes. Yearning.

Something I know all about.

Would you like to see
our images of obsession?

0bsession is always interesting, isn't it?

A rather plump, nude woman
at a seaside resort in 1910.

Photographed in an astonishing series
of poses and interesting positions.

Shall we move on?
I want to see the great pictures.

That's easy.

This way!

And here we are! The strong room.

0h, my goodness (!)

They've gone!

They were moved a few months ago
for security reasons.

For security reasons?
You moved them 0UT of the strong room?

Yes. 0ther collections have lost their best
pictures because they were easy to find.

...So why were we brought here?
...To whet your appetite.

So! What next? How about shop fronts? Got
a fine collection of Woolworths in the 1950s.

I think we'd better have a word.

0oh! Not interested in shop fronts?

He'll never want to look at these again now.

You know, Miss Truman, if I was to believe
those pictures have been moved today,

distributed so we can't find them...

...If I was to believe that...
...That has not happened.

...I would form a low opinion
of whoever had done that.

I would never do something as crude as that.

...You will get your pictures.
...Let's see them.

You will see them. Any moment.

...I want you to appreciate the full collection.
...I've seen the collection.

No, you haven't. You haven't even begun.
There are all sorts of things here.

All kinds of pictures
with incredible stories attached.

Right now, for instance. Where we're standing.

Within three feet of us,
there are six or seven hair... raising things.

Like here.

You know the contents of every box
without even reading the label?

Not every one. No.

So, in here there are the three fat brothers
that committed a very bizarre murder

with three apples and a crossbow...
the William Tell murder.

Miss Truman, I've explained the situation
and you've agreed and accepted it.

However hard you try to weave a spell,
it won't alter anything.

You don't want to hear the stories?

...I've got time for one.
...Just one?

...I thought you had all the time in the world.
...I've got the time for one.

Ten million pictures. 0ne story.

...0ut of all this.
...Some challenge, huh?

Right.

You know what I really don't like about today?

It's how, suddenly,
I've become the villain of this.

I'm made out to be a number... crunching moron

who marches in and says,
"Flush the whole thing away right now!"

That really annoys me.

...In fact, you know nothing about me.
...I don't. You're right. Why don't you tell me?

We'll leave that for another time.

...I thought there wouldn't be another time.
...Not another time like this. No.

What's strange is I've been forced into this
because of incompetence at your end,

the negligence of 0swald Bates,
but nobody mentions that.

What's more, the 21st School suddenly
becomes a piece of cheap real estate.

Yet another hotel or car park or something.

What we're actually doing is planning
a progressive educational establishment.

...A business school.
...A unique outfit.

...Not Just another way of making money.
...I'm glad you're not Just making money.

That's reassuring.

0n top of this, you disappear
the most important pictures

so we have to act like in a children's story,
the bad guys in "Tom Thumb".

I refuse to be that! I'm not going to shake
people saying, "Get me the pictures!"

Right. So you're not saying
"Get me the pictures" any more.

I'm not gonna say it.
But I'm not leaving today without them.

(ICE CUBES CLINK)

Thought you could do with this.
Help you to survive.

Because you'll need it.

Ice?

...What's gonna happen here?
...Just a story.

It's not a horror story? It's not
going to be body parts, trying to shock?

Certainly not. All electronics off, please.

...But I gotta keep...
...All of them off.

It's important to watch closely.

(SNAPS PH0NE SHUT)

(BEEP)

...A little girl.
...A little girl, yes.

Going for the heart... strings, then.

I hope so.

A little Jewish girl,

Lily Katzman, in Berlin.

Jewish, too! A holocaust story.
It won't be difficult to move me.

I get affected quickly by these stories.

...You've taken an easy route.
...Don't Jump to conclusions.

Lily Katzman was the daughter of a doctor...

...who was also an amateur photographer.

Her father made many studies of her.

He worshipped her with his camera.

(WOMAN'S LAUGHTER)

(CHILD'S LAUGHTER)

The persecution of the Jews starts,
of course. The family split up.

The mother and father go into hiding.
Somehow Lily becomes part of this family.

Because she doesn't look too Jewish.

The 0elendorffs adopted her.
A rich, upper bourgeois family.

0ne little girl appears in their midst,
explained away, no doubt, as a distant niece.

The matriarch probably wasn't aware
of what was really going on.

A very unusual situation in itself.

This rich, conventional family
harbouring a Jewish child,

putting the whole family at great risk.

Nobody knows why it happened.

Love child? Secret affair? 0r were they
being brave in a way so few others were?

Was there Jewish blood in the family
that nobody guessed at?

Lily is not allowed outside the house,
although she is allowed to greet visitors.

Then, one day, it is arranged for her
to see her parents.

They're in hiding in a basement room
in a house on the other side of the city.

The plan is for her to meet her father first
at some halfway point.

He will then take her to a public park
to meet her mother.

...He meets her.
...He does?

Yes.

But when he sees her, the father,
he wants to buy her something.

Buy her something?
That's a risk. It's dangerous.

He wants to give her a present.
He doesn't know when he'll see her again.

The most natural thing in the world.

While Lily window... shops,
looking for something to buy,

they try to appear as normal as possible,

not to move too quickly,
not to seem too rushed.

Just a father with his daughter,
taking pictures.

Her mother is waiting.
They have to reach her.

Yes.

They must have been acutely aware of time.

Maybe they didn't buy anything after all
because of it.

There she is.

...So they do meet in the park?
...Yes.

Their last meeting.

Her papa records the moment.

A few minutes together.

While the Berliners promenade around them
in the park.

(BRASS BAND PLAYS)

(CHILDREN'S VOICES)

But then something happens in the park.

(WHISPERING IN GERMAN)

We don't know what happened,

but the mother decides
they must leave immediately.

She goes first.

The last time she saw her mother.

So who survived their story?

Who wrote it down?

Did Lily?

Her father takes a couple of final pictures...

...then he leaves.

He leaves her there? Alone in the park?

It was safer that way.

It had been arranged for somebody from the
0elendorffs to pick her up. Nobody comes.

So is she arrested there?
Is she arrested in the park?

...He shouldn't have left her.
...She decides to go.

Lily decides to leave the park
and find her own way home.

There are more pictures of Berlin
at the time.

Lily moves along the streets,
but she loses her way.

And she goes into a bank, rather like this one...

...to ask for directions.

A little girl on her own.
They were bound to be suspicious.

Why did she go in there?
If she'd Just asked on the street.

She did go into a bank and ask directions,
but she got frightened and ran away.

But they had the address, right?
That she'd asked for?

...They were waiting when she got home?
...She left the bank and...

You must realise. These pictures
are from all over the collection.

This is the most extraordinary thing.

Totally by coincidence, an official
photographer, a Nazi photographer,

is taking photos of a parade.

And he's also taking pictures of the crowd.

(CROWD CHEERS)

And, quite unwittingly,

he takes a picture of Lily
on her Journey home.

She comes across the parade
and has to stand waiting for it to pass.

So we can see her trying to get home.

There she is.

It's remarkable.

...How did you find this?
...0swald found it, of course.

When we were given her father's photos,

0swald went through every still we have
of Berlin of that period.

And there are a lot of those.

In case there was something else of her.

It took him ages, but he found her.

...Now, people would use security videos.
...Exactly.

There, by an amazing chance, is Lily on
her dangerous Journey home, halfway there.

...Did she get home?
...She got home. Yes.

But the 0elendorffs had been questioned
that very afternoon.

The whole family was arrested.

Even the matriarch.

And Lily, too, of course.

Are there any more pictures or does the trail
go cold there? It can't. There's more.

0swald went through everything,

every still we have of Jewish people
being rounded up.

The trains, the stations,
the cattle trucks, the lorries.

Every image we have like that in the collection.

And he found her.

And, eventually, he found this.

(TRAIN RUMBLES)

(TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWS)

Their little bundles.

Little bundles.

Yes, I know.

It goes on, then?

From them on the train?

Are there more pictures?
Did 0swald find any more?

No more like that. No.

...But there is this.
...Please. If it's a pile of bodies, I...

I know we can't change history here,
but I don't...

I'd rather not see it. I can imagine too well.

...No. Lily did survive.
...She did?

It was her son... in... law
that gave us her father's pictures.

And from what he told us, and from a tiny
passport photo that he showed 0swald,

from that evidence,
0swald stared at every picture we have

of street scenes around Elephant & Castle
and the 0ld Kent Road here in London.

...She's in this city?
...Every picture we have.

From the '60s, '70s and '80s.

And, again, he found her.

Here is Lily,

on the 0ld Kent Road in 1987.

...That's not her. That's not Lily.
...It is Lily.

I promise you. It's been confirmed.

You, er, showed me these...

You told me this particular story because the
pictures come from all over the collection?

A 20th... century tale

caught like that.

Marilyn...

I'm gonna call you that because even after a
few hours, Miss Truman doesn't seem right.

Marilyn, I cannot change my decision,
you understand?

It is a bad situation. It's very unfortunate
but it cannot be changed.

The economics of the situation prevent it.

Moreover, you have our pictures.

...You have stolen #400,000 worth of photos.
...Not stolen.

...You will have them back.
...Give them back and you can have a deal.

Take anything you want from the collection.

Anything you can house or store yourself
you can have it for free.

...Fill bags if you want. A truckload...
...I will N0T split up the collection.

For God's sake, don't be so proud, Marilyn.

You have miles and miles
of routine pictures here

of shop fronts and other crap
that's in a thousand other collections.

For Christ's sake, get to work on it now. Use
your knowledge. Save what really matters.

You have to compromise.

...I said I'd never split it up.
...Marilyn!

There is simply no alternative.

Go on. Take it.

Take the deal.

You're right.

...I have to.
...You do.

You do have to. Yes.

...But...
...But what?

You must keep all the staff on
that want to stay.

...Does that include you?
...No. 0f course not.

...But the others. You said you would.
...Yeah. SubJect to interview.

...You can do that now. Today.
...Now?

See them now.
So nobody leaves here tonight without a Job.

That's the deal.

(ANDERS0N) No, the hotel's fine... . No.

Don't do this, Marilyn.
These are our big weapon.

...What are you doing handing them back?
...They've served the purpose.

...I don't think we can play any more games.
...Games?

You think everything's hunky... dory? That
those robots are gonna stick to their word?

I assure you, I'm going to make them.
And, what's more, they're not robots.

They're getting to you.

May I have one last look?

It's odd, isn't it, how much money
one or two pictures are worth?

...0swald!
...(RIP)

We should not be co... operating.

Total non... compliance, that's how we should
be fighting. I promise you, it'll work.

No.

It's time to co... operate. We have to.

Tearing the collection to pieces? Wrecking it.

We have to salvage something.

And do me a favour, 0swald, please.

When they talk to you...

...try to be reasonable.

Huh.

...What skills do I have?
...Yes. What do you think your strengths are?

Well, working here, you must understand...

Working here, it's different.

I can tell you about...

What can I tell you?

I can tell you how many pictures we've got

of alligators being cut open
with human remains inside.

We've seven of those.

Not sure
that's the sort of skills you mean, is it?

I don't say very much, you know.

I never said much before I came to work here.

But now I say even less.

Why is that?
Do you know why that's happening?

I think...

that's all I have to say on the subJect.

It's amazing...

...how, when you're stoned,
these pictures come back to life.

What patterns form in the night.

You've no idea what it's like at night.

0h, I mean, I know it's dark now,

but I'm talking very late.

And when you're really, really stoned.

What you suddenly see then.

0oh, it's better than the movies.

It's better than telly.

It's fantastic.

Er...

Well, um...

l... I'm afraid there's,
there's nothing interesting about me at all.

l, um... l... l... I Just beaver.

Well, that's all I do, really. That's all
I've ever done. I Just, er, beavered away.

But, usually, people do seem quite,
quite satisfied.

Yes.

Are we really doing this?

Don't sound like that.

Please, Nick.

Has 0swald gone in yet?

Just gone in.

That's a nice one.

Please, Just for once,

let him behave himself.

Can you use a personal computer?

...Can you type on a computer?
...You can do much better than that.

As a question,
"Can you type on a computer" is so banal.

...Not going to find anything useful with that.
...What should I be asking you?

I'd ask you,
what was the freckle... faced kid in Emporia?

What did he want to do when he grew up?
What were his dreams?

I wanted to run a business school.

...No, actually I wanted to be Paul Newman.
...Did you adore your mother?

...0f course. Yes.
...Absolutely adore her?

If she left you to go down the street,
down Lamonia Avenue say, to post a letter,

were you absolutely bereft?

...It depends what age we're talking about.
...Let's say 25.

What sort of a question is that?
"It depends what age?"

Excuse me. Um...

l, um... I was, er, I was wondering if,

if, er... if everything was,
um... actually if you needed anything.

No, we're Just fine.

0h.

Where was she from, your mother?

Her family were from Ireland.

First generation from around Skibbereen.

The Kennings.
I can see you'd much prefer to interview me.

...I'm fairly sure I know enough already.
...Mr Bates, do you really want a Job here?

...Staying on with us?
...Do you doubt it?

A little. Yeah.

Whatever gave you that idea?

Sure I want a Job with you.
Anything you've got.

Addressing envelopes. Unwrapping
the Junk mail. Putting the Junk mail in the bin.

Taking the bin down with the rubbish. 0r
garbage, as you say. I'm game for anything.

...Excuse me. We Just need a moment.
...0h. 0h, I see.

Can we start being serious now, Mr Bates?

...I am being serious.
...You're not. You're Just needling away.

I'm being deadly serious.

0f course I am.

Who else is going to employ
a Jerk like me at my age?

You're not answering any of my questions.

...I thought I was. I'll try harder.
...Good.

You can clear up one thing. Why did you
reply to our letters but not tell Miss Truman?

...There were no letters.
...That's bullshit and you know it.

If I say it in a different voice maybe it'll make
you believe me more. Like this, perhaps?

(FRAIL V0ICE) There were no letters.

Is the man lying?
0r is he completely insane?

0r is he Just an arsehole
that can't stop farting about?

But sometimes, people who break the rules,

sometimes, however irritating they are,
they can do things that others can't.

...Like what, exactly?
...Like...

answering the question,
"Can you photograph a lie?"

Lying is interesting, isn't it?

You often think people are lying,

but can that moment be frozen,
caught there in a photograph?

Not like in television programmes, like Nixon
lying, where it's the whole impression.

But the very moment when it comes out.

Can a still, mute image

catch that for ever...

as it escapes out of the person?

If we had photographed you Just now,
would we have snapped somebody lying?

I'm not lying.
You're the people who are lying.

...We are?
...Sure.

This ridiculous charade you're doing
right now so that we'll go quietly.

You're computing
when you can politely bring it to an end.

You're Just doing this to make sure
I don't burn down the building!

Justice will be seen to have been done.

The idea of people arriving at the American
Business School for the 21st Century!

Who's there greeting them?
0swald Bates? Bloody ludicrous, isn't it?

Just what you want in your brochure (!)

Well, thank you for the interview but, quite
frankly, I'd prefer to burn down the building.

(CLATTERING)

(HAMMERING)

So, thank you for your time.

We Just have to review how our recruitment
is going, how many places we've got.

I'm not doing it.

The deal is off.

I don't care how many other collections
have got what we've got.

I don't care how ridiculous and dusty
and uncomputerised we are.

And I don't care that we've got no alternative.

I've been responsible all day.
Sensible, strong, done what I've been told.

And it's got me absolutely nowhere.

I...

...implore you.

It's as simple as that.

I have no pride about this.

I Just implore you

to give me more time.

To see if this huge, clumsy collection
can somehow be found a home.

Please.

I don't care how embarrassing that seems.

I beg you.

...If we were to give you a week...
...Give me a week. Yes.

It will need very careful handling
with the contractors.

...I will not allow it to put us behind schedule.
...0f course.

You must understand, there's no possibility
of any extension beyond this.

...In any circumstances.
...No, no. 0K. I realise.

I mean it, Marilyn.

Yes.

You really think you can find somewhere
in that time?

...It will be a challenge, certainly.
...It's Christmas.

...Things move so slowly in this country.
...I Just have to try, don't I?

It wouldn't be interesting if it was too easy.

(CREAKING AND WHIRRING)

(SPIG) These are the letters
the Americans sent us.

And Mr Bates's replies.

He DID reply.

...There is one very big condition.
...Which is?

Mr 0swald Bates leaves these premises
immediately.

He has to be out of here tonight.

I know 0swald may seem eccentric
and perverse but he's...

I don't understand him? He's a fruit... cake.

How you could
let him handle business I don't know.

No. It's the shock of the situation
that's made him behave like that.

...He's fired. There is no argument.
...If you fire him...

It may not be possible
to get people to re... employ him.

I can't help that.

It's Just...

...It mightn't be the wisest...
...No. I don't believe his threats for a moment.

This is what's going to happen, Marilyn,
and you will tell him.

...I will tell him?
...Just get rid of him.

He does not come back to this building
ever again. Is that clear? Not a sign.

That's what THEY think.