Shadows Of Fear (1970) Episode 8 White Walls and Olive Green Carpets
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01:00hi oh hello I thought we agreed I told you you want to call me dead dead since
01:23when is this supposed to be a joke Robert I'm sorry I really am but how
01:32what happened how long ago were you in the car
01:40no no we better not are you in London
01:50no don't come up not yet I need to think
01:59but I am sorry
02:06me too
02:11bad news love
02:27somebody's wife died
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03:50You picked a fine day for it, huh?
03:56You sure there's a train back this evening?
03:58Eight forty
04:00I don't want to stay there
04:02In the town?
04:04always was. it isn't at the world's end. there's a town, two hotels. count them if we
04:10miss the train. I don't want to miss it.
04:13well I guess you shouldn't take them anyway.
04:16is it necessary? what?
04:18the scavenger. that's a peculiar word. it's accurate.
04:22the house is mine. there are objects in it which are mine too. the word scavenging
04:27hardly applies. if we don't take them they'll be auctioned for next to nothing.
04:32I'm not suggesting we make off with her clothes or the bed linen. there's some
04:38kitchenware. gas cooker and refrigerator don't have the same morbid associations
04:43as a monogrammed handkerchief. I can't think nigh not. myself I could as readily
04:48weep at the sight of a washing machine. you're in high spirits.
04:54yes. then let's not go. don't you want to see where I live? not very much.
04:59you know where I sat when I phoned you? I used to write to you late at night at the kitchen
05:03table. you can take that if you like.
05:09I think I better wait for you in the town. no you must come and choose. come on.
05:13there's nothing I want from that house.
05:18oh don't throw a moody. well come and see it then. I know what's at the back of your
05:24mind. you want nothing that won't fit in with your color scheme. think I've
05:28forgotten? white walls and olive green carpets. fool. that's what our place is going to look like.
05:33only the living room. it's very MW3 isn't it? all my life I've preferred white walls and a beautiful deep carpet.
05:43dream is a dream.
05:45what?
05:47glass donors.
05:49I have those.
05:52how did she die?
05:56how did she die?
05:58Mary?
06:00in a car.
06:02I know that. how?
06:04as she was driving into town.
06:06it was reliable.
06:08weather like this.
06:10I don't know.
06:12skid. worn tyres.
06:14speeding.
06:16did she...
06:19I mean was it instantaneous?
06:22spontaneous.
06:24I don't know.
06:26I want to see where it happened.
06:28no no no.
06:30I'm glad you and I were over then.
06:34I guess.
06:36it was finished between us that we'd agreed.
06:38somehow that makes it not so bad.
06:42you don't like feeling guilty yeah?
06:44do you?
06:48no.
06:56nearly there.
06:58I don't know whether you're getting at me or not.
07:04no of course I'm not getting at you.
07:07you're a moral hemophiliac that's all.
07:09get you Ada.
07:18you
07:30nothing to be nervous about. no dark corners.
07:35it was a millhouse originally.
07:37Marion knocked down a few walls.
07:39raised the ceilings.
07:41or was it lowered them?
07:43splashed around oceans of paint.
07:45let a bit of light in.
07:47not much of it today though.
07:49couldn't we have kept the taxi?
07:51I asked him to come back for us. you heard me.
07:53yes but if he doesn't... darling you're making my life very difficult.
07:55he'll be here at 6.30.
08:08give me a coat.
08:10I'm fine.
08:12we have an hour. do you propose to spend it in the hall in the wet coat?
08:18no olive green carpet.
08:21no white walls.
08:30Marion had good taste.
08:32I don't know. I've grown too used to it.
08:38kitchen
08:43dining room. upstairs two beds two baths.
08:46aren't you posh?
08:48you've got to. they're passing a new law.
08:50once it's through if you don't have one bathroom per bedroom you aren't allowed to take the color supplements.
08:54oh well that's an incitement to dirty living.
08:57not bad not bad.
08:59a drink? no thanks.
09:01coffee then. yes you will.
09:03you need it. come on sit down.
09:05these covers.
09:07looks like holy week in the catacombs doesn't it?
09:16come on sit down.
09:46coffee.
10:17coffee.
10:25this room's locked.
10:28the dining room. it's locked.
10:37it's not like I pictured it.
10:46there's a picture missing.
10:55ah!
10:57over there under the cupboard.
10:59there's something. I don't want to look at it.
11:11I don't!
11:17oh
11:23Lena
11:25Marianne was always lucky at raffles.
11:27there are such people you know.
11:29don't bother selling them a ticket.
11:31just hand over the loot and save a journey.
11:35no kidding. what do you think he was?
11:37I don't know. who put it there?
11:39I did.
11:41the person who cleaned up.
11:43can't remember.
11:45no one's been here for two weeks.
11:47someone...
11:50I feel ill.
11:52come on Marianne. sit down.
11:57it's not your day is it?
12:02it moved under the sheet.
12:04I must have...
12:06touched it.
12:09coffee will take a while.
12:11have some of this eh?
12:15thank you.
12:22I was looking at that blank spot.
12:24hmm? there.
12:26oh yes.
12:28that was a picture of Marianne.
12:30a friend of hers quite clever with oils.
12:32I took it down. why?
12:34drink your brandy.
12:36why?
12:38car hit the wall of an estate on the way into town.
12:41her face was mutilated.
12:43it's hard to look at the painting afterwards.
12:45where is it now?
12:47in the...
12:49the dining room.
12:51is that why it's locked?
12:53partly. I haven't entertained much since the accident.
12:56the key ought to be in here.
12:59I don't want to see it.
13:03the room? no the...
13:06is there something to laugh at?
13:08no.
13:10if I thought you were making fun of me...
13:12take three people for that.
13:14the joker, the victim, the one who loves.
13:16no truly...
13:18all day you've been...
13:20you may as well know...
13:22I'm not leaving this room until the taxi comes.
13:24and the only thing I intend taking out of here is myself.
13:27nothing else.
13:29fine fine. you can argue all you want to.
13:32why not? I did on the way down.
13:34that's why I was brought here.
13:36not why. how?
13:38what does that mean?
13:40I needed a pretext.
13:42to get me here we came down or at least you did to pick out things for the flat.
13:46kitchenware, crockery. it was your idea.
13:48I wouldn't take a teaspoon out of this house.
13:50then why?
13:52I know you too well.
13:54if I said let's go down and hand out the furniture to the poor of the parish you wouldn't have believed me for a moment.
13:59but when I suggested what was your word for it? a scavenger hunt?
14:02you fell for that.
14:04you always believe the worst of people.
14:06I have good cause.
14:09she was so house proud. how could I touch anything?
14:12did you notice the garden? the gnome for God's sake.
14:15the half coconut shell for the birds.
14:17Marianne's idea of sophisticated living was a joke book in the loo and a trick poster in the guest room.
14:23she wasn't acquisitive. it was just that beyond the front gates there were dragons.
14:27so all she could love was what lay inside them.
14:30bits of furniture, carpets, flowers.
14:33why was I brought here?
14:38kettle's boiling.
14:42tell me!
14:44presently.
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16:18I said so.
16:20that room's empty. I didn't say it wasn't.
16:22I said well it was a
16:24a rustling sound.
16:26you mean like a bird in the chimney?
16:28please go and see.
16:36it's so long since I locked that door.
16:40can't you find the key?
16:42if it's not where you left it some...
16:45want to look?
16:47portrait's not a bad likeness.
16:49you go.
17:06nothing.
17:08you sure?
17:10come and have a look. no thanks.
17:12you never notice noise in the city.
17:14out of town you hear everything.
17:16floorboards, mice, death watch, beetle.
17:18when we came here first I couldn't sleep.
17:20is there a window in that room?
17:22a window with bars.
17:24they were there originally.
17:26Marion found them unsightly but she left them stay.
17:28she was the kind of person who believed that
17:30burglars would kill you for the fun of it.
17:32she saw the world as malevolent.
17:34so no one got in by the window. malevolent means evil.
17:36oh.
17:38in wit.
17:40you seem to be clever.
17:42it's that crisp posh accent of yours that does it for you.
17:44thank you very much.
17:48oh those superb girls
17:50with immaculate accents in Sunday morning pubs.
17:52I wonder if they know
17:54what malevolent means.
17:56they hear voices in other rooms.
17:58goddesses unnerve me and it would be comforting
18:00to think of them now and again as uncertain and fearful.
18:02I know what's wrong with this house.
18:04there's always an
18:06emptiness about a house when someone's died.
18:08mystery solved.
18:10but there isn't in this one.
18:12as if there was someone else here.
18:14come on. I'm sorry.
18:16if you say the house is empty then it isn't.
18:18I'm stupid. I just have this...
18:22there's milk in my coffee.
18:24did you want a blight?
18:26you said no one had been in the house for two weeks.
18:28well?
18:30you're a working girl.
18:32I wouldn't expect you to have heard of powdered milk.
18:34oh.
18:38I'm sorry.
18:40no more fancies. I promise.
18:42do you know the shortest
18:44ghost story in the world?
18:46two men were walking along together
18:48one of them said do you believe in ghosts?
18:50the other man said oh yes yes
18:52and vanished.
18:54well why did you bring me here?
18:56you said the furniture was a pretense.
18:58well I...
19:00a pretext. a pretext.
19:02why? I wanted us to talk.
19:04and? a quiet chat.
19:08you brought me here 80 miles for a chat.
19:10now this house...
19:12this house is yours. it has nothing to do with me.
19:14yes it's mine.
19:16it was Marion's so it concerns you.
19:18how? all this way. I'm shivering. I feel ill.
19:20we could have talked in London.
19:22this had better be important.
19:26well...
19:28something needs to be settled.
19:30what?
19:32unless...
19:34go on.
19:36a man wants a girl as long as he can't have her.
19:38then when he's
19:40free to marry her he has second thoughts.
19:42he thinks he could do better
19:44for himself. no hurry.
19:46shop around.
19:48it happens.
19:50just like that?
19:52people do what's best for themselves.
19:54I've been let down before now.
19:58often?
20:00no one ever did it more than once.
20:06leaving you
20:08is the one thing
20:10I couldn't do.
20:12no?
20:14do you believe I could marry
20:16and live with anyone except you?
20:18I told you a long time
20:20ago this is till death.
20:22we'll see.
20:26the only reason you want to marry me is to
20:28feel superior because I can't pronounce long words.
20:30or spells.
20:32you're right.
20:34I couldn't let you
20:36go easily.
20:38I've come nearer to trusting
20:40you than anyone else I know.
20:42even though you've
20:44changed. have I?
20:46before.
20:48I mean before we agreed
20:50to split up it was different.
20:52you rang me two or three times a day.
20:54I had a long letter on Saturdays.
20:56you sulked. you wanted answers.
20:58everything had to be put in a little box.
21:00yes or no.
21:02black or white. and now?
21:04you were possessive which I hate.
21:06now?
21:08now it's all likeness.
21:10very cool. no more questions.
21:12as if you didn't care.
21:14I do care.
21:16you can believe that.
21:18more coffee?
21:20no.
21:22it was that
21:24wine we had at lunch.
21:26I keep forgetting that I like wine
21:28and it loathes me. it's middle age.
21:30do you want to use the loo? there are two of them.
21:32no.
21:34are you sure?
21:36yes.
21:58something is wrong.
22:00with you I have radar.
22:06you're as suttered as ever.
22:08the fever's gone that's all.
22:10you hear someone saying he made a fool
22:12of himself over a woman.
22:14you envisage a kind of
22:16weakling. an object of pity.
22:18you wonder how any man
22:20can give himself totally to passion.
22:22you believe it could never happen to you.
22:24you're saying it did? that you made a fool
22:26of yourself? I behave foolishly.
22:28why not?
22:30we lived here in the country.
22:32not in that awful
22:34landscape garden near London that passes for country.
22:36when you live 40 miles
22:38beyond the adultery belt women
22:40aren't so easily come by.
22:42there are no temptations.
22:44then I went up in the world.
22:46a new job. some excitement.
22:48four days a week in London. me?
22:50you.
22:52I lost my wits.
22:54and you
22:56were always in such superb control.
22:58I told myself
23:00no woman in love can be so calm.
23:02I can.
23:04and I took it for indifference.
23:06so I panicked. phone calls.
23:08questions. I became
23:10everything I despise in others.
23:12why did you lose your wits over me?
23:14why? I'm not special.
23:16physically no.
23:18you have nice eyes. deep as quicksands.
23:20that's not why.
23:22you're being elusive.
23:24evasive.
23:26well let's see.
23:28you're a woman.
23:32that's part of it.
23:3499 women out of 100
23:36of your age are no more than
23:38superannuated girls.
23:40women really are rare. what else?
23:44the third time we went out together
23:46you told me a little
23:48about yourself.
23:50then you glared at me and you said
23:52don't feel sorry for me.
23:54I almost laughed because you felt so sorry for yourself.
23:56just then I had this absurd
23:58feeling of recognition as if
24:00I was keeping an appointment with me
24:02God knows how many years ago.
24:04it was the homecoming.
24:08that was the start of it.
24:10nothing to do with the kind of person you are.
24:12what kind was that?
24:14nice at first. warm. alive.
24:16choose your own cliche. first?
24:18but not later? there were quarrels.
24:20do you wonder?
24:22I was fond of you. you were married.
24:24I was under stress. I had hang-ups.
24:26you sound like a poacher.
24:28I snide if you want to.
24:30some of the girls I work with go with married men.
24:32I don't.
24:34one of them even had his baby.
24:36they're my friends
24:38but they disgust me.
24:42I'm sorry if I've lost your good opinion.
24:44opinion has nothing to do with it. it happened.
24:46it's frightening.
24:48when you love someone you give them the power to destroy you.
24:50could any man destroy you Lena?
24:52I missed you when we split up.
24:54when we what?
24:56when we agreed to...
24:58that's the third time today you use that word.
25:00there was no agreement.
25:02we decided to...
25:04the last time I heard your voice before Marion's accident
25:06three months before was on the telephone.
25:08you refused to see me.
25:10I said you mean forever and you laughed
25:12and you said forever is a long time
25:14and you hung up.
25:16well?
25:18you decided
25:20you decided
25:22we didn't.
25:26it's in the past. can't we leave it?
25:28it needs to be settled.
25:30why?
25:32are we going to have a row?
25:34all right.
25:36the truth is
25:38that you wanted us to break up too
25:40only you were too much of a coward to say it.
25:42that's not true.
25:44what kind of a future had we you couldn't tell Marion?
25:46I wanted to.
25:48no I don't go around breaking up marriages.
25:50what were we to do then?
25:52go on until she found out?
25:54I'm not so young I can go on wasting my life.
25:58I was married before.
26:00he was a monster.
26:02now I want to be happy for a change.
26:04of me? if it's what you want.
26:08was I the one who broke us up?
26:10if so it wasn't just for my own sake.
26:12all I'm glad about
26:14is that Marion never knew.
26:16she knew.
26:18you mean she guessed?
26:20she was told.
26:22by you?
26:24she had a letter. a London postmark.
26:26who?
26:28a friend. that was the signature.
26:30Christ.
26:32she was unambitious.
26:34a husband, four walls and a roof.
26:36that was enough.
26:38but they were necessary.
26:40you told her it was true?
26:42I had no choice. there were other proofs.
26:44what did she say?
26:46what you'd expect. anger first then nothing.
26:48didn't you tell her it was over?
26:50it wasn't for me.
26:52it never would be.
26:54so how could I?
27:02she sat by herself a great deal in there.
27:06she saw by the window the light was good.
27:08I suppose she had a lot to think about.
27:10then a week or so later
27:12she took the car out.
27:16are you saying she might have...
27:18afraid there's no might about it. she left a note.
27:20oh please no.
27:22you are ill.
27:24come on upstairs.
27:26no.
27:28if you're not feeling well at least lie down here on the sofa.
27:30why didn't you tell me?
27:32I didn't know whether or not I should.
27:34come on. feet up.
27:37there's a rug somewhere.
27:39you're as cold as ice.
27:42that's what the girls call me at work.
27:44the ice queen.
27:47you know what girls are?
27:49Arlena.
27:51cold little piece. never panics.
27:53knows the score.
27:55they're so wrong.
27:57I've not killed herself. not that.
27:59shh.
28:01quiet now. quiet.
28:03quiet.
28:05what time is it?
28:07why isn't the taxi here?
28:09it's quarter to six.
28:11time enough for you to take a nap.
28:13I have to go upstairs and get some paper.
28:15no don't leave me.
28:17just for a moment.
28:19no.
28:21we'll make a bargain.
28:23you rest quietly.
28:25I'll stay with you.
28:33shh.
29:03Arlena.
29:05Arlena.
29:33Arlena.
30:03shh.
30:33shh.
31:03shh.
31:33shh.
31:45how do you feel?
31:47what? how do you feel?
31:49I don't know.
31:51what time is it?
31:53nine five.
31:55taxi.
31:57I sent it away.
31:59you...
32:01you were ill. I thought it better to let you sleep.
32:03don't be upset.
32:05I booked a hotel room.
32:07you'll come back for us at ten o'clock.
32:09you should have waked me.
32:11I'd have soon waked the dead.
32:13you look better.
32:15my mouth feels as if I've been eating cobwebs.
32:17the sickness is gone.
32:19what are you doing?
32:21inventory for the auction.
32:23I deserted you to get these from upstairs.
32:27I had nightmares.
32:29or were they thoughts?
32:31did I scream?
32:33no.
32:35then I must have dreamt it.
32:39tell me.
32:41something about
32:43a dream.
32:45a dream?
32:47something about
32:49flowers.
32:51yellow flowers.
32:53yes?
32:55I was dreaming of flowers.
32:59then there was a woman.
33:01it was Marion.
33:03how could you tell?
33:05how? you never saw her.
33:09she had no face.
33:11it was dark.
33:13it was a light.
33:15it was somewhere.
33:19she came close to me
33:21and I saw her.
33:25I dreamt that I screamed.
33:27instead of a face she...
33:29we must sue that restaurant.
33:31the carafe wine.
33:35is it true what you said?
33:37that she killed herself?
33:39it was intentional yes.
33:41and we were to blame?
33:43the person who wrote that note.
33:45are you too blind or too deaf
33:47to know that your husband has been having an affair
33:49with a girl in London?
33:51a name... I was named?
33:53of course. and note the phrasing.
33:55not is having an affair.
33:57has been having as if the person knew that it was over.
33:59my friends knew. my close friends.
34:01I told them.
34:03you think it was one of them?
34:05someone wrote it.
34:07you told me your friend Lucille
34:09was jealous of it. no not Lucille.
34:11sure not.
34:13whoever it was couldn't have known that Marion
34:15was the kind of person who would...
34:17drive a car through a granite wall. true.
34:19you couldn't have known that either.
34:21there was a rule.
34:23we didn't talk about it.
34:25made things easier.
34:27oh yes for me too.
34:29now I know I saw
34:31an outward. it suited me to see you.
34:33a cabbage. timid. dull.
34:35a woman incapable of passion.
34:37would be more inconvenience than hurting
34:39so I walked out.
34:41once you and I began she became unreal.
34:43she had to. ghosts don't bleed.
34:45as you say it made things easier.
34:54does it make a difference?
34:56to us?
34:58what does it?
35:00I feel dreadful but we must face it.
35:02normal people don't kill themselves.
35:06if they get hurt
35:08they go on.
35:10I have done.
35:12I agree it's terrible but
35:14we love each other
35:16so it'd be stupid.
35:18yes you're right as always.
35:20no use crying over spilled blood.
35:22that's sick.
35:24I apologize. I should think so.
35:26don't get upset. have a piece of it.
35:28I don't know how you could say such a...
35:34those are flowers. what?
35:36I dream about them.
35:38I was half asleep and I remembered
35:40fresh flowers in a house that's
35:42been locked up.
35:44that would be alarming.
35:46these flowers will always be
35:48fresh.
35:50it's...
35:54they were real. I tell you they were.
35:56I saw them. I touched them.
35:58they were flowers.
36:00and you were ill.
36:02I wish they were real.
36:04I hate imitations.
36:06Marion thought they looked nice.
36:10hey ho.
36:14so you
36:16want us to go on?
36:20if you do.
36:30did you tell anyone we were coming down here today?
36:32how could I? you didn't tell me until Paddington.
36:34why?
36:38you're right of course.
36:40the person who wrote this
36:42to Marion couldn't have foreseen what would have happened.
36:44I'm sorry
36:46if this letter
36:48is the cause of humiliation.
36:50it is better if I do not sign my name.
36:52spell humiliation Lina.
36:54what?
36:56spell humiliation.
36:58are you accusing me?
37:00telling me I wrote to your wife?
37:02I haven't told you anything yet.
37:04you'll regret this.
37:06humiliation
37:08h-u-m-i-l-a-t
37:10wrong.
37:12it's i-a-t.
37:14in the letter it's spelled correctly.
37:16I don't want to see it. how could you think that I would...
37:18I suppose you looked it up in your dictionary.
37:20are you mad?
37:22you're always very careful about the long words but I've noticed
37:24from your letters to me there's one tiny word that you always trip up on.
37:26silly thing.
37:28the word misspelling is a bad habit.
37:30are you too blind or too deaf?
37:32now the word should be spelled T-O-O
37:34and you spell it T-O.
37:36lots of people make that mistake.
37:38not so many.
37:40that's stupid. why would I do such a thing?
37:42you wanted to tell your wife.
37:44I was the one who said no.
37:46because you didn't want to be part of it.
37:48in the years to come I might have said
37:50you broke up my marriage and you don't like feeling guilty.
37:52I...
37:54or rather you don't like being at a disadvantage.
37:56awful things are done to you.
37:58you don't do them.
38:00you walked out on me and I was supposed to find life unbearable.
38:02finally I would leave her of my own accord
38:04and then you could always say
38:06nobody asked you to.
38:08that's what you think of me.
38:10well love I know you.
38:12and I did find life unbearable.
38:14but I didn't leave her.
38:16in time I would...
38:18like hell.
38:20in time. but you trust no one.
38:22you want something done do it yourself is that it?
38:24I missed you.
38:28so...
38:30you wrote to Marian.
38:34I don't expect you to understand.
38:36one minute you say you love me
38:38now this.
38:42everyone I've ever cared for has turned on me.
38:44even Lucille
38:46my so-called friend.
38:48I got a promotion.
38:50I'm good at my job. I work hard.
38:52she didn't say one word.
38:54jealousy.
38:56and you're the same.
38:58I did what you hadn't the courage to do
39:00and you sit in judgment.
39:02how is it you always end up as the accuser?
39:04it wasn't easy for me to bury my pride
39:06and send that letter.
39:08do you think I wanted to hurt her?
39:10I'm wondering if you were worth it.
39:12probably not now.
39:14you're such a hypocrite.
39:16behind it all you're glad to be free yet you have the gall to accuse me.
39:18only of writing a letter.
39:20because you want an excuse to be rid of me.
39:22I could never be rid of you.
39:24till death?
39:26yes I said so. that's it.
39:32I couldn't marry a man who didn't respect me.
39:34you did once didn't you?
39:36never again.
39:38I was good to him.
39:42he had a nice home. I was the one who looked after it.
39:44not him. he never cared.
39:46you should have seen my room.
39:48your room?
39:50everything white.
39:52I did it myself.
39:54white wardrobe, white dressing table.
39:56bedspread and carpet
39:58like snow. beautiful.
40:02not as posh a house as this one
40:04but nicer.
40:06promised when we got money we'd move.
40:10I saw a super house in Chiswick.
40:12from the road you could see into the front room.
40:14I knew just what I was
40:16going to do with that room.
40:18walls as white as the houses
40:20you see in Spain.
40:22green carpets.
40:24it's gone now of course that house.
40:26long ago.
40:28was too busy after his women.
40:30is that why you left him?
40:32no.
40:34I didn't care.
40:36even though the sort he was he could
40:38sleep around and still think he
40:40owned me.
40:42I don't like
40:44people who break promises.
40:46you mean the marriage vow?
40:48everyone breaks that.
40:50every man does.
40:52no I meant that
40:54house.
40:56do you think I might be unfaithful to you?
41:00you were to Marion.
41:08perhaps not.
41:12I've had such a lousy life.
41:16first at home with my parents then with him.
41:20there was another boy I could have married.
41:22I rang him years afterwards.
41:24he wouldn't talk to me.
41:26so he can't have cared very much can he?
41:30I wasted ten years
41:32with that man.
41:34dressed well.
41:36I had an awful accent.
41:38I got rid of it.
41:40and for what?
41:42ten years. the best years for a girl.
41:44gone.
41:46I'll get them back.
41:50we'll be happy.
41:52could you be
41:54happy?
41:56yes. people would let me alone.
41:58I don't like being pressured.
42:00least of all by men
42:02like him who think they own you.
42:04if I said
42:06no to him when he wanted sex
42:08his eyes would smart.
42:10he'd go into one of his silences.
42:12I loathe that on a man.
42:16you're not like that.
42:18you spoil me.
42:25where are you going?
42:28is it taxi time?
42:30no not yet.
42:32I could do that.
42:34it's all right.
42:38you're as neat as I am.
42:44you haven't said yet
42:46that you forgive me for the letter.
42:50yes I do.
43:02Robert?
43:04mm-hmm
43:06come here.
43:08is it?
43:12flower petal.
43:14not withered. fresh.
43:16yes it would be.
43:18I suppose there's an explanation.
43:20yes I changed the flowers while you were asleep.
43:22I overlooked that.
43:24changed them?
43:26yes they're a mistake. sheer carelessness.
43:28luckily I noticed them before you did
43:30and they were artificial flowers in the kitchen.
43:32Marion got them with soap flakes.
43:34why?
43:36well as you pointed out
43:38one doesn't expect to find fresh flowers
43:40in a house that's been locked up.
43:42who put them there?
43:44Marion.
43:46six weeks ago? this morning.
43:52she's not...
43:54she's upstairs now.
43:56she was in there.
43:58it was all lies.
44:00some of it. all of it.
44:02she's alive. there was no accident.
44:04could you?
44:06yes she's alive. just.
44:08what you call the accident
44:10wasn't successful.
44:12you should know that. you saw her.
44:14when?
44:16you described how her face looked
44:18or what's left of it.
44:23she thought you were fast asleep.
44:25naturally she was anxious to see you.
44:27the crash occurred
44:2914 weeks ago. not six as I told you.
44:31even so when she left the hospital
44:33it was against their wishes.
44:35there were other injuries apart from the
44:37disfigurement. her heart was affected
44:39and that of course ruled out any idea
44:41of plastic surgery apart from which
44:43her life... stop it!
44:45her life
44:47expectancy is low.
44:49why was I
44:51brought here?
44:53I told you for a chat.
44:55which we have had.
44:58when's the taxi due?
45:00it isn't.
45:02I never used to lie to you.
45:04I seem to have made up for it today don't I?
45:06I suppose this is your idea
45:08of paying me out?
45:10am I to stay and do penance
45:12to Marianne? is that it?
45:14well sorry.
45:16I should have learnt my lesson
45:18about men by now.
45:26don't go.
45:31open the door please.
45:33it's a two-mile walk.
45:35I'm not afraid. I was before. not anymore.
45:37will you please open it?
45:39this is a police offense.
45:41you could be prosecuted.
45:43I've already committed one.
45:45when? I drugged your coffee here
45:47and in London. nothing poisonous.
45:49I gave you some of Marianne's capsules.
45:51an overdose causes nausea and drowsiness.
45:53I could have you sent to prison.
45:55I had to keep you here.
45:57there's still something to be done.
45:59I want nothing more to do with you.
46:01please.
46:03I'll forget it ever happened.
46:05just let me go home.
46:13there's a woman in this house
46:15whose life isn't worth living.
46:18she's no use to anyone.
46:20there are some who would say
46:22she'd be better off dead.
46:26so that's it.
46:28you want me to help you?
46:33what I mean is...
46:35you're insane. I won't do it.
46:38just open that door now.
46:41kill her. is that what you mean to do?
46:43you'd say it was putting the poor creature out of her misery.
46:46you'd say I was to blame so I'm to be part of it.
46:50you can give me the key now.
46:52no you're wrong. that wasn't what I mean.
46:55you said she'd be better off dead.
46:58I wasn't. I wasn't referring to Marianne.
47:02she wants to die but she deserves not to.
47:06as for you, you have a right to know why.
47:10it isn't because of the letter.
47:12that wasn't sent out of maliciousness.
47:14to get me back.
47:16in a way I'm flattered.
47:18it's not even because of the kind of person you are.
47:21you have no capacity for loving.
47:23you go through life like a child in a sweet shop from one day to the next.
47:37you trust no one.
47:39you're loyal but to you loyalty is like making love.
47:42it's a form of payment.
47:44your husband failed you and I suspect there were others.
47:48and so would I in time because how can people you despise so much ever please you?
47:54you're like a driver that runs someone down and then you blame him for scratching your paint.
48:00when you left me, for you it was a maneuver, part of the game.
48:05I couldn't sleep or work.
48:08forever is a long time you said and you laughed.
48:11do you know what pain is? pain in others or do you think only you can feel it?
48:14I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
48:16no, no, no. this is no punishment.
48:19I must stay with Marion now and try and understand.
48:24how can I? you're there.
48:26I love you. I love you. I love you.
48:28you consume my life. the kind of person you are doesn't matter.
48:31I had to stay here but I can't leave her.
48:34I might as long as you live.
48:36go away!
48:39how far? how far? how far?
48:41how far is far enough to you?
48:46I've explained it all to Marion.
48:48she understands.
48:50she doesn't approve you know. she understands.
48:53it just isn't any other way you know.
48:56please!
48:59at least now you know someone does love you.
49:03hmm?
49:05please let me go!
49:08I'll give up my job.
49:11you won't know where to find me.
49:14I promise.
49:17Robert.
49:20I'm in here.
49:30I'll keep my word.
49:33I mean you won't see me again.
49:38do you want to come in?
50:04it was the least I could do.
50:14is the green deep enough?
50:34I think Marion has come down.
50:52thought you might like a little time here first.
50:58I'm sorry.
51:00thought you might like a little time here first.
51:03sayonara.
51:30sayonara.
52:00sayonara.
52:30you