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00:57Hey, I bet you thought you'd pack that.
01:00Thank you, darling.
01:07What the hell's that passport for?
01:09You're not fleeing the country, are you?
01:10Oh, he asked me to take it.
01:11I imagine it's for some variation of the Shalabac test.
01:16Well, some people seem to think you need them to get over to the other world.
01:19But you don't.
01:20Of course not, darling.
01:22It sounds like an out-and-out quack.
01:24I don't know why he's asked you, an unbeliever.
01:27I think you're mad to go.
01:29I'm not an unbeliever. I'm a non-believer.
01:31I have an open mind.
01:33Oh, darling, let me enjoy it.
01:36I've never been a well-known author before.
01:38Oh?
01:39And besides, he's paying me 25 pounds for the weekend.
01:41Guinness.
01:42We might blow some of it on a few days in Wales.
01:44I don't have to lecture for a fortnight.
01:46Oh, we could look up the Hamiltons.
01:48You're sure the university doesn't mind?
01:50Well, of course not. It's my subject.
01:52I'll get the tape recorder as well.
01:55Well, you never know.
01:56There might be some things that go bump in the night.
01:59Do you really think it's fair to take his money?
02:01I mean, I bet his theories are quite potty.
02:05Where are those new cassettes?
02:06Oh.
02:07He wants me to observe what he calls some psychic phenomena.
02:11Well, he's read Frontier, so he knows where I stand.
02:13I have an open mind.
02:17I wish we knew more about him.
02:18Don't we, Sarah? Put her toys away.
02:22Well, it's time for some coffee.
02:24Shall I make some?
02:26It's obviously no use my saying anything.
02:28You'll do what you want in the end anyway.
02:31I wish you were coming with me.
02:34So do I, darling.
02:38She looks quite harmless.
02:40But then they all do.
02:43Would you like me to wear my hospital whites, Doctor?
02:45I've brought them with me.
02:46No, I think not.
02:48You should be as unobtrusive as possible.
02:50She's an extremely brilliant woman, except for this lack of balance.
02:54You'll have to keep your wits about you.
02:56No need to worry, Doctor. We had all types at Broadhurst.
03:00I should relax if I were you.
03:02You're not likely to get much peace in the next few nights.
03:13By the way, if you make a success of this,
03:15I shan't fail to mention it to the Mental Health Foundation.
03:18It could lead you to some lucrative work.
03:20They're frequently in touch with wealthy parents who have non-volitional patients.
03:25Thank you, Doctor. Thank you very much.
04:12Mrs. Erickson?
04:14Yes?
04:16I'm sorry.
04:17I'm Dr. Pickering.
04:18Thank heavens I found you.
04:20We were meant to be meeting at Harwich.
04:22Yes.
04:23There's been a mix-up, I'm afraid.
04:26You see, I had been to be coming back from the Continent today,
04:29and I'd planned to meet you at Harwich and take you back with me.
04:34But in fact, I got back last night.
04:38The car is waiting at Ipswich, by the way.
04:41Where are we going?
04:43Didn't I say in my letter?
04:44No.
04:45I have this place at Bassett.
04:48It's rather out in the wilds.
04:51The suffocating in Suffolk, as some of the wits put it.
05:32Tell me, Dr. Pickering, do you have a ghost here?
05:35Not really.
05:37Not yet.
05:44Oh, there you are, Dawson.
05:47This is Mrs. Erickson.
05:49Good evening.
05:50Good evening, Miss.
05:51Dawson looks after us.
05:53It's certainly isolated.
05:55That's the reason I bought the place.
05:57When Mother died, oh, years ago now,
06:00I felt the need to get away from everyone.
06:02No intrusive visits.
06:04It's a strange place, isn't it?
06:06It's a strange place.
06:08It's a strange place.
06:10Now, I felt the need to get away from everyone.
06:12No intrusive factors.
06:14The village is nothing to speak of,
06:16just a sub-post office and store.
06:18Half the cottages are empty now.
06:20No industry, and the land isn't much good.
06:23Oh, you might take the things up, Dawson.
06:26Now, sir?
06:28Yes, I think so.
06:29We'll be all right for the moment.
06:33I take this, Miss.
06:40Shall we go in?
06:41Yes.
06:53Is Dawson local?
06:55No, he isn't, actually.
06:57Sit down. Let me get you a drink.
07:00What will it be?
07:01Do you have a scotch? Nothing with it.
07:03Of course.
07:07He's a wiry little fellow, isn't he?
07:09He gives me a sense of security.
07:12By the way, there's another security arrangement I should warn you about.
07:16We leave Caesar loose in the house at night.
07:19He's a Rhodesian Ridgeback.
07:21Vicious brutes.
07:23There have been several break-ins in the neighbourhood recently.
07:26That's why I got him.
07:28You're quite self-contained up there with your own bath.
07:30No need to stir until I call you.
07:32I've never seen a Ridgeback.
07:34They're quite noiseless, you know.
07:36That's why they're so dangerous.
07:38On you before you know it.
07:40Don't worry, I won't stir.
07:42Good health, Mrs. Evans.
07:43Cheers.
07:50Helps to relax you after that filthy journey.
07:56I should rather like to know why you've invited me here, Doctor.
07:59May I say how great an admirer I am of yours?
08:01I thought The Unknown Frontier was a fascinating book.
08:05But a lot of the credit should really go to my department.
08:08Perhaps I should be frank and explain that I am not an authority on psychic phenomena.
08:13We have continuing studies on ESP and telepathy, of course, at the university.
08:17But I'm afraid I'm one of the sceptics.
08:19That makes you the perfect witness.
08:21Your work has equipped you to understand the nature of psychic experiment.
08:25Anyone can persuade someone who wants to believe.
08:27Well, I hope I won't disappoint you.
08:29You see, I believe we can communicate with each other.
08:33You see, I believe we can communicate with the dead in a completely new way.
08:38Sounds like an out-and-out quack.
08:41Oh, really?
08:42Please hear me out.
08:43The words you used in your letter were scientific experiment.
08:46I don't mean the orthodox quackery that goes on.
08:49Voices from the past, ectoplasms, that kind of thing.
08:52I mean something completely original.
08:55It was your book that first gave me the idea
08:57that communication could exist other than by speech and visual method.
09:01But I've never suggested that communicating with the dead is possible.
09:04And then you were on that commission that examined the behavior of football crowds,
09:08where one of your findings was that there was a possible chemical means of communicating hysteria.
09:13In any case, I'm an empiricist.
09:15That sort of stuff has no place in my work.
09:18Well, would you accept the premise that methods of communication could exist?
09:22After all, you have that in your book.
09:27Mood transmission in rats, you gave as an example.
09:31And then let us assume that there is, in fact, an afterlife.
09:36After all, half the world believes in this.
09:38One could safely assume that half the scientists do, too.
09:42I want you to acknowledge the possibility of dualism.
09:45I can't.
09:47I don't believe that mind and matter are divisible.
09:50Many leading psychologists do.
09:52You're being arrogant, Mrs. Erickson.
09:56Let us assume, for the sake of my theory, that they are right,
09:59that we have a mental span of existence separate from our physical span.
10:03And if we end a physical life by an act of violence, which is abnormal,
10:07then the possibility of death...
10:09I'm sorry, Dr. Pickering. The whole business is completely outside my sphere of interest.
10:13I can't even go a little way with it.
10:15You've really got hold of the wrong person.
10:17Why don't you get in touch with the Committee for Psychical Studies?
10:20Publish a paper, perhaps.
10:22But I'm a scientist like you.
10:24Their experience is hallucinatory.
10:26They're only interested in mediums and the like, a lot of whom are fraudulent.
10:29They're mixed up, don't you see?
10:31Dr. Pickering, I...
10:32Please, let me go on.
10:34I have five scientific points to make.
10:36One, we have the possibility of a chemical means of communication.
10:40Two, we have dualism, separate life spans for body and soul.
10:44Now, I want you to consider my third premise.
10:47I bet his theories are quite potty.
10:51Is there a train back to Liverpool Street tonight?
10:54No, I'm afraid there isn't.
10:56Nothing till the morning.
10:59All I want to do is to substitute method for madness.
11:03I had hoped...
11:07Another drink.
11:08Oh, no, thank you.
11:09A nightcap, perhaps.
11:10I won't, if you don't mind.
11:12I'm rather tired.
11:14Could we leave it now?
11:15Yes, of course. I'll show you your room.
11:34You might ponder on what I've said in the morning, perhaps.
11:37Perhaps.
11:38You could stay on. I'd pay you, of course.
11:40I'm afraid, pressure of work.
11:42But you have no lectures for a fortnight.
11:44No, but...
11:46How did you know that?
11:48I saw you on the train.
11:51Up here.
11:54That's Dawson's room.
11:56This used to be the nursery.
12:01In fact, Dawson has the old nanny's quarters.
12:04He's there if you need anything.
12:07There we are.
12:09Plenty of hot water if you feel like a bath.
12:13I see Dawson's brought your case up.
12:18This is what remains of the nursery.
12:22It was here when I bought the place.
12:24I've become quite attached to it.
12:27Do you like tea or coffee in the morning?
12:29Well, tea, if there's any going.
12:31I don't mind.
12:32No, there's always tea.
12:34I'm sorry I can't be of any help to you.
12:36I know what it is to get obsessed with a theory,
12:38but it would be completely pointless.
12:40Please don't worry about it.
12:42Sleep well.
12:43Good night.
12:49Dr Pickering, what are you doing?
12:51It's all right, Mrs Erickson.
12:55I'm just going to let Caesar off, you see.
12:57Well, if you don't mind, I'd rather have it unlocked.
13:00Please don't worry.
13:02It's a precaution we take with all our guests.
13:05Oh, please, if you don't mind.
13:18Good night.
13:40I wish we knew more about him.
13:49She's quite calm at the moment.
13:53I've been trying to interest her in something.
13:56Tomorrow will be the testing time.
13:58She'll be up early, I expect.
14:01She's having a bath?
14:03Yes.
14:05I'm sure she'll like it.
14:07I'm sure she'll like it.
14:09I'm sure she'll like it.
14:11I'm sure she'll like it.
14:13I'm sure she'll like it.
14:15I'm sure she'll like it.
14:17Yes.
14:18That's right.
14:19She's having a bath.
14:22You might as well turn in, I think.
14:25Thank you, Doctor.
14:26Good night.
14:47Good night.
15:17Good night.
15:47Good night.
15:48Good night.
16:17Good night.
16:18Good night.
16:47If things go very badly and I have to use narcosis,
16:51then there'll be no problem about your day off.
16:57You'd better wait in the living room.
17:18I'm in here, Mrs. Erickson.
17:21Good morning.
17:22I hope you slept well.
17:24There's bacon here, and an egg, if you'd like it.
17:26I'd rather like to ring my husband, if I may.
17:29I'm afraid you can't do that.
17:31The lines have been down since the storm.
17:33They usually take a day or two.
17:34Oh, well, never mind.
17:35I'll walk down to the village.
17:36It's not far, is it?
17:37Do have some breakfast.
17:38Well, I'm not really hungry,
17:40but I would like to have some breakfast.
17:42Oh, yes, of course.
17:43I'm sure you will.
17:44Have some breakfast.
17:45Well, I'm not really hungry,
17:46but I would like to phone my family and check on a train.
17:51It's left at the bottom of the drive, isn't it?
17:53I'm afraid I can't allow you to do that.
17:56What do you mean?
17:58There is a parallel, you know, in pathology.
18:00For example, the necessity of sterilization in the operating theater.
18:06If we are to explore some means of extra-sensory communication,
18:09it's best that our mind should be immune.
18:12Do you see the point?
18:13I'm sorry, Dr. Pickering.
18:14I thought I made myself clear last night.
18:16I'm really not interested in what you're trying to prove.
18:19I'm going home this morning.
18:21In fact, I'll say goodbye now and pick up a taxi from the village.
18:24I can't allow you to go.
18:26Oh.
18:40Will you open the door for me, please, Dawson?
18:45What the bloody hell is going on here? Open the door.
18:56Will you tell your servant to let me out?
18:58I can't do that, Mrs. Erickson.
19:01In the interests of science.
19:04I beg you not to get excited.
19:08I had hoped that you'd be interested in my work, Mrs. Erickson,
19:11for its interest alone.
19:13That's why I asked you down here.
19:16I'm completely dedicated, you see.
19:48Do come and have some breakfast, Mrs. Erickson.
19:56Surely it would be better if we tried to discuss the situation rationally.
20:00You'd better do as he says, Miss.
20:05Please, Mrs. Erickson.
20:11You'll only get hurt, Mrs. Erickson.
20:13I'd rather you stay out of this, Doctor.
20:14Please put it down, Mrs. Erickson.
20:20Don't struggle, Miss, please.
20:21You see, there's absolutely no point in getting aggressive.
20:24Now, will you promise to behave?
20:26I'm sorry, Miss.
20:27Let go of my arm. You're hurting me.
20:30I think she'd better go up to her room until she's calmed down.
20:33Will you let go?
20:36Let go.
20:49You'd better do as he says, Miss.
20:51Lie down for a while.
20:54Lie down.
21:24Come on.
21:46It's all right, Dawson. I'll go. It's only Mrs. Tyndall.
21:49Help! Help!
21:52please go to the police. please don't stop her Dawson. let her make as much
21:57noise as she likes.
22:06good morning mrs. Tindall. your order doctor. thank you.
22:11you didn't say about cheese doctor. I put in New Zealand. thank you mrs. Tindall.
22:22I'm afraid we have a rather difficult patient mrs. Tindall. don't half make a fuss
22:29don't they? anyone like that in my husband's family had to be put away.
22:37all to do away with folk when they get that bad really I mean it be mercy for
22:41the poor souls. we must never give up hope mrs. Tindall. oh right well cheery
22:47bye then doctor. goodbye.
22:54please help me. my name is Erickson. I'm being kept here against my will. please go to the police.
23:17please go to the police.
23:47when the police find me you'll face charges. my husband knows where I've
24:07gone. he knows that you went to Harwich and that you took your passport. when I
24:15don't get back he'll call the police. I don't think he will mrs. Erickson. you
24:19see he'll have this cable from Amsterdam saying that you've gone on to a
24:23conference and telling him not to worry. one of my correspondents is sending it.
24:27he thinks it's part of a transastral experiment. well there's one thing wrong
24:32with your elaborate plan. if ever I'm away from home for more than a day I
24:35always ring my daughter in the evening to say good night. they'll think you're
24:40busy and even if it's true you could be anywhere don't you see? they won't know
24:45where to look. well they will soon. whoever came in that car will have heard
24:48me. I shouldn't count on that mrs. Erickson. well someone will remember me
24:54from the train. can you remember the faces of the people who traveled with
24:58you a week ago? I think you're mad to go.
25:05why are you so arrogant mrs. Erickson? I'm not arrogant. I'm bloody furious. you're
25:10arrogant because you won't even consider my theory seriously. you won't even
25:13listen to me. there are hundreds of psychologists with expensively trained
25:16minds throughout the world's universities who are consistently
25:18exploring telepathy and psychic matter and you expect me to take your
25:21half-baked idea seriously? probably as arrogant as you. people from the leading
25:27universities of Europe thought that the Sun went round the earth until Copernicus
25:31proved it otherwise. many leading scientists didn't know why the tide went
25:35in and out until Galileo... all right you made your point. now what I plan to do
25:43is to explain each step in my theory and then to test the hypothesis with a
25:48scientific experiment. what we lack of course is any tradition of observation
25:53but even from lay experience we can make a few premises. I told you the first
25:57last night. one extra sensory communication. two dualism. now I want you
26:05to consider my third point which is this. throughout history and mythology the
26:09ghost has always been represented as a figure of tragedy. there are no happy
26:14ghosts because they are spirits whose lifespan has been brutally ended.
26:20there you are. hmm. is it recent? last summer. we went to Devon. please take it.
26:31I suppose the press will have to be brought in. oh not at this point. we'll
26:41alert all districts to begin with and check the accident board and of course
26:45we'll follow up the cable from Amsterdam. then if we still have no luck we'll
26:50review the situation. let me give you some comfort mr. Erikson. in my
26:58experience and I've been in the force now for nearly 40 years eight out of ten
27:03persons reported missing invariably turn up again during the first week. it's five
27:08days now.
27:19you've hardly eaten anything for two days miss.
27:28Dawson he's told you I'm mad hasn't he? what do I have to do to convince you I'm
27:37quite sane? he's keeping me here to prove some crazy theory. well do I look mad
27:45Dawson? you're not mad miss. you're just not very well at the moment that's all.
27:49but suppose you're wrong and I'm right. you go to prison as an accessory. well do
27:57you realize that? everything will be alright mrs. Erikson. you see I've looked
28:02after lots of patients. you can always tell the ones that are going to get well.
28:05I've worked at Broadhurst. I've seen the worst. Broadhurst? but they know me there.
28:11I did three months postgraduate work there before I went up to London. I know
28:15them all. well Copeland and Wallace and mrs. Chambers. well ask any of them.
28:23they'll tell you who I am. I know you were there. dr. Pickering's got the
28:28papers. what papers? well that's where they put you when you did away with your
28:32child. I don't know what papers you're talking about. if there are any papers
28:46he must have forged them. he's planned everything. the whole thing. well don't
28:54you see that? please lie down miss. try and get some rest. Dawson?
29:05Dawson? he's a liar Dawson. he forged those papers. well I'll ask him to show
29:13you the committal certificate. oh god.
29:20I asked to see you because I've been thinking about what you've said so far.
29:43I think that could be something in your theory after all. that's splendid mrs.
29:50Erickson. so I'll stay another week as you suggested and I'll give you all the
29:55help I can as long as you let me telephone my family and explain I'm
30:00alright. well they'll be terrified. don't you see that? my daughter is only eight.
30:06they got your cable? well they won't believe it. they'll know something is
30:10wrong. you can write a letter tonight and Dawson can post it tomorrow. well if I
30:16could just speak now. I'm afraid that's quite out of the question. I don't want
30:20you to speak to anyone. for the purpose of our work I want your mind to be
30:26isolated that is only in contact with mine. have you writing materials with you?
30:32good. that's settled then. now I want to proceed to my next premise which is the
30:38most important. you would agree that people have always shivered when they've
30:43seen a ghost. their knees not. they've said afterwards they were shaking. others
30:48have been more specific. they've mentioned that when spirits were present
30:52it was distinctly colder. the temperature was lowered. clammy is a word
30:57frequently used. you agree so far? it's obviously no use my saying anything.
31:03you'll do what you want in the end anyway. do you agree? well it's not
31:11scientific but I agree that's what people say. so now this is important
31:17mrs. Erickson. because cold is a constant factor on almost every reported
31:21occasion I submit that a spirit needs energy to manifest itself. it requires
31:26the heat in room. it's quite logical don't you see? we require energy for
31:33thought which is a purely mental process. a scholar can be exhausted at the end of
31:38the day. he hasn't moved but he's used energy. I don't see where the
31:41communication comes in. it never has before. that is why my theory is
31:45original. putting it simply a ghostly mind a mind removed from a body with no
31:51heat of its own needs the heat of a room or someone in the room before it can
31:55manifest itself. the trouble is I've spent months with dictionaries of
32:00national biography and I've been unable to find one scientist who studied ESP
32:04and telepathy who's yet died by violent means. that's my great problem. a violent
32:09death is necessary before there is a need to communicate. if that is the case
32:13which I doubt you can hardly put your hypothesis to the test dr. Bickering.
32:16quite so but if on the other hand one of us was to die by violent means we could
32:20verify the theory immediately. it's hardly worth your committing suicide.
32:25oh
32:41no
32:46you're going to kill me aren't you? that's why you tricked me into coming. why
32:54I can't tell my family where I am. what you're saying is quite ridiculous. you're
32:58lying. please sit down. you're getting hysterical. but it won't work. the police
33:05will be looking for me now. Dawson he wants to kill me Dawson. don't take on
33:10I tell you he does Dawson to prove some potty theory. well can't you see he's the
33:16one that's mad? Dawson help me. what has happened? what have you done Dawson? she's
33:32fainted doctor.
33:46is she settled? yes doctor. I gave her two cc's of sodium amytol. you know how
34:03to give intramuscular injections. yes of course. it's a distressing case. if I find
34:09it impossible to continue the present treatment you won't lose financially. no
34:14need to worry about that. yes doctor. incidentally you can have your day off
34:19tomorrow. I'll continue the present treatment. I'd rather stay with her doctor
34:23if you don't mind while she's so upset. but I'm continuing the narcosis so
34:28there's nothing to see to. you can go after breakfast. there's a bus at 9 15.
34:33well doctor if you feel you can manage. of course I can Dawson. that's settled
34:38then. good night.
34:44good night.
35:14you know miss this will never do. you've got to keep your strength up.
35:27you have a nice long rest then you'll feel better.
35:33it's my day off today. if you're a good girl I'll bring you back a present.
35:40that's all.
35:45Dawson. don't go. he wants to kill me. calm down miss. you know that's nonsense.
35:55Dawson don't leave me. you'll be quite safe with the doctor. he's not a doctor.
36:02he wants to murder me. he wants to leave me. don't go Dawson.
36:10calm down miss. have a nice rest. I'll be back before you know it.
36:32you
37:02you
37:32you
38:02you
38:32you
39:02you
39:32oh
39:34oh
39:36thank you. oh yes a lot goes on in the village in the summer but you won't be
40:05here to see it I dare say. I don't know it depends. depends on what?
40:11mystery man aren't you? just like him. I can't see the sense in having that great
40:17partner a place can you? funny sort of nursing home only seems to use it once
40:21or twice a year. but I thought it was his home. oh it is. but he seems to be abroad
40:29most of the time. cos they do say he has a private income. he was only here three
40:35weeks last year. had a girl with him then. September time it was. I remember cos we
40:41were picking fruit in the field across from the house. always waving a towel or
40:45something from the window she was. oh I suspect she was lonely. I would be too.
40:50not a house to be seen...
40:53I'm sorry it's important
41:23are you awake? Dawson's gone you see. he's going to the cinema in Halesbridge.
41:49please don't struggle. I should like to have danced with you first you know. it may
42:01sound frivolous but I mean it. there's a certain communication involved there.
42:06have you noticed how some couples have a much more highly developed intuition?
42:11they dance as one. there is instinctive anticipation. I used to be very good at
42:21ballroom dancing. these are my trophies. once I reached the county finals with a
42:30girl. her name was Beryl Harcourt. we were completely in sympathy you see. that's
42:41why I made her the subject of my first experiment. after she'd gone I used to
42:49play the gramophone in my bedroom for hours on end. we used to do speciality
42:56tango. there's a lot of jealousy and backbiting in those competitions you
43:02know.
43:11operator I want long distance Broadhurst three five double seven. you do see the
43:31point about the dancing. it's a kind of aptitude test. it shows which people are
43:38most sensitive to another's influence.
43:43and one night as I danced alone I suddenly felt Beryl was in my arms. it
43:53was colder as if someone had opened a window. she seemed to be leading. I had no
44:02control. was moving like a puppet. it was as if she was trying to tell me something
44:10with the steps. then the record came to an end. I was afraid to move. I let the
44:19needle run on but nothing happened. I remember standing there in the intense
44:27cold for almost an hour while the record rasped on and on. I tried again of course
44:34week after week. it never happened again. you see although she was there she
44:44couldn't communicate with me. she couldn't experiment because she had an
44:50untrained mind not like you.
44:57I
45:15the police didn't even come to see me. sometimes since we dance professionally
45:22there were 746 people reported missing that year. she was one of them. Dawson
45:32will be gone in the morning. when he gets back I'll tell him that I've had to send
45:36you to a home. that our facilities here were not adequate for your treatment.
45:42I want you to concentrate on the photograph. you know all about imprinting.
45:50I believe that just as we can imprint parenthood in the first few weeks of
45:56life in the same way we can imprint just before death my image is the last thing
46:05you'll see. and I'll be here in that chair every night.
46:20aah
46:22aah
46:24aah
46:26aah
46:28aah
46:30aah
46:32aah
46:34aah
46:36aah
46:38aah
46:40aah
46:42aah
46:44it's only mrs. Toodle's.
46:46aah
46:50aah
46:52don't you realize this is possibly the
47:22The greatest scientific experiment in its field has ever been made.
47:26If we are successful, we change the whole concept of the psyche as such.
47:31Please, Mrs. Erickson, I beg you to concentrate on the photograph.
48:01What are you up to? You've been having me on.
48:11No violence, no violence, please, Doss.
48:13Doss, Doss, Doss.
48:20He was going to drown me. No, no, no.
48:30I wanted to know this. He showed me those papers.
48:33You don't realize what you've done. You keep your distance.
48:36Your stupidity has ruined a piece of unique research.
48:40I shall have to start again, all over again.
48:45It's criminal.
48:59She's asleep.
49:03Poor Sarah.
49:14That was the CID man on the phone before. Pickering's dead.
49:22Dead?
49:24Killed himself in the ambulance, apparently.
49:27He had a hat pin hidden on him somewhere.
49:30Spencer said it wasn't very nice, almost as if he was trying to torture himself.
49:41He was holding your photograph when he did it, apparently.
49:53Well, at least it'll save all that ghastly business of a trial.
49:58Are you sure you're all right?
50:02It's terribly hot in here. Do you mind if I open a window?
50:08I'm cold. I'm very cold.
50:47I'm very cold.