Verde Passional (Sidney Gilliat, 1946, filme completo, PT/BR)

la a to the assistant commissioner of the police SC yard then sir the amazing events which I reporting may be said to have begun on the evening of August the 17th 1944 you par a postman was cycling up hen's Hill on his way to deliver mail at the hospital his name was Joseph Higgins I begin with him because he was the first to Die the hospital itself lay a mile away and Elizabethan Manor requisitioned and converted in the emergency of War another new paragraph in the operating theater that night

there was a surgeon Mr Eden nurse Woods nurse senson the uh the theater sister Bates nurse Lindley and the anesthetist Dr bars August the 17th 1944 by August the 22nd two of these people would be dead and one of them a murderer what's up how up puncture ah that second Doodle Bug this afternoon dropped right behind the post office just as I was asking if these were sorted out they were sorted out all right so were we well that's the lot five in a bill for Dr Barnes might be a receipt might be wel

l I should be late on duty sell on Ma can't be in two places at once old Warden takes a different view all right right for that Saturday Joe you bet have a quiet night some hopes what is good morale discipline and confidence the one dependent on the other I repeat discipline and confidence and you cannot have confidence without positive thinking be you uh students or nurses under bombardment or otherwise a small instance you may smile when I tell you that one of my first acts when I took over th

is Hospital month ago was to order the word waste to be painted out from the refu spins and instead to substitute the word Salvage Salvage a humble example of the difference between positive and negative thinking an essential fact in the building and maintenance of or however suppose that Germany is relying upon this another of them coming try to race be ar yes back right only it remains to be seen what other numbers will be suffixed to the letter as the desperate Churchill lies frantically to s

ave his face London and the home counties are reeling under the inessive fire of our terrible V1 this is German Germany calling this is Germany calling now that's all sister I thought it wasn't a die particular is you all right doesn't end to hair you're all right yes thank you sir perfectly it's always a bit of an ordeal with her time wonder where that doodle bang dra somewhere near the village hope it miss my house what a life Well it can't last forever n's hand up to it awfully well so do the

doctor sir I can get used to anything in time still it must have been a bit of a change for you too sir considering considering what your past thank you I mean Harley Street Rolls-Royce lovely ladies all all are gone the old familiar faces they left their appendixes behind them they were happy to be in the F room and even happier to be in your Consulting room it's those eyes of course the wounded stag look that no woman can resist w why AR you tidying up there's plenty to do yes sister clear ou

t the swabs and get some fresh sine there may be more casuales in yes sister you look tired Esther well I'm all right I'll make you a cup of something before you go to bed thank you Sanson will you take the paent back to the ward yes sister yes s that after all not being in the least unreasonable and actually thought you'd go with me tomorrow your darling is just a Tatty little Hospital hop not a ball of the Dorchester doesn't matter who goes with who I suppose not but I was about to add Eden ha

d a nerve to ask you Sergeant quite often asked nurses on informal occasions I suppose he thought twice about it I wonder now you're being ridiculous am I not to say pompus I'm being nothing of the kind Master you shout you know it's really amazing how you always contrived to put me in the wrong well you seem to think you can even dictate who I'm to go to dance with I don't want to dictate to anybody I'm none of the instincts of a dictator then why dictate what is the matter with you these days

Freddy I simply took it for granted you were going with me that's all I don't like being taken for granted but we are supposed to be engaged me we were is that remark intended to have any point yes can't go on like this L as you have nothing to do here would you please move outside Dr Barnes I do hope you won't belong we've still a great deal of clearing up to do I don't know what's happened to hospital discipline this evening ready B let's hope that's all for this evening sorry s time for 100 u

p before dinner can we yes right I'll follow you down you want to get some rest Nur here on not Duty aren't you yes sir I'm just going off from now good oh good night good night Mr Eden casual his wood you'll be needed in Castle to reception with Dr Barnes I'll finish here and a little later they brought in Jose of Higgins hell n a fractured Tib and fib and he's had a quarter of morphia shocked too what his name no it's left blank no I did it to dis it couldn't have been wearing one we'll have t

o make room for him in some cats someone sure to come forward tell Mr Iden compound otherwise straightforward no internal injuries you haven't cleaned him up now no sir he was still barely shocked when they brought him in I'm quite right they fixed him up with the spint I think he's best to leave him as he is for a while x-ray first thing in the morning yes sir then we'll take him out to the theater and operate at uh 10:00 all right very good sir good clean him up a bit now but don't BL him yes

sir any more of those nightmares no meaning yes I suppose why don't you take a leave I might later I'd soon to work now I suppose you would right coming back here so soon after oh my it isn't the best of atmospheres for you know constant reminders there are lots of jobs outside we would be Hing just as much I want to carry on here my de you're young you don't want to poison your life blaming yourself for something which you couldn't help I knew your mother don't forget please all right the you n

ever turned off the words you never turned on me you am I late Esther sorry I fell asleeping what's the matter well hello Freddy you look completely out in your feet dear yes I am a bit plenty of sleep that's what you need Hop Off night I see do everything anyone to fix yes three step one SOS it's all in the prescription book I'll give them I'll you go thank you Freddy good night good night see you in the morning aren't you going to kiss me good night nurse hello NSE spare a cup for the poor old

surgeon yes I think so sir wonderful I'm pged busy night after all you never know how it's going to be with buz bombs no it she'll all end up with elant Tes of the ears isn't that one I'm you're calm thanks how's bonan all right sir I to take a slight note of friction in the that this evening Zach of course I like Bonnie so do I like C naturally since you're engaged we're not H since when this evening I am sorry what's the trouble or shouldn't I ask I suppose it's my fault when a woman says tha

t it usually mean she's convinced V it isn't well I don't know we always seem to be getting on each other's nerves well nobody's nerves are quite what they were especially after being cooked up here for years working long hours under one sort of bombardment or another as been not not that I ever interfered in these things don't you anyway I never admitted what's the matter I was just looking at you and thinking what that Barney must be an awful fool he's not he sweet is my fault in a way in what

way well he's probably a better sort of person than I am altogether but he gets so possessive and he's firmly of the opinion that there should be only one man in your life to wh B it wasn't that sort of quow wasn't it not really that wasn't that was I'm sorry please forgive me look out it's cut out it's coming down hear it it's going to hit us it's all right it's gone over you're quite safe I just come into the ward when he started land the fire terrible V1 terrible V1 Church you telling lies t

elling lies to say what is it know some sort of quotation don't talk anymore amen take it easy there's nothing to worry about you get to sleep now you have a six more I just come to look for you Mr Eden about the operation tomorrow I understand you want at 10:00 that's right sister then I'll put back the cartilage until 11: thank you sister good night Mr Eden good night sister oh there you area where have the been it must be awfully late Freddy overslept or something there's some cocoa for you I

'll heat it up please don't bother I don't want anything Esther Esther what's the matter Mr Eden wants me to leave here well he's very sensible you should never have come back I can't go yet I won't well it's up to you are you sure you're all right you saw I was upset over Higgins Higgins the postman you identified for aure I hadn't recognized him then of course not until I cleaned him up he was buried too like she was they had to dig him out I couldn't help thinking up Higgins and at 950 precis

ely Joseph Higgins was wheeled to the operating theater how many far but the next s fast I shall need a new oxygen cylinder nurse we nearly ran this one out last time very well sir good morning nurse good morning sir how's the patient I could do with a p that's the preoperative atropin thank you very much we shall keep you long there's no need to worry it's only a small thing hardly in operation at all Dr Bones a't it that's right remember me Joe iggins yes you're the postman thought you would y

ou going to do the anesthetic yes you've got a nerve all right perfectly new cylinder try it in oh sister I think I'll give the anesthetic on the table save time he's not the nervous Ty very well you say you're giving me anesthetic on the table that's right mhm sson bring the machine in woods do hurry yes sister oh Sanson you can bring the patient in right away yes sister well as church or says man the guns sweep the skies plow the fields and pull the trolley who's that who's that I know that Bo

I've heard it before what's the matter it's the patient sir I think he's a bit excited sh it's only one of the nurses I've heard it before somewhere I can't remember where I heard it don't worry now it'll all come back later yes yes there no danger is it no of course not no danger at all now take it quite easy old man just relax breathe quite normally that's right quite gently no hurry at all don't like his color I've cut down the gas and increased the oxygen not just funny nothing but oxygen n

ow still not responding doesn't seem to be any obstruction I'll slip an airway and to make sure all right yes still pure oxygen yes you stop breathing artificial respiration yes adrenaline sister intervenous Carin nurse they took the necessary action they neglected nothing it made no difference Joseph Higgins was quite dead there'll have to be an inquest of course quite most unfortunate these things always create such a mistaken impression outside of course I'm not suggesting anyone in the least

of blame Barnes are you quite certain that the tubes were uncrossed positive you checked the machine of course well I'm inclined to take the view that the man was still suffering from shock these things are bound to happen now and then when taking justifiable risks in Urgent cases I'm afraid we can't tell the car in at there no why not because this case wasn't particularly urgent oh and there wasn't any risk the patient was perfectly fit should have taken the anesthetic without turning a hand w

ell the fact remains he didn't this would have to happen in my VI this month here it's most distressing any of viers been in well of course I wasn't there but it certainly seems a bit strange might get a clue from the postmortem clue why is see what you mean well we shall soon know no doubt it'll all straighten itself out thank you gentlemen I don't think I need keep you thank youan by the way I don't see that this need be any reason for cancelling tonight's uh little gathering it started someti

me again H oh quite well it makes a break for the nurses helps morale I might even look in a little later myself that have been nice Dr BNS would you mind seeing behind a moment I'll see you with the part right you spoke of our little gathering as though it needed laning most distressing great oh great BNS you were in practice in this District before joining the hospital I believe I was yes frankly I'm told that this won't be the first inquest of its kind you've had to attend at Heaven's part th

at's true the other was four years ago yes just a little unfortunate I don't know what you're implying the surgeon and I were both exonerated obviously I'm not suggesting for a moment natural causes cardiac failure it might happen to any of us the fact remains people Tau they generally do they will in this case let them I I don't know that we can take quite so Carefree of you we have the hospital to think of now I can see that but after all for instance soon after you came here I believe an anon

ymous letter was received from some illiterate halfway beneath contempt of course still candidly I was rather hoping for a gesture from you it might I mer throw out the suggestion it might simplify matters if you were to discontinue your th duties pending you mean admit responsibility for higgins's death good Heavens now if I'm suspended that's what it man to my dear fellow I merely suggested that I was hoping the gesture would come from you well it won't now listen bar the only gesture I feel l

ike making is far from polite there's no necessity to be vulgar I'm sure my predecessor will under your predecessor this hospital had a magnificent record partly because he backed his staff to the hilt this is intolerable I ask for cooperation you don't want cooperation what you want is a scapegoat neatly trusted up as a convenient sacrifice in case anyone starts throwing bricks at you I really I suspend me if you like if you do I shall appeal good night excuse me Bonnie hello Ellie just heard w

hat's happening everything I bumped off a patient insulted the superintendent and praed to been suspended large Scotch Andy small je small Jin all right have you really been suspended quite hinting at it it wasn't your for thank you that seems to be beside the point why didn't you come and tell me after yesterday we both said a lot of things we didn't mean Freddy ladies and gentlemen Paul Jones Freddy come really when you said just now you didn't mean what you said yesterday I didn't said that e

xactly what couldn't we forget the whole thing all right are we back where we were before I'm awfully fond of you Bary you do believe that don't you the mere thought of losing you drives me absolutely dting hav answer my question M it's not that I mean to be awkward I naturally like to know where I stand you want to boot me out well boot me out now go well please don't ask me now Barney I'm all in a muddle I want to be quite sure please all right all about what I was saying last night yes I'm go

ing against the very best medical advice I'm staying here you remind me very much of your mother she wouldn't see reason either and now why shouldn't we speak of it you won't get anywhere about driving this thing into the back of your mind get away my dear bring it into the open and do a good job of forgetti I mustn't forget Emma she was desperately afraid of the bombing and I left her to face it alone scarcely be blamed for that I left her alone listen your mother was the most most possessive w

oman I've ever known jealously hysterically possessive you have no right to say that the truth isn't less true for being brutal you have a chance now to live your own life take it don't you believe word he says he says he says don't you believe for wor hello sister having a good time no oh well I don't feel exactly interested myself have a drink I've got one they make what's called a handsome couple don't they yes well I don't know about him that's all right I have the advantage of you what I do

know about him all about him you think I'm an awful fool don't you why oh you know everybody knows by now it's funny I can do my work and keep my head I might be a machine but when it comes to him it's funny isn't it what a matter dance he's sick of me and I'm sick of myself now look you're a fool too you know that don't you we all have our Al moments I saw him kissing her on a ward last night what that hurt didn't it I know how I feel I saw him I saw the way he looked at her he's in love as fa

r as he ever can be if I were you I'd have a nice cup of cocoa and go to bed you know it's the truth if he wanted to marry her do you think she'd hesitate if you weren't here well I am here you won't be much longer what if he knows about it what are you getting at you killed a girl didn't you a few years ago in haren's father that's not true and I've had just about enough of it now there's been another death and white said you on the carpet what's this got to do with Eden you're in his way V you

're imagining things I'm not I'm seeing the truth you get like that you get to see people like you never did before all the button things about them you shut your eyes to once and that hurts it's a comfort you're in his way don't you see what are you getting at we'll find out I'm going to join I'm sorry it's come to this come on spoiling your evening having to dance with me don't be upset do you think I don't know Maran why can't you be sensible we neither of us ever pretended it was serious it

was all over months ago no harm do except to me I tried to be considerate but you won't let me considerate you can't afford to be anything else what do you mean you see I happen to know no one can't you guess I can do you really want me to tell you yeah what are you talking about what is all this you know all right listen everybody I'm sorry to interrupt the dancing but I have an important announcement to make a patient called Higgins died in the theater this morning but it wasn't natural causes

and it wasn't an accident shall I tell you what it was murder yes he was murdered I found out how it was done not quite by accident but I found out and believe it or not I know who did it Maran please for heaven sake think what you're doing and once more I've got something that will prove it I know where it is because I've hidden it I've hidden it and I'm the only one that knows where all right then I suggest you come and tell Dr all about it I'll take you into it let me alone I'll know what I

think get them going McCoy well hello sister could I have the key of the operating theater please I won't belong I'm just going back for a minute okay what on Earth's the matter with you Mar for heaven sake what is it there was someone following me well don't be upset it was you it was you Medan Medan come back I thought you were asleep no not me no Dr BS wanted the the key Oh Sister Bates did it 5 minutes ago sister Bates oh very well I'll tell him oh w good it was early the next morning the 19

th that I myself in person arrived on the scene good morning should I well considering everything yes I what's wrong with you just the usual slight discomfort after meals nothing I have an appointment with the superintendent do you mind telling him I'm here what name cockril inspector cockril yes Scotland Yard I'm afraid it's sickening Dr White please a terrible business inspector right but where's the body in the theater just as surgeon there yes I do hope everything can be AR discreetly should

n't think so for a moment why not press do they have to be seen can't keep them out oh dear why do mind always give me a good write up good morning sir good morning ten C do anything yes sir hello HRI morning sir can he is well fine good body's on the floor well doctor any views stamp twice of course sure see Ser a knife found in second W first in heart cause of death took place night not 10 last night couldn't put it in in the other you don't have to we know within 10 minutes found these on the

floor probably warned by whoever did it and left behind any fingerprints nice set of hers low down on that cupboard door right hand Dr White could you assemble all the people you mentioned at once somewhere private I'd like to talk to them yes inspector I wish the man would come and get it over he's conducting a war of nerves that's what it is when I think of a ly there like that and only a few minutes before she was alive that's enough Freddy why the devil is he only after five of us here that

's what I want to know because you are the only people who seem to have been concerned with both murders simple when you think of it isn't it this is inspector cochell Mr Eden Dr barns nurse Woods Sanson Linley like inspector you said both murders sister Bates and what's his name Higgins who said Higgins was murdered well sister bit herself for one last night I understood you were there Dr Barnes yes but I didn't realize that she knew what about the Higgins PR Mor completely negative but why sho

uld anyone want to murder Higgins my dear young lady how should I know I've only just got here I understand from Dr White that all of you were present when he died not interesting trust C I beg your pardon except nurse Lily who was however on duty on higgins's Ward the whole of the night before yes so I was and all of you were at the party so there you are are you implying that one of us do it it seems very likely don't you think inspector cochrell I really can't help feeling that there must be

some relatively innocent explanation of this terrible please don't defectuous really we are dealing with two meditated murders can anyone tell me anything they think I ought to know if so now is the time they will pause of 30 seconds while you cook up your Alibis did you get us here just to insult us I only like to strike an informal note well I've cooked mine up inspector I hope it's good oh done to a turn well uh I stayed here for a few minutes after sister ran out and then I went straight bac

k to our rooms in the Coach House 5 minutes walk anyone see you I don't know I'm sure you can do better Mr Eden I the exercise of little imagination you followed sister bat I believe yeah did you catch her as if you'd tell me if you did I followed her out to the tce but she disappeared I waited a moment or two but she didn't show up so I went to direct to the sister's room what one moment Dr bars anyone see you I shouldn't think sir The Invisible Man thanks now senson your turn is that necessary

inspector she's not well and like the rest of us she's been up half the night there's nothing to tell I was just leaving when sister bit stopped the gramophone and spoke to everyone it upset me rather it was all well embarrassing where did you go straight to the Coach House she was in bed when I got there obviously she couldn't have done it unless she was fully dressed under the bed clothes then she might have had time that's preposterous naturally now then Dr Barnes what about you I went after

Eden me why because you thought he might be the murderer suggested by the lat debates oh that's a Charming supposition well thank you what on Earth are you suggesting you catch him up no what did you do then went for a walk where in the garden why did you want the key for the operating theater I didn't you told Sergeant McCoy last night that Dr bares wanted to keep you I didn't you yes why you're not a theater nurse are you no and why did you go to the theater just a minute she discovered the b

ody inspector some of our most celebrated criminals have made a particular point of doing the same sister bit said she'd hidden something I thought the theater was the most likely place I see just feminine curiosity why not not the desire to remove that something before sister Bates could use it to incriminate anyone Dr Barnes for instance oh Mr Eden that's more like it you're positively excelling yourself this morning bun you're the young lady's fiance I believe I was do you agree with his use

of the past tense I couldn't agree more another punctured Romance when it comes to this all of you had time yet none of your stories is corroborated oh perhaps we all I wonder if you realize exactly the sort of person we're dealing with let me tell you how I think sister bit died she hurried into the operating theater unlocked the cupboard stooped down to get the evidence she had hidden there what was it I don't know yet then she heard something she turned and saw a figure standing in the dark m

asked and gowned and gloved I imagine she just stayed where she was staring and and the murderer came slowly over to her and stabbed her dressed her in this soil theater gown and stabbed her again through it to make it look as if she'd been killed wearing the Gown but why I don't know that either but what we do know is that the second wound was made after death the murderer was in a hurry as you see he tore the Gown somewhat now there's one other thing this bottle of tablets was taken from the p

oison cupbo Dr White has checked the contents and there are four missing are lethal do the murderer has them and will not hesitate to use them four of you are in Mortal Danger from the fifth above all don't trust your neighbor your roomate your fiance your friend he or she may be the murderer come instead to me sister bit died because she knew something about was foolish enough to say so I beg of you all of you not to make the same mistake I'm sorry thank you Nurse Woods you showed great presenc

e of Mind take a b i shouldn't do that again if I were you inspector why not because nurse Sanson is on the verge of a nervous breakdown actual or assumed perhaps you would prefer to judge that for yourself 3 months ago her mother was buried under the ruins of her house in a rad the res Squad dug for her for 3 days then gave it up next day she was fine still alive she died an hour later Esther was there the whole time I could scarcely be expected to know that so without bothering to inquire you

scare the life out of her like any flat footed copper off the bed the police force has not a monopoly of fallen arches Dr Barnes ask any chiropodist thank you Mr Eden before the war you had a house in Heron's Park I believe yeah and you had a practice in the district I did good well then Dr BS would you care to accompany me to the theater you give Higgins the anesthetic what's that got to do with it that's what I'm hoping to find out did you know him only by side nurse Woods is a remarkable woma

n absolutely first class ever live in hen spark not as far as I know she used to live the other side out side of London she took up nursing when her sister died when 1940 on the continent funny what is oh it's nothing it's just that Higgins thought in your voice that's all indeed have you any viewers on nasal guitar nothing in particular why just wondering I often suffer from it in the mornings that's the machine I used where is he I brought Higgins in here I examined him he was quite fit so we

went ahead in here no I gave it him in the theater the Cuda grass the anesthetic is that usual not really it's up to me naturally in that case here we go I gave nitrous oxide at first to get him under yes the stuff the dentist gives you come known as Laughing Gas used to be actually the impurities caused the laughs oh just the same same as our musicals then I added oxygen when you failed to respond uh my ignorance is simply staggering please demonstrate black and white oxygen black nitrous oxide

green carbon dioxide arrest dis spair I began with nitrous oxide so the flow meter registered correctly when I got him under I added oxygen like this I didn't like the look of him so I cut down the nitrous oxide and increased the oxygen to my surprise he didn't respond so I turned off the nitrous oxide altogether put him on pure oxygen and then it simply collapsed I injected adrenaline and nurse Woods gave Carin as a last resort nurse Woods could these have been tempered with don't see how in a

ny event the damage had been done before then what about this fellow carbon dioxide we sometimes use a little to stimulate respiration isn't it poisonous without oxygen yes you was any in Higgins none at all you couldn't have coupled up the wrong cylinder by mistake these machines are as fullprof as they can make them besides we checked everything it wouldn't be possible to fill say an empty oxygen cylinder with carbon dioxide good Heavens now it takes terrific pressure just supposing well the p

atient would be getting carbon dioxide instead of oxygen he'd die of lack of oxygen you couldn't tell by the flow meter or the post motm no but the whole thing's quite ludicrous you must bear with me doctor I'm a child in these matters can I go now no I don't think so you had a similar experience once before didn't you suppose Dr White's been talking insistently it wasn't similar there was no comparison and I made no mistake in either case Splendid does Eden think that Eden what's he been saying

nothing to me you don't like him do you if I discuss that with anybody it'll be with Eden why not confidentially do you think he did it how should I know Dr Barnes about that Anonymous letter if you're silly enough to attach any importance to a thing like that oh it wasn't that exactly was merely wondering if Higgins was the postman who delivered it yes I was idiotically pleased with myself at the time I'm not so pleased to think of it now because there was the vital evidence the clue to the wh

ole business right under my nose if I had known then it might have saved another life the next morning my presence lay over the hospital like a Paul as I approached voices were hushed and All Eyes turned upon me who is the guilty one when will he be arrested who will be next that is what they were thinking I found it all tremendously enjoyable during the rest of that day I continued my investigations with my accustomed energy good afternoon ladies no need to be alarmed we only searching your roo

ms well I'll be did you you know Higgins personally no what precisely was your relationship with sister Bates not exactly distant it harmless enough Al so I thought nevertheless you certainly had a motive for getting rid of her only in Her Imagination she might have proved Troublesome she was jealous and possessive most women are if you give them the slightest encouragement would you invariably give them who are sometimes not so slight are you trying to make me lose my remember there was only a

secondary object from time to time one of those Infernal Devices roared overhead such Trifles of course did Not For a Moment distract me from my purpose did Higgins say anything that night did you think might help us he only just got in when the bomb fell he didn't speak again no cuz I been clean out for a bit when I came around all I could hear was the radio H the radio yes s old W said still hollering a treat it was too yeah what was it playing wasn't playing H was talking what about well uh l

et me think come on now surely you can remember I can't get it out of my mind when I woke up today I didn't remember at first then it all came back I went to the window and there was inspector slinking about outside he's probably lurking about in the bushes at this very moment thought we'd go back why it's a lovely night we're still suspects that's a very good thought to escape from it's not easy you seen Bonnie no I don't know what to do about him there's no time you made up your mind he's beha

ving so ridiculously I don't blame him he's in love with him don't blame him for that I don't it is a lovely night perect in such a night as this when the sweet wind had gently kiss the trees and they did make no noise in such a night trus me thinks mounted the troan walls and sighed his soul towards the Grecian tents where CID lay that night in such a night did Young Lorenzo swear he loved her well stealing her soul with many vows of faith and n a true one good night Mr Eden good night Dr BNS N

Woods Jane Woods where she lived when she came to London everything could find out ring me right away bye that must be getting old so much for the 19th the morning of the 20th dawned like any other a condemned man ate a hearty breakfast have some Jam no thanks you've eaten hardly anything I've had quite enough besides we have the going 10 minutes yet how about the washing up I'll come back at 9:00 and do that is fr well I wonder what today will'll bring no it's not what Freddy anyone in oh hell

o good morning sir oh good morning I didn't start you did I oh no sir I clumped to warn you he clumped I've been wandering around for about an hour thought I'd just drop in see if you were all all right well we're still here sir somewhat to our surprise have some tea nothing go bump in the night only my heart or stick the kettle on Esther no please don't mother it's got to go on again for Freddy's hot water bottle her bedroom's freezing if you're looking for Freddy she's not back yet oh no reall

y I wasn't I just dropped in oh here she is hello children it's parking for an August day I thought I'd just seen ASN Le home and come in and see if you were all right seems to be a popular movement well I'll push off got a cup of tea Esther's getting Esther's not not until someone gives me a shilling the gas has died on us oh dear it's my turn and I forgot unless there's one in my bag bobs for the love of Ella heads good gracious not a Barber monus that's funny how about you sir nothing doing r

eady my pet you'll have to go to bed with half a lukewarm water bottle well I can slip over and ask McCoy of course not I'm too tired to care I hardly slept at tall yesterday who did none of us I imagine speaking as the life and soul of the party I just can't keep it up oh don't worry darling you've been wonderful really you have it's this wondering and watching I don't believe it was one of us it can't been and yet somebody must have killed him but why why Higgins I was thinking during the nigh

t about that gown what gwn one sister bets was found in what about it well you know the hole in it where she was stabbed M I knew there was something that seemed wrong I know it sounds silly it suddenly dawned on me what it was what it was shut up if you have anything to tell tell it to the inspector H you being a little fancy I must say I can't see any harm in it of course not the inspector did say if we found out anything to go to him and not trust anyone he happens to be quite right what's th

e matter with him doesn't your intuition stretch that far well was any thought I had when I wake up I expect it'll seem too Sil for words and brush my teeth I'll go and get your hot water are you quite happy about the way your behav self-criticism has never been one of my failings I hope you're not confusing Freddy with the kind of woman who used to dither in and out of your Consulting room in a flutter of checks and eyelashes ah those were the good old days I missed the check she's a bit romant

ic and not very experienced and like the rest of us she's been under a nervous strain for a long time well I'd hate to see her giving up someone permanent like Barney and falling for your practiced and rather Hollow charm you're much too kind I'm serious supposing I were too what Ser I might be well I think we better keep this conversation practical have it your own way think it over my dear Nur Woods who am I to make the course of true love run any smooth all right only I warn you Barney won't

bottle it up much longer any moment now he'll grab the nearest grandfather clock can break it over your head whereupon I for one will give three rousing cheers sir anything the matter it appears I'm a menace to whom unprotected females you only just discovered that strictly speaking now then why complain I'm not complaining ready Woody here I come where have you be getting my cat come on we ought to be there coming sir in a minute I think I ought to give Bonnie a rund you have been warned bye-by

e Freddy see you tonight byebye get me inspector what I'll see if you can find him and ring me back everything's ready now sister just going back to the coach house for a few minutes to clear up is that all right very well nurse only get back before 9:30 yes s Dr BS here oh thank you is that inspector no doctor it's HRI the inspector was busy at the moment can I give him a message I wanted to talk to him well it's about Nurse Lindley yes I think it might be important tell him you can find me her

e in casualty reception thank you Dr Bones was asking for you sir what does he want said it was something about Nurse Lindley he's in casualty reception right let's go along pretty pry help bring it out quick H get Dr White at once Freddy you're not a touch of Dr BS get Dr White at once how's Freddy still unconscious can I see her no but why not because I say so well the murderer has achieved his first object he or she has silenced Nur L what at least for the time being could it possibly have be

en an accident the only accident was that she survived thanks to nose senson however has simplified the problem how the suspect are noted used a four 1 2 3 4 if you're a suspect and let work for me May ideal is a 40-hour week oh For Heaven's Sake if you'd only come when I asked for you perhaps if you'd sent for me sooner we left it a bit late didn't you how was I to know that unless you yourself with a guilty party at just point Dr bars you all knew that the guest had failed correct you all knew

that you'd gone upstairs to sleep you went up there alone with a hot water bottle you pointed out yourself that eser Sav their life I exclude none of you from this Mr Eden you also slipped up there alone without a hot water bottle Mr Eden remained behind when everyone else had gone Dr Barnes was within easy distance across the yard each one of you could have slipped up to her room and turned on that tap you all knew nurse Wood's habit of going back at 9:15 to boil a kettle for washing up of cou

rse none knew they' better than nurse Woods herself you told me you'd never met Higgins I hadn't that's Horton's Farm a couple of miles from heren sparkk mean anything to you what you lived there once didn't you up to 15 years ago yes as a matter fact I did why would he wait with your mother and your sister yes is there anything wrong in there no no you're a theater nurse aren't you of course with access to anesthetics and theater gowns I suppose so sister Bates was stabbed through a theater gow

n yes Nur L said she knew something about that same gown just before her life was attempted well and Higgins recognized your voice he couldn't have done thought he did do you know the last thing that Higgins heard as he lay in the Dey of that rescue post how should I know Hendrick listen and Do You Hear What Higgins heard listen meanwhile our attacks have continued without a pause since June the 15th and have laid much of the British capital in Ruins as the desperate Churchill lies frantically t

o save his face London and the home counties are reeling under the incessant fire of our terrible V1 this is Germany calling this is Germany calling a BBC monitor recording of a broadcast from Hamburg on the evening of the 17th would he scarcely that her sister what a twin sister if my information is correct am I right yes you're right you were very fond of your sister weren't you yes and ashamed for her I tried to hide it I I said she died in France in 1940 I I'd have done anything including mu

rder murder well I had the motive didn't I Higgins might have put two and two together and I had the opportunity each time and I did go to Freddy's room alone and I did put the Shilling in the meter well why don't you all say what you're thinking why don't you tell them why don't you tell them I did it no who on Earth said you did or didn't leave her the inspector has a Charming aptitude for traveling in ever decreasing circles which I fear can only have one in someday Mr Eden and I must try my

hand at removing an appendix I fancy the progress will be slow until I discover what nurse L was going to say about dead gown she'll tell you that when she comes around Dr Barnes she may never come around what do you mean her skull was fractured in her F what come back I must come back why it can't do any good and I can't trust you yes I haven't finished there is pressure on her brain which I'm told can only be relieved by an operation if she's to live and tell me what she knows what refining so

Mr py says that's what it says the operation will take place at 9:30 tomorrow morning all of you will undertake exactly the same duties as you did in the case of Higgins what you can't do that you prefer not to give the anesthetic I prefer not to see her killed the one doesn't necessarily follow from the other even if it did in the case of Higgins nurse Woods do you remember accurately all that you did before yes I think so you're willing to do the same again all right thank you there sense of

me how about you are you willing to perform precisely the same duties as you did before yes I suppose so may I find out that two can't exactly reproduce the circumstances of Higgins death which I presume is what you're after no why not because I sh be operating if you refuse I can only draw one conclusion in this case the wrong one you see I don't happen to be a brand surgeon very plausable Mr Eden but if Mr pie operates do you object to assisting him no thank you you're not going to let him tou

ch her why not may I remind you that Higgins died before I could off what are you suggesting only that the chief danger seems to lie in the giving of the anesthetic you hinted that to Dr White didn't you I did not why should I you had something to gain if I had been forced to leave deed what Freddy now who on Earth gave with that idea sister Bates if you want to know just before she was killed just before you met her in the garden Mr Eden inspect pardon me interrupting gentlemen but did you meet

sister Bates in the garden yes and you never told me I saw no point in making things more difficult to myself than they already were do you expect him to believe that he might prefer the truth to your jealous suspicions HRI don't inter fear well well well a master of surgery mixing it with an lrcp what a delicious spectacle we might arrange a future contest in need of some deserving charity don't you think perhaps the police orphanage inspector well I suppose I ought to be glad that my suspects

Haven been reduced still further and I thinked we shall all meet tomorrow morning in the operating theater at 9:30 I shall ask Dr White to make the necessary arrangements it ought to be quite dramatic well how's much better thank you pulson temperature back to normal Splendid you've had a very narrow Escape young lady yes have you told them all I have indeed have convinced them that nurse lyy is a death's door they have agreed to cooperate do you seriously intend to go through with this fantast

ic scheme I do indeed well I suggest that it's most you word perfect I think so depressed facture of the oxy put necessitating Cran a him really even to say that's an achievement what about Mr Eden as your assistant would he expect to examine nurse ly uh no not necessarily no I'll show him these x-rays pre-war patient of mine uh oh very nice fror recover oh yeah remarkable surely no one in their senses would make another attempt not no senses certainly but it must have occurred to you that we ar

e dealing with an unbalanced mind a one track mind that can see things only one way in every other respect as sane as I am or even as you are Dr White possibly you think what happened before will happen again I think they'll try but I wash my hands of the whole business you couldn't do better n n yes I've explained to you the risk that you'll be running but if you wish to change your mind now I quite understand no I thought it I'll do as you tell me thank you I'm very grateful meanwhile absolute

secrecy I know till tomorrow is there anything I can do for you well could I see someone who Mr Eden no Dr Barnes Dr Barnes well his style is less polished but his footwork is superior never mind no M I'm afraid you can't see him look be no exceptions still willing of course good this is absolute L I disagree you see I think I know who did it 20 pass they'll be bringing her in any minute Dr barns now is everything laid out exactly as it was before all correct you're quite satisfied yes right ta

ke the whole lot back again sister what now sir let's now change every single item of the fresh one what's the idea we can't be too careful can we hello me this is indeed an honor sir nervous paralytic you don't look it did you do this last time yes it's a new oxygen cylinder do you think anything will happen oh yes I think so well in that case what's this lubricant for the air tube change it where's Eden on his way I hope all right yes sir good watch you Freddy don't near her please doctor now

there you are Mr Eden we nearly ready Miss senson will you bring in the patient yes sir are you ready doctor yes who Dr Barnes I believe I know why you give Higgins the anesthetic on the table why because you wanted Witnesses all right right go ahead nitrous oxide now for the oxygen oxygen she all right a color more oxygen she's not responding more oxygen she's collapsing don't give her anymore cut off the instead if she's not getting any it's pure oxygen she must have oxygen cut it off I can't

cut off the oxygen what's the there ped all right all right pedy the spare oxygen can you change it yes yeah right she's responding now she'll be all right inspector I'm completely bewildered give me a pair of scissors green yes green for carbon dioxide you've been pumping CO2 into her and Higgins precisely a green cylinder repainted black and white in each case does that suggest anything to you the Salvage BJ you been having repainted also in black and white good Heavens that's where they got t

o paint she's coming around Freddy I were you had walking about the theater for a bit the poor girl must be feeling the strain what with a fractured skull may possibly disappoint you to learn that a young lady's Cranium is at least as sound as yours hello Bonnie it's all right you're safe yes her life is no longer in any danger but of course she told me yesterday what she was going to say about that gown what was it she said the hole the knife made was too big almost as if something had been cut

out she was quite right something had been cut off of course but I couldn't for the life of me think what until just now and I noticed this smear of black paint and nurse Woods gown nurse Woods have you any idea what it was that sister Bates had hidden in this theater no it was this thought you might know because it happens to be your gown mine the one you wore last time when Higgins died and look just here curiously enough there used to be another smear of black paint from the first cylinder t

he one that killed Higgins and sister bit spotted it and jumped to the right conclusion you see one thing the murderer couldn't control was the time the paint took to dry about 12 hours but why address sister baites up in the thing and stab her again to distract attention from the tear where the paint had been by sticking the knife through it it's all right do you think I could sit down of course no sens yes it must have been a terrifying moment for the murderer alone here in this theater with s

ister Bates dead his feet in the Moonlight for the winds screeching outside and the window slamming and opening slamming and opening with the gown clutched in a dead woman's hand with its Telltale streak of paint and time pressing so that any action was better than none and first thoughts had to be best Can't You See It For Heaven's Sake come to the point how but that is the point time each of you had a motive for killing Higgins after you had recognized him and which of you had time was it some

one you thought would' be incriminated if nurse Lindley had been allowed to speak yesterday I don't understand you I think you do who was it I don't know nobody I can't tell you anything I don't can't you leave her alone I've told you before she's in no State why on the day before Higgins death did Mr Eden urge you to leave this hospital I don't know because this was the worst possible place for her I've explained that before I warn you she's in no condition to be questioned and you can place no

Reliance on her answers who can't I Mr Eden it's most Illuminating what time did you leave the W after examining Higgins the night before he died I i' got to do it answer my question about 10:30 where did you go back to my room did you pass the paint store on the way probably what became of those tablets that were taken from the poison cupboard how should I know nurse Lindley do you feel well enough to talk yes if I can help now please think very carefully what time did you go in Duty on the ni

ght before Higgins died I was a bit late about 5 10 where upon presumably nurse senson left yes as soon as I got there see about 101 what time did nurse senson reach your quarters it was late wasn't it yes she said Freddy had over what time was it well qu to 11: but but I'm sure thank you it should have taken you 5 minutes yet it took in for why I don't know I didn't feel very well did you pass the pain store yes I suppose I did did you see anyone or anything in there that made you pause or stop

I can't remember try to was the door open it may have been was there a light on inside I don't know I can't remember did you see anyone or anything in there did you were you there alone can't you see she's had enough I've warned you inspector Mr Eden what why do you keep on interrupting are you afraid of something she might say I've given you my reasons this time I'd like the truth may I speak to her alone no are you going to answer me Mr Eden stop in Eden Eden open this door Eden I'm sorry EST

I've got to look out Eden is sens and I arrest you for the willful murder of Joseph Higgins and Marian beit and for the attempted murder of frederi Linley I must warn you that anything you say may be used in evidence yes what can't be it is eaten it's not true how could it be she got me out of my room yes she intended to make a dramatic r rescue just too late but she arrived back a bit too early then she saw me approaching smashed the window and dragged you out and saved my life and contrived t

o let you fall headlong down the stairs but that time she had to be content with second best Esther you didn't do it did you I did you knew didn't you that was almost certain but I didn't know how but why should she want to kill Higgins what did he done tell them Higgins was head of the rescue squad that left her mother to die what that is how it seemed to her they had no choice but she couldn't see it that way she transferred her Obsession of guilt to Higgins the blame she attached to herself f

or leaving her mother Alone by punishing him she was redeeming herself I don't understand that I was quite right of course could I have a drink of water please Freddie but Freddy and sister Bates yes that was bad but I couldn't let them talk otherwise I should have been found out and punished for something that was right eser I'm sorry you understand don't you you water quick she fended she is dead what she can't be dead she can't be dead can't you do something it's too late Mr Eden you have del

ivered the kiv at her death have i h you followed her in here with that hypodermic quite true there is a penalty for helping a criminal to evade the consequences aren't you being a little rash you don't know yet how she died well have you forgotten those tablets I have not and neither I imagin that you forget them they killed Esther a lethal dose self-administered so what when I realized in M Vesta I knew she was definitely insane and that she had the tablets I wanted to be ready but you came ov

er to me and I was too late to stop her yes inspector that was the antidote and do and you knocked it out of my hand when I took my departure that evening it was not with a feeling that this had been one of my more successful investigations in fact it still seems to me that I fell down rather badly on the case and in view of my failure correction comparative failure I feel I have no alternative sir but to offer you my resignation in The Confident hope that you will not accept it full stop a all