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'It is now five days
since the Labour MP John Stonehouse

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'disappeared off this beach
in Florida...'

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I just wondered if you'd...
heard anything?

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Nothing at all, I'm afraid.

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We have reason to suppose
that this isn't your real name.

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Who's Dums, Joe?

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We can't have one of our MPs
faking his own death

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and then reappearing
on the other side of the world!

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He is our majority, Betty.
He has to be made to see sense.

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Maybe it was me you, er,
you really wanted to get away from?

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No, of course not!

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How marvellous to see you both!

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I thought we were going to be
together! The two of us!

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It's just a few details to iron out.

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John Stonehouse, I have an order
for your extradition

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to the United Kingdom to face 15
charges of forgery, theft and fraud.

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So as you know, Mr Stonehouse,
this programme is about people

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who have gone missing
in mysterious circumstances.

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Now, it's possible that some of our
viewers might not know who you are.

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Really? Do you think so?

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It is possible.

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So it's very important
to tell your story

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as simply and clearly as you can.

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Simply. Clearly.

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Got it.

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Mr Stonehouse!
Mr Stonehouse!

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How does it feel to be finally
out on bail, Mr Stonehouse?

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I have no complaints
about the way I've been treated.

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No, my accommodation
was quite satisfactory

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and the food
unexpectedly nutritious.

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What I-What I would take issue
with, though, is the, erm...

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is the way in which my applications
for bail have been repeatedly denied

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in a manner in which
I can only conclude as, erm,

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politically motivated.

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It was the...
It was the humbug and hypocrisy

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that I witnessed in politics
that caused my breakdown,

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and now it's that hypocrisy
and humbug

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that is trying to deny me now
a fair hearing. Thank you.

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Did you have a message
you'd like to send to the public?

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Wake up, England!

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Thank you.

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Hello, darling.

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Welcome home. Welcome home.
Welcome home, Dad.

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Oh, thank you! Oh, Lord!
Look at that!

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Look at that. That's wonderful.

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Ah! Wonderful to be back.

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Erm, yes, even-even though it
took an absurdly long time to-to...

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to sort out the, er,

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the-the misunderstandings
surrounding my case,

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it... I have to say,

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I found the experience
extraordinarily interesting.

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Talking to people, as one does,
and lending an ear,

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it became obvious that-that-that
a lot of them, the vast majority,

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I daresay,
don't deserve to be in prison.

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They don't deserve it.

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They're there
through no fault of their own,

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and through an
unfortunate series of...of...of...

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Misunderstandings?
Misunderstandings.

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Exactly so!

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'Demonstrations are currently
being held up and down the country.

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'In other news: Six weeks
after his sensational return

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'to the UK, MP John Stonehouse was
released on bail from Brixton prison

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'this morning,

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'effectively holding the fate
of the Government in his hands.'

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Just like old times.

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Not quite.

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I know the conditions of your bail

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forbid you
from seeing Sheila Buckley,

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but let me make my position
perfectly clear.

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You are not to see her again,
either now or in the future,

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in or outside of work.

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Is that understood?

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Absolutely!

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One hundred percent.

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Hm.

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I think I'm just going to pop out
for a quick stroll,

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if you don't mind?
Just to clear my head.

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Hm.

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I just don't
know what the best thing to do is.

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I know people are saying that
he's making a laughing stock of us.

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All of us.

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I just want to do whatever possible
to keep the family together,

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try to act normally, no matter
how abnormal the situation is.

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Well, that's very reassuring.

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Thank you.

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No, it-it means a lot, really.

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All right, well, er... better go.

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Speak soon.

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Bye.

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Good morning, darling!

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Oh!

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The Ayes to the right,
three hundred and sixteen.

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The Noes to the left,
three hundred and sixteen.

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The Ayes to the right,
three hundred and sixteen.

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The Noes to the left,
three hundred and sixteen.

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Order. Order!

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That's the second time in a week
that Stonehouse has defied the whips

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and missed the vote, Prime Minister.

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Prime Minister?

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Tell me, Betty...

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do you ever wonder what happens...

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afterwards?

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Afterwards, Prime Minister?

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You know, Goodnight Vienna
and all that.

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Do the lucky ones, or the virtuous
ones, really go to a better place?

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Do you mean
the House of Lords, Prime Minister?

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Maybe I do, Betty. Maybe I do.

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John Stonehouse, Prime Minister...

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If he misses another vote,

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then the Tories could table
a motion of no confidence,

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and if that happens,
we'll be well and truly...

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I know exactly where we'll be,
Betty.

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Let me see
if I've got this straight.

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In order to stay in power,

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we need the support of someone
who's either off his rocker

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or pretending to be off his rocker,
or else sufficiently off his rocker

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not to be able to tell whether
he's really off his rocker or not.

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There, does that about cover it?

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Yes.

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It's time to bring the awkward sod
back to heel.

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Hello, darling.

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You're late.

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Well, you know
what it's like when you, er...

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meet old chums and start, er...
chatting away and...

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..chewing the fat.

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Time flies, so...

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Just, er...

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..clear my head.

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Yes, of course you're scared,
darling. That's perfectly natural.

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No, I don't expect you to wait
indefinitely. Absolutely not.

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No, no, no.
It's just a matter of timing.

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'Darling. Hello? Are you there?'

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Yes.

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'Oh, it's all right.
I thought we'd been cut off.'

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I miss my Dums...

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'I miss my Dums, too.

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'Terribly. Terribly.
It's like an ache.'

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What sort of an ache?

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Just a...

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Just a sort of all-over
sort of ache.

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I miss the touch of you.

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'Feeling you beside me.

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'Your arms wrapped around me.'

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Do you?

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'Mmm.'

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And I miss the things you do to me.

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What-What sort of things?

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The way you make me forget myself.

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Do I?

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You know you do.

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'Just be patient, my love.'

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Just for a little while longer.

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I promise you,
nothing can stand in our way.

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Bye. Bye, darling. Bye. Bye.

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Before I call upon

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the Right Honourable Gentleman
for Walsall North

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to make a personal statement,
I want to make one thing clear.

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In light of
his particular circumstances,

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he must stick to the wording
of his prepared statement.

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I will not tolerate any deviations.

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I am very grateful, Mr Speaker,
for agreeing to my request.

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The, erm...

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The events
surrounding my disappearance

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have caused a great deal
of press interest.

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Erm... enormous press interest...

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all round the world,
and I feel I owe it to the House

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to offer an explanation for my...
my behaviour.

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In the latter half of last year,

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I suffered
a complete mental breakdown.

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This breakdown was analysed by an
eminent psychologist in Australia

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and described by her
as a form of emotional suicide.

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It took the form of
attempting to destroy

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the personality of John Stonehouse,

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because that personality
had become intolerable to him.

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The nature and the scale
of Stonehouse's idealism

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proved incompatible
with the day-to-day realities

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of political life...

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The Right Honourable Gentleman

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is departing from
his prepared statement.

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Mr Speaker, I made one or two
small textual changes,

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just for clarity, nothing more.

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The Right Honourable Gentleman must
say only what has been passed by me!

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Just being in the Chamber
became physically painful

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because it was a reminder
of my lost ideals...

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..of my belief in the fundamental
goodness of human nature,

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a belief that was sorely
and continually tested

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by the behaviour
of my parliamentary colleagues.

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During my time at Westminster,

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I have come to see
the House of Commons

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as riddled with deceit, corruption,
and hypocrisy.

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Once again,

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the Right Honourable Gentleman
is departing from the agreed text!

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Parliamentary democracy,
our great gift to the world,

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has been reduced to
nothing more than a charade.

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Every five years the people
of this country elect people

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to represent them.

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They do so in the belief
that these representatives

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are acting
in their own best interests.

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In reality,
they're doing nothing of the sort.

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In reality,
the vast majority of MPs -

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and I have to include myself in this
- are no better than robots.

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I will not...
I will not tolerate this any more!

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Docile, unthinking machines.

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Voting on issues
they don't understand after debates

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which they do not listen to.

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Deluding themselves that they have
anyone's welfare at heart

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except, perhaps, their own...

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The Right Honourable Gentleman
will be seated.

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On the 15th of October last,

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Sheila Buckley wrote the
following letter to John Stonehouse:

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"My darling Dums,

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"Whichever way you turn,
I'll be there for you.

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"Rest assured that I will do
anything in my power to help.'

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On the eighth of November last,

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John Stonehouse wrote the
following letter to Sheila Buckley:

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"My darling Dums,

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"The thought of being with you
is the only thing

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"that keeps me going
through this vale of hardship."

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I find that there is a case
to answer against both of you.

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As a result,

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you will be committed to the Central
Criminal Court to stand your trial

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on charges of deception and theft.

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Barbara?

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You're sleeping
in the spare room.

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'The number you have dialled
is not in service at this time.'

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Hello?

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Yes, this is he.

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Prime Minister!

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No, no, no, no, I wasn't asleep.

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No, far from it, in fact.

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Tomorrow?

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Yes, of course.

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Course.

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I heard your speech, John.

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Bit drastic,
there's no getting away from that,

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but there was some good stuff
in there. Food for thought.

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You and me,
we may have had our spats,

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but beneath it all we're very alike.

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Both men of high ideals.
Too high, possibly.

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Too trusting for our own good.

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Worn down by all the back-stabbing.

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That's what I was trying to get at.

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And you did get at it, John!
Bang on the money.

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All the duplicity, the treachery
of our so-called colleagues.

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The sheer bloody nastiness
of them...

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Exactly so! Exactly!

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What a pair we are, eh?

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That whole business in Miami...

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Again, a bit drastic.

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Well, more than a bit drastic,
let's face it.

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But, erm, it couldn't have been
easy for you.

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Took a lot of guts.

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Well, I really didn't feel like
I had any choice.

254
00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:39,000
I'm sure you didn't, John.
I'm sure you didn't.

255
00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:43,360
Something broke.

256
00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:45,680
Something broke inside.

257
00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:48,720
The old John Stonehouse...

258
00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:50,840
had to die.

259
00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:54,000
No, I can see that.

260
00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:56,720
Can you?

261
00:20:56,760 --> 00:20:58,240
Well, of course.

262
00:20:58,280 --> 00:21:00,840
Which of us
truly knows who we really are?

263
00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:03,120
Take me, for instance.
What do you see?

264
00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:06,840
What am I, John?

265
00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:13,840
Well, you-you're the Prime Minister,
Prime Minister.

266
00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:15,280
Don't I know it!

267
00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:18,760
No, I mean apart from all that.

268
00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:22,640
I'll tell you what I am.

269
00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:27,320
I'm the big fat spider
in the corner of the room.

270
00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:31,000
Sometimes I speak when I'm asleep.

271
00:21:32,360 --> 00:21:35,040
Sometimes I may tell you
to go to the Charing Cross Road

272
00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:36,920
and kick a blind man.

273
00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:40,440
Would you do that for me?

274
00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:46,280
Well, if you really wanted me to,
Prime Minister.

275
00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:52,120
I knew I could rely on you...

276
00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:54,120
when the chips were down.

277
00:21:56,840 --> 00:21:59,520
So, then...

278
00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:01,880
no more silly buggers, eh?

279
00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:06,320
No more silly buggers.

280
00:22:06,360 --> 00:22:08,640
That's the spirit.

281
00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:11,680
Well, I won't take up
any more of your valuable time.

282
00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:13,680
I have enjoyed our little chin-wag.

283
00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:15,080
Thank you.

284
00:22:26,120 --> 00:22:28,120
You're quite right, of course.

285
00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:31,000
Prime Minister?

286
00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:33,480
What you said about politics.

287
00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:35,880
About what it does to you.

288
00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:38,840
The price you pay...

289
00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:43,680
After a while,
something does get broken.

290
00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:50,760
'Following his defection
to the United States last month,

291
00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:53,760
'the former Czech spymaster
Alexander Marek

292
00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:56,720
'has given his first
television interview.'

293
00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:59,760
'Can you tell me what your duties
were at the Czech embassy?'

294
00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:06,040
'I was in charge of
recruiting politicians.'

295
00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:09,640
'Recruiting British politicians
to spy for the Czechs?'

296
00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:11,280
'Huh.'

297
00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:14,280
'And how did you do that?'

298
00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:18,480
'Sex.

299
00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:22,280
'That was the most effective way.

300
00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:27,880
'Erm... One of our agents
would seduce the politician.

301
00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:32,800
'We would film him having sex
with a hidden camera,

302
00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:37,920
'and then we would tell him
that if he didn't cooperate,

303
00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:41,920
'then we would send the film
to his wife.'

304
00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:46,960
'And how senior
were these politicians?'

305
00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:49,320
'Very senior.'

306
00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:55,680
'Are you saying that ministers
of the Crown were Czech spies?'

307
00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:58,800
'Well... only one.'

308
00:24:00,360 --> 00:24:05,880
'And are you able to identify
this senior politician?'

309
00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:10,280
'Um...'

310
00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:37,080
I'm going out!

311
00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:33,760
What are you doing?

312
00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:35,760
You know we're not supposed
to see each other.

313
00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:37,920
I know. I know, I'm sorry, darling.

314
00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:39,640
I just couldn't bear not to see you.

315
00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:42,600
Anyway, I thought you'd be
at the House of Commons.

316
00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:44,960
Really? Why?

317
00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:48,040
'The Prime Minister's resignation
has caused widespread astonishment.

318
00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:49,560
'Suggestions that he might be ill,

319
00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:51,600
'even that he might
have become disillusioned,

320
00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:53,680
'have been dismissed
as unfounded speculation.

321
00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:55,280
'What's not in doubt, though,

322
00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:58,360
'is that his resignation has plunged
the country into a fresh crisis.

323
00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:01,640
'Having lost its majority in the
House of Commons, the Government...'

324
00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:03,040
But I just saw him!

325
00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:05,120
Who?
Wilson. Yesterday.

326
00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:07,080
I went to see him yesterday.

327
00:27:07,120 --> 00:27:08,720
What did he say?

328
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:11,040
He said that he understood.

329
00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:13,200
That he felt the same way as I do.

330
00:27:15,360 --> 00:27:17,480
This is all down to me!

331
00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:30,160
Mmm.

332
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:32,280
Well, omelette, of course,

333
00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:37,120
but there's something...
something unusual in there,

334
00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:39,440
something I wouldn't have expected.

335
00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:41,320
Give up?

336
00:27:41,360 --> 00:27:42,920
I give up.

337
00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:44,640
Anchovies!

338
00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:46,600
Anchovies!

339
00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:48,920
I would never have guessed that.

340
00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:52,120
How clever you are!
You're so clever.

341
00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:53,240
Mm!

342
00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:57,080
You've got to go.

343
00:27:57,120 --> 00:27:59,280
I know. I know...

344
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:01,680
I know. I just can't
see the point any more.

345
00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:03,040
Argh!

346
00:28:10,360 --> 00:28:12,520
People often ask me,

347
00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:16,920
what does the
English National Party stand for?

348
00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:18,800
My answer is simple.

349
00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:23,640
We stand for everything
that makes England great:

350
00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:28,200
its tolerance, its good manners,
its love of nature,

351
00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:34,160
and of course its rich
and diverse folk-dancing heritage.

352
00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:40,400
At this time of great uncertainty,
we believe that a return

353
00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:46,120
to traditional virtues represents
our best hope for the future.

354
00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:51,720
So my friends, don't delay,
join with us today -

355
00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:55,760
and Let's Make England Merry Again!

356
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:35,120
"I will not continue...

357
00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:38,560
"I am not prepared to continue...

358
00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:42,280
"With the Prime Minister's
resignation,

359
00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:47,120
"I cannot in all conscience
continue to support a government

360
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:50,200
"I disagree with on so many issues,

361
00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:52,840
"a government whose only concern...

362
00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:59,280
"..whose sole concern seems to be
surviving from week to week...

363
00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:09,800
"I have therefore decided to resign
the Labour Whip and join the..."

364
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:12,360
English National Party?

365
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:13,880
John, they're fascists!

366
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:16,120
No, no, that's the National Front.

367
00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:18,280
The English National Party
is quite different.

368
00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:19,560
What do they believe in?

369
00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:21,960
A devolved English Parliament...

370
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:24,720
Erm... abolition of income tax...

371
00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:26,480
Morris dancing...

372
00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:29,960
And do you know, I've-I've also...

373
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:32,760
I've also been giving
a lot of thought to the future.

374
00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:35,320
After all this has been
sorted out... John...

375
00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:38,000
..and I have to say I'm feeling
quite optimistic about things,

376
00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:39,640
about things in general.
John!

377
00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:41,720
And of course, I don't deny
that there are problems.

378
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:43,360
Practical problems. Money, for one.

379
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:46,800
And, of course, there's the
children... John! But I really do...

380
00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:55,720
Let's not look too far
into the future, shall we?

381
00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:57,360
Right.

382
00:30:57,400 --> 00:30:59,400
You know
what they say about happiness.

383
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:04,880
You have to snatch at it
before it flies away.

384
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:10,280
I hadn't heard that,
as a matter of fact.

385
00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:15,320
Snatch at it, you say?

386
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:18,480
Whoo, there it goes...

387
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:22,560
Whoo, gone round again. I've got it.

388
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:34,520
Course you're right, darling,
as always.

389
00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:38,280
I do know what happiness is.

390
00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:41,560
It's being right here with you.

391
00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:48,160
You won't do anything rash,
will you?

392
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:49,840
What do you mean?

393
00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:51,920
In court.

394
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:53,960
You won't do anything rash.

395
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:57,400
Darling, you have my word!

396
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:05,320
All rise.

397
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:14,560
You may sit.

398
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:22,040
Your Honour,
after careful consideration...

399
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:26,800
..I have decided to dispense with
my legal team...

400
00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:31,600
..my extremely efficient
and able legal team

401
00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:34,200
and conduct my own defence.

402
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:38,640
Given the complexities of my case,

403
00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:42,480
and the frankly absurd nature

404
00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:44,520
of some of the charges against me...

405
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:49,720
..I feel that I am the only one
who can give an accurate

406
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:54,120
and unbiased account
of what really happened.

407
00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:59,400
Mr Stonehouse, I strongly advise you
to reconsider your decision.

408
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:01,080
In my experience,

409
00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:04,800
defendants who insist on conducting
their own defence

410
00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:10,440
invariably end up doing themselves
a lot more harm than good.

411
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:18,680
Sit down, please.

412
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:40,320
Mr Stonehouse, I warned you
at the start of this trial

413
00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:43,120
that in choosing
to conduct your own defence,

414
00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:45,680
you were making a grave mistake.

415
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:51,600
No, Mr Stonehouse, I have heard
more than enough from you.

416
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:54,720
As a result of
your constant interruptions,

417
00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:56,520
your meandering digressions

418
00:33:56,560 --> 00:34:00,880
and your insistence on contesting
every tiny detail

419
00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:02,680
of the prosecution's case,

420
00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:05,920
a trial that was scheduled to last
three weeks

421
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:08,719
has dragged on
for almost four months,

422
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:12,840
at the end of which
you have been found guilty

423
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:18,280
on 18 of the 21 counts you faced.

424
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:20,320
Throughout your trial,

425
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:24,679
you have sought to lay the blame
for what you insisted on calling

426
00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:30,400
your travails at the hands of
almost anyone apart from yourself.

427
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:35,320
However, I am quite satisfied
that the blame is yours

428
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:37,840
and yours alone.

429
00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:43,760
While I do not claim to be
an expert in mental illness,

430
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:48,040
I rather doubt if anyone committing
emotional suicide

431
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:51,480
has cynically committed fraud,

432
00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:56,440
obtained two false passports
and hatched a sophisticated scheme

433
00:34:56,480 --> 00:35:00,480
to start a new life
on the other side of the world.

434
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:04,600
There are those who will say that
your fall from grace

435
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:06,920
is punishment enough.

436
00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:09,720
But given the severity
of your offences,

437
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:15,760
I believe I have no choice but to
pass the maximum possible sentence.

438
00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:21,800
I am therefore sentencing
you to seven years imprisonment.

439
00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:28,480
Sheila Buckley,
while I have no doubt

440
00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:31,360
that you aided Mr Stonehouse
in his plan,

441
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:34,480
I am satisfied
that you were prompted

442
00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:38,640
more by your devotion to him
than by any malicious intent.

443
00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:45,160
I am therefore giving you
a two-year suspended sentence.

444
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:08,120
Hello. John Stonehouse!

445
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:16,920
I don't suppose there's a hanger?

446
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:35,040
Good night.

447
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:41,640
I tried to bring in some food,
but I'm afraid they took it away.

448
00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:43,960
For examination, they said.

449
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:46,360
Probably looking for bolt-cutters.

450
00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:50,360
No, don't worry about bringing me
anything, darling.

451
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:52,720
Just you being here
is more than enough.

452
00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:56,120
Just being able to touch you,
even over this...

453
00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:58,400
horrid table...

454
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:01,640
Do you know the most
extraordinary thing?

455
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:05,680
Since I've been here, I feel -

456
00:37:05,720 --> 00:37:08,280
and I know
this is gonna sound ridiculous -

457
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:11,080
but for the first time in my life
I feel free.

458
00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:16,040
It's incredibly liberating being
treated as just one of the crowd,

459
00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:18,440
just as an ordinary human being.

460
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:24,040
You'll never be ordinary for me.

461
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:28,800
Well, there's ordinary
and ordinary, of course.

462
00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:35,480
What do you think
prompted your husband's behaviour?

463
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:39,920
Well, that's a very
difficult question to answer.

464
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:42,040
Er...

465
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:45,680
I have been reading about something
called the male menopause,

466
00:37:45,720 --> 00:37:49,560
and I... and I wonder if that
might have something to do with it.

467
00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:56,320
May I ask, what are your feelings
for your husband?

468
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:01,520
Sadness...

469
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:03,320
Pity.

470
00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:06,840
And... anger?

471
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:12,560
Yes...

472
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:14,200
Anger.

473
00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:19,320
"Intolerable"?

474
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:21,000
I'm sorry.

475
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:24,920
"The petitioner in the divorce
action, Barbara Susan Stonehouse,

476
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:29,320
"finds it intolerable
to live with the respondent,

477
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:31,360
"John Thomson Stonehouse."

478
00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:36,760
It's funny what
we choose to focus on, isn't it?

479
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:40,720
You see, the key word
there for me is "adultery".

480
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:48,880
But then so much of a marriage
is what you choose not to notice.

481
00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:55,240
Did you really think I didn't know,
John?

482
00:38:57,280 --> 00:38:59,240
About your secrets?

483
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:01,520
The things you tried to hide.

484
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:06,320
I saw what I wanted to see,
at least to begin with.

485
00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:12,440
But do you know the strangest thing?

486
00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:15,560
Is I think you knew.

487
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:17,640
On-On some level,

488
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:23,240
I-I think you knew that I could see
through all your-your little veils,

489
00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:28,360
and you didn't like it.
You didn't like it one little bit.

490
00:39:29,720 --> 00:39:34,640
And so you-you kept squirreling
more and more things away,

491
00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:36,480
bigger and bigger secrets

492
00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:40,560
until finally you came
to the biggest secret of the lot.

493
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:45,520
Well, I didn't see that one coming.

494
00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:51,520
No. You, er...

495
00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:53,600
You really got me there.

496
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:01,960
I do...

497
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:03,800
I do love you, you know.

498
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:13,800
You know, for once,
I actually believe you.

499
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:20,280
You thought you could have it all,
didn't you, John?

500
00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:22,840
Everything your heart desired.

501
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:28,400
But in the end...

502
00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:15,160
Hello?

503
00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:19,760
Hello, everyone.

504
00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:21,320
I'm here!

505
00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:25,480
Where is everybody?

506
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:30,440
Where have you all gone?

507
00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:43,400
Quick. Warden in. Warden. Warden!

508
00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:47,800
Warden! We need a warden in here!
We need someone in here.

509
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:19,760
Heart.

510
00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:25,400
You remember Sheila?

511
00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:26,840
She's a...

512
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:28,800
friend of Dad's.

513
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:17,880
Here we go again.

514
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:20,880
It's the nightly bedtime story.

515
00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:26,040
Nearly there, John.

516
00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:27,640
Nearly there, Dave.

517
00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:31,400
How are you feeling?

518
00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:36,240
Happy.

519
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:38,360
Happy and...

520
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:40,120
thankful.

521
00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:45,600
Soppy sod.

522
00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:06,800
Goodbye, darling.
See you this evening.

523
00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:08,360
Good luck!

524
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:10,800
I don't want Daddy to go!

525
00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:14,720
Don't you worry, darling boy.
I'll be back as soon as you know it,

526
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:20,000
and I promise I will never,
ever, ever go away again.

527
00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:28,040
# Maybe it is raining
Where our train will ride

528
00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:34,920
# Oh the little travellers
Are warm and snug inside

529
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:41,520
# Rocking, rolling, riding
Out along the bay

530
00:45:41,560 --> 00:45:48,520
# All bound for Morningtown
Many miles away... #

531
00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:51,280
Bye.

532
00:46:19,240 --> 00:46:21,040
Mr Stonehouse?

533
00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:26,520
Mr Stonehouse?

534
00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:32,600
Mr Stonehouse?

535
00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:38,360
Mr Stonehouse?

536
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:40,040
Are you all right?

537
00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:33,600
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