A man holds a real estate agent hostage in an office.
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01:30Mr. Drummond?
01:44This is the office, Mr. Drummond.
01:49Oh, please excuse the state it's in.
02:03I'm afraid it hasn't been in use for some time.
02:07There's no resident porter in this building and therefore no one to keep it in a presentable
02:10condition.
02:11Still, all it needs is a facelift, a duster and a strong arm.
02:18Oh, that doesn't matter.
02:25Ah, yes.
02:30It overlooks the High Street as you wanted.
02:36It's not very crowded down there.
02:38Well, it's not quite lunchtime yet, it's only twenty to twelve.
02:43Oh yes, yes.
02:45Yes, of course, at twelve o'clock.
02:52Will this office be suitable for your purposes?
02:55Oh yes, it'll be fine, fine.
03:00The previous holders of the lease were theatrical agents.
03:05There was always a steady procession of eager young men and women coming in and out.
03:09They all looked alike too.
03:13The agency folded six weeks ago.
03:15It's rather expensive, I'm afraid.
03:20It's fifteen pounds a week.
03:21But then it is in a choice location.
03:24Yes.
03:25Yes, it is.
03:28What business are you in, Mr. Drummond?
03:33Well...
03:34Oh, aye.
03:35No dark suit or tie.
03:37Shoes not polished.
03:39No brawley.
03:40Briefcase or copy of the Financial Times.
03:43Is that what all businessmen are supposed to look like?
03:45Well...
03:46Well, perhaps I...
03:47Perhaps I don't want to rent an office after all.
03:49Perhaps I'm just lonely and need a bit of company.
03:51You know, I looked round every estate agency in the area...
03:57Until I came to yours.
03:59Really?
04:00What made our agency so special?
04:03You.
04:04Me?
04:05Yes.
04:06I stood outside watching you for quite a long time.
04:09I think perhaps you must have felt my presence because you looked up.
04:12I wanted to find out what your reaction was.
04:14Do you remember what it was?
04:16Not offhand.
04:18You smiled.
04:21The first person who smiled at me all the morning.
04:25So I walked in and I sat down.
04:29I saw your name there on the desk of big gold letters, Miss Margaret Lord.
04:34It was very aristocratic, rather like yourself.
04:38And then I thought, oh, you're way out of your depth here, man.
04:42Then you asked me what I wanted.
04:43Well, I could hardly say you seem to me to be a very nice person, Miss Lord.
04:47I wonder if I could have a few moments of your time.
04:50If you don't charge, that is.
04:52I mean, I could hardly say that, could I?
04:54And then I saw this office was to let from the window there with the name.
05:00So I asked if I could rent it.
05:03I must admit, a flat or a bedsit would have been much more credible.
05:06I might not have wondered about you at all, then.
05:09Well, if you wondered about me, why did you bring me over here?
05:11Well, I wasn't sure.
05:12Oh, I see.
05:13Were you afraid I might make advances to you?
05:17Not really.
05:18No, I'm not.
05:20Just a feeling.
05:22Supposing I did?
05:24I have been advanced on before.
05:28And there are other people on this floor.
05:30And you seemed very anxious to see this particular office.
05:34Oh, no, Miss Lord.
05:37To see from it.
05:44Did you come into the agency just for some company?
05:48I came into the agency because its name was on the board outside this office.
05:55I had to come in with someone.
05:57Well...
05:58Oh, there, look.
05:59They're getting busy down there now.
06:00All the people.
06:01All rushing around.
06:03Ignoring all the other people surrounding them.
06:06All wrapped up in their own little worlds.
06:09Whole lives centered on themselves.
06:11You know what I mean?
06:13You know, people are so, so arrogant.
06:15They don't believe that anything could interrupt them or stop them in their tracks.
06:19Not even death.
06:20I suppose that's why we invented God.
06:23A religion.
06:24An afterlife.
06:27We can't believe that our own existences could in the end amount to only a handful of dust and ashes.
06:33We feel there must be something else more to it than that.
06:35Or else why would we be here?
06:37And we were too important just to die.
06:40To disappear.
06:42There must be something more than that.
06:50It's a game, isn't it?
06:52Well, if you'd like to return to the agency with me, we can finalize the details of the lease.
06:56How long would you like it for?
06:58A year?
06:59Six months or three months?
07:01Oh, just for today.
07:03What?
07:04Just this morning.
07:06You can't rent an office for a morning.
07:09Why not?
07:11Because we don't operate on a daily basis.
07:14But I won't need it after.
07:16After what?
07:17After this morning.
07:19Mr. Drummond, I am very busy and I do have other clients to see.
07:24Now, do you want this office or don't you?
07:26Tell me, does that lock?
07:27What?
07:28The door to the office here, does it lock?
07:30I was coming upstairs behind you.
07:32I couldn't see if you unlocked it or not.
07:33Could you show me, please?
07:47Is this it?
07:49Why are you locking us in?
07:50Is this it?
07:51Find it yourself.
07:52Process of elimination, eh?
08:03That's it.
08:04Well, I was wrong.
08:08You don't seem very frightened.
08:11Why should I be?
08:13You haven't timed your move very well, have you?
08:16You should have left it ten more minutes.
08:18Then all the people on this floor would have gone to lunch.
08:21As it is, you take one step towards me and I'm going to scream until enough people come to break that door down.
08:27Oh, no, you're not.
08:28You just listen to me.
08:30If you make one sound, if anybody comes outside that door, if anybody tries to break that door down to stop me, I'll kill them.
08:41Kill them?
08:43Now, you wouldn't like that on your conscience, would you?
08:46And me?
08:48I don't want to hurt you.
08:51I don't want to touch you.
08:52I don't even want to see you.
08:54I just need you to be here with me.
08:56Now, it won't take very long.
08:58And at the end of it, you can go free.
09:01You'll not be harmed in any way unless you try to escape, unless you try to stop me.
09:05And if you do that, I'll kill you.
09:10Now, do you understand?
09:11At the end of what? Stop you from doing what?
09:14Do you understand?
09:15No!
09:16Listen, I don't want to hurt you, Margaret.
09:22Do you mind if I call you Margaret?
09:25I don't want to hurt you.
09:27Now, do you understand that?
09:32I won't make a move.
09:34Not for anything.
09:38Right.
09:42That's fine.
09:45That's fine.
09:46Where are you?
09:49There should be a crowd down there.
09:52There should be fat women with shopping baskets and screaming kids and young businessmen walking across to the pub to drink their lunch.
10:02See, it should be crowded down there.
10:14There should be people turning into each other and falling over each other, dragging each other down with them.
10:18And then they realize there are others around them, other people who are living just like them.
10:24And then suddenly they need their help.
10:27They no longer want to be alone in their own little worlds.
10:29They want somebody else to protect them.
10:32But it's too late then.
10:37Do you see?
10:38No.
10:40No, I don't see.
10:42You see, unless there's a crowd,
10:46there's no panic.
10:49Unless there's nowhere to turn.
10:53Nowhere to escape.
10:55Escape from what?
10:57What time is it?
10:59About quarter to twelve.
11:02No, no, no, exactly.
11:06Thirteen minutes to.
11:08That's good, that's good.
11:10Thirteen minutes more.
11:12There'll be a lot of people down there by then.
11:15What's going to happen at twelve o'clock?
11:18Precisely, twelve o'clock.
11:19The people down in that street are going to find their arrogant, self-important little lives.
11:27Somewhat interrupted.
11:29I'm going to fire into them.
11:30You can't.
11:31Are you going to stop me?
11:44Why?
11:45Why?
11:46Why?
11:47Why?
11:48Why?
11:49Why?
11:50There must be a reason.
11:51To kill people.
11:52There's no more reason than to kill anything else.
11:53A sniper is just a hunter with human targets, that's all.
11:54You know, I sat up in trees during the war, and I picked up a gun.
11:55You know, I sat up in trees during the war, and I picked up a gun.
11:56And I picked up a gun.
11:57I picked up a gun.
11:58Germans and Japs and then Koreans.
11:59Then they were the same powerful.
12:00Them and then the same guns, and the same guns and at the same time.
12:01You'll have to make sure that it was an actual gun.
12:02It's something I have to do.
12:05Why?
12:06Why?
12:07Why?
12:08There must be a reason?
12:10Well, to kill people.
12:11There's no more reason than to kill anything else.
12:16A sniper is just a hunter with human targets, that's all.
12:20You know, I sat up in trees during the war, and I picked up Germans and Japs and then
12:25and then Koreans, then Vietcong. They were the same trees, same guns. Just different targets,
12:30that's all. You know, I was up in that tower in Texas. I was in that room in Glasgow.
12:35Snipers are just hunters, and that's all they are. Just hunters.
12:43You know, my father, he owned a gun shop in Ballot. Oh, there were guns, guns of all kinds.
12:49And we used to go hunting, you know, my father and I. We used to go hunting with him for deer.
12:54And we used to stalk them side by side, father and son, him holding a gun.
12:59And then suddenly, suddenly we'd see one of those beauties, you know, standing,
13:03stalk still, its head up, listening, feeling our presence. My father would take aim,
13:08and he'd make no more sound or movement in doing that than he'd done in approaching the deer.
13:14But it would know in that instant, it would know that its life was in danger.
13:18And then it would spring away, you see, like that, in that very second.
13:21But it would be too late, because he'd fire. And the animal would fall with a bullet in his heart.
13:29There was something about it, you know, a feeling of holding a gun and seeing your target,
13:33almost larger than life in your sight, maybe 400 yards away.
13:36But right there, right there close, it would have no idea that its life was about to be emptied.
13:41Well, he should have no idea. But he does. It always does.
13:49But not a human being, though, you see. No, a human being has no idea.
13:53He doesn't even have the animal awareness that his life is about to end.
13:58No awareness of danger at all.
14:01My father, he used to say that, that killing a man like that couldn't have any satisfaction,
14:07because he didn't know what's hit him. But I thought, no, just for that very reason,
14:10it's even more satisfying. A hunter is just a sniper with human targets.
14:17But they're not targets. They're people.
14:19They're targets, like deer, or grouse, or a row of clay ducks in a shooting gallery.
14:27You're not trying to kill them, not really. You're just knocking them over.
14:31As long as they go down, that's what matters. That's what's really important.
14:34But what's the sense in it?
14:35What's the sense in hunting any animal? I don't mean just for food, but for the head, the trophy.
14:42Animals are living too, aren't they? I mean, they're, they're all God's creatures.
14:46You know, I, I, I had my first gun from my father when I was 16 years of age.
14:59He said I was old enough to kill then.
15:02After the first one, the rest are easy.
15:05I remember that day he shot a deer and he told me to see where I was
15:08in some tall grass while he ran towards it.
15:10I, I followed him along the sight of my gun and I, I watched.
15:18I watched him reach the animal, examine it.
15:20It was all covered in blood and shattered bone.
15:22I, I felt sick.
15:23And he was right there before me, as, as helpless and more unsuspecting than the deer had been.
15:28He was an easy target, even for a novice, you see.
15:30His, his big bat was there, unmoving, and my finger was tensed on the trigger.
15:34And for one moment it seemed so easy just to squeeze that trigger.
15:39And to watch him with a bullet in his heart.
15:46Covered in blood and shattered bone.
15:51My own father.
15:54But he, he turned and saw me.
15:58There was the gun pointed at him.
16:00He started running towards me and waving his arms and shouting.
16:03And it, it unloved me a little.
16:04And I, well, the feeling passed.
16:08And I lowered the gun.
16:11When he reached me, you know, he was really very angry.
16:12He said he, he wouldn't let me, he wouldn't let me kill anything if I didn't learn not to point a gun at a human being.
16:17Never ever let your gun pointed be at anyone.
16:24Oh, well, I mean, I didn't, I didn't see it made any difference.
16:27But, you know, I didn't say anything.
16:29I just apologized.
16:33Oh, what's the difference?
16:44You tell me.
16:45A great difference.
16:45There's none?
16:45Of course there is.
16:47A human being is...
16:49Is what?
16:53Has a human being any more right to live than the animals he kills?
16:56The people down in this street aren't hunters or killers, they're just people.
17:00They're just ordinary, everyday people going about their business.
17:03They've done nothing against you.
17:05They're unarmed, they're helpless.
17:08Let me tell you something.
17:10An animal kills for food, for survival.
17:15A human being only kills for revenge, for the sake of killing.
17:21Like you're going to do.
17:23I have to do what I have to do.
17:27But why do you have to do it?
17:29Because I have to.
17:32I've thought about that day a lot.
17:34That he almost killed my own father.
17:37I thought about it every time we went hunting after it.
17:40I thought about it every day until he died.
17:42How did he die?
17:44It was a shooting accident.
17:47What kind of accident?
17:49You think I killed him, don't you?
17:55You think the feeling was too overwhelming for me.
18:00You think I killed him.
18:02Is that how it happened?
18:04Did you murder your father?
18:06Murder?
18:09I was talking about murder. I was talking about hunting.
18:12That's not murder.
18:14Did you?
18:15It was cleaning his gun in his workshop.
18:21It was a first rule to me.
18:23Always make sure your gun is unloaded.
18:27Before you clean it.
18:33You only need to be careless once, he used to say.
18:35Just, just once.
18:37And I remember when I heard that shot, I thought he hasn't unloaded it.
18:44How about that? The bastards forgot to unload it.
18:48When I burst in, he was lying on the floor and his face was all covered in blood.
18:52And he looked him dead, just as I'd always imagined he'd have looked him.
18:55I'd squeezed the trigger that day.
18:59And he looked just like, like one of his animals.
19:02But it was my gun, you see.
19:08You see, he cleaned, he cleaned his gun, then he decided to clean mine.
19:11It was a sort of fatherly gesture, if you like.
19:17No, I was his son, you know. I was his son, like father, like son.
19:22He always unloaded his gun, I always unloaded my gun.
19:25But that day I'd just forgotten. I don't know why.
19:27I just forgot.
19:35Of course he, he should have checked it.
19:39Why didn't he check it?
19:48Now don't you dare make a move like that again.
19:52Do you want to be killed?
19:53You're going to kill those people in the street. What's the difference?
19:58The difference is that you're not down there.
20:00You're not a target.
20:02Yet.
20:07It isn't 12 yet. It isn't time.
20:08You can't do it before it's time.
20:10What time is it?
20:1311.53.
20:14Then you've got seven minutes to talk me out of it.
20:20You don't want me to fire into them, do you?
20:23No.
20:25Then give me some reasons.
20:28Give me one reason.
20:30Just one reason, and I won't go through with it.
20:33It's up to you, Miss Lord.
20:45If you shoot into those people,
20:50well, the police will be here in minutes,
20:52and they'll surround the area.
20:54Even if you escape from this building, from these streets,
20:57well, they'll hunt you down and kill you.
21:01I'll not be hunted.
21:03Well, of course you will.
21:04And there especially aren't in cases like this.
21:11Listen.
21:13That sniper in Glasgow,
21:19the police shot and killed him.
21:24He may have been a sick man in need of help,
21:27reassurance,
21:29to have someone to listen to him,
21:32to understand him,
21:33and take care.
21:37But he never had a chance.
21:42And neither will you.
21:44Oh, is that what I need, Margaret?
21:47Someone to talk to?
21:49Someone who'll listen to me?
21:52Well, I'm talking to you.
21:54But you're not really listening, are you?
21:57Not really.
21:59You're frightened.
22:02You're worried about yourself.
22:04And even while you're listening to me, you're thinking,
22:08what can I do?
22:09How can I escape?
22:10What can I do to stop this madman?
22:12I mean, you're not really interested in me,
22:15or even worried about me.
22:17You're interested in yourself,
22:19and those fat, stupid women with their shopping bags
22:22and their children.
22:23all those young men with their dolly-buds,
22:25with the painted eyebrows
22:27and the painted eyelashes.
22:29Those senile old men who can hardly cross the road.
22:34Them, and yourself.
22:36Not me.
22:39I do want to help you.
22:42Put down the gun,
22:44and I'll lock the door.
22:45We'll go to my office and we'll talk.
22:47I'll listen.
22:49I'll try and understand.
22:50I promise.
22:52I'll do anything I can.
22:55For me?
22:56Yes.
22:58Well, why?
22:59Why should you care?
23:01I don't know.
23:04Well, thanks.
23:05But I don't need your help.
23:07But you do.
23:09Why am I sick?
23:11Unbalanced.
23:13Disturbed.
23:14There's something on a little haywire in my brain,
23:17and it is slowly destroying itself.
23:19Yes.
23:21There is nothing crazy about me.
23:23I know exactly what I'm doing.
23:25So you keep your sympathy and your pity
23:28and your understanding for somebody who needs it.
23:34Well, is that all you've got to say, Margaret?
23:37It's not a very convincing argument, is it?
23:39And your time's running out.
23:41Do you want to die?
23:43What?
23:45Why not?
23:47What makes you any different from your intended victims?
23:50Because I'm the hunter.
23:51That's what makes me different.
23:53No.
23:54Because you don't want to be killed and neither do they.
23:57Well, perhaps they'd be better off.
23:59There'd be no more fear.
24:01No more plans that can never succeed.
24:05No more dreams that can never come true.
24:08There's no more than happiness.
24:11But you can't decide that for them.
24:15What if you were down in that street
24:18and somebody else was up here in this office
24:20with a gun pointed down at you?
24:22You wouldn't want your plans and dreams to end, would you?
24:25They all ended a long time ago.
24:27Well, then make new ones.
24:29It's too late.
24:31Oh, it's never too late.
24:33It's never too late.
24:36It is for me.
24:41What about your wife?
24:45What do you know about my wife?
24:47Well, does she know where you are and what you're going to do?
24:50No.
24:52Well, look how's she going to feel
24:54when she reads in the evening paper
24:57that some man murdered innocent victims from an office window
25:00and how the police hunted him down and killed him in some...
25:04some back alley or pub or wherever it is they find him?
25:07And she sees your picture
25:09and reads your name
25:11and realises
25:13that her husband is the killer.
25:16She won't think anything.
25:18Of course she will!
25:20No.
25:22But she must.
25:24No.
25:26Why not?
25:28She left me.
25:32When?
25:34Oh, about a month ago.
25:36What happened?
25:37She said she'd had enough of me.
25:39Couldn't take any more.
25:41But I'd driven her to it.
25:44I wonder what that means.
25:46I mean, I can't be any different from the man she married, can I?
25:49I mean, I can't have changed all that much, can I?
25:53I can't help being me, can I?
25:56Did you have a row?
25:59No, no, we...
26:01We didn't have a row.
26:03Nothing as simple as that, you know, nothing as open as that.
26:07They're all hungry words, or...
26:10smashed cups, or scenes, you know.
26:13Just...
26:15Silence.
26:16And looks.
26:18A few bit of words and accusations, that's all.
26:19But only shot, you know.
26:21Never...
26:22Start something.
26:24I married her a...
26:26a few years after I came down to London.
26:31Just a few years, that's all.
26:36The hunting trips, you see.
26:38I went up to Scotland, oh, once a year.
26:41Took her with me, but she hated them.
26:43The killing and the blood and the...
26:44the smell of death.
26:46You know.
26:47The stench.
26:48But most of all, she hated me because...
26:51because when I held a gun, she said,
26:53she didn't know me anymore.
26:54I wasn't a husband anymore then.
26:56I was just a killer.
26:58Those were her words.
27:00She said I enjoyed it.
27:02And did you?
27:04Oh, yes.
27:05Yes.
27:07She watched me the way I would...
27:11I watched my father.
27:13The way our sons would have watched me
27:14when they were old enough to come with me.
27:16That's what she said.
27:17That's what she said in her last night.
27:19She didn't want our eldest son ever to reach the age of 16
27:21if it meant that I'd give him a gun on that day.
27:24If it meant that he'd come shooting animals with me as my father.
27:27for taking me.
27:32That's what she said.
27:35She didn't want him to kill, she said.
27:41She was crying too.
27:43And that was odd because she'd never done that before.
27:48It wouldn't have been so bad, you know,
27:49if she'd just gone away on her own.
27:51But no, no, no.
27:52She took the kids with her, the three boys.
27:54She got them out of bed.
27:56They were blinking in the light.
27:57Didn't understand what was happening.
28:00Told them to get dressed.
28:02That they were leaving.
28:03It was like a big adventure, you see.
28:04Middle of the night, pitch black outside.
28:06Six years old, five years old, and three years old.
28:10I mean, how could they know what she was doing?
28:12They couldn't make up their own minds, could they?
28:14They couldn't make up their minds who they wanted to stay with.
28:20Anyway, they've got a new daddy now.
28:24She left you for someone else.
28:26Well, of course she did.
28:28She wouldn't leave otherwise.
28:29She's got three kids to look after.
28:30She needs somebody to support her.
28:33She's pretty well off, as far as I can tell.
28:36And in time, the boys will come to look upon him as their father.
28:38There'll be a memory somewhere at the back of their minds,
28:40you know, something distant, unreal,
28:41and I won't be part of their world anymore.
28:46Oh, well, there'll be something they're better off without.
28:50Well, there must be something you can do.
28:55I haven't seen her or the boys since that night.
28:57Well, does she intend to divorce you?
28:59No, she wouldn't get the chance.
29:01Do you know where she is now?
29:03Oh, yes.
29:04Yes, I know exactly where she is.
29:07Number two, Cumberland Gardens, London, W-2.
29:11Oh, well, Cumberland Gardens is just around.
29:14Around the corner.
29:15It's a two-story house.
29:19White paint, blue door.
29:22Flower pots and the window ledge.
29:26Very pretty.
29:28Nice curtains, nice furniture.
29:29She was always one for keeping things nice.
29:33It's very clean, too.
29:34There's a white fence around the garden.
29:38I think that he must have brought Jason.
29:41That's my boy's name, Jason.
29:45I think he must have brought him a tricycle.
29:48There's one upturned in the driveway.
29:51He has already made family.
29:53No sweat.
29:55No work.
29:59And I don't know anything about him.
30:03I don't even know his name.
30:04She lives just around the corner.
30:06She must do her shopping in the high street.
30:09Well, there's nowhere else near enough.
30:17What time does she do her shopping?
30:19Twelve o'clock?
30:21You don't care about those spaceless people down there, do you?
30:25Your real target's your wife.
30:28Or will he be with her?
30:29Is he your real target?
30:30What about the children?
30:35She could have the children with her.
30:37You could miss Leslie and kill them.
30:39Look, is what you've told me sufficient reason to kill them, too?
30:43Do you want to punish them, too?
30:46Is that what you want?
30:48Is it?
30:53Please.
30:54Give it to me.
30:58Give it to me.
31:04No!
31:06No, no!
31:08Please!
31:10Somebody help us!
31:12Please, get me!
31:14No, stop it!
31:16No!
31:18Please, get me!
31:19No, stop it!
31:21No!
31:22No!
31:26I've got one left.
31:28Don't make me use it.
31:40Don't try to come through that door!
31:43I'll climb through it!
31:45He needs to go back!
31:53One.
31:55Two.
31:56Three.
31:58Just like a row of ducks.
32:04You didn't even know where it was coming from!
32:07So easy!
32:09I mean, anyone can do it anywhere, anytime!
32:12You can always depend on human beings to panic.
32:16You know, just create enough confusion for you to escape.
32:19Then what are you waiting for?
32:21You can get past those men in the corridor by using me as a hostage!
32:25Well, that's what you kept me for, isn't it?
32:29Well, get out with it! Let's get out of here!
32:32You can do what you want with me, but do it!
32:35I wanted you here with me because I needed your company.
32:41So you see?
32:44I did need your help, after all.
32:48I didn't give you help just to kill people.
32:50Don't.
33:00Don't cry.
33:03You're not down there.
33:05Well, I am.
33:06I am, and your wife, was she there too?
33:08Or was that just for fun?
33:10A practice round?
33:12Are you still waiting for her to come?
33:15I'm not waiting for her.
33:16Then what are you waiting for? Why don't you escape?
33:20Margaret.
33:22Where to?
33:26Don't!
33:29I just don't like to see you crying.
33:33Look, I wouldn't hurt you. You know that, don't you?
33:39They call you Maggie.
33:41What?
33:43You know, do they call you Maggie from your name?
33:48My friends call me Maggie.
33:51You shouldn't let them.
33:53It's common.
33:55And you're not common, are you?
33:58And you make them call you Margaret, because Margaret's a lovely name.
34:02Maggie isn't good enough for you.
34:05It's like my name, you see. My name is John.
34:09John Drummond.
34:10But Leslie, she always calls me Jack, you see, because she says that...
34:15John sounds too dignified.
34:18She doesn't have very much respect for me, you see.
34:23Do you think she'll have any more for you now?
34:26No.
34:28No, no, no.
34:30Because she won't realise, you see, she won't understand.
34:33She'll only know what she reads in the newspaper.
34:36And like you said, it'll shock her.
34:38Seeing it there in print, you know, my name, maybe my picture.
34:41But it won't be a personal shock to her, you know what I mean?
34:44Something she shares with other people, you know, with everybody else.
34:47It'll embarrass her, it'll upset her.
34:49But at least she'll have to take some notice of me, won't she?
34:52At least she won't be able to shut me out of her mind then, will she?
35:00And maybe she'll even feel some kind of remorse.
35:05Is that why you did it?
35:09Just to make her take some notice of you?
35:12Oh, no, no. No, I did it for myself.
35:19They're coming.
35:21Yes.
35:25Yes.
35:29I thought they'd be here before this.
35:31Police station's not all that far away.
35:37Why have you been waiting? For the police to come?
35:41I told you.
35:43I would not be hunted.
35:46But once they get here, you won't have a chance on escaping.
35:49Keep away from that window.
35:51Look, you can't hold them off indefinitely.
35:54You haven't got that many bullets.
35:57Or time. And time's on their side.
35:58Look, if they can't talk you out or blast you out, they'll just surround the whole building up and wait.
36:05Or they'll starve you out.
36:07Look, you'll have to give yourself up in the end.
36:11Why?
36:13Do you intend to use me as a hostage?
36:15Well, you look at them all down there.
36:18Running around in their blue uniforms.
36:20Like mice who've cornered a cat and they don't quite know what to do with them.
36:25Do you?
36:29I told you, don't go near the window.
36:33This is Detective Inspector Grant.
36:37The building is surrounded by armed police.
36:40You have two minutes in which to surrender.
36:45He's right.
36:48You don't stand a chance.
36:50Two minutes?
36:53It's not very long to make a life and death decision, is it?
36:58You don't have to make a decision.
36:59That's why you kept me here.
37:03To escape through me.
37:05You know, I didn't think there was anybody left who cared.
37:10But you do, don't you?
37:12I hadn't expected that.
37:16But he is too late.
37:18Do what the inspector says.
37:19Yes.
37:21We'll walk out together.
37:24I'll stay with you.
37:25I swear it.
37:27Please, John.
37:29I can't.
37:31I've made up my mind.
37:33It was the only thing left to do.
37:34I made a decision.
37:35I'm not very good at that.
37:36Making decisions, I mean, and carrying them out.
37:39But this time I've got to go through with it.
37:42Do you understand that, Margaret?
37:43This time there is no going back.
37:47I have to finish what I've started.
37:49You do understand, don't you?
38:02Go on.
38:19Go on.
38:35They're blanks.
38:38They're all blank cartridges.
38:42They wouldn't hurt you.
38:43Not unless you were too close.
38:44And then they might give you a nasty burn.
38:49How do you get up on that roof?
38:52John.
38:53Talk to him.
38:56No, it's too late.
38:57Of course it's not too late.
39:01Give yourself this last chance.
39:02Get outside, Margaret.
39:17Don't let them kill you.
39:20Get outside.
39:22Margaret!
39:23No!
39:24No!
39:36Keep back there.
39:37Keep back there, please.
39:40For the back.
39:53Keep back there.
39:54You won't have to!
39:55No!
39:56No!
39:57No!
39:58No!
39:59No!
40:00No!
40:01No!
40:03No!
40:05No!
40:06No!
40:08No!
40:10No!
40:12No!
40:13No!