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Did you ever even see him?
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The most vivid recollection of my life.
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[Solemn instrumental music]
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I was but a child at the time,
about the age of your own son.
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The monster had escaped
and was ravaging the countryside...
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killing, maiming, terrorising.
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One night, he burst into our house.
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My father took a gun and fired at him...
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but the savage brute
sent him crashing to a corner.
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Then he grabbed me by the arm.
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[Thud]
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[Tense instrumental music]
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One doesn't easily forget, Herr Baron,
an arm torn out by the roots.
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No, I...
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My lifelong ambition
was to have been a soldier.
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But for this...
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I, who command seven gendarmes
in a little mountain village...
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might have been a general.
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I wish I could do something to...
:18:15
- Won't you change your mind for brandy?
- Thank you, Baron.
:18:20
I apologise if I've aroused your sympathy...
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but I have found
that by explaining my affliction...
:18:26
it ceases to be quite such a curiosity.
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You said there have been other murders
committed since the destruction of the...
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- Of my father's work.
- Yes.
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- How do you account for it?
- Well, I can't.
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Neither can the special agents imported
for the purpose from Scotland Yard...
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and the Sureté Francaise.
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There have been six, all unsolved...
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and all men of some prominence
in the village.
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In each case, the autopsy disclosed that
death was caused by a violent concussion.
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There were no marks on the bodies...
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except a slight discoloration or bruise
at the base of the brain.