1:40:00
Mr. Ashdown, l presume?
1:40:04
The red runner, l presume.
1:40:06
You shouldn't have gone
to all this trouble just for me.
1:40:09
lt's not for you. McKennah?
1:40:11
May l have
the champagne, please?
1:40:13
1886.
1:40:15
Not a very good vintage,
is it?
1:40:17
Mediocre, but then again,
it's not for drinking.
1:40:19
Tie it up, will you?
1:40:21
ln here.
1:40:29
lnteresting...and educational.
1:40:32
Despite my most
emphatic warning...
1:40:33
you persisted in meddling.
1:40:35
lt would have served you right
if you had all drowned.
1:40:37
Sorry to be so unobliging.
1:40:40
''E. Valladon.''
1:40:42
Hmm...
1:40:43
l imagine that this belongs
to the pretty lady...
1:40:46
and this belongs
to your...valet.
1:40:48
We found them floating
in the lake.
1:40:50
Speaking about things
floating in the lake--
1:40:52
how much do you know?
Or...think you know?
1:40:55
l think you're testing
some sort of underwater craft...
1:40:58
camouflaged
to mislead the gullible.
1:41:00
l think it's
an experimental model...
1:41:02
operated by a crew of midgets.
1:41:04
l think it is powered by
sulfuric acid batteries...
1:41:06
and uses canaries
to detect escaping gas.
1:41:10
Altogether, a unique
contraption.
1:41:13
Not quite that unique.
1:41:15
Right now, four countries
are trying to develop...
1:41:17
what we call a submersible...
1:41:19
but none of them could
solve the critical problem--
1:41:22
how to stay submerged long
enough to make it effective.
1:41:25
What does the good book say?
1:41:28
''And Jonah lived in
the belly of that fish...
1:41:30
''for three days
and three nights.''
1:41:33
That was our goal...
1:41:34
and thanks to
Valladon's air pump...
1:41:36
we got a jump
on the rest of them.
1:41:38
lt's a highly complex
system of filtration...
1:41:39
so we had a series of trials--
1:41:41
And at least one error.
1:41:43
During a test run
in the Moray Firth...
1:41:44
pressure caused
a leak in the hull...
1:41:46
sea water mixed with
the acid in the batteries...
1:41:48
to produce chlorine gas.
1:41:50
Before they could reach
the surface...
1:41:51
Valladon and two of
the crew were dead.
1:41:52
So you had them buried
in unmarked graves...
1:41:54
to preserve your secret.
1:41:56
lt was essential...
1:41:57
to keep the information
from your client!
1:41:59
You went to all those lengths...