:12:00
it was the situation I refused
to accept, Inspector.
:12:07
Playing the game is very important to you,
is it, sir ?
:12:10
Playing the game and games-playing.
:12:13
Yes, Inspector.
- I'm not quite sure I see the difference, sir.
:12:16
Oh, it's perfectly simple, Inspector.
:12:18
Playing the game is what
every gentleman does,
:12:21
but playing of particular games
is my special passion.
:12:24
In a way, my whole life.
:12:34
That sounds a bit sad to me, sir.
Like a child not growing up.
:12:37
What's so sad about a child
playing, Inspector ?
:12:41
Oh, nothing, sir, if you're a child.
:12:44
Let me tell you, Inspector,
:12:47
I have played games of such complexity...
:12:49
that Jung and Einstein would have been proud
to have been asked to participate in them.
:12:53
I have achieved flights of the mind
and flights of the psyche...
:12:57
unknown in ordinary human relationships,
:13:00
and I've had a very great deal...
:13:02
of not-altogether-innocent fun.
:13:10
Is there nothing you would
not consider a game, sir ?
:13:13
Duty ? Work ? Even marriage ?
:13:16
Oh, please, Inspector !
Don't include marriage.
:13:18
Sex-- sex is the game, marriage the penalty.
:13:24
Round and round we jog towards
each futile anniversary,
:13:27
pass "go,"
:13:29
collect 200 rows, 200 silences,
:13:33
200 scars in the deep places.
:13:35
Are you saying, sir, that because
of your indifference to your wife,
:13:39
you had no motive for murdering Mr. Tindle ?
:13:42
I'm simply saying, Inspector,
that in common with most men,
:13:45
I want to have my cookie and ignore it.
:13:47
It was rather witty, I thought.
:13:50
And what have we here, sir ?
:13:53
That's just an old dressing-up basket,
that's all.
:13:57
A traditional place...
:13:59
of concealment, I'm sure you'll agree.