:16:01
When you, uh, revealed your intentions, sir,
:16:05
what was Mr. Tindle's reaction ?
:16:07
Electrifying ! He swallowed my
story hook, line and sinker.
:16:10
He fell to his knees, pleaded for his life.
:16:13
but I was implacable. I put the gun
against his head and shot him...
:16:18
with a blank cartridge.
:16:25
You shot Mr. Tindle...
with a blank cartridge, sir ?
:16:28
Fainted dead away.
:16:30
My game was over.
It was the most gratifying win.
:16:34
You actually... put a gun to his head...
:16:38
and pulled the trigger... as a game ?
:16:43
Call it his initiation test, if you like.
:16:46
He came here aping the gentry,
hoping for acceptance.
:16:49
But he had to be taught.
You don't join just like that.
:16:54
There's such a thing as breeding !
:16:56
The quality that breeding brings...
cannot be acquired.
:17:00
Of course, he failed his test abysmally.
:17:03
He may well have done, sir,
:17:05
but he also must have been
put in fear of his life.
:17:10
Such irresponsible action...
:17:12
warrants a serious charge of assault.
:17:15
I suppose that's marginally better
than the charge of murder...
:17:18
you were contemplating a few minutes ago.
:17:20
- I still am contemplating it.
- oh, come on, Inspector.
:17:22
I told you what happened. After a
few minutes he came to his senses,
:17:25
realized shrewdly that
he wasn't dead after all,
:17:28
and after only a few too many
brandies lurched off home.
:17:32
I'm sorry you appear to find this
all quite so funny, Mr. Wyke.
:17:36
We may not take quite the same attitude.
:17:40
Now, look here !
:17:42
Why can't you see this
from my point of view ?
:17:45
In a sense, Tindle was a burglar.
He was stealing my wife, wasn't he ?
:17:48
Which justified your torturing
and then murdering him, sir ?
:17:51
Of course not. Don't you see ?
It was a game.
:17:54
Just a bloody game !
- Bloody indeed, sir.
:17:56
I achieved what I set out to do,
and that was all.
:17:59
- You may well have achieved murder, sir.
- No !