Endless Night Page #8

'I warned Ellie about

you more than once ...'

'but she would never listen.'

'Lippincott'.

He knows!

He knows!

He suspected from the beginning,

now he's dug and dug ...

and found the proof!

Christ Almighty, what

are we gonna do?!

Well don't just stand there,

what are we gonna do?

We're finished, don't

you understand ...

we're finished, he knows!

That we don't get the house.

we don't get anything ...

It's all been for NOTHING!

Mike, stop panicking!

What does he know?

Only that we met before.

What can he prove

about Ellie now?

I saw her tonight.

What do you mean?

She was standing

there smiling, but ...

she couldn't see me.

What's the matter with you?

You imagined it!

But why couldn't she me,

I was there, wasn't I?

Mike ... there is no

time to lose!

He warned her about me but ...

she would never listen.

Why wouldn't she?

Get back to Philpott now ...

act it out ... and there is

nothing they can do to us.

'Cos she loved me, that's why.

Perhaps I loved her too.

I could have been

happy ... couldn't I?

Really, married to Ellie?

Go, now ...

Supposing Ellie took

that capsule knowing ...

Just because she thought

that was what I wanted.

You're mad!

I must have been, mustn't I?

Listen ...

Go back ... go to bed ...

take a pill ... sleep it off.

I don't care, but ...

for God's sake, wake up with

a clear head in the morning!

Shut up, you silly cow!

You planned it ... you've

lost me Gypsy's Acre ...

you've lost me this house ...

and worst of all you lost me ...

Ellie!

No, Mike! No, Mike!

You think you're

stronger than I am ...

you're wrong ...

you've always been wrong!

I was so happy that

last day with Ellie ...

now that couldn't

be right could it?!

Oh, Mike ... no ...

# Every morn and every night ...

# Some are born to sweet delight ...

# Some are born to sweet delight ...

# Some are born to endless night.

Why, thou silly gentleman!

If thou wilt needs damn thyself ...

do it a more delicate way ...

than drowning.

Michael ...

Yes?

Do you know who I am?

'Course ... you're old Philpott.

About Ellie ...

it was in her allergy

capsule, wasn't it?

Cyanide I expect,

in the capsule?

Yes.

We split the two halves

of the capsule ...

put some of the stuff

for the wasps in ...

stuck them together again.

You remember the wasps?

- Rather clever, wasn't it?

- Very.

Because after two hours

there'd be nothing ...

nothing to smell,

nothing to find.

That's why I guessed.

Yes. Greta looked

all that up.

That was a smashing

quarrel we had ...

didn't I do it well?

Yes, very well!

Michael ... about

Miss Townsend ...

There was no

'Miss Townsend'.

Everybody knows that.

Of course, Mike,

of course, but ...

you know who I mean.

You paid her to do some

of those things, didn't you?

After that ... she

knew too much.

What could you do?

There's no such person!

Mickey ...

I tried, Mickey.

But I was afraid all those years.

Eversince I came across

Joe's watch in your drawer.

Mustn't blame yourself, Mum ...

Might've been different

if my Dad had lived.

Your Dad?!

Your Dad was nothing!

Nothing!!

Go on, Michael.

I don't seem to be able

to remember any more.

Can I go home now, please?

Doctor Philpott, I don't

like it here anymore.

Can I go back to

Gypsy's Acre now?

Doctor Philpott, can I

go home now, please?

Well, Michael, my boy,

it was fine that time ...

as far as it goes.

But I ... suppose you realise ...

that you never tell the

same story twice, don't you?

Sometimes you tell it ...

as it seems to you ...

and sometimes you tell it ...

as you would ... like it

to seem to us.

Not, quite the same thing, is it?

Look ...

now why don't we go

right back to the beginning ...

and start all over again?

And this time ...

see if you can tell us what

you did to Miss Townsend.

I think I ought to mention that...

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