Green for Danger Page #7

if we found out anything...

to go to him and not trust anyone.

He happens to be quite right.

- What's the matter with him?

- Doesn't your intuition stretch that far?

Well, it was only a thought I had.

When I wake up I expect it'll seem

too silly for words.

- Going to brush my teeth.

- I'll go and get your hot-water bottle.

Are you quite happy

about the way you're behaving?

Self-criticism has never been

one of my failings.

I hope you're not confusing Freddi

with the kind of woman...

who used to dither in and out of your consulting

room in a flutter of checks and eyelashes.

Ah. Those were the good old days.

I miss the checks.

[Footsteps Approaching]

She's a bit romantic

and not very experienced.

And like the rest of us, she's been under

a nervous strain for a long time.

- Well.

- I'd hate to see her giving up...

someone permanent like Barney and falling

for your practiced and rather hollow charm.

- You're much too kind.

- I'm serious.

- Supposing I were too?

- What?

Serious. I might be.

Oh, I think we better

keep this conversation practical.

- Have it your own way.

- Think it over.

My dear Nurse Woods...

who am I to make the course

of true love run any smoother?

All right. Only I warn you.

Barney won't bottle it up much longer.

Any moment now he'll grab the nearest

grandfather clock and break it over your head...

whereupon I for one will give

three rousing cheers...

sir.

Anything the matter?

- It appears I'm a menace.

- To whom?

- Unprotected females.

- Have you only just discovered that?

- Strictly speaking, no.

- Then why complain?

I'm not complaining.

- Ready, Woody?

- Here I come.

- Where have you been?

- Getting my cap.

- Come on. We ought to be there.

- Coming, sir?

In a minute. I think I ought to give

Barney a run for his money.

You have been warned.

- Bye-bye, Freddi. See you tonight.

- Bye-bye.

Get me Inspector Cockrill, will you?

What?

Well, see if you can find him,

and ring me back.

Everything's ready now, Sister.

Just going back to the coach house for

a few minutes to clear up. All right?

- Very well, Nurse. Only get back before 9:30.

- Yes, Sister.

[Gas Hissing]

[Ringing]

Dr. Barnes here.

Oh, thank you.

Is that Inspector Cockrill?

No, Doctor. It's Hendricks.

The inspector's busy at the moment.

Can I give him a message?

I wanted to talk to him.

Well, it's about Nurse Linley.

Yes. I think it might be important.

Tell him he can find me here

in casualty reception.

Thank you.

Dr. Barnes was asking for you, sir.

- What does he want?

- Said it was something about Nurse Linley.

- He's in casualty reception.

- Right. Let's go along.

[Hissing Continues]

Freddi!

Freddi?

[Glass Shattering]

Help!

Bring her down quick, Hendricks.

- Get Dr. White at once.

- Freddi.

You're not to touch her, Dr. Barnes.

Get Dr. White at once.

[Footsteps Approaching]

- How's Freddi?

- Still unconscious.

- Can I see her?

- No.

- But why not?

- Because I say so.

Well, the murderer has achieved

his first object.

- He or she has silenced Nurse Linley.

- Wha...

- At least for the time being.

- Could it possibly have been an accident?

The only accident was

that she survived.

Thanks to Nurse Sanson.

- However, it has simplified the problem.

- How?

The suspects are now reduced to four.

One, two, three, four. Fewer suspects and

less work for me. My ideal is a 40-hour week.

For heaven's sake.

If you'd only come when I asked for you...

Perhaps if you'd sent for me sooner.

- Left it a bit late, didn't you?

- How was I to know that?

Unless you yourself were the guilty party.

A just point, Dr. Barnes.

You all knew that

the gas had failed. Correct?

You all knew that

she'd gone upstairs to sleep.

You went up there alone

with a hot-water bottle.

You pointed out yourself

that Esther saved her life.

I exclude none of you

from this, Mr. Eden.

And you also slipped up there alone...

without a hot-water bottle.

Mr. Eden remained behind

when everyone else had gone...

and Dr. Barnes was within

easy distance across the yard.

Each one of you could have slipped

up to her room and turned on that tap.

You all knew Nurse Woods's habit of going back

at 9:
15 to boil a kettle for washing up.

And of course, none knew that better

than Nurse Woods herself.

- You told me you'd never met Higgins.

- I hadn't.

Does Horton's Farm, a couple of miles

from Heron's Park mean anything to you?

- What?

- You lived there once, didn't you?

- Up to 15 years ago.

- Yes.

- As a matter of fact, I did.

- Why, Woody...

- Wait.

- With your mother and your sister.

Yes. Is there anything wrong in that?

- No, no. You're a theatre nurse, aren't you?

- Of course.

- With access to anesthetics and theatre gowns?

- I suppose so.

- Sister Bates was stabbed through

a theatre gown. - Yes.

Linley said she knew something about that

same gown... just before her life was attempted.

- [Woods] Well?

- And Higgins recognized your voice.

- He couldn't have done.

- He thought he did.

Do you know the last thing Higgins heard

as he lay in the debris of that rescue post?

- How should I know?

- Hendricks.

Listen,

and you'll hear what Higgins heard.

- What on earth?

- [Cockrill] Listen.

[Woods's Voice] Meanwhile, our attacks have

continued without a pause since June the 15th...

and have laid much of

the British capital in ruins.

As the desperate Churchill lies

frantically to save his face...

London and the home counties are reeling

under the incessant fire of our terrible V-1.

This is Germany calling.

This is Germany calling.

[Cockrill] A BBC monitor recording of a broadcast

from Hamburg on the evening of the 17th.

- Woody.

- [Cockrill] Scarcely that. Her sister.

[Barnes] What?

[Cockrill] Her twin sister,

if my information is correct.

- Am I right?

- [Phonograph:
Man Speaking German]

[Clicks Off]

Yes. You're right.

[Cockrill]

You were very fond of your sister, weren't you?

Yes. And ashamed for her.

I tried to hide it.

I... I said she died in France in 1940.

- I'd have done anything.

- Including murder?

Murder? Well...

I had the motive, didn't I?

Higgins might have

put two and two together.

And I had the opportunity each time.

And I did go to Freddi's room alone,

and I did put the shilling in the meter.

Well? Why don't you all say

what you're thinking?

Why don't you tell them?

Why don't you tell them I did it?

Now, who on earth said you did?

Or didn't.

- Leave her.

- [Woods Sobbing]

The inspector has a charming aptitude

for traveling in ever decreasing circles...

which I fear can only have one end.

Someday, Mr. Eden,

I must try my hand at removing an appendix.

I fancy the progress will be slow...

until I discover what Nurse Linley

was going to say about that gown.

[Barnes]

She'll tell you that when she comes round.

Dr. Barnes, she may never come round.

- What do you mean?

- Her skull was fractured in her fall.

- [Eden] What?

- Come back.

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