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Yes.

Yes there is. When my

mummy and daddy go on the stage,

it's just beautiful.

All the colored lights go on,

and the music is playing.

It's the most wonderful thing.

- Hi Zelda.

- Hi dear.

Hey, how do you like

the new spaghetti joint?

Why don't you stick to your characting,

kid. You're out of your class.

- Come on, move along!

- What's the matter with you, big mouth.

I didn't say anything.

There's a big difference

between staring and watching?

- Hell, how was I in love with her?

- That's what you were thinking...

Mummy, daddy, stop, stop, stop...

Mummy, daddy, stop it.

Stop it, mummy, daddy, stop it...

Relax Jerry, please.

You're alright. You're with friends.

What's your opinion, doctor?

It seems a rather standard case. Lonely

child, product of a unhappy home life,

grows up with a strong

resistance to marriage.

Precisely.

And being a ventriloquist,

he uniquely expresses his

resistance through the dummy.

He needs concentrated therapy.

I suggest we both leave

for London immediately.

Good. But remember, he must have

absolutely no contact with the dummy.

Doctor, there's just one thing.

The young man has already indicated

some sort of an attraction to me.

Do you think this would

endanger the treatment?

Well, I think that's a risk

we'll just have to take.

Jerry... Jerry,

you can wake up now.

- Beautiful blue eyes, lovely hair...

- You can wake up now.

We are going to London.

We are?

That's nice.

This is very nice of you, Mr Langston.

To go out of your way

and give us a lift like this.

That is not out of my way at all.

As I explained to you, I had

an emergency call from London.

So I had to charter

this plane anyway.

- Well, I still think it's pretty nice.

- It's my pleasure.

And I hope when you get to London, you'll

come down to Langsmeyer, and visit me.

Oh, I'd like to.

I have many friends

who'd enjoy your company.

Perhaps you let me give

you cards to all my clubs.

Cards to your clubs?

Oh, that's very generous. How

am I ever gonna repay you for this?

Don't mention it, my dear boy.

This sort of thing

carries its own reward.

Now, if you, two young

people will excuse me,

I think I'll go and

get a bit of a nap.

- Perhaps you'd like a tea or sandwiches?

- No, thanks. Maybe a little later on.

Isn't he a wonderful man?

He's so kind and fatherly.

It's terribly

important to you, isn't it?

Yeah.

I wonder why?

Could it be that Godfrey Langston

seems strong, dependable,

everything that little Jerry Morgan

longed for and never had in the father?

Do you know, doctor,

you're awfully smart?

This dependence of feelings could

be one of your basic problems.

Doctor, what are

doing for dinner tonight?

Mr Morgan, let me caution you,

from the outset that our relationship

must be completely and

strictly impersonal. Is that clear?

Oh, yes, yes.

And, there is another thing

we'd have to guard against.

You see, in almost every

therapy the patient becomes

emotionally involved

with his analyst.

It can take various forms, of course.

But, as I am a woman and you

are a man, it's quite possible,

that during the course of our work

you will even get the notion

that you're in love with me.

You know, it's amazing

how fast this stuff works.

And so the case of

Lafayette X.V.27 moves to England.

where, that night, at

Langsmeyer, his country estate,

Godfrey Langston, confident that

he possesses the complete plans,

starts negotiations for their

sale, to a man in Istanbul.

A man known only as Brutchik.

Tell Brutchik we have plans.

He's flying here at once.

He'll wire the time of arrival.

Excellent.

Meanwhile, at the Royalton, a

nondescript hotel in the Soho district,

Gromek, confident that he

too has the complete plans,

has contacted

Maurice Papinek in Paris.

Papinek, delayed by police

surveillance assures Gromek

that will arrive in

London within 24 hours.

Later that evening, at

the Kensington Park Hotel,

Marty wasted no time, setting up

a conference with the British press.

" American ventriloquist

arrives from Paris. ".

Two dummies.

Lucky we picked the right one.

Thank you.

"Always yours, darling: Richard"

- Good morning, Mr Morgan.

- Good morning.

I brought you a few little posies.

Oh, thank you. But I make it a practice

not to accept gifts from my patients.

If you don't mind, I'll give it to the

children at the clinic in which I work.

No, I don't mind at all.

- If you'll just sit down and relax.

- Over there?

- Yes, please, if you don't mind.

- No, I like sitting here, I think.

Very briefly, our technique is this.

I want you to say anything

that comes into your mind,

and I'll take notes of

the pertinent facts.

- So shall we start?

- Yeah.

- Anything that comes into my mind?

- Yes, please.

- Who is Richard?

- Pardon?

- Who's the fella in the picture?

- Oh, just a friend of mine.

- American, isn't he?

- He was.

What do you mean "was"?

Is he dead?

Mr Morgan, I cautioned

you yesterday, didn't I?

Oh yeah, I forgot, I'm sorry.

I apologise.

Very well.

Let's proceed.

I was born in Philadelphia,

right in the middle of a matinee.

Then my family moved on to...

Were you in love with him?

If that picture distracts

you, I'll remove it.

No, no, no.

It doesn't distract me.

I mean... I don't know even know the man.

Why should it... it doesn't distract me.

Probably somebody was just

in love with it or something...

Were you in love with him?

Quite obviously we can't proceed

until your curiosity is satisfied.

His name was Richard Thompson.

He was a pilot in the American air force.

I was a nurse. We met. We fell in love.

During the invasion, he was killed.

- That's a shame.

- I always wanted to become a doctor.

I became a doctor and then an analyst.

And that's all.

Now, may we proceed,

please, Mr Morgan?

Yeah. After we left Philadelphia

we went... That's all?

That's all you've done?

Just been a doctor and nothing else?

- I beg your pardon?

- I mean, haven't you any social life

of romance, or dates or gone out

with men or people or anything?

- Really, Mr Morgan!

- Oh doctor, you're in a lot of trouble.

We gonna have to do

something about it.

I'm afraid we made

a dreadful mistake.

Now, wait a minute!

I'll see that you get a

competent male analyst.

I don't want a competent male

analyst, I am very happy with you.

But you're stubborn

and refuse to cooperate!

That's not true. You told me to say

anything that came into my mind.

- Yes.

- Alright, I mentioned Richard.

What if I did?

Suppose I had a horse

once named Richard,

and he kicked me in

the head or something.

That's quite possible.

You know what I think?

I think that if can't

mention Richard,

it doesn't necessarily mean that

there's something wrong with me,

it might mean there's

something wrong with you.

And you ought to do

something about it right away.

- I'll call Dr Manfred.

- I don't want Dr Manfred, I want you.

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