Shanghai Express Page #4

The Chinese government

would have had my head long ago

if it hadn't been such a good head.

You can't mean what you are saying.

You only wish to frighten me.

Please don't torture me.

I know it was wrong for him to interfere.

Send someone you can trust with me

to Shanghai. I'll pay you to let him go now.

What could you pay me with?

I have some jewels,

worth 40 or 50 thousand,

and I guess I can obtain that much more.

That's not enough.

I'll get more. I'll earn more, somehow.

It'll be enough. Please let him go.

All the money in the worid

can't wipe out his insult to me.

You only had my interest before.

Now you have my admiration.

I could love a woman like you.

You made me an offer to leave with you.

Does it still hold good?

I wouldn't trust you from here to the door.

What assurance have I you won't trick me?

I give you my word of honour.

A man is a fool to trust any woman.

But I believe a word of honour

would mean something to you.

Captain Harvey,

it seems that they are waiting for you.

I hope the journey won't be too lonely.

And that the Governor General of Shanghai

will be benefited by your skill.

Thank you, Mr Chang.

I hope some day to have the pleasure

of demonstrating my skill upon you.

Captain Harvey, I'm Albright,

Division Superintendent.

The train is ready.

We'll have steam up in five minutes.

All right. Is everybody on board?

Everybody except a Chinese girl and

a woman called Shanghai Lily hereabouts.

- Where are they?

- I don't know about the girl

but Shanghai Lily's up there.

- When did she go up?

- Just a few minutes ago.

I expect she'll be down presently.

- I guess he wants us to go in the train.

- Well, why doesn't he say so?

- Whose luggage are you unloading?

- Miss Lily's bags. Officer's orders, sir.

Officer's orders, eh?

I'm going up to find out about this.

Get the train ready to leave.

Oh dear, we'll never get out of here alive.

I don't know. It just looks like

Shanghai Lily was taking a side trip.

Why did you order the luggage

of one of our passengers off the train?

You're not referring to Shanghai Lily?

I am. Why are you detaining her?

I'm not detaining her.

She's decided to come with me

in preference to continuing the journey

with you, Captain Harvey.

That's a preposterous statement.

You're lying.

Well, I'm sorry to contradict you.

Your friend seems inclined to doubt me.

Tell him you're going with me

of your own free will

so that he can peacefully take his departure

before I become too annoyed with him.

You better go, Donald.

I decided to accept his offer.

Well, I wish you both

a very pleasant journey.

Well, that's that.

I'll only be another minute.

Wake them up a bit.

We're ready to go, sir.

Are we waiting for the two women?

Yes, I think we're ready to go.

- All aboard.

- All aboard!

All aboard!

You'd better get her out of here.

I've just killed Chang.

Have you got a gun?

If there's gonna be any shooting,

I'm gonna get under cover.

- Magdalen!

- Donald!

- Come on, our train's waiting.

- Why don't you go?

Go on, I tell you. Your friend Chang is dead.

Come on.

Get this train out of here double time.

Put that luggage on board.

- Thank you, Donald.

- I'd have done it for anybody.

Boy, how about straightening up this stable?

I didn't believe I'd ever see this train again.

Two days more.

What time is it, anyway?

I don't know. I'll find out for you, if you wish.

Where's your watch?

I probably lost it in the station,

together with a few ideals.

I don't think I'll go back for it.

After all, it's only a watch.

I can't replace your ideals

but I'll buy you another watch

when we get to Shanghai.

Don't bother. I'm rather glad I lost it.

I don't know if I ought to be grateful

to you or not.

It's of no consequence. I didn't do it for you.

Death cancel his debt to me.

There. That'll keep you for a while.

Bonsoir madame, monsieur.

- Good evening.

- Vous me permettez de me joindre vous?

I'll be glad when I get to Shanghai.

So will I.

- How's the invalid, Doctor?

- He'll be all right in a few weeks.

More than I can say for myself.

If you opened me up, you'd find my nerves

tangled up like Chinese noodles.

This journey hasn't done

any of us any good.

Except that Chinese dame.

She's 20,000 to the good for settling

the hash of the honourable Mr Chang.

I wish I'd taken a crack at him first.

How about you, Major?

Je regrette, monsieur, mais je ne

comprends pas un seul mot que vous dites.

It's a lucky thing for him that you are here.

I won't feel right till I get back

to my boarding house.

- Good evening.

- Bonsoir, monsieur.

I've never been so shocked in my life.

The Chinese girl deserves all she's getting.

But as for the other lady, well,

I'm not gonna say anything.

Of all the brazen creatures,

playing the gramophone.

She's the most terrible woman I've ever met.

I don't see how she can

look us in the eye.

Going off with the Mr Chang

after the way he treated us.

Bad enough before he held up the train

but after he tortured Mr Baum...

I think you're doing the woman an injustice.

I don't know why she behaved that way but

I'm sure there's more to this than we see.

Mr Carmichael, when I made

your acquaintance yesterday,

you volunteered an amazingly correct

diagnosis of Shanghai Lily

and I see no reason

for you to have changed it.

Look here, I happen to know

she prayed all night for your safety.

I'd give anything to believe that

but I heard from her own lips

she was leaving with Chang.

- That's rubbish.

- I wish it were.

Defending that dame. I'm liberal,

but I wouldn't back his viewpoint

for all the rice in China.

Neither would I.

I'd like to talk to you alone.

I don't wish to talk to anybody.

I'm sorry to have to insist

but I must talk to you.

If you're thinking of reforming me,

you might as well save yourself the trouble.

I am not trying to reform anybody right now.

I want to settle something

that's been puzzling me.

Why did you decide to leave

with that barbarian who was killed by her?

What makes you want to know? Curiosity?

You prayed last night.

This morning, you were

to shamelessly leave with Chang.

A human being can't do two things

like that within six hours.

Although it's nobody's affair but mine,

I might tell you

if you promise not to repeat it.

Of course I won't repeat it.

I came to find out for myself.

He was going to deprive Captain Harvey

of his eyesight.

I had no other choice.

Does Captain Harvey know that?

- Does he act as if he did?

- He certainly does not.

Despite giving you my word,

I'm going to tell him this.

You're not going to do anything of the kind.

Mr Carmichael, it may seem odd

for me to use your language

but it's purely a question of faith.

You see, once upon a time,

we loved each other.

We parted and I threw my life away

because I didn't care

to bargain for love with words.

I haven't changed since then

and neither has he.

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