Terror Page #2

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good to be true.

Where's my nearest branch?

Thanks, come on, Betty,

let's go down to Oxford

Fabrics and see

these incredible bargains

for ourselves.

They get worse.

Ann?

Ann?

- This morning, actress

Carol Tucker,

best known perhaps for

her parts in TV's

long-running series The Villagers,

was due to begin work on a

new film comedy

called Take It or Leave It.

But now her part is being recast

because last night Miss Tucker was

found stabbed to death

in the grounds of a

house belonging to

her film producer friend,

James Garrick,

who also owns the north

London film studio

you can see behind me.

- And cut.

- Okay?

- Not in the bath, love.

How can we do it if

you're in the bath?

- Well, you didn't tell me.

- I just told you!

I said do the back scrubbing bit,

and then get in the bath.

Oh, let's just do it, Les, can we,

hanging round here all

f***ing morning.

- And whose fault's that?

We could've had it done by now

if we didn't have to

keep heating up

the bloody bathwater!

Well, I'm not catching pneumonia

for the money you pay, me darlin'.

- Oh, f***ing A, yeah.

- Are they

still out there?

- Depends who you mean.

ITN are wrapping up, the BBC

have just arrived.

- Right, get those

wankers out of there.

- Why?

- Do you know what they're

doing in there?

- Yeah, Bath Time with Brenda or

something like that.

- Right, and what you

think the police

are gonna make of that

when they arrive?

How do you think

they're gonna react

to Bath Time with Brenda?

- You just can't chuck 'em out.

- Oh, really?

- All right, that's

about two hour more

than we need of that.

Now can we have some action?

Give him a thrill, girl.

- Without the giggling.

Thanks very much.

Okay, Curtis, can we have a

bit of reaction?

Give us your number

two expression.

~ Oh!

- Oh, Jesus, man try it over, you

look as if in pain!

- I am in pain!

- That's it.

That's it.

- You're gonna have to

wrap it up here.

- That's it, oh, yeah.

- Yeah, what the--

- I'm sorry.

- What game you playin' at?

- We've got a bit of a problem.

Philip made a mistake

with the bookings,

and I'm afraid you're gonna

have to clear out.

- Clear out, I'm booked in

here till lunchtime.

- Yes, well, I'll give you a free

day, any day you want.

- Well, what's the good of that to

me, I want this now.

- Come now, Valentino,

we're not shooting.

- What?

- Eh?

I canceled a bloody nut bar

commercial for this.

Bleeding cheek, I'm booked up

all bleeding week!

I'm fed up with this.

I'm a busy working actress.

- You're fed up, love,

what about me?

I got money in this, ain't I?

Booked the bleeding

studio all day.

Then they come along and

tell us it's not on.

- Wait, so you can

have a free day,

don't matter so much for you,

does it?

- Listen there, I'm

booked up already.

You're booked up, I'm booked up.

- Yep?

- I didn't leave my

knickers in here, did I?

Ah.

- I want no more calls today,

okay?

- What about your

appointment with Tiffany?

- Yes, well, you can cancel that

as well, can't you?

I've got some serious

thinking to do.

- Vis-a-vis?

- Vis-a-vis that sooner or later

we're gonna have to

tell the whole story,

not that cooked up version we told

the police last night.

- I thought you told everything.

- Really?

What about that little incident

with Ann and the sword?

- Why on Earth should they be

interested in that?

- Doesn't it interest you?

First that happens,

then we find Carol's body.

- Jesus, do you know what

you're saying?

- I'm gonna have to talk to her.

- James, what's the

matter with you?

Why on Earth should she

want to kill Carol?

- Well, why on Earth should

she want to kill me?

No reason at all.

Unless there really is--

- Oh, Christ, you're not gonna

start that again.

- Check the records, Philip,

like I did.

You'll find that nearly everyone

who became involved

in that house died violently.

- What about your dear old dad?

I thought he died

peacefully in bed.

- Peacefully?

You didn't see his face.

His eyes.

Wide open and staring.

- It was heart failure, James.

Heart failure, nothing else.

- All right.

What made it fail?

Something he saw.

Something that

frightened him to death.

- Gol, look at my bloody skin.

Not casting any smallpox victims

for this show, are they?

- Come on, Viv, it's 20

minutes past five.

- It's all right, we

can get a cab.

- I can't afford any

more bloody cabs!

God Almighty, you'd think we're

auditioning for MGM.

Ann, are you coming?

- Where?

- To the audition.

- It's not important, is it?

- Only work, love.

- Look, are you coming, it's

- All right, all right.

- Bye, Ann, see you at

the club tonight.

- See you, Sue. - Bye-bye.

- Good luck. - Good luck, Sue.

- Ta, look, Viv, I'm

not getting a cab.

- You're a bloomin' miser.

- You wanna pay?

' No.

- Aren't you going?

- No.

- Why, you haven't been to an

auditions since you arrived.

- Just can't face them anymore.

- But anything's better than

working in that godawful club.

- At least I don't have to

think when I'm there.

- I got my car back from

the garage today,

so I'm going to see my parents.

Can't put it off any longer.

I can give you a lift to the club,

if you want.

- Thanks.

I may not go in tonight.

My head's splitting.

- You're still thinking

about that girl

who was killed, aren't you?

- It's more than that.

I can't explain it now.

- Is there something you haven't

told me about that murder?

- I don't know anything,

I wasn't there.

- I know, but...

But the night it happened,

you came back here late,

do you remember?

And you were in the bathroom.

You were washing something

off your hands.

It looked like blood.

- I cut my hand.

You don't think--

- Oh, no.

I just had to ask.

I'm sorry, really, I am.

I feel very stupid now.

Oh, look, I have to go

or I'll be late.

" Suzy?

You haven't told anyone else

about this, have you?

- Of course not.

Look, just forget I mentioned it.

See you later, okay?

- Suzy, my dear.

- I'm just going out, Dolores.

- About your producer friend,

darling,

when is he going to

come and see me?

- Well, actually, I

haven't had the time.

- I'm so glad I've run into you,

dean

because I've just been on the

phone with Cecil.

And it's almost

certain he wants me

to do a tour at the end

of the month.

- Oh that's wonderful, Dolores,

I'm sure you'll be terrific.

- Oh, but I haven't agreed to

anything with anyone yet,

you see, because there's

also Lawrence.

He wants me to do his next film.

In fact, he's even talking

about my going back

to Hollywood, so I wouldn't

want to disappoint

your friend, you see.

- Look, Dolores,

I have to go.

- You do understand, don't you,

darling?

One has to be nice to

so many people.

- Hello?

Anybody in?

Anyone in?

Hello?

Hello, is that Roman's Garage?

- Hello?

- Hello, I can hardly hear you.

What do you want?

- My car's broken down.

Can you send somebody, please?

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