The Day of the Jackal Page #5

silence must be maintained...

...until we're sure the man's in this country.

Thank you. Good night.

- Good night.

Commissioner Lebel's office.

Yes.

Thank you.

Good-bye.

No one called Calthrop has crossed

any border point legally...

...since the start of the year.

And no hotel has taken in

a guest under that name.

Maybe he's given up and gone into hiding.

If the British found

Calthrop's passport in his flat...

...it's because he no longer needed it.

Don't count on that man

making too many errors.

He's not the type.

I'm beginning to get

a feeling about the Jackal.

He may be abroad,

travelling on a false passport.

What you're going to do now is

go down to the passport office.

Get every passport application

for the last three months.

But, sir--

- I don't care who's closed.

Wake the buggers up.

Then take all those papers

down to Somerset House...

...get started on checking

the applicants' names...

...against death certificates,

not birth certificates.

If you find an application filed

by someone who died as a child...

...the one who filed it might be our man.

If you don't find anything

in the first three months...

...go back another three and another three.

Off you go.

Yes?

How's it going, Hughes?

How many applications?

You'll be there a week.

How about I send you some more staff?

Bloody holiday season.

About 4,000 more to go,

Mr. Thomas.

But if we work through lunch,

we should be finished tonight.

Superintendent Thomas,

Special Branch.

Hughes here, sir.

Paul Oliver Duggan.

Born April 3, 1 929,

in Sambourne Fishley.

Applied for passport July 1 4 of this year.

Passport mailed July 1 7

to an address in Paddington.

That will probably turn out

to be an accommodation address.

Why?

Duggan died at the age of two

and a half on November 8, 1 931.

Passport, please.

One moment.

Mr. Duggan?

- Yes?

Mr. Duggan?

- Yes?

What's the purpose of your visit to France?

Tourism.

You buy this in Italy?

- No, it's hired.

I shall be returning it

to Genova in about a week.

Papers, please.

Got any luggage?

In the boot.

- Bring it inside.

Thank you.

Once we've found his new name...

Lebel shouldn't have

any trouble catching him.

It's not that simple.

Over two million foreigners

are in Paris at this time of year.

I'm very sorry, Minister.

Commissioner Lebel

requested this meeting...

...because he has new information

on the British suspect.

Commissioner.

Calthrop is travelling on a false passport...

...in the name of Paul Oliver Duggan.

The passport number is 29491.

The photo will reach us in a few hours.

What do we do now?

The Duggan passport

was issued on July 30.

No need to go further back than that.

Special Branch in Britain

is trying to trace him...

...through the passenger lists

of all airlines and ferries.

If they pick him up in Britain,

they'll detain him.

If we locate him inside France,

we arrest him.

If he's found in a third country,

Action Service will deal with him.

Commissioner--

- In the meantime...

I'll be grateful if you would do this my way.

Good morning, sir.

Paris, please. Molitor 5901.

Carrier number one, please.

The Jackal is blown.

Wolenski talked before dying.

Repeat:
The Jackal is blown.

Room 1 4.

Thank you, Mr. Duggan.

I'll have coffee in the lounge.

Do you mind my sitting here?

Thank you.

Boring, aren't they?

The magazines.

I find them fascinating.

- What?

Articles on pig breeding

and combine harvesters?

I'm enthralled by combine harvesters.

In fact, I yearn to have one, as a pet.

Yes.

When did you say?

This afternoon.

Repeat that again.

A white Alfa Romeo sports two-seater...

...license number GE 1 7 41.

Duggan crossed the border

at Ventimiglia four hours ago.

Call London and tell them

we'll handle it from now on.

Where is he?

- How should I know?

This damn secrecy. We'll have

to wait for the hotel cards.

It's madness. There's nothing

we can do about it.

No, of course I don't live in the Alps.

I went there for a visit,

that's all.

Climbing?

Good Lord, no.

I spent the day at the cadet

academy in Barcelonnette...

...amongst a lot of

jaundiced military types...

...watching my son receive his commission.

He's nineteen.

I never know when you're being serious.

It's true, unfortunately.

- Why 'unfortunately'?

I see nothing unfortunate--

I'm not begging for compliments,

Mr. Duggan.

Will you have a liqueur?

- No, I must go to bed.

I have to leave very early

tomorrow morning.

Are you sure?

- Positive.

Good night, Mr. Duggan.

I've got to leave in a couple of hours.

I've a long way to go.

You've got to go back to your room.

Your husband meeting you?

No, he isn't there.

Good morning.

Excuse me, madam.

Only three new guests last night.

All right.

Put them in the rack for Nice.

Cards ready yet?

Hello? Nice?

Yes. Repeat, please.

Stay by the phone until

I call back. Don't do a thing.

I don't want him disturbed yet,

but isolate the place.

Let no one in or out

and stop all phone calls.

He's been staying in this hotel

near Grasse since last night.

He's registered for two days.

- Shall I put out an alert?

Not yet. He'll kill anybody

who tries to intercept him.

We'd better get there right away.

You have an Englishman

named Duggan staying here.

Where is he?

- Mr. Duggan's gone, sir.

He left this morning,

just after 1 1:
00.

Assemble the staff and guests.

Don't let anyone get away.

Get the manager.

That's strange.

He was booked for two days...

...then just after 1 1:00,

he asks for his bill and leaves.

He's got five hours start.

Put out an alert for the car.

But Madame de Montpellier's bed

was slept in by two people?

Yes, sir. Definitely.

You can always tell.

And you saw them in the lounge together?

That is correct, sir.

I served them coffee and liqueur.

They seemed very engrossed.

In what?

- In each other, sir.

What did Mr. Duggan's luggage

consist of when he left?

Two bags.

- Nothing else?

No parcels or packages of any kind?

Just the two bags.

I carried them to his car.

That will be all.

You photographed everything?

- Yes.

Go over his room for fingerprints.

Send the stuff to Paris.

I'll have a talk with the lady.

There's more news. They have

a description of your car.

Keep out of sight for a few days.

How's the lady?

- Very disturbed by all this.

You told her nothing?

I know nothing at all

about Mr. Duggan's whereabouts.

We only met in the lounge of that hotel.

He joined me for coffee.

- What did he want?

What did you talk about?

Social chitchat. I imagine

he was trying to impress me.

Why do you think that?

Commissioner, please,

we're not children.

No, madam.

When you both met later,

was it only in your bedroom?

' Later'?

- Afterwards. After the coffee.

Madam, be in no doubt as to

the seriousness of your position.

We met in my bedroom.

That's all.

I'd never seen this man until yesterday.

He doesn't even know my real name.

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