The Lady Vanishes Page #6

to do to me? You can't be serious.

Well, I-I don't know.

It seemed a possibility.

Doc, how about it?

Let us have one little peek.

If it's not Miss Froy,

we'll get out of your hair.

- You want me to remove the bandages?

- No, just enough so we can have a peek.

- Just so we can see the face.

- But there is no face. Please.

That's why I'm getting off at Mullenbach.

I must operate as soon as possible.

I want the blood pressure again, please.

- Have you looked under there?

- Of course not.

The bandages can only be removed

in a hospital.

- One little tiny...

- Please.

If there is a mystery of some kind,

I want to get to the bottom of it too.

There is an empty compartment

next door. I'll join you in a moment.

- All right. But please hurry.

- Of course.

- Right next door?

- Just here.

Do you think you could refrain from

smoking until we are off this train?

- I'm sorry, I'm very nervous.

- I'm nervous too.

There's no point

in our both being nervous.

It's a foolish duplication of effort.

I think the time has come...

to use this.

Order some drinks.

I hope for both our sakes that you

and Catherine know what you're doing.

Yes, try to relax.

In fifteen minutes it will all be over.

(Amanda) Have you got a cigarette?

(Robert) You wanna smoke my pipe?

Now, tell me, really.

What is this?

A practical joke of some kind?

- You are both very young, attractive...

- Can we talk about the nun?

The one looking after your patient.

What do you know about her?

Know about her? Well, nothing.

I was told she's from a convent

close to where the accident occurred.

Don't you think it's funny

that she's wearing sexy shoes?

- She is?

- (Both) She is.

I must be getting old, I didn't notice.

(Amanda) She can't be a real nun.

It's a conspiracy, that's all it can be.

All these people say

they haven't seen Miss Froy.

We found her glasses

in the baggage car. They were broken.

I can't... This is all too fantastic.

- Would you care for a drink? I need one.

- But, Doc...

Please, remain seated.

I've got a bottle next door.

I won't be long.

Dr Hartz is the one who's an alcoholic.

For you.

I think the nun's his girlfriend

and they're trying to run off together.

- Yes, she's probably a German heiress...

- Shh!

In spite of what you've been telling me...

Cheers!

I stole a look at the nun's shoes.

They seemed perfectly all right to me.

Though I must say,

you've both added a certain excitement

to what would have been

a depressing journey.

In the beginning I assumed

it was Mrs Kelly's imagination

but now even you seem

to believe in a conspiracy?

Doctor, against the word of one

demonstrably crazy American girl,

we have a waiter who denies

serving the tea. Waiters can be bribed.

- And the Baroness.

- A Nazi if I ever saw one.

She tried to push me out the window.

- The guy working for her tried to kill me.

- You do believe us, don't you?

I'm very sorry to say so...but yes.

Yes, I do believe you.

The patient is Miss Froy.

(Amanda) How do you know?

What's going on?

In a rightly ordered world,

things like this would not be necessary

but the world is not

a rightly ordered place.

(Robert) What are you talking about?

Miss Froy will leave this train at

Mullenbach and, er...quietly disappear.

No, she won't. I'll make such an almighty

stink you'll never hear the end of it.

With respect, Mrs Kelly,

nobody believes you now.

Nobody will believe you later.

- I believe her.

- Did you actually see Miss Froy?

How can somebody

who seemed so nice...

suddenly be so awful?

I'm doing now what I must do

but with great regret, believe me.

I suggest you sit down.

Sit down!

The drinks you just had

should be taking effect in a moment.

- What?

- They contained hydracine.

That's a new drug which has the effect,

in small quantities,

of paralysing the brain

and rendering the victim unconscious

for a considerable time.

Don't move.

The trainmaster has been told that

you're trying to interfere with my patient

and that under no circumstances

are you to leave this compartment.

He would kill you

without the slightest hesitation.

I must say goodbye.

If we should meet again, I hope it'll be

under happier circumstances.

We're gonna die!

- No! We've simply been drugged.

- We're gonna die!

There's a lady next door about to be

murdered. We must do something.

- I'm sorry!

- Keep moving.

- Do exercises, touch your toes.

- You're not a swine or a dummy.

You're not even... Don't leave me!

I don't wanna die!

Listen! You are not going to die,

we've just been drugged. Take a nap.

I'm not cut out for this hero stuff.

Whoo!

(Grunts)

(Train whistle)

Danke schn. Danke. Oh...

Danke. Wunderbar!

Oh...das war knapp.

Danke schn.

Thank you very much. You don't have -

I forget the word - aspirin?

I have this headache. My hands

are trembling with sheer terror, look.

I'm going to suffer a major cardiac arrest.

Oh, yes, I've been drugged!

- I'm beyond aspirin.

- I put nothing in your drink.

You speak English?

Of course you do, I just heard you.

Unless you memorised

"You have not been drugged".

You... You're standing here

quite literally gibbering!

Right, I fought this huge person,

climbed outside the train and hung

in the tunnel, I've every right to gibber!

There's no time if this woman

is to be saved.

Miss Froy! Are you all right?

Where's Dr Hartz?

Back there, I suppose,

with his aunt the Baroness.

- The Baroness is his aunt?

- Yes, and I'm his wife.

I'm sure there's a very simple

explanation for all of this.

- You're a bunch of Nazis!

- Of course not!

Egon's family are frightened. If it is

discovered that there is an anti-Nazi...

- Concentration camps for one and all.

- No!

Yes. I don't know.

Would you please let me do this?

Miss Froy! Miss Froy, are you all right?

Yes, I'm quite all right.

Oh, but it is nice to see a friendly face.

- Get up. Get up!

- That woman is wearing my clothes.

There's one mean-lookin' Nazi out there

but I could take him.

- What are you doing?

- I'm taking my pulse.

Use this.

Kommen Sie schnell her,

ich muss mit Ihnen sprechen.

Was wnschen Sie?

I keep hitting people over the head

and they don't even blink.

Ahh. That'll keep him.

Good thinking.

OK, let's get out of here right away.

I never really believed we would make it.

I'm not going with you.

- What are you talking about?

- I agreed to help because I loved you.

I still do. But Egon,

why are we doing this?

You know perfectly well why.

All this talk about the General

betraying the family honour.

You're terrified the Nazis

will confiscate your land, your money.

You'd even support Hitler

to protect these things but I can't!

- You're being ridiculous.

- Come with me! We can be together.

I married a wonderful,

courageous doctor, not a murderer.

Please, Egon!

Egon, I think it's time...

What is it?

Bahnhof Mullenbach.

Kurzer Aufenthalt.

Der Schnellzug nach Basel

fhrt in Krze von Gleis 2 ab.

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