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demonstration.

Not in here,

for Christs sake.

Not real fire hoses, idiot.

Slide show.

No problem, all right?

Stick your thumb

up your bum for a bit.

Do f***-all anyway.

Hey mike, look at this.

What is it?

Famous people without their

clothes on. Celebrity nudes.

Jesus, look at her.

Sergeant, what do you mean?

Celebrity nudes here, look.

It's Jackie Kennedy.

Jackie Kennedy.

All women?

Yup.

No men?

Hey, isn't that suppose

to be, um, Britt Ekland?

It's a bit of a bad likeness.

He must have been in the bushes.

No. Men'd be taking the joke

much too far, wouldn't it?

it's cilla black.

You don't need

to take flowers.

I can't explain it.

I just thought I would.

Jean, I'm sorry.

I was just settling your class.

We weren't expecting you.

I thought I'd feel

better if I came in.

I gave them some books

and told them to shut up.

Hmm. Good.

Well, uh... You must

come around to dinner.

Yes. I'd like to.

I-I mean, uh...

We must have you back.

We don't see enough of you.

Bye.

Right. Come on.

Heads out of the books.

Please everyone, that's not

how I teach, as you know.

Mr. Braithwaite said you weren't

going to be here today, miss.

You have a pleasant surprise.

Board please, Marjorie.

Please, miss, I forgot

to hand in my book.

Shut up. Sit down.

Open a window.

Uh, miss, you've still

got your fag in your mouth.

Good.

Right. Today...

We address ourselves

to the question,

Is Shakespeare worth reading

although it's only about kings?

Hello.

Sorry. I don't

mean to surprise you.

It's all right.

I should have rung.

I've come from the funeral.

I'm a friend of John Morgan's.

Come in.

I had a kind of inkling

he might do something silly.

I always thought

he was weird.

Were you at the same university?

He was post-graduate.

I'm just a first-year.

Had you...

Been going out with him?

No. I never

slept with him.

Went to

the cinema twice.

Seen that film

about the Indian.

Gandhi?

That's right.

Afterwards,

he couldn't stop talking.

He thought this

and he thought that.

The philosophy

of nonviolence and so on.

And I really didn't

think anything.

Except that, obviously,

the film was very long.

In that way,

we weren't even suited.

I think he was

trying to impress me.

He chose the wrong way.

I like people

who are just themselves.

Not talking

rubbish all the time.

I know I shouldn't say that

about anyone who's dead, but...

Anyone who did

what they did to you...

He certainly upset me.

Yes. I can tell.

Then he started

to pester me.

I had to go to his professor

to ask him to stop watching me.

The worst was in the launderette.

I think it was me

he wanted to do it to.

And just by bad luck,

he did it to you.

Are you going back?

When?

This evening.

I don't really have any plan.

I only came up on an impulse.

Then a policeman

at the funeral gave me a lift.

Who was that?

He was called Langdon.

I'd never have thought of it.

It was his idea I should come.

So how long

had you known him?

Who?

John Morgan.

Oh, him.

I don't know.

Do you have a television?

Yes. I've got one.

It's behind the chair.

I hardly ever watch it.

I watch it most evenings.

At university?

They have a room

you can sit in.

Do you mind

if I get it out?

I held a very

important position.

pull yourself

together, for god's sake.

I've finished

in the bathroom.

Good night.

How was the funeral?

Ghastly.

I had to go to derby.

And it started to rain.

There's only his

mother left alive.

She had no idea

why he'd done it.

Seems as if neither do you.

Have you been riding?

Hmm. That's why I fell asleep.

We broke in a new horse.

So, I'm saddle-sore.

The problem is...

No crime has been committed.

Killing yourself is legal,

even in front of somebody else.

Hmm.

Unless she did

something to provoke him.

Yes.

She'd only known him 24 hours.

She is...

What?

A teacher, obviously

good at her job.

Loved by her pupils.

Did she teach you?

No. But I remember her.

She was nice.

A good woman...

Chosen, for some reason,

As the victim of

the ultimate practical joke.

I told Stanley

not to get drunk.

it's true, it's true.

I don't watch that.

I watch that thing on sundays.

Hello, verity.

Hello, darling.

Roger won't watch it

Because he says it's

full of jokes about blacks.

No. I didn't say that.

It's just that particular

kind of joke about blacks.

Hello, Stanley.

Oop! I need some more wine.

Ta-da.

Oh. No, red,

it's for cooking.

well, you're wrong.

I think if they want

to be accepted as British,

Then they'll have to put up

with the fact that they will

Be the butt of peoples' humor...

Just like mothers-in-law.

Do you know who that bloke is?

Stanley, don't be rude.

He's a friend of Jean's.

Here we are.

Stan, will you open this?

Yes.

Roger... Do you know, uh, John?

Uh, yes.

This is verity.

And if you actually don't

make jokes about blacks,

It's reverse discrimination

saying they don't really belong.

No, you have to say...

I don't have to say anything.

Jews make jokes about Jews.

It's called "Jewish humor".

When we do it,

it's called anti-Semitism.

Don't you agree?

You do realize this is

an emotional argument? So?

It has no basis

in logic whatsoever.

Oh, logic.

Yes! You know, logic,

that holds society together.

Logic that says people shouldn't

go around killing each other.

Quite right.

And that also tells us...

Look...

Please! I've started,

so please let me finish!

Magnus Magnusson.

Logic also tells us that

there must be constraints,

And that, if people went around

saying exactly what they feel,

The result would be barbarism.

And I prefer civilization.

That's all.

Thank you.

Roger dislikes anyone being

allowed to express themselves.

He sees it as a threat

to property values.

I don't think

that's quite fair.

He won't allow a firework display for

fear a rocket falls on our thatched roof.

Now you're raising a different

point. Life is dangerous!

Don't you realize?

And sometimes,

there's nothing you can do!

That's not true.

I think you can

always limit the danger.

What do you say, John Morgan?

Speak up. Intercede.

It's a marriage.

You must adjudicate

between warring parties.

Well, I can see

both sides, I suppose.

Oh, well, goodness.

How are you? This is

a coincidence. Um...

Chrissie, this

is Jean Travers.

Hello. Hello. Is this a coincidence?

Good lord, yes. I've given

up thinking about you.

Oh, yes. Um, do, please.

Or would I be interrupting?

No. Not in the slightest.

Uh, Chrissie came into

leeds to pick up some gear.

I ride horses.

I said I'd take her

and we'd go to the cinema.

Yes. Thank you.

a beer please.

Yes, and me.

So, what are you doing?

Oh, I don't know.

I've already ordered.

Right.

I'm afraid I got frightened.

Frightened?

Yes.

Are you living

on your own?

No, as it happens, I'm not.

This girl came to stay

with me. Oh, she stayed?

Yes. A friend of John Morgan's.

Have you heard about this?

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