[gentle majestic music] [insects chirping] [door clunking] -[man panting] -[fist thudding] -[fist thudding] -[man panting] [footsteps shuffling] What are you doing here?

You've been following me.

Look, I can explain.

God, you must be mad!

[bell clanging] Help!

Help!

Help!

[man screaming] Go!

Hurry up!

Open it!

Come on!

[tense music] [suspenseful music] [Narrator] In late Victorian times, there lived many detectives, The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes.

[suspenseful music continues] [upbeat music] [door knocking] Well, I thought you would be along.

Well, it's all over.

The great De Beers diamond.

Crystallized blood.

Well, diamonds are money to you.

To me, they're just trouble.

Usually smuggling.

But on occasions such as this, it's murder.

Well, you know how it began.

[gentle mysterious music] [people chattering] Have you really found two million pounds of diamonds?

You did say two million pounds, Mr. Arundel?

Yes, when the millionaires start bidding for it.

Mr. Cornelius, what do you say?

I'd like to see the stone first.

Excuse me, sir.

I don't think we've seen you here before, sir.

No, I'm out here for Van Buren of New York.

Seems I picked the right moment.

I heard you're onto something exceptional.

Wanted to get first look at it.

Quite right.

Excuse me, sir.

Let me introduce Philip Marsden.

Mr. Cornelius.

[Mr. Cornelius] Nice to know you, Mr. Marsden.

How do you do, sir?

Marsden's my personal assistant.

He guards my door against geniuses with schemes for making money.

[Mr. Cornelius] I guess your company doesn't need any advice on that subject.

[laughs] You'll be sending the diamond to London?

It'll be auctioned there.

[Mr. Cornelius] I hope my company will empower me to bid.

I hope so too.

-Marsden.

-Right, sir.

If you'll be seated, gentlemen.

Will you be here for the races next week, Mr. Cornelius?

I regret not.

I have to catch the mail boat from Cape Town.

The London diamond sales.

But you can depend that I shall be there when your stone comes up for auction.

Next to me, Mr. Cornelius.

Thank you.

Thank you, Lomas.

Well, gentlemen, if you're ready.

[purposeful music] All right, Inspector.

Hmm.

Perfect.

[chuckles] Don't worry, Inspector.

It weighs well over 500 carats and will cut to a perfect octahedron.

Pure white.

Without a flaw.

It was found on one of the drives on the 800-foot level of our Eureka mine.

This is a great thing for the company.

It's a great thing for the town of Kimberley.

From what I have observed, the two are very much identical.

[chuckling] Yes, indeed.

You'll be sending it immediately down to Cape Town for shipment, I imagine?

It'll go down under guard and behind bars on the diamond train next Monday.

Six days.

Never fear.

We have trusted servants and a formidable strong room.

-[door locks clunking] -[gentle suspenseful music] You'll wish to confirm the precise weight before your company considers its bid.

[Mr. Cornelius] Surely.

If you please, Mr. Cornelius.

510.

No.

511 carats.

I shall ask you to certify to that.

-The safe.

-Sir.

[Mr. Cornelius] You've left the window open, Inspector.

My dear chap, this is Africa.

The men on guard in this room would be stifled if the window were closed.

[gentle suspenseful music] Mm.

That's a fine safe you have.

Duvoisier of Paris.

Specially designed for us.

Sir.

And Mr. Marsden keeps the key?

Only the day key.

The safe is used for other gems.

Ready, sir?

This is the master key.

It never leaves my person.

There.

Nobody but myself can open the safe.

Excellent.

And the armed guards are always out there.

Day and night.

No one inside the room?

Mr. Lomas and I will take turns until the diamond train leaves.

A very great trust, young man.

A very great trust.

Oh, we trust Mr. Marsden.

I know his people.

And Mr. Lomas was at my school.

Besides, I or another director will come here without warning several times each day.

[gentle suspenseful music] Foolproof.

Absolutely foolproof.

And quite superb steel.

Coming, Inspector.

Finally, everyone who leaves the strong room is searched.

Marsden and Lomas whenever they come off duty.

-Even myself.

-Oh, and me.

I insist.

I think the law has its eye on me.

[men chuckling] [door clunking] [lock clicks] I'm sorry my wife's away.

I'd have preferred to entertain you at home.

My dear sir, you don't have to apologize for this club.

The luxury is positively Roman.

Your table is ready, sir.

We're waiting for Inspector Lipinzki.

Excuse me, sir, but would you mind having a word with the secretary?

Oh.

Forgive me, Cornelius.

Club business, I imagine.

Well, this must have been a pretty wild town in the old pioneering days.

I believe it was.

You weren't here?

[Philip] I was too young, unfortunately.

Are you sorry you missed the adventure?

[Philip] Well, men dug up fortunes out of the sand.

Ah.

And Mr. Arundel?

[Philip] Sir?

Did he make his money digging for diamonds?

No, no.

He's a shareholder.

[laughs] The prospectors have gone.

The shareholders' triumph.

And you?

Me?

How you gonna make your pile?

Mr. Arundel was good enough to offer me a post.

It has prospects.

Sorry, Cornelius.

Dashed embarrassing, that.

Club secretary objects to one of my guests.

Not to me, I hope.

Oh, my dear fellow.

He says I'm bringing Lipinzki in here too often.

Your chief of police?

Yes.

A first-class man.

This town was a battlefield before he was appointed.

All the same, sir, I do see the secretary's point.

You mean Lipinzki spits on the carpet?

Or is it that his name ends in ski?

Not at all, not at all.

It's just that this club is for, well, gentlemen.

Oh, I suppose so.

I suppose so.

[door clunking] Ah, there is the fellow!

Lipinzki.

Six minutes late.

Unusual for you.

Good evening.

I'm sorry, Mr. Arundel.

Had to take a quarter of a million pounds worth of stones to the bank.

Business at this hour?

It changed hands in a game of cards.

Cards?

It's disgusting.

Well, isn't it, sir?

I mean, look at some of the people who make money.

Speculators.

Riffraff.

Quarter of a million means nothing to them.

[Mr. Arundel clears throat] Well, I thank you for the drink, sir.

If you'll excuse me.

Mr. Cornelius.

I have to look in at the strong room, see that all is well with Mr. Lomas.

[up-tempo piano music] [horn blowing] -[crowd cheering] -[crowd whistling] -[crowd applauding] -[people chattering] [door slamming] Now, then.

What's all this about?

I wanted to come and see you.

[laughs] That's obvious.

But you could have seen me in the bar.

Look, Bridie, I had to come and see you just for a minute.

Well, drink up and have your look, my little love.

I'm supposed to be on night duty.

Hark at the big man.

And what's this precious night duty, then?

The diamond?

The diamond?

Oh, come off it, Charlie Lomas.

Do you think the biggest diamond in history's a secret with 2,000 miners drinking themselves blind over it?

How dare you?

Who gave you permission to leave your post?

Uh, it'll be all right.

-Blakey took my post.

-I know.

And I knew where I'd find you, you besotted little idiot.

-Philip, nobody saw me.

-Mr. Marsden, please.

I am your superior.

Mr. Marsden, -he was just leaving.

-This is not your business, Mrs. Sullavan.

It will be all right.

I checked out with the office.

I said I wasn't well.

What a trustworthy person you are.

A man to rely on, hmm?

Get out.

Go on.

Get back at once.

Go on, Charlie.

Please!

[glass slams] [door slamming] This is your doing.

I'm a busy woman, Mr. Marsden.

Goodnight.

Why don't you leave him alone?

Leave him alone?

You make him leave me alone.

No, you encourage him.

I know you.

I'm a respectable widow, and I keep a respectable bar.

Your liaisons have been well known in this town.

Liaisons?

And what might that fine word mean?

Your fancy men.

I'm a widow six years.

And I'm made of flesh and blood.

Not like you.

-[men cheering] -[men whistling] What would you know of a life like mine?

Too much, Mr. Marsden.

I've seen you all those nights.

I've never spoken to you.

Oh, no.

You stand at the end of the bar and look.

You slip in for a quiet drink and 10 minutes stripping me.

Yes, well, I'm not required to listen to this nonsense.

The door's behind you.

What's stopping you?

You only know one sort of man.

No, two.

The sort that speak out plainly and the ones who are afraid to.

Frozen beneath their celluloid collars.

Like this one, eh?

Keep a civil tongue for your betters.

Slut.

Get out before you get this glass in your face!

I'll teach young Lomas a lesson for this.

[Bridie] Mr. Marsden.

Don't take it out on the boy.

Please.

[door slamming] I shall be glad when it's on the train tomorrow morning.

-Lock it up.

-Yes, sir.

Do we have your full attention, Mr. Lomas?

Mr. Lomas?

Oh, sorry, Mr. Marsden.

I was dreaming.

[Philip] Yes.

Well, this will be your last night on duty, hmm?

Yes.

Thank goodness.

Sir, as it's the last time.

Thank you.

A pleasure.

Lock it.

-[bell rings] -[safe door clunking] See who that is, Lomas.

Yes, sir.

Sir.

There.

Snug and safe.

Who is it?

Mr. Cornelius at the outer door, sir.

What the devil does he want?

[Philips sighs] All right, guard, let him in.

[door clunking] What is it, Cornelius?

Oh, am I intruding?

I'm sorry.

I just came to say goodbye.

[Mr. Arundel] I see.

I shall be leaving on the train tomorrow.

I didn't wanna wait at the office in case I missed you.

Well, we shall meet at the station.

After all your hospitality, let me buy you a drink for once.

You've completed your ceremonies, -I see.

-Do you mind, sir?

I am responsible.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Need I be searched?

I think not.

But I shall, and so will Mr. Marsden.

So will Mr. Lomas when he comes off duty.

My goodness, it would take a genius to abstract your diamond.

-[hooves clopping] -[suspenseful music] Sir, you're wanted at the mine.

At once.

[dramatic music] I don't understand it.

It was locked, Inspector.

The safe was locked.

I locked it myself last night.

I opened the safe 10 minutes ago, and it was gone.

[Inspector Lipinzki] And you've had everybody searched?

Every man jack insisted on being searched.

How do you explain it, Inspector?

I can't, Mr. Arundel.

Well, this is the search report, Lipinzki.

You wanna see the guards who were in the corridor?

Not yet.

Now, you tell me Cornelius was there?

[Mr. Arundel] Not until after the safe was locked.

Hmm.

Did he go near the safe?

No.

Marsden wouldn't let him near it.

He's always been very curious about that room, sir.

Well, the man's in the business.

I myself am always ready to learn from other companies in this matter.

Besides, he was vouched for by his firm.

Their reference came by post.

There was no photograph.

Are you suggesting he's an imposter?

[laughs] Well, such things have been heard of.

I'll cable for a description, Mr. Arundel.

You sometimes have the keys, Mr. Marsden?

Only the day key.

The master key, the window key, and the key to the diamond box are kept by Mr. Arundel.

I've seen you using them.

Only in my presence.

And they are handed straight back to me.

Perhaps the inspector thinks I might have taken impressions at some time and had duplicates made.

As a matter of duty, I've never taken my eyes off them.

What if the diamond were thrown out of the window?

I saw it locked up.

I said, what if it were?

With armed guards patrolling the frontage and the corridor?

Indeed, the whole building?

And they were all at their posts throughout the night.

Hmm.

Mr. Lomas.

Did anything suspicious happen No.

Were you awake all the time?

Yes.

Pretty difficult, isn't it?

Alone.

In silence.

Long, hot night.

The guard looks in on him every hour.

I arranged it.

Very efficient.

Did you leave your post at all?

-No.

-Did you ever leave it?

Uh, I have done.

Last Tuesday, I had a bad headache.

I went and rested for an hour.

Mr. Blakey took my place.

It was all reported to me.

It's ancient history.

I've seen the diamond at least a dozen times since then.

So it is rather upsetting, isn't it?

I was with the diamond all night, wasn't I?

You couldn't have passed it to any confederate in the street.

You were searched when you came out of the room.

Have you any reason to doubt him, Inspector?

Not a stain on his character.

Or yours, gentlemen.

And there was no one else there.

[gentle suspenseful music] Thank you for allowing me in, Inspector.

Oh, you're welcome.

A case of locking the stable door after the horse has bolted.

And how was it done, Inspector?

I thought you were leaving today.

Oh, train doesn't go for an hour.

Sad, isn't it?

I thought I'd be traveling alongside the biggest diamond in South Africa.

What brings you here, Mr. Cornelius?

Oh, some first-class safety measures which I'd noted for future use, and they're defeated.

At least I'd like to know how.

Well, if you find out, just tell me.

[chuckles] Stumped, eh?

Um.

What about shooting the diamond by catapult to that building opposite?

[chuckles] You're having a little joke maybe.

300 feet?

This room seems to have an interest for you, Mr. Cornelius.

[Mr. Cornelius] Oh, last night?

It was quite an innocent visit, I can assure you.

But I came at the wrong moment.

Were you searched before you left?

[Mr. Cornelius] No, I never came far enough into the room to make it necessary.

Come on and give us a hand.

Of course, you could have been the confederate of someone who was.

No offense, of course.

It's a little late, but do you want me searched too?

[Inspector Lipinzki] Yes.

What is that?

What would you say?

Oh, a piece of mining equipment?

Of course, I'm not on the engineering side.

Why is it here?

Anyone could have left it.

The company uses a lot of machinery.

Mustn't miss your train, Mr. Cornelius.

You're not gonna ask me to stay in town?

I've no right to.

Now, if you'll step along to the search room.

Perhaps you'd care to search my hotel room and my bags.

Just as a formality.

It's being done, Mr. Cornelius.

[tense music] Mining in the old eyes.

Real mining.

You and my old man.

Too right.

You're a dab hand at saying no.

Not always.

Once in a while you do me a favor.

Well, it suits us both.

Sure.

Other men run after me.

And some of them catch you.

-Thank you, Leo.

-[men chattering] Ah, be quiet, the two of you!

And who's blaming you?

They've got money.

Wish you had.

Well, marry one of your rich men, then.

When I'm offered the ring, I will.

[Man] Hey, Mac, another bottle.

There's men drinking here.

Don't serve him, Mac!

[glass pounding] You're a tough little nut.

Sure.

I knelt over my husband when a drunk had killed him with a broken bottle.

Ah, shut up, the two of you, and get out!

All I want is a decent fellow who will get me out of this town.

I wanna drink.

You're obliged to serve me.

I ordered rum.

Now, come on.

Oh, now, go home quietly, will you?

Oh, get off my back, will you, Little Boy Blue?

[blows thudding] Drag him out, Mac.

Come on, you.

-Hello, darling.

-Oh, go on.

Out.

[door clattering] Come on in here, Leo.

Bring another beer in, will you, Mac?

You were just waiting to half kill someone, weren't you?

I haven't seen you hit a man for years.

What is it, Leo?

The diamond?

It's been nearly a week, Bridie.

I don't see it.

I don't see a thing.

Have you found nothing?

Look.

You tell me what that is.

Well, how should I know?

I've asked every engineer in the mine.

They're no wiser than you are.

Thanks, Mac.

It's made out of standard water lead piping.

Now, there's 4,000 feet of it in the company stores.

I've been over every detail again and again.

I don't see it.

I just don't see it.

Bridie.

There's not much you don't hear in this town.

[laughs] No.

Do you want to get out of here?

Go on.

There's 20,000 reward for this diamond.

Ha!

I might have known this wasn't a social call.

You come round here once in a blue moon, and all you talk about is money, Inspector.

20,000.

You could go to Europe and be a lady.

Oh, the mean lot of devils.

That diamond's worth two million pounds.

100,000 pounds reward would be cheap.

20,000.

Ah!

I'm busy.

Now, don't be greedy.

[Bridie laughs] Who comes in here, Bridie?

Not Arundel.

Oh, no.

He's off at the gentlemen's club.

Hm.

Marsden?

Mr. Marsden and I are not on confiding terms.

Lomas?

He's sweet on me.

Oh, Leo, if you were as soft as he is.

He came in here last Tuesday night, mitching, and Marsden dragged him away.

And since then?

Not a sight or sound of him.

He must be ashamed.

Well, that doesn't get us far.

Oh, Leo.

If I had 20,000 pounds, I'd go to London, and I'd go to a hotel and order a luxury suite with a private bath.

And then I'd turn on the hot tap.

Just think of it, Leo.

Turning on a hot tap.

Then... Hey.

How'd you like to be there?

Leo?

Leo, I happen to be talking to you!

-Shut up.

-What the blazes?

I said shut up.

[tense music] Can I lock up now?

Where is Mr. Marsden?

I don't know.

Is he in town?

No.

He went out shooting.

Did he?

Went on horseback, did he?

When?

Early this morning.

His digs are opposite mine.

Where did he go?

I don't know.

Well, come on.

You must know where he hunts!

Anywhere in the hills.

He goes after buck.

You know what this is?

No.

How many beans make five?

[Charlie] What?

It's not in your class.

[dramatic music] [door slams] What the devil is this?

[gun clunking] -[Inspector Lipinzki sniffs] -Have you gone mad?

[gun thudding] If you have a search warrant, I wanna see it.

[bullets clinking] -Turn around.

-I'll do no such thing.

I'd be entirely within my rights to resist, you know?

You'd better not.

And what precisely are you looking for?

Not the De Beers diamond, by any chance?

-Boots off.

-You'll pay dearly.

I promise you.

Get your boots off!

What?

These boots were made for me.

Up, up, up, up, up!

I'll show you some at my office that were made for diamond smuggling.

You've forgotten your place, my man.

It's not so many years since you were a common laborer.

I'm a policeman now.

And it appears you suspect me of stealing the diamond.

I'm entitled to know on what grounds.

Well, are you satisfied?

Exactly whereabouts did you go hunting today?

[Philip] That is none of your business.

I've got trackers out.

Oh.

Then you'll learn from them I was in the hills towards Barkly West.

Did you find what you were looking for?

Yes.

I shot a buck.

It's at the club, where I shall invite some gentlemen to dine upon it.

Army compass.

It happens to be useful for finding one's way.

Why did you leave the army?

Don't be so damned insolent.

I'm doing my job.

Ah.

I detect a change of tone.

You're in trouble, and you know it.

I'm sorry.

I've got a job to do.

Not good enough, Lipinzki.

You manhandle me.

You tear my room to pieces.

You think you can get off by saying you're sorry?

You'll have to say a damn sight more than that.

But why, Inspector?

If you'll only tell us why.

Does it matter?

This man grossly mistreated Mr. Marsden.

-Yes, he did.

-Yes.

Gentlemen, if you please.

The inspector's served this township well.

He must have his chance.

Well, Lipinzki?

Good heavens, man!

Am I to conclude you had no reasons for your action?

I had a reason, Mr. Arundel.

Then you must tell us.

Your search produced nothing.

Nothing.

You sent out trackers.

Did they find anything that could justify your action?

Nothing.

Mr. Marsden rode to and fro over his tracks very thoroughly.

Sir, he is insinuating again.

Do you mean to persist that you have grounds to suspect Mr. Marsden?

I can produce no such grounds.

Then Mr. Marsden is fully entitled to the public apology given before the directors of this company that he's demanded.

-Hear, hear.

-Hear, hear.

Inspector, it's only because of my regard for you that I've persuaded Mr. Marsden to be satisfied with a public apology.

You could be suspended, with worse to follow.

-Yes.

Hear, hear.

-Quite.

I do not intend to wait.

It'll go hard with you if you don't speak up.

I publicly apologize.

For your unfounded suspicions.

For my unfounded suspicions.

And for the outrage which you perpetrated upon him.

And for the outrage which I perpetrated upon him.

And you will never annoy Mr. Marsden again.

I can assure you I will never again accuse any living person without proof to show.

Thank you, sir.

This has been most painful.

[chairs scraping] -[door clunking] -[gentle music] Good evening, Mrs. Sullavan.

Good evening, Mr. Marsden.

Are you, uh- I serve drinks as long as the door is unbolted.

Ah.

-[Mac whistling] -[broom rustling] May I have a hock, please?

Mac.

There's no ice.

Doesn't matter.

The nights are getting colder.

Hardly a cause for complaint in Africa.

No.

Your health.

Oh.

Thank you.

Mrs. Sullavan, I feel an apology is due.

Overdue, Mr. Marsden?

Yes, I spoke to you unpardonably the other night.

I said things I didn't mean.

[Bridie] Did you not?

Well, there are some things one does not say to a lady.

A lady?

Oh, now you're coming it.

What's your game?

Well, I simply wish to explain.

I was furious with young Lomas.

Now, if you've come here to talk about that- No, no!

Of course, I feel responsible for him.

I am responsible to his family.

And what would they think of a lady like me?

No, no.

You misinterpret me.

[glasses clinking] Mrs. Sullavan, may we talk more quietly?

-About what?

-About Lomas.

There's something I wish to tell you.

It is highly confidential.

Oh.

I haven't got long.

[gentle music] [door clunking] What about Mr. Lomas?

He finds you very attractive.

Ah, go on.

I can well understand it.

Oh.

But I'm an older man.

I speak on my own account.

Yes.

I would not be averse to an arrangement.

Oh, the saints preserve us.

In all discretion, of course.

You wouldn't regret it in any material way.

[Bridie laughs] And what would you have to offer, Mr. Marsden, on your clerk's pay?

-I have prospects.

-I don't like you.

I beg your pardon.

I'm not for sale.

But I'll ignore the insult.

I can't take you seriously enough.

Now, don't make me say anymore.

You are a very handsome woman.

You're a lonely man, Mr. Marsden.

I'm trying to feel sorry for you, but you don't interest me.

But if I had money.

[chuckles] If pigs had wings.

Goodnight, Mr. Marsden.

Good evening, Mrs. Sullavan.

Good evening, Inspector.

I trust this is a coincidence.

-What else?

-It had better be.

I'm sorry if my presence annoys you.

You were within an ace of losing your job today.

My God, are you still pursuing this insane notion?

Do you mind, Mrs. Sullavan?

[door clunking] Now there are no witnesses.

You mean to go on with this?

I know you did it, Marsden.

You're mad.

I don't know exactly how yet.

But I know you did it.

I'll break you for this.

Well, there's you, and there's me.

Let's see which one of us gets broken.

[suspenseful music] -[hooves clopping] -[mid-tempo piano music] Mr. Marsden.

Hello, there.

Ah.

So you're back from Europe.

Europe and the States.

I spend my life on the ocean.

Come in and have a drink.

Another time.

I've been following your little affair.

The diamond?

There's been nothing to follow.

Just so.

That's what everyone in the markets is wondering.

Three months, and not a whisper?

Do you think it's been cut up?

I've no idea.

Excuse me.

I see a beautiful lady and much wealth.

-[Charlie chuckling] -And... Oh, it's you.

She sees much wealth, Philip.

You won't get rich by talking about it.

Don't you want to know your fortune, Mr. Marsden?

It's a child's game, Mrs. Sullavan.

Not in Ireland.

Don't you want to know your future?

You could enlighten me on that subject without the cards.

You're coming here a lot these days.

I go where it pleases me.

He seems to be a welcome guest here.

He's a good little boy.

And we have a good laugh, and he goes away happy.

Don't you, Charlie?

And anyone else is welcome on the same terms.

Cut along now, Lomas, will you?

I want to have a word with Mrs. Sullavan.

I daresay you do.

Lomas, have you forgotten how to behave like a gentleman?

Yes.

I know what you want!

Lomas.

You come here pestering Bridie!

I know!

-[hand slaps] -Hold your tongue!

Shut up!

The pair of you!

Now, you're both welcome to a quiet drink and a talk at any time.

But I won't have the pair of you behaving like schoolboys!

Now shake hands!

Mrs. Sullavan, there's only one schoolboy here.

[tense music] [ominous music] It never stops!

Philip, it never stops!

Calm yourself.

Everywhere I go, there he is.

Or one of his men.

[Philip] You mustn't become hysterical.

That's what he wants.

-He knows!

-He guessed.

He knows nothing.

I can't sleep at night waiting for him to knock at my door!

Listen to me.

His only hope is to make one of us break down.

We are not going to.

You understand?

We are not going to.

[Charlie] I can't stand any more.

You've got to.

There's a fortune at stake.

[laughs] A fortune!

Where?

Where is it?

Never mind where.

Good Lord, and the risks I've taken for you, and I can't even know where it is!

In your state, the less you know, the better.

Philip, I need the money now.

I know what for, and you can forget it.

Forget it so that you can have her.

No!

No.

Even over that, we mustn't quarrel.

Do you understand?

We must not.

[Charlie] Get the diamond and run for it.

-No!

-But it's the only thing to do!

It's what Lipinzki's waiting for!

He wants me to take him to the diamond, and I'm not going to.

[crying] Then we go on forever, sitting on a fortune we can't even touch.

God, Philip.

Look.

Look.

Down there.

[suspenseful music] That's one of Lipinzki's men.

Mr. Marsden still insists that you're watching him.

Sensitive man, Mr. Marsden.

Educated.

Lets things prey on his mind.

[Mr. Arundel] Now, look here.

He's a lonely sort of fellow.

Spends too much time in the sun.

Damn it, Lipinzki, I want the diamond as much as you do.

But you've become obsessed by the thing.

I'm bound to.

I'm a policeman.

Mr. Marsden has been cleared.

What about that American?

What was his name?

Cornelius.

Have you pursued that possibility?

It's not Cornelius.

You confessed to one mistake.

Yes.

If I'm making another, I'm finished.

So you are after Marsden.

Why did he leave the army?

What the deuce has that got to do with you?

He was in a swell regiment, I believe.

He resigned his commission for perfectly honorable reasons.

-Family finances.

-Yes?

What does that mean?

I'm sorry, Mr. Arundel.

I owe you my job.

But the government pays me, not the company.

But, Lipinzki, the company has the means to have you removed.

Oh, the company can have me sacked.

Now, when you've got proof, do it.

Till then, I'm not accountable.

Not to you.

I'm sorry, Mr. Arundel.

[dramatic music] -[Charlie laughing] -[people chattering] What a joke.

What is?

What's the joke, Charlie?

Oh, never mind.

Oh, come on, Charlie.

You know how I like a joke.

Well, you'd like this one.

You tell me, then.

Tell your old Bridie.

You know me.

I'm not a liar, am I?

You've the face of a blessed angel.

You can take my word for it.

[Bridie] For what, lovey?

I will have money.

One day.

You can take my word for that.

Oh, sure.

The young gentleman.

When your rich uncle dies, huh?

One day.

-Not one day.

-When?

Would it make any difference?

Charlie.

And you do trust me?

Of course.

Come back to my room with me.

Now!

Now!

What's the matter?

You have to see the color of my money first?

Oh, Charlie, you want me to trust you- I've got money!

I will have money.

Charlie, I believe you.

But where's your fairy gold?

Charlie!

Tomorrow.

You want to see it?

[laughs] Very well.

You shall.

[chuckling] Tomorrow.

Tomorrow.

Tomorrow.

[Laughing] [suspenseful music] [tense music] [Philip] Lomas!

Philip.

Philip, I was only- [Philip] Picking mushrooms?

I know what you were doing.

It's not your business what I was doing.

[Philip] I followed you.

It could have been them, you fool.

Half that diamond is mine!

[Philip] What have you ever done without me, you little tick?

What can you do now?

I can get what is mine.

In 100 miles of veldt?

Go on, then.

Find it.

-I know the direction.

-So did Lipinzki.

You think you can find what his trackers couldn't?

Are you sure you could find it?

I took compass bearings on the spot where I buried it, and the details are in my head.

No one else will ever know them.

We shall lose everything by waiting.

Charlie, are you going to let me down?

I don't know.

I don't know from one day to the next.

You're not going to let me down, you know.

Philip, look.

[dramatic music] [laughs] And you give me lectures about being followed.

-[insects chirping] -[people chattering] [liqueur pouring] [liqueur pouring] I think he was going to shoot you.

[tense music] [Charlie gasps] [fist thudding] [Charlie panting] [fist thudding] [footsteps shuffling] What are you doing here?

[suspenseful music] You've been following me.

Look, I can explain.

God.

You must be mad!

[bell clanging] Help!

Help!

[Charlie screams] [dramatic music] Like hell you do!

-Get up!

-Give me that revolver.

I said get up!

Get your clothes on.

How long have you been back?

Back?

I've been in bed since 10:00.

My boy cleaned them.

He also saw me go to bed.

What are you looking for this time?

Lomas was murdered at my gate 10 minutes ago.

Charlie Lomas?

In heaven's name, how?

You maniac.

You suspect me of killing my friend, the boy I've looked after?

The boy you looked after, yes.

Dear Lord.

Poor Charlie.

He was killed by an African spear.

Then go to the native compounds.

Go and do your job, you ape.

He wasn't killed by an African.

You know what they're like when they've been smoking dagga or drinking.

A drunken kaffir doesn't saw the shaft off a spear!

A white man does to hide it under his coat!

And you accuse me?

This is the second time and the last.

[Inspector Lipinzki] It's the last time, all right.

You're smart enough for your class.

But you lose your head at the sight of me.

Yes, I do.

I do.

It's not theft or murder to you.

It's simply taking back your birthright, what you lost when you had to leave your regiment.

I've no time for your ravings.

You'll be sorry you didn't kill me when you had a chance.

By God, I should have.

Oh, it's a shame, isn't it?

I'm still alive.

But I'm gonna drive you down into hell.

Murderer.

-Murderer!

-Bridie.

You killed that poor, harmless, foolish boy!

He told you that.

Lipinzki's spreading this story.

He didn't have to.

I knew it from Charlie.

[Philip] From Charlie?

What did he tell you?

That poor child!

It was in his face!

He blathered about his great expectations, and you... That's why you killed him!

No.

That policeman has poisoned you against me.

[Bridie] I need no one to tell me that you're poison!

Bridie, I came here- [Bridie] To ask for my hand, I suppose.

You got 'round Charlie Lomas, and you've done it to me.

And now you've come to offer me the life of a lady and a diamond with Charlie Lomas' blood on it!

That's enough from you.

You be careful what you say.

You'll come crawling tomorrow!

Bridie, I came here to take you away.

Not in a million years.

I'd sooner bed with a snake!

Then I shall have to grovel to a woman like you.

I never gave you an encouragement!

Liar.

You knew what you were doing to me.

-Ah!

-Liar.

Liar.

-Liar!

-Ah!

Oh!

-[Bridie screaming] -Liar!

Liar!

What the hell?

Get off!

Ah!

Oh!

[suspenseful music] All right.

Make a job of it this time.

I expect to.

[Inspector Lipinzki] You won't get away.

I don't want to.

No?

There's nothing left.

No.

What made you go for me from the start?

Lomas was the obvious suspect.

I can tell the organ grinder from the monkey.

Poor Lomas.

This contained gas, didn't it?

Compressed hydrogen.

But your missing clue was this.

[book clattering] Open it.

Was it there when I searched you that night?

Yes.

But you didn't open it because you were looking for a diamond.

You see, you're not infallible.

No.

But tell me, how did you get the diamond out of the safe?

[chuckles] It wasn't locked up in the safe at all.

[gentle thoughtful music] Just as we were about to close the box, I distracted Mr. Arundel's attention by speaking sharply to Lomas.

And in that moment, I palmed the diamond.

I put it in my pocket.

I'd had plenty of time to practice and prepare.

And we solemnly locked an empty box in the safe.

When Mr. Arundel went to be searched, I hid the diamond between the scale case and the wall, together with those.

Then I went to the search room clean as a whistle.

After Lomas had been searched, he went back on duty.

[tense music] You'll remember that the night was very dark and that the prevailing wind blows unfailingly towards the Barkly hills.

He waited until the guard was patrolling the other way.

Then he filled the balloon with the hydrogen.

[balloon hissing] I'm a bit of a scientist, and I calculated that the fall in temperature before dawn would bring the balloon to Earth after about 18 miles.

Everything went as I planned.

[tense music] Charlie successfully launched the balloon.

[dramatic music] And next day, I rode downwind on a compass bearing.

And in three hours I saw that little speck of red on the veldt ahead of me.

I burst the balloon and buried the diamond.

Where?

Come on, the diamond.

The diamond.

Yes.

Curse it.

And curse you, Lipinzki, for it and you have been a curse to me.

Day and night I've seen the spot where I buried it, and I dare not, I dare not go and take it.

You and that infernal stone have wrecked my health, driven me mad, she won't look at me, and all the wealth of Kimberley would be of no use to me now.

Tell me where it is.

[chuckles] Think of you, poor Inspector.

You saw that the diamond could only have flown out of the window.

And you'd dare not tell them, or they would have thought you mad.

Tell me, Marsden.

It's no use to you now.

Or to you.

[suspenseful music] -[table clattering] -[gun blasting] [dramatic music] [gun blasting] [gentle mysterious music] What I'm left with is a flesh wound and these two souvenirs.

I thought you suspected me at first.

You were watched, Mr. Cornelius.

Wherever you went.

[upbeat music] [hooves clopping] And you still don't know where the diamond is?

Oh, yes, I do.

You do?

Where it belongs.

Africa.

[gentle mysterious music] [majestic music]