[Script Info] Title: [Events] Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.48,0:00:12.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[BRIGGS] Now, well,\NWe’re old friends, Jack and myself. Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.20,0:00:17.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We met on a street corner. Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.76,0:00:22.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I should warn you Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.68,0:00:27.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he’ll deny this account. Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.27,0:00:32.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His story will be different. Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.50,0:00:43.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So there I was, and\NI was standing at a street corner. Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.54,0:00:45.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this car drew up. Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.21,0:00:48.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it was him. Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.27,0:00:53.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he asked me the way \Nto Bolsover street. Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.26,0:00:57.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I said to him, Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.54,0:01:02.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But Bolsover street, it's in the middle \Nof an intricate one-way system. Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.50,0:01:08.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, it's a one-way system \Neasy enough to get into. Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.48,0:01:14.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The only trouble was that, once in, \Nyou couldn’t get out. Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.54,0:01:18.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I told him Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.00,0:01:22.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the best thing that he could do, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,0:01:24.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was to take the first left, first right, second right, third on the left, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,keep his eye open for a hardware shop, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,go right round the square, keeping to the inside lane, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,take the second Mews on the right and then stop. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He will find himself facing a very tall office block, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a crescent courtyard. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He can take advantage of this office block. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He can go round the crescent, come out the other way, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,follow the arrows, go past two sets of traffic lights Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and take the next left indicated by the first green filter he comes across. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He’s got the Post Office Tower in his vision the whole time. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All he’s got to do is to reverse into the underground car park, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,change gear, go straight on, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he’ll find himself in Bolsover street with no trouble at all Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I did warn him, though, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that he’ll still be faced with the problem, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,having found Bolsover street, of losing it. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I told him I knew one or two people Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who’d been wandering up and down Bolsover street for years. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They’d wasted their bloody youth there. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The people who live there, their faces are grey, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they’re in a state of despair, but nobody pays any attention, you see. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All people are worried about is their ill-gotten gains. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wrote to The Times about it. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Life At A Dead End, l called it. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Went for nothing. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anyway, I told him that probably the best thing he could do Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was to forget the whole idea of getting to Bolsover street. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remember saying to him: Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This trip you’ve got in mind, drop it, it could prove fatal. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But he said he had to deliver a parcel. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anyway, I took all this trouble with him because he had a nice open face. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He looked like a man who would always do good to others himself. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Normally I wouldn’t give a fuck. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I should tell you he’ll deny this account. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His story will be different.