1 00:00:11,205 --> 00:00:14,245 Well now, Mr. Perkins, it was good of you to come in 2 00:00:14,893 --> 00:00:18,478 I realize that you're a busy man, but I didn't think this matter could be 3 00:00:18,478 --> 00:00:20,687 discussed over the electric telephone. 4 00:00:21,186 --> 00:00:23,123 No, no, absolutely, headmaster. 5 00:00:23,201 --> 00:00:26,324 I mean, if Tommy is in some sort of trouble then I'd like to nip it in the bud 6 00:00:26,354 --> 00:00:29,289 Well, quite frankly, Tommy is in trouble. 7 00:00:29,419 --> 00:00:32,976 Recently, his behaviour have left a great deal to be desired 8 00:00:33,239 --> 00:00:33,863 Dear! 9 00:00:33,914 --> 00:00:37,948 He seems to take no interest in school life, whatsoever! 10 00:00:38,486 --> 00:00:43,811 He refuses to muckin on the sports field. And it's weeks since any master 11 00:00:43,829 --> 00:00:46,309 has received any written work from him. 12 00:00:46,506 --> 00:00:47,466 Oh, dear me! 13 00:00:47,544 --> 00:00:51,413 Quite frankly, Mr. Perkins, if he wasn't dead, I'd have him expelled. 14 00:00:52,749 --> 00:00:57,556 (laugh) 15 00:01:03,575 --> 00:01:05,367 I beg your pardon? 16 00:01:06,064 --> 00:01:08,283 Yes, expelled! 17 00:01:12,147 --> 00:01:15,090 If I wasn't making allowances for the fact that your son is dead, 18 00:01:15,090 --> 00:01:16,511 he'd be out in his ear. 19 00:01:16,558 --> 00:01:17,644 Tommy is dead?! 20 00:01:17,644 --> 00:01:22,941 Yes, he's lying up there in sickbay now, stiff as a board and bright green... 21 00:01:23,621 --> 00:01:27,511 and this is, I fear, typical of his current attitude 22 00:01:28,911 --> 00:01:31,468 You see, the boy has no sense of moderation: 23 00:01:31,732 --> 00:01:34,227 one moment he's flying around like a paper kite... 24 00:01:34,314 --> 00:01:36,393 and the next moment he's completely immovable. 25 00:01:38,312 --> 00:01:40,101 And beginning to smell. 26 00:01:41,588 --> 00:01:42,873 But how did he die? 27 00:01:43,671 --> 00:01:44,676 Well, is that important? 28 00:01:46,036 --> 00:01:47,418 Oh yes, I think so! 29 00:01:47,637 --> 00:01:52,121 Well... well... well, it's all got to do with the library, you see. 30 00:01:52,121 --> 00:01:55,529 We've had a lot of trouble recently with boys taking out library books 31 00:01:55,635 --> 00:01:57,431 ... without library cards. 32 00:01:57,742 --> 00:02:01,342 Your son was caught, and I administered the beating, 33 00:02:01,349 --> 00:02:03,282 ... during which he died. 34 00:02:03,282 --> 00:02:06,796 But you'll be glad to know... you'll be glad to know 35 00:02:07,019 --> 00:02:07,905 that the ringleader was caught. 36 00:02:08,195 --> 00:02:12,445 So I don't think we'll be having more trouble with library discipline. 37 00:02:12,876 --> 00:02:14,120 You see, the library card system... 38 00:02:14,125 --> 00:02:14,955 I'm sorry... 39 00:02:14,955 --> 00:02:15,363 ...was... 40 00:02:16,433 --> 00:02:17,722 You beat my son to death? 41 00:02:18,067 --> 00:02:19,820 Yes, yes, so it would seem. 42 00:02:20,157 --> 00:02:21,736 Please, I'm not used to being interrupted. 43 00:02:22,596 --> 00:02:24,668 You see, the library card system was introduced... 44 00:02:24,668 --> 00:02:25,648 Well, exactly what happened? 45 00:02:25,648 --> 00:02:29,637 Well, apparently, boys were just slipping into the library and taking the books! 46 00:02:30,532 --> 00:02:31,712 No, during the beating! 47 00:02:32,277 --> 00:02:36,143 Oh, that? Well...well, one moment he was bending over, the next moment 48 00:02:36,143 --> 00:02:37,615 he was lying down, I mean, er... 49 00:02:37,615 --> 00:02:38,657 Dead? 50 00:02:38,917 --> 00:02:39,936 Mmm... deadish! ... 51 00:02:41,267 --> 00:02:47,637 Mr. Perkins I find this morbid fascination of yours with son's death quite disturbing. 52 00:02:48,415 --> 00:02:51,118 What I'm talking about is his attitude! 53 00:02:52,410 --> 00:02:54,345 And quite frankly, I can see where he gets it from. 54 00:02:55,410 --> 00:02:56,801 Well, it wasn't me that beat him to death! 55 00:02:57,046 --> 00:03:00,137 Well, that was perfectly obvious to me from the first day he arrived here. 56 00:03:00,383 --> 00:03:02,093 I wondered then, as I wonder now, 57 00:03:02,364 --> 00:03:05,467 if he might not have turned out a very different boy indeed if you had... 58 00:03:05,467 --> 00:03:09,067 administrated a few fatal beatings earlier. 59 00:03:10,982 --> 00:03:12,499 Are you mad!? 60 00:03:12,793 --> 00:03:17,240 I'm FURIOUS! In order to accommodate the funeral, 61 00:03:17,482 --> 00:03:20,231 I had to cancel afternoon school on Wednesday! 62 00:03:22,202 --> 00:03:23,493 This is preposterous! 63 00:03:23,558 --> 00:03:27,468 Yes, it is. Or at least, it would be 64 00:03:29,009 --> 00:03:31,076 if it were true 65 00:03:35,761 --> 00:03:36,780 .... What? 66 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:38,764 I've been joking, Mr Perkins. 67 00:03:40,363 --> 00:03:45,913 Pardon me, it's my strange academic sense of humour. I've been pulling your leg. 68 00:03:47,013 --> 00:03:48,504 Oh, thank god! 69 00:03:48,712 --> 00:03:51,729 I wouldn't cancel afternoon school to bury that little shit!