WEBVTT 00:00:11.205 --> 00:00:14.245 Well now, Mr. Perkins, it was good of you to come in 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 00:00:18.478 --> 00:00:20.687 discussed over the electric telephone. 00:00:21.186 --> 00:00:23.123 No, no, absolutely, headmaster. 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 00:00:26.354 --> 00:00:29.289 Well, quite frankly, Tommy is in trouble. 00:00:29.419 --> 00:00:32.976 Recently, his behaviour have left a great deal to be desired 00:00:33.239 --> 00:00:33.863 Dear! 00:00:33.914 --> 00:00:37.948 He seems to take no interest in school life, whatsoever! 00:00:38.486 --> 00:00:43.811 He refuses to muckin on the sports field. And it's weeks since any master 00:00:43.829 --> 00:00:46.309 has received any written work from him. 00:00:46.506 --> 00:00:47.466 Oh, dear me! 00:00:47.544 --> 00:00:51.413 Quite frankly, Mr. Perkins, if he wasn't dead, I'd have him expelled. 00:00:52.749 --> 00:00:57.556 (laugh) 00:01:03.575 --> 00:01:05.367 I beg your pardon? 00:01:06.064 --> 00:01:08.283 Yes, expelled! 00:01:12.147 --> 00:01:15.090 If I wasn't making allowances for the fact that your son is dead, 00:01:15.090 --> 00:01:16.511 he'd be out in his ear. 00:01:16.558 --> 00:01:17.644 Tommy is dead?! 00:01:17.644 --> 00:01:22.941 Yes, he's lying up there in sickbay now, stiff as a board and bright green... 00:01:23.621 --> 00:01:27.511 and this is, I fear, typical of his current attitude 00:01:28.911 --> 00:01:31.468 You see, the boy has no sense of moderation: 00:01:31.732 --> 00:01:34.227 one moment he's flying around like a paper kite... 00:01:34.314 --> 00:01:36.393 and the next moment he's completely immovable. 00:01:38.312 --> 00:01:40.101 And beginning to smell. 00:01:41.588 --> 00:01:42.873 But how did he die? 00:01:43.671 --> 00:01:44.676 Well, is that important? 00:01:46.036 --> 00:01:47.418 Oh yes, I think so! 00:01:47.637 --> 00:01:52.121 Well... well... well, it's all got to do with the library, you see. 00:01:52.121 --> 00:01:55.529 We've had a lot of trouble recently with boys taking out library books 00:01:55.635 --> 00:01:57.431 ... without library cards. 00:01:57.742 --> 00:02:01.342 Your son was caught, and I administered the beating, 00:02:01.349 --> 00:02:03.282 ... during which he died. 00:02:03.282 --> 00:02:06.796 But you'll be glad to know... you'll be glad to know 00:02:07.019 --> 00:02:07.905 that the ringleader was caught. 00:02:08.195 --> 00:02:12.445 So I don't think we'll be having more trouble with library discipline. 00:02:12.876 --> 00:02:14.120 You see, the library card system... 00:02:14.125 --> 00:02:14.955 I'm sorry... 00:02:14.955 --> 00:02:15.363 ...was... 00:02:16.433 --> 00:02:17.722 You beat my son to death? 00:02:18.067 --> 00:02:19.820 Yes, yes, so it would seem. 00:02:20.157 --> 00:02:21.736 Please, I'm not used to being interrupted. 00:02:22.596 --> 00:02:24.668 You see, the library card system was introduced... 00:02:24.668 --> 00:02:25.648 Well, exactly what happened? 00:02:25.648 --> 00:02:29.637 Well, apparently, boys were just slipping into the library and taking the books! 00:02:30.532 --> 00:02:31.712 No, during the beating! 00:02:32.277 --> 00:02:36.143 Oh, that? Well...well, one moment he was bending over, the next moment 00:02:36.143 --> 00:02:37.615 he was lying down, I mean, er... 00:02:37.615 --> 00:02:38.657 Dead? 00:02:38.917 --> 00:02:39.936 Mmm... deadish! ... 00:02:41.267 --> 00:02:47.637 Mr. Perkins I find this morbid fascination of yours with son's death quite disturbing. 00:02:48.415 --> 00:02:51.118 What I'm talking about is his attitude! 00:02:52.410 --> 00:02:54.345 And quite frankly, I can see where he gets it from. 00:02:55.410 --> 00:02:56.801 Well, it wasn't me that beat him to death! 00:02:57.046 --> 00:03:00.137 Well, that was perfectly obvious to me from the first day he arrived here. 00:03:00.383 --> 00:03:02.093 I wondered then, as I wonder now, 00:03:02.364 --> 00:03:05.467 if he might not have turned out a very different boy indeed if you had... 00:03:05.467 --> 00:03:09.067 administrated a few fatal beatings earlier. 00:03:10.982 --> 00:03:12.499 Are you mad!? 00:03:12.793 --> 00:03:17.240 I'm FURIOUS! In order to accommodate the funeral, 00:03:17.482 --> 00:03:20.231 I had to cancel afternoon school on Wednesday! 00:03:22.202 --> 00:03:23.493 This is preposterous! 00:03:23.558 --> 00:03:27.468 Yes, it is. Or at least, it would be 00:03:29.009 --> 00:03:31.076 if it were true 00:03:35.761 --> 00:03:36.780 .... What? 00:03:36.920 --> 00:03:38.764 I've been joking, Mr Perkins. 00:03:40.363 --> 00:03:45.913 Pardon me, it's my strange academic sense of humour. I've been pulling your leg. 00:03:47.013 --> 00:03:48.504 Oh, thank god! 00:03:48.712 --> 00:03:51.729 I wouldn't cancel afternoon school to bury that little shit!