paper was light gold in medieval times
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oh no tobacco sugar
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that everything we thought we knew about
the world
might turn out to be completely wrong
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i can't believe i've lost
be all right dad
it'll have to be
you know what this story is about it's
about four hours so far
it's about chasing yourself
hunting the things
that you hate about yourself and then
trying to harpoon them and then trying
to help
your brother always reminded me of
gregory peck
i always reminded you of the great white
whale
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wow
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fetch milly
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mr snell it's seven in the morning i
didn't get to my office for two hours
two hours mr snell
what have you found there really
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face
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kill me
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you used to be fun i'd like my trains to
run on time
i'm fed up well there's always the world
of employment i want to do what you do
solicit well it's not quite the word we
use well they must do crash courses oh
you got to give neurosurgery
does anything ever happen in this back
water
is that
oh
i don't know but judging by what he's
carrying it's probably soldier i was
going to say an artist oh really well
you obviously got all the brains
mind you simon and i got everything else
it's your lucky day soldier boy
bless you sorry mr case
yes
um well if you'd like to come through
you may need these you are glorious
gloria
so how can i help you it's the case
my old lady went down
oh i'm so sorry
there was an explosion one minute she
was there the next was gone
i'm sorry can i get this straight are
you saying your wife blew
up my wife
no
she left me years ago
my boat she sank
your boat
of course yes
where'd you get that
oh um
on the beach it was washed ashore
that's a
that's my old lady
and i keep this
by all means
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um uh mr case
you wanted to see me
yeah i did i mean i do
those bastards
excuse me insurance bastards
they're refusing to pay out
are they giving any reason
that's what i want you to find out well
rest assured i should get to the bottom
of i shall
use all my professional zeal uh and
diligence in this case mr case
you want to see where it happened
what what do you mean let you go to see
they did it on bloody purpose the
avenging bloody council they put me on
their bloody hit list now mr snell i am
with a client yeah and i'm him
actually
no you'll have to excuse me
i'm going sailing
so what made the old lady go down do you
think an explosion from what might have
caused that i'd know she was an old boat
i see
there was nothing dodgy about my boat
warned you all the legislation but how
much you must you can catch and how much
you can sell
and the mess of your nets
so i saved
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oh
we're here
yeah
i can't see much she's down there
last we saw there was
a mast going under
is it deep of course it is it's the
ocean vial it's it's as deep as it is
wide
not in any profound sense in that sense
of course it's actually
rather shallow
you all right dad
i still can't believe she's down
it's no use looking for answers the sea
keeps her secrets
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we need this payout
yeah you have been keeping up with your
insurance premiums
can you think of any other reason why
they
they wouldn't pay out
no
nothing
right i want you to pay a visit to the
insurance companies head office that is
phone now i want physical representation
showing we mean business right come
across it and uh have a wash first here
yeah i'm across that too
mr gundam
oh
what's mrs thing doing here
let's [\h__\h] end up
mr kingdom wine
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you do like fish
um well i i had a goldfish once
this is tastier than any goldfish
that's very kind to you thank you very
much
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good
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oh
dear
so how's the voyage
charming
chummy
better
i've just put chocolate biscuits down in
front of here
oh yes yes i see them
wonderful your favorites
mmm
very chocolatey
biscuity too i shouldn't wonder
okay what's on your mind nothing
simon
ah
hit me when i was out there almost
knocked me into the water
i don't usually think of him that much
these days
only every five seconds or so no
nonsense
ten minutes
i think it's good that you think of him
you shouldn't shy away from it
i wouldn't want to be forgotten
no one would
hmm
unusual thing happened
do you remember the wallers
their son christopher was friendly with
simon mr waller the milkman well milkman
he may be but he drives a rather
expensive sports car how can they afford
that
his milk must be
good well we've got some gorgeous lights
coming into the room today unfortunately
it's quite a
small class which is a shame
but it does of course mean that i can
spend more time with each of you
individually
we are going to be concentrating on life
drawing and i'm very pleased to tell you
that i've managed to procure us
our very own life model so
miss kingdom
when you're ready
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my friends call me beatrice
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effect on a man
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look mr kingdom it's a vendetta just
because i wouldn't let them build that
car park they're seeking vengeance upon
me look i can't get my front door open
it's scockier got out through the window
otherwise it would have been trapped
inside
well perry's the thought they did this
on purpose
what exactly do you want me to do about
it i want you to sue them
on what
grounds on this ground here they can't
do this to me
well
at least you can feel safer in the
knowledge that pedestrians have to slow
down when they pass your house
i want at least a million for this
the speed bump is blocking his front
door you're denying him access to his
own property yes i want you to do
something about it i want you to send
someone down to correct this oversight
and i want you to do it straight away
preferably to build it even higher so he
can't get out of his window either
gonna wear something fishy hey
mr case isn't getting paid a penny
mainly because 20 years ago we sunk
another boat on purpose
did they prove it
he did time in prison for it
and it looks like he's going
back he'd thought he'd mention that one
himself
still
i guess you can't trust everyone that
walks through our daughter
tom
when i asked you if there was anything i
needed to know
you forgot some rather vital information
didn't you look i paid my dose this has
been a complete waste of time and effort
just because i was guilty then doesn't
mean i'm guilty now and how am i
supposed to prove that in a court of law
so i'm tired with this forever huh well
sometimes
life can be everlasting condemnation it
was bad luck an accident if you continue
with this claim your insurance company
will begin criminal proceedings against
you
shall i tell you about criminal
they've been taking my insurance
payments for how many years and never
once did they tell me that they had no
intention of paying out if something
like this happened and i've been paying
double because of last time
they're the ones who should be locked up
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i didn't sink my boat
i loved her
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what a chance alright
people like him keep putting the
insurance premiums up the reason why i'm
still riding my stupid bicycle
what if he's not lying there
no
what
no
just know we are washing our hands of
this
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nope
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no
i'll take that as a yes then but he's a
con man you didn't see him clasping the
boat's nameplate to himself an act
michelle the man was almost in tears
lyle
i believed him
then i'm not putting him in jail again
look he came to see us if he's been
chanting him to be found out
which he has and he will be meanwhile we
end up out of pocket while he knits
several thousand mailbags you go in
there and find out how much it'll cost
to send down divers and or inspection
teams into the wreck if there's been
foul play they'll find out
ah
to be open
why are you coming with me you've got to
learn the ropes on your own i can't keep
nurse maybe you off you go
hello
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there you go
okay
looks like words got out
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yeah
oh it looks like looks like you come
good mr kingdom they've had men here all
afternoon
oh yeah yes sir checks in bust bye
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plummet hell
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look you know perfectly well you cannot
erect a speed sign that close to
somebody's front door i want two million
yes
look i know the need for one but truly
you cannot put it there
you're a natural
there aren't many people who could strip
off like that
depends who's in the room
i was hoping i could show you my true
appreciation
you show me yours i'll show you mine
that's your drink
oh
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it's gonna cost five thousand to send
the right team down the cameras exactly
yes but five thousand now could become
fifty thousand later i don't know you're
a gambling mud i'm not but
my brother simon was i'm more of a we're
wear-up of pros and cons
yeah well this is a con in every sense
dad said you found out about the time
before surprise surprise
i was on that boat last week and i swear
to you i didn't see dad do anything
that boat was everything to him
and he knows the sea
only a crazy man would sink a boat that
far out well crazy sometimes equates to
desperate in our world i'm talking about
risking drowning mate
listen
i may have come up with a solution can
we
go inside
yeah
we are neither junctional jury here
right no i'm just saying i know i used
to be like you once but
fortunately i learned my lesson
if i've grown to prove my innocence
well i'm afraid it may well be the only
cost left open to him
i don't have
500 let alone 5 000.
like i said
the ac is strapped to turn okay around
my profit margins
now couldn't you diversify i don't know
what
taking tourists on trips
we're fishermen not travel agents
well perhaps you could borrow the money
a short term then seems to me it's no
lose situation after all the trawler
wasn't sabotaged
you will be proven right
we're loaned out
but this is your livelihood we're
talking about here
you almost have to find the money
somehow
i don't see any way around that
what about the motorbike can you sell
that
well are you save yours for that
you can't go fishing on it can you
i suppose i know
you're not selling the bike
there's got to be a legal loophole
and i'm counting on you finding it
you don't be still there easy
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it's going off
so is our beloved leader he's losing his
touch gloria
and i'm going to prove it to him
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sometimes a man's got to do what a man's
got to do to stand up and take
responsibility
now you may well be the senior figure
within this company but that doesn't
mean you're always right
so i'm going to go down there and take a
look for myself
but you've always said that
being on the water disagrees with you
yeah well being on it does we're being
under it well
that's a different kettlebell
fish
down there and the gazelle of the brine
yeah well perhaps not quite the right
analogy but uh forget where you're
coming from
let's go fishing
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expecting a long excursion it could be
my little swoony boy you will go easy on
him won't you i'll try and you don't
have to hurt him just because you can
whoever said i was gonna do that that
gleam in your eye did
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yes
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never let it be said that peter kingdom
isn't a resourceful man
he'll soon get all this cleared up
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so what am i looking for though oh no
those buggers probably thought i cut
something
right well i'll just take as many
pitches as possible
good luck
most agreeable
all will be well
well
he must be on his second reel of film by
now
how much oxygen is there in the tank
nile
doubt he heard you well i doubt it too
but i
i believe i'm in a mild form of panic
loyal
loud loyal
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ah
oh
thank god there's a strong current came
and just
just took me away
oh i live in biamos here
come again
i live with biafra
we're in france
we're
that's impossible
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is
bonjour
pretty amusing france
honestly lyle i mean holland possibly
but france well i didn't know they were
holiday makers
panic in your
voice i was worried they'd think i was
an asylum seeker
anyway moving swiftly on how did you get
on down there what did you find anything
worth photographing
not quite what do you mean
not quite as in the image is a bit
blurred not quite as i got swept away
before i made it to the wreck hmm
well there was a very strong current
down there
what a tremendous waste of time well
thank you for your concern i could have
died yes but you didn't did you now
we're back to square one and tom casey's
life has sunk as deep as his boat we've
got nothing to show for our efforts i
was quit while we're ahead
we're not ahead are we lyle we're behind
way way behind
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huh
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get me peter kingdom
oh hello
you're simon's brother
um
yes that's correct well half correct i'm
he's half brother you don't look much
like him well if it doesn't say wouldn't
it does david amber look like
dicky well anyway simon always said to
come to you if we needed legal advice
he was such a good friend to christopher
one of the few that stood by him right
to the end well you must
must miss your son christopher very much
that's the way
we're hoping to build a swimming pool in
our back garden but our neighbor
dreadful man claim it will ruin his view
of whatever he thinks he's looking at
a swimming pool that's not huge
12 meters by five yeah that's quite
substantial for swimming pool isn't it
the milk business must be being rather
kind here i'm retired from all that all
them early mornings this is from
christopher's bank account
we never knew he was planning to leave
us money but we keep receiving these
installments it's quite unexpected this
must be from some sort of old business
venture lucky for us lucky
yes
very lucky
oh what were you up to simon simon
well i don't suppose it matters much
does it matter
the wallers have got their money and
they seem to be happy
but how can a dead man keep making money
i can barely make enough
there's a ninth taste
i'm glad you agree with me
i'm doing all right
yes i am
anyway
what does a dog know about earning a
living
don't wait up for me
ah
the artist dude
he's great peter
in lots of different ways
can this really be beatrice kingdom
speaking
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maybe this is what i've been looking for
uh
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peter kingdom
it's not fair mr kingdom it's really not
fair at all what about a second chance
um we're doing our best mr case i only
want to live my life we wouldn't let you
down
no no
firstly take the water from me then they
take the fish
you can trust me
no
they're taking everything else
mr case
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john
where's your father no idea why what
didn't he mention anything well no i
ain't seen him but the wagon was gone
when i got up this morning wagon you
don't want to know what's in there
tell me anyway
two thousand gallons of slurry
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good morning
oh it's a treat
it's not for eating
what's it for stay there
i just have to paint you
this is different no no no don't touch
anything and don't smile
just stay exactly
as you are
okay
just stay like that oh beaters
you are magnificent
thanks
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now
i've read through everything and i can't
find a loophole anywhere
your previous conviction means that they
have immense grounds for not paying out
we try and sue them and go to court well
we won't get anywhere
why do they always win the big people
that is why do they always get their own
way
what would you say to this
and normally i would never dream
of suggesting this
but suppose
i paid for the salvage team
and refunded myself from the insurance
payout
and you would do that
only on the grounds that you gave me an
honest answer a little thing
now i mean it tom an honest answer
i to i
two men in a cell one whose life is
hanging by a thread
okay
did you sabotage your boat
no
could you let me out now please
where you going
i'm going to raise the titanic
well
that's a waste of five grand
it could be fine
we belong now
what if what it wasn't an accident what
would happen that's the same as last
time prison i'm afraid soon
i don't know if i can watch this
not even his own son believes him now
how reassuring
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what's taking them so long
you can't get it right every time maybe
we can't
but we do have a duty in life to try and
do just that
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you do believe me don't you
well
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they look about ready for us
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oh
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i don't want to say i told yourself i'm
not a type of person
but you told me so
he lied to me to my face and i thought i
knew people
character assessment and judgment that
was always my forte
i've built a career on it
just like call the insurance company
tomorrow
i'll do it tomorrow
in the meantime i'm gonna take a long
hard look in the mirror
and have words with myself
some people may not be cleverer than you
but they can't be crafty well remind me
never to take up poker well even that
game no matter how good you are you
can't win every hand
i was so sure of them
i mean you risked drowning him and his
son
why did i believe him
what made ahab chase
well great it turns out that i am a fool
no
just that you can be fooled
there's a big difference
what would happen to mr case
i should imagine he'd get a prison for
it
i believed him that man fighting against
the big corporation
and books and films they always win
which is why we file them under fiction
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i know you said we should meet tomorrow
tomorrow's only a few hours away anyways
the hell are you doing
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shouldn't i be asking you that question
look beatrice
now you're here
care to join us
beatrice
peter you bloody marvel you you've taken
them on and you beat them teach them to
come at me with a bloody vendetta there
was no more than a few phone calls as
you'll discover when you get my bill
all right
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you now need a permit what
where'd that come from
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what off earth are you doing down there
don't worry
what
happened think of something bad
like the earth spinning into the sun
and then triple it
the artist
you and he
this is the first time you've ever been
on the receiving end
horrible isn't it
you can say i deserve it i don't mind
no one deserves it
what am i gonna do
you'll get over it in time after all i
mean it wasn't a huge relationship size
doesn't matter
it's the feelings
true
i miss simon
me too
he would have gone around and punched
that artist
he probably would as well any brother
would
oh no
pugenism isn't really my sport you know
i'm more of a cricket man
son of nether on willow
light spattering of applause
lemonade
maybe a slice of sponge cake
maybe someone to see
ah
sorry about your father
well it's me that's sorry
this is for you
you're a five thousand pound
why i sold the bike i i thought it was
your pride and joy
well somehow i
don't think i'll need it where i'm going
so you've sabotaged the boat i love the
sea
just like my dad do
but we were being squeezed out strangled
we're too small in operation
i thought with the payout we could get a
bigger boat with that comes a bigger
catch and without a decent profit you
blew your boat up you risked drowning
we're doing that anyway mr kingdom
going under
flipping away
come on
mr kingdom thinks he'll get paid out now
he'll go to court and with my testimony
find it hard to establish enough
enough calls
your son's name isn't on the insurance
documents
i just wanted to be on the water with
you
well i'll be out soon enough
i need you now
mr case um
every time you go out to sea
look to the land and
one day sooner than you think
you'll see your son
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i don't think they're biting i didn't
know you angled
you don't
you were right then
judgment of character remains intact
from another day
yes i was right
but sometimes you know being right feels
all wrong
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god i'm an idiot
well it's in the jeans
what am i gonna do if i see the artist
again
i can tell you what you do
so you stick your chin out you raise
your head up high and you smile at it
rather punch him in the head
maybe hold a rock or two smiling would
hurt him more trust me
you know if you weren't here i am here
yeah but if you weren't
i don't think i could cope
should i tell you a secret beatrice
if you weren't here right now
i don't think i could
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oh
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you