A Matter of Life and Death Page #4

Avec plaisir.

Just say, "What ho".

Bon.

One is starved for Technicolor up there.

What a night for love!

Drink, darling?

Mon ami.

Evening.

I think I keep this for a little.

And how are you, my friend?

Never been better.

- June, wake...|- She cannot wake.

We are talking in space, not in time.

- Are you cracked?|- Look at your watch.

It has not moved since you said|so charmingly "Drink, darling?"

Nor will it move,...

.. nor will anything move...

.. until we have finished our little talk.

It is only a trick.

Who are you?

We should've met yesterday|at 04.10, mon cher.

Unfortunately I missed you.

You couldn't have because I wasn't here.

I bring you a message from Mr Trubshaw.

Bob?

- Bob's dead.|- Oh, yes, he's dead.

He says... "What ho!"

That sounds like Trubshaw.|But he is dead, isn't he?

- En effet. But how? Why?|- Cannon shell.

And what should happen to a man...

.. who jumps from his aircraft|without his parachute?

How do you know?

But it is I who am telling you, my friend.

It is I!

Your time was up,...

.. but I missed you because of your|ridiculous English climate.

I am French.

- But what do you want now?|- You, my friend.

- What for?|- To conduct you.

- Where to?|- To the training centre.

- Training for what?|- For another world.

You don't mean...?

But, my dear friend,|that is just what I do mean.

Oh, this is absolutely fantastic!

- June!|- (conductor laughs)

June!

All right, and what if I refuse to go?

But you cannot refuse. Your time was up.

Now, by mistake,|you overstayed by about,...

.. speaking in time, of course,...

.. 20 hours.

The advantage was exclusively yours.|You lost nothing, you only gained.

What about her?

(conductor chuckles)

Exquise.

You will see her again|when her time comes.

She will live to be... ninety-seven.|I looked her up in the files.

- I'm in love with her.|- But, my friend, what is love?

The feeling of the moment,...

.. but I represent eternity.

The law of this world and the other.

- Good, but what is law?|- Law is law.

- Law is based on reason.|- That is so.

Now, yesterday I wasn't in love.|Today I am.

But what is love?|How many people are in love?

Soldiers, airmen, how many sailors?

Do they protest when their time is up?|No, they don't.

- They have no right, but I have.|- Why?

Look, I've fallen in love|because of your mistake.

I'm in a different position|from what I was in last night.

I expected to die, I was ready to die.

It wasn't my fault I didn't, it was yours!

- What government do you represent?|- None!

What laws govern the place?

I cannot express any political views.

A respectable place|must have law of appeal.

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