![]() ![]() "And so, just like many a Hollywood movie star, Irene Rankin was immortalised in concrete. I shall leave it to your judgement as to whether or not it would have sounded better in Latin." HITCH'S EPILOGUE (1 min 03 secs): Writers are always compromising to obtain commercial success. Regrettably the author wrote only his title in Latin and did the story in English. If you can't hear me in the back of the room please raise your hand and adjust the volume control. It is rewarding to know that there are still a few students interested in achieving high marks. At the risk of being facetious I would like to point out that Latin is a dead language. This evening's lecture has as its text a short story 'De Mortuis', translated from the Latin. and the professor invites her down into the cellar! Neither man wants to turn the professor in so they leave without too much of a fuss. They also point out, believing the wife to be dead, that she was notorious for a string of affairs across town. Just then his two friends put him on the spot and accuse him of murdering his wife and worry about being accessories because they know about it. The bank manager informs Rankin that his account is overdrawn due to his wife cashing some cheques. The phone rings and the professor goes upstairs to answer the call whilst the two men in the cellar discuss what they should do about the apparent murder/burial of the professor's wife. like finding out if there is a link between nutrition and disposition with some rats he is keeping in a cage down there.Īs the professor begins telling the men how the rats have developed an urge to want to kill one another Bud takes another look at the recently re-cemented floor and starts to draw some conclusions, especially as the professor said that his wife had left just before they arrived. ![]() They invite Rankin to come fishing with them but he refuses as he has other things to do. One of the men notices the large cemented area on the floor and inquires about it and Rankin explains that he has filled in a hole where some water had been leaking. There they discover Rankin who had tipped over a wheelbarrow whilst attending to the work he is doing down there. The two men are about to leave when they hear a loud crash coming from the cellar and go to investigate. The second man, Wally, then recounts an experience where Irene made a pass at him one night but he didn't do anything about it. The first man, Bud, recalls through a flashback sequence how Rankin's wife Irene met a truck driver at a local cafe before she promptly left with him after he makes some small talk with her. Upstairs two men enter his house calling for him but when there is no answer they make themselves comfortable in the house with some coffee whilst discussing Rankin's wife who apparently has been having an affair. Series 2, Episode 3 Robert Stevens Francis Cockrell (teleplay) John Collier (story) Robert Emhardt, Cara Williams, Henry Jones 14 October 1956 24:23 (total) Ī sweaty Professor Rankin carries a bag of mortar into his cellar where he starts mixing it into concrete to fill a large hole he has made in the ground. ![]()
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