Night Watch (1973)

Elizabeth Taylor: Ellen Wheeler

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• Ellen Wheeler : [into the phone]  Inspector Walker? Why didn't you come? Yes... I know. I have something to tell... Yes... I'm leaving in a few minutes. Inspector... there are two dead bodies in that old building. A man and a woman sitting side by side with their throats... cut. Yes, I know... but you must believe me this time. Won't you inspect that house just once more? Well... then send someone else over...

  [Ellen gasps as a loud click is heard and then a dial tone. She hangs up the phone] 

  Ellen Wheeler : [breaking character; sinister tone]  Heh, I always thought you would say that.

  [Appleby enters applauding; caught off-guard, Ellen is startled] 

  Appleby : Bravo. Bravo! Superb! Superb performance. Well... that's it then. Your plan complete in every last detail. Pity you also had to include my Laburnums.

  Ellen Wheeler : Sorry about that.

• Appleby : How nicely you've done the house. Did you know this was three rooms when I was a child? Beautiful, quite beautiful. I do love Indian art. Erotic, violent... your inspiration for this whole scheme, I assume. So charming. Oh... will you be away long?

  Ellen Wheeler : At the moment, that seems to depend on... you Mr. Appleby.

  Appleby : Oh, Mrs. Wheeler... Inspector Walker wouldn't believe me either. But I do admire you. How many "abandoned wives", or cockhols for that matter, would have had your courage to pull off what you did? I myself, did nothing.

  Ellen Wheeler : It's a great favor to ask you, but since you are so fond of this house...

  Appleby : Yes?

  Ellen Wheeler : Would it be possible for you to stay here and look after it while I'm away?

  Appleby : [flattered]  Well... I don't know what to say.

  Ellen Wheeler : The garden too of course. Here are the keys.

  Appleby : [takes the keys]  It will be a pleasure. I'll see that nothing is disturbed.

  Ellen Wheeler : Thank you, Mr. Appleby.

  Appleby : No... thank you, Mrs. Wheeler.

• Ellen Wheeler : Mr. Appleby, what on Earth have you been doing over there all the time?

  Appleby : I've been preparing a bed for some new friends of mine. There's no substitute for preparation. You can't just stick things in the ground and expect them to grow. This soil is poisoned. That damned obscenity of a house takes so much of our sunshine away you're lucky to get anything to grow.

• John Wheeler : What time is dinner?

  Ellen Wheeler : Well, I asked Delores to serve it at nine.

  John Wheeler : Great. I guess we should be ready by half-past ten.