film promised me
new boots if I went to bed with him.
Think I should?
Winter is almost over.
Exactly. And me a Siberian.
I am used to the cold.
Is your heart cold too?
What?
The girl wearing your skates,
about your age.
Two others were found with her,
also murdered. Their faces were cut off.
What has this to do with me?
What do you want?
Think back. Any idea
who took your skates?
I suspect everyo
coloured and
resplendent in an expanse of green lawn and trees. ALICE, an adolescent girl
in a long white dress runs away from camera towards the house and up the
back stairs.
The front of the house seen through open, ornate wrought--iron gates; the
silver BMW comes into shot at left and wheels away down the drive towards
the house. The dog races into shot in close pursuit.
The dog dashing along
Mist is when the sky is tired of flight
and rests its soft machine on ground:
then the world is dim and bookish
like engravings under tissue paper.
Rain is when the earth is television.
It has the property of making colours darker.
Model T is a room with the lock inside -
a key is turned to free the world
for movement, so quick there is a film
to watch for anything missed.
films a different medium.
Its one Im quite, quite keen on.
- A visual medium, dear.
- Yes, of course.
A very unforgivingly visual medium.
But thank you ever so much for coming.
I am little Michael Bluebottle.
I am an ace private detective.
Hes got his own scooter,
hes got his own make-up.
- He goes anywhere in fiction.
- And I am hotfoot after the criminals
what have stolen all the string!
I susp