10 Rillington Place (1971)

Richard Attenborough: Christie

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• John Reginald Christie : It's the moral question that concerns me, the taking of life - no matter how rudimentary.

  Beryl Evans : It's not really... I'd be ever so grateful, Mr Christie.

• Timothy John Evans : How do you actually do it?

  John Reginald Christie : That's something only doctors and myself know about, it has to be secret you understand.

• Timothy John Evans : Don't you worry, Mr Christie, you'll get your money back. I'll be getting a new job shortly I shouldn't wonder. They've asked me if I want to train as a manager or as a managing director or something, you know.

  John Reginald Christie : Won't you have to read and write for that?

  Timothy John Evans : Oh no, no - you have secretaries, things like that, see.

  John Reginald Christie : Yes, as long as I get my 10 shillings back.

• John Reginald Christie : Tim, I dislke this business as much as you do. Just I happen to have picked up this knowledge while I was in training as a doctor before the war.

  Timothy John Evans : I didn't know you did all this medical stuff.

• John Reginald Christie : Ere, be careful - do you mind!

  Workman Willis : Mind the paintwork, mate.

  Workman Jones : And the priceless anti-ques.

• John Reginald Christie : An Italian named Evans?

• John Reginald Christie : I do know people, medical people, who could help you out.

  Beryl Evans : But that would cost money, wouldn't it?

  John Reginald Christie : Yes, that's true I'm afraid. They're very eminent men. One particularly I had in mind, I used to assist him in his earlier days, studied with him, its quite a simple matter.

  Beryl Evans : You mean you know how to do it, Mr Christie?

• John Reginald Christie : This stuff I use, 1 in 10 might die from it.

  Timothy John Evans : Die!

  John Reginald Christie : Well, that's an acceptable medical risk.

• Beryl Evans : What's that for?

  John Reginald Christie : Just a whiff of gas.

  Beryl Evans : Gas?

  John Reginald Christie : Like at the dentists, take away those little twinges.

  Beryl Evans : But that's poisonous isn't it?

  John Reginald Christie : Not the way we use it, something we had to learn in the war.

• Beryl Evans : I'm ever so nervous Mr Christie

  John Reginald Christie : There's no need to be, no need at all. Do you have undergarments on?

  Beryl Evans : Yes.

  John Reginald Christie : Well just slip them off will you.

• John Reginald Christie : You know about it, that's the point, you're an accessory before the act.

  Timothy John Evans : I done nothing. Oh God, I done nothing.

  John Reginald Christie : But you knew about it Tim, you consented, that's all they'll want to know.

  Timothy John Evans : I don't know what to do.

  John Reginald Christie : Well we could keep quiet about it couldn't we?

  Timothy John Evans : She's just lying there.

  John Reginald Christie : There are ways of disposing of bodies.

  Timothy John Evans : Not be buried you mean, proper service...

• John Reginald Christie : Who are the police going to believe - you or me that was a special constable for ten years?

  Timothy John Evans : Me of course, me!

  John Reginald Christie : Alright then Tim, well you go to the police and tell them. Alright then, off you go.

  Timothy John Evans : Alright I will, they'll have to believe the truth.

  John Reginald Christie : Well you go on then, if you're going.

• John Reginald Christie : You know the big manhole cover, by the front door, I'll lay her to rest there.

• Timothy John Evans : God Mr Christie, she was only young!

  John Reginald Christie : If she's come to me earlier...

• Timothy John Evans : What about the baby?

  John Reginald Christie : Well as it happens I know a couple in Acton, East Acton. They'll look after her for you till you get back.

• John Reginald Christie : He's killed the baby, strangled it with his tie.

  Mrs. Ethel Christie : He'd never do that.

  John Reginald Christie : Never mind what he'd never do, it's what he's done.

  Mrs. Ethel Christie : He worshipped that child.

• Timothy John Evans : What's it say Mr Christie?

  John Reginald Christie : Er, well you're in arrears on your payment for your furniture - I paid the man 10 shillings out of my own pocket - I don't want this house getting a name Tim!

• Timothy John Evans : I don't know, Mr Christie.

  John Reginald Christie : Well, Tim, if you haven't got complete confidence in my abilities?

  Timothy John Evans : I trust you, Mr Christie, of course I do.

• John Reginald Christie : You go to the police and I'll have to deny I had anything to do with it.

  Timothy John Evans : They'll know, they'll know from the operation you did.

  John Reginald Christie : There are no visible signs, not the way I did it.

  Timothy John Evans : Alright then, I'll tell them, then they'll know.

  John Reginald Christie : Who do you think they'll believe? Everyone knows those stories you come out with about your father being an Italian Count and everything.

  Timothy John Evans : It's just storifying.

• John Reginald Christie : Won't you come in a minute...?

  Beryl Evans : Well, I've got...

  John Reginald Christie : I've just put the kettle on.

  Beryl Evans : Oh.