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A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Season 1, Episode 1 — A Clockwork Orange (1971)

#1
Alex: There was me.

#2
That is, Alex, and my three droogs.

#3
That is, Pete, Georgie and dim.

#4
And we satin the korova milk bar...

#5
Trying to make up our rassoodocks...

#6
What to do with the evening.

#7
The korova milk bar sold milk plus.

#8
Milk plus ve/iocet or synthemesc or drencrom...

#9
Which is what we were drinking.

#10
This would sharpen you up...

#11
And make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence.

#12
Alex: One thing I could never stand...

#13
Was to see a filthy, dirty old drunkie...

#14
Howling away at the filthy songs of his fathers...

#15
And going "blerp blerp" in between...

#16
As it might be a filthy old orchestra in his stinking guts.

#17
I could never stand to see anyone like that, whatever his age.

#18
But more especially when he was real old, like this one was.

#19
Man: Can you spare some cutter, me brothers?

#20
Go on! Do me in, you bastard cowards!

#21
I don't want to live anyway.

#22
Not in a stinking world like this.

#23
Oh?

#24
And what's so stinking about it?

#25
It's a stinking world because there's no law and order anymore!

#26
It stinks because it lets the young get onto the old...

#27
Like you done!

#28
It's no world for an old man any longer.

#29
What kind of a world is it at all?

#30
Men on the moon.

#31
Men spinning around the earth.

#32
And there's not no attention paid...

#33
To earthly law and order no more.

#34
Man: Right. Get her clothes. Woman: No!

#35
Alex: It was at the derelict casino that we came across Billy-boy...

#36
And his four droogs.

#37
They were about to pen'orm a little of the old...

#38
In-out, in-out on a weepy young devotchka they had there.

#39
Alex: Ho, ho, ho!

#40
Well, if it isn't...

#41
Fat, stinking...

#42
Billy goat Billy-boy in poison.

#43
How are thou...

#44
Thou globby bottle of cheap, stinking chip-oil?

#45
Come and get one in the yarbles...

#46
If you have any yarbles...

#47
You eunuch jelly, thou.

#48
Let's get them, boys!

#49
Man: Yahoo!

#50
Alex: The police!

#51
Come on. Let's go!

#52
All: Yahoo!

#53
Alex: The durango 95 purred away real horrorshow.

#54
A nice, warm vibratey feeling all through your guttiwuts.

#55
Soon it was trees and dark, my brothers...

#56
With real country dark.

#57
Alex: We fillied around with other travelers of the night...

#58
Playing hogs of the road.

#59
Then we headed west.

#60
What we were after now was the old surprise visit.

#61
That was a real kick...

#62
And good for laughs and lashing of the old ultra-violent.

#63
Who on earth could that be?

#64
I'll go and see.

#65
Yes, who is it?

#66
Alex: Excuse me, can you please help? There's been a terrible accident!

#67
My friend's bleeding to death! Can I please use your telephone?

#68
We don't have a telephone. You'll have to go somewhere else.

#69
Alex: But, missus, it's a matter of life and death!

#70
Who is it, dear?

#71
Woman: A young man. He says there's been an accident.

#72
He wants to use the telephone.

#73
I suppose you better let him in.

#74
Woman: Wait a minute, will you?

#75
I'm sorry, but we don't usually let strangers in...

#76
What do you want from me?

#77
Alex: Pete, check the rest of the house. Dim...

#78
Woman: Ah!

#79
Dim: Ready for love.

#80
Viddy well, little brother.

#81
Viddy well.

#82
Alex: We were all feeling a bit shagged and fagged and fashed...

#83
It having been an evening of some small energy expenditure.

#84
So we got rid of the auto...

#85
And stopped at the korova for a nightcap.

#86
Hello, Lucy.

#87
Had a busy night?

#88
We've been working hard too.

#89
Pardon me, luce.

#90
Alex: There was some sophistos from the TV studios around the corner...

#91
Laughing and govoreeting.

#92
The devotchka smeched away...

#93
Not caring about the wicked world one bit.

#94
Then the disk on the stereo twanged off and out.

#95
And in the short silence before the next one came on...

#96
She suddenly came with a burst of singing.

#97
Alex: And it was, like, for a moment, my brothers...

#98
Some great bird had flown into the milk bar.

#99
And I felt all the malenky little hairs on my plott...

#100
Standing endwise.

#101
And the shivers crawling up like slow, malenky lizards...

#102
And then down again.

#103
Because I knew what she sang.

#104
It was a bit from the glorious "9th" by Ludwig Van.

#105
What did you do that for?

#106
For being a bastard with no manners.

#107
Without a dook of an idea about how to comport yourself public-wise.

#108
I don't like you should do what you done.

#109
And I'm not your brother no more and wouldn't want to be.

#110
Watch that.

#111
Do watch that...

#112
If to continue to be on live thou dost wish.

#113
Great, bouncy yarblockos to you!

#114
I'll meet you with chain or nozh or britva anytime.

#115
I'm not having you aiming tolchocks at me reasonless.

#116
It stands to reason, I won't have it.

#117
A nozh scrap anytime you say.

#118
A bit tired maybe.

#119
Best not to say more.

#120
Bedways is rightways now.

#121
80 best we go homeways and get a bit of spatchka.

#122
Right, right?

#123
Pete & Georgie: Right, right.

#124
Alex: Right, right.

#125
Alex: Where I lived was with my dada and mum...

#126
In municipal flat block 18-a, linear north.

#127
Alex: It had been a wonderful evening.

#128
And what I needed now to give it the perfect ending...

#129
Was a bit of the old Ludwig Van.

#130
Alex: Oh, bliss!

#131
Bliss and heaven!

#132
It was gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh.

#133
It was like a bird of rarest spun heaven metal.

#134
Or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship...

#135
Gravity all nonsense now.

#136
As I slooshied...

#137
I knew such lovely pictures.

#138
Alex?

#139
Alex?

#140
What do you want?

#141
Mother: It's past 8, Alex.

#142
You don't want to be late for school, son.

#143
Bit of a pain in the gulliver, mum.

#144
Leave us be, and I'll try and sleep it off.

#145
And then I'll be as right as Dodgers for this after.

#146
But you've not been to school all week, son.

#147
Alex: Got to rest, mum.

#148
Got to get fit.

#149
Otherwise, I'm liable to miss a lot more school.

#150
Mother: I'll put your breakfast in the oven.

#151
I've got to be off meself now.

#152
All right, mum.

#153
Have a nice day at the factory.

#154
He's not feeling too good again this morning, dad.

#155
Yes. Yes, I heard.

#156
You know what time he got in?

#157
No, I don't. I'd taken me sleepers.

#158
I wonder...

#159
Where exactly is it he goes to work of evenings.

#160
Well, like he says...

#161
It's mostly odd things he does.

#162
Helping-like...

#163
Here and there, as it might be.

#164
Hi, hi, hi, Mr. Deltoid.

#165
Funny surprise, seeing you here.

#166
Alex-boy.

#167
Awake at last, yes?

#168
I met your mother on the way to work, yes?

#169
She gave me the key.

#170
She said something about a pain somewhere.

#171
Hence, not at school, yes?

#172
A rather intolerable pain in the head, brother sir.

#173
It should be clear by this afterlunch.

#174
Or certainly by this evening, yes.

#175
The evening's the great time, isn't it, Alex-boy?

#176
- Cup of the old chai, sir? - No time, yes.

#177
Sit, sit, sit!

#178
To what do I owe this extreme pleasure, sir?

#179
Anything wrong, sir?

#180
Wrong? Why should you think of anything being wrong?

#181
Have you been doing something you shouldn't?

#182
Just a manner of speech.

#183
Yes, well, it's just a manner of speech from your...

#184
Post-corrective advisor to you that you watch out, little Alex.

#185
Because next time it's not going to be the corrective school.

#186
Next time it'll be the barley place, and all my work ruined.

#187
If you've no respect for yourself...

#188
You at least might have some for me, who sweated over you.

#189
A big, black Mark, I tell you, for every one we don't reclaim.

#190
A confession of failure for every one of you...

#191
Who ends up in the stripy hole.

#192
I've been doing nothing I shouldn't.

#193
The millicents have nothing on me, brother.

#194
Sir, I mean.

#195
Deltoid: Cut out this clever talk about millicents.

#196
Just because the police haven't picked you up...

#197
Doesn't mean that you've not been up to some nastiness.

#198
There was a bit of nastiness last night.

#199
Some very extreme nastiness, yes?

#200
A few of a certain Billy-boy's friends were ambulanced off late.

#201
Your name was mentioned.

#202
The words got to me by the usual channels.

#203
Certain friends of yours were named also.

#204
Nobody can prove anything about anybody, as usual.

#205
I'm warning you, little Alex...

#206
Being a good friend to you as always...

#207
The one man in this sore and sick community...

#208
Who wants to save you from yourself!

#209
What gets into you all?

#210
We've been studying the problem for damn well near a century.

#211
But we get no farther with our studies.

#212
You got a good home here. Good, loving parents.

#213
You've got not too bad of a brain.

#214
Is it some devil that crawls inside of you?

#215
Alex: Nobody's got anything on me.

#216
I been out of the millicents' rookers for a long time.

#217
That's just what worries me.

#218
A bit too long to be safe.

#219
You're about due, by my reckoning.

#220
That's why I'm warning you...

#221
To keep your handsome young proboscis out of the dirt.

#222
Do I make myself clear?

#223
Alex: As an unmuddied lake, sir.

#224
As clear as an azure sky of deepest summer.

#225
You can rely on me, sir.

#226
Alex: Excuse me, brother.

#227
I ordered this two weeks ago. Can you see if it's arrived?

#228
Just a minute.

#229
Pardon me, ladies.

#230
Enjoying that, are you, my darling?

#231
A bit cold and pointless, isn't it, my lovely?

#232
What's happened to yours, my little sister?

#233
Who you getting, bratty?

#234
Goggly gogol? Johnny Zhivago?

#235
The heaven 17?

#236
What you got back home to play your fuzzy warbles on?

#237
I bet you've got little pitiful, portable picnic players.

#238
Come with uncle and hear all proper.

#239
Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones.

#240
You are invited.

#241
- Hi, hi, hi, there. - Well, hello.

#242
He are here!

#243
He have arrived!

#244
Hooray!

#245
Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well!

#246
To what do I owe the extreme pleasure...

#247
Of this surprising visit?

#248
We got worried.

#249
Georgie: There we were, waiting and drinking at the old knifey moloko...

#250
And you had not turned up.

#251
And we thought you might have been, like...

#252
Offended by something or other.

#253
So around we come to your abode.

#254
Appy Polly ioggies.

#255
I had something of a pain in the gulliver, so I had to sleep.

#256
I was not awakened when I gave orders for wakening.

#257
Dim: Sorry about the pain.

#258
Using the gulliver too much-like, maybe.

#259
Giving orders and discipline and such, perhaps.

#260
You sure the pain is gone?

#261
You sure you'd not be happier back in bed?

#262
Let's get things nice and sparkling clear.

#263
This sarcasm, if I may call it such...

#264
Does not become you, my little brothers.

#265
As I am your droog and leader...

#266
I'm entitled to know what goes on.

#267
Now then, dim.

#268
What does that great big horsey gape of a grin portend?

#269
All right, no more picking on dim, brother.

#270
That's part of the new way.

#271
New way?

#272
What's this about a new way?

#273
There's been some very large talk behind my sleeping back, and no error.

#274
If you must have it, have it, then.

#275
We go around shop crasting and the like...

#276
Coming out with a pitiful rookerfull of money each.

#277
And will the English in the coffee mesto...

#278
Saying he can fence anything any malchick tries to crast.

#279
The shiny stuff. The ice!

#280
The big, big money's available, is what will the English says.

#281
Big, big money.

#282
And what will you do with the big, big, big money?

#283
Have you not everything you need?

#284
If you need a motorcar, you pluck it from the trees.

#285
If you need pretty Polly, you take it.

#286
Brother, you think and talk sometimes like a little child.

#287
Little child, yeah.

#288
Tonight we pull a man-size crast.

#289
Tonight's a man-size crast!

#290
Alex: Good! Real horrorshow!

#291
Initiative comes to thems that wait.

#292
I've taught you much, my little droogies.

#293
Now tell me what you had in mind, Georgie-boy.

#294
The old moloko plus first. Would you not say?

#295
- Something to sharpen us up. - Some of them moloko plus.

#296
Georgie: You especially. We have the start.

#297
Yeah, we got a start on you! Yeah, moloko plus, eh?

#298
Alex: As we walked along the flatblock Marina...

#299
I was calm on the outside, but thinking all the time.

#300
So now it was to be Georgie the general...

#301
Saying what we should do and what not to do.

#302
And dim as his mindless, grinning bulldog.

#303
But suddenly I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy ones...

#304
And that the oomny ones used, like...

#305
Inspiration and what bog sends.

#306
For now it was lovely music that came to my aid.

#307
There was a window open with a stereo on...

#308
And I viddied right at once what to do.

#309
I had not cut into any of dim's main cables.

#310
And so with the help of a clean tashtook...

#311
The red, red kroovy soon stopped.

#312
And it did not take long to quieten the two wounded soldiers...

#313
Down in the snug of the Duke of New York.

#314
Now they knew who was master and leader.

#315
Sheep, thought I.

#316
But a real leader knows always when, like...

#317
To give and show generous to his unders.

#318
Well...

#319
Now we're back to where we were.

#320
Yes?

#321
Just like before, and all forgotten?

#322
Right, right, right?

#323
Right.

#324
Right.

#325
Right.

#326
Well, Georgie-boy...

#327
This idea of yours for tonight.

#328
Tell us all about it, then.

#329
Georgie: Not tonight.

#330
Not this nochy.

#331
Come, come, come, Georgie-boy.

#332
You're a big, strong chelloveck, like us all.

#333
We're not little children, are we, Georgie-boy?

#334
What, then, didst thou in thy mind have?

#335
Georgi e: It's this health farm.

#336
A bit out of the town.

#337
Isolated.

#338
It's owned by this rich ptitsa...

#339
Who lives there with her cats.

#340
The place is shut down for a week...

#341
And she's completely on her own.

#342
It's full up with, like, gold and silver...

#343
And, like, jewels.

#344
Alex: Tell me more, Georgie-boy.

#345
Tell me more.

#346
Weathers: Oh, shit!

#347
Weathers: Who's there?

#348
Alex: Excuse me, can you please help?

#349
There's been a terrible accident!

#350
Can I please use your telephone for an ambulance?

#351
I'm frightfully sorry.

#352
There's a telephone in the public house a mile down the road.

#353
I suggest you use that.

#354
Alex: But missus, this is an emergency!

#355
It's a matter of life and death!

#356
Me friend's lying in the middle of the road, bleeding to death!

#357
I'm very sorry...

#358
But I never open the door to strangers after dark.

#359
Alex: Very well, madam.

#360
You can't be blamed for being suspicious...

#361
With so many scoundrels and rogues of the night about.

#362
I'll try and get help at the pub, then.

#363
I'm sorry if I disturbed you.

#364
Thank you very much.

#365
Good night.

#366
Alex: Dim, bend down.

#367
I'll get in that window and open the front door.

#368
Hello. Radlett police station?

#369
Good evening. It's miss weathers at woodmere health farm.

#370
Hello. I'm sorry to bother you, but something rather odd just happened.

#371
It's probably nothing at all, but you never know.

#372
A young man rang the bell, asking to use the telephone.

#373
He said there's been some kind of accident.

#374
The thing that caught my attention was what he said.

#375
His words sounded like those quoted in the papers this morning...

#376
In connection with the writer and his wife who were assaulted.

#377
Cop: When did this take place, ma 'am?

#378
Just a few minutes ago.

#379
I think we 'd better send a patrol car around to see you.

#380
If you think that's necessary.

#381
But I'm quite sure he's gone away now.

#382
He'll be there in a few minutes.

#383
- All right, fine. - My pleasure, ma'am.

#384
Thank you very much.

#385
Weathers: Ah!

#386
Alex: Hi, hi, hi, there.

#387
At last we meet.

#388
Our brief govorett through the letter-hole was not satisfactory.

#389
Who are you?

#390
How the hell did you get in here?

#391
What the bloody hell do you think you're doing?

#392
Naughty, naughty, naughty!

#393
You filthy old soomaka.

#394
Now listen here, you little bastard!

#395
Just turn round and walk out of here the same way you came in.

#396
Leave that alone! Don't touch it!

#397
It's a very important work of art.

#398
What the bloody hell do you want?

#399
To be perfectly honest, madam...

#400
I'm taking part in an international students' contest...

#401
To see who can get the most points for selling magazines.

#402
Cut the shit, Sonny...

#403
And get out of here before you get yourself into serious trouble.

#404
I told you to leave that alone! Now get out of here...

#405
Before I throw you out!

#406
Wretched, slummy bedbug!

#407
I'll teach you to break into real people's houses.

#408
Fucking...

#409
Weathers: Ah!

#410
Alex: Let's go. The police are coming! Dim: One minoota, droogie.

#411
Alex: You bastards!

#412
I'm blind, you bastards!

#413
I can't see!

#414
It's no good sitting there in hope, my little brothers.

#415
I won't say a single solitary slovo unless I have my lawyer here.

#416
I know the law, you bastards.

#417
Righty-right, Tom.

#418
We'll have to show our friend Alex here that we know the law too.

#419
But that knowing the law isn't everything.

#420
Nasty cut you've got there, little Alex.

#421
Shame, isn't it?

#422
Spoils all your beauty.

#423
Who gave you that there?

#424
How'd you do that there?

#425
Alex: Ah! What's that for, you bastard?

#426
That is for your lady victim.

#427
You ghastly...

#428
Wretched scoundrel.

#429
Ah!

#430
Get him off me!

#431
Inspector: You rotten little bastard!

#432
Sergeant: Good evening, Mr. Deltoid.

#433
Good evening, sergeant.

#434
They're in room b, sir.

#435
Thank you very much.

#436
Inspector: Sergeant... good evening.

#437
Good evening, inspector.

#438
- Would you like your tea now, sir? - No, thank you, sergeant.

#439
May I have some paper towels, please?

#440
We're interrogating the prisoner now.

#441
- Perhaps you'd care to come inside. - Thank you very much.

#442
Good evening, sergeant. Good evening, all.

#443
Deltoid: Oh, dear! This boy does look a mess, doesn't he?

#444
Just look at the state of him.

#445
Cop: Love's young nightmare-like.

#446
Inspector: Violence makes violence.

#447
He resisted his lawful arrestors.

#448
Well, this is the end of the line for me.

#449
The end of the line, yes.

#450
And what of me, brother sir?

#451
Speak up for me. I'm not so bad.

#452
I was led on by the treachery of others.

#453
Sings the roof off lovely, he does that.

#454
Where are my treacherous droogs? Get them before they get away!

#455
It was all their idea, brothers.

#456
They forced me to do it. I'm innocent!

#457
You are now a murderer, little Alex.

#458
A murderer.

#459
Not true, sir.

#460
It was only a slight tolchok.

#461
She were breathing, I swear it.

#462
Deltoid: I've just come from the hospital.

#463
Your victim has died.

#464
You try to frighten me. Admit so, sir.

#465
This is some new form of torture.

#466
- Say it, brother sir. - It'll be your own torture.

#467
I hope to god it'll torture you to madness.

#468
If you'd care to give him a bash in the chops, don't mind us.

#469
He must be a great disappointment to you, sir.

#470
Alex: This is the real weepy and tragic part of the story beginning...

#471
O, my brothers and only friends.

#472
After a trial, with judges and a jury...

#473
And hard words spoken against your friend and humble narrator...

#474
He was sentenced to 14 years in staja number 84-f...

#475
Among smelly perverts and hardened prestoopniks.

#476
The shock sending my dada beating his bruised and krovvy rookers...

#477
Against unfair bog in his heaven.

#478
And my mum boo-hoo-hooing in her mother's grief...

#479
At her only child and son of her bosom...

#480
Like, letting everybody down real horrorshow.

#481
Guard: Morning. One up from thames, mister.

#482
One up from thames, sir.

#483
Chief: Right! Open up the cell!

#484
Yes, sir.

#485
Here are the prisoner's committal forms.

#486
Chief: Thank you, mister.

#487
Chief: Name? Alex: Alexander delarge.

#488
You are now in h.M. Prison parkmoor.

#489
From this moment, you will address all prison officers as "sir."

#490
- Name? - Alexander delarge, sir.

#491
Sentence?

#492
14 years, sir.

#493
- Crime? - Murder, sir.

#494
Right. Take the cuffs off him, mister.

#495
It is your duty to memorize that number.

#496
Thank you, mister. Well done.

#497
- Thank you. - Let the officer out.

#498
Yes, sir.

#499
All right, empty your pockets.

#500
Are you able to see the white line painted on the floor...

#501
Directly behind you, 655321?

#502
- Yes, sir. - Then your toes belong...

#503
On the other side of it!

#504
- Yes, sir. - Right.

#505
Carry on.

#506
Pick that up and put it down properly.

#507
One half-bar of chocolate.

#508
One bunch of keys on white, metal ring.

#509
One packet of cigarettes.

#510
Two plastic ball pens.

#511
One black, one red.

#512
One pocket comb, black plastic.

#513
Address book, imitation red leather.

#514
One ten-penny piece.

#515
One white, metal wristlet watch.

#516
Timawrist, on a white, metal expanding bracelet.

#517
Anything else in your pockets?

#518
- No, sir. - Right.

#519
Sign here for your valuable property.

#520
The tobacco and chocolate you brought in...

#521
You lose that...

#522
As you are now convicted.

#523
Now over to the table and get undressed.

#524
Now, then, were you in police custody this morning?

#525
Alex: No, sir. Warder: Onejacket, blue pinstriped.

#526
Chief: Prison custody?

#527
Alex: Yes, sir, on remand.

#528
Warder: One necktie, blue. Chief: Religion?

#529
C of e, sir.

#530
Do you mean the church of england?

#531
Yes, sir. The church of england.

#532
Brown hair, isn't it?

#533
Fair hair, sir.

#534
Blue eyes?

#535
Blue, sir.

#536
- Do you wear eyeglasses or contact lenses? - No, sir.

#537
One shirt, blue. Collar attached.

#538
Have you been receiving medical treatment for any serious illness?

#539
- No, sir. - One pair of boots, black leather.

#540
- Have you had any mental illness? - No, sir.

#541
- Do you wear false teeth or false limbs? - No, sir.

#542
One pair of trousers, blue pinstriped.

#543
Have you ever had any attacks of fainting or dizziness?

#544
- No, sir. - Warder: One pair of socks, black.

#545
- Are you an epileptic? - No, sir.

#546
Warder: One pair of underpants, white with blue waistband.

#547
Are you now, or have you ever been, a homosexual?

#548
- No, sir. - Right.

#549
- The mothballs, mister. - Mothballs, sir.

#550
Now then, face the wall...

#551
Bend over and touch your toes.

#552
- Any venereal disease? - No, sir.

#553
- Crabs? Lice? - No, sir.

#554
- Through there for the bath. - Warder: One for a bath.

#555
What's it going to be, eh?

#556
Is it going to be in and out of institutions like this...

#557
Though more in than out for most of you?

#558
Or are you going to attend to the divine word...

#559
And realize the punishments that await unrepentant sinners...

#560
In the next world as well as this?

#561
A lot of idiots you are...

#562
Selling your birthright for a saucer of cold porridge.

#563
The thrill of theft.

#564
Of violence. The urge to live easy.

#565
Well, I ask you what is it worth...

#566
When we have undeniable proof...

#567
Yes, incontrovertible evidence...

#568
That hell exists?

#569
I know!

#570
I know, my friends.

#571
I have been informed...

#572
In visions...

#573
That there is a place...

#574
Darker than any prison...

#575
Hotter than any flame of human fire...

#576
Where souls...

#577
Of unrepentant criminal sinners like yourselves...

#578
Don't you laugh, damn you!

#579
Don't you laugh.

#580
I say, like yourselves...

#581
In endless and unendurable agony.

#582
Rotting and peeling.

#583
A fireball...

#584
Spinning in their screaming guts!

#585
I know. Yes, I know!

#586
Quiet! All right, you lot! We'll end by singing hymn 258...

#587
In the prisoner's hymnal.

#588
And let's have a little reverence, you bastards!

#589
Come on, sing up, damn you!

#590
Louded

#591
Chief: Louded

#592
Alex: It had not been edifying. Indeed not.

#593
Being in this hellhole and human zoo for two years now.

#594
Being kicked and tolchoked by brutal warders...

#595
And meeting leering criminals and perverts...

#596
Ready to dribble all over...

#597
A luscious young malchick like your storyteller.

#598
Alex: It was my rabbit...

#599
To help the prison Charlie with the Sunday service.

#600
He was a bolshy, great burly bastard.

#601
But he was very fond of myself, me being very young...

#602
And also now very interested in the big book.

#603
Man: Move along there!

#604
Move along!

#605
Move along there! Move along!

#606
Alex: [Read all about the scourging and the crowning with thorns.

#607
And I could viddy myself helping in...

#608
And even taking charge of the tolchoking and the nailing in.

#609
Being dressed in the height of Roman fashion.

#610
I didn't so much like the latter part of the book...

#611
Which is more like all preach y talking...

#612
Than fighting and the old in-out.

#613
[Like the parts where these old yahoodies tolchok each other...

#614
And then drink their Hebrew vino...

#615
And getting onto the bed with their wives' handmaidens.

#616
That kept me going.

#617
Chaplain: "Seek not to be like evil men.

#618
Neither desire to be with them...

#619
Because their minds studieth robberies...

#620
And their lips speak deceits."

#621
If thou lose hope, being weary in the days of distress...

#622
Thy strength shall be diminished.

#623
Fine, my son. Fine.

#624
Father?

#625
I have tried, have I not?

#626
You have, my son.

#627
- I've done my best, have I not? - 4ndeed.

#628
I've never been guilty of any institutional infraction, have I?

#629
You certainly have not, 655321. You've been very helpful.

#630
And you've shown a genuine desire to reform.

#631
Can I ask you a question in private?

#632
Certainly, my son. Certainly.

#633
Is there something troubling you, my son?

#634
Don't be shy to speak up.

#635
Remember...

#636
I know of the...

#637
Urges that can trouble young men...

#638
Deprived...

#639
Of the society of women.

#640
Oh, father.

#641
It's nothing like that, father.

#642
It's about this new thing they're all talking about.

#643
About this new treatment.

#644
It gets you out of prison in no time.

#645
And makes sure you never get back in again.

#646
Where did you hear about this?

#647
Who's been talking about these things?

#648
These things get around.

#649
Two warders talk, as it might be.

#650
And somebody can't help overhearing what they say.

#651
Then somebody picks up a scrap of newspaper in the workshops...

#652
And the newspaper tells all about it.

#653
How about putting me in for this new treatment?

#654
You are referring...

#655
To the ludovico technique.

#656
I don't know what it's called.

#657
I just know it gets you out quickly...

#658
And makes sure you never get back in again.

#659
That is not proven, 655321.

#660
In fact, it is only in the experimental stage at this moment.

#661
It is being used, isn't it, father?

#662
It has not been used in this prison yet.

#663
The governor has grave doubts about it.

#664
And I've heard there are very serious dangers involved.

#665
I don't care about the dangers.

#666
I just want to be good.

#667
I want for the rest of my life to be...

#668
One act of goodness.

#669
The question is...

#670
Whether or not this technique...

#671
Really makes a man good.

#672
Goodness comes from within.

#673
Goodness...

#674
Is chosen.

#675
When a man cannot choose...

#676
He ceases to be a man.

#677
I don't understand...

#678
About the whys and wherefores.

#679
I only know I want to be good.

#680
Be patient, my son.

#681
Put your trust in the lord.

#682
Instruct thy son and he shall refresh thee...

#683
And shall give delight to thy soul.

#684
Amen.

#685
Chief: Mister! Guard: All present and correct, sir!

#686
Chief: Right!

#687
All present and correct!

#688
Chief: Prisoners, halt!

#689
Now pay attention!

#690
I want you in two lines...

#691
Up against that wall, facing this way.

#692
Go on, move!

#693
Hurry up!

#694
Stop talking!

#695
Prisoners ready for inspection, sir!

#696
Minister: How many to a cell?

#697
Governor: Four in this block, sir.

#698
Minister: Cram criminals together and what do you get?

#699
Concentrated criminality. Crime in the midst of punishment.

#700
Governor: I agree, sir. We need larger prisons, more money.

#701
Minister: Not a chance, my dear fellow.

#702
The government can't be concerned any longer...

#703
With outmoded penalogical theories.

#704
Soon we may need all prison space for political offenders.

#705
Common criminals are best dealt with on a purely curative basis.

#706
Kill the criminal reflex, that's all.

#707
Full implementation in a year's time.

#708
Punishment means nothing to them.

#709
They enjoy their so-called punishment.

#710
You're absolutely right, sir.

#711
Shut your bleeding hole!

#712
Minister: Who said that?

#713
I did, sir.

#714
What crime did you commit?

#715
The accidental killing of a person, sir.

#716
He brutally murdered a woman in furtherance of theft.

#717
Fourteen years, sir.

#718
Excellent.

#719
He's enterprising...

#720
Aggressive...

#721
Outgoing...

#722
Young, bold...

#723
Vicious.

#724
Fine.

#725
We could still look at c-block.

#726
No, no. That's enough. He's perfect.

#727
I want his records sent to me.

#728
This vicious young hoodlum...

#729
Will be transformed out of all recognition.

#730
Thank you very much for this chance.

#731
Let's hope you make the most of it, my boy.

#732
- Shall we go to my office? - Thank you.

#733
Come in.

#734
Sir! 655321. Sir!

#735
Very good, chief.

#736
Over to the line. Toes behind it.

#737
Full name and number to the governor.

#738
Alexander delarge, sir. 655321, sir.

#739
I don't suppose you know who that was this morning.

#740
That was no less a personage than the minister of the interior.

#741
The new minister of the interior.

#742
What they call a very new broom.

#743
These new ridiculous ideas have come at last.

#744
And orders are orders.

#745
Though I may say to you in confidence, I do not approve.

#746
An eye for an eye, I say.

#747
If someone hits you, you hit back, do you not?

#748
Why should not the state, severely hit by you hooligans...

#749
Not hit back also?

#750
The new view is to say "no."

#751
The new view is that we turn the bad into good.

#752
All of which seems to me to be grossly unjust.

#753
- Sir, I... - Shut your filthy hole, you scum!

#754
You are to be reformed.

#755
Tomorrow you will go to this man, brodsky.

#756
You will be leaving here.

#757
You will be transferred to the ludovico medical facility.

#758
It's believed you'll be able...

#759
To leave state custody in a fortnight.

#760
I suppose that prospect pleases you?

#761
Answer the governor's question!

#762
Yes, sir. Thank you very much.

#763
I've done my best here, I really have, sir.

#764
I'm very grateful to all concerned, sir.

#765
Sign this where it's marked.

#766
Don't read it, sign it!

#767
It says you're willing to have your sentence commuted...

#768
To submission to the ludovico treatment.

#769
And another copy.

#770
Alex: The next morning I was taken to...

#771
The ludovico medical facility...

#772
Outside the town center.

#773
I felt a malenky bit sad...

#774
Having to say goodbye to the old staja...

#775
As you will, when you leave a place you've gotten used to.

#776
Right, hold the prisoner.

#777
Good morning, sir. I'm chief officer Barnes.

#778
I've got 655321

#779
on a transfer from parkmoor to the ludovico centre, sir.

#780
Good morning. Yes, we've been expecting you.

#781
Dr. Alcot. Very good, sir.

#782
- Are you prepared for the prisoner? - Yes, of course.

#783
I wonder if you'd mind signing these documents, sir.

#784
There, sir.

#785
And there, sir.

#786
Here you go.

#787
There you are.

#788
Prison escort, move forward!

#789
Excuse me, sir.

#790
Is that the officer that is to take charge of the prisoner?

#791
A word of advice, doc. You'll have to watch this one.

#792
A right brutal bastard he has been, and will be again...

#793
In spite of all his sucking up and reading the Bible.

#794
We can manage things. Show the young man to his room.

#795
Right, sir. Come this way, please.

#796
- Morning, Charlie. - Good morning, doctor.

#797
Branom: Good morning, Alex.

#798
My name is Dr. Branom. I'm Dr. Brodsky's assistant.

#799
Good morning, missus. Lovely day.

#800
Indeed, it is.

#801
May I take that?

#802
- How are you feeling? - Fine, fine.

#803
Good. In a few minutes you'll meet Dr. Brodsky...

#804
And begin your treatment.

#805
You're a very lucky boy to have been chosen.

#806
Alex: I realize that, and I'm very grateful to all concerned.

#807
We're going to be friends, aren't we?

#808
Alex: I hope so, missus.

#809
What's the hypo for? Sending me to sleep?

#810
Branom: Nothing of the sort.

#811
- Vitamins will it be, then? - Something like that.

#812
You're undernourished.

#813
So after each meal we'll give you a shot.

#814
Roll over on your right side.

#815
Loosen your pajama pants and pull them halfway down.

#816
What exactly is the treatment here going to be, then?

#817
It's quite simple, really.

#818
We're going to show you some films.

#819
You mean like going to the pictures?

#820
Something like that.

#821
That's good. I like to viddy the old films now and again.

#822
Alex: And viddy films I would.

#823
Where I was taken to, brothers...

#824
Was like no cine I ever viddied before.

#825
I was bound up in a straitjacket...

#826
And my gulliver was strapped to a headrest...

#827
With wires running away from it.

#828
Then they clamped, like, lid-locks on me eyes...

#829
So that I could not shut them, no matter how hard I tried.

#830
It seemed a bit crazy to me...

#831
But I let them get on with what they wanted to get on with.

#832
If I was to be a free malchick again in a fortnight...

#833
I would put up with much in the meantime, my brothers.

#834
The first film was a very good, professional piece of cine...

#835
Like it was done in Hollywood.

#836
The sounds were real horrorshow.

#837
You could slooshy the screams and moans very realistic.

#838
You could even get the breathing and panting...

#839
Of the tolchocking malchicks at the same time.

#840
And then what do you know?

#841
Soon our dear old friend...

#842
The red, red vino on tap...

#843
The same in all places...

#844
Like it's put out by the same firm...

#845
Began to flow.

#846
It was beautiful.

#847
It's funny how the colors of the real world...

#848
Only seem really real...

#849
When you viddy them on a screen.

#850
Now, all the time I was watching this...

#851
I was beginning to get very aware...

#852
Of, like, not feeling all that well.

#853
And this I put down to all the rich food and vitamins.

#854
But I tried to forget this, concentrating on the next film...

#855
Which jumped right away on a young devotchka...

#856
Who was being given the old in-out, in-out...

#857
First by one malchick...

#858
Then another.

#859
Then another.

#860
When it came to the 6th or 7th malchick...

#861
Leering and smecking and then going into it...

#862
I began to feel really sick.

#863
But / could not shut me glazzies.

#864
And even if! Tried to move my glazzballs about...

#865
I still could not get out of...

#866
The line of fire of this picture.

#867
Get me up.

#868
I'm going to be sick.

#869
Get something for me to be sick in!

#870
Very soon now, the drug will cause the subject...

#871
To experience a deathlike paralysis...

#872
Together with deep feelings of terror and helplessness.

#873
- Alex: I can't stand it anymore. - One of our early test subjects...

#874
Described it as being like death.

#875
A sense of stifling or drowning.

#876
And it is during this period, we have found...

#877
The subject will make his most rewarding associations...

#878
Between his catastrophic experience, environment...

#879
And the violence he sees.

#880
Alex: Leave me glazzies!

#881
Dr. Brodsky is pleased with you.

#882
You've made a very positive response.

#883
Tomorrow there will be two sessions, morning and afternoon.

#884
You mean I have to viddy two sessions in one day?

#885
I imagine you'll feel a bit limp by the end of the day.

#886
But we have to be hard on you. You have to be cured.

#887
It was horrible.

#888
Of course it was horrible.

#889
Violence is a very horrible thing.

#890
That's what you're learning now.

#891
Your body's learning it.

#892
I just don't understand about feeling sick the way I did.

#893
I never used to feel sick. I used to feel the very opposite.

#894
Doing it or watching it, I used to feel real horrorshow.

#895
You felt ill this afternoon because you're getting better.

#896
When we're healthy, we respond to the hateful...

#897
With fear and nausea.

#898
You're becoming healthy, that's all.

#899
By this time tomorrow, you'll be healthier still.

#900
Alex: It was the next day, brothers...

#901
And I had truly done my best...

#902
Morning and afternoon to play it their way...

#903
And sit like a horrorshow cooperative malchick...

#904
In the chair of torture...

#905
While they flashed nasty bits of ultra-violence on the screen...

#906
Though not on the soundtrack, the only sound being music.

#907
Then / noticed, in all my pain and sickness...

#908
What music it was that, like, cracked and boomed.

#909
It was Ludwig Van.

#910
Ninth symphony.

#911
Fourth movement.

#912
Alex: Ah!

#913
Ah!

#914
Stop it! Stop it! Please, I beg you!

#915
It's a sin!

#916
It's a sin!

#917
It's a sin!

#918
It's a sin! It's a sin! It's a sin!

#919
What's all this about sin?

#920
That! Using Ludwig Van like that. He did no harm to anyone.

#921
Beethoven just wrote music.

#922
Are you referring to the background score?

#923
- Yes! - You've heard Beethoven before?

#924
So you're keen on music?

#925
Can't be helped.

#926
Here's the punishment element perhaps.

#927
The governor ought to be pleased.

#928
I'm sorry, Alex.

#929
This is for your own good.

#930
You'll have to bear with us for a while.

#931
But it's not fair. It's not fair I should feel ill when I hear...

#932
Lovely, lovely Ludwig Van.

#933
You must take your chance, boy.

#934
The choice has been all yours.

#935
You needn't take it any further, sir.

#936
You've proved to me all this ultra-violence and killing...

#937
Is wrong, wrong and terribly wrong!

#938
I've learned me lesson, sir.

#939
I see now what I've never seen before.

#940
I'm cured. Praise god!

#941
You're not cured yet, boy.

#942
But, sirs.

#943
Missus!

#944
I see that it's wrong!

#945
It's wrong because it's, like, against society.

#946
Because everybody has the right to live and be happy...

#947
Without being tolchocked and knifed!

#948
No, no, boy. You really must leave it to us.

#949
But be cheerful about it.

#950
In less than a fortnight now, you'll be a free man.

#951
Ladies and gentlemen...

#952
At this stage, we introduce the subject himself.

#953
He is, as you will perceive, fit and well-nourished.

#954
He comes straight from a night's sleep and a good breakfast...

#955
Undrugged...

#956
."Unhypnofized.

#957
Tomorrow we send him out with confidence into the world again...

#958
As decent a lad as you would meet on a may morning.

#959
What a change is here, ladies and gentlemen.

#960
From the hoodlum the state committed...

#961
To unprofitable punishment some two years ago.

#962
Unchanged after two years.

#963
Unchanged, do I say?

#964
Not quite.

#965
Prison taught him the false smile, the rubbed hands of hypocrisy.

#966
The fawning, greased, obsequious leer.

#967
Other vices it taught him...

#968
As well as confirming him in those he had long practiced before.

#969
Our party promised to restore law and order...

#970
And to make the streets safe for the ordinary peace-loving citizen.

#971
This pledge is now about to become a reality.

#972
Ladies and gentlemen, today is an historic moment.

#973
The problem of criminal violence is soon to be a thing of the past.

#974
But enough of words.

#975
Actions speak louder than.

#976
Action now.

#977
Observe all.

#978
Our necks are out a long way on this, minister.

#979
I have complete faith in brodsky.

#980
If the polls are right, we have nothing to lose.

#981
Hello, heap of dirt.

#982
Ew. You don't wash much, do you?

#983
Judging by the horrible smell.

#984
Alex: Why do you say that? I had a shower this morning.

#985
Man: He had a shower this morning.

#986
You trying to call me a liar?

#987
- No, brother. - You must think I'm awfully stupid.

#988
Why did you do that, brother?

#989
I've never done wrong to you.

#990
You want to know why I did that?

#991
Well, you see...

#992
- I do this... - Ah!

#993
And this because I don't like your horrible type, do I?

#994
And if you want to start something...

#995
You just go ahead. Go on! Please do!

#996
- I'm going to be sick. I'm going to be sick. - You're going to be sick, are you?

#997
I'm going to be sick. Please let me get up.

#998
You want to get up?

#999
Well, now you listen to me.

#1000
If you want to get up...

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