ANDRE CARRON CECILIA FEMALE_GUEST FRAU_ROTH HENRY HUGO ISOBEL LORD_FAIRFAX MAITRE_LITZ MARCUS RANEY ROSE VOICES ANDRE Everything is going to hell and you want us to run away. ISOBEL You can come out of this with honour. ANDRE The guests have left without paying! What we’ve worked all season to avoid. ISOBEL Give Rose what she wants – the Hotel. ANDRE You’ll get yourself dirty. ISOBEL Whatever you’re looking for here, it’s gone. Start again, with me. RANEY In english, please! ANDRE Half of my shares kept back for Rose, right? MAITRE LITZ You sign your twenty-five percent to your wife. MAITRE LITZ She signs twelve and a half percent to Mr Raney. MAITRE LITZ Who will countersign in confirmation. Congratulations! ROSE Marcus! RANEY The cavalry is too late, my man! RANEY Get out! RANEY He’s only pissed because he thought I’d give him the job. RANEY Time to celebrate. Get the champagne. ANDRE You can toast the Winter Games. ROSE No! RANEY Listen to your wife. No more money. ROSE Mr. Hampton. You’re back. What a pleasure. Do you have a reservation? HUGO No, but I have a business proposal for your husband. ROSE I am the Manager now. Your proposal? HUGO You are going to be deluged with guests. The world’s first Games at the Winter Palace! The Hampton Trio will play the score to history. ROSE But... we.... I... I can’t pay you. HENRY We’ll work something out... CECILIA Our usual room? ROSE Mr Raney? ROSE There’s been a change of plan. RANEY Why do those words sound like a cash register making a sale? ROSE I think the Winter Games could be a huge success. RANEY The ice rink is a puddle and the ski jump is a death trap. ROSE All we need is a tiny, little extra investment... RANEY You’re sounding like your husband... But you’re right... now that I see this... These Games might work. Use the resources you have. Not a dime more. You say you’re an amazing manager? Prove it! HENRY I left you for ten minutes and look what happened! HENRY You and I, we’re... Everyone thinks music is the most important thing for a musician. They’re wrong. Silence is our canvas - it’s what we add to it that counts. You and I, we are a blank canvas. MARCUS My son wants me to be a father. You want me to be a... bohemian. The two don’t fit together. It’s better I’m a... nothing. HENRY No! You exist as you are. That is enough! FRAU ROTH I haven’t seen Sir Arthur for days. LORD FAIRFAX When Conan Doyle disappears like this, it means he’s writing. I only hope it’s about Sherlock. FRAU ROTH We’ve had several people return from the dead - why shouldn’t Mr Holmes? LORD FAIRFAX Talking about writing, a letter came for Isobel. A publishing house heard about her exploits and offered her a deal to write about her next climb. FRAU ROTH That’s marvellous. LORD FAIRFAX It’s a disaster. She almost died up there. Why on earth would I tell her about it? FRAU ROTH She doesn’t know? LORD FAIRFAX I can’t risk losing her again. FRAU ROTH The old you would have tried to control her, stand in her way, but the new you? LORD FAIRFAX I have to tell you and this is the ”new me” speaking... I... I... can’t risk losing you either. LORD FAIRFAX I’ve never felt like this before. I want to be your bowerbird, your laysan albatross, your golden eagle. I am in a... complicated position in the home / life department, so I’m asking you for patience. FRAU ROTH Is this a proposal? RANEY Morel has ruined everything. For you and for me. ROSE Mr. Raney, there must be a misunderstanding. Maybe we can talk in my office. RANEY Maitre Litz contacted me to say that the villagers have broken the contract and withdrawn their cooperation. ANDRE Did you really think you could get away with it? RANEY I’m closing this down. Everyone is fired. ROSE The Games! Guests on their way, bookings.. RANEY I don’t care! everybody out. ROSE I have twelve and a half percent! RANEY Of nothing. I’m going to the city to see my lawyers... RANEY If I come back and this place is still open, you will be charged with trespassing. do you hear me? FEMALE GUEST We’ve heard guests only pay at the end of their stay, if they’re happy. ANDRE Madam, that was the previous manager’s foolish policy. He has been dismissed and thankfully, you are in much better hands today. ISOBEL Ready to take on the world? ANDRE I have to explain. ISOBEL We don’t have time. ANDRE I’ve been lying to myself! I never wanted to travel the world. I wanted to bring the world to me, here. And today the world has come. ISOBEL Oh, ANDRE, don’t do this. I’ve loved you since I was a child. And you love me too. I know it’s true. You chose me! ANDRE The truth is that today, I’d choose Rose. I’m sorry. ISOBEL What a little word for what you’ve put me through. ANDRE I’ve been cruel and selfish, I can’t give any excuses. ISOBEL Rose has changed - she doesn’t want you. ANDRE I’ll take the risk. ISOBEL I said all we had to do was keep climbing - we’re nearly there! ANDRE Paris, then what? Wandering the world together won’t work and you know it. I would always find another Hotel, while you would find another peak. ISOBEL No! No!!!! ISOBEL I’ve made such a mess, I don’t know what to do. I’ve been so stupid. At least I have climbing, there’s always that. I’m going to find another peak. ISOBEL Father?... Father? LORD FAIRFAX I... er... you know Isobel, a girl like you, so full of vim and vigour, there are other things you can do in life. ISOBEL Like what? I’m not a quitter, I’m going to stay and fight. LORD FAIRFAX Sometimes the brave thing is to walk away, however heavy the heart... Let me order a carriage to take you home. ISOBEL These Games are going to be groundbreaking and I’m going to be a part of them. I can ski, I can skate, I can be in the newspapers again. ISOBEL What do you mean order me a carriage, don’t you mean, order us a carriage? LORD FAIRFAX I sneered at you when you talked about... love. I said it was for common people, with nothing at stake. Now I see I was wrong. LORD FAIRFAX The last picture of the old century and the first picture of the new! FRAU ROTH The Twentieth Century! Who knows what wonders await. A modern world. No more wars. LORD FAIRFAX Are you alright? FRAU ROTH It felt like someone walked over my grave. ANDRE What have you said? RANEY The truth, Mr. Morel. You killed Roger Vallee. ANDRE You’ve lost your mind. LORD FAIRFAX Detective, I need to tell you... ISOBEL Father!... LORD FAIRFAX You have the wrong man. CARRON Lord Fairfax, Mr. Raney has evidence to the contrary. LORD FAIRFAX It doesn’t matter. It was... RANEY See here, everyone! RANEY It’s impossible. Someone has broken in. They’ve taken the locket! RANEY You stole it! Where is it! ANDRE I don’t know! RANEY They must have forced it. CARRON It seems intact to me. CARRON What did you want to say? LORD FAIRFAX You have the wrong man. Andre Morel is innocent. CARRON Somebody in this room knows the whole story, I can feel it. RANEY Then do something! CARRON This is your fault! CARRON If you had given me that locket last time I was here - rather than sitting on it for your own schemes - we might have had a different outcome. LORD FAIRFAX You are a damned scoundrel. RANEY I own this place. I own all of you! LORD FAIRFAX You failed to charm my daughter, so instead you tried to attach her to the end of a noose. LORD FAIRFAX You are a disgrace! LORD FAIRFAX My daughter told me what happened - I owe you more than I can ever repay. ISOBEL You could have turned me in and saved your own skin. You need to know something. Rose is Pregnant. ANDRE You can see what Rose has accomplished! This place is the Klondike, except with fondue. ROSE Your Waldorf Astoria manager will hate it here. No one comes for New York style - they want Swissness. I’ll make your money back. RANEY I don’t want my money back. I want a profit! ANDRE By next year, we’ll make you a million in profit. RANEY You’re lying, as usual! ANDRE The railway. We can build your railway. RANEY What? ANDRE There is a way, without demolishing the village or us. It will be more expensive and it will be longer, yes that’s true. But it will be a railway. RANEY Why the hell should I trust you? ANDRE You’re right, you shouldn’t trust me. But I know you trust Marcus. He can work with your engineers to carve out a better route. He understands the mountains, he understands machines. ANDRE And if we don’t deliver, you can fire us next year and have Rose’s shares! RANEY Alright then. Deal. RANEY All round winner of the first Winter Games! RANEY And in second place for the downhill run, Isobel Fairfax. ROSE Ladies and Gentlemen. New Year’s Eve is almost upon us! VOICES 10, 9, 8, 7, 6... VOICES 3, 2, 1, Happy New Year! nineteen hundred! ROSE It’s the turn of the century! Happy New Year!