The Fearless Vampire Killers

00:44:26,873 --> 00:44:29,458 In my second volume, actually at the printer's... 231 00:44:29,542 --> 00:44:33,462 I cite several analogous cases supplied to me by reputable colleagues... 232 00:44:33,546 --> 00:44:37,842 such as Falkman at Munich, Dr. Athener of Prague. 233 00:44:37,925 --> 00:44:42,513 - Curious. - Curious, yes, but in no way inexplicable. 234 00:44:42,597 --> 00:44:46,058 I think we can look for the cause in the purely mechanical need... 235 00:44:46,142 --> 00:44:49,353 to fight against the torpor of hibernation... 236 00:44:49,437 --> 00:44:54,192 to restore circulation by primary motion... 237 00:44:54,275 --> 00:44:59,530 to cause the vital limbs to work without thinking. 238 00:45:00,740 --> 00:45:05,661 This, in consequence, makes them fly... 239 00:45:05,745 --> 00:45:09,081 without being aware of it. 240 00:45:09,624 --> 00:45:12,460 Of course, I only refer to the very rare species... 241 00:45:12,543 --> 00:45:15,588 not conforming to the laws of hibernation. 242 00:45:20,384 --> 00:45:22,511 Rather like sleepwalkers? 243 00:45:22,595 --> 00:45:24,180 Yes! 244 00:45:24,263 --> 00:45:28,684 Let us say, they fly in their sleep. 245 00:45:28,768 --> 00:45:31,896 I had an aunt who was a Sleepwalker. 246 00:45:31,979 --> 00:45:34,649 At night she frequently ran about on the battlements... 247 00:45:34,732 --> 00:45:39,111 without causing me any surprise, because there was actual contact. 248 00:45:39,195 --> 00:45:41,280 But the walking isn't flying. 249 00:45:41,364 --> 00:45:44,033 How is it possible to avoid an obstacle when flying... 250 00:45:44,116 --> 00:45:46,911 while being simultaneously asleep? 251 00:45:47,620 --> 00:45:52,166 Your Excellency is a very great authority. 252 00:45:55,253 --> 00:45:59,382 The natural sciences greatly interested me... 253 00:46:00,967 --> 00:46:03,636 when I was a young man. 254 00:46:06,222 --> 00:46:08,224 My library. 255 00:46:22,530 --> 00:46:25,074 It's at your disposal. 256 00:46:28,119 --> 00:46:33,457 To fly in one's sleep, you say. How is it possible? 257 00:46:38,629 --> 00:46:40,506 The rays. 258 00:46:43,384 --> 00:46:46,470 - Rays? - The rays. 259 00:46:54,186 --> 00:46:59,150 Gentlemen, Koukol informs me that your beds are prepared. 260 00:46:59,233 --> 00:47:01,944 Your Excellency, we have kept you up very late. 261 00:47:02,028 --> 00:47:07,283 I'm a night bird. I am not much good in the daytime. 262 00:47:14,582 --> 00:47:19,420 Their little heads contain a fantastic mechanism, sort of... 263 00:47:20,087 --> 00:47:22,381 Anyway, this mechanism emits the rays - 264 00:47:22,465 --> 00:47:25,551 the nature of which escapes me. But one thing is absolutely certain: 265 00:47:25,634 --> 00:47:29,722 That these rays come into contact with every obstacle in the way... 266 00:47:29,805 --> 00:47:32,016 and rebound off that obstacle... 267 00:47:32,099 --> 00:47:34,560 back into their little heads, and warn them. 268 00:47:34,643 --> 00:47:37,521 That would explain why they can fly in utter darkness. 269 00:47:37,605 --> 00:47:39,357 Exactly! 270 00:47:42,651 --> 00:47:44,695 Herbert, my son. 271 00:47:44,779 --> 00:47:47,990 - Good evening. - Good evening. 272 00:47:55,706 --> 00:47:57,416 Good evening. 273 00:48:21,023 --> 00:48:25,736 Here is your room. And this one is for you. 274 00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:29,407 - What? - The rooms... 275 00:48:30,449 --> 00:48:32,785 communicate. 276 00:48:51,303 --> 00:48:53,722 Good night, gentlemen. 277 00:49:18,497 --> 00:49:20,916 The fellow is no fool, you know. 278 00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:25,671 Did you hear how he held his own on the subject of the bats? 279 00:49:30,384 --> 00:49:33,721 Really sound arguments. 280 00:49:35,890 --> 00:49:39,310 Not like those morons from Kurnigsburg. 281 00:49:39,393 --> 00:49:42,563 - You see, my boy? - Yeah. 282 00:49:43,147 --> 00:49:44,773 Professor? 283 00:49:46,233 --> 00:49:47,943 Aren't we going to barricade? 284 00:49:48,027 --> 00:49:51,572 No, I don't think that will be very good tactics. 285 00:49:51,655 --> 00:49:53,407 I thought we were going to barricade. 286 00:49:53,491 --> 00:49:56,660 No, the best thing is to sleep with one eye open... 287 00:49:56,744 --> 00:49:59,663 or to take the watch in turns. 288 00:50:02,791 --> 00:50:05,169 What is it? What is it? 289 00:50:07,588 --> 00:50:09,423 What are you doing? 290 00:50:10,341 --> 00:50:11,967 I'm going to bed. 291 00:50:12,051 --> 00:50:15,596 What has come over you? Go to your own bed. 292 00:50:17,264 --> 00:50:19,725 - Alone? 293 00:50:24,939 --> 00:50:27,358 We can keep the door open. 294 00:50:27,441 --> 00:50:29,818 At the slightest alarm... 295 00:50:30,361 --> 00:50:32,154 we call out. 296 00:54:27,139 --> 00:54:31,393 Mr. Koukol, I'm not distur