"Detective story" "Film by Charles Dekeukeleire" "Texts by Maurice Casteels" "Drawings by V. Servranckx" "This story is built up with the filmed documents my friend detective T has used." "At Mrs Jonathan's request he observed her husband's comings and goings during several weeks." "Mr Jonathan: obsessed, nervous, intelligent, lazy, prone to melancholy." "Mrs Jonathan:" "bookworm, restless, irritating." "T: amateur detective." "Uses the recording device as an instrument of investigation." "This film contains numerous gaps if one is looking for a story as so many have been told already." "It is a series of psychological documents." "I have chosen not to link them by means of made-up images, because each development would rob T's work of its experimental value." "Jonathan's new escapade" "Images discovered in detective agency T during a bizarre consultation" "T is observing" "Mrs Jonathan wants us to look for her husband" "T's police material" "Reflexion by T:" "'l know the wife." "After having filmed the husband, I will know what trouble is going on between them.'" "T's first try:" "Brussels seen by Jonathan" "In Brussels Jonathan is bored" "Daily emptiness" "Stupidity" "In his laboratories T is checking documents" "Need rest Life sucks" "Wife does not understand Want something else" "Too sensitive" "Too sensitive" "lmpossible to work Want something else" "Life sucks" " Too sensitive Wife does not understand" "lmpossible to work" "Will return Will not return" "So Jonathan kicks the habit with a day of rest... in the railway station of Ostend" "Coming back to" "Brussels" "At certain moments the big rush of hasty travellers made recordings very difficult." "Please excuse the lack of clarity." "The commotion makes Jonathan nervous," "which proves that unpleasant contacts can change the best of moods." "And" "the sleeping car he took," "did not drop him in Brussels" "but in Luxembourg" "Jonathan is enjoying himself" "Jonathan is bored" "Jonathan is thinking" "The two Europes" "Wife does not understand" "The calm" "The calm" "Jonathan is looking for a change of scenery" "T is following him" "Bruges" "Jonathan did not see:" "The beguinage and the beguines (founded in the 13th century and source of inspiration to the poet Georges Rodenbach)" "Jonathan did not see:" "The House of Gruuthuse (built in 1 4 70 and several times rebuilt since)" "The town hall (founded by Louis de Maele, count of Flanders in 1377)" "The old registry (built in 1532)" "Jonathan did not see:" "The Lac d'Amour and the swans, remembering how the people of Bruges revolted against Maximilian and killed the magistrate Pierre Lanchals, who had a swan in his coat of arms." "He did not make a boat trip" "Bruges" "Venice of the North" "(43 bridges)" "is he worried about Mrs Jonathan ?" "Yes" "No" "Yes" "No" "Yes" "No" "What is he looking for twenty kilometres further ?" "Nothing" "Between Bruges and the sea Jonathan went 4 times by express train, one time by boat and 3 times by bus." "Fragments from T's research" "Mister" "Missus" "Mister" "Missus" "interruption" "Jonathan's ideas are becoming more clear" "So much unused beauty and natural powers !" "Jonathan wants to do great things" "If we" "why make" "not ?" "a" "An idea" "practicable" "More modern" "Water and fire" "but T... is not... an acrobat." "Why not ?" "here ?" "This" "can replace" "that" "No more ruins" "Epilogue" "Where T's research becomes extremely interesting" "Barrage on the Sûre" "Among the undersigned" "2." "Mr H.W.L. Jonathan, owner, on the other hand, this has been agreed upon:" "1 ." "Mr H.W.L. Jonathan for his part will cede the grounds he acquired" "in as many copies as there are parties, on August 13, 1929 for Reinische und Wurtembergische Bk M. H.W.L. Jonathan" "This is how Jonathan was cured from his melancholy." "Out of respect for her husband, whom she now considered a genius," "Mrs Jonathan no longer made scenes." "And my friend T had never ceased to believe in the good outcome of his research." "'But', he says, 'l wanted to understand Jonathan." "However, it is Jonathan who discovered himself.'"