Episode 17

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0:01:00 > 0:01:03Mr Venus, I wish to solicit your opinion.

0:01:04 > 0:01:06A sudden emergency, Mr Bucket.

0:01:06 > 0:01:09I'll meet you outside Jacob Marley's residence.

0:01:10 > 0:01:13It's rather exciting, this new method,

0:01:13 > 0:01:15trying to catch this devil in the detail.

0:01:17 > 0:01:18Are you excited?

0:01:18 > 0:01:23I have two days before I resume my former office.

0:01:23 > 0:01:25Two days to get my man for this murder.

0:01:27 > 0:01:29The clock is ticking.

0:01:29 > 0:01:32I do not have time to be excited.

0:01:38 > 0:01:41BABY CRIES

0:01:59 > 0:02:01Shh, shh, shh...

0:02:13 > 0:02:16This, this, the actual true facts right here,

0:02:16 > 0:02:19how Inspector Thompson cornered and caged the savage killer of Marley.

0:02:19 > 0:02:21Ain't right that such a thing be made entertaining.

0:02:21 > 0:02:24It's grubby, it's nasty and I don't want to hear it, John,

0:02:24 > 0:02:26- if it's all the same to you. - Well, it ain't right they ever

0:02:26 > 0:02:28dragged you in, Mr C, just ain't right at all.

0:02:28 > 0:02:31How could that Bucket ever put you in the frame?

0:02:31 > 0:02:33I said I don't want to hear it, John! I've heard enough about it.

0:02:33 > 0:02:36The murderer's been got. There's no more to be said.

0:02:40 > 0:02:42Footman?

0:02:59 > 0:03:02He is never to present himself here again.

0:03:02 > 0:03:06You never want to set eyes on his face, nor hear his...

0:03:06 > 0:03:09blandishments, now or ever in the future.

0:03:12 > 0:03:14Mary, wait.

0:03:14 > 0:03:15I'll tell him myself.

0:03:26 > 0:03:29You smile, sir. Why?

0:03:29 > 0:03:31I always smile when I see you.

0:03:34 > 0:03:36Is something amiss?

0:03:36 > 0:03:38I know about her.

0:03:40 > 0:03:43- Her?- Your lady-friend. I know.

0:03:46 > 0:03:48- You have this all so very wrong. - No, I don't believe I do.

0:03:48 > 0:03:49If you will allow me to explain.

0:03:49 > 0:03:52Everything that comes out of your mouth is a filthy lie

0:03:52 > 0:03:53and I want no more of them.

0:03:56 > 0:03:58Very well, Miss Havisham. I will return when you are calmer.

0:03:58 > 0:04:00You will not return, not to this house.

0:04:00 > 0:04:03And if you should, I will call the constables.

0:04:04 > 0:04:06So, where is your smile now, sir?

0:04:20 > 0:04:24You need to eat something. What are you doing?

0:04:24 > 0:04:27I keep thinking I can hear her cry for me.

0:04:28 > 0:04:32And every time I think I hear her cry, there's milk.

0:04:32 > 0:04:33Here, let me.

0:04:35 > 0:04:37BABY CRIES

0:04:37 > 0:04:39Oh, gosh!

0:04:39 > 0:04:42Oh, God, there it is again!

0:04:43 > 0:04:46Can you really not hear anything?

0:04:46 > 0:04:50I have to go out today to make arrangements.

0:04:50 > 0:04:52Of course. To bury her.

0:04:52 > 0:04:56Maybe then I'll stop thinking I can hear her cry for me.

0:04:58 > 0:04:59Maybe I'll always think it.

0:05:01 > 0:05:02It'll pass.

0:05:03 > 0:05:06I'll try not to be too long.

0:05:06 > 0:05:08Can you find somewhere pretty for her to lie?

0:05:08 > 0:05:11Perhaps near a tree. Somewhere peaceful.

0:05:11 > 0:05:12I'll do my best.

0:05:16 > 0:05:18- Morning, Daisy. - Morning, Emily.

0:05:24 > 0:05:26HE SNORES

0:05:32 > 0:05:33Have I been here all night?

0:05:33 > 0:05:35Er, looks that way, sir.

0:05:37 > 0:05:39Tell the landlord I want another bottle of rum.

0:05:41 > 0:05:44Will you do something for me, sir?

0:05:44 > 0:05:46Will you, er, pass on the respects of the Cratchit family

0:05:46 > 0:05:48to your young lady?

0:05:48 > 0:05:50My daughter, Martha, says that Miss Honoria is much

0:05:50 > 0:05:53missed at the dressmakers. I told her she's looking after her poorly

0:05:53 > 0:05:57aunt and family always comes first.

0:05:57 > 0:05:58Sir?

0:05:58 > 0:06:00Yes.

0:06:01 > 0:06:03Yes, it does.

0:06:03 > 0:06:06Family comes first,

0:06:06 > 0:06:08above everything else.

0:06:09 > 0:06:11Thank you, Mrs Cratchit.

0:06:11 > 0:06:13I haven't done anything.

0:06:13 > 0:06:14You've made me see sense.

0:06:39 > 0:06:42- BABY CRIES - Shh, shh, shh...

0:06:47 > 0:06:48Mr Bucket!

0:06:50 > 0:06:53This was your sudden emergency?

0:06:53 > 0:06:58This is Madame Snuggles. Belongs to the glove-stretcher's wife.

0:06:58 > 0:07:02A beloved companion of many years. Has an infestation of moth.

0:07:02 > 0:07:06There are irrefutable certainties to this case, Mr Venus.

0:07:07 > 0:07:12Marley is killed by a blow to the temple.

0:07:12 > 0:07:15A splinter from the murder weapon is embedded in his scalp.

0:07:15 > 0:07:19Your thoughts on such a weapon, Mr Venus?

0:07:19 > 0:07:22A practised felon, a professional cut-throat takes care of the tools

0:07:22 > 0:07:23of his trade.

0:07:23 > 0:07:26What use is it to him, a cosh that splinters?

0:07:26 > 0:07:31The accused in the cells, waiting to hang, used a metal cudgel.

0:07:31 > 0:07:37I feel, Mr Venus, that this murder weapon

0:07:37 > 0:07:41is an item a man might just pick up,

0:07:41 > 0:07:45something meant for a purpose other than the cracking of skulls.

0:07:47 > 0:07:49What else are we certain of?

0:07:49 > 0:07:51That when the blow was struck, er, the killer

0:07:51 > 0:07:53and Marley were face to face.

0:07:53 > 0:07:55And the blow itself?

0:07:55 > 0:07:58Not one that I would associate with a powerful man.

0:07:58 > 0:08:04There was force, yes, but it is glancing, almost fearful.

0:08:04 > 0:08:06A fraction of an inch and Marley could still be alive.

0:08:06 > 0:08:09I would call it an unlucky blow.

0:08:11 > 0:08:13Unlucky for Jacob Marley.

0:08:28 > 0:08:31The killer strikes and runs.

0:08:32 > 0:08:36He doesn't stop to take Marley's watch, which is still ticking

0:08:36 > 0:08:40away on his corpse, and it's a good, expensive watch.

0:08:40 > 0:08:42He panics.

0:08:42 > 0:08:44So, another certainty.

0:08:44 > 0:08:48The killer is not a hardened criminal,

0:08:48 > 0:08:50because they do not panic.

0:08:50 > 0:08:53Then what are they doing at night by the docks,

0:08:53 > 0:08:56which is the haunt of malefactors and cut-throats?

0:08:59 > 0:09:01Marley was a dark man,

0:09:01 > 0:09:04at home in dark places.

0:09:06 > 0:09:07But the killer...

0:09:09 > 0:09:13Do you remember what I said to you early on in this case?

0:09:13 > 0:09:15Money never lies.

0:09:16 > 0:09:20Debt is the black heart of this crime.

0:09:22 > 0:09:23I feel it.

0:09:25 > 0:09:26To the murder site!

0:09:36 > 0:09:38Do you think you've been clever?

0:09:38 > 0:09:40I don't know what you're talking about.

0:09:40 > 0:09:42- You told her about Sally. - No, I didn't.

0:09:42 > 0:09:45- Of course it was you, you snivelling wretch!- I told her nothing.

0:09:50 > 0:09:53I'm delighted if she's found out that you are actually married,

0:09:53 > 0:09:55because it's over, isn't it? You're finished.

0:09:55 > 0:09:57You think I can't come back from this?

0:09:57 > 0:10:00How often has my sister begged for me to come home?

0:10:00 > 0:10:01Perhaps it's time I did just that.

0:10:01 > 0:10:04I'll buy her a gift. A pineapple, perhaps,

0:10:04 > 0:10:05she adores pineapple.

0:10:05 > 0:10:08It will remind her of our childhood trips with our father

0:10:08 > 0:10:10to the glasshouses at Kew.

0:10:10 > 0:10:13I will apologise for being such a fool and she would forgive me

0:10:13 > 0:10:17and we'd be together again, brother and sister in Satis House.

0:10:17 > 0:10:20Arthur and Amelia Havisham.

0:10:20 > 0:10:23United, against you.

0:10:44 > 0:10:45Shh, shh, shh, shh...

0:10:45 > 0:10:48BABY CRIES

0:11:01 > 0:11:03KNOCK AT THE DOOR

0:11:05 > 0:11:08- James.- Where's Frances?- She's out.

0:11:08 > 0:11:10Good. Not that it would matter, because I would still do this.

0:11:10 > 0:11:13Frances sent you a note last night. Did you get it?

0:11:13 > 0:11:16Oh, I threw it on the fire unread, I knew what it would say.

0:11:16 > 0:11:18Honoria, marry me.

0:11:18 > 0:11:20I want to be your husband.

0:11:20 > 0:11:22I want to be the father of our child.

0:11:22 > 0:11:25I want it more than anything else in the world.

0:11:25 > 0:11:27What are we waiting for?

0:11:27 > 0:11:29Your father's blessing? My promotion?

0:11:29 > 0:11:32All that matters is that we love each other.

0:11:34 > 0:11:36Oh, I forgot to kneel, wait.

0:11:40 > 0:11:42My beautiful girl.

0:11:42 > 0:11:44Be my wife.

0:11:48 > 0:11:51James, do I look different to you?

0:11:54 > 0:11:55You look tired.

0:12:06 > 0:12:09The note you threw on the fire said the baby was coming

0:12:09 > 0:12:10and a doctor was needed.

0:12:13 > 0:12:14The baby?

0:12:16 > 0:12:17She was born dead, James.

0:12:19 > 0:12:21Our daughter was born dead.

0:12:23 > 0:12:25BABY GURGLES

0:12:39 > 0:12:40Where is she?

0:12:41 > 0:12:45The baby, can I see her?

0:12:48 > 0:12:51Frances is making arrangements for her.

0:12:51 > 0:12:53She'll say prayers, give her flowers.

0:12:56 > 0:12:57She was very beautiful.

0:12:59 > 0:13:00Esther Frances.

0:13:02 > 0:13:03Esther...

0:13:05 > 0:13:06A good name, I like it.

0:13:08 > 0:13:09James, this is the end now.

0:13:13 > 0:13:14What do you mean?

0:13:14 > 0:13:16For us. It's the end.

0:13:16 > 0:13:18This is goodbye.

0:13:18 > 0:13:20Honoria, my sweetheart.

0:13:23 > 0:13:28Terrible things happen, babies are lost and people grieve,

0:13:28 > 0:13:29but they go on.

0:13:29 > 0:13:31Well, that is people. It is not me.

0:13:34 > 0:13:36I want you to leave now. It's over.

0:13:36 > 0:13:40You don't mean this. You don't want this, it's just the shock.

0:13:40 > 0:13:42- Please, go.- Honoria!- No, do not!

0:13:42 > 0:13:46You are my world, my heart's blood, I love you.

0:13:46 > 0:13:48And I loved you.

0:13:48 > 0:13:51So much. All I could see was you.

0:13:52 > 0:13:54But now, all I can see is her face.

0:13:57 > 0:13:59This is a judgment on us, James.

0:13:59 > 0:14:02Because of us, she can't even be buried properly.

0:14:02 > 0:14:07She has to be hidden away like some dirty little secret,

0:14:07 > 0:14:10lying there all alone,

0:14:10 > 0:14:12a little girl in the dark.

0:14:14 > 0:14:16And it's because of us.

0:14:19 > 0:14:21We both died with our daughter last night.

0:14:24 > 0:14:27We are ghosts of the people we used to be.

0:14:31 > 0:14:33It is ended.

0:14:39 > 0:14:40I want you to go.

0:14:43 > 0:14:46Go and never come back.

0:15:02 > 0:15:03I am nothing without you.

0:15:06 > 0:15:08I am nobody.

0:15:13 > 0:15:14Goodbye, Captain Hawdon.

0:15:34 > 0:15:36BABY CRIES

0:15:54 > 0:15:56She's so hungry.

0:15:56 > 0:15:58She's had nothing yet, nothing at all.

0:16:06 > 0:16:10Her name is Esther. Esther Fr...

0:16:10 > 0:16:11Just Esther.

0:17:00 > 0:17:02She's not in. I already knocked.

0:17:04 > 0:17:06Might I ask how you got this address?

0:17:06 > 0:17:08I drove by here.

0:17:08 > 0:17:10I saw you embrace her, this woman of yours.

0:17:10 > 0:17:13What is she, your mistress?

0:17:13 > 0:17:16You share these squalid lodgings, so your wife, perhaps?

0:17:16 > 0:17:19I do hope you married her. At least that would be decent.

0:17:19 > 0:17:22It seems you have already decided what she is.

0:17:22 > 0:17:24It's the money, isn't it?

0:17:24 > 0:17:26You thought, "Here's some poor rich woman I can play."

0:17:26 > 0:17:29You leap to so many conclusions, it would be dishonourable

0:17:29 > 0:17:31- for me to contradict you. - Because you cannot contradict me.

0:17:31 > 0:17:33- You are a fraud.- Meriwether?

0:17:39 > 0:17:42What's she doing here? She knows about me.

0:17:42 > 0:17:43She does.

0:17:43 > 0:17:45And since you live together,

0:17:45 > 0:17:46I suppose for the sake of good manners

0:17:46 > 0:17:48I should call you Mrs Compeyson.

0:17:57 > 0:17:58Mrs?

0:17:58 > 0:18:02Oh, no, I'm Miss. Miss Compeyson.

0:18:03 > 0:18:05I'm his sister.

0:18:10 > 0:18:12Would you step into my carriage?

0:18:15 > 0:18:17Not you.

0:18:26 > 0:18:28It's an ugly tale, Miss Havisham.

0:18:28 > 0:18:33I lost my heart to a bad man.

0:18:34 > 0:18:36I ran away with him.

0:18:36 > 0:18:39He was cruel. Cast me aside.

0:18:41 > 0:18:43I could have ended up a street woman.

0:18:44 > 0:18:48I thought I might throw myself from a bridge at Blackfriars

0:18:48 > 0:18:49and let the river take me.

0:18:51 > 0:18:54But my brother searched for me,

0:18:54 > 0:18:57found me and kept me safe.

0:18:58 > 0:19:00But I saw him embrace you.

0:19:00 > 0:19:02You have a brother, do you not?

0:19:02 > 0:19:04Do you and he never embrace?

0:19:06 > 0:19:08We used to. Once.

0:19:10 > 0:19:13Why did he say nothing to me about you?

0:19:14 > 0:19:16I told him he shouldn't.

0:19:17 > 0:19:21Someone of your standing, your status,

0:19:21 > 0:19:25associated with one such as myself.

0:19:25 > 0:19:28A woman banished by good society.

0:19:30 > 0:19:32I told my brother you'd drop him in an instant.

0:19:36 > 0:19:38I'm sorry.

0:19:41 > 0:19:42I'm terribly sorry.

0:19:59 > 0:20:02She believed me. She's tricky, though. Hard work.

0:20:02 > 0:20:05- Is that what you like about her? - It's the money I like.

0:20:05 > 0:20:07You never told me she was beautiful.

0:20:07 > 0:20:10This should've been finished weeks ago. You're delaying!

0:20:12 > 0:20:14You want to get in her bed.

0:20:14 > 0:20:17No, we had a deal. Anything but that. You don't get in her bed!

0:20:17 > 0:20:19You're imagining things.

0:20:44 > 0:20:46Why are you here?

0:20:47 > 0:20:50You should hate me. Why don't you hate me?

0:21:25 > 0:21:27Satis House!

0:21:32 > 0:21:34This...

0:21:34 > 0:21:37is the exact spot where Jacob Marley lost his life.

0:21:42 > 0:21:45Put Madame Snuggles down a moment, Mr Venus.

0:21:45 > 0:21:47I require your assistance.

0:21:49 > 0:21:52You are in debt to Jacob Marley.

0:21:53 > 0:21:58Why have you come here, at night, to meet him, instead of at his house

0:21:58 > 0:22:00or his place of business?

0:22:00 > 0:22:04Because this meeting is secret. I want it to be secret.

0:22:04 > 0:22:07I don't want to be seen by anyone I know.

0:22:07 > 0:22:08I'm ashamed.

0:22:09 > 0:22:10I'm desperate.

0:22:12 > 0:22:14I'm scared.

0:22:14 > 0:22:15Why have you come?

0:22:15 > 0:22:18Perhaps I've come to ask you for more time...

0:22:18 > 0:22:19to pay.

0:22:20 > 0:22:25Perhaps I want to ask you, beg you, please, to be lenient...

0:22:27 > 0:22:28..to be kind.

0:22:28 > 0:22:32I'm Jacob Marley. I enjoy your desperation.

0:22:32 > 0:22:35I enjoy your shame and fear.

0:22:35 > 0:22:37That is meat and drink to me.

0:22:38 > 0:22:40Why should I be kind?

0:22:40 > 0:22:44Well, perhaps I have a family, little ones.

0:22:44 > 0:22:46I don't care.

0:22:48 > 0:22:52I lent you a shilling but now it's pounds and pounds

0:22:52 > 0:22:55and every day it gets worse and I enjoy that,

0:22:55 > 0:22:57because now I own you.

0:22:57 > 0:23:01There is not one part of your life I don't control.

0:23:01 > 0:23:04The boots on your feet, the clothes on your back,

0:23:04 > 0:23:09every mouthful of drink, every bite of food, every waking moment.

0:23:09 > 0:23:14The roof over your head, the bed you lie down on.

0:23:14 > 0:23:18Because whether you go destitute or not is at my say so.

0:23:18 > 0:23:21There is nowhere you are free from me.

0:23:21 > 0:23:23Every brick and every stick is mine.

0:23:23 > 0:23:28Your life, the life of your loved ones is mine. All of it!

0:23:28 > 0:23:31Crushed by the debt you owe to me

0:23:31 > 0:23:34and that gives me pleasure, so why should I be kind?

0:23:34 > 0:23:36Ah!

0:23:43 > 0:23:46Exactly so, Mr Venus.

0:23:48 > 0:23:52Our killer is an ordinary man, pushed to the very limit

0:23:52 > 0:23:53of what was bearable.

0:23:55 > 0:23:57And he snapped.

0:24:04 > 0:24:08Don't announce me, I want to surprise her.

0:24:22 > 0:24:24DISTANT LAUGHTER

0:24:55 > 0:24:57You haven't touched your cordial, Mr Venus.

0:24:57 > 0:24:59I'm worried about this man.

0:25:00 > 0:25:02The killer?

0:25:02 > 0:25:03He's just ordinary.

0:25:05 > 0:25:08Driven to a terrible act, but ordinary.

0:25:08 > 0:25:11And now with you so hard on his tail, I...

0:25:11 > 0:25:13I fear for him.

0:25:13 > 0:25:17You have a gentle heart, my friend,

0:25:17 > 0:25:22but there must and will be justice and I will pursue it

0:25:22 > 0:25:23to my dying breath.

0:25:23 > 0:25:26But consider what that justice will be for his crime, though.

0:25:26 > 0:25:29It is the hangman's noose for him, Mr Bucket.

0:25:29 > 0:25:31An ordinary man.

0:25:31 > 0:25:35Mr Venus, the killer took a weapon with him.

0:25:35 > 0:25:39He went to meet Marley with malice a forethought.

0:25:41 > 0:25:43Pre-meditation.

0:25:43 > 0:25:49So he might have been ordinary once, but now he is a murderer.

0:25:53 > 0:25:55- Pies, gents.- Thank you.

0:25:56 > 0:25:57Mmm.

0:26:36 > 0:26:38KNOCK AT THE DOOR

0:26:40 > 0:26:42Inspector!

0:26:42 > 0:26:45Mrs Cratchit. I was passing.

0:26:45 > 0:26:47Might I come in?

0:26:47 > 0:26:49I'm baking, it's a terrible mess.

0:26:49 > 0:26:51I don't mind mess.

0:26:57 > 0:26:59Quite the family industry.

0:27:00 > 0:27:02Everyone pitches in - the little ones,

0:27:02 > 0:27:04Bob...Mr Cratchit.

0:27:04 > 0:27:06Yeah, he's quite a dab hand in the kitchen.

0:27:06 > 0:27:08He's got a sure touch with pastry.

0:27:10 > 0:27:12What's that?

0:27:13 > 0:27:16It's evidence, Mrs Cratchit.

0:27:16 > 0:27:21This piece of wood was removed from Jacob Marley's scalp.

0:27:22 > 0:27:25It came from the cosh that killed him.

0:27:27 > 0:27:29I've been looking for that weapon.

0:27:41 > 0:27:43And now I've found it.

0:27:46 > 0:27:49Mrs Cratchit, when your husband comes home,

0:27:49 > 0:27:52I'm going to have to take him away.

0:27:53 > 0:27:55Why?

0:27:55 > 0:27:58Because your husband, who has such a sure touch with pastry...

0:28:00 > 0:28:03..is going to be re-arrested for the murder of Jacob Marley.

0:28:06 > 0:28:09MAN WHISTLES

0:28:15 > 0:28:18It wasn't Bob, it was me. I killed Marley.

0:28:18 > 0:28:20It was me.

0:28:20 > 0:28:22BOB WHISTLES