0:00:02 > 0:00:05A writ for criminal conversation with the plaintiff's wife.
0:00:05 > 0:00:07He means to cut you off financially.
0:00:07 > 0:00:10Custody of Samuel shall reside with yourself...
0:00:10 > 0:00:15if you shall admit the child imposed upon your husband is the child of Mr Garrow.
0:00:15 > 0:00:19I would be broken because you had struck such a bargain!
0:00:19 > 0:00:21I will not sign what is not true.
0:00:21 > 0:00:23I believe I may have something that belongs to you.
0:00:23 > 0:00:25Keep it. You may need it.
0:00:25 > 0:00:30- You have bought me for a shilling. - But at what cost to your life?
0:02:00 > 0:02:03GUNSHOT, BIRDS CRY OUT
0:02:15 > 0:02:17Morning.
0:02:25 > 0:02:27Garrow?
0:02:29 > 0:02:32BUZZ OF CONVERSATION
0:02:33 > 0:02:37HUBBUB FADES TO A HUSH
0:02:37 > 0:02:38Morning.
0:02:48 > 0:02:52I have not been smeared by Fleet Street or parodied by Grub Street.
0:02:52 > 0:02:55They will soon forget about it. You must hope.
0:02:57 > 0:02:59- Court in session!- >
0:03:18 > 0:03:20- Your credit's no good! - Yes, sir.
0:03:33 > 0:03:38"Lady Sarah Hill has contracted diverse debts
0:03:38 > 0:03:41"and all shops and merchants are forbidden
0:03:41 > 0:03:44"from giving credit to her on her account."
0:03:44 > 0:03:46Issued by Sir Arthur as a public announcement.
0:03:46 > 0:03:49How civilised of the man not to bear a grudge(!)
0:03:49 > 0:03:53I would gladly starve for the one thing that would nourish me.
0:03:53 > 0:03:56Your son does not belong to you.
0:03:56 > 0:03:58Nothing belongs to you.
0:03:58 > 0:04:02Therefore, you must avail yourself of the charity of a third party...
0:04:02 > 0:04:04which you do.
0:04:04 > 0:04:07Will you ever approve of me, Mr Southouse?
0:04:15 > 0:04:18Duck eggs, samphire and...
0:04:19 > 0:04:21- Gourd.- Gourd?
0:04:21 > 0:04:24It is...a form of marrow.
0:04:26 > 0:04:29It shall all make a very singular meal.
0:04:33 > 0:04:36- Did you not think to acquire some credit for me?- I did forget.
0:04:36 > 0:04:39You did?
0:04:40 > 0:04:42How fares your credit?
0:04:42 > 0:04:44At the Old Bailey? I am bought in that place still.
0:04:46 > 0:04:50- I am as necessary as tea.- Yet we can prevail and continue in this?
0:04:50 > 0:04:53Of course, if we can survive the gourd.
0:05:02 > 0:05:04I shall repel all callers.
0:05:33 > 0:05:35LOW MURMURS
0:05:56 > 0:05:58Be upstanding for the King!
0:06:16 > 0:06:18What's he doing?
0:06:18 > 0:06:19GASPING
0:06:19 > 0:06:22GUNSHOT, SHOUTING
0:06:22 > 0:06:24- Ugh!- Kill him!
0:06:24 > 0:06:26COMMOTION AND SHOUTING
0:06:29 > 0:06:31You sirs, hold there!
0:06:31 > 0:06:33GASPING AND PANTING
0:06:35 > 0:06:37Who are you?
0:06:37 > 0:06:39My name is James Hadfield.
0:06:41 > 0:06:43And there is a great deal more and worst to come.
0:06:43 > 0:06:45MURMURING
0:06:50 > 0:06:52HOOVES CLATTER
0:06:52 > 0:06:54You will act for him and Mr Garrow to defend.
0:06:54 > 0:06:57Madam, your husband tried to kill the King.
0:06:57 > 0:07:00It is not an easy thing to defend.
0:07:00 > 0:07:04He is at Newgate. You will need no introduction from me.
0:07:04 > 0:07:06I do not understand your hurry.
0:07:06 > 0:07:11I must take my leave of you... and my husband also.
0:07:11 > 0:07:12What mean you?
0:07:14 > 0:07:19I hope that you and Mr Garrow will serve him well.
0:07:19 > 0:07:22I have loved this man so very dearly,
0:07:22 > 0:07:26but he is only sometimes the man I used to know,
0:07:26 > 0:07:30and it is for that man that I engage you. Thank you.
0:07:30 > 0:07:32Mrs Hadfield?
0:07:32 > 0:07:37I am not bound to defend an assassin merely because you pay me for it.
0:07:37 > 0:07:44Go to Newgate. You will not find a thwarted murderer, a martyr perhaps.
0:07:44 > 0:07:47A martyr to what, Mrs Hadfield?
0:07:48 > 0:07:53To his cause. And I beg that you save him from it.
0:08:04 > 0:08:08Your Highness, is this not the disease of the French Revolution
0:08:08 > 0:08:09transmitted to our shores?
0:08:09 > 0:08:11They execute their king
0:08:11 > 0:08:14and we must confront would-be assassins of our own?
0:08:14 > 0:08:17"The Rights Of Man",
0:08:17 > 0:08:19"A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman".
0:08:21 > 0:08:25Hardly surprising that a pamphlet revolution begets a loaded gun.
0:08:25 > 0:08:28Your Highness, this is why this case must serve
0:08:28 > 0:08:31as a means of asserting the absolute authority of the Monarchy.
0:08:31 > 0:08:33And keep any Regency Bill at bay.
0:08:33 > 0:08:36And more, a salutary lesson to zealous Whigs,
0:08:36 > 0:08:40reformists and anyone who doubts the balance of our constitution.
0:08:40 > 0:08:44Which, in any case, should always weigh in favour of...order.
0:08:44 > 0:08:45ALL: Hear, hear.
0:08:47 > 0:08:49WATER DRIPS, METAL CLANKS
0:08:54 > 0:08:56RAIN PATTERS
0:08:57 > 0:08:59DISTORTED: ..Mr Hadfield...
0:08:59 > 0:09:02CHAINS CLANK
0:09:02 > 0:09:05MAN CLEARS THROAT, CHAINS CLANK ..Mr Hadfield...
0:09:05 > 0:09:07Mr Hadfield?
0:09:08 > 0:09:10Mr Hadfield?
0:09:12 > 0:09:13Mr Hadfield?
0:09:14 > 0:09:18WATER DRIPS, CHAINS CLANK
0:09:18 > 0:09:20Discharged from the Army, I came to London
0:09:20 > 0:09:22and made a living as a silversmith.
0:09:22 > 0:09:26But weary of life, I bought a pistol from a Mr Wakelin,
0:09:26 > 0:09:30borrowed a crown from Solomon Hougham
0:09:30 > 0:09:34- and bought some powder and cast some lead slugs... - You were tired of life?
0:09:34 > 0:09:36I am as good a shot as any in England.
0:09:36 > 0:09:38I do not understand.
0:09:38 > 0:09:41I fired my pistol over the Royal box.
0:09:43 > 0:09:45You wished merely to be caught?
0:09:47 > 0:09:49I wish for death.
0:09:49 > 0:09:53To raise an alarm and then be set upon my fellow Englishmen
0:09:53 > 0:09:56who would beat me to death in their indignation,
0:09:56 > 0:09:58tear me apart with patriotic passion.
0:09:59 > 0:10:02But that did not happen, Mr Hadfield.
0:10:02 > 0:10:05Now I hope that my life shall be forfeited at the trial.
0:10:07 > 0:10:11I would still die but not by my own hands for suicide is a sin.
0:10:11 > 0:10:13You wish your existence destroyed?
0:10:17 > 0:10:20Mr Garrow, you understand what I am about.
0:10:26 > 0:10:29I cannot defend him. He does not want a defence.
0:10:29 > 0:10:34His wife did not identify his cause but I identify it now.
0:10:34 > 0:10:36His cause is his own death.
0:10:36 > 0:10:39A plan hatched by his madness.
0:10:39 > 0:10:42Therefore, he needs a defence from such lunacy.
0:10:42 > 0:10:45The law on madness as a defence requires total derangement,
0:10:45 > 0:10:48a continuous distemper of the mind. Hadfield has not such a condition.
0:10:48 > 0:10:50But he seeks oblivion.
0:10:50 > 0:10:52But half the time speaks in utter reason!
0:10:52 > 0:10:54I cannot defend him.
0:10:54 > 0:10:56The law on madness does not allow me.
0:10:56 > 0:10:59Allow you? Since when have you concerned yourself
0:10:59 > 0:11:01- with what you are allowed to do? - True.
0:11:01 > 0:11:05But when I am required to defend the attempted assassination of the King,
0:11:05 > 0:11:07perhaps you will allow me a little circumspection.
0:11:07 > 0:11:11Think of the attention the light from this trial will generate.
0:11:11 > 0:11:13Unless you no longer have a heart for it.
0:11:13 > 0:11:16Unless your heart beats only for the life domestic.
0:11:20 > 0:11:23You would not wish me happy, Mr Southouse?
0:11:23 > 0:11:27Always. But most especially when you stand up at the Old Bailey.
0:11:27 > 0:11:32To turn a jury, to confront a liar. Unmake a bad law.
0:11:33 > 0:11:35But only when I am briefed by you?
0:11:35 > 0:11:37Invariably.
0:11:38 > 0:11:43I will own to a curiosity here. but there is yet more work to do.
0:11:43 > 0:11:45Then do not delay me.
0:11:58 > 0:12:02I would gladly prosecute anyone who would threaten the life of the King.
0:12:02 > 0:12:04Of course I do so as a patriot,
0:12:04 > 0:12:07not for any preferment that such a case might bring.
0:12:07 > 0:12:12In order to prosecute this trial, you will be made King's Counsel.
0:12:12 > 0:12:16One of his majesty's counsels learned in law. KC.
0:12:16 > 0:12:19You shall now have that membership.
0:12:19 > 0:12:22You make this appointment obviously on the basis of merit?
0:12:22 > 0:12:25And a seat on the judge's bench will beckon eventually.
0:12:25 > 0:12:29Especially if a trial such as this goes well.
0:12:29 > 0:12:33For such an appointment I would hang the man myself, Lord Melville.
0:12:33 > 0:12:35My own court.
0:12:37 > 0:12:41And in my court, a trial in which Garrow is appearing.
0:12:41 > 0:12:45I would sustain every objection made against him.
0:12:45 > 0:12:48I would direct a jury not to find for him.
0:12:48 > 0:12:50Oh God, I'd make his life hell.
0:12:51 > 0:12:55Impartially and in full accordance to the strictures of the law.
0:12:57 > 0:13:01This is a political trial, Mr Silvester,
0:13:01 > 0:13:04you will not simply denounce the man in the dock.
0:13:04 > 0:13:09You must let the people realise how close this country came to calamity.
0:13:27 > 0:13:29John Redknapp?
0:13:31 > 0:13:32Follow me.
0:13:35 > 0:13:37You are very careful, sir?
0:13:37 > 0:13:40My neighbour tried to kill the King of England.
0:13:40 > 0:13:43Do you think that spies would not be sent here?
0:13:47 > 0:13:49He is sometimes like a man not for me to be with.
0:13:49 > 0:13:53- He runs on, talking a whole heap of stuff.- Stuff?
0:13:53 > 0:13:57As if his brain is unsettled - as if he's flurried in the head.
0:13:57 > 0:14:00Be more specific.
0:14:00 > 0:14:02He would fly from one argument to another.
0:14:02 > 0:14:05Talk of his relationship with God.
0:14:05 > 0:14:08I am sure we all examine our relationship with God.
0:14:08 > 0:14:11And do we all insist that we must die for him?
0:14:11 > 0:14:12I know he wishes to die
0:14:12 > 0:14:16but do you know why he wishes to be God's martyr in particular?
0:14:16 > 0:14:19You look for reasons from such a man?
0:14:19 > 0:14:23No! I look for unreason. I look to see what depths it may plumb.
0:14:23 > 0:14:26Then you would reacquaint yourself with his wife
0:14:26 > 0:14:28but she has fled and won't return.
0:14:28 > 0:14:31Yet she pays me to save him. For the man he was.
0:14:31 > 0:14:35Ah, but may never forgive him for the man he was that night.
0:14:36 > 0:14:41Redknapp witnessed Hadfield in a terrible rage. His wife screaming
0:14:41 > 0:14:44and fleeing in terror with their child.
0:14:44 > 0:14:46And still fleeing, obviously.
0:14:46 > 0:14:50But if we cannot find her, we have him still to unravel.
0:14:50 > 0:14:54He speaks wildly to his neighbour, he makes his wife fearful.
0:14:54 > 0:14:55He wishes his own death.
0:14:55 > 0:14:59You think there may not be a method in his madness?
0:14:59 > 0:15:02Then find it and he is exposed.
0:15:02 > 0:15:04And you are spared his defence.
0:15:12 > 0:15:15Do you know the whereabouts of your wife, sir?
0:15:15 > 0:15:19- I think her lost to me. - And your son also?
0:15:19 > 0:15:22He is not yet two years old and may never recall me.
0:15:22 > 0:15:24If your wife knows of the trial,
0:15:24 > 0:15:27we must hope she will come forward as witness for you.
0:15:27 > 0:15:30Or I could ask Mr Southouse to venture to any address...
0:15:30 > 0:15:32She has frustrated God's work.
0:15:34 > 0:15:35By which you mean?
0:15:35 > 0:15:39She did prevent me from acting in obedience to the superior commands of heaven.
0:15:43 > 0:15:45She is not so devout a believer?
0:15:45 > 0:15:47He did not call upon her.
0:15:47 > 0:15:51- By which you mean, sir?- I knew I was to be a martyr and persecuted,
0:15:51 > 0:15:53like my great master Jesus Christ.
0:15:53 > 0:15:57I shall have my trial, as Jesus did before he was crucified.
0:15:57 > 0:16:01This commission coming from where, Mr Hadfield?
0:16:01 > 0:16:04I am in constant contact with the Author of All Things.
0:16:04 > 0:16:07He has warned me that at the beginning of the 19th century,
0:16:07 > 0:16:11the world will perish unless I sacrifice myself for his salvation.
0:16:11 > 0:16:13I see.
0:16:15 > 0:16:17I see.
0:16:17 > 0:16:20If you are to play this part, sir, do you not think it requires
0:16:20 > 0:16:23something more in the way of an antic disposition, hm?
0:16:23 > 0:16:25Some more acting out?
0:16:25 > 0:16:27Suicide being a crime and a sin, I went to the theatre
0:16:27 > 0:16:30and shot towards the King in the hope that by my crime
0:16:30 > 0:16:33my life would otherwise be taken from me.
0:16:33 > 0:16:37As it is death I wish for, death I seek.
0:16:37 > 0:16:40For nothing but death will satisfy God, who calls me to his presence,
0:16:40 > 0:16:44where I shall witness his Second Coming as his true descendant and loyal son.
0:16:44 > 0:16:47Your words run together like a fervent prayer, sir,
0:16:47 > 0:16:49but I see no drool.
0:16:50 > 0:16:53No raving frenzy that will convince me.
0:16:54 > 0:16:58You mock me, sir? Is this all counterfeit?
0:16:59 > 0:17:01It is a solemn promise to God.
0:17:01 > 0:17:04You think to kill the King from some vile opinion
0:17:04 > 0:17:06and then feign that your mind is not your own.
0:17:06 > 0:17:09But a plea of insanity would require something more in the way
0:17:09 > 0:17:12of constancy of that condition. Do you understand?
0:17:12 > 0:17:15You are not a madman, sir.
0:17:15 > 0:17:19But a failed assassin who has the wits to try a defence.
0:17:19 > 0:17:22Then would I not wish its success?
0:17:22 > 0:17:26But I do not because I must be found guilty, Mr Garrow.
0:17:26 > 0:17:29Well then, plead so, sir! Plead so!
0:17:29 > 0:17:32You have no need of me! You have no need of a jury!
0:17:32 > 0:17:34Let the judge dispatch you.
0:17:34 > 0:17:37I loyally served my country in the 15th Light Dragoons
0:17:37 > 0:17:39and I will never plead guilty to treason.
0:17:40 > 0:17:42It was not my aim to kill the King
0:17:42 > 0:17:44and I will not be known in history as such a man.
0:17:46 > 0:17:49But you still wish a jury to find you guilty?
0:17:49 > 0:17:52- And so dispatch you? - I'm sorry if I confound you.
0:18:48 > 0:18:50Sarah?
0:19:01 > 0:19:03Sarah?
0:19:05 > 0:19:07Samuel is not here, Sarah.
0:20:07 > 0:20:09Three months we have been in Europe.
0:20:09 > 0:20:14Was my absence not meant to quieten this...ridicule?!
0:20:14 > 0:20:16How do they draw you?
0:20:16 > 0:20:17Show me!
0:20:17 > 0:20:20Variously.
0:20:20 > 0:20:25Here...with my arse set on both sides of the Channel.
0:20:28 > 0:20:30And how do they write about me?
0:20:31 > 0:20:34As someone who has worshipped at the shrine of Venus.
0:20:34 > 0:20:35As a lover of variety.
0:20:35 > 0:20:38Well, there is not much variety to be had here in Bramber.
0:20:38 > 0:20:42I think you know they mean the beaux you've...
0:20:42 > 0:20:45..recruited to your cause.
0:20:45 > 0:20:49And you know I mean that we are a very long way from any theatre
0:20:49 > 0:20:51and from the tables at Brookes.
0:20:51 > 0:20:53Then promenade in Brighton!
0:20:53 > 0:20:57I cannot be in London. I cannot stoke their contemptuous attention.
0:20:57 > 0:21:02This may be your constituency but must it also be your exile?
0:21:02 > 0:21:03Well, it does seem so.
0:21:04 > 0:21:06Arthur...
0:21:10 > 0:21:13I care not for my disgrace
0:21:13 > 0:21:17and find ways to content myself despite it.
0:21:17 > 0:21:21You must either face down your reputation or rehabilitate it.
0:21:21 > 0:21:25If not, you will never come to anyone's attention.
0:21:25 > 0:21:28You are a very rare mistress.
0:21:28 > 0:21:33A bird of paradise cannot survive in Sussex.
0:21:37 > 0:21:40BABY CRIES
0:21:41 > 0:21:44Sound of a cuckoo.
0:22:00 > 0:22:04- Sir Arthur is in Bramber? - Yes, m'lady.
0:22:10 > 0:22:12M'lady?
0:22:33 > 0:22:36I hope Bedlam can offer you enlightenment.
0:22:39 > 0:22:41This way, gentlemen.
0:22:43 > 0:22:47A place where muddled minds may find refuge and understanding
0:22:47 > 0:22:50and so might we.
0:22:50 > 0:22:53The incurables, gentlemen.
0:22:53 > 0:22:56A sorry spectacle, I'm sure you'll agree.
0:22:56 > 0:22:58And are inmates held communally?
0:22:58 > 0:23:03Ladies' ward and men's ward - where I reside.
0:23:09 > 0:23:11Mr Creighton's office is just here, gentlemen.
0:23:16 > 0:23:19Thank you, Vincent.
0:23:19 > 0:23:23Vincent. Resident of the men's ward, apparently.
0:23:23 > 0:23:26Vincent is enjoying a sunnier day than is usual.
0:23:26 > 0:23:29He can, in his darker moods, foam like Niagara,
0:23:29 > 0:23:31and has to be restrained with a jacket
0:23:31 > 0:23:34for the purpose to prevent the ebullitions of his anger.
0:23:34 > 0:23:38His anger must indeed be fierce. What occasions it?
0:23:38 > 0:23:42He thinks himself cheated of his fortune by a lawyer.
0:23:42 > 0:23:46We shall not broach that subject on the way out.
0:23:46 > 0:23:48James Hadfield is to be prosecuted
0:23:48 > 0:23:51for the attempted assassination of the King.
0:23:51 > 0:23:56Previous defences of insanity are based on the idea of men having a deprivation of reason,
0:23:56 > 0:23:58memory and understanding. The law requires it.
0:23:58 > 0:24:02Thank you. In other words, the accused has to be demonstrably mad.
0:24:02 > 0:24:06The mind stormed in its citadel, quite defeated by frenzy.
0:24:06 > 0:24:09Reason not merely disturbed but wholly driven from her seat.
0:24:09 > 0:24:12We do not defend such a man.
0:24:12 > 0:24:16And I have rarely experienced such a madness in men.
0:24:17 > 0:24:21So madness, as defined in law, is simply wrong?
0:24:21 > 0:24:26"I am but mad north/north-west but when the wind is southerly
0:24:26 > 0:24:28"I can tell a hawk from a handsaw".
0:24:28 > 0:24:31Hamlet telling Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
0:24:31 > 0:24:34that although he may act the part of a lunatic,
0:24:34 > 0:24:36he still has his wits about him.
0:24:36 > 0:24:41And often times the genuinely mad do also have their wits.
0:24:41 > 0:24:42Vincent, for instance?
0:24:42 > 0:24:46Yes. He is not today in the grip of his delusion.
0:24:46 > 0:24:48- Delusion?- A false impression.
0:24:48 > 0:24:51Which sits alongside other views that are not false at all?
0:24:51 > 0:24:52Which are quite correct.
0:24:52 > 0:24:54And so ability is not proof of sanity?
0:24:54 > 0:24:58No. Delusions exist at the utmost state of ability.
0:24:58 > 0:25:01So a man may show proper sentiment in one instance
0:25:01 > 0:25:03and on another subject...
0:25:03 > 0:25:05The subject of his lunacy.
0:25:05 > 0:25:07Complete irrationality.
0:25:07 > 0:25:09I think we make progress.
0:25:10 > 0:25:12Our defence is not merely madness
0:25:12 > 0:25:14but setting about the understanding of madness!
0:25:14 > 0:25:16- Better described as a malady. - Exactly.
0:25:16 > 0:25:19- It will put us in dangerous territory.- What mean you?
0:25:19 > 0:25:23Have you not heard the King described as afflicted in that way?
0:25:24 > 0:25:26Then we are in very good company.
0:26:07 > 0:26:10- This cannot be! - You think it so unnatural?
0:26:10 > 0:26:13I think it is beyond sense.
0:26:13 > 0:26:14Success is unlikely,
0:26:14 > 0:26:18the cost astronomical, and you do not possess the means.
0:26:18 > 0:26:22I have acquired the means, so issue the writ.
0:26:22 > 0:26:25- How did you acquire them? - In a way that is right.
0:26:25 > 0:26:29- In a way that is legal? - I will have my son.
0:26:29 > 0:26:32Does William know you intend this?
0:26:34 > 0:26:36Issue the writ, Mr Southouse.
0:26:44 > 0:26:45You think to save me?
0:26:46 > 0:26:49I think to save you from your madness.
0:26:50 > 0:26:51Madness?
0:26:51 > 0:26:55I behold a glorious calling, Mr Garrow. A life everlasting
0:26:55 > 0:26:58in the brilliance of God's countenance.
0:26:58 > 0:26:59And the countenance of your wife?
0:26:59 > 0:27:02You do not linger ever on that?
0:27:03 > 0:27:05The love that she has shown for you.
0:27:06 > 0:27:07I so do wish to see her.
0:27:08 > 0:27:09You do?
0:27:12 > 0:27:14In order that I may say goodbye.
0:27:15 > 0:27:19Before you embrace the greater glory of your sacrifice?
0:27:19 > 0:27:21I cannot ignore it.
0:27:23 > 0:27:24And I must do my duty
0:27:24 > 0:27:26and save you from yourself.
0:27:30 > 0:27:32There he is!
0:27:32 > 0:27:34CROWDS CLAMOUR
0:27:59 > 0:28:00The court shall rise.
0:28:20 > 0:28:23What madness lies abroad,
0:28:23 > 0:28:26when our good King can be shot at in a public theatre?
0:28:26 > 0:28:28MURMURS OF AGREEMENT
0:28:28 > 0:28:32What atrocities lie in wait for us, when the Royal Box
0:28:32 > 0:28:35of the Drury Lane theatre is assailed by gunshot
0:28:35 > 0:28:39that has our monarch falling to his knees to escape his death?
0:28:39 > 0:28:43CROWD SHOUTS IN AGREEMENT
0:28:43 > 0:28:46And although we may give thanks that the King may live and thrive still,
0:28:46 > 0:28:52society demands that this assassin be exposed in all his darkness.
0:28:52 > 0:28:54SHOUTS OF AGREEMENT
0:29:00 > 0:29:02If a man is completely deranged,
0:29:02 > 0:29:06so that he does not know what he does nor its consequences,
0:29:06 > 0:29:08is lost to all sense,
0:29:08 > 0:29:11is incapable of distinguishing between good and evil,
0:29:11 > 0:29:15then the mercy of our law says that he cannot be guilty of a crime.
0:29:17 > 0:29:19Even one so monstrous
0:29:19 > 0:29:22as the attempted murder of the King of England.
0:29:24 > 0:29:26But I do not defend such a man.
0:29:27 > 0:29:29He's not completely deranged.
0:29:29 > 0:29:33He did know what he tried to do and he has not lost all sense.
0:29:33 > 0:29:37According to our law, my client is guilty
0:29:37 > 0:29:38because he is not mad enough,
0:29:38 > 0:29:40he is not demonstrably mad.
0:29:40 > 0:29:44He is not mad at all times. He is not mad now.
0:29:44 > 0:29:48But it will be my defence, gentlemen, my argument, to show that
0:29:48 > 0:29:51madness is not some wild land
0:29:51 > 0:29:55to which those afflicted are forever banished
0:29:55 > 0:29:58but that it is a bewildering place...
0:29:59 > 0:30:05..to visit and to return from, sometimes in a matter of hours.
0:30:05 > 0:30:07Buller, call an adjournment.
0:30:07 > 0:30:09Mr Silvester,
0:30:09 > 0:30:11you will call your first witness.
0:30:11 > 0:30:16My Lord, there is some new development that requires...
0:30:16 > 0:30:18Adjournment?!
0:30:18 > 0:30:20If I may beg your indulgence.
0:30:22 > 0:30:24MUTTERING
0:30:28 > 0:30:30If Hadfield is found to be mad,
0:30:30 > 0:30:33then the nature of his lunacy may be said to be shared
0:30:33 > 0:30:37by others of a, ahem, nervous disposition that does afflict them.
0:30:37 > 0:30:38You talk of the King?
0:30:38 > 0:30:41How fares he, your Highness?
0:30:41 > 0:30:43He's been out of sorts.
0:30:43 > 0:30:47- Oh.- We allowed him to walk in the grounds at Kew Gardens
0:30:47 > 0:30:49but he did spy Fanny Burney there and...
0:30:51 > 0:30:54And...then, your Highness?
0:30:56 > 0:30:58He spoke to her of all manner of things.
0:30:58 > 0:31:01All manner of things?
0:31:01 > 0:31:04His physician calls it a derangement of his faculties,
0:31:04 > 0:31:06that he suffers from a bilious fever.
0:31:06 > 0:31:08But at other times, he has a very sound perception.
0:31:08 > 0:31:12Imagine this! A monarch removed not by the guillotine
0:31:12 > 0:31:15but by the comings and goings of his mind.
0:31:15 > 0:31:18Then I must refute the condition of Mr Hadfield's mind.
0:31:18 > 0:31:20He must be shown to be as sane as any one of us.
0:31:20 > 0:31:23And I must find out who Mr Garrow calls for the defence.
0:31:25 > 0:31:26To what purpose?
0:31:40 > 0:31:41John Redknapp?
0:31:46 > 0:31:50I saw the prisoner raise a horse pistol in the auditorium
0:31:50 > 0:31:52and then take aim at the King.
0:31:52 > 0:31:54SHOCKED MUTTERING
0:31:54 > 0:31:57And before the first shot was fired, your Highness?
0:31:57 > 0:32:00As the shot was fired, a stagehand raised the arm of the assassin
0:32:00 > 0:32:05so as to direct the contents of the pistol into the roof of the Royal box.
0:32:05 > 0:32:08Then, your Royal Highness,
0:32:08 > 0:32:10he did not aim to miss?
0:32:10 > 0:32:13The King was saved by a stagehand and a patriot.
0:32:13 > 0:32:15- ALL:- Hear, hear!
0:32:15 > 0:32:17And then, your Highness?
0:32:17 > 0:32:20- The orchestra played God Save The King.- Ha!
0:32:21 > 0:32:22Mr Garrow...
0:32:24 > 0:32:29In the whole of the conversation which your Highness had with this man,
0:32:29 > 0:32:32did he betray in his answers any irregularity
0:32:32 > 0:32:34in which you could collect
0:32:34 > 0:32:38a then existing derangement of his understanding?
0:32:38 > 0:32:40Not the least.
0:32:40 > 0:32:43No more questions, my lord.
0:32:49 > 0:32:53Your Highness, how fares the King after his ordeal?
0:32:53 > 0:32:54Quite recovered.
0:32:54 > 0:32:58I understand he has been cupped, purged and blistered of late.
0:32:58 > 0:33:01I trust that has quickened his recovery?
0:33:01 > 0:33:03Thank you, yes, that is so.
0:33:03 > 0:33:06Mr Garrow, you will address yourself
0:33:06 > 0:33:08to the facts of the night in question.
0:33:08 > 0:33:10My lord, of course.
0:33:10 > 0:33:13Will your Highness have the goodness to recollect
0:33:13 > 0:33:17whether there was anything more said by Mr Hadfield?
0:33:17 > 0:33:21He said something like, "The worst had not happened yet",
0:33:21 > 0:33:23or "More is to come."
0:33:23 > 0:33:25So the act about which he was most deliberate
0:33:25 > 0:33:29was the destruction of his own life?
0:33:29 > 0:33:32A happy consequence of assassinating the King, perhaps?
0:33:35 > 0:33:38That does not seem like a very collected state of mind, would you agree?
0:33:38 > 0:33:42You will address the witness as your Royal Highness, Mr Garrow!
0:33:42 > 0:33:46Will it please your Royal Highness to address the question?
0:33:46 > 0:33:50The enormity of the crime he had embarked on had,
0:33:50 > 0:33:53perhaps, shaken him.
0:33:53 > 0:33:55MURMURS OF AGREEMENT
0:33:56 > 0:33:59Had you previously encountered the prisoner?
0:33:59 > 0:34:00His face seemed familiar.
0:34:00 > 0:34:04He reminded me he'd been one of my orderlies at the battle of Freymar.
0:34:04 > 0:34:07And you recollect him loyal, your Royal Highness?
0:34:07 > 0:34:10- A good soldier. - A good soldier?
0:34:10 > 0:34:13A good soldier.
0:34:15 > 0:34:19In battle against the French, in service of the King.
0:34:19 > 0:34:23And now with some rational motive to kill him? I think not.
0:34:23 > 0:34:26Are assassins ever rational?
0:34:26 > 0:34:28If their design is to kill someone.
0:34:28 > 0:34:31It may be alarming but it has reason.
0:34:31 > 0:34:33Such as when the King believes
0:34:33 > 0:34:37the nation is about to be inundated in a great flood.
0:34:37 > 0:34:40His warning alarming but his reason, surely,
0:34:40 > 0:34:42to strengthen our flood defences?
0:34:42 > 0:34:46You will not compare the King and the man who tried to destroy him.
0:34:46 > 0:34:51Mr Garrow, I do hope you have no further questions!
0:35:14 > 0:35:18Mr Silvester, you may call your next witness.
0:35:18 > 0:35:21My Lord, I call Mr John Redknapp.
0:35:33 > 0:35:35I swear by almighty God
0:35:35 > 0:35:40to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
0:35:40 > 0:35:47Can you say something of the mood and bearing of your neighbour
0:35:47 > 0:35:50on the day in question, Mr Redknapp?
0:35:50 > 0:35:52He was as well as I've ever seen him.
0:35:52 > 0:35:55And, um, how did he go about his business?
0:35:55 > 0:35:57Nothing but as usual.
0:35:57 > 0:36:00Conversation disjointed in any way?
0:36:00 > 0:36:03He spoke of going to attend a performance
0:36:03 > 0:36:06at the Drury Lane Theatre.
0:36:06 > 0:36:07SHOCKED MUTTERING
0:36:07 > 0:36:09And your acquaintance with him previously,
0:36:09 > 0:36:13- any evidence of lunacy?- Never.
0:36:13 > 0:36:15Liar! Perjurer!
0:36:15 > 0:36:18Southouse! One more outburst like that and I'll have you removed!
0:36:18 > 0:36:20Mr Hadfield procures a firearm.
0:36:20 > 0:36:25Mr Hadfield positions himself at the Drury Lane Theatre,
0:36:25 > 0:36:28in order to get the best possible shot at the King.
0:36:28 > 0:36:33In short, Mr Hadfield exhibits a steady and resolute design,
0:36:33 > 0:36:37requiring planning, precision and pinpoint timing.
0:36:39 > 0:36:42Is this a madman in a frenzy?
0:36:42 > 0:36:45Is this a man so deprived of understanding
0:36:45 > 0:36:49that he knows no more of what he is doing than a brute,
0:36:49 > 0:36:53or a wild beast? He purchased powder and shot!
0:36:53 > 0:36:57Do wild beasts negotiate commercial transactions?
0:36:57 > 0:36:59LAUGHTER
0:37:01 > 0:37:04I am a little confused, Mr Redknapp.
0:37:04 > 0:37:07You were to appear here as witness for the defence.
0:37:07 > 0:37:11I wish to retract the statement I had previously made.
0:37:11 > 0:37:15That is quite evident. Your previous statement not merely retracted,
0:37:15 > 0:37:17rather turned on its head.
0:37:17 > 0:37:19I had been mistaken.
0:37:19 > 0:37:22And I too, then. For my attorney took you as an honest man.
0:37:22 > 0:37:26Mr Garrow, let the court condemn or commend.
0:37:26 > 0:37:29Mr Redknapp. Mr Redknapp!
0:37:32 > 0:37:37Have you ever seen the prisoner exhibit any kind of disturbance?
0:37:41 > 0:37:44Only when his blood has been inflamed through drink!
0:37:44 > 0:37:46CHUCKLING
0:37:46 > 0:37:50You've seen him drunk on many occasions?
0:37:50 > 0:37:52He likes his liquor, sir.
0:37:54 > 0:37:58You do realise that Mr Hadfield has in recent years been temperate,
0:37:58 > 0:38:01as required by his religious convictions.
0:38:01 > 0:38:05You are aware of the prisoner's religious convictions?
0:38:05 > 0:38:08No, sir, no.
0:38:08 > 0:38:10He's not drunk beer or liquor in five years.
0:38:10 > 0:38:14So perhaps you may help me wonder what else might cause
0:38:14 > 0:38:19this "inflammation of the blood" that you speak of?
0:38:22 > 0:38:23I cannot venture.
0:38:26 > 0:38:27I do not know.
0:38:29 > 0:38:31We adjourn.
0:38:31 > 0:38:32My lord!
0:38:32 > 0:38:33For refreshment.
0:38:33 > 0:38:35The court shall rise.
0:38:45 > 0:38:47We must hope that Mr Creighton can convince
0:38:47 > 0:38:51that an all-or-nothing definition of madness is a nonsense.
0:38:51 > 0:38:55Or else... or else if I could demonstrate
0:38:55 > 0:38:58the nature of Hadfield's mind to the jury.
0:38:58 > 0:39:01Alas, it is his wife who knows best the mind of her husband.
0:39:01 > 0:39:03Yes, but she is gone.
0:39:03 > 0:39:04I will speak to Redknapp again.
0:39:04 > 0:39:09- You thought him in difficulty about it?- Some may call it that.
0:39:27 > 0:39:29- KNOCKING - You will allow me entry here,
0:39:29 > 0:39:32or I will see you taken to the magistrates for perjury.
0:39:32 > 0:39:35And make it known to your neighbours of Southwark
0:39:35 > 0:39:39that you are a government spy and in their pay.
0:39:39 > 0:39:42You think they will allow such a man to live peaceably here?
0:39:42 > 0:39:46- You mean to have me killed? - I mean to have Hadfield saved.
0:39:46 > 0:39:50Were you not threatened by Lord Melville?
0:39:50 > 0:39:54Yes! But I am a worthy man despite my testimony.
0:39:54 > 0:39:55Worthy?
0:39:55 > 0:39:57Worthy of what, Mr Redknapp?
0:39:57 > 0:40:00A woman flees her husband's madness,
0:40:00 > 0:40:01carrying her child.
0:40:01 > 0:40:05She would look for safety, sanctuary, soonest and nearest.
0:40:05 > 0:40:09You have seen his humours and as you say, you are not without virtue.
0:40:09 > 0:40:14- And so you open your door to her. - Such a woman should not suffer so.
0:40:14 > 0:40:16Such a woman, no.
0:40:17 > 0:40:19I begged her to stay with me.
0:40:19 > 0:40:21Alas, I could not persuade her.
0:40:21 > 0:40:23Where did she go to?
0:40:23 > 0:40:29I hoped her refusal to stay on with me merely a practical matter...
0:40:29 > 0:40:30Where to, Mr Redknapp?
0:40:30 > 0:40:33..but I saw her return to him again.
0:40:33 > 0:40:35Where, when?
0:40:35 > 0:40:38- At the Bailey.- She is in there?!
0:40:38 > 0:40:41In the gallery. She loves him still.
0:40:42 > 0:40:47You lied in court that he may be killed and his widow turn to you?
0:40:49 > 0:40:52Such a man should not live.
0:41:09 > 0:41:13"We command you that you bring before us in the Court of Chancery
0:41:13 > 0:41:15"the body of Samuel Hill,
0:41:15 > 0:41:17"who is detained in your custody."
0:41:18 > 0:41:22So not only does she break into my house to steal my property,
0:41:22 > 0:41:24she thinks to have Samuel returned to her!
0:41:26 > 0:41:28You think it not part of some bargain
0:41:28 > 0:41:31she aims to negotiate with you?
0:41:31 > 0:41:35If it were me, I would be seeking considerably more pin money.
0:41:35 > 0:41:37She funds her action with stolen jewellery.
0:41:37 > 0:41:41I wonder she could not attach herself to a wealthy benefactor.
0:41:41 > 0:41:44Well, she's not you, Henrietta. She has Mr Garrow for company.
0:41:44 > 0:41:47Well, then, they collude here.
0:41:49 > 0:41:51You think it so?
0:41:51 > 0:41:55Why else would an adulterous woman presume to take a child
0:41:55 > 0:41:59away from its father with Garrow to encourage her?
0:41:59 > 0:42:03The Crim Con trial turned out to be the most pyrrhic victory.
0:42:03 > 0:42:06I shall confound them here far more unequivocally.
0:42:06 > 0:42:09It may also restore your reputation.
0:42:09 > 0:42:12She would not only be challenging your authority
0:42:12 > 0:42:15but the authority of all men who are fathers.
0:42:15 > 0:42:20And you...would quickly gain the sympathy of all men.
0:42:22 > 0:42:26And you offer this remedy because of your great feeling for me?
0:42:27 > 0:42:31I offer this remedy because it must take us back to London.
0:42:31 > 0:42:34- Soonest!- Ahh.
0:42:41 > 0:42:43SHE WHOOPS WITH DELIGHT
0:42:45 > 0:42:47BABY CRIES
0:42:53 > 0:42:58Mr Creighton, would you please name the usual symptoms of lunacy?
0:42:58 > 0:43:03Uncommon fury, jealousy or suspicion without cause or grounds.
0:43:03 > 0:43:06Simply symptoms of a vicious character then?
0:43:06 > 0:43:08Mr Silvester, wait your turn!
0:43:08 > 0:43:12Mr Creighton, you have carried out an examination of the prisoner.
0:43:12 > 0:43:15Please afford the Court an opinion, or rather an insight,
0:43:15 > 0:43:17based on your considerable experience.
0:43:17 > 0:43:22The condition of Mr Hadfield does not manifest itself constantly.
0:43:22 > 0:43:24I see.
0:43:24 > 0:43:28- And so there is no total deprivation of memory and reason?- Correct.
0:43:28 > 0:43:33Then how or when does his condition manifest itself?
0:43:33 > 0:43:39If any question concerning common matters is put to him,
0:43:39 > 0:43:43he answers very correctly. But if any question is put to him
0:43:43 > 0:43:48which refers to the subject of his lunacy, he answers irrationally.
0:43:48 > 0:43:52Delusions are very powerful forces.
0:43:52 > 0:43:55They cannot be shaken by perception or sense.
0:43:55 > 0:43:59Delusion sets in like a disease?
0:43:59 > 0:44:01It infects just as much.
0:44:01 > 0:44:04Can the delusion appear in the utmost state of ability?
0:44:04 > 0:44:08The ability to purchase pistol and shot and take one's place at the theatre?
0:44:08 > 0:44:12Yes. Even when the delusion which propels the action
0:44:12 > 0:44:15has no foundation or existence.
0:44:15 > 0:44:19This argument is somewhat...new.
0:44:19 > 0:44:24That madness is, if not also occasional,
0:44:24 > 0:44:28then somehow the false reality of a diseased mind?
0:44:30 > 0:44:34My Lord, I contend that the total deprivation
0:44:34 > 0:44:39of understanding and memory is a legal fiction.
0:44:45 > 0:44:51Mr Creighton, if, as you suggest, madness is not a total state,
0:44:51 > 0:44:55do you mean by that then that the insane suffer periods
0:44:55 > 0:44:58when they are not themselves?
0:44:58 > 0:45:00Yes, I agree with that.
0:45:00 > 0:45:04Good! Then during other times,
0:45:04 > 0:45:06if I am to understand you,
0:45:06 > 0:45:10they show a partial degree of reason?
0:45:10 > 0:45:12Yes.
0:45:12 > 0:45:15Then can we not say that the prisoner WAS in his true state
0:45:15 > 0:45:17when he committed the crime?
0:45:17 > 0:45:21Not if we accept the real motivation for the action.
0:45:21 > 0:45:24The satisfactions and fulfilment of the delusion
0:45:24 > 0:45:27that brought Mr Hadfield before the King.
0:45:27 > 0:45:31Ah! Is it every frantic and idle humour
0:45:31 > 0:45:35of a man to be exempted from justice and the law?
0:45:35 > 0:45:40Are there not many circumstances that can displace a "good self"?
0:45:40 > 0:45:42Greed...
0:45:42 > 0:45:44envy...
0:45:44 > 0:45:46malice...
0:45:46 > 0:45:48the coveting of another man's horse?
0:45:48 > 0:45:51LAUGHTER
0:45:57 > 0:46:00You could not take your leave of him after all.
0:46:00 > 0:46:05I am loyal still but I feel I must hide in plain sight.
0:46:05 > 0:46:07You can be more loyal yet.
0:46:09 > 0:46:13If you give some understanding to the jury about the nature of your husband's madness,
0:46:13 > 0:46:17- then we may have a compelling defence.- I do not wish his death!
0:46:17 > 0:46:19Your attendance here speaks of your heart.
0:46:19 > 0:46:24You think that so? I am as afraid of the pardon that may be granted him!
0:46:24 > 0:46:25Because of the events of that night?
0:46:25 > 0:46:29I would not be able to bear to recollect them in court.
0:46:29 > 0:46:32In any case, they may condemn him.
0:46:32 > 0:46:33Or save him, madam.
0:46:33 > 0:46:37But I fear I will provoke him! Provoke what does afflict him!
0:46:37 > 0:46:40You must allow me that provocation.
0:46:44 > 0:46:47My Lord, I call Mrs Ann Hadfield.
0:47:06 > 0:47:09I swear by Almighty God to tell the truth, the whole truth
0:47:09 > 0:47:12and nothing but the truth.
0:47:12 > 0:47:16Mrs Hadfield, could you please give a description
0:47:16 > 0:47:18of your husband's true self?
0:47:18 > 0:47:22- SHE CLEARS HER THROAT - Most times he was good and kind.
0:47:22 > 0:47:24And other times?
0:47:24 > 0:47:27He would confound me.
0:47:27 > 0:47:29Buy a new jacket
0:47:29 > 0:47:32and then immediately part with it for an old and tattered one.
0:47:32 > 0:47:37Or lie awake at night singing psalms and hymns,
0:47:37 > 0:47:41or simply walk about in the middle of the night unable to sleep.
0:47:41 > 0:47:45I had still only then thought his behaviour odd, or queer,
0:47:45 > 0:47:47or flighty...
0:47:47 > 0:47:49Until such time as when, Mrs Hadfield?
0:47:54 > 0:47:59Something that you can not so easily give a name to?
0:47:59 > 0:48:01I could give a name to it,
0:48:01 > 0:48:04- but it is hardly to be thought about.- Of course.
0:48:04 > 0:48:08If you would try to recall, for your husband's sake.
0:48:09 > 0:48:13- I will not send him to the gallows here?- You will not.
0:48:13 > 0:48:15You must simply speak the truth.
0:48:23 > 0:48:24Then...
0:48:26 > 0:48:30the night before he took the pistol to the theatre,
0:48:30 > 0:48:34I knew what he had a mind to do,
0:48:34 > 0:48:37and begged him to think of our son,
0:48:37 > 0:48:39of the duty he had to him.
0:48:43 > 0:48:47I was holding our infant in my arms...
0:48:47 > 0:48:50and suddenly...
0:48:51 > 0:48:56..my husband dragged the child from my arms...
0:48:58 > 0:49:01Please try to continue.
0:49:01 > 0:49:04- I saw him! I saw his purpose! - Mr Hadfield...
0:49:04 > 0:49:07His purpose? His purpose to thwart you?
0:49:07 > 0:49:10Sent to confuse and detain me!
0:49:10 > 0:49:13- A child held by his mother? - A snake!
0:49:13 > 0:49:16Writhing in the bosom of the devil!
0:49:16 > 0:49:17Mr Garrow! Who do you examine?!
0:49:17 > 0:49:20And you had to be worthy of Christ, did you not?
0:49:20 > 0:49:24I could not delay to purify myself with death.
0:49:24 > 0:49:26You could not allow the child to delay you.
0:49:26 > 0:49:30The old ways of life must come to an end
0:49:30 > 0:49:31before Christ can come
0:49:31 > 0:49:34and bring about our resurrection and my renewal!
0:49:34 > 0:49:38You sought to repel this awful creature who would prevent that?
0:49:38 > 0:49:41I took the one that did pretend to be my son...
0:49:43 > 0:49:46..from the one that did pretend to be his mother
0:49:46 > 0:49:48and try to dash his brains against the wall!
0:49:48 > 0:49:51SHOCKED EXCLAMATIONS
0:49:54 > 0:49:55Until?
0:50:01 > 0:50:03Until Ann rescued him from me.
0:50:06 > 0:50:08And through my tears gave up my assault upon...
0:50:08 > 0:50:10Upon?
0:50:12 > 0:50:14Upon this snake, this tempter.
0:50:17 > 0:50:19Who was also my beloved child.
0:50:24 > 0:50:27At the moment that he tried to kill his son,
0:50:27 > 0:50:31he could have had a rational conversation about
0:50:31 > 0:50:33any circumstance of his past life.
0:50:33 > 0:50:35and anything connected with his present.
0:50:35 > 0:50:40Except only the quality of the act he was meditating.
0:50:40 > 0:50:42James Hadfield knew perfectly well
0:50:42 > 0:50:46that he was the husband of this woman and the father of the child.
0:50:46 > 0:50:51And yet still he was in thrall to the over-ruling dominion
0:50:51 > 0:50:53of a morbid imagination.
0:50:53 > 0:50:57Did he not cry because he knew the evil he was doing and the consequences?
0:50:57 > 0:51:00He cried because he could not stop what he was doing.
0:51:00 > 0:51:02He could not stop his sickly purpose.
0:51:02 > 0:51:08Mr Silvester, do you have any questions for the witness?
0:51:08 > 0:51:11No, my Lord. I merely wish to address the jury
0:51:11 > 0:51:13before you ask them to return a verdict.
0:51:14 > 0:51:16As you wish.
0:51:18 > 0:51:24We are told this is a man who, as manifestation of his lunacy,
0:51:24 > 0:51:29wished nothing more than to bring about his own death.
0:51:29 > 0:51:33If this be so, I have one very simple question.
0:51:33 > 0:51:36Why did he not plead guilty?
0:51:36 > 0:51:38Why avail himself of a defence?
0:51:38 > 0:51:42If he wishes to ensure his own destruction,
0:51:42 > 0:51:45why seek out the wiles and stratagems of Mr Garrow
0:51:45 > 0:51:47to avert such a fate?
0:51:47 > 0:51:49No, I would avert it!
0:51:49 > 0:51:54I would have a defence for the sake of my husband, for the man he once was.
0:51:55 > 0:51:58The man you can still sometimes be.
0:52:04 > 0:52:06Mr Garrow.
0:52:11 > 0:52:15Where James Hadfield bears the appearance of purpose and planning,
0:52:15 > 0:52:18he retained no capacity to appreciate
0:52:18 > 0:52:21the legal consequences of his behaviour.
0:52:21 > 0:52:25And by the law's notion of intent,
0:52:25 > 0:52:28James Hadfield had not chosen to kill the King.
0:52:28 > 0:52:32I hope that your sound understandings, gentlemen,
0:52:32 > 0:52:36will easily enable you to distinguish
0:52:36 > 0:52:39infirmities which are misfortunes,
0:52:39 > 0:52:41from motives which are crimes.
0:52:44 > 0:52:48Well, gentlemen, depravity or disease?
0:52:48 > 0:52:51The true self displaced,
0:52:51 > 0:52:56or an act of wilful deliberation and wicked purpose?
0:52:56 > 0:53:01Mr Garrow argues here for a change in the law on madness.
0:53:01 > 0:53:04No small debate. Will you allow it?
0:53:04 > 0:53:10The decision you reach today may... no, WILL have profound consequences.
0:53:10 > 0:53:13Deliberate and we will have your verdict.
0:53:26 > 0:53:28You've reached a verdict?
0:53:28 > 0:53:31- We have.- How do you find?
0:53:31 > 0:53:32Not guilty.
0:53:32 > 0:53:35LOUD MUTTERING
0:53:37 > 0:53:41The prisoner, for his own sake and for the sake of society at large,
0:53:41 > 0:53:43must not be discharged.
0:53:43 > 0:53:48I suggest he be properly disposed of,
0:53:48 > 0:53:52all mercy and humanity being shown this unfortunate creature.
0:53:55 > 0:53:56The court shall rise.
0:53:59 > 0:54:02Congratulations. You have made a successful defence,
0:54:02 > 0:54:06and the reward for your client is indefinite incarceration.
0:54:10 > 0:54:13You must know that it may be possible for patients to recover
0:54:13 > 0:54:18if simply confined in peaceful surroundings.
0:54:18 > 0:54:21And so I commend you to the care of Mr Creighton here.
0:54:21 > 0:54:25I hope that one day I will be grateful to you, Mr Garrow.
0:54:30 > 0:54:32Then I wish you peace, James.
0:54:41 > 0:54:44Some resolution here at least, Mr Southouse.
0:54:45 > 0:54:49And are you resolved and settled in your own house?
0:54:49 > 0:54:51What mean you?
0:54:51 > 0:54:55About the service I have performed for Lady Sarah in the way of Samuel.
0:54:59 > 0:55:03I am in Parliament tomorrow to announce a new treason bill.
0:55:03 > 0:55:06You propose to make such trials less likely to fail?
0:55:06 > 0:55:09I propose to make it clear that we seek to circumscribe the rights
0:55:09 > 0:55:13of all those who will announce their disenfranchisement.
0:55:13 > 0:55:15Madmen, slaves, Irish, Catholics, women.
0:55:15 > 0:55:20Gentlemen! We must press them down in their delirium.
0:55:21 > 0:55:24A writ of Habeas Corpus against Hill?
0:55:24 > 0:55:27It will require him to produce Samuel in court
0:55:27 > 0:55:30and show cause why he should detain him.
0:55:30 > 0:55:32You think he'll simply submit to you?
0:55:43 > 0:55:45My Lord Melville?
0:55:46 > 0:55:49- Hill?- We may travel together, I think.
0:55:51 > 0:55:54- Can that still be so? - If you'll hear me.
0:56:03 > 0:56:05I am called to a custody hearing.
0:56:06 > 0:56:11My absolute right as a father is to be questioned. Challenged.
0:56:11 > 0:56:14My God, the sickness of the age is truly upon us.
0:56:14 > 0:56:16I will not let it overcome me.
0:56:16 > 0:56:19And my defence is a remedy.
0:56:21 > 0:56:24You seek not merely custody from this?
0:56:24 > 0:56:26If the trial brings my rehabilitation as a man,
0:56:26 > 0:56:28it must also bring it as a politician.
0:56:28 > 0:56:31And Garrow in this?
0:56:31 > 0:56:34Of course. She lives as his dependent since the trial.
0:56:36 > 0:56:38Avenge it.
0:56:45 > 0:56:49- Who to represent you?- Not you in the cause of custody.
0:56:49 > 0:56:53Your presence could be used to show Samuel lives with his mother and her lover.
0:56:53 > 0:56:55You have given it some thought?
0:56:55 > 0:56:59Have you paid as much attention to the bill that will be presented to you?
0:57:02 > 0:57:06I went to the house. I took the jewels I used to wear
0:57:06 > 0:57:09- and exchanged...- Under the law, they do not belong to you!
0:57:09 > 0:57:11He has stolen my son!
0:57:24 > 0:57:28If I cannot represent you at Kings Bench, I may have cause to represent you
0:57:28 > 0:57:30at the Bailey, as you stand in the dock.
0:57:33 > 0:57:38I warn you, Hill will come for his retribution.
0:57:54 > 0:57:57They are charged with breaking looms and cutting silk.
0:57:57 > 0:57:59He has issued me with a writ.
0:57:59 > 0:58:02All I ever had is his in law.
0:58:02 > 0:58:04Am I still to call you uncle then?
0:58:04 > 0:58:07You are my brother's son, what else should you call me?
0:58:07 > 0:58:09Samuel's absence is a wound.
0:58:09 > 0:58:12- Give him back to me. - We shall see whom the law prefers.
0:58:12 > 0:58:14These two are lost.
0:58:14 > 0:58:15You think so?
0:58:15 > 0:58:17Oh, I'm sure of it.
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