0:00:02 > 0:00:04- This importunate person is with you? - George Pinnock, sir.
0:00:04 > 0:00:07I hope I will be allowed to remind you of the place for me,
0:00:07 > 0:00:08at the Admiralty.
0:00:08 > 0:00:09You will not be forgotten.
0:00:09 > 0:00:13I will use my influence with Hill to get him to give over Samuel.
0:00:13 > 0:00:17So Melville wills and Garrow acts.
0:00:17 > 0:00:18What can I do?
0:00:18 > 0:00:21Nothing.
0:00:21 > 0:00:24Your son...Take him.
0:00:26 > 0:00:28I've come for my son.
0:01:14 > 0:01:18Let it be known that the candidates for the seat of Westminster
0:01:18 > 0:01:22are Sir Cecil Wray and Sir Charles Fox.
0:01:22 > 0:01:27I hereby declare this place of voting now open.
0:01:31 > 0:01:33ALL: Fox, Fox, Fox, Fox, Fox!
0:01:42 > 0:01:45GRUNTS AND SCREAMS
0:02:22 > 0:02:24KNOCK AT THE DOOR
0:02:24 > 0:02:25Sarah?
0:02:36 > 0:02:38Mr Garrow, forgive me.
0:02:38 > 0:02:40I know there are things to contrive.
0:02:40 > 0:02:44I would take that burden from you and from Lady Sarah if you wish it.
0:02:46 > 0:02:48For the laying to rest.
0:02:48 > 0:02:51Sarah's not at home.
0:02:51 > 0:02:54She may not be so for some time.
0:02:54 > 0:02:57- But I will see to those matters. - I would take it...
0:02:57 > 0:02:59I will see to it.
0:03:02 > 0:03:04Thank you.
0:03:04 > 0:03:06Then I shall be about my business.
0:03:33 > 0:03:35Oh, see who comes.
0:03:35 > 0:03:38A man who would rule the world
0:03:38 > 0:03:42if only he could stay out of the courts long enough.
0:03:42 > 0:03:45Oh, God. What now?
0:03:45 > 0:03:47Who gave you this? Who gave you this?
0:03:47 > 0:03:50Cannot the man have one day without incident?
0:03:50 > 0:03:51MELVILLE CHUCKLES
0:03:51 > 0:03:55Scuppered by the foy madness of a woman in the...
0:03:58 > 0:04:01Sir, there is such wickedness as hell cannot conceive
0:04:01 > 0:04:02in this vile place.
0:04:02 > 0:04:04Sir, I am the man to find a barrister
0:04:04 > 0:04:06to represent your case in court.
0:04:06 > 0:04:09But you must help me with answers.
0:04:09 > 0:04:13I walked from Ludgate Hill to Covent Garden
0:04:13 > 0:04:16to place my vote at the election.
0:04:16 > 0:04:18And came upon a most uproarious scene
0:04:18 > 0:04:23where constables obstructed my effort to vote for Mr Fox.
0:04:23 > 0:04:25- And blows were exchanged? - To my discredit...
0:04:25 > 0:04:26yes.
0:04:28 > 0:04:32- Whereupon I was taken in. - And were to be charged with the breaking of the peace.
0:04:32 > 0:04:35I was told it would be so.
0:04:35 > 0:04:39But as I stood before the magistrate I heard the charge as murder.
0:04:39 > 0:04:42Such was the haste of that dialogue that I only now know,
0:04:42 > 0:04:44because you tell me, who it is I am said to have murdered!
0:04:44 > 0:04:48Mr Joseph Casson. Who you neither knew, saw, nor struck down that day?
0:04:48 > 0:04:50Never!
0:04:50 > 0:04:51On my oath.
0:04:53 > 0:04:55Well, if that is so we shall bring it out.
0:04:55 > 0:04:57And I hope we shall have the best man to argue it.
0:04:57 > 0:04:59I have money.
0:04:59 > 0:05:04Oh! I fear money alone may not lay hold of this man's interest, sir.
0:05:04 > 0:05:09I may have to recruit Mr Southouse, God rest his soul, to our cause.
0:05:09 > 0:05:10Good day, sir.
0:05:17 > 0:05:20Ah, Sir Arthur, how splendid!
0:05:20 > 0:05:21My Lord Melville.
0:05:21 > 0:05:24I noted you with a messenger just now.
0:05:24 > 0:05:25Not troubling news, I hope?
0:05:25 > 0:05:27It need not detain us, my Lord.
0:05:27 > 0:05:29But, please.
0:05:29 > 0:05:32You know well your troubles are mine.
0:05:32 > 0:05:34All too often, perhaps.
0:05:34 > 0:05:35THEY SNIGGER
0:05:35 > 0:05:37The news was of my son.
0:05:42 > 0:05:44(I fear the boy is abducted by its mother.)
0:05:44 > 0:05:47The boy is abducted by its mother?!
0:05:47 > 0:05:49My Lord, please.
0:05:49 > 0:05:53Should you not now scurry away and take care of that trouble?
0:05:53 > 0:05:55It will, I think, keep.
0:05:55 > 0:05:59At least until we have discussed other matters.
0:05:59 > 0:06:03I am here, as arranged, to learn news of my new post.
0:06:03 > 0:06:09I gave Prime Minister Pitt a true appraisal of your qualities.
0:06:09 > 0:06:14And I trust you will not be disappointed with
0:06:14 > 0:06:20Second Under Secretary to his Ministry for Harbours and Landings.
0:06:20 > 0:06:21Harbours and Landings?
0:06:21 > 0:06:24By far the most prestigious position on,
0:06:24 > 0:06:26ahem, the Yorkshire coastline.
0:06:27 > 0:06:30You expected more?
0:06:30 > 0:06:35My Lord, I feel...for the service I gave I am owed more than that!
0:06:35 > 0:06:36Owed, sir?
0:06:36 > 0:06:38Yes, sir. Owed, sir.
0:06:38 > 0:06:43Then I must put plain what I have long wished to report.
0:06:43 > 0:06:46Gentlemen, look upon Sir Arthur Hill,
0:06:46 > 0:06:51whose extravagant self-pity is out-weighed only by his vanity.
0:06:51 > 0:06:55And his vanity is often bested by an ignorance of the most crude
0:06:55 > 0:06:56political skill.
0:06:56 > 0:06:59He is of no use.
0:06:59 > 0:07:01None at all.
0:07:01 > 0:07:03- My Lord.- Good day, sir.
0:07:03 > 0:07:09Go now and see to your ridiculous wife and her paramour.
0:07:23 > 0:07:25MELVILLE LAUGHS
0:07:32 > 0:07:34It is a murder, Mr Garrow,
0:07:34 > 0:07:38of a gentleman struck down on voting day for the Westminster seat...
0:07:38 > 0:07:40Mr Pinnock...
0:07:40 > 0:07:42You will see here that, although constables were sent in
0:07:42 > 0:07:45to keep the peace at election that day, that they themselves
0:07:45 > 0:07:48lay into the crowd of voters with their batons.
0:07:48 > 0:07:49Mr Pinnock, did I not make myself plain?
0:07:53 > 0:07:55I did not ask for your service in preparing this brief.
0:07:55 > 0:07:58Indeed, I have not asked for the brief at all.
0:07:58 > 0:08:02I see your humour, Mr Garrow, and accept that you did not.
0:08:05 > 0:08:07But I thought you knew...
0:08:07 > 0:08:10Mr Southouse did.
0:08:12 > 0:08:14You will explain yourself.
0:08:14 > 0:08:17He had me set the case aside and mark the date of its beginning.
0:08:20 > 0:08:22He spoke of it...
0:08:22 > 0:08:25as a nonsense that you might enjoy being appalled by.
0:08:49 > 0:08:51Come on!
0:09:08 > 0:09:09PEOPLE SHOUT
0:09:15 > 0:09:17We begin, Miss Casson.
0:09:24 > 0:09:26Garrow, I...
0:09:26 > 0:09:29knew you a good servant to Mr Fox and his kind, but I thought
0:09:29 > 0:09:34the sad business of Mr Southouse would have kept you from this place.
0:09:34 > 0:09:37It seems it is Mr Southouse himself who will not let me.
0:09:43 > 0:09:44Mr Silvester?
0:09:47 > 0:09:50My Lord, gentlemen.
0:09:50 > 0:09:54Amid the noise and clamour of an election for that very important seat
0:09:54 > 0:10:00of Westminster, a great body of men, friends and supporters
0:10:00 > 0:10:02of that radical Mr Fox,
0:10:02 > 0:10:06did attack local constables sent to keep the peace.
0:10:06 > 0:10:07PEOPLE MURMUR
0:10:07 > 0:10:11I will show by evidence that this fellow Nicholson
0:10:11 > 0:10:14did knock the aged and innocent Joseph Casson to the ground...
0:10:14 > 0:10:15PEOPLE MURMUR
0:10:15 > 0:10:18..rained down violent blows upon his head
0:10:18 > 0:10:20and, in doing so, took his life.
0:10:23 > 0:10:26I call the witness, Thomas Davy.
0:10:26 > 0:10:28I came upon a sight of great spectacle.
0:10:28 > 0:10:33Supporters of Mr Fox and Sir Cecil Wray crying out for and against.
0:10:33 > 0:10:35The butchers, as tradition demands,
0:10:35 > 0:10:38clacking together their marrowbones and cleavers.
0:10:38 > 0:10:39And the whole scene...
0:10:39 > 0:10:40Mr Davy!
0:10:40 > 0:10:43Might you leave off these dazzling depictions
0:10:43 > 0:10:45to those of the press paid to do it?
0:10:45 > 0:10:47LAUGHTER
0:10:47 > 0:10:48The matter here is murder.
0:10:48 > 0:10:50I ask your pardon, my Lord.
0:10:50 > 0:10:54Indeed, the mood then did darken.
0:10:54 > 0:10:59As Fox's ruffians, armed with bludgeons, sought to
0:10:59 > 0:11:02satisfy their violent appetites.
0:11:02 > 0:11:04And in the ensuing melee,
0:11:04 > 0:11:07you saw Joseph Casson struck and fall?
0:11:07 > 0:11:13I saw this man, as clear as you see him now, with arm raised high.
0:11:13 > 0:11:18And I saw the man I know now to be Joseph Casson fallen to the ground.
0:11:18 > 0:11:20LOUD MURMURS
0:11:23 > 0:11:26I see here, in the margin
0:11:26 > 0:11:30of the magistrate's record of your statement, there is a note added.
0:11:30 > 0:11:33Added by a very fine attorney.
0:11:34 > 0:11:38Tell me if it is, as he puts it here, that you are the man,
0:11:38 > 0:11:41"Who passes his days abusing with fine language
0:11:41 > 0:11:43"those gentlemen associated with Mr Fox
0:11:43 > 0:11:46"and did once throw dirt at the person of Mr Fox himself."
0:11:46 > 0:11:49- Do you question my honour, sir? - Were you not also paid, sir,
0:11:49 > 0:11:53paid to rally against all those who stood for Mr Fox?
0:11:53 > 0:11:57In fact, is not your performance here a continuation of that employment?
0:11:57 > 0:11:58How dare you that?
0:11:58 > 0:12:01Who but a Fox man such as you, sir,
0:12:01 > 0:12:03would defend this other Fox man?
0:12:03 > 0:12:06Mr Davy, we are not voting here today.
0:12:06 > 0:12:08We are about a man's life.
0:12:08 > 0:12:12Do you claim you saw the blow struck, sir, that murdered Mr Casson?
0:12:12 > 0:12:17I saw the tableau of that tragic death most vivid.
0:12:17 > 0:12:20Answer the question, Mr Davy.
0:12:20 > 0:12:24Did you see this "Fox man" strike Joseph Casson?
0:12:28 > 0:12:30I will confess it.
0:12:31 > 0:12:32I did not.
0:12:32 > 0:12:35LOUD MURMURS
0:12:53 > 0:12:58You cannot say that this man struck the blow.
0:12:58 > 0:13:01Your prejudice is clear. This prosecution is fantastical.
0:13:01 > 0:13:03Now, gentlemen...
0:13:03 > 0:13:04Uh, Mr Garrow...
0:13:08 > 0:13:10Where is Lady Sarah?
0:13:10 > 0:13:12To answer plainly, I do not know.
0:13:12 > 0:13:14I wish most sincerely that I did.
0:13:14 > 0:13:18You would have me believe you played no part in her abduction of my son?
0:13:20 > 0:13:23I know nothing of this, sir.
0:13:23 > 0:13:24Nothing.
0:13:26 > 0:13:27But if it be true...
0:13:27 > 0:13:31I know nothing of where she or they might be.
0:13:31 > 0:13:32Believe me.
0:13:32 > 0:13:34And you will believe this.
0:13:34 > 0:13:38Your sour inamorata has once again sabotaged my career
0:13:38 > 0:13:40and my prospects.
0:13:42 > 0:13:44Such scandal in the hands of Lord Melville
0:13:44 > 0:13:46is a poison to my endeavour.
0:13:46 > 0:13:48Are you not Faust to his devil, sir?
0:13:48 > 0:13:49No, sir!
0:13:52 > 0:13:54And even if Sarah is run off to France with the boy,
0:13:54 > 0:13:56I will pursue her.
0:13:56 > 0:13:58And I will bring an end to this.
0:14:17 > 0:14:19Sir Sampson Wright, there is a problem at the Bailey,
0:14:19 > 0:14:21- with the witness.- Find another.
0:14:32 > 0:14:34Go, too.
0:15:14 > 0:15:17I call Joshua Gilmore.
0:15:17 > 0:15:19I do not see this man on the indictment.
0:15:19 > 0:15:21With your permission, my Lord.
0:15:21 > 0:15:23The man I would call is a new discovery.
0:15:23 > 0:15:25I will allow it.
0:15:25 > 0:15:27Mr Silvester, continue.
0:15:30 > 0:15:34Mr Gilmore, you were at the Covent Garden on May the 10th
0:15:34 > 0:15:37and saw the fracas involving this man Nicholson?
0:15:37 > 0:15:38I did, sir.
0:15:38 > 0:15:43And saw Joseph Casson struck by that man in the blood red coat,
0:15:43 > 0:15:47Hubert Nicholson, with a large stick with a nub to the end of it.
0:15:49 > 0:15:53Are you sure that that man was the man struck the deceased?
0:15:53 > 0:15:57I'm sure of it. Upon my word, upon my honour and upon my oath.
0:15:57 > 0:15:59ASSENTING MURMURS
0:16:01 > 0:16:07Sir, you appear nowhere in the coroner or magistrate's account of this matter.
0:16:07 > 0:16:10Why did you not go before the coroner to report any of this?
0:16:10 > 0:16:12My reason was this, sir.
0:16:12 > 0:16:16I, er, came up to the Bailey yesterday about a little
0:16:16 > 0:16:17business I have of my own
0:16:17 > 0:16:21and saw from the notices displayed that this matter was to be tried.
0:16:21 > 0:16:23You came here by chance yesterday?
0:16:23 > 0:16:26- Yes, sir.- I see.
0:16:26 > 0:16:29Do you not agree, although I myself believe every
0:16:29 > 0:16:32breath of your testimony, that for the gentlemen of the jury,
0:16:32 > 0:16:35there might be some small room for speculation?
0:16:35 > 0:16:39That the first you heard of this business was today in some small coffee house off Silver Street?
0:16:39 > 0:16:44Where certain officers of the law gave you this speech to learn by heart?
0:16:44 > 0:16:47They would scapegoat this man and corrupt this court.
0:16:47 > 0:16:50I have objection, my Lord.
0:16:50 > 0:16:52Once again, he all but lectures the jurymen.
0:16:52 > 0:16:56Mr Silvester, whilst I abhor Mr Garrow's habit
0:16:56 > 0:16:58of gossiping with my jury,
0:16:58 > 0:17:01I feel I can only agree with his concerns.
0:17:01 > 0:17:04I've heard enough.
0:17:04 > 0:17:10Gentlemen, even supposing you can possibly credit the witnesses
0:17:10 > 0:17:14examined for the prosecution, you will find nowhere, I regret,
0:17:14 > 0:17:19a reliable account so to connect Nicholson to the death of Casson.
0:17:19 > 0:17:24But it is for you to determine whether you will not acquit the prisoner.
0:17:34 > 0:17:38My Lord, we find not guilty.
0:17:38 > 0:17:39PEOPLE GASP
0:17:42 > 0:17:44Court shall rise.
0:18:59 > 0:19:00KNOCK AT THE DOOR
0:19:11 > 0:19:12Miss Casson.
0:19:12 > 0:19:14Mr Garrow.
0:19:14 > 0:19:16Forgive my calling at your home.
0:19:16 > 0:19:20But I am occupied by a question and have need of your help.
0:19:20 > 0:19:22I regret I am unable to give it.
0:19:22 > 0:19:25Being concerned at present with other things.
0:19:25 > 0:19:28I confess I was bewildered by what I saw pass for justice in court yesterday.
0:19:28 > 0:19:30Madam, justice was hardly present,
0:19:30 > 0:19:32and little of what you saw was concerned with
0:19:32 > 0:19:33the death of your dear father.
0:19:33 > 0:19:36I saw the trial was, in great part, politics.
0:19:36 > 0:19:38And I am at most naive in matters political but...
0:19:38 > 0:19:41Madam, forgive me, but for the sake of your own peace,
0:19:41 > 0:19:44you might let go of the cold mechanisms
0:19:44 > 0:19:46of your father's passing and...
0:19:46 > 0:19:50allow instead the fonder memories of his living to replace them.
0:19:50 > 0:19:53If you ask that of me,
0:19:53 > 0:19:56then you do not understand grief at all, sir.
0:19:56 > 0:19:58Madam, I promise I do.
0:20:00 > 0:20:03You enter a room...
0:20:03 > 0:20:06expecting him there and he is not.
0:20:06 > 0:20:10You smile at some small thing and anticipate recounting it to him
0:20:10 > 0:20:12but you cannot.
0:20:12 > 0:20:15You chase a painful idea...
0:20:15 > 0:20:16around in your head that,
0:20:16 > 0:20:19"If only I had done or not done this or that thing...
0:20:22 > 0:20:27"..he would still be standing beside me now."
0:20:27 > 0:20:29But you cannot.
0:20:29 > 0:20:31And he is not.
0:20:31 > 0:20:32It seems...
0:20:35 > 0:20:36..you have the shape of my grief.
0:20:36 > 0:20:41I wonder, then, how you refuse a service which might,
0:20:41 > 0:20:43in some degree, abate it.
0:20:43 > 0:20:45Is it not your profession?
0:20:47 > 0:20:48It is.
0:20:50 > 0:20:53But forgive me, I am taken up by a disquietude of spirit
0:20:53 > 0:20:56and by my own sorrows.
0:20:58 > 0:21:02I fear you will discover that this inaction
0:21:02 > 0:21:04shall only compound your distress.
0:21:08 > 0:21:09Miss Casson.
0:21:12 > 0:21:15You say you are occupied by a question?
0:21:15 > 0:21:17A simple one.
0:21:19 > 0:21:24If Mr Nicholson did not kill my father, I would know who did.
0:21:27 > 0:21:29It is far from orthodox, Pinnock,
0:21:29 > 0:21:32and I am sure that your uncle Mr Southouse would
0:21:32 > 0:21:36protest at this being your first lesson in the business of attorney.
0:21:36 > 0:21:38However, a double crime has been committed.
0:21:38 > 0:21:41One against a free man who wished only to vote.
0:21:41 > 0:21:43The other, the murder of a decent man.
0:21:43 > 0:21:47We will act for Miss Casson, first as investigator, then as prosecutor.
0:21:47 > 0:21:52We will find the guilty party by first finding witnesses to
0:21:52 > 0:21:53the events at Covent Garden.
0:21:53 > 0:21:57Mrs Jacob of St. Martin's Lane. Mr Abbott, Beadle of St. Paul's.
0:21:57 > 0:22:00William Foskett of Beech Street.
0:22:00 > 0:22:03Mr Nicholson gave up this information.
0:22:03 > 0:22:08And you would trust Mr Nicholson impartial?
0:22:08 > 0:22:12I spoke to Foskett and Abbott and they both, to my ear, sound true.
0:22:12 > 0:22:15Yet they were invisible in Nicholson's defence.
0:22:15 > 0:22:17Well, both claim they were turned away from the magistrates
0:22:17 > 0:22:19by police constables.
0:22:19 > 0:22:24Ha! I see you are well suited to espying things well hidden, sir.
0:22:24 > 0:22:27Perhaps we will exchange roles.
0:22:27 > 0:22:29I would have you find Lady Sarah.
0:22:35 > 0:22:37I will see to it.
0:22:40 > 0:22:42And I will see the man who commands these constables.
0:22:50 > 0:22:54Sir Sampson Wright passes his regrets, sir.
0:22:54 > 0:22:55He is detained with matters of...
0:22:55 > 0:22:57VIOLIN PLAYS
0:22:57 > 0:23:00Mr Garrow.
0:23:00 > 0:23:05I see you would be Nero, sir, as London burns with your injustices.
0:23:05 > 0:23:08And I see you are vexed, sir.
0:23:08 > 0:23:11Is your objection to my playing?
0:23:11 > 0:23:13Or to some small matter of law?
0:23:13 > 0:23:17Here listed, are my objections.
0:23:17 > 0:23:21You, sir, are directed to protect the free citizens of this society
0:23:21 > 0:23:25and yet you made war against a gathering of its people.
0:23:25 > 0:23:30You, sir, are a mechanism of justice
0:23:30 > 0:23:33and yet when a man was killed in your unjust war,
0:23:33 > 0:23:34you twisted your efforts
0:23:34 > 0:23:36so an innocent man would hang for it.
0:23:36 > 0:23:40You, sir, are charged with safeguarding a frail democracy
0:23:40 > 0:23:43and yet, because you fear that Mr Fox will win the Westminster seat,
0:23:43 > 0:23:46and from there challenge this illegitimate government, you had
0:23:46 > 0:23:50your men steal the right to do so from those who would vote for him.
0:23:50 > 0:23:51Hm.
0:23:51 > 0:23:53You do not deny this last?
0:23:53 > 0:23:55Or any of it.
0:23:56 > 0:24:00And do the heavens shake?
0:24:00 > 0:24:01No.
0:24:01 > 0:24:07But you've made your brave liberal speech. Bravo.
0:24:08 > 0:24:13Although I fear the world outside this window is not changed.
0:24:16 > 0:24:21Have you no deeds in you or just more clacking?
0:24:21 > 0:24:24HE RESUMES PLAYING
0:24:34 > 0:24:36Indeed, no more clacking!
0:24:36 > 0:24:38- Mr Garrow. - He will regret this provocation!
0:24:38 > 0:24:40Mr Garrow, I've got news on the other matter.
0:24:40 > 0:24:43- Concerning Sarah?- Yes.
0:24:43 > 0:24:44So soon, how?
0:24:44 > 0:24:47Sir Arthur Hill cast a wide net for information.
0:24:47 > 0:24:50So I merely diverted the fish into me own hands.
0:24:50 > 0:24:53And is she in this country still?
0:24:53 > 0:24:56She is. You'll find her at this place.
0:25:38 > 0:25:39William.
0:25:42 > 0:25:43Sarah.
0:25:48 > 0:25:50I'd thought you in France.
0:25:53 > 0:25:55Sir Arthur is wild at you for this outrage.
0:25:57 > 0:26:00And also finds himself out of favour which angers him still more.
0:26:00 > 0:26:02- William. I...- I fear that he will...
0:26:04 > 0:26:05..bring this anger to your door.
0:26:11 > 0:26:14I have acted wrongly, Sarah.
0:26:16 > 0:26:20We have both acted on inescapable need.
0:26:20 > 0:26:24Yours to be bound by principle.
0:26:27 > 0:26:29And mine to be with my son.
0:26:45 > 0:26:48We have tried always to change our circumstance,
0:26:48 > 0:26:53by law, by pleas, by threats.
0:26:55 > 0:26:57Yet I cannot turn and walk away from here.
0:26:57 > 0:27:00I would so have you stay.
0:27:10 > 0:27:15You would scarce believe how empty our small rooms are without you.
0:27:17 > 0:27:21My small bed is too large and too desolate.
0:27:24 > 0:27:26I cannot look back at what I have left behind.
0:28:32 > 0:28:34Mr Jenner, William Jenner, reported,
0:28:34 > 0:28:38"And there came a head constable with silver-tipped bludgeon striking most violently."
0:28:38 > 0:28:40The military fellow, Garston?
0:28:40 > 0:28:43Captain Garston, "The general cry was very strong that Mr Casson
0:28:43 > 0:28:45"was knocked down by a constable.
0:28:45 > 0:28:51"This man, a long-faced fellow, with a scar...here, was very busy
0:28:51 > 0:28:53"and struck away very violently."
0:28:56 > 0:28:59As the Fox supporters waited to gain entry to the vote,
0:28:59 > 0:29:03the constables on the steps did push 'em back, raining blows on all who made to come forward.
0:29:03 > 0:29:07You would have given such evidence had you not been prevented by the magistrate?
0:29:07 > 0:29:10I would. And told the court I saw what man it was
0:29:10 > 0:29:13- struck down the old fellow Casson. - You saw who struck the blow?
0:29:13 > 0:29:14The fellow made a blow at me.
0:29:14 > 0:29:17He wore a two-curled wig.
0:29:17 > 0:29:18There was about him something devilish,
0:29:18 > 0:29:21and just here, a vivid scar.
0:29:23 > 0:29:26Will you help us identify him?
0:29:56 > 0:30:00Constable, I am William Garrow, barrister. What is your name?
0:30:00 > 0:30:01I know you, sir.
0:30:03 > 0:30:04I'm Richard Lucas.
0:30:04 > 0:30:08Constable Lucas. As a free citizen, I make here an arrest...
0:30:08 > 0:30:11- Damn you, barrister! - ..for charges of the murder of Joseph Casson!
0:30:11 > 0:30:12THEY SHOUT OVER EACH OTHER
0:30:12 > 0:30:14Let him have his say.
0:30:16 > 0:30:17I will not stop him.
0:30:28 > 0:30:32You seek to bring charges, sir, against this constable?
0:30:34 > 0:30:39I do. And act on behalf of Miss Emeline Casson, daughter of a murdered father.
0:30:39 > 0:30:42For which murder I charge Richard Lucas.
0:30:52 > 0:30:55Order is given, the charge be examined.
0:32:46 > 0:32:48I thought myself dead and visited by a vision.
0:32:50 > 0:32:53Guardian angel, perhaps.
0:32:54 > 0:32:56I fear you have need of one, William.
0:33:11 > 0:33:13What brought you back?
0:33:14 > 0:33:15William...
0:33:18 > 0:33:22I have thought on what I comprehend of my husband.
0:33:22 > 0:33:24His weakness is power.
0:33:25 > 0:33:27That is what we must feed.
0:33:28 > 0:33:33And, by some fashion, convince him to give up Samuel voluntarily,
0:33:33 > 0:33:35we must bargain him into agreement.
0:33:35 > 0:33:38What goods have we to sell, Sarah?
0:33:38 > 0:33:41His hunger for power has put him the wrong side of Lord Melville.
0:33:43 > 0:33:47He now stands in great need of influence.
0:33:47 > 0:33:49We must exploit that need.
0:33:49 > 0:33:54Perhaps Melville is the goods.
0:33:57 > 0:34:01Think on this, that Melville did expose an unguarded flank.
0:34:01 > 0:34:06He was most keen I should not explore his interests in the colonies.
0:34:06 > 0:34:07Why?
0:34:07 > 0:34:09We will search Lord Melville's pockets...
0:34:11 > 0:34:14..and we will find his transgression.
0:34:24 > 0:34:28Mr Garrow. What is this rough treatment?
0:34:29 > 0:34:31Sir, I am no fist-fighting man,
0:34:31 > 0:34:33but neither am I a man whose obligations
0:34:33 > 0:34:35can be deflected by blows or threats.
0:34:35 > 0:34:37Admirable spirit.
0:34:38 > 0:34:43I trust a hot head will not cloud your attempts to prosecute Mr Lucas?
0:34:43 > 0:34:44It will not.
0:34:44 > 0:34:48And rest assured that I aim an axe not at the branch but at the tree.
0:35:03 > 0:35:05Mr Garrow.
0:35:07 > 0:35:09My Lord. Gentlemen.
0:35:11 > 0:35:13Another jury on another day, in this court...
0:35:15 > 0:35:18..has made judgment already that the supposed guardians of the peace...
0:35:19 > 0:35:22..did falsely accuse an innocent of murder.
0:35:22 > 0:35:24MURMURING
0:35:24 > 0:35:27This jury will judge if it be true or not...
0:35:28 > 0:35:32..that this constable, a peace officer,
0:35:32 > 0:35:35a man in whose hands the good order of society is held,
0:35:35 > 0:35:39did commit the act that brought the death of Joseph Casson.
0:35:39 > 0:35:43If this be true, as I will seek to prove, gentlemen,
0:35:43 > 0:35:47there must be great concern to limit the power of those
0:35:47 > 0:35:50who command this constabulary, this standing army...
0:35:53 > 0:35:57..who act against the good of all, and for their own ends.
0:35:59 > 0:36:01My Lord, I call Mrs Jacob.
0:36:01 > 0:36:05Did you see a patrol of constables strike with cudgels
0:36:05 > 0:36:08those gathered at Covent Garden on May 10th?
0:36:08 > 0:36:11- I did, sir.- And did you see who struck Joseph Casson?
0:36:12 > 0:36:16I did. That fellow, Lucas.
0:36:17 > 0:36:21- And struck him where, Mrs Jacob? - On the left side, on the temple.
0:36:25 > 0:36:30Madam, how many do you judge crowded outside the election place at this time?
0:36:30 > 0:36:33Close to 100 constables
0:36:33 > 0:36:35and 500 to vote for Fox or for Wray.
0:36:35 > 0:36:39And, betwixt yourself and the tragic moment,
0:36:39 > 0:36:44a tableau of shifting, animated life, full of noise and haste.
0:36:44 > 0:36:46I saw what I saw, sir.
0:36:46 > 0:36:50You seem of great conviction to not even question your own certainty.
0:36:50 > 0:36:53- I have questioned my memory of the event...- Ah, you have questioned it?
0:36:53 > 0:36:56You have doubted it was Mr Lucas you saw?
0:36:56 > 0:36:58That is not what I meant, sir.
0:36:58 > 0:37:00I think the jury have heard you.
0:37:03 > 0:37:05Mrs Jacob, for clarity.
0:37:05 > 0:37:09Have you doubt that it was Lucas you saw make the blow that killed Joseph Casson?
0:37:09 > 0:37:10I have not.
0:37:10 > 0:37:12Thank you.
0:37:15 > 0:37:18My Lord, I would question the defendant, Richard Lucas.
0:37:20 > 0:37:21Very well.
0:37:22 > 0:37:25Mr Lucas. Before your present post as constable,
0:37:25 > 0:37:27you were a soldiering man?
0:37:28 > 0:37:31I was, for ten years.
0:37:31 > 0:37:34Served in the American War under Sir Hector Monroe,
0:37:34 > 0:37:36fighting for the East India Company.
0:37:36 > 0:37:39Now you are captain of constables in your own patrol?
0:37:39 > 0:37:41Yes.
0:37:41 > 0:37:44And during your years as a soldier, did you often disobey a command?
0:37:44 > 0:37:45Never, sir.
0:37:45 > 0:37:47You think that impertinent of me?
0:37:47 > 0:37:50I do! It's against all I know.
0:37:51 > 0:37:54The chain of command is a strength.
0:37:54 > 0:37:56It is the heart and power of the regiment.
0:37:56 > 0:38:00- And of a patrol? - I do not follow you, sir.
0:38:00 > 0:38:01Your patrol.
0:38:03 > 0:38:04Instructed in its duties by whom?
0:38:07 > 0:38:09Given orders by who, sir?
0:38:11 > 0:38:14Chief Magistrate Sir Sampson Wright.
0:38:14 > 0:38:16MURMURING
0:38:17 > 0:38:19My Lord, I call Sir Sampson Wright.
0:38:25 > 0:38:28Did you command constables from the Tower Hamlets to go to
0:38:28 > 0:38:31Covent Garden election ballot on May 10th?
0:38:31 > 0:38:32I did.
0:38:32 > 0:38:36- They were to...- And did it not fall to you to brief them on the detail of their task?
0:38:36 > 0:38:40My Lord. Yet again, we follow a line of such tremendous irrelevance.
0:38:40 > 0:38:42Mr Garrow, what is your purpose here?
0:38:42 > 0:38:46My Lord, it is my intention to show that the death of Joseph Casson
0:38:46 > 0:38:48came in the course of another criminal act,
0:38:48 > 0:38:51that of perverting the democratic process.
0:38:51 > 0:38:53And therefore?
0:38:53 > 0:38:57My Lord, where an accomplice is involved, it matters not
0:38:57 > 0:39:01if this accomplice struck no blow or was not close by the scene.
0:39:01 > 0:39:06And you wish to extend the charge to other constables?
0:39:06 > 0:39:08Not to other constables, my Lord.
0:39:08 > 0:39:10MURMURING
0:39:13 > 0:39:18Mr Garrow, Mr Silvester, I will see you in my chambers. We adjourn!
0:39:18 > 0:39:20Explain yourself, Mr Garrow.
0:39:20 > 0:39:23If Sampson Wright sent the constables into Covent Garden
0:39:23 > 0:39:27with the express intention of preventing supporters of Mr Fox from casting their vote,
0:39:27 > 0:39:31then he set in motion a crime that led to the death of Joseph Casson.
0:39:31 > 0:39:33And if you prove that to have been his aim,
0:39:33 > 0:39:37you would make a case to prosecute the chief magistrate?
0:39:37 > 0:39:41I would, my Lord. Charged with constructive murder.
0:39:41 > 0:39:45I hardly believe this. Sampson Wright! Peer of His Majesty's Government?
0:39:45 > 0:39:49What we consider in this place, Mr Silvester, is a man's deeds,
0:39:49 > 0:39:51not his title.
0:39:51 > 0:39:56My Lord, surely you cannot give this idea light?
0:39:56 > 0:40:00Cannot? Mr Silvester, you are not yet made judge.
0:40:02 > 0:40:05I will allow that you follow this line.
0:40:05 > 0:40:09You may have your duel with Sampson Wright.
0:40:12 > 0:40:15We will adjourn until tomorrow.
0:40:24 > 0:40:29Sarah? Have you informed Mr Pinnock that you have eyes on his position?
0:40:29 > 0:40:33William, all of these papers chart the business of Lord Melville's Admiralty.
0:40:33 > 0:40:37They record the flow of goods and the funds for purchase of those goods.
0:40:37 > 0:40:41Somewhere here, we will find Lord Melville's transgressions exposed.
0:40:41 > 0:40:43And how are you so sure?
0:40:43 > 0:40:45Because he's a politician, and they're unable to handle
0:40:45 > 0:40:48the public purse without emptying some into their own.
0:40:48 > 0:40:51I had not known that you esteemed them so high.
0:40:51 > 0:40:53You forget, sir, I married one.
0:40:55 > 0:40:58- George... - An exceptional thing, Mr Garrow.
0:40:58 > 0:41:00The fellow you prosecute, Mr Lucas.
0:41:00 > 0:41:04He's asked to speak with you this hour in his cell, at Bow Street.
0:41:27 > 0:41:29Mr Garrow.
0:41:43 > 0:41:46Is it not custom for a man charged as you are, sir,
0:41:46 > 0:41:50to seek out the barrister for him, rather than the man opposed?
0:41:50 > 0:41:53There'll be time enough for Mr Silvester's counsel.
0:41:53 > 0:41:55He will tell it, I shall not hang.
0:41:55 > 0:41:58I will tell it, I know I shall.
0:41:59 > 0:42:01That will end our business.
0:42:02 > 0:42:06But I wish to hear, in plain words, your business.
0:42:08 > 0:42:12You must know you will put no noose around Sampson Wright's neck.
0:42:12 > 0:42:13Why not?
0:42:14 > 0:42:19There is no man, and surely a constable must agree, who stands above the law.
0:42:20 > 0:42:24As a man with little time left to him, I welcome your straightness.
0:42:28 > 0:42:31Then give me some straight speaking in return, sir.
0:42:33 > 0:42:35Are you minded to defend Sampson Wright?
0:42:36 > 0:42:39What you said in the courtroom was more than true.
0:42:39 > 0:42:44What applies to a regiment, applies also to a patrol of constables.
0:42:47 > 0:42:48A man must follow orders...
0:42:50 > 0:42:52..and hold his tongue.
0:42:52 > 0:42:54But?
0:42:55 > 0:42:58There is a "but" at the back of your tongue, sir.
0:42:58 > 0:42:59You would do well to speak out.
0:43:14 > 0:43:17All manner of merchandise.
0:43:17 > 0:43:20Indigo dye, saltpetre, tea, opium.
0:43:20 > 0:43:23Nothing damning carries Lord Melville's signature on it.
0:43:23 > 0:43:26Nothing to stain his character.
0:43:26 > 0:43:28- He takes great caution... - Except this.
0:43:33 > 0:43:36Relating to speculation in land...
0:43:38 > 0:43:39..in Trinidad.
0:43:45 > 0:43:49We mustered at the Wood Street Hotel to have the names called over.
0:43:49 > 0:43:53The 30 I captained, any recruiting sergeant would turn away.
0:43:54 > 0:43:56Many fresh from a Newgate cell.
0:43:56 > 0:44:00Most held a constable's bludgeon in his hand for the first time.
0:44:02 > 0:44:06And all the while, the clamour outside tightening our nerves.
0:44:07 > 0:44:09We waited on instruction.
0:44:10 > 0:44:14- Instruction from Sampson Wright? - The same.
0:44:14 > 0:44:19He took it on himself. He was Henry at Agincourt, such was his oratory.
0:44:20 > 0:44:24He called the day the last to save the soul of a nation.
0:44:26 > 0:44:29Fox was the enemy. Fox was a devil.
0:44:31 > 0:44:35His supporters would have us live like Frenchmen in our own land.
0:44:35 > 0:44:38We must swing out with fervour.
0:44:38 > 0:44:40And they were won over by all of this?
0:44:41 > 0:44:42They were.
0:44:43 > 0:44:46Every one of them.
0:44:46 > 0:44:48And God forgive me, I was the same.
0:44:51 > 0:44:56My blood and nerves filled up by the glory of battle recalled.
0:44:56 > 0:44:5930,000 of us
0:44:59 > 0:45:02against Washington's raw troops.
0:45:04 > 0:45:06British ships in New York Harbour,
0:45:06 > 0:45:09shaking the ground beneath your feet with cannon fire.
0:45:10 > 0:45:12Farmhouses burning.
0:45:13 > 0:45:17Shattered men screaming in the blind, choking smoke.
0:45:17 > 0:45:21And above all of this, the one purpose.
0:45:23 > 0:45:27To seek out and put down your enemy.
0:45:27 > 0:45:30Those men at Covent Garden were not your enemy, sir.
0:45:31 > 0:45:33As the fog dispersed, I saw they were not.
0:45:36 > 0:45:39They were men like Joseph Casson.
0:45:40 > 0:45:44He was under my cudgel before I could hold back this...
0:45:46 > 0:45:47..drummed up anger.
0:45:48 > 0:45:53Mr Lucas, unless I am sufficient as your confessor, you would do well to testify this in court.
0:45:53 > 0:45:57And Sampson Wright will be revealed.
0:45:57 > 0:46:00Unless, of course, it is some other arrangement that you seek?
0:46:01 > 0:46:03A pardon?
0:46:04 > 0:46:07I fear there's no pardon to be had for me from this.
0:46:07 > 0:46:09No, sir. Not in this life.
0:46:12 > 0:46:13Then the next one?
0:46:13 > 0:46:15I am not the judge of that.
0:46:22 > 0:46:25Then I will say my piece...
0:46:25 > 0:46:26in this one.
0:46:48 > 0:46:50Mr Lucas is to be moved.
0:46:50 > 0:46:52I have had word he is for Newgate.
0:46:56 > 0:46:59I believe, unless his philosophy is entirely altered,
0:46:59 > 0:47:02Sir Arthur will wrench this evidence from your hand.
0:47:02 > 0:47:04Indeed, this will do it.
0:47:04 > 0:47:06Well hidden, in plainest sight.
0:47:06 > 0:47:08But no less explosive for that.
0:47:10 > 0:47:11I shall take my leave.
0:47:14 > 0:47:18And I shall take this to the man who will best use it.
0:47:46 > 0:47:48I am to have your child.
0:48:45 > 0:48:47- Comedy or a tragedy? - Sir Arthur.
0:48:47 > 0:48:50I had a three-shilling ticket to a box at Sadler's Wells.
0:48:50 > 0:48:55This performance is worth foregoing that. But is it a tragedy of vaulting ambition denied,
0:48:55 > 0:48:59or a comedy full of fools and mismatched love?
0:48:59 > 0:49:03I suppose you as weary of this extended skirmish we conduct, as I am myself.
0:49:03 > 0:49:08So be it. If I hurry I still make the second half. Good evening, sir.
0:49:08 > 0:49:12But you will miss the opportunity to avenge Lord Melville.
0:49:22 > 0:49:25If you have the means, I would have you share it, sir.
0:49:25 > 0:49:27I will.
0:49:27 > 0:49:30There is a price on it.
0:49:38 > 0:49:40No sharp words for me this fine day, sir?
0:49:41 > 0:49:44There will be opportunity to converse with me from the witness stand, sir.
0:49:44 > 0:49:47Mr Garrow,
0:49:47 > 0:49:51I am unsure whether to admire your optimism or mock it.
0:50:01 > 0:50:03Mr Fox.
0:50:03 > 0:50:05What could bring you here this day?
0:50:05 > 0:50:07Why, YOU do, sir.
0:50:10 > 0:50:12You do.
0:50:24 > 0:50:25George?
0:50:25 > 0:50:27Thank you.
0:50:38 > 0:50:41There is a matter I've struggled much with.
0:50:41 > 0:50:43I hand this to you, for my client.
0:50:44 > 0:50:49I fear Mr Lucas will not be with us today.
0:51:17 > 0:51:21- We cannot continue. - My Lord Buller, this is a barbarity!
0:51:21 > 0:51:25Consequent upon the death in confinement of the accused, Richard Lucas...
0:51:25 > 0:51:29You will not silence anyone with this treachery, sir! I have here a man's statement!
0:51:29 > 0:51:32..I am required to dismiss the gentlemen of the jury...
0:51:32 > 0:51:35"I, Richard Lucas, fearing I will not survive this night
0:51:35 > 0:51:38and that my death will cheat both jury and hangman's noose..."
0:51:38 > 0:51:42- ..and bring this trial to its end. - Jury is dismissed!
0:51:42 > 0:51:45"..will have it known by what agency the men of my patrol were
0:51:45 > 0:51:48"sent to lay violence upon those minded to
0:51:48 > 0:51:51"vote against the Government and to Mr Charles Fox."
0:51:52 > 0:51:54CHANTING: Fox, Fox, Fox, Fox!
0:51:54 > 0:51:59"Chief Magistrate Sir Sampson Wright, by his own impassioned appeal to our baser selves
0:51:59 > 0:52:01"and demands for blood,
0:52:01 > 0:52:05"did stoke up the fury of those constables
0:52:05 > 0:52:10"and did so fierce set my own savagery that I did strike out
0:52:10 > 0:52:15"and take the life of the innocent Joseph Casson.
0:52:19 > 0:52:22"May God have mercy on my soul."
0:52:39 > 0:52:41They fear us, Mr Garrow.
0:52:45 > 0:52:47We kick at the tent poles.
0:52:47 > 0:52:51We do not fit and we will not change...
0:52:53 > 0:52:55..and so we irk them.
0:52:57 > 0:53:00Our enemies, our detractors.
0:53:00 > 0:53:04My apologies to you, sir. You did not come here to see a trial lost.
0:53:04 > 0:53:06No, I came to support a man who toils
0:53:06 > 0:53:10because he recognises a fellow innocent unless shown otherwise.
0:53:12 > 0:53:14And because he aches for change.
0:53:17 > 0:53:19And you have not lost.
0:53:19 > 0:53:22Your prey has only gone to ground.
0:53:24 > 0:53:27We will flush him out, and others like him.
0:53:29 > 0:53:32And I hope that your conscience will be my light...
0:53:34 > 0:53:38..and that my influence can be yours.
0:53:55 > 0:53:59By God, sir! I have no more time for your whining!
0:53:59 > 0:54:01Did I not speak my mind plain enough?
0:54:01 > 0:54:04My Lord, such is my humour today
0:54:04 > 0:54:08I might suffer the very worst of your bombardments and yet smile.
0:54:10 > 0:54:11See? Like so.
0:54:11 > 0:54:15Now I fear you are mad from your continuing wife troubles, no doubt.
0:54:15 > 0:54:19Not mad, sir, but elevated, by a secret revealed.
0:54:21 > 0:54:23And expressed in just three plain words.
0:54:23 > 0:54:25Aye, sir. Mister. William. Garrow.
0:54:25 > 0:54:30No, sir. He is the source, but the secret lies in three more words.
0:54:30 > 0:54:33The Trinidad Treasury.
0:54:35 > 0:54:36Ah, my Lord Melville.
0:54:36 > 0:54:41I see the cogs in your noggin turning fit to smoke on their pins.
0:54:41 > 0:54:43Sir Arthur.
0:54:43 > 0:54:48Did I not say, since last we spoke, that I have been with the Prime Minister once again?
0:54:48 > 0:54:50See the pitiful architect left now among his ruins.
0:54:50 > 0:54:53And he did ask after you.
0:54:53 > 0:54:58I fear, sir, I have you so in my grip I might command you strip to your skin
0:54:58 > 0:55:00and climb the chandeliers like a baboon.
0:55:00 > 0:55:03And we spoke most warmly of you. Indeed...
0:55:03 > 0:55:08Shut up your mouth! And listen now to this, you addled bag of stench.
0:55:08 > 0:55:12You burnt all bridges with me when last we met.
0:55:12 > 0:55:16In front of those cronies who, you shall see,
0:55:16 > 0:55:18will turn their backs on you most instantly.
0:55:18 > 0:55:23Sir Arthur, I ask you first to think how we might contrive to resolve this...
0:55:23 > 0:55:26circumstance.
0:55:26 > 0:55:30Oh, but I have. And I think such sport deserves an audience.
0:55:34 > 0:55:36Do you not find?
0:55:44 > 0:55:48Now, these fine fellows carry a notice of impeachment...
0:55:50 > 0:55:52..with your name upon it.
0:55:53 > 0:55:56For misappropriation of Treasury funds.
0:56:02 > 0:56:03Make way there!
0:56:07 > 0:56:09Make way for yesterday's man!
0:56:30 > 0:56:32Sarah. William.
0:56:36 > 0:56:38You did journey well here?
0:56:38 > 0:56:42Yes. Fair well. Though I took the road through Knightsbridge village,
0:56:42 > 0:56:44which, as ever, is in such poor condition.
0:56:44 > 0:56:47It betters, for convenience, the way by Vauxhall.
0:56:52 > 0:56:55And here is the document. That seals the thing.
0:57:01 > 0:57:03Farewell then.
0:57:08 > 0:57:09Fine boy, Samuel.
0:57:09 > 0:57:14And recall what I have said about not following your "new father" into law!
0:57:53 > 0:57:56I cannot believe this trial of ours is now ended.
0:57:58 > 0:58:02And I cannot yet believe what we together have started.
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