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LABOURED BREATHING

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SHE MOANS

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SHE GROANS

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Argh!

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Argh!

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Help!

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Get the beast out before it cleaves me in two!

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SHE SCREAMS

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Get your bastard hands inside me and tug the bugger free!

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Fetch Treves.

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Chloroform, now!

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Which nimgimmer's this, then?

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The one who's to cut you open, woman.

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BABY CRIES

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GURGLING

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FOOTSTEPS

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TRICKLING; SHE CRIES OUT

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Please, sir, he's mine. I beg you!

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Please do not take him from me!

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SHE SCREAMS

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Morning porter found her, at the foot of the Eastern Stair.

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She came to you when?

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A touch after eight this night last,

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as I prepared my testimony for the Linklater enquiry. She was filthy.

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Cursed like a stevedore.

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Her son delivered by Caesar one hour later and now removed.

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We know not where. Or by whom.

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Whoever pushed her down that stairwell, I should think.

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With a mother now dead, poor child,

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vulnerable does not quite cover it, Inspector.

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No belongings?

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Nothing to say her name or who might miss her now?

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None.

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Then she goes to my American at Leman Street.

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One last thing you should see.

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Sergeant, help me turn her.

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It may help identify her.

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Oh, blimey.

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Who's to say you are not beautiful?

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Wilson!

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Jedediah Shine lays his sergeant in earth this morning.

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Needs must, our respects are paid.

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It is yet to be stated how, precisely,

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Sergeant Linklater met his end.

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Granted, the iron railing that passed through him had a say.

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But there are whisperings on the wind, Wilson,

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our dear friend Edmund Reid may have lent a shoulder to that passing.

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Talk of the wolf.

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How now, Inspector?

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Such an injury, Mr Reid.

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It changes a man.

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Humbles him, in fact.

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Humble Fred Best.

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I wonder how it is you show your faces here.

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He was my friend.

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And yet you are happy to remain at the side of a man

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whose hand is suspected in that friend's own timely demise?

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You ought to be careful, Mr Shine, making such statements.

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How, Sergeant?

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Fellas might ask, what's to be gained from slurring

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the reputation of a man such as Mr Reid.

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Yeah, indeed.

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And that slur hides the truth. Whose?

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Yours! Inspector. Your activities in this division.

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Wilson!

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You are a disgrace to badge and uniform.

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It is your inspector here that is the disgrace, and you would slur me?

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Then I must seek recompense.

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Then seek it, sir!

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Word had it you'd left the roped ring.

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Word has it right.

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Well, then, I confess myself relieved that you have not

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grown entirely soft...

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on your whore wife's perjury of love.

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No. Not here. Not now.

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But soon, Sergeant. Once the world has heard Mr Treves sworn testament

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and knows Inspector Reid for the killer he is.

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Bruising and breakage to the hip, pelvis,

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knee and back. Her humerus, radius and ulna, however, are intact.

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She didn't use her arms to break the fall.

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She kept the child clutched to her chest.

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She died to protect it.

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A mother's instinct.

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Gone to nothing.

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Treves described her as filthy and abject, didn't he?

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But I think she is beautiful.

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And whoever cared for her thought the same.

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Torn and distressed. However, the stitching is highly skilled...

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These threads, stolen most likely.

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Tell me, did she steal her skin as well?

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See her face - zinc oxide. It keeps the skin fair.

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Kept well for a while.

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Oh, she was kept perfect.

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And yet, no attempt was made to remove...that from her.

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You think that makes her, what? Less than human?

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We were all animals once, it is now said.

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Some more closely related than others.

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I would, in conscience,

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leave off riding Sergeant Drake. He has buried a friend today.

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Blessed though she may be, this woman was murdered

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and her child taken.

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This tail is a vestige.

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It is a memento of all that we once were.

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In water, beneath the canopy.

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Sergeant Drake.

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The freak shows were run off the street fronts last year,

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but there was talk, was there not, of Tom Norman's troop splintering,

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a faction returning from Nottingham?

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Hidden away under the railway arches, up on Artillery.

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Chief Inspector Abberline.

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Inspector Reid.

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Reinforcements.

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He's a boy. I said... I asked... Not another boy.

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Sergeant? You are short here. I am correct in that understanding?

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You are.

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He is. We are, sir.

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You believe there to be a line outside my office, do you?

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A battalion of gnarled veterans, each and every one of them

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begging to bring their fight to your division?

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Light, friend? This one.

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Detective Constable Flight -

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worked overtime in uniform on his own coin, his collar rate

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in so doing sufficient to push both yours and mine into the corner.

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In Bloomsbury, Fred.

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And now appointed to the CID. He wishes to work here.

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He volunteers for this sink, Edmund. For Whitechapel.

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Inspector Reid. It is an honour. I shan't let you down, sir.

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Easily said, Constable. Harder to prove.

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Inspector, private word?

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Little birdie hopped on my shoulder earlier.

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Told me a story about a ruckus at a funeral.

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That birdie currently sporting a tea cup for an ear?

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Oi! You two!

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If Drake cannot keep his spleen inside him,

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it is up to you to provide discipline.

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Oi!

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Sergeant Linklater was his friend.

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And Jedediah Shine is his superior.

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And if that superior merits such insubordination,

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merits worse than that, perhaps?

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No. You leave be.

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It's not as if your name is currently being sung from the rooftops with the acme of probity.

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And should Treves not clear you at that inquest, so it will remain.

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You are my friend, but, Ed -

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you make accusations against a man of such standing without evidence.

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No. You hear me? Inspector? Am I heard?

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To Artillery.

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All men of ambition need a trade to fall back on, Miss Hart.

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A skill, which keeps both body and soul apiece

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when the wind of fortune turns cold.

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So I'm glad to see you're not broken by our new terms, Miss Hart.

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You do not wish to count it?

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We are friends. And friends do not break trust.

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Or forget their obligations to each other.

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Obligations which, should you need reminder, might be forgot,

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within just one word and just one night. If you have my meaning?

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If that will be all, Mr Duggan.

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Oh.

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Do send my regards to your pistol twister.

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You must have him working those skilled fingers to the knuckle.

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What ho! Caliban! I say!

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Wouldst thou seek to violate the honour of my child?

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I will rack thee, Caliban,

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make thee roar that beasts shall tremble at thy din.

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That's enough now, Sergeant, I think.

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Now, now, lady. This sideshow is now shut down.

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On what grounds?

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On the grounds of a murder inquiry, Miss Pettigrew.

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Murder and abduction. An infant boy taken from his murdered mother.

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And you believe we can help you in this because?

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She also had a blessing.

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A protrusion at the base of her spine.

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A tail?

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You must mean Stella Brooks.

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Oh, John.

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She was found last night, Mr Goode.

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And a child?

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You say, her child?

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A boy. We believe alive.

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But taken. Oh!

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When did you last see her, Mr Goode?

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Almost seven months ago to the day.

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That is precise recall.

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I have been looking for her.

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She was what - your lover?

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At the hospital, she was unaccompanied?

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Nothing upon her but the ragged clothes she wore.

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But those clothes...once pretty.

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She had been, at one point at least, well treated.

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By folk with money. Here, brother. Let me give you something.

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There is nothing for me!

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Out the way, Haystack.

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That man...trussed up as Caliban, with you, all last night?

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He was. And all here will confirm it.

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That's an impressive artifice you got there.

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Oh, it's not artifice. It's John's gift.

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He's impervious to pain. But not, alas, to suffering.

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And Miss Brooks? What of her?

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Rootless. Orphaned. Tom Norman had her displayed in a glass cabinet -

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only her rear, mind.

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For an extra penny, they could open the box and a man might tug on her.

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And no family?

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No friends other than yourselves to tell who might mean her such harm?

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There is a friend. And he is known to you already, sir.

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You must, Joseph.

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You must say what you saw.

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KNOCKING

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Come!

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Mr Treves.

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How can I help you, Inspector?

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I'd have you confirm something.

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What of it?

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In one week, you will stand in front of a judicial inquiry

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and pronounce what took my sergeant from this life.

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I would know now if you will tell precisely what it was

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you witnessed when you came upon Edmund Reid at my man's bedside.

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That is for me to share with none other than the coroner.

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Good day to you.

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Good day, Mr Merrick.

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You are a good man, sir.

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But you have no clue of the suffering that is meted out

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in the Leman Street cells.

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Suffering that

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Inspector Reid sanctions in the name of investigation.

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KNOCKING

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Mr Treves?

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J...Joseph?

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There is a matter urgent,

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I believe, which I would share with you.

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Mr Merrick. I don't believe I have had the pleasure.

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I... My... My apologies.

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Do not disturb.

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KNOCKING

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HE BREATHES HEAVILY

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Hush now. No panic, Mr M. No harm is meant here.

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Not yet, leastwise.

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Please, my supports...

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I'm suffocating...

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Upsadaisy.

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So it is true, then?

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You must sleep upright, like a marionette on a puppeteer's shelf?

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This life - six bags of shit till Sunday, is it not?

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And here am I about to make yours worse.

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You see, it strikes me you may have laid eyes on me some place before.

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The night my man Linklater passed?

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No, I...I must have myself confused.

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That is a relief.

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Nevertheless...

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I hope neither of us will now forget the other.

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Forget how easy it is for me to come by and say, "How do, Mr Merrick?

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"I do hope the day finds you well. And safe.

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"And not inclined to say nothing you should not."

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Are we understood, sir?

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Sergeant Artherton, how do we find Mr Flight?

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He is calm, sir. And quiet.

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Which is a bonus. Mr Flight, would you agree with that assessment?

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I would always agree with my sergeant.

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Oh, biddable, are we? Servile, even?

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We shall see. For now, Detective,

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let's see how developed your archive and telegraph skills are.

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John Goode. A common enough name and most uncommon man.

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See what you can find.

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I want to know why he would run from us.

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Follow me. Up here, son.

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Yes, sir.

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Mr Merrick.

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Mr Merrick...

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Detective Inspector Reid. I'd hoped to talk with you.

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Please. I...I am not well.

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I have only a few questions, Mr Merrick.

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I have said that I am unwell!!

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Sir, sir, sir, sir, sir...

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No! You overstep, Inspector. Or have you no respect for my wishes?

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Of course.

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But it is a friend of yours from the side shows... No, sir!

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Reid! This is unconscionable!

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You will not bring your Leman Street ways to this hospital again.

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But... No, sir.

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Joseph. I'm sorry, Joseph.

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Does Mr Merrick have knowledge of her, sir?

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If he does, he will not share it with me.

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John Goode's books. That's some technical reading.

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Mr Galton. Mr Galton is a cousin of Mr Darwin.

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This, he investigates

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if our abilities might be inherited from our parents,

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and if we, in turn, hand on those same abilities to our children.

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Pugilism, for example.

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Or depravity. Quite.

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Here, his argument evolves. He invents a term - eugenics.

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Suggests that the qualities to which we might aspire

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could be bred into the family line.

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And what of the weak?

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The weak, the idle, the ugly, the dim-witted, the mad.

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The deformed?

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They are to be bred out.

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Take a seat, Detective.

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Drink, Flight?

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My thanks. No.

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A Mick that doesn't take a sip, uh?

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And a unicorn stopped traffic on the East India Dock Road.

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What do you have, Flight?

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John Goode, sir.

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Sit down. Not so hard to dig out.

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The man has history here, recent, but history nonetheless.

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Fines for drunken brawling, mainly.

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Ropemakers, The Trinity - that's low-rent boozing, even round here.

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The first we know of him here. He and a woman breaking the peace,

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assaulting one another in the street.

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And see her name, Mr Reid...

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Stella Brooks.

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Nothing before, not a sneeze, and then September 22nd, this.

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Almost precisely seven months past. When she leaves him.

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And his behaviour degenerating in her absence.

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And this the reason for her leaving?

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Did she drop on him the news that she carried his child?

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He didn't exactly rejoice.

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They fight. She leaves. And he hunts her.

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He hunts her down the same streets.

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Here - more arrests for vagrancy, drunkeness.

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Ropemakers, Trinity, Thomas Street. There's pattern to his behaviour.

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And so, I thought, Inspector,

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if I took a turn through those streets myself,

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I might build an understanding of him, may indeed pick up his trail.

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Then go.

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Flight - Drake goes with you.

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I'm sure Mrs Drake expects the sergeant.

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He's right. She does. Take Drake or you're scrubbing latrines.

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Nursemaid, is it?

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Just watch him.

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You know, Drake or no Drake -

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this place is going to shit in his shoes one day or the next.

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He ain't Hobbs.

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He ain't.

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Will you eat, Captain?

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Sorry, Reid. I got, er, I got dinner with the lady tonight.

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Oh, of course, of course, of course.

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The challenge we face, therefore, those of us who rightly

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refuse to accept the biological status of our species,

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is how the debilities and handicaps

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that impair our existence might be corrected for our heirs.

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What is called for, I believe, is courage, the courage and conviction.

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Systematically, to experiment upon the whole process of breeding.

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But not amongst Sativa or Crustacea.

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On complex organisms...

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organisms more like ourselves, in fact.

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The correction and improvement of humankind is indeed realisable.

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Thank you.

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APPLAUSE

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I say?

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Hello, there?

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I say, this wing is research fellows only.

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Do I know you?

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Oi! Get back here.

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Three separate occasions, he was ejected for brawling.

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Only two of us in that doss-house. We get cornered.

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It's a long fight out.

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Should we be so frightened, Sergeant?

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Come then, Constable. I shall show you.

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Pretty, ain't it?

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John Goode?

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I seek a John Goode.

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How does one find a man in such a place?

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They are not men no more. You may not tell 'em apart.

0:25:330:25:36

Come. Our luck is already chanced.

0:25:430:25:45

John Goode? Oi!

0:25:470:25:49

Do you bob from me?

0:25:510:25:53

Police. Get back.

0:25:530:25:55

Pigs! Bloody fool! Pigs in the pen.

0:25:550:25:59

Back off!

0:25:590:26:00

Back! Back off! Run!

0:26:050:26:11

Clever fellow, ain't ya?

0:26:110:26:13

Tough bugger, ain't you?

0:26:300:26:34

Right, Detective Constable, run along now.

0:26:350:26:39

Is there no-one at home waits for you, Albert?

0:26:390:26:41

Not currently, Mrs Drake.

0:26:410:26:43

You should call me Bella.

0:26:430:26:44

You should call her Mrs Drake.

0:26:440:26:47

I lay my head at Mrs Burton's lodging house on Commercial Street.

0:26:470:26:51

Once I am settled, I shall find more permanent accommodation.

0:26:510:26:54

Well, head you home and get your rest.

0:26:540:26:57

Rest, Mrs Drake?

0:26:570:26:59

Not this night. Villainy does not rest.

0:26:590:27:02

I do not intend to either. My thanks, Mrs Drake. Sergeant.

0:27:020:27:05

Where did you come from?

0:27:080:27:10

Over the hills and far away.

0:27:100:27:12

What's stopping us? Life ain't work.

0:27:150:27:18

Cairo, you and me.

0:27:190:27:20

Your sergeant's salary stretches this far, does it? No.

0:27:220:27:24

We're going to take what we've made here, we're going to cash in...

0:27:240:27:27

And what has been made here, save the names Long Susan

0:27:270:27:30

and Captain Jackson? C'mon, I see the bills you count.

0:27:300:27:32

I see the numbers you scratched in, in that ledger.

0:27:320:27:34

Yes, but once counted, you do not see where those bills leave to.

0:27:340:27:38

Nothing here is yours. Nothing here is mine.

0:27:410:27:46

Then whose?

0:27:500:27:52

Three years - you never asked. Never cared.

0:27:560:28:00

Hey, you're the one that wanted to play business-lady

0:28:000:28:02

and now I'm asking.

0:28:020:28:03

Whose is it?

0:28:060:28:08

Whose?!

0:28:130:28:14

Silas Duggan.

0:28:170:28:19

'..businesswoman who gives all the profits away to somebody else,

0:28:190:28:24

'I wonder why I didn't think of that!?'

0:28:240:28:26

I swear to God, you...

0:28:260:28:28

are as dead in the head as this slab of meat!

0:28:280:28:30

How could you be so god damn reckless?

0:28:320:28:34

So, so, so, so god damn... What?! What?!

0:28:340:28:36

..irresponsible!? From you!

0:28:360:28:38

I mean it. I had a right to know.

0:28:380:28:40

You have no rights, save the ones you took, for gratis,

0:28:400:28:45

each and every night, in my view and hearing.

0:28:450:28:48

Things were different then.

0:28:480:28:49

No. The same.

0:28:490:28:52

And the same reality prevails. This place - its people and profits.

0:28:520:28:59

The property of...Silas Duggan.

0:28:590:29:02

We were destitute, wanted, criminal.

0:29:040:29:10

Not what you would call a sound investment. Duggan took the chance.

0:29:120:29:18

No. What he took was our lives, Susan. Ground rent plus 50% income.

0:29:180:29:25

Any more, Mr Shine?

0:29:330:29:35

Sufficient, I think, Mr Duggan.

0:29:350:29:38

Barton, good of you to come when summoned.

0:29:410:29:45

I wait on your orders, Inspector, you know that.

0:29:450:29:48

Nothing like loyalty, is there, Mr Duggan?

0:29:480:29:51

Oh, nothing in the world, Mr Shine.

0:29:510:29:54

I'm relieving you of your everyday duties, Barton,

0:29:540:29:56

send you to some surveillance.

0:29:560:29:58

Because as we know, elephants do not forget.

0:29:590:30:02

Inspector Reid!

0:30:120:30:14

I will not stand.

0:30:140:30:15

Mr Merrick. I am well known to you and I mean no harm.

0:30:150:30:18

I come only to enquire after a friend to you - Stella.

0:30:180:30:21

Stella Brooks, delivered of her child

0:30:210:30:24

just hours before she...met her death here, sir, on these corridors.

0:30:240:30:29

HE CRIES

0:30:310:30:34

When was it you last saw her?

0:30:410:30:44

September. L...last year.

0:30:440:30:47

After they had fought and she had left him? Yes.

0:30:470:30:51

And can you say, was it on account of her pregnancy?

0:30:510:30:55

She said she could not forgive him.

0:30:550:30:59

Because he struck her?

0:30:590:31:01

No - she could not forgive him

0:31:010:31:03

for...for the rage he felt at the child inside her.

0:31:030:31:08

Did she say where it was she meant to go?

0:31:100:31:15

To John's father - a doctor.

0:31:150:31:17

And did Goode know this?

0:31:170:31:19

John had for ever kept his family a secret from her, his true name also.

0:31:190:31:25

The father, a man of wealth, well able to care for her

0:31:250:31:28

and her child - did she mention a name?

0:31:280:31:30

No, she did not, Mr Reid. I cannot help you further, I...

0:31:320:31:39

Mr Merrick, your help in this matter...

0:31:390:31:42

..it is invaluable.

0:31:430:31:45

Been like this all night, they have. 'Your ingratitude is dazzling!'

0:32:010:32:04

Oh, so I'm supposed to be grateful for this slave status, huh?

0:32:040:32:07

Oh, good morning, Reid.

0:32:070:32:09

And, er, what is it that brings you by?

0:32:090:32:11

There's insight I'd share with you.

0:32:110:32:13

So you didn't come for your shirts then?

0:32:130:32:16

Oh, come on - you truly believe I cannot tell

0:32:160:32:19

when another man's shirts are laundered in my own house?

0:32:190:32:21

Although given your head, you would not have it so

0:32:210:32:23

a great deal longer now, would you?

0:32:230:32:26

What? You will not tell your friend and accomplice? Then allow me.

0:32:260:32:32

Your mercenary hireling has designs on a change of location.

0:32:320:32:37

Wishes to up and leave you, Inspector.

0:32:370:32:39

Come on, don't be such a baby, Reid.

0:32:390:32:41

You think this is the garden spot of the world?

0:32:430:32:45

My one ambition to remain here, chained to you?

0:32:450:32:48

Anyway - it's not like I'll be sailing away any time soon!

0:32:480:32:51

You know, this brooding martyr thing you perfect - it can really grate.

0:32:520:32:57

John Goode. Not his real name.

0:32:570:32:59

What of him?

0:33:010:33:03

A rich man's son, finding fellowship in a freak show.

0:33:030:33:06

We must ask why. The thing with the poker.

0:33:060:33:08

It's a skill, not a handicap. But the palsy...

0:33:080:33:10

The tremor in him. So whilst I still may make use of it,

0:33:100:33:12

set your great medical mind to that, will you?

0:33:120:33:15

Detective Constable Flight.

0:33:220:33:24

Mr Reid.

0:33:240:33:25

In the future, you will do Sergeant Drake the service

0:33:250:33:27

of knowing what is best for you. Will you not?

0:33:270:33:31

I will, sir.

0:33:310:33:32

Now, speak.

0:33:320:33:34

John Goode has been incarcerated - not in gaol, however.

0:33:340:33:38

Two spells at The Lark House Asylum.

0:33:380:33:40

Can you speculate as to which physician?

0:33:400:33:44

Karl Crabbe.

0:33:440:33:45

The very same.

0:33:450:33:46

What tricks did he play on Mr Goode, I wonder?

0:33:460:33:49

Inspector Reid.

0:34:120:34:14

A pleasing interruption to an otherwise dull year.

0:34:140:34:18

I forget.

0:34:280:34:30

Oh, really, Inspector? In the current mood?

0:34:330:34:37

My mind advances, but my frame is frail.

0:34:370:34:41

How would your newly sullied reputation cope

0:34:410:34:43

with another interview concluding in a man's death?

0:34:430:34:47

Gossip, Reid. It's a fact of prison life.

0:34:470:34:50

Were I to tell you the life of an infant boy

0:34:530:34:55

depended on your speaking, might that make impact?

0:34:550:34:58

Not really.

0:34:590:35:00

Then what, Doctor?

0:35:000:35:02

There is a tale told, Inspector.

0:35:060:35:09

The guards here tell it. Of your wife.

0:35:090:35:13

Rending herself in the Leman Street gutter.

0:35:140:35:17

Sergeant Drake has heard the tale too, I see.

0:35:180:35:21

How difficult for you all.

0:35:210:35:24

What is it you want?

0:35:240:35:25

To hear it from you, Reid. The man who brought me so low.

0:35:250:35:30

Sergeant Drake.

0:35:340:35:35

Sir? Leave us.

0:35:350:35:37

But... You heard, Sergeant.

0:35:370:35:39

Captain Jackson found her. In The Bear.

0:36:000:36:03

Barely dressed, it is said. Demanding drink.

0:36:030:36:07

He attempted to remove her. She would not be removed.

0:36:070:36:13

And so he carried her.

0:36:130:36:15

Which is when she screamed.

0:36:150:36:17

In the street. You tended to her?

0:36:170:36:20

I did.

0:36:200:36:22

Your sergeant, all others to bear witness?

0:36:220:36:25

And no man to ask you why?

0:36:280:36:30

Why such hysteria grew in her.

0:36:300:36:32

What cruelty could possibly merit so public a humiliation?

0:36:350:36:41

What did you do to her, Inspector?

0:36:460:36:48

I...

0:36:530:36:55

..I lied.

0:36:570:36:59

Lied, you say?

0:37:000:37:02

On what subject?

0:37:040:37:06

Damn you!

0:37:070:37:08

I offered her unfair hope and I deceived her.

0:37:180:37:21

I gave her false cause to believe our lost daughter alive.

0:37:230:37:27

And I took another woman to my bed.

0:37:270:37:29

Do you know, Inspector, of all the emotions,

0:37:360:37:38

which is the most insidious and entrapping?

0:37:380:37:41

Shame.

0:37:440:37:45

It carves its home in the marrow of your bones

0:37:470:37:52

and rests there for all time.

0:37:520:37:55

Where can I find him? This John Goode.

0:38:160:38:19

Whatever he is truly called. My secrets for his.

0:38:190:38:23

A name I cannot give you.

0:38:260:38:27

But there is a father, a doctor, as you know.

0:38:280:38:31

And there was a brother.

0:38:310:38:32

Both boys subjected to a regime, a physical regime akin,

0:38:320:38:36

you might say, to torture.

0:38:360:38:38

Feats of strength insisted upon.

0:38:380:38:40

Their bodies stretched from an early age, beaten with sticks,

0:38:400:38:43

bent double. But to what end, however?

0:38:430:38:44

He could never articulate it with precision.

0:38:440:38:47

Only that he and his brother shared a curse.

0:38:470:38:51

A curse that killed the boys' mother. A curse of the blood.

0:38:510:38:55

And what of the brother?

0:38:550:38:57

Drowned himself one morning, beneath the waters of the Serpentine.

0:38:570:39:02

The child you fear for,

0:39:030:39:06

if it is Goode's, he will think it similarly cursed.

0:39:060:39:10

A curse of the blood, as Dr Crabbe would have it, Goode's palsy,

0:39:230:39:27

the premature death of his mother.

0:39:270:39:29

An inherited handicap.

0:39:290:39:30

Yes, and so - the medical mind?

0:39:300:39:33

Huntington's Chorea! Huntington's Chorea. Slow death sentence, Reid.

0:39:350:39:40

What?

0:39:400:39:42

The piecemeal loss of all that makes you feel human.

0:39:420:39:45

If either or both of the parents manifest signs of the disease,

0:39:450:39:50

one or more of the offspring will invariably suffer also.

0:39:500:39:53

If, however, those children manage to go through life

0:39:530:39:56

and never manifest, the thread is broken.

0:39:560:39:59

The reason why, then,

0:39:590:40:00

this doctor father sought to make his sons impervious?

0:40:000:40:03

To breed out the mutation.

0:40:030:40:05

What, then, would he have made of Miss Brooks' tail?

0:40:050:40:08

Perhaps he did not get sight of it. Not for a good while.

0:40:080:40:11

He enjoyed her beauty, until he claps eyes on her behind.

0:40:110:40:13

His disgust sending her to the streets.

0:40:130:40:16

Until... Until he wonders at his grandson,

0:40:160:40:19

at what manner of man he might become.

0:40:190:40:21

And goes to reclaim him.

0:40:210:40:23

Five, sir. Five men drowned in the Serpentine that year.

0:40:550:40:59

Corcoran. Robert Corcoran, age 25.

0:40:590:41:03

There is a zoologist named Corcoran.

0:41:030:41:07

He's a... He's a research fellow

0:41:070:41:09

at the Natural History extension of the British Museum.

0:41:090:41:12

He concerns himself almost exclusively with the practical

0:41:120:41:16

development of theories first pronounced by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.

0:41:160:41:20

The biological inheritance of acquired characteristics.

0:41:200:41:23

Our children, Flight. The strength and skills acquired in this life,

0:41:230:41:26

so he proposes, may be handed down to those who must live the next.

0:41:260:41:30

Corcoran is Goode's father, Corcoran has the child.

0:41:300:41:33

Sergeant Drake, a hansom. We are for South Kensington.

0:41:330:41:35

Sir, should I...?

0:41:350:41:37

Big boy's game now, son.

0:41:390:41:41

GURGLING

0:41:520:41:53

Mr, take your mask off.

0:42:130:42:16

Go on, take your mask off.

0:42:160:42:19

JEERING AND SHOUTING

0:42:190:42:22

ALL SHOUT

0:42:390:42:41

Back! All of you! Back!

0:42:510:42:54

Sir. Here, sir. With me.

0:42:560:43:00

What is wrong with you?

0:43:030:43:06

This man is your fellow! You would stone him?!

0:43:060:43:09

You call him monster?!

0:43:090:43:11

Hm? Look on your own sins!

0:43:110:43:14

Sir, what is it that's brought you here?

0:43:160:43:19

Inspector Reid.

0:43:190:43:21

I...I would speak with him.

0:43:210:43:26

I...I believe it urgent.

0:43:260:43:28

The Inspector pursues a case.

0:43:280:43:30

But I might bring you to him, sir.

0:43:300:43:33

Driver! Step to it.

0:43:400:43:42

Alexander.

0:43:570:43:59

Hello, Papa.

0:43:590:44:00

Is he well?

0:44:040:44:05

He is fed and begins to thrive.

0:44:050:44:09

And the future? Is his blood cursed?

0:44:090:44:13

Well, the science is not yet exact.

0:44:130:44:16

But the work we performed, you and I, your strength, Alexander...

0:44:160:44:21

My strength, my strength to absorb your pain.

0:44:210:44:27

I made you strong

0:44:270:44:29

so that our descendants might not suffer your curse.

0:44:290:44:32

I have hope for this boy.

0:44:320:44:34

But none for myself.

0:44:390:44:41

Not then, not now.

0:44:430:44:44

No.

0:44:460:44:47

His mother, Stella. The day she came to you.

0:44:500:44:57

You must have rejoiced at her? So fine, so strong.

0:44:570:45:02

What happened? Did you finally have full sight of her?

0:45:020:45:09

That thing.

0:45:090:45:11

We are not so backward as a race

0:45:110:45:13

that she could not have had it removed.

0:45:130:45:15

But do you not see, Father?

0:45:150:45:18

She had the most fortunate gift of all.

0:45:180:45:21

She felt no shame for who she was.

0:45:230:45:28

And you killed her.

0:45:300:45:32

She would not hand him to me.

0:45:320:45:35

Slipped. Had she only understood what was best for the child...

0:45:350:45:41

Best for him! What is best for him?

0:45:410:45:45

That he suffer witnessing your everyday revolution of hope

0:45:450:45:50

and despair at his progress?

0:45:500:45:52

Or lack of it? Is that his future?

0:45:520:45:55

No.

0:45:560:45:57

Best he never knows you.

0:45:570:45:59

Or me. Or himself.

0:46:010:46:04

Alexander, you hand that boy back to me!

0:46:040:46:08

I am too well-conditioned, Father.

0:46:100:46:13

Alexander, stop!

0:46:160:46:18

Alexander! Stop!

0:46:180:46:21

Stop!

0:46:220:46:24

Alexander, do not hurt that child!

0:46:300:46:32

Alexander!

0:46:360:46:39

William Corcoran? Where is the child?

0:46:440:46:46

You are for jail, sir. Murder and abduction.

0:46:460:46:49

I care not for myself, officer.

0:46:490:46:51

No! Wait! Mr Goode, wait!

0:46:540:46:57

Back! Back, stay back!

0:46:570:47:00

Mr Goode. I beg you, I beg you. Think what you are doing.

0:47:000:47:04

I know all too well.

0:47:040:47:07

I seek only to reduce

0:47:070:47:10

the amount of suffering in this world. We are cursed!

0:47:100:47:13

But sir, I beg you. The child's fate cannot yet be known.

0:47:130:47:17

BABY CRIES

0:47:170:47:19

Please, John! Listen to him!

0:47:250:47:28

Joseph?

0:47:300:47:31

Mr Reid is known to me, John.

0:47:310:47:34

I...I...I...I trust in him, would...would help him.

0:47:340:47:39

Would...would help you.

0:47:390:47:41

No-one can help, Joseph. My brother knew that.

0:47:470:47:52

But what of Stella's wishes for her child?

0:47:520:47:56

She is gone, Joseph, and this child and I, we are left with this truth.

0:47:560:48:04

And what is that? That there is no hope for you?

0:48:040:48:09

There is a monster in him.

0:48:090:48:12

As surely as there is one in me.

0:48:120:48:16

John, look at me. Do it.

0:48:250:48:29

Do it!

0:48:290:48:30

Am I not monstrous?

0:48:350:48:38

It is the truth of my every waking moment.

0:48:410:48:45

And yet, despite all, I feel joy.

0:48:450:48:51

No, I do, I do!

0:48:510:48:53

I hear the bells ring from my room, the chatter of the nurses.

0:48:530:48:59

Once, beyond my window,

0:49:000:49:04

I...I watched one of their number make love to the night porter.

0:49:040:49:11

I...I...I have never known that, John.

0:49:120:49:18

The...the secret intimacy of a woman,

0:49:180:49:22

that might have told me I was...desired.

0:49:220:49:28

Beautiful in another's eyes.

0:49:290:49:33

You, you have known that, John.

0:49:330:49:35

Do...do you remember it?

0:49:360:49:40

I do.

0:49:400:49:42

And what does it feel like?

0:49:420:49:45

It felt like peace.

0:49:450:49:47

Would you deny your son that peace, that...that joy?

0:49:490:49:57

That...that hope?

0:49:570:49:59

It is life, John.

0:50:020:50:05

Only life.

0:50:070:50:08

What you hold in your arms.

0:50:100:50:13

For ever and always, Mr Merrick, I shall remember you for this.

0:50:400:50:46

He is my friend. You would do no less, Mr Reid.

0:50:460:50:53

You put all above yourself. I know that of you, sir.

0:50:530:50:58

You are the best of men.

0:50:580:51:01

It is no happy accident I came to you today.

0:51:010:51:05

I...I know not what the result of this will be,

0:51:070:51:11

but there is knowledge I must share with you.

0:51:110:51:15

I...I...I should have said before, long before, but you see,

0:51:150:51:21

I...I saw him.

0:51:210:51:23

I...I saw Inspector Shine murder Sergeant Linklater.

0:51:230:51:30

Detective Constable Flight!

0:51:340:51:36

You will escort Mr Merrick back to his rooms at The London.

0:51:360:51:39

You remain outside his door, and allow no man access

0:51:390:51:42

unless it is myself.

0:51:420:51:43

Yes, sir. Please, Mr Merrick. Allow me.

0:51:430:51:46

With me, Sergeant.

0:51:540:51:55

We must bring Chief Inspector Abberline here

0:51:550:51:58

to hear Mr Merrick's testimony.

0:51:580:51:59

How do, Mr Merrick.

0:53:110:53:13

Why the long face?

0:53:170:53:19

Could not do as you were bid, could you?

0:53:210:53:26

Are you not the brave and noble fellow

0:53:260:53:33

and I quite the contrary?

0:53:330:53:37

Forced to make a habit of stealing through these corridors

0:53:380:53:44

to end another man's life.

0:53:440:53:48

I might almost resent you for it.

0:53:500:53:53

No, no.

0:54:100:54:13

Please, please...

0:54:130:54:18

What will men say?

0:54:200:54:22

The Elephant Man hoped to lay down in rest...

0:54:240:54:30

..like any other Englishman.

0:54:350:54:38

A forlorn and now tragic hope.

0:54:460:54:53

He must have lain back. To rest his head.

0:56:040:56:07

Oh, Joseph.

0:56:100:56:11

You have your peace now.

0:56:120:56:14

What is this?

0:56:420:56:44

You may well ask.

0:56:440:56:45

I have, this past hour,

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come from the grieving fireside of Frederick Treves.

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He is decided on what the Linklater jury shall now hear from him.

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Your sergeant succumbed to his injuries, Jedediah.

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I will not accept that, Fred.

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Myself likewise, Chief Inspector.

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Nonetheless, you shall both do so.

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There will be no more talk of this officer and his role that night.

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And you, Edmund.

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You will cease all questioning

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and suspicion of Inspector Shine's good name.

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You ask the impossible.

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You ask me to wilfully fail in my duty.

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You are both too valuable

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to the preservation of peace in this quarter.

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And I will not have that undermined.

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The two of you.

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You shake hands.

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Now!

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I take orders from a man to come here.

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I service the needs of another I call husband.

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And there is the man Duggan who owns me.

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Reid, I swear to God if anything happens to her...

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What is it you fear? What is it you fear?

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