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0:00:31 > 0:00:34THUNDERCLAP
0:00:51 > 0:00:54THUNDER RUMBLES
0:01:09 > 0:01:12THUNDER RUMBLES
0:01:31 > 0:01:33THUNDER RUMBLES
0:01:49 > 0:01:55CHURCH BELL CHIMES
0:01:57 > 0:02:00WOMEN CHATTER
0:02:53 > 0:02:56HE INTONES UNKNOWN LANGUAGE
0:03:03 > 0:03:05Forgive me, Father...
0:03:08 > 0:03:09..for I have indeed sinned.
0:04:25 > 0:04:27SEA BIRDS CAW, CHURCH BELL TOLLS
0:04:27 > 0:04:30MEN SHOUT IN DISTANCE
0:04:32 > 0:04:35COCKEREL CROWS
0:04:36 > 0:04:39SHOUTING AND CHATTER
0:04:41 > 0:04:43COARSE LAUGHTER
0:04:46 > 0:04:47- MAN:- Behold!
0:04:47 > 0:04:49A witness!
0:04:49 > 0:04:53# Took the cursed Bonaparte and threw a rope around his neck
0:04:53 > 0:04:56- CHILDREN:- # Threw a rope around his neck... #
0:04:57 > 0:04:58Behold!
0:04:59 > 0:05:01A good man!
0:05:03 > 0:05:05Behold! A man of his calling!
0:05:06 > 0:05:10Behold, a witness to God's deep love for us all.
0:05:15 > 0:05:18CHURCH BELL TOLLS
0:05:30 > 0:05:33LOW CHORAL SINGING
0:05:41 > 0:05:44Mrs Geary, I do not wish to be indelicate,
0:05:44 > 0:05:48but did you pay the grave-diggers the extra shilling?
0:05:48 > 0:05:53- What extra shilling?- To bury your father deeper in the ground.
0:05:53 > 0:05:56Resurrectionists pay extra to be buried two feet deeper than
0:05:56 > 0:05:57the rest.
0:05:57 > 0:06:00That way, the grave-robbers can't dig down to their meat
0:06:00 > 0:06:01before the sun comes up.
0:06:01 > 0:06:04My wife has no business with the grave-diggers.
0:06:06 > 0:06:09Her father will rest at the regular depth.
0:06:09 > 0:06:12DOORS OPEN
0:06:15 > 0:06:17DOORS CLOSE HEAVILY
0:06:19 > 0:06:21Dear God.
0:06:21 > 0:06:23There walks a dead man.
0:06:23 > 0:06:25SHE GASPS
0:06:26 > 0:06:27Who is that?
0:06:27 > 0:06:29Is hell opened up?
0:06:32 > 0:06:35Dear Lord Almighty, is that your brother?
0:06:48 > 0:06:51Before we begin, may we bow our heads in prayer?
0:06:52 > 0:06:57Our Father, which art in heaven,
0:06:57 > 0:06:59hallowed be thy name.
0:06:59 > 0:07:01Thy kingdom come... CONGREGATION MURMUR ALONG
0:07:01 > 0:07:06..thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
0:07:06 > 0:07:09Give us this day our daily bread...
0:07:09 > 0:07:11CHURCH BELL TOLLS
0:07:18 > 0:07:22For as much as it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy
0:07:22 > 0:07:26to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother, here departed,
0:07:26 > 0:07:28we therefore commit his body to the ground.
0:07:28 > 0:07:31Earth to earth...
0:07:31 > 0:07:34HE MUTTERS IN UNKNOWN LANGUAGE ..ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
0:07:34 > 0:07:38In sure and certain hope of the Resurrection.
0:07:38 > 0:07:40HE MUTTERS IN UNKNOWN LANGUAGE
0:07:41 > 0:07:43We will change our vile body...
0:07:43 > 0:07:46HE CONTINUES MUTTERING
0:07:46 > 0:07:49..according to the mighty working
0:07:49 > 0:07:53whereby he is able to subdue all things to himself.
0:07:54 > 0:07:59WHISPERING IN UNKNOWN LANGUAGE
0:07:59 > 0:08:01HE GRUNTS
0:08:13 > 0:08:14'Sir?'
0:08:14 > 0:08:16Mr Delaney, is it?
0:08:17 > 0:08:18Sir?
0:08:20 > 0:08:23- James Delaney, is it?- Who are you?
0:08:26 > 0:08:28- They said you were dead.- I am.
0:08:29 > 0:08:31Such a shallow grave they dug for my father.
0:08:31 > 0:08:33Are you short of a couple of shillings?
0:08:33 > 0:08:36He was buried to the depth of my love.
0:08:37 > 0:08:39Last years, he disgraced me.
0:08:40 > 0:08:41Disgrace?
0:08:42 > 0:08:43Hm.
0:08:45 > 0:08:47WOMAN LAUGHS FLIRTATIOUSLY
0:08:47 > 0:08:50Were those Negro words he said over the grave?
0:08:51 > 0:08:55Madness comes out through the umbilical cord.
0:08:55 > 0:08:59The pox in Africa goes directly to the brain via these...these worms.
0:08:59 > 0:09:00They... They crawl through your veins.
0:09:00 > 0:09:03- Where is he?- He went to piss.
0:09:06 > 0:09:09Any business with him will be conducted in my presence.
0:09:09 > 0:09:12See, I have the advantage, I have read the will.
0:09:14 > 0:09:15Meaning what?
0:09:15 > 0:09:17Meaning I need to piss and need no-one to hold my cock.
0:09:17 > 0:09:20Begging the lady's pardon.
0:09:20 > 0:09:22HORSE NEIGHS IN DISTANCE
0:09:27 > 0:09:30GUNSHOT, HORSE NEIGHS
0:10:04 > 0:10:08How came you to know that your father was dead?
0:10:08 > 0:10:11I heard he was sick and I boarded a ship.
0:10:11 > 0:10:15Yes, he was sick from madness.
0:10:15 > 0:10:16Hear that?
0:10:18 > 0:10:19Bile and bitterness.
0:10:19 > 0:10:23Not a single tear from anyone at the graveside.
0:10:28 > 0:10:30I didn't hear any piss at the leather.
0:10:30 > 0:10:35Perhaps you had no need, or perhaps you came out here...with a purpose?
0:10:35 > 0:10:37- CHUCKLING:- James...
0:10:37 > 0:10:40- Who are you?- I'm Thoyt, your father's lawyer.
0:10:40 > 0:10:43Smallpox butchered me down to the bone
0:10:43 > 0:10:47and, yes, I have other business than pissing.
0:10:47 > 0:10:50You know, in all of London, only your father believed you were still alive.
0:10:50 > 0:10:53It was a symptom of his madness.
0:10:53 > 0:10:57But he would talk to you, stand on the north bank of the river
0:10:57 > 0:11:00and call out to you on the other side.
0:11:00 > 0:11:02Yes, I know, I heard him calling.
0:11:03 > 0:11:05I'll speak plainly.
0:11:05 > 0:11:07Your father drew up a will of which I am executor.
0:11:07 > 0:11:09In it, you are his only heir.
0:11:09 > 0:11:14But, James, if you came home expecting fortune, there is none.
0:11:14 > 0:11:17The only legacy is a poisoned chalice.
0:11:18 > 0:11:21Talk to me of poison.
0:11:23 > 0:11:28Well, it's a small...strip of coastline, directly on the other
0:11:28 > 0:11:31side of the world, which your father held by treaty with the Nootka tribe.
0:11:31 > 0:11:33A wasteland.
0:11:33 > 0:11:37If America were a pig facing England,
0:11:37 > 0:11:39it is right at the pig's arse.
0:11:39 > 0:11:42Just rocks and Indians.
0:11:42 > 0:11:47The land in your father's will is not only useless,
0:11:47 > 0:11:50it is dangerous to any who owns it.
0:11:50 > 0:11:52They're my rocks now.
0:11:54 > 0:11:56James...
0:11:56 > 0:12:01I can arrange the immediate transfer of this particular asset.
0:12:04 > 0:12:07GUNSHOT, HORSE NEIGHS
0:12:12 > 0:12:15I'll send you a formal proposition in writing.
0:12:18 > 0:12:20LAUGHTER AND CHATTER
0:12:23 > 0:12:25THEY SING MOURNFULLY
0:12:40 > 0:12:42Good day, sir.
0:12:42 > 0:12:45These girls arriving are all whores.
0:12:46 > 0:12:50They attend the funeral of a widower because they know there'll be lots of old men.
0:12:50 > 0:12:55And that animal from Africa is here to pick at an old man's bones, too.
0:12:55 > 0:12:58Perhaps we should let Thoyt deal with the matter.
0:13:00 > 0:13:01Let's call our carriage.
0:13:09 > 0:13:10HE PUTS DOWN GLASS
0:13:17 > 0:13:20One thing Africa did not cure...
0:13:20 > 0:13:23is that I still love you.
0:13:29 > 0:13:33And if you are ever short of two shillings, please do not
0:13:33 > 0:13:38hesitate to ask, as Africa also served me incredibly well.
0:13:41 > 0:13:45Well, then you will have no need for legacies now, will you?
0:13:45 > 0:13:47We were just leaving.
0:13:50 > 0:13:51Hm.
0:13:54 > 0:13:57WOMEN LAUGH FLIRTATIOUSLY
0:14:01 > 0:14:05LAUGHTER AND CHATTER DISTORTS
0:14:29 > 0:14:32So, gentlemen, let's begin.
0:14:32 > 0:14:35A clerk will record every word that's said,
0:14:35 > 0:14:38except when a fellow raises his hand.
0:14:38 > 0:14:43Words from a raised hand... will not...
0:14:43 > 0:14:45enter the record.
0:14:46 > 0:14:51Now...the issue today is old man Delaney.
0:14:51 > 0:14:54May he rot in hell. MEN CHUCKLE
0:14:54 > 0:14:58The death of that mad old bastard was welcome
0:14:58 > 0:15:04and, as we thought at the time, beneficial for the honourable East India.
0:15:04 > 0:15:06But things have changed.
0:15:08 > 0:15:11Mr Thoyt, welcome.
0:15:11 > 0:15:13Give us the bad news.
0:15:13 > 0:15:18As the late Mr Delaney's lawyer, I attended the funeral,
0:15:18 > 0:15:20and a ghost appeared -
0:15:20 > 0:15:23a son we all thought dead in Africa.
0:15:23 > 0:15:26James Keziah Delaney.
0:15:28 > 0:15:31Mr Wilton, I asked you to do some digging.
0:15:31 > 0:15:35Which I have done, sir, and most entertaining it has been.
0:15:35 > 0:15:39In temperament, he takes after his mad mother.
0:15:39 > 0:15:41She was committed as a resident of Bedlam.
0:15:41 > 0:15:43Just stick to what we know about the boy.
0:15:43 > 0:15:48So, at the age of 11, his exhausted father and new bride put his son in
0:15:48 > 0:15:53as a cadet at the East India Company military seminary in Woolwich, the year of our Lord 1798.
0:15:53 > 0:15:58Delaney's son was a...company boy?
0:15:58 > 0:16:01And, Sir Stuart, odd to relate,
0:16:01 > 0:16:04the records show he was once in your own regiment.
0:16:04 > 0:16:06Well... HE CHUCKLES
0:16:06 > 0:16:09I commanded so many of the little bastards, I forget.
0:16:09 > 0:16:12There is a copy of his attendance record and the year-end report.
0:16:12 > 0:16:15Yeah, year end record too.
0:16:15 > 0:16:16My God!
0:16:16 > 0:16:20Corporal James Keziah Delaney.
0:16:20 > 0:16:23"Exceptional. Exceptional. Exceptional.
0:16:23 > 0:16:27"Musket, shipcraft, leadership. Exceptional."
0:16:27 > 0:16:31But, sir, then along came the year of our Lord 1800.
0:16:31 > 0:16:33Exceptional in different ways.
0:16:33 > 0:16:36I would guess that confidence allowed his true savage nature
0:16:36 > 0:16:38and mother's madness to emerge.
0:16:38 > 0:16:40The necks he broke always belonged to officers.
0:16:40 > 0:16:43And then there is the setting ablaze of
0:16:43 > 0:16:48- a Navy boat in an experiment with oil and mashed potatoes while drunk. - LAUGHTER
0:16:48 > 0:16:50And a fight with a bear in Chancery Lane,
0:16:50 > 0:16:55a rebellion against the cooks for bad custard, started by him,
0:16:55 > 0:16:58and he raved about fortunes and hidden treasures.
0:16:58 > 0:17:01He tried to recruit other boys to go down the river to India,
0:17:01 > 0:17:05to trade with Red Indians, to take gold from the Aztecs.
0:17:05 > 0:17:09And more necks, more whores and more custard. And finally...
0:17:09 > 0:17:11I am almost exhausted in the telling of it.
0:17:11 > 0:17:15Finally, in the year of our Lord 1802,
0:17:15 > 0:17:18he took himself off to Africa.
0:17:20 > 0:17:23Well, now he is returned.
0:17:23 > 0:17:27And Delaney's will leaves him everything.
0:17:27 > 0:17:28Including Nootka.
0:17:30 > 0:17:34Do we have a copy of the Nootka Sound treaty yet?
0:17:34 > 0:17:38Where perhaps our lawyers could pick it apart?
0:17:38 > 0:17:42It's yet to surface, Sir Stuart. And...
0:17:42 > 0:17:45I believe only the original exists.
0:17:46 > 0:17:52So, our lengthy negotiations with the daughter were in vain.
0:17:59 > 0:18:04If the will has not been read and Nootka is so strategic to us,
0:18:04 > 0:18:06why don't we just...burn it?
0:18:07 > 0:18:14Even if I did, the son would have natural priority over the daughter,
0:18:14 > 0:18:17according to God's law.
0:18:17 > 0:18:21And his return was purposely in a public way.
0:18:21 > 0:18:25Hardly the action of a savage.
0:18:25 > 0:18:28Thank you, Mr Thoyt, you may leave us.
0:18:37 > 0:18:43Mr Pettifer, I hope the report from the Africa desk is as thorough
0:18:43 > 0:18:46as the one from Mr Wilton in the records office.
0:18:49 > 0:18:51According to charter records,
0:18:51 > 0:18:54he went to Cabinda aboard a ship called Cornwallis,
0:18:54 > 0:18:59then boarded a ship called the Influence, bound for Antigua.
0:19:00 > 0:19:02It was a slave ship.
0:19:02 > 0:19:08It sank off the Gold Coast, and it was assumed Delaney was dead.
0:19:08 > 0:19:11Then the...rumours began.
0:19:13 > 0:19:18There have been rumours about James Keziah Delaney these past ten years
0:19:18 > 0:19:25but in the file I have put only the facts, sir, not the rumours.
0:19:25 > 0:19:27HE SNORTS QUIETLY
0:19:27 > 0:19:29What are the rumours?
0:19:29 > 0:19:35Awful, and unnatural, and, I'm sure, untrue.
0:19:36 > 0:19:40What...fucking...rumours?
0:19:44 > 0:19:47BIRDSONG, MEN SHOUT IN DISTANCE
0:20:59 > 0:21:01Right.
0:21:29 > 0:21:32Who's there? This pistol is loaded.
0:21:36 > 0:21:38My God.
0:21:38 > 0:21:43Perhaps by ship and by carriage. Hm? Come here.
0:21:43 > 0:21:44Ahh!
0:21:46 > 0:21:49Where's your propriety, Brace? Servant and master? Get off me.
0:21:51 > 0:21:53- Begging your pardon, sir.- What, why?
0:21:53 > 0:21:56Begging your pardon, but what the hell are you doing here?
0:21:56 > 0:21:58Oh, no, there will be no pardon for you
0:21:58 > 0:22:00because you are the captain of the mutineers.
0:22:01 > 0:22:06And you will hang. For being a pirate, you vagabond!
0:22:06 > 0:22:07How's the leg?
0:22:07 > 0:22:12I broke my left knee swinging from a tree, being an ape for you.
0:22:13 > 0:22:15- You needed a brother.- Still do.
0:22:16 > 0:22:20But a broken down, bent, buckled old butler will have to be sufficient.
0:22:20 > 0:22:22You look the same.
0:22:24 > 0:22:25I'm not.
0:22:28 > 0:22:31Not tea, brandy.
0:22:34 > 0:22:36Two glasses.
0:22:36 > 0:22:37Sir?
0:22:37 > 0:22:38Fetch two glasses.
0:22:39 > 0:22:43They should have invited you. To the wake, at least.
0:22:43 > 0:22:46Serving stew in the backroom, to hell with that.
0:22:46 > 0:22:50In all of this dirty city, there is no-one that I can trust,
0:22:50 > 0:22:52do you understand?
0:22:52 > 0:22:53Apart from you.
0:23:05 > 0:23:06Ah!
0:23:06 > 0:23:07BRACE COUGHS
0:23:07 > 0:23:11You can spare me the old maiden splutter, Brace. I know that you
0:23:11 > 0:23:16polish off at least half a bottle of Delaney Company Brandy every night. Hm?
0:23:16 > 0:23:17THEY CHUCKLE
0:23:25 > 0:23:26James...
0:23:28 > 0:23:30You could have written to your father just once.
0:23:30 > 0:23:33In the end, he was calling for you.
0:23:33 > 0:23:34I know.
0:23:36 > 0:23:38I'd say, "Come on, come in.
0:23:38 > 0:23:42"Before the tide gets your shoes."
0:23:42 > 0:23:45And he would light these fires on the shore,
0:23:45 > 0:23:47call out your name and talk to you.
0:23:49 > 0:23:51Is that grief, James?
0:23:52 > 0:23:54Is what grief?
0:23:57 > 0:24:03And all the while, these gulls hovered around picking at him.
0:24:03 > 0:24:05Gulls only come if there is meat.
0:24:05 > 0:24:08Oh, aye, meat there was.
0:24:09 > 0:24:12Men of affairs, they call themselves.
0:24:12 > 0:24:15Don't you want to know what it is they wanted, these gulls?
0:24:15 > 0:24:16I know already.
0:24:17 > 0:24:19I doubt that.
0:24:21 > 0:24:25A base of land called Nootka Sound.
0:24:26 > 0:24:28Nootka was my mother's tribe.
0:24:30 > 0:24:32No. No, no, James.
0:24:32 > 0:24:35Your mother came from Naples.
0:24:35 > 0:24:39He bought some land and he bought a wife.
0:24:40 > 0:24:42And he bought them both for gunpowder.
0:24:46 > 0:24:49He told me never to speak to you of buying her.
0:24:51 > 0:24:53And yet he told me everything.
0:24:54 > 0:24:56When?
0:24:56 > 0:24:58When he lit his fires on the foreshore.
0:25:03 > 0:25:06Nothing you could tell me about that man would surprise me.
0:25:06 > 0:25:10He was half human at the end and he would squat right here and
0:25:10 > 0:25:14make deals with ghosts in the flames.
0:25:15 > 0:25:17And he would speak in a language that was like...
0:25:17 > 0:25:19It was like ravens fighting.
0:25:25 > 0:25:28And he would talk to you, James.
0:25:28 > 0:25:29And he would talk to Anna.
0:25:31 > 0:25:33Salish.
0:25:39 > 0:25:41My mother's name was Salish.
0:25:42 > 0:25:46You know things only he and I knew.
0:25:46 > 0:25:48Yeah.
0:25:50 > 0:25:53And it's best we never talk of her when we've had brandy.
0:25:55 > 0:25:59HE MUTTERS
0:25:59 > 0:26:02See, when you live alone with a madman, you...
0:26:02 > 0:26:07you become half mad yourself. But here's the thing, James.
0:26:07 > 0:26:09This Nootka Sound is a curse.
0:26:09 > 0:26:13It will bring the King and Empire down upon your head.
0:26:14 > 0:26:19Please don't talk to me of sense, Brace, because if it is you,
0:26:19 > 0:26:20I might believe it.
0:26:23 > 0:26:27And I have sworn to do very foolish things.
0:26:28 > 0:26:29DOOR OPENS
0:27:18 > 0:27:20SNARLING
0:27:21 > 0:27:23SHE CACKLES
0:27:46 > 0:27:48FOOTSTEPS
0:27:55 > 0:27:58If you're looking for money, those accounts are ten years old.
0:28:02 > 0:28:06Where are my father's inventories and his shipping logs?
0:28:08 > 0:28:09He burnt them all.
0:28:11 > 0:28:14The only reason these accounts survived was because I hid them
0:28:14 > 0:28:16in case the taxman came knocking.
0:28:18 > 0:28:20That was delivered at 6am this morning
0:28:20 > 0:28:22by a servant of Mr Robert Thoyt.
0:28:24 > 0:28:27Thoyt has been trying to buy the Delaney Shipping Company
0:28:27 > 0:28:29from your father for three years.
0:28:29 > 0:28:31Each time, your da would go into the street,
0:28:31 > 0:28:34scoop up some horse shite and package it up by way of reply.
0:28:37 > 0:28:41I imagine the envelope contains a financial offer.
0:28:42 > 0:28:44I imagine it does.
0:28:44 > 0:28:46Do you have any horse shit on you?
0:28:51 > 0:28:56Listen, the accounts told me that we have a leasehold of 50 years
0:28:56 > 0:28:59on the offices in West India docks, 32 years left to run.
0:29:00 > 0:29:03Your father hadnae been up there in eight years, sir.
0:29:03 > 0:29:05They're all locked up.
0:29:05 > 0:29:06Then I will need the key.
0:30:05 > 0:30:06Oi!
0:30:06 > 0:30:08What are you doing with the door?
0:30:08 > 0:30:11You want a bush, you come through me.
0:30:11 > 0:30:13That is private property.
0:30:13 > 0:30:17Helga, it's so good to see that you're still working -
0:30:17 > 0:30:18even still alive.
0:30:18 > 0:30:22You know that I lay with you when I was just a little boy.
0:30:22 > 0:30:26- Where did you get the key?- This key? This is my father's key.
0:30:26 > 0:30:29Horace Delaney. Mmm?
0:30:30 > 0:30:32Shit.
0:30:32 > 0:30:33Yes, shit.
0:30:35 > 0:30:37Your father stopped coming. It was empty.
0:30:37 > 0:30:40It was wasted, so close to the docks.
0:30:43 > 0:30:45You want tea?
0:30:45 > 0:30:46No.
0:30:48 > 0:30:50Do you want to fuck?
0:30:50 > 0:30:52- No, I want my family offices back. - Oh, God.
0:30:52 > 0:30:54SHE MUTTERS
0:30:55 > 0:30:56How much do you make here?
0:30:59 > 0:31:03With the workers in the yard and the boats that moor at the wharf...
0:31:04 > 0:31:06..we make £10 a day.
0:31:06 > 0:31:09I can give you five and whatever you like.
0:31:09 > 0:31:12Boys, girls, suck, fuck...
0:31:14 > 0:31:17You have two hours to get out.
0:31:17 > 0:31:18You say I took your cherry.
0:31:20 > 0:31:21Mm-hmm.
0:31:25 > 0:31:27Where have you been, little boy?
0:31:27 > 0:31:29- I have been in the world.- Oh.
0:31:32 > 0:31:35I have girls, but I also have men.
0:31:35 > 0:31:37SHE CHUCKLES
0:31:37 > 0:31:39They're not very good men.
0:31:39 > 0:31:40- You understand?- Mm-hmm.
0:31:42 > 0:31:44They have rocks for hearts.
0:31:44 > 0:31:46They have knives and ropes.
0:31:46 > 0:31:48If you have any sense...
0:31:52 > 0:31:55People who do not know me soon come to understand
0:31:55 > 0:31:57that I do not have any sense.
0:31:59 > 0:32:01Now, please do not misunderstand the situation.
0:32:01 > 0:32:05You send me 12 men, I will return you 12 sets of testicles
0:32:05 > 0:32:09in a bag, and we can watch your little whores devour them together,
0:32:09 > 0:32:12before I chop off your trotters and boil them.
0:32:18 > 0:32:19Two hours.
0:32:20 > 0:32:22You...
0:32:22 > 0:32:24I remember you.
0:32:24 > 0:32:26I remember you. Heard the stories.
0:32:29 > 0:32:31If I give you a girl, I will never see her again.
0:32:33 > 0:32:34You heard right.
0:32:36 > 0:32:37Be punctual.
0:32:56 > 0:32:59- They've brought the carriage up. - Yes. I'm coming.
0:33:21 > 0:33:24You're not imploring him to relinquish his deed,
0:33:24 > 0:33:28you're insisting that, for his own welfare, he submit his claim to you.
0:33:30 > 0:33:34Implore is a more feminine word.
0:33:36 > 0:33:38And why must you be a woman to him?
0:33:42 > 0:33:46The offer of £50 should be conditional on him leaving England.
0:33:46 > 0:33:48Why?
0:33:48 > 0:33:51Because if he does not leave England, I will kill him.
0:33:51 > 0:33:52Why?
0:33:58 > 0:34:00That is a very good question.
0:34:03 > 0:34:07Why would I feel that way about him, after meeting him only once?
0:34:09 > 0:34:12The son of the same father as the woman I love...
0:34:15 > 0:34:18Why does a soldier know that a nigger bowing low
0:34:18 > 0:34:20has a dagger in his shoe and is reaching for it?
0:34:25 > 0:34:28Delaney is nothing more than a nigger now.
0:34:28 > 0:34:29You know that, don't you?
0:34:32 > 0:34:36I have talked with seasoned merchants who could barely
0:34:36 > 0:34:38bring themselves to repeat these stories.
0:34:42 > 0:34:43Among Christian soldiers,
0:34:43 > 0:34:48it's customary to bury the bodies of your fallen enemy
0:34:48 > 0:34:52and shoo away the dogs and crows that come for the carrion.
0:34:55 > 0:34:57Not kneel down beside them.
0:35:10 > 0:35:12Try again,
0:35:12 > 0:35:16this time reflecting the disgust you naturally feel
0:35:16 > 0:35:17now you know the truth.
0:35:26 > 0:35:27Hmm?
0:35:44 > 0:35:47The dogs here live off the flesh from suicides
0:35:47 > 0:35:49jumping off Blackfriars Bridge.
0:35:51 > 0:35:54Never known one go tamely to a man's hand.
0:35:55 > 0:35:58Must be some witchcraft you picked up somewhere.
0:36:01 > 0:36:03What do you want?
0:36:05 > 0:36:09You think your father's kid feeds himself.
0:36:09 > 0:36:12I heard you done a lot of evil over there.
0:36:12 > 0:36:16Now it's time for you to do some bleeding good among your own.
0:36:16 > 0:36:21Me and my wife have looked after that boy for ten years
0:36:21 > 0:36:24with not one penny from you and nothing but threats
0:36:24 > 0:36:27from the mad old bastard you just put in the ground.
0:36:27 > 0:36:31Now you're back, I want payment.
0:36:31 > 0:36:35If it wasn't for us, that kid would be sucking cocks in St Giles.
0:36:41 > 0:36:43Mr Ibbotson, I've been meaning to pay you a visit.
0:36:43 > 0:36:45Bullshit.
0:36:45 > 0:36:49You're a liar just like your father. You're a Delaney.
0:36:49 > 0:36:51Tell you what...
0:36:51 > 0:36:53You get me an address,
0:36:53 > 0:36:56and I will get you payment in the form of a banker's draft.
0:36:58 > 0:36:59- How much?- Enough.
0:37:03 > 0:37:04Good day.
0:37:07 > 0:37:10You don't even ask how your own blood fares.
0:38:03 > 0:38:08If you don't approve of me steadying my nerves with Madeira,
0:38:08 > 0:38:10then perhaps you should consult the directory of
0:38:10 > 0:38:13the Royal College of Physicians, see you know many others of them
0:38:13 > 0:38:15will agree to carry out this kind of work.
0:38:15 > 0:38:19I intend to mix the contents of his stomach with potassium oxide,
0:38:19 > 0:38:22calcium oxide and nitric acid.
0:38:26 > 0:38:30I'll know in 20 minutes. Come back when the church bell chimes.
0:38:44 > 0:38:46HISSING
0:38:46 > 0:38:47WOMAN SCREAMS
0:38:56 > 0:38:58- ECHOING VOICE:- You did this.
0:38:58 > 0:39:00- You will pay for this.- No.
0:39:09 > 0:39:13No, because I have no fear to feed you with.
0:39:15 > 0:39:17No fear to give you and I will prove it.
0:39:17 > 0:39:22Sing for me like you once did as the river caught your tongue.
0:39:22 > 0:39:25Ee neem sea wo ha ha.
0:39:25 > 0:39:26Suicide.
0:39:28 > 0:39:31That will teach you not to steal, won't it?
0:39:32 > 0:39:35Ee neem sea wo ha ha.
0:39:35 > 0:39:37Ee neem sea wo ha.
0:39:41 > 0:39:43You're not here. You are not here.
0:39:43 > 0:39:47I have no fear for you and I have no guilt for you.
0:39:52 > 0:39:55I did as others did and as others had me do,
0:39:55 > 0:39:57and we are all owned,
0:39:57 > 0:39:59and we have all owned others...
0:40:02 > 0:40:06..so don't you dare stand there and judge me.
0:40:09 > 0:40:12Today, I have work to do.
0:40:23 > 0:40:25BELL TOLLS
0:40:39 > 0:40:44The horizontal chamber contains the gas from the stomach contents.
0:40:48 > 0:40:49Now...
0:40:50 > 0:40:51..the moment of truth.
0:41:00 > 0:41:06As you see, the flame has formed a reflective surface on the glass,
0:41:06 > 0:41:08what is known as an arsenic mirror.
0:41:10 > 0:41:12Your father was poisoned.
0:41:14 > 0:41:17From the density of the mirror,
0:41:17 > 0:41:21I would say heavy doses over a short period,
0:41:21 > 0:41:25and, yes, it would have affected his mind in the later stages.
0:41:28 > 0:41:30You want him reburied?
0:41:30 > 0:41:33Yes, and sewn back up into one piece.
0:41:33 > 0:41:36I would recommend they dig a bit deeper this time.
0:41:39 > 0:41:41If this body is used for any other purpose,
0:41:41 > 0:41:44I will find you and I will kill you.
0:41:44 > 0:41:47You tell every member of your profession...
0:41:49 > 0:41:51(..I know things about the dead.
0:41:53 > 0:41:55(and I will know.)
0:41:55 > 0:41:59Do you want any words said over him when we put him back?
0:41:59 > 0:42:01No-one is listening.
0:42:20 > 0:42:22DOOR SLAMS
0:42:41 > 0:42:43He's meeting with the East India.
0:42:46 > 0:42:49Apparently, they're happy to deal with the devil
0:42:49 > 0:42:50and leave us penniless.
0:42:53 > 0:42:55The letter, it seemed, did no good.
0:42:55 > 0:42:57He was never one to be told.
0:42:59 > 0:43:04Well, we have legal rights, and it's time that savage was made aware.
0:43:04 > 0:43:07- I know he's your brother but... - Half-brother.
0:43:10 > 0:43:12..he leaves me no choice.
0:43:14 > 0:43:16SHE LAUGHS
0:43:20 > 0:43:22HE CHUCKLES
0:43:23 > 0:43:25- I'm going out.- Good.
0:43:25 > 0:43:29I'm tired of these empty threats you keep bandying around.
0:43:32 > 0:43:33Empty?
0:43:35 > 0:43:38I'm your husband and you are my wife.
0:43:39 > 0:43:43And I will protect our interests by whatever means necessary.
0:43:44 > 0:43:46And as for him,
0:43:46 > 0:43:49well, he should have stayed where he belongs,
0:43:49 > 0:43:52in the jungle, dancing naked and screwing wild pigs,
0:43:52 > 0:43:54and his slaves in their chains.
0:43:58 > 0:44:00He will leave soon.
0:44:00 > 0:44:03You're quite right, he doesn't belong in this world.
0:44:32 > 0:44:34HE BANGS THE DOOR
0:44:42 > 0:44:45I decided to bring it in person.
0:44:50 > 0:44:55Now, this is for the past, the present and the future.
0:45:02 > 0:45:03Take me to the boy.
0:45:05 > 0:45:06I want to see if you're lying to me or not.
0:45:06 > 0:45:08Yes, sir, Mr Delaney.
0:45:20 > 0:45:22Do you want to talk with him?
0:45:22 > 0:45:26No, I'm not a fit man to be around children.
0:45:30 > 0:45:34Fate can be hard, so you put money aside for his future in case
0:45:34 > 0:45:38he grows up to be rash, like me.
0:45:41 > 0:45:42Will you wish to see him again?
0:45:44 > 0:45:47No. Not ever.
0:46:45 > 0:46:49John Pettifer, East India Company, Africa desk.
0:46:51 > 0:46:53James Delaney.
0:46:53 > 0:46:55Benjamin Wilton, records,
0:46:55 > 0:46:58Abraham Appleby, our delegate from Christ,
0:46:58 > 0:47:01and this is Sir Stuart Strange,
0:47:01 > 0:47:04Chairman of the Honourable East India Company
0:47:04 > 0:47:07across the surface of the entire Earth.
0:47:09 > 0:47:10You don't remember me.
0:47:13 > 0:47:14One remembers those one looks up to
0:47:14 > 0:47:17more readily than those you look down upon.
0:47:17 > 0:47:19I believe you were a cadet.
0:47:19 > 0:47:21Yes, you were my commander.
0:47:21 > 0:47:26Oh, well, blame brandy and old age, hmm?
0:47:26 > 0:47:28Please, sit.
0:47:37 > 0:47:40- Brandy?- No.
0:47:42 > 0:47:44To begin, may I offer our sincere...?
0:47:44 > 0:47:48Please understand - hypocrisy I hate most.
0:47:50 > 0:47:51Indeed.
0:47:51 > 0:47:54- Let us not pretend... - No, do not pretend.
0:47:55 > 0:47:59I wonder if Mr Appleby might be allowed to finish a sentence?
0:48:02 > 0:48:03We are told that in your father's will,
0:48:03 > 0:48:08you were bequeathed a piece of territory which lies just here.
0:48:10 > 0:48:11Mm-hmm.
0:48:12 > 0:48:16As you will see, the small piece of land your father bought off
0:48:16 > 0:48:20the Indians is now by virtue of geography a point of contention
0:48:20 > 0:48:24between His Majesty's Government and the cursed United States.
0:48:29 > 0:48:31So...
0:48:34 > 0:48:35Hmm?
0:48:35 > 0:48:39Ah, Mr Delaney, you've been in Africa for a number of years,
0:48:39 > 0:48:43so you may be unaware that Britain and the United States
0:48:43 > 0:48:45are currently at war.
0:48:45 > 0:48:46I know.
0:48:46 > 0:48:50Ah, well, you will understand, then, that private ownership of
0:48:50 > 0:48:53the Nootka Sound landing ground represents an opportunity
0:48:53 > 0:48:55for our enemies who dispute its sovereignty
0:48:55 > 0:48:58when the time comes to draw the border.
0:48:58 > 0:49:00I know.
0:49:01 > 0:49:03Yes, I know. I also know that
0:49:03 > 0:49:06the British and American Government are
0:49:06 > 0:49:09preparing to begin their secret peace talks in Ghent,
0:49:09 > 0:49:10aren't they?
0:49:10 > 0:49:16And negotiators are preparing depositions to draw
0:49:16 > 0:49:19the Canadian-American border for when the current hostilities end.
0:49:19 > 0:49:22And because of the strategical position of Nootka Sound,
0:49:22 > 0:49:25whoever owns it has legal entitlement
0:49:25 > 0:49:28to the entire island of Vancouver,
0:49:28 > 0:49:29which is...
0:49:31 > 0:49:33Well, Which is the gateway to...
0:49:34 > 0:49:35..to China.
0:49:38 > 0:49:39Hmm?
0:49:42 > 0:49:45So this...
0:49:46 > 0:49:49This small piece of land that my father, erm,
0:49:49 > 0:49:52bought for beads,
0:49:52 > 0:49:54bless him, and gunpowder,
0:49:54 > 0:49:56some 30 years ago,
0:49:56 > 0:50:01actually will be very, very valuable to the Crown
0:50:01 > 0:50:03and to the East India,
0:50:03 > 0:50:07but also incredibly valuable to the Americans.
0:50:07 > 0:50:11Mr Delaney, as a British subject,
0:50:11 > 0:50:15you owe a debt of loyalty to your King and country.
0:50:17 > 0:50:20If patriotism is not in your motivation,
0:50:20 > 0:50:22perhaps money can be.
0:50:24 > 0:50:26Before your unexpected return,
0:50:26 > 0:50:30we had agreed a figure with your half-sister.
0:50:30 > 0:50:32Her husband drove a particularly hard bargain.
0:50:33 > 0:50:36I'm sorry, no. Nootka Sound is not for sale.
0:50:38 > 0:50:39Open the envelope.
0:50:40 > 0:50:42Are you deaf?
0:50:43 > 0:50:45- Oh, Mr Delaney... - Mr Delaney, perhaps...
0:50:45 > 0:50:48The Leviathan of the Seas, is it?
0:50:48 > 0:50:50The terrible shadow?
0:50:52 > 0:50:56The beast with a million eyes and a million ears?
0:50:56 > 0:50:57Conquest?
0:50:58 > 0:50:59Rape?
0:51:01 > 0:51:02Plunder?
0:51:03 > 0:51:05I studied your methods in your school.
0:51:07 > 0:51:13And I do know the evil that you do because I was once part of it.
0:51:24 > 0:51:26- Are you sure you won't take a brandy?- Yes.
0:51:26 > 0:51:29Please take a moment to consider the consequences of your refusal...
0:51:29 > 0:51:33What consequences? What consequences?
0:51:33 > 0:51:34Perhaps we should adjourn.
0:51:34 > 0:51:35Mr Delaney...
0:51:37 > 0:51:40I'll give you one last chance to behave
0:51:40 > 0:51:45like a loyal subject of His Majesty and the lawful crown of England.
0:51:46 > 0:51:49Sell this land for a reasonable price.
0:51:57 > 0:51:58Hmm...
0:52:01 > 0:52:02Please.
0:52:06 > 0:52:11The balance of your father's mind was, well, unstable...
0:52:12 > 0:52:14..but you have no such excuse.
0:52:14 > 0:52:18Now, why don't you just open the fucking envelope?
0:52:23 > 0:52:24Mmm?
0:52:35 > 0:52:36Hmm...
0:52:45 > 0:52:47Good day.
0:52:55 > 0:52:56DOOR CLOSES
0:52:59 > 0:53:00Well...
0:53:00 > 0:53:03HE LAUGHS
0:53:03 > 0:53:07The son is as unstable as the father.
0:53:09 > 0:53:11Perhaps the rumours about him are true.
0:53:12 > 0:53:16I'd hoped to settle this matter in a modern way,
0:53:16 > 0:53:18but that's not going to be possible.
0:53:23 > 0:53:24He's all yours.
0:53:41 > 0:53:45'Dear James, the letter I sent to you this morning was written
0:53:45 > 0:53:48'under the supervision of my husband,
0:53:48 > 0:53:51'to whom I am happily married.
0:53:55 > 0:53:58'It is more than ten years since you went away,
0:53:58 > 0:54:02'and at the time I was grateful that you had decided to leave England,
0:54:02 > 0:54:03'for both of our sakes.
0:54:07 > 0:54:11'Whatever happens with this business of inheritance,
0:54:11 > 0:54:14'and no matter if it results in a dispute,
0:54:14 > 0:54:20'I hope I can trust you to keep the secrets of the past buried,
0:54:20 > 0:54:23'buried in a deeper grave.'