0:00:14 > 0:00:17In the last year of the 18th century,
0:00:17 > 0:00:21Colonel John Herncastle plundered from India
0:00:21 > 0:00:24a priceless and most sacred yellow diamond.
0:00:24 > 0:00:28Vishnu, the Preserver, laid his curse on the thief,
0:00:28 > 0:00:33commanding three priests to search forever for his moonstone.
0:00:33 > 0:00:37But the wicked colonel smuggled the stone to England,
0:00:37 > 0:00:39and kept it jealously.
0:00:40 > 0:00:42In his will, he bequeathed the diamond
0:00:42 > 0:00:46to his beautiful young niece, Miss Rachel Verinder.
0:00:46 > 0:00:49Rachel's gallant cousin, Mr Franklin Blake,
0:00:49 > 0:00:51was charged with the gem's delivery.
0:00:54 > 0:00:56But was it a gift...
0:00:58 > 0:00:59..or a curse?
0:01:04 > 0:01:07THEY SPEAK ITALIAN
0:01:13 > 0:01:14Surely it is finished now?
0:01:19 > 0:01:21FLY BUZZES
0:01:21 > 0:01:24Insisto, after all, I am the subject.
0:01:24 > 0:01:26Not till it's complete.
0:01:26 > 0:01:27Excuse me, senior.
0:01:29 > 0:01:30What is it?
0:01:31 > 0:01:32My father.
0:01:35 > 0:01:36Forgive me.
0:01:36 > 0:01:38I'm sorry, Mr Blake.
0:01:44 > 0:01:45Who is that?
0:01:55 > 0:01:57DISTANT CHURCH BELL RINGS
0:02:06 > 0:02:08She did not come.
0:02:08 > 0:02:09I'm sorry.
0:02:09 > 0:02:11- My sincere condolences.- Thank you.
0:02:12 > 0:02:14Do you know why not?
0:02:14 > 0:02:16Or are you just not permitted to tell me?
0:02:18 > 0:02:20What I can and must talk to you about
0:02:20 > 0:02:21is your father's estate, your duties.
0:02:21 > 0:02:23Mr Franklin...
0:02:24 > 0:02:26..I'm afraid you're no longer a care-free young man.
0:02:27 > 0:02:30I've not been care-free since last I was in England.
0:02:30 > 0:02:32But we do have business to discuss.
0:02:34 > 0:02:35Very well.
0:02:36 > 0:02:38But I have more pressing business first.
0:02:41 > 0:02:43DOORBELL RINGS
0:02:55 > 0:02:56Mr Franklin!
0:02:58 > 0:03:00- Mr Bruff.- Good day, Penelope.
0:03:00 > 0:03:02Would you tell Rachel I'm come to see her?
0:03:02 > 0:03:04I'm sorry, sir.
0:03:04 > 0:03:06Miss Rachel's...
0:03:06 > 0:03:07out.
0:03:09 > 0:03:14Ah, well. Perhaps, when she returns, you would kindly give her this?
0:03:16 > 0:03:19Miss Verinder left these for you,
0:03:19 > 0:03:21should you ever call.
0:03:23 > 0:03:25She begs to decline entering into
0:03:25 > 0:03:27any correspondence with Mr Franklin Blake.
0:03:38 > 0:03:39Rachel!
0:03:45 > 0:03:46During all my long absences,
0:03:46 > 0:03:49Rachel so much as asked if I was living or dead?
0:03:50 > 0:03:53There is only one possible explanation for her behaviour.
0:03:54 > 0:03:55Which is?
0:03:55 > 0:03:57It is the moonstone yet.
0:03:59 > 0:04:00Where are you going?
0:04:00 > 0:04:03To Euston, and then to Yorkshire by the next train.
0:04:33 > 0:04:35Hello?
0:04:51 > 0:04:53NOTE PLAYS
0:05:28 > 0:05:29DOG BARKS
0:05:29 > 0:05:31- Who's here?- Caesar, good boy!
0:05:32 > 0:05:34Better not hurry.
0:05:36 > 0:05:37Mr Franklin?
0:05:39 > 0:05:40Betteredge.
0:05:41 > 0:05:43THEY LAUGH
0:05:45 > 0:05:46Oh, don't tell me. Robinson Crusoe
0:05:46 > 0:05:49has already informed you you might expect to see me tonight?
0:05:49 > 0:05:53Or here's the bit I was reading the moment before you came in.
0:05:53 > 0:05:54HE CLEARS HIS THROAT
0:05:55 > 0:05:58"I stood like one thunderstruck,
0:05:58 > 0:05:59"or as if I had seen...
0:06:01 > 0:06:02"..an apparition."
0:06:05 > 0:06:06If that isn't as much as to say,
0:06:06 > 0:06:09"Expect the sudden appearance of Mr Franklin Blake..."
0:06:11 > 0:06:14..it has no meaning in the English language.
0:06:14 > 0:06:16It's good to see you, Betteredge.
0:06:16 > 0:06:18It's a miracle to see you, sir!
0:06:20 > 0:06:21I'm afraid...
0:06:23 > 0:06:26..you find us, sadly, changed.
0:06:27 > 0:06:29Much has happened since I saw you last.
0:06:30 > 0:06:31I know it, Betteredge.
0:06:33 > 0:06:37But I'm burning to know what's brought you here in this sodden way.
0:06:38 > 0:06:39What brought me here before?
0:06:39 > 0:06:41The moonstone, Mr Franklin.
0:06:41 > 0:06:44And it is the moonstone that brings me again.
0:06:44 > 0:06:45Is that a joke, sir?
0:06:46 > 0:06:49I'm afraid I'm getting a little dull in my old age!
0:06:49 > 0:06:52- I don't take it. - The theft has never been settled.
0:06:52 > 0:06:54It hangs over her still.
0:06:55 > 0:06:58Whatever happened that night, it ruined two lives, mine one of them.
0:07:01 > 0:07:04I see you are in want of a cigar.
0:07:06 > 0:07:09Come down with me.
0:07:10 > 0:07:12Take my advice, Mr Franklin,
0:07:12 > 0:07:14and let the diamond be.
0:07:14 > 0:07:18How can I? I've travelled nigh on a year,
0:07:18 > 0:07:21I can run from Rachel, but I cannot forget her.
0:07:21 > 0:07:23I believe you still love her, sir.
0:07:23 > 0:07:24I know she cannot forget me, either,
0:07:24 > 0:07:26or she would not hide from me as she does.
0:07:27 > 0:07:29What do you propose to do, sir?
0:07:30 > 0:07:31I have come here to take up
0:07:31 > 0:07:34the enquiry which was dropped when I left England.
0:07:34 > 0:07:35I have come to do what nobody has done yet,
0:07:35 > 0:07:37and find out who took the diamond.
0:07:37 > 0:07:40How can you hope to succeed, saving your presence,
0:07:40 > 0:07:43when Sergeant Cuff himself could not solve it?
0:07:43 > 0:07:46The greatest policeman in England.
0:07:46 > 0:07:49I am no professional, but that may be my strength.
0:07:49 > 0:07:51I've nothing now to focus on but this.
0:07:51 > 0:07:54I hope to have information that Cuff was not privy to.
0:07:54 > 0:07:56I hope to have testimony of
0:07:56 > 0:07:59minds closed to the police this time last year.
0:07:59 > 0:08:01- What testimony? - Why, yours, Betteredge.
0:08:01 > 0:08:03You, and others more closely associated to Rachel
0:08:03 > 0:08:04and her diamond.
0:08:05 > 0:08:07Give me your account of this family
0:08:07 > 0:08:09and the moonstone from the very beginning.
0:08:10 > 0:08:12Those were dark times, sir.
0:08:14 > 0:08:15I cannot revisit them.
0:08:15 > 0:08:17The dark times will not be over until I have done
0:08:17 > 0:08:20what I have sworn to do, and found Rachel's stolen moonstone.
0:08:23 > 0:08:24Please, Betteredge.
0:08:26 > 0:08:27Well, sir...
0:08:28 > 0:08:30..if you insist.
0:08:31 > 0:08:36We must commence with the lead-up to Miss Rachel's 18th birthday,
0:08:36 > 0:08:39in this house, this time last year.
0:08:43 > 0:08:46SHE PLAYS PIANO
0:08:54 > 0:08:56Please, have the yellow room readied.
0:08:56 > 0:08:59Mr Franklin Blake arrives with us tomorrow.
0:08:59 > 0:09:03I did not know Mr Franklin's foreign education had come to an end.
0:09:03 > 0:09:06His plan is to stay with us for a month,
0:09:06 > 0:09:08to keep Rachel's birthday.
0:09:08 > 0:09:10He is probably in want of a decent dinner.
0:09:10 > 0:09:14I hear his mother's 700 a year runs through him as through a sieve.
0:09:14 > 0:09:16Such is the way of a young man abroad.
0:09:17 > 0:09:20I shall be delighted to see Mr Franklin -
0:09:20 > 0:09:24the nicest boy who ever spun a top...or broke a window.
0:09:24 > 0:09:26The most atrocious tyrant that ever tortured a doll.
0:09:26 > 0:09:28You worshipped him ten years ago.
0:09:28 > 0:09:30And then he left.
0:09:32 > 0:09:35I burn with indignation and I ache with fatigue
0:09:35 > 0:09:36when I think of Franklin Blake.
0:09:38 > 0:09:40SHE PLAYS "Piano Sonata No.16" by Mozart
0:09:44 > 0:09:46Excuse me, my lady.
0:09:48 > 0:09:49DRUMMING
0:09:56 > 0:09:58May I help you, gentlemen?
0:09:58 > 0:10:01I was just looking for the kitchen door.
0:10:01 > 0:10:04May I present myself and my compatriot?
0:10:04 > 0:10:06We are travelling entertainers,
0:10:06 > 0:10:08and we beg permission to display our skills
0:10:08 > 0:10:10in the presence of the lady of the house.
0:10:10 > 0:10:15I'm sorry to inform you, the lady of the house is out.
0:10:16 > 0:10:18I must ask you to come back another time.
0:10:30 > 0:10:32Penelope, where are you going?
0:10:33 > 0:10:36Rosanna is late to dinner, I'm sent to fetch her in.
0:10:36 > 0:10:39- She walks alone again? - For her health, she says.
0:10:39 > 0:10:42Though I would not go, for my health, where she's gone.
0:10:42 > 0:10:44- To the sands.- As ever,
0:10:44 > 0:10:45to the Shivering Sands.
0:10:45 > 0:10:47The tide is on the turn. Go back inside.
0:10:49 > 0:10:51I'll get her in.
0:10:51 > 0:10:54And ask Samuel to lock the doors behind me.
0:11:00 > 0:11:05'So, Mr Franklin, I hurried to that forlorn and treacherous place,
0:11:05 > 0:11:08'which the very birds of the air give a wide berth.
0:11:08 > 0:11:11'not so, Rosanna Spearman.
0:11:11 > 0:11:15'This was our poor housemaid's favourite walk.'
0:11:16 > 0:11:19You're late for dinner, Rosanna.
0:11:19 > 0:11:21Come, come, now, girl.
0:11:23 > 0:11:26You have been given a miraculous opportunity in this house.
0:11:27 > 0:11:29You must try to use it.
0:11:30 > 0:11:32I do my work.
0:11:32 > 0:11:35Your past is all sponged out.
0:11:35 > 0:11:37Why can't you forget it?
0:11:38 > 0:11:41Would that we could just wash away the past, sir.
0:11:51 > 0:11:54I cleaned this lapel for you just yesterday,
0:11:54 > 0:11:57with a new composition warranted to remove any spot.
0:11:57 > 0:11:58The stain is taken off,
0:11:58 > 0:12:01but the play shows, Mr Betteredge, the play shows.
0:12:01 > 0:12:03It's sitting everlastingly in this
0:12:03 > 0:12:06miserable place that's the problem, not my outfit.
0:12:08 > 0:12:11What makes you like being here?
0:12:12 > 0:12:14I try to keep away, but I can't.
0:12:16 > 0:12:18Have you seen what the sand will do?
0:12:18 > 0:12:19Have you thrown a stone out there
0:12:19 > 0:12:21and watched the quicksand suck it down?
0:12:21 > 0:12:23That's unwholesome talk.
0:12:24 > 0:12:25Sometimes, Mr Betteredge...
0:12:27 > 0:12:30..I think my grave waits for me here.
0:12:30 > 0:12:32What awaits you
0:12:32 > 0:12:35is roast mutton and suet pudding!
0:12:36 > 0:12:40This is what comes of thinking on an empty stomach!
0:12:42 > 0:12:43Betteredge?
0:12:47 > 0:12:49Betteredge, is that you?
0:12:51 > 0:12:52Well, you may not remember the boy I was,
0:12:52 > 0:12:54but I'll wager you remember the debt I still owe you.
0:12:57 > 0:13:00Seven and sixpence, Mr Franklin Blake,
0:13:00 > 0:13:02and ten years' interest!
0:13:02 > 0:13:05But who charges interest amongst friends?
0:13:05 > 0:13:07THEY LAUGH
0:13:08 > 0:13:10What have you got there?
0:13:11 > 0:13:12His buttonhole...
0:13:12 > 0:13:13sir.
0:13:13 > 0:13:16- Keep it.- Now, run along.
0:13:16 > 0:13:17Your dinner will be cold!
0:13:19 > 0:13:22Welcome back to the old place, Mr Franklin.
0:13:22 > 0:13:25And all the more welcome that you're here, even before we expected you!
0:13:25 > 0:13:28I have reason for that.
0:13:28 > 0:13:30I travelled by today's, instead of tomorrow's train,
0:13:30 > 0:13:32because I believed I was being followed.
0:13:32 > 0:13:33By who?
0:13:33 > 0:13:35By an Indian fellow, and I'd hoped to give him the slip.
0:13:35 > 0:13:37Who would follow you, and why?
0:13:37 > 0:13:39The why is easier than the who.
0:13:39 > 0:13:42I'm come with my cousin Rachel's legacy from our uncle Herncastle,
0:13:42 > 0:13:44to be given her on her 18th birthday.
0:13:44 > 0:13:46Colonel Herncastle.
0:13:47 > 0:13:49- What has he left Miss Rachel?- This.
0:13:58 > 0:14:00'That day on the beach last year,'
0:14:00 > 0:14:02there is something I regret, sir.
0:14:02 > 0:14:04There are many things I regret.
0:14:05 > 0:14:08I did not tell you what I knew of Colonel Herncastle.
0:14:10 > 0:14:13I did not wish to pass on idle talk, and he was not of your generation,
0:14:13 > 0:14:16so you would not have known what he was.
0:14:16 > 0:14:18- Which was?- A hard man.
0:14:18 > 0:14:20A cold man.
0:14:21 > 0:14:23He and my lady were on poor terms.
0:14:23 > 0:14:26She barred him from her house, her own brother.
0:14:26 > 0:14:27But he forgave her.
0:14:27 > 0:14:30He repented on his deathbed and left her daughter
0:14:30 > 0:14:32a £20,000 diamond to prove it.
0:14:32 > 0:14:33A diamond that he killed for.
0:14:34 > 0:14:38That caused him to live out his days in fear of his life.
0:14:38 > 0:14:42- A stone stained with blood and beset with a curse.- What are you saying?
0:14:42 > 0:14:44The reconciliation was a lie?
0:14:44 > 0:14:48Looking back, I now believe the wicked colonel fully intended
0:14:48 > 0:14:51to visit the curse on his sister,
0:14:51 > 0:14:53by means of her only child.
0:14:53 > 0:14:56And the Lord knows he succeeded.
0:14:59 > 0:15:02Someone has learned of your charge, and its value.
0:15:04 > 0:15:06You say your pursuer was Indian?
0:15:06 > 0:15:08Mayhap he's linked to those entertainers
0:15:08 > 0:15:10I've just sent away from our door.
0:15:11 > 0:15:13There were Indians at the house?
0:15:14 > 0:15:16- Mayhap it is but chance coincidence. - Still...
0:15:17 > 0:15:19..to the bank, Mr Franklin.
0:15:19 > 0:15:21- Post haste!- No, you are right.
0:15:46 > 0:15:48Your receipt, sir.
0:16:00 > 0:16:02Cousin Franklin!
0:16:11 > 0:16:12Cousin Rachel.
0:16:13 > 0:16:17We thought you had got lost. I was on my way to rescue you.
0:16:21 > 0:16:25# Trees where you sit
0:16:25 > 0:16:30# Shall crowd into a shaa...
0:16:30 > 0:16:35# Aaaa-aaade
0:16:35 > 0:16:40# Trees where you sit
0:16:40 > 0:16:45# Shall crowd into
0:16:45 > 0:16:48# A shade. #
0:16:48 > 0:16:50APPLAUSE
0:16:58 > 0:16:59The next is a duet.
0:16:59 > 0:17:01Ah.
0:17:01 > 0:17:02You do not sing?
0:17:03 > 0:17:05Or play?
0:17:05 > 0:17:08I can accompany you on the harmonica, nothing more.
0:17:08 > 0:17:11You will find me sadly lacking in gentlemanly pursuits.
0:17:11 > 0:17:13I do not shoot...
0:17:13 > 0:17:16or fence...or fish.
0:17:16 > 0:17:18I can barely swim.
0:17:18 > 0:17:21But what of culture? You practise no art at all?
0:17:22 > 0:17:24Had I the benefit of a continental education,
0:17:24 > 0:17:26I would've profited more than that.
0:17:26 > 0:17:28I practise art.
0:17:28 > 0:17:29Oh?
0:17:52 > 0:17:54Will that smell like this forever?
0:17:54 > 0:17:58It will dry to be perfectly odourless, I assure you.
0:17:58 > 0:18:01At least for now it overwhelms the tobacco.
0:18:01 > 0:18:03My smoking offends you?
0:18:07 > 0:18:10- Then I will stop. - I would not make you.
0:18:10 > 0:18:12You do not like it, I cast it out.
0:18:19 > 0:18:22I'm finished with the surface preparations.
0:18:26 > 0:18:27How very good.
0:18:30 > 0:18:36Er, now, when we paint, this vehicle will fix the colour and then
0:18:36 > 0:18:39we will decorate your door fit for the Sistine Chapel itself.
0:18:41 > 0:18:44So what images will we paint?
0:18:44 > 0:18:45Er...
0:18:48 > 0:18:50..roses...
0:18:50 > 0:18:52for a rose.
0:18:52 > 0:18:54Not just flowers, surely?
0:18:56 > 0:18:59I've brought a book of old prints with me from the Continent.
0:19:01 > 0:19:02Old masters' moderns.
0:19:05 > 0:19:07Take your pick.
0:19:28 > 0:19:32- I'll do the side door, William, you get your rest.- Yes, sir.
0:19:32 > 0:19:33DOG BARKS
0:19:43 > 0:19:44- Betteredge, wait.- Oh.
0:19:44 > 0:19:49Mr Franklin, I thought we had intruders.
0:19:49 > 0:19:51What keeps you up so late?
0:19:51 > 0:19:54I find I regret giving up tobacco, I pace half the night.
0:19:54 > 0:19:59The things we do for love, hmm? Come, let's go inside, Mr Franklin.
0:20:10 > 0:20:14- Penelope?- Miss Rachel.- Out there.
0:20:16 > 0:20:17What is it?
0:20:24 > 0:20:27PIANO PLAYS
0:20:36 > 0:20:40- You are missing the primo part. - You have other pastimes these days.
0:20:41 > 0:20:44We will have time enough to play when Franklin goes.
0:20:46 > 0:20:49Try not to rest all your hopes with Franklin, Rachel.
0:20:50 > 0:20:55- What in him do you object to?- He is not settled. He is not established.
0:20:55 > 0:20:58- He is a better man for his travels. - My lady. The post.
0:21:00 > 0:21:03Better maybe, certainly poorer.
0:21:03 > 0:21:08As you yourself said, "Franklin Blake is careless with money."
0:21:08 > 0:21:11He assures me that his debts are paid.
0:21:11 > 0:21:14Your cousin Godfrey writes to accept your invitation for him
0:21:14 > 0:21:16to keep your birthday with us.
0:21:17 > 0:21:20You liked Godfrey well enough when you invited him.
0:21:22 > 0:21:24I like him still.
0:21:33 > 0:21:35Shall I help you with that?
0:21:35 > 0:21:39I am perfectly capable of wielding my own paintbrush.
0:21:39 > 0:21:42I know it, I...I merely thought since I'm more familiar
0:21:42 > 0:21:44with the male form...
0:21:45 > 0:21:48I'm more than conversant with the masculine torso.
0:21:49 > 0:21:53The day of your arrival is etched on my mind.
0:21:53 > 0:21:55Oh, I did not realise I'd made such an impression.
0:21:57 > 0:21:59CUPS CLATTER OUTSIDE DOOR
0:22:01 > 0:22:04Begging your pardon, sir, the tea you asked for?
0:22:14 > 0:22:15Ah, thank you.
0:22:15 > 0:22:17You may go.
0:22:22 > 0:22:26Let me help you clean that smudge off your face.
0:22:46 > 0:22:48GONG RINGS
0:22:52 > 0:22:54Happy birthday, Rachel.
0:22:58 > 0:22:59The sun is smiling on you today.
0:22:59 > 0:23:03I know, I've been out picking you a buttonhole.
0:23:04 > 0:23:07I should be giving you presents, not the other way about.
0:23:07 > 0:23:09You mean you have none?
0:23:44 > 0:23:47Now no matter what happens, I will be close to your heart.
0:23:47 > 0:23:50You do not need a locket for that.
0:23:51 > 0:23:53Thank you, Franklin.
0:23:56 > 0:23:57Tired still!
0:23:57 > 0:24:00Go back to bed, we need you fresh for the party.
0:24:00 > 0:24:04I cannot sleep now, and we have more painting to do.
0:24:11 > 0:24:12Take some water.
0:24:12 > 0:24:14The door is done, then?
0:24:15 > 0:24:17Thank heavens.
0:24:17 > 0:24:20In time for the guests to admire the decoration tonight.
0:24:20 > 0:24:22Though, I pray not touch it.
0:24:22 > 0:24:25It takes an age to dry as well as smelling.
0:24:25 > 0:24:28Gentle folks have a very awkward rock in life.
0:24:28 > 0:24:30The rock of their own idleness.
0:24:30 > 0:24:33Their lives being passed in looking above them for something to do,
0:24:33 > 0:24:37it is curious to see how often they take to torturing
0:24:37 > 0:24:39something or to spoiling something.
0:24:39 > 0:24:42Well, Mr Franklin and Miss Rachel torture nothing.
0:24:42 > 0:24:45No, they simply confine themselves to making a mess and all they have
0:24:45 > 0:24:50spoilt, to do them justice, is your dinner and the panelling of a door.
0:24:51 > 0:24:56Well, Mr Franklin must away to Frizinghall
0:24:56 > 0:24:58or the bank will be closed.
0:24:58 > 0:25:02Samuel has sent me to tell you a visitor's here for Mr Blake.
0:25:05 > 0:25:08FRANKLIN SPEAKS FRENCH
0:25:26 > 0:25:28Mr Franklin! Are you going to fetch the diamond?
0:25:28 > 0:25:30Hold off till we can get a guard.
0:25:30 > 0:25:33If I wait another minute, the bank will have closed.
0:25:33 > 0:25:36Then go by Dr Candy's at Frizinghall,
0:25:36 > 0:25:37he's coming for the party.
0:25:37 > 0:25:40Ask him to keep you company on the way home.
0:25:40 > 0:25:44But may hap there's still men out there who await your opportunity.
0:25:44 > 0:25:46I have no need of a nursemaid. We have seen neither hide or hair
0:25:46 > 0:25:49- of anyone in weeks. Trust me, I will keep it safe.- Mr Franklin...
0:25:49 > 0:25:52SHE SPEAKS FRENCH
0:25:54 > 0:25:55Er...
0:25:55 > 0:25:59On the contrary I...I thought you had more integrity than
0:25:59 > 0:26:01to eavesdrop on my private business.
0:26:01 > 0:26:05You lied to me, Franklin. I told my mother your debts were settled.
0:26:05 > 0:26:07I have the money. I have but to hand it over.
0:26:07 > 0:26:09Which is the part that counts.
0:26:09 > 0:26:12I cannot stomach a lie, Franklin.
0:26:12 > 0:26:16- I have been nothing but honest with you.- I do not intend to mislead you.
0:26:17 > 0:26:21- I have to go.- Would you ride away from me? Franklin.
0:26:22 > 0:26:25- Cousin Godfrey!- Cousin Rachel.
0:26:29 > 0:26:32Felicitations on your natal day.
0:26:32 > 0:26:36Cousin Franklin, I thought you still in France.
0:26:36 > 0:26:37HE SPEAKS FRENCH
0:26:37 > 0:26:40Please, open it.
0:26:44 > 0:26:46Oh, it's lovely.
0:26:48 > 0:26:49Excuse me.
0:26:49 > 0:26:53You're not leaving already, cousin? We have ten years to catch up on.
0:26:56 > 0:26:59Er, Rachel, I do not want to leave in the middle of a quarrel.
0:26:59 > 0:27:00Then don't go.
0:27:28 > 0:27:32I'm delighted to have had you call for me, Mr Blake.
0:27:32 > 0:27:35It's a lonely road without company.
0:27:36 > 0:27:40- You're on edge, Mr Blake. - Just tired.
0:27:40 > 0:27:43Do you sleep poorly? A young man like you?
0:27:43 > 0:27:46- I've recently given up smoking.- Ah.
0:27:46 > 0:27:48It will pass.
0:27:48 > 0:27:51Come, Dr Candy, we can make better time than this.
0:28:18 > 0:28:19Rosanna?
0:28:21 > 0:28:25I couldn't finish my work this morning, I came back to complete it.
0:28:27 > 0:28:28Well, you can leave it now.
0:28:31 > 0:28:33Oh, wait.
0:28:33 > 0:28:34Have you seen Miss Rachel?
0:28:34 > 0:28:39I believe she's in the rose garden, sir, with Mr Godfrey.
0:28:42 > 0:28:46I've been waiting for this moment for many a month.
0:28:46 > 0:28:51- Godfrey...- No, no, don't speak, not until you've heard me out.
0:28:53 > 0:28:57If you only knew how happy it makes me to be here with you.
0:28:59 > 0:29:02Dare I dream that your heart also sings when we meet?
0:29:02 > 0:29:03- Cousin...- Rachel...
0:29:05 > 0:29:09- Will you honour me, will you bless me by being my wife?- Cousins!
0:29:12 > 0:29:16Forgive the interruption but, er, Rachel, I've been sent to tell you
0:29:16 > 0:29:19your birthday guests have begun to arrive.
0:29:26 > 0:29:30An explorer, how fascinating... Ah.
0:29:30 > 0:29:34I, too, am an explorer, Mr Murthwaite, of the human body,
0:29:34 > 0:29:37a man of science, not of geography.
0:29:37 > 0:29:40Where or what do you explore?
0:29:40 > 0:29:44I have spent much of my adult life travelling through India.
0:29:44 > 0:29:48I'm fortunate indeed to be here to keep my goddaughter's 18th,
0:29:48 > 0:29:50I've missed so many of the rest.
0:29:52 > 0:29:56- You must find it very lonely.- On the contrary, I find it most restful.
0:29:58 > 0:30:02Oh, my dear Mr Godfrey, I was so hoping to see you here tonight.
0:30:02 > 0:30:04Mm, Miss Clack.
0:30:04 > 0:30:06You hardly seem yourself.
0:30:06 > 0:30:10I have great news of the Mothers' Small Clothes Conversion Society
0:30:10 > 0:30:13and the Sunday Sweethearts Supervision Society.
0:30:13 > 0:30:17- Well, I cannot wait.- Mm-hm. - Another gift?
0:30:17 > 0:30:22- Are you asking for this one back? - No. Why? Do you wish to return it?
0:30:24 > 0:30:27Mama, Franklin's being most mysterious.
0:30:27 > 0:30:31- He says he has something to give me but you must be present.- Very well.
0:30:33 > 0:30:36- What here?- Where else?
0:30:36 > 0:30:39Well, I am but the courier of this present.
0:30:39 > 0:30:43- It is left to you by our uncle, Colonel John Herncastle.- Oh.
0:31:08 > 0:31:10GONG RINGS
0:31:12 > 0:31:16£20,000.
0:31:16 > 0:31:18Well, think of the Christians that could profit
0:31:18 > 0:31:21by small clothes for the price of this bauble.
0:31:21 > 0:31:27Well, it's carbon, Miss Clack. Mere carbon, my good friend, after all.
0:31:27 > 0:31:30- May I?- Oh, of course.
0:31:34 > 0:31:37Miss Rachel, in the interests of science,
0:31:37 > 0:31:42- please donate me your diamond.- To do what with?- To burn it of course.
0:31:42 > 0:31:45We will first heat it to a high degree then expose it to
0:31:45 > 0:31:48a current of air, and, then, little by little, puff!
0:31:48 > 0:31:52We evaporate the diamond and save you a world of anxiety
0:31:52 > 0:31:55about the safekeeping of a valuable stone.
0:31:55 > 0:31:59- I rather wish you were in earnest, Dr Candy.- Oh, but I am.
0:32:04 > 0:32:07I've had my fill of the diamond.
0:32:07 > 0:32:10Let somebody who has not tried its magnetism feel the pull.
0:32:14 > 0:32:17- Oh, Mr Franklin, I mustn't. - Please, you must.
0:32:24 > 0:32:27Oh. It's like the light of the harvest moon.
0:32:37 > 0:32:40Resisting the draw of the tobacco, Mr Franklin?
0:32:40 > 0:32:44Without its soothing influence, I'm astounded you sleep at all.
0:32:50 > 0:32:51It is indeed exquisite.
0:33:00 > 0:33:03If ever you accompany me to India, my dear, I think we'll leave
0:33:03 > 0:33:06your uncle's gift at home.
0:33:06 > 0:33:08With this in hand, I know a certain temple in a certain city
0:33:08 > 0:33:13where your life would not be worth five minutes purchase.
0:33:13 > 0:33:15Oh.
0:33:15 > 0:33:17Well, I think Rachel can
0:33:17 > 0:33:20rely on me to protect her in the future, Mr Murthwaite.
0:33:20 > 0:33:24- Let me help you, sir. - Help me with what?
0:33:24 > 0:33:28You are out of sorts, sir. Your nerves are all out of order.
0:33:28 > 0:33:31- What business is it of yours? - Why, my daily business as a doctor.
0:33:31 > 0:33:34You need to go through a course of medicine immediately.
0:33:34 > 0:33:36A course of medicine and a course of groping in the dark
0:33:36 > 0:33:38mean in my estimation one and the same thing.
0:33:38 > 0:33:40Constitutionally speaking, Mr Franklin,
0:33:40 > 0:33:42you yourself are groping in the dark for sleep
0:33:42 > 0:33:45and nothing but medicine will help you to find it!
0:33:45 > 0:33:48It is you, sir, making me tense, not smoking or otherwise.
0:33:48 > 0:33:49Out of my way, man.
0:33:51 > 0:33:55Ladies, gentlemen, if I may, would you all be upstanding
0:33:55 > 0:33:58for the beautiful, fascinating Miss Rachel Verinder.
0:33:59 > 0:34:02On this, the occasion of her 18th birthday.
0:34:02 > 0:34:05Now, I know Rachel well. She and I have grown up together,
0:34:05 > 0:34:08and I hope in due course to know her better which is to say...
0:34:10 > 0:34:14..I very much hope Rachel will do me the honour of, er...
0:34:14 > 0:34:16GASPING AND LAUGHTER
0:34:16 > 0:34:19ALL: # For she's a jolly good fellow
0:34:19 > 0:34:22# For she's a jolly good fellow
0:34:22 > 0:34:26# For she's a jolly good fellow... #
0:34:26 > 0:34:28Let us forget what has passed, Godfrey,
0:34:28 > 0:34:29and let us be cousins still.
0:34:30 > 0:34:35# For she's a jolly good fellow
0:34:35 > 0:34:40# That nobody can deny! #
0:34:40 > 0:34:41Thank you.
0:34:41 > 0:34:44CHATTER
0:34:47 > 0:34:51What do you see in there, Mr Murthwaite? Rachel's future?
0:34:52 > 0:34:56I'm no clairvoyant, Mr Blake. I can see nothing,
0:34:56 > 0:35:01but your future will be short, my dear, if you hold on to this gem.
0:35:05 > 0:35:06What do you mean?
0:35:06 > 0:35:10The moonstone is of inestimable value in India,
0:35:10 > 0:35:12not financial, of course, but spiritual.
0:35:14 > 0:35:18Its appointed guardians would move heaven and earth to reclaim it.
0:35:18 > 0:35:20But this is England, Mr Murthwaite.
0:35:20 > 0:35:23If a thousand lives stood between them
0:35:23 > 0:35:24and the diamond and they thought
0:35:24 > 0:35:28they could do it without discovery, the guardians would take them all.
0:35:28 > 0:35:29INDIAN MUSIC STARTS OUTSIDE
0:35:29 > 0:35:31What is that?
0:35:31 > 0:35:33Rachel, no.
0:35:43 > 0:35:45Oh, what devil is this?
0:35:47 > 0:35:52Oh, dear Mr Godfrey, your Christian presence is of great relief to me.
0:36:05 > 0:36:06Rachel, please.
0:36:06 > 0:36:07- Miss Rachel.- Leave me be.
0:36:12 > 0:36:14Rachel.
0:36:26 > 0:36:29MURTHWAITE SPEAKS IN URDU
0:36:40 > 0:36:42What did you say to them? Why did they stop?
0:36:42 > 0:36:45Rachel, perhaps you could play something for our guests?
0:36:45 > 0:36:48Dr Candy, might I ask you a favour?
0:36:48 > 0:36:50That cannot be chance.
0:36:50 > 0:36:52The very same entertainers I saw three weeks ago.
0:36:52 > 0:36:56Mr Betteredge, those three fellows are no more entertainers than you
0:36:56 > 0:37:02or I. Unless after long experience I am utterly mistaken, those men are
0:37:02 > 0:37:06high caste Brahmins, and from what you've told me about the moonstone
0:37:06 > 0:37:10tonight, Mr Blake, I judge that you have had more narrow escapes of
0:37:10 > 0:37:14your life than I've had of mine, and that is saying a very great deal.
0:37:14 > 0:37:18They have seen the moonstone in Miss Verinder's hand, what is to be done?
0:37:18 > 0:37:21They are its rightful owners - give it back to them.
0:37:22 > 0:37:24I see, you think I've lost my mind?
0:37:24 > 0:37:27The alternative -
0:37:27 > 0:37:29send the diamond tomorrow to be cut up at Amsterdam,
0:37:29 > 0:37:33make half a dozen diamonds of it, there is an end of the sacred
0:37:33 > 0:37:37identity of the moonstone and there is an end of the conspiracy.
0:37:37 > 0:37:39Then there is no hope for it,
0:37:39 > 0:37:41we must speak to Lady Verinder first thing tomorrow.
0:37:41 > 0:37:47What about tonight? Suppose those murderous devils come back?
0:37:47 > 0:37:48Now they are found out?
0:37:48 > 0:37:50No, they will not risk it.
0:37:50 > 0:37:53But if you need reassurance, let the dogs loose.
0:37:53 > 0:37:57Our canine friends have one great merit, Mr Betteredge.
0:37:57 > 0:38:01They are not likely to be troubled with the same scruples
0:38:01 > 0:38:04you have about the sanctity of human life.
0:38:10 > 0:38:12Can I help you, doctor?
0:38:12 > 0:38:14Lady Verinder has an attack of the migraines.
0:38:14 > 0:38:18She seems unusually burdened this evening.
0:38:18 > 0:38:21Hosting a party's a taxing business, Dr Candy.
0:38:21 > 0:38:26Hopefully this will give her some relief.
0:38:38 > 0:38:41- Thank you, Dr Candy. - Are you quite well, Aunt?
0:38:41 > 0:38:45That heathen parade outside gives me palpitations still.
0:38:45 > 0:38:49I'm in perfect health, Drusilla, I assure you.
0:38:49 > 0:38:51Well, perhaps it is time to take our leave.
0:38:51 > 0:38:54A stirrup cup before you go, sirs?
0:39:04 > 0:39:07Come, sir, we quarrelled earlier, let us not part in bad humour,
0:39:07 > 0:39:10- I apologise if I gave offence. - None taken.
0:39:16 > 0:39:19Rachel, where shall we put your diamond tonight?
0:39:19 > 0:39:23In my Indian cabinet, of course, so it may feel at home.
0:39:23 > 0:39:25My dear, your cabinet has no lock to it.
0:39:25 > 0:39:28Good heavens, Mama, is this an hotel?
0:39:28 > 0:39:30Are there thieves in the house?
0:39:31 > 0:39:34Your mother is right, it is of fantastic value,
0:39:34 > 0:39:37it should be under lock and key. Let me look after it tonight
0:39:37 > 0:39:39until we can take it for safekeeping tomorrow.
0:39:39 > 0:39:41Who in this house is not our friend?
0:39:43 > 0:39:47I will not insult our guests or staff by making them feel suspected.
0:39:48 > 0:39:50It will stay with me.
0:39:50 > 0:39:54Rachel, come to my room first thing tomorrow morning.
0:39:54 > 0:39:57I shall have something to say to you.
0:39:57 > 0:39:58Goodnight to you all.
0:40:04 > 0:40:05I, er...
0:40:06 > 0:40:12We are friends and cousins still, are we not, Godfrey?
0:40:12 > 0:40:14Of course.
0:40:14 > 0:40:16I would want nothing less.
0:40:24 > 0:40:26You painted this?
0:40:26 > 0:40:28We did.
0:40:34 > 0:40:36Goodnight.
0:40:39 > 0:40:42Our quarrel this morning...
0:40:42 > 0:40:44I'm sorry, I just...
0:40:44 > 0:40:47I didn't want you to think badly of me.
0:40:48 > 0:40:53I'm sorry I misled you and I promise on my life I never will again.
0:40:54 > 0:40:56Am I forgiven?
0:41:00 > 0:41:03It is late.
0:41:03 > 0:41:05Let us speak in the morning.
0:41:15 > 0:41:17James is outside with the carriage.
0:41:17 > 0:41:20Safe journeys, sirs.
0:41:20 > 0:41:23- It is not we who are in danger, Betteredge.- Er...
0:41:23 > 0:41:25Fear not, the guardians will not return tonight,
0:41:25 > 0:41:27I'd wager my reputation on it.
0:41:27 > 0:41:30I sincerely hope you're right, Mr Murthwaite.
0:41:38 > 0:41:40BETTEREDGE GASPS
0:41:40 > 0:41:44I'll go around once again just for good measure.
0:41:44 > 0:41:47And, Samuel, set the dogs loose.
0:42:01 > 0:42:03'Fear of danger is 10,000 times
0:42:03 > 0:42:08'more terrifying then danger itself when apparent to the eyes and
0:42:08 > 0:42:12'we find the burden of anxiety greater by much than the evil
0:42:12 > 0:42:14'which we are anxious about.'
0:42:14 > 0:42:16And did you find that to be the case
0:42:16 > 0:42:19when you realised what had gone on that night?
0:42:21 > 0:42:23Maybe not, sir.
0:42:23 > 0:42:24Maybe not.
0:43:05 > 0:43:06Help!
0:43:07 > 0:43:11Penelope! Help! The moonstone, it's gone!
0:43:37 > 0:43:41Out in the rose garden now is the very man whose help we need -
0:43:41 > 0:43:43the great Cuff himself.
0:43:43 > 0:43:45I have one remark on handing this case to you.
0:43:45 > 0:43:48Rachel Verinder lost the moonstone, what did YOU lose?