0:00:14 > 0:00:16In the last year of the 18th century,
0:00:16 > 0:00:21Colonel John Herncastle plundered from India
0:00:21 > 0:00:24a priceless and most sacred yellow diamond.
0:00:26 > 0:00:29Vishnu, the preserver, laid his curse on the thief,
0:00:29 > 0:00:34commanding three priests to search forever for his moonstone.
0:00:34 > 0:00:38But the wicked colonel smuggled the stone to England.
0:00:39 > 0:00:41In his will, he bequeathed the diamond
0:00:41 > 0:00:44to his beautiful young niece, Miss Rachel Verinder.
0:00:45 > 0:00:48Rachel's gallant cousin, Mr Franklin Blake,
0:00:48 > 0:00:50was charged with the gem's delivery.
0:00:54 > 0:00:59Rachel was bewitched by her diamond, but the next morning, it was gone.
0:00:59 > 0:01:04A year later, Franklin and celebrated detective, Sergeant Cuff,
0:01:04 > 0:01:08reopened the case and learned that Rosanna Spearman,
0:01:08 > 0:01:10Rachel's housemaid and former thief,
0:01:10 > 0:01:12had left a letter for Franklin before her death.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15They turned straight back for London,
0:01:15 > 0:01:19hoping at last to trace the moonstone and its thief.
0:01:19 > 0:01:22Coachman is readying the horses now.
0:01:28 > 0:01:31- Were you expecting visitors? - Oh, no.
0:01:35 > 0:01:39Oh! It has been a long, arduous journey.
0:01:39 > 0:01:41Miss Clack, you did not receive my telegram.
0:01:41 > 0:01:44I hoped to speak to you in London.
0:01:44 > 0:01:45Then you hoped in vain.
0:01:45 > 0:01:49I am but a poor relation, a church mouse.
0:01:49 > 0:01:52I do not have the wherewithal for permanent lodgings in the city.
0:01:52 > 0:01:55I agreed to pay, Miss Clack. Handsomely, I might add.
0:01:55 > 0:01:58And it cost me a hard struggle
0:01:58 > 0:02:01before Christian humility conquered sinful pride
0:02:01 > 0:02:04and self-denial forced me to accept your cheque.
0:02:04 > 0:02:08But I accepted it on the grounds that we speak in Yorkshire.
0:02:08 > 0:02:12If you wish for my testimony, we do it here.
0:02:15 > 0:02:18- I could go on.- Better that I abandon this interview.
0:02:18 > 0:02:21- The ground we have to cover in London, you cannot cover alone. - But what about...?
0:02:21 > 0:02:25My contacts are already tracing Lucy Yolland.
0:02:25 > 0:02:28When they find her, I could cable you, if need be.
0:02:28 > 0:02:31And we must watch the jewel broker, Septimus Luker, also.
0:02:31 > 0:02:34And he knows your face, so that must needs be me.
0:02:34 > 0:02:38Mr Luker figures in your investigation. How curious!
0:02:38 > 0:02:40I have news of Septimus Luker.
0:03:26 > 0:03:30You have not heard of the outrage perpetrated on the jewel broker?
0:03:30 > 0:03:33- No.- Of course, I know the intimate detail
0:03:33 > 0:03:37as an identical attack was committed on an esteemed friend of mine.
0:03:37 > 0:03:38And who might that be?
0:03:40 > 0:03:42Mr Godfrey Ablewhite.
0:03:44 > 0:03:46Cousin Godfrey?
0:03:46 > 0:03:49I do not understand you. What happened?
0:03:49 > 0:03:51Some 10 months since,
0:03:51 > 0:03:55not long after the events of dear Rachel's birthday
0:03:55 > 0:03:57and the loss of the diamond,
0:03:57 > 0:04:00I had cause to visit Mr Godfrey's lodgings.
0:04:00 > 0:04:02What business did you have with him?
0:04:04 > 0:04:06I do not expect you to be aware of
0:04:06 > 0:04:09the Mothers' Small Clothes Conversion Society,
0:04:09 > 0:04:13but I am on the select committee of that excellent charity.
0:04:13 > 0:04:16And my precious, admirable friend, Mr Godfrey Ablewhite,
0:04:16 > 0:04:21is associated with the work of moral and material usefulness.
0:04:21 > 0:04:23You have dedicated meetings for such matters?
0:04:23 > 0:04:25Well, of course.
0:04:25 > 0:04:30I had noticed that Mr Godfrey had been missing some meetings of late,
0:04:30 > 0:04:32and I was concerned for his health.
0:04:32 > 0:04:34And I was right to be so.
0:04:37 > 0:04:38Mr Godfrey?
0:04:38 > 0:04:40FAINT MUFFLED SHOUTS
0:04:40 > 0:04:42Mr Godfrey?
0:04:42 > 0:04:44MUFFLED SHOUTS
0:04:44 > 0:04:47Oh! Oh, my dear Mr Godfrey!
0:04:47 > 0:04:48Oh! Oh!
0:04:48 > 0:04:51Oh. Oh.
0:04:51 > 0:04:52Oh! Oh!
0:04:55 > 0:04:56Oh!
0:05:00 > 0:05:02Oh, my dear Mr Godfrey, what has occurred?!
0:05:02 > 0:05:06Free my hands and pass me my clothes, Miss Clack.
0:05:06 > 0:05:08Ooo!
0:05:08 > 0:05:09Miss Clack!
0:05:10 > 0:05:12Oh! Hm.
0:05:12 > 0:05:14How came Godfrey to be bound and gagged?
0:05:14 > 0:05:17It transpires that earlier that day,
0:05:17 > 0:05:21Mr Godfrey had cause to visit a banking house on Lombard Street.
0:05:21 > 0:05:24On gaining the door, he encountered a gentleman,
0:05:24 > 0:05:27a perfect stranger to him, who was accidentally leaving
0:05:27 > 0:05:30the office exactly at the same time as himself.
0:05:30 > 0:05:33A momentary contest of politeness ensued between them
0:05:33 > 0:05:36as to who should be the first to pass through the door.
0:05:36 > 0:05:39The stranger insisted on making Mr Godfrey precede him.
0:05:39 > 0:05:42Mr Godfrey said a few civil words,
0:05:42 > 0:05:45they bowed and parted in the street.
0:05:48 > 0:05:50But before he had gone many paces,
0:05:50 > 0:05:53he was apprehended by an unseen hand!
0:05:55 > 0:05:58And he awoke some hours later, in his own rooms,
0:05:58 > 0:05:59in the state as discussed.
0:05:59 > 0:06:02His lodgings had been turned over,
0:06:02 > 0:06:05and Mr Godfrey himself has been searched,
0:06:05 > 0:06:08if, as a lady, I may venture to use the expression without ceremony,
0:06:08 > 0:06:10through and through to his skin.
0:06:10 > 0:06:14- So, what did they take?- Oh, nothing.
0:06:14 > 0:06:16They had acted in error, making a false association
0:06:16 > 0:06:19between our friend and the man in the bank.
0:06:19 > 0:06:21'Twas but a mistake.
0:06:21 > 0:06:23So if I understand you correctly, that man must've been
0:06:23 > 0:06:25the jewel broker, Septimus Luker himself?
0:06:25 > 0:06:27That is correct.
0:06:27 > 0:06:29He, too, was followed from the bank.
0:06:29 > 0:06:31MUFFLED SHOUTS
0:06:33 > 0:06:35But his kidnappers profited more by Luker's abduction
0:06:35 > 0:06:38than by poor, dear Mr Godfrey's.
0:06:38 > 0:06:41So, what did they take from Luker?
0:06:41 > 0:06:45The papers say the receipt was for a valuable of great price
0:06:45 > 0:06:49that Mr Luker had that day placed in the care of his bankers.
0:06:49 > 0:06:50The moonstone?
0:06:50 > 0:06:52Perhaps. Perhaps not.
0:06:52 > 0:06:55It stated a valuable only.
0:06:55 > 0:06:57Do they have it, then?
0:06:57 > 0:07:00Did the kidnappers collect the gem?
0:07:00 > 0:07:03Oh, no. There, the infidels fell down.
0:07:03 > 0:07:06The document was useless for the purposes of fraud
0:07:06 > 0:07:09as it provided that the valuable must be given up
0:07:09 > 0:07:12only on the personal application of Mr Luker himself.
0:07:12 > 0:07:13You say infidels.
0:07:13 > 0:07:15Who were these kidnappers? Have they been identified?
0:07:15 > 0:07:18Mr Luker's landlord could say only
0:07:18 > 0:07:22that they appeared to be gentlemen of eastern derivation.
0:07:22 > 0:07:25Ah! Sergeant Cuff's exact prediction, sir.
0:07:25 > 0:07:29The guardians closing in on the jewel broker.
0:07:29 > 0:07:33But he did not foresee them closing in on cousin Godfrey Ablewhite.
0:07:33 > 0:07:35Indeed not!
0:07:35 > 0:07:38Because it was a trifle, a chance encounter with Mr Luker
0:07:38 > 0:07:42that led those heathens to make a false association with him.
0:07:42 > 0:07:45The sergeant said the thief would have a link to Luker,
0:07:45 > 0:07:47but I never expected this!
0:07:47 > 0:07:51Can it be it could be Mr Godfrey who stole the moonstone?
0:07:51 > 0:07:53It all seems to point to Mr Godfrey.
0:07:53 > 0:07:55Our Christian hero,
0:07:55 > 0:08:01a gentleman of independent wealth with modest outgoings.
0:08:01 > 0:08:04A barrister, a true friend to the poor. No.
0:08:04 > 0:08:09I would ask you to look upon more specific predictions than that.
0:08:10 > 0:08:12What else did the sergeant say?
0:08:13 > 0:08:15I see you have heard the rumours, Miss Clack.
0:08:15 > 0:08:19I had the whole story from the mouth of my aunt herself.
0:08:19 > 0:08:22And I understood there was not a shadow of a suspicion
0:08:22 > 0:08:26on anybody but dear Rachel.
0:08:29 > 0:08:31In the mind of Sergeant Cuff.
0:08:31 > 0:08:33He did not know her as we do.
0:08:34 > 0:08:35Really?
0:08:35 > 0:08:40I am but a...dispassionate observer.
0:08:40 > 0:08:45Knowing Rachel's spirit to be essentially unregenerate
0:08:45 > 0:08:48from childhood upwards, there is very little in this world
0:08:48 > 0:08:51that would shock me as regards my cousin.
0:08:51 > 0:08:53Events might pass from bad to worse,
0:08:53 > 0:08:55till they end in murder.
0:08:56 > 0:08:58And yet I might say to myself,
0:08:58 > 0:09:00"Ah, the natural result.
0:09:00 > 0:09:04"Oh, dear, dear. The natural result."
0:09:04 > 0:09:08Nothing of what you have told us is pointed towards Rachel as thief.
0:09:08 > 0:09:12Everything, shocking and upsetting as that may be,
0:09:12 > 0:09:14points towards Godfrey.
0:09:19 > 0:09:20I have not finished yet.
0:09:27 > 0:09:28You might change your view
0:09:28 > 0:09:32when you hear dear Rachel's response to the events in question.
0:09:34 > 0:09:35I do not understand.
0:09:35 > 0:09:39I thought you should know before you next saw dear Mr Godfrey.
0:09:40 > 0:09:44You imagine that the jewel this broker was depositing,
0:09:44 > 0:09:47the motivation for these kidnappings,
0:09:47 > 0:09:50you believe it to be my diamond?
0:09:50 > 0:09:52Oh, it is not I who believes.
0:09:52 > 0:09:56The whole of London is abuzz with talk of the moonstone.
0:09:56 > 0:09:59But cloistered as you are, dear cousin,
0:09:59 > 0:10:02I...I suspected that news might not have reached you.
0:10:04 > 0:10:07I imagined you would want to know that the diamond,
0:10:07 > 0:10:09and, perchance, its thief,
0:10:09 > 0:10:11seem close to being found out.
0:10:15 > 0:10:17Thank you, Mr Bruff. I'm sure those arrangements will be...
0:10:19 > 0:10:20How did that come to be here?!
0:10:20 > 0:10:23It doesn't matter, Mama. You need protect me no longer.
0:10:23 > 0:10:27Please send word to Godfrey, I must see him today.
0:10:28 > 0:10:31What to make of this reaction from Rachel.
0:10:31 > 0:10:33Like us, she hopes to find her moonstone.
0:10:33 > 0:10:37Like us, she's in consternation and panic at the thought
0:10:37 > 0:10:41that the thief could be someone as close as her cousin Godfrey.
0:10:41 > 0:10:44I am sure it does you great credit, Mr Betteredge,
0:10:44 > 0:10:46that you view it thus.
0:10:46 > 0:10:49But I can tell, Mr Franklin Blake,
0:10:49 > 0:10:52like your great London detective,
0:10:52 > 0:10:54can see quite a different reading of it.
0:10:54 > 0:10:57'I'll wager the diamond is in London.'
0:10:57 > 0:10:58Pledged to Septimus Luker.
0:10:58 > 0:11:01And it was Miss Rachel herself that took it there
0:11:01 > 0:11:03'and pledged it.'
0:11:09 > 0:11:13I don't presume to argue with a clever man like you,
0:11:13 > 0:11:17but is it quite fair, sir, to pass over the opinion
0:11:17 > 0:11:20of the famous detective who investigated this case?
0:11:20 > 0:11:22I judge the sergeant, brilliant though he is,
0:11:22 > 0:11:23to have been utterly wrong.
0:11:23 > 0:11:25Had he but known Rachel's character as I know it,
0:11:25 > 0:11:28- he would've suspected everybody in the house but her.- Oh!
0:11:28 > 0:11:30If you'll excuse my interruption,
0:11:30 > 0:11:32Miss Rachel has her faults,
0:11:32 > 0:11:36she can be secret and self-willed, odd and wild,
0:11:36 > 0:11:39but I have known her since birth,
0:11:39 > 0:11:42and she's true as steel.
0:11:42 > 0:11:46High-minded and generous to a fault.
0:11:46 > 0:11:48If the plainest evidence in the world pointed one way
0:11:48 > 0:11:51and nothing but Rachel's word of honour pointed the other,
0:11:51 > 0:11:53I would take her word before the evidence.
0:11:53 > 0:11:57- She is so absolutely to be relied on as that?- She is.
0:11:57 > 0:12:00Then permit me to inform you
0:12:00 > 0:12:04that Mr Godfrey Ablewhite's entire innocence
0:12:04 > 0:12:05was declared that day
0:12:05 > 0:12:09during my visit by Miss Verinder herself
0:12:09 > 0:12:11in the strongest language
0:12:11 > 0:12:14I ever heard used by a young lady in my life.
0:12:18 > 0:12:21Tell me...word for word,
0:12:21 > 0:12:23what exactly did Rachel say?
0:12:25 > 0:12:29My Lady, Mr Godfrey Ablewhite.
0:12:29 > 0:12:32Godfrey. I am charmed to see you.
0:12:32 > 0:12:35I wish you had brought Mr Luker with you.
0:12:35 > 0:12:39It seems that you and he, as long as our present excitement lasts,
0:12:39 > 0:12:41are the most interesting men in London.
0:12:43 > 0:12:46I think I should take my leave, My Lady.
0:12:46 > 0:12:48- No. Stay.- Yes, stay.
0:12:48 > 0:12:50I am unfortunate, Rachel.
0:12:51 > 0:12:54No man knows less of Mr Luker than I.
0:12:54 > 0:12:57And yet I learn that you were both kidnapped in identical circumstances.
0:12:57 > 0:13:01It is thought, is it not, that these kidnappers are the same as
0:13:01 > 0:13:03those entertainers that came to our house in the country?
0:13:03 > 0:13:05Some people think so.
0:13:05 > 0:13:07Please, Rachel, leave the matter be.
0:13:07 > 0:13:09I cannot, Mama.
0:13:09 > 0:13:11Tell me plainly, Godfrey, do these people also say
0:13:11 > 0:13:14that Mr Luker's valuable gem is the moonstone?
0:13:14 > 0:13:16They do.
0:13:17 > 0:13:20Mr Luker has, over and over, solemnly declared
0:13:20 > 0:13:23that until this scandal assailed him, he'd never heard of the moonstone.
0:13:23 > 0:13:27And these vile people reply without a shadow of proof
0:13:27 > 0:13:29that he has his reasons for concealment,
0:13:29 > 0:13:31and decline to believe him on his oath.
0:13:31 > 0:13:33Shameful!
0:13:34 > 0:13:36Shameful.
0:13:36 > 0:13:41An unlucky accident has associated you in people's minds with Mr Luker.
0:13:41 > 0:13:45You have told me what scandal says of him,
0:13:45 > 0:13:47what does scandal say of you?
0:13:47 > 0:13:49Don't ask me.
0:13:49 > 0:13:51It is better forgotten, Rachel, it is.
0:13:51 > 0:13:53- I will hear it! - Oh, tell her, Godfrey.
0:13:53 > 0:13:57Nothing can do her such harm as you do by your silence now.
0:13:57 > 0:14:00If you will have it, Rachel.
0:14:01 > 0:14:05Scandal says the gem in pledge to Mr Luker is the moonstone
0:14:05 > 0:14:07and that I am the man who's pawned it.
0:14:09 > 0:14:11This gossip,
0:14:11 > 0:14:13this stain on your name,
0:14:13 > 0:14:15Godfrey, it is my fault.
0:14:15 > 0:14:16I have sacrificed myself.
0:14:16 > 0:14:18I had the right to do that if I liked
0:14:18 > 0:14:22but to let an innocent man be ruined, that I cannot bear.
0:14:22 > 0:14:24Dear Rachel, you exaggerate.
0:14:26 > 0:14:28My reputation stands too high to be destroyed
0:14:28 > 0:14:30by a miserable passing scandal like this.
0:14:30 > 0:14:32Let us never speak of it again.
0:14:32 > 0:14:34I must and will stop it.
0:14:36 > 0:14:40Mama, Mr Bruff, Miss Clack, hear what I say.
0:14:44 > 0:14:46I know the hand that took the moonstone.
0:14:46 > 0:14:48What?
0:14:48 > 0:14:49Who?
0:14:49 > 0:14:52The very question on the lips of all who heard her speak, Mr Blake.
0:14:52 > 0:14:56Well, then, Rachel, you must tell us who he is. Give us a name.
0:14:58 > 0:15:00I cannot.
0:15:00 > 0:15:01But I know...
0:15:01 > 0:15:05I know Godfrey Ablewhite is innocent.
0:15:05 > 0:15:08Mr Bruff, please draw up a declaration of Godfrey's innocence
0:15:08 > 0:15:10on paper and I will sign it.
0:15:10 > 0:15:13Do as I say or I'll write it to the newspapers.
0:15:13 > 0:15:15I'll go out and cry it in the streets.
0:15:25 > 0:15:27Aunt Verinder, let me comfort you.
0:15:27 > 0:15:30It is not comfort that I need.
0:15:30 > 0:15:32Quick, six drops in water.
0:15:35 > 0:15:38You have surprised a secret, Drusilla.
0:15:38 > 0:15:41But I trust once I tell you the circumstance
0:15:41 > 0:15:43that I can be sure of your discretion?
0:15:43 > 0:15:47Oh, dear aunt, you can trust me absolutely.
0:15:52 > 0:15:56The truth of the matter is that I have been seriously ill
0:15:56 > 0:15:58for some time past
0:15:58 > 0:16:01and, strange to say, without knowing it myself.
0:16:02 > 0:16:06When I came to London, I consulted a doctor on Rachel's health.
0:16:06 > 0:16:11However, he proved more seriously concerned with my own.
0:16:11 > 0:16:14For some years, it transpires,
0:16:14 > 0:16:17I have been suffering under an insidious form of heart disease
0:16:17 > 0:16:19which has fatally broken me down.
0:16:20 > 0:16:21Oh, dearest aunt.
0:16:21 > 0:16:24I have come to realise I am lucky
0:16:24 > 0:16:27to have the chance with Mr Bruff
0:16:27 > 0:16:29to set my affairs in order.
0:16:30 > 0:16:31I may not have long...
0:16:33 > 0:16:36..but my one great anxiety is that Rachel
0:16:36 > 0:16:37should not learn the truth.
0:16:40 > 0:16:43You do promise not to tell her, don't you, my dear?
0:16:43 > 0:16:45Oh, yes.
0:16:45 > 0:16:46Oh, dear aunt, I do.
0:16:46 > 0:16:49If she should learn of my condition,
0:16:49 > 0:16:54she should at once attribute it to anxiety over the diamond
0:16:54 > 0:16:57and would reproach herself bitterly, poor child,
0:16:57 > 0:17:02for whatever secret she has burdened herself with these past weeks.
0:17:02 > 0:17:03Please do not worry, aunt.
0:17:03 > 0:17:06Rachel shall remain in absolute ignorance.
0:17:08 > 0:17:12You have me here now to tend your soul.
0:17:20 > 0:17:24'I left my aunt recovering there with a helpful tract
0:17:24 > 0:17:27'and re-joined Rachel and her heathen lawyer.'
0:17:27 > 0:17:29Show it everywhere. Don't think of me.
0:17:31 > 0:17:35I'm afraid, Godfrey, I have not done you justice hitherto in my thoughts.
0:17:35 > 0:17:38You are a better man than I believed you to be.
0:17:38 > 0:17:40Come here when you can
0:17:40 > 0:17:42and I will try to repair the wrong I have done you.
0:17:46 > 0:17:48Rachel...
0:17:48 > 0:17:50I know I am over anxious.
0:17:50 > 0:17:52I must go calm myself with a book.
0:17:53 > 0:17:56I fear I have made you anxious too.
0:17:56 > 0:17:58Ooh, you have no need to worry about me.
0:18:05 > 0:18:07Mr Godfrey...
0:18:11 > 0:18:14You wish me to go against dear Rachel's wishes.
0:18:14 > 0:18:17Well, let's just call it a pious fraud if you will.
0:18:18 > 0:18:23Let Rachel suppose that you accept the generous self-sacrifice
0:18:23 > 0:18:26with which she signed that letter.
0:18:40 > 0:18:41Mr Godfrey!
0:18:51 > 0:18:55A trifling inconvenience that I may suffer is as nothing
0:18:55 > 0:18:58compared to the importance of preserving that pure name
0:18:58 > 0:19:01from the contaminating contact of the world.
0:19:01 > 0:19:05You've reduced it to a harmless little heap of ashes.
0:19:05 > 0:19:09And our dear impulsive Rachel will never know what we have done.
0:19:09 > 0:19:13Why would Godfrey burn a document exonerating him, even under duress?
0:19:13 > 0:19:15Well, a true gentleman always protects
0:19:15 > 0:19:17a lady's honour above his own.
0:19:17 > 0:19:21Begging your pardon, sir, what lady, whose honour?
0:19:21 > 0:19:24What Miss Clack implies, Betteredge, is that if Rachel can state
0:19:24 > 0:19:27absolutely that the thief was not Godfrey,
0:19:27 > 0:19:29if she admits she knows the identity of the thief...
0:19:29 > 0:19:31There must be a reason, surely,
0:19:31 > 0:19:35for this extraordinary conduct on Rachel's part.
0:19:35 > 0:19:38She admits she is keeping a sinful secret.
0:19:38 > 0:19:42She admits she is guilty of allowing an innocent man
0:19:42 > 0:19:44to be painted a thief.
0:19:44 > 0:19:47She is horrified by and yet obsessed
0:19:47 > 0:19:50with every detail of Mr Luker's abduction.
0:19:50 > 0:19:53Could this be because HER secret is threatened with discovery?
0:19:55 > 0:19:56When first you arrived, Miss Clack,
0:19:56 > 0:19:58I thought your need for money drove you
0:19:58 > 0:20:02and then perhaps your admiration for Godfrey led you
0:20:02 > 0:20:06to imagine yourself closer to him by means of being his defence.
0:20:06 > 0:20:07I do not understand.
0:20:07 > 0:20:08But now...
0:20:09 > 0:20:11..I see that it is hatred of Rachel
0:20:11 > 0:20:13that makes you seek to bring her down.
0:20:14 > 0:20:16Why do you hate her so?
0:20:17 > 0:20:20Is it jealousy that eats at you?
0:20:20 > 0:20:22Jealousy?
0:20:22 > 0:20:23Hatred?
0:20:23 > 0:20:27Oh, I wish I could find the words to describe the...
0:20:27 > 0:20:31the compassion I feel for this miserable and misguided girl,
0:20:31 > 0:20:35but, alas, I am almost as poorly provided with words
0:20:35 > 0:20:37as with money.
0:20:37 > 0:20:40It was not I, but the great London detective who said it
0:20:40 > 0:20:42- and now the evidence plainly bears it out.- No.
0:20:42 > 0:20:48Everything suggests that dear Rachel stole her own diamond.
0:20:48 > 0:20:49We are not finished.
0:20:54 > 0:20:55BELL TINKLING
0:20:58 > 0:21:00What happened next?
0:21:01 > 0:21:04'The next event of any note occurred some months later.'
0:21:05 > 0:21:07PAINED SIGH
0:21:08 > 0:21:11Is there something you want, Drusilla?
0:21:11 > 0:21:16Give your attention, dear aunt, to this precious tract
0:21:16 > 0:21:19and you will give me all I ask.
0:21:19 > 0:21:22I'm afraid, my dear, you will have to wait
0:21:22 > 0:21:25until I'm a little better before I can read that.
0:21:25 > 0:21:28The doctor tells me I am not so well this morning.
0:21:28 > 0:21:34"Do nothing to weaken your head or to quicken your pulse."
0:21:36 > 0:21:39Those were his words before he left me today.
0:21:39 > 0:21:42Then I will leave it with you.
0:21:42 > 0:21:44It is my own precious copy,
0:21:44 > 0:21:46turned down at all the right pages
0:21:46 > 0:21:50and marked in pencil where you are to stop
0:21:50 > 0:21:53and ask yourself, "Does this apply to me?"
0:21:56 > 0:21:59I will do what I can to please you, my dear.
0:21:59 > 0:22:02Oh, it is not for my pleasure, dear aunt.
0:22:02 > 0:22:03No indeed.
0:22:03 > 0:22:09I only seek to redeem you from your life of sin.
0:22:09 > 0:22:12I only seek to save you from your certain fate -
0:22:12 > 0:22:16the burning pains of everlasting hell fire.
0:22:17 > 0:22:19Water, please, Drusilla.
0:22:23 > 0:22:24SHE STRUGGLES TO BREATHE
0:22:27 > 0:22:28Miss Clack.
0:22:30 > 0:22:33I must to the afternoon service now, dear.
0:22:33 > 0:22:36I'll return this evening at our usual time.
0:22:45 > 0:22:46Miss Clack...
0:22:48 > 0:22:52The doctor asked you to give Lady Verinder some peace.
0:22:52 > 0:22:55Eternal peace is what I seek to give her.
0:22:55 > 0:22:57Mr Bruff, is Mama no better?
0:22:57 > 0:23:01Well, she's... She's rather out of sorts today.
0:23:01 > 0:23:04This must be worse than the doctors imagine.
0:23:04 > 0:23:06She shows no improvement in weeks.
0:23:06 > 0:23:09She is due to improve any day now, dear Rachel.
0:23:09 > 0:23:14I give you my word, your poor mama will be perfectly better any day.
0:23:14 > 0:23:15GLASS SMASHES
0:23:22 > 0:23:24Mama.
0:23:24 > 0:23:25Mama!
0:23:30 > 0:23:32What's wrong with her, why doesn't she wake?
0:23:32 > 0:23:33Oh, Rachel, I'm so sorry.
0:23:36 > 0:23:38I will go and fetch the doctor back.
0:23:38 > 0:23:40Better that you stay.
0:23:47 > 0:23:48"Perfectly better."
0:23:50 > 0:23:51I understand you now.
0:23:52 > 0:23:55You kept this from me. Both of you.
0:23:56 > 0:23:58We did exactly as your mother requested.
0:24:00 > 0:24:01I mistook you.
0:24:02 > 0:24:03At last I see it.
0:24:05 > 0:24:06I thought you a fool,
0:24:06 > 0:24:08but you are a devil.
0:24:12 > 0:24:14Leave us.
0:24:14 > 0:24:15Leave us!
0:24:17 > 0:24:18(Rachel...)
0:24:20 > 0:24:22Mama.
0:24:24 > 0:24:25Mama.
0:24:28 > 0:24:29I am sorry.
0:24:32 > 0:24:35SHE SOBS
0:24:35 > 0:24:38I did not know you were so ill.
0:24:38 > 0:24:40I have been so selfish.
0:24:41 > 0:24:44I should not have kept you from my innermost thoughts.
0:24:47 > 0:24:49I should have told you...
0:24:50 > 0:24:51..about the moonstone.
0:24:56 > 0:24:58'Tis no matter.
0:25:00 > 0:25:01No matter.
0:25:08 > 0:25:11SHE WAILS
0:25:11 > 0:25:14'The moonstone? What about the moonstone?'
0:25:16 > 0:25:18What was she about to say?
0:25:18 > 0:25:20I have worked wonders with murderesses
0:25:20 > 0:25:23but I have never advanced an inch with cousin Rachel.
0:25:23 > 0:25:24Praise the Lord.
0:25:24 > 0:25:26Praise him indeed.
0:25:26 > 0:25:28What could she have possibly known about the theft
0:25:28 > 0:25:31that she would want so to tell her mother on her deathbed?
0:25:34 > 0:25:36From Cuff.
0:25:36 > 0:25:38He's arrived in London to learn his contacts have
0:25:38 > 0:25:41a lead on Lucy Yolland. He hopes to track her down within days
0:25:41 > 0:25:43and Rosanna's dying secrets with her.
0:25:43 > 0:25:44You must make haste, sir.
0:25:45 > 0:25:49Was the moonstone never mentioned in the aftermath of my aunt's death?
0:25:49 > 0:25:51I could not say.
0:25:51 > 0:25:52BELL TOLLS
0:25:52 > 0:25:56'Rachel became quite inaccessible after her mother's death.
0:25:56 > 0:25:59'She dropped all pretence of social nicety
0:25:59 > 0:26:04'and gave in to her grief in a most selfish and indulgent manner.'
0:26:04 > 0:26:05SOBBING
0:26:12 > 0:26:13- GODFREY:- My deepest condolences.
0:26:22 > 0:26:23It is my fault.
0:26:26 > 0:26:28I should never have kept her in the dark.
0:26:30 > 0:26:33Worry about the moonstone killed her.
0:26:33 > 0:26:35Dear Rachel, I am sure that isn't true.
0:26:39 > 0:26:42Do not think that you are all alone in the world.
0:26:43 > 0:26:45I will always stand by you.
0:26:52 > 0:26:54Drusilla.
0:26:54 > 0:26:56I'm so glad you came.
0:26:58 > 0:27:02I have been in the habit of speaking very foolishly
0:27:02 > 0:27:05and very rudely to you on former occasions.
0:27:05 > 0:27:07I hope you will forgive me.
0:27:07 > 0:27:10I don't know what to say.
0:27:10 > 0:27:12In my poor mother's lifetime,
0:27:12 > 0:27:15her friends were not always my friends too.
0:27:15 > 0:27:20Now I have lost her, my heart looks for comfort to the people she liked.
0:27:22 > 0:27:23She liked you.
0:27:24 > 0:27:27Try to be friends with me, Drusilla, if you can.
0:27:27 > 0:27:32My dear, dear cousin, it is a terrible sight
0:27:32 > 0:27:34here in Christian England
0:27:34 > 0:27:39to see a young woman with so little idea of where to find true comfort.
0:27:40 > 0:27:44Your suckle lies here, dear Rachel.
0:27:44 > 0:27:46Take these pamphlets to your heart.
0:27:47 > 0:27:50I'm sorry, Drusilla, it would be falsehood to take these.
0:27:50 > 0:27:52- I shall not read them.- Rachel.
0:28:02 > 0:28:04Don't concern yourself, Penelope.
0:28:04 > 0:28:05I can find my way out.
0:28:42 > 0:28:43You should go home.
0:28:44 > 0:28:47But I would not leave you alone.
0:28:47 > 0:28:49Who else do you have to support you now?
0:28:49 > 0:28:51There is family.
0:28:51 > 0:28:52Miss Clack?
0:28:52 > 0:28:53I am serious.
0:28:53 > 0:28:56Better you stay away from this cursed house.
0:28:56 > 0:28:57Oh, don't say that, Rachel.
0:28:57 > 0:29:00Oh, if only you knew how much happier I am here with you.
0:29:00 > 0:29:02It's hard to get over one's bad habits, Godfrey,
0:29:02 > 0:29:06but do try to get over the habit of paying compliments.
0:29:06 > 0:29:07Do, to please me.
0:29:07 > 0:29:10I've never paid you a compliment, Rachel,
0:29:10 > 0:29:11in my life.
0:29:11 > 0:29:17A successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit.
0:29:17 > 0:29:21But a hopeless love, dearest, it always speaks the truth.
0:29:21 > 0:29:24Have you forgotten? We agreed to be cousins and then nothing more.
0:29:24 > 0:29:27Oh, I break that agreement every time I see you.
0:29:27 > 0:29:28Then don't see me.
0:29:31 > 0:29:32Oh, Rachel...
0:29:34 > 0:29:37..how kindly you told me only weeks ago that my place in your estimation
0:29:37 > 0:29:41was in a higher place than it has ever been yet.
0:29:42 > 0:29:45Am I mad to build the dreams I do on those dear words?
0:29:45 > 0:29:47No. No, don't tell me so if I am.
0:29:49 > 0:29:51Leave me my delusions.
0:29:51 > 0:29:54I must have that to comfort me if I have nothing else.
0:29:54 > 0:29:57Are you really sure you are so fond of me as that?
0:29:57 > 0:30:01I have lost every interest in my life but my interest in you.
0:30:01 > 0:30:05My charitable business is an unendurable nuisance to me.
0:30:06 > 0:30:08When I see a ladies' committee now,
0:30:08 > 0:30:11I wish myself at the uttermost ends of the earth.
0:30:11 > 0:30:13You have made your confession.
0:30:13 > 0:30:14I wonder whether it would cure you
0:30:14 > 0:30:18of your unhappy attachment to me if I made mine.
0:30:18 > 0:30:19Your confession?
0:30:20 > 0:30:26Would you think to look at me that I am the wretchedest girl living?
0:30:26 > 0:30:27What greater wretchedness can there be
0:30:27 > 0:30:31than to live degraded in your own estimation?
0:30:31 > 0:30:32She confessed?
0:30:34 > 0:30:36She cannot truly have been confessing to the theft of
0:30:36 > 0:30:38the moonstone. What did she go on to say?
0:30:38 > 0:30:43She admitted to dear Godfrey, in the teeth of his declaration of love,
0:30:43 > 0:30:45that she loved another.
0:30:47 > 0:30:48Who?
0:30:48 > 0:30:51She did not say, but since he yet claimed her affections,
0:30:51 > 0:30:53then despite the futility of her devotions,
0:30:53 > 0:30:56she could not find any love for poor Godfrey.
0:31:00 > 0:31:02Am I mad to dream that she might refer to me?
0:31:02 > 0:31:04Is there hope yet?
0:31:04 > 0:31:07I shall relate what remains of their conversation,
0:31:07 > 0:31:08and let you be the judge of that.
0:31:11 > 0:31:15I have dropped to my right place in your estimation, haven't I?
0:31:15 > 0:31:18Oh, don't pity me, for God's sake. Go away.
0:31:20 > 0:31:21Noble creature.
0:31:26 > 0:31:29A woman who will sacrifice her pride,
0:31:29 > 0:31:33rather than sacrifice an honest man who loves her.
0:31:33 > 0:31:36A most priceless of all treasures,
0:31:36 > 0:31:39and you judge on your place in my estimation is
0:31:39 > 0:31:40when I implore you,
0:31:40 > 0:31:45on my knees, to let the cure of your poor, wounded heart be my care.
0:31:47 > 0:31:50Rachel, will you honour me, will you bless me by being my wife?
0:31:51 > 0:31:53Godfrey, you must be mad.
0:31:53 > 0:31:55No, I have never spoken more reasonably, dearest,
0:31:55 > 0:31:57in your interest as well as in mine.
0:31:57 > 0:32:00- How so? - But look for a moment to the future.
0:32:00 > 0:32:03Is your happiness to be sacrificed to a man who has never known how
0:32:03 > 0:32:06you feel towards him, and whom you have resolved never to see again?
0:32:06 > 0:32:10Is it not your duty to yourself to forget this ill-fated attachment?
0:32:10 > 0:32:11Perhaps, but...
0:32:11 > 0:32:14Forgetfulness cannot be found in the life you are leading now,
0:32:14 > 0:32:16my point precisely.
0:32:16 > 0:32:19You've tried that life. You're wearying of it already.
0:32:19 > 0:32:22Surround yourself with nobler interests than the wretched
0:32:22 > 0:32:28interests of the world, a... A heart...that loves none as you.
0:32:28 > 0:32:31A home whose peaceful claims and happy duties win gently
0:32:31 > 0:32:36on you day by day, try consolation that is to be found there.
0:32:38 > 0:32:40Did you not hear me?
0:32:43 > 0:32:45Godfrey, I do not love you.
0:32:52 > 0:32:53I do not ask for your love.
0:32:54 > 0:32:57I would be content with your respect and admiration.
0:32:57 > 0:33:01Let the rest be confidently left to your husband's devotion, and...
0:33:01 > 0:33:05- at a time that heals all wounds. - Don't tempt me, Godfrey.
0:33:05 > 0:33:08I am wretched and reckless enough as it is.
0:33:08 > 0:33:12Do not tempt me to be more wretched and more reckless still.
0:33:13 > 0:33:18Just one question, Rachel. Have you any personal objection to me?
0:33:20 > 0:33:21I always liked you.
0:33:22 > 0:33:25After what you have just said to me, it should be insensible
0:33:25 > 0:33:30indeed if I didn't respect and admire you as well.
0:33:30 > 0:33:35Then marry the man, dearest, who is now at your feet,
0:33:35 > 0:33:37who prizes your respect and admiration over the love of
0:33:37 > 0:33:39any other woman on the face of the earth.
0:33:39 > 0:33:45Gently, Godfrey, I tell you again - I am miserable enough
0:33:45 > 0:33:47and desperate enough, if you say another word,
0:33:47 > 0:33:49to marry you on your own terms.
0:33:49 > 0:33:53- Take the warning and go. - I...
0:33:53 > 0:33:56I will not even rise from my knees till you've said yes.
0:33:56 > 0:34:00If I agree, you will repent, and I shall repent when it is too late.
0:34:00 > 0:34:04No, we shall both bless the day, darling, I pressed and you yielded.
0:34:08 > 0:34:10You won't hurry me, Godfrey.
0:34:12 > 0:34:13Time shall be yours.
0:34:15 > 0:34:17And you won't ask me for more than I can give.
0:34:17 > 0:34:18My angel...
0:34:21 > 0:34:23..I only ask that you give me yourself.
0:34:24 > 0:34:26Then take me.
0:34:41 > 0:34:43It has... It has not been announced.
0:34:43 > 0:34:45I've heard nothing from Bruff, Betteredge.
0:34:46 > 0:34:49I've heard nothing of this from Penelope, sir.
0:34:50 > 0:34:54Due to her mother's recent death and last year's terrible scandal,
0:34:54 > 0:34:58of course, the engagement's for family ears only.
0:34:58 > 0:35:00Then why reveal it now?
0:35:00 > 0:35:03Mr Blake, I am under oath.
0:35:03 > 0:35:06And, of course, I suppose you are family.
0:35:08 > 0:35:09When is the wedding?
0:35:12 > 0:35:13Tomorrow.
0:35:25 > 0:35:26Why Brighton?
0:35:26 > 0:35:29The Ablewhites have taken a house there for the season.
0:35:29 > 0:35:32It is a very quiet event,
0:35:32 > 0:35:35as you see, or I would be attending myself.
0:35:35 > 0:35:37My solicitor meets us in London tonight.
0:35:37 > 0:35:39He will see you on your onward journey.
0:35:42 > 0:35:46You will miss the last train and travel on at first light.
0:35:48 > 0:35:50Even if you arrive before the wedding,
0:35:50 > 0:35:52you shall not be able to prevent it, you know that.
0:35:53 > 0:35:56Why are you glad to see me too late? Hmm?
0:35:58 > 0:36:01You do not want them married any more than I.
0:36:01 > 0:36:04Or is it just that misery loves company?
0:36:06 > 0:36:07I pity you, Miss Clack.
0:36:21 > 0:36:22- Bruff. - Ah.
0:36:22 > 0:36:24- You received my cable? - I did.
0:36:24 > 0:36:26I entrust Miss Clack to your care.
0:36:26 > 0:36:27Please see her to a respectable hotel,
0:36:27 > 0:36:29and book her safe passage home tomorrow.
0:36:29 > 0:36:32Mr Franklin, may I have a few words with you?
0:36:32 > 0:36:34Did you know about the wedding?
0:36:34 > 0:36:37How many times since my return from Italy have I asked you about Rachel?
0:36:37 > 0:36:38Mr Franklin...
0:36:38 > 0:36:42Why did you not tell me she was marrying Godfrey Ablewhite?
0:36:42 > 0:36:44Miss Clack, would you please excuse us?
0:37:00 > 0:37:01MUFFLED VOICES
0:37:01 > 0:37:03It was not my secret to give.
0:37:03 > 0:37:05Is there anything else you've been keeping from me?
0:37:05 > 0:37:06No, I swear it.
0:37:08 > 0:37:11I shall find another solicitor for my business.
0:37:12 > 0:37:14Well, that is your prerogative.
0:37:14 > 0:37:17But, Mr Franklin, I did not come halfway across London
0:37:17 > 0:37:19merely to chaperone Miss Clack.
0:37:19 > 0:37:21- I have important news. - About the moonstone?
0:37:21 > 0:37:23- No, it is... - Well, then, I bid you goodnight.
0:37:23 > 0:37:25News concerning Rachel.
0:37:25 > 0:37:28Believe me, Mr Franklin, you WILL want to hear it.
0:37:28 > 0:37:31Today, on behalf of another client, I happened to find myself
0:37:31 > 0:37:33in the doctors' commons, to examine a will.
0:37:35 > 0:37:38There, in the ledger, I spied a familiar name
0:37:38 > 0:37:40in the list of wills viewed.
0:37:44 > 0:37:47Someone has examined my Aunt Verinder's will?
0:37:47 > 0:37:48Three months since.
0:37:48 > 0:37:52The very day of her funeral, before her body was cold in the ground.
0:37:52 > 0:37:53For what reason?
0:37:53 > 0:37:55Well, there's nothing in the will that can be contested,
0:37:55 > 0:37:59so no-one would have the slightest LEGAL interest in examining it.
0:37:59 > 0:38:01Were you able to discover who it was?
0:38:01 > 0:38:04I have come directly from the solicitor's office.
0:38:04 > 0:38:05I managed... Well, I...
0:38:06 > 0:38:10I persuaded them to release the name of their client.
0:38:10 > 0:38:12Who, man? Who?!
0:38:12 > 0:38:13Godfrey Ablewhite.
0:38:14 > 0:38:18Godfrey looked at the will on the morning of my aunt's funeral?
0:38:18 > 0:38:22And then proposed to her daughter that very afternoon.
0:38:24 > 0:38:26I take it Rachel is the sole beneficiary?
0:38:26 > 0:38:29She owns everything.
0:38:29 > 0:38:30Until she takes a husband.
0:38:32 > 0:38:34He wants her for her money alone.
0:38:34 > 0:38:36At least we know that Godfrey is not our thief.
0:38:36 > 0:38:39If he had taken the moonstone, he wouldn't need to marry for money.
0:38:39 > 0:38:41I must ensure Rachel knows before she marries him.
0:38:41 > 0:38:44We have no need to wait for the morning train.
0:38:44 > 0:38:45I have a coach outside.
0:38:45 > 0:38:49The driver has sworn to me he can get us there in four hours.
0:38:49 > 0:38:51We can talk to Rachel at first light.
0:38:52 > 0:38:55That is, if you're willing to travel with me.
0:38:58 > 0:38:59Well, where are you going?
0:38:59 > 0:39:01We cannot stop to talk.
0:39:01 > 0:39:02What am I to do?
0:39:02 > 0:39:04You have your money, Miss Clack.
0:39:04 > 0:39:06I should let dear Godfrey know it.
0:39:06 > 0:39:09It is possible he may yet be in search of a bride.
0:39:09 > 0:39:10Miss Clack.
0:39:14 > 0:39:16DOOR CLOSES Oh!
0:39:16 > 0:39:17Wait!
0:39:17 > 0:39:20By Jupiter, Mr Blake, you are a hard man to track down.
0:39:20 > 0:39:22You received my telegram?
0:39:22 > 0:39:24To say I had a clue as to the whereabouts of Lucy Yolland.
0:39:24 > 0:39:26- Have you found her? - I have.
0:39:26 > 0:39:28And Rosanna Spearman's letter with her,
0:39:28 > 0:39:30but she will only hand it to you in person.
0:39:30 > 0:39:32I must to Brighton tonight.
0:39:32 > 0:39:36And pass up the opportunity to solve this mystery?
0:39:36 > 0:39:37It will wait.
0:39:37 > 0:39:40No, no, no, no. The news that I have for Rachel
0:39:40 > 0:39:43may well drive her away from Godfrey, but were you to solve
0:39:43 > 0:39:47the mystery of the moonstone, that could drive Rachel towards you.
0:39:48 > 0:39:51Sir, you have to come with me.
0:39:52 > 0:39:54I will go and see Rachel.
0:39:54 > 0:39:57I will do everything in my power to stop this marriage.
0:40:11 > 0:40:14Lucy, I present Franklin Blake.
0:40:16 > 0:40:17Miss Yolland, I...
0:40:20 > 0:40:21Stand there.
0:40:22 > 0:40:24I want to look at you.
0:40:26 > 0:40:29I think you have got a letter to give me.
0:40:29 > 0:40:31Say that again.
0:40:31 > 0:40:34You... You have a letter for me?
0:40:37 > 0:40:39No, can't see it.
0:40:41 > 0:40:42Can't see what?
0:40:44 > 0:40:45- Murderer. - That is slander.
0:40:45 > 0:40:48He has been the death of Rosanna Spearman.
0:40:48 > 0:40:49You cannot blame me for that.
0:40:49 > 0:40:53I was not even present when she made her fatal slip into the sands.
0:40:56 > 0:40:58And they call me crippled.
0:40:58 > 0:41:00You are blind, Franklin Blake.
0:41:00 > 0:41:03You do not deserve her explanations.
0:41:03 > 0:41:06Go back to your denial, and your privilege.
0:41:06 > 0:41:09- I have nothing for you here. - Miss Yolland,
0:41:09 > 0:41:13I do not know the contents of the letter Rosanna sent you, and I...
0:41:13 > 0:41:14I can't imagine the reason why she sent it,
0:41:14 > 0:41:16but it is her last communication.
0:41:16 > 0:41:20A missive, as it were, from the grave.
0:41:20 > 0:41:23If it were Rosanna's last wish for Mr Blake to receive the letter...
0:41:23 > 0:41:25Then she was a fool!
0:41:25 > 0:41:29The finger of suspicion fell on Rosanna in her lifetime.
0:41:29 > 0:41:31I was always kind to her.
0:41:31 > 0:41:34Were you now? What a gent(!)
0:41:35 > 0:41:39Mr Blake, the day is not far off when the poor will rise against
0:41:39 > 0:41:43the rich, and I pray heaven it may begin with you.
0:41:45 > 0:41:48You speak as if I have wronged her.
0:41:48 > 0:41:50Let me assure you - I did Rosanna no wrong.
0:41:52 > 0:41:54I was mistaken.
0:41:55 > 0:41:57You DO need to hear what she has to say.
0:42:02 > 0:42:03Take it.
0:42:04 > 0:42:06I never set eyes on you afore.
0:42:07 > 0:42:11God Almighty forbid I should ever see you again.
0:42:18 > 0:42:21LUCY SOBS
0:42:27 > 0:42:29You were right. She did keep a memorandum.
0:42:31 > 0:42:32A map.
0:42:34 > 0:42:35And instructions.
0:42:35 > 0:42:37To where she sank the box in the sands.
0:42:37 > 0:42:42The diamond is yet within my grasp, and Rachel's heart with it.
0:42:42 > 0:42:44I go to Yorkshire at first light.
0:43:27 > 0:43:30Rosanna Spearman had a hiding place, and here it is.
0:43:30 > 0:43:31Have we met before?
0:43:31 > 0:43:33It's a strange thing about the diamond, sir.
0:43:33 > 0:43:35It's a cruel trap!
0:43:35 > 0:43:37We are about to meet our thief.
0:43:37 > 0:43:39Who is it, sir? Who is our thief?