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 > 0:00:29Vishnu, the preserver, laid his curse on the thief,
0:00:29 > 0:00:33commanding three priests to search forever for his moonstone.
0:00:35 > 0:00:39But 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 > 0:00:51was charged with the gem's delivery.
0:00:54 > 0:00:56Rachel was bewitched by her diamond,
0:00:56 > 0:00:58but the next day, it was gone.
0:00:58 > 0:01:01All attempts to find the moonstone failed.
0:01:01 > 0:01:03But one year later,
0:01:03 > 0:01:06Franklin received Rosanna Spearman's
0:01:06 > 0:01:08missive from beyond the grave.
0:01:08 > 0:01:10The hunt was reignited, and Franklin
0:01:10 > 0:01:12hastened back to Yorkshire.
0:01:14 > 0:01:16- ROSANNA:- 'Sir, if you are curious to know the meaning
0:01:16 > 0:01:19'of my behaviour to you whilst you were staying in the house
0:01:19 > 0:01:20'of my mistress, Lady Verinder,
0:01:20 > 0:01:22'do what you were told to do
0:01:22 > 0:01:24'in the memorandum enclosed within.
0:01:24 > 0:01:28'And do it without any person being present to overlook you.
0:01:28 > 0:01:31'Your humble servant, Rosanna Spearman.'
0:01:40 > 0:01:42Betteredge!
0:01:46 > 0:01:48What news of Miss Rachel, sir?
0:01:48 > 0:01:51Bruff is in Brighton now, where they are due to be married.
0:01:51 > 0:01:53He takes Rachel word of Godfrey,
0:01:53 > 0:01:55which may change her mind on her choice of husband.
0:01:55 > 0:01:59I can but hope his words convince her, or she will become Mrs Ablewhite
0:01:59 > 0:02:00and all we do here is for nought.
0:02:00 > 0:02:02Do not think that way, Mr Franklin.
0:02:02 > 0:02:07Today is the day we find the moonstone and win back your Rachel for good!
0:02:07 > 0:02:09HE COUGHS
0:02:09 > 0:02:11Are you sick, Betteredge?
0:02:11 > 0:02:13As a dog, sir.
0:02:13 > 0:02:16I'm sorry to hear it. What do you complain of?
0:02:16 > 0:02:19A new disease, Mr Franklin, of my own inventing.
0:02:21 > 0:02:22I don't want to alarm you,
0:02:22 > 0:02:25but you are sure to catch it before the day is out.
0:02:25 > 0:02:27The devil I will.
0:02:27 > 0:02:31Do you feel an uncomfortable heat at the pit of your stomach
0:02:31 > 0:02:34and a nasty thumping at the top of your head?
0:02:34 > 0:02:36I call it the detective fever.
0:02:36 > 0:02:41And I caught it in the company of Sergeant Cuff.
0:02:41 > 0:02:44Well, I have a cure.
0:02:47 > 0:02:48To follow these.
0:02:53 > 0:02:54The sergeant said it!
0:02:54 > 0:02:58Rosanna Spearman had a memorandum of the hiding place, and here it is!
0:02:58 > 0:03:01How long until the turn of the tide?
0:03:02 > 0:03:05WAVES CRASH
0:03:05 > 0:03:06GULLS CRY
0:03:15 > 0:03:17It's so beautiful...
0:03:18 > 0:03:20..yet so treacherous.
0:03:20 > 0:03:23Come on, sir. We have no time to lose.
0:03:33 > 0:03:34The map?
0:03:43 > 0:03:45This is the path she took.
0:03:47 > 0:03:51- ROSANNA:- Memorandum - to go to the Shivering Sands at the turn of the tide
0:03:51 > 0:03:54to find the sequence of rocks they call the South Spit.
0:03:56 > 0:03:59To walk out to the last rock and face out to sea.
0:04:04 > 0:04:07To feel among the seaweed for the chain.
0:04:16 > 0:04:19The box lies deep amidst the quicksand,
0:04:19 > 0:04:2210-feet due south off the end of the final rock.
0:04:37 > 0:04:38This is it, Betteredge.
0:04:41 > 0:04:43Call me when you have it.
0:04:43 > 0:04:46God be willing, you can yet save the day.
0:04:46 > 0:04:48But why do you leave?
0:04:48 > 0:04:52I should be of little use to you here, sir. I never learnt to swim.
0:04:54 > 0:04:57I'd hoped you'd hold on to this so I stay tethered to dry ground.
0:04:57 > 0:05:00But I must go. Look at the letter again, sir, and you shall see!
0:05:04 > 0:05:06Do what you were told to do in the memorandum,
0:05:06 > 0:05:10and do it without any person being present to overlook you.
0:05:11 > 0:05:13It's hard for me to leave you at such a time as this,
0:05:13 > 0:05:16but she died a dreadful death, poor soul.
0:05:16 > 0:05:19And I feel a kind of call on me to respect her wishes.
0:05:25 > 0:05:26I'll be around the next cove.
0:05:28 > 0:05:31At high tide, to swim out from the rocks
0:05:31 > 0:05:33and dive down into the water to the seabed,
0:05:33 > 0:05:36where the tide has moved the quicksand,
0:05:36 > 0:05:38and then to pull the chain.
0:05:41 > 0:05:42WAVES CRASH
0:05:52 > 0:05:54WAVES CRASH Help!
0:05:56 > 0:05:58Betteredge!
0:06:05 > 0:06:07Argh! HE COUGHS
0:06:08 > 0:06:10Betteredge!
0:06:11 > 0:06:13I can't get it!
0:06:14 > 0:06:18- Mr Franklin? - WAVES CRASH
0:06:21 > 0:06:22Mr Franklin?
0:06:22 > 0:06:24Help!
0:06:24 > 0:06:26Mr Franklin!
0:06:26 > 0:06:27Argh!
0:06:27 > 0:06:29MR FRANKLIN!
0:06:30 > 0:06:32Argh!
0:06:32 > 0:06:33Let go of the box!
0:06:35 > 0:06:37I cannot!
0:06:38 > 0:06:40I'll throw you the rope!
0:06:42 > 0:06:45Put the loop around you! I'll pull you in!
0:06:45 > 0:06:49It's a cruel trap! You could die like she did!
0:06:49 > 0:06:51I come back with the box, or not at all!
0:06:53 > 0:06:56WAVES CRASH
0:06:57 > 0:06:59STRUGGLED GASPS
0:07:02 > 0:07:04WAVES CRASH
0:07:04 > 0:07:06Mr Franklin!
0:07:07 > 0:07:09WAVES CRASH
0:07:09 > 0:07:11MR FRANKLIN!
0:07:27 > 0:07:29Come on, Mr Franklin!
0:07:32 > 0:07:34FRANKLIN COUGHS
0:07:34 > 0:07:37FRANKLIN BREATHES HARD
0:07:51 > 0:07:54Open it, Mr Franklin! Let's see the cursed diamond!
0:07:54 > 0:07:56It'll win back your Rachel for good.
0:08:04 > 0:08:05Where is the diamond?!
0:08:11 > 0:08:13Look, sir, the smeared nightgown!
0:08:13 > 0:08:14Remember what Cuff said?
0:08:15 > 0:08:18- We're about to meet our thief. - The hem!
0:08:28 > 0:08:30Who is it, sir?!
0:08:30 > 0:08:32Who is our thief?!
0:08:44 > 0:08:45It can't be!
0:08:54 > 0:08:56THUNDERCLAP
0:09:11 > 0:09:14Here, sir. This will revive you.
0:09:14 > 0:09:16Thank you, Gabriel.
0:09:30 > 0:09:33It's a lie, to begin with.
0:09:33 > 0:09:36I am as innocent of all knowledge of having taken this diamond as you are,
0:09:36 > 0:09:38but there is the witness against me.
0:09:38 > 0:09:40The paint on the nightgown and the name are facts!
0:09:40 > 0:09:42Foul play, sir.
0:09:42 > 0:09:44That's how I read the riddle.
0:09:44 > 0:09:49Foul play somewhere, and you and I must find it out.
0:09:51 > 0:09:53No, stop!
0:09:57 > 0:10:00Rosanna Spearman came to my aunt out of a reformatory.
0:10:02 > 0:10:04Rosanna Spearman had once been a thief.
0:10:04 > 0:10:06There can be no doubting of that.
0:10:06 > 0:10:09How do we know she may not have stolen the diamond after all?
0:10:09 > 0:10:11How do we know she may not have smeared my nightgown
0:10:11 > 0:10:13purposefully with the paint?
0:10:13 > 0:10:17You will be cleared of this, Mr Franklin. Beyond all doubt.
0:10:20 > 0:10:22But I hope Rosanna will be cleared also.
0:10:24 > 0:10:28The letter in the box, sir, we must read it!
0:10:40 > 0:10:42You shall form your own judgment.
0:10:50 > 0:10:54Sir...I have something to own to you.
0:10:55 > 0:10:57READS: 'A confession which means much misery
0:10:57 > 0:10:59'may sometimes be made in very few words.'
0:10:59 > 0:11:02This confession can be made in three words.
0:11:04 > 0:11:07READS: 'This confession can be made in three words.'
0:11:10 > 0:11:12I love you.
0:11:15 > 0:11:16READS: 'I love you.'
0:11:19 > 0:11:22In the name of heaven, what can this mean?
0:11:22 > 0:11:24Read on, sir, I beg you.
0:11:25 > 0:11:28READS: 'It would be very disgraceful to me to tell you this
0:11:28 > 0:11:29'if I was a living woman.'
0:11:29 > 0:11:34But if, and when you read it, I shall be dead and gone.
0:11:34 > 0:11:37It is that which makes me bold.
0:11:37 > 0:11:38God save the poor child!
0:11:40 > 0:11:42What demons drove her to this?
0:11:42 > 0:11:46READS: 'Sir, you will find your nightgown in my hiding place
0:11:46 > 0:11:48'with the smear of paint on it.'
0:11:48 > 0:11:51And you'll want to know how it came to be hidden by me,
0:11:51 > 0:11:55and why I said nothing to you about it in my lifetime.
0:11:55 > 0:11:57READS: 'I have only one reason to give to you.
0:11:57 > 0:12:01'I did those strange things because I loved you.'
0:12:04 > 0:12:06I had no idea.
0:12:06 > 0:12:08How could you have known?
0:12:08 > 0:12:10If only she had confided in me,
0:12:10 > 0:12:13I could've crushed such fanciful imaginings.
0:12:13 > 0:12:15I could've brought her to her senses.
0:12:23 > 0:12:25Do you remember when you came out on us from among the sand hills
0:12:25 > 0:12:28that morning, looking for Mr Betteredge?
0:12:28 > 0:12:30Betteredge, is that you?
0:12:30 > 0:12:32'You were like a prince in a fairy story!
0:12:34 > 0:12:36'You were like a lover in a dream.
0:12:37 > 0:12:41'You were the most adorable human creature I'd ever seen.
0:12:42 > 0:12:46'Something leapt up in me the instant I set eyes on you.'
0:12:51 > 0:12:54Rosanna? What have you got there?
0:12:56 > 0:12:58His buttonhole...sir.
0:12:58 > 0:13:00Keep it.
0:13:03 > 0:13:05I kept your rose.
0:13:07 > 0:13:09Don't laugh at this, if you can help it.
0:13:09 > 0:13:13I liked to fancy that you'd given it to me because you cared for me.
0:13:13 > 0:13:17Alas...vain fancies.
0:13:17 > 0:13:22READS: 'The faded rose before you now is the same fresh rose
0:13:22 > 0:13:25'that once I put so much hope in.'
0:13:30 > 0:13:32I believe I found out you were in love with Miss Rachel
0:13:32 > 0:13:34before you found out yourself.
0:13:37 > 0:13:40She used to give you roses to wear in your buttonhole.
0:13:40 > 0:13:42Ah, Mr Franklin!
0:13:42 > 0:13:46You wore my roses oftener than either you or she thought.
0:13:49 > 0:13:51The only comfort I had at the time
0:13:51 > 0:13:55was putting my rose secretly in your glass of water
0:13:55 > 0:13:58in place of hers, and then throwing her rose away.
0:14:04 > 0:14:06Rosanna?
0:14:08 > 0:14:12I couldn't finish my work this morning. I came back to complete it.
0:14:13 > 0:14:15You can leave it now.
0:14:19 > 0:14:21And I thought she was thieving.
0:14:27 > 0:14:31The glass told me the truth, that I was not worthy of your attention,
0:14:31 > 0:14:33but my heart wouldn't listen.
0:14:35 > 0:14:39FRANKLIN: ..Since I am more familiar with the male form.
0:14:40 > 0:14:43I went on getting fonder and fonder of you,
0:14:43 > 0:14:45just as if I was a lady in your own rank of life.
0:14:47 > 0:14:49RACHEL SPEAKS FAINTLY
0:14:50 > 0:14:52I hung on your words to Rachel,
0:14:52 > 0:14:55imagining they were really meant for me.
0:14:55 > 0:14:57FRANKLIN SPEAKS FAINTLY
0:14:58 > 0:15:00CLATTER!
0:15:02 > 0:15:04Begging your pardon, sir. The tea you asked for.
0:15:18 > 0:15:20Thank you.
0:15:21 > 0:15:23You may go.
0:15:28 > 0:15:32My work, sir, was to make your bed and put your room tidy.
0:15:33 > 0:15:36It was the happiest hour I had in the whole day.
0:15:37 > 0:15:40The morning the diamond went missing,
0:15:40 > 0:15:41I went about my duties as usual.
0:15:43 > 0:15:46Then I found your nightgown with the stain of paint on it.
0:15:48 > 0:15:50I thought nothing of it at the time.
0:15:50 > 0:15:52I was merely delighted to have an excuse to spend time
0:15:52 > 0:15:55with that dear garment of yours to clean it.
0:15:55 > 0:15:59And then Superintendent Seagrave brought our attention to the smear.
0:15:59 > 0:16:02Out! All of you, downstairs!
0:16:02 > 0:16:04See the damage you're doing?! Careless!
0:16:06 > 0:16:10Look what mischief your skirts have done already! Clear out! Clear out!
0:16:10 > 0:16:11You've smeared the door!
0:16:13 > 0:16:16I fainted because of the jealous suspicion that suddenly crossed my mind.
0:16:16 > 0:16:21Knowing immediately as I did that it was your nightgown that had made the smear.
0:16:21 > 0:16:23That you may have visited Miss Rachel secretly
0:16:23 > 0:16:26under the loving and protective cloak of darkness.
0:16:30 > 0:16:32I hated Miss Rachel more than ever then.
0:16:33 > 0:16:36My jealousy led me to determine to keep the nightgown
0:16:36 > 0:16:38and to wait and watch
0:16:38 > 0:16:40and see what use I might make of it.
0:16:41 > 0:16:44At that time, not the ghost of an idea entered my head
0:16:44 > 0:16:46that you had stolen the diamond.
0:16:47 > 0:16:51Then followed the most extraordinary event of the day.
0:16:55 > 0:16:59The superintendent has hinted that beyond any possibility of mistaking,
0:16:59 > 0:17:01he suspects me of being the thief!
0:17:01 > 0:17:03What can have given him that idea?
0:17:03 > 0:17:06Because the diamond were taken from Miss Rachel's room,
0:17:06 > 0:17:09and I were the last person in there that night!
0:17:09 > 0:17:11'My head whirled.
0:17:11 > 0:17:15'If the last person who was in the room is the person to be suspected,
0:17:15 > 0:17:18'I thought to myself, the thief is not Penelope,
0:17:18 > 0:17:20'but Mr Franklin Blake.'
0:17:21 > 0:17:24The excitement of this new discovery of mine turned my head.
0:17:24 > 0:17:28How to hide the nightgown so that not even the sergeant could find it?
0:17:28 > 0:17:31You had worn it and I had a little moment of pleasure
0:17:31 > 0:17:33in wearing it after you.
0:17:35 > 0:17:37We were united, sir.
0:17:39 > 0:17:42I felt such a devouring eagerness to see you
0:17:42 > 0:17:44that I found an immediate excuse.
0:17:47 > 0:17:51Sir? I found this lodged between the boards in your bedroom.
0:17:51 > 0:17:55Ah. Well found, thank you.
0:18:01 > 0:18:04Is there something else?
0:18:04 > 0:18:06Do you wish to speak to me?
0:18:06 > 0:18:07Yes, if I dare.
0:18:10 > 0:18:13It's a strange thing about the diamond, sir.
0:18:14 > 0:18:16Indeed it is.
0:18:16 > 0:18:18They will never find it, sir, will they?
0:18:22 > 0:18:26No. No, the person who took it, I'll answer for that.
0:18:28 > 0:18:30THUNDERCLAP
0:18:31 > 0:18:34I always felt her behaviour towards me odd.
0:18:35 > 0:18:37And now I understand. She...
0:18:38 > 0:18:40..she believed we were kindred spirits.
0:18:40 > 0:18:43Bonded, as she thought, by my thievery.
0:18:46 > 0:18:47Oh!
0:18:49 > 0:18:51I cannot go on, Gabriel, my head spins.
0:18:53 > 0:18:55Read for the both of us, if you please.
0:19:03 > 0:19:07- READS:- 'The bare thought that in possessing myself of your nightgown...'
0:19:07 > 0:19:10I also possessed the means of shielding you from being discovered and disgraced.
0:19:13 > 0:19:15It gave me new energy, cunning and hope.
0:19:15 > 0:19:19Little knowing of Lady Verinder's kindness in calling me a doctor,
0:19:19 > 0:19:22I built on my true fainting fit in Rachel's bedroom
0:19:22 > 0:19:24and convinced the house I was sick.
0:19:24 > 0:19:25Will you take water?
0:19:25 > 0:19:28SHE COUGHS
0:19:29 > 0:19:30I think you'd best.
0:19:32 > 0:19:33I want to be alone, Penelope.
0:19:40 > 0:19:43I determined to make you a new nightgown before Saturday came,
0:19:43 > 0:19:46and brought the laundry woman and her infantry to the house.
0:19:46 > 0:19:49'What I was about while the household believed me to be
0:19:49 > 0:19:52'lying down in my own room, there's no need to tell you.'
0:19:56 > 0:19:58My dear, don't be afraid.
0:19:58 > 0:20:02Lady Verinder is concerned and has charged me with examining you.
0:20:03 > 0:20:05I don't want to put you to any trouble.
0:20:05 > 0:20:07I merely went for some air.
0:20:07 > 0:20:09Take your cloak off, girl, and sit here.
0:20:11 > 0:20:13And what I'd hidden under my cloak
0:20:13 > 0:20:16when I found you most wonderfully in my room with the doctor,
0:20:16 > 0:20:18you are now privy to.
0:20:18 > 0:20:21Now we know who was burning the midnight oil and why.
0:20:26 > 0:20:30Cuff thought plain, long cloth meant a servant's gown.
0:20:30 > 0:20:32It meant a gentleman's.
0:20:35 > 0:20:36Rosanna believed me guilty
0:20:36 > 0:20:39and that she had possession of the only proof against me.
0:20:39 > 0:20:41'You've no need to be angry, Mr Franklin.
0:20:42 > 0:20:45'Even if I did feel some little triumph
0:20:45 > 0:20:47'that I held all your prospects in my hands,
0:20:47 > 0:20:50'anxieties and fears soon came back to me.'
0:20:50 > 0:20:52Excuse me, sir?
0:20:52 > 0:20:55My lady asked me to give this to you.
0:20:56 > 0:20:58What is your name?
0:20:58 > 0:20:59Rosanna Spearman.
0:20:59 > 0:21:02- Have we met before? - I don't believe so, sir.
0:21:02 > 0:21:06'But of course, he had seen me before, in my thieving days in jail.'
0:21:06 > 0:21:09And there was no knowing how soon I might find myself taken in custody
0:21:09 > 0:21:11on suspicion and searched.
0:21:11 > 0:21:13When I have done writing this letter,
0:21:13 > 0:21:16I shall go to the Shivering Sands and hide the nightgown
0:21:16 > 0:21:19down in the sand, where no living creature can find it.
0:21:19 > 0:21:22Without first being let into the secret by myself.
0:21:23 > 0:21:28Then, Mr Franklin, I shall try to say the words to you
0:21:28 > 0:21:30that I have not yet dared to say.
0:21:31 > 0:21:32I love you.
0:21:35 > 0:21:37If only we end on understanding each other,
0:21:37 > 0:21:41how I shall enjoy retrieving this letter myself and tearing it up.
0:21:42 > 0:21:47But if I miss the opportunity and you are as cruel as ever,
0:21:47 > 0:21:50then, goodbye to the world which has grudged me
0:21:50 > 0:21:52the happiness it gives to others.
0:21:53 > 0:21:57Goodbye to life, which nothing but kindness from you
0:21:57 > 0:21:59can ever make pleasurable to me again.
0:22:02 > 0:22:04Rachel!
0:22:04 > 0:22:05Why are you leaving?
0:22:08 > 0:22:10Don't let the diamond come between us.
0:22:14 > 0:22:16I love you.
0:22:20 > 0:22:23Tell me about Rosanna Spearman.
0:22:23 > 0:22:26- Who?- Rosanna Spearman.
0:22:26 > 0:22:28- What is your interest in her? - The maid?
0:22:30 > 0:22:32I saw you follow her outside.
0:22:32 > 0:22:35I watched you from my bedroom window.
0:22:35 > 0:22:39I have no interest in Rosanna Spearman. She means nothing to me.
0:22:51 > 0:22:52Oh, dear God!
0:23:01 > 0:23:04Don't blame yourself, sir, if it ends this way,
0:23:04 > 0:23:08but do try to feel some forgiving sorrow for me.
0:23:08 > 0:23:11READS: 'Don't blame yourself, sir, if it ends this way,
0:23:11 > 0:23:14'but do try to feel some forgiving sorrow for me.'
0:23:16 > 0:23:18I beg to remain, sir...
0:23:18 > 0:23:21READS: 'I beg to remain, sir, your true lover and humble servant.'
0:23:21 > 0:23:24..your true lover and humble servant.
0:23:24 > 0:23:26Rosanna Spearman.
0:23:46 > 0:23:47READS: 'Rosanna Spearman.'
0:23:50 > 0:23:52God bless the child.
0:23:52 > 0:23:55It was not an accident, she sought her own end.
0:23:55 > 0:23:58Twice over, she made an attempt to speak to me!
0:23:58 > 0:24:01Twice over, it was my misfortune to repel the advances she made!
0:24:01 > 0:24:03You cannot blame yourself, sir.
0:24:03 > 0:24:05She was drawn to those sands,
0:24:05 > 0:24:07even before she met you,
0:24:07 > 0:24:10and cast you in the role of her torturer.
0:24:11 > 0:24:13There was nothing you could've done differently.
0:24:13 > 0:24:16She was determined on her doom.
0:24:33 > 0:24:35Rest in peace.
0:24:43 > 0:24:45FRANKLIN SIGHS
0:24:45 > 0:24:47I fear you may have caught a chill, sir.
0:24:47 > 0:24:50Nothing the sea air and a good sleep won't cure.
0:24:50 > 0:24:53I worry some kind of fever has taken hold of you,
0:24:53 > 0:24:55but not the detecting sort.
0:24:55 > 0:24:58With your permission, I'd like to call for the doctor.
0:24:59 > 0:25:02No doctor can heal the pain I am in, least of all Candy.
0:25:02 > 0:25:06Not Dr Candy, he has himself been sick at bed this past week.
0:25:06 > 0:25:09Then he needs such skills as he has more than I.
0:25:09 > 0:25:11Physician, heal thyself.
0:25:11 > 0:25:13I would send for his locum.
0:25:13 > 0:25:17You should have a medical opinion before you proceed to London.
0:25:17 > 0:25:20London? What is the point in that now?
0:25:20 > 0:25:22Even if Rachel has left Godfrey at the altar,
0:25:22 > 0:25:25I cannot win her heart if there is proof that I am her thief!
0:25:29 > 0:25:32Rosanna's letter proclaims me to be the thief.
0:25:32 > 0:25:34And now I know this to be false, I have no other evidence
0:25:34 > 0:25:36nor witness to prove my innocence.
0:25:38 > 0:25:41FRANKLIN COUGHS
0:25:43 > 0:25:45If the contents of this letter are made public,
0:25:45 > 0:25:48I shall be seen as guilty and tried accordingly.
0:25:48 > 0:25:51You have been framed, sir.
0:25:51 > 0:25:52You must to London.
0:25:54 > 0:25:56Seek out your lawyer.
0:25:56 > 0:26:00You need professional advice and expertise.
0:26:02 > 0:26:06The sooner you can lay your head alongside Mr Bruff's,
0:26:06 > 0:26:11the sooner you will see a way out of this deadlock that you are now in.
0:26:13 > 0:26:14TRAIN WHISTLE
0:26:33 > 0:26:35Good God, Mr Franklin! You'd best come in.
0:26:35 > 0:26:39Mr dear fellow, you look terrible!
0:26:39 > 0:26:41Never mind about that.
0:26:41 > 0:26:44I must know, did you reach Brighton in time?
0:26:44 > 0:26:46Is Rachel...?
0:26:46 > 0:26:49Is she...is she still my Rachel, or is she Mrs Ablewhite?
0:26:49 > 0:26:52I arrived in Brighton in the early hours.
0:26:52 > 0:26:55I found Rachel preparing herself for her wedding.
0:27:06 > 0:27:08BELL RINGS
0:27:09 > 0:27:12Thank you for seeing me at this early hour,
0:27:12 > 0:27:13and on such an important day.
0:27:13 > 0:27:16I trust your mission is equally important.
0:27:17 > 0:27:20You are still prepared to give me away, are you not?
0:27:20 > 0:27:22Um...
0:27:23 > 0:27:27As a friend and a loyal servant of your family, Miss Rachel,
0:27:27 > 0:27:32may I venture to ask, is your heart truly set on this marriage?
0:27:35 > 0:27:38I am marrying in despair, Mr Bruff.
0:27:38 > 0:27:42On the chance of dropping into some sort of stagnant happiness
0:27:42 > 0:27:44which may reconcile me to my life.
0:27:46 > 0:27:50Well, I cannot believe that Godfrey Ablewhite would follow you in this.
0:27:50 > 0:27:53His heart must be set on the marriage, at any rate.
0:27:53 > 0:27:54He says so.
0:27:56 > 0:27:58I suppose I ought to believe him.
0:27:58 > 0:28:03After what I have owned to him, he would hardly marry me otherwise.
0:28:03 > 0:28:08If I may say...it sounds strangely, on my old ears...
0:28:08 > 0:28:10What, in particular?
0:28:10 > 0:28:12To hear you speak of your future husband
0:28:12 > 0:28:15as if you are unsure of the sincerity of his attachment.
0:28:18 > 0:28:21Are you conscious of any reason to doubt him?
0:28:21 > 0:28:26Mr Bruff, you have something to tell me about Godfrey Ablewhite.
0:28:26 > 0:28:27Tell it.
0:28:27 > 0:28:29What did she say, man, what did she say?!
0:28:29 > 0:28:32The fact that Godfrey had examined her mother's will
0:28:32 > 0:28:34only hours before he proposed to her
0:28:34 > 0:28:37was enough to convince her that he was marrying her for her wealth.
0:28:37 > 0:28:40She realised she could never marry him.
0:28:40 > 0:28:42- Oh, thank God!- However...
0:28:49 > 0:28:53..she also said that she would not stoop to make our accusation public.
0:28:55 > 0:28:56Met without the threat of public shame,
0:28:56 > 0:28:58he would never agree to let her go.
0:28:58 > 0:29:00I said as much to Rachel.
0:29:00 > 0:29:01She would not heed me.
0:29:03 > 0:29:05She sent me to the church to fetch him to her.
0:29:23 > 0:29:26Oh, what a relief to see you, my good man!
0:29:26 > 0:29:27I was beginning to worry.
0:29:36 > 0:29:37Godfrey?
0:29:39 > 0:29:40I'm afraid I cannot marry you.
0:29:46 > 0:29:48I hope that in the fullness of time,
0:29:48 > 0:29:51you will understand and even forgive me.
0:29:51 > 0:29:54Be assured that I do not do this in a moment of rash whimsy,
0:29:54 > 0:29:57but because I have thought about it deeply.
0:29:59 > 0:30:01My poor child!
0:30:02 > 0:30:04I've rushed you.
0:30:04 > 0:30:05I see that now.
0:30:06 > 0:30:11This wedding...comes far too close on your mother's funeral.
0:30:13 > 0:30:15But, dearest, it is my role to console you.
0:30:15 > 0:30:19We shall set another day for our union in the coming weeks,
0:30:19 > 0:30:20when you have recovered your resolve.
0:30:20 > 0:30:22I am no child.
0:30:22 > 0:30:25I'm not to be pitied, and I speak to you fully recovered and certain.
0:30:25 > 0:30:28This is the hysteria of grief.
0:30:28 > 0:30:32You need me, Rachel, to help you manage your estate.
0:30:32 > 0:30:33You need a husband.
0:30:33 > 0:30:36Would you have me come to you in need, but not in love?
0:30:40 > 0:30:43I will not marry for convenience, and nor should you.
0:30:47 > 0:30:49You made me a promise, Rachel.
0:30:49 > 0:30:53I hold you to our contract of engagement.
0:30:56 > 0:30:57I WILL see you in church...
0:31:01 > 0:31:02..or I will see you in court.
0:31:05 > 0:31:09Would you really still have me, knowing I wished to be let go?
0:31:12 > 0:31:18Darling Rachel...I know your heart better than you know it. Hm!
0:31:18 > 0:31:20Surrender to my better judgment.
0:31:20 > 0:31:24The pastor awaits. We could yet be married today.
0:31:24 > 0:31:26Yes, we can.
0:31:29 > 0:31:32If you will just wait for Mr Bruff to finish the task I have set him.
0:31:35 > 0:31:36What task?
0:31:36 > 0:31:39Mr Bruff is drawing up a trust.
0:31:39 > 0:31:42It will give us an ample allowance from my income
0:31:42 > 0:31:45and interest on my land and principle,
0:31:45 > 0:31:48but it holds my fortune,
0:31:48 > 0:31:51our fortune intact for the next generation.
0:31:53 > 0:31:55What?
0:31:55 > 0:31:58We can be happy with a simple life, can we not?
0:32:01 > 0:32:04I seek to provide for our children, Godfrey.
0:32:05 > 0:32:07For what possible reason would you object?
0:32:10 > 0:32:12Pack your things...
0:32:14 > 0:32:16..and leave my parents' house.
0:32:19 > 0:32:20I'm sorry, Godfrey.
0:32:23 > 0:32:25Are you breaking our engagement?
0:32:28 > 0:32:30Do you wish me to release you?
0:32:35 > 0:32:36I do.
0:32:51 > 0:32:53- Then I still have all to win? - Yes, sir.
0:32:54 > 0:32:57She's still a free and independent woman.
0:32:57 > 0:33:00What would your advice be to me now, sir? What should my next step be?
0:33:00 > 0:33:04Well, if Rachel truly suspects that you took the moonstone,
0:33:04 > 0:33:08she must be persuaded to tell us on what grounds she bases this belief.
0:33:08 > 0:33:11Now, this case, however serious it might seem,
0:33:11 > 0:33:13could tumble to pieces,
0:33:13 > 0:33:16if only we could break through Rachel's inveterate reserve
0:33:16 > 0:33:17and get her to speak out.
0:33:17 > 0:33:20That is a very comforting opinion for me.
0:33:20 > 0:33:24Well, you must understand, sir, that I view this whole matter from the point of view of a lawyer.
0:33:24 > 0:33:26It's a question of evidence.
0:33:26 > 0:33:32And to me, the evidence breaks down at the outset on one very important fact.
0:33:32 > 0:33:33Which is that...?
0:33:33 > 0:33:36This letter from Rosanna Spearman
0:33:36 > 0:33:40proves that she is adept at deception, on her own showing.
0:33:40 > 0:33:44If Rachel suspects you on the basis of the nightgown,
0:33:44 > 0:33:48the chances are 99-100 that it was Spearman that showed it to her.
0:33:49 > 0:33:51It would be for her own desire and to her own interest
0:33:51 > 0:33:55- to poison Rachel's mind against you. - Mm.
0:33:55 > 0:33:59The question is, would the nightgown alone be sufficient
0:33:59 > 0:34:03to make Rachel believe that you had cause to be a thief?
0:34:05 > 0:34:07There was something else.
0:34:07 > 0:34:09SHE SPEAKS FRENCH
0:34:09 > 0:34:11On the contrary.
0:34:11 > 0:34:14I thought you had more integrity than to eavesdrop on my private business.
0:34:14 > 0:34:17You lied to me! I told my mother your debts were settled.
0:34:17 > 0:34:19I have the money, I had but to hand it over.
0:34:19 > 0:34:22Which is the part that counts.
0:34:22 > 0:34:25Then there was a predisposing influence against you.
0:34:25 > 0:34:29The next step of this enquiry must be one that takes us to Rachel.
0:34:29 > 0:34:34Grand difficulty is how to make her reveal the whole of her mind
0:34:34 > 0:34:36in this matter without reserve.
0:34:36 > 0:34:38I will speak to her myself.
0:34:38 > 0:34:40You?
0:34:40 > 0:34:42Rosanna poisoned her mind against me.
0:34:42 > 0:34:44I want the chance to clear my own name
0:34:44 > 0:34:47and tell her once more what I remember of that night.
0:34:47 > 0:34:50How it is impossible for me to have stolen the moonstone.
0:34:51 > 0:34:53Nothing ventured, nothing have.
0:34:54 > 0:34:57And you do have one chance in your favour, which I certainly don't have.
0:34:57 > 0:34:59A chance in my favour?
0:34:59 > 0:35:01Well, I trust that Rachel still reserves,
0:35:01 > 0:35:04in some remote corner of her heart, some perverse weakness for you.
0:35:07 > 0:35:10Touch that, and trust for the consequences,
0:35:10 > 0:35:14for the fullest disclosures to flow from a woman's lips.
0:35:16 > 0:35:19The question is, how to get you to meet her?
0:35:19 > 0:35:22She has been a guest of yours at this house.
0:35:22 > 0:35:24May I venture to suggest that
0:35:24 > 0:35:28if nothing was said of me beforehand, I might see her here?
0:35:28 > 0:35:31You wish to turn my house into a trap for Rachel?
0:35:31 > 0:35:35Not a trap, a... Well, a neutral ground
0:35:35 > 0:35:38in which we can meet as if by chance and speak.
0:35:39 > 0:35:41I'm desperate to see her.
0:35:41 > 0:35:42I beg you, Bruff, please!
0:35:45 > 0:35:50Let yourself into the garden at exactly 3:00.
0:35:50 > 0:35:53She will come to sign documents relating to her estate.
0:35:55 > 0:35:57CLOCK CHIMES
0:36:25 > 0:36:27Rachel.
0:36:46 > 0:36:48You coward!
0:36:48 > 0:36:50You mean, miserable, heartless coward!
0:36:53 > 0:36:56I remember a time, Rachel, when you could've told me I'd offended you
0:36:56 > 0:36:58in a worthier way than that.
0:36:58 > 0:37:01- I beg your pardon. - Perhaps there is some excuse for me.
0:37:01 > 0:37:04After what you have done, is it a manly action on your part
0:37:04 > 0:37:07to find your way to me as you have found it today?
0:37:07 > 0:37:08If my honour was not in your hands,
0:37:08 > 0:37:10I would leave this instant and never see you again.
0:37:10 > 0:37:13You have spoken of what I have done. What have I done?!
0:37:13 > 0:37:15What have you done? You ask that question of me?!
0:37:15 > 0:37:19- I ask it. - I have kept your infamy a secret
0:37:19 > 0:37:22and have spared the consequences of concealing it.
0:37:22 > 0:37:27Have I no claim to be spared the insult of your asking me what have you done?
0:37:27 > 0:37:29I know you suspect me of stealing your diamond,
0:37:29 > 0:37:32and I have the right to know, I will know the reason why.
0:37:32 > 0:37:34Suspect you?
0:37:35 > 0:37:37You villain!
0:37:38 > 0:37:41I saw you take the diamond with my own eyes.
0:37:58 > 0:38:00For God's sake, say something!
0:38:09 > 0:38:11Rachel...
0:38:12 > 0:38:15..I cannot explain the contradiction in what I'm about to tell you,
0:38:15 > 0:38:19I can only speak the truth, as you have spoken it.
0:38:21 > 0:38:22You saw me?
0:38:22 > 0:38:25With your own eyes, you saw me take the diamond?
0:38:29 > 0:38:32Before God who hears us, I declare
0:38:32 > 0:38:35I now know I took it for the first time.
0:38:39 > 0:38:41Do you doubt me still?
0:38:41 > 0:38:43Let go of my hand.
0:38:48 > 0:38:49I want to ask you something.
0:38:50 > 0:38:53I want you to tell me everything that happened,
0:38:53 > 0:38:55from the time when we wished each other goodnight
0:38:55 > 0:38:58to the time when you saw me take the diamond.
0:38:58 > 0:38:59Why? Why go back to it?
0:38:59 > 0:39:03Because I am the victim of some monstrous delusion
0:39:03 > 0:39:05that has worn the mask of truth.
0:39:05 > 0:39:08If we look at what happened on the night of your birthday together,
0:39:08 > 0:39:10we may end in understanding yet.
0:39:13 > 0:39:16Let us begin with what happened after we wished each other goodnight.
0:39:17 > 0:39:21Did you...go to bed, or did you sit up?
0:39:25 > 0:39:27I couldn't sleep that night.
0:39:29 > 0:39:31Were you restless?
0:39:32 > 0:39:33I was thinking of you.
0:39:38 > 0:39:41After tossing and turning for an hour or so, I decided to read.
0:39:43 > 0:39:45I got up to go and find my book...
0:39:48 > 0:39:52..when I saw a light under the door and I heard footsteps approaching.
0:39:52 > 0:39:56So I leapt back on to the bed just as the door opened.
0:39:56 > 0:39:57And you saw...?
0:39:58 > 0:40:00You saw a man?
0:40:00 > 0:40:02Not any man, I saw you!
0:40:06 > 0:40:09It was dark. You said it yourself, it was dark!
0:40:09 > 0:40:11You entered my bedroom,
0:40:11 > 0:40:13you opened my cabinet,
0:40:13 > 0:40:15you took my diamond and then you left.
0:40:17 > 0:40:19Well...?
0:40:21 > 0:40:23You have asked and I have answered.
0:40:23 > 0:40:27You have made me hope for something from this because you hoped for something from it.
0:40:27 > 0:40:30Why didn't you speak out before? Why did you keep this to yourself?
0:40:30 > 0:40:32If...if you had spoken when you ought to have spoken,
0:40:32 > 0:40:35if you had done me the common justice to explain yourself...!
0:40:35 > 0:40:40Explain myself?! Is there another man like this in the world?!
0:40:40 > 0:40:44I spare him when my heart is breaking,
0:40:44 > 0:40:47I screen him when my own character is at stake,
0:40:47 > 0:40:50and he...he turns on me now and tells me
0:40:50 > 0:40:53that I ought to have explained myself!
0:40:53 > 0:40:56My heart's darling, you are a thief.
0:40:56 > 0:40:58My hero, who I love and honour,
0:40:58 > 0:41:02you have crept into my room under cover of night and stolen my diamond!
0:41:04 > 0:41:06That is what I ought to have said.
0:41:10 > 0:41:12You villain!
0:41:12 > 0:41:14I would rather have lost 50 diamonds
0:41:14 > 0:41:17than to see your face lying to me, as I see it lying now.
0:41:20 > 0:41:22I wrote you a letter!
0:41:23 > 0:41:26Carefully worded so that if it fell into the wrong hands,
0:41:26 > 0:41:28no-one would know what you had done.
0:41:28 > 0:41:30Saying I was happy to pay off your debts for you.
0:41:30 > 0:41:33I have no such urgent debts, and I received no letter.
0:41:33 > 0:41:37I tore it up when I heard that you, the thief, had called the police
0:41:37 > 0:41:40and were working harder than anyone to recover the jewel!
0:41:40 > 0:41:43You even carried your audacity far enough to ask to speak to me
0:41:43 > 0:41:44about the loss of my diamond!
0:41:44 > 0:41:48It was not me, Rachel. You have cruelly wronged an innocent man.
0:41:50 > 0:41:52I don't believe you.
0:41:55 > 0:41:56I don't believe one word you have said.
0:41:56 > 0:42:00You purged the diamond to the jewel broker in London, I'm sure.
0:42:00 > 0:42:02You've cast the suspicion of your disgrace,
0:42:02 > 0:42:06thanks to my silence on an innocent man.
0:42:06 > 0:42:08You fled to the continent with your plunder,
0:42:08 > 0:42:12and now you've come here to tell me that I have wronged you?
0:42:13 > 0:42:15Let me go, Rachel.
0:42:15 > 0:42:16It will be better for both of us.
0:42:16 > 0:42:18Let me go.
0:42:19 > 0:42:21Why did you come?
0:42:23 > 0:42:26Are you afraid I shall expose you now you are a rich man?
0:42:31 > 0:42:33I wish I could.
0:42:36 > 0:42:39But I can't say the words. I can't!
0:42:39 > 0:42:41I can't tear you from my heart, even now!
0:42:46 > 0:42:49You shall know that you have wronged me yet,
0:42:49 > 0:42:52or you shall never see me again.
0:43:32 > 0:43:33Are you sure you wish to proceed?!
0:43:33 > 0:43:35Surely it is dangerous to experiment
0:43:35 > 0:43:37with the subconscious mind in this way!
0:43:37 > 0:43:40The experiment must've awoken the memory, as you predicted.
0:43:40 > 0:43:42- Look at the paper!- It cannot be.
0:43:42 > 0:43:44- It is.- That cursed jewel!
0:43:44 > 0:43:46He's like a man possessed!