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.
0:00:24 > 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 > 0:00:38But 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 > 0:00:56The theft of the diamond that very night
0:00:56 > 0:00:59split the happy couple asunder.
0:00:59 > 0:01:04One year later, Franklin set out to win back Rachel's heart
0:01:04 > 0:01:06by unmasking the thief once and for all,
0:01:06 > 0:01:13only to learn from Rachel's own lips that the thief was he himself.
0:01:13 > 0:01:16- KNOCK AT DOOR - Mr Blake?
0:01:16 > 0:01:18- Franklin? - FRANKLIN COUGHS
0:01:18 > 0:01:19Coming.
0:01:22 > 0:01:24Good God, sir!
0:01:26 > 0:01:28Look at the state that you are in!
0:01:32 > 0:01:33Good morning.
0:01:33 > 0:01:35I tell you plainly,
0:01:35 > 0:01:38if I could've foreseen the price to be paid for telling the truth,
0:01:38 > 0:01:41I would have willingly kept you in the dark.
0:01:42 > 0:01:43You have seen Rachel?
0:01:43 > 0:01:45She's in the care of my wife and my daughters.
0:01:45 > 0:01:48She was in no fit state to return home last night alone.
0:01:48 > 0:01:52- But is she...?- She is now preparing
0:01:52 > 0:01:55to go to the continent within the next fortnight
0:01:55 > 0:01:58in an attempt to put all this business behind her.
0:02:01 > 0:02:05Oh, no, Franklin...please, don't despair.
0:02:05 > 0:02:09I am accused of theft by the woman I love.
0:02:09 > 0:02:12And though I know myself to be innocent, all the evidence points against me.
0:02:12 > 0:02:13How can I not despair?
0:02:13 > 0:02:16We cannot blame Rachel for thinking you to be guilty.
0:02:16 > 0:02:19She has the evidence of her own senses,
0:02:19 > 0:02:23backed by circumstances that appear to tell dead against you.
0:02:23 > 0:02:27I know I slept through the night, Rachel knows I took the diamond.
0:02:27 > 0:02:29The two things cannot both have happened.
0:02:29 > 0:02:31Well, maybe they can.
0:02:35 > 0:02:38I mean, is it possible that you drank more than usual that night?
0:02:40 > 0:02:43Is it a possibility that you took the moonstone
0:02:43 > 0:02:46when you were drunk, and forgotten you'd done so?
0:02:46 > 0:02:48No, none whatsoever.
0:02:48 > 0:02:51I can prove beyond doubt I was out cold the whole night.
0:02:51 > 0:02:56You have had something else besides an excellent night's rest, sir.
0:02:56 > 0:02:59You had a sleeping draught before you went to bed.
0:02:59 > 0:03:03Well, why did you not tell me this before?!
0:03:03 > 0:03:04This changes everything!
0:03:04 > 0:03:07How? The stain on my nightgown still speaks against me.
0:03:07 > 0:03:09Rachel said she saw me, and Rachel would not lie.
0:03:09 > 0:03:12Yes, but she may have been mistaken.
0:03:12 > 0:03:14Well, who's to say that the nightgown wore that night
0:03:14 > 0:03:16was not worn by someone else?
0:03:16 > 0:03:19Someone whom Rachel thought was you!
0:03:19 > 0:03:23If you were asleep all night, you could not possibly have done it.
0:03:23 > 0:03:26We need a statement from this doctor,
0:03:26 > 0:03:29confessing that he gave you a sleeping draught.
0:03:29 > 0:03:33This will preserve your character in Rachel's mind
0:03:33 > 0:03:35and prove that you have been wronged.
0:03:37 > 0:03:39I have telegraphed ahead to Betteredge
0:03:39 > 0:03:42to ensure the doctor will be waiting for us in the house.
0:03:42 > 0:03:44Answer me this, Mr Franklin, do you believe
0:03:44 > 0:03:47the moonstone to be the bottom of all this mischief, or is it not?
0:03:47 > 0:03:50- It is, of course. - And what do you think happened
0:03:50 > 0:03:51to the moonstone when it went to London?
0:03:51 > 0:03:53It was pledged to Mr Luker.
0:03:53 > 0:03:56Yes. And we know that it was not you who pledged it.
0:03:56 > 0:03:58- Do we know who did?- No.
0:03:58 > 0:04:00Where do you think the moonstone is now?
0:04:00 > 0:04:03It is deposited in the keeping of Mr Luker's bankers.
0:04:03 > 0:04:07And for how long a term do you think such a loan is usually pledged?
0:04:07 > 0:04:08A year?
0:04:08 > 0:04:10And when will that year be up?
0:04:10 > 0:04:13- In only a few weeks' time.- Exactly!
0:04:13 > 0:04:16I propose setting a watch on the bank
0:04:16 > 0:04:19to see to whom Mr Luker restores that jewel.
0:04:19 > 0:04:21Because that person, you may be sure of it,
0:04:21 > 0:04:23is the person entirely responsible
0:04:23 > 0:04:25for the position you now find yourself in!
0:04:30 > 0:04:33- Welcome, sirs. Who is ill? - Betteredge, is the doctor here?
0:04:33 > 0:04:35Straight through. But I should inform you...
0:04:35 > 0:04:37After, Betteredge. All in good time.
0:04:39 > 0:04:40Thank you, Betteredge.
0:04:40 > 0:04:42Dr Candy!
0:04:44 > 0:04:47Good evening, sir. Dr Ezra Jennings.
0:04:48 > 0:04:51I asked for Dr Candy.
0:05:02 > 0:05:04Now what? We are back to the beginning.
0:05:07 > 0:05:09Your Dr Candy has twice been my undoing.
0:05:09 > 0:05:11First in him slipping me the sleeping draught,
0:05:11 > 0:05:13secondly in his untimely passing.
0:05:13 > 0:05:15I would that you could forgive him.
0:05:15 > 0:05:19Dr Candy, may he rest in peace, is beyond reach of my resentment,
0:05:19 > 0:05:20but I can neither forgive nor forget.
0:05:20 > 0:05:22He was trying to help you.
0:05:22 > 0:05:24He had no cause to know how events turned out.
0:05:24 > 0:05:26Why do you defend his folly?
0:05:27 > 0:05:30Dr Candy took me into his employment
0:05:30 > 0:05:32under circumstances which made me his debtor for life.
0:05:32 > 0:05:34He was a good man!
0:05:34 > 0:05:37This was a rare error of judgment.
0:05:37 > 0:05:39I will not have it stain his reputation!
0:05:44 > 0:05:45Gentlemen, good day.
0:05:45 > 0:05:47Wait!
0:05:48 > 0:05:50Put your signature to this document
0:05:50 > 0:05:52with a declaration saying you were in Candy's confidence.
0:05:52 > 0:05:55This is false statement and misrepresentation.
0:05:55 > 0:05:57- I cannot allow it!- And that the sleeping draught he gave me
0:05:57 > 0:05:59kept me unconscious the night of the theft.
0:05:59 > 0:06:02But the draught he gave you would not have had that effect, sir.
0:06:02 > 0:06:04Laudanum does not work in that manner.
0:06:04 > 0:06:07Laudanum? He gave me Laudanum?
0:06:07 > 0:06:10Opiates do not guarantee sleep or rest.
0:06:10 > 0:06:12- And, in fact, the opposite.- Explain.
0:06:12 > 0:06:16Well, there is often a period of agitation and activity,
0:06:16 > 0:06:20later forgotten once the sedative effect of the drug takes hold.
0:06:20 > 0:06:22I could not put my name to a document stating
0:06:22 > 0:06:25that you were unconscious all night, sir. I-I'm sorry, sir.
0:06:25 > 0:06:28Wait! So if I understand you correctly,
0:06:28 > 0:06:31you are suggesting that I...I may not have fallen straight asleep.
0:06:31 > 0:06:33Is it beyond the realm of possibility
0:06:33 > 0:06:35that in this early state of agitation,
0:06:35 > 0:06:37I might've taken the diamond, disposed of it somewhere
0:06:37 > 0:06:39and forgotten I'd done so by the time I woke?
0:06:39 > 0:06:41Er...it is possible.
0:06:41 > 0:06:43Then I-I need to retrieve my memory of what happened that night!
0:06:43 > 0:06:45How can I stimulate it?
0:06:45 > 0:06:47I need to remember what I did, if indeed I did wake!
0:06:47 > 0:06:49Is there a way?
0:06:52 > 0:06:56You know one. I see you do. Tell me!
0:06:56 > 0:06:58The only method I know
0:06:58 > 0:07:00would put your physical and mental health at risk,
0:07:00 > 0:07:03and possibly your life.
0:07:03 > 0:07:05My life is of no worth to me. What must I do?
0:07:05 > 0:07:08You must needs take laudanum again.
0:07:08 > 0:07:09Perchance, like the inebriate
0:07:09 > 0:07:13who cannot remember his route home till next he takes a drink,
0:07:13 > 0:07:17you may find yourself reliving your last experience of opium
0:07:17 > 0:07:19and retrieve the memory that you have lost.
0:07:19 > 0:07:22Now, wait, sir. This is dangerous nonsense!
0:07:22 > 0:07:25Dangerous, sir, yes. Nonsense, no.
0:07:25 > 0:07:27- I'll try this experiment. - Well, it's not that simple.
0:07:27 > 0:07:32You would have to almost exactly produce the physiological conditions
0:07:32 > 0:07:36as they were in you last year, and the external stimuli.
0:07:36 > 0:07:37You will help me.
0:07:37 > 0:07:40I will engage your services to see me through this re-enactment.
0:07:40 > 0:07:43Dr Candy did me harm. He broke his Hippocratic oath!
0:07:43 > 0:07:45I'm giving you the chance to right his wrong!
0:07:45 > 0:07:49I will both forgive and forget what he did if you help me.
0:07:49 > 0:07:51I will need you to sign a statement.
0:07:51 > 0:07:53Sir, a word with you in private!
0:07:57 > 0:07:59Franklin, this is mischief!
0:07:59 > 0:08:00This is a piece of trickery
0:08:00 > 0:08:03akin to mesmerism and clairvoyance and the like.
0:08:03 > 0:08:06It raises hopes which may never be realised.
0:08:06 > 0:08:07It is the only hope I have left.
0:08:07 > 0:08:10What about the alternative that I proposed to you on the train?
0:08:10 > 0:08:12No. No, it obliges us to wait.
0:08:12 > 0:08:15A fortnight? Is that really so long?
0:08:15 > 0:08:16It is too late.
0:08:16 > 0:08:19In a fortnight, Rachel will have left the country.
0:08:19 > 0:08:24What do you hope to prove with this re-enactment? Nothing!
0:08:24 > 0:08:27Except that perhaps you really are the thief of the diamond.
0:08:27 > 0:08:29It will prove, I hope, that if I was the thief,
0:08:29 > 0:08:31I took it unknowingly.
0:08:31 > 0:08:33Or better yet, it may show what I did with the diamond next.
0:08:33 > 0:08:35What if the diamond is not in London?
0:08:35 > 0:08:38What if...what if it is here, under this very roof, and has been all along?
0:08:40 > 0:08:42Sir,
0:08:42 > 0:08:45this is dangerous and ill-advised.
0:08:45 > 0:08:46I forbid it.
0:08:49 > 0:08:52Well, you have neither the power nor the right to do so.
0:08:54 > 0:08:55We shall see.
0:09:05 > 0:09:07You can clear the glasses, Betteredge.
0:09:07 > 0:09:09We won't be needing any more.
0:09:24 > 0:09:28Now that we are free of naysayers, what do you say to my proposition?
0:09:28 > 0:09:30I would need you to sign a statement
0:09:30 > 0:09:33saying you're fully aware of the risks involved in such an act.
0:09:33 > 0:09:34Of course.
0:09:45 > 0:09:48Before you entrust yourself in me, I owe you a confession.
0:09:50 > 0:09:53We have more in common than you know, you and I.
0:09:55 > 0:09:59At the outset of my career in this country, vile slander struck me down
0:09:59 > 0:10:04and I was incapable, perfectly incapable of proving my innocence.
0:10:07 > 0:10:10How do you live under the shadow of such false accusation?
0:10:10 > 0:10:12It has taken its toll on my health,
0:10:12 > 0:10:15as I dare to hope you may understand.
0:10:15 > 0:10:19I now suffer from an incurable internal complaint.
0:10:22 > 0:10:25I'm forced to medicate myself, and in doing so, I...
0:10:26 > 0:10:30..I have become addicted to that which will be my undoing.
0:10:32 > 0:10:33What is it?
0:10:41 > 0:10:43Laudanum.
0:10:43 > 0:10:46It is the one effective palliative for my condition.
0:10:46 > 0:10:51To its own...own potent mercy, I have become indebted and enslaved.
0:10:56 > 0:10:59I need to make sure you fully understand the risks
0:10:59 > 0:11:01of the experiment before we proceed.
0:11:13 > 0:11:16Is the diamond worth the price of your health and sanity?
0:11:26 > 0:11:30Miss Rachel's bedroom is to be restored, and also the landing.
0:11:32 > 0:11:35I wish to know whether or not I may wash my hands of...
0:11:35 > 0:11:38I will call the scullery maid to bring some water.
0:11:40 > 0:11:42..of certain responsibilities.
0:11:44 > 0:11:47As to Miss Verinder's bedroom, to begin with.
0:11:47 > 0:11:50When we took up the carpet last year, Mr Blake,
0:11:50 > 0:11:52we found a surprising quantity of pins.
0:11:54 > 0:11:57Am I responsible for putting back the pins?
0:12:00 > 0:12:02Certainly not.
0:12:02 > 0:12:03As to your bedroom, sir...
0:12:04 > 0:12:07..I want to know who is responsible
0:12:07 > 0:12:09for keeping it in a perpetual state of litter,
0:12:09 > 0:12:12no matter how often it may be set right?
0:12:12 > 0:12:15Your trousers here, your towels there.
0:12:17 > 0:12:19Your French novels everywhere.
0:12:20 > 0:12:22I say, who is responsible
0:12:22 > 0:12:25for untidying the tidiness of your room, sir?
0:12:25 > 0:12:27Yourself, or me?
0:12:27 > 0:12:30I will take that responsibility entirely upon myself, Betteredge.
0:12:33 > 0:12:36You have done a number of foolish things in your life, Mr Franklin.
0:12:39 > 0:12:41But this tops them all.
0:12:53 > 0:12:57We need to ascertain your psychological state this time last year
0:12:57 > 0:13:00if we're to recreate it as precisely as we can.
0:13:01 > 0:13:03- Absolutely.- I believe this time last year,
0:13:03 > 0:13:07you were suffering from nervous irritation and sleeping wretchedly.
0:13:07 > 0:13:09Can you assign any cause for that?
0:13:09 > 0:13:11Indeed I can.
0:13:11 > 0:13:13Smoking.
0:13:13 > 0:13:15At least for now, it overwhelms the tobacco.
0:13:15 > 0:13:18My smoking offends you?
0:13:21 > 0:13:22Then I will stop.
0:13:24 > 0:13:26I would not make you.
0:13:26 > 0:13:29You do not like it, I cast it out.
0:13:29 > 0:13:30I gave up that very day.
0:13:31 > 0:13:34Put that out, sir. You must cast out the habit
0:13:34 > 0:13:37with the suddenness that you did last year.
0:13:37 > 0:13:40Did you have any special reason for feeling anxiety
0:13:40 > 0:13:42about the diamond this time last year?
0:13:42 > 0:13:45I had the strongest feelings of anxiety about it.
0:13:45 > 0:13:47I knew it to be the object of a conspiracy.
0:13:47 > 0:13:50And was the safety of the diamond the subject of conversation
0:13:50 > 0:13:52between you and any other person
0:13:52 > 0:13:55immediately before you returned to rest on the birthday night?
0:13:55 > 0:13:57It was the only subject of conversation.
0:13:57 > 0:14:00From what you've told me of the moonstone tonight, Mr Blake,
0:14:00 > 0:14:04I judge that you have had more narrow escapes of your life
0:14:04 > 0:14:07than I've had of mine, and that is saying a very great deal.
0:14:08 > 0:14:11It is possible that in the experiment,
0:14:11 > 0:14:13we may prove not just your innocence,
0:14:13 > 0:14:15but recover the diamond, as well.
0:14:17 > 0:14:19How can he still insist on his innocence?
0:14:19 > 0:14:22How can he persist with such ludicrous denials?!
0:14:22 > 0:14:24He's like a man possessed!
0:14:24 > 0:14:25He's driven by a laudanum addict
0:14:25 > 0:14:28whose reputation's besmirched with scandal.
0:14:28 > 0:14:29Surely it is dangerous to experiment
0:14:29 > 0:14:31with the subconscious mind in this way.
0:14:31 > 0:14:33He's risking his life.
0:14:33 > 0:14:35Why would he do that?
0:14:36 > 0:14:39He must indeed be convinced of his own innocence.
0:14:39 > 0:14:44Madam, one word from you can put a stop to this dangerous experiment
0:14:44 > 0:14:46and save Franklin Blake from himself.
0:14:46 > 0:14:49I am due to travel within days. When does he intend to carry this out?
0:14:49 > 0:14:50Tomorrow night, I believe.
0:15:00 > 0:15:02YELLING
0:15:04 > 0:15:05Dr Jennings!
0:15:05 > 0:15:06YELLING
0:15:06 > 0:15:08Ezra!
0:15:08 > 0:15:10DR JENNINGS GASPS FOR BREATH
0:15:19 > 0:15:22It shatters the nervous system! It...it seduces the mind!
0:15:22 > 0:15:25It destroys even the strongest with its embrace!
0:15:26 > 0:15:28Are you sure you wish to proceed?!
0:15:41 > 0:15:45- Mr Blake.- I hope you have not come to stop me, because I will not listen.
0:15:46 > 0:15:50Well, against my better judgment and that of Sergeant Cuff,
0:15:50 > 0:15:55Rachel has consented to go through with this charade, on one condition.
0:15:55 > 0:15:59That I remain present throughout the re-enactment as a witness.
0:15:59 > 0:16:01Be my guest.
0:16:01 > 0:16:04If I can convince you, who is so strongly against the experiment,
0:16:04 > 0:16:07it places its result beyond the possibility of dispute.
0:16:07 > 0:16:09Then we can proceed tonight.
0:16:09 > 0:16:12Tonight? Tonight is Miss Verinder's birthday
0:16:12 > 0:16:15and the very night to the year that the diamond was stolen.
0:16:15 > 0:16:19My luggage is at the back door, Betteredge. Would you mind?
0:16:21 > 0:16:23- She will not regret this.- Hm.
0:16:25 > 0:16:27Sir, a word in private.
0:16:32 > 0:16:34The devil be damned, it can't be!
0:16:37 > 0:16:39Happy birthday!
0:16:39 > 0:16:41May I introduce you to Dr Jennings,
0:16:41 > 0:16:44the assistant to the late Dr Candy,
0:16:44 > 0:16:47who Mr Blake has enlisted for this...
0:16:48 > 0:16:54I was afraid I might not bear the sight of the house, after what happened last year.
0:16:54 > 0:16:57And without my dearest mother by my side.
0:16:57 > 0:17:01Now, we can stop this dangerous and foolish experiment of Mr Blake's.
0:17:01 > 0:17:03Not at all.
0:17:03 > 0:17:06I'm here to witness what happens here this evening, not to stop it.
0:17:06 > 0:17:10If Franklin is mad enough to take such a risk to clear his name,
0:17:10 > 0:17:11then I am mad enough to hope...
0:17:13 > 0:17:16I wish my presence here to be kept a secret
0:17:16 > 0:17:18until the experiment has been tried.
0:17:20 > 0:17:26Dr Jennings, how afraid I am of what your re-enactment may reveal.
0:17:26 > 0:17:30Where is he now? What is he doing?
0:17:30 > 0:17:32Preparing for this evening.
0:17:35 > 0:17:38Everything has been recreated down to the last detail.
0:17:57 > 0:17:59He will dine at the same table,
0:17:59 > 0:18:02on the same menu as you did on your birthday last year.
0:18:02 > 0:18:06ECHOES: How strange. The place will be full of ghosts.
0:18:06 > 0:18:11- £20,000?!- It is indeed exquisite.
0:18:11 > 0:18:13By the light of the harvest moon!
0:18:15 > 0:18:17- Donate me your diamond. - To do what with?!
0:18:17 > 0:18:19To burn it, of course.
0:18:19 > 0:18:21SHE LAUGHS
0:18:21 > 0:18:23I'm no clairvoyant, Mr Blake,
0:18:23 > 0:18:28but your future will be short, as long as you hold on to this gem.
0:18:28 > 0:18:31The moonstone is of an estimable value in India.
0:18:31 > 0:18:35Its appointed guardians would move heaven and earth to reclaim it.
0:18:35 > 0:18:38Resisting the draw of the tobacco, Mr Franklin?
0:18:38 > 0:18:41I have nursed him to a state of sensitiveness,
0:18:41 > 0:18:43produced by deprivation of sleep
0:18:43 > 0:18:46and a sudden cessation in the habit of smoking.
0:18:46 > 0:18:51Now, what we hope is that the diamond will invade his subconscious
0:18:51 > 0:18:54as fiercely as it did last year.
0:18:54 > 0:18:57- Oh, what devil...!- High-cast... - That heathen parade!
0:18:57 > 0:18:59Are there thieves in the house?
0:18:59 > 0:19:00OVERLAPPING DIALOGUE
0:19:00 > 0:19:03The moonstone, it's gone!
0:19:06 > 0:19:07BELL RINGS
0:19:07 > 0:19:09We must prepare the dose.
0:19:11 > 0:19:12I must have a hand in it.
0:19:12 > 0:19:14Not that I mistrust you.
0:19:14 > 0:19:18I-I shall risk increasing the dose
0:19:18 > 0:19:21of 25 minims to 40.
0:19:21 > 0:19:26On this occasion, Mr Blake is aware that he is taking laudanum.
0:19:26 > 0:19:30It is the equivalent, physiologically-speaking,
0:19:30 > 0:19:35to his having a certain capacity in him to resist the effects.
0:19:35 > 0:19:37Are you sure it will do no harm?
0:19:37 > 0:19:39Franklin is well aware of the risks involved.
0:19:47 > 0:19:48You...you must place this
0:19:48 > 0:19:52where you put the moonstone last year, and then wait.
0:19:52 > 0:19:55It all happened that way on my birthday night.
0:19:56 > 0:19:59It must all happen again in the same way, mustn't it?
0:20:02 > 0:20:04It is time.
0:20:40 > 0:20:45If we do succeed tonight... and retrieve the diamond,
0:20:45 > 0:20:48but we send it to Amsterdam to have it cut up and destroyed...
0:20:52 > 0:20:54..and if it is cut up, well...
0:20:57 > 0:20:59..will the curse be...?
0:21:15 > 0:21:17CONSTANT TICKING
0:21:24 > 0:21:25FRANKLIN GASPS FOR BREATH
0:21:46 > 0:21:47That cursed jewel!
0:21:47 > 0:21:50I should never have let her have it!
0:21:50 > 0:21:52The doubt about the safety of the diamond
0:21:52 > 0:21:54is the dominant impression in... in the brain!
0:21:54 > 0:21:57See...see how the pupils contract!
0:21:57 > 0:22:00The opium has taken hold.
0:23:14 > 0:23:16The sedative influence has taken hold.
0:23:16 > 0:23:18The experiment is at an end.
0:23:18 > 0:23:19He can sleep here.
0:23:26 > 0:23:29He will probably remain unconscious for the next six or seven hours.
0:23:49 > 0:23:54Dr Jennings, I must beg your pardon for doubting you.
0:23:54 > 0:23:58Having proved that Franklin Blake did take the diamond,
0:23:58 > 0:24:01unwittingly and under the influence of opium,
0:24:01 > 0:24:04you have nonetheless done him an inestimable service.
0:24:04 > 0:24:07The first object of your experiment
0:24:07 > 0:24:10has indeed been successful, Dr Jennings,
0:24:10 > 0:24:12and, for that, I thank you.
0:24:12 > 0:24:13However...
0:24:15 > 0:24:18..had Franklin led us to the moonstone,
0:24:18 > 0:24:22had he insensible hidden it somewhere in the house,
0:24:22 > 0:24:25I would've known he did not take the diamond for mercenary gain.
0:24:25 > 0:24:30But the sedative influence took hold too soon and we have proved nothing.
0:24:32 > 0:24:35Did he hide it? Did he drop it?
0:24:35 > 0:24:38Was it found? And if so, who found it?
0:24:39 > 0:24:42Until we know who took the diamond to London,
0:24:42 > 0:24:45the sergeant's allegations still hang over me.
0:24:45 > 0:24:49The trust that Franklin and I once shared
0:24:49 > 0:24:53remains...irreparably...broken
0:24:53 > 0:24:56until we know what really happened.
0:24:59 > 0:25:03Goodbye, sir. I shall head to the continent on Monday as planned.
0:25:03 > 0:25:07I beg you, do not tell Franklin I was here.
0:25:19 > 0:25:20Franklin?
0:25:20 > 0:25:22Franklin?
0:25:32 > 0:25:34I thought I dreamed.
0:25:36 > 0:25:38Was Rachel here?
0:25:40 > 0:25:43We...we...we have reason both to rejoice over success
0:25:43 > 0:25:45and to lament over failure.
0:25:45 > 0:25:49You took the diamond, just as Rachel said she saw you do.
0:25:49 > 0:25:53Unfortunately, the sedative effect took hold sooner than we'd hoped.
0:25:53 > 0:25:56You dropped the diamond on the floor.
0:25:56 > 0:25:58No. No, I didn't.
0:25:58 > 0:26:01I'm afraid you did, sir.
0:26:01 > 0:26:03I...I left Rachel's room
0:26:03 > 0:26:05and I met someone in the corridor.
0:26:05 > 0:26:07That is not what happened.
0:26:07 > 0:26:09You dropped the jewel, sir.
0:26:09 > 0:26:11Three of us witnessed it.
0:26:11 > 0:26:15No, no. No, last year, man. I'm talking about last year, not last night.
0:26:16 > 0:26:19The experiment must've awoken the memory, as you predicted.
0:26:21 > 0:26:25I gave the diamond to someone in the corridor.
0:26:25 > 0:26:27They...they offered to help me.
0:26:27 > 0:26:30They said they would take the diamond to the bank
0:26:30 > 0:26:32to keep it safe for me.
0:26:32 > 0:26:34Who...who was it?
0:26:36 > 0:26:39It must've been somebody in the house this time last year.
0:26:39 > 0:26:41Then we're back where we started!
0:26:44 > 0:26:46I...I remember Rachel.
0:26:49 > 0:26:51Why do I remember Rachel being here?
0:26:51 > 0:26:53Can it be I gave her the diamond?
0:26:55 > 0:26:57No, no. That cannot be.
0:26:57 > 0:26:59The laudanum lies.
0:26:59 > 0:27:01Your theory, Dr Jennings,
0:27:01 > 0:27:04is that Franklin hid the moonstone somewhere.
0:27:04 > 0:27:08Franklin now believes that he gave the moonstone to someone.
0:27:08 > 0:27:11We also have the theory that the moonstone is, in fact, in possession
0:27:11 > 0:27:13of Mr Luker's bankers in London.
0:27:13 > 0:27:15Now, we won't contest which of those theories is correct.
0:27:15 > 0:27:18The only which one is in the right place to be put to the test.
0:27:18 > 0:27:21In a few days' time, Luker must claim that jewel
0:27:21 > 0:27:23from his bank as himself,
0:27:23 > 0:27:25as it was deposited in his name.
0:27:25 > 0:27:28Now, as we speak, I've asked Sergeant Cuff
0:27:28 > 0:27:30to prepare to set a watch on him at the bank.
0:27:30 > 0:27:33But in a few days, Miss Rachel will be gone.
0:27:33 > 0:27:36Then I prove my innocence and I follow her.
0:27:36 > 0:27:40I would travel further than the continent to win back Rachel's heart,
0:27:40 > 0:27:43but to do so, I must do more than just retrieve the diamond.
0:27:43 > 0:27:45Trust between us can only grow again if I find out
0:27:45 > 0:27:48who took the diamond to London and pledged it to Mr Luker,
0:27:48 > 0:27:51thus...thus proving both my innocence and hers.
0:27:51 > 0:27:53Patience, Franklin, patience.
0:27:53 > 0:27:56I am aware that you are in pursuit of something
0:27:56 > 0:27:58far more precious than a jewel, but hear me out.
0:27:58 > 0:28:03Luker will not dare to leave the bank with the jewel.
0:28:03 > 0:28:06Remember, the guardians also wait to redeem their gem,
0:28:06 > 0:28:09and he has suffered at their hands already.
0:28:09 > 0:28:11No. I'm acting on the chance
0:28:11 > 0:28:14that the person who pledged that jewel to Luker
0:28:14 > 0:28:18must now await for him into the bank in order to redeem it.
0:28:18 > 0:28:22That being the case, we may lay our hands on him!
0:28:24 > 0:28:26If we succeed, we clear up the mystery
0:28:26 > 0:28:28exactly the point where it baffles us now.
0:28:31 > 0:28:33Sir, a message for you.
0:28:49 > 0:28:51Just in time, sirs.
0:28:56 > 0:28:58Mr Luker was seen two hours ago
0:28:58 > 0:29:01leaving his house in Lambeth in a cab.
0:29:01 > 0:29:03He was accompanied by two men
0:29:03 > 0:29:07who my men say were police officers in plain clothes.
0:29:07 > 0:29:09Now, if Mr Luker's dread of the guardians
0:29:09 > 0:29:13is at the bottom of this precaution, the inference is plain enough.
0:29:13 > 0:29:16He's going to take the diamond out of the bank.
0:29:16 > 0:29:17Have you seen Luker?
0:29:17 > 0:29:21I saw him an hour since, going to an office down there.
0:29:21 > 0:29:24- Well, has he come out again yet? - No, but we must on our mettle.
0:29:26 > 0:29:30The stout man, the man in the grey hat and the sailor.
0:29:30 > 0:29:33Any one of these has the potential to receive the diamond.
0:29:33 > 0:29:36We must be ready to follow any of them.
0:29:36 > 0:29:39Whoever takes the jewel from Mr Luker
0:29:39 > 0:29:41is likely to be an intermediary
0:29:41 > 0:29:43and will pass it on to our thief.
0:29:43 > 0:29:46Now, the guardians have their spies somewhere
0:29:46 > 0:29:48and I think it is that sailor.
0:30:03 > 0:30:05- Here he is now!- If he passes the jewel to anyone, he will do it now.
0:30:05 > 0:30:09We...we can't degrade ourselves by following them.
0:30:10 > 0:30:13I shall take the stout man, you take the man in the grey hat.
0:30:15 > 0:30:17Ezra can take the sailor.
0:30:22 > 0:30:24Keep an eye on Septimus Luker.
0:30:24 > 0:30:27We may have made a mistake and the diamond is still in his possession.
0:30:33 > 0:30:36- Rachel!- It...it...it cannot be.
0:30:36 > 0:30:38She left the country yesterday.
0:30:38 > 0:30:40So she gave us to believe.
0:30:42 > 0:30:44You are to follow the sailor.
0:30:44 > 0:30:46Then you must follow her.
0:30:59 > 0:31:03The man in the grey hat has spent 30 years in service to the chemist.
0:31:03 > 0:31:07He was here at the bank to deposit money into his master's account.
0:31:07 > 0:31:11He knows no more about the moonstone than the babe unborn!
0:31:11 > 0:31:14The gentleman I pursued turned out to be
0:31:14 > 0:31:18a respectable master ironmonger in Eastcheap.
0:31:19 > 0:31:21I have failed you all and I have failed myself.
0:31:21 > 0:31:25- I believe we should pursue the case no further.- Why? What on earth's the matter, sir?
0:31:25 > 0:31:29There was a...a young lady.
0:31:29 > 0:31:32Luker spoke to her, something was passed between them.
0:31:32 > 0:31:35I could not see her face, but she had unmistakably the poise of...
0:31:35 > 0:31:38Are you saying you suspect Miss Rachel after all?
0:31:38 > 0:31:40But that is not possible, sir!
0:31:40 > 0:31:42She left for the continent yesterday on the Aurora!
0:31:42 > 0:31:46No, sir. The departure has been delayed because of an incident.
0:31:46 > 0:31:48The docks are in chaos.
0:31:48 > 0:31:52The Aurora will not set sail till tomorrow afternoon.
0:31:52 > 0:31:54Where did the young lady you followed go?
0:31:54 > 0:31:57I am the worst amateur detective that ever tried hands at the trade.
0:31:57 > 0:32:00I'm afraid I lost sight of her.
0:32:00 > 0:32:01I'm ending the inquiry.
0:32:01 > 0:32:03Thank you for your services, sir, you are dismissed.
0:32:03 > 0:32:05No, no, no, no, no, wait!
0:32:05 > 0:32:08What of Dr Jennings and the sailor?
0:32:08 > 0:32:11Let us wait until we have news from him before we take any action.
0:32:12 > 0:32:15I will make a surprise visit to Miss Verinder.
0:32:15 > 0:32:18It may be we can clear her name immediately.
0:32:28 > 0:32:31KNOCK AT DOOR
0:32:31 > 0:32:32Have you found her?
0:32:32 > 0:32:37She has not been seen since she left home this afternoon on charity work.
0:32:37 > 0:32:40Her maid was unable, or perhaps unwilling,
0:32:40 > 0:32:42to let me know where she is.
0:32:44 > 0:32:47Well, perhaps you and Miss Clack have been right all along, Sergeant.
0:32:47 > 0:32:50I do not think that way any more.
0:32:50 > 0:32:53I wrongly suspected Rachel last year.
0:32:53 > 0:32:55I may be suspecting the wrong person now.
0:32:55 > 0:32:59But wait to open this, Mr Blake, till you are at the truth,
0:32:59 > 0:33:02and compare the name of the guilty person
0:33:02 > 0:33:05with the name I've written on this note.
0:33:05 > 0:33:07KNOCK AT DOOR
0:33:10 > 0:33:11Thank you.
0:33:17 > 0:33:19This is Ezra's hand.
0:33:19 > 0:33:21READS: I think I have tracked down the diamond.
0:33:24 > 0:33:27I am sure that also in pursuit are the guardians.
0:33:27 > 0:33:29They followed the same Hackney carriage I did
0:33:29 > 0:33:32down to the docks from Lombard Street to Tower Wharf,
0:33:32 > 0:33:34only to discover that the departure of the Aurora
0:33:34 > 0:33:36was delayed until tomorrow afternoon
0:33:36 > 0:33:39and that her destination had changed to Holland.
0:33:39 > 0:33:43Amsterdam is where Murthwaite advised us to get the diamond cut!
0:33:45 > 0:33:47- EZRA:- I am now at the Wheel of Fortune lodging house.
0:33:47 > 0:33:51Our thief and the diamond are safe, awaiting to sail tomorrow.
0:33:51 > 0:33:54Sirs, I am happy to see you. I kept close watch.
0:33:54 > 0:33:57Our thief is safe upstairs in Room 10.
0:33:58 > 0:34:00With the diamond!
0:34:00 > 0:34:02Rachel! Rachel!
0:34:03 > 0:34:05- Sir!- Stand back, sir!
0:34:08 > 0:34:11Together now. One, two, three!
0:34:24 > 0:34:26- He's dead. - We need to get the police.
0:34:26 > 0:34:28- I shall go.- Look!
0:34:31 > 0:34:35- READS:- Deposited with Messrs Bush by Septimus Luker,
0:34:35 > 0:34:36a valuable of great price.
0:34:36 > 0:34:40To be only given up on the personal application of Mr Luker.
0:34:40 > 0:34:42GUST OF WIND
0:34:50 > 0:34:52There's a passage. It's a priest's hole.
0:34:54 > 0:34:57Seems the guardians have finally recovered their jewel.
0:34:59 > 0:35:02Look at the paper. The paper I wrote on earlier.
0:35:08 > 0:35:10- That cannot be.- It is.
0:35:18 > 0:35:20- Godfrey!- Good God!
0:35:32 > 0:35:33My cousin!
0:35:35 > 0:35:37Murdered!
0:35:43 > 0:35:46Dr Jennings is with the coroner now.
0:35:46 > 0:35:49He...he believes Godfrey was smothered.
0:35:50 > 0:35:54It is little comfort, but he will not have felt pain.
0:35:57 > 0:36:00I know his crime does not warrant such a shocking and murderous end,
0:36:00 > 0:36:03but the truth remains, Rachel, Godfrey was the thief.
0:36:04 > 0:36:06It was Godfrey who stole your diamond.
0:36:07 > 0:36:09There is some mistake!
0:36:09 > 0:36:12This makes no sense!
0:36:12 > 0:36:16If he had the diamond, why would he seek to marry me for my money?
0:36:18 > 0:36:19KNOCK AT DOOR
0:36:19 > 0:36:22Madam, your carriage awaits.
0:36:25 > 0:36:27How do we know Godfrey was not framed?
0:36:27 > 0:36:30Where is the proof? Where is the witness?
0:36:30 > 0:36:33There is no question but Luker was involved.
0:36:33 > 0:36:37This being now a murder case, if he wishes to escape prosecution,
0:36:37 > 0:36:40he must needs explain himself.
0:36:40 > 0:36:43Madam, if we are to catch our boat, we must away.
0:36:51 > 0:36:54- Rachel!- Penelope, tell the driver there has been a change of plan.
0:36:58 > 0:37:03Come, we shall go together to this moneylender...now.
0:37:07 > 0:37:08I was more than surprised
0:37:08 > 0:37:12when Mr Godfrey Ablewhite produced the moonstone.
0:37:12 > 0:37:15In my experience, no such diamond
0:37:15 > 0:37:18was in the possession of any private person in Europe.
0:37:24 > 0:37:26Well, Mr Luker?
0:37:27 > 0:37:30I have a debt to pay to a gentleman for who I'm a trustee tomorrow.
0:37:30 > 0:37:32Can you help or not? I need to know!
0:37:33 > 0:37:38'My estimate, allowing for the flaw in the stone, was £20,000.'
0:37:38 > 0:37:40How did you come by this?
0:37:41 > 0:37:43'Tis a family heirloom.
0:37:45 > 0:37:48Come, Mr Ablewhite, that won't do.
0:37:52 > 0:37:54My cousin inherited it.
0:37:54 > 0:37:57But is too afraid to have it in the house.
0:37:57 > 0:38:00We concocted a little plan to pretend it stolen to keep it safe.
0:38:03 > 0:38:06- Please...!- I cannot do business involving such large sums.
0:38:09 > 0:38:11And risks to myself.
0:38:12 > 0:38:14If I cannot trust my client...
0:38:17 > 0:38:20'And then, in his desperation,
0:38:20 > 0:38:24'he came out with a new and amended version of the affair.'
0:38:24 > 0:38:27APPROACHING FOOTSTEPS
0:38:55 > 0:38:57Take it to the bank.
0:38:57 > 0:38:59It is safe there.
0:38:59 > 0:39:01It is not safe here.
0:39:02 > 0:39:04I cannot take it.
0:39:05 > 0:39:08My...my head is like lead
0:39:08 > 0:39:11and I cannot feel my feet beneath me.
0:39:14 > 0:39:17When morning came, your language and conduct
0:39:17 > 0:39:19showed that you were absolutely ignorant
0:39:19 > 0:39:23of what you had said and done overnight.
0:39:23 > 0:39:27And yours, you were resolved to say nothing on your side.
0:39:29 > 0:39:33The moonstone belonged to Godfrey Ablewhite,
0:39:33 > 0:39:36for him to do with as he pleased.
0:39:42 > 0:39:44Thus I persuaded him
0:39:44 > 0:39:48to pawn the diamond for well below its value
0:39:48 > 0:39:53by threatening to tell of its theft if he took it elsewhere.
0:39:53 > 0:39:58Good business thrives on the back of crooked men.
0:39:59 > 0:40:00Hm.
0:40:02 > 0:40:05The money from Mr Luker here serviced Godfrey's immediate debts,
0:40:05 > 0:40:09but, of course, the moonstone was worth so much more.
0:40:09 > 0:40:12That is why he had to continue fortune-hunting
0:40:12 > 0:40:15in order to redeem the diamond and realise its full value.
0:40:15 > 0:40:18Which is why he sought out your poor late mother's will
0:40:18 > 0:40:21and proposed to you with mercenary alacrity.
0:40:21 > 0:40:24How did he eventually raise the money to redeem the pledge?
0:40:24 > 0:40:28I had word today of the unexpected death of a lady
0:40:28 > 0:40:31whose estate listed a certain Mr Ablewhite
0:40:31 > 0:40:34as the principal beneficiary.
0:40:34 > 0:40:36You...you cannot mean...
0:40:36 > 0:40:41If he wasn't already murdered, we'd be hanging him for this.
0:40:52 > 0:40:54SHE SOBS
0:40:55 > 0:40:58Rachel, I am so sorry you've been dragged back into this.
0:40:58 > 0:41:02No, Franklin, it is I who owe you an apology.
0:41:02 > 0:41:05You have been most unfairly wronged. Please forgive me.
0:41:05 > 0:41:09I fear I can never make amends for what I have caused you to suffer.
0:41:09 > 0:41:11Oh, but you can.
0:41:12 > 0:41:16One word will release me from the agony of last year.
0:41:21 > 0:41:23Rachel Verinder,
0:41:23 > 0:41:25will you do me the honour of being my wife?
0:41:30 > 0:41:32Yes.
0:41:59 > 0:42:02Well, if it isn't Mr and Mrs Franklin Blake!
0:42:15 > 0:42:17THEY LAUGH
0:42:29 > 0:42:31And what became of the moonstone?
0:42:32 > 0:42:35The three guardians carried it back to India on a ship.
0:42:37 > 0:42:40At the ceremony that followed their arrival, a curtain was drawn aside
0:42:40 > 0:42:42and the Shrine of Vishnu was disclosed to view...
0:42:42 > 0:42:45- CHILD:- ..And the Shrine of Vishnu was disclosed to view.
0:42:45 > 0:42:49There in the forehead of the deity gleams the yellow diamond,
0:42:49 > 0:42:53whose splendour had last shone in England.
0:42:53 > 0:42:56Finally, the moonstone looked forth once more
0:42:56 > 0:42:58over the walls of the sacred city
0:42:58 > 0:43:01in which its story first began.
0:43:01 > 0:43:03APPLAUSE