0:02:19 > 0:02:20Ned!
0:02:27 > 0:02:30Have another, dearie.
0:02:30 > 0:02:32Won't do you no harm.
0:02:35 > 0:02:36Smoke another pipe.
0:02:42 > 0:02:45Never make out a word them saying.
0:02:45 > 0:02:48Foreigners...
0:02:48 > 0:02:50English...
0:02:50 > 0:02:52Makes no odds.
0:02:52 > 0:02:57HE MUTTERS NONSENSICALLY
0:02:57 > 0:03:00Nonsense.
0:03:00 > 0:03:01It's just nonsense.
0:03:01 > 0:03:07We all talk nonsense, dearie, when the dream's upon us.
0:03:47 > 0:03:51When the wicked man turneth away
0:03:51 > 0:03:54from his wickedness that he hath committed...
0:03:56 > 0:04:01..and doeth that which is lawful and right...
0:04:12 > 0:04:14..he shall save his soul alive.
0:04:19 > 0:04:22I acknowledge my transgressions,
0:04:22 > 0:04:25and my sin is ever before me.
0:04:25 > 0:04:30Repent ye, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.
0:04:30 > 0:04:35# Oh, come, let us sing unto the Lord
0:04:35 > 0:04:42# Let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation... #
0:04:42 > 0:04:45Something to keep an eye on.
0:04:45 > 0:04:47- Mr Crisparkle!- Thank you, Reverend.
0:04:52 > 0:04:56- Thank you for your forbearance. - Not ill, Mr Jasper?
0:04:56 > 0:04:57Only that sleep is hard to find.
0:04:57 > 0:04:59My mother will be thrilled
0:04:59 > 0:05:05to offer you her famous medicine chest once again. Previously she only had me to experiment on.
0:05:05 > 0:05:07The lady's very kind. But I expect my nephew today.
0:05:07 > 0:05:09Ah, I'm very glad to hear it!
0:05:09 > 0:05:12Edwin will do you more good than a dozen medicine chests.
0:05:30 > 0:05:33If he does not come soon I will die of longing!
0:05:33 > 0:05:35Rosa has no idea how lucky she is.
0:05:35 > 0:05:39Oh, for heaven's sake, you know nothing about it.
0:05:39 > 0:05:43There he is! Oh, look at his lovely hair!
0:05:43 > 0:05:46Will you please be quiet?!
0:05:49 > 0:05:51It's so romantic I could faint.
0:05:58 > 0:06:00Mr Edwin Drood to see Miss Rosa Bud.
0:06:05 > 0:06:08THEY GIGGLE
0:06:08 > 0:06:09It is just so absurd.
0:06:09 > 0:06:11What is so absurd, Rosie?
0:06:11 > 0:06:14The whole thing. Girls and servants scuttling about giggling,
0:06:14 > 0:06:15when it's only you come to call.
0:06:15 > 0:06:18That's a nice way to welcome your fiance!
0:06:18 > 0:06:19Rosie...
0:06:19 > 0:06:23I can't kiss you, Eddy, because I've got a pear drop in my mouth.
0:06:23 > 0:06:25Miss Twinkleton.
0:06:25 > 0:06:28How do you do, Mr Drood?
0:06:28 > 0:06:30Very glad indeed to have the pleasure once more.
0:06:30 > 0:06:32Pray excuse me.
0:06:32 > 0:06:34Tweezers. Ah!
0:06:43 > 0:06:45Shall I just go?
0:06:45 > 0:06:49No. No, not so soon, the girls will only want to know why.
0:06:49 > 0:06:52So, how are you?
0:06:52 > 0:06:55I'd like to reply much the better for seeing you, Rosie.
0:07:16 > 0:07:19Jack?
0:07:22 > 0:07:24BELLS CHIME
0:07:24 > 0:07:26Jack?
0:07:27 > 0:07:29- Agh!- Jack, you monster!
0:07:29 > 0:07:32- Ned!- Put me down! - Ned! Oh, Ned, at last.
0:07:32 > 0:07:35Are you wet? Cold? Hungry?
0:07:35 > 0:07:38Not wet, not cold. Hungry, yes, hungry as a horse.
0:07:38 > 0:07:41Don't mollycoddle me, Jack, there's a good fellow.
0:07:41 > 0:07:42Let me look at you.
0:07:46 > 0:07:48You're late.
0:07:48 > 0:07:50I looked in on Rosa first.
0:07:53 > 0:07:58Oh, that's a dreadful old picture, Jack. I've more skill now.
0:07:58 > 0:07:59I'd draw you another one tomorrow,
0:07:59 > 0:08:02but I can't be sure she'll ever show me that smile again.
0:08:02 > 0:08:05To a young bride, nervously awaiting her nuptial day.
0:08:05 > 0:08:06Nervous! Huh!
0:08:06 > 0:08:08Miss Rosa is all thorns and no petals.
0:08:08 > 0:08:11- Ned! - Oh, but the girl provokes me so!
0:08:11 > 0:08:15Miss Pert. Miss Scornful.
0:08:15 > 0:08:17Nothing I say ever pleases her.
0:08:17 > 0:08:19That young lady is too good for you, boy.
0:08:19 > 0:08:21God, if only I could choose, Jack.
0:08:21 > 0:08:24The loveliest girl in the world is yours,
0:08:24 > 0:08:27and you should thank God as well as your father for it.
0:08:27 > 0:08:29Oh, you can say so, it's all very well for you.
0:08:29 > 0:08:34Your life's not mapped out for you, your work and your marriage,
0:08:34 > 0:08:38all to scale and lined and dotted out like some infernal surveyor's plan.
0:08:38 > 0:08:41- You can choose for yourself.- Ha!
0:08:41 > 0:08:43Jack, you look ghastly.
0:08:43 > 0:08:45What is it? You're frightening me!
0:08:45 > 0:08:49Now, don't you mollycoddly me. My medicine's at my bed.
0:08:53 > 0:08:55My Jack's an opium eater!
0:08:57 > 0:08:59You disapprove?
0:08:59 > 0:09:02No, no, no. If laudanum helps to ease the pain...
0:09:02 > 0:09:06To forget. To forget the pain. To forget this place.
0:09:06 > 0:09:08You can't be unhappy here, Jack.
0:09:08 > 0:09:12Not when you've so exactly found your niche in life?
0:09:12 > 0:09:15You're so deeply respected in this queer old place.
0:09:15 > 0:09:18- And you've your heavenly music. - I hate it, Ned.
0:09:18 > 0:09:21I hate the grinding monotony of it.
0:09:21 > 0:09:23What is a man's life,
0:09:23 > 0:09:26where his only choice is which hymn number to select today?
0:09:26 > 0:09:31See how even a poor choirmaster may suffer the itch of ambition,
0:09:31 > 0:09:34but these are private thoughts and this is a confidence between us.
0:09:34 > 0:09:36Of course. It shall be sacredly preserved.
0:09:36 > 0:09:40Take it as a warning, then.
0:09:40 > 0:09:42My dear fellow, you need never fear
0:09:42 > 0:09:47that I will give in to the same despair. Look at me, I'm smiling!
0:09:47 > 0:09:49For in a few months, I shall carry Rosa away from school
0:09:49 > 0:09:52as Mrs Edwin Drood, and she shall set sail with me
0:09:52 > 0:09:54for our new life in the east.
0:09:54 > 0:09:57And we shall be happy, because we shall have made up our minds to be.
0:09:59 > 0:10:01You won't be warned, then?
0:10:03 > 0:10:05Dear Jack!
0:10:22 > 0:10:26Hah! Surrender, wicked mirror! Your money or your life.
0:10:26 > 0:10:29While you're waiting for the poor item to decide,
0:10:29 > 0:10:31I have a job for you.
0:10:34 > 0:10:38That's far too many. Our poor guest will boil.
0:10:38 > 0:10:39On the contrary, Sept,
0:10:39 > 0:10:44our climate will be a freezing torment to a tropical soul.
0:10:44 > 0:10:46- Oh!- What?
0:10:46 > 0:10:50What if the bellringers disturb his sleep?
0:10:50 > 0:10:53I'll move the cathedral, shall I?
0:10:58 > 0:10:59Ah!
0:11:04 > 0:11:07Come on, then.
0:11:07 > 0:11:08What we got today, Mr Durdles?
0:11:08 > 0:11:10Who's this "we" when he's at home?
0:11:10 > 0:11:13This is Durdles' dinner entirely,
0:11:13 > 0:11:16what he is sharing with a workhouse ragamuffin
0:11:16 > 0:11:18- out of the goodness of his heart. - Cheese!- Yeah.
0:11:21 > 0:11:24CHORISTERS SING
0:11:30 > 0:11:33Blooming racket's enough to put an honest man off his lunch.
0:11:33 > 0:11:34Ow!
0:11:35 > 0:11:39Stop, stop, stop, stop!
0:11:39 > 0:11:43I know there are a lot of low notes,
0:11:43 > 0:11:47but when did you hear me say you're allowed to growl
0:11:47 > 0:11:50like a pack of Bengal tigers?
0:11:50 > 0:11:53Keep it bright, keep that smile in your mouths.
0:11:53 > 0:11:56The key note is IS G, but it is an odd form of G minor,
0:11:56 > 0:12:01so don't root down in mud and boots, think upwards, think of heaven.
0:12:01 > 0:12:05And this time prove to me you can sing sharp as well as flat.
0:12:07 > 0:12:13# According to thy word
0:12:13 > 0:12:17# For mine eyes have seen
0:12:17 > 0:12:22# Thy salvation
0:12:22 > 0:12:27# Which thou hast prepared
0:12:27 > 0:12:37# Before the face of all people... #
0:12:37 > 0:12:44Ethelinda, reverential wife of Mr Thomas Sapsea.
0:12:44 > 0:12:50Mayor, estate agent, auctioneer, etc, etc, etc,
0:12:50 > 0:12:54of this very city, whose knowledge of the world,
0:12:54 > 0:12:57though somewhat extensive, never brought him acquainted
0:12:57 > 0:13:02with a spirit more capable of looking up to him.
0:13:02 > 0:13:04That spirit being your late wife?
0:13:04 > 0:13:10Stranger, pause, and ask thyself the question.
0:13:10 > 0:13:12Canst thou do likewise?
0:13:12 > 0:13:16If not, with a blush, retire.
0:13:19 > 0:13:20A fine tribute.
0:13:20 > 0:13:22I do not reproach myself, sir.
0:13:22 > 0:13:24A little long, perhaps?
0:13:24 > 0:13:27But there have been times when I have asked myself the question,
0:13:27 > 0:13:31what if her husband had not been so very superior to her?
0:13:31 > 0:13:33If she had not had to look up so high,
0:13:33 > 0:13:38what might have been the stimulating effect upon her liver?
0:13:41 > 0:13:43Durdles, what say you as to length?
0:13:43 > 0:13:44Hold it up for us.
0:13:46 > 0:13:51It'll fit within an eighth of an inch. Give us the key.
0:13:51 > 0:13:56Um, surely this fine inscription
0:13:56 > 0:13:59is not to be hidden from public view inside the crypt?
0:13:59 > 0:14:03When Durdles goes back to put a touch or a finish on his work,
0:14:03 > 0:14:06Durdles likes to check the whole job.
0:14:06 > 0:14:09Inside and outside.
0:14:09 > 0:14:12Key, Mr Mayor, if you please.
0:14:12 > 0:14:16Why, Durdles, you're overloaded with ironmongery.
0:14:16 > 0:14:19Weighed down by life, is Durdles.
0:14:19 > 0:14:22And I'm sure the mayor's key is the heaviest of all.
0:14:22 > 0:14:25Indeed, sir, it shall be.
0:14:25 > 0:14:27Oh, may I?
0:14:29 > 0:14:30Most impressive.
0:14:32 > 0:14:37You may retain the key, Durdles, for I have another,
0:14:37 > 0:14:40and how the cold is creeping into my bones.
0:14:41 > 0:14:43Good day to you both.
0:14:43 > 0:14:44Good day, Mr Sapsea.
0:14:49 > 0:14:52Yours is a curious existence.
0:14:53 > 0:14:54Yours is another.
0:14:54 > 0:14:58In as much as we both inhabit the same old earthy,
0:14:58 > 0:15:00chilly, never-changing place.
0:15:00 > 0:15:03But there's more mystery and interest in your work.
0:15:03 > 0:15:06Nobody knows this place like Durdles.
0:15:07 > 0:15:11Every corner of it has Durdles' handiwork upon it.
0:15:12 > 0:15:15Find his way round it blindfold.
0:15:15 > 0:15:16Day or night.
0:15:16 > 0:15:18You shall show me.
0:15:20 > 0:15:23Durdles got better things to do.
0:15:38 > 0:15:39Excuse me, boys.
0:15:42 > 0:15:44Miss Landless?
0:15:45 > 0:15:47Oh, welcome to Cloisterham.
0:15:47 > 0:15:50I'm Reverend Septimus Crisparkle. How do you do?
0:15:50 > 0:15:51How do you do, sir?
0:15:56 > 0:16:00- And this must be... - My brother, Neville.
0:16:08 > 0:16:09Splendid.
0:16:11 > 0:16:18My dear children, such a dreadfully long voyage, but you're home now.
0:16:25 > 0:16:28100 miles south of Jaffna, I believe?
0:16:28 > 0:16:29Yes, sir.
0:16:34 > 0:16:38Dutch, and then French, till we British got hold of it.
0:16:39 > 0:16:42The harbour, you see. Very fine.
0:16:44 > 0:16:47Trincomalee! What a tongue-twister.
0:16:49 > 0:16:53It means Lord of the Sacred Hill in our mother's language.
0:16:53 > 0:16:55Yes, your mother...
0:16:55 > 0:16:56Was a Christian lady.
0:16:56 > 0:16:58Oh, of course.
0:16:58 > 0:17:02The letter from the mission school related to us
0:17:02 > 0:17:05the sad news of the death of your stepfather.
0:17:05 > 0:17:06To be orphaned twice...
0:17:06 > 0:17:08We have each other.
0:17:16 > 0:17:19"Trincomalee! What a tongue-twister?"
0:17:19 > 0:17:22It's like talking to a pair of brick walls.
0:17:22 > 0:17:24Perhaps in the company of other young people...
0:17:24 > 0:17:27Oh, round some up, Sept. Quick as you can!
0:17:28 > 0:17:31Boilers again. Boilers and pyramids and canals.
0:17:31 > 0:17:36How can you not take an interest in the triumphs of engineering that'll change an undeveloped country?
0:17:36 > 0:17:40Who cares about Egypt?! Talk about something else.
0:17:40 > 0:17:43- Next, you'll say you don't want to come.- You're being ridiculous.
0:17:43 > 0:17:45Mr Neville Landless, Miss Helena Landless,
0:17:45 > 0:17:50may I present to you Miss Rosa Bud and Mr Edwin Drood?
0:17:50 > 0:17:52How do you do?
0:17:55 > 0:17:57I see I disappoint you.
0:17:58 > 0:18:02An unusual name, sir, but familiar to us,
0:18:02 > 0:18:08as a Mr Drood was among the kindly benefactors of our mission school.
0:18:08 > 0:18:12Not I, Miss Landless, I have not yet set foot in the tropics,
0:18:12 > 0:18:16nor my father either, who is dead these nine years.
0:18:19 > 0:18:20I am more than sorry to hear that.
0:18:20 > 0:18:24Miss Twinkleton, your new pupil.
0:18:24 > 0:18:27And you sir, to the piano if you please. And Rosa!
0:18:27 > 0:18:30Yes, yes, come along, now.
0:18:30 > 0:18:36Oh, some songs before tea, the rule on our alternate musical Wednesdays.
0:18:36 > 0:18:39Yes, sing for our suppers, Rosie, it's the least you can do.
0:18:39 > 0:18:40Miss Helena...
0:18:45 > 0:18:46If you care to sit here.
0:18:52 > 0:18:59# Believe me if all those endearing young charms
0:18:59 > 0:19:05# Which I gaze on so fondly today
0:19:06 > 0:19:10# Were to change by tomorrow
0:19:10 > 0:19:12# And fleet in my arms
0:19:12 > 0:19:17# Like fairy gifts fading away
0:19:19 > 0:19:22# Thou wouldst still be adored
0:19:22 > 0:19:26# As this moment thou art
0:19:26 > 0:19:32# Let thy loveliness fade as it will
0:19:32 > 0:19:36# And around the dear ruin
0:19:36 > 0:19:39# Each wish of my heart
0:19:39 > 0:19:46# Would entwine itself verdantly still. #
0:19:46 > 0:19:49APPLAUSE Charming, my dear. Most mellifluous.
0:19:49 > 0:19:51HE STARTS ANOTHER SONG
0:19:51 > 0:19:54- Please, that's enough. - Oh, Rosie, what's the fuss?
0:19:54 > 0:19:57There'll be tears next, Jack, and for nothing, as usual.
0:19:57 > 0:20:02If a young lady wishes to stop, what gentleman would force her on?
0:20:02 > 0:20:07Oh, there are no gentlemen here, sir. Only a fiance and a music master.
0:20:07 > 0:20:10Shall she take orders from both of them?
0:20:10 > 0:20:14Orders? Never. But what if I beg?
0:20:14 > 0:20:17- Rosie Posie, be a dear... - Stop it. Stop it!
0:20:17 > 0:20:18Come away, come away.
0:20:18 > 0:20:21There, Jack, Miss Landless agrees with me!
0:20:21 > 0:20:25- You are a monster and she's afraid of you, too.- Never.
0:20:32 > 0:20:34Well, I think it's time for a drink...
0:20:34 > 0:20:38My guests are very young, my dear Mr Jasper, and very tired...
0:20:38 > 0:20:39I take no offence, madam, truly,
0:20:39 > 0:20:42it's only one of my sudden headaches, forgive me.
0:20:42 > 0:20:44I had already put this aside for you.
0:20:50 > 0:20:51You are most kind.
0:20:53 > 0:20:55Thank you.
0:21:14 > 0:21:17- HE LAUGHS - Do that again and I'll kill you.
0:21:17 > 0:21:19You lie!
0:21:21 > 0:21:24Get off me! Get off me! Get off!
0:21:24 > 0:21:26I could turn you off like a tap.
0:21:32 > 0:21:36I am sure Miss Bud will make you very comfortable, Miss Landless.
0:21:36 > 0:21:37Good night!
0:21:47 > 0:21:50This is my bed, and that shall be yours.
0:21:50 > 0:21:52It's beautiful.
0:21:54 > 0:21:56I hope you shall not hate sharing it with me.
0:21:56 > 0:21:59Oh, the other girls are such geese!
0:22:02 > 0:22:05Come, let me take down your hair.
0:22:10 > 0:22:13I imagine we shan't be here together for very long.
0:22:13 > 0:22:14No, indeed.
0:22:14 > 0:22:18For come the summer, I shall be married and away.
0:22:18 > 0:22:20Married to a man who makes you cry in company.
0:22:22 > 0:22:25Oh, that's just Eddy's way!
0:22:25 > 0:22:26He doesn't mean it.
0:22:28 > 0:22:30You do love him, Rosa?
0:22:30 > 0:22:32ROSA LAUGHS
0:22:32 > 0:22:33What a question!
0:22:33 > 0:22:38I have been engaged to Eddy for ever. Of course I love him.
0:22:38 > 0:22:40You are so very young.
0:22:40 > 0:22:4117.
0:22:46 > 0:22:47Sometimes I wonder...
0:22:49 > 0:22:52..how can I be sure this is what love feels like?
0:22:55 > 0:22:58I only know what I HOPE it feels like.
0:22:59 > 0:23:01THEY GIGGLE
0:23:05 > 0:23:06The other gentleman...
0:23:06 > 0:23:08Don't speak of him.
0:23:11 > 0:23:12You do know he loves you?
0:23:12 > 0:23:14Oh, don't say that out loud.
0:23:22 > 0:23:26Good sir! Our agreement.
0:23:26 > 0:23:27Who's died?
0:23:27 > 0:23:29You were to conduct me on a tour.
0:23:29 > 0:23:32The mysterious world of Durdles.
0:23:32 > 0:23:35Not tonight. Durdles is going home for his supper.
0:23:35 > 0:23:37I have all the nourishment we need.
0:23:45 > 0:23:49Watch your step, Mr Jasper.
0:23:49 > 0:23:52As fine a choirmaster as you might be up there,
0:23:52 > 0:23:55down here is Durdles the presiding spirit.
0:24:02 > 0:24:08There's people hidden away in every corner down here, Mr Jasper.
0:24:12 > 0:24:14Old 'uns that's walled up...
0:24:17 > 0:24:23..and forgotten for ever by everyone excepting Durdles.
0:24:29 > 0:24:31You spoke of nourishment?
0:24:44 > 0:24:46Not frightened of ghosts, then?
0:24:48 > 0:24:50What rational man fears the dead?
0:24:50 > 0:24:53That's true, the dead can't hurt ya.
0:24:53 > 0:24:55Give you a fright, though.
0:24:57 > 0:25:00You're not going to claim you've seen a ghost, Durdles?
0:25:00 > 0:25:01You'll disappoint me if you do.
0:25:01 > 0:25:03Not seen one, no.
0:25:06 > 0:25:09Heard one, though.
0:25:09 > 0:25:11I was enjoying my 40 winks one night,
0:25:11 > 0:25:15though the nourishment was nowhere near as good as this is,
0:25:15 > 0:25:19Mr Jasper, thanking you kindly. When what should wake me?
0:25:20 > 0:25:23The ghost of a cry, that's what.
0:25:25 > 0:25:28The ghost of one terrific shriek...
0:25:29 > 0:25:31..with an echo like a long,
0:25:31 > 0:25:36dismal, woeful howl, such as a dog gives when a person's dead.
0:25:39 > 0:25:41You speak of long ago.
0:25:41 > 0:25:43No more than a year.
0:25:43 > 0:25:46It was just when we buried poor Mrs Sapsea.
0:25:47 > 0:25:50Not ashamed to confess I thought it was her.
0:25:50 > 0:25:55The lady mayoress, crying for release from her own fresh grave.
0:25:57 > 0:26:01Not ashamed to confess I ran all the way home
0:26:01 > 0:26:05and never came back to lock up until the morning.
0:26:05 > 0:26:09The ghost of one terrific shriek.
0:26:50 > 0:26:52He terrifies me.
0:26:52 > 0:26:58When he corrects me, and strikes a note, or a chord,
0:26:58 > 0:27:03his voice is in the music...whispering...
0:27:03 > 0:27:07that he pursues me as a lover.
0:27:09 > 0:27:12What words does he use, little one?
0:27:12 > 0:27:14I could argue with words.
0:27:14 > 0:27:18But he has made a slave of me with his music.
0:27:18 > 0:27:21He has forced me to understand him without his saying a word
0:27:21 > 0:27:24and he has forced me to keep silent without his uttering a threat.
0:27:24 > 0:27:27Is that why you don't tell Edwin?
0:27:27 > 0:27:29Oh, Eddy is devoted to him!
0:27:29 > 0:27:33John Jasper is more than an uncle to him, he is a guardian and protector.
0:27:35 > 0:27:37You must never breathe a word! Promise me, on your life.
0:27:37 > 0:27:39Of course.
0:27:42 > 0:27:45Good night, little one. I'm here now.
0:27:45 > 0:27:47There's no need to be scared.
0:27:57 > 0:27:59I'm sorry about your father.
0:27:59 > 0:28:03No need to feel sorry for me, Mr Neville. I hardly knew my father, he lived so much abroad.
0:28:03 > 0:28:07- He died in action?- No! A mining accident in Upper Egypt.
0:28:07 > 0:28:08He died making money.
0:28:09 > 0:28:11Don't look so puzzled.
0:28:11 > 0:28:14He was an officer in the Royal Engineers, and no man got rich on army pay.
0:28:14 > 0:28:18Set up a pretty little construction business, which is left to me when I'm 21.
0:28:18 > 0:28:21I congratulate you. And on your other good fortune.
0:28:21 > 0:28:24- Miss Rosa?- You ask a good too many questions already, Mr Neville,
0:28:24 > 0:28:26and this matter is none of your business.
0:28:26 > 0:28:29The young lady is under one roof with my sister.
0:28:29 > 0:28:33- Not for long, thank God.- Your discourtesy does not become you.
0:28:35 > 0:28:36What an odd little thing you are.
0:28:39 > 0:28:43Ned! Ned!
0:28:43 > 0:28:44Ned, dear boy!
0:28:44 > 0:28:46You are the host in this town
0:28:46 > 0:28:49and must respect the sacred rules of hospitality!
0:28:51 > 0:28:54Ned will be off soon, Mr Neville,
0:28:54 > 0:28:59sailing away with his lady love to a life of freedom and adventures.
0:28:59 > 0:29:01Look at him lounging there like a lord.
0:29:01 > 0:29:04The world is all before him. Where to choose?
0:29:04 > 0:29:09Isn't that right, Mr Neville? Whereas we lesser mortals...
0:29:11 > 0:29:14To Ned, my dearest fellow.
0:29:18 > 0:29:19HE SPLUTTERS
0:29:19 > 0:29:24- Lord Jack, this is strong stuff for our new friend.- I can take it.
0:29:24 > 0:29:29And now a toast to Mr Neville, newly-arrived from far-flung...?
0:29:29 > 0:29:32Ceylon. Off the south coast of India.
0:29:32 > 0:29:34Mr Neville, every schoolboy knows that.
0:29:34 > 0:29:37Jack, you're quite right.
0:29:37 > 0:29:39I understand you're orphans?
0:29:39 > 0:29:42- Our mother died when we were 12 years old. - I am a damn fortunate fellow.
0:29:42 > 0:29:44I'm sorry to hear that. And your father?
0:29:44 > 0:29:47And Rosie's a damn lucky girl, if she did but know it.
0:29:47 > 0:29:49Too damn good for the likes of you.
0:29:49 > 0:29:50Now, do speak up, sir.
0:29:50 > 0:29:55You might be worth more, Mr Drood, if you had known hardship like other people.
0:29:55 > 0:29:58I find I tire very easily of the wisdom of the East.
0:29:58 > 0:29:59Hospitality, Ned...
0:29:59 > 0:30:02You talk as if you were some kind of rare and precious prize,
0:30:02 > 0:30:04but you're just a common boaster.
0:30:04 > 0:30:08You may know a black common boaster when you see him, but you are no judge of white men.
0:30:09 > 0:30:11Mr Neville, for shame!
0:30:11 > 0:30:14Ned, I beg you, I command you, back away!
0:30:14 > 0:30:18Mr Neville, I will have your weapon.
0:30:18 > 0:30:20Open your hand, sir!
0:30:35 > 0:30:38Mr Neville!
0:30:40 > 0:30:43Last night, you were not sober.
0:30:43 > 0:30:44KNOCK ON DOOR
0:30:50 > 0:30:54Through the mercy of God I was swift and strong with him,
0:30:54 > 0:30:57or he would have cut Edwin down on my hearth, murder in his heart.
0:30:57 > 0:30:59No, no, there's no need for such strong words.
0:30:59 > 0:31:02You, my dear sir, have accepted a dangerous charge into your house.
0:31:05 > 0:31:08You are our foremost man of culture, Mr Jasper.
0:31:08 > 0:31:12There is no reason why you should have known that natives
0:31:12 > 0:31:14cannot be trusted with strong drink.
0:31:14 > 0:31:17It is because I fear for your safety, dear madam,
0:31:17 > 0:31:20that I now raise my concerns.
0:31:20 > 0:31:24I appreciate the kindness of, er, of your intention.
0:31:24 > 0:31:26- Um...- Madam.
0:31:28 > 0:31:30One is forced to wonder, Mr Jasper,
0:31:30 > 0:31:33why the minor canon hadn't the courage to tell his mother himself?
0:31:37 > 0:31:44"Horum omnium fortissimi sunt Belgae."
0:31:44 > 0:31:48"Of all of these the bravest are the Belgians."
0:31:48 > 0:31:55Not Belgians, Mr Neville. No such thing as Belgians in 55BC.
0:31:55 > 0:31:57Mr Neville has begun his studies by jumping
0:31:57 > 0:31:59straight into Caesar's Gallic Wars.
0:32:01 > 0:32:05Means to lay waste to every tribe in Kent, does he?
0:32:10 > 0:32:13Translate to the end of the chapter, please,
0:32:13 > 0:32:17and we will meet again before luncheon to continue our discussion of your apology.
0:32:17 > 0:32:20- I cannot apologise to Mr Drood. - I do not present you with a choice.
0:32:23 > 0:32:28Our lives have been hard, sir. Our stepfather was a brute.
0:32:29 > 0:32:32If that is the reason for the anger in your soul, Mr Neville,
0:32:32 > 0:32:36it will be your duty to fight it with forgiveness.
0:32:36 > 0:32:38I am secretive and vengeful.
0:32:38 > 0:32:41I have the manners of a heathen and a touch of the tiger in my blood.
0:32:42 > 0:32:45Your stepfather speaks through you from beyond the grave.
0:32:45 > 0:32:48Those were his opinions of me, yes.
0:32:48 > 0:32:51It was a good thing he died when he did, or I might have killed him.
0:32:51 > 0:32:52Mr Neville!
0:32:52 > 0:32:56Nothing can justify such violent thoughts...
0:32:56 > 0:32:58You never saw him beat your twin sister.
0:32:59 > 0:33:02Not even a beloved and beautiful sister's tears.
0:33:02 > 0:33:04She never cried.
0:33:05 > 0:33:08My sister would have let him rip her to pieces
0:33:08 > 0:33:12before she would let him believe he could make her shed a tear.
0:33:14 > 0:33:19This was not idle gossip. This was the mayor of Cloisterham talking.
0:33:19 > 0:33:22Don't try to make me laugh, I'm not in the mood.
0:33:22 > 0:33:26- The difference between us is that I believe the two men were equally at fault.- And I do not.
0:33:26 > 0:33:30- But why not, Ma?- Because I don't.
0:33:30 > 0:33:33Though, of course, I am open to discussion.
0:33:33 > 0:33:35That's exactly what you're not.
0:33:49 > 0:33:52I had planned to suggest to you that we jointly hush the whole thing up
0:33:52 > 0:33:54to save the reputations of all concerned.
0:33:54 > 0:33:58Now you've discussed it with the mayor, which is to say the entire town...
0:33:58 > 0:34:03- What do you know of Neville Landless and his sister?- They are orphans in need of an education.
0:34:03 > 0:34:07Jasper, they are strangers in a strange land.
0:34:07 > 0:34:10Send them away before that boy does serious damage.
0:34:10 > 0:34:14We cannot permit one mistake to turn into a destiny which cannot be escaped.
0:34:14 > 0:34:16Such is life, surely.
0:34:17 > 0:34:20Young ladies, you may set aside your sewing.
0:34:20 > 0:34:24Miss Rosa, your guardian is here from London.
0:34:24 > 0:34:26Come along, girls!
0:34:28 > 0:34:30Ooh!
0:34:30 > 0:34:32Sir.
0:34:49 > 0:34:52My visits here are like those of the angels.
0:34:52 > 0:34:55Not that I compare myself to an angel.
0:34:55 > 0:34:58No, Mr Grewgious, sir.
0:34:58 > 0:35:02I merely refer to my visits being few and far between.
0:35:03 > 0:35:08The angels having, as we see, just run away upstairs.
0:35:08 > 0:35:09Do take a seat, sir.
0:35:12 > 0:35:16You are my guardian angel, Mr Grewgious, always.
0:35:20 > 0:35:24I refer to the guiding memorandum which I prepared earlier.
0:35:26 > 0:35:30So, my dear. "Well and happy."
0:35:30 > 0:35:32Yes, indeed, sir, thank you.
0:35:35 > 0:35:38"Pounds, shillings and pence."
0:35:38 > 0:35:40A dry subject for a young lady, but...
0:35:40 > 0:35:42I want for nothing.
0:35:46 > 0:35:48"Marriage."
0:35:53 > 0:35:56I remember how you love fresh air, Mr Grewgious.
0:35:57 > 0:35:59Do I?
0:35:59 > 0:36:02You like him, and he likes you.
0:36:02 > 0:36:04I like him very much, sir.
0:36:04 > 0:36:09- Capital.- But what happens if we don't get married?
0:36:09 > 0:36:11You haven't read your father's will?
0:36:11 > 0:36:14Um...the legal language.
0:36:14 > 0:36:19You will remain my ward for another 4 years, until you are 21,
0:36:19 > 0:36:22and then come into your inheritance just the same.
0:36:24 > 0:36:27You are really asking if you stand to lose your inheritance
0:36:27 > 0:36:31if you go against your father's wishes.
0:36:31 > 0:36:34- That sounds so dreadful.- Rosa.
0:36:34 > 0:36:37Do you suppose that if your dear father were here today
0:36:37 > 0:36:41he would want you to be unhappy in any way that can be imagined?
0:36:41 > 0:36:43Preposterous.
0:36:44 > 0:36:48My dear, two young people can only be betrothed in marriage
0:36:48 > 0:36:49of their own free will.
0:36:52 > 0:36:53Lord, bless me!
0:36:55 > 0:37:00You find me rather the worse for wear, I'm afraid.
0:37:07 > 0:37:08Um...
0:37:08 > 0:37:10May I offer you, er...
0:37:10 > 0:37:13A glass of water will suffice, thank you.
0:37:20 > 0:37:23Please, be...be seated. My manners are Pictish today.
0:37:45 > 0:37:49This is a certified copy of Rosa's father's will.
0:37:49 > 0:37:51Oh, thank you.
0:37:51 > 0:37:53Keep it safe.
0:37:53 > 0:37:56You are staying long in Cloisterham?
0:37:56 > 0:37:58Oh, no, no. Back to London as soon as I can.
0:38:04 > 0:38:12I am an awkward species of a man, with no experience of such delights,
0:38:12 > 0:38:18but I figure to myself, subject to your correction, Mr Edwin,
0:38:18 > 0:38:23that the true lover is ever impatient to be close to the object
0:38:23 > 0:38:29of his affections, seeking her company as a bird seeks its nest.
0:38:29 > 0:38:32I do write to her in between visits.
0:38:32 > 0:38:35Although I'm an engineer, not a poet.
0:38:38 > 0:38:43You will notice from your perusal of Rosa's father's will,
0:38:43 > 0:38:50a kindly allusion to a little trust, confided to me in conversation,
0:38:50 > 0:38:55to discharge at such time as I in my discretion may think best.
0:39:02 > 0:39:08This ring was removed from the dead hand of Rosa's mother,
0:39:08 > 0:39:09in my presence.
0:39:13 > 0:39:16Your placing it on her daughter's finger...
0:39:18 > 0:39:22..will be the most solemn seal upon your love.
0:39:26 > 0:39:28Take it.
0:39:32 > 0:39:34If anything should be even
0:39:34 > 0:39:37slightly amiss between you,
0:39:37 > 0:39:42if you should have even the slightest suspicion
0:39:42 > 0:39:45that you are marrying for other than
0:39:45 > 0:39:49the highest reasons of true love,
0:39:49 > 0:39:52I charge you, Edwin Drood,
0:39:52 > 0:39:55by the living and the dead,
0:39:55 > 0:39:58to bring that ring back to me.
0:40:02 > 0:40:05I give you my word.
0:40:12 > 0:40:16What a fool you must think me, Jack.
0:40:17 > 0:40:20What was it you said to me?
0:40:20 > 0:40:22"The loveliest girl in the world
0:40:22 > 0:40:25"is yours by will and testament, Ned."
0:40:25 > 0:40:28To think I ever entertained any doubts
0:40:28 > 0:40:31when it seems so real to me now.
0:40:31 > 0:40:32So sacred.
0:40:34 > 0:40:37I shan't wait until the summer.
0:40:38 > 0:40:41I shall marry Rosa on the day that I turn 21.
0:40:41 > 0:40:43Shake my hand on it.
0:40:46 > 0:40:48Thank you, dearest Jack.
0:40:51 > 0:40:54BIRDSONG
0:41:00 > 0:41:02But if we are to stay here,
0:41:02 > 0:41:05- even for a short while... - I cannot do it.
0:41:05 > 0:41:08I cannot. Now more than ever.
0:41:08 > 0:41:09Can't you see?
0:41:29 > 0:41:33I apologise if I intrude on a restorative walk.
0:41:33 > 0:41:37This is a new pleasure for us, Mr Crisparkle. We do not come from a walking country.
0:41:37 > 0:41:40I'm glad to see you become so very English so very soon.
0:41:40 > 0:41:43Miss Landless, may I come straight to the point?
0:41:43 > 0:41:45You have been not 48 hours in Cloisterham
0:41:45 > 0:41:48and already there is a notion abroad that Mr Neville
0:41:48 > 0:41:50is a dangerously passionate fellow
0:41:50 > 0:41:53of an uncontrollable and vicious temper.
0:41:53 > 0:41:56- Because we are strangers?- No.
0:41:57 > 0:41:59Well, yes, possibly.
0:41:59 > 0:42:02- Sir, he cannot help it. - His background is not an excuse.
0:42:02 > 0:42:06Mr Neville, you are clenching your fist and I dislike it.
0:42:06 > 0:42:08I cannot help it.
0:42:08 > 0:42:10He treats that beautiful creature like a doll
0:42:10 > 0:42:11and I despise him for it.
0:42:13 > 0:42:16- You've only met Miss Rosa once. - I've seen enough
0:42:16 > 0:42:19to know that Edwin Drood is not worthy of her.
0:42:21 > 0:42:23HE SIGHS
0:42:23 > 0:42:27Who knows of this unfortunate attachment?
0:42:27 > 0:42:29Only we three.
0:42:29 > 0:42:32Good. I shall rely on you, Miss Landless, to keep it that way.
0:42:32 > 0:42:35Miss Rosa is engaged to be married.
0:42:35 > 0:42:37She's not available.
0:42:40 > 0:42:42While you live under my roof, Mr Neville,
0:42:42 > 0:42:43you will not see her,
0:42:43 > 0:42:47nor contact her, nor even think about her.
0:42:47 > 0:42:51I won't tell you it will be easy. I know it won't.
0:42:51 > 0:42:53But in return, I promise I will find a way
0:42:53 > 0:42:56to help you bury this foolish argument with Edwin Drood
0:42:56 > 0:43:00before it ruins your happiness in your new home.
0:43:03 > 0:43:05For me.
0:43:09 > 0:43:12Praise the Lord. Miss Landless, you help your brother towards the light.
0:43:12 > 0:43:14Thank you.
0:43:17 > 0:43:19Oh, er...
0:43:19 > 0:43:21Tut! I'm much overpaid.
0:43:36 > 0:43:37Mr Jasper!
0:43:37 > 0:43:40- Down from London, Mr Grewgious? Something wrong?- Not at all.
0:43:40 > 0:43:44I thought to consult my pretty ward
0:43:44 > 0:43:46about her wedding plans,
0:43:46 > 0:43:50but I discover she has some little delicate feminine instinct
0:43:50 > 0:43:53that all arrangements should be made
0:43:53 > 0:43:56between her and Mr Edwin in private.
0:43:56 > 0:43:58In other words, Jasper,
0:43:58 > 0:44:00she don't want us.
0:44:00 > 0:44:03You mean me.
0:44:03 > 0:44:05I mean us.
0:44:05 > 0:44:11I understand the happy day may come sooner than we anticipated.
0:44:11 > 0:44:12Really?
0:44:12 > 0:44:15You surprise me.
0:44:15 > 0:44:20I found my ward rather... Well, imagine, Jasper!
0:44:20 > 0:44:23The dear girl believed her marriage to Edwin
0:44:23 > 0:44:25to be legally inescapable.
0:44:25 > 0:44:27I was glad to reassure her.
0:44:27 > 0:44:32I'll wager she hinted no desire to be free of her engagement?
0:44:32 > 0:44:34In truth, there was a moment
0:44:34 > 0:44:38when I almost believed that was exactly what she does want.
0:44:39 > 0:44:43Well! It's for the two young people to decide.
0:44:43 > 0:44:45God bless them both.
0:44:45 > 0:44:48Aye, God save them both.
0:44:56 > 0:44:59Rock of ages...
0:45:01 > 0:45:03..cleft for me...
0:45:05 > 0:45:08# Let me hi-i-ide
0:45:08 > 0:45:11# Myself in the-e-e. #
0:45:24 > 0:45:27- Rosa...- Eddy, let's be brave.
0:45:28 > 0:45:30And kind.
0:45:30 > 0:45:33Kind to one another, for once in our lives.
0:45:34 > 0:45:37Starting today,
0:45:37 > 0:45:38and for ever.
0:45:40 > 0:45:43Let's change to brother and sister.
0:45:47 > 0:45:50- Not get married?- No.
0:45:52 > 0:45:55In spite of our fathers' wishes?
0:45:55 > 0:45:56Yes.
0:45:59 > 0:46:03- If after all there is another young man...- There is not, I promise you.
0:46:03 > 0:46:05- But I love you, Rosa... - And I love you.
0:46:05 > 0:46:10With all my heart, but not...
0:46:10 > 0:46:12as a wife should love a husband.
0:46:12 > 0:46:15As I believe she should.
0:46:15 > 0:46:17As I hope...
0:46:17 > 0:46:20Oh, this is so hard!
0:46:22 > 0:46:24- Don't hate me!- No, no. You mistake me, my dear Rosa.
0:46:24 > 0:46:29I mean your courage
0:46:29 > 0:46:33and your clarity of thought. I am sorry, too.
0:46:33 > 0:46:37Think, Eddy! How much better to be sorry now than later,
0:46:37 > 0:46:39when it will be too late?
0:46:39 > 0:46:41DISTANT CONVERSATION
0:46:44 > 0:46:46..never be angry with one another again.
0:46:46 > 0:46:50- How wonderful it will be! - Yes, it will.
0:47:27 > 0:47:29'Ere he is!
0:47:29 > 0:47:32My little singin' bird!
0:47:32 > 0:47:36- A choirmaster, eh? - What are you doing here?
0:47:36 > 0:47:37Not so loud, dearie,
0:47:37 > 0:47:40I'm thinking more of a nice, quiet little chat
0:47:40 > 0:47:43on a matter of mutual interest.
0:47:43 > 0:47:48- There's a lot more I know about you! - Leave me alone!
0:47:48 > 0:47:52Oh! Watch out, you mischief-maker!
0:47:52 > 0:47:54Get off me!
0:48:04 > 0:48:06Look, no! No!
0:48:06 > 0:48:08Has that child hurt you?
0:48:08 > 0:48:10No, dearie.
0:48:12 > 0:48:14Another one.
0:48:14 > 0:48:18The one I had 'opes would put coals on my fires for many a day.
0:48:18 > 0:48:19Ah!
0:48:25 > 0:48:28Have you no home to go to?
0:48:28 > 0:48:32My 'ome's in London. Oh, give us three and six!
0:48:32 > 0:48:34I'll get straight back there.
0:48:36 > 0:48:39Will you spend my three and six on a train ticket?
0:48:39 > 0:48:41- Or on drink and opium? - I haven't drunk in 16 year!
0:48:47 > 0:48:51Thank ye and bless ye as a gentleman. What's your name, dearie?
0:48:51 > 0:48:55Why, will you tell my fortune? It's Edwin.
0:48:55 > 0:48:56Edwin.
0:48:58 > 0:49:00Does your sweetheart call you Eddy?
0:49:03 > 0:49:05I have no sweetheart.
0:49:05 > 0:49:09Because your little rosebud's been picked by another.
0:49:09 > 0:49:10Ned, innit?
0:49:12 > 0:49:15Ooh, that's a bad name to 'ave just now, is Ned.
0:49:15 > 0:49:18There's a threat to young men named Ned.
0:49:21 > 0:49:22Only one man calls me Ned.
0:49:22 > 0:49:25There's the man
0:49:25 > 0:49:28who's picked your rosebud.
0:49:30 > 0:49:32HE SOBS
0:49:39 > 0:49:41GLASS SMASHES
0:49:58 > 0:50:00Mr Neville?
0:50:00 > 0:50:02A fine weapon.
0:50:02 > 0:50:04Now I come into a walking country, I need a walking stick.
0:50:04 > 0:50:06Cudgel, more like!
0:50:07 > 0:50:10Oh, it's much too heavy. Is it ironwood?
0:50:10 > 0:50:12Don't wave it in my direction.
0:50:14 > 0:50:16If I walk all day tomorrow...
0:50:16 > 0:50:19By tomorrow she'll be sweetness and light again.
0:50:19 > 0:50:20By tomorrow she'll prob...
0:50:28 > 0:50:32You are right, Mr Crisparkle. This foolishness has gone on long enough.
0:50:32 > 0:50:35Mr Neville, please do me the honour of dining
0:50:35 > 0:50:36with me and my nephew tonight,
0:50:36 > 0:50:40and we shall become the friends we should have been from the beginning.
0:50:40 > 0:50:44There, Mr Neville! What do you think of that?
0:50:44 > 0:50:46Thank you, sir.
0:51:07 > 0:51:09CLOCK CHIMING AND TICKING
0:51:39 > 0:51:40This was to be part of my trousseau.
0:51:42 > 0:51:43But now it's for you.
0:51:45 > 0:51:47A gift from a heart which is free at last.
0:51:47 > 0:51:49THUNDER RUMBLING
0:51:53 > 0:51:56What is it, dear?
0:51:56 > 0:52:00Oh, I am sorry, I'm just so anxious about my brother.
0:52:01 > 0:52:05This supper tonight with Edwin and Mr Jasper...
0:52:05 > 0:52:06Edwin said nothing to me about it.
0:52:06 > 0:52:09You gave him too much else to think about!
0:52:09 > 0:52:11THUNDER RUMBLES
0:52:49 > 0:52:51What's this?
0:52:51 > 0:52:54Ned, we are putting the past behind us and the present to rights.
0:52:54 > 0:52:55And the future?
0:52:55 > 0:52:58The future shall be as we make it.
0:53:00 > 0:53:03What else are you not telling me, Jack?
0:53:03 > 0:53:08Come, my bright boy, shake Mr Neville's hand and let us be friends.
0:53:17 > 0:53:22# Yet all the lads, they smile on me When comin' through the rye. #
0:53:23 > 0:53:28That was a good deal more fun than our alternate musical Wednesday.
0:53:28 > 0:53:32Oh, whisper it! But listen to that wind.
0:53:32 > 0:53:34It's a bad night to be out.
0:53:37 > 0:53:42Dear heavens, I'm all done in. Kiss me, dear.
0:53:42 > 0:53:45Good night, Ma. Sleep well.
0:54:05 > 0:54:07In my country, when the monsoon comes,
0:54:07 > 0:54:12the rain is like a river falling from the sky.
0:54:12 > 0:54:15It brings the snakes crawling out from the jungle.
0:54:15 > 0:54:18Our old people believe them to be the avatars of the dead.
0:54:21 > 0:54:24Superstitious nonsense.
0:54:24 > 0:54:27Don't the English love a ghost story, too?
0:54:27 > 0:54:30Mr Jasper, thank you, but it's getting late.
0:54:31 > 0:54:33I'll come with you.
0:54:33 > 0:54:36Grab a breath of fresh air, chase a few ghosts.
0:54:36 > 0:54:39I'll take you to the most haunted place in Cloisterham.
0:55:01 > 0:55:021,200 years old?
0:55:02 > 0:55:05Time enough to accumulate an army of ghosts.
0:55:05 > 0:55:07A pretty poor show if not!
0:55:37 > 0:55:41How wonderful! Such majesty.
0:55:43 > 0:55:45Such beauty frozen into stone.
0:55:45 > 0:55:52See how it rises, so far above our heads, all the way to heaven.
0:55:56 > 0:55:58Mr Edwin?
0:56:04 > 0:56:06Mr Edwin?
0:56:12 > 0:56:16Do you mean to jump out and frighten me?
0:56:16 > 0:56:18I shall resist!
0:56:24 > 0:56:27Edwin?
0:56:27 > 0:56:30To be betrayed by someone you love is a bitter thing.
0:56:33 > 0:56:37All my life, I've known I would one day stand before this altar
0:56:37 > 0:56:38and marry Rosa.
0:56:41 > 0:56:43You are more than fortunate.
0:56:45 > 0:56:51Perhaps you don't know what it's like to suffer the failure of every dream and every expectation.
0:56:51 > 0:56:53I am an orphan born out of wedlock.
0:56:55 > 0:56:58Then at least you're used to disappointment.
0:56:58 > 0:57:00It is my constant companion.
0:57:57 > 0:57:58Jack!
0:58:30 > 0:58:32Ned!
0:58:35 > 0:58:38In the end, you will love me, Rosa!
0:58:38 > 0:58:41You have seen him with your own eyes, devouring her with his looks.
0:58:41 > 0:58:43Have you absolutely no shame?!
0:58:43 > 0:58:45You have poisoned her mind against me!
0:58:45 > 0:58:48This case has a generally dark look to me.
0:58:48 > 0:58:50Let the monster that killed him hear my vow -
0:58:50 > 0:58:54I devote myself to his destruction.
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