0:00:02 > 0:00:04- I expect my nephew today. - Edwin will do more good
0:00:04 > 0:00:07- than a dozen medicine chests. - My Jack's an opium eater.
0:00:07 > 0:00:12- I'm sorry about your father. He died in action?- No, mining accident in Upper Egypt.
0:00:12 > 0:00:13Mr Neville!
0:00:13 > 0:00:18- I will have your weapon! - John Jasper is more than an uncle to him, he is a guardian and protector.
0:00:18 > 0:00:21Your little rosebud's been picked by another.
0:00:21 > 0:00:26- You do know he loves you? - He terrifies me. He pursues me.
0:00:26 > 0:00:29What else are you not telling me, Jack?
0:00:33 > 0:00:35Jack!
0:00:35 > 0:00:37HE CHOKES
0:00:43 > 0:00:45NED!
0:02:46 > 0:02:49Lost some lead off the roof too, sir.
0:02:49 > 0:02:52And the hands in the clock's all bent and twisted.
0:02:52 > 0:02:54Dear me, what a night.
0:02:54 > 0:02:55We must pray no lives were lost.
0:02:57 > 0:02:58Jasper?
0:02:58 > 0:03:00My bright boy is gone.
0:03:07 > 0:03:11Rosa, to your room this minute.
0:03:11 > 0:03:15- What is it?- When did you last see Edwin?- Yesterday afternoon. Why?
0:03:15 > 0:03:18You saw or heard nothing of him last night?
0:03:18 > 0:03:20What has happened to Eddy?
0:03:20 > 0:03:24He departed my house last night with Neville Landless and he never came home.
0:03:26 > 0:03:30Neville left at first light to walk by the coast.
0:03:30 > 0:03:33Thank you, Miss Twinkleton.
0:03:33 > 0:03:36They will blame my brother.
0:03:36 > 0:03:38They will punish my brother.
0:03:42 > 0:03:44This is my fault.
0:03:44 > 0:03:46Mine.
0:03:53 > 0:03:56What are you, huh?
0:03:56 > 0:03:58A pack of thieves?
0:04:01 > 0:04:07- What have you done with my nephew? - I don't understand.- Gently, Jasper. - What have you done with him?
0:04:07 > 0:04:10- How should I know?- His bed was not slept in last night. He never came home.
0:04:10 > 0:04:13We said our good nights in the cathedral and I went home.
0:04:13 > 0:04:15So you left him there alone?
0:04:15 > 0:04:18There was no danger in it. He was restless.
0:04:18 > 0:04:22He said he wanted fresh air and the smell of open water.
0:04:22 > 0:04:25So he came down to the estuary?
0:04:25 > 0:04:28Jasper, the storm.
0:04:38 > 0:04:41Come along.
0:04:47 > 0:04:49A most agonising summons!
0:04:50 > 0:04:53The messenger brought a note
0:04:53 > 0:04:58which was addressed very personally to me, I see, Mr Hiram Grewgious.
0:04:58 > 0:05:00Being, as I am, your assistant, I must be privy to all events,
0:05:00 > 0:05:03of which you will agree, there are precious few hereabouts.
0:05:03 > 0:05:05And being, as I am, your assistant,
0:05:05 > 0:05:09I dare predict there'll be a great deal for you to do today, sir,
0:05:09 > 0:05:13in the investigating and comforting line, and you will be requiring me
0:05:13 > 0:05:17to be of service in the organising and, and, and catering line.
0:05:17 > 0:05:21I am not so awkward that I cannot find my own sandwiches, thank you.
0:05:23 > 0:05:24I follow you, sir.
0:05:25 > 0:05:30Oh, but, oh, sir, how I do hate the indoors. Oh, the hellish indoors!
0:05:30 > 0:05:34They also serve, Bazzard, who only hold the fort.
0:05:37 > 0:05:41Take a trip to Doctors Commons, if it please you.
0:05:41 > 0:05:45And take sight there of Edwin Drood's last will and testament.
0:05:45 > 0:05:49You don't know he's dead yet.
0:05:49 > 0:05:50Edwin Drood Senior.
0:05:54 > 0:05:56Ned!
0:05:56 > 0:05:58Mr Drood?
0:06:01 > 0:06:02Ned!
0:06:06 > 0:06:08Mr Drood?
0:06:08 > 0:06:10I was so sure we'd find him.
0:06:10 > 0:06:12Have courage.
0:06:12 > 0:06:16- He may have simply left, gone back to London.- Without telling me?
0:06:16 > 0:06:19- He'd never be so cruel.- Do not give in to despair, my friend.
0:06:19 > 0:06:22My bright boy...is dead.
0:06:24 > 0:06:27He seemed in agreement with me.
0:06:27 > 0:06:29He seemed relieved.
0:06:29 > 0:06:30As I was.
0:06:36 > 0:06:40Rosa fears she made him unhappier than he admitted.
0:06:41 > 0:06:44That he has brought himself to harm because of her.
0:06:46 > 0:06:50You made no mention of a ring.
0:07:03 > 0:07:06- Deputy, what you got there?- Nothing.
0:07:06 > 0:07:07Eh?
0:07:13 > 0:07:17There'll be some young lady somewhere crying her heart out over that.
0:07:17 > 0:07:18It's mine.
0:07:22 > 0:07:24Durdles don't entirely think so.
0:07:26 > 0:07:28Have mercy upon me, O God,
0:07:28 > 0:07:32according to thy loving kindness.
0:07:33 > 0:07:36Blot out my transgressions.
0:07:36 > 0:07:40Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity,
0:07:40 > 0:07:42and cleanse me from my sin.
0:07:42 > 0:07:44NED!
0:07:44 > 0:07:46Ned?
0:07:49 > 0:07:51I can't even sing for him.
0:07:53 > 0:07:55Then pray with me.
0:07:58 > 0:08:00Our Father who art in heaven...
0:08:03 > 0:08:05..hallowed be thy name.
0:08:10 > 0:08:13- Thy kingdom come, thy will be done...- I cannot...
0:08:13 > 0:08:16forgive those that trespass against me...
0:08:16 > 0:08:20- In time...- ..any more than I could forgive myself.
0:08:20 > 0:08:24Do not reproach yourself. You have nothing to forgive.
0:08:24 > 0:08:27- Anyone could see how you loved that boy.- I did.
0:08:27 > 0:08:29I did love him. Of course.
0:08:31 > 0:08:34All these years I cared for him and now some...
0:08:36 > 0:08:40..some stranger... has taken him from me.
0:08:47 > 0:08:51Let the monster that killed him hear my vow.
0:08:51 > 0:08:54I devote myself to his destruction.
0:08:56 > 0:09:00Mr Jasper asserts a history of violent words and even fisticuffs between you!
0:09:00 > 0:09:03There was nothing ill-tempered in our meeting last night.
0:09:03 > 0:09:07Nevertheless, while investigations continue, I have no option
0:09:07 > 0:09:10but to issue a warrant and commit you forthwith to jail.
0:09:10 > 0:09:14- On what grounds? - Circumstances of grave suspicion.
0:09:14 > 0:09:19- And the case has a generally dark look to me.- No! No, that's absurd!
0:09:19 > 0:09:22I mean, sorry, your worship. I mean no disrespect,
0:09:22 > 0:09:25but no man can be accused of murder in the absence of the body.
0:09:25 > 0:09:29Will you not be satisfied until they find my nephew's poor dead body?
0:09:29 > 0:09:31- You twist my meaning.- Sirs!
0:09:31 > 0:09:36Please do not sacrifice your friendship on my account.
0:09:36 > 0:09:39I can end this argument now, as I could've done earlier,
0:09:39 > 0:09:42had I told you the truth.
0:09:42 > 0:09:45I did not kill Edwin Drood.
0:09:46 > 0:09:49I could never have killed Edwin Drood.
0:09:51 > 0:09:52He is my brother.
0:09:54 > 0:09:59My sister and I came here as orphans
0:09:59 > 0:10:01to seek our father,
0:10:01 > 0:10:04Captain Edwin Drood.
0:10:04 > 0:10:07Mr Jasper...
0:10:07 > 0:10:09we are kinsmen.
0:10:09 > 0:10:12That...
0:10:12 > 0:10:16vile and groundless allegation would mean that Captain Drood,
0:10:16 > 0:10:21the best of husbands, betrayed his marriage vows to my sister...
0:10:21 > 0:10:23with a native concubine.
0:10:23 > 0:10:25My mother was a Christian lady!
0:10:25 > 0:10:27Neville, for shame!
0:10:31 > 0:10:35Whether Mr Landless is right or wrong is immaterial, surely?
0:10:35 > 0:10:38If he believes Edwin to be his brother, then why would want to harm him?
0:10:38 > 0:10:42Angry, resentful, excluded, unloved and poor!
0:10:42 > 0:10:47Everything Edwin had, he wanted, and stopped at nothing, not even murder, to get it.
0:10:47 > 0:10:50Mr Sapsea may feel a duty to public safety...
0:10:50 > 0:10:52- Indeed! Indeed I do. - BANGS GAVEL
0:10:52 > 0:10:53Remanded in custody.
0:10:53 > 0:10:58I give my solemn guarantee, as a man of the law,
0:10:58 > 0:11:01that the young man will be confined to my house,
0:11:01 > 0:11:07under my responsibility, and I shall produce him whenever demanded.
0:11:08 > 0:11:12You cannot send my brother away.
0:11:13 > 0:11:18- When did you plan to tell me? - Please, let us explain.- This year?
0:11:20 > 0:11:23Next year some time, or never?
0:11:23 > 0:11:27We only sought to find the father that abandoned us and throw ourselves upon his love.
0:11:27 > 0:11:31- Upon his pocketbook, more like.- Ma! Not helpful.- Fortune hunters.
0:11:40 > 0:11:42Your mother was never Mrs Drood.
0:11:44 > 0:11:47No, sir.
0:11:47 > 0:11:49So you have no document to prove the connection you claim?
0:11:49 > 0:11:52- Our mother was a Christian woman... - Yes, so you said.
0:11:52 > 0:11:55- ..who never told a falsehood in her life.- A commendable trait -
0:11:55 > 0:11:57one she failed to pass on to her offspring.
0:11:57 > 0:12:00Do not clench your fist at me!
0:12:01 > 0:12:04Neville, go and get your coat.
0:12:10 > 0:12:13Mr Jasper may accuse my brother for his own reasons.
0:12:13 > 0:12:16The poor man's beside himself with grief and fear.
0:12:16 > 0:12:21No, sir, Mr Jasper is in love with Rosa.
0:12:21 > 0:12:24If you can call it love, that raging, angry thing.
0:12:24 > 0:12:26- Nonsense!- Dear God!
0:12:26 > 0:12:29Mr Crisparkle, you have seen him with your own eyes,
0:12:29 > 0:12:33sitting at your own piano, in your own house, devouring her with his looks.
0:12:33 > 0:12:35Have you absolutely no shame?
0:12:53 > 0:12:55Ah, Mr Neville.
0:13:05 > 0:13:08He suffers and I do my best to help him
0:13:08 > 0:13:11and you ask me to apologise for it.
0:13:11 > 0:13:14And the poor boy hasn't even a mother of his own, of course.
0:13:14 > 0:13:17I have one on long-term loan to him, it seems.
0:13:17 > 0:13:21A very fine medicine chest among her attractions.
0:13:21 > 0:13:26Ma, dear, it might be the action of a friend,
0:13:26 > 0:13:29especially a kindly maternal friend, to persuade him to depend on
0:13:29 > 0:13:34fresh air and exercise in his grief, rather than on laudanum.
0:13:34 > 0:13:37Perhaps you don't remember. You were so young, but I do.
0:13:37 > 0:13:39I remember when he came here to the choir school,
0:13:39 > 0:13:44that poor little boy, seven years old, and all alone in the world.
0:13:44 > 0:13:46He's not seven years old any more.
0:13:46 > 0:13:51Sept, dear Sept, can't you see how lonely he is?
0:13:51 > 0:13:55Feel as sorry for John Jasper as you like, Ma, but I forbid you to give him laudanum again.
0:13:55 > 0:13:57You forbid me?!
0:13:57 > 0:14:00What century do you believe this to be?
0:14:14 > 0:14:17No matter how many hours you spend studying that document...
0:14:19 > 0:14:22I know my father's will off by heart, sir,
0:14:22 > 0:14:24and I know it will never change.
0:14:24 > 0:14:29"I leave my entire estate to my beloved and only son, Edwin."
0:14:29 > 0:14:33The uniform penny post is arrived.
0:14:33 > 0:14:35Oh, the excitement.
0:14:37 > 0:14:42Captain Drood would, alas, not be the first Englishman to father children
0:14:42 > 0:14:44in foreign climes and then abandon them.
0:14:44 > 0:14:46He was the first Englishman to do it to me.
0:14:46 > 0:14:48Ahem.
0:14:48 > 0:14:49Yes, Bazzard?
0:14:49 > 0:14:51Being, as I am, only your assistant
0:14:51 > 0:14:54and not permitted to leave this hellish office,
0:14:54 > 0:14:57I have been forced to apply to the trustees using the penny post.
0:14:57 > 0:15:01- Trustees?- Of the Mission School in Trincomalee.
0:15:01 > 0:15:05Which, august gentlemen, confirm that a certain Captain Edwin Arthur Drood
0:15:05 > 0:15:09began regular payments to the school in the autumn of 1834.
0:15:09 > 0:15:13When my sister and I were six years old.
0:15:13 > 0:15:18Oh, Mr Grewgious! I know it's not proof, but this could...
0:15:18 > 0:15:20But it is evidence, Neville.
0:15:20 > 0:15:22Very suggestive evidence.
0:15:22 > 0:15:24And ended in the summer of 1836.
0:15:24 > 0:15:28He lost interest in us after only two years?
0:15:28 > 0:15:31Perhaps it is simply that the regiment moved back to Egypt.
0:15:31 > 0:15:35I need to know. Mr Grewgious, the regimental archives are in Cloisterham.
0:15:35 > 0:15:40Neville, you know very well that you cannot go back to Cloisterham.
0:15:41 > 0:15:44Bazzard! Get your coat.
0:15:45 > 0:15:49Speak to now-one. In particular, keep your distance from Mr Jasper.
0:15:49 > 0:15:51I could use a suedeonym to avoid discovery.
0:15:51 > 0:15:54You shall do no such thing. And the word is pseudonym.
0:15:54 > 0:15:59Or, or, or, employ the Scottish accent I used as a schoolboy in my very well-received Macbeth.
0:15:59 > 0:16:03Bazzard, go to the archives. Track Captain Drood's movements.
0:16:03 > 0:16:06Speak to no-one!
0:16:06 > 0:16:07I follow you, sir.
0:16:09 > 0:16:11- SCOTTISH ACCENT:- Och, aye, the noo!
0:16:14 > 0:16:21I do understand how cravings can be very strong in such cases but...
0:16:21 > 0:16:24You suspect an element of pleasurable excitement in it.
0:16:24 > 0:16:28- Why else begin it?- Mmm.
0:16:28 > 0:16:31To banish grief beyond endurance.
0:16:31 > 0:16:35To reach total eclipse without all hope of day.
0:16:35 > 0:16:38When you came to me last year about your pain...
0:16:38 > 0:16:41Oh, no man flies back to opium from physical pain.
0:16:41 > 0:16:43From what, then?
0:16:45 > 0:16:47Blank and hopeless desolation.
0:16:47 > 0:16:52And then for a while it brings dreams of paradise and unimaginable pleasure.
0:16:52 > 0:16:56I have stood looking down into an abyss of divine enjoyment,
0:16:56 > 0:17:00until a desolation more blank and hopeless than before returns.
0:17:00 > 0:17:06We must seek a way to break this slavery, through prayer.
0:17:06 > 0:17:08Oh, there is no need, dear lady.
0:17:08 > 0:17:12For my slavery is already at an end since my poor Ned...
0:17:13 > 0:17:15(I cannot speak of it.)
0:17:17 > 0:17:21Oh, never have my prayers been answered more quickly.
0:17:42 > 0:17:44Regimental Muster Rolls.
0:17:47 > 0:17:50Most efficient. Thank you.
0:17:50 > 0:17:52ALL CHATTER
0:18:00 > 0:18:05- I shall miss you.- Your first duty is to your brother.
0:18:05 > 0:18:10- It was supposed to be you leaving me behind.- And in my wedding dress.
0:18:10 > 0:18:11How long ago that seems.
0:18:24 > 0:18:27Miss Landless, please, let me.
0:18:27 > 0:18:28I can carry my own bag, sir.
0:18:28 > 0:18:32But why should you when a friend presents himself as beast of burden?
0:18:32 > 0:18:34A friend?
0:18:34 > 0:18:37I wish we'd not quarrelled.
0:18:40 > 0:18:44Cloisterham will seem very quiet without both Landlesses.
0:18:44 > 0:18:47It will do as well without us now as if we had never come here.
0:18:47 > 0:18:51But, Helena, then I would never have known you.
0:18:51 > 0:18:55Either of you, I mean, of course. You and your brother, both of you.
0:18:55 > 0:18:58Excellent pupils.
0:18:58 > 0:18:59Um...
0:19:02 > 0:19:05You will send him my best regards?
0:19:05 > 0:19:08All aboard now! Miss Landless.
0:19:08 > 0:19:10Oh! Run!
0:19:14 > 0:19:15Thank you.
0:19:18 > 0:19:22Oh, this is all happening too quickly. Reverend Crisparkle,
0:19:22 > 0:19:24kindest of men, so much kinder than we deserved.
0:19:29 > 0:19:32Walk on.
0:20:10 > 0:20:12Thank you.
0:20:19 > 0:20:21Weeks without even a glimpse of your face
0:20:21 > 0:20:24while I waited patiently for your summons.
0:20:24 > 0:20:26Why should I summon you?
0:20:26 > 0:20:29Back to my duties as your faithful music master.
0:20:31 > 0:20:33I shall never play the piano again.
0:20:35 > 0:20:38Never let those lovely fingers make sweet melody?
0:20:42 > 0:20:44Nobody can see us.
0:20:44 > 0:20:46Everyone's gone home for the summer.
0:20:46 > 0:20:49Except little orphan Rosa.
0:20:49 > 0:20:55But I will not touch you again. I'll come no nearer to you than this.
0:20:55 > 0:20:57Sit, my love.
0:21:00 > 0:21:02You wear his ring.
0:21:04 > 0:21:08My mother's ring, in his memory.
0:21:10 > 0:21:14- Dear God, I tried so hard not to love you.- I won't hear you.
0:21:14 > 0:21:16If you knew what visions tormented me.
0:21:16 > 0:21:20I have wandered through paradise and through hell, every night,
0:21:20 > 0:21:22carrying you in my arms.
0:21:22 > 0:21:26But as long as you were his, I stayed loyal to him.
0:21:26 > 0:21:29Every day that you pursued me, every day you made my life hell,
0:21:29 > 0:21:31you betrayed him.
0:21:32 > 0:21:34But he's dead.
0:21:34 > 0:21:39He never knew, that trusting soul, who loved you, like a brother.
0:21:39 > 0:21:41He's dead, and you are free.
0:21:41 > 0:21:45My poor Edwin never knew that his Jack's heart is black as coal.
0:21:45 > 0:21:49- You will love me, Rosa. - I'd rather die too.
0:21:49 > 0:21:53Oh, sweet witch, then keep your love. I'll gladly take this pretty rage instead.
0:21:53 > 0:21:57If you could see yourself, Rosa, in your panting hatred,
0:21:57 > 0:22:00you're more desirable than ever.
0:22:01 > 0:22:05You would take by force what will never be yours by consent?
0:22:05 > 0:22:06But you will consent.
0:22:06 > 0:22:08In the end, you will love me, Rosa.
0:22:08 > 0:22:11How could I ever love a man whose spirit is so mean,
0:22:11 > 0:22:13whose heart is so bitter?
0:22:13 > 0:22:16You drove my friends away with false accusations.
0:22:18 > 0:22:20You still defend Neville Landless?
0:22:20 > 0:22:22Your pursuit of him is like your pursuit of me -
0:22:22 > 0:22:25unfair and ugly and cruel.
0:22:26 > 0:22:28Ugly and cruel?
0:22:28 > 0:22:34Ugly and cruel? Am I that man? Pretty little Neville Landless is entirely guilty of dreaming he can have you.
0:22:34 > 0:22:36As to his guilt in the death of my boy,
0:22:36 > 0:22:40I have wound the coil of suspicion so tightly around him, it hardly matters if it be true or not.
0:22:40 > 0:22:44Nor does it matter if you love me, Rosa, or hate me. I no longer care.
0:22:44 > 0:22:49Ugly and cruel, yes, you have made me so and you will still come to me.
0:22:49 > 0:22:51I will not.
0:22:53 > 0:22:57You refuse to save him? Well, then Neville Landless will hang.
0:22:57 > 0:22:59WOODEN DOOR CREAKS
0:22:59 > 0:23:01Say nothing to a living soul.
0:23:01 > 0:23:06Rosa, I love you more than any man ever loved a woman and you will never be rid of me.
0:23:06 > 0:23:08I will pursue you to the death.
0:23:14 > 0:23:18What are you looking at? Nothing has happened here.
0:23:20 > 0:23:21I say!
0:23:23 > 0:23:25Excuse me.
0:23:25 > 0:23:28This officer here, Captain Drood.
0:23:28 > 0:23:31See, I've discovered him leaving Ceylon and going back to Egypt in 1836.
0:23:31 > 0:23:36Then a year later there's a mining accident, and he is listed as missing.
0:23:36 > 0:23:41But...when I try to cross-reference the accident report with the record of his death...
0:23:41 > 0:23:44Well, it's not there.
0:23:44 > 0:23:46Our records is never wrong.
0:23:46 > 0:23:50There's got to be a death in service record if he's dead.
0:23:54 > 0:23:55IF he's dead.
0:24:25 > 0:24:27STONES CLATTER
0:24:27 > 0:24:29SHEEP BLEATS
0:24:29 > 0:24:32Hit 'im again! I made a dent in his wool!
0:24:32 > 0:24:36- Let him be, you've lamed him. - You lie! He lamed himself.
0:24:36 > 0:24:39Show me where your choirmaster's house is.
0:24:39 > 0:24:40I will not.
0:24:40 > 0:24:43Ain't going nowhere near him, not ever again,
0:24:43 > 0:24:46not after he upended me and damn near choked me.
0:24:46 > 0:24:48Anyway, it's miles away.
0:24:48 > 0:24:52Take me where the ruffian lives and I'll give you a penny.
0:24:56 > 0:24:58No point, cos he's not in!
0:24:58 > 0:25:03But give me another and I'll take you to his landlord.
0:25:04 > 0:25:07FOOTSTEPS APPROACH
0:25:20 > 0:25:22Your worshipfulness.
0:25:25 > 0:25:29What an honour it is for a humble student of funerary architecture
0:25:29 > 0:25:34to come face to face with the fons et origo of such a piece of perfection.
0:25:34 > 0:25:38The inscription composed by my own unworthy hand, sir.
0:25:38 > 0:25:43And yet, strangers have been seen copying it down in their notebooks.
0:25:45 > 0:25:48"Stranger pause."
0:25:48 > 0:25:51It is the language of Shakespeare.
0:25:52 > 0:25:55Thank you, sir.
0:25:55 > 0:25:56Mr...?
0:25:56 > 0:26:00The name's...Datchery.
0:26:00 > 0:26:03Dick Datchery, at your most humble service.
0:26:03 > 0:26:08I have the honour, sir, to welcome you to an ancient city,
0:26:08 > 0:26:12a proud city, an ecclesiastical city.
0:26:12 > 0:26:16Your worshipfulness inspires me with a desire to know more,
0:26:16 > 0:26:20and confirms me in my inclination to spend some time under his beneficent sway.
0:26:20 > 0:26:23SAPSEA CHUCKLES
0:26:23 > 0:26:26In which context, and after a woeful night at the Dog and Gun,
0:26:26 > 0:26:29I wonder if you might suggest somewhere I might stay.
0:26:29 > 0:26:34Somewhere architectural and inconvenient. Somewhere...
0:26:34 > 0:26:36cathedral-y?
0:26:39 > 0:26:40KNOCKING AT DOOR
0:26:45 > 0:26:46KNOCKING CONTINUES
0:26:53 > 0:26:55Rosa?
0:26:55 > 0:26:57Don't let him catch me.
0:26:57 > 0:26:59I never knew I was such a coward.
0:26:59 > 0:27:03- You are nothing of the sort.- I am.
0:27:03 > 0:27:06For I think now that I was afraid to marry Edwin for fear
0:27:06 > 0:27:09I would never then be free of his uncle.
0:27:09 > 0:27:13Now my poor Eddy is dead and it was all for nothing,
0:27:13 > 0:27:15for I will never be free again.
0:27:20 > 0:27:21BELLS RING
0:27:21 > 0:27:25# Ride on! Ride on in majesty!
0:27:25 > 0:27:29# Thy last and fiercest strife is nigh... #
0:27:29 > 0:27:32Glad to hear praise the Lord with such enthusiasm, Jasper.
0:27:34 > 0:27:38I find I am much inspired, since my bright boy's demise,
0:27:38 > 0:27:41by thoughts of our joy to come in heaven.
0:27:41 > 0:27:44For are not we sinners always knocking on heaven's door?
0:27:46 > 0:27:50So you think Mr Crisparkle, if he were here,
0:27:50 > 0:27:52would release me from my promise?
0:27:52 > 0:27:53I do.
0:27:53 > 0:27:55Not least because in rooms this small
0:27:55 > 0:28:00you can scarcely avoid bumping into Rosa several times a day.
0:28:00 > 0:28:03But, Neville, she is in mourning.
0:28:03 > 0:28:05In mourning for a good man.
0:28:05 > 0:28:08And under attack from an evil one.
0:28:08 > 0:28:11I would not dream of adding to her burdens.
0:28:11 > 0:28:15Besides, she already seems more like a beloved sister to me now.
0:28:15 > 0:28:19I have sent word to Miss Twinkleton that Rosa is safe with us.
0:28:19 > 0:28:25And yes, Helena, I have requested she refrain from telling Mr Jasper.
0:28:25 > 0:28:28Ah, my dear!
0:28:28 > 0:28:31You have slept.
0:28:31 > 0:28:34And now you must eat. Come.
0:28:34 > 0:28:39What did you take last? Was it breakfast, lunch, dinner, tea or supper?
0:28:39 > 0:28:43And what will you take next? Shall it be breakfast, lunch,
0:28:43 > 0:28:45or a nice jumble of all meals?
0:28:45 > 0:28:48Mr Grewgious, I have something to say.
0:28:48 > 0:28:52The hardest thing I have ever had to say in my life.
0:28:52 > 0:28:55Helena has told me of Mr Jasper's unwanted attentions.
0:28:55 > 0:29:00Oh, that is nothing. Nothing compared to the question to which those attentions give rise.
0:29:00 > 0:29:04My friends, ask yourselves, please, as I have been forced to do...
0:29:05 > 0:29:11..who on this earth had most to gain from the death of Edwin Drood?
0:29:18 > 0:29:22Oh, Mr Jasper, thank heaven you've come!
0:29:22 > 0:29:24Her bed not slept in, and this foolish maid,
0:29:24 > 0:29:27taken in by a notice on the door - "do not disturb"!
0:29:27 > 0:29:30Oh, Mr Jasper, can you find her?
0:29:30 > 0:29:32Can you bring our little rosebud home?
0:29:37 > 0:29:38It was him that upset her!
0:29:38 > 0:29:41No! Don't you start your nonsense again!
0:29:41 > 0:29:43HYSTERICAL SOBBING
0:30:03 > 0:30:07- NEVILLE:- She's not here!- Liar! Rosa?
0:30:07 > 0:30:10Rosa, what is this foolishness? Come home with me now.
0:30:10 > 0:30:12You will come no closer.
0:30:12 > 0:30:15- Who will prevent me? - Neville, stay back!
0:30:19 > 0:30:22- Rosa, come now. - I'm not afraid of you, sir.- No?
0:30:22 > 0:30:24- You terrify me.- I'm not afraid of you
0:30:24 > 0:30:28because the threats you have made are empty. You cannot harm my brother
0:30:28 > 0:30:33- because he is innocent and you know it.- It makes no difference now. Come, Rosa, my love.
0:30:33 > 0:30:36She shrinks from your love!
0:30:36 > 0:30:39Rosa is not afraid of me. She's afraid of what's in her own heart.
0:30:39 > 0:30:41Look at her.
0:30:41 > 0:30:44Look at the real Rosa, not the one of your dreams.
0:30:44 > 0:30:46Tell me, what does she see?
0:30:46 > 0:30:48A lover.
0:30:48 > 0:30:50A monster. A killer.
0:30:52 > 0:30:57Look into your own black heart, John Jasper,
0:30:57 > 0:30:59and tell me she is wrong.
0:31:05 > 0:31:08Dear God!
0:31:08 > 0:31:09So it was you.
0:31:13 > 0:31:15FOOTSTEPS FADE AWAY
0:31:27 > 0:31:30Mr Jasper?
0:31:32 > 0:31:34What is this?
0:31:34 > 0:31:37- You should not be here.- You have poisoned her mind against me!
0:31:37 > 0:31:41Neither her mind nor her heart needed any help from me, I assure you.
0:31:41 > 0:31:43Let go of me!
0:31:43 > 0:31:47Mr Jasper, you must learn to accept that when a lady says no,
0:31:47 > 0:31:51- it is her free choice. - She is meant for me!
0:31:51 > 0:31:55As it was her free choice to end her engagement to Edwin.
0:31:58 > 0:32:02Ah! You did not know.
0:32:02 > 0:32:07This young couple, the lost youth and the lovely girl,
0:32:07 > 0:32:11though so long engaged and so close to being married,
0:32:11 > 0:32:15decided the very afternoon of his death
0:32:15 > 0:32:18that they would be happier as brother and sister,
0:32:18 > 0:32:20than as man and wife,
0:32:20 > 0:32:23and, accordingly, broke off their engagement.
0:32:30 > 0:32:32(He never told me.)
0:32:34 > 0:32:36(He should have told me.)
0:32:43 > 0:32:45ROSA GIGGLES
0:32:48 > 0:32:50EDWIN CHOKES
0:32:53 > 0:32:55HE PANTS
0:33:18 > 0:33:20NED!
0:33:36 > 0:33:37Are you alone here?
0:33:39 > 0:33:42Worse luck for business, I am, deary.
0:33:44 > 0:33:47Come in, where I can see you, for your voice is familiar.
0:33:57 > 0:33:59Well, stranger! Huh!
0:34:01 > 0:34:05And there was me thinking you'd died and gone to heaven.
0:34:09 > 0:34:11Not you that died, then.
0:34:13 > 0:34:16Who's that you're in mourning for?
0:34:19 > 0:34:21I can't see.
0:34:22 > 0:34:24I can't remember.
0:34:24 > 0:34:28Then you've come to the right place,
0:34:28 > 0:34:32cos that's just what Princess Puffer's here for.
0:34:39 > 0:34:41LOCK RATTLES
0:34:57 > 0:34:58SOBBING
0:34:58 > 0:35:01Miss Twinkleton, please calm yourself.
0:35:05 > 0:35:06Septimus, read this!
0:35:06 > 0:35:08Ma!
0:35:08 > 0:35:10A message from Mr Grewgious.
0:35:10 > 0:35:12MISS TWINKLETON WAILS
0:35:44 > 0:35:46DEPUTY WHISTLES
0:36:08 > 0:36:11- Woah!- Mr Grewgious sent me!
0:36:11 > 0:36:13On an errand of burglary?
0:36:13 > 0:36:15Well, he did not expressly forbid it.
0:36:15 > 0:36:20He was most insistent on other things. I must stay in the library, I must talk to no-one...
0:36:20 > 0:36:24- And did you find anything in the library, Mr...? - The name's Datcher... Bazzard.
0:36:24 > 0:36:28I found the Royal Engineers pensions record for Captain Drood.
0:36:28 > 0:36:30And, sir...
0:36:32 > 0:36:35..he has been picking it up for the last nine years.
0:36:35 > 0:36:40That's nonsense, Datcher Bazzard. He died in a mining accident in Upper Egypt.
0:36:40 > 0:36:43Well, if he did, there's no record of it.
0:36:43 > 0:36:46Either someone else is taking the money...
0:36:46 > 0:36:48or Captain Drood is still alive.
0:36:51 > 0:36:53Oh, that's just the old man's will.
0:36:53 > 0:36:57I obtained a copy weeks ago. There's nothing in it.
0:36:57 > 0:36:59He's crossed out Edwin's name.
0:36:59 > 0:37:01Every time it appears.
0:37:01 > 0:37:04Cor! He really hated 'im!
0:37:04 > 0:37:06Was it hate or envy?
0:37:06 > 0:37:09And where did he hide the body?
0:37:09 > 0:37:10Bet I know.
0:37:14 > 0:37:17Yes, I brought Mr Jasper down here,
0:37:17 > 0:37:20a couple of days before the unfortunate business with Mr Edwin.
0:37:20 > 0:37:22Wooooo!
0:37:22 > 0:37:24- Go on! - DEPUTY LAUGHS
0:37:24 > 0:37:26Get out of it!
0:37:28 > 0:37:32I was telling him about the night I was enjoying my forty winks,
0:37:32 > 0:37:36when I was woken by the ghost of one terrific shriek.
0:37:36 > 0:37:38HIGH-PITCHED SCREAM
0:37:38 > 0:37:41- Spooked you! Ha!- Get out of it!
0:37:43 > 0:37:45Deputy was right, Mr Crisparkle.
0:37:47 > 0:37:50So many hiding places.
0:37:50 > 0:37:56There is no place in this cathedral that's hidden to Durdles.
0:37:56 > 0:37:58Durdles is the keeper of all the keys.
0:38:02 > 0:38:05Nearly all the keys.
0:38:05 > 0:38:10Durdles has had a loss perplexing him and preying on his mind, sir.
0:38:10 > 0:38:14He's sorry to say that on the night he took Mr Jasper on his tour,
0:38:14 > 0:38:19Durdles found himself in a state of intoxication,
0:38:19 > 0:38:23which makes him now wonder if that was the night he lost hold of...
0:38:23 > 0:38:25This one!
0:38:27 > 0:38:30No. It was much bigger.
0:38:36 > 0:38:37Oh, dear.
0:38:44 > 0:38:46Need his worship's permission.
0:38:46 > 0:38:51"Good morning, Mr Sapsea. Please may we dig up your dead wife on a foolish whim?"
0:38:51 > 0:38:52BAZZARD CHUCKLES
0:38:56 > 0:38:58If only I could see the end.
0:39:00 > 0:39:01The end of what, deary?
0:39:04 > 0:39:09I rehearsed it hundreds, thousands of times in this room.
0:39:13 > 0:39:16I saw him fall like a snowflake.
0:39:16 > 0:39:22Like a breath of sweet air falling so gently.
0:39:25 > 0:39:28Things never turn out like we hope, do they?
0:39:30 > 0:39:33Millions, millions of times.
0:39:50 > 0:39:52I never saw that before.
0:39:55 > 0:39:57This stuff's not strong enough.
0:39:59 > 0:40:01What next?
0:40:01 > 0:40:03Show me what happened next.
0:40:05 > 0:40:09Oh, what a poor, mean, miserable thing this is.
0:40:16 > 0:40:17Oh, Rosa!
0:40:17 > 0:40:21Oh, I thought I was dreaming.
0:40:23 > 0:40:27Lord! How like your dear mother you have grown.
0:40:31 > 0:40:34I've made you sad?
0:40:34 > 0:40:36I'm so sorry.
0:40:38 > 0:40:41I can never be sad when I think of her,
0:40:41 > 0:40:43or look at you.
0:40:51 > 0:40:54- Did she know your feelings? - Oh, I hope not.
0:40:56 > 0:41:01What kind of specimen am I to have hopes in that direction?
0:41:01 > 0:41:03Lord, what a conversation!
0:41:03 > 0:41:07Mr Grewgious, please tell me.
0:41:07 > 0:41:10What is true love like?
0:41:10 > 0:41:12True love...
0:41:15 > 0:41:17..is always returned.
0:41:24 > 0:41:27Oh, how we witter on when the dream's upon us.
0:41:30 > 0:41:34Singing like a little canary bird all night long, we was.
0:41:37 > 0:41:38Sing some more.
0:41:40 > 0:41:42What was that?
0:41:42 > 0:41:45Tell me what you did.
0:41:50 > 0:41:51I'm nearly...
0:41:53 > 0:41:55..nearly...
0:42:03 > 0:42:04..damned.
0:42:15 > 0:42:18"Oh, subtle and mighty opium
0:42:18 > 0:42:22"to the guilty man for one night gives back the hopes of his youth,
0:42:22 > 0:42:25"and hands washed pure from blood."
0:42:26 > 0:42:31Tell me what happened to him and I will go with you.
0:42:35 > 0:42:39And there is no danger of any harm befalling my inscription?
0:42:39 > 0:42:43Oh, none whatsoever, my dear worshipfulness.
0:42:43 > 0:42:47I shall guard that priceless masterpiece with my life.
0:43:02 > 0:43:04FOOTSTEPS APPROACH
0:43:04 > 0:43:06Oh, this is no place for a child.
0:43:06 > 0:43:10- Deputy, go and watch out for Mr Jasper's return.- I will not!
0:43:10 > 0:43:13- I'll give you a shilling.- Joking!
0:43:13 > 0:43:16Need a guinea to persuade me to miss this.
0:43:23 > 0:43:24You stay there.
0:43:37 > 0:43:40- Good day to you, Joe. - Miss Rosa.- Thank you.
0:43:40 > 0:43:41BOTH STRAIN
0:43:46 > 0:43:48BOTH PANT
0:44:04 > 0:44:05Well?
0:44:06 > 0:44:10Nothing but the mortal remains of poor Mrs Sapsea.
0:44:10 > 0:44:12Oh, hellfire!
0:44:12 > 0:44:14And damnation. Yes, very helpful(!)
0:44:14 > 0:44:17- Get the other one out, then. - What other one?
0:44:17 > 0:44:20The one he found in Mr Jasper's desk, stupid!
0:44:24 > 0:44:27Durdles needs a closer look at that.
0:44:30 > 0:44:32Had no cause to go inside there for years,
0:44:32 > 0:44:35but Durdles'd know it anywhere.
0:44:35 > 0:44:37This is the key to the Drood tomb.
0:45:15 > 0:45:18You hesitated the last.
0:45:18 > 0:45:19I'm ready.
0:45:30 > 0:45:33To say I planned it would not be quite right.
0:45:33 > 0:45:35The idea, the method, came to me in a dream.
0:45:35 > 0:45:37- A nightmare?- Oh, no, no, no!
0:45:37 > 0:45:40Edwin died night after night in dreams of perfect beauty.
0:45:42 > 0:45:43You stay there.
0:45:45 > 0:45:49Here, on the altar step, where he would have married you,
0:45:49 > 0:45:53taken the woman who was meant for me, taken my life, unless I took his first.
0:45:53 > 0:45:54Lord, let me know mine end.
0:45:54 > 0:45:58VOICE ECHOES
0:45:58 > 0:45:59Voices?
0:46:01 > 0:46:02Listen.
0:46:05 > 0:46:06What is down there?
0:46:06 > 0:46:09..and mine age is even nothing in respect of thee.
0:46:13 > 0:46:15His corpse was safe enough in the Sapsea tomb
0:46:15 > 0:46:18till that fat fool wanted his inscription carving.
0:46:20 > 0:46:22"Stranger, pause. Stranger..."
0:46:24 > 0:46:27So I took the key, and...
0:46:27 > 0:46:29I moved...I moved his body...
0:46:29 > 0:46:32I moved his poor body.
0:46:32 > 0:46:34(No, that's not it.)
0:46:34 > 0:46:38- Something's wrong. - It's not 'im!- What?
0:46:38 > 0:46:41I've got something wrong.
0:46:41 > 0:46:44It's some old fella. Look!
0:46:44 > 0:46:45ROSA SCREAMS
0:46:45 > 0:46:47My God!
0:46:48 > 0:46:51- Edwin!- You're in mourning?
0:46:51 > 0:46:53For you!
0:46:58 > 0:47:01I went early to Egypt, as I did tell you I might
0:47:01 > 0:47:04when you broke off our engagement.
0:47:04 > 0:47:06And are there no post offices in Egypt?
0:47:06 > 0:47:09Write to you?! Why would I write to you?
0:47:09 > 0:47:13I was so angry with you, I threw away that pretty ring.
0:48:06 > 0:48:07Come on, son.
0:48:12 > 0:48:16If that personage has been dead nine years, I'll eat my hat,
0:48:16 > 0:48:17and yours too.
0:48:17 > 0:48:20My bet is he's been dead a bit less than one year.
0:48:22 > 0:48:25And the ghost of one terrific shriek.
0:48:25 > 0:48:27Wasn't a ghost, after all.
0:48:42 > 0:48:44Who is it, Jasper?
0:48:46 > 0:48:50Why, sir, it is Edwin Drood.
0:48:52 > 0:48:54The father?
0:48:56 > 0:48:58Our father.
0:48:58 > 0:49:00Ned's and mine.
0:49:02 > 0:49:05It was common knowledge in Egypt.
0:49:05 > 0:49:08The date of his birth was inconvenient,
0:49:08 > 0:49:11so my mother passed Jack off as her little brother.
0:49:13 > 0:49:15We all thought he killed you.
0:49:15 > 0:49:17Jack?!
0:49:17 > 0:49:19Never! He loves me.
0:49:19 > 0:49:21Eddy,
0:49:21 > 0:49:24even he thinks he killed you.
0:49:31 > 0:49:34JACK SIGHS
0:49:35 > 0:49:38I have striven...
0:49:38 > 0:49:42so hard to remember.
0:49:42 > 0:49:45And I have remembered it all wrong.
0:49:45 > 0:49:49Muddled them both up in my head.
0:49:49 > 0:49:51Gentlemen, leave us, please.
0:49:51 > 0:49:53On your own, with him?
0:49:53 > 0:49:55We are old friends, Mr Jasper and I.
0:49:55 > 0:49:58- We'll get help.- No! - Don't alert anyone.
0:49:58 > 0:50:01Mr Jasper and I will do very well here together.
0:50:10 > 0:50:15I have dreamed so much about...
0:50:15 > 0:50:16killing Edwin...
0:50:18 > 0:50:20.and forgotten this.
0:50:22 > 0:50:26Captain Drood's will left everything to him, and nothing to you.
0:50:26 > 0:50:30Oh, I never cared about the money.
0:50:33 > 0:50:37Is there a circle of hell reserved especially for fathers
0:50:37 > 0:50:40who do not love their children?
0:50:42 > 0:50:44There ought to be.
0:50:44 > 0:50:49And does it stand next to the circle where eternal damnation awaits the man who killed his own father?
0:50:49 > 0:50:54God will forgive you if you are truly penitent.
0:50:54 > 0:50:58- For when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness... - The wicked man!
0:50:58 > 0:51:00The wicked man!
0:51:04 > 0:51:08The wicked man was a bastard boy of seven!
0:51:08 > 0:51:11A boy of seven.
0:51:11 > 0:51:14Sent away!
0:51:14 > 0:51:17Sent away to learn to sing.
0:51:17 > 0:51:22While a little, fat, fair baby,
0:51:22 > 0:51:26a little, fat, fair, legitimate baby
0:51:26 > 0:51:30sucked up all the love in the house until there was none left over.
0:51:34 > 0:51:36And yet...
0:51:36 > 0:51:40when Captain Drood... died the first time
0:51:40 > 0:51:43in a mining accident in Egypt,
0:51:43 > 0:51:44so they said...
0:51:48 > 0:51:50..I grieved.
0:51:50 > 0:51:53But a year ago he came back?
0:51:55 > 0:51:57HE SINGS SOFTLY
0:51:57 > 0:52:00CLATTERING
0:52:02 > 0:52:03Who's there?
0:52:05 > 0:52:07Show yourself.
0:52:10 > 0:52:12Sorry.
0:52:22 > 0:52:24Father?
0:52:30 > 0:52:34- Father, is it really you? - Leave off me, Jack.
0:52:34 > 0:52:36I've come looking for Edwin.
0:52:41 > 0:52:44Where is my bright boy?
0:52:44 > 0:52:47If...if he had written,
0:52:47 > 0:52:49if he had given me any warning...
0:52:49 > 0:52:52HE CHUCKLES
0:52:52 > 0:52:56It's too late for me to deceive myself.
0:52:59 > 0:53:01I would have still killed him.
0:53:36 > 0:53:38FATHER!
0:53:40 > 0:53:42One kind word for me would have saved him.
0:53:42 > 0:53:48That old fool Durdles thought he'd heard the cry of a murder victim. But the old devil uttered not a word.
0:53:48 > 0:53:52- It was I who cried out to the heavens, at the loss of all my hopes. - There is always hope in the Lord.
0:53:52 > 0:53:58Not for me. I've killed my father. But no matter, for soon I will hang, and then all will be darkness,
0:53:58 > 0:54:03- and silence, and blissful forgetting. But where is Ned? Where is Ned's body?- Jack!
0:54:03 > 0:54:06Good God!
0:54:06 > 0:54:07Jack.
0:54:11 > 0:54:13Our father loved him but not me.
0:54:15 > 0:54:18And together they robbed me of every happiness.
0:54:18 > 0:54:20I'm here.
0:54:21 > 0:54:24You see? I've come back.
0:54:29 > 0:54:30And I'm sorry.
0:54:30 > 0:54:34- I am so sorry. - The old man was a monster.
0:54:36 > 0:54:40But that was the only human creature that ever loved me.
0:54:40 > 0:54:44- Jack...- And I killed him too.
0:54:44 > 0:54:48No. No, look at him.
0:54:48 > 0:54:51And so he haunts me.
0:54:51 > 0:54:53And I am damned.
0:55:06 > 0:55:09- Edwin, take Rosa outside. - No, no, no. I want to see Jack.
0:55:09 > 0:55:13- I have to make everything well with Jack.- Do as I say.- Is he up there?
0:55:13 > 0:55:16- Jack?- Haven't you done enough harm? - Jack? Jack, it's me.
0:55:16 > 0:55:19- I'm coming up.- No. No, you're not, you're frightening him.
0:55:19 > 0:55:22- He thinks you're dead. - He's my brother. I can help him.
0:55:22 > 0:55:25Oh, dear God! Rosa, Rosa! Quick, you don't want to be here. Get help.
0:55:25 > 0:55:27Get anyone! Run!
0:55:27 > 0:55:29Jasper? Jasper?
0:55:29 > 0:55:32There's no need to be afraid.
0:55:32 > 0:55:35Pray with me. Pray with me now.
0:55:35 > 0:55:36Choose the light.
0:55:38 > 0:55:41Our Father who art in heaven...
0:55:41 > 0:55:43Jasper, won't you join me?
0:55:43 > 0:55:46Our Father who art in heaven...
0:55:46 > 0:55:49- Hallowed be thy name. - Hallowed be thy name.
0:55:49 > 0:55:50Jack?
0:55:50 > 0:55:52Thy kingdom come...
0:55:52 > 0:55:54Thy will be done.
0:55:54 > 0:55:56NO!
0:56:32 > 0:56:34Thank you.
0:56:34 > 0:56:35MR GREWGIOUS CLEARS THROAT
0:56:35 > 0:56:40To Edwin, who once was lost, and now is found.
0:56:40 > 0:56:43And to his new life in Egypt.
0:56:47 > 0:56:51To my brother, my partner,
0:56:51 > 0:56:53you won't regret coming with me.
0:56:57 > 0:56:59They will forget us.
0:56:59 > 0:57:01They'll be in trouble if they do.
0:57:01 > 0:57:06They'll bring home exotic brides and cause consternation.
0:57:06 > 0:57:08I do hope so!
0:57:11 > 0:57:13Ahem, one final toast.
0:57:15 > 0:57:17To our older brother, Jack...
0:57:19 > 0:57:22..and his fond memory.
0:57:23 > 0:57:27To the man he might have been.
0:57:27 > 0:57:28To Jack.
0:58:07 > 0:58:10- I was thinking...- I wonder... - You first.- No, you.
0:58:13 > 0:58:15No, of course, me.
0:58:19 > 0:58:21SHE GIGGLES
0:58:21 > 0:58:22Rosa, quickly.
0:58:30 > 0:58:32No, Helena!
0:58:40 > 0:58:43Did I just ask you something?
0:58:46 > 0:58:48No.
0:58:49 > 0:58:51But I said yes anyway.
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