Episode 2 The Mystery of Edwin Drood


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-I expect my nephew today.

-Edwin will do more good

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-than a dozen medicine chests.

-My Jack's an opium eater.

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-I'm sorry about your father. He died in action?

-No, mining accident in Upper Egypt.

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Mr Neville!

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-I will have your weapon!

-John Jasper is more than an uncle to him, he is a guardian and protector.

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Your little rosebud's been picked by another.

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-You do know he loves you?

-He terrifies me. He pursues me.

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What else are you not telling me, Jack?

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Jack!

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HE CHOKES

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NED!

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Lost some lead off the roof too, sir.

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And the hands in the clock's all bent and twisted.

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Dear me, what a night.

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We must pray no lives were lost.

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Jasper?

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My bright boy is gone.

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Rosa, to your room this minute.

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-What is it?

-When did you last see Edwin?

-Yesterday afternoon. Why?

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You saw or heard nothing of him last night?

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What has happened to Eddy?

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He departed my house last night with Neville Landless and he never came home.

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Neville left at first light to walk by the coast.

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Thank you, Miss Twinkleton.

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They will blame my brother.

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They will punish my brother.

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This is my fault.

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Mine.

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What are you, huh?

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A pack of thieves?

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-What have you done with my nephew?

-I don't understand.

-Gently, Jasper.

-What have you done with him?

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-How should I know?

-His bed was not slept in last night. He never came home.

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We said our good nights in the cathedral and I went home.

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So you left him there alone?

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There was no danger in it. He was restless.

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He said he wanted fresh air and the smell of open water.

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So he came down to the estuary?

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Jasper, the storm.

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Come along.

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A most agonising summons!

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The messenger brought a note

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which was addressed very personally to me, I see, Mr Hiram Grewgious.

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Being, as I am, your assistant, I must be privy to all events,

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of which you will agree, there are precious few hereabouts.

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And being, as I am, your assistant,

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I dare predict there'll be a great deal for you to do today, sir,

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in the investigating and comforting line, and you will be requiring me

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to be of service in the organising and, and, and catering line.

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I am not so awkward that I cannot find my own sandwiches, thank you.

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I follow you, sir.

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Oh, but, oh, sir, how I do hate the indoors. Oh, the hellish indoors!

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They also serve, Bazzard, who only hold the fort.

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Take a trip to Doctors Commons, if it please you.

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And take sight there of Edwin Drood's last will and testament.

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You don't know he's dead yet.

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Edwin Drood Senior.

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Ned!

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Mr Drood?

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Ned!

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Mr Drood?

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I was so sure we'd find him.

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Have courage.

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-He may have simply left, gone back to London.

-Without telling me?

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-He'd never be so cruel.

-Do not give in to despair, my friend.

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My bright boy...is dead.

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He seemed in agreement with me.

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He seemed relieved.

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As I was.

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Rosa fears she made him unhappier than he admitted.

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That he has brought himself to harm because of her.

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You made no mention of a ring.

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-Deputy, what you got there?

-Nothing.

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Eh?

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There'll be some young lady somewhere crying her heart out over that.

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It's mine.

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Durdles don't entirely think so.

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Have mercy upon me, O God,

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according to thy loving kindness.

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Blot out my transgressions.

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Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity,

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and cleanse me from my sin.

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NED!

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Ned?

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I can't even sing for him.

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Then pray with me.

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Our Father who art in heaven...

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..hallowed be thy name.

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-Thy kingdom come, thy will be done...

-I cannot...

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forgive those that trespass against me...

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-In time...

-..any more than I could forgive myself.

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Do not reproach yourself. You have nothing to forgive.

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-Anyone could see how you loved that boy.

-I did.

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I did love him. Of course.

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All these years I cared for him and now some...

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..some stranger... has taken him from me.

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Let the monster that killed him hear my vow.

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I devote myself to his destruction.

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Mr Jasper asserts a history of violent words and even fisticuffs between you!

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There was nothing ill-tempered in our meeting last night.

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Nevertheless, while investigations continue, I have no option

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but to issue a warrant and commit you forthwith to jail.

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-On what grounds?

-Circumstances of grave suspicion.

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-And the case has a generally dark look to me.

-No! No, that's absurd!

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I mean, sorry, your worship. I mean no disrespect,

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but no man can be accused of murder in the absence of the body.

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Will you not be satisfied until they find my nephew's poor dead body?

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-You twist my meaning.

-Sirs!

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Please do not sacrifice your friendship on my account.

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I can end this argument now, as I could've done earlier,

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had I told you the truth.

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I did not kill Edwin Drood.

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I could never have killed Edwin Drood.

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He is my brother.

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My sister and I came here as orphans

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to seek our father,

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Captain Edwin Drood.

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Mr Jasper...

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we are kinsmen.

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That...

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vile and groundless allegation would mean that Captain Drood,

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the best of husbands, betrayed his marriage vows to my sister...

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with a native concubine.

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My mother was a Christian lady!

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Neville, for shame!

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Whether Mr Landless is right or wrong is immaterial, surely?

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If he believes Edwin to be his brother, then why would want to harm him?

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Angry, resentful, excluded, unloved and poor!

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Everything Edwin had, he wanted, and stopped at nothing, not even murder, to get it.

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Mr Sapsea may feel a duty to public safety...

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-Indeed! Indeed I do.

-BANGS GAVEL

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Remanded in custody.

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I give my solemn guarantee, as a man of the law,

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that the young man will be confined to my house,

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under my responsibility, and I shall produce him whenever demanded.

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You cannot send my brother away.

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-When did you plan to tell me?

-Please, let us explain.

-This year?

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Next year some time, or never?

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We only sought to find the father that abandoned us and throw ourselves upon his love.

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-Upon his pocketbook, more like.

-Ma! Not helpful.

-Fortune hunters.

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Your mother was never Mrs Drood.

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No, sir.

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So you have no document to prove the connection you claim?

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-Our mother was a Christian woman...

-Yes, so you said.

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-..who never told a falsehood in her life.

-A commendable trait -

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one she failed to pass on to her offspring.

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Do not clench your fist at me!

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Neville, go and get your coat.

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Mr Jasper may accuse my brother for his own reasons.

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The poor man's beside himself with grief and fear.

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No, sir, Mr Jasper is in love with Rosa.

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If you can call it love, that raging, angry thing.

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-Nonsense!

-Dear God!

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Mr Crisparkle, you have seen him with your own eyes,

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sitting at your own piano, in your own house, devouring her with his looks.

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Have you absolutely no shame?

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Ah, Mr Neville.

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He suffers and I do my best to help him

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and you ask me to apologise for it.

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And the poor boy hasn't even a mother of his own, of course.

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I have one on long-term loan to him, it seems.

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A very fine medicine chest among her attractions.

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Ma, dear, it might be the action of a friend,

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especially a kindly maternal friend, to persuade him to depend on

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fresh air and exercise in his grief, rather than on laudanum.

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Perhaps you don't remember. You were so young, but I do.

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I remember when he came here to the choir school,

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that poor little boy, seven years old, and all alone in the world.

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He's not seven years old any more.

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Sept, dear Sept, can't you see how lonely he is?

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Feel as sorry for John Jasper as you like, Ma, but I forbid you to give him laudanum again.

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You forbid me?!

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What century do you believe this to be?

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No matter how many hours you spend studying that document...

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I know my father's will off by heart, sir,

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and I know it will never change.

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"I leave my entire estate to my beloved and only son, Edwin."

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The uniform penny post is arrived.

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Oh, the excitement.

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Captain Drood would, alas, not be the first Englishman to father children

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in foreign climes and then abandon them.

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He was the first Englishman to do it to me.

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Ahem.

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Yes, Bazzard?

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Being, as I am, only your assistant

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and not permitted to leave this hellish office,

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I have been forced to apply to the trustees using the penny post.

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-Trustees?

-Of the Mission School in Trincomalee.

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Which, august gentlemen, confirm that a certain Captain Edwin Arthur Drood

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began regular payments to the school in the autumn of 1834.

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When my sister and I were six years old.

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Oh, Mr Grewgious! I know it's not proof, but this could...

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But it is evidence, Neville.

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Very suggestive evidence.

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And ended in the summer of 1836.

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He lost interest in us after only two years?

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Perhaps it is simply that the regiment moved back to Egypt.

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I need to know. Mr Grewgious, the regimental archives are in Cloisterham.

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Neville, you know very well that you cannot go back to Cloisterham.

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Bazzard! Get your coat.

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Speak to now-one. In particular, keep your distance from Mr Jasper.

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I could use a suedeonym to avoid discovery.

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You shall do no such thing. And the word is pseudonym.

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Or, or, or, employ the Scottish accent I used as a schoolboy in my very well-received Macbeth.

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Bazzard, go to the archives. Track Captain Drood's movements.

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Speak to no-one!

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I follow you, sir.

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-SCOTTISH ACCENT:

-Och, aye, the noo!

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I do understand how cravings can be very strong in such cases but...

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You suspect an element of pleasurable excitement in it.

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-Why else begin it?

-Mmm.

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To banish grief beyond endurance.

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To reach total eclipse without all hope of day.

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When you came to me last year about your pain...

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Oh, no man flies back to opium from physical pain.

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From what, then?

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Blank and hopeless desolation.

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And then for a while it brings dreams of paradise and unimaginable pleasure.

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I have stood looking down into an abyss of divine enjoyment,

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until a desolation more blank and hopeless than before returns.

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We must seek a way to break this slavery, through prayer.

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Oh, there is no need, dear lady.

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For my slavery is already at an end since my poor Ned...

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(I cannot speak of it.)

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Oh, never have my prayers been answered more quickly.

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Regimental Muster Rolls.

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Most efficient. Thank you.

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ALL CHATTER

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-I shall miss you.

-Your first duty is to your brother.

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-It was supposed to be you leaving me behind.

-And in my wedding dress.

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How long ago that seems.

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Miss Landless, please, let me.

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I can carry my own bag, sir.

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But why should you when a friend presents himself as beast of burden?

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A friend?

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I wish we'd not quarrelled.

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Cloisterham will seem very quiet without both Landlesses.

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It will do as well without us now as if we had never come here.

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But, Helena, then I would never have known you.

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Either of you, I mean, of course. You and your brother, both of you.

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Excellent pupils.

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Um...

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You will send him my best regards?

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All aboard now! Miss Landless.

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Oh! Run!

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Thank you.

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Oh, this is all happening too quickly. Reverend Crisparkle,

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kindest of men, so much kinder than we deserved.

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Walk on.

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Thank you.

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Weeks without even a glimpse of your face

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while I waited patiently for your summons.

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Why should I summon you?

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Back to my duties as your faithful music master.

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I shall never play the piano again.

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Never let those lovely fingers make sweet melody?

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Nobody can see us.

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Everyone's gone home for the summer.

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Except little orphan Rosa.

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But I will not touch you again. I'll come no nearer to you than this.

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Sit, my love.

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You wear his ring.

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My mother's ring, in his memory.

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-Dear God, I tried so hard not to love you.

-I won't hear you.

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If you knew what visions tormented me.

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I have wandered through paradise and through hell, every night,

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carrying you in my arms.

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But as long as you were his, I stayed loyal to him.

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Every day that you pursued me, every day you made my life hell,

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you betrayed him.

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But he's dead.

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He never knew, that trusting soul, who loved you, like a brother.

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He's dead, and you are free.

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My poor Edwin never knew that his Jack's heart is black as coal.

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-You will love me, Rosa.

-I'd rather die too.

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Oh, sweet witch, then keep your love. I'll gladly take this pretty rage instead.

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If you could see yourself, Rosa, in your panting hatred,

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you're more desirable than ever.

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You would take by force what will never be yours by consent?

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But you will consent.

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In the end, you will love me, Rosa.

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How could I ever love a man whose spirit is so mean,

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whose heart is so bitter?

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You drove my friends away with false accusations.

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You still defend Neville Landless?

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Your pursuit of him is like your pursuit of me -

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unfair and ugly and cruel.

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Ugly and cruel?

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Ugly and cruel? Am I that man? Pretty little Neville Landless is entirely guilty of dreaming he can have you.

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As to his guilt in the death of my boy,

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I have wound the coil of suspicion so tightly around him, it hardly matters if it be true or not.

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Nor does it matter if you love me, Rosa, or hate me. I no longer care.

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Ugly and cruel, yes, you have made me so and you will still come to me.

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I will not.

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You refuse to save him? Well, then Neville Landless will hang.

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WOODEN DOOR CREAKS

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Say nothing to a living soul.

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Rosa, I love you more than any man ever loved a woman and you will never be rid of me.

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I will pursue you to the death.

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What are you looking at? Nothing has happened here.

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I say!

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Excuse me.

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This officer here, Captain Drood.

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See, I've discovered him leaving Ceylon and going back to Egypt in 1836.

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Then a year later there's a mining accident, and he is listed as missing.

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But...when I try to cross-reference the accident report with the record of his death...

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Well, it's not there.

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Our records is never wrong.

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There's got to be a death in service record if he's dead.

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IF he's dead.

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STONES CLATTER

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SHEEP BLEATS

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Hit 'im again! I made a dent in his wool!

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-Let him be, you've lamed him.

-You lie! He lamed himself.

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Show me where your choirmaster's house is.

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I will not.

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Ain't going nowhere near him, not ever again,

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not after he upended me and damn near choked me.

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Anyway, it's miles away.

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Take me where the ruffian lives and I'll give you a penny.

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No point, cos he's not in!

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But give me another and I'll take you to his landlord.

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FOOTSTEPS APPROACH

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Your worshipfulness.

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What an honour it is for a humble student of funerary architecture

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to come face to face with the fons et origo of such a piece of perfection.

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The inscription composed by my own unworthy hand, sir.

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And yet, strangers have been seen copying it down in their notebooks.

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"Stranger pause."

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It is the language of Shakespeare.

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Thank you, sir.

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Mr...?

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The name's...Datchery.

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Dick Datchery, at your most humble service.

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I have the honour, sir, to welcome you to an ancient city,

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a proud city, an ecclesiastical city.

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Your worshipfulness inspires me with a desire to know more,

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and confirms me in my inclination to spend some time under his beneficent sway.

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SAPSEA CHUCKLES

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In which context, and after a woeful night at the Dog and Gun,

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I wonder if you might suggest somewhere I might stay.

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Somewhere architectural and inconvenient. Somewhere...

0:26:290:26:34

cathedral-y?

0:26:340:26:36

KNOCKING AT DOOR

0:26:390:26:40

KNOCKING CONTINUES

0:26:450:26:46

Rosa?

0:26:530:26:55

Don't let him catch me.

0:26:550:26:57

I never knew I was such a coward.

0:26:570:26:59

-You are nothing of the sort.

-I am.

0:26:590:27:03

For I think now that I was afraid to marry Edwin for fear

0:27:030:27:06

I would never then be free of his uncle.

0:27:060:27:09

Now my poor Eddy is dead and it was all for nothing,

0:27:090:27:13

for I will never be free again.

0:27:130:27:15

BELLS RING

0:27:200:27:21

# Ride on! Ride on in majesty!

0:27:210:27:25

# Thy last and fiercest strife is nigh... #

0:27:250:27:29

Glad to hear praise the Lord with such enthusiasm, Jasper.

0:27:290:27:32

I find I am much inspired, since my bright boy's demise,

0:27:340:27:38

by thoughts of our joy to come in heaven.

0:27:380:27:41

For are not we sinners always knocking on heaven's door?

0:27:410:27:44

So you think Mr Crisparkle, if he were here,

0:27:460:27:50

would release me from my promise?

0:27:500:27:52

I do.

0:27:520:27:53

Not least because in rooms this small

0:27:530:27:55

you can scarcely avoid bumping into Rosa several times a day.

0:27:550:28:00

But, Neville, she is in mourning.

0:28:000:28:03

In mourning for a good man.

0:28:030:28:05

And under attack from an evil one.

0:28:050:28:08

I would not dream of adding to her burdens.

0:28:080:28:11

Besides, she already seems more like a beloved sister to me now.

0:28:110:28:15

I have sent word to Miss Twinkleton that Rosa is safe with us.

0:28:150:28:19

And yes, Helena, I have requested she refrain from telling Mr Jasper.

0:28:190:28:25

Ah, my dear!

0:28:250:28:28

You have slept.

0:28:280:28:31

And now you must eat. Come.

0:28:310:28:34

What did you take last? Was it breakfast, lunch, dinner, tea or supper?

0:28:340:28:39

And what will you take next? Shall it be breakfast, lunch,

0:28:390:28:43

or a nice jumble of all meals?

0:28:430:28:45

Mr Grewgious, I have something to say.

0:28:450:28:48

The hardest thing I have ever had to say in my life.

0:28:480:28:52

Helena has told me of Mr Jasper's unwanted attentions.

0:28:520:28:55

Oh, that is nothing. Nothing compared to the question to which those attentions give rise.

0:28:550:29:00

My friends, ask yourselves, please, as I have been forced to do...

0:29:000:29:04

..who on this earth had most to gain from the death of Edwin Drood?

0:29:050:29:11

Oh, Mr Jasper, thank heaven you've come!

0:29:180:29:22

Her bed not slept in, and this foolish maid,

0:29:220:29:24

taken in by a notice on the door - "do not disturb"!

0:29:240:29:27

Oh, Mr Jasper, can you find her?

0:29:270:29:30

Can you bring our little rosebud home?

0:29:300:29:32

It was him that upset her!

0:29:370:29:38

No! Don't you start your nonsense again!

0:29:380:29:41

HYSTERICAL SOBBING

0:29:410:29:43

-NEVILLE:

-She's not here!

-Liar! Rosa?

0:30:030:30:07

Rosa, what is this foolishness? Come home with me now.

0:30:070:30:10

You will come no closer.

0:30:100:30:12

-Who will prevent me?

-Neville, stay back!

0:30:120:30:15

-Rosa, come now.

-I'm not afraid of you, sir.

-No?

0:30:190:30:22

-You terrify me.

-I'm not afraid of you

0:30:220:30:24

because the threats you have made are empty. You cannot harm my brother

0:30:240:30:28

-because he is innocent and you know it.

-It makes no difference now. Come, Rosa, my love.

0:30:280:30:33

She shrinks from your love!

0:30:330:30:36

Rosa is not afraid of me. She's afraid of what's in her own heart.

0:30:360:30:39

Look at her.

0:30:390:30:41

Look at the real Rosa, not the one of your dreams.

0:30:410:30:44

Tell me, what does she see?

0:30:440:30:46

A lover.

0:30:460:30:48

A monster. A killer.

0:30:480:30:50

Look into your own black heart, John Jasper,

0:30:520:30:57

and tell me she is wrong.

0:30:570:30:59

Dear God!

0:31:050:31:08

So it was you.

0:31:080:31:09

FOOTSTEPS FADE AWAY

0:31:130:31:15

Mr Jasper?

0:31:270:31:30

What is this?

0:31:320:31:34

-You should not be here.

-You have poisoned her mind against me!

0:31:340:31:37

Neither her mind nor her heart needed any help from me, I assure you.

0:31:370:31:41

Let go of me!

0:31:410:31:43

Mr Jasper, you must learn to accept that when a lady says no,

0:31:430:31:47

-it is her free choice.

-She is meant for me!

0:31:470:31:51

As it was her free choice to end her engagement to Edwin.

0:31:510:31:55

Ah! You did not know.

0:31:580:32:02

This young couple, the lost youth and the lovely girl,

0:32:020:32:07

though so long engaged and so close to being married,

0:32:070:32:11

decided the very afternoon of his death

0:32:110:32:15

that they would be happier as brother and sister,

0:32:150:32:18

than as man and wife,

0:32:180:32:20

and, accordingly, broke off their engagement.

0:32:200:32:23

(He never told me.)

0:32:300:32:32

(He should have told me.)

0:32:340:32:36

ROSA GIGGLES

0:32:430:32:45

EDWIN CHOKES

0:32:480:32:50

HE PANTS

0:32:530:32:55

NED!

0:33:180:33:20

Are you alone here?

0:33:360:33:37

Worse luck for business, I am, deary.

0:33:390:33:42

Come in, where I can see you, for your voice is familiar.

0:33:440:33:47

Well, stranger! Huh!

0:33:570:33:59

And there was me thinking you'd died and gone to heaven.

0:34:010:34:05

Not you that died, then.

0:34:090:34:11

Who's that you're in mourning for?

0:34:130:34:16

I can't see.

0:34:190:34:21

I can't remember.

0:34:220:34:24

Then you've come to the right place,

0:34:240:34:28

cos that's just what Princess Puffer's here for.

0:34:280:34:32

LOCK RATTLES

0:34:390:34:41

SOBBING

0:34:570:34:58

Miss Twinkleton, please calm yourself.

0:34:580:35:01

Septimus, read this!

0:35:050:35:06

Ma!

0:35:060:35:08

A message from Mr Grewgious.

0:35:080:35:10

MISS TWINKLETON WAILS

0:35:100:35:12

DEPUTY WHISTLES

0:35:440:35:46

-Woah!

-Mr Grewgious sent me!

0:36:080:36:11

On an errand of burglary?

0:36:110:36:13

Well, he did not expressly forbid it.

0:36:130:36:15

He was most insistent on other things. I must stay in the library, I must talk to no-one...

0:36:150:36:20

-And did you find anything in the library, Mr...?

-The name's Datcher... Bazzard.

0:36:200:36:24

I found the Royal Engineers pensions record for Captain Drood.

0:36:240:36:28

And, sir...

0:36:280:36:30

..he has been picking it up for the last nine years.

0:36:320:36:35

That's nonsense, Datcher Bazzard. He died in a mining accident in Upper Egypt.

0:36:350:36:40

Well, if he did, there's no record of it.

0:36:400:36:43

Either someone else is taking the money...

0:36:430:36:46

or Captain Drood is still alive.

0:36:460:36:48

Oh, that's just the old man's will.

0:36:510:36:53

I obtained a copy weeks ago. There's nothing in it.

0:36:530:36:57

He's crossed out Edwin's name.

0:36:570:36:59

Every time it appears.

0:36:590:37:01

Cor! He really hated 'im!

0:37:010:37:04

Was it hate or envy?

0:37:040:37:06

And where did he hide the body?

0:37:060:37:09

Bet I know.

0:37:090:37:10

Yes, I brought Mr Jasper down here,

0:37:140:37:17

a couple of days before the unfortunate business with Mr Edwin.

0:37:170:37:20

Wooooo!

0:37:200:37:22

-Go on!

-DEPUTY LAUGHS

0:37:220:37:24

Get out of it!

0:37:240:37:26

I was telling him about the night I was enjoying my forty winks,

0:37:280:37:32

when I was woken by the ghost of one terrific shriek.

0:37:320:37:36

HIGH-PITCHED SCREAM

0:37:360:37:38

-Spooked you! Ha!

-Get out of it!

0:37:380:37:41

Deputy was right, Mr Crisparkle.

0:37:430:37:45

So many hiding places.

0:37:470:37:50

There is no place in this cathedral that's hidden to Durdles.

0:37:500:37:56

Durdles is the keeper of all the keys.

0:37:560:37:58

Nearly all the keys.

0:38:020:38:05

Durdles has had a loss perplexing him and preying on his mind, sir.

0:38:050:38:10

He's sorry to say that on the night he took Mr Jasper on his tour,

0:38:100:38:14

Durdles found himself in a state of intoxication,

0:38:140:38:19

which makes him now wonder if that was the night he lost hold of...

0:38:190:38:23

This one!

0:38:230:38:25

No. It was much bigger.

0:38:270:38:30

Oh, dear.

0:38:360:38:37

Need his worship's permission.

0:38:440:38:46

"Good morning, Mr Sapsea. Please may we dig up your dead wife on a foolish whim?"

0:38:460:38:51

BAZZARD CHUCKLES

0:38:510:38:52

If only I could see the end.

0:38:560:38:58

The end of what, deary?

0:39:000:39:01

I rehearsed it hundreds, thousands of times in this room.

0:39:040:39:09

I saw him fall like a snowflake.

0:39:130:39:16

Like a breath of sweet air falling so gently.

0:39:160:39:22

Things never turn out like we hope, do they?

0:39:250:39:28

Millions, millions of times.

0:39:300:39:33

I never saw that before.

0:39:500:39:52

This stuff's not strong enough.

0:39:550:39:57

What next?

0:39:590:40:01

Show me what happened next.

0:40:010:40:03

Oh, what a poor, mean, miserable thing this is.

0:40:050:40:09

Oh, Rosa!

0:40:160:40:17

Oh, I thought I was dreaming.

0:40:170:40:21

Lord! How like your dear mother you have grown.

0:40:230:40:27

I've made you sad?

0:40:310:40:34

I'm so sorry.

0:40:340:40:36

I can never be sad when I think of her,

0:40:380:40:41

or look at you.

0:40:410:40:43

-Did she know your feelings?

-Oh, I hope not.

0:40:510:40:54

What kind of specimen am I to have hopes in that direction?

0:40:560:41:01

Lord, what a conversation!

0:41:010:41:03

Mr Grewgious, please tell me.

0:41:030:41:07

What is true love like?

0:41:070:41:10

True love...

0:41:100:41:12

..is always returned.

0:41:150:41:17

Oh, how we witter on when the dream's upon us.

0:41:240:41:27

Singing like a little canary bird all night long, we was.

0:41:300:41:34

Sing some more.

0:41:370:41:38

What was that?

0:41:400:41:42

Tell me what you did.

0:41:420:41:45

I'm nearly...

0:41:500:41:51

..nearly...

0:41:530:41:55

..damned.

0:42:030:42:04

"Oh, subtle and mighty opium

0:42:150:42:18

"to the guilty man for one night gives back the hopes of his youth,

0:42:180:42:22

"and hands washed pure from blood."

0:42:220:42:25

Tell me what happened to him and I will go with you.

0:42:260:42:31

And there is no danger of any harm befalling my inscription?

0:42:350:42:39

Oh, none whatsoever, my dear worshipfulness.

0:42:390:42:43

I shall guard that priceless masterpiece with my life.

0:42:430:42:47

FOOTSTEPS APPROACH

0:43:020:43:04

Oh, this is no place for a child.

0:43:040:43:06

-Deputy, go and watch out for Mr Jasper's return.

-I will not!

0:43:060:43:10

-I'll give you a shilling.

-Joking!

0:43:100:43:13

Need a guinea to persuade me to miss this.

0:43:130:43:16

You stay there.

0:43:230:43:24

-Good day to you, Joe.

-Miss Rosa.

-Thank you.

0:43:370:43:40

BOTH STRAIN

0:43:400:43:41

BOTH PANT

0:43:460:43:48

Well?

0:44:040:44:05

Nothing but the mortal remains of poor Mrs Sapsea.

0:44:060:44:10

Oh, hellfire!

0:44:100:44:12

And damnation. Yes, very helpful(!)

0:44:120:44:14

-Get the other one out, then.

-What other one?

0:44:140:44:17

The one he found in Mr Jasper's desk, stupid!

0:44:170:44:20

Durdles needs a closer look at that.

0:44:240:44:27

Had no cause to go inside there for years,

0:44:300:44:32

but Durdles'd know it anywhere.

0:44:320:44:35

This is the key to the Drood tomb.

0:44:350:44:37

You hesitated the last.

0:45:150:45:18

I'm ready.

0:45:180:45:19

To say I planned it would not be quite right.

0:45:300:45:33

The idea, the method, came to me in a dream.

0:45:330:45:35

-A nightmare?

-Oh, no, no, no!

0:45:350:45:37

Edwin died night after night in dreams of perfect beauty.

0:45:370:45:40

You stay there.

0:45:420:45:43

Here, on the altar step, where he would have married you,

0:45:450:45:49

taken the woman who was meant for me, taken my life, unless I took his first.

0:45:490:45:53

Lord, let me know mine end.

0:45:530:45:54

VOICE ECHOES

0:45:540:45:58

Voices?

0:45:580:45:59

Listen.

0:46:010:46:02

What is down there?

0:46:050:46:06

..and mine age is even nothing in respect of thee.

0:46:060:46:09

His corpse was safe enough in the Sapsea tomb

0:46:130:46:15

till that fat fool wanted his inscription carving.

0:46:150:46:18

"Stranger, pause. Stranger..."

0:46:200:46:22

So I took the key, and...

0:46:240:46:27

I moved...I moved his body...

0:46:270:46:29

I moved his poor body.

0:46:290:46:32

(No, that's not it.)

0:46:320:46:34

-Something's wrong.

-It's not 'im!

-What?

0:46:340:46:38

I've got something wrong.

0:46:380:46:41

It's some old fella. Look!

0:46:410:46:44

ROSA SCREAMS

0:46:440:46:45

My God!

0:46:450:46:47

-Edwin!

-You're in mourning?

0:46:480:46:51

For you!

0:46:510:46:53

I went early to Egypt, as I did tell you I might

0:46:580:47:01

when you broke off our engagement.

0:47:010:47:04

And are there no post offices in Egypt?

0:47:040:47:06

Write to you?! Why would I write to you?

0:47:060:47:09

I was so angry with you, I threw away that pretty ring.

0:47:090:47:13

Come on, son.

0:48:060:48:07

If that personage has been dead nine years, I'll eat my hat,

0:48:120:48:16

and yours too.

0:48:160:48:17

My bet is he's been dead a bit less than one year.

0:48:170:48:20

And the ghost of one terrific shriek.

0:48:220:48:25

Wasn't a ghost, after all.

0:48:250:48:27

Who is it, Jasper?

0:48:420:48:44

Why, sir, it is Edwin Drood.

0:48:460:48:50

The father?

0:48:520:48:54

Our father.

0:48:560:48:58

Ned's and mine.

0:48:580:49:00

It was common knowledge in Egypt.

0:49:020:49:05

The date of his birth was inconvenient,

0:49:050:49:08

so my mother passed Jack off as her little brother.

0:49:080:49:11

We all thought he killed you.

0:49:130:49:15

Jack?!

0:49:150:49:17

Never! He loves me.

0:49:170:49:19

Eddy,

0:49:190:49:21

even he thinks he killed you.

0:49:210:49:24

JACK SIGHS

0:49:310:49:34

I have striven...

0:49:350:49:38

so hard to remember.

0:49:380:49:42

And I have remembered it all wrong.

0:49:420:49:45

Muddled them both up in my head.

0:49:450:49:49

Gentlemen, leave us, please.

0:49:490:49:51

On your own, with him?

0:49:510:49:53

We are old friends, Mr Jasper and I.

0:49:530:49:55

-We'll get help.

-No!

-Don't alert anyone.

0:49:550:49:58

Mr Jasper and I will do very well here together.

0:49:580:50:01

I have dreamed so much about...

0:50:100:50:15

killing Edwin...

0:50:150:50:16

.and forgotten this.

0:50:180:50:20

Captain Drood's will left everything to him, and nothing to you.

0:50:220:50:26

Oh, I never cared about the money.

0:50:260:50:30

Is there a circle of hell reserved especially for fathers

0:50:330:50:37

who do not love their children?

0:50:370:50:40

There ought to be.

0:50:420:50:44

And does it stand next to the circle where eternal damnation awaits the man who killed his own father?

0:50:440:50:49

God will forgive you if you are truly penitent.

0:50:490:50:54

-For when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness...

-The wicked man!

0:50:540:50:58

The wicked man!

0:50:580:51:00

The wicked man was a bastard boy of seven!

0:51:040:51:08

A boy of seven.

0:51:080:51:11

Sent away!

0:51:110:51:14

Sent away to learn to sing.

0:51:140:51:17

While a little, fat, fair baby,

0:51:170:51:22

a little, fat, fair, legitimate baby

0:51:220:51:26

sucked up all the love in the house until there was none left over.

0:51:260:51:30

And yet...

0:51:340:51:36

when Captain Drood... died the first time

0:51:360:51:40

in a mining accident in Egypt,

0:51:400:51:43

so they said...

0:51:430:51:44

..I grieved.

0:51:480:51:50

But a year ago he came back?

0:51:500:51:53

HE SINGS SOFTLY

0:51:550:51:57

CLATTERING

0:51:570:52:00

Who's there?

0:52:020:52:03

Show yourself.

0:52:050:52:07

Sorry.

0:52:100:52:12

Father?

0:52:220:52:24

-Father, is it really you?

-Leave off me, Jack.

0:52:300:52:34

I've come looking for Edwin.

0:52:340:52:36

Where is my bright boy?

0:52:410:52:44

If...if he had written,

0:52:440:52:47

if he had given me any warning...

0:52:470:52:49

HE CHUCKLES

0:52:490:52:52

It's too late for me to deceive myself.

0:52:520:52:56

I would have still killed him.

0:52:590:53:01

FATHER!

0:53:360:53:38

One kind word for me would have saved him.

0:53:400:53:42

That old fool Durdles thought he'd heard the cry of a murder victim. But the old devil uttered not a word.

0:53:420:53:48

-It was I who cried out to the heavens, at the loss of all my hopes.

-There is always hope in the Lord.

0:53:480:53:52

Not for me. I've killed my father. But no matter, for soon I will hang, and then all will be darkness,

0:53:520:53:58

-and silence, and blissful forgetting. But where is Ned? Where is Ned's body?

-Jack!

0:53:580:54:03

Good God!

0:54:030:54:06

Jack.

0:54:060:54:07

Our father loved him but not me.

0:54:110:54:13

And together they robbed me of every happiness.

0:54:150:54:18

I'm here.

0:54:180:54:20

You see? I've come back.

0:54:210:54:24

And I'm sorry.

0:54:290:54:30

-I am so sorry.

-The old man was a monster.

0:54:300:54:34

But that was the only human creature that ever loved me.

0:54:360:54:40

-Jack...

-And I killed him too.

0:54:400:54:44

No. No, look at him.

0:54:440:54:48

And so he haunts me.

0:54:480:54:51

And I am damned.

0:54:510:54:53

-Edwin, take Rosa outside.

-No, no, no. I want to see Jack.

0:55:060:55:09

-I have to make everything well with Jack.

-Do as I say.

-Is he up there?

0:55:090:55:13

-Jack?

-Haven't you done enough harm?

-Jack? Jack, it's me.

0:55:130:55:16

-I'm coming up.

-No. No, you're not, you're frightening him.

0:55:160:55:19

-He thinks you're dead.

-He's my brother. I can help him.

0:55:190:55:22

Oh, dear God! Rosa, Rosa! Quick, you don't want to be here. Get help.

0:55:220:55:25

Get anyone! Run!

0:55:250:55:27

Jasper? Jasper?

0:55:270:55:29

There's no need to be afraid.

0:55:290:55:32

Pray with me. Pray with me now.

0:55:320:55:35

Choose the light.

0:55:350:55:36

Our Father who art in heaven...

0:55:380:55:41

Jasper, won't you join me?

0:55:410:55:43

Our Father who art in heaven...

0:55:430:55:46

-Hallowed be thy name.

-Hallowed be thy name.

0:55:460:55:49

Jack?

0:55:490:55:50

Thy kingdom come...

0:55:500:55:52

Thy will be done.

0:55:520:55:54

NO!

0:55:540:55:56

Thank you.

0:56:320:56:34

MR GREWGIOUS CLEARS THROAT

0:56:340:56:35

To Edwin, who once was lost, and now is found.

0:56:350:56:40

And to his new life in Egypt.

0:56:400:56:43

To my brother, my partner,

0:56:470:56:51

you won't regret coming with me.

0:56:510:56:53

They will forget us.

0:56:570:56:59

They'll be in trouble if they do.

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They'll bring home exotic brides and cause consternation.

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I do hope so!

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Ahem, one final toast.

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To our older brother, Jack...

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..and his fond memory.

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To the man he might have been.

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To Jack.

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-I was thinking...

-I wonder...

-You first.

-No, you.

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No, of course, me.

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SHE GIGGLES

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Rosa, quickly.

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No, Helena!

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Did I just ask you something?

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No.

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But I said yes anyway.

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