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0:02:19 > 0:02:20Ned!

0:02:27 > 0:02:30Have another, dearie.

0:02:30 > 0:02:32Won't do you no harm.

0:02:35 > 0:02:36Smoke another pipe.

0:02:42 > 0:02:45Never make out a word them saying.

0:02:45 > 0:02:48Foreigners...

0:02:48 > 0:02:50English...

0:02:50 > 0:02:52Makes no odds.

0:02:52 > 0:02:57HE MUTTERS NONSENSICALLY

0:02:57 > 0:03:00Nonsense.

0:03:00 > 0:03:01It's just nonsense.

0:03:01 > 0:03:07We all talk nonsense, dearie, when the dream's upon us.

0:03:47 > 0:03:51When the wicked man turneth away

0:03:51 > 0:03:54from his wickedness that he hath committed...

0:03:56 > 0:04:01..and doeth that which is lawful and right...

0:04:12 > 0:04:14..he shall save his soul alive.

0:04:19 > 0:04:22I acknowledge my transgressions,

0:04:22 > 0:04:25and my sin is ever before me.

0:04:25 > 0:04:30Repent ye, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.

0:04:30 > 0:04:35# Oh, come, let us sing unto the Lord

0:04:35 > 0:04:42# Let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation... #

0:04:42 > 0:04:45Something to keep an eye on.

0:04:45 > 0:04:47- Mr Crisparkle!- Thank you, Reverend.

0:04:52 > 0:04:56- Thank you for your forbearance. - Not ill, Mr Jasper?

0:04:56 > 0:04:57Only that sleep is hard to find.

0:04:57 > 0:04:59My mother will be thrilled

0:04:59 > 0:05:02to offer you her famous medicine chest once again.

0:05:02 > 0:05:05Previously she only had me to experiment on.

0:05:05 > 0:05:07The lady's very kind. But I expect my nephew today.

0:05:07 > 0:05:09Ah, I'm very glad to hear it!

0:05:09 > 0:05:12Edwin will do you more good than a dozen medicine chests.

0:05:30 > 0:05:33If he does not come soon, I will die of longing!

0:05:33 > 0:05:35Rosa has no idea how lucky she is.

0:05:35 > 0:05:39Oh, for heaven's sake, you know nothing about it.

0:05:39 > 0:05:43There he is! Oh, look at his lovely hair!

0:05:43 > 0:05:46Will you please be quiet?!

0:05:49 > 0:05:51It's so romantic I could faint.

0:05:58 > 0:06:00Mr Edwin Drood to see Miss Rosa Bud.

0:06:05 > 0:06:08THEY GIGGLE

0:06:08 > 0:06:09It is just so absurd.

0:06:09 > 0:06:11What is so absurd, Rosie?

0:06:11 > 0:06:14The whole thing. Girls and servants scuttling about giggling,

0:06:14 > 0:06:15when it's only you come to call.

0:06:15 > 0:06:18That's a nice way to welcome your fiance!

0:06:18 > 0:06:19Rosie...

0:06:19 > 0:06:23I can't kiss you, Eddy, because I've got a pear drop in my mouth.

0:06:23 > 0:06:25Miss Twinkleton.

0:06:25 > 0:06:28How do you do, Mr Drood?

0:06:28 > 0:06:30Very glad indeed to have the pleasure once more.

0:06:30 > 0:06:32Pray excuse me.

0:06:32 > 0:06:34Tweezers. Ah!

0:06:43 > 0:06:45Shall I just go?

0:06:45 > 0:06:49No. No, not so soon, the girls will only want to know why.

0:06:49 > 0:06:52So, how are you?

0:06:52 > 0:06:55I'd like to reply much the better for seeing you, Rosie.

0:07:01 > 0:07:05METRONOME TICKS

0:07:16 > 0:07:19Jack?

0:07:22 > 0:07:24BELLS CHIME

0:07:24 > 0:07:26Jack?

0:07:27 > 0:07:29- Agh!- Jack, you monster!

0:07:29 > 0:07:32- Ned!- Put me down! - Ned! Oh, Ned, at last.

0:07:32 > 0:07:35Are you wet? Cold? Hungry?

0:07:35 > 0:07:38Not wet, not cold. Hungry, yes, hungry as a horse.

0:07:38 > 0:07:41Don't mollycoddle me, Jack, there's a good fellow.

0:07:41 > 0:07:42Let me look at you.

0:07:46 > 0:07:48You're late.

0:07:48 > 0:07:50I looked in on Rosa first.

0:07:53 > 0:07:58Oh, that's a dreadful old picture, Jack. I've more skill now.

0:07:58 > 0:07:59I'd draw you another one tomorrow,

0:07:59 > 0:08:02but I can't be sure she'll ever show me that smile again.

0:08:02 > 0:08:05To a young bride, nervously awaiting her nuptial day.

0:08:05 > 0:08:06Nervous! Huh!

0:08:06 > 0:08:08Miss Rosa is all thorns and no petals.

0:08:08 > 0:08:11- Ned! - Oh, but the girl provokes me so!

0:08:11 > 0:08:15Miss Pert. Miss Scornful.

0:08:15 > 0:08:17Nothing I say ever pleases her.

0:08:17 > 0:08:19That young lady is too good for you, boy.

0:08:19 > 0:08:21God, if only I could choose, Jack.

0:08:21 > 0:08:24The loveliest girl in the world is yours,

0:08:24 > 0:08:27and you should thank God as well as your father for it.

0:08:27 > 0:08:29Oh, you can say so, it's all very well for you.

0:08:29 > 0:08:34Your life's not mapped out for you, your work and your marriage,

0:08:34 > 0:08:35all to scale and lined

0:08:35 > 0:08:38and dotted out like some infernal surveyor's plan.

0:08:38 > 0:08:41- You can choose for yourself.- Ha!

0:08:41 > 0:08:43Jack, you look ghastly.

0:08:43 > 0:08:45What is it? You're frightening me!

0:08:45 > 0:08:49Now, don't you mollycoddly me. My medicine's at my bed.

0:08:53 > 0:08:55My Jack's an opium eater!

0:08:57 > 0:08:59You disapprove?

0:08:59 > 0:09:02No, no, no. If laudanum helps to ease the pain...

0:09:02 > 0:09:06To forget. To forget the pain. To forget this place.

0:09:06 > 0:09:08You can't be unhappy here, Jack.

0:09:08 > 0:09:12Not when you've so exactly found your niche in life?

0:09:12 > 0:09:15You're so deeply respected in this queer old place.

0:09:15 > 0:09:18- And you've your heavenly music. - I hate it, Ned.

0:09:18 > 0:09:21I hate the grinding monotony of it.

0:09:21 > 0:09:23What is a man's life,

0:09:23 > 0:09:26where his only choice is which hymn number to select today?

0:09:26 > 0:09:31See how even a poor choirmaster may suffer the itch of ambition,

0:09:31 > 0:09:34but these are private thoughts and this is a confidence between us.

0:09:34 > 0:09:36Of course. It shall be sacredly preserved.

0:09:36 > 0:09:40Take it as a warning, then.

0:09:40 > 0:09:42My dear fellow, you need never fear

0:09:42 > 0:09:47that I will give in to the same despair. Look at me, I'm smiling!

0:09:47 > 0:09:49For, in a few months, I shall carry Rosa away from school

0:09:49 > 0:09:52as Mrs Edwin Drood, and she shall set sail with me

0:09:52 > 0:09:54for our new life in the east.

0:09:54 > 0:09:57And we shall be happy, because we shall have made up our minds to be.

0:09:59 > 0:10:01You won't be warned, then?

0:10:03 > 0:10:05Dear Jack!

0:10:22 > 0:10:26Hah! Surrender, wicked mirror! Your money or your life.

0:10:26 > 0:10:29While you're waiting for the poor item to decide,

0:10:29 > 0:10:31I have a job for you.

0:10:34 > 0:10:38That's far too many. Our poor guest will boil.

0:10:38 > 0:10:39On the contrary, Sept,

0:10:39 > 0:10:43our climate will be a freezing torment to a tropical soul.

0:10:43 > 0:10:46- CHURCH BELLS RING Oh!- What?

0:10:46 > 0:10:50What if the bell-ringers disturb his sleep?

0:10:50 > 0:10:53I'll move the cathedral, shall I?

0:10:58 > 0:10:59Ah!

0:11:04 > 0:11:07Come on, then.

0:11:07 > 0:11:08What we got today, Mr Durdles?

0:11:08 > 0:11:10Who's this "we" when he's at home?

0:11:10 > 0:11:13This is Durdles' dinner entirely,

0:11:13 > 0:11:16what he is sharing with a workhouse ragamuffin

0:11:16 > 0:11:18- out of the goodness of his heart. - Cheese!- Yeah.

0:11:21 > 0:11:24CHORISTERS SING

0:11:30 > 0:11:33Blooming racket's enough to put an honest man off his lunch.

0:11:33 > 0:11:34Ow!

0:11:35 > 0:11:38Stop, stop, stop, stop!

0:11:39 > 0:11:43I know there are a lot of low notes,

0:11:43 > 0:11:47but when did you hear me say you're allowed to growl

0:11:47 > 0:11:50like a pack of Bengal tigers?

0:11:50 > 0:11:53Keep it bright, keep that smile in your mouths.

0:11:53 > 0:11:56The key note is IS G, but it is an odd form of G minor,

0:11:56 > 0:12:01so don't root down in mud and boots, think upwards, think of heaven.

0:12:01 > 0:12:05And this time prove to me you can sing sharp as well as flat.

0:12:07 > 0:12:13# According to thy word

0:12:13 > 0:12:17# For mine eyes have seen

0:12:17 > 0:12:22# Thy salvation

0:12:22 > 0:12:27# Which thou hast prepared

0:12:27 > 0:12:35# Before the face of all people... #

0:12:37 > 0:12:44Ethelinda, reverential wife of Mr Thomas Sapsea.

0:12:44 > 0:12:50Mayor, estate agent, auctioneer, etc, etc, etc,

0:12:50 > 0:12:54of this very city, whose knowledge of the world,

0:12:54 > 0:12:57though somewhat extensive, never brought him acquainted

0:12:57 > 0:13:02with a spirit more capable of looking up to him.

0:13:02 > 0:13:04That spirit being your late wife?

0:13:04 > 0:13:10Stranger, pause, and ask thyself the question.

0:13:10 > 0:13:12Canst thou do likewise?

0:13:12 > 0:13:16If not, with a blush, retire.

0:13:19 > 0:13:20A fine tribute.

0:13:20 > 0:13:22I do not reproach myself, sir.

0:13:22 > 0:13:24A little long, perhaps?

0:13:24 > 0:13:27But there have been times when I have asked myself the question,

0:13:27 > 0:13:31what if her husband had not been so very superior to her?

0:13:31 > 0:13:33If she had not had to look up so high,

0:13:33 > 0:13:38what might have been the stimulating effect upon her liver?

0:13:41 > 0:13:43Durdles, what say you as to length?

0:13:43 > 0:13:44Hold it up for us.

0:13:46 > 0:13:51It'll fit within an eighth of an inch. Give us the key.

0:13:51 > 0:13:56Um, surely this fine inscription

0:13:56 > 0:13:59is not to be hidden from public view inside the crypt?

0:13:59 > 0:14:03When Durdles goes back to put a touch or a finish on his work,

0:14:03 > 0:14:06Durdles likes to check the whole job.

0:14:06 > 0:14:09Inside and outside.

0:14:09 > 0:14:12Key, Mr Mayor, if you please.

0:14:12 > 0:14:16Why, Durdles, you're overloaded with ironmongery.

0:14:16 > 0:14:19Weighed down by life, is Durdles.

0:14:19 > 0:14:22And I'm sure the mayor's key is the heaviest of all.

0:14:22 > 0:14:25Indeed, sir, it shall be.

0:14:25 > 0:14:27Oh, may I?

0:14:29 > 0:14:30Most impressive.

0:14:32 > 0:14:37You may retain the key, Durdles, for I have another,

0:14:37 > 0:14:40and how the cold is creeping into my bones.

0:14:41 > 0:14:44- Good day to you both. - Good day, Mr Sapsea.

0:14:49 > 0:14:52Yours is a curious existence.

0:14:53 > 0:14:54Yours is another.

0:14:54 > 0:14:58In as much as we both inhabit the same old earthy,

0:14:58 > 0:15:00chilly, never-changing place.

0:15:00 > 0:15:03But there's more mystery and interest in your work.

0:15:03 > 0:15:06Nobody knows this place like Durdles.

0:15:07 > 0:15:11Every corner of it has Durdles' handiwork upon it.

0:15:12 > 0:15:15Find his way round it blindfold.

0:15:15 > 0:15:18- Day or night.- You shall show me.

0:15:20 > 0:15:23Durdles got better things to do.

0:15:38 > 0:15:39Excuse me, boys.

0:15:42 > 0:15:44Miss Landless?

0:15:45 > 0:15:47Oh, welcome to Cloisterham.

0:15:47 > 0:15:50I'm Reverend Septimus Crisparkle. How do you do?

0:15:50 > 0:15:51How do you do, sir?

0:15:56 > 0:16:00- And this must be... - My brother, Neville.

0:16:08 > 0:16:09Splendid.

0:16:11 > 0:16:18My dear children, such a dreadfully long voyage, but you're home now.

0:16:25 > 0:16:28100 miles south of Jaffna, I believe?

0:16:28 > 0:16:29Yes, sir.

0:16:34 > 0:16:38Dutch, and then French, till we British got hold of it.

0:16:39 > 0:16:42The harbour, you see. Very fine.

0:16:44 > 0:16:47Trincomalee! What a tongue-twister.

0:16:49 > 0:16:53It means Lord of the Sacred Hill in our mother's language.

0:16:53 > 0:16:56- Yes, your mother... - Was a Christian lady.

0:16:56 > 0:16:58Oh, of course.

0:16:58 > 0:17:02The letter from the mission school related to us

0:17:02 > 0:17:05the sad news of the death of your stepfather.

0:17:05 > 0:17:08- To be orphaned twice... - We have each other.

0:17:16 > 0:17:19"Trincomalee! What a tongue-twister?"

0:17:19 > 0:17:22It's like talking to a pair of brick walls.

0:17:22 > 0:17:24Perhaps in the company of other young people...

0:17:24 > 0:17:27Oh, round some up, Sept. Quick as you can!

0:17:28 > 0:17:31Boilers again. Boilers and pyramids and canals.

0:17:31 > 0:17:34How can you not take an interest in the triumphs of engineering

0:17:34 > 0:17:36which will change the whole condition of an undeveloped country?

0:17:36 > 0:17:40Who cares about Egypt?! Talk about something else.

0:17:40 > 0:17:43- Next, you'll say you don't want to come.- You're being ridiculous.

0:17:43 > 0:17:45Mr Neville Landless, Miss Helena Landless,

0:17:45 > 0:17:49may I present to you Miss Rosa Bud and Mr Edwin Drood?

0:17:50 > 0:17:52How do you do?

0:17:55 > 0:17:57I see I disappoint you.

0:17:58 > 0:18:02An unusual name, sir, but familiar to us,

0:18:02 > 0:18:08as a Mr Drood was among the kindly benefactors of our mission school.

0:18:08 > 0:18:12Not I, Miss Landless, I have not yet set foot in the tropics,

0:18:12 > 0:18:16nor my father either, who is dead these nine years.

0:18:19 > 0:18:20I am more than sorry to hear that.

0:18:20 > 0:18:24Miss Twinkleton, your new pupil.

0:18:24 > 0:18:27And you, sir, to the piano if you please. And Rosa!

0:18:27 > 0:18:30Yes, yes, come along, now.

0:18:30 > 0:18:36Oh, some songs before tea, the rule on our alternate musical Wednesdays.

0:18:36 > 0:18:39Yes, sing for our suppers, Rosie, it's the least you can do.

0:18:39 > 0:18:40Miss Helena...

0:18:45 > 0:18:46If you care to sit here.

0:18:52 > 0:18:59# Believe me if all those endearing young charms

0:18:59 > 0:19:05# Which I gaze on so fondly today

0:19:06 > 0:19:10# Were to change by tomorrow

0:19:10 > 0:19:12# And fleet in my arms

0:19:12 > 0:19:17# Like fairy gifts fading away

0:19:19 > 0:19:22# Thou wouldst still be adored

0:19:22 > 0:19:26# As this moment thou art

0:19:26 > 0:19:32# Let thy loveliness fade as it will

0:19:32 > 0:19:36# And around the dear ruin

0:19:36 > 0:19:39# Each wish of my heart

0:19:39 > 0:19:46# Would entwine itself verdantly still. #

0:19:46 > 0:19:49APPLAUSE Charming, my dear. Most mellifluous.

0:19:49 > 0:19:51HE STARTS ANOTHER SONG

0:19:51 > 0:19:54- Please, that's enough. - Oh, Rosie, what's the fuss?

0:19:54 > 0:19:57There'll be tears next, Jack, and for nothing, as usual.

0:19:57 > 0:20:01If a young lady wishes to stop, what gentleman would force her on?

0:20:03 > 0:20:05Oh, there are no gentlemen here, sir.

0:20:05 > 0:20:07Only a fiance and a music master.

0:20:07 > 0:20:10Shall she take orders from both of them?

0:20:10 > 0:20:14Orders? Never. But what if I beg?

0:20:14 > 0:20:17- Rosie Posie, be a dear... - Stop it. Stop it!

0:20:17 > 0:20:18Come away, come away.

0:20:18 > 0:20:21There, Jack, Miss Landless agrees with me!

0:20:21 > 0:20:25- You are a monster and she's afraid of you, too.- Never.

0:20:32 > 0:20:34Well, I think it's time for a drink...

0:20:34 > 0:20:38My guests are very young, my dear Mr Jasper, and very tired...

0:20:38 > 0:20:39I take no offence, madam, truly,

0:20:39 > 0:20:42it's only one of my sudden headaches, forgive me.

0:20:42 > 0:20:44I had already put this aside for you.

0:20:50 > 0:20:51You are most kind.

0:20:53 > 0:20:55Thank you.

0:21:14 > 0:21:17- HE LAUGHS - Do that again and I'll kill you.

0:21:17 > 0:21:19You lie!

0:21:21 > 0:21:24Get off me! Get off me! Get off!

0:21:24 > 0:21:26I could turn you off like a tap.

0:21:32 > 0:21:36I am sure Miss Bud will make you very comfortable, Miss Landless.

0:21:36 > 0:21:37Good night!

0:21:47 > 0:21:50This is my bed, and that shall be yours.

0:21:50 > 0:21:52It's beautiful.

0:21:54 > 0:21:56I hope you shall not hate sharing it with me.

0:21:56 > 0:21:59Oh, the other girls are such geese!

0:22:02 > 0:22:05Come, let me take down your hair.

0:22:10 > 0:22:13I imagine we shan't be here together for very long.

0:22:13 > 0:22:14No, indeed.

0:22:14 > 0:22:18For, come the summer, I shall be married and away.

0:22:18 > 0:22:20Married to a man who makes you cry in company.

0:22:22 > 0:22:25Oh, that's just Eddy's way.

0:22:25 > 0:22:26He doesn't mean it.

0:22:28 > 0:22:30You do love him, Rosa?

0:22:30 > 0:22:32ROSA LAUGHS

0:22:32 > 0:22:33What a question!

0:22:33 > 0:22:38I have been engaged to Eddy for ever. Of course I love him.

0:22:38 > 0:22:40You are so very young.

0:22:40 > 0:22:4117.

0:22:46 > 0:22:47Sometimes I wonder...

0:22:49 > 0:22:52..how can I be sure this is what love feels like?

0:22:55 > 0:22:58I only know what I HOPE it feels like.

0:22:59 > 0:23:01THEY GIGGLE

0:23:05 > 0:23:06The other gentleman...

0:23:06 > 0:23:08Don't speak of him.

0:23:11 > 0:23:12You do know he loves you?

0:23:12 > 0:23:14Oh, don't say that out loud.

0:23:22 > 0:23:26Good sir! Our agreement.

0:23:26 > 0:23:27Who's died?

0:23:27 > 0:23:29You were to conduct me on a tour.

0:23:29 > 0:23:32The mysterious world of Durdles.

0:23:32 > 0:23:35Not tonight. Durdles is going home for his supper.

0:23:35 > 0:23:37I have all the nourishment we need.

0:23:45 > 0:23:49Watch your step, Mr Jasper.

0:23:49 > 0:23:52As fine a choirmaster as you might be up there,

0:23:52 > 0:23:55down here is Durdles the presiding spirit.

0:24:02 > 0:24:08There's people hidden away in every corner down here, Mr Jasper.

0:24:12 > 0:24:14Old 'uns that's walled up...

0:24:17 > 0:24:23..and forgotten forever by everyone excepting Durdles.

0:24:29 > 0:24:31You spoke of nourishment?

0:24:44 > 0:24:46Not frightened of ghosts, then?

0:24:48 > 0:24:50What rational man fears the dead?

0:24:50 > 0:24:53That's true, the dead can't hurt ya.

0:24:53 > 0:24:55Give you a fright, though.

0:24:57 > 0:25:00You're not going to claim you've seen a ghost, Durdles?

0:25:00 > 0:25:01You'll disappoint me if you do.

0:25:01 > 0:25:03Not seen one, no.

0:25:06 > 0:25:09Heard one, though.

0:25:09 > 0:25:11I was enjoying my 40 winks one night,

0:25:11 > 0:25:15though the nourishment was nowhere near as good as this is,

0:25:15 > 0:25:19Mr Jasper, thanking you kindly. When what should wake me?

0:25:20 > 0:25:23The ghost of a cry, that's what.

0:25:25 > 0:25:28The ghost of one terrific shriek...

0:25:29 > 0:25:31..with an echo like a long,

0:25:31 > 0:25:36dismal, woeful howl, such as a dog gives when a person's dead.

0:25:39 > 0:25:41You speak of long ago.

0:25:41 > 0:25:43No more than a year.

0:25:43 > 0:25:46It was just when we buried poor Mrs Sapsea.

0:25:47 > 0:25:50Not ashamed to confess I thought it was her.

0:25:50 > 0:25:55The lady mayoress, crying for release from her own fresh grave.

0:25:57 > 0:26:01Not ashamed to confess I ran all the way home

0:26:01 > 0:26:05and never came back to lock up until the morning.

0:26:05 > 0:26:09The ghost of one terrific shriek.

0:26:50 > 0:26:52He terrifies me.

0:26:52 > 0:26:58When he corrects me, and strikes a note, or a chord,

0:26:58 > 0:27:03his voice is in the music...whispering...

0:27:03 > 0:27:07that he pursues me as a lover.

0:27:09 > 0:27:12What words does he use, little one?

0:27:12 > 0:27:14I could argue with words.

0:27:14 > 0:27:18But he has made a slave of me with his music.

0:27:18 > 0:27:21He has forced me to understand him without his saying a word

0:27:21 > 0:27:24and he has forced me to keep silent without his uttering a threat.

0:27:24 > 0:27:27Is that why you don't tell Edwin?

0:27:27 > 0:27:29Oh, Eddy is devoted to him!

0:27:29 > 0:27:33John Jasper is more than an uncle to him, he is a guardian and protector.

0:27:35 > 0:27:37You must never breathe a word! Promise me, on your life.

0:27:37 > 0:27:39Of course.

0:27:42 > 0:27:45Good night, little one. I'm here now.

0:27:45 > 0:27:47There's no need to be scared.

0:27:57 > 0:27:59I'm sorry about your father.

0:27:59 > 0:28:01No need to feel sorry for me, Mr Neville.

0:28:01 > 0:28:03I hardly knew my father, he lived so much abroad.

0:28:03 > 0:28:07- He died in action?- No! A mining accident in Upper Egypt.

0:28:07 > 0:28:08He died making money.

0:28:09 > 0:28:11Don't look so puzzled. He was an officer

0:28:11 > 0:28:14in the Royal Engineers, and no man got rich on army pay.

0:28:14 > 0:28:16Set up a pretty little construction business,

0:28:16 > 0:28:18which is left to me when I'm 21.

0:28:18 > 0:28:21I congratulate you. And on your other good fortune.

0:28:21 > 0:28:24- Miss Rosa?- You ask a good too many questions already, Mr Neville,

0:28:24 > 0:28:26and this matter is none of your business.

0:28:26 > 0:28:29The young lady is under one roof with my sister.

0:28:29 > 0:28:33- Not for long, thank God.- Your discourtesy does not become you.

0:28:35 > 0:28:36What an odd little thing you are.

0:28:39 > 0:28:43Ned! Ned!

0:28:43 > 0:28:44Ned, dear boy!

0:28:44 > 0:28:46You are the host in this town

0:28:46 > 0:28:49and must respect the sacred rules of hospitality!

0:28:51 > 0:28:54Ned will be off soon, Mr Neville,

0:28:54 > 0:28:59sailing away with his lady love to a life of freedom and adventures.

0:28:59 > 0:29:01Look at him lounging there like a lord.

0:29:01 > 0:29:04The world is all before him. Where to choose?

0:29:04 > 0:29:09Isn't that right, Mr Neville? Whereas we lesser mortals...

0:29:11 > 0:29:14To Ned, my dearest fellow.

0:29:18 > 0:29:19HE SPLUTTERS

0:29:19 > 0:29:24- Lord Jack, this is strong stuff for our new friend.- I can take it.

0:29:24 > 0:29:29And now a toast to Mr Neville, newly-arrived from far-flung...?

0:29:29 > 0:29:32Ceylon. Off the south coast of India.

0:29:32 > 0:29:34Mr Neville, every schoolboy knows that.

0:29:34 > 0:29:37Jack, you're quite right.

0:29:37 > 0:29:39I understand you're orphans?

0:29:39 > 0:29:41Our mother died when we were 12 years old.

0:29:41 > 0:29:42I am a damn fortunate fellow.

0:29:42 > 0:29:44I'm sorry to hear that. And your father?

0:29:44 > 0:29:47And Rosie's a damn lucky girl, if she did but know it.

0:29:47 > 0:29:49Too damn good for the likes of you.

0:29:49 > 0:29:52- Now, do speak up, sir. - You might be worth more, Mr Drood,

0:29:52 > 0:29:55if you had known hardship like other people.

0:29:55 > 0:29:58I find I tire very easily of the wisdom of the East.

0:29:58 > 0:29:59Hospitality, Ned...

0:29:59 > 0:30:02You talk as if you were some kind of rare and precious prize,

0:30:02 > 0:30:04but you're just a common boaster.

0:30:04 > 0:30:06You may know a black common boaster

0:30:06 > 0:30:08when you see him, but you are no judge of white men.

0:30:09 > 0:30:11Mr Neville, for shame!

0:30:11 > 0:30:14Ned, I beg you, I command you, back away!

0:30:14 > 0:30:18Mr Neville, I will have your weapon.

0:30:18 > 0:30:20Open your hand, sir!

0:30:35 > 0:30:38Mr Neville!

0:30:40 > 0:30:43Last night, you were not sober.

0:30:43 > 0:30:44KNOCK ON DOOR

0:30:50 > 0:30:54Through the mercy of God I was swift and strong with him,

0:30:54 > 0:30:57or he would have cut Edwin down on my hearth, murder in his heart.

0:30:57 > 0:30:59No, no, there's no need for such strong words.

0:30:59 > 0:31:02You, my dear sir, have accepted a dangerous charge into your house.

0:31:05 > 0:31:08You are our foremost man of culture, Mr Jasper.

0:31:08 > 0:31:12There is no reason why you should have known that natives

0:31:12 > 0:31:14cannot be trusted with strong drink.

0:31:14 > 0:31:17It is because I fear for your safety, dear madam,

0:31:17 > 0:31:20that I now raise my concerns.

0:31:20 > 0:31:24I appreciate the kindness of, er, of your intention.

0:31:24 > 0:31:26- Um...- Madam.

0:31:28 > 0:31:30One is forced to wonder, Mr Jasper,

0:31:30 > 0:31:33why the minor canon hadn't the courage to tell his mother himself?

0:31:37 > 0:31:44"Horum omnium fortissimi sunt Belgae."

0:31:44 > 0:31:48"Of all of these the bravest are the Belgians."

0:31:48 > 0:31:55Not Belgians, Mr Neville. No such thing as Belgians in 55BC.

0:31:55 > 0:31:57Mr Neville has begun his studies by jumping

0:31:57 > 0:31:59straight into Caesar's Gallic Wars.

0:32:01 > 0:32:05Means to lay waste to every tribe in Kent, does he?

0:32:10 > 0:32:13Translate to the end of the chapter, please,

0:32:13 > 0:32:14and we will meet again before luncheon

0:32:14 > 0:32:17to continue our discussion of your apology.

0:32:17 > 0:32:20- I cannot apologise to Mr Drood. - I do not present you with a choice.

0:32:23 > 0:32:28Our lives have been hard, sir. Our stepfather was a brute.

0:32:29 > 0:32:32If that is the reason for the anger in your soul, Mr Neville,

0:32:32 > 0:32:36it will be your duty to fight it with forgiveness.

0:32:36 > 0:32:38I am secretive and vengeful.

0:32:38 > 0:32:41I have the manners of a heathen and a touch of the tiger in my blood.

0:32:42 > 0:32:45Your stepfather speaks through you from beyond the grave.

0:32:45 > 0:32:47Those were his opinions of me, yes.

0:32:48 > 0:32:51It was a good thing he died when he did, or I might have killed him.

0:32:51 > 0:32:56Mr Neville! Nothing can justify such violent thoughts...

0:32:56 > 0:32:58You never saw him beat your twin sister.

0:32:59 > 0:33:02Not even a beloved and beautiful sister's tears.

0:33:02 > 0:33:04She never cried.

0:33:05 > 0:33:08My sister would have let him rip her to pieces

0:33:08 > 0:33:12before she would let him believe he could make her shed a tear.

0:33:14 > 0:33:19This was not idle gossip. This was the mayor of Cloisterham talking.

0:33:19 > 0:33:22Don't try to make me laugh, I'm not in the mood.

0:33:22 > 0:33:24The difference between us is that I believe the two men

0:33:24 > 0:33:26- were equally at fault.- And I do not.

0:33:26 > 0:33:30- But why not, Ma?- Because I don't.

0:33:30 > 0:33:33Though, of course, I am open to discussion.

0:33:33 > 0:33:35That's exactly what you're not.

0:33:49 > 0:33:52I had planned to suggest to you that we jointly hush the whole thing up

0:33:52 > 0:33:54to save the reputations of all concerned.

0:33:54 > 0:33:56Now you've discussed it with the mayor,

0:33:56 > 0:33:59- which is to say the entire town... - What do you know of

0:33:59 > 0:34:01Neville Landless and his sister?

0:34:01 > 0:34:03They are orphans in need of an education.

0:34:03 > 0:34:07Jasper, they are strangers in a strange land.

0:34:07 > 0:34:10Send them away before that boy does serious damage.

0:34:10 > 0:34:13We cannot permit one mistake to turn into a destiny

0:34:13 > 0:34:16- which cannot be escaped. - Such is life, surely.

0:34:17 > 0:34:20Young ladies, you may set aside your sewing.

0:34:20 > 0:34:24Miss Rosa, your guardian is here from London.

0:34:24 > 0:34:26Come along, girls!

0:34:28 > 0:34:30Ooh!

0:34:30 > 0:34:32Sir.

0:34:49 > 0:34:52My visits here are like those of the angels.

0:34:52 > 0:34:55Not that I compare myself to an angel.

0:34:55 > 0:34:58No, Mr Grewgious, sir.

0:34:58 > 0:35:02I merely refer to my visits being few and far between.

0:35:03 > 0:35:08The angels having, as we see, just run away upstairs.

0:35:08 > 0:35:09Do take a seat, sir.

0:35:12 > 0:35:16You are my guardian angel, Mr Grewgious, always.

0:35:20 > 0:35:24I refer to the guiding memorandum which I prepared earlier.

0:35:26 > 0:35:30So, my dear. "Well and happy."

0:35:30 > 0:35:32Yes, indeed, sir, thank you.

0:35:35 > 0:35:38"Pounds, shillings and pence."

0:35:38 > 0:35:40A dry subject for a young lady, but...

0:35:40 > 0:35:42I want for nothing.

0:35:46 > 0:35:48"Marriage."

0:35:53 > 0:35:56I remember how you love fresh air, Mr Grewgious.

0:35:57 > 0:35:59Do I?

0:35:59 > 0:36:02You like him, and he likes you.

0:36:02 > 0:36:04I like him very much, sir.

0:36:04 > 0:36:09- Capital.- But what happens if we don't get married?

0:36:09 > 0:36:11You haven't read your father's will?

0:36:11 > 0:36:14Um...the legal language.

0:36:14 > 0:36:19You will remain my ward for another four years, until you are 21,

0:36:19 > 0:36:22and then come into your inheritance just the same.

0:36:24 > 0:36:27You are really asking if you stand to lose your inheritance

0:36:27 > 0:36:31if you go against your father's wishes.

0:36:31 > 0:36:34- That sounds so dreadful.- Rosa.

0:36:34 > 0:36:37Do you suppose that if your dear father were here today

0:36:37 > 0:36:41he would want you to be unhappy in any way that can be imagined?

0:36:41 > 0:36:43Preposterous.

0:36:44 > 0:36:48My dear, two young people can only be betrothed in marriage

0:36:48 > 0:36:49of their own free will.

0:36:52 > 0:36:53Lord, bless me!

0:36:55 > 0:37:00You find me rather the worse for wear, I'm afraid.

0:37:07 > 0:37:08Um...

0:37:08 > 0:37:10May I offer you, er...

0:37:10 > 0:37:13A glass of water will suffice, thank you.

0:37:20 > 0:37:23Please, be...be seated. My manners are Pictish today.

0:37:45 > 0:37:49This is a certified copy of Rosa's father's will.

0:37:49 > 0:37:51Oh, thank you.

0:37:51 > 0:37:53Keep it safe.

0:37:53 > 0:37:56You are staying long in Cloisterham?

0:37:56 > 0:37:58Oh, no, no. Back to London as soon as I can.

0:38:04 > 0:38:12I am an awkward species of a man, with no experience of such delights,

0:38:12 > 0:38:18but I figure to myself, subject to your correction, Mr Edwin,

0:38:18 > 0:38:23that the true lover is ever impatient to be close to the object

0:38:23 > 0:38:29of his affections, seeking her company as a bird seeks its nest.

0:38:29 > 0:38:32I do write to her in between visits.

0:38:32 > 0:38:35Although I'm an engineer, not a poet.

0:38:38 > 0:38:43You will notice from your perusal of Rosa's father's will,

0:38:43 > 0:38:50a kindly allusion to a little trust, confided to me in conversation,

0:38:50 > 0:38:55to discharge at such time as I in my discretion may think best.

0:39:02 > 0:39:08This ring was removed from the dead hand of Rosa's mother,

0:39:08 > 0:39:09in my presence.

0:39:13 > 0:39:16Your placing it on her daughter's finger...

0:39:18 > 0:39:22..will be the most solemn seal upon your love.

0:39:26 > 0:39:28Take it.

0:39:32 > 0:39:34If anything should be even

0:39:34 > 0:39:37slightly amiss between you,

0:39:37 > 0:39:42if you should have even the slightest suspicion

0:39:42 > 0:39:45that you are marrying for other than

0:39:45 > 0:39:49the highest reasons of true love,

0:39:49 > 0:39:52I charge you, Edwin Drood,

0:39:52 > 0:39:55by the living and the dead,

0:39:55 > 0:39:58to bring that ring back to me.

0:40:02 > 0:40:05I give you my word.

0:40:12 > 0:40:16What a fool you must think me, Jack.

0:40:17 > 0:40:20What was it you said to me?

0:40:20 > 0:40:22"The loveliest girl in the world

0:40:22 > 0:40:25"is yours by will and testament, Ned."

0:40:25 > 0:40:28To think I ever entertained any doubts

0:40:28 > 0:40:31when it seems so real to me now.

0:40:31 > 0:40:32So sacred.

0:40:34 > 0:40:37I shan't wait until the summer.

0:40:38 > 0:40:41I shall marry Rosa on the day that I turn 21.

0:40:41 > 0:40:43Shake my hand on it.

0:40:46 > 0:40:48Thank you, dearest Jack.

0:40:51 > 0:40:54BIRDSONG

0:41:00 > 0:41:02But if we are to stay here,

0:41:02 > 0:41:05- even for a short while... - I cannot do it.

0:41:05 > 0:41:08I cannot. Now more than ever.

0:41:08 > 0:41:09Can't you see?

0:41:29 > 0:41:33I apologise if I intrude on a restorative walk.

0:41:33 > 0:41:35This is a new pleasure for us, Mr Crisparkle.

0:41:35 > 0:41:37We do not come from a walking country.

0:41:37 > 0:41:40I'm glad to see you become so very English so very soon.

0:41:40 > 0:41:43Miss Landless, may I come straight to the point?

0:41:43 > 0:41:45You have been not 48 hours in Cloisterham

0:41:45 > 0:41:48and already there is a notion abroad that Mr Neville

0:41:48 > 0:41:50is a dangerously passionate fellow

0:41:50 > 0:41:53of an uncontrollable and vicious temper.

0:41:53 > 0:41:56- Because we are strangers?- No.

0:41:57 > 0:41:59Well, yes, possibly.

0:41:59 > 0:42:02- Sir, he cannot help it. - His background is not an excuse.

0:42:02 > 0:42:06Mr Neville, you are clenching your fist and I dislike it.

0:42:06 > 0:42:08I cannot help it.

0:42:08 > 0:42:10He treats that beautiful creature like a doll

0:42:10 > 0:42:11and I despise him for it.

0:42:13 > 0:42:16- You've only met Miss Rosa once. - I've seen enough

0:42:16 > 0:42:19to know that Edwin Drood is not worthy of her.

0:42:21 > 0:42:23HE SIGHS

0:42:23 > 0:42:27Who knows of this unfortunate attachment?

0:42:27 > 0:42:29Only we three.

0:42:29 > 0:42:32Good. I shall rely on you, Miss Landless, to keep it that way.

0:42:32 > 0:42:35Miss Rosa is engaged to be married.

0:42:35 > 0:42:37She's not available.

0:42:40 > 0:42:42While you live under my roof, Mr Neville,

0:42:42 > 0:42:47you will not see her, nor contact her, nor even think about her.

0:42:47 > 0:42:51I won't tell you it will be easy. I know it won't.

0:42:51 > 0:42:53But, in return, I promise I will find a way

0:42:53 > 0:42:56to help you bury this foolish argument with Edwin Drood

0:42:56 > 0:43:00before it ruins your happiness in your new home.

0:43:03 > 0:43:05For me.

0:43:09 > 0:43:12Praise the Lord. Miss Landless, you help your brother towards the light.

0:43:12 > 0:43:14Thank you.

0:43:17 > 0:43:19Oh, er...

0:43:19 > 0:43:21Tut! I'm much overpaid.

0:43:36 > 0:43:37Mr Jasper!

0:43:37 > 0:43:40- Down from London, Mr Grewgious? Something wrong?- Not at all.

0:43:40 > 0:43:44I thought to consult my pretty ward

0:43:44 > 0:43:46about her wedding plans,

0:43:46 > 0:43:50but I discover she has some little delicate feminine instinct

0:43:50 > 0:43:53that all arrangements should be made

0:43:53 > 0:43:56between her and Mr Edwin in private.

0:43:56 > 0:43:58In other words, Jasper,

0:43:58 > 0:44:00she don't want us.

0:44:00 > 0:44:03You mean me.

0:44:03 > 0:44:05I mean us.

0:44:05 > 0:44:11I understand the happy day may come sooner than we anticipated.

0:44:11 > 0:44:12Really?

0:44:12 > 0:44:15You surprise me.

0:44:15 > 0:44:20I found my ward rather... Well, imagine, Jasper!

0:44:20 > 0:44:23The dear girl believed her marriage to Edwin

0:44:23 > 0:44:25to be legally inescapable.

0:44:25 > 0:44:27I was glad to reassure her.

0:44:27 > 0:44:32I'll wager she hinted no desire to be free of her engagement?

0:44:32 > 0:44:34In truth, there was a moment

0:44:34 > 0:44:38when I almost believed that was exactly what she does want.

0:44:39 > 0:44:43Well! It's for the two young people to decide.

0:44:43 > 0:44:45God bless them both.

0:44:45 > 0:44:48Aye, God save them both.

0:44:56 > 0:44:59Rock of ages...

0:45:01 > 0:45:03..cleft for me...

0:45:05 > 0:45:08# Let me hi-i-ide

0:45:08 > 0:45:11# Myself in the-e-e. #

0:45:24 > 0:45:27- Rosa...- Eddy, let's be brave.

0:45:28 > 0:45:30And kind.

0:45:30 > 0:45:33Kind to one another, for once in our lives.

0:45:34 > 0:45:37Starting today,

0:45:37 > 0:45:38and for ever.

0:45:40 > 0:45:43Let's change to brother and sister.

0:45:47 > 0:45:50- Not get married?- No.

0:45:52 > 0:45:55In spite of our fathers' wishes?

0:45:55 > 0:45:56Yes.

0:45:59 > 0:46:03- If after all there is another young man...- There is not, I promise you.

0:46:03 > 0:46:05- But I love you, Rosa... - And I love you.

0:46:05 > 0:46:10With all my heart, but not...

0:46:10 > 0:46:12..as a wife should love a husband.

0:46:12 > 0:46:15As I believe she should.

0:46:15 > 0:46:17As I hope...

0:46:17 > 0:46:20Oh, this is so hard!

0:46:22 > 0:46:24- Don't hate me!- No, no. You mistake me, my dear Rosa.

0:46:24 > 0:46:29I mean your courage

0:46:29 > 0:46:33and your clarity of thought. I am sorry, too.

0:46:33 > 0:46:37Think, Eddy! How much better to be sorry now than later,

0:46:37 > 0:46:39when it will be too late?

0:46:39 > 0:46:41DISTANT CONVERSATION

0:46:44 > 0:46:46..never be angry with one another again.

0:46:46 > 0:46:50- How wonderful it will be! - Yes, it will.

0:47:27 > 0:47:29'Ere he is!

0:47:29 > 0:47:32My little singin' bird!

0:47:32 > 0:47:36- A choirmaster, eh? - What are you doing here?

0:47:36 > 0:47:37Not so loud, dearie,

0:47:37 > 0:47:40I'm thinking more of a nice, quiet little chat

0:47:40 > 0:47:43on a matter of mutual interest.

0:47:43 > 0:47:48- There's a lot more I know about you! - Leave me alone!

0:47:48 > 0:47:52Oh! Watch out, you mischief-maker!

0:47:52 > 0:47:54Get off me!

0:48:04 > 0:48:06Look, no! No!

0:48:06 > 0:48:08Has that child hurt you?

0:48:08 > 0:48:10No, dearie.

0:48:12 > 0:48:14Another one.

0:48:14 > 0:48:18The one I had 'opes would put coals on my fires for many a day.

0:48:18 > 0:48:19Ah!

0:48:25 > 0:48:28Have you no home to go to?

0:48:28 > 0:48:32My 'ome's in London. Oh, give us three and six!

0:48:32 > 0:48:34I'll get straight back there.

0:48:36 > 0:48:39Will you spend my three and six on a train ticket?

0:48:39 > 0:48:41- Or on drink and opium? - I haven't drunk in 16 year!

0:48:47 > 0:48:51Thank ye and bless ye as a gentleman. What's your name, dearie?

0:48:51 > 0:48:55Why, will you tell my fortune? It's Edwin.

0:48:55 > 0:48:56Edwin.

0:48:58 > 0:49:00Does your sweetheart call you Eddy?

0:49:03 > 0:49:05I have no sweetheart.

0:49:05 > 0:49:08Because your little rosebud's been picked by another.

0:49:09 > 0:49:10Ned, innit?

0:49:12 > 0:49:15Ooh, that's a bad name to 'ave just now, is Ned.

0:49:15 > 0:49:18There's a threat to young men named Ned.

0:49:21 > 0:49:22Only one man calls me Ned.

0:49:22 > 0:49:25There's the man

0:49:25 > 0:49:27who's picked your rosebud.

0:49:30 > 0:49:32HE SOBS

0:49:39 > 0:49:41GLASS SMASHES

0:49:58 > 0:50:00Mr Neville?

0:50:00 > 0:50:02A fine weapon.

0:50:02 > 0:50:04Now I come into a walking country, I need a walking stick.

0:50:04 > 0:50:06Cudgel, more like!

0:50:07 > 0:50:10Oh, it's much too heavy. Is it ironwood?

0:50:10 > 0:50:12Don't wave it in my direction.

0:50:14 > 0:50:16If I walk all day tomorrow...

0:50:16 > 0:50:19By tomorrow she'll be sweetness and light again.

0:50:19 > 0:50:20By tomorrow she'll prob...

0:50:28 > 0:50:32You are right, Mr Crisparkle. This foolishness has gone on long enough.

0:50:32 > 0:50:35Mr Neville, please do me the honour of dining

0:50:35 > 0:50:36with me and my nephew tonight,

0:50:36 > 0:50:40and we shall become the friends we should have been from the beginning.

0:50:40 > 0:50:44There, Mr Neville! What do you think of that?

0:50:44 > 0:50:46Thank you, sir.

0:51:07 > 0:51:09CLOCK CHIMES, TICKING

0:51:39 > 0:51:40This was to be part of my trousseau.

0:51:42 > 0:51:43But now it's for you.

0:51:45 > 0:51:47A gift from a heart which is free at last.

0:51:47 > 0:51:49THUNDER RUMBLES

0:51:53 > 0:51:56What is it, dear?

0:51:56 > 0:52:00Oh, I am sorry, I'm just so anxious about my brother.

0:52:01 > 0:52:05This supper tonight with Edwin and Mr Jasper...

0:52:05 > 0:52:06Edwin said nothing to me about it.

0:52:06 > 0:52:09You gave him too much else to think about!

0:52:09 > 0:52:11THUNDER RUMBLES

0:52:49 > 0:52:51What's this?

0:52:51 > 0:52:54Ned, we are putting the past behind us and the present to rights.

0:52:54 > 0:52:55And the future?

0:52:55 > 0:52:58The future shall be as we make it.

0:53:00 > 0:53:04- What else are you not telling me, Jack?- Come, my bright boy,

0:53:04 > 0:53:08shake Mr Neville's hand and let us be friends.

0:53:17 > 0:53:22# Yet all the lads, they smile on me When comin' through the rye. #

0:53:23 > 0:53:28That was a good deal more fun than our alternate musical Wednesday.

0:53:28 > 0:53:32Oh, whisper it! But listen to that wind.

0:53:32 > 0:53:34It's a bad night to be out.

0:53:37 > 0:53:42Dear heavens, I'm all done in. Kiss me, dear.

0:53:42 > 0:53:45Good night, Ma. Sleep well.

0:54:05 > 0:54:07In my country, when the monsoon comes,

0:54:07 > 0:54:12the rain is like a river falling from the sky.

0:54:12 > 0:54:15It brings the snakes crawling out from the jungle.

0:54:15 > 0:54:18Our old people believe them to be the avatars of the dead.

0:54:21 > 0:54:24Superstitious nonsense.

0:54:24 > 0:54:27Don't the English love a ghost story, too?

0:54:27 > 0:54:30Mr Jasper, thank you, but it's getting late.

0:54:31 > 0:54:33I'll come with you.

0:54:33 > 0:54:36Grab a breath of fresh air, chase a few ghosts.

0:54:36 > 0:54:39I'll take you to the most haunted place in Cloisterham.

0:55:01 > 0:55:021,200 years old?

0:55:02 > 0:55:05Time enough to accumulate an army of ghosts.

0:55:05 > 0:55:07A pretty poor show if not!

0:55:37 > 0:55:41How wonderful! Such majesty.

0:55:43 > 0:55:45Such beauty frozen into stone.

0:55:45 > 0:55:52See how it rises, so far above our heads, all the way to heaven.

0:55:56 > 0:55:58Mr Edwin?

0:56:04 > 0:56:06Mr Edwin?

0:56:12 > 0:56:16Do you mean to jump out and frighten me?

0:56:16 > 0:56:18I shall resist!

0:56:24 > 0:56:27Edwin?

0:56:27 > 0:56:30To be betrayed by someone you love is a bitter thing.

0:56:33 > 0:56:37All my life, I've known I would one day stand before this altar

0:56:37 > 0:56:38and marry Rosa.

0:56:41 > 0:56:43You are more than fortunate.

0:56:45 > 0:56:47Perhaps you don't know what it's like to suffer the failure

0:56:47 > 0:56:49of every dream and every expectation.

0:56:51 > 0:56:53I am an orphan born out of wedlock.

0:56:55 > 0:56:58Then at least you're used to disappointment.

0:56:58 > 0:57:00It is my constant companion.

0:57:57 > 0:57:58Jack!

0:58:30 > 0:58:32Ned!

1:00:14 > 1:00:16Lost some lead off the roof too, sir.

1:00:16 > 1:00:19And the hands in the clock's all bent and twisted.

1:00:19 > 1:00:21Dear me, what a night.

1:00:21 > 1:00:23We must pray no lives were lost.

1:00:24 > 1:00:26Jasper?

1:00:26 > 1:00:28My bright boy is gone.

1:00:30 > 1:00:32HE KNOCKS ON DOOR

1:00:35 > 1:00:38Rosa, to your room this minute.

1:00:38 > 1:00:42- What is it?- When did you last see Edwin?- Yesterday afternoon. Why?

1:00:42 > 1:00:46You saw or heard nothing of him last night?

1:00:46 > 1:00:47What has happened to Eddy?

1:00:47 > 1:00:50He departed my house last night with Neville Landless

1:00:50 > 1:00:51and he never came home.

1:00:53 > 1:00:57Neville left at first light to walk by the coast.

1:00:57 > 1:01:00Thank you, Miss Twinkleton.

1:01:00 > 1:01:03They will blame my brother.

1:01:03 > 1:01:05They will punish my brother.

1:01:10 > 1:01:12This is my fault.

1:01:12 > 1:01:14Mine.

1:01:21 > 1:01:23What are you, huh?

1:01:23 > 1:01:25A pack of thieves?

1:01:30 > 1:01:33- What have you done with my nephew? - I don't understand.- Gently, Jasper.

1:01:33 > 1:01:35- What have you done with him? - How should I know?

1:01:35 > 1:01:38His bed was not slept in last night. He never came home.

1:01:38 > 1:01:41We said our good nights in the cathedral and I went home.

1:01:41 > 1:01:42So, you left him there alone?

1:01:42 > 1:01:45There was no danger in it. He was restless.

1:01:45 > 1:01:49He said he wanted fresh air and the smell of open water.

1:01:49 > 1:01:51So, he came down to the estuary?

1:01:53 > 1:01:55Jasper, the storm.

1:02:06 > 1:02:08Come along.

1:02:14 > 1:02:16A most agonising summons!

1:02:18 > 1:02:20The messenger brought a note

1:02:20 > 1:02:25which was addressed very personally to me, I see, Mr Hiram Grewgious.

1:02:25 > 1:02:28Being, as I am, your assistant, I must be privy to all events,

1:02:28 > 1:02:31of which you will agree, there are precious few hereabouts.

1:02:31 > 1:02:33And being, as I am, your assistant,

1:02:33 > 1:02:36I dare predict there'll be a great deal for you to do today, sir,

1:02:36 > 1:02:41in the investigating and comforting line, and you will be requiring me

1:02:41 > 1:02:45to be of service in the organising and, and, and catering line.

1:02:45 > 1:02:48I am not so awkward that I cannot find my own sandwiches, thank you.

1:02:50 > 1:02:52I follow you, sir.

1:02:53 > 1:02:58Oh, but, oh, sir, how I do hate the indoors. Oh, the hellish indoors!

1:02:58 > 1:03:01They also serve, Bazzard, who only hold the fort.

1:03:05 > 1:03:09Take a trip to Doctors Commons, if it please you.

1:03:09 > 1:03:13And take sight there of Edwin Drood's last will and testament.

1:03:13 > 1:03:16You don't know he's dead yet.

1:03:16 > 1:03:18Edwin Drood Senior.

1:03:21 > 1:03:23Ned!

1:03:25 > 1:03:26Mr Drood?

1:03:28 > 1:03:30Ned!

1:03:33 > 1:03:36Mr Drood?

1:03:36 > 1:03:38I was so sure we'd find him.

1:03:38 > 1:03:39Have courage.

1:03:39 > 1:03:44- He may have simply left, gone back to London.- Without telling me?

1:03:44 > 1:03:47- He'd never be so cruel.- Do not give in to despair, my friend.

1:03:47 > 1:03:49My bright boy...is dead.

1:03:51 > 1:03:55He seemed in agreement with me.

1:03:55 > 1:03:57He seemed relieved.

1:03:57 > 1:03:59As I was.

1:03:59 > 1:04:00But...

1:04:03 > 1:04:08Rosa fears she made him unhappier than he admitted.

1:04:09 > 1:04:12That he has brought himself to harm because of her.

1:04:14 > 1:04:17You made no mention of a ring.

1:04:31 > 1:04:34- Deputy, what you got there?- Nothing.

1:04:34 > 1:04:35Eh?

1:04:40 > 1:04:42There'll be some young lady

1:04:42 > 1:04:44somewhere crying her heart out over that.

1:04:44 > 1:04:45It's mine.

1:04:49 > 1:04:52Durdles don't entirely think so.

1:04:53 > 1:04:55Have mercy upon me, oh, God,

1:04:55 > 1:04:59according to thy loving kindness.

1:05:00 > 1:05:03Blot out my transgressions.

1:05:03 > 1:05:08Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity,

1:05:08 > 1:05:10and cleanse me from my sin.

1:05:10 > 1:05:12NED!

1:05:12 > 1:05:13Ned?

1:05:16 > 1:05:18I can't even sing for him.

1:05:20 > 1:05:22Then pray with me.

1:05:26 > 1:05:28Our Father who art in heaven...

1:05:31 > 1:05:33..hallowed be thy name.

1:05:37 > 1:05:40- Thy kingdom come, thy will be done...- I cannot...

1:05:40 > 1:05:43forgive those that trespass against me...

1:05:43 > 1:05:47- In time...- ..any more than I could forgive myself.

1:05:47 > 1:05:51Do not reproach yourself. You have nothing to forgive.

1:05:51 > 1:05:55- Anyone could see how you loved that boy.- I did.

1:05:55 > 1:05:57I did love him. Of course.

1:05:58 > 1:06:01All these years I cared for him and now some...

1:06:03 > 1:06:07..some stranger... has taken him from me.

1:06:14 > 1:06:19Let the monster that killed him hear my vow.

1:06:19 > 1:06:22I devote myself to his destruction.

1:06:23 > 1:06:25Mr Jasper asserts a history

1:06:25 > 1:06:27of violent words and even fisticuffs between you!

1:06:27 > 1:06:31There was nothing ill-tempered in our meeting last night.

1:06:31 > 1:06:34Nevertheless, while investigations continue, I have no option

1:06:34 > 1:06:38but to issue a warrant and commit you forthwith to jail.

1:06:38 > 1:06:41- On what grounds? - Circumstances of grave suspicion.

1:06:41 > 1:06:46- And the case has a generally dark look to me.- No! No, that's absurd!

1:06:46 > 1:06:49I mean, sorry, your worship. I mean no disrespect,

1:06:49 > 1:06:52but no man can be accused of murder in the absence of the body.

1:06:52 > 1:06:54Will you not be satisfied

1:06:54 > 1:06:57until they find my nephew's poor, dead body?

1:06:57 > 1:06:59- You twist my meaning.- Sirs!

1:06:59 > 1:07:03Please do not sacrifice your friendship on my account.

1:07:03 > 1:07:07I can end this argument now, as I could've done earlier,

1:07:07 > 1:07:10had I told you the truth.

1:07:10 > 1:07:13I did not kill Edwin Drood.

1:07:14 > 1:07:16I could never have killed Edwin Drood.

1:07:18 > 1:07:19He is my brother.

1:07:21 > 1:07:26My sister and I came here as orphans

1:07:26 > 1:07:29to seek our father,

1:07:29 > 1:07:31Captain Edwin Drood.

1:07:31 > 1:07:33Mr Jasper...

1:07:34 > 1:07:37..we are kinsmen.

1:07:37 > 1:07:39That...

1:07:39 > 1:07:43vile and groundless allegation would mean that Captain Drood,

1:07:43 > 1:07:49the best of husbands, betrayed his marriage vows to my sister...

1:07:49 > 1:07:51..with a native concubine.

1:07:51 > 1:07:53My mother was a Christian lady!

1:07:53 > 1:07:55Neville, for shame!

1:07:59 > 1:08:02Whether Mr Landless is right or wrong is immaterial, surely?

1:08:02 > 1:08:04If he believes Edwin to be his brother,

1:08:04 > 1:08:06then why would want to harm him?

1:08:06 > 1:08:09Angry, resentful, excluded, unloved and poor!

1:08:09 > 1:08:11Everything Edwin had, he wanted,

1:08:11 > 1:08:14and stopped at nothing, not even murder, to get it.

1:08:14 > 1:08:17Mr Sapsea may feel a duty to public safety...

1:08:17 > 1:08:19- Indeed! Indeed I do. - BANGS GAVEL

1:08:19 > 1:08:21Remanded in custody.

1:08:21 > 1:08:25I give my solemn guarantee, as a man of the law,

1:08:25 > 1:08:29that the young man will be confined to my house,

1:08:29 > 1:08:34under my responsibility, and I shall produce him whenever demanded.

1:08:36 > 1:08:39You cannot send my brother away.

1:08:41 > 1:08:46- When did you plan to tell me? - Please, let us explain.- This year?

1:08:47 > 1:08:51Next year, some time, or never?

1:08:51 > 1:08:52We only sought to find the father

1:08:52 > 1:08:55that abandoned us and throw ourselves upon his love.

1:08:55 > 1:08:59- Upon his pocketbook, more like.- Ma! Not helpful.- Fortune hunters.

1:09:07 > 1:09:09Your mother was never Mrs Drood.

1:09:12 > 1:09:14No, sir.

1:09:14 > 1:09:17So you have no document to prove the connection you claim?

1:09:17 > 1:09:20- Our mother was a Christian woman... - Yes, so you said.

1:09:20 > 1:09:23- ..who never told a falsehood in her life.- A commendable trait -

1:09:23 > 1:09:25one she failed to pass on to her offspring.

1:09:25 > 1:09:27Do not clench your fist at me!

1:09:28 > 1:09:30Neville, go and get your coat.

1:09:37 > 1:09:40Mr Jasper may accuse my brother for his own reasons.

1:09:40 > 1:09:43The poor man's beside himself with grief and fear.

1:09:43 > 1:09:48No, sir, Mr Jasper is in love with Rosa.

1:09:48 > 1:09:52If you can call it love, that raging, angry thing.

1:09:52 > 1:09:54- Nonsense!- Dear God!

1:09:54 > 1:09:56Mr Crisparkle, you have seen him with your own eyes,

1:09:56 > 1:09:59sitting at your own piano, in your own house,

1:09:59 > 1:10:01devouring her with his looks.

1:10:01 > 1:10:03Have you absolutely no shame?

1:10:21 > 1:10:22Ah, Mr Neville.

1:10:33 > 1:10:36He suffers and I do my best to help him

1:10:36 > 1:10:39and you ask me to apologise for it.

1:10:39 > 1:10:42And the poor boy hasn't even a mother of his own, of course.

1:10:42 > 1:10:44I have one on long-term loan to him, it seems.

1:10:44 > 1:10:49A very fine medicine chest among her attractions.

1:10:49 > 1:10:53Ma, dear, it might be the action of a friend,

1:10:53 > 1:10:57especially a kindly maternal friend, to persuade him to depend on

1:10:57 > 1:11:01fresh air and exercise in his grief, rather than on laudanum.

1:11:01 > 1:11:04Perhaps you don't remember. You were so young, but I do.

1:11:04 > 1:11:07I remember when he came here to the choir school,

1:11:07 > 1:11:11that poor little boy, seven years old, and all alone in the world.

1:11:11 > 1:11:13He's not seven years old any more.

1:11:13 > 1:11:18Sept, dear Sept, can't you see how lonely he is?

1:11:18 > 1:11:20Feel as sorry for John Jasper as you like, Ma,

1:11:20 > 1:11:23but I forbid you to give him laudanum again.

1:11:23 > 1:11:24You forbid me?!

1:11:24 > 1:11:27What century do you believe this to be?

1:11:41 > 1:11:45No matter how many hours you spend studying that document...

1:11:47 > 1:11:49I know my father's will off by heart, sir,

1:11:49 > 1:11:51and I know it will never change.

1:11:51 > 1:11:57"I leave my entire estate to my beloved and only son, Edwin."

1:11:57 > 1:12:00The uniform penny post is arrived.

1:12:00 > 1:12:02Oh, the excitement.

1:12:05 > 1:12:06Captain Drood would, alas,

1:12:06 > 1:12:09not be the first Englishman to father children

1:12:09 > 1:12:12in foreign climes and then abandon them.

1:12:12 > 1:12:14He was the first Englishman to do it to me.

1:12:14 > 1:12:16- Ahem.- Yes, Bazzard?

1:12:16 > 1:12:18Being, as I am, only your assistant

1:12:18 > 1:12:21and not permitted to leave this hellish office,

1:12:21 > 1:12:25I have been forced to apply to the trustees using the penny post.

1:12:25 > 1:12:28- Trustees?- Of the Mission School in Trincomalee.

1:12:28 > 1:12:30Which, august gentlemen,

1:12:30 > 1:12:33confirm that a certain Captain Edwin Arthur Drood

1:12:33 > 1:12:37began regular payments to the school in the autumn of 1834.

1:12:37 > 1:12:40When my sister and I were six years old.

1:12:40 > 1:12:45Oh, Mr Grewgious! I know it's not proof, but this could...

1:12:45 > 1:12:47But it is evidence, Neville.

1:12:47 > 1:12:50Very suggestive evidence.

1:12:50 > 1:12:52And ended in the summer of 1836.

1:12:52 > 1:12:55He lost interest in us after only two years?

1:12:55 > 1:12:58Perhaps it is simply that the regiment moved back to Egypt.

1:12:58 > 1:13:00I need to know. Mr Grewgious,

1:13:00 > 1:13:02the regimental archives are in Cloisterham.

1:13:02 > 1:13:07Neville, you know very well that you cannot go back to Cloisterham.

1:13:09 > 1:13:11Bazzard! Get your coat.

1:13:12 > 1:13:16Speak to no-one. In particular, keep your distance from Mr Jasper.

1:13:16 > 1:13:18I could use a "suedeonym" to avoid discovery.

1:13:18 > 1:13:21You shall do no such thing. And the word is "pseudonym."

1:13:21 > 1:13:24Or, or, or, employ the Scottish accent I used as a schoolboy

1:13:24 > 1:13:26in my very well-received Macbeth.

1:13:26 > 1:13:31Bazzard, go to the archives. Track Captain Drood's movements.

1:13:31 > 1:13:33Speak to no-one!

1:13:33 > 1:13:34I follow you, sir.

1:13:36 > 1:13:38- SCOTTISH ACCENT:- Och, aye, the noo!

1:13:42 > 1:13:48I do understand how cravings can be very strong in such cases but...

1:13:48 > 1:13:51You suspect an element of pleasurable excitement in it.

1:13:53 > 1:13:55- Why else begin it?- Mmm.

1:13:55 > 1:13:59To banish grief beyond endurance.

1:13:59 > 1:14:02To reach total eclipse without all hope of day.

1:14:02 > 1:14:06When you came to me last year about your pain...

1:14:06 > 1:14:09Oh, no man flies back to opium from physical pain.

1:14:09 > 1:14:10From what, then?

1:14:12 > 1:14:15Blank and hopeless desolation.

1:14:15 > 1:14:19And then for a while it brings dreams of paradise and unimaginable pleasure.

1:14:19 > 1:14:24I have stood looking down into an abyss of divine enjoyment,

1:14:24 > 1:14:27until a desolation more blank and hopeless than before returns.

1:14:27 > 1:14:33We must seek a way to break this slavery, through prayer.

1:14:33 > 1:14:36Oh, there is no need, dear lady.

1:14:36 > 1:14:39For my slavery is already at an end since my poor Ned...

1:14:41 > 1:14:42WHISPERS: I cannot speak of it.

1:14:45 > 1:14:48Oh, never have my prayers been answered more quickly.

1:15:10 > 1:15:11Regimental Muster Rolls.

1:15:15 > 1:15:18Most efficient. Thank you.

1:15:18 > 1:15:20ALL CHATTER

1:15:27 > 1:15:32- I shall miss you.- Your first duty is to your brother.

1:15:32 > 1:15:37- It was supposed to be you leaving me behind.- And in my wedding dress.

1:15:37 > 1:15:39How long ago that seems.

1:15:51 > 1:15:54Miss Landless, please, let me.

1:15:54 > 1:15:56I can carry my own bag, sir.

1:15:56 > 1:16:00But why should you when a friend presents himself as beast of burden?

1:16:00 > 1:16:02A friend?

1:16:02 > 1:16:04I wish we'd not quarrelled.

1:16:08 > 1:16:11Cloisterham will seem very quiet without both Landlesses.

1:16:11 > 1:16:14It will do as well without us now as if we had never come here.

1:16:14 > 1:16:17But, Helena, then I would never have known you.

1:16:18 > 1:16:22Either of you, I mean, of course. You and your brother, both of you.

1:16:22 > 1:16:25Excellent pupils.

1:16:25 > 1:16:27Um...

1:16:29 > 1:16:31You will send him my best regards?

1:16:33 > 1:16:35All aboard now! Miss Landless.

1:16:35 > 1:16:37Oh! Run!

1:16:41 > 1:16:42Thank you.

1:16:46 > 1:16:49Oh, this is all happening too quickly. Reverend Crisparkle,

1:16:49 > 1:16:52kindest of men, so much kinder than we deserved.

1:16:58 > 1:16:59COACHMAN: Walk on.

1:17:38 > 1:17:40Thank you.

1:17:46 > 1:17:49Weeks without even a glimpse of your face

1:17:49 > 1:17:51while I waited patiently for your summons.

1:17:51 > 1:17:54Why should I summon you?

1:17:54 > 1:17:57Back to my duties as your faithful music master.

1:17:58 > 1:18:01I shall never play the piano again.

1:18:02 > 1:18:06Never let those lovely fingers make sweet melody?

1:18:10 > 1:18:11Nobody can see us.

1:18:11 > 1:18:14Everyone's gone home for the summer.

1:18:14 > 1:18:17Except little orphan Rosa.

1:18:18 > 1:18:20But I will not touch you again.

1:18:20 > 1:18:22I'll come no nearer to you than this.

1:18:22 > 1:18:24Sit, my love.

1:18:28 > 1:18:30You wear his ring.

1:18:32 > 1:18:35My mother's ring, in his memory.

1:18:37 > 1:18:42- Dear God, I tried so hard not to love you.- I won't hear you.

1:18:42 > 1:18:44If you knew what visions tormented me.

1:18:44 > 1:18:48I have wandered through paradise and through hell, every night,

1:18:48 > 1:18:49carrying you in my arms.

1:18:49 > 1:18:53But as long as you were his, I stayed loyal to him.

1:18:53 > 1:18:57Every day that you pursued me, every day you made my life hell,

1:18:57 > 1:18:58you betrayed him.

1:19:00 > 1:19:01But he's dead.

1:19:01 > 1:19:06He never knew, that trusting soul, who loved you, like a brother.

1:19:06 > 1:19:08He's dead, and you are free.

1:19:08 > 1:19:13My poor Edwin never knew that his Jack's heart is black as coal.

1:19:13 > 1:19:16- You will love me, Rosa. - I'd rather die too.

1:19:16 > 1:19:18Oh, sweet witch, then keep your love.

1:19:18 > 1:19:20I'll gladly take this pretty rage instead.

1:19:20 > 1:19:25If you could see yourself, Rosa, in your panting hatred,

1:19:25 > 1:19:27you're more desirable than ever.

1:19:29 > 1:19:32You would take by force what will never be yours by consent?

1:19:32 > 1:19:34But you will consent.

1:19:34 > 1:19:36In the end, you will love me, Rosa.

1:19:36 > 1:19:38How could I ever love a man whose spirit is so mean,

1:19:38 > 1:19:41whose heart is so bitter?

1:19:41 > 1:19:44You drove my friends away with false accusations.

1:19:45 > 1:19:47You still defend Neville Landless?

1:19:47 > 1:19:50Your pursuit of him is like your pursuit of me -

1:19:50 > 1:19:52unfair and ugly and cruel.

1:19:54 > 1:19:56Ugly and cruel? Ugly and cruel? Am I that man?

1:19:56 > 1:19:58Pretty little Neville Landless

1:19:58 > 1:20:01is entirely guilty of dreaming he can have you.

1:20:01 > 1:20:03As to his guilt in the death of my boy,

1:20:03 > 1:20:06I have wound the coil of suspicion so tightly around him,

1:20:06 > 1:20:08it hardly matters if it be true or not.

1:20:08 > 1:20:12Nor does it matter if you love me, Rosa, or hate me. I no longer care.

1:20:12 > 1:20:17Ugly and cruel, yes, you have made me so and you will still come to me.

1:20:17 > 1:20:18I will not.

1:20:21 > 1:20:25You refuse to save him? Well, then Neville Landless will hang.

1:20:25 > 1:20:27WOODEN DOOR CREAKS

1:20:27 > 1:20:30Say nothing to a living soul. Rosa, I love you more

1:20:30 > 1:20:33than any man ever loved a woman and you will never be rid of me.

1:20:33 > 1:20:35I will pursue you to the death.

1:20:42 > 1:20:45What are you looking at? Nothing has happened here.

1:20:47 > 1:20:49I say!

1:20:50 > 1:20:52Excuse me.

1:20:52 > 1:20:55This officer here, Captain Drood.

1:20:55 > 1:20:59See, I've discovered him leaving Ceylon and going back to Egypt in 1836.

1:20:59 > 1:21:04Then a year later there's a mining accident, and he is listed as missing.

1:21:04 > 1:21:09But...when I try to cross-reference the accident report with the record of his death...

1:21:09 > 1:21:12Well, it's not there.

1:21:12 > 1:21:14Our records is never wrong.

1:21:14 > 1:21:18There's got to be a death in service record if he's dead.

1:21:21 > 1:21:23IF he's dead.

1:21:53 > 1:21:55STONES CLATTER

1:21:55 > 1:21:56SHEEP BLEATS

1:21:56 > 1:22:00Hit 'im again! I made a dent in his wool!

1:22:00 > 1:22:04- Let him be, you've lamed him. - You lie! He lamed himself.

1:22:04 > 1:22:06Show me where your choirmaster's house is.

1:22:06 > 1:22:07I will not.

1:22:07 > 1:22:10Ain't going nowhere near him, not ever again,

1:22:10 > 1:22:13not after he upended me and damn near choked me.

1:22:13 > 1:22:15Anyway, it's miles away.

1:22:15 > 1:22:19Take me where the ruffian lives and I'll give you a penny.

1:22:24 > 1:22:26No point, cos he's not in!

1:22:26 > 1:22:30But give me another and I'll take you to his landlord.

1:22:31 > 1:22:35FOOTSTEPS APPROACH

1:22:48 > 1:22:50Your worshipfulness.

1:22:52 > 1:22:57What an honour it is for a humble student of funerary architecture

1:22:57 > 1:22:59to come face-to-face with the fons et origo

1:22:59 > 1:23:01of such a piece of perfection.

1:23:01 > 1:23:05The inscription composed by my own unworthy hand, sir.

1:23:05 > 1:23:11And, yet, strangers have been seen copying it down in their notebooks.

1:23:12 > 1:23:15"Stranger pause."

1:23:15 > 1:23:18It is the language of Shakespeare.

1:23:20 > 1:23:22Thank you, sir.

1:23:22 > 1:23:23Mr...?

1:23:23 > 1:23:27The name's...Datchery.

1:23:27 > 1:23:31Dick Datchery, at your most humble service.

1:23:31 > 1:23:36I have the honour, sir, to welcome you to an ancient city,

1:23:36 > 1:23:39a proud city, an ecclesiastical city.

1:23:39 > 1:23:43Your worshipfulness inspires me with a desire to know more,

1:23:43 > 1:23:48and confirms me in my inclination to spend some time under his beneficent sway.

1:23:48 > 1:23:50SAPSEA CHUCKLES

1:23:50 > 1:23:53In which context, and after a woeful night at the Dog and Gun,

1:23:53 > 1:23:57I wonder if you might suggest somewhere I might stay.

1:23:57 > 1:24:02Somewhere architectural and inconvenient. Somewhere...

1:24:02 > 1:24:03cathedral-y?

1:24:06 > 1:24:07KNOCKING AT DOOR

1:24:12 > 1:24:14KNOCKING CONTINUES

1:24:20 > 1:24:22Rosa?

1:24:22 > 1:24:24Don't let him catch me.

1:24:24 > 1:24:27I never knew I was such a coward.

1:24:27 > 1:24:31- You are nothing of the sort.- I am.

1:24:31 > 1:24:34For I think now that I was afraid to marry Edwin for fear

1:24:34 > 1:24:37I would never then be free of his uncle.

1:24:37 > 1:24:40Now my poor Eddy is dead and it was all for nothing,

1:24:40 > 1:24:42for I will never be free again.

1:24:47 > 1:24:49BELLS RING

1:24:49 > 1:24:53# Ride on! Ride on in majesty!

1:24:53 > 1:24:57# Thy last and fiercest strife is nigh... #

1:24:57 > 1:25:00Glad to hear praise the Lord with such enthusiasm, Jasper.

1:25:01 > 1:25:05I find I am much inspired, since my bright boy's demise,

1:25:05 > 1:25:08by thoughts of our joy to come in heaven.

1:25:08 > 1:25:12For are not we sinners always knocking on heaven's door?

1:25:13 > 1:25:17So you think Mr Crisparkle, if he were here,

1:25:17 > 1:25:19would release me from my promise?

1:25:19 > 1:25:20I do.

1:25:20 > 1:25:23Not least because in rooms this small

1:25:23 > 1:25:27you can scarcely avoid bumping into Rosa several times a day.

1:25:27 > 1:25:30But, Neville, she is in mourning.

1:25:30 > 1:25:33In mourning for a good man.

1:25:33 > 1:25:35And under attack from an evil one.

1:25:35 > 1:25:38I would not dream of adding to her burdens.

1:25:38 > 1:25:42Besides, she already seems more like a beloved sister to me now.

1:25:42 > 1:25:47I have sent word to Miss Twinkleton that Rosa is safe with us.

1:25:47 > 1:25:53And, yes, Helena, I have requested she refrain from telling Mr Jasper.

1:25:53 > 1:25:55Ah, my dear!

1:25:55 > 1:25:58You have slept.

1:25:58 > 1:26:01And now you must eat. Come.

1:26:01 > 1:26:03What did you take last?

1:26:03 > 1:26:06Was it breakfast, lunch, dinner, tea or supper?

1:26:06 > 1:26:10And what will you take next? Shall it be breakfast, lunch,

1:26:10 > 1:26:12or a nice jumble of all meals?

1:26:12 > 1:26:16Mr Grewgious, I have something to say.

1:26:16 > 1:26:19The hardest thing I have ever had to say in my life.

1:26:19 > 1:26:23Helena has told me of Mr Jasper's unwanted attentions.

1:26:23 > 1:26:24Oh, that is nothing.

1:26:24 > 1:26:28Nothing compared to the question to which those attentions give rise.

1:26:28 > 1:26:31My friends, ask yourselves, please, as I have been forced to do...

1:26:33 > 1:26:38..who on this earth had most to gain from the death of Edwin Drood?

1:26:46 > 1:26:49Oh, Mr Jasper, thank heaven you've come!

1:26:49 > 1:26:52Her bed not slept in, and this foolish maid,

1:26:52 > 1:26:55taken in by a notice on the door - "do not disturb"!

1:26:55 > 1:26:57Oh, Mr Jasper, can you find her?

1:26:57 > 1:27:00Can you bring our little rosebud home?

1:27:04 > 1:27:06It was him that upset her!

1:27:06 > 1:27:08No! Don't you start your nonsense again!

1:27:08 > 1:27:11HYSTERICAL SOBBING

1:27:30 > 1:27:34- NEVILLE:- She's not here!- Liar! Rosa?

1:27:34 > 1:27:38Rosa, what is this foolishness? Come home with me now.

1:27:38 > 1:27:40You will come no closer.

1:27:40 > 1:27:43- Who will prevent me? - Neville, stay back!

1:27:47 > 1:27:50- Rosa, come now. - I'm not afraid of you, sir.- No?

1:27:50 > 1:27:53- You terrify me.- I'm not afraid of you because the threats

1:27:53 > 1:27:56you have made are empty. You cannot harm my brother

1:27:56 > 1:27:59- because he is innocent and you know it.- It makes no difference now.

1:27:59 > 1:28:03- Come, Rosa, my love. - She shrinks from your love!

1:28:03 > 1:28:07Rosa is not afraid of me. She's afraid of what's in her own heart.

1:28:07 > 1:28:08Look at her.

1:28:08 > 1:28:11Look at the real Rosa, not the one of your dreams.

1:28:11 > 1:28:14Tell me, what does she see?

1:28:14 > 1:28:15A lover.

1:28:15 > 1:28:18A monster. A killer.

1:28:20 > 1:28:24Look into your own black heart, John Jasper,

1:28:24 > 1:28:26and tell me she is wrong.

1:28:33 > 1:28:35Dear God!

1:28:35 > 1:28:37So, it was you.

1:28:40 > 1:28:42FOOTSTEPS FADE AWAY

1:28:55 > 1:28:57Mr Jasper?

1:28:59 > 1:29:01What is this?

1:29:01 > 1:29:04- You should not be here.- You have poisoned her mind against me!

1:29:04 > 1:29:06Neither her mind nor her heart

1:29:06 > 1:29:11needed any help from me, I assure you. Let go of me!

1:29:11 > 1:29:15Mr Jasper, you must learn to accept that when a lady says no,

1:29:15 > 1:29:19- it is her free choice. - She is meant for me!

1:29:19 > 1:29:22As it was her free choice to end her engagement to Edwin.

1:29:26 > 1:29:29Ah! You did not know.

1:29:29 > 1:29:35This young couple, the lost youth and the lovely girl,

1:29:35 > 1:29:39though so long engaged and so close to being married,

1:29:39 > 1:29:42decided the very afternoon of his death

1:29:42 > 1:29:46that they would be happier as brother and sister,

1:29:46 > 1:29:48than as man and wife,

1:29:48 > 1:29:51and, accordingly, broke off their engagement.

1:29:57 > 1:29:59WHISPERS: He never told me.

1:30:01 > 1:30:04He should have told me.

1:30:10 > 1:30:13ROSA GIGGLES

1:30:15 > 1:30:17EDWIN CHOKES

1:30:20 > 1:30:23HE PANTS

1:30:46 > 1:30:47NED!

1:31:03 > 1:31:05Are you alone here?

1:31:06 > 1:31:09Worse luck for business, I am, dearie.

1:31:11 > 1:31:14Come in, where I can see you, for your voice is familiar.

1:31:25 > 1:31:27Well, stranger! Huh!

1:31:29 > 1:31:32And there was me thinking you'd died and gone to heaven.

1:31:36 > 1:31:38Not you that died, then.

1:31:41 > 1:31:43Who's that you're in mourning for?

1:31:47 > 1:31:48I can't see.

1:31:50 > 1:31:52I can't remember.

1:31:52 > 1:31:55Then you've come to the right place,

1:31:55 > 1:31:59cos that's just what Princess Puffer's here for.

1:32:06 > 1:32:09LOCK RATTLES

1:32:24 > 1:32:26SOBBING

1:32:26 > 1:32:29Miss Twinkleton, please calm yourself.

1:32:32 > 1:32:34Septimus, read this!

1:32:34 > 1:32:35Ma!

1:32:35 > 1:32:38A message from Mr Grewgious.

1:32:38 > 1:32:39MISS TWINKLETON WAILS

1:33:12 > 1:33:14DEPUTY WHISTLES

1:33:36 > 1:33:38- Whoa!- Mr Grewgious sent me!

1:33:38 > 1:33:40On an errand of burglary?

1:33:40 > 1:33:43Well, he did not expressly forbid it. He was most insistent

1:33:43 > 1:33:47on other things. I must stay in the library, I must talk to no-one...

1:33:47 > 1:33:49And did you find anything in the library, Mr...?

1:33:49 > 1:33:52The name's Datcher... Bazzard.

1:33:52 > 1:33:55I found the Royal Engineers pensions record for Captain Drood.

1:33:55 > 1:33:57And, sir...

1:34:00 > 1:34:03..he has been picking it up for the last nine years.

1:34:03 > 1:34:05That's nonsense, Datcher Bazzard.

1:34:05 > 1:34:07He died in a mining accident in Upper Egypt.

1:34:07 > 1:34:10Well, if he did, there's no record of it.

1:34:10 > 1:34:13Either someone else is taking the money...

1:34:13 > 1:34:15or Captain Drood is still alive.

1:34:18 > 1:34:21Oh, that's just the old man's will.

1:34:21 > 1:34:24I obtained a copy weeks ago. There's nothing in it.

1:34:24 > 1:34:27He's crossed out Edwin's name.

1:34:27 > 1:34:28Every time it appears.

1:34:28 > 1:34:31Cor! He really hated 'im!

1:34:31 > 1:34:34Was it hate or envy?

1:34:34 > 1:34:36And where did he hide the body?

1:34:36 > 1:34:38Bet I know.

1:34:41 > 1:34:44Yes, I brought Mr Jasper down here,

1:34:44 > 1:34:48a couple of days before the unfortunate business with Mr Edwin.

1:34:48 > 1:34:50Wooooo!

1:34:50 > 1:34:51- Go on! - DEPUTY LAUGHS

1:34:51 > 1:34:53Get out of it!

1:34:55 > 1:34:59I was telling him about the night I was enjoying my forty winks,

1:34:59 > 1:35:05when I was woken by the ghost of one terrific shriek.

1:35:05 > 1:35:06HIGH-PITCHED SCREAM

1:35:06 > 1:35:08- Spooked you! Ha!- Get out of it!

1:35:11 > 1:35:13Deputy was right, Mr Crisparkle.

1:35:14 > 1:35:17So many hiding places.

1:35:17 > 1:35:23There is no place in this cathedral that's hidden to Durdles.

1:35:23 > 1:35:26Durdles is the keeper of all the keys.

1:35:30 > 1:35:32Nearly all the keys.

1:35:32 > 1:35:37Durdles has had a loss perplexing him and preying on his mind, sir.

1:35:37 > 1:35:41He's sorry to say that on the night he took Mr Jasper on his tour,

1:35:41 > 1:35:46Durdles found himself in a state of intoxication,

1:35:46 > 1:35:50which makes him now wonder if that was the night he lost hold of...

1:35:50 > 1:35:52This one!

1:35:55 > 1:35:57No. It was much bigger.

1:36:04 > 1:36:05Oh, dear.

1:36:11 > 1:36:14Need his worship's permission.

1:36:14 > 1:36:15"Good morning, Mr Sapsea.

1:36:15 > 1:36:18"Please may we dig up your dead wife on a foolish whim?"

1:36:18 > 1:36:19BAZZARD CHUCKLES

1:36:23 > 1:36:25If only I could see the end.

1:36:27 > 1:36:29The end of what, dearie?

1:36:31 > 1:36:36I rehearsed it hundreds, thousands of times in this room.

1:36:41 > 1:36:44I saw him fall like a snowflake.

1:36:44 > 1:36:49Like a breath of sweet air falling so gently.

1:36:52 > 1:36:55Things never turn out like we hope, do they?

1:36:57 > 1:37:01Millions, millions of times.

1:37:18 > 1:37:20I never saw that before.

1:37:22 > 1:37:24This stuff's not strong enough.

1:37:26 > 1:37:28What next?

1:37:28 > 1:37:30Show me what happened next.

1:37:32 > 1:37:36Oh, what a poor, mean, miserable thing this is.

1:37:43 > 1:37:45Oh, Rosa!

1:37:45 > 1:37:49Oh, I thought I was dreaming.

1:37:50 > 1:37:54Lord! How like your dear mother you have grown.

1:37:59 > 1:38:01I've made you sad?

1:38:01 > 1:38:03I'm so sorry.

1:38:05 > 1:38:09I can never be sad when I think of her,

1:38:09 > 1:38:10or look at you.

1:38:18 > 1:38:22- Did she know your feelings? - Oh, I hope not.

1:38:24 > 1:38:28What kind of specimen am I to have hopes in that direction?

1:38:28 > 1:38:31Lord, what a conversation!

1:38:31 > 1:38:35Mr Grewgious, please tell me.

1:38:35 > 1:38:38What is true love like?

1:38:38 > 1:38:39True love...

1:38:43 > 1:38:45..is always returned.

1:38:52 > 1:38:55Oh, how we witter on when the dream's upon us.

1:38:57 > 1:39:01Singing like a little canary bird all night long, we was.

1:39:04 > 1:39:06Sing some more.

1:39:07 > 1:39:10What was that?

1:39:10 > 1:39:12Tell me what you did.

1:39:17 > 1:39:19I'm nearly...

1:39:21 > 1:39:22..nearly...

1:39:30 > 1:39:32..damned.

1:39:42 > 1:39:45"Oh, subtle and mighty opium

1:39:45 > 1:39:50"to the guilty man for one night gives back the hopes of his youth,

1:39:50 > 1:39:52"and hands washed pure from blood."

1:39:54 > 1:39:58Tell me what happened to him and I will go with you.

1:40:03 > 1:40:07And there is no danger of any harm befalling my inscription?

1:40:07 > 1:40:10Oh, none whatsoever, my dear worshipfulness.

1:40:10 > 1:40:14I shall guard that priceless masterpiece with my life.

1:40:29 > 1:40:31FOOTSTEPS APPROACH

1:40:31 > 1:40:34Oh, this is no place for a child.

1:40:34 > 1:40:38- Deputy, go and watch out for Mr Jasper's return.- I will not!

1:40:38 > 1:40:40- I'll give you a shilling.- Joking!

1:40:40 > 1:40:43Need a guinea to persuade me to miss this.

1:40:50 > 1:40:52You stay there.

1:41:05 > 1:41:07- Good day to you, Joe. - Miss Rosa.- Thank you.

1:41:07 > 1:41:09BOTH STRAIN

1:41:13 > 1:41:16BOTH PANT

1:41:31 > 1:41:32Well?

1:41:34 > 1:41:37Nothing but the mortal remains of poor Mrs Sapsea.

1:41:37 > 1:41:39Oh, hellfire!

1:41:39 > 1:41:41And damnation. Yes, very helpful(!)

1:41:41 > 1:41:44- Get the other one out, then. - What other one?

1:41:44 > 1:41:47The one he found in Mr Jasper's desk, stupid!

1:41:52 > 1:41:54Durdles needs a closer look at that.

1:41:57 > 1:42:00Had no cause to go inside there for years,

1:42:00 > 1:42:02but Durdles'd know it anywhere.

1:42:02 > 1:42:04This is the key to the Drood tomb.

1:42:43 > 1:42:45You hesitated the last.

1:42:45 > 1:42:47I'm ready.

1:42:57 > 1:43:00To say I planned it would not be quite right.

1:43:00 > 1:43:02The idea, the method, came to me in a dream.

1:43:02 > 1:43:05- A nightmare?- Oh, no, no, no!

1:43:05 > 1:43:08Edwin died night after night in dreams of perfect beauty.

1:43:09 > 1:43:11You stay there.

1:43:13 > 1:43:16Here, on the altar step, where he would have married you,

1:43:16 > 1:43:19taken the woman who was meant for me, taken my life,

1:43:19 > 1:43:20unless I took his first.

1:43:20 > 1:43:22Lord, let me know mine end.

1:43:22 > 1:43:25VOICE ECHOES

1:43:25 > 1:43:27Voices?

1:43:28 > 1:43:30Listen.

1:43:32 > 1:43:33What is down there?

1:43:33 > 1:43:37..and mine age is even nothing in respect of thee.

1:43:40 > 1:43:43His corpse was safe enough in the Sapsea tomb

1:43:43 > 1:43:45till that fat fool wanted his inscription carving.

1:43:48 > 1:43:50"Stranger, pause. Stranger..."

1:43:52 > 1:43:55So, I took the key, and...

1:43:55 > 1:43:57I moved...I moved his body...

1:43:57 > 1:43:59I moved his poor body.

1:43:59 > 1:44:02WHISPERS: No, that's not it.

1:44:02 > 1:44:05- Something's wrong. - It's not 'im!- What?

1:44:05 > 1:44:08I've got something wrong.

1:44:08 > 1:44:11It's some old fella. Look!

1:44:11 > 1:44:13ROSA SCREAMS

1:44:13 > 1:44:14My God!

1:44:15 > 1:44:18- Edwin!- You're in mourning?

1:44:18 > 1:44:21For you!

1:44:26 > 1:44:29I went early to Egypt, as I did tell you I might

1:44:29 > 1:44:31when you broke off our engagement.

1:44:31 > 1:44:34And are there no post offices in Egypt?

1:44:34 > 1:44:37Write to you?! Why would I write to you?

1:44:37 > 1:44:40I was so angry with you, I threw away that pretty ring.

1:45:33 > 1:45:35Come on, son.

1:45:39 > 1:45:43If that personage has been dead nine years, I'll eat my hat,

1:45:43 > 1:45:44and yours too.

1:45:44 > 1:45:48My bet is he's been dead a bit less than one year.

1:45:49 > 1:45:53And the ghost of one terrific shriek.

1:45:53 > 1:45:55Wasn't a ghost, after all.

1:46:10 > 1:46:11Who is it, Jasper?

1:46:14 > 1:46:15Why, sir...

1:46:17 > 1:46:18..it is Edwin Drood.

1:46:20 > 1:46:21The father?

1:46:23 > 1:46:26Our father.

1:46:26 > 1:46:27Ned's and mine.

1:46:29 > 1:46:32It was common knowledge in Egypt.

1:46:32 > 1:46:35The date of his birth was inconvenient,

1:46:35 > 1:46:38so my mother passed Jack off as her little brother.

1:46:41 > 1:46:43We all thought he killed you.

1:46:43 > 1:46:44Jack?!

1:46:44 > 1:46:47Never! He loves me.

1:46:47 > 1:46:49Eddy,

1:46:49 > 1:46:52even he thinks he killed you.

1:46:58 > 1:47:01JACK SIGHS

1:47:03 > 1:47:06I have striven...

1:47:06 > 1:47:10so hard to remember.

1:47:10 > 1:47:13And I have remembered it all wrong.

1:47:13 > 1:47:16Muddled them both up in my head.

1:47:16 > 1:47:18Gentlemen, leave us, please.

1:47:18 > 1:47:20On your own, with him?

1:47:20 > 1:47:23We are old friends, Mr Jasper and I.

1:47:23 > 1:47:26- We'll get help. - No!- Don't alert anyone.

1:47:26 > 1:47:28Mr Jasper and I will do very well here together.

1:47:38 > 1:47:42I have dreamed so much about...

1:47:42 > 1:47:44killing Edwin...

1:47:46 > 1:47:48..and forgotten this.

1:47:50 > 1:47:53Captain Drood's will left everything to him, and nothing to you.

1:47:53 > 1:47:57Oh, I never cared about the money.

1:48:00 > 1:48:05Is there a circle of hell reserved especially for fathers

1:48:05 > 1:48:07who do not love their children?

1:48:09 > 1:48:11There ought to be.

1:48:11 > 1:48:13And does it stand next to the circle

1:48:13 > 1:48:17where eternal damnation awaits the man who killed his own father?

1:48:17 > 1:48:22God will forgive you if you are truly penitent.

1:48:22 > 1:48:25For when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness...

1:48:25 > 1:48:29The wicked man! The wicked man!

1:48:31 > 1:48:35The wicked man was a bastard boy of seven!

1:48:36 > 1:48:39A boy of seven.

1:48:40 > 1:48:42Sent away!

1:48:42 > 1:48:45Sent away to learn to sing.

1:48:46 > 1:48:50While a little, fat, fair baby,

1:48:50 > 1:48:53a little, fat, fair, legitimate baby

1:48:53 > 1:48:57sucked up all the love in the house until there was none left over.

1:49:01 > 1:49:03And yet...

1:49:03 > 1:49:07when Captain Drood... died the first time

1:49:07 > 1:49:10in a mining accident in Egypt,

1:49:10 > 1:49:12so they said...

1:49:15 > 1:49:17..I grieved.

1:49:18 > 1:49:21But a year ago he came back?

1:49:22 > 1:49:25HE SINGS SOFTLY

1:49:25 > 1:49:27CLATTERING

1:49:29 > 1:49:31Who's there?

1:49:33 > 1:49:34Show yourself.

1:49:38 > 1:49:39Sorry.

1:49:50 > 1:49:51Father?

1:49:57 > 1:50:01- Father, is it really you? - Leave off me, Jack.

1:50:01 > 1:50:03I've come looking for Edwin.

1:50:08 > 1:50:11Where is my bright boy?

1:50:11 > 1:50:14If...if he had written,

1:50:14 > 1:50:16if he had given me any warning...

1:50:16 > 1:50:20HE CHUCKLES

1:50:20 > 1:50:23It's too late for me to deceive myself.

1:50:26 > 1:50:29I would have still killed him.

1:51:04 > 1:51:05FATHER!

1:51:08 > 1:51:11One kind word for me would have saved him. That old fool Durdles

1:51:11 > 1:51:14thought he'd heard the cry of a murder victim. But the old devil

1:51:14 > 1:51:17uttered not a word. It was I who cried out to the heavens,

1:51:17 > 1:51:20- at the loss of all my hopes.- There is always hope in the Lord.

1:51:20 > 1:51:22Not for me. I've killed my father.

1:51:22 > 1:51:25But, no matter, for soon I will hang, and then all will be darkness,

1:51:25 > 1:51:28and silence, and blissful forgetting. But where is Ned?

1:51:28 > 1:51:30- Where is Ned's body?- Jack.

1:51:31 > 1:51:33Good God!

1:51:33 > 1:51:34Jack.

1:51:38 > 1:51:41Our father loved him but not me.

1:51:42 > 1:51:46And together they robbed me of every happiness.

1:51:46 > 1:51:47I'm here.

1:51:49 > 1:51:52You see? I've come back.

1:51:56 > 1:51:58And I'm sorry.

1:51:58 > 1:52:02- I am so sorry. - The old man was a monster.

1:52:04 > 1:52:07But that was the only human creature that ever loved me.

1:52:07 > 1:52:11- Jack...- And I killed him too.

1:52:11 > 1:52:15No. No, look at him.

1:52:15 > 1:52:18And so he haunts me.

1:52:18 > 1:52:21And I am damned.

1:52:34 > 1:52:36- Edwin, take Rosa outside. - No, no, no. I want to see Jack.

1:52:36 > 1:52:40- I have to make everything well with Jack.- Do as I say.- Is he up there?

1:52:40 > 1:52:43- Jack?- Haven't you done enough harm? - Jack? Jack, it's me.

1:52:43 > 1:52:46- I'm coming up.- No. No, you're not, you're frightening him.

1:52:46 > 1:52:49- He thinks you're dead. - He's my brother. I can help him.

1:52:49 > 1:52:53Oh, dear God! Rosa, Rosa! Quick, you don't want to be here. Get help.

1:52:53 > 1:52:55Get anyone! Run!

1:52:55 > 1:52:56Jasper? Jasper?

1:52:57 > 1:52:59There's no need to be afraid.

1:52:59 > 1:53:02Pray with me. Pray with me now.

1:53:02 > 1:53:03Choose the light.

1:53:05 > 1:53:09Our Father who art in heaven...

1:53:09 > 1:53:11Jasper, won't you join me?

1:53:11 > 1:53:13Our Father who art in heaven...

1:53:13 > 1:53:16- Hallowed be thy name. - Hallowed be thy name.

1:53:16 > 1:53:18Jack?

1:53:18 > 1:53:20Thy kingdom come...

1:53:20 > 1:53:22Thy will be done.

1:53:22 > 1:53:23NO!

1:54:00 > 1:54:01Thank you.

1:54:01 > 1:54:03MR GREWGIOUS CLEARS THROAT

1:54:03 > 1:54:08To Edwin, who once was lost, and now is found.

1:54:08 > 1:54:11And to his new life in Egypt.

1:54:15 > 1:54:19To my brother, my partner,

1:54:19 > 1:54:21you won't regret coming with me.

1:54:24 > 1:54:26They will forget us.

1:54:26 > 1:54:29They'll be in trouble if they do.

1:54:29 > 1:54:33They'll bring home exotic brides and cause consternation.

1:54:33 > 1:54:36I do hope so!

1:54:38 > 1:54:40Ahem, one final toast.

1:54:42 > 1:54:45To our older brother, Jack...

1:54:47 > 1:54:49..and his fond memory.

1:54:51 > 1:54:52To the man he might have been.

1:54:54 > 1:54:56To Jack.

1:55:34 > 1:55:37- I was thinking...- I wonder... - You first.- No, you.

1:55:41 > 1:55:43No, of course, me.

1:55:47 > 1:55:48SHE GIGGLES

1:55:48 > 1:55:50Rosa, quickly.

1:55:58 > 1:55:59No, Helena!

1:56:08 > 1:56:10Did I just ask you something?

1:56:14 > 1:56:15No.

1:56:17 > 1:56:18But I said yes anyway.