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Intimidated by Mr. Tulkinghorn to provide a sample of Capt. Hawdon's handwriting, Sgt. George has decided to submit, this time. With the writing sample, Tulkinghorn is satisfied that Nemo and Hawdon are the same person. Tulkinghorn reneges on his promise to clear George's debts however. Esther, with her scars from smallpox, is now convinced that Mr. Woodcort is beyond her reach. Going through Krook's personal effects, Smallweed learns from Guppy of the existence of the letters. Jarndyce, Ada and Esther again visit Mr. Boythorn who tells them of the ghost walk at the Dedlock estate. There Lady Dedlock tells Esther the identity of her mother.
Starring:
Denis Lawson
Anna Maxwell Martin
Patrick Kennedy
Carey Mulligan
Gillian Anderson
Charles Dance
Alun Armstrong
Timothy West
Burn Gorman
Harry Eden
Intimidated by Mr. Tulkinghorn to provide a sample of Capt. Hawdon's handwriting, Sgt. George has decided to submit, this time. With the writing sample, Tulkinghorn is satisfied that Nemo and Hawdon are the same person. Tulkinghorn reneges on his promise to clear George's debts however. Esther, with her scars from smallpox, is now convinced that Mr. Woodcort is beyond her reach. Going through Krook's personal effects, Smallweed learns from Guppy of the existence of the letters. Jarndyce, Ada and Esther again visit Mr. Boythorn who tells them of the ghost walk at the Dedlock estate. There Lady Dedlock tells Esther the identity of her mother.
Starring:
Denis Lawson
Anna Maxwell Martin
Patrick Kennedy
Carey Mulligan
Gillian Anderson
Charles Dance
Alun Armstrong
Timothy West
Burn Gorman
Harry Eden
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01:53And then we'll have what he wants. This time.
02:06Oh, so kind of you, my dear Mr Jarndyce.
02:09Such hospitality and now a carriage all to myself.
02:14You will be remembered on the Day of Judgment when my little birds shall all be set free.
02:18I'm glad to hear it. Have a safe journey, Miss Bright.
02:22Your cousin, my dear. Mr Carstone, the other ward in Jarndyce.
02:26What about him, Miss Bright?
02:27Let someone hold him back or he'll be drawn to ruin.
02:31But Richard is in no danger, Miss Bright.
02:33Oh, I know the signs, my dear.
02:36I saw them begin in Gridley and I saw them end.
02:39But just let someone hold him back and all may yet be well.
02:44Goodbye, my dears. Goodbye.
03:00What's this clamp?
03:01The writing sample from Sergeant George, Mr Tolkienholm. I asked him to step inside but he wouldn't wait.
03:06No matter. Let me see it.
03:11So this is Captain Horden's hand.
03:17And this is the handwriting of the law writer, known as Nemo.
03:31I'd say the handwriting of the two documents was identical.
03:38Would you, Clown?
03:44We shall be quiet now Miss Bright has left us.
03:47She does love to talk, doesn't she?
03:54Ada, what is it?
03:59I didn't quite like what she said about Richard.
04:02Miss Bright says a lot of odd things about all sorts of subjects.
04:06To say that he might be ruined.
04:09To compare him to poor Mr Gridley.
04:12Richard's love for you is steady.
04:16He's not like Mr Gridley.
04:18Or Miss Bright.
04:20He is someone besides himself to care about.
04:25That will keep him straight.
04:27Yes.
04:30Yes.
04:30Yes, it will, won't it?
04:32I hope it will.
04:36We should be going down.
04:37You nearly ready?
04:39Yes.
04:43But that was exciting news about Mr Woodcourt, wasn't it?
04:47I fancied he'd be in a shipwreck to save all those sailors' lives.
04:51You must have felt very proud of him, Esther, when you heard the news.
04:55I did feel proud of him.
04:57I do.
04:59I can't help it, though.
05:00He's nothing to me now.
05:01Esther, how can you say that?
05:03Because it's true.
05:07He cared for you.
05:09No, he did.
05:10Perhaps he did.
05:13And perhaps he might have told me before you went away
05:15if I had been richer or somebody's daughter.
05:19But he never did.
05:23And now I'm glad he did not.
05:25If he had, Harry would regret it when he saw me again as I am now.
05:30Don't look at me like that, Ada.
05:32It's the truth and you know it.
05:52Well, we are quiet this evening.
05:54Just as Esther said we'd be.
05:58Perhaps we should send for Miss Flight to come back again.
06:03Oh, forgive me, Ada, Esther.
06:06I think the wind's been in the east again.
06:11Esther, could you spare me a few minutes of your time in the growlery after dinner?
06:15Yes, of course.
06:26Come in, Esther.
06:27Shut the door.
06:35I was walking past your room on my way down to dinner.
06:41And I couldn't help overhearing a little of your conversation.
06:45Oh.
06:45And I must apologise to you for that.
06:47You have no need to.
06:49Anything I say to Ada, I would say to you.
06:52Then I hope you won't mind my saying I was sad to hear you talk as you did.
07:00About Mr Woodcourt?
07:01Yes.
07:05Sit down, Esther.
07:16Did you truly care for him?
07:19Whether I did or not matters very little now.
07:23His mother made it quite clear that I was not to think of someone with his distinguished ancestry.
07:32And now it is quite beyond a doubt.
07:35I shouldn't think there's a man in the world who'd want to marry a pop-marked nobody like me.
07:39Esther.
07:39Isn't it true?
07:41Please don't think I pity myself.
07:45Because I don't.
07:48I know that I'm very lucky to be alive.
07:51And a bleak house, so long as you're happy to keep me here.
07:53More than happy, Esther.
07:56And whatever the woodcourts of this world may think or feel, there are those who love you very dearly.
08:08And your...
08:10Your misfortune has not made you any less lovable than you were.
08:15Perhaps...
08:16Even dearer...
08:18To someone who knows you.
08:23And...
08:24Truly loves you.
08:28But you didn't need to say that.
08:30I knew you would not change.
08:32And Ada and Charlie, they feel the same.
08:35Not quite the same, Esther.
08:37Near enough, I think.
08:38So you mustn't worry about me, sir.
08:41I shall do very well with my friends about me.
08:51Rubbish.
08:53Rubbish.
08:54Rubbish.
08:56Rubbish.
08:57Rubbish.
08:58Hmm.
09:00Rubbish.
09:02Shake me up, Judy!
09:06What's that rough, you poor parrot?
09:10Let's have the next lot.
09:13There's money in this somewhere, I know it.
09:16And I'll have it.
09:17Because I'm owed it.
09:18And it's mine.
09:20Out! Out! Out!
09:21Private property, close for business!
09:23No admittance to loiterous hawkers and thieves.
09:25No admittance to anybody. Get out!
09:27To all remarked, Mr Smallweed, you know me, I think.
09:32Duppy.
09:33Of Kenji and Carboys.
09:35I know you.
09:37At the Inquest, snooping around.
09:39What do you want now?
09:41I'm interested in recovering a bundle of letters for a client.
09:46Who's the client?
09:47Not at liberty to disclose, Mr S.
09:50You give nothing, you'll get nothing. Who's the client?
09:53A lady.
09:55Oh, a lady. Very nice.
09:57So what are these letters you're after then, you young villain?
10:01Not a villain, sir. I am a member of the legal profession.
10:04Same figs, same figs.
10:10So what are these letters?
10:13They're private letters.
10:14Intimate letters of no interest to anyone but my client.
10:18But she'll pay for them.
10:19Oh, will she?
10:20As I say, they're of no value.
10:22No value at all.
10:23Except to my client.
10:25But she'll pay for them.
10:26She'll pay her a nominal sum.
10:28You mean you'll pay a nominal sum and she'll pay you a king's ransom, you young blaggard.
10:32That's about it, eh?
10:33Not at all, Mr Smallweed.
10:36My motives are very pure.
10:38To help my client and, also if I can, to help another lady.
10:42A lady who is very dear to my heart, Mr Smallweed.
10:45You do like your ladies, don't you, Mr Guppy?
10:49So how am I to know these letters, supposing I can lay my hands on them?
10:53They are tied up with a pink ribbon, Mr Smallweed.
10:56Oh, pink ribbon. Very nice.
10:59Shake me up, Judy.
11:00And?
11:01And what? Come on out with it!
11:04Addressed to a Captain Horden.
11:06Captain Horden, yes. Captain Horden?
11:08You know the name, Mr Smallweed?
11:10No.
11:12Never heard of him.
11:16All right, Mr Guppy.
11:18We are making an inventory of the deceased's possessions.
11:22Very heavy work, as you can see.
11:25If we find these letters, we might see our way to entering into negotiations with your lady client.
11:32That's all I can say for the present.
11:34Show the gentleman out, Judy.
11:35Thank you very much, Mr Smallweed.
11:37And, er, very good night to you.
11:39Never mind all that! Get out! Get out!
11:43Now lock the door behind him, Judy!
11:45Get out!
11:51Captain Horden.
11:53And a lady.
11:56And a young lady.
11:58There'll be money in that, I believe.
12:03So where's these letters, you brimstone beast?
12:11A letter from our friend Boy Thor with an invitation to visit him. He's most pressing.
12:17Would you like to go, Esther? You well enough recovered to stand the journey, do you think?
12:21The journey would be nothing, but, er...
12:26But what?
12:29I'm not sure I'd feel comfortable about being seen outside our little circle.
12:36I suppose that's very vain of me.
12:39You'd wear a veil, Esther, when you go abroad.
12:44Isn't Boy Thor's a good old friend who cares for you almost as much as we do?
12:48Look what he says here.
12:50If you refuse to come, he swears he'll tear his house down.
12:53Brick by brick and stone by stone.
12:56You wouldn't be responsible for that, Esther.
12:59No, I wouldn't be responsible for that.
13:06And I must get used to my new self, and people see me as I...
13:10...am now.
13:13Please sell Mr Boy Thor, and I'm delighted to accept his invitation.
13:24If you please, m'lady.
13:26Yes, what is it?
13:29I thought you'd like to know the young ladies are staying at Mr Boy Thor once again.
13:34They've been seen round the village.
13:36Both of them?
13:37Yes, m'lady.
13:39The one who was ill, Miss Summerson, is it?
13:43Is she recovered?
13:44Yes, m'lady, thank the Lord.
13:47But there's her poor face.
13:48It's terrible scarred from the smallpox.
13:55Thank you, Mrs Ransom.
14:12This is good of you, Boy Thorne.
14:14Well, one does what one can.
14:17What can a man do to make up for what has happened to that poor girl?
14:20Nothing.
14:22How did it come upon her?
14:23She caught the infection from a poor vagrant boy that we took in.
14:26I blame myself.
14:28Blame yourself because of an act of kindness to a fellow human being?
14:31That's Aaron, nonsense man.
14:34It's Puppycock.
14:36I'll tell you who's to blame.
14:37It's that fellow up there who calls himself God Almighty.
14:40I mean, what kind of deity is it who would visit such an affliction on an innocent girl?
14:45I ask you, John, that.
14:46Who's the almighty he's up to?
14:48He'll let her live.
14:52So, are you glad you accepted Mr Boy Thorne's invitation?
14:56Oh, yes.
14:56I can't think of anywhere I'd rather be.
14:59Good afternoon.
15:00Good afternoon, miss.
15:01Been a fine one, too.
15:03Have you been blackberrying?
15:04We have, miss.
15:05Would you ladies like to taste some?
15:10Very welcome.
15:12Good day to you now.
15:15What's the matter with the lady's face, Pa?
15:17Shh.
15:18Don't be rude.
15:30You've never heard the story of the ghost walk at Chesney World?
15:34I'm not sure I believe in any such thing.
15:36Well, you better.
15:38Because it's a true story.
15:41And you may see the ghost walk for yourself.
15:47In the days of Charles I, there was a deadlock called Sir Morbury Deadlock.
15:54And he was loyal to the king.
15:57But his lady, who had no family blood in her veins, favored the rebels.
16:04She spied upon her husband and betrayed him.
16:09And no matter what Sir Morbury did, he could not bend her to his will.
16:16She would creep down at dead at night and lame the horses.
16:21That was the story.
16:24So Sir Morbury and his friends couldn't ride out to battle.
16:29And one night, he caught her at it.
16:33And he threw her to the stone floor so violently that he broke her hip bones.
16:40It's not a pretty story.
16:43And she died slowly from her injury.
16:48But before she died, she cursed her husband.
16:54And ever afterwards, she said,
16:57whenever you hear by footsteps on that terrace,
17:00you may be sure that calamity and disgrace is coming to the house of Deadlock.
17:06And so it has been, from that day to this.
17:12Well, I should like to see it.
17:15Then I'll take you there tomorrow.
17:34Yes, Clown?
17:35Sergeant George, Mr Talking Horn.
17:40What about him?
17:41Well, Sir, seen as how he provided the handwriting sample.
17:48Yes.
17:49Well, am I to send him through the paper to say that he's released off the debt?
17:56No.
18:00You say no, Mr Talking Horn?
18:04Tell Smallweed to let the matter rest for one month and then foreclose on the debt.
18:12I don't...
18:15I don't quite understand you, Mr Talking Horn.
18:19I did not expect I had to justify my actions to my clerk, Clown.
18:23But, since you ask,
18:26I choose to foreclose on the debt because I wish to do it.
18:31And because I can do it.
18:34Sergeant George is going to have to learn
18:36that there is a price to be paid for acts of defiance.
18:42Quite clear, Clown?
18:45Yes, sir.
18:46Thank you, sir.
18:48Good.
18:49Good.
18:50And go and do as I tell you.
19:18And go and do as I tell you.
19:33This is as far as I may come.
19:35Any further than Sir Arrogant Nobskull's ruffians would set upon me.
19:39I think he's trained his very dogs to smell me out.
19:42But you ladies will be safe to roam the grounds as long as I'm not with you.
19:47Now, the ghost walk is around to the side.
19:50There.
19:52I wish you a happy exploration.
19:54Thank you, Mr Boythorne.
19:57And if you see the ghost,
19:59tell her that Laurence Boythorne would be very happy to see disgrace and ruin
20:04for Sir Arrogant Nobskull and all his tribe.
20:21It's a great big dark old place, miss, ain't it?
20:25Do you like to live in a place like this, Charlie?
20:27No fear, miss.
20:28Nor I.
20:39This must be the place.
20:41I don't care for him much, miss.
20:45We should stay still and quiet.
20:48Perhaps we'll hear the ghost's footsteps.
20:51Oh, miss!
20:53Miss Somersen, I'm afraid I have startled you.
20:58You have been very ill, I know.
21:01Are you unwell now?
21:03I was quite well, but a moment ago, Lady Deadlock.
21:08Miss Somersen, I should like to speak with you in private.
21:12Perhaps Miss Clare and your maid could go back ahead of you.
21:15I would be very much obliged.
21:18Yes, of course, my lady.
21:22Miss Somersen.
21:32Come sit down with me, John.
21:33Come on.
22:17You will heal.
22:23What?
22:24What is it?
22:27I have something to tell you.
22:32Something so dreadful I'm not sure that I have the courage to speak the words.
22:47I am your mother, Esther.
22:52I don't understand.
22:54I am your wretched and unhappy mother.
23:03Can you bear to look at me?
23:06Can you forgive me?
23:07You are truly my mother.
23:11I never knew you lived.
23:15They told me you had died only hours after you were born.
23:22For 20 years, I never knew I had a daughter living.
23:26I thought I should never see you.
23:32May I?
23:35May I call you mother?
23:37May...
23:38May...
23:39May...
23:40May...
23:45How long have you known?
23:46May...
23:47How did you find me?
23:49I only discovered the truth very lately.
23:53And then I was told that you were ill.
23:56Even dying.
23:57And I was desperate to think that I should never see you to tell me the truth about yourself.
24:01And now I am well.
24:03And now I am well.
24:03And we have all the time in the world.
24:14This story has no happy ending.
24:19I was a wilful and impetuous young woman.
24:23I fell in love with a young officer.
24:26And I lay with him the night before he went away with his regiment to the West Indies.
24:35He never returned.
24:37He was reported dead.
24:40So this was my father?
24:41Yes.
24:43What was his name?
24:47His name was Horden.
24:51James Horden.
24:54He was a captain in the Light Dragoon.
24:57But he never knew of my existence.
25:02I was very ill at my confinement.
25:06And when I came to myself, they told me you had died.
25:10And I thought I should never feel anything again.
25:14Nor did I.
25:16Until now.
25:23Sir Lester Deadlock asked me to marry him.
25:25And I accepted him.
25:27Of course I told him nothing.
25:30I deceived him and let him think that I loved him.
25:34That was wicked of me.
25:35And no doubt I shall pay for it.
25:38I have tried to be a good wife, dear.
25:40But the family honour means everything to him.
25:44And if my secret were known, it would destroy him.
25:48He must never know.
25:51If he does, everything is lost.
25:54He is disgraced and I am ruined.
26:02That is why...
26:06You and I must never see each other again.
26:11I've only just found you.
26:14Don't send me away now.
26:18I must.
26:20I must.
26:22I must.
26:25If we were to see each other again,
26:29it would be discovered for certain.
26:32And it would all come out.
26:39This must be the first and last time my dead daughter.
26:50I came to see the ghost's walk.
26:53And...
26:56I thought it was just a story.
26:59But it's true, isn't it?
27:02I am the one who will bring calamity and disgrace to the house.
27:08It is true what Miss Barbary said.
27:10It would have been better if I had never been born.
27:13No, no, no.
27:24Try and forgive me, my child.
27:52It's true.
27:54It's true.
27:55It's true.
27:56What is the matter?
28:04Oh, my God.
28:26Oh, my God.