1 00:00:38,661 --> 00:00:40,891 Separation of the jugular vein. 2 00:00:41,941 --> 00:00:43,897 With this penknife, no doubt. 3 00:00:49,101 --> 00:00:53,333 Hmm, laudanum to dull the pain. 4 00:00:53,381 --> 00:00:56,373 Dare say you've seen this sort of thing before. 5 00:00:56,421 --> 00:00:57,695 - I have, sir. - You know what to do. 6 00:00:57,741 --> 00:00:59,015 I do, sir. 7 00:00:59,061 --> 00:01:01,450 I was told to come straight away. 8 00:01:01,501 --> 00:01:02,729 Good God! 9 00:01:04,461 --> 00:01:07,817 Seems he was stealing from one fund to pay another, 10 00:01:07,861 --> 00:01:12,093 issuing shares without collateral, and now it's all blown up and burst. 11 00:01:12,141 --> 00:01:13,654 There's nothing left. 12 00:01:13,701 --> 00:01:16,977 So he took his own life rather than face the consequences. 13 00:01:17,021 --> 00:01:19,694 Merdle, the man of the age. 14 00:01:19,741 --> 00:01:21,413 (BELL TINKLES) 15 00:01:22,781 --> 00:01:24,692 Whom do you wish to see, gentlemen? 16 00:01:24,741 --> 00:01:26,379 My master is not at home. 17 00:01:26,421 --> 00:01:29,811 Mrs Merdle's maid must be called and told to get Mrs Merdle up 18 00:01:29,861 --> 00:01:34,377 and prepare her, as gently as she can, to see me. 19 00:01:34,421 --> 00:01:36,332 I have dreadful news to break to her. 20 00:01:36,381 --> 00:01:37,780 I regret to inform you, sir, 21 00:01:37,821 --> 00:01:40,016 Mrs Merdle has not yet returned from Italy. 22 00:01:40,061 --> 00:01:42,097 We expect her tomorrow afternoon. 23 00:01:42,141 --> 00:01:46,134 I can, if you wish, convey your news to her when she arrives. 24 00:01:46,181 --> 00:01:48,900 - Mr Merdle is dead. - I see. 25 00:01:48,941 --> 00:01:51,216 In that case, I should wish to give one month's notice. 26 00:01:51,261 --> 00:01:53,855 Mr Merdle has destroyed himself. 27 00:01:53,901 --> 00:01:59,339 It's very unpleasant, sir, to the feelings of one in my position. 28 00:01:59,381 --> 00:02:01,372 I think I should leave immediately. 29 00:02:01,421 --> 00:02:02,979 Good God, man! 30 00:02:03,021 --> 00:02:05,979 If you are not shocked, are you not at least surprised? 31 00:02:06,021 --> 00:02:09,855 Your master is dead and by his own hand. 32 00:02:09,901 --> 00:02:14,691 Sir, Mr Merdle never was quite the gentleman, 33 00:02:14,741 --> 00:02:19,212 and no ungentlemanly act on his part could surprise me. 34 00:02:20,781 --> 00:02:23,341 Is there anybody else I can send to you, sir, 35 00:02:23,381 --> 00:02:28,091 or any directions I can give before I leave? 36 00:02:29,701 --> 00:02:32,818 - Nearly dawn. - Mmm. 37 00:02:32,861 --> 00:02:37,013 And hundreds of thousands of men and women still happily asleep 38 00:02:37,061 --> 00:02:40,690 with no idea that they will wake to their own ruin. 39 00:02:40,741 --> 00:02:43,938 If only they knew what we know now, 40 00:02:43,981 --> 00:02:48,179 what a fearful cry against one miserable soul 41 00:02:48,221 --> 00:02:49,813 would go up to heaven. 42 00:02:49,861 --> 00:02:51,977 - Merdle's dead! Merdle's dead! - Suicide! 43 00:02:52,021 --> 00:02:53,818 - Cut his own throat! - Blood everywhere! 44 00:02:53,861 --> 00:02:55,419 - Was it a woman? - It was money! 45 00:02:55,461 --> 00:02:57,577 (SHOUTS BECOME INDISTINCT) 46 00:02:58,661 --> 00:03:01,812 (SHOUTING CONTINUES) 47 00:03:03,541 --> 00:03:06,214 - Man of the age(!) - Man of the age! 48 00:03:06,261 --> 00:03:07,899 Fraud! 49 00:03:14,901 --> 00:03:18,450 What a dreadful thing, Sparkler. 50 00:03:18,501 --> 00:03:21,299 Horrid. Horrid! 51 00:03:21,341 --> 00:03:24,413 And with our mother-of-pearl penknife, too. 52 00:03:24,461 --> 00:03:26,816 I know, my love. 53 00:03:26,861 --> 00:03:28,260 Shocking! 54 00:03:28,301 --> 00:03:31,611 If I'd known what he wanted it for, I might not have lent it to him. 55 00:03:31,661 --> 00:03:32,855 And now the coroner's got it 56 00:03:32,901 --> 00:03:34,698 and heaven knows when I shall get it back. 57 00:03:34,741 --> 00:03:36,572 I know, dear heart. 58 00:03:36,621 --> 00:03:38,498 It's very... 59 00:03:38,541 --> 00:03:40,418 vexing. 60 00:03:42,861 --> 00:03:46,137 Are you fearfully cut up about it, Sparkler? 61 00:03:46,181 --> 00:03:48,854 Was you very close to him? 62 00:03:48,901 --> 00:03:52,098 Well, I am a bit cut up about it, Fanny. 63 00:03:52,141 --> 00:03:55,099 Of course, it's not as if he was my real pa, 64 00:03:55,141 --> 00:03:58,213 but, you know, he wasn't a bad stick. 65 00:03:58,261 --> 00:04:01,810 The mater found him fearfully annoying, but... 66 00:04:01,861 --> 00:04:03,533 I didn't. 67 00:04:04,821 --> 00:04:08,052 I think the bird was rather fond of him. 68 00:04:08,101 --> 00:04:11,138 - I know he was fond of it. - Sparkler? 69 00:04:11,181 --> 00:04:12,739 Yes, my dearest love. 70 00:04:12,781 --> 00:04:14,692 What is to become of us now? 71 00:04:14,741 --> 00:04:16,254 Are we rich or are we poor? 72 00:04:16,301 --> 00:04:21,375 We, um, may have to tighten our belts a little, 73 00:04:21,421 --> 00:04:26,541 perhaps find a smaller place in, um, a less expensive part of town. 74 00:04:26,581 --> 00:04:28,173 Such as where? 75 00:04:28,221 --> 00:04:30,781 Um... 76 00:04:30,821 --> 00:04:32,049 Fulham? 77 00:04:32,101 --> 00:04:34,490 Fulham?! 78 00:04:41,141 --> 00:04:42,620 We're ruined. 79 00:04:42,661 --> 00:04:44,731 I persuaded you to it, Mr Clennam. 80 00:04:44,781 --> 00:04:49,377 You say what you will. You can't say more to me than I say to myself. 81 00:04:49,421 --> 00:04:51,616 I've ruined my partner, Pancks. 82 00:04:51,661 --> 00:04:54,334 I've ruined Doyce. 83 00:04:54,381 --> 00:04:56,815 He trusted me. He thought I had a head for business. 84 00:04:56,861 --> 00:04:58,180 Don't reproach yourself, sir. 85 00:04:58,221 --> 00:05:00,177 You reproach me or I'll do myself an injury. 86 00:05:00,221 --> 00:05:02,940 After all his disappointments, he's ruined by his own partner. 87 00:05:02,981 --> 00:05:07,372 Say, "You fool, you villain!" Say, "Ass, what were you thinking?!" 88 00:05:07,421 --> 00:05:10,458 Say, "Beast, what did you mean by it?!" Come on! 89 00:05:10,501 --> 00:05:12,935 Say something abusive to me. 90 00:05:12,981 --> 00:05:16,815 It's not your fault, Pancks. I took advice from others, not just you. 91 00:05:17,861 --> 00:05:21,536 But I will say that if you hadn't yielded to this fatal mania, 92 00:05:21,581 --> 00:05:24,175 it would have been much better for you, and me, too. 93 00:05:24,221 --> 00:05:26,018 Come on. At me again. 94 00:05:26,941 --> 00:05:30,729 - At me again! - No, no. I'm as much to blame as you are. 95 00:05:32,221 --> 00:05:34,257 But I wish you hadn't done those accursed calculations... 96 00:05:34,301 --> 00:05:35,131 That's it. 97 00:05:35,181 --> 00:05:37,900 ...and brought out your results with such abominable clarity. 98 00:05:37,941 --> 00:05:40,330 At me again! At me again! 99 00:05:41,381 --> 00:05:43,895 I'm sorry, Pancks. 100 00:05:43,941 --> 00:05:45,579 I haven't the heart for it. 101 00:05:47,901 --> 00:05:50,495 I haven't been to bed, you know, 102 00:05:50,541 --> 00:05:52,497 since it began to get about. 103 00:05:56,421 --> 00:05:59,857 Mr Clennam, have you laid out everything? 104 00:05:59,901 --> 00:06:01,892 - Everything. - (MAKES CHOKING SOUND) 105 00:06:04,421 --> 00:06:05,934 Everything. 106 00:06:09,461 --> 00:06:11,850 There's nothing more to be done, Pancks. 107 00:06:11,901 --> 00:06:13,380 Um... 108 00:06:13,421 --> 00:06:17,858 I must face the consequences. I must declare Doyce and Clennam insolvent. 109 00:06:17,901 --> 00:06:20,131 No, wait, Mr...Mr Clennam... 110 00:06:20,181 --> 00:06:21,933 There are other ways. 111 00:06:21,981 --> 00:06:23,380 What ways? 112 00:06:23,421 --> 00:06:26,219 You don't want to go to the debtors' prison, sir. 113 00:06:26,261 --> 00:06:28,252 That is no place for you. 114 00:06:28,301 --> 00:06:31,020 Close up the doors now, today, and cross the Channel. 115 00:06:31,061 --> 00:06:32,619 You live abroad until it all blows over. 116 00:06:32,661 --> 00:06:34,094 There's many a man who's done that 117 00:06:34,141 --> 00:06:36,416 and come back as clean and shiny as a new penny. 118 00:06:36,461 --> 00:06:39,817 No, Pancks. I can't do that. 119 00:06:39,861 --> 00:06:44,093 - I can't leave Doyce to take the blame. - Then get legal help, for God's sake. 120 00:06:44,141 --> 00:06:46,814 Yes, perhaps I'd better. 121 00:06:46,861 --> 00:06:49,739 Rugg, he knows this work. 122 00:06:49,781 --> 00:06:51,817 I'll get Rugg for you, Mr Clennam. 123 00:06:55,941 --> 00:06:58,739 Who are all those people outside the door, Fanny? 124 00:06:58,781 --> 00:07:01,090 Tradesmen, mostly, hoping to get paid. 125 00:07:01,141 --> 00:07:03,211 Ha! Bit too late for that. 126 00:07:03,261 --> 00:07:06,571 But if they don't get paid, how will they live? 127 00:07:06,621 --> 00:07:08,851 Well, I don't know, do I? 128 00:07:11,061 --> 00:07:13,291 Amy, step away from the window. 129 00:07:14,341 --> 00:07:16,252 Amy, do! 130 00:07:16,301 --> 00:07:19,418 (SHOUTING) 131 00:07:27,341 --> 00:07:30,777 - If you please, ma'am, it's the missus. - (BIRD SQUAWKS) 132 00:07:31,821 --> 00:07:33,812 Hello, Mater. 133 00:07:33,861 --> 00:07:35,658 Beastly business. 134 00:07:35,701 --> 00:07:37,498 Quite. 135 00:07:37,541 --> 00:07:39,930 Mrs Merdle, welcome home. 136 00:07:39,981 --> 00:07:41,699 Did you have a good journey? 137 00:07:41,741 --> 00:07:43,811 Tedious and uncomfortable, thank you. 138 00:07:43,861 --> 00:07:45,977 Where is the head butler? Where are the footmen? 139 00:07:46,021 --> 00:07:47,613 Packed their bags and gone. 140 00:07:47,661 --> 00:07:49,891 Tell you the truth, I don't miss 'em much. 141 00:07:49,941 --> 00:07:51,977 That butler always gave me the shivers. 142 00:07:52,021 --> 00:07:55,172 That little skivvy that brought you upstairs, she's doing her best, 143 00:07:55,221 --> 00:07:58,054 and a good little girl she is, too, and she hasn't got the sli... 144 00:07:58,101 --> 00:07:59,375 All right, Sparkler. 145 00:07:59,421 --> 00:08:01,571 - Yes, my love. Just thought I'd make... - Well, don't. 146 00:08:01,621 --> 00:08:05,170 - Right. - So...we are ruined. Everything lost. 147 00:08:05,221 --> 00:08:10,249 Well, ma'am, I believe YOU are ruined. We're not quite. 148 00:08:10,301 --> 00:08:13,657 Sparkler still has his job and I have my own money, 149 00:08:13,701 --> 00:08:15,498 and if the worst comes to the worst, 150 00:08:15,541 --> 00:08:17,497 I could always go back to the theatre. 151 00:08:17,541 --> 00:08:21,170 And who knows, perhaps you could go back to doing whatever it is that YOU did 152 00:08:21,221 --> 00:08:23,860 before Mr Sparkler and Mr Merdle. 153 00:08:23,901 --> 00:08:25,971 But I don't think we've come to that just yet. 154 00:08:26,021 --> 00:08:29,331 And Lord knows, we wouldn't see you out on the streets, would we, Sparkler? 155 00:08:29,381 --> 00:08:32,498 Dash my buttons, no! Heaven forbid! 156 00:08:32,541 --> 00:08:36,614 No, I'm sure we'll all get along like a house on fire. 157 00:08:37,661 --> 00:08:41,449 So I am to be dependent on your goodwill, am I? 158 00:08:41,501 --> 00:08:45,574 You'll be all right, Mrs M, so long as you remember your Ps and Qs. 159 00:08:48,701 --> 00:08:51,010 Now, this is the plan. 160 00:08:51,061 --> 00:08:54,736 Sparkler and I do not intend to be paying off Mr Merdle's old bills, 161 00:08:54,781 --> 00:08:57,534 otherwise we shall soon find ourselves in queer street. 162 00:08:57,581 --> 00:09:00,414 We shall be leaving rather quietly by the back gate, 163 00:09:00,461 --> 00:09:04,090 and rather late at night, and lie low until the fuss dies down. 164 00:09:04,141 --> 00:09:05,620 I dare say you're not so grand 165 00:09:05,661 --> 00:09:08,380 for what you might have heard of as a moonlight flit. 166 00:09:08,421 --> 00:09:11,936 You may even have done one once or twice in your...younger days. 167 00:09:12,981 --> 00:09:14,619 So, what d'you say, Mrs M? 168 00:09:14,661 --> 00:09:16,458 Are you game for it? 169 00:09:16,501 --> 00:09:19,015 My dear Fanny, 170 00:09:19,061 --> 00:09:21,575 I am entirely in your hands. 171 00:09:21,621 --> 00:09:23,851 That's nice. 172 00:09:24,061 --> 00:09:27,895 Mr Clennam! Mr Clennam, come quick before they get here! 173 00:09:27,941 --> 00:09:29,294 Come along, Mr Clennam! 174 00:09:29,341 --> 00:09:31,901 Si, si, presto, signore, presto! 175 00:09:31,941 --> 00:09:34,899 Quick, sir, out the back! We might be able to get away 176 00:09:34,941 --> 00:09:36,294 - before they come in. - Who? 177 00:09:36,341 --> 00:09:37,979 Creditors, sir. They want their money. 178 00:09:38,021 --> 00:09:41,377 Let me meet them. I want to face up to my obligation. 179 00:09:41,421 --> 00:09:43,218 - Open up! - Mr Clennam! 180 00:09:43,261 --> 00:09:47,493 Mr Clennam, this is not the time to be thinking of others. 181 00:09:47,541 --> 00:09:50,499 The question is, what can we do for ourself? 182 00:09:50,541 --> 00:09:54,170 You've been allowing your feelings to be worked on. That won't do. 183 00:09:54,221 --> 00:09:57,736 If it had only been losing my own money, I should have cared much less. 184 00:09:57,781 --> 00:10:00,170 Is that so? That is singular, sir. 185 00:10:00,221 --> 00:10:03,019 Generally, it's their own money people are particular about. 186 00:10:03,061 --> 00:10:06,531 Most people can lose other people's money and bear it very well indeed. 187 00:10:06,581 --> 00:10:09,049 Well, I am determined to face up to my creditors 188 00:10:09,101 --> 00:10:11,490 and I want to keep nothing for myself but my books 189 00:10:11,541 --> 00:10:15,375 - and the clothes I stand up in. - Then I'm afraid it's the Marshalsea. 190 00:10:15,421 --> 00:10:18,777 I'd rather be sent to the Marshalsea than to any other prison. 191 00:10:18,821 --> 00:10:20,174 Do you say so, indeed, sir? 192 00:10:21,381 --> 00:10:23,292 Then we may as well be walking. 193 00:10:32,941 --> 00:10:35,694 (BANGING) 194 00:10:39,741 --> 00:10:41,174 (DOOR UNLOCKS) 195 00:10:41,221 --> 00:10:43,815 - Good morning, sir. - Good morning, Mr Chivery. 196 00:10:43,861 --> 00:10:47,092 I don't recall as I was ever less glad to see you, sir. 197 00:10:47,141 --> 00:10:49,609 I certainly never thought I would return in this way. 198 00:10:49,661 --> 00:10:52,892 Ah, that Merdle brought the lot down with him, Mr Clennam. 199 00:10:52,941 --> 00:10:57,537 We'll be full to bursting, but we've got a room for you. 200 00:10:58,941 --> 00:11:00,294 Show him up, John. 201 00:11:02,021 --> 00:11:03,773 This way, Mr Clennam. 202 00:11:22,261 --> 00:11:26,015 I thought you'd like Mr Dorrit's old room, sir. 203 00:11:26,061 --> 00:11:27,574 For old times' sake. 204 00:11:27,621 --> 00:11:29,612 That was a kind thought, John. 205 00:11:33,821 --> 00:11:35,334 Won't you shake my hand, John? 206 00:11:36,501 --> 00:11:38,014 I don't know as I can, sir. 207 00:11:40,021 --> 00:11:41,500 No, I find I can't, 208 00:11:41,541 --> 00:11:44,533 but I thought you'd like this room, and here it is for you. Good day, sir. 209 00:12:05,141 --> 00:12:08,816 Gratified to welcome you, sir. 210 00:12:08,861 --> 00:12:11,091 A very handsome testimonial, 211 00:12:11,141 --> 00:12:13,780 offered with great delicacy. 212 00:12:16,621 --> 00:12:20,534 I'm infinitely obliged, sir, infinitely obliged. 213 00:12:36,901 --> 00:12:38,254 (KNOCK ON DOOR) 214 00:12:39,381 --> 00:12:41,941 Ah, thank you, John. 215 00:12:41,981 --> 00:12:44,211 I'm sorry to have given you the trouble. 216 00:12:53,621 --> 00:12:57,455 Are you...angry with me, John? 217 00:12:59,021 --> 00:13:02,252 I tell you what, Mr Clennam. 218 00:13:02,301 --> 00:13:05,373 If you weren't under a cloud, 219 00:13:05,421 --> 00:13:06,854 which you are, 220 00:13:06,901 --> 00:13:10,177 and if it wasn't against all the rules of the Marshalsea, 221 00:13:10,221 --> 00:13:11,370 which it is, 222 00:13:11,421 --> 00:13:15,937 I'd sooner be having a ram with you than shaking your hand! 223 00:13:17,861 --> 00:13:20,216 - Beg your pardon. - Freely granted. 224 00:13:22,261 --> 00:13:23,376 But, er... 225 00:13:25,421 --> 00:13:26,536 ...what is it, John? 226 00:13:28,461 --> 00:13:32,249 If you don't mind my saying so, sir, you don't look very well to me. 227 00:13:33,301 --> 00:13:35,451 How long since you've eaten anything? 228 00:13:35,501 --> 00:13:38,413 Oh, I don't have any appetite. 229 00:13:38,461 --> 00:13:39,974 I don't think I could eat. 230 00:13:40,021 --> 00:13:42,581 D'you not think that even if it's not worthwhile 231 00:13:42,621 --> 00:13:44,577 to take care of yourself for your own sake, 232 00:13:44,621 --> 00:13:46,213 it's worth doing for somebody else's? 233 00:13:46,261 --> 00:13:49,059 - Truly, I don't know for whose. - You don't know whose?! 234 00:13:49,101 --> 00:13:51,661 - You can say that to me?! - I don't understand, John. 235 00:13:51,701 --> 00:13:54,454 - I don't mean to offend you. - I had got over it. 236 00:13:54,501 --> 00:13:56,412 I had. 237 00:13:56,461 --> 00:13:59,259 I might never have thought of it again. 238 00:13:59,301 --> 00:14:02,691 I may not be a gentleman, 239 00:14:02,741 --> 00:14:04,811 but I am a man. 240 00:14:05,861 --> 00:14:08,659 Why d'you think I found this room for you that you'd like 241 00:14:08,701 --> 00:14:12,455 and carried up the things for you when I really felt like knocking you down? 242 00:14:12,501 --> 00:14:15,493 D'you think I did it for your own sake? 243 00:14:15,541 --> 00:14:17,133 I didn't do it for you! 244 00:14:17,181 --> 00:14:18,773 I did it for her! 245 00:14:18,821 --> 00:14:20,140 For who? 246 00:14:21,221 --> 00:14:23,018 For Amy! 247 00:14:23,061 --> 00:14:25,211 Because she loves you! 248 00:14:28,221 --> 00:14:29,210 What? 249 00:14:30,541 --> 00:14:32,850 How can you say you don't know it? 250 00:14:34,421 --> 00:14:36,651 Anyone with eyes could see it. 251 00:14:36,701 --> 00:14:39,534 These walls know it. 252 00:14:39,581 --> 00:14:42,971 But you're so lofty, 253 00:14:43,021 --> 00:14:46,934 so far above the rest of us, you don't even notice it. 254 00:14:47,981 --> 00:14:54,056 All the time I was breaking my heart over her... 255 00:14:56,101 --> 00:14:58,251 ...she was breaking hers... 256 00:15:00,501 --> 00:15:02,298 ...over you. 257 00:15:02,341 --> 00:15:04,377 (JOHN SOBS) 258 00:15:13,021 --> 00:15:14,739 Well... 259 00:15:14,781 --> 00:15:16,658 I've told you now. 260 00:15:17,861 --> 00:15:22,981 So if you won't take anything else, I'll say good night, sir. 261 00:15:25,101 --> 00:15:26,090 Good night, John. 262 00:15:52,581 --> 00:15:57,257 I know what these affairs ofthe heart are like, how we hesitate. 263 00:15:58,341 --> 00:16:00,901 I fancied I was in love with someone. 264 00:16:00,941 --> 00:16:03,330 I don't know why I'm telling you all this, Amy. 265 00:16:05,741 --> 00:16:07,333 My brother is free. 266 00:16:07,381 --> 00:16:10,896 A gentleman paid his debts, but he would not allow us to know his name. 267 00:16:10,941 --> 00:16:12,897 But ifl could meet him, 268 00:16:12,941 --> 00:16:15,171 I would thank him, 269 00:16:15,221 --> 00:16:19,180 and take his hand and kiss it and thank heaven that he took pity on us. 270 00:16:19,221 --> 00:16:21,212 - I don 't understand. - Don 't you? 271 00:16:22,381 --> 00:16:27,330 Do you know, I sometimes wish that you 'd never come to the Marshalsea, 272 00:16:27,381 --> 00:16:29,417 that I'd never met you, 273 00:16:29,461 --> 00:16:32,100 that none of this had ever happened. 274 00:16:32,141 --> 00:16:34,371 I was happy as I was. 275 00:16:35,941 --> 00:16:38,136 (KNOCKING) 276 00:16:38,181 --> 00:16:39,534 Oh, Mr Clennam. 277 00:16:39,581 --> 00:16:41,572 I hope you don't mind us coming around, 278 00:16:41,621 --> 00:16:42,770 but not to deceive you, 279 00:16:42,821 --> 00:16:46,860 we couldn't bear to think of you languishing here on your own. 280 00:16:46,901 --> 00:16:50,052 We brought you a few things, as you see, tempt your appetite. 281 00:16:50,101 --> 00:16:51,978 - Thank you, Mrs Plornish. - Oh, dear. 282 00:16:52,021 --> 00:16:54,854 Mr Clennam, you're not looking well at all. 283 00:16:54,901 --> 00:16:58,530 The air in the Marshalsea is very bad, there's no denying it. 284 00:16:58,581 --> 00:17:00,617 It didn't agree with Plornish. Did it, my love? 285 00:17:00,661 --> 00:17:04,097 - Don't agree with anybody, I believe. - Won't you take a little something? 286 00:17:04,141 --> 00:17:06,655 Thank you, but I'm afraid I've lost my appetite. 287 00:17:08,021 --> 00:17:11,730 I'll leave them here, Mr Clennam. Perhaps you'll feel like them later. 288 00:17:13,181 --> 00:17:15,490 He's lost his will to live, by the looks of it. 289 00:17:15,541 --> 00:17:17,452 Come va? 290 00:17:17,501 --> 00:17:20,573 Oh, cheer him up a bit, Plornish, if you can. 291 00:17:23,061 --> 00:17:27,452 The way I see it, Mr Clennam, there's ups and downs. 292 00:17:27,501 --> 00:17:30,254 Don't ask me why - why ups, why downs - but there they is. 293 00:17:30,301 --> 00:17:32,815 But I've heard it given for a truth 294 00:17:32,861 --> 00:17:37,730 that as the world goes round, so it comes round again. 295 00:17:37,781 --> 00:17:41,012 You're down now, there's no doubt about it, 296 00:17:41,061 --> 00:17:43,894 but you'll be up when your turn comes round again. 297 00:17:43,941 --> 00:17:45,340 Eh! 298 00:17:46,621 --> 00:17:49,818 I fear I shan't ever be up again, Mr Plornish. 299 00:17:49,861 --> 00:17:54,457 What I say, Mr Clennam, is there's always something to be thankful for, 300 00:17:54,501 --> 00:17:56,856 as I'm sure you yourself will admit. 301 00:17:56,901 --> 00:18:00,416 Speaking in this room, it's a thing to be thankful for that Miss Dorrit 302 00:18:00,461 --> 00:18:02,975 - isn't here to know it. - That's something to be thankful for, 303 00:18:03,021 --> 00:18:04,454 you see, Mr Clennam. 304 00:18:04,501 --> 00:18:06,378 Ups and downs, you see. 305 00:18:06,421 --> 00:18:08,537 Ups and downs. 306 00:18:08,581 --> 00:18:10,936 Thank you, Mr Plornish. Thank you. 307 00:18:12,261 --> 00:18:15,059 Would you rather you was left alone now, Mr Clennam? 308 00:18:16,021 --> 00:18:19,900 Er, if you don't mind, Mrs Plornish, I'm not... 309 00:18:19,941 --> 00:18:21,818 I don't feel quite myself today. 310 00:18:33,541 --> 00:18:36,419 He's not himself, indeed, Mr Chivery. 311 00:18:36,461 --> 00:18:39,134 Not to deceive you, I'm very worried about him. 312 00:18:39,181 --> 00:18:41,376 I think he needs attendance of a medical man. 313 00:18:41,421 --> 00:18:44,379 - Medical man. - He's sinking into a decline, Mr Chivery. 314 00:18:44,421 --> 00:18:45,740 Sinking into a decline. 315 00:18:45,781 --> 00:18:48,739 Does take some of them like that, Mrs Plornish. 316 00:18:48,781 --> 00:18:50,339 I'll see what I can do. 317 00:19:25,781 --> 00:19:28,170 Arthur Clennam! 318 00:19:29,621 --> 00:19:31,532 You have been looking for me. 319 00:19:32,581 --> 00:19:36,256 Well, here I am. 320 00:19:37,821 --> 00:19:39,220 What do you want of me? 321 00:19:39,261 --> 00:19:41,980 That you clear the House of Clennam of suspicion. 322 00:19:42,021 --> 00:19:43,249 I... 323 00:19:43,301 --> 00:19:46,259 I regret that is not possible. 324 00:19:46,301 --> 00:19:48,337 Well... 325 00:19:48,381 --> 00:19:52,420 my friend, my fellow jailbird, 326 00:19:52,461 --> 00:19:57,330 it would appear you know very little about me, 327 00:19:57,381 --> 00:20:00,453 and I know all about you. 328 00:20:04,821 --> 00:20:06,459 I know you are a murderer. 329 00:20:08,021 --> 00:20:10,581 And I know you are a... 330 00:20:13,581 --> 00:20:15,970 Well, I am too delicate to say the word, 331 00:20:16,021 --> 00:20:17,818 but what I know, 332 00:20:17,861 --> 00:20:24,016 it could bring the House of Clennam crashing down in a heap of dust and ashes. 333 00:20:24,061 --> 00:20:25,938 Say what you have to say, damn you! 334 00:20:25,981 --> 00:20:27,460 To you? 335 00:20:30,861 --> 00:20:36,140 If you had £1,000, you could hear it all. 336 00:20:36,181 --> 00:20:38,456 But your mother will pay, I think, 337 00:20:38,501 --> 00:20:43,621 so that you don't know the shameful truth that concerns you, 338 00:20:43,661 --> 00:20:46,221 that concerns her, 339 00:20:46,261 --> 00:20:50,049 that concerns your poor, dead father, 340 00:20:50,101 --> 00:20:53,889 that concerns the little Dorrit girl. 341 00:20:53,941 --> 00:20:56,978 What does she have to do with all this? 342 00:20:57,021 --> 00:20:58,818 She cannot be left out. 343 00:20:58,861 --> 00:21:00,772 She is in it, 344 00:21:00,821 --> 00:21:02,857 whether you like it or not. 345 00:21:04,421 --> 00:21:06,491 This is very bad wine. 346 00:21:06,541 --> 00:21:10,375 Marshalsea wine. Paupers' wine. 347 00:21:10,421 --> 00:21:12,537 (TRICKLING) 348 00:21:12,581 --> 00:21:16,654 - The wine of losers. - Tell me what you know! Tell me! 349 00:21:19,021 --> 00:21:22,138 No. No. 350 00:21:22,181 --> 00:21:26,220 For that, you will have to go to your chere maman. 351 00:21:27,781 --> 00:21:30,579 Perhaps she will tell you. 352 00:21:31,621 --> 00:21:34,215 Perhaps not. Farewell. 353 00:21:35,461 --> 00:21:38,817 # Qu'est-ce qui passe ici si tard 354 00:21:41,181 --> 00:21:43,934 # Compagnons de la Marjolaine? # 355 00:21:51,381 --> 00:21:53,337 (WHISPERING) It's too late. It's no use. 356 00:21:53,381 --> 00:21:56,930 What could I... what could I have offered her? 357 00:21:56,981 --> 00:21:58,494 And yet she loved me. 358 00:22:00,341 --> 00:22:02,616 Why, who's this...? Who's this? 359 00:22:02,661 --> 00:22:04,379 Is he very bad, Doctor? 360 00:22:04,421 --> 00:22:06,218 He seemed to go down very quick. 361 00:22:06,261 --> 00:22:08,491 Couldn't get him to take anything. 362 00:22:08,541 --> 00:22:10,418 He's running a high fever. 363 00:22:10,461 --> 00:22:12,531 I doubt he has the spirit to fight it. 364 00:22:12,581 --> 00:22:15,539 Nothing to do but watch and wait. 365 00:22:15,581 --> 00:22:18,539 Let him have a little brandy and water, if he'll take it. 366 00:22:18,581 --> 00:22:22,335 The next 1 2 hours should settle it, 367 00:22:22,381 --> 00:22:23,973 one way or the other. 368 00:22:25,021 --> 00:22:28,570 Now isn't the time to be sitting down reading letters. We have to go! 369 00:22:28,621 --> 00:22:30,259 I don't like it, Fanny. 370 00:22:30,301 --> 00:22:33,293 Don't you think we should face our problems, not run away from them? 371 00:22:33,341 --> 00:22:35,491 They're not our problems. They're Mr Merdle's problems, 372 00:22:35,541 --> 00:22:37,896 but he isn't here to face them, is he? 373 00:22:37,941 --> 00:22:39,294 It's only a temporary stratagem. 374 00:22:39,341 --> 00:22:42,219 We shall pay our bills when Pa's will comes through. 375 00:22:42,261 --> 00:22:44,729 - Where are we going to go? - Good gracious, Amy! 376 00:22:44,781 --> 00:22:47,818 It's a good job one of us is thinking. We shall go to Pa's hotel, 377 00:22:47,861 --> 00:22:50,136 keep our heads down until we get our inheritance, 378 00:22:50,181 --> 00:22:52,058 and then come back out into society. 379 00:22:52,101 --> 00:22:55,776 You can stay for weeks in a hotel without having to pay for anything. 380 00:22:55,821 --> 00:22:57,539 (RUMBLING) 381 00:22:57,581 --> 00:23:03,053 Ah, um... Respectfully suggest, Ma, not to bring the whole panjandrum. 382 00:23:03,101 --> 00:23:06,093 This is a flit, you see, not a royal tour. 383 00:23:06,141 --> 00:23:09,736 A first-class woman all the same, though, through and through. 384 00:23:09,781 --> 00:23:12,534 As are you, of course. And you, my dearest Fanny. 385 00:23:12,581 --> 00:23:15,812 All absolutely first-class women with not a bit of... 386 00:23:15,861 --> 00:23:18,329 - BOTH: Sparkler! - Right. 387 00:23:35,181 --> 00:23:37,456 You must drink something. 388 00:23:43,221 --> 00:23:44,779 (BREATHES HEAVILY) 389 00:23:51,581 --> 00:23:53,253 Have a care... 390 00:23:54,341 --> 00:23:55,854 ...whatyou wish for. 391 00:23:58,941 --> 00:24:01,136 Have a care whatyou wish for. 392 00:24:06,221 --> 00:24:07,939 Here, take this. 393 00:24:10,021 --> 00:24:12,376 You're not wanted here. 394 00:24:18,741 --> 00:24:20,220 Sshhh. 395 00:24:21,461 --> 00:24:23,179 Go to sleep. 396 00:25:18,021 --> 00:25:20,216 I dreamt of you. 397 00:25:20,261 --> 00:25:21,899 But now you're really here. 398 00:25:21,941 --> 00:25:25,138 Mr Chivery wrote to me, and told me you were here. 399 00:25:25,181 --> 00:25:27,092 I've been here since yesterday. 400 00:25:27,141 --> 00:25:29,371 I think you have been very ill. 401 00:25:29,421 --> 00:25:31,412 But I am well now. You've made me well. 402 00:25:31,461 --> 00:25:33,691 You must take it slowly. 403 00:25:33,741 --> 00:25:36,539 Let me take care of you. 404 00:25:36,581 --> 00:25:38,492 But you have better things to do than that. 405 00:25:38,541 --> 00:25:41,772 No. Nothing better than that. 406 00:25:41,821 --> 00:25:44,619 I have thought about you 407 00:25:44,661 --> 00:25:46,652 every day, 408 00:25:46,701 --> 00:25:49,773 every hour, every minute, that I have been in here. 409 00:25:49,821 --> 00:25:52,210 Have you? Truly? 410 00:25:52,261 --> 00:25:53,933 Yes, I have. 411 00:25:53,981 --> 00:25:56,541 And now you're here. 412 00:25:56,581 --> 00:25:58,458 Then you must let me make you well. 413 00:26:01,021 --> 00:26:03,012 There is something I should say to you... 414 00:26:03,061 --> 00:26:05,621 - There's something I should say, too... - No. 415 00:26:05,661 --> 00:26:07,458 Let me speak first. 416 00:26:07,501 --> 00:26:10,459 Tip is coming home to find my father's will 417 00:26:10,501 --> 00:26:14,813 and take possession of his property. He says he is sure we shall be left rich. 418 00:26:14,861 --> 00:26:16,260 I hope you are. 419 00:26:16,301 --> 00:26:18,053 But I have no use for money. 420 00:26:18,101 --> 00:26:20,695 I only need very little to live on. 421 00:26:21,901 --> 00:26:23,619 Will you let me help you? 422 00:26:23,661 --> 00:26:26,255 Will you let me use my fortune to pay all your debts? 423 00:26:26,301 --> 00:26:30,453 - It would make me so happy. - Dear Amy, I couldn't let you do that. 424 00:26:30,501 --> 00:26:32,492 Yes, you could. 425 00:26:32,541 --> 00:26:34,418 And one thing more. 426 00:26:36,021 --> 00:26:38,012 To let me stay with you all your life. 427 00:26:48,141 --> 00:26:49,859 No. 428 00:26:49,901 --> 00:26:54,816 I can't let you bind yourself to a ruined man. 429 00:26:56,381 --> 00:27:00,374 This is a tainted place. Its taint will stay with me for ever. 430 00:27:00,421 --> 00:27:03,254 I never thought of it as tainted. It was my home. 431 00:27:03,301 --> 00:27:07,738 - Do you think of me as tainted by it? - No! You were too good for this place. 432 00:27:07,781 --> 00:27:10,215 - Too good for me. - So you are sending me away? 433 00:27:10,261 --> 00:27:12,411 I hoped you cared for me too much to do that. 434 00:27:12,461 --> 00:27:15,817 It is because I care for you that I send you away. 435 00:27:16,861 --> 00:27:21,571 Had I realised how I loved you all that time, 436 00:27:21,621 --> 00:27:24,499 not as the poor child I used to call you, but as a woman, 437 00:27:24,541 --> 00:27:27,339 had I suspected that you might love me, 438 00:27:27,381 --> 00:27:30,179 I couldn't let myself think it, I, a man twice your age. 439 00:27:30,221 --> 00:27:33,691 - I never cared about that. - It is even more impossible now. 440 00:27:33,741 --> 00:27:36,175 How could I take your money? 441 00:27:37,661 --> 00:27:41,017 The time when you and I and this prison had anything in common 442 00:27:41,061 --> 00:27:42,858 has long gone by. 443 00:27:42,901 --> 00:27:44,732 Do you understand? 444 00:27:44,781 --> 00:27:47,056 You can't stop me from coming here. 445 00:27:47,101 --> 00:27:49,331 I will come every day, you will see. 446 00:27:49,381 --> 00:27:51,133 I'll tell Chivery and his son to deny you access. 447 00:27:51,181 --> 00:27:52,375 They won't obey you. 448 00:27:55,701 --> 00:27:57,578 Till tomorrow. 449 00:28:17,621 --> 00:28:20,852 - Have you been crying, Amy? - You were always honourable, John. 450 00:28:20,901 --> 00:28:25,770 Do you promise you'll take care of him and never let him want for help and comfort? 451 00:28:25,821 --> 00:28:27,459 Yes, Amy. 452 00:28:27,501 --> 00:28:29,537 And will you give him a message from me? 453 00:28:29,581 --> 00:28:32,891 Will you tell him I sent my undying love? 454 00:28:45,861 --> 00:28:48,011 Do not be frightened. 455 00:28:49,381 --> 00:28:51,656 I have a little thing for you. 456 00:28:51,701 --> 00:28:53,976 Let's call it my... 457 00:28:54,021 --> 00:28:55,454 insurance. 458 00:28:56,661 --> 00:28:58,617 Here. 459 00:28:58,661 --> 00:29:01,016 I don't understand, sir. 460 00:29:01,061 --> 00:29:03,256 Keep it. Don't open it. 461 00:29:03,301 --> 00:29:05,337 I may reclaim it. 462 00:29:05,381 --> 00:29:08,657 Meet me here tonight at the gate before the bell rings. 463 00:29:08,701 --> 00:29:11,010 If I do not come, open it. 464 00:29:11,061 --> 00:29:13,291 There is a letter for you, 465 00:29:13,341 --> 00:29:17,459 and a letter for your dear friend, Arthur Clennam. 466 00:29:17,501 --> 00:29:19,537 That is all. 467 00:29:21,701 --> 00:29:24,010 Au revoir, mademoiselle. 468 00:29:38,461 --> 00:29:40,292 Ah, so it's you! 469 00:29:40,341 --> 00:29:42,571 Your time is up. Have you got the money? 470 00:29:42,621 --> 00:29:44,612 She will never give you money. 471 00:29:44,661 --> 00:29:46,140 We will see. 472 00:29:52,101 --> 00:29:54,740 Not dead, then? 473 00:29:55,781 --> 00:30:00,252 Did you enjoy my little game? 474 00:30:00,301 --> 00:30:03,020 If it was supposed to frighten me, it did not. 475 00:30:03,061 --> 00:30:04,858 Madame... 476 00:30:04,901 --> 00:30:08,132 we have played for long enough. 477 00:30:08,181 --> 00:30:12,459 It is time for the reckoning, I think. 478 00:30:12,501 --> 00:30:14,935 You say you have power over me. 479 00:30:14,981 --> 00:30:16,334 Prove it. 480 00:30:16,381 --> 00:30:20,215 - Affery, old woman, take yourself away! - No, I shan't, Jeremiah. 481 00:30:20,261 --> 00:30:23,617 I shall stay and learn all I don't know, even if I have to die for it! 482 00:30:23,661 --> 00:30:26,858 - I will! I will! - Oh, you'll get such a dose! 483 00:30:26,901 --> 00:30:28,300 Leave her, Flintwinch! 484 00:30:31,861 --> 00:30:35,297 "Do not forget." 485 00:30:37,421 --> 00:30:40,493 Forget what, I wonder, hmm? 486 00:30:53,621 --> 00:30:57,091 Let me tell you a little story, madame. 487 00:30:58,661 --> 00:31:04,213 The story of a strange mariage with no love in it. 488 00:31:04,261 --> 00:31:07,059 A strong woman, with force of character - 489 00:31:07,101 --> 00:31:12,971 fierce, cruel, implacable - married to a poor, weak husband. 490 00:31:13,021 --> 00:31:15,296 But did she crush him to powder? 491 00:31:15,341 --> 00:31:17,332 No, not quite! 492 00:31:17,381 --> 00:31:20,100 There was a little spark of life in him yet. 493 00:31:20,141 --> 00:31:24,054 He was a frequenter of a certain boarding house for theatrical ladies. 494 00:31:24,101 --> 00:31:29,050 And there your poor husband found a little friend, 495 00:31:29,101 --> 00:31:31,171 and got her with child. 496 00:31:31,221 --> 00:31:32,540 Oh, la, la! 497 00:31:50,181 --> 00:31:53,696 My husband was a weak man, Monsieur Rigaud, 498 00:31:53,741 --> 00:31:56,335 and a sinner. 499 00:31:56,381 --> 00:31:57,700 What of it? 500 00:31:57,741 --> 00:32:02,451 Howyou punished him for it - and her. 501 00:32:02,501 --> 00:32:06,972 You stole away the child, and cast that little dancing girl into darkness. 502 00:32:07,021 --> 00:32:12,175 - She sinned against the Lord. - You sent her to the poorhouse to weep 503 00:32:12,221 --> 00:32:15,213 - for her stolen child. - I saved her from her depravity! 504 00:32:15,261 --> 00:32:18,333 She died of a broken heart in poverty and pain. 505 00:32:18,381 --> 00:32:23,819 But before she died, she wrote to old Gilbert Clennam, 506 00:32:23,861 --> 00:32:25,817 your husband's father. 507 00:32:25,861 --> 00:32:29,297 And he was so moved by the letter 508 00:32:29,341 --> 00:32:32,458 that, learning of her death, 509 00:32:32,501 --> 00:32:34,856 he wrote a new will. 510 00:32:34,901 --> 00:32:39,053 It was too late to help that poor, abused mother, 511 00:32:39,101 --> 00:32:41,854 so he left a legacy... 512 00:32:43,701 --> 00:32:45,737 ...for a newborn, 513 00:32:45,781 --> 00:32:52,493 a child born as poor as she and on the very day she died, 514 00:32:52,541 --> 00:32:56,659 a child born in the Marshalsea. 515 00:32:58,261 --> 00:32:59,694 Amy Dorrit! 516 00:32:59,741 --> 00:33:03,256 I have read Gilbert Clennam's will. 517 00:33:06,381 --> 00:33:08,258 It is in my possession. 518 00:33:08,301 --> 00:33:10,576 Flintwinch? 519 00:33:12,461 --> 00:33:14,338 I didn't burn the will, 520 00:33:14,381 --> 00:33:17,054 because I had no right to. 521 00:33:17,101 --> 00:33:20,013 The pretence of having done no wrong for all these years 522 00:33:20,061 --> 00:33:21,779 has paralysed you. 523 00:33:21,821 --> 00:33:23,493 But the truth will out. 524 00:33:23,541 --> 00:33:25,372 There's no stopping it. 525 00:33:28,821 --> 00:33:31,415 What are you doing here? 526 00:33:31,461 --> 00:33:33,816 These things are nothing to do with you. 527 00:33:33,861 --> 00:33:38,571 They're nothing to do with you, either. Why did you say you'd keep them? 528 00:33:39,661 --> 00:33:42,892 You've done a very wicked thing! 529 00:33:43,941 --> 00:33:48,173 You kept the truth from Little Dorrit all her life. 530 00:33:48,221 --> 00:33:50,098 Why did you do that? 531 00:33:50,141 --> 00:33:56,660 Because to reveal the legacy would disclose the greater secret, 532 00:33:56,701 --> 00:34:02,412 the secret you have been trying to hide all your life. 533 00:34:05,221 --> 00:34:07,815 - Who have you been hiding it from? - Enough. 534 00:34:09,381 --> 00:34:13,010 My conscience is clear before God, 535 00:34:13,061 --> 00:34:15,973 and I will make my peace with Little Dorrit. 536 00:34:16,021 --> 00:34:19,570 But this is not Little Dorrit's story, is it? 537 00:34:19,621 --> 00:34:22,931 This story concerns the other child, 538 00:34:22,981 --> 00:34:25,541 taken away from its loving mother 539 00:34:25,581 --> 00:34:30,291 to be brought up in a hard school of punishment and shame. 540 00:34:32,941 --> 00:34:36,411 Finish the story, Madame Clennam. 541 00:34:36,461 --> 00:34:39,180 Unburden yourself. 542 00:34:39,221 --> 00:34:44,375 Tell us the name of that orphan child... 543 00:34:44,421 --> 00:34:50,098 Who is it, mistress? Who is it? 544 00:34:50,141 --> 00:34:52,336 ...who must never know the truth. 545 00:34:52,381 --> 00:34:55,657 Who is that child? 546 00:34:55,701 --> 00:34:59,489 Arthur! It is Arthur. 547 00:34:59,541 --> 00:35:03,090 And if this house were blazing from the roof to the ground, 548 00:35:03,141 --> 00:35:07,498 I would stay in it to justify my righteous motives. 549 00:35:07,541 --> 00:35:09,657 Poor Arthur! 550 00:35:09,701 --> 00:35:11,896 To be snatched from his own mother! 551 00:35:11,941 --> 00:35:13,818 He knew no mother but me! 552 00:35:13,861 --> 00:35:20,096 I devoted myself to him, to raising him in fear and trembling, 553 00:35:20,141 --> 00:35:22,575 away from the sins of his father. 554 00:35:22,621 --> 00:35:24,737 Enough of your piety! 555 00:35:27,301 --> 00:35:32,455 I have today placed in the hands of Amy Dorrit a letter. 556 00:35:32,501 --> 00:35:37,700 I want £2,000 today before the Marshalsea bell rings. 557 00:35:37,741 --> 00:35:41,211 If I have it, your secret will be safe. 558 00:35:41,261 --> 00:35:45,891 If not, then the little seamstress... 559 00:35:45,941 --> 00:35:48,057 will know the truth. 560 00:35:48,101 --> 00:35:52,253 And so will your beloved Arthur! 561 00:36:05,501 --> 00:36:06,536 Mistress... 562 00:36:11,541 --> 00:36:13,259 Mistress, what are you doing? 563 00:36:16,821 --> 00:36:18,732 I am going out. 564 00:36:20,301 --> 00:36:24,135 Wait here till I come back. 565 00:36:24,181 --> 00:36:26,376 Make sure HE does. 566 00:36:29,341 --> 00:36:31,935 (LAUGHING) Well! 567 00:36:31,981 --> 00:36:38,295 The age of miracles and wonders is not past! 568 00:36:38,341 --> 00:36:40,172 She has gone to get my money! 569 00:36:42,821 --> 00:36:45,415 # Qu'est-ce qui passe ici si tard 570 00:36:45,461 --> 00:36:47,929 # Compagnons de la Marjolaine? 571 00:36:52,581 --> 00:36:56,699 # Qu'est-ce qui passe ici si tard 572 00:36:56,741 --> 00:37:00,177 # Compagnons de la Marjolaine? # 573 00:37:00,221 --> 00:37:04,772 Sing! Sing, you...you miserable dog! 574 00:37:04,821 --> 00:37:05,856 Sing! 575 00:37:12,101 --> 00:37:14,615 Hey, steady there! Are you all right, love? 576 00:37:14,661 --> 00:37:17,733 I am looking for the Marshalsea... 577 00:37:33,581 --> 00:37:35,378 Sante... 578 00:37:35,421 --> 00:37:38,140 my old friend. 579 00:37:46,941 --> 00:37:48,294 Mrs Clennam... 580 00:37:50,181 --> 00:37:51,853 You are recovered! 581 00:37:54,301 --> 00:37:56,417 You have had a packet left with you. 582 00:37:58,221 --> 00:38:01,975 - Yes, I have it here. - I have come to reclaim it. 583 00:38:14,781 --> 00:38:18,217 Have you any idea of its contents? 584 00:38:18,261 --> 00:38:19,535 No. 585 00:38:27,141 --> 00:38:29,974 Break the seal, then, and read them. 586 00:38:49,101 --> 00:38:53,652 You know now what I have done. 587 00:39:05,141 --> 00:39:07,211 Can you forgive me? 588 00:39:08,781 --> 00:39:10,339 Please don't kneel to me. 589 00:39:10,381 --> 00:39:12,372 You are too old to kneel to me. 590 00:39:12,421 --> 00:39:13,854 Let me help you. 591 00:39:17,061 --> 00:39:20,337 I never knew about the money and I never wanted it. 592 00:39:25,181 --> 00:39:29,299 You can forgive me, truly? 593 00:39:30,341 --> 00:39:31,456 Yes. 594 00:39:33,821 --> 00:39:37,939 (SIGHS DEEPLY) Waiting, waiting. 595 00:39:39,501 --> 00:39:42,652 How it irks me, my little Flintwinch. 596 00:39:42,701 --> 00:39:45,613 (CREAKING) 597 00:39:47,621 --> 00:39:49,179 Death of my life! 598 00:39:50,781 --> 00:39:55,901 How this house creaks and groans like an old, rotten ship! 599 00:39:57,461 --> 00:40:00,692 I tell you, my little Flintwinch, 600 00:40:00,741 --> 00:40:04,700 I shall be very happy to be out of it! 601 00:40:04,741 --> 00:40:08,620 And so shall I, to see the back of you for good! 602 00:40:25,781 --> 00:40:27,339 (THEY SCREAM) 603 00:40:29,221 --> 00:40:30,370 PASSER-BY: Run for it! 604 00:40:32,981 --> 00:40:34,972 This way! 605 00:40:35,021 --> 00:40:36,295 (THEY SCREAM) 606 00:40:56,861 --> 00:40:58,579 MAN: Quick! Get out of here! 607 00:40:58,621 --> 00:41:01,089 - Run! - Move away! Move away! 608 00:41:01,141 --> 00:41:02,620 It's falling! 609 00:41:16,861 --> 00:41:18,658 Argh! 610 00:41:27,941 --> 00:41:30,296 (HOUSE CREAKS AND GROANS) 611 00:41:30,341 --> 00:41:32,855 (SHATTERED GLASS AND BRICKS FALL) 612 00:41:36,941 --> 00:41:39,136 (DUST PATTERS DOWN) 613 00:42:01,021 --> 00:42:04,809 Mrs Clennam? Mrs Clennam? 614 00:42:04,861 --> 00:42:06,977 (MRS CLENNAM GROANS) 615 00:42:08,021 --> 00:42:11,775 Mrs Clennam? Mrs Clennam? 616 00:42:11,821 --> 00:42:14,938 - Madam? - WOMAN: Oh, poor lady. 617 00:42:25,421 --> 00:42:29,096 Mr Pancks? Is that you? 618 00:42:30,861 --> 00:42:33,421 Mr Casby, have you heard? 619 00:42:33,461 --> 00:42:38,774 Mrs Clennam's house has fallen down. It's total ruin. Nothing left of it. 620 00:42:38,821 --> 00:42:42,496 And Mrs Clennam herself, she's lying stone dead in the street, 621 00:42:42,541 --> 00:42:44,054 and Mr Arthur is in prison, 622 00:42:44,101 --> 00:42:46,695 - and he doesn't know a thing about it! - Is that so? 623 00:42:46,741 --> 00:42:49,699 Dear, dear, how very unfortunate. 624 00:42:49,741 --> 00:42:52,813 But look here, these figures are not at all satisfactory, 625 00:42:52,861 --> 00:42:55,329 - not at all. - Did you hear what I just said? 626 00:42:55,381 --> 00:42:59,420 I did, indeed, Mr Pancks, but that was the House of Clennam. 627 00:42:59,461 --> 00:43:01,258 This is the House of Casby. 628 00:43:01,301 --> 00:43:03,815 You've not been doing your duty, Mr Pancks. 629 00:43:03,861 --> 00:43:07,331 You've not been squeezing the people anywhere near hard enough. 630 00:43:07,381 --> 00:43:08,734 But all I do is squeeze 'em! 631 00:43:08,781 --> 00:43:11,170 Then you must squeeze them again, Mr Pancks, 632 00:43:11,221 --> 00:43:15,931 or you'll be looking for alternative employment. Alternative employment! 633 00:43:17,781 --> 00:43:21,615 I wonder what the people would say if they heard how you go on in here. 634 00:43:21,661 --> 00:43:23,891 The people... 635 00:43:23,941 --> 00:43:26,296 they love me, Mr Pancks. 636 00:43:26,341 --> 00:43:27,854 They love me. 637 00:43:27,901 --> 00:43:30,893 In fact, I'm just going out for a little walk 638 00:43:30,941 --> 00:43:35,617 to give them my blessing, you know, to give them my blessing. 639 00:43:35,661 --> 00:43:37,970 They appreciate it, Mr Pancks. 640 00:43:41,741 --> 00:43:43,493 They appreciate it. 641 00:43:55,341 --> 00:43:57,935 - Watch out, here's Pancks! - The old devil! 642 00:43:57,981 --> 00:43:59,892 All the health and happiness. 643 00:43:59,941 --> 00:44:03,331 Come here, you sugary swindler! I mean to have it out with you! 644 00:44:03,381 --> 00:44:06,020 - Leave him, Mr Pancks. - You'll lose your place. 645 00:44:06,061 --> 00:44:10,100 What do you mean to be? Benevolent? What, you?! Benevolent? 646 00:44:10,141 --> 00:44:13,690 You're a driver in disguise, you're a screwer by deputy, 647 00:44:13,741 --> 00:44:18,292 you're a wringer, a squeezer and a shaver by substitute. 648 00:44:18,341 --> 00:44:20,252 You are a shabby deceiver! 649 00:44:20,301 --> 00:44:23,850 - You're a fine one to talk. - I've been a grubber from a boy. 650 00:44:23,901 --> 00:44:25,778 Fag and grind. 651 00:44:25,821 --> 00:44:29,780 Fag and grind. And if this steaming old hypocrite could have got someone 652 00:44:29,821 --> 00:44:33,496 to do it for a shilling a week less, then he would be taken in my place! 653 00:44:33,541 --> 00:44:37,454 And you think it's me that wants to flay you alive, but here's the man! 654 00:44:37,501 --> 00:44:42,655 "You squeeze them harder, Mr Pancks, squeeze them harder." 655 00:44:42,701 --> 00:44:44,532 Those are his words to me every day! 656 00:44:44,581 --> 00:44:47,539 - Is that true? - It's a fine signpost, the Casby's Head, 657 00:44:47,581 --> 00:44:50,220 but the real name of it is the Sham's Arms! 658 00:44:50,261 --> 00:44:52,297 And you know what I'm gonna do? 659 00:44:52,341 --> 00:44:54,935 I'm gonna give it a trim! 660 00:44:54,981 --> 00:44:59,259 Now, you stand very still, sir, because I don't want to cut off your head! 661 00:45:01,461 --> 00:45:03,656 My God, they're as bad as each other! 662 00:45:05,141 --> 00:45:07,291 Oi, Pancks, you missed a bit! 663 00:45:07,341 --> 00:45:09,138 Will you do mine when you're done? 664 00:45:09,181 --> 00:45:11,058 (LAUGHTER) 665 00:45:11,101 --> 00:45:13,820 Please to accept my resignation, Mr Casby! 666 00:45:13,861 --> 00:45:18,889 And please to return these scissors to Mrs Finching... 667 00:45:20,781 --> 00:45:22,260 ...with my thanks! 668 00:45:46,661 --> 00:45:48,140 Blimey. 669 00:45:52,501 --> 00:45:53,900 FANNY: What?! 670 00:45:53,941 --> 00:45:56,250 What, no money at all? 671 00:45:56,301 --> 00:46:00,499 It would seem dear Pa placed all his funds with Mr Merdle, like everybody else. 672 00:46:00,541 --> 00:46:02,930 - And they're all gone? - All gone. 673 00:46:02,981 --> 00:46:04,096 Oh, dear! 674 00:46:04,141 --> 00:46:10,011 Huh! It's all very well for you. He's got his job at the...whatever it is. 675 00:46:10,061 --> 00:46:12,859 It's all very well for Amy. She likes being as poor as a beggar. 676 00:46:12,901 --> 00:46:15,699 But what I say is what about me? 677 00:46:15,741 --> 00:46:19,814 It suited me, being rich. What am I gonna do now? 678 00:46:19,861 --> 00:46:23,012 I, er...might be able to find you a position 679 00:46:23,061 --> 00:46:27,020 at the Circumlocution Office. Just a small one, you know. 680 00:46:27,061 --> 00:46:31,532 - What would I have to do? - Oh, you know, not much. 681 00:46:31,581 --> 00:46:36,132 - And there would be money? - Oh, yes. Well, you know. A bit. 682 00:46:36,181 --> 00:46:38,649 Excellent. You're on. 683 00:47:17,381 --> 00:47:20,930 Oh! Miss Dorrit! I was just on my way to see poor Arthur... 684 00:47:20,981 --> 00:47:24,257 Doyce and Clennam. Though perhaps one shouldn't say that, either. 685 00:47:24,301 --> 00:47:26,576 - Where were you going? - To see him too. 686 00:47:26,621 --> 00:47:30,899 Well, yes, of course, of course. How could I have thought anything else? 687 00:47:30,941 --> 00:47:33,091 Those days are gone, of course they are. 688 00:47:33,141 --> 00:47:35,974 And now I come to think of it, three might be a crowd, 689 00:47:36,021 --> 00:47:38,296 and far be it from me to play the gooseberry. 690 00:47:38,341 --> 00:47:44,337 Why do they say gooseberry, I wonder, and not greengage or...or pomegranate? 691 00:47:44,381 --> 00:47:46,372 Oh, dear. 692 00:47:46,421 --> 00:47:49,219 I'm sure Mr Clennam would be pleased to see you. 693 00:47:50,941 --> 00:47:52,897 No. No, no, dear little one. 694 00:47:52,941 --> 00:47:56,377 Please take this for me... 695 00:47:56,421 --> 00:47:59,458 and tell him I didn't desert him, 696 00:47:59,501 --> 00:48:04,211 though I don't know after all whether it wasn't just... 697 00:48:04,261 --> 00:48:06,297 nonsense between us. 698 00:48:08,181 --> 00:48:09,660 Goodbye! 699 00:48:35,221 --> 00:48:37,781 Are you all right, Amy? 700 00:48:37,821 --> 00:48:41,291 Does Mr Clennam know... about his mother's death? 701 00:48:41,341 --> 00:48:42,615 He does. 702 00:48:42,661 --> 00:48:45,539 I broke it to him as gentle as I could. 703 00:48:45,581 --> 00:48:49,210 I'm sure you did, John. Thank you. 704 00:48:51,621 --> 00:48:53,976 I'll go up to him now, then. 705 00:48:56,381 --> 00:48:57,860 Right you are, miss. 706 00:49:04,621 --> 00:49:08,296 Here lie the mortal remains of John Chivery, 707 00:49:08,341 --> 00:49:11,139 assistant turnkey and later, chief turnkey 708 00:49:11,181 --> 00:49:13,570 of the Marshalsea Prison for Debt. 709 00:49:13,621 --> 00:49:16,818 He was unlucky in love, 710 00:49:16,861 --> 00:49:18,772 and endured a good deal of sorrow, 711 00:49:18,821 --> 00:49:20,812 but he rose above it, 712 00:49:20,861 --> 00:49:24,137 and performed many an act of kindness, 713 00:49:24,181 --> 00:49:25,739 even to his rival. 714 00:49:25,781 --> 00:49:28,090 And always engraved, 715 00:49:28,141 --> 00:49:31,770 not on stone, but deep into his very heart, 716 00:49:31,821 --> 00:49:33,891 was the name of Amy Dorrit. 717 00:49:59,221 --> 00:50:02,338 You see, I have come back. 718 00:50:02,381 --> 00:50:04,099 Amy, I told you not to. 719 00:50:04,141 --> 00:50:06,530 And I told you I would take no notice. 720 00:50:06,581 --> 00:50:08,936 I won't let you send me away ever again. 721 00:50:08,981 --> 00:50:10,255 Oh, Amy! 722 00:50:10,301 --> 00:50:12,974 You find me in such a state of confusion. 723 00:50:13,021 --> 00:50:15,330 This is a letter from my real mother. 724 00:50:15,381 --> 00:50:18,851 It's all in here - who I truly am, how your fate is bound up in mine. 725 00:50:18,901 --> 00:50:21,859 She writes here of her love for me, 726 00:50:21,901 --> 00:50:25,018 this woman who...I never even knew. 727 00:50:25,061 --> 00:50:26,130 My mother! 728 00:50:27,701 --> 00:50:30,135 I saw Mrs Clennam before she died. 729 00:50:31,261 --> 00:50:33,570 She told me everything. 730 00:50:35,141 --> 00:50:37,735 She knelt to me 731 00:50:37,781 --> 00:50:40,818 and asked for forgiveness. 732 00:50:42,701 --> 00:50:45,295 Do you think you can forgive her, Arthur? 733 00:50:55,461 --> 00:50:57,929 I... 734 00:50:59,261 --> 00:51:02,571 ...I feel sorry for her, that she never knew love. 735 00:51:04,141 --> 00:51:06,291 But she did! 736 00:51:06,341 --> 00:51:08,138 When she spoke to me, 737 00:51:08,181 --> 00:51:11,969 it was clear that she loved you and knew that you loved her. 738 00:51:12,021 --> 00:51:14,057 And your real mother loved you too, 739 00:51:14,101 --> 00:51:17,730 just as my mother loved me, though I never knew her. 740 00:51:21,941 --> 00:51:24,614 Two orphans, then. 741 00:51:24,661 --> 00:51:26,652 One a rich woman, one a pauper. 742 00:51:37,741 --> 00:51:39,493 Come on, Dan! 743 00:51:39,541 --> 00:51:41,372 Fortune favours the brave. 744 00:51:41,421 --> 00:51:43,298 This is the chance of a lifetime. 745 00:51:43,341 --> 00:51:47,653 You go to Russia and let me do this for you. You won't regret it. 746 00:51:50,821 --> 00:51:53,699 Would you like to know what my fortune truly amounts to? 747 00:51:53,741 --> 00:51:57,416 Whatever it is, no fortune could be more richly deserved. 748 00:51:57,461 --> 00:51:59,179 And you won't take a penny of it? 749 00:51:59,221 --> 00:52:01,018 Never. 750 00:52:02,581 --> 00:52:04,173 Well, the truth is... 751 00:52:05,781 --> 00:52:07,180 ...I have nothing. 752 00:52:07,221 --> 00:52:11,658 Father placed his money with Merdle, just like everybody else. 753 00:52:12,701 --> 00:52:14,931 So now will you share my fortune with me? 754 00:52:14,981 --> 00:52:16,892 Oh, my dear love. 755 00:52:18,341 --> 00:52:19,410 Gladly! 756 00:52:19,461 --> 00:52:20,860 (AMY LAUGHS) 757 00:52:33,581 --> 00:52:37,176 ARTHUR: What a fool I have been all this time, 758 00:52:37,221 --> 00:52:40,372 never realising that it was you! It was always you! 759 00:52:40,421 --> 00:52:41,854 How stupid you must think me 760 00:52:41,901 --> 00:52:44,813 not to have seen that it was you that I loved all along. 761 00:52:44,861 --> 00:52:47,773 Well, I did think you were a bit unobservant, 762 00:52:47,821 --> 00:52:50,130 not noticing how much I was in love with you. 763 00:52:50,181 --> 00:52:53,730 - When did this begin? - Very soon after we first met. 764 00:52:53,781 --> 00:52:58,218 Do you remember that night when Maggy and I came to see you in your rooms? 765 00:52:58,261 --> 00:53:00,934 DANIEL DOYCE: Clennam? Arthur Clennam! 766 00:53:02,821 --> 00:53:05,051 Oh, Lord! Daniel Doyce. 767 00:53:07,421 --> 00:53:09,730 Courage! We'll face him together. 768 00:53:17,541 --> 00:53:19,179 Daniel... 769 00:53:19,221 --> 00:53:20,734 I'm so sorry. 770 00:53:23,021 --> 00:53:24,500 I should never... 771 00:53:24,541 --> 00:53:26,293 No. Not a word. 772 00:53:26,341 --> 00:53:30,129 Not another word 773 00:53:30,181 --> 00:53:33,298 about the past. 774 00:53:36,181 --> 00:53:39,890 There was an error in your calculations. I know what that is. 775 00:53:39,941 --> 00:53:42,899 It affects the whole machine and failure is the consequence. 776 00:53:42,941 --> 00:53:44,977 I have done it myself in construction many a time. 777 00:53:45,021 --> 00:53:47,410 I have let you down in every conceivable way. 778 00:53:47,461 --> 00:53:50,100 Not a bit of it, old friend! 779 00:53:50,141 --> 00:53:54,134 If you hadn't encouraged me to go to St Petersburg, I never should have gone. 780 00:53:54,181 --> 00:53:57,218 If I hadn't met you, and gone into partnership with you, 781 00:53:57,261 --> 00:54:00,936 my invention would still have been languishing amongst the Barnacles, 782 00:54:00,981 --> 00:54:04,940 instead of galvanising every factory west of the Urals, 783 00:54:04,981 --> 00:54:07,370 and making us both a fortune! 784 00:54:07,421 --> 00:54:08,740 Eh! Eccolo! 785 00:54:08,781 --> 00:54:13,059 My dear friends, I humbly submit that Doyce and Clennam 786 00:54:13,101 --> 00:54:17,856 have more than enough funds to pay off all our creditors AND expand the factory. 787 00:54:17,901 --> 00:54:20,131 I rejoice for you, 788 00:54:20,181 --> 00:54:21,853 but surely, after all this, 789 00:54:21,901 --> 00:54:24,415 you will no longer want me as a partner. 790 00:54:24,461 --> 00:54:28,454 Come, man, haven't I been telling you that I owe my good fortune to you? 791 00:54:28,501 --> 00:54:31,493 And Doyce and Clennam stands in more need of you than ever. 792 00:55:07,821 --> 00:55:09,539 (LAUGHTER) 793 00:55:09,581 --> 00:55:12,049 Come, don't cry at a wedding! 794 00:55:21,821 --> 00:55:23,777 Is very beautiful, eh? 795 00:55:23,821 --> 00:55:26,096 - She is very beautiful. - Si. 796 00:55:26,141 --> 00:55:28,701 - Is very beautiful. - SHE is very beautiful. 797 00:55:28,741 --> 00:55:30,971 And no begod nonsense about her! 798 00:55:31,021 --> 00:55:32,374 - Sparkler... - Yes? 799 00:55:32,421 --> 00:55:33,900 - Be quiet. - Right. 800 00:55:33,941 --> 00:55:36,739 (LAUGHTER) 801 00:55:39,461 --> 00:55:41,452 (CHEERING) 802 00:55:42,301 --> 00:55:45,896 - Rubbish! - She's lively as a cricket! 803 00:55:46,941 --> 00:55:49,774 And if he can't take it, he shouldn't hand it out! 804 00:55:49,821 --> 00:55:51,539 She is very beautiful. 805 00:55:51,581 --> 00:55:52,809 That's what I said. 806 00:56:02,461 --> 00:56:04,053 Ciao, bella!