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  • 7/10/2015
Burke & Hare (1972)
R | 91 min | Horror, Drama | 3 February 1972 (UK)

Two men go into business supplying medical colleges with cadavers by robbing graves.

Director: Vernon Sewell

Writer: Ernle Bradford

Stars: Derren Nesbitt, Harry Andrews, Glynn Edwards
Transcript
00:00:00In the land of Barney Scotland, it's not so Barney today.
00:00:16Ghosts is gone, disappearing, as they get stolen away.
00:00:21Watch out! Don't let them catch you, or you'll end up on a slab.
00:00:26Somebody's been a healthy pound of fish, in and out and on a certain time.
00:00:31Baconad, beware of the Baconad.
00:00:35The peril of how to snatch your body from you.
00:00:41Baconad, hold on to your Baconad.
00:00:45Won't stop until they get rich from picking up.
00:00:49All the bodies in the dead are dying to find you.
00:00:54Better keep out of sight.
00:00:58Baconad, beware of the Baconad.
00:01:02The peril of how to snatch your body from you.
00:01:08But he's fair and always over-sexed. He likes bodies in bed.
00:01:13And he's dull and grim and over-vexed. He likes bodies when dead.
00:01:18Take care. They're out to rape you. They're out to drape you in white.
00:01:23If you see a dummy after you, turn around and here he flies.
00:01:28Baconad, beware of the Baconad.
00:01:32The peril of how to snatch your body from you.
00:01:48Baconad, beware of the Baconad.
00:02:19Any old shoes to mend or boots?
00:02:22Yes, sir.
00:02:23Any old boots or shoes to mend?
00:02:37Good evening, Polly. Have you got anything for me, you tempting lass?
00:02:41Mr. Burt, you'll get me into trouble.
00:02:43That's what I'm aiming to be doing with you.
00:02:45Now behave.
00:02:46Behave? Now who is it that lives in a brothel, huh?
00:02:49Now come on, don't come here and not be tempted by what all you see, huh?
00:02:53Where's the mending?
00:02:54Here they be.
00:02:55Why I should give them to you to mend when I can get them done cheaper, I don't know.
00:02:59You know, you know.
00:03:02You'll get me the point.
00:03:17Oh, Lord McPhee, how nice to see you here again so soon.
00:03:20Good evening, Madame Thompson.
00:03:21Tell Miss Gloria, Lord McPhee, is here.
00:03:23I'm so glad you came. I wanted to tell you about a little show I'm arranging.
00:03:26Oh, really?
00:03:27Yes, a little divertissement, something quite new here.
00:03:30I'm sure some of your friends at the college would find it vastly entertaining.
00:03:33The idea is...
00:03:34Madame Thompson, who's that over there with Rosie?
00:03:36Ah, that's Marie, a French girl, a new addition to our little family.
00:03:40She's ravishing.
00:03:42Marie, this is Lord McPhee, a very special client.
00:03:45Delighted to meet you.
00:03:46Won't you join us, sir? We'll...
00:03:48Thank you. Some champagne, please.
00:03:49Polly.
00:03:50It's nice to see you again.
00:03:51Champagne.
00:03:58I don't think we've had the pleasure of welcoming you here before, sir.
00:04:00No, we're Oldham and Grace.
00:04:02Oh, I see.
00:04:03Well, I'm delighted to see you again.
00:04:05I'm delighted to see you too.
00:04:07I don't think we've had the pleasure of welcoming you here before, sir.
00:04:09No, Oldham and Grace suggested I call.
00:04:11My name is Councillor Gordon, Robert Gordon.
00:04:13Yes, I remember. The Alderman spoke to me about you.
00:04:15Will you join me with a glass of wine?
00:04:21A bottle of the 28.
00:04:22Yes, ma'am.
00:04:24And now, Councillor, how can we serve you?
00:04:26Goods and shoes.
00:04:29Goods and shoes.
00:04:31Good afternoon.
00:04:32Bird and soul convention for three.
00:04:36Well, I have one girl who might, but you'd have to ask her yourself.
00:04:41Janet.
00:04:48Janet, this is Councillor Gordon. He wants to talk to you.
00:04:51Goods and shoes.
00:04:59Don't talk to me about my bloody cabbage.
00:05:01The only snot it owns is two pound rent.
00:05:03It's an irreverent man you are, Mr. Hare. You have no respect for the dead.
00:05:06I have more respect for hard cash.
00:05:08Anyway, what's bothering you?
00:05:09Would you like him in here with you and your missus?
00:05:11I can't, we're all getting on in years, and the Grim Reaper's not far around the corner.
00:05:14But we didn't like to be so strongly reminded of his presence.
00:05:16Do you wish someone didn't bloody reap you?
00:05:18I didn't care what she says. I didn't like it.
00:05:20What's the matter? He can't bite you.
00:05:22What on earth's going on in here, eh?
00:05:24Oh, Mr. Bergen, it's poor old MacTavish.
00:05:26They were going to bury him this noon, but the party didn't come, and there he still is.
00:05:29And I didn't like it.
00:05:30Didn't like it? He was lying there dead for two days before he even noticed it this time.
00:05:34I don't care, but he was always a quiet old man.
00:05:36Seeing a coffin, which is not like...
00:05:38Why don't you take him outside yourself?
00:05:40Why don't you put him in the street?
00:05:41I'll tell you what I'll do with him, old boy.
00:05:43I'll put him in the shed, I've got to do some cobbling tonight,
00:05:45and then he can have a nice restful sleep, and so can you, old boy.
00:05:47Now get up, will you?
00:05:48Well, come on now, I can't be carrying him up myself, you know.
00:05:57Mr. Hare, you promised me some...
00:05:58Hey, you lying bastard, I'm holding those against a two-pound ready on me.
00:06:01A ready, Donald?
00:06:02Oh, that's a very fitting tune you're playing there, very fitting tune.
00:06:05You need to stop pushing me.
00:06:12Come on, Tom.
00:06:13You all right there?
00:06:14Yes, come on.
00:06:15Easy now, easy.
00:06:16All right.
00:06:17Here, we'll put him on the floor.
00:06:24You know something, Tom?
00:06:25Yes?
00:06:26I think you should have a toast.
00:06:27Have you got a wet?
00:06:29I'll keep it from the thieving women.
00:06:30Oh, yes, that's a great...
00:06:32Here we are.
00:06:37Oh, that's good.
00:06:40Look, will you show a little respect for the dead man?
00:06:42Will you get your ass off the coffin?
00:06:45As much as he cares.
00:06:48It's cold in here.
00:06:49It's cold in here.
00:06:56Willem.
00:06:57Where are they coming for him?
00:06:59God and his blessed mother have pity on him.
00:07:01They'll be planting him tomorrow morning.
00:07:03You know he owed me two pound.
00:07:05Well, I tell you something, where he's going,
00:07:07you're going to have a hell of a long journey to get it back.
00:07:09That doesn't mean to say he still doesn't owe me the money.
00:07:11No.
00:07:12I wouldn't worry him to die, knowing that he owed me.
00:07:15That's all he's thinking.
00:07:16Yes, Tom, what?
00:07:17You can get good money for selling a body.
00:07:19No, look, I'm going to have nothing to do with selling a dead body.
00:07:21Up to ten pound.
00:07:24Get ten pound?
00:07:25Ten pound.
00:07:26Look, you and I, we can live for three months on that.
00:07:28Sharing.
00:07:31And I reckon old MacTavish will be in torment now,
00:07:33knowing that he died.
00:07:34He don't mean.
00:07:35What you're saying, it would be the Catholic thing to do,
00:07:37like saving his son.
00:07:38You're right.
00:07:39And after all, it isn't just rights.
00:07:40Yes, you're right there, Tom.
00:07:42How about it?
00:07:43Sort of doing him a service.
00:07:44Like a short ten pound?
00:07:45Yes.
00:07:46I'll be helping you, Tom.
00:07:47Right.
00:07:50Oh, Tom, what about the undertakers?
00:07:53Now, they'll be expecting old MacTavish here.
00:07:55We can't just suddenly say to them,
00:07:56well, he flew out of the window.
00:07:57They'll only be expecting a coffin.
00:07:58They're not looking.
00:07:59So, no, we'll take him out of the box,
00:08:01fill him with stuff from the yard,
00:08:02and put the lid back on.
00:08:03There'll be none the wiser.
00:08:04You're right there, Tom.
00:08:05Come on, let's be unboxing him.
00:08:06Are you thinking of selling the body to a body snatcher?
00:08:09We've got nothing to do with that scum.
00:08:10No, no, we'll sell him ourselves.
00:08:12Yeah, but that ain't going to be so easy, is it?
00:08:14I mean, you just can't go up to someone in the street and say,
00:08:16excuse me, will you be wanting to buy a body?
00:08:18Now, can you?
00:08:19We'll take him to Surgeon Square.
00:08:21Sure, that's the meat market.
00:08:22All right.
00:08:27Tom.
00:08:30I think it'd be better if you'd be staying in the shadows,
00:08:32and I'll make some inquiries, right?
00:08:34Right.
00:08:38Excuse me, sir, I was wondering
00:08:39if you might be able to show me the way to a surgeon, sir.
00:08:43Why? Have you got something you want cut off?
00:08:47No, no, I have some goods to deliver.
00:08:51Oh, I see.
00:08:52Aye, well, you best take those to Dr. Knox.
00:08:54It's the house at the end of the square.
00:08:56Dr. Knox, the house at the end of the square.
00:09:00This patient of mine was a farm worker.
00:09:02He had to trudge 10 miles to come and see me at a Saturday night.
00:09:05Curiously enough, he suffered from chronic constipation.
00:09:09I've been treating this man for months.
00:09:11Xenophones, cascara, enemas, all without the slightest effect.
00:09:15And one day, I got hold of some of these
00:09:17new-fangled French suppository emerstatiques, you know.
00:09:20So I gave him a box of a dozen,
00:09:22and I said, one each night before he goes to bed.
00:09:25Well, it was two or three weeks later when he came to see me,
00:09:27so I assumed that they'd done the trick.
00:09:29But I asked him, and I said,
00:09:31did you have any success with these suppositories I gave you?
00:09:34Devil a bit, he said.
00:09:36For all the good they did me,
00:09:37I might just as well have sucked them up my arse.
00:09:41Ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:09:55Aye, are you looking for someone?
00:09:57Will you be Dr. Knox, sir?
00:09:59No, no, but I'm one of his students.
00:10:01Oh, I see. Well, I'm not far wrong, then, am I?
00:10:03No, no. Maybe I can suit your purpose as well as Dr. Knox, perhaps.
00:10:06Well, perhaps you may be able to do that, sir.
00:10:08Aye, well, don't be afraid to speak up, man. Tell me your business.
00:10:10What it may be. Have you got the thing?
00:10:12The thing? I don't quite understand what you mean by that, sir.
00:10:15I can see you're not an old hand at this.
00:10:17You've never been here before, perhaps?
00:10:18No.
00:10:19And you don't know what to say.
00:10:21No, I don't.
00:10:22Oh, come along, man. Now, speak up.
00:10:24I think there's someone coming through the square.
00:10:27Oh, well, come along in, then. Come on.
00:10:30The Sacred Heart of the Crucified Jays assure I'm almost the dead.
00:10:33Sir, I... I have something... something like that to...
00:10:38Aye, well, come along through, then.
00:10:42Patterson?
00:10:44Have you got anything to sell?
00:10:46I was wondering how much you'd give me for one.
00:10:48Sometimes as high as ten pounds.
00:10:51Well, I'll take it.
00:10:53Well, I'll take it.
00:10:54Well, I'll take it.
00:10:56Sometimes as high as ten pounds?
00:11:00Would you be giving me a little bit extra for a fresh one, like?
00:11:03Sometimes more, sometimes less.
00:11:06But the thing must be seen.
00:11:08Oh, yes, indeed, sir. It's a very good thing.
00:11:10I can... I can guarantee you that it's worth the money.
00:11:12Well, where is it, man?
00:11:14I mean to say I don't carry it around with me, like, you know.
00:11:18It's in a very safe place, sir.
00:11:20Well, then, man, bring it in here and stop all this nonsense.
00:11:23It'll be examined and you'll get your money.
00:11:25Since you're a beginner, I think it's best if you bring it in a box.
00:11:28Oh, yes, sir, isn't it... isn't it now in a lovely tea chest?
00:11:31The man fits in there beautiful.
00:11:33I've got a friend who'll help me.
00:11:35Well, they'll be sure to be on your guard.
00:11:36And make sure that no one sees you.
00:11:38Oh, yes, sir, I can...
00:11:39Come along, then, now. This way.
00:11:41Back in a moment.
00:11:42The great barrel chest of a man.
00:11:44Heart like a steam engine, lungs like a pair of billows.
00:11:47Slip your trues down, man, I say, so he lets his trues fall round his feet.
00:11:51And your underdraws, I say.
00:11:52How can I examine you with your drawers on?
00:11:54I'd rather not, he says. I'm very sensitive.
00:11:57What about, I say?
00:11:58Well, it's my person, he says. It's very small.
00:12:00Good heavens, man, I say, that's nothing to worry about.
00:12:03I see dozens of them every day, big and small.
00:12:05One's come to waste my time, so reluctantly he lowers his drawers.
00:12:09At first, I cannot see a thing.
00:12:11Then I see it.
00:12:13A wee mushroom peeping through the hair.
00:12:15He's not such a fine-stuffing man, too.
00:12:17Well, you never can, do you?
00:12:18Certainly is very small indeed, I say.
00:12:21Tell me, do you ever get an erection?
00:12:24With tears in his eyes, he says.
00:12:26I've got one, the new doctor.
00:12:31Well, have you done a trace? I think I've found a lovely home for old MacTosh.
00:12:34Come on, lad, this way here.
00:12:40Paterson would like to see you in the mortuary, sir.
00:12:43Excuse me, gentlemen.
00:12:45A little business downstairs requires my personal attention more.
00:12:48Personal attention more.
00:12:49Go up to my desk.
00:12:55Good evening. How do you do, sir?
00:13:01Give him £7.10.
00:13:03Aye, aye, sir.
00:13:05Oh, you said we were going to get £10.
00:13:06£7.10, sir.
00:13:07Before you'll be taking payment...
00:13:08Thank you, sir.
00:13:09I'd be glad to see you again if you have any more bodies to dispose of.
00:13:12Right, sir.
00:13:14Thank you very much, sir.
00:13:16That's easy enough.
00:13:17Can we share out now?
00:13:19All right.
00:13:22Tom, I thought we were going 50-50 on this.
00:13:24What is that?
00:13:25He owed me £2 a round.
00:13:26Oh, right.
00:13:27Oh, yes, I see, yes.
00:13:29Right.
00:13:31We'd better keep this windfall away from the women,
00:13:33otherwise we'll have nothing left by the morning.
00:13:35All right, there.
00:13:36Poor old MacTosh.
00:13:37Well, better than the worms get an atom, eh, Tom?
00:13:40I'm sorry I had to leave you, gentlemen.
00:13:42I was telling Mr. Murdoch here how difficult it is nowadays to get cadavers.
00:13:46Yes, indeed.
00:13:47No, thank you.
00:13:48The resurrectionists have little difficulty in getting rid of their wares.
00:13:51Seems a terrible thing that such state affairs has to exist.
00:13:54Well, if medical science is to progress,
00:13:56subjects must be found for a dissection.
00:13:59Forgive my ignorance, but speaking as a mere businessman,
00:14:03what is the exact legal position?
00:14:06A recent one.
00:14:07The only lawful source of supply we have comes from the bodies of executed criminals.
00:14:11Unclaimed bodies found dead on the street or in the pool houses.
00:14:14It would not fulfill ten percent of that amount.
00:14:16And it's not only here in Edinburgh.
00:14:18It's in all the other schools and great cities.
00:14:20What happens to these resurrectionists or body-snuffers if they're caught?
00:14:25If the locals happen to catch them, it could lead to a lynching.
00:14:27That's the authorities. There's nothing we can do.
00:14:29But if the bodies were in a ring, they can be caught for stealing.
00:14:32But the body...
00:14:34But surely the desecration of graveyards is an offense.
00:14:38Caught in the act, yes, but they shall do not.
00:14:40A law does not regard a dead body as an article of value.
00:14:44Therefore, the taking of it is not a crime.
00:14:47I must say that the laws that do not punish such a disgraceful action
00:14:50are not the laws of a country entitled to the claims of humanity.
00:14:56I told you you should have listened to me after, before your price always went cheaper.
00:14:59Well, I didn't want to bother you, Dad.
00:15:01Nonsense, didn't I tell your father I'd keep an eye on the body?
00:15:05Anyway, it's as well not to let them know that you're a first-year student.
00:15:07They always put a price on it.
00:15:09But it's a very good room.
00:15:10Aye, McAllister had it. I've borrowed it many a time.
00:15:13It's got a good way out round the back over the shed roof.
00:15:15The one we met this afternoon round at the Claymore.
00:15:17The red-headed girl.
00:15:18Oh, no, no, not that one. The athletic one.
00:15:21Hello, Robert.
00:15:22I've got no time for that sort of thing. I've got to work tonight.
00:15:25I've got to pass this exam or I won't get another chance.
00:15:27Ah, don't you worry.
00:15:28You'll learn more from old Knox in a year than in three at the college.
00:15:31Have you got your notebook?
00:15:32No.
00:15:35I'll tell you the things to take down. Things you might ask about later.
00:15:39Hush now. Here he comes.
00:15:40And don't forget to laugh at his wee jokes.
00:15:46Good day, dear gentlemen.
00:15:48Sit down.
00:15:54First of all, since this is the beginning of a new series of lectures,
00:15:56and since some of you are attending for the first time,
00:15:59I think that a few words in advance of the practical demonstration may not come amiss.
00:16:04You will, I'm sure, be aware that surgery has, within the last 50 years,
00:16:07improved greatly.
00:16:09Now, the reason for this has largely been that practical demonstration in anatomical dissection
00:16:14has enabled the future surgeon to learn his profession properly.
00:16:18Now, this improvement in surgery, gentlemen, let it not excite your vanity,
00:16:23but let it tend rather to excite your ambition by assiduity and study to further improvements.
00:16:29For there can be no doubt, gentlemen, that some years hence,
00:16:31our successors will be as much astonished at our ignorance as we that of our predecessors.
00:16:38Today, and it seems to me appropriate that we should commence with the basis of life,
00:16:42I intend to remove the heart from this subject.
00:16:46Thank you, Patterson.
00:16:47Now, the valves of the heart, gentlemen, are poor.
00:16:50The pulmonary, the tricuspid, the mitral, and the aortic.
00:16:55A number of diseases can detrimentally affect their operation and lead to death,
00:16:59among them rheumatic fever, diphtheria, and chronic syphilis.
00:17:05I shall now proceed to the first incision.
00:17:16That, then, is the close of the practical demonstration for today.
00:17:20To conclude with a few words in general.
00:17:22As you have just seen, I demonstrated that this subject died from an aneurysm of the aorta.
00:17:27Typically, there was a great enlargement of the left ventricle.
00:17:31Now, before you all leave, I would request that you file down and make an examination at your leisure.
00:17:39What's the matter with you?
00:17:40Did she keep you up half the night?
00:17:41The whole night.
00:17:43You ought to watch it, you know.
00:17:44This is five nights in a row.
00:17:46What is it you keep going on about?
00:17:48It's a wee place, I know.
00:17:49I'll take you sometime. It's more fun than your athletes.
00:17:52I heard about his athlete.
00:17:54Are you new to Edinburgh?
00:17:56Aye.
00:17:57I'll take you as well. Complete your education.
00:18:01I told his father I'd look after him.
00:18:03His father could come too.
00:18:07So clear it was, gentlemen, that the various tyro could have diagnosed it.
00:18:11And what did our great maestro do, I ask you?
00:18:14He pronounced it no more than a mere abscess and took to it his scalpel.
00:18:20The patient was dead in a few seconds.
00:18:24Good evening, gentlemen.
00:18:26So go down now and take a good look.
00:18:29And make sure that never in your lives will you mistake an aneurysm for an abscess.
00:18:35Or anything else.
00:18:45Come on now and push ahead.
00:18:46I'm not going to examine the cadaver after under half.
00:18:48You stay, though. Make a few sketches.
00:18:50That always goes down well with the old boy.
00:18:53Hey, I'm talking to you. I've got an appointment at six.
00:18:56With the athlete?
00:18:57Aye, that's right. I'll see if she's got a friend for you, if you like.
00:18:59Oh, no.
00:19:00No, I've got to work tonight.
00:19:02That's right, Jamie. You be a good, real laddie.
00:19:04So long now. I'll see you tomorrow.
00:19:05Good night, Robert.
00:19:08I reckon it's the typhus he's got.
00:19:10You sure?
00:19:11Didn't I see my own methadiamine?
00:19:12It's in hospital, you should be.
00:19:17I'll be telling you, me love.
00:19:18Don't you be calling me love. It's Steve in your eyes.
00:19:20What are you talking about?
00:19:21I'm talking about where you got the bloody money.
00:19:22Look, my, the blessed Virgin Mary, strike me down by lightning if I'm telling you a lie.
00:19:25We came across the money.
00:19:27And what the hell do you want?
00:19:28It's old Joseph. He's much worse.
00:19:30We all be thinking he's got the typhus.
00:19:32I've got a clean house here.
00:19:34Oh, for bloody love. I don't see you moving.
00:19:36Well, I'm telling you, none of us here are going to stay with him.
00:19:38Either he goes or we go.
00:19:39I don't know what you're talking about.
00:19:40He's not looking too well, eh?
00:19:41Aye.
00:19:42I think we'd best go and have a look at him, eh?
00:19:44No.
00:19:45Where did you get that money?
00:19:46Now, wait a minute. No, no, Tom.
00:19:47I don't know where the money came from.
00:19:48Tom, I'll be having a look at him.
00:19:54For the blessed mother of God, will you shut up for a minute?
00:19:56Shut up.
00:19:57Will you shut up?
00:19:58It's in hospital, you should be.
00:20:01He's not looking too good.
00:20:02I'm getting out of here.
00:20:03Calm yourselves down.
00:20:04And where will you be getting a good look at him?
00:20:06Calm yourselves down.
00:20:07Now, just rest easy.
00:20:08Mr. Burke and I will try and make arrangements to get him into hospital.
00:20:11All right, good-bye.
00:20:12Oh, well.
00:20:16Well, what do you think, Tom?
00:20:17Indeed, he's not looking too good.
00:20:18He might well have the typhus.
00:20:19The typhus?
00:20:20The sacred heart of the crucified Jesus.
00:20:21Have pity on me.
00:20:22I don't reckon he'll live the night through.
00:20:23I'll not be touching him, you know.
00:20:24We can wrap him in a blanket.
00:20:25Oh, sweet mother of Jesus.
00:20:26Look, we've got to get him out of there,
00:20:27or else we'll be losing all my lodgers.
00:20:28We'll take him down to your shed.
00:20:29You know, you can't leave him in there.
00:20:30He'll die.
00:20:31He'll die.
00:20:32He'll die.
00:20:34We'll take him down to your shed.
00:20:36He'll be dead by the morning.
00:20:37And we'll have the body.
00:20:38I'm not going to be touching him.
00:20:39Come on, come on.
00:20:42It's all right.
00:20:43We're going to take Joseph to hospital.
00:20:44Get a blanket.
00:20:45Get a blanket.
00:20:46We're taking you to hospital.
00:20:52Open the door for us, Willem.
00:21:01It's terrible, he's looking.
00:21:04I think we'll be taking another body to Dr. Knox's.
00:21:06You're right.
00:21:08I think we'd best wait here a bit.
00:21:10Let the women think that we've taken him to hospital.
00:21:12You all right there, Tom?
00:21:14He got a wee drown.
00:21:19Tell me now, he wouldn't be owing you any money like the last one.
00:21:23He was fully paid up.
00:21:24You're sure, then?
00:21:26There you are, Tom.
00:21:29To Joseph.
00:21:30I'll get the saints to look down upon him.
00:21:32Soon may he die.
00:21:41Oh, it's a cold night tonight.
00:21:43Give us a tune on you little pipe.
00:21:45Oh.
00:21:46I will.
00:21:48Here it is.
00:21:57Joseph, Joseph.
00:21:58Just like always.
00:21:59It's right that we're seeing him off so proper.
00:22:02Oh.
00:22:08What's so funny?
00:22:09Is it me playing you think is funny, is that it?
00:22:10Oh, no, no, no, no.
00:22:11I'm just thinking of our great good luck.
00:22:14Sure, if it goes on like this, we'll make a fortune out of them lodgers.
00:22:17Well, I don't know about that.
00:22:18But if he don't bloody well die soon, I bleed my will of the cold, I'm telling you.
00:22:22Hey, Tom.
00:22:24Tom, he's recovering.
00:22:25What?
00:22:26I'm telling you, I'm telling you, he's recovering.
00:22:27He's dying.
00:22:28He's got a long way yet before he meets his maker.
00:22:29Look, you've got to take him to hospital.
00:22:30He's dying, I'm telling you.
00:22:31If we take him to hospital, who gets the body?
00:22:33Poor old son, he'll die before he gets to hospital.
00:22:35I want nothing to do with this.
00:22:36I want nothing to do with this.
00:22:37He's suffering, I'll tell you.
00:22:38Now, I reckon it would be merciful to put him out of his agony.
00:22:41Put him on his...
00:22:42Now, the doctors, they've been buying dead bodies, not murdered ones.
00:22:45You can't go around slitting their throats.
00:22:46I'm telling you, it's got to look as if he died naturally.
00:22:48You can't be a murderer, I'm telling you.
00:22:49See?
00:22:50I've got the poison in the lodger.
00:22:56Hold him down for God's sake.
00:23:01Is he dead?
00:23:02I don't know.
00:23:03Maybe I should give him a bit more.
00:23:04Where now?
00:23:05Sergeant Square's over this way, sir.
00:23:06Hey!
00:23:07Hey!
00:23:08Hey!
00:23:09Hey!
00:23:10Hey!
00:23:11Hey!
00:23:12Hey!
00:23:13Hey!
00:23:14Hey!
00:23:15Hey!
00:23:16Hey!
00:23:17Hey!
00:23:18Hey!
00:23:19Hey!
00:23:20Hey!
00:23:21Hey!
00:23:22Hey!
00:23:23Hey!
00:23:24Hey!
00:23:25Hey!
00:23:26Hey!
00:23:27Hey!
00:23:28Hey!
00:23:29Hey!
00:23:31Bloodyods!
00:23:32I told you we should have got a bigger box!
00:23:34I thought I'd bring a box when we took his progress letter.
00:23:36Bloody alibi call us!
00:23:37Five minutes, please.
00:23:41There you are, sir.
00:23:42Pour it off.
00:23:47Stay good here.
00:23:55Eight pounds.
00:23:56Eight pounds.
00:23:57I was wondering if the kind doctor would be thinking of giving us eight pound ten,
00:24:00seeing as this one is a good deal fresher than the last one.
00:24:03Eight pounds. That's the most we pay in the winter.
00:24:06In the summer we sometimes go as high as ten.
00:24:08The body is deteriorating, the heat.
00:24:10Think yourself lucky that you've got ten shillings more because of its freshness.
00:24:13That's very kind of you, sir. Thank you very much.
00:24:25Have another one? No.
00:24:26Oh, come on. This is Saturday. No lectures tomorrow.
00:24:29Look, I'll go back to my digs and read.
00:24:31I don't know anything about the bloody liver or the pancreas.
00:24:33Pancreas. Pancreas.
00:24:34Anyway, they're going to ask lots of questions on me.
00:24:36You worry too much, man.
00:24:37I can teach you all you need to know about the liver in five minutes.
00:24:39Give me another dram, William.
00:24:40Oh, hi, Bruce.
00:24:41Can you pay, Mr. Campbell?
00:24:42Can I pay? Isn't my credit good?
00:24:44No more than it's late for you.
00:24:45Oh, for Christ's sake. Come on.
00:24:46Landlord's order.
00:24:47Give my friend a drink.
00:24:48All right, sir.
00:24:49All right.
00:24:50Until next week, then.
00:24:51Sure.
00:24:54Cheers.
00:24:55Cheers.
00:24:58What are you doing tonight?
00:24:59Well, waiting on Angus McPhee.
00:25:01He's taking us to a new house he's found.
00:25:03Not Madame Thompson's.
00:25:04Aye. You know it, then.
00:25:05What do I know it, man?
00:25:06If I wasn't so flat broke, I'd come with you.
00:25:09See you tomorrow.
00:25:12Look, he's not coming.
00:25:13Anyway, I went to one of those places and I wasn't really very impressed.
00:25:16I'm going to study now.
00:25:17Doctor, don't be such a loon.
00:25:19Anyway, here he is right now.
00:25:21What kept you?
00:25:22That old fool of an English doctor kept me back.
00:25:24Give me a dram, William.
00:25:25Right. Are you ready?
00:25:26No, I'm not coming.
00:25:27Come on, lad.
00:25:28I don't know what you'll be missing.
00:25:29I can't really afford it.
00:25:30Don't you worry about that.
00:25:31Splendid. Now, let's go.
00:25:33Right. Come on.
00:25:36Goodbye, Madame.
00:25:37Goodbye, sir.
00:25:38May I expect you again next Tuesday, as usual?
00:25:40Yes.
00:25:41Good.
00:25:44Doctor, you can go up to Annie now.
00:25:47Oh, yes.
00:25:51I'm afraid things are not yet quite arranged for your entertainment.
00:25:54We'll call you when we're ready.
00:25:55In the meantime, Janet will look after you.
00:25:57But Janet, dear, see that these young gentlemen have everything they want, won't you?
00:25:59And after they've seen our little exhibition, perhaps...
00:26:01Well, who knows?
00:26:08And who is my girl today?
00:26:09And are we the pair today, Doctor?
00:26:13No.
00:26:36Hey, Rosie. Come here. Come here.
00:26:38I want you to meet a couple of friends of mine.
00:26:39Most students from the college.
00:26:40Oh, how do you do?
00:26:41Hello there, Rosie. How do you do?
00:26:42Hello.
00:26:43Oh, and how do you do?
00:26:47What's the matter with your face?
00:26:48Well, dinner looks a glum, man.
00:26:50As if we care, it's all of you tell.
00:26:52Come on, now. It's a first visit.
00:26:53Well, chill out, man. You're not in your mortuary now.
00:26:56Oh, yes, but too many dead bodies have been...
00:26:58Could be much better off with a roast of the head.
00:27:00Oh, aye.
00:27:05Oh, no, no, not this table.
00:27:07The table over there.
00:27:08You must be needing those.
00:27:12My dear, this is Sergeant Jock McTavish.
00:27:16Mrs. Ive knew the Bobbies to pay for this.
00:27:18But there's nothing to pay.
00:27:19For a hero of the Battle of Waterloo.
00:27:21Take good care of the sergeant, won't you, my dear?
00:27:25Can't understand it.
00:27:33What's the matter for?
00:27:35For my campaigns in bed.
00:27:37Well, you'd better take your clothes off.
00:27:39Dinner, fast yourself.
00:27:42We've just started.
00:27:43During the exhibition, I'd ask you to be as quiet as possible.
00:27:46Hope you find our little entertainment amusing and instructive.
00:27:51Come, son.
00:27:53Come on.
00:27:59Shh, quiet.
00:28:09Quiet.
00:28:11Quiet.
00:28:37No, you must catch me first.
00:28:41Come on.
00:29:06Do they know we're looking for them?
00:29:08She does, he doesn't.
00:29:15Oh, she's such a beautiful girl.
00:29:18Do you fancy her then?
00:29:19Certainly not.
00:29:38Oh, my God.
00:30:08Oh, my God.
00:30:31Run away, you lot, run away.
00:30:32Off with you, go on.
00:30:33Away with you.
00:30:36Yes, sir.
00:30:38Come on, quick to the bar.
00:30:39There's a good two penny worth here.
00:30:43See that lad's foot?
00:30:45See your foot, lad.
00:30:46Ah, don't be scared.
00:30:48I'll not hurt you.
00:30:49I'm a doctor.
00:30:50I've been for years, sir.
00:30:52Come, put your foot up on the step.
00:30:55New ice stones, new ice stones, new ice stones, new.
00:30:58Just as I thought.
00:30:59A clear case of telepeas virus.
00:31:01I could cure you of that, lad, if you came to my surgery.
00:31:04No fear.
00:31:05You'll need to get the stick and knife into me.
00:31:07There's nothing to be afraid of.
00:31:08It's a wee bit of surgery.
00:31:10You'll hardly feel it.
00:31:12Thanks, I'll assume, doctor, but I'll leave you as an arm.
00:31:17There's your tuppence.
00:31:18You'll be all right one day.
00:31:20Come, Mr. Finch.
00:31:23I'll mind your carriage for you.
00:31:25Good day to you.
00:31:31Where are you?
00:31:32Get away with you.
00:31:37How do you let them torment you, dafty?
00:31:39Dot on one.
00:31:40Sure you're big enough.
00:31:41Why do you let them do it?
00:31:43Ah, ah.
00:31:44It's the drink you've taken.
00:31:45You should be ashamed of yourself.
00:31:47So early in the morning, too.
00:31:49Here, have you had your breakfast?
00:31:51Ah, it's half-starved, you look.
00:31:53Here, I'll tell you what.
00:31:54I'll give you a penny, and you go and get yourself a bannock.
00:31:56And don't you stand any more from those bairns.
00:31:58You're a great big man.
00:32:00Give him a swipe or two.
00:32:01There you are.
00:32:02And do you mind that it's something to eat that you buy?
00:32:06What?
00:32:09I told you where we got the money.
00:32:10We spent it, and there's nothing left.
00:32:12Now, where's the bloody salt?
00:32:14You're a couple of mean sods.
00:32:15You didn't even bring us back a withdrawal.
00:32:17We did bring you back, but the bottle broke.
00:32:18No bottle broke.
00:32:19I don't believe it.
00:32:20You're up to something.
00:32:21There's more money, isn't there?
00:32:22It's like a holy virgin.
00:32:23Oh, you're a bloody liar, William Burke.
00:32:24In that case, why don't you go to the borough?
00:32:27Take your hands off him.
00:32:28You thief.
00:32:29Bloody liar.
00:32:30I've had it with you long enough.
00:32:31Now, this is my house.
00:32:32Get out.
00:32:33Now, get out.
00:32:34Grab him.
00:32:35Grab him.
00:32:36Grab him.
00:32:37So there's no more money, is there?
00:32:38Will you shut up?
00:32:39If you must know, if you must know,
00:32:41we sold old MacTavish's body to the doctors.
00:32:44You what?
00:32:46Sure we did.
00:32:47Didn't do him any harm.
00:32:48We just took him out of the coffin,
00:32:50and he owed his money.
00:32:52Look here, the body snatchers would have got him if we didn't.
00:32:55I mean, all we did was just sell him.
00:32:57How much did he get?
00:32:58Three pence.
00:32:59You're a lying bastard.
00:33:00You got more than that.
00:33:03And where the bloody hell did that money come from?
00:33:05All right, now, will you just sit down and I'll be...
00:33:07No, I won't.
00:33:08Will you just sit down now?
00:33:16We sold old Joseph as well.
00:33:18He a bloody liar.
00:33:19He wasn't a dead.
00:33:21He died on the way to hospital.
00:33:22Oh, don't give me that.
00:33:23He did that.
00:33:24Did you tell him that?
00:33:25What class of affairs did you take us for?
00:33:29Anyway, we got eight pounds for him.
00:33:32Eight pounds?
00:33:33Then what the bloody hell did you keep that secret for?
00:33:35A bloody fortune.
00:33:36Well, you see, we was going to keep it as a sort of a surprise for you.
00:33:38Oh, you're that good to me.
00:33:42So, you see, we did all right, didn't we?
00:33:44Eight pounds?
00:33:47We was very lucky he died.
00:33:48I mean, there's very good trade here.
00:33:50What for?
00:33:51Oh, you bloody idiot.
00:33:52There'll be others.
00:33:53All we got to do is wait for him, that's all.
00:33:54You're right.
00:33:55No need to wait.
00:33:56The city's full of bodies.
00:33:57Oh, yes, but they're still kicking, aren't they?
00:33:58A lot of them will be better off dead.
00:34:01Now, just a wait.
00:34:02The boat is snatching now.
00:34:03There's too much competition in that.
00:34:04Not if you use your heads.
00:34:05What's on your mind, missus?
00:34:06Look, we don't wait for them to come here and die.
00:34:08We go and get them.
00:34:09How are you going to get them to come back here with you?
00:34:11Oh, there's plenty.
00:34:12It'd follow you to hell itself with a chance of a free dram.
00:34:14And when you've got them back here, what are you going to do with them?
00:34:16Sit and wait for them to die?
00:34:18Maybe not.
00:34:23Not a bad idea.
00:34:25Oh, God.
00:34:26That's a terrible risk to be taken.
00:34:27Oh, is it, though?
00:34:28We're going to miss a few old trumps.
00:34:30And there's plenty of them.
00:34:31No risk at all, really, if you pick them right.
00:34:33She's right.
00:34:34You've got to choose carefully.
00:34:35Derelicts, homeless, who twig?
00:34:37Oh, such a God's got no time for the homeless.
00:34:39The workhouse is a fool.
00:34:40They need corpses desperate for study and the like.
00:34:42And them doctors, they ain't going to ask no questions.
00:34:45You mean that we'd be doing them a service?
00:34:47Is that what you mean?
00:34:48Yeah.
00:34:50Oh, yeah.
00:34:51It's not going to be that easy.
00:34:52It's not going to be that easy.
00:34:53They're not just going to come in here and lie there and die.
00:34:55Oh, by the time they've had a couple of old Johnny's best, they'll be laying down all right.
00:34:59Think of the money.
00:35:03Well, we, uh, we've got to think of a way to, uh, do it.
00:35:08Is that a way that doesn't show?
00:35:10Smother them, will you, fella?
00:35:12Yeah.
00:35:13But when they start kicking and squirming, it's not so easy.
00:35:15Well, we pick them as cars kick and squirm.
00:35:17All feeble bodies.
00:35:18Even the old can kick and squirm.
00:35:19Oh, God almighty.
00:35:21A couple of frightened old women.
00:35:23If you two apes can't do in an old tramp, Helen and I will, eh?
00:35:26Shut your gob, woman.
00:35:28Hey, Tom.
00:35:29You could throttle them.
00:35:31That'll leave roses.
00:35:35Helen.
00:35:36What?
00:35:37Will you come over here?
00:35:38What for?
00:35:39Will you come over here?
00:35:48Lie down on the bed and make out as if you're pissed.
00:35:50What the hell?
00:35:51Come on, now.
00:35:52That shouldn't be too difficult for you, will it?
00:35:53No.
00:35:57Oh, no.
00:35:59No.
00:36:01Tom.
00:36:02Hold her down.
00:36:07Oh, no.
00:36:08Let me just try it.
00:36:14Tom.
00:36:15It works.
00:36:16That is the way it works.
00:36:17No.
00:36:18Oh, my God.
00:36:20The girl.
00:36:21The girl last night in the...
00:36:23In the peep show.
00:36:24You mean Marie.
00:36:26Just a moment.
00:36:30Actually, she's free now.
00:36:31Would that suit you?
00:36:33Why?
00:36:34Then I'll take you up.
00:36:39Come in.
00:36:42There's a handsome young doctor to see you, Marie.
00:36:44He asked specially for you.
00:36:45There's nothing he doesn't know about anatomy.
00:36:48Nothing at all.
00:36:49Well, you're much too young to be a doctor.
00:36:51I'm a student, Miss.
00:36:53What's your name?
00:36:54James Arbuthnot.
00:36:56Hm, Jamie.
00:36:57Well, Jamie, we'll have your coat off first.
00:36:59Oh, my.
00:37:06Oh, come on.
00:37:09Oh, come on.
00:37:19What's the matter?
00:37:23Why did you choose me?
00:37:25I saw you in the peep show with a soldier.
00:37:28Oh, the peep show.
00:37:30Do you want to chase me then?
00:37:31You can, you know.
00:37:32There's no peep holes here.
00:37:33No, no.
00:37:34Well, what do you want to do?
00:37:39Is it your first time?
00:37:43That's nothing to be ashamed of.
00:37:46I should be very flattered.
00:37:49Can't we talk first?
00:37:51What about for God's sake?
00:37:54You're such a beautiful girl.
00:37:56Why do you do it?
00:37:57Do what?
00:37:59Well, this.
00:38:01Can't you find something better to do?
00:38:03Well, I'm happy here.
00:38:05Listen, you got your job, I've got mine.
00:38:07Do you want to make love to me or not?
00:38:09I...
00:38:11I do.
00:38:18I do.
00:38:41Marie.
00:38:44You're really happy being here doing this.
00:38:48Have you never thought...
00:38:50Have you never thought that you're missing something?
00:38:54Like what?
00:38:55Love.
00:38:56Romance.
00:38:57Marriage.
00:38:59Oh, that.
00:39:01Who would want to marry me?
00:39:02I would.
00:39:04You know, I think you mean it.
00:39:07Now, don't let's get silly.
00:39:10A gentleman like you don't marry girls like me.
00:39:14I like being with you.
00:39:15You're very sweet.
00:39:17But don't think you're falling in love with me.
00:39:20C'est ridicule, mon vieux.
00:39:25You're a very sweet boy.
00:39:27I like you very much.
00:39:31Please make love to me again.
00:39:40Shit!
00:39:46You're going to jail!
00:39:55I threw her out.
00:39:56I think she's done that.
00:39:57Do you know who she is?
00:39:58I've never seen her before.
00:39:59That'll cost me all of four shillings.
00:40:01All right, put the lock up with her.
00:40:04Let me back.
00:40:08I just want a little...
00:40:10Shit!
00:40:12Hello, William.
00:40:14Hello.
00:40:16What are you doing with her?
00:40:17What's it to do with you?
00:40:18Well, I know her, you know.
00:40:19She works down at the fish market.
00:40:20She's a lovely lass, a little front of the tram, you know.
00:40:21Ah, well, she's away at the lock up.
00:40:22What on earth for?
00:40:23The stupid bitch smashed McTaggart's window.
00:40:25Is that all?
00:40:26And you're taking her away to the lock up.
00:40:27Now, look, I mean, I know her family.
00:40:29They would be terribly disgraced if you took her away to a lock up.
00:40:32I'm sure they'd be willing to pay for you for the price of a window.
00:40:34Hey.
00:40:35Yes.
00:40:36Well, the lock up is a wee bit full at the moment.
00:40:37We don't want to take her in, you see.
00:40:39How much did McTaggart say that new window would cost?
00:40:42Nine shillings.
00:40:43Nine shillings.
00:40:44Well, I'm sure the family would be only two.
00:40:46Shall we say, Andrew, ten shillings?
00:40:49No.
00:40:50The old bag's no worth the price of a new window.
00:40:52She might not be worth the price of a window to you, Andrew,
00:40:54but to those that love her, she's worth a great deal more.
00:40:58You count your lucky stars.
00:40:59There's still a few questions left in the well.
00:41:01Come on.
00:41:02Andrew, you've done the right thing there.
00:41:05Would you like a wee drown, darling?
00:41:13Are you all right, Tom?
00:41:14I'm all right.
00:41:15Go on.
00:41:16Get out.
00:41:17We'll take it on from here.
00:41:18Go on, will you?
00:41:19Get out.
00:41:21All right.
00:41:22Let's get out of here.
00:41:23Get a hold of her legs, will you, Tom?
00:41:28Put her down.
00:41:29Put her down.
00:41:30No way.
00:41:31Let me take my jacket off for this.
00:41:34Come on, Tom.
00:41:35Come on.
00:41:36Really.
00:41:37Let's try it again, now.
00:41:42Come on.
00:41:43Just with her.
00:41:44Oh, she's gone.
00:41:45Get a hold of her.
00:41:48It's stuck here.
00:41:49Come on.
00:41:50Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:41:51All right.
00:41:59Come on, come on.
00:42:00Just, just a little bit.
00:42:04Hold her up.
00:42:07She's strong.
00:42:08Yes.
00:42:09Yes.
00:42:10Yes.
00:42:12Hold her up.
00:42:13Hold her up.
00:42:14Hold her up.
00:42:17Hold her up.
00:42:20She's gone.
00:42:21All right.
00:42:41the way that murder plays.
00:42:43Bacchanat!
00:42:45Beware of them Bacchanat!
00:42:47Prepare them how to snatch
00:42:50your body from you.
00:42:53Bacchanat!
00:42:55Hold on until Bacchanat
00:42:58won't stop until they get rich
00:43:00from picking up all the bodies in the dead of night.
00:43:04They'll find you.
00:43:05He's behind you.
00:43:06Bacchanat!
00:43:29I have white radish,
00:43:31white hard lettuce,
00:43:33white young onions.
00:43:35Come buy my little top.
00:43:37Hard mitten screens to sell or trade.
00:43:40Hard mitten screens to sell or trade.
00:43:43Hard mitten screens to sell or trade.
00:43:58Here's a Murphy joke.
00:43:59It's dunk all the day.
00:44:00You're a Murphy.
00:44:01You got any money on you?
00:44:02Jack!
00:44:05Here you go Jimmy.
00:44:06Thanks Joe.
00:44:08Come on.
00:44:09Hey Jimmy!
00:44:10Come get your money!
00:44:11Hey!
00:44:13Oh you!
00:44:14You bloody rat!
00:44:16Get off him!
00:44:17What man are you trying to kick your hand after her?
00:44:20Here you are miss.
00:44:20Isn't this neat?
00:44:21I've done.
00:44:22Will you help me carry your basket home?
00:44:23For Totten's.
00:44:24Do what?
00:44:25Hide Totten's.
00:44:27I'll do it then.
00:44:28Hey, that'll do fine.
00:44:31Which way do you think?
00:44:33That way.
00:44:40Don't waste it.
00:44:41He's off already.
00:44:45You're right.
00:44:46I reckon this one will be easy.
00:44:49I will.
00:44:51I think.
00:44:58What's the matter?
00:44:58What is the matter?
00:45:00Do you not know who that...
00:45:04That is Doc Jamie of the grass market.
00:45:06Sure as the whole world knows him.
00:45:08I bet the whole world knows him.
00:45:09I didn't know him.
00:45:10I didn't make you there.
00:45:11Did you Alan?
00:45:14I'm telling you something Tom.
00:45:16That boy, he's like a pet in the market.
00:45:18The market?
00:45:18There are thousands passing through it every day.
00:45:20I'm telling you.
00:45:21I am telling you.
00:45:22I'm going to have nothing to do with it.
00:45:24You don't fancy these days are you?
00:45:25Maybe you're scared of a young lad with a crippled foot.
00:45:26Scared of no man or anything that's dead neither.
00:45:29I'm going to have nothing to do with something that is as daft as the boy himself.
00:45:32All right, suit yourself.
00:45:35I reckon we can handle him, eh Mrs?
00:45:37No bother at all.
00:45:39A wee skinny lad like that.
00:45:42Right.
00:45:43We'll not be needing you then.
00:45:44Are you mad to be letting them do it by themselves?
00:45:46What will be in it for us?
00:45:47Nothing at all unless you help.
00:45:49That is the terms of business, remember?
00:45:54Ah, come on Willa.
00:46:00They know the grass market.
00:46:02They'll know I'm on the doctor's slab.
00:46:06Yeah, go on Willa.
00:46:08Come on.
00:46:11All right, I'll be helping you.
00:46:13Can you hold me a minute?
00:46:14Yes sir.
00:46:15Get him on the bed.
00:46:16We'll take him here.
00:46:17Just easy, in the chair.
00:46:19All right.
00:46:24Get him.
00:46:30Get him.
00:46:36Get him.
00:46:42Get him.
00:46:48Get him.
00:46:54Get him.
00:47:17Hold him down for God's sakes.
00:47:21Hold him down.
00:47:24Maybe you're scared of a young lad like Trouble Puff.
00:47:27Oh God, he held them off with you.
00:47:30Oh for God's sake, drink.
00:47:31Let's be getting some peace.
00:47:33Oh, it is not right.
00:47:35Holy Mother of God, it is not right.
00:47:36You bloody fool.
00:47:40Willa.
00:47:41Willa, everything's fine.
00:47:42Oh God damn the Lord.
00:47:43It's just the devils in the night.
00:47:44Willa, we've more money now than we've ever had.
00:47:47We'll be able to live like kings.
00:47:49Willa, everything's all right.
00:47:54To hell with them all.
00:48:01God damn you, you bloody bitch.
00:48:06Morning Chief Harrison.
00:48:07Good morning.
00:48:08We'll take this female cadaver this morning.
00:48:09She died during noviotomy.
00:48:11A very fine carcinoma to examine.
00:48:13A new subject came in last night.
00:48:15A young lad.
00:48:16Young, you say?
00:48:17Makes a change.
00:48:18What did he die of?
00:48:19I don't know, sir.
00:48:20I haven't unboxed him yet.
00:48:21He's over there.
00:48:26It's the young lad we saw in Castle Street.
00:48:29A lad with a club foot.
00:48:31That is strange.
00:48:32I wonder what happened.
00:48:33Get him up.
00:48:34Put him over there.
00:48:45He's bleeding.
00:48:46There are marks on the foot.
00:48:47It's clear the lad was in a terrible fight.
00:48:49Drunk, I'll be bound.
00:48:50We'll establish that later.
00:48:53First we can make an interesting preparation of that foot, Mr. Ferguson.
00:49:07Dr. Knox, I've examined the subject.
00:49:09There's a bad contusion on the back of the head with heavy bleeding from the scalp.
00:49:12It may be a skull fracture.
00:49:14I thought the lad was in a fight somewhere.
00:49:15God knows we have plenty of them in this city.
00:49:17Dr. Knox, there are two members of the city guard outside asking about him.
00:49:25Tell them I'll be up in a few minutes.
00:49:27Very good, Doctor.
00:49:34Help me to get him into the sectional room, Ferguson.
00:49:44Good day, gentlemen.
00:49:46A young lad, you say?
00:49:48That's right, Doctor.
00:49:49Duff Jamie, they call him.
00:49:50He was a wee bit, you know.
00:49:51Not only that, Doctor, but he had like a twisted foot.
00:49:54His mother reported him missing, sir.
00:49:56It seems he never lived at home.
00:49:57We are some sort of a family trouble.
00:49:59But every day she took his medals to him in the grass market.
00:50:01She's been looking for him all over the town.
00:50:03Why did you come to see me, gentlemen?
00:50:05Don't tell me, Ken, that like the cottage itself, occasionally a casualty comes your way?
00:50:12We've already inquired of Dr. Monrosa at the college.
00:50:14Ah, dear, so you should.
00:50:15And of me, too.
00:50:16And of all the other anatomists.
00:50:17It's a duty, indeed.
00:50:18For all of us surgeons do, from time to time, receive accident cases.
00:50:21Poor fellows run down on the street and so forth.
00:50:23But a young lad, 20, you see, and with a deformed foot.
00:50:28What would be rare enough to be exceptional?
00:50:30No.
00:50:31I'm afraid no one of that description has been brought to my surgery.
00:50:34If he is brought in mind, I'll be sure to see that one of my students or reporter comes to acquaint you.
00:50:40Ah, well, that's very kind of you, doctor.
00:50:42But we did see a body brought in here this morning.
00:50:44We're not doubting you, are we?
00:50:45But we would be better pleased if we could see it for ourselves.
00:50:47Oh, yes, indeed.
00:50:48Come in.
00:50:56Good morning, gentlemen.
00:51:01The law should enforce the use of safety precautions in factories.
00:51:04Sorry to trouble you, sir.
00:51:06Now, I'll ask you to come down one by one later and examine this foot carefully.
00:51:11For we have here a classic case of tell-a-piece verse.
00:51:15I was lucky to find such a rare case.
00:51:17Aye, more lucky than you know.
00:51:22You'll find some heavy contusions on the body, gentlemen.
00:51:25I understand the young man met with an accident in a foundry.
00:51:28Which accounts for the fact that, unfortunately, the subject has no head.
00:51:36That's fine. Make it nice and tight.
00:52:06Your wallet, monsieur.
00:52:36Good evening.
00:52:37You are Rosie, aren't you?
00:52:38Oh, aye.
00:52:39Are you ready?
00:53:00Would you like...
00:53:01Oh, thank you.
00:53:11Now, have you been a good wee laddie today?
00:53:13Oh, no, my governess.
00:53:15I've been a very naughty laddie.
00:53:16Oh.
00:53:18No, that's not quite right.
00:53:20You ask me some questions first.
00:53:22Oh, what sort of questions?
00:53:23About my timetables. Have I done my timetables?
00:53:26Should we do it again?
00:53:27Yes.
00:53:29Now, have you been a good wee laddie today, then?
00:53:31No, my governess.
00:53:32I've been a very naughty laddie.
00:53:35Well, you've done your ten times table.
00:53:37No, I'm afraid I haven't.
00:53:38I only got as far as the three.
00:53:40No.
00:53:49There's a fire!
00:53:50There's a fire!
00:53:51Leave the fire, girls!
00:53:52Get out of here!
00:53:53Get the rope off!
00:53:54Stay tight!
00:53:55Come on!
00:53:56Come on!
00:53:57Get my hand free, girls!
00:53:58Get my hand free!
00:54:00Come on, girls!
00:54:01Get my foot!
00:54:02Get over the other side!
00:54:03Quickly!
00:54:05Hurry up!
00:54:12Everybody out!
00:54:13Get out!
00:54:14There's a fire!
00:54:15Fire!
00:54:16Fire!
00:54:17There's a fire!
00:54:18There's a fire!
00:54:22There's a fire!
00:54:32There's a fire!
00:54:34The house is on fire!
00:54:35Put your clothes on, quick!
00:54:36Jesus!
00:54:43Wake up!
00:54:44Wake up!
00:54:46Get out!
00:55:04The whole house is on fire!
00:55:05Grace, it's me!
00:55:06My wallet!
00:55:13Hold him!
00:55:14Hold him!
00:55:15Somebody help us, there's a fire in the house.
00:55:22The school's over.
00:55:23What?
00:55:24The party house is on fire.
00:55:25If we can open this trap door, then we can get onto the roof and into the house next
00:55:36door.
00:55:37There's a ladder.
00:55:39Pull down the knees for me.
00:55:48Right.
00:55:51Right.
00:55:54Hurry, Marie, come on.
00:56:03Hey, I'm too young to die of fire!
00:56:10I think that's a lucky fit.
00:56:15Start the pumping, lads. One, two...
00:56:33Go, go, go!
00:56:59Stay out! Stay out!
00:57:01Oh, yes, madame. I must go and see her.
00:57:03When am I going to see you again? Tomorrow.
00:57:06At the Claymore, at two o'clock.
00:57:08Yes, yes.
00:57:12Well, madame, what are we going to do?
00:57:14We must not give in to adversity.
00:57:17I shall open a new house. Larger, more elegant,
00:57:21and I shall be able to live in it.
00:57:23I shall be able to live in it.
00:57:25I shall be able to live in it.
00:57:27I shall be able to live in it.
00:57:29Yes. Larger, more elegant, and more expensive.
00:57:38Wasn't he me uncle? And you know something?
00:57:40I never set eyes on him in me whole life.
00:57:42And then, then I get a letter from this lawyer in County Cork,
00:57:45and he says to me, he says,
00:57:47Praise be to God, the old man's passed away,
00:57:49and he's left just sizeable bit of property.
00:57:51Then you'll not be cobbling shoes anymore, I'm thinking, Mr. Burke.
00:57:54Be careful a bit. I'll tell you what I will have.
00:57:56I'll have another black rum in there.
00:57:58I'll tell you something, Johnny. Will you be joining me in a little drink?
00:58:00No, that's kind of you. I'll take a wee drown, though it's early here.
00:58:03Oh, good. And me friend here, give me friend something as well.
00:58:05I will.
00:58:07Excuse me a minute.
00:58:11Did you hear about the fire? We've got nowhere to go.
00:58:13Can you give us a room?
00:58:14No, I'm afraid I can't.
00:58:17Johnny, who are they?
00:58:19We're two friends of my niece, Flora, you know.
00:58:21It seems that the house that they were living in was burnt down last night.
00:58:24They're looking for lodgings.
00:58:25They thought Flora might be able to help them,
00:58:27but she's away to her mother in Ballycoolish, and I can't do anything.
00:58:33May I join you two, lovely ladies?
00:58:35The name is Burke. William...
00:58:37I don't think I've ever had the pleasure of seeing you here before, I'm thinking.
00:58:40Look, you're not drinking on a day like this.
00:58:42You're going to need something to take away the morning chill.
00:58:43What are you going to have?
00:58:44No, thank you. Nothing.
00:58:45Oh, come along, Mary. It'll do you good.
00:58:47Whiskey.
00:58:48Aye, we'll take a whiskey.
00:58:50Sure enough. Johnny!
00:58:51Johnny, will you put down a bottle of whiskey for these lovely ladies, will you?
00:58:53I will, sir.
00:58:55It's...
00:58:56homeless you are, is it?
00:58:58Aye.
00:58:59Oh, this was burnt to the ground last night.
00:59:01Did you know here by the fire?
00:59:02Oh, yes.
00:59:04All we saved are the clothes we've got here, Mary and me.
00:59:06Oh, well, never mind.
00:59:07Thank you, Johnny. This will warm us up, won't it?
00:59:09Here, my darling.
00:59:10There's one for you.
00:59:12And there you are.
00:59:13That's one for you.
00:59:14Now, let's be drinking to ourselves,
00:59:16and not be thinking about the terrible fire no more.
00:59:18All right.
00:59:20Ah, it's the wrong time of the year to be homeless in this cold city.
00:59:23And I was thinking that why should you be,
00:59:25when there's here meself, William Burke,
00:59:27who's come into a sizable bit of property,
00:59:29who is only too willing and eager to be of your service.
00:59:32And another thing I was thinking about,
00:59:34I mean, you know, if you like the idea,
00:59:36that I myself am a widower, God rest his soul.
00:59:39I've got a little comfortable place down at Westport.
00:59:42I was thinking, you know, if you like the idea,
00:59:45that maybe you might be moving in.
00:59:48What?
00:59:49The two of us?
00:59:50One would be enough for you, I fancy.
00:59:52Oh, now I'm full of life, you know.
00:59:54No, why not the both of you?
00:59:56It'll only be for a couple of days,
00:59:57and good gracious me, there's room enough.
00:59:59And William Burke, he's not skin for a few barb, you know.
01:00:02Why don't you ask the landlord here?
01:00:05I think that's a grand notion, eh, Mary?
01:00:07Well...
01:00:08Oh, well, come along, will you?
01:00:10I reckon the three of us can be very cosy.
01:00:12You know the old saying, don't you?
01:00:13You say, one's lonely, two's company,
01:00:15and three, three is a hell of a lot of security.
01:00:19Here.
01:00:21Here you are, that's for you.
01:00:23Come with me, come with me.
01:00:28Ready or not, here I come.
01:00:39Here you are.
01:00:41Here you are.
01:00:47Don't be drinking, to our good intent.
01:00:49Here you go.
01:00:51Come on, Mary, let's give this randy sopper a memory.
01:00:54Oh, we haven't.
01:00:57Come here.
01:01:04That's the plan.
01:01:05That's the plan.
01:01:06I can't believe what you've made us.
01:01:09Well, I think I can help you quite a bit.
01:01:11Who knows?
01:01:29Follow the target in first.
01:01:30That's the problem.
01:01:31Shall we go and leave him first?
01:01:33Oh, sweet mother of Jesus, will you be quiet?
01:01:38Oh, I'm coming for it, you missed out.
01:01:40Say something, me darling.
01:01:41It's in the yard.
01:01:44He's surely more than brave to submit to this.
01:01:46Is there anything else we can do?
01:01:48Aye, you.
01:01:55Come on, come on, come on.
01:01:57Come on.
01:02:03Come on, come on, come on.
01:02:05Come on, come on, come on.
01:02:20What a randy, you see.
01:02:34Can I have a penny, please, sir?
01:02:36Away with you lad, away with you.
01:02:39Oh, come here.
01:02:40Come here.
01:02:42Here you are.
01:02:43Oh, thank you, sir.
01:02:47I am worried about her, you know.
01:02:49Oh, I know she drinks, but I've never seen her passed out before.
01:02:54Well, I'll tell you what.
01:02:55The best thing would be for you to go to Grogan, the druggist.
01:02:58Now, that'll be the thing to do.
01:03:00Now, look, you know where Grogan is?
01:03:01We passed him on the way up here.
01:03:02Go and ask for some...
01:03:03Oh, here you are.
01:03:04We'll take some money with you.
01:03:05Go and ask for some of his physique now.
01:03:06It's called emetic.
01:03:08That's it.
01:03:09Tell him that you've got a friend who's drunk and he'll see you all right.
01:03:11Off you go now.
01:03:12You take care of her, won't you?
01:03:13Yes, I will now.
01:03:19That's it then.
01:03:21Well, that'll be a showing, Miss Eaton.
01:03:23I hope it does your friend good.
01:03:24Thank you very much.
01:03:32Johnette?
01:03:34Mr. Burke?
01:03:37Who are you?
01:03:38I'm a neighbour.
01:03:39Where's my friend, Mr. Burke?
01:03:41Ah, no, no, your friend.
01:03:42You take me seriously.
01:03:43Mr. Burke, please take her to a doctor.
01:03:45Oh, take me to her, please.
01:03:47She'll be all right.
01:03:48Mr. Burke, I'll have her back here again.
01:03:50Very good.
01:03:54You just rest easy.
01:04:02Today, gentlemen, I propose to deal with hernia in the female sex.
01:04:05What is it?
01:04:08My God, Mary Mitchell.
01:04:09She must have got killed in the fire.
01:04:11How do you know?
01:04:14I was there.
01:04:15You were?
01:04:18Robert, she saved my life.
01:04:20I arranged to meet her afterwards, but she didn't turn up.
01:04:24I looked everywhere for her.
01:04:25And now she's dead.
01:04:27She couldn't have come by her death naturally.
01:04:29And I'd swear.
01:04:32I must tell the doctor.
01:04:33Don't be a fool.
01:04:34What good would that do?
01:04:35Please say no.
01:04:36Are they going to worry about a dead whore?
01:04:38No, you take my advice.
01:04:39You'll keep out of it.
01:04:42Come in.
01:04:46Ah, I must not.
01:04:47Come on in, then, lad.
01:04:48Don't stand over there.
01:04:49It's a cold night.
01:04:50Come and warm yourself.
01:04:54Well, lad, what's your trouble?
01:04:56Get down.
01:04:57I understand it's something to do with today's subject.
01:04:59Well, you see, sir, I know the lassie.
01:05:02I mean, I knew the lassie.
01:05:05Her name's Mary Mitchell.
01:05:07And I was with her myself only a few days ago.
01:05:09And she was alive and well then.
01:05:12Of that I can assure you.
01:05:13She was in perfect health.
01:05:14Where did you see her, how about?
01:05:16In a...
01:05:18In a house, sir.
01:05:19A house, you say?
01:05:20Aye, we all live in houses.
01:05:22But whose house?
01:05:24I don't know.
01:05:25But whose house?
01:05:27In a house, sir.
01:05:29Madam Thompson's house.
01:05:31Brutal, you mean.
01:05:32A poor shop.
01:05:33A fine place for one of my students.
01:05:35I know well some of your students,
01:05:36straight from dissection to fornication.
01:05:38And all that after you should know
01:05:39the dangers of such copulation.
01:05:41Ah.
01:05:43You have knowledge of her, how about, sir?
01:05:44How do we bound?
01:05:45Ah, so you did.
01:05:47So maybe you got a touch of the clap
01:05:48or a dose of the fox, hmm?
01:05:50Oh, no.
01:05:51A few days ago, you see.
01:05:52Ah, you would not know yet.
01:05:54Well now,
01:05:55to set your mind at rest about today's subject,
01:05:57even if I can't about other matters
01:05:58for a few weeks to come.
01:06:00If you'd attended my lecture,
01:06:01you would have heard my diagnosis
01:06:02of the causes of death.
01:06:04Did you attend, sir?
01:06:05No, you didn't.
01:06:06Well, when I examined the organs,
01:06:08Mr. Roberson,
01:06:09I found a great deal of alcohol in the stomach,
01:06:12almost enough to kill a man.
01:06:14And a well-developed cirrhosis of the liver.
01:06:16You carried her to post-mortem?
01:06:17Yes, I did.
01:06:19It was a natural death then, Dr. Knox?
01:06:21It was a natural death!
01:06:23Oh, no, it was never a natural death.
01:06:25The death of an alcoholic whore
01:06:27is never a natural death.
01:06:28It is an aggravated one.
01:06:29Aye.
01:06:31Aye, I see, sir.
01:06:35You'll forgive me for troubling you.
01:06:37It was only that,
01:06:38well, I'd seen her so recently,
01:06:39it was a shock.
01:06:40Ah, Kenwell, you were disturbed, lad.
01:06:42But remember the scripture.
01:06:44In the midst of life, we are in death.
01:06:45Remember it well.
01:06:46So set your mind at rest about that, lad,
01:06:48but about other matters.
01:06:50Well, you know the symptoms.
01:06:52If you have any doubts, come and see me.
01:06:55And don't be such a damn fool in the future.
01:06:57Aye, sir.
01:07:12Yes, sir.
01:07:13Patterson!
01:07:15I shall come down in a few minutes for a post-mortem.
01:07:18Not much time, sir.
01:07:19No, let's say half an hour.
01:07:20Yes, sir.
01:07:21Right. Thank you, Patterson.
01:09:22It's no use your coming here now, young man.
01:09:24It'll be a good week before we're open again.
01:09:26Well, it's not what I've come to see you about.
01:09:28Well, what is it you want?
01:09:29I've come to see you about Marie.
01:09:32Marie?
01:09:33Wait, I'll come down.
01:09:39Marie, have you seen her?
01:09:40She's gone, sir.
01:09:41She's gone?
01:09:42Yes, sir.
01:09:43She's gone?
01:09:44Yes, sir.
01:09:45She's gone?
01:09:46Yes, sir.
01:09:47She's gone?
01:09:48Yes, sir.
01:09:49She's gone?
01:09:50Marie, have you seen her?
01:09:51She's dead, Madam Thompson.
01:09:53Her body was sold to Dr. Knox.
01:09:55Oh, my God.
01:09:57But how did she die? Do you know?
01:09:59Dr. Knox says she died a drink.
01:10:01Nonsense. That can never be. Marie was never one for drink.
01:10:04I believe Dr. Knox was lying.
01:10:06I think Marie was murdered.
01:10:07Wait while I get my cloak and I'll go with you to the magistrate.
01:10:09No, I've already been to the magistrate.
01:10:11He says I lack evidence.
01:10:13That's why I've come to see you.
01:10:14But how can you get help from me?
01:10:15I want you to remember anything about Marie.
01:10:17The name of her friends, the places she went to.
01:10:19There was a tavern somewhere in the West Port.
01:10:42Here's the penny, mister.
01:10:43I tell you what I will do me, darling.
01:10:45I'll give you a shilling.
01:10:46I'll give you a shilling for the pumpkin.
01:10:50Open the door.
01:10:53My eyes are falling off.
01:10:55Where do you want me?
01:11:12I scared you, didn't I?
01:11:13You bloody fool, William Burke.
01:11:15You weren't very funny.
01:11:23Johnny, Johnny, will you get me another bottle of whiskey?
01:11:25I broke the last one.
01:11:26Thank you. Will you do that for me?
01:11:28Mess up your old bag.
01:11:30Always sell your matches somewhere else.
01:11:33Thank you very much.
01:11:34Get away. Go on.
01:11:40Now look here. What's going on here?
01:11:42What's the matter with you?
01:11:43I've run out of matches in the tree.
01:11:46And I'm all the way from County Cork.
01:11:48Did you say County Cork?
01:11:49Well, sure enough, wasn't that my mother's country?
01:11:52Wasn't I born there myself?
01:11:54Would you like a drink?
01:11:55What's your name, darling?
01:11:57Mrs. Doherty, Sir Mary Doherty.
01:11:58I don't believe it. A Doherty?
01:12:00Sure.
01:12:01That's my mother's maiden.
01:12:02Named by all the gods of Doherty.
01:12:03I'm from County Cork.
01:12:04Next you'll be telling me you're from Queenstown.
01:12:06No, Milton.
01:12:08Across the water.
01:12:09And I wish well I was there now instead of alone.
01:12:11And friendless in a strange land.
01:12:13Oh, me darling.
01:12:14You might be in a strange land, but friendless and alone you're not.
01:12:18Sure enough.
01:12:19If you're a Doherty and you're from Middleton, we're related.
01:12:22Wasn't me mother born a few miles away from there?
01:12:24God rest her soul.
01:12:25Take it, son.
01:12:26You're a widow.
01:12:28Now, Mrs., may I call you Mary?
01:12:29Seeing as we're related, it seems all right to call you Mary.
01:12:31Here's what I'm going to do with you.
01:12:32Me name here is William Burke.
01:12:33I've got a lovely house down the road.
01:12:34And we're having a party, me and me missus.
01:12:36We've got a few Irishmen in.
01:12:37And we'll celebrate Halloween.
01:12:39You come with us.
01:12:40We'll celebrate Halloween like we used to do in the old country.
01:12:42Would you like to?
01:12:43They say it's like the spirits walk abroad.
01:12:45But I dance here, Jacob.
01:12:47Will you do that?
01:12:48In the ranks of death you'll find him.
01:12:52His father's sword he has girded.
01:12:55All of his wild hops will hang behind him.
01:13:00The land of socks and the warrior barbed.
01:13:05For all the world nature a high delay.
01:13:09One sword at least thy rights shall guard.
01:13:14One faithful hop shall pry delay.
01:13:20Aye, they were both looking for lodgings.
01:13:22Where are they now?
01:13:23They went away with a customer of mine.
01:13:25An Irishman.
01:13:26Very well britched.
01:13:27Burke, if he was.
01:13:28Do you know where he lodges?
01:13:30Nearby.
01:13:31At the West Pot.
01:13:32The people around Tanners Close will be able to tell you just where.
01:13:58Oh, God.
01:13:59I understand that Mr. Burke lives around here.
01:14:01Can you tell me where?
01:14:02Mr. Burke?
01:14:03Yes, sir.
01:14:04That's number three.
01:14:05It's all around.
01:14:06I'll show you.
01:14:32Hey, leave it all.
01:14:41It's in there, sir.
01:14:42Turn left and it's the first door on the right.
01:14:53I'm not going to let that in my house.
01:14:55No.
01:15:01No.
01:15:28Guard, guard.
01:15:32There's a terrible fight going on in here.
01:15:40One, two.
01:16:01One, two.
01:16:11Burke and Hare were arrested for the murder of the woman Doherty.
01:16:14Hare turned to King's evidence and admitted being concerned with Burke in 16 murders.
01:16:18By so doing, he saved his life.
01:16:20But the populace of Edinburgh were so enraged at his release that they threw him into a line pit.
01:16:25He died in London a blind beggar.
01:16:27Burke was hanged and his body publicly dissected.
01:16:30Dr. Knox, his reputation ruined, died in obscurity.
01:17:00Burke and Hare were arrested for the murder of the woman Doherty.
01:17:03By so doing, he saved his life.
01:17:05But the populace of Edinburgh were so enraged at his release that they threw him into a line pit.
01:17:09Dr. Knox, his reputation ruined, died in obscurity.
01:17:12By so doing, he saved his life.
01:17:14But the populace of Edinburgh were so enraged at his release that they threw him into a line pit.
01:17:18Dr. Knox, his reputation ruined, died in obscurity.
01:17:21But the populace of Edinburgh were so enraged at his release that they threw him into a line pit.
01:17:25Burke and Hare!
01:17:26Beware of them!
01:17:27Burke and Hare!
01:17:28Let them come to snatch your body from you.
01:17:35Burke is fair and always over-sexed.
01:17:37He likes bodies in bed.
01:17:40Hare is dark and grim and over-flexed.
01:17:42He likes bodies when dead.
01:17:45Take care!
01:17:46They're out to rape you.
01:17:47They're out to drape you in white.
01:17:50If you see a coming after you,
01:17:52Turn around and take flight.
01:17:55Burke and Hare!
01:17:56Beware of them!
01:17:57Burke and Hare!
01:17:58They're there to come down to snatch you.
01:18:01Your body from down to snatch you.
01:18:03Your body from down to snatch you.
01:18:06Your body from down to snatch you.
01:18:08Your body from you.