CC21. The Secret. (2000) Part 1 of 2.

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In the late 1880's reformed smuggler Freddie Musgrave has worked hard to turn a legitimate trade, but then a face from his past turns up threatening to ruin things for him.   Daniel Ainsleigh - John Musgrave Rachelle Arthey - Mary Chambers Colin Buchanan - Freddie Musgrave Elizabeth Carling - Connie Wheatley Tom Cotcher - Dr. Clissold Rod Culbertson - Inspector Mitcham William Finnigan - Billy Venables Tracy Gillman - Mrs. Cummings Vicky Hall - Janey Slope Stephen Hawksby - Exciseman Lynn Hender - Biddy Wheatley Clare Higgins - Maggie Hewitt Terence Hillyer - Larry Freeman Anthony Howard - Joe Pratt Adam Ironside - Young Freddie Milton Johns - Taylor Nicholas Lumley - Frank Wheatley Martin McGlade - Mick Harper Stephen Moyer - Marcel Birkstead Andy Mulligan - Robert Musgrave Ken Richardson - Callow Joanna Rowden - Nancy Musgrave Joy Sanders - Isabelle Gallagher Marlene Sidaway - Jinny Musgrave Michael Simkins - Roderick Gallagher Malcolm Terris - Sir Christopher Bell June Whitfield - Mrs. Birkstead Paula Wright - May Harper Hannah Yelland - Belle Hewitt

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00:00:00Get rid of that rat! Either you do it, or I'll see to it!

00:00:14Don't ever let me down, lad. Remember, I pay, or I pay back. Understand?

00:00:36Get! And remember, not a word!

00:00:55As I crossed the river on top of the morning tide, I realized that after that night, my life would never be the same again.

00:01:06Good morning.

00:01:25Good morning.

00:01:31Good morning.

00:01:33Good morning.

00:01:35Nice, left right.

00:01:37Left right, left, ready?

00:01:38Come on, nice, left right.

00:01:40Left right, left, ready.

00:01:42Nice, left, left right.

00:01:44Nice, left, ready, left.

00:01:46No bad, Freddie lad.

00:01:52Tough.

00:01:54I thought you'd go soft, being a jumped up and out of a clerk these days.

00:01:58Not just a clerk, Billy. I tune you a partner.

00:02:01Aye. Well, remember to keep your elbows down in the clinch.

00:02:05When's that brother of yours coming?

00:02:08Half an hour.

00:02:09I'd better go and make myself look beautiful then.

00:02:13Ready now?

00:02:15Come on.

00:02:16Look fierce.

00:02:17Really horrible.

00:02:19Why are we going this way?

00:02:22I've got something to show you.

00:02:24Help.

00:02:26What was all that about?

00:02:33I just don't know what to say of the day.

00:02:35You haven't told her, have you?

00:02:37I bet you haven't even been up there.

00:02:39Leave it alone.

00:02:40All right.

00:02:41Go on.

00:02:42Check the course clear.

00:02:43Maggie.

00:02:44So what do you think of the sign, partner?

00:02:59Oh, aye.

00:03:01I'm a man of means now.

00:03:03And how's business with you, John?

00:03:05It's fine, Miss Hewitt.

00:03:06Thanks to you, of course.

00:03:07Oh, get away with you.

00:03:09Well, I'll shut up shop.

00:03:10It's time for home.

00:03:12Congratulations, Freddie.

00:03:14I'll see you, John.

00:03:20So what's happening with you and me?

00:03:22God, don't you start!

00:03:32I don't know why you're being so sensitive.

00:03:35Why do you think?

00:03:36Everyone's on at me.

00:03:38Well, marry her then.

00:03:40You know how I feel about her, always have done.

00:03:42But you should do the right thing.

00:03:44Even if she did announce your engagement

00:03:46without you ever asking her.

00:03:48So you're saying, give her up?

00:03:50You've moved out of her world, Freddie.

00:03:52You have.

00:03:54Things are changing.

00:03:56You've got her head on your shoulders.

00:03:57You can take advantage.

00:04:00May's been ready for marriage since she was 14.

00:04:03You marry her and you might as well go back to the time you were running messages

00:04:07and that little scholar of yours.

00:04:08Oh, Maggie.

00:04:09I know that's blunt, but there it is.

00:04:12What's more, she doesn't like me and I don't like her.

00:04:16Look at yourself, lad.

00:04:18You've outgrown her.

00:04:19Have I?

00:04:21What about my family?

00:04:22I've outgrown them.

00:04:24They think I have.

00:04:25I've given them all a chance.

00:04:27They've all been given a chance.

00:04:28I know you have and I'm grateful.

00:04:30I am truly, Maggie.

00:04:32And they are.

00:04:33Of course they are.

00:04:34But I worry about it.

00:04:36You treat me as an equal, which I still find amazing.

00:04:38But who's your servant?

00:04:39My mother.

00:04:40Well, most men take that for granted.

00:04:42Only it's unpaid.

00:04:44I could chuck this at you.

00:04:46You're an ungrateful snot, Frederick Musgrave.

00:04:49What do you think I am, eh?

00:04:51Some poor drudge from the slums.

00:04:53Twelve to a room and pee running out the door.

00:04:55I'm here because I want to be.

00:04:58And I'm glad to be.

00:04:59Do you hear?

00:05:00All right, all right.

00:05:01And Miss Hewitt's right.

00:05:03You sort out my bloody Harper.

00:05:05Then we won't have to put up with your miserable face.

00:05:08Oh, I'm off upstairs.

00:05:11Why you ever let him live here, I'll never know.

00:05:14Oh, I don't mind, Ginny.

00:05:17Quite like a man around the place.

00:05:25May.

00:05:29Bloody May.

00:05:38Right.

00:05:39See you later, then.

00:05:40We're off to the market.

00:05:41Will you be coming up the cottage for your tea?

00:05:43When did I last miss a Saturday?

00:05:46Ah, well, make sure you don't.

00:05:48Your dad looks forward to it.

00:05:50I'll be there, Ma.

00:05:51All right.

00:05:56What do you want from the market?

00:05:57Flowers.

00:05:58Some flowers for Belle.

00:05:59I thought we could make a bit of a show.

00:06:01She's coming home for good, after all.

00:06:03When does she arrive?

00:06:04Tomorrow lunchtime.

00:06:05One more day's peace and quiet.

00:06:07We'd better make the most of it.

00:06:09He sailed with the tide in the first light of morning.

00:06:16And I still asleep in.

00:06:19Now it's wretched I be.

00:06:22I sit all alone on the cliff in the heather.

00:06:28I think in old Johnny.

00:06:32Freddie?

00:06:35Hello, Nancy.

00:06:36You thought you were being as quiet as a mouse, didn't you?

00:06:39Well, you couldn't have heard me.

00:06:40Couldn't have?

00:06:41No, it's just I can't beat that sense of smell of yours.

00:06:44Ah, that's what it is, is it?

00:06:46Dar's in his workshop.

00:06:48Something on that new treadle lathe of his.

00:06:51When's my home?

00:06:53I shall not be long.

00:06:55So when is this concert of yours?

00:06:57It's not a concert, Fred.

00:06:58Just a few songs, that's all.

00:07:00Of course it is.

00:07:02There's no need to humour me.

00:07:04Next Saturday is a matter of fact.

00:07:07Well, I'll be there.

00:07:09Oh, Freddie, May's been round and she wasn't too happy.

00:07:13She's fed up your letter down last Sunday.

00:07:15You told her, didn't you?

00:07:17Maggie needed me to finish up the courtly figures.

00:07:19There's a shilling in the poem tax nowadays and it's got to be sorted.

00:07:22Well, I told her, but I don't think that's what she wanted to hear.

00:07:25Ah, she doesn't understand business.

00:07:27Well, that makes two of us.

00:07:29Oh, hello, Dar.

00:07:30Where's your ma?

00:07:31She won't be long.

00:07:33And how's Miss Hewitt?

00:07:35Have you still got the tongues wagging?

00:07:37People can think what they like, Dar.

00:07:39It's closer to the office, that's all.

00:07:41Is Belle home tomorrow?

00:07:43She is.

00:07:44Maggie's been looking forward to it for weeks.

00:07:46And you?

00:07:47Aye.

00:07:48She brings a bit of sunshine into her lives as Belle.

00:07:51Just like you are, Nancy.

00:07:53Well, that maid doesn't.

00:07:55Sunshine?

00:07:56Cold snap, more like.

00:07:58Aye, she's got her tongue on her.

00:08:00She can't mutton with it.

00:08:02Ah, thanks for the reminder.

00:08:03Are you going up there or not?

00:08:05Maybe later.

00:08:06Face the music, eh?

00:08:08Don't pay anything for me!

00:08:10It's five years since I've been promised!

00:08:12I did not bloody well promise.

00:08:13You took it for granted, you just announced it.

00:08:15I'm telling you, I want to be married!

00:08:16Well, what if I don't?

00:08:17You're all going to marry me or else?

00:08:18Or else what?

00:08:19You don't know, Mick, I'll tell you!

00:08:22May, I don't think we could make a go of it.

00:08:26I'm...

00:08:27I'm not the marrying kind.

00:08:29I'm not doing it.

00:08:31You jumped up and out!

00:08:33I could stick a knife in you, Freddie Musgrove, if I could and all!

00:08:36Better leave that to me, darn old Mick.

00:08:38When they're finished with you, you'll wish you'd never been born, you dirty rotten sod!

00:08:42Oh, I'm not listening to this!

00:08:44Don't be so bloody stupid!

00:08:47Oh, no, you don't, you dirty bugger, you!

00:08:50I'll scratch your eyes out if you try it!

00:08:52You know me strength, don't you?

00:08:54You've had a taste of it in other ways, haven't you?

00:08:56Well, well.

00:08:57About the time you were around.

00:09:00Dirty bugger says it's all off, Mick!

00:09:03That we wouldn't make a go of it!

00:09:05Says he's not the marrying kind!

00:09:07Oh, he does, does he?

00:09:08Right!

00:09:09Tell us you'll marry our May.

00:09:11Let's have your word in it!

00:09:12No, Mick, I won't marry May.

00:09:14I told her I won't, and that's all there is to it.

00:09:17You'd better, you stuck-up bastard!

00:09:20Go on!

00:09:22Go on, kill him!

00:09:23Get off him!

00:09:26Get off him!

00:09:27Get off him!

00:09:28Get off him!

00:09:33Get off him!

00:09:34Get off him!

00:09:35Get off him!

00:09:36Get off him!

00:09:37I'm hurt!

00:09:47I'm hurt!

00:09:48Oh, I remember being ahead!

00:09:49Mick!

00:09:50Nick!

00:09:51Make.

00:09:53Nick!

00:09:54Go on!

00:09:55Get out!

00:09:58You're snot!

00:09:59Don't think this is the last of it!

00:10:00Go on! Get out, you snot!

00:10:03And don't think this is the last of it, because there'll be other times!

00:10:06Nick! Nick!

00:10:30Nick! Nick!

00:11:00Oh, my God! Oh, Freddie! Oh, my God!

00:11:30Maggie!

00:11:46Oh, it's so good to be home, aren't Maggie?

00:11:49Well, thank you for telling me. I've never a guest.

00:11:51Where's Freddie? Was he waiting for the trap?

00:11:53Ah, well, Freddie had rather a difficult contract to get out of.

00:12:00Hello, Ginny.

00:12:11Freddie.

00:12:15Freddie.

00:12:17What have they done to you?

00:12:19Oh, Belle.

00:12:23Don't slaver over him. He's getting too much of it.

00:12:30He didn't tell me he was as bad as this.

00:12:35Come on.

00:12:41The doctor's big. He says all the wounds are clean and he's not bringing up blood.

00:12:45Well, I could have told him that.

00:12:47But he'll be all right. With a bit of nursing.

00:12:49He's in a lot of pain and he won't take laudanum.

00:12:52It's all right. I'll look after him.

00:12:55His poor face.

00:12:57Well, it wasn't much in the first place.

00:12:59Perhaps it'll be an improvement.

00:13:00Don't.

00:13:01Oh, don't be so worried, lass.

00:13:03There's tougher sods than them harpers have had a go at our Freddie,

00:13:06and he's still here.

00:13:08He'll be getting in the way again soon enough.

00:13:10I do know I've got to tell her sooner or later, but...

00:13:15Sooner?

00:13:16Maybe.

00:13:19She's a young woman now.

00:13:22They'll all be after her, you know.

00:13:25When I picked her up at the station, you should have seen it.

00:13:28They're men.

00:13:29I can imagine.

00:13:31Eyes sticking out like pipe shanks.

00:13:34You all right, Ginny?

00:13:36I'll tell her soon.

00:13:37There comes a time when all secrets have to see the light.

00:13:43She's still up there with him.

00:13:45Watching over him like an angel of mercy.

00:14:07Pleased?

00:14:08This is the most beautiful, the most elegant, the most glorious dress the world has ever seen.

00:14:13Oh, don't start your mush talk. I only needed a yes or a no.

00:14:16You know what you are, Miss Margaret Hewitt.

00:14:18You're a hard-bitten old crab.

00:14:20Can't think why I love you so much.

00:14:21Right.

00:14:22I'll be away to the office.

00:14:27What do you think, Freddie?

00:14:28Isn't it beautiful?

00:14:29Oh, stop you dancing about!

00:14:33Well?

00:14:34So this is what the money's gone on.

00:14:36But what do you think of it?

00:14:37Oh, aye, it's funny enough.

00:14:39Aye, you look nice.

00:14:41Very nice.

00:14:43Well, you left those accounts for me.

00:14:44I have.

00:14:46I'd better be on me way.

00:14:52Aye, I'd best be off meself.

00:14:54All right.

00:14:55Bye then.

00:14:59Oh, Nancy, you look beautiful.

00:15:00And you smell so sweet, Belle.

00:15:01Like a field full of flowers.

00:15:02And Freddie thinks I look nice.

00:15:03He said so.

00:15:04Rest a day.

00:15:05Very nice.

00:15:06Aye.

00:15:07You're a bonny pair.

00:15:08Do you hear that, Maggie?

00:15:09He thinks we're a bonny pair.

00:15:10Why can't he say that we are two beautifully dressed women?

00:15:12Charming, fascinating, fashionable?

00:15:13Because you're not.

00:15:14No.

00:15:15No.

00:15:16No.

00:15:17No.

00:15:18No.

00:15:19No.

00:15:20No.

00:15:21No.

00:15:22No.

00:15:23No.

00:15:24No.

00:15:25No.

00:15:26No.

00:15:27No.

00:15:28No.

00:15:29No.

00:15:30No.

00:15:31O, take no notice of him.

00:15:32Anyway, you know he thinks you'll look wonderful.

00:15:34Go on.

00:15:35You'll be late for your rehearsal.

00:15:37Are you coming tonight, Freddie?

00:15:38I'll try.

00:15:39Can't promise.

00:15:41Judy calls and all that.

00:15:43Of course I'm going.

00:15:44All the snow it melts the soonest when the winds begin to sing, and the corn it ripens

00:16:02fast as when a frost is singing, and when a fella tells me that my face will soon forget,

00:16:13before we part I wander through, he's fain to follow it yet.

00:16:23Well, well, Freddie Musgrave, Mr Freeman, I've been hoping to see you.

00:16:30My God, do all your courtships end like this? I trust you you'll have heard all about it.

00:16:36Aye, trust me. It's been the talk of the key, mind.

00:16:40Mickey Harper didn't get back to work the best part of a week.

00:16:44You've come on. You were a little runt of a thing when you were running my commissions.

00:16:49That trustworthy little runt you'd not have bothered, I dare say.

00:16:52Would you like to step outside?

00:16:55What for?

00:16:57Well, this is a bit too public for me.

00:17:05Now, you remember that last errand you ran for me?

00:17:07It was 18 years ago.

00:17:08Still a day say you do remember it.

00:17:10It was the last commission you ever took, as I understand it.

00:17:13You were under Maggie Hewitt's swing after that.

00:17:15That was the look of the devil for you, wasn't it?

00:17:18Yeah? Education, position, from a barefoot brat to a worsted suit.

00:17:23What's all this about?

00:17:24I put that package into Gallagher's hands myself.

00:17:27And then it went missing.

00:17:28So, find the fellow who killed Gallagher?

00:17:31That package would be worth a king's ransom now.

00:17:34There is, you might say, renewed interest in what happened to it.

00:17:38What, after all this time?

00:17:40Aye.

00:17:41Something's come up.

00:17:42What's that?

00:17:44This.

00:17:48See the reddish tinge?

00:17:50It comes from that package you delivered.

00:17:53And the interesting thing is that this was fenced in Newcastle not long ago.

00:17:57After all this time.

00:18:00No wonder, then.

00:18:02Aye, I can see why someone might be interested.

00:18:04You let me know if you find out what happened, won't you?

00:18:06There's been a part payment up front for that package you delivered.

00:18:10And without that,

00:18:12I reckon you and I would have been feeding the tine crabs long ago.

00:18:16So, if you catch a sniff of anything,

00:18:19anything,

00:18:21it would help us both if you told me.

00:18:24Understand?

00:18:26Aye.

00:18:28I understand.

00:18:30See you then.

00:18:33Thank you. Thank you.

00:18:40What do you like at the field?

00:18:41I'll sell whiskey.

00:18:42Whiskey?

00:18:43Oh, where is the bold man my body deep?

00:18:50Oh, where is the bold man breaking to me?

00:18:56Lovely voice.

00:19:06Reckon I'll hire her again.

00:19:08She's me sister.

00:19:13Connie?

00:19:15I'm sorry.

00:19:17You've mistaken me.

00:19:18My name's Cora Maclean.

00:19:20I'm the owner.

00:19:22Connie, it's me, Freddie.

00:19:24The little runner.

00:19:26Look, I like your sister's voice.

00:19:29Oh, my name's Cora.

00:19:30Now excuse me.

00:19:56What do you want, sir?

00:20:05I'm leaving you me card, miss.

00:20:07We should talk.

00:20:09Freeman's asking questions about that consignment I brought over to Gallagher's all those years ago.

00:20:13I don't know what you're talking about.

00:20:15Don't you?

00:20:16No, I don't.

00:20:20Then there's no harm done, then, is there?

00:20:24One other thing.

00:20:26There's a lass in here tonight who's with me mother and Maggie Hewitt.

00:20:30Her life was saved by this Connie Wheatley I mistook you for.

00:20:33Have you finished, sir?

00:20:38Aye.

00:20:39I'm done.

00:20:41You know where to find me.

00:20:42Well done, Nancy.

00:21:02It was wonderful.

00:21:06And now, ladies and gentlemen, if you'd like to take the floor.

00:21:09That was lovely.

00:21:23Thanks, ma'am.

00:21:25Ladies, I am at a loss whom to address.

00:21:30Why is that?

00:21:32If I were to seek permission to ask this young lady to dance.

00:21:35I'm her guardian.

00:21:37If you want to dance with her, you should ask her.

00:21:39I have no objection.

00:21:42Miss, if I, um.

00:21:45Isabel Hewitt, sir.

00:21:47If you wish to dance, I would be happy to join you.

00:21:51Marcel Berkstead at your service, Miss Hewitt.

00:22:09The man at the table.

00:22:12He's a very good friend.

00:22:14Almost a brother to me, really.

00:22:16Not too good a friend, I hope.

00:22:19I would be heartbroken.

00:22:20This isn't really my sort of place, but I'm glad I discovered it.

00:22:33Do you know why?

00:22:34No.

00:22:35Because it has allowed me to meet you.

00:22:36No.

00:22:36Because it has allowed me to meet you.

00:22:37please, Miss Hewitt.

00:22:38Do you know why?

00:22:41No.

00:22:43This isn't really my sort of place.

00:22:46But I'm glad I discovered it.

00:22:49Do you know why?

00:22:52No.

00:22:53Because it has allowed me to meet you.

00:23:13It's Freddie Musgrave, Mr. Taylor.

00:23:22I need a word.

00:23:26Freeman had my diamond.

00:23:28I saw it.

00:23:30But how can you be sure it was the same one?

00:23:32But it doesn't make much difference, does it?

00:23:34Freeman thinks it is amongst the same thing.

00:23:36That's true.

00:23:38My God, how can I have been so stupid?

00:23:41Oh, you can't blame yourself.

00:23:43I can, I do.

00:23:45I hang on to the damn thing all these years.

00:23:47Well, I thought it'd be safe by now.

00:23:49I thought it was time you had your hands on the money.

00:23:52Well, Taylor will have to be talked to.

00:23:54No, I've done it.

00:23:55I saw him tonight.

00:23:57What did he say?

00:23:58If Freeman traces it back to him,

00:23:59Taylor agreed to say he'd bought it from some Dutch sailor

00:24:02he'd never seen before.

00:24:03That'll have to do.

00:24:05You did well.

00:24:07We may be lucky.

00:24:08Let's hope so.

00:24:11Well, you missed something leaving so early.

00:24:15Who?

00:24:16What's that?

00:24:17You know who that fellow Belle was dancing with?

00:24:19Manners of a Marquis?

00:24:20He's asked if he can visit.

00:24:22That's nice for her.

00:24:24Couldn't take his eyes off her.

00:24:26What a surprise.

00:24:28Have you found a man who can keep his eyes off her?

00:24:31No, just leave it all locked to us, Captain Kilby.

00:24:33I'll have the investors' commission and provision

00:24:34by the end of the month.

00:24:35That's all right.

00:24:36John!

00:24:37Over here.

00:24:38Well, you're looking a lot better.

00:24:40Aye, well.

00:24:41Everything all right at home?

00:24:43Oh, so-so.

00:24:44And Belle?

00:24:45What about her?

00:24:46Since she came back from that finishing school of hers,

00:24:47I haven't had a sensible word out of you.

00:24:48Oh, well.

00:24:49It's her life.

00:24:50She'll have to make of it what she can.

00:24:51Oh, well.

00:24:52It's her life.

00:24:53She'll have to make of it what she can.

00:24:54Oh, well.

00:24:55It's her life.

00:24:56She'll have to make of it what she can.

00:24:57What's that supposed to mean?

00:24:59You don't like what she's making of it?

00:25:01That's about the size of it.

00:25:02Some fella?

00:25:03Oh, no.

00:25:04Not just some fella.

00:25:05A very, very pleasant sort of fella.

00:25:07Going to Maggie.

00:25:08Well bred.

00:25:09So what's wrong with him?

00:25:10Oh, not a thing.

00:25:11You're going to have to let her go one day, Freddie.

00:25:27Well, well.

00:25:28Who's it from?

00:25:29The woman who owns chorus.

00:25:30You know, by Nancy Weissinger.

00:25:31Do you know her?

00:25:32Oh, aye.

00:25:33I know her, all right.

00:25:35The finishing school in Cheltenham has a considerable reputation.

00:25:40I congratulate you on your own work.

00:25:55Good reputation.

00:25:56I congratulate you on your choice, Miss Hewitt.

00:25:58I've heard my grandmother speak very highly of it.

00:26:01Did you approve?

00:26:02Of course I did.

00:26:03I loved it, didn't I, Aunt Maggie?

00:26:22Freddie.

00:26:23This is Mr. Burkstead.

00:26:24How do you do, Mr. Musgrave?

00:26:26Well enough, thanks.

00:26:28You'll have to excuse me, Mr. Burkstead.

00:26:30I have a tidy pile of work to be getting on with.

00:26:46I hope you'll visit us again, Mr. Burkstead.

00:26:48That is a very attractive prospect, Miss Hewitt.

00:26:49He didn't waste any time.

00:26:50I'll try to be happy for her, Freddie.

00:26:51He mightn't be the one.

00:26:52He could just be the passing through sort, but he's a good start.

00:26:53I'll have to mix him with him.

00:26:54She won't pick lower.

00:26:55Maggie.

00:26:56What now?

00:26:57I never thought I'd hear you.

00:26:58You always taught me enough to pay no attention to the man's outside, but to try to gauge the

00:26:59man himself.

00:27:00All right, all right.

00:27:01Just remember it was me that taught you.

00:27:02I...

00:27:03I just hope you know what they let her in for.

00:27:04Well, she's got to be letting for something sooner or later.

00:27:06Look, Freddie.

00:27:07You've got to let her go.

00:27:08Why?

00:27:09Why?

00:27:10Why?

00:27:11Why?

00:27:12Why?

00:27:13Why?

00:27:14Why?

00:27:15Why?

00:27:16Why?

00:27:17Why?

00:27:18Why?

00:27:19Why?

00:27:20Why?

00:27:21Why?

00:27:22Why?

00:27:23Why?

00:27:24Why?

00:27:25Why?

00:27:26Why?

00:27:27Why?

00:27:28Why?

00:27:29Why?

00:27:30Why?

00:27:31Because I've told you before, she doesn't think of you in that way.

00:27:34You bring it into the open, things will never be the same between you again.

00:27:38Face up to facts.

00:27:39She sees you as her brother.

00:27:41Face up to it, man.

00:27:48So, when are we seeing him again?

00:27:50Well, he won't be back for a while.

00:27:52He's away on business.

00:27:54I see.

00:27:55I'm going for a wash.

00:27:57I won't be in for a meal tonight.

00:27:58Well, tell your mother, it's how cooking you won't be eating.

00:28:06What's the matter with him, Maggie?

00:28:08He's worried.

00:28:09He doesn't want you to set your heart on the first man that's nice to you, that's all.

00:28:18So, where have you been hiding all these years?

00:28:21We went to Scotland when Gallagher died.

00:28:23Came back a couple of years ago.

00:28:26Me ma wanted to die in her own country.

00:28:30God rest her.

00:28:31I'm sorry.

00:28:32What happened to you?

00:28:36This.

00:28:41It was a present from a dissatisfied customer.

00:28:46Some bloke was having a go at me doll with a bottle.

00:28:50And I got in the way.

00:28:51That's life, eh?

00:28:52Connie, you know that consignment I brought over the water the night Gallagher died?

00:29:06Do you know what was in it?

00:29:09I took it to be the opium he smoked?

00:29:11Aye, there was that and all.

00:29:13But the bulk of it was stones.

00:29:15Gems.

00:29:17Badly well enough then, but worth a fortune now, so they say.

00:29:20Everybody thought Gallagher was killed because he was carrying them.

00:29:26Well, some people haven't forgotten about him.

00:29:30You see what I'm saying?

00:29:32Some of Gallagher's old servants, who the family got rid of.

00:29:36Back in shields, running a successful business.

00:29:39See how it might figure.

00:29:41Aye, I do.

00:29:42I take your point.

00:29:44And it was Freeman who told you about this?

00:29:46He gave me the commission that night.

00:29:50When Gallagher didn't come back to the towers that night,

00:29:54and then when his horse was found wandering the lanes,

00:29:57I'll tell you honestly, we decided to help ourselves.

00:30:01Gallagher thought we didn't know where all his little hiding places were.

00:30:06We weren't greedy.

00:30:08Just enough to pay us off all the stuff we'd had to put up with over the years.

00:30:12No jewels, mind, just cash.

00:30:14Then the new owner came, she didn't want us.

00:30:17I have my own staff.

00:30:21Well, I might have to move on.

00:30:25They've only got to look at us.

00:30:26They've only got to look at the way we live.

00:30:28We've never had that sort of money.

00:30:31Well, I don't need to convince you.

00:30:34Thanks for telling us.

00:30:35Your health, Freddie Musgrove.

00:30:40And yours, Connie Wheatley.

00:30:42Well, it's good to see you prospering, Freddie.

00:30:45And you.

00:30:47How's your done?

00:30:48Oh, no help.

00:30:49Listen, I think it's best we're not singing together till this thing's blown over.

00:30:53Agreed.

00:31:04I'm full of admiration for you, Mr Musgrove.

00:31:06In education, I had every privilege the world could offer.

00:31:10But it is quite clear to me now that I know a great deal less than you.

00:31:14And you say you taught yourself?

00:31:16Oh, I dare say Miss Hewitt could claim to have had a hand in me education.

00:31:20That's true, since I taught you to read and write.

00:31:22Aye, I was nout but a bare-arse key brat who used to run messages for people in his little scholar till I met Miss Hewitt.

00:31:27And how did the two of you meet?

00:31:28Oh, I'd earned a bit more money than usual.

00:31:30I thought it best to get some advice about what to do with it.

00:31:33She had a reputation on the key for being very fair.

00:31:36Still has.

00:31:37So I asked her.

00:31:40No, no, no.

00:31:41I'll do it.

00:31:43She is my mother, after all.

00:31:49And are you in business, Mr Bergsted?

00:31:52What are you up to?

00:31:54Why are you being so horrid?

00:31:56I'm not.

00:31:57I'm not being myself.

00:31:58Are you?

00:32:04Marcel has just told me that his grandmother would like us all to come to tea.

00:32:08Oh, that would be lovely.

00:32:10Where do you live exactly, Mr Bergsted?

00:32:13Over the river, about a mile or so from town.

00:32:16My grandmother has made the house very comfortable, I must say.

00:32:19I was eight when my father died.

00:32:22And I remember the towers as a gaunt, rather grim place.

00:32:25The towers?

00:32:26Mr Gallagher used to live there.

00:32:29That would be your father.

00:32:30That's right.

00:32:32I took my mother's maiden name.

00:32:35Please.

00:32:37Excuse me.

00:32:38I'm sorry.

00:32:39Perhaps it would be better if I were to go.

00:32:42Aye.

00:32:43Perhaps it would.

00:32:55May I call again, Miss Hewitt?

00:32:56Of course.

00:32:58Aunt Maggie had an attack like this the other day, but...

00:33:00I'm sure she'll be better soon.

00:33:02So we shall meet again, shall we?

00:33:05I hope so.

00:33:07I would like that.

00:33:08To be room for us.

00:33:09Are you alright?

00:33:10I'll do.

00:33:11Are you all right?

00:33:33I'll do.

00:33:34There's something you're not telling me.

00:33:42There is, isn't there?

00:33:45She'll have to know, Maggie.

00:33:46Know what?

00:33:49What is going on?

00:33:52What is so terrible that I can't be told?

00:33:54Maggie.

00:33:55What?

00:33:57Is it about Marcel or is it about me?

00:34:00What is it?

00:34:02Both.

00:34:04He's your brother.

00:34:06Your half-brother, to be exact.

00:34:09You're Gallagher's child, too.

00:34:17I don't rightly know where to begin.

00:34:20I was a runner then.

00:34:22Not but a nipper.

00:34:24And he was to earn a cross fetching and carrying for folk.

00:34:27It wasn't exactly outside the law.

00:34:29But you couldn't say it was exactly inside it either.

00:34:31There was a man called Freeman.

00:34:37I've got to run for you the night.

00:34:39What about the tide, mister?

00:34:41Slack water ready?

00:34:43Never mind the tide.

00:34:44This is urgent.

00:34:46He'll pay you well for this one.

00:34:48He'll be grateful.

00:34:49Who will?

00:34:52Oh, him.

00:34:54I hated going to that house.

00:34:57I damn near didn't get there that night.

00:34:59I only just made it across.

00:35:01Another quarter of an hour and the air would have taken me out to sea.

00:35:04It was an awful place, the towers.

00:35:10Like a house in a bad dream.

00:35:12And Roderick Gallagher was the madman who owned it.

00:35:15Going to see him always put the fear of God in me.

00:35:17Am I your father or not?

00:35:20What is it?

00:35:21It is the excise, Mr. Gallagher, sir.

00:35:23They're coming tonight.

00:35:24You're coming here?

00:35:25You told me this.

00:35:27Mr. Freeman did, sir.

00:35:29Conny, tell your father to get the casks out of the well and into the mitten.

00:35:32Go on!

00:35:44What do you think you're doing?

00:35:46Keep your mouth shut, woman.

00:35:48Not even those oaths from the Revenue will dare search a woman giving birth.

00:35:54Roderick!

00:35:55I hate you, Roderick.

00:35:58So?

00:35:59Would you like to know if it's your child?

00:36:01Well, it's not.

00:36:03Don't mess with me, you bitch.

00:36:11You touch her again!

00:36:14And I'll open my mouth all right, where it matters.

00:36:21Come on, you men!

00:36:22Please fight!

00:36:23They're here.

00:36:31Where did I put him?

00:36:33Under the bed.

00:36:34After me!

00:36:35You two!

00:36:36Upstairs!

00:36:36He doesn't manage!

00:36:37He'll have to.

00:36:38He's small enough.

00:36:39How dare you, sir!

00:36:44Get out of this house!

00:36:46Can't you see what's happening here?

00:36:47I have my warrant.

00:36:49I must do my duty.

00:36:50We have information...

00:36:52Damn your information!

00:36:53Gout!

00:36:54Gout!

00:36:55Gout!

00:37:00And that's when you came into the world.

00:37:07Get rid of that rat!

00:37:09No, by God!

00:37:10Oh, yes, my God!

00:37:12That is not so violent in this house.

00:37:14Either you do it, or I'll see to it.

00:37:16But I imagine you'll be more gentle than me.

00:37:20Listen to me, boy!

00:37:22You weren't here tonight, understand?

00:37:24Yes, sir.

00:37:25So where were you?

00:37:26Not here, sir.

00:37:28Good.

00:37:28Hold out of your hand.

00:37:33And it was that sovereign that led me to Maggie.

00:37:39I couldn't give it to me more, because she'd only have worried about it.

00:37:42So I decided to take it to Maggie.

00:37:45Everybody on the keys knew her.

00:37:47She was a good businesswoman, they said.

00:37:49And one you could trust.

00:37:51Freddie Musgrave, what are you up to?

00:37:53I need your advice, Miss Hewitt.

00:37:55Do you indeed?

00:37:56And what have you got to offer me in return?

00:38:05When he said he wanted to invest his money with me,

00:38:08I invited him back here for cocoa.

00:38:11I thought she was butts, you know, up the lump.

00:38:14But everyone thought she was sharp as a ferret when it came to business.

00:38:18And sharp enough not to gut the poor boogers who came to me for a loan.

00:38:23So she taught me about how money could earn interest.

00:38:26About how she got her cut and so on.

00:38:30She educated me.

00:38:32She got me reading.

00:38:33Once I got going, I ate books.

00:38:35Wolfed them.

00:38:36And though Maggie disapproved, I still did the occasional job on the river.

00:38:42But it was two years since I'd been to the towers.

00:38:44I never intended going back again.

00:38:46Or so I thought.

00:38:48Hey, I've got a special for you here, laddie.

00:38:51Mr. Gallagher took a tickly ass for you.

00:38:52No thanks, Mr. Freeman.

00:38:54The towers, lad, now.

00:38:56And don't lose it.

00:38:57Or they won't even find your bones.

00:38:58I'd never forgotten my last visit to the towers.

00:39:09And I was on edge from the minute I got in the sculler.

00:39:13I could have sworn someone was following me.

00:39:16I couldn't get there quick enough.

00:39:18Oh, no.

00:39:31He's going to kill us.

00:39:37You think you've been followed.

00:39:40Aye, sir.

00:39:45Have you got it?

00:39:46It's split when I fell.

00:39:49It's split!

00:40:05Quick.

00:40:06You better hide him just in case.

00:40:09Put him in the attic.

00:40:10Sir, you said we should have...

00:40:11I'm aware of what I said.

00:40:16What is this place?

00:40:39His father made it.

00:40:40For keeping the cargo he was smuggling.

00:40:42Human cargo.

00:40:44Don't ask me about it.

00:40:46He used to lock the master in here too when he was little.

00:40:49What's that noise?

00:40:51We only keep her in here when he's at home.

00:40:54Get in.

00:40:55My God, it's the band!

00:40:58You're keeping her in here!

00:41:00My God, that's not right.

00:41:02It's not.

00:41:03I know.

00:41:04We know.

00:41:05But what else?

00:41:06Bury her, like he said.

00:41:07I know it's cruel.

00:41:10I know.

00:41:13You'll come back, won't you?

00:41:14Don't want to be in here.

00:41:16Don't lock me in.

00:41:17I won't.

00:41:18Don't worry.

00:41:22What's her name?

00:41:25Belle.

00:41:27She's not daft or anything.

00:41:28There, there.

00:41:39It's all right.

00:41:40What's her name?

00:41:43I'll do.

00:42:01I'll do it.

00:42:03God head into heaven, come here, give me that branch!

00:42:26What are you doing, lad?

00:42:28I'm taking her.

00:42:29You bloody lot of christmas!

00:42:33And that's how you came to be living in this household.

00:42:45I said you were my cousin's child, that she had died, and I'd been landed with you.

00:42:50And my father.

00:42:52He went out that night and never came back.

00:42:55They found his horse wandering nearby, then they found his body in the river a few days

00:42:59later.

00:43:00Reckon he'd been attacked.

00:43:03But don't waste your sympathy on him.

00:43:06But he was my father, wasn't he?

00:43:08Or was he?

00:43:10What did my mother mean?

00:43:12There seems to be some doubt about it, doesn't there?

00:43:14It was Freddie was there, not me.

00:43:17Freddie?

00:43:18I reckon she knew she was dying.

00:43:19What does that mean?

00:43:20That she said all that to hurt him.

00:43:22To pay him back for all the hurt he'd given her.

00:43:24You mean it wasn't true?

00:43:25Well, I don't think so.

00:43:26So why would he want to kill his own child?

00:43:28He was a madman.

00:43:30He was a drunkard.

00:43:31He smoked opium.

00:43:31He spent half his life in cuckoo land.

00:43:33But it's possible that she was telling the truth.

00:43:35That I'm not his child.

00:43:36Of course it's possible, but...

00:43:38I don't care what my mother did, as long as that man doesn't prove to be my father.

00:43:41I don't care if she was a whore.

00:43:43Calm yourself down.

00:43:45There's nothing you can do about it.

00:43:47There's no way you can prove it either way.

00:43:49Why not?

00:43:50Wouldn't that weakly woman know?

00:43:52I could ask her if she knows.

00:43:53And you'd risk it on her say-saw.

00:43:55You take her word you're not a Gallagher, so you can marry a Gallagher.

00:43:58You hate him, don't you?

00:44:01Marcel was charming to you.

00:44:03He was bending over backwards to be pleasant.

00:44:06Why do you hate him so much?

00:44:08Ever since I came home, you've been so bitter with me.

00:44:11What's wrong with you?

00:44:12What have I done?

00:44:13My God, haven't you forgotten something?

00:44:16Don't forget, Freddie had the guts to walk out of that place with you.

00:44:19He saved you.

00:44:20And have you thanked him?

00:44:21Nah.

00:44:23Just cracking on about your precious Marcel,

00:44:25who may be the prettiest fella on Tyneside, I dare say,

00:44:28and with the manners of a Marquess,

00:44:30but you'll be lucky if it does half so much for you as Freddie did.

00:44:33Ever.

00:44:34Half as much.

00:44:37Sorry.

00:44:40I'm sorry.

00:44:42I'm very grateful, Freddie.

00:44:45Of course I am.

00:44:50Aye.

00:44:51Well.

00:44:54I'll go and talk to Connie Wheatley then.

00:44:56No, it's all right.

00:44:57It's what you want.

00:44:59I'll do it.

00:45:02Don't be angry, Freddie.

00:45:04No, I'd like to have a word with Connie anyway.

00:45:06I like her company.

00:45:08She's had it tough, and she hasn't gone sour.

00:45:12She's a good'un.

00:45:13All right.

00:45:19Still angry?

00:45:20He knew Gallagher.

00:45:21He thought he'd never have to have anything to do with the man or his sort ever again.

00:45:27You'll have to give him time.

00:45:29What do you want?

00:45:43Hello, Mr. Wheatley.

00:45:44We're not open.

00:45:45It's a Sunday.

00:45:46I came to have a word with Connie.

00:45:49Who are you?

00:45:50Last time you saw me, I had a bern in me arms, and you drove us in the cart down to Shields Dock.

00:45:55God almighty.

00:45:57What are you after?

00:45:58Let the fella get in first, Dar.

00:46:00Then he'll tell us what he's after.

00:46:01What does he want?

00:46:02Oh, for God's sake.

00:46:03Keep a civil tongue in your head.

00:46:05He was the only runner on the river that didn't buy you at the front end of a boat and sell you at the aft.

00:46:09Come on.

00:46:15You better come through to the office, Freddie.

00:46:16I don't know why I kept it.

00:46:20I should have posted it to Maggie Hewitt years ago.

00:46:23Never thought.

00:46:24When you're struggling, there's no time for out else, is there?

00:46:28I don't think you're going to like what's in it.

00:46:30Why'd you say that?

00:46:32Well, if she has no Gallagher's blood, it means she can marry him.

00:46:35If she can't marry him, it's because she has got Gallagher's blood.

00:46:39And who'd wish that on anyone?

00:46:42So, which is it?

00:46:46I, Isabelle Gallagher, am about to give birth to my first child.

00:46:51I wish it to be known that my husband is not its father.

00:46:54The father is a captain in the Swedish Navy.

00:46:57I will deposit this letter with my faithful servant, Biddy Wheatley,

00:47:01in the hope that she will one day give it to the child.

00:47:03It is my fervent desire that the child should understand that it shares no drop of blood

00:47:08with a monster that is Roderick Gallagher.

00:47:13There.

00:47:15You'll have to show it to Belle, Freddie.

00:47:17Why?

00:47:18He's a Gallagher.

00:47:20It's got to be her choice.

00:47:21That letter.

00:47:24It's her legacy-like.

00:47:25It's the only thing a poor mother was able to give her.

00:47:29It belongs to her, Freddie.

00:47:31And the knowledge in it belongs to her, too.

00:47:34Ah, there's something about the fella, I tell you.

00:47:37He makes my flesh crawl.

00:47:38The truth is the truth, man.

00:47:40And if you don't mind me saying you're trying to judge this thing from too close up,

00:47:45take a step back.

00:47:46He's right, Freddie.

00:47:49You know he is.

00:47:50Anyway, think of it like this.

00:47:53You hold back that letter,

00:47:55and things will never be straight between you and Belle again.

00:47:58Your conscience about it will be standing there between you messing things up.

00:48:09Get me about, Billy.

00:48:11Not a chance, Freddie.

00:48:14I'm not putting you in that ring today, son.

00:48:16You've got a nasty look in your eye.

00:48:19I don't think you'd quite do credit to the noble art, lad.

00:48:33Did you see her?

00:48:34Aye.

00:48:35I saw her.

00:48:36Did you find anything out?

00:48:40You can marry him.

00:48:41That's what you want.

00:48:46I don't think you've got a nasty look in your eye.

00:48:49I don't think you've got a nasty look in your eye.

00:48:50I don't think you've got a nasty look in your eye.

00:48:51I don't think you've got a nasty look in your eye.

00:48:52I don't think you've got a nasty look in your eye.

00:48:53I don't think you've got a nasty look in your eye.

00:48:54I don't think you've got a nasty look in your eye.

00:48:55I don't think you've got a nasty look in your eye.

00:48:56I don't think you've got a nasty look in your eye.

00:48:57I don't think you've got a nasty look in your eye.

00:48:58I don't think you've got a nasty look in your eye.

00:48:59I don't think you've got a nasty look in your eye.

00:49:00I don't think you've got a nasty look in your eye.

00:49:31So glad you could come.

00:49:39Where's Belle?

00:49:41She'll be down in a minute.

00:49:43But there's something she thought you ought to hear first.

00:49:46You go through. I'll go and find Freddy.

00:49:55So, you took her away from the towers because my father was going to kill her.

00:49:59What? Belle. His own daughter.

00:50:03His daughter by name, not by birth.

00:50:05Nevertheless.

00:50:05It must be difficult for you to believe, but it's the truth.

00:50:09Without the servants, Belle would never have lived.

00:50:11It was only because he was in such a stupor with all the opium that they were able to hide her.

00:50:16An opium addict as well.

00:50:18Aye. I used to run small packages across for him.

00:50:22I did a lot for your father.

00:50:24Clearly.

00:50:25How long are they going to be?

00:50:28Take it easy, lass.

00:50:32Didn't your grandmother ever tell you what sort of man her daughter married?

00:50:36She didn't like him. I knew that.

00:50:38But I didn't know why.

00:50:40She said he died in an accident.

00:50:45What really happened?

00:50:49He was probably attacked because of what he had on him that night.

00:50:52His horse was found wandering around and he was found later in the river with his skull broken.

00:50:58I see.

00:50:59Your grandmother never told you?

00:51:00No, she damn well did not.

00:51:04I'm sorry, Miss Hewitt.

00:51:06I've heard worse.

00:51:07I think, Mr. Bergstead, that you should give yourself time.

00:51:14Time to think about it all.

00:51:16There'll be talk. There's no getting away from that.

00:51:19People always think the worst.

00:51:23Everything was so perfect.

00:51:27I don't know. I...

00:51:28Don't say anything now.

00:51:30Think it out for yourself.

00:51:33Whatever you decide.

00:51:37He's going.

00:51:46Why is he going?

00:52:02What have you told him?

00:52:03What we agreed.

00:52:04No more, no less.

00:52:05It's true, Bill.

00:52:06Then why is he leaving?

00:52:08He's upset.

00:52:09Knowing that you wouldn't even be alive if his father had had his way.

00:52:13It's a lot to take in.

00:52:14Ah, he's got plenty to think about, all right.

00:52:16And I'm sure that suits you, doesn't it, Freddy?

00:52:19What's the matter with you?

00:52:21Why can't you be happy that someone like him should care for me?

00:52:23Don't be daft, girl.

00:52:25Half the country would want to care for you if they knew you were available.

00:52:29What's the matter with you?

00:52:31Don't you ever look in a mirror?

00:52:33Take a look.

00:52:34I don't want you throwing all that away on a Gallagher.

00:52:37You don't want me to marry anyone.

00:52:41She's in love. You can't deny it.

00:52:44I don't.

00:52:45What's she in love with?

00:52:48What's wrong?

00:52:51Little Gore.

00:52:52Maggie.

00:52:54Don't start.

00:52:54You know what I think about doctors?

00:52:56I don't care.

00:52:57You've got to go and see him again.

00:52:59Why?

00:52:59It's either good news or bad news.

00:53:03Please, Maggie.

00:53:04All right.

00:53:06I'll go and wear some more of our money, partner.

00:53:13I'll go and wear some more of our money.

00:53:43Marcel, what are you doing here?

00:53:55I had to see you.

00:53:57I didn't think you'd come back.

00:54:00Of course I came back.

00:54:02I love you.

00:54:04Marcel, I'm so sorry.

00:54:06For what?

00:54:08For being who I am.

00:54:11Mel.

00:54:11Will you marry me?

00:54:16I'll say you will.

00:54:16I beg you.

00:54:19Of course I will.

00:54:20I love you, too.

00:54:23You will?

00:54:25Then I'll be able to sleep tonight.

00:54:35I love you, Belle.

00:54:35I must go.

00:54:50I know.

00:54:51I've always thought of her as a daughter.

00:55:12You know that.

00:55:13But this Marcel fella, what's he up to?

00:55:15I mean, why hasn't he written or something?

00:55:17It's been a fortnight.

00:55:18I mean, I'd be delighted, mind, if it turns out someone's broken his charming, elegant neck

00:55:21for him.

00:55:22But it's bloody odd behaviour, don't you think?

00:55:24Well, Belle says he has to go away on business.

00:55:26Mills, estates to manage.

00:55:27It's possible.

00:55:29I don't reckon that fella's ever seen a mill in his life.

00:55:32As I'm managing an estate, I don't reckon he can manage to pass wind without help.

00:55:36Isn't it time we found out what his game is?

00:55:37I think what you'll find out will be quite simple, Freddie, just that the rich are different.

00:55:41Different rules apply.

00:55:45Blue call himself Taylor out front.

00:55:47And will you condescend to grant him a moment of your precious time?

00:55:51High-class jeweller and silversmith to the gentry.

00:55:54Oh, that Taylor.

00:55:56The fence.

00:55:58Show him in.

00:55:58Right away.

00:56:03What the hell does he want?

00:56:04We'll soon find out.

00:56:07Mr. Taylor.

00:56:13Have you read that?

00:56:17A substantial reward is offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the

00:56:21person responsible for the robbery and murder of Mr. Roderick Gallagher of the Towers in

00:56:26September 1867.

00:56:29Why are you showing us this, Mr. Taylor?

00:56:31Do you remember that little diamond I bought from you, Miss Hewitt?

00:56:35Do you also recall that you asked me not to reveal that I'd bought it from you, but to say

00:56:43that I had obtained it from a Dutch seaman?

00:56:47Yes.

00:56:49Mr. Freeman came to see me yesterday.

00:56:53He's found out that I handled that diamond.

00:56:55And he wanted to know who I'd bought it from.

00:56:59What did you tell him?

00:57:01I told him about the Dutch sailor.

00:57:05As you instructed.

00:57:06I don't see what this has to do with the advertisement.

00:57:09A lot of people in the river trade are of the opinion that Mr. Gallagher was killed because

00:57:16of the collection of jewels he was carrying.

00:57:20Now, it's plain to me that Freeman thinks that your little diamond came from that collection.

00:57:26And it's also clear to me that he planted that advertisement.

00:57:31And that makes me very frightened, Miss Hewitt.

00:57:34Very frightened.

00:57:36Freeman's lot have done some terrible things to people.

00:57:39Hmm?

00:57:41Well, I didn't bargain for this, I can tell you.

00:57:42I didn't bargain for it.

00:57:45Mr. Taylor.

00:57:46No, no, no, no.

00:57:47No.

00:57:47You've always been very fair with me, Miss Hewitt.

00:57:54Well, I don't see how giving you some of the money back will make Freeman believe you any

00:57:58better, do you?

00:58:00But it might give you the courage to keep us out of it.

00:58:03Oh, aye.

00:58:05Aye.

00:58:06Aye, it might and all.

00:58:17I'm relying on you, Mr. Taylor.

00:58:28If Freeman calls again, make sure you convince him.

00:58:41None of us will succeed if you fail.

00:58:44Well, I wish you a good day, ma'am.

00:58:47I'm wondering if I shouldn't go and have it out with Freeman over these jewels.

00:58:53I don't like the idea of him thinking I know anything about them.

00:58:56Like Taylor said, she's got some dangerous friends.

00:58:59Reckon I'll go and see him.

00:59:00No, Freddie, don't go get involved.

00:59:03He can work it out for himself.

00:59:05Aye, maybe you're right.

00:59:07Again.

00:59:10It's nothing, I'll be all right in a minute.

00:59:14Oh.

00:59:15That was fun.

00:59:18You been to see that doctor?

00:59:20Yes.

00:59:22You gonna tell me about it?

00:59:24Not now.

00:59:25Come on, take me home.

00:59:28I think I will.

00:59:29I'm surprised you came.

00:59:38I'd better do this with you.

00:59:40She is.

00:59:41But she wouldn't want me to miss me Saturday tea in the bosom of me family.

00:59:44Well, I'm glad to hear it.

00:59:46Because we hardly see you in the week.

00:59:47And I've got enough of me place without your mother running around with a face like a mudflat.

00:59:51Have you spoken to our Nancy yet?

00:59:53Hello, Freddie.

00:59:54I was just telling the bank to hear about Nancy.

00:59:58Why?

00:59:59She's got this, er, fella after her.

01:00:02Yeah?

01:00:02What's he like?

01:00:03I've never seen him.

01:00:05He's a bloody exciseman.

01:00:07That's enough for me.

01:00:07Oh, for God's sake, though.

01:00:09He's an exciseman.

01:00:11They're a type.

01:00:11And I suppose you've said your piece to her about them all having cloburn hooves and forked tails and horns and bloodshot eyes.

01:00:19The tea's ready.

01:00:21Bigoted old bugger.

01:00:23An exciseman.

01:00:24A Gallagher.

01:00:26What?

01:00:27What's the difference, Freddie?

01:00:29Darn Nancy, you and Val.

01:00:31It's what you call prejudice, whichever way you cut it.

01:00:34What's the difference?

01:00:35The difference is I've met this fella.

01:00:39He's good-looking, he's charming, and I don't trust him an inch.

01:00:44There's something he's not telling us.

01:00:47That's the difference.

01:00:49Not that anything I say will stop it.

01:00:52So, how is the miss?

01:00:55Is she all right to be left?

01:00:57Aye.

01:00:58The bell's there.

01:01:00It's not serious.

01:01:02It's been going on a long time.

01:01:04Do we know what's wrong?

01:01:05She never lets on.

01:01:07They think it's something called a tumour.

01:01:10And it's growing.

01:01:11That's why she's in pain.

01:01:12How do you know this, Ma?

01:01:14Well, she talks to me, lad.

01:01:16And don't let on I told you.

01:01:18I worry about her, I really do.

01:01:20Aye.

01:01:20More than you worry about me.

01:01:22You're wrong there, Ma.

01:01:23I've told you before.

01:01:24I don't want any of your fancy excuses.

01:01:27There's something between you two that shuts me out.

01:01:30Has been for years.

01:01:31God.

01:01:31Why is it always like this?

01:01:33If you knew how you sounded, how you smell, you smell of anger, all of you.

01:01:39And right now, it's making me choke.

01:01:50Freddie?

01:01:51Aye.

01:01:52I knew you'd be here.

01:01:58You know, I've been seeing Joseph Pratt.

01:02:01Well, he's asked me to marry him.

01:02:03And I think I might have to refuse.

01:02:05Because of Dar.

01:02:07Because he's an exciseman.

01:02:10If he loves you, you should take him.

01:02:13Do you care for him?

01:02:15Yes, I do.

01:02:17He's kind and honest.

01:02:19Yes, I do care.

01:02:21I more than care.

01:02:22Then who gives that for what people think?

01:02:26I hoped you'd think that, Freddie.

01:02:27Thanks.

01:02:36Freddie.

01:02:37Our Nancy's young man is here to see you.

01:02:41You must be Joe, then.

01:02:43What can I do for you?

01:02:44I hear you're putting a good word for me with Nancy.

01:02:51Sort of.

01:02:52Well, I thought one good turn deserves another.

01:02:55An advertisement has appeared with the reward attached.

01:02:58About Gallagher.

01:02:59Yeah, I've seen it.

01:03:00Aye, well, there's been a result.

01:03:02Someone's written a letter without putting his name to it.

01:03:04Now, I haven't seen it.

01:03:06But I've been told it has to do with you.

01:03:08About me?

01:03:09In what way?

01:03:10Well, that you used to run stuff for Gallagher.

01:03:12And you made a delivery to him the night he was killed.

01:03:15Oh, that's true.

01:03:17Anything else?

01:03:18But I think that'll be enough.

01:03:19Well, enough to start questioning you about it all.

01:03:22Aye, I see.

01:03:24Thanks for the warning, Joe.

01:03:26Someone's obviously got it in for me.

01:03:28Keep you up to date, eh?

01:03:29Aye.

01:03:31I'll do that.

01:03:38Oh, Bill.

01:03:40When you said you loved me.

01:03:42What?

01:03:43What?

01:03:44I could have...

01:03:45I could have jumped over a mountain.

01:03:48I felt 20 feet tall.

01:03:51Do you still love me?

01:03:53Oh, yes.

01:03:55I've always dreamt of someone like you.

01:03:58I couldn't believe you were going to be real.

01:04:01But you are.

01:04:02And you're here.

01:04:03I'm here.

01:04:04I'm here.

01:04:10Miss Hewitt.

01:04:13Mr. Musgrave.

01:04:14My grandmother wishes me to send her warmest regards

01:04:18and invite you to visit her at the Towers as soon as it's convenient.

01:04:22Well, we'll look forward to that, don't we, Freddy?

01:04:24There's one more thing.

01:04:30Yes?

01:04:31A request I wish to make on my own behalf.

01:04:34A request for which I believe I have the approval of the person concerned.

01:04:38I think you know what it is.

01:04:42I do.

01:04:47Are you happy?

01:04:51Then you have my approval, too.

01:04:53As long as you look after her.

01:04:55Yes, you can marry her.

01:04:57Thank you, Aunt Madeline.

01:04:58Thank you very much.

01:04:58You've made us both very happy.

01:05:00Well, go on off with you.

01:05:02You've had your answer.

01:05:09Married.

01:05:11She's only known him three months.

01:05:13It's a bit of a rush, isn't it?

01:05:14Freddy, Freddy, it isn't a question of how long.

01:05:17It's how she feels.

01:05:18No point in feeling sorry for yourself.

01:05:22It isn't me I feel sorry for.

01:05:25It's her.

01:05:26Well, you might as well get used to it.

01:05:28She isn't going to change her mind.

01:05:30This is your house.

01:05:41What do you think?

01:05:43It's beautiful.

01:05:45Not nearly as beautiful as you are.

01:05:48I cannot wait for you to meet Grandma.

01:05:53Cummings.

01:05:54Is Grandma Ma upstairs?

01:05:56No, sir.

01:05:56She insisted on coming down.

01:05:58That's good.

01:05:58Grandma Ma's maid.

01:06:00How do you do?

01:06:01Very well, thank you, Miss.

01:06:02She's a maid, not a maid in her arms.

01:06:10So here is Marcel's discovery.

01:06:13Miss Isabel Hewitt, Grand Ma.

01:06:15How do you do, Mrs. Bergstead?

01:06:17Well, enough, thank you.

01:06:19Yes, I can see the reason for all the fuss.

01:06:22Do sit down, my dear.

01:06:26Ring for tea, will you, Marcel?

01:06:30Grand Ma Ma, you shouldn't have come downstairs, you know.

01:06:34You are very naughty.

01:06:36Naughty.

01:06:37My dear boy, I scarcely know the meaning of the word.

01:06:40I am sure I have never been naughty in my entire life.

01:06:44I serve twenty-four with tea, which I know is not conventional, but I was never one for convention.

01:06:56I obey the laws, but not the rules.

01:06:58Isn't that so?

01:06:59It is.

01:07:01You're a law unto yourself, Grandma.

01:07:03Marcel.

01:07:08Do excuse me.

01:07:09Well, well, well, what a strange situation we find ourselves in, to think that your mother

01:07:22and Marcel's mother both married the same man.

01:07:28An unfortunate choice.

01:07:30And now here you are, back in the house where you were born.

01:07:34Does it seem very strange to you?

01:07:37Yes.

01:07:38I can't remember it, of course, but I have thought about it a great deal recently.

01:07:44It is very different from how I imagined it.

01:07:47So much more handsome.

01:07:49Naturally.

01:07:51It might all have been yours, of course, had things turned out differently.

01:07:56So I see it as a sort of poetic justice that you should return here.

01:08:01A homecoming, indeed.

01:08:03I'm so glad you think so.

01:08:05I'm glad, too.

01:08:06I congratulate your aunt.

01:08:08She has obviously furnished you with a sterling education.

01:08:12I think Marcel an extremely lucky young man to have found you.

01:08:27Yes, I believe she will do as well as any.

01:08:29If he is determined, he seems to be, doesn't he?

01:08:32Yes.

01:08:33He does, Mom.

01:08:33Of course, I knew him.

01:08:40Used to work for the bloody madman, didn't I?

01:08:43Used to bury his French brandy in the midden.

01:08:45God knows.

01:08:46And I know what happened to the bastard and all.

01:08:49Of course I did.

01:08:49Probably, for all you know, I am the only one who does.

01:08:54It's like a dream, Aunt Maggie.

01:09:00The old lady wears a wig and does herself up like a fairy godmother.

01:09:03And the luxury.

01:09:05There are 18 servants.

01:09:06And that's not counting the outside stuff.

01:09:09And he loves me.

01:09:10He really does.

01:09:13And the old lady said how much she approves of his choice.

01:09:15She said so twice.

01:09:16Oh!

01:09:16And you're invited whenever you want to go.

01:09:20You will, won't you?

01:09:21Of course I will.

01:09:23As soon as I'm over this bout, I'll be across that river like an eel in the moonlight.

01:09:28Aunt Maggie, I love you so much.

01:09:31Get better soon.

01:09:32I'll do my best.

01:09:35Be rich.

01:09:35Be rich, rich, rich.

01:09:37Come on, you rich.

01:09:38Bloody hell.

01:09:40What's that?

01:09:41There you are.

01:09:42See?

01:09:43Oh, God.

01:09:44Have you?

01:09:47You haven't been blabbing about this, have you?

01:09:50Blabbing?

01:09:50What do you mean, blabbing?

01:09:52It's meant for the taking, that is.

01:09:54Don't be bloody daft.

01:09:55You weren't there.

01:09:56We'll be rich.

01:09:58Don't even need the other stuff.

01:09:59I needn't bother now.

01:10:02You weren't there.

01:10:03Oh, yes, I was.

01:10:06I saw it all.

01:10:07I'd done for him.

01:10:09I saw it all.

01:10:10He would be rich.

01:10:11What the hell are you talking about?

01:10:14Oh, God.

01:10:19What other stuff?

01:10:20You were there, you said?

01:10:22I was.

01:10:23Straight.

01:10:24You were there.

01:10:26You waited.

01:10:27You took the bloody jewels off Gallagher after he was dead, didn't you?

01:10:35You great...

01:10:36Oh!

01:10:37Mother of God, you'll be the death of us all yet, you stupid, drunken bastard!

01:10:42What's going on?

01:10:44Ah!

01:10:46Stop!

01:10:48Stop!

01:10:49You're an old fool!

01:10:50You're very stubborn.

01:10:55Hmm?

01:10:57You're very stupid.

01:11:02Now, I'll tell you something.

01:11:05My little cat gets quite peckish of an evening.

01:11:08She likes her meat very fresh.

01:11:14So I think I'll cut your ears off.

01:11:16Just a minute.

01:11:34Hello?

01:11:36Who is it?

01:11:37Oh, God.

01:11:49What have you done to you, da?

01:11:52She stopped me sending for the doctor last week.

01:11:54When was she lost in real pain?

01:11:55You were there.

01:11:56The day before yesterday?

01:11:57Yeah.

01:11:57And last night, yes.

01:11:58What are you two whispering about?

01:12:00I'm going mad sitting around this house.

01:12:02I'm going into the office.

01:12:03See if I can catch them skiving.

01:12:04You'll do no such thing.

01:12:06You try and stop me.

01:12:08Well, in that case, I'll join you.

01:12:09I think it's about time I had a word with Freeman.

01:12:11And you've got a bottom drawer to prepare.

01:12:14I suggest you get on with it.

01:12:15You've left yourself little enough time before this wedding of yours.

01:12:18Come on, Freddy.

01:12:19Come on, Freddy.

01:12:35What the devil are you talking about?

01:12:37What the devil are you talking about?

01:12:38What the devil are you talking about?

01:12:39What the devil are you talking about?

01:12:40What the devil are you talking about?

01:12:41What the devil are you talking about?

01:12:42What the devil are you talking about?

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