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00:06You
00:37You're due to hang at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning.
00:4322 hours from now.
00:52You wish to make a new statement about the murder of David Blakely,
00:55one that may materially affect your legal situation.
00:58Yes.
01:08I had been ill for two weeks.
01:12The miscarriage.
01:17David had been so sorry.
01:22Are you watching me sleep?
01:25Listening to you snore.
01:28I don't snore.
01:31I want to be woken up by your snoring for the rest of my life.
01:38Sobby little fool.
01:49Is your stomach still painful?
01:53It's fine.
01:55Dr. says he's healing well.
01:57Good.
02:00Because I'm taking you out tonight.
02:02Mmm.
02:02Clean slate.
02:04No more fighting.
02:05No more...
02:05Cinema cleaning girls.
02:07She was an usherette.
02:09I do have some self-respect.
02:13Neither one of us has been perfect.
02:15From now on, we're going to be a boring, old married couple.
02:20You in a housecoat, me in slippers.
02:24And occasionally, we'll talk with how young, foolish we used to be.
02:29Promise?
02:38Yes.
02:48See you tonight.
02:52Be ready at eight.
02:53I'm Kim.
03:08Hello?
03:10I'm just going to come back to town.
03:30Fendlaters residence.
03:32Is David there?
03:34No.
03:43Hello?
03:44And who was that girl?
03:47Look, David isn't here, all right?
03:50I got Desmond to drive me to the Fendlaters.
03:53Wait here.
04:00I want to speak to David.
04:01He's not here.
04:02His car's outside.
04:04I know he's in there with some girl.
04:06That's our nanny.
04:07You did this, didn't you?
04:08You threw her at him.
04:10David!
04:11He's left you, Ruth.
04:12You won't see him ever again.
04:14You're lying.
04:15I have only ever told you the truth.
04:16You've never wanted to hear it.
04:18You can't just walk away.
04:21With everything in ruins.
04:23I know you need someone to blame for the way your life has turned out.
04:27You know, I had you down as a dangerous sort of woman, a predator who set a trap for a
04:31naive boy.
04:32But I was wrong.
04:33You're just a mess.
04:37A wretched, ungovernable, emotionally incontinent mess.
04:42A whirlwind of shabby destruction bringing everyone else down with you.
04:46My job, my savings, my daughter, my unborn child are all gone because of him.
04:58He does not get to walk away without saying a word.
05:01He doesn't.
05:02I have to speak to him.
05:03David!
05:04There's nothing to say.
05:05Then I want my key back.
05:06Virgin and Gardens, I want my key back.
05:08I'll have it sent to you.
05:10You cannot do this!
05:11You can't do this!
05:12David!
05:14David!
05:14David, I know you, I am!
05:16David!
05:17I felt I had to do something.
05:21Anything.
05:23To make him listen.
05:25Ruth!
05:26Ruth!
05:27David!
05:27That's enough!
05:28David!
05:28That's enough!
05:29That's enough!
05:29He didn't help the girl.
05:31There's nothing at me.
05:32Does he have a key to Edison Gardens?
05:34A place I rented for you.
05:36Your new start.
05:37Has he been there all along?
05:40What are you looking?
05:41David!
05:42Get in the car room!
05:42David!
05:43In the car room!
05:44I had to go back the next day.
05:46I was determined to make David speak to me.
05:50Their plan.
05:52What they had wanted all along to get David away from me.
05:55Without looking back, without acknowledging what he had done to me.
05:58It had worked.
05:59Is it all in?
06:00Are you all in?
06:02All night I sat there.
06:04And thought about the last two years.
06:06When I first met David, I was managing a successful club.
06:10I had two beautiful children.
06:14I had money in the bank.
06:16Admirers.
06:18A lovely flat.
06:21And now all I had was a bed-sitting room.
06:24No money.
06:25No job.
06:27And a man who swore he loved me one day.
06:29And then beat and abused me the next.
06:33A man who was relieved when I lost the child he fathered.
06:39I thought and I thought all the things he had said to me.
06:43All the things he had done to me.
06:44And I just felt pure rage.
07:03I don't know what to do.
07:05Make some coffee.
07:07I don't want any coffee.
07:08Tea then!
07:09I don't want any fucking tea!
07:19I just wish he was dead.
07:22I wish he was dead.
07:23I wish he would jump in a lake and drown and I could just be free.
07:27We could be free.
07:30We could be free.
07:33You just want to be done with all of it.
07:36Do you?
07:39Whose idea was it?
07:41To get the gun.
08:10I wouldn't know how to use it.
08:14I wouldn't know how to aim it.
08:17I'll show you.
08:24I need the permanent undersecretary of state.
08:27He's at Ascot.
08:28Well get him bloody back from Ascot.
08:30What message should I give?
08:32Tell him Ruth Ellis isn't going to hang tomorrow.
08:37Mrs. Ellis is accusing Desmond Cusson of conspiracy to murder.
08:41Yes.
08:42The execution will have to be postponed while he's interviewed.
08:45If charges are brought against him, Ruth Ellis will be the principal witness.
08:49She will be needed to give evidence.
08:51That's to say nothing for her own conviction which can now be regarded as unsafe.
08:55She was drunk.
08:55She was influenced by this man.
08:57I anticipate a retrial at the very least.
08:59You are not in fact a criminal lawyer, Mr. Mishkon.
09:03You are a divorce solicitor?
09:07Yes.
09:09Well the undersecretary is on his way back from Ascot.
09:11I will brief him and doubtless he will wish to speak to the home secretary.
09:14But the execution will be postponed while all this is investigated.
09:17I can give no such assurance, not on the strength of this alone.
09:21Then what would you need?
09:22We could do nothing until Cusson is interviewed at the very least.
09:26We must have some corroborating evidence.
09:28Until then, I'm afraid, these are just words.
09:32Then call Scotland Yard and instruct them to find him now.
09:35As I say, I will inform my superiors.
09:37We have 16 hours until she is due to die.
09:43You're right.
09:44I know little of criminal law.
09:45But I know how long it takes to divorce someone.
09:48Six months minimum between the degrees Nysai and Absolute
09:53to ensure the grounds are correct that the marriage is truly unsalvageable.
09:57Because a divorce is an absolute that cannot be undone.
10:00Your government passed that law.
10:02And you give this woman between conviction and killing her 22 days?
10:08Call the bloody police.
10:17Cusson left his office 20 minutes ago.
10:19He's on his way home.
10:21You said it yourself, sir.
10:23She pulled the trigger.
10:25Doesn't matter where she got the gun.
10:28You did everything right.
10:34Let's go.
10:43Thank you for coming back.
10:45I know I wasn't the most gracious hostess last time.
10:49I deserved it.
10:51You're many things.
10:54But you're no coward.
10:56I wasn't when there was no hope.
11:01Now I'm bloody petrified.
11:10I remember when you and Vicky came to visit me in the hospital.
11:14And you brought gin and a gramophone.
11:18Matron told us not to turn the place into a bordello.
11:20But I admit that she was absolutely smashed and dancing with us.
11:24I remember Vicky flashing the geriatric ward.
11:28And three of them proposing to her.
11:32We sat up on the roof and watched the sun come up.
11:42I wish we could do that tomorrow morning.
11:45But for Mr. Pierpoint.
11:48Well, the hangman can sod off back to his pub.
11:53Your statement changed everything.
11:57You do know what his pub is called?
12:00Help the poor struggler.
12:02No.
12:04Joy told me.
12:10Listen.
12:12I can try to find Desmond.
12:14Get a confession.
12:16Take it to the police.
12:17We don't have to.
12:19DCI Davis has been at the home office getting a rocket up his arse.
12:25They're going to find Desmond, Jackie.
12:28He's going to be arrested and charged tonight.
12:44Sir, you want to know if I have anything else that might help you?
12:48As you can see, I'm in no fit state to help anyone.
12:51But you knew.
12:55You clearly knew about the gun.
12:57I made certain suppositions which have proved to be true.
13:01You told her to stay quiet?
13:03You advised her to lie, to perjure herself in Crown Court?
13:06I was bound by client confidentiality, as I still am.
13:11Mrs. Ellis made me swear not to say anything.
13:15You may say I made the wrong decision.
13:17Perhaps I did.
13:18My aim was to show that she was provoked.
13:21Not that she conspired with anyone.
13:24Premeditated the whole thing.
13:25Well, that was very convenient for Desmond Cusson.
13:28That you took that route.
13:32Did you make a deal with him?
13:34Certainly not, my friend.
13:36I suppose my problem is that I'm not brave enough to stand up to them all.
13:42To stand up to it.
13:46It?
13:46The English machine.
13:48The whole thuddering weight of it.
13:52Are you talking about a conspiracy?
13:54Nothing so vulgar.
13:57The machine is bigger than any one man.
14:00It's bigger than any gentleman's club, courtroom, or police station.
14:08It is concerned with self-preservation above all.
14:11And it is ruthless, you may say.
14:13To the point of savagery to anyone who threatens it.
14:17And Ruth threatens it in every possible way.
14:19And that is why the machine is determined to get her.
14:22It has been from the start.
14:26And you're drunk, man.
14:28And this is dangerous nonsense.
14:30This is the law.
14:31The justice system.
14:33The finest in the world.
14:35And you say I'm talking nonsense.
14:38I was like you, you know.
14:40I thought I was one of the good ones.
14:43Fighting the machine.
14:46Until I realized I'm just a cock.
14:49Being ground in it.
14:50If you know something that could help her.
14:54We have hours to save her life.
14:57It's too late.
15:08Get behind, man.
15:10Where did you sleep at night?
15:12You said, man.
15:15Get behind.
15:17Get behind.
15:19Get behind.
15:20Get behind.
15:21Get behind.
15:23Get behind.
15:25Why didn't you say anything about Desmond Cusson before?
15:30It seemed traitorous.
15:33Until I realized he betrayed me worse.
15:36He promised to look after Andre.
15:40Nothing.
15:40Not a visit.
15:41Not a single penny.
15:44What does Andre know?
15:45He's been told you're in Italy.
15:47Modeling swimsuits.
15:50The MP, Mr Rogers and his wife, they've been very kind.
15:55Offered to take him to the country for a few days.
15:57Get him away from all this.
16:00But now, we might not need to.
16:03They tannoyed the Undersecretary of State at Ascot.
16:07The press heard it.
16:09Reporters kept out of the house.
16:11One from bloody New Zealand.
16:13Evening papers, all saying the same thing.
16:15A last minute reprove.
16:17And there's been money sent in by well-wishers.
16:20Enough for you and Andre to get away somewhere.
16:23A new life.
16:25Well, you'll never need to work again.
16:27Talk shows.
16:27After dinner speeches, you're a flaming celebrity.
16:34Evans, Bedley, Alice!
16:37Evans, Bedley, Alice!
16:39Evans, Bedley, Alice!
16:50There's hundreds of them.
16:57Evans, Bedley, Alice!
17:00Evans, Becky Ellis!
17:02Evans, Becky Ellis!
17:49Hundreds of people have gathered this evening outside Holloway prison in support of Mrs.
17:54Ruth Ellis, who is due to hang tomorrow morning for the murder of her lover, David Blakely.
17:59A nightclub hostess, Mrs. Ellis was sentenced to death at the Old Bailey on the 21st of June
18:04this year for killing Mr. Blakely.
18:06Lawyers for Mrs. Ellis claim that new evidence has surfaced implicating an unnamed person and
18:11placing them at the scene of the crime.
18:13The newly appointed solicitor, Mr. Victor Mishkon, has submitted evidence to the Home Office.
18:23This heat, it's hellish.
18:27Let's get out of London, pack some things.
18:47It's nine o'clock, twelve hours until she hangs.
18:50Why aren't you out looking for Desmond Cousin?
18:53She shot him in the back, right?
18:54Point-blank range.
18:56An innocent bloke.
18:57Could have been any one of us.
18:58She deserves the bloody swing for it.
19:00Oh, shut up, Peter.
19:04We look for him, all right?
19:06There's no answer at Cousin's flat.
19:08We've driven round the West End for hours.
19:10Probably given two men and half a day to search the whole of bloody London.
19:15Does it really seem like anyone wants him to be found?
19:23Sir, where is he?
19:26Upstairs.
19:27Thanks.
19:28Desmond.
19:29Do you know how I can find him?
19:33You know me, Jackie.
19:35I'm no gross.
19:36No police.
19:37They've given up.
19:39Please, tell me, Maurice.
19:41He's here with one of your girls.
19:46She should have asked me.
19:50To take care of him.
19:53Blakely.
19:59I'd have taken pleasure in it.
20:02Ruth is in there waiting to die.
20:05While you're here enjoying yourself.
20:18I've got reporters chasing me night and day.
20:22Customers deserted me.
20:24And you want me to grass up one of the only punters I've got left.
20:32Ruthie wanted everything.
20:33A big job, a big posh bloke, a big rock in her finger.
20:40She went too far.
20:42It took too much.
20:46She ruined all of us.
20:53I know you're not a bad man, but you've done some bad things.
20:59To Ruth.
21:03To me.
21:06This is your chance to fix it.
21:08All of it.
21:10Help me find him.
21:13Please.
21:20Open the door, Desmond.
21:22There's no police here.
21:42You've been here all along.
21:47I've come here as a friend.
21:49To ask you to do the right thing.
21:51To ask you to do the right thing.
21:51The police know you helped kill Blakely.
21:53You may not have pulled the trigger, but he is dead because of you.
21:57She's lying.
21:59Save her own skin.
22:00I don't blame her, but I have nothing to do with anything.
22:04You have one chance to save the woman you loved.
22:10She never loved me.
22:11Is that why you did it?
22:13To punish Ruth and David together?
22:16You knew she would be arrested.
22:19She came to you when she was desperate.
22:22You could have helped her.
22:23You should have helped her.
22:25But instead you gave a broken woman a loaded gun.
22:28You know they haven't even told Andre yet about what is happening to his mother.
22:34But soon they will have to.
22:36They will have to tell him that she isn't in Italy modeling swimsuits.
22:42That she's dead.
22:46Hanged.
22:49And they will not even be able to visit her grave.
22:52Because she will be buried with murderers in a prison pit.
22:55What you have done to that child is unforgivable.
23:00I told Ruth.
23:01He should have been at her mother's that day.
23:03Was Andre there?
23:05Did he see something?
23:10Well, make sure he gets this.
23:16We're leaving.
23:21Wait.
23:22Wait.
23:25Wait.
23:25Wait.
23:26Wait.
23:31He's gone.
23:33Of course he has.
23:35I told the police, but he could be anywhere by now.
23:39He talked about Andre.
23:43Was Andre there when Desmond gave you the gun?
23:47Did he see Desmond gave it to you?
23:51Right hand on first.
23:52Left hand supporting.
23:55Legs shoulder-width apart.
24:00Elbows straight, not locked.
24:02Now this little blade is the sight.
24:05Get that on your target.
24:07Then squeeze the trigger.
24:09Most importantly, don't hold your breath.
24:11Or you'll tense up.
24:12And you won't hit the target.
24:16Breathe.
24:21In and out.
24:24Nice and calm.
24:32I can't do it.
24:34I can't do it.
24:36Yes, you can.
24:53You see?
24:57I told you to wait in the car. Go back now!
25:03How much does he know?
25:06He knows enough.
25:08He's your witness.
25:09The police need evidence to support your statement.
25:13We thought only Desmond could give that, but Andre could.
25:17I won't.
25:17I will not use him like that.
25:19I will not ask that of him.
25:21I think he knows you're here.
25:24Of course he does.
25:27He's a smart boy.
25:29He doesn't believe that nonsense about swimsuits in Italy.
25:31Then let him talk to the police.
25:37If he gives a statement to the police,
25:40and it fails,
25:44he will blame himself.
25:46But you still have a chance,
25:48if you ask him to do this.
25:52He needs to tell them and the police what he knows tonight.
26:03I won't be long.
26:10You will look after him.
26:11You promise.
26:13Whatever happens.
26:15I swear it.
26:47You're quite well there, dear.
26:49Yes, she's quite alright.
26:53Are you alright?
26:58I don't know.
27:03I'm here.
27:04I'm with you.
27:06I love you.
27:10I know.
27:16I don't think I can.
27:21Of course you can.
27:53I don't know.
27:54Four bottles of light ale, please.
27:56Oh, and two packs of cigarettes.
28:01Come on, because we're having a party around the corner.
28:04Leave the poor girl alone.
28:06It would have been rude not to if I...
28:08Leave the poor girl alone.
28:09David.
28:11David.
28:11I don't want to get back here.
28:13I don't want to get back here.
28:16I don't want to get back here.
28:23Jesus.
28:24Ruth, what are you...
28:25No.
28:26Guys, she's gonna...
28:27Fuck you.
29:00Get out!
29:01No.
29:02Get out!
29:04Someone get out!
29:04No.
29:08I won't be alone.
29:14Why did you have to kill him?
29:29Yes?
29:33I took down your statement this morning.
29:35It appears that another version was recorded too by the prison officer who sat with us.
29:40In his version, you ask Cussin for the gun.
29:44I didn't say that.
29:46I'm asking myself why they're focused on this version, why they might be favoring it.
29:52Because they want it all to be over.
29:54The protests, the noise, the fuss, the newspapers, the petitions.
29:58All these people talking about what a mess it is, it's an embarrassment.
30:01They want it over and done with.
30:02They were looking for a reason.
30:03To ignore what I told them.
30:04To say that Desmond's part doesn't matter and they found it.
30:07They can't ignore it.
30:08There are legal procedures.
30:09Mr. Pickford was right all along.
30:11He said they wouldn't let me get away with it and they won't.
30:15Right.
30:17No matter what anyone says or does now.
30:20It won't do anything.
30:23They are determined to put an end to this.
30:25And they will.
30:26Tomorrow at 9am.
30:29I want you to call my parents and say that Andre is going to go away with the MP Mr.
30:33Rogers
30:33and his wife his plan.
30:34You don't want him to make a statement to police?
30:36No, I want him out of London and away from here immediately.
30:38Please do it now.
30:53Shallow be thy name.
30:55Thy kingdom come.
30:57Come.
31:09Mrs. Ellis?
31:12Make them stop.
31:14Quiet.
31:15Bruce.
31:16I want it to be over.
31:18Bruce.
31:19Come with me.
31:20I want it to be over.
31:21I hope we can.
31:22I hope we can.
31:43I hope we can.
31:59I thought you might like to finally take your beer privileges.
32:03Is this allowed out here?
32:05No.
32:07But what can they do to you?
32:25Thanks.
32:26Not done much.
32:31You might not believe this, but the last few weeks have been some of the best of my life.
32:36You've all been so kind to me.
32:40Calling me Mrs. Ellis.
32:42Three square meals a day.
32:45All those jam puddings.
32:51No screaming.
32:52No fighting.
32:54No men knocking on my door in the middle of the night.
32:58I really rather liked it, yeah.
32:59About one, I will go to yes.
33:03No one is too Grenade.
33:04No one is too darle, no one is easy.
33:09Nice.
33:18And then, maybe I will never take your door.
33:19Make your door and save for you again.
33:19I'm not going to wait for you.
33:19No one is to ask for the Archive.
33:21For sale more, I will keep the continuous company.
33:21And I'm going to link this.
33:22Yeah, all you got to do and like them.
33:25It's not very easy to stay.
33:26You got to read this?
33:28Are there the two pieces you want to get?
33:29As it going to bother you,
33:32Can you put me through to the governor of Holloway prison?
33:51Mrs. Ellis.
33:52You've come to tell me there's not going to be a reprieve.
34:01It's quite all right.
34:05It's quite all right. Promise.
34:16What time is it?
34:202 a.m.
34:24Seven hours, then.
34:33Would you like to sit up together? I have some brandy in my office.
34:40Actually, I'd quite like to get some sleep if you don't mind.
35:11I want to speak to the Home Secretary. I insist on speaking to him personally.
35:16The Home Secretary's made his position very clear.
35:18And what is that position?
35:20He says if she isn't hanging tomorrow, she never will be.
35:27I have practiced law for 20 years, and until today I would not have thought it possible that it should
35:31be used by Englishmen in this way.
35:34As a fig leaf for an act of pure savagery.
35:37I'll be there again.
35:38I'm sorry about it.
35:46No, no, no.
35:50I'm sorry about that.
35:54I didn't want to go to the house.
35:55I'll be there.
35:56No, no, no.
36:57No more prison smoke, son.
36:59Can't say I'm sorry.
37:08Hardie Amies.
37:10Spent my entire first wage from Carol's on it.
37:13It's lovely.
37:14My mother was horrified.
37:17Said I should have made do with Rayon like everybody else.
37:20Probably should have made do with a lot of things.
37:23Little house in Basingstoke.
37:25Job in a typing pool.
37:28Week in Bognor with a fat husband once a year.
37:31But I couldn't.
37:32I wanted everything I could get out of this life.
37:35Every drop.
37:44And I don't regret it.
37:48Not a single moment.
37:53Jacqueline!
37:59I'm sorry.
38:01I tried.
38:02They won't let me run the story in the newspaper.
38:05You need evidence of what Kassin did?
38:08I need something.
38:13When all this is over, you talk to André.
38:16Hassan.
38:40You're lovely.
38:41Thank you, Joy.
38:43Joy.
38:45Joy.
38:46Joy.
39:39It will calm you.
39:42No, thank you.
39:44No, thank you.
39:51Charity Taylor.
39:54Charity Taylor.
40:00Charity Taylor.
40:09I don't know.
40:33I'm so sorry, Mrs. Ellis.
40:35I just need a moment with the undersheriff.
40:44There's been a call from the Miss Holmes, claiming to be the Home Secretary's office.
40:48A reprieve.
40:49I've tried to verify it.
40:51No one there knows anything about it.
40:58Hoax?
41:01Must be.
41:02Mustn't it?
41:05This Miss Holmes.
41:08I've tried two private secretaries.
41:12No one's heard of her.
41:25I don't be needing these anymore.
41:36It's one minute too, ma'am.
41:39I can't make her wait.
41:41It's torture.
41:46I mean, it's got to be a hoax.
41:53Proceed.
42:02All right, lass.
42:04All right.
42:09Follow me.
42:26Don't worry, lass.
42:27I won't hurt you.
42:40I won't hurt you.
42:45I won't hurt you.焦
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