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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?
02:37Yes.
02:48See you tonight.
02:52Be ready at eight.
03:30Fendlaters residence.
03:32Is David there?
03:34No.
03:43Hello?
03:44And who was that girl?
03:47Look, David isn't here.
03:48All 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 it!
05:12David!
05:14David, I know you are.
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!
05:29He didn't help the girl.
05:31There's nothing at me.
05:32Does he have a key to Edison Gardens, a place I rented for you, your new start?
05:37Has he been there all along?
05:40What are you looking at?
05:41David!
05:42Get in the car!
05:42David!
05:43In the car, Ruth!
05:44I had to go back the next day.
05:46I was determined to make David speak to me.
05:50Their plan, what they had wanted all along, to get David away from me, without looking
05:56back, without acknowledging what he had done to me, it had worked.
05:59All in?
06:00Are you all in?
06:02All night I sat there and thought about the last two years.
06:06When I first met David, I was managing a successful club.
06:10I had two beautiful children.
06:13I had money in the bank, admirers, a lovely flat, and now all I had was a bed-sitting
06:22room.
06:23No money, no job, and a man who swore he loved me one day, and then beat and abused me
06:31the
06:31next.
06:34A 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, all the things he had done
06:44to me, and 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.
07:31We could be free.
07:33We could be free.
07:33We could be free.
07:33You just want to be done with all of it.
07:36Do you?
07:39Whose idea was it to get the gun?
08:09I 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,
08:47Ruth Ellis will be the principal witness.
08:49She will be needed to give evidence.
08:51And that'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. Mishcon.
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.
09:31Then 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.
10:33Let'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.
11:00Now I'm bloody petrified.
11:10I remember when you and Vicky came to visit me in 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.
11:32And we sat up on the roof and watched the sun come up.
11:36Hmm.
11:37Hmm.
11:42I wish we could do that tomorrow morning.
11:45But for Mr. Pearpoint.
11:48Or the hangman can sod off back to his pub.
11:53Your statement changed everything.
11:57You do know what his pub is called?
12:00Hmm?
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.
12:32Will you come up with a gun?
12:32I'm not you.
12:32Cool.
12:32No.
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, perhaps 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, that you took that route.
13:32Did you make a deal with him?
13:34Certainly not, my friend.
13:37I suppose my problem is that I'm not brave enough to stand up to them all, to stand up to
13:44it.
13:45It?
13:46The English machine.
13:48The whole thuddering weight of it.
13:52Are you talking about a conspiracy?
13:55Nothing 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, to 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, the justice system, the 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.
14:50And if you know something that could help her, we have hours to save her life.
14:57It's too late.
15:07Get behind, man!
15:10Where did you sleep at night?
15:12You said, man.
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 reprieve.
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.
16:28After dinner speeches.
16:30You're a flaming celebrity.
16:33You're a flaming celebrity.
16:36Evans, Bradley, Alice!
16:50There's hundreds of them.
16:51Alice! Alice! Alice!
17:21I don't know.
17:51This evening, outside Holloway Prison, in support of Mrs. Ruth Ellis, who is due to hang tomorrow morning for the
17:56murder of her lover, David Blakely.
17:59A nightclub hostess, Mrs. Ellis was sentenced to death at the Old Bailey on the 21st of June this year
18:04for killing Mr. Blakely.
18:06Lawyers for Mrs. Ellis claim that new evidence has surfaced, implicating an unnamed person and placing them at the scene
18:12of the crime.
18:13A 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.
18:29Pack some things.
18:47It's nine o'clock. Twelve hours until she hangs. Why aren't you out looking for Desmond Cusson?
18:52She shot him in the back, right? Point-blank range. An innocent bloke. Could 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? There's no answer at Cusson's flat. We'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?
19:45She should have asked me.
19:50To take care of him, blightly.
19:59I'd have taken pleasure in it.
20:02Ruth is in there, waiting to die.
20:05While you're here, enjoying yourself.
20:10Tau!
20:12Hurry up!
20:18I've got reporters chasing me night and day, customers deserted me, and you want me to grass up one of
20:25the only punters I've got left.
20:32Ruthie wanted everything.
20:34A big job.
20:36A big posh bloke.
20:38A 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.
20:57But you've done some bad things.
21:00To 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.
21:51The 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...
22:02Nothing to do with anything.
22:04You have one chance to save the woman you loved.
22:10She never loved me.
22:12Is that why you did it?
22:13To punish Ruth and David together?
22:16You knew she would be arrested.
22:18Is it?
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.
22:29You know, they haven't even told Andre yet.
22:30About 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.
22:46Hang.
22:49And they will not even be able to visit her grave.
22:52Because she will be buried with murderers in the prison pit.
22:56What 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?
23:09Well, make sure he gets this.
23:16We're leaving.
23:29We're leaving.
23:32Of 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 give it to you?
23:51Right hand on first.
23:52Left hand supporting.
23:55Legs shoulder-width apart.
24:00Elbows straight, not locked.
24:01Now 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.
24:13And you won't hit the target.
24:17Just breathe.
24:21In and out.
24:24Nice and calm.
24:32I can't do it.
24:35Yes, you can.
24:53You see?
24:57I told you to wait in the car.
24:58Go 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.
25:28He'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
25:54what 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.
26:16God bless you.
26:16I don't know.
26:47You're quite well there, dear.
26:49Yes, she's quite all right, thank you.
26:53Are you all right?
26:58I don't know.
27:03I'm here.
27:04I'm with you.
27:06I love you.
27:11I know.
27:16I don't think I can.
27:21Of course you can.
27:22I don't know.
27:32I 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.
28:05It would have been rude not to if I...
28:08Leave the poor girl alone.
28:09David.
28:11David.
28:23Jesus.
28:24Ruth, what are you...
28:25No.
28:26Guys, she's gonna...
28:27Fuck.
28:27Fuck.
28:29Fuck.
28:33Fuck.
28:35Fuck.
28:38Fuck.
28:40Fuck.
28:53No, no, no.
28:56No.
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
29:37by the prison officer who sat with us.
29:41In his version, you ask Cussin for the gun.
29:45I didn't say that.
29:46I'm asking myself why they're focused on this version,
29:51why they might be favoring it.
29:52Because they want it all to be over.
29:54The protests, the noise, the fuss,
29:57the newspapers, the petitions.
29:58All these people talking about what a mess it is.
30:00It's an embarrassment.
30:01They want it over and done with.
30:02They were looking for a reason to ignore what I told them,
30:04to say that Desmond's part doesn't matter,
30:06and they found it.
30:07They can't ignore it.
30:08There are legal procedures.
30:09Mr. Bickford was right all along.
30:11He said they wouldn't let me get away with it,
30:12and 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 9 a.m.
30:29I want you to call my parents
30:30and say that Andre is going to go away
30:32with the MP Mr. Rogers and 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.
30:38Immediately.
30:38Please do it now.
30:40Come on.
30:44I want him out of London and away from here.
30:53I want him out of London and away from here.
30:54Hallowed be thy name.
30:55Thy kingdom come.
30:58Thy will be done.
31:09Mrs. Ellis?
31:12Make them stop.
31:13Quiet.
31:15Bruce.
31:16I want it to be over.
31:18Bruce.
31:19Come with me.
31:20I want it to be over.
31:21I'll break it.
31:22I'll break it.
31:25All right.
31:45I'll break it.
31:59I thought you might like to finally take your beer privileges.
32:03Is this allowed out here?
32:06No.
32:07But what can they do to you?
32:25Thanks.
32:26Not done much.
32:31You might not believe this,
32:33but 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'd really rather like it, yeah.
32:59No sleeping.
33:12No chilling.
33:18No sleeping.
33:23Oh God.
33:24What?
33:25It just seems alive.
33:28No sleeping.
33:28Amen.
33:28No sleeping.
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.
35:57The Home Secretary
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36:59Can't say I'm sorry.
37:08Hardy Ame's.
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, job 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, every drop.
37:44And I don't regret it.
37:48Not a single moment.
37:53Jacqueline!
37:59I'm sorry. I tried.
38:02They won't let me run the story in the newspaper.
38:05You need evidence of what Kasim did?
38:08I need something.
38:12When all this is over, you talk to André.
38:16Hassan.
38:40You're lovely.
38:41Thank you, Joy.
39:03All right.
39:06Take care.
39:11But I can totally die.
39:12I'm sorry.
39:39It will calm you.
39:42No thank you.
39:52Charity Taylor.
39:53Charity Taylor.
40:01Charity Taylor.
40:03Charity Taylor.
40:05Charity Taylor.
40:09Charity Taylor.
40:10Charity Taylor.
40:10Charity Taylor.
40:14Charity Taylor.
40:14Charity Taylor.
40:30Charity Taylor.
40:31Charity Taylor.
40:44Charity Taylor.
40:48Charity Taylor.
40:51No one there knows anything about it.
40:58Hoax?
41:00Must be.
41:03Mustn't it?
41:05This Miss Hoax?
41:08I've tried two private secretaries.
41:11No one's heard of her.
41:25I won'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.
41:57It's all right, lass.
42:04It's all right.
42:08Follow me.
42:26Don't worry, lass.
42:27I won't hurt you.
42:46Don't worry, lass.
42:56You won't be trying to kill me.
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