Fingersmith. (2005) Part 1 of 2.

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First broadcast 27th March/3rd April 2005.  In Victorian England, young thief Sue participates in a scam to defraud a rich heiress by becoming her maid.  Elaine Cassidy - Maud Lilly Sally Hawkins - Sue Trinder Imelda Staunton - Mrs. Sucksby Rupert Evans - Richard 'Gentleman' Rivers Sarah Badel - Mrs. Frobisher Charles Dance - Mr. Christopher Lilly Laura Dos Santos - Agnes Richard Durden - Mr. Hawtrey Sam Graham - Dr. Christie Polly Hemingway - Mrs. Stiles Anna Jordan - Nurse Nick Lucas - Mr. Huss Tina Malone - Nurse Spiller Stephanie Middleton - Young Sue Wendy Morgan - Mrs. Cream Anna Mottram - Matron William Oliver - Dr. Graves Tallulah Pitt-Brown - Young Maud (as Tallula Pitt-Brown) Tim Preece - Parson Demelza Randall - Dainty Karen Seacombe - Woman at Hanging David Troughton - Mr. Ibbs Sarah Waters - Servant Bronson Webb - John Vroom Stephen Wight - Charles

Transcript

00:00:19I need to chillin', come on ladies and jess, let's see a room inside, I need chillin', upstairs, let's see

00:00:28a room inside.

00:00:45I need to chillin', come on ladies and jess, let's see a room inside, there's gonna be a room inside,

00:00:57let's see a room inside, let's see a room inside, let's see a room inside, let's see a room inside.

00:01:05My name is Susan Trinder, I grew up in Lance Street, we had the best view of the gallows, and

00:01:13on hanging days people paid money to watch from our top window.

00:01:15Let's sit there, no, Sue, now, you put the kettle on.

00:01:19Let me see, I want to see.

00:01:21Susan Trinder, her mother was hanged for murder.

00:01:24She died again though.

00:01:28Oh, dear girl. Come on, then. Up you come.

00:01:31Oh, quick, quick.

00:01:52Hooray!

00:02:05My name is Maud Lillie, and I was brought up in the madhouse where my mother died giving birth to

00:02:11me.

00:02:16Maud. Maud, you have a visitor.

00:02:18A visitor? I can't remember in all these years.

00:02:34Why is your tongue black?

00:02:36Shhh. Come on.

00:02:48She's as undersized as her voice is loud. Can she whisper?

00:02:54Of course I can whisper.

00:02:58Can she be silent?

00:03:06Let me see it.

00:03:19My mother, sir.

00:03:24My sister.

00:03:27Let us hope it will remind you of her fate and prevent you from sharing it.

00:03:33Can she read?

00:03:45Blessed are the poor in spirit.

00:03:48Blessed.

00:03:51Blessed are the poor in spirit.

00:03:54For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

00:03:58I'll take her.

00:03:59I'll send my housekeeper to collect her tomorrow.

00:04:02I won't go.

00:04:04You shan't make me.

00:04:07I want to stay with you, matron.

00:04:10I won't go.

00:04:14If our friend had known the ins and outs of this little number, he'd have never been topped.

00:04:28Look at that.

00:04:31Oh, Nesta's the day.

00:04:32You're going to make our fortune, aren't you, Sue?

00:04:34Am I?

00:04:35Ain't she, Mr Ribbs?

00:04:37I was brought up by Mrs Sucksby, who was paid to look after me for a week when I was

00:04:42a baby.

00:04:43But she kept me all those years.

00:04:45If that ain't love.

00:04:48I don't know what is.

00:05:08The Briar Bell.

00:05:13This is where your mother lived.

00:05:19You are to be a lady, as she was.

00:05:24For all her fortune, she turned to the bad.

00:05:28It's to be hoped you turn out better than she did.

00:05:32You haven't finished your eggs?

00:05:59You haven't finished your eggs?

00:06:01I don't want to be a lady.

00:06:02You can't make me.

00:06:03We'll see about that, Miss Lily.

00:06:06Keep your gloves on.

00:06:07Mr Lily will require it.

00:06:12Or you, not even for my wife.

00:06:20It's too much like that.

00:06:21You just need to go, your wife.

00:06:22I can't do this for you.

00:06:24Can't do this?

00:06:27Yes.

00:06:28She from the pinkish house a look.

00:06:30I have to pick up the bottle.

00:06:30This is my wife.

00:06:31I don't have to pick up the bottle.

00:06:32I have to pick up the bottle.

00:06:32I am to pick up the bottle.

00:06:32I have to pick up the bottle.

00:06:34It's my husband.

00:06:40Yes.

00:06:54No one is allowed beyond there for fear of spoiling his books.

00:07:04How's her temper, Mrs. Stiles?

00:07:07Rather ill, sir.

00:07:12Where are her gloves?

00:07:13Threw them at me, sir.

00:07:25Give me your hand, Maud.

00:07:30Give me your hand.

00:07:42You won't forget the gloves in future, will you, Maud?

00:07:50Put them on.

00:07:56Not a cover is to be touched or a leaf to be turned without them. Do you understand?

00:08:19Do you realise why I brought you here, Maud?

00:08:21To make a lady of me.

00:08:28To make a secretary of you, Maud.

00:08:56I couldn't read.

00:08:58All I knew about letters was what I picked out of stolen wipers.

00:09:01I was a fingersmith.

00:09:03Thief.

00:09:05You're a treasure, Sue.

00:09:06Melt down this little number, will you, John?

00:09:09Treasure?

00:09:11I'd like to melt her down.

00:09:12Wait, wait, wait.

00:09:13Don't ask about, John, I'll knock your bloody head off.

00:09:15Don't worry, I'll knock it off.

00:09:17Come on!

00:09:17Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:09:19You just try it.

00:09:20Come on.

00:09:20Get off!

00:09:38Mrs. Sucksby was a baby farmer.

00:09:42Paid to look after unwanted babies.

00:09:45Poor little scraps.

00:09:51Hey.

00:09:52You're precious.

00:09:53Oh.

00:09:54Oh.

00:09:57Hey.

00:09:58Your treasure.

00:10:04Oh.

00:10:06Oh, Maud.

00:10:16Maud.

00:10:18I neglected to tell you tonight.

00:10:20Tonight, there will be a new gentleman that you're reading, an artist, Mr. Richard Rivers.

00:10:25He'll be here for a week, mounting pictures for the catalogue.

00:10:29He'll also be giving you lessons in painting.

00:10:58So they came together.

00:11:00The romance may have been somewhat unusual, but that gave it all the charm of the unexpected.

00:11:06And there, as the red sun tinges the sky, and the chatter of birds heralds the coming night, they must

00:11:14leave them.

00:11:17Wonderful, Miss Lily.

00:11:18You read so beautifully.

00:11:20If only the patrons of my bookshop on Hollywell Street could hear you.

00:11:23Your words are pure poetry.

00:11:25Music, Huss.

00:11:27Music.

00:11:30Thank you, Maud.

00:11:32Rivers, you say nothing.

00:11:34Does it not please you?

00:11:38I cannot find words, sir.

00:11:40Ah, there you see, Huss.

00:11:42The young rogue has beaten us.

00:11:44Indeed, indeed.

00:11:50Excuse me.

00:11:57Now, sir, I have the first edition which you require.

00:12:01Have you, indeed.

00:12:07I'm sorry to disturb you, but I'm concerned you might find it a little chill after the fire.

00:12:12The fire is very hot.

00:12:15It is.

00:12:15You're right.

00:12:18Very hot.

00:12:22Very hot, indeed.

00:12:24What will you do when this great catalogue is finished?

00:12:27It will never be finished.

00:12:29Come, Miss Lily, you mean you'll remain here forever?

00:12:31I have no choice.

00:12:33You're young, handsome.

00:12:34I say it not for gallantry's sake.

00:12:36I say what I see.

00:12:38You might do anything.

00:12:42You are a man, Mr. Rivers, and might do anything.

00:12:47I'm a woman and might do nothing.

00:12:52Woo!

00:13:35Jacket diggers on a bitch of ours.

00:13:38Ain't she slow?

00:14:05What's that?

00:14:06What's what?

00:14:13Are you expecting anyone?

00:14:17Open up!

00:14:19If it's the Blues, we're done for!

00:14:22Open the door!

00:14:24Sovereigns, under the fire!

00:14:29Come on!

00:14:31Open up!

00:14:36Open the door!

00:14:37Damn, my fingers!

00:14:37Never mind your fingers, think about your neck!

00:14:43All tidy?

00:14:44Alright!

00:14:46Alright!

00:14:58It's gentlemen!

00:15:00Gentlemen!

00:15:03Take a tape of them candles, Sue.

00:15:06Put a brew on, don't you?

00:15:08You would have picked up there, don't you?

00:15:13The gentleman told us he'd gambled away his fortune.

00:15:16I was obliged to get money the old-fashioned way.

00:15:20By thievery and dodging.

00:15:23I worked on the old man's catalogue in the morning.

00:15:26And in the afternoon, I worked on her.

00:15:30That's what a painting that is, eh?

00:15:36Her maid, Agnes, was the most agreeable chaperone.

00:15:42Love as love will was finding its way.

00:15:46At the end of the week, the agreeable Agnes gets scarlet fever and is sent home to Ireland.

00:15:53The housekeeper, who with bad grace takes over temporarily, is as tight on the girl as her corset.

00:15:59Said she'd no time to chaperone.

00:16:01No more painting!

00:16:03Damn and I was nearly there!

00:16:05There?

00:16:05Where's there, gentlemen?

00:16:07She's as rich as a queen, Mr. Ribbs.

00:16:12How rich?

00:16:1330,000 in ready.

00:16:1510,000 in funds.

00:16:18Left to her in her mother's will.

00:16:20She can't touch it unless she marries.

00:16:22And her uncle makes sure she never will by keeping her close.

00:16:26That house is her prison.

00:16:28But you're gonna marry her?

00:16:30Oh, then I can do what I like with her.

00:16:32Won't her uncle ask a few questions about you?

00:16:34That's why.

00:16:35I've become the exemplary Mr. Richard Rivers.

00:16:41I will...

00:16:45...marry her.

00:16:47With the help...

00:16:51...of Sue.

00:16:52Me?

00:16:54You're gonna become her friend.

00:16:56Persuade her to trust me.

00:16:58To run away and marry me.

00:17:00Why me?

00:17:00A fingersmith.

00:17:02With a heart of gold, Sue.

00:17:04Not gonna be a bleeding maiden, my Mrs. Suxby?

00:17:06I'd take my Sue.

00:17:07Because she's yours.

00:17:09And I know she can do it.

00:17:10And how would you cut the shine?

00:17:13Sue will get £2,000.

00:17:16Don't you do it!

00:17:17I've been the maiden, I.

00:17:18You're stuck in that pin in the lady's arse, as I recall.

00:17:21She was an old bitch.

00:17:23You're the old bitch.

00:17:24Think of all the money we lost.

00:17:26Where is this place?

00:17:27Out in the country.

00:17:28Don't know where the bleeding country is.

00:17:30I'm a Londoner.

00:17:31Never been out of smoke, have I?

00:17:34Get on.

00:17:35She'd never accept me.

00:17:36You're my old nurse's child, Susan Smith.

00:17:40You would have an impeccable character reference

00:17:42from Lady Stonely of Curzon Crescent Mayfair.

00:17:46Oh, she'll swallow it.

00:17:46The girl's never been to London.

00:17:48She's a bit simple.

00:17:49A pigeon.

00:17:51It'll be a bit of a holiday for you, Sue.

00:17:53And it'll work.

00:17:56Bleeding long on a day if it don't.

00:17:59I won't do it.

00:18:02Not for two.

00:18:05I want three thousand pounds.

00:18:08Take it or leave it.

00:18:28What's that?

00:18:30Another application for my personal maid uncle.

00:18:32A recommendation from Mr. Rivers.

00:18:39Susan has been mating for a lady who is married and gone to India.

00:18:42So she has lost her place.

00:18:45Susan is a very good girl, I wrote, but...

00:18:49And I put this rather well, I think.

00:18:52I fear she will go to the bad unless she finds further employment.

00:18:56No!

00:18:58You never wrote that!

00:18:59You never!

00:19:02Oh, my God!

00:19:05What's all this cake up?

00:19:06Your job!

00:19:07Yeah, you have to dress her.

00:19:11Take them off.

00:19:13Maids don't wear bangles.

00:19:17Shimmy.

00:19:20Shimmy.

00:19:23Shimmy's.

00:19:27Oh, you have to warm it.

00:19:31For God's sake.

00:19:35For God's sake.

00:19:37Do you mind raising your arms, miss?

00:19:40Sue, how many more times?

00:19:43Fleeting thrill!

00:19:45She's a lady.

00:19:46Shy.

00:19:48But she'll pick up like anything with me and Sue to teach her.

00:19:51Won't you die?

00:19:54There, you sweet little bitch!

00:19:58What happens after you're married?

00:19:59I told you, she's a bit simple.

00:20:01Living with her uncle, we'll tip her over the brink.

00:20:04After we're married, I'll put her in a mad house and there she'll stay.

00:20:09I need your help to get her there.

00:20:11I don't know that.

00:20:13It's in her blood.

00:20:14Her mother was mad and she'll end up there anyway.

00:20:16Take it or leave it, Sue.

00:20:17That's for the extra thousand.

00:20:19Three thousand pounds, Sue.

00:20:21And you can have any of the lady's frocks and jewels.

00:20:26She won't need it in the mad house.

00:20:30Is there anything else you haven't told me?

00:20:32That's it.

00:20:36Now one dresser.

00:20:39I shall be glad to meet Miss Susan Smith.

00:20:43All the more so, Mr. Rivers.

00:20:45Because she will have come to me from a London that has you in it.

00:20:52Ladies, gentlemen, toast.

00:20:55Sue.

00:20:56Sue!

00:20:57Sue!

00:20:57Sue, it's me.

00:21:11Sue, dear.

00:21:14Here's your character in Gentleman's Best Hand.

00:21:16He'll see you to the coach and join you in a month's time.

00:21:20Oh, you look a picture.

00:21:22A real picture.

00:21:23I ought to do it, Mrs. Sucksby.

00:21:26Ain't it a mean trick to plan that poor girl?

00:21:29Your mother would have done it and not given it a thought.

00:21:34And she'd have had dread about you doing it, but my God, she'd have been proud.

00:21:38Sue, are you coming?

00:21:40If they catch me, will they hang me?

00:21:42No.

00:21:45No.

00:21:47They will, won't they?

00:21:53Do you think it hurts when they drop you?

00:21:55No.

00:21:57Just a bit, but they...

00:21:59They toys are not special for a lady, so it's quick.

00:22:04Sue.

00:22:05What is this sort of talk?

00:22:06That's not gonna happen.

00:22:08You're gonna make us all rich.

00:22:11I am, aren't I?

00:22:11Come on, you'll miss the coach.

00:22:16Take her quick, I don't wanna see it.

00:22:23We'd never been parted before.

00:22:26I think she took it worse than what I did.

00:22:47We'd never been parted before.

00:22:50We'd never been parted before.

00:22:54Country.

00:22:55I never knew there was so much of it.

00:23:01Mile after bleeding mile.

00:23:38Miss Smith?

00:23:41Leave that till the morning.

00:23:43We keep early hours, Friar.

00:23:46And Mr. Lilley cannot do it.

00:23:48Half-bat noise.

00:24:22No!

00:24:24No!

00:24:25No!

00:24:29No!

00:24:31No!

00:24:33No!

00:24:45No!

00:25:08If I had known how to get out of that bleeding place, I would have scarpered there and then.

00:25:13But when I saw her, I thought, this is going to be easy.

00:25:20Is it right, miss?

00:25:22I was very satisfactory, Susan. May I call you Susan?

00:25:26Yes, miss. Thank you, miss.

00:25:30You read, of course.

00:25:32A bit.

00:25:34Well, my uncle is a scholar. Books are a very important part of life at Briar.

00:25:39Father, please, read me something. Anything.

00:26:01Oh, Father, which are in heaven, hallowed.

00:26:11Good. Oh, God.

00:26:15I might be taught it, miss.

00:26:17Taught? No.

00:26:20I shouldn't allow it.

00:26:23Not to be able to read.

00:26:25I sometimes think how wonderful that would be.

00:26:30I want my rooms in order to collect me from the library at one.

00:26:34You mean I'm to start right away, miss?

00:26:37Yes, of course.

00:26:40She was an odd one, all right.

00:26:42Didn't think she was cracked.

00:26:44Not like what gentlemen said.

00:27:05Oh, thank you, miss.

00:27:14You are calling, miss.

00:27:16Get it.

00:27:17Go on.

00:27:19Go on.

00:27:28Go on.

00:27:33Go on.

00:27:39You're going.

00:27:44Go on.

00:27:45Let's go.

00:29:17Oh, my Lord.

00:29:20Oh, Mrs. Stiles, you did start with me.

00:29:25I was just trying to put Miss Maud's things in order.

00:29:28So I see.

00:29:31These should be given each morning to Mr. Way, the steward.

00:29:36That's his little perk, is it?

00:29:39The pieces of soap that Miss Maud leaves on her washstand, you may keep.

00:29:44Thank you, Mrs. Stiles.

00:29:46But I really don't like to.

00:29:49Lady Alice, she would have thought it's thieving.

00:29:52As you wish.

00:30:03Yes.

00:30:17Who the devil are you?

00:30:19My new maid, Uncle.

00:30:23The finger!

00:30:24Girl, the finger.

00:30:25You must not go beyond there.

00:30:34Did she have her name?

00:30:36Susan...

00:30:36Softer.

00:30:37Her name is Susan Smith, Uncle.

00:30:39Teach her to speak softly.

00:30:40I will, Uncle.

00:30:58Um, Mrs. Stiles gives the most careful account of wood and coal.

00:31:02Tell her we're economised for burning the candles right down to the wick.

00:31:07Don't you worry about her, miss.

00:31:09I know her kind.

00:31:14Do you know my uncle's kind?

00:31:19I'm sure he's very clever, miss.

00:31:22Writing a big dictionary, as servants say.

00:31:28I'm sorry, Susan.

00:31:30I should have warned you.

00:31:34It's all right, miss.

00:31:40I certainly won't go over the finger in future.

00:31:54Is there an arse, miss?

00:31:55Well, Susan, they're terrible.

00:31:57But I do hope to improve under Mr. Rivers.

00:32:03I trust he is well?

00:32:04Very well indeed, miss.

00:32:06And sends his compliments.

00:32:09He looks forward very much to seeing you at the end of the month.

00:32:12Do you consider him handsome?

00:32:16Lady Stonely considers him to be one of the most handsome men in London, miss.

00:32:39I think Mr. Rivers is a good man.

00:32:42Very good indeed, miss.

00:33:00I think it's all right, miss.

00:33:02I think it's all right, miss.

00:33:02Job, is it all right?

00:33:03Jobs!

00:33:03Did you?

00:33:05Did you?

00:33:07Did you?

00:33:08Did you?

00:33:09Quickly, get my jobs.

00:33:12Please.

00:33:13It's all right.

00:33:15It's all right.

00:33:20It's all right.

00:33:26It's all right.

00:33:36I've taken them ever since I came here as a child.

00:33:41And I'm still afraid of my own dream.

00:33:49Stay with me.

00:33:51I can't do that, miss.

00:33:53Please.

00:33:58That's how it was.

00:34:00That night.

00:34:01And all the following nights, she needed drops and me to help her sleep.

00:34:08I can't do that.

00:34:13I can't do that.

00:34:15I can't do that.

00:34:20I can't do that.

00:34:22I can't do that.

00:34:24I can't do that.

00:34:25I can't do that.

00:34:27I can't do that.

00:34:28I can't do that.

00:34:29I can't do that.

00:34:30I can't do that.

00:34:31I can't do that.

00:34:36Oh, my God.

00:35:05Oh, my God.

00:35:45Oh, my God.

00:35:56Oh, my God.

00:36:27Oh, my God.

00:36:44Oh, my God.

00:37:22Oh, my God.

00:37:57Oh, my God.

00:38:30Oh, my God.

00:38:35Oh, my God.

00:38:37Oh, my God.

00:38:39Oh, my God.

00:38:45Oh, my God.

00:38:46Oh, my God.

00:39:14Oh, my God.

00:39:22Oh, my God.

00:39:47Oh, my God.

00:39:50Oh, my God.

00:39:55Oh, my God.

00:40:03Oh, my God.

00:40:32Oh, my God.

00:40:43Oh, my God.

00:40:45Oh, my God.

00:41:07Oh, my God.

00:41:09Oh, my God.

00:41:40Oh, my God.

00:42:10Oh, my God.

00:42:24Oh, my God.

00:42:27Oh, yeah, I don't know.

00:42:46The, um, the pictures for the catalogue must be mounted in three weeks, Rivers.

00:42:54They'll be done, sir.

00:42:57Three weeks.

00:43:15He spent one week on still life, still death, more like, and another week on landscape.

00:43:37Just...

00:43:41But he got nowhere.

00:43:44A fresh sheet for our first landscape.

00:43:59You have an eye for the essence of things, but you're not, Susan.

00:44:08You're just me.

00:44:12What?

00:44:13You can speak plainly to me, Mr. Rivers.

00:44:15I'm not a child.

00:44:17Oh, if I could only take you to London, to my studio there.

00:44:23You have no lack of talent, Miss Lily, in terms of artistic creation.

00:44:26You only lack what your sex, as a whole, lacks.

00:44:29And what is that?

00:44:33The liberty of mine.

00:44:55Nearly ripe, I think.

00:44:57The liberty of mine.

00:45:00The wonder.

00:45:16The freedom.

00:45:17The liberty of mine.

00:45:19The purpose.

00:45:19The freedom.

00:45:23The freedom.

00:45:46Drops, bad dreams, good.

00:45:47Excellent.

00:45:48Does she talk about me, though?

00:45:49She talks about nothing else.

00:45:50About marriage.

00:45:52Why don't you ask her to marry her?

00:45:53I'll frighten her off.

00:45:55I don't risk making the wrong move.

00:45:57Next week, the prince will be done and I'll have to leave.

00:45:59He will have to work on her harder.

00:46:01Convince her she's in love with me.

00:46:04Damn it, Sue.

00:46:05That girl's worth 3,000 pounds to you.

00:46:38I don't know.

00:47:25I saw what the evil bastard was about.

00:47:29He was going to kiss her.

00:47:32But not on the lips.

00:47:35Somewhere better.

00:47:39Much better.

00:47:42Much better.

00:47:51Much better.

00:47:53Much better.

00:48:08Much better.

00:48:18Much better.

00:48:35I'm so sorry. I must rush back to that wretched print.

00:48:39You will be all right, Maud.

00:48:41You sure?

00:48:53Hooked, but you must draw in.

00:49:00I'll take these, Susan.

00:49:05Get your mistress back to the house.

00:49:29I must hurry, Maud.

00:49:42Mr. Rivers has asked me to marry him.

00:49:45Oh, Maud.

00:49:50Are you not pleased?

00:49:53Sue?

00:49:56What is it?

00:49:58Surprise this.

00:50:01Oh, pleased.

00:50:02I'm gladder than anything in the world.

00:50:06Then I am sad because I have not suggested.

00:50:10How can I?

00:50:12My uncle will never agree.

00:50:20Mr. Rivers says we might go away at night.

00:50:24Marry in a small church near here.

00:50:30Marry in a small church near here.

00:50:32I'm gladder.

00:50:58Susan, look kindly on foolish lovers.

00:51:11I'm sure the light's better in the next room.

00:51:17I'm ever so sorry, Mr. Rivers.

00:51:19But Mr. Lilly wouldn't like it.

00:51:36What the hell are you playing at?

00:51:39Keep your hands off her.

00:51:41She don't want it.

00:51:45Don't want it?

00:51:47The pigeon's crying out for me.

00:51:48I'm crying out to be out of here.

00:51:51She'll have to go to the murder house.

00:51:55You go soft on me now, Sue.

00:51:57I'll drop you.

00:51:58My nurse will be taken ill.

00:52:00I need a sweet little niece and you'll be back in Landstreet with nothing.

00:52:04I'll tell you, Mr. Lilly.

00:52:06I'll tell her!

00:52:07Tell them what, you stupid bitch!

00:52:09What you came here to do!

00:52:18She's gone too far to believe you.

00:52:20She must marry me now or be as good as ruined, locked up here for the rest of her life.

00:52:26I'm her only way out.

00:52:39He says if I am his wife, my uncle cannot touch me.

00:52:46What shall I do?

00:52:48Follow your heart, miss.

00:52:49You love him.

00:52:51Do I?

00:52:52Don't your heart beat faster when you see him?

00:52:54And when he kisses you?

00:52:57Miss?

00:53:05Miss?

00:53:05Oh, Miss.

00:53:06Don't you love him?

00:53:11You might say no.

00:53:14Say no?

00:53:19And watch him leave.

00:53:22Oh, Sue.

00:53:23Don't you think I should then wonder over and over again

00:53:27what sort of life I might have had?

00:53:30Oh, Miss?

00:53:31Yes.

00:53:35What is it?

00:53:36Your mother would have done it and not given it a thought.

00:53:40What is it, Sue?

00:53:42Three thousand pounds, Sue.

00:53:45Marry a miss.

00:53:47Mr. Rivers loves you, and love never hurt a flea.

00:53:52All right, I will.

00:53:54But only if you come with me to London.

00:53:57Will you, Sue?

00:53:59Be my maid and show me London.

00:54:02Say you will.

00:54:13I, uh, I understand that Parson is...

00:54:18sympathetic to...

00:54:20affairs of the heart.

00:54:23Hmm.

00:54:27How soon?

00:54:29It must be this week.

00:54:31And we need somewhere quiet to stay.

00:54:36I have a cottage.

00:54:37Any good news?

00:54:45Thank you, Sue.

00:54:49You're very much indeed.

00:54:53The wedding was fixed.

00:54:55They were going to elope in two days' time

00:54:57and marry at midnight.

00:54:58Good night.

00:54:59Good night.

00:55:14Good night.

00:55:32So, on her wedding night, what must a wife do?

00:55:45I know you're awake.

00:55:48Jill, for God's sake me, it's not.

00:55:52We must know.

00:55:54I know something from books.

00:55:57How can you know it from books?

00:56:00You're right. I know nothing, nothing, nothing.

00:56:04What will happen?

00:56:05Will he kiss me?

00:56:08I should think so, miss.

00:56:10Where?

00:56:12On your lips.

00:56:13Is that it?

00:56:16No, miss.

00:56:18The kissing starts you off.

00:56:22It will come to you, miss.

00:56:25Dancing didn't come to me.

00:56:27It was very difficult. You had to teach me.

00:56:29Oh, Miss Maud.

00:56:30I don't think kisses can start me off.

00:56:32Mr. Rivers' kisses never have.

00:56:38You're a beautiful young girl.

00:56:43Look, where are your lips?

00:56:47No.

00:56:48No, not like that.

00:56:52Imagine that I'm Mr. Rivers.

00:56:55No, no, not like it.

00:57:11No, not like that.

00:57:12I can't find out.

00:57:12She's a woman who's dead.

00:57:12No, no, not like it one.

00:57:13This is a woman who is dead and she's dead.

00:57:16He's dead and she's dead and she's dead.

00:57:22I think she's dead, all my legs can be dead.

00:57:31Did you feel it?

00:57:38It's...

00:57:38a curious...

00:57:43wanting thing.

00:57:44That's right. It wants Mr. Rivers.

00:57:47I can't do it, Sue.

00:57:48You must don't help me.

00:57:51I don't know what you mean.

00:57:53I mean, you must do it sometime,

00:57:55mustn't you, Sue?

00:57:56I'm afraid.

00:57:58I'll be frightened.

00:58:06Look.

00:58:15I want you...

00:58:20I want you started...

00:58:33I want you to get back home.

00:58:36I mean, you do it.

00:58:36You're kidding me?

00:58:37I don't want to go apart.

00:58:38I'm...

00:58:39So I will kill you.

01:00:42You bow.

01:00:47You bow.

01:01:10You bow.

01:01:14You bow.

01:01:21You bow.

01:01:23You bow.

01:01:33You bow.

01:01:36You bow.

01:01:37You bow.

01:01:40You bow.

01:01:43You bow.

01:01:45You bow.

01:01:46You bow.

01:01:47You bow.

01:01:53You bow.

01:01:59You bow.

01:02:04You bow.

01:02:13You bow.

01:02:20You bow.

01:02:22Let's go.

01:03:10Is there anything more I can do for you before you leave, Mr. Rivers?

01:03:14We shall be leaving too, tonight.

01:03:26Miss Lillie!

01:03:28Hello?

01:03:52If I'd have said I love you, she'd have said it back.

01:03:57And everything would have been different.

01:04:01I might have saved her.

01:04:03I might have found a way to keep her from her fate.

01:04:38Miss?

01:04:40Miss Lillie!

01:04:45Miss Lillie!

01:04:46Miss Lillie!

01:04:57Miss Lillie!

01:04:59Miss Lillie!

01:05:21Thank you, Mr. Wei.

01:05:23And Mrs. Stiles.

01:05:29I hope it will not be too long

01:05:31before we meet again, Miss Lily.

01:05:32I hope not, Mr. Rivers.

01:05:35Until tonight.

01:05:37Don't be late.

01:05:49Paul!

01:05:50Paul!

01:06:12All that long day, I packed, secretly,

01:06:15getting ready to escape from Briar for the wedding at midnight.

01:06:24Why don't you wear this dress, Miss?

01:06:26It's your wedding night.

01:06:28No, I gave it to you.

01:06:29I'm quite happy with this one.

01:06:53What are you thinking?

01:06:57I was thinking this was the one you were doing when he proposed to you, Miss.

01:07:11Six hours to go.

01:07:13Time and time again, I nearly told her he was a villain.

01:07:16But her uncle would have had me locked up.

01:07:21I could hear Lance Street laughing.

01:07:24Me.

01:07:25In love with a girl.

01:07:32I'll see whether it's clear out there, Miss.

01:07:59I'll see you next time.

01:08:12I'll get the bags

01:08:15Oh, no, no, no, no, no

01:08:32Shh, shh, shh

01:08:38What the devil is going on?

01:08:45Who's there?

01:08:46It's only me, Uncle

01:08:47Well, don't wake everyone else up

01:09:01This way

01:09:06Quickly, quickly, it's all

01:09:14What's wrong?

01:09:40I require a charge of you

01:09:44As ye will answer at that dreadful day of judgment

01:09:48When the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed

01:09:51That if either of you know any impediment

01:09:54Why ye may not be lawfully joined in matrimony

01:09:58Ye do now confess it

01:10:01Who giveth this woman to be married to this man?

01:10:21Wilt thou have this man to thy wedded husband to live together after God-alternance in the holiest state of

01:10:28met?

01:10:28Wilt thou obey him and serve him, love, honour, and keep him in sickness and in health, and forsaking all

01:10:34other, keep thee only unto him, so long as ye both shall live?

01:10:39Oh well

01:10:45The ring, like everything else, was bad

01:10:50He hadn't even bothered to get a gold one

01:10:56We went from church to a nearby cottage

01:10:58Where I prepared her for a wedding night

01:11:10Look at me

01:11:21It's cold, Miss

01:11:24Let's get this on

01:11:40Look at me, Sue

01:11:47Come here

01:12:21Let's get this on

01:12:28You did it before

01:12:32For the sake of tonight

01:12:39We weren't dreaming, were we?

01:12:41I was just to stop you off, Miss

01:12:43Were we?

01:12:47Please, Miss

01:12:58I can't wait to be a woman

01:12:59If I can feel your lips

01:13:01I can feel your lips

01:13:06I can feel your lips

01:13:09I can feel your lips

01:13:46She won't see the dresser

01:13:51Maud's discovered the meaning of true love, Sue

01:13:54And is already halfway to the madhouse

01:13:56Now we must finish her off

01:13:58Please see to Mrs. Rivers, Susan

01:14:00She's not very well at all

01:14:02Morning, sir

01:14:02Morning

01:14:04I'm, uh, I'm really rather worried about her

01:14:06She's talking so strangely

01:14:17Good morning, Miss

01:14:19Good morning, Miss

01:14:37Taking it hard, Miss

01:14:38Taking it hard, is she?

01:14:39I don't know a word for it, Mrs. Green

01:14:42Mr. Rivers dates on her

01:14:44Can't bear gossip

01:14:45No, I wouldn't say myself

01:14:47You can rely on me

01:14:48Never to gossip, Miss

01:14:49She's troubled

01:14:51Up here

01:14:52You know

01:14:54Not missing, you mean?

01:14:56No, no

01:14:59Disturbed, more like

01:15:00That's why Mr. Rivers brought her to this nice, quiet place

01:15:03To calm her

01:15:06Calm her?

01:15:07Here

01:15:08She's not going to get violent and throw things around, is she?

01:15:11Nothing like that, no

01:15:14What goes on in her head?

01:15:17You know what I mean?

01:15:26But why can't we go to London, Richard?

01:15:28You're not well enough to travel, my sweet

01:15:30I'm perfectly well

01:15:32Aren't I, Sue?

01:15:33A few days' air will put colour into those cheeks

01:15:36I hate it here, I...

01:15:40Morning, madam

01:15:43Everything fresh?

01:15:46Those eggs haven't been out of the hang

01:15:47It's five minutes

01:15:56She doesn't like me

01:15:58Oh, Maud

01:15:59And I hate her

01:16:00Darling

01:16:02If I thought it would help

01:16:03I would carry you to the station

01:16:05To my house in London

01:16:06There's nothing I want more

01:16:07But look at you

01:16:09I'm afraid

01:16:21What is there to be afraid about, my sweet?

01:16:36She ate almost nothing

01:16:39Took more and more drops

01:16:41A week of that

01:16:43And she cracked easy

01:16:50She thought he wouldn't want her

01:16:52Looking like that

01:16:56But it was exactly what he did want the madhouse doctors to see

01:17:12The only thing that amused her

01:17:13Was to dress me in her fine lady's clothes

01:17:15Just as she had done at Briar

01:17:18There you are, Sue

01:17:21I knew it

01:17:22That colour just matches your hair

01:17:24Your eyes

01:17:26You're quite a beauty

01:17:29Look

01:17:33Yeah

01:17:34Hello

01:17:34Help

01:17:34Okay

01:17:38Help

01:17:39No

01:17:42No

01:17:43No

01:17:54Oh

01:17:55No

01:18:28Thank you, come in.

01:18:30It's Mr. Rivers, friends from London, ma'am.

01:18:37Come to meet you.

01:18:42Is it this afternoon?

01:18:47I'd forgotten.

01:18:47Oh, this is in love.

01:18:53Will you receive them, dear?

01:18:57Oh, that was just there, Richard.

01:19:01Susan, can you spare me a moment?

01:19:23Don't let them out.

01:19:25Hurt her.

01:19:27They won't hurt her.

01:19:28She's money.

01:19:29These men are scoundrels.

01:19:32But they're medical scoundrels.

01:19:34And they won't take her today.

01:19:36And they won't take her at all unless they're sure she qualifies for their care and attention.

01:19:42You know how to answer their questions, don't you?

01:19:45Do I?

01:19:51Don't make game of me soon.

01:19:53Not when we're so close.

01:19:55You're quite sure about it.

01:20:03Do you want to go back to Mrs. Sucksby with nothing?

01:20:30We're friends of Mr. Rivers and would like to ask you a few questions about his marriage.

01:20:35His new wife.

01:20:37My mistress, sir.

01:20:39Your mistress.

01:20:41Just refresh my memory.

01:20:42Who is your mistress?

01:20:44Mrs. Rivers, of course.

01:20:46I see.

01:20:47What was Miss Lily?

01:20:50Mrs. Rivers, what was...

01:20:53Who was Miss Lily?

01:20:55Yes.

01:20:55And you are?

01:20:59My mate, sir.

01:21:02And your name is?

01:21:09Susan Smith.

01:21:11You seem to hesitate.

01:21:14That is your name.

01:21:16You're quite sure.

01:21:21If I know anything, sir, I know my own name.

01:21:27And how did you meet your mistress?

01:21:30I was with Lady Alice Stonely in Curzon Crescent, Mayfair, when she went abroad.

01:21:38And she's grown so sad, and I'm afraid she'll do herself harm.

01:22:05You will keep her safe so much.

01:22:08You will.

01:22:10She's so kind.

01:22:12So good.

01:22:14So loving.

01:22:15You will keep her someplace special.

01:22:20When I want to hurt her.

01:22:23There, there.

01:22:24You mustn't be so distressed.

01:22:27She's been very lucky to have such a good and faithful servant.

01:22:32Very lucky indeed.

01:22:34Now, if we could see...

01:22:36This way, doctors.

01:22:48As you can see, doctors, the case is quite severe.

01:22:51We will send the carriage round tomorrow afternoon, Mr. Rivers.

01:22:54Rest assured.

01:22:55You must guide.

01:23:13Your eyes are a little brighter.

01:23:16Are they?

01:23:17Don't you think so, Susan?

01:23:23Oh, such a fool.

01:23:24Donnelly wanted a little company to bring you back to life.

01:23:29You were right.

01:23:32You need London.

01:23:35London.

01:23:36What do you think, Maud?

01:23:38Christine Graves is so eager for us to join them in Chelsea.

01:23:41They're offering their carriage to take us there tomorrow.

01:23:44Tomorrow?

01:23:46So soon?

01:23:49Tomorrow, we'll go to a great house with fine, quiet rooms and good servants.

01:23:56Just for you.

01:24:04She was so taken with me in that gown.

01:24:06She wouldn't let me change it.

01:24:09I kept it on to make her happy.

01:24:13Like, mom.

01:24:16What?

01:24:32Bye.

01:24:34Bye.

01:24:36I don't know.

01:25:26I don't know.

01:25:44I don't know.

01:26:22I don't know.

01:26:25I don't know.

01:27:06Good day, Mr. Rivers, Miss Smith.

01:27:09Mrs. Rivers.

01:27:18Mrs. Rivers?

01:27:28I don't know.

01:27:32I don't know.

01:27:39I don't know.

01:27:58I don't know.

01:28:03I don't know.

01:28:06I don't know.

01:28:09I don't know.

01:28:24I don't know.

01:28:27I don't know.

01:28:29She knew everything. She'd been in on it from the start.

01:28:33No! No!

01:28:39Mord! Mord! Mord!

01:28:45Poor Sue. She thought she knew me.

01:28:49She thought me innocent.

01:28:51But I was worldly in ways she never suspected.

01:28:59No! No!

01:29:01I knew everything.

01:29:03And yet, nothing.

01:29:08Remember that in my story that follows.

01:29:12To understand how I could do such things,

01:29:15I must go back to the day Mr. Rivers first came to Briar.

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