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Part 8 of 9 of the period drama. Solomon Brass announces that money has gone missing from the firm, leading to Sally to accuse Kit of the theft. When Dick Swiveller discovers the money in Kit's pocket during a search, Kit is arrested. Dick is stunned by this revelation, but not as much as when he is dismissed from his job and later falls ill, being nursed by the small servant at her lodgings. But he is not the only one to fall ill, as at the vicarage Nell's health begins to deteriorate, much to Mr Marton's concern.
Starring Natalie Ogle, Sebastian Shaw, Trevor Peacock, Granville Saxton, Annabelle Lanyon, Christopher Fairbank, Sandra Payne, Colin Jeavons, Freda Dowie, Wensley Pithey, Brian Oulton, Margaret Courtenay, Laurence Hardy, Patsy Byrne, Bernard Stone, Anthony Pedley, Keith Hazemore, Patrick Carter and Simon Garstang.
Starring Natalie Ogle, Sebastian Shaw, Trevor Peacock, Granville Saxton, Annabelle Lanyon, Christopher Fairbank, Sandra Payne, Colin Jeavons, Freda Dowie, Wensley Pithey, Brian Oulton, Margaret Courtenay, Laurence Hardy, Patsy Byrne, Bernard Stone, Anthony Pedley, Keith Hazemore, Patrick Carter and Simon Garstang.
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00:14I love that.
00:36Oh, my God.
00:44Come here.
00:59Hentai.
01:01My word, you're deadly, Charlie, this morning, Christopher.
01:03Come in. I'm all alone.
01:05Swiveller. Solus.
01:06Good morning, Mr. Swiveller.
01:07I've come to see the gentleman upstairs. He sent for me.
01:10Good news.
01:11Not that I know of, but he always sends for me when he thinks there's something expensive to ask.
01:15Don't mind letting you out.
01:16Why, make the timer.
01:17I want to see the girl again, Annabelle.
01:19Remember what I told you? Watch the heart.
01:23Ah, Mr. Richardson. Good morning, good morning.
01:25Here we are again, sir, entering upon another day
01:28with our bodies strengthened by slumber and breakfast
01:30and our spirits fresh and glowing.
01:35It's King's.
01:37Good morning, Kit, and how are we this morning?
01:39Come to see the first floor gentleman, have we?
01:41Why not?
01:42Pretty fresh and cheerful this morning, aren't we?
01:45Oh, pretty well, sir.
01:46Excellent, excellent.
01:48You know, Kit, I've been thinking that
01:51I could perhaps throw some little emoluments in your mother's way.
01:55You have a mother, I think, a widow, I believe.
01:57An industrious woman?
01:59Hard-a-working woman, no better mother never lived, sir.
02:01Familiar site at your nearby chapel, I believe.
02:03A pillar, you might say.
02:04Of the little Bethel, sir.
02:05Oh, the little Bethel, well.
02:09And stay for a little, Kit.
02:10Take off your hat, take off your hat.
02:12I've been thinking, Kit,
02:14that we often have houses to let
02:16for people we're concerned with in a legal way.
02:18Houses that need a little cleaning and polishing now and again.
02:20Now, what I say is,
02:22what's to prevent us employing your worthy mother?
02:25Oh, duster here, scrubbing brush there.
02:27Oh, thank you, sir.
02:29Well, there you go, then.
02:30Don't keep your friend waiting.
02:31Oh, no, sir.
02:32Thank you very much indeed, sir.
02:34Will you look where you're going, please?
02:36Show him, ma'am.
02:49Mr. Richard.
02:52Have you seen a pencil case?
02:54A silver pencil case?
02:56Didn't mean many in the street.
02:58Oh, it's all one.
02:59Stark pencil case, respectable appearance.
03:01Oh, bring her whiskers...
03:02Oh, dear nonsense.
03:04There was a knife, too, of the same pattern,
03:06both gone from this table.
03:09And two shillings of the office money.
03:11Nothing to do with me.
03:12Didn't say it had.
03:13This is a most extraordinary and painful, Mr. Swivellis,
03:17a most painful circumstance.
03:20The fact is that I myself have missed several small sums
03:22from the desk of late
03:23and have refrained from mentioning it,
03:25hoping that accident would discover the offender.
03:28It has not done so.
03:33Sally, Mr. Swiveller, sir, this is a most distressing affair.
03:38There's a banknote there on that table there now.
03:40I imply no doubt of you, Mr. Swiveller.
03:43For me to pick up that banknote would imply doubt of you.
03:46I've hit it.
03:48Hasn't there been somebody always passing in and out of this office the past few weeks?
03:51Mr. Swiveller is quite in the clear, quite in the clear.
03:53I swear it till I'm black and blue.
03:55I was not referring to Mr. Swiveller.
03:58I should think not.
03:59Most injudicious, even if suggested.
04:01Most injudicious!
04:02Well?
04:04Use your brains.
04:05Think.
04:07The servant?
04:08The servant?
04:09Oh, never the unfortunate servant.
04:11Meat, yes, onions, parsnips, cheese, and...
04:13I did not suggest the servant.
04:15Who, then?
04:17Who, then?
04:17Who, for heaven's sake?
04:18What do you call him?
04:20Kit!
04:21Mr. Garland's, young man!
04:23Why not?
04:24Why not?
04:25Oh, never, old chaffer!
04:27I'll not hear of it.
04:28Never.
04:29Not that boy.
04:30What other boy has been passing in and out of this office, eh?
04:33What other boy has been at the beck and call of our first floor lodger?
04:38Why not?
04:39Never.
04:39Never.
04:40I'll not hear of it.
04:40Hear of it or not.
04:41Certainly not.
04:42That boy is your thief.
04:45Without a tittle of evidence.
04:47Without a witness or a clue.
04:49Are characters to be whispered away like this.
04:51Honest, decent characters of honest, decent boys.
04:54That boy a robber.
04:56Stuff and rubbish, old chap.
04:58You don't really think he might be.
04:59Why not?
05:00Hmm?
05:02Why not, is what I say.
05:04That lad with his fresh and open countenance.
05:06I trust him with untold gold!
05:08Kit a robber!
05:10Bah!
05:12Come in, if you please.
05:15Ah, Kit!
05:17All is well aloft, is it?
05:18Oh, yes, sir.
05:19Shall we leave it, then, my lad, that if a house comes our way
05:22that needs a little in the way of cleaning and polishing,
05:24your mother might be interested.
05:26You could perhaps sound her out
05:28and let me know next time you pass through the office.
05:30Yes, I will, sir.
05:31You're always that welcome here, you know, Kit.
05:33You cheer us up.
05:34Oh, thank you, sir.
05:35Oh.
05:36Well, we have work to do, haven't we, old chap?
05:39Good morning, Miss Bross.
05:40Bye, Mrs Swinley.
05:42Oh, goodness!
05:42Leave the note.
05:44Mr Richard, you saw the note.
05:46God bless me.
05:47Something lost, Mr Bross.
05:48Five pounder, that's all.
05:49Five pounds?
05:51Oh, never mind five pounds.
05:52Who cares about five pounds?
05:54So you'll never hear of it, eh?
05:57So the boy is honest.
05:59Is he?
06:01Me?
06:01Yeah, of course I am.
06:03I never touched nothing.
06:04Oh, it's all right, Kit.
06:05No, no, it's all right.
06:05She's just carried away in the heat of the moment.
06:07No, no, we'll find it in a minute.
06:09Uh, Mr Richard, you, uh, you saw the note.
06:12Are you sure you saw it?
06:13I drew your attention to it.
06:14Oh, so you did, sir.
06:15The boy must be searched.
06:17Oh, no, no, no.
06:18No need for extreme measures.
06:22Oh.
06:24Still, since the accusation's made, Christopher, would you consent to an examination?
06:32Since doubt hangs over everybody uncomfortable and unpleasant things, I'm sure you'll appreciate.
06:37You can search me, but you'll be sorry, sir.
06:39I know I'll be sorry, Christopher.
06:41I know full well I'll be sorry.
06:44Uh, nothing here, Mr Richard, all perfectly satisfactory.
06:48Nor here, sir.
06:49Well, of course, I knew it.
06:51Nothing in the waistcoat.
06:55And nothing in the coattails.
06:57Oh, I am rejoiced.
06:59There you see, old chap.
07:01Here's a handkerchief.
07:01There's no harm in that, sir.
07:03No harm in a handkerchief whatsoever.
07:04It's not a very healthy thing to carry a handkerchief in a hat.
07:08But that's a different thing.
07:10Hmm.
07:14Mr Richard, much as I abhor having to say it,
07:21fetch a constable.
07:43Oh, you shouldn't be outside yet, my dear.
07:46Oh, but I'm quite better.
07:48It's such a lovely day.
07:50But it's chilly in the wind.
07:51Now, come along.
07:59It'll soon be gone.
08:01I'll soon be quite better.
08:04I must be.
08:06Because it's so happy for us here.
08:09Just like it used to be.
08:13It's like...
08:14Like waking up after a nightmare.
08:41Oh, keep filming so in the past for me.
08:44It's going to make it worse for me.
08:45Now, then.
08:46Now, then.
08:47I advise you not to waste time like this.
08:50Time's allowance here, you know.
08:51And you mustn't let that child make that noise, neither.
08:54It's against the rules.
08:55Even I'm his mother, sir.
08:57This is his brother, sir.
08:58And if...
08:58Well, he can't be out, you know.
09:00You're the only one in the same fix.
09:02You mustn't make a noise about it.
09:03But he never did it, sir.
09:04Well, I won't contradict you.
09:06But it's all one now, whether it or not.
09:07What are we going to do, dear?
09:09Do you have a thought?
09:09He's done it, sir.
09:10He's done it, sir.
09:13And who might you be?
09:14Daniel Quilp, sir.
09:15Of Quilp's Wharf and Tower Hill.
09:17Happened to be passing.
09:18Come to view the prisoner.
09:22What kick?
09:23A thief?
09:25Honest kick.
09:27Why, he's an uglier-looking thief than you could see anywhere for a penny.
09:33Huh.
09:34Oh, the prisoner's mother, my dear soul, how are you?
09:37Is this gentleman a friend of the family?
09:39No, he's not.
09:40Oh, unkind.
09:41Oh, that's unkind.
09:43What a disappointment, ma'am.
09:45To have a son incarcerated, what a disappointment for the little one.
09:49What an example.
09:51Well, well, well.
09:52Does he thrive?
09:53Does he flourish?
09:54Oh, yeah.
09:55Is he growing up to be a worthy citizen?
10:00Oh, Mr. Schwiveller!
10:03Well, young kid, if you'd be so kind, sir.
10:06Drink this cup, young kid.
10:07There's a spell in its every drop against the ills of mortality.
10:10Oh, thank you, sir.
10:10You must certainly help us because no-one would believe it.
10:13You're not throwing your tears, madam.
10:15Richard Schwiveller at your service.
10:17It was always darkest before the dawn.
10:19Oh, didn't do it, sir!
10:20I'm sure you didn't.
10:20Who's saying you did?
10:21Only Brass and the Dragon.
10:23They're a trio.
10:24Brass, Quilp and the Dragon.
10:26Quilp don't take to you, young kid.
10:28I called him an ugly dwarf.
10:29There's more to it than calling him names.
10:31You know things, young Christopher.
10:32Yeah, but he's a good boy, sir.
10:34He never did.
10:34I'm sorry.
10:35He knows how Quilp got the old man in the debt.
10:36He knows the size of the interest.
10:38All I know is that Quilp let me own me money.
10:40That's right.
10:40And he's taking him into paying it back a thousand times over.
10:43You know too much, young kid.
10:45You've said too much.
10:46Only the truth, sir.
10:48That's why you're here.
10:49Just the way it works.
10:50You've a kid never touched a thing.
10:51Which is beside the point, ma'am.
10:53Now Quilp's advising me to start life a fresh old sweat.
10:55Now why is that?
10:56Me a thousand miles away and you here in a cell?
10:59Well, I don't propose to resign my clerkly post with Baron Brassow.
11:02I propose my friend to find out what's what.
11:04Oh, sir, do.
11:06I have kit brought out, sir.
11:08Brought out, you shall be, madam.
11:11The inner trouble is for the life of me.
11:14I can't think how to do it.
11:32Apologies Mondayday.
11:33Hog everywhere.
11:34Thick as gravy.
11:35Couldn't even pull your nose.
11:36Don't think about it, Mr. Richard.
11:37Two hours to Peckham when it's usually 20 minutes.
11:39Nothing whatsoever.
11:40It'll happen nothing whatsoever, is it, old Joe?
11:44Are you unwell, Mr. Richard?
11:49Yes, quite well.
11:51The result of too much hurry, nothing more.
11:59Miss Sally and I are going out for a little business.
12:01I'm happy to say a hint of business in the Highgate area.
12:05So we'll say goodbye, Mr. Richard. You needn't trouble yourself coming in tomorrow.
12:08Oh, thank you.
12:10The fact is, Mr. Richard, as I think I've said before, a man of your ability, sir, is lost.
12:15Quite lost in a dry and mouldy line.
12:19I should say the stage, sir, or the army, or something in the licensed vittling line.
12:25You'll find that money quite correct.
12:27Oh, there is a cracked ruler, I noticed, but I haven't made a deduction for that.
12:30Whenever we part with friends, Mr. Richard, let us part liberally.
12:34Eh, old chap?
12:38Eh, old chap?
12:38Mm-hm.
12:39Mm-hm.
12:40Mm-hm.
12:41Mm-hm.
12:41Mm-hm.
12:42Mm-hm.
12:43Mm-hm.
12:44Mm-hm.
12:44Mm-hm.
12:46What?
12:50It's a visa.
12:51Yeah.
12:54A stunner.
12:57A stacker-up.
12:59A stacker-up.
13:00Swiveller out of employer again.
13:04Swiveller for the stage, swiveller for the army, swiveller a man for license, fiddles.
13:15Crook gets you in, crook gets you out.
13:20Well I'm blowed.
13:23Swiveller, old chap, the world's turning against you.
13:33I'm always the one.
13:36Chef.
13:55What's in this?
14:00I must be dreaming.
14:02I must be a fool.
14:04I'm not sweet enough.
14:12Clear?
14:14I was rather more plucked when I came to bed.
14:24No, I'm not dreaming.
14:28I'm in Damascus.
14:30Or Cairo.
14:32I'm in one of them Arabian nights and the Martianess is some sort of genie.
14:43Two for his heels.
14:44Oh sir!
14:46You're better!
14:47You're better!
14:48I'm so glad I didn't know what to do!
14:53Martianess, will you have the goodness to tell me what has happened to my flesh?
14:58Where has my voice gone to?
15:09Where are you love I've been, Martianess?
15:11Dead old but.
15:13I never thought you'd get better.
15:15Thank heaven you have, sir.
15:19How long have I been here?
15:21More than a week now, sir.
15:23What?
15:26Oh, it's quite cold.
15:28You are better!
15:29I'm gonna get you some thin dry toast.
15:31The doctor said you was to have it when you woke up.
15:34Now you just lie there and keep quiet.
15:39How's Miss Sally?
15:41Have you seen her?
15:43Bless you.
15:44I've run away.
15:47Where do you live, Martianess?
15:49Here.
15:50Oh.
15:52See?
15:53These are my lodgings.
15:55I know that.
15:57So, you've run away.
15:59They've been a toisin' of me.
16:02Pardon? What?
16:04A toisin', you know.
16:06A toisin' in the newspapers.
16:10Oh.
16:11Advertising.
16:14So, what made you think of coming here?
16:17Well, you see, when you was gone, I had no friends at all.
16:21Because the lodger, well, he never came back.
16:24And I didn't know where you or him was to be found.
16:26So, one morning, went up.
16:27It was near a keyhole.
16:29Well, I heard someone tell Brass and Miss Sally that she lived here.
16:33And that she was the lady whose house you lodged at.
16:35And that you was took very bad and wouldn't nobody come and take care of you.
16:40Mr Brass said it was none of his business and Miss Sally said the same.
16:43So, when the lady slammed the door behind her and left, I ran away and came here.
16:48I told him he was me brother and they believed me.
16:50And I've been here ever since.
16:53You've been wearing yourself to death, Marshalless for me.
16:57No, I haven't.
16:58Not a bit of it.
17:00Oh, it did take all me strength to stop you jumping through the window in your fever.
17:09I'm so glad you're better, Mr. Liverer.
17:14Please approach the bed.
17:20I have no doubt for you.
17:21It's as well I am, Olivera.
17:24I've strong suspect Ashton died without your mother.
17:30No, the doctor says you was to keep quite quiet and there was to be no noise, no laughing.
17:35so you best do that
17:49what's happened to Kit?
17:51he's been sentenced to
17:54transportation
17:55for a great many years
17:57poor thing
18:00what?
18:02has he gone yet? his mother
18:03how's she taking it?
18:04if I thought you'd keep quiet
18:05and not put yourself into another fever
18:07I'd tell you but I won't now
18:08please Marchioness it will amuse me
18:11no it won't
18:12look I'll tell you when you're better
18:14you must tell me now Marchioness
18:16it's something I should know isn't it?
18:19something else you heard through a keyhole was it?
18:20another conversation between Baron Brasso
18:22and his spiky sister was it?
18:23I'll with it Marchioness
18:24what did you hear him say?
18:26well I'll tell you
18:28if you promise to keep quiet
18:29and not jump up and toss about
18:31alright yes
18:33please pretty Polly
18:34tell Mr. Swiveller what you heard
18:36well
18:37it was the night before the boy was took by the police
18:39I crept upstairs because I was hungry
18:41and hoped I might find a few bits of biscuits
18:43on the floor that she hadn't swept up
18:45well
18:46there they was the two of them
18:47sitting in front of the fire
18:49he was holding his hands together like this
18:52rubbing them up and down ever so slowly
18:55and Miss Sally
18:56she was having a sniff like this
18:57very good Marchioness
18:59very good
18:59tell me what you said
19:00what they said
19:01upon my word
19:03he says
19:04this is a very dangerous thing
19:06it gets into trouble
19:09injudicious
19:10and then she says
19:11he's the most faint-assarted man
19:13she ever knows
19:13the most chicken artist
19:15and she tells him what to do
19:17to put the five-pound note on the boy
19:19only to as make sure as you're a witness to the note
19:21when it's found
19:23so that's what happened
19:25tell me a lot of this
19:26was the name of Daniel Crook mentioned
19:28all the time sir
19:29it was his five-pound note
19:31Mr. Brass had heard him say so
19:33it was on his orders
19:35to satisfy his grudges
19:38they was going to get the young man put away
19:40have you told this story to anyone else
19:42how could I
19:43they wouldn't believe the likes of me anyway
19:45and as for you sir
19:47ever since I've come here
19:48you've been out of expenses
19:49if you do me the favor
19:49to retire and see what sort of night it is
19:51I'll get dressed
19:52oh you mustn't think of such a thing sir
19:55I must indeed
19:59ah where are my clothes
20:03you haven't got any
20:11well I've been obliged to sell
20:13every one of them
20:14to get what was ordered for you
20:17I haven't got a waistcoat
20:20don't take on about it
20:21so even if you had clothes
20:23you couldn't wear them
20:25you're too weak to stand
20:27I'm afraid you're right
20:31well there's only one thing for you
20:33you must do it for me
20:34do what sir
20:36six o'clock
20:37it's thus possible you might catch one or other of them
20:39before they leave the office
20:40mr. Barst and his parents
20:40no no no come on else
20:41fetch me pen and paper
20:42I'll write down the address for you
20:44and pray to god you get there in time
20:54here you are young'un
20:56your last supper in England
20:58this time tomorrow night
20:59you'll be on the ice siege
21:00heading for Australia
21:02well can't say as I blame you
21:03for not looking forward to it
21:06this poor mother
21:08what's to become of her
21:09and little Jacob's not nearly
21:11grown up enough to look after himself
21:13yeah
21:14I'll eat it now lad
21:15cook says the soap fell into it
21:17mightn't taste so bad
21:18while it's hot
21:35keyhole
21:36keyhole
21:36convenient height sir
21:37in the line of duty and business
21:40I'm at a loss
21:41mr. Abel are you at a loss?
21:43it seems that a mr. Quilp
21:45is the chief agent in the villainy
21:47you're certain that all you've told us is true
21:49you would swear to it my girl
21:51she would sir
21:52would you?
21:55oh yes sir
21:59your father must be immediately informed
22:01since Christopher Nubbles is in your father's service
22:04it is your father who must act to procure the poor lads immediate pardon and liberation
22:08your father would be preferable I believe to mrs. Nubbles the mother in the case
22:12who might not have the necessary
22:14uh
22:16yes well
22:16um yes
22:18well off you go
22:22now you uh
22:24mr. Swiveller
22:26you're no longer you say in the employ of mr. Brass
22:29you are as it were a disinterested party
22:32I am sir
22:33and you my girl no longer in the service of uh
22:36no longer sir
22:37no longer in the service of anyone
22:39you've acted well
22:40I wish I could think of something I might do for you
22:42of someone who might require a
22:47no no I'm afraid not
22:50I'll take care of her sir
22:51well I'll bid you good night then mr. Swiveller
22:59Swiveller
23:00it's a name that rings a bell with me
23:05but what that bell is
23:08I cannot say
23:11Swiveller
23:23I can't tell you what that bell is
23:25I can't tell you what that bell is
23:26I can't tell you what that bell is
23:37I can't tell you what that bell is
23:38I can't tell you what that bell is
23:38I can't tell you what that bell is
23:39I can't tell you what that bell is
23:40I can't tell you what that bell is
23:40I can't tell you what that bell is
23:40I can't tell you what that bell is
23:40I can't tell you what that bell is
23:43Well, she ain't a parcel. She was never meant to be a parcel.
23:46And she don't like taverns. And she don't like the company of a punch.
23:50But she do like a drop to raise her spirits.
23:52I believe you have intervention for me.
23:56I knew the couple. I employed the couple.
23:59The couple disappeared. Not, mind you, with money, nor yet with an effigy.
24:03Not with a maid of honour or Mr Pitson.
24:05Madam, please.
24:06Next thing is, a species of dwarf is saying they're criminals.
24:09No, they're certainly not there.
24:10Criminals or not, I had definite hopes of that girl.
24:13She did the show in particular well, sir. Clear as a bell in her tone, sir.
24:17I, uh, I need constant assistance in that department, sir.
24:21Not being capable, as you can imagine, of giving out the tickets
24:24and doing the attracting of the visitors and doing the show-in.
24:27Mrs Jarlene.
24:27Miss George can give out the tickets, but he hasn't away with the attracting.
24:31And then we are short of a footman, since a gentleman in Salisbury
24:33accidentally knocked him down with a stick.
24:35A sweeter creature has ever drawn two breaths.
24:37Yes, sir.
24:38Cotlin's my father and my friend.
24:39She should never have gone with a punch.
24:40I said it to her.
24:41I said it to him.
24:43Destiny sent him to the waxwork.
24:45What use is it if destiny's taken him away again?
24:48If you see him, sir, tell him Mrs Jarlene said that.
24:51You had news of them again.
24:52I understand.
24:53Tell the gentleman, Mrs Jarlene.
24:54I'm coming to it.
24:56Oh, Leah.
24:57There was mention of another matter.
25:00There was mention...
25:00The sum mention shall be paid, Mrs Jarlene.
25:03If your information leads me to them, you have my word on it.
25:06Now, you heard of them again some time later.
25:08No, I did, sir.
25:09At an inn where I was obliged to raise my spirits.
25:12I suffer from a loneliness in that respect, sir.
25:14There was talk of them there, sir.
25:17How the girl was taken ill and had to be taken on by stage wagons.
25:21To where?
25:22To where?
25:22A village, sir.
25:24A village where their benefactor was to be the clerk and schoolmaster.
25:27If you travel to the inn, they'll tell you where it is, sir.
25:31And I can tell you within an inch where the inn is.
25:33I was there myself last Monday week.
25:51I was there.
25:54I was there.
25:56I was there.
26:00I was there.
26:02I was there.
26:04I was there.
26:05I was there.
26:05I was there.
26:08I was there.
26:12I was there.
26:16I was there.
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