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Hortense Jabouliet, jailed sergeant George's mother and lady Deadlock maneuver about the truth concerning Tulkinghorn's murder. Detective Bucket is most interested to find the traces lead to the lady, but switches his accusation from George to Hortense. Meanwhile Richard and the doctor try to settle in their misfortune.
Starring:
Denis Lawson
Anna Maxwell Martin
Patrick Kennedy
Carey Mulligan
Gillian Anderson
Charles Dance
Alun Armstrong
Timothy West
Burn Gorman
Harry Eden
Hortense Jabouliet, jailed sergeant George's mother and lady Deadlock maneuver about the truth concerning Tulkinghorn's murder. Detective Bucket is most interested to find the traces lead to the lady, but switches his accusation from George to Hortense. Meanwhile Richard and the doctor try to settle in their misfortune.
Starring:
Denis Lawson
Anna Maxwell Martin
Patrick Kennedy
Carey Mulligan
Gillian Anderson
Charles Dance
Alun Armstrong
Timothy West
Burn Gorman
Harry Eden
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01:45May I ask, Inspector, if you will be needing to use Mr. Tolkienhorn's office for very much longer?
01:52Not much longer, my good friend.
01:55I think things are just boiling up nicely.
02:10I brought someone to see you, George.
02:16George.
02:17Mother.
02:18George.
02:21George.
02:23Why did you wait so long?
02:27I don't.
02:31How have you come here, Mother?
02:32Your friend sent to me.
02:35Did you think I wouldn't come running?
02:39Oh, George.
02:41George.
02:43My dear boy.
02:46I never meant to bring shame on you, Mother.
02:47And nor have you, George.
02:50I never did it, Mother.
02:52Mr. Tolkienhorn, I never did it.
02:53Of course you didn't.
02:58And no one who knew you would ever think you could, will soon have you out of here.
03:07But why didn't you come to see me all these years?
03:11I never cared what you'd done with yourself.
03:14I just wanted to see you, George.
03:19Well, here I am, Mother.
03:21In jail.
03:22Arrested for murder.
03:23And likely to be hanged.
03:27Not the best of circumstances.
03:30I'm a very sorry I had to be like this.
03:32Oh, don't talk nonsense, boy.
03:34Mr. Jandice says there's no good evidence against you.
03:38All you need is a good lawyer.
03:40And you'll be free in no time.
03:42I won't have a lawyer, Mother.
03:43Yes, you will.
03:46You'll have the best lawyer in London.
03:49Your brother, Robert, will pay the bills and be glad to do it.
03:52Does he know the police?
03:54No, how could he?
03:55I came straight here with Mr. Jandice.
03:57I don't want him to know about this.
03:59And I don't want his help.
04:01Why ever not, George?
04:05Because we had harsh words when I left.
04:08And he's a man of wealth now.
04:10I never have made it so much.
04:13And now I'm about as low as a man can be.
04:17I'll be ashamed to meet him, Mother.
04:21I'll accept a lawyer, if I must.
04:23And not paid for by him.
04:26Oh, George.
04:28You were just as silly as you ever were.
04:38All done, all done.
04:40This was a good day's work.
04:41You found Mrs. Rouncewell?
04:42I found her.
04:43She came.
04:44Mother and son reunited.
04:45Tears of joy and so on.
04:47And George has agreed to a lawyer representing him.
04:49What do you think of that?
04:49Do you think Sergeant George will be freed now?
04:51I think there's a very good chance of it.
04:53Do you know, I don't think Inspector Bucket even believed he was guilty.
04:55Then I'm very happy for Sergeant George.
04:57Hmm.
04:59Of course I am.
05:01Oh, he's a good man.
05:03One of the best of men.
05:06What is it, Esther?
05:08Nothing.
05:09Nothing.
05:10Come on, my dear.
05:11I know you better than that.
05:14I can't help thinking who will Inspector Bucket rest now.
05:18Well, the guilty party, one would hope.
05:24My mother believed that Mr. Tulkinghorn was her enemy.
05:29That he held her in his power because of a secret he had discovered from her past.
05:34Because of me.
05:40Well, what follows?
05:41I think she must have felt very relieved when Mr. Tulkinghorn was no longer there to torment her.
05:49Esther.
05:51Esther, you can't think.
05:52No, no.
05:54But others might think it.
05:55Inspector Bucket might very well think it.
05:57Come, come.
05:58Esther, you know and I know that your mother is utterly incapable of such a thing.
06:05Yes.
06:07Of course you're right.
06:10I must be getting along.
06:11I'll be late.
06:12I promised I'd visit Caddy this morning.
06:14Esther, there really is no need to worry.
06:17If ever there was a woman above suspicion, it's Lady Dadlock.
06:25And her name, madam?
06:27You know very well who I am, Mr. Mercury.
06:29Mrs. Roundswell, my lady's housegiver at Chesney Wold.
06:33And I'm here to see my mistress on a matter of private business.
06:37I'll just see if she's at home.
06:39Wait here, please.
06:56Her ladyship will see you now, if you'd care to come up.
07:02It seems very strange to see you in London, Mrs. Roundswell.
07:09What can I do for you?
07:14If you please, m'lady, I don't know whether you have heard.
07:20My son...
07:21Your son?
07:23Arrested from...
07:24Who left home very young to join the army.
07:28He is wrongly a kid to turn to.
07:31And who is your son supposed to have murdered?
07:34Mr. Tulkinghorne.
07:38I see.
07:40And what had your soldier son to do with Mr. Tulkinghorne?
07:45There was a debt.
07:47But there was a dispute about it.
07:50And a boy died at my son's place.
07:53And George held Mr. Tulkinghorne to blame for it.
07:57What boy?
07:59A poor crossing-sweeper boy that they called Joe.
08:03I don't know the ins and outs of it, but...
08:06George was very angry with Mr. Tulkinghorne about it, and people knew that.
08:11Forgive me, Mrs. Roundswell, but...
08:14It sounds as if the police had very good reason to arrest your son.
08:18But he's innocent, m'lady.
08:20I know him. He'd never do a thing like that.
08:24Many a mother has said that before, Mrs. Roundswell.
08:29Lady Deadlock.
08:32Before I left Chesney World, I received a letter.
08:37I don't know who wrote it.
08:39And it made no sense to me at all, because when it came, I...
08:43I'd never heard of any murder.
08:47But now, I think perhaps you do know something, m'lady.
08:54And that you might be able to help my son.
09:02Do you wish for me to read this?
09:05Not in my presence, m'lady, please.
09:07And please believe I don't give it any credit.
09:11But if there is anything that you know, or anyone you suspect, I beg you to consider it.
09:19And think of my son.
09:23Thank you, m'lady.
09:47Mother and child both doing very well, I'm happy to say.
09:50Thank you, Mr. Woodcourt.
09:51Thanks indeed, noble practitioner of the Hippocratic art.
09:56What wonders you have worked here.
09:59How I wish we could reward you in accordance with your desserts.
10:03But you're poor folk, Mr. Woodcourt.
10:06Poor, wretched creatures.
10:09All our money goes on finery for him, the old fraud.
10:12I could cook him.
10:14I can tell you're feeling better, caddy.
10:16I'll see you get paid, Mr. Woodcourt.
10:19Somehow.
10:20No need to think about that now.
10:26You do need to think about money, don't you?
10:29There's no need to be anxious about me.
10:31I'm not exactly starving, you know.
10:33You're doing a new coat, I think.
10:35It's a good thing I'm not vain about my appearance.
10:37Well, I'd be mortified.
10:40I'd be glad to mend it for you.
10:41I'm very good with a needle, though I say it myself.
10:44Would you?
10:46I think that would mean more to me than you could.
10:50You haven't seen much of Richard lately, Mr. Woodcourt.
10:53I haven't seen him for a few days.
10:55What with Mrs. Turvey drop and my other patients.
10:58Why are you worried about him?
11:00I'm sure Ada has heard from him, but she says not.
11:03It's not like her to keep anything from me.
11:05I'm afraid she'll be hiding some bad news.
11:08I'll go and look him up in his lodging this evening.
11:11That's a wine, doesn't raise the spirits.
11:13Would you mind?
11:33Why'd you look at me like that?
11:38You think I'm a poor sort of fellow, don't you?
11:40Not a bit of it.
11:43In one way, I envy you very much.
11:45Really?
11:46Why's that?
11:47You have the love of a very dear girl.
11:51Lord, you're not in love with yourself, are you?
11:56No.
11:59Oh, yes, of course.
12:03Esther.
12:13Esther.
12:16Do you think I have a chance with her?
12:18I think she likes you very much.
12:20She's a strange little creature in some ways.
12:23Takes her housekeeping duties very seriously and so on.
12:27She's very attached to Jandice, too, I must admit.
12:30Still, not even a fellow like that would keep a girl cooped up for the rest of her life
12:34just to sort out his linen cupboards.
12:37Well, well.
12:40Esther.
12:42Good for you, Woodcourt.
12:47If you like her, you should ask her.
12:53I intend to.
13:04Good morning, Miss Esther.
13:06Good morning, Harriet.
13:12I was just coming down, Esther.
13:14Have you heard from Richard?
13:15No.
13:16Not for a while.
13:22Shall we go down, then?
13:23Yes.
13:25Yes.
13:28Ada, I should like to go and visit Richard and see how he's getting on.
13:33Oh?
13:34Why that now?
13:35Well, I heard a note from Mr Woodcourt who's a little concerned about his health.
13:39Oh, then I should go, not you.
13:41Go together.
13:43Give him my best love.
13:44That suit you, Ada.
13:46Yes.
13:47Very well.
13:49There's a letter for you, sir.
13:51Addressed you here, sir, a care of Celeste de Dedlock.
13:55Oh, yes.
13:56Give it here.
14:01Hmm.
14:08That's old news, that is.
14:11Got a pinch of snuff for me, Mr Mercury?
14:27Thank you kindly.
14:29I'll do the same by you one day.
14:32Well, take a pinch of self.
14:34We're all friends here.
14:36Don't mind if I do?
14:39Fine ladies and gentlemen, they're all very well, but I prefer below stairs on the hill,
14:44you know.
14:47Recalling the night of the murder, did Lady Dedlock go out at all that night?
14:51Do you remember?
14:52Yes, she did.
14:53Yes, I thought she did.
14:55On her own, was she?
14:57Yes.
14:58My lady likes a little walk at night.
15:00Quite on her own.
15:01Fresh night air, she says.
15:04Yes, that's all in order.
15:07But that night, that particular night,
15:12I'll just take another pinch of this very fine snuff of yours, Mr Mercury.
15:21That particular night, can you recall what she was wearing?
15:27No, sir.
15:29No, sir.
15:30Can't recall.
15:33Might she have gone out with a black fringe shawl by any chance?
15:38Hand on my heart, Mr Bucket, I can't be sure.
15:42My lady often goes out.
15:43My lady has such a lot of clothes.
15:45I can't be sure.
15:47I'm sorry, Mr Bucket.
15:48Don't torment yourself, Mr Mercury.
15:51You've been very helpful.
15:53I've found a wisdom.
15:55Just a tiny pinch more.
16:03Now, where have we seen a hand like that?
16:23Well, well, well.
16:32I've got a little errand for you, Mr Clam.
16:35Have you, Mr Bucket?
16:38You remember that French maid who was brought here one time?
16:42Miss Hortense?
16:44That's the one.
16:46I want her brought here, Clam.
16:51Had you not better get one of your policemen to bring her here, sir?
16:55Oh, Mr Clam.
16:58That wouldn't strike the young lady as a friendly thing to do.
17:01You just go and tell her a gentleman wants to see her in Mr Tuggenhorn's office
17:05and it would be to her advantage to accompany you there.
17:09As a favour to me, Mr Clam.
17:16Quickly, past Valser's office.
17:18Did you test that one?
17:21Yeah, this is the house.
17:24You seem to know your way very well.
17:26Do I?
17:34Ada, my love.
17:38Esther.
17:40Richard, what is it?
17:46Nothing, nothing.
17:47Frog in my throat.
17:49Is this a healthy place to live, do you think?
17:51It's near the law courts and it's near Vals, so it's working well enough.
17:54Perhaps a change from both would be good for your health.
17:56No, indeed.
17:56We're doing very well at present.
17:57We really are spinning along, arsevals.
17:59He's giving them no rest.
18:02We shall rouse up that nest of sleepers.
18:04Mark my words.
18:04Come on, sit down, my love.
18:20I can't pretend with her, you see.
18:24I fluctuate a little, that's the truth.
18:26Sometimes I hope and sometimes I, well, not despair exactly, but pretty close.
18:36It's all such weary, weary work.
18:50Esther, I'm not going back with you to Bleak House.
18:53But where will you sleep, Ada?
18:58My husband.
19:05We were married as soon as I came of age.
19:10Sorry I kept a secret from you.
19:13But you kept a secret from me.
19:18Don't be angry with us.
19:32So, you bring me here.
19:34What do you want?
19:37Not the first time we've been together in this room, my dear.
19:41So what?
19:42I saw you at the funeral.
19:44I never realized you were such an admirer of our deceased friend.
19:48It is no crime to attend a funeral.
19:51No.
19:52But someone's been writing letters, my dear.
19:55Oh, yes.
19:57Lady Deadlock.
19:59Murderess.
19:59And what of it?
20:02Look at this.
20:03You remember?
20:04You wrote your address for me.
20:06Now, look at the note.
20:09Same handwriting.
20:10Would you agree?
20:11Oh, the great detective.
20:13So pleased with himself.
20:15Yes.
20:16I wrote the letters.
20:17Because you so clearly get everything wrong.
20:20I know it was Lady Deadlock who killed that man.
20:23Oh, you do, do you?
20:24How's that, then?
20:25Because I saw her that night.
20:27I followed her here.
20:31Excellent.
20:35I wonder now.
20:37Did you notice what she was wearing?
20:39She wore a black dress.
20:41And she covered her face with a black fringe shawl.
20:45Black fringe shawl.
20:48I wonder now.
20:50If you was to go to her house,
20:53could you find that shawl for me?
20:54Of course.
20:55I know where all our clothes are kept.
20:57I was her maid, stupid man.
20:59All right.
21:00All right.
21:01Now, listen to me.
21:02This is my plan.
21:15Here we are, my dear.
21:16My friend should be waiting.
21:23All right, Mr. Mercury.
21:25This is for you.
21:26You, Stelia.
21:27As you see,
21:28some of us know how to hold our tongues.
21:31Come on.
21:34Abianto, mademoiselle.
21:41Stelia, man, beast.
21:42I've lost sack of a sayers.
21:44Ow!
21:45I'll dock you tuppence for that.
21:46Now, down gently.
21:49Judy, shake me up.
21:53Mr. Clam.
21:54Great.
21:55If you're looking for Mr. Bucket,
21:56he's not here.
21:57He's gone out.
21:57I'm not looking for him.
21:58I'm looking for you.
22:00And I've found you, ain't I?
22:03What can I do for you, Mr. Smallweight?
22:04Private business.
22:05Out the lot of you!
22:07You too, Judy.
22:08I'll call you when I need you.
22:14You got some letters of mine here, Mr. Clam.
22:17Of great personal and sentimental value.
22:20Mr. Tolkienhorn was going to pay me a lot of money for them,
22:23and now I'm out of pocket, so I want them back.
22:26Mr. Smallweed,
22:27this office is full of letters.
22:28How am I to know which ones you mean?
22:30They're tied up with pink ribbon
22:31and addressed to a Captain Hoard.
22:34As I recall, Mr. Smallweed,
22:37Mr. Tolkienhorn paid you for those letters.
22:40In fact,
22:40I think I could lay my hand on the receipt.
22:43Well, what use are they to him?
22:45Or you?
22:45Or his estate now?
22:47I know how to make money out of them,
22:48and you don't.
22:50Well, it's a pity you don't own them, then.
22:51Ain't it, Mr. Smallweed?
22:52All right.
22:55All right.
22:58I'll go shares with you.
23:00Oh, I don't know, Mr. Smallweed.
23:03I think that would be wrong.
23:04Well, who's to know?
23:06Come on, Mr. Clam.
23:08Who's going to pay your wages now?
23:10I'm offering you a partnership.
23:12Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
23:20Bucket?
23:22Bucket?
23:23I thought that disagreeable business
23:25was all done with.
23:27Perhaps he has come to claim the reward, my dear.
23:30Rather presumptuous.
23:31One would have thought that he would at least wait
23:33until the fellow was convicted and hanged.
23:37Mr. Bucket.
23:41Sir Lester Dedlock, Baronet.
23:43My Lady Dedlock.
23:45Well, Mr. Bucket, how goes the world with you?
23:47Tolerably well, sir.
23:49Tolerably well.
23:52Was there something you wanted, Mr. Bucket?
23:54Yes, sir, there was.
23:56A few questions I'd like to put to her ladyship.
23:58The devil you would.
24:00I have no objection.
24:01Let him ask his questions.
24:03Perhaps your ladyship would be more comfortable
24:05if I put them to you in private.
24:07No.
24:08Whatever you have to say to me,
24:09you may say in front of my husband.
24:11Very good, my lady.
24:13Won't take long.
24:15Did you go out on the night of the murder?
24:20Mr. Mercury tells me...
24:22Yes.
24:23I did, I believe.
24:26I do sometimes feel the need to take the air before retiring.
24:30Nothing wrong with that.
24:32Where did you go?
24:35I really cannot recall, Mr. Bucket.
24:38The purpose of the walk was to take the air,
24:41not to go anywhere in particular.
24:44Just so, of course.
24:46Can you recollect what you was wearing, my lady?
24:50What an extraordinary question.
24:53No, I cannot.
24:55Quite a chilly night, as I recall.
24:58Would you have had a black fringe shawl with you by any chance?
25:02I do not believe I possess any such garment.
25:08You see, the thing is,
25:10a lady,
25:11or, shall we say, a woman,
25:13was seen in the vicinity of Mr. Tulgenorms that night,
25:17wearing just such a shawl,
25:19held over her face.
25:21That is very interesting, Mr. Bucket,
25:23but, as I say,
25:24I do not believe I possess any such thing.
25:26Very good.
25:28With your permission, Sir Lester.
25:39What is that woman doing here?
25:42Leave my house, or I shall have you ejected.
25:44You have no business here.
25:45Stay where you are.
25:47I say, mademoiselle Houtan says business here.
25:50Law business.
25:51And no one is above the law.
25:53Not even Celeste Deadlock.
25:55Baronet.
25:56Find it?
25:57Yes.
25:58Shall we?
25:59Where do you find it?
26:01In my lady's closet.
26:02You read that creature?
26:03Steady, Celeste.
26:05And Mercury was with me when I found it.
26:07Give it here.
26:15Do you recognize this shawl, my lady?
26:17Yes, I do recognize it now.
26:20Very good.
26:21Memory can play funny tricks.
26:25Now, I wonder if you can remember any more about that night.
26:32Perhaps if I tell you that Sergeant George,
26:34the fellow we've got locked up,
26:36says he saw a woman with a black fringe shawl
26:38on the stairs leading up to Mr. Tulkinon's office.
26:42This is not the only black fringe shawl in London, I believe.
26:46And as I say, I cannot remember wearing it.
26:49Perhaps if I say this young lady says she followed you that night.
26:53You see, now you must tell the truth.
26:55Be quiet, mademoiselle, please.
26:59Lady Deadlock?
27:02I did walk as far as Mr. Tulkinhorn's office that night.
27:07I had remembered something I wanted to say to him.
27:10Ah!
27:13Very good.
27:18You were taking the air.
27:21You remembered you had something to say to Mr. Tulkinhorn.
27:25You thought you might as well pop up and have a word with him right away.
27:30Did you have that word with him, my lady?
27:32No, I did not.
27:34I knocked on the door, but I received no reply.
27:37I came away.
27:38Liar!
27:41I believe I passed someone on the stairs.
27:45That would have been Mr. George.
27:47And that clears up the last point that's been puzzling me.
27:51With your permission again, Sir Lester?
28:02Now, Constable, you can arrest this lady for the murder of Mr. Tulkinhorn.
28:09No!
28:10No, you fool!
28:12Ow! Ow!
28:13Autence Jaboulay.
28:15You are arrested for the murder of Mr. Josiah Tulkinhorn of Lincoln's Inn Fools.
28:20Take her away.
28:29Don't forget, there's another chance to catch this week's episodes of Bleak House
28:33on Sunday afternoon here on BBC One at ten past four.
28:37Lorraine...
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