Mesmerized 1985 Drama ★★½ (CC) Jodie Foster, John Lithgow

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Mesmerized (also known as Shocked and My Letter to George) is a 1985 drama film directed by Michael Laughlin and starring Jodie Foster, John Lithgow and Michael Murphy.   Loosely based upon the Pimlico mystery, the film was a co-production between Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom and United States with RKO Pictures. The film was titled Mesmerized during production and upon release in Australia, New Zealand, and the UK. It was released in the US in 1986 as My Letter to George, and elsewhere as Shocked.   An orphaned 18-year-old New Zealand girl marries a much older wealthy businessman, and is forced to endure the sexual anomalies of her husband. Strains soon develop between them. The husband dies and chloroform is found in his system. She is arrested and put on trial for his murder.   Credits:  Jodie Foster – Victoria Thompson  John Lithgow – Oliver Thompson  Michael Murphy – Reverend Wilson  Dan Shor – George Thompson  Harry Andrews – Old Thompson  Philip Holder – Dr. Finch  Beryl Te Wiata – Mrs. Simmons  Reg Evans – Mr. Simmons  Jonathan Hardy – Burley  Don Selwyn – Joseph  Derek Hardwick – Longwood  George Spoors – Lawyer  Bob Gould – Judge  Jonathan Elsom – Public Prosecutor  Norman Fairley – Bailiff  Kate Hood – Midwife  Sarah Peirse – Victoria's mother   Soundtracks:  Karu Karu  Written by Sam Freedman and F.A. Bennett  Performed by The Tura Kina Girls Choir   Manurere  Written by Sam Freedman  Performed by Saint Joseph Maori Girls Choir   Cosi Fan Tutte  Written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (as Mozart)  Performed by Wiener Philharmoniker (as The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra)  Performed by Karl Boehm (as Professor Karl Boehm)

Transcript

00:00:27Order in court!

00:00:30Counsel for the defense of Mrs. Victoria Thompson, Thomas Longwood MP.

00:00:38That's one of the most expensive lawyers in New Zealand.

00:00:42The Crown against Victoria Thompson.

00:00:51Perhaps this is the way my story began.

00:00:54Perhaps this is the way I came to be here, awaiting my judgment.

00:00:58I've imagined it many times, the different ways it might have been.

00:01:24As I have told you in my letter, the child's father is unknown to me. It was my express wish

00:01:28not to know his name.

00:01:30My daughter wanted to kick the child, but you understand that it is impossible.

00:01:34Naturally, I want the child to know nothing of this arrangement.

00:01:36She will be well cared for. You may be sure of that.

00:01:40Of course, that is a comforting thought. I was sure it would be so.

00:01:44You haven't told me her name. Her name?

00:01:47Yes. What is the little one called?

00:01:49I don't believe she has a name.

00:01:56What is the thing?

00:02:00I don't believe she has a name.

00:02:06Let's go.

00:02:06What else can I have to do?

00:02:18Let's go.

00:02:19Let's go.

00:02:29Victoria!

00:02:32Victoria, somebody's here to see you.

00:02:52Are you a relative of mine, a relation?

00:02:56Do you know me?

00:02:59My name is Oliver Thompson.

00:03:01I'm a merchant.

00:03:02I have a chain of shops.

00:03:06It is a small chain, but in ten years,

00:03:09I expect to turn a profit.

00:03:13They, uh...

00:03:14They told me of you.

00:03:22Uh, won't you, uh...

00:03:30Won't you sit down?

00:03:39Victoria, have you...

00:03:49Have you ever considered marriage?

00:03:52In sickness and in health.

00:03:57To love, cherish, and to obey.

00:04:03Till death us do part.

00:04:05Till death us do part.

00:04:26I had never pictured myself as a bride.

00:04:28When the matrons arranged this marriage with Oliver,

00:04:31I was determined to do my best.

00:04:33For we had been taught that it was a woman's end to be a wife.

00:04:37But I was shocked to learn that although I was wed,

00:04:40I was not yet free.

00:04:46Well, Victoria, my dear.

00:04:49This is where we must part for now.

00:04:52You must go back to school.

00:04:55Back?

00:04:56For how long?

00:04:57Well, until you come of age.

00:05:00It's just a short while, my dear.

00:05:02It's how it's done.

00:05:05I'm afraid, my dear,

00:05:06we should both have to reconcile ourselves to this period of waiting.

00:05:32Put these, here,

00:05:37Claire?

00:05:38amazon!

00:05:39That will not look good.

00:05:43There have to be a royal house.

00:05:52A187 grandmoth.

00:05:53Time for a royal house

00:05:53or a royal house.

00:05:53The royal house.

00:06:27At last, by the end of the summer, I left Matron and everything I had ever known and set sail

00:06:32for my new married life on the North Island.

00:07:05At last, by the end of the summer, I left Matron and everything I had ever known and set sail

00:07:10for my new married life.

00:07:16At last, by the end of the summer, I left Matron and everything I had ever known and set sail

00:07:24for my new married life.

00:07:41At last, by the end of the summer, I left Matron and everything I had ever known and set sail

00:07:49for my new married life.

00:07:54Have you never been to the North Island, ma'am?

00:07:58Have you travelled to join your parents?

00:08:01No, I'm going to my husband.

00:08:04My new husband.

00:08:05Mr. Rolover Thompson of Tammen Grove.

00:08:08The town has grown of late.

00:08:09I don't know the place very well.

00:08:11Nor do I.

00:08:12I've only met Mr. Thompson twice.

00:08:15Enjoy your stay, ma'am.

00:08:58I've only met Mr. Thompson twice.

00:09:00I've only met Mr. Thompson twice.

00:09:01I've only met Mr. Thompson twice.

00:09:02Mr. Thompson twice.

00:09:03Mr. Thompson twice.

00:09:05Mr. Thompson twice.

00:09:06Mr. Thompson twice.

00:09:07Mr. Thompson twice.

00:09:15good evening Mrs Thompson. good evening

00:09:24the master is not at home madam. he's not here then? he's had to visit his sick father in

00:09:32Woodford. it was only right. Woodford? is that far from here? it would take five

00:09:41hours at least I should say with fast horses. did the ma... did the master leave

00:09:49long ago? this morning madam. he left something for you if you'd do me the

00:09:55kindness of following the master likes to save a penny

00:10:33there it is madam. a present. he was sorry not to be here

00:11:03you

00:11:25I don't know.

00:12:06perhaps you'd like to go and rest madam you must have had a tiring journey

00:12:31I don't know.

00:12:33I don't know.

00:12:34I don't know.

00:12:51I don't know.

00:12:54I don't know.

00:12:55I don't know.

00:13:29I don't know.

00:13:43I don't know.

00:13:50I don't know.

00:13:52I don't know.

00:13:54I don't know.

00:13:56I don't know.

00:14:21I don't know.

00:14:23I've been around my shops every so often.

00:14:25You can see what I've created with these hands.

00:14:30I've given up my life too.

00:14:54That's my brother George, my wife Victoria, my partner Burleigh.

00:14:59Keepin' busy are we, brother Georgie Portie?

00:15:04This cheese will be mouldy before we can sell half of it.

00:15:07Just let me get my hands on the man who made a mistake on this order.

00:15:10Well, let's do eight for that.

00:15:12What's the wholesale price?

00:15:14I for one and eight in sale.

00:15:15Three shillings?

00:15:16Send everything to shops.

00:15:17Special price?

00:15:18Half a crown.

00:15:19Oliver, there's not enough transport to get all of this at the shop.

00:15:22I'm sure we should hire my port in.

00:15:23No, no, no, transport.

00:15:24Get ten of those black laggards from the street corner.

00:15:26Give them a few pence each.

00:15:27They can carry the bloody barrels on the back.

00:15:29All right, go.

00:15:33Red red!

00:15:34There we go!

00:15:35Đây!

00:15:40Oh sh**!

00:15:45Oh sh**!

00:15:46I'm freakin' off my man!

00:15:53There you go!

00:16:05How about that one, huh?

00:16:06That's the championship battle!

00:16:10I don't want to think of the counter now!

00:16:20Well, you were very happy there.

00:16:23I know, they told me.

00:16:26Yes, it is true, we were all happy.

00:16:30Well, that's not what I'm trying to say.

00:16:36When you grow up there, you learn not to think of happiness.

00:16:41Just as I never thought you'd have a father or a brother.

00:16:45A brother.

00:16:49I'm not here, my father.

00:16:51I'm not Him.

00:17:07You're very happy!

00:17:08I've never thought you were going to stay down here because I'm working great as you in.

00:17:09Well, I'm again!

00:17:09You're all right!

00:17:09Yeah, it's enough!

00:17:25Has Oliva arrived?

00:17:27He asked me to tell you he'd be along later.

00:17:43It's beautiful.

00:17:47Perhaps you'd like to see the dogs.

00:17:49I was going to feed him.

00:17:52Oliver's very proud of the puppies.

00:18:01Phoebe, Phoebe, Phoebe.

00:18:03That's Phoebe.

00:18:04She's my favourite. She had a hard time with it.

00:18:07Does he ever let them free?

00:18:09Simmons runs them every morning, once a day.

00:18:11Like clockwork.

00:18:13That's the way Oliver likes it.

00:18:14What's the point?

00:18:15Why? Why does he have them, then?

00:18:18What do you think?

00:18:20Come on, Phoebe.

00:18:22Come on!

00:18:23Come on, Phoebe.

00:18:25That's it.

00:18:26Come on, Phoebe.

00:18:28Come on, Phoebe.

00:18:29Come on, Phoebe.

00:18:49I mean, we have been man and wife for over a month now.

00:18:55I thought I'd pick some flowers for my hair.

00:18:58I should think we could dispense with some other notions the good matrons taught you.

00:19:02You put on airs, Victoria.

00:19:03Victoria.

00:19:03I prefer it to jewellery.

00:19:06I prefer it to jewellery.

00:19:07I prefer it to jewellery.

00:19:24Victoria.

00:19:29If you could...

00:19:30If you could...

00:19:33These hairs have grown here.

00:19:57You did this before I came.

00:20:00I went to the barber's more frequently then.

00:20:04Why don't you go frequently now?

00:20:10What a fine lady you are, Victoria.

00:20:32This isn't a kennel.

00:20:34Who brought this dog in?

00:20:36Get it out!

00:20:38You heard, Father.

00:20:39Simmons.

00:20:40George.

00:20:40Anyone.

00:20:41Get this dog out of here!

00:20:47Victoria's is my father, Mr. Thompson.

00:20:50Uh-huh.

00:20:51I don't think it's time to send Bernie down to Christchurch.

00:20:53Have him open the next store.

00:20:56Uh-huh.

00:20:56Tired of working with him anyway.

00:20:59Uh-huh.

00:21:00Yeah.

00:21:00Try this cheese, Father.

00:21:02You'll like it.

00:21:02No.

00:21:03The rats do.

00:21:07I read a fine joke in the newspaper yesterday.

00:21:10Uh-huh.

00:21:12This one gentleman, Mark, wants to challenge...

00:21:13I don't know what sort of customs you are used to, Mrs. Thompson, but in our family, we like to

00:21:19show some respect for old age.

00:21:23Right.

00:21:24So, he wants to challenge another one to a duel.

00:21:28So, he says to him, I'll trouble you for your card.

00:21:32This is the other one.

00:21:33So, Victoria, get the bloody door.

00:21:35Shut up.

00:21:37It's all right, George.

00:21:38Sit down.

00:21:38Sit down, George!

00:21:40Oh, what's that?

00:21:42What did he say?

00:21:45Yeah.

00:21:46Right.

00:21:46So, he says, I'll trouble you for your card.

00:21:51And the other one says, so that you can put it on your mirror in your drawing room, and boast

00:21:57that you have gentlemen visiting you.

00:21:59Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

00:22:03Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

00:22:03Visiting car.

00:22:07Oh, yes, my master.

00:22:09Don't you think it's funny?

00:22:11Oh, so you have gentlemen visiting you.

00:22:31I used to hide from them in here when I was a boy.

00:22:37I'm still hiding from them.

00:22:49Oh, yes.

00:23:00I'm sorry.

00:23:02I'm sorry.

00:23:06I'm sorry.

00:23:13There's nothing going out in this wet.

00:23:15He'll stay the night.

00:23:17You know what I can do about it.

00:23:19Muddy rain.

00:23:22Paddock will be knee-deep in mud in the morning.

00:23:25Last time it rained like this, dogs were brown.

00:23:28From head to tail, not a spot of white on them.

00:23:31Took Simmons about a month to get them clean again.

00:23:35You never give a bath to a big beast like that.

00:23:38Now, you best be off, son.

00:23:40I've got work to do tomorrow.

00:23:43We shall bid a fond farewell for you to Victoria or whatever it is.

00:23:50He's probably retired to bed with a book, I know my wife.

00:23:54And I believe I do.

00:23:56Mrs. Simmons!

00:23:58Yes, sir?

00:23:58Find out what the mistress is doing.

00:24:01The house is going to come down.

00:24:02The mistress is not in her room, sir.

00:24:04She's what?

00:24:11She's not going to the kennels.

00:24:13That's where she often goes.

00:24:15She's taking such an interest, Father.

00:24:22You really should wait before you judge.

00:24:26Indeed.

00:24:29Indeed.

00:24:31Indeed.

00:24:42You're out here.

00:24:49Oh!

00:25:00Victoria!

00:25:13She's not there.

00:25:15She's nowhere in the house.

00:25:18You're not worried, surely?

00:25:20She'll be back.

00:25:22She'll get cold and wet, like you are.

00:25:25Come back repentant.

00:25:26She doesn't know anyone in the area.

00:25:30I think you treated her too roughly.

00:25:32Ah.

00:25:35A little lesson won't do her any harm.

00:25:38You don't know women, son.

00:25:41They're all the same.

00:25:43All of them.

00:25:48Except in your mother, of course.

00:25:53Lord have mercy on her soul.

00:25:58What was I saying?

00:26:09Good morning to you, sir.

00:26:11Joseph, my father's asleep.

00:26:13The mistress was kind enough to give me a gold sovereign.

00:26:16What's happened? Where is she?

00:26:17She told me to give you that there piece of paper, sir.

00:26:20For God's sake, Joseph, what's the meaning of this?

00:26:22I did everything the mistress told me to, sir.

00:26:25What's going on? I'll take care of this father.

00:26:26I was driving to Woodford and she said,

00:26:29We ain't going to Woodford.

00:26:31We're going someplace else.

00:26:32Where did you go?

00:26:33Come on.

00:26:33Where?

00:26:34The docks, sir.

00:26:35Why the docks?

00:26:36Our ship, the living daylights.

00:26:37Why the bloody docks?

00:26:38Sir, don't hurt me, please.

00:26:40She gave me a gold sovereign and told me to give you that there piece of paper, sir.

00:26:44What is it?

00:26:45What is it?

00:26:45It's a pawnbroker's receipt.

00:26:46She's pawned the horse and carriage for a hundred pounds.

00:26:49Ah.

00:26:49I warned you about making this arrangement.

00:26:52Oh, father, be quiet.

00:26:53All we can do now is find her.

00:26:58Here.

00:26:59Right here.

00:27:16Where's the ticket noise?

00:27:17Just down there, sir.

00:27:19Come on.

00:27:20We go left, son.

00:27:24Wait for me, Oliver.

00:27:26I want to be in the world.

00:27:28I want to know.

00:27:29All that I can know.

00:27:30I want to know.

00:27:34I'd have died if I'd stayed in that house.

00:27:37Have you been any ships to leave this port last night?

00:27:40Several.

00:27:40Do you have any lists of the passengers?

00:27:42How can I?

00:27:43Lists!

00:27:44Registered names of the bloody passengers!

00:27:46Lists!

00:27:47Wait!

00:27:47Quietly!

00:27:48I'll need to see you later.

00:27:50Right.

00:27:51Thompson!

00:27:52Thompson!

00:27:53Thompson!

00:27:56Thompson!

00:27:56Now, what's this?

00:27:57That's the George Washington sailing for America.

00:27:59Good God!

00:28:00America!

00:28:01Where is this ship?

00:28:02Further down the desert.

00:28:12Why did he come for me, though?

00:28:14How did he even know that I existed?

00:28:19They kept all that a secret for me.

00:28:23I felt helpless.

00:28:34Not the darkness.

00:28:34Oh, God!

00:28:36That's the flood!

00:28:38Oh, God!

00:28:39Oh, God!

00:28:40Oh, God!

00:28:41Oh, God!

00:28:41Watch out, son!

00:29:02You've killed him.

00:29:05Come on.

00:29:07Come on.

00:29:09You've killed my brother!

00:29:12Father, take her away!

00:29:36Don't go!

00:29:37Stop!

00:29:39Don't be каким!

00:29:42Stop!

00:29:45How's she doing?

00:29:46She must be.

00:29:59It's all over.

00:30:03I've taken care of everything.

00:30:05Gosh, you're a pretty penny.

00:30:08Luckily, the ship was about to sail.

00:30:13His body is...

00:30:29No one will ever know.

00:30:33We shall say he sailed to America.

00:30:36We've never heard of him again.

00:30:39You are a very fortunate girl.

00:30:45We saved you.

00:30:47That's not frightened of father.

00:30:48No.

00:30:50He was always different from his brothers.

00:30:53The runt of the family.

00:30:58I shall forgive you, Victoria.

00:31:02Everything will be different now.

00:31:03No.

00:31:07No.

00:31:19No.

00:31:20I shall preparest the table before me,

00:31:22the presence of my enemies.

00:31:24Thou anointest my head with oil,

00:31:26my cunt raneth over on me.

00:31:28Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me

00:31:30all the days of my life,

00:31:32and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

00:31:54to find the truth.

00:31:59No.

00:32:01No.

00:32:02No.

00:32:03No.

00:32:15Just press when you're ready, all right?

00:32:20Come on, Biggles.

00:32:21Get the old place around.

00:32:25So you see, they had arranged everything.

00:32:28I was pregnant with Oliver's child.

00:32:30He was full of pride.

00:32:32And our life together went quietly forward the way he'd always foreseen it.

00:32:38All right, now.

00:32:40Let's give you this little bunch of flowers.

00:32:45Yeah, it's lovely.

00:32:48What happened that night was never mentioned again.

00:32:51But they made it clear to me that were it not for their generous protection,

00:32:55I would surely have been held for murder.

00:32:58Once more.

00:33:09I'll do it again, my dear.

00:33:10What?

00:33:16Oh, my feet.

00:33:21Oh.

00:33:24Look.

00:33:52So, let's get started.

00:33:56Ah, her father.

00:33:58What'd you make of that?

00:34:08A ghost.

00:34:09If she were to discover...

00:34:11Don't talk nonsense, father.

00:34:18She believes he's dead.

00:34:23I hear her scream in his sleep.

00:34:25You must destroy it.

00:34:27Don't worry, father.

00:34:29Have I handled everything so far?

00:34:38Do you want any back in?

00:34:42Do you want any back in?

00:34:44Do you want any back in?

00:34:45Do you want any back in?

00:34:54Do you want any back in?

00:34:56Do you want any back in?

00:35:07Do you want any back in?

00:35:10do for you. Is this your first child? There must be something you could tell me. From what you told

00:35:18me, assuming your information is correct, the convent arranged for you at age 18 to marry a

00:35:25gentleman who, by your own account, does not beat you, nor starve you, nor deprive you of his

00:35:33respect, and yet you cannot remain another moment. I... I'm afraid. No one will believe me, no one will understand.

00:35:47If every woman in the antipodes with the vapors decided to divorce her husband, there would be no children, no

00:35:55mothers. You have a long life ahead of you, my dear.

00:36:01That is... is just what terrifies me. I... I must... must do something. I must... I must save myself.

00:36:17And she went in? Like I said, sir. She went in and stayed in.

00:36:25Rather than having two hands, or two feet, to be cast into the everlasting fire.

00:36:33And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee.

00:36:41Beloved brethren,

00:36:44let us recall that we are all one body,

00:36:48the body of Christ,

00:36:50and all those near to us are members of that body.

00:36:54Blessed in the Lord,

00:36:56let us look round with great attentiveness,

00:37:00for the eyes

00:37:02and the hands of the devil

00:37:05are everywhere.

00:37:09A fine preacher.

00:37:17It's no doubt they added pressures.

00:37:20If you're confined,

00:37:22be careful, my love.

00:37:26I just want you to know that

00:37:29I know where you have been

00:37:30in the town

00:37:33and how long you've been there.

00:37:36Not just it, my dear.

00:37:39You see, Victoria,

00:37:42I know now that

00:37:43I cannot trust you.

00:37:46From now on,

00:37:48you will be accompanied

00:37:49wherever you go

00:37:50by Simmons,

00:37:52your faithful servant.

00:37:55And he will report to me

00:37:59your every thought,

00:38:01your every movement,

00:38:06at least until

00:38:07our child arrives.

00:38:35to you.

00:38:48Do you good.

00:38:49May I come to you?

00:38:50May I come to you?

00:38:52May I come to you?

00:39:01Please.

00:39:02May I come to you?

00:39:02May I come in?

00:39:03through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.

00:39:09Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence

00:39:15of mine enemies. Thou anointest my head with oil, my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and

00:39:24mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord

00:39:29forever.

00:39:34Come on. Let's go. You're not yourself. I shall take you home.

00:40:14Why didn't it happen to me what happened to that child?

00:40:21It's better to die in a mother's womb than to live and never see her.

00:40:26God has cursed me now.

00:40:29God would never judge you for this.

00:40:52God has cursed me.

00:40:59Oh, my God.

00:41:30My one weakness.

00:41:32Only one?

00:41:34Well, I prefer to think so.

00:41:36I hope not.

00:41:40This is very curious.

00:41:42You're a minister,

00:41:43and yet you show such an interest in pagan objects.

00:41:48Is this not used in human sacrifice?

00:41:50Hmm.

00:41:54This is an amulet

00:41:56for lovesickness.

00:42:13Would you like something to drink?

00:42:15Yes.

00:42:26I think I should let you wait on me.

00:42:33Victoria!

00:42:37Victoria!

00:42:42If you're not doing anything,

00:42:44perhaps you could help me with the scissors.

00:42:46My, uh,

00:42:49whiskers.

00:42:50You know.

00:43:06Where are they?

00:43:19Oliver!

00:43:21Where did you leave them last?

00:43:27My dearest friend,

00:43:29after all I had suffered and believed for months,

00:43:33you cannot imagine my profound shock

00:43:35at what I was to find that day

00:43:36hidden in Oliver's drawer.

00:43:52Victoria!

00:43:59Victoria!

00:44:02Coming!

00:44:11No, not that one, Simmonds.

00:44:13Reverend Wilson's are in the other box.

00:44:14Yes, ma'am.

00:44:15Yes, try one of mine, Thompson.

00:44:16What?

00:44:17Why?

00:44:18Don't mind if I do.

00:44:22It's an improvement, you know.

00:44:24I have them sent from London.

00:44:26Oh, quite right.

00:44:27Always get the best, I say.

00:44:29But I was thinking more about our supper.

00:44:31What? You've made a difference in the kitchen, my dear.

00:44:33I should like to go to London.

00:44:35I've imagined it many times.

00:44:37Ah, you wouldn't like it.

00:44:39No, more than enough for a lifetime.

00:44:42Right here.

00:44:43A lifetime?

00:44:44Mm-hmm.

00:44:45Do you think?

00:44:45Mm-hmm.

00:44:46You take my word for it.

00:44:48A, Wilson?

00:44:49Mm, a lifetime.

00:44:52No.

00:44:54If you want excitement, you should come down to the shop.

00:44:57Both of you.

00:44:58We've had more business than we can handle.

00:45:00Well, it's been an excellent autumn, if I don't say so.

00:45:04Excellent winter, too.

00:45:06You do say so, don't you?

00:45:08Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

00:45:15Someday, perhaps, we shall have that holiday I mentioned to you.

00:45:19Perhaps we could go to the cottage.

00:45:21No, no, no, no.

00:45:22Too busy at the shop right now.

00:45:25Later, then.

00:45:26Perhaps we could all go.

00:45:39In the gloom, he charmed her, so that she put her mark upon his forehead in ash.

00:45:44So that the next day, she might recognize her chosen lord.

00:45:49Well, if he was so charming, then why would she not recognize him, whether he had a mark or not,

00:45:56hmm?

00:45:57The next morning, she was disgusted to see her chosen husband.

00:46:03The other chiefs were outraged.

00:46:06Kiwi, the handsome chief, together with his friend Weka, took the princess and ran off with Lord Howe in pursuit.

00:46:15Is this a true tale?

00:46:18Lord Howe killed Kiwi, but Weka and the princess ran on.

00:46:24When they reached the edge of a steep cliff, Weka hurled the princess over the rock into the black chasm

00:46:30below.

00:46:32Her last words were,

00:46:37By the darkness, I was confounded.

00:46:40By the darkness, I was confounded.

00:46:48It's not a true story, to answer your question.

00:46:52A true feeling, but not a true story.

00:47:03And then, providing the subject indicates a propensity for indirect influence. Combined time...

00:47:09Oh Victoria, how have you collected all this rubbish?

00:47:12The Reverend Wilson gave it to me. It's a very famous book by Dr. Franz Messmer.

00:47:15You haven't forgotten what you promised me.

00:47:18Let me just finish this chapter, Oliver.

00:47:21No.

00:47:21It's very interesting. If you just listen and let your mind flow.

00:47:24Let your mind flow?

00:47:26Is that another of your doctor's teachings?

00:47:29Combined times with actual physical connection between subject and teacher that enables a direct magnetic flow to exist between their

00:47:36respective and consciousness.

00:47:38To be more precise, if during the course of the experiments, the teacher were to hold a shining or bright

00:47:42object...

00:47:44Oliver, shall we try it?

00:47:46Well, you know what I'm waiting for.

00:47:49I've been waiting here for an hour or more.

00:47:52Oh, just let's try it, Oliver. I promise.

00:47:55I'd do anything then.

00:47:59And it would greatly aid in the transference of the teacher's will into the unconscious of the student.

00:48:05In so doing, it creates a link between the two that proves impossible to sever.

00:48:10This link provides...

00:48:29Victoria's been reading to me from one of your scholarly books, Wilson.

00:48:35It's not all wives, is it?

00:48:38Read entire books to their husbands.

00:48:40Did you enjoy it, Oliver?

00:48:41What book was that?

00:48:44Dr. Mesmer's Theorist on the Unconscious.

00:48:46That's it.

00:48:47That's the one.

00:48:49I should think that would be a bit modern for you, Oliver.

00:48:56Perhaps, uh...

00:48:57Perhaps you'd like to try to hypnotise me?

00:49:00I should be glad to serve as one of your subjects.

00:49:03Oh, no, I don't think you'd make a very good subject, Oliver.

00:49:06You're too full of life forces.

00:49:09I don't think I could capture them all.

00:49:11Why don't you try, anyway?

00:49:16Yes, do try.

00:49:19Well, all right, perhaps this once.

00:49:23This is a very new and revolutionary science.

00:49:25No one knows how or why it works.

00:49:35Too little is known of its effect.

00:49:53There, you see?

00:49:54I warned you, you're too strong.

00:49:58I shouldn't think you'd say that about me.

00:50:02Wouldn't I?

00:50:03Do try.

00:50:18Do try.

00:50:33I know.

00:50:47You're too strong.

00:51:10It's extraordinary.

00:51:26It's amazing.

00:51:28What will happen now?

00:51:31What do you want to happen?

00:51:34Do you want to kiss her?

00:51:39Victoria.

00:51:45Kiss the man you love.

00:52:06Should we ask for more?

00:52:08No, no, don't.

00:52:10You can retire if you like.

00:52:12I shall stay with Victoria for a while.

00:52:15I must break the trance then.

00:52:17Surely you don't think her husband is unable to take care of her adequately?

00:52:21That's hardly the point.

00:52:22Well, since she's my wife.

00:52:30I believe I'll take a stroll before bed, if that's all right.

00:52:44Victoria, my dear.

00:52:47I've always longed for...

00:53:10You've got a pack of them in there, don't you?

00:53:15Come on, give me yours.

00:53:22What's Mr. Tompkins?

00:53:23I'm holler!

00:53:25You're all right?

00:53:25No.

00:53:26No.

00:53:28No.

00:53:28I'm sorry.

00:53:29There we are.

00:53:31Yeah, now give me one of those rigs.

00:53:33Grab it on me.

00:53:34There are only left, sir.

00:53:35Well, then give me yours then.

00:53:36Are you sure you'll be all right, Mr. Thompson?

00:53:38You don't mind about me, mate.

00:53:39I want to be in on this.

00:53:41I don't want to be in on this.

00:53:44Yeah, now how do you work?

00:53:45You just light it, sir.

00:53:46Go on, light it.

00:53:48Light it!

00:53:50See you one over there.

00:53:51I see you, sir.

00:53:55This should get rid of him.

00:53:59There's an old bachelor of dignity, is there?

00:54:02The master's not well.

00:54:04Is there a doctor in the area?

00:54:05Yes, madam.

00:54:06There's a new doctor.

00:54:07Dr. Finch in Clarendon.

00:54:09But I don't know anything about him.

00:54:11Shall I send the husband to fetch Dr. Finch?

00:54:13Yes, yes, do that.

00:54:14No, perhaps I'd better go myself.

00:54:55I'm awfully sorry, Mrs. Thompson, but, uh, would you mind if I had a private word with your husband?

00:55:00It's all right, my dear.

00:55:15I must ask you a rather personal question, Mr. Thompson.

00:55:20For the sake of your health, I would be grateful if you answered me honestly.

00:55:24Please bear in mind that I am a physician.

00:55:28Fire away.

00:55:29Have you ever, or rather have you in the recent past, had the misfortune to catch a, uh, a man's

00:55:36illness?

00:55:38You see, there are symptoms of poisoning, uh, probably by mercury, which, as you know, is used to cure venereal

00:55:44disease.

00:55:45Doctor, I've never been down with any illness in my life.

00:55:48Man's or otherwise, you have my word.

00:55:53Well, my diagnosis is poisoning.

00:55:57At this moment, I, uh, I cannot establish the cause.

00:56:01But fortunately, the state of illness is not serious.

00:56:04The medicine I'm prescribing should set it right very shortly.

00:56:08I assume you've told Dr. Finch about the rats all of them?

00:56:12The rats?

00:56:14Oh, yeah.

00:56:16In my storeroom.

00:56:18Hundreds of them.

00:56:19I brought in some men to get rid of them.

00:56:21Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

00:56:25Ha, ha, ha, ha!

00:56:27Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

00:56:36Look at this lantz!

00:56:38I ain't coming out of a whole bloody crowd of bastards!

00:56:43And you were present on this occasion personally?

00:56:45Of course I was.

00:56:47I was on to stand by and let the beasts eat my entire stock.

00:56:51you should have mentioned this in the first place it confirms my diagnosis please follow my

00:56:58instructions exactly a few days mr thompson you'll be as fit as a fiddle i'll call again

00:57:04the day after tomorrow in the meantime you know where to find me mrs thompson and in the future

00:57:10i advise you not to poison your rats personally your life is more important than your goods surely

00:57:19is he better yes getting stronger and stronger every day he must have been frightened the doctor

00:57:28says there's always a danger of a relapse but surely under your care what he's improving so quickly yes

00:57:43perhaps this is too tiring for you simmons could push this bloody chair it's a good exercise

00:57:49it seems you've spent the whole month indoors yeah i've taken steps to make it easier i've asked my

00:57:54father to come stay with us your father be good company but do you think it wise

00:58:01oh yeah you're not strong enough

00:58:06well he's grown very fond of you my dear he'll come here as soon as his affairs are settled i'm

00:58:12looking

00:58:12forward to it if we were to go away if we were to travel he'd be alone in a big

00:58:17house

00:58:19don't you worry my girl you've done enough you see how big the puppies are grown i should put them

00:58:26out

00:58:26the stud this spring

00:58:55i cannot express how happy

00:58:57happy I was to learn at long last that you are all right. I know that it is impossible for

00:59:02you

00:59:02to correspond with me. I hope at the very least that you will receive this. I was saddened to

00:59:09learn that you suffer so greatly. If there was any possibility of my sending for you now, you must

00:59:15know that I would move heaven and earth to do so. I can only hope and dream that Providence will

00:59:20find

00:59:20a way to unite us one day. You were always in my thoughts.

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01:00:28Mrs. Simmons. The doctor has prescribed a special diet.

01:00:32oh very well madam. I should do it myself. may go now.

01:01:17I felt them bite out my throat. I shouted and screamed. I couldn't move and they

01:01:23bided me more and more. I was suffocating. You've got to help me doctor please.

01:01:28That's quite understandable Mr. Thompson. You've had a sudden high temperature. Such dreams are quite normal.

01:01:35Save me. I was deader but now I'm weaker every day. Life is losing its grip on me.

01:01:41Please don't worry Mr. Thompson. It's just a temporary relapse. It is unexpected but these things happen.

01:01:49My teeth are loose. My gums are bleeding.

01:01:55You haven't been poisoning your rats again. I swear it doctor. I've never been ill in my life.

01:02:09Why don't you try and get some rest now Mr. Thompson and I'll leave you another prescription.

01:02:17Mm-hmm.

01:03:15mm-hmm…

01:03:20Oh, my God.

01:04:05Oliver's strength slowly waned, and it was necessary for the young Dr. Finch to attend to Oliver, and even on

01:04:12a few nights to remain at his side.

01:04:22One night, as I watched from the window, I knew the doctor was puzzled by Oliver's lack of response to

01:04:29treatment.

01:04:30But I knew that I alone had the power to comfort Oliver, to calm him, to make him sleep.

01:05:03One night, as I watched from the window, I knew the doctor was puzzled by Oliver, and I knew the

01:05:07doctor was puzzled by Oliver, and I knew the doctor was puzzled by Oliver.

01:05:28Oh!

01:05:43Please, try to keep calm.

01:05:45I know that it hurts,

01:05:47but it is necessary if you're to return to good health.

01:05:51Patience, please.

01:05:52It won't be long now.

01:06:12It won't be long now.

01:06:30It won't be long now.

01:06:52Please accept my deepest condolences.

01:06:55I'm truly sorry.

01:06:57This is a great shock.

01:07:01Oliver, business.

01:07:03To think this year we're going to open a new shop in Christchurch.

01:07:32I'm sorry.

01:07:41It's...

01:07:45I'm really sorry.

01:07:53I'm sorry.

01:07:55I'm sorry.

01:08:05I don't know.

01:08:29What have you done to my son?

01:08:40Even if God forgives you, I never shall.

01:08:46I shall make quite sure when I see you hand first.

01:08:55Yes, I will.

01:09:18I will.

01:09:20I will.

01:09:21I will.

01:09:26I will.

01:09:57I will.

01:09:58I will.

01:10:30I will.

01:10:32I will.

01:10:34I will.

01:10:36I will.

01:10:42I will.

01:10:43I have spoken to our minister, Mr. James Wilson.

01:10:45He will defend me.

01:10:46He knows how often I've lived.

01:10:47I tried to get an appointment with him but I'm afraid it was too late.

01:10:50Too late?

01:10:51He'd already left.

01:10:52He'd already left.

01:10:53Left?

01:10:53What?

01:10:54What are you talking about?

01:10:55Your friend, the minister Wilson has gone.

01:10:57He's held the day you were questioned.

01:11:00He's been transferred to Japan.

01:11:01He's been transferred to Japan.

01:11:02I think.

01:11:04You did not know?

01:11:06You did not know.

01:11:33I was held close to the door.

01:11:35When I brought the tea in, it had gone quiet again.

01:11:39Mr. Wilson was standing by the piano, with his head in his hand in a rather peculiar

01:11:45way.

01:11:47Then I heard voices again.

01:11:49Mr Wilson's voice mostly

01:11:52but I don't know

01:11:54what he was saying

01:11:55the Lord's prayer probably

01:12:04moreover

01:12:04even the smallest quantity would cause damage

01:12:08to the windpipe

01:12:08and there is absolutely no evidence that chloroform

01:12:11passed into the stomach

01:12:12the throat of the deceased was not

01:12:16damaged

01:12:16and yet your examination showed an enormous amount

01:12:19of chloroform in the stomach of the deceased

01:12:22I can

01:12:23I can

01:12:25I cannot give an explanation

01:12:27of this fact

01:12:29neither I nor my learned colleagues

01:12:32I'm sorry

01:12:32but there simply isn't an explanation

01:12:38surely though an explanation

01:12:39must exist doctor

01:12:41if one excludes supernatural

01:12:43forces

01:12:44it would please us if you kept to the facts doctor

01:12:47not supernatural forces

01:12:53my apologies

01:12:54did you notice the presence of chloroform at any time

01:12:58in the house of the deceased

01:13:03yes I

01:13:04I saw a bottle of chloroform there

01:13:07but there were other chemicals and disinfectants too

01:13:10used in treating the dogs as I recall

01:13:14could you state how much chloroform was in the bottle that you saw

01:13:21you're a doctor

01:13:24I can tell you the truth

01:13:25when Oliver felt you

01:13:27you began to behave very strangely to me

01:13:30it was beyond my power

01:13:33he was so

01:13:34he was so frightening

01:13:36and

01:13:37and his mouth

01:13:40the reverend Wilson

01:13:41he's a good friend of mine

01:13:43of ours

01:13:43we love each other like brother and sister

01:13:47I

01:13:48I asked him to get me some chloroform

01:13:51so that

01:13:51I might

01:13:52quiet Oliver

01:13:53when he got to

01:13:54insist

01:13:55quiet

01:13:56quiet him

01:13:57how

01:13:59I

01:14:01I

01:14:01I applied a drop to his face

01:14:03on a pad of cotton wool

01:14:06always sent him to sleep

01:14:07there

01:14:08there was no harm done

01:14:10do you have the bottle

01:14:12yes

01:14:24in future Mrs. Thompson

01:14:26you must leave the treatment to me

01:14:33as far as I can recall

01:14:34there were some four possibly five fluid answers

01:14:38certainly more than half the bottle

01:14:40and where is this bottle now Dr. Finch

01:14:45it was dropped

01:14:47and broken

01:14:57gentlemen of the jury

01:15:00experts appointed by the court

01:15:05experienced physicians

01:15:06have informed us that medicine cannot explain

01:15:10how a poisonous substance

01:15:12could have found itself

01:15:15in the stomach of Mr. Oliver Thompson

01:15:19we live in an enlightened age

01:15:22so we are bound to listen

01:15:25to what the wise and learned

01:15:27have to say

01:15:28and what they have to say

01:15:30is the following

01:15:32we do not know

01:15:34how Oliver Thompson died

01:15:37and if gentlemen

01:15:39we do not know this

01:15:40how can we possibly give the blame

01:15:43for his death

01:15:44to a frail woman

01:16:00is that you

01:16:07yes

01:16:10how can we expect that such a woman has committed a deed

01:16:15that has baffled the wise and experienced

01:16:17that has baffled the wise and experienced

01:16:29read to me

01:16:32if you like

01:16:35do you remember where we were

01:16:38yes

01:16:41our law specifies

01:16:44the benefit of the doubt always

01:16:48and in this case

01:16:49there is evidently great room for doubt

01:16:59lady made is a gliding woman

01:17:01years ago

01:17:02when a tall girl at a boarding school

01:17:04she was informed by the drilling master

01:17:05an ex-jaeger

01:17:06that she was a gazelle

01:17:07he meant a giraffe

01:17:08and she owed the compliment

01:17:10if it was one

01:17:11to his imperfect knowledge of English

01:17:12it is an axiom

01:17:14I believe among polite lovers

01:17:15that nothing is so effective

01:17:16as an unintentional compliment

01:17:18Herr Weining's unintentionality

01:17:20as he would have called it

01:17:21was most effective

01:17:22the gazelle

01:17:23Miss Spofkins

01:17:25forthwith

01:17:25set herself to study

01:17:26and imitate the habits

01:17:27of her namesakes

01:17:28she applied for information

01:17:30she was not unsuccessful

01:17:32and in due time

01:17:33glided into matrimony

01:17:34with Sir John Mader

01:17:35a gentleman

01:17:36who had been baroneted

01:17:37for some excellence

01:17:38so deep

01:17:38that it was altogether

01:17:40beyond the vulgar ken

01:17:41she is wont to boast

01:17:42of having been married

01:17:43just out of the schoolroom

01:17:45and there is still

01:17:46a boarding school flavor

01:17:47about her

01:17:48Lady Maida

01:17:49nace Spofkins

01:17:50is always

01:17:51almost

01:17:51lady

01:17:53she is now gliding about

01:17:54in society

01:17:54with two daughters

01:17:55coming out of go

01:18:24can

01:18:25when replicas

01:19:32It is important that you know what transpired that fateful night.

01:19:38Oliver sank into a deep trance easily, for the hypnosis was now our custom.

01:19:44While in that state, I gave him chloroform.

01:19:48He swallowed it all without a moment's pain.

01:20:51I do not know what will become of me now, but I know that I will never, ever forget you.

01:20:59I remain your servant, Victoria Thompson.

01:21:21I am your servant.

01:21:56I do not know what will become of me now, but I do not know what will become of me

01:22:00now, but I do not know what will become of me now.

01:22:21I do not know what will become of me now, but I do not know what will become of me

01:22:35now.

01:22:46Doctor, if the chloroform were applied to the deceased against his will, by force, would it leave traces?

01:22:55In my opinion, yes.

01:22:58And no traces were found?

01:23:01No. Absolutely none.

01:23:08We have no more questions.

01:23:16Order.

01:23:17Gentlemen of the jury, have you considered your verdict?

01:23:20We have, Your Honour.

01:23:21Do you find the defendant, Victoria Thompson, guilty of the crime imputed to her, or nay?

01:23:29Not guilty.

01:23:30�İ sent me away.

01:23:33Two.

01:23:36Two.

01:23:42One.

01:23:42Three.

01:23:44ze h judicious.

01:23:44One.

01:23:46It's a well.

01:23:46Three.

01:23:46Two.

01:23:46Three.

01:23:46Four.

01:23:46Two.

01:23:46Three.

01:23:46Four.

01:23:47Here's three.

01:23:51Three.

01:23:52Four.

01:24:00alta.

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