1 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:04,640 [LORD CHIEF JUSTICE] Please identify the accused. 2 00:01:04,970 --> 00:01:05,598 [LORD CHIEF JUSTICE] Dr. William Chester Minor... 3 00:01:05,632 --> 00:01:10,804 Captain Surgeon in the US Army, retired. 4 00:01:11,371 --> 00:01:14,374 Dr. Minor has come to our shores seeking sanctuary. 5 00:01:14,407 --> 00:01:18,111 In his home country of the United States, he was pursued... 6 00:01:18,178 --> 00:01:21,648 relentlessly by a man pledged to torture and kill him. 7 00:01:26,386 --> 00:01:29,489 [ DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING ] 8 00:01:29,522 --> 00:01:31,910 [DEFENSE ATTORNEY CLARKE] On that fateful night... 9 00:01:31,124 --> 00:01:33,927 of the 17th of February, the defendant woke with a start... 10 00:01:33,960 --> 00:01:38,698 he knew right away that he had been hunted down and found... 11 00:01:38,765 --> 00:01:42,635 that his pursuer, one Declan Reilly was indeed, in his rooms. 12 00:01:44,700 --> 00:01:48,942 Dr. Minor reached for his service revolver and gave chase. 13 00:01:57,784 --> 00:02:01,210 [ STEPS APPROACHING ] 14 00:02:03,556 --> 00:02:05,992 Fenian! 15 00:02:08,595 --> 00:02:10,563 [DEFENSE ATTORNOY CLARKE] In the streets, he found a man running. 16 00:02:10,597 --> 00:02:13,990 Help! Help! 17 00:02:19,673 --> 00:02:21,341 Help! 18 00:02:45,598 --> 00:02:50,360 Eliza, open the door! Eliza! 19 00:02:50,700 --> 00:02:51,838 Eliza! 20 00:02:51,871 --> 00:02:53,773 [DEFENSE ATTORNEY CLARKE] In the confusion of night... 21 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:55,775 he failed to discern the difference... 22 00:02:55,842 --> 00:02:59,746 between his assailant and the innocent George Merrett. 23 00:02:59,779 --> 00:03:00,847 Eliza. 24 00:03:09,550 --> 00:03:10,590 [ OFFICER BLOWING WHISTLE ] [OFFICER] Stop there! 25 00:03:10,623 --> 00:03:11,925 This is not the Fenian! 26 00:03:11,958 --> 00:03:13,526 No! 27 00:03:13,593 --> 00:03:15,362 This is not the Fenian? 28 00:03:15,395 --> 00:03:16,529 [ELIZA] No! 29 00:03:16,596 --> 00:03:20,934 I'm sorry! Sorry! 30 00:03:22,669 --> 00:03:24,371 No! 31 00:03:24,738 --> 00:03:27,741 [ DRAMATIC MUSIC FADES UP ] 32 00:03:35,115 --> 00:03:39,352 My Lord, Dr. Minor shot the wrong man. 33 00:03:39,386 --> 00:03:42,122 [ CROWD MURMURS ] 34 00:03:44,791 --> 00:03:49,329 So... he didn't mean it. 35 00:03:49,362 --> 00:03:51,831 My Lord, perhaps the court should simply release... 36 00:03:51,898 --> 00:03:53,833 the good doctor with an apology... 37 00:03:53,900 --> 00:03:56,369 for the misunderstanding that has occurred. 38 00:04:02,575 --> 00:04:05,111 Your Honor!? 39 00:04:08,915 --> 00:04:12,686 Declan-- Declan Reilly is his name! 40 00:04:12,719 --> 00:04:16,523 He has a brand on the left side of his face, he comes at night! 41 00:04:16,556 --> 00:04:21,361 He comes with others, they haunt me, they come into my rooms! 42 00:04:21,394 --> 00:04:26,132 I do not believe you, sir. This court does not believe you. 43 00:04:26,166 --> 00:04:27,967 [ CROWD YELLING ] 44 00:04:28,100 --> 00:04:32,105 Quiet, please! Quiet in court! 45 00:04:32,138 --> 00:04:35,842 Quiet, please! Quiet! 46 00:04:35,875 --> 00:04:39,813 Quiet, quiet! 47 00:04:41,815 --> 00:04:45,318 We, the members of her Majesty's jury... 48 00:04:45,385 --> 00:04:48,955 find Dr. William Chester Minor not guilty... 49 00:04:48,988 --> 00:04:51,891 of the willful murder of George Merrett... 50 00:04:51,958 --> 00:04:53,560 [ CROWD SHOUTING ] 51 00:04:53,593 --> 00:04:55,562 [LORD CHIEF JUSTICE] Quiet! Quiet! 52 00:04:55,595 --> 00:04:58,131 ...on the grounds of insanity. 53 00:04:58,164 --> 00:04:59,999 I am not insane, sir. 54 00:05:00,330 --> 00:05:01,670 Quiet, please! 55 00:05:03,770 --> 00:05:08,800 William Chester Minor, it is hereby this court's ruling... 56 00:05:08,410 --> 00:05:10,443 that you shall be detained in safe custody... 57 00:05:10,477 --> 00:05:13,460 at Broadmoor Asylum for the Criminally Insane... 58 00:05:13,790 --> 00:05:17,830 until Her Majesty's pleasure be known. 59 00:05:19,719 --> 00:05:21,488 Quiet, please! 60 00:05:32,766 --> 00:05:34,868 Move, move! 61 00:05:42,442 --> 00:05:43,943 Bloody bollocks hell! 62 00:05:44,100 --> 00:05:45,345 [ WHISTLE BLOWING ] 63 00:05:45,378 --> 00:05:47,514 Hey! Any more of that and you're off! 64 00:05:47,547 --> 00:05:49,349 Harold! 65 00:05:54,387 --> 00:05:55,822 I must get back in, father. 66 00:05:55,889 --> 00:05:57,824 In a tick, boy. Take a few breaths. 67 00:05:57,891 --> 00:05:59,559 Mind the long run down the flank. 68 00:05:59,626 --> 00:06:01,528 If you see the brute coming, stay downpitch... 69 00:06:01,561 --> 00:06:03,663 and don't let him pull you in, all right? 70 00:06:03,697 --> 00:06:05,131 And try for the clean catch. 71 00:06:05,198 --> 00:06:06,766 Yes, sir. The game, sir. 72 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:10,337 Harold, about your use of words... 73 00:06:10,370 --> 00:06:11,571 Yes, sir. 74 00:06:11,638 --> 00:06:13,973 Good. In you go, boy, go on. Yes, sir! 75 00:06:23,216 --> 00:06:24,918 I had a word with him. 76 00:06:24,951 --> 00:06:26,386 Yes, I saw. 77 00:06:26,419 --> 00:06:29,789 In the paper, a dreadful story, a shooting in Lambeth... 78 00:06:29,823 --> 00:06:31,958 by an American, an army officer... 79 00:06:31,991 --> 00:06:35,228 and that poor woman left behind with six children. 80 00:06:35,261 --> 00:06:37,530 That I saw. 81 00:06:37,564 --> 00:06:39,699 I don't know what I would do, James... 82 00:06:39,733 --> 00:06:41,368 if you were taken like that. 83 00:06:43,570 --> 00:06:48,740 Yes! That's it, that's it! 84 00:06:50,610 --> 00:06:53,413 Yes! Yes! 85 00:06:53,446 --> 00:06:56,883 Yes, yes! How's that, you ensanguined mule? 86 00:06:56,950 --> 00:06:58,618 [ WHISTLE BLOWING ] 87 00:06:58,685 --> 00:07:00,987 That's it, you're off! What's wrong with ensanguined? 88 00:07:01,210 --> 00:07:03,957 Get off! Harold! Harold! 89 00:07:05,910 --> 00:07:08,328 [ CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING ] 90 00:07:19,739 --> 00:07:23,309 I wish to state that I possess a general lexical... 91 00:07:23,343 --> 00:07:25,712 and structural knowledge of the languages... 92 00:07:25,745 --> 00:07:29,849 and literature of the Aryan and Syro-Arabic classes. 93 00:07:29,883 --> 00:07:32,419 I have recently submitted my paper on the declension... 94 00:07:32,452 --> 00:07:35,321 of German verbs to the Philological Society. 95 00:07:35,355 --> 00:07:36,990 Mr. Murray, I understand that... 96 00:07:37,230 --> 00:07:39,225 you do not possess a university degree. 97 00:07:39,292 --> 00:07:42,295 No, sir, no degree. 98 00:07:42,328 --> 00:07:44,597 I am an autodidact, self-taught. 99 00:07:45,131 --> 00:07:49,436 I am aware of the word. Schooling? 100 00:07:49,469 --> 00:07:52,380 Left at 14 to earn a living. 101 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:55,775 Honestly, Freddie, it's a bit much. 102 00:07:55,809 --> 00:07:58,110 A bit much, yes. 103 00:07:59,512 --> 00:08:02,315 Of course, we, the august delegates... 104 00:08:02,349 --> 00:08:03,750 of the Oxford University Press... 105 00:08:03,783 --> 00:08:06,252 have been attempting to make this dictionary... 106 00:08:06,319 --> 00:08:07,921 for the last 20 years. 107 00:08:07,954 --> 00:08:10,890 And despite the greatest efforts of a whole army of academics... 108 00:08:10,924 --> 00:08:13,326 myself included, we are precisely nowhere. 109 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:15,261 Forgive me that is incorrect. 110 00:08:15,328 --> 00:08:17,630 We are, in fact, going backwards. 111 00:08:17,664 --> 00:08:20,266 The language is developing faster than our progress. 112 00:08:20,333 --> 00:08:23,803 This great tongue of ours, which reaches out across the world... 113 00:08:23,837 --> 00:08:26,720 has drawn its guns, sharpened its bayonets... 114 00:08:26,106 --> 00:08:28,608 and declared that it will not be tamed. 115 00:08:28,641 --> 00:08:32,780 And we, with our debates ad nauseam about the scope... 116 00:08:32,112 --> 00:08:34,814 the mode, the purpose of these words have all... 117 00:08:34,848 --> 00:08:37,984 but thrown ourselves down in supplication before it... 118 00:08:38,510 --> 00:08:41,388 bathed in abject defeat. 119 00:08:42,722 --> 00:08:44,824 At this moment, the endeavor is dead. 120 00:08:47,394 --> 00:08:50,196 Is that too much, Max? 121 00:08:52,365 --> 00:08:54,267 Gentlemen, I'm afraid nothing... 122 00:08:54,300 --> 00:08:56,302 short of a panacea is called for. 123 00:08:56,369 --> 00:08:59,572 I submit that the extraordinary, the unconventional... 124 00:08:59,639 --> 00:09:03,643 Mr. Murray is the solution and our salvation. 125 00:09:05,679 --> 00:09:09,749 Your account, though a bit dramatic, is true, Freddie. 126 00:09:09,816 --> 00:09:13,520 But we need something more than impassioned advocacy. 127 00:09:13,553 --> 00:09:17,590 Qualifications come to mind. Perhaps a Bachelor's Degree. 128 00:09:17,657 --> 00:09:19,920 Qualifications, yes. 129 00:09:19,125 --> 00:09:23,563 Well, I am fluent in Latin and Greek, of course. 130 00:09:23,596 --> 00:09:25,899 Beyond those, I have an intimate knowledge... 131 00:09:25,965 --> 00:09:29,200 of the Romance tongues, Italian, French, Spanish... 132 00:09:29,350 --> 00:09:32,405 Catalan and to a lesser degree Portugese, Vaudois... 133 00:09:32,439 --> 00:09:34,974 Provencal and other dialects. 134 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:38,912 In the Teutonic branch, I am familiar with German, Dutch... 135 00:09:38,978 --> 00:09:40,347 Danish and Flemish. 136 00:09:40,413 --> 00:09:42,916 I have specialized in Anglo-Saxon and Moeso-Gothic... 137 00:09:42,982 --> 00:09:45,618 and have prepared works for publication... 138 00:09:45,685 --> 00:09:46,886 in both of these languages. 139 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:49,789 I also have a useful knowledge of Russian. 140 00:09:49,856 --> 00:09:53,259 I have sufficient knowledge of Hebrew and Syriac to read... 141 00:09:53,293 --> 00:09:55,628 at sight the Old Testament and the Peshito... 142 00:09:55,695 --> 00:09:58,698 to a lesser degree, Aramaic, Arabic, Coptic... 143 00:09:58,732 --> 00:10:02,435 and Phoenician to the point where it was left by Genesius. 144 00:10:02,469 --> 00:10:04,738 Forgive me rattling on. 145 00:10:04,771 --> 00:10:07,374 I'm sure you have questions. 146 00:10:10,276 --> 00:10:15,315 Mr. Murray, a word comes to mind... clever. 147 00:10:15,348 --> 00:10:21,210 Can you define it and tell us its history? 148 00:10:21,540 --> 00:10:25,580 I'll make a fist of it, on the hoof, as it were. 149 00:10:25,910 --> 00:10:29,290 Clever: adjective. Meaning - adroit, nimble, dextrous. 150 00:10:29,620 --> 00:10:32,650 Probably from the Low German, Klover. 151 00:10:32,980 --> 00:10:34,234 Or perhaps the Middle Dutch, Klever... 152 00:10:34,300 --> 00:10:40,373 with a "k", meaning sprightly or smart. 153 00:10:40,407 --> 00:10:46,379 Mr. Murray is also a master of the Scottish clog dance. 154 00:10:47,947 --> 00:10:50,550 [MURRAY] Forgive me for keeping it from you... 155 00:10:51,510 --> 00:10:53,520 I scarcely believed in the chance myself. 156 00:10:53,553 --> 00:10:57,691 It's all mine, Ada, the entire language. 157 00:11:01,761 --> 00:11:03,863 I've never known how to resist it, your exuberance... 158 00:11:03,930 --> 00:11:07,233 but it's so sudden. 159 00:11:07,267 --> 00:11:09,369 And to abandon all this, the school, the constancy. 160 00:11:09,402 --> 00:11:13,506 Is it truly what you wish for all of us? 161 00:11:13,540 --> 00:11:17,770 Ada, I'm an untutored linen draper's boy from Teviotdale... 162 00:11:17,110 --> 00:11:20,280 now, suddenly, with a real crack at it. 163 00:11:20,347 --> 00:11:22,115 My entire life has been in preparation for this. 164 00:11:22,115 --> 00:11:23,817 [ INDISTINCT WHISPERING ] 165 00:11:23,850 --> 00:11:25,819 The call has finally come. 166 00:11:25,852 --> 00:11:28,588 Whatever I've done, I've done with you. 167 00:11:28,655 --> 00:11:31,358 I've never been able to without you. 168 00:11:31,391 --> 00:11:33,693 Once again, lend yourself to me? 169 00:11:33,727 --> 00:11:37,430 If I am to fashion a book, I'll need a spine. 170 00:11:39,299 --> 00:11:40,967 Father! 171 00:11:41,100 --> 00:11:42,669 Elsie, children. 172 00:11:42,702 --> 00:11:46,539 [OSWYN] Are we going somewhere? 173 00:11:47,874 --> 00:11:50,110 To Oxford, your father is the editor... 174 00:11:50,143 --> 00:11:52,679 of the New English Dictionary on Historical Principles. 175 00:11:52,712 --> 00:11:53,980 What is that? 176 00:11:54,140 --> 00:11:56,282 It's a very big book with a lot of words in it. 177 00:11:56,316 --> 00:11:57,751 All the words of the English language. 178 00:11:57,817 --> 00:11:59,719 Like Doctor Johnson's Dictionary? 179 00:11:59,753 --> 00:12:04,491 Yes, but his book comprised of only a mere handful of words. 180 00:12:04,858 --> 00:12:11,640 I am charged with identifying and defining every last word! 181 00:12:11,131 --> 00:12:12,465 Will "happy" be in there, Father? 182 00:12:12,499 --> 00:12:14,167 Aye, "happy" will be there, Elsie. 183 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:19,390 My dictionary will need as many volumes as these... 184 00:12:19,720 --> 00:12:21,274 to house the entire language. 185 00:12:21,307 --> 00:12:22,475 Will "sad"? 186 00:12:22,509 --> 00:12:23,910 "Sad" will be there, yes, aye. 187 00:12:23,943 --> 00:12:25,712 What about "big", will "big" be in there? 188 00:12:25,745 --> 00:12:26,946 Yeah, aye, and "small" too. 189 00:12:27,130 --> 00:12:28,948 There isn't a word you can think of that... 190 00:12:29,150 --> 00:12:30,583 will not be in this very big book. 191 00:12:30,617 --> 00:12:32,152 Father? Yes, Oswyn. 192 00:12:32,185 --> 00:12:34,421 Will "Oswyn" be in there? 193 00:12:34,454 --> 00:12:36,322 Uh... probably-- 194 00:12:40,660 --> 00:12:44,631 Never play with books, all right? That's wrong. 195 00:12:50,870 --> 00:12:53,973 [ OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING ] 196 00:12:57,210 --> 00:13:03,830 BRAYN [V.O.] Wednesday, April 17, 1872. Inmate number 742. 197 00:13:03,116 --> 00:13:05,850 742, admittance. 198 00:13:05,118 --> 00:13:07,187 BRAYN [CONT'D] Minor, William Chester... 199 00:13:07,220 --> 00:13:10,657 American, 48 years old... 200 00:13:10,690 --> 00:13:15,829 surgeon, a captain in the United States Army. 201 00:13:15,895 --> 00:13:20,800 No known religion, classified a danger to others. 202 00:13:22,802 --> 00:13:24,537 Assigned to Block Two. 203 00:13:36,216 --> 00:13:41,221 The prisoner is in a rage, spitting dozens of times... 204 00:13:41,254 --> 00:13:45,792 by his own account trying not to swallow poison-coated... 205 00:13:45,825 --> 00:13:51,698 cold, iron bars that have been pressed against his teeth. 206 00:14:01,441 --> 00:14:02,976 In you go. 207 00:14:14,254 --> 00:14:16,623 BRAYN [V.O.] March 17th... 208 00:14:16,690 --> 00:14:20,600 three days now the prisoner has gone without sleep. 209 00:14:30,537 --> 00:14:34,174 Constantly leaping from his bed to search... 210 00:14:34,207 --> 00:14:36,476 underneath it in sheer terror. 211 00:14:36,543 --> 00:14:42,148 Repeatedly claiming to look for those coming for him at night. 212 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:50,657 Doctor Richard Brayn, alienist superintendent... 213 00:14:50,724 --> 00:14:54,928 Broadmoor Asylum. 214 00:15:01,468 --> 00:15:03,903 There it was, staring me in the face... 215 00:15:03,937 --> 00:15:07,307 the Home Secretary wouldn't be bamboozled into accepting. 216 00:15:07,340 --> 00:15:08,508 Can you believe it? 217 00:15:08,575 --> 00:15:10,944 Like Orthrus, a two-headed dog of a line. 218 00:15:11,110 --> 00:15:14,748 Written... in the Athenaeum... in a single sentence! 219 00:15:14,781 --> 00:15:18,218 Your book, Mr. Murray, will need to establish strict rules... 220 00:15:18,251 --> 00:15:20,860 banning such offenses. 221 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:22,880 Beyond which it should fix all spellings... 222 00:15:22,122 --> 00:15:24,657 lay down proper pronunciations... 223 00:15:24,691 --> 00:15:27,270 and firm up correctness of speech. 224 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:28,628 [FURNIVALL] We've been here before, Max. 225 00:15:28,628 --> 00:15:31,310 What of all the bamboozles, the wouldn'ts, the shouldn'ts... 226 00:15:31,640 --> 00:15:33,333 and the couldn'ts to come in the future? 227 00:15:33,366 --> 00:15:35,769 The tongue is at its purest peak. 228 00:15:35,802 --> 00:15:39,673 Sufficiently refined that it can henceforward only deteriorate. 229 00:15:39,706 --> 00:15:42,409 It is up to us to fix it once and for all. 230 00:15:42,475 --> 00:15:45,412 Alterations to it can then be permitted or not. 231 00:15:45,478 --> 00:15:47,414 And who would you have do the permitting? 232 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:50,917 You, Max? Me? No. 233 00:15:50,950 --> 00:15:54,540 All words are valid in the language. 234 00:15:54,870 --> 00:15:56,790 Ancient or new, obsolete or robust... 235 00:15:56,823 --> 00:15:58,258 foreign-born or home-grown. 236 00:15:58,291 --> 00:16:01,695 The book must inventory every word, every nuance... 237 00:16:01,728 --> 00:16:05,131 every twist of etymology and every possible illustrated... 238 00:16:05,165 --> 00:16:07,300 citation from every English author. 239 00:16:07,367 --> 00:16:10,303 All of it or nothing at all. 240 00:16:10,370 --> 00:16:12,720 That would mean reading everything. 241 00:16:12,105 --> 00:16:14,441 Quoting everything that showed anything to do... 242 00:16:14,507 --> 00:16:17,100 with the history of the words that are to be cited. 243 00:16:17,770 --> 00:16:19,746 The task is gigantic, monumental. 244 00:16:19,813 --> 00:16:21,140 And impossible. 245 00:16:22,749 --> 00:16:25,180 There is a way. 246 00:16:25,850 --> 00:16:27,253 A task that might take one man a hundred lifetimes... 247 00:16:27,287 --> 00:16:29,889 could take a hundred men just one. 248 00:16:29,956 --> 00:16:33,393 Volunteers. We have tried it before, James, and failed. 249 00:16:33,426 --> 00:16:36,896 I'm afraid there aren't enough academics in the land. 250 00:16:36,963 --> 00:16:38,598 How many did you enlist? 251 00:16:38,665 --> 00:16:40,330 Eighty, perhaps ninety. 252 00:16:40,100 --> 00:16:42,202 With a thousand, you could accomplish it... 253 00:16:42,268 --> 00:16:43,837 in just a few years. 254 00:16:43,870 --> 00:16:47,207 Where do you propose finding a thousand men? 255 00:16:47,273 --> 00:16:50,176 Everywhere English is celebrated and spoken. 256 00:16:50,210 --> 00:16:54,470 In every book shop, school, workplace or home. 257 00:16:54,114 --> 00:16:56,850 Do you mean ordinary people, amateurs? 258 00:16:56,883 --> 00:16:59,452 English speaking ones, aye. 259 00:16:59,486 --> 00:17:01,121 We will ask them to read... 260 00:17:01,154 --> 00:17:04,891 in search of the words that we want, and get them to write... 261 00:17:04,924 --> 00:17:09,996 the word on a slip of paper, along with a quotation... 262 00:17:10,300 --> 00:17:13,800 that they have found illustrating the very word. 263 00:17:13,867 --> 00:17:16,202 And then? Post the slip tass. 264 00:17:16,236 --> 00:17:19,472 An entire army covering the breadth of the Empire... 265 00:17:19,506 --> 00:17:21,641 and beyond, drawing a sweep net... 266 00:17:21,708 --> 00:17:23,777 over the whole of English literature... 267 00:17:23,810 --> 00:17:26,212 listing the entirety of their own language. 268 00:17:26,246 --> 00:17:27,947 A dictionary by democracy. 269 00:17:28,140 --> 00:17:31,251 Still edited by us, learned men. 270 00:17:31,317 --> 00:17:33,653 And with this system, Mr. Murray... 271 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:37,190 how long do you estimate to finishing your task? 272 00:17:37,223 --> 00:17:39,392 Five years, seven at most. 273 00:17:39,459 --> 00:17:42,228 All words... and their complete histories? 274 00:17:42,262 --> 00:17:44,631 Every last one. 275 00:17:44,664 --> 00:17:48,201 Dear England... 276 00:17:48,234 --> 00:17:51,171 We are about to embark on the greatest adventure... 277 00:17:51,204 --> 00:17:52,839 our language has ever known. 278 00:17:52,906 --> 00:17:54,974 Let us begin at aardvark... 279 00:17:55,410 --> 00:17:57,844 and never stop 'til we reach Zymurgy. 280 00:17:57,911 --> 00:17:59,412 Zymurgy? 281 00:17:59,479 --> 00:18:02,282 I would wager that that is the last word in the language. 282 00:18:02,349 --> 00:18:04,500 Surely there is nothing after Z-Y. 283 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:05,485 Meaning? 284 00:18:05,518 --> 00:18:08,880 You'll be able to look it up in a few short years. 285 00:18:11,658 --> 00:18:13,927 [GELL] There's a cloying eagerness to him. 286 00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:15,610 Yes. 287 00:18:15,950 --> 00:18:16,496 And that grating Scottish lilt... 288 00:18:16,529 --> 00:18:18,965 why do you suppose he doesn't try to conceal it... 289 00:18:18,998 --> 00:18:20,533 for the sake of our eardrums. 290 00:18:20,567 --> 00:18:26,239 His ideas are quite radical, just what we need. 291 00:18:26,272 --> 00:18:27,607 You don't think he's a follower... 292 00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:29,943 of that awful German-born pamphleteer, do you? 293 00:18:29,976 --> 00:18:32,245 No, no, no, my dear. 294 00:18:32,278 --> 00:18:36,783 This man is positively baying to be part of this little world... 295 00:18:36,816 --> 00:18:41,287 of ours, already quite seduced, I would say. 296 00:19:12,552 --> 00:19:14,421 [ SIGHS ] 297 00:19:14,454 --> 00:19:16,690 [MURRAY] I'm sorry, Ada. 298 00:19:19,693 --> 00:19:21,861 What for? 299 00:19:21,895 --> 00:19:24,464 For this disruption, for breaking up the home... 300 00:19:24,497 --> 00:19:25,832 for dragging you here. 301 00:19:25,865 --> 00:19:28,902 No doubts, James, no jitters. 302 00:19:28,935 --> 00:19:31,400 I need this promise from you. 303 00:19:31,370 --> 00:19:32,906 Now that it's started, let's see it through... 304 00:19:32,939 --> 00:19:35,575 steadfast and resolved. 305 00:19:38,778 --> 00:19:41,948 [ DRAMATIC MUSIC FADES UP ] 306 00:19:47,654 --> 00:19:50,390 MURRAY [V.O.] An appeal to the English-reading public... 307 00:19:50,457 --> 00:19:53,593 of Great Britain, America and the British colonies... 308 00:19:53,626 --> 00:19:57,797 to read books and make extracts for a new dictionary... 309 00:19:57,864 --> 00:19:59,933 worthy of the English language. 310 00:19:59,966 --> 00:20:03,737 We live today knowing the origins of the Earth... 311 00:20:03,770 --> 00:20:06,239 of man and all the animals. 312 00:20:06,306 --> 00:20:09,809 We know how hot boiling water is, how long a yard. 313 00:20:09,876 --> 00:20:13,747 Our ships' masters know the precise measurements... 314 00:20:13,780 --> 00:20:15,382 of latitude and longitude. 315 00:20:15,415 --> 00:20:19,185 Yet we have neither chart nor compass to guide us... 316 00:20:19,219 --> 00:20:21,421 through the wide sea of words. 317 00:20:21,488 --> 00:20:24,224 The time has come to accord this great language of ours... 318 00:20:24,257 --> 00:20:27,761 the same dignity and respect as the other standards... 319 00:20:27,794 --> 00:20:31,898 defined by science. Fly your words to Oxford. 320 00:20:31,931 --> 00:20:35,902 Let us be connected, all of us in this great endeavour... 321 00:20:35,935 --> 00:20:38,805 through the marvellous maze of our inter-netted post. 322 00:20:38,838 --> 00:20:40,507 What are you doing, Father? 323 00:20:40,540 --> 00:20:43,243 Mr. Bradley and I are putting a big hole in the ground. 324 00:20:43,276 --> 00:20:45,278 But what for? For a scriptorium. 325 00:20:45,345 --> 00:20:48,140 That's a room like in medieval monasteries... 326 00:20:48,810 --> 00:20:50,784 where monastic scribes used to copy manuscripts. 327 00:20:50,817 --> 00:20:54,254 Look, look at that, look what I found! Treasure! 328 00:20:54,287 --> 00:20:56,556 Will you clean that for me? 329 00:20:56,589 --> 00:20:58,240 Yes, Father. 330 00:20:58,910 --> 00:20:59,559 Aye. 331 00:21:03,363 --> 00:21:06,966 [ DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES ] 332 00:21:10,103 --> 00:21:11,604 MURRAY [V.O.] It is a long run... 333 00:21:11,671 --> 00:21:13,740 but we can bear the language aloft. 334 00:21:15,175 --> 00:21:16,543 Mr. Bradley. 335 00:21:16,576 --> 00:21:18,611 MURRAY [CONT'D] With you, our volunteers... 336 00:21:18,678 --> 00:21:20,246 as rungs in the ladder... 337 00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:22,482 we may elevate English even unto the gates of heaven. 338 00:21:39,399 --> 00:21:42,200 Come on. Get off me! 339 00:21:42,350 --> 00:21:43,870 Easy. 340 00:21:46,506 --> 00:21:48,842 [ LOW RUMBLING ] 341 00:21:56,416 --> 00:21:58,752 [ SOLDIERS CRYING OUT ] 342 00:22:02,220 --> 00:22:04,457 Get him off of me! Who did that to me? 343 00:22:07,861 --> 00:22:10,330 Stand clear! Get out of the way! 344 00:22:10,363 --> 00:22:11,931 Go on, take me! 345 00:22:16,469 --> 00:22:17,537 [ FLESH TEARING ] 346 00:22:21,410 --> 00:22:26,790 Get out of the way, get back! Get back, now, now, move, move! 347 00:22:26,112 --> 00:22:29,820 [ SOLDIERS SCREAMING ] 348 00:22:33,787 --> 00:22:35,355 Look at me, look at me! 349 00:22:35,388 --> 00:22:37,390 Son, son, listen to me, listen to me. 350 00:22:37,457 --> 00:22:39,392 We're gonna lift the gate just a bit... 351 00:22:39,459 --> 00:22:41,227 let's see if you can pull your leg through. 352 00:22:41,261 --> 00:22:42,495 I-I don't know, sir. 353 00:22:42,529 --> 00:22:43,963 We've gotta do it, son, we gotta do it. 354 00:22:43,963 --> 00:22:45,799 Will you let us try? Hey, hey? 355 00:22:45,832 --> 00:22:47,133 Good boy, good boy... 356 00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:50,300 after three, one, two-- 357 00:22:53,540 --> 00:22:55,975 [ SOLDIERS SCREAMING ] 358 00:22:58,912 --> 00:23:01,948 [ DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING ] 359 00:23:01,981 --> 00:23:06,586 Out of my way! Out of my way! 360 00:23:06,653 --> 00:23:10,123 How far is the nearest blacksmith? 361 00:23:13,126 --> 00:23:14,561 Crowthorne. 362 00:23:14,594 --> 00:23:18,310 The nearest surgeon? 363 00:23:18,980 --> 00:23:21,101 Crowthorne Village, it's half an hour, there and back. 364 00:23:34,514 --> 00:23:39,619 I want a sharp knife and a saw. 365 00:23:39,686 --> 00:23:41,421 Get it up! 366 00:23:41,454 --> 00:23:43,256 Agh! 367 00:23:44,858 --> 00:23:49,863 In a half hour's time, this man will have bled to death. 368 00:23:49,896 --> 00:23:51,831 Coleman. Yes, sir. 369 00:23:51,865 --> 00:23:55,635 Get a sharp knife and a saw... quickly! 370 00:24:10,917 --> 00:24:14,587 Now you listen to me, doctor, I know who you are... 371 00:24:14,621 --> 00:24:16,890 and how you got in here... 372 00:24:16,156 --> 00:24:18,224 and believe me when I say that none of your wealth... 373 00:24:18,291 --> 00:24:20,593 will do you any good if you try anything. 374 00:24:30,637 --> 00:24:33,440 [ FLESH TEARING ] 375 00:24:51,925 --> 00:24:54,327 [MINOR] Your saw. 376 00:25:01,935 --> 00:25:04,504 You wrap the wound in boiled rags. 377 00:25:04,537 --> 00:25:08,475 Keep the belt tight and get him to a surgeon. 378 00:25:08,508 --> 00:25:11,770 [BRAYN] Your ligation held, hemorrhaging was low... 379 00:25:11,111 --> 00:25:14,470 his condition is delicate, but he is alive. 380 00:25:14,647 --> 00:25:17,117 We are all extremely grateful to you, Dr. Minor. 381 00:25:17,150 --> 00:25:19,119 Was the wound swabbed, dressed in phenol? 382 00:25:19,152 --> 00:25:22,880 Luckily, our local surgeon is well versed... 383 00:25:22,122 --> 00:25:24,824 in Lister's latest antisepsis and asepsis methods... 384 00:25:24,858 --> 00:25:26,359 as I see are you. 385 00:25:31,931 --> 00:25:33,967 Rush's Tranquilizer. 386 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:36,803 Dr. Rush, he was an American Army surgeon for a time... 387 00:25:36,836 --> 00:25:38,405 as well, I believe. 388 00:25:38,438 --> 00:25:40,473 Dr. Rush believed that if the patient could be rendered... 389 00:25:40,507 --> 00:25:43,900 entirely immobile during the convulsions of mania... 390 00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:45,712 then madness itself would be countered. 391 00:25:45,745 --> 00:25:47,514 Barbaric in its simplicity. 392 00:25:49,549 --> 00:25:52,285 It's a relic, really, from the dark days of my profession... 393 00:25:52,318 --> 00:25:56,990 but it still has its uses when combined with modern techniques. 394 00:25:57,230 --> 00:25:59,292 You think I'm insane. 395 00:25:59,325 --> 00:26:02,595 Are we not all, to some extent? 396 00:26:02,662 --> 00:26:07,667 You do experience yourself as being under threat, do you not? 397 00:26:07,701 --> 00:26:13,600 A man... is coming for me. 398 00:26:13,390 --> 00:26:16,276 From my confinement, I will not see him come. 399 00:26:16,309 --> 00:26:21,448 So if you will permit me, I would ask your vigilance. 400 00:26:21,481 --> 00:26:25,318 And that you have your men alert me. 401 00:26:26,853 --> 00:26:29,222 He is easily identifiable. 402 00:26:29,289 --> 00:26:35,995 He has a brand mark on the left side of his face. 403 00:26:36,290 --> 00:26:39,432 Dr. Minor, rest assured we will do everything... 404 00:26:39,466 --> 00:26:42,435 in our power to ensure your safety. 405 00:26:42,469 --> 00:26:46,206 Is there anything else I can help you with? 406 00:26:46,239 --> 00:26:49,909 I have a pension from the United States Army. 407 00:26:49,943 --> 00:26:53,213 I wish that the greater portion of it... 408 00:26:53,246 --> 00:26:57,317 be given to Mrs. Merrett in support of her children. 409 00:26:57,350 --> 00:27:00,530 Well, I'm sure that can be arranged. 410 00:27:00,860 --> 00:27:04,224 Sir? I'd like to take care of that personally. 411 00:27:04,257 --> 00:27:07,930 There you are, Dr. Minor. 412 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:08,962 You have our very best man on the case. 413 00:27:09,290 --> 00:27:10,797 Thank you, Mr. Muncie. 414 00:27:15,735 --> 00:27:18,638 [ INDISTINCT CHATTER ] 415 00:27:26,379 --> 00:27:30,116 [ KNOCKING ] 416 00:27:32,752 --> 00:27:34,988 [ELIZA] There are children sleeping here. 417 00:27:36,790 --> 00:27:38,925 Only a letter to deliver, ma'am. 418 00:27:38,958 --> 00:27:41,127 [ELIZA] Bit late for the post, ain't it? 419 00:27:41,194 --> 00:27:42,529 You lot are terrible liars. 420 00:27:42,562 --> 00:27:46,660 I'm not from the papers, or the police, I'm not. 421 00:27:46,990 --> 00:27:47,767 Not here to bother you at all. 422 00:27:47,801 --> 00:27:51,404 I needed to make sure you got it right personal. 423 00:27:51,438 --> 00:27:53,773 I'll just slide it under the door. 424 00:27:56,943 --> 00:28:00,146 I'm not from the papers. 425 00:28:00,213 --> 00:28:01,448 Who are you, then? 426 00:28:01,514 --> 00:28:06,119 I'm Muncie, ma'am, I'm hoping to help. 427 00:28:09,389 --> 00:28:10,790 Is this from you? 428 00:28:10,824 --> 00:28:14,327 No, ma'am, the letter will explain. 429 00:28:14,394 --> 00:28:16,329 Who's it from? 430 00:28:34,481 --> 00:28:36,549 She wouldn't consider it. 431 00:28:36,583 --> 00:28:39,319 Thank you, Mr. Muncie. 432 00:28:43,623 --> 00:28:45,125 [ DOOR CLOSING ] 433 00:28:46,426 --> 00:28:48,361 [ POWER WHIRRING DOWN ] 434 00:28:49,729 --> 00:28:51,731 [BRADLEY] Look again, we must have it. 435 00:28:51,765 --> 00:28:53,767 I have looked and we do not... 436 00:28:53,833 --> 00:28:56,636 I have quotes for it in the 14th, the 15th... 437 00:28:56,703 --> 00:29:00,306 the 16th and the 19th, but not in the 17th and 18th centuries. 438 00:29:00,340 --> 00:29:01,741 How is that possible? 439 00:29:01,775 --> 00:29:03,777 How can Ruskin write "The sculpture is approved... 440 00:29:03,843 --> 00:29:06,460 "and set off by the color" in 1849? 441 00:29:06,790 --> 00:29:09,949 How can I, now use it everyday, if you are telling me... 442 00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:11,718 that it vanished in the 17th Century. 443 00:29:11,751 --> 00:29:13,286 Where did it go for 200 years? 444 00:29:13,319 --> 00:29:15,755 I am not saying that it vanished, sir. 445 00:29:15,789 --> 00:29:18,792 I am simply saying that we do not have proof. 446 00:29:18,858 --> 00:29:20,493 Look again, Charles. 447 00:29:20,527 --> 00:29:22,395 And where exactly would you like me to look, sir... 448 00:29:22,462 --> 00:29:26,633 in the birthday cards, perhaps or the medicinal instructions... 449 00:29:26,666 --> 00:29:27,934 or the How-to manuals... 450 00:29:27,967 --> 00:29:30,370 or perhaps the Guy Fawkes day messages? 451 00:29:30,403 --> 00:29:33,730 And we're only just dealing with "A" here. 452 00:29:33,106 --> 00:29:36,743 What of B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K? 453 00:29:36,776 --> 00:29:38,411 It's bloody hopeless, sir! 454 00:29:38,478 --> 00:29:43,516 Mr. Hall! Please try to maintain a semblance of decorum. 455 00:29:43,550 --> 00:29:46,619 Henry, what exactly is the problem here? 456 00:29:46,653 --> 00:29:50,323 It's "Approve", sir. There is a missing link. 457 00:29:50,357 --> 00:29:51,958 To say nothing of "Art". 458 00:29:51,991 --> 00:29:55,795 We're missing "Approve" in the 17th and 18th centuries. 459 00:29:55,829 --> 00:29:56,930 We can't find a single trace of it. 460 00:29:56,963 --> 00:29:59,332 Look at Paradise Lost. 461 00:29:59,366 --> 00:30:00,934 The language took a crucial turn with Milton. 462 00:30:00,967 --> 00:30:02,902 He was somewhat of a purist... 463 00:30:02,936 --> 00:30:05,905 re-affirming the meaning of his English. 464 00:30:05,939 --> 00:30:07,340 The key would be in there. Try that. 465 00:30:07,374 --> 00:30:09,843 Perhaps we can skip the 17th century, sir. 466 00:30:09,909 --> 00:30:13,680 We have its birth in 1380 with John Wyclif. 467 00:30:13,713 --> 00:30:16,416 "Christ confirmed his law and with his death approved it." 468 00:30:16,449 --> 00:30:18,351 And we have Ruskin here in this century. 469 00:30:18,385 --> 00:30:21,354 Mr. Bradley, we must have every step. 470 00:30:21,388 --> 00:30:23,857 This is not about the centuries. 471 00:30:23,923 --> 00:30:27,227 This is about recording the evolution of meaning. 472 00:30:27,260 --> 00:30:29,729 Go to Milton, it's right here. 473 00:30:29,796 --> 00:30:32,365 Yes, sir. 474 00:30:41,875 --> 00:30:43,900 Mr. Bradley. 475 00:30:43,430 --> 00:30:44,444 Charles. 476 00:30:50,500 --> 00:30:52,318 Accepted. 477 00:30:54,954 --> 00:30:58,158 [ SOFT MUSIC PLAYING ] 478 00:31:01,561 --> 00:31:04,898 [ MAN SOBBING ] 479 00:31:04,964 --> 00:31:06,266 [ LOUD BANG ] 480 00:31:06,299 --> 00:31:08,435 [SIR RICHARD] Razor! Bring me my razor! 481 00:31:08,468 --> 00:31:11,971 [MUNCIE] Sir Richard! Calm down! 482 00:31:12,500 --> 00:31:13,907 [SIR RICHARD] The razor, bring me my razor! 483 00:31:13,973 --> 00:31:15,475 [MUNCIE] Lads, bloody well hurry up! 484 00:31:16,843 --> 00:31:19,450 [SIR RICHARD] Bring it, bring me the razor! 485 00:31:20,447 --> 00:31:23,516 Bring me the razor! [GUARD] Come on, hurry up! 486 00:31:25,585 --> 00:31:28,888 Father! Father! Father! Father! 487 00:31:28,922 --> 00:31:32,359 Father! Father! Father! 488 00:31:33,260 --> 00:31:34,361 [ DOOR CLOSING ] 489 00:31:34,427 --> 00:31:37,297 [OFFICER] This man, Declan Reilly, is a deserter. 490 00:31:44,371 --> 00:31:46,740 [OFFICER] Mark him for what he is. 491 00:31:53,130 --> 00:31:56,483 [ OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING ] 492 00:32:02,522 --> 00:32:03,757 [ GASPS ] 493 00:32:03,790 --> 00:32:07,460 [ DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING ] 494 00:32:12,332 --> 00:32:14,901 Agh! 495 00:32:16,569 --> 00:32:18,972 Agh! 496 00:32:29,490 --> 00:32:31,718 [MINOR] Zinc... I'll need sheets of zinc... 497 00:32:31,785 --> 00:32:34,421 he must have come from below. 498 00:32:34,487 --> 00:32:37,957 And water, in a bowl, by the threshold. 499 00:32:37,991 --> 00:32:40,593 This, the demon will not pass. 500 00:32:40,660 --> 00:32:42,950 What's on the other side, doctor? 501 00:32:42,128 --> 00:32:44,964 The night, he wants to take me there. 502 00:32:44,998 --> 00:32:49,102 With his blind eyes, he can only see me in the dark. 503 00:32:49,135 --> 00:32:51,871 How would you feel if we brightened the light? 504 00:32:51,938 --> 00:32:52,939 As treatment? 505 00:32:52,939 --> 00:32:54,374 I don't need treatment! 506 00:32:54,407 --> 00:32:56,576 Not as treatment! As an experiment! 507 00:32:56,609 --> 00:32:58,978 I need to see him come so I can defend myself! 508 00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:02,382 An experiment in self-protection... 509 00:33:02,415 --> 00:33:06,886 we embark on together, doctor, yes? 510 00:33:06,953 --> 00:33:08,955 Let me take a look at these. 511 00:33:08,988 --> 00:33:11,424 Superficial lacerations, multiple to the face. 512 00:33:11,458 --> 00:33:13,526 How would you feel, doctor... 513 00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:19,320 if we were to introduce some of the comforts of home? 514 00:33:19,990 --> 00:33:22,102 Orthognathous jaw, facial angle, 80 degrees... 515 00:33:22,135 --> 00:33:26,390 maybe some clothing. Amativeness, 8 incline... 516 00:33:26,106 --> 00:33:28,141 Philoprogenitiveness, 4 decline. 517 00:33:28,174 --> 00:33:29,576 [BRAYN] How would that be? 518 00:33:29,609 --> 00:33:31,277 My own wardrobe as protection? 519 00:33:31,311 --> 00:33:35,782 As protection, precisely. Adhesiveness, 3 constant. 520 00:33:35,849 --> 00:33:39,452 Combativeness, 6 incline. Secretiveness, 8. 521 00:33:39,486 --> 00:33:42,550 Hope, 4, constant. 522 00:33:42,122 --> 00:33:45,759 Yes, the simple things that we can fit into your surroundings. 523 00:33:45,792 --> 00:33:48,228 It also happens that the adjoining cell... 524 00:33:48,294 --> 00:33:51,765 has become available, you could stretch your legs. 525 00:33:51,798 --> 00:33:54,670 It would give me a space to paint. 526 00:33:54,134 --> 00:33:55,769 I could have easels with paints. 527 00:33:55,802 --> 00:34:02,142 Certainly. Wonder, Ideality, Wit, Form. All 8, decline. 528 00:34:02,175 --> 00:34:05,512 Eventuality undetermined. Do you have any other requests, doctor? 529 00:34:05,578 --> 00:34:08,148 My books. May I have my books? 530 00:34:08,181 --> 00:34:09,349 By all means, anything else? 531 00:34:09,382 --> 00:34:11,170 My gun. 532 00:34:11,510 --> 00:34:13,787 Perhaps we'll give that one a miss. 533 00:34:13,820 --> 00:34:14,954 Thank you, doctor. 534 00:34:15,210 --> 00:34:16,923 Please, don't thank me. 535 00:34:16,956 --> 00:34:18,658 It has been a long time since anyone has-- 536 00:34:18,692 --> 00:34:24,397 My dear friend, no thanks, no thanks... 537 00:34:24,464 --> 00:34:27,330 a new beginning. 538 00:34:29,703 --> 00:34:33,473 Yes, a new beginning, yes. 539 00:34:33,807 --> 00:34:37,477 BRAYN [V.O.] How can a man of such high breeding... 540 00:34:37,510 --> 00:34:50,490 have regressed through disease so far back to animality? 541 00:34:50,523 --> 00:34:52,580 [MUNCIE] Doctor? 542 00:34:53,860 --> 00:34:55,295 Mr. Muncie? 543 00:34:55,362 --> 00:34:58,198 We wanted to give you this, sir, the lads all chipped in. 544 00:34:58,231 --> 00:35:01,101 And what have we here? 545 00:35:01,134 --> 00:35:06,139 It's a book, sir. We're all grateful to you. 546 00:35:06,206 --> 00:35:08,375 Yes, it is. Thank you, Mr. Muncie. 547 00:35:08,408 --> 00:35:10,877 For saving a young guard's life, sir. 548 00:35:10,944 --> 00:35:15,582 I will read it avidly and I will treasure it forever! 549 00:35:15,648 --> 00:35:18,585 You thank your men on my behalf! 550 00:35:18,651 --> 00:35:20,286 Merry Christmas, sir. 551 00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:23,890 Merry Christmas, you, too, yes. 552 00:35:27,427 --> 00:35:30,230 Ham, Mr. Muncie! 553 00:35:31,398 --> 00:35:33,330 Sir? 554 00:35:33,990 --> 00:35:38,405 I find that a good, warm ham is often better... 555 00:35:38,438 --> 00:35:40,907 for fighting the cold than any number of blankets... 556 00:35:40,974 --> 00:35:45,612 or coals in the fire, especially at this time of year. 557 00:35:49,115 --> 00:35:50,350 Did he like the book, sir? 558 00:35:50,417 --> 00:35:51,885 The book? Yeah. 559 00:35:51,918 --> 00:35:54,187 I don't know. Well, has he read it? 560 00:35:54,254 --> 00:35:56,560 Well, he opened the wrapping. Yes, sir. 561 00:35:56,122 --> 00:35:58,158 And then he opened the book.Yes. 562 00:35:58,191 --> 00:36:00,593 And then he threw it out the window. 563 00:36:00,627 --> 00:36:01,895 He what? 564 00:36:01,928 --> 00:36:03,630 Yeah, he said a demon vaporized off the page... 565 00:36:03,697 --> 00:36:04,898 and went up his nostrils. 566 00:36:04,931 --> 00:36:06,299 His nostrils? 567 00:36:06,332 --> 00:36:08,568 He's in there now trying to pull out his nose hairs. 568 00:36:27,821 --> 00:36:31,224 MURRAY [V.O.] To chart the life of each word, we must start... 569 00:36:31,291 --> 00:36:35,228 with a record of its birth, when it was first written down. 570 00:36:35,295 --> 00:36:38,231 From there, words come down to us through the ages... 571 00:36:38,298 --> 00:36:40,533 twisting and turning, weaving their way. 572 00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:43,236 Their meanings slipping and slivering, offishlike, adding.. 573 00:36:43,303 --> 00:36:47,107 and shedding subtleties of nuance to and from themselves. 574 00:36:47,173 --> 00:36:49,242 But they leave tracks... 575 00:36:49,309 --> 00:36:52,779 in the great expanse of the literature... 576 00:36:52,812 --> 00:36:54,514 of the English language. 577 00:36:54,547 --> 00:36:58,318 [ DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING ] 578 00:36:58,351 --> 00:37:00,553 MURRAY [V.O.] We will chase them, hunt them... 579 00:37:00,620 --> 00:37:05,125 and ferret them out, all of them, every single word... 580 00:37:05,191 --> 00:37:07,600 from all the centuries of writing... 581 00:37:07,930 --> 00:37:10,663 and we will do so by reading every single book. 582 00:37:14,334 --> 00:37:17,270 Can it be done? 583 00:37:22,342 --> 00:37:26,279 You crazy, beautiful bastard! 584 00:37:26,346 --> 00:37:28,448 Guard! Guard! 585 00:37:31,384 --> 00:37:32,952 Ink, I'll need ink. 586 00:37:32,986 --> 00:37:34,854 Yes, sir, I understand, sir. 587 00:37:34,888 --> 00:37:36,956 Paper. Yes, sir. 588 00:37:36,990 --> 00:37:39,559 Lots and lots of it. I'll see what I can do, doctor. 589 00:37:39,592 --> 00:37:42,295 And Coleman... 590 00:37:42,362 --> 00:37:43,863 Yes, sir? 591 00:37:43,897 --> 00:37:49,803 Would you be so kind as to dispose of this for me? 592 00:37:52,238 --> 00:37:53,707 What is it, sir? 593 00:37:53,740 --> 00:37:55,108 You can't see? 594 00:37:57,711 --> 00:38:00,146 Yes... of course, I can, sir... 595 00:38:00,180 --> 00:38:02,849 Yes, nasal hair, mind the demonic vapors... 596 00:38:02,882 --> 00:38:04,184 make sure to wash your hands... 597 00:38:04,250 --> 00:38:07,153 and I'll make sure to fish out some more later. 598 00:38:09,456 --> 00:38:12,158 Thank you, sir. Thank you, Coleman. 599 00:38:16,629 --> 00:38:19,332 I'm too cold. I'm gonna get myself home. 600 00:38:19,399 --> 00:38:22,135 We'll warm each other up, come on. 601 00:38:22,168 --> 00:38:25,338 I'm too cold. Oh, you got a smile. 602 00:38:25,405 --> 00:38:27,707 I can't, it's too cold! Come on! 603 00:38:27,741 --> 00:38:30,310 No! 604 00:38:30,343 --> 00:38:33,346 No, no, you promised me! You promised me! 605 00:38:33,413 --> 00:38:35,915 Get off, I don't owe you nothing! 606 00:38:35,949 --> 00:38:39,486 What am I meant to feed my little ones with, eh? 607 00:38:39,519 --> 00:38:42,856 I don't know, ask their father. 608 00:38:48,762 --> 00:38:50,930 [ SOBBING ] 609 00:38:52,465 --> 00:38:55,735 [ SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING ] 610 00:39:00,373 --> 00:39:01,908 [ DOOR OPENS ] 611 00:39:04,511 --> 00:39:06,946 How are them matches coming, eh? 612 00:39:14,454 --> 00:39:17,190 Mum, you alright? 613 00:39:17,223 --> 00:39:19,693 Yeah, yeah, I just needed a moment. 614 00:39:35,408 --> 00:39:36,943 [ WINCES ] 615 00:39:40,380 --> 00:39:42,982 [ KNOCK ON DOOR ] 616 00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:45,118 [ DOOR OPENS ] [IRIS] Please, can I help you? 617 00:39:45,151 --> 00:39:46,986 It'll be alright. 618 00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:49,422 [MUNCIE] Good evening, I was wondering, is your mum around? 619 00:39:49,489 --> 00:39:51,691 We'll get those matches done by night's end. 620 00:39:53,930 --> 00:39:54,661 It's a man at the door. 621 00:39:54,694 --> 00:39:57,230 Tell him it's Christmas and he'll go away. 622 00:40:03,570 --> 00:40:05,739 [MUNCIE] Could you just give her this for me... 623 00:40:05,805 --> 00:40:09,109 and tell your mother Happy Christmas from Mr. Muncie? 624 00:40:09,142 --> 00:40:11,177 Goodnight, girls. 625 00:40:12,412 --> 00:40:14,414 Mum? 626 00:40:18,585 --> 00:40:21,187 It's a ham in one, the other, he didn't say. 627 00:40:21,254 --> 00:40:23,560 He said tell your mum Happy Christmas. 628 00:40:23,123 --> 00:40:24,758 Happy Christmas from Mr. Muncie. 629 00:40:24,824 --> 00:40:30,430 It's alright then, isn't it, Mum? 630 00:40:35,702 --> 00:40:39,572 Sir, stop, sir, please! 631 00:40:39,606 --> 00:40:40,840 Yes, dear? 632 00:40:40,874 --> 00:40:43,877 [ MUSIC CHANGES ] 633 00:40:47,981 --> 00:40:49,649 [MUNCIE] Is that supposed to be me? 634 00:40:49,716 --> 00:40:51,651 Yeah. 635 00:40:55,989 --> 00:40:57,991 Good night, then, Mrs. Merrett. 636 00:40:58,240 --> 00:41:00,894 Good night... and thank you. 637 00:41:05,565 --> 00:41:06,933 Forgive me for saying, ma'am... 638 00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:11,771 but it doesn't have to be this way. 639 00:41:11,805 --> 00:41:13,506 The children... they don't need to go hungry. 640 00:41:13,506 --> 00:41:17,344 There is one waiting to feed them. 641 00:41:21,581 --> 00:41:23,616 Take me to him. 642 00:41:23,650 --> 00:41:28,655 Let me look him in the eye, see if I can stomach him. 643 00:41:28,688 --> 00:41:31,191 [IRIS] I went to a banquet and I ate apples... 644 00:41:31,224 --> 00:41:33,493 bananas, and cranberries. 645 00:41:33,526 --> 00:41:38,465 I went to the banquet and I ate apples... 646 00:41:38,498 --> 00:41:40,667 bananas, cranberries, and... dog. 647 00:41:40,700 --> 00:41:43,203 That can't be, you can't eat dog. 648 00:41:43,236 --> 00:41:44,337 Yes, I can. 649 00:41:44,371 --> 00:41:46,272 No, you can't. 650 00:41:46,339 --> 00:41:52,379 Mum! Mother! Mum? 651 00:41:52,412 --> 00:41:55,515 [ SOFT MUSIC FADES UP ] 652 00:42:17,637 --> 00:42:18,938 Merry Christmas all! 653 00:42:20,573 --> 00:42:24,770 Hey! We're taking fire, Mr. Bradley! 654 00:42:26,120 --> 00:42:27,313 Pounce on them! 655 00:42:34,387 --> 00:42:36,890 Ah, you wee--! 656 00:42:46,433 --> 00:42:48,101 Well, you deserved it. 657 00:42:52,138 --> 00:42:54,607 Faster! 658 00:42:54,674 --> 00:42:58,440 Do you remember our first Christmas at the school? 659 00:42:58,111 --> 00:43:01,915 Harold was no more than 8 or 9 months old. 660 00:43:01,981 --> 00:43:06,920 Such a fat, little baby. Do you remember how he used to cry? 661 00:43:06,986 --> 00:43:08,722 Oh, god. 662 00:43:08,755 --> 00:43:11,624 One night, he was screaming so hard... 663 00:43:11,691 --> 00:43:14,894 I don't know how his little body could do it. 664 00:43:14,928 --> 00:43:19,432 Every ounce of him shrieking. Nothing I tried would calm him. 665 00:43:19,466 --> 00:43:23,803 I was frightened, then you came home. 666 00:43:23,870 --> 00:43:26,373 You lifted him up into your arms... 667 00:43:26,439 --> 00:43:30,643 you held him to your chest, and he stopped. 668 00:43:31,778 --> 00:43:36,349 He was so exhausted he fell asleep instantly. 669 00:43:36,383 --> 00:43:41,454 It's always been that way, with all of them. 670 00:43:41,488 --> 00:43:44,257 You had something I didn't. 671 00:43:44,324 --> 00:43:48,461 So I taught myself to be what you were not. 672 00:43:48,495 --> 00:43:51,598 Strict, fixed, changeless. 673 00:43:51,631 --> 00:43:55,935 A queen and a clown, together a perfect whole. 674 00:43:55,969 --> 00:43:57,370 What if it changed? 675 00:43:57,404 --> 00:44:00,407 What if you're not there to be the clown? 676 00:44:02,475 --> 00:44:04,911 I know I've been less than present lately... 677 00:44:04,944 --> 00:44:09,349 but change will come, and for the better. 678 00:44:09,382 --> 00:44:12,819 I wish I had your certainty. 679 00:44:18,692 --> 00:44:22,429 Want to put the fire out when you come to bed? 680 00:44:22,495 --> 00:44:25,799 [ SOFT MUSIC CONTINUES ] 681 00:44:30,804 --> 00:44:33,730 Ah, I thought you might be here, sir. 682 00:44:33,106 --> 00:44:35,842 I have a few hours before my little ones wake... 683 00:44:35,875 --> 00:44:37,644 for Christmas morning. 684 00:44:37,677 --> 00:44:39,279 I thought I might take another look at Approve. 685 00:44:39,279 --> 00:44:41,715 That'll make it two of us. 686 00:44:50,857 --> 00:44:54,828 William? Dr. Minor? 687 00:44:57,263 --> 00:44:59,833 I have a proposal for you. 688 00:44:59,866 --> 00:45:01,601 There's been a request for a meeting. 689 00:45:01,668 --> 00:45:07,107 Tristram Shandy, a gift from Mr. Muncie and his men... 690 00:45:07,140 --> 00:45:09,976 but much more. 691 00:45:12,145 --> 00:45:13,346 This is very delicate. 692 00:45:13,413 --> 00:45:16,616 I'll need books, far more volumes... 693 00:45:16,683 --> 00:45:18,151 than I have within my own reach. 694 00:45:18,184 --> 00:45:21,821 William, I think this could be very important for us. 695 00:45:21,855 --> 00:45:24,457 Oxford University has undertaken an inventory... 696 00:45:24,491 --> 00:45:30,330 of the entire English language, and they've asked for help. 697 00:45:31,464 --> 00:45:33,633 Are you listening to me? 698 00:45:39,720 --> 00:45:45,879 I'll be all right... with work, with this work. 699 00:45:47,914 --> 00:45:53,386 I'll be all right, but I need books... 700 00:45:53,453 --> 00:45:56,220 I only need books. 701 00:45:57,924 --> 00:46:00,660 Make me a list of all the titles that you require. 702 00:46:00,727 --> 00:46:03,797 If I have them, I'll get them sent to you. 703 00:46:03,863 --> 00:46:05,532 Thank you, doctor. 704 00:46:10,603 --> 00:46:12,105 William... 705 00:46:20,213 --> 00:46:22,749 When does she want to come? 706 00:46:32,525 --> 00:46:34,194 Mrs. Merrett. 707 00:46:38,980 --> 00:46:41,101 Where is he? It should only be a moment. 708 00:46:41,134 --> 00:46:44,838 I just wanted to make sure that everyone was breathing. 709 00:46:44,904 --> 00:46:48,675 There's a real generosity in your visit today... 710 00:46:48,708 --> 00:46:53,246 Mrs. Merrett... a true courage. 711 00:46:53,279 --> 00:46:55,815 Courage, doctor, is not why I came. 712 00:47:14,434 --> 00:47:18,838 Is it-- is it possible they wait? 713 00:47:37,424 --> 00:47:39,459 The letter. 714 00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:41,628 Yes. 715 00:47:45,832 --> 00:47:47,467 All right. 716 00:47:49,402 --> 00:47:50,503 How can-- 717 00:47:50,570 --> 00:47:51,971 We'll take care of everything, sir. 718 00:47:52,500 --> 00:47:54,507 Thank you, doctor. Thank you, Mrs. Merrett. 719 00:47:59,512 --> 00:48:01,848 It doesn't make it right. 720 00:48:05,510 --> 00:48:08,488 What would you care to send her? 721 00:48:08,521 --> 00:48:10,457 Everything. 722 00:48:10,490 --> 00:48:13,626 [ SOFT MUSIC CONTINUES ] 723 00:48:32,112 --> 00:48:34,614 MURRAY [V.O.] Few of the earliest books have been read. 724 00:48:34,647 --> 00:48:37,450 It is in the 17th and 18th Centuries above all... 725 00:48:37,484 --> 00:48:42,222 that help is urgently needed, for nearly the whole... 726 00:48:42,255 --> 00:48:45,258 of those centuries have still to be gone through. 727 00:48:45,325 --> 00:48:47,927 You may concentrate on the rare, also late... 728 00:48:47,961 --> 00:48:51,464 old-fashioned new and peculiar, but avoid not the quotidian... 729 00:48:51,498 --> 00:48:54,968 for every word in action becomes beautiful... 730 00:48:55,350 --> 00:48:57,370 in the light of its own meaning. 731 00:49:08,214 --> 00:49:12,986 [MINOR] Mr. Muncie! Mr. Muncie! 732 00:49:15,588 --> 00:49:18,558 Sorry to have woken you, I need your help with a post. 733 00:49:20,994 --> 00:49:24,164 Yes, well, is it night? 734 00:49:28,735 --> 00:49:32,672 Such a lot of it, need envelopes, tons... 735 00:49:32,706 --> 00:49:36,900 lots and lots of envelopes and a large bag. 736 00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:37,410 Yes, sir. 737 00:49:37,444 --> 00:49:38,845 And a carpenter, can you bring a carpenter by... 738 00:49:38,845 --> 00:49:40,714 in the morning, of course? 739 00:50:08,875 --> 00:50:10,844 Good morning, sir. 740 00:50:10,877 --> 00:50:13,460 Not so good I'm afraid, Henry. 741 00:50:13,113 --> 00:50:15,749 It's Art, none of it is working. 742 00:50:15,782 --> 00:50:17,784 Are you sure, sir? I checked it myself last night. 743 00:50:17,784 --> 00:50:21,488 The construct is off. It has lost all sense of coherence. 744 00:50:21,554 --> 00:50:23,990 And it's missing countless variations of meaning. 745 00:50:24,240 --> 00:50:25,492 We'll have to start it anew. 746 00:50:25,558 --> 00:50:28,595 But, sir, it will take weeks just to reset the definitions. 747 00:50:28,628 --> 00:50:31,765 Mr. Gell has asked for me at the Press office this morning. 748 00:50:31,798 --> 00:50:34,734 I would very much like to see Art torn apart... 749 00:50:34,768 --> 00:50:38,371 and restarted when I return, eh? 750 00:50:38,438 --> 00:50:40,240 Very well, sir. 751 00:50:40,306 --> 00:50:42,420 Thank you, Henry. 752 00:50:53,253 --> 00:50:55,880 [GELL] Your book, Mr. Murray, is going to be an unassailable... 753 00:50:55,155 --> 00:50:56,623 contribution to English scholarship. 754 00:50:56,656 --> 00:50:59,526 It will make you famous, when it is finished. 755 00:50:59,592 --> 00:51:01,461 Look around, Mr. Murray. 756 00:51:01,494 --> 00:51:06,320 Empire, one quarter of the land and peoples of this earth. 757 00:51:06,660 --> 00:51:09,369 The largest trading dominion ever known. 758 00:51:09,402 --> 00:51:12,505 If one wishes to participate, one bows down to Her Majesty... 759 00:51:12,539 --> 00:51:15,842 and one speaks her tongue, English. 760 00:51:17,243 --> 00:51:19,245 Forgive me, Mr. Gell... 761 00:51:19,279 --> 00:51:21,348 remind me why I am being kept from my work this morning. 762 00:51:21,381 --> 00:51:22,982 The Bible, Mr. Murray. 763 00:51:25,652 --> 00:51:27,821 I was brought onto the press... 764 00:51:27,854 --> 00:51:31,558 to modernize the commerce of academia, to sell. 765 00:51:31,624 --> 00:51:34,661 And do you know what the first hotcake I found was? 766 00:51:34,694 --> 00:51:36,262 The King James Bible... 767 00:51:36,296 --> 00:51:39,299 it has sold everywhere, in every backwater and morass... 768 00:51:39,366 --> 00:51:42,100 where an Englishman is doing God's work in a frock. 769 00:51:42,680 --> 00:51:44,504 We have operations on every continent. 770 00:51:44,537 --> 00:51:47,374 Depots in Edinburgh, Toronto, Melbourne and Calcutta. 771 00:51:47,407 --> 00:51:49,843 All printing, binding, dispatching all advertising... 772 00:51:49,876 --> 00:51:52,412 and all, now, ready for the next good book. 773 00:51:52,445 --> 00:51:55,150 All waiting... for you. 774 00:51:55,810 --> 00:51:56,282 What is this? 775 00:51:56,316 --> 00:51:57,884 Your work is taking too long. 776 00:51:57,951 --> 00:51:59,285 Our expectations constantly revised... 777 00:51:59,319 --> 00:52:01,287 and not a single page to show for it. 778 00:52:01,321 --> 00:52:03,523 The delegates have unanimously agreed that I take charge... 779 00:52:03,556 --> 00:52:05,525 of keeping the project to time. 780 00:52:05,558 --> 00:52:07,994 To that effect, you have in your hands a set of suggestions... 781 00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:10,997 on how to curb the scope of the work. 782 00:52:11,310 --> 00:52:13,400 What we need is more rigorous selection... 783 00:52:13,433 --> 00:52:15,769 survival only of the fittest words. 784 00:52:21,975 --> 00:52:26,279 I'm tired. My team, we are all beyond tired. 785 00:52:27,914 --> 00:52:30,884 For months now, my pleas for help have fallen on deaf ears. 786 00:52:30,917 --> 00:52:32,118 You have refused to pay... 787 00:52:32,152 --> 00:52:34,721 for even for a single additional assistant. 788 00:52:36,156 --> 00:52:38,925 I began this intending to create something unprecedented. 789 00:52:38,992 --> 00:52:41,194 To order the world of words... 790 00:52:41,261 --> 00:52:44,864 making them universally accessible and useful. 791 00:52:44,898 --> 00:52:47,867 I swore that I would bend at nothing to make it happen. 792 00:52:47,901 --> 00:52:52,605 And as of now, this very moment, my resolve is greater than ever. 793 00:52:52,639 --> 00:52:54,507 You are on the verge of all out cancellation. 794 00:52:54,574 --> 00:52:56,609 These rules are designed to help keep the work going. 795 00:52:56,643 --> 00:52:58,780 You may not like them, Mr. Murray... 796 00:52:58,144 --> 00:52:59,312 but what other way is there? 797 00:52:59,346 --> 00:53:01,915 My way, Mr. Gell. 798 00:53:01,948 --> 00:53:06,519 Mr. Murray, we are watching with a concerned eye. 799 00:53:06,586 --> 00:53:10,900 Watch, then, and be amazed. 800 00:53:10,156 --> 00:53:13,293 [ DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING ] 801 00:53:20,367 --> 00:53:24,204 Lord in Heaven help me. I am lost. 802 00:53:25,638 --> 00:53:29,943 Sir! Sir! Sir? 803 00:53:29,976 --> 00:53:31,111 What? 804 00:53:31,177 --> 00:53:34,848 It's a miracle, it's impossible. 805 00:53:34,914 --> 00:53:36,349 Calm down, man, spit it out. 806 00:53:36,383 --> 00:53:39,652 Approve, sir, it's complete. Complete? 807 00:53:39,686 --> 00:53:41,221 You were right, sir. 808 00:53:41,254 --> 00:53:43,256 "Others who approve not to transgress by thy example"... 809 00:53:43,323 --> 00:53:44,224 Milton, Paradise Lost. 810 00:53:44,224 --> 00:53:45,258 You found it. 811 00:53:45,325 --> 00:53:46,993 No, not us, sir. You better read this. 812 00:53:47,600 --> 00:53:49,429 It is with a great sense of privilege... 813 00:53:49,496 --> 00:53:51,865 that I offer myself up as a volunteer. 814 00:53:51,931 --> 00:53:53,500 Please, sir, read on. 815 00:53:53,533 --> 00:53:56,970 MINOR [V.O.] Enclosed please find one-thousand word slips... 816 00:53:57,300 --> 00:53:59,539 with corresponding quotations... 817 00:53:59,572 --> 00:54:02,976 from the height and depth of literature. 818 00:54:03,900 --> 00:54:07,580 I have derived a key, a type of dictionary... 819 00:54:07,647 --> 00:54:11,351 within a dictionary, that allows the amassing of words... 820 00:54:11,384 --> 00:54:13,853 with addended quotations. 821 00:54:13,887 --> 00:54:15,955 My request is simple. 822 00:54:15,989 --> 00:54:18,458 To make your burden light. 823 00:54:18,525 --> 00:54:23,396 Write to me, tell me what specific words at present... 824 00:54:23,430 --> 00:54:26,366 shimmer and fade at your grasp. 825 00:54:28,234 --> 00:54:30,236 Let useful others troll the oceans... 826 00:54:30,270 --> 00:54:33,306 with their nets cast wide. 827 00:54:33,373 --> 00:54:37,430 I shall throw my line and pluck the very quotes... 828 00:54:37,110 --> 00:54:41,247 that evade you when you call upon me to do so. 829 00:54:43,983 --> 00:54:49,389 Very truly yours, W.C. Minor, Crowthorne, Berkshire. 830 00:54:51,257 --> 00:54:52,692 Look, it's all there. 831 00:54:52,726 --> 00:54:56,396 He's given us Approve in the 17th and 18th centuries. 832 00:54:56,429 --> 00:54:57,330 And Art? 833 00:54:57,330 --> 00:54:59,332 Not that one, but so much else. 834 00:54:59,399 --> 00:55:01,935 All in the "A" s, all words we're working on... 835 00:55:02,100 --> 00:55:04,571 and at first glance all of it usable. 836 00:55:06,573 --> 00:55:08,141 God has sent us a savior. 837 00:55:08,174 --> 00:55:10,410 Now all we have to do is try to keep up with him. 838 00:55:10,443 --> 00:55:12,479 Thank you, Mr. Hall. 839 00:55:12,512 --> 00:55:15,448 Let's have a good look at these slips. 840 00:55:17,584 --> 00:55:18,952 Sort these now. 841 00:55:19,190 --> 00:55:21,154 MURRAY [V.O.] You cannot fathom the impact of both... 842 00:55:21,187 --> 00:55:24,958 your offer and your timing. I am your grateful recipient. 843 00:55:25,250 --> 00:55:28,228 Let paper and ink be our flesh and blood... 844 00:55:28,294 --> 00:55:29,596 until we are privileged to meet. 845 00:55:29,629 --> 00:55:31,970 That's right. 846 00:55:31,164 --> 00:55:32,465 MURRAY [V.O.] Enclosed are a list of words that... 847 00:55:32,499 --> 00:55:35,368 at present... are eluding us. 848 00:55:35,435 --> 00:55:39,339 The word Art is proving particularly troublesome. 849 00:55:40,874 --> 00:55:43,243 MINOR [V.O.] Enclosed you will find the quotations... 850 00:55:43,309 --> 00:55:44,978 that you have requested. 851 00:55:45,450 --> 00:55:48,748 In pondering "Art", I am reminded of the words... 852 00:55:48,782 --> 00:55:51,551 of a great man of our time who said... 853 00:55:51,618 --> 00:55:57,357 all great and beautiful work has come of first gazing... 854 00:55:57,390 --> 00:56:00,226 without shrinking into the darkness. 855 00:56:00,260 --> 00:56:01,895 May I, sir? 856 00:56:01,928 --> 00:56:03,960 Aye. 857 00:56:04,364 --> 00:56:05,565 Ah. 858 00:56:12,720 --> 00:56:15,508 MINOR [V.O.] I have been much acquainted with that darkness. 859 00:56:15,542 --> 00:56:19,913 Thank you for letting me lend my light to yours. 860 00:56:19,946 --> 00:56:23,216 Together we shall shrink the darkness... 861 00:56:23,249 --> 00:56:25,785 until there is only light. 862 00:56:25,819 --> 00:56:31,240 Yours, W.C. Minor. Crowthorne, Berkshire. 863 00:56:34,694 --> 00:56:38,131 Ah, here it is... heh-heh, eh. 864 00:56:46,406 --> 00:56:48,975 Now we'll put your name on it, too. 865 00:56:52,178 --> 00:56:55,582 Mr. Bradley, can I have another fascicle, please? 866 00:56:55,615 --> 00:57:00,420 I know of another who's joy in seeing it would be immeasurable. 867 00:57:04,691 --> 00:57:06,559 Yes, ma'am. 868 00:57:06,593 --> 00:57:08,728 Is Mr. Muncie working? 869 00:57:08,762 --> 00:57:10,330 He is. 870 00:57:10,397 --> 00:57:12,899 Could you please tell him Mrs. Merrett is here to see him? 871 00:57:12,966 --> 00:57:14,734 I will indeed, ma'am. 872 00:57:14,768 --> 00:57:16,360 [ KNOCKS ON DOOR ] 873 00:57:24,844 --> 00:57:26,312 Hello, ma'am. 874 00:57:26,346 --> 00:57:27,781 Mr. Muncie. 875 00:57:31,551 --> 00:57:33,887 [BRAYN] So pleased you've returned, Mrs. Merrett. 876 00:57:33,920 --> 00:57:36,556 Come on in then, ma'am. 877 00:57:36,589 --> 00:57:40,560 It's... very interesting. 878 00:57:46,466 --> 00:57:48,435 Come in, doctor. 879 00:57:58,111 --> 00:58:00,213 Mrs. Merrett has brought you a book. 880 00:58:00,246 --> 00:58:04,317 Yes... from Maggs, the book shop. 881 00:58:04,351 --> 00:58:06,520 I was told you like to read. 882 00:58:09,122 --> 00:58:10,523 Thank you. 883 00:58:12,250 --> 00:58:14,494 Would you care to take a walk on the grounds, madam? 884 00:58:14,527 --> 00:58:16,629 It is a beautiful spring day. 885 00:58:20,333 --> 00:58:22,469 Did you read it? 886 00:58:24,204 --> 00:58:28,475 Great Expectations, the book you brought me? Is it a favorite? 887 00:58:28,508 --> 00:58:31,711 No, no, the shop suggested it. 888 00:58:31,778 --> 00:58:33,380 Ah. 889 00:58:35,248 --> 00:58:38,518 I came to say... thank you. 890 00:58:41,721 --> 00:58:45,125 The children, they're not going hungry no more. 891 00:58:45,158 --> 00:58:48,361 They've got warm clothes now, even for next year, but-- 892 00:58:48,395 --> 00:58:50,296 It's never too late with children. 893 00:58:50,363 --> 00:58:51,865 Their whole lives are tomorrows. 894 00:58:54,634 --> 00:58:59,572 But I can't go on taking your money. It's-- it's not right. 895 00:58:59,639 --> 00:59:02,275 [MINOR] Please, Mrs. Merrett. It's blood money. 896 00:59:02,308 --> 00:59:07,247 I know, but it's my blood, too. My life belongs to you. 897 00:59:07,280 --> 00:59:09,182 I made it so on that night. 898 00:59:09,249 --> 00:59:11,251 I took a life and by dreadful bargain... 899 00:59:11,284 --> 00:59:12,886 I've placed another in your hands. 900 00:59:12,952 --> 00:59:14,654 By right, all that I have is yours. 901 00:59:18,291 --> 00:59:22,595 I don't know what to think. I don't know why I came. 902 00:59:24,464 --> 00:59:27,167 Mrs. Merrett, please! 903 00:59:30,570 --> 00:59:33,740 Well, let me know if she comes back. 904 00:59:35,775 --> 00:59:38,545 Let's have a look at those chains. 905 00:59:57,300 --> 00:59:58,231 Thank you. 906 00:59:59,332 --> 01:00:00,633 Can I help you, sir? 907 01:00:00,667 --> 01:00:02,635 Yes, I'm here to see the superintendent. 908 01:00:02,669 --> 01:00:03,670 Are you expected? 909 01:00:03,737 --> 01:00:05,438 No, I came on impulse. 910 01:00:05,472 --> 01:00:08,641 I'm James Murray, I am a friend of Dr. Minor's... 911 01:00:08,675 --> 01:00:10,343 yet only through the post. 912 01:00:10,377 --> 01:00:13,580 Dr. Minor, the superintendent. 913 01:00:13,613 --> 01:00:16,583 Ah, ah, I came to bring him this fruit of our labor. 914 01:00:16,616 --> 01:00:18,918 I know who you are, sir. 915 01:00:18,952 --> 01:00:23,623 I posted all the letters for him. I licked the stamps myself. 916 01:00:23,656 --> 01:00:26,326 Oh, thank you, for your mother tongue. 917 01:00:27,794 --> 01:00:29,629 Yeah, I'll see what I can do. 918 01:00:34,467 --> 01:00:38,505 So this is the good doctor? [MUNCIE] Mr. Murray, sir. 919 01:00:38,538 --> 01:00:42,542 Dr. Minor, I'm proud to make your acquaintance, sir. 920 01:01:00,393 --> 01:01:01,728 I cannot believe my eyes. 921 01:01:01,795 --> 01:01:04,397 Nor I, nor this surprise. 922 01:01:06,633 --> 01:01:08,134 How did you gain entrance? 923 01:01:08,201 --> 01:01:12,372 I came on the off chance and to bring you this. 924 01:01:12,405 --> 01:01:13,873 Our gathering, so far. 925 01:01:13,940 --> 01:01:16,543 Meek, but poised to inherit the earth. 926 01:01:16,576 --> 01:01:19,979 I thank you. You deserve to be proud. 927 01:01:21,214 --> 01:01:22,315 Dumbfounded. 928 01:01:22,382 --> 01:01:23,583 You've been a bulwark for us, doctor. 929 01:01:23,650 --> 01:01:25,552 I'm happy to be of assistance... 930 01:01:25,585 --> 01:01:29,422 though I am merely worker to the queen. The alveary is yours. 931 01:01:29,456 --> 01:01:31,758 Ah, you sent the quote for alveary? From-- 932 01:01:31,825 --> 01:01:33,126 Baret, 1580. 933 01:01:33,159 --> 01:01:34,661 Of course, the early dictionaries of English... 934 01:01:34,694 --> 01:01:37,397 Latin, French and Greek, but of course, you know that. 935 01:01:37,430 --> 01:01:38,998 Of course, I don't. 936 01:01:39,320 --> 01:01:42,435 I do know the poets. You, in your letters, know the scribe. 937 01:01:42,469 --> 01:01:45,105 Now my task is to de-scribe. 938 01:01:45,138 --> 01:01:48,241 Alveary, such a lovely buzz to it. 939 01:01:48,274 --> 01:01:51,544 How about cosh, or fettle? 940 01:01:51,578 --> 01:01:54,447 Fine. Louche. 941 01:01:54,481 --> 01:01:55,615 I remember that from childhood. 942 01:01:55,615 --> 01:01:57,550 It always seemed undressed. 943 01:01:57,584 --> 01:01:59,352 Commotrix, I adore that one... 944 01:01:59,419 --> 01:02:01,588 sounds as though it wants trouble. 945 01:02:01,621 --> 01:02:03,923 Troublesome indeed, and difficult to find. 946 01:02:03,990 --> 01:02:05,258 Gyre. 947 01:02:05,291 --> 01:02:07,761 A revolution, a whirl. 948 01:02:07,794 --> 01:02:09,620 Decussated. 949 01:02:09,129 --> 01:02:11,431 Formed by crossing lines, an X, an intersection. 950 01:02:11,464 --> 01:02:13,733 Perhaps you should be writing definitions and I... 951 01:02:13,767 --> 01:02:18,380 well, I'd be useless tending to your patients. 952 01:02:18,710 --> 01:02:20,874 So let's leave it as it is. 953 01:02:20,907 --> 01:02:24,144 We've only just started. Partners, word for word. 954 01:02:24,177 --> 01:02:26,613 An American and a Scot? 955 01:02:26,646 --> 01:02:30,383 How does an American come to eye these gates? 956 01:02:30,450 --> 01:02:33,190 A story for another day. 957 01:02:33,530 --> 01:02:35,355 Let's continue the comparison. 958 01:02:35,388 --> 01:02:37,157 One Oxford, one Yale. 959 01:02:37,190 --> 01:02:38,324 Both graying. 960 01:02:38,358 --> 01:02:40,226 One brilliant, one mad. 961 01:02:40,293 --> 01:02:41,928 Aye, but which is which? 962 01:03:09,422 --> 01:03:11,324 Where to from here? 963 01:03:13,760 --> 01:03:15,662 Antagonism to bathe. 964 01:03:15,695 --> 01:03:17,964 Batheable to cholera. 965 01:03:17,997 --> 01:03:19,366 Choleric to dysenteric. 966 01:03:19,399 --> 01:03:21,000 Dysentery to eczema. 967 01:03:21,670 --> 01:03:24,700 Eczematous to fungus. 968 01:03:24,104 --> 01:03:25,705 Why not jump straight to leprosy? 969 01:03:25,772 --> 01:03:26,973 Oh, that's dropping off a lot. 970 01:03:26,973 --> 01:03:28,575 You could go back to acne. 971 01:03:28,641 --> 01:03:30,510 Well, there's no need to be rash. 972 01:03:30,543 --> 01:03:33,446 Who's this? Murray, sir. 973 01:03:33,513 --> 01:03:35,382 Who's Murray? The man from the dictionary... 974 01:03:35,415 --> 01:03:37,417 the one the doctor has been working on. 975 01:03:37,450 --> 01:03:40,153 Good God, well, he's had a very busy day. 976 01:03:40,220 --> 01:03:42,220 Let's keep it short, shall we? 977 01:03:42,880 --> 01:03:43,356 Yes, sir. 978 01:03:44,958 --> 01:03:49,290 Mr. Muncie? Accord Dr. Murray full visitation privileges. 979 01:03:49,950 --> 01:03:50,964 Let me know when they're gonna happen. 980 01:03:50,997 --> 01:03:54,567 Yes, sir. Thank you. 981 01:03:54,601 --> 01:03:58,438 Let's document all their meetings, keep full details. 982 01:03:59,606 --> 01:04:01,441 One could dare say it's beautiful here. 983 01:04:01,474 --> 01:04:03,810 Listen to the leaves scratch the air. 984 01:04:03,843 --> 01:04:08,915 Sometimes it sounds like gunfire. Sometimes like-- 985 01:04:08,982 --> 01:04:12,852 Like applause. Yes, applause. 986 01:04:15,855 --> 01:04:17,257 Mr. Murray? 987 01:04:17,290 --> 01:04:21,161 Aye. I should be off then. Check your posts. 988 01:04:21,194 --> 01:04:24,640 I will garner my thoughts and spark them off of yours. 989 01:04:24,130 --> 01:04:25,398 As iron sharpens iron... 990 01:04:25,432 --> 01:04:28,201 so one man sharpens the countenance of a friend. 991 01:04:28,268 --> 01:04:31,871 Scripture. You're a man of God, I should not be surprised. 992 01:04:31,905 --> 01:04:34,841 It is by His grace alone. 993 01:04:34,874 --> 01:04:37,577 I wish I had experienced that more often. 994 01:04:37,610 --> 01:04:39,145 You will, my friend. 995 01:04:39,179 --> 01:04:42,849 Goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. 996 01:04:42,882 --> 01:04:46,319 Yeah, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death. 997 01:04:46,353 --> 01:04:48,655 You're not alone, good doctor. 998 01:04:48,722 --> 01:04:50,957 We are linked now... consanguineous. 999 01:04:51,240 --> 01:04:52,759 Brothers. 1000 01:04:52,792 --> 01:04:56,620 [ BELL TOLLS ] 1001 01:05:04,971 --> 01:05:06,639 I looked for you this morning... 1002 01:05:06,673 --> 01:05:08,742 I wanted to share some good news with you. 1003 01:05:08,775 --> 01:05:10,477 What news? 1004 01:05:10,510 --> 01:05:14,647 A new volunteer, a miracle... he's pulling us out of the mire. 1005 01:05:14,681 --> 01:05:17,830 We've doubled our progress with him already. 1006 01:05:17,117 --> 01:05:21,321 That's wonderful, James. Who is he? 1007 01:05:24,190 --> 01:05:26,590 A friend. 1008 01:05:26,920 --> 01:05:29,662 [ SOFT MUSIC PLAYING ] 1009 01:05:46,120 --> 01:05:48,548 A letter from our superintendent, sir. 1010 01:05:48,581 --> 01:05:49,683 Oh, thank you. 1011 01:05:51,584 --> 01:05:54,287 Henry, could you keep an eye for all future letters... 1012 01:05:54,354 --> 01:05:55,822 from the good doctor? 1013 01:05:55,855 --> 01:05:59,259 He is rather a private man and I would wish to honor that. 1014 01:06:07,367 --> 01:06:09,536 I brought another book for you. 1015 01:06:09,569 --> 01:06:12,739 I see that. What is it? 1016 01:06:12,806 --> 01:06:15,842 One from the list Mr. Muncie gave me. 1017 01:06:15,875 --> 01:06:17,811 I asked, it's one of the ones you wanted. 1018 01:06:19,279 --> 01:06:22,849 You read. 1019 01:06:22,882 --> 01:06:27,887 I will guess which one it is, a paragraph, a sentence. 1020 01:06:27,954 --> 01:06:29,989 I'm sorry, doctor. 1021 01:06:30,990 --> 01:06:33,590 Mrs. Merrett, Mrs. Merrett... 1022 01:06:33,126 --> 01:06:36,262 Mrs. Merrett, please, what did I do? 1023 01:06:44,700 --> 01:06:46,139 You cannot read. 1024 01:06:47,741 --> 01:06:49,876 Forgive me, I should not have presumed. 1025 01:06:49,909 --> 01:06:52,645 I do not need you to bring me books, Mrs. Merrett... 1026 01:06:52,712 --> 01:06:53,847 it is your visits-- 1027 01:06:53,880 --> 01:06:55,281 Please, doctor, let me be. 1028 01:06:55,315 --> 01:06:57,350 I can teach you. 1029 01:06:57,417 --> 01:06:58,985 I am what I am. 1030 01:06:59,190 --> 01:07:01,488 Oh, please, let me teach you. You can teach your children. 1031 01:07:01,554 --> 01:07:03,289 It's freedom, Mrs. Merrett. 1032 01:07:03,323 --> 01:07:05,625 I can fly out of this place on the backs of books. 1033 01:07:05,658 --> 01:07:07,894 I've gone to the end of the world on the wings of words. 1034 01:07:07,894 --> 01:07:09,229 I can not. 1035 01:07:09,295 --> 01:07:12,465 When I read, no one is after me. 1036 01:07:14,768 --> 01:07:20,440 When I read, I am the one who is chasing, chasing after God. 1037 01:07:22,242 --> 01:07:26,880 Please, I beg you... join the chase. 1038 01:07:28,648 --> 01:07:30,917 Kumquat. 1039 01:07:30,950 --> 01:07:32,686 Oblong. 1040 01:07:32,752 --> 01:07:35,388 Pert. 1041 01:07:35,455 --> 01:07:37,657 Prunes. 1042 01:07:37,691 --> 01:07:41,940 Coconuts. 1043 01:07:41,127 --> 01:07:44,197 Chitty. 1044 01:07:52,405 --> 01:07:53,640 My win, Murray. 1045 01:07:53,673 --> 01:07:55,675 What on earth is chitty? Long form of chit. 1046 01:07:55,709 --> 01:07:58,978 Of course, chit. Letter or note, Indian origin, no? 1047 01:07:59,450 --> 01:08:00,680 That's right. 1048 01:08:04,840 --> 01:08:05,785 [MURRAY] Who is she? 1049 01:08:05,819 --> 01:08:08,540 [MINOR] The impossible. 1050 01:08:08,880 --> 01:08:11,224 The more impossible, the greater the love. 1051 01:08:11,257 --> 01:08:13,560 Do you truly believe that? 1052 01:08:16,796 --> 01:08:18,431 My heart is so sick. 1053 01:08:21,668 --> 01:08:26,840 What I know of love, the sickness often becomes the cure. 1054 01:08:26,873 --> 01:08:33,713 She is my friend, she is my dear friend... 1055 01:08:33,747 --> 01:08:37,684 she has suffered a terrible loss. 1056 01:08:50,263 --> 01:08:54,340 Perhaps God's grace will come to her through your love, William. 1057 01:09:07,580 --> 01:09:10,684 Eats, so you don't really say the "A"? 1058 01:09:10,717 --> 01:09:12,152 Eats. 1059 01:09:14,220 --> 01:09:19,693 Wa-- ush-- brush and fish. 1060 01:09:19,726 --> 01:09:21,294 Yes.Wash. 1061 01:09:21,327 --> 01:09:23,997 You're learning very, very fast. 1062 01:09:24,300 --> 01:09:30,136 The brain is wider than the sky, for put them side by side... 1063 01:09:30,170 --> 01:09:36,443 the one the other will include, with ease and you beside. 1064 01:09:36,476 --> 01:09:42,148 The brain is just the weight of God, for, heft them... 1065 01:09:42,182 --> 01:09:47,220 pound for pound, and they will differ if they do... 1066 01:09:47,253 --> 01:09:49,789 as syllable from the sound. 1067 01:09:50,657 --> 01:09:53,259 Did they cut the rest of the hair on that girl off? 1068 01:09:53,326 --> 01:09:55,195 [ GIGGLING ] 1069 01:09:55,228 --> 01:09:58,264 [ SOFT MUSIC PLAYING ] 1070 01:10:05,205 --> 01:10:06,339 Mrs. Merrett? 1071 01:10:06,373 --> 01:10:07,807 He's making the most tremendous progress. 1072 01:10:07,841 --> 01:10:09,242 Mrs. Merrett. 1073 01:10:09,275 --> 01:10:11,344 I'm beginning to believe the more he's exposed... 1074 01:10:11,378 --> 01:10:15,248 to the world beyond these walls, the speedier will be his cure. 1075 01:10:15,281 --> 01:10:17,417 You think he can be cured, doctor? 1076 01:10:17,484 --> 01:10:23,189 I have to-- there must be hope for all of us. 1077 01:10:23,223 --> 01:10:26,993 Even the most broken of souls. 1078 01:10:27,600 --> 01:10:31,970 I, uh-- think on it. 1079 01:10:36,236 --> 01:10:38,938 MURRAY [V.O.] My Dear Friend, I have recommended... 1080 01:10:38,972 --> 01:10:41,740 to the Delegates that your name be acknowledged... 1081 01:10:41,107 --> 01:10:43,443 in the First Volume of the "New English Dictionary... 1082 01:10:43,510 --> 01:10:47,113 on Historical Principles", to which your vibrant mind... 1083 01:10:47,147 --> 01:10:49,783 has so critically given the breath of life. 1084 01:10:49,816 --> 01:10:53,286 The last fascicle is already complete. 1085 01:10:53,319 --> 01:10:56,156 Expectantly, James. 1086 01:10:56,690 --> 01:10:59,793 [ MUSIC CONTINUES ] 1087 01:11:11,471 --> 01:11:14,407 [ INDISTINCT CHATTER ] 1088 01:11:34,594 --> 01:11:38,264 Congratulations, Dr. Murray. 1089 01:11:38,298 --> 01:11:40,467 For giving us A to byzen. 1090 01:11:40,500 --> 01:11:43,870 And for the rest to come, beginning with cab. 1091 01:11:43,903 --> 01:11:45,438 Thank you, sir. 1092 01:11:45,472 --> 01:11:47,374 [ ALL CLAPPING ] 1093 01:12:00,387 --> 01:12:02,880 It's not selling. 1094 01:12:02,155 --> 01:12:05,358 4,000 orders the Empire through and he won't go any quicker. 1095 01:12:05,392 --> 01:12:07,727 We're the laughing stock of all academia. 1096 01:12:07,761 --> 01:12:11,664 I wonder if it's time to ease our gentle Scotsman... 1097 01:12:11,731 --> 01:12:14,467 off his little perch. 1098 01:12:39,920 --> 01:12:40,260 [GIRL] Stop it! 1099 01:12:40,326 --> 01:12:42,562 It'll be alright, they're good kids. 1100 01:12:42,629 --> 01:12:44,664 We don't have to do it, if you don't want to. 1101 01:12:46,666 --> 01:12:50,203 Look at me... William. 1102 01:12:52,720 --> 01:12:54,541 It'll be alright. 1103 01:12:54,574 --> 01:12:57,644 Children, I would like you to meet a friend... 1104 01:12:57,677 --> 01:13:00,130 his name is William. 1105 01:13:02,349 --> 01:13:05,418 You must be Olive, is that right? 1106 01:13:05,452 --> 01:13:06,720 Yes. 1107 01:13:09,456 --> 01:13:10,857 Iris.Mm-hm. 1108 01:13:12,258 --> 01:13:16,696 Jack, and Peggy. 1109 01:13:19,132 --> 01:13:23,470 You must be Peter, it's good to meet you, Peter. 1110 01:13:28,408 --> 01:13:30,176 And are you Clare, then? 1111 01:13:34,140 --> 01:13:35,482 Clare. 1112 01:13:39,686 --> 01:13:41,821 Truly I'm honored to meet you, Clare. 1113 01:13:50,430 --> 01:13:51,998 [ELIZA] Clare! 1114 01:13:53,166 --> 01:13:54,334 Clare! 1115 01:13:54,401 --> 01:13:56,603 [ CLARE CRYING ] 1116 01:14:15,288 --> 01:14:20,293 Mr. Muncie. Watch them for me, just for a moment. 1117 01:14:20,326 --> 01:14:21,995 Mm-hm. 1118 01:14:25,365 --> 01:14:29,436 Doctor! Wait! Wait! I'm sorry. 1119 01:14:29,469 --> 01:14:32,505 I never wanted that to happen. I'm so sorry. 1120 01:14:38,780 --> 01:14:41,381 I remember being safe and still I remember knowing who I was... 1121 01:14:41,448 --> 01:14:45,618 and I woke up and it had all gone away, and I hated you... 1122 01:14:45,652 --> 01:14:50,323 so much, for so long, but now I know you, I know who you are. 1123 01:14:50,357 --> 01:14:52,826 And I know the same has been done to you. 1124 01:14:55,395 --> 01:14:57,931 I wrote you something. 1125 01:15:12,712 --> 01:15:14,280 "I can" -- 1126 01:15:14,347 --> 01:15:17,717 "I can... because of you." 1127 01:15:23,890 --> 01:15:25,792 I miss my husband. 1128 01:15:27,560 --> 01:15:31,498 I came here that first day to hate you. 1129 01:15:31,531 --> 01:15:35,368 To take your money, watch you locked away, see you done. 1130 01:15:38,304 --> 01:15:40,573 You should still hate me. 1131 01:15:40,607 --> 01:15:44,144 Not any more. 1132 01:15:48,515 --> 01:15:51,584 [ SOFT MUSIC PLAYING ] 1133 01:16:25,985 --> 01:16:29,589 [ MUSIC CHANGES ] 1134 01:16:35,328 --> 01:16:40,660 Look what you've done! Look what you've done! 1135 01:16:58,840 --> 01:17:00,200 [ SOBBING ] 1136 01:17:04,524 --> 01:17:07,327 Not that many this time, sir. 1137 01:17:17,404 --> 01:17:20,640 [ OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING ] 1138 01:17:50,704 --> 01:17:52,672 [ DOOR OPENS ] 1139 01:17:57,210 --> 01:18:00,513 [ SOFT MUSIC PLAYING ] 1140 01:18:24,370 --> 01:18:30,243 I wrote you something. No, read it when I've gone. 1141 01:18:36,850 --> 01:18:41,187 I'm sorry, Eliza. 1142 01:18:42,122 --> 01:18:45,792 But what if I'm not? 1143 01:19:01,675 --> 01:19:04,678 [ SHACKLES JINGLING ] 1144 01:19:24,264 --> 01:19:27,434 [ DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING ] 1145 01:19:37,310 --> 01:19:39,412 I have killed him again. 1146 01:19:39,446 --> 01:19:42,582 It's all your fault. 1147 01:19:42,615 --> 01:19:47,153 I've killed him again in your heart! 1148 01:19:53,293 --> 01:19:54,961 [ METAL SCRAPING ] 1149 01:19:56,996 --> 01:20:00,100 [ MUSIC FADES UP ] 1150 01:20:21,855 --> 01:20:25,250 [ SOFT MUSIC PLAYING ] 1151 01:20:36,970 --> 01:20:39,239 Mr. Coleman! 1152 01:20:41,908 --> 01:20:43,977 You might alert the clinic. 1153 01:20:47,280 --> 01:20:49,249 I have injured myself. 1154 01:21:00,794 --> 01:21:05,198 MINOR [V.O.] "My Friend, I no longer find I have the place... 1155 01:21:05,231 --> 01:21:08,702 for this, I thought you might accept it. 1156 01:21:08,768 --> 01:21:11,838 Remember me by it. 1157 01:21:11,871 --> 01:21:14,808 As a testament to our friendship and to that... 1158 01:21:14,841 --> 01:21:19,646 which we created together, in the brief and fleeting time... 1159 01:21:19,679 --> 01:21:25,118 when thanks to you, I could trust my mind... William. 1160 01:21:28,555 --> 01:21:31,524 Dr. Murray, Richard Brayn, Superintendent. 1161 01:21:31,558 --> 01:21:33,860 Pleased to meet you, sir. 1162 01:21:33,893 --> 01:21:36,830 I am very proud of the contributions that Dr. Minor... 1163 01:21:36,863 --> 01:21:38,398 has made, of course. 1164 01:21:38,431 --> 01:21:41,340 The illness has entered a new phase. You may be shocked. 1165 01:21:41,101 --> 01:21:44,604 I should warn you, too, that he may display some hostility. 1166 01:21:56,182 --> 01:21:57,717 You came. 1167 01:21:57,751 --> 01:22:00,253 Of course, I came. 1168 01:22:00,286 --> 01:22:02,589 I knew that you would. 1169 01:22:07,160 --> 01:22:11,698 Your God is very demanding. 1170 01:22:11,731 --> 01:22:14,934 A sacrifice was required. 1171 01:22:19,472 --> 01:22:21,410 I received your letter. 1172 01:22:21,740 --> 01:22:27,480 His love... his wife... 1173 01:22:27,514 --> 01:22:32,852 I stole her from the dead. 1174 01:22:36,456 --> 01:22:41,961 Have you gotten to the "I's" by now? 1175 01:22:42,280 --> 01:22:47,233 I had some to add to your words. 1176 01:22:47,300 --> 01:22:51,171 But I can't seem to-- 1177 01:22:51,204 --> 01:22:55,175 I can't seem to find my pens. 1178 01:22:55,208 --> 01:22:57,544 Our words, William, our words. 1179 01:22:57,610 --> 01:23:00,947 Perhaps that is true, perhaps... 1180 01:23:03,550 --> 01:23:08,955 madness... gave us words. 1181 01:23:12,525 --> 01:23:17,497 But you have made them yours, they bear your secret signature. 1182 01:23:21,134 --> 01:23:25,705 Why did you come here? 1183 01:23:25,772 --> 01:23:27,574 Did you bring others? 1184 01:23:27,640 --> 01:23:28,975 I am alone, William. 1185 01:23:29,900 --> 01:23:34,481 I have reason to believe that they are hiding... 1186 01:23:34,514 --> 01:23:39,519 between the spaces in the floor, biding their time. 1187 01:23:42,489 --> 01:23:45,925 I'm sorry, James. I'm sorry. 1188 01:23:48,361 --> 01:23:51,131 For a moment, I... 1189 01:23:51,164 --> 01:23:56,360 dared to hope. 1190 01:23:57,504 --> 01:24:01,241 Your words, her... forgiveness. 1191 01:24:01,274 --> 01:24:05,110 It's more than forgiveness. 1192 01:24:05,450 --> 01:24:09,115 She-- she gave me this. 1193 01:24:10,150 --> 01:24:13,720 Read it later, if you truly want to know why. 1194 01:24:13,753 --> 01:24:16,389 Know what? 1195 01:24:16,423 --> 01:24:19,459 Assythment. 1196 01:24:19,526 --> 01:24:21,261 Assythment. 1197 01:24:21,294 --> 01:24:26,599 Assythment. 1198 01:24:26,633 --> 01:24:32,539 A quote, Austin, 1832. 1199 01:24:32,572 --> 01:24:38,411 I sent it in, but only hoping, I wasn't sure, until now. 1200 01:24:38,445 --> 01:24:40,280 I can't-- I can't remember the quote. 1201 01:24:40,313 --> 01:24:44,500 Look it up! Look it up! 1202 01:24:48,788 --> 01:24:52,250 You have seen me now and we're done. 1203 01:24:52,580 --> 01:24:56,563 You can leave the lunatic to his delusions. 1204 01:24:56,596 --> 01:24:58,765 I came here to see my friend. 1205 01:24:58,798 --> 01:25:03,737 I am no man's friend, I am a murderer. 1206 01:25:03,770 --> 01:25:06,573 Everything else is make believe. 1207 01:25:06,606 --> 01:25:10,910 So leave, leave, leave, leave, leave, leave, leave... 1208 01:25:10,944 --> 01:25:14,214 leave, leave, leave, leave, leave, leave! 1209 01:25:14,247 --> 01:25:20,687 And do not come back! I do not want to see you! 1210 01:25:20,754 --> 01:25:25,125 Please, doctor, if your claim that you are my friend... 1211 01:25:25,191 --> 01:25:30,964 is true, you will respect that one simple wish! 1212 01:25:31,310 --> 01:25:33,533 Yeah. 1213 01:25:37,404 --> 01:25:40,730 I think no more visitors for Dr. Minor. 1214 01:25:44,411 --> 01:25:49,149 Bondmade, missing from Volume One. 1215 01:25:49,215 --> 01:25:51,418 A perfectly solid, everyday English word... 1216 01:25:51,484 --> 01:25:52,719 and we don't have it. 1217 01:25:52,786 --> 01:25:53,920 I don't know how that could have happened... 1218 01:25:53,920 --> 01:25:55,155 I checked the proofs for it myself. 1219 01:25:55,155 --> 01:25:56,690 The University of Vienna picked up on it. 1220 01:25:56,723 --> 01:25:58,291 The bloody Austrians, it's a disgrace. 1221 01:25:58,358 --> 01:25:59,826 Calm down, Philip. 1222 01:25:59,859 --> 01:26:02,796 We'll catch it, we'll form an addendum. 1223 01:26:02,829 --> 01:26:04,164 I've been meaning to discuss that with all of you. 1224 01:26:04,164 --> 01:26:06,499 Are you intending to drop others? 1225 01:26:06,533 --> 01:26:11,237 The makers of this grand folly also deign it beneath them... 1226 01:26:11,271 --> 01:26:14,240 to include the nouns and adjectives denoting countries. 1227 01:26:14,274 --> 01:26:18,445 Hence no mention of African, Arabian, American and so on. 1228 01:26:18,511 --> 01:26:20,180 In the blasted Figaro! 1229 01:26:20,246 --> 01:26:22,649 In the same breath, expounding the virtues... 1230 01:26:22,682 --> 01:26:23,983 of their competing dictionaries. 1231 01:26:24,170 --> 01:26:26,753 In France, Germany, the Netherlands. 1232 01:26:26,820 --> 01:26:28,988 This is a war about the spread of colonial language... 1233 01:26:29,220 --> 01:26:30,957 not one with bullets and bayonets... 1234 01:26:30,990 --> 01:26:32,659 but with influence and appearance. 1235 01:26:32,692 --> 01:26:34,194 This is utterly absurd. 1236 01:26:34,260 --> 01:26:37,997 No, what is absurd is your dogged, bullheaded approach... 1237 01:26:38,310 --> 01:26:41,134 a superabundance of redundancy, Dr. Murray. 1238 01:26:41,167 --> 01:26:42,469 We need your focus. 1239 01:26:42,535 --> 01:26:44,304 The language is escaping you, you are losing. 1240 01:26:44,304 --> 01:26:47,474 What precisely are you saying, Mr. Gell? 1241 01:26:47,540 --> 01:26:50,744 This is Oxford. We do not lose. 1242 01:26:50,777 --> 01:26:52,479 Clearly the only course remaining-- 1243 01:26:52,545 --> 01:26:53,613 Bondmade. 1244 01:26:53,680 --> 01:26:55,148 What was that? Speak up, Freddie. 1245 01:26:55,181 --> 01:27:00,353 Bondmade. I borrowed the proof from the scriptorium... 1246 01:27:00,420 --> 01:27:01,988 to use in one of my lectures. 1247 01:27:02,220 --> 01:27:05,291 I forgot to replace it. I am responsible for its exclusion. 1248 01:27:05,325 --> 01:27:06,726 It doesn't change a thing. 1249 01:27:06,760 --> 01:27:10,230 Also the absence of African, Arabian, and American. 1250 01:27:10,296 --> 01:27:12,132 I convinced James not to include them. 1251 01:27:12,165 --> 01:27:16,200 So you see, gentlemen, you are inculpating the wrong man. 1252 01:27:16,360 --> 01:27:20,640 You're right, Philip, there is only one course of action. 1253 01:27:20,707 --> 01:27:23,743 I will resign my post from the board of delegates. 1254 01:27:23,777 --> 01:27:26,379 We shall make an announcement on it. 1255 01:27:26,446 --> 01:27:29,516 And the project will go on, with James. 1256 01:27:29,582 --> 01:27:31,170 I really don't see how-- 1257 01:27:31,510 --> 01:27:32,485 [JOWETT] Philip, please! 1258 01:27:32,519 --> 01:27:35,550 Have it in writing to the Press offices in the morning. 1259 01:27:36,656 --> 01:27:38,910 [GELL] He's lying through his teeth. 1260 01:27:38,158 --> 01:27:39,259 Of course he is. 1261 01:27:39,325 --> 01:27:40,827 Then why let them get away with it? 1262 01:27:40,894 --> 01:27:44,330 Didn't you see? Dr. Murray is a breath away from shattering. 1263 01:27:44,364 --> 01:27:46,366 And without Furnivall's meddling... 1264 01:27:46,399 --> 01:27:47,834 all we need do is wait. 1265 01:27:47,901 --> 01:27:50,804 Have a quiet word with Bradley, I suspect he is just... 1266 01:27:50,837 --> 01:27:54,941 the ticket for a more malleable pair of hands at the helm. 1267 01:27:54,974 --> 01:27:58,178 [ SOFT MUSIC PLAYING ] 1268 01:28:10,490 --> 01:28:13,426 James... what's the matter? 1269 01:28:13,493 --> 01:28:19,990 I'm adrift, Ada. The day has been one of loss. 1270 01:28:21,968 --> 01:28:24,104 I need to tell you some things. 1271 01:28:24,137 --> 01:28:26,840 Don't go on-- what you've done... 1272 01:28:26,873 --> 01:28:29,109 there is nothing you can tell me to make this right! 1273 01:28:29,142 --> 01:28:31,311 All the wisdom, all the diligence and you simply-- 1274 01:28:31,378 --> 01:28:33,513 How long have you known about his madness? 1275 01:28:33,546 --> 01:28:35,582 How much time have you spent with this man? 1276 01:28:35,648 --> 01:28:38,318 Why are you so angry? What difference can it possibly make? 1277 01:28:38,385 --> 01:28:41,121 His work on the dictionary proves he is sane. 1278 01:28:41,154 --> 01:28:43,523 He fooled that jury and he fooled you. 1279 01:28:43,556 --> 01:28:45,725 What about repentance, Ada? What about redemption? 1280 01:28:45,792 --> 01:28:48,280 The delegates, your team, your family... 1281 01:28:48,940 --> 01:28:49,829 we all deserve more than to have it all-- 1282 01:28:49,863 --> 01:28:51,798 Stop! 1283 01:28:54,340 --> 01:28:55,802 I could call into question the morality... 1284 01:28:55,835 --> 01:28:59,390 of every invisible volunteer we've ever leaned on. 1285 01:28:59,105 --> 01:29:01,141 This one hits his children, that one's on the whiskey... 1286 01:29:01,141 --> 01:29:04,144 this one, didn't you hear, he cheats on the Times crossword. 1287 01:29:04,177 --> 01:29:05,578 Remove the blaggard from the list. 1288 01:29:05,612 --> 01:29:07,881 He is a murderer! He lied to you. 1289 01:29:07,914 --> 01:29:11,985 Have you never lied? Have you not? 1290 01:29:15,989 --> 01:29:20,427 What are you so afraid of, that a bad man can be redeemed? 1291 01:29:20,460 --> 01:29:23,290 Isn't that what we believe, what we whisper to our children... 1292 01:29:23,630 --> 01:29:25,865 at night, what we pray for? Forgiveness. 1293 01:29:25,899 --> 01:29:28,601 I don't know who you're preaching to. 1294 01:29:28,635 --> 01:29:30,136 Neither do I. 1295 01:29:32,372 --> 01:29:35,909 "Thus they in lowliest plight repentant stood praying... 1296 01:29:35,942 --> 01:29:39,379 from the mercy seat above, prevenient grace descending... 1297 01:29:39,446 --> 01:29:42,449 had removed the stony from their hearts and made new flesh". 1298 01:29:42,482 --> 01:29:46,190 Milton, Paradise Lost, prevenient grace, Ada. 1299 01:29:46,520 --> 01:29:48,488 From before the fall, salvation for all... 1300 01:29:48,521 --> 01:29:50,290 if we choose to engage it. 1301 01:29:57,230 --> 01:30:00,660 "If love... then what?" 1302 01:30:00,100 --> 01:30:01,668 What is that? 1303 01:30:01,735 --> 01:30:06,606 A note, from the widow, asking the question of the killer. 1304 01:30:10,977 --> 01:30:14,748 [ SOFT MUSIC CONTINUES ] 1305 01:30:24,924 --> 01:30:28,228 "Assythment - satisfaction for an injury done. 1306 01:30:28,261 --> 01:30:31,664 Compensation, reparation, indemnification. 1307 01:30:31,698 --> 01:30:34,000 By law, the wife and family of the slain... 1308 01:30:34,670 --> 01:30:36,369 have still the right for assythment." 1309 01:30:36,403 --> 01:30:37,771 I don't understand. 1310 01:30:37,804 --> 01:30:39,939 It means to pay everything back. 1311 01:30:39,973 --> 01:30:42,800 The guilty make recompense the victim. 1312 01:30:42,750 --> 01:30:43,843 I thought he'd already given her money. 1313 01:30:43,910 --> 01:30:47,981 No, Ada, his life, with his life. 1314 01:30:48,140 --> 01:30:51,384 "If love... then what?" 1315 01:30:51,418 --> 01:30:56,222 Is what she wrote to him. And his response. 1316 01:30:56,256 --> 01:30:59,726 "...then no chance redemption." 1317 01:31:02,362 --> 01:31:04,998 What are you going to do? 1318 01:31:05,310 --> 01:31:07,467 What can I do? 1319 01:31:12,380 --> 01:31:14,874 Sometimes when we push away... 1320 01:31:14,941 --> 01:31:19,946 that is when we most need to be resisted. 1321 01:31:26,419 --> 01:31:33,393 ♪ When I am dead my dearest 1322 01:31:33,426 --> 01:31:34,627 [ BANGING ON DOOR ] 1323 01:31:34,694 --> 01:31:37,630 Please, let me in, let me in! 1324 01:31:37,697 --> 01:31:40,133 I need to see him, let me in! 1325 01:31:40,166 --> 01:31:42,702 Mr. Muncie, please, I know you can hear me, let me in! 1326 01:31:42,736 --> 01:31:44,370 [ELIZA] I need to see him! 1327 01:31:44,700 --> 01:31:47,474 [ OPERA SINGING CONTINUES ] 1328 01:31:57,830 --> 01:31:58,418 [ELIZA] Let me in! 1329 01:32:00,487 --> 01:32:02,756 Mrs. Merrett--I need to see him, please. 1330 01:32:02,789 --> 01:32:06,159 It is best you went away now and you not come back. 1331 01:32:06,192 --> 01:32:07,160 Please, I need to see him. 1332 01:32:07,193 --> 01:32:08,895 Mrs. Merrett, I'm sorry. 1333 01:32:08,928 --> 01:32:11,731 Oh, I need to see him, please! No! 1334 01:32:11,765 --> 01:32:17,700 I need to see him! Please! 1335 01:32:17,103 --> 01:32:20,440 [ OPERA SINGING CONTINUES ] 1336 01:32:23,109 --> 01:32:29,249 ♪ When showers and dewdrops hurt ♪ 1337 01:32:29,315 --> 01:32:34,754 ♪ And if thou wilt remember 1338 01:32:38,124 --> 01:32:43,763 ♪ And if I wilt forget 1339 01:32:50,360 --> 01:32:52,720 BRAYN [V.O.] It is time to commence a course... 1340 01:32:52,105 --> 01:32:54,974 of more invasive and more experimental treatments... 1341 01:32:55,410 --> 01:32:57,911 all procedures will be fully documented. 1342 01:32:57,944 --> 01:33:03,783 William... are we ready? 1343 01:33:05,852 --> 01:33:08,121 Most rightfully so. 1344 01:33:11,257 --> 01:33:13,493 Thank you, doctor. 1345 01:33:15,128 --> 01:33:18,832 Secure his arms, all right, here we go. 1346 01:33:18,865 --> 01:33:23,136 That's it. Steady. Good boy. 1347 01:33:26,439 --> 01:33:32,145 Come on, let's get him over. Up you go. All right. 1348 01:33:32,178 --> 01:33:34,381 Doctor, please bear with me.Yes. 1349 01:33:40,186 --> 01:33:45,859 All right, that's it, that's it. Steady. 1350 01:33:47,827 --> 01:33:48,895 Again. 1351 01:33:48,962 --> 01:33:51,970 Same again, sir. Oh, no. 1352 01:33:51,131 --> 01:33:57,370 [ OPERA SINGING CONTINUES ] 1353 01:34:01,174 --> 01:34:02,208 Again. 1354 01:34:05,211 --> 01:34:06,646 Oh, yeah, we've got you. 1355 01:34:08,581 --> 01:34:09,783 Again. 1356 01:34:11,184 --> 01:34:14,721 One more, sir, good boy. I asked first. 1357 01:34:20,326 --> 01:34:25,165 Up now, up now. Steady. 1358 01:34:27,567 --> 01:34:28,902 [BRAYN] Once more. 1359 01:34:34,774 --> 01:34:37,770 You've got them? Yes. 1360 01:34:44,651 --> 01:34:46,486 [ KNOCKING ON DOOR ] 1361 01:34:48,154 --> 01:34:50,323 Mrs. Murray. 1362 01:34:50,357 --> 01:34:54,227 My name is Church, I'm with the South London Chronicle. 1363 01:34:54,260 --> 01:34:56,596 May I speak with your husband, ma'am? 1364 01:34:56,629 --> 01:34:59,933 [ MUSIC CONTINUES ] 1365 01:35:02,168 --> 01:35:04,337 [CHURCH] The story runs tomorrow, sir, everything... 1366 01:35:04,371 --> 01:35:06,973 you, the big book, the widow Merrett. 1367 01:35:07,400 --> 01:35:09,909 There's nothing I can do about it now. 1368 01:35:09,943 --> 01:35:12,779 I just wanted to give you fair warning. 1369 01:35:18,184 --> 01:35:22,255 But these... I haven't given'em to the paper. 1370 01:35:24,900 --> 01:35:26,993 I thought, maybe, you should hold on to them. 1371 01:35:29,129 --> 01:35:31,698 It looks like he's in a bad way, sir. 1372 01:35:32,365 --> 01:35:35,535 [ OPERA SINGING CONTINUES ] 1373 01:35:40,540 --> 01:35:42,750 Mother! 1374 01:35:42,108 --> 01:35:44,744 No, no-- go upstairs and play up there. 1375 01:36:04,531 --> 01:36:05,765 James. 1376 01:36:16,609 --> 01:36:20,780 If I may say, sir, between you and me, I've been concerned... 1377 01:36:20,847 --> 01:36:23,983 about some of Dr. Brayn's medical techniques. 1378 01:36:27,854 --> 01:36:30,757 We had to take precautions. 1379 01:36:30,790 --> 01:36:37,163 William? It's James, William. 1380 01:36:37,197 --> 01:36:38,598 William. 1381 01:36:38,631 --> 01:36:41,935 It's no use, I'm afraid. He's not here. 1382 01:36:42,100 --> 01:36:45,305 I don't know where he is, but he's not here. 1383 01:36:45,338 --> 01:36:47,273 [ STEPS APPROACHING ] 1384 01:36:51,311 --> 01:36:52,746 Wait for me outside. 1385 01:36:52,779 --> 01:36:54,581 Dr. Murray, I must ask that you inform me... 1386 01:36:54,614 --> 01:36:56,483 before you pay a visit. 1387 01:36:56,516 --> 01:36:58,184 I came as soon as I knew. 1388 01:36:58,218 --> 01:37:01,388 Yes, but it's not a club, sir, this is a medical facility. 1389 01:37:01,454 --> 01:37:03,323 Dr. Minor is a patient in my care. 1390 01:37:03,356 --> 01:37:04,391 He is my friend, my brother. 1391 01:37:04,457 --> 01:37:05,759 Yes, he's my friend, as well. 1392 01:37:05,792 --> 01:37:08,280 And he's one of the bravest men I have ever known. 1393 01:37:08,610 --> 01:37:11,598 However, this is severe catalepsy. 1394 01:37:11,631 --> 01:37:13,660 It's a fair question... 1395 01:37:13,990 --> 01:37:16,102 whether or not the soul has already left the vessel. 1396 01:37:17,670 --> 01:37:20,507 "Divided from himself and his fair judgment... 1397 01:37:20,540 --> 01:37:26,379 without which we are pictures or mere beasts." 1398 01:37:26,413 --> 01:37:28,982 How could this have happened? 1399 01:37:31,510 --> 01:37:32,986 I must ask you to leave immediately. 1400 01:37:33,530 --> 01:37:34,754 No, he doesn't belong here, not like this. 1401 01:37:34,788 --> 01:37:36,389 On the contrary, he does not belong anywhere else. 1402 01:37:36,423 --> 01:37:37,857 Please allow us to get on with our work. 1403 01:37:37,924 --> 01:37:41,494 We have a great deal to do. It's alright, William. 1404 01:37:41,528 --> 01:37:44,831 Please! It's alright, William... 1405 01:37:44,864 --> 01:37:50,937 it's alright, William, it's all right. 1406 01:37:53,206 --> 01:37:56,810 The last 400 years have been defined by his quotes alone. 1407 01:37:58,878 --> 01:38:02,282 We were at our darkest moment. He gave us life. 1408 01:38:02,349 --> 01:38:05,819 I'm asking for your help here, Ben. 1409 01:38:05,852 --> 01:38:08,254 To tell the truth of what he's done. 1410 01:38:08,288 --> 01:38:10,223 Let it be known, not this. 1411 01:38:10,256 --> 01:38:13,460 My only regret is that you did not come forward... 1412 01:38:13,526 --> 01:38:15,950 with this much sooner. 1413 01:38:15,128 --> 01:38:18,665 What there is to be known has already been said... right here. 1414 01:38:18,698 --> 01:38:19,999 Written. Didn't you see? 1415 01:38:20,330 --> 01:38:21,801 But this is the life of a man. 1416 01:38:21,835 --> 01:38:23,903 All that he is will end with him in that place. 1417 01:38:23,970 --> 01:38:26,840 And he is where he should be. 1418 01:38:26,873 --> 01:38:28,808 [JOWETT] What use an act of pointless charity? 1419 01:38:28,842 --> 01:38:30,377 Then I resign. 1420 01:38:30,410 --> 01:38:33,246 There will be no need for such theatrics. 1421 01:38:33,279 --> 01:38:36,116 William Minor will be struck from all acknowledgments. 1422 01:38:36,149 --> 01:38:39,119 You are to be welcomed, for as long as you like... 1423 01:38:39,152 --> 01:38:41,421 as a contributor to the dictionary. 1424 01:38:41,454 --> 01:38:43,890 The editorship will pass immediately to Bradley. 1425 01:38:43,923 --> 01:38:46,626 I will be proposing this at an emergency meeting... 1426 01:38:46,693 --> 01:38:48,395 of the delegates this afternoon. 1427 01:38:48,428 --> 01:38:51,464 I do not expect any dissent. 1428 01:38:51,498 --> 01:38:53,299 I won't thieve any more of your time. 1429 01:38:53,333 --> 01:38:55,135 Nor I yours. 1430 01:38:58,905 --> 01:39:02,175 [ SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING ] 1431 01:39:10,583 --> 01:39:11,751 [ KNOCKING ON DOOR ] 1432 01:39:11,785 --> 01:39:13,190 Yes, sir? 1433 01:39:13,530 --> 01:39:16,589 Is the master of the house in? 1434 01:39:23,296 --> 01:39:28,668 James... is everything alright? 1435 01:39:28,735 --> 01:39:34,507 I'm sorry, Freddie, I didn't know where else to go. 1436 01:39:34,541 --> 01:39:39,212 I've lost everything. Everything is broken. 1437 01:39:43,883 --> 01:39:49,556 I wanted to document the history of each and every thing. 1438 01:39:49,622 --> 01:39:53,930 To offer the world a book that gives the meaning... 1439 01:39:53,126 --> 01:39:55,829 of everything in God's creation. 1440 01:39:55,895 --> 01:40:02,135 Or at least the English part of it, but it has defeated me. 1441 01:40:04,204 --> 01:40:06,773 And now I've paid for it with everything... 1442 01:40:06,806 --> 01:40:08,708 that ever meant anything to me. 1443 01:40:08,775 --> 01:40:12,812 You know, there is another book that purports to do just that. 1444 01:40:12,846 --> 01:40:15,982 But it has already beaten you to the punch. 1445 01:40:18,218 --> 01:40:22,555 Come with me. Come, I want to show you something. 1446 01:40:23,857 --> 01:40:25,291 [GIRL #1] I need me dunnage. 1447 01:40:25,358 --> 01:40:28,395 [GIRL #2] What, with a sprat? How'd you do that? 1448 01:40:30,960 --> 01:40:32,599 Dunnage? Sprat? Blag? 1449 01:40:32,665 --> 01:40:34,367 How many new words to replace the old? 1450 01:40:34,401 --> 01:40:38,838 How many new words for things that have yet to be imagined? 1451 01:40:38,872 --> 01:40:42,175 How many of them in your all encompassing book? 1452 01:40:42,242 --> 01:40:45,545 No language can ever be permanently the same, James. 1453 01:40:45,578 --> 01:40:48,114 Not if it springs forth from life. 1454 01:40:48,148 --> 01:40:51,885 But how can the work be ended if not ever completed? 1455 01:40:51,951 --> 01:40:56,456 You have given us its heart along with a great jolt... 1456 01:40:56,489 --> 01:40:57,857 to begin the first few beats. 1457 01:40:57,891 --> 01:41:01,610 Generations after you will continue this work... 1458 01:41:01,127 --> 01:41:05,310 because you have showed them the way. 1459 01:41:05,650 --> 01:41:07,500 But it will never be completed. 1460 01:41:07,567 --> 01:41:08,768 Let it go. 1461 01:41:08,835 --> 01:41:12,205 Tend to yourself, leave the project to me. 1462 01:41:12,272 --> 01:41:15,175 I have a few tricks for Jowett and his lackey Gell... 1463 01:41:15,208 --> 01:41:17,777 that they have not considered in their maneuvering. 1464 01:41:19,479 --> 01:41:21,448 [ KNOCKS ON DOOR ] 1465 01:41:21,481 --> 01:41:23,183 Ada? 1466 01:41:24,217 --> 01:41:27,987 With Bradley in charge and the University press... 1467 01:41:28,210 --> 01:41:30,790 firmly driving the endeavour, we believe we can keep... 1468 01:41:30,857 --> 01:41:34,600 to our desired target of 704 pages a year... 1469 01:41:34,940 --> 01:41:35,628 doubling current sales estimates. 1470 01:41:35,662 --> 01:41:37,197 Thank you, Mr. Gell. 1471 01:41:37,230 --> 01:41:39,799 Well, gentlemen, I believe we are all now... 1472 01:41:39,866 --> 01:41:43,803 sufficiently informed to put the motion to a vote. 1473 01:41:43,870 --> 01:41:45,171 [ DOOR OPENS ] 1474 01:41:59,552 --> 01:42:02,922 I'm sorry my husband is unable to attend. 1475 01:42:02,956 --> 01:42:06,192 I would like to ask permission to say a few words in his stead. 1476 01:42:06,226 --> 01:42:07,694 Mrs. Murray, this is a closed meeting. 1477 01:42:07,694 --> 01:42:09,329 I'm afraid you will have to leave. 1478 01:42:09,362 --> 01:42:12,499 My family and I have given much for the glory of the delegates.. 1479 01:42:12,532 --> 01:42:15,969 Mr. Gell, I am certain they can give a few moments... 1480 01:42:16,360 --> 01:42:17,704 of their time in return. 1481 01:42:17,771 --> 01:42:20,400 Of course, Mrs. Murray. 1482 01:42:20,730 --> 01:42:22,342 We are here to listen, please, go ahead. 1483 01:42:27,800 --> 01:42:30,850 My husband has this silly, little leather parchment. 1484 01:42:30,917 --> 01:42:37,123 On it, he's engraved a creed. "Only a most diligent life." 1485 01:42:39,726 --> 01:42:43,263 Diligence. I looked it up, in your dictionary. 1486 01:42:43,296 --> 01:42:46,299 Constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken. 1487 01:42:46,366 --> 01:42:52,238 Persistence, application, but also, toil, and pain. 1488 01:42:53,540 --> 01:42:55,108 Some of you think my husband a fool. 1489 01:42:55,141 --> 01:42:57,711 Obstinate. Naive. 1490 01:42:57,744 --> 01:42:59,312 Driven to what he is by fear... 1491 01:42:59,379 --> 01:43:07,200 of what awaits us all on the other side, but he isn't. 1492 01:43:07,870 --> 01:43:10,123 He sees the world, all of it, with its myriad choices... 1493 01:43:10,156 --> 01:43:12,992 and he chooses to be what he is. 1494 01:43:17,731 --> 01:43:23,269 Yet, two such men found each other in our time. 1495 01:43:23,303 --> 01:43:28,475 My husband and his friend, the murderous madman. 1496 01:43:28,541 --> 01:43:35,150 Together they have given us something extraordinary. 1497 01:43:36,783 --> 01:43:39,719 I am here to ask you to take exception... 1498 01:43:39,753 --> 01:43:41,788 to our prevailing natures. 1499 01:43:43,890 --> 01:43:48,361 I'm here to ask you not to punish them for it. 1500 01:43:52,866 --> 01:43:56,690 Bradley told me you quit. 1501 01:43:56,136 --> 01:43:58,638 I did what I could in there, but they're a tough lot. 1502 01:43:58,671 --> 01:44:01,608 We're leaving this place. We're going back to London. 1503 01:44:01,641 --> 01:44:04,440 The book, it is not just yours to quit. 1504 01:44:04,770 --> 01:44:08,948 It is ours, remember? Mine, the children's, countless others'. 1505 01:44:09,150 --> 01:44:12,819 And they can, James, if there is love. 1506 01:44:15,321 --> 01:44:18,658 I know the answer now. 1507 01:44:18,692 --> 01:44:22,328 I know the answer to the widow's question. 1508 01:44:26,966 --> 01:44:28,968 I want you to do something for me. 1509 01:44:29,350 --> 01:44:30,270 I will. 1510 01:44:30,336 --> 01:44:36,409 I want you to go to her and look her in the eyes. 1511 01:44:36,476 --> 01:44:40,647 And if you see forgiveness, if you see love... 1512 01:44:40,680 --> 01:44:43,917 I want you to help your friend. 1513 01:44:43,950 --> 01:44:46,186 Yeah. 1514 01:44:55,862 --> 01:44:57,831 Here, my man. Thank you, sir. 1515 01:45:07,700 --> 01:45:09,843 He gave me that the last time I saw him. 1516 01:45:09,876 --> 01:45:11,544 The last time he was lucid. 1517 01:45:11,578 --> 01:45:16,549 They won't let me see him. Can you make them let me in? 1518 01:45:16,583 --> 01:45:21,254 It's no use. He's not the same as you remember. 1519 01:45:25,592 --> 01:45:30,330 If I've forgiven him, why should they go on punishing him? 1520 01:45:31,731 --> 01:45:32,966 [MURRAY] Thank you for seeing me... 1521 01:45:32,966 --> 01:45:34,334 at such short notice, Sir Charles. 1522 01:45:34,401 --> 01:45:35,702 [TROUP] Freddie is an old friend. 1523 01:45:35,735 --> 01:45:38,138 I have to warn you though, Mr. Murray... 1524 01:45:38,171 --> 01:45:39,673 the American murderer is a scar... 1525 01:45:39,706 --> 01:45:41,408 perhaps one that is still too fresh. 1526 01:45:41,441 --> 01:45:42,742 Perhaps this will heal it. 1527 01:45:42,776 --> 01:45:44,144 Hardly so. 1528 01:45:44,177 --> 01:45:46,913 Any politician espousing his cause is certain... 1529 01:45:46,980 --> 01:45:50,150 to face public outrage, chances of a pardon... 1530 01:45:50,183 --> 01:45:52,619 or a reprieve, are virtually non-existent. 1531 01:45:52,686 --> 01:45:55,588 What price justice? What price mercy? 1532 01:45:55,622 --> 01:45:59,726 Expensive to your first, cheap but unpopular to your second. 1533 01:45:59,759 --> 01:46:04,898 Look here, levers can be pulled, get you a hearing. 1534 01:46:04,931 --> 01:46:07,801 But if I were you, I would do all I can to find out... 1535 01:46:07,867 --> 01:46:11,905 who will be called to it, and I would stack the deck. 1536 01:46:11,938 --> 01:46:15,442 [ DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING ] 1537 01:46:35,362 --> 01:46:40,330 William? William, can you hear me? 1538 01:46:40,500 --> 01:46:41,901 Everybody out. It's James. 1539 01:46:41,935 --> 01:46:43,303 Everybody out. 1540 01:46:43,336 --> 01:46:46,720 William, you need to hear us. Can you hear me? 1541 01:46:46,106 --> 01:46:47,407 I brought Mrs. Merrett to see you. 1542 01:46:47,407 --> 01:46:48,775 [BRAYN] Leave him be! 1543 01:46:48,808 --> 01:46:51,770 She needs to talk, you need to--Leave him be! 1544 01:46:51,111 --> 01:46:56,116 With all due respect, sir, leave thembe! 1545 01:46:57,484 --> 01:47:01,955 William? William? 1546 01:47:03,223 --> 01:47:08,128 William, I'm here. 1547 01:47:08,194 --> 01:47:10,964 It's Eliza. 1548 01:47:10,997 --> 01:47:15,835 Do you remember, William? "If love... then what?" 1549 01:47:18,538 --> 01:47:21,241 If love... then what, William? 1550 01:47:26,120 --> 01:47:32,952 If love... then love. 1551 01:47:37,524 --> 01:47:39,793 If love, then love. 1552 01:47:45,665 --> 01:47:49,436 [ SOFT MUSIC FADES UP ] 1553 01:47:53,406 --> 01:47:54,908 [HEAD BOARD MEMBER] Please stand. 1554 01:47:57,430 --> 01:47:59,412 Do you know why you are here, Dr. Minor? 1555 01:47:59,446 --> 01:48:01,140 I do. 1556 01:48:01,470 --> 01:48:05,552 And in your opinion, Sergeant, have the circumstances changed? 1557 01:48:05,585 --> 01:48:07,487 No, sir. 1558 01:48:07,554 --> 01:48:10,190 Under what conditions did he enter catalepsy? 1559 01:48:10,256 --> 01:48:11,825 Documented procedures of treatment. 1560 01:48:11,858 --> 01:48:13,326 With the patient's agreement? 1561 01:48:13,393 --> 01:48:16,629 Of course. Gentlemen, with respect, the matter here... 1562 01:48:16,696 --> 01:48:18,131 begs a different question. 1563 01:48:18,164 --> 01:48:21,501 Where and into which hands would misguided compassion... 1564 01:48:21,568 --> 01:48:25,939 release him, there is nowhere else. This is his home. 1565 01:48:30,510 --> 01:48:31,878 Thank you, Mrs. Merrett. 1566 01:48:31,911 --> 01:48:34,614 Is there anything further you would like to say? 1567 01:48:34,647 --> 01:48:36,516 Yes, I would. 1568 01:48:36,583 --> 01:48:41,221 My husband didn't deserve what happened to him. 1569 01:48:41,287 --> 01:48:45,358 He worked hard. Kept his family together. 1570 01:48:45,425 --> 01:48:49,596 Then one day he was gone, and nothing could bring him back. 1571 01:48:49,629 --> 01:48:51,931 What happened to him isn't fair. 1572 01:48:51,965 --> 01:48:53,366 [ DOOR OPENS ] 1573 01:48:57,604 --> 01:49:00,400 For a long time after he was gone... 1574 01:49:00,730 --> 01:49:05,178 I didn't want to remember him, not even what he looked like. 1575 01:49:07,180 --> 01:49:10,917 I want to say I'm sorry about that. 1576 01:49:10,950 --> 01:49:13,530 He deserved more than that. 1577 01:49:17,924 --> 01:49:20,960 My husband was a sweet man, but he could get angry, too. 1578 01:49:20,994 --> 01:49:24,264 Once he got so cross, he kicked the heater... 1579 01:49:24,330 --> 01:49:27,467 'cause it weren't working, he put his foot right through... 1580 01:49:27,500 --> 01:49:31,571 burnt it on the hot coals, he was limping for weeks after. 1581 01:49:31,638 --> 01:49:34,107 One day he caught Jack behind him, hopping along... 1582 01:49:34,140 --> 01:49:39,212 all hobbled and all, like him, do you remember? 1583 01:49:39,245 --> 01:49:46,219 He looked at Jack, and he started to laugh. 1584 01:49:47,287 --> 01:49:50,657 He laughed so hard hobbling, he nearly fell over. 1585 01:49:50,690 --> 01:49:54,494 I think that's why he was often so cross. 1586 01:49:54,527 --> 01:49:58,965 It's cause he wanted his babies, you were all his babies... 1587 01:49:58,998 --> 01:50:02,402 he wanted them to make him laugh. 1588 01:50:06,740 --> 01:50:11,111 I think if George was here now, he'd think all this is unfair. 1589 01:50:11,144 --> 01:50:15,815 I think this would make him angry. 1590 01:50:15,849 --> 01:50:18,752 He wouldn't have a lot of fancy words to say about it. 1591 01:50:18,818 --> 01:50:23,189 But I know he would want it to stop. 1592 01:50:29,462 --> 01:50:32,165 Sir, please, a moment of your time. 1593 01:50:32,198 --> 01:50:34,734 I will deliver my report in two days. You will know then. 1594 01:50:34,768 --> 01:50:37,300 We are not asking for your full deliberation. 1595 01:50:37,370 --> 01:50:39,205 Just a hint at which way you lean. 1596 01:50:39,272 --> 01:50:40,607 Release will be denied. 1597 01:50:40,640 --> 01:50:42,208 The particulars of his treatment... 1598 01:50:42,275 --> 01:50:44,477 that have come to light are troubling... 1599 01:50:44,544 --> 01:50:46,790 Is that not enough to-- 1600 01:50:46,146 --> 01:50:49,490 But they are an indictment of the entire criminally insane... 1601 01:50:49,820 --> 01:50:52,520 system of which this board is not a competent judge. 1602 01:50:52,850 --> 01:50:54,154 Dr. Minor is a severely disturbed man. 1603 01:50:54,187 --> 01:50:55,922 For his own safety, the recommendation... 1604 01:50:55,989 --> 01:50:58,558 cannot be given to release him into the open. 1605 01:50:58,591 --> 01:51:00,460 Sir, is there no other way? 1606 01:51:00,493 --> 01:51:03,196 Whatever you intend to do, Dr. Murray, you have one day. 1607 01:51:03,229 --> 01:51:06,366 Then I have to submit my report. 1608 01:51:08,468 --> 01:51:11,370 We can try one last measure, James. 1609 01:51:11,710 --> 01:51:14,941 But you had better be prepared to lay it all on. 1610 01:51:15,241 --> 01:51:16,509 Your timing couldn't be worse. 1611 01:51:16,576 --> 01:51:18,478 An armed gang of Latvians have holed up... 1612 01:51:18,511 --> 01:51:19,813 in a building on Sidney Street. 1613 01:51:19,879 --> 01:51:21,514 The Scots Guards have it surrounded... 1614 01:51:21,581 --> 01:51:23,490 and the whole thing has escalated into a siege. 1615 01:51:23,490 --> 01:51:26,653 A bloody disaster, and it's put him in a foul mood. 1616 01:51:32,920 --> 01:51:33,693 Wait here. 1617 01:51:51,978 --> 01:51:56,490 I'm sorry, chaps, no go, bad timing. 1618 01:52:05,558 --> 01:52:13,566 Sir? Sir? Mr. Churchill, please! 1619 01:52:15,268 --> 01:52:18,104 Forgive me, that was insolent. 1620 01:52:18,138 --> 01:52:25,945 I don't know you, sir. I don't know the sort of man you are. 1621 01:52:25,979 --> 01:52:30,684 But the office you occupy permits me to have desires... 1622 01:52:30,717 --> 01:52:33,286 as to the kind of man I would want you to be. 1623 01:52:33,319 --> 01:52:36,456 Your decisions affect all the lives of this land. 1624 01:52:36,523 --> 01:52:41,270 And I am here, standing before you, for a single one. 1625 01:52:42,529 --> 01:52:48,134 A complicated, pained and soured one, but a life nonetheless. 1626 01:52:48,168 --> 01:52:53,106 And therefore deserving and worthy and precious. 1627 01:52:53,139 --> 01:52:57,410 If you believe, as I would have you believe... 1628 01:52:57,444 --> 01:53:02,782 that every individual life deserves its own chance... 1629 01:53:02,849 --> 01:53:06,686 please, hear what I have come to say. 1630 01:53:06,720 --> 01:53:10,290 Please, sir? All right. 1631 01:53:16,863 --> 01:53:19,699 I suppose I did say lay it all on. 1632 01:53:22,680 --> 01:53:23,870 - [ DOOR OPENS ] - Charles? 1633 01:53:28,475 --> 01:53:30,643 I will not release Dr. Minor. 1634 01:53:30,710 --> 01:53:32,879 The prime minister won't countenance it. 1635 01:53:32,912 --> 01:53:35,810 The public won't stand for it. 1636 01:53:35,148 --> 01:53:37,317 Fortunately your lexicon provides us with the means... 1637 01:53:37,350 --> 01:53:39,386 to conceal the unpalatable. 1638 01:53:39,452 --> 01:53:42,889 What I will do is deport Dr. Minor. 1639 01:53:42,922 --> 01:53:44,657 I gather he has family in Connecticut. 1640 01:53:44,724 --> 01:53:46,159 He does, sir. 1641 01:53:46,192 --> 01:53:47,527 I shall let the board know, should he be released... 1642 01:53:47,527 --> 01:53:49,329 he is to be sent home. 1643 01:53:49,362 --> 01:53:52,465 Undesirable alien... let America manage her errant son. 1644 01:53:52,499 --> 01:53:55,769 Settle this matter, Dr. Murray. Go back to your work. 1645 01:53:55,802 --> 01:54:00,400 The nation has need of you, and allow me to get back to mine. 1646 01:54:00,730 --> 01:54:02,776 Thank you, sir. 1647 01:54:02,809 --> 01:54:04,611 Congratulations, doctor. Thank you, thank you. 1648 01:54:23,196 --> 01:54:26,366 [ SOFT MUSIC CONTINUES ] 1649 01:54:36,509 --> 01:54:38,978 May I introduce you to Freddie Furnivall. 1650 01:54:39,120 --> 01:54:42,315 It is an honor, doctor. That is impossible. 1651 01:54:42,382 --> 01:54:43,783 [MUNCIE] They're ready, sir. 1652 01:54:54,461 --> 01:54:56,329 Ah, wait a moment, please. 1653 01:54:56,396 --> 01:54:57,897 [PHOTOGRAPHER] Yes, sir. 1654 01:54:57,964 --> 01:55:03,436 I'll be right here, William, right over there. All right? 1655 01:55:08,675 --> 01:55:10,410 [PHOTOGRAPHER] That's good, and if you can hold on three... 1656 01:55:10,410 --> 01:55:14,140 one, two, three. 1657 01:55:14,470 --> 01:55:15,348 [ FLASH BULB POPPING ] 1658 01:55:22,722 --> 01:55:26,326 This is ours. Something to read on the ship. 1659 01:55:29,896 --> 01:55:32,699 Does she know? 1660 01:55:32,732 --> 01:55:33,767 She does. 1661 01:55:35,468 --> 01:55:41,641 Tell her I-- you'll tell her then. 1662 01:55:41,708 --> 01:55:44,440 I will. 1663 01:56:05,198 --> 01:56:08,968 Have you seen the latest proof of the front cover? 1664 01:56:09,350 --> 01:56:13,173 You see, the fortunate thing about these awful people... 1665 01:56:13,206 --> 01:56:17,377 is they believe in the divine right of rule of the monarch. 1666 01:56:17,410 --> 01:56:19,212 Their system falls to pieces if they don't abide... 1667 01:56:19,412 --> 01:56:21,981 by its silly intricacies. 1668 01:56:22,480 --> 01:56:24,951 So, we use it against them. 1669 01:56:24,984 --> 01:56:26,786 Your book is safe, James. 1670 01:56:26,820 --> 01:56:29,255 You are safe at its helm for as long as you wish... 1671 01:56:29,322 --> 01:56:34,127 or until you shuffle off this mortal coil. 1672 01:56:36,896 --> 01:56:38,965 Yes. What now? 1673 01:56:38,998 --> 01:56:42,369 Now and forever beyond, my dear Gell... 1674 01:56:42,402 --> 01:56:46,339 Dr. Murray is the dictionary. 1675 01:56:46,373 --> 01:56:48,108 Perhaps you should consider taking a rest. 1676 01:56:48,141 --> 01:56:52,812 I hear the South of France is quite the place... 1677 01:56:52,846 --> 01:56:55,150 for recharging one's spirits. 1678 01:57:06,726 --> 01:57:10,296 [ DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING ] 1679 01:57:28,982 --> 01:57:30,817 [ CHILDREN LAUGHING ] 1680 01:57:47,834 --> 01:57:51,370 [ MUSIC FADES UP ]