Original subtitles

- Catherine Urwin, we are calling upon you

Your daughter Irene

and your son Matthew are here

Catherine Urwin,

we are calling upon you

Catherine, are you there?

Catherine

Whatever you do, do not break the circle

Look at me

Look at me

I'm afraid that whatever presence is in your home,

may well mean you and your family harm

- But you can help us

They say you're an expert in such things

Please

If it's money that's an issue, we have savings

- I will clear the room of his influence

Until then no one must enter

Am I understood?

- Yes

- Thank you

(door closes)

(suspenseful orchestral music)

The spirit has departed

- Thank you

Thank you so much

- [Man] News

The latest on Spanish food

Read the news

The latest edition on Spanish food

You helped me contact my brother

Last month?

- Ah

Yes, yes

Good to see you again

- You said he told you that he was at peace

And that he'd want me to be at peace too

- Mm-hmm

Yeah, he would

- Thank you

See, I didn't understand what that meant at the time

But I understand now what it means to be at peace

- [Man] All right, love

Did you see that?

- You all right, miss?

- [Man] Does she know where she lives?

- [Butcher] Oh, my god

(horn music)

- [Man] Have a care, eh?

- [Man] Oh, someone do something

(woman gasps)

(eerie ambient music)

- [Man] Quick

- [Butcher] Here you go

- Sir Charles

Would you mind telling me why you're here?

- There are whispers

that Chamberlain plans to sink the coalition

An election maybe even as soon as next year

We need a fresh face to lead the campaign

A new leader

Edward Goodwin

- A member of parliament for Finchley by election?

- He's intelligent

Personable

Common touch without actually being common

The kind of man who can capture the hearts

and minds of the public

Three days ago, his wife,

Grace, was found naked

and incoherent in the street

- Why, what happened to her?

- She'd been troubled by something

in your area of expertise, shall we say

- And you've come here to ask me to look into it

- Well, you were building up quite a reputation

for this kind of thing

- Was, past tense

Yes

- Yes

The unpleasantness

I had heard about that

Right outside your own front door

- That trade has stopped, Sir Charles

I'm afraid

you've had a wasted journey

- There are those in the party who feel

that Edward's reputation needs to be protected,

and that the incarceration of his wife

is the only viable solution

- You'd have her committed to an asylum?

- No, I want her to be helped, Mr Price

What she needs is someone with a particular set of skills

What she needs, Mr Price,

is you

- Sir Charles

- A lot of you are concerned about the future

About your jobs

And believe me, we are all feeling the pinch

But I want to reassure you,

The Unemployment Insurance Act

will be there to help the working man

(audience applauding)

Never forget, we are all in this together

Thank you

(audience applauding)

- Mr Price, isn't it?

Vernon Wall, Daily Gazette

Didn't take you for the political sort

Unless the old market's haunted

and you're just waiting your turn

Got them eating out of his hands, don't he?

They're all the same

Promise you the world then step all over you

first chance they get

- Mr Wall

- Mr Price

- Hey, good day

- Mr Price, I presume

- Mr Goodwin

- After you

- [Harry] Thank you

Had any problems been reported

before you moved in?

- I don't know,

the house stood empty for many years

and before that, it had been a workhouse

(suspenseful orchestral music)

If I may inquire, Mr Price,

what exactly is your methodology?

- I admit to being something of a sceptic

about this kind of thing

My, uh, expertise lies in the field

of what they call psychical research

The scientific approach to study the preternatural,

spiritualism, hauntings, apparitions

- So in essence, you hunt ghosts?

- You have your doubts and that's quite understandable

- It was a week or so after we had moved in

I'd wake up, struggling for breath

Like the air had been taken from me

And then, the noises started

Scrapes and scratching

- [Woman] Grace

- Sudden crashes and bangs

Sometimes I could hear someone calling my name,

even though I knew the house to be empty

It feels as though there is someone else here,

watching me

I see things in the shadows

You must think me very foolish

- Not at all

There are times when I look at such shadows twice myself

Just to make sure

Thank you

So on the day of the incident

When you were found in the street

What happened before then?

- I, uh,

I had been bathing,

and there were the noises

And I was outside

It was like there was something

forcing me away from the house

Then there were these people where I had fallen

I don't know how I got there

- It's a, uh, Border Fancy Canary, a songbird

I bought it for Grace

They're quite the fashion nowadays

- Mrs Goodwin?

Is there something the matter?

- No

It's just,

well, they don't want to sing alone

They only ever sing if there's someone else

in the room with them

- Is there anybody else in the house?

Who's there?

- So, you have spoken to my wife

You have heard our bird sing

What happens now?

- Well, I'll look into the history of the house

It's structure, the land

Then tomorrow evening, I'll set up my equipment

- Equipment?

- It's audio and visual recording, alongside devices

to measure any atmospheric or magnetic disturbances

- Do you really believe you can find out

what is ailing my wife?

- I believe I can rule out certain possibilities

There was a hotel room in Manchester

who's proprietor believed to be haunted,

'cause guests were complaining of strange noises,

terrifying visions, physical revulsions

A faulty gas pipe was leaking toxic fumes

There is a logical explanation at the heart of these things

- Hmm

Though it seems to me your reputation was gained

by usually claiming the opposite

Tomorrow then

I'm afraid I must retire now

to prepare for a small gathering

Even with the country in disarray,

party politics requires

an endless parade of glad-handing

Uh, our housemaid Sarah will show you out

- [Harry] How long have you worked here?

- One month now

They needed a housemaid and I needed a job

- And they moved in two months ago

So who was taking care of them before that?

- Nobody

I imagine that's why they needed a housemaid

- And have you experienced anything strange

in your time here?

How about with Mrs Goodwin's behaviour?

- She's been very good to me

They both have

Sir

♪ Girls and boys come out to play ♪

♪ The moon does shine as bright as day ♪

- When I was little my mother always

used to sing me that one before bed

- Does she still stay in Hastings?

- Sometimes I wish we'd never moved here

But I suppose we had to

It will be better

It will be

- [Sarah] You should see where I live

- I imagine it's not that different

from where I used to stay

("Endless")

- Well as far as I'm concerned

it's an unwelcome compromise

A half-way house to home rule which will satisfy

neither the Unionists nor the Nationalists

Darling

Are you quite sure you should be up?

- I feel much better now

Really

(chuckles)

- Mrs Goodwin, good evening

- [Sarah] Mom?

- [Joan] Kettle's on, Sarah

- Where's the money?

- Everyone says they're wonderful

- Please tell me you've not spent it all

- [Joan] The tickets were selling out, Sarah

They were selling out

Bought one for you as well

- There are bills to pay

- Monsieur and Madame Lutrec

They're from France

(all chattering) (light piano music)

- [Charles] She seems brighter

- [Edward] Hm

Perhaps the presence of Mr Price did the trick

- A lot of eyes are on you now, Edward

A lot of expectations

A lot of time and money has been spent

pushing you up the ladder

Make us proud

Help me

(glass shatters)

(gong clangs)

- Run, run

As fast as you can

You only have until the gong sounds again to hide

And then I'm coming, ready or not

- [Man] Come on, girls

Hurry up

- Excuse me, Sir Charles

- See the hinges are a little loose

Which may explain how it opened so easily on its own

- [Edward] Have you been drinking, Mr Price?

- Well, it's after five

Have you consulted a physician?

- No

I have the greatest respect for the medical profession

But, uh, I know how this story ends

A spell of rest in a sanatorium for Grace and

those places aren't for healing, they're for containment

Out of sight, out of mind

I won't let that happen to my wife

Whatever troubles her

I believe it comes from outside, not within

That's impossible

The cords have been cut, long before we moved in here

- Mr Goodwin, perhaps it would be better

if I stayed the night

In case of any further disturbance

- You're very dedicated, Mr Price

Just so that we understand each other

You do know why you're here

To find out what is causing my wife these terrors

and ensure she can remain by my side

Whatever other interests you have in the case

- I don't have other interests

- I am a politician, Mr Price

I am familiar with the concept of self-promotion

- Are you also familiar with the concept

of helping people?

- Yes

We wear masks, Mr Price, in our daily lives, our jobs

Presenting an image of ourselves

while the truth is hidden somewhere below

But Grace is pure

Please remember that

- Cora?

(woman sobbing)

Corabelle?

Corabelle?

- [Sarah] Mr Price?

- What's happened?

Sorry

Sorry, I must insist,

you do not remove the writing until I've had a chance

to photograph them

- Absolutely not

What if Grace were to see them,

how do you think it would affect her?

- Do you recognise the handwriting?

- Sarah, would you leave us for a moment, please?

Are you suggesting my wife is responsible for this?

- No

I am saying that it's not unusual

that people do act up,

whether through depression or seeking attention

- [Edward] I might as easily ask

if you recognise this handwriting

- Nevertheless,

I would like to speak to her

- She has been disturbed enough

Please remember that my wife is the victim in this

and act accordingly

(bird chirping)

(footsteps thudding)

- Mrs Goodwin?

- Do you think it sings because it's happy?

Or because it's scared?

- I don't, I don't know anything about birds, I'm afraid

- Its little heart beats so fast

I believe it's afraid

(bird chirping)

- Are you sure you should be up and about?

The master said you were to have your rest

- He's scared I'll see the words on the floor

I heard them talking

Voices carry in this house

(canary chirping)

- Ma'am, I know it's the wrong time to ask

and it's Mr Goodwin's decision, but it would mean a lot

if you could have a word with him

It's my mother

She had an accident yesterday

And I was hoping for an advance in my wages

- Oh, that's awful

Is she all right?

What happened?

(sighs)

- I'm sorry

There was no accident

We're just struggling for money and

- You thought you'd play on my sympathies

- Yes

- Well, I can ask Edward

But he'll say no

- [Sarah] I can't take this

- You already have

- Very light on your feet

- Mr Goodwin said I was to check if you need anything

- And you seem at pains to point out that

you've been instructed to help and it wasn't your choice

But I'm fine

Thank you

The fruit is attracting vermin

It needs to be cleaned out and, uh, traps set

- [Sarah] I thought I saw someone

Outside

- Uh, there's no footprints,

but there is some compaction in the soil here, see?

- [Edward] What did he look like?

- It was very quick

- [Edward] Then concentrate,

for god's sake

- Uh, I'm sorry

I think maybe, maybe I was mistaken, sir

- All things considered, I think it would be best

if I stayed at home with Grace today

- Then may I borrow your driver?

I have some research to do in town

- I, I have no regular driver

The party provides me with one when needed

Sarah can assist you

- A moment please, while I fetch my bag

- There is a possibility that someone

is deliberately trying to target your family

Can you think of anyone?

Who wishes you any ill will?

- I'm a politician, Mr Price

- You should speak to the police

- Who will then leak it to the press

No

What if something else is going on here?

Something you can't explain

- I don't believe in ghosts, Mr Goodwin

- Neither do I

But have you ever considered the possibility

that we both might be wrong,

and something evil is in the house?

- I don't know what's happening to me

I'm, I'm seeing things and hearing things

Maybe they're right

Maybe I do need a doctor

Maybe I should be locked away

- No

No

This will pass, I promise

- I don't know if you're aware,

but the Goodwin's house, St Jude's,

was previously a workhouse

So I'm looking at the original plans

of the building to see if it was constructed over

any sewers or pipes perhaps

- How does one become an expert

in matters like this, Mr Price?

- Um, study and practical experience

There, there is a solid, a scientific grounding

in psychical research as well

- Sorry

I think maybe you misunderstood me

I meant, how does one come to a place in life

when you try and convince others you're an expert?

- What exactly is the nature of your problem

with me, Miss Grey?

- Maybe I know your type

- You think I'm a fraud

- I think you see profit

to be made from other's misfortune

And,

my apologies, Mr Price

Please forgive me for speaking out of turn

- [Harry] I'm not your employer

and there's nothing to forgive

I'm genuinely interested in what you have to say

- And I would probably lose my job

if I told you what I genuinely thought

- Is this personal for you?

- You go with my mother

to the Woolwich Hippodrome tonight

You see that pathetic and desperate crowd,

throwing away money they can ill afford,

and then, come back and ask me if it's personal

If you really want to help Mrs Goodwin,

please, just leave her be

- Edward fears what will happen

if he seeks medical help for her

His party are only interested in protecting his image

So whether you like it or not, Miss Grey,

I may be the only chance of honest help that she has

- Then I hope you're as good as you think you are

Records for St Jude's run up to 1890

But the workhouse closed in 1902

That's 12 years of files that just happened to be missing

It does say that most of the staff transferred

to the Brockwell Institute

Maybe you could check with them

(sighs)

- What did or didn't happen in the house 20 years ago

has absolutely no bearing on Mrs Goodwin's situation today

I am looking at the actual physical structure of the house

But thank you very much for the suggestion

(brakes creak)

Thank you

I'll need you to wait in the car

Although, your driving skills

have been very much appreciated

- Thank you

It's amazing what us women can do

when we put our tiny minds to work

(hand brake rattles)

(door opens) (shop bell jingles)

(eerie ambient music)

- It was an important vote

You should have been there, Edward

- It's just one day

- Although, sometimes just one day

is all the opposition needs to bring you down

One day, one vote

One errant wife

- [Edward] You sent Mr Price to help

- I sent Mr Price as insurance in case we needed

what our American cousins call a patsy

Someone to take the blame for all this unpleasantness

- Sir Charles

I thought I heard your voice

Edward gave our housemaid the rest of the day off

Trying to win votes even at home

(chuckles)

- How are you feeling, my dear?

- Well, I'm not used to a house like this

To high society

I have a lot to learn

I understand that

There shall be no more foolishness

(suspenseful orchestral music)

(door opens) (shop bell jingles)

(man chanting in foreign language)

(neck cracks) (woman gasps)

- They have been trying for a baby for years now

Apparently, I'm their last resort

- [Harry] Yeah, quite the last resort you are

(Albert chuckles)

- Albert Ogoro, at your service

- What kind of service is that?

One where you rip the head off a defenceless animal?

(chuckles)

- Now, did I do that?

Or was that just what your eyes led you to believe?

A chicken happily tucks her head under her wing

I palm the decoy, reveal it to the audience, as it were

- The fake blood, mumbo jumbo

- So you're deceiving them?

You're taking their money while lying to their faces

That's so much better then

- I prefer to see it as giving them hope

And if I have to play

the not so noble savage to do so,

well, so be it

- The lady does have a point, Albert

- Harry, it was you who taught me that trick

(chuckles)

- I'm here to see if you can test these fragments for me,

for copper arsenate pigments

Those ones there and then

- And the granules?

- Yeah, well, that's yet unknown

But I'm hoping you can change that for me

- Right

Well, it might take a day or two

I can't promise you anything, all right?

- Perhaps you could tear the head off a chicken

See if that helps

(Albert laughs)

- Harry, I like her

I like you

You can come back any time

- I'll be waiting in the car, Mr Price

No

- Hmm? - No, she's um,

she's a housemaid up at, you know,

old St Jude's workhouse

There's a wife of a Liberal MP there

who's seeing and hearing things

Just as well,

they've called in the reputable Mr Price then, eh?

- The thing though, Albert

If I'm unable to see what's behind it, then,

they're planning to send her into an asylum, you know

- I see

Well, then we'll have to make sure that doesn't happen

Right?

(footsteps thudding)

- I can't tell you how much that meant

Seeing you up and about talking to Sir Charles like that,

the sunlight in your hair

- It was an act

It wasn't really me

I wasn't there

- It was

It was you

The old you

(sighs)

They want me to challenge

for the leadership of the Liberal party

And then, if an election is called

- Maybe it's best if you just let me go, Eddie

- No

- What if I can't be the wife you want

The wife you need?

- Listen to me

At sickness or health

Better or worse

We will get through this, Grace

This is our fresh start

- Or maybe we just deserve everything we get

(ominous music)

No

- Very kind of you to escort me home, Mr Wall

- The higher-ups in Edward's party are getting very nervous

about this situation at the house

But be careful

- Oh, you're concerned for me

- Way I see it,

we can help each other

Back when St Jude's was still a workhouse,

something happened to the porter there

Ah

It's a trade

(chuckles)

You tell me what you've been doing up at the house

and I'll think about sharing my research with you

Edward might be leader of the country one day

It's in the public's interest to know about these things

- Be very careful using the phrase public interest, Vernon,

especially, considering your past

What was all that up at the house the other day?

Hmm?

Creeping around, looking through the windows?

- I'm a journalist not some creeper

Yeah, like you're making

such a great difference there, Harry

(ominous orchestral music)

- We are all haunted in some way, yes?

But there is no need to be scared

He is watching over you

He says there is something he left behind

Something you like to look at, yes?

That reminds you of him

And he says something about a hobby

Something, something he liked to do

- He sometimes liked to play the accordion

- Ah

That is what was confusing me

Because he is not speaking, he is,

maybe singing?

- Yeah?

Yeah, he really liked to sing

- And there was a song he sang for you,

more than others

- "Where The River Shannon Flows"

- He is singing it for you now

He loves and misses you very much

(indistinct whispering) (woman sobbing)

(audience applauding)

There is another voice coming through

Can you hear a name, Madame Lutrec?

- William, it's William

- [Woman] Alfred

- I can hear a man

He's looking for someone

His name starts with a G

Uh, perhaps it's, uh

- [Harry] It's an H, but you were close

(all chattering)

Very close

- [Man] Sir

- I'm part of the show

- [Man] Excuse me, sir

- And the H

- [Man] Sir

- Is standing for Harry

- [Monsieur Lutrec] Please, monsieur,

if you could stay in the audience

(all chattering)

- Oh, sorry

Excuse me

Ah

Wait

Wait

I can hear you

Yes, I have somebody with me

And his name is James

Does anybody know a James?

He says he's looking for his mother, is that you?

He says he's not been gone too long

Maybe two, three years

- Three, three years

Yes

- Three years

He says, says he's sorry for,

for never coming home

Does that sound right?

Yeah?

And he says he thanks you for your prayers

And that, he knows things have been difficult

Uh, what was he, speak up

He says he's saying something about,

money, is that right?

You've been struggling?

Yeah?

Well then, I am sorry

I really am

Because the money that you spent coming here tonight

it was a waste

For each and every one of you

What I'm doing right now,

what they've been doing all night,

Is nothing more than a trick

I started with the name James

as it's the most popular in the country

So statistically, I was fairly certain

that somebody in this audience would have a friend

or a relative by that name

Statistics again told me

that many of you, sadly, lost family in the war

The cross around this women's neck tells me

she's religious, most likely prays,

and who could blame her for praying for a loved one

I am trying to show you that by playing the percentages,

making sweeping open-ended statements,

that they are charlatans, preying on credulity,

making a fat living from the bereaved

(women clamouring)

It's a con

They don't want to help you

- Monsieur, what is the meaning of this?

- No chance of an encore, then?

(speaking foreign language)

- See, in my business, you learn how to read people

The little signs and tells they have

(crowd applauds)

You're angry

You're trying to hide it but

you've lost someone, ain't ya?

It's not me you're angry at

It's something you did

Or didn't do

I'm getting warm, ain't I?

Someone close

A brother?

A sister?

Or wife?

Is that it?

Was there a lucky lady somewhere?

(grunts) (Monsieur Lutrec groans)

(panting)

- It's not broken

- It feels broken

- No, it feels bruised, which it is, badly

(ice clinking)

- Excuse me

That ice is essential for the whiskey

- It's also essential for reducing swelling

Next few days you should place a washcloth

soaked in warm water over the area,

several times a day, to help with the healing

- How come you know all this?

- I drove an ambulance, during the war

- I didn't know that

- Why would you?

- You miss it?

- Now, Mr Price

Us gentlewomen aren't allowed the luxury

of missing such things

We are to do as we're told, accept our position in life

And keep our pretty little mouths shut

- Yeah, I can't imagine you doing that

- [Sarah] And I couldn't have imagined you

throwing a punch at someone, but here we are

- Yeah, well, that's what you get for listening to you

and trying to help people

Turned out tremendously well

You sure your mother's all right getting home on her own?

- Oh, I'm sure

She wasn't best pleased when she found out

I knew the man that ruined the show for everybody

You're the one that should worry

Living in this gloomy old house, all alone

- Yeah, well, that's the thing you see

'Cause sometimes late at night,

in the dark, I wonder if I really am alone

- What happened to your wife?

- I lost her

(knocking on door)

That'll be Albert

Night has fallen

It is time

to go to work

Folding Brownie Camera

Automatic focusing lock

And I've added a modification of my own

A mercury thermometer

Should the temperature in the room fall

below a certain threshold,

it causes the magnesium and potassium below

to connect, setting off the camera

Weights in the leg and a finely tuned spirit level

will mean that any movement

will cause a similar reaction

Sound recording, courtesy of the Volta Graphophone Company

There's one here and there is one downstairs,

and we have a galvanometer, alongside a thermograph

Essentially, I'm just looking to see

if there are any changes in the environments,

in temperature, magnetic field,

electrical disturbance

- It wasn't a look of scepticism, Mr Price

I'm impressed

Didn't expect you to have such devices

I've always been fascinated by science

My father was a chemist

Studied it myself for a while, though

I could never match up to him

My path lay elsewhere

But surely, a true scientific survey

requires controlled conditions

- Indeed

Which is why my associate Mr Ogoro,

is currently ensuring that all of the windows

and doors in the house are locked

After which, he will dust the floor with some powder

So that anybody passing through will leave a trail

I must ask you and your wife

to stay in your quarters until the morning

That way the house will be sealed off and untouched

My associate and I will remain in the drawing room

- And do you really think there will be another

disturbance tonight?

- Well, I think that

whatever is happening, it seems to be escalating

(electricity buzzing)

So we need to be ready for whatever the night will bring

(whirring)

(suspenseful music)

You know it's really not necessary for you to be here

- I'm aware of that

But I want to make sure Mrs Goodwin gets

the best help possible

- She's keeping an eye on you, Harry

- I'm not sure that's wise

- Did you want to play or did you want to teach?

Oh

I'm not sure that's wise

Don't feel bad

I grew up watching my parents play

after dinner, every night

My mother says she always used to let my father win

"The king of my heart"

She can be so horrifically sentimental

- Your father was in the war?

What regiment?

- 10th Battalion, East Yorkshire

They made it to Beaumont Hamel,

and I think part of my mother stayed there with him

It's like she's waiting for some final word,

some sign, some way to say goodbye

Either way, Mr Price

Checkmate is checkmate

(thudding)

(flash clicks)

- Cameras have been triggered

(ominous music)

(thudding)

(screaming)

(screw screeching)

- [Harry] Does she have any history of sleepwalking?

- No

I've heard, on upon being woken,

such people react with shock, but

- I can help you find a very sympathetic doctor

One who won't judge

- She's not ill

(piano playing off-key)

Look after my wife, please

- [Harry] Wait

- Mr Price,

you said you were conducting a scientific survey

So I presume you have a scientific explanation

for what is going on in my house

- I need to check my equipment and collect the evidence

- You are stalling, Mr Price

- That's a very interesting turn of phrase

Seeing as though I need to speak to your wife properly

- You really think that she's in a fit condition

to discuss such matters tonight?

- Well, tomorrow then

- Very well

(piano twangs)

- This must be yours then

- Look, Harry

(suspenseful music)

(flash clicks)

I was trying to help you

- Yeah, what, by planting the device in the piano

without telling me, thanks very much

- What happens if you can't find a logical explanation

for all that Grace has been experiencing?

Harry

- Then she will more than likely end up in an asylum

But I cannot let that happen, Albert

- I know that

Harry, I know that more than anyone

But you're running out of time

- Arsenic pigmentation in the wallpaper

leading to thallium poisoning

Um, hallucinations perhaps

- No

Both the paint and the wallpaper samples came up clean

And whilst I haven't finished

testing everything, it does not look good

- What, so you want me just to lie to them?

Hmm?

Manufacture some haunting?

- Yes

Look, give them their ghost and save the girl

- That would be lying

And she'd still be suffering

- But I'm worried for you

- Thank you

Don't worry about me

Worry about her

You see that too, don't you?

- [Albert] Looks like she's holding someone's hand

- The question is, is whose hand?

Who does she think is there with her?

- Miss Grey?

Sarah?

Freddie Wallace

Ah

Typical

Old Harry forgot to mention me, right?

- I suppose he must have

- I'm his assistant

I've been away for a few weeks

Blackpool, bit of a dead but them's the breaks

Harry mentioned you could bring me up to speed

with this whole Edward Goodwin thing

- And why doesn't he do it himself?

- 'Cause he's the great Harry Price, isn't he?

- It feels stupid to admit it now

But when that siren was going, my foot down on the pedal

- Felt like you were part of something bigger

That what you did mattered

Believe me, I'll get it

I never thought I'd end up running around

after someone like Harry

What do you make of all this paranormal stuff anyway?

You really think he can help Mr Goodwin's wife?

- I think he believes in what he's doing

'Least I hope he does

- That's your polite way of saying

he's making it up as he goes along

(chuckles)

Did he ever talk to you about that thing

that happened with that soldier fella?

You know

- Sorry, Freddie

What was it you were doing in Bournemouth again?

- Oh, Harry had me checking out some rumour

Things going bump in the night

Waste of my time, you know

- Well, I know you said it was Blackpool earlier,

not Bournemouth

- It's all the same, isn't it?

- Who are you really?

- It's nothing personal

Just doing my job

- Hey

Wait

(metronome ticking)

- [Harry] Try to concentrate on the sound of the metronome

Before you moved to this house

did you ever hear any strange noises or voices?

- Mm-mm

(metronome ticking)

- You moved to a new city

No friends

Or family

A husband busy at work

Perhaps some part of you

(metronome ticking)

is seeking attention

- No

I want to be forgotten

- Last night, you got up out of your bed

and you walked through the house in the dark

Do you remember where you were going?

- I don't know

I don't remember

- In some of the photographs

it almost looks as if you're holding someone's hand

Did you think someone was there with you?

- He wants me to leave

- Who wants you to leave?

- It's a child

A little boy

He won't leave me alone

- You need to understand, he is not real

He is a figment of your imagination

(suspenseful music)

When was the last time you saw him?

Mrs Goodwin?

- He's, he's standing right behind you

(eerie music)

(bell tolling) (Grace gasps)

(metronome ticking)

- None of this is your fault

- You have no idea

- Mr Price

- I have just received a preview of tomorrow's headlines

"Liberal MP and the haunted house

"In associating so closely with a man

"such as psychical researcher, Harry Price,

"the honourable gentleman's judgement

"both at home and in parliament

'surely must be called into question

"Even his own housemaid was of the opinion

"that Mr Price is nothing more

"than an opportunistic charlatan"

This man is the future leader of our party

And you have made a mockery of him

- Sir Charles

- I can't keep everything

out of the press

Edward's career almost collapsed once before

and I worked damned hard to keep it back on track

- Please,

you knew exactly what I was when you hired me

Somebody to blame if it all went wrong

- I wanted you to help my wife

Mr Price, I think it would just be best

if you leave this house and don't come back

- If you truly want to help your wife,

then you need to seek genuine medical help for her

All right?

- [Edward] Mr Price, leave

Leave

- [Grace] There, there

Shh

(Sarah sobs)

- Sarah?

(door creaks)

(all chattering)

- Same again, Sally

- She lost her job, you know

Now I don't care what you write about me

But she didn't deserve that

- I was only following a story

Politicians, ghosts

Frantic females and fraudsters

It's just a shame I couldn't tie in

that soldier who blew his brains out on your doorstep

- Yeah, but his family have been

through enough, haven't they?

Without reliving it yet again through your lurid headlines

- I'm not a monster, Harry

I have standards

- Oh, I get it

You're just trying to work your way back up

the ladder, aren't you?

- Don't

- No, no

It cannot be easy for you

You revealed confidential troop locations during the war

You put hundreds of lives at risk

It would be difficult to sink any lower

- Since when do you care

about some housemaid losing her job?

- Miss Grey said to me

that I needed to look further back into the past

Now she might have had a point

During your research, did you find any reason

why Edward Goodwin would move to London?

- He's their golden boy, ain't he?

Polishing and shining him up for the next election

- Well, Sir Charles said that his career

had almost collapsed once before

That he'd had to battle to save it

Now, I've never read that in your paper,

or in any paper in fact

- Sir Charles has got influence, could have hushed it up

- So why don't you go straight to the source

Hastings, in Sussex

His ex-constituency

See if you can find any reason why

Edward Goodwin would need a fresh start

And if you need me, you can find me here

- I'm not your lapdog, Harry

And what makes you think I wanna help you?

- Um, because you know there's a story here

And we both know, as soon as I leave,

you're going to pick up that piece of paper

'Cause you can't help yourself

(door clicking)

- [Joan] We need that money

It's wrong of them

- I'll find something soon

- Adalina Riviera is coming

to the Holborn Empire next month

They say she's a marvel

Doesn't just talk to the spirits,

they knock on the floors and the walls as well

Isn't that something?

She might be the one to help us

(knocking on door)

(door opens)

- I never called you a fraud

Well, I sort of did

But that journalist, he twisted my words

- Well, no it's fine

'Cause I am fraud

Well, no, at least I used to be

- Oh - You know, not,

not in the beginning

In the psychical research,

or all the equipment, that, that was all genuine

I was good at what I did, you know, I really was

You know I would turn the extraordinary into the mundane

Until this one time,

I just decided to give them what they wanted

You know a real-life haunting

And it's, it's terrible, but I enjoyed it

I felt like a,

a conjurer, you know, putting on this fantastical show

- So what's changed?

- Well, it was wrong

And it had consequences

that I will never be able to make up for

Because when people go to a magician,

they expect to be tricked

But when they would come to me asking for help

- Well, there's nobody to help Mrs Goodwin now

- There's us

- I think it was made quite clear we're not welcome

- And you're one to let that stop you, are you?

- Come on then

- Excellent

So, where, where are we going?

- [Sarah] There is one member of workhouse staff still here

The porter

- [Harry] Leonard Thornton

- [Sarah] How do you know his name?

- Well, there was this incident

when the workhouse closed

It was an attempted suicide

Why are we gonna go and disturb his shift?

- No

He's not working

He lives here now

- [Leonard] What I tried to do to myself

wasn't to do with the workhouse closing

It was about what happened before

- So what did happen before?

- Nine o'clock every night

I'd lock the gates

I'd take the keys to the Master

Now, he was a good man

Hard but fair

He knew you had to keep folks in order

You got beautiful hair

Golden

Reminds me of my daughter

- There's no records of those final years

If you can help us at all, please

- See it was winter

Spent the mornings shovelling snow

By the evening, it had fallen again

(dramatic orchestral music)

I was taking the keys back to the Master

There'd been some trouble

A boy

Didn't care for the rules

They were down in the cellar

The Master was,

he was trying to teach him a lesson

That's all

(water splashing) (ominous music)

Deaths weren't uncommon

But a drowning like that,

the board didn't want no scandal

And I stood there

and I watched

He was only a child

And I watched

(Leonard sobs)

I can't,

I can't even remember the boy's name

I can't,

can't remember

(ominous music)

- A child dies in that house

And then, Mrs Goodwin claims the very same thing

is trying to drive her out

- It has to mean something

- Yeah, it means that the mind is easily suggestible

I mean, she's probably heard the story before,

or a variation thereof

- You think she's imagining everything?

- No, not consciously

Now, if I tell you right now

that whatever you do,

do not think about white elephants

What are you thinking about?

- You know far well I'm thinking about elephants

- Yeah, exactly

So there this neurologist

in Vienna who believes that,

so-called ghosts are nothing more

than a manifestation of our fears

and mental afflictions

- So rather than being forced out she wants to leave?

- Did she ever say anything to you

about being unhappy in her marriage?

- Even if she was, what difference would it make?

She's a wife

That practically makes her his property

I think she's lonely

I think she misses her home

- Oh, sorry

Please

Don't touch my equipment

- Is this how the bells rang out on their own?

- Um, when I looked at the ventilation at the house,

the chimneys, the windows, the pipes

And, uh, and, um, built a model in order

to test the hypothesis based

on the storm that evening

So,

see

- An answer for everything

- Well, no

No

Far from it

There's three main questions

Why her?

Why here at this house?

And why now?

- The bangs and crashes

The writing on the floor

The sightings

- And the face at the window

I know you saw something that evening

And, um, despite what you said to Mr Goodwin

I shouldn't have let him treat you like that

- I have a sketch of it in my book

- I'd like to see that very much

Thank you

Um, look

I, uh, I need to just pop out and check

something with Albert

- I could stay here

and finish putting together the time line of events

I understand you're not used to having guests,

but don't worry I won't touch anything,

much

You don't have any pictures of her?

Your wife

I'm sorry

- No - It just seems strange to me

- Well, she was, uh, ill

You know, not, uh, and it was an illness

that the doctor's couldn't easily understand

You know, it wasn't so much of a physical thing

More of a, and, uh, her family intervened,

and she was committed against her will

And, uh, I did everything I could

I could have done more

Could have done more

But I didn't need to

I don't need photographs because I think about her

All the time

White elephants, Miss Grey

- I have spoken with your doctor

All we need now is your signature

We can make this story work for you

How Mr Price tricked you

The pressure and difficulties of working with a sick wife

And how you stood by her

A testament to your dedication

(sighs)

- I can't

- You can

The doctors have already signed the certificate

All it needs is your name

Your wife will be looked after

And you can save your career

- I hereby offer my resignation

- Edward

- Grace means everything to me

I will not lose her

- It's an organic compound, urea

An evaporate of the urine

of certain mammals and amphibians

It's primarily used as a fertiliser

- Right

So how much of that would you need

to take care of a, um, large garden, say?

- I'd say maybe 20 to 30 pounds

- No, this was a small bottle

Do you think it could've belonged to the previous owners?

- Seems relatively new

I mean there was no sign of degradation whatsoever

Where did you find it?

- Uh, in the cellar at St Jude's

- Anything else odd or out of place there?

- Yes, right

Let me see

Okay, so there was

Furniture

(metronome ticking)

Rats

Tall dark

Apples, apples

There was a large tub of rotting apples

Judging by the state of decomposition,

well, maybe a month or two old

- I'd expect that in a farmhouse

But the home of a politician?

- Right

So let's just say then

that it was by design that is wasn't by chance

For what reason would somebody want to keep rotting apples?

That was a genuine question

because right now I got no idea

- Oh, right

Uh, okay

Well, let's see

Uh, rotting apples

Well, fermenting apples makes it easier to isolate

and extract the ester derived from their natural acid

- Right, so we've got ester and urea granules

What could possibly combine the two?

- Oh

Now that is interesting

It would take some skill

Well, a great deal of skill, actually

But I suppose you could fashion

some kind of crude barbiturate from them

(phone rings)

Ogoro Pharmaceuticals

- I need to speak to Mr Price

Please

- [Harry] Yes?

- Harry

I want exclusive rights to this story

You might have been onto something

I just got back from Hastings

- "Don't touch anything, Miss Grey"

(creaking)

(whirring)

- [Grace] Who are you?

So alone

Did you come from under the roses?

- [Boy] Yes

- So alone

Did you come from under the roses?

(birds chirping)

I just want to say goodbye

(sobs)

I'm sorry

I'm sorry

(sobs)

(gasps)

(ominous orchestral music)

(grunts)

- [Vernon] So there I was digging around in Hastings

Managed to track down Ada Donovan,

lovely old dear,

housekeeper for Edward and Grace,

back when they lived there

- [Harry] What?

She was happy to speak to the press, was she?

- Not initially

But I've got charm

So she opens up a bit,

saying she's worried about her nephew, Garnett,

how he's come all the way down to London

to try and see Grace

- Why?

- That I'm not so sure about

- And I thought you had charm

- She seemed scared for him

Like he might be getting into trouble

So naturally, being the concerned citizen that I am,

I said I'd check in on him for her

- You're a wonderful human being

- Said he was staying up at one of these barges

- [Harry] All right, we'll take it from here

Thank you

- Oi

This is my scoop, Harry

- You'll get your story, all right?

- Lot of folk here got reasons for not wanting to be found

Have to respect that

- [Albert] Yeah

Well, with respect we wouldn't

be asking if it wasn't important

- Where you from?

- Bethnal Green

- Excuse me

Excuse me

Can I have a word, please?

Mr Donovan

(suspenseful orchestral music)

- What's going on?

- [Albert] Harry

- [Harry] Stop

- [Garnett] Help

I can't swim

Help me

I can't swim

- [Harry] That's it

- I thought he'd sent ya

'Cause he warned me to stay away from her before

Had some folk make sure that I understood, you know?

- You're sure you didn't promise to Goodwin?

- Nah, not the monkey

The other fella

The organ grinder

- [Vernon] Sir Charles Harwood?

- Why did they warn you to stay away from Grace?

- Mr Donovan,

Grace is in quite considerable trouble

You've been at the house, haven't you?

Looking through windows, trying the doors

- Yeah, I've seen her

Almost got in as well,

and then, that stupid bird started singing

(canary chirping)

I've known Grace for years

She was that kind of girl, you know

You walk into a room everyone looked

She was so lonely that she even got my aunt a job

as their maid

Which is how come I ended up at the house sometimes

Things happened

- And did Edward know?

- He came home early and he found us together

- But why come back now?

Creeping about the house

Why not just leave it be?

Hmm?

- I had to see for myself

- [Harry] See what for yourself?

- Be nearly two months old now

I just wanted to see our baby

(suspenseful music)

(panting)

(floor board creaking)

- [Sarah] Mrs Goodwin?

(footsteps thudding)

- [Edward] Can I help you?

- I'm terribly sorry, Mr Goodwin

I just left some things here

- You thought you'd just waltz in, unannounced

- I didn't want to disturb you or Mrs Goodwin

Not after what happened

How is she?

- Grace is away just now

Visiting her mother

It's for the best

I think it would be better if you left now as well,

don't you?

- Yes, sir

I'm sorry

(floor board creaks)

(inhales)

- You forgot something?

It was in your book

It's a very good likeness

You have talent

Do you know I fight every day

for people like you, Sarah

I say you deserve the vote

Equality

But maybe I am wrong

Maybe you all do just need

to remember your place

I supposed you both laughed about it, didn't you?

Poor little Edward

Blind to what was going on under his very nose,

in his own home, his own bed

- I'm sorry, Mr Goodwin,

but I honestly don't know what you're talking

- You're a liar

You see, you're a liar

Just like her

- Take your hands off me

- Promising to be a good wife

and then opening her legs to another man,

carrying his offspring

She deserved to lose it

It was God's will that we should have a fresh start

- Stop

- And you helped her

You brought him here

Here to my house, didn't you?

Argh

(Sarah groans)

Grace, come down here

(suspenseful music)

Grace?

Grace, let me in

Let me in

(door rattling) (banging on door)

Let me in

Grace

Grace

(door cracks) (Grace gasps)

(ominous music)

(Sarah gasps)

(grunts)

(muffled grunts)

- Sarah?

Sarah?

(panting)

(vocalising)

You started to feed your wife

crude homemade barbiturates

in order to keep her in a state of drugged up compliance

Chemical build up caused her to have breathing problems

Caused her to lose her child

You should have taken her to the doctor

- They'd have known

They would have known what I did to her

- So instead your wife had to suffer

the effects of psychosis

due to sudden withdrawal from the drugs

The sleepwalking, blackouts, manic behaviour

Aural and visual hallucinations

Ghosts as it were

- Why you telling me this?

- Because you asked me to deliver

a scientific appraisal of your situation, Mr Goodwin

And now my work is done

- I've lost everything

I loved her

- You didn't love her

You wanted her

There's a difference

(metal door closes)

(lock clacking)

- Thank you

- This belongs to you

(sombre orchestral music)

- He says thank you for always letting him win

He says that it's time to start living again

It's time to let him go

- Oh

- [Sarah] I thought you were finished with all that

- [Harry] It's one last performance, as it were

How's Grace?

- [Sarah] She's been through a lot

At least, she was able to give her child a proper burial

The things she experienced in that house

- Were a chemical reaction, brought about

by Edward's attempts to control her

Yes

- Of course

A scientific explanation for everything

- Have you got, have you got a new job yet?

- Um, a scullery maid over at Belgrave Square

It's not exciting or glamorous but it's better than nothing

You?

- Yeah, phone started ringing again, and

I think I'd forgotten what a weird

and wonderful world it was out there

You know, and I actually would like to thank you

for reminding me of that

And if you were ever thinking about a change in career

then I could use your help

- I'll think about it

- You'll think about it?

- Yeah

Good day, Mr Price