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Beware of the Becadette.

The parrot out to snatch your body from you.

Peckin' ants are out to kill peckin' ants.

Won't stop until they get rich from picking up all the bodies and dead and

dying. They'll find you. We're behind you. Better keep out of sight.

Bye.

Bye.

If you see I'm coming after you, turn around and take flight.

Back on Earth, beware of a back on Earth. There's better than how

to snatch.

You're only wrong how to snatch.

You're only wrong how to snatch.

what I'm aiming to be doing with you. Now, behave.

Behave? Now, who is it that lives in a brothel, huh?

Now, come on.

Don't tell me you're not be tempted by what all you see, huh?

Where's the men, then?

Here they be. But why I should give them to you to mend when I can get them done

cheaper, I don't know.

Oh, you know, you know.

You know why.

You'll get me the point.

Lord McPhee, how nice to see you here again so soon. Good evening, Madam

Thompson. Tell Miss Gloria Lord McPhee is here.

I'm so glad you came. I wanted to tell you about a little show I'm arranging.

Oh, really?

Yes, a little divertissement, something quite new here. I'm sure some of your

friends at the college would find it vastly entertaining.

The idea is... Madam Thompson, who's that over there with Rosie?

Ah, that's Marie, a French girl.

A new addition to our little family.

She's ravishing.

And very talented.

Mm -hmm.

Introduce me.

This is Lord McPhee, a very special client.

Delighted to meet you.

Won't you join us, Milord?

Thank you. Some champagne, please.

Holly. It's nice to see you.

I

do

not think we've had the pleasure of welcoming you here before, sir. No,

Gray suggested I call. My name is Councillor Gordon.

Robert Gordon. Yes, I remember the alderman spoke to me about you. Will you

me with a glass of wine?

A bottle of the 28th. Yes, ma 'am.

And now, counsellor, how can we serve you?

Boots and shoes!

Boots and shoes!

Relax the bed! Well?

I have one girl who might, but you'd have to ask her yourself.

Janet!

Janet, this is Councillor Gordon. He wants to talk to you.

Only he snuffed it on us two pound rent.

It's an irreverent man you are, Mr. Hare.

You've no respect for the dead.

I've more respect for hard cash.

Anyway, what's bothering you? Would you like him in here with you and your

missus? I can't. We're all getting on in years. And the grim reaper's a little

farther in the corner.

But we didn't like to be so strongly reminded of his presence.

You wish somebody would bloody reap you.

I didn't care what she says. I didn't like it. What's the matter? He can't

you.

What on earth's going on in here, eh?

Oh, Mr. Berger, it's poor old McTavish. They were going to bury him this noon,

but the party didn't come, and there he still is. And I didn't like it. Didn't

like it? He was lying there dead for two days before he even noticed it.

I care, but he was always a quiet old man.

It's seeing a coffin we doesn't like.

Why don't you take him outside yourself?

Where do I put him? In the street?

I'll tell you what I'll do, me old boy.

I'll put him in the shed. I've got to do some cobbling tonight, and then he can

have a nice restful sleep, and so can you, you old boy. Now get up, will you?

Well, come on now. I can't be carrying on it myself, you know. Ah, jeez.

Mr. Hare, you promised me... Say, you lying bastard. I'm holding those against

the two -pan ready on me. I'm ready, Donald. Oh,

that's a very fitting tune you're playing there. Very fitting tune.

Will you stop pushing me?

Yeah, we'll put them on the floor here, shall we? Right.

Are you all right?

You know something, Tom?

Yes? I think you should have a toast.

Have you got a wet?

I keep it from the thieving women.

Yeah, that's a greenish cabbage, look.

Here we are.

a little respect for the dead man. Will you get your ass off the coffin?

As much as he cares.

It's cold here.

Willem.

What are they coming for him?

God and his blessed mother have pity on him. They'll be planting them tomorrow

morning. You know he owe me two pounds.

Well, I'll tell you something.

Where he's going, you're going to have a hell of a long journey to get it back.

That doesn't mean to say he still doesn't owe me the money.

No.

I'd worry him to die, knowing that he owed me.

That's what I was thinking.

Yeah, Tom, what?

You can get good money for selling a body.

Oh, look, I'm going to have nothing to do with selling a dead body. Up to ten

pounds.

Ten pounds? Yeah, ten pounds. You and I, we can live for three months on that.

Sharing.

Oh, McTavish will be in torment now.

Knowing that he died, oh, I mean.

What you're saying, it would be the Catholic thing to do, like saving his

You're right, and after all, it doesn't adjust rights.

Yes, you're right there, Tom.

How about it, then?

Sort of doing him a service, like in short tempo.

I'll be helping you, Tom.

the undertakers. Now, they'll be expecting old MacTavish here. We can't

suddenly say to them, well, he flew out of a window.

They'll only be expecting a coffin. They'll not look inside it.

No, we'll take him out of the box, fill it with stuff from the yard, and put the

lid back on.

You're right there, Tom. Come on, let's be unboxing him.

Are you thinking of selling the body to a body snatcher? We've got nothing to do

with that scum. We sell them ourselves.

That ain't going to be so easy, is it? I mean, you just can't go up to someone

in the street and say...

Excuse me. Will you be wanting to buy a body? Now, can you?

We take him to Surgeon Square.

Sure, that's the meat market.

All right.

I think it'd be better if you'd be staying in the shadows and

I'll make some inquiries, right?

Right.

Excuse me, sir. I was wondering if you might be able to...

To show me the way to a surgeon, sir.

Why? Have you got something you want cut off?

No, I have some goods to deliver.

Oh, I see.

Aye, well, you best take those to Dr. Knox.

It's the house at the end of the square. Dr. Knox, the house at the end of the

square. Thank you.

This patient of mine was a farm worker.

He had to touch ten miles to come and see me this afternoon each time.

Curiously enough, he suffered from chronic constipation.

I've been treating this man for months.

Xenopods, cascara, enemas, all without the slightest effect.

Then one day, I got hold of some of these newfangled French suppository

hemostatic, you know. So I gave him a box of a dozen, and I said, one each

before you go to bed. Well, it was two or three weeks later when he came to see

me, so I assumed that they'd done the trick.

But I asked him, and I said, did you have any success with these

gave you?

Devil, I bet you didn't.

For all the good they did me, I might just as well have stuck them up my arse.

No, no, but I'm one of his students.

Oh, I see. Well, I'm not far wrong, then. No, no.

Maybe I can suit your purpose as well as Dr. Knox, perhaps.

Well, perhaps you may be able to do that, sir. Aye, well, don't be afraid to

speak up, man. Tell me your business. I've got an idea of what it may be. Have

you got the thing?

The thing? I don't quite understand what you mean by that, sir. I can see you're

not an old hand at this.

You've never been here before, perhaps?

No. And you don't know what to say.

Oh, come along, man. Now, speak up.

Oh, well, come along in, then.

Come on.

The sacred heart of the crucified Jesus. Sure, I'm almost the dead.

Sir, I, uh... I have something, something like that, too.

Aye, well, come along through, then.

Mr. Patterson?

You got anything to sell?

I was wondering how much you'd give me for one.

Sometimes as high as ten pounds.

Would you be giving me a little bit extra for a fresh one, like?

Sometimes more, sometimes less.

But the thing must be seen.

Oh, yes, indeed, sir. It's a very good thing. I can guarantee you that it's

worth the money.

Well, where is it, man?

I mean to say, I don't carry it around with me like... It's in a very safe

place, sir.

Well, then, man, bring it in here and stop all this nonsense.

It'll be examined and you'll get your money.

And since you're a beginner, I think it's best if you bring it in a box.

Oh, yes, sir, isn't it?

Isn't it now in a lovely tea chest? The man fits in there.

Beautiful. And I've got a friend who'll help me. Well, now, be sure to be on

your guard and make sure that no one sees you. Oh, yes, sir, I can.

Come along, then, now. This way. Back in a moment. Come on.

The great barrel chest of a man.

Heart like a steam engine, lungs like a pair of bows.

Slip your trues down, man, I say, so he lets his trues fall round his feet.

And you're under drawers, I say. How can I examine you with your drawers on?

I'd rather not, he says.

I'm very sensitive.

What about, I say? Well, it's my person, he says.

It's very small.

Good heavens, man, I say. That's nothing to worry about. I see dozens of them

every day, big ones, small ones, come to waste my time. So reluctantly he lowers

his drawers.

At first I cannot see a thing.

Then I see it.

A wee mushroom peeping through the heather.

Such a fine, straffing man, too. Well, you never can tell.

Certainly is very small indeed, I say.

Tell me, do you ever get an erection?

With tears in his eyes, he says.

I've got one, the new doctor.

Well, have you done a trace? I think I found a lovely home for old MacTosh.

Come on, Larry.

This way here.

Oh, come on.

Paterson would like to see you in the mortuary, sir.

Excuse me, gentlemen.

business downstairs. It requires my personal attention.

After my desk, sir.

How do you do? How do you do, sir?

Give him £7 .10.

Thank you, sir.

Oh, you said we were going to get £10. £7 .00. It's one of your bit -taking

payments. Thank you, sir.

I'd be glad to see you again if you have any more bodies to dispose of.

Right, sir. Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, Arthur.

Now, it's easy enough. Yeah, we share out now.

All right, right, right.

Hey, Tom, I thought we were going 50 -50 on this. What is that? You owe me two

pound a round.

Oh, right.

Oh, yes, I see, yes. Right.

This windfall away from the women, otherwise we'll have nothing left by the

morning. All right, there. You're right.

Poor old MacDonald.

Bill and the worms getting at him, eh, Tom?

I'm sorry I had to leave you, gentlemen.

I was telling Mr. Murdoch here how difficult it is nowadays to get

Yes, indeed.

No, thank you.

The resurrectionists have little difficulty in getting rid of their

Seems a terrible thing that such state affairs has to exist.

Well, if medical science is to progress...

Subjects must be found for dissection. Forgive my ignorance, but speaking as a

mere businessman, what is the exact legal position?

A recent one. The only lawful source of supply we have comes from the bodies of

executed criminals.

Unclaimed bodies found dead on the street or in the poorhouses.

It would not fulfill 10 % of the demand, and it's not only here in Edinburgh.

It's in all the other schools in Greek cities.

What happens to these resurrectionists or body snatchers if they're caught?

If the locals happen to catch them, it could lead to a lynching.

That's the authorities.

There's nothing we can do. But if the bodies were in a ring, they can be

for stealing.

But the body?

But surely the desecration of graveyards is an offense.

Of course, and they act, yes, but they shall not.

The law does not regard a dead body as an artist. or value.

Therefore, the taking of it is not a crime.

I must say that the laws that do not punish such a disgraceful action are not

the laws of a country entitled to the claims of humanity.

They always put the price on. What?

Very good room.

Aye, McAllister had it. I've borrowed it many a time.

It's got a good way out round the back over the shed.

The one we met this afternoon round at the Claymore.

The red -headed girl.

Oh, no, no, not that one. The athletic one.

Hello, Robert.

I've got no time for that sort of thing. I've got to work tonight. I've got to

pass this exam or I won't get another chance.

Ah, do you worry. You'll learn more from old Knox in a year than in three at the

college. Have you got your notebook?

Notebook.

I'll tell you the things to take down. Things you might ask about later.

Oh, push now. Here he comes.

And don't forget to laugh at his wee jokes.

Good day, dear gentlemen.

Sit down.

First of all, since this is the beginning of a new series of lectures,

some of you are attending for the first time, I think that a few words, in

advance of the practical demonstration may not come amiss.

You will, I'm sure, be aware that surgery has, within the last 50 years,

improved greatly.

Now, the reason for this has largely been that practical demonstration in

anatomical dissection has enabled the future surgeon to learn his profession

properly. Now, this improvement in surgery, gentlemen, let it not excite

vanity.

but let it tend rather to excite your ambition by assiduity and study to

improvements. For there can be no doubt, gentlemen, that some years hence our

successors will be as much astonished at our ignorance as we that of our

predecessors. Today, and it seems to me appropriate that we should commence with

the basis of life, I intend to remove the heart from this subject.

Thank you, Harrison.

Now, the valves of the heart, gentlemen, are four.

The pulmonary, the tricuspid, the mitral, and the aortic.

A number of diseases can detrimentally affect their operation and lead to

Among them, rheumatic fever, diphtheria, and chronic syphilis.

I shall now proceed to the first incision.

Then is the close of the practical demonstration for today.

To conclude with a few words in general, as you have just seen, I demonstrated

that this subject died from an aneurysm of the aorta. Typically, there was a

great enlargement of the left ventricle.

Now, before you all leave, I would request that you file down and make an

examination at your leisure.

So how are you?

Did she keep you up half the night?

The whole night.

You want to watch it, you know. This is five nights in a row.

What is it you keep going anyway?

It's a wee place, I know.

I'll take you sometime.

It's more fun than your athletes.

I heard about his athlete.

Are you new to Edinburgh?

Aye. I'll take you as well. Complete your education.

I told his father I'd look after him.

His father could come too. Coming from an aneurysm of one of the large arteries

of the neck.

So clear it was, gentlemen, that the various tyro could have diagnosed it.

But what did our great maestro do, I ask you?

He pronounced it no more than a mere abscess. And took his cap off.

The patient was dead in a few seconds.

Good evening, gentlemen.

So go down now and take a good look.

And make sure that never in your lives will you mistake an aneurysm for an

abscess.

Or anything else.

Come on now, push ahead.

I'm not going to examine the cadaver. I've done the half.

You stay, though. Make a few sketches.

That always goes down well with the old boy.

Hey, I'm talking to you.

I've got an appointment at six.

Where's the athlete?

That's right. I'll see if she's got a friend for you, if you like.

Oh, no.

No. I've got to work tonight.

That's right, Jimmy. You be a good real laddie. So long now. I'll see you

tomorrow. Good night, Robert.

I reckon it's the typhus he's got.

Sure. Didn't I see my own mother die of it?

It's in hospital, he should be.

I'm telling you, me love. Don't you be calling me love.

It's Steve in your eyes. What are you talking about? I'm talking about where

got the bloody money. Look, my, the blessed Virgin Mary, strike me down by

lightning if I'm telling you a lie. We came across the money.

And what the hell do you want?

It's old Joseph. He's much worse.

We all be thinking he's got the typhus.

I've got a clean horse here. That's a bloody laugh. I don't see you moving.

Well, I'm telling you, none of us here are going to stay with him. Either he

goes or we go.

I don't know what you're talking about.

He's not looking too well, eh? Aye.

I think we'd best go and have a look at him, eh?

No.

Where did he get that money? Now, wait a minute. No, no, Tom.

Tom, I've been having a look at him.

Bless his mother of God. Will you shut up for a minute? Shut up.

Will you shut up?

It's in hospital, he should be.

He's not looking too good.

I'm getting out of here. Come on, yourselves.

Bed at this time of night, eh?

No, no, no. Calm yourselves down. Just rest easy.

Mr. Burke and I will try and make arrangements to get them into hospital.

Yes. All right, look on.

Come on, Willem.

Well, what do you think, Tom?

Indeed, he's not looking too good. He might well have the typhus.

The typhus? The secret heart of the crucified Jesus. Have pity on me. I

reckon he'll live the night through.

I'll not be twitching to me, though.

We can wrap him in a blanket.

Oh, sweet mother of Jesus. Look, we've got to get him out of there, or else

we'll be losing all my lodgers.

We'll take him down to your shed.

He'll be dead by the morning.

And we'll have the body.

Come on, come on.

It's all right.

We're going to take Joseph to hospital.

Get a blanket.

We're taking you to hospital.

Open the door, first of all.

Right there, Tom.

Have you?

You've got a wee trap.

But tell me now, he wouldn't be owing you any money like the last one. Well,

was fully paid up.

You're sure?

There you are, Tom.

To Joseph.

I should... Soon may he die.

his point. Is that it? Oh, no, no, no, no, no. I'm just thinking of, ah, great,

good luck.

Sure, if it goes on like this, we'll make a fortune out of them lodgers.

Well, I don't know about that.

If he don't bloody well die soon, I bleed in the will of the cold, I'm

you.

Hey, Tom.

Tom,

he's recovering.

What? I'm telling you. I'm telling you, he's recovering.

He's dying.

He's got a long way yet before he meets his maker. Look, you've got to take him

to hospital. He's dying, I tell you. And if we take him to hospital, who gets

the body?

Oh, sorry, you'll die before you get to the hospital. I want nothing to do with

this. I want nothing to do with this. He's suffering, I tell you.

Now, I reckon it would be merciful to put him out of his agony. The doctors,

they'd be buying dead bodies, not murdered ones. You can't go around

his throat.

I'm telling you, it's going to look as if he died.

I'm telling you.

seeing as this one is a good deal fresher than the last one. It's £8.

That's the most we pay in the winter.

In the summer, we sometimes go as high as £10.

Bodies deteriorate in the heat.

Think yourself lucky that you've got £10 more because of its freshness.

It's very kind of you, sir. Thank you very much.

Saturday. No lectures tomorrow.

Look, I'll go back to my digs and read.

I don't know anything about the bloody liver or the pancreas. Pancreas.

Pancreas. Anyway, they've asked lots of questions online.

You worry too much, man. I can teach you all you need to know about the liver in

five minutes. Give me another dram, will you? Oh, hi, Bruce.

Can you pay, Mr Campbell?

Can I pay with my credit good?

No more in a slate for you. Oh, for Christ's sake.

Landlord's order. Give my friend a drink.

Aye, right, sir. Right.

Until next week, then. Sure.

Cheers.

Well, what are you doing tonight?

Ah, we're waiting on Angus McPhee.

He's taken us to a new house he's found.

Not Madam Thompson's. Aye, you know it then. Oh, do I know it, man?

If I wasn't so flat broke, I'd come with you.

See you tomorrow.

Look, he's not coming.

Anyway, I went to one of those places and I wasn't really very impressed. I'm

going to study.

Doctor, don't be such a loon.

Anyway, here he is right now.

What kept you? Ah, that old fool of an English doctor kept me back. Give me a

dram, will you?

Right, are you ready?

No, I'm not coming.

Oh, come on, lad. You don't know what you'll be missing.

I can't really afford it.

Don't you worry about that.

Splendid. Now, let's go.

Right, come on.

Bye, madame. Goodbye, sir. May I expect you again next Tuesday, as usual?

Yes. Good.

You can go up to Annie now.

Oh, yes.

Great things are not yet quite arranged for your entertainment, but we'll call

you when we're ready. In the meantime, Janet will look after you. Janet, dear,

see that these young gentlemen have everything they want, don't you? And

they've seen our little exhibition, perhaps, well, who knows?

friends of mine. More students from the college.

Oh, how do you do? Hello there, Rosie. How are you?

Oh, and how do you do?

What's the matter with your friend?

Well, do you ever look so glum, man?

As if we care, it's all of you tell. Oh, come on, ma. It's a must, is it?

Well, cheer up, man. You're not in your mortuary now.

Oh, yes, with too many dead bodies, it's been... It'll be much better off with

Rosie there. Oh, aye.

This is Sergeant Jock McTavish.

I says I'd knew the boobies to pay for this.

But there's nothing to pay for a hero of the Battle of Waterloo.

Take good care of the sergeant, won't you, my dear?

Can't you understand it?

What's the matter, fool?

Well, my campaign's in bed.

Well, you'd better take your clothes off.

We're just starting.

During the exhibition, I would ask you to be as quiet as possible.

I hope you find our little entertainment amusing and instructive.

Nope. You must catch me first.

It does heat, doesn't it?

Oh,

she's such a beautiful girl.

Do you fancy her then?

Hmm.

Hmm.

Run away. Go on.

Away with you.

Come on, Mr. Patterson. Yes, a penny, sir.

No, no.

Come on, quick to the bar. There's a good two penny with you.

See that lad's foot?

See your foot, lad?

Ah, then I'll be scared.

How lad hurt you? Have a doctor?

I can't find you, I suppose.

Come, put your foot above my step.

New oysters, new oysters, new oysters, new... Just as I thought. A clear case

telephys virus.

I'd get curious, that lad, if you came to my surgery.

No fear.

You'll only get to stick your knife into me.

There's nothing to be afraid of.

It's a wee bit of surgery.

You'd hardly feel it.

The facts are the same, doctor, but as least be as an arm.

There's your tuppence.

Right, Wendy.

Come, Mr. Prince.

I'll mind your carriage for you.

Why

do

you let them torment you, Dafty? Do it, someone.

Sure you're big enough.

Why do you let them do it?

Uh -uh.

It's the drink you've taken. You should be ashamed of yourself. So early in the

morning, too.

Here, have you had your breakfast?

Ah, it's half -starved, you look. Here, I tell you what, I'll give you a penny,

and you go and get yourself a bannock. And don't you stand any more from those

bairns. You're a great big man.

Give him a swipe or two.

There you are.

And do you mind that it's something to eat that you buy?

I told you where we got the money.

We spent it and there's nothing left.

Now, where's the bloody salt?

You're a couple of mean thugs. You didn't even bring this back a week ago.

did bring it back, but the bottle broke. I don't believe it. You're a thug.

There's more money, isn't there? Oh, you're a bloody liar, William Burke. In

that case, why don't you go to the borough?

I mean, all we did was just sell him.

How much did you get?

Sorry, Pat.

You're lying, bastard. You got more than that.

What class of a person would you take us for? I would do a thing like that.

Anyway, we got eight pounds for him.

Eight pounds?

What the bloody hell did you keep it a secret for? A pretty fortune.

Well, you see, we was going to keep it as a sort of a surprise for you. Oh,

you're that good to me.

So you see, we did all right, didn't we?

There'll be others. All we've got to do is wait for them. That's all. You're

right. No need to wait.

The city's full of bodies.

Ah, yes, but they're still kicking, aren't they? A lot of them will be

off dead.

Not just so. We're body -snatching now. There's too much competition in that.

Not if you use your heads.

What's on your mind, Mrs.? Don't wait for them to come here and die.

We go and get them.

How are you going to get them to come back here with you?

Oh, there's plenty. It's for you to hell itself with a chance of a free drum.

And when you've got them back here, what are you going to do with them? Sit and

wait for them to die?

No bad idea.

Oh, God.

That's a terrible risk to be taken.

Oh, is it, though?

Who's going to mess up your old trunk?

And there's plenty of them. No risk at all, really, if you pick them right.

She's right.

You've got to choose carefully.

Derelict. Homeless. Who twig? Ah, such a God. They've got no time for the

homeless. The workhouses are full.

They need corpses desperate for a study in the like.

And them doctors, they ain't going to ask no questions. You mean that we'd be

doing them a service? Is that what you mean?

Yeah.

Why, yeah.

It's not going to be that easy.

They're not just going to come in here and lie there and die.

Oh, by the time they've had a couple of old Johnny's best, they'll be laying

down all right.

Think of the money.

Well, we... We've got to think of a way to do it. A

way that doesn't show.

Smother them with, fella.

But when they start kicking and squirming, it's not so easy.

Well, we pick them as can kick and squirm. Old feeble bodies.

Even the old can kick and squirm. Oh, God almighty.

A couple of frightened old women.

If you two apes can't do an old charm, Helen and I will, eh? Shut your car,

woman.

It's home.

You could throttle them.

A lot of day bruises.

Helen.

Come on now, that shouldn't be too difficult for you, will it?

The girl... The girl last night in the... In the peep shoe.

You mean Marie.

Just a moment.

Actually, she's free now.

Would that suit you?

Why? Then I'll take you up.

There's a handsome young doctor to see you, Marie. Yeah, especially for you.

There's nothing he doesn't know about anatomy.

Nothing at all.

Well, you're much too young to be a doctor.

I'm a student, miss.

What's your name?

James Abusnort.

Hmm, Jamie.

Well, Jamie will have your coat off first.

Oh, come on.

What's the matter?

Why did you choose me?

I saw you in the peep show with a soldier.

Oh, the peep show.

Do you want to chase me then? You can, you know. There's no peep holes here.

no.

Well, what do you want to do?

Is it your first time?

That's nothing to be ashamed of.

I should be very flattered.

Can't we talk first?

What about for God's sake?

You're such a beautiful girl.

Do what?

Well, this.

Can't you find something better to do?

Well, I'm happy here.

Listen, you've got your job, I've got mine.

Do you want to make love to me or not?

Have you never thought... Have you never thought that you're missing something?

Like what?

Love.

Romance.

Marriage.

Oh, that.

Who would want to marry me?

I would.

You know, I think you mean it.

Now, don't let's get silly.

Gentlemen like you don't marry girls like me.

I like being with you. You're very sweet.

But don't think you're falling in love with me.

C 'est ridicule, mon Dieu.

You're a very sweet boy.

I like you very much.

I've never seen her before.

That'll cost me all of four shillings.

Right, to the lock -up with her.

Ah, let me back.

Ow!

Ah, just one little... Shit!

Oh, hi, Andrew.

Hello, William.

Andrew, well... What are you doing with her? What's it to do with you? Well, I

know her, you know. She works down at the fish market. She's a lovely lass, a

little fond of the dram, you know. Ah, well, she's away at the lock -up.

What on earth? The stupid bitch smashed McTaggart's window. Is that all? And

you're taking her away to the lock -up. Now, look.

I mean, I know her family. They would be terribly disgraced if you took her away

to a lock -up. I'm sure they'd be willing to pay for you for the price of

window. Hey. Yes.

Hey, well, the lock -up is a wee bit full at the moment.

We don't want to take her in, you see.

How much did McTaggart say that new window would cost?

Nine shillings. Nine shillings.

Well, I'm sure the family would be only two. Shall we say, Andrew, ten children?

The old bag's not worth the price of a new window. She might not be worth the

price of a window to you, Andrew.

But to those that love her, she's worth a great deal more.

You count your lucky stars. There's still a few questions left in the world.

Come on.

Andrew, you've done the right thing here.

Would you like a wee drown, darling?

All right, Tom.

All right. Go on.

Get out. We'll take it out from here.

Go on, will you? Get out!

All right. Let's get out of there.

You get a hold of the legs when you go.

We'll pull it out from it.

Wait. Now, let me take my jacket off for this.

She's gone.

Get a hold of her.

Come on.

I'm stuck here. Come on.

Yeah, yeah.

You're all right, my love.

You're all right.

Yeah, my, my.

My, just, just give me a minute.

No one seems to notice bodies disappearing a day.

They dress up in a fashion, sending the cash in new ways.

Losing body.

Hey, girl.

Oh, the day. Give him, Matthew. You got any money on you?

All right.

Here you go, Jimmy.

Thanks, Joe.

Come on.

Hey, Jimmy. Come, give him my bag.

Oh, you... You bloody rat.

Get off me. Look, man, I'm trying to give you a hand after all.

Here, this is this need I've done.

Will you help me carry your basket for me? For Tom?

I'll do fine.

Which way? That way.

It's no waste.

He's awful ready.

Didn't make you there.

Did you, Alan?

I'm telling you something, Tom.

That boy, he's like a pet in the market. The market? The thousands pass through

it every day. I'm telling you.

I am telling you. I'm going to have nothing to do with it.

You're a bit fancy these days, are you?

Maybe you're scared of a young lad with a crippled foot. Scared of no man or

anything that's dead, neither.

But I'm going to have nothing to do with something that is as daft as the boy

himself.

No bother at all.

A wee skinny lad like that.

Right.

We'll not be needing you then.

You're mad to be letting them do it by themselves.

What will be in it for us?

We're getting some peace.

Oh, it is not right.

Holy mother of God, it is not right.

You bloody fool.

Willie.

Willie, everything's fine.

Oh, God damn the Lord. It's just the devil's in the night. We'll have more

now than we've ever had.

We'll be able to live like kings. Willie, everything's all right.

female cadaver this morning. She died during noviotomy. A very fine carcinoma

examine. A new subject came in last night.

A young lad.

Male? Young, you see?

Makes a change.

What did he die of? I don't know, sir. I haven't unboxed him yet. He's over

there.

It's a young lad we saw in Castle Street.

A lad with a club foot?

That is strange. I wonder what happened.

We'll establish that later.

Thus we can make an interesting preparation of that foot, Mr. Ferguson.

Dr.

Knox, I've examined the subject. There's a bad contusion on the back of the head

with heavy bleeding from the scalp. It may be a skull fracture.

Just as I thought the lad was in a fight somewhere. God knows we have... Plenty

of them in this city.

Dr. Knox, there are two members of the city guard outside asking about him.

Tell them I'll be up in a few minutes.

Very good, doctor.

Help me to get him into the dissection room, Ferguson.

Duff, Jamie, they call him. He was a wee bit tight.

And not only that, Doctor, but he had, like, a twisted foot.

His mother reported him missing, sir. It seems he never lived at home. We are

some sort of a family trouble. But every day she took his victuals to him in the

grass market.

And she's been looking for him all over the town.

Why did you come to see me, gentlemen?

Oh, well, Doctor, we came to like the college itself.

Occasionally a casualty comes your way.

We've already inquired of Dr. Monrosa at the college.

Ah, dear. So you should. And of me, too. And of all the others. Not a mess. It's

a duty, indeed.

For all of us surgeons do, from time to time, receive accident cases.

Poor fellows run down on the street and so forth. But a young lad, 20, you see,

and with a deformed foot.

That would be rare enough to be exceptional.

No. I'm afraid no one of that description has been brought to my

If he is brought in, mind, I'll be sure to see that one of my students or

reporter comes to acquaint you.

Well, that's very kind of you, Doctor. But we did see a body brought in here

this morning. We're not doubting you, are we, mind? But we would be better

pleased if we could be seeing it for ourselves. Yes, indeed.

Come in.

The body, gentlemen.

the use of safety precautions in factories?

Sorry to trouble you, sir.

Now, I'll ask you to come down one by one later and examine this foot

For we have here a classic case of telepies verse.

I was lucky to find such a rare case.

Aye.

More lucky than you know.

You'll find some heavy contusions on the body, gentlemen.

I understand the young man met with an accident in a foundry.

It accounts for the fact that, unfortunately, the subject has no head.

Ah, that's fine.

Make it nice and tight.

Your wallet, monsieur.

Good evening.

Good evening.

You are Rosie, aren't you?

Oh, I... Are you ready?

Would you mind?

Now, have you been a good wee laddie today?

No, my governess.

I've been a very naughty laddie. Oh.

No, that's not quite right.

Oh? You asked me some questions, sir.

Oh, well, what sort of question?

About my timetable. Have I done my timetable? Have you done your timetable?

Shall we do it again? Yes.

Now, have you been a good wee laddie today, then?

No, my governor.

I've been a very naughty laddie. Well, you've done your ten -time table.

No, I'm afraid I haven't. I only got as far as the three.

When am I going to see you again?

Tomorrow. At the Claymore at two o 'clock. Yes, yes.

Oh, Madge, what are we going to do?

We must not give in to adversity.

I shall open a new house.

Larger, more elegant, and more expensive.

He and me uncle.

And you know something?

I never said lies to them in me whole life. And then, then I get a letter from

this lawyer in County Cork. And he says to me, he says, praise be to God, the

old man's passed away and he's left your size of a bit of property.

Then you'll not be cobbling shoes anymore, I'm thinking, Mr. Burke.

Devil a bit. I'll tell you what I will have.

I'll have another black room in there.

And I'll tell you something, Johnny. Will you be joining me in a little

No. Oh, that's kind of you. I'll take a wee dram, though it's early here. Oh,

good. Give me a friend here. Give me a friend something as well, will you? I

will.

Excuse me a minute.

Hi. Did you hear about the fire?

We've got nowhere to go. Can you give us a room? No, I'm afraid I can't.

Johnny, who's there?

We're two friends of my niece.

Flora, you know.

It seems that the house that they were living in was burnt down last night.

They're looking for lodgings.

They thought Flora might be able to help them, but she's away to her mother in

Ballacoolish, and I can't do anything.

May I join you two lovely ladies?

The name is Burke.

William Burke. I don't think I've ever had the pleasure of seeing you here

before, I'm thinking.

Look, you're not drinking on a day like this. You're going to need something to

take away the morning chill. What are you going to have?

No, thank you, nothing.

Oh, come along, Mary. It'll do you good.

Whiskey. Hi.

We'll take whiskey.

Sure. Now, Johnny, Johnny, will you put down a bottle of whiskey for these

lovely ladies, will you?

It's a homeless you are, isn't it?

Aye.

Our heads were burned to the ground last night.

Do you know here by the fire? Oh, yes.

Oh, we saved all the clothes we got here, Mary and me.

Oh, well, never mind.

Thank you, Johnny. This will warm us up, won't it?

Here, my darling.

There's one for you.

And there you are.

That's one for you. Now let's be drinking to ourselves and not be

the terrible fire no more. All right.

Ah, it's the wrong time in the year to be homeless in this cold city. And I was

thinking that why should you be when there's here meself, William Burke,

come into a sizable bit of property, who is only too willing and eager to be of

your service.

And another thing I was thinking about, I mean, you know, if you like the idea,

that, uh, I myself am a widower, God rest his soul. And I've got a little

comfortable place down at Westport.

I was thinking, you know, if you like the idea, that maybe you might be

moving in.

What? The two of us?

One would be enough for you, I fancy.

Oh, now I'm full of life, you know.

No, why not the both of you? It'll only be for a couple of days, and good

gracious me, there's room enough. And William Burke.

He's not skinned for a few bob, you know.

Why don't you ask the landlord here?

I think that's a grand notion, eh, Mary?

Well... Oh, well, come along with you.

I reckon the three of us can be very cozy.

You know the old saying, don't you? You say, one's lonely, two's company, and

three, three is a hell of a lot of security.

Here, that's for you, darling.

And here, that's for you.

Come with me.

Thank you.

Oh,

I know she drinks, but I've never seen her passed out before.

Well, I'll tell you what.

The best thing would be for you to go to Grogan, the druggist.

Now, that'll be the thing to do. Now, look, you know where Grogan is. We

him on the way up here.

Go and ask for some... Oh, here you are. Here, take some money with you. Go and

ask for some of his physic now. It's called emetic.

Tell him that you've got a friend who's drunk and he'll see you all right. Off

you go now.

You take care of her, won't you? Yes, I will now.

That's it, then.

Well, that'll be a showing, Missy, and I hope it does your friend good. Thank

you very much.

Janet?

Mr. Burke?

Where's my friend, Mr.

Burke? Ah, no, no, your friend. You take this here yourself.

And, Mr. Burke, you take her to a doctor.

Oh, take me to her, please.

She'll be all right.

Mr. Burke, we'll have her back here again.

Very good.

You just rest easy.

Today, gentlemen, I propose to deal with hernia in the female sex.

What is it?

My God, Mary Mitchell.

She must have got killed in the fire.

How do you know?

I was there. You were?

Robert, she saved my life.

I arranged to meet her afterwards, but she didn't turn up.

I looked everywhere for her.

Now she's dead.

She couldn't have come by a death naturally.

And I'd swear.

I must have a doctor. Don't be a fool. What good would that do? Please say no.

Are they going to worry about a dead whore?

No, she'll take my advice.

She'll keep out of it.

Come in.

Ah, that's not... Come on in, then. Don't stand over there. It's a cold

Come and warm yourself.

with today's subject?

Well, you see, sir, I know the lassie.

I mean, I knew the lassie.

Her name's Marie Mitchell.

And I was with her myself only a few days ago.

And she was alive and well then.

Of that I can assure you. She was in perfect health.

Where did you see her, Abbas? Not... In a... In a house, sir.

A house, you say? All right. We all live in houses.

house, sir.

Madam Thompson's house.

A brothel, you mean? A foreshop?

A fine place for one of my students.

I know well some of your students, straight from dissection to fornication,

all that after you should know the dangers of such copulation.

Ah, you had knowledge of her, Abbas, not? Are we bound?

Ah, so you did?

So maybe you got a touch of the clap or a dose of the pox, hmm?

Oh, no. A few days ago, you see.

Ah, you would not know yet.

Well, now, to set your mind at rest about today's subject, even if I can't

other matters for a few weeks to come.

If you'd attended my lecture, you would have heard my diagnosis of the causes of

death. Did you attend, sir?

No, you didn't. Well, when I examined the organs, Mr. Robustnut, I found a

deal of alcohol in the stomach, almost enough to kill a man.

and a well -developed cirrhosis of the liver.

You carried out a post -mortem? Yes, I did.

It was a natural death then, Dr. Knox?

It was a natural death.

No, it was never a natural death.

The death of an alcoholic whore is never a natural death. It is an aggravated

one. Aye.

Aye, I see, sir.

You'll forgive me for troubling you.

It was only the...

Well, I'd seen her so recently, it was a shock.

Ah, Kenwell, you were disturbed, lad.

But remember the scripture, in the midst of life we are in death. Remember it

well. So set your mind at rest about that, lad, but about other matters.

Well, you know the symptoms.

If you have any doubts, come and see me.

And don't be such a damn fool in the future.

let's see Huffanoff.

It's no use you're coming here now young man. It'll be a good week before we're

open again.

Well, it's not what I've come to see you about.

Well, what is it you want? I've come to see about Marie.

Marie? Wait, I'll come down.

Marie, have you seen her? She's dead, Madam Thompson.

Her body was sold to Dr. Knox.

Oh, my God.

But...

How did she die, do you know?

Dr. Knox says she died a drink.

Nonsense. That can never be. Marie was never one for drink.

I believe Dr.

Knox was lying.

I think Marie was murdered.

Wait while I get my cloak and I'll go with you to the magistrate. No, I've

already been to the magistrate. He says I lack evidence.

That's why I've come to see you.

But how can you get help from me?

I want you to remember anything about Marie.

The name of her friends, the places she went to.

There was a...

Cavern? Somewhere in the West Port.

Do what I will do, my darling.

I'll give you a shilling for the pumpkin.

Give me another bottle of whiskey. I broke the last one. Thank you. Will you

that for me?

Oh, piss off, you old bag.

Always sell your matches somewhere else.

Thank you very much. Get away.

Go on.

Get over here.

Now, look here. What's going on here, Mother? What's the matter with you? It's

none of that talk, son.

Matches isn't a trade.

I'm on the way from County Cork.

Enough, wasn't that, wasn't that me mother's country?

I wasn't, wasn't I born there meself?

Where from, would you like a drink?

What's your name, darling?

Mrs. Doherty, Sir Mary Doherty. I don't believe it, a Doherty. A Doherty? Sure.

That's me mother's maiden name by all the gods of Doherty. I'm from County

Next you'll be telling me you're from Queenstown. No, Middleton.

Sorry, across the water. And I wish well I was there now instead of alone and in

friendlessness. strange land. Ah, me darling, you might be in a strange land,

but friendless and alone you're not.

Sure enough, if you're a Doherty and you're from Middleton, we're related.

Wasn't me mother born a few miles away from there, God rest her soul.

Take it, you're a widow.

Now, Mrs., may I call you Mary? Seeing as we're related, it seems all right to

be calling you Mary. Tell you what I'm going to do with you.

Me name here is William Burke.

I've got a lovely house down the road. and we're having a party, me and my

missus. We've got a few Irishmen in, and we'll celebrate Halloween. You come

with us. We'll celebrate Halloween like we used to do in the old country.

Would you like to do that? They say it is like the spirits walk abroad, but I

dance here, Jacob. Will you do that?

In the ranks of a death, yes.

Where are they now?

They went away with a customer of mine, an Irishman, very well bridged. Burke,

his name is.

Do you know where he lodges?

Nearby, at the West Port.

The people around Tanner's close will be able to tell you just where.

Oh, God, I understand that Mr. Burke lives around here. Can you tell me

Mr. Burke, sir, it's number three.

It's somewhere around, I'll show you.

It's in this. Turn left and it's the first door on the right.

King's evidence and admitted being concerned with Burke in 16 murders.

By so doing, he saved his life.

But the populace of Edinburgh were so enraged at his release that they threw

into a lime pit.

He died in London a blind beggar.

Burke was hanged and his body publicly dissected. Dr Knox, his reputation

ruined, died in obscurity.

Bye.

Bye. Bye.

Buck is far and always over, sexy like bodies in bed.

Her is tall and grim and over, sexy like bodies in bed.

Take care, they're out to rape you, they're out to drape you in white.

If you see I'm gone.