1 00:00:01,720 --> 00:00:04,040 Double murder is a hanging offence, Miss Langton. 2 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:05,920 I don't know what happened. 3 00:00:05,960 --> 00:00:07,520 You have to try to remember. 4 00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:11,240 You have to think. Frannie! 5 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:12,360 FRANNIE: 'I loved her.' 6 00:00:13,520 --> 00:00:17,440 I think everyone should be prescribed a poem a day, don't you? 7 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:20,520 'She loved me.' PETTIGREW: 'You loved her? 8 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:21,960 'And you hated him.' 9 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:23,840 You know, I think we should speak frankly. 10 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:26,520 It will assist us both. 11 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:30,080 We have to fight this, or them are gon' kill you. 12 00:00:34,160 --> 00:00:36,920 Mi nuh waah to lose you. 13 00:00:40,240 --> 00:00:43,000 You're always trying to save my skin. 14 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:45,480 You're worth savin'. 15 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:53,800 I can't prove it wasn't me. 16 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:56,920 'I can't. 17 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:02,280 'Not even to myself.' 18 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:08,400 How can I be sure I didn't do it? 19 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:11,400 MEG: I don't care what you said, I told you not to come. 20 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:13,800 I need to speak with you. Stay away from me. 21 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:22,880 She hurt me, Sal, and I was so angry. 22 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:25,960 GLASS BREAKS 23 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:27,240 Why won't you leave her alone? 24 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:29,440 Can't you see you've done nothing but distress her 25 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:30,560 ever since you came back? 26 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:32,080 Madame. 27 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:33,720 This is death. 28 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:36,120 This is death! 29 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:39,800 The pair of you always in some kind of argument. 30 00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:46,200 'Not always.' 31 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:11,320 Her Highness has asked for you to take those up this morning. 32 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:13,880 It's typical of her. 33 00:02:13,920 --> 00:02:17,040 She must always have some pet by her side. 34 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:22,120 First the boy, Laddie, and now you. 35 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:27,240 I saw you prowling around up there last night. 36 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:30,320 I've been to see the master about you. 37 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:32,040 FRANNIE CHUCKLES 38 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:38,079 Since I am still here, Mrs Linux, I assume you didn't get your way. 39 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:51,079 FRANNIE: 'I'd had a measure of happiness, 40 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:54,640 'the dancing, the feel of her. 41 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:58,520 'Like a taste I couldn't get out of my mouth. 42 00:02:59,920 --> 00:03:02,000 'Since then...' Come in. 43 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:04,960 '..I had pictured her a thousand times. 44 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:10,560 'And then... there she was. 45 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:15,680 'My thoughts made flesh.' 46 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:19,720 Mrs Linux said you'd like topping up. 47 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:24,000 All right, then. Top me up. 48 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:36,480 I've been meaning to ask how you're settling in. 49 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:40,760 You seem to have found your feet well enough last night, at least. 50 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:43,440 Next time, I promise to keep them more to myself 51 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:45,400 and less on your toes. 52 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:48,800 Are the dances so different in Jamaica? 53 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:51,920 I never danced there. 54 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:55,840 I could tell. 55 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:05,640 Oh, please, don't fuss about those! 56 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:08,320 They'll only slip into chaos again. 57 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:14,480 Sometimes I think that is what tethers me here. 58 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:18,200 Not the gowns, or the jewels, 59 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:20,120 but the books. 60 00:04:21,839 --> 00:04:24,640 I don't think I could live without them. 61 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:31,520 If you must, you can tidy up after I go downstairs. 62 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:45,640 DOOR CLOSES 63 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:42,600 'Here was another beginning. 64 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:47,760 'The moment I recognised the feelings she stirred in me. 65 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:58,720 'My whole world that, until then, had held such horrors in it... 66 00:05:59,880 --> 00:06:03,320 '..peeled itself back to a place that held only her. 67 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:07,520 'So when Benham sent for me later that day...' 68 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:09,080 KNOCK ON DOOR Come! 69 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:11,560 '..I decided to use it to my advantage.' 70 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:27,920 I'd like you to take a look at this. 71 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:36,480 They're getting it wrong about me. About Paradise. 72 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:38,680 My association with Langton. 73 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:41,320 I need to set the record straight. 74 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:50,680 You are arguing that the slaves on your estate are contented 75 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:53,159 because you allow them a little religion, 76 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:56,960 a little education, a little land of their own to plant? 77 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:00,160 And you want MY testimony in support? 78 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:05,520 Yes, the testimony of a former slave. 79 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:09,480 There is no such thing as a happy slave. 80 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:20,080 I think we should speak frankly. 81 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:21,880 Yes. 82 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:24,440 It wouldn't hurt for those naysayers 83 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:26,920 to see me flourishing under your roof, 84 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:29,560 in a position more in-keeping with 85 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:33,440 that education you arranged for me? 86 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:40,600 'There's only one way to get anything 87 00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:42,920 'from a man like George Benham. 88 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:46,240 'You have to let them think it's their idea. 89 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:49,159 'He wanted to be seen as a benevolent master. 90 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:51,040 'He was setting out to prove it. 91 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:54,640 'So he made me into a lady's maid.' 92 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:58,200 KNOCKS ON DOOR 'And the lady was his wife.' 93 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:03,640 Mr Benham has never recommended anyone to me before 94 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:05,000 as a lady's maid. 95 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:09,440 Mind you, I make it a habit to look any gift horse 96 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:12,240 that comes from my husband right in the teeth. 97 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:21,760 Have you read this? Rousseau's Confessions? 98 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:24,200 It's his autobiography. 99 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:26,000 The story of his own life. 100 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:28,360 I know what an autobiography is. 101 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:31,720 I am planning to write my own. 102 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:35,720 I was thinking you could help me. 103 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:37,600 Be my scribe, or... 104 00:08:38,679 --> 00:08:41,320 Well, more of a secretary, really. 105 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:45,480 Mrs Linux will not be pleased. 106 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:49,200 Surely the attraction of the whole arrangement? 107 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:55,640 I take it you are saying yes? 108 00:08:56,840 --> 00:08:58,800 I am saying yes. 109 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:21,840 In France, they say you only need a few lines 110 00:09:21,880 --> 00:09:23,880 in any honest man's hand 111 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:26,720 and you can find something to hang him with. 112 00:09:31,560 --> 00:09:34,080 You must promise not to hang me. 113 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:38,400 I promise to keep you alive. 114 00:09:53,560 --> 00:09:57,440 I think I remember life in Paris, 115 00:09:57,480 --> 00:10:00,040 but I was very young when we left. 116 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:05,480 There were many families like ours that came to London... 117 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:10,800 ..and very soon we discovered that you can't eat noble titles. 118 00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:14,920 But Papa, he had brought his violin... 119 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:18,080 ..and for months, he earned us a crumb each day 120 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:20,200 playing on a street corner in Spitalfields. 121 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:24,240 When he wasn't too drunk to do so. 122 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:40,000 Hm... 123 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:43,000 I've not seen that in a long while. 124 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:45,760 The boy in the portrait? 125 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:47,120 Once upon a time, 126 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:50,080 he and I were the two saddest creatures in this house. 127 00:10:57,320 --> 00:11:00,080 It was after I lost a child. 128 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:05,840 I lost two in short order just after we were married, 129 00:11:05,880 --> 00:11:09,080 though I was barely out of childhood myself. 130 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:16,520 The week after my loss, I sent word to Mr Benham 131 00:11:16,560 --> 00:11:19,840 who was visiting his estate in Antigua. 132 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:23,840 Three months later... 133 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:29,040 ..he came home with a little boy in tow. 134 00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:34,240 He was four. 135 00:11:38,240 --> 00:11:42,200 'He kept telling us his name was Olaudah...' 136 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:44,560 Olaudah. 137 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:48,040 '..but Mr Benham insisted he be called Laddie. 138 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:53,080 'An English name, not an African one. 139 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:08,640 'I tried to look after him. 140 00:12:08,680 --> 00:12:10,560 'To be a friend to him.' 141 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:15,680 SHE GIGGLES 142 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:31,080 'They had done the same to him 143 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:32,800 'as they had been done to me at Paradise. 144 00:12:33,840 --> 00:12:36,120 'Except I thought I wanted it. 145 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:40,760 'And I thought that it was a stroke of luck.' 146 00:12:42,440 --> 00:12:45,640 Listen to me, make sure you mind yourself. 147 00:12:45,680 --> 00:12:48,400 Ya hear me now? Mind yourself. 148 00:12:49,680 --> 00:12:52,640 Not one damn ting more dangerous 149 00:12:52,680 --> 00:12:54,800 than a white woman when she get bored. 150 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:00,680 Come, pygmy. Come. 151 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:24,000 So, you are Frances? 152 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:28,000 It's the name I gave you myself. 153 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:30,400 Thank you, missus. 154 00:13:40,520 --> 00:13:41,840 SHE GASPS 155 00:13:41,880 --> 00:13:44,600 Oh! You are a little savage. 156 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:48,840 Am I staying here now? 157 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:50,720 Yes. 158 00:13:50,760 --> 00:13:52,400 What you and I have in common 159 00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:55,640 is that neither of us had any say in the matter. 160 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:01,400 I's happy to be here, missus. 161 00:14:03,680 --> 00:14:05,640 How long am I to stay? 162 00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:12,080 However long it is, it will be too long in the end. 163 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:23,720 I was taken from my mother also. 164 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:33,040 I think we should shut the door. 165 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:48,680 But you were fortunate in other ways. 166 00:14:49,880 --> 00:14:51,240 Your education. 167 00:14:51,280 --> 00:14:54,360 It's more than most women ever get. 168 00:14:56,280 --> 00:14:58,560 Even free women. 169 00:15:01,960 --> 00:15:06,320 'Nothing that happened to me at Paradise was luck. 170 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:21,720 'When it comes to charting the course of my life, 171 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:24,320 'the old coach house is the place 172 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:28,440 'where the map would show a desert full of wild beasts. 173 00:15:29,640 --> 00:15:32,080 'Here are lions. 174 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:48,800 'Everyone thinks that bodies are the only things that suffer. 175 00:15:51,240 --> 00:15:53,680 'But it wasn't only bodies that did Langton's bidding.' 176 00:15:56,080 --> 00:16:00,720 This is science, Frances. We're doing important work in here. 177 00:16:00,760 --> 00:16:03,360 'It was minds, also. 178 00:16:04,640 --> 00:16:06,600 ' "Him not just the devil, you know," 179 00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:08,640 'Phibbah would say. 180 00:16:08,680 --> 00:16:10,640 ' "You and him the same devil." 181 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:16,760 'I saw things in that coach house that I can't stop seeing now. 182 00:16:17,960 --> 00:16:20,480 'I see them every time I close my eyes. 183 00:16:21,920 --> 00:16:25,040 'And worse, I see her. 184 00:16:27,280 --> 00:16:31,720 'I see Phibbah, what happened to her. 185 00:16:33,040 --> 00:16:35,960 'And it always shakes me awake.' 186 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:50,240 You can't sleep either? 187 00:16:52,080 --> 00:16:55,320 I can never sleep at this limbo hour. 188 00:16:57,880 --> 00:16:59,920 Neither morning nor night. 189 00:17:01,920 --> 00:17:04,000 Nor one thing, nor the other. 190 00:17:06,520 --> 00:17:09,160 Should I freshen up your warming pan? 191 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:29,880 Mr Benham is fond of saying, 192 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:34,040 "A dream is a wish the dark part of your soul makes." 193 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:39,000 But it was just a dream. 194 00:17:41,120 --> 00:17:43,120 It was just a dream. 195 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:46,800 Would you like some? 196 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:50,160 No, thank you. 197 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:56,240 Why can't you sleep? 198 00:17:57,240 --> 00:17:59,400 I spoke to my husband at dinner. 199 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:04,240 It seems I have misunderstood him. 200 00:18:05,520 --> 00:18:08,720 I can write, but I may never publish. 201 00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:17,440 I wish I'd never married him. 202 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:24,560 La... but a lady is not supposed to discuss 203 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:26,560 her own marriage, of course... 204 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:30,880 ..only other people's. 205 00:18:34,440 --> 00:18:35,920 I think I will try to sleep now. 206 00:19:56,360 --> 00:19:57,480 Thank you... 207 00:19:58,840 --> 00:20:00,240 Frances. 208 00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:08,040 Good night. 209 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:25,920 'That night had opened something up inside me 210 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:27,520 'that would not stay closed. 211 00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:30,880 'And yet, she didn't say a thing about it.' 212 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:33,680 I forgot to say, we have to pack today. 213 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:35,680 We're off to Longreach tomorrow. 214 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:37,480 'As if it had not happened at all.' 215 00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:38,920 What's in Longreach? 216 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:41,480 Lord Percy. 217 00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:45,280 Mr Benham's brother, he's letting him host a shooting party 218 00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:47,520 to gather support for his petition. 219 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:56,040 He said you may come also. 220 00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:01,880 It will be much better to have you with me. 221 00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:09,560 They always give me a maid with cold hands there. 222 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:13,280 I forget her name. 223 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:22,160 What shall I pack? 224 00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:09,360 So when he protested his innocence, 225 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:12,280 but the evidence was there for everyone to see. 226 00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:14,600 Excuse me, gentlemen, for one moment. 227 00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:17,680 Baby brother! Where the devil have you been hiding? 228 00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:20,000 Perce! Georgie! 229 00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:22,440 Marguerite, welcome back to Longreach. 230 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:23,520 Percy. 231 00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:25,560 Georgie, there's some people I'd like you to meet. 232 00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:28,000 Meg! 233 00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:30,960 Dearest Hep. How have you been? 234 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:33,640 I'm going to assume you're not in the least bit interested. 235 00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:36,240 It's been weeks since you thought to ask me in person. 236 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:40,560 Isn't this that terribly soggy maid 237 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:42,720 who was cleaning your front steps the other day? 238 00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:46,240 Frances Langton. 239 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:49,040 My very competent new secretary. 240 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:51,240 Frances, may I present to you Mr Benham's cousin, 241 00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:53,720 Hephzibah Elliot. Miss Elliot. 242 00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:56,600 Since when do you have a secretary? 243 00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:00,400 Frances has been helping me with my writings. 244 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:04,480 She's been frightfully clever, actually. Fascinating. 245 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:08,320 You'll never guess who I invited. 246 00:23:08,360 --> 00:23:11,080 Who? You'll see. 247 00:23:11,120 --> 00:23:13,640 Cousin. George. 248 00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:16,080 GEORGE: Our rooms are ready. 249 00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:35,440 Are you ready for my surprise? 250 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:36,720 I'm intrigued. 251 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:39,280 I found your little Laddie. 252 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:42,560 I ran into him a few months ago 253 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:44,720 at the ice cream parlour we used to take him to. 254 00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:46,120 Remember? 255 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:49,080 He's here as my guest. 256 00:23:49,120 --> 00:23:50,600 George and Percy be damned. 257 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:55,200 No sign of the poor little wretch in your portrait, is there? 258 00:23:56,880 --> 00:23:58,200 Laddie? 259 00:23:59,920 --> 00:24:02,160 Madame Bebbum. 260 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:04,920 That was my pet name for her. 261 00:24:07,120 --> 00:24:09,680 You look like you've seen a ghost. 262 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:11,280 Not happy to see me? 263 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:14,160 Oh, of course, or course. Yes. 264 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:17,040 Methinks you protest too much. 265 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:20,400 Look at you. 266 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:24,000 My little Laddie! 267 00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:27,280 I go by Olaudah now. Unless I'm in the ring. 268 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:29,160 You box? 269 00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:30,600 Oh, can't you tell? 270 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:32,440 He does so much more than box. 271 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:35,120 He's simply the cleverest speaker. So articulate. 272 00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:39,120 Most whites will fall over themselves being impressed 273 00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:41,280 by anything that comes from a Black man's mouth 274 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:42,800 if it's in plain English. 275 00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:44,400 FRANNIE CHORTLES 276 00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:46,480 And this is? 277 00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:50,800 My secretary, Frances Langton. 278 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:52,520 Mr Cambridge. 279 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:54,360 Miss Langton. 280 00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:56,680 Your reputation precedes you. 281 00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:58,240 What do you mean by that? 282 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:02,120 Oh, Mr Benham, look who Hep found. 283 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:04,760 Wandering in the wilderness. 284 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:07,040 Laddie. 285 00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:09,080 Well, fancy seeing you here. 286 00:25:09,120 --> 00:25:14,000 Well, I have a craving for Champagne and blood sport, same as you. 287 00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:16,440 That's quite the... quite the English gentleman. 288 00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:19,440 Laddie is here as my guest. 289 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:24,040 Still, er... still singing for your supper, young man? 290 00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:26,920 Well, what else is a little Black page boy good for 291 00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:28,400 after he's all grown up? 292 00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:31,480 Quite. Well, I'm sure that you can understand 293 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:33,920 that no man can be expected to employ a footman 294 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:37,320 whom his own wife once cuddled on her lap. 295 00:25:37,360 --> 00:25:39,200 TAP ON GLASS 296 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:41,160 If you'll excuse us. 297 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:43,480 PERCY: Er... if I may? 298 00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:48,160 Thank you all for coming to Longreach. 299 00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:52,320 Unusually for me, I'm going to give George the first word. 300 00:25:52,360 --> 00:25:53,440 It's his party, 301 00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:56,440 so I shall hand over to him to welcome you all. 302 00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:57,960 George? 303 00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:00,800 Gentlemen... 304 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:04,080 ..ladies. 305 00:26:04,120 --> 00:26:09,800 This is no mean feat, that we have all assembled here. 306 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:14,720 Abolitionists, planters, parliamentarians, 307 00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:17,200 but experience has told me 308 00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:20,600 that any man can put aside his differences 309 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:22,920 if the wine is good enough! 310 00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:24,960 SCATTERED LAUGHTER 311 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:32,000 We must find a way to keep putting those differences aside. 312 00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:35,640 To answer this emancipation question 313 00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:40,720 in a way which enables us to repair these rifts 314 00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:43,000 rather than to deepen them. 315 00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:46,280 That avoids the problem of compensation to planters, 316 00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:49,560 which, as we all know, is what is holding things up 317 00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:53,200 and that is based upon a model, my own model, 318 00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:56,840 with which I've had particular success. 319 00:26:56,880 --> 00:26:59,080 I suppose that's what I am? 320 00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:02,920 A model of your success. 321 00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:04,720 LOW MURMURS FROM CROWD 322 00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:14,480 My lords, ladies, and gentlemen, Mr Olaudah Cambridge. 323 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:18,400 A free English and - were it not for the interruption, Laddie, - 324 00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:19,920 I would say, gentleman. 325 00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:21,080 SCATTERED CHUCKLES 326 00:27:21,120 --> 00:27:26,240 And I hope that you will all agree, a wonderful model of success. 327 00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:28,760 RIPPLE OF AGREEMENT FROM CROWD 328 00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:33,840 Such a shock to see him again. 329 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:37,640 So unexpected. 330 00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:44,520 Perhaps I should find you some brandy? 331 00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:47,640 I shouldn't. 332 00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:50,320 I have to speak with him. 333 00:27:50,360 --> 00:27:53,480 Can you find him and bring him a note? 334 00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:56,760 As you wish. 335 00:28:22,360 --> 00:28:26,800 To think I came out here in search of peace and quiet. 336 00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:29,320 Madame Benham sent me to give you this. 337 00:28:29,360 --> 00:28:31,600 She couldn't find a footman to do her dirty work? 338 00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:34,120 You couldn't find a footman to tend to your gun? 339 00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:44,560 "Please believe, I would be delighted to know you again. 340 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:48,400 "I believe we have much to atone for, 341 00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:52,240 "my husband and I, for the way you were treated." 342 00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:57,160 Blah-blah-blah. 343 00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:00,960 I suspect she would not be so delighted to "know me again", 344 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:04,200 if she knew how much I despise the pair of them. 345 00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:11,600 Is that all? 346 00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:14,400 Earlier... 347 00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:18,880 ..when you said my reputation precedes me. 348 00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:22,000 What is it you THINK you know? 349 00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:27,320 I know that last year, 350 00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:31,520 John Langton purchased an albino boy from Barbados. 351 00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:33,600 It's all over the gossip rags. 352 00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:36,440 George Benham must be finding it increasingly difficult 353 00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:39,160 to pretend he has no idea about the things 354 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:41,600 that have been done in his name. 355 00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:46,480 He never gets his hands dirty, he left that to other people. 356 00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:49,080 Like Langton... 357 00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:51,920 ..and you. 358 00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:55,480 I don't know what you're taking about. 359 00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:58,120 I want to know what happened to the boy. 360 00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:01,760 Whether he can still be helped. 361 00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:04,080 Whether George Benham can finally be forced 362 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:06,000 to face his own sins. 363 00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:10,320 You don't have to worry about any of that. 364 00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:12,160 It's not your concern. 365 00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:15,720 I suspected it would be useless, 366 00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:17,640 now that you're Benham's new pet. 367 00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:18,880 I'm no-one's pet. 368 00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:21,040 He's parading you around to save his reputation. 369 00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:23,600 He's not parading me anywhere! Why else would you be here? 370 00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:28,840 You came here when you were what, four, five? 371 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:32,320 You grew up in an English drawing room 372 00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:35,040 with silk cushioning your backside. 373 00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:40,240 The hardest job you had was being an ornament, a plaything. 374 00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:46,240 You don't know a thing... not a damn thing. 375 00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:48,120 About any of it. 376 00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:03,760 'He was no different from the rest of them. 377 00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:08,920 'All anyone wanted to know was what had happened at Paradise. 378 00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:12,680 'I'll tell you what happened... 379 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:16,600 '..I became Langton's creature. 380 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:21,080 'He was doing experiments 381 00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:24,520 'to prove that all a man's potential is seeded in his skull. 382 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:29,680 'To prove that blacks were the inferior race. 383 00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:34,000 'When he told me I had to help him... 384 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:38,360 '..I told myself I had no choice.' 385 00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:44,800 Excuse me, miss, the servant's entrance is just a... 386 00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:46,680 Which room is John Langton's? 387 00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:48,440 Which room?! 388 00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:51,000 Top of the stairs, first door on the left. 389 00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:59,200 Why have you come here? Why? 390 00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:02,120 None of your damned business. 391 00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:04,840 Your business is my business. 392 00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:07,640 Do you think because Benham's wife has seen fit 393 00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:09,880 to appoint you as her lapdog, 394 00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:11,840 you and I are now on equal footing? 395 00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:13,840 Why would he invite you? 396 00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:16,080 HE CHUCKLES 397 00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:18,560 Keep your enemies close, they say. 398 00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:21,360 HE GRUNTS 399 00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:28,200 People are talking about the albino boy. 400 00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:31,560 It's in the papers. 401 00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:35,560 My illegal purchase. 402 00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:38,600 You're a monster. 403 00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:42,400 I never want to lay eyes on you again. 404 00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:51,600 This is no way to treat a dying... man. 405 00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:57,440 HE GASPS 406 00:32:57,480 --> 00:32:59,560 You're what? 407 00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:03,520 Dying. 408 00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:05,400 So they tell me. 409 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:12,840 HE CRIES OUT 410 00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:15,680 I should have been the one to kill you. 411 00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:20,000 And I should have done it LONG before now! 412 00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:29,360 There you are. 413 00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:32,400 I was looking for you. 414 00:34:36,679 --> 00:34:38,440 May I? 415 00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:00,360 You are cross with me. 416 00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:09,440 Please say something. 417 00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:16,480 What we did... 418 00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:19,800 We haven't even spoken about it. 419 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:24,480 You will not speak about it. It is sending me mad. 420 00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:26,840 I am your mistress, Frances. 421 00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:32,040 It was wrong. 422 00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:37,760 What if... 423 00:35:39,240 --> 00:35:41,600 What if I could say I wanted it? 424 00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:46,400 What if you could say you wanted it, too? 425 00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:52,520 Some things cannot be brought into the light. 426 00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:56,960 Then let it be done in the dark. 427 00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:02,000 You are a surprise. 428 00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:05,840 I don't want to be a surprise. 429 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:16,160 Haven't you done it before? 430 00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:21,160 With one of those quality ladies. 431 00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:25,280 You are a quality lady. 432 00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:47,800 WINGS FLUTTER 433 00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:49,320 What was that? 434 00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:52,640 Did you hear it? No. 435 00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:55,400 I should get back. 436 00:36:58,640 --> 00:37:01,280 I'll ask him to invite you to dinner tonight. 437 00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:16,880 Yes, but you understand, my husband is not against manumissions, 438 00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:21,200 it's just that he's more of a, er... gradualist than an immediatist. 439 00:37:21,240 --> 00:37:25,160 It's an important work, and one which I still hope 440 00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:28,120 the scientific community will come to acknowledge. 441 00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:30,200 Of course, all this stalling in parliament 442 00:37:30,240 --> 00:37:32,440 is down to commerce and convenience. 443 00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:34,080 The progressives among us 444 00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:36,840 would like to see swifter action and less chat. 445 00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:39,560 WOMAN: It's absolutely without question inhumane. 446 00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:41,840 No, no, no, but the picture you paint, 447 00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:44,120 it's so one-sided. 448 00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:47,680 You seem to rely almost completely, entirely 449 00:37:47,720 --> 00:37:51,560 on testimonies ploughed out by the abolitionists years ago. 450 00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:54,400 Now I, for one, take my responsibilities 451 00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:59,160 for all the souls on my Antigua estate very seriously indeed. 452 00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:01,520 Now I wish that you could see the place. 453 00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:05,240 When I visit, there's feasting and dancing. 454 00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:07,480 It's all of us, we're together. 455 00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:11,400 Though I must admit, the heat does get rather too much after a time. 456 00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:13,080 You make it sound so... 457 00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:17,800 ..bucolic, George. 458 00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:20,760 Ah, well. 459 00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:23,120 Tell us one of your stories, Laddie. 460 00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:26,480 Honestly, I cry listening to him. 461 00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:29,320 It's heart-breaking. 462 00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:51,840 I'll tell you the story my mother told me... 463 00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:55,920 ..the last night I spent with her. 464 00:38:57,640 --> 00:39:00,000 I remember every minute of it. 465 00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:04,760 She was feeding me hominy, and she'd lit a candle 466 00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:07,920 that she'd made herself from beef-fat... 467 00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:13,600 ..so she could make the shadows dance on the wall. 468 00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:18,480 The whole cabin smelled like barbecue. 469 00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:22,080 It was an Igbo tale. 470 00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:28,120 One her own mother had told her about the Asiki. 471 00:39:29,720 --> 00:39:33,840 The Asiki were human children who were snatched by witches. 472 00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:39,320 Kidnapped. Taken out of sight. 473 00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:45,560 The witches spirited them away deep into large forests 474 00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:47,560 where they sliced out their tongues. 475 00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:49,000 MUFFLED GASPS 476 00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:53,520 Changed every hair on their heads from wool to silk. 477 00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:58,800 Changed their skin too, from black to gold. 478 00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:04,400 Put them to sleep. 479 00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:10,800 The next morning, the Asiki woke with no memory. 480 00:40:12,720 --> 00:40:16,280 Their mothers and fathers... forgotten. 481 00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:24,280 Their homes... forgotten. 482 00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:31,280 Full of questions they had no way to ask. 483 00:40:37,240 --> 00:40:40,040 A toast, George! 484 00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:46,920 To your singing, dancing, smiling subjects. 485 00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:51,320 To all those men in Antigua 486 00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:54,280 who make your own manhood possible. 487 00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:56,000 LANGTON CHUCKLES 488 00:40:56,040 --> 00:40:57,520 And to the women... 489 00:40:57,560 --> 00:40:59,400 LANGTON CHOKES LIGHTLY 490 00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:04,720 What is it the women do for you again... George? 491 00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:08,840 Is my mother still among them? 492 00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:11,320 SHOCKED MURMURS 493 00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:16,040 Gentlemen. 494 00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:19,400 Cigars. 495 00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:23,240 Speaking for myself, 496 00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:26,400 I've thoroughly enjoyed this evening's entertainment, George! 497 00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:27,480 Top-notch! 498 00:41:34,240 --> 00:41:35,640 Well, I think he had a point. 499 00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:37,920 It was cruel that you didn't think to warn me 500 00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:39,400 that you would be bringing him. 501 00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:41,840 What's cruel is that you can never simply be happy 502 00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:44,320 about my efforts to make you happy. 503 00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:46,440 Is that so impossible? 504 00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:49,200 Is your happiness so entirely out of reach, Meg? 505 00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:03,840 You and Frances are certainly very quiet, my dear. 506 00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:07,120 I am sure we're all simply tired. 507 00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:18,520 Welcome home, Sir, Madame. 508 00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:19,760 Mrs Linux. 509 00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:22,880 Hep Elliot had the boy in tow this weekend. 510 00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:25,360 I shouldn't be surprised if he tried to call on us here. 511 00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:27,960 If he does, we will not be at home. 512 00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:29,880 Him also now, Sir! 513 00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:32,080 Just see to it, Mrs Linux. 514 00:42:35,720 --> 00:42:39,000 And as for you, Homer is missing. 515 00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:42,240 Who? The cat! 516 00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:47,920 I have not taken the cat, Mrs Linux. I have no idea where he is. 517 00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:51,480 I haven't eaten him, nor do I have his bones. 518 00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:54,040 I've no idea what you're capable of. 519 00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:13,520 I was coming to find you. 520 00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:37,640 I'll stay in the dark if that's where you are. 521 00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:32,560 I suppose I am your secret now. 522 00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:49,360 'What do two women do in a room of their own? 523 00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:52,520 'Isn't this the question that troubles my accusers most? 524 00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:56,840 'We loved each other. 525 00:45:56,880 --> 00:45:59,600 'But there are things about that love... 526 00:46:00,760 --> 00:46:03,080 '..I can't bear to talk about.' 527 00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:04,960 She hurt me, Sal... 528 00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:09,080 ..and I was so angry. 529 00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:13,640 She wanted me to... 530 00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:16,920 She wanted you to what? 531 00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:22,560 Frannie, she wanted you to what? 532 00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:29,600 Subtitles by accessibility@itv.com