1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:02,320 I am a king, you are a king. 2 00:00:02,400 --> 00:00:04,920 Let's all be kings together. 3 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:06,240 Your Majesty. 4 00:00:06,320 --> 00:00:07,320 Sir! 5 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:11,800 My reputation has been ruined and my servant 6 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:13,480 - has been shot, sir. - Let me go! No! 7 00:00:13,560 --> 00:00:15,200 Everyone will ask why she did this. 8 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:17,520 But nobody knows who shot at you. 9 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:19,600 Lady Pole may be put in an asylum. 10 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:21,120 You are Norrell's men. 11 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:22,560 I am sold once more. Stephen! Turn me-- 12 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:24,040 We are no friends to Mr. Norrell. 13 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:25,240 What happened behind the mirror? 14 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:26,800 The King's Roads. 15 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:28,160 Promise me you will not go out 16 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:29,240 on those roads again. 17 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:31,640 - No. - Damn magic to hell. 18 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:33,160 Damn where it's led us. 19 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:37,360 Can a magician kill a man by magic? 20 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:38,840 I suppose a magician might. 21 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:40,760 But a gentleman never could. 22 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:43,000 He has murdered my book. 23 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:44,640 We must not let this stand. 24 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:46,280 You must not! 25 00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:49,120 I am home. 26 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:50,560 We'll go back to Shropshire. 27 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:52,440 And I will cease to do practical magic. 28 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:54,720 I will write down my thoughts in a book. 29 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:56,920 Once again it is the stupid magician 30 00:00:57,000 --> 00:00:58,280 who thwarts us. 31 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:00,640 We must find and awaken a moss-oak. 32 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:02,920 He will bargain her life away 33 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:05,560 and he will have no notion that he has done so. 34 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:07,240 - Napoleon is back. - What? 35 00:01:07,320 --> 00:01:09,760 The Duke, he asks you to renew your commission. 36 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:11,280 I am sorry, Mrs. Strange, 37 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:12,920 but your husband is the army's magician, 38 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:14,360 and we have need of him. 39 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:07,640 Keep going, come on! 40 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:10,760 Move, move, come on! 41 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:14,040 Hold the gates. Hold the gates! 42 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:17,320 Not rain, Merlin! Not rain! 43 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:20,080 You may have this rain, or that fire! 44 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:49,440 They're climbing over the wall! 45 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:52,440 Merlin. Where is Wellington? 46 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:54,640 - Can you see him? - Find him. 47 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:56,760 Merlin. 48 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:00,400 Merlin, they're scaling the wall! 49 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:30,720 Merlin! They are breaking through! 50 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:33,720 Stop messing around and find my reinforcements! 51 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:36,560 Ahhh! 52 00:03:36,640 --> 00:03:39,200 These gates won't hold much longer! 53 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:42,080 Down! 54 00:03:57,440 --> 00:03:58,560 Charge! 55 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:04,240 No! 56 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:10,160 Hold the gates! Hold the gates! 57 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:28,440 Jonathan? 58 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:33,040 Have you written much today? 59 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:35,800 Oh. Yes. Quite a bit. 60 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:13,760 I was told you were dead. 61 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:18,840 I felt certain you would be. 62 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:44,280 Well, gentlemen. 63 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:46,320 The war is over. 64 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:50,280 What do you think they'll do with us now? 65 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:08,680 Come. 66 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:10,320 I want to show you something. 67 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:16,960 The King's Roads. 68 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:19,200 They're almost finished. 69 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:21,720 Bell, you are clever. 70 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:23,080 That's four of them done, but, of course, 71 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:25,960 Mr. Murray will want them engraved. 72 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:27,680 This is just how it looked. 73 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:32,840 You make me very proud. 74 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:34,760 The light's very good in here. 75 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:45,280 But why publish Strange's book, Mr. Murray? 76 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:47,680 I am a book publisher, Mr. Norrell. 77 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:49,560 Surely it should be no great surprise 78 00:07:49,640 --> 00:07:50,640 that I publish a book? 79 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:52,680 Magic is a very popular subject. 80 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:54,960 The Friends of English Magic sells well. 81 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:57,360 Mr. Lascelles' book sold very well, 82 00:07:57,440 --> 00:08:00,520 until Mr. Strange reviewed it. 83 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:02,120 Why undo all this good work by putting out a book 84 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:03,480 so at odds with the orthodoxy? 85 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:06,000 That would be with your orthodoxy, Mr. Norrell. 86 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:07,240 And how do we know that it will be-- 87 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:08,880 Because that is what he does, sir! 88 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:10,840 Three volumes laying English magic naked 89 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:12,800 for all who choose to salivate over! 90 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:14,400 I do not know what the end of it will be! 91 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:17,240 Well, the beginning of it will be that Volume 1 92 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:20,640 of Mr. Strange's book is published in August. 93 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:22,160 It is the most dangerous and seditious thing 94 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:23,480 of which I have ever heard. 95 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:25,160 Publish and you shall have no more editions 96 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:26,840 of The Friends of English Magic, sir. 97 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:31,000 That is Mr. Norrell's prerogative. 98 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:33,360 You have made an enemy of us, sir. 99 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:37,400 Aye, well. 100 00:08:45,680 --> 00:08:48,600 There you go. 101 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:53,200 The History and Practice of English Magic. 102 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:54,720 "Marvel at what he has done. 103 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:57,240 Dare to dream of what he may yet do. 104 00:08:57,320 --> 00:08:59,520 Mr. Strange's remarkable book of magic." 105 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:01,640 Why on Earth does he insist on punishing me in this manner? 106 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:03,960 - Whatever wrong did I do him? - None, sir. 107 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:05,440 It is not for myself I fear, Mr. Lascelles. 108 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:07,000 It is for England. 109 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:08,600 There is a danger, both in what he will say 110 00:09:08,680 --> 00:09:11,200 and in the very fabrics of the books themselves. 111 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:12,720 Really, it would be most agreeable to me 112 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:14,960 to never see or hear from that man again. 113 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:50,200 Madam! 114 00:09:54,040 --> 00:09:57,480 Madam! Madam, I beg your pardon! 115 00:09:57,560 --> 00:09:58,560 Madam. 116 00:10:02,560 --> 00:10:04,280 Mrs. Strange? 117 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:08,720 Mrs. Strange! 118 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:12,560 Mrs. Strange! 119 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:18,640 Mrs. Strange! 120 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:20,840 - A bell? - Yes, sir. 121 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:24,520 What bell could there have been, Mr. Hyde? 122 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:26,680 Well, that was just the beginning. 123 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:30,480 I looked to the south, and I... 124 00:10:30,560 --> 00:10:33,360 I saw a lady... 125 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:35,320 walking away from me. 126 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:38,560 Just walking on into the snow. 127 00:10:38,640 --> 00:10:42,000 Black gown, no shawl, not even a pair of shoes. 128 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:45,360 Only, when I reached the top, she was nowhere. 129 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:48,000 Forgive me, I do not see why you come to me. 130 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:49,160 You should ride to the Magistrate. 131 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:50,800 It was Mrs. Strange, sir. 132 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:52,400 My mother? My mother is dead. 133 00:10:52,480 --> 00:10:54,240 You... You believe you saw her ghost? 134 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:55,760 Your wife, sir. 135 00:10:58,200 --> 00:10:59,880 It could not have been my wife. 136 00:10:59,960 --> 00:11:03,520 Mrs. Strange's father was curate of my parish 47 years. 137 00:11:05,280 --> 00:11:07,080 I've known her since she took her first steps 138 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:09,000 in Clunbury churchyard. 139 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:12,200 Arabella has not left Ashfair these past five days. 140 00:11:12,280 --> 00:11:13,640 Besides, she never wears black. 141 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:16,080 I hate to see her in black. 142 00:11:16,160 --> 00:11:18,000 I'm not the first to have seen a woman in black 143 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:19,520 wandering hereabouts. 144 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:23,000 Well, whoever the poor woman is, she is not my wife. 145 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:24,400 We may call Mrs. Strange here. 146 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:25,640 You may see with your own eyes. 147 00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:30,520 No. No. I do not wish to distress her. 148 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:33,200 Sir, could it not be something to do with... 149 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:34,920 your magic? 150 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:37,080 I have ceased to do practical magic. 151 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:39,200 I did my last at Waterloo. 152 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:41,160 I just write my book now. 153 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:43,120 And Mrs. Strange spends most of her time 154 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:45,120 encouraging me to finish it. 155 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:48,360 Well, I... I'm glad Mrs. Strange is safe. 156 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:54,560 I'm sorry for disturbing you, sir. 157 00:11:58,440 --> 00:11:59,840 Thank you. 158 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:03,880 Look after her, sir. 159 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:14,760 Do you think there will be another war? 160 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:19,320 It is my most fervent hope that there will not be. 161 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:22,520 And how do you think things between you and Norrell 162 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:23,920 will fall out? 163 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:27,800 Oh, like any other dull, academic controversy. 164 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:30,640 Books, articles, factions. 165 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:32,560 One of us will win, 166 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:35,840 posterity will take a little from us both, 167 00:12:35,920 --> 00:12:38,120 and then we shall both be forgotten. 168 00:12:40,200 --> 00:12:42,080 As for my own future... 169 00:12:44,040 --> 00:12:47,640 I wish to spend it quietly, with my wife. 170 00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:49,640 Hmm. 171 00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:51,400 I should also like to cut down the copper beeches 172 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:53,400 that my father planted 173 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:56,560 and do something about the east garden. 174 00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:00,600 And what about a child? 175 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:05,680 That would be a fine thing, would it not? 176 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:09,720 Then we should see what we can do about it. 177 00:13:43,040 --> 00:13:45,240 Mr. Segundus. Mr. Segundus. 178 00:13:45,320 --> 00:13:47,000 Mr. Honeyfoot... 179 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:56,360 - Good Lord. Whatever is it? - Mr. Segundus. 180 00:13:56,440 --> 00:13:57,840 You must send a message to Jonathan Strange. 181 00:13:57,920 --> 00:13:59,560 Something terrible is going to happen. 182 00:13:59,640 --> 00:14:01,040 You must send word. 183 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:02,760 - What did she say? - She says we must go 184 00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:04,320 to Jonathan Strange's house. 185 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:14,240 It is very important that you listen to me. 186 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:16,160 - Do you understand? - Wait a moment. 187 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:17,680 On a May morning in 1310, 188 00:14:17,760 --> 00:14:20,080 the wife of a Christian lighthouse keeper 189 00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:23,240 found a cupboard in her kitchen. 190 00:14:23,320 --> 00:14:25,280 - Do you understand? - No. I'm so sorry. 191 00:14:28,640 --> 00:14:30,160 The cupboard kept calling to her 192 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:32,200 again and again. 193 00:14:32,280 --> 00:14:35,520 She told her husband who thought she was mad. 194 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:37,920 But when she stepped inside the cupboard, 195 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:41,360 she was never seen again. 196 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:44,440 I mean to say that she was stolen away. 197 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:46,160 Your friend, madam, she's in great distress. 198 00:14:46,240 --> 00:14:47,880 May I take you to her? 199 00:14:47,960 --> 00:14:49,680 You must send word to Jonathan Strange 200 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:51,080 at Ashfair House. 201 00:14:51,160 --> 00:14:52,960 Tell him he must not make the bargain. 202 00:14:53,040 --> 00:14:55,360 - He must not. - I'm sorry, madam. 203 00:14:55,440 --> 00:14:56,840 I do not understand. 204 00:14:56,920 --> 00:14:59,360 I mean... I mean to say moss-oak! 205 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:01,000 Moss-oak! 206 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:08,720 Moss-oak! Mean to say moss-oak! 207 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:11,200 Moss-oak! 208 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:12,400 Ahhh! 209 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:18,000 Bell! No. 210 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:20,120 Bell, no! 211 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:50,480 Mary, where is Mrs. Strange? 212 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:54,200 Is she not still in bed, sir? 213 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:56,840 No. 214 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:08,840 Would you find her for me, please? 215 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:17,760 An hour ago, I saw Mrs. Strange 216 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:19,000 upon the Welsh hills. 217 00:16:19,080 --> 00:16:20,520 I am in no doubt, sir. It was her. 218 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:22,120 Bell. Arabella. 219 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:24,040 She is not in the house, sir. 220 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:25,320 We do not know where she is. 221 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:28,760 Oh, she'll freeze herself to death. 222 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:30,560 Bring me some water, Mary. 223 00:16:30,640 --> 00:16:31,960 Now! 224 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:35,040 Fill it up. 225 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:38,720 Mr. Strange, ought we not ride out-- 226 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:40,000 Quiet. Quiet. 227 00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:00,840 Sir, what is this meant to do? 228 00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:02,080 Find her. 229 00:17:02,640 --> 00:17:05,200 Not in England, not in Wales, not in Scotland. 230 00:17:11,520 --> 00:17:13,720 Mary. Mary! 231 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:16,120 Fetch my coat and boots. 232 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:27,840 Madam! 233 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:29,240 Arabella. 234 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:31,120 Mrs. Strange. 235 00:17:36,480 --> 00:17:38,560 Mrs. Strange! 236 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:40,320 Arabella! 237 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:42,160 Mrs. Strange! 238 00:17:42,240 --> 00:17:43,920 Where are you? 239 00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:46,600 Bell. 240 00:17:46,680 --> 00:17:48,680 Mrs. Strange! 241 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:50,360 Arabella. 242 00:18:07,360 --> 00:18:09,760 Mrs. Strange! 243 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:15,160 So, we have Clunbury, Ashfair, and the marches. 244 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:17,040 I think I woke last night. 245 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:20,120 You did not say this before. 246 00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:22,000 I did not remember before. 247 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:29,880 Arabella was getting out of the bed. 248 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:52,840 I thought I had dreamt it. 249 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:01,200 Bell. Oh, thank God. 250 00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:03,600 Where on Earth have you been? 251 00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:06,680 Walking. In the woods. 252 00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:08,520 With my brothers and sisters. 253 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:10,640 Oh, madam. You are as cold as the grave. 254 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:12,920 What have you got on? 255 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:14,560 It's this way, madam. 256 00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:15,720 Please! 257 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:21,080 Madam. Madam, please. Quickly. 258 00:19:23,240 --> 00:19:26,880 Am I... Am I your wife? 259 00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:29,320 Of course you are. Of course you're my wife. 260 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:33,200 Do you... Do you accept me as your wife? 261 00:19:33,280 --> 00:19:34,960 Yes, yes. What... 262 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:37,800 Madam, madam. We must make haste. Please. 263 00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:45,760 You renounce all other wives? 264 00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:47,120 Bell, of course I do. 265 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:49,480 Of course. With all my heart. 266 00:19:56,360 --> 00:19:57,680 Where is my friend? 267 00:19:58,640 --> 00:19:59,680 I'm sorry, madam. 268 00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:01,000 Madam. 269 00:20:03,120 --> 00:20:07,840 Welcome to Lost Hope. 270 00:20:13,360 --> 00:20:16,040 Oh, she's dreadful cold, sir. 271 00:20:16,120 --> 00:20:18,600 Bell, my love. What were you thinking? 272 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:25,720 You are a poor husband. 273 00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:30,240 Your husband has bargained you away, madam. 274 00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:31,760 He has sold you to me 275 00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:35,680 in exchange for a piece of wood. 276 00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:38,160 You are to be mine 277 00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:41,280 for all time... And never leave. 278 00:20:41,360 --> 00:20:44,800 - I tried to tell you of this. - Emma. 279 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:46,120 - Bell. - Emma. 280 00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:49,560 - Take us home, Stephen. - Shh. 281 00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:54,560 Mmm. 282 00:21:01,760 --> 00:21:04,560 I do not offer anything 283 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:08,600 that will not be exquisitely agreeable to you. 284 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:10,800 My husband will hear of this. 285 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:14,120 There is no husband. 286 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:16,000 Not any more. 287 00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:25,320 Bell. 288 00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:31,240 Bell. 289 00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:33,560 Bell, no. 290 00:21:36,360 --> 00:21:38,200 It's me. 291 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:16,000 No. Bell! 292 00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:18,160 No! 293 00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:23,000 Bell, no! It's me. 294 00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:35,280 She is quite peaceful now. 295 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:41,120 What is this you do? 296 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:44,040 My mother used to tell me tales of magicians, 297 00:22:44,120 --> 00:22:45,680 different creatures. 298 00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:48,200 It was really what first drew me to magic 299 00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:50,240 the romance of it. 300 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:53,400 The tales I heard when I was a boy. 301 00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:55,920 When she die... When she... When she died, 302 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:59,080 I went around collecting folk tales, 303 00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:01,360 writing them up. 304 00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:04,440 And that story Lady Pole told last night, 305 00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:06,000 the lighthouse keeper and his cupboard, 306 00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:07,880 it made me think I've heard it before. 307 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:09,480 It is much like a tale 308 00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:12,040 told by the fishwives of Flamborough 309 00:23:12,120 --> 00:23:14,200 about a man called Bloodworth, 310 00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:15,680 who lit the lamp in the lighthouse 311 00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:18,120 during the 1500s. 312 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:20,040 - Is it a common story? - No. 313 00:23:20,120 --> 00:23:22,360 And the way she told it was not quite the same 314 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:24,920 as I have it in my book. But... 315 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:26,600 And what do you mean to say? 316 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:30,000 I do not believe Lady Pole's stories are nonsense. 317 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:32,040 I believe there is a pattern to them. 318 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:50,840 Bell? 319 00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:57,360 Bell? 320 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:12,120 Oh, God, Bell. 321 00:24:27,120 --> 00:24:28,280 And what do you consider 322 00:24:28,360 --> 00:24:29,960 so dangerous about this book? 323 00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:32,160 Everything. 324 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:34,280 Do you think I take the books of English magic to myself 325 00:24:34,360 --> 00:24:36,720 because I am some sort of miser, sir? 326 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:38,080 Because I rub my hands in glee, 327 00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:39,440 desiring to have it all? 328 00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:41,920 No, sir, no. No, I gather these books 329 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:43,760 because they are so very powerful and dangerous, 330 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:45,680 and Mr. Strange's book is the most dangerous of all. 331 00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:47,160 You consider that his book 332 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:48,960 will give ammunition to the Johannites? 333 00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:50,800 It is not a matter of consideration, my Lord, 334 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:52,160 it is a matter of... 335 00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:55,240 I beg your pardon. Give... Give ammunition to... 336 00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:57,640 The Johannites. Machine-breakers. 337 00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:00,040 - The rioters in the north. - I do not understand. 338 00:25:00,120 --> 00:25:01,560 What do rioters have to do with magic? 339 00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:03,320 Do you never look in a newspaper, sir? 340 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:04,720 No. 341 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:06,360 These men have lost their employment 342 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:08,280 to the new machines. 343 00:25:08,360 --> 00:25:10,160 They destroy factories and looms 344 00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:11,920 and proclaim themselves to be the followers 345 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:13,320 of the Raven King. 346 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:16,080 They carry his banner, they daub his blazon 347 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:17,600 - on the walls of-- - There is a ragged preacher 348 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:19,040 going around the north, telling people 349 00:25:19,120 --> 00:25:20,520 that the Raven King is coming back. 350 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:23,440 He's not coming back, is he? 351 00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:25,480 That is a ridiculous notion. 352 00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:31,440 But I... I... I see your anxiety. 353 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:32,520 I... 354 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:34,560 I see your anxiety. 355 00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:36,440 After all, the Raven King 356 00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:40,080 has always been associated with riot and revolution. 357 00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:43,240 You think Strange's book will support the Raven King? 358 00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:45,840 Everything he's done and said would say so. 359 00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:47,560 Then we must hope he sees sense. 360 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:50,640 Or that something occurs to stop him. 361 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:51,840 Yes. 362 00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:54,280 Yes, indeed. 363 00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:05,360 Not now, Henry. Not now! 364 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:30,320 I hope you'll forgive the mess. 365 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:31,760 I rather thought it was... 366 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:52,120 Now, Henry, do not take on. 367 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:54,040 It is all right. 368 00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:04,920 Come now. 369 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:06,800 Let us have something to eat. 370 00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:08,240 I can spare half an hour. 371 00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:27,040 - May I conduct the funeral? - Funeral, Henry? 372 00:27:27,120 --> 00:27:28,280 What would be the point of that? 373 00:27:28,360 --> 00:27:31,360 But, well, how else? 374 00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:34,960 There is to be no funeral, Henry. 375 00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:36,480 I'm going to bring her back to life. 376 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:39,840 I must get on. 377 00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:44,280 - Jonathan, what do you mean? - Precisely what I say. 378 00:27:44,360 --> 00:27:47,160 But such a thing is not possible, you cannot just-- 379 00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:49,400 It is perfectly possible, Henry, believe me. 380 00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:51,760 I did such a thing, of a rough sort, in Spain. 381 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:53,200 Of a rough sort? 382 00:27:55,120 --> 00:27:57,320 Dammit, Jonathan, she is my flesh and blood. 383 00:27:57,400 --> 00:27:59,400 And she is my heart and soul. 384 00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:03,480 What is magic to me otherwise? 385 00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:15,440 How'd it go? 386 00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:17,040 It is the problem of the Johannites 387 00:28:17,120 --> 00:28:19,440 which concerns them. 388 00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:21,320 Of course, you are aware of the Johannites? 389 00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:24,000 Aye. 390 00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:25,960 I fear, and I said it to them, 391 00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:27,320 that Mr. Strange's book 392 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:29,840 will put fire into their hearts. 393 00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:31,760 Mr. Lascelles is of the opinion that I should have 394 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:33,160 an attorney serve Mr. Strange-- 395 00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:35,680 Forgive me, sir. 396 00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:37,560 I think you take the advice of Mr. Lascelles 397 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:39,480 a little too freely. 398 00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:41,120 - Do you indeed? - Well, I may say 399 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:42,320 that it was you who suggested 400 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:43,680 that I turn to him and Drawlight 401 00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:45,320 - in the first place. - Yes, sir, I know-- 402 00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:46,720 If I did not have Mr. Lascelles, 403 00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:48,800 I would be quite alone. 404 00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:51,000 And Mr. Strange would be free to dictate the direction 405 00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:52,240 that English magic will take 406 00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:54,000 and spoil everything I have done. 407 00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:58,440 I will not have this book, Childermass, 408 00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:00,200 and Mr. Lascelles will help me to ensure that. 409 00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:02,520 I do not think Mr. Strange will be publishing 410 00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:05,840 anything any time soon, sir. 411 00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:07,080 His wife is dead. 412 00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:12,160 Dead? 413 00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:14,480 She went walking in the snow and caught a chill. 414 00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:17,240 Oh, 415 00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:20,720 Mr. Strange will feel that very badly. 416 00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:07,520 "And so I beg of you, dear sir, 417 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:09,800 for the sake of any friendship that once we enjoyed, 418 00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:11,480 you tell me what magic you employed 419 00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:14,080 to bring her Ladyship back to the bloom of life. 420 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:18,240 Tell me but this one thing, whatever magic it is, 421 00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:20,520 and I promise you I shall tell no one 422 00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:23,040 and that furthermore I shall put aside magic entirely, 423 00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:25,800 cease to call myself magician, and trouble you no more. 424 00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:28,920 Your affectionate friend, Jonathan Strange." 425 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:30,760 What shall I do? 426 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:32,360 Nothing, sir. There's no need. 427 00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:33,680 There's already talk in Shropshire 428 00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:35,160 that he killed his wife by black magic. 429 00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:37,160 That he has another wife somewhere. 430 00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:38,880 If it were now known he plans to raise 431 00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:41,120 the original from the dead, as he did those Italians, 432 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:42,560 his reputation will be ruined. 433 00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:44,200 No one would buy his book. 434 00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:46,160 I rather think Mr. Norrell was asking 435 00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:48,400 what he should do to help. 436 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:49,880 Were you not? 437 00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:52,600 Can we talk without the servants present, sir? 438 00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:55,480 No, let's not talk without the servants present. 439 00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:01,320 Strange has made his promise. 440 00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:02,720 He's a man of his word. 441 00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:04,960 You and he can bring Mrs. Strange back 442 00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:06,640 between you, I'm sure. 443 00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:07,800 I presume you now understand 444 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:09,760 what went amiss with Lady Pole, 445 00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:11,960 - she need not come back mad. - Could we talk without 446 00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:15,440 the servants present, sir? 447 00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:34,800 It is most vexing. 448 00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:38,480 I mean to say, his first reaction when his wife dies 449 00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:40,880 is to turn to black magic. 450 00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:45,240 It is the measure of the man, sir. 451 00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:47,280 But perhaps Childermass is... 452 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:50,560 Well, perhaps if I just explained to-- 453 00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:53,240 Childermass has his own reasons for doing anything. 454 00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:57,040 Mr. Strange has broken with you, sir. 455 00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:01,320 He has gone against your wishes time and again. 456 00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:04,720 Sir, all you have done is for the good 457 00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:05,880 of English magic. 458 00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:07,480 You are... 459 00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:09,880 the good of English magic. 460 00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:13,400 Do not allow your goodness to be used against you. 461 00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:15,720 - Yes, but... - Write to him if you wish, 462 00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:17,800 but I could not in all conscience, 463 00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:20,520 stand by and see you inflict such damage 464 00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:22,920 upon your own cause. 465 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:26,040 I fear I could no longer be your friend. 466 00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:00,920 Poor man. 467 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:03,800 There is no need to whisper, dear Stephen. 468 00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:06,720 He can neither see nor hear us. 469 00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:09,240 He is attempting to summon me. 470 00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:10,920 Ignorant fool. 471 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,240 He may be ignorant, but he still succeeded, sir. 472 00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:14,600 What? 473 00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:15,760 After all, 474 00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:18,480 you are here, sir. 475 00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:21,160 Yes. 476 00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:23,080 I dare say. 477 00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:27,240 But if I choose not to make myself heard, nor seen, 478 00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:28,640 what use is that? 479 00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:32,560 Stephen, quick, turn the pages of that book. 480 00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:35,800 There is no breeze in the room and it will perplex him. 481 00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:56,960 Really, watching this fellow try to do magic 482 00:33:57,040 --> 00:34:00,760 is like seeing a man sit down to eat dinner 483 00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:02,800 with his coat on backwards. 484 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:07,480 He has just lost his wife, sir. 485 00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:09,440 Yes. 486 00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:12,320 And what a delicious irony that he summons me. 487 00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:19,400 Oh, give his neck a pinch, Stephen. 488 00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:20,920 He will think it is a gnat. 489 00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:24,680 It is said the Raven King 490 00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:26,080 brought the son of a nobleman 491 00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:27,640 with whom he had quarreled back to life. 492 00:34:27,720 --> 00:34:30,160 Henry Barbatus, died of a fever. 493 00:34:30,240 --> 00:34:33,400 The King had his body dug up out of its grave. 494 00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:36,480 Perhaps it involved some exchange of... 495 00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:39,160 The life of trees, or dogs, or... 496 00:34:39,240 --> 00:34:41,040 Jonathan... 497 00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:42,880 The Raven King was nothing if not practical. 498 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:04,360 You will not come back speaking 499 00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:05,960 in the tongues of Hell. 500 00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:16,280 You will come back with the voices of Heaven. 501 00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:31,480 Bell? 502 00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:33,280 Wake up. 503 00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:36,600 If you please. 504 00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:39,840 Please wake up. 505 00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:46,440 I'm sorry, my love. 506 00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:55,840 There. 507 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:26,880 Nothing from Norrell. Nothing! 508 00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:29,280 It is seven days, Jonathan. 509 00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:31,560 One more day. I beg you. 510 00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:33,360 No, Jonathan. I believe in the resurrection 511 00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:34,600 to eternal life. 512 00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:36,000 Norrell does not want to tell me. 513 00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:37,240 I will go to him. 514 00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:39,320 - I will make him. - Jonathan, stop. 515 00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:41,000 - Get out of my way. - Do you honestly believe 516 00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:42,880 this is what Arabella would wish? 517 00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:44,240 Do you think she would be pleased with you? 518 00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:45,360 She would be alive, Henry. 519 00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:47,560 I wish her to be alive! 520 00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:49,760 But she's dead. 521 00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:51,040 The corpse lying upstairs 522 00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:54,600 is no longer your wife or my sister. 523 00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:56,760 What would it be if you brought it back now? 524 00:36:58,200 --> 00:36:59,560 Please stop. 525 00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:02,640 Please, respect her and respect yourself. 526 00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:07,600 It breaks my heart to say this, Jonathan, 527 00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:10,320 she is the only family I will ever have, 528 00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:12,280 she's my most beloved sister. 529 00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:15,680 She must... 530 00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:17,160 be let go. 531 00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:55,080 You were the very reason I did magic. 532 00:37:58,320 --> 00:37:59,960 You were the reason I did anything. 533 00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:04,720 The excitement of it was very much to see 534 00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:06,360 how you would look at me. 535 00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:14,680 The excitement of life was very much to see 536 00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:16,480 how you would look at me. 537 00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:23,520 Goodbye, my love. 538 00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:42,040 ...and that I shall rise out of the earth 539 00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:43,560 on the last day. 540 00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:46,200 And shall be covered again with my skin. 541 00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:48,440 And shall see God in my flesh. 542 00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:51,480 Yea, and I myself shall behold him, 543 00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:54,760 not with other, but with these same eyes. 544 00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:56,920 For as much as it has pleased almighty God 545 00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:58,880 to take unto himself 546 00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:01,640 the soul of our dear sister here departed, 547 00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:05,000 we therefore commit her body to the ground. 548 00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:06,440 Earth to Earth, 549 00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:10,560 ashes to ashes, dust to dust. 550 00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:12,400 In the sure and certain hope 551 00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:14,920 of resurrection to eternal life, 552 00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:18,480 through our Lord Jesus Christ, Amen. 553 00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:29,400 It seems a waste for you 554 00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:31,000 to have come all this way, Stephen. 555 00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:33,200 Sir Walter wished you to be told in person. 556 00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:36,600 He wishes me to stay by you. 557 00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:38,600 He considered you might be very distressed 558 00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:40,160 by the death of Mrs. Strange. 559 00:39:40,240 --> 00:39:43,200 I am very distressed by what has happened. 560 00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:46,000 No one is more distressed than I. 561 00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:47,840 I had considered at least it would have given me 562 00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:49,600 someone to talk to. 563 00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:51,120 But she is so very, very far away. 564 00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:57,440 So it is when someone is dead. 565 00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:04,360 Mr. Black, my colleague and I consider we would fail 566 00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:07,440 in our duty of care if we did not ask you something. 567 00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:08,880 What is it, gentlemen? 568 00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:10,840 We know how impatient you and her Ladyship 569 00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:12,440 are of magicians, sir, but, erm-- 570 00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:14,000 The nonsense that she speaks, sir, well, 571 00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:15,600 we have been listening to it when it comes. 572 00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:16,880 I have been reading my old notes, 573 00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:18,760 and I believe it has a pattern, sir. 574 00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:19,920 We were wondering if you think 575 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:22,400 we might induce her 576 00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:24,280 to speak in that way, in order to study-- 577 00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:26,280 No. I think you may not. 578 00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:28,440 But, you see, sir, she speaks in fairy tales, 579 00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:30,440 - as we would call them-- - Gentlemen. 580 00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:33,120 Do not meddle in such things. 581 00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:34,760 You have no idea of where it will end. 582 00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:37,400 And you are not fit to do it. 583 00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:38,680 But, surely if we can help-- 584 00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:41,560 No, you cannot. No one can help. 585 00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:43,800 We must accept that she cannot be cured. 586 00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:47,400 And yourself? 587 00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:53,720 You do not have my permission. 588 00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:57,840 And I do not want any more talk of it. 589 00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:06,840 - Did you see it? - No. 590 00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:10,720 Well, I see it plainly on both of them. 591 00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:12,360 I vote we go ahead. 592 00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:31,960 Stop! 593 00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:43,480 - You are changed. - Truth to tell, 594 00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:45,560 I was not quite myself for a time. 595 00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:49,720 Would you give this to Lady Pole? 596 00:41:53,240 --> 00:41:54,680 I think Bell would be pleased to know 597 00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:56,520 that your wife had something to remember her by. 598 00:41:56,600 --> 00:42:00,440 I'm sure she would be most... Comforted. 599 00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:04,200 You have not given up magic, then? 600 00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:10,720 - It is just I had heard... - What had you heard? 601 00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:12,160 I... 602 00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:16,880 I am no longer a practical magician. 603 00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:20,360 That does not mean I have abandoned magic. 604 00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:23,080 Norrell is in agonies whenever your book is mentioned. 605 00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:25,840 Agonies... 606 00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:29,920 Well, the book is only the beginning. 607 00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:32,680 I mean to say, when you consider the matter, 608 00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:35,000 what does our so-called restoration of English magic 609 00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:36,640 really amount to? 610 00:42:36,720 --> 00:42:40,320 What have Norrell and I actually done? Illusions. 611 00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:43,040 Storms and bad weather. His silly sea beacons. 612 00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:44,280 He still has not completed them. 613 00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:45,560 Compare our sorry reckoning 614 00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:47,480 with the magicians of the Golden Age. 615 00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:50,040 They, they transformed themselves into mice, 616 00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:51,760 foxes, rivers. 617 00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:53,480 They made ships out of cobwebs 618 00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:55,720 and houses out of rose bushes-- 619 00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:59,560 Mr. Strange, I... I do not much like saying it, 620 00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:03,960 but it occurs to me Norrell may be right. 621 00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:06,600 These kinds of magic will not suit us nowadays. 622 00:43:06,680 --> 00:43:08,200 How can you say that when none of us knows 623 00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:10,160 what magic it is? 624 00:43:10,240 --> 00:43:12,240 No, we must turn our attention to the life 625 00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:13,760 and magic of the Raven King. 626 00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:15,600 - And when we do-- - I am sorry, Mr. Strange. 627 00:43:15,680 --> 00:43:17,720 That is the one thing we must not do. 628 00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:24,320 I am serious. I tell you this as a friend. 629 00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:26,240 Too much talk of other kings 630 00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:28,560 is bound to make the government nervous. 631 00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:32,320 How can we restore English magic until we know 632 00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:34,080 what it is we're supposed to be restoring? 633 00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:36,800 We do not require English magic to be restored any more 634 00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:38,560 than it already has been. 635 00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:41,720 Leave John Uskglass 636 00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:44,280 in the obscurity Mr. Norrell has placed him. 637 00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:46,120 Norrell has poisoned your minds. 638 00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:47,600 Literally, in your case. 639 00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:50,040 Do you not consider... 640 00:43:50,120 --> 00:43:52,240 Do you not consider what happened to your wife? 641 00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:57,440 Do you not question why she went mad? 642 00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:08,040 - This idea is madness. - Madness is what it is not. 643 00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:09,480 Whatever you hope to gain from this-- 644 00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:11,960 My liberty, Stephen. 645 00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:14,680 - Mine and hers. - You cannot fight him. 646 00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:20,240 Mrs. Strange. 647 00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:23,320 She doesn't know what is done. 648 00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:27,320 She is happy. You and I... 649 00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:30,640 We have survived so far. 650 00:44:30,720 --> 00:44:33,280 What would you suggest, Stephen? 651 00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:39,480 We should accept our position and be thankful for it. 652 00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:47,120 He has poisoned your mind. 653 00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:54,680 So, gentlemen, what are we to do? 654 00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:58,720 Try and, er, describe 655 00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:01,640 what most distresses you, my Lady. 656 00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:10,200 Bell, no. It's me. 657 00:45:11,520 --> 00:45:13,240 There was once a Christian who went hunting 658 00:45:13,320 --> 00:45:14,880 in a wood of wych elm. 659 00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:16,960 His horse got its hoof caught in a rabbit hole 660 00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:18,400 and he tumbled in. 661 00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:20,600 He found himself in a strange country, 662 00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:23,880 lit by its own sun and nurtured by its own rain. 663 00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:27,280 In a wood very much like the one he had just left, 664 00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:29,640 he found a brugh where a party of gentlemen, 665 00:45:29,720 --> 00:45:32,280 some of them rather odd, were playing napdraw. 666 00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:34,800 Here. The Huntsman and the rabbit hole. 667 00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:37,160 Er, but you heard her say "brugh"? 668 00:45:37,240 --> 00:45:39,120 And, erm, "napdraw", what is that? 669 00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:40,720 Er, I think it is a card game, 670 00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:43,280 rather like what we would call Spoil Five. 671 00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:47,760 I think it best if you speak generally, my Lady. 672 00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:49,280 If you aim right for the truth, 673 00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:51,520 you veer off at even stranger angles. 674 00:45:51,600 --> 00:45:54,080 - Yes. - Speak around it this time. 675 00:45:59,720 --> 00:46:01,320 There was once a farmer of Harrogate-- 676 00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:03,160 --who desired very greatly 677 00:46:03,240 --> 00:46:06,240 to grow broad beans bigger than any in Yorkshire. 678 00:46:06,320 --> 00:46:09,560 To this end, he enlisted the assistance of Col Tom Blue 679 00:46:09,640 --> 00:46:12,360 who helped him grow beans as large as a man's foot. 680 00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:16,160 Madam, please, we must stop this. 681 00:46:16,240 --> 00:46:17,360 Go on. 682 00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:20,720 Col Tom Blue had enchanted the beans 683 00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:22,200 as a means to capture the souls 684 00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:24,320 of the little children. 685 00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:26,280 The little children were then carried off 686 00:46:26,360 --> 00:46:28,360 to the Castles of the Five. 687 00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:32,240 I have it. She said, "Castles of the Five." 688 00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:35,000 That's a common story about a fairy but he is unnamed. 689 00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:37,440 You called him Col Tom Blue. 690 00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:41,960 I think what you are telling, my Lady, are fairy tales. 691 00:46:42,040 --> 00:46:43,880 But told, in some way, from the point of view 692 00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:45,800 of the fairy himself. 693 00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:48,000 Human tales, as it were. 694 00:46:51,240 --> 00:46:52,760 - Is this the madhouse? - Yes, 695 00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:54,080 it most certainly is. 696 00:46:54,160 --> 00:46:55,720 I've got a madman for ya. 697 00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:58,760 - He's blue. - Blue? 698 00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:00,480 With your permission, madam, 699 00:47:00,560 --> 00:47:02,480 we would like to write to Mr. Strange. 700 00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:04,160 Yes. Please! 701 00:47:04,240 --> 00:47:06,320 Mr. Segundus. Mr. Honeyfoot. 702 00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:07,680 Excuse us, ma'am. 703 00:47:15,120 --> 00:47:18,120 Madman. He's been going round markets, pinching. 704 00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:22,000 Shouting all sorts of nonsense about Raven King. 705 00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:24,160 We'll need all of you to bring him. 706 00:47:26,320 --> 00:47:28,240 - What is the matter? - Madman. 707 00:47:30,080 --> 00:47:31,760 I've met you before. 708 00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:35,240 And you. 709 00:47:35,320 --> 00:47:39,240 I have a message for you, nameless slave. 710 00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:43,520 Unhand me. 711 00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:45,000 The rain shall wake it all for me-- 712 00:47:45,080 --> 00:47:47,480 Unhand me! 713 00:47:54,960 --> 00:47:56,240 Do you see anything in this 714 00:47:56,320 --> 00:47:58,400 that might be called seditious? 715 00:47:58,480 --> 00:48:02,200 I see that he would tear England to pieces. 716 00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:05,480 I see that he will spoil magic for generations to come! 717 00:48:07,080 --> 00:48:10,000 Why did you not let me have my magical court? 718 00:48:10,080 --> 00:48:12,160 From what I understand from my man at Murray's, 719 00:48:12,240 --> 00:48:13,680 there is no direct call 720 00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:15,480 for the restoration of the Raven King. 721 00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:18,880 But such a call would not be against the law, 722 00:48:18,960 --> 00:48:21,400 as it currently stands. 723 00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:24,400 May we keep this... For a while? 724 00:48:25,920 --> 00:48:27,920 We will remain in touch. 725 00:48:34,640 --> 00:48:37,040 I do not know how I shall prevent him. 726 00:48:37,120 --> 00:48:38,400 I do not know. 727 00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:40,080 Oh, what do you want to prevent him for? 728 00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:45,720 Call a halt to this bloody stupid feud. 729 00:48:45,800 --> 00:48:46,920 It won't end well for you both. 730 00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:48,280 Join him, if you wish. 731 00:48:48,360 --> 00:48:50,280 Join him and Murray and the other traitors. 732 00:48:50,360 --> 00:48:52,120 I'm not going anywhere. Don't worry. 733 00:48:52,200 --> 00:48:55,200 That is a shame. I agree with you, though. 734 00:48:55,280 --> 00:48:56,720 Between us, I'm sure we can put a halt 735 00:48:56,800 --> 00:48:58,320 to Strange's book. 736 00:49:10,520 --> 00:49:14,160 Childermass? Is that you? 737 00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:27,760 I've been expecting you. How is your master? 738 00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:31,720 Poorly, sir. 739 00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:34,520 Colds and headaches and tremblings in the limbs. 740 00:49:34,600 --> 00:49:38,360 All the usual symptoms when someone has vexed him. 741 00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:40,960 And no one vexes him as you do. 742 00:49:41,040 --> 00:49:42,400 And what does he think about you 743 00:49:42,480 --> 00:49:44,680 turning yourself into shadows 744 00:49:44,760 --> 00:49:46,760 and making yourself invisible? 745 00:49:48,240 --> 00:49:51,440 I have been 18 years in Mr. Norrell's service, 746 00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:53,960 and before that I was a pickpocket. 747 00:49:54,040 --> 00:49:55,560 I would have to be a dull fellow 748 00:49:55,640 --> 00:49:57,880 to have learnt nothing at all. 749 00:49:57,960 --> 00:50:00,360 That was not what I asked. 750 00:50:00,440 --> 00:50:03,720 Well, come and see what you were sent to see. 751 00:50:05,120 --> 00:50:07,120 I have nothing to hide. 752 00:50:12,080 --> 00:50:14,040 They are very beautiful. 753 00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:18,240 I aim for the whole book to be a work of beauty. 754 00:50:19,600 --> 00:50:22,240 So, these are the King's Roads? 755 00:50:22,320 --> 00:50:24,120 Built by the Raven King himself. 756 00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:27,520 What is the country that the bridges cross? 757 00:50:27,600 --> 00:50:29,120 I do not know. 758 00:50:30,800 --> 00:50:33,000 What is your opinion, magician? 759 00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:41,040 I suppose it is Faerie. 760 00:50:43,680 --> 00:50:45,600 Was the magic difficult? 761 00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:49,080 You need a spell of revelation, 762 00:50:49,160 --> 00:50:51,760 I used Doncaster, and another of dissolution 763 00:50:51,840 --> 00:50:53,600 to melt the mirror's surface. 764 00:50:53,680 --> 00:50:55,760 - Do you follow me? - Yes, sir. 765 00:50:58,320 --> 00:51:01,000 Have these landscapes always been there? 766 00:51:01,080 --> 00:51:03,080 I believe so. 767 00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:04,560 Well, why have magicians not been able 768 00:51:04,640 --> 00:51:06,120 to go about upon them? 769 00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:09,360 These roads were all closed, hidden behind mirrors. 770 00:51:09,440 --> 00:51:11,400 But now... 771 00:51:11,480 --> 00:51:14,480 Something has occurred to open up them up again. 772 00:51:14,560 --> 00:51:15,920 Now, there is more magic in England 773 00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:18,320 than either you or I can understand. 774 00:51:18,400 --> 00:51:20,240 I think that is true. 775 00:51:22,920 --> 00:51:24,680 Is it not time, Childermass, that you left 776 00:51:24,760 --> 00:51:27,440 Gilbert Norrell's service and came to me? 777 00:51:27,520 --> 00:51:30,160 There need be none of this servant nonsense. 778 00:51:30,240 --> 00:51:32,760 You would be my pupil and assistant. 779 00:51:34,880 --> 00:51:37,240 Thank you, sir. Thank you. 780 00:51:38,480 --> 00:51:39,720 But Mr. Norrell and I are not done 781 00:51:39,800 --> 00:51:41,960 with each other yet. 782 00:51:42,040 --> 00:51:45,080 And besides, I think I would make a very bad pupil. 783 00:51:45,160 --> 00:51:46,960 Worse even than you. 784 00:51:48,840 --> 00:51:50,520 Was I so very bad? 785 00:51:53,560 --> 00:51:54,960 I merely asked questions. 786 00:51:55,040 --> 00:51:56,720 Surely that is the prerogative of any pupil. 787 00:51:56,800 --> 00:51:59,320 I do not know how it will end with you and Norrell, 788 00:51:59,400 --> 00:52:02,440 but I tell you what I'll do. 789 00:52:02,520 --> 00:52:07,320 If you fail and Norrell wins, I shall leave his service. 790 00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:08,840 I'll take up your cause, 791 00:52:08,920 --> 00:52:11,400 and then there will still be two magicians in England 792 00:52:11,480 --> 00:52:13,280 and two opinions upon magic. 793 00:52:14,600 --> 00:52:17,640 But, if he should fail and you win, 794 00:52:17,720 --> 00:52:19,880 I'll do the same against you. 795 00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:22,840 Good enough? 796 00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:31,880 Yes. 797 00:52:33,280 --> 00:52:35,040 Thank you for your frankness, sir. 798 00:52:35,120 --> 00:52:38,880 It is Norrell who likes to keep secrets, not I. 799 00:52:38,960 --> 00:52:40,120 Besides, I have told you nothing 800 00:52:40,200 --> 00:52:42,000 that is not already in my book. 801 00:52:42,080 --> 00:52:44,600 Within a month, every man, woman and child in the kingdom 802 00:52:44,680 --> 00:52:46,080 will be able to read it 803 00:52:46,160 --> 00:52:48,640 and form his own opinions on it. 804 00:52:48,720 --> 00:52:49,840 Which is just as it should be. 805 00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:51,440 Regarding that, sir... 806 00:52:51,520 --> 00:52:53,320 I think I should warn you to be careful. 807 00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:55,240 Of what? 808 00:52:55,320 --> 00:52:56,840 Of your book, sir. 809 00:52:56,920 --> 00:52:58,040 What do you mean? 810 00:52:58,120 --> 00:52:59,480 He is trying to have it stopped. 811 00:53:00,960 --> 00:53:02,640 How? 812 00:53:02,720 --> 00:53:04,280 By whatever means he can, I think. 813 00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:06,400 God damn him. 814 00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:10,200 God damn him. 815 00:53:10,280 --> 00:53:12,480 What have I ever done to him, Childermass? 816 00:53:12,560 --> 00:53:16,560 What did I ever do apart from be frank and pleasant? 817 00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:19,200 This book will stand as tribute to my wife. 818 00:53:19,280 --> 00:53:22,440 - Mr. Strange-- - Damn him. God damn him! 819 00:53:22,520 --> 00:53:26,480 No. Bloody idiot! 820 00:53:31,080 --> 00:53:34,840 Mr. Norrell. Mr. Norrell, 821 00:53:34,920 --> 00:53:37,040 it is your former pupil and former friend! 822 00:53:37,120 --> 00:53:39,360 Mr. Norrell is not at home, sir... 823 00:53:39,440 --> 00:53:40,520 Oh! 824 00:53:41,760 --> 00:53:43,120 Mr. Norrell! 825 00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:44,520 What is this? You quarrel with my book? 826 00:53:44,600 --> 00:53:46,560 Your book cannot be published, sir. 827 00:53:46,640 --> 00:53:48,320 - We will not allow it. - Why? 828 00:53:48,400 --> 00:53:50,480 What on Earth does it matter? Leave me be! 829 00:53:50,560 --> 00:53:52,200 Do you not consider you have hurt me enough? 830 00:53:52,280 --> 00:53:53,440 Do you not consider you have hurt 831 00:53:53,520 --> 00:53:55,600 - Mr. Norrell enough? - What hurt? 832 00:53:55,680 --> 00:53:57,680 I wrote begging with everything I could offer 833 00:53:57,760 --> 00:54:00,120 that he help do for my wife what he did for Lady Pole! 834 00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:02,160 I pleaded, sir, on any condition, 835 00:54:02,240 --> 00:54:04,440 that he help me bring my wife back, 836 00:54:04,520 --> 00:54:06,440 and he did not even reply. 837 00:54:08,840 --> 00:54:09,920 What was the magic? 838 00:54:12,560 --> 00:54:14,640 Why will you not tell me? 839 00:54:14,720 --> 00:54:16,560 I know why. 840 00:54:16,640 --> 00:54:17,800 I know why. 841 00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:32,240 Charlatan! 842 00:54:33,760 --> 00:54:35,400 You're no friend of mine! 843 00:54:35,480 --> 00:54:36,520 House-breaker! 844 00:55:11,360 --> 00:55:12,440 Merlin. 845 00:55:15,240 --> 00:55:17,800 I'm here to help you. 846 00:55:17,880 --> 00:55:20,200 The most terrible things are being done against you. 847 00:55:20,280 --> 00:55:22,200 They seek to arraign you for breaking 848 00:55:22,280 --> 00:55:24,400 into Norrell's house. 849 00:55:24,480 --> 00:55:26,640 They say I killed Bell. 850 00:55:26,720 --> 00:55:28,960 They say that if a charge can be found under modern law, 851 00:55:29,040 --> 00:55:32,640 they plan to try you for murder by witchcraft. 852 00:55:32,720 --> 00:55:33,920 Ah. 853 00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:35,560 So, what do you mean to do? 854 00:55:37,200 --> 00:55:39,400 I shall summon a fairy. 855 00:55:39,480 --> 00:55:41,360 I do not think that germane to your situation. 856 00:55:41,440 --> 00:55:42,880 You are wrong. 857 00:55:42,960 --> 00:55:45,640 You wonder if such a thing is even possible. 858 00:55:45,720 --> 00:55:47,000 The received opinion is that fairies 859 00:55:47,080 --> 00:55:48,960 do not visit England any more. 860 00:55:50,080 --> 00:55:51,400 But I tell you, I was in company 861 00:55:51,480 --> 00:55:52,680 with one at Windsor Castle. 862 00:55:54,160 --> 00:55:55,880 No magician of any era could help me 863 00:55:55,960 --> 00:55:58,480 as much as a fairy. 864 00:55:58,560 --> 00:56:00,440 I've tried every spell I know, this way and that. 865 00:56:00,520 --> 00:56:02,560 Nothing seems to work. 866 00:56:02,640 --> 00:56:04,960 But then I thought on it. 867 00:56:05,040 --> 00:56:07,240 I did not see the fairy. 868 00:56:07,320 --> 00:56:10,120 That is the difficulty. To see and hear them. 869 00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:13,880 Yet there was one present who perceived him very clearly. 870 00:56:13,960 --> 00:56:16,320 Why could he, when I could not? 871 00:56:16,400 --> 00:56:19,240 Merlin, let me bring you out of here. 872 00:56:19,320 --> 00:56:21,840 It is very important that I do this, Grant. 873 00:56:23,240 --> 00:56:26,520 Well, was this fellow a magician? 874 00:56:26,600 --> 00:56:29,880 No. This man was just... Mad. 875 00:56:34,880 --> 00:56:37,800 Now what must be done is to get you away from here. 876 00:56:37,880 --> 00:56:40,280 We will enlist Sir Wellington's help. 877 00:56:40,360 --> 00:56:42,120 Sir, open this door. 878 00:56:42,200 --> 00:56:44,240 This is the Duke of Wellington's man! 879 00:56:46,320 --> 00:56:48,040 He will not have you slandered so. 880 00:56:48,120 --> 00:56:50,920 But then again, madness is not such a very queer notion. 881 00:56:51,000 --> 00:56:53,040 Think of the magicians of the Golden Age. 882 00:56:53,120 --> 00:56:54,520 They were the fairies' near-neighbors 883 00:56:54,600 --> 00:56:57,640 in wildness, insanity. 884 00:56:57,720 --> 00:57:01,240 - Perhaps I am too tame... - Mr. Strange, listen. 885 00:57:01,320 --> 00:57:04,800 But how does one work up a little madness in oneself? 886 00:57:04,880 --> 00:57:06,240 Perhaps I should go wandering. 887 00:57:06,320 --> 00:57:08,600 Perhaps the wilderness will make me mad. 888 00:57:09,920 --> 00:57:12,360 I think you've hit upon something, Grant. 889 00:57:12,440 --> 00:57:15,440 My book is finished. London is set against me. 890 00:57:15,520 --> 00:57:17,160 It is time for me to become the magician 891 00:57:17,240 --> 00:57:19,800 - I am destined to become. - Merlin, you cannot propose 892 00:57:19,880 --> 00:57:22,040 that you purposely become a... a lunatic. 893 00:57:22,120 --> 00:57:24,000 You will only help your enemies. 894 00:57:24,080 --> 00:57:27,280 What must be done now is to take you away from here. 895 00:57:27,360 --> 00:57:31,480 Now then. Gaoler. Gaoler. 896 00:57:32,920 --> 00:57:35,960 Come on, man. Unlock this door. 897 00:57:36,040 --> 00:57:38,040 Look sharp. At the double, go on. 898 00:57:39,600 --> 00:57:41,320 Come on, man, at the double. 899 00:57:47,320 --> 00:57:48,440 Merlin? 900 00:57:48,520 --> 00:57:51,440 The prisoner's missing! Guards! 901 00:57:51,520 --> 00:57:54,400 The magician has escaped! Guards...