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- Something wrong
superintendent?

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- Absolutely not Robert.

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Please proceed.

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- There's nothing wrong with me.

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- Shh.

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Miss Puge we're
here to help you.

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No need to be afraid.

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The librium of the
scrotum as diagnosed...

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- Get on with it.

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- Miss Puge.

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- No.

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- No one is out to get you.

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You're safe, this is part
of your treatment here

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at Blackwell's Island.

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You do want to get
well, don't you?

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- No, no, no.

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No.

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- Feel better now don't you?

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- Mama.

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- Doctor Kinier.

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What's happening?

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- I don't know if I have enough.

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- Can you hear me?

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Talk to me.

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- Enough!

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Send her to the crematorium.

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I will make out the papers.

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- I wasn't
always known as Nellie Bly.

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I was born Elizabeth Cockringe
during the Civil War,

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outside of Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.

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Since I was a child, I
wanted to be a reporter.

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It'd been two years since I
wrote the Pittsburgh Dispatch,

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to criticize an article that
mocked women looking for work.

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The managing editor was so
impressed with my response,

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that he made the rare
choice of hiring me,

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a female to work as a reporter.

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You see in 1887, journalism
was a man's world,

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an exclusive,
albeit, crusty cigar,

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and spittoon filled club.

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The women were not welcomed.

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- Nellie Bly.

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We were
considered too dainty

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and fragile for such work.

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So how did I, the
fabled mere woman,

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fair sex, a faint heart,

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become the most known investigative reporter in the world.

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Well, I have always believed

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that energy rightly
applied and directed...

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- Come in.

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Will
accomplish anything.

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- Nellie Bly I'd like to
introduce you to our publisher,

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Joseph Pulitzer.

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- It's very nice to
meet you Mr. Pulitzer.

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It is a great honor.

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- Bly is not your real name.

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- No, Nellie Bly is my pen name.

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- She is small.

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- But plucky.

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- Is that enough?

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- Her recommendation
is impeccable.

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Her reputation is outstanding.

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I believe she was made for this.

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- She is unknown.

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If this fails, it is not her
reputation that is on the line.

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- I would live to thank you
for the advance, Mr. Cokerill.

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I am ready for any opportunity
the World Newspaper

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has for me.

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- I've spoken with Mr. Pulitzer

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about some of the
ideas you suggested.

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- Oh.

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- Would you really have
gone up in a balloon?

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- Without question.

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You gave the assignment to
a male reporter instead,

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I would have drawn
greater sensation.

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- No doubt.

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But we have another idea,

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the World Newspaper would
like you to infiltrate

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one of the asylums for the
insane in New York City.

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- To report on the
treatment of the patients?

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- Yes.

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- Which asylum?

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- Blackwell's Island
Lunatic Asylum for Women.

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- To get in, I will
have to be committed.

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- We can find a doctor who'd
be willing to sign the papers.

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- No I'll have to do it myself.

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The only sure way
I am not revealed

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is absolutely everyone
must believe I am insane.

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How will you get me out
after I once get in?

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- I do not know.

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It will be quite dangerous.

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- I have faith in my abilities.

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- No doubt you have
faith in your abilities

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to deceive the insanity experts,

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I fear they cannot be deceived.

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- I will teach myself to be mad.

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- It is vital that
you not be revealed,

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your very life
may be threatened.

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- I am not afraid of danger.

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- And how do we truly
test the competency

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of the doctors and nurses.

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- The answer is simple,

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I will be insane long
enough to get committed,

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but from the moment I enter
the insane ward on the island,

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I will talk and act just
as I do in ordinary life.

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Then it is decided.

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- It is decided.

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- I shall feign insanity
have myself committed

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to Blackwell's Lunatic Asylum.

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Yes.

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Uh, just one more thing.

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- What is it?

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- I am afraid of that
chronic smile of yours.

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- I will smile no more.

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- After
receiving my instructions,

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I returned to my boarding house.

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And in front of the mirror,

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I began to practice the role
in which I was to make my debut

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to convince the world
that I was insane.

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I turned the gas up high,

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in hopes that it
would raise my courage

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against the thought that
I about to be locked away

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in a mad house, with no
clear way to get out.

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I quietly bathed fair well

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to the precious comforts
of modern civilization.

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It may be for days.

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It may be for longer.

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I took a last fond look
at myself as a sane woman.

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Who could tell, but that
the strain of playing crazy

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might burn my own brain

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and I would never get back.

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I decided to start my
mission at a temporary home

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for working women.

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My objective was to make
this house full of women

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believe me crazy,

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so they would never rest
until I was out of there reach

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and in secure quartets.

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- Well what do you want?

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- I want to stay
here for a few days,

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if you can accommodate me.

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- Well I have no single
rooms, we are so crowded.

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But if you will occupy a
room with another girl,

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I shall grant you that much.

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- I shall be glad of that.

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How much do you charge?

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- Thirty cents a night.

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Move along.

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So now I was
amongst these honest workers,

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the most deserving of women.

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I selected them as the ones
to work out my salvation,

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or more properly speaking,

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my condemnation and conviction
into the insane asylum.

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- Shhh.

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Shhh!

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Shhh!

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- What's wrong with you?

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Have you some
sorrow or troubled?

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- No why?

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- Oh because I can
see it in your face.

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What kind of work are
you trying to get?

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- I never worked,
I don't know how.

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- But you must learn,
all these women work.

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- Do they?

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Oh why they all
look horrible to me.

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Just like crazy women.

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There's so many
crazy people about.

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It
was amusing to see

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what remarkably short time it
took to get up from her chair

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and hurriedly move away
from the crazy girl.

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I knew my performance
had hit home.

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- So I said to the supervisor,

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that it's just not right
to keep this place so cold.

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I mean if they want
us to produce faster,

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they really ought to invest
in a couple sticks of wood

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for the stove, don't you agree?

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- I don't know, I cannot say.

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Oh yes, I mean no, I don't know.

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Oh is it suddenly hot in here?

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I know nothing about
the boats to Boston.

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I have to find my trunks!

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- It's time for bed ladies.

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- Oh I'm afraid.

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Can I not sit by
the stairs tonight?

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- No!

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Everyone in the house will
think that you're crazy.

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- This way Miss Brown.

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- No, this is my room.

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I will not stay with
that crazy woman

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for all the money
in the Vanderbelts.

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My
act was working.

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The women were afraid of me.

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- I can't have her
scaring you all off.

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I'll send for a policeman

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and have her taken away at once.

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Go fetch a policeman
from the corner.

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- No she can stay in my room.

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- There's only one bed, I don't
have time to set up another.

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- That'll be fine.

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- Only this
one woman among the crowd,

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pretty and delicate
Mrs. Caine...

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- Suit yourself.

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- Displayed
true compassionate feeling.

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She smoothed my hair

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and talked as soothingly
to me as a mother would do

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to a sick child.

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- I don't remember
much about my mother,

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but I always remember her
combing through my hair

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and getting me ready for bed.

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Let's get you out of that
dress and ready for bed.

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- No!

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They're going to kill me.

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- Who's going to kill you?

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- I will not take off my dress.

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- Perhaps if you just
lie down on the bed

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with your clothes on...

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- No!

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- Here look, I will
lie down on the bed

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with my clothes on as
well, be ready with you.

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- I will not.

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- Do try to rest dear.

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- You're still awake,
lively as a cricket.

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- I have to find my luggage.

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- Oh dear, you have been
up on your feet all night,

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you must be exhausted.

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Though Mrs. Caine
grew more and more anxious..

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- Sit and rest poor thing.

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She was
as sympathetic as ever.

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Poor soul, how cruelly
I tortured her.

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- I have trunks.

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Where are they? I want them.

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I want them.

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And what
a kind heart she had.

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- I'll see if there's
any more of them.

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- How much I admired
her courage and kindness,

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how I longed to reassure her

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and whisper that
I was not insane.

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How I hoped that
if any poor girl

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should ever be so
unfortunate as to be

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what I was pretending to be...

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- Poor child.

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She
might meet with one

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who possessed the same
spirit of human kindness

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as Mrs. Ruth Caine.

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00:16:34,890 --> 00:16:38,794
- Yes I believe the
poor dear is insane.

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00:16:47,967 --> 00:16:49,269
- I want you to
take her quietly.

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00:16:49,302 --> 00:16:51,004
- If she don't go quietly,

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I will drag her
through the streets.

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00:16:52,404 --> 00:16:55,107
- I certainly wish to avoid
raising a scandal outside.

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00:16:55,140 --> 00:16:56,809
- There's no need for
that kind of brutality.

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- I'll handle this.

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00:16:58,309 --> 00:17:01,046
We'll take her along quietly.

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00:17:02,013 --> 00:17:03,914
Well hello there sweet girl.

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00:17:03,947 --> 00:17:05,149
If you would like
to come with me,

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00:17:05,182 --> 00:17:07,751
I'll help you find
your lost effects.

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00:17:07,784 --> 00:17:09,053
- Who are you?

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00:17:09,086 --> 00:17:10,286
I don't know you.

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00:17:10,319 --> 00:17:12,055
- He's a policeman love.

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00:17:12,088 --> 00:17:13,222
He means you no harm,

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00:17:13,255 --> 00:17:15,891
he's going to help
you find your things.

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00:17:15,924 --> 00:17:18,393
- I don't want to
go with him alone.

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I do not know him.

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00:17:19,961 --> 00:17:21,896
- You don't have to go with
him if you don't want to.

262
00:17:21,929 --> 00:17:23,998
- I will help you
find your trunks.

263
00:17:24,031 --> 00:17:26,434
We can find them together.

264
00:17:26,466 --> 00:17:27,901
- You will?

265
00:17:27,934 --> 00:17:30,003
- Of course, they couldn't
have got very far.

266
00:17:30,036 --> 00:17:31,071
Now you just come along with me.

267
00:17:40,077 --> 00:17:42,313
Follow us at a
respectable distance.

268
00:17:42,346 --> 00:17:48,919
- These policeman
are here to help you.

269
00:17:56,824 --> 00:17:58,460
The
skies were overcast

270
00:17:58,493 --> 00:18:01,462
as I was taken to the
S6 Market Police Court.

271
00:18:01,495 --> 00:18:03,997
Where at last, the
question of my sanity,

272
00:18:04,030 --> 00:18:06,833
or insanity was to be decided.

273
00:18:06,866 --> 00:18:08,735
- Sir, sir, please help me sir.

274
00:18:08,768 --> 00:18:09,836
- Step back.

275
00:18:09,869 --> 00:18:11,738
- Here's the express house.

276
00:18:11,771 --> 00:18:14,039
We're all here to help
you find your trunks.

277
00:18:14,072 --> 00:18:16,408
- All these people
lost their trunks?

278
00:18:16,441 --> 00:18:19,076
- Yes apparently all of
them have lost their trunks.

279
00:18:19,109 --> 00:18:20,945
- I don't know what
to do with the child.

280
00:18:20,978 --> 00:18:22,213
She must be taken care of.

281
00:18:22,246 --> 00:18:23,180
Send
her to the island.

282
00:18:23,213 --> 00:18:25,215
- No, oh don't, don't.

283
00:18:25,248 --> 00:18:28,418
She is a lady, it would kill
her to go to the island.

284
00:18:28,451 --> 00:18:30,119
- Perhaps you're right.

285
00:18:30,152 --> 00:18:32,488
There is some foul work here,

286
00:18:32,521 --> 00:18:36,924
I believe this girl has been
drugged and brought to the city

287
00:18:36,957 --> 00:18:38,226
make out the papers,

288
00:18:38,259 --> 00:18:40,962
we'll send her to
Belview for examination.

289
00:18:40,995 --> 00:18:42,395
And probably in a few days,

290
00:18:42,428 --> 00:18:44,030
the effect of the
drug will wear off

291
00:18:44,063 --> 00:18:47,033
and she'll be able to tell us
a story that'll be startling.

292
00:18:47,066 --> 00:18:50,236
- I do not wish to stay here
any longer to be gazed at.

293
00:18:50,269 --> 00:18:55,140
- Take her to my office.

294
00:18:59,409 --> 00:19:01,845
- Put out your tongue.

295
00:19:03,213 --> 00:19:04,981
I said put out your tongue.

296
00:19:05,014 --> 00:19:06,282
- I don't want to.

297
00:19:06,315 --> 00:19:08,050
- But you are sick
and I am a doctor.

298
00:19:08,083 --> 00:19:12,421
- I am not sick, I
just want my trunks.

299
00:19:17,124 --> 00:19:24,397
- Open.

300
00:19:28,900 --> 00:19:30,135
Take a deep breath.

301
00:19:39,909 --> 00:19:41,144
Alright.

302
00:19:41,177 --> 00:19:43,013
Look at my hand.

303
00:19:46,081 --> 00:19:48,417
Follow my hand.

304
00:19:48,450 --> 00:19:53,088
And again.

305
00:19:57,057 --> 00:19:58,392
I believe she's
taken Belladonna.

306
00:19:58,425 --> 00:20:00,194
- I'm not in the least ill.

307
00:20:00,227 --> 00:20:02,395
I've never been sick and no
one has the right to detain me

308
00:20:02,428 --> 00:20:05,331
when I want to find my trunks.

309
00:20:05,364 --> 00:20:06,833
I want to go home.

310
00:20:06,866 --> 00:20:09,301
- And I will take you home.

311
00:20:11,202 --> 00:20:13,305
- I am so glad to go with you.

312
00:20:13,338 --> 00:20:14,905
I began
to have more confidence

313
00:20:14,938 --> 00:20:17,308
in my own ability to
play a mad woman now,

314
00:20:17,341 --> 00:20:20,176
since one judge, one
doctor, and a mass of people

315
00:20:20,209 --> 00:20:22,212
had pronounced me insane.

316
00:20:26,381 --> 00:20:27,883
I shall never forget that ride

317
00:20:27,916 --> 00:20:30,085
to the insane pavilion
at Belview Hospital.

318
00:20:32,152 --> 00:20:34,188
It was at the hospital
that I was to be processed

319
00:20:34,221 --> 00:20:36,923
and my fate sealed
regarding my commitment

320
00:20:36,956 --> 00:20:38,926
to Blackwell's Island Asylum.

321
00:20:40,593 --> 00:20:42,995
- This girl is to wait here.

322
00:20:46,365 --> 00:20:48,033
- Oh please do not go.

323
00:20:48,066 --> 00:20:50,869
Please do not leave
me here, I beg you.

324
00:20:50,902 --> 00:20:53,238
Oh take me with you.

325
00:20:53,271 --> 00:20:55,339
You said that you
would take me home.

326
00:20:55,372 --> 00:20:59,176
- I have to assist
with an amputation.

327
00:21:01,644 --> 00:21:03,947
- Those noisy commoners.

328
00:21:07,415 --> 00:21:09,451
- I do not want to
stay here without you.

329
00:21:09,484 --> 00:21:10,986
- I'll be back soon, I promise.

330
00:21:11,019 --> 00:21:12,519
- To take me home?

331
00:21:12,552 --> 00:21:13,954
- Yes.

332
00:21:13,987 --> 00:21:15,623
At last, I
found myself an occupant

333
00:21:15,656 --> 00:21:17,490
of an insane asylum.

334
00:21:20,059 --> 00:21:22,995
I already felt like
a woman condemned.

335
00:21:24,930 --> 00:21:28,133
- Hello, I'd like
to introduce myself.

336
00:21:28,166 --> 00:21:30,335
My name is Nellie Brown.

337
00:21:34,004 --> 00:21:35,639
I'm here waiting for
a nice gentleman,

338
00:21:35,672 --> 00:21:41,143
who is going to
come take me home.

339
00:21:45,447 --> 00:21:49,885
- I'm Ann Neville.

340
00:21:53,420 --> 00:21:56,390
This is not a place
that you want wait long,

341
00:21:56,423 --> 00:21:59,225
if you don't need to be here.

342
00:21:59,258 --> 00:22:02,128
This is a place of the sick.

343
00:22:02,161 --> 00:22:04,262
- Are you sick?

344
00:22:04,295 --> 00:22:05,597
- Yes.

345
00:22:09,633 --> 00:22:11,568
- How did you come to be here?

346
00:22:11,601 --> 00:22:15,538
- I was working as a chamber
maid in a large house,

347
00:22:15,571 --> 00:22:17,340
when my health gave away.

348
00:22:17,373 --> 00:22:20,442
I was sent to a sister's
home to be treated.

349
00:22:20,475 --> 00:22:23,412
My nephew is out of work.

350
00:22:23,445 --> 00:22:26,981
Being unable to pay my
expenses at my home,

351
00:22:27,014 --> 00:22:29,951
he had me transferred
here to Belview.

352
00:22:37,557 --> 00:22:40,292
- Is there anything
wrong with you mentally?

353
00:22:40,325 --> 00:22:41,694
- No.

354
00:22:43,261 --> 00:22:46,531
The doctors have been asking
me many dubious questions

355
00:22:46,564 --> 00:22:48,599
and confusing me,

356
00:22:48,632 --> 00:22:52,469
but there's nothing
wrong with my brain.

357
00:22:52,502 --> 00:22:54,237
- Do you know that
only insane people

358
00:22:54,270 --> 00:22:55,304
are sent to this pavilion?

359
00:22:55,337 --> 00:22:59,175
- Yes, I know.

360
00:22:59,208 --> 00:23:01,643
But the doctors refuse
to listen to me,

361
00:23:01,676 --> 00:23:05,080
it's useless to say
anything to the nurses.

362
00:23:09,349 --> 00:23:11,585
- Let me hold the baby.

363
00:23:48,748 --> 00:23:50,584
- Nellie Brown,
the doctor is here.

364
00:23:50,617 --> 00:23:52,719
He wishes to speak with you.

365
00:23:56,522 --> 00:23:58,390
- How are you feeling Nellie?

366
00:23:59,824 --> 00:24:03,461
- Oh I feel alright.

367
00:24:03,494 --> 00:24:06,063
But you
are sick you know?

368
00:24:06,096 --> 00:24:06,730
- Am I?

369
00:24:06,763 --> 00:24:08,332
- Yes.

370
00:24:08,365 --> 00:24:10,466
Tell me why did you think the
women in the temporary home

371
00:24:10,499 --> 00:24:11,701
were going to harm you.

372
00:24:11,734 --> 00:24:14,137
- Temporary home, I...

373
00:24:14,170 --> 00:24:15,604
What temporary home?

374
00:24:15,637 --> 00:24:17,205
- You did not stay in a temporary home for working women?

375
00:24:17,238 --> 00:24:20,208
- No, I've never
stayed in such a place.

376
00:24:20,241 --> 00:24:22,243
- What was the name of the
judge presiding over your case?

377
00:24:22,276 --> 00:24:24,745
- I do not remember going
in front of a judge.

378
00:24:24,778 --> 00:24:27,781
- I see, what is
your father's name?

379
00:24:31,818 --> 00:24:33,619
- I cannot remember.

380
00:24:33,652 --> 00:24:35,388
- What is your mother's name?

381
00:24:38,390 --> 00:24:39,624
- I cannot remember.

382
00:24:39,657 --> 00:24:42,493
- Any brothers or
sisters, aunts or uncles?

383
00:24:42,526 --> 00:24:43,628
- I cannot remember.

384
00:24:43,661 --> 00:24:45,495
- Calm down Miss
Brown, calm down.

385
00:24:45,528 --> 00:24:47,331
It's fine.

386
00:24:49,332 --> 00:24:53,436
Do you not have a lover
that casts you aside?

387
00:24:53,469 --> 00:24:54,637
- No.

388
00:24:54,670 --> 00:24:55,638
- Now what street was
the temporary home,

389
00:24:55,671 --> 00:24:57,338
you stayed at, located?

390
00:24:57,371 --> 00:24:59,674
- I did not stay at
any temporary home!

391
00:24:59,707 --> 00:25:01,775
- Alright, that's
fine Miss Brown.

392
00:25:01,808 --> 00:25:04,478
Try to get some rest, alright.

393
00:25:08,747 --> 00:25:09,816
Not once,

394
00:25:09,849 --> 00:25:11,217
did it cross the
admitting doctor's mind

395
00:25:11,250 --> 00:25:13,151
that I might not be
telling him the truth.

396
00:25:13,184 --> 00:25:14,653
Based on such an examination,

397
00:25:14,686 --> 00:25:16,154
I doubt any doctor could tell

398
00:25:16,187 --> 00:25:18,657
whether people
are insane or not.

399
00:25:33,535 --> 00:25:35,671
- Ow, ah!

400
00:25:35,704 --> 00:25:38,806
Ow, ow, you are trimming
my nails to the quick.

401
00:25:38,839 --> 00:25:41,509
- It is for everyone's safety.

402
00:25:43,376 --> 00:25:44,878
- Miss Scott, Miss Scott,

403
00:25:44,911 --> 00:25:47,280
there's a gentleman here
from the Sun Newspaper

404
00:25:47,313 --> 00:25:48,614
to interview Miss Brown.

405
00:25:48,647 --> 00:25:51,550
- No one is to see
the transfer patients.

406
00:25:51,583 --> 00:25:53,618
- I had to
summon all of my courage,

407
00:25:53,651 --> 00:25:57,188
as I was marched to the
boat to Blackwell's Asylum;

408
00:25:57,221 --> 00:26:00,724
an insane place, where
women never get out.

409
00:26:37,354 --> 00:26:42,759
- Come with me.

410
00:26:50,566 --> 00:26:53,334
- Feet flat on the
floor at all times.

411
00:27:03,242 --> 00:27:05,578
- Voiceover] It's strange
how after all of my bravery,

412
00:27:05,611 --> 00:27:08,347
I felt a chill at being locked
up with fellow creatures,

413
00:27:08,380 --> 00:27:10,215
who were truly insane.

414
00:27:10,248 --> 00:27:16,921
Come here to bed.

415
00:27:21,324 --> 00:27:23,893
- I had recently been ill.

416
00:27:23,926 --> 00:27:26,895
It lasted so long, I suffered
from nervous stability.

417
00:27:26,928 --> 00:27:30,566
But I only had fever
thinking, while I was ill.

418
00:27:31,932 --> 00:27:33,834
I do not belong here.

419
00:27:33,867 --> 00:27:36,237
I have recovered.

420
00:27:36,270 --> 00:27:39,372
- I will decide your diagnosis.

421
00:27:39,405 --> 00:27:40,774
- Please,

422
00:27:40,807 --> 00:27:44,276
try all your tests for
insanity if you have any,

423
00:27:44,309 --> 00:27:45,945
I do not belong here.

424
00:27:45,978 --> 00:27:47,813
- Everyone who enters
here makes that claim.

425
00:27:47,846 --> 00:27:49,914
- Please give me justice.

426
00:27:49,947 --> 00:27:51,916
- Justice?

427
00:27:51,949 --> 00:27:53,651
- Justice refers to the law,

428
00:27:53,684 --> 00:27:57,254
you speak as if you're
entering a prison.

429
00:27:57,287 --> 00:27:59,256
But this is a hospital,

430
00:27:59,289 --> 00:28:00,723
we're here to help you.

431
00:28:00,756 --> 00:28:03,326
- Please, I beg you.

432
00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:05,394
You not need worry Miss Mayard,

433
00:28:05,427 --> 00:28:08,363
we'll get you the help you need.

434
00:28:14,668 --> 00:28:16,403
- I'm so frightened.

435
00:28:16,436 --> 00:28:17,737
He didn't listen to me at all.

436
00:28:17,770 --> 00:28:19,405
Mrs. Louise Shanz.

437
00:28:19,438 --> 00:28:22,542
- I will try by every means
to be a benefit to you.

438
00:28:22,575 --> 00:28:25,311
- What can you do?

439
00:28:27,779 --> 00:28:29,914
- Doctor please, you do
not understand what...

440
00:28:29,947 --> 00:28:33,684
You're name?

441
00:28:36,386 --> 00:28:38,855
- Miss Grupe, you're German.

442
00:28:38,888 --> 00:28:42,225
Ask her what her husband does.

443
00:28:48,496 --> 00:28:53,300
- Her husband is a craftsman.

444
00:28:54,434 --> 00:28:55,736
- Very well.

445
00:28:55,769 --> 00:28:57,437
Mrs. Louise Schanz is admitted

446
00:28:57,470 --> 00:28:58,571
to Blackwell's
Island Insane Asylum.

447
00:28:58,604 --> 00:29:00,539
- No this is not right.

448
00:29:13,617 --> 00:29:14,919
- Miss Anne Neville.

449
00:29:16,052 --> 00:29:17,887
- Can you tell me your name?

450
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:19,589
- Yes.

451
00:29:21,389 --> 00:29:22,324
- What is it?

452
00:29:22,357 --> 00:29:26,694
- You don't know or are
you seeing if I know?

453
00:29:30,064 --> 00:29:31,866
What are you writing?

454
00:29:31,899 --> 00:29:33,300
- I ask the questions.

455
00:29:33,333 --> 00:29:34,701
Like the others,

456
00:29:34,734 --> 00:29:38,038
the poor girl was condemned
to the insane asylum for life.

457
00:29:38,071 --> 00:29:39,538
- Anne Neville.

458
00:29:39,571 --> 00:29:40,506
- Without being
given one feeble chance

459
00:29:40,539 --> 00:29:41,674
to prove her sanity.

460
00:29:41,707 --> 00:29:44,776
- Nellie Brown the
doctor wants you.

461
00:29:44,809 --> 00:29:46,778
- As
according to my plan,

462
00:29:46,811 --> 00:29:48,713
the moment I
entered Blackwell's,

463
00:29:48,746 --> 00:29:50,914
I dropped my act of insanity

464
00:29:50,947 --> 00:29:53,450
and acted just as I
do in every day life.

465
00:29:53,483 --> 00:29:54,985
What is your name?

466
00:29:55,018 --> 00:29:56,953
- Nellie Brown.

467
00:29:58,954 --> 00:30:01,323
- What's the color of her eyes?

468
00:30:01,356 --> 00:30:02,658
- Gray.

469
00:30:03,558 --> 00:30:05,427
What is your age?

470
00:30:05,460 --> 00:30:07,895
- Nineteen last may.

471
00:30:10,964 --> 00:30:12,999
- When do you get
your next pass?

472
00:30:13,032 --> 00:30:15,401
- Next Saturday is
my next day off.

473
00:30:15,434 --> 00:30:16,669
- You will go into town?

474
00:30:16,702 --> 00:30:19,738
Yeah.

475
00:30:19,771 --> 00:30:24,942
- Measure her.

476
00:30:29,546 --> 00:30:31,315
What is it?

477
00:30:34,050 --> 00:30:35,752
- Now you know I can't tell.

478
00:30:35,785 --> 00:30:37,820
- Yes you can, now
look and tell me.

479
00:30:37,853 --> 00:30:39,922
- I can't, do it yourself.

480
00:30:52,132 --> 00:30:54,800
- Five feet, five inches.

481
00:30:54,833 --> 00:30:57,436
Don't you see?

482
00:30:57,469 --> 00:31:00,972
- Oh yeah, I see now.

483
00:31:04,609 --> 00:31:06,477
- Now...

484
00:31:08,979 --> 00:31:11,948
That will do, I'm
finished with her.

485
00:31:15,084 --> 00:31:17,919
- I am not sick and I do
not want to stay here.

486
00:31:17,952 --> 00:31:19,588
- That'll do Miss Gruper.

487
00:31:19,621 --> 00:31:22,456
- No one has a right to
shut me up in this manner.

488
00:31:28,828 --> 00:31:31,365
- Bath time single file!

489
00:31:31,864 --> 00:31:33,166
Girl undress.

490
00:31:33,199 --> 00:31:34,900
- I think I shall not.

491
00:31:34,933 --> 00:31:37,436
I've never bathed in this
manner in front of others.

492
00:31:37,469 --> 00:31:39,904
And it is too cold
to bathe tonight.

493
00:31:39,937 --> 00:31:42,473
Why can't we wait until
day time when it is warm?

494
00:31:42,506 --> 00:31:45,142
- Nellie Brown, either you
remove your clothing right now

495
00:31:45,175 --> 00:31:47,611
or we will undress you.

496
00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:52,948
Very well.

497
00:31:52,981 --> 00:31:57,452
Miss Grupe.

498
00:32:09,562 --> 00:32:12,065
- No, no.

499
00:32:16,534 --> 00:32:20,772
I will not remove it.

500
00:32:25,475 --> 00:32:27,077
No.

501
00:32:42,589 --> 00:32:44,858
It's so cold, I cannot stand it.

502
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:50,096
No, no my hair,
please no my hair.

503
00:33:19,019 --> 00:33:20,588
- Next.

504
00:33:22,189 --> 00:33:24,224
I'm ill, I
have been sick with a cough.

505
00:33:24,257 --> 00:33:27,828
My chest, I cannot
get into cold water.

506
00:33:37,635 --> 00:33:38,936
- Can no one hear her?

507
00:33:38,969 --> 00:33:42,138
She's ill, she's not well
enough for cold water.

508
00:33:42,171 --> 00:33:45,242
- Please,
please my head is been hurt.

509
00:33:45,275 --> 00:33:48,010
My hair is falling out.

510
00:33:52,179 --> 00:33:53,681
- May I have a nightgown?

511
00:33:53,714 --> 00:33:55,950
- We have not such things
in this institution.

512
00:33:55,983 --> 00:33:57,185
- I'm still wet from the bath

513
00:33:57,218 --> 00:33:58,852
and I shouldn't like
to sleep without one.

514
00:33:58,885 --> 00:34:00,187
- This is charity

515
00:34:00,220 --> 00:34:02,089
and you should be
thankful for what you get.

516
00:34:02,122 --> 00:34:04,790
- But the city pays to
keep these places up

517
00:34:04,823 --> 00:34:07,894
and pays people to be kind to
the unfortunates brought here.

518
00:34:07,927 --> 00:34:11,129
- Well you don't need to
expect any kindness here,

519
00:34:11,162 --> 00:34:13,965
for you won't get it.

520
00:34:29,844 --> 00:34:32,180
- Brown, get up.

521
00:34:32,813 --> 00:34:33,748
Drink this.

522
00:34:33,781 --> 00:34:34,949
- What is it?

523
00:34:34,982 --> 00:34:36,584
- It's something
to help you sleep.

524
00:34:36,617 --> 00:34:37,251
- What's in it?

525
00:34:37,284 --> 00:34:39,052
- It's Laudannum.

526
00:34:39,085 --> 00:34:41,021
- Is that not an opium mixture?

527
00:34:41,054 --> 00:34:42,923
- Yes it
will help you sleep.

528
00:34:42,956 --> 00:34:44,123
- I'm not going to take opium.

529
00:34:44,156 --> 00:34:46,025
- The doctor has ordered
it, you must take it.

530
00:34:46,058 --> 00:34:49,528
- I will do nothing of the sort.

531
00:34:50,061 --> 00:34:51,296
- Hello Miss Brown.

532
00:34:51,329 --> 00:34:53,932
Refusing your medication?

533
00:34:53,965 --> 00:34:57,034
- It is opium, I do
not wish to take opium.

534
00:34:57,067 --> 00:34:58,902
- Nearly all the
patients take it.

535
00:34:58,935 --> 00:35:00,903
- I'm not going to take it.

536
00:35:00,936 --> 00:35:03,839
I do not intend to lose my
wits, even for a few hours.

537
00:35:03,872 --> 00:35:05,007
- If you do not take it,

538
00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:10,913
I will put it in your
arm with a needle.

539
00:35:15,182 --> 00:35:16,250
- This smells horrible.

540
00:35:16,283 --> 00:35:18,184
- I insist you drink
it all the same.

541
00:35:42,104 --> 00:35:43,806
- I thought
of Robert Bruce,

542
00:35:43,839 --> 00:35:45,674
the warrior who led
Scotland during the wars

543
00:35:45,707 --> 00:35:47,175
of independence.

544
00:35:47,208 --> 00:35:50,078
In his captivity, he found
confidence from a spider

545
00:35:50,111 --> 00:35:51,879
building her web across
the roof of his cell,

546
00:35:52,912 --> 00:35:57,217
undeterred by failure.

547
00:36:06,224 --> 00:36:07,593
- She's quite mad.

548
00:36:36,049 --> 00:36:39,084
- You may have my bread.

549
00:36:39,117 --> 00:36:43,255
- Thank you kindly, but
I will ask the nurse.

550
00:36:43,288 --> 00:36:46,725
- Excuse me may I have
a second piece of bread.

551
00:36:48,826 --> 00:36:49,927
- You have forgotten
where your home is,

552
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:53,263
but you have not
forgotten how to eat.

553
00:36:53,296 --> 00:36:54,231
- Thank you.

554
00:37:12,813 --> 00:37:14,047
- Give me that.

555
00:37:15,448 --> 00:37:16,315
- To have a good mind,

556
00:37:16,348 --> 00:37:17,884
the stomach must be fed.

557
00:37:17,917 --> 00:37:19,918
- I cannot eat this stuff.

558
00:37:22,087 --> 00:37:25,222
- Patients wait
and transfer here,

559
00:37:25,255 --> 00:37:28,993
such as these, until the
staff can be allocated

560
00:37:29,026 --> 00:37:33,129
to move them onto
their daily activities.

561
00:37:33,162 --> 00:37:35,465
- When was Blackwell's
first opened?

562
00:37:35,498 --> 00:37:39,001
- The facility
was opened in 1839

563
00:37:39,034 --> 00:37:41,704
and quickly overrun
with patients.

564
00:37:41,737 --> 00:37:46,240
It has been in continuous
operations since then.

565
00:37:46,273 --> 00:37:49,309
Blackwell's was designed
by the faint architect,

566
00:37:49,342 --> 00:37:52,479
Alexander Jackson Davis.

567
00:37:52,512 --> 00:37:55,247
The facility was
constructed of granite,

568
00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:58,884
reflecting a feudal
style of architecture,

569
00:37:58,917 --> 00:38:01,152
with it's more than
large appearance.

570
00:38:01,185 --> 00:38:05,056
It's stands 600 feet long.

571
00:38:05,089 --> 00:38:08,225
Wit the proper
funding and guidance,

572
00:38:08,258 --> 00:38:11,928
Blackwell"s will one
day be a Utopian example

573
00:38:11,961 --> 00:38:16,065
of the most advanced
treatment of the insane.

574
00:38:16,098 --> 00:38:17,866
We have worked miracles

575
00:38:17,899 --> 00:38:21,203
with limited funding
available to us.

576
00:38:22,204 --> 00:38:25,473
Now you can see why we
need additional funding.

577
00:38:25,506 --> 00:38:29,109
Gentleman, please come this way.

578
00:38:33,079 --> 00:38:35,047
The
snow came early,

579
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:37,015
many windows in the
hall were broken,

580
00:38:37,048 --> 00:38:39,785
and the bitter cold
air was unbearable.

581
00:38:39,817 --> 00:38:41,285
There was no heat.

582
00:38:41,318 --> 00:38:44,222
The nurses said it was one of
the rules of the institution,

583
00:38:44,255 --> 00:38:47,157
not to turn the heat
on until October

584
00:38:47,190 --> 00:38:49,025
and so we would
have to endure it,

585
00:38:49,058 --> 00:38:52,261
as the steam pipes had not
even been put in order.

586
00:38:55,898 --> 00:38:58,199
- How did you sleep
after your cold bath?

587
00:38:58,232 --> 00:39:00,168
- I almost froze

588
00:39:00,201 --> 00:39:04,204
and then the noise kept
me awake, it's dreadful.

589
00:39:04,237 --> 00:39:06,974
My nerves were so unstrung
before I came here

590
00:39:07,007 --> 00:39:10,409
and I fear I shall not be
able to stand the strain.

591
00:39:10,442 --> 00:39:12,445
- You must keep your spirits up.

592
00:39:12,478 --> 00:39:14,513
You never know what is to come.

593
00:39:14,546 --> 00:39:16,214
And if you give up now,

594
00:39:16,247 --> 00:39:18,884
the good may arrive and
you will not know it.

595
00:39:18,917 --> 00:39:20,317
- You are right of course.

596
00:39:20,350 --> 00:39:21,552
- Miss Tillie
Mayard suffered more

597
00:39:21,585 --> 00:39:23,921
than any of us from the cold.

598
00:39:23,954 --> 00:39:26,856
I asked the nurses that we
given additional clothing,

599
00:39:26,889 --> 00:39:28,391
but they told me to shut up.

600
00:39:28,424 --> 00:39:30,794
That we had as much as
they intended to give us.

601
00:39:30,827 --> 00:39:33,395
- Matilda I'll tell you
who has taken your money.

602
00:39:33,428 --> 00:39:35,464
- Who then, who do
you say has my money?

603
00:39:35,497 --> 00:39:42,237
- Come close and I'll tell you.

604
00:39:46,606 --> 00:39:48,008
- Who then, who?

605
00:39:48,041 --> 00:39:49,408
Please tell me so I
can collect my money

606
00:39:49,441 --> 00:39:51,243
and pay my way
out of this place.

607
00:39:51,276 --> 00:39:52,812
- It is Nurse Grupe.

608
00:39:52,845 --> 00:39:55,313
You must go to her and tell
her she is a thieving whore

609
00:39:55,346 --> 00:39:56,548
and you want your money

610
00:39:56,581 --> 00:39:59,250
or you will gouge her eyes out.

611
00:39:59,283 --> 00:40:02,419
Go to her, go, go
now and tell her.

612
00:40:06,022 --> 00:40:06,823
- Miss Grupe?

613
00:40:06,856 --> 00:40:08,424
- Yes Matilda?

614
00:40:08,457 --> 00:40:13,361
- Miss Grady says that
she is a thieving whore.

615
00:40:18,465 --> 00:40:19,900
- Matilda!

616
00:40:19,933 --> 00:40:22,170
Come here to me.

617
00:40:29,307 --> 00:40:33,312
Now return to your radiator.

618
00:40:33,345 --> 00:40:35,413
The lawyers that
stole your estate

619
00:40:35,446 --> 00:40:38,950
are in there waiting for
you to give them a piece

620
00:40:38,983 --> 00:40:40,485
of your mind.

621
00:41:04,436 --> 00:41:07,340
- I miss my son.

622
00:41:11,075 --> 00:41:16,113
I miss the way his hair would
smell sweet after a bath.

623
00:41:16,146 --> 00:41:20,618
I miss the way his
tiny hand wrapped

624
00:41:20,651 --> 00:41:23,353
around my finger.

625
00:41:24,921 --> 00:41:27,155
I have
watched patients stand

626
00:41:27,188 --> 00:41:29,424
and gaze longingly
towards the city bay

627
00:41:29,457 --> 00:41:32,361
and all likelihood
will never enter again.

628
00:41:32,394 --> 00:41:35,963
- Miss Fox, get away
from the window.

629
00:41:35,996 --> 00:41:38,199
There's nothing
out there for you.

630
00:41:38,232 --> 00:41:40,066
- That I am sure.

631
00:41:40,099 --> 00:41:41,601
- It means
liberty and life,

632
00:41:41,634 --> 00:41:43,603
it seems so near

633
00:41:43,636 --> 00:41:46,071
and yet heaven is not
further from hell.

634
00:41:46,104 --> 00:41:48,407
- Put out your tongue.

635
00:41:51,575 --> 00:41:54,312
Hold out your wrists.

636
00:41:58,682 --> 00:42:00,083
Look at my hand.

637
00:42:00,116 --> 00:42:01,918
- I have done this
again and again.

638
00:42:01,951 --> 00:42:05,255
- Look at my hand.

639
00:42:08,089 --> 00:42:09,958
Stretch out your arms
and work your fingers.

640
00:42:09,991 --> 00:42:11,092
- Surely by now you
have the results

641
00:42:11,125 --> 00:42:12,494
of such test
written down some...

642
00:42:14,528 --> 00:42:18,266
- Now stretch out your
arms and work your fingers.

643
00:42:22,101 --> 00:42:24,569
- What a
mysterious thing madness is.

644
00:42:24,602 --> 00:42:27,105
I have watched patients
whose lips are forever sealed

645
00:42:27,138 --> 00:42:29,374
in a perpetual silence.

646
00:42:29,407 --> 00:42:32,476
They breathe, eat, the
human form is there,

647
00:42:32,509 --> 00:42:36,146
but that something which
cannot exist without the body

648
00:42:36,179 --> 00:42:37,247
is missing.

649
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:40,116
- Who sent you here?

650
00:42:40,149 --> 00:42:42,051
- The doctors.

651
00:42:42,084 --> 00:42:44,553
- For what?

652
00:42:44,586 --> 00:42:46,622
- Well they say I am insane.

653
00:42:48,356 --> 00:42:50,425
- Insane?

654
00:42:50,458 --> 00:42:52,928
It cannot be seen on your face.

655
00:42:54,761 --> 00:42:56,163
- Give me that!

656
00:42:56,196 --> 00:42:58,131
No reading, where
did you get this?

657
00:42:58,164 --> 00:42:59,365
- I found it.

658
00:42:59,398 --> 00:43:01,033
- This belongs to the nurses.

659
00:43:01,066 --> 00:43:03,436
If I catch you touching
the nurses' things again,

660
00:43:03,469 --> 00:43:06,672
I will send you
to the quiet room.

661
00:43:09,574 --> 00:43:11,108
- We're not allowed to read?

662
00:43:11,141 --> 00:43:14,445
- No, nothing that excites
the mind of fervent thinking.

663
00:43:14,478 --> 00:43:16,013
There are women who
have committed here

664
00:43:16,046 --> 00:43:17,547
for excessive reading.

665
00:43:17,580 --> 00:43:19,182
- For reading too much,
that's ridiculous.

666
00:43:19,215 --> 00:43:21,551
- You're too loud,
they will hear you.

667
00:43:21,584 --> 00:43:28,589
- Quiet ladies.

668
00:43:32,593 --> 00:43:34,094
- I
couldn't help but wonder

669
00:43:34,127 --> 00:43:36,696
about the minds of the nurses.

670
00:43:36,729 --> 00:43:38,031
What it must have been like

671
00:43:38,064 --> 00:43:39,565
to constantly fear
loosing control

672
00:43:39,598 --> 00:43:42,534
over hundreds of
mental patients.

673
00:43:42,567 --> 00:43:44,570
To fear loosing their position

674
00:43:44,603 --> 00:43:48,239
and to fear winding up in Blackwells as a patient themselves

675
00:43:48,272 --> 00:43:50,074
- Nellie Brown.

676
00:43:50,107 --> 00:43:52,009
- Leona Fox.

677
00:43:52,042 --> 00:43:54,111
- Why were you
brought to this place?

678
00:43:54,144 --> 00:43:56,413
- I caught my husband
with our chamber maid.

679
00:43:56,446 --> 00:43:58,180
Before I could accuse
him of adultery,

680
00:43:58,213 --> 00:44:01,517
he signed the papers to
have me committed for life.

681
00:44:05,720 --> 00:44:09,123
- Did you tell the doctors?

682
00:44:09,156 --> 00:44:11,658
- My accusations are
called delusional,

683
00:44:11,691 --> 00:44:14,060
proof to them of my
demented fantasies.

684
00:44:14,093 --> 00:44:17,163
But I saw them with
my own two eyes.

685
00:44:20,365 --> 00:44:24,436
A woman has no voice when
man signs her way as insane.

686
00:44:24,469 --> 00:44:27,505
It is only
after one is in trouble,

687
00:44:27,538 --> 00:44:29,440
that one realizes
how little sympathy

688
00:44:29,473 --> 00:44:32,275
and kindness there
is in the world.

689
00:44:50,490 --> 00:44:52,793
- Come out into the hall!

690
00:44:52,826 --> 00:44:54,627
- It's an invitation to supper.

691
00:44:54,660 --> 00:44:57,030
- Let's go everybody up,
out in the hall come on.

692
00:45:55,611 --> 00:45:58,346
- Nellie Brown, come with me.

693
00:45:58,379 --> 00:46:00,281
- Where am I being taken?

694
00:46:00,314 --> 00:46:02,750
- A judge is asking
questions about you.

695
00:46:02,783 --> 00:46:05,185
So you caught the
eye of Dr. Ingram.

696
00:46:05,218 --> 00:46:07,488
He wishes to speak with you.

697
00:46:19,264 --> 00:46:20,432
- Do you wish me to
stick out my tongue

698
00:46:20,465 --> 00:46:22,566
and hold out my hands?

699
00:46:22,599 --> 00:46:24,135
- No.

700
00:46:24,168 --> 00:46:26,569
No, that will not be
necessary this time.

701
00:46:26,602 --> 00:46:28,705
How are you sleeping?

702
00:46:28,738 --> 00:46:31,141
- How would you
sleep locked in here?

703
00:46:31,174 --> 00:46:32,841
- I'm here to help you.

704
00:46:32,874 --> 00:46:34,176
- Help me?

705
00:46:34,209 --> 00:46:35,677
- Yes, is there
anything bothering you

706
00:46:35,710 --> 00:46:38,279
that you would
like to talk about?

707
00:46:38,312 --> 00:46:41,849
- Yes, in case a fire should
break out in the asylum,

708
00:46:41,882 --> 00:46:44,284
all of the doors are
locked separately

709
00:46:44,317 --> 00:46:45,685
and the windows
are heavily bared

710
00:46:45,718 --> 00:46:47,654
so that escape is impossible.

711
00:46:47,687 --> 00:46:49,489
A fire is not improbable,

712
00:46:49,522 --> 00:46:51,323
but one of the most
likely occurrences.

713
00:46:51,356 --> 00:46:53,325
- Your nurses are expected
to open the doors.

714
00:46:53,358 --> 00:46:54,660
- Should the building burn,

715
00:46:54,693 --> 00:46:56,327
the jailers or nurses would
never think of releasing

716
00:46:56,360 --> 00:46:57,862
their crazy patients.

717
00:46:57,895 --> 00:47:02,332
These women will be
left to roast to death.

718
00:47:02,365 --> 00:47:03,600
Why don't you have a change?

719
00:47:03,633 --> 00:47:06,869
- I offer suggestions
until my brain is tired.

720
00:47:06,902 --> 00:47:08,471
But what would you do,

721
00:47:08,504 --> 00:47:10,740
a proclaimed insane girl?

722
00:47:10,773 --> 00:47:14,209
- Well I should insist on
them having locks put in,

723
00:47:14,242 --> 00:47:15,610
as I have seen in some places

724
00:47:15,643 --> 00:47:18,213
that by turning a crank
at the end of the hall,

725
00:47:18,246 --> 00:47:22,183
you can lock or unlock
every door on the one side.

726
00:47:22,216 --> 00:47:25,218
Then there is some
chance of escape.

727
00:47:25,251 --> 00:47:26,953
Now every door being
locked separately,

728
00:47:26,986 --> 00:47:29,455
there is absolutely none.

729
00:47:29,488 --> 00:47:31,256
- What institution
were you a inmate of

730
00:47:31,289 --> 00:47:33,325
before you came here?

731
00:47:35,427 --> 00:47:38,496
- None, I never was
confined to any institution.

732
00:47:38,529 --> 00:47:41,598
- Well then where did you see
the locks you have described.

733
00:47:41,631 --> 00:47:45,435
- I've seen them in
places I was in...

734
00:47:45,468 --> 00:47:47,937
I mean as a visitor.

735
00:47:47,970 --> 00:47:49,672
- There is only one
place I know of,

736
00:47:49,705 --> 00:47:51,407
where where they
have those locks.

737
00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:53,641
And that is at Sin Sing

738
00:47:53,674 --> 00:47:56,978
and the only ones going through
Sin Sing besides the inmates

739
00:47:57,011 --> 00:48:00,914
are the guards,
lawyers, and reporters.

740
00:48:02,115 --> 00:48:06,719
I assure you I had never update
been an inmate of Sin Sing

741
00:48:06,752 --> 00:48:08,855
or ever even visited.

742
00:48:18,962 --> 00:48:20,898
-
There were whispers

743
00:48:20,931 --> 00:48:22,699
that those who attempted
to get word out

744
00:48:22,732 --> 00:48:25,268
about the conditions
in the asylum,

745
00:48:25,301 --> 00:48:27,403
disappeared.

746
00:48:27,436 --> 00:48:29,504
I was increasingly
fearful that my notebook

747
00:48:29,537 --> 00:48:30,806
would be discovered.

748
00:48:50,755 --> 00:48:52,224
- Get away from that!

749
00:49:11,472 --> 00:49:12,874
- Have a look.

750
00:49:15,776 --> 00:49:18,479
- Exactly as you expected.

751
00:49:21,013 --> 00:49:25,517
- Urena, what is your age?

752
00:49:25,550 --> 00:49:28,820
- Why I am fourteen years old.

753
00:49:28,853 --> 00:49:31,622
- Fourteen years old?

754
00:49:31,655 --> 00:49:35,293
The doctors say
you are 26, not 14.

755
00:49:35,326 --> 00:49:38,061
- I am fourteen.

756
00:49:38,094 --> 00:49:39,596
- The doctors know better,

757
00:49:39,629 --> 00:49:42,598
they say that you're 26.

758
00:49:42,631 --> 00:49:44,867
- It is not true.

759
00:49:44,900 --> 00:49:46,535
I am fourteen years of age.

760
00:49:46,568 --> 00:49:47,603
You were fourteen

761
00:49:47,636 --> 00:49:49,337
when the accident happened.

762
00:49:49,370 --> 00:49:50,071
- What accident?

763
00:49:50,104 --> 00:49:52,040
What are you talking about?

764
00:49:53,841 --> 00:49:57,611
- Urena, do you
know where you are?

765
00:49:57,644 --> 00:50:01,447
- Yes, I am on rig

766
00:50:01,480 --> 00:50:04,350
at the garment factory.

767
00:50:04,383 --> 00:50:06,017
- At the garment factory?

768
00:50:06,050 --> 00:50:08,987
- That is where you
had your accident.

769
00:50:09,020 --> 00:50:10,789
Fell off the balcony and

770
00:50:10,822 --> 00:50:12,723
banged you head.

771
00:50:14,725 --> 00:50:17,994
- It isn't true.

772
00:50:18,027 --> 00:50:20,330
I'm at the factory
now, I'm on break.

773
00:50:20,363 --> 00:50:21,831
- It happened 12 years ago

774
00:50:21,864 --> 00:50:23,799
and that is when you came here.

775
00:50:23,832 --> 00:50:26,068
- 12 years ago?

776
00:50:26,101 --> 00:50:28,969
- Yes you fell and became
stuck at the age 14

777
00:50:29,002 --> 00:50:33,741
and you were sent here to
Blackwell's Women Asylum

778
00:50:33,774 --> 00:50:35,008
in my care.

779
00:50:37,977 --> 00:50:39,612
- No.

780
00:50:39,645 --> 00:50:43,849
It is not true, it is not true.

781
00:50:49,954 --> 00:50:52,389
Am I not at the factory?

782
00:50:52,422 --> 00:50:54,391
- No you're not at
the garment factory.

783
00:50:54,424 --> 00:50:55,926
You're in an insane asylum.

784
00:50:57,493 --> 00:50:58,127
- No.

785
00:50:58,160 --> 00:50:59,528
- No.

786
00:50:59,561 --> 00:51:00,463
- No!

787
00:51:00,496 --> 00:51:01,564
- No.

788
00:51:01,597 --> 00:51:02,565
- No!

789
00:51:02,598 --> 00:51:02,998
- No.

790
00:51:03,031 --> 00:51:03,732
- No!

791
00:51:03,765 --> 00:51:04,366
- No.

792
00:51:04,399 --> 00:51:04,933
- No!

793
00:51:04,966 --> 00:51:06,601
- No.

794
00:51:06,634 --> 00:51:08,503
- No it is not true.

795
00:51:08,536 --> 00:51:09,670
- Oh okay.

796
00:51:10,704 --> 00:51:12,039
Don't you push me around.

797
00:51:12,072 --> 00:51:14,941
I'm taking you to
the quiet room.

798
00:51:14,974 --> 00:51:15,975
Let's go.

799
00:51:21,946 --> 00:51:24,883
- Blackwell's
had a stench to it.

800
00:51:24,916 --> 00:51:26,484
Partly from the kitchens

801
00:51:26,517 --> 00:51:29,920
and partly from the
onsite crematorium.

802
00:51:29,953 --> 00:51:31,088
It had become clear to me

803
00:51:31,121 --> 00:51:34,124
that Blackwell's
was dumping ground.

804
00:51:34,157 --> 00:51:35,859
A place for the
city to rid itself

805
00:51:35,892 --> 00:51:38,894
of the overflow of the poor.

806
00:51:38,927 --> 00:51:41,964
Once committed, there
was no way to exit,

807
00:51:41,997 --> 00:51:44,666
except through the crematorium.

808
00:51:47,768 --> 00:51:49,569
What'd
you know about her?

809
00:51:49,602 --> 00:51:50,904
- Not much.

810
00:51:50,937 --> 00:51:54,174
She's arrogant and
a troublemaker.

811
00:51:54,207 --> 00:51:57,076
- Is she responding
to treatment?

812
00:51:57,109 --> 00:51:59,078
- We have her on Laudannum.

813
00:51:59,111 --> 00:52:01,713
Increase the dosage.

814
00:52:02,780 --> 00:52:04,649
- Hello Mrs. McGuinness.

815
00:52:04,682 --> 00:52:07,651
- Hello Miss Brown.

816
00:52:07,684 --> 00:52:09,119
- Why were you brought here?

817
00:52:09,152 --> 00:52:11,155
- I was sick.

818
00:52:11,188 --> 00:52:12,655
- Are you sick mentally?

819
00:52:12,688 --> 00:52:13,856
- No, no.

820
00:52:13,889 --> 00:52:17,493
I had been overworking
myself and I broke down.

821
00:52:17,526 --> 00:52:20,829
Having some family troubles
and being penniless

822
00:52:20,862 --> 00:52:22,097
and nowhere to go,

823
00:52:22,130 --> 00:52:23,532
I applied to the Commissioner's

824
00:52:23,565 --> 00:52:24,732
to be sent to the poor house

825
00:52:24,765 --> 00:52:27,668
until I would be
able to work again.

826
00:52:27,701 --> 00:52:29,437
- But they do not
send poor people here,

827
00:52:29,470 --> 00:52:31,871
unless they are insane?

828
00:52:31,904 --> 00:52:33,807
Don't you know there
are only insane women

829
00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:36,475
or those supposed
to be so sent here?

830
00:52:36,508 --> 00:52:39,144
- There are 1600 women
on Blackwell's Island,

831
00:52:39,177 --> 00:52:40,546
I knew when I got here

832
00:52:40,579 --> 00:52:42,580
that the majority of
these women were insane,

833
00:52:42,613 --> 00:52:44,882
but then I believed
them when they told me

834
00:52:44,915 --> 00:52:47,617
that this is the place
where they send all the poor

835
00:52:47,650 --> 00:52:49,553
who had applied for
aid, as I had done.

836
00:52:49,586 --> 00:52:51,521
- Really, I'm going to kill you.

837
00:52:51,554 --> 00:52:52,855
I'm going to kill you!

838
00:52:52,888 --> 00:52:54,657
- Who are they?

839
00:52:54,690 --> 00:52:56,859
- They're the women of the rope.

840
00:52:56,892 --> 00:52:58,493
They're considered to be
the most violent women

841
00:52:58,526 --> 00:53:00,128
on the island.

842
00:53:00,161 --> 00:53:01,763
The live in the lodge.

843
00:53:02,029 --> 00:53:04,798
I, myself, share
the fear that everyone felt,

844
00:53:04,831 --> 00:53:08,168
the possibility of being
sent to the violent ward.

845
00:53:08,201 --> 00:53:11,137
The mortality rate
there was high.

846
00:53:19,644 --> 00:53:21,146
One day a woman was brought in

847
00:53:21,179 --> 00:53:23,581
who had a fear of being touched

848
00:53:23,614 --> 00:53:27,918
and an extreme fear
of uncleanliness.

849
00:53:31,888 --> 00:53:33,155
- Sit down where
we get you set up,

850
00:53:33,188 --> 00:53:42,197
with a room and proper gown.

851
00:53:46,699 --> 00:53:48,602
- I'm Nellie Brown.

852
00:53:48,635 --> 00:53:49,870
- Margaret.

853
00:53:49,903 --> 00:53:54,941
- Tillie Mayard.

854
00:53:59,310 --> 00:54:00,278
- Put this on.

855
00:54:00,311 --> 00:54:01,845
- What here?

856
00:54:01,878 --> 00:54:04,181
- You left modesty
in the outside world.

857
00:54:04,214 --> 00:54:07,084
In Blackwell's we
have nothing to hide.

858
00:54:07,117 --> 00:54:09,685
- No I will not, it
is not dignified.

859
00:54:09,718 --> 00:54:12,622
That rag is soiled, I will
not put that dirty thing...

860
00:54:12,655 --> 00:54:14,222
No, no!

861
00:54:14,255 --> 00:54:15,724
Stop it no!

862
00:54:15,757 --> 00:54:17,726
Get your hands off me!

863
00:54:23,096 --> 00:54:27,934
No please.

864
00:54:32,203 --> 00:54:35,774
Please stop it, stop it.

865
00:54:35,807 --> 00:54:37,174
No.

866
00:54:53,854 --> 00:54:56,992
- I'll kill the devils
between my life.

867
00:55:00,961 --> 00:55:02,296
Poor
Matilda had finally

868
00:55:02,329 --> 00:55:04,798
avenged the attorneys
who stole her estate.

869
00:55:04,831 --> 00:55:06,065
- Take her to the retreat.

870
00:55:06,098 --> 00:55:07,199
- By
plunging the cook's knife

871
00:55:07,232 --> 00:55:09,268
into the heart of
one of the nurses.

872
00:55:09,301 --> 00:55:13,138
She was immediately sent to the
violent ward in the retreat.

873
00:55:17,240 --> 00:55:20,711
Is
it Nellie Brown.

874
00:55:23,145 --> 00:55:24,948
- Louise?

875
00:55:26,349 --> 00:55:28,084
Louise Schanz?

876
00:55:31,152 --> 00:55:32,588
Yes it's me.

877
00:55:32,621 --> 00:55:35,890
It's so cold.

878
00:55:39,093 --> 00:55:43,096
God, let me die.

879
00:56:23,696 --> 00:56:26,298
- Let me go.

880
00:56:36,173 --> 00:56:39,376
- Get your hands off me.

881
00:56:39,409 --> 00:56:42,412
Stop, stop!

882
00:56:42,445 --> 00:56:45,147
Let go of me.

883
00:57:01,427 --> 00:57:03,763
- They held
Margaret naked in the cold bath

884
00:57:03,796 --> 00:57:05,198
all through the night.

885
00:57:06,798 --> 00:57:09,134
- Help me carry her to her room.

886
00:57:35,121 --> 00:57:36,256
They inject into

887
00:57:36,289 --> 00:57:39,159
or force so much
opium on the patients,

888
00:57:39,192 --> 00:57:42,194
that the patients
are made crazy.

889
00:57:42,227 --> 00:57:44,129
A sure way to lose one's mind

890
00:57:44,162 --> 00:57:48,299
into the walls of
Blackwell's forever.

891
00:58:16,188 --> 00:58:19,192
- Everybody up bath
time, single file!

892
00:58:19,225 --> 00:58:21,827
- Do not take a
bath in that water.

893
00:58:21,860 --> 00:58:23,428
The very disease for
which I am suffering,

894
00:58:23,461 --> 00:58:25,363
and for which I need
doctoring makes it necessary

895
00:58:25,396 --> 00:58:27,498
that I should not
bathe in cold water.

896
00:58:27,531 --> 00:58:29,200
I do not want to
go into that water.

897
00:58:29,233 --> 00:58:31,502
It is filthy and filled
with human excrement

898
00:58:31,535 --> 00:58:35,005
and the burst eruptions
of sick patients' skin.

899
00:58:48,249 --> 00:58:50,117
- She's dead.

900
00:58:50,150 --> 00:58:52,018
How was she last night?

901
00:58:52,051 --> 00:58:54,287
These bruises on her cheeks,

902
00:58:54,320 --> 00:58:57,823
it looks as if she
was in a fight.

903
00:58:57,856 --> 00:59:01,127
- She was agitated doctor.

904
00:59:01,160 --> 00:59:03,228
- I see.

905
00:59:03,261 --> 00:59:06,932
Obviously she died
of convulsion.

906
00:59:10,133 --> 00:59:13,036
I'll make out the
death certificate.

907
00:59:15,171 --> 00:59:16,539
I'm finished here.

908
00:59:16,572 --> 00:59:18,007
-
Margaret was cremated

909
00:59:18,040 --> 00:59:21,409
and put into lead tin
with only a number,

910
00:59:21,442 --> 00:59:24,012
like many hundreds before her.

911
00:59:55,470 --> 00:59:59,574
- Don't stop Miss
Brown, play another.

912
00:59:59,607 --> 01:00:01,976
- I never learned to dance.

913
01:00:02,009 --> 01:00:04,145
- It isn't that difficult.

914
01:00:04,178 --> 01:00:05,212
- I said no.

915
01:00:36,972 --> 01:00:39,208
- I can play no more.

916
01:00:39,241 --> 01:00:40,975
My hands have stoke up.

917
01:00:41,008 --> 01:00:42,143
- No matter,

918
01:00:42,176 --> 01:00:44,445
when one has music
in one's spirit.

919
01:00:59,523 --> 01:01:01,259
- No.

920
01:01:42,626 --> 01:01:45,229
- I want to go home.

921
01:02:20,524 --> 01:02:22,559
- How are you doing?

922
01:02:22,592 --> 01:02:24,160
I'm super intendant.

923
01:02:24,193 --> 01:02:27,463
Anne how are you today?

924
01:02:29,130 --> 01:02:30,599
- Stay back.

925
01:02:33,401 --> 01:02:34,436
She has a fever.

926
01:02:34,469 --> 01:02:35,703
What is this patient's name?

927
01:02:35,736 --> 01:02:38,005
- Her name is Louise Schanz.

928
01:02:38,038 --> 01:02:39,173
She doesn't belong here

929
01:02:39,206 --> 01:02:41,608
they took her baby away
at Belview Hospital.

930
01:02:44,744 --> 01:02:46,612
- Louise?

931
01:02:46,645 --> 01:02:48,113
- She is suffering from the cold

932
01:02:48,146 --> 01:02:49,448
and insufficient clothing.

933
01:02:49,481 --> 01:02:51,450
- The nurses will beat you.

934
01:02:51,483 --> 01:02:52,484
- Take her away.

935
01:03:09,564 --> 01:03:13,702
So what do you know
of Louise Schanz

936
01:03:13,735 --> 01:03:16,303
and why do you care?

937
01:03:16,336 --> 01:03:18,005
- I know that she is sane

938
01:03:18,038 --> 01:03:20,240
and does not belong
in this place.

939
01:03:20,273 --> 01:03:21,574
I know that her English is poor

940
01:03:21,607 --> 01:03:24,177
and she has no way to speak
her case to any justice.

941
01:03:24,210 --> 01:03:26,145
- I see

942
01:03:26,178 --> 01:03:30,315
and how did you get here?

943
01:03:30,348 --> 01:03:33,751
- I was committed as an
insane woman in this asylum.

944
01:03:33,784 --> 01:03:35,386
I am here without
hope of release.

945
01:03:35,419 --> 01:03:37,121
- And you think you are insane?

946
01:03:37,154 --> 01:03:38,355
- No I am not insane.

947
01:03:38,388 --> 01:03:42,025
- Of course,
everybody says that.

948
01:03:42,058 --> 01:03:43,493
- So you think,

949
01:03:43,526 --> 01:03:46,395
Mrs. Schanz is being persecuted?

950
01:03:48,030 --> 01:03:49,331
- No not persecuted but...

951
01:03:49,364 --> 01:03:52,100
- You said she's
wrongfully committed here.

952
01:03:52,133 --> 01:03:53,067
- Yes but...

953
01:03:53,100 --> 01:03:54,769
- So you are not insane,

954
01:03:54,802 --> 01:03:57,137
Mrs. Schanz is not insane.

955
01:03:57,170 --> 01:04:00,674
Is everyone wrongfully
committed here as well?

956
01:04:03,675 --> 01:04:05,444
- I can see that these
patients need help.

957
01:04:05,477 --> 01:04:07,579
- And you Florence Nightingale

958
01:04:07,612 --> 01:04:09,581
are going to help them all.

959
01:04:09,614 --> 01:04:11,149
Is that it?

960
01:04:13,283 --> 01:04:17,388
Delusions such as these can
be cured with medication.

961
01:04:17,421 --> 01:04:20,023
- They force me to drink
the medication every night,

962
01:04:20,056 --> 01:04:21,257
it's not right.

963
01:04:21,290 --> 01:04:23,659
- No we're giving you
the wrong medication.

964
01:04:23,692 --> 01:04:26,661
I don't recall seeing
a medical degree

965
01:04:26,694 --> 01:04:28,730
on your admission papers.

966
01:04:28,763 --> 01:04:30,565
Did I miss something?

967
01:04:34,568 --> 01:04:37,470
You really must
trust me Miss Brown.

968
01:04:37,503 --> 01:04:40,707
We are the doctors
here, not you.

969
01:04:40,740 --> 01:04:45,210
I am a doctor and I want
the best for my patients.

970
01:04:45,243 --> 01:04:46,712
I truly do.

971
01:04:50,347 --> 01:04:54,618
Tell Dr. Kinier to increase
Miss Brown's nightly dose

972
01:04:54,651 --> 01:04:59,088
of Laudannum to 150
parts per thousand.

973
01:04:59,121 --> 01:05:00,790
- Yes Doctor.

974
01:05:00,823 --> 01:05:03,325
- That should put
your mind at rest.

975
01:05:03,358 --> 01:05:07,095
You see, I'm just
trying the best I can.

976
01:05:09,697 --> 01:05:11,599
Have a good day.

977
01:05:15,802 --> 01:05:17,704
- Go on, mind your business.

978
01:05:30,214 --> 01:05:31,715
- I want my book and pencil.

979
01:05:31,748 --> 01:05:33,716
It helps me remember things.

980
01:05:33,749 --> 01:05:36,119
- You can't have it, so shut up.

981
01:05:36,152 --> 01:05:39,789
- Give it back or I shall
have to tell Dr. Ingram.

982
01:05:42,190 --> 01:05:43,459
- You had no book or pencil.

983
01:05:43,492 --> 01:05:45,460
- I just watched you
place it in your apron.

984
01:05:45,493 --> 01:05:48,129
- I advise you to fight
against the imaginations

985
01:05:48,162 --> 01:05:49,364
of your brain.

986
01:06:00,506 --> 01:06:03,775
- Benny, is that
my husband Benny?

987
01:06:03,808 --> 01:06:05,243
- I'm sure your mistaken.

988
01:06:05,276 --> 01:06:06,578
- It's Benny.

989
01:06:06,611 --> 01:06:08,178
Benny my husband, he's come
to take me out of here.

990
01:06:08,211 --> 01:06:10,280
- Stop it, that is
not your husband.

991
01:06:10,313 --> 01:06:11,748
- It's Benny, he's
come to free me.

992
01:06:11,781 --> 01:06:13,516
- Benny I'm here.
- No dear.

993
01:06:13,549 --> 01:06:15,785
- Benny, Benny.
- Give up alright.

994
01:06:15,818 --> 01:06:17,654
He's come to free me Benny.

995
01:06:19,587 --> 01:06:20,755
- Just leave her alone.

996
01:06:20,788 --> 01:06:22,357
- Benny take me out of here.

997
01:06:22,390 --> 01:06:23,758
- Leave her alone.

998
01:06:23,791 --> 01:06:24,659
- Let's go.

999
01:06:24,692 --> 01:06:26,561
- Stop!

1000
01:06:33,799 --> 01:06:37,636
- Inmates running the asylum...

1001
01:06:37,669 --> 01:06:40,272
I don't think so.

1002
01:06:44,441 --> 01:06:48,245
You have brought this
particular lesson on yourself.

1003
01:07:02,356 --> 01:07:03,691
Miss Grupe?

1004
01:07:03,724 --> 01:07:05,826
Yes Doctor?

1005
01:07:05,859 --> 01:07:09,730
- What happened to this patient?

1006
01:07:09,763 --> 01:07:12,398
- She was trying
to escape doctor.

1007
01:07:12,431 --> 01:07:14,634
She had the delusions
that her husband is coming

1008
01:07:14,667 --> 01:07:17,602
to take her out of Blackwell's.

1009
01:07:17,635 --> 01:07:20,939
- How did she get
those black eyes?

1010
01:07:20,972 --> 01:07:24,808
- She had the bruises
when she was brought in.

1011
01:07:24,841 --> 01:07:28,912
- Now, they look fresh to me.

1012
01:07:28,945 --> 01:07:33,783
Are you sure she had
it when she came in?

1013
01:07:33,816 --> 01:07:37,553
- I will have a good
talking with the orderlies.

1014
01:07:37,586 --> 01:07:39,155
Get to the bottom of this.

1015
01:07:40,988 --> 01:07:43,858
- Make sure you do that.

1016
01:07:43,891 --> 01:07:48,228
This is not a prison Miss Grupe.

1017
01:07:48,261 --> 01:07:50,197
It's a medical facility,

1018
01:07:50,230 --> 01:07:52,531
where we're trying
to help people,

1019
01:07:52,564 --> 01:07:54,700
to give them a better life.

1020
01:07:54,733 --> 01:07:56,302
Is that clear Miss Grupe?

1021
01:07:56,335 --> 01:07:57,835
- Yes Doctor.

1022
01:07:57,868 --> 01:07:59,404
As it turned out,

1023
01:07:59,437 --> 01:08:01,973
Mrs. Cotter wasn't delusional.

1024
01:08:02,006 --> 01:08:03,941
Her husband Benny had
actually been doing everything

1025
01:08:03,974 --> 01:08:06,677
in his power to take
her out of Blackwell's,

1026
01:08:06,710 --> 01:08:09,612
but was caught in bureaucracy.

1027
01:08:10,679 --> 01:08:13,383
Eventually he trialed
and won her release.

1028
01:08:59,587 --> 01:09:01,922
- What is it now Miss Grupe?

1029
01:09:01,955 --> 01:09:05,425
- One of the nurses took
this from the patient,

1030
01:09:05,458 --> 01:09:06,892
Nellie Brown.

1031
01:09:06,925 --> 01:09:09,829
- Let me have it.

1032
01:09:14,299 --> 01:09:15,634
Has anyone seen this?

1033
01:09:15,667 --> 01:09:17,636
- No Doctor.

1034
01:09:17,669 --> 01:09:21,772
- It's very organized and
articulate for a mental patient.

1035
01:09:22,606 --> 01:09:23,973
- There is something
else Doctor.

1036
01:09:24,006 --> 01:09:25,541
- Well?

1037
01:09:25,574 --> 01:09:28,845
- A reporter is here asking
to speak with Nellie Brown.

1038
01:09:28,878 --> 01:09:31,880
- A reporter?

1039
01:09:35,683 --> 01:09:40,455
It is the fault of that meddling
judge who sent her here.

1040
01:09:44,457 --> 01:09:46,792
We can't deny them
access to her.

1041
01:09:46,825 --> 01:09:49,928
That would only create
a sensational story.

1042
01:09:49,961 --> 01:09:52,064
Let him meet with her.

1043
01:09:52,097 --> 01:09:54,866
But make sure they're
never out of close sight

1044
01:09:54,899 --> 01:09:56,401
of the nursing staff.

1045
01:09:56,434 --> 01:09:57,568
- Yes Doctor.

1046
01:09:57,601 --> 01:10:00,404
- And if she says
anything, anything

1047
01:10:00,437 --> 01:10:03,707
that could be harmful
to this institution,

1048
01:10:03,740 --> 01:10:05,308
see that she's cut off.

1049
01:10:08,544 --> 01:10:10,646
- Here put that on quickly.

1050
01:10:22,655 --> 01:10:23,923
- If you make it a
practice of telling,

1051
01:10:23,956 --> 01:10:25,591
it will be a serious
thing for you.

1052
01:10:25,624 --> 01:10:26,959
To my surprise,

1053
01:10:26,991 --> 01:10:28,460
I was brought face-to-face
with the first reporter

1054
01:10:28,493 --> 01:10:29,828
I had ever worked alongside

1055
01:10:29,861 --> 01:10:31,396
at the Pittsburgh Dispatch.

1056
01:10:31,429 --> 01:10:32,830
- I do not know this man.

1057
01:10:32,863 --> 01:10:34,432
- Do you know her?

1058
01:10:34,465 --> 01:10:36,100
- No this is not the young
lady, I came in search of.

1059
01:10:36,133 --> 01:10:38,835
I was mistaken, I thought
she was somebody else,

1060
01:10:38,868 --> 01:10:41,671
somebody I knew a long time ago.

1061
01:10:41,704 --> 01:10:44,640
- If you do not know her,
you cannot stay here.

1062
01:10:45,574 --> 01:10:47,409
- One moment Señor...

1063
01:10:47,442 --> 01:10:49,378
Do you speak Spanish, Señor?

1064
01:10:49,411 --> 01:10:50,611
- No...

1065
01:10:50,644 --> 01:10:51,979
What in places are
you doing in here?

1066
01:10:52,012 --> 01:10:56,049
- It's alright, I'm after
an item, keep still.

1067
01:10:56,082 --> 01:10:59,519
- No I'm afraid I do not
speak a word of Spanish.

1068
01:10:59,552 --> 01:11:00,921
It was
Wilson, who's article

1069
01:11:00,954 --> 01:11:02,588
I had anonymously responded to,

1070
01:11:02,621 --> 01:11:05,558
that launched my
career as a reporter.

1071
01:11:26,674 --> 01:11:27,642
- Come with me.

1072
01:11:27,675 --> 01:11:29,911
- Please.

1073
01:11:29,944 --> 01:11:33,147
Please I'm so cold,
I can't stay here.

1074
01:11:33,180 --> 01:11:34,949
- Where are you taking her?

1075
01:11:34,982 --> 01:11:40,854
- She needs help.

1076
01:11:44,756 --> 01:11:46,658
- Anne Neville was one
of the quietest women

1077
01:11:46,691 --> 01:11:48,159
in the institution.

1078
01:11:48,192 --> 01:11:50,528
To protect herself
and her sanity,

1079
01:11:50,561 --> 01:11:53,930
she did everything she was
told without complaint.

1080
01:11:53,963 --> 01:11:55,632
I admired her strength

1081
01:11:55,665 --> 01:11:58,568
and determination of will.

1082
01:11:58,601 --> 01:12:02,571
♪ Mid pleasures

1083
01:12:02,604 --> 01:12:06,107
♪ And palaces

1084
01:12:06,140 --> 01:12:10,878
♪ Though we may roam

1085
01:12:11,945 --> 01:12:15,582
♪ Be it ever

1086
01:12:15,615 --> 01:12:18,785
♪ So humble

1087
01:12:18,818 --> 01:12:20,887
♪ There's no

1088
01:12:20,920 --> 01:12:25,690
♪ Place like home

1089
01:12:25,723 --> 01:12:29,160
♪ A charm from

1090
01:12:29,193 --> 01:12:31,896
♪ The sky

1091
01:12:31,929 --> 01:12:36,933
♪ Seems to hallow us here

1092
01:12:39,601 --> 01:12:44,473
♪ Which seek through the world

1093
01:12:44,873 --> 01:12:49,878
♪ Is ne'er met with elsewhere

1094
01:12:53,246 --> 01:12:58,451
♪ Home, home

1095
01:12:58,617 --> 01:13:01,987
♪ Sweet, sweet

1096
01:13:02,020 --> 01:13:04,189
♪ Home

1097
01:13:04,222 --> 01:13:07,892
♪ There's no place

1098
01:13:07,925 --> 01:13:09,893
♪ Like home ♪

1099
01:13:09,926 --> 01:13:11,829
- Get away from here.

1100
01:13:26,173 --> 01:13:28,910
- Everybody up, bath
time single file!

1101
01:13:37,716 --> 01:13:40,252
- I don't think I'm
going to survive today.

1102
01:13:40,285 --> 01:13:43,455
- Don't fight them, they'll
move you through faster.

1103
01:13:52,862 --> 01:13:54,697
As much
as I hated the baths,

1104
01:13:54,730 --> 01:13:55,865
I would have taken another

1105
01:13:55,898 --> 01:14:00,669
if it could've saved
Tillie from hers.

1106
01:14:04,572 --> 01:14:06,573
My heart ached to
see Tille Mayard go

1107
01:14:06,606 --> 01:14:07,975
from recovered from her sickness

1108
01:14:08,008 --> 01:14:10,043
when she had been
brought to Blackwell's,

1109
01:14:10,076 --> 01:14:13,913
to growing ever sicker
as they days wore on.

1110
01:14:13,946 --> 01:14:16,983
Tillie had changed so
much for the worse,

1111
01:14:17,016 --> 01:14:19,818
that I was mortified
when I looked at her.

1112
01:14:29,725 --> 01:14:32,095
- You must keep your spirits up.

1113
01:14:44,738 --> 01:14:47,707
- It is cruel to lock people
up and then freeze them.

1114
01:14:47,740 --> 01:14:50,110
- She has as much
has any of the rest,

1115
01:14:50,143 --> 01:14:51,278
she'll get no more.

1116
01:15:01,085 --> 01:15:02,320
- Let her fall on the floor

1117
01:15:02,353 --> 01:15:03,820
and this will
teach her a lesson.

1118
01:15:05,255 --> 01:15:06,723
- You are cruel to
treat her this way,

1119
01:15:06,756 --> 01:15:08,859
can't you see she is
suffering and in need of care.

1120
01:15:08,892 --> 01:15:11,160
- She needs medical help.

1121
01:15:20,968 --> 01:15:23,971
- You must send help for a
patient, Miss Tille Mayard.

1122
01:15:24,004 --> 01:15:25,306
She is having a
fit from the cold

1123
01:15:25,339 --> 01:15:27,240
and the nurses are not
sending for a doctor.

1124
01:15:27,273 --> 01:15:28,841
They're doing
nothing to help her.

1125
01:15:28,874 --> 01:15:30,843
- Please calm
yourself Miss Brown.

1126
01:15:30,876 --> 01:15:33,145
- See that Dr. Kinier is
dispatched to Miss Tillie Mayard

1127
01:15:33,178 --> 01:15:35,347
at once.

1128
01:15:35,380 --> 01:15:37,783
There see, she will be helped.

1129
01:15:37,816 --> 01:15:39,684
Now please, calm yourself.

1130
01:15:39,717 --> 01:15:40,751
- I will not.

1131
01:15:40,784 --> 01:15:41,986
The cold is so bad,

1132
01:15:42,019 --> 01:15:43,987
it sent Miss Mayard into a fit.

1133
01:15:44,020 --> 01:15:46,756
I fear she will not survive.

1134
01:15:46,789 --> 01:15:53,129
- I will see to
these things at once.

1135
01:15:57,798 --> 01:15:58,900
- Why?

1136
01:15:58,933 --> 01:16:01,602
Why am I being given
special treatment?

1137
01:16:01,635 --> 01:16:04,671
Why is the Assistant
Superintendent so interested

1138
01:16:04,704 --> 01:16:06,239
in my case, in particular?

1139
01:16:06,272 --> 01:16:08,841
- We care about the
treatment of all patients

1140
01:16:08,874 --> 01:16:11,311
at Blackwell's Insane Asylum.

1141
01:16:14,646 --> 01:16:17,716
And a Judge Duffy has
been sending reporters

1142
01:16:17,749 --> 01:16:19,917
to ask about you.

1143
01:16:21,685 --> 01:16:24,621
Tell me, do you
think you are insane?

1144
01:16:26,756 --> 01:16:28,057
- Yes insane.

1145
01:16:28,090 --> 01:16:31,026
I have watched insanity
slowly creeping over minds

1146
01:16:31,059 --> 01:16:32,928
that had appeared to be alright.

1147
01:16:32,961 --> 01:16:36,731
I curse all doctors, nurses,
and public institutions

1148
01:16:36,764 --> 01:16:37,932
for their treatment of people

1149
01:16:37,965 --> 01:16:40,168
that have no advocacy.

1150
01:16:43,903 --> 01:16:47,740
- I will order Miss Grady
to see that more clothing

1151
01:16:47,773 --> 01:16:50,943
is given to the patients.

1152
01:17:11,392 --> 01:17:13,728
- Hand it over,
you know the rules.

1153
01:17:13,761 --> 01:17:14,996
No reading.

1154
01:17:15,029 --> 01:17:16,230
- It is only a book of psalms.

1155
01:17:16,263 --> 01:17:18,165
- Reading agitates the mind.

1156
01:17:18,198 --> 01:17:20,067
- How can book of psalms
be bad for the mind?

1157
01:17:20,100 --> 01:17:22,135
- Hand me the book.

1158
01:17:26,706 --> 01:17:33,078
Hand it over.

1159
01:17:37,247 --> 01:17:39,216
You did this to yourself.

1160
01:17:42,185 --> 01:17:43,787
Take her to the quiet room.

1161
01:17:43,820 --> 01:17:49,258
- You're not human.

1162
01:18:03,001 --> 01:18:04,203
- Brown go to the kitchen,

1163
01:18:04,236 --> 01:18:06,406
get a meal and take it
to Mrs. Schanz's room.

1164
01:18:08,039 --> 01:18:09,040
At the
kitchen I was greeted

1165
01:18:09,073 --> 01:18:11,109
with a spread of fresh fruits,

1166
01:18:11,142 --> 01:18:13,844
marveled meats,
and fine cheeses.

1167
01:18:13,877 --> 01:18:15,846
Food, the likes of
which was never shared

1168
01:18:15,879 --> 01:18:18,148
with the patients.

1169
01:18:18,181 --> 01:18:19,982
- Mrs. Schanz is
ill, what about that?

1170
01:18:20,015 --> 01:18:23,720
- That's for the doctor.

1171
01:18:37,230 --> 01:18:40,133
- 150 degrees, I think.

1172
01:18:43,301 --> 01:18:46,038
- How high as your
temperature ever run?

1173
01:18:46,071 --> 01:18:49,140
- Perhaps 101 degrees.

1174
01:18:49,173 --> 01:18:52,277
- It's 99 degrees.

1175
01:18:56,446 --> 01:18:58,915
- I brought you some food.

1176
01:18:58,948 --> 01:18:59,949
- I do not want it.

1177
01:18:59,982 --> 01:19:02,151
- I know how you feel,

1178
01:19:02,184 --> 01:19:05,221
but you need your strength.

1179
01:19:05,254 --> 01:19:06,488
Did they hit you?

1180
01:19:06,521 --> 01:19:10,058
- I have gotten beatings
from Miss Grupe.

1181
01:19:11,391 --> 01:19:15,028
I am so cold.

1182
01:19:15,061 --> 01:19:19,766
I will never see my son again.

1183
01:19:21,133 --> 01:19:23,802
If only I could die.

1184
01:19:29,406 --> 01:19:32,944
Nein, nein, nein.

1185
01:19:34,410 --> 01:19:35,946
Please.

1186
01:19:37,313 --> 01:19:39,182
No, please there's
nothing wrong with me.

1187
01:19:39,215 --> 01:19:41,183
- Now, now, dear Mrs. Schanz.

1188
01:19:41,216 --> 01:19:44,186
We're here to help you.

1189
01:19:44,219 --> 01:19:45,320
Hold her down.

1190
01:19:45,353 --> 01:19:48,055
- No, please.

1191
01:19:48,088 --> 01:19:48,890
- She doesn't need an injection,

1192
01:19:48,923 --> 01:19:50,191
she just needs rest.

1193
01:19:50,224 --> 01:19:51,292
Do not inject her,

1194
01:19:51,325 --> 01:19:53,527
she only had a
mild coughing fit.

1195
01:19:53,560 --> 01:19:54,861
Do not inject her.

1196
01:19:54,894 --> 01:19:57,364
- Miss Brown enough!

1197
01:20:00,465 --> 01:20:02,835
- There, there.

1198
01:20:07,138 --> 01:20:09,473
Isn't that better?

1199
01:20:12,509 --> 01:20:17,514
- Franklin, you've
grown so much.

1200
01:20:19,281 --> 01:20:21,517
Come dance with me.

1201
01:20:49,372 --> 01:20:52,108
- You have killed her.

1202
01:20:52,141 --> 01:20:53,376
You have killed her.

1203
01:20:53,409 --> 01:20:55,077
- Take Miss Brown
back to her room.

1204
01:20:55,110 --> 01:20:57,613
Send Mrs. Schanz
to the crematorium.

1205
01:20:57,646 --> 01:20:59,615
I will make out the papers.

1206
01:20:59,648 --> 01:21:01,883
- You are a cruel
and inhumane man.

1207
01:21:01,916 --> 01:21:05,386
- Why are you fighting
this so much, Miss Brown?

1208
01:21:05,419 --> 01:21:09,056
I'm trying to bring
these people some relief.

1209
01:21:09,089 --> 01:21:11,024
- By killing them?

1210
01:21:11,057 --> 01:21:13,393
- It was not the intention.

1211
01:21:32,341 --> 01:21:35,078
- You have brought
this up on yourself.

1212
01:21:53,425 --> 01:21:55,228
- Get off the grass!

1213
01:21:59,664 --> 01:22:03,368
- Tillie.

1214
01:22:03,401 --> 01:22:05,202
Tillie?

1215
01:22:05,235 --> 01:22:08,372
- I dreamed of my
mother last night.

1216
01:22:08,405 --> 01:22:14,544
I think she may come
today and take me home.

1217
01:22:19,147 --> 01:22:21,082
I'm cold.

1218
01:22:21,115 --> 01:22:23,918
No don't touch me!

1219
01:22:23,951 --> 01:22:26,120
- I'm trying to warm you.

1220
01:22:28,955 --> 01:22:33,425
- You, you are a traitor.

1221
01:22:33,458 --> 01:22:35,627
There doing this to
me because of you.

1222
01:22:35,660 --> 01:22:37,229
- What?

1223
01:22:37,262 --> 01:22:40,264
- You're trying to pass
yourself off as me.

1224
01:22:40,297 --> 01:22:41,432
- Tillie what do you mean?

1225
01:22:41,465 --> 01:22:44,168
- The reporters and the doctors

1226
01:22:44,201 --> 01:22:46,703
that have come calling
to see Nellie Brown

1227
01:22:46,736 --> 01:22:49,439
are friends in search of me.

1228
01:22:49,472 --> 01:22:52,141
But you are, by some means,

1229
01:22:52,174 --> 01:22:56,044
trying to deceive
them that you are me.

1230
01:22:56,077 --> 01:22:57,545
- No Tillie, I am your friend.

1231
01:22:57,578 --> 01:23:00,415
- You are not my friend!

1232
01:23:02,349 --> 01:23:06,020
- I am here because of you.

1233
01:23:10,422 --> 01:23:11,524
- Tillie,

1234
01:23:11,557 --> 01:23:13,391
what have they
been doing to you?

1235
01:23:13,424 --> 01:23:14,559
They've been injecting
you with opium.

1236
01:23:14,592 --> 01:23:17,529
- It's your fault.

1237
01:23:17,562 --> 01:23:20,064
You trick me into singing,

1238
01:23:20,097 --> 01:23:23,334
so you can steal my voice.

1239
01:23:23,367 --> 01:23:25,068
- No.

1240
01:23:27,036 --> 01:23:31,540
- I can't stay in this
place another day.

1241
01:23:35,577 --> 01:23:37,311
- Tillie shut up

1242
01:23:37,344 --> 01:23:38,980
or I will help you to shut up.

1243
01:23:39,013 --> 01:23:40,414
- Tillie.

1244
01:23:40,447 --> 01:23:41,950
- Get away from me.

1245
01:23:51,723 --> 01:23:54,058
- There are 16
doctors on this island

1246
01:23:54,091 --> 01:23:55,460
and excepting two,

1247
01:23:55,493 --> 01:23:57,996
I have never seen them pay
any attention to the patients.

1248
01:23:58,029 --> 01:24:01,198
How can a doctor judge
a woman's sanity,

1249
01:24:01,231 --> 01:24:03,233
merely by bidding
her good morning

1250
01:24:03,266 --> 01:24:06,302
and refusing to hear
her pleas for release?

1251
01:24:07,736 --> 01:24:11,172
You have no right to
keep sane people here.

1252
01:24:11,205 --> 01:24:13,174
I am sane, have always been so

1253
01:24:13,207 --> 01:24:15,410
and I must insist on
a thorough examination

1254
01:24:15,443 --> 01:24:17,311
or be released.

1255
01:24:17,344 --> 01:24:19,580
Several of the women
here are also sane.

1256
01:24:19,613 --> 01:24:21,181
Why can't they be free?

1257
01:24:21,214 --> 01:24:24,317
- They are insane

1258
01:24:24,350 --> 01:24:27,721
and suffering from delusions.

1259
01:24:28,520 --> 01:24:30,088
- You are such a damn whore,

1260
01:24:30,121 --> 01:24:32,324
it's a good thing for you
that you are being transferred

1261
01:24:32,357 --> 01:24:34,558
or I will make you pay
so well for remembering

1262
01:24:34,591 --> 01:24:37,461
to tell Dr. Ingram everything.

1263
01:24:37,494 --> 01:24:39,397
You forget everything
about yourself,

1264
01:24:39,430 --> 01:24:42,566
but you never forget
anything to tell the Doctor.

1265
01:24:57,110 --> 01:24:58,712
- Not sure I'll be able
to sleep with Matilda

1266
01:24:58,745 --> 01:25:00,380
up creeping about.

1267
01:25:00,413 --> 01:25:03,616
- She's probably out searching
for somebody she want to kill

1268
01:25:03,649 --> 01:25:06,652
- Someone down there.

1269
01:25:08,287 --> 01:25:10,355
- I heard the nurses
talking about you.

1270
01:25:10,388 --> 01:25:11,623
- What did they say?

1271
01:25:11,656 --> 01:25:13,691
- You were to be shut
off from all visitors,

1272
01:25:13,724 --> 01:25:18,095
because you talk too
much out of turn.

1273
01:25:18,128 --> 01:25:19,530
- That's why we were
sent to the violent ward

1274
01:25:19,563 --> 01:25:21,130
to get rid of us.

1275
01:25:21,163 --> 01:25:23,099
I puzzled over
why they sent Anne Neville

1276
01:25:23,132 --> 01:25:24,767
to the violent ward with me.

1277
01:25:24,800 --> 01:25:27,202
I determined that it was
the strength of her spirit,

1278
01:25:27,235 --> 01:25:29,438
her unwillingness to let
the nurses break her will

1279
01:25:29,471 --> 01:25:31,605
that had them focused on her.

1280
01:25:31,638 --> 01:25:33,841
So they sent Anne,
the strongest,

1281
01:25:33,874 --> 01:25:37,811
and me, the loudest, to the
violent ward to finish us.

1282
01:25:55,158 --> 01:25:56,393
- Why was I put in here?

1283
01:25:56,426 --> 01:25:57,161
- Shut up.

1284
01:26:08,202 --> 01:26:11,339
- I understand you been
having continuing trouble

1285
01:26:11,372 --> 01:26:15,476
with fever thinking
and hallucinations.

1286
01:26:15,509 --> 01:26:18,311
- I've had nothing of the sort.

1287
01:26:18,344 --> 01:26:20,413
I'm as sane as anyone.

1288
01:26:20,446 --> 01:26:24,116
- You've demonstrated
delusions of persecution,

1289
01:26:24,149 --> 01:26:28,353
thinking that the orderlies
and nurses are against you,

1290
01:26:28,386 --> 01:26:31,689
that they wish to cause you
harm, instead of help you.

1291
01:26:31,722 --> 01:26:35,625
And that we, your
doctors are murderers.

1292
01:26:35,658 --> 01:26:37,560
- The things I have seen,

1293
01:26:37,593 --> 01:26:40,163
the things I have
told to Dr. Ingram,

1294
01:26:40,196 --> 01:26:41,330
all of them are true.

1295
01:26:41,363 --> 01:26:43,899
- There are many truths
here at Blackwell's.

1296
01:26:43,932 --> 01:26:48,369
It is after all, an
asylum for the insane.

1297
01:26:51,505 --> 01:26:54,441
- I do not need an injection,

1298
01:26:54,474 --> 01:26:56,243
I am perfectly sane.

1299
01:26:56,276 --> 01:26:59,712
- Nearly all the patients
here deny their insanity.

1300
01:26:59,745 --> 01:27:02,214
- Besides you nightly medicate
me with an opium drink.

1301
01:27:02,247 --> 01:27:04,849
- It is clear that in your case,

1302
01:27:04,882 --> 01:27:07,319
you need something stronger.

1303
01:27:08,219 --> 01:27:10,254
- No, no, no, no.

1304
01:27:10,287 --> 01:27:10,854
No, no!

1305
01:27:10,887 --> 01:27:11,755
- Hold her still.

1306
01:27:11,788 --> 01:27:13,657
- No, no, no!

1307
01:27:13,690 --> 01:27:16,192
No, no!

1308
01:27:33,372 --> 01:27:34,908
- Let her be for a bit.

1309
01:27:37,610 --> 01:27:38,844
Check back on her in an hour.

1310
01:27:53,756 --> 01:27:56,659
- You better alert
the crematorium.

1311
01:28:00,762 --> 01:28:03,498
- Excuse me, what are you doing?

1312
01:28:03,531 --> 01:28:04,632
- Superintendent Dent?

1313
01:28:04,665 --> 01:28:05,767
- Yes?

1314
01:28:05,800 --> 01:28:08,235
- I am Peter A.
Hendricks esquire.

1315
01:28:08,268 --> 01:28:09,937
I am an attorney
representing a family,

1316
01:28:09,970 --> 01:28:11,772
willing to take
care of the patient,

1317
01:28:11,805 --> 01:28:12,972
known as Nellie Brown.

1318
01:28:13,005 --> 01:28:14,507
- Nellie Brown of course,

1319
01:28:14,540 --> 01:28:16,976
the amnesia case.

1320
01:28:17,009 --> 01:28:21,780
Nellie Brown is unfortunately
a very sick girl

1321
01:28:21,813 --> 01:28:25,583
and I cannot vouch for
the safety of her health.

1322
01:28:25,616 --> 01:28:27,685
If she were to be
released at this time.

1323
01:28:35,391 --> 01:28:38,427
- A Judge Duffy has
signed the order,

1324
01:28:38,460 --> 01:28:42,230
transferring her
into my custody.

1325
01:28:42,263 --> 01:28:45,533
As you can see, it is official.

1326
01:28:49,736 --> 01:28:51,638
- Have a seat.

1327
01:28:51,671 --> 01:28:55,341
We have hundreds of patients
here at Blackwell's,

1328
01:28:55,374 --> 01:28:59,444
it will take a little
time to locate her.

1329
01:28:59,477 --> 01:29:01,446
- I'm not going anywhere.

1330
01:29:01,479 --> 01:29:03,681
- What is the condition
of Nellie Brown?

1331
01:29:03,714 --> 01:29:07,417
- I left Miss McCarten to
take her to the crematorium.

1332
01:29:07,450 --> 01:29:09,519
- Open it, open it!

1333
01:29:12,588 --> 01:29:13,990
Step aside!

1334
01:29:26,833 --> 01:29:30,536
Come Miss Brown,
come back to us.

1335
01:29:30,569 --> 01:29:31,971
Wake up!

1336
01:29:32,004 --> 01:29:33,306
Come out of it!

1337
01:29:33,339 --> 01:29:36,675
Miss Brown, I need
you to wake up!

1338
01:29:49,919 --> 01:29:52,354
- We're ruined.

1339
01:29:52,387 --> 01:29:55,524
Blackwell's will be ended.

1340
01:29:57,758 --> 01:29:59,627
I won't have it.

1341
01:30:12,071 --> 01:30:14,406
- Her heart is beating.

1342
01:30:14,439 --> 01:30:15,640
- What?

1343
01:30:15,673 --> 01:30:17,042
- Her heart is beating!

1344
01:30:19,444 --> 01:30:22,012
- So it works.

1345
01:30:22,045 --> 01:30:24,515
I was right.

1346
01:30:24,548 --> 01:30:28,384
It works.

1347
01:30:28,417 --> 01:30:30,520
Watch over her tonight.

1348
01:30:30,553 --> 01:30:32,988
Make sure she gets
plenty of water.

1349
01:30:33,021 --> 01:30:36,525
At sunrise send
her into the yard.

1350
01:30:36,558 --> 01:30:39,393
Have your nurses keep
close watch over her

1351
01:30:39,426 --> 01:30:40,795
until I call for her.

1352
01:30:40,828 --> 01:30:42,297
- Yes Doctor.

1353
01:30:58,809 --> 01:31:01,345
- Bridget.

1354
01:31:01,378 --> 01:31:02,980
What have they done to you?

1355
01:31:05,582 --> 01:31:08,885
- Insane, it cannot
be seen on your face.

1356
01:31:16,991 --> 01:31:19,760
- Brown, you're to come with me.

1357
01:31:19,793 --> 01:31:21,095
Where am I going?

1358
01:31:21,128 --> 01:31:24,597
- A lawyer, Mr. Hendricks
is here to see you.

1359
01:31:32,537 --> 01:31:36,607
- You are the strongest
woman I have ever met.

1360
01:31:36,640 --> 01:31:38,909
- And you are leaving.

1361
01:31:38,942 --> 01:31:40,910
- I'll be back.

1362
01:31:40,943 --> 01:31:43,580
- No you won't.

1363
01:31:43,613 --> 01:31:47,550
- You'd have to be
crazy to come back here.

1364
01:31:49,718 --> 01:31:53,988
I never want to
see you here again.

1365
01:31:58,558 --> 01:32:00,561
- No hugging.

1366
01:32:12,904 --> 01:32:16,073
- This is Peter A.
Hendricks Esquire.

1367
01:32:16,106 --> 01:32:17,408
He's an attorney.

1368
01:32:17,441 --> 01:32:18,575
- How do you do, Mr. Hendricks.

1369
01:32:18,608 --> 01:32:20,644
- Very well, Miss
Brown thank you.

1370
01:32:20,676 --> 01:32:23,446
- Have a seat Nellie.

1371
01:32:25,114 --> 01:32:29,651
- I represent friends of yours

1372
01:32:29,684 --> 01:32:31,653
that are willing to
take charge of you

1373
01:32:31,686 --> 01:32:32,953
if you'd rather be with them...

1374
01:32:32,986 --> 01:32:33,788
- Yes.

1375
01:32:33,821 --> 01:32:35,656
- Than in the asylum.

1376
01:32:35,689 --> 01:32:36,891
- Yes.

1377
01:32:36,924 --> 01:32:37,725
- Don't you want to
know who they ...

1378
01:32:37,758 --> 01:32:40,427
- No.

1379
01:32:40,460 --> 01:32:42,762
- Very well.

1380
01:32:42,795 --> 01:32:44,797
I will leave you two to chat,

1381
01:32:44,830 --> 01:32:48,100
while I prepare
your release papers.

1382
01:32:52,470 --> 01:32:56,440
- So Miss, Miss Brown.

1383
01:32:56,473 --> 01:32:59,910
Miss Brown, Miss Brown.

1384
01:33:02,611 --> 01:33:06,215
I am instructed to
provide you with anything,

1385
01:33:06,248 --> 01:33:09,884
anything you need on our
journey back to the city.

1386
01:33:09,917 --> 01:33:12,220
- Something to eat immediately.

1387
01:33:12,253 --> 01:33:14,889
- Of course, of course.

1388
01:33:18,724 --> 01:33:20,193
- I had
looked forward so eagerly

1389
01:33:20,226 --> 01:33:22,595
to leaving that horrible place.

1390
01:33:22,628 --> 01:33:25,063
Yet when my release came,

1391
01:33:25,096 --> 01:33:29,000
and I knew that God's sunlight
was to be free for me again,

1392
01:33:29,033 --> 01:33:31,469
there was a certain
pain in leaving.

1393
01:33:31,502 --> 01:33:34,238
- How long was I
in the nuthouse?

1394
01:33:34,271 --> 01:33:37,674
- You mean you don't know?

1395
01:33:41,643 --> 01:33:43,946
- 10 days.

1396
01:34:06,831 --> 01:34:08,666
Could I pass
a week in the Insane Ward

1397
01:34:08,699 --> 01:34:10,868
at Blackwell's island?

1398
01:34:10,901 --> 01:34:13,237
I said I could and would.

1399
01:34:13,270 --> 01:34:17,207
And I did.

1400
01:34:26,814 --> 01:34:28,749
My story spread like wildfire.

1401
01:34:28,782 --> 01:34:31,051
And spread not only
across the U.S.,

1402
01:34:31,084 --> 01:34:32,820
but across the globe.

1403
01:34:32,853 --> 01:34:33,953
I was a news celebrity.

1404
01:34:33,986 --> 01:34:35,255
- Oh Miss Brown.

1405
01:34:35,288 --> 01:34:36,589
I had
proven that a woman

1406
01:34:36,622 --> 01:34:38,658
could do the man's
job of reporting

1407
01:34:38,691 --> 01:34:40,826
by writing the most
successful piece of news

1408
01:34:40,859 --> 01:34:46,698
Joseph Pulitzer
had ever published.

1409
01:34:52,735 --> 01:34:56,539
But my only focus, my only care

1410
01:34:56,572 --> 01:34:59,642
was for the poor unfortunates
left to wither and die

1411
01:34:59,675 --> 01:35:01,911
in that horrid place.

1412
01:35:01,944 --> 01:35:04,145
I was determined to shed
light on their conditions.

1413
01:35:04,178 --> 01:35:05,980
- The nation is in a
fit over your story.

1414
01:35:06,013 --> 01:35:08,749
The mayor of New York has
launched his own investigation

1415
01:35:08,782 --> 01:35:10,884
as of several members
of the city council.

1416
01:35:10,917 --> 01:35:12,786
This changes everything for you.

1417
01:35:12,819 --> 01:35:14,220
- Yes.

1418
01:35:14,253 --> 01:35:17,957
- Nothing will ever be
the same from here on out.

1419
01:35:17,990 --> 01:35:20,759
- No I expect not.

1420
01:35:20,792 --> 01:35:26,531
- Here, this is for you.

1421
01:35:30,801 --> 01:35:31,968
- It is a lot of money.

1422
01:35:32,001 --> 01:35:32,902
- It includes a bonus,

1423
01:35:32,935 --> 01:35:35,972
authorized by Pulitzer himself.

1424
01:35:36,005 --> 01:35:38,607
- I only want the standard pay,

1425
01:35:38,640 --> 01:35:41,777
the rest should
go to the orphans.

1426
01:35:41,810 --> 01:35:44,645
- Oh yes, you've been summoned

1427
01:35:44,678 --> 01:35:46,247
to appear before the grand jury

1428
01:35:46,280 --> 01:35:48,982
about the conditions
at Blackwell's.

1429
01:35:51,384 --> 01:35:52,852
- Do you swear to
tell the truth,

1430
01:35:52,885 --> 01:35:54,853
the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth,

1431
01:35:54,886 --> 01:35:55,888
so help you God?

1432
01:35:55,921 --> 01:35:58,591
- By the grace of God, I do.

1433
01:36:02,059 --> 01:36:03,661
- Please state your name.

1434
01:36:03,694 --> 01:36:05,763
- Elizabeth Jane Cockerit.

1435
01:36:08,765 --> 01:36:10,801
Nellie Bly is my pen name.

1436
01:36:10,834 --> 01:36:13,202
- Can you tell us why
you feigned insanity

1437
01:36:13,235 --> 01:36:15,271
and entered Blackwell's
Island Lunatic Asylum

1438
01:36:15,304 --> 01:36:17,639
posing as a person
of mental illness?

1439
01:36:17,672 --> 01:36:19,808
- I entered Blackwell's
Asylum with the intent

1440
01:36:19,841 --> 01:36:23,844
of writing about and exposing
corruption abuse there of.

1441
01:36:23,877 --> 01:36:27,281
- So this was a page
on dishonest papers?

1442
01:36:27,314 --> 01:36:30,183
- The job of a reporter is to
tell the truth to the people.

1443
01:36:30,216 --> 01:36:32,785
Truth that would
otherwise not be know.

1444
01:36:32,818 --> 01:36:35,754
At first, I took this
assignment with the notion

1445
01:36:35,787 --> 01:36:38,256
of telling the people what
goes on behind the bars

1446
01:36:38,289 --> 01:36:40,925
and locked doors of the asylum.

1447
01:36:40,958 --> 01:36:42,727
But it was not long
before I realized

1448
01:36:42,760 --> 01:36:44,095
that I had deeper reasons.

1449
01:36:44,128 --> 01:36:45,296
- Care to elaborate?

1450
01:36:45,329 --> 01:36:48,064
- The insane asylum
on Blackwell's Island

1451
01:36:48,097 --> 01:36:49,899
is a human rat trap.

1452
01:36:49,932 --> 01:36:51,900
It is easy to get in,

1453
01:36:51,933 --> 01:36:56,205
but once in it is
impossible to get out.

1454
01:36:56,238 --> 01:37:00,174
Here were women taken
without their consent,

1455
01:37:00,207 --> 01:37:03,043
from the free world to an asylum

1456
01:37:03,076 --> 01:37:06,747
and given no chance
to prove their sanity.

1457
01:37:06,780 --> 01:37:09,081
- Your Honor I'm with that the
Grand Jury be taken on a tour

1458
01:37:09,114 --> 01:37:11,651
of Blackwell's Island
Asylum by Miss Cockerin

1459
01:37:11,684 --> 01:37:13,953
and see these events first hand.

1460
01:37:13,986 --> 01:37:14,919
- It is so ordered.

1461
01:37:22,025 --> 01:37:24,962
- The Grand Jury is here.

1462
01:37:24,995 --> 01:37:26,195
- Yes?

1463
01:37:26,228 --> 01:37:30,733
- We must eliminate all
traces of Brown's visit.

1464
01:37:30,766 --> 01:37:32,934
We are in danger.

1465
01:37:32,967 --> 01:37:33,368
- Just go.

1466
01:37:33,401 --> 01:37:34,069
- But...

1467
01:37:34,102 --> 01:37:35,104
- Just go!

1468
01:37:53,251 --> 01:37:55,053
- You must keep
your questions short

1469
01:37:55,086 --> 01:37:57,989
as her health will not allow it.

1470
01:38:00,091 --> 01:38:04,128
- It's me Nellie.

1471
01:38:05,729 --> 01:38:08,798
Tillie do you know me?

1472
01:38:08,831 --> 01:38:11,400
- No.

1473
01:38:11,433 --> 01:38:13,301
I do not know you.

1474
01:38:17,739 --> 01:38:19,006
Should I?

1475
01:38:37,054 --> 01:38:39,724
- This is not how it was
when I was last here.

1476
01:38:39,757 --> 01:38:41,958
- Have you made changes to
the sitting room recently?

1477
01:38:41,991 --> 01:38:43,359
- The sitting room is
always being changed,

1478
01:38:43,392 --> 01:38:45,395
rearranged and cleaned.

1479
01:38:45,428 --> 01:38:47,262
- Where is Miss
Bridget McGuinness?

1480
01:38:47,295 --> 01:38:49,231
- She has been transferred
to other quarters.

1481
01:38:49,264 --> 01:38:50,733
- What about Mrs. Fox?

1482
01:38:50,766 --> 01:38:54,502
- She is dying of paralysis
and you cannot see her.

1483
01:38:54,535 --> 01:38:57,739
- And Anne Neville,
where is Anne Neville.

1484
01:38:57,772 --> 01:38:59,873
- She has been transferred
to isolation in Hall 7

1485
01:38:59,906 --> 01:39:01,074
due to some troubles.

1486
01:39:01,107 --> 01:39:02,142
- See that she is brought to us.

1487
01:39:12,450 --> 01:39:15,120
- Miss Anne Neville
has been brought down.

1488
01:39:15,153 --> 01:39:16,420
She's in the hallway.

1489
01:39:16,453 --> 01:39:17,488
- Send her in.

1490
01:39:41,507 --> 01:39:45,177
- I knew you would come back.

1491
01:39:46,845 --> 01:39:49,515
- Have they been
giving you medicine?

1492
01:39:53,918 --> 01:39:55,253
- I have to admit,

1493
01:39:55,286 --> 01:39:59,256
I was fearful when they
came for me just now.

1494
01:39:59,289 --> 01:40:03,025
They said I was going to be
examined by a crowd of men.

1495
01:40:03,058 --> 01:40:04,860
- It is a Grand Jury,

1496
01:40:04,893 --> 01:40:09,364
here to investigate Blackwell's
and how they treat us.

1497
01:40:09,397 --> 01:40:11,199
- All I want you to do,

1498
01:40:11,232 --> 01:40:13,433
is to tell the jury
all that we have done

1499
01:40:13,466 --> 01:40:15,770
since I was brought
with you to the asylum.

1500
01:40:27,412 --> 01:40:32,049
- When Miss Brown and
I were brought here,

1501
01:40:34,151 --> 01:40:36,453
the nurses were very cruel.

1502
01:40:40,489 --> 01:40:44,160
The food it was too bad to eat.

1503
01:40:46,428 --> 01:40:49,297
There was not enough clothing.

1504
01:40:49,330 --> 01:40:53,034
Miss Brown asked for
more all the time.

1505
01:40:53,067 --> 01:40:55,268
For when the doctors
promised her more clothing,

1506
01:40:55,301 --> 01:41:01,307
she said she would
give it to me.

1507
01:41:05,877 --> 01:41:11,448
Strange to say,

1508
01:41:15,352 --> 01:41:19,488
ever since Miss Brown
has been taken away,

1509
01:41:19,521 --> 01:41:23,391
everything was different.

1510
01:41:23,424 --> 01:41:27,028
Nurses are very kind to us

1511
01:41:27,061 --> 01:41:31,265
and we are given plenty to wear.

1512
01:41:31,298 --> 01:41:37,370
The doctors come
and see us often.

1513
01:41:41,973 --> 01:41:44,276
- All rise

1514
01:41:44,309 --> 01:41:49,914
for the honorable Judge
Henry A. Gildersleeve.

1515
01:41:54,317 --> 01:41:56,286
Be seated.

1516
01:41:59,521 --> 01:42:03,024
- Has the Grand Jury
reached a decision?

1517
01:42:03,057 --> 01:42:06,227
- We have Your Honor.

1518
01:42:06,260 --> 01:42:08,162
We find the Committee
of Appropriation

1519
01:42:08,195 --> 01:42:09,596
be provided one million dollars

1520
01:42:09,629 --> 01:42:11,265
for the benefit of the asylum.

1521
01:42:14,700 --> 01:42:16,335
In spite of
the attempts to cover up

1522
01:42:16,368 --> 01:42:18,604
what had been going
on at Blackwell's,

1523
01:42:18,637 --> 01:42:21,439
the Grand Jury found that
I was telling the truth

1524
01:42:21,472 --> 01:42:23,208
about all I had testified

1525
01:42:23,241 --> 01:42:26,510
and found my testimony
to be credible.

1526
01:42:26,543 --> 01:42:29,546
I have the consolation that
on the strength of my story,

1527
01:42:29,579 --> 01:42:31,948
the million dollars
per year provided

1528
01:42:31,981 --> 01:42:33,683
was more than had
ever before been given

1529
01:42:33,716 --> 01:42:36,486
for the benefit of the insane.

1530
01:42:36,519 --> 01:42:41,523
- My dear girl, you have
no idea what you've done.

1531
01:42:41,957 --> 01:42:45,092
- Oh I know exactly
what I have done.

1532
01:42:45,125 --> 01:42:47,328
Blackwell's is not
a place of healing.

1533
01:42:47,361 --> 01:42:49,663
It is a rat-infested
human death trap.

1534
01:42:49,696 --> 01:42:51,498
- That is due to
the lack of means

1535
01:42:51,531 --> 01:42:54,334
to secure good medical help.

1536
01:42:54,367 --> 01:42:56,602
Blackwell's Asylum
was forced to choose

1537
01:42:56,635 --> 01:43:01,005
among convicted prisoners
from the nearby penitentiary

1538
01:43:01,038 --> 01:43:03,107
to fill out its staff.

1539
01:43:03,140 --> 01:43:06,677
- You stood by as the nurses
inflicted unspeakable cruelties

1540
01:43:06,710 --> 01:43:08,011
upon patients.

1541
01:43:08,044 --> 01:43:09,680
- Maybe being the
superintendent,

1542
01:43:09,713 --> 01:43:13,282
I was too busy to be fully
aware of the atrocities

1543
01:43:13,315 --> 01:43:14,684
that were going on in here.

1544
01:43:14,717 --> 01:43:16,552
- You knew.

1545
01:43:16,585 --> 01:43:18,520
You knew that clothing
meant for the patients

1546
01:43:18,553 --> 01:43:20,021
was being stolen.

1547
01:43:20,054 --> 01:43:22,390
You knew that women in
here were being murdered.

1548
01:43:22,423 --> 01:43:25,225
- How can you say it was murder!

1549
01:43:25,258 --> 01:43:27,695
I was trying to
help these people!

1550
01:43:27,728 --> 01:43:34,534
I was trying to help
science before it!

1551
01:43:38,470 --> 01:43:42,006
- Dr. Dent you have
made a very old mistake.

1552
01:43:42,039 --> 01:43:43,474
Throughout history
there have been those

1553
01:43:43,507 --> 01:43:44,709
who have allowed atrocities

1554
01:43:44,742 --> 01:43:49,079
with a higher ideal
as an end goal.

1555
01:43:49,112 --> 01:43:52,615
- I had no other goal
than to help my patients.

1556
01:43:54,683 --> 01:43:57,019
- I can see I cannot
convince you to the insanity

1557
01:43:57,052 --> 01:44:00,621
of your thinking.

1558
01:44:00,654 --> 01:44:03,224
But I can stop you.

1559
01:44:03,257 --> 01:44:07,194
The state is taking control
of Blackwell's Asylum.

1560
01:44:07,227 --> 01:44:10,463
One of the conditions is
that the facility be closed

1561
01:44:10,496 --> 01:44:11,497
and torn down.

1562
01:44:26,776 --> 01:44:32,481
Goodbye Dr. Dent.

1563
01:44:36,251 --> 01:44:39,086
- The world
was surprised by my story.

1564
01:44:39,119 --> 01:44:41,322
A story written by a woman.

1565
01:44:41,355 --> 01:44:44,724
A story that brought light
to those that had no voice,

1566
01:44:44,757 --> 01:44:47,627
those that society had forgotten

1567
01:44:47,660 --> 01:44:49,562
and reminded us all

1568
01:44:49,595 --> 01:44:52,564
that energy rightly
applied and directed

1569
01:44:52,597 --> 01:44:54,266
will accomplish anything.

1570
01:45:02,032 --> 01:45:03,934
♪ Nellie Bly, Nellie Bly

1571
01:45:03,967 --> 01:45:05,903
♪ The world could be yours

1572
01:45:05,936 --> 01:45:08,906
♪ If you try, if you try

1573
01:45:10,507 --> 01:45:12,543
♪ Nellie Bly was just a girl

1574
01:45:12,576 --> 01:45:14,678
♪ Born into a world

1575
01:45:14,711 --> 01:45:18,149
♪ Where little girls
barely mattered

1576
01:45:18,182 --> 01:45:20,951
♪ Even women couldn't vote

1577
01:45:20,984 --> 01:45:22,920
♪ Their jobs just
left them broke

1578
01:45:22,953 --> 01:45:27,458
♪ Sewing clothes
and stirring batter

1579
01:45:27,491 --> 01:45:30,628
♪ Nellie didn't
think it was right

1580
01:45:30,661 --> 01:45:32,029
♪ She took up a pen

1581
01:45:32,062 --> 01:45:34,665
♪ To fight for women's rights

1582
01:45:34,698 --> 01:45:38,769
♪ And she told the whole world

1583
01:45:38,802 --> 01:45:40,171
♪ What it's all about

1584
01:45:40,204 --> 01:45:41,172
♪ Nellie Bly

1585
01:45:41,205 --> 01:45:42,173
♪ Nellie Bly

1586
01:45:42,206 --> 01:45:43,641
♪ The world could be yours

1587
01:45:43,674 --> 01:45:47,611
♪ If you try, if you try

1588
01:45:47,644 --> 01:45:49,914
♪ Nellie Bly, Nellie Bly

1589
01:45:49,947 --> 01:45:51,882
♪ The world could be yours

1590
01:45:51,915 --> 01:45:56,086
♪ If you try, if you try

1591
01:45:56,119 --> 01:45:58,556
♪ Nellie Bly, she was sly

1592
01:45:58,589 --> 01:46:00,791
♪ Like a private eye

1593
01:46:00,824 --> 01:46:04,562
♪ She went undercover

1594
01:46:04,595 --> 01:46:06,664
♪ Into a women's mental ward

1595
01:46:06,697 --> 01:46:08,732
♪ Her pen was like a sword

1596
01:46:08,765 --> 01:46:12,870
♪ She played sick
to be among others

1597
01:46:12,903 --> 01:46:16,740
♪ Because the patients they
weren't being treated right

1598
01:46:16,773 --> 01:46:18,876
♪ She stayed in there
for ten long days

1599
01:46:18,909 --> 01:46:20,744
♪ And nights

1600
01:46:20,777 --> 01:46:24,882
♪ And then she told
the whole world

1601
01:46:24,915 --> 01:46:26,584
♪ What it's all about

1602
01:46:26,617 --> 01:46:27,785
♪ Nellie Bly, Nellie Bly

1603
01:46:27,818 --> 01:46:29,487
♪ The world could be yours

1604
01:46:29,520 --> 01:46:33,591
♪ If you try, if you try

1605
01:46:33,624 --> 01:46:35,893
♪ Nellie Bly, Nellie Bly

1606
01:46:35,926 --> 01:46:37,828
♪ The world could be yours

1607
01:46:37,861 --> 01:46:42,533
♪ If you try, if you try

1608
01:46:54,912 --> 01:46:56,814
♪ Nellie Bly was just a girl

1609
01:46:56,847 --> 01:46:58,849
♪ In a race around the world

1610
01:46:58,882 --> 01:47:00,718
♪ Taking trains and ships

1611
01:47:00,751 --> 01:47:03,153
♪ On steam power

1612
01:47:03,186 --> 01:47:05,122
♪ She sailed the China sea

1613
01:47:05,155 --> 01:47:06,991
♪ With her little pet monkey

1614
01:47:07,024 --> 01:47:08,192
♪ Meeting kings

1615
01:47:08,225 --> 01:47:11,762
♪ Getting flowers

1616
01:47:11,795 --> 01:47:13,597
♪ Arabia, Hong Kong

1617
01:47:13,630 --> 01:47:14,932
♪ Singapore

1618
01:47:14,965 --> 01:47:16,300
♪ In seventy-two days

1619
01:47:16,333 --> 01:47:19,169
♪ She was on American shores

1620
01:47:19,202 --> 01:47:23,307
♪ Telling the whole wide world

1621
01:47:23,340 --> 01:47:24,575
♪ What it's all about

1622
01:47:24,608 --> 01:47:26,143
♪ Nellie Bly, Nellie Bly

1623
01:47:26,176 --> 01:47:28,012
♪ The world could be yours

1624
01:47:28,045 --> 01:47:30,714
♪ If you try, If you try

1625
01:47:30,747 --> 01:47:32,716
♪ Oh tell them Nellie
what it's all about

1626
01:47:32,749 --> 01:47:34,585
♪ Nellie Bly, Nellie Bly

1627
01:47:34,618 --> 01:47:36,186
♪ The world could be yours

1628
01:47:36,219 --> 01:47:39,723
♪ If you try, if you try

1629
01:47:39,756 --> 01:47:40,691
♪ It's a big

1630
01:47:40,724 --> 01:47:42,893
♪ Nellie Bly, Nellie Bly

1631
01:47:42,926 --> 01:47:44,762
♪ The world could be yours

1632
01:47:44,795 --> 01:47:47,731
♪ If you try, if you try

1633
01:47:47,764 --> 01:47:49,199
♪ Go ahead and try

1634
01:47:49,232 --> 01:47:51,135
♪ Nellie Bly, Nellie Bly

1635
01:47:51,168 --> 01:47:52,970
♪ The world could be yours

1636
01:47:53,003 --> 01:47:55,773
♪ If you try, if you try

1637
01:47:55,806 --> 01:47:57,808
♪ Oh Nellie, Nellie, Nellie

1638
01:47:57,841 --> 01:48:00,210
♪ Try ♪