1 00:00:00,700 --> 00:00:02,372 (Bell tolls) 2 00:00:06,500 --> 00:00:13,338 Veni, Sancti Spiritus 3 00:00:18,300 --> 00:00:28,448 Mentes tuorum visita 4 00:00:28,860 --> 00:00:34,059 Amen 5 00:00:41,060 --> 00:00:43,016 (Laughter) 6 00:00:48,580 --> 00:00:51,458 (Minstrel plays a jig) 7 00:01:02,740 --> 00:01:05,732 MAN: She's not looking very happy. 8 00:01:05,820 --> 00:01:07,776 Your wife. 9 00:01:21,660 --> 00:01:23,173 Imbecile! 10 00:01:23,260 --> 00:01:26,855 You stupid, witless fool! 11 00:01:26,940 --> 00:01:29,898 Grandmother, calm yourself, please! Our guests. 12 00:01:29,980 --> 00:01:32,574 - What are you doing? It was an accident. - Accident? 13 00:01:32,660 --> 00:01:35,811 - It was my best pitcher. - I was pushed. Your grandson... 14 00:01:35,900 --> 00:01:37,811 - I never touched him. - You pushed me! 15 00:01:37,900 --> 00:01:40,050 Am I to be called a liar at my own wedding? 16 00:01:40,140 --> 00:01:43,769 That's enough! Four pennies will pay for your pitcher, boy. Make good your debt. 17 00:01:43,860 --> 00:01:44,975 What with? 18 00:01:45,060 --> 00:01:47,290 Mistress, please, I have no money. 19 00:01:47,380 --> 00:01:50,452 Then your fee will be forfeit. Put him out! 20 00:01:50,540 --> 00:01:52,053 MAN: Put him out! 21 00:01:53,740 --> 00:01:55,696 (Jeering) 22 00:01:59,780 --> 00:02:01,736 (Men laughing) 23 00:02:07,020 --> 00:02:09,898 Damn you all for whores and bastards! 24 00:02:11,020 --> 00:02:12,976 I hope your bride is poxed! 25 00:02:16,780 --> 00:02:19,135 Is this how you repay my hospitality? 26 00:02:19,220 --> 00:02:21,973 Perhaps the table could be pushed back, master. 27 00:02:22,060 --> 00:02:25,496 I don't recall giving you leave to come here, lestyn. 28 00:02:25,580 --> 00:02:27,536 You have no place in these revels 29 00:02:27,620 --> 00:02:29,372 They are for family and your betters 30 00:02:29,460 --> 00:02:32,179 Or do you forget your position, journeyman? 31 00:02:33,260 --> 00:02:36,855 Walter, clear those wedding gifts before more damage is done. 32 00:02:47,260 --> 00:02:51,776 Well, Daniel, if your bride makes you as happy as my Cecily has made me, 33 00:02:51,860 --> 00:02:53,816 you shall be a happy man indeed. 34 00:02:58,220 --> 00:03:00,780 - A first for you, then, Daniel. - A first? 35 00:03:00,860 --> 00:03:04,170 Well, the married woman you bed tonight will be your own. 36 00:03:05,220 --> 00:03:08,212 - You're unhappy as our tenant, Master Peche? - No. 37 00:03:08,300 --> 00:03:13,135 Then I should curb your imagination and keep your tongue, lest someone cut it out. 38 00:03:21,980 --> 00:03:23,936 (Coins rattle) 39 00:03:53,660 --> 00:03:55,537 Come here. Come on. 40 00:04:06,540 --> 00:04:08,417 Oh, Margery. 41 00:04:13,900 --> 00:04:17,688 Susanna, see where Walter's gone to. 42 00:04:29,500 --> 00:04:31,138 Father? 43 00:04:36,500 --> 00:04:37,899 (Scream) 44 00:04:39,540 --> 00:04:42,858 What is it? 45 00:04:42,940 --> 00:04:44,737 - What's happening? - Where's Daniel? 46 00:04:44,820 --> 00:04:47,459 What's happened? What is it? 47 00:04:47,540 --> 00:04:48,973 It's your father. 48 00:04:49,060 --> 00:04:51,290 Old Walter's dead 49 00:04:51,380 --> 00:04:53,098 MOB: Get him! There he is! 50 00:04:54,980 --> 00:04:56,936 (Shouting) 51 00:05:04,140 --> 00:05:08,372 Gloria Patri et Filio 52 00:05:08,460 --> 00:05:12,612 Et Spiritui Sancto 53 00:05:12,700 --> 00:05:14,497 (Shouting outside) 54 00:05:14,580 --> 00:05:19,131 Sicut erat in principio et in semper 55 00:05:19,220 --> 00:05:22,132 Et in saecula saeculorum 56 00:05:29,700 --> 00:05:31,577 Sanctuary! 57 00:05:35,780 --> 00:05:37,133 Stand off! 58 00:05:37,220 --> 00:05:39,893 Back! Back, I say! 59 00:05:39,980 --> 00:05:42,574 How dare you so affront the house of God. 60 00:05:42,660 --> 00:05:43,888 Argh! 61 00:05:43,980 --> 00:05:46,938 Drop that dagger! Or court your soul's damnation! 62 00:05:47,020 --> 00:05:50,854 That bastard has killed and robbed my father! We have come to take him. 63 00:05:50,940 --> 00:05:54,979 Father, if they have lawful complaint against this person, where is the law? 64 00:05:55,060 --> 00:05:59,656 - I see no sergeant, no provost. - Surely, they will deliver him up to the law. 65 00:05:59,740 --> 00:06:01,298 Yes, by way of the nearest tree. 66 00:06:01,380 --> 00:06:03,894 - He is ours and we will have him! - No! 67 00:06:03,980 --> 00:06:07,529 There is no power can take this man from the sanctuary he has claimed. 68 00:06:07,620 --> 00:06:10,896 Sanctuary? For a murderer? He killed my father! 69 00:06:10,980 --> 00:06:15,337 I warn you! This man has laid his hand upon the altar cloth. 70 00:06:15,420 --> 00:06:18,253 He has claimed sanctuary and the right of sanctuary is his. 71 00:06:18,340 --> 00:06:21,252 Neither you nor any others shall force him from these walls 72 00:06:21,340 --> 00:06:23,695 until the 40 days of his respite are over. 73 00:06:25,420 --> 00:06:32,212 And I warn you, my Lord Abbot, if he takes one step outside these walls, we shall be waiting. 74 00:06:39,740 --> 00:06:41,696 (Grumbling) 75 00:06:44,780 --> 00:06:48,898 Brother Prior, Brother Precentor, will you begin lauds again? 76 00:06:48,980 --> 00:06:53,656 Brother Cadfael and myself are enough, I think, to tend his needs. 77 00:06:53,740 --> 00:06:55,731 They're gone. You may get up. 78 00:06:56,820 --> 00:06:58,890 What's your name, lad? 79 00:06:58,980 --> 00:07:00,936 Liliwin. 80 00:07:01,020 --> 00:07:03,170 You heard what is charged against you 81 00:07:03,260 --> 00:07:05,251 Have you murdered and robbed? 82 00:07:05,340 --> 00:07:07,649 As God sees me, I have not. 83 00:07:07,740 --> 00:07:10,095 How come the whole pack should be hunting you, then? 84 00:07:10,180 --> 00:07:14,059 I swear the goldsmith was hail and well last time I saw him. 85 00:07:15,300 --> 00:07:18,690 What's happened since... I know no more than you, Brother. 86 00:07:19,900 --> 00:07:22,095 You must believe me. 87 00:07:22,180 --> 00:07:24,694 I have touched neither the man, nor his money. 88 00:07:26,180 --> 00:07:28,091 Then so it will be found. 89 00:08:14,940 --> 00:08:18,171 Master, see. See what I've found. 90 00:08:29,860 --> 00:08:34,888 Given last night's alarm, Sergeant Warden, it was the Sheriff's deputy I expected here. 91 00:08:34,980 --> 00:08:39,292 My Lord Beringar is not yet returned from Maesbury. I have sent word. 92 00:08:39,380 --> 00:08:41,769 But you are satisfied these crimes were committed? 93 00:08:41,860 --> 00:08:45,216 I am. Even now Master Aurifaber lies out of his senses. 94 00:08:45,300 --> 00:08:50,169 But not dead? It was"Murder!" cried here at midnight. 95 00:08:50,260 --> 00:08:53,218 Finding my father as we did, we believed him slain. 96 00:08:53,300 --> 00:08:55,860 Even now there's no knowing how badly he's hurt. 97 00:08:55,940 --> 00:08:59,535 So the person we have is accused of wounding and robbing, not of murder. 98 00:08:59,620 --> 00:09:04,216 It's the Sergeant's duty to decide what charges the boy must answer, Brother, not yours. 99 00:09:04,300 --> 00:09:06,530 If I may speak with him now, my Lord? 100 00:09:06,620 --> 00:09:09,930 Father, the accusers have told their story. 101 00:09:10,020 --> 00:09:13,535 It's only fair the boy should tell his, just as freely. 102 00:09:13,620 --> 00:09:16,088 Brother Cadfael is right. Be about your business. 103 00:09:16,180 --> 00:09:20,059 Sergeant Warden will weigh the minstrel's words with care. 104 00:09:21,180 --> 00:09:23,819 DANIEL: Abbot Heribert, if you please. 105 00:09:23,900 --> 00:09:27,051 My grandmother, also on hearing the news, fell in a seizure. 106 00:09:27,140 --> 00:09:32,168 From her last fit, she has more faith in Brother Cadfael's remedies than any physician. 107 00:09:32,260 --> 00:09:34,615 Go with him, Brother. Do what you can for this woman. 108 00:09:34,700 --> 00:09:36,656 Take whatever time you need. 109 00:09:41,460 --> 00:09:45,339 I expect better of the Lord Abbot than to take the part of a robber and murderer. 110 00:09:45,420 --> 00:09:47,297 Your son is not dead. 111 00:09:47,380 --> 00:09:49,814 Either way it's a hanging matter, as well you know. 112 00:09:49,900 --> 00:09:51,652 Drink. 113 00:09:51,740 --> 00:09:55,813 Well, if he ran from here loaded with your goods, he brought none with him into the church. 114 00:09:55,900 --> 00:09:58,095 He had time to hide his plunder. 115 00:09:58,180 --> 00:09:59,533 (Coughs) 116 00:10:04,100 --> 00:10:06,898 Now, you had best listen to me very soberly. 117 00:10:06,980 --> 00:10:09,938 You must learn to treat life gently and keep your temper, 118 00:10:10,020 --> 00:10:12,011 otherwise there'll be a third seizure. 119 00:10:12,100 --> 00:10:14,978 - And it may very well be your last. - I am as I am. 120 00:10:15,060 --> 00:10:16,778 Yes. 121 00:10:16,860 --> 00:10:21,138 I'm going to leave this flask of heart trefoil and I'll call by again tomorrow. 122 00:10:21,220 --> 00:10:23,495 Now I'd better come and see your father. 123 00:10:33,740 --> 00:10:37,210 Is he able to tell you what happened? Whether he saw the man who struck him? 124 00:10:37,300 --> 00:10:41,009 His head aches so. He remembers nothing. 125 00:10:46,780 --> 00:10:49,089 All the guests who were still here came running, 126 00:10:49,180 --> 00:10:52,490 and lestyn, our journeyman, came from the undercroft, where he sleeps. 127 00:10:52,580 --> 00:10:57,370 Someone cried out,"It was the minstrel's doing," and off they all went. 128 00:10:57,460 --> 00:10:59,018 All the men? 129 00:10:59,100 --> 00:11:03,776 Yes. I left Margery to watch for Father while I ran to fetch his physician. 130 00:11:04,820 --> 00:11:07,015 This singing lad... 131 00:11:07,100 --> 00:11:10,137 he was gone a good hour before you found your father. 132 00:11:10,220 --> 00:11:11,255 Yes. 133 00:11:11,340 --> 00:11:16,368 Well, after he was put out, had someone seen him still loitering around? 134 00:11:16,460 --> 00:11:19,611 There was darkness enough for 1 00 loiterers. 135 00:11:19,700 --> 00:11:22,658 And he did not go quite so tamely as you suppose. 136 00:11:22,740 --> 00:11:24,935 Ah, words spoken in temper... 137 00:11:25,020 --> 00:11:25,975 No! 138 00:11:27,060 --> 00:11:30,177 He waited in the yard until he saw my father go into his workshop. 139 00:11:30,260 --> 00:11:32,091 And then he stole in after him. 140 00:11:32,180 --> 00:11:34,614 - You are very sure. - I am sure. 141 00:11:34,700 --> 00:11:36,213 He owes a life for it. 142 00:11:38,140 --> 00:11:40,096 (Gentle hammering) 143 00:11:55,140 --> 00:11:56,937 How is it with them now, Brother? 144 00:11:57,020 --> 00:11:59,978 Oh, they'll do. For this time. 145 00:12:01,220 --> 00:12:03,051 Ah, that's well, then. 146 00:12:03,140 --> 00:12:04,892 He can't remember who attacked him? 147 00:12:04,980 --> 00:12:07,175 No. 148 00:12:07,260 --> 00:12:10,332 Are you sure the jongleur must be the guilty man? 149 00:12:10,420 --> 00:12:12,490 No thought of any other thief? 150 00:12:12,580 --> 00:12:16,129 I mean your father is known to be a wealthy man 151 00:12:16,220 --> 00:12:20,213 Well, there's one no further than the width of this yard I've wondered about. 152 00:12:20,300 --> 00:12:23,576 What? Your tenant, the locksmith? Master Peche? 153 00:12:23,660 --> 00:12:25,969 Oh! No, he's a... 154 00:12:27,020 --> 00:12:29,136 ...harmless soul, I should have thought. 155 00:12:29,220 --> 00:12:32,417 You know your herbs and roots, Brother, but you don't know people. 156 00:12:32,500 --> 00:12:37,449 Baldwin Peche is more often out carrying gossip round the town than tending his craft. 157 00:12:37,540 --> 00:12:39,849 There's no sneak thievery I'd put past him. 158 00:12:39,940 --> 00:12:42,500 But he was in the hall the whole time. 159 00:12:48,740 --> 00:12:52,210 We were on the right trail when we set after the villain you're protecting. 160 00:13:16,940 --> 00:13:18,419 WOMAN: Brother Cadfael! 161 00:13:18,500 --> 00:13:20,650 These are Liliwin's things. 162 00:13:20,740 --> 00:13:24,016 They were forgotten when he was thrown out. Would you take them to him? 163 00:13:24,100 --> 00:13:25,374 Er... gladly. 164 00:13:25,460 --> 00:13:26,859 What will happen to him? 165 00:13:26,940 --> 00:13:29,852 I know he never harmed anyone. You won't let them fetch him away? 166 00:13:29,940 --> 00:13:32,932 No. He's with us now. No-one dare touch him. 167 00:13:33,020 --> 00:13:35,295 You... like this young man? 168 00:13:36,580 --> 00:13:38,536 He made such lovely music. 169 00:13:39,620 --> 00:13:41,815 And he spoke to me gently. 170 00:13:41,900 --> 00:13:44,334 And he was glad of being with me in the kitchen. 171 00:13:44,420 --> 00:13:47,093 It was the best hour I've ever spent. 172 00:13:47,180 --> 00:13:48,738 WOMAN: Rannilt! 173 00:13:48,820 --> 00:13:53,098 Run along. Say that I kept you with questions and you knew no answers. 174 00:14:00,325 --> 00:14:02,964 Some wedding night for the blushing bride, eh, Brother? 175 00:14:03,045 --> 00:14:04,478 Indeed, Master Peche. 176 00:14:04,565 --> 00:14:06,237 A lucky match, mark. Money to money. 177 00:14:06,325 --> 00:14:09,681 Daniel's a fine-looking lad with a good inheritance waiting for him. 178 00:14:09,765 --> 00:14:12,757 Ah, but it's the waiting that's hard to bear. 179 00:14:12,845 --> 00:14:15,962 And old Juliana keeps a tight hold on her purse. 180 00:14:16,045 --> 00:14:17,558 Too tight for the sort he fancies. 181 00:14:17,645 --> 00:14:19,476 I'd keep your tongue within your teeth. 182 00:14:19,565 --> 00:14:21,999 I take my fun where I find it, Brother. 183 00:14:22,085 --> 00:14:24,440 But quietly and privately. 184 00:14:24,525 --> 00:14:27,039 No harm in what does none. 185 00:14:30,445 --> 00:14:32,800 (Boys laugh) 186 00:14:32,885 --> 00:14:34,557 Stop! 187 00:14:54,565 --> 00:14:57,875 If it's past saving, Brother Anselm will make a new one for you. 188 00:14:57,965 --> 00:14:59,796 He'd do this for me? 189 00:14:59,885 --> 00:15:01,637 Never suppose you're friendless. 190 00:15:01,725 --> 00:15:03,158 That's black ingratitude, 191 00:15:03,245 --> 00:15:07,238 when you have someone who stands by and won't hear a word spoken against you. 192 00:15:07,325 --> 00:15:09,793 The girl called Rannilt. 193 00:15:09,885 --> 00:15:10,954 You've seen her? 194 00:15:12,085 --> 00:15:13,279 She don't believe them? 195 00:15:13,365 --> 00:15:16,880 Not if all the tongues of Shrewsbury cried out against you. 196 00:15:18,405 --> 00:15:21,556 She was the first girl who ever talked kindly to me. 197 00:15:21,645 --> 00:15:25,957 We ate in the kitchen together. It was the best hour of my life. 198 00:15:26,045 --> 00:15:29,720 Then, for her sake, I think you best consider the half-tale you told me. 199 00:15:29,805 --> 00:15:32,797 What were you doing on the doorpost of Master Walter's workshop? 200 00:15:32,885 --> 00:15:36,321 Long after you claimed that you'd made off into the night. 201 00:15:36,405 --> 00:15:38,600 - I never went there. - You left your mark. 202 00:15:38,685 --> 00:15:43,361 A lad your size, with a bloodied head, leaned long enough against that doorpost 203 00:15:43,445 --> 00:15:48,394 to leave a little clot of his blood and two white flax hairs gummed into it. 204 00:15:49,485 --> 00:15:51,601 Now, what passed between you? 205 00:15:51,685 --> 00:15:54,916 And this time, the truth. 206 00:15:57,765 --> 00:16:01,394 I waited. I saw him enter the shop and followed him in. 207 00:16:02,725 --> 00:16:06,798 I pleaded for the fee I was promised, and he gave me a penny and I went. 208 00:16:08,245 --> 00:16:09,997 I swear it. 209 00:16:11,085 --> 00:16:13,553 You swore the other version, too. 210 00:16:31,405 --> 00:16:35,842 I was thinking, Sister, now that we are family, 211 00:16:35,925 --> 00:16:38,234 I must bear some of the burden of household duties 212 00:16:38,325 --> 00:16:40,885 A burden? I have never found them so. 213 00:16:41,965 --> 00:16:45,275 But it is unfair for you to labour while I sit idly by. 214 00:16:47,685 --> 00:16:49,835 As Daniel's wife... 215 00:16:49,925 --> 00:16:54,123 Thank you for your offer, but I am not yet so old that I cannot manage. 216 00:16:54,205 --> 00:16:56,161 I didn't mean... 217 00:16:56,245 --> 00:16:57,917 Daniel... 218 00:16:58,005 --> 00:16:59,961 you said 219 00:17:04,725 --> 00:17:07,762 But you didn't actually see who struck you? 220 00:17:08,845 --> 00:17:12,155 Not so much as a shadow cast to give him shape and size? 221 00:17:12,245 --> 00:17:15,157 Never had a chance. I pitched head forward into the box. 222 00:17:15,245 --> 00:17:16,917 I was clean out of the world. 223 00:17:17,005 --> 00:17:19,360 Well, how can you be so certain it was the minstrel? 224 00:17:19,445 --> 00:17:22,198 Ah. Well, I'd just given him a penny not two minutes earlier, 225 00:17:22,285 --> 00:17:24,924 so he'd seen the coffer and what it contained. 226 00:17:25,005 --> 00:17:26,802 Who else could it be? 227 00:17:36,925 --> 00:17:39,075 Is that how you reverence our holy enclave? 228 00:17:40,125 --> 00:17:42,161 Oh, pardon, Brother. I meant no offence. 229 00:17:42,245 --> 00:17:43,963 But for my living... 230 00:17:44,045 --> 00:17:48,721 Your living? A man facing charges such as yours must consider first 231 00:17:48,805 --> 00:17:51,035 whether he has a life ahead at all! 232 00:18:01,725 --> 00:18:04,842 Morning! Fine day for fishing. 233 00:18:11,285 --> 00:18:15,483 You'll have to order the provisions with more thought to thrift. 234 00:18:15,565 --> 00:18:17,681 When have I ever done anything else? 235 00:18:17,765 --> 00:18:20,757 If you'd any thought for marriage - not that any would take you - 236 00:18:20,845 --> 00:18:22,244 put it from your head. 237 00:18:22,325 --> 00:18:24,395 There'll be no dowry made on you now. 238 00:18:24,485 --> 00:18:26,203 How much is left? 239 00:18:26,285 --> 00:18:29,004 Too little to buy you a husband. 240 00:19:05,605 --> 00:19:08,915 What family of hoarders have you married yourself into, girl? 241 00:19:24,765 --> 00:19:26,995 Rannilt, in God's name! 242 00:19:27,085 --> 00:19:30,600 Must you be fool enough to fret over a guilty wretch like that? 243 00:19:30,685 --> 00:19:34,121 It came over me for a minute. I'm past it now. 244 00:19:34,205 --> 00:19:36,400 I'll fetch you a fresh gown. 245 00:19:36,485 --> 00:19:38,362 Never mind me. 246 00:19:38,445 --> 00:19:41,721 Now, will it cure you if I let you see that the minstrel is alive and well? 247 00:19:41,805 --> 00:19:45,241 See? See him? I could go there? 248 00:19:45,325 --> 00:19:47,600 Yes. Go - and quickly, now, before I change my mind. 249 00:19:47,685 --> 00:19:49,880 Go and learn sense. 250 00:19:58,285 --> 00:20:00,082 Why are you in such a hurry, child? 251 00:20:00,165 --> 00:20:04,124 Mistress Susanna gave me leave to take provisions to Liliwin the minstrel. 252 00:20:05,965 --> 00:20:09,924 You may take him these also. It would be a pity to waste them. 253 00:20:11,045 --> 00:20:15,197 Charity is approved of in heaven, Rannilt. Even to sinners. 254 00:20:15,765 --> 00:20:17,483 I never struck him. 255 00:20:17,565 --> 00:20:19,556 Yet they believe it, all of them. 256 00:20:19,645 --> 00:20:23,160 - Only, you seem to... - No, you are not abandoned. 257 00:20:23,245 --> 00:20:26,760 Maiden, you've had time enough to discharge your errand. 258 00:20:26,845 --> 00:20:28,995 There can be no further stay. 259 00:20:29,085 --> 00:20:31,121 She's going. 260 00:20:31,205 --> 00:20:34,993 Only, give us a few moments alone together in the church... for prayer. 261 00:20:36,125 --> 00:20:37,797 For prayer? 262 00:20:38,605 --> 00:20:40,436 A few moments, then. 263 00:20:43,765 --> 00:20:45,835 Don't go. Stay with me. 264 00:20:45,925 --> 00:20:48,120 - But the brother said... - Look, you can... 265 00:20:50,165 --> 00:20:52,076 I'll show you a place. 266 00:21:22,885 --> 00:21:27,754 I know your master's no great cook, so I've brought him dinner, if he hasn't eaten already. 267 00:21:27,845 --> 00:21:31,201 That's kind, mistress, but I've not seen him since this morning. 268 00:21:31,285 --> 00:21:34,277 He took his rod and line, so I fancy he's off for the day. 269 00:21:34,365 --> 00:21:38,722 Well, if he's not here... Even a journeyman must eat, John. 270 00:21:40,205 --> 00:21:41,843 I shall not always be a journeyman. 271 00:21:41,925 --> 00:21:45,679 No. I'll wait with you and then take back the bowl. 272 00:21:46,725 --> 00:21:48,955 Then I'm doubly blessed, mistress. 273 00:22:35,285 --> 00:22:38,197 This brooch, then. The cost is unimportant. 274 00:22:38,285 --> 00:22:41,880 My husband said I must choose a piece while he is away. 275 00:22:41,965 --> 00:22:46,243 Well, a good wife should always follow her husband's advice, mistress. 276 00:22:46,325 --> 00:22:53,037 May the almighty Lord grant us 277 00:22:53,125 --> 00:22:55,719 Amen 278 00:22:55,805 --> 00:23:01,641 Brothers, be sober and watch 279 00:23:01,725 --> 00:23:08,722 Because your adversary is the devil like a roaring lion 280 00:23:08,805 --> 00:23:12,434 They go round and round, seeking whom they may devour 281 00:23:12,525 --> 00:23:15,119 Resist him strong in faith... 282 00:23:15,205 --> 00:23:17,196 We've slept too long. 283 00:23:17,285 --> 00:23:19,515 It's night. They're singing compline. 284 00:23:19,605 --> 00:23:21,914 - I must go. - Not alone. 285 00:23:22,965 --> 00:23:26,719 You can't leave here. They're watching outside. They'll take you. 286 00:23:33,965 --> 00:23:35,796 (Chatter) 287 00:23:36,845 --> 00:23:38,119 Hey! 288 00:23:38,405 --> 00:23:39,474 Hey! 289 00:23:40,285 --> 00:23:43,755 Young Tom, isn't it? How's that sister of yours? 290 00:24:33,565 --> 00:24:36,716 Ah, Brother Oswin! Take care of this for me, will you? 291 00:24:40,045 --> 00:24:42,081 Er, yes, Brother Cadfael. 292 00:24:53,725 --> 00:24:55,681 (Bird call) 293 00:25:28,805 --> 00:25:30,033 Enough. Stop. 294 00:25:30,125 --> 00:25:33,197 DANIEL: My neighbour and tenant the locksmith 295 00:25:33,285 --> 00:25:37,563 Father robbed and assaulted, and now Master Peche brought in dead. 296 00:25:37,645 --> 00:25:41,843 Father Prior, we saw our townsman carried in here dead! 297 00:25:41,925 --> 00:25:44,997 No-one's seen him since yesterday 298 00:25:45,085 --> 00:25:46,154 What has happened here? 299 00:25:46,245 --> 00:25:50,158 Well, Madog found the man's boat overturned down river of the castle. 300 00:25:50,245 --> 00:25:52,440 His rod and line nearby 301 00:25:52,525 --> 00:25:55,801 - He knew the river from childhood. - So do many who fall victim to it 302 00:25:55,885 --> 00:25:59,082 You mustn't attribute evil to what is natural misfortune. 303 00:25:59,165 --> 00:26:01,520 Then why should it crowd so on our house? 304 00:26:01,605 --> 00:26:05,359 Peche was a guest the night my father was struck down. He discovered something. 305 00:26:05,445 --> 00:26:07,515 Something the minstrel couldn't deny. 306 00:26:07,605 --> 00:26:09,482 He's killed him to stop his mouth! 307 00:26:09,565 --> 00:26:13,080 The man you accuse is absolutely clear of this. 308 00:26:13,165 --> 00:26:15,360 Even if it were murder, he's here in sanctuary. 309 00:26:15,445 --> 00:26:19,563 He hasn't left it. The King's officers wait out there for him if he does so. 310 00:26:19,645 --> 00:26:22,637 Be ashamed to make such senseless charges! 311 00:26:22,725 --> 00:26:24,238 MAN: There! 312 00:26:24,325 --> 00:26:25,804 There he is - the murderer! 313 00:26:25,885 --> 00:26:27,841 (Shouting) 314 00:26:31,165 --> 00:26:32,723 Stand off! 315 00:26:34,445 --> 00:26:36,003 Stand off! 316 00:26:36,525 --> 00:26:39,881 Anyone who lays hands to this man will pass me first. 317 00:26:39,965 --> 00:26:44,243 My Lord Beringar, you are ignorant as to the facts of this matter. 318 00:26:44,325 --> 00:26:46,281 Not so ignorant as you suppose. 319 00:26:46,365 --> 00:26:50,358 Brother Cadfael's messenger has acquainted me with what facts there are. 320 00:26:50,445 --> 00:26:54,358 It ill becomes the Sheriff's deputy to stand between justice and a murderer 321 00:26:54,445 --> 00:26:57,118 For murder this is! And the minstrel culprit. 322 00:26:57,205 --> 00:26:59,514 Sergeant Warden have my men been camped outside? 323 00:26:59,605 --> 00:27:00,958 They have, my Lord. 324 00:27:01,045 --> 00:27:02,922 And of the man they accuse, no sign? 325 00:27:03,005 --> 00:27:05,439 To my knowledge, he has not been without these walls. 326 00:27:05,525 --> 00:27:09,996 You have heard the Sergeant. How can the minstrel have had a part in any man's death? 327 00:27:10,085 --> 00:27:15,637 Pardon, Brother Prior, but is it certain that this young man has remained every moment within? 328 00:27:15,725 --> 00:27:17,681 Only, recall last night. 329 00:27:17,765 --> 00:27:20,120 I found no trace of him within the abbey precinct 330 00:27:20,205 --> 00:27:24,198 You see? The good brother says it. He was not here. 331 00:27:24,285 --> 00:27:27,322 Speak up, man. Did you leave the abbey enclave at any time? 332 00:27:27,405 --> 00:27:28,633 No. 333 00:27:28,725 --> 00:27:30,920 You were in here yesterday when you were sought? 334 00:27:31,005 --> 00:27:33,200 I hid myself. I didn't want to be found. 335 00:27:34,405 --> 00:27:35,918 Now, you have your answer. 336 00:27:36,005 --> 00:27:39,475 A man penned securely in here could not have committed murder outside 337 00:27:39,565 --> 00:27:42,079 if murder this proves to be. 338 00:27:42,165 --> 00:27:47,000 Now, go back to your crafts and leave to the law what is the law's business. 339 00:28:12,805 --> 00:28:14,443 Water crowfoot... 340 00:28:14,525 --> 00:28:16,117 and alder. 341 00:28:18,405 --> 00:28:22,284 I doubt if the water where I found him could have anchored these plants. 342 00:28:48,565 --> 00:28:51,159 Could you pass me a... 343 00:28:51,245 --> 00:28:53,201 ...a small bowl? 344 00:29:07,565 --> 00:29:09,556 Ah. 345 00:29:09,645 --> 00:29:11,476 There, you see. 346 00:29:11,565 --> 00:29:14,284 That's a flower called fox-stone. 347 00:29:14,365 --> 00:29:18,040 It's the commonest of its kind, and the earliest. 348 00:29:18,125 --> 00:29:21,595 But I don't recall seeing very much of that around here. 349 00:29:22,685 --> 00:29:25,119 There seems to be little of the river in him. 350 00:29:25,205 --> 00:29:28,641 I've known men less than an hour drowned stream for days. 351 00:29:28,725 --> 00:29:31,683 Having drawn all this in, you see, he couldn't draw in water. 352 00:29:31,765 --> 00:29:36,077 No wonder I couldn't get anything out of him on the riverbank. 353 00:29:36,165 --> 00:29:41,797 No, the drainings seem to be... mud and weed, not of a drowned man. 354 00:29:43,205 --> 00:29:46,242 Are you saying he didn't drown? But he did die in the river. 355 00:29:46,325 --> 00:29:48,600 Why else would there be river weeds in his throat? 356 00:29:48,685 --> 00:29:51,995 Will you bear with me? I am treading as blindly as you. 357 00:29:52,085 --> 00:29:55,157 For a blind man, you've not gone far astray. 358 00:29:55,245 --> 00:29:57,076 Will you help me turn him on his side? 359 00:30:00,845 --> 00:30:04,554 That was never got from any floating branch. 360 00:30:05,645 --> 00:30:07,636 Nor from any stone, either. 361 00:30:07,725 --> 00:30:09,761 It was a blow from behind. 362 00:30:10,845 --> 00:30:12,995 Just before he went into the water. 363 00:30:15,085 --> 00:30:17,394 Then the charge of murder is justified? 364 00:30:17,485 --> 00:30:19,476 Against someone. 365 00:30:20,565 --> 00:30:22,044 Oh, yes. 366 00:30:28,365 --> 00:30:31,880 No, he was held down somewhere in the shallows, 367 00:30:31,965 --> 00:30:34,604 with his face pressed into the mud. 368 00:30:34,685 --> 00:30:38,280 But it wasn't here, not where I pulled him ashore. 369 00:30:38,365 --> 00:30:40,481 You see, there's crowfoot aplenty. 370 00:30:41,565 --> 00:30:43,635 But no alder, no fox-stones. 371 00:30:44,725 --> 00:30:47,558 Of course, time would be best served if we divided our labour. 372 00:30:47,645 --> 00:30:51,399 Why don't you search along the town bank? I'll press on along here. 373 00:30:52,485 --> 00:30:56,444 And remember, Madog, it's where you find all three growing together. 374 00:30:57,525 --> 00:30:59,993 That's the place we're looking for. 375 00:31:03,325 --> 00:31:06,601 Your master made a tidy living from his business, John. 376 00:31:06,685 --> 00:31:08,516 Who will inherit? 377 00:31:08,605 --> 00:31:12,393 He'd no kin. It was common knowledge he commended me to take the shop after him. 378 00:31:12,485 --> 00:31:14,953 So you were fairly treated. You had no quarrel with him? 379 00:31:15,045 --> 00:31:18,003 He had his faults, the same as any man. 380 00:31:18,085 --> 00:31:20,918 His ale and gossip. 381 00:31:21,005 --> 00:31:22,961 And where were you last evening? 382 00:31:24,285 --> 00:31:28,881 Same place I was on the night of the robbery. Two streets from here, at home with my mother. 383 00:31:28,965 --> 00:31:32,162 - She will vouch for me - What mother wouldn't? 384 00:31:32,245 --> 00:31:33,519 And Griffin? 385 00:31:34,845 --> 00:31:36,756 Where was he? 386 00:31:36,845 --> 00:31:39,643 He slept in the workshop as usual, my Lord. 387 00:31:42,005 --> 00:31:45,077 He's a simple lad, but harmless. 388 00:31:53,125 --> 00:31:56,083 I hear you had a visit from a maidservant yesterday. 389 00:31:56,165 --> 00:31:58,156 Rannilt, was it? 390 00:31:58,245 --> 00:32:00,201 By leave of her mistress. 391 00:32:00,285 --> 00:32:04,756 And Brother Jerome bade her do her errand and go. 392 00:32:07,085 --> 00:32:11,124 And it's from this time that no-one saw you again till prime this morning. 393 00:32:11,205 --> 00:32:14,402 You let her go rather tamely, didn't you? 394 00:32:17,925 --> 00:32:21,520 Oh, Brother, I want to tell you, but I doubt it's within your understanding. 395 00:32:23,045 --> 00:32:28,642 We never intended evil, but we committed a terrible sacrilege, here in the church. 396 00:32:29,925 --> 00:32:32,075 How can I tell one who has never known? 397 00:32:32,165 --> 00:32:34,281 You lay together, as lovers? 398 00:32:34,365 --> 00:32:36,481 Are we damned, Brother? 399 00:32:36,565 --> 00:32:38,999 Do you love this girl? 400 00:32:39,085 --> 00:32:40,404 Love her? 401 00:32:40,485 --> 00:32:43,795 With all my heart I love her. She's my life's breath. 402 00:32:43,885 --> 00:32:48,003 Where there is mutual love, I find it hard to consider any place too holy to house it. 403 00:32:48,085 --> 00:32:49,200 Any place. 404 00:32:50,285 --> 00:32:52,515 How long did you remain hidden there? 405 00:32:52,605 --> 00:32:53,958 We fell asleep. 406 00:32:54,045 --> 00:32:55,797 When we roused, it was compline. 407 00:32:55,885 --> 00:32:58,558 And you let her go all the way back to town at night alone? 408 00:32:58,645 --> 00:33:00,715 No. What do you take me for? 409 00:33:03,365 --> 00:33:07,244 A bit of a rogue, but no more than most of us. 410 00:33:07,325 --> 00:33:10,283 So you did slip out of here, to take Rannilt home. 411 00:33:10,365 --> 00:33:15,200 You were there then outside the Aurifabers' about an hour past compline 412 00:33:16,285 --> 00:33:20,597 Did you see anything or anyone stirring about the place? 413 00:33:23,125 --> 00:33:24,797 I did see one man. 414 00:33:27,245 --> 00:33:29,042 Daniel? That night? 415 00:33:29,125 --> 00:33:30,797 That night. 416 00:33:30,885 --> 00:33:34,195 What's missing from the marriage bed that he must seek comfort elsewhere? 417 00:33:34,285 --> 00:33:37,357 There may be other reasons for leaving a new wife to lie cold. 418 00:33:37,445 --> 00:33:42,075 When I spoke to Daniel, he made it no secret that he disliked Master Peche. 419 00:33:42,165 --> 00:33:46,283 You found your witness to Daniel's nocturnal travels in very short order, Cadfael, 420 00:33:46,365 --> 00:33:49,198 and without leaving the precinct. 421 00:33:49,285 --> 00:33:50,479 He got past my men, then? 422 00:33:50,565 --> 00:33:52,203 Mm. Twice. 423 00:33:53,085 --> 00:33:55,519 And that's the important thing, Hugh. 424 00:33:55,605 --> 00:33:57,880 He didn't have to come back. 425 00:34:18,725 --> 00:34:22,638 Well, if you do think of anything else... Thank you. 426 00:34:25,605 --> 00:34:28,039 My husband is out on business, sir. 427 00:34:28,165 --> 00:34:31,685 - I'm sorry. - Well, you may well be able to speak for him. 428 00:34:31,685 --> 00:34:34,882 Master Peche's death seems likely to prove no accident 429 00:34:34,965 --> 00:34:37,684 and we need to know what every man was doing two nights ago. 430 00:34:37,765 --> 00:34:42,236 Whether he saw or heard anything that might help us lay hands on the culprit. 431 00:34:43,325 --> 00:34:46,317 It was a quiet night, like any other. 432 00:34:47,405 --> 00:34:51,842 Your husband had no occasion to be in the shop late or any errand outside? 433 00:34:51,925 --> 00:34:53,836 No. 434 00:34:53,925 --> 00:34:56,155 We retired in good time. 435 00:34:56,245 --> 00:34:59,203 Your Lordship will understand, we're only a few days married. 436 00:34:59,285 --> 00:35:02,755 Then I hardly need ask if he as much as left your side that night? 437 00:35:02,845 --> 00:35:04,722 Not for a moment. 438 00:35:04,805 --> 00:35:07,603 The idea never would have entered my mind had we not a witness 439 00:35:07,685 --> 00:35:11,360 who says he saw your husband creeping out of the house and making off in haste 440 00:35:11,445 --> 00:35:13,879 about an after the compline bell that night. 441 00:35:16,365 --> 00:35:20,074 But, alas, more's the folly... not all witnesses tell the truth. 442 00:35:28,125 --> 00:35:31,003 How should I know what goes on in the street after dark, 443 00:35:31,085 --> 00:35:33,360 or who's on the prowl when decent folk are in bed? 444 00:35:33,445 --> 00:35:36,801 You sleep in the back part of the undercroft, beneath the rear of the hall? 445 00:35:36,885 --> 00:35:39,001 The outside stairs go down to my bed, 446 00:35:39,085 --> 00:35:42,122 but it's about as far from the lane as you can get. 447 00:35:42,205 --> 00:35:44,560 I neither see nor hear anything from there. 448 00:35:44,645 --> 00:35:48,718 And at what hour did you go there, the night before Master Peche was found? 449 00:35:48,805 --> 00:35:51,399 About eight that night, as soon as my supper had settled. 450 00:35:51,485 --> 00:35:54,238 You had no errands, nothing to take you out again after that? 451 00:35:54,325 --> 00:35:56,441 No, my Lord. 452 00:35:56,525 --> 00:36:00,404 Tell me, lestyn, are you content with your work here? 453 00:36:00,485 --> 00:36:04,273 You have good treatment and a fair relationship with Master Walter and his family? 454 00:36:04,365 --> 00:36:06,435 Well, it suits me well enough. 455 00:36:06,525 --> 00:36:08,561 My wants are simple, thankfully. 456 00:36:09,645 --> 00:36:11,158 (Door opens) 457 00:36:14,405 --> 00:36:17,158 Where have you been? You said an hour, not nearer three. 458 00:36:17,245 --> 00:36:18,439 Why? What is it? 459 00:36:18,525 --> 00:36:22,996 The Sheriff's deputy has been here, asking questions of all of us. 460 00:36:23,085 --> 00:36:26,555 Well, so he must. And what, of all people, could you tell him? 461 00:36:26,645 --> 00:36:29,239 I could have told him what he asked me. 462 00:36:29,325 --> 00:36:31,555 Where you were all Monday night 463 00:36:32,845 --> 00:36:34,483 But could I? 464 00:36:34,565 --> 00:36:36,317 Do I even know? 465 00:36:37,765 --> 00:36:41,394 Bad enough you left me to go with that shameless whore while her husband's away. 466 00:36:41,485 --> 00:36:42,634 Margery! 467 00:36:42,725 --> 00:36:44,841 But how do I know now that's what you were about? 468 00:36:45,925 --> 00:36:50,362 A man loose in the town might not have been bustling into another woman's bed after all. 469 00:36:50,445 --> 00:36:54,677 He could have been battering Baldwin Peche over the head and throwing him in the river. 470 00:36:54,765 --> 00:36:56,403 You don't think that I... 471 00:36:56,485 --> 00:36:58,203 It's what they think. 472 00:36:59,725 --> 00:37:03,161 And you told him that? God, you told him that I went out the whole night? 473 00:37:03,245 --> 00:37:04,280 No. 474 00:37:04,365 --> 00:37:06,321 I did not. 475 00:37:06,405 --> 00:37:08,441 I'm a loyal wife. 476 00:37:09,525 --> 00:37:11,356 I told him you never left my side. 477 00:37:12,445 --> 00:37:14,913 Oh, Margery... 478 00:37:15,005 --> 00:37:16,643 Margery, bless you. 479 00:37:16,725 --> 00:37:18,795 He knows it's not true. 480 00:37:18,885 --> 00:37:20,921 How can he if you swore... 481 00:37:21,005 --> 00:37:23,599 There's a witness saw you leave and has the hour right too. 482 00:37:24,845 --> 00:37:28,360 Oh, God! Why did I ever go near that girl? I must have been mad. 483 00:37:28,445 --> 00:37:31,243 I swear it was to Cecily I went. 484 00:37:34,245 --> 00:37:35,917 And never... 485 00:37:37,005 --> 00:37:39,075 Never again. Never. 486 00:37:42,885 --> 00:37:44,477 Oh, help me, girl. 487 00:37:45,565 --> 00:37:47,203 What am I to do? 488 00:37:52,605 --> 00:37:55,165 You stop me in broad daylight, pull me off the street 489 00:37:55,245 --> 00:37:58,601 and ask me to throw my good name to the four winds to save your skin? 490 00:37:58,685 --> 00:38:00,038 Are you mad? 491 00:38:00,125 --> 00:38:03,879 Hugh Beringar is a man of honour. What you tell him will go no further. 492 00:38:03,965 --> 00:38:05,842 I shall do no such thing! 493 00:38:05,925 --> 00:38:09,156 It may be my life. I must tell him that you... 494 00:38:09,245 --> 00:38:10,439 I shall deny it. 495 00:38:10,525 --> 00:38:15,645 Dare mention my name and I'll brand you a liar and bring witness enough to bear me out. 496 00:38:15,725 --> 00:38:19,274 - Cecily... - Go! I never want to see you again. 497 00:38:21,805 --> 00:38:24,365 I tell you they came to the castle this affernoon 498 00:38:24,445 --> 00:38:27,084 under Margery's urging, no doubt. 499 00:38:27,165 --> 00:38:29,281 But his face, Cadfael. You should have seen it. 500 00:38:29,365 --> 00:38:31,481 Daniel Aurifaber, the true penitent. 501 00:38:31,565 --> 00:38:35,444 But do you believe him, that he spent that night with another woman? 502 00:38:35,525 --> 00:38:39,359 You may wear the cowl now, Cadfael, but it was not always so. 503 00:38:39,445 --> 00:38:42,278 You're not entirely without experience of these matters, 504 00:38:42,365 --> 00:38:44,401 more so than me, I sometimes think. 505 00:38:44,485 --> 00:38:46,396 Margery supports him in his claim. 506 00:38:46,485 --> 00:38:50,080 She says she only lied to me at first for shame of being slighted. 507 00:38:50,165 --> 00:38:52,121 Well, who is this other woman, his paramour? 508 00:38:52,205 --> 00:38:56,244 He wouldn't tell me her name Only that she is married and the truth of it would be her ruin 509 00:38:56,325 --> 00:38:59,362 I think you could do worse than look to Cecily Corde. 510 00:38:59,445 --> 00:39:01,720 Mm. Peche hinted as much the last time I saw him. 511 00:39:03,485 --> 00:39:07,637 What if Peche had made plain what he knew to Daniel? 512 00:39:07,725 --> 00:39:10,193 Perhaps Daniel feared being branded an adulterer 513 00:39:10,285 --> 00:39:12,515 and took it upon himself to stop Peche's mouth. 514 00:39:15,485 --> 00:39:17,760 Oh, Margery... 515 00:39:17,845 --> 00:39:20,359 what should I have done without you? 516 00:39:22,245 --> 00:39:23,997 We shall not fail you. 517 00:39:26,205 --> 00:39:28,355 But you must also stand by me. 518 00:39:29,405 --> 00:39:32,397 Susanna has done nobly by you all these years, 519 00:39:32,485 --> 00:39:35,204 but she won't give up any part of the load. 520 00:39:36,525 --> 00:39:39,244 Only on Monday, I offered to bring in the washing. 521 00:39:39,325 --> 00:39:43,523 She cut me off sharply. That she would do herself. 522 00:39:45,005 --> 00:39:47,235 She has the keys. 523 00:39:47,325 --> 00:39:49,759 She sees the store bins kept supplied. 524 00:39:51,165 --> 00:39:52,393 My rights, Daniel. 525 00:39:52,485 --> 00:39:54,555 I want them. 526 00:39:54,645 --> 00:39:56,715 And I shall have them. 527 00:40:27,245 --> 00:40:28,803 (Dull thud) 528 00:40:30,685 --> 00:40:33,245 (Dog barks) 529 00:40:33,325 --> 00:40:35,236 Morning. 530 00:40:46,325 --> 00:40:48,793 (Chuckles) 531 00:40:48,885 --> 00:40:52,321 No, I wonder I shouldn't be telling you to stamp about the house all day. 532 00:40:53,365 --> 00:40:55,401 Hm? Then perhaps you might do the opposite. 533 00:40:58,885 --> 00:41:01,080 Susanna, we have been discussing matters. 534 00:41:01,165 --> 00:41:04,237 You understand with our marriage there are bound to be changes. 535 00:41:04,325 --> 00:41:05,553 Changes? 536 00:41:05,645 --> 00:41:09,320 You have borne the burden of the house nobly all these years since your mother died. 537 00:41:09,405 --> 00:41:11,555 But now you may resign and take your leisure. 538 00:41:11,645 --> 00:41:14,000 We think I should take charge of the keys now. 539 00:41:14,085 --> 00:41:19,113 You're very kind, Sister, but I do not choose to quit my charge so lightly. 540 00:41:19,205 --> 00:41:23,881 I've talked this over with Daniel and your father. They agree with me. 541 00:41:23,965 --> 00:41:26,195 - It is my right. - She's my wife, Susanna. 542 00:41:26,285 --> 00:41:27,923 This household comes to her. 543 00:41:28,005 --> 00:41:31,554 Am I to be dismissed all in a moment like a thieving servant? 544 00:41:31,645 --> 00:41:34,364 I have carried you all! 545 00:41:34,445 --> 00:41:37,243 You must have known it, Susanna. Why should you object? 546 00:41:37,325 --> 00:41:41,318 Do you think I'll surrender tamely the only reason left to me for living? 547 00:41:41,405 --> 00:41:44,078 This family has denied me other. 548 00:41:45,805 --> 00:41:47,397 Madam Grandmother? 549 00:41:47,485 --> 00:41:52,400 I doubt Margery could keep so fine a table or manage the stores so well. 550 00:41:53,445 --> 00:41:57,802 Few but yourself would have the oat crock half-full so late in the year. 551 00:41:59,005 --> 00:42:02,156 But the household rule is owing to her, and she will have it. 552 00:42:06,045 --> 00:42:07,876 Very well. 553 00:42:07,965 --> 00:42:11,844 But I'll not be dismissed in the middle of my day's work. No. 554 00:42:12,885 --> 00:42:18,801 Margery shall have a full inventory tomorrow, to the last saltfish in the last barrel. 555 00:42:19,925 --> 00:42:21,881 I have my pride. 556 00:42:21,965 --> 00:42:24,320 Even if no other regards it. 557 00:42:30,085 --> 00:42:33,282 Well, children, make yourselves content. You have what you want. 558 00:42:33,365 --> 00:42:35,560 Now, get out of my sight, all of you! 559 00:42:50,445 --> 00:42:53,039 Well... say it. 560 00:42:54,085 --> 00:42:57,475 Tell me my granddaughter has been shabbily used. 561 00:42:57,565 --> 00:43:02,593 No need for me to say it, since you know it for yourself. 562 00:43:19,605 --> 00:43:21,561 (Rattle of pots) 563 00:43:31,245 --> 00:43:33,236 GRANDMOTHER: Susanna? 564 00:43:33,325 --> 00:43:35,839 Still hard at work so late? 565 00:43:35,925 --> 00:43:39,281 I give you your due. You've managed your affairs well. 566 00:43:39,365 --> 00:43:41,799 I learned from you, Grandmother. 567 00:43:41,885 --> 00:43:45,355 And what did you intend to do with me now? 568 00:43:45,445 --> 00:43:46,958 A nunnery, perhaps? 569 00:43:51,845 --> 00:43:53,961 Even as I am? 570 00:43:54,045 --> 00:43:55,603 No! 571 00:44:02,365 --> 00:44:04,321 (Screams) 572 00:44:10,605 --> 00:44:12,084 Has she spoken? 573 00:44:12,165 --> 00:44:13,996 Not a word. 574 00:44:17,245 --> 00:44:20,396 Cad... Cad... 575 00:44:20,485 --> 00:44:22,715 Peace, Juliana. Be easy. 576 00:44:23,565 --> 00:44:25,999 Cad... Cad... fael. 577 00:44:26,085 --> 00:44:27,643 Yes, I'm here. 578 00:44:28,965 --> 00:44:31,001 It was I... 579 00:44:31,085 --> 00:44:32,837 who bred them. 580 00:44:33,405 --> 00:44:34,997 But for all that, I... 581 00:44:36,085 --> 00:44:40,920 ...I would have liked to hold... my great-grandchild. 582 00:45:16,405 --> 00:45:18,202 Pro anima fabulae tuae. 583 00:45:18,285 --> 00:45:23,518 Requiem aeternam dona Julianae 584 00:45:33,605 --> 00:45:38,076 And there was no other soul stirring, then, from where you could see? 585 00:45:38,165 --> 00:45:41,157 No-one within hand's reach of her? 586 00:45:41,245 --> 00:45:42,883 Well, no. No-one. 587 00:45:42,965 --> 00:45:44,444 And after? 588 00:45:44,525 --> 00:45:46,322 We were in darkness. 589 00:45:46,405 --> 00:45:48,077 Mistress Susanna went for a light 590 00:45:48,165 --> 00:45:51,680 and by the time she returned, they were all there, roused from their beds. 591 00:45:53,005 --> 00:45:58,557 Then how did you come to see what happened, if all were abed? 592 00:45:58,645 --> 00:46:00,078 I couldn't sleep. 593 00:46:00,165 --> 00:46:03,157 You were there this morning, when they turned on Mistress Susanna. 594 00:46:03,245 --> 00:46:04,724 Even the old woman. 595 00:46:04,805 --> 00:46:07,922 Thinking on this kept you from your sleep? 596 00:46:08,685 --> 00:46:11,040 That... and Liliwin. 597 00:46:12,485 --> 00:46:14,999 Well, you need have have no fears on his account. 598 00:46:15,085 --> 00:46:16,916 His spirit strengthens daily. 599 00:46:17,005 --> 00:46:20,884 Don't come down to the lane with me, child. I know my way. 600 00:46:22,245 --> 00:46:25,794 Best to your mistress. She has need of you. 601 00:46:37,965 --> 00:46:39,796 Shall I fetch up your cloak? 602 00:46:40,845 --> 00:46:42,722 I'm warm enough. 603 00:46:42,805 --> 00:46:47,481 You felt the need of it in the store when you were on the move, and now we sit here... 604 00:46:47,565 --> 00:46:52,036 Were you so vexed that you must wake and watch into the night for me? 605 00:46:53,645 --> 00:46:55,795 I thought you came very quickly 606 00:46:55,885 --> 00:46:57,955 Did you see and hear all? 607 00:46:59,285 --> 00:47:03,437 I wasn't eavesdropping. Some part I couldn't help hearing. 608 00:47:03,525 --> 00:47:05,117 She praised your providing. 609 00:47:07,085 --> 00:47:08,643 You've hurt your hand. 610 00:47:10,525 --> 00:47:14,757 It's nothing. I caught it when I tripped over your bundle. 611 00:47:17,205 --> 00:47:19,196 There was a bundle, was there? 612 00:47:19,285 --> 00:47:23,676 You noticed much, considering the fright we must have given you between us. 613 00:47:23,765 --> 00:47:25,437 Are you angry? 614 00:47:25,525 --> 00:47:30,076 Tonight, but for this, I meant to quit my father's house. 615 00:47:30,165 --> 00:47:34,124 Tonight God prevented, but tomorrow night I shall go. 616 00:47:36,885 --> 00:47:41,163 Could misfortune alone concentrate such a volley of malice against one household? 617 00:47:41,245 --> 00:47:46,080 After four score years, I doubt if Juliana's death could be counted troublous, Hugh. 618 00:47:46,165 --> 00:47:49,953 I must restrict myself to what I know and not seek mystery where none exists. 619 00:47:50,045 --> 00:47:52,354 Now, Baldwin Peche was murdered. 620 00:47:52,445 --> 00:47:54,754 That, at least, is fact. 621 00:47:56,045 --> 00:47:58,400 You and Madog continue your search for the place? 622 00:47:58,485 --> 00:48:02,160 Today and every day till it's found. What about you? 623 00:48:02,245 --> 00:48:05,954 Peche was known in every alehouse in Shrewsbury. He must have been somewhere. 624 00:48:06,045 --> 00:48:09,355 Is it possible he was already dead by the afternoon? 625 00:48:09,445 --> 00:48:13,723 No. No, some fisherman or bathing child would have seen the corpse float by. 626 00:48:15,005 --> 00:48:17,599 No, this vile business needs the cover of darkness. 627 00:48:19,685 --> 00:48:21,641 Liliwin was abroad that night. 628 00:48:21,725 --> 00:48:23,875 So too was Daniel Aurifaber! 629 00:48:23,965 --> 00:48:25,876 Not the night of his father's robbing. 630 00:48:25,965 --> 00:48:28,923 If he's innocent of that crime, he's innocent of the greater evil. 631 00:48:30,005 --> 00:48:33,156 The boy has lied Cadfael and more than once 632 00:48:33,245 --> 00:48:35,361 You think my trust in him misplaced? 633 00:48:35,445 --> 00:48:38,005 From experience, you are not easily deceived. 634 00:48:39,485 --> 00:48:42,716 But I also know you'd seek goodness in the blackest of hearts. 635 00:48:42,805 --> 00:48:45,842 Be assured, Hugh, if that boy is lying to me... 636 00:48:47,445 --> 00:48:49,481 ...I shall have the truth out of him. 637 00:48:49,565 --> 00:48:51,476 Even if it means his neck? 638 00:49:37,285 --> 00:49:39,355 (Children shout and laugh) 639 00:50:14,485 --> 00:50:16,635 Hey! Hey! 640 00:50:16,725 --> 00:50:19,080 Give me that! That's my coin! 641 00:50:42,205 --> 00:50:44,196 Good day, Master Boneth. 642 00:50:44,285 --> 00:50:47,357 I hope we did not disturb you last night with our comings and goings. 643 00:50:47,445 --> 00:50:51,802 No, no. I am truly sorry to hear of your grandmother's passing. 644 00:50:51,885 --> 00:50:53,398 She was a good age. 645 00:50:53,485 --> 00:50:56,636 You have suffered more ill luck in one week than most get in a lifetime, 646 00:50:56,725 --> 00:50:58,204 and none of it deserved. 647 00:50:58,285 --> 00:51:01,595 In this world, what we receive and what we deserve are rarely the same. 648 00:51:01,685 --> 00:51:04,597 Now, if you'll pardon me, I have to make arrangements. 649 00:51:04,685 --> 00:51:06,596 Good day, Master Boneth. 650 00:51:06,685 --> 00:51:08,516 You have called me John. 651 00:51:08,605 --> 00:51:10,675 You were journeyman then. 652 00:51:10,765 --> 00:51:13,837 I am the same man, no better or worse. 653 00:51:13,925 --> 00:51:17,076 You showed me kindness when I had nothing. 654 00:51:17,165 --> 00:51:19,918 Now I have money and my own business. 655 00:51:20,005 --> 00:51:23,793 Fate has favoured me as it hath slighted you. 656 00:51:23,885 --> 00:51:26,797 I would redress the balance. 657 00:51:26,885 --> 00:51:31,117 You would find me a poor catch, Master Boneth. I have no dowry. 658 00:51:31,205 --> 00:51:33,241 My heart is set on it. 659 00:51:33,325 --> 00:51:35,714 As it has been since the moment I saw you. 660 00:51:54,605 --> 00:51:56,994 This is the spot where the urchin fetched up. 661 00:52:12,005 --> 00:52:14,155 Do you see anything of any use to you? 662 00:52:15,565 --> 00:52:17,715 All too much. 663 00:52:17,805 --> 00:52:20,000 Is this the place? 664 00:52:20,085 --> 00:52:22,679 Here at the foot of their own land? 665 00:52:22,765 --> 00:52:24,357 Surely not so close to home. 666 00:52:24,445 --> 00:52:28,074 It's the only spot I've found where the third witness joins the other two. 667 00:52:28,165 --> 00:52:31,601 There it is. Fox-stones and alder and crowfoot. 668 00:52:31,685 --> 00:52:33,243 Is it certain? 669 00:52:33,325 --> 00:52:36,795 Under the certainty of heaven, nothing is ever certain. 670 00:52:37,845 --> 00:52:40,405 But this is as near as a man may aim. 671 00:52:40,485 --> 00:52:42,043 But why? 672 00:52:43,765 --> 00:52:46,438 Had Peche stolen and been found out? 673 00:52:46,525 --> 00:52:49,801 Or had he discovered too much about someone who had stolen, 674 00:52:49,885 --> 00:52:52,274 and been fool enough to reveal what he knew? 675 00:52:54,125 --> 00:52:55,956 God thought all. 676 00:52:56,045 --> 00:52:57,797 Ferry me back, Madog. 677 00:52:58,685 --> 00:53:01,643 And tell Hugh Beringar what we've found. 678 00:53:13,285 --> 00:53:15,674 This comes as a surprise, Master Boneth. 679 00:53:16,925 --> 00:53:19,359 You realise I'll make no settlement on her? 680 00:53:19,445 --> 00:53:20,764 Yes. 681 00:53:20,845 --> 00:53:22,995 Well, don't think this will affect your rent. 682 00:53:24,285 --> 00:53:26,958 You'll still be my tenant, son -in -law or not. 683 00:53:32,765 --> 00:53:34,164 There, Sister. 684 00:53:34,245 --> 00:53:36,122 Thank you, Margery. 685 00:53:40,165 --> 00:53:45,523 I spoke with Boneth today, Susanna. It seems you are to be married after all. 686 00:53:45,605 --> 00:53:49,962 He will take you even without a dowry. How's that? 687 00:53:51,285 --> 00:53:52,877 Does it please you? 688 00:53:56,685 --> 00:53:58,357 (Knock at door) 689 00:54:00,445 --> 00:54:01,924 Who is it? 690 00:54:02,005 --> 00:54:03,961 Who knocks at this hour? 691 00:54:07,885 --> 00:54:10,080 Oh! It's you, my Lord. 692 00:54:10,165 --> 00:54:11,837 What brings you here? 693 00:54:11,925 --> 00:54:13,643 I would speak with your lad. 694 00:54:13,725 --> 00:54:15,920 He has done no harm, I trust? 695 00:54:16,005 --> 00:54:20,476 No. But I think he might have about him part of the key to a riddle. 696 00:54:21,565 --> 00:54:25,683 This affair must be concluded as quickly as possible. 697 00:54:25,765 --> 00:54:28,154 (Church bell tolls) 698 00:54:28,245 --> 00:54:33,319 When Beringar comes, you may take whatever time is needed with him. 699 00:54:35,285 --> 00:54:40,075 Father, it appears that our guest in sanctuary may have had little to do with these offences. 700 00:54:40,165 --> 00:54:44,124 And if he is innocent, that must be shown to the world. 701 00:54:47,645 --> 00:54:50,205 It's a silver penny of the Saint Edward, my Lord. 702 00:54:50,285 --> 00:54:52,480 King before the Normans came. 703 00:54:53,565 --> 00:54:55,521 The moneyer was one Godesbrond. 704 00:54:55,605 --> 00:54:59,723 There aren't many of his pieces to be found, and fewer still here, where it was minted. 705 00:54:59,805 --> 00:55:03,115 There were a number of them listed amongst Master Walter's trove. 706 00:55:04,885 --> 00:55:08,594 You say it was discovered stuck between the boards of a well bucket? 707 00:55:08,685 --> 00:55:10,437 The morning after the theft? 708 00:55:12,565 --> 00:55:14,635 Master told me not to say, John. 709 00:55:14,725 --> 00:55:17,193 You may tell the Lord Beringar, Griffin. 710 00:55:20,005 --> 00:55:22,155 I was up earliest. 711 00:55:22,245 --> 00:55:24,964 I went to draw water, and there it was. 712 00:55:26,285 --> 00:55:29,083 A great value Master said he set on it. 713 00:55:29,165 --> 00:55:31,201 So well he might, boy. 714 00:55:31,285 --> 00:55:34,197 But how did the coin come to be found by the river? 715 00:55:37,725 --> 00:55:40,956 So it was daylight when you first went to the Aurifaber's? 716 00:55:41,045 --> 00:55:43,001 How much of the burgage did you see? 717 00:55:44,045 --> 00:55:47,003 Well, I went to the shop and they sent me to the women in the hall. 718 00:55:47,085 --> 00:55:49,963 It was they who hired me, the old woman and the young one. 719 00:55:50,045 --> 00:55:51,683 And in the evening? 720 00:55:51,765 --> 00:55:56,156 I ate in the kitchen with Rannilt and I stayed there until they called me to play for'em. 721 00:55:56,245 --> 00:55:58,440 And you were never down the length of the garden, 722 00:55:58,525 --> 00:56:00,959 or through the town wall there, down to the waterside? 723 00:56:01,045 --> 00:56:04,481 I didn't even know it went beyond the wall until the day Rannilt came here. 724 00:56:04,565 --> 00:56:06,442 She told me the drying ground was beyond. 725 00:56:06,525 --> 00:56:08,004 Drying ground? 726 00:56:08,085 --> 00:56:10,804 For their linen. It was washing day, you see. 727 00:56:11,845 --> 00:56:14,405 Rannilt had it all ready to hang out by mid-morning, 728 00:56:14,485 --> 00:56:19,115 but that day, bless her kindness, her mistress said she'd see to it and let her come to visit me. 729 00:56:19,205 --> 00:56:21,355 That was, indeed, kindness. 730 00:56:21,445 --> 00:56:24,915 Aye. Rannilt usually had dinner to do and everything. 731 00:56:25,005 --> 00:56:29,317 But when her mistress came in and found her crying, she sent her straight to me for comfort. 732 00:56:29,405 --> 00:56:32,715 Wouldn't even let her waste a moment in fetching a fresh gown for her. 733 00:56:32,805 --> 00:56:34,636 Away to your minstrel she said 734 00:56:34,725 --> 00:56:36,556 A fresh gown? 735 00:56:36,645 --> 00:56:38,442 What was wrong with that she wore? 736 00:56:38,525 --> 00:56:42,200 She'd wet it hanging out washing, and Rannilt feared she might take cold. 737 00:56:42,285 --> 00:56:44,355 She took note first for my girl being sad... 738 00:56:44,445 --> 00:56:48,802 Brother Cadfael, Hugh Beringar's at the gate for you. He said you'd be expecting him. 739 00:56:48,885 --> 00:56:53,675 Bid him come through, Oswin. I think we have words for each other. 740 00:57:17,365 --> 00:57:21,358 Remember that night they were searching for Walter? 741 00:57:21,445 --> 00:57:23,515 They found him, stunned, in his shop. 742 00:57:23,605 --> 00:57:26,403 Then someone - and no-one seems certain who - 743 00:57:26,485 --> 00:57:29,955 cried out that it must have been the jongleur who'd attacked him. 744 00:57:31,045 --> 00:57:33,161 Yes, and the whole mob went haring out. 745 00:57:33,245 --> 00:57:36,715 Who was left then to tend Walter and Juliana? 746 00:57:40,365 --> 00:57:42,196 - Well, the women. - The women. 747 00:57:42,285 --> 00:57:46,915 Of whom Margery was left to look after the victims and Susanna ran to the physician. 748 00:57:47,005 --> 00:57:47,960 Is that possible? 749 00:57:48,045 --> 00:57:51,037 Whoever robbed Walter hid the treasure in the well. 750 00:57:51,125 --> 00:57:54,003 Now, obviously, it couldn't stay there for ever, undetected. 751 00:57:54,085 --> 00:57:57,555 It had to be retrieved, while the men were out hunting Liliwin, 752 00:57:57,645 --> 00:57:59,954 and placed somewhere more secure. 753 00:58:00,045 --> 00:58:02,240 Only, Griffin found the coin the next morning. 754 00:58:02,325 --> 00:58:05,476 Armed with this discovery, like us, Master Peche was able to reason 755 00:58:05,565 --> 00:58:08,796 that it must have been a woman who'd reclaimed the treasure. 756 00:58:08,885 --> 00:58:11,115 If he'd been honest, he would have told Walter. 757 00:58:11,205 --> 00:58:15,244 Instead, he wanted to blackmail the guilty party. 758 00:58:15,325 --> 00:58:16,440 Who? 759 00:58:16,525 --> 00:58:19,358 Who kept the keys of the house? 760 00:58:19,445 --> 00:58:21,481 Who had command of all the hiding places? 761 00:58:21,565 --> 00:58:22,554 Susanna? 762 00:58:23,645 --> 00:58:25,363 LILIWIN: You can't mean it. 763 00:58:25,445 --> 00:58:28,437 But you said, she ran for Master Walter's physician. 764 00:58:30,125 --> 00:58:33,640 But did she first spend a few minutes to go to the well 765 00:58:33,725 --> 00:58:36,398 and place what she found there in safer hiding? 766 00:58:36,485 --> 00:58:37,554 No 767 00:58:37,645 --> 00:58:39,795 She's the only one to show Rannilt any kindness. 768 00:58:39,885 --> 00:58:41,682 She let her come to me for comfort. 769 00:58:41,765 --> 00:58:45,678 Susanna let her come to you so no-one would have occasion to go to the waterside, 770 00:58:45,765 --> 00:58:48,154 where she'd left the extortioner dead. 771 00:58:48,245 --> 00:58:50,042 I cannot believe. 772 00:58:50,685 --> 00:58:52,357 A woman... kill? 773 00:58:52,445 --> 00:58:55,437 You underrate Susanna. So did her family. 774 00:58:55,525 --> 00:58:57,993 And worst of all, so did Peche. "A mere woman?" 775 00:58:58,085 --> 00:59:00,679 He expected lies, delay, pleading. 776 00:59:00,765 --> 00:59:03,802 Not someone who could accept danger instantly 777 00:59:03,885 --> 00:59:07,161 and stamp out the threat the moment it arose. 778 00:59:08,245 --> 00:59:11,203 But, Cadfael, Peche was still a man. He could defend himself. 779 00:59:12,005 --> 00:59:14,235 If he'd had expectation of attack. 780 00:59:14,325 --> 00:59:16,043 Here, boy, Come on. 781 00:59:16,125 --> 00:59:17,922 You stand for Peche. 782 00:59:18,005 --> 00:59:22,283 I think she spoke fairly to him while she went on, laying out the washing, 783 00:59:22,365 --> 00:59:27,883 and then as he stood on the water's edge, with the coin in his hand, 784 00:59:28,925 --> 00:59:32,156 she passed behind him and 785 00:59:35,405 --> 00:59:37,555 Yes, but there was more done than that. 786 00:59:37,645 --> 00:59:41,274 Yes, something I've just learned. Her skirt was wet. 787 00:59:42,365 --> 00:59:45,118 She held him down until he smothered. 788 00:59:48,165 --> 00:59:50,121 (Peche coughs and gasps) 789 00:59:55,125 --> 00:59:59,323 Thinking the river might float him away she pinned him in the water where he was 790 00:59:59,405 --> 01:00:02,715 till he could be conveyed elsewhere by night. 791 01:00:06,085 --> 01:00:07,996 And the coin was stuck beneath his body. 792 01:00:09,445 --> 01:00:11,515 Who struck down Walter and stole his treasure? 793 01:00:11,605 --> 01:00:13,516 She was vouched for all the time he was gone. 794 01:00:13,605 --> 01:00:15,402 Two are implied. 795 01:00:15,485 --> 01:00:20,161 One to strike, steal and hide, the other to retrieve and remove to a safer place. 796 01:00:20,245 --> 01:00:24,716 One to destroy the extortioner and one to take the body away by night. 797 01:00:24,805 --> 01:00:28,320 Daniel? It's well known that Juliana kept him short. 798 01:00:30,405 --> 01:00:32,157 Juliana. 799 01:00:35,005 --> 01:00:42,685 "For all that, I should have liked to hold my great-grandchild." 800 01:00:44,005 --> 01:00:46,883 Those were her dying words. I thought she meant Margery. 801 01:00:49,045 --> 01:00:50,478 Now I see... 802 01:00:50,565 --> 01:00:52,362 Of course! 803 01:00:52,445 --> 01:00:58,122 Now I see what shock caused Juliana to take seizure there upon the stairs. 804 01:00:58,205 --> 01:01:01,117 The one who plotted with Susanna was no kinsman. 805 01:01:01,205 --> 01:01:04,277 Nor one they would ever have admitted as kin. 806 01:01:04,365 --> 01:01:07,163 But he is her lover. 807 01:01:07,245 --> 01:01:12,763 More, he is the one who has got her with child. 808 01:01:14,605 --> 01:01:16,880 Rannilt! Rannilt! 809 01:01:17,925 --> 01:01:21,042 Put up your steel, Will. This can be resolved without bloodshed. 810 01:01:21,125 --> 01:01:23,081 Master Walter! 811 01:01:23,165 --> 01:01:25,076 I'm coming! 812 01:01:29,685 --> 01:01:31,277 - What is this, my Lord? - Rannilt! 813 01:01:31,365 --> 01:01:34,163 Minstrel! Why have you brought him here? 814 01:01:35,965 --> 01:01:37,193 Rannilt! 815 01:01:37,285 --> 01:01:38,274 Lestyn! 816 01:01:38,365 --> 01:01:40,401 Rannilt! It's me - Liliwin! 817 01:01:40,485 --> 01:01:42,237 BERINGAR: Look upstairs 818 01:01:45,645 --> 01:01:47,283 Can you see her? 819 01:01:52,205 --> 01:01:54,161 (Footsteps above) 820 01:02:20,405 --> 01:02:22,202 Brother Cadfael. 821 01:02:23,845 --> 01:02:25,756 My daughter? 822 01:02:25,845 --> 01:02:27,961 What do you say, my Lord? 823 01:02:28,045 --> 01:02:29,956 My daughter robbed me? 824 01:02:30,045 --> 01:02:31,683 She's nowhere within, my Lord. 825 01:02:31,765 --> 01:02:34,279 She was here, as always, the last to bed. 826 01:02:34,365 --> 01:02:37,118 She put out the lights, as she always does, not an hour since. 827 01:02:37,205 --> 01:02:39,560 She cannot be gone! 828 01:02:55,045 --> 01:02:58,162 Well, over half-full no longer, Juliana. 829 01:02:59,245 --> 01:03:02,681 If she intended a long journey to take her out of our hold, where would she run? 830 01:03:02,765 --> 01:03:06,235 - I would need horses, my Lord. - Father has two horses stabled over the river. 831 01:03:06,325 --> 01:03:09,715 - Which way? - Through Frankwell and along the west road. 832 01:03:09,805 --> 01:03:11,761 The Welshman is missing from down below. 833 01:03:11,845 --> 01:03:14,837 - Lestyn? - And what little he has, gone with him. 834 01:03:14,925 --> 01:03:17,280 Once into Wales, he is beyond our laws. 835 01:03:17,365 --> 01:03:20,675 Susanna and lestyn in league together? I won't believe it. 836 01:03:20,765 --> 01:03:21,959 LILIWIN: She's gone 837 01:03:22,045 --> 01:03:23,763 Rannilt's gone. 838 01:03:23,845 --> 01:03:26,564 I've looked everywhere. That woman's taken her. 839 01:03:26,645 --> 01:03:29,443 She has killed. She'll kill again. 840 01:03:48,285 --> 01:03:50,321 Susanna, why did you bring the girl? 841 01:03:50,405 --> 01:03:54,114 She has said things to me that she had best say to no other. 842 01:03:54,205 --> 01:03:57,083 She can go with us part of the way. 843 01:03:57,165 --> 01:04:00,362 There are woods enough and wild places your side of the border. 844 01:04:00,445 --> 01:04:01,480 No. 845 01:04:01,565 --> 01:04:06,958 After what I've done, what is there now I dare do to have you mine? 846 01:04:07,045 --> 01:04:11,561 The other was forced on you. What loss was he? 847 01:04:12,605 --> 01:04:14,163 But not this child. 848 01:04:17,765 --> 01:04:20,802 Let her make her way back now. 849 01:04:20,885 --> 01:04:24,321 Where shall we be? Into Welsh land, safe. 850 01:04:24,405 --> 01:04:28,444 They will pursue us. My father would not stir a step for me, but for this... 851 01:04:28,525 --> 01:04:29,844 (Coins rattle) 852 01:04:29,925 --> 01:04:31,961 - Better be sure of her silence - No! 853 01:04:33,045 --> 01:04:35,479 I want you as you are now. 854 01:04:37,685 --> 01:04:40,324 Oh, my love, my heart. 855 01:04:42,045 --> 01:04:44,684 What you will. Let her be, then. 856 01:04:46,605 --> 01:04:48,800 But they will pursue us. 857 01:04:48,885 --> 01:04:51,683 I can deny you nothing, not my life. 858 01:05:05,045 --> 01:05:06,683 What is it? 859 01:05:06,765 --> 01:05:08,596 It's men. 860 01:05:08,685 --> 01:05:11,358 They're coming here. They know. 861 01:05:11,445 --> 01:05:13,322 They can't know! 862 01:05:14,605 --> 01:05:16,880 Get up the stairs. And take her with you. 863 01:05:18,045 --> 01:05:19,876 She may mean all to us yet 864 01:05:22,525 --> 01:05:24,322 Mistress! 865 01:05:25,805 --> 01:05:27,557 - Mistress, please! - Rannilt! 866 01:05:27,645 --> 01:05:31,558 Do as your mistress bids you, girl, or I will kill you now! 867 01:05:42,885 --> 01:05:45,683 We know you there within and what you must answer for! 868 01:05:45,765 --> 01:05:47,835 Come forth or we'll hack you out with axes. 869 01:05:47,925 --> 01:05:49,358 IESTYN: Stand back! 870 01:05:49,445 --> 01:05:52,084 I have a girl here between my hands 871 01:05:52,165 --> 01:05:54,725 and so sure as axe strikes at these timbers 872 01:05:54,805 --> 01:05:57,524 my knife slits her throat! 873 01:05:58,165 --> 01:06:00,725 - What did I ever do to you? - You fell foul! 874 01:06:00,805 --> 01:06:04,400 There's no other way out, unless he has the means to hew through a wall. 875 01:06:04,485 --> 01:06:08,239 - We have him secure. We can wait. - They have Rannilt. They're threatening her life. 876 01:06:08,325 --> 01:06:10,475 Take heart, lad. She's no use to them dead. 877 01:06:10,565 --> 01:06:12,521 They'll keep her safe to bargain with. 878 01:06:14,965 --> 01:06:18,958 Lestyn! This is Hugh Beringar. There's no escape. 879 01:06:19,045 --> 01:06:23,163 Give yourselves into my hands and look for what mercy such good sense can buy you. 880 01:06:23,245 --> 01:06:28,160 Let my woman go free from here with her horse and her goods. 881 01:06:28,245 --> 01:06:30,964 - I will send the girl out to you unharmed. WALTER: No! 882 01:06:31,045 --> 01:06:33,354 No such infamous bargain! 883 01:06:33,445 --> 01:06:36,642 Is the slut to make off into Wales with her ill-gotten gains? 884 01:06:36,725 --> 01:06:39,193 Never fear, my loving father! 885 01:06:39,285 --> 01:06:42,038 I say no just as loudly as you. 886 01:06:42,125 --> 01:06:45,162 But let lestyn return to his homeland 887 01:06:45,245 --> 01:06:47,076 It is I have killed. 888 01:06:47,165 --> 01:06:49,884 She lies. I am the guilty man. 889 01:06:51,365 --> 01:06:55,756 My love, they know which of us planned and which acted. 890 01:06:55,845 --> 01:06:58,120 Do you think I would leave you? 891 01:07:01,525 --> 01:07:03,720 - Back! - No! 892 01:07:03,805 --> 01:07:05,397 Oh, God, if I could but reach her! 893 01:07:05,485 --> 01:07:08,716 No. If she cries out, it means she's alive. 894 01:07:08,805 --> 01:07:12,764 And if she's trying to escape, it means she's unbound. Keep that in mind. 895 01:07:15,165 --> 01:07:18,396 We have her still. No comfort to you. 896 01:07:18,485 --> 01:07:20,396 But I offer you another choice. 897 01:07:21,485 --> 01:07:24,716 Take back the girl and the silver. 898 01:07:24,805 --> 01:07:27,524 Give us two horses and this day free of pursuit. 899 01:07:27,605 --> 01:07:32,235 My Lord... My Lord, that might be acceptable, if they restore my treasury. 900 01:07:32,325 --> 01:07:34,680 There is a life they cannot restore. 901 01:07:35,925 --> 01:07:37,995 You mistake my office, lestyn. 902 01:07:38,085 --> 01:07:40,315 Now, come down with unbloodied hands. 903 01:07:40,405 --> 01:07:42,236 There's nothing better you can do 904 01:07:42,325 --> 01:07:44,714 If you want us, come and take us. 905 01:07:44,805 --> 01:07:47,797 But you'll take first this girl's carcass. 906 01:07:47,885 --> 01:07:50,399 Your prey, not ours. 907 01:07:53,005 --> 01:07:55,644 - Sergeant - Soldier, come with me. 908 01:08:19,885 --> 01:08:21,000 BERINGAR: lestyn! 909 01:08:21,085 --> 01:08:24,964 Show decent sense and come forth of your own will. 910 01:08:25,045 --> 01:08:29,243 IESTYN: There's nothing but a halter for us now and well we know it 911 01:08:39,085 --> 01:08:42,157 RANNILT: Please let me go mistress 912 01:08:46,005 --> 01:08:48,235 Susanna? 913 01:08:48,325 --> 01:08:50,885 This is Brother Cadfael. 914 01:08:52,245 --> 01:08:54,475 Come down and bring lestyn with you 915 01:08:54,565 --> 01:08:58,524 and I promise you your child and his shall be born... 916 01:08:58,605 --> 01:08:59,720 Child? 917 01:08:59,805 --> 01:09:04,242 ...and be cared for as befits every human soul that is brought into this world. 918 01:09:06,565 --> 01:09:09,841 This is not the Holy Church's child. 919 01:09:09,925 --> 01:09:12,598 He belongs with me and lestyn. 920 01:09:12,685 --> 01:09:14,482 No other shall ever cradle him. 921 01:09:14,565 --> 01:09:19,844 He is not wholly yours. He is his own, your maybe child. 922 01:09:19,925 --> 01:09:22,644 Why should he pay the price of your sins? 923 01:09:22,725 --> 01:09:26,320 It was not he who trampled Baldwin Peche into the mud of the Severn. 924 01:09:26,405 --> 01:09:29,442 We three here together are made one. 925 01:09:29,525 --> 01:09:32,517 The only trinity I acknowledge now. 926 01:09:32,605 --> 01:09:34,436 There is a fourth 927 01:09:34,525 --> 01:09:36,800 She also loves. 928 01:09:36,885 --> 01:09:42,437 Why destroy another pair of lives as little blessed as yourselves? 929 01:09:42,525 --> 01:09:49,317 If I must pull the roof down on myself, I will not go alone into the dark! 930 01:09:55,005 --> 01:09:58,122 Be ready to put an arrow through the hatch and whoever lurks there. 931 01:09:59,805 --> 01:10:04,560 Master Goldsmith, come speak with your daughter. 932 01:10:04,645 --> 01:10:08,194 Bring my father to plead with me, would you? 933 01:10:09,245 --> 01:10:11,076 Let him hear, then, what I own him. 934 01:10:12,165 --> 01:10:15,919 Of all the men on earth, I hate him! 935 01:10:16,005 --> 01:10:19,315 Whore! You are no longer daughter of mine! 936 01:10:19,405 --> 01:10:23,239 May you be fed molten gold in hell... 937 01:10:23,325 --> 01:10:27,364 until your belly and throat burn into ashes! 938 01:10:27,445 --> 01:10:31,154 You'll burn long before I, you thieving slut! 939 01:10:31,245 --> 01:10:33,554 Already you are undone 940 01:10:33,645 --> 01:10:37,399 When the girl is safe we'll fire the stable and smoke you out! 941 01:10:37,485 --> 01:10:38,634 (Rannilt screams) 942 01:10:38,725 --> 01:10:39,760 Shoot! 943 01:10:40,685 --> 01:10:43,074 No! 944 01:11:10,005 --> 01:11:11,802 (lestyn sobs) 945 01:11:14,045 --> 01:11:15,797 Child... 946 01:11:29,925 --> 01:11:32,837 I promise you she'll be brought home decently. 947 01:11:46,605 --> 01:11:47,640 Argh! 948 01:11:51,285 --> 01:11:55,836 And I would have taken her barefoot in her shift. 949 01:12:07,165 --> 01:12:08,883 (Church bells) 950 01:12:17,845 --> 01:12:20,439 You have much improved since the first time I saw you. 951 01:12:20,525 --> 01:12:23,358 The townspeople have been very generous, Anselm. 952 01:12:23,445 --> 01:12:28,644 A generosity born, no doubt, of a bad conscience, but generous all the same. 953 01:12:28,725 --> 01:12:31,444 I'm afraid we're without the means to match them, Brother, 954 01:12:31,525 --> 01:12:33,641 but here is your own rebec, 955 01:12:33,725 --> 01:12:35,602 and in a brand-new case 956 01:12:35,685 --> 01:12:37,118 The best present, Brother. 957 01:12:37,205 --> 01:12:38,604 The best. 958 01:12:40,645 --> 01:12:42,317 He won't hang, will he? 959 01:12:42,405 --> 01:12:44,123 He would have killed you, Rannilt. 960 01:12:44,205 --> 01:12:47,561 But I don't want his death. I never wanted hers. 961 01:12:47,645 --> 01:12:49,840 He would have given himself up for her sake. 962 01:12:49,925 --> 01:12:51,483 And she did die for him. I saw. 963 01:12:51,565 --> 01:12:53,078 We both saw. 964 01:12:53,165 --> 01:12:55,633 She knew what she did. Surely that must count. 965 01:12:55,725 --> 01:13:00,037 He didn't kill anyone, and all he stole has been restored. You can set out with quiet minds. 966 01:13:04,685 --> 01:13:06,835 He'll not hang, if my voice is heard. 967 01:13:15,605 --> 01:13:17,914 Did I tell them the truth, Cadfael? 968 01:13:18,005 --> 01:13:21,884 Does lestyn really have a life before him, one worth living? 969 01:13:21,965 --> 01:13:27,676 It will be a minor devotion, but, yes, he'll marry and breed yet. 970 01:13:27,765 --> 01:13:29,676 And forget her? 971 01:13:29,765 --> 01:13:31,835 Have I said so? 972 01:13:31,925 --> 01:13:36,874 Time will ease his pain, but he'll carry the wound of her love to his grave. 973 01:13:38,165 --> 01:13:40,884 Then perhaps he too is destined to take the cowl. 974 01:13:41,965 --> 01:13:43,034 Perhaps. 975 01:13:45,765 --> 01:13:50,156 I have stood on the field of battle, my armour smoking, with the blood of the fallen, 976 01:13:50,245 --> 01:13:51,837 and felt nothing. 977 01:13:51,925 --> 01:13:57,238 Such is war's harvest. After the first death... no other reaches your heart. 978 01:13:58,285 --> 01:14:00,276 But Susanna... 979 01:14:00,365 --> 01:14:03,004 It should have ended in some other way. 980 01:14:03,085 --> 01:14:04,757 A life was owing. 981 01:14:04,845 --> 01:14:06,642 But not two! 982 01:14:06,725 --> 01:14:08,317 Not two 983 01:14:09,405 --> 01:14:13,239 Whatever she did came from something within her, 984 01:14:13,325 --> 01:14:15,964 which might have been best if it had not been maimed. 985 01:14:18,005 --> 01:14:19,597 She was much wronged. 986 01:14:21,885 --> 01:14:25,878 Old friend, I doubt even you can get Susanna into the fold among the lambs. 987 01:14:25,965 --> 01:14:30,083 Now, she chose her way and it has taken her far out of the reach of man's mercy. 988 01:14:30,165 --> 01:14:35,034 Oh, and now I suppose you'll tell me that God's reach is longer than man's. 989 01:14:35,125 --> 01:14:36,763 It'd better be. 990 01:14:36,845 --> 01:14:38,801 Otherwise we're all lost. 991 01:14:50,965 --> 01:14:52,921 (Bell tolls)