1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:10,400 (Explosion) 4 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:31,360 Harper! 5 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:35,600 Harris! 6 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:38,200 Get him to the bank. 7 00:01:47,360 --> 00:01:48,560 Over here! 8 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:50,000 Bloody day, Sharpe. 9 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:52,600 Bloody day. 10 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:55,800 How many have you lost? 11 00:01:57,920 --> 00:01:58,920 30 today, sir. 12 00:01:58,960 --> 00:01:59,960 (Explosion) 13 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,000 And how many do you have left? 14 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:03,760 120 can still do duty. 15 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:06,280 86 still on strength, 16 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:08,440 but maimed or sick or... 17 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:10,240 or being made so in hospitals. 18 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:14,520 - You're expecting replacements, of course. - Yes, sir. 19 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:17,440 From 2nd Battalion, Chelmsford? 20 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:19,760 Lord Fenner, Secretary of State at War, 21 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:22,600 works to the Secretary of State of War. 22 00:02:22,640 --> 00:02:25,160 Neither of them know what a war is, of course. 23 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:28,240 Politicians - they're not fit to lick your Jakes out. 24 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:30,760 - What am I supposed to see, sir? - At the bottom. 25 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:32,600 Some mention of the South Essex. 26 00:02:33,920 --> 00:02:36,440 2nd Battalion, now a holding battalion. 27 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:39,600 You won't get many men from a holding battalion. A few boys. 28 00:02:39,640 --> 00:02:43,280 A wounded man awaiting a replacement, if you're lucky. 29 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:47,440 No draft available? There were eight recruiting parties, last I heard. 30 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:51,240 Fenner says you've got no replacements, so there you are. 31 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:54,240 He says something else. 32 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:57,240 Your regiment's to be broken up. 33 00:02:58,280 --> 00:02:59,280 What?! 34 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:04,280 Lord Fenner suggested your men be given to other battalions, your Colours be sent home, 35 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:08,880 and your officers exchange themselves into other regiments, sell their commissions, 36 00:03:08,920 --> 00:03:11,480 or make themselves available for our disposal. 37 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:13,280 They can't do it. 38 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:14,680 It is a pity, I agree. 39 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:18,600 Wellington was hoping to have the South Essex in France. 40 00:03:18,640 --> 00:03:20,960 Seems to think you might have been useful. 41 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:25,360 Who's in charge 2nd Battalion, Chelmsford? 42 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:26,400 (Explosion) 43 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:29,560 - Girdwood, I think. Colonel Girdwood. - Do you know him? 44 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:31,320 Never met him in my life, sir. 45 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:36,480 Authorises you and Harper to go to Chelmsford and select replacements. 46 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:40,440 Do you want the South Essex to die? 47 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:42,560 No, well, go to Chelmsford. Find men. 48 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:45,800 If there are none there, then find others. 49 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:48,560 Save the regiment, Sharpe. 50 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:50,480 Yes, sir. 51 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:54,160 Oh, er...Horse Guards first. Let 'em know you're there. 52 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:56,200 Oh, they'll know, sir. 53 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:03,600 Davis! 54 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:05,640 Come on, keep up! Keep up! 55 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:07,680 The sergeant major's dead, sir. 56 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:14,000 The old bugger's gone, has he? 57 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:19,080 You've got his job, Harper. Harris, give him his rank. 58 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:32,280 Another one here, Sergeant. We've lost him. 59 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:46,640 - Lord Fenner. - My lord. 60 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:48,800 - My Lord Fenner. - Please, my lord. 61 00:04:48,840 --> 00:04:51,600 - Please, my lord. - My dear Lord Fenner, I am widowed. 62 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:52,640 Quiet! Please. 63 00:04:55,880 --> 00:04:57,200 700 men, Pat. 64 00:04:57,240 --> 00:04:59,840 700 drawing rations and pay, and that's official. 65 00:04:59,880 --> 00:05:02,160 - Where are they? - Chelmsford. 66 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:04,000 Where they're supposed to be. 67 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:19,360 Whoa, there! Whoa! 68 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:26,720 There's no guard been mounted. 69 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:31,600 Oi, you! Drummer boy! 70 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:34,800 (Squeals of laughter) 71 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:53,440 Who the devil are you? 72 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:56,160 Ladies, 73 00:05:56,200 --> 00:05:57,800 I think it best you leave us. 74 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:11,480 Do you have such a thing as...an Officer of the Day? 75 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:13,280 Of course. 76 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:16,000 - Who is it? - Well, actually, me. 77 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:20,120 Actually, you? 78 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:23,040 Yes. Captain Carline. 79 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:24,080 And you are? 80 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:25,600 HARPER: Right-hand man. 81 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:28,040 On the drum, right-hand man. 82 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:29,720 In line, right marker. 83 00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:32,680 - In line to the right. - I'm Major Richard Sharpe. 84 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:35,760 - South Essex. - Forward! Shoulders back! 85 00:06:37,320 --> 00:06:41,560 - You've heard of me? - Er, yeah. Um...you... 86 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:43,840 You took the French Eagle at Talavera, sir. 87 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:47,240 - But you haven't heard of a guard detail? - Sir? 88 00:06:47,280 --> 00:06:50,920 - Why wasn't there a guard on the gate? - Ah, well, um... 89 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:55,240 - I don't know, sir. - You don't know? 90 00:06:55,280 --> 00:06:57,760 You're Officer of the Day. No guard mounted. 91 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:01,640 What do you do when you're not playing blind man's buff? 92 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:04,040 HARPER: Shoulders square! 93 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:07,560 SHARPE: What you see is Mr Harper parading your men. 94 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:10,200 He is the Sergeant Major of the 1 st Battalion. 95 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:15,440 What I will have you do is parade for him, as awkward squad, 96 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:20,200 every hour from six o'clock this evening until he tells me you're ready. 97 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:22,240 Well, get a shift on, man! 98 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:24,600 Move yourself! 99 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:31,000 Now, Mr Carline... 100 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:35,560 ...pray you count me that cocktail crew on the square. 101 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:37,240 Straighten up. 102 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:38,520 Eleven. 103 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:39,960 SHARPE: That's funny. 104 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:43,680 At Horse Guards, I was told gospel you draw ration and pay for 700. 105 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:46,600 - HARPER: Everybody now in an orderly line. - Well? 106 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:49,680 Face forward! Shoulders square! 107 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:51,720 Where is the 2nd Battalion? 108 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:54,160 I don't know, sir. 109 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:56,800 Who commands it? 110 00:07:56,840 --> 00:07:58,240 Colonel Girdwood, sir. 111 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:01,520 Come with me. 112 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:18,240 - Still alive, Ted Carew? - Permission to speak, still jerking, sir. 113 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:21,760 I was with you at Talavera, where I left my leg and drew a lacquery one. 114 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:22,960 (Taps wood) 115 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:30,960 Bloody hell! 116 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:32,760 Must have 800 muskets here. 117 00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:36,480 Every one clean as a flute. Never been fired since they was proved. 118 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:39,640 When 2nd Battalion marched out, they took 400 old 'uns. 119 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:42,840 - What did you say, Ted? - Old 'uns, sir. 120 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:47,240 The 2nd Battalion, 121 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:48,680 where did they march to? 122 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:51,200 Here's the paper of it, signed proper, I do swear. 123 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:52,800 Where did they go, Ted? 124 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:54,240 The 2nd Battalion. 125 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:57,120 Chitties for everything, from flints to ball-pullers. 126 00:08:57,160 --> 00:08:59,960 Powder by the pound, ball by the barrel, pukka weights. 127 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:03,960 What about the paperwork, Ted? Must still be letters coming in for 'em. 128 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:06,480 You'll have to ask Captain Carline about that. 129 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:08,680 Ted, you tell me. 130 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:12,520 It's all sent on to the War Office, to Lord Fenner's secretary. 131 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:16,480 So the 2nd Battalion does exist? 132 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:20,320 Upon my honour, I know not, but they still recruits. 133 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:24,280 I told him - Mr Carline, who said I was drunk - which I was drunk - 134 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:27,920 but not so drunk I didn't dekko Horatio Haver camp knifing it down the road 135 00:09:27,960 --> 00:09:30,760 with a dozen happy recruits and the drums was badged. 136 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:32,920 You're sure it was a recruiting party? 137 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:37,040 Sergeant Haver camp wore our badge, but the recruits never got here. 138 00:09:37,080 --> 00:09:39,080 We haven't had a new lad in six months. 139 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:46,320 Pat. 140 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:48,920 Bugger all. 141 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:52,720 Why would they want to go hiding the battalions? 142 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:55,560 - Think this war's addled my wits, Patrick? - Mmm. 143 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:57,160 Oh, well, er...probably not. 144 00:09:57,200 --> 00:09:58,760 (Horse's hooves) 145 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:06,640 What are you? 146 00:10:06,680 --> 00:10:09,560 Truth to tell, I'm not quite sure. 147 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:13,920 On this occasion I'm a galloper with a letter for Major Richard Sharpe, 148 00:10:13,960 --> 00:10:16,320 which I tucked safe about me, but... 149 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:18,600 can't now for the life of me... 150 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:23,160 Ah, I have it. An invitation. 151 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:28,840 (Laughter) 152 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:31,640 I'm afraid Parliament wishes I hadn't. 153 00:10:31,680 --> 00:10:34,000 Very good, very good. 154 00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:38,120 Uniform fits like a ball of wax, but those boots won't do. 155 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:42,960 They did very well for a colonel of Napoleon's Imperial Guard I had to kill to get them. 156 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:45,280 The yellow line in the carpet. 157 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:47,920 Observe it. Go no further than. 158 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:49,440 (Laughter) 159 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:51,520 Make a knee, listen, smile. 160 00:10:51,560 --> 00:10:54,800 Answer briefly - yes, no, or thank you. 161 00:10:54,840 --> 00:10:56,080 A word to the wise. 162 00:10:56,120 --> 00:10:57,120 Coming back, 163 00:10:57,160 --> 00:10:59,160 keep your sword from between your legs. 164 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:02,640 It's not unknown for us to become entangled walking backwards. 165 00:11:02,680 --> 00:11:03,680 Now. 166 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:11,040 Bravo. 167 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:13,080 Bravo. 168 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:17,480 Bravo. 169 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:26,840 Major Richard Sharpe, Your Royal Highness, of the South Essex Regiment. 170 00:11:34,720 --> 00:11:36,080 How do you do? 171 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:38,800 Eh? 172 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:40,840 - Your Majesty... - What d'you say? 173 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:42,680 What d'you say? 174 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:44,600 Did you say "eh"? 175 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:45,760 He said "eh"! 176 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:48,120 (Laughter) 177 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:52,680 What are you doing in rifle green if you're South Essex? Ain't they red? 178 00:11:54,040 --> 00:11:55,880 Yes, sir. 179 00:11:55,920 --> 00:11:57,080 Sir. 180 00:11:57,120 --> 00:11:59,280 Come up. Come up! 181 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:01,560 Come up! 182 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:02,680 Now, look sharp! 183 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:04,560 (Laughs) 184 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:06,720 May I call you Dick? 185 00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:09,720 Honoured, Your Majesty. (Clears throat) 186 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:13,840 Call me... Well, call me Your Royal Highness, but look you... 187 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:16,400 Damn me, but I am the one is honoured entirely, 188 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:18,080 Dick. 189 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:19,120 (Laughs) 190 00:12:19,160 --> 00:12:21,760 Call him Dick. Call him Dick. 191 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:25,400 (Trumpets) 192 00:12:35,520 --> 00:12:38,320 Vive l'Empereur! Vive l'Empereur! 193 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:41,160 Vive l'Empereur! Vive l'Empereur! 194 00:12:51,640 --> 00:12:52,640 Take it, Dick. 195 00:12:52,680 --> 00:12:55,240 Take it. It's yours. 196 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:03,880 Now, tell me, Dick, of that bloody day. 197 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:05,640 How you fought. 198 00:13:05,680 --> 00:13:07,680 How the flames burn the grass. 199 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:09,080 Smoke. 200 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:11,280 How the wounded scream as they burn. 201 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:13,720 You slaughtered the French. 202 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:16,360 And the snakes. 203 00:13:16,400 --> 00:13:19,440 You see, all the snakes in the grass were slithering away 204 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:21,920 from the flames caused by our cannonballs. 205 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:22,960 Do you see? 206 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:25,560 We were enveloped in flames. 207 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:27,040 Were we not, Dick? 208 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:28,400 Oh, that bloody day! 209 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:31,600 He er...thinks he was there. 210 00:13:31,640 --> 00:13:32,640 Let him. 211 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:37,200 We were, sir...enveloped in flames. 212 00:13:37,240 --> 00:13:39,840 Oh, every detail etched. 213 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:45,320 So, Dick, what brings you back to England? 214 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:47,160 I... 215 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:51,920 (Clears throat) Sir...I'm looking for our 2nd Battalion, sir. It's gone missing. 216 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:55,080 Missing? Well, that won't do. 217 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:58,720 They want to break up the 1 st Battalion, abolish the South Essex. 218 00:13:58,760 --> 00:14:00,640 That won't do at all. 219 00:14:00,680 --> 00:14:02,080 Where's Fenner? 220 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:03,200 Lord Fenner? 221 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:06,560 You're the fellow. Come up. 222 00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:08,600 Dick would know where his men have gone. 223 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:10,040 Oh, come up, Fenner. 224 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:14,240 Dick tells me you want to break up the South Essex. 225 00:14:14,280 --> 00:14:15,600 Oh, no, sir. 226 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:19,720 Well, he's convinced that you do, you see. You've spirited them off, he says. 227 00:14:19,760 --> 00:14:20,880 Oh, no. 228 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:23,120 Well, Dick says you do, though. 229 00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:25,720 And Dick wants them back. 230 00:14:25,760 --> 00:14:29,120 And what of the 2nd Battalion? Dick tells me it's missing. 231 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:32,240 No, sir. It marches on paper. 232 00:14:32,280 --> 00:14:34,840 Oh. I never tread there. 233 00:14:34,880 --> 00:14:38,280 Not on paper. No, my brother Freddy does that. 234 00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:41,800 York, Commander in Chief, you see. No, very difficult. 235 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:44,960 So, not missing, Lord Fenner. 236 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:47,960 No, the battalion exists on paper, 237 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:50,120 enabling us to assign stray men - 238 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:54,360 men who would not otherwise be paid - until they can be found a proper billet. 239 00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:57,480 Ain't it a miracle the way it all works? 240 00:14:57,520 --> 00:14:59,040 Do you hear that, Dick? 241 00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:02,200 Not missing, just hiding in the paperwork. 242 00:15:03,880 --> 00:15:07,120 What have we got for Dick instead? We must have a regiment for Dick. 243 00:15:07,160 --> 00:15:08,480 He ain't paper. 244 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:11,200 We'll find Major Sharpe a new regiment, sir. 245 00:15:11,240 --> 00:15:14,120 At once, Fenner, and look sharp about it! 246 00:15:14,160 --> 00:15:16,160 (Laughter) 247 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:19,520 - You're in London, Major? - At the Rose Tavern. 248 00:15:19,560 --> 00:15:22,880 Ooh, best have you out of there before you catch something. 249 00:15:22,920 --> 00:15:25,080 Back to Spain, Fenner, where we need him. 250 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:27,760 You'll have fresh orders tomorrow. 251 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:34,080 Well... 252 00:15:37,280 --> 00:15:39,680 Glad to renew acquaintance, though, Dick. 253 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:43,120 More salubrious surroundings than when we took the Eagle, eh? 254 00:15:43,160 --> 00:15:46,240 Damn me. Was it not hot that day? 255 00:15:47,360 --> 00:15:49,000 Very hot, sir. 256 00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:53,840 Simmerson calls him a bastard son of a peasant whore. 257 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:57,200 Does he intrigue you, Anne? 258 00:15:58,200 --> 00:15:59,200 No. 259 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:01,680 Though he is handsome. 260 00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:04,000 FENNER: Oh, he is. He is. 261 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:07,360 Do what best you can to find out what he's after. 262 00:16:18,240 --> 00:16:19,640 Major Sharpe? 263 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:24,000 Perhaps I can help you home. 264 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:26,040 My carriage is outside. 265 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:29,880 My room is some distance away, ma'am. 266 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:33,440 My room...is not. 267 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:46,040 Will you not tell me your name now? 268 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:47,920 No. 269 00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:49,360 Whores don't. 270 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:51,840 They do. 271 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:55,520 Or how will you ask for them again? 272 00:16:55,560 --> 00:16:58,960 You just want to boast you've bedded one of Prinny's ladies. 273 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:01,680 No. 274 00:17:04,760 --> 00:17:07,320 What have you to do with Lord Fenner? 275 00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:12,240 Nothing. 276 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:14,680 But I'll tell you he's a liar. 277 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:17,160 He is. He's a politician. 278 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:21,800 He'd eat the contents of his own gut for money or power. 279 00:17:23,520 --> 00:17:26,000 So what's Fenner to you? 280 00:17:26,040 --> 00:17:28,040 He's nothing. 281 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:31,360 He uses me occasionally. 282 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:36,040 Do you let him know your name? 283 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:37,080 Yes. 284 00:17:38,480 --> 00:17:40,480 Then why not me? 285 00:17:41,520 --> 00:17:43,040 You have no need of it. 286 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:49,800 How did you know Lord Fenner was lying? 287 00:17:49,840 --> 00:17:53,160 He said my 2nd Battalion marches only on paper. 288 00:17:54,520 --> 00:17:55,520 It doesn't. 289 00:17:56,640 --> 00:17:57,640 No? 290 00:17:57,680 --> 00:18:01,960 I've been told they're still recruiting men. And I believe it. 291 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:03,840 Are you going to look for them? 292 00:18:04,960 --> 00:18:05,960 Of course. 293 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:07,240 Don't. 294 00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:09,280 Forget your battalion. 295 00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:13,320 Don't make Fenner your enemy. 296 00:18:13,360 --> 00:18:15,720 Why not? What can he do to me? 297 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:17,480 Kill you. 298 00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:20,360 Go back to Spain. 299 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:24,720 I'll be going back to Spain as soon as I can, but I'll be taking men back with me. 300 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:28,920 If you know anything about my battalion, tell me now. 301 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:33,080 There are stairs at the back. 302 00:18:33,120 --> 00:18:35,120 You will not be seen leave. 303 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:38,440 You clawed at me, dug your nails in my back, used me. 304 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:39,880 Now tell me what you know. 305 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:43,160 I'm telling you to go. 306 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:47,720 So I says... 307 00:18:49,120 --> 00:18:53,640 "Look up at them, ye bunch of cowardly bastards, and be struck down, 308 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:55,680 be made of blocks of stone." 309 00:18:57,200 --> 00:18:58,200 Says I. 310 00:18:59,880 --> 00:19:00,880 Ah. 311 00:19:02,760 --> 00:19:04,000 But their thread, 312 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:06,680 their thread... 313 00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:10,880 The earth shakes from their thread. 314 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:15,640 So with their bayonets twirling and twirling, 315 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:20,280 and the drums going rat-a-tat-tat, 316 00:19:21,120 --> 00:19:22,120 rat-a-tat-tat, 317 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:26,280 then the whole world goes... 318 00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:27,320 bang! 319 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:30,720 - (Whistling) - Don't go away. 320 00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:34,920 The plunder, Patrick. 321 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:38,320 Which is half mine. 322 00:19:38,360 --> 00:19:40,080 Don't need to remind me. 323 00:19:40,120 --> 00:19:41,920 Where are you going to cash it? 324 00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:45,360 An old friend. One I've trusted long before our acquaintance. 325 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:47,880 - Oh, I'll go with you. - No, you won't. 326 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:50,320 There's some of my life I keep even from you. 327 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:52,760 (Bawdy laughter) 328 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:56,920 I find myself in your debt, so to speak. 329 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:01,280 Major Sharpe seems very determined. 330 00:20:05,120 --> 00:20:07,280 How did he perform? 331 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:09,560 Was he...churlish? 332 00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:12,480 Ardent? 333 00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:13,520 Hasty? 334 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:15,720 Bruising? 335 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:18,400 Grateful? 336 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:19,520 Don't be absurd. 337 00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:23,520 If I find I am poxed in due course, I shall know you lie. 338 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:28,320 What will happen to him? 339 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:35,440 It is often exciting to wield power at the lowest level, 340 00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:37,480 that of life or death. 341 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:41,160 I'm excited. 342 00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:45,040 I have sent out death. 343 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:50,960 (Clears throat and spits) 344 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:52,760 CHILD: Give us a penny, mister. 345 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:53,800 Give us a penny. 346 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:55,560 Cheeky sod! 347 00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:56,680 Lovely bum, lass. 348 00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:58,080 Behave yourself. 349 00:20:58,120 --> 00:21:00,200 Come on, now. Come on! 350 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:01,240 Yeah! 351 00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:04,760 Good. (Laughs) 352 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:06,680 Feel better now? 353 00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:09,440 WOMAN: What do we want, soldier? 354 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:11,480 Less of your language, Maggie. 355 00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:18,480 Dear Christ! Tis yourself! 356 00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:20,200 Tis me. 357 00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:22,240 Sharpey! Oh, Dick! 358 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:25,920 Maggie Joyce! 359 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:34,040 I'm not as I was, Dick. 360 00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:37,040 I am someone now. 361 00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:38,720 Same as you. 362 00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:41,480 Me? 363 00:21:43,120 --> 00:21:44,440 I'm trying to be. 364 00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:45,480 Well, you must. 365 00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:49,240 Yeah. You always told me that. 366 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:53,960 So, what is it? 367 00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:57,400 It's this. 368 00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:01,840 Plunder. 369 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:07,000 Taken only from the French, and only when they'd fought and died. 370 00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:09,880 You're a rich man. 371 00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:12,600 I will be. 372 00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:14,160 With your help. 373 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:16,760 Can you sell 'em for me? 374 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:20,320 A good price will take longer than a bad one. 375 00:22:20,360 --> 00:22:21,560 Can you wait? 376 00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:26,480 I've got a year's salary in French gold put by. Take as long as you need. 377 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:29,760 You're a lucky one. 378 00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:32,520 And to think, when I first saw you, 379 00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:36,120 I didn't know whether to drown you or eat you, you were that skinny. 380 00:22:37,120 --> 00:22:39,440 Are you going to stay with me? 381 00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:40,480 I am. 382 00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:42,680 Let's get drunk. 383 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:44,680 We shall. 384 00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:47,080 I haven't been drunk... 385 00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:50,680 Not felt safe to get drunk since... 386 00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:54,560 Since God knows when! 387 00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:00,080 (Dogs growling) 388 00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:05,920 Listen, listen. 389 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:08,760 You're being followed. You're being followed. 390 00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:09,800 Take this. 391 00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:11,920 Get down. Pretend you're drunk. 392 00:23:13,120 --> 00:23:14,680 (Laughs drunkenly) 393 00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:18,560 (Gunshot) 394 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:26,000 Who are you? Eh? Who sent you? 395 00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:28,080 Look. South Essex. 396 00:23:28,120 --> 00:23:30,000 - Dick? - Maggie! 397 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:32,040 Come here. Come here! 398 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:35,800 Can your boys throw these bodies in the river? 399 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:38,320 They must strip them, burn their clothes. 400 00:23:38,360 --> 00:23:40,640 But the most important thing is this. 401 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:42,040 - Are you listening? - I am. 402 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:49,000 You must pass the word that both men were soldiers, South Essexers. You hear? 403 00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:52,360 - I hear. - And have it said that we are the dead men. 404 00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:56,960 Sharpe and his sergeant are dead. 405 00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:00,040 Come here. 406 00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:05,480 - Take care, dear. - I will. 407 00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:11,200 So, er...what'll we do with ourselves now that we're no more? 408 00:24:12,360 --> 00:24:14,640 - Rise again, Patrick. - Ah. 409 00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:16,960 We're going to find that 2nd Battalion. 410 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:19,000 How will we do that? 411 00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:22,160 We're going to join the army. 412 00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:27,440 (Rhythmic drumbeat) 413 00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:32,240 What d'you mean, not had no dinner? 414 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:33,560 (Chuckles) 415 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:38,400 Let no man tell me he's not had no dinner. 416 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:42,840 For I counts that an 'ideous crime, 417 00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:46,960 as will any officer of the gallant South Essex, 418 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:51,080 which, from my regimentals, you see I am. 419 00:24:51,120 --> 00:24:57,480 No man I ever beat up for glory ever wants for his scran. 420 00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:00,840 Once this gleaming coin is took... 421 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:04,000 ...a bargain is struck, 422 00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:06,480 as 'twixt you and me, 423 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:10,400 His Majesty and thee. 424 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:14,400 Bread? Six pound at once. 425 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:17,600 And while you're with me, 426 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:20,880 all you can drink! 427 00:25:22,120 --> 00:25:24,720 I turns off the tap never. 428 00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:31,200 Tis a constant amber flow. 429 00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:33,200 (Approving laughter) 430 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:36,960 Watch the air fill with gold, lads... 431 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:41,760 ...as I pass my hand over it. 432 00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:45,600 (Gasps) 433 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:47,040 What is called bounty. 434 00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:50,320 Twenty-three pounds, 435 00:25:50,360 --> 00:25:54,240 seventeen shillings and sixpence, 436 00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:56,280 which cannot include this. 437 00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:00,400 For this is a gift from His Majesty himself, 438 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:03,240 who said to me, 439 00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:04,800 "Here, Horatio, 440 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:08,000 go find me lads 441 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:11,360 as will fight for me and catch me Eagles, 442 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:14,720 as our hero the gallant Major Sharpe. 443 00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:16,920 Major Sharpe? Sharpe, eh? 444 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:19,000 Drummer, 445 00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:23,280 drum me inside where I may feed my lambs and give them spirit. 446 00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:24,720 Any as wishes may join. 447 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:27,360 Can I take my dog, sir? 448 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:31,320 Of course, young chubby-duster like you. Glad to have him. 449 00:26:31,360 --> 00:26:32,680 WOMAN: Charlie Weller! 450 00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:35,320 Come on, lads. There's ale aplenty. 451 00:26:35,360 --> 00:26:38,880 I turns off not the tap ever. 452 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:42,400 I know you'll have it. 453 00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:44,920 Why take so long...soldier? 454 00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:49,520 - How do you know? - I know. 455 00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:51,560 Regiment? Where did you serve? 456 00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:54,480 33rd. 457 00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:56,160 India. 458 00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:57,440 You didn't desert? 459 00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:00,440 I wasn't caught, so I didn't. 460 00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:03,880 I can't touch you, even if you're lying. 461 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:04,920 Name of? 462 00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:07,280 Vaughn. 463 00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:09,400 Dick Vaughn. 464 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:11,120 That'll do me. 465 00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:13,640 Ever been flogged? 466 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:15,520 Once. 467 00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:17,720 Aye, you will have been. 468 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:20,560 Hark ye now. 469 00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:22,720 I shall watch ye. 470 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:24,120 A foot wrong, Dick, 471 00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:29,880 and I'll have the rest of the skin off your back like stripped-down Daisy, as you know I can. 472 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:31,400 Pick it up. 473 00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:33,520 (Thunder rumbles) 474 00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:36,520 Old soldiers never learn, do they? 475 00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:39,680 Only one trade thee's good for. 476 00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:41,280 Old snoddy like thee. 477 00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:46,280 (Snoring) 478 00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:51,160 You think I'm an eejit cos I'm Irish. 479 00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:52,600 I do not. 480 00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:56,160 Bless my soul, I do not, Paddy. 481 00:27:57,600 --> 00:27:59,120 Take it. 482 00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:00,720 No. 483 00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:02,200 I won't. 484 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:04,160 Now, why not? 485 00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:06,200 Be a darling and tell me why, Paddy. 486 00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:10,600 Do I get a bed? 487 00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:11,760 A bed? 488 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:15,440 I'll need a bed. 489 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:19,480 Paddy, just for you, there'll be a bed fit for a king, 490 00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:21,640 size of a field. 491 00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:23,680 Good. That's great. 492 00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:25,720 Cos that's what I'll need. 493 00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:27,320 (Thunder) 494 00:28:27,360 --> 00:28:29,120 Name? 495 00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:31,160 O'Keefe. 496 00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:36,800 Come on, lads. Line up! Line up! 497 00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:43,040 Time to get received, sworn and tested. 498 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:49,680 Declare, as medical duty, 499 00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:56,040 each man of height, weight, physical excellence in every particular, fit... 500 00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:02,520 ...to serve. 501 00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:03,560 Done. 502 00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:08,440 Come on, lads. Straighten up. 503 00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:10,480 (Drumbeat) 504 00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:16,000 - Now, you take care of yourself. - Bye, Rosie. 505 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:18,840 Bye. 506 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:25,200 You, get into line! 507 00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:38,360 (Carriage approaching) 508 00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:43,400 Out of the way! Clear the road! 509 00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:50,280 Simmerson! 510 00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:53,800 Jane! 511 00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:55,520 Form on the road. 512 00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:58,400 Two ranks on the road, damn your eyes! 513 00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:05,200 Here, there's one that's flapped. Comb the wood. 514 00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:09,040 Come back, you silly bugger! 515 00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:10,320 Come here. 516 00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:12,720 That you should disgrace me. 517 00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:16,840 Ho-ho! I shall march you till you drop. 518 00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:18,680 - Simmerson! - I shall. 519 00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:21,840 - I would have treated you like gentlemen. - So, who's the girl? 520 00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:26,440 - But now you shall march till you drop. - His niece Jane. 521 00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:29,160 - She's grown-up now. - Form on the road. 522 00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:30,800 - Still the same. - Two ranks. 523 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:32,840 But sure, you only met her once. 524 00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:35,720 Aye. 525 00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:40,920 I'll teach you to flap, lad. 526 00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:42,720 I'll teach you to flap! 527 00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:45,360 You take the king's shilling. You drink my ale. 528 00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:48,000 Get him back in the ranks! Back in the ranks! 529 00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:53,200 - They say you've served before. - That you should disgrace me. 530 00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:54,640 Yeah. 531 00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:57,280 Why join again if this is the life you must lead? 532 00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:00,640 We all have our reasons. 533 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:02,760 I shall march you till you drop. 534 00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:04,800 I shall. 535 00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:07,280 I saw the girl. 536 00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:12,000 I loved her and she laughed. 537 00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:14,040 It seemed best to come away. 538 00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:19,280 You're a fool, Marriott. You won't stop loving her just cos you've parted. 539 00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:22,720 Oh, you'd know all about that, wouldn't you, Dick? 540 00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:24,840 I shall tell you. 541 00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:29,520 There's a lot worse than this to come, so keep your gob shut. 542 00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:33,160 Never look an officer, sergeant or corporal in the eye. 543 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:35,200 Say nothing but "Yes, sir. No, sir." 544 00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:37,120 Keep very clean and you'll live. 545 00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:39,640 Talk? 546 00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:41,280 Thee'st... 547 00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:44,200 Thee'st knows better than talk in the ranks. 548 00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:45,840 Form rank! 549 00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:47,880 Form two ranks. 550 00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:49,920 Form two ranks! 551 00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:55,080 By the front, quick...march! 552 00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:56,880 (Drums) 553 00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:00,440 Rifles. 554 00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:06,160 Play no foolish pranks by gazing round and talking in the ranks. 555 00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:10,800 For there's nought a sergeant more charms than to see a soldier steady under arms. 556 00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:13,040 And when you march, see you labour 557 00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:15,960 to plant left foot with the flam of the tabor. 558 00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:23,880 Slow down, damn you! 559 00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:26,320 Corporal Vaughn, slow down! 560 00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:29,320 Do you hear me, you heathens? 561 00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:31,360 Slow down, you scum! 562 00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:33,520 Are you listening to me? 563 00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:36,080 Do you hear? Slow down! 564 00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:38,520 I'll have every man flogged. 565 00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:40,560 Corporal Vaughn, slow down! 566 00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:43,560 Do you hear me, you heathens? 567 00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:46,040 Slow down, you scum. 568 00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:47,080 Slow down! 569 00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:50,520 What you got there, Horatio? 570 00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:53,960 Cut-and-run boys? They too fast for you? 571 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,160 Piss thy breeches! 572 00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:58,200 Slow down, you heathens! 573 00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:00,840 I'll have you...I'll have you flogged. 574 00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:02,280 Do you hear me? 575 00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:04,320 Did you think you could hide from me? 576 00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:07,800 I'm sorry. 577 00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:10,600 Sorry that you ran away, or sorry that I found you? 578 00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:16,280 Your aunt has missed your company this past month, and I... 579 00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:22,600 I have wanted to share some news with you since the day it reached me. 580 00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:24,880 Major Sharpe... 581 00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:28,080 ...is dead. 582 00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:33,000 Does the news not fill your heart with joy? 583 00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:35,480 It does mine, my dear. 584 00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:39,080 Hmmm. 585 00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:48,680 On your feet. 586 00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:05,960 Whole bloody army here. 587 00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:14,800 Get that dog out the way, Charlie. 588 00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:17,200 Colonel Girdwood can't abide dog flesh. 589 00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:21,200 (Fly buzzing) 590 00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:28,280 Pair of shoes, one. Pantaloon drill pair, one. Shirts, two. Undress jacket, one. 591 00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:30,320 - Aren't they a bit big? - Look perfect to me. 592 00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:33,560 I'll have that. That's about my size, that is. 593 00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:38,440 Splendid. 594 00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:43,360 Sword. 595 00:34:57,200 --> 00:35:00,800 Get your bloody pantaloons on. 596 00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:05,680 You don't want to go parading stark-bollock naked afore the sergeant, now, do you? 597 00:35:05,720 --> 00:35:07,720 He'll swing on 'em, won't he? 598 00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:10,800 Bloody madcap, you! 599 00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:11,840 Shako! 600 00:35:19,240 --> 00:35:20,240 Cane. 601 00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:39,360 Door. 602 00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:44,960 Morning, Smith. 603 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:46,000 Sir. 604 00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:54,080 Sergeant Haver camp came in this morning. 605 00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:55,240 What did he bring? 606 00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:56,680 Twenty-four men, sir. 607 00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:01,440 Any...Irish 'fest their ranks? 608 00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:04,480 One of that ilk, sir. 609 00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:07,760 Lynch. 610 00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:12,440 Set Sergeant Lynch to squad them. 611 00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:13,680 Filth! 612 00:36:13,720 --> 00:36:15,480 You filth! 613 00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:17,200 Get your hat on! 614 00:36:17,240 --> 00:36:19,240 Get your hat on! 615 00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:20,320 Get into line! 616 00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:22,600 Get into line! Get into line! 617 00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:26,120 Filth! 618 00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:29,400 Move, filth! 619 00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:30,600 Filth! 620 00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:31,680 Get into line! 621 00:36:31,720 --> 00:36:32,720 Filth! 622 00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:34,760 (Drums) 623 00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:43,480 (Dog barking) 624 00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:44,920 That man 625 00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:46,960 has a dog! 626 00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:48,720 Get away from me. Get away from me. 627 00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:52,000 Corporal, take this dog away and shoot it. 628 00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:54,040 (Dog whimpers) 629 00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:00,400 Up, filth, and back to your ranks! 630 00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:06,680 - Thank you, Sergeant Lynch. - Sir. 631 00:37:12,240 --> 00:37:13,680 I can admit fear. 632 00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:18,240 Any man who does not feel fear, 633 00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:20,760 and I brand him a liar. 634 00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:26,960 I was bit by a mastiff when I was a child. 635 00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:31,520 Who are you? 636 00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:32,560 Name, filth! 637 00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:34,520 - Filth, sir. - No, not filth. 638 00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:36,360 - Your name, filth. - O'Keefe, sir. 639 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:40,000 You have served. 640 00:37:41,240 --> 00:37:43,240 So, too, have you. 641 00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:46,120 Both of you. 642 00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:47,280 Regiments? 643 00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:48,320 33rd, sir. 644 00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:50,360 4th Royal Irish Dragoons, sir. 645 00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:53,000 Arran's Irish Cuirassiers, sir. 646 00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:55,640 - The Irish Horse, sir. - Hold your tongue. 647 00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:57,440 Irish this, Irish that. 648 00:37:57,480 --> 00:37:59,840 Who is King of Ireland, you swine? 649 00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:03,600 King George, sir. 650 00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:06,080 Say it louder. 651 00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:07,720 (Louder) King George, sir. 652 00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:09,160 - Louder! - Louder! 653 00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:11,440 King George of England, sir. 654 00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:12,600 God bless him. 655 00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:15,880 I'll not have Irish tricks. By God, I will not. 656 00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:18,880 Blether, blether! 657 00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:23,480 I was ambushed by black Irish when I was a young officer. 658 00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:26,160 Badly ambushed. 659 00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:29,360 You will note this Irisher, Sergeant. 660 00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:31,400 Note him well. 661 00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:38,800 Black as bog. 662 00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:43,680 Pardon me, sir. 663 00:38:43,720 --> 00:38:45,560 Shut up, you damn fool! 664 00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:48,120 I'm told we are deemed to have spent our bounties 665 00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:52,800 - due to the charge for necessaries, and yet... - Filth! That man, scum! 666 00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:54,840 How dare you, sir? 667 00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:02,400 How dares you speak to an officer? 668 00:39:04,720 --> 00:39:06,720 Get back in rank. 669 00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:12,040 Get up. 670 00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:17,000 They treat us like animals. We're not animals. We're men. 671 00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:18,040 - (Gunshot) - (Dog whines) 672 00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:22,760 We're not. 673 00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:28,120 We're soldiers now. 674 00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:33,200 Company, atten-shun! 675 00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:41,880 You is scum! 676 00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:44,360 Keep those muskets straight! 677 00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:47,400 Filth, right face! 678 00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:50,600 You is scum! 679 00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:52,640 You is filth! 680 00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:55,920 But I will make you soldiers. 681 00:39:59,720 --> 00:40:01,720 Eyes right! 682 00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:04,760 Halt! 683 00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:06,280 Right about face! 684 00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:15,400 Get up! 685 00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:17,960 Get your arms up! Come on, get a move on. 686 00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:20,000 As one man! 687 00:40:27,240 --> 00:40:28,640 You're out of step! 688 00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:30,880 You're out of step, you idiot! 689 00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:33,160 Eyes front, filth! 690 00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:35,200 Eyes front. 691 00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:42,080 Watch it, you Paddy filth! 692 00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:43,120 Watch it! 693 00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:44,800 About face! 694 00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:47,480 Scum, get it right! 695 00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:48,800 Left face! 696 00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:50,000 Right face! 697 00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:51,960 Left face! Left face! 698 00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:54,000 You filthy scum! 699 00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:56,000 Keep those muskets straight! 700 00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:03,080 Black as bog. 701 00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:06,360 Order... 702 00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:08,400 arms! 703 00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:12,040 Filth! 704 00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:14,200 Pick it up! 705 00:41:15,720 --> 00:41:17,640 Pick it up! 706 00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:19,480 Above the head. 707 00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:22,040 On the spot. Quick march! 708 00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:23,080 Filth! 709 00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:25,520 - What are you? - Filth. I am filth. 710 00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:27,120 - Louder. - I am filth. 711 00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:29,320 Up! Up! 712 00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:31,320 You hopeless, hopeless boy. 713 00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:32,760 Ten more minutes. 714 00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:34,080 Kill him. 715 00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:38,000 Kill him. You'd kill him if it was me, you filth, wouldn't you? 716 00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:40,040 En garde! 717 00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:41,360 Argh! 718 00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:43,960 Paid for all our food on the march here. 719 00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:47,600 Every drop of ale, too. 720 00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:49,880 We even have to pay to black our boots. 721 00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:51,920 - They're necessaries. - Yep. 722 00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:56,200 You always get your pay stopped for necessaries. 723 00:41:56,240 --> 00:41:58,800 Black ball, pipeclay, 724 00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:01,000 laces, soap, tea... 725 00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:03,160 You want tea, don't you? 726 00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:05,720 I'll kill Sergeant Lynch for having Buttons shot. 727 00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:08,680 You'll do nothing, Charlie. Gets better. 728 00:42:08,720 --> 00:42:10,400 Steady. 729 00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:13,440 (Drums) 730 00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:17,360 (Shouting) 731 00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:19,400 Smart and shiny. 732 00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:22,120 Where do they go? 733 00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:29,560 Filth, get fell in! 734 00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:34,400 Paddy, morning prayers. One pace forward, march. 735 00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:38,800 God save the King. 736 00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:41,160 Again, Paddy filth! 737 00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:43,960 God save the King. 738 00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:46,600 One pace backwards, march! 739 00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:51,600 Left... 740 00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:53,000 turn! 741 00:42:54,200 --> 00:42:57,080 Quick march! 742 00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:04,400 Gentlemen, more champagne? 743 00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:08,000 Come on, boy! More champagne. 744 00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:10,640 Squad...halt! 745 00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:13,960 Left...face! 746 00:43:16,680 --> 00:43:18,280 Remove your stocks, filth. 747 00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:37,440 What think you of me now, Jane? 748 00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:41,000 Am I not a very monostich of military science and art? 749 00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:46,200 I take beasts and I give them form as heroes. 750 00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:52,240 My gratitude to your uncle and Lord Fenner is deep, Jane. 751 00:43:53,440 --> 00:43:58,400 They found me languishing on half pay for being ambushed dreadfully in Ireland - 752 00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:04,320 that sink, that cess bog - 753 00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:06,960 and they plucked me out... 754 00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:09,000 to place me as I now am. 755 00:44:11,320 --> 00:44:13,480 Trainer of heroes, 756 00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:15,840 a font of wealth for us all, 757 00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:17,880 country and prosperity, 758 00:44:19,080 --> 00:44:24,680 and with you, dare I say, love? 759 00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:28,640 I dare say you dare, Colonel. 760 00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:31,160 I hope you know what you're doing, Girdwood. 761 00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:34,000 Sure they won't wilt? 762 00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:38,200 They'll all stand, Sir Henry. They'll prove their mettle. 763 00:44:38,240 --> 00:44:40,440 And the spavined one? 764 00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:43,160 Rear rank, third file, second squad. 765 00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:46,000 He ain't got two minutes left in him. Do you see? 766 00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:49,840 He answers to Brown, and will stand. 767 00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:52,400 Ha! He knows the names of each one of 'em! 768 00:44:53,520 --> 00:44:55,640 Damned if I could tell 'em apart. 769 00:44:57,960 --> 00:44:59,440 Marriott? 770 00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:00,480 Marriott! 771 00:45:02,040 --> 00:45:03,600 You worry me, lad. 772 00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:07,480 You're not going to live the way you flog yourself every damn thing you do. 773 00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:10,880 Loiter. We can take us time. Lynch can't see us from here. 774 00:45:12,320 --> 00:45:13,320 Be steady. 775 00:45:15,360 --> 00:45:17,360 They should not do this to us. 776 00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:19,000 What? Make us work? Why not? 777 00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:22,160 - This is work for labourers. - We are labourers. 778 00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:24,200 Labourers for the King. 779 00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:26,640 For politicians. 780 00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:28,400 Any other bugger high or low. 781 00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:33,160 - Even corporals, their heirs and successors. - Stand steady, lads! Stand steady! 782 00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:35,200 Hear that? 783 00:45:58,280 --> 00:46:01,440 Two hours to the chime, gentlemen. 784 00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:04,320 And not one man has moved so much as an inch. 785 00:46:04,360 --> 00:46:06,640 Nor will they, else they will be flogged. 786 00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:11,440 Colonel Girdwood trains 'em as by the Prussian method, do you not, sir? 787 00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:13,680 I do, Sir Henry. 788 00:46:13,720 --> 00:46:16,280 And now you shall see their paces. 789 00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:24,640 Sergeant Major, 790 00:46:25,720 --> 00:46:26,960 carry on! 791 00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:31,240 Battalion will pass in review. 792 00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:32,280 March! 793 00:46:33,720 --> 00:46:34,720 About face. 794 00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:37,640 Quick march. 795 00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:42,560 Right wheel! 796 00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:53,520 Make a damn fine husband for you, my dear. 797 00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:04,880 Battalion...halt! 798 00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:11,840 You may burn powder, Sergeant Major. 799 00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:13,160 Forward march! 800 00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:17,360 Make ready! 801 00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:21,880 Present! 802 00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:23,640 Present! 803 00:47:23,680 --> 00:47:25,080 Fire! 804 00:47:25,120 --> 00:47:26,280 (Dog whimpers) 805 00:47:26,320 --> 00:47:27,960 Get that damn dog! 806 00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:29,800 Fire! 807 00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:34,080 I think you'll find they're all well-trained men, 808 00:47:34,120 --> 00:47:36,120 excellent fellows. 809 00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:39,760 Look at this bastard here. 810 00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:40,800 Up, up, up, up, up! 811 00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:43,640 Good jaw on him. 812 00:47:43,680 --> 00:47:45,560 Damn good teeth. 813 00:47:45,600 --> 00:47:47,000 Open your mouth, man! 814 00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:54,920 There, 50 guineas for him. 815 00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:02,600 (Dog barks) - Shut up! 816 00:48:02,640 --> 00:48:04,440 Bugger off! 817 00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:06,840 Rascal. Come here, rascal! 818 00:48:06,880 --> 00:48:08,640 She won't hurt you. 819 00:48:08,680 --> 00:48:12,080 She's not as fierce as she seems. It's just there's a colonel... 820 00:48:13,120 --> 00:48:14,720 It's you. 821 00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:16,040 Major Sharpe! 822 00:48:19,080 --> 00:48:20,080 Yes. 823 00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:24,160 My uncle said you were dead. 824 00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:26,920 He would have me dead. 825 00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:29,960 Why are you here? 826 00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:33,000 I came to find my 2nd Battalion. 827 00:48:33,040 --> 00:48:34,680 Are you still an officer? 828 00:48:36,480 --> 00:48:37,680 A major. 829 00:48:37,720 --> 00:48:39,720 (Dog whimpers) 830 00:48:40,720 --> 00:48:42,720 I saw your name in the Times. 831 00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:46,000 They said you were very heroic. 832 00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:50,400 No. I got into a cavalry charge cos I couldn't stop the horse. 833 00:48:53,720 --> 00:48:55,720 - I... - Will...? 834 00:48:55,760 --> 00:48:56,760 Go on. 835 00:48:56,800 --> 00:48:59,160 Will someone try to kill you again? 836 00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:03,560 Your uncle would, if he knew I was here. And others, too. 837 00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:05,760 They're selling men, are they not? 838 00:49:05,800 --> 00:49:08,000 They auction them to other regiments. 839 00:49:08,040 --> 00:49:10,960 The officers make their bids over lunch. 840 00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:12,640 I hate it. 841 00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:16,600 They boast at table about it as if they were black slaves they'd bred up. 842 00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:20,920 Size, strength. Worse. 843 00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:23,120 My uncle said it was legal, but it's not, is it? 844 00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:25,840 No, it's not. It's all about money. 845 00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:30,320 All money in England, blood and dying in Spain. And I need men. 846 00:49:31,560 --> 00:49:32,560 50 guineas a man, 847 00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:34,880 10,000 guineas for this field day alone. 848 00:49:36,560 --> 00:49:39,200 - No wonder they want me dead. - How terrible. 849 00:49:39,240 --> 00:49:40,680 Yeah, it is. 850 00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:43,760 What will you do? 851 00:49:43,800 --> 00:49:45,800 Get away from here tonight. 852 00:49:45,840 --> 00:49:48,920 But they have militia patrolling from here to Wickford. 853 00:49:48,960 --> 00:49:51,800 Fishermen are rewarded for every deserter they capture. 854 00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:55,400 We keep a boat in the boathouse. 855 00:49:55,440 --> 00:49:58,360 You could cross here. They don't guard the north bank. 856 00:49:59,480 --> 00:50:00,480 Maybe. 857 00:50:02,240 --> 00:50:03,680 Listen, Jane... 858 00:50:03,720 --> 00:50:05,160 Yes? 859 00:50:06,240 --> 00:50:08,240 Can you leave us money and food? 860 00:50:08,280 --> 00:50:11,920 - There are two of us. - You'll stop the auctions? 861 00:50:13,720 --> 00:50:15,760 I shall stop them, 862 00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:16,800 with your help. 863 00:50:16,840 --> 00:50:18,640 (Dog barks) 864 00:50:18,680 --> 00:50:20,680 Aargh, the dog! 865 00:50:20,720 --> 00:50:22,520 I cannot bear it. 866 00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:25,760 She's attacking Colonel Girdwood. 867 00:50:25,800 --> 00:50:26,840 I must stop her. 868 00:50:26,880 --> 00:50:29,480 Aye, do, for he kills dogs. 869 00:50:40,200 --> 00:50:43,960 Vaughn, Marriott! Where are you, filth? 870 00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:46,000 (Dog yelps) 871 00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:50,600 Jane, that damn dog! 872 00:50:51,840 --> 00:50:54,400 I will not beat it. I will rather beat you. 873 00:50:56,200 --> 00:50:58,400 Where is he, filth? 874 00:50:58,440 --> 00:51:01,400 Don't know, Sergeant. Here's his shovel. 875 00:51:01,440 --> 00:51:04,360 I don't want his bloody shovel. I want him. 876 00:51:07,560 --> 00:51:10,320 Why, I do believe the filth's up and skipped. 877 00:51:10,360 --> 00:51:13,880 You filth! Keep your eyes peeled. 878 00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:22,160 Keep your eyes peeled, filth! 879 00:51:26,080 --> 00:51:27,680 Fire! 880 00:51:27,720 --> 00:51:29,880 (Gunshot) 881 00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:50,480 Marriott! 882 00:51:55,480 --> 00:51:56,480 Marriott! 883 00:52:09,240 --> 00:52:10,600 No! 884 00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:13,920 No! I'd rather drown. Let me! 885 00:52:13,960 --> 00:52:15,680 Please. 886 00:52:15,720 --> 00:52:16,720 You fool! 887 00:52:16,760 --> 00:52:18,760 All you face is a flogging. 888 00:52:26,760 --> 00:52:28,080 No. 889 00:52:28,120 --> 00:52:30,120 I could not bear to be flogged. 890 00:52:30,160 --> 00:52:32,640 Please don't let them. 891 00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:34,160 Get up! 892 00:52:34,200 --> 00:52:36,040 Get up! 893 00:52:36,080 --> 00:52:38,200 She would despise me. 894 00:52:38,240 --> 00:52:40,240 I must not be flogged. 895 00:52:46,280 --> 00:52:47,680 You will not be now. 896 00:52:48,840 --> 00:52:50,840 You treacherous, murderous filth! 897 00:52:50,880 --> 00:52:54,280 By God, that you are an Irishman is terrible. 898 00:52:54,320 --> 00:52:55,680 - Terrible! - Sergeant. 899 00:52:55,720 --> 00:52:57,200 Did you bring him down? 900 00:52:58,280 --> 00:53:00,200 I did, sir. 901 00:53:00,240 --> 00:53:01,560 He will be dead. 902 00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:03,280 That's the way of it. 903 00:53:03,320 --> 00:53:06,840 Well, you have your tools. Bury him. 904 00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:30,600 Ah, Sir Henry, we have the scoundrel. 905 00:53:30,640 --> 00:53:33,120 - You had better. Is he dead? - He is that, sir. 906 00:53:33,160 --> 00:53:34,840 Show me. Go on. 907 00:53:34,880 --> 00:53:35,960 It's Simmerson! 908 00:53:56,440 --> 00:54:00,120 Not much of a damned hunt if the quarry's dead before we get here. 909 00:54:01,480 --> 00:54:05,000 But better dead than deserted, eh? 910 00:54:05,040 --> 00:54:06,040 Eh? 911 00:54:10,400 --> 00:54:12,240 How dare you look up at an officer! 912 00:54:14,880 --> 00:54:17,000 - How dares he! - There's worse, sir. 913 00:54:17,520 --> 00:54:20,800 This man made to assault me, sir. 914 00:54:20,840 --> 00:54:23,120 Which man? Which man? 915 00:54:23,160 --> 00:54:25,800 This ramping, stamping, 916 00:54:25,840 --> 00:54:29,360 leathering swash of an Irishman, 917 00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:30,840 sir. 918 00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:33,080 Irish? 919 00:54:33,120 --> 00:54:34,120 Oh, indeed. 920 00:54:34,160 --> 00:54:38,080 Irish rogue. Irish dog. Irish scum. Irish filth. 921 00:54:38,120 --> 00:54:39,280 Irishman. 922 00:54:41,320 --> 00:54:43,360 They were ever so, the Irish. 923 00:54:43,400 --> 00:54:44,960 Would ruin me. 924 00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:46,320 Would. Did. 925 00:54:48,160 --> 00:54:49,160 Ambush. 926 00:54:50,280 --> 00:54:52,280 Would have broke a lesser man. 927 00:54:54,240 --> 00:54:56,520 Seize Paddy secure. 928 00:55:21,200 --> 00:55:23,480 Over here, Paddy! 929 00:55:23,520 --> 00:55:26,040 Said goodbye to your chum, have you? 930 00:55:27,760 --> 00:55:31,520 Why should I? Paddy can take a flogging as well as the next man. 931 00:55:31,560 --> 00:55:34,880 Flogging? Ain't no use flogging an old snoddy. 932 00:55:34,920 --> 00:55:37,200 He'll be killed. 933 00:55:38,760 --> 00:55:41,600 Same as arse-face down there. 934 00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:48,200 See that stake? 935 00:55:48,240 --> 00:55:50,320 Hold his bridle so that he sees it. 936 00:55:51,320 --> 00:55:53,160 Fair play, fair play. 937 00:55:53,200 --> 00:55:55,480 He sees it, sir. Don't you, Paddy? 938 00:55:56,520 --> 00:55:59,920 When you reach the stake is when we come for you. 939 00:56:01,520 --> 00:56:05,480 Now, fair cuts and fair vigorous points, gentlemen. 940 00:56:06,640 --> 00:56:10,160 Take this as an opportunity for sword exercise. 941 00:56:11,160 --> 00:56:14,280 Better than butchers' carcasses, but less steady. 942 00:56:16,160 --> 00:56:18,800 He will run, not stand, 943 00:56:18,840 --> 00:56:20,840 for he is an Irishman. 944 00:56:20,880 --> 00:56:23,000 Not yet. Not yet. 945 00:56:24,440 --> 00:56:26,080 We wait on our guests. 946 00:56:28,040 --> 00:56:30,040 Ah, Sir Henry. 947 00:56:34,800 --> 00:56:37,080 (Gunshot) 948 00:56:47,600 --> 00:56:49,520 Go on! Go on! 949 00:56:49,560 --> 00:56:50,560 Go on, Dick. 950 00:56:59,520 --> 00:57:02,800 GIRDWOOD: I believe we have more than one quarry, gentlemen. 951 00:57:02,840 --> 00:57:04,000 Do we pursue? 952 00:57:04,040 --> 00:57:06,880 Damn me, Colonel, we better. Better catch 'em both. 953 00:57:06,920 --> 00:57:08,920 View halloo! 954 00:57:14,120 --> 00:57:15,880 View halloo! 955 00:57:18,160 --> 00:57:20,360 We'll show them what riflemen can do. 956 00:57:20,400 --> 00:57:23,440 - No, damn it! They're us! - They don't know that, do they? 957 00:57:23,480 --> 00:57:25,200 Go on! Come on! 958 00:57:26,240 --> 00:57:27,680 Come on! 959 00:57:38,880 --> 00:57:40,560 (Horse whinnies) 960 00:57:58,080 --> 00:57:59,960 View halloo! 961 00:58:11,160 --> 00:58:12,160 Whoa! 962 00:58:27,560 --> 00:58:28,960 Damn! 963 00:58:39,600 --> 00:58:41,800 View halloo! 964 00:59:02,760 --> 00:59:03,760 Over there! 965 00:59:03,800 --> 00:59:05,800 View halloo! 966 00:59:19,040 --> 00:59:20,440 Come on, you men! 967 00:59:26,240 --> 00:59:27,520 Patrick, 968 00:59:27,560 --> 00:59:29,640 you see the house, the boathouse? 969 00:59:29,680 --> 00:59:31,680 That's where we're going. 970 00:59:38,400 --> 00:59:42,120 It'll be deuced awkward for Lord Fenner if those rogues get away. 971 00:59:42,160 --> 00:59:43,960 Oh, impossible, Sir Henry. 972 00:59:44,000 --> 00:59:46,680 The militia surround the whole island. 973 00:59:46,720 --> 00:59:49,240 Come on! 974 00:59:49,280 --> 00:59:51,280 Keep looking, men. 975 00:59:52,640 --> 00:59:54,640 Keep your eyes peeled. 976 00:59:56,520 --> 00:59:57,880 Come on! 977 01:00:09,440 --> 01:00:11,440 (Clatter) 978 01:00:11,480 --> 01:00:14,080 Oh, you would shoot me? 979 01:00:14,120 --> 01:00:16,840 No! No, no, I would not. 980 01:00:16,880 --> 01:00:18,520 Thank God the powder's wet. 981 01:00:18,560 --> 01:00:21,480 - Miss Gibbons, are you all right? - Yes. Oh, dear. 982 01:00:21,520 --> 01:00:24,040 No. Here's the food. 983 01:00:24,080 --> 01:00:26,400 Oh, dear! I know you would not, of course. 984 01:00:27,400 --> 01:00:29,000 The militia are out. 985 01:00:29,040 --> 01:00:30,720 Yes. 986 01:00:30,760 --> 01:00:32,520 Thank you for this. 987 01:00:32,560 --> 01:00:35,600 They'll come here to warn us of the escape. Please, hurry. 988 01:00:35,640 --> 01:00:37,360 HARPER: Sir. 989 01:00:37,400 --> 01:00:39,840 - You'll stop the auctions? - I'll stop them. 990 01:00:39,880 --> 01:00:43,040 What will happen to Colonel Girdwood? Will he be disgraced? 991 01:00:43,080 --> 01:00:44,720 He'll be finished. 992 01:00:44,760 --> 01:00:47,640 Good. Good. 993 01:00:47,680 --> 01:00:49,520 I shall not marry him. 994 01:00:52,280 --> 01:00:53,280 Marry? 995 01:00:54,280 --> 01:00:56,080 That man? 996 01:00:56,120 --> 01:00:57,800 That tar-faced creature? 997 01:00:57,840 --> 01:01:01,240 My uncle demands it. But if he is in disgrace... 998 01:01:01,280 --> 01:01:02,280 He will be. 999 01:01:05,480 --> 01:01:07,240 Don't you worry about that. 1000 01:01:15,400 --> 01:01:16,960 HARPER: Sir. 1001 01:01:17,000 --> 01:01:18,000 Hurry. 1002 01:01:24,560 --> 01:01:25,960 I'll come back. 1003 01:01:26,000 --> 01:01:27,520 Will you? 1004 01:01:29,800 --> 01:01:30,800 Yes. 1005 01:02:03,920 --> 01:02:05,400 My dear Richard. 1006 01:02:06,400 --> 01:02:09,160 - Sir. - Yes, I heard you were in town. 1007 01:02:09,200 --> 01:02:11,200 And field rank? My word! 1008 01:02:11,240 --> 01:02:13,960 Is this hero the sergeant I taught to read and write? 1009 01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:15,520 It is, sir. 1010 01:02:15,560 --> 01:02:17,600 And you have ever my gratitude. 1011 01:02:17,640 --> 01:02:20,480 - How do you fare, sir? - Well. I fare well. 1012 01:02:20,520 --> 01:02:23,200 You? What do you expect here? 1013 01:02:23,240 --> 01:02:25,680 I wait for the Duke of York. 1014 01:02:25,720 --> 01:02:29,800 I have a very grave matter to discuss. And the Duke of York must hear me. 1015 01:02:29,840 --> 01:02:31,840 Only if you speak up. He's at Windsor. 1016 01:02:33,640 --> 01:02:35,840 When he returns, I doubt he'll see you. 1017 01:02:38,960 --> 01:02:40,960 Then I need your help, sir. 1018 01:02:41,960 --> 01:02:43,960 There is none I would trust more. 1019 01:02:46,920 --> 01:02:49,120 It is not convenient that you are here. 1020 01:02:52,880 --> 01:02:54,880 You said this business was urgent. 1021 01:02:55,880 --> 01:02:59,360 I would hardly have disturbed Your Lordship otherwise. 1022 01:02:59,400 --> 01:03:01,520 The business concerns Girdwood. 1023 01:03:01,560 --> 01:03:02,560 At Foulness. 1024 01:03:03,760 --> 01:03:04,760 Auctions. 1025 01:03:06,000 --> 01:03:09,720 I do not imagine, sir, for one moment that you know of what I speak. 1026 01:03:10,720 --> 01:03:14,320 Let us assume that you have some influence over those who might. 1027 01:03:15,920 --> 01:03:18,920 - Sir Henry Simmerson, perhaps. - Let us assume that. 1028 01:03:18,960 --> 01:03:22,680 Should news of Sir Henry's activities at Foulness become public... 1029 01:03:23,680 --> 01:03:26,000 ...a mighty scandal will ensue. 1030 01:03:27,000 --> 01:03:31,520 You know that it would only need a small one piled on the ones that have gone before 1031 01:03:31,560 --> 01:03:33,480 to have us all out, my lord. 1032 01:03:43,400 --> 01:03:46,720 Did I know of that which you speak, 1033 01:03:46,760 --> 01:03:50,040 I would ask you what proof you have. 1034 01:03:50,080 --> 01:03:53,360 - The word of a distinguished officer. - What officer? 1035 01:03:55,080 --> 01:03:57,800 Major Richard Sharpe. I knew him as a sergeant. 1036 01:03:57,840 --> 01:03:59,240 Sharpe? 1037 01:03:59,280 --> 01:04:00,280 He lives? 1038 01:04:00,320 --> 01:04:02,040 You know him? 1039 01:04:02,080 --> 01:04:03,080 Of him. 1040 01:04:03,120 --> 01:04:04,960 I saw the gallant major today, 1041 01:04:05,000 --> 01:04:07,880 and he told me all about it. 1042 01:04:09,000 --> 01:04:12,000 I persuaded him to remain silent for the time being. 1043 01:04:13,640 --> 01:04:15,840 He has no absolute proof, 1044 01:04:16,880 --> 01:04:20,320 and agreed to leave the resolution of this affair in my hands. 1045 01:04:22,360 --> 01:04:23,720 What do you want? 1046 01:04:23,760 --> 01:04:25,560 I'm sure you have something. 1047 01:04:27,520 --> 01:04:30,440 Major Sharpe wants his battalion. 1048 01:04:30,480 --> 01:04:33,160 There is no battalion, Sir William. 1049 01:04:33,200 --> 01:04:34,880 Paper only. 1050 01:04:34,920 --> 01:04:36,400 Of course. 1051 01:04:37,920 --> 01:04:39,920 Sharpe would, were I to offer it, 1052 01:04:39,960 --> 01:04:43,840 settle for command of a rifle battalion in the American War. 1053 01:04:43,880 --> 01:04:45,280 America? 1054 01:04:45,320 --> 01:04:47,520 It could be arranged, I suppose, 1055 01:04:47,560 --> 01:04:51,760 so long as Sharpe remains silent about this preposterous affair. 1056 01:04:51,800 --> 01:04:53,800 If there is no evidence, my lord, 1057 01:04:54,840 --> 01:04:57,360 what does it matter if Sharpe's silent or not? 1058 01:04:58,680 --> 01:04:59,680 I really... 1059 01:04:59,720 --> 01:05:02,120 (Door opens) 1060 01:05:02,160 --> 01:05:04,160 Just a moment. 1061 01:05:12,520 --> 01:05:15,040 I really am most obliged to you, Sir William. 1062 01:05:17,480 --> 01:05:21,200 Men of sense and discretion are rare commodities these days. 1063 01:05:22,280 --> 01:05:26,400 We must make sure that your talents do not go unrewarded. 1064 01:05:26,440 --> 01:05:28,760 Which it was Lord Wellington himself, 1065 01:05:29,760 --> 01:05:32,520 himself sore pressed, which he said to me, 1066 01:05:33,800 --> 01:05:40,040 "You are the forlorn hope of all our anticipations, so you are, Patrick." 1067 01:05:41,960 --> 01:05:43,960 He said that to me. To me. 1068 01:05:45,520 --> 01:05:47,760 We are...as we were... 1069 01:05:48,760 --> 01:05:53,720 (Tearful) ..when seeking glory on the sanguinary fields of Spain, 1070 01:05:53,760 --> 01:05:58,080 right down to the dust in my pocket. 1071 01:05:59,480 --> 01:06:00,800 M'lady. 1072 01:06:00,840 --> 01:06:04,360 I thought it best to meet you here, given the way you've behaved. 1073 01:06:05,360 --> 01:06:07,360 You're a fool. 1074 01:06:07,400 --> 01:06:08,400 Ma'am? 1075 01:06:08,440 --> 01:06:10,120 You go to Horse Guards. 1076 01:06:10,160 --> 01:06:14,320 They, not being foolish, send for Sir William, knowing he had been your colonel. 1077 01:06:14,360 --> 01:06:16,880 You, in your innocence, tell him everything. 1078 01:06:16,920 --> 01:06:19,360 Sir William is an honourable man. 1079 01:06:19,400 --> 01:06:21,400 He's an ambitious man. 1080 01:06:21,440 --> 01:06:22,440 He's clever, too. 1081 01:06:24,480 --> 01:06:26,600 He chose to speak with Lord Fenner. 1082 01:06:28,480 --> 01:06:29,880 He went to Lord Fenner? 1083 01:06:29,920 --> 01:06:34,360 Hm, who will reward him with higher office, 1084 01:06:34,400 --> 01:06:36,720 and you with a rifle battalion in America. 1085 01:06:38,280 --> 01:06:40,520 I always trusted him. 1086 01:06:40,560 --> 01:06:42,560 I trusted no-one more. 1087 01:06:42,600 --> 01:06:47,480 Oh, he means you no harm. He merely wishes to avoid a scandal. 1088 01:06:47,520 --> 01:06:51,880 I, on the other hand, wish to destroy Lord Fenner, 1089 01:06:51,920 --> 01:06:56,120 and you, Major Sharpe, are the man who will help me. 1090 01:06:58,240 --> 01:07:00,240 Why should I want to help you? 1091 01:07:00,280 --> 01:07:03,120 Why should I trust you when I don't even know your name? 1092 01:07:06,920 --> 01:07:09,080 My name is Lady Camoynes. 1093 01:07:09,120 --> 01:07:12,600 Dowager Countess Camoynes. 1094 01:07:12,640 --> 01:07:16,720 I know all about Simmerson and Girdwood. 1095 01:07:16,760 --> 01:07:19,560 But there must be proof if there's to be a scandal. 1096 01:07:19,600 --> 01:07:24,840 You must find accounts, letters - anything on paper - and bring it to me. 1097 01:07:24,880 --> 01:07:28,200 You have a day, two days perhaps, to find written evidence. 1098 01:07:28,240 --> 01:07:30,080 After that, the camp will be gone, 1099 01:07:30,120 --> 01:07:33,160 and the men at Foulness scattered in a hundred garrisons. 1100 01:07:35,400 --> 01:07:37,400 Why do you wish to destroy Lord Fenner? 1101 01:07:37,440 --> 01:07:40,320 He ruined my husband and caused his death. 1102 01:07:42,000 --> 01:07:45,440 I now pay off my husband's debts 1103 01:07:45,480 --> 01:07:49,960 by clambering over him and under him when his needs demand I should. 1104 01:07:51,520 --> 01:07:52,920 I am still in his debt. 1105 01:07:55,760 --> 01:07:57,160 You may help me pay it. 1106 01:07:59,600 --> 01:08:01,600 Bring me proof, Major. 1107 01:08:01,640 --> 01:08:02,960 GIRDWOOD: Shako! 1108 01:08:03,000 --> 01:08:04,640 Cane. 1109 01:08:08,760 --> 01:08:10,760 (Tuts) 1110 01:08:21,320 --> 01:08:22,320 Door. 1111 01:08:23,880 --> 01:08:25,040 Morning, Smith. 1112 01:08:27,440 --> 01:08:28,440 Good morning. 1113 01:08:29,560 --> 01:08:31,560 Where is Captain Smith? 1114 01:08:32,840 --> 01:08:33,840 Smith! 1115 01:08:41,720 --> 01:08:44,760 I am Sharpe. Major. 1116 01:08:44,800 --> 01:08:46,920 The 1 st Battalion, the South Essex. 1117 01:08:48,200 --> 01:08:50,320 Until three days ago, Private Vaughn. 1118 01:08:53,240 --> 01:08:55,240 Outside is my sergeant major. 1119 01:08:56,240 --> 01:08:58,640 An Irishman you hunted through the marshes. 1120 01:08:58,680 --> 01:09:01,360 His name is Harper. 1121 01:09:02,560 --> 01:09:04,280 And that, 1122 01:09:05,280 --> 01:09:07,120 on your Shako badge, 1123 01:09:07,160 --> 01:09:09,160 is the Eagle he took from the French... 1124 01:09:14,840 --> 01:09:17,440 ...with me that bloody day. 1125 01:09:19,360 --> 01:09:21,720 You have orders? I command here. 1126 01:09:21,760 --> 01:09:24,160 Yes, I have orders. 1127 01:09:24,200 --> 01:09:26,000 Show me your orders. 1128 01:09:26,040 --> 01:09:27,960 I come direct from Horse Guards. 1129 01:09:28,000 --> 01:09:30,000 Ha! Horse Guards? 1130 01:09:30,040 --> 01:09:32,200 You may not Horse Guards me, sir. 1131 01:09:32,240 --> 01:09:35,640 I am well aware of Horse Guards, and they are well aware of me. 1132 01:09:37,120 --> 01:09:40,880 Is Lord Fenner Secretary at War, or is he not that position, sir? 1133 01:09:40,920 --> 01:09:44,920 Is the Duke of York Commander in Chief, or is he not, sir? 1134 01:09:46,840 --> 01:09:48,840 To whom do you look for advancement? 1135 01:09:48,880 --> 01:09:50,880 Your chief or your friends, 1136 01:09:50,920 --> 01:09:52,640 sir? 1137 01:09:52,680 --> 01:09:53,680 I command here. 1138 01:09:53,720 --> 01:09:56,360 No, I command here. 1139 01:09:56,400 --> 01:09:57,760 - No, no. - Yes! 1140 01:10:03,160 --> 01:10:04,600 Colonel Girdwood, I... 1141 01:10:04,640 --> 01:10:09,080 Colonel Girdwood is under arrest. And you are under my command. 1142 01:10:13,520 --> 01:10:16,440 You will confine Colonel Girdwood to his quarters, 1143 01:10:17,440 --> 01:10:20,840 and obtain all papers appertaining to this battalion. 1144 01:10:22,120 --> 01:10:24,120 Go through this place. 1145 01:10:26,240 --> 01:10:28,360 Every scrap of paper. 1146 01:10:28,400 --> 01:10:30,400 Every notebook. 1147 01:10:30,440 --> 01:10:31,720 Everything. 1148 01:10:40,720 --> 01:10:43,600 What you looking at, filth? 1149 01:10:43,640 --> 01:10:47,040 God save...Ireland. 1150 01:10:52,640 --> 01:10:53,640 O'Keefe?! 1151 01:10:53,680 --> 01:10:55,280 Who? 1152 01:10:55,320 --> 01:10:58,240 I am Sergeant Major Harper of the 1 st. 1153 01:10:58,280 --> 01:10:59,680 And you are...? 1154 01:11:01,360 --> 01:11:02,360 Filth? 1155 01:11:04,560 --> 01:11:05,560 Lynch, sir. 1156 01:11:11,120 --> 01:11:13,520 God...save...Ireland. 1157 01:11:13,560 --> 01:11:15,560 Say it, Lynch. 1158 01:11:17,600 --> 01:11:19,360 Go on. Say it! 1159 01:11:23,120 --> 01:11:24,760 God save... 1160 01:11:26,960 --> 01:11:28,000 ...Ireland. 1161 01:11:28,040 --> 01:11:29,040 Louder! 1162 01:11:29,080 --> 01:11:33,040 God...save...Ireland. 1163 01:11:33,080 --> 01:11:34,920 Louder! 1164 01:11:37,240 --> 01:11:39,840 God save Ireland. 1165 01:11:39,880 --> 01:11:44,680 God save Ireland. 1166 01:11:45,840 --> 01:11:48,600 God save Ireland. 1167 01:11:50,000 --> 01:11:52,480 God save Ireland. 1168 01:11:53,720 --> 01:11:55,920 God save Ireland. 1169 01:12:00,160 --> 01:12:01,160 HARPER: Battalion! 1170 01:12:02,560 --> 01:12:04,200 To my orders. 1171 01:12:05,600 --> 01:12:07,960 Who gave you leave to move, you tub of lard? 1172 01:12:08,000 --> 01:12:09,600 Stand still. 1173 01:12:11,200 --> 01:12:14,240 Battalion will form line on number one company. 1174 01:12:15,600 --> 01:12:16,600 Wait for it! 1175 01:12:18,040 --> 01:12:19,920 Battalion, form! 1176 01:12:32,360 --> 01:12:36,440 My name is Major Richard Sharpe of the 1 st Battalion, the South Essex. 1177 01:12:37,440 --> 01:12:39,960 We fight in Spain and are hard-pressed for men. 1178 01:12:40,000 --> 01:12:42,240 Some would have us too hard-pressed, 1179 01:12:42,280 --> 01:12:43,960 and would disband us, 1180 01:12:44,960 --> 01:12:49,040 our Colours put up, our honours and deeds forgotten. 1181 01:12:50,880 --> 01:12:52,080 Not I. 1182 01:12:53,480 --> 01:12:56,160 There are more honours to come, 1183 01:12:56,200 --> 01:13:00,840 more glory to be bitten on, more French to be confounded and slain. 1184 01:13:02,680 --> 01:13:06,240 I am taking some of you back with me to do these glorious things. 1185 01:13:06,280 --> 01:13:08,560 We march at first light. 1186 01:13:08,600 --> 01:13:10,240 Rouse at two. 1187 01:13:10,280 --> 01:13:14,000 And remove those damn silly stocks from your necks. 1188 01:13:14,040 --> 01:13:15,040 Go on. 1189 01:13:15,080 --> 01:13:17,680 You won't be charged for their loss. 1190 01:13:21,960 --> 01:13:24,120 Three cheers for Major Sharpe, lads. 1191 01:13:24,160 --> 01:13:25,160 Hip, hip, hip... 1192 01:13:25,200 --> 01:13:26,600 Huzzah! 1193 01:13:26,640 --> 01:13:27,640 Hip, hip, hip... 1194 01:13:27,680 --> 01:13:28,720 Huzzah! 1195 01:13:28,760 --> 01:13:29,760 Hip, hip, hip... 1196 01:13:29,800 --> 01:13:30,800 Huzzah! 1197 01:13:30,840 --> 01:13:33,720 (Cheering) 1198 01:13:55,080 --> 01:13:56,920 (Footsteps) 1199 01:14:03,040 --> 01:14:05,040 I know what this place is. 1200 01:14:06,560 --> 01:14:07,960 You're not soldiers. 1201 01:14:09,280 --> 01:14:10,280 You're crimpers. 1202 01:14:11,360 --> 01:14:12,360 Skin merchants. 1203 01:14:13,360 --> 01:14:14,360 Thieves. 1204 01:14:16,840 --> 01:14:18,880 You may resign. 1205 01:14:18,920 --> 01:14:19,920 Any of you. 1206 01:14:21,360 --> 01:14:22,920 But if you do, 1207 01:14:23,920 --> 01:14:26,400 you will not march with us tomorrow morning. 1208 01:14:27,760 --> 01:14:29,760 See, we're going to Spain. 1209 01:14:30,920 --> 01:14:32,320 You may not wish to go. 1210 01:14:33,320 --> 01:14:35,320 You may be cowards and rogues. 1211 01:14:36,320 --> 01:14:39,520 You may not wish to become officers and gentlemen again. 1212 01:14:40,800 --> 01:14:42,200 If you ever were. 1213 01:14:44,640 --> 01:14:48,440 Count the money, Smith. Muster the men. They haven't been paid for weeks. 1214 01:14:48,480 --> 01:14:50,240 Give each man five shillings. 1215 01:14:50,280 --> 01:14:52,520 - Forgive my haste, Miss Jane. - It seems... 1216 01:14:52,560 --> 01:14:55,160 You have the ledgers, all you need, sir? 1217 01:14:55,200 --> 01:14:58,200 - ...sir, that you are always... - Thank you, Mrs Grey. 1218 01:15:00,920 --> 01:15:04,120 Miss Jane, I am sorry, but it is duty. 1219 01:15:04,160 --> 01:15:07,400 I ever answer the call of duty with alacrity. 1220 01:15:07,440 --> 01:15:10,920 I pray you give Sir Henry our most dutiful regards. 1221 01:15:12,480 --> 01:15:14,920 It will be my earnest pleasure. 1222 01:15:16,160 --> 01:15:21,840 One day, Miss Jane, duty done, I look to be constant at your side. 1223 01:15:28,800 --> 01:15:30,680 - Anything? - No, nothing. 1224 01:15:30,720 --> 01:15:33,920 All the recruiting forms have no regiment entered on them. 1225 01:15:33,960 --> 01:15:39,240 Get the clerks to enter, where it says Regiment, "1 st Battalion, the South Essex" on every form. 1226 01:15:39,280 --> 01:15:42,080 Oh, and get rid of O'Keefe and Vaughn. 1227 01:15:42,120 --> 01:15:45,280 All right, I'll take care of those two squaddies. 1228 01:15:46,280 --> 01:15:48,760 Girdwood's gone, sir. He took a horse and... 1229 01:15:50,000 --> 01:15:52,000 (Knock at door) 1230 01:15:53,640 --> 01:15:56,880 Where's Girdwood? Colonel Girdwood? Sir Henry? Where? 1231 01:15:56,920 --> 01:15:58,960 Sir Henry is not at home. 1232 01:15:59,000 --> 01:16:00,000 Not so. 1233 01:16:05,200 --> 01:16:08,120 - Compliments to his niece. - Miss Gibbons is not... 1234 01:16:08,160 --> 01:16:11,720 - Miss Gibbons, where's Girdwood? - Not here, Major Sharpe. 1235 01:16:11,760 --> 01:16:14,200 - In the library, perhaps. - Miss Gibbons. 1236 01:16:18,560 --> 01:16:20,200 What is it, Miss Gibbons? 1237 01:16:20,240 --> 01:16:21,240 It is that... 1238 01:16:22,520 --> 01:16:25,240 - It is that I have defied her and... - Defied her? 1239 01:16:26,480 --> 01:16:28,920 I am now a prisoner in this house. 1240 01:16:28,960 --> 01:16:31,400 Your money and food, I stole it. 1241 01:16:31,440 --> 01:16:33,440 Why have you come here? 1242 01:16:33,480 --> 01:16:36,160 I need evidence of the auctions, if I'm to stop them. 1243 01:16:36,200 --> 01:16:38,200 And there must be records, accounts. 1244 01:16:38,240 --> 01:16:41,360 Two ledgers. My uncle made me fill in the figures. 1245 01:16:41,400 --> 01:16:43,840 But Colonel Girdwood has taken them to London. 1246 01:16:43,880 --> 01:16:45,560 Damn him! 1247 01:16:45,600 --> 01:16:47,880 - Where in London? - To my uncle's house. 1248 01:16:49,400 --> 01:16:51,800 Where will he put them for safekeeping? 1249 01:16:51,840 --> 01:16:53,480 I don't know. 1250 01:16:53,520 --> 01:16:56,520 I've only been once to his house. I don't go to London. 1251 01:16:57,600 --> 01:16:59,600 Major Sharpe, I am not of them. 1252 01:17:00,600 --> 01:17:02,840 I am the daughter of a saddler, 1253 01:17:02,880 --> 01:17:05,440 and Sir Henry's sister-in-law, 1254 01:17:05,480 --> 01:17:08,960 fit only to be married off for whatever reasons suit my uncle. 1255 01:17:09,000 --> 01:17:13,000 I ran off when I heard I was to marry Girdwood, but Sir Henry fetched me back. 1256 01:17:13,040 --> 01:17:17,280 - You're frightened of Sir Henry? - Yes, but I do want to help you. 1257 01:17:17,320 --> 01:17:19,440 Could you find the ledgers? 1258 01:17:19,480 --> 01:17:21,120 I want to, but it's hard. 1259 01:17:21,160 --> 01:17:24,160 - It would help me disgrace Girdwood. - I know. 1260 01:17:24,200 --> 01:17:26,640 I should take the risk, but I shall be punished. 1261 01:17:26,680 --> 01:17:28,560 By who? 1262 01:17:28,600 --> 01:17:29,920 My uncle beats me. 1263 01:17:33,080 --> 01:17:35,200 He let Girdwood watch the last time. 1264 01:17:35,240 --> 01:17:39,120 He thought the colonel should know how to treat a wife. He uses a cane. 1265 01:17:41,280 --> 01:17:46,160 There are marks on his study wall where he thrashes and the cane scratches the plaster. 1266 01:17:47,200 --> 01:17:49,200 He gets very angry. 1267 01:17:51,120 --> 01:17:53,160 How dare he treat you so? 1268 01:17:53,200 --> 01:17:56,600 Yes, I fear it is my lot. 1269 01:17:57,720 --> 01:17:58,720 It need not be. 1270 01:18:01,360 --> 01:18:03,320 - Jane... - Sir Henry hates you. 1271 01:18:05,120 --> 01:18:07,480 I think he also envies you. 1272 01:18:07,520 --> 01:18:08,520 Why? 1273 01:18:08,560 --> 01:18:11,600 You are a hero, Major Sharpe. Everybody says so. 1274 01:18:12,920 --> 01:18:14,440 That's foolishness. 1275 01:18:14,480 --> 01:18:15,920 Oh, no, it is not. 1276 01:18:18,280 --> 01:18:20,720 I will try to get the books. 1277 01:18:20,760 --> 01:18:22,760 It is important you have them? 1278 01:18:24,560 --> 01:18:26,080 Yes. 1279 01:18:26,120 --> 01:18:28,120 It will help. 1280 01:18:29,200 --> 01:18:31,200 But I swear, Miss Gibbons, 1281 01:18:32,200 --> 01:18:34,200 Girdwood is done for. 1282 01:18:35,920 --> 01:18:38,000 It is shaming, but I shall need money. 1283 01:18:39,040 --> 01:18:41,040 It is rare I'm allowed to have any. 1284 01:18:41,080 --> 01:18:42,560 Here. 1285 01:18:42,600 --> 01:18:44,000 Please, no shame. 1286 01:18:45,840 --> 01:18:50,240 Get me the books. Bring them to me on the night of Saturday and we shall prevail. 1287 01:18:51,720 --> 01:18:56,320 You'll bear no blame. I won't see you punished. You will not be brought back. 1288 01:18:56,360 --> 01:18:58,960 I have money, rank. 1289 01:18:59,000 --> 01:19:01,000 I'm not very good at running away. 1290 01:19:01,040 --> 01:19:03,040 Then I shall protect you. 1291 01:19:05,040 --> 01:19:06,280 I will marry you. 1292 01:19:09,600 --> 01:19:10,760 I'm sorry. 1293 01:19:13,360 --> 01:19:15,200 No. 1294 01:19:15,240 --> 01:19:16,240 No. 1295 01:19:22,480 --> 01:19:23,560 I must go. 1296 01:19:25,960 --> 01:19:26,960 Jane. 1297 01:19:28,800 --> 01:19:29,800 Jane! 1298 01:19:39,640 --> 01:19:41,440 You cannot take that! 1299 01:19:44,400 --> 01:19:46,400 (Drums) 1300 01:19:53,880 --> 01:19:55,360 Can I trust you, Smith? 1301 01:19:55,400 --> 01:19:57,880 Yes. I was always uneasy. 1302 01:19:57,920 --> 01:20:01,320 Always, sir, but I've been purchased over several times. 1303 01:20:02,320 --> 01:20:05,520 I obtained a captaincy I could not have bought. 1304 01:20:05,560 --> 01:20:07,600 I know what that means, Smith. 1305 01:20:20,760 --> 01:20:23,800 Bundook, one. Bayonet, one. Cartridge box, one. 1306 01:20:23,840 --> 01:20:26,880 Make your mark, sign your name. It's all the same to me. Next! 1307 01:20:26,920 --> 01:20:30,440 Bundook, one. Bayonet, one. Cartridge box, one. 1308 01:20:30,480 --> 01:20:33,000 Make your mark, sign your name. Next! 1309 01:20:33,040 --> 01:20:34,760 Breeches, pair, one. 1310 01:20:34,800 --> 01:20:36,760 - Shako, one. - Tunic, one. 1311 01:20:36,800 --> 01:20:39,880 - Tunic, one. - Shako, one. 1312 01:20:39,920 --> 01:20:41,920 (Drumming) 1313 01:20:44,880 --> 01:20:47,080 SHARPE: They get better at it, Patrick. 1314 01:20:48,080 --> 01:20:51,320 ♪ Now I said the young man have oft endured the parish queues 1315 01:20:51,360 --> 01:20:56,280 ♪ No more charity for the likes of me 1316 01:20:56,320 --> 01:20:58,760 ♪ Salvation and danger 1317 01:20:58,800 --> 01:21:01,120 ♪ They shall be my destiny 1318 01:21:01,160 --> 01:21:05,160 ♪ I'll take the king's shilling for Wellington and me 1319 01:21:05,200 --> 01:21:07,240 ♪ Take the king's shilling 1320 01:21:07,280 --> 01:21:09,320 ♪ Take the king's shilling 1321 01:21:09,360 --> 01:21:12,680 ♪ Take the king's shilling for Wellington and me 1322 01:21:12,720 --> 01:21:15,560 ♪ Salvation and danger 1323 01:21:15,600 --> 01:21:17,760 ♪ They shall be my destiny 1324 01:21:17,800 --> 01:21:20,840 ♪ I'll take the king's shilling for Wellington and me 1325 01:21:22,600 --> 01:21:25,000 HARPER: Company...halt! 1326 01:21:26,680 --> 01:21:28,680 Fall...out! 1327 01:21:45,280 --> 01:21:47,200 Buy me some, Phillip. 1328 01:21:47,240 --> 01:21:48,520 As many as we need. 1329 01:21:48,560 --> 01:21:50,000 What for, sir? 1330 01:21:51,000 --> 01:21:53,080 To eat, Mr Carline. 1331 01:21:53,120 --> 01:21:55,160 Save the feathers. 1332 01:21:55,200 --> 01:21:57,320 A feather bed for the Prince of Wales. 1333 01:21:57,360 --> 01:21:59,440 It's his badge, is it not? 1334 01:21:59,480 --> 01:22:01,480 Now, get them pickets out. 1335 01:22:01,520 --> 01:22:03,080 Sir. 1336 01:22:03,120 --> 01:22:05,360 Sergeant, get those pickets out! 1337 01:22:06,800 --> 01:22:07,800 (Bell tolls) 1338 01:22:07,840 --> 01:22:10,280 Present and correct and ready to march, sir. 1339 01:22:10,320 --> 01:22:12,320 Thank you, Sergeant Major. 1340 01:22:12,360 --> 01:22:14,520 Company formed up and ready to march, sir. 1341 01:22:14,560 --> 01:22:16,560 Stand them at ease, Mr Carline. 1342 01:22:16,600 --> 01:22:19,320 Company, stand at ease! 1343 01:22:22,840 --> 01:22:24,240 Over there's London. 1344 01:22:24,280 --> 01:22:26,320 That's where we've been marching to. 1345 01:22:26,360 --> 01:22:29,000 I thought we was going to Plymouth, sir. 1346 01:22:29,040 --> 01:22:31,000 Not Plymouth. 1347 01:22:31,040 --> 01:22:32,440 Not yet. 1348 01:22:32,480 --> 01:22:34,120 Why? I'll tell you later. 1349 01:22:35,120 --> 01:22:38,720 For now, we're marching into London, so sport some swank. 1350 01:22:38,760 --> 01:22:40,720 Uncase the Colours. 1351 01:22:41,720 --> 01:22:43,600 We're going to meet the Prince of Wales. 1352 01:22:51,440 --> 01:22:54,520 - My footman has the books. - Then give them my footman. 1353 01:22:54,560 --> 01:22:57,160 I have more to lose than you, sir. 1354 01:23:01,400 --> 01:23:05,160 Take these to my house. Tell the steward to burn them. 1355 01:23:05,200 --> 01:23:07,200 Every page. Do you understand? 1356 01:23:09,880 --> 01:23:14,400 - And where in God's name is Sharpe? - Chatham or Portsmouth, I shouldn't wonder. 1357 01:23:14,440 --> 01:23:15,880 We've looked there. 1358 01:23:15,920 --> 01:23:20,240 Besides, he cannot sail without orders. He must know that, unless he's mad. 1359 01:23:20,280 --> 01:23:22,640 He is mad. He is also insolent. 1360 01:23:23,640 --> 01:23:27,320 I recommended his dismissal in Spain, but my voice was not heeded. 1361 01:23:27,360 --> 01:23:30,720 Well, I trust you will enjoy the battle, Sir Henry. 1362 01:23:47,760 --> 01:23:50,040 WOMAN: He's so fat! 1363 01:23:50,080 --> 01:23:52,680 Fenner, evening. 1364 01:23:53,840 --> 01:23:57,680 - Not so hot here as it was at Vitoria, eh? - Indeed, Your Royal Highness. 1365 01:23:58,680 --> 01:24:00,680 Up we go, then. 1366 01:24:03,600 --> 01:24:05,920 WOMAN: He's about to burst, he's so huge. 1367 01:24:07,200 --> 01:24:09,200 Which is this, Fenner? 1368 01:24:10,200 --> 01:24:13,440 12th Light Dragoons, sir. Prince of Wales's Own. 1369 01:24:13,480 --> 01:24:17,320 One of mine, Freddy. Look, my feathers! How many have I got? 1370 01:24:17,360 --> 01:24:19,760 - Got? - Got, got. You must have seen a list. 1371 01:24:19,800 --> 01:24:23,080 What else do you do but see lists, Secretary at War? Lists! 1372 01:24:23,120 --> 01:24:25,720 I think six, sir. Dragoons and Foot. 1373 01:24:25,760 --> 01:24:27,480 And how many's York got? 1374 01:24:28,480 --> 01:24:30,920 One, sir. Irish, 101 st. 1375 01:24:30,960 --> 01:24:33,680 Do you hear that? You've only one, Freddy. 1376 01:24:33,720 --> 01:24:36,040 I've got the whole deuced army, d'you see? 1377 01:24:43,320 --> 01:24:45,320 (Clapping) 1378 01:24:55,360 --> 01:24:56,960 Evening, Lord John. 1379 01:24:57,000 --> 01:25:01,120 - Prinny wants to see our Eagle. - You will...bring it back, sir? 1380 01:25:01,160 --> 01:25:02,880 I did the last time. 1381 01:25:03,880 --> 01:25:06,480 - She was in my house? - With her dog! 1382 01:25:06,520 --> 01:25:08,800 - Well, what did she want? - The ledgers. 1383 01:25:08,840 --> 01:25:11,040 She'd come for the ledgers. 1384 01:25:11,080 --> 01:25:13,400 She said that you had sent her. 1385 01:25:13,440 --> 01:25:15,440 Don't be a damned fool, man. 1386 01:25:16,440 --> 01:25:17,920 This is Sharpe's doing. 1387 01:25:19,200 --> 01:25:20,200 Sir. 1388 01:25:24,280 --> 01:25:25,280 You've come. 1389 01:25:25,320 --> 01:25:28,040 He's got the ledgers. My uncle's got the ledgers. 1390 01:25:28,080 --> 01:25:30,880 It doesn't matter. You've took the risk to help me. 1391 01:25:30,920 --> 01:25:34,880 - But your evidence! - I've got the men. They'll be evidence enough. 1392 01:25:34,920 --> 01:25:38,600 Colonel Girdwood was at the house. He saw me. He'll tell my uncle. 1393 01:25:38,640 --> 01:25:40,640 Listen, you mustn't be afraid. 1394 01:25:41,880 --> 01:25:44,320 What do I do now? I can't go back. 1395 01:25:44,360 --> 01:25:47,840 Look, you meet me here after the battle. 1396 01:25:47,880 --> 01:25:49,840 All right? 1397 01:25:49,880 --> 01:25:51,880 (Dog whimpers) 1398 01:25:59,840 --> 01:26:01,040 Bravo! Bravo! 1399 01:26:01,080 --> 01:26:03,960 MAN: It's Boney! - (Booing and hissing) 1400 01:26:04,000 --> 01:26:06,400 Very good. 1401 01:26:06,440 --> 01:26:08,880 (Hissing and booing) 1402 01:26:11,800 --> 01:26:13,360 CROWD: Oooh! 1403 01:26:14,640 --> 01:26:16,400 Aah! 1404 01:26:16,440 --> 01:26:18,320 MAN: Shame, sir! 1405 01:26:18,360 --> 01:26:20,120 (Gasps) 1406 01:26:41,160 --> 01:26:43,360 SHARPE: Company...shun! 1407 01:26:44,720 --> 01:26:46,240 Put arms! 1408 01:26:47,600 --> 01:26:49,320 Forward march! 1409 01:27:00,440 --> 01:27:02,440 Company, halt! 1410 01:27:04,520 --> 01:27:07,040 Make ready! 1411 01:27:07,080 --> 01:27:08,720 Present! 1412 01:27:11,160 --> 01:27:12,000 Fire! 1413 01:27:22,720 --> 01:27:24,080 Why, it's Major Sharpe. 1414 01:27:24,120 --> 01:27:26,000 It's Dick. 1415 01:27:26,040 --> 01:27:29,160 Sergeant Major, now! 1416 01:27:29,200 --> 01:27:31,200 Ground arms! 1417 01:27:38,680 --> 01:27:41,520 Prince of Wales's feathers! Prince of Wales! 1418 01:27:43,280 --> 01:27:46,120 Three cheers for the Prince of Wales. 1419 01:27:46,160 --> 01:27:47,240 Hip, hip... 1420 01:27:47,280 --> 01:27:48,280 Huzzah! 1421 01:27:48,320 --> 01:27:49,240 Hip, hip... 1422 01:27:49,280 --> 01:27:50,160 Huzzah! 1423 01:27:50,200 --> 01:27:51,800 - Hip, hip... - Huzzah! 1424 01:27:51,840 --> 01:27:53,840 They're mine. 1425 01:27:53,880 --> 01:27:56,600 - What regiment is that? - South Essex. 1426 01:27:56,640 --> 01:27:59,520 Ah. I thought they only marched on paper. 1427 01:28:00,560 --> 01:28:01,560 Sir? 1428 01:28:01,600 --> 01:28:04,520 These are fellows you told me only marched on paper. 1429 01:28:06,480 --> 01:28:10,000 No, sir, these are the men who fought with you at Talavera, sir. 1430 01:28:10,040 --> 01:28:13,120 The 1 st Battalion, back with the Eagle you took. 1431 01:28:13,160 --> 01:28:15,960 Of course. I thought I recognised them. 1432 01:28:16,960 --> 01:28:18,960 Well, they're mine now, ain't they? 1433 01:28:19,000 --> 01:28:20,360 Bravo, Dick! 1434 01:28:21,800 --> 01:28:23,800 FENNER: Ordered back to Spain, 1435 01:28:23,840 --> 01:28:26,160 he didn't see fit to go. 1436 01:28:27,560 --> 01:28:29,560 Not without men. 1437 01:28:29,600 --> 01:28:31,000 I came for men. 1438 01:28:32,440 --> 01:28:35,680 He disguised a battalion as a holding battalion, sir, 1439 01:28:35,720 --> 01:28:39,000 auctioned the men for his own profit, and stole their pay. 1440 01:28:40,080 --> 01:28:41,600 He is Secretary at War. 1441 01:28:41,640 --> 01:28:43,040 He is a thief. 1442 01:28:45,360 --> 01:28:47,360 Every word. 1443 01:28:47,400 --> 01:28:49,400 We'll do this properly. 1444 01:28:49,440 --> 01:28:51,440 What is your proof of this, Sharpe? 1445 01:28:51,480 --> 01:28:53,240 Hmm? 1446 01:28:55,320 --> 01:28:59,920 You can substantiate these accusations, surely? 1447 01:28:59,960 --> 01:29:02,360 I know what you are. 1448 01:29:02,400 --> 01:29:06,360 I know what Sir Henry is. I have seen for myself, sir. 1449 01:29:08,120 --> 01:29:10,720 But you have no proof, Sharpe. 1450 01:29:12,040 --> 01:29:14,040 So take heed of this. 1451 01:29:15,320 --> 01:29:19,760 The South Essex, or rather the Prince of Wales's Own Volunteers... 1452 01:29:19,800 --> 01:29:21,800 - (Sniggers) - ..as we must now call them, 1453 01:29:21,840 --> 01:29:26,160 will embark for Spain under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Girdwood. 1454 01:29:27,400 --> 01:29:30,880 You, Major Sharpe, will embark for Australia, 1455 01:29:30,920 --> 01:29:34,800 where you'll command a convict guard. 1456 01:29:34,840 --> 01:29:38,280 Far too lenient. I would break the ingrate. 1457 01:29:38,320 --> 01:29:41,280 They don't hardly ever dress at the Antipodes, Sharpe. 1458 01:29:41,320 --> 01:29:42,920 You'll be at home. 1459 01:29:42,960 --> 01:29:46,040 How many times have I said it? You get dross from dross. 1460 01:29:46,080 --> 01:29:50,680 Comes of plucking up from the ranks. Never sit easy, do they? 1461 01:29:50,720 --> 01:29:54,160 I sit like I was poured, sir. 1462 01:29:55,160 --> 01:29:56,200 Hmmm. 1463 01:29:59,160 --> 01:30:02,760 You will not, though invited, attend on the Prince of Wales tonight. 1464 01:30:02,800 --> 01:30:06,280 He's had far too much excitement for one day. 1465 01:30:06,320 --> 01:30:08,520 Your orders are being written as we speak. 1466 01:30:08,560 --> 01:30:13,160 Until they arrive, you will wait in the guardroom under arrest. 1467 01:30:13,200 --> 01:30:14,200 (Knock at door) 1468 01:30:14,240 --> 01:30:15,240 Come. 1469 01:30:17,000 --> 01:30:20,600 - You have the orders? - Er, not yet, my lord. Your wife is here. 1470 01:30:20,640 --> 01:30:21,920 I have no wife. 1471 01:30:24,560 --> 01:30:26,400 You'll forgive me, Simon. 1472 01:30:29,000 --> 01:30:30,800 Please, don't get up, Sir Henry. 1473 01:30:30,840 --> 01:30:32,400 (Snorts) 1474 01:30:33,400 --> 01:30:35,480 We are not acquainted, General. 1475 01:30:35,520 --> 01:30:37,840 Nor we are, ma'am. 1476 01:30:37,880 --> 01:30:39,320 My loss. 1477 01:30:39,360 --> 01:30:41,360 Do please present me, Simon. 1478 01:30:41,400 --> 01:30:45,200 My dear Anne, I am engaged on the business of State. 1479 01:30:45,240 --> 01:30:46,400 Introduce me. 1480 01:30:48,440 --> 01:30:51,280 General Sir Barstan Maxwell, I have the honour 1481 01:30:51,320 --> 01:30:54,680 of naming the Dowager Countess Camoynes. 1482 01:30:54,720 --> 01:30:56,760 Honoured, ma'am. 1483 01:30:56,800 --> 01:31:01,000 Now, I will be obliged if you will wait outside. 1484 01:31:02,440 --> 01:31:03,440 Major Sharpe. 1485 01:31:04,920 --> 01:31:06,480 You are most remiss. 1486 01:31:06,520 --> 01:31:07,880 Remiss, ma'am? 1487 01:31:09,560 --> 01:31:11,760 You promised me this. 1488 01:31:15,880 --> 01:31:18,360 But I had to find it myself. 1489 01:31:20,480 --> 01:31:23,800 Your steward wanted to know what he was to burn. 1490 01:31:23,840 --> 01:31:29,360 And he was still reading this when I arrived. I have the other one quite safe, 1491 01:31:29,400 --> 01:31:31,400 rescued from the flames as well. 1492 01:31:32,600 --> 01:31:35,680 It contains letters signed by you, Simon. 1493 01:31:44,360 --> 01:31:45,360 Get out. 1494 01:31:48,280 --> 01:31:50,280 Give me those notes. 1495 01:31:51,800 --> 01:31:52,800 Get out. 1496 01:31:54,840 --> 01:31:55,840 And you. 1497 01:31:57,080 --> 01:31:58,640 Out! 1498 01:31:58,680 --> 01:32:01,800 My lord, I insist this is done properly. 1499 01:32:01,840 --> 01:32:04,320 ANNE: It is being done properly, Sir Barstan. 1500 01:32:04,360 --> 01:32:07,800 Were it done any other way, my dear General, 1501 01:32:07,840 --> 01:32:10,840 there is likely to be the most horrid scandal. 1502 01:32:11,880 --> 01:32:13,680 Is that not true, Simon? 1503 01:32:18,280 --> 01:32:23,640 Major Sharpe, perhaps you have some few requests to make of Lord Fenner? 1504 01:32:25,600 --> 01:32:26,600 Requests, ma'am? 1505 01:32:26,640 --> 01:32:29,040 I assume you want a favour. 1506 01:32:30,680 --> 01:32:32,680 My own will wait. 1507 01:32:36,240 --> 01:32:38,800 I only want what Wellington wants - 1508 01:32:38,840 --> 01:32:41,480 men to take into battle against the French. 1509 01:32:41,520 --> 01:32:45,240 I want the Prince of Wales's Own Volunteers to come with me to Spain. 1510 01:32:46,720 --> 01:32:47,720 Agreed. 1511 01:32:47,760 --> 01:32:50,840 I want all my men to get the pay they're owed. 1512 01:32:51,840 --> 01:32:55,480 I want the 2nd Battalion properly established at Chelmsford. 1513 01:32:55,520 --> 01:32:58,400 New officers, decent officers this time. 1514 01:32:58,440 --> 01:33:00,680 I want command given to Colonel Girdwood. 1515 01:33:02,320 --> 01:33:04,000 You'll serve under him? 1516 01:33:04,040 --> 01:33:05,040 I will, sir. 1517 01:33:05,080 --> 01:33:08,000 I don't wish him to resign his commission before we set sail. 1518 01:33:08,040 --> 01:33:10,320 Very well. 1519 01:33:10,360 --> 01:33:12,520 You've finished, Major? 1520 01:33:14,480 --> 01:33:15,480 Indeed, ma'am. 1521 01:33:20,560 --> 01:33:25,440 - Simon, I have two for sale. - That ain't all you have for sale. 1522 01:33:25,480 --> 01:33:27,480 Nor it isn't, 1523 01:33:27,520 --> 01:33:32,280 but the price I would expect from you would have your shirt off your back long before bedtime. 1524 01:33:33,520 --> 01:33:36,480 You can't afford her, Simmerson. 1525 01:33:36,520 --> 01:33:37,920 Few can. 1526 01:33:39,600 --> 01:33:40,560 Sharpe? 1527 01:33:41,880 --> 01:33:43,560 You told the truth? 1528 01:33:44,920 --> 01:33:49,800 The truth, Sir Barstan, is whatever Lord Fenner and I decide. 1529 01:33:51,480 --> 01:33:55,080 And, for him, it is going to strike devilish expensive. 1530 01:34:14,280 --> 01:34:15,680 Where do you go now? 1531 01:34:15,720 --> 01:34:20,600 I...have a carriage, and I'm feeling generous. 1532 01:34:22,760 --> 01:34:25,040 I have unfinished business, my lady. 1533 01:34:25,080 --> 01:34:26,080 Walk on. 1534 01:34:32,200 --> 01:34:33,840 Whoa! 1535 01:34:33,880 --> 01:34:34,880 Whoa! 1536 01:34:41,160 --> 01:34:43,520 You er...want me, Major Sharpe? 1537 01:34:43,560 --> 01:34:46,800 Not yet. For the moment, I've come for Miss Gibbons. 1538 01:34:47,800 --> 01:34:50,920 Sir Henry said she'd be flogged till her bones were chalk. 1539 01:34:50,960 --> 01:34:51,960 Not so. 1540 01:34:58,000 --> 01:35:00,400 Have you thought about what I said? 1541 01:35:01,400 --> 01:35:02,960 I have. 1542 01:35:03,960 --> 01:35:05,960 I don't know you. I... 1543 01:35:06,960 --> 01:35:08,560 - No. ANNE: Major Sharpe. 1544 01:35:10,800 --> 01:35:13,600 Will you not present your companion to me, Major? 1545 01:35:16,000 --> 01:35:20,160 I have the honour to present the Dowager Countess Camoynes. 1546 01:35:20,200 --> 01:35:23,800 - Miss Jane Gibbons, ma'am. - We are to be married. 1547 01:35:34,120 --> 01:35:35,520 Jane. 1548 01:35:35,560 --> 01:35:36,800 Ma'am. 1549 01:35:39,560 --> 01:35:41,960 Miss Gibbons will not take it amiss, I know, 1550 01:35:43,640 --> 01:35:45,920 if I give you this, ma'am. 1551 01:35:45,960 --> 01:35:47,960 It was won in battle. 1552 01:35:52,360 --> 01:35:53,760 My thanks, ma'am. 1553 01:35:56,160 --> 01:35:57,560 Major Sharpe. 1554 01:36:28,880 --> 01:36:30,600 Major Sharpe, 1555 01:36:30,640 --> 01:36:32,640 you are too far up. 1556 01:36:32,680 --> 01:36:35,800 You will kindly retire two paces. 1557 01:36:37,920 --> 01:36:40,520 Prince of Wales's Own Volunteers, 1558 01:36:40,560 --> 01:36:42,560 on my command, 1559 01:36:42,600 --> 01:36:44,680 two paces forward, march. 1560 01:36:48,160 --> 01:36:50,160 That do you, sir? 1561 01:36:54,000 --> 01:36:58,680 Beyond the mountains lies France, Sharpe. You will attack behind the battalions. 1562 01:36:58,720 --> 01:37:00,360 You'll finish the job, yes? 1563 01:37:00,400 --> 01:37:03,680 - Then, on into France. - Sir. 1564 01:37:03,720 --> 01:37:06,200 Not being a little hard on Girdwood, are you? 1565 01:37:08,640 --> 01:37:13,880 At Foulness, sir, Colonel Girdwood gave orders that deserters were to be shot out of hand. 1566 01:37:13,920 --> 01:37:15,920 I saw one killed. 1567 01:37:15,960 --> 01:37:19,680 He hunted men through the marshland like they were rats. 1568 01:37:19,720 --> 01:37:21,880 He wants to see a battle, 1569 01:37:22,880 --> 01:37:24,480 he'll see a battle. 1570 01:37:28,560 --> 01:37:30,400 Pay heed. 1571 01:37:30,440 --> 01:37:32,440 I want no glory hunt. 1572 01:37:33,920 --> 01:37:37,000 You'll be diligent how you listen for orders. 1573 01:37:37,040 --> 01:37:39,040 You can't go wrong if you go forward. 1574 01:37:39,080 --> 01:37:41,800 Attack. Attack all the time. 1575 01:37:41,840 --> 01:37:43,440 Never slack. 1576 01:37:43,480 --> 01:37:45,040 There is the enemy. 1577 01:37:45,080 --> 01:37:47,920 Face him, front him and kill him. 1578 01:37:50,080 --> 01:37:52,080 It needs to be fast work, 1579 01:37:52,120 --> 01:37:54,680 for if we're slow, he'll come on us. 1580 01:37:54,720 --> 01:37:56,880 So keep going forward. 1581 01:37:56,920 --> 01:38:01,360 They have leave to fire on sight, so get them bayonets in, make it sticking work. 1582 01:38:01,400 --> 01:38:03,400 Frenchy's a sight more frit than us. 1583 01:38:03,440 --> 01:38:06,000 - They must be quaking in terror. - They are, Charlie. 1584 01:38:06,040 --> 01:38:08,040 They know they face us. 1585 01:38:10,960 --> 01:38:12,360 Move forward! 1586 01:38:19,000 --> 01:38:21,400 Steady, lads. Steady! 1587 01:38:22,240 --> 01:38:25,120 Keep going! Forward! 1588 01:38:36,680 --> 01:38:39,000 Set on, lad. Get a move on. 1589 01:38:41,080 --> 01:38:42,800 Intend we shall, chum. 1590 01:38:42,840 --> 01:38:44,040 God save ye. 1591 01:38:48,400 --> 01:38:52,920 Don't roam on the rush, sir. You wouldn't want to miss your first battle. 1592 01:38:52,960 --> 01:38:55,440 - Say it, Lynch. - God save Ireland. 1593 01:38:55,480 --> 01:38:58,160 - Say it! - God save Ireland! 1594 01:39:02,840 --> 01:39:05,760 Come on, you buggers! Let 'em hear you! 1595 01:39:05,800 --> 01:39:06,960 (Battle cries) 1596 01:39:28,920 --> 01:39:31,720 Get his pack, Charlie. It's what you stopped him for. 1597 01:39:44,040 --> 01:39:45,400 Filth! 1598 01:39:48,200 --> 01:39:49,200 Follow me, lads. 1599 01:39:49,240 --> 01:39:52,720 ♪ We're fighting for our flag 1600 01:39:53,720 --> 01:39:55,800 ♪ Hurrah, my boys 1601 01:39:56,800 --> 01:39:57,800 ♪ Hurrah 1602 01:39:57,840 --> 01:39:59,560 What regiment? 1603 01:39:59,600 --> 01:40:00,880 Sharpe's. 1604 01:40:00,920 --> 01:40:02,560 Sharpe's regiment. 1605 01:40:02,600 --> 01:40:05,400 What are you loitering for? 1606 01:40:05,440 --> 01:40:08,120 It's there. Just there. 1607 01:40:08,160 --> 01:40:09,920 It's France. 1608 01:40:09,960 --> 01:40:10,960 France! 1609 01:40:11,960 --> 01:40:13,960 (Cheering)