1 00:01:21,035 --> 00:01:23,192 Now... 2 00:01:23,244 --> 00:01:26,656 for reasons that will soon become crystal clear, 3 00:01:26,702 --> 00:01:29,025 no detail of what you see and hear this week 4 00:01:29,077 --> 00:01:31,400 must ever become public knowledge. 5 00:01:33,660 --> 00:01:35,319 Gentlemen, 6 00:01:35,369 --> 00:01:38,948 this job has always been, and must always remain, 7 00:01:39,910 --> 00:01:42,481 the most closely guarded of secrets. 8 00:02:00,994 --> 00:02:03,778 The prisoner is first brought into this lobby area. 9 00:02:03,827 --> 00:02:07,442 Aye aye... That's thoughtful, isn't it? 10 00:02:07,785 --> 00:02:09,492 Hook to hang their coat on. 11 00:02:10,327 --> 00:02:12,448 Mind you, they won't need it afterwards! 12 00:02:13,119 --> 00:02:14,908 Settle down. 13 00:02:16,077 --> 00:02:18,400 So then, this is the lobby area. 14 00:02:20,244 --> 00:02:21,523 With coat hooks. 15 00:02:23,369 --> 00:02:24,399 Then... 16 00:02:24,452 --> 00:02:25,909 through this door... 17 00:02:26,910 --> 00:02:28,320 ... their cell. 18 00:02:36,702 --> 00:02:38,776 The only one like it in the prison. 19 00:02:39,952 --> 00:02:43,033 It will be their home for a minimum of three Sundays 20 00:02:43,077 --> 00:02:45,151 from the day of sentence. 21 00:02:45,202 --> 00:02:47,358 That's the law. 22 00:02:47,410 --> 00:02:49,615 This is where the prisoner eats, 23 00:02:49,660 --> 00:02:51,651 sleeps, and waits. 24 00:02:52,660 --> 00:02:56,275 Waits for one fine morning, nine o'clock... 25 00:02:57,452 --> 00:02:59,739 ... when one of you comes through that door. 26 00:03:01,369 --> 00:03:02,909 Now, when you do... 27 00:03:04,119 --> 00:03:06,524 ... he'll be sitting here. 28 00:03:06,577 --> 00:03:08,900 As you enter, he'll stand up, 29 00:03:08,952 --> 00:03:11,701 and instinctively turn, and take a step towards you. 30 00:03:12,827 --> 00:03:16,074 He's thinking you'll lead him back out onto the landing. 31 00:03:16,119 --> 00:03:18,109 That, gentlemen, is where you've got him. 32 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:20,993 In those few seconds, you take his left hand with your right, 33 00:03:21,035 --> 00:03:23,868 spin him, pinion him, and lead him back out that way. 34 00:03:25,702 --> 00:03:27,693 He'll be confused by this. 35 00:03:29,119 --> 00:03:30,695 And disorientated. 36 00:03:32,744 --> 00:03:34,402 But he'll not be scared. 37 00:03:35,452 --> 00:03:37,692 He knows what's out there. 38 00:03:37,744 --> 00:03:41,275 Just a door to a courtyard. 39 00:03:41,327 --> 00:03:42,784 And a wall. 40 00:03:43,410 --> 00:03:45,484 And Mr Sykes' coat hooks on it. 41 00:03:47,785 --> 00:03:50,700 Mr Cooper, would you push back that door, please? 42 00:04:01,285 --> 00:04:03,406 So, what do we do? We exploit it. 43 00:04:03,994 --> 00:04:05,700 We get him in here and dropped 44 00:04:05,744 --> 00:04:09,074 before he's had time to recover from the shock. 45 00:04:09,119 --> 00:04:11,524 Before he can struggle or fight, 46 00:04:11,577 --> 00:04:13,864 and before he even knows what's happening. 47 00:04:15,035 --> 00:04:20,191 No sense in prolonging the agony. For him or for you. 48 00:04:28,952 --> 00:04:32,152 The heavier the man, the shorter the drop you give him. 49 00:04:32,535 --> 00:04:35,617 The weaker the neck, the shorter the drop. 50 00:04:36,577 --> 00:04:39,409 Get it wrong, and you'll pull his head off. 51 00:04:39,452 --> 00:04:40,482 Pierrepoint... 52 00:04:40,577 --> 00:04:43,030 Male, 24 years old, 5ft 6. 53 00:04:43,077 --> 00:04:44,867 160lb in his clothes. 54 00:04:44,910 --> 00:04:47,446 - Occupation? - Manual labourer. 55 00:04:47,994 --> 00:04:50,233 A good strong neck... 56 00:04:50,285 --> 00:04:53,402 Table says 6ft 3. I'd give him 6ft 11. 57 00:04:53,869 --> 00:04:56,404 So would I. Good. 58 00:04:57,410 --> 00:04:58,441 Very good. 59 00:05:32,285 --> 00:05:34,525 Oh, Mr Pierrepoint. 60 00:05:34,577 --> 00:05:37,859 Well, this is a surprise. We weren't expecting you till next week. 61 00:05:37,910 --> 00:05:39,901 No, no, I was just passing. 62 00:05:41,077 --> 00:05:43,861 I finished my round a little early, and, well... 63 00:05:45,619 --> 00:05:47,277 ... here I am. 64 00:05:47,327 --> 00:05:49,401 Well, that's nice. 65 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:52,151 I was... 66 00:05:53,869 --> 00:05:56,440 Fetch some more paper bags out of the back, Alice. 67 00:06:00,702 --> 00:06:02,609 Now, please. 68 00:06:07,744 --> 00:06:12,981 Actually... I did have a special reason for calling today, Miss Fletcher. 69 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:16,151 Only, I was wondering, like... 70 00:06:17,369 --> 00:06:20,781 Pierrepoint. We don't have a delivery today. 71 00:06:22,035 --> 00:06:23,611 No. I er... 72 00:06:23,660 --> 00:06:24,904 No. 73 00:06:25,369 --> 00:06:27,324 No, I just came in for some pipe tobacco. 74 00:06:27,369 --> 00:06:30,402 Yeah, can I have a half ounce of Ready Rub, please, 75 00:06:30,452 --> 00:06:32,028 and a box of Swans, thank you. 76 00:06:32,452 --> 00:06:35,367 And don't keep my staff chatting. They're busy. 77 00:06:35,660 --> 00:06:37,865 Right, Mr Sellers. Aye. 78 00:06:40,119 --> 00:06:42,275 - I just wanted to... - That'll be one and two. 79 00:06:44,035 --> 00:06:46,156 Mr Sellers, I can't find any bags. 80 00:06:53,369 --> 00:06:55,904 I'd love to. How about the pictures? 81 00:06:56,369 --> 00:06:57,696 Saturday night. 82 00:06:57,785 --> 00:07:00,867 I'll see you outside Churches at seven. 83 00:07:00,910 --> 00:07:02,901 Saturday night. 84 00:07:16,785 --> 00:07:19,356 That lass sends her regards. 85 00:07:19,410 --> 00:07:21,484 You know Annie? Miss Fletcher. 86 00:07:33,327 --> 00:07:35,401 Aye, works in the sweet shop, she does. 87 00:08:02,660 --> 00:08:04,734 Why now, Albert? Why start now? 88 00:08:10,702 --> 00:08:12,609 It's just in me. 89 00:08:13,577 --> 00:08:15,947 I always knew it would come out some day. 90 00:08:16,785 --> 00:08:18,492 You'll have no luck, Albert. 91 00:08:20,202 --> 00:08:21,908 Not as long as you live. 92 00:08:24,035 --> 00:08:26,405 And I'll say to you what I said to your father. 93 00:08:27,035 --> 00:08:29,524 You don't bring it over that threshold. 94 00:08:33,619 --> 00:08:35,693 I'll let you get on with it, then. 95 00:08:51,952 --> 00:08:54,357 I've been accepted, Uncle Tom. 96 00:08:54,410 --> 00:08:56,531 Your dad would have been proud of you. 97 00:08:56,577 --> 00:08:58,484 No doubt about that. 98 00:08:59,119 --> 00:09:01,868 It's what he wanted. Another Pierrepoint on the list. 99 00:09:01,910 --> 00:09:03,190 They've offered me a job. 100 00:09:04,285 --> 00:09:06,739 Strangeways Prison, Anthony David Farrow. 101 00:09:07,660 --> 00:09:08,691 Tuesday, 26th. 102 00:09:11,744 --> 00:09:13,023 What's the matter? 103 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:16,032 I'm going to be assisting. 104 00:09:37,535 --> 00:09:39,407 He don't look much, he don't. 105 00:09:46,952 --> 00:09:50,816 I've got 6ft 6 in my mind, but I'll have to look it up in my book. 106 00:09:59,910 --> 00:10:02,067 We'll use this one. 107 00:10:02,119 --> 00:10:04,275 Less stretch in it. 108 00:10:04,327 --> 00:10:06,199 Like old Andrews said, 109 00:10:07,202 --> 00:10:10,235 only thing we want to stretch tomorrow is me laddo's neck. 110 00:10:11,202 --> 00:10:12,446 Eh, Albert? 111 00:10:13,035 --> 00:10:14,066 Stand clear. 112 00:10:28,869 --> 00:10:30,741 Seems to be working. 113 00:10:31,369 --> 00:10:33,655 Come on, let's get some tea down us. 114 00:10:40,744 --> 00:10:42,201 Eight hours, 115 00:10:43,577 --> 00:10:45,449 20 minutes, Albert. 116 00:10:49,744 --> 00:10:51,616 That's all he's got left. 117 00:10:53,285 --> 00:10:55,075 Ticking away. 118 00:10:58,369 --> 00:11:00,443 He gets involved with some old tart. 119 00:11:03,494 --> 00:11:05,401 She pushes him over the edge. 120 00:11:07,119 --> 00:11:10,650 He winds up in here waiting for us to come knocking on his door. 121 00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:16,234 Doesn't bear thinking about, does it? 122 00:11:19,119 --> 00:11:21,323 I wonder if he's looking at his watch. 123 00:11:24,244 --> 00:11:26,318 I don't think 6ft 6 is enough. 124 00:11:27,827 --> 00:11:30,316 He's a slight lad, but he's stronger than he looks. 125 00:11:31,494 --> 00:11:33,615 I think you should give him 6ft 8. 126 00:11:33,660 --> 00:11:35,983 6ft 6, 6ft 8... 127 00:11:38,160 --> 00:11:40,234 It doesn't really matter, does it? 128 00:11:43,994 --> 00:11:46,068 Either way, he's going down. 129 00:12:31,744 --> 00:12:34,528 God forgive me, God forgive me, God forgive me... 130 00:12:40,369 --> 00:12:41,648 God forgive me... 131 00:12:58,910 --> 00:13:00,368 Please... 132 00:13:02,369 --> 00:13:03,399 Help me. 133 00:13:18,202 --> 00:13:19,659 Follow me. 134 00:13:41,869 --> 00:13:42,733 Please... 135 00:13:45,327 --> 00:13:46,736 Wait, wait. 136 00:13:47,744 --> 00:13:48,905 Please. 137 00:14:17,119 --> 00:14:19,240 What have we just done, eh? 138 00:14:19,285 --> 00:14:21,323 We've just killed a man, just like that. 139 00:14:21,369 --> 00:14:24,485 - Very bad. - You don't want to think of it like that. 140 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:28,075 Think of it as... Well, think of it as... 141 00:14:28,119 --> 00:14:30,193 I'm Albert again, you're Charlie. 142 00:14:30,244 --> 00:14:32,281 We're just the same as we were yesterday. 143 00:14:32,327 --> 00:14:35,574 Yeah, but it won't ever be the same again, will it? 144 00:14:35,619 --> 00:14:38,700 Not after what we've just done. Eh? 145 00:14:38,744 --> 00:14:41,149 Here. You done all the work. You have my money too. 146 00:14:41,202 --> 00:14:43,986 - There's no need. - Go on, you take it. I don't want it. 147 00:14:45,244 --> 00:14:47,116 All right? I don't want it. 148 00:15:25,577 --> 00:15:27,982 I've done you a nice chop. 149 00:15:28,035 --> 00:15:29,777 I'll warm it up for you. 150 00:16:27,119 --> 00:16:28,149 Pork chop. 151 00:16:28,994 --> 00:16:30,238 Your favourite. 152 00:16:33,744 --> 00:16:35,651 Don't be too late up. 153 00:17:52,202 --> 00:17:55,449 Mrs Pierrepoint, can you help me out with this stocktake tonight? 154 00:17:55,494 --> 00:17:59,819 I know it's Alice's turn, but she's insisting on going out with the WVS 155 00:17:59,869 --> 00:18:01,445 collecting pots and pans. 156 00:18:01,494 --> 00:18:03,484 It's for t'war effort. 157 00:18:03,535 --> 00:18:07,280 This shop turning a profit - that's for the war effort too, you know. 158 00:18:07,327 --> 00:18:12,031 I don't mind, Mr Sellers. Mr Pierrepoint is away tonight anyway, so... 159 00:18:12,077 --> 00:18:13,618 What, again? 160 00:18:13,660 --> 00:18:15,651 Where does he go on these trips? 161 00:18:21,327 --> 00:18:23,401 Private business, Mr Sellers. 162 00:18:24,410 --> 00:18:26,448 Oh, yes. 163 00:18:26,494 --> 00:18:28,319 Yes, of course. 164 00:18:28,369 --> 00:18:30,241 Thank you, Mrs Pierrepoint. 165 00:19:02,285 --> 00:19:04,075 8ft 6. 166 00:19:10,744 --> 00:19:12,734 Two old ladies she killed. 167 00:19:12,785 --> 00:19:16,151 Got them to make out their wills to her, then gave them morphine. 168 00:19:16,869 --> 00:19:18,610 Did she? 169 00:19:40,660 --> 00:19:42,616 Follow me. 170 00:20:05,494 --> 00:20:07,235 Oh, God, please help me. 171 00:20:18,285 --> 00:20:19,743 Please help me. 172 00:20:42,285 --> 00:20:46,361 14 and a half seconds, Pierrepoint. Most satisfactory. 173 00:20:46,410 --> 00:20:48,200 Thank you, sir. 174 00:20:48,244 --> 00:20:50,993 I do try to take a pride in my work. 175 00:20:51,035 --> 00:20:54,567 - I don't believe there's a quicker man on the list. - I'm sure there is not. 176 00:20:56,202 --> 00:20:57,446 Oh, no. 177 00:20:58,994 --> 00:21:03,402 Now, am I mistaken, or did the prisoner speak on the scaffold? 178 00:21:03,452 --> 00:21:05,359 Not that I was aware of, sir. 179 00:21:06,494 --> 00:21:09,196 Funny. I thought I heard her say something. 180 00:21:10,077 --> 00:21:10,776 No, sir. 181 00:21:13,785 --> 00:21:16,570 - She did say something, didn't she? - Aye. 182 00:21:18,244 --> 00:21:19,902 She asked for her god. 183 00:21:22,202 --> 00:21:25,283 That's nowt to do with me or anybody else. 184 00:21:28,369 --> 00:21:31,236 It's between her and her executioner. 185 00:21:35,619 --> 00:21:37,325 When I walk into that cell... 186 00:21:38,494 --> 00:21:40,568 ... I leave Albert Pierrepoint outside. 187 00:21:41,410 --> 00:21:43,069 I never mix the two. 188 00:21:43,827 --> 00:21:46,067 You have to be clear about these things. 189 00:21:48,494 --> 00:21:51,694 People are always wondering whether it's possible to take a life, 190 00:21:51,744 --> 00:21:53,367 and it not affect you. 191 00:21:54,244 --> 00:21:56,281 Written bloody books on it. 192 00:21:56,327 --> 00:21:59,076 - What do they say? - I don't know. 193 00:22:00,494 --> 00:22:02,070 It's not me taking their life. 194 00:22:07,577 --> 00:22:11,073 It's the government wants these people executed, not you or me. 195 00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:15,365 It's the way I see it. 196 00:22:16,910 --> 00:22:19,861 I never concern myself with what they've done. 197 00:22:20,202 --> 00:22:22,027 It doesn't matter to me. 198 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:24,488 Right, bring her down. 199 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:32,566 Grand. Right... 200 00:22:45,202 --> 00:22:46,481 Nice and clean. 201 00:22:48,244 --> 00:22:50,116 Second and third vertebrae. 202 00:22:51,244 --> 00:22:53,567 You see, we don't hurt 'em, Kirky. 203 00:22:54,535 --> 00:22:55,566 Instant. 204 00:22:56,910 --> 00:22:58,782 A professional job, well done. 205 00:23:00,494 --> 00:23:02,152 She wouldn't have felt anything. 206 00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:05,819 Right, lower her down. 207 00:23:08,494 --> 00:23:10,366 That's it, that's it. All right. 208 00:23:10,619 --> 00:23:12,491 Right, take it away. 209 00:23:29,702 --> 00:23:32,321 It's not so much the execution. 210 00:23:32,369 --> 00:23:34,739 It's this bit I hate, Albert. 211 00:23:34,785 --> 00:23:37,356 Why can't someone from the mortuary do this? 212 00:23:37,410 --> 00:23:39,366 Because they wouldn't take care of her. 213 00:23:40,827 --> 00:23:42,071 She paid the price. 214 00:23:44,494 --> 00:23:45,951 She's innocent now. 215 00:23:57,785 --> 00:23:59,693 - Good evening, Albert. - Aye, aye. 216 00:24:01,410 --> 00:24:03,366 Excuse me, lad. 217 00:24:03,410 --> 00:24:05,816 - Hello, love. - Are you gonna sing for us? 218 00:24:05,869 --> 00:24:08,073 - Give us a chance. I'm parched. - Over here. 219 00:24:08,702 --> 00:24:11,273 - Hello, Tosh. - Hello, Tish lad. 220 00:24:12,077 --> 00:24:15,028 - Hello, Wack. - I didn't think we were gonna see you tonight. 221 00:24:15,077 --> 00:24:17,364 I nearly didn't make it. I've had a busy day. 222 00:24:17,577 --> 00:24:19,864 Couldn't find us a tin of Spam off your lorry? 223 00:24:19,910 --> 00:24:23,774 Of course. It's just a matter of timing and temperature, Percy. 224 00:24:23,910 --> 00:24:25,368 When hell bloody freezes over. 225 00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:30,033 Get that down you. Get the old vocal chords loosened up. 226 00:24:32,035 --> 00:24:34,489 Right, then, Tish lad, let me have a little think. 227 00:24:34,785 --> 00:24:37,155 I like to think about things, Tosh. 228 00:24:37,202 --> 00:24:39,489 Do you know what I thought about the other day? 229 00:24:39,535 --> 00:24:42,320 What if a person's brains was made of gunpowder? 230 00:24:43,660 --> 00:24:45,153 You thought about that, Tish? 231 00:24:45,202 --> 00:24:48,864 Yes, I did, and then I stopped thinking about it in case it were true. 232 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:53,068 Well, I wouldn't worry, Tish lad. 233 00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:55,489 There's not enough in there to blow your hat off. 234 00:24:56,327 --> 00:24:57,736 How about this one? 235 00:24:59,369 --> 00:25:00,447 236 00:25:01,744 --> 00:25:03,201 237 00:25:03,744 --> 00:25:05,569 238 00:25:05,619 --> 00:25:07,609 239 00:25:07,744 --> 00:25:09,651 240 00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:11,991 241 00:25:12,577 --> 00:25:15,361 242 00:25:17,535 --> 00:25:19,775 243 00:25:19,827 --> 00:25:21,106 244 00:25:22,035 --> 00:25:25,366 245 00:25:26,535 --> 00:25:28,526 246 00:25:28,577 --> 00:25:30,532 247 00:25:30,577 --> 00:25:32,568 248 00:25:33,910 --> 00:25:35,190 Turn your eyes away. 249 00:25:45,535 --> 00:25:48,866 - You didn't tell me you could sing. - Jessie. You came. 250 00:25:48,910 --> 00:25:49,989 Said I would, didn't I? 251 00:25:50,035 --> 00:25:52,358 Yeah, I'm so glad you came. 252 00:25:53,202 --> 00:25:54,860 Isn't she lovely, Tosh? 253 00:25:55,702 --> 00:25:57,989 - This is Jessie Kelly, my... - Acquaintance. 254 00:25:58,035 --> 00:25:59,030 Yes. 255 00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:01,654 And this is Tosh, my partner in crime. 256 00:26:02,494 --> 00:26:04,531 - Pleased to meet you. - And you. 257 00:26:05,327 --> 00:26:06,606 What can I get you? 258 00:26:06,660 --> 00:26:09,327 No, you're all right. I get my own drinks. 259 00:26:10,035 --> 00:26:13,033 You stay here with your pals. Making whoopee. 260 00:27:05,952 --> 00:27:06,982 Oh, God. 261 00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:24,443 - What's that with the bandages? - Suicide bid. 262 00:27:24,494 --> 00:27:27,196 Smashed his arm through a window, slashed his wrist. 263 00:27:28,035 --> 00:27:30,109 He's in here for killing his girlfriend. 264 00:27:30,994 --> 00:27:33,364 Says he just wants to get it over and done with. 265 00:27:35,660 --> 00:27:37,450 Well... 266 00:27:37,494 --> 00:27:39,070 we'll do our best, Georgie. 267 00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:40,197 5ft 6. 268 00:27:41,577 --> 00:27:44,244 I was assistant to Duggie Ford on my last job. 269 00:27:44,327 --> 00:27:46,318 Oh, aye? That's it. 270 00:27:50,244 --> 00:27:51,274 Yeah. 271 00:27:52,327 --> 00:27:54,365 Geezer in Strangeways. 272 00:27:54,410 --> 00:27:57,574 - Gangland murder. - How'd it go? 273 00:27:57,619 --> 00:27:59,325 Not too bad. 274 00:27:59,369 --> 00:28:02,071 A bit jittery was Ford. But he done all right. 275 00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:05,449 Fast with it. They said 16 seconds after. 276 00:28:07,244 --> 00:28:08,902 Right. 277 00:28:08,952 --> 00:28:11,156 Here's the sandbag. 278 00:28:11,202 --> 00:28:12,908 Let it stretch overnight. 279 00:28:13,952 --> 00:28:17,483 Reckons he's in with a shout of being number one, does old Fordy. 280 00:28:19,035 --> 00:28:20,493 Does he, now? 281 00:28:21,494 --> 00:28:23,484 Now, pay attention, Georgie. 282 00:28:24,702 --> 00:28:26,492 Tomorrow morning, 283 00:28:26,535 --> 00:28:29,154 I'm going to pull this pin half out. 284 00:28:30,910 --> 00:28:33,364 But just enough to make it catch. 285 00:28:33,410 --> 00:28:35,946 It'll make it easy to whip it out quickly. 286 00:28:36,910 --> 00:28:39,150 So I want you off them traps like lightning. 287 00:28:39,202 --> 00:28:43,527 I'll be quick for you, Albert, I promise. We're a good partnership, aren't we? 288 00:28:45,119 --> 00:28:47,405 I want to bust 13 seconds tomorrow, Georgie. 289 00:28:53,744 --> 00:28:55,616 That was my father's average. 290 00:30:45,452 --> 00:30:47,941 Seven and a half seconds. That's a record. 291 00:30:54,410 --> 00:30:58,356 I don't mind telling you, Pierrepoint, I don't think there's a better man in the country. 292 00:31:01,535 --> 00:31:03,325 Thank you, sir. 293 00:31:31,244 --> 00:31:33,318 Seven and a half seconds, Georgie. 294 00:31:35,119 --> 00:31:39,361 Never seen anything like it... in the history of capital punishment. 295 00:31:40,577 --> 00:31:44,192 I don't think Ford or any of the other buggers will be getting a look in now. 296 00:31:45,869 --> 00:31:47,445 All I can say is, Georgie... 297 00:31:52,702 --> 00:31:54,776 ... your fella Maximovsky got his wish. 298 00:32:09,202 --> 00:32:10,232 They're off. 299 00:32:14,452 --> 00:32:15,482 Flanagan here. 300 00:32:16,369 --> 00:32:19,367 - What the devil are you doing? - I don't know. He won't go. 301 00:32:19,410 --> 00:32:21,484 You couldn't ride a rocking horse. 302 00:32:21,535 --> 00:32:23,609 I'll make you apologise for that, you cad. 303 00:32:25,660 --> 00:32:29,275 Neck and neck, 30 yards to go. Ten yards to go. At the post, Canteen wins. 304 00:32:29,327 --> 00:32:30,524 Well, what did I tell you. 305 00:32:31,910 --> 00:32:34,861 Magnificent, Flanagan. I apologise for everything I said. 306 00:32:56,119 --> 00:32:59,033 The Belsen war criminals arrive at L�neburg for trial. 307 00:33:00,119 --> 00:33:03,401 Their faces give little clue to what they're thinking. 308 00:33:03,452 --> 00:33:06,983 Last out of the lorry is Josef Kramer, the Beast of Belsen. 309 00:33:07,952 --> 00:33:10,701 The calm orderliness of the scene contrasts violently 310 00:33:10,744 --> 00:33:13,363 with the ghastly pictures which shocked the country 311 00:33:13,410 --> 00:33:15,615 when they were shown in British newsreels. 312 00:33:18,994 --> 00:33:22,157 More than four million men, women and children 313 00:33:22,202 --> 00:33:25,200 were scientifically murdered by gassing. 314 00:33:25,910 --> 00:33:29,739 In this camp, the SS women, led by Irma Grese, 315 00:33:29,785 --> 00:33:33,151 had their victims torn to pieces by savage dogs. 316 00:33:34,035 --> 00:33:37,567 Pregnant women went straight to the gas chamber. 317 00:33:37,619 --> 00:33:39,858 Everything done with hideous precision. 318 00:33:39,910 --> 00:33:43,774 The prisoners have been provided with Allied officers as defence council. 319 00:33:43,827 --> 00:33:48,401 Next to Kramer sits Doctor Fritz Klein, German medical officer at Belsen, 320 00:33:48,452 --> 00:33:50,407 a man with a loaded conscience. 321 00:33:50,744 --> 00:33:53,446 After 12 years of Nazi thuggery, 322 00:33:53,494 --> 00:33:56,859 one wonders what the Germans think of British justice. 323 00:33:56,910 --> 00:33:59,197 They may well mistake fairness for weakness. 324 00:34:13,410 --> 00:34:16,444 - Hello, Tosh. - Hello, Tish. 325 00:34:16,494 --> 00:34:19,610 Annie, this is Tish, that young songbird I was telling you about. 326 00:34:19,660 --> 00:34:21,781 - Very pleased to meet you. - How do you do? 327 00:34:23,994 --> 00:34:25,534 Did you enjoy the flick, then? 328 00:34:25,577 --> 00:34:27,367 Aye. It was very comical, wasn't it? 329 00:34:27,410 --> 00:34:31,534 Aye. You've got to laugh, haven't you? They're my favourite, The Crazy Gang. 330 00:34:31,577 --> 00:34:34,943 I don't know why. Grown men playing silly buggers, if you ask me. 331 00:34:36,869 --> 00:34:40,317 I'm sorry, Mrs Pierrepoint. This is Jessie, my lady friend. 332 00:34:40,369 --> 00:34:43,071 Yes, yes, we've met before. 333 00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:48,360 Well, perhaps you'd like to join us? We're going for a drink. 334 00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:53,403 - Well, aye... - I think we have to be getting back, really. 335 00:34:53,494 --> 00:34:54,442 Aye. 336 00:34:54,494 --> 00:34:56,366 Well, maybe another time, then, eh? 337 00:34:59,202 --> 00:35:02,070 - Or maybe not. - Don't be like that, Jessie. 338 00:35:02,119 --> 00:35:05,319 I don't know why you're creeping round them. They've no time for you. 339 00:35:05,369 --> 00:35:07,276 Well, I've no time for them. 340 00:35:08,285 --> 00:35:09,031 Jessie. 341 00:35:12,494 --> 00:35:13,524 Jessie. 342 00:35:14,535 --> 00:35:17,071 Talk about brazen. 343 00:35:17,119 --> 00:35:19,156 Just walking out with him, bold as brass. 344 00:35:19,244 --> 00:35:23,284 - It's nothing to do with us, is it? - Oh, it's not right, Albert. 345 00:35:23,327 --> 00:35:26,693 I mean, she's got a husband and two children. 346 00:35:26,744 --> 00:35:28,367 It's not right. 347 00:35:40,119 --> 00:35:41,149 Annie? 348 00:35:42,410 --> 00:35:43,868 Are you awake? 349 00:35:45,785 --> 00:35:47,776 What is it, love? 350 00:35:50,535 --> 00:35:52,526 Well, it's just... 351 00:35:54,660 --> 00:35:56,532 ... something I want to tell you. 352 00:35:58,952 --> 00:36:01,619 Can it not wait till morning? 353 00:36:01,660 --> 00:36:03,319 No, it's important. 354 00:36:09,285 --> 00:36:11,027 It's about what I do... 355 00:36:12,577 --> 00:36:14,283 ... when I go away. 356 00:36:15,077 --> 00:36:16,735 You know, the letters. 357 00:36:20,994 --> 00:36:22,700 I know what you do, Albert. 358 00:36:25,952 --> 00:36:28,026 - You know that... - I worked it out. 359 00:36:31,369 --> 00:36:33,276 Why didn't you say? 360 00:36:36,952 --> 00:36:38,824 Well, I... 361 00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:42,151 ... I wanted to hear it from you. 362 00:37:25,577 --> 00:37:27,568 Ah, Pierrepoint. 363 00:37:29,285 --> 00:37:32,532 I suppose you're wondering why you've been dragged down to London. 364 00:37:32,577 --> 00:37:34,118 It had crossed my mind, sir, yes. 365 00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:36,614 I'm afraid you'll have to blame the Field Marshal. 366 00:37:36,660 --> 00:37:38,947 Pierrepoint, this is Field Marshal Montgomery. 367 00:37:39,952 --> 00:37:42,108 No. Monty? 368 00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:44,566 - Aye. - What did he say? 369 00:37:44,660 --> 00:37:46,118 Well... 370 00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:48,198 He said... 371 00:37:48,244 --> 00:37:50,483 He looked me in the eye, and he said, 372 00:37:50,535 --> 00:37:55,773 "The eyes of the world are on us, Mr Pierrepoint. After what the Nazis... " 373 00:37:55,827 --> 00:37:57,948 After what the Nazis did at Belsen, 374 00:37:57,994 --> 00:37:59,901 I think it's important to show 375 00:37:59,952 --> 00:38:03,448 that British justice is firm but fair. 376 00:38:03,994 --> 00:38:05,819 Now, I'm reliably informed 377 00:38:05,869 --> 00:38:09,281 that you're the very best we have in your particular field. 378 00:38:09,327 --> 00:38:11,567 Did he say that? 379 00:38:11,619 --> 00:38:13,111 Did he really? He did? 380 00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:15,731 Did he actually say you are the best man? 381 00:38:15,785 --> 00:38:16,484 Aye. 382 00:38:16,535 --> 00:38:20,611 The Russians would put them up against a wall, of that I've no doubt. 383 00:38:20,660 --> 00:38:23,528 The Americans apparently strangle the buggers, 384 00:38:23,577 --> 00:38:27,239 leave them dangling on the end of a rope for half an hour. 385 00:38:27,285 --> 00:38:32,108 But I understand that you adopt a more sophisticated method, Mr Pierrepoint. 386 00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:34,483 Well, I must get some starch for your collars. 387 00:38:34,535 --> 00:38:37,866 And I might have saved up enough coupons for a new pair of shoes. 388 00:38:37,910 --> 00:38:40,695 I've a system of variable drops, sir. 389 00:38:40,744 --> 00:38:44,275 Separation of the second and third vertebrae results in instant death. 390 00:38:44,327 --> 00:38:46,650 And you can guarantee that, 391 00:38:46,702 --> 00:38:47,864 in every instance? 392 00:38:48,244 --> 00:38:50,649 Yes, sir, I believe I can. 393 00:38:51,619 --> 00:38:54,451 Well, you're the man for me, Mr Pierrepoint. 394 00:38:54,494 --> 00:38:55,821 I want the world to know 395 00:38:55,869 --> 00:39:01,024 that our executions are the most efficient and the most humane. 396 00:39:01,952 --> 00:39:05,234 And you're a very important part of that plan. 397 00:39:05,285 --> 00:39:06,778 And what did you say? 398 00:39:06,827 --> 00:39:11,449 I told him I was busy with my grocery deliveries, but if I could find... 399 00:39:11,494 --> 00:39:12,275 Albert! 400 00:39:12,827 --> 00:39:14,983 What do you think I said? I told him... 401 00:39:16,994 --> 00:39:19,233 I fly to Germany on Wednesday. 402 00:39:19,285 --> 00:39:21,525 I might be gone for a week to ten days. 403 00:39:23,910 --> 00:39:25,901 Chose me special. 404 00:39:25,952 --> 00:39:26,651 Aye. 405 00:39:26,702 --> 00:39:28,444 This is it, Annie. 406 00:39:31,410 --> 00:39:32,868 I'm number one. 407 00:39:58,410 --> 00:40:00,650 - Mr Pierrepoint. - Aye. 408 00:40:00,702 --> 00:40:02,444 If you'd like to follow me, sir. 409 00:40:12,535 --> 00:40:14,573 Here's the list for Thursday. 410 00:40:19,119 --> 00:40:20,280 Ah. 411 00:40:20,619 --> 00:40:22,989 Pierrepoint, good to see you again. 412 00:40:23,035 --> 00:40:24,445 Governor Paton-Walsh. 413 00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:29,450 I'm sorry, sir, I should say Brigadier. I did wonder when they said the name. 414 00:40:29,494 --> 00:40:32,741 I understand Monty asked for you personally. 415 00:40:32,785 --> 00:40:35,274 I'm sure I was just the first one on the list, sir. 416 00:40:35,327 --> 00:40:37,614 Yes. Well, look... 417 00:40:37,660 --> 00:40:42,234 We've had the gallows constructed to Home Office specifications, 418 00:40:42,285 --> 00:40:43,613 as you've requested. 419 00:40:44,327 --> 00:40:48,984 And here's the list of tomorrow's condemned prisoners. 420 00:40:53,869 --> 00:40:58,360 Don't know what we'd have made of this back in civvy street, eh, Pierrepoint? 421 00:40:58,410 --> 00:41:00,318 13 in one day? 422 00:41:01,410 --> 00:41:05,819 I'm sorry. I'm not with you, sir. I thought we had a week to do this job. 423 00:41:06,202 --> 00:41:10,148 Well, yes, but there are different batches each day. 424 00:41:11,994 --> 00:41:15,110 Well, how many others are there, sir? 425 00:41:17,327 --> 00:41:19,994 47 in total. 426 00:41:20,535 --> 00:41:21,530 47? 427 00:41:21,577 --> 00:41:23,449 And that's just this week. 428 00:41:24,244 --> 00:41:27,111 I'm afraid you'll find them coming thick and fast 429 00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:29,993 now that the courts have delivered their verdicts. 430 00:41:32,077 --> 00:41:33,902 Jolly good. 431 00:41:34,369 --> 00:41:38,197 Lieutenant Llewelyn here has been assigned to act as your assistant, 432 00:41:38,244 --> 00:41:39,950 and he'll show you to your quarters. 433 00:41:40,994 --> 00:41:44,075 - Shall I take these for you, sir? - No, I'll hold on to that one. 434 00:41:44,119 --> 00:41:45,149 Thank you, sir. 435 00:42:02,452 --> 00:42:04,324 It is rather a lot, isn't it, sir? 436 00:42:06,994 --> 00:42:08,901 13 in one day. 437 00:42:08,952 --> 00:42:11,239 What Monty has asked for, Monty will get. 438 00:42:23,660 --> 00:42:27,322 The big fellow to the right, that's Kramer. 439 00:42:27,369 --> 00:42:28,826 Commandant of Belsen. 440 00:42:29,994 --> 00:42:33,359 He used to stand on his balcony and take pot shots at the poor buggers for fun. 441 00:42:34,827 --> 00:42:37,611 A little behind him, older fellow... 442 00:42:37,660 --> 00:42:39,283 that's Fritz Klein. 443 00:42:39,327 --> 00:42:42,740 Doctor Death, we call him. Did all the experiments. 444 00:42:42,785 --> 00:42:45,108 The young woman to the right, 445 00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:47,649 that's Irma Grese. 446 00:42:47,702 --> 00:42:51,482 Used to walk round the camp with a bullwhip. Witnesses saw her using... 447 00:42:51,535 --> 00:42:53,822 Now, listen to me, Lieutenant. 448 00:42:55,369 --> 00:42:59,197 We're not interested, understand? We don't care what they've done. 449 00:42:59,244 --> 00:43:03,107 They're human beings, and they've got to die. That's all we need to know. 450 00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:05,945 When you're working with me, you concentrate on height, 451 00:43:05,994 --> 00:43:08,364 weight, and physical condition. 452 00:43:08,410 --> 00:43:11,657 That way we get the job done quickly and efficiently. 453 00:43:12,494 --> 00:43:13,572 Yes, sir. 454 00:43:22,535 --> 00:43:24,158 196lb. 455 00:43:27,244 --> 00:43:28,274 Irma Grese. 456 00:43:40,327 --> 00:43:41,701 Five three. 457 00:43:43,452 --> 00:43:45,656 You do the Jews' work for them. 458 00:43:52,035 --> 00:43:54,026 113lb. 459 00:43:58,744 --> 00:44:00,402 That's the last of them. 460 00:44:03,994 --> 00:44:07,774 I'm supposed to let them hang for an hour before we take them down. 461 00:44:07,827 --> 00:44:10,778 Have to cut that back to 20 minutes, or we'll never get it done. 462 00:44:12,327 --> 00:44:15,574 We'll double up with the men, but do the women first, one at a time. 463 00:44:16,827 --> 00:44:20,951 - Start with her. - Yes. Arrogant bitch. 464 00:44:21,910 --> 00:44:23,368 She's the youngest. 465 00:44:24,952 --> 00:44:26,824 She'll be the most frightened. 466 00:44:43,994 --> 00:44:45,024 Irma Grese. 467 00:44:51,952 --> 00:44:53,196 Follow me. 468 00:45:33,994 --> 00:45:37,525 Right, gentlemen, we'll reassemble in 20 minutes. 469 00:46:44,910 --> 00:46:47,659 Strange. I thought this would be a piece of cake. 470 00:46:49,494 --> 00:46:51,568 After what these people have done. 471 00:46:54,827 --> 00:46:58,358 Lining someone up in your sights, and pulling the trigger... 472 00:47:00,285 --> 00:47:01,778 ... was one thing. 473 00:47:03,410 --> 00:47:05,899 But standing with them on the gallows... 474 00:47:07,035 --> 00:47:09,109 ... both knowing what's going to happen... 475 00:47:16,577 --> 00:47:19,244 I think it's the knowing that's the worst part of it. 476 00:47:20,744 --> 00:47:23,362 The absolute certainty that they're going to die. 477 00:47:26,202 --> 00:47:28,074 Seeing it in their eyes. 478 00:47:37,952 --> 00:47:39,990 Still, it's like you said. 479 00:47:41,410 --> 00:47:43,282 It's not really us in here, is it? 480 00:47:44,244 --> 00:47:45,274 Aye. 481 00:47:46,785 --> 00:47:48,243 That's right, lad. 482 00:47:57,619 --> 00:47:59,491 Time for a brew? 483 00:48:01,910 --> 00:48:04,743 No, we don't want to fall behind. 484 00:49:40,285 --> 00:49:41,316 Right... 485 00:49:43,952 --> 00:49:46,701 Fetch the last coffin in, that's us done. 486 00:49:47,285 --> 00:49:51,361 There's no more left, sir. Bit of a breakdown in communication. 487 00:49:53,702 --> 00:49:56,025 - How do you mean? - There's no more coffins. 488 00:49:56,410 --> 00:49:58,235 They said just to stretcher him out. 489 00:49:58,285 --> 00:50:00,276 Tip him into the ground as he is. 490 00:50:02,452 --> 00:50:04,359 No. 491 00:50:04,410 --> 00:50:06,152 No, no, no, no, that's not right. 492 00:50:07,077 --> 00:50:09,566 There are 13 prisoners. There should be 13 coffins. 493 00:50:10,660 --> 00:50:13,362 No, I'm... I'm not having it. 494 00:50:16,077 --> 00:50:17,783 13th day of the month... 495 00:50:17,827 --> 00:50:19,320 13 prisoners... 496 00:50:19,369 --> 00:50:20,992 13 witnesses... 497 00:50:21,035 --> 00:50:22,777 I'm not having it at all. 498 00:50:23,535 --> 00:50:27,576 This man has paid the price, do you understand? He's atoned for his sins. 499 00:50:28,910 --> 00:50:32,323 What's left of him should be treated with gentle dignity. Do you see? 500 00:50:34,244 --> 00:50:37,111 Yes, sir. I'll... go and sort another coffin. 501 00:50:38,619 --> 00:50:40,111 Aye, you do that, lad. 502 00:51:22,660 --> 00:51:24,118 Mr Pierrepoint? 503 00:51:25,660 --> 00:51:26,691 Mr Pierrepoint. 504 00:51:27,410 --> 00:51:28,986 Jack Ellis, Daily Sketch. 505 00:51:29,035 --> 00:51:32,697 Can you tell us about your time over in Germany? How many did you drop? 506 00:51:32,744 --> 00:51:34,450 - You what? - The Belsen mob. 507 00:51:34,494 --> 00:51:36,698 Did they have any last words on the gallows? 508 00:51:37,077 --> 00:51:39,198 Have you got a message for our readers? 509 00:51:39,244 --> 00:51:40,985 No, I bloody haven't. Now hop it. 510 00:51:49,452 --> 00:51:51,194 Is that you, love? 511 00:51:51,244 --> 00:51:54,775 Love, there's a reporter out there, and a fella taking photographs. 512 00:51:54,827 --> 00:51:57,232 Yes, I know, I know. 513 00:51:57,285 --> 00:52:01,528 They've been there a couple of days, asking when you'd be back, and... 514 00:52:01,577 --> 00:52:04,610 - And you've been on the wireless. - How do you mean? 515 00:52:04,660 --> 00:52:08,357 Mentioned you by name. Albert Pierrepoint, they said. 516 00:52:08,410 --> 00:52:11,444 - What have they been saying? - Oh, you know, where you've been, 517 00:52:12,119 --> 00:52:14,109 what you've been doing, and... 518 00:52:14,994 --> 00:52:18,490 You've been in the papers too, loads of times. I've kept them for you. 519 00:52:21,327 --> 00:52:23,732 Well, that isn't right. 520 00:52:23,785 --> 00:52:25,326 No, no, no, no, no... 521 00:52:26,702 --> 00:52:28,444 That isn't right at all, no. 522 00:52:28,952 --> 00:52:31,156 Good luck to you, Mr Pierrepoint. 523 00:52:33,119 --> 00:52:35,109 Keep up the good work, Albert. 524 00:52:35,160 --> 00:52:38,491 String them all up, I say. Nazi swine. 525 00:52:41,494 --> 00:52:43,615 - Hip. Hip. - Hooray. 526 00:52:45,494 --> 00:52:47,947 527 00:52:48,369 --> 00:52:50,655 528 00:52:50,952 --> 00:52:54,448 529 00:52:54,494 --> 00:52:56,449 530 00:53:01,785 --> 00:53:02,816 Cheers. 531 00:53:04,077 --> 00:53:05,107 So... 532 00:53:06,494 --> 00:53:08,070 how's it going, then? 533 00:53:08,119 --> 00:53:10,524 You know, with your lady friend. 534 00:53:12,244 --> 00:53:15,277 Over. Well, I finished it with her. 535 00:53:17,369 --> 00:53:20,118 Yeah, she was messing me about. 536 00:53:21,244 --> 00:53:23,614 Devastated she was, when I told her. 537 00:53:23,994 --> 00:53:25,735 Said I was everything to her. 538 00:53:26,619 --> 00:53:29,107 I bought her a diamond ring and everything. 539 00:53:29,619 --> 00:53:31,360 Cost me a month's wages, but... 540 00:53:32,244 --> 00:53:34,530 But I broke it off, because... 541 00:53:34,577 --> 00:53:36,283 she was messing me about. 542 00:53:37,660 --> 00:53:41,489 Well, there's only so much that you can put up with, isn't there? 543 00:53:47,244 --> 00:53:48,902 Look at that. 544 00:53:49,494 --> 00:53:51,034 It's not right, Annie. 545 00:53:52,660 --> 00:53:56,108 What I do is private. Now everybody knows about it. 546 00:53:57,910 --> 00:54:01,157 I'm not comfortable with it. It's not how it's done. 547 00:54:05,577 --> 00:54:08,112 No, I've been thinking, love. 548 00:54:08,160 --> 00:54:10,614 I've done my duty. 549 00:54:10,660 --> 00:54:12,402 Maybe it's time to give it up. 550 00:54:16,327 --> 00:54:19,693 I think you're right. I think you should give it up. 551 00:54:19,744 --> 00:54:23,737 You've always said you don't get enough respect delivering groceries. 552 00:54:23,785 --> 00:54:27,482 - No, but I meant, you know... - I know what you meant, love. 553 00:54:27,535 --> 00:54:29,526 But just listen to me for a minute, will you? 554 00:54:38,202 --> 00:54:41,817 This money that you brought back from Germany... 555 00:54:42,702 --> 00:54:47,075 Well, with what we've got already, there's nearly �300 here. 556 00:54:47,119 --> 00:54:49,156 You're not to touch that. 557 00:54:49,202 --> 00:54:52,698 Listen, you've always said you wanted to be your own boss, haven't you? 558 00:54:53,285 --> 00:54:55,157 Well, now is your chance. 559 00:54:55,244 --> 00:54:59,700 The lease on The Struggler is up in two months. I telephoned the brewery. 560 00:55:00,160 --> 00:55:03,277 We could set ourselves up nicely there with this. 561 00:55:04,202 --> 00:55:07,615 - We've no experience of running a pub. - Well... 562 00:55:07,660 --> 00:55:09,817 We could make a go of it, I know we could. 563 00:55:09,869 --> 00:55:12,701 We might fall flat on our faces. We've no idea how to... 564 00:55:12,744 --> 00:55:14,865 how to drum up custom or anything. 565 00:55:14,910 --> 00:55:18,027 Oh, well, I think there's a few people out there 566 00:55:18,910 --> 00:55:22,572 who'd like to buy a pint off the man who hanged the Beast of Belsen. 567 00:55:23,327 --> 00:55:24,357 Don't you? 568 00:55:58,660 --> 00:56:00,319 Hasn't stopped rabbiting, Evans. 569 00:56:02,410 --> 00:56:03,868 Night and day, 570 00:56:04,535 --> 00:56:05,993 on and on... 571 00:56:06,994 --> 00:56:09,150 about how it was some other fella done it. 572 00:56:13,035 --> 00:56:14,777 He can't face it. 573 00:56:17,077 --> 00:56:19,233 Strangled his own daughter. 574 00:56:19,285 --> 00:56:22,153 Yeah, and buried her in the wash house. 575 00:56:24,702 --> 00:56:26,444 And now he can't face it. 576 00:56:40,452 --> 00:56:41,993 Mr Pierrepoint. 577 00:56:42,827 --> 00:56:46,240 Really and truly, I'm in here for something I never done. 578 00:56:46,285 --> 00:56:49,118 All right. Follow me. 579 00:56:57,285 --> 00:57:00,118 I think it was probably Christie what done it. 580 00:57:10,077 --> 00:57:14,367 ... the death sentence. Abolish capital punishment. 581 00:57:15,035 --> 00:57:15,865 Hear! Hear! 582 00:57:19,410 --> 00:57:21,816 It's Pierrepoint, the murderer. 583 00:57:21,869 --> 00:57:23,326 There. There. 584 00:57:24,702 --> 00:57:26,693 May God forgive you. 585 00:58:56,452 --> 00:58:58,443 Here he is. Here's the guv'nor. 586 00:59:00,160 --> 00:59:02,151 All right, Albert. 587 00:59:10,869 --> 00:59:12,148 What's up with old Tish? 588 00:59:13,369 --> 00:59:16,118 I don't know. He's been like that all evening. 589 00:59:18,119 --> 00:59:20,275 Two pints, and a whisky and ginger. 590 00:59:20,327 --> 00:59:22,152 Righto. 591 00:59:24,369 --> 00:59:25,826 What are all those? 592 00:59:26,702 --> 00:59:28,159 They're for you. 593 00:59:28,202 --> 00:59:30,489 They've been buying them for you all night. 594 00:59:30,869 --> 00:59:34,116 - I couldn't drink all those. What'll I do with them? - Sell 'em. 595 00:59:34,785 --> 00:59:37,452 - Whisky and ginger was it, love? - That's it, thanks. 596 00:59:39,119 --> 00:59:41,737 Hey, Tosh. Come on, Tosh, give us a song, man. 597 00:59:41,785 --> 00:59:43,906 How about it, Tish lad, eh? 598 00:59:43,952 --> 00:59:45,742 Mind your backs. 599 00:59:49,785 --> 00:59:51,527 I'll give you a song. 600 00:59:54,994 --> 00:59:57,150 601 00:59:58,327 --> 01:00:02,024 602 01:00:03,410 --> 01:00:06,693 603 01:00:06,744 --> 01:00:11,033 604 01:00:12,369 --> 01:00:16,576 605 01:00:16,660 --> 01:00:20,322 606 01:00:21,327 --> 01:00:23,448 607 01:00:24,452 --> 01:00:30,282 608 01:00:39,077 --> 01:00:41,068 Come on, lad, let's do 'em a number. 609 01:00:41,119 --> 01:00:44,033 We'll give them a giggle. What do you fancy doing, eh? 610 01:00:44,077 --> 01:00:45,486 Come on. 611 01:00:45,535 --> 01:00:47,526 Liven up, come on. 612 01:00:54,660 --> 01:00:55,940 Steady, lad. 613 01:00:55,994 --> 01:00:57,700 Gin and tonic. 614 01:01:04,577 --> 01:01:05,821 Jessie? 615 01:01:05,869 --> 01:01:08,820 - Oh, God, here he is. - This is him, yes? 616 01:01:09,369 --> 01:01:10,945 You're to keep away from her. 617 01:01:11,869 --> 01:01:13,658 She doesn't want you hanging around, 618 01:01:13,702 --> 01:01:17,150 following her, staring at her window, OK? 619 01:01:17,202 --> 01:01:19,109 You keep away from her. 620 01:01:19,160 --> 01:01:22,111 - She's with me now. - I'm going away with him. 621 01:01:22,160 --> 01:01:25,324 Me and t'kids. Somewhere you won't be able to follow us. 622 01:01:25,369 --> 01:01:26,778 Keep your hands off her. 623 01:01:26,827 --> 01:01:28,533 I love you, Jessie. 624 01:01:28,577 --> 01:01:30,864 Right, come on, now. That's enough. 625 01:01:30,910 --> 01:01:33,280 - Any more, I'll have to call the police. - OK. 626 01:01:34,910 --> 01:01:38,774 - He's got the message. - Right, I'd like the two of you out now, please. 627 01:01:38,827 --> 01:01:41,067 I'm not going anywhere. 628 01:01:41,119 --> 01:01:42,991 It's him that's been bothering me. 629 01:01:43,327 --> 01:01:46,325 - He had it coming. - Right, come on, now, love, please. 630 01:01:46,369 --> 01:01:51,073 Get your hands off me. I'm not having them on me after what they've done. 631 01:01:51,119 --> 01:01:53,524 Right. That's it. Out. 632 01:01:54,077 --> 01:01:55,570 I don't know how you stand it. 633 01:01:55,660 --> 01:01:57,118 Him touching you. 634 01:01:58,077 --> 01:02:00,281 They're covered in blood, his hands. 635 01:02:00,910 --> 01:02:02,486 That's what they are. 636 01:02:04,952 --> 01:02:06,326 Filthy with it, both of you. 637 01:02:18,910 --> 01:02:21,031 I even prayed to God the other night. 638 01:02:23,202 --> 01:02:26,366 Just to give me some peace. 639 01:02:27,494 --> 01:02:29,817 To stop me thinking about her. 640 01:02:29,869 --> 01:02:33,909 Best thing all round is to try and forget it. 641 01:02:33,952 --> 01:02:35,231 Yeah. 642 01:02:36,994 --> 01:02:40,157 Do you know what I admire about you? 643 01:02:41,160 --> 01:02:43,649 It's your strength of character. 644 01:02:45,160 --> 01:02:47,649 The way you keep things under your hat. 645 01:02:48,994 --> 01:02:51,068 I mean, doing the things you do. 646 01:02:52,577 --> 01:02:54,034 Bearing that load. 647 01:02:55,327 --> 01:02:57,862 And nobody would have guessed a thing. 648 01:03:02,452 --> 01:03:04,324 It's not been easy. 649 01:03:05,619 --> 01:03:08,901 I've got things in here too that I'd rather they weren't there. 650 01:03:09,619 --> 01:03:14,110 Oh, aye, I can keep them at bay, yeah. 651 01:03:14,160 --> 01:03:15,902 But they're waiting for me. 652 01:03:17,702 --> 01:03:21,648 Waiting for me to let my guard down. Waiting all the bloody time they are. 653 01:03:29,202 --> 01:03:31,074 I did a lot of jobs in Germany. 654 01:03:33,702 --> 01:03:35,574 More than were really good for me. 655 01:03:38,452 --> 01:03:40,443 Too many, really. 656 01:03:43,619 --> 01:03:46,368 I get so bloody tired now. 657 01:03:46,410 --> 01:03:47,441 Albert? 658 01:03:47,494 --> 01:03:49,484 Hm? 659 01:03:53,160 --> 01:03:54,191 But... 660 01:03:55,410 --> 01:03:58,444 I don't let things bother me. Oh, no, no. 661 01:03:58,494 --> 01:04:00,319 No, I sleep like a baby, don't I, Annie? 662 01:04:00,369 --> 01:04:02,359 - Mm. - Aye. 663 01:04:07,660 --> 01:04:09,485 I'd best be going. 664 01:04:09,535 --> 01:04:10,909 Aye. 665 01:04:14,994 --> 01:04:17,660 - Goodnight, Annie. - Night, Tish. 666 01:04:18,119 --> 01:04:19,991 All right. 667 01:04:25,785 --> 01:04:27,527 Night, Tish lad. 668 01:04:38,119 --> 01:04:40,109 Tosh... 669 01:04:40,160 --> 01:04:42,151 I am so sorry. 670 01:05:14,994 --> 01:05:17,529 I've packed your bag for the morning. 671 01:05:17,577 --> 01:05:20,575 Oh, yeah, I saw that. Thanks. Thanks, love, aye. 672 01:05:24,369 --> 01:05:26,655 - So, what did Tish have to say? - Oh... 673 01:05:28,369 --> 01:05:30,027 He was... 674 01:05:33,119 --> 01:05:34,825 ... very apologetic. 675 01:05:35,327 --> 01:05:39,368 So he should be, bringing all that trouble into the pub. 676 01:05:43,660 --> 01:05:45,319 He loves her. 677 01:05:48,910 --> 01:05:49,656 Aye. 678 01:05:52,202 --> 01:05:53,944 He told me so. 679 01:05:58,827 --> 01:06:02,074 There's a record here of a job at Strangeways, 680 01:06:02,577 --> 01:06:04,651 but there's no corresponding payment. 681 01:06:05,327 --> 01:06:07,318 What? 682 01:06:07,369 --> 01:06:10,035 Oh, aye, yeah, it was probably a reprieve, you know. 683 01:06:10,577 --> 01:06:12,449 Happens all the time. 684 01:06:12,494 --> 01:06:15,906 Is there no cancellation fee? 685 01:06:15,952 --> 01:06:18,026 It depends on the prison, you know. 686 01:06:18,994 --> 01:06:21,364 Some prisons pay, and some don't. 687 01:06:21,410 --> 01:06:23,152 Well, that's not fair. 688 01:06:25,535 --> 01:06:28,237 It's not your fault they're reprieved, is it? 689 01:06:28,285 --> 01:06:32,610 What about the inconvenience? Going all that way down there for nothing. 690 01:06:32,660 --> 01:06:34,865 Well, it's only the pub, isn't it? 691 01:06:34,910 --> 01:06:36,451 You cover for me. 692 01:06:36,494 --> 01:06:39,029 Yeah, but they don't know that, do they? 693 01:06:43,994 --> 01:06:46,529 You do a grand job running this place, you know. 694 01:06:47,535 --> 01:06:49,526 No... 695 01:06:51,494 --> 01:06:53,235 I'm really proud of you, Annie. 696 01:06:56,369 --> 01:06:59,900 Albert Pierrepoint. It is you, isn't it? 697 01:07:01,535 --> 01:07:05,150 - I know you from your photographs. - I'm sorry, madam, can I help you? 698 01:07:05,244 --> 01:07:06,701 Oh, dear God. 699 01:07:07,785 --> 01:07:09,029 Please save him. 700 01:07:09,452 --> 01:07:12,485 Please save my boy. They say it's you going to hang him. 701 01:07:12,535 --> 01:07:15,818 - I'm sorry, madam. I can't help you. - Oh, please, Mr Pierrepoint. 702 01:07:16,202 --> 01:07:18,157 Please. He was a good boy, my Jimmy. 703 01:07:18,244 --> 01:07:19,025 Please. 704 01:07:20,160 --> 01:07:22,447 Tell them you're not gonna go through with it. 705 01:07:22,494 --> 01:07:25,029 Sorry, madam. You've got the wrong man. 706 01:07:25,077 --> 01:07:28,028 Please. I can't think how else to save him. 707 01:07:28,327 --> 01:07:29,868 Please, Mr Pierrepoint. 708 01:07:29,910 --> 01:07:32,233 - I'm sorry, madam. - Please. 709 01:07:32,910 --> 01:07:34,486 Please. 710 01:07:35,494 --> 01:07:37,449 Please, Mr Pierrepoint. 711 01:07:37,494 --> 01:07:39,484 Please. 712 01:08:18,994 --> 01:08:22,739 I shall be away on the 27th and the 28th. 713 01:08:22,785 --> 01:08:24,243 Righto, love. 714 01:08:56,494 --> 01:08:59,657 I've had to duck round the other side, you know what I mean? 715 01:09:00,660 --> 01:09:02,651 - Albert. - Georgie. 716 01:09:02,952 --> 01:09:05,405 - Seen the anti-mob outside? - Aye. 717 01:09:05,452 --> 01:09:07,277 They keep coming back for more. 718 01:09:07,327 --> 01:09:11,321 They'll be there tomorrow morning. Don't matter how cold it gets tonight. 719 01:09:12,994 --> 01:09:14,819 I mean, what do they want, Albert? 720 01:09:16,994 --> 01:09:19,031 This fella, Corbitt. 721 01:09:19,077 --> 01:09:20,735 He's took a young woman's life. 722 01:09:20,785 --> 01:09:23,949 He took her to an hotel room and strangled her. 723 01:09:23,994 --> 01:09:26,280 She's never coming back, is she, Albert? 724 01:09:26,327 --> 01:09:28,650 Why would they put up such a fuss on his behalf? 725 01:09:32,327 --> 01:09:35,858 Let them cry and holler as much as they like, Georgie. 726 01:09:35,910 --> 01:09:39,607 You do your job, and I do mine. 727 01:09:39,660 --> 01:09:41,947 And I shall sleep soundly tomorrow, 728 01:09:44,369 --> 01:09:45,612 just like I always do. 729 01:09:46,577 --> 01:09:48,568 Ah, there you are, Pierrepoint. 730 01:09:48,619 --> 01:09:50,076 Governor. 731 01:09:50,119 --> 01:09:52,524 This fellow Corbitt tomorrow... 732 01:09:52,577 --> 01:09:53,904 Sir? 733 01:09:53,952 --> 01:09:55,943 One thing rather queer to relate... 734 01:09:55,994 --> 01:09:58,696 The fact is, he says he knows you. 735 01:10:00,744 --> 01:10:02,118 - Does he? - Yes. 736 01:10:02,160 --> 01:10:03,819 Says he's a friend of yours. 737 01:10:04,619 --> 01:10:08,316 I don't know any James Corbitt, sir. I've never heard the name before. 738 01:10:08,369 --> 01:10:12,066 Since my picture's been in the newspaper, lots of people think they know me. 739 01:10:12,119 --> 01:10:16,942 Only he's getting into rather a state over whether or not you'll acknowledge him tomorrow. 740 01:10:18,619 --> 01:10:19,862 In what way? 741 01:10:19,910 --> 01:10:23,442 Well, on a personal level, I suppose, when you enter the cell. 742 01:10:24,744 --> 01:10:28,405 He says it would mean a great deal to him if you did. 743 01:10:28,452 --> 01:10:30,941 Well, that's... that's not really the way, sir. 744 01:10:30,994 --> 01:10:32,984 Help smooth things over, no doubt. 745 01:10:33,035 --> 01:10:35,986 We don't want any fuss, do we, Pierrepoint? 746 01:10:36,035 --> 01:10:36,734 No, sir. 747 01:10:36,785 --> 01:10:38,776 Very good. 748 01:10:45,827 --> 01:10:49,275 749 01:10:49,327 --> 01:10:52,242 Don't get many feel like singing, do we, Albert? 750 01:10:52,994 --> 01:10:56,987 - - Still, he's not got a bad voice as it goes. 751 01:10:57,035 --> 01:10:58,315 Has he? 752 01:10:59,327 --> 01:11:01,816 753 01:11:01,869 --> 01:11:05,815 754 01:11:28,785 --> 01:11:30,492 Albert, what's up? 755 01:11:31,744 --> 01:11:33,734 6ft around... 756 01:11:39,535 --> 01:11:41,526 6ft... 6ft 6 or something. 757 01:11:57,744 --> 01:11:58,774 What's this? 758 01:12:00,619 --> 01:12:02,360 We're to be brought a hot meal. 759 01:12:02,410 --> 01:12:05,858 That's our entitlement. A hot meal. We're not bloody rabbits. 760 01:12:07,785 --> 01:12:11,400 - Well, the cook has gone home. - Get them to fetch the bugger back. 761 01:12:12,160 --> 01:12:14,862 I'll tell you what - there'll be no bloody job tomorrow. 762 01:12:19,119 --> 01:12:21,654 Go and see what you can do. 763 01:13:49,285 --> 01:13:50,861 Hello, Tosh. 764 01:14:00,744 --> 01:14:02,983 Hello, Tish, old pal. 765 01:14:08,785 --> 01:14:10,776 I'm sorry, lad. 766 01:14:10,827 --> 01:14:12,901 You're going to have to turn around. 767 01:14:38,452 --> 01:14:40,359 Come with me now, lad. 768 01:14:40,410 --> 01:14:43,159 You'll be all right, Tish. 769 01:14:43,202 --> 01:14:44,659 Come on, now. 770 01:14:46,285 --> 01:14:49,651 I'll look after you. Come on, lad. 771 01:15:06,744 --> 01:15:07,774 No, no... 772 01:15:16,244 --> 01:15:17,701 Thank you, Albert. 773 01:17:02,869 --> 01:17:05,155 Where have you been? 774 01:17:05,202 --> 01:17:06,908 You know where I've been. 775 01:17:08,452 --> 01:17:11,071 I was getting worried. 776 01:17:11,119 --> 01:17:13,109 You're so much later than usual. 777 01:17:14,494 --> 01:17:15,821 Hm? 778 01:17:15,869 --> 01:17:17,859 Well, I went for a drink. 779 01:17:19,619 --> 01:17:20,649 Right. 780 01:17:21,994 --> 01:17:23,866 Did you meet up with some pals? 781 01:17:26,119 --> 01:17:28,109 I haven't got any pals. 782 01:17:30,619 --> 01:17:32,609 I just wanted to spend that. 783 01:17:39,410 --> 01:17:43,025 Well, your dinner will be a bit dried up now, but I'll put some gravy on it. 784 01:17:43,077 --> 01:17:45,032 Would you like a potato with... 785 01:17:45,077 --> 01:17:47,566 I don't... I don't want anything, thank you. 786 01:17:50,994 --> 01:17:52,652 Why don't you ask me... 787 01:17:54,202 --> 01:17:56,109 ... why I went drinking? 788 01:17:57,119 --> 01:17:59,323 Like my father used to. Hm? 789 01:18:03,452 --> 01:18:05,359 Maybe you'll have a sandwich later. 790 01:18:08,410 --> 01:18:10,946 Not a bad night tonight. 791 01:18:10,994 --> 01:18:12,652 Most of the regulars in. 792 01:18:13,952 --> 01:18:17,400 I put some... some boxes of chocolates behind the bar. 793 01:18:17,452 --> 01:18:19,443 Sold 11 of them. 794 01:18:20,244 --> 01:18:22,815 I think, come closing time they feel a bit guilty. 795 01:18:22,869 --> 01:18:25,820 They think maybe they'd better take home a peace offering. 796 01:18:28,660 --> 01:18:30,402 I thought maybe we should start... 797 01:18:30,452 --> 01:18:33,485 Do you want to know what I did today, Annie? 798 01:18:33,535 --> 01:18:34,234 Eh? 799 01:18:41,619 --> 01:18:43,408 I hanged Tish. 800 01:18:45,994 --> 01:18:47,024 Aye. 801 01:18:49,244 --> 01:18:50,156 Tish? 802 01:18:51,910 --> 01:18:55,655 James Henry Corbitt, that was his name. You know, we never knew that. 803 01:18:57,535 --> 01:19:00,368 - He murdered Jessie, you know. - Tish? 804 01:19:01,202 --> 01:19:04,034 One night, he followed her to Liverpool, 805 01:19:04,077 --> 01:19:06,909 cheap hotel, his hands around her throat. 806 01:19:06,952 --> 01:19:09,073 If he can't have her, nobody can. 807 01:19:09,827 --> 01:19:14,568 Another sad, sordid little story, just like the rest of them. 808 01:19:17,285 --> 01:19:20,118 And I just put a rope round his neck, 809 01:19:20,702 --> 01:19:22,360 and hanged him for it. 810 01:19:25,910 --> 01:19:27,652 Well, say something. 811 01:19:29,202 --> 01:19:31,276 - Don't you want to know about it? - No. 812 01:19:31,327 --> 01:19:33,401 Don't you want to know what he looked like? 813 01:19:34,827 --> 01:19:37,197 - What he said? - No. 814 01:19:37,244 --> 01:19:41,451 Don't you want to know what it felt like to take a friend and do that to him? Eh? 815 01:19:46,619 --> 01:19:50,659 No, what I was going to say was... 816 01:19:50,702 --> 01:19:52,609 I thought we could start doing flowers. 817 01:19:52,660 --> 01:19:54,865 Keep bunches of flowers behind the bar... 818 01:19:54,910 --> 01:19:56,652 What do you think? 819 01:19:57,952 --> 01:19:59,824 I've done for him, Annie. 820 01:20:00,577 --> 01:20:02,781 Don't you understand? 821 01:20:02,827 --> 01:20:06,157 I've killed him, and for what? Hm? 822 01:20:07,494 --> 01:20:10,326 For money. Dirty bloody money. 823 01:20:12,702 --> 01:20:15,155 - I looked into his eyes, Annie. - Stop it, please. 824 01:20:15,202 --> 01:20:17,442 - He saw me. He thanked me. - Stop it. 825 01:20:20,077 --> 01:20:21,618 We don't talk about it, Albert. 826 01:20:23,410 --> 01:20:25,484 That's what we've always agreed. 827 01:20:25,535 --> 01:20:28,368 Well, I want to talk about it now. 828 01:20:31,244 --> 01:20:32,701 Look here... 829 01:20:34,869 --> 01:20:36,066 Of course it was me. 830 01:20:37,119 --> 01:20:39,986 It's been me all along. I've done for them. 831 01:20:40,035 --> 01:20:41,066 Me. 832 01:20:43,619 --> 01:20:47,233 At least they killed in jealousy, haste, or passion. 833 01:20:47,285 --> 01:20:49,572 What about me? What can I say? 834 01:20:50,869 --> 01:20:53,404 I've murdered the bloody lot of them. Look. 835 01:20:53,994 --> 01:20:55,237 Hundreds of them. 836 01:20:55,327 --> 01:20:57,069 Hundreds and hundreds of them. 837 01:20:57,119 --> 01:20:59,405 Get off me, get off me. 838 01:20:59,452 --> 01:21:02,071 No, Annie, I can't bear it any more. 839 01:21:02,619 --> 01:21:05,024 - Not on my own. - You are going to have to. 840 01:21:05,077 --> 01:21:07,317 I don't want to know about it, Albert, I don't. 841 01:21:07,369 --> 01:21:09,525 Hold me, Annie, please. 842 01:21:09,577 --> 01:21:11,817 Like you always do. 843 01:21:11,869 --> 01:21:13,610 Tell me I'm not a bad man. 844 01:21:15,660 --> 01:21:17,201 I can't. 845 01:21:17,244 --> 01:21:18,653 I can't, Albert. I can't. 846 01:21:18,744 --> 01:21:19,857 Can't. 847 01:21:20,244 --> 01:21:21,736 Can't. 848 01:21:32,952 --> 01:21:34,066 No. 849 01:21:38,994 --> 01:21:42,655 What do you think it's been like for me all these years? Ever think about that? 850 01:21:44,785 --> 01:21:46,243 Staring, 851 01:21:47,577 --> 01:21:48,856 whispers. 852 01:21:53,619 --> 01:21:55,740 You think you're the only one who's suffered. 853 01:21:59,035 --> 01:22:01,026 We don't talk about what you do, Albert. 854 01:22:01,535 --> 01:22:03,360 No... 855 01:22:03,410 --> 01:22:05,282 We don't. Never have, never will. 856 01:22:08,119 --> 01:22:09,149 No. 857 01:22:11,952 --> 01:22:12,982 No. 858 01:22:14,452 --> 01:22:15,909 Sorry, love. 859 01:22:17,994 --> 01:22:19,024 Sorry. 860 01:25:39,410 --> 01:25:43,534 Today the murder of Ruth Ellis 861 01:25:43,577 --> 01:25:46,907 committed in our name. 862 01:26:26,077 --> 01:26:29,075 Behind another line of policemen a car is emerging. 863 01:26:29,119 --> 01:26:31,109 Its passenger... 864 01:26:31,994 --> 01:26:33,451 It's Mr Pierrepoint. 865 01:26:34,160 --> 01:26:38,154 It's Albert Pierrepoint who is now the target of the crowd's fury. 866 01:27:03,619 --> 01:27:07,031 I notice they've not paid you for that job in July. 867 01:27:07,077 --> 01:27:08,239 Strangeways job. 868 01:27:10,077 --> 01:27:13,241 I think it must have been another of them reprieves. 869 01:27:15,910 --> 01:27:17,901 It's not right, Albert. 870 01:27:20,577 --> 01:27:23,244 I don't think you should put up with it any more. 871 01:27:25,410 --> 01:27:27,282 I think you should write to them. 872 01:27:31,410 --> 01:27:32,784 Write to them, Anne? 873 01:27:34,744 --> 01:27:36,402 What would I say? 874 01:27:37,660 --> 01:27:40,066 Oh, I don't know, but... 875 01:27:40,119 --> 01:27:42,607 I know they're exploiting your good will. 876 01:27:45,119 --> 01:27:48,033 After all the years of loyal service you've given them. 877 01:27:50,244 --> 01:27:53,325 If I were you, I'd have a good mind to... 878 01:27:54,327 --> 01:27:55,950 To what, Anne? 879 01:27:56,619 --> 01:27:58,277 Well, I don't know, but... 880 01:27:59,869 --> 01:28:03,234 Tell them you're considering taking your name off the list. 881 01:28:05,994 --> 01:28:08,068 In protest, you know. 882 01:28:12,494 --> 01:28:13,524 Yes. 883 01:28:14,952 --> 01:28:17,654 Aye, yes, it has been bothering me. 884 01:28:19,202 --> 01:28:22,153 I have to make myself available on the day, don't I? 885 01:28:23,327 --> 01:28:27,237 I might have to get extra staff in to cover. They don't know otherwise, do they? 886 01:28:29,702 --> 01:28:31,776 Well, it's up to you, of course, but... 887 01:28:32,994 --> 01:28:35,150 ... I don't think anyone would blame you. 888 01:28:35,994 --> 01:28:37,652 I certainly wouldn't. 889 01:28:38,660 --> 01:28:40,616 No. 890 01:28:40,660 --> 01:28:43,149 I shan't put up with it, Anne. You're right. 891 01:28:44,785 --> 01:28:49,028 It's a matter of principle. It's... a point of principle. 892 01:28:52,910 --> 01:28:54,569 I shall write a letter tonight. 893 01:28:56,827 --> 01:28:57,857 Aye. 894 01:29:23,660 --> 01:29:25,616 I'll make us some tea. 895 01:34:38,117 --> 01:34:39,158 Subtitles by LeapinLar