1 00:00:05,520 --> 00:00:06,800 -We're off to Long Reach tomorrow. 2 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:08,320 -What's in Long Reach? 3 00:00:08,480 --> 00:00:10,600 -Mr. Benham's brother, Lord Percy. 4 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:14,880 -Baby brother, where the devil have you been hiding, hmm? 5 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:18,400 -Meg is carrying on with the girl right under your nose. 6 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:21,560 -You stole my trust by taking what is mine. 7 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:23,480 -Madame! 8 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:24,920 But the trouble wit' you, 9 00:00:25,080 --> 00:00:27,600 you couldn't leave the people dem alone. 10 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:31,600 Why am I here? 11 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:35,920 Olaudah was a friend to me once. 12 00:00:36,080 --> 00:00:37,720 -I don't know what happened. 13 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:39,480 I was sleeping. 14 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:43,200 -Double murder is a hanging offence, Miss Langton. 15 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:45,960 -How can I be sure I didn't do it? 16 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:54,600 ♪♪ 17 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:57,400 [ Door closes ] 18 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:04,000 [ Door closes ] 19 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:10,120 [ Footsteps approach ] 20 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:16,680 [ Keys jangle ] 21 00:01:16,840 --> 00:01:25,600 ♪♪ 22 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:34,480 ♪♪ 23 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:43,560 ♪♪ 24 00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:48,520 -Every English trial is a story of a crime, 25 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:49,800 not a person. 26 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:52,800 [ Indistinct shouting ] 27 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:56,120 -Murderess! 28 00:01:56,280 --> 00:01:58,880 -By the time they've finished with you, 29 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:01,760 they could almost make you hate your own self. 30 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:08,240 ♪♪ 31 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:10,160 And mine... 32 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:12,200 -I will have silence in this court! 33 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:13,720 -...was no different. 34 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:22,440 ♪♪ 35 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:25,400 -Frances Langton is indicted of the willful murder 36 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:28,880 of George Benham and Marguerite Benham. 37 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:31,120 In that on the 17th day of February 38 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:34,240 in the year of our Lord 1826, 39 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:39,320 she did strike and stab them until they were dead. 40 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:41,920 Mr. Jessop to conduct the prosecution. 41 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:47,200 -And may it please your lordship. 42 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:49,680 Gentlemen, I appear for the Crown 43 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:53,520 and my learnt friend Mr. -- er... 44 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:56,720 Pettigrew appears for the accused. 45 00:02:56,880 --> 00:02:59,320 The Crown's case could not be simpler. 46 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:01,320 On the evening of the 17th, 47 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:04,440 Mr. and Mrs. Benham were stabbed to death. 48 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:08,920 He in his library, she in her own bedchamber. 49 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:14,480 This woman, the prisoner at bar, stands accused of those crimes. 50 00:03:14,640 --> 00:03:16,760 The medical evidence will show that the victims succumbed 51 00:03:16,920 --> 00:03:19,080 to stab wounds to the chest and throat 52 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:21,800 and that Mrs. Benham was with child. 53 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:24,920 [ Court gasps ] 54 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:28,200 The fetus was recovered from beneath the prisoner's bed. 55 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:31,280 Stored in an apothecary jar. 56 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:34,120 Together with this... 57 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:35,800 It has been identified as the weapon used 58 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:38,320 to commit those crimes. 59 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:40,440 -I never touched that knife! -Prisoner at the bar! 60 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:42,400 -I told him, someone must have put it there! 61 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:46,840 -Prisoner at the bar, I will have silence. 62 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:49,400 Mr. Jessop, you may proceed. 63 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:50,920 -Thank you, my lord. 64 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:52,360 You will hear from guests in attendance 65 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:54,680 at the Benhams' soiree that earlier that night, 66 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:56,680 she confronted them in their own drawing room 67 00:03:56,840 --> 00:03:57,960 and threatened them with death. 68 00:03:58,120 --> 00:03:59,760 [ Court gasps ] 69 00:03:59,920 --> 00:04:02,960 You will also hear that she was turned out for thieving 70 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:05,400 and that she took to prostitution. 71 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:06,640 And that when she returned 72 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:08,120 to the Benhams' household last week, 73 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:11,400 she had revenge in mind. 74 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:14,840 You will also hear that when she was apprehended, 75 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:16,440 she was found beside... 76 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:19,200 -They looked at me and saw only anger. 77 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:28,040 God forbid they saw the truth. 78 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:32,440 -Sit down, both of you. 79 00:04:36,360 --> 00:04:38,760 Have you asked her? 80 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:40,160 -Not yet. 81 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:43,520 -Then ask her now. 82 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:51,960 -Mr. Benham's man of affairs has located a house in Cornwall, 83 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:55,120 somewhere discreet... 84 00:04:55,280 --> 00:04:58,160 and arranged an annuity for you. 85 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:00,360 After the child is born, 86 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:03,480 Mr. Benham and I will go back to London... 87 00:05:03,640 --> 00:05:06,720 and you will stay there. 88 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:08,240 -You're asking what? 89 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:10,680 -You'll take the child and raise it. 90 00:05:10,840 --> 00:05:12,320 -And do what with it? 91 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:13,600 -Whatever you want. 92 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:15,400 It will have nothing to do with us. 93 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:17,720 -[ Sobbing ] 94 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:24,200 -This is why you sent for me? 95 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:26,200 -I'm sorry. I thought that you... 96 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:28,520 -You thought I would do anything for you? 97 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:33,440 -In the meantime, so far as the gossips are concerned, 98 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:36,680 everything in this household will continue as usual. 99 00:05:36,840 --> 00:05:39,680 Tomorrow, I will host our soiree as planned. 100 00:05:39,840 --> 00:05:44,000 I expect you to play the glittering wife. 101 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:46,160 Give them marvellous Meg. 102 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:52,520 ♪♪ 103 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:56,080 -You never saw Meg anywhere without that girl in tow. 104 00:05:56,240 --> 00:06:00,480 There was something rather obsessive about it. 105 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:01,560 -Thank you, Miss Elliot. 106 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:03,280 No further questions, my lord. 107 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:07,080 -Are you suggesting that there was something sinister 108 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:08,960 in the behaviour of a dutiful Abigail 109 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:10,800 towards her mistress, Miss Elliot? 110 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:13,520 -I'm merely telling the jurors what I observed. 111 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:15,680 -But you would agree that it formed part 112 00:06:15,840 --> 00:06:19,360 of my client's duties to serve as companion to Mrs. Benham? 113 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:21,400 -Yes. 114 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:24,680 -How would you describe your own feelings towards Mrs. Benham? 115 00:06:24,840 --> 00:06:26,880 -We were fond of each other. 116 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:29,600 -Is it fair to say that she could be mean at times? 117 00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:30,960 Selfish? 118 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:32,880 -I refuse to slander a friend. 119 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:35,400 -If your answer would be slander, Miss Elliot, 120 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:37,880 that is the answer. 121 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:39,920 She did not afford you the same courtesy. 122 00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:43,000 I have here an extract of a manuscript 123 00:06:43,160 --> 00:06:45,480 she was working on late last year. 124 00:06:45,640 --> 00:06:50,840 "Hep is far from handsome, but she does have handsome thoughts. 125 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:55,800 We both wanted to live as men. Now she proves an irritant. 126 00:06:55,960 --> 00:06:58,880 She calls it selfishness that I am not prepared to be 127 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:02,480 consumed by her, by her affections." 128 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:07,720 -I shouldn't be surprised. 129 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:15,080 Meg "the magpie", I called her. 130 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:20,320 Behind her back, naturally. 131 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:29,680 She was always collecting things. 132 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:31,440 Collecting people. 133 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:38,920 You think it was different... 134 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:40,840 for you? 135 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:44,560 -Miss Elliot, please direct your answers towards me or the jury. 136 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:47,920 -Don't fool yourself that you were the only one, 137 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:53,200 or that she felt an ounce of real love for you. 138 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:54,360 It was lust. 139 00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:56,680 [ Court gasps ] 140 00:07:56,840 --> 00:07:59,480 Lust! 141 00:07:59,640 --> 00:08:06,240 She never cared that she hurt people and then just left us. 142 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:07,760 She left us! 143 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:15,680 ♪♪ 144 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:17,480 She was a bitch! 145 00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:19,000 -Miss Elliot! 146 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:20,440 I'm going to stop you there, 147 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:22,320 to prevent you from slandering a dead woman, 148 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:24,600 even if you insist on slandering yourself. 149 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:33,760 -She and I might have been equal in our devotion, 150 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:37,480 but we were equal in our anger, too. 151 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:39,880 -Now you both want me to wash away your sins? 152 00:08:40,040 --> 00:08:41,640 -Frances, I am so sorry. 153 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:43,680 I am so sorry. 154 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:47,440 He said he would divorce me, leave me with nothing. 155 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:49,040 If I was to have a Black child, in the wake of a divorce, 156 00:08:49,200 --> 00:08:51,960 I would be on the streets. 157 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:55,320 I have to do what he wants. 158 00:08:55,480 --> 00:08:57,200 A Black child. 159 00:08:57,360 --> 00:09:00,720 I would be finished, and you know it. 160 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:03,080 I must give up the child... 161 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:08,520 ...and then I must give you up. 162 00:09:08,680 --> 00:09:18,240 ♪♪ 163 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:21,680 -We wish to call Dr. Wilkes, my lord. 164 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:24,960 -Call Dr. Wilkes. 165 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:27,240 -They had each sustained deep gashes 166 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:30,040 to the upper and middle chest. 167 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:32,040 The constable delivered a butchering knife 168 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:33,320 to the hospital, 169 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:35,240 which he said had been discovered 170 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:37,560 beneath the prisoner's bed. 171 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:40,680 I matched the blade directly to the victims' wounds. 172 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:44,080 -And did you notice anything else? 173 00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:46,880 -Nothing unusual. 174 00:09:47,040 --> 00:09:52,400 Except Mrs. Benham had recently been with child. 175 00:09:52,560 --> 00:09:53,960 There were very clear signs, 176 00:09:54,120 --> 00:09:56,480 enlargement of the uterus, general flaccidity, 177 00:09:56,640 --> 00:09:59,040 oedema of the bladder. 178 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:01,560 It couldn't have been born alive. 179 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:04,040 But that's not to say it couldn't also have fallen victim 180 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:06,440 to whatever caused its mother's death. 181 00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:10,760 By God's hand, or a savage one. 182 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:12,640 -Gentlemen, she killed her 183 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:15,640 and then carved the unborn child from her womb. 184 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:17,240 -She miscarried. 185 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:21,320 -Prisoner at the bar, I will have silence! 186 00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:22,800 Mr. Pettigrew, 187 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:24,280 I hope you've been able to assure yourself 188 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:25,640 that your client's capable of understanding 189 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:27,400 the nature of these proceedings and following 190 00:10:27,560 --> 00:10:31,760 along like a civilised person. 191 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:34,200 [ Door closes ] 192 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:38,800 [ Liquid pours ] 193 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:45,880 ♪♪ 194 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:47,400 -Where is it? 195 00:10:47,560 --> 00:10:53,680 ♪♪ 196 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:57,640 -I took it upstairs. 197 00:10:57,800 --> 00:10:59,600 -What will you do with it? 198 00:11:02,680 --> 00:11:04,400 Will you keep it? 199 00:11:04,560 --> 00:11:06,960 [ Sobbing ] 200 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:15,080 My husband always said it was my fault there were no children. 201 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:21,320 ♪♪ 202 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:27,600 ♪♪ 203 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:31,360 -She had brought it on herself. 204 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:36,680 But like so many things, we just didn't speak about it. 205 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:45,840 ♪♪ 206 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:47,040 -Jane. 207 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:48,280 Come. 208 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:51,360 Martha! 209 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:52,840 Come! 210 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:54,360 -What is it, Sal? Is it Fran? 211 00:11:54,520 --> 00:11:56,360 -You're not gon' believe it. 212 00:11:56,520 --> 00:11:59,800 That man was there today, testifying against her. 213 00:11:59,960 --> 00:12:02,960 Wilkes. -Wilkes? 214 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:04,880 -Something not right. 215 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:06,400 No way Wilkes can just pop up 216 00:12:06,560 --> 00:12:08,880 out of nowhere to point fingers against Frannie. 217 00:12:09,040 --> 00:12:09,880 Unh-uh. 218 00:12:10,040 --> 00:12:11,440 That don't make no sense. 219 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:13,680 -What can we do? 220 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:15,040 -Find Farley. 221 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:17,280 Make him stay put. 222 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:19,080 Them lawyers of hers too hard-ears 223 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:22,200 to do them job right, but we goin' make them listen. 224 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:28,400 -Now, my lord, we wish to call Eustacia Linux. 225 00:12:32,680 --> 00:12:36,640 Mrs. Linux, you were housekeeper for Mr. George Benham? 226 00:12:36,800 --> 00:12:38,800 -For seven years. 227 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:41,400 And for Sir Percy before him. 228 00:12:41,560 --> 00:12:43,240 -Let me take you back to that evening. 229 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:46,920 Can you tell us what happened? 230 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:51,680 -She came downstairs to the parlour, went right up 231 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:54,240 to Mrs. Benham and said she was going to kill her. 232 00:12:54,400 --> 00:12:55,320 -That's not true! 233 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:58,760 -She said, "This means death." 234 00:12:58,920 --> 00:13:01,520 [ Crowd murmurs ] 235 00:13:01,680 --> 00:13:03,640 -After we had finished tidying up downstairs, 236 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:05,200 I went up to his library 237 00:13:05,360 --> 00:13:09,080 to discuss what was to be done with her, to... 238 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:13,360 And that's when I found him... 239 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:15,960 My poor master. 240 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:18,680 [ Sobbing ] 241 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:21,120 -One last thing, Mrs. Linux. 242 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:27,800 Do you recognise this knife? 243 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:30,160 -It is my butchering knife. 244 00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:32,120 -When did you last see it? 245 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:33,880 -While we were tidying up that night. 246 00:13:34,040 --> 00:13:36,040 I locked it away in the cupboard. 247 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:38,360 -Did the prisoner have access to the kitchen? 248 00:13:40,560 --> 00:13:42,040 -Yes. 249 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:44,360 -Thank you. 250 00:13:44,520 --> 00:13:46,160 -According to your testimony, you went straight 251 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:49,560 from your master's dead body to your mistress's bedchamber? 252 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:54,160 I'm waiting for your answer, Mrs. Linux. 253 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:56,400 -Well, I'm waiting for your question. 254 00:13:56,560 --> 00:13:57,920 [ Laughter ] 255 00:13:58,080 --> 00:13:59,200 -You did not send for the constable 256 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:01,880 after discovering Mr. Benham. 257 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:03,320 Your own evidence puts you in both places 258 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:04,640 where crimes were committed that night 259 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:06,400 before anyone had discovered them. 260 00:14:06,560 --> 00:14:08,600 I put it to you, that in order to cover your own tracks, 261 00:14:08,760 --> 00:14:10,480 it suits you to implicate my client. 262 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:12,640 -That is utterly ridiculous! 263 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:14,560 -You'd been quarrelling with your master in recent months, 264 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:15,840 hadn't you? 265 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:17,560 You were angry about the fact 266 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:19,040 that he'd allowed the prisoner to live in the house. 267 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:21,080 -We knew nothing about her. 268 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:23,680 Only that she came from a savage place. 269 00:14:23,840 --> 00:14:25,680 -And you argued with your mistress, too. 270 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:28,200 You complained often about having to serve 271 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:29,960 a "damned French woman". 272 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:31,800 -Has she told you all this? 273 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:34,240 -You have admitted here that the murder weapon belonged to you. 274 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:36,000 You were angry with the Benhams. 275 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:38,360 And that very night, you announced you'd prefer death 276 00:14:38,520 --> 00:14:39,640 to enduring it a minute longer... 277 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:41,280 -My lord! 278 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:42,480 -You had every opportunity to kill them, 279 00:14:42,640 --> 00:14:43,800 moving unobserved about the house... 280 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:45,640 -That's quite enough, Mr. Pettigrew. 281 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:49,560 -I did nothing that night, except what I have always done. 282 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:51,400 Nor was I the one threatened to kill them 283 00:14:51,560 --> 00:14:53,280 who was covered in blood. 284 00:14:53,440 --> 00:14:55,400 -Blood that could have transferred onto my client 285 00:14:55,560 --> 00:14:57,320 as she lay there sleeping. 286 00:14:57,480 --> 00:15:01,040 -Her own mistress massacred right next to her, 287 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:02,840 and yet she never woke? 288 00:15:05,160 --> 00:15:06,760 -No further questions, my lord. 289 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:08,880 -This is what made it so difficult 290 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:12,400 to be sure I hadn't done it. 291 00:15:12,560 --> 00:15:15,760 I still couldn't make sense of it, even then. 292 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:17,440 -We'll adjourn until, uh... 293 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:18,920 two o'clock. 294 00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:22,320 -All rise. 295 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:25,040 -Pettigrew. 296 00:15:25,200 --> 00:15:27,600 Pettigrew! 297 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:29,480 -Yes? -We need to talk. 298 00:15:29,640 --> 00:15:36,960 ♪♪ 299 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:44,320 ♪♪ 300 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:47,640 -I just... 301 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:49,560 I don't see how Frances... 302 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:51,880 The prisoner, sir. 303 00:15:52,040 --> 00:15:54,200 I-I don't see how she could have done this thing. 304 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:55,800 You call her a savage, 305 00:15:55,960 --> 00:15:57,960 but that's not what I knew of her, not at all. 306 00:15:58,120 --> 00:15:59,800 Maybe we're just not used to seeing blacks here. 307 00:15:59,960 --> 00:16:02,640 I'd never met one before, but it turned out 308 00:16:02,800 --> 00:16:06,240 she had two thumbs like the rest of us. 309 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:08,760 She wasn't used to some of the ways of an English house 310 00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:10,560 and she always felt the cold... 311 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:12,360 -Thank you, Miss Rattray. 312 00:16:12,520 --> 00:16:15,280 -...but once she started waiting on Madame, her spirits improved. 313 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:18,320 They were so fond of each other that I just don't see 314 00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:19,520 how Frances could have done this thing. 315 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:20,880 -Thank you, Miss Rattray. 316 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:23,040 I won't trouble you further. 317 00:16:26,280 --> 00:16:29,360 -No questions, my lord. 318 00:16:29,520 --> 00:16:37,440 ♪♪ 319 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:40,440 -These somnambulistic states, trances, 320 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:42,800 I suppose a layperson would call them, 321 00:16:42,960 --> 00:16:45,560 involve the consciousness and unconsciousness 322 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:48,160 to the same degree and at the same time. 323 00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:51,280 The person affected can still have the will to act, 324 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:54,360 but the moral nature is entirely wanting, 325 00:16:54,520 --> 00:16:56,520 because they've lost the regulating power 326 00:16:56,680 --> 00:16:58,360 of their own mind. 327 00:16:58,520 --> 00:17:00,760 -In other words, they're not responsible for their actions? 328 00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:02,520 -Quite! 329 00:17:02,680 --> 00:17:04,800 It's a kind of insanity. 330 00:17:04,960 --> 00:17:06,800 -Could the same state be produced 331 00:17:06,960 --> 00:17:08,800 by an excessive amount of opium? 332 00:17:08,960 --> 00:17:10,520 -Yes, indeed. 333 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:13,360 We are, of course, talking not about a sleeping state 334 00:17:13,520 --> 00:17:15,160 but a soporific one. 335 00:17:15,320 --> 00:17:20,560 -Please stop crying. You're free now. 336 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:23,120 Isn't that what you wanted? 337 00:17:23,280 --> 00:17:27,440 -You are being cruel. -I am being honest. 338 00:17:27,600 --> 00:17:30,920 But you have no idea what honesty looks like. 339 00:17:34,280 --> 00:17:37,760 You'll have no more use for me now. 340 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:40,240 Come with me. Please. 341 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:42,600 -Oh, Frances. 342 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:44,000 Frances, wake up! 343 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:45,400 How many times? 344 00:17:45,560 --> 00:17:48,240 What do you think the two of us would do? 345 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:51,200 Live happily in a little cottage by the sea? 346 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:56,320 -I believe, from what you've told me, 347 00:17:56,480 --> 00:17:58,760 that this might be what affected your client 348 00:17:58,920 --> 00:18:00,800 on the night in question. 349 00:18:03,880 --> 00:18:06,400 [ Door creaks ] 350 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:08,960 -Thank you, Dr. Lushing. 351 00:18:09,120 --> 00:18:12,640 -My lord, you are suggesting 352 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:16,840 that the prisoner took herself upstairs, 353 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:18,320 killed her master, then -- 354 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:20,320 [claps hands] presto -- 355 00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:24,000 killed her mistress, all in this alleged trance. 356 00:18:24,160 --> 00:18:26,040 -It is a form of derangement. 357 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:28,040 -Well, there we agree. 358 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:30,440 It would be the first in my experience, 359 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:32,400 and in English law, 360 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:34,680 if a woman could simply get away with murder 361 00:18:34,840 --> 00:18:38,160 by claiming she didn't remember committing it. 362 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:40,680 No further questions, my lord. 363 00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:42,160 -Mr. Pettigrew? 364 00:18:42,320 --> 00:18:44,160 -My lord, I have an urgent application. 365 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:46,360 There have been some new developments 366 00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:47,640 over the luncheon adjournment. 367 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:49,400 New evidence brought to my attention. 368 00:18:49,560 --> 00:18:51,440 We wish to recall Dr. Wilkes. 369 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:54,280 -I hope this isn't an attempt to time waste. 370 00:18:54,440 --> 00:18:56,920 This trial is already taking up too much time. 371 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:02,200 Very well. 372 00:19:02,360 --> 00:19:03,520 We will adjourn. 373 00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:05,240 -All rise! 374 00:19:07,600 --> 00:19:10,240 -We've had some good news, thanks to your friend. 375 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:12,680 It seems we can mount an attack on Wilkes. 376 00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:14,400 -Meaning what? 377 00:19:20,360 --> 00:19:23,840 -Dr. Wilkes, when you testified this morning, 378 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:27,200 you said you examined Mrs. Benham's stomach contents. 379 00:19:27,360 --> 00:19:30,360 -As I said, I found nothing of any note. 380 00:19:30,520 --> 00:19:32,520 Only the remains of the food Mrs. Benham had eaten. 381 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:34,480 -Nothing else? 382 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:36,200 -No. 383 00:19:36,360 --> 00:19:39,760 -In other words, you found what you were looking for. 384 00:19:39,920 --> 00:19:41,000 -I beg your pardon? 385 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:42,440 -What did you know about Mrs. Benham 386 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:44,600 before you cut her open, Dr. Wilkes? 387 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:46,480 Did you know how often she indulged in laudanum, 388 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:48,200 for example? 389 00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:52,160 Dr. Wilkes? 390 00:19:52,320 --> 00:19:53,600 -I had been told she had a prescription 391 00:19:53,760 --> 00:19:54,760 from the family physician. 392 00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:56,000 -Did you test for it? 393 00:19:56,160 --> 00:19:57,440 -There would have been no point. 394 00:19:57,600 --> 00:19:58,720 It would have been entirely consistent 395 00:19:58,880 --> 00:20:00,320 with her medical history. 396 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:01,760 -I suppose what I'm wondering, Dr. Wilkes, 397 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:03,600 is how you would know 398 00:20:03,760 --> 00:20:05,480 that the quantities present were consistent 399 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:06,960 with Mrs. Benham's medical history 400 00:20:07,120 --> 00:20:07,960 if you did not test? 401 00:20:08,120 --> 00:20:09,560 -My lord! 402 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:12,040 My lord, I have tolerated a great deal 403 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:13,400 during the course of these proceedings, 404 00:20:13,560 --> 00:20:16,440 but I cannot, I cannot sit idly by 405 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:19,400 while my sister-in-law continues to be slandered! 406 00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:22,440 Her private affairs, my brother's private affairs, 407 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:25,320 picked over by vultures in this courtroom. 408 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:28,680 Is there no concern for the dignity of the deceased? 409 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:31,640 -You may rest assured I would allow no such thing, 410 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:34,600 Lord Benham. 411 00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:36,600 You may wish to resume your seat. 412 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:46,760 -Dr. Wilkes, I put it to you 413 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:49,080 that you deliberately overlooked the presence of opium 414 00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:50,640 in Mrs. Benham's stomach contents. 415 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:52,280 -Mr. Pettigrew, 416 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:54,600 you've had quite some time on this path now. 417 00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:58,600 I suggest that you set yourself on another. 418 00:20:58,760 --> 00:21:01,080 -My lord, I believe I'm entitled to cross-examine this witness. 419 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:03,400 -You cross-examined this witness this morning. 420 00:21:03,560 --> 00:21:05,480 Now you seem to be digging old ground. 421 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:09,880 -My lord, I assure you, this is new ground entirely. 422 00:21:10,040 --> 00:21:11,480 A witness has come forward. 423 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:13,280 Dr. Farley. 424 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:15,680 He was Dr. Wilkes's former assistant at St Thomas's. 425 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:19,920 It was Dr. Farley who performed both autopsies, not Dr. Wilkes! 426 00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:21,240 -Absurd! 427 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:23,760 -Have you called this Dr. Farley? 428 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:27,320 -My solicitor informs me 429 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:29,880 that it has not been possible to locate him. 430 00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:32,800 He had assured us that he would attend court. 431 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:34,480 I suspect he's understandably concerned 432 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:36,440 about what might happen to him. 433 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:39,360 According to my instructions, his employment was terminated 434 00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:41,560 at the behest of Lord Percival Benham. 435 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:43,160 -Mr. Pettigrew... 436 00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:44,680 -No doubt in an attempt to discredit him. 437 00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:46,120 -Mr. Pettigrew -- 438 00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:47,760 -To silence him, and it seems to have worked. 439 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:53,080 -I am warning you not to stray into contempt of this court. 440 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:56,560 If you cannot produce this doctor, 441 00:21:56,720 --> 00:21:59,280 then nothing he might have said may be relied upon, 442 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:01,760 nor can you expect to cross-examine 443 00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:03,400 Dr. Wilkes about it. 444 00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:05,400 -I must be able to cross-examine about these matters. 445 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:06,920 -You well know, you may not. 446 00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:09,200 -It is a matter of grave importance. 447 00:22:09,360 --> 00:22:10,880 Dr. Farley concluded that 448 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:14,320 Mrs. Benham died by opium poisoning, not by stabbing! 449 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:16,920 -My lord! 450 00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:18,720 -Given her habits, any overdose would have been 451 00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:20,800 most likely self-administered. 452 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:23,600 In fact, this would not have been the first time. 453 00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:26,000 -Madame. 454 00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:28,280 -There were no knife wounds found on her body. 455 00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:30,360 None. Look! 456 00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:35,280 His clothes are soaked, yet hers stained in a manner consistent 457 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:37,120 with a woman who had just lost a child. 458 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:41,640 -Mr. Pettigrew, this is your last warning. 459 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:45,320 Dr. Wilkes, you do not have to answer any further questions. 460 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:47,400 -Dr. Wilkes, I put it to you that you conspired 461 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:49,600 with Lord Percival Benham to ensure that word 462 00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:51,800 of Mrs. Benham's overdose would never become public. 463 00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:54,040 -My lord, this is pandemonium! 464 00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:55,760 -She was not stabbed. 465 00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:58,000 -That you altered notes made by your junior doctor, 466 00:22:58,160 --> 00:22:59,520 who performed the autopsy. 467 00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:02,520 -Mr. Pettigrew, that is enough! 468 00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:03,520 Silence in court! 469 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:06,400 -I didn't do it. 470 00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:07,840 -Mr. Pettigrew, 471 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:09,960 your behaviour disgraces the bar. 472 00:23:10,120 --> 00:23:11,760 Dr. Wilkes, you are discharged. 473 00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:15,520 You were, in fact, discharged several moments ago. 474 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:18,240 Gentlemen, please disregard 475 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:20,160 everything that you've just heard. 476 00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:21,480 This is my fault entirely. 477 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:23,960 I have allowed matters to get beyond me. 478 00:23:24,120 --> 00:23:25,200 We will, um... 479 00:23:25,360 --> 00:23:27,440 adjourn until, uh, tomorrow morning. 480 00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:29,200 -My lord! -All rise! 481 00:23:29,360 --> 00:23:36,000 ♪♪ 482 00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:38,600 [ Handcuffs click ] 483 00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:44,080 [ Door opens ] 484 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:52,440 -I will never understand these people. 485 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:53,720 -It's true? 486 00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:55,640 -It was the laudanum that kill her. 487 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:58,200 No doubt about it. 488 00:23:58,360 --> 00:24:01,320 Wilkes never even went anywhere near the bodies, 489 00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:03,680 him only pretended afterwards. 490 00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:06,240 -But how did you find out? 491 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:09,520 -Remember when me tell you about the doctor that got paid off 492 00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:11,720 when Benham cripple the girl? 493 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:14,680 Well, it was Wilkes. 494 00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:19,360 Me knew something not smell right when me see him. 495 00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:22,720 And Farley was his assistant back then also. 496 00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:25,640 Me found him in his cups. 497 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:29,760 There's a pub right there where the pair of them always went. 498 00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:32,360 Some of the women knew because they been keeping an eye on them 499 00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:34,080 ever since what happened. 500 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:41,400 Farley told me Lord Percy got to Wilkes, 501 00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:44,600 paid him to lie against you. 502 00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:48,080 Said there not goin' be a suicide in him family tree. 503 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:54,120 -She killed herself. 504 00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:02,320 -Farley still too coward to come forward. 505 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:05,480 But at least this time, him tell the trut'. 506 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:07,000 -I don't know what to say. 507 00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:11,560 You did this, Sal. 508 00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:17,720 -It might not make no difference. 509 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:19,880 After all that. 510 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:22,920 She lose her baby, them say you do it. 511 00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:26,760 She kill herself, them say you do it. 512 00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:28,280 When it goin' stop? 513 00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:39,440 [ Indistinct whispering ] 514 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:49,120 ♪♪ 515 00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:52,640 -Mr. Jessop, you may call you next witness. 516 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:55,360 -My lord, we wish to call Dr. Pears. 517 00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:58,400 He was the family physician to the Benhams for many years. 518 00:25:58,560 --> 00:25:59,960 He will testify... 519 00:26:00,120 --> 00:26:08,960 ♪♪ 520 00:26:09,120 --> 00:26:18,040 ♪♪ 521 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:22,040 -You never stop thinking about yourself, do you? 522 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:25,200 You still won't take responsibility... 523 00:26:25,360 --> 00:26:26,720 for anything. 524 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:33,400 ♪♪ 525 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:40,240 ♪♪ 526 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:43,000 -[ Breathing shakily ] 527 00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:51,760 -Gentlemen, I instruct you to disregard everything 528 00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:53,600 that you have heard 529 00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:58,160 regarding the cause of death of either Mr. or Mrs. Benham, 530 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:01,760 except Dr. Wilkes' evidence in chief, 531 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:04,000 given yesterday morning. 532 00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:05,880 My lord! 533 00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:08,160 -I direct that no further reports 534 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:09,960 be made of any of the evidence, 535 00:27:10,120 --> 00:27:14,360 in respect of which I have now directed an embargo. 536 00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:18,400 Prisoner at the bar, this is your chance 537 00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:22,480 to address the jurors in your own defence. 538 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:24,720 Your barrister cannot speak for you. 539 00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:26,200 Do you understand? 540 00:27:26,360 --> 00:27:28,920 You must tell the jurors, in your own words, 541 00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:31,160 whatever it is you have to say for yourself. 542 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:35,600 -But I didn't do it. 543 00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:38,200 [ Court murmurs ] 544 00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:47,200 I could think of nothing to say that any of them would believe. 545 00:27:47,360 --> 00:27:49,000 So... 546 00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:50,680 I told the truth. 547 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:55,200 I loved her. 548 00:27:55,360 --> 00:27:58,840 [ Court murmurs ] 549 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:01,840 If I am guilty of anything, 550 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:03,720 I am guilty of that. 551 00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:12,200 I was a woman who loved a woman. 552 00:28:12,360 --> 00:28:14,920 Chief among all of the womanly sins. 553 00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:20,520 Like barrenness... 554 00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:22,240 and thinking. 555 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:26,920 You bring people here. 556 00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:28,640 You try them. 557 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:30,760 You make them beg. 558 00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:34,200 Tell them what they can and can't say. 559 00:28:34,360 --> 00:28:37,080 In the whole sum of human history, 560 00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:40,920 by what order have you white men been wrong 561 00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:43,680 more than you've been right? 562 00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:46,720 You will never try yourselves. 563 00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:49,200 You will never take responsibility. 564 00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:57,000 You build statues for men who build themselves 565 00:28:57,160 --> 00:28:59,840 on the backs of other men. 566 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:02,280 You celebrate yourselves, 567 00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:05,640 the way you celebrate George Benham. 568 00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:08,560 You think he was a good man. 569 00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:10,680 A great one. 570 00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:12,840 Your finest mind. 571 00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:20,960 No man who owns slaves can be good. 572 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:23,200 -That is enough. 573 00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:26,440 -My lord, I find this all rather edifying. 574 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:29,040 Perhaps the prisoner should be allowed to conclude? 575 00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:34,320 -Very well. 576 00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:41,920 -According to all of you, 577 00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:46,640 John Langton is a monster in plain sight. 578 00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:49,320 But what was the difference between him and George Benham? 579 00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:56,000 ♪♪ 580 00:29:56,160 --> 00:30:02,920 ♪♪ 581 00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:06,120 -Prisoner at the bar, what are you looking at? 582 00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:12,640 ♪♪ 583 00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:14,480 -I thought I was lucky. 584 00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:21,040 You told me it wasn't luck. 585 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:24,640 Remember? 586 00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:26,680 You told me. 587 00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:28,200 You were right. 588 00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:33,720 I wish I had never set foot inside that place. 589 00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:40,280 All I wanted was just to have the pages 590 00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:42,520 of a book beneath my fingers. 591 00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:47,240 Fresh air. 592 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:49,000 Early mornings. 593 00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:54,840 A mirror. 594 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,880 I told myself I didn't have any choice. 595 00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:00,240 -Prisoner at the bar, 596 00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:04,400 I should warn you not to waste this court's time. 597 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:11,200 -I'll tell them the truth about what happened there. 598 00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:13,000 And what I helped them with. 599 00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:27,040 ♪♪ 600 00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:30,920 John Langton wanted to prove that the African 601 00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:34,400 is not a member of the human species 602 00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:36,920 by doing experiments on the people he owned... 603 00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:38,600 -Don't bring me into this! 604 00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:42,440 [ Gavel bangs ] -Mr. Langton, silence. 605 00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:44,880 -Cadavers, at first. 606 00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:50,200 But then surgeries... 607 00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:51,920 with no ether. 608 00:31:55,600 --> 00:32:00,600 It was George Benham who told him where to look, 609 00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:05,360 who to buy, who wanted all of it done in the first place. 610 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:11,320 [ Indistinct whispering ] 611 00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:18,440 John Langton bought a boy and his mother last year. 612 00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:21,440 Even after the trade had been abolished, 613 00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:24,280 he bought them illegally... 614 00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:31,360 ...and George Benham financed it. 615 00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:34,400 He wanted to conduct a study of an albino... 616 00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:35,640 [ Gavel bangs ] 617 00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:38,640 ...and Langton had found him one. 618 00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:44,240 There was a woman there at Paradise. 619 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:45,960 My mother. 620 00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:52,760 She tried to save him. 621 00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:55,040 I had been left to watch the boy, 622 00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:57,600 she came to get him... 623 00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:00,480 but I didn't know what Langton would do. 624 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:02,360 I was afraid. 625 00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:06,120 We fought so long that by the time she did manage 626 00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:08,040 to get him away from me... 627 00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:12,120 ...it was too late. 628 00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:24,920 If you gave me the choice of one moment to undo, to take back... 629 00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:27,280 it would be the day I let you down. 630 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:38,200 I was a coward, and because of that, because of me... 631 00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:46,080 ♪♪ 632 00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:48,480 -[ Exhales sharply ] 633 00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:58,800 -Prisoner at the bar. 634 00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:00,720 Have you finished? 635 00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:04,200 -[ Sniffles ] 636 00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:10,200 John Langton murdered her for it. 637 00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:13,240 My mother. 638 00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:14,920 He murdered her! 639 00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:17,000 -How can I sit here while you let her slander me?! 640 00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:19,440 [ Gavel bangs ] -Enough! 641 00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:21,680 -I knew had to spring myself from his trap. 642 00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:27,160 I saved that boy. 643 00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:33,080 I burnt it all down. 644 00:34:33,240 --> 00:34:36,440 Every blade of grass, every plank of wood 645 00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:37,880 on his damn estate! 646 00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:41,480 -You bitch! You ruined me, you bitch! 647 00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:45,240 You'll hang! You'll hang! 648 00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:48,400 [ Gavel bangs ] -Please, take him away. 649 00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:50,160 -You bitch! 650 00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:52,440 You -- 651 00:34:52,600 --> 00:35:00,000 ♪♪ 652 00:35:02,240 --> 00:35:04,840 -Mr. Jessop, your cross. 653 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:08,520 -My lord. 654 00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:13,840 I did not hear a denial from you in that whole unedifying speech. 655 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:17,080 -I am denying it now. 656 00:35:17,240 --> 00:35:21,160 Then I assume your sleepwalking defence is now withdrawn. 657 00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:23,480 -He might have been saying that. 658 00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:28,160 I am not. -I see. 659 00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:31,880 By your own admission, a moment ago, 660 00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:34,920 you have done monstrous things. 661 00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:39,120 I say you are the monster who murdered George Benham. 662 00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:41,480 The monster who murdered his wife. 663 00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:43,320 -No. 664 00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:45,680 -I suppose you would have murdered John Langton, too, 665 00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:46,680 given half the chance. 666 00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:47,680 -Someone should. 667 00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:51,120 [ Court murmurs ] 668 00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:53,000 -Which is exactly what you thought about 669 00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:55,160 George Benham, too, isn't it? 670 00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:00,280 Isn't it? 671 00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:07,440 Furthermore, you claim to have been in love with your mistress. 672 00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:11,320 You knew she was pregnant with her husband's child. 673 00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:15,480 And you could not tolerate this symbol of her rejection of you. 674 00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:17,880 And so you killed her. -I did not. 675 00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:21,280 -You killed her and then carved the unborn child from her womb. 676 00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:24,440 -She miscarried. 677 00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:28,040 She was in no fit state for anything. 678 00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:30,960 But he was still forcing her to go down there. 679 00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:34,520 To play his glittering wife. 680 00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:37,920 -What do you think the two of us would do? 681 00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:40,920 Live happily in a little cottage by the sea? 682 00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:46,520 I have to go downstairs. 683 00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:48,240 Stay here. 684 00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:50,160 -You are the one who is cruel. 685 00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:51,840 Cruel and a coward. 686 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:54,120 That child is better off! 687 00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:01,680 I'm sorry. I'm sorry. 688 00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:08,200 ♪♪ 689 00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:10,680 [ Door opens ] 690 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:14,520 [ Glasses clattering ] 691 00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:16,440 This is death. 692 00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:19,080 This is death! 693 00:37:19,240 --> 00:37:20,320 -But that's not all you did, is it? 694 00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:22,080 No. 695 00:37:22,240 --> 00:37:25,000 Because in that moment, according to your lawyer, 696 00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:26,800 you were some sort of automaton. 697 00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:28,640 A killing machine. 698 00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:30,960 And now you'd been given a reason to kill. 699 00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:32,960 -No. -He was turning you out. 700 00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:34,440 Again. 701 00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:37,480 And so you killed him. You killed his wife. 702 00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:39,080 -No. -Didn't you? 703 00:37:39,240 --> 00:37:40,800 -No. -You killed George Benham. 704 00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:42,720 -He deserved to die! 705 00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:44,520 [ Indistinct chatter ] 706 00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:52,000 ♪♪ 707 00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:53,560 He deserved to die. 708 00:37:53,720 --> 00:38:04,880 ♪♪ 709 00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:08,440 -[ Groaning ] 710 00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:15,800 She's ill. 711 00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:17,440 You need to send for a doctor. 712 00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:19,840 -No. -Please! 713 00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:22,680 -It's the damned drug, you know it is. 714 00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:24,560 Look at you, you're on it yourself. 715 00:38:24,720 --> 00:38:25,800 -No. 716 00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:27,560 It's not that. 717 00:38:27,720 --> 00:38:28,640 Something's very wrong. 718 00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:30,200 -Get off me! 719 00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:31,680 Tomorrow, she'll still be the same thorn in my side 720 00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:33,760 that she always is! 721 00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:36,240 And even if she's ill, I think it was de Sade who said, 722 00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:39,560 "It's better to have a dead wife than an unfaithful one." 723 00:38:39,720 --> 00:38:42,440 The only man that she had to avoid in the whole of London 724 00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:45,160 happened to be the one she fucked. 725 00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:46,200 And as for you, do you know what, 726 00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:47,880 you're worse than both of them. 727 00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:50,520 The things that you did at Paradise 728 00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:52,400 and now here, under my own roof. 729 00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:54,520 You really are John Langton's bastard, aren't you? 730 00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:56,200 You're animal, do you understand? 731 00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:58,160 You're filthy! You're disgusting! 732 00:38:58,320 --> 00:38:59,480 You should be ashamed of yourself -- 733 00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:01,040 -Aah! 734 00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:10,480 ♪♪ 735 00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:19,760 ♪♪ 736 00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:29,240 ♪♪ 737 00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:31,400 -[ Gasping ] 738 00:39:36,720 --> 00:39:37,600 -[ Breathing shakily ] 739 00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:46,760 ♪♪ 740 00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:49,360 -And so you killed him? 741 00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:54,120 -I killed him. 742 00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:56,120 [ Indistinct chatter ] 743 00:40:01,720 --> 00:40:05,240 I am not sorry for what I did to him. 744 00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:09,240 I had just had enough of everything. 745 00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:10,960 Of all of it. 746 00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:21,360 Afterwards, I went upstairs. 747 00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:23,120 What choice did I have? 748 00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:28,880 I should have run, of course, 749 00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:33,400 taken myself back into the streets. 750 00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:35,120 But I went back up... 751 00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:38,760 to her. 752 00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:48,960 ♪♪ 753 00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:59,080 ♪♪ 754 00:40:59,240 --> 00:41:01,600 When they told me she was dead... 755 00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:04,760 I thought, at first, 756 00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:07,800 it was because she was ill. 757 00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:09,520 She was burning up. 758 00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:15,160 But when they told me she had been stabbed... 759 00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:19,080 and after what I had done, I... 760 00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:24,680 I didn't know. 761 00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:27,000 I didn't know and I needed to know. 762 00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:33,360 I know you think I should have confessed 763 00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:37,120 everything at the start. 764 00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:40,120 But I needed to know I hadn't killed her first. 765 00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:47,000 I needed to know. I needed to know. 766 00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:52,480 -I don't know about you, but I've never seen anything 767 00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:56,600 quite like this in a very long career. 768 00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:06,200 Nevertheless, there are still procedures to follow. 769 00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:09,920 -My lord, gentlemen of the jury, 770 00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:13,800 you may be bewildered by what has happened here today, 771 00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:20,000 but, in fact, I have never seen a more straightforward case. 772 00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:21,280 -...laboured under a state of mind 773 00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:26,240 so disordered to deprive her of responsibility, 774 00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:28,040 as Mr. Pettigrew suggests... 775 00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:31,600 -...Mr. Benham was stabbed to death, he in his library, 776 00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:33,960 she in her own bedchamber. 777 00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:37,000 -Gentlemen of the jury. 778 00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:38,840 Have you reached a verdict? 779 00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:42,480 -We have. 780 00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:48,920 ♪♪ 781 00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:50,440 Guilty, my lord. 782 00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:56,440 ♪♪ 783 00:42:56,600 --> 00:42:59,600 -Both? 784 00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:01,360 Guilty of both? 785 00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:07,760 ♪♪ 786 00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:10,320 -Frances Langton, 787 00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:13,880 the scriptures say that whosoever shall spill blood, 788 00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:19,240 his blood also shall be spilt. 789 00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:21,520 I now impose upon you the sentence of the law 790 00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:23,400 and direct that you, Frances Langton, 791 00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:26,320 be taken from here to the place whence you came, 792 00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:29,640 and thence to the place of execution 793 00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:34,040 where you shall be hanged from the neck until you are dead. 794 00:43:37,240 --> 00:43:39,120 [ Chains clinking ] 795 00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:47,400 ♪♪ 796 00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:55,520 ♪♪ 797 00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:59,520 [ Door opens ] 798 00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:09,320 ♪♪ 799 00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:11,680 [ Lock clicks ] 800 00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:13,960 -I'm sorry. 801 00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:17,160 Is there anything I can do for you? 802 00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:19,840 Anything you need? 803 00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:24,520 No. Thank you. 804 00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:37,080 -You didn't say anything... 805 00:44:37,240 --> 00:44:39,280 about me and her. 806 00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:42,280 Thank you. 807 00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:46,400 -I could never understand why. 808 00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:48,680 How... 809 00:44:48,840 --> 00:44:51,440 What happened between you and her? 810 00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:53,720 -What did she say? 811 00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:55,680 -That she was lost. 812 00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:00,320 That she searched you out. 813 00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:04,880 That she feared she'd hurt you all over again 814 00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:09,000 in her moment of madness. 815 00:45:09,160 --> 00:45:15,280 And hurt me, too, by doing it. 816 00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:19,480 -[ Breathing shakily ] 817 00:45:19,640 --> 00:45:22,680 She was... 818 00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:24,920 lost. I mean... 819 00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:28,400 so was I. 820 00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:35,560 I-I suppose it was the same grief. 821 00:45:35,720 --> 00:45:36,480 The same fear. 822 00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:38,800 The same... 823 00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:40,520 confusion. 824 00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:46,560 And then I didn't know what would become of her. 825 00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:52,080 Of me. 826 00:45:52,240 --> 00:45:55,560 Of the child. 827 00:45:55,720 --> 00:46:00,480 It was all, as usual, within his control. 828 00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:17,400 He deserved to die. 829 00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:26,080 -[ Breathes shakily ] 830 00:46:30,120 --> 00:46:32,360 -[ Sighs ] 831 00:46:32,520 --> 00:46:41,480 ♪♪ 832 00:46:41,640 --> 00:46:47,280 -Since I came to this country, so many people have said to me 833 00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:53,120 that being owned must have taught me to hate. 834 00:46:53,280 --> 00:47:00,080 But the truth is there was love as well as hate. 835 00:47:00,240 --> 00:47:04,680 The truth is the love hurt worse. 836 00:47:04,840 --> 00:47:14,840 ♪♪ 837 00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:25,040 ♪♪ 838 00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:35,200 ♪♪ 839 00:47:35,360 --> 00:47:45,320 ♪♪ 840 00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:55,520 ♪♪ 841 00:47:55,680 --> 00:48:05,560 ♪♪ 842 00:48:05,720 --> 00:48:15,760 ♪♪ 843 00:48:15,920 --> 00:48:18,600 I'm afraid. 844 00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:26,160 ♪♪ 845 00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:33,560 ♪♪ 846 00:48:33,720 --> 00:48:38,840 [ Lock clicks ] 847 00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:43,440 [ Footsteps approach ] 848 00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:54,680 ♪♪ 849 00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:57,360 [ Chains rattling ] 850 00:48:57,520 --> 00:49:06,200 ♪♪ 851 00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:14,960 ♪♪ 852 00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:23,720 ♪♪ 853 00:49:23,880 --> 00:49:32,440 ♪♪ 854 00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:41,400 ♪♪ 855 00:49:41,560 --> 00:49:50,120 ♪♪