1 00:01:22,960 --> 00:01:25,760 Merry Christmas! 2 00:01:51,509 --> 00:01:53,270 Beggars. Beggars beg. 3 00:01:54,230 --> 00:01:55,690 Always begging. 4 00:01:56,730 --> 00:01:58,790 Begging to have something for nothing. 5 00:01:59,010 --> 00:02:03,570 Perhaps mankind should begin charging interest on kindness. 6 00:02:05,290 --> 00:02:10,110 And what, pray tell, is your experience with kindness, Mr. Marty? 7 00:02:13,930 --> 00:02:18,730 I recall only once when I agreed to partner with you. 8 00:02:19,170 --> 00:02:21,030 I don't know how many years ago. 9 00:02:21,630 --> 00:02:22,630 21. 10 00:02:23,470 --> 00:02:24,470 Is that so? 11 00:02:24,790 --> 00:02:29,510 Feel free to consult your records, but my attention to detail is precisely the 12 00:02:29,510 --> 00:02:32,230 reason that our doors have stayed open for all these years. 13 00:02:32,630 --> 00:02:38,110 Well, no doubt work ethic is your most valuable attribute. I will have you know 14 00:02:38,110 --> 00:02:42,970 that you are the only human being that I will permit to speak to me in such a 15 00:02:42,970 --> 00:02:43,970 manner. 16 00:02:44,380 --> 00:02:46,460 As if I required your permission. 17 00:02:47,740 --> 00:02:48,740 Sorry to interrupt. 18 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:51,000 I'll put the kettle on for you both. 19 00:02:52,340 --> 00:02:53,340 Headed home? 20 00:02:53,660 --> 00:02:55,760 Already? Young Cratchit? 21 00:02:56,260 --> 00:02:58,580 Yes, Mr. Marley, if that's suitable. 22 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:12,100 Unless perhaps... 23 00:03:12,620 --> 00:03:14,160 There's more pressing work to be done. 24 00:03:16,260 --> 00:03:17,260 No, no. 25 00:03:17,580 --> 00:03:19,840 You may begin again bright and early. 26 00:03:20,700 --> 00:03:23,160 Oh, but tomorrow's Christmas. 27 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:33,200 Well, you see, my youngest son, he's... None of our concern. 28 00:03:34,140 --> 00:03:35,880 It's a personal matter. 29 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:40,040 And if you have any mind to one day rise above your role as Clark... 30 00:03:40,810 --> 00:03:42,690 You shall keep it as such. 31 00:03:45,530 --> 00:03:46,610 Yes, Mr. Marley. 32 00:03:47,650 --> 00:03:51,870 Right, I'll be here. Oh, and I put the kettle on. Yes, you've said that 33 00:03:51,870 --> 00:03:52,870 already. 34 00:03:53,650 --> 00:03:56,290 You repeat yourself often. 35 00:03:59,310 --> 00:04:00,570 I try not to, sir. 36 00:04:01,330 --> 00:04:03,390 Perhaps try harder. 37 00:04:11,220 --> 00:04:12,240 Of course, sir. 38 00:04:13,380 --> 00:04:14,380 Good luck. 39 00:04:14,420 --> 00:04:16,600 And good luck to you, Mr Scrooge. 40 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:18,240 Merry Christmas. 41 00:04:23,620 --> 00:04:26,760 Christmas is for children now. 42 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:30,160 Not for men of value and business. 43 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:31,440 Indeed. 44 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:37,120 Let us warm ourselves with a new tea and gin. Three toasts to another year made 45 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:43,340 prosperous by those too poor and too blind to settle their debts. 46 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:46,700 Oh, for the poor! 47 00:04:47,220 --> 00:04:48,640 Oh, for the poor! 48 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:50,720 A little Christmas cheer. 49 00:04:51,380 --> 00:04:54,440 A little something for a cold man to... Look at it. 50 00:04:55,780 --> 00:04:57,100 Bloody fool. 51 00:05:27,980 --> 00:05:29,380 Jacob? 52 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:45,240 Jacob? 53 00:06:37,430 --> 00:06:42,050 He says, are there any words you wish to say? 54 00:06:43,930 --> 00:06:44,930 No. 55 00:06:50,130 --> 00:06:52,350 Was he a friend of yours in life? 56 00:06:53,390 --> 00:06:55,230 He was my partner in business. 57 00:06:55,550 --> 00:06:58,090 So, a mighty lost it. 58 00:06:58,570 --> 00:07:03,270 If his death must be placed in a letter, then yes, I suppose the lost column 59 00:07:03,270 --> 00:07:04,270 would be a progress. 60 00:07:04,790 --> 00:07:05,790 Please continue. 61 00:07:11,050 --> 00:07:13,230 Not a very popular chat, though. 62 00:07:24,070 --> 00:07:27,110 No man of value ever is. 63 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:29,040 Good day gentlemen. 64 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:30,540 On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day, and all the angels in heaven shall sing. On 65 00:10:30,540 --> 00:10:36,160 Christmas Day in their awning, and all the souls on earth shall sing. 66 00:10:44,660 --> 00:10:45,660 Morning, 67 00:10:50,140 --> 00:10:52,460 Bob. Merry Christmas, Uncle Ebenezer. 68 00:10:54,030 --> 00:10:55,870 Christmas a humbug? You don't mean that. 69 00:10:56,810 --> 00:10:57,810 Oh, I do. 70 00:10:58,950 --> 00:11:00,090 It's freezing in here. 71 00:11:00,430 --> 00:11:01,770 You could catch a death. 72 00:11:02,450 --> 00:11:04,290 But I guess you'd carry your own low temperature. 73 00:11:05,530 --> 00:11:07,910 What right have you to be so merry? 74 00:11:08,390 --> 00:11:10,610 What reason do you have to be so morose? 75 00:11:11,010 --> 00:11:13,690 Good cheer does not help to balance a ledger. 76 00:11:14,190 --> 00:11:18,530 And what is Christmas time anyway but a time for finding also the year older? 77 00:11:18,890 --> 00:11:22,970 One step closer to the gale and not one hour. 78 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:28,220 richer. If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with many 79 00:11:28,220 --> 00:11:33,340 placements on their lips should be boiled in their own pudding, buried with 80 00:11:33,340 --> 00:11:35,160 a stick of holly through their heart. 81 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:39,600 Keep Christmas in your own way. Let me keep it in mine. 82 00:11:40,740 --> 00:11:45,080 But you don't keep it. Let me leave it alone then. Uncle, I'm afraid you missed 83 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:46,080 the point. 84 00:11:46,140 --> 00:11:51,340 Tis a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time. 85 00:11:51,870 --> 00:11:55,190 The only one I know of in the long calendar year when men and women open 86 00:11:55,190 --> 00:11:58,870 their hearts freely and think of people below them as if they really were fellow 87 00:11:58,870 --> 00:12:01,790 passengers on life's journey and not another race of creatures. 88 00:12:02,150 --> 00:12:06,910 Though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe the 89 00:12:06,910 --> 00:12:11,470 holiday has done me good and will do me good. So I say, God bless it. 90 00:12:16,990 --> 00:12:18,830 And just what do you think you're doing then? 91 00:12:19,850 --> 00:12:24,730 One more sound from you, and you will keep Christmas by losing your situation. 92 00:12:25,510 --> 00:12:31,270 Now, if you have come to ask me for something, spit it out so that I may 93 00:12:31,270 --> 00:12:33,810 deny you and return to my obligations. 94 00:12:34,950 --> 00:12:36,370 Dine with us tonight. 95 00:12:36,990 --> 00:12:38,970 It'll be a great joy for my wife and I. 96 00:12:39,470 --> 00:12:40,470 No. 97 00:12:41,470 --> 00:12:42,470 But why? 98 00:12:42,650 --> 00:12:47,210 I don't wish to. Why on earth did you marry that penniless woman anyway? 99 00:12:47,390 --> 00:12:48,870 Because I fell in love. 100 00:12:51,210 --> 00:12:52,210 You fell in love. 101 00:12:54,350 --> 00:12:55,350 Good afternoon. 102 00:12:57,450 --> 00:12:58,830 Uncle, please. 103 00:12:59,410 --> 00:13:03,490 I want nothing from you. I ask nothing of you. Can't we just be friends? 104 00:13:03,770 --> 00:13:04,770 I don't need friends. 105 00:13:04,850 --> 00:13:06,490 Especially not the likes of you. 106 00:13:09,390 --> 00:13:12,450 Well, I'm sorry. I do not understand what makes you this way. 107 00:13:12,920 --> 00:13:16,560 We never had any quarrel in which I have been a party, but I braved the trek here 108 00:13:16,560 --> 00:13:20,600 in the spirit of kindness, and despite your rebuke, I shall keep my humor to 109 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:21,339 the last. 110 00:13:21,340 --> 00:13:26,860 So with that, I say to you again, Merry Christmas! 111 00:13:27,260 --> 00:13:29,800 And Happy New Year! 112 00:13:30,220 --> 00:13:30,740 Let 113 00:13:30,740 --> 00:13:39,300 him 114 00:13:39,300 --> 00:13:40,300 stop by. 115 00:13:41,700 --> 00:13:42,700 What? 116 00:13:58,939 --> 00:14:04,900 Have I the pleasure of addressing Mr. Scrooge or Mr. Marley? Mr. Marley is 117 00:14:04,900 --> 00:14:05,900 dead. 118 00:14:10,060 --> 00:14:15,900 We have no doubt his generosity is registered in the surviving partner. At 119 00:14:15,900 --> 00:14:21,360 this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge, it's usually desirable to make 120 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:24,960 some slight provisions for the poor and the destitute. 121 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:26,240 Are there no prisons? 122 00:14:29,060 --> 00:14:33,500 The union workhouses, they are still in operation, are they not? 123 00:14:34,720 --> 00:14:36,380 I'm... Afraid so. 124 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:42,220 Which is why some of us are endeavouring to raise funds to buy the unprivileged 125 00:14:42,220 --> 00:14:46,380 some meat and drink and other forms of warmth. 126 00:14:46,820 --> 00:14:49,000 How is a time above all else? 127 00:14:49,220 --> 00:14:53,640 Want is keenly felt and abundance rejoices. 128 00:14:53,940 --> 00:14:55,660 What shall I put you down for? 129 00:14:57,520 --> 00:15:00,220 Nothing. You wish to be left anonymous? 130 00:15:00,620 --> 00:15:01,820 I wish to be left alone. 131 00:15:02,830 --> 00:15:05,230 I support the establishments I mentioned. 132 00:15:05,630 --> 00:15:06,710 They cost me enough. 133 00:15:07,050 --> 00:15:11,870 Those who are badly off must go there. There are many who would rather die than 134 00:15:11,870 --> 00:15:12,769 go there. 135 00:15:12,770 --> 00:15:17,870 Well, if they would rather die, then they'd better do it and decrease the 136 00:15:17,870 --> 00:15:19,010 surplus population. 137 00:15:19,990 --> 00:15:25,870 But if you gentlemen would appease my curiosity, how much of these charitable 138 00:15:25,870 --> 00:15:29,310 donations have ended up lining your silken pockets? 139 00:15:30,010 --> 00:15:31,950 Five tailored waistcoats. 140 00:15:33,060 --> 00:15:34,540 Abundance rejoices deed. 141 00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:37,280 Oh, well, thank you. I didn't know all that. 142 00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:40,820 You can always depend on Scrooge and Marley. Or nothing! 143 00:16:08,810 --> 00:16:10,610 Fuck, this is pea soup. 144 00:16:11,270 --> 00:16:13,190 Not the weather one hopes for on Christmas. 145 00:16:13,450 --> 00:16:16,110 You'll be wanting the full day tomorrow, I suppose. 146 00:16:16,730 --> 00:16:17,730 If convenient, sir. 147 00:16:17,950 --> 00:16:18,950 It isn't convenient. 148 00:16:19,490 --> 00:16:20,690 And it is not fair. 149 00:16:21,850 --> 00:16:26,230 It's just what's here, sir. Poor excuse for picking the man's pocket every 25th 150 00:16:26,230 --> 00:16:27,069 of December. 151 00:16:27,070 --> 00:16:32,530 Now this is a world of charlatans and slingers, and especially ravenous on 152 00:16:32,530 --> 00:16:33,530 holidays. 153 00:16:34,410 --> 00:16:38,170 My mother often said, just because there are rotten apples, that does not 154 00:16:38,170 --> 00:16:39,890 preclude the existence of good fruit. 155 00:16:40,850 --> 00:16:41,850 Did she? 156 00:16:42,730 --> 00:16:46,190 Just the sort of liar a woman would feed her child. 157 00:16:53,130 --> 00:16:56,130 Right then, I suppose you may have the day tomorrow. 158 00:16:56,590 --> 00:17:00,670 However, you will be here all the earlier the next morning. 159 00:17:01,390 --> 00:17:04,630 Of course I'm going to say her name. And murder you, girl. 160 00:19:33,130 --> 00:19:34,130 Oh. 161 00:20:44,810 --> 00:20:46,670 You listen to me, you are wasting your efforts! 162 00:20:47,390 --> 00:20:49,950 I intentionally keep nothing but a ceiling in this house. 163 00:20:50,770 --> 00:20:51,770 Here we go! 164 00:20:52,150 --> 00:20:53,470 Leave me in peace, please! 165 00:20:53,710 --> 00:20:54,710 Please! 166 00:21:37,770 --> 00:21:38,770 Shamosa! 167 00:21:39,410 --> 00:21:40,670 Where are you? 168 00:21:59,030 --> 00:22:00,070 Didn't I? 169 00:22:00,810 --> 00:22:03,290 I was your partner. 170 00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:11,399 It can't be. 171 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:12,940 How is that possible? 172 00:22:13,380 --> 00:22:16,140 Why do you doubt your senses? 173 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:19,680 Say, who are they? 174 00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:22,300 It is dead. 175 00:22:23,980 --> 00:22:25,580 Death is at all now. 176 00:22:26,060 --> 00:22:27,960 That's why I'm here. 177 00:22:31,700 --> 00:22:32,700 Notwithstanding. 178 00:22:34,060 --> 00:22:37,760 Yes, you are quite particular for a ghost. 179 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:41,880 Well, if it is indeed really you, can you sit? 180 00:23:35,210 --> 00:23:39,930 Do you believe in me or not? 181 00:23:55,390 --> 00:23:59,470 How it is I appear in a shape that you can see. 182 00:23:59,690 --> 00:24:00,810 I'm in a tower. 183 00:24:01,130 --> 00:24:08,050 I walk unfettered by time, shackled to the chain I forged in life. 184 00:24:08,590 --> 00:24:15,330 Made link by link, yard by yard, and 185 00:24:15,330 --> 00:24:19,230 with my own fever, I wore it unseen. 186 00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:27,300 Till the day of my death, do you know the weight and length of the chain you 187 00:24:27,300 --> 00:24:28,300 bear yourself? 188 00:24:29,820 --> 00:24:33,940 Yours is a ponderous chain. 189 00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:38,240 Jacob. 190 00:24:40,360 --> 00:24:42,540 Oh, Jacob Marley. 191 00:24:43,660 --> 00:24:46,480 You were my dearest friend. 192 00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:49,440 Would you speak up to me? 193 00:24:50,510 --> 00:24:51,710 I have long to give. 194 00:24:52,090 --> 00:24:58,150 I am doomed to wander the world like so many others and witness what we cannot 195 00:24:58,150 --> 00:25:03,370 share, but might have shared, honest, and turned to happiness. 196 00:25:03,770 --> 00:25:09,970 My spirit never walked beyond our carting house, never rode beyond the 197 00:25:09,970 --> 00:25:15,250 narrow limits of our money-changing hole, and now, 198 00:25:15,450 --> 00:25:17,050 acclaimed. 199 00:25:19,370 --> 00:25:20,530 eternal price. 200 00:25:21,770 --> 00:25:26,390 Mark me, I have come here tonight to warn you. 201 00:25:26,930 --> 00:25:33,850 You still have the chance and 202 00:25:33,850 --> 00:25:37,530 hope of escaping my fate. 203 00:25:39,750 --> 00:25:40,750 How? 204 00:25:42,250 --> 00:25:47,750 You will be haunted by three spirits. 205 00:25:53,139 --> 00:25:56,680 You can assume the path I tread. 206 00:25:59,920 --> 00:26:03,980 And that is the Jon Snow animation. 207 00:26:51,669 --> 00:26:54,290 Look to see me no more. 208 00:26:55,250 --> 00:27:00,450 For your own... For God's sake, Ebenezer, remember what has passed 209 00:27:00,450 --> 00:27:01,790 between us. 210 00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:56,540 Oh, my God. 211 00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:02,660 Dream, terrible, heinous dream. 212 00:29:44,780 --> 00:29:47,820 Who or what are you? 213 00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:56,760 I am the ghost of Christmas past. 214 00:29:57,500 --> 00:29:59,500 What business fix you here? 215 00:29:59,880 --> 00:30:01,960 Your welfare. 216 00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:04,900 A nice rest wouldn't trump my welfare. 217 00:30:05,780 --> 00:30:08,860 Rise and take my hand. 218 00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:12,960 Walk with me into the past. 219 00:30:13,580 --> 00:30:16,100 Let us see if it is as you remember. 220 00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:18,140 No, no, no, I will not. 221 00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:20,640 Take my hand. 222 00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:22,160 I will not! 223 00:30:22,420 --> 00:30:23,900 I will not leave this bed! 224 00:30:24,140 --> 00:30:25,139 Do you hear me? 225 00:30:25,140 --> 00:30:26,140 See? 226 00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:28,920 Very well. 227 00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:15,040 When I remove this blanket, that will be back in my bed. It's like it's dug in 228 00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:15,779 and dug. 229 00:31:15,780 --> 00:31:16,780 Simple as that. 230 00:31:26,620 --> 00:31:28,180 Please, please. 231 00:31:32,220 --> 00:31:33,680 I know this place. 232 00:31:34,860 --> 00:31:36,360 I was a child here. 233 00:31:37,870 --> 00:31:38,870 It's my old school. 234 00:31:41,450 --> 00:31:42,930 I was like that here. 235 00:31:43,150 --> 00:31:48,130 The school is not quite yet deserted. 236 00:32:23,959 --> 00:32:26,760 Spirit? Spirit? 237 00:32:30,260 --> 00:32:32,580 Young man? 238 00:32:37,870 --> 00:32:38,870 find your schoolmaster. 239 00:32:41,130 --> 00:32:46,170 Young man, I'm speaking to you. Have you no manners at all? 240 00:32:49,150 --> 00:32:50,150 No. 241 00:32:50,590 --> 00:32:57,490 A solitary, forgotten boy left lonesome and neglected while others make to 242 00:32:57,490 --> 00:32:58,490 leave for Christmas. 243 00:32:58,930 --> 00:33:00,970 What species of devilry is this? 244 00:33:01,530 --> 00:33:04,210 That is to myself, young girl. 245 00:33:20,899 --> 00:33:25,640 He was a boy. 246 00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:42,740 There is no comfort in this memory. 247 00:33:49,900 --> 00:33:53,260 Shall we sink shadows of this place? 248 00:34:32,110 --> 00:34:33,110 Why are you here? 249 00:34:33,270 --> 00:34:34,650 We've come to bring you home. 250 00:34:35,469 --> 00:34:36,469 Forever. 251 00:34:37,070 --> 00:34:38,070 We? 252 00:34:39,030 --> 00:34:40,350 Fathers. Just there. 253 00:34:46,270 --> 00:34:47,270 Don't fret. 254 00:34:47,690 --> 00:34:49,550 He's changed his ways. 255 00:34:49,790 --> 00:34:50,790 You'll see. 256 00:34:50,989 --> 00:34:53,190 He's agreed to bring you back for good this time. 257 00:34:54,110 --> 00:34:55,110 He has? 258 00:34:55,230 --> 00:34:57,990 Oh, Ebenezer. Home will be like heaven again. 259 00:34:59,310 --> 00:35:00,710 How I've missed you so. 260 00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:04,080 I missed you too. 261 00:35:04,580 --> 00:35:05,580 Come. 262 00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:08,120 Home for Christmas. 263 00:35:11,580 --> 00:35:18,480 Your sister was 264 00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:22,000 a delicate creature who died a young woman. 265 00:35:22,780 --> 00:35:23,880 Too young. 266 00:35:24,140 --> 00:35:28,020 But not too young to bear a child. 267 00:35:28,580 --> 00:35:31,960 And yet you keep him at a distance. 268 00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:35,780 Her loss pardoned you. 269 00:35:36,460 --> 00:35:42,560 If you know so much, tell me, upon my death will she and I be reunited? 270 00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:46,280 I cannot see the future, only the past. 271 00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:48,320 Little prophet I yield. 272 00:35:48,700 --> 00:35:52,960 Tis my penance, for I did not honour the time I was gifted. 273 00:35:54,100 --> 00:35:58,040 What else do you remember of this day? 274 00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:00,680 I remember that in the moment... 275 00:36:01,020 --> 00:36:07,760 Young fan spoke the truth, but home was only heaven for a short while, and then 276 00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:08,800 hell again. 277 00:36:51,470 --> 00:36:55,550 You nearly froze to death, hiding in that water. 278 00:36:55,910 --> 00:37:01,910 Perhaps you would have, if not for the only source of warmth you knew. 279 00:37:04,630 --> 00:37:05,630 Stop. 280 00:37:06,510 --> 00:37:10,970 No. You have not the right to see this. Not any of it. 281 00:37:11,530 --> 00:37:14,550 My life is not for entertainment. 282 00:37:18,010 --> 00:37:19,550 Enough, I said. 283 00:37:20,220 --> 00:37:22,540 This nightmare has run its course. 284 00:37:31,020 --> 00:37:34,680 Your nightmare has just begun. 285 00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:39,100 And what is it you expect of me? 286 00:37:39,780 --> 00:37:41,520 To change my ways? 287 00:37:42,540 --> 00:37:46,780 Simply because you rubbed my nose in what has gone by? 288 00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:48,200 Yes, I'm free! 289 00:37:48,750 --> 00:37:50,270 My father was flawed. 290 00:37:50,610 --> 00:37:51,870 There were very hard times. 291 00:37:52,090 --> 00:37:54,110 There were big liars. Famine. 292 00:37:54,330 --> 00:38:00,870 No one was able to get it from him. You may try to close your eyes to the 293 00:38:00,870 --> 00:38:04,770 past, but it shall not close its eyes to you. 294 00:38:05,410 --> 00:38:09,070 Life has always been a cruel, miserable affair. 295 00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:35,480 Do you not recognise the sadness of this scenario? 296 00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:37,480 I do. 297 00:38:38,740 --> 00:38:39,740 And? 298 00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:45,700 Well, much can be accomplished in silence, which I had in abundance until 299 00:38:45,700 --> 00:38:46,700 a moment ago. 300 00:38:47,820 --> 00:38:49,160 No more work tonight. 301 00:38:50,220 --> 00:38:54,460 It's Christmas Eve, and the party's already in full swing. Why aren't you 302 00:38:54,460 --> 00:38:56,040 there then? Oh, believe me, I was. 303 00:38:56,810 --> 00:39:00,470 But our dear employer Fezziwig, he's gotten it into his head that even a 304 00:39:00,470 --> 00:39:04,010 lowly apprentice such as yourself should still be having a bit of fun. 305 00:39:04,630 --> 00:39:09,690 He instructed that someone go and fetch you from your dreary existence. 306 00:39:10,250 --> 00:39:11,169 Did he? 307 00:39:11,170 --> 00:39:12,170 He did indeed. 308 00:39:12,430 --> 00:39:15,850 And I bet him all the umbrellas in London that I could be the one to 309 00:39:15,850 --> 00:39:17,070 deliver you. 310 00:39:19,290 --> 00:39:22,870 And how exactly do you plan on doing that? 311 00:39:23,510 --> 00:39:24,510 Simple. 312 00:39:24,970 --> 00:39:26,770 Bell is also in attendance. 313 00:40:02,730 --> 00:40:07,190 As his clerk, I always thought he'd be an old man, but seeing him now, it's 314 00:40:07,190 --> 00:40:08,970 remarkable how young he was. 315 00:40:10,190 --> 00:40:12,110 How young we all were. 316 00:40:13,010 --> 00:40:19,510 Such a small matter to make these silly folks so full of gratitude. 317 00:40:19,950 --> 00:40:21,070 It's not small at all. 318 00:40:21,310 --> 00:40:25,310 He has only spent but a few pounds of your mortal money. 319 00:40:25,570 --> 00:40:30,290 It's not about that. It's about to render us happy or nappy to make our 320 00:40:30,290 --> 00:40:31,290 service light. 321 00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:35,980 Perhaps you'd like to say a few words to your own folk? 322 00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:41,300 What is the matter? 323 00:40:42,720 --> 00:40:44,000 You tell me. 324 00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:49,520 Where did all of Fezziweig's generosity get him? 325 00:40:59,790 --> 00:41:03,330 Made his times with a knife to the belly. 326 00:41:14,650 --> 00:41:15,290 Come 327 00:41:15,290 --> 00:41:25,050 and 328 00:41:25,050 --> 00:41:26,050 dance with me. 329 00:41:36,190 --> 00:41:37,790 Who is that? 330 00:41:39,510 --> 00:41:40,730 That is Belle. 331 00:41:41,570 --> 00:41:44,530 I've not had the courage to speak her name in many years. 332 00:41:45,030 --> 00:41:47,230 And what was she to you? 333 00:41:49,430 --> 00:41:50,630 For a time. 334 00:41:55,590 --> 00:41:56,590 Everything. 335 00:42:05,610 --> 00:42:10,810 recall the substance of what we were speaking, but I remember it feeling more 336 00:42:10,810 --> 00:42:12,430 important than my own breath. 337 00:42:13,270 --> 00:42:18,550 How fortunate we were to have found one another in such a crowded world. 338 00:42:19,210 --> 00:42:23,870 And far too innocent to realize just how precious it all was. 339 00:42:59,939 --> 00:43:02,940 And once you're done with these, I will replenish you with an all-new 340 00:43:02,940 --> 00:43:03,940 assortment. 341 00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:22,360 Even during the duties of my employment, I could not help remember her gentle 342 00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:23,360 image. 343 00:43:30,060 --> 00:43:32,160 What is that? 344 00:43:34,340 --> 00:43:36,120 A lock of her hair. 345 00:43:36,740 --> 00:43:38,360 She gifted me. 346 00:43:38,580 --> 00:43:43,200 I would run it between my fingers whenever I was away from her. 347 00:43:45,420 --> 00:43:47,260 I so admired her passion. 348 00:43:47,860 --> 00:43:50,700 When I had to work late, she would do the very same. 349 00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:55,620 Sneak into my shabby little flat and craft her stories. 350 00:43:56,200 --> 00:43:58,200 Dream her magnificent dreams. 351 00:43:58,860 --> 00:44:03,660 Always very eager to tell me about them the second that I walked through the 352 00:44:03,660 --> 00:44:04,660 door. 353 00:44:21,900 --> 00:44:24,460 Must wait, reality sooner or later. 354 00:44:26,020 --> 00:44:27,140 Last point? 355 00:44:29,820 --> 00:44:33,920 I gather they would be called something other than dreams, if not. 356 00:44:38,820 --> 00:44:44,340 Despite my absence at home, my work was impeccable. 357 00:44:44,580 --> 00:44:48,280 I rose in the ranks, much quicker than expected. 358 00:44:48,840 --> 00:44:53,320 I showed them all, my father, my so-called peers, 359 00:44:54,040 --> 00:45:00,060 all those who ever doubted me. I was willing to pay any cost to be a success, 360 00:45:00,340 --> 00:45:01,600 which I did. 361 00:45:02,220 --> 00:45:06,880 It may matter little to you, very little, but another idol has displaced 362 00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:08,060 me. What idol? 363 00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:09,440 A golden one. 364 00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:13,740 I hope it comforts you in times I would have tried to do. Nothing will change a 365 00:45:13,740 --> 00:45:17,380 man more tightly than poverty. I'm simply striving to ensure our security. 366 00:45:17,540 --> 00:45:21,040 Why do you not see that? I see that you only focus on the shadow and never the 367 00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:25,480 sun. I cannot live that way. You fear the world too much. You know nothing of 368 00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:27,540 it. You live in your imagination. 369 00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:31,720 And yet I have still witnessed your noble aspirations fall off one by one. 370 00:45:32,140 --> 00:45:36,180 Our contract was an old one. It was made when we were both poor and content to be 371 00:45:36,180 --> 00:45:38,240 so. You were another man then. I was a boy. 372 00:45:42,090 --> 00:45:46,530 How often I have thought this I will not say, but it is enough to know that I 373 00:45:46,530 --> 00:45:48,010 have thought it. 374 00:45:49,510 --> 00:45:50,670 I release you. 375 00:45:53,490 --> 00:45:54,730 I've never sought release. 376 00:45:55,030 --> 00:45:56,150 In words, no. 377 00:45:57,010 --> 00:45:58,030 In what, then? 378 00:45:59,730 --> 00:46:01,850 In a changed nature, a hardened spirit. 379 00:46:02,410 --> 00:46:04,750 Your own feelings tell you so, I know they do. 380 00:46:05,100 --> 00:46:08,480 If you were free today, would you still seek me out and try to win me now? Am I 381 00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:12,220 really to believe that you would choose a dowerless girl, you who weigh 382 00:46:12,220 --> 00:46:13,300 everything by gain? 383 00:46:13,700 --> 00:46:16,580 Do I not know that repentance and regret would surely follow? 384 00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:19,020 I release you. 385 00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:23,420 With a full heart and for the love of who you once were. 386 00:46:25,420 --> 00:46:27,560 Well, that's most decent of you. 387 00:46:28,100 --> 00:46:30,120 I shall forever cherish our time together. 388 00:46:32,270 --> 00:46:35,590 But the memory of what has passed makes me believe that you will have pain in 389 00:46:35,590 --> 00:46:39,970 this for a very brief moment and then dismiss the recollection gladly as yet 390 00:46:39,970 --> 00:46:41,190 another unprofitable dream. 391 00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:17,080 May you be happy in the life that you've chosen. 392 00:47:25,500 --> 00:47:26,860 What are you doing? 393 00:47:27,340 --> 00:47:29,100 What are you doing? 394 00:47:29,300 --> 00:47:30,300 You fool! 395 00:47:30,740 --> 00:47:33,040 You go after her and you get enough. 396 00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:36,940 You will regret this moment for the rest of your miserable life. 397 00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:39,460 He can't hear. 398 00:48:07,820 --> 00:48:11,840 Sometimes in life, it is better to break than to fall. 399 00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:17,280 Take me home. I wish to see no more of this. 400 00:48:18,580 --> 00:48:20,500 It is far too painful to bear all of it. 401 00:48:21,020 --> 00:48:22,500 You must not look away. 402 00:48:23,020 --> 00:48:24,440 So take me back. 403 00:48:24,860 --> 00:48:26,240 I cannot go back. 404 00:48:26,720 --> 00:48:28,860 I belong to the past. 405 00:48:29,100 --> 00:48:30,200 But it's not where I belong! 406 00:48:30,540 --> 00:48:32,640 Take me home, I say! Hold me! 407 00:49:56,730 --> 00:49:57,730 You're late. 408 00:49:59,810 --> 00:50:00,810 What? 409 00:50:02,210 --> 00:50:04,570 You are late. 410 00:50:11,470 --> 00:50:13,130 Shut up, my good man. 411 00:50:14,410 --> 00:50:15,790 Do you know me? 412 00:50:16,130 --> 00:50:20,390 Because I'm sure that I would have remembered someone. 413 00:50:38,229 --> 00:50:43,770 I don't recognize your accent. 414 00:50:45,290 --> 00:50:46,890 Whereabouts are you from? 415 00:50:48,170 --> 00:50:50,190 Here and now, it's a... 416 00:50:51,660 --> 00:50:52,660 They're here and now. 417 00:50:58,660 --> 00:50:59,660 Familiar, aren't they? 418 00:51:00,540 --> 00:51:01,860 Stralatins and swindlers. 419 00:51:04,580 --> 00:51:08,800 They should be boiled in their own pudding and buried with a stick of holly 420 00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:09,800 for their heart. 421 00:51:11,120 --> 00:51:12,400 What say you? 422 00:51:31,480 --> 00:51:38,480 I've lost track of time and I must be on my way. Tomorrow is Christmas after all. 423 00:51:38,680 --> 00:51:39,680 So it is. 424 00:51:41,060 --> 00:51:42,180 So it is. 425 00:51:42,780 --> 00:51:45,280 So it is. 426 00:52:18,990 --> 00:52:20,570 The ghost of Christmas present. 427 00:52:23,170 --> 00:52:24,670 I should have gathered. 428 00:52:25,370 --> 00:52:27,650 I do not think I wish to know you. 429 00:52:28,250 --> 00:52:32,510 You're welcome to take your chances out there with them. 430 00:53:04,390 --> 00:53:05,890 I'm good all night! 431 00:53:19,730 --> 00:53:20,730 God, 432 00:53:25,110 --> 00:53:26,110 what is this? 433 00:53:26,590 --> 00:53:29,090 We need not shiver out here in cold. 434 00:53:29,790 --> 00:53:33,170 for something that I see daily from the warmth of my ring-tail. 435 00:53:33,490 --> 00:53:36,990 Elizabeth, it is not about him, nor you. 436 00:53:38,050 --> 00:53:39,690 Who is it about him? 437 00:53:40,870 --> 00:53:44,290 Him. Of course it was her. 438 00:53:45,390 --> 00:53:46,910 Don't you dare. 439 00:54:03,310 --> 00:54:08,370 reminds us that our Lord was born not in gilded halls, 440 00:54:08,690 --> 00:54:14,650 but in a lowly stable among the beasts 441 00:54:14,650 --> 00:54:16,530 and straw. 442 00:54:18,610 --> 00:54:25,370 He who found no place to lay his head came here not to 443 00:54:25,370 --> 00:54:27,750 receive, but to give. 444 00:54:28,530 --> 00:54:30,950 So shall we hope. 445 00:54:32,100 --> 00:54:37,920 It's easy to forget that titles, wealth, admiration 446 00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:43,620 are not proper measures for a man's worth. 447 00:54:44,660 --> 00:54:51,360 We often think that if we can only earn a little more, climb a little higher... 448 00:54:51,360 --> 00:54:53,000 What is wrong with the boy? 449 00:54:54,120 --> 00:54:56,040 Do you not know his name? 450 00:54:56,820 --> 00:55:00,140 Why would I know the name of my lost child? 451 00:55:08,680 --> 00:55:15,400 But from what we loosen from our... Walls we build to protect 452 00:55:15,400 --> 00:55:19,940 ourselves become the very... Right, I get the point. Sit. 453 00:55:20,600 --> 00:55:24,660 If you have more to show me than there doesn't belong, sit down. 454 00:55:25,180 --> 00:55:27,100 I don't like it here. 455 00:55:29,020 --> 00:55:30,100 Shut up! 456 00:55:31,160 --> 00:55:32,940 We follow our law. 457 00:55:33,520 --> 00:55:35,240 We turn our... 458 00:55:44,970 --> 00:55:48,550 for life in service of our Lord intended. 459 00:55:49,570 --> 00:55:54,230 At this time, let us kneel in silent prayer. 460 00:57:19,240 --> 00:57:20,240 What are you doing? 461 00:57:21,160 --> 00:57:23,220 The damn crutch keeps falling to pieces. 462 00:57:23,740 --> 00:57:24,740 Here, let me. 463 00:57:24,920 --> 00:57:26,100 No, I've got it. 464 00:57:30,920 --> 00:57:31,920 What's troubling you? 465 00:57:37,560 --> 00:57:38,560 Tim. 466 00:57:39,460 --> 00:57:41,660 Somehow he says the strangest things you've ever heard. 467 00:57:42,080 --> 00:57:46,600 He told me, kind of, that he hoped the people at the church saw him because he 468 00:57:46,600 --> 00:57:47,600 was a cripple. 469 00:57:47,640 --> 00:57:51,380 And it might be pleasant for them to remember a Christmas who made lame 470 00:57:51,380 --> 00:57:53,020 beggars walk the blind man's sea. 471 00:57:58,420 --> 00:58:01,320 If I can have one wish, 472 00:58:01,520 --> 00:58:08,200 it's that God heard our song that will not disappear. 473 00:58:11,800 --> 00:58:16,420 I adore you and the children, and I'm so sorry. 474 00:58:21,480 --> 00:58:22,480 It's not enough. 475 00:58:24,180 --> 00:58:25,720 You're a hard worker, Robert. 476 00:58:26,100 --> 00:58:28,100 A good man. And was it a man or two? 477 00:58:28,500 --> 00:58:29,500 Our family. 478 00:58:30,360 --> 00:58:31,360 Us. 479 00:58:32,760 --> 00:58:36,160 You've always done everything asked of you to rise your way up through the 480 00:58:36,160 --> 00:58:39,620 ranks. Perhaps in the new year you can speak to Mr Scrooge. 481 00:58:39,840 --> 00:58:41,180 A rise as long overdue. 482 00:58:41,500 --> 00:58:45,720 Would he really not entertain it after all this time? He'd consider treasonous 483 00:58:45,720 --> 00:58:49,450 to his own standardness. If this is how he... He treats his line of faithful 484 00:58:49,450 --> 00:58:52,550 punk like a shadow to think of the hate reserved for those he owes nothing. 485 00:58:52,870 --> 00:58:57,330 What an odious, stingy heart. I've seen the man. I despise him. 486 00:59:03,550 --> 00:59:04,650 We'll see our way through. 487 00:59:05,350 --> 00:59:06,350 We always do. 488 00:59:08,650 --> 00:59:09,670 We love each other. 489 00:59:14,410 --> 00:59:16,950 Who has often been that ready? 490 00:59:18,090 --> 00:59:19,390 then Merry Christmas, darling. 491 00:59:51,120 --> 00:59:52,260 I do not hate Cratchit. 492 00:59:52,580 --> 00:59:55,500 As a matter of fact, nothing could be further from the truth. 493 00:59:56,440 --> 00:59:58,220 I employ him, do I not? 494 00:59:58,760 --> 01:00:02,960 He's a very good worker, he's very thorough, but that is only a requirement 495 01:00:02,960 --> 01:00:04,060 of his position. 496 01:00:05,240 --> 01:00:06,320 Is it now? 497 01:00:06,580 --> 01:00:07,580 Yes. 498 01:00:07,920 --> 01:00:09,040 What would you know? 499 01:00:09,800 --> 01:00:11,440 You're not even of his world. 500 01:00:11,660 --> 01:00:15,420 You cannot appreciate the challenges that confront a businessman. 501 01:00:16,140 --> 01:00:18,340 Cratchit should be very grateful for his employment. 502 01:00:18,940 --> 01:00:24,080 Besides, I was never given a raise for doing what was asked of me. 503 01:00:26,200 --> 01:00:30,700 I will not apologize for my well-earned success. 504 01:00:31,120 --> 01:00:33,040 But must you be so cruel about it? 505 01:00:33,340 --> 01:00:37,800 It is not your wealth that is despised. But, Isa, what is it then? 506 01:00:38,220 --> 01:00:44,960 Your greed. That which you label greed is very simply prudence. 507 01:00:46,810 --> 01:00:49,310 There was something I've said that struck you as humorous. 508 01:00:49,550 --> 01:00:54,030 I was marveling at how long your chains might be. 509 01:00:54,350 --> 01:00:58,950 What is your purpose? If not to help me avoid that very fate. 510 01:00:59,170 --> 01:01:05,430 Purpose? My purpose was forfeited long ago. I merely show you what there is to 511 01:01:05,430 --> 01:01:10,850 be seen. Whether you learn from it or not, it is of no consequence to me. I 512 01:01:10,850 --> 01:01:15,350 toss and turn over your well-being as you do for your clock. 513 01:01:27,500 --> 01:01:29,060 Please, one moment. 514 01:01:38,200 --> 01:01:39,600 The crippled boy. 515 01:01:40,380 --> 01:01:42,520 Will he overcome his deficiencies? 516 01:01:42,920 --> 01:01:48,020 I see a vacant seat in a poor chimney corner and a crutch without an owner 517 01:01:48,020 --> 01:01:49,020 carefully preserved. 518 01:01:49,460 --> 01:01:52,580 If these shadows remain unaltered, the child will die. 519 01:01:57,480 --> 01:02:01,960 If he'd be like to die, he'd better do it and decrease the surplus population. 520 01:02:05,000 --> 01:02:06,060 Maybe, sir. 521 01:02:08,900 --> 01:02:15,880 If a person's worth decides who lives and dies, you may 522 01:02:15,880 --> 01:02:18,580 be less valuable than that poor child in there. 523 01:02:19,060 --> 01:02:25,760 More worthless and less fit to live than millions like him. 524 01:02:29,200 --> 01:02:30,200 So say you. 525 01:02:34,620 --> 01:02:36,060 Not only me. 526 01:02:37,180 --> 01:02:38,180 Come along. 527 01:02:39,080 --> 01:02:42,780 Then he said Christmas was a humbug, as I live. 528 01:02:43,280 --> 01:02:44,620 He believed it too. 529 01:02:45,260 --> 01:02:47,280 Oh, he is a comical old fellow. 530 01:02:47,680 --> 01:02:51,960 However, his offences carry their own punishment. 531 01:02:52,380 --> 01:02:54,940 For a punished soul, he is very rich. 532 01:02:55,260 --> 01:02:56,380 At least you tell me so. 533 01:02:56,920 --> 01:03:00,180 Yeah, but there's more to life than money. His wealth is of no use. He 534 01:03:00,180 --> 01:03:02,760 doesn't do any good with it. He doesn't even make himself comfortable. 535 01:03:03,040 --> 01:03:04,040 Shame on that man. 536 01:03:04,360 --> 01:03:08,260 Fred won't say it, but I will. He is a pickled old skinflint. 537 01:03:08,480 --> 01:03:13,880 I have no patience for him. Nor I with you, you frivolous ninny. Who suffers by 538 01:03:13,880 --> 01:03:15,920 his ill wills? Himself, always. 539 01:03:16,200 --> 01:03:19,180 Well, he misses a very good dinner. 540 01:03:20,250 --> 01:03:25,070 And I'm held greatly by this delicious wine. What sympathy am I meant to find 541 01:03:25,070 --> 01:03:30,090 listening to people slander me behind my back? Honestly, I just feel sorry for 542 01:03:30,090 --> 01:03:32,350 him. I mean, he fears getting close to anyone. 543 01:03:35,170 --> 01:03:36,210 You go on, Fred. 544 01:03:37,710 --> 01:03:44,310 I was just saying that, uh... What was I saying? He never finishes what he begins 545 01:03:44,310 --> 01:03:45,158 to say. 546 01:03:45,160 --> 01:03:48,360 Don't worry, it'll come to you. Your uncle's office. It's the counting house 547 01:03:48,360 --> 01:03:53,040 on Cornhill Street, yes? It has that mouldy old sign out the front. 548 01:03:53,720 --> 01:03:55,860 Scrooge and, um... Marley? 549 01:03:56,140 --> 01:03:56,999 What is it? 550 01:03:57,000 --> 01:03:59,700 Marley. Yes, that's it. Who's Marley? 551 01:04:00,160 --> 01:04:02,240 Marley. It's his old partner. 552 01:04:02,640 --> 01:04:04,200 Dead now seven years. 553 01:04:04,560 --> 01:04:08,980 Really? How ghoulish, then, to keep the sign as such. It's macabre. I guess 554 01:04:08,980 --> 01:04:10,700 that's the perfect word for it. Macabre. 555 01:04:11,590 --> 01:04:14,770 There's nothing macabre about it. He was my partner. He was my friend. 556 01:04:14,990 --> 01:04:18,610 And it happens to be the name of a very well-established business. 557 01:04:19,110 --> 01:04:20,110 I don't understand. 558 01:04:20,270 --> 01:04:22,670 Why wouldn't you just change it? 559 01:04:23,830 --> 01:04:25,690 Right. I remember now what I was going to say. 560 01:04:27,760 --> 01:04:31,240 then do enlighten us i mean to give him the same chance every year whether he 561 01:04:31,240 --> 01:04:35,280 likes it or not because he's family and while he may rail at christmas till the 562 01:04:35,280 --> 01:04:39,440 day he dies he can't help thinking better of it he finds me going there 563 01:04:39,440 --> 01:04:44,820 year after year and saying uncle scrooge how are you showing him he has more than 564 01:04:44,820 --> 01:04:51,600 himself to rely on i do believe i almost succeeded today yeah 565 01:04:51,600 --> 01:04:52,600 almost 566 01:04:53,440 --> 01:04:54,860 Hence the extra play setting. 567 01:04:55,080 --> 01:04:57,600 Sounds as if you had a better chance of dining with a ghost. 568 01:04:58,900 --> 01:05:02,400 Maybe if you borrowed money from him, he could be something. Ah, yes, punctual 569 01:05:02,400 --> 01:05:03,660 for debts, just not for dinner. 570 01:05:04,580 --> 01:05:06,680 Well, perhaps you're right. 571 01:05:07,140 --> 01:05:10,700 I love you, but sometimes you are too good. How you can continue to make 572 01:05:10,700 --> 01:05:13,540 excuses for that man and endure such rejection, I will never understand. 573 01:05:14,000 --> 01:05:18,360 What sin do you believe you committed to give yourself such a penance? 574 01:05:18,660 --> 01:05:22,560 None at all, only that... There's ought to be a ritual. 575 01:05:24,520 --> 01:05:28,480 I know my dear mother would have wanted me to. 576 01:05:32,060 --> 01:05:36,980 And he's my one and last true connection to her. 577 01:05:44,960 --> 01:05:46,480 To Uncle Scrooge, then. 578 01:05:47,220 --> 01:05:50,820 A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, wherever you are. 579 01:05:51,660 --> 01:05:53,420 To Uncle Scrooge. 580 01:05:55,560 --> 01:05:56,560 And Molly. 581 01:05:57,200 --> 01:05:58,540 May he rest in peace. 582 01:06:25,230 --> 01:06:26,430 What are you doing in here? 583 01:06:30,750 --> 01:06:32,670 Is there something wrong with you? 584 01:06:38,250 --> 01:06:40,750 My time on this globe is brief. 585 01:06:42,270 --> 01:06:48,770 I would have loved to have tasted those treacle tarts in there and so many other 586 01:06:48,770 --> 01:06:49,770 things. 587 01:06:51,970 --> 01:06:54,470 Us blood's life's so short. 588 01:07:06,510 --> 01:07:11,110 Please do forgive me for what I am bound to ask of you. 589 01:07:11,790 --> 01:07:16,010 I would very much like to see one more person from my life. 590 01:07:17,670 --> 01:07:19,970 Someone who once meant a great deal to me. 591 01:07:22,290 --> 01:07:23,670 If you are able... 592 01:07:41,740 --> 01:07:43,220 There's still some time left. 593 01:07:44,680 --> 01:07:47,060 Let us see where you are. 594 01:08:19,399 --> 01:08:20,880 What are we doing in the debtor's prison? 595 01:08:21,240 --> 01:08:23,899 This is not the place I wish to be seen. 596 01:08:24,500 --> 01:08:25,580 Are you sure? 597 01:08:26,200 --> 01:08:28,660 Everyone carries a debt they cannot pay. 598 01:08:29,060 --> 01:08:30,399 You are no different. 599 01:08:32,060 --> 01:08:38,920 All of these women and children, are they 600 01:08:38,920 --> 01:08:41,040 real? Or are they shadows? 601 01:08:41,279 --> 01:08:42,359 They are real. 602 01:08:43,500 --> 01:08:45,200 This is where they reside. 603 01:08:49,319 --> 01:08:53,319 You are gravely mistaken, sir. Oh, Ebenezer, open your eyes! 604 01:08:53,600 --> 01:08:54,600 Look around! 605 01:08:55,080 --> 01:09:01,979 You delight in the idea of prisons for those whose purses fall short. But 606 01:09:01,979 --> 01:09:08,660 you never set foot in one yourself to see their true nature. 607 01:09:30,540 --> 01:09:34,300 Christmas Eve, helping the less fortunate. 608 01:10:38,320 --> 01:10:39,320 Bye. 609 01:12:59,020 --> 01:13:00,680 Merry Christmas to us all, my dears. 610 01:13:03,820 --> 01:13:05,040 God bless us. 611 01:13:07,860 --> 01:13:09,240 God bless us. 612 01:13:09,660 --> 01:13:10,660 Everyone. 613 01:13:15,900 --> 01:13:22,640 I see the flame of humanity 614 01:13:22,640 --> 01:13:25,420 still flickers within you. 615 01:13:27,470 --> 01:13:32,230 Am I not being too late to redeem yourself after all? 616 01:14:32,390 --> 01:14:33,830 May I treat you to it? 617 01:14:34,370 --> 01:14:36,130 That would be very kind. 618 01:14:38,370 --> 01:14:40,270 But it would be waste. 619 01:14:41,010 --> 01:14:45,030 Our journey together has reached its end. 620 01:14:52,050 --> 01:14:58,790 What are those awful sounds from beneath 621 01:14:58,790 --> 01:14:59,790 your coat? 622 01:15:00,330 --> 01:15:01,550 Come closer. 623 01:15:06,410 --> 01:15:07,550 what you've ignored. 624 01:15:14,830 --> 01:15:15,830 What? 625 01:15:17,490 --> 01:15:18,830 Who are they? 626 01:15:19,250 --> 01:15:25,810 They are man's, but they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. 627 01:15:26,190 --> 01:15:29,670 The boy is ignorance, the girl is want. 628 01:15:30,250 --> 01:15:34,390 They are the sins of men who I can no longer endure. 629 01:15:42,120 --> 01:15:43,360 No workhouses. 630 01:16:19,330 --> 01:16:22,130 Spirit? Spirit? 631 01:17:50,680 --> 01:17:54,200 Whatever you are, I know that you're here. 632 01:18:34,030 --> 01:18:36,350 You are the ghost of Christmas yet to come. 633 01:18:37,410 --> 01:18:40,670 I fear you, Mother Inspector, I have seen. 634 01:18:41,770 --> 01:18:44,570 But I trust your purpose is to do me good. 635 01:18:45,290 --> 01:18:51,310 So I am prepared to bear your company this night, this waning. 636 01:18:51,650 --> 01:18:53,910 Time has become very precious to me. 637 01:18:55,230 --> 01:18:56,250 Lethal spirit. 638 01:19:58,280 --> 01:19:59,840 Goodbye, Eddie. Always. 639 01:20:00,220 --> 01:20:02,480 Come into the parlor. Shut the door. 640 01:20:12,000 --> 01:20:16,160 Stop standing there staring like you was afraid, Mrs. Dilber. 641 01:20:16,740 --> 01:20:17,740 Adore me. 642 01:20:19,740 --> 01:20:22,320 Don't go asking when I've got things. No judgment. 643 01:20:23,150 --> 01:20:27,250 Every person has a right to look out for themselves during difficult times if 644 01:20:27,250 --> 01:20:28,350 they expect to survive. 645 01:20:28,650 --> 01:20:30,250 That's right. He always did. 646 01:20:30,730 --> 01:20:33,030 He was the worst for the loss of a few things. 647 01:20:33,310 --> 01:20:34,850 Not a dead man, I suppose. 648 01:20:35,510 --> 01:20:40,630 Stinking as he was. A nastier man never drew breath. The wicked old screw. 649 01:20:41,070 --> 01:20:43,010 I'm sure his words that ever was spoke. 650 01:20:43,590 --> 01:20:44,750 A proper judgment. 651 01:20:45,070 --> 01:20:46,930 I wish it were a heavier judgment. 652 01:20:47,490 --> 01:20:48,490 Would have been. 653 01:20:48,960 --> 01:20:50,540 If I could have laid my hands on him. 654 01:20:50,940 --> 01:20:52,380 Got anything else? I'll do. 655 01:20:58,080 --> 01:20:59,380 His bedsheets. 656 01:21:01,540 --> 01:21:03,620 Hope he didn't die of anything catching. 657 01:21:06,540 --> 01:21:07,820 They could use a wash. 658 01:21:08,860 --> 01:21:10,460 His bed curtains too. 659 01:21:11,260 --> 01:21:17,060 You don't mean to tell me you took these down, rings and all, while the bastard 660 01:21:17,060 --> 01:21:18,140 was still lying there. 661 01:21:18,640 --> 01:21:19,339 Why not? 662 01:21:19,340 --> 01:21:20,480 He wasn't using them. 663 01:21:21,280 --> 01:21:25,140 If he'd been more natural in his lifetime, he'd have had somebody to look 664 01:21:25,140 --> 01:21:27,100 after him before he was struck with death. 665 01:21:27,780 --> 01:21:31,280 Instead of lying there alone, gasping out his last. 666 01:21:32,020 --> 01:21:33,020 This is I. 667 01:21:34,500 --> 01:21:36,400 His presence I've described. 668 01:21:37,300 --> 01:21:43,560 Do you not speak because the future is already of listen? 669 01:21:44,260 --> 01:21:45,440 If so... 670 01:21:46,670 --> 01:21:48,170 Show me what becomes of me. 671 01:22:24,330 --> 01:22:25,770 What has happened here? 672 01:22:29,290 --> 01:22:30,530 Filth everywhere. 673 01:22:33,990 --> 01:22:37,250 I will never allow myself to live this way. 674 01:23:01,480 --> 01:23:03,280 Never might have believed that this is my fate. 675 01:23:10,420 --> 01:23:15,220 What is the use to show me these abominations if I am powerless to change 676 01:23:15,220 --> 01:23:16,220 them? 677 01:23:17,100 --> 01:23:17,719 Gentlemen, 678 01:23:17,720 --> 01:23:27,740 I 679 01:23:27,740 --> 01:23:30,440 appreciate you convening here at this late hour despite the holiday. 680 01:23:31,180 --> 01:23:36,120 Well, you're certainly intrigued by the mysterious last-minute invitation. 681 01:23:36,540 --> 01:23:40,980 I even remember being turned away in this fairy office years ago by its 682 01:23:40,980 --> 01:23:44,020 proper owner. This is... When did he pass? 683 01:23:44,420 --> 01:23:45,860 Yesterday morning, I believe. 684 01:23:46,300 --> 01:23:47,300 Oh, dear. 685 01:23:47,360 --> 01:23:49,300 And what was the matter with him? 686 01:23:49,580 --> 01:23:52,220 Oh, God, no. I thought he'd never die. 687 01:23:52,600 --> 01:23:56,480 I recall him being a most uncouth man. 688 01:23:56,760 --> 01:24:00,340 Yes. That is the perfect word for him. 689 01:24:01,960 --> 01:24:02,960 Uncouth. Yeah. 690 01:24:03,360 --> 01:24:06,260 What business could you possibly have in my office? 691 01:24:06,480 --> 01:24:09,940 All I'll say is it's likely to be a very cheap funeral, for upon my life, I can't 692 01:24:09,940 --> 01:24:11,120 think of anybody to go to it. 693 01:24:12,360 --> 01:24:14,920 That's neither here nor there, gentlemen. Instead, let us get down to 694 01:24:14,920 --> 01:24:15,920 the business at hand. 695 01:24:16,340 --> 01:24:21,980 Now, the law clearly states that in the absence of a will, a person's accounts 696 01:24:21,980 --> 01:24:26,880 must pass to the closest living relative. But what if there was a will 697 01:24:26,880 --> 01:24:28,460 for Mr. Scrooge? 698 01:24:28,960 --> 01:24:31,460 One that his nephew wasn't aware of. 699 01:24:32,180 --> 01:24:37,860 One that donated his fortunes elsewhere. 700 01:24:41,140 --> 01:24:43,180 And what if I hadn't come upon it? 701 01:24:44,340 --> 01:24:45,720 Just in the nick of time. 702 01:24:49,550 --> 01:24:50,550 Turns out Mr. 703 01:24:50,790 --> 01:24:54,090 Scrooge was a generous soul after all. That's unfortunate. 704 01:24:54,710 --> 01:24:58,530 It's as he intended to leave everything to our charity. 705 01:24:58,770 --> 01:25:04,450 How lucky that you located this document when you did. Call it a Christmas 706 01:25:04,450 --> 01:25:10,530 miracle. I gather that under the circumstances, the finder's fee would be 707 01:25:10,530 --> 01:25:14,570 appreciated. Good, yes. If you were to follow what is customary, then half 708 01:25:14,570 --> 01:25:15,770 would be most appropriate. 709 01:25:16,170 --> 01:25:17,170 Half? 710 01:25:25,730 --> 01:25:30,170 There's no need to fall out over this. Half it is. 711 01:25:30,510 --> 01:25:31,510 Well, 712 01:25:34,930 --> 01:25:36,370 what a delightful surprise. 713 01:25:36,830 --> 01:25:40,910 Yeah, yeah. Let's go for a celebration, shall we? Oh, what a smelly life, yeah. 714 01:25:41,150 --> 01:25:43,710 I know a delightful public house around the corner. 715 01:25:50,570 --> 01:25:52,250 Is it not as it's supposed to be? 716 01:26:01,210 --> 01:26:04,950 Smith, I wish this had worked better. 717 01:26:54,160 --> 01:26:56,860 If he was ever in need of a love, surely he would have come to me. 718 01:26:59,440 --> 01:27:03,900 Or was it I who brought you here? 719 01:27:13,020 --> 01:27:16,380 Such a good and honest man. 720 01:27:27,500 --> 01:27:29,280 Not it's entire family. 721 01:27:35,620 --> 01:27:37,060 Where is it? 722 01:27:40,620 --> 01:27:44,860 Where is the little boy with the gravity? 723 01:27:46,820 --> 01:27:47,820 Tim? 724 01:28:17,220 --> 01:28:18,360 This is wrong. 725 01:28:19,500 --> 01:28:21,060 I'm so sorry, Bob. 726 01:28:34,600 --> 01:28:38,600 Please forgive me, Bob. This world can be such a miserable place, and I realize 727 01:28:38,600 --> 01:28:40,400 now how I made it all the more so. 728 01:28:41,020 --> 01:28:42,720 I'm so very sorry. 729 01:28:42,960 --> 01:28:44,120 I should have helped you. 730 01:28:44,360 --> 01:28:45,920 I could have helped you. 731 01:29:30,990 --> 01:29:36,810 I will live in the past, the present, the future. 732 01:29:37,610 --> 01:29:41,550 And I will be thankful for every breath, for every second of it. 733 01:29:42,080 --> 01:29:47,760 I will not shun all that I have learned this night. 734 01:29:49,600 --> 01:29:55,280 I beg of you, grant me the grace to prove 735 01:29:55,280 --> 01:29:59,620 that I'm no longer the man I once was. 736 01:30:30,120 --> 01:30:32,140 It's Uncle Ebenezer! Help me! 737 01:30:33,100 --> 01:30:34,880 I'm sorry for everything. 738 01:30:43,960 --> 01:30:45,280 It's too late. 739 01:31:28,840 --> 01:31:31,080 Here, then, is where the toll ends. 740 01:31:32,220 --> 01:31:34,800 And I am truly forsaken. 741 01:31:38,700 --> 01:31:42,240 Then you will show me your face. 742 01:31:44,660 --> 01:31:47,420 So that I may finally look dead. 743 01:32:15,080 --> 01:32:16,760 Of course, it's always been you. 744 01:32:18,040 --> 01:32:20,260 I now know who you truly are. 745 01:32:22,120 --> 01:32:26,940 Why can you not see me for who I truly could be? 746 01:32:28,500 --> 01:32:29,820 I was once good. 747 01:32:33,100 --> 01:32:35,040 And I know that I can be again. 748 01:32:49,060 --> 01:32:51,460 Please, speak to me. 749 01:32:53,920 --> 01:32:55,680 Speak to me! 750 01:33:26,670 --> 01:33:27,670 Shame on that. 751 01:33:27,830 --> 01:33:33,770 All he had to do to change this was... Too late now. 752 01:33:34,870 --> 01:33:36,630 Couldn't have said it better myself. 753 01:34:26,800 --> 01:34:28,420 I'm not dead, I'm not dead. 754 01:34:29,720 --> 01:34:33,100 My bed curtains, they're not torn down. 755 01:34:35,320 --> 01:34:36,320 I'm here. 756 01:34:41,580 --> 01:34:42,580 I'm here. 757 01:34:43,020 --> 01:34:44,360 My bed is here. 758 01:35:26,320 --> 01:35:28,900 And they just, they're still tired. 759 01:36:03,880 --> 01:36:04,880 You can see me. 760 01:36:06,540 --> 01:36:07,880 Well, of course I can. 761 01:36:08,340 --> 01:36:09,340 Of course you can. 762 01:36:09,620 --> 01:36:10,800 That's because I'm alive. 763 01:36:11,280 --> 01:36:12,940 Tell me, what day is today? 764 01:36:13,940 --> 01:36:15,200 Today? Yeah. 765 01:36:15,860 --> 01:36:17,160 Well, it's Christmas Day. 766 01:36:17,620 --> 01:36:18,980 So I haven't missed it. 767 01:36:19,480 --> 01:36:20,620 Are you all right, sir? 768 01:36:20,940 --> 01:36:23,400 Oh, yes. Oh, yes, I am. I am now. 769 01:36:23,880 --> 01:36:24,880 I'm alive! 770 01:36:25,140 --> 01:36:26,860 I don't know what to do. 771 01:36:34,830 --> 01:36:35,830 Where does it begin? 772 01:37:04,330 --> 01:37:08,650 Hello! Merry Christmas! 773 01:37:09,510 --> 01:37:11,050 Merry Christmas! 774 01:37:11,830 --> 01:37:13,170 Merry Christmas! 775 01:37:13,530 --> 01:37:15,510 Merry Christmas! 776 01:37:16,110 --> 01:37:20,790 Merry Christmas! 777 01:37:21,070 --> 01:37:22,610 Merry Christmas to you, Teresa! 778 01:38:33,230 --> 01:38:34,230 Do you know what I said? 779 01:38:34,450 --> 01:38:36,650 I said, mark me, young lad. 780 01:38:36,890 --> 01:38:40,070 One must be red in tooth and claw in our line of work. 781 01:38:40,290 --> 01:38:43,450 There's no favor in fellowship, not when profit's concerned. 782 01:38:45,130 --> 01:38:47,090 That is so interesting. 783 01:38:49,290 --> 01:38:50,290 Oh! Ah! 784 01:38:50,590 --> 01:38:51,690 What the blazing? 785 01:38:51,950 --> 01:38:52,950 Are you hurt? 786 01:38:53,090 --> 01:38:54,490 You'll never get away with it. 787 01:38:54,730 --> 01:38:56,190 I shall be watching you. 788 01:38:56,590 --> 01:38:58,910 And if you're not careful, so will the spirit. 789 01:39:07,570 --> 01:39:09,010 What's that, man? 790 01:39:10,010 --> 01:39:11,630 Nobody. Nobody at all. 791 01:39:13,330 --> 01:39:15,630 I'm perfectly fine. 792 01:39:20,770 --> 01:39:22,150 Hello, sweetheart. 793 01:39:23,450 --> 01:39:25,390 This was just delivered for you. 794 01:39:25,670 --> 01:39:26,670 What is it? 795 01:39:28,270 --> 01:39:29,310 My own book? 796 01:39:30,570 --> 01:39:31,570 How peculiar. 797 01:39:32,790 --> 01:39:33,890 Who is it from? 798 01:39:34,210 --> 01:39:35,188 He didn't say. 799 01:39:35,190 --> 01:39:36,730 It was accompanied by a note. 800 01:39:37,130 --> 01:39:38,150 Read it to me. 801 01:39:44,890 --> 01:39:49,410 You were always wise to focus on the sun and never the shadows. 802 01:39:49,810 --> 01:39:52,470 I now understand the importance of your words. 803 01:39:53,130 --> 01:39:58,030 My deepest congratulations on your novel and the most profitable life. 804 01:39:59,210 --> 01:40:00,390 He lacks a signature. 805 01:40:00,950 --> 01:40:02,590 Any notion as to who it could be? 806 01:40:22,110 --> 01:40:25,350 Pardon me, madam. I was wondering if my nephew was about. 807 01:40:25,690 --> 01:40:26,690 Yes, sir. 808 01:40:28,780 --> 01:40:30,240 I hope I'm not interrupting. 809 01:40:32,020 --> 01:40:33,040 Bless my soul. 810 01:40:38,900 --> 01:40:39,900 What a surprise. 811 01:40:40,340 --> 01:40:41,800 I brought a gift. 812 01:40:42,260 --> 01:40:48,240 I was not quite sure what was being given at this time of year, or any time 813 01:40:48,240 --> 01:40:54,360 of year for that matter, but a friend of mine had longed for a goose such as 814 01:40:54,360 --> 01:40:55,360 this, and... 815 01:40:56,520 --> 01:41:03,180 I'm afraid it was not meant to be, so I thought it fitting for you 816 01:41:03,180 --> 01:41:04,700 and your lovely wife. 817 01:41:05,920 --> 01:41:07,280 My lovely wife. 818 01:41:08,180 --> 01:41:09,780 Darling, have you seen the wish? 819 01:41:12,380 --> 01:41:13,880 Good morning, Mr Scrooge. 820 01:41:14,280 --> 01:41:15,280 Ebenezer, please. 821 01:41:16,580 --> 01:41:18,520 A gift from my uncle. 822 01:41:19,480 --> 01:41:20,700 Most generous. 823 01:41:23,100 --> 01:41:25,380 Um, don't let us keep you. 824 01:41:26,410 --> 01:41:28,870 I know you must have work obligations. 825 01:41:29,210 --> 01:41:36,030 There is nothing as important as this. I came here this morning because, you 826 01:41:36,030 --> 01:41:41,210 see, I would like to... apologize. 827 01:41:43,050 --> 01:41:44,050 Clara. 828 01:41:45,230 --> 01:41:47,530 Forgive me. I do not know where that sound came from. 829 01:41:47,970 --> 01:41:50,050 It's quite all right. I deserve it. 830 01:41:50,550 --> 01:41:52,710 I am a... what was it? 831 01:41:52,930 --> 01:41:54,390 A pickled old... 832 01:41:55,000 --> 01:41:56,000 Skinflint. 833 01:41:57,020 --> 01:41:59,860 How did you... It is of no matter. 834 01:42:00,320 --> 01:42:02,440 I only hope it is not too late. 835 01:42:02,660 --> 01:42:03,660 Too late? 836 01:42:05,740 --> 01:42:07,660 What I wish to say, Fred, 837 01:42:08,000 --> 01:42:14,200 is Merry Christmas. 838 01:42:15,800 --> 01:42:16,800 Merry what? 839 01:42:18,080 --> 01:42:19,080 Sir, 840 01:42:19,460 --> 01:42:20,460 I beg your pardon. 841 01:42:20,920 --> 01:42:22,300 Is it no longer a humbug? 842 01:42:22,720 --> 01:42:23,720 Far from it. 843 01:42:26,760 --> 01:42:32,580 I realize that I've been little better than a stranger to you for all these 844 01:42:32,580 --> 01:42:33,580 years. 845 01:42:34,160 --> 01:42:41,020 And I know that my sister would be quite disappointed at my 846 01:42:41,020 --> 01:42:42,020 behavior. 847 01:42:43,600 --> 01:42:49,220 But it is just that you remind me so much of her. 848 01:42:50,380 --> 01:42:55,380 And it's always been rather difficult for me to see her in you. 849 01:42:55,870 --> 01:42:59,410 You possess her generous nature, Fred. You even have her smile. 850 01:43:01,170 --> 01:43:04,390 You know so much more about her than I ever did. 851 01:43:04,650 --> 01:43:05,650 I know this. 852 01:43:06,470 --> 01:43:10,170 She would be very proud of you. 853 01:43:12,250 --> 01:43:14,690 And that was the brightest of lights. 854 01:43:15,930 --> 01:43:20,610 She was all that was good and decent. 855 01:43:22,750 --> 01:43:23,810 And that is normal. 856 01:43:24,030 --> 01:43:28,550 to say that you did not have a taste for the mischief, because I can tell you 857 01:43:28,550 --> 01:43:31,710 tales. I'd very much like to hear them. 858 01:43:32,310 --> 01:43:33,310 As would I. 859 01:43:35,870 --> 01:43:42,610 Uncle, I hate to ask, but what made you finally 860 01:43:42,610 --> 01:43:44,530 come to your senses in such a way? 861 01:44:35,540 --> 01:44:37,760 Merry Christmas to us all my dears. 862 01:44:38,400 --> 01:44:39,500 God bless us. 863 01:44:41,000 --> 01:44:42,120 God bless us! 864 01:44:58,890 --> 01:44:59,890 What is it, Tim? 865 01:45:00,930 --> 01:45:01,930 What do you see? 866 01:45:49,450 --> 01:45:51,690 I'm very sorry, sir, but I won't blink. 867 01:45:52,930 --> 01:45:59,410 It shall not be repeated. Yeah, well, punctuality is quite important, but I 868 01:45:59,410 --> 01:46:04,530 wish to address another topic. This morning, I have been made aware that 869 01:46:04,530 --> 01:46:10,870 your youngest son, his health is less than robust. 870 01:46:11,790 --> 01:46:14,930 He's strong in spirit, sir. Quite right, quite right. 871 01:46:15,250 --> 01:46:17,610 But that said, I have made some inquiries. 872 01:46:18,960 --> 01:46:25,340 There is a doctor who will see your boy, and he comes with the highest of 873 01:46:25,340 --> 01:46:26,340 recommendation. 874 01:46:27,640 --> 01:46:31,780 I mean no offense, Mr. Scripture, but I'm not so far gone that I require 875 01:46:31,780 --> 01:46:32,780 charity. 876 01:46:38,080 --> 01:46:44,060 Which is exactly why you will be handling the bill yourself with your 877 01:46:44,060 --> 01:46:46,780 well-earned, well-increased... 878 01:46:51,340 --> 01:46:53,100 Wages. Well, 879 01:46:54,060 --> 01:46:55,460 permit me to show you something. 880 01:46:59,320 --> 01:47:06,300 I've decided that this moldy old sign has served its purpose and 881 01:47:06,300 --> 01:47:07,300 must be replaced. 882 01:47:07,940 --> 01:47:10,240 Only the new one shall read. 883 01:47:11,400 --> 01:47:15,080 Scrooge and Cratchit. 884 01:47:19,600 --> 01:47:22,500 I beg your pardon, do you know anyone more qualified for the job? 885 01:47:24,000 --> 01:47:26,260 I don't. Not who I am. 886 01:47:26,540 --> 01:47:29,200 You are a good man, Bob Cratchit. 887 01:47:29,560 --> 01:47:35,540 I am not proud of the way that I've run this establishment, nor of my behavior 888 01:47:35,540 --> 01:47:37,420 towards you all of these years. 889 01:47:38,740 --> 01:47:43,440 No excuse, but I promise you, things will be different. 890 01:47:57,290 --> 01:47:58,290 Well, then that's that. 891 01:47:58,970 --> 01:48:01,830 I beg I tend to the cow. 892 01:48:02,350 --> 01:48:09,270 When you're done, transfer your things to your new desk so we may toast to a 893 01:48:09,270 --> 01:48:10,290 prosperous future. 894 01:48:11,090 --> 01:48:12,990 Yours, Matt. 895 01:48:29,180 --> 01:48:32,440 Oh, pardon me, sir. 896 01:48:36,000 --> 01:48:37,460 I see him, isn't he? 897 01:48:37,720 --> 01:48:39,620 He's the one who asked you so many questions. 898 01:48:42,660 --> 01:48:44,320 He will no doubt get his justice. 899 01:49:05,100 --> 01:49:07,080 It's rather biting out here, is it not? 900 01:49:08,800 --> 01:49:10,520 Would you like to come in for some tea? 901 01:49:11,680 --> 01:49:13,520 If it's not too much trouble.