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SHE SOBS

FOOSTEPS APPROACH

Not far now.

Your bed awaits!

And a meal fit for King George. Roast mutton and oysters!

Pa?

Let's see.

You can blink, you know -— she won't disappear.

How bad do you think the damage is?

You can all stay here,

work here -— we'll, um... We'll make room.

Thank you.

Harriet!

Well!

Mrs Lennox...

Jack Lively.

We were to stay at Mr North's.

Oh. Are you one of his boxers? Where did he find you?

He found me brawling in a tavern on the Great North Road.

Well, you can earn your keep.

We need a bully.

I know where he can lay his head.

How can my own mother leave me here?

She's a woman married to a man -— her power is not her own -

a lesson all young girls should learn.

When did you learn it?

My father taught me young.

And your mother?

I killed her the day I was born.

She died bearing you?

Mrs Quigley.

How fortunate you are to have such a gracious benefactor.

Yes, and Lady Isabella, I am a thousand times blessed.

Miss Bottomley, we must quell that uterine fury.

The cure I have in mind is revolutionary.

MAN GRUNTS AND LAUGHS

Oi, cockles! What's the rush?

I'm refereeing a duel at nine.

My pistol needs firing first.

What is it over? Money or cunny?

-Both. -That's a dark way to settle a beef.

These are turbulent times!

Where there's a clash, I can make cash.

Just...tell me...

..how you make REAL money.

-The big stuff? -Yeah.

You don't make it, you grow it.

Think of the coin like a seed.

If you just let it sit, what would it do?

Shrivel like a spinster's spinney.

Yes, indeed. Er...

But tend it well,

plant it in moist and

fertile ground,

and...

let it grow

and let it spring into life!

Her note says she's gone with the footman, Turner.

Who knew about this?

Who saw her leave?

Who helped her pack?

Search the town.

Every street and coaching inn.

She's just a young girl.

You look like an otter covered in tar.

'Ere.

I found him loitering in the street.

I'd have come before if I'd heard.

Help put the fire out.

You can help by putting Isaac Pincher behind bars.

He's the one that set this.

You'll find him at the Saracen's Head.

-Come on, let's go. -Arson's a heavy accusation.

Did anyone see him?

-I did. -At this house?

Just a street away.

But not here?

Did that break itself?

He was here.

Kit nearly died.

Her little chest is still wheezing.

All for the pride of a sap-filled cub.

He needs to be stopped.

There are many ways fires can start.

Come on, Pa.

Cluck-cluck, my chickens.

Your squawking will set out our stall.

Where is Lucy Wells?

Mrs May warned me she was a back-biter.

Certain touches of duplicity.

Vexatious girl.

We can't wait forever - we've got a house to stock

with skin and skein.

And a purse empty as Jacob's kettle.

Emily!

Charlie's gone.

To the sponging house?

I warned the dolt!

He fled before they got him.

He said he'd never leave me.

But he did.

Oh, Charlie!

You can sell your skins in here.

Gold flows into this place like rainfall.

But you don't own the floor you stand on.

Shaky ground, Hal.

You let your money puddle in barrels in that cellar.

You've got plans for my coin?

I'll buy you a new gown.

Who's that?

It's Cherry Dorrington.

She's selling here now -— leave her be.

Do you know how quickly this can all turn to dust?

If you want to keep it,

you need to invest.

What does a buttock know of investment?

Fly away home?

That's what you say when you set someone's house on fire!

HE CHOKES

Are you the rancid toad who set my daughter's house on fire?

I started no fire.

Who are you?

-He's my pa. -Put him down!

You gonna make me?

Stop -— I don't want to have to arrest you.

Drop the pup, Pa.

Don't fret.

I fight them in my own size.

Tell him where you were last night.

I was here!

Wasn't I, brother?

-Just as every night. -Liars!

You have witnesses?

A room full.

-SHE SCOFFS -This, er...fine gentleman,

I served ale.

And this...

delightful young woman... Well,

it wouldn't be polite to say how she knows where I was.

All of them, liars!

A hanged man speaks more truth...

Nothing will be won by warring.

Bring me proof or let this lie.

He'll never back down.

Why must I?

You will because he won't. I can't lose you, too.

Well, I can't leave those girls without a house to work in.

We'll bide our time.

And rebuild.

How much do you have?

Only what wouldn't melt.

I'd stitched the money into the curtains for safekeeping.

Jack might have lost his last couple of fights,

but he won the rest.

I'll show our town a piece of his action

and I'll make it back.

What am I supposed to do, dance around the ring? Sit and knit?

Clean up the damage, look after your brother and sister,

and behave yourself.

Trust that I will not see you struggle.

All right.

Thank you.

Why could Charlotte Wells not roll over like any other jade?

Every time, you go too far.

You burn a woman's house down, and it's her fault! You again.

Screeching like a cart's broken wheel.

It was you who told me to end it.

You thought I meant to roast

women and children in their beds?

I meant in the fight.

I can't take it back.

You lied for him.

He's my brother.

I didn't know what he was going to do.

I promise.

The house!

Where's Charlotte?

Pulling Pincher's prick through his nose, I hope.

When will she return?

When the task's done.

You can, er, wait for Charlotte in here.

The smoke mess isn't so bad in this room.

Something's wrong.

What is it?

You don't need my problems in the wake of this disaster.

There isn't a secret you could spill I haven't heard before.

Tell me.

My daughter has eloped with a servant!

She learned of my scandal and has made her own.

She'll be ruined and it's my fault.

She won't be ruined.

Her standing, maybe, but...

Not her own self.

We are more than what people see.

Salabat?

There's no tear that can't be fixed with the right stitch.

Go and populate the house.

Can I help you, madam?

Salabat, darling, don't tell me you're still angry?

You sound like Elizabeth Harvey.

But you can't be.

She was supposed to accompany me on a voyage,

but she left me waiting in the harbour,

so I know some terrible fate must have befallen her.

You are still angry.

I was taken suddenly ill.

-HE SCOFFS -Wha...?

My carriage got lost.

We were be set by thieves!

I bought the Quigley house in Golden Square.

Lucy?

I need you.

I was always here.

Cheers.

Told Pa I'd sit tight.

Doesn't want me in harm's way.

Promised him I wouldn't go after Isaac Pincher or my money.

So...

UNDER BREATH: Yeah, he's probably right about that.

Who's with me?

THEY CHUCKLE

I do my own laundry.

Only man that does.

Well, if you're staying, he should know.

We lost a girl.

-My friend Nell. -What, to the pox?

Taken by men, not malady.

People snatchers?

They hunt the streets at night

and the girls disappear under the fog.

How can a just society allow it?

This is not a just town.

Use that fire in your belly.

I have a fight in mind.

Will you take it?

We were run out of town, last time. Yeah.

But before that, you were magnificent.

Crowds cheering you to the rafters.

Fists flew.

Men were felled.

Oh, I wish I had seen it.

One more.

You're looking for trade.

Not for myself.

Men say that often.

Then they plunge their piece down my gullet.

Can you keep that gullet shut?

Our house requires absolute secrecy.

I shall treat your condition as one would a fever.

They're drawing blood?

The fury lies not in your blood,

but in your uterus -— that drives your unnatural desires.

SHE WHIMPERS

What are you doing?

I shall stimulate the location where the uterine nerves end,

thus releasing that troublesome tension.

No!

No. No!

No! No!

SHE SCREAMS

A fitting showplace, you'd agree?

What have you got in stock?

We have no time to wait for weavers.

Just yesterday I heard of a ship

gone astray.

They say the call of silence

could be heard just before the ocean swallowed it up.

The ship and its cargo of finest silks...

..all lost.

How tragic.

If the law makes it upstairs,

don't try and get to the front door.

Get to the servant stairs.

Ma...

Meet our new boys.

Boys.

Welcome!

Fredo, you remember Salabat.

Of course.

The kitchen.

There is a cellar that leads to the street.

So, you've hooked him.

Don't let him hook you.

See how he admires the house.

With your eyes, blinking as wide as your...

Salabat is rich.

We can have everything that we never dared to dream of.

Remember where we came from.

He said he was going to cure me.

There's no cure.

Just his pleasure.

I should have known it.

Were you hurt?

No.

He took care to leave no mark as he stuffed his fat fingers

inside me and named it his most modern physic...

SHE GAGS

Can't we resist?

This is wrong.

Resist and they will punish you.

What can we do?

We must use his weakness.

His rod will be his ruin.

Always is, in the end.

QUIETLY: ..closer look.

Lucy!

At last.

My sister's house burnt down.

-How inconvenient. --The famous Lucy Wells.

Lucy, meet Salabat Ali Khan.

Supplier of silk softer than angel's breath.

Haven't you been busy?

We have.

And I've not been sitting in my cradle.

You've got boys and bolts,

and I've got an idea to bring buyers in for both.

No, no - don't come in!

Fucking hell!

The duel went bad,

the seconders, they saw the mess and ran off.

So you brought him home?

I thought the feeble fellow would pull through!

What are you going to do with him?

I need him out of here.

You need help.

No, no -— no-one must know.

Trust me.

HE SIGHS Christ.

Another eel netted?

Another penny in your pouch.

This one tells a tale of woe.

This, his Lord's a fancy foe.

This little boy was took from a sinner.

Now he and his brother

will pay for my dinner.

I didn't dare believe you were safe,

till I'd seen it.

Has the Wells house fallen, too?

Our world is not as we knew it.

Charlotte won't give in that quick.

We need to know where the Pinchers keep their gold.

I need to make some.

SHE CHUCKLES

Give up your secrets.

Oh!

We hide in barrels in a cellar.

It's dark in there,

and cold as the grave.

The law's already watching us.

Chadwick knows how to make money.

He's got contacts, he can help us!

Who's the dead man?

Lord Drummond.

An Admiral.

It's risky.

What's life...

..without risk?

Where are they going?

Quick, don't let them out of your sight.

Whose house was this before?

A white-wigged witch.

We need to go, now.

His men can find him on their doorstep.

Or he can disappear.

I want him gone. I...

I want this over.

Ready?

SHE LAUGHS

Looks better in breaches than I do.

I'm off.

Give me some sign when it's done.

We'll be looking out for you.

My name is Elizabeth Harvey.

You know my friend, Lucy Wells and my son, Fredo.

You're bold, to walk in here.

-What more can you do to me? -Watch your step.

I like whores who lie with me, not about me.

You burnt my house down, I don't care what you like.

Why are you really here?

Are you trying to make me feel bad?

I don't think you feel anything.

Do you?

I feel...

..everything.

Together, we are the Harvey-Wells tailoring house,

where you will find the finest silks and brocades.

Where my son has the measure

of every man.

CHEERING

Look - James Croft.

Get him into our cloth

the town will flock to us.

The silk I'm wearing is smooth to the touch and exquisite.

The house known as Quigley's is no more.

We are a reputable establishment

tailoring to all tastes.

To show the quality of our goods,

you can buy the clothes off my back.

CHEERING

What does a girl have to tup around here

to get on the Pinchers' list?

CROWDS OUTSIDE CHEERS

I bid five guineas -— for the lot!

Oh, a good opening offer!

You can have the jacket for five.

Another five for your linens!

FURNITURE CLATTERS

Emily Lacey...

You are more powerful than I knew.

I can trust your confidence?

Mm. You can.

You've done things like that before.

You've seen things like that before.

If you want the secrets of our craft revealed,

you must pay up.

What do I hear for these fine wares?

MEN SHOUT OUT

Ten guineas!

LAUGHTER

Let's see Lucy Wells play Lady Godiva!

20 for the lot!

LUCY: I will if you will!

Show me what you've got!

What about you, Hal Pincher?

How much to see what's...

No man is too big for me.

Emily, he may be cock of the wall,

but he'd look a lot better in a new silk coat!

CHEERING

We fit men of all shapes.

Whatever your height...

Mmm!

SHE GIGGLES

I'm sorry.

Me too.

That's your lot, ladies and gentlemen.

All our wares are on view in Golden Square.

Here she comes!

Did you get it?

Job done!

MEN CHEER

HE COUGHS

Fuck!

HE SCREAMS

What a spark.

His prosperity can be ours.

John Kelly!

Ready for your next big fight?

I've none booked.

You have now.

That's if you're bold enough.

To fight my lad, Jack Lively.

Is that the same Lively that lost at York?

Same lively that had to be dragged from the ring.

He fought before a partisan crowd and never gave up.

Where do you see this happening?

Some tavern, under the full eyes of the law?

I know how to set up a fight.

I'll find the place.

Well, if you can, I'll be there.

She did it -— she got the money!

We did it, Fanny.

The Pinchers will learn

they can't fuck with fuckstresses!

Has Kitty eaten? Did she sleep?

I've minded babes before.

HAMMERING AT DOOR

Mr. North.

How dare you look me in the face

and lie to me?

You would have tried to stop me.

I'd have been sure to stop you.

We bit him good and proper.

Mags would have loved it.

Right.

So you did it your way, as always.

And you got your money.

And the Pinchers on your trail.

And where does it lead?

So what are you going to do?

I could tear Charlotte Wells' heart from her chest.

So you fucked her?

Seems more like she fucked you.

Why must you always be here?

He's preparing the chair for me again.

How can they come to this place of their own volition?

Because they know they can leave.

As will we.

We must believe it!

Oh... Are you off out?

You aren't welcome here.

Drink somewhere else.

I haven't come to drink.

To gloat?

Charlotte wants to see you.

That trollop doesn't summon us.

She has your money.

If you want to see it again...

..you do as she bids.

We're stuffed if she says no.

Isabella, I'm so sorry.

Is there word of Sophia?

I have men trying to find them.

What do you want?

This will end me.

Resist from within and they cannot hurt you.

Mrs. Quigley?

Your throne awaits.

..Dr. Swinton!

I feel the heat building,

it's the fury!

Oh, it quickens!

Miss Bottomley, you need treatment urgently.

But Dr. Furrow awaits -— there are visitors. Um...

Perhaps...I might help?

I could alert Dr. Furrow

that he should take the visitors elsewhere

until you are...

Finished?

An excellent notion.

Um, go - now. Bid him await my call.

IN LATIN

IN LATIN

You know Latin?

I grew up in a white house.

They picked me because when I smiled,

my teeth shone bright in my face.

Dressed me in a turban, stood me in their salons.

A dolly.

I had a home.

I ate well, learned much.

What did you say to Lord Leadsom?

Just a friendly reminder that the walls -

and black men -

have ears.

Dr. Furrow?

I bear a missive.

Dr. Swinton asked if you would bring

these good people to the treatment room.

Miss Bottomley is acutely unwell.

She is in the ice bath?

The doctor has a new method.

One that he's very eager to demonstrate.

Follow me!

SWINTON GRUNTS

The strap...

contains me.

I can feel no release whilst I'm restrained.

A wonderful response.

And, er... Here we have the treatment room,

where Dr. Swinton is at this very moment...

SWINTON GRUNTS

SHOCKED GASPS

Dr. Swinton!

Her system is full of madness!

This is your treatment?

My cloak!

What's she doing?

Stop her!

Escape! Escape!

Let's give them a taste of freedom!

Unleash chaos!

♪ I gave my love a cherry

♪ That had no stone...

SINGING AND SHOUTING ECHOES

Guards!

WOMAN SINGS

♪ I gave my love a baby

♪ With no crying.

WOMEN SHRIEK

Guard!

CHAOTIC SHOUTING

KEYS JANGLE

THEY LAUGH

Come on!

What's this charade?

Where's our money?

What makes you think we have it?

-Give it back. -Hey.

I'm warning you.

You're warning me AND accusing me.

I do hope you have proof.

Don't play this game with me.

Where was I this afternoon?

Here, taking tea.

Miss Wells, do you have any witnesses?

A whole room.

This fine lady I played hazard with.

And this upright gentleman.

Well, it wouldn't be polite to say.

Enough!

Not yet.

Who opened the doors of my house to you?

None of my men recall doing so.

How did you get in?

You mean they broke in?

Oh, dear.

There's another crime to add to the list.

Seems your luck's run out.

Here are my terms.

You can have your dirty money.

Less what you owe me.

I rebuild my house.

You leave this room.

And you never come near me,

my girls or my family ever again.

Or I will watch and smile

as you swing for your crimes.

Now fly away home.

MEN CALL OUT IN STREET

London is a fearful place.

Oh!

WOMAN CACKLES

Not the London WE will reside in.

A memento of your triumph.

You lit up that room.

Is it good news?

It is...

news.

Sophia has married...

..to the footman.

Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief.

She says she's happy.

She's in love.

She's rich beyond all our dreams.

I still haven't had my lesson.

HE CLEARS HIS THROAT

Your payment.

I said I want my lesson.

So tell me...

-How would you grow this? -HE SIGHS

Have a look at this.

Your silks will be worn by London's most celestial bodies.

Your body is the only one I care for.

Hmm.

Marry me?

I'm not the marrying kind.

And return from Dover

bearing treasures beyond your dreams.

You bring me silks from a fallen ship

and maybe I'll say yes.

Is the master of the house here?

It's the mistress in this household -— how can I help you?

You're beggars, or wretches.

No, but, but...

Charles Quigley...

I was told this was his residence.

Oh, the debtor?

He was heading to the sponging house.

The bailiffs are high on his heels, I hear.

Who plays the Queen of my kingdom?

A Wells in my house?

Charles!

What monstrous torture is this?

That's not your house?

It was.

We aren't safe?

Where can we go?

Oh!

There's only one place left.

You don't look as happy as a man

with a pile before him should.

Where's your brother?

I sent him to walk his rage off.

When we met,

you told me how you and Isaac got this place.

A soldier who buys a barrel of beer at the docks

then sells it to thirsty sailors

is a smart man, I thought.

A man I want to be with.

Look where it got us.

It got you this.

And...

..got you these.

Where'd those come from?

I told you Chadwick was worth a risk.

You made a friend today.

You can be more than this.

You turned a barrel into 20.

And we're going to do it again.

Bigger and better than you ever dreamed.

How do you reckon to do that?

America.

There's land for sale.

May we come in?

You have been freed?

Will you give us shelter?

Charles is gone.

A woman in his place and a Wells in my house.

Ooh, a woman in your house, you say?

Arrogant, full of grandeur and...

a most self -satisfied expression.

I've no idea who you could be.

Please.

Can we come in?

DISTANT SHOUTING

As you are in such dire straits.

SHE CHUCKLES

You make a beautiful boy.

Shame you don't have the equipment!

I like jewels around my neck, not between my legs!

THEY CHUCKLE

Little peacock, spreading your tailfeathers.

You weren't just showing off our wares -—

what were you really up to?

My sister had a score to settle in the tavern.

And we made the diversion?

What had the tavern done to her?

Burn her house down.

Hm.

Oh,

I've been asked to be married.

Mama, what surprising news!

Let's celebrate. I propose a game.

You make three statements,

I must decide which is a lie.

Huh.

My ma sold my maidenhead for £50...

twice!

My ma was hanged...

for murder.

And my pa...

is a black man.

Now you.

THEY LAUGH

I am a spinster.

My son is a changeling.

I am a widow.

Ahem.

Ah.

Didn't you get your fill outside?

You win.

Subtitles by TVT

♪ I gave my love a cherry

♪ That has no stone

♪ I gave my love a chicken

♪ That has no bone

♪ I gave my love a story

♪ That has no end

♪ I gave my love a baby

♪ And no crying.