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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:02,138 --> 00:00:07,138 Subtitles by explosiveskull 2 00:00:07,140 --> 00:00:09,206 [people chattering] 3 00:00:09,208 --> 00:00:11,776 [young woman] Oh, hurry up, Mr. Dickens! 4 00:00:11,778 --> 00:00:14,178 [man] Hey, I paid 50 cents for this! 5 00:00:14,180 --> 00:00:16,547 - Come on, Dickens! - [man 2] Come on, Charley! 6 00:00:16,549 --> 00:00:18,581 [chattering continues] 7 00:00:18,583 --> 00:00:21,584 [man 3] We want Charles! 8 00:00:21,586 --> 00:00:23,322 [man 4] I want to see Charles! 9 00:00:24,623 --> 00:00:26,689 [man 5] Where is Dickens? 10 00:00:26,691 --> 00:00:30,062 - [chattering continues] - [crowd clapping impatiently] 11 00:00:48,447 --> 00:00:50,180 [Charles's voice] My dear Forster, 12 00:00:50,182 --> 00:00:52,148 how can I give you the faintest notion 13 00:00:52,150 --> 00:00:54,218 of my reception here in America? 14 00:00:54,220 --> 00:00:57,120 - [knocking] - [man] Five minutes. Five minutes. 15 00:00:57,122 --> 00:01:00,490 Of the crowds that pour in and out the whole day, 16 00:01:00,492 --> 00:01:03,094 of the people that line the streets when I go out. 17 00:01:03,096 --> 00:01:06,466 [crowd chanting, indistinct] 18 00:01:11,536 --> 00:01:13,304 [man] Places, please. Places! 19 00:01:13,306 --> 00:01:14,404 Hello, Charley. 20 00:01:14,406 --> 00:01:17,141 Of the balls, dinners, 21 00:01:17,143 --> 00:01:20,644 speeches, parties, assemblies without end. 22 00:01:20,646 --> 00:01:24,548 There never was a king or emperor upon the earth so cheered. 23 00:01:24,550 --> 00:01:27,251 [orchestra playing fanfare] 24 00:01:27,253 --> 00:01:30,187 [man] Tonight, live on stage... 25 00:01:30,189 --> 00:01:31,489 Ready? 26 00:01:31,491 --> 00:01:34,724 - [man] the great magician of our time... - Ready. 27 00:01:34,726 --> 00:01:37,128 [man] whose wand is a book! 28 00:01:37,130 --> 00:01:39,263 The Shakespeare of the novel. 29 00:01:39,265 --> 00:01:41,465 The people's author. 30 00:01:41,467 --> 00:01:45,169 - The great and marvelous Boz! - [audience cheering] 31 00:01:45,171 --> 00:01:48,671 Ladies and gentlemen, 32 00:01:48,673 --> 00:01:51,775 Mr. Charles Dickens! 33 00:01:51,777 --> 00:01:55,315 - [orchestra continues playing] - Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes! 34 00:01:58,316 --> 00:01:59,916 Thank you! Thank you! 35 00:01:59,918 --> 00:02:02,753 [man] Look, it's him! It's really him! 36 00:02:02,755 --> 00:02:05,692 [laughing] 37 00:02:07,860 --> 00:02:10,227 - [man] Hey there, Boz! - [woman] Whoo! 38 00:02:10,229 --> 00:02:13,330 Dear friends! Dear friends! 39 00:02:13,332 --> 00:02:17,367 You have welcomed me to your country with such open arms that I fear I... 40 00:02:17,369 --> 00:02:19,302 Ohh! 41 00:02:19,304 --> 00:02:22,441 - [orchestra continues playing] - [cheering continues] 42 00:02:25,477 --> 00:02:27,578 [orchestra fades] 43 00:02:27,580 --> 00:02:30,813 [Charles's voice] Americans are friendly, 44 00:02:30,815 --> 00:02:33,550 earnest, hospitable, 45 00:02:33,552 --> 00:02:35,821 kind, frank, accomplished, 46 00:02:36,956 --> 00:02:39,455 warm-hearted, fervent, 47 00:02:39,457 --> 00:02:41,861 and... enthusiastic. 48 00:02:43,695 --> 00:02:45,331 I can't wait to get home. 49 00:03:05,551 --> 00:03:08,384 - [bell tolling] - [dog barking] 50 00:03:08,386 --> 00:03:11,455 [hoofbeats on cobblestone] 51 00:03:11,457 --> 00:03:13,260 [horse whinnies] 52 00:03:44,956 --> 00:03:46,927 - [bird wings fluttering] - [exhales] 53 00:03:56,468 --> 00:03:58,671 [sighs] 54 00:04:02,675 --> 00:04:04,410 [discordant notes] 55 00:04:06,278 --> 00:04:07,944 - [single chord] - [knocking on door] 56 00:04:07,946 --> 00:04:09,848 - [exhales] - [discordant notes] 57 00:04:11,484 --> 00:04:13,850 Mrs. Fisk, I have told you repeatedly 58 00:04:13,852 --> 00:04:15,819 not to disturb me when I am working. 59 00:04:15,821 --> 00:04:17,424 [discordant notes] 60 00:04:18,990 --> 00:04:22,725 Oh, I beg your pardon, sir. Only, Mr. Forster is here. 61 00:04:22,727 --> 00:04:24,360 Forster. Yes, of course. 62 00:04:24,362 --> 00:04:26,530 As you can see, Mr. Forster, 63 00:04:26,532 --> 00:04:28,898 we're having all-new wallpaper put in, French, 64 00:04:28,900 --> 00:04:30,934 new doors, new door knocker, 65 00:04:30,936 --> 00:04:33,002 new roller blinds for the windows, 66 00:04:33,004 --> 00:04:37,307 new bookcases in the library, a new chandelier, 67 00:04:37,309 --> 00:04:39,543 all chosen by Charles, of course. 68 00:04:39,545 --> 00:04:41,911 And the staircase is to be painted green. 69 00:04:41,913 --> 00:04:44,848 - Though not too dull a green, Signor Mazzini. - Ma certo. Sì, capisce. 70 00:04:44,850 --> 00:04:46,817 - [chuckles] - You know how Charles is. 71 00:04:46,819 --> 00:04:49,456 - Only the best for Mr. Dickens. - Yes. [chuckles] 72 00:04:50,588 --> 00:04:54,557 Mr. Forster, if you'll allow me, 73 00:04:54,559 --> 00:04:56,560 how do things stand between you and Miss Wigmore? 74 00:04:56,562 --> 00:04:58,062 Oh, splendid, Mrs. Dickens. 75 00:04:58,064 --> 00:05:01,098 In fact, I intend to ask her to bestow upon me 76 00:05:01,100 --> 00:05:03,003 the greatest happiness a man can ever know. 77 00:05:04,502 --> 00:05:06,870 - [clears throat] - Well, to marry me. 78 00:05:06,872 --> 00:05:08,706 Oh! 79 00:05:08,708 --> 00:05:10,740 Oh, I'm very glad to hear that. 80 00:05:10,742 --> 00:05:13,776 Forster! Forster, Forster, Forster. So sorry! 81 00:05:13,778 --> 00:05:15,879 I completely lost track of the time. 82 00:05:15,881 --> 00:05:17,348 - Shall we? - Charles. 83 00:05:17,350 --> 00:05:18,915 - You need to pay Signor Mazzini. - Hmm? 84 00:05:18,917 --> 00:05:20,884 For the parlor mantle. 85 00:05:20,886 --> 00:05:23,052 - How much? - Seventy-five pounds. 86 00:05:23,054 --> 00:05:26,456 Seventy-five? What's it made of, gold? 87 00:05:26,458 --> 00:05:29,660 Carrara marble, Signor. Finest quality. 88 00:05:29,662 --> 00:05:31,694 No gentleman would accept less. 89 00:05:31,696 --> 00:05:33,930 No? Well, quite. [clears throat] 90 00:05:33,932 --> 00:05:36,769 Well, I will have the money for you when I return, Signor Mazzini. 91 00:05:38,371 --> 00:05:39,539 Good day, Mrs. Dickens. 92 00:05:40,473 --> 00:05:41,905 Good day, Mr. Forster. 93 00:05:41,907 --> 00:05:43,943 [Mazzini chattering in Italian] 94 00:05:46,112 --> 00:05:49,379 Ah! Come in! [laughs] 95 00:05:49,381 --> 00:05:51,382 Good-bye, little strangers! 96 00:05:51,384 --> 00:05:52,615 [children] Bye! 97 00:05:52,617 --> 00:05:55,021 - Say good-bye to Mr. Forster, children! - Bye! 98 00:05:57,489 --> 00:06:00,391 - I'll hail us a cab. - What? No, it's a waste of money. We'll walk. 99 00:06:00,393 --> 00:06:02,393 It's damned expensive being a gentleman. 100 00:06:02,395 --> 00:06:03,826 Forster, this meeting... 101 00:06:03,828 --> 00:06:05,596 - Aye! I know my job. - Good. 102 00:06:05,598 --> 00:06:07,865 - And the money? - Leave the publishers to me. 103 00:06:07,867 --> 00:06:09,733 Good. 104 00:06:09,735 --> 00:06:11,937 Slow down! What's the hurry? 105 00:06:16,708 --> 00:06:18,175 [Forster] Charles Bloody Dickens, huh? 106 00:06:18,177 --> 00:06:21,845 The best-selling bloody author in the history of English bloody literature. 107 00:06:21,847 --> 00:06:25,615 Three of his books you have published in the last year and a half. Three! 108 00:06:25,617 --> 00:06:27,483 So where's the money? 109 00:06:27,485 --> 00:06:30,954 Mr. Forster, like you, we are as puzzled as the Egyptians in their fog. 110 00:06:30,956 --> 00:06:33,023 - [Forster] How's that? - Martin Chuzzlewit. 111 00:06:33,025 --> 00:06:36,759 A masterpiece of the picaresque genre, and yet... 112 00:06:36,761 --> 00:06:39,096 Barnaby Rudge. A fine book. An important subject. 113 00:06:39,098 --> 00:06:41,064 But, alas... 114 00:06:41,066 --> 00:06:43,533 And the travel book, American Notes. 115 00:06:43,535 --> 00:06:45,968 Perhaps a little too candid for our American cousins. 116 00:06:45,970 --> 00:06:48,471 No joke. I heard they were burning copies of it in the streets. 117 00:06:48,473 --> 00:06:49,706 [object slams on table] 118 00:06:49,708 --> 00:06:52,608 Well, they're mad as snakes, the Yanks. 119 00:06:52,610 --> 00:06:55,913 But what about this 50 pound a month you're withholding from his royalties? 120 00:06:55,915 --> 00:06:57,881 What is the explanation for that? 121 00:06:57,883 --> 00:07:01,185 You may remember that when Mr. Dickens approached us about the tour to America, 122 00:07:01,187 --> 00:07:03,821 we were pleased to provide him with an interest-free loan. 123 00:07:03,823 --> 00:07:06,790 With the provision that, in the unlikely case of profits 124 00:07:06,792 --> 00:07:09,158 being inadequate to certain repayments... 125 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:12,696 What? So he's had a couple of flops? Well, who hasn't? Huh? 126 00:07:12,698 --> 00:07:14,564 Your publishing house wouldn't exist without this man. 127 00:07:14,566 --> 00:07:17,134 What about an advance? 128 00:07:17,136 --> 00:07:20,036 - On? - A new book. 129 00:07:20,038 --> 00:07:21,740 You have a new book in mind? 130 00:07:24,109 --> 00:07:26,643 Yes. Of course he does. 131 00:07:26,645 --> 00:07:29,947 Well, in that case, I mean we'd obviously love to consider it. 132 00:07:29,949 --> 00:07:32,751 - Consider? - That is to say, if we like it. 133 00:07:33,985 --> 00:07:36,622 - If? - I'm sure that we will. 134 00:07:39,090 --> 00:07:40,891 Gentlemen, I bid you good day. 135 00:07:40,893 --> 00:07:44,528 Mr. Forster, please, we had no intention of causing offense. 136 00:07:44,530 --> 00:07:45,963 Well, he's in a fettle now. 137 00:07:45,965 --> 00:07:48,165 I'll give him a day to calm down. 138 00:07:48,167 --> 00:07:51,000 And then... It's most awkward. 139 00:07:51,002 --> 00:07:53,637 He was in last week, 140 00:07:53,639 --> 00:07:55,538 in some difficulty. 141 00:07:55,540 --> 00:07:56,874 Again. 142 00:07:56,876 --> 00:07:59,176 No, that's not possible. He's in the countryside. 143 00:07:59,178 --> 00:08:01,514 He's under strict instructions to remain there. 144 00:08:03,815 --> 00:08:05,050 What is it this time? 145 00:08:15,660 --> 00:08:18,262 "I need money immediately or productive of fatal consequences, 146 00:08:18,264 --> 00:08:21,097 I beseech you to do the needful..." 147 00:08:21,099 --> 00:08:25,103 He's been offering Mr. Dickens's autographs for sale in the newspapers. 148 00:08:30,608 --> 00:08:33,777 - How much did you give him? - Forty-five, all told. 149 00:08:33,779 --> 00:08:34,747 Forty-five? 150 00:08:37,049 --> 00:08:40,616 Well, I'll pay it all back. 151 00:08:40,618 --> 00:08:42,821 But not a word of this to Charles, do you hear? 152 00:08:49,594 --> 00:08:51,263 [men chattering, laughing] 153 00:08:52,798 --> 00:08:55,602 - [chattering, laughing continue] - [exhales] 154 00:08:57,001 --> 00:08:59,001 "What's the secret?" they say. 155 00:08:59,003 --> 00:09:00,506 There is no secret. I sit down... 156 00:09:03,242 --> 00:09:07,210 - Charles. What are you doing here? - I'm hiding from Thackeray. 157 00:09:07,212 --> 00:09:09,645 They absolutely come pouring out of me. 158 00:09:09,647 --> 00:09:12,081 He'll no doubt want to commiserate me on my Chuzzlewit reviews, 159 00:09:12,083 --> 00:09:14,083 which he will quote by heart. 160 00:09:14,085 --> 00:09:15,587 Come on. 161 00:09:25,964 --> 00:09:29,999 [sighs] I am clammin' for some scran. Where's Robertson? 162 00:09:30,001 --> 00:09:31,902 Why do we come here, hmm? 163 00:09:31,904 --> 00:09:35,639 The service is terrible. The food is inedible. The fees keep going up. 164 00:09:35,641 --> 00:09:37,644 It's full of... 165 00:09:39,144 --> 00:09:41,711 [groans] 166 00:09:41,713 --> 00:09:43,245 Gentlemen. 167 00:09:43,247 --> 00:09:45,014 You're not Robertson. 168 00:09:45,016 --> 00:09:46,886 The name is Marley, sir. 169 00:09:48,186 --> 00:09:51,053 - Marley? Marley with an "E"? - Yes, sir. 170 00:09:51,055 --> 00:09:53,123 Hmm. 171 00:09:53,125 --> 00:09:55,958 Uh, oh, don't worry. He collects names. 172 00:09:55,960 --> 00:09:58,195 We'll have some oysters and a bottle of champagne. 173 00:09:58,197 --> 00:09:59,766 Very good, sir. 174 00:10:01,300 --> 00:10:03,933 - Champagne? - We're celebrating. 175 00:10:03,935 --> 00:10:06,669 - Celebrating? - Hello, Thackeray. [sighs] 176 00:10:06,671 --> 00:10:08,871 - How are you? - Tolerable. 177 00:10:08,873 --> 00:10:10,374 I thank ye. 178 00:10:10,376 --> 00:10:13,076 Charles, I must say I am relieved to see you out and about. 179 00:10:13,078 --> 00:10:15,077 Relieved? 180 00:10:15,079 --> 00:10:18,081 You know, after those vile things they wrote about Chuzzlewit. 181 00:10:18,083 --> 00:10:20,884 I won't even call them reviews. 182 00:10:20,886 --> 00:10:22,985 - No matter. I never read them. - Quite right. 183 00:10:22,987 --> 00:10:25,757 Scandalous what one is allowed to print nowadays. 184 00:10:33,832 --> 00:10:35,831 Go on. What did they say? 185 00:10:35,833 --> 00:10:39,201 "Dull, vapid, and vulgar. 186 00:10:39,203 --> 00:10:44,106 Not a single character capable of exciting the reader's sympathies." 187 00:10:44,108 --> 00:10:47,076 I certainly didn't think it was vulgar. 188 00:10:47,078 --> 00:10:49,379 Oh, look. There's Macready. 189 00:10:49,381 --> 00:10:52,883 Poor thing. His Macbeth was absolutely shredded in the Times. 190 00:10:52,885 --> 00:10:55,221 I must go and give him my condolences. 191 00:10:58,957 --> 00:11:00,990 I'm sick of London. 192 00:11:00,992 --> 00:11:02,725 It's overcrowded, overpriced... 193 00:11:02,727 --> 00:11:05,095 - You love this town. - No place for a man without money. 194 00:11:05,097 --> 00:11:07,230 Not to mention the bloody fog. 195 00:11:07,232 --> 00:11:10,136 But it's your inspiration, your what-do-you-call-it... your magic lamp. 196 00:11:12,070 --> 00:11:15,141 [muttering, grunting] 197 00:11:16,474 --> 00:11:18,741 I tell you, Forster, my lamp's gone out. 198 00:11:18,743 --> 00:11:20,811 I've run out of ideas. 199 00:11:20,813 --> 00:11:22,345 - [Marley grunting] - I feel old. 200 00:11:22,347 --> 00:11:24,815 - [cork pops] - [Marley exhales] 201 00:11:24,817 --> 00:11:26,251 Old? You're a puppy. 202 00:11:28,352 --> 00:11:31,120 You're exhausted, that's all. Too many speeches. 203 00:11:31,122 --> 00:11:33,756 I've got another one tomorrow for the Children's Refuge. 204 00:11:33,758 --> 00:11:35,892 Well, you have to learn to say no. 205 00:11:35,894 --> 00:11:39,462 How can I say no if I can be useful, if I can lighten the burden of another? 206 00:11:39,464 --> 00:11:42,331 Well, you have to, what with your new commission to think about. 207 00:11:42,333 --> 00:11:45,101 Forster, I just told you that... Sorry. New commission? 208 00:11:45,103 --> 00:11:48,205 It's from Chapman and Hall, for your new book. 209 00:11:48,207 --> 00:11:50,773 I've told them you'll have the first chapter done by the end of the year. 210 00:11:50,775 --> 00:11:53,409 You like a deadline. 211 00:11:53,411 --> 00:11:56,181 - Do you mind telling me what it's about? - I'll leave that up to you. 212 00:12:02,353 --> 00:12:04,756 - [footsteps] - [woman laughing, faint] 213 00:12:30,348 --> 00:12:32,884 [woman hooting loudly] 214 00:12:34,520 --> 00:12:36,923 [hooting] 215 00:12:43,161 --> 00:12:45,363 [hooting] 216 00:12:48,867 --> 00:12:52,034 [woman] And on Christmas Eve, they say, 217 00:12:52,036 --> 00:12:54,171 the fairy mounds open wide 218 00:12:54,173 --> 00:12:57,139 and the fire spirits pour into the night. 219 00:12:57,141 --> 00:12:59,975 And then the Lord of the Dead 220 00:12:59,977 --> 00:13:03,113 leads all of the spirits into a wild hunt. 221 00:13:03,115 --> 00:13:04,514 And he calls to them... 222 00:13:04,516 --> 00:13:06,448 [loud hooting] 223 00:13:06,450 --> 00:13:08,353 [children giggling] 224 00:13:28,207 --> 00:13:30,941 - Do we have a new housemaid? - What? 225 00:13:30,943 --> 00:13:33,375 Uh, yes. Tara. 226 00:13:33,377 --> 00:13:36,381 She's Irish. Charley adores her. 227 00:13:40,953 --> 00:13:42,221 What are you doing? 228 00:13:43,988 --> 00:13:46,590 - It was only a stub. - Another hour in that. 229 00:13:46,592 --> 00:13:49,960 - Oh, really, Charles. - If you carry on like this, we'll end up in the poor house. 230 00:13:49,962 --> 00:13:51,628 - You're funny. - I'm not joking. 231 00:13:51,630 --> 00:13:53,395 Charles! 232 00:13:53,397 --> 00:13:56,533 You give money to every and any beggar in the street. 233 00:13:56,535 --> 00:14:00,336 You insist we move to a bigger house and order in all new fixtures, 234 00:14:00,338 --> 00:14:02,438 and then you complain about a new candle. 235 00:14:02,440 --> 00:14:05,177 Debt is an ogre, Kate. If you're not careful, it can eat you up. 236 00:14:08,079 --> 00:14:10,080 Are we in trouble? 237 00:14:10,082 --> 00:14:12,349 No, of course not. 238 00:14:12,351 --> 00:14:13,986 Then what? 239 00:14:14,953 --> 00:14:17,187 Nothing. 240 00:14:17,189 --> 00:14:20,425 I'm just sick of writing tooth and nail for bread, that's all. 241 00:14:21,593 --> 00:14:23,293 Hmm. 242 00:14:23,295 --> 00:14:26,196 - Should've become a journalist. - You hate the press. 243 00:14:26,198 --> 00:14:28,498 - Or a lawyer. - "The law is an ass." 244 00:14:28,500 --> 00:14:30,567 I believe you wrote that. 245 00:14:30,569 --> 00:14:33,205 A hairdresser, then, in the Burlington Arcade. 246 00:14:34,606 --> 00:14:36,907 Do you know what I should have liked to be? 247 00:14:36,909 --> 00:14:38,942 An explorer, 248 00:14:38,944 --> 00:14:42,177 paddling a canoe somewhere in the wilds of Canada 249 00:14:42,179 --> 00:14:45,014 in a pair of buckskin breeches, 250 00:14:45,016 --> 00:14:47,082 all on my own. 251 00:14:47,084 --> 00:14:48,588 No nappies to change. 252 00:14:54,492 --> 00:14:56,027 By the way, dear, 253 00:14:57,161 --> 00:14:59,232 I-I saw the doctor today. 254 00:15:05,036 --> 00:15:06,937 Not another... little stranger. 255 00:15:06,939 --> 00:15:09,038 Are you pleased? 256 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:11,006 Well, of course. 257 00:15:11,008 --> 00:15:12,344 [laughs] 258 00:15:14,179 --> 00:15:16,048 - Well, that's splendid. - Yes. 259 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:33,064 I am a necromancer. 260 00:15:34,433 --> 00:15:36,168 Behold. 261 00:15:40,671 --> 00:15:42,607 [all gasping] 262 00:15:52,617 --> 00:15:55,051 - And now... - [gasping] 263 00:15:55,053 --> 00:15:58,256 [man making eerie whistling sounds] 264 00:16:01,459 --> 00:16:03,393 [gasps] 265 00:16:03,395 --> 00:16:06,198 [man hooting, cackling] 266 00:16:07,631 --> 00:16:10,399 - [moaning] - [chuckling] Charley. 267 00:16:10,401 --> 00:16:13,269 Charley, it's all right. 268 00:16:13,271 --> 00:16:15,205 - I'm here. - [gasps] 269 00:16:15,207 --> 00:16:19,011 - [bell tolling] - [hoofbeats on cobblestone] 270 00:16:31,022 --> 00:16:32,521 [rapid footsteps] 271 00:16:32,523 --> 00:16:35,491 Mistress Chickenstalker! 272 00:16:35,493 --> 00:16:38,028 Mistress Chickenstalker, what has happened to your pinnie? 273 00:16:38,030 --> 00:16:40,029 You look as if you've been caught in a cyclone. 274 00:16:40,031 --> 00:16:41,631 That's much better. 275 00:16:41,633 --> 00:16:44,437 Master Corporal Skittles, sir. On your feet, sir! 276 00:16:49,273 --> 00:16:51,508 [laughing] 277 00:16:51,510 --> 00:16:54,713 Ah, Lucifer Box. 278 00:16:56,380 --> 00:16:58,617 - Would you do me the honor? - [laughing] 279 00:16:59,684 --> 00:17:01,417 Good. 280 00:17:01,419 --> 00:17:05,521 Ah, the Snodgering Blee. We meet at last. 281 00:17:05,523 --> 00:17:07,356 What's this? 282 00:17:07,358 --> 00:17:10,326 You have forgotten to wash behind your ear. 283 00:17:10,328 --> 00:17:12,662 [laughing] Cor! 284 00:17:12,664 --> 00:17:15,501 Now you must be... Don't... Don't tell me. 285 00:17:16,667 --> 00:17:18,334 - [whispers] Who is that? - Tara. 286 00:17:18,336 --> 00:17:20,537 Tara. Of course. 287 00:17:20,539 --> 00:17:22,739 - I see you've made a conquest. - [chuckles] 288 00:17:22,741 --> 00:17:25,240 What was that wonderful story I overheard you telling 289 00:17:25,242 --> 00:17:28,711 about fairy mounds and the fire spirits? 290 00:17:28,713 --> 00:17:33,182 Only a story my gran used to tell us, sir, back home in Ireland. 291 00:17:33,184 --> 00:17:35,285 She used to say that on Christmas Eve 292 00:17:35,287 --> 00:17:38,520 the veils between this world and the next thin out, 293 00:17:38,522 --> 00:17:42,194 and that's when the spirits cross over and walk among us. 294 00:17:43,494 --> 00:17:45,097 Do they indeed? 295 00:17:46,330 --> 00:17:48,664 Well, well, well. 296 00:17:48,666 --> 00:17:50,301 Christmas Eve. 297 00:17:51,869 --> 00:17:56,375 [applause] 298 00:17:58,742 --> 00:18:01,243 Thank you so much for coming. 299 00:18:01,245 --> 00:18:04,115 - It was such an interesting speech. - Thank you very much. 300 00:18:05,117 --> 00:18:07,383 - Your hat, sir. - Thank you. 301 00:18:07,385 --> 00:18:10,185 Oh, Mr. Dickens, it's such an honor to meet you. 302 00:18:10,187 --> 00:18:12,689 - We just adore your books. - No, we don't. 303 00:18:12,691 --> 00:18:16,326 - Well, I love them. - Nonsense. You just like a good cry. 304 00:18:16,328 --> 00:18:19,362 What is it you particularly object to in my books? 305 00:18:19,364 --> 00:18:22,397 Pickpockets, streetwalkers, charity boys. 306 00:18:22,399 --> 00:18:24,400 Those people don't belong in books. 307 00:18:24,402 --> 00:18:26,435 "Those people"? You mean, the poor? 308 00:18:26,437 --> 00:18:29,305 Look here, Mr. Dickens. I'm a self-made man. 309 00:18:29,307 --> 00:18:31,574 Pulled myself up by my own bootstraps. 310 00:18:31,576 --> 00:18:35,144 Never asked for anything from anyone that I wasn't willing to pay for. 311 00:18:35,146 --> 00:18:38,213 - Really? No help from anyone? - None. 312 00:18:38,215 --> 00:18:42,088 Well, Papa did give us a very small cotton mill when we were married. 313 00:18:44,489 --> 00:18:47,222 What do you suggest we do with "those people"? Hmm? 314 00:18:47,224 --> 00:18:48,426 Are there no workhouses? 315 00:18:51,163 --> 00:18:53,563 Do you know how many people would rather die than go there? 316 00:18:53,565 --> 00:18:55,365 Then they'd better do it 317 00:18:55,367 --> 00:18:57,603 and reduce the surplus population. 318 00:19:03,241 --> 00:19:04,876 [man] Can you spare a bob, please? 319 00:19:14,653 --> 00:19:17,857 Care to buy, sir? Hard workers. 320 00:19:20,959 --> 00:19:22,424 Fit any chimney. 321 00:19:22,426 --> 00:19:24,496 - You f... - [whinnies] 322 00:19:31,735 --> 00:19:33,638 Quick! Come on! In here! 323 00:19:37,209 --> 00:19:39,145 - Down here now! - [child cries out] 324 00:19:41,279 --> 00:19:42,647 - [man] Come on! - [child screams] No! 325 00:19:52,490 --> 00:19:55,525 [man] I lift mine eyes unto the hills 326 00:19:55,527 --> 00:19:58,394 from whence cometh my help. 327 00:19:58,396 --> 00:20:01,597 My help cometh even from the Lord, 328 00:20:01,599 --> 00:20:03,833 who hath made heaven and earth... 329 00:20:03,835 --> 00:20:07,737 All right, all right. I'm not paying you by the hour. Skip to the end. 330 00:20:07,739 --> 00:20:10,506 [man, rapidly] Rest eternal, grant to him, O Lord. Let light perpetual shine upon him. 331 00:20:10,508 --> 00:20:12,407 - Amen. Amen. - Amen. 332 00:20:12,409 --> 00:20:14,309 Shame, innit? 333 00:20:14,311 --> 00:20:17,547 All that money and no one here to mourn him except Old Scratch there. 334 00:20:17,549 --> 00:20:20,450 - Who's that? - His business partner. 335 00:20:20,452 --> 00:20:23,252 The meanest cur on two legs, so they say. 336 00:20:23,254 --> 00:20:25,190 Aye, right. Come on. 337 00:21:02,527 --> 00:21:05,764 Ah... humbug. 338 00:21:15,807 --> 00:21:16,942 "Humbug." 339 00:21:20,845 --> 00:21:23,313 "Are there no workhouses? 340 00:21:23,315 --> 00:21:24,747 Well, then they'd better do it 341 00:21:24,749 --> 00:21:26,949 and decrease the surplus population." 342 00:21:26,951 --> 00:21:30,723 [chuckling] "Old Scratch. All that money. Shame." 343 00:21:32,723 --> 00:21:35,090 Good evening, sir. 344 00:21:35,092 --> 00:21:36,427 Yes, it is, Mrs. Fisk. 345 00:21:37,828 --> 00:21:39,828 - Charles? - [shouting] Humbug! Humbug! 346 00:21:39,830 --> 00:21:42,434 Humbug! Ha-ha! 347 00:21:49,073 --> 00:21:52,374 [Charles's voice] It's about a businessman. Or a factory owner. A miser. 348 00:21:52,376 --> 00:21:56,479 His partner dies. He doesn't shed a tear. Thinks only of the money. 349 00:21:56,481 --> 00:21:58,013 And on Christmas Eve... 350 00:21:58,015 --> 00:22:01,651 On Christmas Eve, he meets some kind of... of... 351 00:22:01,653 --> 00:22:05,454 of supernatural guides, or spirits, possibly, 352 00:22:05,456 --> 00:22:07,557 who in the course of one night 353 00:22:07,559 --> 00:22:11,094 teach him what a miserable, loathsome, selfish toad he is. 354 00:22:11,096 --> 00:22:13,365 It's a short book. Short and sharp. 355 00:22:14,499 --> 00:22:15,798 A hammer blow to the heart 356 00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:18,369 of this smug, self-satisfied age. 357 00:22:24,642 --> 00:22:26,675 - It's a comedy. - [laughing] 358 00:22:26,677 --> 00:22:29,612 - Brilliant. - [laughing continues] 359 00:22:29,614 --> 00:22:32,080 - Does it have a title? - Yes. 360 00:22:32,082 --> 00:22:34,652 [clears throat] Humbug: A Miser's Lament. 361 00:22:37,989 --> 00:22:40,490 A Christmas Ghost Story... Christmas Song... 362 00:22:40,492 --> 00:22:42,124 Christmas Ballad. Something like that. 363 00:22:42,126 --> 00:22:46,128 Intriguing, really. Ah, just one question. 364 00:22:46,130 --> 00:22:47,498 Why Christmas? 365 00:22:49,434 --> 00:22:51,834 - Well, why not? - Does anybody really celebrate it anymore? 366 00:22:51,836 --> 00:22:54,470 Apart from our clerk, who never misses an opportunity 367 00:22:54,472 --> 00:22:56,939 to take a day off... with pay. 368 00:22:56,941 --> 00:23:01,076 More or less an opportunity for picking a man's pocket every 25th of December. 369 00:23:01,078 --> 00:23:04,513 - [chuckles] - What we mean to say, Mr. Dickens, is, 370 00:23:04,515 --> 00:23:07,051 not much of a market for Christmas books, what? 371 00:23:12,490 --> 00:23:16,925 It is a Christmas book because Christmas is, or ought to be, the one time of year 372 00:23:16,927 --> 00:23:20,863 when men and women open their shut-up hearts 373 00:23:20,865 --> 00:23:24,767 and think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave 374 00:23:24,769 --> 00:23:26,868 and not another race of creatures altogether. 375 00:23:26,870 --> 00:23:29,137 We are already halfway through October. 376 00:23:29,139 --> 00:23:32,474 Even if you had already written it, we couldn't possibly get it illustrated, 377 00:23:32,476 --> 00:23:35,644 typeset, printed and bound, advertised and distributed to shops 378 00:23:35,646 --> 00:23:37,116 in only six weeks. 379 00:23:39,783 --> 00:23:40,886 Well... 380 00:23:42,052 --> 00:23:43,885 thank you for your opinion. 381 00:23:43,887 --> 00:23:44,990 Mr. Dickens! 382 00:23:48,893 --> 00:23:51,827 Tie it off now. That's it. 383 00:23:51,829 --> 00:23:56,164 Scaly-headed vultures. Money-grubbing, scum-sucking... 384 00:23:56,166 --> 00:23:58,867 - But, Charles... - I'll do it myself. 385 00:23:58,869 --> 00:24:01,804 - What? - I'll pay for it myself... all of it. 386 00:24:01,806 --> 00:24:03,972 Illustrations, everything. I'll distribute it myself. 387 00:24:03,974 --> 00:24:07,509 But, Charles, this is madness. Think of your finances, huh? 388 00:24:07,511 --> 00:24:09,679 Come on. We'll go back. We'll renegotiate. 389 00:24:09,681 --> 00:24:11,580 No shame in it. It's just business. 390 00:24:11,582 --> 00:24:14,749 Why throw everything away for a minor holiday? 391 00:24:14,751 --> 00:24:17,653 No, I've never felt so strongly about anything in my life, John. 392 00:24:17,655 --> 00:24:19,755 You can help me or not, as you wish. 393 00:24:19,757 --> 00:24:22,124 - Where are you off to? - Going to raise some capital. 394 00:24:22,126 --> 00:24:23,893 One thing I've learned from my father... 395 00:24:23,895 --> 00:24:26,261 people will believe anything if you're properly dressed. 396 00:24:26,263 --> 00:24:28,998 [Charles] Mr. Trabb! Your finest cravats! 397 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,203 [whistle blows] 398 00:24:36,907 --> 00:24:38,974 Ah. 399 00:24:38,976 --> 00:24:41,076 Nothing like the air of the metropolis 400 00:24:41,078 --> 00:24:43,613 to put color in your cheeks, eh, Mother? 401 00:24:43,615 --> 00:24:44,980 [inhales, exhales] 402 00:24:44,982 --> 00:24:46,551 [laughs] 403 00:24:51,289 --> 00:24:54,524 [squawking] 404 00:24:54,526 --> 00:24:58,294 There you are, sir. Best quality. A-1 condition. 405 00:24:58,296 --> 00:25:00,563 And look inside. 406 00:25:00,565 --> 00:25:02,634 Autographed by the author. 407 00:25:04,836 --> 00:25:07,839 "To Papa. Love, Charles." 408 00:25:10,308 --> 00:25:12,944 - Five bob. - [scoffs, chuckles] 409 00:25:13,944 --> 00:25:17,846 Hello, old dog. [squawks] 410 00:25:17,848 --> 00:25:21,317 Perhaps we could, um, strike a bargain. 411 00:25:21,319 --> 00:25:24,223 - [raven] Hello. - Good with children, is it? 412 00:25:32,563 --> 00:25:33,865 Too much? 413 00:25:35,832 --> 00:25:39,234 Aha! Mr. Dickens and Mr. Forster. 414 00:25:39,236 --> 00:25:41,570 How do you? 415 00:25:41,572 --> 00:25:43,708 Very well, thank you, Mr. Haddock. 416 00:25:44,776 --> 00:25:46,174 Mittens. 417 00:25:46,176 --> 00:25:47,876 [purring] 418 00:25:47,878 --> 00:25:50,680 You are a bad boy. 419 00:25:50,682 --> 00:25:52,981 [growling] 420 00:25:52,983 --> 00:25:55,620 - [Mittens yowls] - [Haddock exhales, chuckles] 421 00:25:57,120 --> 00:25:59,321 [cracking] 422 00:25:59,323 --> 00:26:02,290 Now, how may I be of service to you? 423 00:26:02,292 --> 00:26:04,759 Well, sir, it's about the loan. 424 00:26:04,761 --> 00:26:07,698 There was something I wanted to tell you. What was it? 425 00:26:09,099 --> 00:26:12,335 It was some rather good news, if I recall correctly. 426 00:26:12,337 --> 00:26:13,970 What, uh... 427 00:26:13,972 --> 00:26:15,139 Ah. 428 00:26:17,709 --> 00:26:18,974 Biscuit? 429 00:26:18,976 --> 00:26:22,013 Well... thank you. 430 00:26:26,216 --> 00:26:27,319 Mmm. 431 00:26:28,886 --> 00:26:32,288 Ah! Uh, yes. 432 00:26:32,290 --> 00:26:34,890 Now, what was I, uh... What... 433 00:26:34,892 --> 00:26:38,326 Uh, you said something about good news? 434 00:26:38,328 --> 00:26:40,363 Possibly about the lawsuit? 435 00:26:40,365 --> 00:26:43,031 Ah, the lawsuit. 436 00:26:43,033 --> 00:26:45,201 Yes, the copyright infringement. 437 00:26:45,203 --> 00:26:47,936 Oliver Twisted. "As re-originated from the original." 438 00:26:47,938 --> 00:26:50,338 Yes! Ha! I have it here. 439 00:26:50,340 --> 00:26:52,944 Uh... Ah, yes. 440 00:26:53,944 --> 00:26:57,278 Good news indeed. We won. 441 00:26:57,280 --> 00:27:00,182 The fine was set at £2,200. 442 00:27:00,184 --> 00:27:02,417 2,200! 443 00:27:02,419 --> 00:27:05,020 The bad news is, the defendants have no money. 444 00:27:05,022 --> 00:27:06,925 - Ah. - Bankrupt. 445 00:27:08,026 --> 00:27:10,028 Disappointing, I know. 446 00:27:12,763 --> 00:27:15,330 But we'll have them arrested, throw them into debtor's prison. 447 00:27:15,332 --> 00:27:16,899 No. No, no. 448 00:27:16,901 --> 00:27:18,103 No? 449 00:27:19,671 --> 00:27:21,106 As you wish. 450 00:27:22,005 --> 00:27:24,240 In the meantime, 451 00:27:24,242 --> 00:27:26,377 if you would be so good... 452 00:27:34,018 --> 00:27:35,621 here's my bill. 453 00:27:41,425 --> 00:27:44,727 No rush. Next week will be fine. 454 00:27:44,729 --> 00:27:46,295 Hmm. 455 00:27:46,297 --> 00:27:50,900 Tell you what. Why don't we defer this until... January? 456 00:27:50,902 --> 00:27:53,769 And while we're at it, perhaps you might add a little bit more. 457 00:27:53,771 --> 00:27:55,471 I'll make it worth your while. 458 00:27:55,473 --> 00:27:56,974 More? 459 00:27:59,476 --> 00:28:01,713 You wish to borrow more? 460 00:28:04,348 --> 00:28:05,983 Not very much. Just... 461 00:28:07,385 --> 00:28:10,786 £300... till January. 462 00:28:10,788 --> 00:28:13,189 I think we can increase your loan 463 00:28:13,191 --> 00:28:16,459 at, shall we say, 25 percent? 464 00:28:16,461 --> 00:28:17,996 God's teeth! 465 00:28:19,496 --> 00:28:20,765 Thank you. 466 00:28:25,136 --> 00:28:27,039 Charles. Charles. 467 00:28:28,239 --> 00:28:30,138 - Are you all right? - Yeah. 468 00:28:30,140 --> 00:28:31,906 Never better. 469 00:28:31,908 --> 00:28:34,045 Now find me an illustrator. 470 00:28:40,417 --> 00:28:45,086 He was a tight-fisted, hand to the grindstone 471 00:28:45,088 --> 00:28:48,857 old... Scratch. 472 00:28:48,859 --> 00:28:50,960 [grumbles] 473 00:28:50,962 --> 00:28:52,897 Scrounger. 474 00:28:53,865 --> 00:28:55,032 He was a... 475 00:28:56,434 --> 00:28:59,437 covetous old sinner. [grumbling] 476 00:29:01,338 --> 00:29:02,904 - Name! - [giggling] 477 00:29:02,906 --> 00:29:04,306 Shh. 478 00:29:04,308 --> 00:29:06,942 Screwpull! Scrabbly. 479 00:29:06,944 --> 00:29:09,278 Name! Ah! 480 00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:11,146 [whispering] Well, go on. He won't bite. 481 00:29:11,148 --> 00:29:13,449 Screwpull. 482 00:29:13,451 --> 00:29:16,519 [muttering, grunting] 483 00:29:16,521 --> 00:29:17,989 - [loud thump] - Aah! 484 00:29:21,325 --> 00:29:22,794 [knocking] 485 00:29:34,238 --> 00:29:35,171 - Scrimple! - [screams] 486 00:29:35,173 --> 00:29:36,438 Aah! 487 00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:38,574 You're... What are you doing in here? 488 00:29:38,576 --> 00:29:40,875 I've just come to see to the fire, sir. 489 00:29:40,877 --> 00:29:43,878 I'm not to be interrupted under any circumstances! Do you hear? 490 00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:46,981 I beg your pardon, sir. It won't happen again. 491 00:29:46,983 --> 00:29:48,919 Wait. What's that in your pocket? 492 00:29:55,992 --> 00:29:59,394 Varney the Vampire, or The Feast of Blood. 493 00:29:59,396 --> 00:30:03,298 You won't tell Mrs. Fisk, will ya? She'll think I was shirkin'. 494 00:30:03,300 --> 00:30:05,936 - Where did you learn to read? - My mum taught me. 495 00:30:06,971 --> 00:30:08,369 But then she died 496 00:30:08,371 --> 00:30:10,374 and I had to go to the Grubber. 497 00:30:11,876 --> 00:30:14,112 The workhouse? 498 00:30:17,348 --> 00:30:20,851 - Is it any good? - Well, yes, sir. Thrilling. 499 00:30:23,287 --> 00:30:26,290 Tell you what. I'll make you a trade. 500 00:30:29,993 --> 00:30:32,461 Varney the Vampire for... 501 00:30:32,463 --> 00:30:34,195 Uh, where is it? 502 00:30:34,197 --> 00:30:36,867 [humming] Ah! 503 00:30:39,369 --> 00:30:41,470 Aladdin and His Magic Lamp. 504 00:30:41,472 --> 00:30:43,338 Oh, my. 505 00:30:43,340 --> 00:30:45,540 Read it. Let me know what you think. 506 00:30:45,542 --> 00:30:47,444 Thank you, sir. 507 00:30:48,445 --> 00:30:51,212 [clock chiming] 508 00:30:51,214 --> 00:30:52,583 Hmm. 509 00:30:57,088 --> 00:30:58,921 Who is Scrimple? 510 00:30:58,923 --> 00:31:00,321 Hmm? Scrimple? 511 00:31:00,323 --> 00:31:03,224 - When I come in, you were saying... - Oh! 512 00:31:03,226 --> 00:31:07,061 It's just a name for a story I'm concocting. 513 00:31:07,063 --> 00:31:10,569 Get the name right and then, if you're lucky, the character will appear. 514 00:31:12,235 --> 00:31:14,036 Hmm. 515 00:31:14,038 --> 00:31:15,272 He's not here yet. 516 00:31:17,274 --> 00:31:20,177 Scrantish? 517 00:31:22,245 --> 00:31:24,448 Scrarmer. 518 00:31:26,349 --> 00:31:27,682 - [snapping fingers] - Come on. 519 00:31:27,684 --> 00:31:30,986 [rolling "R"] Scrunge. 520 00:31:30,988 --> 00:31:32,922 Aw, come on! 521 00:31:32,924 --> 00:31:34,326 Come on, you old sinner! 522 00:31:36,626 --> 00:31:38,296 Scrooge! 523 00:31:39,996 --> 00:31:43,432 Shut the window! Do you think I'm made of money? 524 00:31:43,434 --> 00:31:45,934 Mr. Scrooge. 525 00:31:45,936 --> 00:31:49,337 - How delightful to meet you, sir. - Sorry I can't say the same. 526 00:31:49,339 --> 00:31:52,074 Come now. Don't be standoffish. We ought to be friends. 527 00:31:52,076 --> 00:31:54,042 - Don't have friends. Don't need 'em. - Ah. 528 00:31:54,044 --> 00:31:56,178 Naturally. 529 00:31:56,180 --> 00:31:58,047 - I know. Let's play a game. - Don't like games. 530 00:31:58,049 --> 00:32:00,048 Well, humor me. 531 00:32:00,050 --> 00:32:04,219 What do you think of when I say the word... "darkness"? 532 00:32:04,221 --> 00:32:05,490 Cheap. 533 00:32:06,523 --> 00:32:08,425 - Love. - Swindle. 534 00:32:10,094 --> 00:32:12,130 - Money. - Security. 535 00:32:13,697 --> 00:32:16,265 - Children. - Useless. 536 00:32:16,267 --> 00:32:18,370 - Workhouse. - Useful. 537 00:32:21,472 --> 00:32:22,607 Christmas. 538 00:32:25,976 --> 00:32:27,411 Christmas? 539 00:32:28,713 --> 00:32:30,147 That's right. 540 00:32:34,417 --> 00:32:37,086 - [Mrs. Fisk] Help! Help! Get it away! - [children squealing, chattering] 541 00:32:37,088 --> 00:32:39,054 - [groans] - [Mrs. Fisk] Away! 542 00:32:39,056 --> 00:32:40,722 [grunts] 543 00:32:40,724 --> 00:32:42,391 - [screams] - What is going on? 544 00:32:42,393 --> 00:32:44,292 Get it away, the filthy thing. 545 00:32:44,294 --> 00:32:46,494 Come on, Grip, old chap. Back in the cage. 546 00:32:46,496 --> 00:32:48,430 - Father? - Ah. Charles. 547 00:32:48,432 --> 00:32:50,298 - Good day. - What are you doing here? 548 00:32:50,300 --> 00:32:52,401 Well, we were in the neighborhood 549 00:32:52,403 --> 00:32:55,503 and we thought we'd drop by with a present for the children. 550 00:32:55,505 --> 00:32:57,573 [Charley] His name is Grip. He talks! 551 00:32:57,575 --> 00:33:00,108 - Can we keep him? - [Grip] Hello, old girl. 552 00:33:00,110 --> 00:33:02,377 It's bad luck, a bird in the house. It means death. 553 00:33:02,379 --> 00:33:04,113 - Hello! - Father, in here. 554 00:33:04,115 --> 00:33:06,017 - [squawking] - Of course. 555 00:33:08,652 --> 00:33:11,619 Charles? Charles? 556 00:33:11,621 --> 00:33:14,288 What are you doing back in London? 557 00:33:14,290 --> 00:33:16,791 [sighs] My dear Charles. 558 00:33:16,793 --> 00:33:19,694 I will not disguise from you that this is not the ardor 559 00:33:19,696 --> 00:33:21,696 with which a loving father might be expected... 560 00:33:21,698 --> 00:33:24,400 - You are supposed to be in Devon. - [scoffs] 561 00:33:24,402 --> 00:33:25,634 Banishment! 562 00:33:25,636 --> 00:33:28,803 Be merciful and say "death," 563 00:33:28,805 --> 00:33:31,443 for exile has more terror in its look. 564 00:33:32,642 --> 00:33:35,544 Father, we had an agreement. 565 00:33:35,546 --> 00:33:37,245 Hmm? 566 00:33:37,247 --> 00:33:39,080 I bought you a house. 567 00:33:39,082 --> 00:33:41,316 I gave you an allowance. 568 00:33:41,318 --> 00:33:44,118 For which I am very grateful. 569 00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:47,189 As for me, I'm happy wherever the weather. 570 00:33:47,191 --> 00:33:51,062 But your mother is of a more delicate sensibility. 571 00:33:52,095 --> 00:33:55,263 Charles, the mere sight of cows 572 00:33:55,265 --> 00:33:57,534 causes her actual physical pain. 573 00:33:58,702 --> 00:34:00,736 Father. 574 00:34:00,738 --> 00:34:03,640 And I have research to do in the London Library. 575 00:34:06,310 --> 00:34:08,013 - Research? - Oh, yes. 576 00:34:09,345 --> 00:34:11,245 Yeah. 577 00:34:11,247 --> 00:34:14,116 I have a commission from The Spectator 578 00:34:14,118 --> 00:34:16,721 to write a feature on the Bank Charter Act. 579 00:34:17,754 --> 00:34:19,787 The editor was very impressed 580 00:34:19,789 --> 00:34:22,691 with my series on marine insurance. 581 00:34:22,693 --> 00:34:27,229 Good for you, Father. I do hope that you and Mother will stay here with us. 582 00:34:27,231 --> 00:34:30,368 The children and I will so enjoy having some company in the evenings. 583 00:34:37,408 --> 00:34:39,577 The Spectator. Well, that's, um... 584 00:34:40,778 --> 00:34:42,781 That's most impressive. 585 00:34:44,714 --> 00:34:47,117 [chuckles] Thank you, dear boy. 586 00:34:47,751 --> 00:34:49,450 Oh, by the way, 587 00:34:49,452 --> 00:34:51,720 you couldn't lend me a tenner, could you? 588 00:34:51,722 --> 00:34:54,423 That blighter took my last farthing for the cage. 589 00:34:54,425 --> 00:34:55,660 - [wings fluttering] - [gasps] 590 00:34:59,729 --> 00:35:02,631 - [squawk] - It was the bird, sir. It flew upstairs. 591 00:35:02,633 --> 00:35:07,602 Oh, um, I'll see that it's all cleared up. 592 00:35:07,604 --> 00:35:10,305 - [squawking] - Please, can we keep him? 593 00:35:10,307 --> 00:35:12,142 Well, I, um... 594 00:35:14,812 --> 00:35:16,781 [laughs] Come on, Walter. 595 00:35:19,749 --> 00:35:21,783 [sighs] 596 00:35:21,785 --> 00:35:24,823 "This is not the ardor with which a loving father..." 597 00:35:25,689 --> 00:35:27,459 [sighs] 598 00:35:29,193 --> 00:35:30,294 [Scrooge] Humbug! 599 00:35:31,461 --> 00:35:33,797 - What is? - Christmas. 600 00:35:36,734 --> 00:35:38,332 What about it? 601 00:35:38,334 --> 00:35:40,401 Well, what is it but an excuse 602 00:35:40,403 --> 00:35:43,841 for picking a man's pocket every 25th of December? 603 00:35:45,676 --> 00:35:47,542 Yes. Keep going. 604 00:35:47,544 --> 00:35:50,745 A time for paying bills without money. 605 00:35:50,747 --> 00:35:53,781 A time for finding yourself a year older and not an hour richer. 606 00:35:53,783 --> 00:35:55,683 [chuckles] 607 00:35:55,685 --> 00:35:57,852 If I could work my will, 608 00:35:57,854 --> 00:36:00,421 every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips 609 00:36:00,423 --> 00:36:02,591 should be boiled in his own plum pudding 610 00:36:02,593 --> 00:36:06,361 and buried with a stake of holly through his heart, he should. 611 00:36:06,363 --> 00:36:11,299 [laughs] Oh, Mr. Scrooge, you and I are going to do wonderful things together. 612 00:36:11,301 --> 00:36:15,970 Oh, but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge. 613 00:36:15,972 --> 00:36:18,874 A squeezing, wrenching, 614 00:36:18,876 --> 00:36:22,511 grasping, scraping, 615 00:36:22,513 --> 00:36:25,314 clutching, covetous old sinner. 616 00:36:25,316 --> 00:36:27,316 [knocking] 617 00:36:27,318 --> 00:36:28,653 [Mr. Dickens] Charles? 618 00:36:31,888 --> 00:36:33,689 Hard at work? 619 00:36:33,691 --> 00:36:35,857 What can I help you with, Father? 620 00:36:35,859 --> 00:36:39,761 Well, I was wondering if we might have an extra candlestick for our room. 621 00:36:39,763 --> 00:36:41,729 - Of course. - Oh! 622 00:36:41,731 --> 00:36:44,668 Cigars. Oh, yes. 623 00:36:45,769 --> 00:36:47,703 I must confess, 624 00:36:47,705 --> 00:36:52,573 I have acquired an irrepressible habit of smoking whilst I write. 625 00:36:52,575 --> 00:36:54,008 Dreadful habit, I know, but... 626 00:36:54,010 --> 00:36:55,913 Oh, yes. [chuckles] 627 00:36:57,247 --> 00:36:58,515 Thank you. 628 00:37:02,252 --> 00:37:03,785 Hmm. Going well? 629 00:37:03,787 --> 00:37:06,290 [sniffs] Oh. [laughs] 630 00:37:07,624 --> 00:37:09,626 I won't detain you. 631 00:37:24,540 --> 00:37:26,808 Don't do that. D-Don't. 632 00:37:26,810 --> 00:37:28,843 - Why not? - [man groans] 633 00:37:28,845 --> 00:37:30,412 [sighs] Too late. 634 00:37:30,414 --> 00:37:32,647 [dragging, thumping] 635 00:37:32,649 --> 00:37:33,915 Who is it? 636 00:37:33,917 --> 00:37:35,420 Who is it? 637 00:37:36,854 --> 00:37:38,287 - Bunsby? - [thumping continues] 638 00:37:38,289 --> 00:37:39,921 [groaning continues] 639 00:37:39,923 --> 00:37:40,992 Clennam? 640 00:37:42,993 --> 00:37:45,727 - Heep? Hexam? - [thumping, chains clanking] 641 00:37:45,729 --> 00:37:47,495 - Oh, stop, stop! - Magwitch? 642 00:37:47,497 --> 00:37:48,599 No. 643 00:37:49,899 --> 00:37:51,001 Marley. 644 00:37:54,071 --> 00:37:56,904 [screaming] 645 00:37:56,906 --> 00:37:58,475 [groans] 646 00:37:59,943 --> 00:38:02,877 Is that you, Jacob? 647 00:38:02,879 --> 00:38:05,046 - You know him? - My business partner. 648 00:38:05,048 --> 00:38:07,816 Last time I saw him he was dead as a doornail. 649 00:38:07,818 --> 00:38:10,519 How do you, Jacob? 650 00:38:10,521 --> 00:38:13,055 [Marley] Business, business. 651 00:38:13,057 --> 00:38:16,024 Mankind was my business. 652 00:38:16,026 --> 00:38:18,596 The common welfare was my business. 653 00:38:19,963 --> 00:38:21,432 Charity... 654 00:38:22,665 --> 00:38:23,868 mercy... 655 00:38:25,535 --> 00:38:27,435 forbearance, and benevolence 656 00:38:27,437 --> 00:38:29,671 were all my business. 657 00:38:29,673 --> 00:38:32,540 He was never one for a straight answer. 658 00:38:32,542 --> 00:38:34,609 And yet I practiced none of them! 659 00:38:34,611 --> 00:38:36,377 Come in. 660 00:38:36,379 --> 00:38:37,714 Come in, please. 661 00:38:42,618 --> 00:38:44,888 [groaning] 662 00:38:56,966 --> 00:38:58,903 [gasps, sighs] 663 00:39:01,138 --> 00:39:04,475 You are fettered. Why? 664 00:39:05,943 --> 00:39:08,912 I wear the chain I forged in life. 665 00:39:12,149 --> 00:39:13,584 I made it... 666 00:39:15,586 --> 00:39:16,953 link by link, 667 00:39:18,522 --> 00:39:20,491 yard by yard. 668 00:39:22,059 --> 00:39:25,763 And of my own free will, I girded it about me. 669 00:39:27,030 --> 00:39:29,830 Of my own free will, 670 00:39:29,832 --> 00:39:31,732 I wore it. 671 00:39:31,734 --> 00:39:35,673 [wheezing groan] 672 00:39:41,010 --> 00:39:44,715 Do you know the weight and length of the chain you bear yourself? 673 00:39:46,850 --> 00:39:48,118 You mean him, surely. 674 00:39:50,653 --> 00:39:52,456 Mm-mmm. 675 00:39:53,557 --> 00:39:54,959 You, Charley. 676 00:39:57,560 --> 00:40:00,430 Your chains, all around you. 677 00:40:02,165 --> 00:40:04,635 Past and present... 678 00:40:06,437 --> 00:40:07,872 and what is to come. 679 00:40:09,772 --> 00:40:12,707 [screams] 680 00:40:12,709 --> 00:40:16,076 Hail to thee, blithe turkey, 681 00:40:16,078 --> 00:40:18,546 whose exquisite odors 682 00:40:18,548 --> 00:40:21,649 now perfume the circumambient air. 683 00:40:21,651 --> 00:40:23,218 [inhales] 684 00:40:23,220 --> 00:40:26,020 And let this day be fragrant 685 00:40:26,022 --> 00:40:29,558 with the love we bear one another. 686 00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:32,660 And may God bless us, every one. 687 00:40:32,662 --> 00:40:34,696 Every one. 688 00:40:34,698 --> 00:40:36,466 [clapping] 689 00:40:39,569 --> 00:40:41,703 Mr. John Dickens. 690 00:40:41,705 --> 00:40:44,673 You're under arrest for a debt of 42 pounds. 691 00:40:44,675 --> 00:40:45,906 - Father! - Charley. 692 00:40:45,908 --> 00:40:48,044 Father, tell them to stop! 693 00:40:49,178 --> 00:40:50,745 Take everything that shines, boys. 694 00:40:50,747 --> 00:40:53,048 It's all right, Charley. 695 00:40:53,050 --> 00:40:55,917 - Tell them to stop, Father! - It's all right. 696 00:40:55,919 --> 00:40:58,122 Please, Charley, don't worry. 697 00:40:59,689 --> 00:41:01,158 - [gasps] - [accordion squawks] 698 00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:07,432 [clock chiming] 699 00:41:08,598 --> 00:41:11,169 [children shouting, chattering] 700 00:41:12,803 --> 00:41:15,236 [Charles] What about Leech for the illustrations? 701 00:41:15,238 --> 00:41:16,937 [Forster] Leech? He's so prickly. 702 00:41:16,939 --> 00:41:19,841 - And he's by no means the cheapest. - I don't want the cheapest. 703 00:41:19,843 --> 00:41:23,078 Oh, Charles, for God's sake, slow down. You move at railway speed. 704 00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:25,046 I don't want the cheapest. I want the best. 705 00:41:25,048 --> 00:41:26,647 - It's going well then? - What? 706 00:41:26,649 --> 00:41:29,049 - The book. - It's brilliant. Best thing I've ever written. 707 00:41:29,051 --> 00:41:30,685 - What, so you... - I've got 11 pages. 708 00:41:30,687 --> 00:41:33,087 - Eleven? - Well, if it weren't for constant interruptions. 709 00:41:33,089 --> 00:41:36,290 We've got my father staying with us. He could not have come at a worse time. 710 00:41:36,292 --> 00:41:37,792 Oh. 711 00:41:37,794 --> 00:41:39,196 Miss Wigmore. 712 00:41:41,597 --> 00:41:43,064 Ah. 713 00:41:43,066 --> 00:41:45,734 - [sighs] - Come. 714 00:41:45,736 --> 00:41:46,968 Come along. 715 00:41:46,970 --> 00:41:49,674 [woman chattering, indistinct] 716 00:41:52,209 --> 00:41:54,109 Who was that? 717 00:41:54,111 --> 00:41:56,111 - Charlotte. - Who? 718 00:41:56,113 --> 00:41:58,078 My fiancée. I told you. 719 00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:00,247 [chuckles] Fiancée? 720 00:42:00,249 --> 00:42:03,618 - She's a canny lass, is she not? - Indeed. Most amiable. 721 00:42:03,620 --> 00:42:05,587 Amiable? 722 00:42:05,589 --> 00:42:08,557 Why, man, she's an angel, a sylph. 723 00:42:08,559 --> 00:42:11,026 [sobbing] She's a goddess on a... 724 00:42:11,028 --> 00:42:13,828 Whatever is the matter? 725 00:42:13,830 --> 00:42:16,897 Charlotte and I have come to a parting of the ways. 726 00:42:16,899 --> 00:42:19,334 - I thought you said you were engaged. - We were. 727 00:42:19,336 --> 00:42:22,573 But then her father had no intention for her to marry the son of a butcher. 728 00:42:24,575 --> 00:42:25,943 Here. 729 00:42:27,077 --> 00:42:28,513 - [sniffs] - [sighs] 730 00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:32,247 Perhaps it's for the best, eh? 731 00:42:32,249 --> 00:42:34,986 The life matrimonial, it's not for everyone, old stick. 732 00:42:36,687 --> 00:42:38,522 Aye. Aye, no doubt. 733 00:42:39,722 --> 00:42:41,124 So... Leech. 734 00:42:42,091 --> 00:42:43,658 That's the ticket. 735 00:42:43,660 --> 00:42:45,125 Four wood cuts, four etchings. 736 00:42:45,127 --> 00:42:46,694 The cover in red. Hand-colored. 737 00:42:46,696 --> 00:42:49,598 The title in rustic, spectral writing. 738 00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:51,732 The end papers to be green and all three edges to be gilded. 739 00:42:51,734 --> 00:42:54,836 Gilded? It'll cost you. 740 00:42:54,838 --> 00:42:57,839 Well, it must be exquisite. That's why we came to you. 741 00:42:57,841 --> 00:43:01,276 You'll have to sell every copy to make your money back. 742 00:43:01,278 --> 00:43:03,645 That is my intention. 743 00:43:03,647 --> 00:43:06,080 You brought the manuscript? 744 00:43:06,082 --> 00:43:07,948 [stammers] I'll have something for you in a week. 745 00:43:07,950 --> 00:43:09,750 - A week? - Mmm. 746 00:43:09,752 --> 00:43:12,120 That leaves only four weeks to do all the illustrations 747 00:43:12,122 --> 00:43:14,191 and get it to the printer in time for Christmas. 748 00:43:16,993 --> 00:43:20,227 - Can you do it? - Mr. Dickens, I'm not a hired hand. 749 00:43:20,229 --> 00:43:22,766 I am an artist. 750 00:43:24,066 --> 00:43:25,902 What you are asking is impossible. 751 00:43:27,136 --> 00:43:29,638 Impossible for an ordinary man. 752 00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:32,042 But you are no ordinary man, Mr. Leech. 753 00:43:32,843 --> 00:43:34,178 You are a genius. 754 00:43:37,981 --> 00:43:39,015 Fifty pounds. 755 00:43:39,950 --> 00:43:41,783 Paid in advance. 756 00:43:41,785 --> 00:43:44,321 Plus more for the plates. 757 00:43:49,959 --> 00:43:52,362 Done. Thank you, Mr. Leech. 758 00:43:55,031 --> 00:43:57,866 Look, Charles, I don't want to be the voice of doom, 759 00:43:57,868 --> 00:44:00,234 but before we lay out money for illustrations, 760 00:44:00,236 --> 00:44:03,673 we should consider what happens if you don't finish on time. 761 00:44:04,441 --> 00:44:06,310 I will finish on time. 762 00:44:07,678 --> 00:44:09,146 Quite. 763 00:44:12,783 --> 00:44:15,816 Mr. Dickens. I fix the chandelier. See? 764 00:44:15,818 --> 00:44:18,787 Yes. Good. Grazie, Signor Mazzini. 765 00:44:18,789 --> 00:44:20,321 Is no problem. 766 00:44:20,323 --> 00:44:23,323 Only 12 guineas extra. [clears throat] 767 00:44:23,325 --> 00:44:25,794 Wh... Tw... 768 00:44:25,796 --> 00:44:29,129 - [Mr. Dickens laughing] - I thought my father was off to the British Library. 769 00:44:29,131 --> 00:44:32,133 Your sister's here, sir. Come from Manchester with her little boy. 770 00:44:32,135 --> 00:44:33,236 Ah. 771 00:44:34,705 --> 00:44:37,238 - My dear sister! Ha-ha! - Charley. 772 00:44:37,240 --> 00:44:39,441 [both laugh] 773 00:44:39,443 --> 00:44:41,042 Henry, how are you? 774 00:44:41,044 --> 00:44:43,178 Very well, grace be to God. 775 00:44:43,180 --> 00:44:46,214 This cannot be young Master Henry. I barely recognize you. 776 00:44:46,216 --> 00:44:48,783 - How old are you now? - Nine, if you please, sir. 777 00:44:48,785 --> 00:44:51,218 Nine? I shall soon run out of fingers. 778 00:44:51,220 --> 00:44:54,257 - [laughs] - [Henry coughing] 779 00:44:57,093 --> 00:44:58,993 Excuse me, sir. 780 00:44:58,995 --> 00:45:02,129 The children are having their tea in the dining room. 781 00:45:02,131 --> 00:45:04,001 Come on then, young 'un. Up! 782 00:45:09,372 --> 00:45:10,875 Mind your head. 783 00:45:12,142 --> 00:45:14,174 There goes my heart. 784 00:45:14,176 --> 00:45:16,310 What did the doctor say? 785 00:45:16,312 --> 00:45:18,148 He says we have to wait and see. 786 00:45:19,149 --> 00:45:21,015 Won't you let us help? 787 00:45:21,017 --> 00:45:23,852 - We'll manage. - At least until Henry finds a new position. 788 00:45:23,854 --> 00:45:26,154 Something will come up. I'm sure of it. 789 00:45:26,156 --> 00:45:28,490 You sound just like Father. 790 00:45:28,492 --> 00:45:31,225 - How is the old reprobate? - [sighs] 791 00:45:31,227 --> 00:45:34,962 "This morning I had 25 shillings in my hand. And now, observe the vacancy." 792 00:45:34,964 --> 00:45:36,930 He means no harm. 793 00:45:36,932 --> 00:45:40,801 It's not enough. He bobs around like a cork on the surface of life. 794 00:45:40,803 --> 00:45:42,970 - Not a thought for the future. - Oh, Charley. 795 00:45:42,972 --> 00:45:45,807 Let it go, can't you? 796 00:45:45,809 --> 00:45:49,778 [Mr. Dickens] Come on, me army! Me landlubbers, me lovelies! 797 00:45:49,780 --> 00:45:53,548 Oh! Up we go. Ha-ha! Me landlubbers! 798 00:45:53,550 --> 00:45:57,886 Come aboard my ship! Here we go! Let's set sail! 799 00:45:57,888 --> 00:46:01,221 Brail your capstan bar! Come here, Walter. 800 00:46:01,223 --> 00:46:04,125 - Brail your capstan bar! - No one is useless in this world... 801 00:46:04,127 --> 00:46:07,261 Who lightens the burden of another. I know. 802 00:46:07,263 --> 00:46:11,499 - For all his faults, you won't find a kinder man. - [grumbles] 803 00:46:11,501 --> 00:46:14,234 How long he is growing up to be one. 804 00:46:14,236 --> 00:46:17,471 [Mr. Dickens continues shouting] 805 00:46:17,473 --> 00:46:20,111 Here we go! Full sail ahead! 806 00:46:29,252 --> 00:46:31,019 [whispering] Why are you here? 807 00:46:31,021 --> 00:46:34,524 You'd better come and see who's just turned up. 808 00:46:40,897 --> 00:46:42,232 Charles? 809 00:46:44,568 --> 00:46:47,267 Just a bit of indigestion. Go back to sleep. 810 00:46:47,269 --> 00:46:48,772 Mmm. 811 00:47:07,022 --> 00:47:09,424 Tell him who you are. 812 00:47:09,426 --> 00:47:12,263 I am the Ghost of Christmas Past. 813 00:47:15,397 --> 00:47:17,131 Follow. 814 00:47:17,133 --> 00:47:20,133 Not bloody likely. 815 00:47:20,135 --> 00:47:23,437 - Why not? - Mucking around in the past? What's the point? 816 00:47:23,439 --> 00:47:25,205 You might learn something. 817 00:47:25,207 --> 00:47:28,075 Well, I already know everything I need to know. 818 00:47:28,077 --> 00:47:31,044 - Uh, take him, why don't you? - Me? 819 00:47:31,046 --> 00:47:33,615 - Yes, if you're so keen. - It's not about me! 820 00:47:33,617 --> 00:47:36,553 Well, you're the author, aren't you? 821 00:47:40,957 --> 00:47:42,292 Follow. 822 00:47:44,193 --> 00:47:48,296 Don't cry. We'll be back when the debt's paid. 823 00:47:48,298 --> 00:47:52,399 - Why can't I stay with you? - You're a big boy, Charley. 824 00:47:52,401 --> 00:47:54,334 You're the breadwinner now. 825 00:47:54,336 --> 00:47:58,038 You'll see. It'll be an adventure. 826 00:47:58,040 --> 00:48:00,211 - You'll hardly think of us at all. - [sobbing quietly] 827 00:48:02,111 --> 00:48:04,479 - [banging on wagon] - [man] Time to go! 828 00:48:04,481 --> 00:48:06,513 Now, sir, enough of that. 829 00:48:06,515 --> 00:48:08,383 Stand up tall. 830 00:48:08,385 --> 00:48:10,350 Blood of iron, heart of ice. 831 00:48:10,352 --> 00:48:12,386 - Huh? - [whip cracks] 832 00:48:12,388 --> 00:48:14,325 - [horse whinnies] - And remember! 833 00:48:15,557 --> 00:48:17,658 You're the son of John Dickens! 834 00:48:17,660 --> 00:48:19,459 A gentleman! 835 00:48:19,461 --> 00:48:21,464 You be sure and tell them that! 836 00:48:32,975 --> 00:48:34,077 Well, come on then! 837 00:48:36,146 --> 00:48:38,078 Blood of iron, 838 00:48:38,080 --> 00:48:39,482 heart of ice. 839 00:48:44,486 --> 00:48:46,720 [gasps] 840 00:48:46,722 --> 00:48:49,457 - Good morning. - What? Oh. 841 00:48:49,459 --> 00:48:51,692 You were tossing and turning all night, you know. 842 00:48:51,694 --> 00:48:53,430 Yes. Bad dreams. 843 00:48:54,330 --> 00:48:56,631 What about? 844 00:48:56,633 --> 00:48:59,502 I don't know. Shadows. 845 00:49:01,136 --> 00:49:02,569 Well... 846 00:49:02,571 --> 00:49:04,671 a little daylight will cure you. 847 00:49:04,673 --> 00:49:06,506 [cackling] Now, Constable, 848 00:49:06,508 --> 00:49:09,343 shall we ask Mr. Punch where the baby's daddy's gone? 849 00:49:09,345 --> 00:49:11,145 I bet he knows. 850 00:49:11,147 --> 00:49:14,649 - Oh! Where's the baby's daddy gone? - Where's he gone, Mr. Punch? 851 00:49:14,651 --> 00:49:17,185 [Mr. Punch] Daddy's off to prison! [cackling] 852 00:49:17,187 --> 00:49:19,319 [Judy] Off to prison? Oh-ho! 853 00:49:19,321 --> 00:49:22,357 Come on. We're wasting time. Let's get to work. 854 00:49:22,359 --> 00:49:24,191 I am working. 855 00:49:24,193 --> 00:49:27,227 - Here? - Yes. Gathering inspiration. 856 00:49:27,229 --> 00:49:29,397 [chuckling] Gathering what? 857 00:49:29,399 --> 00:49:33,500 - What do you see when you look around? - Well, it's a market, you idiot. 858 00:49:33,502 --> 00:49:35,269 What else? 859 00:49:35,271 --> 00:49:38,538 Hot pies! Eel, beef or mutton pies! 860 00:49:38,540 --> 00:49:40,678 - Buyers and sellers. - What else? 861 00:49:42,544 --> 00:49:44,745 Never say die. Have a look, sir. 862 00:49:44,747 --> 00:49:46,346 [Scrooge] Thieves and ruffians. 863 00:49:46,348 --> 00:49:49,049 Highly interesting murder, gentlemen! 864 00:49:49,051 --> 00:49:51,586 [man] Hold! Hold! 865 00:49:51,588 --> 00:49:54,287 Clear the way! Clear the way, lads! 866 00:49:54,289 --> 00:49:56,290 - [laughing] - Mr. Fezziwig! 867 00:49:56,292 --> 00:49:59,163 - [laughing] - [fiddle playing] 868 00:50:03,265 --> 00:50:05,098 Life, Mr. Scrooge. 869 00:50:05,100 --> 00:50:07,468 It's London. The great theater of the world. 870 00:50:07,470 --> 00:50:09,736 - It's all here. - Bah. Humbug! 871 00:50:09,738 --> 00:50:12,807 I'm a man of facts, of calculations. 872 00:50:12,809 --> 00:50:15,243 Realities, not fancy. 873 00:50:15,245 --> 00:50:16,747 What the devil is that? 874 00:50:18,048 --> 00:50:19,316 Here you go, sir. 875 00:50:28,792 --> 00:50:31,292 - Must go. - Where to? 876 00:50:31,294 --> 00:50:32,529 It's time to write. 877 00:50:33,763 --> 00:50:36,700 - [laughing] - [fiddle continues playing] 878 00:50:41,504 --> 00:50:43,770 - Come along. - Good night, children! 879 00:50:43,772 --> 00:50:46,443 Bye! Shoo! [laughs] 880 00:50:48,778 --> 00:50:50,347 [exhales] 881 00:50:52,082 --> 00:50:55,850 Well, looks as though Charles won't be joining us. Again. 882 00:50:55,852 --> 00:50:57,819 - We may as well start. - Oh. 883 00:50:57,821 --> 00:51:00,087 Ah, the parties. 884 00:51:00,089 --> 00:51:02,223 We used to keep such hours. 885 00:51:02,225 --> 00:51:05,158 Balls, dinners, champagne. 886 00:51:05,160 --> 00:51:07,328 First-rate capon, Mrs. Fisk. 887 00:51:07,330 --> 00:51:10,098 Oh, thank you, sir. I'll let the cook know. 888 00:51:10,100 --> 00:51:12,633 And the chairs had turned legs, 889 00:51:12,635 --> 00:51:15,435 with green squabs to match the curtains. 890 00:51:15,437 --> 00:51:17,305 What was that story, Mother? 891 00:51:17,307 --> 00:51:21,375 Oh, I was just telling Kate about the dining room set we used to have. 892 00:51:21,377 --> 00:51:24,812 Rosewood. In the most approved taste. 893 00:51:24,814 --> 00:51:27,214 You mean the one we pawned? 894 00:51:27,216 --> 00:51:28,749 Oh! [laughs] 895 00:51:28,751 --> 00:51:33,386 Charles! [laughs] You are a satirical monster. 896 00:51:33,388 --> 00:51:35,555 - Is that a joke, Charles? - Not a very amusing one. 897 00:51:35,557 --> 00:51:37,325 Is that a new waistcoat, Father? 898 00:51:37,327 --> 00:51:42,529 What? Oh, yes. It's Persian crimson. A little more expensive. 899 00:51:42,531 --> 00:51:45,832 But as I always say, people will believe anything 900 00:51:45,834 --> 00:51:47,767 if you are properly dressed. 901 00:51:47,769 --> 00:51:51,205 Kate, will you ask Tara to bring a tray up with something on it? 902 00:51:51,207 --> 00:51:54,142 - I'll bring it up. - No. I need Tara to do it. 903 00:51:54,144 --> 00:51:56,877 I'll get her, sir. Tara! 904 00:51:56,879 --> 00:51:59,714 [Mr. Dickens] That's the spirit, my boy. Hmm? 905 00:51:59,716 --> 00:52:03,283 Procrastination is the thief of time, eh, Charles? [chuckling] 906 00:52:03,285 --> 00:52:05,254 Collar him! 907 00:52:09,758 --> 00:52:11,591 We must not disturb the poet 908 00:52:11,593 --> 00:52:13,928 when the divine frenzy is upon him. 909 00:52:13,930 --> 00:52:15,930 [chuckles] 910 00:52:15,932 --> 00:52:17,834 Hmm. 911 00:52:27,510 --> 00:52:29,446 Know the place? 912 00:52:32,281 --> 00:52:34,318 Was I apprenticed here? 913 00:52:35,952 --> 00:52:39,819 Clear the way, lads! Clear the way. It's Friday night. 914 00:52:39,821 --> 00:52:43,290 - Why, it's old Fezziwig. - [fiddle: jig] 915 00:52:43,292 --> 00:52:44,894 [laughing] 916 00:52:48,631 --> 00:52:50,634 - [knocking] - [fiddle stops] 917 00:52:51,734 --> 00:52:53,370 [sighs] 918 00:52:54,571 --> 00:52:56,571 Who is it? 919 00:52:56,573 --> 00:52:58,609 It's Tara, sir, with your dinner. 920 00:53:05,615 --> 00:53:07,350 Tara. Come in. Come in. 921 00:53:09,218 --> 00:53:10,921 Close the door. 922 00:53:13,423 --> 00:53:15,288 Sit. I want to read you something. 923 00:53:15,290 --> 00:53:17,290 Oh... Oh, I... I don't think Mrs. Fisk would... 924 00:53:17,292 --> 00:53:19,993 Ah! Skittleshins to Mrs. Fisk. 925 00:53:19,995 --> 00:53:21,928 Come. Sit. 926 00:53:21,930 --> 00:53:24,865 [humming] 927 00:53:24,867 --> 00:53:27,000 Now, since you like ghost stories, 928 00:53:27,002 --> 00:53:29,805 see if this can rival Varney the Vampire. 929 00:53:32,575 --> 00:53:34,709 [Charles] "With cherry-cheeked apples, 930 00:53:34,711 --> 00:53:37,979 juicy oranges, luscious pears, 931 00:53:37,981 --> 00:53:41,015 immense Twelfth cakes and seething bowls of punch 932 00:53:41,017 --> 00:53:44,484 that made the chamber dim with their delicious steam. 933 00:53:44,486 --> 00:53:48,622 In easy state, upon this couch, there sat a jolly giant..." 934 00:53:48,624 --> 00:53:50,890 - The second ghost. - The second ghost. 935 00:53:50,892 --> 00:53:53,829 [laughter] 936 00:53:56,432 --> 00:53:59,332 I am the Ghost of Christmas Present. 937 00:53:59,334 --> 00:54:04,037 These are the gifts of abundance, goodwill, 938 00:54:04,039 --> 00:54:05,705 and of generosity. 939 00:54:05,707 --> 00:54:07,540 Uh-huh. 940 00:54:07,542 --> 00:54:10,645 Of course, you wouldn't understand much about that, would you? 941 00:54:10,647 --> 00:54:12,382 Unlike these good people. 942 00:54:14,917 --> 00:54:18,019 My dear Mrs. Cratchit, you have outdone yourself this year. 943 00:54:18,021 --> 00:54:20,354 Oh, everyone pitched in. Even Tim. 944 00:54:20,356 --> 00:54:22,658 - I set the table. - [laughing] Yes, you did. 945 00:54:25,327 --> 00:54:27,962 I didn't know Cratchit had a crippled son. 946 00:54:27,964 --> 00:54:29,663 Didn't you ever think to ask? 947 00:54:29,665 --> 00:54:32,566 A merry Christmas to us all, my dears. 948 00:54:32,568 --> 00:54:35,439 - And may God bless us. - God bless us, every one. 949 00:54:37,339 --> 00:54:40,540 He's my clerk. I don't pay him to tell me about his personal life. 950 00:54:40,542 --> 00:54:42,942 - You hardly pay him at all. - Fifteen shillings a week. 951 00:54:42,944 --> 00:54:45,845 For a man with a family, not to mention a sick child? 952 00:54:45,847 --> 00:54:48,317 [coughing] 953 00:54:49,785 --> 00:54:51,754 That's the market rate. 954 00:54:53,423 --> 00:54:56,390 Do you really believe that every inch of existence 955 00:54:56,392 --> 00:54:58,792 is a bargain across the counter? 956 00:54:58,794 --> 00:55:00,794 Observe this family. 957 00:55:00,796 --> 00:55:05,399 They don't have much, but they're happy, grateful, contented with their lot. 958 00:55:05,401 --> 00:55:09,537 Whereas you are miserable and content with nothing. 959 00:55:09,539 --> 00:55:12,038 Never heard such folly. 960 00:55:12,040 --> 00:55:14,977 [bell tolls] 961 00:55:16,111 --> 00:55:18,615 Heed well what I've said. 962 00:55:19,716 --> 00:55:21,482 Farewell. 963 00:55:21,484 --> 00:55:23,487 [Charles] And... intermission! 964 00:55:25,120 --> 00:55:28,089 - Thrilling performance. - That's very kind. Thank you. 965 00:55:28,091 --> 00:55:31,295 And that is as far as I've got. 966 00:55:36,665 --> 00:55:38,131 - Tara. - Hmm? 967 00:55:38,133 --> 00:55:39,966 [chuckles] 968 00:55:39,968 --> 00:55:42,703 - How do you do that, sir? - Do what? 969 00:55:42,705 --> 00:55:44,872 Make a world come alive. 970 00:55:44,874 --> 00:55:47,511 I could almost see and hear them people. 971 00:55:49,144 --> 00:55:51,611 Especially that Tiny Tim. 972 00:55:51,613 --> 00:55:53,082 Poor mite. 973 00:56:03,059 --> 00:56:05,792 Um... [clears throat] A word in your ear. 974 00:56:05,794 --> 00:56:09,430 - About what? - The scene. 975 00:56:09,432 --> 00:56:13,167 - It's very one-sided. - What? One-sided? 976 00:56:13,169 --> 00:56:15,806 Well, my character doesn't get to explain his side of things. 977 00:56:18,073 --> 00:56:21,008 - So I've taken the liberty of writing a short speech. - No. 978 00:56:21,010 --> 00:56:24,078 - Something about the rational self-interest... - [sighs] 979 00:56:24,080 --> 00:56:26,080 and the natural tendencies of free markets... 980 00:56:26,082 --> 00:56:28,618 No. No. And no. 981 00:56:30,586 --> 00:56:32,453 Well, what sort of book is this anyway? 982 00:56:32,455 --> 00:56:33,787 [angry grunt] 983 00:56:33,789 --> 00:56:36,924 No! It's too... Ew. It's too gloomy. 984 00:56:36,926 --> 00:56:39,093 The Ghost of Christmas Present should be wonderful. 985 00:56:39,095 --> 00:56:41,162 Warm, jolly! 986 00:56:41,164 --> 00:56:43,096 - Jolly? - Yes! 987 00:56:43,098 --> 00:56:44,932 A jolly ghost? 988 00:56:44,934 --> 00:56:46,435 That's it. 989 00:56:57,146 --> 00:56:59,613 - What's this? - Find another artist. 990 00:56:59,615 --> 00:57:01,615 We don't want another artist. 991 00:57:01,617 --> 00:57:05,886 A jolly Christmas ghost? What's that mean? 992 00:57:05,888 --> 00:57:09,790 I can't draw what I don't understand. 993 00:57:09,792 --> 00:57:13,660 Well, it is everything that's best about Christmas. 994 00:57:13,662 --> 00:57:18,467 He's the soul of kindness and generosity. He's... 995 00:57:19,734 --> 00:57:21,669 Well, he's Forster. 996 00:57:21,671 --> 00:57:23,236 Eh? 997 00:57:23,238 --> 00:57:25,508 With a beard. 998 00:57:29,812 --> 00:57:31,147 Come on. Jolly. 999 00:57:59,242 --> 00:58:02,178 [women shouting] 1000 00:58:13,222 --> 00:58:16,156 In shops by Christmas? 1001 00:58:16,158 --> 00:58:17,957 That'll be a miracle. 1002 00:58:17,959 --> 00:58:19,894 Go away. 1003 00:58:19,896 --> 00:58:24,066 Three flops in a row. Up to your eyeballs in debt. 1004 00:58:25,568 --> 00:58:27,834 I'd think you'd be glad of some advice. 1005 00:58:27,836 --> 00:58:30,537 So, you've had a few flops. What of it? 1006 00:58:30,539 --> 00:58:33,640 You're still young. It's not as if you're an old man. 1007 00:58:33,642 --> 00:58:35,678 - [groans] - You've still got lots of time to be... 1008 00:58:52,827 --> 00:58:54,597 [bell tolls] 1009 00:58:56,832 --> 00:58:58,568 [bell tolls] 1010 00:59:00,937 --> 00:59:02,703 [bell tolls] 1011 00:59:02,705 --> 00:59:05,839 Are we in the presence of the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come? 1012 00:59:05,841 --> 00:59:08,709 [rumbling] 1013 00:59:08,711 --> 00:59:10,580 - Why doesn't he speak? - Shh! 1014 00:59:14,883 --> 00:59:19,285 You are here to show us the shadows of the things that have not been, 1015 00:59:19,287 --> 00:59:21,689 but will happen, in the time before us. 1016 00:59:21,691 --> 00:59:22,993 Is that so? 1017 00:59:34,903 --> 00:59:36,636 [Scrooge] Where does it want us to go? 1018 00:59:36,638 --> 00:59:38,541 I think I know. 1019 00:59:42,611 --> 00:59:45,281 I have a bad feeling about this. I... 1020 00:59:52,088 --> 00:59:55,689 [Charles] And then they entered poor Bob Cratchit's house 1021 00:59:55,691 --> 00:59:58,091 and found the mother and the children round the fire. 1022 00:59:58,093 --> 01:00:01,164 [quiet sobbing] 1023 01:00:02,832 --> 01:00:04,131 It's okay. It's okay. 1024 01:00:04,133 --> 01:00:06,035 Then Bob came in the door. 1025 01:00:08,771 --> 01:00:10,006 [door closes] 1026 01:00:14,410 --> 01:00:16,109 You went today then, Robert? 1027 01:00:16,111 --> 01:00:18,347 To the cemetery? 1028 01:00:19,714 --> 01:00:21,749 Yes, my dear. 1029 01:00:21,751 --> 01:00:27,120 I wish you could have gone to see how green a place it is. 1030 01:00:27,122 --> 01:00:29,288 But you'll see it often. 1031 01:00:29,290 --> 01:00:34,064 I promised him that I would take a walk there on a Sunday. 1032 01:00:36,298 --> 01:00:37,867 [sobbing resumes] 1033 01:00:39,769 --> 01:00:41,671 My little child. 1034 01:00:45,774 --> 01:00:47,307 - My little, little child. - "...little child." 1035 01:00:47,309 --> 01:00:49,308 - No! - Uh, rude! 1036 01:00:49,310 --> 01:00:52,048 - Is Tiny Tim dead? - Well, of course he is. Imbecile. 1037 01:00:53,883 --> 01:00:55,415 He was very ill. 1038 01:00:55,417 --> 01:00:57,183 You can't save every child in London. 1039 01:00:57,185 --> 01:00:59,819 And the family has no money for a doctor. 1040 01:00:59,821 --> 01:01:01,854 Then Scrooge must save him! 1041 01:01:01,856 --> 01:01:02,891 Me? 1042 01:01:04,359 --> 01:01:06,093 - But he wouldn't... - Why? 1043 01:01:06,095 --> 01:01:08,761 - Well, he's too selfish. - He can change. 1044 01:01:08,763 --> 01:01:10,830 There's good in him somewhere, I know it! 1045 01:01:10,832 --> 01:01:13,068 People don't change. 1046 01:01:15,037 --> 01:01:17,404 He's been this way for a long time. 1047 01:01:17,406 --> 01:01:19,707 I'm not sure he can change. 1048 01:01:19,709 --> 01:01:22,412 Of course he can. He's not a monster. 1049 01:01:24,312 --> 01:01:26,779 I thought this was a ghost story, not a fairy tale. 1050 01:01:26,781 --> 01:01:30,316 He wouldn't let Tiny Tim die, Mr. Dickens. 1051 01:01:30,318 --> 01:01:33,153 He has a heart, doesn't he? 1052 01:01:33,155 --> 01:01:35,357 It would be too wicked... 1053 01:01:37,325 --> 01:01:39,261 even for him. 1054 01:02:01,383 --> 01:02:04,287 [pen tapping on inkwell] 1055 01:02:22,470 --> 01:02:27,040 [Mr. Dickens] 'Tis now the very witching time of night... 1056 01:02:27,042 --> 01:02:28,241 [Mrs. Dickens] Hush! 1057 01:02:28,243 --> 01:02:30,444 when graveyards yawn and hell... 1058 01:02:30,446 --> 01:02:33,247 Aha, Shakespeare. [chuckles] 1059 01:02:33,249 --> 01:02:35,381 There's a man who could write. 1060 01:02:35,383 --> 01:02:38,951 I doubt he ever had a blockage. 1061 01:02:38,953 --> 01:02:42,022 Self-preservation... first law of nature. 1062 01:02:42,024 --> 01:02:43,326 And that's just a fact. 1063 01:02:44,560 --> 01:02:46,225 [laughing] 1064 01:02:46,227 --> 01:02:48,028 Oh, hush. 1065 01:02:48,030 --> 01:02:50,464 Oh, Charles! Good evening. 1066 01:02:50,466 --> 01:02:52,499 We'll get him straight into bed, Charles. 1067 01:02:52,501 --> 01:02:56,336 We were up the river to Kew, and I think perhaps it was too long a day. 1068 01:02:56,338 --> 01:02:59,305 - Kew. - Kew? 1069 01:02:59,307 --> 01:03:01,908 - What about your newspaper article? - Article? 1070 01:03:01,910 --> 01:03:04,477 Yes, the one you're writing. It's been over a month. 1071 01:03:04,479 --> 01:03:06,879 Oh! [laughs] 1072 01:03:06,881 --> 01:03:08,816 Oh, ho! Oh! 1073 01:03:08,818 --> 01:03:11,118 No, the, um... 1074 01:03:11,120 --> 01:03:15,888 The editor felt that due to pecuniary complications 1075 01:03:15,890 --> 01:03:18,091 of a most complicated nature, 1076 01:03:18,093 --> 01:03:21,093 he felt he could not proceed with the commission. 1077 01:03:21,095 --> 01:03:22,895 So, no newspaper article. 1078 01:03:22,897 --> 01:03:26,533 No. However, I rejoice in saying 1079 01:03:26,535 --> 01:03:29,937 I have every hope something will turn up. 1080 01:03:29,939 --> 01:03:32,841 I think it's time you went back to Devon, Father. 1081 01:03:34,176 --> 01:03:36,513 - Indeed. - As soon as possible. 1082 01:03:40,481 --> 01:03:43,049 Of course, dear boy. 1083 01:03:43,051 --> 01:03:45,488 We shall catch the afternoon train tomorrow. 1084 01:03:49,091 --> 01:03:50,924 No, sweet. 1085 01:03:50,926 --> 01:03:52,796 I can manage from here. 1086 01:03:53,629 --> 01:03:55,165 Thank you. 1087 01:03:56,531 --> 01:03:58,501 Good night, Charles. 1088 01:04:02,104 --> 01:04:05,504 Ride on, ride on, 1089 01:04:05,506 --> 01:04:07,875 over all obstacles 1090 01:04:07,877 --> 01:04:10,142 and win the race. 1091 01:04:10,144 --> 01:04:12,511 Don't be unkind, Charley. 1092 01:04:12,513 --> 01:04:14,580 You don't know what he's been through. 1093 01:04:14,582 --> 01:04:17,484 He feels it all, you know. 1094 01:04:17,486 --> 01:04:21,424 He would never tell you, but he feels it all. 1095 01:04:29,631 --> 01:04:31,568 [door closes] 1096 01:04:41,042 --> 01:04:45,479 That's it. Blood of iron, heart of ice. 1097 01:04:45,481 --> 01:04:48,017 Now perhaps we can finish this little book. 1098 01:04:53,155 --> 01:04:56,589 "Are these the shadows of the things that will be, 1099 01:04:56,591 --> 01:04:59,628 or are they shadows of the things that may be only?" 1100 01:05:03,332 --> 01:05:05,201 That is as far as I've got. 1101 01:05:07,002 --> 01:05:09,303 It's brilliant. 1102 01:05:09,305 --> 01:05:12,038 - Are you pulling my leg? - No. No, of course not. 1103 01:05:12,040 --> 01:05:15,477 Well, now... that's encouraging. 1104 01:05:17,479 --> 01:05:20,180 My... My one criticism... 1105 01:05:20,182 --> 01:05:21,714 Yes? 1106 01:05:21,716 --> 01:05:24,450 - Tiny Tim. - Go on. 1107 01:05:24,452 --> 01:05:27,321 - Are you really going to let him die? - Aw, not you as well. 1108 01:05:27,323 --> 01:05:30,490 It's a Christmas book. Shouldn't it be hopeful? 1109 01:05:30,492 --> 01:05:32,625 I mean, isn't that what... what... what Christmas is all about? 1110 01:05:32,627 --> 01:05:36,729 The hope that in the end, our better natures will prevail? 1111 01:05:36,731 --> 01:05:39,433 You were the one who persuaded me to kill off Little Nell. 1112 01:05:39,435 --> 01:05:41,067 Yeah. Well, I stand by that decision. 1113 01:05:41,069 --> 01:05:42,669 John, my readers implored me... 1114 01:05:42,671 --> 01:05:46,542 But this is different. If Tiny Tim dies, then what's the point? 1115 01:05:48,510 --> 01:05:50,142 - Thank you, John. - You're welcome. 1116 01:05:50,144 --> 01:05:52,979 For reminding me why I never ask your opinion on my work. 1117 01:05:52,981 --> 01:05:55,314 Your services are no longer required. 1118 01:05:55,316 --> 01:05:57,250 - You cannot sack me. - Why not? 1119 01:05:57,252 --> 01:06:00,319 Because I don't work for you. I do what I do as a friend. 1120 01:06:00,321 --> 01:06:02,122 [door opens] 1121 01:06:02,124 --> 01:06:04,424 John, please leave. 1122 01:06:04,426 --> 01:06:08,060 [sighs] See you on Friday. 1123 01:06:08,062 --> 01:06:10,666 Last chapter's due at the printers. 1124 01:06:20,309 --> 01:06:23,276 Right. Let's run it again from the scene with Scrooge's debtors. 1125 01:06:23,278 --> 01:06:25,178 - Oh, what's the point? - The point? 1126 01:06:25,180 --> 01:06:27,013 We keep stopping at the same place. 1127 01:06:27,015 --> 01:06:29,482 Yes, because I'm working out the ending. 1128 01:06:29,484 --> 01:06:32,151 - Admit it, you're blocked! - I'm not blocked. 1129 01:06:32,153 --> 01:06:33,422 Now, if you take my advice... 1130 01:06:35,124 --> 01:06:37,290 - I'm the author here. - Allegedly. 1131 01:06:37,292 --> 01:06:39,792 [all chuckling] 1132 01:06:39,794 --> 01:06:41,497 I'm going out. 1133 01:06:44,800 --> 01:06:47,403 - Alone! - [woman] Aw. 1134 01:06:49,071 --> 01:06:52,140 [chattering, laughing] 1135 01:06:56,211 --> 01:06:58,044 Forster. I need your help. 1136 01:06:58,046 --> 01:07:00,716 - What is it? The children? - No. The children are fine. 1137 01:07:01,749 --> 01:07:03,549 What's this? 1138 01:07:03,551 --> 01:07:07,486 "Candle-scandal, flirt-hurt, Charlotte-poor heart." 1139 01:07:07,488 --> 01:07:10,325 Is that a poem? That's atrocious. What has got into you? 1140 01:07:12,127 --> 01:07:14,627 You look terrible. What's the matter? 1141 01:07:14,629 --> 01:07:17,129 It's the book. I'm struggling with one of the characters. 1142 01:07:17,131 --> 01:07:20,068 Whoo-hoo! Ah! 1143 01:07:24,173 --> 01:07:27,073 - Quite a few of them, actually. - What exactly is the problem? 1144 01:07:27,075 --> 01:07:32,446 The problem is, could a man as mean-spirited as Scrooge, as evil as Scrooge... 1145 01:07:32,448 --> 01:07:35,648 Could he become a different person overnight? 1146 01:07:35,650 --> 01:07:38,452 What is so evil about him? 1147 01:07:38,454 --> 01:07:40,554 - Well, he's a miser. - Well, that doesn't make him evil. 1148 01:07:40,556 --> 01:07:43,090 - It just makes him cheap. - He worships money. 1149 01:07:43,092 --> 01:07:45,194 - It's the only thing that matters to him. - Why? 1150 01:07:47,628 --> 01:07:50,197 He has nothing else. 1151 01:07:50,199 --> 01:07:52,101 No friends? No family? 1152 01:07:55,137 --> 01:07:57,170 No one he trusts. 1153 01:07:57,172 --> 01:07:58,772 Why? 1154 01:07:58,774 --> 01:08:01,511 Because he's afraid. 1155 01:08:02,811 --> 01:08:04,310 Of? 1156 01:08:04,312 --> 01:08:05,647 [sighs] 1157 01:08:08,684 --> 01:08:10,517 Being found out. 1158 01:08:10,519 --> 01:08:14,554 - Hello, chaps. - Thackeray. 1159 01:08:14,556 --> 01:08:18,657 Charles, I haven't seen anything of yours in print for ages. 1160 01:08:18,659 --> 01:08:20,893 Don't tell me you've had a blockage. 1161 01:08:20,895 --> 01:08:24,296 Not in the least. I'm neck and heels into a Christmas book. 1162 01:08:24,298 --> 01:08:28,268 - What the deuce is that? - A story about Christmas. 1163 01:08:28,270 --> 01:08:29,870 For Christmas. 1164 01:08:29,872 --> 01:08:33,173 A story... about...? [wheezing laugh] 1165 01:08:33,175 --> 01:08:35,308 [chuckling] How amusing. 1166 01:08:35,310 --> 01:08:37,643 Well, best of luck with it. 1167 01:08:37,645 --> 01:08:42,448 Oh, dear, my last book has come out in a Railway edition. 1168 01:08:42,450 --> 01:08:44,783 Sold 10,000 copies, in a week. 1169 01:08:44,785 --> 01:08:47,319 "There's gold in them thar hills," 1170 01:08:47,321 --> 01:08:48,824 as your American friends would say. 1171 01:08:53,662 --> 01:08:57,165 Come on. Let's go somewhere else, get a real drink. 1172 01:09:03,204 --> 01:09:05,304 [men laughing] 1173 01:09:05,306 --> 01:09:09,709 She's a big lass, and a bonny lass, and she likes her beer. 1174 01:09:09,711 --> 01:09:14,947 And I call her Cushie Butterfield, and I wish she was here. 1175 01:09:14,949 --> 01:09:17,250 [laughs] What language is that? 1176 01:09:17,252 --> 01:09:19,355 That's Geordie, man. We're gods. 1177 01:09:22,391 --> 01:09:24,691 - Where are we? - Oh, it's Hungerford Stairs. 1178 01:09:24,693 --> 01:09:26,195 Oi, I smell the river. 1179 01:09:30,199 --> 01:09:32,232 What's that? 1180 01:09:32,234 --> 01:09:33,899 It's a graveyard. 1181 01:09:33,901 --> 01:09:37,636 Ah, it's the old Warren's Factory. They moved from there years ago. 1182 01:09:37,638 --> 01:09:39,639 I wonder they've not pulled it down yet. 1183 01:09:39,641 --> 01:09:42,442 Yeah. Or burnt it down. 1184 01:09:42,444 --> 01:09:44,411 Might do it myself one day. 1185 01:09:44,413 --> 01:09:46,682 Why? What have you got against boot blacking? 1186 01:09:47,415 --> 01:09:48,751 Charles. 1187 01:09:49,584 --> 01:09:50,886 What is it? 1188 01:09:52,454 --> 01:09:54,888 I just have this recurring nightmare. 1189 01:09:54,890 --> 01:09:57,389 Oh, nightmares, aye. 1190 01:09:57,391 --> 01:09:59,960 I've got one where I'm being chased by a giant badger. 1191 01:09:59,962 --> 01:10:01,664 [snorts, laughs] 1192 01:10:02,730 --> 01:10:04,232 What's yours? 1193 01:10:06,901 --> 01:10:09,301 Never mind. 1194 01:10:09,303 --> 01:10:11,638 Well, come on. It's time to go home. 1195 01:10:11,640 --> 01:10:13,840 I'll see you at the printers. Friday morning, nine o'clock. 1196 01:10:13,842 --> 01:10:15,711 - I can't. - Well, why not? 1197 01:10:18,247 --> 01:10:21,514 It's the book. 1198 01:10:21,516 --> 01:10:24,553 I can't... The characters won't do what I want. 1199 01:10:28,356 --> 01:10:29,990 And I'm afraid. 1200 01:10:29,992 --> 01:10:32,459 Of what? 1201 01:10:32,461 --> 01:10:35,661 If I can't finish it, I'll never write again. 1202 01:10:35,663 --> 01:10:38,898 Oh, come on, man, come on. Have some sleep, hear? 1203 01:10:38,900 --> 01:10:40,436 I can't. 1204 01:10:41,970 --> 01:10:45,572 The wrong fire is burning in my head. 1205 01:10:45,574 --> 01:10:48,340 Oh, don't be daft. Now, come on, your wife will be worried sick. 1206 01:10:48,342 --> 01:10:50,277 Who? Kate? She doesn't understand me. 1207 01:10:50,279 --> 01:10:53,545 I've got news for you, Charles. None of us understand you. 1208 01:10:53,547 --> 01:10:55,849 You're... You're a freak of nature. 1209 01:10:55,851 --> 01:10:58,952 I'm exhausted spending two hours in your company. 1210 01:10:58,954 --> 01:11:01,520 Come on, go home. It's cold tonight, yeah? 1211 01:11:01,522 --> 01:11:04,357 I'll see you Friday. 1212 01:11:04,359 --> 01:11:08,060 ♪ Oh, she's a big lass And a bonny lass And she likes her beer ♪ 1213 01:11:08,062 --> 01:11:10,397 [singing continues, faint] 1214 01:11:10,399 --> 01:11:14,303 [horn blows] 1215 01:11:20,475 --> 01:11:22,578 Here. Bye. 1216 01:11:29,851 --> 01:11:31,754 Put that one over there! 1217 01:11:38,392 --> 01:11:40,460 Boys! 1218 01:11:40,462 --> 01:11:43,862 This here is Charley Dickens. 1219 01:11:43,864 --> 01:11:46,501 And what was you just telling me, lad? About your dad? 1220 01:11:53,641 --> 01:11:55,407 My father is a gentleman. 1221 01:11:55,409 --> 01:11:58,478 - [laughing] - Where is he then? 1222 01:11:58,480 --> 01:12:01,680 - Dining with the queen? - I heard he's been sent to prison. 1223 01:12:01,682 --> 01:12:03,683 Hush, you lot. Get back to work! 1224 01:12:03,685 --> 01:12:04,620 Master Dickens. 1225 01:12:06,120 --> 01:12:08,056 No shirkin' here. 1226 01:12:11,459 --> 01:12:14,529 You're no better than us, cocker, and you'd best learn that. 1227 01:12:48,462 --> 01:12:50,863 You. What are you doing? 1228 01:12:50,865 --> 01:12:53,099 Hello, Charley, old boy. 1229 01:12:53,101 --> 01:12:55,501 Father? What are you doing here? 1230 01:12:55,503 --> 01:12:59,171 Oh, I had some business that I had to attend to, so I thought... 1231 01:12:59,173 --> 01:13:02,041 You just left town. What business could you possibly have? 1232 01:13:02,043 --> 01:13:03,879 - Oh, I... [chuckles] - What's that? 1233 01:13:06,914 --> 01:13:08,417 You're going to sell this? 1234 01:13:09,751 --> 01:13:11,818 Well, it's no good to you, is it? 1235 01:13:11,820 --> 01:13:14,120 Is that what you've been doing? 1236 01:13:14,122 --> 01:13:17,055 Going through the rubbish like a tramp, selling bits and pieces of me. 1237 01:13:17,057 --> 01:13:19,992 Is this your business? 1238 01:13:19,994 --> 01:13:23,496 - Aren't you ashamed? - What? 1239 01:13:23,498 --> 01:13:27,032 I bought you a house. I gave you an allowance. 1240 01:13:27,034 --> 01:13:29,135 What more can you possibly need? 1241 01:13:29,137 --> 01:13:33,540 Need? Oh, reason not the need. 1242 01:13:33,542 --> 01:13:36,475 - [shouting] You see me here, you gods? - No. No. Shh. No. 1243 01:13:36,477 --> 01:13:39,011 - A poor old man! - No! Shh! Stop it. 1244 01:13:39,013 --> 01:13:44,917 Charley, you don't know what it's like to be poor, to be nothing. 1245 01:13:44,919 --> 01:13:47,620 At 11 years old I was made to know. 1246 01:13:47,622 --> 01:13:50,189 Working 12 hours a day, 1247 01:13:50,191 --> 01:13:54,727 going hungry, alone and afraid 1248 01:13:54,729 --> 01:13:57,764 because your father, who is supposed to care for you, 1249 01:13:57,766 --> 01:13:59,832 is so utterly thriftless! 1250 01:13:59,834 --> 01:14:01,934 No, please. [crying] I beg you. 1251 01:14:01,936 --> 01:14:04,002 No, you are not the victim here. 1252 01:14:04,004 --> 01:14:06,038 This is about me and your family and all of us 1253 01:14:06,040 --> 01:14:09,509 who've lived our whole lives in the shadow of your recklessness. 1254 01:14:09,511 --> 01:14:12,612 Charley... [crying continues] 1255 01:14:12,614 --> 01:14:16,849 Go away. I am sickened at the sight of you. 1256 01:14:16,851 --> 01:14:20,519 You are nothing but a drag and chain upon my life. 1257 01:14:20,521 --> 01:14:22,889 I owe you nothing. Go! 1258 01:14:22,891 --> 01:14:24,193 Ah, Charley. 1259 01:14:30,699 --> 01:14:32,034 [sobs] 1260 01:14:50,252 --> 01:14:51,787 [door closes] 1261 01:14:53,989 --> 01:14:55,755 - [woman] Who's that then? - [Scrooge] Nobody. 1262 01:14:55,757 --> 01:14:57,557 - The author. - Huh. 1263 01:14:57,559 --> 01:14:59,561 No wonder he looks so depressed. 1264 01:15:04,999 --> 01:15:07,200 Right. That's enough. Back to work. 1265 01:15:07,202 --> 01:15:09,301 God bless us, every one. 1266 01:15:09,303 --> 01:15:11,638 Why are you so miserable? 1267 01:15:11,640 --> 01:15:14,573 What else can I be, when I live in such a world of fools as this? 1268 01:15:14,575 --> 01:15:16,843 - You mean-spirited, cynical... - Oh, yes? 1269 01:15:16,845 --> 01:15:18,844 Well, you look in the mirror sometime. 1270 01:15:18,846 --> 01:15:20,679 "Is that a new candle, Kate?" 1271 01:15:20,681 --> 01:15:22,715 "Your services are no longer required." 1272 01:15:22,717 --> 01:15:25,984 - Ah, a hypocrite. - [knocking] 1273 01:15:25,986 --> 01:15:27,920 [grunts] 1274 01:15:27,922 --> 01:15:29,721 - What? - Pardon me, sir. 1275 01:15:29,723 --> 01:15:31,691 - Mrs. Dickens just wanted me to ask... - This is intolerable. 1276 01:15:31,693 --> 01:15:36,194 - Mrs. Fisk! Mrs. Fisk! - Yes, sir? 1277 01:15:36,196 --> 01:15:40,034 Take this child away from here and see that she never disturbs me ever again. Do you hear? 1278 01:15:41,269 --> 01:15:43,771 Yes, sir. Come with me, girl. 1279 01:15:45,205 --> 01:15:48,206 Oh, yes. Banish her. Banish them all. 1280 01:15:48,208 --> 01:15:50,943 - Quiet! - Humanity's great benefactor. 1281 01:15:50,945 --> 01:15:52,679 - Humbug! - Shut it. 1282 01:15:52,681 --> 01:15:55,148 Or I'll make you bald, with bad teeth. 1283 01:15:55,150 --> 01:15:57,916 Oh, yeah, go ahead. It won't change a thing. 1284 01:15:57,918 --> 01:15:59,988 You still won't have an ending. 1285 01:16:05,726 --> 01:16:07,993 This is ridiculous. 1286 01:16:07,995 --> 01:16:10,266 You're all being ridiculous. 1287 01:16:14,602 --> 01:16:16,538 [shouting] 1288 01:16:17,806 --> 01:16:21,273 [angry shout] If you be a man! 1289 01:16:21,275 --> 01:16:23,977 Come on then, coward! 1290 01:16:23,979 --> 01:16:25,812 Fight me! 1291 01:16:25,814 --> 01:16:28,014 You miserable old fool! 1292 01:16:28,016 --> 01:16:30,920 Fight me! Come on! 1293 01:17:18,999 --> 01:17:20,399 Tara. 1294 01:17:20,401 --> 01:17:22,605 - [door closes] - Tara! 1295 01:17:25,239 --> 01:17:27,105 Has anybody seen Tara? 1296 01:17:27,107 --> 01:17:30,108 - She's gone. - You asked Mrs. Fisk to send her away. 1297 01:17:30,110 --> 01:17:33,211 Well, go and search for her. Find her. 1298 01:17:33,213 --> 01:17:35,782 Rehire her at once. 1299 01:17:35,784 --> 01:17:41,086 An Irish orphan in London? That would be like looking for a needle in a haystack. 1300 01:17:41,088 --> 01:17:44,823 Come on, out. Come on, children, off you go. 1301 01:17:44,825 --> 01:17:46,861 Quick sticks. That's it. 1302 01:17:48,762 --> 01:17:50,429 Why didn't you stop her? 1303 01:17:50,431 --> 01:17:53,066 How was I to know you didn't mean it? You said... 1304 01:17:53,068 --> 01:17:56,702 I say a lot of things that are nonsense when I'm working. 1305 01:17:56,704 --> 01:18:00,473 - Charles... - You know how ideas take possession of me. 1306 01:18:00,475 --> 01:18:04,879 - You knew what I was like when you married me. - Yes. I did. 1307 01:18:06,780 --> 01:18:10,118 But you have no idea what it's like to live with you. 1308 01:18:11,418 --> 01:18:13,251 Always walking on eggshells, 1309 01:18:13,253 --> 01:18:15,153 trying to guess your mood, 1310 01:18:15,155 --> 01:18:18,159 to know which of your commands are a whim and which are in earnest. 1311 01:18:20,160 --> 01:18:22,030 You know, sometimes I... 1312 01:18:23,864 --> 01:18:26,898 I feel your characters matter more to you 1313 01:18:26,900 --> 01:18:29,003 than your own flesh and blood. 1314 01:18:37,078 --> 01:18:38,414 I am who I am. 1315 01:18:40,347 --> 01:18:42,881 And who is that? 1316 01:18:42,883 --> 01:18:45,318 It's as if there are two of you. 1317 01:18:45,320 --> 01:18:48,220 One who's kind and gentle, 1318 01:18:48,222 --> 01:18:50,490 and a secret self 1319 01:18:50,492 --> 01:18:53,227 that no one is allowed to know or question. 1320 01:20:11,573 --> 01:20:13,339 [coughing] 1321 01:20:13,341 --> 01:20:15,441 [man] This here is Charley Dickens. 1322 01:20:15,443 --> 01:20:18,980 What was it you was telling me, lad, about your dad? 1323 01:20:20,981 --> 01:20:23,316 [young Charles] My father is a gentleman. 1324 01:20:23,318 --> 01:20:25,218 [boys laughing] 1325 01:20:25,220 --> 01:20:27,920 [boy] Where is he then? Dining with the queen? 1326 01:20:27,922 --> 01:20:29,921 [boy 2] I heard he's been sent to prison! 1327 01:20:29,923 --> 01:20:33,125 [man] Hush, you lot! Where's your manners? Get back to work. 1328 01:20:33,127 --> 01:20:35,060 Master Dickens. 1329 01:20:35,062 --> 01:20:37,529 [boy 3] Got a present for the young gentleman, 1330 01:20:37,531 --> 01:20:40,235 seeing as it's Christmas. 1331 01:20:41,336 --> 01:20:45,140 [boys laughing] 1332 01:20:46,074 --> 01:20:48,277 [young Charles crying] 1333 01:20:50,445 --> 01:20:52,978 Blood of iron, heart of ice. 1334 01:20:52,980 --> 01:20:54,582 [boy] You're no better than us, cocker! 1335 01:21:01,521 --> 01:21:04,189 Hello, Charley. 1336 01:21:04,191 --> 01:21:08,361 So, this is your miserable secret. 1337 01:21:08,363 --> 01:21:12,665 The famous author, the inimitable Charles Dickens, 1338 01:21:12,667 --> 01:21:17,269 was once a scabby little factory boy. 1339 01:21:17,271 --> 01:21:19,005 Leave me be. 1340 01:21:19,007 --> 01:21:22,942 A common bit of riffraff, a squalid wretch. 1341 01:21:22,944 --> 01:21:25,547 No use to anyone! 1342 01:21:27,147 --> 01:21:28,350 [angry shouting] 1343 01:21:31,552 --> 01:21:33,255 [angry shout] 1344 01:21:37,324 --> 01:21:41,193 [chuckling] Look for yourself. What do you see, huh? 1345 01:21:41,195 --> 01:21:45,264 A nothing. A nobody. A debtor's son. 1346 01:21:45,266 --> 01:21:47,502 Who could ever care for you? 1347 01:21:50,171 --> 01:21:54,105 Certainly not your father. He abandoned you. [laughing] 1348 01:21:54,107 --> 01:21:57,076 Enough of that. Stand up tall. 1349 01:21:57,078 --> 01:21:58,614 Blood of iron, heart of ice. 1350 01:22:00,147 --> 01:22:02,050 [Scrooge] He failed you again and again. 1351 01:22:04,319 --> 01:22:05,120 Oh! 1352 01:22:08,355 --> 01:22:10,188 You said so yourself. 1353 01:22:10,190 --> 01:22:14,095 Nothing but a drag and chain upon your life. 1354 01:22:15,462 --> 01:22:17,064 Who are you? Huh? 1355 01:22:19,100 --> 01:22:20,636 You know me, Charley. 1356 01:22:22,070 --> 01:22:26,138 I'm hunger. I'm cold. 1357 01:22:26,140 --> 01:22:28,075 I'm darkness. 1358 01:22:29,744 --> 01:22:34,650 I'm the shadow on your thoughts, the crack in your heart, 1359 01:22:36,150 --> 01:22:39,454 and the stain upon your soul. 1360 01:22:41,055 --> 01:22:44,191 And I will never, ever leave you. 1361 01:22:46,593 --> 01:22:48,160 Go away. 1362 01:22:48,162 --> 01:22:50,265 Why? We're having such fun. 1363 01:22:51,298 --> 01:22:53,131 People don't change, Charley. 1364 01:22:53,133 --> 01:22:57,335 Look around you. You're still the same scabby boy. 1365 01:22:57,337 --> 01:23:00,007 Useless, just like your father. 1366 01:23:02,642 --> 01:23:04,178 No. 1367 01:23:06,446 --> 01:23:10,151 "No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another." 1368 01:23:12,086 --> 01:23:14,455 My father taught me that. 1369 01:23:16,257 --> 01:23:19,161 - [rumbling] - [laughing] 1370 01:23:25,565 --> 01:23:27,435 Which grave is that? 1371 01:23:30,270 --> 01:23:32,573 - There's no name on it. - Well, why should there be? 1372 01:23:34,475 --> 01:23:36,608 The man to whom this grave belongs 1373 01:23:36,610 --> 01:23:38,579 never made himself useful to anyone but himself. 1374 01:23:40,047 --> 01:23:41,813 No friends. 1375 01:23:41,815 --> 01:23:43,351 No family. 1376 01:23:45,052 --> 01:23:47,989 Never felt love or joy. 1377 01:23:49,524 --> 01:23:51,994 Never took any kind of pleasure in life. 1378 01:24:00,333 --> 01:24:02,604 And now it's too late. 1379 01:24:04,071 --> 01:24:06,507 It's time, Mr. Scrooge. 1380 01:24:07,607 --> 01:24:09,610 We've come to the end. 1381 01:24:37,672 --> 01:24:40,409 I don't want to die. 1382 01:24:41,676 --> 01:24:43,675 Not like this... 1383 01:24:43,677 --> 01:24:46,478 alone, 1384 01:24:46,480 --> 01:24:48,382 unloved, forgotten. 1385 01:24:49,350 --> 01:24:51,649 It's too late. 1386 01:24:51,651 --> 01:24:53,719 No, it's never too late. 1387 01:24:53,721 --> 01:24:56,591 It's never... It's never too late. 1388 01:24:58,559 --> 01:25:01,163 [rumbling] 1389 01:25:03,564 --> 01:25:06,764 I will honor Christmas in my heart 1390 01:25:06,766 --> 01:25:09,234 and try to keep it all the year. 1391 01:25:09,236 --> 01:25:12,505 I will live in the past, the present, and the future. 1392 01:25:12,507 --> 01:25:16,274 The spirits of all three will strive within me. 1393 01:25:16,276 --> 01:25:20,548 I will not shut out the lessons that they teach. 1394 01:25:22,182 --> 01:25:24,785 Oh, please. I beg you. 1395 01:25:28,155 --> 01:25:31,258 Let me do some good... 1396 01:25:33,261 --> 01:25:35,661 before I die. 1397 01:25:35,663 --> 01:25:37,165 [rumbling stops] 1398 01:25:41,702 --> 01:25:43,838 So we come to the final chapter. 1399 01:25:48,242 --> 01:25:51,212 Oh, I told you we'd do great things together, Mr. Scrooge. 1400 01:25:52,846 --> 01:25:56,749 [bell tolling] 1401 01:25:56,751 --> 01:25:59,654 [gasping, laughing] 1402 01:26:02,923 --> 01:26:05,226 [laughing continues] 1403 01:26:13,633 --> 01:26:15,403 [pen tapping on inkwell] 1404 01:26:17,270 --> 01:26:19,306 Stave five. 1405 01:26:20,708 --> 01:26:22,511 "The End of It." 1406 01:26:25,512 --> 01:26:27,979 Yes. And the bedpost was his own, 1407 01:26:27,981 --> 01:26:32,417 the bed was his own, the room was his own. 1408 01:26:32,419 --> 01:26:36,158 Best and happiest of all, the time before him was his own to make amends in. 1409 01:26:38,226 --> 01:26:39,858 Scrooge was better than his word. 1410 01:26:39,860 --> 01:26:42,594 He did it all and infinitely more. 1411 01:26:42,596 --> 01:26:45,563 And to Tiny Tim, who did not die, 1412 01:26:45,565 --> 01:26:47,966 he was a second father. 1413 01:26:47,968 --> 01:26:50,736 And so, as Tiny Tim observed, 1414 01:26:50,738 --> 01:26:53,508 "God bless us, every one." 1415 01:26:56,711 --> 01:26:58,245 The end. 1416 01:27:00,780 --> 01:27:01,917 The end. 1417 01:27:09,824 --> 01:27:11,689 - Charles? - What? 1418 01:27:11,691 --> 01:27:13,858 - There is someone here to see you. - Not now, Kate, please. 1419 01:27:13,860 --> 01:27:16,530 I have to get this to the printer by nine o'clock. 1420 01:27:25,006 --> 01:27:26,540 Tara. 1421 01:27:27,574 --> 01:27:28,943 Thank you for the loan. 1422 01:27:32,480 --> 01:27:33,848 Well, thank you. 1423 01:27:36,016 --> 01:27:37,484 It's good, isn't it? 1424 01:27:39,352 --> 01:27:43,822 Oh, yes, sir. It was fizzing. 1425 01:27:43,824 --> 01:27:46,962 Fizzing? [laughs] That's delightful. 1426 01:27:49,562 --> 01:27:50,931 Tara. 1427 01:27:53,967 --> 01:27:56,835 I am very sorry that I sent you away. That was a mistake. 1428 01:27:56,837 --> 01:27:58,406 And I was... 1429 01:28:01,609 --> 01:28:03,509 And you were right about Tiny Tim. 1430 01:28:03,511 --> 01:28:05,376 He doesn't die. 1431 01:28:05,378 --> 01:28:07,979 Scrooge helps him to get better. 1432 01:28:07,981 --> 01:28:10,618 And does he help Scrooge get better too? 1433 01:28:13,753 --> 01:28:15,920 Yes. 1434 01:28:15,922 --> 01:28:18,626 Yes, he does. [chuckling] 1435 01:28:23,330 --> 01:28:25,863 - Where did that come from? - A gift. 1436 01:28:25,865 --> 01:28:29,001 For the children. From your father. 1437 01:28:29,003 --> 01:28:30,935 My father was here? 1438 01:28:30,937 --> 01:28:34,473 You can still catch him, if... 1439 01:28:34,475 --> 01:28:35,810 Oh! 1440 01:28:38,645 --> 01:28:40,447 Kate. 1441 01:28:43,684 --> 01:28:45,983 I know. You don't deserve me. 1442 01:28:45,985 --> 01:28:48,355 Go. Go. [chuckling] 1443 01:28:53,561 --> 01:28:55,497 - Cab! - Whoa! 1444 01:28:56,963 --> 01:28:58,930 - Paddington Station! - Right-o, governor. 1445 01:28:58,932 --> 01:29:01,302 - As fast as you can! - Oi! Oi! 1446 01:29:05,405 --> 01:29:06,804 - Whoa! - [whinnying] 1447 01:29:06,806 --> 01:29:09,675 Turn it around. And wait for me here! 1448 01:29:09,677 --> 01:29:11,643 - Oi! Stop! - [whistle blows] 1449 01:29:11,645 --> 01:29:13,444 - Hey! - Stop! Police! 1450 01:29:13,446 --> 01:29:15,380 Wait! 1451 01:29:15,382 --> 01:29:17,782 Wait, wait, please! Where do you think you're going? 1452 01:29:17,784 --> 01:29:19,952 - What? - Oh, please, dear. 1453 01:29:19,954 --> 01:29:24,122 - Don't make a scene. We're going away. - No, you're not. Please. 1454 01:29:24,124 --> 01:29:26,992 Police! Get out of my way! Clear the way! Let me through! 1455 01:29:26,994 --> 01:29:29,460 Oh. What have I done now? 1456 01:29:29,462 --> 01:29:31,897 No, it's... it's what you haven't done. 1457 01:29:31,899 --> 01:29:36,001 - What do you mean? - Well, who's going to carve the turkey? 1458 01:29:36,003 --> 01:29:38,703 And who's going to make the Christmas pudding? 1459 01:29:38,705 --> 01:29:40,738 It won't be the same without you. 1460 01:29:40,740 --> 01:29:44,943 The pudding! The secret is to warm the treacle first. 1461 01:29:44,945 --> 01:29:47,112 There, you... You see, my dear? 1462 01:29:47,114 --> 01:29:49,881 I told you something would turn up. 1463 01:29:49,883 --> 01:29:52,419 Oh, my son. Oh. 1464 01:29:53,753 --> 01:29:55,089 Gotcha! 1465 01:29:56,623 --> 01:29:58,557 You're that Charles Dickens, aren't you? 1466 01:29:58,559 --> 01:29:59,758 Uh, guilty. 1467 01:29:59,760 --> 01:30:02,460 That last one. Chuzzlewit. 1468 01:30:02,462 --> 01:30:05,096 Wept like a baby, I did. 1469 01:30:05,098 --> 01:30:07,733 Well, that's... That's very kind. What's your name, Constable? 1470 01:30:07,735 --> 01:30:10,105 My name? Copperfield, sir. 1471 01:30:11,137 --> 01:30:13,037 Copperfield. 1472 01:30:13,039 --> 01:30:15,107 Any chance of a new book soon? 1473 01:30:15,109 --> 01:30:16,977 New book. New book! 1474 01:30:18,178 --> 01:30:21,112 Wait. New book. 1475 01:30:21,114 --> 01:30:22,617 Merry Christmas! 1476 01:30:24,051 --> 01:30:26,488 I'm his father. 1477 01:30:27,922 --> 01:30:29,654 [man] Santa bells for sale! 1478 01:30:29,656 --> 01:30:32,627 Shoe Lane! As fast as you can go. 1479 01:30:39,833 --> 01:30:41,934 - Charles, where have you been? - It's all right. I've got it! 1480 01:30:41,936 --> 01:30:45,703 Mr. Grub! Mr. Grub. We're here. 1481 01:30:45,705 --> 01:30:49,110 I have it. I have the ending. You can finish it now. 1482 01:30:50,744 --> 01:30:52,877 - It's too late. - What? 1483 01:30:52,879 --> 01:30:56,048 Oh, come on. You've already printed the other four chapters, and it's just one more. 1484 01:30:56,050 --> 01:30:58,485 Get the whole book finished today. 1485 01:31:03,556 --> 01:31:06,791 - I can't guarantee anything. - Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Grub! 1486 01:31:06,793 --> 01:31:08,595 [laughs] Thank you. 1487 01:31:09,762 --> 01:31:11,533 I didn't say I could do it. 1488 01:31:25,546 --> 01:31:27,882 Well, I'll see what I can do. 1489 01:31:32,186 --> 01:31:33,788 [chattering] 1490 01:31:38,659 --> 01:31:40,929 Oh, come on, man. Don't prolong the agony. 1491 01:32:05,686 --> 01:32:07,822 [chuckling] 1492 01:32:11,926 --> 01:32:13,828 [spine cracking] 1493 01:32:30,311 --> 01:32:32,013 It's exactly as I'd imagined it. 1494 01:32:34,080 --> 01:32:35,883 [sighs] 1495 01:32:37,717 --> 01:32:40,952 Hello, gents. Extraordinary weather, isn't it? 1496 01:32:40,954 --> 01:32:42,888 Looks like snow. 1497 01:32:42,890 --> 01:32:46,258 - Hello, Thackeray. - Oh, what's this I have? 1498 01:32:46,260 --> 01:32:49,161 Yes. It's a proof copy of your new book. 1499 01:32:49,163 --> 01:32:52,798 I'm going to review it for The Spectator. 1500 01:32:52,800 --> 01:32:56,134 I'm told you wrote it in only six weeks, Charles. 1501 01:32:56,136 --> 01:32:58,138 What a prodigy you are. 1502 01:33:03,677 --> 01:33:05,943 Did you bring that all the way from Italy? 1503 01:33:05,945 --> 01:33:07,281 Sì. Venezia. 1504 01:33:08,348 --> 01:33:10,247 And now... 1505 01:33:10,249 --> 01:33:15,386 And now the beautiful mermaid floats through the sea. 1506 01:33:15,388 --> 01:33:19,159 - Wooo! - [singing, faint] 1507 01:33:28,769 --> 01:33:30,939 Hello, old girl! [squawks] 1508 01:33:32,672 --> 01:33:35,240 Oh, my goodness. That is beautiful. 1509 01:33:35,242 --> 01:33:37,876 Isn't it? The Germans call it a Tannenbaum. 1510 01:33:37,878 --> 01:33:40,746 It's a tree for Christmas. A Christmas tree, I suppose. 1511 01:33:40,748 --> 01:33:43,381 Now the royal family have got one, it'll be all the rage. 1512 01:33:43,383 --> 01:33:44,918 [door closes] 1513 01:33:46,253 --> 01:33:48,687 - Hello. - Miss Wigmore! 1514 01:33:48,689 --> 01:33:50,290 Papa had a change of heart. 1515 01:33:51,891 --> 01:33:55,193 So he did. Oh, I'm so pleased! Congratulations. 1516 01:33:55,195 --> 01:33:57,696 Charles, uh, I think you're going to want to hear this. 1517 01:33:57,698 --> 01:33:59,197 - It's by Thackeray. - Not now. 1518 01:33:59,199 --> 01:34:01,336 No, please. Everyone, gather round. 1519 01:34:10,977 --> 01:34:13,310 "It was a blessed inspiration 1520 01:34:13,312 --> 01:34:18,215 that put such a book into the head of Charles Dickens. 1521 01:34:18,217 --> 01:34:21,687 A happy inspiration of the heart 1522 01:34:21,689 --> 01:34:25,189 that warms every page. 1523 01:34:25,191 --> 01:34:31,028 It is impossible to read without a glowing bosom and burning cheeks, 1524 01:34:31,030 --> 01:34:36,001 between love and shame of our kind." 1525 01:34:36,003 --> 01:34:37,639 - [woman] Aw. - [Mr. Dickens] Bravo, Charles. 1526 01:34:41,141 --> 01:34:43,075 Well, uh... [chuckles] 1527 01:34:43,077 --> 01:34:46,381 - Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. - [laughing] 1528 01:34:49,016 --> 01:34:51,252 And those on the way. 1529 01:34:53,052 --> 01:34:54,853 A toast. 1530 01:34:54,855 --> 01:34:59,825 I wish you all many, many happy Christmases 1531 01:34:59,827 --> 01:35:05,162 and friendships, and great accumulation of cheerful recollections 1532 01:35:05,164 --> 01:35:07,799 and heaven at last for all of us. 1533 01:35:07,801 --> 01:35:11,873 In the season of hope, we will shut out nothing from our firesides 1534 01:35:12,940 --> 01:35:15,143 and everyone will be welcome. 1535 01:35:17,511 --> 01:35:19,013 [squawks] 1536 01:35:22,115 --> 01:35:23,749 [squawks] 1537 01:35:23,751 --> 01:35:27,454 Welcome what has been and what is 1538 01:35:29,056 --> 01:35:31,223 and what we hope may be, 1539 01:35:31,225 --> 01:35:33,224 to this shelter underneath the holly. 1540 01:35:33,226 --> 01:35:35,960 [laughing] 1541 01:35:35,962 --> 01:35:37,297 [squawking] 1542 01:35:40,234 --> 01:35:43,535 Merry, merry Christmas to one and all. 1543 01:35:43,537 --> 01:35:46,039 [all] Merry Christmas! 1544 01:35:56,048 --> 01:35:58,049 [squawking] 1545 01:35:58,051 --> 01:36:01,422 [chattering] 1546 01:36:11,297 --> 01:36:13,200 [giggling] 1547 01:36:14,568 --> 01:36:16,104 Thank you. 1548 01:36:37,324 --> 01:36:39,093 [horse whinnies] 1549 01:37:11,546 --> 01:37:16,546 Subtitles by explosiveskull 113655