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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:04,019 This importunate person is with you? George Pinnock, sir. 2 00:00:04,720 --> 00:00:07,158 I hope I will be allowed to remind you of the place for me, 3 00:00:07,159 --> 00:00:08,198 at the Admiralty. 4 00:00:08,199 --> 00:00:09,480 You will not be forgotten. 5 00:00:09,481 --> 00:00:13,519 I will use my influence with Hill to get him to give over Samuel. 6 00:00:13,520 --> 00:00:16,839 So Melville wills and Garrow acts. 7 00:00:16,840 --> 00:00:18,679 What can I do? 8 00:00:19,780 --> 00:00:21,559 Nothing. 9 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:24,160 Your son... Take him. 10 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:28,360 I've come for my son. 11 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:18,719 Let it be known that the candidates for the seat of Westminster 12 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:22,839 are Sir Cecil Wray and Sir Charles Fox. 13 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:27,240 I hereby declare this place of voting now open. 14 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:33,600 ALL: Fox, Fox, Fox, Fox, Fox! 15 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:45,080 GRUNTS AND SCREAMS 16 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:24,239 KNOCK AT THE DOOR 17 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:25,280 Sarah? 18 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:38,079 Mr Garrow, forgive me. 19 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:40,799 I know there are things to contrive. 20 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:44,320 I would take that burden from you and from Lady Sarah if you wish it. 21 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:48,279 For the laying to rest. 22 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:51,719 Sarah's not at home. 23 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:54,599 She may not be so for some time. 24 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:57,439 But I will see to those matters. I would take it... 25 00:02:57,440 --> 00:02:59,040 I will see to it. 26 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:04,399 Thank you. 27 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:06,800 Then I shall be about my business. 28 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:35,759 Oh, see who comes. 29 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:38,959 A man who would rule the world 30 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:42,159 if only he could stay out of the courts long enough. 31 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:44,999 Oh, God. What now? 32 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:47,759 Who gave you this? Who gave you this? 33 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:50,319 Cannot the man have one day without incident? 34 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:51,759 MELVILLE CHUCKLES 35 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:55,640 Scuppered by the foy madness of a woman in the... 36 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:01,439 Sir, there is such wickedness as hell cannot conceive 37 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:02,640 in this vile place. 38 00:04:02,641 --> 00:04:04,640 Sir, I am the man to find a barrister 39 00:04:04,641 --> 00:04:06,319 to represent your case in court. 40 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:09,479 But you must help me with answers. 41 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:13,359 I walked from Ludgate Hill to Covent Garden 42 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:22,999 where constables obstructed my effort to vote for Mr Fox. 43 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:25,399 And blows were exchanged? To my discredit... 44 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:26,920 yes. 45 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:32,639 Whereupon I was taken in. And were to be charged with the breaking of the peace. 46 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:35,519 I was told it would be so. 47 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:39,119 But as I stood before the magistrate I heard the charge as murder. 48 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:41,999 Such was the haste of that dialogue that I only now know, 49 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:44,839 because you tell me, who it is I am said to have murdered! 50 00:04:44,840 --> 00:04:48,279 Mr Joseph Casson. Who you neither knew, saw, nor struck down that day? 51 00:04:48,280 --> 00:04:50,039 Never! 52 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:51,960 On my oath. 53 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:55,479 Well, if that is so we shall bring it out. 54 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:57,920 And I hope we shall have the best man to argue it. 55 00:04:57,921 --> 00:04:59,919 I have money. 56 00:04:59,920 --> 00:05:04,919 Oh! I fear money alone may not lay hold of this man's interest, sir. 57 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:09,199 I may have to recruit Mr Southouse, God rest his soul, to our cause. 58 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:10,640 Good day, sir. 59 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:20,639 Ah, Sir Arthur, how splendid! 60 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:21,800 My Lord Melville. 61 00:05:21,801 --> 00:05:24,079 I noted you with a messenger just now. 62 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:25,839 Not troubling news, I hope? 63 00:05:25,840 --> 00:05:27,759 It need not detain us, my Lord. 64 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:28,999 But, please. 65 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:32,079 You know well your troubles are mine. 66 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:34,279 All too often, perhaps. 67 00:05:34,280 --> 00:05:35,879 THEY SNIGGER 68 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:37,880 The news was of my son. 69 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:44,879 (I fear the boy is abducted by its mother.) 70 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:47,279 The boy is abducted by its mother?! 71 00:05:47,280 --> 00:05:49,279 My Lord, please. 72 00:05:49,280 --> 00:05:53,959 Should you not now scurry away and take care of that trouble? 73 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:55,599 It will, I think, keep. 74 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:59,119 At least until we have discussed other matters. 75 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:03,239 I am here, as arranged, to learn news of my new post. 76 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:09,839 I gave Prime Minister Pitt a true appraisal of your qualities. 77 00:06:09,840 --> 00:06:14,279 And I trust you will not be disappointed with 78 00:06:14,280 --> 00:06:20,279 Second Under Secretary to his Ministry for Harbours and Landings. 79 00:06:20,280 --> 00:06:21,560 Harbours and Landings? 80 00:06:21,561 --> 00:06:24,319 By far the most prestigious position on, 81 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:26,360 ahem, the Yorkshire coastline. 82 00:06:27,840 --> 00:06:30,239 You expected more? 83 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:35,319 My Lord, I feel... for the service I gave I am owed more than that! 84 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:36,479 Owed, sir? 85 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:38,319 Yes, sir. Owed, sir. 86 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:43,119 Then I must put plain what I have long wished to report. 87 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:46,479 Gentlemen, look upon Sir Arthur Hill, 88 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:51,479 whose extravagant self-pity is out-weighed only by his vanity. 89 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:55,839 And his vanity is often bested by an ignorance of the most crude 90 00:06:55,840 --> 00:06:56,960 political skill. 91 00:06:56,961 --> 00:06:59,679 He is of no use. 92 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:01,879 None at all. 93 00:07:01,880 --> 00:07:03,599 My Lord. Good day, sir. 94 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:09,120 Go now and see to your ridiculous wife and her paramour. 95 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:25,160 MELVILLE LAUGHS 96 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:34,159 It is a murder, Mr Garrow, 97 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:38,919 of a gentleman struck down on voting day for the Westminster seat... 98 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:40,239 Mr Pinnock... 99 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:42,720 You will see here that, although constables were sent in 100 00:07:42,721 --> 00:07:45,919 to keep the peace at election that day, that they themselves 101 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:48,039 lay into the crowd of voters with their batons. 102 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:49,960 Mr Pinnock, did I not make myself plain? 103 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:55,959 I did not ask for your service in preparing this brief. 104 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:58,479 Indeed, I have not asked for the brief at all. 105 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:02,720 I see your humour, Mr Garrow, and accept that you did not. 106 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:07,879 But I thought you knew... 107 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:10,480 Mr Southouse did. 108 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:14,399 You will explain yourself. 109 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:17,600 He had me set the case aside and mark the date of its beginning. 110 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:22,479 He spoke of it... 111 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:25,920 as a nonsense that you might enjoy being appalled by. 112 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:51,120 Come on! 113 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:09,640 PEOPLE SHOUT 114 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:17,280 We begin, Miss Casson. 115 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:26,199 Garrow, I... 116 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:29,959 knew you a good servant to Mr Fox and his kind, but I thought 117 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:34,319 the sad business of Mr Southouse would have kept you from this place. 118 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:37,400 It seems it is Mr Southouse himself who will not let me. 119 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:44,920 Mr Silvester? 120 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:49,999 My Lord, gentlemen. 121 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:54,839 Amid the noise and clamour of an election for that very important seat 122 00:09:54,840 --> 00:10:00,879 of Westminster, a great body of men, friends and supporters 123 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:02,639 of that radical Mr Fox, 124 00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:06,359 did attack local constables sent to keep the peace. 125 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:07,839 PEOPLE MURMUR 126 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:11,239 I will show by evidence that this fellow Nicholson 127 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:14,239 did knock the aged and innocent Joseph Casson to the ground... 128 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:15,679 PEOPLE MURMUR 129 00:10:15,680 --> 00:10:18,279 rained down violent blows upon his head 130 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:20,720 and, in doing so, took his life. 131 00:10:23,760 --> 00:10:26,359 I call the witness, Thomas Davy. 132 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:28,759 I came upon a sight of great spectacle. 133 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:32,999 Supporters of Mr Fox and Sir Cecil Wray crying out for and against. 134 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:35,439 The butchers, as tradition demands, 135 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:38,439 clacking together their marrowbones and cleavers. 136 00:10:38,440 --> 00:10:39,680 And the whole scene... 137 00:10:39,681 --> 00:10:40,719 Mr Davy! 138 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:43,519 Might you leave off these dazzling depictions 139 00:10:43,520 --> 00:10:45,599 to those of the press paid to do it? 140 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:47,039 LAUGHTER 141 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:48,959 The matter here is murder. 142 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:50,919 I ask your pardon, my Lord. 143 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:54,919 Indeed, the mood then did darken. 144 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:59,279 As Fox's ruffians, armed with bludgeons, sought to 145 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:02,159 satisfy their violent appetites. 146 00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:04,799 And in the ensuing melee, 147 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:07,599 you saw Joseph Casson struck and fall? 148 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:13,159 I saw this man, as clear as you see him now, with arm raised high. 149 00:11:13,160 --> 00:11:18,519 And I saw the man I know now to be Joseph Casson fallen to the ground. 150 00:11:18,520 --> 00:11:20,680 LOUD MURMURS 151 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:26,239 I see here, in the margin 152 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:30,519 of the magistrate's record of your statement, there is a note added. 153 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:33,000 Added by a very fine attorney. 154 00:11:34,720 --> 00:11:38,039 Tell me if it is, as he puts it here, that you are the man, 155 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:41,239 "Who passes his days abusing with fine language" 156 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:43,200 "those gentlemen associated with Mr Fox" 157 00:11:43,201 --> 00:11:46,679 "and did once throw dirt at the person of Mr Fox himself." 158 00:11:46,680 --> 00:11:49,919 Do you question my honour, sir? Were you not also paid, sir, 159 00:11:49,920 --> 00:11:53,639 paid to rally against all those who stood for Mr Fox? 160 00:11:53,640 --> 00:11:57,279 In fact, is not your performance here a continuation of that employment? 161 00:11:57,280 --> 00:11:58,520 How dare you that? 162 00:11:58,521 --> 00:12:01,319 Who but a Fox man such as you, sir, 163 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:03,799 would defend this other Fox man? 164 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:06,679 Mr Davy, we are not voting here today. 165 00:12:06,680 --> 00:12:08,839 We are about a man's life. 166 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:12,679 Do you claim you saw the blow struck, sir, that murdered Mr Casson? 167 00:12:12,680 --> 00:12:17,639 I saw the tableau of that tragic death most vivid. 168 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:19,999 Answer the question, Mr Davy. 169 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:24,760 Did you see this "Fox man" strike Joseph Casson? 170 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:30,120 I will confess it. 171 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:32,879 I did not. 172 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:35,600 LOUD MURMURS 173 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:58,119 You cannot say that this man struck the blow. 174 00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:01,959 Your prejudice is clear. This prosecution is fantastical. 175 00:13:01,960 --> 00:13:03,000 Now, gentlemen... 176 00:13:03,001 --> 00:13:04,480 Uh, Mr Garrow... 177 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:10,199 Where is Lady Sarah? 178 00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:12,799 To answer plainly, I do not know. 179 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:14,799 I wish most sincerely that I did. 180 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:18,240 You would have me believe you played no part in her abduction of my son? 181 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:23,279 I know nothing of this, sir. 182 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:24,360 Nothing. 183 00:13:26,040 --> 00:13:27,959 But if it be true... 184 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:31,439 I know nothing of where she or they might be. 185 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:32,719 Believe me. 186 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:34,599 And you will believe this. 187 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:38,959 Your sour inamorata has once again sabotaged my career 188 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:40,400 and my prospects. 189 00:13:42,160 --> 00:13:44,199 Such scandal in the hands of Lord Melville 190 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:46,359 is a poison to my endeavour. 191 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:48,200 Are you not Faust to his devil, sir? 192 00:13:48,201 --> 00:13:49,720 No, sir! 193 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:54,440 And even if Sarah is run off to France with the boy, 194 00:13:54,441 --> 00:13:56,039 I will pursue her. 195 00:13:56,040 --> 00:13:58,080 And I will bring an end to this. 196 00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:19,840 Sir Sampson Wright, there is a problem at the Bailey, 197 00:14:19,841 --> 00:14:21,760 with the witness. Find another. 198 00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:34,680 Go, too. 199 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:17,319 I call Joshua Gilmore. 200 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:19,519 I do not see this man on the indictment. 201 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:21,359 With your permission, my Lord. 202 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:23,439 The man I would call is a new discovery. 203 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:25,119 I will allow it. 204 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:27,840 Mr Silvester, continue. 205 00:15:30,200 --> 00:15:34,359 Mr Gilmore, you were at the Covent Garden on May the 10th 206 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:37,639 and saw the fracas involving this man Nicholson? 207 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:38,719 I did, sir. 208 00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:43,839 And saw Joseph Casson struck by that man in the blood red coat, 209 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:47,120 Hubert Nicholson, with a large stick with a nub to the end of it. 210 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:53,799 Are you sure that that man was the man struck the deceased? 211 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:57,679 I'm sure of it. Upon my word, upon my honour and upon my oath. 212 00:15:57,680 --> 00:15:59,560 ASSENTING MURMURS 213 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:06,999 Sir, you appear nowhere in the coroner or magistrate's account of this matter. 214 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:10,039 Why did you not go before the coroner to report any of this? 215 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:12,199 My reason was this, sir. 216 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:16,159 I, er, came up to the Bailey yesterday about a little 217 00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:17,679 business I have of my own 218 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:21,919 and saw from the notices displayed that this matter was to be tried. 219 00:16:21,920 --> 00:16:23,959 You came here by chance yesterday? 220 00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:26,519 Yes, sir. I see. 221 00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:29,279 Do you not agree, although I myself believe every 222 00:16:29,280 --> 00:16:32,159 breath of your testimony, that for the gentlemen of the jury, 223 00:16:32,160 --> 00:16:34,999 there might be some small room for speculation? 224 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:37,420 That the first you heard of this business was today 225 00:16:37,421 --> 00:16:39,839 in some small coffee house off Silver Street? 226 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:44,279 Where certain officers of the law gave you this speech to learn by heart? 227 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:47,679 They would scapegoat this man and corrupt this court. 228 00:16:47,680 --> 00:16:50,079 I have objection, my Lord. 229 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:52,719 Once again, he all but lectures the jurymen. 230 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:56,279 Mr Silvester, whilst I abhor Mr Garrow's habit 231 00:16:56,280 --> 00:16:58,679 of gossiping with my jury, 232 00:16:58,680 --> 00:17:01,359 I feel I can only agree with his concerns. 233 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:04,479 I've heard enough. 234 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:10,479 Gentlemen, even supposing you can possibly credit the witnesses 235 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:14,799 examined for the prosecution, you will find nowhere, I regret, 236 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:19,719 a reliable account so to connect Nicholson to the death of Casson. 237 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:24,680 But it is for you to determine whether you will not acquit the prisoner. 238 00:17:34,280 --> 00:17:38,079 My Lord, we find not guilty. 239 00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:39,560 PEOPLE GASP 240 00:17:42,320 --> 00:17:44,760 Court shall rise. 241 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:00,960 KNOCK AT THE DOOR 242 00:19:11,240 --> 00:19:12,919 Miss Casson. 243 00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:14,359 Mr Garrow. 244 00:19:14,360 --> 00:19:16,159 Forgive my calling at your home. 245 00:19:16,160 --> 00:19:20,479 But I am occupied by a question and have need of your help. 246 00:19:20,480 --> 00:19:22,799 I regret I am unable to give it. 247 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:25,159 Being concerned at present with other things. 248 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:28,839 I confess I was bewildered by what I saw pass for justice in court yesterday. 249 00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:30,479 Madam, justice was hardly present, 250 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:32,438 and little of what you saw was concerned with 251 00:19:32,439 --> 00:19:33,800 the death of your dear father. 252 00:19:33,801 --> 00:19:36,319 I saw the trial was, in great part, politics. 253 00:19:36,320 --> 00:19:38,680 And I am at most naive in matters political but... 254 00:19:38,681 --> 00:19:41,239 Madam, forgive me, but for the sake of your own peace, 255 00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:44,239 you might let go of the cold mechanisms 256 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:46,919 of your father's passing and... 257 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:50,239 allow instead the fonder memories of his living to replace them. 258 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:53,839 If you ask that of me, 259 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:56,359 then you do not understand grief at all, sir. 260 00:19:56,360 --> 00:19:58,560 Madam, I promise I do. 261 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:03,519 You enter a room... 262 00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:06,159 expecting him there and he is not. 263 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:10,559 You smile at some small thing and anticipate recounting it to him 264 00:20:10,560 --> 00:20:12,079 but you cannot. 265 00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:15,079 You chase a painful idea... 266 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:16,440 around in your head that, 267 00:20:16,441 --> 00:20:19,840 "If only I had done or not done this or that thing..." 268 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:27,159 "..he would still be standing beside me now." 269 00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:28,999 But you cannot. 270 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:31,039 And he is not. 271 00:20:31,040 --> 00:20:32,840 It seems... 272 00:20:35,120 --> 00:20:36,919 you have the shape of my grief. 273 00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:41,239 I wonder, then, how you refuse a service which might, 274 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:43,639 in some degree, abate it. 275 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:45,480 Is it not your profession? 276 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:48,440 It is. 277 00:20:50,120 --> 00:20:53,719 But forgive me, I am taken up by a disquietude of spirit 278 00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:56,080 and by my own sorrows. 279 00:20:58,280 --> 00:21:01,999 I fear you will discover that this inaction 280 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:04,160 shall only compound your distress. 281 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:09,960 Miss Casson. 282 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:15,639 You say you are occupied by a question? 283 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:17,280 A simple one. 284 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:24,480 If Mr Nicholson did not kill my father, I would know who did. 285 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:29,519 It is far from orthodox, Pinnock, 286 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:32,599 and I am sure that your uncle Mr Southouse would 287 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:36,239 protest at this being your first lesson in the business of attorney. 288 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:38,679 However, a double crime has been committed. 289 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:40,999 One against a free man who wished only to vote. 290 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:43,359 The other, the murder of a decent man. 291 00:21:43,360 --> 00:21:47,639 We will act for Miss Casson, first as investigator, then as prosecutor. 292 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:52,039 We will find the guilty party by first finding witnesses to 293 00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:53,559 the events at Covent Garden. 294 00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:57,279 Mrs Jacob of St. Martin's Lane. Mr Abbott, Beadle of St. Paul's. 295 00:21:57,280 --> 00:22:00,119 William Foskett of Beech Street. 296 00:22:00,120 --> 00:22:03,079 Mr Nicholson gave up this information. 297 00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:08,439 And you would trust Mr Nicholson impartial? 298 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:12,159 I spoke to Foskett and Abbott and they both, to my ear, sound true. 299 00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:14,999 Yet they were invisible in Nicholson's defence. 300 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:17,799 Well, both claim they were turned away from the magistrates 301 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:19,359 by police constables. 302 00:22:19,360 --> 00:22:24,559 Ha! I see you are well suited to espying things well hidden, sir. 303 00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:27,199 Perhaps we will exchange roles. 304 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:29,160 I would have you find Lady Sarah. 305 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:37,640 I will see to it. 306 00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:42,880 And I will see the man who commands these constables. 307 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:54,319 Sir Sampson Wright passes his regrets, sir. 308 00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:55,959 He is detained with matters of... 309 00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:57,599 VIOLIN PLAYS 310 00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:00,239 Mr Garrow. 311 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:05,559 I see you would be Nero, sir, as London burns with your injustices. 312 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:08,799 And I see you are vexed, sir. 313 00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:11,839 Is your objection to my playing? 314 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:13,479 Or to some small matter of law? 315 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:17,079 Here listed, are my objections. 316 00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:21,279 You, sir, are directed to protect the free citizens of this society 317 00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:25,759 and yet you made war against a gathering of its people. 318 00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:29,999 You, sir, are a mechanism of justice 319 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:32,999 and yet when a man was killed in your unjust war, 320 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:34,599 you twisted your efforts 321 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:36,759 so an innocent man would hang for it. 322 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:40,399 You, sir, are charged with safeguarding a frail democracy 323 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:43,439 and yet, because you fear that Mr Fox will win the Westminster seat, 324 00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:46,839 and from there challenge this illegitimate government, you had 325 00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:50,319 your men steal the right to do so from those who would vote for him. 326 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:51,479 Hm. 327 00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:53,479 You do not deny this last? 328 00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:55,040 Or any of it. 329 00:23:56,880 --> 00:24:00,319 And do the heavens shake? 330 00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:01,839 No. 331 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:07,040 But you've made your brave liberal speech. Bravo. 332 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:13,920 Although I fear the world outside this window is not changed. 333 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:21,839 Have you no deeds in you or just more clacking? 334 00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:24,240 HE RESUMES PLAYING 335 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:36,280 Indeed, no more clacking! 336 00:24:36,281 --> 00:24:38,359 Mr Garrow. He will regret this provocation! 337 00:24:38,360 --> 00:24:40,519 Mr Garrow, I've got news on the other matter. 338 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:43,039 Concerning Sarah? Yes. 339 00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:44,759 So soon, how? 340 00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:47,839 Sir Arthur Hill cast a wide net for information. 341 00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:50,559 So I merely diverted the fish into me own hands. 342 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:53,399 And is she in this country still? 343 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:56,360 She is. You'll find her at this place. 344 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:39,600 William. 345 00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:43,120 Sarah. 346 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:50,280 I'd thought you in France. 347 00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:55,680 Sir Arthur is wild at you for this outrage. 348 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,999 And also finds himself out of favour which angers him still more. 349 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,760 William. I... I fear that he will... 350 00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:05,960 bring this anger to your door. 351 00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:14,360 I have acted wrongly, Sarah. 352 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:20,759 We have both acted on inescapable need. 353 00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:24,600 Yours to be bound by principle. 354 00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:29,440 And mine to be with my son. 355 00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:48,599 We have tried always to change our circumstance, 356 00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:53,520 by law, by pleas, by threats. 357 00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:57,879 Yet I cannot turn and walk away from here. 358 00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:00,040 I would so have you stay. 359 00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:15,560 You would scarce believe how empty our small rooms are without you. 360 00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:21,680 My small bed is too large and too desolate. 361 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:26,600 I cannot look back at what I have left behind. 362 00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:34,039 Mr Jenner, William Jenner, reported, 363 00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:36,160 "And there came a head constable with 364 00:28:36,161 --> 00:28:38,279 silver-tipped bludgeon striking most violently." 365 00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:40,159 The military fellow, Garston? 366 00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:43,599 Captain Garston, "The general cry was very strong that Mr Casson" 367 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:45,919 "was knocked down by a constable." 368 00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:51,239 "This man, a long-faced fellow, with a scar... here, was very busy" 369 00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:53,760 "and struck away very violently." 370 00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:59,479 As the Fox supporters waited to gain entry to the vote, 371 00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:01,580 the constables on the steps did push 'em back, 372 00:29:01,581 --> 00:29:03,679 raining blows on all who made to come forward. 373 00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:05,460 You would have given such evidence had you 374 00:29:05,461 --> 00:29:07,239 not been prevented by the magistrate? 375 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:10,159 I would. And told the court I saw what man it was 376 00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:13,519 struck down the old fellow Casson. You saw who struck the blow? 377 00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:14,920 The fellow made a blow at me. 378 00:29:14,921 --> 00:29:16,999 He wore a two-curled wig. 379 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:18,800 There was about him something devilish, 380 00:29:18,801 --> 00:29:21,000 and just here, a vivid scar. 381 00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:26,600 Will you help us identify him? 382 00:29:56,400 --> 00:30:00,119 Constable, I am William Garrow, barrister. What is your name? 383 00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:01,640 I know you, sir. 384 00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:04,919 I'm Richard Lucas. 385 00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:08,479 Constable Lucas. As a free citizen, I make here an arrest... 386 00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:10,000 Damn you, barrister! .. 387 00:30:10,001 --> 00:30:11,519 For charges of the murder of Joseph Casson! 388 00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:12,800 THEY SHOUT OVER EACH OTHER 389 00:30:12,801 --> 00:30:14,440 Let him have his say. 390 00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:17,720 I will not stop him. 391 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:32,880 You seek to bring charges, sir, against this constable? 392 00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:39,319 I do. And act on behalf of Miss Emeline Casson, daughter of a murdered father. 393 00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:42,520 For which murder I charge Richard Lucas. 394 00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:55,440 Order is given, the charge be examined. 395 00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:48,520 I thought myself dead and visited by a vision. 396 00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:53,480 Guardian angel, perhaps. 397 00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:56,720 I fear you have need of one, William. 398 00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:13,240 What brought you back? 399 00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:15,800 William... 400 00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:21,999 I have thought on what I comprehend of my husband. 401 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:24,240 His weakness is power. 402 00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:27,840 That is what we must feed. 403 00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:33,759 And, by some fashion, convince him to give up Samuel voluntarily, 404 00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:35,520 we must bargain him into agreement. 405 00:33:35,521 --> 00:33:38,439 What goods have we to sell, Sarah? 406 00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:41,920 His hunger for power has put him the wrong side of Lord Melville. 407 00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:47,279 He now stands in great need of influence. 408 00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:49,679 We must exploit that need. 409 00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:54,320 Perhaps Melville is the goods. 410 00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:01,719 Think on this, that Melville did expose an unguarded flank. 411 00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:06,319 He was most keen I should not explore his interests in the colonies. 412 00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:07,439 Why? 413 00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:09,880 We will search Lord Melville's pockets... 414 00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:14,200 and we will find his transgression. 415 00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:28,080 Mr Garrow. What is this rough treatment? 416 00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:31,159 Sir, I am no fist-fighting man, 417 00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:33,599 but neither am I a man whose obligations 418 00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:35,959 can be deflected by blows or threats. 419 00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:37,360 Admirable spirit. 420 00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:43,679 I trust a hot head will not cloud your attempts to prosecute Mr Lucas? 421 00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:44,879 It will not. 422 00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:48,000 And rest assured that I aim an axe not at the branch but at the tree. 423 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:05,040 Mr Garrow. 424 00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:09,640 My Lord. Gentlemen. 425 00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:13,600 Another jury on another day, in this court... 426 00:35:15,240 --> 00:35:18,720 has made judgment already that the supposed guardians of the peace... 427 00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:22,039 did falsely accuse an innocent of murder. 428 00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:24,359 MURMURING 429 00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:27,640 This jury will judge if it be true or not... 430 00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:32,319 that this constable, a peace officer, 431 00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:35,239 a man in whose hands the good order of society is held, 432 00:35:35,240 --> 00:35:39,679 did commit the act that brought the death of Joseph Casson. 433 00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:43,079 If this be true, as I will seek to prove, gentlemen, 434 00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:47,519 there must be great concern to limit the power of those 435 00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:50,680 who command this constabulary, this standing army... 436 00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:57,000 who act against the good of all, and for their own ends. 437 00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:01,959 My Lord, I call Mrs Jacob. 438 00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:05,119 Did you see a patrol of constables strike with cudgels 439 00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:08,839 those gathered at Covent Garden on May 10th? 440 00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:11,400 I did, sir. And did you see who struck Joseph Casson? 441 00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:16,040 I did. That fellow, Lucas. 442 00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:21,680 And struck him where, Mrs Jacob? On the left side, on the temple. 443 00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:30,079 Madam, how many do you judge crowded outside the election place at this time? 444 00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:33,239 Close to 100 constables 445 00:36:33,240 --> 00:36:35,479 and 500 to vote for Fox or for Wray. 446 00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:39,119 And, betwixt yourself and the tragic moment, 447 00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:44,479 a tableau of shifting, animated life, full of noise and haste. 448 00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:46,639 I saw what I saw, sir. 449 00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:50,439 You seem of great conviction to not even question your own certainty. 450 00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:53,519 I have questioned my memory of the event... Ah, you have questioned it? 451 00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:56,639 You have doubted it was Mr Lucas you saw? 452 00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:58,959 That is not what I meant, sir. 453 00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:00,800 I think the jury have heard you. 454 00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:04,999 Mrs Jacob, for clarity. 455 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:09,199 Have you doubt that it was Lucas you saw make the blow that killed Joseph Casson? 456 00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:10,919 I have not. 457 00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:12,280 Thank you. 458 00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:18,920 My Lord, I would question the defendant, Richard Lucas. 459 00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:21,520 Very well. 460 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:25,879 Mr Lucas. Before your present post as constable, 461 00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:27,560 you were a soldiering man? 462 00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:31,519 I was, for ten years. 463 00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:34,000 Served in the American War under Sir Hector Monroe, 464 00:37:34,001 --> 00:37:36,639 fighting for the East India Company. 465 00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:39,919 Now you are captain of constables in your own patrol? 466 00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:41,799 Yes. 467 00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:44,759 And during your years as a soldier, did you often disobey a command? 468 00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:45,959 Never, sir. 469 00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:47,759 You think that impertinent of me? 470 00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:50,120 I do! It's against all I know. 471 00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:54,359 The chain of command is a strength. 472 00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:56,879 It is the heart and power of the regiment. 473 00:37:56,880 --> 00:38:00,519 And of a patrol? I do not follow you, sir. 474 00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:01,880 Your patrol. 475 00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:04,680 Instructed in its duties by whom? 476 00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:09,480 Given orders by who, sir? 477 00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:14,759 Chief Magistrate Sir Sampson Wright. 478 00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:16,400 MURMURING 479 00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:19,720 My Lord, I call Sir Sampson Wright. 480 00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:28,679 Did you command constables from the Tower Hamlets to go to 481 00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:31,279 Covent Garden election ballot on May 10th? 482 00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:32,319 I did. 483 00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:34,640 They were to... And did it not fall to you 484 00:38:34,641 --> 00:38:36,959 to brief them on the detail of their task? 485 00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:40,319 My Lord. Yet again, we follow a line of such tremendous irrelevance. 486 00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:42,399 Mr Garrow, what is your purpose here? 487 00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:45,999 My Lord, it is my intention to show that the death of Joseph Casson 488 00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,119 came in the course of another criminal act, 489 00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:51,359 that of perverting the democratic process. 490 00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:53,599 And therefore? 491 00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:57,799 My Lord, where an accomplice is involved, it matters not 492 00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:01,759 if this accomplice struck no blow or was not close by the scene. 493 00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:06,159 And you wish to extend the charge to other constables? 494 00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:08,439 Not to other constables, my Lord. 495 00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:10,960 MURMURING 496 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:18,079 Mr Garrow, Mr Silvester, I will see you in my chambers. We adjourn! 497 00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:20,439 Explain yourself, Mr Garrow. 498 00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:23,559 If Sampson Wright sent the constables into Covent Garden 499 00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:25,720 with the express intention of preventing 500 00:39:25,721 --> 00:39:27,879 supporters of Mr Fox from casting their vote, 501 00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:31,599 then he set in motion a crime that led to the death of Joseph Casson. 502 00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:33,759 And if you prove that to have been his aim, 503 00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:37,559 you would make a case to prosecute the chief magistrate? 504 00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:41,239 I would, my Lord. Charged with constructive murder. 505 00:39:41,240 --> 00:39:45,839 I hardly believe this. Sampson Wright! Peer of His Majesty's Government? 506 00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:49,639 What we consider in this place, Mr Silvester, is a man's deeds, 507 00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:51,239 not his title. 508 00:39:51,240 --> 00:39:56,039 My Lord, surely you cannot give this idea light? 509 00:39:56,040 --> 00:40:00,680 Cannot? Mr Silvester, you are not yet made judge. 510 00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:05,799 I will allow that you follow this line. 511 00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:09,720 You may have your duel with Sampson Wright. 512 00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:15,080 We will adjourn until tomorrow. 513 00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:29,519 Sarah? Have you informed Mr Pinnock that you have eyes on his position? 514 00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:33,959 William, all of these papers chart the business of Lord Melville's Admiralty. 515 00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:37,599 They record the flow of goods and the funds for purchase of those goods. 516 00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:41,359 Somewhere here, we will find Lord Melville's transgressions exposed. 517 00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:43,239 And how are you so sure? 518 00:40:43,240 --> 00:40:45,959 Because he's a politician, and they're unable to handle 519 00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:48,639 the public purse without emptying some into their own. 520 00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:50,999 I had not known that you esteemed them so high. 521 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,360 You forget, sir, I married one. 522 00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:58,079 George... An exceptional thing, Mr Garrow. 523 00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:00,000 The fellow you prosecute, Mr Lucas. 524 00:41:00,001 --> 00:41:04,000 He's asked to speak with you this hour in his cell, at Bow Street. 525 00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:29,480 Mr Garrow. 526 00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:46,399 Is it not custom for a man charged as you are, sir, 527 00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:50,519 to seek out the barrister for him, rather than the man opposed? 528 00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:53,199 There'll be time enough for Mr Silvester's counsel. 529 00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:55,839 He will tell it, I shall not hang. 530 00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:58,480 I will tell it, I know I shall. 531 00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:01,760 That will end our business. 532 00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:06,320 But I wish to hear, in plain words, your business. 533 00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:12,159 You must know you will put no noose around Sampson Wright's neck. 534 00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:13,320 Why not? 535 00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:19,320 There is no man, and surely a constable must agree, who stands above the law. 536 00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:24,840 As a man with little time left to him, I welcome your straightness. 537 00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:31,720 Then give me some straight speaking in return, sir. 538 00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:35,640 Are you minded to defend Sampson Wright? 539 00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:39,919 What you said in the courtroom was more than true. 540 00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:44,040 What applies to a regiment, applies also to a patrol of constables. 541 00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:48,960 A man must follow orders... 542 00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:52,839 and hold his tongue. 543 00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:54,240 But? 544 00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:58,039 There is a "but" at the back of your tongue, sir. 545 00:42:58,040 --> 00:42:59,800 You would do well to speak out. 546 00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:16,999 All manner of merchandise. 547 00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:20,879 Indigo dye, saltpetre, tea, opium. 548 00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:23,919 Nothing damning carries Lord Melville's signature on it. 549 00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:26,839 Nothing to stain his character. 550 00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:28,800 He takes great caution... Except this. 551 00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:36,040 Relating to speculation in land... 552 00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:39,320 in Trinidad. 553 00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:49,359 We mustered at the Wood Street Hotel to have the names called over. 554 00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:53,760 The 30 I captained, any recruiting sergeant would turn away. 555 00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:56,679 Many fresh from a Newgate cell. 556 00:43:56,680 --> 00:44:00,560 Most held a constable's bludgeon in his hand for the first time. 557 00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:06,680 And all the while, the clamour outside tightening our nerves. 558 00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:09,360 We waited on instruction. 559 00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:14,599 Instruction from Sampson Wright? The same. 560 00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:19,000 He took it on himself. He was Henry at Agincourt, such was his oratory. 561 00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:24,720 He called the day the last to save the soul of a nation. 562 00:44:26,640 --> 00:44:29,600 Fox was the enemy. Fox was a devil. 563 00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:35,719 His supporters would have us live like Frenchmen in our own land. 564 00:44:35,720 --> 00:44:38,279 We must swing out with fervour. 565 00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:40,120 And they were won over by all of this? 566 00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:42,840 They were. 567 00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:46,039 Every one of them. 568 00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:48,320 And God forgive me, I was the same. 569 00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:56,759 My blood and nerves filled up by the glory of battle recalled. 570 00:44:56,760 --> 00:44:59,599 30,000 of us 571 00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:02,040 against Washington's raw troops. 572 00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:06,039 British ships in New York Harbour, 573 00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:09,440 shaking the ground beneath your feet with cannon fire. 574 00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:12,280 Farmhouses burning. 575 00:45:13,280 --> 00:45:17,479 Shattered men screaming in the blind, choking smoke. 576 00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:21,200 And above all of this, the one purpose. 577 00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:27,199 To seek out and put down your enemy. 578 00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:30,760 Those men at Covent Garden were not your enemy, sir. 579 00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:33,840 As the fog dispersed, I saw they were not. 580 00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:39,320 They were men like Joseph Casson. 581 00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:44,600 He was under my cudgel before I could hold back this... 582 00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:47,560 drummed up anger. 583 00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:51,220 Mr Lucas, unless I am sufficient as your confessor, 584 00:45:51,221 --> 00:45:53,639 you would do well to testify this in court. 585 00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:57,839 And Sampson Wright will be revealed. 586 00:45:57,840 --> 00:46:00,960 Unless, of course, it is some other arrangement that you seek? 587 00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:03,280 A pardon? 588 00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:07,120 I fear there's no pardon to be had for me from this. 589 00:46:07,121 --> 00:46:09,840 No, sir. Not in this life. 590 00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:13,879 Then the next one? 591 00:46:13,880 --> 00:46:15,600 I am not the judge of that. 592 00:46:22,720 --> 00:46:25,159 Then I will say my piece... 593 00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:26,840 in this one. 594 00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:50,839 Mr Lucas is to be moved. 595 00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:52,960 I have had word he is for Newgate. 596 00:46:56,640 --> 00:46:59,919 I believe, unless his philosophy is entirely altered, 597 00:46:59,920 --> 00:47:02,559 Sir Arthur will wrench this evidence from your hand. 598 00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:04,359 Indeed, this will do it. 599 00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:06,679 Well hidden, in plainest sight. 600 00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:08,400 But no less explosive for that. 601 00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:11,840 I shall take my leave. 602 00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:18,000 And I shall take this to the man who will best use it. 603 00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:48,680 I am to have your child. 604 00:48:45,160 --> 00:48:47,399 Comedy or a tragedy? Sir Arthur. 605 00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:50,919 I had a three-shilling ticket to a box at Sadler's Wells. 606 00:48:50,920 --> 00:48:53,400 This performance is worth foregoing that. 607 00:48:53,401 --> 00:48:55,879 But is it a tragedy of vaulting ambition denied, 608 00:48:55,880 --> 00:48:59,959 or a comedy full of fools and mismatched love? 609 00:48:59,960 --> 00:49:03,639 I suppose you as weary of this extended skirmish we conduct, as I am myself. 610 00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:08,639 So be it. If I hurry I still make the second half. Good evening, sir. 611 00:49:08,640 --> 00:49:12,240 But you will miss the opportunity to avenge Lord Melville. 612 00:49:22,640 --> 00:49:25,799 If you have the means, I would have you share it, sir. 613 00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:27,719 I will. 614 00:49:27,720 --> 00:49:30,440 There is a price on it. 615 00:49:38,360 --> 00:49:40,320 No sharp words for me this fine day, sir? 616 00:49:41,720 --> 00:49:44,959 There will be opportunity to converse with me from the witness stand, sir. 617 00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:47,199 Mr Garrow, 618 00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:51,040 I am unsure whether to admire your optimism or mock it. 619 00:50:01,400 --> 00:50:03,479 Mr Fox. 620 00:50:03,480 --> 00:50:05,879 What could bring you here this day? 621 00:50:05,880 --> 00:50:07,920 Why, YOU do, sir. 622 00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:12,040 You do. 623 00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:25,839 George? 624 00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:27,480 Thank you. 625 00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:40,999 There is a matter I've struggled much with. 626 00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:43,360 I hand this to you, for my client. 627 00:50:44,640 --> 00:50:49,240 I fear Mr Lucas will not be with us today. 628 00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:21,159 We cannot continue. My Lord Buller, this is a barbarity! 629 00:51:21,160 --> 00:51:24,999 Consequent upon the death in confinement of the accused, Richard Lucas... 630 00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:27,120 You will not silence anyone with this treachery, sir! 631 00:51:27,121 --> 00:51:29,239 I have here a man's statement! 632 00:51:29,240 --> 00:51:32,959 I am required to dismiss the gentlemen of the jury... 633 00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:35,799 "I, Richard Lucas, fearing I will not survive this night 634 00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:38,959 and that my death will cheat both jury and hangman's noose..." 635 00:51:38,960 --> 00:51:42,839 and bring this trial to its end. Jury is dismissed! 636 00:51:42,840 --> 00:51:45,399 "..Will have it known by what agency the men of my patrol were" 637 00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:48,279 "sent to lay violence upon those minded to" 638 00:51:48,280 --> 00:51:51,720 "vote against the Government and to Mr Charles Fox." 639 00:51:52,720 --> 00:51:54,239 CHANTING: Fox, Fox, Fox, Fox! 640 00:51:54,240 --> 00:51:56,760 "Chief Magistrate Sir Sampson Wright, by his 641 00:51:56,761 --> 00:51:59,279 own impassioned appeal to our baser selves 642 00:51:59,280 --> 00:52:01,879 "and demands for blood, 643 00:52:01,880 --> 00:52:05,439 "did stoke up the fury of those constables 644 00:52:05,440 --> 00:52:10,479 "and did so fierce set my own savagery that I did strike out" 645 00:52:10,480 --> 00:52:15,320 "and take the life of the innocent Joseph Casson." 646 00:52:19,520 --> 00:52:22,320 "May God have mercy on my soul." 647 00:52:39,560 --> 00:52:41,640 They fear us, Mr Garrow. 648 00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:47,879 We kick at the tent poles. 649 00:52:47,880 --> 00:52:51,480 We do not fit and we will not change... 650 00:52:53,040 --> 00:52:55,440 and so we irk them. 651 00:52:57,440 --> 00:53:00,399 Our enemies, our detractors. 652 00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:03,999 My apologies to you, sir. You did not come here to see a trial lost. 653 00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:06,919 No, I came to support a man who toils 654 00:53:06,920 --> 00:53:10,680 because he recognises a fellow innocent unless shown otherwise. 655 00:53:12,120 --> 00:53:14,680 And because he aches for change. 656 00:53:17,160 --> 00:53:19,399 And you have not lost. 657 00:53:19,400 --> 00:53:22,000 Your prey has only gone to ground. 658 00:53:24,280 --> 00:53:27,360 We will flush him out, and others like him. 659 00:53:29,600 --> 00:53:32,840 And I hope that your conscience will be my light... 660 00:53:34,160 --> 00:53:38,680 and that my influence can be yours. 661 00:53:55,200 --> 00:53:59,119 By God, sir! I have no more time for your whining! 662 00:53:59,120 --> 00:54:01,559 Did I not speak my mind plain enough? 663 00:54:01,560 --> 00:54:04,479 My Lord, such is my humour today 664 00:54:04,480 --> 00:54:08,280 I might suffer the very worst of your bombardments and yet smile. 665 00:54:10,600 --> 00:54:11,799 See? Like so. 666 00:54:11,800 --> 00:54:15,959 Now I fear you are mad from your continuing wife troubles, no doubt. 667 00:54:15,960 --> 00:54:19,120 Not mad, sir, but elevated, by a secret revealed. 668 00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:23,319 And expressed in just three plain words. 669 00:54:23,320 --> 00:54:25,879 Aye, sir. Mister. William. Garrow. 670 00:54:25,880 --> 00:54:30,079 No, sir. He is the source, but the secret lies in three more words. 671 00:54:30,080 --> 00:54:33,080 The Trinidad Treasury. 672 00:54:35,240 --> 00:54:36,799 Ah, my Lord Melville. 673 00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:41,319 I see the cogs in your noggin turning fit to smoke on their pins. 674 00:54:41,320 --> 00:54:43,759 Sir Arthur. 675 00:54:43,760 --> 00:54:45,920 Did I not say, since last we spoke, that I 676 00:54:45,921 --> 00:54:48,079 have been with the Prime Minister once again? 677 00:54:48,080 --> 00:54:50,639 See the pitiful architect left now among his ruins. 678 00:54:50,640 --> 00:54:53,719 And he did ask after you. 679 00:54:53,720 --> 00:54:57,999 I fear, sir, I have you so in my grip I might command you strip to your skin 680 00:54:58,000 --> 00:55:00,919 and climb the chandeliers like a baboon. 681 00:55:00,920 --> 00:55:03,479 And we spoke most warmly of you. Indeed... 682 00:55:03,480 --> 00:55:08,879 Shut up your mouth! And listen now to this, you addled bag of stench. 683 00:55:08,880 --> 00:55:12,439 You burnt all bridges with me when last we met. 684 00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:16,559 In front of those cronies who, you shall see, 685 00:55:16,560 --> 00:55:18,839 will turn their backs on you most instantly. 686 00:55:18,840 --> 00:55:23,759 Sir Arthur, I ask you first to think how we might contrive to resolve this... 687 00:55:23,760 --> 00:55:26,039 circumstance. 688 00:55:26,040 --> 00:55:30,240 Oh, but I have. And I think such sport deserves an audience. 689 00:55:34,640 --> 00:55:36,320 Do you not find? 690 00:55:44,600 --> 00:55:48,640 Now, these fine fellows carry a notice of impeachment... 691 00:55:50,360 --> 00:55:52,240 with your name upon it. 692 00:55:53,800 --> 00:55:56,400 For misappropriation of Treasury funds. 693 00:56:02,320 --> 00:56:03,880 Make way there! 694 00:56:07,800 --> 00:56:09,640 Make way for yesterday's man! 695 00:56:30,800 --> 00:56:32,680 Sarah. William. 696 00:56:36,400 --> 00:56:38,719 You did journey well here? 697 00:56:38,720 --> 00:56:42,799 Yes. Fair well. Though I took the road through Knightsbridge village, 698 00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:44,879 which, as ever, is in such poor condition. 699 00:56:44,880 --> 00:56:47,360 It betters, for convenience, the way by Vauxhall. 700 00:56:52,160 --> 00:56:55,000 And here is the document. That seals the thing. 701 00:57:01,200 --> 00:57:03,000 Farewell then. 702 00:57:08,040 --> 00:57:09,679 Fine boy, Samuel. 703 00:57:09,680 --> 00:57:14,800 And recall what I have said about not following your "new father" into law! 704 00:57:53,000 --> 00:57:56,760 I cannot believe this trial of ours is now ended. 705 00:57:58,480 --> 00:58:02,160 And I cannot yet believe what we together have started. 706 00:58:50,440 --> 00:58:53,479 Subtitles by APOLLO www.addic7ed.com 707 00:58:53,529 --> 00:58:58,079 Repair and Synchronization by Easy Subtitles Synchronizer 1.0.0.0 56122

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