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[people chattering]

[groaning, wincing]

What is this? God's
blood. This... Shit.

[bystander] I fear they
took your boots, sir.

They took your boots.

Yes, I can see
they took my boots.

And your purse, no doubt.

[grunts]

[bystander] Petty thieves.

Whereas the man that attacked you
did steal nothing but your time.

Curious.

[bell tolling]

[Shardlake panting]

[Shardlake] I was travelling
back from the docks, Joan.

Sat on the back of a cart
like a sack of apples.

And I looked out at the
people, all their lives.

And yes, I saw
poverty, desperation.

But I also saw purpose
within the people.

Course you saw purpose, sir.

They will need to find a crust.
They will need fuel for the fire.

My point being that our reformations
can only aid this purpose.

If you say so, sir.

We are taking wealth away
from where it is wasted

and bringing it to
those who need it.

This time next year, we shall see
a better London, better England.

If only you were
in command, sir.

Yes. [Chuckles] Imagine.

I hear doubt in
your voice, Joan.

You hear stories,
sir. That is all.

And desperation is the
reason you were beaten.

[Jerome] The charge of adultery with
that poor boy Smeaton was an invention.

Cromwell's invention.

[Smeaton] Save my soul.

Please.

[Smeaton breathing shakily]

My lies did kill Queen Anne.

[groans]

[Shardlake] Matthew Shardlake
to see Oldknoll, Tower Armourer.

- King's Commissioner.
- Yes, sir.

[prisoners shouting]

[goats bleating]

Is this witchcraft,
Master Oldknoll?

Your watchmen appear to
have transformed into goats.

- [chuckles] Master Shardlake!
- [laughs]

- It is good to see you, sir.
- Hello.

Reciprocated, my friend.

I assume these creatures are
feed for the king's lions.

They are.

The beasts do enjoy
their meat fresh.

Not unlike Lord Cromwell.

I fear I too shall become feed
if you cannot help me, sir.

If I can.

I've come to pick
your brain. [Groans]

I am keen to discover the
origins of this sword.

Mmm. Let me take a look
at it in the light.

It is a fine example.

- [Shardlake] Yes.
- Where did you find?

A fish pond within a monastery.

Hmm.

- You see the little castle stamped there?
- [Shardlake] Mmm.

That indicates that the maker
was trained in Toledo, Spain.

So the owner is Spanish?
A Moor, perhaps?

Mmm, not necessarily.

You see, many foreigners go
to learn weaponry at Toledo,

including Englishmen.

I had no idea.

Although not anymore.

Not since the religious changes.

We are no longer
welcome. Bastards.

The castle is the
fortress at Alcázar.

The maker has taken it as his
mark, and these are his initials.

Huh.

"JS".

Definitely an Englishman.

You know him?

I do, sadly. He has been dead
a year or more. John Smeaton.

Smeaton? Are you sure?

I am.

The father of Anne Boleyn's
lover, Mark Smeaton.

God's blood.

The poor man had a seizure two
days after his son's execution.

The son killed the
father is what I say.

[sighs]

Still, it is a fine
sword nonetheless.

It has a fair price.

- It is of value?
- It is.

Then it would've been
passed down. Inherited.

I imagine so.

An important reveal, is it, sir?

[bell tolling]

[chattering]

[person] Ah, Master
Shardlake, sir.

My Lord Cromwell
asks that you wait.

Really? Did you explain that I
have sailed through the night?

He is with the Duke of Norfolk.

- Norfolk?
- Indeed.

But how? Why?

[stammers] Norfolk is anti-reformist,
anti everything we are for.

I am not a man for
idle talk, sir,

but as the monasteries close,
wealth shall become available.

I did not say that.

Yeah, and I did not
hear it, I wish.

If they do not
kill each other...

Then I shall wait.

[person] Mmm.

[sighs]

[sighs]

[Gabriel] If we put our
faith in greed and not God,

is it any wonder dark
events have followed?

Master Shardlake,
sir. Master Shardlake.

Your Grace.

Ah, crook back lawyer.

He remembered my
name. How noble.

[person] You should go in, sir.

[Shardlake] I thought it best
I brought it to your attention.

The author of these assertions
is a Carthusian monk.

Cousin to the Queen Jane. Ally
of the Duke of Norfolk perhaps.

I am not concerned with the
musings of a Carthusian monk,

and Queen Jane's family
now all look to my favour.

What concerns me, Matthew,

is Scarnsea and this
still unsolved murder.

Unsolved murders, my Lord.

There are now two further
killings I have discovered,

both of which are unrelated to
the death of Master Singleton,

but they remain a distraction
you will appreciate.

It is quite a puzzle.

Added to that, a monk was killed with
a bolt on the day of my departure.

A puzzle, he says. [Chuckles]

Hell's teeth, man.

In just days, I am due
to meet with the king.

He knows nothing of the first murder,
and now you say there are more?

- Unconnected.
- [Cromwell] Further,

he will expect not a letter of rambling
accusations, but a letter of surrender.

He will expect St Donatus to
belong to the Crown. It does not!

But it will, my Lord.
I-I am convinced it will.

This, in fact, is the sword
that did kill Robin Singleton.

Its maker is John Smeaton,
father of Mark Smeaton.

It is, therefore, possible that
Robin Singleton was murdered

in an act of revenge
for his involvement

in the conviction and
execution of Mark Smeaton.

The motive is established.
The culprit will follow.

I shall investigate
Smeaton's friends and family.

Smeaton had no family.
He had no friends.

His father is now dead.

He has an older and
infirm sister. That is it.

But you know this, my Lord?

I know this.

Singleton did know this,
and now you know this.

You will ignore Smeaton.

Ignore his family.

Robin Singleton's killer could
easily have been this monk.

The man killed by a
bolt, could it not?

The letter of surrender.
When will I have it?

Within days, my Lord.

I return to Scarnsea
this evening by ship.

Forgive me, my Lord. I
now find myself curious.

I do not understand your ambivalence to
these accusations. Jerome's writings.

I thought them
important. Serious.

[inhales deeply]

It is nothing we have not heard
before and will no doubt hear again.

What matters,
Matthew, is the truth.

True, my Lord.

Perhaps Robin Singleton did
indeed choose Mark Smeaton

because he was without family.

Because he was weak.

Choose, my Lord?

Weak enough to falsely confess
to the bedding of Anne Boleyn,

and... [chuckles] ...handsome
enough for men to believe it.

You look shocked, Matthew.

No.

No, speak.

My Lord, if what you suggest is
true, that Smeaton was indeed chosen,

that would mean he was innocent.

Anne Boleyn was innocent.

It would.

But I do not suggest it.

They were guilty. Both.

Yes. I believe the charges were
true. I have said so many times.

Precisely, Matthew.
Reformers must reform.

We must.

And the truth must be
what we want it to be.

Yes. Of course. I see.

Now, complete your task.

My Lord.

Norfolk is confident
you will succeed.

He is?

He's greedy for his
share. We may need him.

Something to say?
Something more, Matthew?

Simply gathering my
thoughts, my Lord.

Then be gone, and
do not fail me.

Or we shall see if we can
straighten that back of yours.

- [chuckles]
- My Lord.

Bye, Matthew.

- [bell tolling]
- [people chattering]

[people chattering]

[dog barks]

[patrons chattering]

[Norfolk] How is your head?

You did suffer a blow
to the head, I'm told.

Ah.

Master Crowe, my fellow
ship's passenger.

He is your man?

So, you did seek to
delay me, not kill me.

Well, you appear sharp enough.
So all is well and good.

It would seem so.

I have spoken to Cromwell, as you
know, regarding the monastery's wealth.

We have agreed. I have a claim.

You are almost there, I believe.

Almost where, my Lord?

Your instinct regarding the
land sales is interesting.

Make sure you pursue that. You
deserve some success, some credit.

My Lord, may I ask you
a dangerous question?

Anne Boleyn.

Do you believe her
innocent or guilty?

She is dead. She is in the past.

But her memory...

She was your niece.

I have many nieces.

The king believes her guilty.

I shall pursue the
land sales, my Lord.

They will be my priority.

May I leave now, my Lord?

Mmm.

I would never describe
Anne Boleyn as innocent.

[Annie] Tomorrow, I will
be in the market square.

Tell everyone about Tabitha, the
English-speaking bird from the Indies,

brought from Peruland.

[Shardlake] Cromwell
speaks, and I repeat.

[Annie] Bring all your
friends and your money.

Or I do not repeat.

It is always a pleasure to see you,
Master Shardlake, but twice in one day?

My apologies.

[Oldknoll] The day you will be
searching for is May 1536, the 16th.

You do not forget when a queen
of England is in the Tower.

The 16th, you are correct.

Heavens, there he
is. Jerome of London.

And Mark Smeaton.

His visitors that day were, well,
Master Singleton was the first,

and another marked "relative"
and another marked "priest".

No names.

God's blood, it is that
damn fool Fletcher.

He doesn't ever ask for a name.

It is as though "relative" is
the only word he can write.

- I will need the name of this relative...
- [sighs]

and I will need to know if this priest
was, in fact, a monk or some such.

The relative was a
woman, sir. I was here.

A woman, you say?

Yes, sir.

Smeaton had an
older, infirm sister.

Did you get a look at her?

I saw her only briefly, sir,
as she turned that corner.

A woman's skirts and headscarf.

And she came to visit
Smeaton. Definitely.

And the priest?

I did not see a priest.

They were not together.

Master Oldknoll, I need you to
contact your man Fletcher urgently.

If he does not know the name of these
visitors, he is to at least describe them.

He is to write all this down.

Friend, if you could take these
coins and arrange a fast rider.

He is to find me at St
Donatus Monastery, Scarnsea.

- Leaving this night?
- This very night.

I will see it is done, sir.

And, uh, finally, if you could ensure
that there is no mention of my visit here

this evening on the record?

What visit was that, sir?

You will step aside.

Seize him.

What is this?

Take your hands off me.

Take your hands off me!

Damn you, speak!

I am a commissioner of the king.

No, I am Cromwell's man!

[shouting]

[grunting]

[screams]

This is a mistake!

[shouts] I'm Cromwell's
man! I am Cromwell's man!

No! Please! Please!

[screaming]

No! [Sobs]

[screaming]

Please! [Groans]

[gasps, panting]

[ship creaking]

[wind whistling]

[Barak] I came here
looking to find a killer,

but instead, I found you.

[Alice] Lord Cromwell
won't be best pleased.

[Barak] Nah, he's
married. He'll understand.

[Alice] You're loyal to him?

I am.

Always.

What?

- Is this a game for you, Jack Barak?
- [chuckles]

Am I just your amusement until
it's time for you to leave?

This is no game.

Nor for me.

I did not believe I
could feel like this.

Oh. Nor I.

And now it's time for
me to leave this bed.

- Why?
- [groans]

My belly demands it. I'm
hungry, and not just for you.

- [Barak growling]
- [Alice chuckling]

[wind whistling]

[groans]

[sighs]

[wind whistling]

[creaking]

One way in. One way out.

No bloody footprints.

[people chattering]

[footsteps approaching]

[stammering] God.

[muttering]

Ah! Master Shardlake,
what a pleasant surprise.

A glass of wine to
toast your safe return?

The receipts for the land
sales. I shall take them now.

Of course. They arrived
just this morning.

I am tired and angry,
sir. Do not waste my time.

Sir, what is this?
I would never...

The Duke of Norfolk. His man, Crowe, he
has had sight of these receipts, yes?

- Certain... Yes.
- [Shardlake] Do not lie to me.

And they were in your possession
before I left for London.

Sir, please. I was
threatened with my life, sir.

Sir, please.

Be thankful I understand.

It is difficult to serve
both Norfolk and Cromwell.

Most difficult.

The receipts, please.

[Copynger] Yes, sir.

Thank you, Master Shardlake.

I swear, my heart is
with Lord Cromwell.

I-It is clear there has been
significant invention, shall we say.

Dishonest errors. [Sighs]

You have studied these yourself?

Have you spoken with
anyone of what you've seen?

I've not, sir. Not a word.

[Shardlake] Keep it that way.

[horse whinnies]

[bell ringing]

Master Shardlake's
coming. Master Shardlake!

[Bugge sighs]

M-Master Shardlake, sir.

It's good to see you
made it back safe.

You'll be relieved to hear
that nobody else has died.

Not so much as a cough.

You would stable both
horses, Master Bugge.

I will, sir. I'll
see they're both fed.

Has there been a letter
delivered from London?

No, sir. Should I
expect such a letter?

You will inform me as soon as it
arrives, regardless of the hour.

That understood?

- Understood, sir.
- But before you do anything,

you will tell me exactly what
has happened to Dr Goodhap.

Is that understood?

[Barak] You're very
pretty, Alice Fewterer.

[Alice giggles]

How'd you do it?

Even when you're speaking
about these infested sores,

I am...

I am completely lost in you.

[Alice giggles] Thank
you, Master Barak.

And I must say, you're
approaching handsome yourself.

- [chuckling] I'm approaching handsome?
- [chuckles]

You've returned.

I have.

Seems I've been away much
longer than I'd thought.

[footsteps departing]

[Barak sighs]

I should speak to him.

You should.

[sighs]

[knocks on door]

[door opens]

Successful journey?

An interesting journey.

Though perhaps not as
interesting as your own.

What are your intentions?

To bed her, then leave
her carrying your bastard?

My intention is to marry her.

I am surprised.

[Barak] She is a good woman.

Oh, you disagree?

I do not.

The further answer to
your original question,

it was a successful journey.

I am now fairly confident as to
who did kill Orphan Stonegarden

and, therefore, Simon Whelplay.

I am awaiting a letter.

This will give me the name of the
person who killed Robin Singleton.

You have been busy.

Yes.

You gonna share these names?

I did also come across the stallion
belonging to Dr Goodhap in Scarnsea.

Then he must have found a ship.

There is but only one ship,
and he did not find it.

Are his whereabouts important?

They are a question
for another time.

What is important for you and I
is the surrender of St Donatus.

I shall confront the abbot
and his brethren at supper.

You shall wear your
sword and be ready.

Now, if you would leave me.
I need to rest. Prepare.

Then I shall see you at supper.

[grunts]

[sighs]

His intention is to
marry her, Matthew.

Master Singleton.

You're the reason I'm here,
but I care about you the least.

[scoffs]

Do you believe I had
a choice, Matthew?

I am a bird from Peruland who merely
repeats the message I am given

until the day I die.

I have answers for you all.

Here he comes.
His arms are full.

I'd like to believe
he has nothing to say.

Why does he carry your books, Brother
Edwig? Are they of importance?

[Edwig] He will be
returning them finally.

They're in good order.

You know, I remember my
first meal in this hall.

It was good, hearty food.

Plentiful.

And yet, an already sickly boy
stood starving by the fire.

That boy is now dead.

Poisoned.

Murdered by a fellow brother.

Someone in this hall.

You cannot say that with any
certainty, so why say it, sir?

Simon Whelplay was killed because
he himself was witness to a murder.

"He was not the first", he said.

Meaning Robin Singleton was
not the first to die here.

"I did warn her". "She
was in danger", he said.

But she too was killed.

With no one to pray for her
soul but a penniless boy.

And by placing his cross on the water,
Simon Whelplay directed me to the pond.

And there we found her.

The first.

We found poor, defenceless
girl, Orphan Stonegarden,

who was murdered because she would
not succumb to a monk's advances.

His lust.

And so he broke her neck.

Tossed her away. Fish food.

This brother is the reason St
Donatus will be pulled to the ground.

Abbot Fabian, you have in front
of you a letter of surrender.

It will require your seal. Do
you have it on your person?

Master Shardlake, even
if what you say is true,

which I doubt,

an entire Benedictine house cannot be
held responsible for the sins of one man.

There has been no slight against
King, his church, nor his laws.

We remain compliant.

I have not finished.

You see, no man would wish to spend
an eternity in the fires of hell.

And this murderous
brother is the same.

Only God can save him now.

He needs an abundance of prayer.

Masses. An entire congregation.

The voices of thousands praying for
him over and over. Saving his soul.

And for that, he needs gold.

You may well be compliant,
sir. In all but one field.

And that is the sale of land
belonging to the monastery,

and the taxes paid
upon those sales.

Again I must disagree.

I have personally ensured that all
necessary taxes have been paid in full.

That is not the case.

I present as evidence
deeds of sale.

One, two, three, four.

Four occasions on which
land has been sold

for amounts far in excess of that
declared in the monastery's accounts.

Hundreds and hundreds of pounds
siphoned and hidden from the Crown.

That cannot be true.

Hundreds of pounds
stolen from the king.

Never.

Edwig, tell him. This
would never happen.

And this, disgracefully, is the
reason St Donatus will close.

Not because of the slaughter of innocents,
and I include Brother Gabriel in that.

But because of the theft
of the king's taxes.

Well, hurrah and hooray,
Master Shardlake.

- [Shardlake] It is definite.
- Brother Edwig.

And it is irreversible.

Edwig.

Say something! Explain
how this mistake was made.

Brother Edwig?

You appear unwell.

If I may see the
deeds in question.

[Shardlake] You may continue
with the pretence if you wish,

but you know them to be true.

[sighs]

Yeah.

I see the error clearly.

The mistake made is that
we abandoned our church

and our God.

And we did follow the
liar and adulterer

that is King Henry!

[shouting]

- Stop him! Stop him now!
- [grunting]

Abbot Fabian, the capture of
that man is your responsibility.

No person is to leave,

and no person is to
enter this hell on earth.

[grunting]

[panting, grunts]

[panting]

[grunts]

[panting]

[bell ringing]

[Bugge] Open the gates!

[gatekeeper] Open the gates!

[panting]

Quickly! That way!

Spread out! Spread out!

Master Bugge, are the
gates locked and secure?

The gates are always locked
and secure. What is all this?

Spread out!

[monks shouting]

Master Shardlake, sir.

Master Shardlake. The messenger
did arrive. He is resting.

Is it the news you
were hoping for, sir?

It is, Master Bugge.

Are we no more, sir?

St Donatus?

That is correct.

[monk shouts in distance]

[panting]

He's gone.

He cannot have gone far.

We'll let the monks find him. It is
their pensions that will be lost.

And bring Alice to my room.

Bring her to your room? Why?

Well, then bring
her to your room.

The sword belongs to her.

I have my proof.

[sniffs]

[breathes shakily]

Now find me Brother Edwig. Dead
or alive, I do not care which.

Is this happening all over England?
Houses closing? A way of life erased?

It will, and it is.

Our purpose is to remain
close to God, nothing more.

That is what you're denying.

God is within us,
Brother Mortimus.

I can say no more.

[breathes shakily]

[whimpers]

[panting, whimpering]

There is a ship that sails
to France each month.

I've thought often of taking
it. It leaves tonight.

We could go, Jack. You
and me. There's time.

[Barak] Admit nothing to anyone.

Deny everything.

There is hope still.
Matthew will listen.

I have done nothing
I would change.

[footsteps approaching]

Alice Fewterer.

Your mother's maiden
name was Smeaton.

Mark Smeaton was your
cousin and your swain,

whom you did visit in the Tower.

And for whom you took revenge
by killing Robin Singleton.

What do you say?

What do I say, Master Shardlake?

I say it was not revenge
but the service of justice,

which you claim to
be your currency.

Mark Smeaton was a good man
who did not deserve his fate.

He was a kindly,
considerate man.

We were to marry. [Sniffles]

And yet they deemed
the man I loved

nothing more than a
player's piece in a game.

And they did make
him confess falsely.

[Alice sniffles]

To men like Cromwell, we have
no worth. And that is the truth.

Also your currency.

Alice, stop. You
cannot say that.

Why can I not say it, huh?

Will they hang me, Jack?

For a loose tongue as well as
the murder of Master Singleton?

What she says is true,
and we know it to be true.

Let it be said in
a court of law.

No matter how unjust, Alice,

I must take you to London
to answer for your deed.

[Barak] She will be executed.

This cannot be how it ends.

[Alice] It's over, Jack.

You cannot prevent it.

I'm not afraid.

[Barak sniffles]

[Barak] Then she
shall remain here.

In my room.

The door can be locked, and I
shall guard from the outside.

But there will be no irons.

No rope.

Very well.

Then she shall be your prisoner.

Why did you not
just leave sooner?

There was no reason to leave.

Who could possibly have
discovered this truth?

I have no desire
to live in France.

And I could offer you nothing.

Your love. That would be enough.

I will make sure
the door is locked.

And no one comes
in till morning.

She will not pass through
this door, I swear.

[door creaks]

[lock clicks]

- [footsteps departing]
- [sniffles, sighs]

[sniffles]

[thunder rumbling]

[wind whistling]

[doorknob rattles]

[Shardlake snoring]

[gasps]

[grunts]

[Edwig breathes deeply]

You think you're clever.

When in truth, you
will rot in hell.

You are a servant to the devil.

And yet you are the
murderer and th-thief.

To my shame, yes.

The girl Orphan should
never have refused me.

She was a temptation
I could not resist.

I am sorry for her death.

But she is in heaven now
with Simon. And Gabriel.

And in time, I shall join them.

My gold shall buy redemption!

- Take him now, Jack!
- [gasps]

[both grunting]

- [grunts]
- [shouts]

[shouts, grunts]

[straining, grunting]

[both shout]

[both straining]

[shouts]

- [grunts]
- [screams]

[groans]

[Shardlake grunts, pants]

[panting]

[door opens]

[panting]

Now you are here.

This will save us a hanging.

W-Were you sleeping? You were
supposed to be guarding the door.

- I was not sleeping.
- Then how do you explain him in my room?

You did not see him enter?

I've not been sleeping!

- You swear you did not see him enter?
- I swear it. I did not.

[scoffs] But there
is only one door.

You knew.

[sighs]

Of course you knew.

You found out whilst
I was in London.

[sighs]

This will lead to the
kitchens, I'm guessing.

[grunts]

We shall find out.

This will be how she escaped
after killing Singleton.

- [Barak] Matthew, please.
- [Shardlake panting]

Matthew, she's gone. [Panting]

[panting]

[Barak] She's gone.

[Shardlake] But to where?

And why didn't you go with her?

You were to marry.

As a commissioner of the
king, I could marry, yes.

And care for her.

But in rags?

[sighs]

She's gone.

[panting]

[person 1 speaking, indistinct]

[speaking French]

[whistles]

[speaking French]

[person 2 speaking French]

[chattering]

[Shardlake] The
dismantling begins.

[Barak] Well, when they
tear down these walls,

maybe they'll find
their holy relic.

It was not a simple
task, but it is done.

What of justice?

That Edwig is dead is just.

That the monastery is now closed,
its wealth surrendered to King Henry.

That is the truth of the matter.

What follows, we shall see.

But at least we shall
remain in favour, Jack.

And what of Alice Fewterer?

I shall agree to any
truth you decide to tell.

Robin Singleton's murderer
has been identified.

However, in
attempting to escape,

Alice Fewterer was
lost to marshland.

Swallowed up by mud and silt.

Thank you.

Which leaves only the
question of Dr Goodhap,

found dead in the stables.

By whom?

Master Bugge.

The monks did panic, and
Goodhap too has been lost.

Which did surprise
you, Jack, did it not?

Why do it?

Although I know why.

To prevent him
reporting failure,

and to give you the lie, or rather
truth, of a second commissioner slain.

I should thank you
for not choosing me.

[people chattering]

[horse blusters]

Hup! Go on.

We shall talk no
more of Scarnsea.

Let us leave this place behind.

[Bugge] Open the gate!

- [wind whistling]
- [birds chirping]

Cromwell does not
deserve sight of you.

He will never hold this hand.

Never.