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'But I warn you, ' 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:06,959 Hill will come for his retribution. 3 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:09,999 My absolute right as a father is to be questioned. 4 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:11,639 Avenge it. 5 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:14,359 I propose to apply at Chancery for the custody of my son. 6 00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:17,519 I ask you to plead my case. 7 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:19,400 Do you want the child because I do not! 8 00:00:19,401 --> 00:00:20,599 But she does, 9 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:22,879 and my one contentment is in her pain. 10 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:24,719 Am I now to be employed here? 11 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:26,319 You are apprenticed. 12 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:27,600 It is gaol fever. 13 00:00:27,601 --> 00:00:30,000 Will I die from it? 14 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:15,319 CHAINS CLANK 15 00:01:15,320 --> 00:01:16,760 CRYING 16 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:19,920 SCREAMING 17 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:27,160 CRIES CONTINUE 18 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:38,760 SHE SCREAMS 19 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:43,639 Please, no! 20 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:46,040 SCREAMS AND CRIES CONTINUE 21 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:51,479 Proceed. 22 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:53,760 SCREAMS 23 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:05,160 The blue, I think. 24 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:08,920 No, no, the green. 25 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:12,159 The green? 26 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:13,239 Which? 27 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:14,639 Green. 28 00:02:14,640 --> 00:02:15,720 That's no help. 29 00:02:15,721 --> 00:02:18,040 Blue? You're no help at all! 30 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:21,879 And the masculine eye of the court 31 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:23,520 must be pleased today. 32 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:25,719 The green. 33 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:27,959 But not excited, no. 34 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:30,119 No, men move swiftly on 35 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:33,119 from excitement to condemnation. Do you not think? 36 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:35,079 Hypocrisy forming no obstacle. 37 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:37,319 You cannot be angry. 38 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:38,639 Then give me hope. 39 00:02:38,640 --> 00:02:41,199 You cannot, you... 40 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:45,800 Your case is a battle of ideas. Perhaps Mr Southouse is right. 41 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:51,280 The time has come to acknowledge a woman's right to her child. 44 00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:05,959 Governor General of a slave-colony. 45 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:08,079 Naturally, the story is everywhere. 46 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:10,679 Torture in Trinidad!" It's a sensation. 47 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:12,959 As no doubt intended by the prosecutor. 48 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:14,559 You are distracted? 49 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:17,079 Forgive me. 50 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:20,039 Mr James Fullerton, acting on the female's behalf, 51 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:22,319 has paid for everything. Why? 52 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:24,960 High principles... a radical. 53 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:32,959 So naturally he wants Garrow and must endure Southouse to get him. 54 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:35,679 Southouse is content. What do you say? 55 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:37,799 The case has substance in your... 56 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:40,999 This importunate young person is connected to you? 57 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:45,199 Ah, did I not say? No. George, pay your respects. 58 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:48,799 George Pinnock, sir. You, of course, are known to all. 59 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:50,959 The garrulous Mr Garrow. With admiration. 60 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:54,720 Shift yourself, boy. I will have private word with the garrulous Mr Garrow. 61 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:01,279 Mr Fullerton's prosecution would be a fine opportunity, 62 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:05,239 an opportunity to open the conditions in our colonies to public examination. 63 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:08,759 I believe they are not generally... A word of caution, if you will. 64 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:11,439 Of course. Our government is deep in this affair. 65 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:15,479 It touches closely upon the personal interests of several of its members. 66 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:18,839 Who enjoy their own properties in the West Indies, no doubt. 67 00:04:18,840 --> 00:04:21,879 They cannot now prevent the prosecution, too late for that, 68 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:25,319 but they can hinder it, and perhaps grievously. 69 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:27,559 Is that so? Mr Fullerton attends upon us? 70 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:31,159 Upon you. George, my chambers. 71 00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:34,960 I attend upon your distraction at the Court of Chancery. 72 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:38,879 Mr Southouse? 73 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:40,320 Almost late, what is it? 74 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:44,799 Have you considered the consequences for Sarah herself? 75 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:46,119 What if she loses? 76 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:48,439 You must be in better heart, Will. 77 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:51,200 Being late will not help her case. 78 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:22,200 BABY CRIES 79 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:36,559 Mr Silvester, I remind you our ground here is to establish 80 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:38,519 the husband's cruelty to the son. 81 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:41,319 Samuel, you do not know me. 82 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:43,800 All rise. 83 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:54,479 You live in an irregular household with Mr William Garrow, 84 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:58,519 in an adulterous liaison? 85 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:00,999 Which did not begin until Sir Arthur 86 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:02,559 cast me out of his house. 87 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:04,439 You are nevertheless an object 88 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:06,959 of moral repugnance. 89 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:09,719 A contaminated woman, 90 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:14,159 yet you presume to bring action against your aggrieved husband? 91 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:16,279 Solely in the matter of my son. 92 00:06:16,280 --> 00:06:20,640 Which you found upon defamation of Sir Arthur's character. 93 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:26,839 Mr Fullerton, Mr Southouse has informed me 94 00:06:26,840 --> 00:06:29,359 that you act for Miss Calderon as prosecutor. Why? 95 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:30,399 Principle. 96 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:34,079 Which particular one? Tyrants make enemies amongst lovers of freedom. 97 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:36,199 I have hopes that you may be such. 98 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:39,199 I believe you were chairman of The Trinidad Commission, 99 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:43,319 the civilian authority that replaced General Picton in governance of the island. 100 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:48,319 As the first civilian commissioner, I inherited a veritable hell of General Picton's making. 101 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:52,319 George, has Mr Southouse provided the specific terms of the indictment? 102 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:54,079 I have it here. 103 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:56,239 "That General Picton unlawfully..." 104 00:06:56,240 --> 00:07:00,879 "Unmercifully and cruelly did cause his man Vallot to inflict 105 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:04,159 "torture upon on the body of the servant woman Luisa Calderon. 106 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:08,999 "And thereby did beat, bruise, wound and ill-treat her" 107 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:11,559 "so that her life was greatly despaired of." 108 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:14,879 Do you understand that in British law torture is but a misdemeanour? 109 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:19,999 I do. But this case will allow us to expose all of Picton's many crimes. 110 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:21,119 Mr Garrow, 111 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:25,159 I heard talk of the Governor's jail the first day that I landed on the island. 112 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:26,280 And what did you find? 113 00:07:26,281 --> 00:07:29,039 A place of nightmare. 114 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:34,559 Filth, immorality, torment and promiscuous death. 115 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:36,839 You mentioned many crimes, sir? 116 00:07:36,840 --> 00:07:39,879 How can you attest to this when you were not there? 117 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:43,039 Mr Fullerton's provided much vivid documentary evidence. 118 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:46,200 And an equally vivid witness. 119 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:50,199 We travelled to France and then Italy 120 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:53,079 but always attended by gossip... "We", Sir Arthur? 121 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:55,599 Lady Henrietta Armistead and myself. 122 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:57,719 The boy was with his nurse in England. 123 00:07:57,720 --> 00:07:59,680 DOOR OPENS 124 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:03,800 Abandoned by his parent. 125 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:07,119 And is it true that the child was separated 126 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:10,439 from his mother, Lady Sarah, when he was at wet nurse? 127 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:12,559 Another was found. 128 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:15,359 Yes, but not the child's mother! 129 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:18,159 All's one in the matter of milk, I believe! 130 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:20,439 GASPS AND CHATTER 131 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:24,719 There have been reports of much drunkenness on your part, 132 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:28,599 fits of uncontrollable rage. 133 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:32,079 Often, sir, in the immediate presence of your son. 134 00:08:32,080 --> 00:08:36,519 What say you to these charges of ill conduct? 135 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:37,599 True. 136 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:42,159 But who amongst us might not succumb to the provocation I endured? 137 00:08:42,160 --> 00:08:44,839 The criminal usurpation of my marriage, my... 138 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:47,319 cruel, unjust exile from society? 139 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:52,439 Yet I believe the innocence of my son has worked to 140 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:56,039 bring out the better part of his father's nature. 141 00:08:56,040 --> 00:08:58,879 Decency has not prevented you from bringing this child 142 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:02,279 of innocence into contact with a person with whom you have 143 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:05,239 formed a vicious connection? 144 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:07,599 Only the mother's adultery is material. 145 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:10,479 That cannot be just! This will not help. 146 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:11,999 It cannot! 147 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:15,440 A father has the absolute right of full possession of his child. 148 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:18,119 My Lord! 149 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:22,039 Sir Arthur speaks as if motherhood were not a legitimate aim in its own self. 150 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:25,519 By your conduct you have forfeited any rights a mother has... 151 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:30,759 Does not the carrying of a child, the pangs of birth, the feeding, 152 00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:34,999 the constant care, confer a status greater than 153 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:36,800 receptacle of a father's issue? 154 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:47,999 It is, of course, true that a man's love for his son may be deep, 155 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:50,479 when it is present. 156 00:09:50,480 --> 00:09:52,159 Oh, you shame yourself, madam! 157 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:56,479 But this man's affection for Samuel is not a shadow of mine, his mother! 158 00:09:56,480 --> 00:09:58,519 Do I not have claim, in part at least, 159 00:09:58,520 --> 00:10:02,159 to the child I laboured long to bring into the world? 160 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:04,679 You abandoned him! You lie! 161 00:10:04,680 --> 00:10:06,560 You stole him from me! 162 00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:13,879 Beside the point, madam, irrelevant to the law, m'lord. 163 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:16,560 I have heard enough. Thank you, gentlemen. 164 00:10:27,880 --> 00:10:28,919 KNOCK ON DOOR 165 00:10:28,920 --> 00:10:30,119 Mr Garrow... 166 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:34,439 May I present to you Senor Pedro Vallot. 167 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:36,679 He was Picton's man in Port of Spain jail 168 00:10:36,680 --> 00:10:39,600 and the executor of that evil man's crimes. 169 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:43,519 You kept a sorry jail, sir, but compendious records. 170 00:10:43,520 --> 00:10:46,559 The general required them. 171 00:10:46,560 --> 00:10:48,839 And what have you been paid to say, sir? 172 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:50,679 The truth. 173 00:10:50,680 --> 00:10:53,079 Mind you do, all of it, but nothing else. 174 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:56,199 What did the general pay you? 175 00:10:56,200 --> 00:10:59,919 The rate for each thing was fixed. 176 00:10:59,920 --> 00:11:02,319 So much for this. So much for that. 177 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:06,559 What legal authority did you have for your thises and thats? 178 00:11:06,560 --> 00:11:08,879 I mean what law, sir? 179 00:11:08,880 --> 00:11:12,039 What General Picton said. 180 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:17,079 Picton was as bloody a tyrant as any in ancient Rome. 181 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:19,519 Help me to bring him down. 182 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:24,119 First I will see Miss Calderon, it is, after all, her case. Where is the lady? 183 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:26,599 Miss Calderon will meet us at The Boar's Head, 184 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:28,200 in 15 minutes. 185 00:11:30,200 --> 00:11:32,160 ECHOING VOICES AND LAUGHTER 186 00:11:51,280 --> 00:11:52,680 BABY CRIES 187 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:02,359 Madam, you and your friends come here to display 188 00:12:02,360 --> 00:12:07,679 and gawp like it were a Drury Lane entertainment. 189 00:12:07,680 --> 00:12:11,479 Vastly less amusing since you and your friend come here 190 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:13,919 to scowl and sermonise. 191 00:12:13,920 --> 00:12:19,080 I came for my son. And I have lost him. 192 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:27,800 Come away... come! 193 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:38,120 HUBBUB OF CONVERSATION 194 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:53,759 Where is the old man? Mr Sootyhouse? 195 00:12:53,760 --> 00:12:56,119 He's on other business. 196 00:12:56,120 --> 00:12:59,199 Mr Fullerton, who is this child? 197 00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:01,679 Your elder... I believe. 198 00:13:01,680 --> 00:13:05,479 But without the experience in your walk of life that I have in mine, 199 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:06,759 I collect. 200 00:13:06,760 --> 00:13:09,799 Nevertheless, I'm your Mr Sootyhouse today. 201 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:11,679 Mr Garrow... 202 00:13:11,680 --> 00:13:14,159 may I present to you Miss Luisa Calderon. 203 00:13:14,160 --> 00:13:18,119 Miss Calderon. I see that you have a prodigious talent for theatre. 204 00:13:18,120 --> 00:13:23,039 Beware of it becoming too high in The Bailey. Juries have a way to detect artifice and punish it. 205 00:13:23,040 --> 00:13:25,960 Do they also have a way of punishing a great wrong? 206 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:29,680 Please. 207 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:37,559 Miss Calderon, 208 00:13:37,560 --> 00:13:40,399 I believe that you were kept in the Port of Spain gaol, 209 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:42,919 accused of the theft of �500 from your master. 210 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:45,679 And that you refused to confess. 211 00:13:45,680 --> 00:13:47,599 I was innocent. 212 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:50,680 So General Picton had you put to the torture? 213 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:54,319 Twice. 214 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:57,759 And yet still you did not oblige with a confession. Why so? 215 00:13:57,760 --> 00:14:02,119 Can you not conceive of the possibility that a poor person, 216 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:05,119 a person of colour, perhaps, 217 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:09,039 was not a criminal if a rich, white man says she was? 218 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:10,599 Easily, I see it every day. 219 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:15,199 Picton could not conceive of that. He used me most cruelly 220 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:16,680 and I want him paid out! 221 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:19,919 Dare you stand up for me, 222 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:22,159 Mr Garrow? 223 00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:26,119 General Picton stood up for me on the occasion of giving me these! 224 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:30,759 Taking pleasure in the infliction, 225 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:32,800 great pleasure. 226 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:37,679 I do stand up for you... 227 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:39,160 at the Bailey. 228 00:14:45,680 --> 00:14:46,879 Mr Garrow? 229 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:50,240 Yes? My Lord Melville requires your presence. 230 00:15:01,520 --> 00:15:03,520 Follow me, sir. 231 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:09,159 Forgive the delay, Mr Garrow, 232 00:15:09,160 --> 00:15:12,799 official business eats my time quite away. 233 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:15,520 A glass with me, sir? No, thank you. 234 00:15:20,880 --> 00:15:24,679 It must seem to you that our enmity is implacable, 235 00:15:24,680 --> 00:15:27,159 but it need not be so. 236 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:32,039 We appear on the opposing sides in so many matters, sir. 237 00:15:32,040 --> 00:15:34,959 Oh, sides! A side is a surface. 238 00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:39,159 The real engine of our state turns at a much deeper level. 239 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:41,799 Do you begin to see that yet? 240 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:45,079 I confess, I am at a loss to see anything clearly here, sir. 241 00:15:45,080 --> 00:15:50,679 I requested that you attend on me in the matter of Luisa Calderon. 242 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:54,159 I ask you, in the King's name, 243 00:15:54,160 --> 00:15:58,199 to keep it to the lady, that is to keep it narrow, 244 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:01,559 to that one case, and to avoid all consideration 245 00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:04,479 of those wider issues 246 00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:07,520 regarding our rule in the West Indies. Mr Garrow? 247 00:16:09,560 --> 00:16:11,079 Yes... 248 00:16:11,080 --> 00:16:16,199 Your thoughts will be with the Court of Chancery, with Lady Sarah 249 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:17,759 and Sir Arthur Hill. 250 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:23,719 That gentleman holds the key to your future happiness, Mr Garrow, 251 00:16:23,720 --> 00:16:27,399 and that gentleman does my bidding. 252 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:30,520 Melville wills, Hill acts. 253 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:33,399 What do you intend? 254 00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:38,359 I will use my influence with Hill, and you know how great that is, 255 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:41,399 to get him to give over Samuel into your charge. 256 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:45,319 So Melville wills and Garrow acts? 257 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:50,800 In consistency with his desire, his duty and his honour. 258 00:16:52,440 --> 00:16:57,039 I perceive here some shabby offer, some sly, underhanded, political manoeuvre 259 00:16:57,040 --> 00:16:58,280 and I do not like it. 260 00:16:58,281 --> 00:16:59,719 Careful, not too rash. 261 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:04,239 May I just say that my honour is in no-one's hands but my own. 262 00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:07,160 I beg to be excused. 263 00:17:08,920 --> 00:17:13,760 Hurry, Lady Sarah will, no doubt, have need of comfort. 264 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:20,399 You do not know that Hill has won his case. He's pleased. 265 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:22,679 Not as pleased as you, my lord. 266 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:27,119 Every man reaches a point in his life when he must compromise, 267 00:17:27,120 --> 00:17:28,719 or fail. 268 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:31,119 Is that how you became what you are, sir? 269 00:17:31,120 --> 00:17:34,479 You may one day hope to do the same. 270 00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:37,840 You have it in you, I believe. 271 00:18:23,360 --> 00:18:24,400 What can I do? 272 00:18:25,960 --> 00:18:27,320 Nothing. 273 00:18:41,920 --> 00:18:45,039 Sir Arthur. Would you grant me a moment? 274 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:46,399 Pray continue. 275 00:18:46,400 --> 00:18:50,559 I am here as Lady Sarah's friend 276 00:18:50,560 --> 00:18:53,239 to ask that you show mercy. 277 00:18:53,240 --> 00:18:54,279 Ask. 278 00:18:54,280 --> 00:18:56,159 Beg. 279 00:18:56,160 --> 00:18:58,039 How? 280 00:18:58,040 --> 00:19:00,160 Give the lady her son. 281 00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:05,559 No. 282 00:19:05,560 --> 00:19:07,560 I think not. 283 00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:14,039 Sir Arthur, all decent men will condemn you for this. 284 00:19:14,040 --> 00:19:16,559 Oh, indeed, will they now? 285 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:18,920 And who is this who speaks for all decent men... 286 00:19:18,921 --> 00:19:22,519 oh, it's craggy old Mr Southouse, the Bailey furniture. 287 00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:24,519 An old man of little importance. 288 00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:27,599 Whose opinion of me is of no consequence at all. 289 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:28,840 I cannot deny it. 290 00:19:31,280 --> 00:19:32,759 What? 291 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:35,159 Will you not take the hand of this old man, 292 00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:37,799 the Bailey furniture? 293 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:39,960 Who acknowledges your victory. 294 00:19:42,560 --> 00:19:46,799 I wish you joy of your triumph. I hope in the future 295 00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:52,040 you may reflect upon this moment with much feeling. 296 00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:05,880 KNOCK AT DOOR 297 00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:26,479 How is she? 298 00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:29,279 Utterly destroyed. 299 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:32,679 I do not know what more I could have done. 300 00:20:32,680 --> 00:20:35,279 Maybe you think I did too much? 301 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:36,919 Encouraged her too far? 302 00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:40,879 All you have ever been, Mr Southouse, is her good friend, and mine. 303 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:42,520 Please, stay back... 304 00:20:44,120 --> 00:20:47,600 I abhor promiscuous demonstrations of affection. 305 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:54,119 In time, she will take comfort from having exerted her powers to the limit. 306 00:20:54,120 --> 00:20:58,239 That will be a very small comfort indeed, if she does not get her son. 307 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:01,080 Hill will never give him up. 308 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:07,279 It will be best if I watch her alone, Mr Southouse. 309 00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:11,719 Good night, Mr Southouse. We thank you for your kindnesses. 310 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:12,760 Good night. 311 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:39,879 Will? 312 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:43,959 Surely Lady Sarah has more need of you tonight? 313 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:47,599 This will keep till the morning. She prefers to be alone. 314 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:50,240 The hurt will ease in time. 315 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:57,480 All hurts do. Even the deepest. 316 00:21:59,040 --> 00:22:01,240 We have ordered the prison papers, Will. 317 00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:05,959 And what a depraved tyranny it reveals. 318 00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:09,919 There are records for everything. 319 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:11,320 I cannot use this... 320 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:16,079 or this, or this. The papers are disorderly, Mr Pinnock. 321 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:18,119 No, there is much evidence here! 322 00:22:18,120 --> 00:22:21,479 Not to Miss Calderon. She is the case in hand. 323 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:23,319 And part of the matter only. 324 00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:26,200 If we haven't Calderon, then we have nothing. 325 00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:28,960 Gently, Will. 326 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:32,759 Fullerton's thoughts have gone before us. 327 00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:34,038 Everything is ready. 328 00:22:34,039 --> 00:22:36,520 And the papers are here. See, our plans are laid! 329 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:42,039 It has been a hard, hard day. 330 00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:44,719 Go home to your lady. 331 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:46,880 Find a way to comfort her. 332 00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:51,080 Hmm. 333 00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:54,320 There is but one way to do that. 334 00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:23,880 Before you speak, I wish to apologise. 335 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:26,720 I was... 336 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:30,559 Samuel did not know me... 337 00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:31,799 Will. 338 00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:33,039 He's so young. 339 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:36,360 No, he did not know me, and now he never will. 340 00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:40,079 Well, there is yet hope. 341 00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:43,279 There is no hope. There is none! Listen... Listen to me! 342 00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:46,839 Today I attended upon my Lord Melville at his most particular request. 343 00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:51,279 What can Melville want from you? The government fear our use of the Picton trial 344 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:54,319 to expose the true conditions of our colonies to public view. 345 00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:58,639 Powerful personal interests are at work against that. 346 00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:02,840 If I oblige them by keeping my argument narrow, to Calderon... 347 00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:06,320 You are promised Samuel. 348 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:15,559 You would become Melville's creature entirely. You cannot. 349 00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:16,919 How can I not? 350 00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:18,359 I do not permit it. 351 00:24:18,360 --> 00:24:21,919 The decision is mine and mine alone and I have made it. 352 00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:25,239 Nothing in my life can take precedence 353 00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:29,999 over your interest in a matter so very close to your heart. 354 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:31,159 Will... 355 00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:32,440 I am resolved. 356 00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:39,600 Thank you. 357 00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:30,440 My very best compliments, Madam. 358 00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:35,839 I am glad to see you, I will not say looking well... 359 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:37,720 but looking better. 360 00:25:52,120 --> 00:25:53,759 General Picton. 361 00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:56,839 Indeed, Miss Calderon. Today you are before me again. 362 00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:58,999 You may not talk to our witness! 363 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:00,839 Don't piss yourself this time. 364 00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:03,320 Come away, Miss Calderon. 365 00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:07,280 Good day to you, Mr Garrow. 366 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:18,199 So, Melville, will he serve? 367 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:20,360 If not provoked. 368 00:26:25,120 --> 00:26:27,040 Will? 369 00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:31,360 What's this? What have you done? 370 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:37,000 Mr Southouse! 371 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:45,679 Go in. 372 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:46,960 Do your duty... 373 00:26:50,360 --> 00:26:51,879 Remember it... 374 00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:54,040 We will look to him. 375 00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:56,880 George... 376 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:15,640 Mr Garrow? 377 00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:27,599 Gentlemen, here you shall hear a thing almost beyond credence. 378 00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:30,999 That the governor of our colonial dependency Trinidad 379 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:39,519 has abused the situation to which he was raised, and disgraced the country to which he belongs 380 00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:45,400 by inflicting torture on a young woman merely to gratify his tyrannical disposition. 381 00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:52,679 Luisa Calderon was a domestic in the house of Pedro Ruiz. 382 00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:56,279 A quantity of money was stolen, and as night follows day, 383 00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:59,999 suspicion was cast upon the convenient servant girl. 384 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:04,559 But she most inconveniently and steadfastly maintained her innocence 385 00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:08,959 until at length the examining magistrate considered his present powers were at an end, 386 00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:12,760 and resorted to General Picton to supply the deficiency. 387 00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:15,480 General Picton obliged. 388 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:20,799 Here is his authority, written in his own hand, 389 00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:22,680 in the language of the island. 390 00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:27,319 "Appliquez la question a Luisa Calderon." 391 00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:29,839 "Inflict the torture on Luisa Calderon." 392 00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:32,200 Who let us be clear, is a British subject. 393 00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:35,200 My Lord, I call Luisa Calderon. 394 00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:12,440 You must rest, sir. 395 00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:14,839 Too late. 396 00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:17,400 HE WHEEZES 397 00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:22,559 My life, in days... 398 00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:26,599 mind first, body next, 399 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:27,840 then... 400 00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:32,560 It's all one. 401 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:42,639 Miss Calderon, for how many days did you refuse to confess to the crime of which you were accused? 402 00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:43,879 11. 403 00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:45,199 COURTROOM MURMURS 404 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:46,999 And what then happened? 405 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,040 The jailer, Vallot... 406 00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:53,119 put his hand upon me. 407 00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:55,559 I mean, I was put to the torture. 408 00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:56,840 COURTROOM GASPS 409 00:29:56,841 --> 00:30:00,039 Pray describe to the court what then happened to you. 410 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:04,999 The wrist of my right hand was bound to a rope 411 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:07,599 connected to a pulley. 412 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:10,599 My left hand tied to my right ankle. 413 00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:12,399 Will I show you? 414 00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:14,279 My Lord? 415 00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:16,160 Very well. 416 00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:24,640 Like so. 417 00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:28,759 I was raised into the air. 418 00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:32,999 Suspended, and my foot lowered on to the spike. 419 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:37,239 Spike? By spike you mean... 420 00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:38,599 picket? 421 00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:39,960 One like this? 422 00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:46,319 Miss Calderon, 423 00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:49,999 for how long were you tortured, that is to say, 424 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:52,520 how long was each session of torture? 425 00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:57,999 I have been told it was more than an hour. 426 00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:01,759 And did General Picton spectate upon the torture that he devised? 427 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:03,439 He did! 428 00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:05,959 And when you were put upon the picket the next day? 429 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:10,399 Again... Every single minute of my torment. 430 00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:13,799 Until I was again insensible. 431 00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:15,279 Did you confess? 432 00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:16,639 Never! 433 00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:20,160 Yet you were held for eight months, without trial. 434 00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:26,440 Pray describe to the court the conditions in... that prison chamber. 435 00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:33,640 They are... 436 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:45,200 beyond description. 437 00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:50,239 And yet there you stayed, in fetters, 438 00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:53,559 daily to witness the place of torture, 439 00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:55,919 expecting it to be resumed at any moment. 440 00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:57,519 And still you did not confess? 441 00:31:57,520 --> 00:31:58,999 I did not. 442 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:03,119 With my Lord's permission, I would ask Miss Calderon to show the jury 443 00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:07,320 the lasting effects of the torture and the confinement. 444 00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:23,920 COURTROOM GASPS 445 00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:37,440 Thank you. 446 00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:45,399 Have you seen Mr Vallot? 447 00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:46,800 No, sorry. 448 00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:51,040 Now... "Miss" Calderon. 449 00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:55,999 You have said that you were a domestic in the house of Ruiz. 450 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,480 Did you not live in a state of prostitution with him? 451 00:32:58,481 --> 00:33:00,319 COURTROOM GASPS 452 00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:01,919 Speak true now. 453 00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:04,039 I was promised marriage! 454 00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:09,559 During your imprisonment, is it not also true that you shared the last favour, 455 00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:15,520 or perhaps in your case, the first of favours, with the jailer Vallot? 456 00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:17,960 Under oath now! 457 00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:24,719 Yes. 458 00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:29,039 Was this to increase your comforts during imprisonment? 459 00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:33,639 It was not mere comfort... it was survival! 460 00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:37,600 So you are a prostitute, are you not? 461 00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:40,999 Men have always... 462 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:45,120 What... have they always done? 463 00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:49,439 Liked me. 464 00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:51,239 COURTROOM MURMURS 465 00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:52,960 Liked me. 466 00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:58,520 This is all I've had. No education... 467 00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:04,479 No fine suit of clothes, no silver tongue. 468 00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:06,039 An elaborate yes. 469 00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:10,919 You laid with Ruiz at the same time as indulging 470 00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:15,799 in a criminal intercourse with the negro Gonzalez, 471 00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:19,919 with whom of course you also lay, and who stole the money? 472 00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:22,559 I did not know he stole the money. 473 00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:23,960 So you admit the man? 474 00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:27,360 Is it not the truth, "Miss" Calderon... 475 00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:33,239 that you are a whore, a thief and a liar? 476 00:34:33,240 --> 00:34:38,119 Is it possible that we are to take the word of such a person 477 00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:41,919 against the word of a distinguished servant of the crown? 478 00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:43,480 Hear, hear. 479 00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:47,359 Miss Calderon... 480 00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:50,039 Miss Calderon? 481 00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:54,479 You say you were induced to go to the house of Ruiz by promise of marriage. 482 00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:55,960 Why not marriage at once? 483 00:34:55,961 --> 00:34:58,359 I was too young. 484 00:34:58,360 --> 00:34:59,520 How old were you? 485 00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:02,359 Ten years. 486 00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:04,039 Too young to marry... 487 00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:07,200 but not too young to be put in the bed of an old man. 488 00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:11,880 In Trinidad... 489 00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:16,600 if a man likes a negress, he buys her from her owner. 490 00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:20,079 If he likes a mulatta... 491 00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:23,440 he buys her from her mother. I was sold. 492 00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:30,840 The word "prostitute" is harsh, I think, for those circumstances, gentlemen. 493 00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:33,040 Thank you. 494 00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:45,840 HE WHEEZES 495 00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:50,599 I must see him... 496 00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:52,400 Now. 497 00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:09,799 I swear by Almighty God to tell the truth, 498 00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:14,279 the whole truth and nothing but the truth. 499 00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:16,959 Mr Fullerton. 500 00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:20,719 Is it true that Miss Calderon was kept in the jail for eight months? 501 00:36:20,720 --> 00:36:22,479 So I was told. 502 00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:27,039 She was one amongst many in that place of nightmare. 503 00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:31,119 And you saw the instrument of her torture. Is this it? 504 00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:33,239 It is. 505 00:36:33,240 --> 00:36:38,040 It was but a small part of the horrors inflicted in that place. 506 00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:44,560 As... recorded in the prison documents. 507 00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:50,040 No more questions, my Lord. 508 00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:53,760 No, sir! 509 00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:05,239 Mr Garrow... 510 00:37:05,240 --> 00:37:08,280 My Lord, grave news of Mr Southouse. 511 00:37:10,240 --> 00:37:14,839 Mr Silvester, I find the need to consult 512 00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:17,920 on a matter of Trinidad law. 513 00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:21,600 Out of my way! 514 00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:28,280 DOOR OPENS 515 00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:34,680 He's dying. 516 00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:46,279 Will. 517 00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:48,600 Yes, it's William. 518 00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:56,199 Come to take your leave of an old friend? 519 00:37:56,200 --> 00:37:58,199 My leave? Certainly not. 520 00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:01,359 Take heart, Mr Southouse, there is always hope. 521 00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:03,279 Not always. 522 00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:07,640 It is gaol fever, Will. He has known for weeks. 523 00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:29,680 My friend... 524 00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:32,720 My wise old friend, hmm? 525 00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:36,440 I cannot begin... 526 00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:49,399 Do you remember how generous you were, Mr Southouse, 527 00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:56,359 to that... callow young man so sorely in need of your good wisdom 528 00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:59,200 and your quiet affection to guide him? 529 00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:03,560 How liberally you gave it both. 530 00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:07,319 And how much you are... 531 00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:09,000 loved for it in return. 532 00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:13,680 Father... 533 00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:18,880 My teacher... 534 00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:23,319 Conscience... 535 00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:27,360 I hope you have considered me a creditable pupil. 536 00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:32,159 Most creditable... 537 00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:33,999 when most... 538 00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:36,000 most yourself... 539 00:39:38,080 --> 00:39:40,759 Most proud... 540 00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:42,760 when you are honest... 541 00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:49,080 What did they... buy you with? 542 00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:54,280 With love. 543 00:39:57,440 --> 00:39:59,119 Water... 544 00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:00,440 Water, yes. 545 00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:13,280 Be yourself. 546 00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:16,840 Promise me. 547 00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:19,639 Yes. 548 00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:21,680 Fiat... 549 00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:26,959 "Fiat justitia ruat caelum." 550 00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:28,240 Hmm? 551 00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:33,000 "May justice be done though the heavens fall." 552 00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:49,200 You will watch him? 553 00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:54,880 Perhaps he will speak with me again. 554 00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:03,760 CHATTER AND BUSTLE OF CROWD 555 00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:25,680 Mr Vallot, you have been a wicked man. 556 00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:29,279 I only did what I was told. 557 00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:32,400 Without once speaking out against it. 558 00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:36,440 But you are fortunate, 559 00:41:36,441 --> 00:41:40,119 because you still have the opportunity to do so 560 00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:42,400 and perhaps your God... 561 00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:45,760 he might still listen. 562 00:41:56,480 --> 00:41:57,799 Snake! 563 00:41:57,800 --> 00:41:59,160 Lackey! 564 00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:34,599 Life goes on, I see. 565 00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:37,399 It's a mighty machine, Will. 566 00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:39,399 It stops for no-one. 567 00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:41,760 How is your old friend? 568 00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:44,280 Dying. 569 00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:49,000 Ah. Sad indeed. 570 00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:51,880 Will you proceed? 571 00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:55,239 Are you able? 572 00:42:55,240 --> 00:42:58,000 I am. As ever. 573 00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:10,120 You will remember our arrangement? 574 00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:22,640 Call Vallot! 575 00:43:23,640 --> 00:43:24,840 Who is that man? 576 00:43:24,841 --> 00:43:27,239 Pedro Vallot, my Lord. 577 00:43:27,240 --> 00:43:32,160 Gaoler, executioner and torturer of Trinidad, whom I now call. 578 00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:46,360 Your son... 579 00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:50,960 take him. 580 00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:58,520 Garrow will be... Garrow. 581 00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:37,919 Was this, the note written in General Picton's own hand, 582 00:44:37,920 --> 00:44:41,280 the instrument that gave you authority to examine Luisa Calderon? 583 00:44:42,720 --> 00:44:43,959 Yes. 584 00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:45,840 Please read it to the court. 585 00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:56,039 "Appliquez la question a Luisa Calderon." 586 00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:59,640 GASPS OF ASTONISHMENT 587 00:45:03,480 --> 00:45:08,559 And does this describe truly your part in inflicting that agony on that lady? 588 00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:11,679 It does. 589 00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:16,319 Miss Calderon has described for two succeeding days 590 00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:20,919 she was tormented in that same manner until she was insensible. 591 00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:26,680 MUTTERING FROM CROWD At which point you let her down. Is that so? 592 00:45:27,720 --> 00:45:29,439 God forgive me. 593 00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:31,399 Please answer the question. 594 00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:32,920 Please answer the question. 595 00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:37,399 I administered all the General's punishments. 596 00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:40,399 And how much were you paid? 597 00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:41,680 Five shillings. 598 00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:46,719 Mr Vallot, you are drunk, are you not? 599 00:45:46,720 --> 00:45:47,799 I am. 600 00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:49,600 Why? 601 00:45:51,520 --> 00:45:57,400 It is the only condition in which I can endure what I have done. 602 00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:14,560 Yes, one must be able to live with what one has done. 603 00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:22,439 I am obliged to inform you that Mr John Southouse, Attorney, has gone. 604 00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:26,679 When a good man dies, so much dies with him. 605 00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:28,319 Not the goodness, I hope. 606 00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:32,359 We have great need of that in this place. 607 00:46:32,360 --> 00:46:38,880 We who held him in such respect and regard should demonstrate it now. 608 00:46:49,920 --> 00:46:51,280 Mr Garrow? 609 00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:22,519 What other work did the General pay you for, in His Majesty's name? 610 00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:23,919 Is this relevant? 611 00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:25,759 Mutilations. 612 00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:27,679 Of slaves? 613 00:47:27,680 --> 00:47:34,439 Mostly, though others too. Mulattos. Even whites of the lower sort. 614 00:47:34,440 --> 00:47:36,279 Ear-cropping, how much for that? 615 00:47:36,280 --> 00:47:40,159 Five shillings for a slave, seven for a free man. 616 00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:43,079 Or woman. Lip cropping? 617 00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:44,399 More. 618 00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:46,239 Eyelids? More still. 619 00:47:46,240 --> 00:47:49,319 So they could not protect their eyes from the sun and dust? 620 00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:50,480 So they go blind. 621 00:47:51,720 --> 00:47:53,359 Castrations? 622 00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:54,399 Many. 623 00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:56,519 How many hangings? 624 00:47:56,520 --> 00:48:00,039 126 at 15 shillings. 625 00:48:00,040 --> 00:48:03,359 126 at 15 shillings? 626 00:48:03,360 --> 00:48:07,039 Mostly slaves. Some of those were burned. 627 00:48:07,040 --> 00:48:10,079 30 shillings for each burning. 628 00:48:10,080 --> 00:48:13,359 11... No, no... 629 00:48:13,360 --> 00:48:16,759 13 of burnings. 630 00:48:16,760 --> 00:48:19,439 And pray describe to the court those dreadful crimes 631 00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:22,839 which merited those punishments, for dreadful they must have been. 632 00:48:22,840 --> 00:48:25,759 Walking alone after church. 633 00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:27,040 Running away. 634 00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:31,799 Suspicion of plotting rebellion. 635 00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:34,000 Suspicion of poisoning cattle. 636 00:48:35,520 --> 00:48:38,599 Suspicion of witchcraft. Suspicion... 637 00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:42,960 Of anything that wandered into the General's mind at breakfast. 638 00:48:51,960 --> 00:48:58,039 General Picton, how do you characterise the state of the colony 639 00:48:58,040 --> 00:48:59,999 when you assumed the governorship? 640 00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:04,999 Perilous. That territory was but recently acquired by The Crown. 641 00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:07,559 A campaign in which you served with distinction. 642 00:49:07,560 --> 00:49:08,919 It has been said. 643 00:49:08,920 --> 00:49:11,919 What does perilous mean to a man of proven military worth 644 00:49:11,920 --> 00:49:15,159 and recognised personal valour such as yourself? 645 00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:19,839 Following the conquest when our navy had retired, French, American 646 00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:22,759 and Spanish privateers returned in great numbers. 647 00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:26,199 Not to mention the common pirates that stalked the surrounding waters 648 00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:31,159 like sea wolves. Raiding our shipping and our shores at will. 649 00:49:31,160 --> 00:49:32,400 And the island itself? 650 00:49:32,401 --> 00:49:33,919 In a sorry state. 651 00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:37,079 A hotbed of crime and sedition amongst the civil population. 652 00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:41,759 Near-rebellion, inflamed by voodoo witchcraft amongst the blacks. 653 00:49:41,760 --> 00:49:43,479 Perilous indeed. 654 00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:46,719 With such poor means and materials at my command, 655 00:49:46,720 --> 00:49:50,199 an unyielding regime was necessary to restore order. 656 00:49:50,200 --> 00:49:54,759 You faced an onerous duty, sir. We may wonder how you fared. 657 00:49:54,760 --> 00:49:56,520 What was the condition of the island 658 00:49:56,521 --> 00:49:59,839 when you handed over to the civilian authority led by Mr Fullerton, 659 00:49:59,840 --> 00:50:02,279 a mere three years later? 660 00:50:02,280 --> 00:50:04,519 Pacified and productive. 661 00:50:04,520 --> 00:50:09,519 And was everything that brought about this remarkable transformation 662 00:50:09,520 --> 00:50:11,319 done at your express authority? 663 00:50:11,320 --> 00:50:14,719 It was and I take full responsibility for all, without reserve. 664 00:50:14,720 --> 00:50:17,040 Thank you. M'lord. 665 00:50:21,080 --> 00:50:25,919 You take full responsibility for all measures that Mr Vallot executed? 666 00:50:25,920 --> 00:50:27,440 Without reserve. 667 00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:31,519 You are proud of your achievement? 668 00:50:31,520 --> 00:50:33,759 I believe I have that right. 669 00:50:33,760 --> 00:50:37,479 Though Fullerton there weeps for it like the proverbial crocodile. 670 00:50:37,480 --> 00:50:38,799 Proud of torture? 671 00:50:38,800 --> 00:50:45,119 If you speak of that woman, it was but a slight torture. 672 00:50:45,120 --> 00:50:47,679 She has exaggerated in play for your entertainment. 673 00:50:47,680 --> 00:50:49,920 You call the sufferings of that lady slight? 674 00:50:51,240 --> 00:50:52,959 Which LADY? 675 00:50:52,960 --> 00:50:57,879 The one that you abused most cruelly, most unmanfully and dishonourably. 676 00:50:57,880 --> 00:50:59,960 Dishonourably? Indeed! 677 00:51:02,520 --> 00:51:04,960 If she had been a lady, it might be so. 678 00:51:05,960 --> 00:51:10,959 All I see is hot, brown meat in a white cloth. 679 00:51:10,960 --> 00:51:12,279 General Picton! 680 00:51:12,280 --> 00:51:14,479 My Lord, I beg the court's forgiveness. 681 00:51:14,480 --> 00:51:18,159 General Picton is a simple soldier and moved to rough words 682 00:51:18,160 --> 00:51:20,039 when his honour is traduced. 683 00:51:20,040 --> 00:51:22,039 He will watch his words in my court! 684 00:51:22,040 --> 00:51:26,760 This lady is a British citizen, entitled to British justice. 685 00:51:27,760 --> 00:51:29,399 She... 686 00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:35,799 is a tuppeny-ha'penny mulatta whore who lay with a sambo, 687 00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:38,799 and helped him steal her white master's gold. 688 00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:42,400 She was entitled to what she got, and the rope she 'scaped. 689 00:51:44,880 --> 00:51:49,759 The island was teeming with half-breed criminal scum like her. 690 00:51:49,760 --> 00:51:53,919 Harsh measures were needed to keep them in order. And the Africans? 691 00:51:53,920 --> 00:51:57,639 There were, are, thousands upon thousands of them. 692 00:51:57,640 --> 00:52:02,359 Every last manjack and missy inflamed to rebellion by native witchcrafters 693 00:52:02,360 --> 00:52:05,519 and gentlemen of fashionable radical opinion such as yourself! 694 00:52:05,520 --> 00:52:07,479 Inflamed perhaps by your measures. 695 00:52:07,480 --> 00:52:09,000 Windbaggery! 696 00:52:10,800 --> 00:52:13,640 Do you know what a slave rebellion is like? 697 00:52:16,440 --> 00:52:21,800 On San Domingo not one white woman 'scaped rape then butchery. 698 00:52:23,360 --> 00:52:26,359 Babies skewered on pikes and carried as standards. 699 00:52:26,360 --> 00:52:29,559 Beasts, who must be tamed to strict obedience! 700 00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:30,800 Which you did? 701 00:52:32,080 --> 00:52:33,240 Which I did. 702 00:52:34,360 --> 00:52:37,919 And secured for this country a most profitable possession. 703 00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:39,959 Does a colony exist solely 704 00:52:39,960 --> 00:52:42,959 for our convenience, as a source of wealth? 705 00:52:42,960 --> 00:52:44,359 For what else? 706 00:52:44,360 --> 00:52:47,599 As a place where the common notions of justice do not apply? 707 00:52:47,600 --> 00:52:48,720 They cannot apply! 708 00:52:48,721 --> 00:52:50,799 Where any and all measures are justified 709 00:52:50,800 --> 00:52:53,119 if they lead to our general enrichment? 710 00:52:53,120 --> 00:52:54,239 Yes. 711 00:52:54,240 --> 00:52:58,119 Measures including, I quote further from the compendious 712 00:52:58,120 --> 00:53:01,199 records of your proud governorship, including... 713 00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:05,599 "Drowning in sacks like dogs. 714 00:53:05,600 --> 00:53:09,239 "Crucifying on planks. Burying alive. 715 00:53:09,240 --> 00:53:12,480 "Flaying with the lash then tossed on dungheaps..." 716 00:53:15,760 --> 00:53:18,999 "..to be devoured alive by worms and insects." 717 00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:23,999 Six men burned to death, not in your usual humane manner, 718 00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:26,359 but with sulphur about their heads. 719 00:53:26,360 --> 00:53:27,439 Yes. 720 00:53:27,440 --> 00:53:29,160 Forgive me... 721 00:53:31,480 --> 00:53:36,040 Burning sulphur was placed about their heads as a means of execution? 722 00:53:40,760 --> 00:53:43,919 And all to pave the streets of Bristol and Liverpool, 723 00:53:43,920 --> 00:53:47,079 and put the sugar in our cake and the coffee in our cup? 724 00:53:47,080 --> 00:53:49,199 The record of my period of office... 725 00:53:49,200 --> 00:53:50,520 Speaks for itself. 726 00:53:52,240 --> 00:53:56,799 Today, sir, you are in a place where the common notions of justice do apply. 727 00:53:56,800 --> 00:54:02,639 And are demanded by this lady, for herself, and for all the others 728 00:54:02,640 --> 00:54:08,000 that you have tormented and murdered with your diabolical brutality. 729 00:54:10,320 --> 00:54:13,240 The beast in Trinidad, sir, is you. 730 00:54:15,160 --> 00:54:17,880 It is you who must be tamed. 731 00:54:23,960 --> 00:54:29,560 Gentlemen of the jury, you will consider your verdict. 732 00:54:44,920 --> 00:54:47,719 How say you, how do you find the defendant? 733 00:54:47,720 --> 00:54:49,559 Guilty, my Lord. 734 00:54:49,560 --> 00:54:51,679 So recorded. 735 00:54:51,680 --> 00:54:54,520 Damn you, Garrow... and your friends. 736 00:55:01,920 --> 00:55:06,039 Sentence is set aside until proper consultation 737 00:55:06,040 --> 00:55:10,080 with the appropriate authorities has been concluded. 738 00:55:13,200 --> 00:55:15,680 Court shall rise. 739 00:55:23,200 --> 00:55:25,359 What will his sentence be? 740 00:55:25,360 --> 00:55:27,919 Most of our government, including Mr Pitt himself, 741 00:55:27,920 --> 00:55:29,760 have plantations in the West Indies. 742 00:55:29,761 --> 00:55:31,959 Picton will go free. 743 00:55:31,960 --> 00:55:34,160 I must find some other means to come at him. 744 00:55:37,120 --> 00:55:41,200 No-one won here today, madam. But there was a kind of justice. 745 00:55:48,880 --> 00:55:52,799 What now? Trinidad? 746 00:55:52,800 --> 00:55:54,919 London. 747 00:55:54,920 --> 00:55:57,999 It's easier with friends. There's a shop I know... 748 00:55:58,000 --> 00:55:59,439 There's a shop? 749 00:55:59,440 --> 00:56:02,799 I tell you Master George, that the manager at Drury Lane 750 00:56:02,800 --> 00:56:05,599 has indicated the possibility of an offer. 751 00:56:05,600 --> 00:56:08,799 Then I might expect to see you on the stage? 752 00:56:08,800 --> 00:56:11,360 And off it, perhaps. 753 00:56:20,560 --> 00:56:21,719 Madam, please. 754 00:56:21,720 --> 00:56:23,439 What goes here? 755 00:56:23,440 --> 00:56:25,599 Madam. please. 756 00:56:25,600 --> 00:56:30,639 You may go. Lady Henrietta and I have something to discuss. 757 00:56:30,640 --> 00:56:34,559 Well? Come for more of your husband's property? 758 00:56:34,560 --> 00:56:35,720 I've come for my son. 759 00:56:35,721 --> 00:56:42,079 You know you are prevented from him, madam. His father says this. 760 00:56:42,080 --> 00:56:44,439 The Court of Chancery says this. 761 00:56:44,440 --> 00:56:46,799 And yet, I will have him still. 762 00:56:46,800 --> 00:56:49,559 There is a higher court than Chancery, madam. 763 00:56:49,560 --> 00:56:52,760 I answer to that. So do you. 764 00:58:17,840 --> 00:58:18,880 CROWD: Fox, Fox! 765 00:58:18,881 --> 00:58:22,519 It is a murder, Mr Garrow, of a gentleman struck down on voting day. 766 00:58:22,520 --> 00:58:25,519 Even if Sarah is run to France with the boy, I will pursue her. 767 00:58:25,520 --> 00:58:27,000 And I will bring an end to this. 768 00:58:27,001 --> 00:58:29,119 When a man was killed in your unjust war, 769 00:58:29,120 --> 00:58:31,999 you twisted your efforts so an innocent man would hang. 770 00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:33,239 Fox, Fox! 771 00:58:33,240 --> 00:58:34,879 I came to support a man who toils 772 00:58:34,880 --> 00:58:36,959 because he recognises a fellow innocent. 773 00:58:36,960 --> 00:58:38,959 Sir, I'm no fist-fighting man. 774 00:58:38,960 --> 00:58:42,920 But neither am I a man whose obligations can be deflected by blows or threats. 775 00:59:01,840 --> 00:59:04,319 Subtitles by APOLLO www.addic7ed.com 58057

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