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Women do not have the calmness of temperament or the

balance of mind to exercise judgment in political affairs.

If we allow women to vote, it will mean the loss of social structure.

Women are well represented by their fathers, brothers, husbands.

Once the vote was given, it would be impossible to stop at this.

Women would then demand the right of becoming MPs, cabinet ministers, judges.

Mo, practice at the West End.

It's meant to be there past six.

Delivery should have picked it up.

Why not?

They'll

still be

at the West End.

They'll have their freedom.

In wodem, weds… Are you awake?

Mrs Garston, Feddenbren and Jeamm.

Are you alright?

It's late.

Taylor set me up to ten.

Have a look.

It's nothing.

Got caught in a scuffle.

He heard loads of those women shouting.

What happened to that thing?

Broke all the windows along the West End?

I'll deliver that package for you in the morning.

You're coming to bed?

I'm just going to get this done.

You're not doing that.

You're never going to get home.

All right, dear.

It's all discussed.

Oh, come here.

You're good.

Come on, you lot.

Mrs Miller!

Don't you ignore me.

Sorry, Mr Taylor.

Late again?

Oh, I'm barely late.

It's only doing well.

Shut your mouth.

You listen to me.

It's the second time you've been late and you've only been here three weeks.

I ain't been late.

Don't answer me back, Mrs Miller.

I'm telling you.

Sorry.

You want me to dismiss you?

Is that it?

No.

No, Mr Taylor.

No, sir.

I don't know.

I won't be late tomorrow.

I'm only on the day after that.

This way.

Well, you pull your finger out.

Drive belt's loose again.

That was checked on Friday morning.

You can smell burning.

I checked them all the time.

First, get your tool box.

Check the drive belt over on the sheet.

Ta.

We meet Mondays and Thursdays if you're interested.

At Ellen's Pharmacy.

Hey, I'm old.

That package get the Buckleys yesterday?

George had his chest again.

Sonny took it out for me this morning.

You ready?

This is my oldest.

Maggie.

Hello, Maggie.

Who's that?

MP's wife, Mrs Alton.

She's here at Christmas giving that tangerine to the children.

And the Prime Minister, Mr Asquith, has agreed to a hearing

of testimonies of working women up and down the country.

We have an opportunity to demonstrate that as women are equal to men in their

labours, so they should be equal to men in their right to vote.

You've never laboured in your life.

This is your moment to come forward and speak up.

And I will choose one person from this laundry to

deliver their testimony at the House of Commons.

These will be heard by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr Lloyd George.

No one cares, love.

Some of us do, Mrs Coleman.

So shut your bleeding cake holes.

Ladies,

votes for women.

The power is in your hands.

Thank you, ladies.

Go on.

Votes for women.

Thank you.

Hello, kids.

Give me half a month.

Are you going to give your testimony, then?

Mr Taylor's a good employer.

To you, he is.

Take that back.

I can't take back what I see.

You've been here less than a month.

And?

I've been doing laundry work ever since I was 13.

Maggie's only 12 and she's in here already.

It's as tough for us women as it's ever been.

We've got to do whatever we can, however we can.

What, like smashing windows?

It's not respectable.

Mr Angle, what's respectable?

If you want me to respect the law, then make the law respectable.

So, Georgie.

Georgie, this is six.

Yeah?

You ready?

You watching?

You got yours?

You seen Mrs Alton today?

Wants some of the women to go to Parliament.

She thinks we should be paid more.

On her high horse again.

Say goodnight to the King, George.

Goodnight, sir.

Good boy.

Now, Pianza.

Can you give me a big present?

And a big breath in, please.

Good boy.

And out.

And now another big one, please.

And a big breath out.

Good boy.

And a big breath in.

Ah, yes.

Here comes the 11 o'clock just passing through the tunnel.

Good.

It's on time.

You a suffragette, Mrs Ellen?

Yes.

But I consider myself more of a soldier, Mrs Watts.

These women's testimonies make a difference.

Maybe.

But as Mrs Pankhurst says, it's deeds, not words, that will get us the vote.

Make up a combination.

Now, George.

Do you like barley sugar?

Afternoon.

Are the others here yet?

Er, no, not yet.

But you can go through.

Plenty of steam?

A couple of drops in the water.

Twice daily.

Keep them warm.

No, no, George.

Goodbye.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr Ellen.

Mrs Watts.

Superintendent Barron.

Mr Horton, thank you for coming here.

This is Inspector... Inspector Steed.

Benedict Horton, Home Office.

I'm reliably informed that you have considerable

experience of surveillance within Special Branch.

I've gathered intelligence on various anarchists, sir,

including Fenian agitators in Liverpool and Manchester.

I can show you.

Employment of these cameras would be the first of its kind in the country.

They're considerably more advanced than anything we've used before.

Thank you.

Compact enough to be used without a tripod.

It means we can operate them covertly on the streets.

Right.

Let's start with Mrs Edith Ellen, Chief Commandant.

She's clever.

She's been arrested nine times, incarcerated four.

She's educated without scruples.

It makes her particularly dangerous.

Mrs Watts noting her husband, Mr Hugh Ellen, a pharmacist.

He's been incarcerated twice for abetting his wife's activities.

Fully paid up member of the men's league.

This is an old hand.

Mrs Violet Miller.

She moves around a lot.

Been arrested a number of times.

Incarcerated twice.

Spits out children.

Husband's a violent drunk.

She agitates.

Gets her hands dirty.

They'll be using her zeal to recruit.

To justify the unjustifiable.

No.

Who's this here?

Erm, Watts.

Maud Watts.

Not seen her before.

Get back to work!

Go!

Get out!

What did you want, Maud?

Fourteen short on psych paddles.

Why don't you tell acquisitions if it's short?

Eh?

Eh?

I don't want to slip up like that when I get into your ear.

She reminds me of you at that age.

Oi, Mrs Miller!

I heard a whisper you've been chosen to deliver your testimony to Mr Lloyd George.

Tomorrow.

Leave the vote to us men, eh, Mrs Miller?

And we'll leave you to the own.

I've already made up the hours.

I work late Tuesday and Thursday.

And Maggie will mop up any extra.

Why don't you tell Mr Miller?

I'll give you a clip round here and knock some sense into you if he won't.

Violet?

I'll come with you tomorrow.

Hear you speak.

What are you doing?

I'm just going to listen.

Violet.

It's nothing, I'm alright.

Mrs Owen's inside.

Come on then.

I'll represent you.

Oh, go in.

Mrs Miller.

Oh, my dear.

Glass House Laundry next.

Sheffield People's Union.

Please be ready.

You'll be straight after.

You cannot deliver your testimony like this.

Deputations will be heard one by one.

I'm fine.

No, Mrs Miller, you're not.

Lloyd George will dismiss you and all you say.

Glass House Laundry.

And...

You speak for me.

I know.

I can't.

It is written down.

No, I'm not.

I'm not going to... All you have to do is read it.

Please ask someone else.

There'll be someone else who can do it better than I can.

You can tell him.

You can tell him.

We have no time.

Glass House Laundry.

Please.

Violet, you can do this.

You can do it.

You can tell him.

Shall we begin, Mrs Miller?

Watts.

It's Mrs Watts.

Sir.

Mrs Miller isn't able to...

I have her testimony.

You work at the Glass House Laundry in Bethnal Green too?

I was born there.

Then I should like to hear your testimony.

I don't know what to say.

Your mother worked at the laundry?

From when she was 14.

She'd strap me on her back or under the copper vacs if I'd sleep.

All the women did it who had babies then.

Your employer allowed that?

He'd have you back as soon as you could.

He?

Mr Taylor.

And does your mother still work at the laundry?

She died when I was four.

I see.

Fat tipped.

Scolded her.

What of your father?

Don't know him.

And you worked for Mr Taylor?

Part-time from when I was seven.

Full-time from when I was 12.

Don't need much schooling to launder shirts.

I was good at collars.

Steaming the fine lacing.

Got the hands for it.

I was maid head washer at 17.

Forewoman at 20.

24 now, so...

You're young for such a position.

Laundry works a short life if you're a woman.

And why is that?

You get your aches.

And your chest cough.

Crushed fingers.

Leg ulcers.

Burns.

Headaches from a gas.

We had one girl last year poisoned.

Can't work again.

Ruined her lungs.

And your pay?

We get 13 shillings a week, sir.

For a man it's 19.

And we work a third more the hours.

They're outside most days on deliveries, so...

At least they're in the fresh air.

What would the vote mean to you, Mrs. Watts?

I never thought we'd get the vote.

So I've never thought about what it would mean.

So why are you here?

I thought that...

We might.

That this life...

That there's another way of living this life.

Sorry.

My words.

No, no.

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.

Thank you, Mrs. Watts.

I believe we have all that down.

We shall have a response for you very soon.

An amendment to the bill might just force the change towards the vote.

Thank you, sir.

Can we please have Sheffield Weavers?

Thank you, Joe.

Thank you, Joe.

Thank you, Joe.

You've been drinking?

Mr. Brandy.

Mrs. Orton treated us.

Mrs. Orton going to fold it?

I spoke, sonny.

I thought you were just going to listen?

Well, I looked, couldn't I?

So they asked me.

I was just going to say what she would have said.

But then...

He asked me if I worked at the laundry as well.

And I just started talking...

to Mr. Lloyd George.

Have we got the vote?

What would you do with it, Maud?

Do the same you do with yours, Sonny.

Exercise my rights.

Exercise your rights?

You're a suffragette now?

One of those Panks?

No.

Mrs Miller is.

You know how they like to talk.

You spend your time with her, that's what they'll call you.

There you go.

I'm only looking out for you, Maud.

I know.

It's all I've ever done.

Maud.

Mrs Ellen's invited you to tea.

She?

Yeah.

She says you've gone and woken up the dinosaurs of Westminster.

Where are Mr Ellen's certificates?

Oh, he hasn't, honey.

His father passed the business to him, but he never really talked to chemistry.

I actually want to become a doctor.

My father didn't approve.

I'm still good at diagnosis.

So you're married?

23 years now.

I had hoped that one day I might have read Ellen and Daughters.

One must look to the next generation.

I hear you spoke well.

I was thinking we could take him to the seaside this summer.

Don't go drinking champagne or being money-mode.

Mum's up.

We'll go to the pictures Friday.

Gimme.

Give it.

Sorry.

Hi, Mrs Miller.

Bet you wish you were a man.

Yeah, bet you wish you were an old... Salty cow.

Wish us luck.

I could be you'd stop this now.

Go to work.

Go on.

You ready?

Yeah.

Here, Maud.

I'll look the park.

Shout!

Shout!

Swing you along!

Why, look at her.

Her hope is waning.

Go on.

The

Prime Minister duly reviewed all the women's testimonies.

After careful debate we have a number of MPs

very sympathetic about the women's cause.

It was carried that there was not the evidence

to support any change to the suffrage bill.

What?

No votes for women then, sir.

No.

No votes.

But Mr Lloyd George listened.

He took it all down.

It's a sham.

It's a sham!

No, Benedict.

You must bail all the women.

I cannot be the only one to go free.

Better please.

I will not.

How much is the sum?

£2 each.

£12 to release all the women.

Please sign it.

It's my money.

It's my money.

You're my wife.

Don't act like a wife.

I have humoured you, Alice, thus far.

But this is an outrage.

Thank you.

I have to fetch my son by six.

I'm late.

He'll need his tea.

You won't be home for tea.

Would you like me to contact your husband, Mrs Watts?

I picked up a suffragette last week.

What suffragette?

A rough little diamond.

In her bloomers.

Three bricks.

It works for Mrs Pankhurst directly.

I asked her why she doesn't.

She said it makes her life worse.

It's worth something.

She's just a hard carrier.

I know a suffragette.

I'm glad.

You know, they say there are certain types of

women who have been acting these past few months.

It gives a good deal of colour to the argument.

The mental equilibrium of the female sex is less than that of the males,

but I don't agree.

There's no madness in it.

They know exactly what they're doing.

But my opinion doesn't matter.

My job is to enforce the law, Mrs Watts.

So I'm going to give you some advice now.

And I sincerely hope you take it.

You serve your time now.

At worst, you'll get a week.

Then, you go home.

To your husband.

They lied to us.

They didn't lie.

They didn't lie.

They promised nothing.

They gave nothing.

Coat.

One set of stockings.

Pull.

Right foot.

Don't be alarmed.

Stay calm.

We're political prisoners.

We have the right to wear our own clothes.

Arms up.

We have the right.

Your wife is a fucking disgrace, sonny.

You should be keeping her under control.

Police are bringing these bitches to their knees.

At least Maud will be used to that.

Come on, Maud.

She's missing her boy.

We all get separated from those we love, Maud.

My mother.

When I was a child, I barely saw her.

She worked day and night.

Fighting for me to be educated as my brother was.

But that hadn't come without a sacrifice.

Here's Emily.

She's done more time in here than any of us.

She's on hunger strike.

Orders from Mrs. Pankhurst are we to follow.

If they will not accept us as political prisoners, we will strike until they do.

Not Maud.

It's her first time here.

Emily.

Violet.

We've got a new member.

This is Maud.

Welcome, Maud.

Faster.

Welcome, Mrs.

Watts.

Please, come with us.

I've got to go.

I've got to see my son.

Everyone gets one their first time, Maud.

Your first incarceration.

Thanks.

Mrs. Miller.

The escalation of violence...

Mr.

Carston.

Sonny.

How's George?

He's asleep.

I'm sorry, Sonny.

Sonny, I tried to get back as quickly as I could, but they kept me there in a...

I can't look at you.

You don't know what they did to us.

Us?

What's it done to me and George?

I've had the police round.

I said I didn't know anything.

I've got the whole street whispering.

I covered for you to tailor, but you knew.

Get back to bed.

Go on, Dad.

Now.

Go on, Dad.

Who are you eating?

Mrs. Carston did her best.

I'll make you some tea.

I waited and waited for you until it was almost dawn.

I was praying for you to come home.

You won't ever shame me like that again.

Go on, on your way.

I've had enough of you.

Enough of your trouble since you got here.

I'll see you at home, Pam.

OK.

See you.

Hello, Mum.

Nice to see you're feeling better.

Sonny tells me you're not being well.

I'm not.

It's all right, you know.

I found someone else willing to, er, make up the hours.

You wait for me over here.

I won't be long.

Maud!

Viola.

There's a big gathering on Friday.

They're saying she's to speak.

I've got to go.

You can't, Maud.

We'd had a go all night.

What were you called to?

Margaret.

After my mother.

What kind of life would she have had?

Same as yours.

I'm working late tonight.

Intelligence confirms a growing intention to retaliate.

They're putting their strategy in place.

Our contact in Lewisham tells us Mrs Pankhurst is to give an address.

When?

We don't know where yet, but I'm sure our East London ladies will lead us there.

Emily?

Maud, it's good to see you again.

You've heard her speak before.

Many times.

She's without fear.

Emily, Edith's waiting for us.

You made it, then.

Edith.

Good.

You're here.

We must hurry.

It'll be the first time she's appeared for months.

They'll be on alert.

Arrest her.

My friends!

In spite of His Majesty's government, I am here tonight.

I know the sacrifice you have made to be here.

Many of you, I know, are estranged from the lives you once had.

Yet I feel your spirit tonight.

For fifty years, we have labored peacefully to secure the vote for women.

We've been very careful.

Ridiculed, battered, and ignored.

Now we have realized that deeds and sacrifice must be the order of the day.

We are fighting for a time in which every little girl born

into the world will have an equal chance with her brothers.

Never underestimate the power we women have to define our own destinies.

We do not want to be lawbreakers.

We want to be lawmakers.

Be militant, each of you in your own way.

Those of you who can break windows, break them.

Those of you who can further attack the sacred idol of property, do so.

We have been left with no alternative but to defy this government.

If we must go to prison to obtain the vote, let it be the windows of government,

not the bodies of women which shall be broken.

I incite this meeting and all the women in Britain to rebellion.

I would rather be a rebel than a slave.

Don't let me surrender!

Edith.

Mrs P. Dear Emily..

This is Mrs Watt Mrs Pankenhurst...Maud Thank You Maud.

Never surrender..

never give up the fight.

Don't bother arresting them.

Let their husbands deal with them.

Wrap them at the front doors.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

I took you on, Lord.

I thought I could straighten you out.

What if you don't need to?

You're a mother, Lord.

You're a wife.

My wife.

That's what you're meant to be.

I'm not just that any more.

Sonny!

Sonny!

What are you doing?

Sonny!

Sonny!

Let me...

Get off!

Sonny!

Can't we see George?

Sonny!

Sonny!

Love him!

I want to see George!

Right.

This is it.

26th week.

Make it two and four.

The union, I think.

Come on.

I'll get you some blankets and clothes from the WSPU jumble.

They collect stuff for women who...

I'm sorry.

No, no, no, no, no.

Don't cry.

It aggravates them more if they see it hasn't touched you.

So you practice now and me.

Do it, Maud.

And God shall wipe away all their tears.

And there shall be no more death.

Neither sorrow, nor crying.

Neither shall there be any more pain.

For the former things are passed away.

Two and four a week in a bed of bleeding nails.

Sweet dreams, Maudie.

So, Mrs Pankhurst, briefly out of hiding.

Gentlemen, this is a deliberate escalation which the government cannot accept.

Who knows what they will do next?

They've been given orders to be ready.

The East London branch in particular is to mobilise.

Should we even be taking these threats seriously?

I would not underestimate the threat.

Neither would the Prime Minister.

If it's to be tackled, we need to get closer in.

I hope to track down those still open to persuasion

and have them infiltrate and inform the others.

We've identified weaknesses in their ranks.

We're hoping one of them will break.

So, I'm going to release these to the press.

Here, Maud.

Have you seen yourself?

It's a shame of it.

Mrs Pankhurst and desirables.

It's not a bad photograph though.

I might cut it out, put it on my wall.

I want you out, Maud.

I've done everything I've done for you.

And

now I've paid for it.

Mr Tate, come on, stop it!

What do you think you're doing?!

You are free.

Elder Vannevar.

A little pause.

and we are back.

They don't.

They're nothing in the world.

I grew up with girls like you, Maude.

People who sacrificed life for revenge and a cause.

I know you.

And so do they.

They know how to draw on girls like you.

Girls without money, without prospects who want things to be better.

They primp and they preen and they fluff you

and they tell you about soldiers of the cause.

It's your only fodder.

For a battle none of you can win.

I'm offering you a lifeline.

Take it.

Before it's too late.

Come on, George.

George, what are you scuffing your shoes for now?

What's the matter with you?

What do you want me to say?

George.

What am I going to do with you?

I thought you wouldn't come today.

March on.

So?

Next time get his left hand and all.

It was an accident.

Now, ladies.

I asked you to remain vigilant while coming and going.

We know we're being watched.

But hopefully they will not expect to find us here.

I recognise.

The militant path may not be for all of you, but,

well, all I ask is for you to make your decision now.

Anyone who doesn't want to stay may leave.

I need only those who can give their full commitment.

There will be no judgement.

Good.

We can begin.

Violet Gump, please.

Now...

I have marked up a map.

The pillar boxes are red.

The telegraph wires are green.

We shall cut into the heart of communications.

But remember it is vital that no life is harmed during our activities.

We shall start early.

Before dawn.

That way the streets should be deserted.

Everyone, take a list of the locations.

Memorise them.

Then burn them.

We don't want them falling in hands, do we?

George!

George!

George!

Shh.

Darling.

That's slow.

Georgie, you've gone wrong fast enough.

Amazing.

Amazing.

I'm not losing you.

Who dressed you this morning?

Dad.

I'm not.

Still in a night shell.

When are you coming home?

I don't know.

Have you done something very bad, mother?

I don't think so.

I just can't come home at the moment.

Is it because of your sickness?

Dad says you're not well in the head.

That's not true, George.

You are.

That's for today.

That's for tomorrow.

And that's the same till I see you next.

Off you go.

George!

Get inside.

Don't take him again, Maud.

Let me see him.

Please.

Trust you with him.

After what you did to Taylor.

What did Taylor do to me, Sonny?

For years?

George belongs to me.

The law says he's mine, Maud.

Where he belongs is up to me.

That's the law.

Dear Mr Steed, I've thought about your offer.

And I have to say no.

I'm sorry.

You see, I am a suffragette after all.

You told me no one listens to girls like me.

Well, I can't have that anymore.

All my life I've been respectful.

Done what men told me.

I know better now.

I'm worth no more, no less than you.

Mrs Pankhurst said if it's right for men to fight for their

freedom then it's right for women to fight for theirs.

George, back to bed.

If the law says I can't see my son I will fight to change that law.

We're both foot soldiers in our own way.

Come on, Maud.

Everyone, find a partner.

We're both fighting for our cause.

Maud, I'm away.

You have to participate.

If you want to change the way the world is run... Hey!

Only good.

I won't betray mine.

Would you betray yours?

If you thought I would you were wrong about me.

Yours sincerely, Maud Watts.

Another explosion in London Square.

It's happening all over London, sir.

Then telegraph wires cut.

Miss Withers was seen in the vicinity.

You've got a warrant.

Inspector.

That's a lot of worming tablets, Mr Luke.

One of life's great parasites, Inspector Steed.

Need your wife in?

They're just concluding a treatment here.

I can go through.

Mastitis.

See you on Friday.

You're a wet nurse now, eh, Miss Withers?

Shall we get this over with?

We've searched before and found nothing, but I'm happy to comply again.

You're a very clever woman, Mrs Ellen.

I'll give you that.

The way you seduced these women.

Drawed them in.

Trained them in destruction.

You're under arrest, Miss Withers.

I'll advise you not to struggle.

Get off!

Come on.

Get off!

Get off me!

I'll advise you not to struggle.

Take her out.

Am I also to be arrested?

Not today, Mrs Ellen.

No!

No!

Miss Withers will get six months at least.

I could do a few weeks, Edith, but...

What are you saying?

This isn't time to stand down.

No, we push on.

Capitalise on press interest.

Nothing but scorn and mock us.

Scorn and mock us, because they feel our threat.

Mrs Horton.

Ladies.

Have you got the information I asked for?

The Lloyd George's Hummer House is not yet completed.

He was complaining about it at dinner just the other night.

It's being built next to the golf course at Walton on the Hill.

Paid for by the owner of the News of the World.

Valuable information.

Thank you.

Edith.

Mrs Watt.

How is your son?

It's his birthday tomorrow.

I'm so sorry for you.

I trusted my husband.

And this government.

I was wrong.

I have to go.

Please just listen to me, Edith.

A minister's home is going too far.

Why too far?

It's unoccupied.

It is empty.

No one will be harmed.

It's your commitment, Edith.

I always knew you'd take it as far as it must go.

But this... Mrs Pankhurst.

She asked us.

Mrs Pankhurst asked too much.

Why?

Listen.

You can't do this.

You can't bring me into this and then just leave me.

I'm sorry, Maude, but I can't.

Not now.

I can't take care of the ones I've got.

What are you doing?

Summer.

Oh, Maude, I'm so tired.

I just want to wish them happy birthday.

At least let me do that.

Not now.

Sunny.

Sunny.

Don't.

It's too late.

This is Mr and Mrs Drayton.

They're taking George.

Adopting him.

Sunny.

We have a very nice home.

With a garden.

And all that he'll need.

No.

George.

I can't look after him, Maude.

I can't be a mother to him.

We have no family, Maude.

No one to take him.

I can't do it all.

Mrs Garston won't take him.

No one around here will.

We've been cast out, Maude.

We've been cast out.

Georgie, come here.

Come here.

Say your goodbyes and then let him go.

Your mother's name is Maude Watts.

Don't forget that name.

Because I'll be waiting for you to find me.

Will you find me, Georgie?

Come on.

No.

No.

No.

Come on, George.

Let him go.

Take him.

Mama.

What have you done?

Maude, it's for the best.

What have you done?

It's for the best.

What have you done?

Maude.

What have you done?

Can I help you with that?

No.

I can do it.

So Violet will not be joining us anymore?

No.

She questioned our strategy.

Our friends are there to challenge us.

To keep the balances in check, Edith.

No, no.

There can be no doubting.

The movement is divided now.

Even Sylvia Pankhurst is opposed to her mother and her sister's militant strategy.

The only way is forward.

And what if you blow yourself up with one of those damn things?

What happens to your damn cause then?

Emily.

You're all right.

Hugh.

Go.

Mrs Watts.

Come with us, please.

We're under arrest.

When women attack the home of a government minister, we

have reached a state of anarchy we can no longer ignore.

This has to stop.

The press can only be tamed so long.

They grow more and more interested in these damned women

while we in government must try to quash every new story.

Pankhurst claims responsibility for the bombing

and faces prison while the real culprits go free.

She's going to milk every ounce of attention she can in prison.

We've made some key arrests.

Punish those responsible.

In whatever way you can.

You women cleaned yourselves up well?

Good.

I couldn't find a scrap of dynamite on any of you.

And why am I?

Well, you'll be charged for illegal meetings if for nothing else.

You know, there was a housekeeper on her way back when the bomb went off.

She forgot her gloves.

If she was two minutes later, what would that have done for your cause?

Violence doesn't discern.

It takes the innocent and the guilty.

What gives you the right to put that woman's life at risk?

What gave you the right to stand in the middle

of a riot and watch women beaten and do nothing?

You're an hypocrite.

I uphold the law.

The law means nothing to me.

I've had no say in making the law.

That's an excuse.

It's all we have.

We break windows.

We burn things.

Because war's the only language men listen to.

Because you've beaten us and betrayed us and there's nothing else left.

And there's nothing left but to stop you.

What are you going to do?

Lock us all up?

We're in every home.

We're half the human race.

You can't stop us all.

You might lose your life before this is over.

And we will win.

Five days.

Will you eat now?

Hold her still.

The treatment of them grows increasingly barbaric, sir.

What is this?

The alternative.

They will not hold us to ransom with their threat.

The fear is they won't break, son.

If one of them dies, we'll have blood in our hands and they'll have their martyr.

That must not happen.

Or Mrs Pankhurst will have won.

Lord, can I drive you?

Best not.

I've left you bedding at the church.

The union will send you word.

Lord?

Violet?

I heard you were sleeping here.

It's only bread and a bit of broth.

A little at a time.

Your tummy will be sore what you've been through.

Whatever you're planning next, you be careful.

You get caught again, you'll see two years inside at least.

Maybe longer, Violet.

Maybe worse.

Little monkey.

George used to kick me until night.

How's Maggie?

Working every hour, God sends, down at the laundry.

She's the only one who can bring in a proper wage now.

Now, come on.

You eat something.

When did they raid?

First thing this morning.

Six arrests.

Edith.

What are you doing here?

You're not well.

There'll be a vigil.

Mrs. Pankhurst tonight at Westminster Abbey.

She's not going to last this time in prison ward.

The King must pardon her.

He's not going to pardon her, Emily.

Then we've got to make him.

How?

When the government silences the press.

Look, one column on the bombing.

How do we make ourselves heard?

One just has to gather one's strength.

If it is the world's attention that we must capture...

We take it straight to the King.

Do something he can't ignore.

Edith, you're too weak to face another prison sentence.

Oh, nonsense.

You...

Please.

She's right.

Every violent assault weakens her.

Her heart cannot take it.

Mort.

It is the Derby on Wednesday.

The King is to attend.

There'll be thousands there.

You'll be stopped before you get through the gates.

And those guards will go unnoticed.

We raise our flag in front of the world's cameras.

The King's horse will be third in the parade ring.

Done.

The eyes of the world upon us.

Maud, no matter the risk, we must not fail.

I want you to have this.

Edith gave it to me.

It has been an inspiration to a great many of us.

Thank you.

So...

Tomorrow, then?

Tomorrow.

Here's the latest from surveillance, sir.

It's Maud Watts.

She's sleeping in St. Bart's Church.

You?

We're ready?

I just need two milligrams of the cold salt tincture, if you please.

Could you not have finished the orders last night?

What did you say?

Cold salt?

You?

Hugh?

Hugh!

Let me out.

I can't.

What do you mean?

What do you mean?

I'm sorry.

You've given enough.

I know we're going to be late, but let me out.

Please, let me out!

Your heart won't take it, Edith.

I can't let you out.

I'm sorry.

Please

have your tickets ready, ladies and gentlemen.

Where's Edith?

She went to the station.

Miss?

Would you like to take the next turn, Star?

She's much shorter.

Time.

Your Majesty!

Your Majesty!

Over here!

Your Majesty!

There's the King.

Your Majesty!

Over here!

Thank you!

Sorry, miss.

Is Green Badges to enter the paddock?

Can I help you?

Thank you very much, sir.

Sorry.

We will find another way.

Sorry, excuse me.

Excuse me.

Let the gentleman through, please.

Excuse me.

Sorry, sir.

Sorry.

Emily.

Excuse me, Miss.

Don't you think he needs...

Oi!

Get

back on the walk!

Maud.

This is Maggie.

Violet's daughter.

She can launder and sew.

She does the best collars, Darjeeling.

And she can clean.

Come in, Marie.

Come in, Marie.

Be good.

Don't talk back.

Maud!

The woman wanderer goes forth to seek the land of freedom.

How am I to get there?

Reason answers.

There is one way.

And one way only.

Down the banks of labour, through the waters of suffering, there is no other.

The woman, having discarded all to which she had formerly clung, cries out.

For what do I go to this far land which no one has ever reached?

I am alone.

I am utterly alone.

It's in every paper.

It's in every paper.

They say thousands all line the streets.

We go on, Edith.

You taught me that.

Do you two want to say that?

Tell me.

Daisy.

Thank you.

It's almost one o'clock, Maggie.

Get your gloves and help Mrs. Erlin.

And reason said to her, Silence.

What do you hear?

And she said, I hear the sound of feet.

A thousand times.

Ten thousands and thousands of thousands and they beat this way.

They are the feet of those that shall follow you.

Lead on.