All language subtitles for The Wicked Lady (Winner, Michael 1983)_BDRip.1080.x264.AAC_EN

Fine, thank you.

Your husband, he's in
there with another woman.

We'll get him!

I'll teach you, Nick,
playing with another woman.

Good morning.
Good morning, sir.

I'll teach you.
Come here.

Don't you run away from me.

Another for hanging!

What did he steal?
Strawberries? Apples.

Oh, please, no hangings
so close to my wedding.

Here...
Here's for your apples.

Keep your money, Sir Ralph.

They must learn.

So hard a lesson.

No wonder your
tenants worship you.

They'll worship you
when we're married.

Is worship the same as love?

It's similar.

Do you worship me?

I'm very fond of you.

Being fond,
is that the same as love?

It's similar.

Thank you, sir. My lady.

To the library.

Please, let me pass.

In good time, cousin.

- You silly old women!
- Old?

You heard what I said.

We're not as old as you are.

There's a letter...
For you, Caroline.

In the library.

We wanted to tell her.

She's coming.

Barbara's coming
to be my maid of honor.

Is she...
Pretty?

Oh, she's more than pretty.

Barbara has the most beautiful
green eyes. Like emeralds.

Cats have green eyes.
I don't like cats.

We do!

Barbara, darling...

You haven't changed!

Not at all.

Oh, your eyes
are still so green.

Oh, Ralph, this is Barbara.

Charmed.

Charmed.

Doesn't she take
your breath away?

Well...

Carol, you embarrass him.

The two people
I love most in the world.

Come, let me show you the house.

It's lovely.
How many servants are they?

Vanity, vanity.
All is vanity.

Think, when you're married you
can have all the clothes you want.

Go to London for the season,
become a famous hostess.

Ralph wouldn't care for that.

A clever woman makes her
husband do as she likes.

Oh, this is a pretty dress.
So are the others.

I had them made
specially to come here.

Uncle Martin disapproved,
of course, but I got round him.

Now. Who is there that
I should meet round here?

Most of the landowners
round here are married.

Except for Ralph.

He's the nicest, anyway.

Yes.

Skip. Skip.

That's better.
Was it?

Now I curtsey.

You step forward
and raise me up.

Then we kiss.

What?

All fashionable dances
nowadays end with a kiss.

I fear, then,
I shall make no dancer.

Go on.

I expected the park
to myself. It is early.

Well, I always visit
the farm before breakfast.

I didn't know.

Who told you,
you could ride Fury?

I chose him. He looked
the most thoroughbred.

He's wild and dangerous.

I like danger.

I believe you do.

Go on!

Help! He's bolted! Ralph!

Help me!

Barbara! Barbara!

Ralph.

You look beautiful.

What are you sniveling about?

We can't help thinking...

How different things
might have been. Oh...

You shouldn't put the veil on...

Not before the day.

I'm not superstitious.
I'm just so happy.

Caroline...
Look.

I must speak to you.
Alone.

Do you mind?

If we're not wanted.
Can't we stay?

It's sure to be
something exciting.

We might be serving
wenches or dressmakers.

What is it, Barbara?
What's the matter?

I must go away.

Go? Why?

Don't ask, Caro.

You can tell me.

I mustn't see him again.

See him?

I'll be gone.

Is it Ralph?

Don't blame him.
What happened?

We love each other.

He told you that?

He didn't have to, I knew.
Oh, don't worry.

Ralph will marry you.
We've agreed. I shall go away.

Oh, we're sorry now.

Are you in love with Barbara?

What do you mean?

Do you worship her?

Dazzled... I suppose I'm...

You were never dazzled by me?

Now, Caroline...

You cared for me
after father died.

I looked after the
house for you, I...

Forgive me.
I want to leave at once,

if the coach could
be ordered, please.

Ralph is free.
He can marry the one he loves.

Caro, darling, I couldn't
accept such a sacrifice.

I'd rather break my own heart.

No hearts are to be broken.

The wedding can still take place,
but with a different bride.

Where are you going?

I'm the one who needs
the coach now.

What's going on?

Caro, this is your home.

Please stay.

Ralph's enemies will say
he broke your heart.

Put on a brave face,
just for the wedding.

Oh, perhaps you'd like me to
be the maid of honor as well?

Caro, darling, would you?

See how I'm dressed,
isn't it ridiculous?

You can wear this, too,
if you like.

Wear that?

I wouldn't be buried in it.

Sir Ralph will be out of his senses
when he sees you, Barbara.

I don't know how you
can stay so cool.

What is there
to be nervous about?

What a thing to ask.
The wedding day.

The wedding night.

Come.

Mistress Barbara,
your honored uncle awaits you below.

This is a proud day
for me, Barbara.

Thank you, Uncle Martin.

Sir Ralph is a fine man.
You must love him very much.

How could one fail to
love a man as rich as he?

That is no way to jest
on your wedding day.

I know how deeply you
loved your mother.

She was everything to me.

This was her brooch.

It was her dying wish that I give
it to you on your wedding day.

It's beautiful.

I shall never part with it.

It means more to me than the Skelton
diamonds, my husband. Anything!

Your mother was as good
as she was beautiful.

I'll never forgive God for taking
her away from me, never! Never!

Why are those boys
pulling her along?

To show she's a maiden...
Reluctant to enter the married state.

If you ask me, Barbara should have
those ribbons round the other way,

to hold her back.

Dearly beloved, we are gathered
together here in the sight of God

and in the face
of this congregation,

to join together this man and
this woman in holy matrimony.

Come, Fred, let's get moving.

Good God!
What abomination!

I told you we shouldn't
have come in here!

Let's get back.

Kiss the bride!
Kiss the bride!

I trust the dance was
to your satisfaction.

Oh, come, my dear, mustn't be
jealous of our new sister-in-law.

I need 100 pairs of feet and as
many mouths to fill my obligation.

Perhaps you should ask
Caroline to help you.

After all,
you've shared so much.

Henrietta.

You mustn't be angry
with your sister, Ralph.

No woman can bear it

when her husband finds another
woman more attractive than she.

Lady Skelton,
would you do me the honor?

Forgive me, but...
But?

But, of course.

Who are you?

The man who would have married
you had we met yesterday.

You're very bold, sir.

And you, my lady,
are the most exciting woman I've ever seen.

I fell in love with
you at the church,

as you were being led to the alter,
to another man.

Your jesting is in bad taste.

It is no jest.

I do believe
you mean what you say.

Young man, find
yourself another partner.

Look at Barbara,

it's high time she was
prepared for the bridal bed.

But it is early yet.

Find the bridesmaids
and take her upstairs.

Couldn't they manage without me?

No, child.
You are the maid of honor.

Don't let them guess now.

Very well.

Kiss the bride!
Kiss the bride!

And she's only just got married.

Oh, I think that's disgraceful.

I think that's disgraceful.

She goes too far.

Barbara, it's time
to go upstairs.

Keep your kisses,
you'll need them later.

Lady Skelton dropped this.
Take it to her, please.

- Who is he, Barbara?
- He is good-looking.

Come along, Barbara,
you'll be late.

Come along, Barbara,
you mustn't keep your husband waiting.

He asked me to give you this.
That man there.

Well, he'd make a good lover.

Barbara can't have a lover yet.

Let's go, Barbara.

I don't want to go to bed.

I want to dance
and enjoy myself.

You don't have to dance
to enjoy yourself.

Look!
The blankets edged with satin.

Oh, they don't look very warm.

Barbara, you won't
feel cold tonight.

Courage! Our thoughts
will be with you.

They'll be ahead of you.

Come in!

Go on, say it, Caroline.

Your...

Your bride awaits you.

Do you think he'll manage?

Caroline, you've forgotten
the blessing.

I wish you the joy
of one another.

Goodbye.
Goodbye.

Come along, Henrietta,
we'll miss the play.

Of course, we won't, Barbara.

It is, it is.

It is her, oh, yes.

Look, Barbara, the King.
Who is he with?

Oh, it's the Villiers whore.

Didn't he just
make her a Duchess?

Duchess of Cleveland.

The quickest titles go to
those who bed with the King.

Still, Barbara, you have
your title, don't you?

He takes more than oranges
from Nell Gwynne, they say.

Come, Barbara, we shall
be late for the play.

The play can wait.

Find out who she is.

His Majesty seeks
your name, my Lady.

Lady Skelton is my wife.
Tell the King she is not for the taking.

Ralph, darling, Henrietta and I looked
at the loveliest house in St. James's.

Don't you think we ought
to take a London residence?

I do not.

But, Ralph, we can't live
in the country all the time.

Of course you can, Barbara.
You have your duty.

A very handsome man
was Lord Rashleigh.

Buried in the West Indies.

He married...

He married a cousin
on my father's side.

It's the east wind.

It always brings on
the Skelton cough.

Well, she wasn't
exactly my cousin,

but my father and her stepmother
were cousins once removed.

Leave us.
Oh, those stupid old hens!

Well, if you looked
to the housekeeping...

Caro, dear Caro, not that again.

Well, you've got to run
the house sooner or later.

I can't stay forever.

Yes, Hogarth?

I came, my Lady,
to fetch a coat for the footman.

"I will clothe thee
with a change of raiment."

Zechariah, Chapter 3, Verse 4.

Hogarth...
Yes, my Lady?

That room at the top of the stairs,
the one that's always locked...

Ralph's great uncle
was murdered there.

Someone came up
the hidden stairway.

I want the key.

It is an evil place.

The key, if you please, Hogarth.

It is wrong.

Not you as well.

Oh! It's so cold.

It'll be all right
when it's aired.

Ralph won't like it.

It's quite fashionable nowadays

for husbands and wives
to have separate rooms.

Ralph is not a
fashionable person.

More is the pity, or he might have taken
a house in London when I asked him.

Where's the secret door?

Up a bit, on the left.

Let's explore. Wouldn't it
be useful if I had a lover?

I was only teasing.

Ralph's sister Lady Kingsclere
and her husband are coming.

I must see their room's ready.

Henrietta, darling.
I'm so glad you've come.

Thank you, my dear.

But you've taken away
her sparkle, Ralph.

And it's only been six weeks.

You know, I was quite
jealous of you, my dear.

You looked so young and lovely.

Is it only six weeks?

Then it must be the journey
that's tired you, Henrietta.

Traveling does make
one look so bedraggled.

Caroline.

How are things
in London, Henrietta?

It's been a brilliant season.
Quite a brilliant season.

Hardly an evening at home.

Poor Henrietta, no wonder
you look so worn.

I'd rather look worn than dull.

There's a new card game called
ombre sweeping the town.

The King's taken it up.

I suppose you haven't even
heard of it down here.

On the contrary,
I play it regularly.

In that case we must test
your skill, Barbara.

For a regular player,
you play a very irregular game.

Fortune hasn't smiled
on me, yet.

Is that what it is?

Why don't you stop, Barbara?
Your luck may change tomorrow.

Tomorrow you leave.
Give me a chance to recover.

Certainly, darling.

It's only midnight. In London,
that's when we wake up.

Well, I'm no Londoner.
I'm off to bed.

Well, there's no need
to wait up for me tonight.

Well, I hadn't forgotten.
Good night.

Good night, Ralph.

Tell me, my dear
why is it you two sleep apart?

Because, Henrietta darling, in one's own
room it is easier to mind one's own business.

It is you to play.

Oh, Ralph, these things of Barbara's,
I was taking them to her room.

Well, that's kind of you.

I believe it's quite fashionable
nowadays for husbands and wives

to have separate rooms.

Indeed.

Ralph, wouldn't it be a good idea
if you took a place in London?

Did some entertaining?

Good idea for whom?
For Barbara?

I should have got more money
from Ralph before he went to bed.

Don't look so guilty,
Kingsclere.

Barbara knew we were
experienced players.

Old Ralph won't like it.

We do him a favor.

It'll teach Barbara to stick
to more wifely pursuits.

I'll play you for this.

All on a single
turn of the cards.

Not fair, Henrietta, not fair.

All the money on the table,
against this brooch.

Cut, then.

Queen.

It's pretty.
I shall wear it when I'm next at court.

Your mother's, was it?

Thank heavens I can lie abed tomorrow
when you leave for London, Kingsclere.

You should come
with me, Henrietta.

I don't like you traveling
alone and at evening.

I promised Ralph
I'd attend the local food...

Whatever it is, some awful
sort of dance they do.

He's so democratic.

Look out some highwayman
fellow doesn't steal that.

They say Captain Jackson
rides in these parts.

It might be worth the loss of a trinket to
meet so bold and handsome a robber.

Particularly a trinket
so easily won.

Good night.

Good night, Barbara.

This was your mother's brooch.

I shall never part with it.

Look out some
highwayman fellow doesn't steal it.

A trinket so easily won.

Your mother's brooch...

...steal it.

- Easily won...
- ...steal it.

Why not?

Now!

Out! Out!

Good sir, have pity
on a defenseless woman.

The jewels! No, please, Mr.
Jackson, I have no jewels.

I've heard, sir, how gallant
you are with the ladies.

If a kiss would satisfy you,
or... Anything.

No, not my brooch.
Not my...

No.

After him! Shoot the scoundrel!
Oh, my jewels!

Missed! Incompetent lout!

Ralph!

Open up, we've been robbed!

What's the noise?

Ralph! I've been robbed!

What is all this disturbance?

Cover your nakedness! To your duties,
all of you! Sluts! To your duties!

Lady Kingsclere, ma'am, she's
been robbed by a highwayman!

Oh, it was terrible.
I have been robbed and assaulted.

These are dark times.

Remove those beasts.
They make confusion worse confounded.

Oh, I still feel faint.

Drink this brandy.
It would choke me.

I thought you'd manage...

Now calm yourself, Henrietta.
Tell us what happened.

Ralph. Why, Henrietta,
what brings you back?

And so late.

She's been robbed!

By a highwayman!

Captain Jackson himself.

He didn't take my ruby brooch?

He took everything!

Was it Captain Jackson,
Henrietta?

I recognized him, it was.

Is he dashing?
Romantic? Handsome?

Extremely handsome.

Surely he wore a mask?

It was a very small mask.

Did he make...
Ungentlemanly advances?

Worse!
Worse? What happened?

I slapped his face.
Oh, my God!

I said, "You may take my jewels,
but my honor no man shall tarnish."

What did he do?

He took my jewels.

And left you honor.
How fortunate.

- He kissed me.
- He kissed you?

From his horse?

Yes.

The horse, like the mask,
was a very little one?

Barbara, at a time like this
you try to make a fool of me?

There is no need.

The man must be
found and hanged.

I should think he's very clever.

I don't think it's clever
to hide like a beast

and prey on
defenseless travelers.

Who are mostly armed.

The highwayman has
the advantage of surprise.

But he must have great courage.

Think of the excitement,
the exhilaration, the danger.

Once a man has taken to the road

everything else must
seem tame and dull.

I don't see how
he could give it up.

No matter how determined
are his pursuers.

Gentlemen! Gentlemen! Let us decide
on the ways of catching this highwayman.

I say hang the lot!

You have to catch him, Lord Dolman,
before you can hang him.

It seems Jackson first appeared in these
parts when your sister was held up.

Yes, but an hour after Lady
Kingsclere was robbed,

Jackson was holding up the...

York coach.

A hundred miles away.

The ladies say the gallant
Captain works fast.

You are to blame
for the bastards.

I am?

You spoil your tenants,
Sir Ralph.

Thatch their roofs, put this
new-fangled glass in their windows.

Hang 'em all.

Yes, hang 'em all.

When it comes to violence
against defenseless people,

you will not find me lenient.

Help me find this highwayman,

and by God, I promise you,
I'll hang him with my own hands.

Who is it?

Barbara, I want to talk to
you about the highwayman.

What about him?

Well, they're blaming Ralph.

Why?

They say he's too lenient
with his tenants

and when he's sitting
in judgment as a magistrate

that he should pass stricter...
What am I to do?

Can't you take more
interest in his work?

What has happened
between you and Ralph?

Nothing. That's the trouble.

You took him from me.

If you hadn't given
him to me so easily,

I could have married
the man I really love.

You have a lover?

I wish I had.

We met, then we parted,
because I was married to Ralph.

I thought you were my friend.
How could I...

Don't start, Caroline.

Once I begged you to stay,
now I'm telling you, go!

And leave Ralph
to your tender mercies?

He's all I've got.

I'm not having you in his bed.

You little fool.

Ralph, come in.

They've gone.

What about the highwayman?

Secret patrols, we'll catch
the fellow unawares.

You must tell me all about it.

You see, dear,
I take a great interest in Ralph's work.

Darling, let's do as you ask,
let's go up to London for a few weeks.

Ralph, really, I'd rather not.

But you complained so often
about being buried in the country.

I've changed my mind.

There's an excitement
in the country.

I never saw it at first,
but now I find it

quite exciting.

Get them up!

Out! Come on!

Whoa! Easy, easy. Steady.

You do intend to rob them?

Keep 'em up!

You'll hang for this.

Oh, no, no, no, not my rings.
Please. Please.

They've been in my
family for centuries.

Come on!

No!

Damn gun's exploded.

Trespass on Jerry Jackson's
territory, would you?

A woman?

Nearly a corpse, damn you!

My leg, it's broken.

Not likely.

I'd heard you were gallant,
Captain Jackson.

Do you always jump on women
and grab them by the throat?

Not always by the throat.
I'll have what you took.

I did all the work.

The road is mine.

Half each, then.

I'll consider that over supper.

I dine with you?

You might enjoy it.

Evening, sir.

Hiya, Betsy!
Here's my friend.

Welcome to you, sir!

Betsy, can we have
something to eat upstairs?

I told my friend here there are two
things you do better than most women

and one of them is cooking!

For shame, Captain!
In front of a stranger, too!

You know the way, Captain.

Attend inside. I'll do that.
Fetch the wine.

This is the haunt of...

Of the brotherhood.
Or rather the best of them.

I'm honored.

Now, we'll have stewed
carp, pigeon pie,

a dish of neat's tongues,
and some cheese, but not till I call.

May I?

You have seen.

Not all. And it was dark.

We cannot drink wine
through masks.

At your service, madam.

You remind me of a man I knew.

A lover?

We met once. The moment
was not propitious.

Who are you?

Does it matter?

Priscilla, Dorothy, Barbara,
take your choice.

Barbara suits you best.

Married. Your husband
should know his business better

than to drive you to find
your pleasure on the highway.

I've never yet deceived
my husband.

Then it's high time you began.

What of the jewels?

Keep them all.

You're very generous,
Captain Jackson.

Mmm.

So are you.

And Jesus called them
unto him and said,

"Suffer little children to come
unto me and forbid them not..."

"...for such is
the Kingdom of Heaven."

My Lady knows the scriptures.

Even I was a child once.

What now?
Morning, my lady.

Money to the poor
people, darling.

Maryiot Cells has long been
famed for its charity.

You are most generous, sir.
Kindness itself.

Hold still.

This is all I'll take from you.

I'll make her a gift.

What's that?
Someone's coming.

Why the horse?
I'd rather kill a man any day.

If you're caught, and no one's
dead, you can buy an acquittal.

The first lesson on the road
is not to be followed.

I have a lot to learn.

You do. You do.
But there's time enough.

The second lesson on the road
is to learn to enjoy yourself.

Let's go to the inn, come on.

Good boy. Come on.

Good boy.
Where's Barbara?

Abed, with one of her headaches.

I love you, Caroline.

You are fond of me.

I love you.

I love you,
ever since I can remember.

I'll get a divorce.

Not possible.

We must fight.

We must part.

Well, where will you go?

To London, to my Uncle Martin.

Please... I beg of you,
don't make it difficult.

I baptize this child
Luke Thomas.

In the name of the Father,
Son and Holy Ghost.

♪ All people that on Earth

♪ Do dwell... ♪

Well, it seems only yesterday

since we were here celebrating
our young friend's wedding.

Aye, he didn't waste
no time, did he?

Well, I know it was a
disappointment to my friend Tom here,

when his son Ned forsook
farming for a more exciting life,

but now there is another Cotterell
to carry on the old tradition.

To the future farmer Cotterell.

And what is this
new exciting life, Ned?

I'm with the coaching
company, Milady. A guard.

Oh, indeed?
I hope you guard your passengers well.

Oh, no passengers, ma'am.
I'm on the baggage coach.

We take valuables.

Valuables? Come now, Ned...

I do that.
Gold bullion and all.

That's most exciting.
When do you next do that?

Well, Milady, I'm not
supposed to say like...

I understand, Ned.

It's all right telling you.

On this Thursday, gold,
for a bank in London.

It's not every highwayman that
has a lady of quality for his doxy.

Doxy? Me, a doxy?

That means a lady of easy virtue,
not usually the only lady.

There is no other.

Keep to that, my love.

If you ever deceived me,
I'd make a dangerous enemy.

You make a dangerous partner.

How?

This plan of yours
to rob the gold coach.

The odds are against us.

It's by daylight,
the guards are doubled.

It is doubly exciting.

We'll come to the
gallows soon enough.

Let's not race to get there.
Life's too sweet to throw away.

Then, I'll do it alone.

I believe you would, too,
green eyes.

So, I says to me wife, "I wager
baby knows what we're talking about."

So I says,
"Cat's drunk baby's milk."

Do you know
what the little fella did?

No idea.

Lammed his milk
straight at the cat!

Did he really?

Hey, what's that?

Looks like an accident.
Here, I'll go see.

I'll get the horse.

Here!

We've got as
much as we can carry.

Just this one more.

Well, come on!

Someone's following us!

We'll outdistance him!

Not with this damn
gold, we won't!

Aim lower, hit the horse!

Ned!

Ned! Ned!

Ned, I aimed at the horse.

My Lady!

Is he?

Dead!

I told you to aim for the horse.

We've got the gold, haven't we?
That's worth killing a man for, isn't it?

"On September 14th,
near Waterbrook Farm

"in the Parish of Maiden Worthy

"was committed by two men, murder
and robbery on the highway to the value of

"1,130 pounds.

"Whoever shall deliver the said felons
to Sir Ralph Skelton of Maryiot Cells

"shall have their charges and 30 pounds
reward with a further 20 pounds

"to be paid upon one of the
robbers convictioned for murder."

So I'm valued at 20 pounds
more than Jackson.

Come in. Yes, Hogarth?

Is this your handkerchief,
my Lady?

What concern is it of yours?

I found it at the spot where
Ned Cotterell was murdered.

The embroidery is
of a "K," Hogarth.

Not my name.

I have seen you with
it often in this house.

You are mistaken.

May the Lord have mercy
on your unclean soul.

How dare you!

My soul was tortured
with suspicion.

The Lord commanded me to
observe your movements.

What do you mean?

I have seen you leave at night
dressed like a man of evil.

I have seen you ride out with your
horse's hooves shod with clothes.

And I have seen you return.
Once I saw you riding with another

dressed in like fashion.

I saw you embrace.

Then you understand.

I fear that I do.

I have wrestled with the matter.

Whether to dishonor
the noble family I serve,

or to remain silent and
pray for your repentance.

This highwayman had me
in his power.

He is one of
the devil's men on earth.

He forced me to rob,
to do terrible things.

He threatened to wash
his hands in my blood

as he did with poor
Ned Cotterell.

You swear you had
no part in this?

I have been bewitched,
but not to kill, Hogarth.

I know true goodness
when I see it.

You are good and you must
be strong. Help me, Hogarth.

Help me to save my soul.

Poor, wretched sinner.

It is not too late. Save me
from the power of the devil.

That the Lord should entrust His
humble servant with such a mission.

Promise me that henceforth you
will lead a pure and blameless life?

With all my heart.

You will never communicate with
that evil highwayman again?

Never!

Then your secret shall go
with me to my grave.

Let us pray.

Oh, I'm sorry.

"I was glad when they said unto me,
let us go into the house of the Lord.

"Our feet shall stand within
thy gates of Jerusalem.

"Jerusalem is builded as a city
that is compact together."

This column
has the household items.

Here is a list
of the servants' wages,

and here the outdoor staff...

No, no more, good Hogarth.
My mind is spinning.

Will Heaven ever forgive me?

There shall be more joy in Heaven
over one sinner that repenteth.

What should I do without you,
good Hogarth?

Let me give you some of
my homemade fruit cordial.

I'd like your opinion
of the flavor.

Excellent, my Lady.
Just like Mistress Caroline used to make.

It's practically
the same recipe.

Have you heard from the young
mistress since she went to London?

I fear not.

I am told the city is in
the grip of a great frost.

People skating on
the River Thames.

Skating and sinning,
too, no doubt.

Yes, Hogarth.
Sinning and skating.

Let me try by myself.

Be careful! Watch out!

Why, Mr. Locksby!

I'm afraid I...

The last time we met, sir,
you were kissing a friend of mine.

On her wedding day.

May I teach you to skate?

Lady Skelton herself!

Look at that coach!

Good morning, Milady.
And pray what can I show your Ladyship?

Pray serve your other
customers, Mrs. Munce.

Oh, we are done, Lady Skelton.

How is Sir Ralph?
Quite well, thank you.

And dear Mistress Caroline?
She is in London.

Oh, on a visit?
For good I fear.

Oh, how nice, how nice.
I do hope she's having a great deal of fun.

Good morning.

Now Mrs. Price.

Not that name, not here.

The poison was not enough.

Captain Jackson told me,
Mrs. Price, you were reliable.

Oh, the gentleman in question,
he is not unwell?

He is ill.

Ill is not dead.

Muffins! Fresh muffins!

Come and get your muffins!

You said today was
to be special. Why?

I'm going to seduce you.

This seduction, am I to
have a say in the matter?

The less said.

You said there was another.

Now there is you.

We were both sighing
for the moon.

We were.

Oh, thank you, my Lady.

Have you slept a little?

What did the physician
say, my Lady?

He doesn't know quite what ails you.
But with careful nursing...

Here, this will make
you feel better.

No one could have a better
nurse than you, my Lady.

Sleep, Hogarth.

"For Him that is joined to all
the living, there is hope."

"For the living know that they shall die,
but the dead know not anything."

Yes.

Look, look at that.

Will you marry me?

Kit, I've told you, I'm in
love with someone else.

We can't both go on
chasing shadows forever.

Caroline! Is it all settled,
then? Are you getting married?

Not yet, sir.

Keep at her, my boy.

A letter came,
it's marked urgent.

Anything wrong, my dear?

Hogarth is ill. Barbara's
looking after him.

The house is in chaos.
Ralph wants me back to help.

You came! Ralph said
he'd sent for you.

How is Hogarth?
I would love to see him.

He is very ill.
Please leave Hogarth to me.

My Lady, I know it
won't be long now.

Here, drink, you'll feel better.

I'm not afraid to go but what would
you do without my guidance?

I don't know. Drink.

Let me tell Sir Ralph, my Lady.

He'll be able to help
you after I'm gone.

No, Hogarth.
You'll tell no one!

God in Heaven!

What is it, Hogarth?

Sir Ralph! Help! Help!

Sir Ralph!

Hogarth?

Get Sir Ralph!

Sir Ralph, help!
Sir Ralph!

Good Hogarth, you must be quiet.

Sir Ralph, quickly.

He's coming.

He's wandering in his mind.

He can talk to Ralph
when he's rested.

Oh, Ralph, quick!
Hogarth wants you.

I can't hear you.

If only you'd left him to me!

Or to us!
Quiet!

What did he say?

His voice is so weak,
I couldn't hear.

Let me try, I'm used to him.

Keep them back.
He must have quiet.

I tried to hear.
It was too late.

Her Ladyship wore herself
out nursing poor Hogarth.

She needs rest.

Caroline will stay with you.

You are all so kind. But if
you left, I could sleep.

Captain Jackson, is he here?

In his usual room upstairs.

Barbara!
She means nothing to me.

What?

This wench, cheap
though she looks,

will cost you dear!

Who the fuck was that?

"If you would catch Jerry Jackson
go now to the Leaping Stag Inn."

I've got hold of you,
I got hold of you.

Now!

Come on,
let's get inside, quick!

Will you all be drinking, then?

Give us Jerry Jackson and
there'll be no trouble.

Jerry Jackson? Who's he?

She's right. Who cares?
We'll hang the lot of them!

Just Jackson.

I am. Take me,
then I confess. It's me.

Nonsense, my name's Jackson.

It's me you want!

It's a small point, I know,

but do any of you gentlemen know
what Jerry Jackson looks like?

Without his mask, I mean.

There are those
who have seen him.

Let's have done with it and
move them all to prison.

We can find the one
we want later.

Did I hear my name called?

Why, Captain!
I knew he'd come.

I would not have my friends inconvenienced
or you, my dear Betsy, or you.

We are outnumbered.

These gentlemen have their
accomplices all around the house.

May I go upstairs
and finish dressing?

You're well enough
dressed for a hanging.

A few seconds only.

Thank you.

You bastards!
Leave him alone!

Well, it was worth
a try, wasn't it?

And now you hang.

See what they call him? The most
popular gallows-bird for the last 20 years.

Another chop, Barbara?

I see you get all the credit
for his capture, Ralph.

The credit's for the
accomplice who betrayed him.

I'll wager he's shaking
in his shoes.

Why should he?

Jackson didn't give
him away at the trial.

There's still time.

Ah, he's probably saving it
up for his dying confession.

They love to make a
show on the gallows.

I wish I could be there. I wonder if
dare I put off the fitting of my new gown?

Ralph will tell you
all about it.

I do not share the popular view
that hanging is an entertainment.

I shall not be going.

What about you, Barbara? Don't
you long to see him dangle?

My dear, you've gone
as white as a sheet.

Just one of my headaches.
I think I'll get some air.

Ralph, will you
order my carriage?

Jerry Jackson's hanging today!
Come on now, come on.

Don't miss this opportunity now.
Come on

I've told James to keep well away from
Tyburn. Are you sure you don't want...

I'll be fine.

Caroline! How are you?

Well, thank you. I heard
you were both in town.

Good morning, Barbara. Where
are you going so early?

To take the air.

May I come with you?

Why don't you stay
and entertain Ralph?

Oh, no. It's you
I came to see.

Goodbye, Ralph.
Oh, goodbye.

Why do you
force yourself upon me?

I want to talk
to you about Ralph.

You want him, you can have him.
There, that should settle everything.

You were in love with Ralph.
You could be again.

Heaven preserve us
from your advice.

I came to tell you I was
getting married, Barbara.

I won't come between
you and Ralph anymore.

Do I dance with glee?

I thought it might help.

James! James!

James, stop the coach! Turn
the horses towards Tyburn.

The Master's orders were...

My orders are Tyburn.

And get there in
time for the hanging!

A beautiful souvenir of a beautiful
hanging ladies and gents.

But what's the greatest secret we
may learn today? I'll tell you what it is.

Make no mistake,
they had been tipped off.

So we may hear the name of the
woman who betrayed Jerry Jackson!

And they say
it was a woman for sure.

And I have
my own ideas who it is!

But I'll let Jerry Jackson tell you that
one before the rope tightens round his neck!

Here you see the Captain
dingling dangling.

I'll take one. Thank you.

Thank you, my lady.

- Look, the legs and arms move.
- Ridiculous.

Barbara, why have you come here?

I've never seen an execution.

It will be a new sensation.

Here he comes!

It's good to see you all.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Friends! My friends!
My friends!

I don't care whether you're
for me or against me.

All that matters is that you've come
here today in your thousands to give me

a grand send-off.

To you lovely ladies I say...

Don't throw your love, your caresses,
your tears on villains like me.

Save them for a man who's worth it.
An honest, faithful man

If you can find one! Right?

To the men, I give
a word of warning.

Never put your faith in a woman.

For no matter how much you
may think she loves you, like as not,

she'll betray you in the end!

In my short and merry life,
I've loved many.

But only once have I ever, ever made
the fatal mistake of trusting a woman.

That's why I'm here!
For believe me, friends,

only a woman's hand could put a noose
around the neck of Jerry Jackson!

Find her and we'll hang her.

Well, there it is,
I've had my say.

May God bless all my friends.

And may my enemies
be hanged as I am!

"The peace of God which passeth all
understanding keep my heart and mind

"in the knowledge
and love of God..."

That unfortunate highwayman has
asked me to give you this letter.

Well, my bold, bad Barbara.
You're afraid of me at last.

You needn't be.

Jerry Jackson's not the man to whine
now the reckoning's to be paid.

But if you feel you
owe me a kindness,

give a share of our earnings
to the girl by the coffin.

She was with me
that night at the inn.

She was my doxy before I ever met you,
and she stood by me.

Farewell then, lovely Barbara.

Until our next merry meeting.

It seems he thought
I looked kind.

He wanted me to help
that poor woman over there.

Give her this purse and tell
her I'm truly sorry for her.

'Tis true Christian
charity, ma'am.

May I read the letter?

You may not.

Be with me now and at
the hour of my death. Amen.

I don't want your money!

I don't want no charity from
no ladies in carriages!

Jackson's putting
up a game fight.

Must have a neck like a bull.

Let go of me! Let go!

James!

You think you can buy me?
Do you think you can buy me?

Keep them back.

Let the girls fight it
out themselves.

Don't let them spoil our fun.

Please do something!

What's going on over there?

One against one, that's fair.

Anyone who tries to get
through to them, sees me!

That's Caroline! Come on!

Come on, there's
a fight over there.

Whip her! Whip her!

Whip her! Whip her!

Whip her!

Whip her! Whip her!

Follow me.

Barbara.

Well, I'm most grateful to you.
You averted a very unpleasant situation.

I saw Caroline at the coach.

I don't know why you went there,
my dear. I did warn you.

You must you must come back
with us to Maryiot Cells.

That's very kind of
you, sir, but...

Especially as you're now
to be one of the family.

One of the family?

Did you not know, Barbara?

Mr. Locksby and Caroline
are to be married.

No. I didn't know.

You'll come too, Caroline?

Caroline finds Maryiot
Cells very dull.

I don't think I'll find
it dull this time.

Sir Ralph, the
highwayman Jackson.

What, what of him?

There was a riot around the coaches.
In the excitement he was cut down.

He may not be dead.

They didn't name him lucky
Jerry Jackson for nothing!

Will you not come closer?

They watch.

I love you, Kit.
I've kept it.

Too late.

Not if you love me.

Soon I return to London.

Tonight, I'll come to you in your room,
while the others sleep.

We risk too much.

We risk nothing.

I saw you, Locksby.

Will you kill me?

If I must. Promise you'll
never see Barbara again.

You must love her very much.

You're engaged to Caroline,
or have you forgotten?

I've seen her robbed once of
the man she loved. Not again.

I will not see your wife again.

Good evening, Lady Skelton.

Jackson!
What do you want?

What a question to ask an old
friend back from the grave.

What do you think I want?

You think I betrayed you.
You're wrong. It wasn't...

Ah, this isn't worthy of you, my darling.
You always had the courage of your iniquity,

didn't you?

Do you know what it feels like to be
strangled, my Lady Barbara? Do you? Do you?

Do you feel the rope
choking your windpipe?

The world goes black
choking the life out of you!

With spots of vivid color flashing
against the awful darkness.

Your head bursts open,
you kick and you struggle and you squirm!

You know, after my
friends cut me down

it took them two hours
to bring me round.

And do you know what
my first thought was?

At last I know who she is.
Isn't that strange?

Just a few seconds after
being saved from the scaffold,

I thought of the crest on
the Skelton coach and of you!

And now you've found me?

We pick up our life together
just, where we left off.

No. Things are
different now.

For the first time in
my life, I'm in love.

Am I so distasteful to you?

Then I'll take my revenge and
pleasure at the same time.

No, you won't scream,
you won't invite anyone in here with me.

Open the door.
It's me Barbara.

Kit!

He won't see you, Barbara.
He gave me his word.

He will marry Caroline.

Now go back to bed,
Lady Skelton.

You don't care for me.
Let me go to him, Ralph. I beg of you.

You and I are married.

He and Caroline will leave with me
tomorrow. I have business in London.

I'll be back the next night.

Now go to your room or by God I
swear I'll drag you there by your hair

and lock you in myself!

Hurry up.

Bye-bye. Bye-bye.

To you, Caroline and Kit.
May your marriage be blessed.

Ralph, it's no good.

What?

I love you, Ralph.

I'm fond of you, Kit, but I
can't help it, I love Ralph.

Did you order three pheasant?

Or was it one pheasant, one
roast pork and one lamb chop?

Why, my Lady of Iniquity!

Keep out of my way, Jackson!

What words for your partner!

What job are we doing?

There'll be a coach here soon.

Worthwhile?
To me.

After something special?

A man's life.

You never did like killing,
did you, Jackson?

You still have time to go.

What's this poor devil
ever done to you?

He stands between me
and everything I want.

Who is he?

My husband.

You cannot.

They'll think it was me seeking
revenge on the man who captured me!

Would you warn him,
Captain Jackson?

Would you turn on
your old partner?

Now we've both had revenge.

To our next merry
meeting in hell!

Go on.

It's probably a poacher shooting rabbits.
Nothing to worry about.

I fear nothing now.

But won't Barbara be
surprised to see us back?

If only you two hadn't put up such a
convincing performance of being in love.

Why should four people spend their lives
in misery when they could be so happy?

It's like a fairy story.
I get the man I love and Kit gets Barbara.

Everyone gets what they want.

Now, Fury!

Easy, easy.

Out!

Jackson?

I think I winged the fellow.

Let's be off.

Go on! Go on!

Where's her Ladyship?

Retired early to bed, sir.
One of her headaches.

She asked not to be disturbed.

Well, I think this is one occasion
we might disobey her instructions.

I'll call her. You two
go and have a drink.

Well, I won't say no to that.

Barbara! Barbara!

William, come here, please.
I think her Ladyship may be ill.

Can you break open the door?

I said break it open!

I'll try, Miss Caroline.

It's all right, you may go.

Very good, ma'am.

I'll send for a doctor.

No Kit, Kit.

Another?
It is an occasion.

What shall the toast be?

Mine is to Barbara.

Barbara's had an accident.

She's asked for Kit.

What happened?

Loving you has been the
one good thing in my life.

All your life has been good.

No, I deceived you.

You don't know
what you're saying.

I killed them.
Killed?

Ned, Hogarth, Jackson.

And tonight, for you,
I would have killed Ralph.

You!

It was for us.

He stood in our way.
Don't leave me, Kit.

Don't leave me alone.

Kit, take me in your arms.

Hold me close.

Kit, Kit, Kit! I'm frightened.

I don't want to die alone.

Don't let me die alone.

Kit! Kit!