1 00:01:10,779 --> 00:01:13,906 Please identify the accused. 2 00:01:13,949 --> 00:01:15,449 Dr. William Chester Minor... 3 00:01:15,492 --> 00:01:20,121 Captain Surgeon in the US Army, retired. 4 00:01:21,248 --> 00:01:24,250 Dr. Minor has come to our shores seeking sanctuary. 5 00:01:24,293 --> 00:01:27,962 In his home country of the United States, he was pursued... 6 00:01:28,005 --> 00:01:31,465 relentlessly by a man pledged to torture and kill him. 7 00:01:39,391 --> 00:01:40,891 On that fateful night... 8 00:01:40,934 --> 00:01:43,769 of the 17th of February, the defendant woke with a start... 9 00:01:43,812 --> 00:01:48,566 he knew right away that he had been hunted down and found... 10 00:01:48,609 --> 00:01:52,445 that his pursuer, one Declan Reilly was indeed, in his rooms. 11 00:01:53,905 --> 00:01:58,743 Dr. Minor reached for his service revolver and gave chase. 12 00:02:13,425 --> 00:02:15,801 Fenian! 13 00:02:18,472 --> 00:02:20,431 In the streets, he found a man running. 14 00:02:20,474 --> 00:02:22,892 Help! Help! 15 00:02:29,524 --> 00:02:31,192 Help! 16 00:02:55,467 --> 00:02:59,887 Eliza, open the door! Eliza! 17 00:02:59,930 --> 00:03:01,681 Eliza! 18 00:03:01,723 --> 00:03:03,641 In the confusion of night... 19 00:03:03,684 --> 00:03:05,643 he failed to discern the difference... 20 00:03:05,686 --> 00:03:09,605 between his assailant and the innocent George Merrett. 21 00:03:09,648 --> 00:03:10,648 Eliza. 22 00:03:18,907 --> 00:03:20,449 Stop there! 23 00:03:20,492 --> 00:03:21,784 This is not the Fenian! 24 00:03:21,827 --> 00:03:23,411 No! 25 00:03:23,453 --> 00:03:25,246 This is not the Fenian? 26 00:03:25,288 --> 00:03:26,414 No! 27 00:03:26,456 --> 00:03:30,751 I'm sorry! Sorry! 28 00:03:32,546 --> 00:03:34,213 No! 29 00:03:44,975 --> 00:03:49,228 My Lord, Dr. Minor shot the wrong man. 30 00:03:54,651 --> 00:03:59,196 So he didn't mean it. 31 00:03:59,239 --> 00:04:01,699 My Lord, perhaps the court should simply release... 32 00:04:01,742 --> 00:04:03,701 the good doctor with an apology... 33 00:04:03,744 --> 00:04:06,203 for the misunderstanding that has occurred. 34 00:04:12,461 --> 00:04:14,879 Your Honor!? 35 00:04:18,759 --> 00:04:22,553 Declan... Declan Reilly is his name! 36 00:04:22,596 --> 00:04:26,390 He has a brand on the left side of his face, he comes at night! 37 00:04:26,433 --> 00:04:31,228 He comes with others, they haunt me, they come into my rooms! 38 00:04:31,271 --> 00:04:35,983 I do not believe you, sir. This court does not believe you. 39 00:04:37,861 --> 00:04:41,947 Quiet, please! Quiet in court! 40 00:04:41,990 --> 00:04:45,701 Quiet, please! Quiet! 41 00:04:45,744 --> 00:04:49,622 Quiet, quiet! 42 00:04:51,666 --> 00:04:55,211 We, the members of her Majesty's jury... 43 00:04:55,253 --> 00:04:58,798 find Dr. William Chester Minor not guilty... 44 00:04:58,840 --> 00:05:01,759 of the willful murder of George Merrett... 45 00:05:03,470 --> 00:05:05,429 Quiet! Quiet! 46 00:05:05,472 --> 00:05:07,973 On the grounds of insanity. 47 00:05:08,016 --> 00:05:09,850 I am not insane, sir. 48 00:05:09,893 --> 00:05:10,893 Quiet, please! 49 00:05:13,647 --> 00:05:17,858 William Chester Minor, it is hereby this court's ruling... 50 00:05:17,901 --> 00:05:20,319 that you shall be detained in safe custody... 51 00:05:20,362 --> 00:05:22,905 at Broadmoor Asylum for the Criminally Insane... 52 00:05:22,948 --> 00:05:26,909 until Her Majesty's pleasure be known. 53 00:05:29,579 --> 00:05:31,330 Quiet, please! 54 00:05:42,634 --> 00:05:44,677 Move, move! 55 00:05:52,269 --> 00:05:53,811 Bloody bollocks hell! 56 00:05:55,230 --> 00:05:57,398 Hey! Any more of that and you're off! 57 00:05:57,440 --> 00:05:59,191 Harold! 58 00:06:04,239 --> 00:06:05,698 I must get back in, father. 59 00:06:05,740 --> 00:06:07,700 In a tick, boy. Take a few breaths. 60 00:06:07,742 --> 00:06:09,451 Mind the long run down the flank. 61 00:06:09,494 --> 00:06:11,412 If you see the brute coming, stay downpitch... 62 00:06:11,454 --> 00:06:13,539 and don't let him pull you in, all right? 63 00:06:13,582 --> 00:06:14,999 And try for the clean catch. 64 00:06:15,041 --> 00:06:16,625 Yes, sir. The game, sir. 65 00:06:16,668 --> 00:06:20,170 Harold, about your use of words... 66 00:06:20,213 --> 00:06:21,463 Yes, sir. 67 00:06:21,506 --> 00:06:23,799 - Good. In you go, boy, go on. - Yes, sir! 68 00:06:33,059 --> 00:06:34,768 I had a word with him. 69 00:06:34,811 --> 00:06:36,186 Yes, I saw. 70 00:06:36,229 --> 00:06:39,648 In the paper, a dreadful story, a shooting in Lambeth... 71 00:06:39,691 --> 00:06:41,817 by an American, an army officer... 72 00:06:41,860 --> 00:06:45,070 and that poor woman left behind with six children. 73 00:06:45,113 --> 00:06:47,406 That I saw. 74 00:06:47,449 --> 00:06:49,575 I don't know what I would do, James... 75 00:06:49,618 --> 00:06:51,160 if you were taken like that. 76 00:06:53,455 --> 00:06:57,875 Yes! That's it, that's it! 77 00:07:00,503 --> 00:07:03,255 Yes! Yes! 78 00:07:03,298 --> 00:07:06,759 Yes, yes! How's that, you ensanguined mule? 79 00:07:08,553 --> 00:07:10,846 - That's it, you're off! - What's wrong with ensanguined? 80 00:07:10,889 --> 00:07:13,766 - Get off! - Harold! Harold! 81 00:07:29,616 --> 00:07:33,160 I wish to state that I possess a general lexical... 82 00:07:33,203 --> 00:07:35,579 and structural knowledge of the languages... 83 00:07:35,622 --> 00:07:39,708 and literature of the Aryan and Syro-Arabic classes. 84 00:07:39,751 --> 00:07:42,252 I have recently submitted my paper on the declension... 85 00:07:42,295 --> 00:07:45,172 of German verbs to the Philological Society. 86 00:07:45,215 --> 00:07:46,840 Mr. Murray, I understand that... 87 00:07:46,883 --> 00:07:49,093 you do not possess a university degree. 88 00:07:49,135 --> 00:07:52,137 No, sir, no degree. 89 00:07:52,180 --> 00:07:54,431 I am an autodidact, self-taught. 90 00:07:54,975 --> 00:07:59,269 I am aware of the word. Schooling? 91 00:07:59,312 --> 00:08:01,897 Left at 14 to earn a living. 92 00:08:01,940 --> 00:08:05,651 Honestly, Freddie, it's a bit much. 93 00:08:05,694 --> 00:08:07,820 A bit much, yes. 94 00:08:09,364 --> 00:08:12,157 Of course, we, the august delegates... 95 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:13,617 of the Oxford University Press... 96 00:08:13,660 --> 00:08:16,120 have been attempting to make this dictionary... 97 00:08:16,162 --> 00:08:17,705 for the last 20 years. 98 00:08:17,747 --> 00:08:20,749 And despite the greatest efforts of a whole army of academics... 99 00:08:20,792 --> 00:08:23,168 myself included, we are precisely nowhere. 100 00:08:23,211 --> 00:08:25,129 Forgive me that is incorrect. 101 00:08:25,171 --> 00:08:27,506 We are, in fact, going backwards. 102 00:08:27,549 --> 00:08:30,134 The language is developing faster than our progress. 103 00:08:30,176 --> 00:08:33,679 This great tongue of ours, which reaches out across the world... 104 00:08:33,722 --> 00:08:35,931 has drawn its guns, sharpened its bayonets... 105 00:08:35,974 --> 00:08:38,475 and declared that it will not be tamed. 106 00:08:38,518 --> 00:08:41,937 And we, with our debates ad nauseam about the scope... 107 00:08:41,980 --> 00:08:44,690 the mode, the purpose of these words have all... 108 00:08:44,733 --> 00:08:47,860 but thrown ourselves down in supplication before it... 109 00:08:47,902 --> 00:08:51,196 bathed in abject defeat. 110 00:08:52,615 --> 00:08:54,658 At this moment, the endeavor is dead. 111 00:08:57,245 --> 00:08:59,997 Is that too much, Max? 112 00:09:02,208 --> 00:09:04,126 Gentlemen, I'm afraid nothing... 113 00:09:04,169 --> 00:09:06,170 short of a panacea is called for. 114 00:09:06,212 --> 00:09:09,423 I submit that the extraordinary, the unconventional... 115 00:09:09,466 --> 00:09:13,469 Mr. Murray is the solution and our salvation. 116 00:09:15,555 --> 00:09:19,641 Your account, though a bit dramatic, is true, Freddie. 117 00:09:19,684 --> 00:09:23,353 But we need something more than impassioned advocacy. 118 00:09:23,396 --> 00:09:27,483 Qualifications come to mind. Perhaps a Bachelor's Degree. 119 00:09:27,525 --> 00:09:28,942 Qualifications, yes. 120 00:09:28,985 --> 00:09:33,405 Well, I am fluent in Latin and Greek, of course. 121 00:09:33,448 --> 00:09:35,783 Beyond those, I have an intimate knowledge... 122 00:09:35,825 --> 00:09:38,869 of the Romance tongues, Italian, French, Spanish... 123 00:09:38,912 --> 00:09:42,247 Catalan and to a lesser degree Portuguese, Vaudois... 124 00:09:42,290 --> 00:09:44,833 Provencal and other dialects. 125 00:09:44,876 --> 00:09:48,796 In the Teutonic branch, I am familiar with German, Dutch... 126 00:09:48,838 --> 00:09:50,214 Danish and Flemish. 127 00:09:50,256 --> 00:09:52,800 I have specialized in Anglo-Saxon and Moeso-Gothic... 128 00:09:52,842 --> 00:09:55,511 and have prepared works for publication... 129 00:09:55,553 --> 00:09:56,720 in both of these languages. 130 00:09:56,763 --> 00:09:59,681 I also have a useful knowledge of Russian. 131 00:09:59,724 --> 00:10:03,102 I have sufficient knowledge of Hebrew and Syriac to read... 132 00:10:03,144 --> 00:10:05,521 at sight the Old Testament and the Peshito... 133 00:10:05,563 --> 00:10:08,565 to a lesser degree, Aramaic, Arabic, Coptic... 134 00:10:08,608 --> 00:10:12,277 and Phoenician to the point where it was left by Genesius. 135 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:14,613 Forgive me rattling on. 136 00:10:14,656 --> 00:10:17,199 I'm sure you have questions. 137 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:25,165 Mr. Murray, a word comes to mind... clever. 138 00:10:25,208 --> 00:10:30,879 Can you define it and tell us its history? 139 00:10:30,922 --> 00:10:34,925 I'll make a fist of it, on the hoof, as it were. 140 00:10:34,968 --> 00:10:38,887 Clever, adjective. Meaning, adroit, nimble, dextrous. 141 00:10:38,930 --> 00:10:41,932 Probably from the Low German, Klover. 142 00:10:41,975 --> 00:10:44,101 Or perhaps the Middle Dutch, Klever... 143 00:10:44,144 --> 00:10:50,232 with a K, meaning sprightly or smart. 144 00:10:50,275 --> 00:10:56,196 Mr. Murray is also a master of the Scottish clog dance. 145 00:10:57,824 --> 00:11:00,367 Forgive me for keeping it from you... 146 00:11:00,910 --> 00:11:03,370 I scarcely believed in the chance myself. 147 00:11:03,413 --> 00:11:07,541 It's all mine, Ada, the entire language. 148 00:11:11,629 --> 00:11:13,755 I've never known how to resist it, your exuberance... 149 00:11:13,798 --> 00:11:17,092 but it's so sudden. 150 00:11:17,135 --> 00:11:19,219 And to abandon all this, the school, the constancy. 151 00:11:19,262 --> 00:11:23,348 Is it truly what you wish for all of us? 152 00:11:23,391 --> 00:11:26,935 Ada, I'm an untutored linen draper's boy from Teviotdale... 153 00:11:26,978 --> 00:11:30,147 now, suddenly, with a real crack at it. 154 00:11:30,190 --> 00:11:31,940 My entire life has been in preparation for this. 155 00:11:33,735 --> 00:11:35,694 The call has finally come. 156 00:11:35,737 --> 00:11:38,447 Whatever I've done, I've done with you. 157 00:11:38,489 --> 00:11:41,200 I've never been able to without you. 158 00:11:41,242 --> 00:11:43,535 Once again, lend yourself to me? 159 00:11:43,578 --> 00:11:47,247 If I am to fashion a book, I'll need a spine. 160 00:11:49,167 --> 00:11:50,834 Father! 161 00:11:50,877 --> 00:11:52,502 Elsie, children. 162 00:11:52,545 --> 00:11:56,340 Are we going somewhere? 163 00:11:57,759 --> 00:11:59,968 To Oxford, your father is the editor... 164 00:12:00,011 --> 00:12:02,512 of the New English Dictionary on Historical Principles. 165 00:12:02,555 --> 00:12:03,764 What is that? 166 00:12:03,806 --> 00:12:06,141 It's a very big book with a lot of words in it. 167 00:12:06,184 --> 00:12:07,643 All the words of the English language. 168 00:12:07,685 --> 00:12:09,561 Like Doctor Johnson's Dictionary? 169 00:12:09,604 --> 00:12:14,316 Yes, but his book comprised of only a mere handful of words. 170 00:12:14,734 --> 00:12:20,948 I am charged with identifying and defining every last word! 171 00:12:20,990 --> 00:12:22,324 Will happy be in there, Father? 172 00:12:22,367 --> 00:12:24,034 Aye, happy will be there, Elsie. 173 00:12:24,077 --> 00:12:28,914 My dictionary will need as many volumes as these... 174 00:12:28,957 --> 00:12:31,124 to house the entire language. 175 00:12:31,167 --> 00:12:32,334 Will sad? 176 00:12:32,377 --> 00:12:33,794 Sad will be there, yes, aye. 177 00:12:33,836 --> 00:12:35,545 What about big, will big be in there? 178 00:12:35,588 --> 00:12:36,755 Yeah, aye, and small too. 179 00:12:36,798 --> 00:12:38,840 There isn't a word you can think of that... 180 00:12:38,883 --> 00:12:40,425 will not be in this very big book. 181 00:12:40,468 --> 00:12:42,010 - Father? - Yes, Oswyn. 182 00:12:42,053 --> 00:12:44,263 Will Oswyn be in there? 183 00:12:44,305 --> 00:12:46,139 Probably... 184 00:12:50,520 --> 00:12:54,439 Never play with books, all right? That's wrong. 185 00:13:07,036 --> 00:13:12,916 Wednesday, April 17, 1872. Inmate number 742. 186 00:13:12,959 --> 00:13:14,918 742, admittance. 187 00:13:14,961 --> 00:13:17,004 Minor, William Chester... 188 00:13:17,046 --> 00:13:20,465 American, 48 years old... 189 00:13:20,508 --> 00:13:25,679 surgeon, a captain in the United States Army. 190 00:13:25,722 --> 00:13:30,559 No known religion, classified a danger to others. 191 00:13:32,603 --> 00:13:34,313 Assigned to Block Two. 192 00:13:46,034 --> 00:13:51,038 The prisoner is in a rage, spitting dozens of times... 193 00:13:51,080 --> 00:13:55,584 by his own account trying not to swallow poison-coated... 194 00:13:55,626 --> 00:14:01,465 cold, iron bars that have been pressed against his teeth. 195 00:14:11,267 --> 00:14:12,768 In you go. 196 00:14:24,072 --> 00:14:26,448 March 17th... 197 00:14:26,491 --> 00:14:29,868 three days now the prisoner has gone without sleep. 198 00:14:40,338 --> 00:14:44,007 Constantly leaping from his bed to search... 199 00:14:44,050 --> 00:14:46,301 underneath it in sheer terror. 200 00:14:46,344 --> 00:14:51,932 Repeatedly claiming to look for those coming for him at night. 201 00:14:56,854 --> 00:15:00,482 Doctor Richard Brayn, alienist superintendent... 202 00:15:00,525 --> 00:15:04,736 Broadmoor Asylum. 203 00:15:11,327 --> 00:15:13,703 There it was, staring me in the face... 204 00:15:13,746 --> 00:15:17,124 the Home Secretary wouldn't be bamboozled into accepting. 205 00:15:17,166 --> 00:15:18,291 Can you believe it? 206 00:15:18,334 --> 00:15:20,752 Like Orthrus, a two-headed dog of a line. 207 00:15:20,795 --> 00:15:24,548 Written in the Athenaeum... in a single sentence! 208 00:15:24,590 --> 00:15:28,051 Your book, Mr. Murray, will need to establish strict rules... 209 00:15:28,094 --> 00:15:29,928 banning such offenses. 210 00:15:29,971 --> 00:15:31,930 Beyond which it should fix all spellings... 211 00:15:31,973 --> 00:15:34,474 lay down proper pronunciations... 212 00:15:34,517 --> 00:15:36,852 and firm up correctness of speech. 213 00:15:36,894 --> 00:15:38,395 We've been here before, Max. 214 00:15:38,438 --> 00:15:40,856 What of all the bamboozles, the wouldn'ts, the shouldn'ts... 215 00:15:40,898 --> 00:15:43,150 and the couldn'ts to come in the future? 216 00:15:43,192 --> 00:15:45,569 The tongue is at its purest peak. 217 00:15:45,611 --> 00:15:49,489 Sufficiently refined that it can henceforward only deteriorate. 218 00:15:49,532 --> 00:15:52,242 It is up to us to fix it once and for all. 219 00:15:52,285 --> 00:15:55,245 Alterations to it can then be permitted or not. 220 00:15:55,288 --> 00:15:57,247 And who would you have do the permitting? 221 00:15:57,290 --> 00:16:00,709 You, Max? Me? No. 222 00:16:00,751 --> 00:16:03,879 All words are valid in the language. 223 00:16:03,921 --> 00:16:06,590 Ancient or new, obsolete or robust... 224 00:16:06,632 --> 00:16:08,008 foreign-born or home-grown. 225 00:16:08,050 --> 00:16:11,511 The book must inventory every word, every nuance... 226 00:16:11,554 --> 00:16:14,973 every twist of etymology and every possible illustrated... 227 00:16:15,016 --> 00:16:17,142 citation from every English author. 228 00:16:17,185 --> 00:16:20,145 All of it or nothing at all. 229 00:16:20,188 --> 00:16:21,897 That would mean reading everything. 230 00:16:21,939 --> 00:16:24,274 Quoting everything that showed anything to do... 231 00:16:24,317 --> 00:16:26,818 with the history of the words that are to be cited. 232 00:16:26,861 --> 00:16:29,571 The task is gigantic, monumental. 233 00:16:29,614 --> 00:16:30,822 And impossible. 234 00:16:32,575 --> 00:16:34,868 There is a way. 235 00:16:34,911 --> 00:16:37,078 A task that might take one man a hundred lifetimes... 236 00:16:37,121 --> 00:16:39,706 could take a hundred men just one. 237 00:16:39,749 --> 00:16:43,210 Volunteers. We have tried it before, James, and failed. 238 00:16:43,252 --> 00:16:46,713 I'm afraid there aren't enough academics in the land. 239 00:16:46,756 --> 00:16:48,423 How many did you enlist? 240 00:16:48,466 --> 00:16:49,841 Eighty, perhaps ninety. 241 00:16:49,884 --> 00:16:52,052 With a thousand, you could accomplish it... 242 00:16:52,094 --> 00:16:53,637 in just a few years. 243 00:16:53,679 --> 00:16:57,057 Where do you propose finding a thousand men? 244 00:16:57,099 --> 00:17:00,018 Everywhere English is celebrated and spoken. 245 00:17:00,061 --> 00:17:03,897 In every book shop, school, workplace or home. 246 00:17:03,940 --> 00:17:06,650 Do you mean ordinary people, amateurs? 247 00:17:06,692 --> 00:17:09,277 English speaking ones, aye. 248 00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:10,862 We will ask them to read... 249 00:17:10,905 --> 00:17:14,699 in search of the words that we want, and get them to write... 250 00:17:14,742 --> 00:17:19,788 the word on a slip of paper, along with a quotation... 251 00:17:19,830 --> 00:17:23,625 that they have found illustrating the very word. 252 00:17:23,668 --> 00:17:26,044 And then? Post the slip tass. 253 00:17:26,087 --> 00:17:29,297 An entire army covering the breadth of the Empire... 254 00:17:29,340 --> 00:17:31,466 and beyond, drawing a sweep net... 255 00:17:31,509 --> 00:17:33,593 over the whole of English literature... 256 00:17:33,636 --> 00:17:36,054 listing the entirety of their own language. 257 00:17:36,097 --> 00:17:37,764 Adictionary by democracy. 258 00:17:37,807 --> 00:17:41,101 Still edited by us, learned men. 259 00:17:41,143 --> 00:17:43,478 And with this system, Mr. Murray... 260 00:17:43,521 --> 00:17:47,023 how long do you estimate to finishing your task? 261 00:17:47,066 --> 00:17:49,234 Five years, seven at most. 262 00:17:49,277 --> 00:17:52,070 All words and their complete histories? 263 00:17:52,113 --> 00:17:54,447 Every last one. 264 00:17:54,490 --> 00:17:58,034 Dear England... 265 00:17:58,077 --> 00:18:00,996 We are about to embark on the greatest adventure... 266 00:18:01,038 --> 00:18:02,664 our language has ever known. 267 00:18:02,707 --> 00:18:04,791 Let us begin at aardvark... 268 00:18:04,834 --> 00:18:07,669 and never stop 'til we reach Zymurgy. 269 00:18:07,712 --> 00:18:09,170 Zymurgy? 270 00:18:09,213 --> 00:18:12,132 I would wager that that is the last word in the language. 271 00:18:12,174 --> 00:18:13,842 Surely there is nothing after Z-Y. 272 00:18:13,884 --> 00:18:15,218 Meaning? 273 00:18:15,261 --> 00:18:17,887 You'll be able to look it up in a few short years. 274 00:18:21,475 --> 00:18:23,727 There's a cloying eagerness to him. 275 00:18:23,769 --> 00:18:24,853 Yes. 276 00:18:24,895 --> 00:18:26,229 And that grating Scottish lilt... 277 00:18:26,272 --> 00:18:28,773 why do you suppose he doesn't try to conceal it... 278 00:18:28,816 --> 00:18:30,358 for the sake of our eardrums. 279 00:18:30,401 --> 00:18:36,072 His ideas are quite radical, just what we need. 280 00:18:36,115 --> 00:18:37,365 You don't think he's a follower... 281 00:18:37,408 --> 00:18:39,743 of that awful German-born pamphleteer, do you? 282 00:18:39,785 --> 00:18:42,078 No, no, no, my dear. 283 00:18:42,121 --> 00:18:46,583 This man is positively baying to be part of this little world... 284 00:18:46,626 --> 00:18:51,087 of ours, already quite seduced, I would say. 285 00:19:24,288 --> 00:19:26,456 I'm sorry, Ada. 286 00:19:29,502 --> 00:19:31,670 What for? 287 00:19:31,712 --> 00:19:34,297 For this disruption, for breaking up the home... 288 00:19:34,340 --> 00:19:35,632 for dragging you here. 289 00:19:35,675 --> 00:19:38,718 No doubts, James, no jitters. 290 00:19:38,761 --> 00:19:40,804 I need this promise from you. 291 00:19:40,846 --> 00:19:42,722 Now that it's started, let's see it through... 292 00:19:42,765 --> 00:19:45,350 steadfast and resolved. 293 00:19:57,488 --> 00:20:00,240 An appeal to the English-reading public... 294 00:20:00,282 --> 00:20:03,410 of Great Britain, America and the British colonies... 295 00:20:03,452 --> 00:20:07,622 to read books and make extracts for a new dictionary... 296 00:20:07,665 --> 00:20:09,749 worthy of the English language. 297 00:20:09,792 --> 00:20:13,545 We live today knowing the origins of the Earth... 298 00:20:13,587 --> 00:20:16,089 of man and all the animals. 299 00:20:16,132 --> 00:20:19,634 We know how hot boiling water is, how long a yard. 300 00:20:19,677 --> 00:20:23,555 Our ships' masters know the precise measurements... 301 00:20:23,597 --> 00:20:25,223 of latitude and longitude. 302 00:20:25,266 --> 00:20:28,977 Yet we have neither chart nor compass to guide us... 303 00:20:29,019 --> 00:20:31,271 through the wide sea of words. 304 00:20:31,313 --> 00:20:34,023 The time has come to accord this great language of ours... 305 00:20:34,066 --> 00:20:37,569 the same dignity and respect as the other standards... 306 00:20:37,611 --> 00:20:41,698 defined by science. Fly your words to Oxford. 307 00:20:41,741 --> 00:20:45,702 Let us be connected, all of us in this great endeavour... 308 00:20:45,745 --> 00:20:48,621 through the marvelous maze of our inter-netted post. 309 00:20:48,664 --> 00:20:50,331 What are you doing, Father? 310 00:20:50,374 --> 00:20:53,042 Mr. Bradley and I are putting a big hole in the ground. 311 00:20:53,085 --> 00:20:55,086 - But what for? - For a scriptorium. 312 00:20:55,129 --> 00:20:57,839 That's a room like in medieval monasteries... 313 00:20:57,882 --> 00:21:00,592 where monastic scribes used to copy manuscripts. 314 00:21:00,634 --> 00:21:04,053 Look, look at that, look what I found! Treasure! 315 00:21:04,096 --> 00:21:06,389 Will you clean that for me? 316 00:21:06,432 --> 00:21:07,849 Yes, Father. 317 00:21:07,892 --> 00:21:09,350 Aye. 318 00:21:19,904 --> 00:21:21,446 It is a long run... 319 00:21:21,489 --> 00:21:23,531 but we can bear the language aloft. 320 00:21:24,992 --> 00:21:26,284 Mr. Bradley. 321 00:21:26,327 --> 00:21:28,453 With you, our volunteers... 322 00:21:28,496 --> 00:21:29,996 as rungs in the ladder... 323 00:21:30,039 --> 00:21:32,290 we may elevate English even unto the gates of heaven. 324 00:21:49,183 --> 00:21:51,810 - Come on. - Get off me! 325 00:21:51,852 --> 00:21:53,645 Easy. 326 00:22:11,831 --> 00:22:14,249 Get him off of me! Who did that to me? 327 00:22:17,670 --> 00:22:20,129 Stand clear! Get out of the way! 328 00:22:20,172 --> 00:22:21,714 Go on, take me! 329 00:22:30,850 --> 00:22:35,895 Get out of the way, get back! Get back, now, now, move, move! 330 00:22:43,612 --> 00:22:45,154 Look at me, look at me! 331 00:22:45,197 --> 00:22:47,198 Son, son, listen to me, listen to me. 332 00:22:47,241 --> 00:22:49,200 We're gonna lift the gate just a bit... 333 00:22:49,243 --> 00:22:51,035 let's see if you can pull your leg through. 334 00:22:51,078 --> 00:22:52,328 I don't know, sir. 335 00:22:52,371 --> 00:22:53,746 We've gotta do it, son, we gotta do it. 336 00:22:53,789 --> 00:22:55,623 Will you let us try? Hey, hey? 337 00:22:55,666 --> 00:22:56,958 Good boy, good boy... 338 00:22:57,001 --> 00:22:59,794 after three, one, two... 339 00:23:11,807 --> 00:23:16,436 Out of my way! Out of my way! 340 00:23:16,478 --> 00:23:19,898 How far is the nearest blacksmith? 341 00:23:22,943 --> 00:23:24,402 Crowthorne. 342 00:23:24,445 --> 00:23:27,864 The nearest surgeon? 343 00:23:27,907 --> 00:23:30,867 Crowthorne Village, it's half an hour, there and back. 344 00:23:44,298 --> 00:23:49,469 I want a sharp knife and a saw. 345 00:23:49,511 --> 00:23:51,220 Get it up! 346 00:23:54,683 --> 00:23:59,687 In a half hour's time, this man will have bled to death. 347 00:23:59,730 --> 00:24:01,648 - Coleman. - Yes, sir. 348 00:24:01,690 --> 00:24:05,443 Get a sharp knife and a saw. Quickly! 349 00:24:20,751 --> 00:24:24,420 Now you listen to me, doctor, I know who you are... 350 00:24:24,463 --> 00:24:25,880 and how you got in here... 351 00:24:25,923 --> 00:24:28,049 and believe me when I say that none of your wealth... 352 00:24:28,092 --> 00:24:30,385 will do you any good if you try anything. 353 00:25:01,750 --> 00:25:04,085 Your saw. 354 00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:14,303 You wrap the wound in boiled rags. 355 00:25:14,346 --> 00:25:18,266 Keep the belt tight and get him to a surgeon. 356 00:25:18,308 --> 00:25:20,893 Your ligation held, hemorrhaging was low... 357 00:25:20,936 --> 00:25:23,813 his condition is delicate, but he is alive. 358 00:25:24,481 --> 00:25:26,941 We are all extremely grateful to you, Dr. Minor. 359 00:25:26,984 --> 00:25:28,943 Was the wound swabbed, dressed in phenol? 360 00:25:28,986 --> 00:25:31,904 Luckily, our local surgeon is well versed... 361 00:25:31,947 --> 00:25:34,657 in Lister's latest antisepsis and asepsis methods... 362 00:25:34,700 --> 00:25:36,117 as I see are you. 363 00:25:41,749 --> 00:25:43,791 Rush's Tranquilizer. 364 00:25:43,834 --> 00:25:46,627 Dr. Rush, he was an American Army surgeon for a time... 365 00:25:46,670 --> 00:25:48,171 as well, I believe. 366 00:25:48,213 --> 00:25:50,256 Dr. Rush believed that if the patient could be rendered... 367 00:25:50,299 --> 00:25:52,842 entirely immobile during the convulsions of mania... 368 00:25:52,885 --> 00:25:55,553 then madness itself would be countered. 369 00:25:55,596 --> 00:25:57,263 Barbaric in its simplicity. 370 00:25:59,349 --> 00:26:02,101 It's a relic, really, from the dark days of my profession... 371 00:26:02,144 --> 00:26:06,814 but it still has its uses when combined with modern techniques. 372 00:26:06,857 --> 00:26:09,108 You think I'm insane. 373 00:26:09,151 --> 00:26:12,403 Are we not all, to some extent? 374 00:26:12,446 --> 00:26:17,492 You do experience yourself as being under threat, do you not? 375 00:26:17,534 --> 00:26:22,830 A man is coming for me. 376 00:26:22,873 --> 00:26:26,084 From my confinement, I will not see him come. 377 00:26:26,126 --> 00:26:31,255 So if you will permit me, I would ask your vigilance. 378 00:26:31,298 --> 00:26:35,093 And that you have your men alert me. 379 00:26:36,678 --> 00:26:39,055 He is easily identifiable. 380 00:26:39,098 --> 00:26:45,812 He has a brand mark on the left side of his face. 381 00:26:45,854 --> 00:26:49,232 Dr. Minor, rest assured we will do everything... 382 00:26:49,274 --> 00:26:52,235 in our power to ensure your safety. 383 00:26:52,277 --> 00:26:56,030 Is there anything else I can help you with? 384 00:26:56,073 --> 00:26:59,742 I have a pension from the United States Army. 385 00:26:59,785 --> 00:27:03,037 I wish that the greater portion of it... 386 00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:07,125 be given to Mrs. Merrett in support of her children. 387 00:27:07,167 --> 00:27:09,877 Well, I'm sure that can be arranged. 388 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:14,048 Sir? I'd like to take care of that personally. 389 00:27:14,091 --> 00:27:16,926 There you are, Dr. Minor. 390 00:27:16,969 --> 00:27:18,803 You have our very best man on the case. 391 00:27:18,846 --> 00:27:20,596 Thank you, Mr. Muncie. 392 00:27:42,578 --> 00:27:44,787 There are children sleeping here. 393 00:27:46,623 --> 00:27:48,749 Only a letter to deliver, ma'am. 394 00:27:48,792 --> 00:27:50,960 Bit late for the post, ain't it? 395 00:27:51,003 --> 00:27:52,336 You lot are terrible liars. 396 00:27:52,379 --> 00:27:55,882 I'm not from the papers, or the police, I'm not. 397 00:27:55,924 --> 00:27:57,592 Not here to bother you at all. 398 00:27:57,634 --> 00:28:01,220 I needed to make sure you got it right personal. 399 00:28:01,263 --> 00:28:03,556 I'll just slide it under the door. 400 00:28:06,768 --> 00:28:09,979 I'm not from the papers. 401 00:28:10,022 --> 00:28:11,272 Who are you then? 402 00:28:11,315 --> 00:28:15,902 I'm Muncie, ma'am, I'm hoping to help. 403 00:28:19,198 --> 00:28:20,615 Is this from you? 404 00:28:20,657 --> 00:28:24,160 No, ma'am, the letter will explain. 405 00:28:24,203 --> 00:28:26,120 Who's it from? 406 00:28:44,306 --> 00:28:46,349 She wouldn't consider it. 407 00:28:46,391 --> 00:28:49,101 Thank you, Mr. Muncie. 408 00:28:59,529 --> 00:29:01,530 Look again, we must have it. 409 00:29:01,573 --> 00:29:03,574 I have looked and we do not... 410 00:29:03,617 --> 00:29:06,452 I have quotes for it in the 14th, the 15th... 411 00:29:06,495 --> 00:29:10,122 the 16th and the 19th, but not in the 17th and 18th centuries. 412 00:29:10,165 --> 00:29:11,457 How is that possible? 413 00:29:11,500 --> 00:29:13,626 How can Ruskin write the sculpture is approved... 414 00:29:13,669 --> 00:29:15,878 and set off by the color in 1849? 415 00:29:15,921 --> 00:29:19,799 How can I, now use it everyday, if you are telling me... 416 00:29:19,841 --> 00:29:21,509 that it vanished in the 17th century. 417 00:29:21,551 --> 00:29:23,094 Where did it go for 200 years? 418 00:29:23,136 --> 00:29:25,554 I am not saying that it vanished, sir. 419 00:29:25,597 --> 00:29:28,641 I am simply saying that we do not have proof. 420 00:29:28,684 --> 00:29:30,309 Look again, Charles. 421 00:29:30,352 --> 00:29:32,228 And where exactly would you like me to look, sir... 422 00:29:32,271 --> 00:29:36,440 in the birthday cards perhaps or the medicinal instructions... 423 00:29:36,483 --> 00:29:37,775 or the how-to manuals... 424 00:29:37,818 --> 00:29:40,194 or perhaps the Guy Fawkes day messages? 425 00:29:40,237 --> 00:29:42,905 And we're only just dealing with A here. 426 00:29:42,948 --> 00:29:46,534 What of B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K? 427 00:29:46,576 --> 00:29:48,244 It's bloody hopeless, sir! 428 00:29:48,287 --> 00:29:53,332 Mr. Hall! Please try to maintain a semblance of decorum. 429 00:29:53,375 --> 00:29:56,419 Henry, what exactly is the problem here? 430 00:29:56,461 --> 00:30:00,131 It's approve, sir. There is a missing link. 431 00:30:00,173 --> 00:30:01,632 To say nothing of art. 432 00:30:01,675 --> 00:30:05,303 We're missing approve in the 17th and 18th centuries. 433 00:30:05,345 --> 00:30:07,013 We can't find a single trace of it. 434 00:30:07,055 --> 00:30:09,140 Look at Paradise Lost. 435 00:30:09,182 --> 00:30:10,766 The language took a crucial turn with Milton. 436 00:30:10,809 --> 00:30:12,727 He was somewhat of a purist... 437 00:30:12,769 --> 00:30:15,730 re-affirming the meaning of his English. 438 00:30:15,772 --> 00:30:17,148 The key would be in there. Try that. 439 00:30:17,190 --> 00:30:19,692 Perhaps we can skip the 17th century, sir. 440 00:30:19,735 --> 00:30:23,487 We have its birth in 1380 with John Wyclif. 441 00:30:23,530 --> 00:30:26,240 Christ confirmed his law and with his death approved it. 442 00:30:26,283 --> 00:30:28,159 And we have Ruskin here in this century. 443 00:30:28,201 --> 00:30:31,162 Mr. Bradley, we must have every step. 444 00:30:31,204 --> 00:30:33,706 This is not about the centuries. 445 00:30:33,749 --> 00:30:37,043 This is about recording the evolution of meaning. 446 00:30:37,085 --> 00:30:39,545 Go to Milton, it's right here. 447 00:30:39,588 --> 00:30:42,131 Yes, sir. 448 00:30:51,683 --> 00:30:52,850 Mr. Bradley. 449 00:30:52,893 --> 00:30:54,226 Charles. 450 00:30:59,900 --> 00:31:02,109 Accepted. 451 00:31:16,124 --> 00:31:18,250 Razor! Bring me my razor! 452 00:31:18,293 --> 00:31:21,796 Sir Richard! Calm down! 453 00:31:21,838 --> 00:31:23,756 The razor, bring me my razor! 454 00:31:23,799 --> 00:31:25,257 Lads, bloody well hurry up! 455 00:31:26,635 --> 00:31:28,844 Bring it, bring me the razor! 456 00:31:30,263 --> 00:31:33,307 - Bring me the razor! - Come on, hurry up! 457 00:31:35,394 --> 00:31:38,687 Father! Father! Father! Father! 458 00:31:38,730 --> 00:31:42,149 Father! Father! Father! 459 00:31:44,194 --> 00:31:47,071 This man, Declan Reilly, is a deserter. 460 00:31:54,204 --> 00:31:56,497 Mark him for what he is. 461 00:32:38,874 --> 00:32:41,542 Zinc... I'll need sheets of zinc... 462 00:32:41,585 --> 00:32:44,253 He must have come from below. 463 00:32:44,296 --> 00:32:47,756 And water, in a bowl, by the threshold. 464 00:32:47,799 --> 00:32:50,426 This, the demon will not pass. 465 00:32:50,469 --> 00:32:51,927 What's on the other side, doctor? 466 00:32:51,970 --> 00:32:54,763 The night, he wants to take me there. 467 00:32:54,806 --> 00:32:58,934 With his blind eyes, he can only see me in the dark. 468 00:32:58,977 --> 00:33:01,687 How would you feel if we brightened the light? 469 00:33:01,730 --> 00:33:02,688 As treatment? 470 00:33:02,731 --> 00:33:04,190 I don't need treatment! 471 00:33:04,232 --> 00:33:06,400 Not as treatment! As an experiment! 472 00:33:06,443 --> 00:33:08,777 I need to see him come so I can defend myself! 473 00:33:08,820 --> 00:33:12,198 An experiment in self-protection... 474 00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:16,702 we embark on together, doctor, yes? 475 00:33:16,745 --> 00:33:18,746 Let me take a look at these. 476 00:33:18,788 --> 00:33:21,248 Superficial lacerations, multiple to the face. 477 00:33:21,291 --> 00:33:23,334 How would you feel, doctor... 478 00:33:23,376 --> 00:33:28,881 if we were to introduce some of the comforts of home? 479 00:33:28,924 --> 00:33:31,926 Orthognathous jaw, facial angle, 80 degrees... 480 00:33:31,968 --> 00:33:35,888 maybe some clothing, amativeness, 8 incline... 481 00:33:35,931 --> 00:33:37,973 philoprogenitiveness, 4 decline. 482 00:33:38,016 --> 00:33:39,391 How would that be? 483 00:33:39,434 --> 00:33:41,101 My own wardrobe as protection? 484 00:33:41,144 --> 00:33:45,606 As protection, precisely. Adhesiveness, 3 constant. 485 00:33:45,649 --> 00:33:49,276 Combativeness, 6 incline. Secretiveness, 8. 486 00:33:49,319 --> 00:33:51,862 Hope, 4, constant. 487 00:33:51,905 --> 00:33:55,574 Yes, the simple things that we can fit into your surroundings. 488 00:33:55,617 --> 00:33:58,077 It also happens that the adjoining cell... 489 00:33:58,119 --> 00:34:01,580 has become available, you could stretch your legs. 490 00:34:01,623 --> 00:34:03,874 It would give me a space to paint. 491 00:34:03,917 --> 00:34:05,584 I could have easels with paints. 492 00:34:05,627 --> 00:34:11,966 Certainly. Wonder, Ideality, Wit, Form. All 8, decline. 493 00:34:12,008 --> 00:34:15,344 Eventuality undetermined. Do you have any other requests, doctor? 494 00:34:15,387 --> 00:34:17,972 My books. May I have my books? 495 00:34:18,014 --> 00:34:19,181 By all means, anything else? 496 00:34:19,224 --> 00:34:20,808 My gun. 497 00:34:20,850 --> 00:34:23,602 Perhaps we'll give that one a miss. 498 00:34:23,645 --> 00:34:24,770 Thank you, doctor. 499 00:34:24,813 --> 00:34:26,730 Please, don't thank me. 500 00:34:26,773 --> 00:34:28,482 It has been a long time since anyone has... 501 00:34:28,525 --> 00:34:34,238 My dear friend, no thanks, no thanks... 502 00:34:34,281 --> 00:34:36,782 a new beginning. 503 00:34:39,536 --> 00:34:43,247 Yes, a new beginning, yes. 504 00:34:43,623 --> 00:34:48,294 How can a man of such high breeding... 505 00:34:48,336 --> 00:34:55,467 have regressed through disease so far back to animality? 506 00:35:00,348 --> 00:35:01,807 Doctor? 507 00:35:03,685 --> 00:35:05,060 Mr. Muncie? 508 00:35:05,103 --> 00:35:08,022 We wanted to give you this, sir, the lads all chipped in. 509 00:35:08,064 --> 00:35:10,899 And what have we here? 510 00:35:10,942 --> 00:35:15,988 It's a book, sir. We're all grateful to you. 511 00:35:16,031 --> 00:35:18,198 Yes, it is. Thank you, Mr. Muncie. 512 00:35:18,241 --> 00:35:20,701 For saving a young guard's life, sir. 513 00:35:20,744 --> 00:35:25,414 I will read it avidly and I will treasure it forever! 514 00:35:25,457 --> 00:35:28,417 You thank your men on my behalf! 515 00:35:28,460 --> 00:35:30,127 Merry Christmas, sir. 516 00:35:30,170 --> 00:35:32,838 Merry Christmas, you too, yes. 517 00:35:37,260 --> 00:35:40,012 Ham, Mr. Muncie! 518 00:35:41,222 --> 00:35:42,848 Sir? 519 00:35:42,891 --> 00:35:48,228 I find that a good, warm ham is often better... 520 00:35:48,271 --> 00:35:50,731 for fighting the cold than any number of blankets... 521 00:35:50,774 --> 00:35:55,402 or coals in the fire, especially at this time of year. 522 00:35:58,907 --> 00:36:00,199 Did he like the book, sir? 523 00:36:00,241 --> 00:36:01,700 - The book? - Yeah. 524 00:36:01,743 --> 00:36:04,036 - I don't know. - Well, has he read it? 525 00:36:04,079 --> 00:36:05,871 - Well, he opened the wrapping. - Yes, sir. 526 00:36:05,914 --> 00:36:07,956 - And then he opened the book. - Yes. 527 00:36:07,999 --> 00:36:10,417 And then he threw it out the window. 528 00:36:10,460 --> 00:36:11,669 He what? 529 00:36:11,711 --> 00:36:13,462 Yeah, he said a demon vaporized off the page... 530 00:36:13,505 --> 00:36:14,713 and went up his nostrils. 531 00:36:14,756 --> 00:36:16,090 His nostrils? 532 00:36:16,132 --> 00:36:18,342 He's in there now trying to pull out his nose hairs. 533 00:36:37,612 --> 00:36:41,031 To chart the life of each word, we must start... 534 00:36:41,074 --> 00:36:44,993 with a record of its birth, when it was first written down. 535 00:36:45,036 --> 00:36:48,038 From there, words come down to us through the ages... 536 00:36:48,081 --> 00:36:50,332 twisting and turning, weaving their way. 537 00:36:50,375 --> 00:36:53,043 Their meanings slipping and slivering, offishlike, adding... 538 00:36:53,086 --> 00:36:56,880 and shedding subtleties of nuance to and from themselves. 539 00:36:56,923 --> 00:36:59,049 But they leave tracks... 540 00:36:59,092 --> 00:37:02,553 in the great expanse of the literature... 541 00:37:02,595 --> 00:37:04,304 of the English language. 542 00:37:08,143 --> 00:37:10,352 We will chase them, hunt them... 543 00:37:10,395 --> 00:37:14,898 and ferret them out, all of them, every single word... 544 00:37:14,941 --> 00:37:16,817 from all the centuries of writing... 545 00:37:16,860 --> 00:37:20,404 and we will do so by reading every single book. 546 00:37:24,117 --> 00:37:27,035 Can it be done? 547 00:37:32,083 --> 00:37:36,044 You crazy, beautiful bastard! 548 00:37:36,087 --> 00:37:38,213 Guard! Guard! 549 00:37:41,176 --> 00:37:42,718 Ink, I'll need ink. 550 00:37:42,761 --> 00:37:44,636 Yes, sir, I understand, sir. 551 00:37:44,679 --> 00:37:46,722 - Paper. - Yes, sir. 552 00:37:46,765 --> 00:37:49,349 - Lots and lots of it. - I'll see what I can do, doctor. 553 00:37:49,392 --> 00:37:52,060 And Coleman... 554 00:37:52,103 --> 00:37:53,645 Yes, sir? 555 00:37:53,688 --> 00:37:59,526 Would you be so kind as to dispose of this for me? 556 00:38:01,988 --> 00:38:03,489 What is it, sir? 557 00:38:03,531 --> 00:38:04,823 You can't see? 558 00:38:07,494 --> 00:38:09,912 Yes, of course, I can, sir... 559 00:38:09,954 --> 00:38:12,623 Yes, nasal hair, mind the demonic vapors... 560 00:38:12,665 --> 00:38:13,957 make sure to wash your hands... 561 00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:16,877 and I'll make sure to fish out some more later. 562 00:38:19,255 --> 00:38:21,882 - Thank you, sir. - Thank you, Coleman. 563 00:38:26,429 --> 00:38:29,139 I'm too cold. I'm gonna get myself home. 564 00:38:29,182 --> 00:38:31,892 We'll warm each other up, come on. 565 00:38:31,935 --> 00:38:35,103 - I'm too cold. - Oh, you got a smile. 566 00:38:35,146 --> 00:38:37,481 - I can't, it's too cold! - Come on! 567 00:38:37,524 --> 00:38:40,067 No! 568 00:38:40,109 --> 00:38:43,111 No, no, you promised me! You promised me! 569 00:38:43,154 --> 00:38:45,697 Get off, I don't owe you nothing! 570 00:38:45,740 --> 00:38:49,284 What am I meant to feed my little ones with? 571 00:38:49,327 --> 00:38:52,579 I don't know, ask their father. 572 00:39:14,310 --> 00:39:16,687 How are them matches coming? 573 00:39:24,195 --> 00:39:26,947 Mum, you alright? 574 00:39:26,990 --> 00:39:29,449 Yeah, yeah, I just needed a moment. 575 00:39:52,807 --> 00:39:54,892 Please, can I help you? 576 00:39:54,934 --> 00:39:56,768 It'll be alright. 577 00:39:56,811 --> 00:39:59,187 Good evening, I was wondering, is your mum around? 578 00:39:59,230 --> 00:40:01,440 We'll get those matches done by night's end. 579 00:40:02,859 --> 00:40:04,443 It's a man at the door. 580 00:40:04,485 --> 00:40:06,945 Tell him it's Christmas and he'll go away. 581 00:40:13,369 --> 00:40:15,537 Could you just give her this for me... 582 00:40:15,580 --> 00:40:18,874 and tell your mother Happy Christmas from Mr. Muncie? 583 00:40:18,917 --> 00:40:20,918 Goodnight, girls. 584 00:40:22,170 --> 00:40:24,171 Mum? 585 00:40:28,384 --> 00:40:30,969 It's a ham in one, the other, he didn't say. 586 00:40:31,012 --> 00:40:32,846 He said tell your mum Happy Christmas. 587 00:40:32,889 --> 00:40:34,556 Happy Christmas from Mr. Muncie. 588 00:40:34,599 --> 00:40:40,187 It's alright then, isn't it, Mum? 589 00:40:45,485 --> 00:40:49,363 Sir, stop, sir, please! 590 00:40:49,405 --> 00:40:50,614 Yes, dear? 591 00:40:57,747 --> 00:40:59,456 Is that supposed to be me? 592 00:40:59,499 --> 00:41:01,416 Yeah. 593 00:41:05,755 --> 00:41:07,756 Good night then, Mrs. Merrett. 594 00:41:07,799 --> 00:41:10,634 Good night and thank you. 595 00:41:15,306 --> 00:41:16,723 Forgive me for saying, ma'am... 596 00:41:16,766 --> 00:41:21,561 but it doesn't have to be this way. 597 00:41:21,604 --> 00:41:23,230 The children, they don't need to go hungry. 598 00:41:23,272 --> 00:41:27,067 There is one waiting to feed them. 599 00:41:31,322 --> 00:41:33,407 Take me to him. 600 00:41:33,449 --> 00:41:38,453 Let me look him in the eye, see if I can stomach him. 601 00:41:38,496 --> 00:41:40,956 I went to a banquet and I ate apples... 602 00:41:40,999 --> 00:41:43,250 bananas, and cranberries. 603 00:41:43,292 --> 00:41:48,213 I went to the banquet and I ate apples... 604 00:41:48,256 --> 00:41:50,465 bananas, cranberries, and dog. 605 00:41:50,508 --> 00:41:52,968 That can't be, you can't eat dog. 606 00:41:53,011 --> 00:41:54,094 Yes, I can. 607 00:41:54,137 --> 00:41:56,054 No, you can't. 608 00:41:56,097 --> 00:42:02,144 Mum! Mother! Mum? 609 00:42:27,378 --> 00:42:28,670 Merry Christmas all! 610 00:42:30,339 --> 00:42:33,800 Hey! We're taking fire, Mr. Bradley! 611 00:42:35,803 --> 00:42:37,054 Pounce on them! 612 00:42:44,145 --> 00:42:45,812 Ah, you wee...! 613 00:42:56,199 --> 00:42:57,824 Well, you deserved it. 614 00:43:01,913 --> 00:43:04,414 Faster! 615 00:43:04,457 --> 00:43:07,834 Do you remember our first Christmas at the school? 616 00:43:07,877 --> 00:43:11,713 Harold was no more than 8 or 9 months old. 617 00:43:11,756 --> 00:43:16,718 Such a fat, little baby. Do you remember how he used to cry? 618 00:43:16,761 --> 00:43:18,512 Oh, god. 619 00:43:18,554 --> 00:43:21,431 One night, he was screaming so hard... 620 00:43:21,474 --> 00:43:24,684 I don't know how his little body could do it. 621 00:43:24,727 --> 00:43:29,189 Every ounce of him shrieking. Nothing I tried would calm him. 622 00:43:29,232 --> 00:43:33,610 I was frightened, then you came home. 623 00:43:33,653 --> 00:43:36,154 You lifted him up into your arms... 624 00:43:36,197 --> 00:43:40,408 you held him to your chest, and he stopped. 625 00:43:41,577 --> 00:43:46,123 He was so exhausted he fell asleep instantly. 626 00:43:46,165 --> 00:43:51,211 It's always been that way, with all of them. 627 00:43:51,254 --> 00:43:54,047 You had something I didn't. 628 00:43:54,090 --> 00:43:58,218 So I taught myself to be what you were not. 629 00:43:58,261 --> 00:44:01,346 Strict, fixed, changeless. 630 00:44:01,389 --> 00:44:05,725 A queen and a clown, together a perfect whole. 631 00:44:05,768 --> 00:44:07,144 What if it changed? 632 00:44:07,186 --> 00:44:10,147 What if you're not there to be the clown? 633 00:44:12,233 --> 00:44:14,693 I know I've been less than present lately... 634 00:44:14,735 --> 00:44:19,114 but change will come, and for the better. 635 00:44:19,157 --> 00:44:22,576 I wish I had your certainty. 636 00:44:28,457 --> 00:44:32,210 Want to put the fire out when you come to bed? 637 00:44:40,595 --> 00:44:42,846 I thought you might be here, sir. 638 00:44:42,889 --> 00:44:45,640 I have a few hours before my little ones wake... 639 00:44:45,683 --> 00:44:47,392 for Christmas morning. 640 00:44:47,435 --> 00:44:49,019 I thought I might take another look at approve. 641 00:44:49,061 --> 00:44:51,479 That'll make it two of us. 642 00:45:00,656 --> 00:45:04,576 William? Dr. Minor? 643 00:45:07,038 --> 00:45:09,623 I have a proposal for you. 644 00:45:09,665 --> 00:45:11,374 There's been a request for a meeting. 645 00:45:11,417 --> 00:45:16,880 Tristram Shandy, a gift from Mr. Muncie and his men... 646 00:45:16,923 --> 00:45:19,716 but much more. 647 00:45:21,928 --> 00:45:23,136 This is very delicate. 648 00:45:23,179 --> 00:45:26,389 I'll need books, far more volumes... 649 00:45:26,432 --> 00:45:27,933 than I have within my own reach. 650 00:45:27,975 --> 00:45:31,603 William, I think this could be very important for us. 651 00:45:31,646 --> 00:45:34,231 Oxford University has undertaken an inventory... 652 00:45:34,273 --> 00:45:40,070 of the entire English language, and they've asked for help. 653 00:45:41,239 --> 00:45:43,365 Are you listening to me? 654 00:45:48,871 --> 00:45:55,627 I'll be all right... with work, with this work. 655 00:45:57,713 --> 00:46:03,176 I'll be all right, but I need books... 656 00:46:03,219 --> 00:46:05,762 I only need books. 657 00:46:07,723 --> 00:46:10,433 Make me a list of all the titles that you require. 658 00:46:10,476 --> 00:46:13,603 If I have them, I'll get them sent to you. 659 00:46:13,646 --> 00:46:15,272 Thank you, doctor. 660 00:46:20,361 --> 00:46:21,861 William... 661 00:46:29,996 --> 00:46:32,455 When does she want to come? 662 00:46:42,300 --> 00:46:43,925 Mrs. Merrett. 663 00:46:47,888 --> 00:46:50,890 - Where is he? - It should only be a moment. 664 00:46:50,933 --> 00:46:54,602 I just wanted to make sure that everyone was breathing. 665 00:46:54,645 --> 00:46:58,440 There's a real generosity in your visit today... 666 00:46:58,482 --> 00:47:03,028 Mrs. Merrett... a true courage. 667 00:47:03,070 --> 00:47:05,530 Courage, doctor, is not why I came. 668 00:47:24,216 --> 00:47:28,595 Is it... Is it possible they wait? 669 00:47:47,198 --> 00:47:49,199 The letter. 670 00:47:49,950 --> 00:47:51,368 Yes. 671 00:47:55,581 --> 00:47:57,207 All right. 672 00:47:59,168 --> 00:48:00,293 How can... 673 00:48:00,336 --> 00:48:01,753 We'll take care of everything, sir. 674 00:48:01,796 --> 00:48:04,255 - Thank you, doctor. - Thank you, Mrs. Merrett. 675 00:48:09,303 --> 00:48:11,554 It doesn't make it right. 676 00:48:14,850 --> 00:48:18,269 What would you care to send her? 677 00:48:18,312 --> 00:48:20,230 Everything. 678 00:48:41,919 --> 00:48:44,379 Few of the earliest books have been read. 679 00:48:44,422 --> 00:48:47,215 It is in the 17th and 18th centuries above all... 680 00:48:47,258 --> 00:48:52,011 that help is urgently needed, for nearly the whole... 681 00:48:52,054 --> 00:48:55,056 of those centuries have still to be gone through. 682 00:48:55,099 --> 00:48:57,684 You may concentrate on the rare, also late... 683 00:48:57,726 --> 00:49:01,229 old-fashioned new and peculiar, but avoid not the quotidian... 684 00:49:01,272 --> 00:49:04,774 for every word in action becomes beautiful... 685 00:49:04,817 --> 00:49:06,776 in the light of its own meaning. 686 00:49:17,997 --> 00:49:22,750 Mr. Muncie! Mr. Muncie! 687 00:49:25,379 --> 00:49:28,298 Sorry to have woken you, I need your help with a post. 688 00:49:30,759 --> 00:49:33,928 Yes, well, is it night? 689 00:49:38,517 --> 00:49:42,437 Such a lot of it, need envelopes, tons... 690 00:49:42,480 --> 00:49:45,815 lots and lots of envelopes and a large bag. 691 00:49:45,858 --> 00:49:47,150 Yes, sir. 692 00:49:47,193 --> 00:49:48,568 And a carpenter, can you bring a carpenter by... 693 00:49:48,611 --> 00:49:50,445 in the morning, of course? 694 00:50:18,641 --> 00:50:20,600 Good morning, sir. 695 00:50:20,643 --> 00:50:22,852 Not so good I'm afraid, Henry. 696 00:50:22,895 --> 00:50:25,522 It's art, none of it is working. 697 00:50:25,564 --> 00:50:27,524 Are you sure, sir? I checked it myself last night. 698 00:50:27,566 --> 00:50:31,277 The construct is off. It has lost all sense of coherence. 699 00:50:31,320 --> 00:50:33,738 And it's missing countless variations of meaning. 700 00:50:33,781 --> 00:50:35,281 We'll have to start it anew. 701 00:50:35,324 --> 00:50:38,368 But, sir, it will take weeks just to reset the definitions. 702 00:50:38,410 --> 00:50:41,538 Mr. Gell has asked for me at the Press office this morning. 703 00:50:41,580 --> 00:50:44,499 I would very much like to see art torn apart... 704 00:50:44,542 --> 00:50:48,169 and restarted when I return? 705 00:50:48,212 --> 00:50:50,046 Very well, sir. 706 00:50:50,089 --> 00:50:51,756 Thank you, Henry. 707 00:51:03,060 --> 00:51:04,852 Your book, Mr. Murray, is going to be an unassailable... 708 00:51:04,895 --> 00:51:06,396 contribution to English scholarship. 709 00:51:06,438 --> 00:51:09,315 It will make you famous, when it is finished. 710 00:51:09,358 --> 00:51:11,234 Look around, Mr. Murray. 711 00:51:11,277 --> 00:51:15,780 Empire, one quarter of the land and peoples of this earth. 712 00:51:15,823 --> 00:51:19,158 The largest trading dominion ever known. 713 00:51:19,201 --> 00:51:22,287 If one wishes to participate, one bows down to Her Majesty... 714 00:51:22,329 --> 00:51:25,582 and one speaks her tongue, English. 715 00:51:27,042 --> 00:51:29,043 Forgive me, Mr. Gell... 716 00:51:29,086 --> 00:51:31,129 remind me why I am being kept from my work this morning. 717 00:51:31,171 --> 00:51:32,714 The Bible, Mr. Murray. 718 00:51:35,426 --> 00:51:37,594 I was brought onto the press... 719 00:51:37,636 --> 00:51:41,347 to modernize the commerce of academia, to sell. 720 00:51:41,390 --> 00:51:44,434 And do you know what the first hotcake I found was? 721 00:51:44,476 --> 00:51:46,060 The King James Bible... 722 00:51:46,103 --> 00:51:49,105 it has sold everywhere, in every backwater and morass... 723 00:51:49,148 --> 00:51:51,774 where an Englishman is doing God's work in a frock. 724 00:51:51,817 --> 00:51:54,277 We have operations on every continent. 725 00:51:54,320 --> 00:51:57,155 Depots in Edinburgh, Toronto, Melbourne and Calcutta. 726 00:51:57,197 --> 00:51:59,616 All printing, binding, dispatching all advertising... 727 00:51:59,658 --> 00:52:02,201 and all, now, ready for the next good book. 728 00:52:02,244 --> 00:52:04,787 All waiting for you. 729 00:52:04,830 --> 00:52:06,080 What is this? 730 00:52:06,123 --> 00:52:07,665 Your work is taking too long. 731 00:52:07,708 --> 00:52:09,083 Our expectations constantly revised... 732 00:52:09,126 --> 00:52:11,085 and not a single page to show for it. 733 00:52:11,128 --> 00:52:13,296 The delegates have unanimously agreed that I take charge... 734 00:52:13,339 --> 00:52:15,298 of keeping the project to time. 735 00:52:15,341 --> 00:52:17,759 To that effect, you have in your hands a set of suggestions... 736 00:52:17,801 --> 00:52:20,762 on how to curb the scope of the work. 737 00:52:20,804 --> 00:52:23,181 What we need is more rigorous selection... 738 00:52:23,223 --> 00:52:25,516 survival only of the fittest words. 739 00:52:31,732 --> 00:52:36,027 I'm tired. My team, we are all beyond tired. 740 00:52:37,696 --> 00:52:40,657 For months now, my pleas for help have fallen on deaf ears. 741 00:52:40,699 --> 00:52:41,866 You have refused to pay... 742 00:52:41,909 --> 00:52:44,452 for even for a single additional assistant. 743 00:52:45,913 --> 00:52:48,706 I began this intending to create something unprecedented. 744 00:52:48,749 --> 00:52:51,000 To order the world of words... 745 00:52:51,043 --> 00:52:54,629 making them universally accessible and useful. 746 00:52:54,672 --> 00:52:57,632 I swore that I would bend at nothing to make it happen. 747 00:52:57,675 --> 00:53:02,387 And as of now, this very moment, my resolve is greater than ever. 748 00:53:02,429 --> 00:53:04,305 You are on the verge of all out cancellation. 749 00:53:04,348 --> 00:53:06,391 These rules are designed to help keep the work going. 750 00:53:06,433 --> 00:53:07,850 You may not like them, Mr. Murray... 751 00:53:07,893 --> 00:53:09,102 but what other way is there? 752 00:53:09,144 --> 00:53:11,688 My way, Mr. Gell. 753 00:53:11,730 --> 00:53:16,317 Mr. Murray, we are watching with a concerned eye. 754 00:53:16,360 --> 00:53:19,862 Watch then, and be amazed. 755 00:53:30,165 --> 00:53:33,918 Lord in Heaven help me. I am lost. 756 00:53:35,421 --> 00:53:39,716 Sir! Sir! Sir? 757 00:53:39,758 --> 00:53:40,883 What? 758 00:53:40,926 --> 00:53:44,637 It's a miracle, it's impossible. 759 00:53:44,680 --> 00:53:46,139 Calm down, man, spit it out. 760 00:53:46,181 --> 00:53:49,434 - Approve, sir, it's complete. - Complete? 761 00:53:49,476 --> 00:53:50,935 You were right, sir. 762 00:53:50,978 --> 00:53:53,020 Others who approve not to transgress by thy example... 763 00:53:53,063 --> 00:53:53,938 Milton, Paradise Lost. 764 00:53:53,981 --> 00:53:55,022 You found it. 765 00:53:55,065 --> 00:53:56,774 No, not us, sir. You better read this. 766 00:53:56,817 --> 00:53:59,235 It is with a great sense of privilege... 767 00:53:59,278 --> 00:54:01,654 that I offer myself up as a volunteer. 768 00:54:01,697 --> 00:54:03,281 Please, sir, read on. 769 00:54:03,323 --> 00:54:06,743 Enclosed please find one-thousand word slips... 770 00:54:06,785 --> 00:54:09,328 with corresponding quotations... 771 00:54:09,371 --> 00:54:12,749 from the height and depth of literature. 772 00:54:12,791 --> 00:54:17,378 I have derived a key, a type of dictionary... 773 00:54:17,421 --> 00:54:21,132 within a dictionary, that allows the amassing of words... 774 00:54:21,175 --> 00:54:23,634 with addended quotations. 775 00:54:23,677 --> 00:54:25,720 My request is simple. 776 00:54:25,763 --> 00:54:28,264 To make your burden light. 777 00:54:28,307 --> 00:54:33,186 Write to me, tell me what specific words at present... 778 00:54:33,228 --> 00:54:36,105 shimmer and fade at your grasp. 779 00:54:37,983 --> 00:54:39,984 Let useful others troll the oceans... 780 00:54:40,027 --> 00:54:43,112 with their nets cast wide. 781 00:54:43,155 --> 00:54:46,824 I shall throw my line and pluck the very quotes... 782 00:54:46,867 --> 00:54:50,953 that evade you when you call upon me to do so. 783 00:54:53,749 --> 00:54:59,128 Very truly yours, W.C. Minor, Crowthorne, Berkshire. 784 00:55:01,006 --> 00:55:02,340 Look, it's all there. 785 00:55:02,382 --> 00:55:06,177 He's given us approve in the 17th and 18th centuries. 786 00:55:06,220 --> 00:55:07,053 And art? 787 00:55:07,095 --> 00:55:09,138 Not that one, but so much else. 788 00:55:09,181 --> 00:55:11,724 All in the A's, all words we're working on... 789 00:55:11,767 --> 00:55:14,310 and at first glance all of it usable. 790 00:55:16,355 --> 00:55:17,897 God has sent us a savior. 791 00:55:17,940 --> 00:55:20,191 Now all we have to do is try to keep up with him. 792 00:55:20,234 --> 00:55:22,276 Thank you, Mr. Hall. 793 00:55:22,319 --> 00:55:25,196 Let's have a good look at these slips. 794 00:55:27,366 --> 00:55:28,783 Sort these now. 795 00:55:28,826 --> 00:55:30,910 You cannot fathom the impact of both... 796 00:55:30,953 --> 00:55:34,747 your offer and your timing. I am your grateful recipient. 797 00:55:34,790 --> 00:55:38,000 Let paper and ink be our flesh and blood... 798 00:55:38,043 --> 00:55:39,377 until we are privileged to meet. 799 00:55:39,419 --> 00:55:40,837 That's right. 800 00:55:40,879 --> 00:55:42,255 Enclosed are a list of words that... 801 00:55:42,297 --> 00:55:45,174 at present are eluding us. 802 00:55:45,217 --> 00:55:49,053 The word art is proving particularly troublesome. 803 00:55:50,639 --> 00:55:53,015 Enclosed you will find the quotations... 804 00:55:53,058 --> 00:55:54,767 that you have requested. 805 00:55:54,810 --> 00:55:58,521 In pondering art, I am reminded of the words... 806 00:55:58,564 --> 00:56:01,357 of a great man of our time who said... 807 00:56:01,400 --> 00:56:07,113 all great and beautiful work has come of first gazing... 808 00:56:07,155 --> 00:56:09,991 without shrinking into the darkness. 809 00:56:10,033 --> 00:56:11,659 May I, sir? 810 00:56:11,702 --> 00:56:12,827 Aye. 811 00:56:21,837 --> 00:56:25,298 I have been much acquainted with that darkness. 812 00:56:25,340 --> 00:56:29,677 Thank you for letting me lend my light to yours. 813 00:56:29,720 --> 00:56:32,972 Together we shall shrink the darkness... 814 00:56:33,015 --> 00:56:35,558 until there is only light. 815 00:56:35,601 --> 00:56:40,771 Yours, W.C. Minor. Crowthorne, Berkshire. 816 00:56:44,484 --> 00:56:46,562 Ah, here it is... 817 00:56:56,163 --> 00:56:58,706 Now we'll put your name on it too. 818 00:57:01,960 --> 00:57:05,379 Mr. Bradley, can I have another fascicle, please? 819 00:57:05,422 --> 00:57:10,176 I know of another who's joy in seeing it would be immeasurable. 820 00:57:14,473 --> 00:57:16,349 Yes, ma'am. 821 00:57:16,391 --> 00:57:18,517 Is Mr. Muncie working? 822 00:57:18,560 --> 00:57:20,061 He is. 823 00:57:20,103 --> 00:57:22,688 Could you please tell him Mrs. Merrett is here to see him? 824 00:57:22,731 --> 00:57:24,523 I will indeed, ma'am. 825 00:57:34,618 --> 00:57:36,077 Hello, ma'am. 826 00:57:36,119 --> 00:57:37,536 Mr. Muncie. 827 00:57:41,291 --> 00:57:43,668 So pleased you've returned, Mrs. Merrett. 828 00:57:43,710 --> 00:57:46,337 Come on in then, ma'am. 829 00:57:46,380 --> 00:57:50,299 It's very interesting. 830 00:57:56,223 --> 00:57:58,140 Come in, doctor. 831 00:58:07,901 --> 00:58:09,986 Mrs. Merrett has brought you a book. 832 00:58:10,028 --> 00:58:14,073 Yes, from Maggs, the book shop. 833 00:58:14,116 --> 00:58:15,783 I was told you like to read. 834 00:58:18,912 --> 00:58:20,287 Thank you. 835 00:58:21,790 --> 00:58:24,250 Would you care to take a walk on the grounds, madam? 836 00:58:24,292 --> 00:58:26,377 It is a beautiful spring day. 837 00:58:30,090 --> 00:58:32,174 Did you read it? 838 00:58:33,969 --> 00:58:38,222 Great Expectations, the book you brought me? Is it a favorite? 839 00:58:38,265 --> 00:58:41,517 No, no, the shop suggested it. 840 00:58:45,022 --> 00:58:49,232 I came to say thank you. 841 00:58:51,528 --> 00:58:54,905 The children, they're not going hungry no more. 842 00:58:54,948 --> 00:58:58,117 They've got warm clothes now, even for next year, but... 843 00:58:58,160 --> 00:59:00,077 It's never too late with children. 844 00:59:00,120 --> 00:59:01,620 Their whole lives are tomorrows. 845 00:59:04,374 --> 00:59:09,378 But I can't go on taking your money. It's... It's not right. 846 00:59:09,421 --> 00:59:12,048 - Please, Mrs. Merrett. - It's blood money. 847 00:59:12,090 --> 00:59:17,011 I know, but it's my blood too. My life belongs to you. 848 00:59:17,054 --> 00:59:18,971 I made it so on that night. 849 00:59:19,014 --> 00:59:21,015 I took a life and by dreadful bargain... 850 00:59:21,058 --> 00:59:22,683 I've placed another in your hands. 851 00:59:22,726 --> 00:59:24,393 By right, all that I have is yours. 852 00:59:28,065 --> 00:59:32,359 I don't know what to think. I don't know why I came. 853 00:59:34,237 --> 00:59:36,906 Mrs. Merrett, please! 854 00:59:40,327 --> 00:59:43,496 Well, let me know if she comes back. 855 00:59:45,582 --> 00:59:48,250 Let's have a look at those chains. 856 01:00:06,770 --> 01:00:07,937 Thank you. 857 01:00:09,064 --> 01:00:10,397 Can I help you, sir? 858 01:00:10,440 --> 01:00:12,399 Yes, I'm here to see the superintendent. 859 01:00:12,442 --> 01:00:13,442 Are you expected? 860 01:00:13,485 --> 01:00:15,152 No, I came on impulse. 861 01:00:15,195 --> 01:00:18,405 I'm James Murray, I am a friend of Dr. Minor's... 862 01:00:18,448 --> 01:00:20,074 yet only through the post. 863 01:00:20,117 --> 01:00:23,285 Dr. Minor, the superintendent. 864 01:00:23,328 --> 01:00:26,288 I came to bring him this fruit of our labor. 865 01:00:26,331 --> 01:00:28,666 I know who you are, sir. 866 01:00:28,708 --> 01:00:33,337 I posted all the letters for him. I licked the stamps myself. 867 01:00:33,380 --> 01:00:36,006 Oh, thank you, for your mother tongue. 868 01:00:37,551 --> 01:00:39,343 Yeah, I'll see what I can do. 869 01:00:44,182 --> 01:00:48,227 - So this is the good doctor? - Mr. Murray, sir. 870 01:00:48,270 --> 01:00:52,231 Dr. Minor, I'm proud to make your acquaintance, sir. 871 01:01:10,125 --> 01:01:11,500 I cannot believe my eyes. 872 01:01:11,543 --> 01:01:14,086 Nor I, nor this surprise. 873 01:01:16,339 --> 01:01:17,882 How did you gain entrance? 874 01:01:17,924 --> 01:01:22,094 I came on the off chance and to bring you this. 875 01:01:22,137 --> 01:01:23,637 Our gathering, so far. 876 01:01:23,680 --> 01:01:26,265 Meek, but poised to inherit the earth. 877 01:01:26,308 --> 01:01:29,685 I thank you. You deserve to be proud. 878 01:01:30,937 --> 01:01:32,062 Dumbfounded. 879 01:01:32,105 --> 01:01:33,314 You've been a bulwark for us, doctor. 880 01:01:33,356 --> 01:01:35,274 I'm happy to be of assistance... 881 01:01:35,317 --> 01:01:39,153 though I am merely worker to the queen. The alveary is yours. 882 01:01:39,196 --> 01:01:41,530 Ah, you sent the quote for alveary? From... 883 01:01:41,573 --> 01:01:42,823 Baret, 1580. 884 01:01:42,866 --> 01:01:44,366 Of course, the early dictionaries of English... 885 01:01:44,409 --> 01:01:47,119 Latin, French and Greek, but of course, you know that. 886 01:01:47,162 --> 01:01:48,662 Of course, I don't. 887 01:01:48,705 --> 01:01:52,166 I do know the poets. You, in your letters, know the scribe. 888 01:01:52,209 --> 01:01:54,835 Now my task is to de-scribe. 889 01:01:54,878 --> 01:01:57,963 Alveary, such a lovely buzz to it. 890 01:01:58,006 --> 01:02:01,258 How about cosh, or fettle? 891 01:02:01,301 --> 01:02:04,178 Fine. Louche. 892 01:02:04,221 --> 01:02:05,304 I remember that from childhood. 893 01:02:05,347 --> 01:02:07,264 It always seemed undressed. 894 01:02:07,307 --> 01:02:09,099 Commotrix, I adore that one... 895 01:02:09,142 --> 01:02:11,310 sounds as though it wants trouble. 896 01:02:11,353 --> 01:02:13,687 Troublesome indeed, and difficult to find. 897 01:02:13,730 --> 01:02:14,980 Gyre. 898 01:02:15,023 --> 01:02:17,483 A revolution, a whirl. 899 01:02:17,525 --> 01:02:18,734 Decussated. 900 01:02:18,777 --> 01:02:21,153 Formed by crossing lines, an X, an intersection. 901 01:02:21,196 --> 01:02:23,447 Perhaps you should be writing definitions and I... 902 01:02:23,490 --> 01:02:27,785 well, I'd be useless tending to your patients. 903 01:02:27,827 --> 01:02:30,621 So let's leave it as it is. 904 01:02:30,664 --> 01:02:33,874 We've only just started. Partners, word for word. 905 01:02:33,917 --> 01:02:36,335 An American and a Scot? 906 01:02:36,378 --> 01:02:40,130 How does an American come to eye these gates? 907 01:02:40,173 --> 01:02:42,758 A story for another day. 908 01:02:42,801 --> 01:02:45,094 Let's continue the comparison. 909 01:02:45,136 --> 01:02:46,887 One Oxford, one Yale. 910 01:02:46,930 --> 01:02:48,055 Both graying. 911 01:02:48,098 --> 01:02:49,974 One brilliant, one mad. 912 01:02:50,016 --> 01:02:51,642 Aye, but which is which? 913 01:03:19,170 --> 01:03:21,005 Where to from here? 914 01:03:23,466 --> 01:03:25,384 Antagonism to bathe. 915 01:03:25,427 --> 01:03:27,720 Batheable to cholera. 916 01:03:27,762 --> 01:03:29,096 Choleric to dysenteric. 917 01:03:29,139 --> 01:03:30,764 Dysentery to eczema. 918 01:03:30,807 --> 01:03:33,809 Eczematous to fungus. 919 01:03:33,852 --> 01:03:35,436 Why not jump straight to leprosy? 920 01:03:35,478 --> 01:03:36,687 Oh, that's dropping off a lot. 921 01:03:36,730 --> 01:03:38,314 You could go back to acne. 922 01:03:38,356 --> 01:03:40,232 Well, there's no need to be rash. 923 01:03:40,275 --> 01:03:43,193 - Who's this? - Murray, sir. 924 01:03:43,236 --> 01:03:45,112 - Who's Murray? - The man from the dictionary... 925 01:03:45,155 --> 01:03:47,156 the one the doctor has been working on. 926 01:03:47,198 --> 01:03:49,908 Good God, well, he's had a very busy day. 927 01:03:49,951 --> 01:03:51,785 Let's keep it short, shall we? 928 01:03:51,828 --> 01:03:53,037 Yes, sir. 929 01:03:54,622 --> 01:03:58,792 Mr. Muncie? Accord Dr. Murray full visitation privileges. 930 01:03:58,835 --> 01:04:00,711 Let me know when they're gonna happen. 931 01:04:00,754 --> 01:04:04,298 - Yes, sir. - Thank you. 932 01:04:04,341 --> 01:04:08,135 Let's document all their meetings, keep full details. 933 01:04:09,346 --> 01:04:11,180 One could dare say it's beautiful here. 934 01:04:11,222 --> 01:04:13,515 Listen to the leaves scratch the air. 935 01:04:13,558 --> 01:04:18,687 Sometimes it sounds like gunfire. Sometimes like... 936 01:04:18,730 --> 01:04:22,566 - Like applause. - Yes, applause. 937 01:04:25,570 --> 01:04:26,987 Mr. Murray? 938 01:04:27,030 --> 01:04:30,908 - Aye. I should be off then. - Check your posts. 939 01:04:30,950 --> 01:04:33,827 I will garner my thoughts and spark them off of yours. 940 01:04:33,870 --> 01:04:35,120 As iron sharpens iron... 941 01:04:35,163 --> 01:04:37,956 so one man sharpens the countenance of a friend. 942 01:04:37,999 --> 01:04:41,585 Scripture. You're a man of God, I should not be surprised. 943 01:04:41,628 --> 01:04:44,546 It is by his grace alone. 944 01:04:44,589 --> 01:04:47,299 I wish I had experienced that more often. 945 01:04:47,342 --> 01:04:48,842 You will, my friend. 946 01:04:48,885 --> 01:04:52,554 Goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. 947 01:04:52,597 --> 01:04:56,058 Yeah, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death. 948 01:04:56,101 --> 01:04:58,394 You're not alone, good doctor. 949 01:04:58,436 --> 01:05:00,729 We are linked now... consanguineous. 950 01:05:00,772 --> 01:05:02,481 Brothers. 951 01:05:14,744 --> 01:05:16,370 I looked for you this morning... 952 01:05:16,413 --> 01:05:18,455 I wanted to share some good news with you. 953 01:05:18,498 --> 01:05:20,207 What news? 954 01:05:20,250 --> 01:05:24,378 A new volunteer, a miracle... he's pulling us out of the mire. 955 01:05:24,421 --> 01:05:26,839 We've doubled our progress with him already. 956 01:05:26,881 --> 01:05:31,009 That's wonderful, James. Who is he? 957 01:05:33,930 --> 01:05:35,806 A friend. 958 01:05:55,743 --> 01:05:58,287 A letter from our superintendent, sir. 959 01:05:58,329 --> 01:05:59,371 Oh, thank you. 960 01:06:01,332 --> 01:06:04,042 Henry, could you keep an eye for all future letters... 961 01:06:04,085 --> 01:06:05,544 from the good doctor? 962 01:06:05,587 --> 01:06:08,964 He is rather a private man and I would wish to honor that. 963 01:06:17,098 --> 01:06:19,266 I brought another book for you. 964 01:06:19,309 --> 01:06:22,478 I see that. What is it? 965 01:06:22,520 --> 01:06:25,564 One from the list Mr. Muncie gave me. 966 01:06:25,607 --> 01:06:27,483 I asked, it's one of the ones you wanted. 967 01:06:29,027 --> 01:06:32,571 You read. 968 01:06:32,614 --> 01:06:37,618 I will guess which one it is, a paragraph, a sentence. 969 01:06:37,660 --> 01:06:39,661 I'm sorry, doctor. 970 01:06:40,705 --> 01:06:42,831 Mrs. Merrett, Mrs. Merrett... 971 01:06:42,874 --> 01:06:45,959 Mrs. Merrett, please, what did I do? 972 01:06:53,843 --> 01:06:55,844 You cannot read. 973 01:06:57,472 --> 01:06:59,598 Forgive me, I should not have presumed. 974 01:06:59,641 --> 01:07:02,392 I do not need you to bring me books, Mrs. Merrett... 975 01:07:02,435 --> 01:07:03,560 it is your visits... 976 01:07:03,603 --> 01:07:05,020 Please, doctor, let me be. 977 01:07:05,063 --> 01:07:07,105 I can teach you. 978 01:07:07,148 --> 01:07:08,690 I am what I am. 979 01:07:08,733 --> 01:07:11,235 Oh, please, let me teach you. You can teach your children. 980 01:07:11,277 --> 01:07:13,028 It's freedom, Mrs. Merrett. 981 01:07:13,071 --> 01:07:15,364 I can fly out of this place on the backs of books. 982 01:07:15,406 --> 01:07:17,574 I've gone to the end of the world on the wings of words. 983 01:07:17,617 --> 01:07:18,992 I can not. 984 01:07:19,035 --> 01:07:22,162 When I read, no one is after me. 985 01:07:24,499 --> 01:07:30,128 When I read, I am the one who is chasing, chasing after God. 986 01:07:32,006 --> 01:07:36,552 Please, I beg you... join the chase. 987 01:07:38,388 --> 01:07:40,639 Kumquat. 988 01:07:40,682 --> 01:07:42,432 Oblong. 989 01:07:42,475 --> 01:07:45,143 Pert. 990 01:07:45,186 --> 01:07:47,396 Prunes. 991 01:07:47,438 --> 01:07:50,816 Coconuts. 992 01:07:50,858 --> 01:07:53,902 Chitty. 993 01:08:02,161 --> 01:08:03,370 My win, Murray. 994 01:08:03,413 --> 01:08:05,414 - What on earth is chitty? - Long form of chit. 995 01:08:05,456 --> 01:08:08,709 Of course, chit. Letter or note, Indian origin, no? 996 01:08:08,751 --> 01:08:10,377 That's right. 997 01:08:13,798 --> 01:08:15,507 Who is she? 998 01:08:15,550 --> 01:08:17,759 The impossible. 999 01:08:17,802 --> 01:08:20,971 The more impossible, the greater the love. 1000 01:08:21,014 --> 01:08:23,265 Do you truly believe that? 1001 01:08:26,519 --> 01:08:28,145 My heart is so sick. 1002 01:08:31,399 --> 01:08:36,570 What I know of love, the sickness often becomes the cure. 1003 01:08:36,613 --> 01:08:43,452 She is my friend, she is my dear friend... 1004 01:08:43,494 --> 01:08:47,372 she has suffered a terrible loss. 1005 01:09:00,011 --> 01:09:03,722 Perhaps God's grace will come to her through your love, William. 1006 01:09:17,320 --> 01:09:20,405 Eats, so you don't really say the A? 1007 01:09:20,448 --> 01:09:21,823 Eats. 1008 01:09:23,951 --> 01:09:29,414 Wa... ush... brush and fish. 1009 01:09:29,457 --> 01:09:31,041 - Yes. - Wash. 1010 01:09:31,084 --> 01:09:33,710 You're learning very, very fast. 1011 01:09:33,753 --> 01:09:39,841 The brain is wider than the sky, for put them side by side... 1012 01:09:39,884 --> 01:09:46,181 the one the other will include, with ease and you beside. 1013 01:09:46,224 --> 01:09:51,853 The brain is just the weight of God, for, heft them... 1014 01:09:51,896 --> 01:09:56,983 pound for pound, and they will differ if they do... 1015 01:09:57,026 --> 01:09:59,486 as syllable from the sound. 1016 01:10:00,405 --> 01:10:03,031 Did they cut the rest of the hair on that girl off? 1017 01:10:14,919 --> 01:10:16,086 Mrs. Merrett? 1018 01:10:16,129 --> 01:10:17,546 He's making the most tremendous progress. 1019 01:10:17,588 --> 01:10:18,964 Mrs. Merrett. 1020 01:10:19,006 --> 01:10:21,091 I'm beginning to believe the more he's exposed... 1021 01:10:21,134 --> 01:10:25,011 to the world beyond these walls, the speedier will be his cure. 1022 01:10:25,054 --> 01:10:27,180 You think he can be cured, doctor? 1023 01:10:27,223 --> 01:10:32,894 I have to... there must be hope for all of us. 1024 01:10:32,937 --> 01:10:36,732 Even the most broken of souls. 1025 01:10:36,774 --> 01:10:40,777 I... think on it. 1026 01:10:45,950 --> 01:10:48,660 My dear friend, I have recommended... 1027 01:10:48,703 --> 01:10:50,787 to the Delegates that your name be acknowledged... 1028 01:10:50,830 --> 01:10:53,206 in the First Volume of the New English Dictionary... 1029 01:10:53,249 --> 01:10:56,835 on Historical Principles, to which your vibrant mind... 1030 01:10:56,878 --> 01:10:59,504 has so critically given the breath of life. 1031 01:10:59,547 --> 01:11:03,008 The last fascicle is already complete. 1032 01:11:03,050 --> 01:11:05,844 Expectantly, James. 1033 01:11:44,342 --> 01:11:47,969 Congratulations, Dr. Murray. 1034 01:11:48,012 --> 01:11:50,222 For giving us A to byzen. 1035 01:11:50,264 --> 01:11:53,600 And for the rest to come, beginning with cab. 1036 01:11:53,643 --> 01:11:55,185 Thank you, sir. 1037 01:12:10,159 --> 01:12:11,827 It's not selling. 1038 01:12:11,869 --> 01:12:15,121 4,000 orders the Empire through and he won't go any quicker. 1039 01:12:15,164 --> 01:12:17,457 We're the laughing stock of all academia. 1040 01:12:17,500 --> 01:12:21,419 I wonder if it's time to ease our gentle Scotsman... 1041 01:12:21,462 --> 01:12:24,172 off his little perch. 1042 01:12:48,823 --> 01:12:49,990 Stop it! 1043 01:12:50,032 --> 01:12:52,325 It'll be alright, they're good kids. 1044 01:12:52,368 --> 01:12:54,369 We don't have to do it, if you don't want to. 1045 01:12:56,414 --> 01:12:59,875 Look at me... William. 1046 01:13:01,794 --> 01:13:04,296 It'll be alright. 1047 01:13:04,338 --> 01:13:07,382 Children, I would like you to meet a friend... 1048 01:13:07,425 --> 01:13:09,718 his name is William. 1049 01:13:12,054 --> 01:13:15,140 You must be Olive, is that right? 1050 01:13:15,182 --> 01:13:16,433 Yes. 1051 01:13:19,186 --> 01:13:20,562 Iris. 1052 01:13:21,981 --> 01:13:26,401 Jack, and Peggy. 1053 01:13:28,863 --> 01:13:33,199 You must be Peter, it's good to meet you, Peter. 1054 01:13:38,122 --> 01:13:39,873 And are you Clare then? 1055 01:13:43,753 --> 01:13:45,211 Clare. 1056 01:13:49,425 --> 01:13:51,509 Truly I'm honored to meet you, Clare. 1057 01:14:00,144 --> 01:14:01,686 Clare! 1058 01:14:02,897 --> 01:14:04,064 Clare! 1059 01:14:25,002 --> 01:14:30,006 Mr. Muncie. Watch them for me, just for a moment. 1060 01:14:35,096 --> 01:14:39,140 Doctor! Wait! Wait! I'm sorry. 1061 01:14:39,183 --> 01:14:42,227 I never wanted that to happen. I'm so sorry. 1062 01:14:47,817 --> 01:14:51,111 I remember being safe and still I remember knowing who I was... 1063 01:14:51,153 --> 01:14:55,365 and I woke up and it had all gone away, and I hated you... 1064 01:14:55,408 --> 01:15:00,036 so much, for so long, but now I know you, I know who you are. 1065 01:15:00,079 --> 01:15:02,539 And I know the same has been done to you. 1066 01:15:05,126 --> 01:15:07,627 I wrote you something. 1067 01:15:22,476 --> 01:15:24,019 I can... 1068 01:15:24,061 --> 01:15:27,439 I can... because of you. 1069 01:15:32,820 --> 01:15:35,488 I miss my husband. 1070 01:15:37,283 --> 01:15:41,202 I came here that first day to hate you. 1071 01:15:41,245 --> 01:15:45,040 To take your money, watch you locked away, see you done. 1072 01:15:48,044 --> 01:15:50,295 You should still hate me. 1073 01:15:50,337 --> 01:15:53,840 Not any more. 1074 01:16:45,059 --> 01:16:49,771 Look what you've done! Look what you've done! 1075 01:17:14,255 --> 01:17:17,006 Not that many this time, sir. 1076 01:18:33,792 --> 01:18:39,923 I wrote you something. No, read it when I've gone. 1077 01:18:46,597 --> 01:18:50,892 I'm sorry, Eliza. 1078 01:18:51,852 --> 01:18:55,521 But what if I'm not? 1079 01:19:50,286 --> 01:19:52,370 I have killed him again. 1080 01:19:52,413 --> 01:19:55,540 It's all your fault. 1081 01:19:55,582 --> 01:20:00,086 I've killed him again in your heart! 1082 01:21:05,152 --> 01:21:07,362 Mr. Coleman! 1083 01:21:10,115 --> 01:21:12,116 You might alert the clinic. 1084 01:21:15,454 --> 01:21:17,372 I have injured myself. 1085 01:21:38,060 --> 01:21:42,438 My friend, I no longer find I have the place... 1086 01:21:42,481 --> 01:21:45,983 for this, I thought you might accept it. 1087 01:21:46,026 --> 01:21:49,112 Remember me by it. 1088 01:21:49,154 --> 01:21:52,073 As a testament to our friendship and to that... 1089 01:21:52,116 --> 01:21:56,911 which we created together, in the brief and fleeting time... 1090 01:21:56,954 --> 01:22:02,333 when thanks to you, I could trust my mind... William. 1091 01:22:05,838 --> 01:22:08,798 Dr. Murray, Richard Brayn, Superintendent. 1092 01:22:08,841 --> 01:22:11,134 Pleased to meet you, sir. 1093 01:22:11,176 --> 01:22:14,095 I am very proud of the contributions that Dr. Minor... 1094 01:22:14,138 --> 01:22:15,596 has made, of course. 1095 01:22:15,639 --> 01:22:18,307 The illness has entered a new phase. You may be shocked. 1096 01:22:18,350 --> 01:22:21,853 I should warn you too, that he may display some hostility. 1097 01:22:33,449 --> 01:22:34,991 You came. 1098 01:22:35,033 --> 01:22:37,493 Of course, I came. 1099 01:22:37,536 --> 01:22:39,829 I knew that you would. 1100 01:22:44,418 --> 01:22:48,963 Your God is very demanding. 1101 01:22:49,006 --> 01:22:52,175 A sacrifice was required. 1102 01:22:56,722 --> 01:22:58,306 I received your letter. 1103 01:22:58,348 --> 01:23:04,770 His love... his wife... 1104 01:23:04,813 --> 01:23:10,067 I stole her from the dead. 1105 01:23:13,697 --> 01:23:19,202 Have you gotten to the I's by now? 1106 01:23:19,244 --> 01:23:24,457 I had some to add to your words. 1107 01:23:24,500 --> 01:23:28,377 But I can't seem to... 1108 01:23:28,420 --> 01:23:32,381 I can't seem to find my pens. 1109 01:23:32,424 --> 01:23:34,800 Our words, William, our words. 1110 01:23:34,843 --> 01:23:38,137 Perhaps that is true, perhaps... 1111 01:23:40,807 --> 01:23:46,145 madness gave us words. 1112 01:23:49,733 --> 01:23:54,654 But you have made them yours, they bear your secret signature. 1113 01:23:58,367 --> 01:24:02,954 Why did you come here? 1114 01:24:02,996 --> 01:24:04,830 Did you bring others? 1115 01:24:04,873 --> 01:24:06,207 I am alone, William. 1116 01:24:06,250 --> 01:24:11,671 I have reason to believe that they are hiding... 1117 01:24:11,713 --> 01:24:16,676 between the spaces in the floor, biding their time. 1118 01:24:19,680 --> 01:24:23,099 I'm sorry, James. I'm sorry. 1119 01:24:25,561 --> 01:24:28,354 For a moment, I... 1120 01:24:28,397 --> 01:24:33,234 dared to hope. 1121 01:24:34,695 --> 01:24:38,447 Your words, her forgiveness. 1122 01:24:38,490 --> 01:24:42,243 It's more than forgiveness. 1123 01:24:42,286 --> 01:24:46,289 She... She gave me this. 1124 01:24:47,374 --> 01:24:50,960 Read it later, if you truly want to know why. 1125 01:24:51,003 --> 01:24:53,588 Know what? 1126 01:24:53,630 --> 01:24:56,674 Assythment. 1127 01:24:56,717 --> 01:24:58,467 Assythment. 1128 01:24:58,510 --> 01:25:03,848 Assythment. 1129 01:25:03,890 --> 01:25:09,729 A quote, Austin, 1832. 1130 01:25:09,771 --> 01:25:15,610 I sent it in, but only hoping, I wasn't sure, until now. 1131 01:25:15,652 --> 01:25:17,486 I can't... I can't remember the quote. 1132 01:25:17,529 --> 01:25:21,240 Look it up! Look it up! 1133 01:25:26,038 --> 01:25:29,248 You have seen me now and we're done. 1134 01:25:29,291 --> 01:25:33,753 You can leave the lunatic to his delusions. 1135 01:25:33,795 --> 01:25:36,005 I came here to see my friend. 1136 01:25:36,048 --> 01:25:40,968 I am no man's friend, I am a murderer. 1137 01:25:41,011 --> 01:25:43,763 Everything else is make believe. 1138 01:25:43,805 --> 01:25:48,142 So leave, leave, leave, leave, leave, leave, leave... 1139 01:25:48,185 --> 01:25:51,437 leave, leave, leave, leave, leave, leave! 1140 01:25:51,480 --> 01:25:57,943 And do not come back! I do not want to see you! 1141 01:25:57,986 --> 01:26:02,365 Please, doctor, if your claim that you are my friend... 1142 01:26:02,407 --> 01:26:08,204 is true, you will respect that one simple wish! 1143 01:26:08,246 --> 01:26:10,706 Yeah. 1144 01:26:14,628 --> 01:26:17,254 I think no more visitors for Dr. Minor. 1145 01:26:21,635 --> 01:26:26,389 Bondmade, missing from Volume One. 1146 01:26:26,431 --> 01:26:28,474 A perfectly solid, everyday English word... 1147 01:26:28,517 --> 01:26:29,684 and we don't have it. 1148 01:26:29,726 --> 01:26:31,102 I don't know how that could have happened... 1149 01:26:31,144 --> 01:26:32,353 I checked the proofs for it myself. 1150 01:26:32,396 --> 01:26:33,938 The University of Vienna picked up on it. 1151 01:26:33,980 --> 01:26:35,523 The bloody Austrians, it's a disgrace. 1152 01:26:35,565 --> 01:26:36,899 Calm down, Philip. 1153 01:26:36,942 --> 01:26:39,652 We'll catch it, we'll form an addendum. 1154 01:26:39,695 --> 01:26:41,696 I've been meaning to discuss that with all of you. 1155 01:26:41,738 --> 01:26:43,698 Are you intending to drop others? 1156 01:26:43,740 --> 01:26:48,452 The makers of this grand folly also deign it beneath them... 1157 01:26:48,495 --> 01:26:51,455 to include the nouns and adjectives denoting countries. 1158 01:26:51,498 --> 01:26:55,668 Hence no mention of African, Arabian, American and so on. 1159 01:26:55,711 --> 01:26:57,420 In the blasted Figaro! 1160 01:26:57,462 --> 01:26:59,839 In the same breath, expounding the virtues... 1161 01:26:59,881 --> 01:27:01,215 of their competing dictionaries. 1162 01:27:01,258 --> 01:27:04,009 In France, Germany, the Netherlands. 1163 01:27:04,052 --> 01:27:06,220 This is a war about the spread of colonial language... 1164 01:27:06,263 --> 01:27:08,180 not one with bullets and bayonets... 1165 01:27:08,223 --> 01:27:09,849 but with influence and appearance. 1166 01:27:09,891 --> 01:27:11,350 This is utterly absurd. 1167 01:27:11,393 --> 01:27:15,229 No, what is absurd is your dogged, bullheaded approach... 1168 01:27:15,272 --> 01:27:18,357 a superabundance of redundancy, Dr. Murray. 1169 01:27:18,400 --> 01:27:19,608 We need your focus. 1170 01:27:19,651 --> 01:27:21,485 The language is escaping you, you are losing. 1171 01:27:21,528 --> 01:27:24,697 What precisely are you saying, Mr. Gell? 1172 01:27:24,740 --> 01:27:27,992 This is Oxford. We do not lose. 1173 01:27:28,034 --> 01:27:29,702 Clearly the only course remaining... 1174 01:27:29,745 --> 01:27:30,828 Bondmade. 1175 01:27:30,871 --> 01:27:32,246 What was that? Speak up, Freddie. 1176 01:27:32,289 --> 01:27:37,585 Bondmade. I borrowed the proof from the scriptorium... 1177 01:27:37,627 --> 01:27:39,128 to use in one of my lectures. 1178 01:27:39,171 --> 01:27:42,506 I forgot to replace it. I am responsible for its exclusion. 1179 01:27:42,549 --> 01:27:43,883 It doesn't change a thing. 1180 01:27:43,925 --> 01:27:47,470 Also the absence of African, Arabian, and American. 1181 01:27:47,512 --> 01:27:49,346 I convinced James not to include them. 1182 01:27:49,389 --> 01:27:53,225 So you see, gentlemen, you are inculpating the wrong man. 1183 01:27:53,268 --> 01:27:57,855 You're right, Philip, there is only one course of action. 1184 01:27:57,898 --> 01:28:00,941 I will resign my post from the board of delegates. 1185 01:28:00,984 --> 01:28:03,611 We shall make an announcement on it. 1186 01:28:03,653 --> 01:28:06,739 And the project will go on, with James. 1187 01:28:06,782 --> 01:28:08,240 I really don't see how... 1188 01:28:08,283 --> 01:28:09,658 Philip, please! 1189 01:28:09,701 --> 01:28:12,244 Have it in writing to the Press offices in the morning. 1190 01:28:13,872 --> 01:28:15,331 He's lying through his teeth. 1191 01:28:15,373 --> 01:28:16,499 Of course he is. 1192 01:28:16,541 --> 01:28:18,042 Then why let them get away with it? 1193 01:28:18,084 --> 01:28:21,545 Didn't you see? Dr. Murray is a breath away from shattering. 1194 01:28:21,588 --> 01:28:23,589 And without Furnivall's meddling... 1195 01:28:23,632 --> 01:28:25,007 all we need do is wait. 1196 01:28:25,050 --> 01:28:28,010 Have a quiet word with Bradley, I suspect he is just... 1197 01:28:28,053 --> 01:28:32,181 the ticket for a more malleable pair of hands at the helm. 1198 01:28:47,697 --> 01:28:50,658 James, what's the matter? 1199 01:28:50,700 --> 01:28:56,288 I'm adrift, Ada. The day has been one of loss. 1200 01:28:59,209 --> 01:29:01,335 I need to tell you some things. 1201 01:29:01,378 --> 01:29:04,046 Don't go on what you've done... 1202 01:29:04,089 --> 01:29:06,340 there is nothing you can tell me to make this right! 1203 01:29:06,383 --> 01:29:08,551 All the wisdom, all the diligence and you simply... 1204 01:29:08,593 --> 01:29:10,719 How long have you known about his madness? 1205 01:29:10,762 --> 01:29:12,805 How much time have you spent with this man? 1206 01:29:12,848 --> 01:29:15,558 Why are you so angry? What difference can it possibly make? 1207 01:29:15,600 --> 01:29:18,352 His work on the dictionary proves he is sane. 1208 01:29:18,395 --> 01:29:20,729 He fooled that jury and he fooled you. 1209 01:29:20,772 --> 01:29:22,940 What about repentance, Ada? What about redemption? 1210 01:29:22,983 --> 01:29:25,276 The delegates, your team, your family... 1211 01:29:25,318 --> 01:29:27,027 we all deserve more than to have it all... 1212 01:29:27,070 --> 01:29:28,946 Stop! 1213 01:29:31,283 --> 01:29:32,992 I could call into question the morality... 1214 01:29:33,034 --> 01:29:36,287 of every invisible volunteer we've ever leaned on. 1215 01:29:36,329 --> 01:29:38,330 This one hits his children, that one's on the whiskey... 1216 01:29:38,373 --> 01:29:41,375 this one, didn't you hear, he cheats on the Times crossword. 1217 01:29:41,418 --> 01:29:42,793 Remove the blaggard from the list. 1218 01:29:42,836 --> 01:29:45,087 He is a murderer! He lied to you. 1219 01:29:45,130 --> 01:29:49,174 Have you never lied? Have you not? 1220 01:29:53,221 --> 01:29:57,641 What are you so afraid of, that a bad man can be redeemed? 1221 01:29:57,684 --> 01:30:00,269 Isn't that what we believe, what we whisper to our children... 1222 01:30:00,312 --> 01:30:03,063 at night, what we pray for? Forgiveness. 1223 01:30:03,106 --> 01:30:05,816 I don't know who you're preaching to. 1224 01:30:05,859 --> 01:30:07,234 Neither do I. 1225 01:30:09,613 --> 01:30:13,115 Thus they in lowliest plight repentant stood praying... 1226 01:30:13,158 --> 01:30:16,619 from the mercy seat above, prevenient grace descending... 1227 01:30:16,661 --> 01:30:19,663 had removed the stony from their hearts and made new flesh. 1228 01:30:19,706 --> 01:30:23,250 Milton, Paradise Lost, prevenient grace, Ada. 1229 01:30:23,293 --> 01:30:25,711 From before the fall, salvation for all... 1230 01:30:25,754 --> 01:30:27,463 if we choose to engage it. 1231 01:30:34,471 --> 01:30:37,306 If love... then what? 1232 01:30:37,349 --> 01:30:38,849 What is that? 1233 01:30:38,892 --> 01:30:43,771 A note, from the widow, asking the question of the killer. 1234 01:31:02,123 --> 01:31:05,459 Assythment, satisfaction for an injury done. 1235 01:31:05,502 --> 01:31:08,879 Compensation, reparation, indemnification. 1236 01:31:08,922 --> 01:31:11,256 By law, the wife and family of the slain... 1237 01:31:11,299 --> 01:31:13,592 have still the right for assythment. 1238 01:31:13,635 --> 01:31:14,969 I don't understand. 1239 01:31:15,011 --> 01:31:17,137 It means to pay everything back. 1240 01:31:17,180 --> 01:31:19,264 The guilty make recompense the victim. 1241 01:31:19,307 --> 01:31:21,058 I thought he'd already given her money. 1242 01:31:21,101 --> 01:31:25,229 No, Ada, his life, with his life. 1243 01:31:25,271 --> 01:31:28,607 If love... then what? 1244 01:31:28,650 --> 01:31:33,404 Is what she wrote to him. And his response. 1245 01:31:39,577 --> 01:31:42,246 What are you going to do? 1246 01:31:42,288 --> 01:31:44,665 What can I do? 1247 01:31:49,295 --> 01:31:52,089 Sometimes when we push away... 1248 01:31:52,132 --> 01:31:57,094 that is when we most need to be resisted. 1249 01:32:11,901 --> 01:32:14,862 Please, let me in, let me in! 1250 01:32:14,904 --> 01:32:17,364 I need to see him, let me in! 1251 01:32:17,407 --> 01:32:19,908 Mr. Muncie, please, I know you can hear me, let me in! 1252 01:32:19,951 --> 01:32:21,285 I need to see him! 1253 01:32:34,340 --> 01:32:35,591 Let me in! 1254 01:32:37,719 --> 01:32:39,970 - Mrs. Merrett... - I need to see him, please. 1255 01:32:40,013 --> 01:32:43,390 It is best you went away now and you not come back. 1256 01:32:43,433 --> 01:32:44,391 Please, I need to see him. 1257 01:32:44,434 --> 01:32:46,101 Mrs. Merrett, I'm sorry. 1258 01:32:46,144 --> 01:32:48,937 Oh, I need to see him, please! No! 1259 01:32:48,980 --> 01:32:54,318 I need to see him! Please! 1260 01:33:27,227 --> 01:33:29,269 It is time to commence a course... 1261 01:33:29,312 --> 01:33:32,189 of more invasive and more experimental treatments... 1262 01:33:32,232 --> 01:33:35,109 all procedures will be fully documented. 1263 01:33:35,151 --> 01:33:40,948 William... are we ready? 1264 01:33:43,076 --> 01:33:45,327 Most rightfully so. 1265 01:33:48,498 --> 01:33:50,666 Thank you, doctor. 1266 01:33:52,335 --> 01:33:56,046 Secure his arms, all right, here we go. 1267 01:33:56,089 --> 01:34:00,342 That's it. Steady. Good boy. 1268 01:34:03,680 --> 01:34:09,351 Come on, let's get him over. Up you go. All right. 1269 01:34:09,394 --> 01:34:11,562 - Doctor, please bear with me. - Yes. 1270 01:34:17,402 --> 01:34:23,031 All right, that's it, that's it. Steady. 1271 01:34:25,034 --> 01:34:26,118 Again. 1272 01:34:26,161 --> 01:34:28,287 - Same again, sir. - Oh, no. 1273 01:34:38,381 --> 01:34:39,423 Again. 1274 01:34:42,468 --> 01:34:43,844 Oh, yeah, we've got you. 1275 01:34:45,805 --> 01:34:46,972 Again. 1276 01:34:48,391 --> 01:34:51,894 - One more, sir, good boy. - I asked first. 1277 01:34:57,567 --> 01:35:02,362 Up now, up now. Steady. 1278 01:35:04,782 --> 01:35:06,074 Once more. 1279 01:35:11,998 --> 01:35:14,249 - You've got them? - Yes. 1280 01:35:25,345 --> 01:35:27,554 Mrs. Murray. 1281 01:35:27,597 --> 01:35:31,475 My name is Church, I'm with the South London Chronicle. 1282 01:35:31,517 --> 01:35:33,810 May I speak with your husband, ma'am? 1283 01:35:39,359 --> 01:35:41,568 The story runs tomorrow, sir, everything... 1284 01:35:41,611 --> 01:35:44,196 you, the big book, the widow Merrett. 1285 01:35:44,239 --> 01:35:47,115 There's nothing I can do about it now. 1286 01:35:47,158 --> 01:35:49,952 I just wanted to give you fair warning. 1287 01:35:55,375 --> 01:35:59,461 But these... I haven't given 'em to the paper. 1288 01:36:01,297 --> 01:36:04,174 I thought, maybe, you should hold on to them. 1289 01:36:06,344 --> 01:36:08,887 It looks like he's in a bad way, sir. 1290 01:36:17,772 --> 01:36:19,273 Mother! 1291 01:36:19,315 --> 01:36:21,942 No, no... Go upstairs and play up there. 1292 01:36:41,754 --> 01:36:42,963 James. 1293 01:36:53,850 --> 01:36:58,020 If I may say, sir, between you and me, I've been concerned... 1294 01:36:58,062 --> 01:37:01,148 about some of Dr. Brayn's medical techniques. 1295 01:37:05,069 --> 01:37:07,988 We had to take precautions. 1296 01:37:08,031 --> 01:37:14,369 William? It's James, William. 1297 01:37:14,412 --> 01:37:15,829 William. 1298 01:37:15,872 --> 01:37:19,166 It's no use, I'm afraid. He's not here. 1299 01:37:19,208 --> 01:37:22,502 I don't know where he is, but he's not here. 1300 01:37:28,509 --> 01:37:29,968 Wait for me outside. 1301 01:37:30,011 --> 01:37:31,803 Dr. Murray, I must ask that you inform me... 1302 01:37:31,846 --> 01:37:33,722 before you pay a visit. 1303 01:37:33,765 --> 01:37:35,390 I came as soon as I knew. 1304 01:37:35,433 --> 01:37:38,643 Yes, but it's not a club, sir, this is a medical facility. 1305 01:37:38,686 --> 01:37:40,520 Dr. Minor is a patient in my care. 1306 01:37:40,563 --> 01:37:41,646 He is my friend, my brother. 1307 01:37:41,689 --> 01:37:42,981 Yes, he's my friend, as well. 1308 01:37:43,024 --> 01:37:45,233 And he's one of the bravest men I have ever known. 1309 01:37:45,276 --> 01:37:48,820 However, this is severe catalepsy. 1310 01:37:48,863 --> 01:37:50,197 It's a fair question... 1311 01:37:50,239 --> 01:37:53,283 whether or not the soul has already left the vessel. 1312 01:37:54,911 --> 01:37:57,746 Divided from himself and his fair judgment... 1313 01:37:57,789 --> 01:38:03,627 without which we are pictures or mere beasts. 1314 01:38:03,669 --> 01:38:06,171 How could this have happened? 1315 01:38:08,257 --> 01:38:10,217 I must ask you to leave immediately. 1316 01:38:10,259 --> 01:38:11,968 No, he doesn't belong here, not like this. 1317 01:38:12,011 --> 01:38:13,595 On the contrary, he does not belong anywhere else. 1318 01:38:13,638 --> 01:38:15,097 Please allow us to get on with our work. 1319 01:38:15,139 --> 01:38:18,725 We have a great deal to do. It's alright, William. 1320 01:38:18,768 --> 01:38:22,062 Please! It's alright, William... 1321 01:38:22,105 --> 01:38:28,110 it's alright, William, it's all right. 1322 01:38:30,405 --> 01:38:33,990 The last 400 years have been defined by his quotes alone. 1323 01:38:36,119 --> 01:38:39,496 We were at our darkest moment. He gave us life. 1324 01:38:39,539 --> 01:38:43,041 I'm asking for your help here, Ben. 1325 01:38:43,084 --> 01:38:45,460 To tell the truth of what he's done. 1326 01:38:45,503 --> 01:38:47,421 Let it be known, not this. 1327 01:38:47,463 --> 01:38:50,715 My only regret is that you did not come forward... 1328 01:38:50,758 --> 01:38:52,300 with this much sooner. 1329 01:38:52,343 --> 01:38:55,887 What there is to be known has already been said right here. 1330 01:38:55,930 --> 01:38:57,222 Written. Didn't you see? 1331 01:38:57,265 --> 01:38:59,015 But this is the life of a man. 1332 01:38:59,058 --> 01:39:01,143 All that he is will end with him in that place. 1333 01:39:01,185 --> 01:39:04,062 And he is where he should be. 1334 01:39:04,105 --> 01:39:06,022 What use an act of pointless charity? 1335 01:39:06,065 --> 01:39:07,566 Then I resign. 1336 01:39:07,608 --> 01:39:10,444 There will be no need for such theatrics. 1337 01:39:10,486 --> 01:39:13,321 William Minor will be struck from all acknowledgments. 1338 01:39:13,364 --> 01:39:16,324 You are to be welcomed, for as long as you like... 1339 01:39:16,367 --> 01:39:18,618 as a contributor to the dictionary. 1340 01:39:18,661 --> 01:39:21,121 The editorship will pass immediately to Bradley. 1341 01:39:21,164 --> 01:39:23,874 I will be proposing this at an emergency meeting... 1342 01:39:23,916 --> 01:39:25,584 of the delegates this afternoon. 1343 01:39:25,626 --> 01:39:28,670 I do not expect any dissent. 1344 01:39:28,713 --> 01:39:30,505 I won't thieve any more of your time. 1345 01:39:30,548 --> 01:39:32,299 Nor I yours. 1346 01:39:49,025 --> 01:39:50,233 Yes, sir? 1347 01:39:50,276 --> 01:39:53,778 Is the master of the house in? 1348 01:40:00,495 --> 01:40:05,916 James, is everything alright? 1349 01:40:05,958 --> 01:40:11,713 I'm sorry, Freddie, I didn't know where else to go. 1350 01:40:11,756 --> 01:40:16,384 I've lost everything. Everything is broken. 1351 01:40:21,098 --> 01:40:26,811 I wanted to document the history of each and every thing. 1352 01:40:26,854 --> 01:40:30,315 To offer the world a book that gives the meaning... 1353 01:40:30,358 --> 01:40:33,068 of everything in God's creation. 1354 01:40:33,110 --> 01:40:39,324 Or at least the English part of it, but it has defeated me. 1355 01:40:41,410 --> 01:40:43,995 And now I've paid for it with everything... 1356 01:40:44,038 --> 01:40:45,956 that ever meant anything to me. 1357 01:40:45,998 --> 01:40:50,043 You know, there is another book that purports to do just that. 1358 01:40:50,086 --> 01:40:53,171 But it has already beaten you to the punch. 1359 01:40:55,424 --> 01:40:59,761 Come with me. Come, I want to show you something. 1360 01:41:01,097 --> 01:41:02,514 I need me dunnage. 1361 01:41:02,557 --> 01:41:05,559 What, with a sprat? How'd you do that? 1362 01:41:07,311 --> 01:41:09,854 Dunnage? Sprat? Blag? 1363 01:41:09,897 --> 01:41:11,565 How many new words to replace the old? 1364 01:41:11,607 --> 01:41:16,069 How many new words for things that have yet to be imagined? 1365 01:41:16,112 --> 01:41:19,406 How many of them in your all encompassing book? 1366 01:41:19,448 --> 01:41:22,742 No language can ever be permanently the same, James. 1367 01:41:22,785 --> 01:41:25,328 Not if it springs forth from life. 1368 01:41:25,371 --> 01:41:29,124 But how can the work be ended if not ever completed? 1369 01:41:29,166 --> 01:41:33,670 You have given us its heart along with a great jolt... 1370 01:41:33,713 --> 01:41:35,005 to begin the first few beats. 1371 01:41:35,047 --> 01:41:38,300 Generations after you will continue this work... 1372 01:41:38,342 --> 01:41:42,262 because you have showed them the way. 1373 01:41:42,305 --> 01:41:44,723 But it will never be completed. 1374 01:41:44,765 --> 01:41:46,016 Let it go. 1375 01:41:46,058 --> 01:41:49,436 Tend to yourself, leave the project to me. 1376 01:41:49,478 --> 01:41:52,397 I have a few tricks for Jowett and his lackey Gell... 1377 01:41:52,440 --> 01:41:54,983 that they have not considered in their maneuvering. 1378 01:41:58,696 --> 01:42:00,363 Ada? 1379 01:42:01,449 --> 01:42:05,201 With Bradley in charge and the University press... 1380 01:42:05,244 --> 01:42:08,038 firmly driving the endeavour, we believe we can keep... 1381 01:42:08,080 --> 01:42:11,291 to our desired target of 704 pages a year... 1382 01:42:11,334 --> 01:42:12,834 doubling current sales estimates. 1383 01:42:12,877 --> 01:42:14,419 Thank you, Mr. Gell. 1384 01:42:14,462 --> 01:42:17,047 Well, gentlemen, I believe we are all now... 1385 01:42:17,089 --> 01:42:21,051 sufficiently informed to put the motion to a vote. 1386 01:42:36,776 --> 01:42:40,153 I'm sorry my husband is unable to attend. 1387 01:42:40,196 --> 01:42:43,406 I would like to ask permission to say a few words in his stead. 1388 01:42:43,449 --> 01:42:44,908 Mrs. Murray, this is a closed meeting. 1389 01:42:44,950 --> 01:42:46,493 I'm afraid you will have to leave. 1390 01:42:46,535 --> 01:42:49,704 My family and I have given much for the glory of the delegates... 1391 01:42:49,747 --> 01:42:53,208 Mr. Gell, I am certain they can give a few moments... 1392 01:42:53,250 --> 01:42:54,959 of their time in return. 1393 01:42:55,002 --> 01:42:57,253 Of course, Mrs. Murray. 1394 01:42:57,296 --> 01:42:59,506 We are here to listen, please, go ahead. 1395 01:43:04,303 --> 01:43:08,098 My husband has this silly, little leather parchment. 1396 01:43:08,140 --> 01:43:14,312 On it, he's engraved a creed. Only a most diligent life. 1397 01:43:16,982 --> 01:43:20,485 Diligence. I looked it up, in your dictionary. 1398 01:43:20,528 --> 01:43:23,530 Constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken. 1399 01:43:23,572 --> 01:43:29,411 Persistence, application, but also, toil, and pain. 1400 01:43:30,746 --> 01:43:32,330 Some of you think my husband a fool. 1401 01:43:32,373 --> 01:43:34,958 Obstinate. Naive. 1402 01:43:35,000 --> 01:43:36,543 Driven to what he is by fear... 1403 01:43:36,585 --> 01:43:44,259 of what awaits us all on the other side, but he isn't. 1404 01:43:44,301 --> 01:43:47,345 He sees the world, all of it, with its myriad choices... 1405 01:43:47,388 --> 01:43:50,181 and he chooses to be what he is. 1406 01:43:54,937 --> 01:44:00,483 Yet, two such men found each other in our time. 1407 01:44:00,526 --> 01:44:05,697 My husband and his friend, the murderous madman. 1408 01:44:05,740 --> 01:44:12,203 Together they have given us something extraordinary. 1409 01:44:14,039 --> 01:44:16,916 I am here to ask you to take exception... 1410 01:44:16,959 --> 01:44:19,002 to our prevailing natures. 1411 01:44:21,130 --> 01:44:25,550 I'm here to ask you not to punish them for it. 1412 01:44:30,097 --> 01:44:33,308 Bradley told me you quit. 1413 01:44:33,350 --> 01:44:35,852 I did what I could in there, but they're a tough lot. 1414 01:44:35,895 --> 01:44:38,813 We're leaving this place. We're going back to London. 1415 01:44:38,856 --> 01:44:41,274 The book, it is not just yours to quit. 1416 01:44:41,317 --> 01:44:46,196 It is ours, remember? Mine, the children's, countless others'. 1417 01:44:46,238 --> 01:44:50,033 And they can, James, if there is love. 1418 01:44:52,536 --> 01:44:55,872 I know the answer now. 1419 01:44:55,915 --> 01:44:59,501 I know the answer to the widow's question. 1420 01:45:04,215 --> 01:45:06,216 I want you to do something for me. 1421 01:45:06,258 --> 01:45:07,509 I will. 1422 01:45:07,551 --> 01:45:13,640 I want you to go to her and look her in the eyes. 1423 01:45:13,682 --> 01:45:17,852 And if you see forgiveness, if you see love... 1424 01:45:17,895 --> 01:45:21,147 I want you to help your friend. 1425 01:45:21,190 --> 01:45:23,358 Yeah. 1426 01:45:33,077 --> 01:45:35,036 - Here, my man. - Thank you, sir. 1427 01:45:44,255 --> 01:45:47,048 He gave me that the last time I saw him. 1428 01:45:47,091 --> 01:45:48,758 The last time he was lucid. 1429 01:45:48,801 --> 01:45:53,763 They won't let me see him. Can you make them let me in? 1430 01:45:53,806 --> 01:45:58,434 It's no use. He's not the same as you remember. 1431 01:46:02,815 --> 01:46:07,527 If I've forgiven him, why should they go on punishing him? 1432 01:46:08,946 --> 01:46:10,154 Thank you for seeing me... 1433 01:46:10,197 --> 01:46:11,573 at such short notice, Sir Charles. 1434 01:46:11,615 --> 01:46:12,907 Freddie is an old friend. 1435 01:46:12,950 --> 01:46:15,368 I have to warn you though, Mr. Murray... 1436 01:46:15,411 --> 01:46:16,870 the American murderer is a scar... 1437 01:46:16,912 --> 01:46:18,621 perhaps one that is still too fresh. 1438 01:46:18,664 --> 01:46:19,956 Perhaps this will heal it. 1439 01:46:19,999 --> 01:46:21,291 Hardly so. 1440 01:46:21,333 --> 01:46:24,168 Any politician espousing his cause is certain... 1441 01:46:24,211 --> 01:46:27,380 to face public outrage, chances of a pardon... 1442 01:46:27,423 --> 01:46:29,841 or a reprieve, are virtually non-existent. 1443 01:46:29,884 --> 01:46:32,802 What price justice? What price mercy? 1444 01:46:32,845 --> 01:46:36,931 Expensive to your first, cheap but unpopular to your second. 1445 01:46:36,974 --> 01:46:42,103 Look here, levers can be pulled, get you a hearing. 1446 01:46:42,146 --> 01:46:44,981 But if I were you, I would do all I can to find out... 1447 01:46:45,024 --> 01:46:49,110 who will be called to it, and I would stack the deck. 1448 01:47:12,551 --> 01:47:17,180 William? William, can you hear me? 1449 01:47:17,681 --> 01:47:19,057 - Everybody out. - It's James. 1450 01:47:19,099 --> 01:47:20,475 Everybody out. 1451 01:47:20,517 --> 01:47:23,269 William, you need to hear us. Can you hear me? 1452 01:47:23,312 --> 01:47:24,562 I brought Mrs. Merrett to see you. 1453 01:47:24,605 --> 01:47:25,939 Leave him be! 1454 01:47:25,981 --> 01:47:28,274 - She needs to talk, you need to... - Leave him be! 1455 01:47:28,317 --> 01:47:33,279 With all due respect, sir, leave them be! 1456 01:47:34,657 --> 01:47:39,118 William? William? 1457 01:47:40,412 --> 01:47:45,333 William, I'm here. 1458 01:47:45,376 --> 01:47:48,169 It's Eliza. 1459 01:47:48,212 --> 01:47:52,966 Do you remember, William? If love... then what? 1460 01:47:55,719 --> 01:47:58,388 If love... then what, William? 1461 01:48:03,227 --> 01:48:10,108 If love... then love. 1462 01:48:14,697 --> 01:48:16,906 If love, then love. 1463 01:48:30,587 --> 01:48:32,046 Please stand. 1464 01:48:34,258 --> 01:48:36,592 Do you know why you are here, Dr. Minor? 1465 01:48:36,635 --> 01:48:38,177 I do. 1466 01:48:38,220 --> 01:48:42,724 And in your opinion, Sergeant, have the circumstances changed? 1467 01:48:42,766 --> 01:48:44,684 No, sir. 1468 01:48:44,727 --> 01:48:47,395 Under what conditions did he enter catalepsy? 1469 01:48:47,438 --> 01:48:48,980 Documented procedures of treatment. 1470 01:48:49,023 --> 01:48:50,440 With the patient's agreement? 1471 01:48:50,482 --> 01:48:53,818 Of course. Gentlemen, with respect, the matter here... 1472 01:48:53,861 --> 01:48:55,236 begs a different question. 1473 01:48:55,279 --> 01:48:58,698 Where and into which hands would misguided compassion... 1474 01:48:58,741 --> 01:49:03,077 release him, there is nowhere else. This is his home. 1475 01:49:07,708 --> 01:49:09,000 Thank you, Mrs. Merrett. 1476 01:49:09,043 --> 01:49:11,794 Is there anything further you would like to say? 1477 01:49:11,837 --> 01:49:13,713 Yes, I would. 1478 01:49:13,756 --> 01:49:18,426 My husband didn't deserve what happened to him. 1479 01:49:18,469 --> 01:49:22,555 He worked hard. Kept his family together. 1480 01:49:22,598 --> 01:49:26,768 Then one day he was gone, and nothing could bring him back. 1481 01:49:26,810 --> 01:49:29,103 What happened to him isn't fair. 1482 01:49:34,777 --> 01:49:37,195 For a long time after he was gone... 1483 01:49:37,237 --> 01:49:42,325 I didn't want to remember him, not even what he looked like. 1484 01:49:44,369 --> 01:49:48,081 I want to say I'm sorry about that. 1485 01:49:48,123 --> 01:49:50,208 He deserved more than that. 1486 01:49:55,089 --> 01:49:58,132 My husband was a sweet man, but he could get angry too. 1487 01:49:58,175 --> 01:50:01,469 Once he got so cross, he kicked the heater... 1488 01:50:01,512 --> 01:50:04,639 'cause it weren't working, he put his foot right through... 1489 01:50:04,681 --> 01:50:08,768 burnt it on the hot coals, he was limping for weeks after. 1490 01:50:08,811 --> 01:50:11,270 One day he caught Jack behind him, hopping along... 1491 01:50:11,313 --> 01:50:16,400 all hobbled and all, like him, do you remember? 1492 01:50:16,443 --> 01:50:23,366 He looked at Jack, and he started to laugh. 1493 01:50:24,493 --> 01:50:27,829 He laughed so hard hobbling, he nearly fell over. 1494 01:50:27,871 --> 01:50:31,666 I think that's why he was often so cross. 1495 01:50:31,708 --> 01:50:36,129 It's cause he wanted his babies, you were all his babies... 1496 01:50:36,171 --> 01:50:39,549 he wanted them to make him laugh. 1497 01:50:43,929 --> 01:50:48,266 I think if George was here now, he'd think all this is unfair. 1498 01:50:48,308 --> 01:50:52,979 I think this would make him angry. 1499 01:50:53,021 --> 01:50:55,940 He wouldn't have a lot of fancy words to say about it. 1500 01:50:55,983 --> 01:51:00,361 But I know he would want it to stop. 1501 01:51:06,660 --> 01:51:09,328 Sir, please, a moment of your time. 1502 01:51:09,371 --> 01:51:11,914 I will deliver my report in two days. You will know then. 1503 01:51:11,957 --> 01:51:14,167 We are not asking for your full deliberation. 1504 01:51:14,209 --> 01:51:16,419 Just a hint at which way you lean. 1505 01:51:16,461 --> 01:51:17,795 Release will be denied. 1506 01:51:17,838 --> 01:51:19,422 The particulars of his treatment... 1507 01:51:19,464 --> 01:51:21,674 that have come to light are troubling... 1508 01:51:21,717 --> 01:51:23,259 Is that not enough to... 1509 01:51:23,302 --> 01:51:26,220 But they are an indictment of the entire criminally insane... 1510 01:51:26,263 --> 01:51:29,223 system of which this board is not a competent judge. 1511 01:51:29,266 --> 01:51:31,309 Dr. Minor is a severely disturbed man. 1512 01:51:31,351 --> 01:51:33,102 For his own safety, the recommendation... 1513 01:51:33,145 --> 01:51:35,730 cannot be given to release him into the open. 1514 01:51:35,772 --> 01:51:37,648 Sir, is there no other way? 1515 01:51:37,691 --> 01:51:40,401 Whatever you intend to do, Dr. Murray, you have one day. 1516 01:51:40,444 --> 01:51:43,529 Then I have to submit my report. 1517 01:51:45,657 --> 01:51:48,201 We can try one last measure, James. 1518 01:51:48,243 --> 01:51:52,079 But you had better be prepared to lay it all on. 1519 01:51:52,456 --> 01:51:53,706 Your timing couldn't be worse. 1520 01:51:53,749 --> 01:51:55,666 An armed gang of Latvians have holed up... 1521 01:51:55,709 --> 01:51:57,001 in a building on Sidney Street. 1522 01:51:57,044 --> 01:51:58,711 The Scots Guards have it surrounded... 1523 01:51:58,754 --> 01:52:00,171 and the whole thing has escalated into a siege. 1524 01:52:00,214 --> 01:52:03,799 A bloody disaster, and it's put him in a foul mood. 1525 01:52:09,264 --> 01:52:10,848 Wait here. 1526 01:52:29,159 --> 01:52:33,162 I'm sorry, chaps, no go, bad timing. 1527 01:52:42,756 --> 01:52:50,721 Sir? Sir? Mr. Churchill, please! 1528 01:52:52,432 --> 01:52:55,268 Forgive me, that was insolent. 1529 01:52:55,310 --> 01:53:03,109 I don't know you, sir. I don't know the sort of man you are. 1530 01:53:03,151 --> 01:53:07,863 But the office you occupy permits me to have desires... 1531 01:53:07,906 --> 01:53:10,449 as to the kind of man I would want you to be. 1532 01:53:10,492 --> 01:53:13,661 Your decisions affect all the lives of this land. 1533 01:53:13,704 --> 01:53:18,165 And I am here, standing before you, for a single one. 1534 01:53:19,710 --> 01:53:25,298 A complicated, pained and soured one, but a life nonetheless. 1535 01:53:25,340 --> 01:53:30,261 And therefore deserving and worthy and precious. 1536 01:53:30,304 --> 01:53:34,598 If you believe, as I would have you believe... 1537 01:53:34,641 --> 01:53:39,979 that every individual life deserves its own chance... 1538 01:53:40,022 --> 01:53:43,858 please, hear what I have come to say. 1539 01:53:43,900 --> 01:53:47,403 Please, sir? All right. 1540 01:53:54,036 --> 01:53:56,829 I suppose I did say lay it all on. 1541 01:53:59,249 --> 01:54:01,000 Charles? 1542 01:54:05,672 --> 01:54:07,840 I will not release Dr. Minor. 1543 01:54:07,883 --> 01:54:10,051 The prime minister won't countenance it. 1544 01:54:10,093 --> 01:54:12,261 The public won't stand for it. 1545 01:54:12,304 --> 01:54:14,472 Fortunately your lexicon provides us with the means... 1546 01:54:14,514 --> 01:54:16,599 to conceal the unpalatable. 1547 01:54:16,641 --> 01:54:20,061 What I will do is deport Dr. Minor. 1548 01:54:20,103 --> 01:54:21,854 I gather he has family in Connecticut. 1549 01:54:21,897 --> 01:54:23,230 He does, sir. 1550 01:54:23,273 --> 01:54:24,690 I shall let the board know, should he be released... 1551 01:54:24,733 --> 01:54:26,484 he is to be sent home. 1552 01:54:26,526 --> 01:54:29,653 Undesirable alien... let America manage her errant son. 1553 01:54:29,696 --> 01:54:32,948 Settle this matter, Dr. Murray. Go back to your work. 1554 01:54:32,991 --> 01:54:37,203 The nation has need of you, and allow me to get back to mine. 1555 01:54:37,245 --> 01:54:39,955 Thank you, sir. 1556 01:54:39,998 --> 01:54:41,624 - Congratulations, doctor. - Thank you, thank you. 1557 01:55:13,698 --> 01:55:16,158 May I introduce you to Freddie Furnivall. 1558 01:55:16,201 --> 01:55:19,495 - It is an honor, doctor. - That is impossible. 1559 01:55:19,538 --> 01:55:20,913 They're ready, sir. 1560 01:55:31,633 --> 01:55:33,509 Ah, wait a moment, please. 1561 01:55:33,552 --> 01:55:35,010 Yes, sir. 1562 01:55:35,053 --> 01:55:40,599 I'll be right here, William, right over there. All right? 1563 01:55:45,856 --> 01:55:47,523 That's good, and if you can hold on three... 1564 01:55:47,566 --> 01:55:51,193 One, two, three. 1565 01:55:59,911 --> 01:56:03,456 This is ours. Something to read on the ship. 1566 01:56:07,085 --> 01:56:09,879 Does she know? 1567 01:56:09,921 --> 01:56:10,921 She does. 1568 01:56:12,632 --> 01:56:18,846 Tell her I... you'll tell her then. 1569 01:56:18,889 --> 01:56:21,182 I will. 1570 01:56:42,370 --> 01:56:46,165 Have you seen the latest proof of the front cover? 1571 01:56:46,208 --> 01:56:50,336 You see, the fortunate thing about these awful people... 1572 01:56:50,378 --> 01:56:54,548 is they believe in the divine right of rule of the monarch. 1573 01:56:54,591 --> 01:56:56,550 Their system falls to pieces if they don't abide... 1574 01:56:56,593 --> 01:56:59,178 by its silly intricacies. 1575 01:56:59,221 --> 01:57:02,139 So, we use it against them. 1576 01:57:02,182 --> 01:57:03,974 Your book is safe, James. 1577 01:57:04,017 --> 01:57:06,435 You are safe at its helm for as long as you wish... 1578 01:57:06,478 --> 01:57:11,273 or until you shuffle off this mortal coil. 1579 01:57:14,069 --> 01:57:16,153 - Yes. - What now? 1580 01:57:16,196 --> 01:57:19,532 Now and forever beyond, my dear Gell... 1581 01:57:19,574 --> 01:57:23,494 Dr. Murray is the dictionary. 1582 01:57:23,537 --> 01:57:25,287 Perhaps you should consider taking a rest. 1583 01:57:25,330 --> 01:57:30,000 I hear the South of France is quite the place... 1584 01:57:30,043 --> 01:57:32,169 for recharging one's spirits.