1 00:00:00,300 --> 00:00:02,256 (Bell tolls) 2 00:00:07,460 --> 00:00:14,411 Veni, Sancte Spiritus 3 00:00:21,100 --> 00:00:28,609 Mentes tuorum visita 4 00:00:32,620 --> 00:00:39,810 Amen 5 00:00:41,220 --> 00:00:43,973 If it's rough ground we'll have to move there! 6 00:00:48,620 --> 00:00:50,417 Push the stake hard! 7 00:00:51,700 --> 00:00:53,258 Follow the cross! 8 00:00:53,340 --> 00:00:55,535 Move that rope over here! 9 00:01:20,300 --> 00:01:22,609 Get on, Roger! Start unloading! 10 00:01:22,700 --> 00:01:25,055 - Get the stock on the booth. - Yes, Master Thomas. 11 00:01:25,140 --> 00:01:26,971 Well, my dear, we're here. 12 00:01:27,060 --> 00:01:29,369 - Is the carriage safe here? - Yes 13 00:01:29,460 --> 00:01:31,416 (Horse whinnies) 14 00:01:34,420 --> 00:01:36,092 What's this? 15 00:01:57,340 --> 00:01:58,693 Tolls for the Abbey! 16 00:01:59,660 --> 00:02:02,220 - Tolls for the Abbey! - Are you with us, Master Cobbler? 17 00:02:02,300 --> 00:02:04,370 Yes, certainly. 18 00:02:04,460 --> 00:02:05,813 Phillip. 19 00:02:05,900 --> 00:02:07,811 Tolls for the Abbey! 20 00:02:10,620 --> 00:02:12,133 Master Glover. 21 00:02:13,140 --> 00:02:16,018 If you want to trade, you must pay a toll to the Abbey. 22 00:02:20,660 --> 00:02:23,220 Tell him, Master Cobbler! Lt's not right. 23 00:02:23,300 --> 00:02:26,337 - You must tell him... - Calm! Calm yourselves, friends. 24 00:02:26,420 --> 00:02:29,173 Do you want Abbot Radulfus to think we have no manners? 25 00:02:38,380 --> 00:02:40,052 Well? 26 00:02:40,140 --> 00:02:45,294 What is it you have to ask of me that will not wait until a reasonable hour? 27 00:02:45,380 --> 00:02:49,612 Abbot Radulfus, er... forgive this late intrusion. 28 00:02:49,700 --> 00:02:54,569 We want to, on behalf of all the merchants of Shrewsbury, to discuss terms. 29 00:02:54,660 --> 00:02:57,572 Terms, Master Cobbler? 30 00:02:58,660 --> 00:03:01,857 Yes. Er, as you know, St Peter's Fair starts tomorrow. 31 00:03:01,940 --> 00:03:03,851 Traders are arriving even now. 32 00:03:05,260 --> 00:03:09,970 For those three days of the fair, which are, after all, the busiest of the year, 33 00:03:10,060 --> 00:03:14,338 all the shops of the town, our shops, must remain closed. 34 00:03:14,420 --> 00:03:16,376 That is so. 35 00:03:16,460 --> 00:03:21,090 Neither may we levy a charge on goods coming through the town as we do the rest of the year. 36 00:03:21,180 --> 00:03:24,252 And all tolls from the fair must be paid to you 37 00:03:24,340 --> 00:03:28,652 The terms of the Royal Charter have been known to you for many years. 38 00:03:28,740 --> 00:03:31,049 I have no authority to change them. 39 00:03:31,140 --> 00:03:34,018 Last summer, King Stephen laid siege to our town. 40 00:03:34,100 --> 00:03:38,173 And repairing the damage leff by His Grace has cost us dear 41 00:03:38,260 --> 00:03:41,377 And what help have we had from Holy Mother Church? None. 42 00:03:41,460 --> 00:03:44,372 Shrewsbury chose to side with Empress Maud in civil war. 43 00:03:44,460 --> 00:03:46,337 It must bear the cost of its choice alone. 44 00:03:46,420 --> 00:03:49,617 It's not the Church's business to interfere in such worldly matters. 45 00:03:49,700 --> 00:03:52,772 But you're not so unworldly as to pass up fat revenue from the fair! 46 00:03:52,860 --> 00:03:55,294 - Forgive my son Prior Robert CADFAEL: Father? 47 00:03:55,380 --> 00:03:59,771 Brother Cadfael, you wish to add your voice to this counsel? 48 00:03:59,860 --> 00:04:05,617 Yes, Father. I think, since we benefit from the protection the town affords, 49 00:04:05,700 --> 00:04:11,013 then surely it's only right that we should bear a part in maintaining its defences? 50 00:04:11,100 --> 00:04:13,375 We demand a tenth of the fair tolls. 51 00:04:13,460 --> 00:04:15,769 A cobbler's son may demand nothing. 52 00:04:15,860 --> 00:04:20,297 It is His Grace King Stephen's will, set down in this Royal Charter, 53 00:04:20,380 --> 00:04:24,373 that all - and, mark you, all - tolls from the fair come wholly to this house. 54 00:04:24,460 --> 00:04:26,337 Your greed shames the name of Christ! 55 00:04:26,420 --> 00:04:27,694 There! 56 00:04:27,780 --> 00:04:30,613 What you refuse to give shall be taken from you. 57 00:04:30,700 --> 00:04:32,497 And you will profit nothing! 58 00:04:32,580 --> 00:04:33,808 Nothing! 59 00:04:40,380 --> 00:04:42,530 MERCHANT: If you've a grievance see the Abbot 60 00:04:42,620 --> 00:04:45,930 COBBLER'S SON: You visiting merchants think you pay tolls to the Abbey 61 00:04:46,020 --> 00:04:48,693 while the Abbey denies any aid to the town 62 00:04:48,780 --> 00:04:52,898 If the Abbey turns a cold eye on the town's troubles should you side with them? 63 00:04:52,980 --> 00:04:55,016 MERCHANT: On your way, boy. 64 00:04:55,860 --> 00:04:57,339 You have a choice. 65 00:04:57,420 --> 00:05:01,208 Give us a tenth of the dues you pay to the Abbey, or suffer the consequences. 66 00:05:01,300 --> 00:05:05,657 You threaten us? Honest men making an honest living. 67 00:05:06,740 --> 00:05:08,458 Get home before you take a beating. 68 00:05:08,540 --> 00:05:11,930 Well, let's see what song you sing when your wine is turned to water. 69 00:05:12,020 --> 00:05:13,692 MERCHANT: Roger, my wine! 70 00:05:20,660 --> 00:05:22,571 - Master! - Go on Thomas! 71 00:05:22,660 --> 00:05:25,777 - Break the beggar's nose! - Send him packing! 72 00:05:25,860 --> 00:05:27,134 Come on, then! 73 00:05:27,220 --> 00:05:29,176 Defeat him Master Merchant 74 00:05:32,500 --> 00:05:34,331 (Shouting) 75 00:05:40,020 --> 00:05:41,976 (Horse whinnies) 76 00:06:05,140 --> 00:06:07,654 Enough! Stand off! Enough! 77 00:06:07,740 --> 00:06:09,412 Argh! Argh! 78 00:06:09,500 --> 00:06:11,650 No! No more violence. 79 00:06:11,740 --> 00:06:13,298 Thank you, Brother. 80 00:06:15,820 --> 00:06:18,573 Leave him be. You have done enough, sir. 81 00:06:18,660 --> 00:06:20,013 Oh, indeed! 82 00:06:25,260 --> 00:06:27,091 WOMAN: Uncle! 83 00:06:27,980 --> 00:06:29,015 No! 84 00:06:30,540 --> 00:06:32,451 How dare you strike my uncle? 85 00:06:35,900 --> 00:06:38,334 Unhand her, sir. Unhand her! 86 00:06:38,420 --> 00:06:39,819 Yes! 87 00:06:42,860 --> 00:06:44,691 MERCHANT: I yield. I yield! 88 00:06:47,220 --> 00:06:49,814 Teach your uncle some manners, girl. 89 00:06:52,220 --> 00:06:55,018 Take care, Master Wine Merchant. 90 00:06:55,100 --> 00:06:56,658 MAN: It's Beringar. 91 00:06:56,740 --> 00:06:58,298 MAN: It's Beringar's men! 92 00:06:58,380 --> 00:07:00,336 MAN: It's Beringar! 93 00:07:10,900 --> 00:07:12,458 Goodnight, Mistress. 94 00:07:12,540 --> 00:07:14,098 Come on, Falconer. 95 00:07:16,660 --> 00:07:19,128 - Sleep well, my Lord. - Father Abbot. 96 00:07:22,140 --> 00:07:25,530 PRIOR ROBERT: There is no point denying it to me Brother Cadfael 97 00:07:25,620 --> 00:07:27,417 You were seen brawling and fighting 98 00:07:27,500 --> 00:07:30,936 in a manner that ill becomes a member of this house. 99 00:07:31,020 --> 00:07:32,692 What do you have to say? Do you deny it? 100 00:07:32,780 --> 00:07:34,611 You had best come with me to Father Abbot. 101 00:07:34,700 --> 00:07:37,612 I think you, whoever you are, had best consider the whole tale. 102 00:07:37,700 --> 00:07:39,691 By his prompt action, 103 00:07:39,780 --> 00:07:44,251 this Brother prevented any serious disorder and injury along the riverbank. 104 00:07:44,340 --> 00:07:46,251 Anyone who says otherwise is a liar. 105 00:07:46,340 --> 00:07:48,331 And who, may I ask, are you? 106 00:07:48,420 --> 00:07:52,698 I am lvo Corbiere, nephew to the Earl of Chester. 107 00:07:52,780 --> 00:07:57,012 And, by Abbot Radulfus' good leave, guest of your house. 108 00:07:57,100 --> 00:08:00,854 Now, Brother, my bowman and falconer are in the courtyard. 109 00:08:01,900 --> 00:08:04,209 They are tired and weary from their journey. 110 00:08:04,300 --> 00:08:06,655 I am sure they would be grateful of something to eat. 111 00:08:06,740 --> 00:08:09,049 Now, if you would, show them to the stables. 112 00:08:14,620 --> 00:08:19,057 It is an odd kind of monk who handles a quarterstaff like a born soldier. 113 00:08:19,140 --> 00:08:21,096 Tell me, Brother, where did you serve? 114 00:08:21,180 --> 00:08:23,740 In the Holy Land, once, long ago. 115 00:08:23,820 --> 00:08:25,890 I fought before the Cross. 116 00:08:25,980 --> 00:08:27,698 From crusade to cloister. 117 00:08:27,780 --> 00:08:31,409 Now I tend the herbarium and minister to the sick in the Abbey and town. 118 00:08:31,500 --> 00:08:33,616 A strange choice after such adventures. 119 00:08:33,700 --> 00:08:37,773 I am content. And you, my Lord, what brings you to Shrewsbury? 120 00:08:37,860 --> 00:08:39,418 - Ah, your fair. - Ah. 121 00:08:39,500 --> 00:08:41,411 My family holds the manor at Stanton. 122 00:08:41,500 --> 00:08:44,936 Disused these last ten years, it is in some disrepair. 123 00:08:45,020 --> 00:08:49,935 I am here to replace all that is lost, see the cellars and kitchen restocked. 124 00:08:50,020 --> 00:08:53,171 What a great pity, then, you crossed swords with the wine merchant, eh? 125 00:08:53,260 --> 00:08:56,172 - But, of course, there are other wine merchants. - Oh... 126 00:08:56,260 --> 00:08:58,933 I doubt another with so pretty a niece. 127 00:09:00,020 --> 00:09:02,375 She has an uncommon beauty, does she not, Brother? 128 00:09:02,460 --> 00:09:05,532 Indeed she has. And an uncommon, ill-tempered uncle as well. 129 00:09:06,900 --> 00:09:08,572 Goodnight, my Lord. 130 00:09:18,980 --> 00:09:22,256 Oh, Oswin! Oswin... 131 00:09:22,340 --> 00:09:24,251 Look at my ulcer balm. 132 00:09:24,340 --> 00:09:28,015 Almost burned dry! I thought you were meant to watch it for me? 133 00:09:28,100 --> 00:09:29,818 I did. I was. 134 00:09:29,900 --> 00:09:32,016 I mean... I'm sorry, Brother. 135 00:09:32,100 --> 00:09:34,170 I'll start afresh. 136 00:09:34,260 --> 00:09:36,091 My Lord Beringar. Hugh. 137 00:09:37,180 --> 00:09:39,853 A fine beginning, Cadfael, and the fair not even started. 138 00:09:39,940 --> 00:09:43,057 Well, clear skies follow storms. 139 00:09:45,140 --> 00:09:47,256 You believe that no more than I do. 140 00:09:47,340 --> 00:09:51,299 No. Two halves of a broken land made one by our fair. 141 00:09:52,340 --> 00:09:56,174 I think it'll take more than trade to make them set aside their differences. 142 00:09:57,220 --> 00:10:00,178 No, not until you've done the angelica water. 143 00:10:02,420 --> 00:10:04,854 I didn't expect to see you tonight. 144 00:10:04,940 --> 00:10:07,738 I thought you'd be busy at the fair for some hours yet. 145 00:10:07,820 --> 00:10:09,219 It's quiet again... 146 00:10:09,300 --> 00:10:10,574 for the present. 147 00:10:10,660 --> 00:10:11,809 Ah. 148 00:10:11,900 --> 00:10:14,698 We caught the troublemakers, apart from the cobbler's son. 149 00:10:14,780 --> 00:10:16,816 Ringleader, by all accounts. 150 00:10:16,900 --> 00:10:21,655 Oh, no, no. He's a hot-headed lad, with a just complaint, perhaps. 151 00:10:21,740 --> 00:10:25,176 But he's no ringleader. No, there's little real harm in him. 152 00:10:25,260 --> 00:10:29,173 Harm or not, if I find him or anyone else abroad after curfew, 153 00:10:29,260 --> 00:10:32,093 without good reason, they'll be arrested. 154 00:10:32,180 --> 00:10:36,810 I'm the Undersheriff of Shropshire, Cadfael. I'll keep the King's peace. 155 00:10:36,900 --> 00:10:40,415 You are the King's man. That was your choice. 156 00:10:40,500 --> 00:10:43,060 My choice was order over chaos. 157 00:10:43,140 --> 00:10:46,530 You turned your back on the world I still live in. So don't presume to judge. 158 00:10:46,620 --> 00:10:48,292 (Abbey bell tolls) 159 00:10:48,380 --> 00:10:51,611 Well, er... Oswin, I think we must get to compline. 160 00:10:54,540 --> 00:10:57,452 Cadfael, forgive me. My words were ill chosen. 161 00:10:57,540 --> 00:11:00,452 Hugh, old friends don't need to ask forgiveness. 162 00:11:00,540 --> 00:11:03,213 You have much on your mind to trouble you. 163 00:11:08,340 --> 00:11:09,898 You there! 164 00:11:14,380 --> 00:11:17,338 - What's your name? - Glover of Shotwick. 165 00:11:18,380 --> 00:11:20,450 What business keeps you abroad after curfew? 166 00:11:21,460 --> 00:11:24,611 A man's business, if you follow me. 167 00:11:25,420 --> 00:11:27,172 I've come from the stew house. 168 00:11:27,260 --> 00:11:29,171 Perhaps you know it? 169 00:11:30,260 --> 00:11:32,171 Get to your bed. 170 00:11:35,340 --> 00:11:36,773 Sergeant Warden? 171 00:11:44,980 --> 00:11:48,211 MAN: Is he dead? SERGEANT WARDEN: Dead drunk. 172 00:11:48,300 --> 00:11:49,938 Help me lift him. 173 00:11:53,260 --> 00:11:55,216 (Groans) 174 00:12:30,100 --> 00:12:31,658 Get away from me! 175 00:12:31,740 --> 00:12:32,855 Get away! 176 00:12:32,940 --> 00:12:36,216 You wait till Uncle gets home. He'll have your hide for this. Get out! 177 00:12:39,180 --> 00:12:41,011 (Cheering) 178 00:12:50,620 --> 00:12:55,330 Benedictus benedicartor inde festivale. 179 00:12:56,580 --> 00:12:58,093 Trade in peace. 180 00:12:58,180 --> 00:13:02,537 Let no further trouble mar the festivities. 181 00:13:02,620 --> 00:13:04,451 (Cheering) 182 00:13:07,780 --> 00:13:11,090 WOMAN: Aargh! 183 00:13:11,180 --> 00:13:12,818 Aargh! 184 00:13:13,900 --> 00:13:15,697 He's in the water! He's dead. 185 00:13:15,780 --> 00:13:17,259 Help! 186 00:13:17,340 --> 00:13:18,693 Uncle! 187 00:13:19,780 --> 00:13:21,293 Aaagh! 188 00:13:22,380 --> 00:13:24,018 - Everybody, stay back. (Screams) 189 00:13:24,100 --> 00:13:25,499 Lt's all right. It's all right. 190 00:13:27,940 --> 00:13:29,771 Let's get him out. 191 00:13:38,900 --> 00:13:40,253 (Sobs) 192 00:13:44,420 --> 00:13:46,376 (Cries of horror) 193 00:14:11,340 --> 00:14:14,377 His rings were taken and his clothes. It must have been robbery. 194 00:14:14,460 --> 00:14:17,532 Now, we must always be wary of "musts". Nothing is certain. 195 00:14:17,620 --> 00:14:21,295 There's nothing to be learned from his condition. The river has washed him clean. 196 00:14:21,380 --> 00:14:23,610 Well, then, we must work with what we have. 197 00:14:23,700 --> 00:14:25,179 A single wound. 198 00:14:25,260 --> 00:14:27,899 From a thin -bladed knife. 199 00:14:28,980 --> 00:14:33,895 You see how his back is all torn and scratched. And here, you see, there's a thorn. 200 00:14:33,980 --> 00:14:36,096 He was dragged along the ground. 201 00:14:36,180 --> 00:14:37,932 Help me to turn him. 202 00:14:39,820 --> 00:14:44,450 This death casts a shadow on our house. And on our fair. 203 00:14:44,540 --> 00:14:48,453 Father Abbot, surely this man was taken by footpads. 204 00:14:48,540 --> 00:14:51,737 Do footpads commonly cut out their victim's tongue? 205 00:14:53,100 --> 00:14:56,649 To my mind, such cruelty is born of something more than greed. 206 00:14:56,740 --> 00:14:58,696 Then why was he killed? 207 00:15:00,140 --> 00:15:03,416 A man of Bristol, important in his trade. Who knows, but he had enemies? 208 00:15:03,500 --> 00:15:07,049 At great fairs like ours such enemies may be brought together 209 00:15:07,140 --> 00:15:09,574 There are several thousand souls here at present. 210 00:15:09,660 --> 00:15:12,049 Do you propose my Lord Beringar questions them all? 211 00:15:12,140 --> 00:15:14,973 Such a course would disrupt the fair beyond measure 212 00:15:15,060 --> 00:15:19,019 But in three days' time they will all be gone, guilty and innocent alike. 213 00:15:19,100 --> 00:15:21,898 There's nothing to say that they haven't left already. 214 00:15:21,980 --> 00:15:23,971 Nor that they have. 215 00:15:24,060 --> 00:15:26,528 ABBOT RADULFUS: Brother Cadfael 216 00:15:26,620 --> 00:15:30,374 you have my commission to act for our house in this matter. 217 00:15:30,460 --> 00:15:32,928 On your report, I shall set my trust. 218 00:15:33,020 --> 00:15:35,090 Assist Lord Beringar as best you can 219 00:15:35,180 --> 00:15:36,169 Father Abbot... 220 00:15:36,260 --> 00:15:39,138 The men of Shrewsbury asked me for something I could not grant. 221 00:15:39,220 --> 00:15:41,256 Today, a man is dead. 222 00:15:41,340 --> 00:15:46,095 If he died as a result of my action... I must know it. 223 00:15:52,180 --> 00:15:55,889 Mistress Vernold, why didn't you report your uncle missing? 224 00:15:55,980 --> 00:15:57,732 I didn't know that he was missing 225 00:15:57,820 --> 00:16:01,210 He was fond of his drink and company, and sometimes stayed away. 226 00:16:01,300 --> 00:16:04,975 When he didn't return for supper I wasn't worried for him 227 00:16:05,060 --> 00:16:06,812 Mistress, is it true? 228 00:16:06,900 --> 00:16:09,778 Is Master Thomas murdered? Emma? 229 00:16:09,860 --> 00:16:11,054 Get away. 230 00:16:11,140 --> 00:16:13,779 Get away from me! 231 00:16:14,780 --> 00:16:16,691 Now, come away, now. She needs rest. 232 00:16:16,780 --> 00:16:19,294 Oswin, you stay by Mistress Vernold. 233 00:16:20,340 --> 00:16:22,535 When did you last see your master? 234 00:16:22,620 --> 00:16:25,498 Yesterday evening. He came to the fair to see his booth stocked. 235 00:16:25,580 --> 00:16:28,333 Once all was arranged to his liking, he left for the caravan. 236 00:16:28,420 --> 00:16:29,933 At what hour? 237 00:16:30,020 --> 00:16:31,692 Not long before compline bell. 238 00:16:31,780 --> 00:16:33,532 Which way did he go? 239 00:16:33,620 --> 00:16:36,657 What does it matter which way he went? You know who took his life. 240 00:16:36,740 --> 00:16:39,618 Villains who fought with him on the riverbank. Your townsfolk. 241 00:16:39,700 --> 00:16:42,498 Where have you been since you quit the riverside, Phillip? 242 00:16:42,580 --> 00:16:46,653 I cannot tell you. The wine merchant fetched me such a crack that I don't know where I was. 243 00:16:46,740 --> 00:16:50,050 My Lord, he was at home and in bed before compline bell. 244 00:16:50,140 --> 00:16:54,850 I had men patrolling the fair from afternoon till long past curfew. 245 00:16:55,900 --> 00:16:58,539 - How is it none of them saw you? - I don't know. 246 00:16:58,620 --> 00:17:01,578 Were you by the fair at any time? 247 00:17:01,660 --> 00:17:04,697 - No. CADFAEL: You remember that well enough 248 00:17:04,780 --> 00:17:09,217 Yesterday at the riverside, Phillip, you had your work blade with you. 249 00:17:10,260 --> 00:17:12,012 Where is it now? 250 00:17:14,900 --> 00:17:16,936 Perhaps I dropped it in the fight. 251 00:17:17,020 --> 00:17:18,931 Perhaps you did. 252 00:17:21,580 --> 00:17:23,298 BERINGAR: Well, is he lying? 253 00:17:23,380 --> 00:17:25,655 Oh, certainly. 254 00:17:25,740 --> 00:17:30,097 But, for all his lies, I can't believe him capable of such butchery. 255 00:17:30,180 --> 00:17:31,533 You mean the tongue? 256 00:17:31,620 --> 00:17:36,933 Mm. Such a vile deed could only spring from some bitter, long-standing hatred. 257 00:17:37,980 --> 00:17:40,574 Phillip only met him yesterday. 258 00:17:40,660 --> 00:17:43,220 Whoever murdered Master Thomas wanted the world to see 259 00:17:43,300 --> 00:17:46,736 and recognise the full horror of his act. 260 00:17:46,820 --> 00:17:49,380 Are you saying it was intended as a message of some sort? 261 00:17:49,460 --> 00:17:51,337 Well, or a warning. 262 00:17:51,420 --> 00:17:55,015 Perhaps Master Thomas's tongue had lent itself to insults once too often. 263 00:17:56,060 --> 00:17:59,894 We must question anyone who may have seen Phillip about the fair last night. 264 00:18:04,980 --> 00:18:07,813 We found him a couple of hours past compline, my Lord. 265 00:18:07,900 --> 00:18:12,052 Dead to the world on drink. The stench is on him still. 266 00:18:12,140 --> 00:18:14,335 Geneva liquor by the smell of it. 267 00:18:14,420 --> 00:18:16,536 Christ, God, you'll pay for this, Fowler. 268 00:18:16,620 --> 00:18:19,293 CORBIERE: You had orders to stay within the Abbey precinct 269 00:18:19,380 --> 00:18:21,610 My Lord Corbiere, I take it this man is yours? 270 00:18:21,700 --> 00:18:24,055 In truth he belongs to my uncle, the Earl of Chester, 271 00:18:24,140 --> 00:18:26,734 but he gifted him to me for this journey. 272 00:18:27,620 --> 00:18:29,292 Some gift you are! 273 00:18:29,380 --> 00:18:30,938 Aargh! 274 00:18:33,780 --> 00:18:37,216 We'd had a long ride, my Lord. My throat was dry from the road. 275 00:18:37,300 --> 00:18:38,858 BERINGAR: Where did you go? 276 00:18:38,940 --> 00:18:42,250 - Tavern in the Abbey foregate - How long did you spend there? 277 00:18:42,340 --> 00:18:46,379 When we found him, he was cold and damp from the night air. 278 00:18:46,460 --> 00:18:48,769 He'd been there a good few hours, my Lord. 279 00:18:49,700 --> 00:18:53,978 And from the state of him, incapable of anything long before that. 280 00:18:54,060 --> 00:18:56,051 Why did you leave the tavern? 281 00:18:56,140 --> 00:18:58,176 To finish my liquor in peace 282 00:18:58,260 --> 00:19:01,172 Why such interest in my comings and goings? 283 00:19:01,260 --> 00:19:03,012 CORBIERE: A man has been murdered 284 00:19:03,100 --> 00:19:07,491 Answer my Lord Beringar directly or you may well find yourself suspect. 285 00:19:07,580 --> 00:19:09,218 Me? 286 00:19:09,300 --> 00:19:11,097 I've done nothing. 287 00:19:12,340 --> 00:19:14,774 Murder, you say, my Lord? Who is murdered? 288 00:19:14,860 --> 00:19:18,739 The wine merchant from the riverside. Master Thomas. 289 00:19:19,820 --> 00:19:21,492 The wine merchant. 290 00:19:22,540 --> 00:19:25,418 I thought the boy was just talking violence through the ale. 291 00:19:26,380 --> 00:19:27,574 Which boy? 292 00:19:27,660 --> 00:19:29,013 PHILLIP: No! No! 293 00:19:29,100 --> 00:19:30,772 You killed Master! 294 00:19:31,660 --> 00:19:33,537 My Lord, I did nothing. 295 00:19:33,620 --> 00:19:35,372 I have a witness. 296 00:19:35,460 --> 00:19:39,658 He says you were at Wat's Tavern swearing vengeance against Master Thomas. 297 00:19:39,740 --> 00:19:42,732 That you left threatening to settle it before the night was out. 298 00:19:42,820 --> 00:19:44,378 What witness? 299 00:19:44,460 --> 00:19:48,009 As God sees me, I did him no harm. You must believe me. 300 00:19:49,060 --> 00:19:50,778 Take him. 301 00:19:56,100 --> 00:19:58,819 Is it certain this boy killed Uncle Thomas? 302 00:19:58,900 --> 00:20:01,175 He seemed to me only a townsman with a grievance. 303 00:20:01,260 --> 00:20:03,820 That might make him a murderer, but not a thief as well. 304 00:20:03,900 --> 00:20:09,372 It could occur to someone turned murderer by mishap to dress his crime as robbery. 305 00:20:09,460 --> 00:20:11,530 Are you sure you won't stay at the Abbey? 306 00:20:11,620 --> 00:20:14,214 I don't think you should be here alone with your men. 307 00:20:14,300 --> 00:20:17,929 - Roger and Warrin are my uncle's servants. - Yet first and fore they are men. 308 00:20:18,020 --> 00:20:20,853 - I'll have them sleep at the booth. - Then you'll be unguarded. 309 00:20:20,940 --> 00:20:22,931 I am in no danger. 310 00:20:23,020 --> 00:20:25,978 You have been kind, Brother, and for that I am grateful. 311 00:20:26,060 --> 00:20:29,973 But you may not tell me what to do. You are not my uncle. 312 00:20:30,060 --> 00:20:31,254 No. 313 00:20:31,340 --> 00:20:33,251 But I am your friend. 314 00:20:33,340 --> 00:20:35,058 Then stand by me. 315 00:20:36,100 --> 00:20:38,694 There is so much to face, I fear my heart will break. 316 00:20:41,060 --> 00:20:45,099 But I will keep the booth open and try and do everything as Uncle would have done. 317 00:20:45,180 --> 00:20:47,057 I must, for his sake. 318 00:20:50,740 --> 00:20:52,696 (Horse whinnies) 319 00:21:15,020 --> 00:21:17,056 (Owl hoots) 320 00:21:18,820 --> 00:21:20,776 (Snores) 321 00:21:37,900 --> 00:21:39,492 Roger? 322 00:21:43,340 --> 00:21:45,092 What happened, then? 323 00:21:45,180 --> 00:21:47,489 Someone stole Thomas's strongbox last night. 324 00:21:47,580 --> 00:21:49,730 - What was in this strongbox? - Nothing. 325 00:21:49,820 --> 00:21:51,811 I took yesterday's money back to the caravan. 326 00:21:52,860 --> 00:21:55,374 - And how many do you say attacked you? - Three or four. 327 00:21:56,420 --> 00:21:59,298 Three or four. A moment ago you said it was two or three. 328 00:21:59,380 --> 00:22:02,816 - There was two, weren't there, Warrin? - I think. Maybe more. 329 00:22:02,900 --> 00:22:05,778 - When I came to, they'd gone. - I found him gagged and bound, see. 330 00:22:05,860 --> 00:22:09,250 - Otherwise, he'd have cried for help. - I would, aye. Course I would. 331 00:22:10,260 --> 00:22:12,171 At what hour was this? 332 00:22:12,260 --> 00:22:15,491 Well past midnight. I heard the matins bell before I fell asleep. 333 00:22:15,580 --> 00:22:17,616 If only I'd remained awake. 334 00:22:17,700 --> 00:22:19,736 Then you might have been killed. 335 00:22:20,580 --> 00:22:24,732 Just be thankful nothing was lost of any value to compare with a life. 336 00:22:27,620 --> 00:22:31,977 Master Bellecote seemed very cheerful for one who spends so much time making coffins. 337 00:22:32,060 --> 00:22:34,016 Ah, yes, well, you see, he also makes cribs. 338 00:22:35,060 --> 00:22:38,052 Brother Cadfael, Uncle died without absolution. 339 00:22:38,140 --> 00:22:40,938 So do many. You mustn't let it fret you, child. 340 00:22:41,020 --> 00:22:44,490 Penitence is in the heart, not in the words spoken. 341 00:22:44,580 --> 00:22:47,617 God knows the record without need for gesture or word. 342 00:22:47,700 --> 00:22:50,817 Mistress! Someone has been here. First booth robbed and now caravan. 343 00:22:50,900 --> 00:22:53,130 - Booth robbed? - Master's strongbox was stolen. 344 00:22:53,220 --> 00:22:54,209 What of Warrin? 345 00:22:54,300 --> 00:22:56,450 He's bruised but alive. I should have been there. 346 00:22:56,540 --> 00:22:59,737 Then why weren't you? I understood you were both to sleep at the booth. 347 00:22:59,820 --> 00:23:02,380 I stayed by the caravan to keep an eye on Mistress. 348 00:23:12,580 --> 00:23:14,457 Yesterday's money, praise God. 349 00:23:15,820 --> 00:23:18,539 - Well, has anything been taken? - No, nothing's been taken. 350 00:23:18,620 --> 00:23:20,338 How can you be so sure? 351 00:23:20,420 --> 00:23:23,776 Best search thoroughly before we report this to Hugh Beringar. 352 00:23:23,860 --> 00:23:26,420 Report it? But there's no harm. 353 00:23:26,500 --> 00:23:29,219 Master killed, the booth robbed and now your caravan. 354 00:23:29,300 --> 00:23:31,097 This is the work of some common thief. 355 00:23:31,180 --> 00:23:32,818 A common thief? 356 00:23:34,540 --> 00:23:36,132 Who steals nothing? 357 00:23:37,220 --> 00:23:41,418 There have been some small things stolen that I should not have missed until I got home. 358 00:23:41,500 --> 00:23:44,572 A girdle with a gold clasp, and a silver chain. 359 00:23:44,660 --> 00:23:46,252 And the glove. 360 00:23:46,340 --> 00:23:48,012 Yes. A glove was taken. 361 00:23:48,100 --> 00:23:49,613 Just one? 362 00:23:49,700 --> 00:23:52,339 Well, a one-armed thief should not be so difficult to find. 363 00:23:52,420 --> 00:23:54,411 In his haste to leave, he dropped this one. 364 00:23:55,460 --> 00:24:01,376 Well, at least he had the wit to take only trifles he could fit into sleeve or pouch. 365 00:24:02,420 --> 00:24:03,819 Some chance thief. 366 00:24:03,900 --> 00:24:07,097 No, I don't think a chance thief, not so soon after the booth was robbed. 367 00:24:07,180 --> 00:24:10,809 You realise, of course, that this weakens your case against the cobbler's son? 368 00:24:10,900 --> 00:24:12,379 How's that? 369 00:24:12,460 --> 00:24:15,577 Well, he would find it rather difficult to rob booth and caravan 370 00:24:15,660 --> 00:24:18,220 while you still had him under lock and key in the castle. 371 00:24:18,300 --> 00:24:21,417 He is being held for Master Thomas's murder, not these offences. 372 00:24:21,500 --> 00:24:24,094 So the three are separate to your mind? 373 00:24:24,180 --> 00:24:29,049 Separate or not, I am the law, Cadfael, and have the good of the many to consider. 374 00:24:29,140 --> 00:24:31,859 If I turn him loose, God knows how the traders might react 375 00:24:31,940 --> 00:24:33,851 or how many more deaths it could provoke. 376 00:24:33,940 --> 00:24:37,137 Then you must prove Phillip's innocence to them beyond doubt. 377 00:24:37,220 --> 00:24:38,209 How? 378 00:24:38,300 --> 00:24:39,938 I have neither men nor time. 379 00:24:40,020 --> 00:24:41,851 Nor will! 380 00:24:41,940 --> 00:24:43,692 I have a fair to control. 381 00:24:43,780 --> 00:24:46,578 Is this the sort of order you've chosen, hm? 382 00:24:46,660 --> 00:24:49,049 One where any suspect will do, guilty or innocent? 383 00:24:49,140 --> 00:24:50,539 What about justice? 384 00:24:51,620 --> 00:24:54,817 Or should we all know better than to expect justice from a King's man? 385 00:24:54,900 --> 00:24:58,290 Lf any other had spoken such treason, he'd find himself in the dungeon. 386 00:24:58,380 --> 00:25:01,452 Do not presume too much upon our friendship, Cadfael! 387 00:25:04,460 --> 00:25:06,291 As you wish. 388 00:25:11,620 --> 00:25:15,932 Of course, you must stay here, Mistress. As Prior Robert said, your uncle paid his toll. 389 00:25:16,020 --> 00:25:19,535 He was at the fair under our protection. We have an obligation. 390 00:25:19,620 --> 00:25:21,929 You're very kind, Brother Jerome. 391 00:25:23,140 --> 00:25:27,736 If there is anything else that you require, Brother Hospitaller will be pleased to help you. 392 00:25:27,820 --> 00:25:29,776 (Abbey bell tolls) 393 00:25:55,420 --> 00:25:59,971 OLD CRONE: Love charms Touchstones Wart cures 394 00:26:00,060 --> 00:26:04,656 A mirror in which you may see your true love's face. 395 00:26:04,740 --> 00:26:08,335 Talisman to ward off curses. 396 00:26:08,420 --> 00:26:10,331 Love charms 397 00:26:16,660 --> 00:26:18,890 Love charms. 398 00:26:19,980 --> 00:26:23,689 Perhaps a piece of the true Cross might interest you, Brother? 399 00:26:23,780 --> 00:26:25,293 Not today, thank you. 400 00:26:30,300 --> 00:26:32,256 (Clapping) 401 00:26:40,620 --> 00:26:43,180 - Master Warrin? - Yes, that's me. 402 00:26:43,260 --> 00:26:46,457 I'm Brother Cadfael, herbalist to the Abbey. 403 00:26:46,540 --> 00:26:49,816 Your mistress asked me to stop by and take a look at your head. 404 00:26:49,900 --> 00:26:52,414 No need to trouble yourself, Brother. I'm well enough. 405 00:26:54,100 --> 00:26:56,534 You're manning the booth all on your own, I see. 406 00:26:56,620 --> 00:26:58,417 - Roger's away to get stock. - Ah. 407 00:26:58,500 --> 00:27:02,778 And no doubt to offer comfort to his mistress. He seems a devoted servant. 408 00:27:02,860 --> 00:27:07,456 I'll not deny he follows after her like an old man shielding a candle from a gale. 409 00:27:07,540 --> 00:27:09,417 But she leads him on. 410 00:27:09,500 --> 00:27:12,014 Ah, yes. And did that please your master? 411 00:27:15,260 --> 00:27:18,377 The boy that killed Master Thomas is a townsman of yours. 412 00:27:18,460 --> 00:27:21,975 He is taken and will hang for it. If you're here after shifting the blame to... 413 00:27:22,060 --> 00:27:25,814 No, no, I am here merely to examine your head. 414 00:27:26,900 --> 00:27:30,210 I'd need it examining if I couldn't see through you, Brother. 415 00:27:30,300 --> 00:27:32,450 Well, you'll get no help from me. 416 00:27:36,540 --> 00:27:38,929 Ah. Fine piece of stitching there. 417 00:27:39,980 --> 00:27:43,768 Is Brother Cadfael so worried that he set you to watch over me? 418 00:27:43,860 --> 00:27:46,852 Well, all my chores at the workshop are taken care of. 419 00:27:46,940 --> 00:27:49,295 If my patients want me, they know where I am. 420 00:27:50,820 --> 00:27:52,936 I think I'll walk along the foregate later. 421 00:27:53,020 --> 00:27:56,217 With all the upset, I've seen hardly anything of the fair. 422 00:27:56,300 --> 00:28:00,009 - You need not trouble yourself. - I am at your disposal, Mistress. 423 00:28:00,100 --> 00:28:02,250 I mean to replace the gloves I lost. 424 00:28:02,340 --> 00:28:05,093 They say there's a very good glover has a stall in the fair. 425 00:28:06,140 --> 00:28:08,415 - It'll be tiresome for you. - No, not at all. 426 00:28:08,500 --> 00:28:10,934 Such a fine day should not be spent indoors. 427 00:28:11,020 --> 00:28:14,092 And... And... I like gloves. 428 00:28:15,980 --> 00:28:18,813 Roger, were you fond of your master? 429 00:28:18,900 --> 00:28:20,458 I was. 430 00:28:20,540 --> 00:28:21,893 And of his niece? 431 00:28:21,980 --> 00:28:24,414 - No more than is proper. - No. No, of course not. 432 00:28:24,500 --> 00:28:27,492 No, I meant only in the proper sense. 433 00:28:27,580 --> 00:28:29,377 No, I can see you're no idiot. 434 00:28:29,460 --> 00:28:32,532 But I pity the fool that falls for your mistress. 435 00:28:32,620 --> 00:28:35,293 What a spoiled, vain, empty-headed creature she is. 436 00:28:35,380 --> 00:28:37,735 Enough, I say. You've no cause to say such things. 437 00:28:37,820 --> 00:28:40,015 Why should you care what I say? 438 00:28:40,100 --> 00:28:43,376 I think she's a fickle, faithless, shrewish brat! 439 00:28:43,460 --> 00:28:45,416 I won't have you speak of Emma like that! 440 00:28:46,500 --> 00:28:48,411 Emma, is it? 441 00:28:48,500 --> 00:28:51,139 I don't understand. I thought she meant nothing to you. 442 00:28:51,220 --> 00:28:54,178 She's everything, damn you, and well you know it. I'd die for her. 443 00:28:54,260 --> 00:28:55,898 No doubt of it. 444 00:28:57,340 --> 00:28:59,410 Would you also kill for her? 445 00:29:03,820 --> 00:29:06,050 VENDOR: Sausages! Sausages! 446 00:29:06,940 --> 00:29:09,329 Real meat sausages in a bun 447 00:29:09,420 --> 00:29:14,130 WOMAN: Buy my pies! Best meat! They're hot they're lovely! Best meat pies! 448 00:29:14,220 --> 00:29:16,893 Buy my pies! 449 00:29:16,980 --> 00:29:20,734 MAN: Live eels from the local river! Get them fresh! 450 00:29:20,820 --> 00:29:23,573 OLD CRONE: Love charms 451 00:29:23,660 --> 00:29:24,979 Potions 452 00:29:25,060 --> 00:29:29,053 Look, Brother Oswin, look! That man is eating fire, yet he does not burn. 453 00:29:32,740 --> 00:29:34,412 No, Mistress. Do not look. 454 00:29:34,500 --> 00:29:36,855 It is... It is black deviltry. 455 00:29:38,020 --> 00:29:41,330 MAN: Swords from the country of Milan. 456 00:29:41,420 --> 00:29:44,173 Love potions, Mistress. Charms. 457 00:29:44,260 --> 00:29:49,129 I have elixirs here will sustain a man from dusk till dawn. 458 00:29:49,220 --> 00:29:52,769 That sounds useful. I often have to stay awake to tend to things in the workshop. 459 00:29:52,860 --> 00:29:54,578 Could it truly keep me awake? 460 00:29:54,660 --> 00:29:56,537 Oh, yes, it'll keep you up, all right. 461 00:29:56,620 --> 00:29:57,814 Do you drink it? 462 00:29:57,900 --> 00:30:02,098 You can, but it's meant as a lotion, Master. A lotion. 463 00:30:02,180 --> 00:30:04,648 One of my most popular. 464 00:30:04,740 --> 00:30:08,858 A farthing, Master, is all I ask for these wonders. 465 00:30:08,940 --> 00:30:10,771 Alas, I have no money. 466 00:30:10,860 --> 00:30:13,693 Something for you, then, Mistress? 467 00:30:13,780 --> 00:30:19,059 Polished brass in which you may see the face of your true love reflected? 468 00:30:19,140 --> 00:30:21,779 To you, three farthings. 469 00:30:21,860 --> 00:30:23,213 Here. 470 00:30:23,300 --> 00:30:24,938 I'll take the brass and the elixir. 471 00:30:28,900 --> 00:30:30,811 Potions. 472 00:30:30,900 --> 00:30:33,175 Love potions Charms 473 00:30:33,260 --> 00:30:34,898 Thank you, Mistress. 474 00:30:37,020 --> 00:30:39,056 Such a smell would keep anyone up, Mistress. 475 00:30:40,860 --> 00:30:42,578 Mistress? 476 00:30:44,700 --> 00:30:46,292 Mistress? 477 00:30:47,620 --> 00:30:48,735 Mistress? 478 00:30:49,820 --> 00:30:51,378 Master Glover? 479 00:30:51,460 --> 00:30:53,178 Not now. Tomorrow. 480 00:30:53,260 --> 00:30:55,455 Come before opening. Go! 481 00:30:55,540 --> 00:30:57,770 OSWIN: Mistress Vernold? Mistress? 482 00:30:58,820 --> 00:31:00,856 Mistress Vernold? 483 00:31:01,940 --> 00:31:03,578 Mistress! 484 00:31:13,300 --> 00:31:15,018 Good day, Master Glover. 485 00:31:15,100 --> 00:31:16,453 Morning. 486 00:31:41,540 --> 00:31:43,132 (Tuts) 487 00:31:49,660 --> 00:31:51,412 Hmm! 488 00:31:54,180 --> 00:31:56,375 No! No! 489 00:31:57,620 --> 00:31:59,292 No! Help! 490 00:32:01,220 --> 00:32:02,778 No! 491 00:32:25,540 --> 00:32:27,815 Now, what shall I do with you, vermin? 492 00:32:27,900 --> 00:32:30,095 ROBBER: Oh, my Lord, I meant no harm. 493 00:32:41,180 --> 00:32:43,136 (lvo tuts) 494 00:32:49,860 --> 00:32:52,328 OSWIN: There you are Mistress Where did you get to? 495 00:32:52,420 --> 00:32:55,412 I went to the... to the glover's stall looking for you, but... 496 00:32:56,460 --> 00:32:58,052 Where have you been? 497 00:32:58,140 --> 00:32:59,937 No harm has come to her, I assure you. 498 00:33:01,100 --> 00:33:03,898 But you should be more careful with your charge, Brother. 499 00:33:03,980 --> 00:33:07,256 Fairs can prove... dangerous places. 500 00:33:09,980 --> 00:33:12,289 They're pinching still, are they? 501 00:33:12,380 --> 00:33:15,372 Well, I have the very remedy for shoes that pinch. 502 00:33:15,460 --> 00:33:20,056 Prayers, Master Baker, written down and blessed by Father Adam at Holy Cross. 503 00:33:20,140 --> 00:33:23,769 Put one in each shoe, and you'll have no further troubles. 504 00:33:23,860 --> 00:33:25,418 How much? 505 00:33:25,500 --> 00:33:28,776 Well, to a good customer friend - what shall we say - an extra loaf or two? 506 00:33:30,860 --> 00:33:33,454 Oh, Father Adam's shoe prayers, I see. 507 00:33:33,540 --> 00:33:34,973 Just so, Brother. 508 00:33:35,060 --> 00:33:38,814 In my experience, you know, a squeeze of onion juice 509 00:33:38,900 --> 00:33:41,698 applied to the sole and heel will often work miracles. 510 00:33:41,780 --> 00:33:43,498 Truly, Brother. Thank you. 511 00:33:45,860 --> 00:33:48,055 Well, I'm not trading, if that's why you're here. 512 00:33:48,140 --> 00:33:50,654 I've enough trouble without crossing Abbot Radulfus. 513 00:33:50,740 --> 00:33:55,973 Master Cobbler, I do not believe that your son killed Master Thomas. 514 00:33:57,660 --> 00:34:00,891 But neither do I believe that he came home that night. 515 00:34:00,980 --> 00:34:05,292 Now, if I can find out exactly where he went when he left the tavern, 516 00:34:06,340 --> 00:34:09,377 it's possible I might be able to prove him innocent. 517 00:34:12,220 --> 00:34:14,415 Do you know where he went? 518 00:34:14,500 --> 00:34:16,172 No Brother I don't 519 00:34:16,260 --> 00:34:18,649 Then he wasn't home last night. 520 00:34:18,740 --> 00:34:20,378 You should not have lied. 521 00:34:20,460 --> 00:34:23,975 If Abbot Radulfus had granted our request, there would have been none of this. 522 00:34:24,060 --> 00:34:25,459 No fighting, no killing. 523 00:34:25,540 --> 00:34:30,170 Are you saying... that you believe Phillip is guilty? 524 00:34:33,900 --> 00:34:35,379 L-I-I-I don't know. 525 00:34:36,420 --> 00:34:39,093 I don't know and it hurts. 526 00:34:39,180 --> 00:34:42,456 In drink, with a grievance, I cannot say what he might do. 527 00:34:43,500 --> 00:34:45,297 But I'm his father. 528 00:34:45,380 --> 00:34:47,257 If I don't stick by him, who will? 529 00:34:51,020 --> 00:34:55,810 Can't say as how I saw Phillip leave, Brother, what with being so busy. 530 00:34:55,900 --> 00:34:57,856 Folks come and go. 531 00:34:57,940 --> 00:35:01,250 - But he was gone by compline bell, I reckon. - Was he drunk? 532 00:35:01,340 --> 00:35:04,616 I doubt I've ever seen a fellow down so much in the time. 533 00:35:04,700 --> 00:35:09,728 There's a man called Fowler, a servant attending one of the Abbey guests. 534 00:35:09,820 --> 00:35:13,256 He says Phillip was yelling vengeance against Master Thomas. 535 00:35:13,340 --> 00:35:16,491 Well, a stranger's no cause to give false witness. 536 00:35:16,580 --> 00:35:18,969 Well, no, I wouldn't doubt it. 537 00:35:19,980 --> 00:35:23,052 But this Fowler would have been drunk himself when he left. 538 00:35:23,140 --> 00:35:24,937 On Geneva liquor by the smell of it. 539 00:35:25,020 --> 00:35:26,817 Geneva liquor? 540 00:35:26,900 --> 00:35:30,893 Oh, I remember him. I warned him against it, but he was set on oblivion. 541 00:35:30,980 --> 00:35:33,369 I sold him a quart bottle of the stuff. 542 00:35:33,460 --> 00:35:35,451 Could he have exaggerated Phillip's raving? 543 00:35:35,540 --> 00:35:40,375 I doubt it. Phillip weren't himself last night. I've never seen him so fired up. 544 00:35:42,620 --> 00:35:45,054 Well, er... thank you for your help. 545 00:35:46,460 --> 00:35:48,576 Will you not stop for a drink, Brother? 546 00:35:49,740 --> 00:35:51,856 Oh, thank you, Master Wat, no. 547 00:35:51,940 --> 00:35:54,579 No, I have some berries to gather. 548 00:36:50,940 --> 00:36:52,896 I thought you had a fair to run 549 00:36:52,980 --> 00:36:57,019 What I have is a strong suspect for murder. But I can't try him without evidence. 550 00:36:57,100 --> 00:37:00,570 Thomas's body went into the river someplace. I thought I'd find out where. 551 00:37:00,660 --> 00:37:02,651 What have you got? 552 00:37:02,740 --> 00:37:04,412 Thomas's gown. 553 00:37:04,500 --> 00:37:06,616 I saw him wearing it myself. 554 00:37:06,700 --> 00:37:09,419 The tear fits the knife wound exactly. 555 00:37:09,500 --> 00:37:12,697 No thief would discard so fine a garment Cadfael 556 00:37:12,780 --> 00:37:15,248 Even damaged, the cloth is worth a month's hunting. 557 00:37:15,340 --> 00:37:18,537 You realise, of course, this is strong proof of Phillip's guilt? 558 00:37:18,620 --> 00:37:20,531 Lf Thomas wasn't taken by thieves, then... 559 00:37:20,620 --> 00:37:23,373 No. What of the mutilations? 560 00:37:23,460 --> 00:37:26,896 Cutting out the tongue? I put that far beyond Phillip's scope. 561 00:37:26,980 --> 00:37:31,053 Tell me this, why did he come to this place so far from caravan and fair, 562 00:37:31,140 --> 00:37:33,176 other than he was forced here by Phillip? 563 00:37:33,260 --> 00:37:37,094 He came to meet someone. Someone he didn't want to be seen meeting openly. 564 00:37:37,180 --> 00:37:40,092 By now, this someone could have quit the shire altogether. 565 00:37:40,180 --> 00:37:42,171 No what about the strongbox in the booth? 566 00:37:42,260 --> 00:37:44,899 What about the robbery in the caravan? 567 00:37:44,980 --> 00:37:48,893 No, whoever this is, is still here close at hand. 568 00:37:49,980 --> 00:37:53,256 Somewhere among your several thousand souls is a murderer 569 00:37:53,340 --> 00:37:57,219 And I'm afraid, unless we can catch him... 570 00:37:58,540 --> 00:38:00,496 ...he will kill again. 571 00:38:01,820 --> 00:38:03,776 (Abbey bell tolls) 572 00:38:09,980 --> 00:38:11,732 Cover him now. 573 00:38:32,100 --> 00:38:34,660 Fine craftsmanship, Master Glover. 574 00:38:34,740 --> 00:38:38,528 Unless you want something more than idle chatter, Brother, I'm very busy. 575 00:38:39,580 --> 00:38:41,013 Forgive me. 576 00:38:41,100 --> 00:38:44,012 I have come to seek your counsel on a professional matter. 577 00:38:45,060 --> 00:38:47,210 It's a business of some delicacy. 578 00:39:00,940 --> 00:39:04,694 It's odd how large these places appear from the inside, isn't it? 579 00:39:04,780 --> 00:39:07,010 But then size can be deceptive... 580 00:39:07,100 --> 00:39:08,931 You said you wanted my advice. 581 00:39:09,020 --> 00:39:11,056 Oh, so I did, yes, so I did. 582 00:39:11,140 --> 00:39:13,449 Erm... now, this here, you see, 583 00:39:13,540 --> 00:39:17,738 it's one of a pair of gloves given as a gift to a young woman I know. 584 00:39:18,780 --> 00:39:22,455 Do you er... recognise the craftsmanship? 585 00:39:22,540 --> 00:39:24,053 Lt's none of mine. 586 00:39:24,140 --> 00:39:27,257 Oh, no, I wouldn't for one moment think it was. 587 00:39:27,340 --> 00:39:30,173 Yes, it's very shoddy work, very poor stitching. 588 00:39:32,700 --> 00:39:34,497 I don't know it's so bad. 589 00:39:34,580 --> 00:39:37,299 No? Well, perhaps you're right. 590 00:39:37,380 --> 00:39:39,940 I mean, you know more about these things than I do. 591 00:39:40,020 --> 00:39:42,773 Erm, well, this young lady that I mentioned, 592 00:39:42,860 --> 00:39:47,138 she's very fond of these gloves, but, unfortunately, she's lost the other one. 593 00:39:48,180 --> 00:39:50,057 Would you be able to make a replacement? 594 00:39:50,140 --> 00:39:51,414 I could try, I suppose. 595 00:39:51,500 --> 00:39:56,938 The only problem is that she has such small, delicate hands. 596 00:39:57,020 --> 00:39:59,693 Much smaller than my fingers. 597 00:39:59,780 --> 00:40:01,657 And yet... 598 00:40:03,580 --> 00:40:05,536 There you are, you see. 599 00:40:05,620 --> 00:40:07,497 I was wondering, perhaps, 600 00:40:07,580 --> 00:40:11,129 if the person who gave her these gloves might have got the size wrong. 601 00:40:14,420 --> 00:40:15,773 Come inside. 602 00:40:25,700 --> 00:40:27,895 - Do you play games with me? - Oh, no. 603 00:40:27,980 --> 00:40:30,016 I was never more serious. 604 00:40:30,100 --> 00:40:33,809 I have it from the King's officer that you were seen abroad after curfew 605 00:40:33,900 --> 00:40:35,697 the night Master Thomas was murdered. 606 00:40:35,780 --> 00:40:38,135 I went out. What of it? I had a meeting with a woman. 607 00:40:38,220 --> 00:40:41,337 Wife of one of the stallholders here. We're old friends. 608 00:40:41,420 --> 00:40:43,854 Since before she met her husband. You understand? 609 00:40:43,940 --> 00:40:46,090 - Can anyone vouch for you? - She can. 610 00:40:46,180 --> 00:40:48,011 But I'll not give you her name. 611 00:40:48,100 --> 00:40:50,216 I'll ruin her back, but not her reputation. 612 00:40:50,300 --> 00:40:53,019 - No-one saw you together? - We're very careful. 613 00:40:53,100 --> 00:40:55,614 Well, I suppose for laying plots and stratagems 614 00:40:55,700 --> 00:40:58,658 and meeting people you'd rather not be seen meeting, 615 00:40:58,740 --> 00:41:02,335 there's nowhere quite so solitary as the middle of a crowded marketplace. 616 00:41:03,420 --> 00:41:06,218 You left this glove in Thomas's caravan, didn't you? 617 00:41:06,300 --> 00:41:08,097 - I did no such thing! - Why? 618 00:41:08,180 --> 00:41:10,250 Speak plainly! What are you accusing me of? 619 00:41:10,340 --> 00:41:13,013 My novice tells me that Mistress Vernold visited you today. 620 00:41:13,100 --> 00:41:15,056 What is your business with her? 621 00:41:16,780 --> 00:41:19,738 You may answer me or Hugh Beringar. The choice is yours. 622 00:41:19,820 --> 00:41:23,813 If the King's man set any store by your fancies, it's him who'd be here. 623 00:41:23,900 --> 00:41:25,731 Now, get out! 624 00:41:53,460 --> 00:41:55,928 Your uncle - he'll be taken back to Bristol? 625 00:41:56,980 --> 00:41:59,016 Tomorrow, after the fair closes. 626 00:41:59,100 --> 00:42:01,295 And you will not go with him? 627 00:42:01,380 --> 00:42:03,211 No, it would not be wise. 628 00:42:03,300 --> 00:42:06,178 My uncle's journeyman, Roger, likes me too well. 629 00:42:07,300 --> 00:42:09,291 But you do not care for him? 630 00:42:09,380 --> 00:42:11,052 No. 631 00:42:12,460 --> 00:42:14,257 It must have been hard on this man. 632 00:42:15,300 --> 00:42:18,258 Torn between loyalty to your uncle and his feelings towards you. 633 00:42:20,300 --> 00:42:23,133 Would your uncle have ever entertained such a match? 634 00:42:23,220 --> 00:42:24,778 No, never. 635 00:42:27,220 --> 00:42:28,972 What will you do now? 636 00:42:30,060 --> 00:42:34,895 Lf the Abbot allows, I will stay until there is some party riding for Bristol with women among them. 637 00:42:37,700 --> 00:42:42,216 If there is anything I can do to ease your burden, you let me know of it. 638 00:42:46,020 --> 00:42:50,172 Why should you help me? You've kept your distance until now. 639 00:42:52,020 --> 00:42:56,172 You have been well friended. I had no right to, after the start I had with your uncle. 640 00:42:56,260 --> 00:42:57,659 That was not your fault. 641 00:42:57,740 --> 00:43:01,050 Had I seen you first, I would never have struck him, 642 00:43:01,140 --> 00:43:04,894 but he threw a punch and, as you saw today, I'm quick to a fight. 643 00:43:04,980 --> 00:43:06,811 It is all I know. 644 00:43:12,300 --> 00:43:14,177 You did right by me at the fair. 645 00:43:15,420 --> 00:43:17,138 That settled any score. 646 00:43:20,460 --> 00:43:21,859 Come, then. 647 00:43:22,940 --> 00:43:25,932 Let me take you away from this place of shadows and death. 648 00:43:26,980 --> 00:43:29,858 Walk with me for an hour in the sun. 649 00:43:37,668 --> 00:43:40,626 Oswin tells me that you visited the fair today... 650 00:43:41,348 --> 00:43:43,543 ...to see the glover. 651 00:43:43,628 --> 00:43:45,937 I thought to get a match for my stolen glove. 652 00:43:47,348 --> 00:43:54,026 It would be difficult finding a match... when the remaining glove is in my keeping. 653 00:43:57,748 --> 00:44:01,218 I saw and spoke with the glover myself today on your behalf. 654 00:44:02,268 --> 00:44:04,224 That was very good of you. 655 00:44:05,308 --> 00:44:07,264 There was only one problem. 656 00:44:09,588 --> 00:44:11,658 The size of the glove. 657 00:44:14,628 --> 00:44:17,222 Much too large for a girl's hand. 658 00:44:25,468 --> 00:44:29,620 You answered me too quickly, child, back there in the caravan. 659 00:44:30,628 --> 00:44:32,903 Hm? "Nothing has been taken," you said. 660 00:44:33,948 --> 00:44:37,020 It was only when I insisted that Hugh Beringar be informed 661 00:44:37,108 --> 00:44:39,941 that you plucked those other fancies from the air. 662 00:44:40,028 --> 00:44:41,905 I don't know what you mean, Brother. 663 00:44:41,988 --> 00:44:43,467 "Nothing has been taken." 664 00:44:43,548 --> 00:44:46,506 That answer which you gave so unwittingly was, in fact, the truth. 665 00:44:46,588 --> 00:44:48,260 Nothing had been taken. 666 00:44:48,348 --> 00:44:51,385 To all intents, there had been a robbery and yet you knew... 667 00:44:51,468 --> 00:44:54,540 without even looking, knew that nothing had been taken. 668 00:44:54,628 --> 00:44:57,017 That's nonsense. How could I know for certain? 669 00:44:57,108 --> 00:44:59,064 Because you knew what was being sought. 670 00:44:59,148 --> 00:45:01,742 And, more than that, you knew where it was. 671 00:45:01,828 --> 00:45:04,137 And you knew that it was safe. 672 00:45:04,228 --> 00:45:06,423 You are mistaken, Brother. 673 00:45:06,508 --> 00:45:09,739 It was the glover who searched your caravan, 674 00:45:09,828 --> 00:45:14,299 and he left this behind as a signpost so that you should know where to come. 675 00:45:16,348 --> 00:45:19,101 I will do all as my uncle would have wanted it. 676 00:45:19,188 --> 00:45:22,339 Would he have wanted you to die, child? 677 00:45:22,428 --> 00:45:25,306 Whatever it is you're keeping safe 678 00:45:25,388 --> 00:45:29,700 you can be certain that the hunt for it cost your uncle his life 679 00:45:29,788 --> 00:45:32,256 I will do all as he would have wanted it. 680 00:45:32,348 --> 00:45:35,943 Child my only concern is for your safety 681 00:45:36,028 --> 00:45:40,544 Now if this thing is intended for the glover let me take it to him 682 00:45:40,628 --> 00:45:42,983 And so remove you from further danger 683 00:45:43,068 --> 00:45:45,662 There is no thing, Brother. 684 00:45:50,948 --> 00:45:53,064 Why won't you let me help you? 685 00:45:58,268 --> 00:46:00,145 I can trust no-one. 686 00:46:02,628 --> 00:46:05,540 I beg of you, Brother, do not betray me. 687 00:46:16,348 --> 00:46:18,703 Plainsong 688 00:46:34,668 --> 00:46:41,938 Pater et Filius et Spiritus Sanctus 689 00:46:42,028 --> 00:46:46,419 Amen 690 00:47:55,468 --> 00:47:56,901 (Rattling) 691 00:47:56,988 --> 00:47:59,297 GLOVER: Mistress is that you? 692 00:48:07,428 --> 00:48:08,986 Who's that? 693 00:48:18,588 --> 00:48:20,180 Who is it? 694 00:48:20,268 --> 00:48:21,781 A gentle gift. 695 00:48:21,868 --> 00:48:25,543 You are sure this cannot have fallen when our daughter brought it as an offering? 696 00:48:25,628 --> 00:48:26,981 I'm sure. 697 00:48:27,068 --> 00:48:29,866 The coffin looks as it did when the carpenter firmed it down. 698 00:48:29,948 --> 00:48:34,305 Yes, Father. Nevertheless, the coffin's been opened, searched and closed again. 699 00:48:35,348 --> 00:48:37,304 This is vile. 700 00:48:37,388 --> 00:48:40,027 You cannot put name to the man who would do this thing? 701 00:48:40,108 --> 00:48:41,985 No, Father. Not yet. 702 00:48:42,068 --> 00:48:47,188 Nor say if our disagreement with the townsmen has any bearing on Master Thomas's death? 703 00:48:47,268 --> 00:48:49,463 On that account you may set your mind at rest. 704 00:48:49,548 --> 00:48:54,861 No, Father. Behind this sequence of events, although it still eludes me, 705 00:48:54,948 --> 00:48:58,623 there's some dark purpose, a malign intelligence. 706 00:49:00,348 --> 00:49:02,543 We're in the presence of great evil. 707 00:49:03,748 --> 00:49:07,377 I can feel it, even now, reaching out to touch Mistress Vernold. 708 00:49:08,788 --> 00:49:11,939 We must do everything in our power to protect her. 709 00:49:16,908 --> 00:49:18,864 (Cockerel crows) 710 00:49:45,388 --> 00:49:48,221 And where do you think you're going at this hour, Brother? 711 00:49:48,308 --> 00:49:50,105 It is forbidden to leave the enclave 712 00:49:51,188 --> 00:49:54,260 Brother Oswin has been spying on that girl, Brother Prior. 713 00:49:54,348 --> 00:49:55,827 No, you don't understand. 714 00:49:55,908 --> 00:49:58,945 I knew that she would disrupt the orderly running of this house. 715 00:49:59,028 --> 00:50:00,859 But Brother Cadfael would have his will. 716 00:50:00,948 --> 00:50:03,064 - Has she led you into temptation? - No. 717 00:50:03,148 --> 00:50:06,982 - Then why have you been following her? - Are you vexed by thoughts of her? 718 00:50:07,068 --> 00:50:08,899 - Thoughts? - Sinful thoughts. 719 00:50:09,708 --> 00:50:12,905 No! No! I sought only to look out for her. 720 00:50:12,988 --> 00:50:14,216 To protect her. 721 00:50:14,308 --> 00:50:16,219 She's gone, Brother. I tried to follow but... 722 00:50:16,308 --> 00:50:17,866 Mistress Vernold? 723 00:50:17,948 --> 00:50:19,859 You knew Brother Oswin was following her? 724 00:50:19,948 --> 00:50:22,906 - Yes, so he has, at my instruction. - At your instruction? 725 00:50:22,988 --> 00:50:25,627 Do you mean that you encouraged Brother Oswin in this... 726 00:50:25,708 --> 00:50:28,222 this furtive and shameful practice? To what end? 727 00:50:28,308 --> 00:50:31,857 A young woman is in mortal jeopardy. I set Brother Oswin to watch over her. 728 00:50:31,948 --> 00:50:35,258 - On whose authority do you give these orders? - Father Abbot's authority! 729 00:50:35,348 --> 00:50:37,578 He'd entrusted the girl's safety to my care. 730 00:50:37,668 --> 00:50:41,581 And now, when danger presses most, you've let her slip through our grasp! 731 00:50:42,468 --> 00:50:44,265 Come, Oswin. Come. 732 00:50:53,228 --> 00:50:54,980 MISTRESS VERNOLD: His eyes! 733 00:50:55,068 --> 00:50:56,820 Oh God help me! 734 00:50:56,908 --> 00:50:58,421 His eyes! 735 00:51:02,388 --> 00:51:04,379 Get her out. Oswin, get her out! 736 00:51:21,948 --> 00:51:25,543 Well, this is one crime, at least, they can't blame on the cobbler's son. 737 00:51:25,628 --> 00:51:27,425 The door was not forced. 738 00:51:27,508 --> 00:51:30,022 No, he was expecting someone. 739 00:51:30,108 --> 00:51:32,622 But, like Thomas, not the someone who came. 740 00:51:34,468 --> 00:51:36,379 Cadfael, what aren't you telling me? 741 00:51:37,548 --> 00:51:38,583 Nothing. 742 00:51:39,668 --> 00:51:43,263 Well, let's see what this poor wretch can tell us that we don't already know. 743 00:51:44,788 --> 00:51:48,940 What looks like a right-handed blow to his temple. 744 00:51:49,988 --> 00:51:53,697 Presumably dealt the moment he opened the door, and meant to stun him. 745 00:51:54,988 --> 00:51:56,740 His neck's broken. 746 00:51:57,788 --> 00:52:02,259 Perhaps we should have found him bound and alive, like Warrin, if he hadn't have fought back. 747 00:52:02,348 --> 00:52:05,545 No, his ears, his eyes have been put out. 748 00:52:05,628 --> 00:52:08,700 No. This was like Thomas, this was meant. 749 00:52:13,228 --> 00:52:15,378 Ah, he's a man of his hands. 750 00:52:16,828 --> 00:52:19,023 He's marked somebody for us. 751 00:52:20,508 --> 00:52:22,419 Much of scratch, would you guess? 752 00:52:22,508 --> 00:52:27,946 Well, likely little more than a graze, but it'll be there to be seen. 753 00:52:29,188 --> 00:52:31,065 If we knew where to look. 754 00:52:31,868 --> 00:52:36,020 Emma, you have done right by your uncle, but the fair ends today. 755 00:52:38,148 --> 00:52:42,141 You must leave this place as soon as you can before any... 756 00:52:42,228 --> 00:52:44,184 I may be one or two days more, 757 00:52:44,268 --> 00:52:48,102 but Roger and Warrin will take the caravan back to Bristol later today. 758 00:52:48,188 --> 00:52:50,338 You need not be troubled for me. 759 00:52:50,428 --> 00:52:52,737 I'm in the best and kindest hands. 760 00:52:54,068 --> 00:52:56,377 Mistress, your bath is prepared. 761 00:52:56,468 --> 00:52:58,982 The warmth will revive you from the shock. 762 00:53:00,028 --> 00:53:01,700 I'll take my leave. 763 00:53:02,748 --> 00:53:04,261 Find me later. 764 00:53:04,348 --> 00:53:08,626 I had news today will bring you home safer and sooner than you expected. 765 00:53:11,068 --> 00:53:14,458 Brother Hospitaller, where are the drying cloths for Mistress Vernold? 766 00:53:14,548 --> 00:53:16,857 Or do you expect her to dry herself on the breeze? 767 00:53:16,948 --> 00:53:19,337 I shall fetch the cloths for you. 768 00:53:24,988 --> 00:53:26,103 Oswin... 769 00:53:26,188 --> 00:53:27,780 Before you scold me, Brother, 770 00:53:27,868 --> 00:53:31,383 I've finished making the balm for ulcers, and I have pressed the poppyheads. 771 00:53:31,468 --> 00:53:32,901 What about the angelica water? 772 00:53:32,988 --> 00:53:35,661 I had it ready to prepare, but I had a patient to attend. 773 00:53:35,748 --> 00:53:38,216 - Oh, you had a patient, did you? - A simple enough case. 774 00:53:38,308 --> 00:53:40,697 I see. And did he survive your ministrations? 775 00:53:40,788 --> 00:53:42,619 Now you're making fun of me. 776 00:53:42,708 --> 00:53:46,496 Oh, Oswin, never. Come on, tell me all about this curative miracle you wrought. 777 00:53:47,588 --> 00:53:50,022 It was nothing more than a gashed arm, Brother, 778 00:53:50,108 --> 00:53:53,578 so er... I cleansed it and dressed it with goosegrass unguent. 779 00:53:53,668 --> 00:53:56,341 - It's very good for cuts - Do you tell me? 780 00:53:56,428 --> 00:53:59,659 - Apart from that, it's been a quiet afternoon. - And Mistress Vernold? 781 00:53:59,748 --> 00:54:02,137 Oh, I saw her safe back with my Lord Corbiere. 782 00:54:05,828 --> 00:54:07,739 Oswin? 783 00:54:07,828 --> 00:54:09,898 This gashed arm. 784 00:54:10,748 --> 00:54:13,467 Think carefully, now. Could it have been done with a knife? 785 00:54:13,548 --> 00:54:14,537 No Brother 786 00:54:14,628 --> 00:54:16,425 lt was done by the claws of his falcon. 787 00:54:28,948 --> 00:54:30,506 My Lord Corbiere... 788 00:54:31,588 --> 00:54:36,457 Can you tell me where your falconer was the night Master Thomas died? 789 00:54:36,548 --> 00:54:38,345 To my knowledge, within the Abbey. 790 00:54:39,428 --> 00:54:40,907 And last night? 791 00:54:40,988 --> 00:54:43,548 He went out, my Lord. A girl he met at the fair. 792 00:54:44,588 --> 00:54:47,785 - Where is he now? - Brother, what is your interest in my falconer? 793 00:54:48,628 --> 00:54:49,902 Where is he? 794 00:54:55,068 --> 00:54:56,660 (Door opens) 795 00:55:00,148 --> 00:55:01,740 (Door closes) 796 00:55:01,828 --> 00:55:05,025 Please lay the drying cloths down on the side, Brother. 797 00:55:17,468 --> 00:55:19,379 What? What is this? 798 00:55:21,468 --> 00:55:22,901 (Screams) 799 00:55:22,988 --> 00:55:25,183 MISTRESS VERNOLD: Help! Ahh! 800 00:55:26,508 --> 00:55:28,464 Stop! Falconer! 801 00:55:29,908 --> 00:55:31,739 Fowler, bring him down. 802 00:55:31,828 --> 00:55:33,819 Give it to me. 803 00:55:59,148 --> 00:56:01,298 He could have been taken without killing him. 804 00:56:01,388 --> 00:56:03,140 He was my servant, Brother. 805 00:56:03,228 --> 00:56:06,664 I have the power of high justice over my own. This one had forfeited life. 806 00:56:06,748 --> 00:56:08,261 You need make no defence. 807 00:56:08,348 --> 00:56:11,977 We've seen that his wound was no tear from his falcon, but the stroke of a dagger. 808 00:56:12,068 --> 00:56:14,104 I found these amongst his things, my Lord. 809 00:56:14,188 --> 00:56:16,656 They're from the glover's booth. They're new. 810 00:56:16,748 --> 00:56:19,216 And far beyond his purse. 811 00:56:19,308 --> 00:56:21,458 The shire has been saved a trial and a hanging 812 00:56:21,548 --> 00:56:23,106 What if he had accomplices? 813 00:56:23,188 --> 00:56:26,066 He can never now be made to name them 814 00:56:26,148 --> 00:56:27,581 Accomplices? 815 00:56:27,668 --> 00:56:29,545 We have two murders to account for. 816 00:56:29,628 --> 00:56:31,744 - He did them both. - No he didn't 817 00:56:31,828 --> 00:56:34,820 Lord Corbiere says he was in the Abbey the night Master Thomas died. 818 00:56:34,908 --> 00:56:37,422 As far as I know. I might have slipped out. 819 00:56:37,508 --> 00:56:41,547 But if he did the killing, then what did he do with Master Thomas's rings? 820 00:56:41,628 --> 00:56:43,459 Bottom of the river? Sold on? Who knows? 821 00:56:43,548 --> 00:56:47,541 You are satisfied, I hope, that Fowler, my bowman, had no part with him? 822 00:56:47,628 --> 00:56:50,938 He has not set foot outside the Abbey since his first sorry misadventure. 823 00:56:51,028 --> 00:56:52,461 That I can vouch for. 824 00:56:52,548 --> 00:56:55,221 You said Glover was abroad the night Thomas was killed? 825 00:56:55,308 --> 00:56:56,707 That's right, my Lord. 826 00:56:56,788 --> 00:56:58,665 Could he and Falconer have been in league? 827 00:56:58,748 --> 00:57:02,866 Perhaps robbing Master Thomas together and disagreeing over the division of the spoils. 828 00:57:02,948 --> 00:57:06,179 A falling out of thieves! Makes sense. 829 00:57:07,748 --> 00:57:11,377 You... You still have a prisoner in the castle - the cobbler's son. 830 00:57:11,468 --> 00:57:16,019 If you're convinced that Falconer is the murderer, then you must release him. 831 00:57:17,788 --> 00:57:19,699 My Lord Beringar! 832 00:57:23,988 --> 00:57:26,183 Is it certain this man was guilty? 833 00:57:26,268 --> 00:57:30,341 Certain articles stolen from the glover were found among his possessions. 834 00:57:30,428 --> 00:57:32,783 Then, harsh though it may be, this was justice. 835 00:57:33,828 --> 00:57:35,546 You are not satisfied? 836 00:57:35,628 --> 00:57:38,540 What, that he killed the glover? Yes, I am, but... 837 00:57:38,628 --> 00:57:42,746 Master Thomas... Where are his rings? 838 00:57:42,828 --> 00:57:48,300 Now, if two are guilty and only one bears all the blame, is that justice, Father? 839 00:57:48,388 --> 00:57:51,141 Have you made plain your reservations to Hugh Beringar? 840 00:57:51,228 --> 00:57:52,707 Yes I have 841 00:57:52,788 --> 00:57:55,063 He does not share my opinion. 842 00:57:55,148 --> 00:57:58,424 Well, the fair is over. The traders are leaving. 843 00:57:58,508 --> 00:58:00,146 If this other man is among them, 844 00:58:00,228 --> 00:58:04,141 it may be God's will that this matter should be taken out of our hands. 845 00:58:04,228 --> 00:58:06,742 Continue your vigil till the end of the day. 846 00:58:06,828 --> 00:58:09,547 After that, others elsewhere must take up the burden. 847 00:58:10,588 --> 00:58:12,180 Thank you, Father. 848 00:58:18,988 --> 00:58:20,785 (Sniffs) 849 00:58:22,628 --> 00:58:24,505 Something wrong, Oswin? 850 00:58:26,388 --> 00:58:30,745 What's the use of mending a man if he's to be broken within a few hours past mending? 851 00:58:30,828 --> 00:58:33,661 Death falls upon the innocent and the guilty alike, Oswin. 852 00:58:33,748 --> 00:58:35,739 And it's with us always. 853 00:58:35,828 --> 00:58:39,025 Never let that shake your faith in the hereafter. 854 00:58:40,548 --> 00:58:45,986 There is no arrow cleaves the soul. What is this terrible smell? 855 00:58:46,068 --> 00:58:47,865 Lt's my potion, Brother. 856 00:58:47,948 --> 00:58:49,347 Your potion? 857 00:58:49,428 --> 00:58:52,738 The one Mistress Vernold bought for me at the fair from a sweet old dame. 858 00:58:54,028 --> 00:58:56,542 It's to sustain a man from dusk till dawn. 859 00:58:56,628 --> 00:58:59,381 I broke the bottle as I opened it. My habit reeks of the stuff. 860 00:58:59,468 --> 00:59:01,379 It's belladonna I can smell. 861 00:59:02,788 --> 00:59:04,426 And if I'm not mistaken... 862 00:59:05,308 --> 00:59:06,741 monkshood. 863 00:59:06,828 --> 00:59:08,898 Oswin, you didn't take any of it? 864 00:59:08,988 --> 00:59:10,546 No, Brother. 865 00:59:10,628 --> 00:59:12,744 Oh, praise God! 866 00:59:12,828 --> 00:59:15,058 I thought for a moment there that you'd drunk it. 867 00:59:23,948 --> 00:59:25,825 I thought you'd drunk it. 868 00:59:27,828 --> 00:59:32,265 When you found Fowler here, dead drunk, the night of Thomas's murder, 869 00:59:32,348 --> 00:59:35,340 was there any sign of his flask of Geneva liquor? 870 00:59:35,428 --> 00:59:38,022 - No. - You didn't perhaps confiscate it? 871 00:59:38,108 --> 00:59:39,746 No. 872 00:59:39,828 --> 00:59:44,743 If we'd found it, we'd have taken it to the tavern it came from and got a farthing for its return. 873 00:59:44,828 --> 00:59:46,784 But it wasn't here. 874 00:59:46,868 --> 00:59:48,347 He'd drunk it. 875 00:59:49,428 --> 00:59:51,259 No, he hadn't. 876 00:59:51,348 --> 00:59:53,066 I stooped over him, Brother. 877 00:59:53,148 --> 00:59:55,343 I pulled the cloak from his face. 878 00:59:55,428 --> 00:59:57,737 His breath would have felled an ox. 879 00:59:57,828 --> 01:00:01,707 Wasn't that rather the smell that you'd unleashed by pulling back his cloak? 880 01:00:01,788 --> 01:00:05,463 The liquor was bought for his outside, rather than his inside. 881 01:00:06,828 --> 01:00:12,027 Hugh, do you remember what Fowler said to you when you asked him why he'd left the tavern? 882 01:00:12,108 --> 01:00:14,258 Went off to finish his drink in peace. 883 01:00:14,348 --> 01:00:16,304 Yes Well then where is his flask? 884 01:00:17,628 --> 01:00:21,257 A quart of Geneva liquor would kill a man. 885 01:00:21,348 --> 01:00:25,307 Surely, he would have drunk his fill, then kept what was left to finish later. 886 01:00:29,788 --> 01:00:31,380 Master Carter... 887 01:00:31,468 --> 01:00:33,902 didn't I see you at the Foregate Tavern yesterday? 888 01:00:33,988 --> 01:00:36,502 Weren't you returning discards to the landlord? 889 01:00:36,588 --> 01:00:38,658 Aye, and a tidy sum they brought. 890 01:00:38,748 --> 01:00:42,627 Did there happen to be a quart flask among your findings? 891 01:00:42,708 --> 01:00:45,541 Aye, there was, but the only one we found all fair. 892 01:00:46,908 --> 01:00:49,183 - What did it hold? - Nothing 893 01:00:49,268 --> 01:00:53,898 lt was empty. But from the smell, it would have held Geneva liquor. 894 01:00:53,988 --> 01:00:56,218 Where did you find it? Here in the fairground? 895 01:00:56,308 --> 01:00:58,663 Oh, no, Brother. Not here. 896 01:00:58,748 --> 01:01:02,536 We found the flask in the rushes the morning the fair opened. 897 01:01:02,628 --> 01:01:04,937 Fowler was here? Well, who would suspect him? 898 01:01:05,028 --> 01:01:06,746 Thank you, Master Carter. 899 01:01:06,828 --> 01:01:09,183 He was drunk, Brother. Incapable of murder. 900 01:01:09,268 --> 01:01:11,736 Sergeant Warden, if he reeked of Geneva liquor, 901 01:01:11,828 --> 01:01:15,457 it was because he'd bathed in it, not swallowed it. He was sober. 902 01:01:15,548 --> 01:01:17,345 Why should Fowler harm Master Thomas? 903 01:01:17,428 --> 01:01:21,103 You said it yourself, Hugh, right at the beginning. He was killed for plunder. 904 01:01:21,188 --> 01:01:23,702 - I was right? - In a sense, yes. 905 01:01:23,788 --> 01:01:26,256 But this was no attack for random gain. 906 01:01:26,348 --> 01:01:30,785 You see, I believe Master Thomas came to Shrewsbury on a mission. 907 01:01:31,828 --> 01:01:33,056 A mission? 908 01:01:33,148 --> 01:01:37,539 Yes. I think he brought with him something of considerable value. 909 01:01:37,628 --> 01:01:41,746 Some chart maybe, or a map, a plan of some sort, 910 01:01:41,828 --> 01:01:45,138 which he was meant to deliver to another agent of his cause. 911 01:01:45,228 --> 01:01:48,743 What do you say, Cadfael, that Thomas was a spy? 912 01:01:48,828 --> 01:01:50,864 Well, is that so very surprising? 913 01:01:50,948 --> 01:01:53,667 In a land torn by civil war? 914 01:01:53,748 --> 01:01:56,626 Our fair served as a battleground for the rival factions. 915 01:01:56,708 --> 01:02:01,304 One side, desperate to protect whatever this item is, 916 01:02:01,388 --> 01:02:04,141 and the other side ready to stop at nothing to obtain it. 917 01:02:05,388 --> 01:02:07,379 What do you think happened? 918 01:02:08,788 --> 01:02:14,863 I think Master Thomas, on that first night, came here to this remote spot, 919 01:02:14,948 --> 01:02:17,542 looking for somewhere quiet and private 920 01:02:17,628 --> 01:02:20,700 where he could safely hand over this secret to his contact. 921 01:02:20,788 --> 01:02:22,699 But the enemy were waiting. 922 01:02:23,748 --> 01:02:25,466 Fowler had followed him. 923 01:02:25,548 --> 01:02:32,101 And Thomas's tongue, that had lent itself so readily to secrets, was silenced for ever. 924 01:02:32,188 --> 01:02:35,385 So Thomas's death should have been the end of it. 925 01:02:35,468 --> 01:02:37,379 Oh, yes, no doubt it would have been. 926 01:02:37,468 --> 01:02:41,063 Yes, but you see, the murder was in vain because on that particular night 927 01:02:41,148 --> 01:02:44,538 Thomas did not have this valuable something with him. 928 01:02:44,628 --> 01:02:47,301 So he was stripped. The item was thought to be on his person. 929 01:02:47,388 --> 01:02:49,344 Yes, so the search had to continue. 930 01:02:49,428 --> 01:02:51,783 To his booth, even to his coffin. 931 01:02:51,868 --> 01:02:54,826 - And the caravan? - No! Not the caravan. 932 01:02:54,908 --> 01:02:58,139 No, that was the work of Thomas's contact, rather than his enemy. 933 01:02:58,228 --> 01:02:59,547 BERINGAR: His contact? 934 01:02:59,628 --> 01:03:01,186 Well, once Thomas was dead, 935 01:03:01,268 --> 01:03:05,944 the contact's only hope was that the precious item itself was still safe somewhere. 936 01:03:06,028 --> 01:03:07,620 And that someone... 937 01:03:08,708 --> 01:03:10,460 someone close to Thomas... 938 01:03:10,548 --> 01:03:13,620 knew where it was and what was to be done with it. 939 01:03:13,708 --> 01:03:16,939 So the glover went to the caravan and left a clue to his identity. 940 01:03:17,028 --> 01:03:19,337 A single glove. 941 01:03:19,428 --> 01:03:22,067 So Glover was Master Thomas's contact? 942 01:03:22,148 --> 01:03:23,581 Yes. 943 01:03:23,668 --> 01:03:25,784 Having searched the coffin and found nothing, 944 01:03:25,868 --> 01:03:27,904 Thomas's enemies drew the conclusion 945 01:03:27,988 --> 01:03:32,186 that someone had slipped through the net and delivered the item to Glover. 946 01:03:32,268 --> 01:03:35,340 So, Glover had to pay with his life, too. 947 01:03:37,148 --> 01:03:40,106 But it was Falconer who killed Glover, not Fowler. 948 01:03:40,188 --> 01:03:41,780 Both of them? 949 01:03:41,868 --> 01:03:43,665 Mm-hm. Exactly. 950 01:03:43,748 --> 01:03:47,866 By operating separately, but for the same purpose, 951 01:03:47,948 --> 01:03:50,303 they were able to throw us off the scent. 952 01:03:50,388 --> 01:03:56,338 But how could they have done all that and yet... and yet their lord suspected nothing? 953 01:03:58,868 --> 01:04:00,779 Did I say that? 954 01:04:00,868 --> 01:04:04,907 Whose orders do you think they were following if not Corbiere's? 955 01:04:04,988 --> 01:04:06,660 But he's... 956 01:04:08,628 --> 01:04:10,505 The King's man, yes. 957 01:04:10,588 --> 01:04:12,863 - He killed Falconer. - Well, what else could he do? 958 01:04:12,948 --> 01:04:17,146 The glover's dagger had marked Falconer. How soon before we got the truth out of him? 959 01:04:17,228 --> 01:04:20,379 A dangerous mouth, closed at no cost. 960 01:04:21,428 --> 01:04:23,896 What is this thing so many have died for? 961 01:04:24,948 --> 01:04:27,018 That I do not know. 962 01:04:27,108 --> 01:04:28,826 But you know where it is? 963 01:04:29,948 --> 01:04:32,781 Oh, yes. It's where it's always been. 964 01:04:33,908 --> 01:04:35,739 In Emma's keeping. 965 01:04:36,788 --> 01:04:40,383 Lord Corbiere? He left the enclave for his manor an hour since. 966 01:04:40,468 --> 01:04:42,140 Then perhaps we got it wrong. 967 01:04:43,148 --> 01:04:45,343 Mistress Vernold is still within the precinct? 968 01:04:45,428 --> 01:04:47,419 No. She left with Corbiere. 969 01:04:47,508 --> 01:04:49,066 You let her go with him? 970 01:04:49,148 --> 01:04:52,857 I thought she was to wait for a party that included other women among the number? 971 01:04:52,948 --> 01:04:57,897 Messire Corbiere is taking his sister from his manor at Stanton to a convent by Bristol. 972 01:04:57,988 --> 01:05:00,377 Mistress Vernold will travel with them. 973 01:05:00,468 --> 01:05:02,584 She's gone with him alone? 974 01:05:02,668 --> 01:05:04,067 Of course not 975 01:05:04,148 --> 01:05:07,026 I sent Brother Jerome to watch over her as far as the manor. 976 01:05:15,948 --> 01:05:17,859 Brother! My Lord! 977 01:05:17,948 --> 01:05:19,745 Praise heaven you've come. 978 01:05:19,828 --> 01:05:21,580 What's happened? 979 01:05:21,668 --> 01:05:26,867 I dismounted my horse to make water, and I was attacked by rogues and brigands. 980 01:05:26,948 --> 01:05:28,859 Mistress Vernold? 981 01:05:28,948 --> 01:05:31,257 My Lord Corbiere got her away to safety. 982 01:05:32,348 --> 01:05:34,384 No! Don't leave me! 983 01:05:34,988 --> 01:05:36,819 Well, someone cut him down! 984 01:05:41,868 --> 01:05:43,187 Ow! 985 01:06:07,828 --> 01:06:09,500 I'd love to know... 986 01:06:14,108 --> 01:06:15,780 We can't find it, my Lord. 987 01:06:15,868 --> 01:06:18,177 Very well. Take what you will. 988 01:06:18,268 --> 01:06:19,826 Come on! Lt's ours! 989 01:06:31,388 --> 01:06:32,980 You locked the door. 990 01:06:33,068 --> 01:06:34,820 For your safety. 991 01:06:36,828 --> 01:06:38,898 Why are those people going through my things? 992 01:06:38,988 --> 01:06:42,344 My servants. Repacking your things for the journey. 993 01:06:43,388 --> 01:06:45,185 That's kind. 994 01:06:45,268 --> 01:06:49,261 - I'm so looking forward to meeting your sister... - Emma, the game is over. 995 01:06:49,348 --> 01:06:51,418 - What? - Oh, a fine performance. 996 01:06:51,508 --> 01:06:53,464 And played to the very end. 997 01:06:54,628 --> 01:06:58,587 Now, give it to me freely and you will not come to any harm. I do advise it. 998 01:06:59,708 --> 01:07:02,859 I don't understand. What is it you want me to give you? 999 01:07:02,948 --> 01:07:07,863 The letter Master Thomas was carrying from the Empress Maud to my uncle - the Earl of Chester. 1000 01:07:07,948 --> 01:07:11,179 The same letter he should have delivered to poor Master Glover, 1001 01:07:11,268 --> 01:07:14,101 my noble uncle's eyes and ears. 1002 01:07:14,188 --> 01:07:18,022 But eyes and ears no longer, alas. 1003 01:07:18,108 --> 01:07:19,905 I don't know what you mean. 1004 01:07:21,068 --> 01:07:23,901 For what it's worth, I admire you. 1005 01:07:23,988 --> 01:07:26,377 But I shall not let that stand in my way. 1006 01:07:27,548 --> 01:07:29,266 But I don't have it. 1007 01:07:29,348 --> 01:07:33,136 It is not in your baggage! And every other possibility has been exhausted. 1008 01:07:33,228 --> 01:07:36,538 Therefore, it is here... on your person. 1009 01:07:36,628 --> 01:07:40,257 You brought me here under the pretext of conducting me to Bristol. 1010 01:07:40,348 --> 01:07:42,225 Do you intend to do as you promised? 1011 01:07:42,308 --> 01:07:44,424 When you have given me what I want. 1012 01:07:44,508 --> 01:07:47,659 If I had it, do you think I'd refuse it to you when I'm in your power? 1013 01:07:49,508 --> 01:07:51,863 Why does it matter to you so much? 1014 01:07:51,948 --> 01:07:54,098 What can there be in a mere letter? 1015 01:07:54,188 --> 01:07:55,746 Life and death. 1016 01:07:58,108 --> 01:08:01,498 You have failed as your pompous uncle failed before you. 1017 01:08:01,588 --> 01:08:02,987 Now, give it to me! 1018 01:08:03,068 --> 01:08:05,104 Or have it taken from you by force. 1019 01:08:06,068 --> 01:08:07,581 Argh! 1020 01:08:10,188 --> 01:08:12,019 That you will pay for. 1021 01:08:17,668 --> 01:08:19,260 Take them. Take them! 1022 01:08:20,348 --> 01:08:22,225 (Shouting) 1023 01:08:46,028 --> 01:08:47,063 Stand! 1024 01:08:48,148 --> 01:08:50,264 One step further and I fire. 1025 01:08:50,348 --> 01:08:53,545 You've only one bolt... and there are two of us. 1026 01:09:02,988 --> 01:09:05,422 Well done, Cadfael. I'll deal with him. 1027 01:09:08,148 --> 01:09:10,264 (Emma screams) 1028 01:09:26,588 --> 01:09:28,704 Where is it, girl? 1029 01:09:29,548 --> 01:09:30,947 Where have you hidden it? 1030 01:09:31,028 --> 01:09:32,746 (Emma screams) - Give it to me! 1031 01:09:32,828 --> 01:09:34,580 Give me the letter! 1032 01:09:36,028 --> 01:09:38,337 What have you done with it? 1033 01:09:38,428 --> 01:09:41,659 Leave her be. I have it. Here. 1034 01:09:53,108 --> 01:09:54,905 Give it to me. 1035 01:09:59,428 --> 01:10:00,941 Give it to me! 1036 01:10:01,028 --> 01:10:02,905 No. 1037 01:10:02,988 --> 01:10:04,785 Stand off! 1038 01:10:04,868 --> 01:10:06,460 Hugh. 1039 01:10:06,548 --> 01:10:08,778 Do nothing in haste. 1040 01:10:09,868 --> 01:10:11,620 I am on your side 1041 01:10:11,708 --> 01:10:13,460 I am for the King. 1042 01:10:14,548 --> 01:10:20,100 Brother Cadfael holds in his hands a list of the King's traitors. 1043 01:10:21,388 --> 01:10:25,176 The Empress Maud has been courting my uncle the Earl of Chester for his support. 1044 01:10:26,388 --> 01:10:30,745 The fool demanded proof that he was not the only baron willing to rebel 1045 01:10:30,828 --> 01:10:32,659 and turn to the Empress' cause. 1046 01:10:33,708 --> 01:10:35,460 A simple list of names. 1047 01:10:36,468 --> 01:10:40,905 Hugh, what will the King not give us for such a list? 1048 01:10:49,268 --> 01:10:51,065 Give it to me. 1049 01:10:51,148 --> 01:10:54,026 And condemn how many more to certain death? No. 1050 01:10:54,108 --> 01:10:56,019 That I cannot do! 1051 01:10:56,108 --> 01:10:57,427 Then die! 1052 01:10:57,508 --> 01:10:58,941 Argh! 1053 01:11:07,308 --> 01:11:08,866 BERINGAR: Cadfael? 1054 01:11:08,948 --> 01:11:12,497 The list, if you please. 1055 01:11:22,028 --> 01:11:23,143 Cadfael! 1056 01:11:24,388 --> 01:11:26,140 Will you kill me for it? 1057 01:12:00,108 --> 01:12:04,545 Some days ago, you made a request of me which I could not meet. 1058 01:12:05,588 --> 01:12:07,818 The fair is now over 1059 01:12:07,908 --> 01:12:13,380 As Abbot, it is for me to determine what use shall be made of these monies. 1060 01:12:14,668 --> 01:12:19,662 What I could not grant away in imperilment of the Charter, 1061 01:12:19,748 --> 01:12:23,536 I can give freely as a gift from this house. 1062 01:12:24,628 --> 01:12:30,464 Of the fruits of this year's fair, I give a tenth to the town of Shrewsbury. 1063 01:12:31,748 --> 01:12:34,342 This chapter is concluded 1064 01:12:47,228 --> 01:12:49,139 (Laughter) 1065 01:13:08,148 --> 01:13:09,820 You've come to take her. 1066 01:13:11,668 --> 01:13:14,387 Well, I've soothed her as best I can. 1067 01:13:15,948 --> 01:13:18,416 She's ready now to face your rope. 1068 01:13:18,508 --> 01:13:21,625 What else can I do? She's a traitor to the Crown. 1069 01:13:21,708 --> 01:13:24,222 Then you'd best arrest yourself on the same charge. 1070 01:13:26,268 --> 01:13:28,498 That list was yours for the taking. 1071 01:13:29,588 --> 01:13:33,661 All you had to do was kill me. Your duty to the King demanded no less. 1072 01:13:35,508 --> 01:13:37,260 And yet you could not. 1073 01:13:40,548 --> 01:13:42,300 You're my friend, Cadfael. 1074 01:13:42,388 --> 01:13:44,299 And Thomas was her uncle. 1075 01:13:44,388 --> 01:13:48,017 And she loved him. She had no sense of what was in the letter. 1076 01:13:48,108 --> 01:13:51,145 She knew only that her uncle had made an undertaking 1077 01:13:51,228 --> 01:13:55,346 and, for his sake, she tried her best to see it through. 1078 01:13:56,588 --> 01:13:58,340 She acted out of love... 1079 01:13:59,628 --> 01:14:01,744 ...as you did. 1080 01:14:05,108 --> 01:14:10,978 I doubt the King will thank me for my choice - our friendship over my duty to the Crown. 1081 01:14:11,068 --> 01:14:13,298 Then he is King in name only. 1082 01:14:14,388 --> 01:14:16,026 And not worthy of your loyalty. 1083 01:14:16,868 --> 01:14:22,420 If I made such a choice, in all conscience and out of love... 1084 01:14:23,348 --> 01:14:26,579 ...I trust my King would forgive me. 1085 01:14:35,588 --> 01:14:39,058 Because He knows that, in the final reckoning, 1086 01:14:40,508 --> 01:14:42,385 we're all of us traitors... 1087 01:14:43,268 --> 01:14:45,224 to our heart. 1088 01:14:58,068 --> 01:15:00,024 (Bell tolls) 1089 01:15:15,948 --> 01:15:24,617 Mentes tuorum visita 1090 01:15:26,588 --> 01:15:31,708 Amen