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[liquid splashing]

[cards flicking]

[man snores]

[suspenseful music]

-Lord Bullingdon.

-Miss Scarlet.

-I apologise for disturbing your evening.

-Mmm.

-However, I wanted to inform you that I have found them.

-You've found them?

My babies?

[sheet flaps] Oh, I am most impressed!

I must admit, I wasn't entirely convinced you had it in you.

-[laughs] Well, as promised when you engaged me,

I offer a highly professional service.

-I shall fetch my man.

He will take them home.

-Lord Bullingdon?

The matter of my fee?

-Oh of course!

I shall send payment to your office on Friday.

-May I ask why not now?

-Because it is not convenient.

Friday's not convenient for me.

Our contract clearly states payment in full on delivery.

-I have daughters your age.

If they spoke to me in that kind of fashion,

ey would be reprimanded at once.

You will be paid at a time agreeable for me, young lady.

Now, I bid you good night.

[dramatic music]

[poker chips clicking]

[wings flapping]

[pigeon coos]

What in heaven's name?

[wings flapping]

[suspenseful music]

You would not dare.

[theme music]

[snorts]

-[WILLIAM] Good morning.

What is that smell?

-Never mind that.

I've been stuck here all night, William!

Where have you been?

-At home.

Asleep. Where you should have been.

But apparently you chose to disturb the peace instead?

Well, it has been three weeks since your last arrest,

so I suppose this is progress of sorts.

Lucky for you the cells were all full.

es, I'm feeling extremely lucky.

[playful music]

-What is that smell?

-Manure.

I've had little experience of allotments

but after searching through at least fifty

for those damn pigeons, I'm now quite the expert.

You'd be surprised at the variety of manure used.

-Mm.

t of which ended up on my dress.

-Well, those pigeons will have certainly

ruined such expensive velvet curtains.

Yo'll have to pay a fine.

-It is so unjust.

I've been in this business long enough to know

that I am good at it, yet why do I still struggle

attract more illustrious cases?

Are you asking me or blaming me?

Just so that I'm clear before I answer.

-I'm simply pointing out that trying to build

a successful agency would not be as hard if I were a man.

-Mm.

Well, being a man has its disadvantages too.

-Oh really, such as?

[Scarlet chuckles]

-I promise by the time we dine tomorrow

I will have thought of at least half a dozen.

Four dinners in as many weeks.

[romantic music]

People will begin to gossip.

-Let them.

We're just two old friends enjoying an evening out.

-Well, I should get on.

I have an important meeting to prepare for.

-Oh, the new Superintendent?

-Yes. And I'm determined to be in accord with him

a damn sight more than I was with the last.

God rest his soul.

, don't be too effusive William.

It doesn't suit your face.

-Are you saying that I'm ill tempered much of the time?

-I'm simply saying that your natural disposition

is not one of enthusiasm.

You are measured.

There, how does that sound?

ike you're trying to placate me.

WOMAN] I demand to speak to him!

-[MAN] And I've told you he's a very busy man.

So, I suggest you calm down

and stop making a spectacle of yourself.

Sir, this lady's insisting on talking with you

but I've tried to tell her have other matters to attend to.

-You're Inspector Wellington?

You're the one whose cast my sister aside

like some dirt on your shoe!

ou need to calm yourself, Madam.

-You've done nothing to find her yet you've closed her case?

-If this is regarding an investigation

then you need to speak with the desk sergeant. Charlie.

-No, it's you who must answer for this!

You were in charge of her case and yet you've found nothing!

-How can that be? -Get her out of here, Charlie.

-You're a disgrace!

nspector Wellington, a disgrace!

You know, you should be ashamed of yourself!

-Do you remember the case?

-Right now, I'm more concerned about him.

-Who is he?

-The new Superintendent.

[door knocks]

-[MONROE] Come! [door opens]

-Good morning, Sir.

[door closes]

I just wanted to come by introduce myself, I'm Inspec...

-I know exactly who you are.

anted to apologise for the scene that you've just witnessed, Sir.

And to assure you that it's not a regular occurrence.

-No need to apologise, take a seat, laddie.

The general public have no idea the volume

of cases we have to attend to week in, week out.

ere's always going to be someone unsatisfied with our service.

-Yes, Sir.

Thank you, Sir.

-And it was good to hear that one of my own men

was from the old hometown.

-You're from Glasgow, Sir?

-Dragged up in the tenements.

You?

-Ah, workhouse.

-Ooh. -Well, it was a long time ago.

-So, my predecessor?

I hear you two didn't see eye to eye.

-Let's just, let's say that he as from a different world to us.

-Hmm, stuck up prig, ay? -[laughs]

-Ay, it's a slippery pole on the way up,

unless you've been born with a silver spoon in your geggie.

-Yet here you are, Sir.

-[grunts]

Here I am.

I was fortunate.

I've had good governors that championed me.

So, I like to do the same for my own men.

Which is why I've brought a couple with me here to the Met.

I expect you to show them the ropes, Wellington.

Take them under your wing.

-Absolutely, Sir.

-Good.

Time for another?

's always time for another, Sir.

-Slainte.

-Slainte.

[suspenseful music]

[glasses clink]

[city sounds]

-Miss Scarlet!

Miss Scarlet!

Goodness, you walk fast.

-I'm sorry, have we met?

-It's Hattie. Hattie Parker.

Rupert's cousin.

-Oh, of course!

Rupert mentioned you were staying with his mother.

Although that was a while ago.

I haven't received a letter in some weeks.

-That is why I'm here.

Rupert has written to you

but mistakenly used my aunt's address.

I hid it quickly before she saw.

I do adore my cousin,

but he is absent-minded at the best of times.

-Well, as a newly married man

ly is no doubt keeping him busy.

-I gather it's the night time amusements

of Berlin that keep him busiest.

-And how is your aunt?

-On the war path.

-Oh dear. Who's upset her now?

-You.

idn't make Rupert go to Germany.

In fact, I had no hand in his marriage to Tilly at all.

-That is what I told her.

But, Harriet, she said, what do you know about anything?

You are a stupid, stupid girl

h not one ounce of common sense.

pert mentioned your father died.

I'm so sorry.

I know what it is to lose someone so dear.

was just Papa and I for so long.

But now he has gone I am to be my aunt's companion.

-Well, it was very nice to meet you, Miss Parker.

But I really should get to work.

yes, your investigation agency.

I've heard all about it.

What you are doing is quite marvellous, Miss Scarlet.

-Perhaps you would like to come to tea?

-Today?

-Maybe not today. -Tomorrow?

-How about Wednesday?

Four o'clock?

-Splendid!

Thank you, Miss Scarlet.

Until Wednesday.

[light hearted music]

[suspenseful music]

[door clicks open]

-[sighs]

[banging keys]

-Moses?

Can you please stop breaking into my office?

I like to keep you on your toes.

It's good for business.

-Speaking of business, did you get it?

[coins jangling]

-He tried to hold back some of your fee

on account of his ruined evening suit.

-What a load of fuss over a few pigeon droppings.

-But I reasoned with him.

-Well, you were clearly very persuasive.

that's what you want to call it.

was your night in Scotland Yard?

-Irritating.

-I take it your Inspector bail ya out?

-He's not my Inspector.

Don't get too comfortable, this is no lodging house.

-I may have a case for you.

-Make yourself at home.

[light music]

So, what is this case?

ere's a landlord in Whitechapel.

s a guest at his boarding house.

They be looking for the services of a private detective.

[door knocks]

-[SCARLET] What's the name?

-[MOSES] Miss Alice Lee.

sorry you saw me in that state.

Such was my rage I have no recollection,

you were even there.

All I saw was him.

at man who has the gall to close

my sister's case without a by your leave.

ss Lee, I know this is no excuse

Inspector Wellington has a great many cases to deal with.

fact, he most likely had little to do with this investigation.

t rather his men carried it out.

-Inspector Wellington signed the case closed.

He's the one to answer for it.

-So, tell me about your sister.

-Georgina is the sweetest girl.

Our parents are both dead, so all we have is each other.

I was so worried when she said anted to come to London to work.

I tried to stop her.

I didn't think she could cope in the city.

But she proved me wrong.

ot a job in a shop, Wentworth's.

-Well, that's not just a shop.

Wentworth's is the best epartment store in the West End.

months ago the letters stopped.

I became so worried that I travelled down

from Yorkshire to see her.

I went straight to the store

but was told she no longer worked there.

One day she just didn't turn up.

y assumed she'd got another job.

-So, you went to the police?

lled out a missing persons form.

nd then last week I got a letter to say the case was closed.

They found nothing. How? How could they find nothing?

Will you help me?

Please?

heart goes out to poor Miss Lee

but offering my services will not go down well with William.

No matter the rights or wrongs of the case,

she humiliated him in front of his new Superintendent.

It's a dilemma indeed.

How much longer is this going to take?

-It will take as long as it takes, now stand still.

If you wish to have some kind of future

th Inspector Wellington you need

to start considering what cases you take.

Ones that don't undermine his reputation.

-Who says I wish to have a future with him?

-Four evenings out says.

-I had no idea you were keeping count.

We're just old friends, Ivy.

-Then have some loyalty.

Find this woman someone else to take her case.

And keep still!

-Fine, you're right.

I will find Miss Lee an alternative investigator.

-I know that look, Lizzie.

Innocent as a lamb but there's always the devilment of a but.

-[scoffs]

But first I will gather the basic information.

That way if there is anything that William has overlooked

I may tell him before someone reopens the case.

It's the act of a friend, Ivy.

-How selfless of you.

occasion I have the need to run,

so I'd like my hemline a little higher please.

-Over my dead body. You are not showing your ankles.

[light music]

[both laughing]

[city sounds]

-Good morning, Miss.

-Yes madam, how can I help?

-Well, I was hoping you might have a spare moment to talk?

-About what?

-Georgina Lee.

I'm working for her sister, I'm a private detective.

-[chuckles] You're a what?

-Do you have a few moments?

-Welcome to Wentworth's, Madam.

e Pandora's Box of the West End.

I trust Miss Yates is serving you to your satisfaction?

he's no customer, Mr. Salisbury.

She's a private detective asking questions about Georgina.

is is a department store, Madam.

If you're not intending to buy hing, I would like you to leave.

-It will not take long.

It's merely a few questions that I'm seeking--

-Well, it looks like I will have to see you out myself then.

This way please.

-Mr. Salisbury?

What on earth is going on here?

-I apologise, Mrs. Wentworth.

I was attempting to ask this lady to leave.

Not that she is lady.

ently she's a private detective.

-She's a what?

-[sighs]

[tea pouring]

-Thank you.

apologise for our Mr. Salisbury.

He can be a little enthusiastic.

o not wish to cause any trouble.

It's merely a few questions I seek on behalf of Miss Lee.

-Oh, that poor woman must be out of her mind with worry.

Georgina was such a sweet girl.

The customers loved her.

So diligent and attentive.

absence is a loss to the store.

-And you do not have any idea where she might have gone?

-We assumed she found a position elsewhere.

-And this is what you told the police?

-Well, the police didn't come to speak to me or to my husband.

-And I'm glad of it, what with my wife's current condition.

And I must say we weren't aware there was even

an investigation, until speaking with you.

-What, the police did not come to the store?

They didn't speak to you or the other shop girls?

-No.

No one did.

[suspenseful music]

-Now, I know you've been under

command of Superintendent Monro

and I have no doubt he has the highest standards

but different forces have different procedures.

I want you to listen carefully--

ir, I am still not entirely sure the logistics of this operation.

-Well, if you would just let me finish, Detective.

-Fitzroy, Sir.

-Uniform will enter through the back...

-Oliver Fitzroy, Sir.

-As I was saying, we will go in through the front.

ow, to the best of our knowledge

this gang hasn't used firearms before.

However, we should be prepared for anything.

-And when you say anything, Sir?

-Oi, pretty boy!

Shut your gob and the let the skipper speak.

What the hell's going on with your hair?

-Enough!

want this to run like clockwork.

So, no one moves till I say.

ll have the element of surprise, so let's keep it that way.

Get to it.

Detective Fitzroy?

A word please.

You're new, so--

-Not that new, actually, Sir.

as posted at Essex before this--

-So, I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt,

but interrupt me again

and you'll be cleaning out the latrines in the cells.

Is that clear?

-Yes, Sir.

Sorry, Sir.

Permission to speak, Sir.

-Permission denied.

Get to it.

[bangs into door]

[street sounds]

-Miss Scarlet?

-Miss Yates?

[suspenseful music]

-I can tell you some things about Georgina.

But not here.

[audience cheering, applauding]

[cheerful music]

o you think Georgina's run away?

-I don't think, I know.

And it's the same reason she run away from her village.

To get away from that sister.

She was terrified of her.

-But it was my understanding that Georgina

left Yorkshire to find a job in London.

-Well, her sister would say that, wouldn't she?

Georgina had a different story.

That sister was suffocating, treated her like a baby.

She even sewed Georgina's name into all of her clothes

she was some little school girl.

And if she stepped out of line.

[Yates claps]

-But why run away from London n her sister lives in Yorkshire?

-Because she told Georgina was moving down to be near her.

She'll deny it of course but that's the truth.

She wanted to control the poor little mare.

-So where has she gone?

-I told her to tell no one.

Not even me.

She needed a new start

away from that one breathing down her neck.

I'm telling ya, that Miss Lee is no lady.

Not like us.

I'd trust her as far as I could throw her.

-[WELLINGTON] Stay sharp.

[draws gun from holster]

[suspenseful music]

[door crash] -Police!

Get your hands up!

-Hey, where you going?

-You ain't going nowhere, son.

-Make yourself useful, Detective, check upstairs.

ke sure this is the lot of them.

hat's it, nice and easy does it.

-Where's your stash?

I know it's here somewhere.

Very well, I'll find it myself.

Get them into the wagon.

-Right you are, skipper.

-Move it! -Nice cozy cell waiting for you!

-Come on! -Good.

Gentlemen.

-All clear upstairs, Sir.

-Alright, you search down here. I'll take upstairs.

-[MAN] Move it!

[suspenseful music]

[men fighting] [men crying out]

-[THIEF] Go on, go on.

[men fitghting] [men crying out]

-[laughing]

[thumping]

-Your revolver, use it!

[men fighting] [suspenseful music]

Are you always this useless, Detective?

-I don't know what to say, Sir.

I don't want to get in any more trouble.

old you to do a thorough search!

-I did.

At least I believed I did.

-Well, this gentleman is evidence to the contrary.

[fighting sounds]

[city sounds]

-I have looked into your case and spoken

with some of those who knew Georgina at Wentworth's.

n particular, a Miss Jane Yates.

s a different version of events.

[gentle music]

Miss Lee?

-This was forwarded from my home address in Yorkshire.

I received it this morning.

-Dear Mother, I'm sorry I have caused you worry.

Please know that all is well and I will be in touch soon.

With fondest love, Georgina.

But I thought you said your mother and father were dead?

-The telegram is a lie.

Georgina did not send it.

There is something I should tell you.

Something I have never told a living soul

apart from Georgina.

She's my daughter.

I was young and I had her out of wedlock.

o save the disgrace on my family we were brought up as sisters.

Georgina never calls me Mother.

Only ever Alice.

-So, whoever sent this knew your secret.

It must have been someone close to her.

meone she trusted to confide in.

[city sounds]

[door opens]

[door closes]

[suspenseful music]

[door knocks]

[distant laughter]

[door knocking]

Miss Yates?

It's Miss Scarlet.

[suspenseful music]

[gun firing]

[suspenseful music]

[crackling fire]

-You sure you're alright?

-Just a little shocked.

's not every day one is shot at.

-What were you doing here?

-Working a case.

The Georgina Lee case.

sister came into Scotland Yard.

The lady that was upset.

-You reopened one of my cases?

Am I to understand that you sought out

ss Lee's business after learning

how dissatisfied she was with my service?

-Of course not. secured the case through Moses.

-Moses? Ah. This gets better and better.

-No, I didn't intend to become embroiled, it just happened.

-Things have a tendency to just happen to you, Eliza.

It's about time you took some credit for your decisions.

If you had any respect for me or my position

you would not have reopened it.

ell, it's a good job I did since

you have most certainly missed something.

-Do you have any idea how many cases I have to deal with?

I don't have the luxury of working one case

at a time as you do.

-Well, more's the pity!

Because the investigation into Georgina Lee

was poor indeed, William!

-Sir.

-What is it?

-He was in the street at the time of the murder.

thought he might know something.

-And you thought that you would bring him

here to the crime scene?

For god's sake, man!

-Calm yourself, William.

-Take him in for questioning

and start using your common sense, Detective!

-William. -Never call me that again

in front of my men.

[plucky music]

[door opens]

[door closes]

So, now you wish to speak to me?

-I apologise if you feel that we did not give

your sister's case the attention that it deserved.

-That is an understatement.

We've hundreds, if not thousands

ssing person reports every year.

We endeavor to do our best.

nderstand that this is difficult

but we are doing everything to find Georgina.

y because Miss Scarlet has shone a light on your incompetence.

-Perhaps we might be better concentrating on

how we proceed from here.

The lady who was murdered, Jane Yates.

Tell me about Georgina's relationship with her.

-I know that she worked with my sister.

I also know she's a liar.

said Georgina was scared of me, she told Miss Scarlet as much.

s just please focus on something

other than Miss Scarlet and her investigation.

ast she's done an investigation.

[gun fire]

[gun fire]

[door opens]

[gun fire] -[MAN] Careful!

-What the hell is going on here?

-[MAN] Don't know. [gun fire]

[gun fire]

ho does this revolver belong to?

[light music]

ZROY] I can only apologise, Sir.

I was guiding him into the cell to sober him up

when he pulled the gun from my holster and-

-It's beyond my comprehension how a man like you

as got to the rank of Detective.

-Do I have permission to enlighten you, Sir?

-It was a rhetorical question.

-Oh, forgive me.

-I'm equally at a loss as to why

a man like yourself would want to do this job.

I don't wish to be personal,

but you look more like poet than a police officer.

lease do not think you offend me with your observation, Sir.

I take that as a compliment.

ee, Lord Byron is a hero of mine

like to think that maybe one day

I'll have some poetry of my own published.

tective Fitzroy, the simple fact is that you do not belong here.

You are a danger to yourself and to the rest of my men.

So, I have no alternative but to dismiss you.

[liquid pouring]

With immediate effect.

-I understand, Sir.

-That means you need to leave, Detective.

-Yes, of course, Sir.

[door opens]

[door closes]

[city sounds]

[suspenseful music]

-For heaven's sake!

-You don't like me to wait in your office.

Now you don't like me to wait outside.

-I could have killed you, Moses! -[laughs]

You couldn't open an envelope with that thing.

-What have you got for me?

So, Miss Yates was making a lot more money

than a mere shop girl.

-According to her bank account.

-That's how she was able to afford rent

on such an expensive apartment.

ow do you find these things out?

-I am a man of many talents.

-You're a man with a talent for avoiding questions.

-Miss Yates was making regular payments to another account.

Know this man?

-Welcome to Wentworth's, Madam.

e Pandora's Box of the West End.

I am quite sure that a lady as elegant as yourself

exactly what she's looking for.

However if you are in need assistance please do not hesit-

-Mr. Salisbury?

-Who on earth are you?

-You didn't say that last night.

Clementine. Nice to meet you.

-Would Madam excuse me for one moment?

I don't know who you are but--

-I got a message for you.

if you don't stop hurting my arm I'm gonna punch you in the head.

-What message?

Where is she?

[pub chatter]

You think it is funny sending that woman?

ll, you made it abundantly clear t I wasn't welcome in the store.

So I thought it wise to send an associate.

-Well, if she is an associate it tells me everything

about the type of outfit you're running.

'm more interested in the outfit t you're running, Mr. Salisbury.

As my note stated, I know that Jane Yates

was depositing money into your account each month.

The fact that you're here with me now suggests

that this isn't something you wish to share with anyone.

-I arrange liaisons between the girls and rich customers.

For a fee.

Sometimes it is more than just shopping the girls oblige with.

-That's how they supplement their wages.

Could any of these customers have wanted Jane Yates dead?

A married client perhaps?

-God only knows.

She had a lot of men.

One of the most popular girls.

I'm going to miss her.

She was a good earner.

-And what of Georgina?

Who were her regular customers?

-Georgina?

She did not have any.

He would not share her with anyone else.

-He?

-He's powerful, rich.

Perhaps I've said too much.

-Let me be clear, Mr. Salisbury.

If you don't tell me, I will shall share

what information I have gleaned

with Inspector Wellington of Scotland Yard.

You will lose your job, your reputation,

if anyone is unfortunate enough

to be Mrs. Salisbury, your wife.

[glass shatters]

[table clatters]

-It was Mr. Wentworth.

me Wentworth's daily movements.

[clock chimes]

-[SALISBURY] Every day at noon he goes to Levine's Tea House.

e likes the waitresses in there. [door closes]

[suspenseful music]

[door opens]

[door closes]

[drawer opens]

[drawer opens]

[lock clicks]

[paper rustles]

hese are Georgina Lee's clothes.

-How do you know?

ey have her name sewn into them.

If Wentworth has murdered Georgina Lee...

-Let's not jump to conclusions.

The most obvious motive would be o silence her over their affair.

Maybe she threatened to tell his pregnant wife.

Maybe Jane Yates found out.

The extra money she was earning might not

have just been from her services on the side.

e she was blackmailing Wentworth and he got rid of her too.

-And this is you not jumping to conclusions, is it?

-Well one of us has to, William,

since the other seems stuck in some kind of sulk.

-I'm a grown man, I don't sulk.

-I said I was sorry for reopening the case.

-Don't do that. -What?

-You rewrite history and then convince me that it's so.

-Alright, fine.

I didn't apologise.

But I do now.

I'm sorry, William.

should have spoken to you first.

-And if you had and I'd asked you not to take it,

uld it have made any difference?

-[MAN] Here you go, Sir.

-Sir. -Thank you.

he telegram to Miss Lee was sent m the county of Buckinghamshire.

Beaconsfield.

Wentworth has a country residence there.

[suspenseful music]

worth's wife's gone into labour.

He's headed to his house in the country.

-[MAN] Shall we go? -Yeah.

[suspenseful music]

[door knocks]

[door opens]

-Is Mr. Wentworth home?

-I'm Inspector Wellington with Scotland Yard.

I'd like to speak with him.

Now please.

[baby crying]

-No one's allowed upstairs!

[baby crying] [suspenseful music]

-Georgina?

-I had given up hope of ever becoming a mother.

Until one night I happened across Georgina.

The store was closed and I found her crying.

She revealed to me her affair with my husband

and the pregnancy.

She told me of the secret of her family.

How her mother had been raised as her sister.

She did not want to bring any more disgrace upon them.

-So you agreed to raise the baby as your own.

pass yourself off as expecting.

-Georgina was very sick during the pregnancy.

She feared she might not survive the birth.

She wrote to her friend, Miss Yates, to let her know

where she was and if she were to die

she wanted her mother to know what she had done.

-But Miss Yates used this information to blackmail us.

humiliation of everyone knowing t my wife's pregnancy was false.

I would be a laughing stock.

y reputation would be destroyed.

-Well, perhaps you should have thought of that

before getting a young woman pregnant.

-I assume Miss Yates' demands became untenable.

So you dealt with her?

-It was me.

I went to speak to Miss Yates

and I took the revolver, just to scare her.

But when I arrived she said that I was an unnatural woman.

I was defective for being unable

to carry my own child and she jeered at me

and the next thing I know I had pulled the trigger.

[Mrs Wentworth crying] [gentle music]

-Thank you.

[gentle music]

-We have, er, much to discuss.

-Hmm.

-We still have our dinner reservation this evening.

Perhaps then?

-Sir.

-The Superintendent wants to see me.

I'll see you later?

-Inspector Wellington.

-Miss Scarlet.

[street sounds]

[door knocks]

-[MONRO] Come in!

[door opens]

-You requested to see me, Sir?

-Come in, Inspector Wellington.

[door closes]

There seems to have been a misunderstanding

with Detective Fitzroy.

It was no misunderstanding, Sir.

The man is not equipped to be onstable never mind a detective.

-Leave us.

-Yes Sir.

[door opens]

[door closes]

-Detective Fitzroy is the son of the Police Commissioner.

And on his father's instructions

Fitzroy has been elevated through the ranks,

even though he has not had the sufficient

experience needed to warrant these promotions.

-Well, surely this cannot be allowed to continue, Sir?

-I share your dismay, laddie.

I myself have been stuck with him for the last six months.

But when you come from a powerful family

such as the Commissioner's,

all justice goes out the window, I'm afraid.

-Are you saying that I cannot dismiss one of my own men, Sir?

-I'm saying that you are more

than capable of dealing with him, Inspector.

It's just a little arrangement.

These things have to be done from time to time

to keep things well oiled and running smoothly.

Understood?

-Understood, Sir.

-Good.

-Now, no more traipsing through allotments, please.

We can't afford to keep making you new dresses.

Lizzie, are you listening to me?

-No.

-You look beautiful.

Just like your mother.

y wish she were here to see you.

-Oh, don't do that.

You know I do not like it when you get upset.

-I just hate to see you alone, that's all.

-I'm not alone.

I have you.

-Come here.

[door knocks]

-That can't be William. He's not due for hours.

Oh. Is it Wednesday already?

-I probably shouldn't.

My aunt says, Harriet, no wonder no one wishes to marry you.

You have the appetite of a man, which is most unseemly.

She's so funny.

My aunt means well and requesting I come to London

and be her companion was an offer of kindness.

an offer that benefits her too.

-I do not blame you for your low opinion

of my aunt, Miss Scarlet.

sin has told me of your history.

Which is why I have come up with the most marvellous idea.

My aunt is on the committee for the Ladies' Cultural Society.

And they are always looking for new speakers.

thought, how about Miss Scarlet and her detective adventures?

-Why on earth would I want to do that?

d hoped we would become friends.

not have many friends in London.

Well, any at all, really.

So, it would be easier if my aunt approved of you.

-[sighs]

-Miss Parker. -Hattie.

-Hattie, I have no need nor desire for your aunt's approval.

-You are so lucky.

You have such freedom.

did you come to that conclusion?

-Yes, you are a woman and, according to my cousin,

more often than not struggling with finance

and your business, not to mention not being

taken seriously, of course.

-You're merely proving my point, I think.

-But you know who you are and what you want.

Many may not approve, but you simply do not care.

I call that freedom, indeed.

[dramatic music]

[street sounds]

[liquid pours]

[door opens]

zzie, it's Inspector Wellington.

-William.

-Eliza.

-Before we go out to dine, I need to tell you something.

Please, sit down.

iam, in answer to your question,

would I have taken the case had you asked me not to?

The simple truth is

denying me would have made me want it all the more.

freedom to make my own decisions

and to choose the work I wish to take is everything to me.

-Eliza. -Please let me finish.

You mean a great deal

but I will not be dictated to.

I will have no master.

So, if we are to have some kind of future

thought it important to be clear

where I stand before we go out to dine.

-Eliza, I have cancelled our dinner reservation.

-Oh.

t is pointless to deny the truth

that if we were anything more than friends

my position would be untenable.

The fact is, I am undermined eady without adding humiliation.

, er, it's better for both of us

to, to leave things as they are for now.

[dramatic music]

Good night, Eliza.

-Good night, William.

[dramatic music]

[door closes]

[door opens]

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