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Mr. Argyle,

is all of this happening because of me?

I only wanted to do what was right,

but I seem to have set something off.

It's not you Arthur.

All this happened a long time ago.

It's only now it seems

that everything's coming home to roost.

Smile mother,

so everyone knows we're happy.

These are your new sisters and brother.

Where's Hester?

She went to the laundry.

You have got to be the mother.

Here is a check for 500 pounds.

You take it on the understanding

that you never contact my daughter again.

Where's Simon?

He's gone to get eggs and bread

so we can have breakfast.

I'm not cross Hester.

You're not?

It's Christmas Eve, how can I be cross?

Sugar milk, your favourite.

I don't feel very well.

Hold on tight.

One step at a time.

Good girl, good girl.

Come on, steady.

Come on, keep going, there's a good girl, nearly there.

She's been involved in an unfortunate liaison.

I want her examined.

I want to know if she's carrying

the expected result of such a liaison.

And if she is?

Well?

About three months.

Have the porters bring her to my car

and burn the clothes that she was wearing.

# I'm dreaming of a white Christmas #

# Just like the ones I used to know #

# Where the trees

Why are you crying?

# And children listen

I want daddy.

# In the snow

Hester's in the car.

Tell everyone she has flu.

Only you and I can nurse her.

Why?

Get her in, put her straight to bed, go.

Christina, it's mother.

Come to the house, find Michael and bring him too.

You tracked her down then?

I hope she told you to piss off.

Mother.

Where the hell are you?

Leo.

Oh Christ.

No, Leo, just your wife.

I'll talk to you in your study.

But first I want to word with you Miss Vaughn.

Naughty daddy.

Yours I believe.

you're nothing special Gwenda.

He's done this before.

My husband has a predilection for screwing the staff.

The plainer the better, I suppose he thinks

it'll make them more grateful.

I'm not the grateful one.

Sometimes he cries.

You ordinary bitch, put your cheap knickers on

and get out of my house.

You know, I never really enjoy Christmas,

but this one's shaping up to be a real belter.

Just take your time, good girl.

Hester?

Leave me alone, Jack.

She has a fever, it's flu.

Don't worry.

All right, there we go, good girl, I've got you.

I'm divorcing you Leo.

You won't do that.

You couldn't bear the shame.

Oh, I'll cope.

But you, with your easy life

and your bloody book that no one wants

or cares about.

You'll be penniless.

You'll have to work for a living.

How will you cope?

Mother, Philip can't live upstairs.

We need to arrange the house so that he can his own rooms.

Always pulling at me, it's intolerable.

Why did you get me?

Why did you get me if you weren't going to love me?

I was sad Mary.

I thought you could make up for that sadness.

It's not your fault you couldn't.

God almighty mother.

Is she settled?

Getting her a hot water bottle.

You're leaving, Jack,

Michael and Christina are coming to get you.

Have a drink, mother.

You're gonna need one.

I don't want a drink.

Well, they've always been close, haven't they?

Tina and Mickey.

Mickey and Tina.

So close.

I suppose it was inevitable.

They're at each other, lovers.

I saw them.

His hands all over her.

Her legs wrapped around his back.

Now I'm not going anywhere.

There's no getting rid of me.

Oh, poor mother.

You should have left me at the orphanage.

I didn't get you from an orphanage.

The woman who gave birth to you is in the kitchen.

You've known her all your life.

Little boy with your temper tantrums.

You've no idea what it takes to keep going.

I am going to adopt the baby, Kirsten, my child.

But you won't be separated.

No one will ever know.

I thought you were going to send me away.

None of this is your fault, Kirsten.

None of it.

Did you want something to eat?

I'm just gonna sit here for a bit.

Park on the road, Christina, meet me in the garden room.

And Michael, you stay in the car.

I'll walk with you.

Do as I say, it's important.

It's Jack, isn't it?

Of course it's Jack.

Wish he'd stopped baiting her.

I'm done with this, I'm done with all of it.

I'm done with her, her mad rules, her mad bloody bunker.

Everything, I'm done.

Mickey, don't, she loves us really.

Say please for once in your life.

Say it.

Please.

There we go, wasn't that hard, was it?

Keep that up, we might get on better.

When you were in Korea,

I prayed day and night that you would come home safely.

So did I, who would've thought

we'd have something in common?

See mother, we're getting on better already.

Wouldn't he marry you?

What, who?

When you told him you were having a baby,

wouldn't he marry you?

It wasn't like that.

Is it because of him that I am the way I am?

Not knowing when to stop.

Am I like him?

I can't.

You have to take that to Hester.

Are you coming back?

Of course I am.

How did you bear it?

I just did.

Jesus.

What is it?

You found Michael quickly.

He was already with me, wrapping presents.

How fortuitous, Jack tells me that you

and Michael are involved with each other.

Tell me it isn't true.

I can't.

The love,

the love I wasted on you, you whore.

You're disgusting.

You repulse me, of stupid.

You are an abomination, you disgust me.

You are filth, filth, filth,

filth, filth, filth!

Where's Jack, what's he done?

Jack saw us, he told her.

She was gonna have to find out

sooner or later, wasn't she?

Everyone was.

We're disgusting, we're filth.

No, no, no.

We're stupid and ugly and dirty.

Listen to me, listen to me.

We're not any of those things.

Don't run, don't run.

Let me go, let me go.

Don't.

Do you have time?

I'm supposed to be there by nine.

I believed it was true, we all did.

that Jack had done it

because of things that had happened.

Things that had been said.

And his fingerprints.

They were on what was used to kill her, on the decanter.

Then the weapon must have been something else.

It has to have been, something similar.

How is Mrs. Durrant taking the news?

I put the coins on his eyes to close them

so he looked more peaceful when she saw him.

I'll take them off before she does then.

There was a needle in his arm, poor man.

He can't have realised how dangerous it was.

Whiskey and morphine.

I'm so sorry.

I have to tell Mary.

I didn't leave Philip's shot out for him last night.

He was too drunk.

How could he overdose if I didn't leave him his shot?

Doesn't make any sense.

He can't reach the morphine on his own.

# Especially

Well?

You said he'd never know,

that no one would know you promised.

I'm sorry.

I was angry.

I hope he doesn't hate you.

I don't want him to hate you, none of this is your fault.

None of it, none of it.

Oh God, oh God, God.

So sorry, so sorry.

I don't know what's happening to me.

I'm going to get help.

No, no, no, no, no, don't leave me.

Please don't leave me.

All right.

Don't go.

Please don't leave me.

I'm so frightened, please don't leave me.

Little Kirsten.

Rachel, Rachel.

There there, there there,

there, there.

You say you went home at the usual time.

You didn't see Rachel.

I'll come and get you and the police have gone.

What're you doing up there?

Making sure there's no one else upstairs.

Go to your rooms.

Do not go downstairs.

Do as you're told.

Jack was here.

Your fingerprints mixed with your mother's blood.

No one else, yours, Jack.

All right, let's go to trial.

I've always liked an audience.

Now I'm gonna get one, a packed out courtroom

to see the bastard boy go down for murdering his mother.

What everyone will want to know

is what made him the way he is,

he'd been given everything.

What did he turn out so vicious?

It's something in you, it's your temperament.

Something I've inherited.

Maybe, who can say?

Kirsten can, who made me the way I am?

Well, you did, daddy.

I've worked it all out.

You're mistaken.

She was 15, little girl, straight out of summer home.

Little girl with nothing come to help with Mary.

Know she told us once it was the first time

she'd had a room of her own.

And who walks into it?

You with your cock in your hand,

the murderer's father, your blood in my veins.

So I'll take a life sentence for this.

If I get the rope, I walk that scaffold

with a song in my heart, it'll be worth it.

I'm going to ruin you.

I will sow your field with salt.

I will drink from your hollowed skull.

I know exactly what you are Leo Argyle.

And by the time I'm done, so will everyone else.

I'm your plague

and I'm coming for you.

Open the window, unlock it, open it, now.

Unlock the window, come out.

Why?

Arthur, you're in danger.

And we need to get you out through the garden.

Not out the front, we can't trust our father.

Open the window Arthur.

I'll get my case.

Forget your case Arthur!

I'm leaving now.

Well, let me see you to the door.

No, no, no, no, no, no!

Leave me alone, no, no!

Get off me, leave me alone, no!

Very professional manner.

They know what they're doing.

I'll come and speak with you on the drive.

Calgary did abscond.

He very likely did meet Jack, but much later than he said.

Jack gave him a time that would exonerate him.

That fragile young man has been a stooge, not an alibi.

I'm sorry you had to listen to all of that.

It's very upsetting.

So Jack's still guilty.

He still did it?

I'm afraid so,

no one wanted him to be innocent more than me.

Mary, I need to speak with you

and you are going to have to be a brave girl.

You're going to tell me that Philip

overdosed in the bathroom.

Yes.

Why is he dead?

Well, I'm afraid barbiturates

and whiskey are not a happy combination.

Not Philip, Jack.

Why is Jack dead?

I told them.

How he was mine

and yours.

Why is he dead?

He started a fight with another prisoner.

You know this.

But they never found out who killed him.

No.

Did they try?

Of course, good God, what is this?

How did he start the fight?

Someone must have seen.

Maybe he said the wrong thing to the wrong person.

Did he say the wrong thing to you?

Did Phillip?

Did Mother?

What the hell are you accusing me of?

Have you lost your damn minds?

I keep thinking about what Chief Constable Gould

said to you that time.

What time?

That time he said he'd have every bone

in Jack's body broken.

He'd have his head kicked in half.

And you didn't say that he shouldn't.

And I keep thinking how you went to see Jack

and the next day he was dead.

My baby.

Oh, Kirsten, how bitter you are.

This is her revenge because I'm marrying again

and I haven't chosen her.

I have to speak with Dr. Moresuch

and then I expect all of you to apologise.

But you, there is nothing you can say,

trying to turn my own children against me.

Your life in this house is over.

Why?

He was so happy.

We were so happy.

He admitted it Gwenda.

Admitted what?

Mother.

Kirsten, Kirsten, please, please!

There, there.

Kirsten!

Kirsten come back.

Please Kirsten, Kirsten!