- 5/28/2025
#casanova #romeoandjuliet #thescapegoat
Newborn Titus Groan is destined to rule Gormenghast, a kingdom based on complicated and unbreakable traditions. Meanwhile an ambitious kitchen slave schemes to escape his destiny and overthrow the old order. Starring: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Celia Imrie, Ian Richardson, Neve McIntosh, Christopher Lee, Richard Griffiths.
Newborn Titus Groan is destined to rule Gormenghast, a kingdom based on complicated and unbreakable traditions. Meanwhile an ambitious kitchen slave schemes to escape his destiny and overthrow the old order. Starring: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Celia Imrie, Ian Richardson, Neve McIntosh, Christopher Lee, Richard Griffiths.
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00:00:00Hold fast to the law of the last cold tome, Where the earth of the truth lies thick upon
00:00:17the page, And the loam of faith in the ink-long fled
00:00:24From the drone of the nip-flows on, Till the last of the first depart,
00:00:35And the least of the past is dust, And the dust, the dust is lost.
00:00:50Hold fast to the dust.
00:01:06Heave, your ladyship, as the brute fellow in pursuit of the oval ball.
00:01:13Shut up, squalor, shut up.
00:01:16Heave, ho, as the match-a-low with the hempen rope. Heave.
00:01:20Prune, squalor, will you shut up.
00:01:25I see, genitalia, it is of a sex, ladyship.
00:01:29What kind?
00:01:30Oh, it's a fine sex.
00:01:31Which one, you idiot?
00:01:32A brand-new-grown, ladyship.
00:01:34Squalor, what is it?
00:01:36A spytesticlea, and there or thereabouts is also to be found a tinkle.
00:01:40It's a...
00:01:41It's an heir, ladyship, an heir to the glory of Gormengar.
00:01:46It's a boy!
00:01:52It's a boy!
00:01:56It's a boy!
00:01:58It's a boy!
00:01:59It's a boy!
00:02:00It's a boy!
00:02:02It's a boy!
00:02:04It's a boy!
00:02:08It's a boy!
00:02:09It's a boy!
00:02:10It's a boy!
00:02:11It's a boy!
00:02:12It's a boy!
00:02:13It's a boy!
00:02:14Come on, come on!
00:02:21The ninth day of the month.
00:02:27The ninth, you toads, didn't I say the ninth?
00:02:30It's blue, the air should be blue, not red.
00:02:34Then the ninth, you lordship.
00:02:37Eleven o'clock, release of the five hawks from the northeast turret.
00:02:43One-fifteen, groaning of the dungeons with your daughter, Lady Fuchsia.
00:02:52Four o'clock, blessing the meteorites.
00:02:56Six...
00:02:57It's a boy!
00:02:58It's a boy!
00:02:59Dammit, what is that racket?
00:03:01It's a boy!
00:03:02It's a boy!
00:03:03It's a boy!
00:03:04The sun foregrown!
00:03:07A boy!
00:03:11A new world!
00:03:12The seventy-seventh!
00:03:15Born on the ninth.
00:03:21No! I don't want a brother!
00:03:24Who says I want a brother?
00:03:25A little lordship.
00:03:28Nanny, why didn't anyone ask me?
00:03:31No, we can't.
00:03:32I can't wait to see him and love him and squeeze him all to death.
00:03:37You're a silly old fool!
00:03:41Why doesn't anyone understand me?
00:03:44My own little boy.
00:03:45Don't just stand there.
00:03:47Get me some food.
00:03:49I'm furious!
00:03:52I'm going to have a dream.
00:03:54And it's going to be a long one.
00:03:56Why do I always have to wait till doomsday?
00:03:59This day, I am only the daughter of the Earl of Grosne, aren't I?
00:04:05All right then.
00:04:07I'll start.
00:04:11I could smack him already.
00:04:15Hitch a boy!
00:04:30Come hither! Come hither!
00:04:53Come hither! Come hither!
00:04:57Come hither! We celebrate!
00:05:02Close ranks, my little ones.
00:05:06Tell me, my stenching little cherubs.
00:05:12Tell me extra quickly, and I will sing songs for you.
00:05:17Who am I?
00:05:20The noble Earl of Grosne.
00:05:22The boy with the bracelet and the ring.
00:05:24Correct!
00:05:26My...
00:05:27Oh, fairy boys.
00:05:31I am your dada.
00:05:34I am your flower of flatulence.
00:05:37Your gorgeous, gaseous bud.
00:05:49Where is he?
00:05:53Where is he?
00:05:54Where is that slug of summer?
00:05:57That stench of goop?
00:05:58Steerpike!
00:06:00Where is he?
00:06:08Steerpike!
00:06:09My ray of adult sunshine.
00:06:12Why should I sing to you?
00:06:14A creature of no more consequence than a stoat's shit.
00:06:20Why don't I just crush you in my paw?
00:06:24Why don't I smash you into pieces?
00:06:27Put down boy!
00:06:34Mr. Fly, the spidery servant, on his measly legs.
00:06:39Drop boy!
00:06:41Oh, Mr. Fly.
00:06:44Is the time come?
00:06:47Is it?
00:06:48Drop boy.
00:06:51Chef of kitchen.
00:06:55Chef of scum.
00:07:02You are in my kitchen kingdom, fervent.
00:07:07This is the domain of swelter.
00:07:11How dare you?
00:07:13Fly!
00:07:15Man's servant to the earth.
00:07:17How dare you?
00:07:23How dare you?
00:07:25How dare you?
00:07:29How dare...
00:07:41No respect for stones.
00:07:44Vile thing.
00:08:14No respect for stones.
00:08:45One of swelter's striped rats.
00:08:48Yes, sir.
00:08:50You helped me, sir.
00:08:52Helped you?
00:08:54Yes, sir.
00:08:55You told him to drop me.
00:08:58Please.
00:08:59I'm lost and I'm dying of heat from the kitchens.
00:09:02Don't want swelter slug in stone lanes. Go.
00:09:05Please, sir.
00:09:08Show me daylight and I'll go.
00:09:10Please, help me leave the fire, swelter.
00:09:13Vile?
00:09:14Why say vile?
00:09:17What you done?
00:09:18Done, sir.
00:09:19When?
00:09:21Nothing, sir.
00:09:22Nothing at all.
00:09:25I'm unhappy, sir.
00:09:26Unhappy?
00:09:28This rebellion?
00:09:29No, sir.
00:09:30No rebellion, sir.
00:09:31None at all.
00:09:33I am loyal to my castle.
00:09:35Only rebellion against the vile swelter.
00:09:38Swelter!
00:09:39Leave his name in fat and grease.
00:09:41Never swelter in stone lanes.
00:09:43Hold your tongue.
00:09:45Teach you to be unhappy.
00:09:48When groan is born.
00:09:51Groans?
00:09:56Let me see.
00:09:58Please.
00:10:00Let me see a groan.
00:10:02See a groan?
00:10:05You!
00:10:11Here.
00:10:19So you kitchen rat.
00:10:23See what you've never seen.
00:10:27Forward, swelter slug.
00:10:31This cat room.
00:10:42Whose are they?
00:10:45So you.
00:10:48Name?
00:10:49Steerpike, sir.
00:10:50Squarepike?
00:10:51Steerpike, sir.
00:10:53Steerpike.
00:10:55Squarepike, squarepike.
00:10:57Twice.
00:10:58What for?
00:10:59Once.
00:11:00Enough for kitchen thing.
00:11:05Whose are they, sir?
00:11:06Ladyship.
00:11:08See.
00:11:12Ladyship room.
00:11:18Did you notice anything unusual about the boy?
00:11:21Structurally a sound child, my lord.
00:11:23Sound as a bell.
00:11:24Damn the structure.
00:11:25Did you see his face?
00:11:26I noticed his face, sir.
00:11:27I definitely noticed it.
00:11:29If that's of any help.
00:11:30Did you notice anything strange?
00:11:32You needn't be afraid to speak out.
00:11:34Strange, lordship.
00:11:36The face.
00:11:37Prune squalor, the face.
00:11:39Speaking professionally, I should say his face was irregular, sir, but not...
00:11:43Unnatural?
00:11:44I'd say irregular, sir.
00:11:45Ugly?
00:11:46I'd say unnatural.
00:11:47Why must you hedge, doctor, when I say ugly, have the goodness to use the word.
00:11:50Have you ever delivered a more hideous child?
00:11:54Never, my lord, never.
00:11:56And he has such extraordinary eyes.
00:11:59Eyes?
00:12:01What's wrong with them?
00:12:02They are violet, my lord.
00:12:09I've seen enough grunt.
00:12:12These are not for you.
00:12:14Back to Elm and Svelter.
00:12:17No, sir.
00:12:18Please.
00:12:20Not the kitchens.
00:12:22Where you belong.
00:12:23He's ugly, sir.
00:12:24I heard it.
00:12:26The new lordship's unnatural.
00:12:29Lord Grom says so.
00:12:31So?
00:12:33Not the kitchens.
00:12:35Please.
00:12:36Spit it out, sink boy.
00:12:38If I go back to Svelter, I'll tell them all what I heard his lordship say.
00:12:42You heard nothing.
00:12:43All the apprentices will know.
00:12:45His little lordship's hideous.
00:12:47You say nothing.
00:12:49I'll fix you.
00:12:55Little lordship ugly, hideous.
00:12:59Teach you, Svelter rat.
00:13:01Rat.
00:13:07No rebellion here.
00:13:10No insult to these stones from you.
00:13:27At least it's not the kitchens.
00:13:31No.
00:14:01Whose is all this?
00:14:03Titus Grom.
00:14:08Titus.
00:14:12Titus.
00:14:15Bring him in now, you idiot.
00:14:19Here, here.
00:14:20Over here.
00:14:22Here.
00:14:24There.
00:14:26Over there.
00:14:28There.
00:14:30Over there by his lordship.
00:14:33This is a naming woman, not a tea dance.
00:14:46Your lordship.
00:14:48As the 76th Earl of Grom,
00:14:52it is written that you should now accompany your son, dear,
00:14:56to the iron bowl of moat water.
00:15:03Here, to the bowl.
00:15:05This, this.
00:15:06Does it look like a bowl? Does it hold water like a bowl?
00:15:09Then it's just a bowl, isn't it?
00:15:11Here, woman.
00:15:23Down, down into the pages of the book.
00:15:28It is written, and it shall be adhered to,
00:15:32that between these pages,
00:15:34where the flax is grey with the wisdom,
00:15:39the firstborn male child of the House of Grom shall be lost.
00:15:43Why does he get all the glory?
00:15:45Why not us?
00:15:46Why not us?
00:15:48Directed towards the water.
00:15:53And that these pages,
00:15:55heavier with the words of ritual ceremony,
00:15:58and his future life shall be
00:16:02bent in and around him,
00:16:07so that he is insulted.
00:16:09Why has she got all the power anyway?
00:16:11It's ours.
00:16:13Grom's our brother, isn't he?
00:16:15And is as one with the inviolable Lord.
00:16:19How much longer?
00:16:22Ah!
00:16:23Ah!
00:16:24Ah!
00:16:26Ah!
00:16:27Ah!
00:16:28Ah!
00:16:29Ah!
00:16:30Ah!
00:16:31Ah!
00:16:32Ah!
00:16:33Ah!
00:16:34Ah!
00:16:35Like rubber, Your Ladyship.
00:16:37Every ounce of ounce.
00:16:39What are you talking about, you idiot?
00:16:41I was referring to a child who has just fallen to the floor, Your Ladyship.
00:16:44Has he? Where?
00:16:46He's here, Your Ladyship.
00:16:48Oh.
00:16:49We'll go for a walk.
00:16:51Fifteen minutes on the lawn.
00:16:54Master Chalk could do with the air.
00:16:56Can't you, dear?
00:16:57Come along, my precious.
00:17:10He's ugly.
00:17:11So are you.
00:17:12I like him better now he's ugly.
00:17:22Where have you been for the past fifteen years?
00:17:25We've been in the South Wing.
00:17:27We've been thinking.
00:17:30About what?
00:17:32Power.
00:17:33Shh!
00:17:52Ah!
00:17:53Ah!
00:17:54Ah!
00:17:55Ah!
00:17:56Ah!
00:17:57Ah!
00:17:58Ah!
00:17:59Ah!
00:18:00Ah!
00:18:01Ah!
00:18:02Ah!
00:18:03Inheritor of the powers I hold.
00:18:04Continuer of the bloodstock of the stones.
00:18:06Approach now the purity of the stream of Gormenghast.
00:18:14Where, named and fated, you shall be consecrated as Titus.
00:18:22Seventy-seventh Earl of Grone and Lord of Gormenghast.
00:18:45Child, welcome to the vastness.
00:18:56Maidens!
00:19:04Come along, ladies.
00:19:06Come along.
00:19:09Ah!
00:19:10Irresistible.
00:19:11You've barbarised one, Signior Svelter.
00:19:13You positively barbarised one.
00:19:16Oh, Mr Flea, Mr Flea.
00:19:19Don't just walk out as if you haven't got a friend in the world.
00:19:22Allow me to introduce you to some of my boys.
00:19:25After all, they are your own sort from the grubs and the gutters.
00:19:28They're my Ickle Spittle boys.
00:19:31Yes.
00:19:32Now, come along.
00:19:34Permit me to introduce to you Master Springers.
00:19:38Master Springers, Mr Flea.
00:19:40Mr Flea, Master Springers.
00:19:43Come along.
00:19:47This is Master Rattle.
00:19:50Master Rattle, Mr Flea.
00:19:52Mr Flea, Master Rattle.
00:19:54Hm?
00:19:55Hm?
00:19:58Ah!
00:20:03Kitchen scum.
00:20:06Isn't he sweet, your ladyship?
00:20:10Isn't it lordship, your ladyship?
00:20:13What do you want me to do with him?
00:20:15He's had his bath.
00:20:17What about it?
00:20:18Go away.
00:20:21Bring him back when he's six.
00:20:25Master Chalk!
00:20:27Where are you?
00:20:29Come on.
00:20:35Come on.
00:20:55Go on, Gast.
00:21:00Hm.
00:21:07Who are you then?
00:21:13He's not so bad after all.
00:21:23Pinched nose, flat head, weird, weird eyes.
00:21:28No, no.
00:21:30Not so bad, not so bad.
00:21:32Is he?
00:21:36He is my little brother.
00:21:39Ah, my little lordship.
00:21:42Oh, Nanny.
00:21:44Oh, Nanny, I love him.
00:21:47And you.
00:21:49They dropped him on his head and he is so ugly.
00:21:52I love him.
00:21:54Oh!
00:21:55Naughty, naughty girl.
00:21:57You need a good smack.
00:21:59I think I will see him every fortnight.
00:22:01Oh, my poor little nose and my weak heart.
00:22:03I know ladyship says,
00:22:04go and get a wet nurse from the village.
00:22:06How am I going to go down all them steps at my age?
00:22:10Oh.
00:22:11Getting me to go out at this time of night is not right.
00:22:15Oh.
00:22:20Keeper, open it up.
00:22:22Keeper, open it up.
00:22:24This little creature is as slow as a snail.
00:22:26Hurry up.
00:22:27I'm cold.
00:22:28Too old for all this.
00:22:34Don't you know how far it is to the woodcarver's village?
00:22:37Up there with that bird.
00:22:52Bark, bark, bark.
00:22:56Bark, bark, bark.
00:23:02Bark, bark, bark.
00:23:04I'll be away, I'll be away.
00:23:06I've got an important announcement.
00:23:08Oh.
00:23:19Carvers.
00:23:21Low servants of the castle.
00:23:24Lowest of the low.
00:23:26I haven't come to talk about the ceremony of the bright carvings.
00:23:30That is as it is and always will be.
00:23:34That is the business of higher people.
00:23:38Higher than me, I mean.
00:23:41I have come to give you some wonderful news.
00:23:46A new little groan has been born.
00:23:49A boy of the blood.
00:23:51A new master.
00:23:54I am in charge, of course, as per usual.
00:23:57And I want a wet nurse for him to come back with me at once.
00:24:05Who are you?
00:24:07I said, who are you?
00:24:09Answer me, at once.
00:24:11Kida.
00:24:13I am with child.
00:24:15I don't want to stay here.
00:24:18I have no man.
00:24:20I want to come.
00:24:22Please, I am strong.
00:24:25Please take me.
00:24:28You're no man.
00:24:31Take me.
00:24:33You'll do.
00:25:01Take me.
00:25:03Take me.
00:25:05Take me.
00:25:30Her Ladyship Fuchsia Crone.
00:25:34Take me.
00:25:52A young ladyship never eats.
00:25:54How is she going to grow?
00:25:56And how is he going to?
00:25:57You don't feed him.
00:25:58Take it, Lordship.
00:26:00Take it.
00:26:02This is your little sister's milk.
00:26:04Sister? What do you mean, sister?
00:26:06I'm carrying his foster sister, aren't I?
00:26:08Don't you know it's a girl?
00:26:09I know.
00:26:10I don't care what you know.
00:26:12Boy or girl, that is no sister to a Crone.
00:26:14He's already got a sister he has, the Lady Fuchsia.
00:26:17This is her breakfast.
00:26:18A foster child won't go near him.
00:26:20He's a little Lordship, she's Carver.
00:26:22He's them.
00:26:24She's you.
00:26:25Her father was a great man.
00:26:27He was the best Carver.
00:26:29And he's dead.
00:26:30And the Carvers won't have his child there
00:26:32because it'll be born out of wedlock.
00:26:34That's why, isn't it?
00:26:35How dare you talk like that?
00:26:37Mixing up the Lord of Gormengast with a little...
00:26:40Bastard?
00:26:41You can think what you like.
00:26:43But she's mine, whatever she is.
00:26:45Whatever you want to call her.
00:26:46Don't you talk to me like that
00:26:48in the presence of his little Lordship.
00:26:50I won't stand it.
00:26:51You stupid, stupid girl.
00:26:53I've got my work to do.
00:26:55I'm not going to do my work with my bad chest
00:26:57if you upset me.
00:26:58His little Lordship will never, never get mixed up with a...
00:27:01He'll be where he belongs.
00:27:03And so will she.
00:27:04And everybody else in their right place.
00:27:07I'm too old.
00:27:09I'm too old for all this.
00:27:12I know it.
00:27:14She will be your little sister.
00:27:19And you will love her.
00:27:29Go away.
00:27:31You've got to eat.
00:27:33How are you going to grow up?
00:27:35You are the naughtiest girl.
00:27:37Go away.
00:27:39I'm going to have an adventure.
00:27:41Doctor Prune
00:27:43has got a present for you.
00:27:46I don't care.
00:27:47What is it?
00:27:48Let me in
00:27:50and I'll tell you.
00:27:52I don't care.
00:27:53What is it?
00:27:54Let me in
00:27:56and I'll tell you.
00:27:58When I am Queen
00:28:00I am going to burn down the castle.
00:28:03What did you say?
00:28:04Open this door.
00:28:06You are...
00:28:08Which is the scourge?
00:28:10You are the most...
00:28:13Fuchsia?
00:28:16I am Fuchsia.
00:28:19I am me.
00:28:21Don't be frightened.
00:28:24Wait and see.
00:28:46Ah.
00:28:48Ah.
00:29:16Ah.
00:29:29Go away.
00:29:31What are you doing here?
00:29:33The Lady Fuchsia girl, I believe.
00:29:35Nobody comes here.
00:29:37This is my...
00:29:38I hate you.
00:29:40Madam.
00:29:41Go away.
00:29:43Go.
00:29:51Madam, I have seen such things.
00:29:53This is private.
00:29:55Forgive me, Madam.
00:29:57But you're booked that I couldn't help but glance at.
00:30:00The adventures in there are nothing to what has happened to me.
00:30:03I mean really happened.
00:30:07You wouldn't believe me anyway.
00:30:10Believe what?
00:30:14Shh.
00:30:16I have seen a great pavement in the sky.
00:30:20I have been colder than ice.
00:30:23I've had no food or sleep.
00:30:26Lady Fuchsia, I am a rebel.
00:30:28I come for sanctuary.
00:30:30Sanctuary?
00:30:31Like the knights of old, Your Ladyship.
00:30:34You're wearing kitchen clothes.
00:30:38That's where I escaped from.
00:30:41My name is Steerpike.
00:30:43But I cannot tell you where the pavement in the clouds lies.
00:30:46Not yet.
00:30:47Why not?
00:30:48Madam, there are a great many mysteries in this world.
00:30:50And some may be too strong for the delicate heart of a lady such as yourself.
00:30:55You are an adventurer.
00:30:57That's exactly what I am.
00:30:59I am a man of purpose.
00:31:02Hide me, I beg you.
00:31:05Find me useful employment and I will never let you down.
00:31:08I swear it.
00:31:09You will swear an oath?
00:31:11I am yours to do with as you will.
00:31:17What is that awful stink?
00:31:20It's the filthy dregs you poured over me, Madam.
00:31:23Well, you'd better wash, hadn't you?
00:31:26Yes, Lady Fuchsia.
00:31:28Well, don't just stand there kneeling.
00:31:31Follow me.
00:31:39Don't forget.
00:31:40You promised to introduce me to someone who might employ me, Lady Fuchsia.
00:31:43I did not promise.
00:31:44How dare you tell such lies?
00:31:46I apologize, Madam.
00:31:48You are my queen.
00:31:49My absolute queen.
00:31:51I'm in your hands.
00:31:57You're Minstrel Steerpike.
00:32:01Oh, good! Oh, good!
00:32:04Oh!
00:32:08Come on!
00:32:21Come on!
00:32:35Oh, dear.
00:32:55Blimey!
00:33:04Blimey!
00:33:21Go away! I'm not here now!
00:33:23It's Dr Prune.
00:33:25I've told you, he's got a present for you.
00:33:28My present! I forgot my present!
00:33:31Your crown, Madam.
00:33:34Please don't ever forget your crown.
00:33:37Nanny.
00:33:49Doctor's waiting, Ladyship.
00:33:51In a minute, Nanny.
00:33:52I'll come to your room.
00:33:58Good! Good!
00:34:00A kitchen boy from the kitchens.
00:34:02How could you shame yourself?
00:34:04Quiet, Nanny. I want my present.
00:34:06Good morning.
00:34:08Well, well, so you've brought a little friend with you, have you, Fuchsia, my dear child?
00:34:12Master Steerpike, sir. At your service.
00:34:15I don't know about at my service.
00:34:17I wouldn't have any service left if every young gentleman was suddenly at it.
00:34:22In my service would perhaps be immeasurably preferable.
00:34:26That's all right, then, because he's come for a job.
00:34:28Where's my present?
00:34:30My dear Mrs. Slagg.
00:34:43I've always been fascinated by those who want to work.
00:34:50What do you fancy, Fuchsia, my dear child?
00:34:54Elderberry? Something to tide you over?
00:34:57What's my present, Dr. Prune?
00:34:59Ah, your present.
00:35:01Dear child, I saw the Diamante in your teardrops the day your baby brother was born.
00:35:06Diamante? What is it? Is it diamonds?
00:35:09Aha.
00:35:12And you, young sir, what will you have?
00:35:14And what in the name of hosiery is that you're wearing?
00:35:16This, sir, is a kitchen jacket.
00:35:18These are kitchen trousers and these are kitchen shoes.
00:35:21All about me is kitchen, which is as absurd upon me as it is insulting, if you don't mind me saying so.
00:35:25I'll take your brandy, thank you.
00:35:27I see.
00:35:29And if, my dear boy, you are not kitchen, what is it that we find beneath that fetid attire?
00:35:34Are you a problem case? Or are you a young gentleman with no ideas at all?
00:35:38With your permission, sir, neither.
00:35:40I have plenty of ideas, though at the same time plenty of problems, too.
00:35:44My first and most immediate is to impress you with my talent, so it may be put to your service in any form at all.
00:35:49My!
00:35:51Well, what maladress! What enormity of service!
00:35:55You tantalize me in a pleasant sort of way, Master Steerplank.
00:35:58But whether I want you hanging about my house is another kettle of fish altogether.
00:36:01I never hang about, sir. It's the one thing I never do.
00:36:04You hung about in my room. He climbed there. He's very clever, Doctor.
00:36:08Kitchen boy.
00:36:09In my less ambitious moments, it's as a dispenser I see myself.
00:36:12Do you have any knowledge of the pharmacuticals, may I venture to remark?
00:36:15Under your guidance, I could learn anything.
00:36:18What a diabolically clever little monster.
00:36:23If you don't mind me saying so, sir.
00:36:24Ah!
00:36:25Your service is a bit slow. Perhaps I might be allowed to pep it up a little.
00:36:28I'm bored talking about him.
00:36:31What about my present?
00:36:33Of course, my dear.
00:36:34Master Steerplank, while I speak to her ladyship, would you be so good...
00:36:39Goodness me.
00:36:56Hmm.
00:37:07May I open the door for you?
00:37:09You look as if you're having a little difficulty doing it yourself.
00:37:16Mollux!
00:37:25Mollux!
00:37:56No more kitchens for me.
00:38:00It's almost too easy.
00:38:02Thank you, Doctor Proulx. Thank you.
00:38:05Ah, ladyship.
00:38:08Take care, my dear. Happy dreams.
00:38:13Ah! I'm afraid I'm still here, Doctor.
00:38:15What is that? What is that?
00:38:17That, my dear sister, is Master Steerplank, who wishes to serve us.
00:38:21Did he go upstairs just now? Did he go upstairs? I heard feet.
00:38:24And what is wrong when you boil the matter down with feet?
00:38:27I've always found mine most useful, especially when walking.
00:38:30One might almost imagine they had been designed for that very purpose.
00:38:33As usual, Alfred, you are drunk with your own liberty.
00:38:35I heard feet, I tell you, in our own upstairs, and you take no notice.
00:38:38I also heard something, madam.
00:38:40You did?
00:38:41I was here in the hall waiting for the doctor to decide in what capacity he was to employ me
00:38:44when I heard what sounded like feet.
00:38:46I told you so, Alfred.
00:38:48So I crept to the top of the stair.
00:38:50But there was no one there, so I returned.
00:38:52Well, say thank you, Mr...
00:38:54Steerplank, and you are welcome.
00:38:57And may I say that standing before me in your exquisite gown of darkness...
00:39:01Exquisite gown of darkness. Oh, that's good.
00:39:04I have an overwhelming and instinctive desire to serve you.
00:39:07A great and bounteous lady like yourself may be unwilling.
00:39:09I can understand that.
00:39:11But tomorrow, if I may, I shall remove that stain.
00:39:14I see on the hem of this exquisite gown that so becomes you.
00:39:18Well, exquisite, bounteous, and albeit stained, begowned, sister.
00:39:27I think we shall address him in pale grey.
00:39:38Where shall I sleep?
00:39:42Where shall I sleep?
00:39:46I heard a winter tree in song
00:39:51Its leaves were but a hundred strong
00:39:57When all at once it ceased to sing
00:40:03For every leaf had taken wing
00:40:11Titus, you will be free.
00:40:41Hm?
00:41:00You made me late.
00:41:02You wicked boy.
00:41:12Come on, come on.
00:41:20The ceremony of the bright carvings.
00:41:24From the sunrise to the night of the moon
00:41:31In eternal day and eternal night
00:41:36To the night of the moon
00:41:39In eternal day and eternal night
00:41:42What has been, has always been
00:41:47And will always be
00:41:51Gormenghast!
00:41:54Gormenghast!
00:41:57Carvers, create beauty for the delectation of the Lord.
00:42:07His Lordship will now select the best carvings.
00:42:13The rest will be burnt.
00:42:37Well, they've all got to go sooner or later.
00:42:43Which one first?
00:43:06All rise, everybody.
00:43:09Gormenghast!
00:43:36Gormenghast!
00:44:00We have been doubly privileged, Your Ladyships.
00:44:03Firstly, the ceremony, and then a visit from your good selves.
00:44:08Who's he?
00:44:10I am your servant, Madam.
00:44:12Madam?
00:44:14What's he here for?
00:44:16Only your gracious patronage, Ladyships.
00:44:18Only your favour.
00:44:20What was that? Say it again.
00:44:21Only your gracious favour.
00:44:24We'll give it to him.
00:44:25No, we won't. Not yet.
00:44:26We will. You can take us home.
00:44:28I am honoured.
00:44:30Climbs faster than Virginia Creeper.
00:44:33All this could be ours.
00:44:35All of it. The whole place.
00:44:37We had a hundred servants once.
00:44:39And livery, and coaches.
00:44:41And she stole them.
00:44:43What did he say?
00:44:45Say it again.
00:44:46Lady Gertrude stole them.
00:44:48Everybody knows.
00:44:54Wait!
00:44:55Wait!
00:44:56Mrs. Steerpike!
00:44:58Your apartments, Ladyships.
00:45:00But forgive my honesty.
00:45:02Not apartments that are fit for Ladyships.
00:45:04What did he say?
00:45:06It makes me mad, my lady.
00:45:09My lady.
00:45:10It makes me mad, mad, mad.
00:45:13I am in such a fury.
00:45:15How can such gracious, bountiful, generous, beautiful, superior...
00:45:23Us?
00:45:24...ladies be the victims of such rascals and thieves?
00:45:27It makes me mad.
00:45:31I am your servant.
00:45:33With your permission, I pledge my life and honour to restoring you to your privileges.
00:45:37Our privileges?
00:45:38Does he mean our servants?
00:45:39Our livery?
00:45:40Our coaches?
00:45:41And our thrones?
00:45:42We never had thrones.
00:45:43We did.
00:45:44All of it.
00:45:45Livery, thrones, servants, coaches.
00:45:48The lot.
00:45:49But what about Gertrude?
00:45:51Tell no one what we've said.
00:45:53And you can leave it to me.
00:45:55We did have thrones, I remember.
00:45:57Lady Clarice.
00:45:59Cora.
00:46:00Lady Cora.
00:46:02You must try and concentrate on what I'm saying.
00:46:05I have made a pledge.
00:46:08Do you want your power back?
00:46:10Oh, yes.
00:46:11Then I shall return.
00:46:15Good night, my sweet ladies.
00:46:18What did he say?
00:46:21Sweet ladies.
00:46:24Hmm.
00:46:28What's up, me little sweetness?
00:46:31Oh, are you damp, me little adorable?
00:46:34Come, quick, come.
00:46:36I'll be your good little lordship.
00:46:38You're going to see your papa.
00:46:40Oh, don't cry, don't cry.
00:46:44Oh, don't cry, don't cry.
00:46:59Put him here.
00:47:04I found these for him.
00:47:07Sit with him, nurse, on the row.
00:47:11I have in mind a family gathering to confer...
00:47:19What is it, nurse?
00:47:21I am so tired, my lord.
00:47:23Then lie, lie down.
00:47:25This day week, at eight o'clock,
00:47:27dress the boy in his christening robes and bring him here.
00:47:30Inform those concerned.
00:47:32If they're surprised, it doesn't matter.
00:47:35I want to do it.
00:47:37A gathering to arrange and confirm a breakfast for my son.
00:47:44The countess, Lady Fuchsia,
00:47:47their ladyships, Clarice and Cora,
00:47:54and perhaps Prune Squalor and his sister.
00:47:58Yes, lordship.
00:48:01Let me see him.
00:48:08He has improved.
00:48:10Not so hideous.
00:48:12He's a gorgeous little one, lordship.
00:48:16Instill into him his time,
00:48:20his birthplace,
00:48:23his heritage,
00:48:26and a respect for all his fathers.
00:48:33Will you?
00:48:36Perhaps he won't like it.
00:48:40Do it for me, nurse.
00:48:46Flay, take Mrs. Slag back.
00:48:49You need not return tonight.
00:48:51Have my room ready.
00:48:54Lordship.
00:49:05Lordship.
00:49:21My son.
00:49:26Oh, my son.
00:49:35Oh, my God.
00:49:48Mad.
00:49:50All mad.
00:50:05Mm.
00:50:28About time, too, you miserable old groaner.
00:50:30Where did you get that?
00:50:32Shame to let it rust, don't you think?
00:50:35Such wasters they are.
00:50:37That is not for you to say, kitchen boy.
00:50:40Doctor's dispensary clerk, as a matter of fact, Slag.
00:50:43And don't go trying to be superior with me.
00:50:46We're from the same place.
00:50:48Out of my way, drainage.
00:50:50And talking of places,
00:50:52I know exactly the one you're going to right now.
00:50:54How can you know that?
00:50:56That is the business of his lordship and Mr. Flay.
00:50:59I'd say you were about to visit the simple sisters.
00:51:01Halfway Clarice, the halfway quarter.
00:51:04Or is it the other way around, Slag?
00:51:06How dare you?
00:51:08How are you feeling, Slag?
00:51:10Heart bad? Legs weak?
00:51:13It's about another mile past the south wing and further.
00:51:17I'd say you should thank me.
00:51:19For what?
00:51:21I've done it for you. I told them.
00:51:23Eight o'clock next Friday.
00:51:26His lordship mentioned it to me.
00:51:28He didn't think you were up to it.
00:51:30To tell you the truth,
00:51:33he wasn't sure whether you were fit enough
00:51:35to look after his son either.
00:51:37Not fit?
00:51:39With his little lordship?
00:51:42Don't worry.
00:51:44I saved your bacon.
00:51:46I told him you had years in you yet.
00:51:48Look what I've done for you already.
00:51:51Us from the sewer should stick together, I'd say.
00:51:58Oh, by the way,
00:52:00Clarice and Cora can't make it.
00:52:02Illness is the cause, I believe.
00:52:04Or is it dementia?
00:52:06Anyway, pass it on to Flay, would you?
00:52:08And he'll think you made the journey yourself.
00:52:10Good morning, Slag.
00:52:14The young prince,
00:52:16with stars for eyes
00:52:18and a half moon for a mouth,
00:52:20was asleep
00:52:22and didn't know
00:52:24that a wolf with brass teeth
00:52:26was creeping towards him.
00:52:28Master Chalk!
00:52:32Have you come to ask forgiveness
00:52:34for being away so long?
00:52:36What is it, Master Chalk?
00:52:38What's wrong?
00:52:42All of this.
00:52:44Look.
00:52:46There.
00:52:48The Tower of Flints in the west wing.
00:52:50The Blue Dome in the east.
00:52:52And the Great Library over there.
00:52:54Gormenghast Mountains and the wilderness
00:52:56as far as the eye can see.
00:52:58All.
00:53:00All and everything.
00:53:02What else is there but Gormenghast?
00:53:06So who does it belong to?
00:53:08That's obvious. Brother Grodd.
00:53:10Who should it belong to?
00:53:12That's obvious. Us.
00:53:14Let's think about this.
00:53:18Your brother has control over it all.
00:53:20That's true.
00:53:22But is it right and proper?
00:53:24Is it just?
00:53:26Do you believe in justice?
00:53:28Is it justice
00:53:30that he has taken everything
00:53:32that is yours?
00:53:34Do you believe this injustice
00:53:36should be destroyed?
00:53:38So then how do you destroy your brother?
00:53:40How has he done this to you?
00:53:44Why is he so clever?
00:53:46He reads it all in books.
00:53:48Exactly.
00:53:50If he didn't have his books, he wouldn't be so clever, would he?
00:53:52If he wasn't so clever,
00:53:54you could defeat him, couldn't you?
00:53:58What's the best way to destroy books?
00:54:02I would burn them.
00:54:04So would I. With fire.
00:54:08Books are in the library.
00:54:10You want him to burn the library?
00:54:12Oh, no.
00:54:14Lady Clarice. Lady Cora.
00:54:16I told you
00:54:18I come in serious errand.
00:54:20Listen to this.
00:54:24At the end of next week, His Lordship, your brother,
00:54:26is holding a gathering
00:54:28for the family to discuss a breakfast
00:54:30for Titus.
00:54:32A gathering for the family?
00:54:34Purple? No, the green.
00:54:36You're not invited.
00:54:38Even Prunesqualler
00:54:40and his silly sister have been invited.
00:54:42But not Lady Clarice.
00:54:44And not Lady Cora.
00:54:46Not invited.
00:54:48Lady Clarice. Lady Cora.
00:54:50Not invited. Not invited.
00:54:54Personally, I think your plan to burn down the library
00:54:56is genius.
00:54:58We want to do it. So do I.
00:55:00Burn it. Burn it. Burn it.
00:55:02Burn it. Sit down.
00:55:04At once.
00:55:06I am pledged to help you, am I not?
00:55:08If it is your desire,
00:55:10I will give you instructions
00:55:12on how to burn down the library
00:55:14when it is empty.
00:55:16But only if it is your desire.
00:55:18Can we watch it burn?
00:55:20Do you want to be caught?
00:55:22No.
00:55:24Then you can watch it from here.
00:55:26You'll be quite safe.
00:56:12A red flower.
00:56:14A red flower.
00:56:20A red flower.
00:56:24Red, Rorchip.
00:56:26I am a father.
00:56:36A red flower
00:56:38for my son.
00:56:42Once more.
00:56:44We've been indoors
00:56:46all the time.
00:56:48We've been indoors
00:56:50all the time.
00:56:52We've been indoors
00:56:54all the time.
00:56:56We've been indoors
00:56:58all the time.
00:57:00We've been...
00:57:02The library is now empty.
00:57:04It's time we started, your ladyships.
00:57:06These nights
00:57:08that the owls
00:57:10in the Tower of Flint
00:57:12seek their prey
00:57:14as heretofore.
00:57:16And although
00:57:18against all the usual
00:57:20tradition and log
00:57:22and rhythm of the castle,
00:57:24his lordships
00:57:26have speak the matter
00:57:28on his mind.
00:57:30It is for my son
00:57:32that I rewind the ritual.
00:57:34A breakfast for him.
00:57:36For him.
00:57:38For me.
00:57:40Is it too much to ask?
00:57:42It shall be done, Master Secretary.
00:57:44I say this day
00:57:46two months...
00:57:52Where is he?
00:57:54He said
00:57:56to wait here.
00:58:04Now.
00:58:14Congratulations,
00:58:16my ladies. You've never been braver
00:58:18or more brilliant. Will we get our coaches?
00:58:20Of course. But you must do
00:58:22as I've told you. Will we get our thrones?
00:58:24You will have everything.
00:58:26Now go back to your apartments and wait.
00:58:28Servants? Everything.
00:58:30Now go.
00:58:32Not once.
00:58:34Everything coaches. Everything
00:58:36thrones. Everything
00:58:38servants. Everything
00:58:40power. Everything.
00:58:42As I say,
00:58:44Master Secretary,
00:58:46Manny Slag,
00:58:48the child...
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