Death Comes to Pemberley. Part 3 of 3.

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First broadcast 28th December 2013.  Things look very bad for Wickham as Hardcastle learns that he fathered Louisa's baby under a false name with the same initials as Fitzwilliam Darcy.  Matthew Rhys - Fitzwilliam Darcy Anna Maxwell Martin - Elizabeth Darcy Matthew Goode - George Wickham Trevor Eve - Sir Selwyn Hardcastle Penelope Keith - Lady Catherine de Bourgh Jenna Coleman - Lydia Wickham Tom Ward - Colonel Fitzwilliam Eleanor Tomlinson - Georgiana Darcy James Norton - Henry Alveston Nichola Burley - Louisa Bidwell Joanna Scanlan - Mrs. Reynolds Philip Martin Brown - Mr. Bidwell Jennifer Hennessy - Mrs. Bidwell Lewis Rainer - Will Bidwell Tom Canton - Captain Denny Mariah Gale - Mrs. Younge Olly Rix - Cartwright (as Oliver Rix) Stephen Casey - Reverend Oliphant Michael Burns - Judge Moberley (as Mike Burns) Teresa Churcher - Mrs. Piggott Louisa-May Parker - Mrs. Donovan (as Louisa-Mai Parker) Alexander Bradshaw - Young Darcy Royston Mayoh - Stoughton Tam Ryan - Foreman Kelly Autumn - Local Lady Grant Crookes - Local Patrick Durham - Courtroom Character Kevin Eldon - Dr. McFee Paul Humphreys - Redcoat Oliver Maltman - George Pratt Tom Raven - Constable Mason Nig Richards - Church Congregation Member Pete Szoradi - Defence Court Assistant Anthony Webster - Courtroom Spectator  Nicola-Jayne Wells - Kitchen Maid  Patricia Winker - Old Woman Prison Visitor / Local

Transcript

00:00This is Riley's ghost! In the woods!

00:02Will, there's nothing I can do about what's happening to you now.

00:06Jenny, don't be a bloody fool!

00:08I've killed him.

00:10My only friend, I've killed him.

00:12We both have reasons to keep quiet, don't we, Colonel, eh?

00:16Sir Wickham's attempted seduction of Georgiana has remained a secret.

00:19You can hardly bear to think of it, let alone mention his name.

00:21Of course.

00:22Colonel Fitzwilliam has asked to seek Georgiana's hand on his return.

00:25I cannot receive you anymore.

00:27This isn't what you want! It's bigger than you or I!

00:30Our one suspect is yourself.

00:33I believe you.

00:35If I did to Lancey, it's my sweetheart.

00:37Has the jury reached a verdict?

00:39Captain Denny was murdered by George Wickham!

00:42You will be committed for trial at the next Garvey Aside.

00:45How did you do it?

00:57No, no, no!

00:58Thatón Dios military.

00:59What a recruit in 15.

01:00No, no!

01:01Have to slot teams so if you've ever won.

01:04Oh man, what a crowd hangs up here.

01:06I believe he어� disbeluellement.

01:07Let him warn you.

01:08James is up to me.

01:09Come on!

01:10See you again!

01:12If I was there, it's a random 3000assembly here!

01:14He knows I don't know where he's going back.

01:15There's no doubt that it's alive!

01:16Your sausage is covered everyиях and his eighth Trying Cabello has Bana ninguém.

01:21I don't know.

01:51I don't know.

02:21Darcy.

02:22Darcy.

02:23Did someone ask you a question?

02:28Forgive me.

02:30I was asking about the Bidwell girl, Louisa.

02:35She's in some distress.

02:36It is a personal matter.

02:37It has nothing to do with the case.

02:38Oh, come now.

02:39You can give me more credit than that.

02:40It was Wickham she was looking at, wasn't it?

02:41Or should I say, Freddie?

02:42Were they lovers?

02:43She bore his child.

02:44He called himself Freddy Delancey.

02:45He told her he was a soldier.

02:47How did they become acquainted?

02:48It seems when his wife was staying with Mr. and Mrs. Bingley at High Martin, Wickham would

02:53ride over here and spend his days roaming Pemberley Woods.

02:54I see.

02:55I see.

02:56I see.

02:57In search of fruit ripe enough to pluck.

02:58Yet again.

02:59Wickham.

03:00I see.

03:01I see.

03:02I see.

03:03In search of fruit ripe enough to pluck.

03:06Yet again Wickham proves his superior character.

03:13It won't look good for him if this comes up in court.

03:22in search of fruit ripe enough to pluck.

03:27Yet again, Wickham proves his superior character.

03:33It won't look good for him if this comes up in court.

03:36That's the kind of conduct that can prejudice a jury

03:38quite, quite severely.

03:48Welcome again.

03:52America, the new world.

04:03I've decided to go, though, when this nightmare is over.

04:06It's a long voyage.

04:07With a little prospect of return.

04:10Then my alternative offers me a strictly one-way journey, too.

04:16You should at least move the desk over to the light.

04:18But clearly you haven't noticed the view.

04:34How is Louisa?

04:36Do you honestly expect me to believe you care?

04:42What about my son, Georgie?

04:45He'll be fine.

04:48I loved her, you know.

04:51After a fashion.

04:53You wanted to see me?

04:55Yes.

04:55Yes, to ask that you don't mention this situation at the trial.

05:03I'll be under oath.

05:05Damn it, Darcy, I could hang.

05:07Don't you think I am aware of that?

05:09I am doing everything I can to preserve your life,

05:11but I will not purge it myself for you.

05:14It wasn't enough that you were unwelcome high, Martin.

05:17You had to ride over to Pemberley and deliberately ruin an innocent girl.

05:20I did nothing of the sort.

05:22I came to Pemberley because it's the place that I've been happiest in my life.

05:25Damn you!

05:29Please, Fitzwilliam, at least keep my wife away from the trial.

05:37Is there any connection between your affair with Louisa Bidwell and Captain Denny's death?

05:43None.

05:43She didn't know it was George Wickham.

05:52Madam, I swear on the baby's life.

05:54Please don't worry.

05:54We hold Wickham entirely responsible.

05:56If Mr Bidwell ever finds out, this will kill him.

06:00Mr Darcy will keep you busy up at the house for a few days to give you all some time.

06:05Louisa, when we last spoke, you mentioned there was a lady with Wickham.

06:11Do you know her name?

06:13Eleanor?

06:14That's all I know.

06:15When did you last see her?

06:21Louisa, it's very important that you tell me the whole truth now.

06:27The morning of the murder.

06:36I was to meet her in the cellars of the old abbey to Wendover, Georgie.

06:40I was worried about Freddie.

06:42I'd not seen or heard from him.

06:44I hoped he'd be there too.

06:48Instead, there was another man.

06:50Who?

06:53Captain Denny.

06:53You sure it was him?

06:56Please, madam, I know nothing about his death.

07:00Can you remember anything about this lady?

07:02Anything at all she was wearing?

07:04She had on a long, dark, coloured coat and a bonnet with green ribbons.

07:14Miss Bidwell.

07:14When I got there, I didn't trust her.

07:25Where's Freddie?

07:26This is Captain Denny.

07:28He's a friend of Freddie's.

07:29She was going to look after the baby until we got ourselves back on our feet.

07:35And?

07:37I agreed at first.

07:45There's something about her.

07:48She loved Georgie far too much.

07:50You're beautiful, isn't it?

07:52Miss Bidwell, here is the £30 I'll trust it will be satisfactorily.

07:57Miss Bidwell.

08:00Miss Bidwell.

08:01She was furious.

08:03Miss Bidwell!

08:05She thought that it was money I was after for my own child.

08:08We can't keep him, madam.

08:20Not George Wickham's bastard son.

08:27You mustn't get up, William.

08:28The doctor forbade it.

08:30My mother wishes to protect me from all things, Mrs Darcy.

08:33She thinks just because my body's failing, then my mind must be too.

08:40Mrs Darcy wants to know the truth, Louisa.

08:44You should tell her there was a third person in the abbey that morning.

08:52Who?

08:53A gentleman.

08:57Louisa?

09:03You asked to see me, madam?

09:24Oh, yeah.

09:26Yes, Mrs Reynolds.

09:29There have been developments with Louisa Bidwell.

09:33Her baby is going to need a new home.

09:38Oh.

09:38Could you make some discreet inquiries?

09:43My brother's widow runs a boarding school near Highbury.

09:47She may be able to help.

09:48Good.

09:58Why is it children must always pay for the sins of their fathers?

10:03And then they got into the coach and left?

10:26And you're quite sure that's what you heard?

10:30I'm not a woman to misremember things, especially when it comes to disputes.

10:33You can ask Mr Piggott.

10:35Would Mr Piggott be good enough to spare you for a trip to Darby?

10:39Darby?

10:40You'll probably be called to give evidence at the trial.

10:43I've been eating a new house.

10:44Did you hear that, Mr Piggott?

10:46Darby?

10:48Thank you, Mrs Piggott.

10:50Oh.

10:51Not at all.

10:53Wickham must have given the £30 to Denny as an inducement for Louisa to give up her baby.

10:59So, Denny was acting as Wickham's messenger boy.

11:02Too much of a coward to face Louisa himself.

11:05It appears so.

11:07What a mess.

11:09Wickham asked we keep Lydia away from the trial.

11:11Well, I'll write and invite her here.

11:14Jane will be grateful for the respite and keep an eye on her.

11:20Darcy.

11:20There was someone else at the abbey that morning.

11:28Colonel Fitzwilliam.

11:31That's impossible.

11:32Louisa saw him there.

11:34I'm not listening to this.

11:34Don't.

11:36Don't.

11:36Don't blind yourself to this.

11:38Why was he there?

11:39What was that loan of £30 to Wickham really about?

11:40Why must you persist in blackening his name?

11:43What next?

11:43That he's the killer?

11:44Do you have so little faith in me, you think I would deliver my sister to such a man?

11:50If Wickham is condemned, Pemberley will be engulfed in scandal.

11:58Darcy will be unlikely to be received in London, and his credit might be lost.

12:03Bad indeed.

12:05I mention this only to reassure you, cousin, of my full and constant support.

12:09Yes, thank you.

12:09I shall speak to Darcy about it if help of any kind is needed, including financial.

12:15No, please don't mention it to him.

12:17We are grateful of your kindness, but he'd be most upset.

12:21You know him.

12:24In times of trouble, family must stick together.

12:29Yes, of course.

12:43Georgiana.

12:44Cousin, don't.

12:45Please get up.

12:45Is that not the correct form?

12:46It's not necessary.

12:47Forgive me, Georgiana.

12:48I am...

12:49I am a soldier.

12:53My words fall unpolished.

12:56But please believe...

12:59the feelings behind them are...

13:02most sincere.

13:05My pride and...

13:07brotherly feelings...

13:09changing...

13:11to true affection...

13:13and love.

13:26Would you do me the very great honor...

13:28of joining your life to mine?

13:31Yes.

13:41What is it?

13:42Nothing, I'm fine.

13:44Really, I'm fine.

13:48Excuse me.

13:49You're hanging out.

13:50Hmm.

13:50Yeah.

14:13Mm-hmm.

14:15Stop here, please.

14:36Sir Selwyn.

14:37Darcy, forgive the intrusion.

14:39I rarely sleep the night before a trial.

14:42You were right about one thing.

14:43These initials are the work of mischief.

14:47Frederick Delancey, Fitzwilliam Darcy.

14:49Wickham chose his false name with deliberate intent.

14:54Other than the Bidwells.

14:57Does anyone else live in this part of the woods?

14:59No.

15:00I long believed Denny jumped out of the carriage and ran into these trees out of fear of George Wickham.

15:06But now I wonder, was he going to see the Bidwells?

15:09Yes.

15:13Wickham's affair with Louisa Bidwell has nothing to do with this trial.

15:18You're a man of conscience, Darcy.

15:20Are you absolutely sure of what you say?

15:22Come on.

15:44The wicked, Mr. Wickham.

15:45Read it here.

15:46The wicked, Mr. Wickham. Read it here. Hold me a penny.

15:54Hold me a penny. Read it here.

16:00Darcy. Good morning, cousin.

16:02Harveston.

16:06Good news.

16:07The stone found in the wood won't be admissible evidence in court.

16:10It's too inconclusive.

16:12Sir, we begin with no murder weapon and no motive.

16:15Good. Good.

16:17It's Mr. Darcy.

16:19Mr. Cartwright, counsel for the prosecution.

16:22One of the best.

16:26Darcy.

16:27Sir Sullivan.

16:28Sir Sullivan.

16:29Why you had to hire that radical to defend Wickham, I don't know.

16:34It's high risk, if you ask me.

16:36George Wickham.

16:37Hold up your hand.

16:39You stand indicted for the murder of Captain Martin Denny.

16:43How say you, George Wickham?

16:45George Wickham.

16:46Hold up your hand.

16:47You stand indicted for the murder of Captain Martin Denny.

17:00How say you, George Wickham?

17:02Not guilty, Your Honour.

17:03Mr. Cartwright, if you'd like to begin.

17:04Gentlemen of the jury, the evidence going to be presented to you today will leave you with

17:19little doubt in your minds that the death of Captain Denny was indeed murder most malicious and foul.

17:26This was a particularly vicious and talented crime.

17:31Good first part.

17:33You wish to know the whereabouts of a certain couple?

17:41George Wickham and my sister Georgiana.

17:45Where are they?

17:47How much are you prepared to pay?

17:50Your maximum price, if you'd be so kind.

17:58I'm confident in you.

18:00Members of the jury will deliver the right.

18:03The only possible verdict in this case, guilty.

18:18Lady Catherine.

18:19I thought it would be a quick detour.

18:21Getting here took much longer than I expected.

18:23You really shouldn't have troubled yourself.

18:25I must go when I'm needed.

18:26I have long been a martyr to that fact.

18:28It has been said my presence can act as the most extraordinary tonic.

18:32Especially to the poor and needy.

18:34How intriguing.

18:35The term miraculous has been used, but it's not for me to judge.

18:39Indeed.

18:40I come straight from a cousin's bedside.

18:42The poor wretch has been ill for over a year.

18:44Far too much fuss and bother.

18:46I told him he needed to decide whether to live or die and then get on with it.

18:50With as little possible inconvenience to others.

18:52I'm sure he appreciated the clarification.

18:54Where's Darcy?

18:55He's in Derby at the trial.

18:57Then we need to talk.

18:59Mr. Wickham, did Captain Denny serve alongside you in the Irish campaign of 1798?

19:07He did.

19:08You became something of a national hero in the aftermath, I understand, for your courageous role in fighting the French.

19:15I did my duty for king and country and nothing more.

19:24To the knight in question, June the 14th.

19:30You, Mrs. Wickham and Captain Denny journeyed together through Pemberley Woods.

19:34Yes.

19:35About halfway through, Captain Denny shouted for the carriage to stop.

19:40He jumped out.

19:41Are you on your own Wickham?

19:42I'm finished.

19:43He was angry with my plan to deliver my wife uninvited to the ball.

19:52Denny always put a premium on honourable behaviour.

19:55To him this was dishonourable.

19:57Denny!

19:58Don't be a bloody fool!

20:00Wickham!

20:01Wickham!

20:02Come back here this instant!

20:05I pursued him.

20:07By the time that I found him, he had been attacked and was close to death.

20:12Denny!

20:14Denny!

20:16I saw someone fleeing through the trees, so I grabbed Denny's pistol and fired.

20:25But they were gone.

20:26I fired again for help.

20:28Help!

20:29And then I realised I had to get Denny to safety as fast as I could and I tried.

20:37But it was, it was to no avail.

20:42Mr. Wickham, is there any reason at all for you to have been filled with such hatred for

20:50your dearest friend that you would have pursued him into those woods and battered him to death?

20:56No, no.

20:57The very idea is insanity.

20:59I loved Captain Denny as a brother and I would defend him with my life.

21:05You must know, Elizabeth, that the whole of society is asking about this case.

21:12We've been positively under siege on my tour.

21:15I trust you answered all questions with the appropriate blend of fiction and fact.

21:19You seem very calm about this.

21:22I do not like gossip any more than you do.

21:25But I'm afraid we make sport for our neighbours and they, in turn, entertain us, t'was ever thus.

21:31Darcy must publicly disown George Wickham and have nothing further to do with this sordid trial.

21:38I trust he will not be giving evidence in court.

21:41Oh, yes, he will.

21:43A Darcy cannot be seen in the dock. It's disgraceful.

21:47He's been called as a witness, Lady Catherine. He has no choice.

21:50What nonsense. Think of your good name.

21:52If a good name depends on turning one's back on duty and justice, then I hardly think it worth preserving at all.

21:59What would your mother have to say about this?

22:03I fear a great deal.

22:06Lizzie? Lizzie, where are you?

22:11Lizzie?

22:12You'll never guess what just happened in town.

22:14I bumped into some ladies.

22:15I stopped off at that lovely milliner's we have in Lampton.

22:18And we were having the most civil conversation until I mentioned I was Mrs Darcy's sister.

22:23At which point they turned their backs at me and walked away.

22:27I marched straight up to them.

22:28And I said I wasn't in the slightest bit ashamed of you.

22:31I truly defended you, Lizzie, you see?

22:33Lady Catherine, I don't believe you've had the pleasure.

22:39Mrs George Wickham.

22:44I will not be staying after all.

22:48You will think about what I said, Elizabeth.

22:50You'll decide I'm right.

22:52Come now, Lady Catherine.

22:54Surely you know me better than that.

22:58Well...

22:59Mr Wickham, I have here a list of unpaid debts from your army days.

23:11Eight pounds to one Colonel Forster, unpaid.

23:16Five pounds to the innkeeper of the cross and scepter in Bath, unpaid.

23:20I mean, the list goes on.

23:24Do you acknowledge these debts?

23:26What if I do?

23:28It doesn't explain why I would kill my best friend.

23:31Only the perpetrator of a crime can truly understand his reasons.

23:36And they seldom make sense to the truth-telling, peace-loving man.

23:39And therefore, I put it to you, Mr Wickham, that you are neither truth-telling nor peace-loving.

23:45Mr Wickham, am I correct that the precise location where you first came across Captain Denny in the woods has never been discovered?

23:53One patch of woods looks very much like another in the dark.

23:58And I dragged Denny quite some distance before we stopped.

24:02Yes, quite.

24:03A man who was clearly severely wounded and close to death.

24:06It can hardly have been a soothing experience.

24:08I was trying to get him to help.

24:10And yet, as events subsequently proved, help was on its way.

24:14Wickham!

24:16My only man I killed!

24:18I put it to you, Mr Wickham, that it was less Captain Denny's well-being that was on your mind than saving yourself.

24:23You wanted to get him as far as possible from the scene of the crime to make sure it was never found again.

24:28Your Honour, I must object.

24:29I beg your pardon.

24:30The prosecution is indulging in hypothesis, nothing more.

24:34Mr Halverston, await your turn to speak down.

24:39Please show some restraint.

24:42Mr Wickham, I'd like to bring your attention to the argument between Captain Denny and yourself at the King's Arms before you left for the ball.

24:51What exactly happened between you?

24:53As I have said, he didn't like my plan regarding my wife.

24:58And that's the full extent of your discussion at that point?

25:00Yes!

25:05No further questions, Your Honour.

25:07What's he playing at?

25:08I don't know.

25:11Call your next witness.

25:13Mrs Piggott of Lambton, please.

25:20She wasn't at the inquest. Is this something new?

25:23Yes.

25:25I'm afraid it could be dangerous.

25:27Mrs Piggott, you were at work in the King's Arms the evening.

25:30Mr and Mrs Wickham and Captain Denny set off in a coach for Pemberley, is that correct?

25:34It is.

25:35And would you say they were a happy party?

25:40But not, sir. No.

25:41Did you hear a quarrel between them?

25:43Your Honour, the prosecution is assuming a quarrel.

25:46He is blatantly leading the witness.

25:48Will you sit back down?

25:54Did you hear what they were saying?

25:56I did.

25:57They were no more than a few feet below me and I saw Captain Denny hand a large sum of money to Mr Wickham.

26:04I want no part in this.

26:05Denny, please.

26:06It's one last thing and I promise I'll be done with it.

26:09I'm not playing this game.

26:10He said he no longer wanted anything to do with it or with him.

26:16He told him it had been deceit from start to finish.

26:20You're selfish. Utterly selfish.

26:22You know nothing, do you, of women and what they truly feel.

26:31Mrs Piggott, you're sure these are the exact words you heard?

26:35As sure as night turns to day.

26:38Deceit from start to finish.

26:42A damning description from his dearest friend.

26:46Thank you, Mrs Piggott.

26:47No further questions, Your Honour.

26:51Mrs Piggott.

26:53Did you see either of the men lay a hand on one another during this conversation you overheard?

27:00No, sir.

27:01Mr Wickham would be foolish to challenge Captain Denny as he was armed and all.

27:06So, the fact that they were to travel together was no occasion for anxiety?

27:11They had Mrs Wickham with them.

27:13They wouldn't be starting a fight in front of a lady, now would they?

27:17Indeed.

27:19Mrs Piggott, why did you not give this evidence at the inquest?

27:22I didn't want the whole town laughing behind my back.

27:27So, I don't quite follow?

27:30It was...

27:31Mrs Piggott, please speak up for the sake of the jury.

27:36I was visiting the privy when he heard them.

27:41It's a proper disgrace if a lady can't go about a business without having to talk in public about it.

27:47Oh, right.

27:48Well, that's quite enough for one day.

27:53Court is adjourned until tomorrow morning.

28:04Darcy.

28:05Is it Darcy?

28:08Mrs Young.

28:14Mrs Young!

28:15I had hoped never to see you again.

28:18Then allow me to oblige by leaving your presence.

28:21This time I want the truth.

28:23What's the connection between Wickham and yourself?

28:26George Wickham is my brother, Mr Darcy.

28:30I grew up ignorant of Wickham's existence.

28:34But when he came to find me, we discovered a connection purer and stronger than anything else in our lives.

28:41And I found out he had a son.

28:43I had to meet him.

28:49May I?

28:50And he was beautiful.

28:54I'll take good care of him, Elisa.

28:57I promise.

29:00He'll want nothing.

29:02Wickham wanted me to have him.

29:04He was beautiful, Elisa.

29:05If it wasn't for that idiot mother and Denny getting in the way.

29:09The £30 I trusted would be satisfactory.

29:12Miss Bidwell?

29:14Miss Bidwell?

29:16You idiot!

29:19I could still be a good mother to him, Mr Darcy.

29:21Please.

29:23Please.

29:25Please.

29:27You're asking for my help.

29:30To trust you with the well-being of an innocent child after what you did to Georgiana.

29:35You posed as a respectable governess so that I would place her in your care.

29:42Then you took her to Ramsgate and you threw her to Wickham.

29:46He'd make a fine husband to any woman.

29:49Oh, your sister's no victim, Mr Darcy.

29:52Not with men such as you to guard her.

29:55And women such as me.

29:58Who sacrificed their lives to protect the sanctity of high rank.

30:03I suppose it was you extorting money from Colonel Fitzwilliam.

30:07Extorting?

30:09He came to me of his own free will.

30:12He's a reasonable man.

30:13You have an adequate compensation for a colorful title when you count it in a place like this.

30:19Oh, thank you so much.

30:34Wake up.

30:38I spoke to Mrs Young today at court.

30:40It seems you two have been seeing quite a bit of one another.

30:44I saw no point in troubling you with it.

30:46Really?

30:48You're in this up to your neck.

30:50I had no idea if ants would take the course they have.

30:53Every decision I have made, Darcy, was to protect you.

30:55You'll just have to take my word for it.

30:57Oh, I'll take your word on nothing until you explain yourself.

31:00When Wickham first told me of the mess he was in, I saw the danger immediately.

31:04A bastard child of his growing up at Pemberley, you'd never be rid of the man.

31:07I thought it best to deal with it, quickly and simply.

31:11I don't have some of your qualms.

31:12Oh, you refer to putting yourself at the mercy of a blackmailer?

31:15She is a woman one can do business with.

31:17She wanted to take the child. I was prepared to pay her to do so.

31:19It seems simple enough.

31:21You acted on my behalf without consulting me, yet you dare suggest you were motivated by concern.

31:26I think your reasons are a little more self-interested.

31:27If you mean Georgiana, then yes, of course she was on my mind.

31:31If she used to be my wife, I must protect her from further taint.

31:34Further taint? I'm not quite sure I follow.

31:38I refer to her history with Wickham, of course.

31:44Darcy!

31:46Darcy!

31:47I ask you not to see or speak to Georgiana again on any account!

31:50Don't be a bloody fool. Things look bad for Wickham. This could be her only chance of a good match.

31:54Look! I will take her, even if he hangs.

31:58How dare you!

32:02Stoutard!

32:05Darcy!

32:06The prophet Twilliam is leaving immediately. Please prepare his horse.

32:24Georgiana.

32:26Joseph, what's wrong?

32:28I have done you a terrible wrong.

32:30No, you've only ever done what's right for me, brother. Always.

32:31I encouraged you to accept the hand of a man that you didn't love, and perhaps never would.

32:37I accepted his offer of my own free will.

32:40Yes, but I didn't stop you.

32:43I didn't stop you.

32:46Colonel Fitzwilliam is not the man that I thought he was, and Elizabeth tried to warn me, but I wouldn't listen. I would not listen.

32:53I was stubborn and blind to the truth.

32:56Can you please, can you please forgive me?

33:06There's nothing to forgive.

33:09Marry for love, Georgiana. Marry, marry the person your heart cries out for.

33:15And when you have that person, do not doubt them.

33:19Not for a single moment.

33:25I'm so sorry.

33:48I'm so sorry.

33:49Marry, marry the person.

33:51I'm so sorry.

33:52You're so sorry.

33:54It's so What you do.

33:55I just want to cry, why don't I kill her.

33:59I'm so sorry.

34:01I was sorry.

34:03I do.

34:05I'm so sorry.

34:07I can't wait until you do this.

34:08I'm so sorry.

34:10I can't wait until you're going to cause your heart to your heart.

34:13No.

34:15I'm so sorry.

34:46Darcy.

34:56I believe George Wickham to be guilty of this crime.

34:59Why?

35:06Captain Danny knew of his affair with Louisa Bidwell.

35:10Their argument wasn't about bringing Lydia to the ball.

35:13It was about Louisa and the baby.

35:16And when Danny jumped from that carriage,

35:22he plunged into those woods to warn her that she'd been abandoned by her lover

35:27and that he would try and take her baby.

35:30Possibly even reveal Wickham's true identity.

35:33Who knows?

35:35But Wickham had to stop him.

35:38And he did.

35:39Once and for all.

35:43And if this is revealed...

35:47Poor Lydia.

35:50I think it's time she learned of the affair.

35:56And probably best it came from you first.

35:59Darcy.

36:17But that's the motive that's always been missing.

36:20But there is still no proof.

36:22It all adds up.

36:23All we know for sure is that Wickham fathered a child out of wedlock.

36:27That's still not yet a reason for a man to hang.

36:29Supposition or not, you know how it'll look when it comes out.

36:32The jury would be prejudiced against him beyond repair, yes.

36:38But Darcy, we must believe in justice.

36:41Wickham has to be judged on the evidence alone.

36:44Your duty is to answer the questions put to you as simply and directly as you can.

36:50Mine is to do everything to ensure a fair trial.

36:52Beyond that, it is out of our control.

36:57What about Hardcastle?

36:58I don't know him as well as you do.

37:01Is the amount of let prejudice cloud as judgment?

37:14My best friend is dead.

37:15I killed him.

37:16It's my fault.

37:18That might not be the precise order, but those were the words.

37:22And what did he take those words to mean?

37:26I was looking at a man in the greatest distress, kneeling over the body of his friend.

37:31I took him to mean that if there hadn't been a disagreement that had caused his friend to run into the woods,

37:36then he wouldn't have met his death.

37:42No further questions, Your Honor?

37:46I must congratulate you, Mr. Darcy, on your remarkable presence of mine.

37:51Here before you was a man leaning over the body of his murdered friend, sobbing that he killed him.

38:00It was his fault.

38:02Yet somehow you deduced that this was not a confession,

38:05but regret for an earlier argument that led to the victim's flight towards an aggressor whose existence to this day remains pure hypothesis,

38:13and who for some reason took it into his head to murder a complete stranger.

38:17Poaching is a serious crime.

38:23If he had stumbled across a poacher red-handed, the man may have panicked and lashed out.

38:28If you believed so strongly in the existence of this poacher,

38:31why didn't you send out a search party the night of the crime?

38:34The woods were vast and dark, and my first duty was to inform a magistrate.

38:42You didn't order a search, Mr. Darcy,

38:44because you knew full well that you already had the guilty man under guard and in your house.

38:53No further questions.

38:54Thank you, Mr. Darcy.

39:00Sir Selwyn Hardcastle, please.

39:11We know two shots were fired in the woods that night.

39:16Sir Selwyn, could you give us your view on who fired them and why?

39:19As the pistol in question belonged to Captain Denny, it seems to me entirely plausible he fired in self-defense.

39:27At George Wickham?

39:29That's correct.

39:30Because he felt under threat.

39:32That's pure conjecture, Your Honor.

39:34Mr. Alderson, I am tired of these unconventional objections of yours.

39:39I'm merely trying to establish an alternative explanation for the gunshots.

39:43Sir Selwyn, do you believe Captain Denny fired the gun at Mr. Wickham in self-defense?

39:47I do.

39:47At which point, Mr. Wickham dealt him the blow that killed him.

39:51Your Honor, please.

39:52Your facts, Mr. Cartwright.

39:54For all our sakes, stick to the facts.

39:56I believe it to be the case is the only logical explanation.

40:00Sir Selwyn, throughout the course of your investigation,

40:02have you come across any reason why Mr. Wickham might want Captain Denny dead?

40:07I must defend my client, Your Honor,

40:09and ask Mr. Cartwright to desist from his constant attempts to prejudice the jury's mind.

40:14Well said that now.

40:15Enough.

40:17Have you come across any possible motive for this crime?

40:23Answer the question, Sir Selwyn.

40:29Sir Selwyn.

40:30I have not.

40:43No further questions, Your Honor.

40:46Mr. Alverston.

40:49I have no questions, Your Honor.

40:51Could you leave us?

41:02Do you want for anything, Lydia?

41:09No.

41:10You slept well, I trust.

41:13Goodness.

41:14Now I'm nervous.

41:17There's something I feel I must tell you concerning the case.

41:21Did I tell you Wickham and I are going to America?

41:23It's going to be the most wonderful fun.

41:24We've had our fill of England, and we'll need a fresh start once this beastly business is done.

41:28Lydia, Wickham has done something rather foolish, which I fear may come out in court.

41:30Oh, he's always been a rascal.

41:31Involving a girl.

41:32No, I don't.

41:35Lizzie.

41:37Lizzie, I know you mean well.

41:40But I'm not like you.

41:42Surely better to hear it first from someone who cares, Lydia.

41:45No.

41:45I'd far rather hear it from the gossips, and then I can back them away with the contempt they deserve.

41:55Wickham and I, we find our way through, you know?

42:01We always have.

42:15Colonel, you should know the engagement between Georgiane and myself is over.

42:36I believe she was waiting for you.

42:39But she was always yours, really.

42:42She knew it, and so did I.

42:45Alveston.

42:52Alveston.

42:55Did you hear returning?

42:57It's far too soon.

43:12Have you arrived at a verdict?

43:15We have.

43:17Do you find the prisoner guilty or not guilty?

43:29Guilty.

43:33Silence.

43:34Silence.

43:35Is this the verdict of you all?

43:38It is.

43:40I swear before God Almighty, I am not guilty!

43:44I am not guilty!

43:45I am not guilty!

43:48I am not guilty!

43:49I am not guilty!

43:50I am not guilty!

43:52I am not guilty!

43:53I am not guilty!

43:56I am not guilty!

43:57Let's do it.

43:57I am not guilty!

43:58I am not guilty!

43:59I am not guilty!

44:00You are not guilty!

44:00Prisoner at the bar.

44:02You have been convicted of one of the most atrocious crimes it is in the power of human nature to commit.

44:09it remains only for me to pass the dreadful sentence of the law

44:16that you be taken at the appointed time

44:20to a place of execution

44:22where you shall be hanged by the neck

44:25until you be dead.

44:36No!

44:39No!

45:06No!

45:07My dearest love, George Wickham will hang at dawn the day after tomorrow.

45:32I can find no words to embroider that single desolating fact.

45:40I had to break the news about his sister.

45:42George, I'm so sorry.

45:44She's cast a dark shadow over our lives throughout this sorry affair.

45:49But there's no denying Wickham's love for her.

45:53There's much to be arranged.

45:56I will stay close to the prison to provide what sucker I can.

46:00I'll be home to you soon, Darcy.

46:12Mrs. Darcy.

46:15I heard the news about George Wickham.

46:17I shall pray for him when the time comes.

46:19Thank you, Roland.

46:21Have you heard Will Bidwell is near the end?

46:24No.

46:25According to Dr. McPhee, it's a matter of a day or two.

46:28I did so want to see him one last time.

46:31He was once close.

46:33He's kept you away too, has he?

46:35I haven't gained admittance to his room since the murder.

46:38You're right, it didn't stop him.

46:40Perhaps it affected him.

46:43He's surely too young to have a conscience much burdened, but still.

46:51Madam.

46:52I need to see Will.

46:53No, today's not very well.

46:55He mustn't.

46:56I'm so sorry.

46:57No, he mustn't.

46:58It's important.

46:59We must speak to Will.

47:00He's extremely ill.

47:02Mrs. Darcy, Madam, it's duress.

47:05It's all right, Mother.

47:06Will, we've had bad news from the trial.

47:09Wickham has been found guilty and is to hang.

47:12I'm sorry, Madam.

47:13Will, please.

47:14You better go now.

47:15Will, please, I will do anything to save you.

47:16Do you have it in your power to save another man's life?

47:19Spare him.

47:20Mrs. Darcy, please spare my child.

47:22Mother.

47:25I think I do.

47:28A man came here the night of the murder.

47:32It was Captain Denny, but I didn't know that at the time.

47:38I thought it was the soldier who'd assaulted Louise's virtue.

47:42I thought he'd come back for more.

47:44Open up.

47:45I need to speak to Miss Bidwell.

47:47I felt such rage.

47:50It was an insult to me, as though I couldn't protect my womenfolk.

47:54And I wanted to teach him a lesson.

47:58I need to speak to you.

48:01I hit him with my stick, and he fell back and staggered off.

48:08And I tried to follow him.

48:10He was heading towards the gully, where old Darcy's grave was.

48:14And I tried to call out a warning, but I couldn't.

48:25By the time I caught up, there was another man with him.

48:28Danny!

48:32Oh, God, no.

48:33And he had a gun, and he shot at me.

48:36Stop!

48:42And I fled.

48:45When Mr. Wickham got arrested, I didn't think it had come to this.

48:49Please.

48:52I'm going to write this down.

48:55I need you to sign it for me.

49:08Father.

49:12I'm sorry.

49:12I should have been here.

49:27Forgive me.

49:30William, forgive me.

49:31I've led you a merry dance, haven't I?

49:50I've loved every minute of it.

49:53Had I done you wrong, Lydia?

49:54None of that.

50:00It was the best day of my life, when I met you, Wickham.

50:05But look at all the fun we've had.

50:06Hmm.

50:15I didn't do it.

50:18I didn't kill Danny.

50:20I know.

50:24No one can say we didn't live it to the full.

50:32Choose the brightest, best memory of me, will you?

50:38Hold on to that.

50:48It's all right.

50:49It's all right.

50:54It's all right.

50:55It's all right.

50:56It's all right.

50:57It's all right.

50:58It's all right.

50:59It's all right.

51:00It's all right.

51:01It's all right.

51:02It's all right.

51:03It's all right.

51:04It's all right.

51:05It's all right.

51:06It's all right.

51:07It's all right.

51:08It's all right.

51:09It's all right.

51:10It's all right.

51:11It's all right.

51:12It's all right.

51:13The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.

51:21He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.

51:26He leadeth me beside the stone of the tisor.

51:29He resteth with my soul.

51:38Will is at peace.

51:39Wickham hangs at dawn.

51:43I must get this to Derby.

51:44It's night, Elizabeth.

51:46The journey is too treacherous.

51:48Even if you try, you'll never make it on time.

51:52I will take you.

51:53I know the roads, madam, every twist turn.

52:09I know the roads, but I'm pretty.

52:25Hot front.

52:30Oh, my God.

53:00My condolences, Darcy.

53:02Gives me no pleasure to see this sad day, Dor.

53:07May I ask why you didn't reveal Wickham's affair with Louise Bidwell at the trial?

53:13I knew by that point you'd almost certainly hang.

53:17What good would it do to drag your name further through the mud?

53:23Whatever others may say, I'm not my father.

53:30I need to see the judge.

53:51I'm not going to help you, madam.

53:52What's going on down here?

53:53Judge Moeberley.

53:54What's all this noise?

53:55What's all this noise?

53:58Let's go.

54:28Let's go.

54:36Wait!

54:37Stop!

54:38Wait!

54:39Stop the hanging!

54:41George Wickham is innocent!

54:42By order of the court, stop the hanging!

54:44I have a signed confession!

54:46Take the noose from his neck!

54:48Well, hurry, take the noose!

54:58The holy goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life.

55:02And I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

55:06Amen.

55:08Mr. Reynolds has found a new home for Louise Bidwell's baby.

55:30Mrs. Reynolds has found a new home for Louise Bidwell's baby.

55:37Why does she have to give up her child?

55:41It's time Pemberley began to look after her too.

55:51Dearest Jane, I am pleased to report that both Lydia and Wickham made remarkable recoveries.

56:00Thank you, thank you very much.

56:02I'd like to take this opportunity to publicly thank my wife.

56:05Within a matter of hours Lydia's spirits were restored and her energies consumed with flaunting her dear Wickham all over town.

56:13I do wonder what America will make of them.

56:18Louisa christened her son George William Bidwell in memory of her brother.

56:24Darcy says he will make a fine head coachman to Master Fitzwilliam.

56:30As for Georgiana, well, it couldn't be better news.

56:35Georgiana, I can wait no longer.

56:38Will you be my wife?

56:40Yes, Henry.

56:41Yes.

56:42Yes.

56:43Yes.

56:44Yes.

56:45Yes.

56:46Yes.

56:47Yes.

56:48Yes.

56:49Yes.

56:50Yes.

56:51Yes.

56:52Yes.

56:53Yes.

56:54Oh, those early moments of love.

56:55It's so little time for hours.

56:56Yes.

56:57Yes, thanks to my best efforts to kill my feelings for you.

56:58Yes.

56:59Let go.

57:00Yes.

57:01Yes.

57:03Yes.

57:04Yes, Henry.

57:05Yes.

57:06Yes.

57:07Yes.

57:08Yes.

57:09Yes.

57:10Yes.

57:11Yes.

57:13Yes.

57:14Yes.

57:17Oh, those early moments of love.

57:20It's so little time for hours.

57:23Yes, thanks to my best efforts to kill my feelings for you.

57:27They very nearly destroyed the most precious thing in the world to me.

57:31Let's look to the past only as it gives us pleasure.

57:34And to the future only as it gives us hope.

57:44Truly.

57:45Can't promise it'll be a girl.

57:48I must be careful.

57:54Oh, Darcy.

57:56I'm so happy.

57:58I know many others have said it before.

58:01But none with such justice.

58:17Yeah.

58:18Can I see?

58:20Yeah.

58:22Yeah.

58:23No, I'm so happy.

58:25Yeah.

58:26Yeah.

58:27Yeah.

58:28Well, it's too late.

58:29Yeah, yeah.

58:30Oh, I'm so happy.

58:32I'm so happy.

58:33You

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