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00:00You
00:30You're due to hang at nine o'clock tomorrow morning
00:4122 hours from now
00:53You wish to make a new statement about the murder of David Blakely
00:56One that may materially affect your legal situation
00:58Yes
01:00I had been ill for two weeks
01:12The miscarriage
01:19David had been so sorry
01:21Are you watching me sleep?
01:25Listening to you snore
01:28I don't snore
01:31I want to be woken up by your snoring for the rest of my life
01:36Sobby little fool
01:41Is your stomach still painful?
01:54It's fine
01:55Dr. Ziss is healing well
01:58Good
01:59Because I'm taking you out tonight
02:02Clean slate
02:04No more fighting
02:06No more
02:06Cinema cleaning girls
02:08She was an usherette
02:10I do have some self-respect
02:12Neither one of us has been perfect
02:16From now on
02:17We're going to be a boring old married couple
02:21You in a housecoat
02:23Me in slippers
02:24And occasionally we'll talk of how young foolish we used to be
02:30Promise?
02:32Yes
02:39Yes
02:40See you tonight
02:51Be ready at eight
02:54riad.
03:00We have to surprise you
03:02Pleasant
03:02Oh
03:03We'll see you tonight
03:04Hoskins
03:05We 61
03:05Hoskins
03:06What if you found
03:08Hoskins
03:11Hoskins
03:13Hoskins
03:14Hoskins
03:15Hoskins
03:16Hoskins
03:18Hoskins
03:20Hoskins
03:21Hoskins
03:23Hoskins
03:24Is David there?
03:35No.
03:44Hello?
03:45And who was that girl?
03:47Look, David isn't here, all right?
03:51I got Desmond to drive me to the Fendlaters.
03:54Wait here.
04:01I want to speak to David.
04:02He's not here.
04:03His car's outside.
04:05I know he's in there with some girl.
04:07That's our nanny.
04:08You did this, didn't you?
04:10You threw her at him.
04:11David!
04:12He's left you, Ruth.
04:14You won't see him ever again.
04:15You're lying.
04:16I have only ever told you the truth.
04:17You've never wanted to hear it.
04:19You can't just walk away.
04:22With everything in ruins.
04:24I know you need someone to blame for the way your life has turned out.
04:28I had you down as a dangerous sort of woman.
04:30A predator who set a trap for a naive boy.
04:33But I was wrong.
04:34You were just...
04:35A mess.
04:38A wretched, ungovernable, emotionally incontinent mess.
04:43A whirlwind of shabby destruction bringing everyone else down with you.
04:47My job, my savings, my daughter, my unborn child are all gone because of him.
04:59He does not get to walk away without saying a word.
05:02He doesn't!
05:03I have to speak to him!
05:05David!
05:05There's nothing to say.
05:06Then I want my key back.
05:07Virgin and Gardens, I want my key back.
05:09I'll have it sent to you.
05:11You cannot do this!
05:12You can't do it!
05:13David!
05:15David, I know you are in...
05:16David!
05:18I felt I had to do something.
05:22Anything.
05:24To make him listen.
05:26Ruth!
05:27Ruth!
05:28David!
05:28That's enough.
05:29David!
05:29That's enough!
05:30That's enough.
05:30He didn't...
05:31He didn't know the girl.
05:32He's laughing at me.
05:33Does he have a key to Edison Gardens, a place I rented for you, your new start?
05:38Has he been there all along?
05:41What are you looking for?
05:42David!
05:43Get in the car!
05:43David!
05:44In the car!
05:44David!
05:45I had to go back the next day.
05:47I was determined to make David speak to me.
05:51Their plan, and what they had wanted all along, to get David away from me,
05:56without looking back, without acknowledging what he had done to me.
05:59It had worked.
06:00All in?
06:01Are you all in?
06:03All night I sat there, and thought about the last two years.
06:08When I had first met David, I was managing a successful club.
06:11I had two beautiful children.
06:15I had money in the bank.
06:17Admirers.
06:19A lovely flat.
06:22And now all I had was a bed-sitting room.
06:25No money.
06:26No job.
06:28And a man who swore he loved me one day, and then beat and abused me the next.
06:35A man who was relieved when I lost the child he fathered.
06:40I thought, and I thought, all the things he had said to me, all the things he had done to me.
06:45And I just felt pure rage.
06:47I don't know what to do.
07:07Make some coffee.
07:08I don't want any coffee.
07:09Tea, then!
07:10I don't want any fucking tea!
07:20I just wish he was dead.
07:23I wish he was dead.
07:24I wish he would jump in a lake and drown, and I could just be free.
07:29We could be free.
07:31We could be free.
07:34You just want to be done with all of it.
07:37Do you?
07:38Who's idea was it to get the gun?
07:43I wouldn't know how to use it.
08:00I wouldn't know how to aim it.
08:17I'll show you.
08:25I need the permanent Undersecretary of State.
08:28He's at Ascot.
08:29Well, get him bloody back from Ascot.
08:31What message should I give?
08:33Tell him Ruth Ellis isn't going to hang tomorrow.
08:38Mrs. Ellis is accusing Desmond Carson of conspiracy to murder.
08:42Yes.
08:43The execution will have to be postponed while he's interviewed.
08:46If charges are brought against him, Ruth Ellis will be the principal witness.
08:50She will be needed to give evidence.
08:52And that's to say nothing for her own conviction, which can now be regarded as unsafe.
08:56She was drunk.
08:57She was influenced by this man.
08:58I anticipate a retrial at the very least.
09:00You are not, in fact, a criminal lawyer, Mr. Mishkon.
09:05You are a divorce solicitor?
09:08Yes.
09:10Well, the Undersecretary is on his way back from Ascot.
09:12I will brief him, and doubtless he will wish to speak to the Home Secretary.
09:15But the execution will be postponed while all this is investigated.
09:19I can give no such assurance, not on the strength of this alone.
09:22Then what would you need?
09:23We could do nothing until Carson is interviewed, at the very least.
09:27We must have some corroborating evidence.
09:29Until then, I'm afraid, these are just words.
09:33Then call Scotland Yard and instruct them to find him now.
09:36As I say, I will inform my superiors.
09:38We have 16 hours until she is due to die.
09:44You're right.
09:45I know little of criminal law, but I know how long it takes to divorce someone.
09:49Six months minimum between the decrees nice and absolute to ensure the grounds are correct,
09:55that the marriage is truly unsalvageable.
09:58Because a divorce is an absolute that cannot be undone.
10:01Your government passed that law.
10:03And you give this woman, between conviction and killing her, 22 days?
10:09Call the bloody police.
10:18Carson left his office 20 minutes ago.
10:20He's on his way home.
10:22You said it yourself, sir.
10:24She pulled the trigger.
10:26Doesn't matter where she got the gun.
10:27You did everything right.
10:35Let's go.
10:44Thank you for coming back.
10:46I know I wasn't the most gracious hostess last time.
10:50I deserved it.
10:52You're many things.
10:55But you're no coward.
10:57I wasn't when there was no hope.
11:02Now I'm bloody petrified.
11:12I remember when you and Vicky came to visit me in the hospital.
11:15And you brought gin and a gramophone.
11:17Matron told us not to turn the place into a bordello behind me when she was absolutely smashed and dancing with us.
11:25I remember Vicky flashing the geriatric ward.
11:28And three of them proposing to her.
11:33Let me set up on the roof and watch the sun come up.
11:36I wish we could do that tomorrow morning.
11:47Before Mr. Pierpoint.
11:49Or the hangman can sod off back to his pub.
11:54Your statement changed everything.
11:55You do know what his pub is called?
12:01Hmm?
12:02Help the poor struggler.
12:03No.
12:05Joy told me.
12:11Listen.
12:11I can try to find Desmond.
12:16Get a confession.
12:17Take it to the police.
12:19We don't have to.
12:20DCI Davis has been at the home office getting a rocket up his arse.
12:26They're going to find Desmond, Jackie.
12:29He's going to be arrested and charged tonight.
12:31Sir, you want to know if I have anything else that might help you?
12:49As you can see, I'm in no fit state to help anyone.
12:52But you knew.
12:56You clearly knew about the gun.
12:57I made certain suppositions which have proved to be true.
13:02You told her to stay quiet?
13:04You advised her to lie, to perjure herself in Crown Court?
13:07I was bound by client confidentiality, as I still am.
13:12Mrs. Ellis made me swear not to say anything.
13:16You may say I made the wrong decision.
13:18Perhaps I did.
13:19My aim was to show that she was provoked.
13:22Not that she conspired with anyone.
13:25Premeditated the whole thing.
13:26Well, that was very convenient for Desmond Cusson, that you took that route.
13:33Did you make a deal with him?
13:35Certainly not, my friend.
13:38I suppose my problem is that I'm not brave enough to stand up to them all.
13:43Just stand up to it.
13:47It?
13:47The English machine.
13:49The whole thuddering weight of it.
13:53Are you talking about a conspiracy?
13:56Nothing so vulgar.
13:58The machine is bigger than any one man.
14:01It's bigger than any gentleman's club, courtroom or police station.
14:07It is concerned with self-preservation above all.
14:12And it is ruthless, you may say, to the point of savagery to anyone who threatens it.
14:18And Ruth threatens it in every possible way.
14:21And that is why the machine is determined to get her.
14:23It has been from the start.
14:25I think you're a drunk man.
14:29And this is dangerous nonsense.
14:32This is the law.
14:33The justice system.
14:34The finest in the world.
14:35And you say I'm talking nonsense.
14:39I was like you, you know.
14:41I thought I was one of the good ones.
14:44Fighting the machine.
14:48Until I realized I'm just a cock.
14:50Being ground in it.
14:52If you know something that could help her,
14:56we have hours to save our life.
14:58It's too late.
15:05Why didn't you say anything about Desmond Cusson before?
15:31It seemed traitorous.
15:35Until I realized he betrayed me worse.
15:37He promised to look after Andre.
15:41Nothing.
15:42Not a visit.
15:43Not a single penny.
15:45What does Andre know?
15:47He's been told you're in Italy.
15:48Modeling swimsuits.
15:51The MP, Mr Rogers and his wife,
15:53they've been very kind.
15:56Offered to take him to the country for a few days.
15:59Get him away from all this.
16:01But now, we might not need to.
16:04They tannoyed the Undersecretary of State at Ascot.
16:08The press heard it.
16:10Reporters kept out of the house.
16:12One from bloody New Zealand.
16:14Evening papers all saying the same thing.
16:17A last minute reprove.
16:18And there's been money sent in by well-wishers.
16:22Enough for you and Andre to get away somewhere.
16:25A new life.
16:25Well, you'll never need to work again.
16:28Talk shows.
16:29After dinner speeches.
16:32You're a flaming celebrity.
16:33You're a flaming celebrity.
16:33You're a flaming celebrity.
16:35Evans, Bradley, Ellis.
16:38Evans, Bradley, Ellis.
16:40Evans, Bradley, Ellis.
16:42Evans, Bradley, Ellis.
16:52There's hundreds of them.
16:52Alice, Alice, Alice, Alice, Alice.
16:56Evans, Bentley, Alice!
17:26Let's go.
17:56This heat, it's hellish.
18:26Let's get out of London.
18:31Pack some things.
18:31It's nine o'clock.
18:49Twelve hours until she hangs.
18:51Why aren't you out looking for Desmond Cousin?
18:54She shot him in the back, right?
18:55Point-blank range.
18:57An innocent bloke.
18:58Could have been any one of us.
19:00She deserves the bloody swing for it.
19:02Shut up, Peter.
19:05We look for him, all right?
19:07There's no answer at Cousin's flat.
19:09We've driven around the West End for hours.
19:11Probably given two men and half a day to search the whole of bloody London.
19:14Does it really seem like anyone wants him to be found?
19:24Monsieur.
19:26Where is he?
19:27Upstairs.
19:28Thanks.
19:30Desmond.
19:30Do you know how I can find him?
19:34You know me, Jackie.
19:36I'm no gross.
19:37No police.
19:39They've given up.
19:41Please, tell me, Maurice.
19:43Is he with one of your girls?
19:44She should have asked me to take care of him, Blakely.
20:00I'd have taken pleasure in it.
20:03Ruth is in there, waiting to die, while you're here, enjoying yourself.
20:11Tao!
20:12Hurry up!
20:19I've got reporters chasing me night and day.
20:23Customers deserted me.
20:25And you want me to grass up one of the only punters I've got left.
20:33Ruthie wanted everything.
20:36A big job.
20:37A big posh plug.
20:39A big rock and a finger.
20:40She went too far.
20:44Took too much.
20:47She ruined all of us.
20:48I know you're not a bad man.
20:58But you've done some bad things.
21:01To Ruth.
21:04To me.
21:07This is your chance to fix it.
21:09All of it.
21:10Help me find him.
21:14Please.
21:21Open the door, Desmond.
21:23There's no police here.
21:25You've been here all along.
21:41I've come here as a friend.
21:46To ask you to do the right thing.
21:47The police know you helped kill Blakely.
21:47You may not have pulled the trigger, but he is dead because of you.
21:48She's lying.
21:49Save her own skin.
21:50I don't blame her, but I...
21:51Nothing to do with anything.
21:52You have one chance to save the woman you loved.
21:55She never loved me.
21:57Is that why you did it?
21:58To punish Ruth and David together?
21:59You knew she would be arrested.
22:01She came to you when she was desperate.
22:02You could have helped her.
22:03You should have helped her.
22:04You should have helped her.
22:05You should have helped her.
22:06You should have helped her.
22:07But he is dead because of you.
22:08But he is dead because of you.
22:09She's lying.
22:10You know, they haven't even told André yet about what is happening to his mother.
22:34But soon they will have to.
22:37They will have to tell him that she isn't in Italy modeling swimsuits, that she's dead,
22:47hanged, and they will not even be able to visit her grave because she will be buried
22:55with murderers in a prison pit.
22:57What you have done to that child is unforgivable.
23:00I told Ruth, he should have been at her mother's that day.
23:04Was André there?
23:07Did he see something?
23:08Well, make sure he gets this.
23:14We're leaving.
23:17He's gone.
23:18Of course he has.
23:24I told the police, but he could be anywhere by now.
23:27He talked about André.
23:28Was André there when Desmond gave you the gun?
23:34Did he see Desmond gave it to you?
23:35Did he see Desmond gave it to you?
23:41Right hand on first, left hand supporting.
23:42Legs shoulder width apart.
23:48Elbows straight, not locked.
23:49Now this little blade is the sight.
23:54Get that on your target.
23:55Then squeeze the trigger.
23:56Most importantly, don't hold your breath or you'll tense up and you won't hit the target.
24:03Just breathe.
24:04In and out.
24:05Nice and calm.
24:06I can't do it.
24:07I can't do it.
24:08Yes, you can.
24:09I can't do it.
24:10Yes, you can.
24:11I can't do it.
24:12Yes, you can.
24:13And you won't hit the target.
24:18Just breathe.
24:21In and out.
24:24Nice and calm.
24:33I can't do it.
24:36Yes, you can.
24:43You see?
24:58I told you to wait in the car. Go back now!
25:04How much does he know?
25:07He knows enough.
25:09His witness. The police need evidence to support your statement.
25:14We thought only Desmond could give that, but Andre could.
25:17I won't. I will not use him like that. I will not ask that of him.
25:22I think he knows you're here.
25:25Of course he does.
25:28He's a smart boy. He doesn't believe that nonsense about swimsuits in Italy.
25:32Then let him talk to the police.
25:38If he gives a statement to the police and it fails,
25:45he will blame himself.
25:47But you still have a chance if you ask him to do this.
25:52He needs to tell them and the police what he knows tonight.
25:55I won't be long.
26:11You will look after him.
26:13You promise.
26:14Whatever happens.
26:16I swear it.
26:25You're quite well there, dear.
26:26Yes, she's quite all right, thank you.
26:38Are you all right?
26:39I don't know.
26:40I don't know.
26:41I'm here.
26:42I'm with you.
26:43I love you.
26:44I know.
26:45I know.
26:47I know.
26:48I know.
26:49I don't think I can.
26:50I don't think I can.
26:51I don't think I can.
26:52I don't think I can.
26:54Of course you can.
26:55Of course you can.
26:56You can.
26:57You can.
26:58You can.
26:59I don't know.
27:04I'm here.
27:05I'm with you.
27:07I love you.
27:12I know.
27:18I don't think I can.
27:22Of course you can.
27:29I don't know.
27:55Four bottles of light ale please.
27:57Oh and two packs of cigarettes.
27:59No.
28:02Come on.
28:03Because we're having a party around the corner.
28:05Leave the poor girl alone.
28:06It would have been rude not to if my...
28:08Leave the poor girl alone.
28:10David.
28:12David.
28:24Jesus.
28:25Ruth, what are you...
28:26No.
28:27Guys, she's gonna...
28:28on the other side.
28:30Fuck.
28:31No, no, no.
29:01No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
29:31I took down your statement this morning.
29:36It appears that another version was recorded too by the prison officer who sat with us.
29:42In his version, you ask Cousin for the gun.
29:46I didn't say that.
29:47I'm asking myself why they're focused on this version, why they might be favoring it.
29:53Because they want it all to be over.
29:55The protests, the noise, the fuss, the newspapers, the petitions.
29:59All these people talking about what a mess it is.
30:01It's an embarrassment.
30:02They want it over and done with.
30:03They were looking for a reason to ignore what I told them.
30:06To say that Desmond's part doesn't matter and they found it.
30:08They can't ignore it.
30:09There are legal procedures.
30:10Mr. Pickford was right all along.
30:12He said they wouldn't let me get away with it and they won't.
30:16Right.
30:18No matter what anyone says or does now.
30:21It won't do anything.
30:24They are determined to put an end to this.
30:26And they will.
30:27Tomorrow at 9am.
30:28I want you to call my parents and say that Andre is going to go away with the MP Mr. Rogers and his wife his plan.
30:35You don't want him to make a statement to police?
30:37No, I want him out of London and away from here immediately.
30:39Please do it now.
30:40I want him out of London and away from here immediately.
30:54Hallowed be thy name.
30:57Thy kingdom come.
30:59Thy will be done.
31:04May God bless you.
31:06May God bless you.
31:07May God bless you.
31:08Mrs. Ellis?
31:13Make them stop.
31:15Quiet.
31:16I just want it to be over.
31:19Bruce.
31:20Come with me.
31:21I want it to be over.
31:22I'll break it.
31:23I'll break it.
31:26All right.
31:38I thought you might like to finally take your beer privileges.
32:02Is this allowed out here?
32:07No.
32:08But what can they do to you?
32:09Thanks.
32:10Thanks.
32:26Not done much.
32:28You might not believe this, but the last few weeks have been some of the best of my life.
32:37You've all been so kind to me.
32:41Calling me Mrs. Ellis.
32:43Three square meals a day.
32:46All those jam puddings.
32:48No screaming, no fighting, no men knocking on my door in the middle of the night.
32:59I'd really rather like it, yeah.
33:00You're right.
33:26Can you put me through to the governor of Holloway prison?
33:52Mrs. Ellis.
33:53You've come to tell me there's not going to be a reprieve.
33:56It's quite all right.
34:06It's quite all right.
34:08Promise.
34:17What time is it?
34:212 a.m.
34:22Seven hours, then.
34:34Would you like to sit up together?
34:36I have some brandy in my office.
34:41Actually, I'd quite like to get some sleep if you don't mind.
34:47I want to speak to the Home Secretary.
35:00I want to speak to the Home Secretary.
35:14I insist on speaking to him personally.
35:17The Home Secretary's made his position very clear.
35:19And what is that position?
35:21He says, if she isn't hanging tomorrow, she never will be.
35:28I have practiced law for 20 years, and until today, I would not have thought it possible
35:32that it should be used by Englishmen in this way.
35:35As a fig leaf for an act of pure savagery.
35:38The Home Secretary.
35:39I want to speak to the Home Secretary.
35:40Number 9, Mr.
36:07Oh, my God.
36:37No more prison smokes, then?
37:00Can't say I'm sorry.
37:07Hardie Amies.
37:11Spent my entire first wage from Carol's on it.
37:14It's lovely.
37:15My mother was horrified.
37:18Said I should have made do with Rayon like everybody else.
37:21Probably should have made do with a lot of things.
37:24Little house in Basingstoke.
37:26Job in a typing pool.
37:29Week in Bognor with a fat husband once a year.
37:31I couldn't.
37:33I wanted everything I could get out of this life.
37:36Every drop.
37:45And I don't regret it.
37:49Not a single moment.
37:51Jacqueline!
38:00I'm sorry.
38:02I tried.
38:03They won't let me run the story in the newspaper.
38:06You need evidence of what Kassin did?
38:08I need something.
38:14Well, no, this is over.
38:15You talk to André.
38:17Hassan.
38:17You're lovely.
38:43Thank you, Joy.
38:44Joy.
39:17Sorry.
39:41It will calm you.
39:44No, thank you.
39:47Charity Taylor.
40:14Charity Taylor.
40:16I'm so sorry, Mrs. Ellis.
40:36I just need a moment with the undersheriff.
40:39There's been a call from a Miss Holmes claiming to be the Home Secretary's office.
40:49A reprieve.
40:50I've tried to verify it.
40:52No one there knows anything about it.
40:59Hoax?
41:00Must be.
41:04Mustn't it?
41:06This Miss Holmes.
41:10I've tried two private secretaries.
41:13No one's heard of her.
41:26Don't be needing these anymore.
41:28It's one minute too, ma'am.
41:40I can't make her wait.
41:43It's torture.
41:43I mean, it's got to be a hoax.
41:54Proceed.
41:55All right, lus.
42:04All right.
42:10Follow me.
42:11Don't worry, lus.
42:29I won't hurt you.
42:35I'll be right back.
42:37No, I won't.
42:40I'll be right back.
42:40No, no, no, no, no.
43:10No, no, no.
43:40No, no, no.
44:10No, no, no.
44:40No, no, no.
45:10No, no.
45:40No, no.
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