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01:05 I see you've already sold some of my toys.
01:10 That was naughty of you.
01:12 I thought you were beautiful when I drew that.
01:17 The impossible Acme of Perfection.
01:21 I must have been mad.
01:25 What did madness call me afterward?
01:27 We may never know.
01:29 We may never know.
01:32 Through too much love of living, through hope and fear set free,
01:41 we thank with brief thanksgiving whatever gods may be.
01:45 That no life lives forever.
01:48 That dead men rise up never.
01:52 That even the weariest river winds somewhere to the sea.
01:55 My famous Bordure ring, containing, so you testified, some rare poison.
02:05 Nearly tasteless, impossible of detection.
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02:21 Well, dear wife, shall we drink together in farewell to the past?
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03:10 Thomas Edward Griffith, the man who made this lovely picture and then destroyed it,
03:18 really lived.
03:19 He was a writer, painter and a critic.
03:22 Now in each of these arts he displayed talent.
03:26 But his real genius lay elsewhere.
03:29 We have the testimony of Charles Lamb, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde and other famous witnesses.
03:35 That Griffith was the master of the gentle art of murder.
03:41 A dabbler in the occult and a connoisseur of the exotic.
03:46 Griffith was far ahead of the medical men of his time.
03:50 In the lethal science of toxication.
03:54 In simpler terms, Griffith was a poisoner.
03:58 That's the name of our play, The Poisoner.
04:01 And among those threatened by this sinister gentleman played by Mr. Murray Matheson,
04:08 were his wife, played by Miss Sarah Marshall,
04:13 her mother, played by Miss Brenda Forbes,
04:16 her sister, played by Miss Jennifer Ray,
04:19 and his uncle, played by Mr. Maurice Dallin.
04:24 [MUSIC]
04:28 Oh, by the way,
04:30 if in the course of our story someone brings you a cup of tea or a spot of brandy,
04:40 I suggest you let them take the first sip.
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05:06 [CROWD CHATTER]
05:14 Ladies and gentlemen, may I present my bride.
05:19 I see her with my heart.
05:20 Thank you for disagreeing with those who say that Thomas Edward Griffith lacks only one attribute of genius,
05:26 and that is talent. I agree with them.
05:29 Perhaps I haven't until now.
05:31 I am a very conceited man.
05:34 Or rather, I have been until today.
05:38 Now I feel forced to confess that this portrait does not even begin to do justice to its subject.
05:46 A matchless pearl of loveliness without flaw, my wife.
05:50 A toast to the perfect pair. May their marriage be perfection.
05:58 [CROWD CHATTER]
06:00 Well, dear wife, shall we drink together to the endless future?
06:04 I can't get this chair through the door. It's so narrow.
06:11 Well, it looks as if everyone's here before us.
06:15 [CROWD CHATTER]
06:18 Didn't even invite us to the wedding.
06:27 You ought to be ashamed.
06:30 So you're the bridegroom.
06:35 [DOOR CREAKS]
06:38 Who are these people?
06:40 Oh, this is my mother.
06:45 And this is my sister Helen.
06:48 Your mother and your sister.
06:53 I think we should be going.
06:57 Thank you, Mr. Larrymore.
07:00 I feel sick at my stomach.
07:13 [DOOR CREAKS]
07:14 I didn't expect them until tomorrow.
07:22 I didn't expect them at all.
07:24 I should have told you they were coming.
07:26 Yes, you should have told me.
07:28 [COUGHING]
07:30 They have nowhere else to live.
07:33 Mother sold her house. That was all she had.
07:36 That and a small income and debts.
07:41 A terrible burden on Mother.
07:43 You're not even rich.
07:49 I never said I was.
07:51 You only pretended until you caught a husband.
07:54 Get that animal out of here.
07:56 It belongs to me.
07:58 [COUGHING]
08:00 And so do they.
08:02 Or rather, you belong to them.
08:05 My perfect bride.
08:10 Where are you going?
08:11 Don't! Don't you dare touch my mother!
08:22 Did you see that?
08:29 He was going to strike me.
08:31 His own mother-in-law on his wedding day.
08:34 What kind of a man did you marry anyhow?
08:37 I don't know.
08:39 He's a murderer.
08:40 He's a murderer. I saw it in his eyes.
08:43 Oh, I'm going to faint.
08:45 Take your sister upstairs and put her to bed.
08:49 Take Hermione too, so she won't be underfoot.
08:53 I'll wait for Mr. Thomas Edward Griffith.
08:58 I am mighty Esquire.
09:01 What if he doesn't come back?
09:03 He'll come back.
09:05 He wouldn't walk out and leave all this.
09:08 Neither will we.
09:09 Neither will we.
09:11 Neither will we.
09:12 Neither will we.
09:13 Neither will we.
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09:53 (somber orchestral music)
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11:03 (somber orchestral music)
11:07 - Who is it?
11:08 (somber orchestral music)
11:12 Who is it?
11:15 (somber orchestral music)
11:20 - I'm sorry I startled you, Mother.
11:28 - Don't call me Mother.
11:30 You and your snarmy, palmy talk.
11:33 I suppose that's how you land in France is.
11:37 I suppose you think you can get me drunk.
11:54 Well, you can't.
11:56 - I only want you to feel at home.
11:59 - Mrs. Abercrombie, I feel that I can be honest with you.
12:03 It isn't every widowed mother who can provide
12:05 so well for her orphaned daughters.
12:07 - What do you know about that?
12:09 - I understand you've sold your home.
12:11 - And I intend to keep the money.
12:13 You won't get your hands on it, not while I'm alive.
12:17 - I don't expect to.
12:19 But I think I must tell you that in spite of appearances
12:21 and from what you may have heard,
12:23 I am not wealthy, not at all.
12:27 My only income comes from a trust fund
12:29 left by my father in charge of my uncle,
12:31 Mr. George Griffith.
12:32 - So you lied to her.
12:34 - I never lie.
12:36 No lie can possibly be perfect.
12:38 And as you will learn, I idolize perfection.
12:41 - Talk, talk, talk.
12:43 Words, words, words.
12:45 - Words are my stock in trade.
12:48 Here is a book I published,
12:51 "The Academy of Good Taste for Young Gentlemen,"
12:53 or "The Infant Connoisseur's Go-Kart."
12:56 Amusing, full of witty epigrams
12:57 which are quoted throughout London.
12:59 But it earned me nothing.
13:01 The time will come, however,
13:03 where I can begin to profit from the reputation I am building.
13:07 You could make life happier for your daughter, Mrs. Abercrombie,
13:10 for your daughters, by helping me to reach that goal.
13:14 - I wouldn't help you get anywhere.
13:17 - This was my house, and I was master in it until I married.
13:22 - Well, I'm in it now, and I intend to stay as long as I can.
13:25 - You intend to stay as long as I please,
13:27 and live like I please,
13:29 or I'll tear your precious reputation down to nothing.
13:33 - Mrs. Abercrombie, I--
13:35 - Don't try any of your tricks with me.
13:38 - I'm sorry, Mrs. Abercrombie.
13:40 I had hoped against hope.
13:43 - Well, you can just quit hoping.
13:45 - I have.
13:48 Are you sure you want that?
13:53 - You just try to take it away from me.
13:57 - I won't.
13:58 - Good night, Mrs. Abercrombie.
14:06 - Good riddance to bad rubbish.
14:09 - Yes, good riddance.
14:11 (ominous music)
14:40 - I should have told you about Mother and Helen.
14:42 - The moving finger writes, and having writ moves on.
14:45 Not all your piety nor wit can change
14:47 or alter one half line of it.
14:49 - Does that mean it's all right?
14:54 - Everything will be all right soon.
14:57 (screaming)
15:00 (screaming)
15:02 (somber music)
15:18 (footsteps)
15:20 - She's dead.
15:42 My mother is dead.
15:46 - She was perfectly well.
15:48 - We never know.
15:49 One moment health, the next oblivion.
15:52 As Leonardo said, the moment we are born, we begin to die.
15:57 - You won't say anything about this to anyone.
16:08 People would talk.
16:10 - Won't people talk anyway?
16:12 - I'm afraid so.
16:13 Then they'll forget.
16:15 As you must forget, my dear.
16:17 Be thankful she died without suffering.
16:20 - How do you know she didn't suffer?
16:22 - He knows because he killed her.
16:24 I saw him do it.
16:26 Murderer.
16:27 - I was with you when she died.
16:31 - He murdered her.
16:32 He murdered Baba.
16:33 - Oh, Helen, Mrs. Soyer, Helen.
16:35 - I saw it.
16:36 - It's a murderer.
16:37 - It's murder.
16:39 Murder.
16:40 Murder.
16:41 Murder.
16:42 Murder.
16:43 (sobbing)
16:46 (footsteps)
16:48 (paper rustling)
16:56 (footsteps)
16:58 - This is my husband, Mr. Griffin.
17:20 This is Mr. Proctor.
17:21 He was my mother's attorney.
17:23 Very kind of you to bring Mrs. Griffith home.
17:26 - I have some business to discuss with you, Mr. Griffith.
17:29 - Well, come in.
17:31 Come in.
17:32 (dramatic music)
17:34 (footsteps)
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17:39 (footsteps)
17:41 (dramatic music)
18:07 - Quite a good likeness.
18:09 - A poor thing, but mine own.
18:11 You say you have some business with me, Mr. Proctor?
18:15 - As Mrs. Abercrombie's executor
18:18 and Miss Abercrombie's legal representative, yes.
18:21 - Does Miss Abercrombie need a legal representative?
18:24 - Her mother thought so.
18:26 - Tell him.
18:27 - I'm afraid this is going to be very disappointing to you, Mr. Griffith.
18:31 - Why, Mr. Proctor?
18:32 - I know a good deal about your financial affairs.
18:35 - Do you?
18:37 - As it happens, our law firm has had business dealings with your uncle,
18:40 Mr. George Griffith.
18:41 - And my uncle talked of his black sheep nephew, as he always does,
18:45 not favorably, I'm sure.
18:47 I take it you've already quoted my uncle in extenso to my wife and Miss Abercrombie?
18:55 - I considered that to be my duty.
18:57 - You're a very dutiful young man.
19:00 - I try to be.
19:01 The late Mrs. Abercrombie was a wise and forethinking mother.
19:06 Demotuous nihil nisi bonum.
19:09 - What?
19:10 - Oh, I thought all good lawyers knew Latin.
19:13 Of the dead, speak nothing but the best.
19:16 - I would scarcely expect even you to speak slightingly,
19:19 especially under the circumstances.
19:21 In any case, Mrs. Abercrombie placed her estate in trust,
19:26 with the proviso that it should go entire, free of any claims by creditors,
19:31 to whichever of her daughters remained unmarried at the time of her death.
19:36 She did this in the belief that her married daughter would be amply provided for by her husband.
19:41 - And you doubt my ability to support my wife in the manner to which I had just begun to accustom her?
19:48 - I'm only saying, Mr. Griffith, that I shall do everything in my power
19:53 to see that no claims by your creditors deprive Miss Abercrombie of the estate which now belongs solely to her.
20:00 Have I made myself clear?
20:02 - You have, indeed.
20:05 - I feel faint.
20:07 I'll take you upstairs.
20:10 I didn't know. I really didn't know.
20:21 - My perfect wife.
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21:24 - I've been watching for you.
21:31 - Why?
21:33 - Your uncle is here.
21:36 - Why?
21:38 - I thought perhaps if we could talk to him.
21:40 - We?
21:42 - I am your wife.
21:45 - My perfect wife.
21:48 [footsteps]
21:50 - Mr. Stevens, the moneylender, was here about the notes you signed.
21:56 Three tradesmen came together.
21:58 They refused to deliver any more bread, coal, or meat unless you pay something on account.
22:03 They heard about...
22:05 about my mother's death.
22:07 They thought perhaps you were her heir.
22:09 That is, that...
22:11 - That my wife brought me a fortune.
22:13 Of course you told them the truth.
22:15 - No.
22:17 I asked them to be patient.
22:19 Then I sent your uncle a note.
22:21 - That was kind of you.
22:23 - I asked him to come here to visit us.
22:25 I had no idea he'd come immediately.
22:27 - My uncle wouldn't miss an opportunity to see me crawl...
22:29 - Crawl?
22:31 - Kneel, plead, employ him to cast me across his fat conceit by begging for what belongs to me.
22:35 Where is he?
22:39 - I gave him my mother's room.
22:41 - Oh. So the stage is set.
22:43 Now you expect me to go up to him and whimper, "Please."
22:46 So that he can rant and rave,
22:48 avenging your mother by humiliating me.
22:50 - Does my mother need avenging?
22:56 - Your charming sister thinks so.
23:14 (knock on door)
23:16 - Come in.
23:18 So you've finally decided to come home, eh?
23:24 - Well, Uncle George, I didn't expect to find you here as my guest.
23:27 - Hmph. What did you expect?
23:29 Creditors on your doorstep?
23:31 Bailiffs in your drawing room?
23:33 - As you know, that would be nothing new.
23:35 However, the present situation is quite different from the past.
23:38 - Hmph. You mean it's worse.
23:40 Why did she marry you?
23:43 - I was rich. I thought she was rich.
23:45 We were both mistaken.
23:47 - So you added another pretty piece to your collection
23:50 that you can't afford to pay for.
23:52 - Uncle George, you hold 5,200 pounds that actually belongs to me.
23:57 You have only to sign a piece of paper,
23:59 and there'll be no more creditors howling at my doorstep.
24:02 I shall be able to work, think, and write,
24:05 as I cannot do now.
24:07 - When you forged my signature,
24:09 that was a sample of your writing ability, I assume?
24:12 - Hmph. I'm on to you, and I won't stand for any more of it.
24:16 How much is that thing worth?
24:20 - More than you could possibly understand.
24:24 - Then get someone to buy it.
24:26 Sell off the fancy-dancy this and that
24:28 that you've filled your house with.
24:30 There must be some fools who can afford their foolishness,
24:33 which you can't.
24:35 - Nothing in this house is for sale.
24:37 - Hmph. Since when did beggars get to be choosers?
24:40 - Since when did you get to be God,
24:42 with the right to judge condemned to doom?
24:45 This is the last time I shall ask you to help me.
24:51 - I've told you what to do.
24:53 If you don't want to do it, it's your bad luck and not mine.
24:57 - Are you sure, Uncle George?
25:01 Are you sure?
25:02 - You'd better not threaten me.
25:04 Otherwise, you'll never get a penny.
25:06 - "Never" is a very long time.
25:09 (dramatic music)
25:12 (coughing)
25:21 (screaming)
25:30 - They killed him! They quarreled! I heard them!
25:37 He killed his uncle the way he killed my ma!
25:40 Murderer! Murderer! Murderer!
25:43 (soft music)
26:03 (soft music)
26:06 - He's to drink that, all of it, when he wakes.
26:21 He'll be right as rain in a day or so.
26:25 Probably outlive all of us.
26:27 Constitutionally, he's sound as English oak.
26:32 And, as I imagine you've noticed, as hard to bend or break.
26:37 - He's going to die, isn't he? Isn't he?
26:44 - No, dear. He's a little trouble with his heart.
26:47 - I'm sorry to disappoint you, Helen.
26:49 - Good night, Doctor. Thank you.
26:50 - Quite all right, Mrs. Griffith. Happy to be of service.
26:53 - I'll show you out, Doctor.
26:55 - Make sure your uncle takes his medicine.
26:59 - I'll have a few drops of bread to disguise the taste.
27:02 - Anything you say, Doctor.
27:04 - He's the one that's disappointed. Did you see him?
27:07 He tried to murder his uncle. I know he did.
27:09 I don't care what that doctor said.
27:11 He tried to murder his uncle.
27:13 (soft music)
27:16 (door creaking)
27:21 (soft music)
27:28 (cat meowing)
27:31 (paper crumpling)
27:41 (cat meowing)
27:47 (soft music)
27:52 (soft music)
27:55 (cat meowing)
28:01 (soft music)
28:06 (cat meowing)
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28:43 (soft music)
28:46 (soft music)
28:53 - Uncle George.
29:08 Uncle George, wake up.
29:11 It's all right, Uncle George.
29:13 The doctor's been here.
29:15 He mixed this for you.
29:17 It's mostly brandy.
29:19 (soft music)
29:22 You ought to drink all of it. Doctor's orders.
29:28 (soft music)
29:31 More, Uncle George.
29:35 (soft music)
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29:42 (dramatic music)
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30:00 (cat meowing)
30:11 (dramatic music)
30:14 (dramatic music)
30:19 (dramatic music)
30:27 (dramatic music)
30:30 - I must have dozed off. I thought I heard a noise.
30:33 Wait!
30:53 - Ellen should have been more careful, shouldn't she?
30:56 She called you a murderer.
30:58 - It would be very wrong of me to hold her accountable
31:00 for things said under the stress of shock and sorrow.
31:03 - The money comes to me now. You know that, of course.
31:06 - This is hardly the time to talk about such matters
31:08 with your poor sister lying there.
31:12 (soft music)
31:15 - I believe you heard the doctor tell me
31:27 to add brandy to his medicine to disguise its taste.
31:30 - Yes, I heard.
31:34 - Uncle George must have waked just now
31:38 while I was dozing and smelled the brandy.
31:42 He loved brandy.
31:44 Strange, in the same night, in almost the same moment,
31:49 my uncle and your sister.
31:52 - But first, my mother.
31:55 - She loved brandy, too.
31:58 - You hated her.
32:01 You hated Helen.
32:03 You hated your uncle.
32:05 - Hate is a small and ugly word for a smaller and uglier emotion.
32:08 - You even hated my cat!
32:10 (dramatic music)
32:13 A few drops of spilled brandy lapped up from the floor
32:16 wouldn't kill a cat.
32:18 Any more than brandy killed my mother.
32:21 Or him.
32:23 There was more than brandy in that glass, wasn't there?
32:26 And more than medicine, wasn't there?
32:28 Wasn't there?
32:33 Murderer.
32:35 You poisoner!
32:39 (dramatic music)
32:42 (dramatic music)
33:09 (dramatic music)
33:12 - Move along there, move along!
33:37 - Wherever he's run to, they'll find him.
33:39 You're safe from him, I promise you.
33:41 (dramatic music)
33:44 - Are you, are you Mr. Griffith?
33:59 - I am Thomas Edward Griffith.
34:01 - I am here to arrest you, Mr. Griffith,
34:04 and I must warn you, sir, that anything you may say
34:06 may be used in evidence against you.
34:08 - The charge, I presume, is murder?
34:11 - Mr. Justin, I point out to you that he is the first
34:13 to mention murder.
34:15 - Thus proving to Mr. Proctor's satisfaction
34:18 that a guilty conscience doth betray me.
34:21 Your name is Mustin?
34:25 - Justin.
34:27 - Oh.
34:28 - Of the Bowbells Flying Squadron.
34:30 - You hardly flew coming here.
34:32 In fact, you kept me waiting.
34:34 I sent my dear wife to fetch you hours ago.
34:37 - That's not true.
34:39 - Now why do you suppose did I do that?
34:42 - She is no longer answerable to you.
34:45 - I believe she is still my wife,
34:48 and that under English law, a wife cannot take the witness stand
34:52 against her husband.
34:54 There is also the fact, Mr. Proctor,
34:57 that choice of an advisor and protector for my wife
35:00 rests entirely with me,
35:02 and I'm afraid you're not exactly the Galahad
35:04 sans peur et sans reproche I'd choose
35:06 to guard my loving, loyal wife.
35:08 - Her neck is broken.
35:30 - Mr. Proctor was her protector.
35:32 You can see why I lack faith in you.
35:35 - Come along, sir.
35:37 - My business with Mr. Justin's employers will soon be settled,
35:44 and then nothing will stand between us, my dear.
35:47 Nothing.
35:49 Carry those carefully, please.
35:53 Good day, Mr. Proctor.
35:56 Au revoir, my dear.
35:58 - Au revoir.
36:00 - Read all about it.
36:07 Up and down, north and west.
36:09 In and out of society.
36:11 In and through the north and south.
36:14 Read all about it.
36:17 All the latest news from the party.
36:19 - No, Mr. Lannemore.
36:22 Your friend, Mr. Griffith, needn't be locked up in the midst of all this.
36:26 He'll confess and throw himself on Her Majesty's mercy.
36:29 He'll be moved to Berta Cortes.
36:31 - And from there to execution, doc?
36:35 - And what else can a murderer expect?
36:38 He's in there.
36:41 - Well, Mr. Lannemore?
36:48 - I... I came as soon as I heard.
36:51 - You needn't have, Ed.
36:54 I would find you in deep distress.
36:56 - No interesting experience, distress as an artist or a writer.
36:59 And since I am both, or neither, depending on the point of view of my enemies or mine...
37:04 As a matter of fact, I am much respected here.
37:09 Not because I am called a poisoner.
37:12 But because the other prisoners think my crimes earned me 10,000 pounds.
37:16 That makes me their hero, since their own sins were so much less profitable.
37:21 - I came hoping you might let me help.
37:24 - In hanging me? Or saving me?
37:27 - I don't know what can save you.
37:29 They say you've even threatened to kill your wife.
37:33 - No painting is finished, Mr. Lannemore, until the last brushstroke is applied.
37:39 - I don't understand.
37:42 - No, of course you don't.
37:45 Good night, Mr. Lannemore.
37:48 - Oh, Mr. Lannemore, be so kind as to give my wife a message.
37:51 Say to her that I am sure it will be only a few days before I can come to her.
37:55 And we can resume settlement of matters which remained unresolved...
37:58 when she and Mr. Proctor brought Mr. Justin to arrest me.
38:02 I'm still laughing, Mr. Justin.
38:16 This man is a murderer.
38:18 He doesn't even trouble to deny his own guilt.
38:21 He rests his defense on mockery...
38:24 and on a crooked game of confusion and obfuscation...
38:28 and on a claim of reasonable doubt.
38:31 What doubt can there be?
38:34 When an innocent man is accused, he reacts with anger and indignation.
38:39 You, Mr. Griffith, manifest only contempt and cynicism.
38:44 Your attitude alone convicts you.
38:46 I beg your pardon, Sir John.
38:48 My Lord, may I speak?
38:51 You may speak.
38:55 The prosecutor demands your ruling that I must stand trial for my life.
39:00 But it seems to me, although perhaps I'm a little prejudiced...
39:04 that he destroys his own case by his summary of it.
39:07 I have been told the corpses of my departed uncle and my wife's lamented mother...
39:12 have been exhumed, examined for some trace of deadly poison.
39:15 Yet the prosecutor offers no testimony that these autopsies were rewarded.
39:19 As far as he can prove, both my generous uncle George...
39:24 and our beloved mother Abercrombie died of natural causes.
39:28 Is that not true?
39:30 So Sir John must content himself with the claim that I possess some deadly, unknown drug.
39:37 Oh, really now?
39:40 Do you believe a jury will credit me with such satanic mastery of the fine art of murder?
39:46 I submit.
39:50 The record shows me as arch-defender of the true and the beautiful.
39:54 These gentlemen describe me as arch-poisoner, but they cannot name the poison.
39:58 And they pile suspicion on suspicion, but they cannot produce plain facts.
40:03 - It's a lie! - Deny it, Sir John.
40:05 As sworn servant of Her Majesty and upholder of the laws of England, deny there is reasonable doubt.
40:11 That is for the jury to decide.
40:14 But do you dare to face a jury with ramshackle, paste and scissors, circumstantial evidence, that and nothing more?
40:22 My Lord, I submit that...
40:29 The prisoner is remanded in custody pending further disposition of the issue here before us.
40:35 Come along now, Mr. Treven.
40:44 [FOOTSTEPS]
40:46 Read all about it.
41:05 Drinking alcohol or eating.
41:07 Money's been given out of store.
41:09 He clutches his way of freedom.
41:11 Get your evening journal here.
41:13 You think, Mr. Griffith, that you've won a great victory over English law?
41:18 Being free and clear by Lord Danforth's decision is hardly a defeat.
41:22 It isn't over, Mr. Griffith. It can't be over.
41:25 I beg to differ.
41:27 There's a statute concerning double jeopardy.
41:29 Having been arraigned and charged, and Her Majesty's Chief Justice having ruled,
41:33 there was not even sufficient evidence to place me on trial.
41:37 I cannot be charged again for the same alleged crimes.
41:41 All London is up in arms against you, Mr. Griffith.
41:44 And I shan't consider my duty as done until you are penned and punished.
41:49 The baffled bloodhound baying at the unreachable moon.
41:53 What's that?
41:56 A draft on my uncle's bankers.
41:59 Payable when I come into my inheritance.
42:02 I would like you to divide it among my fellow prisoners,
42:05 so that they shall have pocket money for their long voyage to the prison camp in Australia.
42:10 Goodbye, Mr. Justus.
42:14 Mr. Griffith!
42:33 Well, Mr. Larrymore, I didn't expect to see you again.
42:37 I owe you a debt and am trying to pay it.
42:39 Please, Mr. Griffith, don't stand talking.
42:42 The news of your release is being shouted in the streets.
42:45 A mob is forming, armed with clubs and stones.
42:49 Here's money, all I have. I've paid the coachman.
42:52 Hurry, Mr. Griffith!
42:54 So a lamb becomes a lion, and for the sake of a serpent,
42:59 you've paid the coachman.
43:01 You've paid me a thousand times over for favours
43:04 that cost me no more than a few well-chosen words.
43:07 But still, I must disappoint you, Mr. Larrymore.
43:10 I cannot run off and hide. I have a rendezvous to keep.
43:13 I beg you, Mr. Griffith, do not go to your wife.
43:16 Did she send you here to plead her cause?
43:18 I'm thinking only of you.
43:20 You were on a pedestal. Now you've fallen, as Lucifer fell.
43:24 But still, something might be saved.
43:26 I beg you, Mr. Griffith.
43:30 The mob is coming. There's stone here, Mr. Griffith.
43:33 They'll hang you if they can. Go before it's too late.
43:36 (indistinct chatter)
43:39 (indistinct chatter)
43:41 (indistinct chatter)
44:09 Too much love and living.
44:11 Too few joys.
44:14 We thank good faith Thanksgiving.
44:18 What do the gods...
44:21 ...give me?
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44:56 You are very rude to refuse to drink a farewell toast with me, my dear.
45:09 They will cry, "You killed her."
45:15 I will say, "She chose a quick death by her own hand...
45:19 ...and preference to life with a husband she ruined...
45:21 ...when she called him Griffith the Poisoner...
45:24 ...and another case of reasonable doubt."
45:28 You have no other choice, my dear.
45:32 This or unbearable agony infinitely prolonged.
45:37 I'm up here! I'm here in the bedroom!
45:47 Where's Miss Griffith?
45:49 In here, please! Quickly!
45:51 I am here to arrest you, Mr. Griffith.
45:59 There can be no charge against me now.
46:02 Oh, you're quite wrong, Mr. Griffith.
46:07 In October 1828...
46:10 ...you completed a certain financial transaction.
46:13 Monies were held for you in trust to the order of Mr. George Griffith.
46:19 That's past history and buried with my uncle.
46:21 No, Mr. Griffith.
46:23 I have here a bank draft...
46:26 ...which bears your uncle's signature...
46:28 ...and which you presented for payment.
46:30 Your uncle did not sign this, Mr. Griffith.
46:33 It has been compared with his true signature...
46:36 ...and yours on the draft you gave me in Newgate.
46:38 You forged this draft, Mr. Griffith.
46:41 I robbed no one.
46:44 The money was mine.
46:46 If that is, I...
46:48 I anticipated time a little.
46:50 You confessed to forgery in the presence of these witnesses?
46:53 No matter if I do, I'm not under oath or on trial.
46:56 But you will be, Mr. Griffith.
46:59 You will be.
47:01 And the penalty for uttering false paper...
47:06 ...under the law at which Mr. Griffith has laughed until this moment...
47:09 ...is transportation to Australia...
47:12 ...as a prisoner at hard labour...
47:15 ...in the penal colonies for life...
47:17 ...with no possibility of parole.
47:20 Of course, it's not the same thing as hanging an execution doc for murder...
47:24 ...but for such a perfectionist as Mr. Griffith...
47:27 ...it may be worse.
47:30 It may be worse.
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47:58 That no life lives forever.
48:01 That dead men rise up never.
48:05 That even the...
48:08 ...weary...
48:12 ...driver...
48:14 ...bites my...
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