Thriller -S1E17 -The_Poisoner
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00:00You
00:30You
01:00I
01:07See you've already sold some of my toys that was naughty of you I
01:15Thought you were beautiful when I drew that
01:18Impossible Acme of perfection I
01:23Must have been mad
01:25Did madness come on me afterward we may never know we may never know
01:36Through too much love of living through hope and fear set free
01:42We thank with brief thanksgiving whatever gods may be
01:46That no life lives forever
01:49That dead men rise up never that even the weariest River winds somewhere to the sea
01:55Oh
01:58My famous board you ring containing so you testified some rare poison
02:07Nearly tasteless impossible of detection
02:10I
02:21Well dear wife shall we drink together and farewell to the past
02:40You
03:10I
03:12Thomas Edward Griffith the man who made this lovely picture and then destroyed it
03:18Really lived he was a writer painter and a critic
03:23Now in each of these arts he displayed talent
03:27But his real genius lay elsewhere
03:30We have the testimony of Charles Lamb Charles Dickens Oscar Wilde and other famous witnesses
03:36The Griffith was the master of the gentle art of
03:40murder a
03:42Dabbler in the occult and a connoisseur of the exotic
03:46Griffith was far ahead of the medical men of his time in the lethal science of
03:54Toxication in simpler terms
03:56Griffith was a poisoner. That's the name of our play the poisoner and among those threatened by this
04:04Sinister gentleman played by mr. Murray Madison
04:08Where his wife played by miss Sarah Marshall?
04:12Her mother played by miss Brenda Ford
04:16Her sister played by miss Jennifer Ray and his uncle played by mr. Maurice Dallin
04:28Oh by the way
04:31If in the course of our story someone brings you a cup of tea or a spot of brandy I
04:40Suggest you let them take the first
05:00You
05:13Ladies and gentlemen, may I present my bride that is as I see her with my heart
05:21Thank you for disagreeing with those who say that Thomas Edward Griffith max only one attribute of genius and that is talent
05:27I agree with them. Perhaps I haven't until now. I am a very conceited man or
05:34Rather, I have been until today
05:38Now I feel forced to confess that this portrait does not even begin to do justice to its subject
05:45To that matchless pearl of loveliness without flaw
05:49my wife
05:52Our toast to the perfect pair may their marriage be perfection
06:00Well dear wife shall we drink together to the endless future
06:08Can't get this chair through the door so narrow. Well looks as if everyone's here before us
06:22I
06:25Didn't even invite us to the wedding you ought to be ashamed
06:33So you're the bridegroom
06:38Who are these people Oh
06:42This is my mother
06:45And this is my sister Helen
06:48I
06:51Think we should be going. Thank you. Mr. Larry. Well, I
07:04Feel sick at my stomach
07:18I
07:20Didn't expect them until tomorrow. I didn't expect them at all. I should have told you they were coming. Yes, you should have told me
07:30They have nowhere else to live mother sold her house that was all she had and that in a small income and and
07:38debts Helen's illness has taken a terrible burden on mother
07:42You're not even rich I never said I was you only pretended until you caught a husband
07:51It belongs to me
07:55And so do they or rather you belong to them
08:03My perfect bride where are you going?
08:07Did you see that he was gonna strike me it's a mother-in-law on his wedding day
08:15What kind of a man did you marry?
08:17I
08:19Don't know
08:21I
08:22Don't know
08:24I
08:26Don't know
08:28I
08:30Don't know
08:32I
08:34Don't know
08:36What kind of a man did you marry anyhow, I don't know I
08:40Don't know. He's a murderer. Hey, he's a murderer. I saw it in his eyes. Oh
08:46I'm going to faint
08:48Take your sister upstairs and put her to bed
08:52Take her money too, so she won't be underfoot
08:57I'll wait for mr. Thomas Edward Griffith. I
09:01Am mighty
09:03Esquire, what if he doesn't come back? He'll come back. He wouldn't walk out and leave all this
09:09Neither will we?
09:11Neither will we?
09:30I
10:00You
10:30You
11:00I
11:25Sorry I startled you mother
11:28Don't call me mother
11:30You and your smarmy-palmy talk. I
11:34Suppose that's how you landed Francis
11:50I
11:52Suppose you think you can get me drunk. Well, you can't I only want you to feel at home
11:59Mrs. Abercrombie, I feel that I can be honest with you
12:03It isn't every widowed mother who can provide so well for her orphaned daughters. What do you know about that? I
12:10Understand you've sold your home and I intend to keep the money. You won't get your hands on it. Not while I'm alive
12:17I don't expect to
12:19But I think I must tell you that in spite of appearances and from what you may have heard I am NOT wealthy
12:26Not at all. My only income comes from a trust fund left by my father in charge of my uncle. Mr. George Griffith
12:32So you lied to her? I never lie
12:36No lie can possibly be perfect and as you will learn I idolize perfection
12:42Talk talk talk words words words words are my stock in trade
12:50Here is a book I published the Academy of good taste for young gentlemen or the
12:55infant connoisseurs go-kart
12:57Amusing full of witty epigrams which are quoted throughout London
13:01But it earned me nothing the time will come however where I can begin to profit from the reputation I am building
13:08You could make life happier for your daughter. Mrs. Abercrombie for your daughters by helping me to reach that goal. I
13:16Wouldn't help you get anywhere
13:20This was my house, and I was master in it until I married
13:23Well, I'm in it now and I intend to stay as long as I please and live like I please
13:29Or I'll tear your precious
13:31reputation down to nothing
13:33Mrs. Abercrombie, I don't try any of your tricks with me. I'm sorry mrs. Abercrombie. I
13:40Had hoped against hope well you can just quit
13:44Opie I
13:47Have
13:50Are you sure you want that you just try to take it away from I won't
14:04Good night. Good riddance to bad rubbish. Yes good riddance
14:14I
14:40Should have told you about mother and Helen
14:42Moving finger rights and having writ moves on nor all your piety nor wit can change or alter one half line of it
14:51Does that mean it's alright
14:54Everything will be alright
15:12You
15:14You
15:40She's dead
15:43My mother is dead
15:47She was perfectly well, we never know one moment health the next oblivion
15:54As Leonardo said the moment we are born we begin to die
15:58I
16:06Won't say anything about this to anyone people would talk
16:12Won't people talk anyway
16:14Great, sir, then they'll forget as you must forget my dear
16:19Be thankful she died without suffering
16:22How do you know she didn't suffer he knows because he killed her I saw him do it
16:28murderer I
16:31Was with you when she died
16:58I
17:00I
17:26Have some business to discuss with you. Mr. Griffith
17:30Well, come in come in
18:00You
18:07Quite a good likeness a poor thing, but mine own
18:12You say you have some business with me mr. Proctor
18:16As mrs. Abercrombie's executor and miss Abercrombie is legal representative. Yes
18:21Does miss Abercrombie need a legal representative her mother thought so tell him?
18:27I'm afraid this is going to be very disappointing to you. Mr. Griffith. Why mr. Proctor?
18:32I know a good deal about your financial affairs
18:35Do you as it happens? Our law firm has had business dealings with your uncle. Mr. George Griffith and
18:41My uncle talked to his black sheep nephew as he always does not favorably. I'm sure I
18:48Take it you've already quoted my uncle in extenso to my wife and miss Abercrombie
18:54I considered that to be my duty
18:57You are a very dutiful young man. I try to be
19:01The late mrs. Abercrombie was a wise and for thinking mother
19:06Demotuous knee he'll Nisi Burnham
19:09What? Oh, I thought all good lawyers and you Latin of the dead speak nothing but the best
19:15I would scarcely expect even you to speak slightingly, especially under the circumstances
19:21In any case mrs. Abercrombie placed her estate in trust
19:25With the proviso that it should go entire free of any claims by creditors
19:30To whichever of her daughters remained unmarried at the time of her death
19:35She did this in the belief that her married daughter would be amply provided for by her husband
19:42And you doubt my ability to support my wife in the manner to which I had just begun to accustom her
19:46I'm only saying mr. Griffith that I shall do everything in my power to see that no claims by your creditors
19:54Deprive miss Abercrombie of the estate which now belongs solely to her. Have I made myself clear?
20:00You have indeed. I feel faint
20:05I'll take you upstairs
20:16I didn't know I really didn't know my perfect wife
20:46I
21:16I
21:29Been watching for you. Why?
21:34Your uncle is here why I
21:38Thought perhaps if we could talk to him we I
21:42I am your wife my perfect wife
21:52Mr. Stevens the moneylender was here about the notes you signed
21:55Three tradesmen came together
21:58They refused to deliver any more bread coal or meat unless you pay something on account
22:03they heard about
22:05about my mother's death
22:07They thought perhaps you were her heir
22:09That is that that but my wife brought me a fortune
22:13Of course, you told them the truth. No, I
22:16Asked them to be patient
22:18Then I sent your uncle a note
22:21That was kind of you. I
22:24Asked him to come here to visit us. I had no idea he'd come immediately
22:27My uncle wouldn't miss an opportunity to see me crawl
22:29Neil plead employing to cost me a crumb feed his fat conceit by begging for what belongs to me
22:35Where is he I
22:38Gave it my mother's room. Oh, so the stage is set
22:42Now you expect me to go up to him and whimper
22:44Please so that he can rant and rave avenging your mother by humiliating me
22:52Does my mother need avenging your charming sister thinks so
23:05I
23:15Come in
23:21So you finally decided to come home here uncle George I didn't expect to find you here as my guest
23:27What did you expect creditors on your doorstep bailiffs in your drawing room as you know, that would be nothing new
23:34However, the present situation is quite different from the past. You mean it's worse
23:40Why did she marry you she thought I was rich I thought she was rich we were both mistaken
23:47So you added another pretty piece to your collection that you can't afford to pay for
23:52Uncle George you hold five thousand two hundred pounds that actually belongs to me
23:57You have only to sign a piece of paper and there'll be no more creditors howling at my doorstep
24:01I shall be able to work think and write as I cannot do now when you forged my signature
24:08That was a sample of your writing ability. I assume I
24:12Am on to you and I won't stand for any more of it
24:17How much is that thing worth
24:21More than you could possibly understand
24:24Then get someone to buy it
24:26Sell off the fancy-dancy this and that you've filled your house with
24:30There must be some fools who can afford their foolishness, but you can't nothing in this house is for sale
24:37Since when did beggars get to be choosers since when did you get to be God with the right to judge condemned to doom?
24:48This is the last time I shall ask you to help me I've told you what to do
24:53If you don't want to do it, it's your bad luck and not mine
24:57Are
24:58You sure uncle George?
25:00Are you sure you'd better not threaten me?
25:04Otherwise, you'll never get a penny. Never. It's a very long time
25:26I
25:36Killed his uncle away
25:56You
26:18He's to drink that all of it when he wakes
26:20He'll be right as rain in a day or so probably outlive all of us
26:26Constitutionally, he's sound as English oak and as I imagine you've noticed as hard to bend or break
26:38He's going to die isn't he isn't he no dear it's a little trouble with his heart
26:43I'm sorry to disappoint you Helen. Good night doctor. Thank you. God bless you
26:48Doctor thank you quite. All right, mrs. Griffith happy to be of service. I'll show you up
26:55Make sure your uncle takes his medicine
26:58Let her add a few drops of bread to disguise the taste
27:02Anything you say
27:04He's the one that's disappointed. Did you see him? He tried to murder his uncle. I know he did
27:09I don't care what that doctor said he tried to murder his uncle
27:18I
27:48You
28:18You
28:48You
29:06Uncle George
29:08Uncle George wake up
29:10It's all right. Have the George the the doctors been here
29:15He makes this for you, it's it's mostly brandy
29:25You're to drink all of it doctor's orders
29:33More
29:44I
30:15I
30:30Dozed off I thought I heard a noise wait
30:45I
30:53Didn't should have been more careful, shouldn't she
30:56She called you a murderer
30:58Be very wrong of me to hold her accountable for things said under the stress of shock and sorrow
31:03The money comes to me now, you know that of course
31:06This is hardly the time to talk about such matters with your poor sister lying there
31:14I
31:25Believe you heard the doctor tell me to add brandy to his medicine to disguise its taste
31:32Yes, I heard
31:34Uncle George
31:36Must have wait just now while I was dozing and smelled the brandy
31:42He loved brandy
31:45Strange in the same night in almost the same moment my uncle and your sister, but first
31:54my mother
31:56She loved brandy, too
31:59You hated her
32:01You hated Helen
32:03You hated your uncle hate is a small and ugly word for a smaller and uglier emotion. You even hated my cat
32:12a
32:14Few drops of spilled brandy lapped up from the floor wouldn't kill a cat
32:19Any more than brandy killed my mother
32:24There was more than brandy in that glass wasn't there more than medicine wasn't there
32:38You
32:41You
33:11You
33:34Move along there move along wherever he's run to they'll find him. You're safe from him. I promise
33:42You
33:55Are you
33:56Are you mr. Griffith? I am Thomas Edward Griffith. I am here to arrest you. Mr
34:02Griffith and I must warn you sir that anything you may say may be used in evidence against you
34:08The charge I presume is murder mr. Justin I point out to you that he is the first to mention murder
34:15Thus proving to mr. Proctor satisfaction that a guilty conscience doth betray me
34:23Your name is Mustin
34:26Justin Oh
34:27Of the bow bells flying squadron. You hardly flew coming here. In fact, you kept me waiting. I
34:34Sent my dear wife to fetch you hours ago
34:37It's not true
34:39Now, why do you suppose did I do that?
34:42She is no longer answerable to you. I
34:46Believe she is still my wife and that under English law a wife cannot take the witness stand
34:52against her husband
34:55There is also the fact mr. Proctor that choice of an advisor and protector for my wife rests entirely with me
35:01And I'm afraid you're not exactly the Galahad some Paris on reproach I choose to guard my loving loyal wife
35:07I
35:28Nick is broken. Mr. Proctor was her protector. You can see why I lack faith in you. Come on, sir
35:38I
35:40Business with mr. Justin's employers soon be settled and then nothing will stand between us my dear
35:47nothing
35:50Carry those care
35:53Good day, mr. Proctor. Au revoir, my dear
36:07Oh
36:20Your friend mr. Griffith needn't be locked up in the midst of all this
36:25If you confess and throw himself on her majesty's mercy
36:28We moved a better Cortez
36:31and from there to
36:33execution doctor
36:34And what else can a murderer expect?
36:38He's in there
36:45Well, mr. Larry more I
36:48I came as soon as I heard you needn't have it. I
36:53Thought I would find you in deep distress
36:55No interesting experience distress as an artist or a writer and since I am both
37:00Or neither depending on the point of view my enemies or mine
37:04As a matter of fact, I'm much respected here
37:09Not because I am called a poisoner
37:12But because the other prisoners think my crimes earned me ten thousand pounds that makes me their hero since their own sins were so much
37:19less profitable I
37:21Came hoping you might let me help
37:24Hanging me or saving me. I don't know what can save you
37:30They say you've even threatened to kill your wife
37:34No painting is finished. Mr. Larimer until the last brushstroke is applied. I don't understand
37:42No, of course you don't
37:44Good night, mr. Larimer. Oh
37:48Mr. Larimer be so kind as to give my wife a message
37:51Say to her that I'm sure it will be only a few days before I can come to her and we can resume settlement of
37:57Matters which remained unresolved when she and mr. Proctor brought mr. Justin to arrest me
38:03I
38:13Am still laughing mr. Justin this man is a murderer
38:18He doesn't even trouble to deny his own guilt
38:21He rests his defense on mockery and on a crooked game of confusion and obfuscation
38:28And on a claim of reasonable doubt
38:31What doubt can there be
38:34When an innocent man is accused he reacts with anger and indignation
38:39You mr. Griffith manifest only
38:42Contempt and cynicism your attitude alone convicts you I beg your pardon sir, John
38:49My lord, may I speak?
38:53You may speak
38:56The prosecutor demands your ruling that I must stand trial for my life, but it seems to me
39:02Perhaps I'm a little prejudiced that he destroys his own case by his summary of it. I
39:08Have been told the corpses of my departed uncle and my wife's lamented mother have been exhumed examined for some trace of deadly poison
39:15Yet the prosecutor offers no testimony that these autopsies were rewarded as far as he can prove both my
39:22Generous uncle George and our beloved mother Abercrombie died of natural causes. Is that not true?
39:31So sir, John must contend himself for the claim that I possess some deadly unknown drug
39:39Rarely now do you believe a jury will credit me with such satanic mastery of the fine art of murder I
39:48Submit
39:50The record shows me as arch defender of the true and the beautiful
39:54These gentlemen describe me as archpoisoner, but they cannot name the poison
39:58They pile suspicion on suspicion, but they cannot produce plain fact
40:03Deny it sir. John as sworn servant of her majesty an upholder of the laws of England deny. There is reasonable doubt
40:12That is for the jury to decide
40:14Do you dare to face a jury with ramshackle paste and scissors circumstantial evidence that and nothing more
40:22My lord, I submit that
40:29The prisoners remanded in custody pending further disposition of the issue here before us
40:44You
40:46You
40:48You
41:13Think mr. Griffith that you won a great victory over English law
41:18Being free and clear by Lord Danforth's decision is hardly a defeat. It isn't over. Mr. Griffith. It can't be over
41:25I beg to differ
41:26There's a statute concerning double jeopardy
41:29Having been arraigned and charged and her majesty's chief justice having ruled there was not even sufficient evidence to place me on trial
41:36I cannot be charged again for the same alleged crimes. All London is up in arms against you
41:43Mr. Griffith and I shan't consider my duty as done until you are penned and punished
41:49The baffled bloodhound baying at the unreachable moon
41:55What's that a draft on my uncle's bankers payable when I come into my inheritance I
42:02Would like you to divide it among my fellow prisoners
42:05So that they shall have pocket money for their long voyage to the prison camp in Australia
42:09Goodbye mr. Just
42:30Mr. Griffith
42:32Well, mr. Larrimore, I didn't expect to see you again I
42:37Owe you a debt and I'm trying to pay it. Please. Mr. Griffith. Don't stand talking
42:41The news of your release is being shouted in the streets. A mob is forming armed with clubs and stones
42:48Here's money all I have I paid the coachman
42:52Hurry, mr. Griffith
42:54So a lamb becomes a lion for the sake of a serpent
42:59You paid the coachman
43:01You paid me a thousand times over for favors that cost me no more than a few well-chosen words
43:07But still I must disappoint you. Mr. Larrimore. I cannot run off and hide. I have a rendezvous to keep I beg you
43:13Mr. Griffith do not go to your wife. Did she send you here to plead her cause? I'm thinking only of you
43:19We're on a pedestal now. You've fallen as Lucifer fell
43:23But still something might be saved. I beg you. Mr. Griffith
43:29The mob is coming there's stone you mr. Griffith they'll hang you if they can go before it's too late
43:36I
44:06Think
44:09Too much
44:15Thank you
44:36You
44:38You
44:40You
45:05You are very rude to refuse to drink a farewell toast with me my dear
45:11They will cry
45:13You killed her. I
45:16will say
45:17She chose a quick death by her own hand and preference to life with a husband
45:21She ruined when she called him Griffith the poisoner
45:24and
45:25another case reasonable doubt
45:30You have no other choice my dear this or unbearable agony infinitely prolonged
45:40I
45:56Am here to arrest you mr. Griffith there can be no charge against me now. Oh
46:05You're quite wrong mr. Griffith in October 1828
46:10You completed a certain financial transaction
46:14Monies were held for you in trust to the order of mr. George Griffith
46:18That's past history and buried with my uncle
46:21No, mr. Griffith. I
46:23Have here a bank draft
46:26Which bears your uncle's signature and which you presented for payment?
46:31Your uncle did not sign this. Mr. Griffith. It has been compared with his true signature and yours on the draft
46:37You gave me a nougat
46:38You forged this draft. Mr. Griffith. I
46:42Robbed no one
46:44The money was mine
46:46if that is I I
46:49Anticipated timely you confess the forgery in the presence of these witnesses
46:53No matter if I do. I'm not under oath or on trial
46:57But you will be mr. Griffith you will be
47:01And
47:03The penalty for uttering false paper under the Lord which mr. Griffith has laughed until this moment
47:09Is transportation to Australia as a prisoner at hard labor in the penal colonies for life
47:17with no possibility of parole
47:21It's not the same thing as hanging an execution doc for murder, but for such a perfectionist as mr. Griffith
47:28It may be worse
47:30It may be worse
47:33I
47:58Know life lives forever
48:02Dead men rise up never
48:05but even the
48:09Weary
48:32You
49:02You
49:32You