A Cruel Love The Ruth Ellis Story S01E03
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00:38I've been doing this for a week
00:40and not making any headway.
00:42Should've started with the corners.
00:44Thank you, Joy.
00:46♪♪
00:49Morning news. Get your news here.
00:52Morning news.
00:54Morning news. Get your news here.
00:56Morning news.
00:58♪♪
01:05They've given us a date.
01:07Mr. Pierpoint's little visit, yes.
01:10Twelve days.
01:11And we can expect the Home Secretary's decision
01:13a couple of days before.
01:15Decision?
01:16On whether to reprieve, postpone,
01:18or even cancel your death sentence.
01:21Now, a letter from you would be an enormous help.
01:26Requesting compassion.
01:28Expressing, if not remorse, then at least regret.
01:32I don't regret.
01:34I won't lie, and I certainly won't beg.
01:36Nothing will be sent to the Home Office.
01:38No appeal, no attempt to reprieve.
01:44And thine eyes shall not pity.
01:47But life shall go for life.
01:49Eye for eye, tooth for tooth.
01:51♪♪
01:54All I want is justice.
01:56For David.
01:57♪♪
02:03I'm due at the Home Office in 72 hours
02:07to submit her case.
02:09The Secretary of State
02:10will make his decision over the weekend.
02:13What are you using?
02:15For the appeal.
02:16Her alcoholism and, uh, mental breakdown, perhaps.
02:21♪♪
02:25You're not thinking of using him?
02:29Ah, yes.
02:31Desmond Cusson.
02:32Look, dragging him in now
02:34would just make it look even more premeditated.
02:36What if he solicited her to murder?
02:38Desmond Cusson was an RAF bomber pilot.
02:43You know the casualty rate of bomber crews.
02:45Only one in four made it through the war.
02:47So we let him get away with murder
02:49because he was a war hero?
02:51No doubt he made mistakes.
02:53Getting too close to a woman like Ellis, for one.
02:56Not that I'm judging her, but...
02:58Ah.
03:00The world is the way it is, John.
03:05I could take this to the Home Office right now.
03:07And tell them what?
03:10That you allowed your client to perjure herself?
03:12I could take it to the newspapers.
03:14And what a sheer bloody spectacle that would be.
03:18You're like me, John.
03:19We're both scholarship boys.
03:22We both know the price of admission for boys like us.
03:26Ah.
03:28I know, all right.
03:31Discretion.
03:33I never, ever frighten the horses.
03:37That's why you brought me here, isn't it?
03:39Show me what I could win if I'm a good little chap.
03:42And don't rock the boat.
03:46But your problem is I don't care
03:48about being part of the club, one of the chaps.
03:51You think this is all real.
03:54That it matters.
03:55This is nonsense.
03:58That trial was a pantomime, all of you.
04:01And your costumes and wigs, absolute meaningless nonsense.
04:06Steady, Bigfoot.
04:07Right now, I feel like I could blow this whole thing up
04:10and damn the consequences.
04:12You really think you can take them all on and win?
04:16You concealed material facts.
04:19You made yourself an accessory to murder.
04:23Now, you can destroy yourself and her,
04:25or you can take her one chance at a reprieve.
04:32For her sake and yours, go for madness.
04:38But she isn't mad.
04:40Mental strain exacerbated by the miscarriage
04:44and her alcoholism.
04:46She won't like it.
04:47It's the best case we have for mercy.
04:50What about Desmond Cusson?
04:54I think Ruth herself is where we
04:56should concentrate our efforts.
04:59Jackie Dyer's gone to the police.
05:00She's made a statement about the gun and the cab
05:03that Desmond used to drive.
05:04Why aren't we using that?
05:05Badger the man, you will.
05:06It's something he's not telling us.
05:08I can assure you, it's all being looked into.
05:10Now, if you'll excuse me.
05:12Why aren't we using Cusson?
05:18Shit.
05:22Mr. Cusson, DCI Davis, Met Police.
05:26Can we have a word?
05:29So you have no idea why this woman, Jacqueline Dyer,
05:33has made these claims?
05:36I suppose a misguided attempt to help Mrs. Ellis.
05:41She's made no effort whatsoever to help herself.
05:45Mrs. Ellis has made our job extremely easy.
05:49It's as open and shut a case as I ever saw.
05:53And she hasn't fought it.
05:55Why?
05:57She's a young mother.
05:58No criminal record.
06:00Every reason to ask for mercy.
06:02But she hasn't.
06:05She is going like a lamb to slaughter.
06:16I know you've been letting Blakely
06:18drink for free for months.
06:22You let him destroy this club and make fools of both of us.
06:30I'm going to need the flat back.
06:34You're sacking me.
06:36I'll give you till the end of the week.
06:39I've got nowhere to go.
06:46We can work something out.
06:49You know I'll always look after you, Ruthie.
07:02You will never touch me again.
07:05I'm afraid the divorce settlement from George Ellis
07:07leaves you with.
07:08Bugger all.
07:08I know.
07:09Unless you want to take Mr. Ellis to court,
07:12which I would still strongly urge you to consider.
07:15No.
07:16Thank you, Mr. Mishacon.
07:17Well, one signature, and you are very, very, very,
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14:23last year
14:31verified that we interviewed mr cousin at length as to your claims
14:37everything i told you you already knew i understand you want to help your friend and that is
14:42admirable but nothing you can do can change the fact mrs ellis murdered david blackley
14:48and cold blood.
14:49Hey.
14:50You want her dead.
14:52All of you.
14:53I want justice for Blakely's family.
14:59Stinks, Ruth.
15:02The whole thing stinks.
15:04The police have covered things up.
15:05Evidence that would have helped you,
15:07that linked Cousin to the gun.
15:08I said I didn't want you going to the police.
15:11If his involvement was known, it would mean a retrial at least.
15:15Desmond is innocent.
15:18Then why hasn't he visited you once since the trial, Jackie?
15:23If he came out, everything would change.
15:26People are on your side, Ruth.
15:27They're getting angry.
15:29All the people I've spoken to agree.
15:33What people?
15:35I've been campaigning for you.
15:38A petition.
15:39What?
15:41And these are letters of support.
15:44Jackie, I told you.
15:45I told you I didn't want this.
15:47I don't want people out there begging for me.
15:49People feel for you, Ruth.
15:51They feel.
15:52They feel pity.
15:53I would rather them think I was a cold-hearted, murdering
15:56bitch with no regrets.
15:58But that's not who you are.
15:59Isn't it?
16:01Perhaps it's just easier for you to think that.
16:04Poor little Ruth.
16:06David mistreated her so terribly, she lost her mind.
16:08She had no choice.
16:10I chose to make him die on the ground in front of me.
16:15Maybe it's easier for you to think that, to make yourself
16:17believe you deserve it.
16:19But that's the coward's way out.
16:20Get out rather than fight him.
16:22Get out and don't visit me again.
16:24They're going to kill you, Ruth.
16:26And you're just as bad as them for letting it.
16:28Get out and take those fucking things with you.
16:32Get out.
16:38This is bigger than her now.
16:41It's about Timothy Evans and Derek Bentley.
16:45It's about the whole business of whether the state should
16:48go on merrily hanging people, only to later discover that
16:52maybe they weren't guilty.
16:54The government is nervous.
16:56They promised law and order.
17:00But the abolitionists are knocking at the gates.
17:03And then what's next?
17:04The homosexuals?
17:06The abortionists?
17:08So that's why they want her dead.
17:11I just need a name.
17:13But if no one will help her and she won't help herself.
17:16Then you have to.
17:28Desmond Cussin.
17:30Ruth Ellis' lover.
17:31Gave her the gun, drove her to the scene
17:33of the murder in a black cab.
17:35Her friend, Jacqueline Dyer, is certain.
17:38Yeah, well, our libel lawyers are busy enough, son.
17:40She hangs in 10 days.
17:42About to be reprieved.
17:4390% of women are.
17:44And what if she's not?
17:46And Desmond Cussin gets away with it.
17:4730 million newspapers bought every Sunday in this country.
17:51Bought for two reasons, sex and hanging.
17:53You're not here to fight crime.
17:54You're here to sell it.
17:55Come back to me with proof and we can talk.
18:03Hello. Yes.
18:04I'm calling about my son, Andre Ellis.
18:06I want to check his school fees for the term had been paid.
18:11Right.
18:16I'll make sure I check his centre as soon as possible.
18:25Ruth.
18:27Let me look after you, won't you?
18:32You won't look after him.
18:34You promise?
18:35Whatever happens.
18:36I promise.
18:37You won't look after him.
18:38You promise?
18:39Whatever happens.
18:40You won't look after him.
18:41I swear it.
18:43You won't look after him.
18:45I swear it.
18:46You won't look after him.
18:47You promise?
18:49I swear it.
18:54I was thinking.
18:56About holiday.
18:58Get Andre out of London.
19:00Scotland.
19:01I thought I could teach him to fish.
19:03David would lose his mind.
19:04Let me deal with him.
19:05Let me deal with him.
19:06It's a Christmas present.
19:09Since you got me this exquisite tie.
19:13Same again?
19:14Please.
19:18Merry Christmas, Ruth.
19:26What are you doing here?
19:29I haven't slept with him, if that's what you're worried about.
19:31Look at you.
19:33Drunk.
19:36Whilst your son is alone at home.
19:38On Christmas night.
19:40You're an embarrassment.
19:41What are you doing here?
19:44I'm wishing Merry Christmas to my fiance.
19:48Go with her.
19:51You have no idea, do you?
19:55What she really thinks about you.
19:58The contempt she feels for you.
20:02Stop.
20:03You little bastard.
20:05Outside.
20:07Now.
20:08Outside.
20:11How about hitting a man instead of a woman for once?
20:15It's over.
20:16You and Ruth.
20:18You lost.
20:32I love you.
21:03I know you're bored out of your skull with him.
21:08This is what you need.
21:12This is who you are.
21:21He is.
21:27He is.
21:33Please, turn the light off.
21:36Off?
22:00Is it true that you have all been campaigning for me?
22:03I told you.
22:04No begging.
22:05No pleading.
22:06You've seen what they've written about you.
22:08I don't care what they write.
22:09I want my sentence to take its course.
22:13You will not go to the Home Office.
22:15I will not die with this world thinking I am some beaten little fool.
22:23Well that's it then.
22:24That is justice.
22:26An eye for an eye.
22:27As I have said from the start.
22:31An eye for an eye.
22:35Yes.
22:36You know.
22:40I was in Austria just after the war.
22:44I was a prosecutor in the British zone.
22:47And I prosecuted a young German soldier.
22:51His unit had been moving Hungarian Jews in what later became called the Death Marches.
22:57And these prisoners were exhausted.
23:00Barely able to walk.
23:03And he was ordered to shoot anyone that fell.
23:06And at first he refused.
23:08But eventually he shot two men.
23:13And after the war we tried him for murder and we hanged him.
23:19One week after he committed those crimes, in March 1945, the Soviets liberated Vienna.
23:29They were out for revenge.
23:31Many drunk, terrorizing the city.
23:34Perhaps a hundred thousand women were raped.
23:39Not one single charge was brought against any of them.
23:46Because they were on our side.
23:50Justice isn't real, Ruth.
23:53It's a story written by the winners.
23:58I'm not certain of much, but I know you don't deserve to die for what you did.
24:13We will look after him.
24:15We promise.
24:16Whatever happens.
24:18I swear it.
24:19I swear it.
24:23John.
24:29He made certain promises.
24:33Yes, ma'am.
24:38He promised to look after Andre.
24:41And I don't think he's going to.
24:44I told you he gave me the gun.
24:50Perhaps it's time to use that.
24:57We can't.
24:59You know we can't.
25:03It's too late.
25:06You told me you wanted me to tell them.
25:11Ruth, the better way is to go for the violence.
25:15Your miscarriage.
25:18What David did to you.
25:20The child you would have had.
25:28I think I'm pregnant.
25:32It's only a couple weeks, but I can feel it.
25:35Oh, Christ.
25:39I'll call Dr. James in, make an appointment.
25:43It's really no worse than getting a tooth out.
25:48I don't want you to get rid of it.
25:53Don't you?
25:55But no more Desmond Carson.
26:05We find somewhere to live.
26:09As a family.
26:11We visit my mother.
26:14We visit my mother.
26:18Tell her we're getting married.
26:33Well, alright then.
26:44I still don't understand why you can't stay here with me.
26:49Well, if you and I are to have a future together, I need to build up my own life first.
26:53My independence.
26:55A home for Andre.
26:57I've found a bed sitting room. It's cheap.
27:01Look, I know how much I've already asked of you.
27:09How much do you need?
27:10How much do you need?
27:16We would like the Home Secretary to consider provocation in the case of Ruth Ellis.
27:21She was suffering enormously at the time of the offence.
27:26She'd had a miscarriage caused by Blakely's violence.
27:30It wasn't fully explored at trial.
27:33And there's a petition.
27:36It's 50,000 signatories.
27:37From Australia, America, France, Germany and hundreds of letters.
27:42I hope the Home Secretary will consider them.
27:45They're not all in Mrs. Ellis' favour.
27:47I am married to a woman similar in nature to Ruth Ellis.
27:51Eaten up with jealousy through and through.
27:53I greatly fear that my future safety would be at stake if you granted a reprieve.
27:57And many women express concern that clemency should not be granted merely because she is female.
28:04I hope the Home Secretary will concentrate on the facts.
28:07The facts are simple.
28:09Mrs. Ellis committed a firearms murder in cold blood.
28:15There may have been other factors.
28:18Such as?
28:24She will not act to save herself.
28:28She will not let me act to help her.
28:31She practically wouldn't let me bring her case in front of you.
28:35She's determined to die because she feels like her life is not worth saving.
28:42You must act now.
28:44In the name of justice, in the name of mercy.
28:47She will hang in five days.
28:49I just need more time, for God's sake.
28:51A bit more time.
29:01Forgive me, sir.
29:05I'm sorry.
29:13I will speak to the Home Secretary.
29:15He's not without compassion. Quite the opposite.
29:18Have you heard of a woman called Sarah Lloyd?
29:23Who?
29:25She's a woman on death row at Strangeways.
29:28She was convicted for the murder of an elderly neighbour with a shovel.
29:31Due to be hanged in two days, but Lloyd George has just reprieved her.
29:36Provocation over time wasn't a factor in her conviction, but it has been a factor in her reprieve.
29:44So that's good, isn't it?
29:46It could be bloody brilliant.
29:48Bloody brilliant.
29:58God.
30:00And it all belongs to your parents?
30:02Yes, all theirs.
30:05It's a bit suburban, really.
30:07Still, it's nice to have the tennis courts.
30:14You nervous?
30:15Bit.
30:17Well, I'll tell you what.
30:19Let's go grab a drink first.
30:24All right.
30:37Your friends are here.
30:39We often drink here on Sundays.
30:41Then roll up at my parents' demanding roast beef.
30:44Look, just a quick one.
30:47Promise.
30:49Oh, here he is.
30:51Hello.
30:53Well, I thought I'd come a bit early.
30:55Hello. How was the drive?
30:57Oh, it was all right.
30:59And the maitre d' says to him,
31:01I'm sorry, sir, but these tables are reserved for the race car drivers.
31:05And Anne just looks at him and says,
31:07Now look here, old chap.
31:09We are the bloody race.
31:10We are the bloody race.
31:12Now bring us some champagne!
31:16Have you ever been to Le Mans?
31:18No, I've never been to France.
31:20I've never actually been abroad.
31:22Perhaps he'll take you for your honeymoon.
31:24Well, he told us.
31:26Congratulations.
31:28Come on, a toast.
31:30To the soon-to-be Mr. and Mrs. David Blakely.
31:32Cheers.
31:34Mr. and Mrs. David Blakely.
31:36You'd better make sure you take the bins out on time.
31:37Or she'll be sending the gangsters round to make sure you do.
31:45Come along, we should go.
31:47We don't want to keep your mother waiting.
31:49Yes, quite right. Mustn't keep Annie waiting.
31:51I tell you what.
31:53Why don't I go and get her and bring her back for a G&T before lunch?
31:56Well, no, I'll come.
31:58No, you stay here.
32:00Have fun.
32:08I'm sorry about all that.
32:10They can be so childish.
32:12What do they mean, about the gangsters?
32:15When David was attacked, he had this idea, perhaps it was just a joke, that you sent the men to do it.
32:21It wasn't me.
32:23David's no angel.
32:25God knows he deserves a black eye now and then.
32:27I'm sorry.
32:29I'm sorry.
32:31I'm sorry.
32:33I'm sorry.
32:34David's no angel.
32:36God knows he deserves a black eye now and then.
32:39He'll never introduce you to his mother, you know.
32:42We're getting married.
32:45We're actually...
32:47We're actually having a baby.
32:49No, you're having a baby.
32:52It's not a judgement, simply a fact.
32:55David will never truly know if the baby is his.
32:58Did he say that?
33:00I'm not trying to be cruel.
33:02What you and David have, it isn't love.
33:04It's love for both of you, and my advice is get out now.
33:07David, your mother fancy a drink?
33:10No, monsieur is busy.
33:19You're a cruel little coward, David.
33:28I'll drive you back to London.
33:37Least I could do.
33:40I've got a bottle of gin inside if you want to come in for a drink.
33:47How far along are you, anyway?
33:49About six weeks.
33:51Gosh, a taste of gin would make me heave at six weeks.
33:55Strong stomach.
33:57I'm sorry.
33:59I'm sorry.
34:01I'm sorry.
34:02Strong stomach.
34:07Ruth.
34:09Ruth.
34:11The evening paper's in.
34:13I'm so sorry.
34:15It's your friend, Vicky.
34:32I'm sorry.
35:00Mrs Ellis?
35:02Prison's in.
35:04From the Home Secretary.
35:06Under reprieve.
35:12I have been pressed from many quarters to exercise clemency in this case.
35:18On the grounds of the prisoner's sex, and of her yielding to jealousy,
35:23which is alleged by some people to be stronger in women than in men.
35:33Are you going to get up today?
35:38It was Vicky's thirteenth accident in four years.
35:43When your time's up, it's up.
35:49Where have you been?
35:52If you must know,
35:54I stayed at Carol and Ed's.
35:56If you must know,
35:58I stayed at Carol and Ed's.
36:03Course you did.
36:06You haven't been to the doctor about your pregnancy yet, have you?
36:09Not yet.
36:11You should be what?
36:14Ten weeks now?
36:17I spoke to Carol about it all.
36:21She said your symptoms are all wrong.
36:23But it's all very convenient, forcing us to get married.
36:29And I think she's right.
36:32It's not just the accent.
36:35The hair that's fake, is it?
36:38You're not really pregnant, are you?
36:40What?
36:41There may be circumstances, in a capital case, where special conditions apply to a woman,
36:47which would not be applicable in the case of a man.
36:49One recent example is that of Mrs. Sarah Lloyd.
36:58I can find no such special circumstances, however, in the present case.
37:04After everything I've done for you, brought you into my world,
37:07loved you, worshipped you,
37:10and all along, you were working out how to trap me.
37:13That's not true.
37:15You had me beaten.
37:16You had me beaten.
37:18I didn't.
37:19To scare me into thinking I could never leave.
37:22I didn't do that.
37:23And then you went to work on my honor,
37:25knowing I'd never abandon you if you were having a child.
37:29David, you're pregnant.
37:36The crime was a deliberate one,
37:39and was carried out with premeditation.
37:43The prisoner has expressed no remorse.
37:47I can find nothing to justify my taking a less serious view
37:53than of other cases of such a callous and calculating nature.
37:59God, don't let me do it.
38:01God, don't let me do it.
38:03The trial judge has told me that he can suggest no mitigating circumstances,
38:09and that he himself was not able to find any grounds for proposing that clemency would be appropriate.
38:21After much anxious thought,
38:24I have come to the conclusion that the law should be allowed to run its course.
38:32One of these days, I will kill you.
38:39No.
38:41You've already done that.
38:46The sentence will be carried out two days from now.
38:52Well, I bet Emily's really missed you.
38:57Andre, go and play.
38:59Go on.
39:21Go on.
39:39It's all I could do.
39:41Maybe now you can get some sleep.
39:51No.
39:57I don't want to die.
40:06I don't want to die.
40:13I don't want to die.
40:17I don't want to die.
40:19I don't want to die.
40:29I know what you want to ask.
40:33Why don't I just bloody leave him?
40:36I don't have to ask that.
40:38Not after Dad.
40:42George, you've never known any different.
40:44You don't think you deserve any different.
41:09You said it would be enough.
41:11The violence, the miscarriage.
41:12You told me it would be enough for a reprieve.
41:19The game is rigged, Ruth.
41:22Why did you tell me to keep quiet?
41:25Because it was too late.
41:28For who? For you?
41:30You chose to perjure yourself and make me an accessory to murder.
41:35You promised that you would help me, but you haven't.
41:39Every step of the way.
41:40Every step of the way.
41:42You've made it harder and harder for me to help save his life.
41:48And I've never understood why.
41:55Do you know about what George used to do?
42:00He used to get blackout drunk.
42:02And when he would come home, it would always be my fault.
42:05And he would belt me.
42:06And people would always say to me, what do you do to drive him to it?
42:13What do you do to drive them all to it?
42:16Because you know, every man I have ever been with has turned out the same.
42:22Drunk.
42:24Violent.
42:26And it must have been my fault because it kept on happening.
42:30Different man.
42:32Same thing.
42:33Same thing.
42:36I tried so hard to escape it.
42:40Changed my voice.
42:42Changed the way I look.
42:44I worked and I worked.
42:48Youngest club manager in London.
42:53And I thought I'd done it.
42:58And then David turned up.
43:03And he was worse than all of them.
43:06And I thought there must be something in me that has pulled towards them, towards men like him.
43:12And I just didn't know what.
43:17And then when he was dead,
43:21the police and the papers and the lawyers, they all made sense of it for me.
43:27At last, I had my answer.
43:33The reason I couldn't escape it,
43:36was because it was what was always meant for me.
43:40A common little tart with nothing to anyone except the price she can charge for a night.
43:45Finally getting what she had coming to her.
43:52And I would still believe that,
43:55if it weren't for you.
44:00But you gave me hope.
44:04Hope that I could live.
44:09That I didn't deserve to die.
44:15You're scared of them, aren't you?
44:18All those men you talked about that could destroy me.
44:25You never really believed you could save me, did you?
44:34I'll be appointing a new solicitor.
44:38Goodbye, Mr. Bickford.
45:04You found your husband in the marital bed with a lady who goes by the professional moniker, Madam Feather.
45:11That's right.
45:13He's agreed to a divorce. You say you only want what's rightfully yours.
45:17Yes.
45:20I'll get you the whole bloody lot.
45:24Telephone for you, sir.
45:26It's Holloway Prison.
45:28Bickford.
45:30I'm Victor Mishkin. I handled Ruth's divorce.
45:34I believe she's asked for me.
45:38Why has she fired you?
45:40I don't know.
45:42I don't know.
45:44I don't know.
45:46I don't know.
45:48I don't know.
45:50I don't know.
45:52I don't know.
45:54I don't know.
45:55Why has she fired you?
45:59I've been carrying a bomb in my briefcase and I didn't have the guts to detonate it.
46:05Try to get her to tell you about the gun.
46:15Mrs. Ellis.
46:20I believe you have something to tell me that might save your life.
46:25I do.
46:55I do.