"(RAINING AND THUNDERING)" "(LIGHTHOUSE BELL RINGS)" "(GRUNTS)" "Where are my goods, them crates you promised me?" "When I'm satisfied." "Of what?" "STURT:" "That he ain't with you, and you ain't with the River Police." " We saw him watching the brig." "(GRUNTS)" "Cut the bastard's throat." "(MUFFLED MOANING)" "(CREAKING)" "(GRUNTS)" "River Police!" "Give yourselves up!" "Judas!" "(GASPING)" "HERRICK:" "Help!" " HERRICK:" "Help!" " Hold on." "(GASPING)" "(PANTING)" "(SCREAMS)" " Get some rope." "(MOANING)" "(SHOUTING)" "(GRUNTING)" "What's the tally?" "Six crates so far, sir." "And the rest?" "Beg your pardon, sir?" "It was you that gave Herrick away, wasn't it?" "Was it worth it?" "Putting a fellow officer's life at risk for your dirty money?" "Do you know what he's talking about, Abe?" " OFFICER:" "No idea." "(HORSE NEIGHING)" "And you." "If you'd kept your distance like I said they'd never have found you." "I'm sorry, sir." "(WHISTLE BLOWING)" "OFFICER:" "Over here, found something!" "(VOMITING)" "Give me something to cover her with." "What are you waiting for?" "(STARTLED SCREAM)" "(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)" "This way, Home Secretary." "Oi, I supplies the subjects around here." "What did you say?" "You heard." "PIRKIS:" "Mr Marlott?" "They want ya." "I understand we have you to thank for this memorable gathering, Mr..." "Marlott, sir." "Yes, Sir Robert." "I had the child conveyed here." "You know me?" "You accompanied my patrol on your visit to Wapping last year, sir." "And you insisted that this..." "Object be examined by Sir William Chester, the leading surgeon in the land, not the Surrey coroner, why?" " I'm sorry if I've erred, sir." " Answer the question." "I've seen murder before, sir, but nothing like this." "Murder?" "How do you murder something that's never been alive?" "Never, sir?" "Are you certain?" "Use your eyes, man." "This thing is a composite." "Parts of at least seven children." "Disarticulated and reassembled." " Piecework." " Thank you, Sir William." "That is quite enough for one lunchtime." "Hope, my carriage." "Yes, Home Secretary." "Oblige me." "How many people know of this beside yourself?" "Only the men working under me, sir." "That's all?" "Yes, sir." "Keep it that way." "I take Eucharist tomorrow morning at St James's Piccadilly." "Attend me there." "PRITTY:" "And the rest of it." "(CHURCH ORGAN PLAYING)" "Please excuse me, I must attend to business." "God takes his rest on the seventh day but not the Home Secretary." "In the Lord's house, on the Lord's day?" "Business must be pressing indeed." "Mister Marlott of the River Police is here at my request." "I hope there are many ways to do God's work, ma'am." "Lady Hervey, your carriage." "Justice Richbell tells me you were acting undercover to capture a gang of ruthless opium smugglers." "Customs and Excise owe you half last year's revenue." ""You don't know the meaning of fear," he says." "Every living creature knows fear, sir." "(CHUCKLES)" "Let me tell you mine then." "Sir William Chester and I are in the process of modernising our antiquated medical profession." "The Anatomy Act will ensure that medicine in this country is practised only by qualified and accredited professionals." "Legislation is going through Parliament as we speak." "I think this abomination is the work of someone trying to put a stop to it." "Who, sir?" "Any one of the numberless charlatans who profit from the system as it is." "Unlicensed quacks, apothecaries, witch doctors, barbers, body snatchers." "One or more of them is evidently seeking to discredit our surgeons by stirring up popular feeling against them." "You think it was placed there deliberately?" "You saw that thing." "A grotesque parody of surgical procedure." "I want you to undertake an enquiry in strictest confidence." "Find whoever is responsible." "When you do, inform me only." " And my present duties?" " Suspended." "Remove yourself from Wapping to Bow Street Magistrates and find yourself new accommodation." "Needless to say, I have the power to transform your expectations utterly." "I wouldn't wait too long before committing yourself." " I won't let you down, sir." " Good." "Because more than you can imagine rests on your success." "Steady." "Rent in advance, first of the month." "Enter and exit downstairs only, if you please." "MARLOTT '." "Yes." "(FAINT ECHOING SCREAM)" "(SIGHS)" "That man I saw at your lodge the other day, the one you were doing business with." " Who is he?" " Pritty." "A resurrectionist." "Body snatcher." "He gets us corpses for the anatomy classes." "Subjects, we call 'em." "I thought the gallows supplied them." "(CHUCKLING) Not the amount that we get through." "So the hospitals do trade with criminals?" "They ain't criminals." "Look it up." "A dead body ain't property by law." "Right, so if something ain't got an owner, can't be stolen, can it?" "Does he bring you children?" "Not often, harder to come by." "Families keep a closer watch on 'em when they go." "So, seven at one go?" "No chance." "In a year, if you're lucky." " How much?" " For a child?" "Depends, state of decay, time of year." "Five guineas maybe?" " Good business." " Mm, yeah, it's a seller's market." "Their prices have dropped since talk of 'em bringing the workhouse stiffs our way." "Talk by whom?" "Your employer." "And mine." "(SCOFFS) What do I know?" "I'm just a hospital porter." "(DOOR OPENS)" "You cut her up, sir?" "CHESTER:" "Into its original constituents, yes." "Eight." "One more than my first estimate." "Can you say how they..." "How they died?" "How, no." "When, perhaps." "More than a week, less than a fortnight." "Given the state of putrefaction." "And how long in the water?" "An hour, two at most." "Longer, I'd wager." "On what grounds?" "I've seen my share of floaters, sir." "An hour here or there is of little consequence." "Sir Robert gave you his theory?" "Yes, someone out to prevent the Anatomy Act." "Blacken the name of surgery, yes." "Lay people fear us." "They're superstitious about what happens to their bodies after death." "Medical science has grown beyond their comprehension." "Isn't it possible for a surgeon to lose his wits like any other man?" "His wits, yes, not his art." "Not like this." "This is the work of a barber or a butcher." "But not one of us." "As whoever did this would have us believe." "And the stitching?" "A seamstress may stitch." "So you agree with Sir Robert?" "What other explanation could there be?" "Will you excuse me now?" "I have my lecture." "Show Mr Marlott out when he's done." "MARLOTT:" "Do subjects ever move?" "Move?" "Lot like a chicken whose head's been cut off, the energy persisting beyond death." "No, Mister Marlott." "They're dead." "Gentlemen, Mister Marlott has been seconded here from the River Police." "We have been asked to give him our assistance." "(CLEARS THROAT)" " Thank you." "Um..." "I need a list of all children between the ages of eight and 12, reported missing to the parish authorities within the last month, across the greater Metropolitan area." "May we know why?" "I'm afraid not." "The Home Secretary has bound me in strictest confidence." "MAN:" "If it's missing children you want, go to the window and throw a coin." "(LAUGHING)" "Sir Robert has asked for our assistance." " FORRESTER:" "And that's what he'll get." " (CHURCH BELL RINGS)" "Thank you, thank you in advance." "(INDISTINCT CHATTER)" "Where do you come from?" "Round here mostly, under the slats and that." "With them?" "Do you look out for one another?" "How d'you mean?" "Well, if one of you went missing, would you notice?" "We comes and goes all the time." "How about the last few weeks?" "Any more than usual?" "Not round here." "(COINS JINGLING)" "I could ask around the other markets." "Here." "Find me here three days from now." "I'll give you another one of them." "MAN:" "You found anything?" " Throw it in." " What?" "There's naught wrong with it." "I paid for it." "Throw it in." "FORRESTER:" "We are a business," "Constable Nightingale." " An enterprise." " Yes, sir." "Charity is for the wealthy, not for the likes of you." "Or didn't they teach you that at the Leatherworkers?" "Mister Marlott. (SIGHS)" "The information you requested." "Thank you." "Only five children reported missing in all of London in the last month?" "We can't be everywhere, sadly." "Now, can I return my men to their duties, or will you require any further assistance?" "Uh..." "A single officer will do." "Why don't you take Constable Nightingale?" "Why was Forrester reprimanding you?" "For arresting someone." "Who?" "Market trader, beat up his wife." "That's not a crime in Forrester's eyes?" "Well, not if she can't pay to have him prosecuted." " No." " Can you?" "I don't have that money." "Then he was right." "Well intentioned, but impractical." "What does he mean about Leatherworkers?" "I was brought up a guild boy." " You're an orphan?" " A foundling." "Well's that's how I got put up for the Runners." "It's sons and cousins in the normal run." "Closed shop." "I got lucky." "I want you to go to Greenwich." "Ask around the waterfront near the Naval College." "I'm looking for anyone who was there Saturday last, in the early hours, who saw anything," "saw anything strange." "Such as?" "Anything" "WARBURTON:" "Mister Speaker." "The Home Secretary talks of progress and reason and science." "But let us speak plainly." "What his noble words conceal is a scheme to deliver a free supply of corpses" "into the bloody hands of the surgeons." "(MURMURING)" "The corpses of the workhouse poor!" "Now are we to tell them, after their lives of hardship, that their bodies will not be returned to them on Judgement Day, as the Church has promised, but must now be cut to shreds on the dissecting tables" "like common criminals?" "Now, these reforms might well put the grave robbers out of business, as the Home Secretary intends." "But they will also divide this nation as they have divided this House!" "The Honourable members, Christian love of the poor is well-noted." "But it must be weighed against the greater good." "(SHOUTING)" "Lord Hervey of Mile End, Mister Speaker." "I should like to invoke peer's privilege to address the House." "I am unaware of any such precedent." "Magna Carta, Mister Speaker." "(LAUGHTER)" "The right of hereditary peers to address the Commons." "De Montfort's Charter of 1215, unrepealed." "Our last revolution was 140 years ago, Mister Speaker." "I hardly think we need another, whatever his Lordship says." "LORD HERVEY'." "Why, SW Robert'?" "ls the House frightened of what I might have to say?" "Thank You!" "Thank You!" "Now if we may return to Parliamentary business." " Order!" "Order!" "(MOCKING LAUGHTER)" "Mister Marlott, isn't it?" "Yes, your Ladyship." "Sir Robert's man, Daniel." "You have an interest in this bill?" "In some measure." "Then I take it you approve of these indecencies to be inflicted upon the bodies of the poor?" "I knew little of these proposals until recently." "And now that you do?" "I have my instructions, milady." "My conscience is my own." "Well, we shan't detain you." "A little thing like conscience mustn't stand between a man and his instructions." "BOY:" "Over there, nosey." "(CROWD GASPING)" "Mr Evans?" "Inspector Marlott from Bow Street." "Have you found her?" "When did you see her last?" "Friday." "My wife takes in needlework." "Alice helps." " Running errands." " Where?" "Saffron Hill, drapers." "She drops her stuff and comes to meet me at market." "Only she never showed." "MARLOTT:" "Which market?" "Smithfield's." "Oh, you're a butcher." "This a good likeness?" "Good enough." "It was painted two years ago." "MARLOTT: "Alyc."" "MRS EVANS:" "She was learning her letters." "Could you tell me what she was wearing?" "Her Sunday dress." "She was proud of it." "What colour?" "Rose." "Rose pink." "May I take it?" "MR EVANS:" "It's all we have of her." "MARLOTT:" "I understand." "How could you?" "I know what it is to grieve." "Then find her." "Anything?" "A monster." "A monster?" "What nonsense is this?" "That's what they're saying." "Who are?" "The little 'uns in the eastern market." "The meat market, Smithfield?" "What else are they saying?" "He comes at night, takes the children." "What does he look like, this monster?" "Don't know." "These children, can you find them again?" "I don't want to go back there." "Fetch them here, tomorrow, same time." "Tell them I'll pay them." "Don't let me down." "MARLOTT:" "What do you know about resurrectionists?" "Body snatchers?" "(SCOFFS)" "Unholy scum, the lot of 'em." "We're going to keep watch on them." "Why'?" "I can't tell you." "With respect, sir." "I can follow orders as well as anyone." "But I might have turned up more than spuds at Greenwich if I knew what I was looking for." "Come on." "The remains of seven or eight children have been found." "Freshly dismembered, mutilated and rearranged." " Rearranged?" " Stitched back together." "With surgical thread." "Some of them may have died naturally and been dug up, but odds are that some of them were murdered, more than a week, less than a fortnight ago." "That's why I've been looking for missing children." "The butcher's daughter?" "Alice disappeared 10 days ago from Smithfield's." "So she may or may not be one of them." "I know roughly how long they were in the water." "I've checked the tidal flow on the Thames and I believe they were thrown in the river near Greenwich." "So, why the resurrectionists?" "Their line of work." "There are laws being passed that will supply the anatomy schools by different means and put the body snatchers out of work." "Keep watch outside the hospital in Smithfield's." "I'll relieve you after midnight." "Yes, sir." "CHESTER:" "Syphilis." "You've had this before?" "MARLOTT:" "Yeah." "CHESTER:" "When?" "MARLOTT:" "Some years back." "I passed it on, unknowingly." "I thought it had gone." "It rarely does." "You'll have had the mercury before." "How did you take to it?" "Not well." "Bad dreams?" "Visions?" " Yeah." " Mm." "It gets worse than that, but you've little choice, by the looks of it." "MARLOTT:" "Hear my prayer, O Lord." "And let my cry come onto thee." "For my days are consumed like smoke." "And my bones are burnt." "PASTOR:" "John?" "It's been a long time." "What's kept you?" "Penance." "Why not here?" "I do my own penance for my own sins." "You might find consolation, too." "Like what?" "Sleep to wake." "You'll meet again." "MARLOTT:" "On Judgement Day?" "PASTOR:" "When the dead will awake and sit at Christ's right hand." "And what if they already had?" "What do you mean?" "If the dead could wake now, here, on Earth," "would that mean Judgement Day's already on us?" "Or that I'm losing my mind?" "Come back to us, John." "Don't forsake God." "God's forsaken me!" "Or testing you." "Come back, John." "JACK:" "Oi, nosey." "(PANTING)" "Better be a fresh one, Mr Pritty." "(WHISTLING)" "(INDISTINCT CHATTER)" "Find her." "(GASPING)" "Hey" "Figured you weren't coming, sir." "Yeah, I was delayed." "What's in there?" "NIGHTINGALE:" "The fortune of war." "It's where they keep their bodies." "A porter wheeled one over to the hospital around midnight on a meat trolley." "MARLOTT:" "This vagrant boy, he told me he'd heard of children being abducted near here." "I sent him off to find out more but he's not returned." "He's probably legged it, sir." "Or someone's caught him asking questions." "Listen, you go home and rest." "I'll keep watch till the market opens." "(RUBS PALMS)" "(CREAKING DOOR OPENS AND SHUTS)" "(PANTING)" "Alice?" "Alice?" "(GRUNTS)" "JACK:" "In there." "(GUN COCKS)" "Sharp work, Jack." "Bronze-plated." "Bow Street?" "Soldier." "What regiment?" "95th Rifles, 2nd Light Battalion." "What do you want, soldier?" "I want to speak with her." "You'll speak to me first." "No coin on him?" "Take off his boots." "Sorry, Billy." "(SCREAMS) Please." "Please, Bill, please." "(LOUD SCREAMING)" "That's for missing it." "Well, come on out, then." "Let him see you plain." "See, I was saving her." "But seeing as how you're a gentleman and all." " But Bill, you said..." " Shut your hole!" "He's a gentleman, ain't he?" "So, what do you say?" "(SNIFFLING) HOW do, sir?" "You're the first." "Go on, inside." "That dress, where did you get it?" "Why'?" "I'm looking for this girl, Alice." "She had one just like it." "(GIRL BREATHING HEAVILY)" "What Of it?" "I thought you might have seen her." " No." " Then where did you get it?" "A rag shop." "Which one?" "I don't know, Monmouth Street." "If I took you there again do you think you could you find it?" "I ain't goin' nowhere with you." "I think you're lying." "Why?" "Are you scared?" "If you're scared of someone, I can help you." "Is it Billy?" "ls he scaring ya?" "I've already told you." "I don't know what you're talking about." " The monster." "(SNIFFLING)" "What monster?" "The one who takes children." "(CREAKING) -(STARTLED GASP)" " Too many questions." "(GIRL SOBBING)" "You were right." "I am with the Runners." "You kill me, they'll come for you." "And if I don't?" "You say your prayers." "GIRL:" "Billy, don't!" "Billy, don't!" "(GUNSHOT FIRING)" "(GIRL SHRIEKING)" "ALICE: "Oranges and lemons, say..." "MR EVANS:" "It's all we have of her." "MARLOTT:" "I understand." "MR EVANS:" "How could you?" "MARLOTT:" "I know what it is to grieve." "(SOBBING)" "(COCKS GUN)" "Gone, as I thought." "Look around." "What for, sir?" "Anything that might tell us of their whereabouts." "And the miniature of the Evans girl." ""Sleeping Lyca lay," ""While the beasts of prey," ""Come from caverns deep," ""Viewed the maid asleep."" "Lyca.." "Nothing, sir." "What's that?" "Lyca..." "The little girl lost." "In her rose pink dress." "Like Alice." "MARLOTT:" "I have business with William Blake." "I'm looking for a girl named Alice." "To find her you have to know the truth of the beast." "I sense you are an honest man." "I believe you are in peril." "(GRUNTS)" "PRITTY:" "A dead body ain't property." "And taking one ain't theft." "Any more from you and I swear on my soul you'll swing for it." "May I take the liberty of giving you my address?" "This government seeks to make poverty a crime." "And the afterlife a privilege of the wealthy." "PEEL:" "These are dangerous paths you're treading, Mr Marlott." "Fail, and I promise I will deny all knowledge of you." "MARY:." "If we deny Christ to the poor, don't we also deny him to ourselves." "And that's what's at stake here." "Not merely the future of medicine, but the prospect of a world without God." "MARLOTT:" "The remains of seven or eight children have been found." "Freshly dismembered, mutilated and rearranged." "Find whoever is responsible." "When you do, inform me." "I won't let you down, sir." "MARLOTT"." "Do subjects ever move?" "(GASPS)" "No, Mr Marlott." "They're dead." "MAN:" "I supplies the subjects around here." " What did you say?" " You heard." "MARLOTT"." "What's in there?" "NIGHTINGALE:" "The fortune of war." "It's where they keep their bodies." "A porter wheeled one over to the hospital around midnight on a meat trolley." "MARLOTT:" "Alice disappeared 10 days ago." "NIGHTINGALE:" "The butcher's daughter?" " I want to speak with her." " You will speak to me first." "MARLOTT:" "That dress, where did you get it?" "I'm looking for this girl, Alice." "She had one just like it." "I thought you might have seen her." "No." "Lyca.., the little girl lost." "Like Alice." "(BELL TOLLING)" "ALICE: "Oranges and lemons, " say the bells of St Clement's" "You owe me five farthings, say the bells of St Martin's" "Leave that." "You'll be late." ""When will you pay me," say the bells of..." "Go on." "Wear your coat." "Yes, mum." "(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)" "(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)" "(DOOR CLOSES)" "(INDISTINCT PRAYING IN DISTANCE)" "(ALL CHANTING)" "This is a private gathering." "I have business with William Blake." "Mr Blake is indisposed." "WOMAN:" "Who is it, Mary?" "A stranger." "BLAKE:" "Let him enter." "My name is Marlott." "John Marlott." "From Bow Street." "Come." "Closer, John." "You'll take tea?" "Yes, thank you." "Who is Lyca...?" "(LABOURED BREATHING)" "My lost child." "When was she lost?" "As you see, Mr Blake has been taken gravely ill." "Now, many, many years ago." "When she first came to me in a dream." "Why'?" "I'm looking for a girl named Alice." "I thought..." "I know it's strange, but I thought she might be one and the same." "Why would you think that?" "They are one." "What, Alice and Lyca.. are the same?" "All the lost children." " Tell me where to find her then." " She is not real." "To find her, you have to know the truth of the beast." "What beast?" "The beast with the face" "of a man." "(MARLOTT EXCLAIMS) -(WOMAN SHRIEKS)" "Oh, I'm so sorry." "I think perhaps you should leave." "My apologies." "I can see I was mistaken in coming here." "Please send the bill to me at Bow Street Magistrates Court." "(GRUNTS)" "How can that be?" "She's cured." "All sins are forgiven here." "No corruption." "(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)" "NIGHTINGALE:" "There's seven or eight regulars that come and go from the pub at all hours." "All except the chief." "He stays put." "Drinking himself blind, I dare say." "So how long do we sit on them?" "'Til they give up their secrets." "Did they take Alice and the red-haired lad?" "Or was it the man who tried to blow my head off last night?" "Or maybe they're in it together." "I mean, they ain't a million miles from each other, are they?" "A chain of supply." "One thing more." "One of them rented a cart but came back empty-handed, from Stoke Newington." "How do you know?" "Well there was a set-to with the carter." "Cholera outbreak there." "Cholera?" "That means they will be scouting for trade." "Means they'll be going back." "(BIRD SQUAWKING)" "My days are consumed like smoke." "My heart is smitten." "My days are like a shadow that declineth and I am withered like grass." "But thou, O Lord, shall endure." "The heathen shall fear thy name, and all the kings of the Earth thy glory." "Calm down." "What do you reckon?" "Thirteen, maybe?" "Never." " Pike's crew got 20 for a small up at Guy's." " That was last year." " You're not gonna get 10 now." " Keep it down." "Whoa, whoa, whoa." "You ain't got no business marching me from..." "I'm an officer of the law." "I ain't done nothing wrong." "Tell them." "Nothing wrong?" "A dead body ain't property." "And taking one ain't theft." "Forgive me." "This is theft." "I didn't know that was there, but you did." "That silver spoon means transportation." "Or maybe the drop." "Or I could just let these good folk string you up, as you deserve." "What do you want from me?" "What do you know about the Anatomy Act?" "It's costing me my livelihood." "Then what would you do to stop it?" "Murder?" "Murder?" "I'm a businessman." "Here you are." "Have a look for yourself." "Incomings, outgoings, it's all there." "Honest labour." "(MARLOTT CHUCKLES)" "You call stealing corpses honest labour?" "It ain't a crime." "There's a demand, I supplies it." "There's plenty out there trafficking in worse." "Why don't you go after them?" "I had to use a dead child as bait tonight." "Any more from you and I swear on my soul you'll swing for it." "(PANTING)" "Last winter, I get a subject." "Fresh, no more than a day underground." "But when I gets it to the hospital, they don't want it." "They said they've already got one, fresher than mine." "Is that unusual?" "What?" "So fresh, the rigours still on it?" "A month later, it happens to Billing's crew and a month after that to Will Murray." "What are you trying to tell me?" "(SNIFFLES)" "Someone's been murdering to undercut our trade." "And you don't know who it is?" "No one knows." "It's not good enough." "Wait." "What if I could find them for you?" "MAN:" "Go on, get out!" "Get up there!" "He says there is someone out there doing murders to supply bodies to the surgeons." "He would say no different if it were him, though, would he'?" " No, I don't think it's him." " Why not'?" "Scum like that." "MARLOTT:" "Maggots come in shapes and sizes." "We're looking for a monster." "A beast with the face of a man." "Beg your pardon, sir?" "Make sure they're fast." "I need a minute." "Right." "(HORSE WHINNYING)" "(GASPS)" "(BELL TOLLING)" "MAN:" "Whoa." "Pleasant lodgings." "Not lodgings." "I'm the owner." "Trades been good to you, hasn't it?" "I've worked hard at it." "Three days." "That's the arrangement." "I'm keeping them for surety." "Keep watch on him anyway." " All the while?" "'Til I say otherwise." "Board and lodging for two, please, Mr Forrester." "Your best rates." "I dare say Sir Robert can afford it." "So, will that be all you need from us?" "I'm afraid not." "We will be at your disposal then." "Obliged." " You've come about the teapot?" " Sadly, not." "Mr Blake passed away last night." "Oh, I'm sorry to hear it." "He said to be sure you received this." "His latest work." "He did not live to see it published." " Sure he meant it for me?" " I am unlikely to have misheard." "Strange." "It is as much a surprise to me, I can assure you." "Should you find no use for it, I would be glad to take it from you." "Right." "May I take the liberty of giving you my address?" "Thank you." "(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)" "(CROWD LAUGHING)" "How much for this, my love?" "I'll come back." "You look lovely." "Now, sling your hook." "(DOOR OPENING)" "You might have told me you were expecting distinguished company." "Please forgive my intrusion." "I took the liberty of asking for you at Bow Street and they gave me your address." "Not at all." "How may I help?" "This must sound presumptuous, but it's I who wish to help you." "In what way?" "Firstly, by apologising" "When we met the other day, I spoke slightingly of your conscience." " I can assure you, My Lady..." " Please, Mr Marlott." "I sense you are an honest man, who seeks to do God's work." "That's why I have come, because I believe you are in peril." " Peril?" " To your soul." "You know what Sir Robert's legislation entails?" "It aims to put the body snatchers out of business by assigning the unclaimed bodies of the poor to the anatomy schools." "A punishment formerly reserved for murderers." "Denying them their last hope of redemption on judgement day." "No holy burial." "No body intact." "No resurrection." "See, if we deny Christ to the poor, Mr Marlott, don't we also den him to ourselves?" "Y" "And that's what's at stake here." "Not merely the future of medicine, but the prospect of a world without God." "The surgeons would argue that the act is to the benefit of us all." "Isn't that what they always say, Mr Marlott, when it's the wealthy who are to profit?" "This act seeks not only to supplant the body snatchers." "It will also outlaw all forms of medicine not licensed directly by the surgeons." "Benign, philanthropic practise such as Lord Hervey's." "Your husband is a doctor?" "Lord Hervey is my brother." " Uh-huh." " Yes, a physician." "But as different from the surgeons as night from day." "A healer, not a butcher." "He runs a charitable hospital east of London, where the poor are treated with the love and respect we all deserve." "This is what your employer has not told you." "Well, ask Sir William Chester if you doubt me." "I don't doubt you, My Lady, and I appreciate you coming here." "But please, you must understand that Sir Robert is my employer, as you say." "And you and I are strangers to each other." "Odd as it may seem, Mr Marlott," "I don't feel you to be a stranger." "I've taken up enough of your time." "Please consider my words." "I realise you may feel compromised by them." "They're meant honourably." "Good day to you." "(DOOR CLOSES)" "You're not a very good tail, are you?" "Look, I've got my orders." "Well, it won't help you much if you want me useful." "You go about your business." "I'll go about mine." "Suit yourself." "I'm fetching my boy from his nurse." "You're welcome to walk with me." "I thought you said we were going to see your nurse." "Her lodging's upstairs." "Tom, Bill." "(swans) Porter?" " Thank you." " Another one for my friend, Mister..." "Nightingale." "Thank you." " Nance in her room?" " Upstairs." "All right, we'll sink these on the way." "This is the best pint in Blaire Market." "(GASPS)" "Where is he?" "Here's the book you asked for, sir." "Huh, Collier's Bank, The Strand." "That's where Pritty keeps his savings." "Take this to the manager, they're impounding them." "Then stay here 'til I tell you otherwise." "Sir." "(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)" "HERVEY"." "Not merely the future of medicine, but the prospect of a world without God." "MARLOTT"." "Do subjects ever move?" "CHESTER"." "No, Mr Marlott." "They're dead." "May I help you?" "I'm looking for Sir William." "He's gone to Oxford on business." "I'm in charge in his absence." "Who are you?" "John Marlott." "From Bow Street." "And your business with Sir William?" "I need to speak to him about a private matter we've been discussing." "With the Home Secretary." "When does he return?" "Well, I have no idea. (CHUCKLES)" "Mr Pirkis." "Would you come in here, please?" "Mr Pirkis." "Do you know this gentleman?" "He says he has some business with my cousin." "Yes sir, Mr Garnet." "We've met before." "Nonetheless, I'm afraid that I must ask you to leave now." "Who else sells you subjects other than Pritty?" "Each hospital's got its main crew." "He's ours." "Main or only?" "Once in a while, somebody will show up with a bargain." " Someone you know?" " Sometimes." "Sometimes not." "So anyone could turn up with a subject and expect to get paid for it'?" " In principle." " Would you care where they'd sourced it?" " What are you getting at?" " Competition for trade." "Resulting in murder." "We're medical men." "If we saw something suspect," "we'd be off down the beak, and no error." " Yeah, of course you would." "When was the last time you bought from someone other than Pritty?" "Funny you should ask." "Mrs Bowyer?" "(DISTANT BELL RINGING)" "(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)" "Good morning, gentlemen." "Sir William has asked me to conduct this morning's lecture on the peripheral nervous system." "Today, we have the rare opportunity of a junior subject, freshly deceased." "I will therefore be taking this opportunity to conduct a display on the subject of bioelectricity, pioneering work of the Italian physician Luigi Galvani, with whom you are all undoubtedly familiar." "I will now make an incision in the subject's right arm allowing for exposure of the right ulnia nerve, just between the lower triceps and the bicep." "Galvani's thesis was that electrical impulses are carried along the nerves by an independent system of fluids, invisible to the human eye." "That this process can be seen to function in conjunction with artificially induced energy in the absence of other animate processes seems to suggest that it lies at the very foundation of what we now understand to be multi-cellular organic life." "We now have the opportunity to observe it functioning at close quarters." "(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)" "(APPLAUDING)" "(SHEEP BLEATING)" "(AUDIENCE LAUGHS)" "What in the devil is going on?" "For God's sake, somebody get these creatures out of here, right now!" "Is this some sort of joke?" "Get out!" "It's not a bloody farmyard, go on, get out." "Get out, right now." " Who put you up to it?" " A gentleman, sir." " Age?" " BOY:" "About your own, sir." " Describe him." " Curls, he had." "Fairish hair." "Tall." "Have you seen him before?" "He came to the sheep mart this morning." "Bought the beasts and gave us a shilling to do his bidding." "Could there be greater calumny?" "In times of old, criminals cut from the gallows were thought sufficient to furnish our anatomists' tables." "But now it is to be any one of us, unlucky enough to find themselves unclaimed at death's door, in prison or the workhouse." "That means you, poor schoolteacher, fallen ill or on hard times." "You, poor grandmother, unable to pay your rent." "You, poor weaver or farmer, out of penny because of rising taxes or falling duties." "You and you and you." "What further proof do you require that this government seeks to make poverty a crime?" "And the afterlife a privilege of the wealthy?" "When we have a thousand names," "I will take this petition to the Home Secretary in person." "Let him then tell us that he has the interests of the Christian people of England at heart." "Who will sign first?" "You, sir." "Come." "You, sir, come." "Come." "(INDISTINCT CLAMOURING)" "May I read?" "If you can." "Shorthand." "I'm a reporter." "For the Chronicle." "Short stories and novels, too." "Name's Boz." "I didn't catch yours, though." "I didn't give it." "We seem always to be running into each other don't we?" "Are you with the Herald?" "I think you know very well who I am." "(LAUGHS) I do?" "Try me." "You're a government agent." "Close enough." "I write with that hand." "No, you don't." "I've been watching you." "What were you doing at St Bartholomew's yesterday?" "I wanted to write about the lecture." " Why that one?" "It was interesting." "Yeah, that's one way of describing it." "How did you know to be there?" "The same way that you did." "I received a letter." "At the newspaper offices." " From who?" " Anonymous." "Saying?" "That there was to be a disruption." "That it would make for an interesting news story." "Should you receive any more letters like that one," "I would ask you to bring them to me." "Before the events they predict come to pass." " And where may I find you?" " Bow Street Magistrates." " John Marlott." " You're a Runner?" "Not exactly." "Speaking plainly, what's in it for me, hmm?" "Sources are sources and a story's a story." "If you do, I may be able to give you a better story." "And if I don't?" "I may break your thumb." " Boz, you say?" " Remember the name." "AGNES:" "All sins are forgiven here." "No corruption." "I want to be with you again." "Patience." "You will be." "God botherers?" "That's your thesis?" "That thing we saw came from hell, man, not the church." "And I'll follow it there, if need be, sir." " But Lady Hervey..." " What of her?" "She sought me out at my lodgings." "A lady of quality?" "Why?" "To denounce your policy, she says." " You're not seriously suggesting..." " No, sir." "But her escort at church." "The man who spoke against you at Westminster..." "Sir Bentley Warburton?" " A fellow Parliamentarian?" " And your opponent." "Might he not have motive, therefore?" "To make that thing?" "If he's capable of paying men to disrupt anatomy classes, as I suspect, what else would he be willing to sponsor?" "He could have told her about me and asked her to call." "As a spy?" "What else did you talk about?" "Mainly God, sir." "And her brother, Lord Hervey." "What about him?" "How his work is under threat by the Anatomy Act." "Does that not raise your suspicions even more?" "Yes, sir." "It does." "I've been looking into him and I intend to do so further." "He runs a hospital of some kind." "In the East End." "A quackery, I hear." "First a knight, and now a peer of the realm?" "An eccentric one though, Sir Robert." "Might he not fit the bill?" "These are dangerous paths you are treading, Mr Marlott." "You asked me to investigate, sir." "And the body snatchers, what of them?" "I have them under surveillance, too, sir." "But I have to consider that they're working as instruments for someone else." "A chain of supply." "Your conspiracies are multiplying, Mr Marlott." " There's one more, sir." " Will I like it any better?" "By my calculation, the thing we found floated downstream with the tides from Greenwich." " A good three hours in the water." " And?" "Well, if it was supposed to be found and interpreted as the work of the surgeons, that's leaving much to chance." "Might not someone with sedition in mind take care their outrage be discovered, rather than simply letting it drift God knows where?" "If that obscenity was not fashioned for our benefit, then what is the reason for it?" "None..." "That I can fathom, sir." "(SIGHS) How do you find a man without plan or motive?" "Not without method." "At least in this case, the rudiments of surgery." "Hardly conclusive." "No, sir." "But it is a possibility." "Well, let's hope you can exclude it, then." "For all our sakes." ""Sweet Thames!" "run softly..."" "But not always of its own accord, eh?" " Sir?" " This city, Mr Marlott." "Dragged kicking and screaming like a raucous infant towards a better future." "One way or another." "Do well by me and you'll be assured a part in it." "Fail, and I promise I will deny all knowledge of you and your wild accusations." "Frankenstein, sir." "I'm sorry it took so long." "I had to go to three booksellers." "May I ask why, sir?" "Am I to be remaindered then, sir?" "What makes you think I'll be that kind?" "Pritty gave you something to remember him by." "Now I'll do the same." "Bentley Warburton." "Honourable member for Walthamstow." "Resides at the Albany, Piccadilly." "I want to know his habits, where he goes, who he knows, who pays him house calls." " Hey!" " I ain't running." "What are you doing here?" "I know who took her." "Thanks." "Tell me about Alice." "Billy's got a regular crew." "He feeds us, keeps us safe." "In return, we bring him stuff." "Sometimes other kids." "So you brought him Alice?" "(SHIVERING)" "I saw her, in the market." "I liked her dress." "I said I'd give her something for it." "But she didn't want to give it up." "Billy forced her." "Next day, he took her away." "I tried to save her, I swear." "But he says it was either me or her." "You or her for what?" "I don't know." "Honest." "So where is she now?" " With the others." " Where?" "They 'mat..." "Go." "Tomorrow we'll find you somewhere better to stay." "I'd feel safer with you." "(CHUCKLES) My landlady might disagree." "At Billy's, did you ever see a little red-haired lad?" "I don't think so." "You know that picture?" "You can sleep in the bedroom tonight." "I'll stay in here." "MARY SHELLEY:" "St Petersburg, December 11." "You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of our enterprise, which you have regarded with such evil forebodings..." "Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world..." "A new species would bless me as its creator and source..." "Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil as I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave or tortured the living animal to animate the lifeless clay?" "Flora?" ""Oranges and lemons"" "Say the bells of St Clement's" "Alice?" ""You owe me five farthings"" "Say the bells of St Martin's" "Who took you?" ""When will you pay me?"" "Say the bells of Old Bailey" "Alice, Alice, answer me." ""When I grow rich"" "Say the bells of Shoreditch" "Oh, Alice." "Flora, sir." "You must have been dreaming." "No, not dreaming." "Seeing things." "What things, sir?" "Alice." "I think I know what's become of her." ""The Investigation into the Galvanic Response of Dead Tissue." ""By William Chester D. Phil Christchurch."" " Name, please." " Sir William Chester." "SIR ROBERT:" "The Anatomy Act will ensure that medicine in this country is practised only by qualified and accredited professionals." "I think this abomination is the work of someone trying to put a stop to it." "MARLOTT:" "What do you know about the Anatomy Act?" "PRITTY:" "It's costing me my livelihood." "Then what would you do to stop it?" "Murder?" "Murder?" "I'm a businessman." "Have a look for yourself." "Incomings and outgoings, it's all in there." "NIGHTINGALE:" "I thought you said we were going to see your nurse." "Her lodging's upstairs." "MARLOTT:" "Pritty gave you something to remember him by." "Now I'll do the same." "Bentley Warburton." "Honourable member for Walthamstow." "I want to know his habits, where he goes, who he knows, who pays him house calls." "Sir Bentley Warburton?" "A fellow Parliamentarian?" "And your opponent." "What else did you talk about?" "Her brother, Lord Hervey." "MARLOTT:" "He runs a hospital of some kind." "In the East End." "Mr Blake said to be sure you received this." "His latest work." "Should you find no use for it, I would be glad to take it from you." "MARLOTT:" "Tell me about Alice." "FLORA:" "I saw her, I liked her dress." "But she didn't want to give it up." "Billy forced her." "Next day, he took her away." "Where?" "They just..." "Go." "PRITTY:" "Someone's been murdering to undercut our trade." "What if I could find them for you?" ""The Investigation into the Galvanic Response of Dead Tissue." ""By William Chester D. Phil Christchurch."" " Name, please." " Sir William Chester." "(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)" "Perhaps you need a maid, sir." "I already have one." "I can cook and sew." "I'll look after you for the time being." "Besides, I need you." "What for?" "Help lead me to Billy and Alice." "That dress proves he took her." "I got my uses then." "As we all do." "I don't have anything for you, Mr Marlott." "MARLOTT:" "Do you know that?" "BOZ:" "Frankenstein?" "Who doesn't?" "Me." "Till yesterday." "Tell me about it." "You didn't see the play?" "Edmund Peake's Performers." "Uh, three or four summers back." "That season's hot ticket, until Parliament shut it down." "Why's that?" "Blasphemy." "It's about this madman who finds a way to resurrect the corpses..." "I know." "The whole world went twice." "Except you, apparently" "Set off quite a trend for a while." "Trend for what?" "Mothers giving birth to serpent children, people turning into wolves at midnight, that sort of thing." "Which came first, book or play?" "Book, of course." "What do you know about the author?" "Uh, Mary Shelley?" "One of Byron's crowd." "(CLEARS THROAT) A rum lot." "You've heard of him, surely?" "No." "The Vampire Lord?" "Poet, seducer," "traitor. .." " Traitor?" "Yeah, speaking up for Boney as I recall." "Don't know much, do you?" "I fought against Bonaparte at Waterloo." "Know that much." "Your turn now, Mr Marlott." "You said there'd be a story in it for me if I was to help you." "Well, I have." "So let's have it." "I'll let you know, in time." "You promised me a story, Mr Marlott!" "(BELL RINGING)" "(BELL RINGING)" "The gentleman that came in?" "Where is he?" "What gentleman?" "I saw him enter not one minute ago." "Bentley Warburton." "I'm sorry, young man." "I don't know what you're talking about." "Is there another way out of here?" "Do you see one?" "(BELL RINGING)" "(GRUNTS)" "MARLOTT:" "How could it be possible?" "NIGHTINGALE:" "I don't know, sir." "I didn't take my eyes from him." "The one second he was there, the next gone." "People just don't disappear into smoke, Nightingale." "No, sir." "Look, I'll keep on him like a barnacle next time." "Next time?" "The girl from Cloth Fair's turned up." "Flora." " Billy's girl?" " The same." "It was Billy that took Alice, the butcher's daughter." "It was her dress." "You're to buy Flora a new one." "And bring the old one back as evidence." "Think you can manage it?" "Oh, and Nightingale, she's an important witness." "Don't lose her." "Yes, sir." " Kentish Town." " MAN:" "Front row, sir." "MARY:" "Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil as I dabbled amongst the unhallowed damps of the grave." "I collected bones from charnel-houses and disturbed, with profane fingers, the tremendous secrets of the human frame." " Mrs Shelley." " Mr Marlott." "I take it you've come to bring me Mr Blake's work?" "Not on this occasion." "May I come in please?" "I Will be brief." "You find me at work." "I'm a writer." "I know." "You've met my creature." "Indeed." "And was unsettled by it." "Some might say that was its intention." "May I ask how it's originated?" "It came to me in a nightmare." "Hardly seems possible." "A gentlewoman of letters..." "Proving how little you can tell from outward appearances." "But we can't control our nightmares, can we, Mr Marlott?" "The science in the story, how did you come upon it?" "Invented it." "I should've thought that obvious." " Galvanism?" " Galvani was real, of course, but his theories have no such application as they find in my book." "Or certainly not to my knowledge." "And where did you encounter them?" "Through my husband, Percy." "A surgeon?" "A poet." "May I speak with him?" "I'm a widow these last four years." "Oh, my condolences." "The stitching together of corpses?" "Quite an unusual notion, isn't it?" "You might call it a parody of the Resurrection." "What brings you here, Mr Marlott?" "You don't strike me as a man for idle speculation." " A crime I'm investigating." " The missing girl, Alice?" "Yes, and others too." "I still don't see how that relates to my poor creature." "Or indeed to the late Mr Blake's work." "You don't think we're responsible, do you?" "I don't know what to think yet, Mrs Shelley." "How did you and Mr Blake come to know each other?" "He was a friend of my mother's, Mary Wollstonecraft." "A novelist like me, until I killed her." "She died at my birth." "I'm sorry." "Don't be." "Any further questions?" "The title." "Why Prometheus?" "He stole fire from the gods and moulded human flesh from clay." "Like my Victor, a symbol of rebellion." "For you and Blake both?" "For all of us who oppose tyranny and oppression." "Tyranny and oppression?" "Or the laws of God?" "What would we not do to defeat death, Mr Marlott?" "Might we not defy God's laws in order to be reunited with those we love?" "(DOOR OPENING)" "Percy!" "Percy, there is someone I want you to meet." "Percy, say hello to Mr Marlott." " PERCY:" "How do you do, sir?" "(MUMBLES)" "My family, Mr Marlott." "Mother, sister, daughters, husband," "all dead." "If you're seeking to understand my nightmares, you probably need look no further than that." "I wonder at your purpose here, Mr Marlott." "People like myself and Mr Blake create things that are strange and uncanny, where men may find themselves reflected." "Sometimes people like yourselves mistakenly come to us when strange and uncanny things happen to them," "rather than looking in the mirror and facing what is strange and uncanny in themselves." "Could I be right?" "I'm sorry to have troubled you." "Good day." "Pack some clothes and your schoolbooks." "We're leaving immediately." " Why, Mama?" " Do as I say." "MARY:" "What would we not do to defeat death, Mr Marlott?" "Might we not defy God's laws in order to be reunited with those we love?" "(HORSE WHINNIES)" "(GASPS)" "It's all right." "I work for Mr Marlott." "I weren't thieving, honest." "I didn't say you were." "What are you doing?" "I was trying to put them in order." "Why'?" "My nan used to have cards like 'em." "Tarot." "You put 'em the right way and they can tell you the future." "I'm to buy you a new dress." "(HEAVY BREATHING)" "Careful, careful." "(SHUDDERING)" "Thank you, sir." "Joseph." "Shall I throw it away, sir?" "No." "No, I'll take it." "DRAPER:" "Bring her back when it's getting tight and I'll put a panel in the sides." "That way she can still wear it when her time gets close." "MARLOTT"." "Why didn't you tell me?" "I wasn't sure." "MARLOTT:" "Well, you are now." "Does Billy know?" "He thought I was a virgin." "He was saving me." "For himself?" "For a gentleman." "But he spoiled the deal." "How?" "Kept upping the price on him." "Billy didn't know, but the gent he was trying to cheat come and found me in the market one day." "He forced himself on you?" "He bought me things." "That print of the lost girl I had up on my wall." "One day he gave me a drink." "When I woke he was gone." "And didn't visit you again?" "Why would he?" "NIGHTINGALE:" "Or tell you his name?" "And you didn't tell Billy?" "He'd have said it was my fault." "I'm going to get rid of it." "No." "No, you'll do no such thing." "What do you care?" "It's a life." "And what about my life?" "Who will take me like this?" "I will." "(CHUCKLES)" "(SIGHS) You can't." "I've got lodgings in Borough." "She can come as my maid." "And when she's due?" "I'll say it's mine." "I mean it." "(SOBBING)" "I have a better idea." "MARLOTT:" "Lord Hervey." "SIR ROBERT:" "What about him?" "MARLOTT:" "He runs a hospital of some kind, in the East End." "I've already looked into him and I intend to do so further." " Lady Hervey." " Mr Marlott." "Yeah." "How kind of you to call." "Unfortunately, you find me on my way out." "May I walk with you?" "Mr Marlott will accompany me today, Lloris." "As you wish, My Lady." "A young girl has come to me for protection." "A stray." "I need somewhere to place her." "As a domestic?" "She's With child." "If left to herself, I fear she may harm it." "How dreadful." "(CHURCH BELL TOLLING)" "When we spoke before, you mentioned your brother's hospital." "Might there be a place for her there?" "Until her term is out?" "You wouldn't play me for a fool, would you, Mr Marlott?" "I don't follow, My Lady." "Daniel is no favourite of Sir Robert's, as you know." "And you're his agent." "If you were looking for some means to place him under surveillance..." "I've come to you in good faith." "On behalf of this unfortunate creature." "And her child." "As a Christian." "I apologise for doubting you." "It was unworthy." "(MUSIC PLAYING IN THE CHURCH)" "Will you join me?" "Inside?" "Of course." "(CONGREGATION SINGING)" "He'll win the giant fight" "Because he will have a right to be a pilgrim." "Hobgoblin, nor foul fiend" "Can daunt his spirit" "He knows, he at the end" "Shall life inherit" "Then fancies fly away" "He'll fear not what men say" "He'll labour night and day" "To be a pilgrim" "PASTOR 1:" "Let us pray." "(MAN COUGHING)" "PASTOR 2"." "Dost thou, John, renounce the devil and all his works?" "Does thou renounce the carnal desires of the flesh, so that thou wilt not follow nor be led by them?" "I renounce them all." "Poor mite." "(BABY WHIMPERS)" "I baptise thee Katherine in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." "To you, gentle Father, we humbly commit this child, so precious in your sight." "Welcome her into your presence where there is no sorrow nor pain," "but the fullness of peace and joy with you forever and ever." "PASTOR 1:" "Amen." "Mr Marlott?" "Excuse me." "I know how prayer can prompt unwanted thoughts." "Perhaps, it might help you to share them." "My wife and daughter died on account of my carelessness." "How terrible for you." "Worse for them." "Maybe not." "Come." "We can discuss this girl." "You can't make me go." "You'll do as you're told." "May I have a word, sir?" "I fear that this ain't right, sir." "She's with child." "This may be putting her in harm's way." "I need a place to keep her safe and a reason to take a closer look at this man and his hospital." "This gives me both." "And what of her safety, sir?" "I'll judge the place and the man when I see them." " If I fear for her safety, I won't leave her there." " Swear it?" " What do you mean, do I swear it?" " Sorry, sir." "(DOOR OPENING)" " Good day." " Ma'am." "What now, sir?" "Go back to Bow Street." "Tell Forrester you're at his disposal." "I've no further use for you." "Ma'am." "LADY HERVEY:" "Mr Marlott has told me of your condition." "This place isn't like the other hospitals." "You'll be looked after." "No one will hurt you or do anything against your wishes, and if you don't like it you'll be free to leave." "We promise." "Isn't that so, Mr Marlott?" "Yes." "(INDISTINCT CHATTER)" "I want to withdraw my funds." "Very good, sir." "May I have your account details?" "I don't have my account book with me, but the manager knows me." "Tom Pritty of Hatton Gardens." "I've banked here 10 years." "Very good, Mr Pritty." "If you'd care to take a seat while we do the formalities." " I'm in a hurry." " Be, uh, quick as we can." "Here he is now." "Message for Mr Marlott." "I don't work for him no more." "He's wanted at the bank, urgent." " Collier's Bank?" " The body snatcher turned up." "Why is it taking so long?" "Sorry, sir." "It's a large amount of coin." "We may not have it all on the premises." "Give me what you got." "I'll send for the balance." "Very well, sir." "I'll just tell my colleague..." "Why are you sweating?" "Am I, sir?" "NIGHTINGALE:" "Get out of the way!" "Out of the way!" "I hope for your sake, there's a back way out of here." "(DOGS BARKING)" "(G ROANS)" "(PANTING)" "PRITTY:" "Move!" " Get out of the way!" "(WOMEN SCREAMING)" "(GRUNTS)" "PRITTY:" "Move!" "Out of the way!" "(PANTING)" "How'd you find me?" "Your account book." "Gave us the name of your bank." "You greedy bastard." "You had to come back for it, didn't you?" "You can't blame me." "I've got a family to look after..." "Get up." "Get up!" "Fat lot of good you'll do them at the end of a rope." " That's a good punch." " Yeah." "I ain't gonna run again." "I'll find the killers for you, I swear." "So why didn't you?" "(PANTING) I'm scared of them." " More than the drop?" " Aye." "Maybe." "(PANTING)" "Come on." "LADY HERVEY:" "Mittram Abbey." "Our family bought it from the Crown when King Henry dissolved the monasteries." "In the days when we had money." "Appearances can deceive, Mr Marlott." "Daniel's work is funded by what little remains of our inheritance." "The rest comes from charity." "What are you doing here?" "Don't fret, brother." "I brought you a patient." "Flora." "What's wrong with her?" "Her guardian wants her safely housed." "Till her confinement." "Peel's man?" "Here?" "Mr Marlott wanted to see where she'd be staying." "This is not a hostel." "He's come to us for help, Daniel." "Please." "There is a spare room in the tower." "Thank you, dear brother." "I'll settle her in." "Flora." "Child's yours, I take it." "Would it matter?" "I noticed your condition when we met." "It's hereditary." "The child is not mine." "Then what's your interest in her?" "She is an important witness." "I'm from Bow Street." " I thought you worked for Sir Robert?" " I do." "And your decision to bring her here, purely fortuitous, I suppose?" "No." "I heard about your work from Lady Hervey." "I'm on my rounds." "Come, if you wish." "You can see what I do here." "Why did they forbid you to speak in Parliament?" "Because I would have exposed them." "As what?" "Liars." "Hypocrites." "Monsters." " Sir Robert?" " And Sir William." "He was my teacher when I was 17." "You studied surgery?" "For a term, then abandoned it." "Why'?" "I don't believe one can discover the secrets of life by cutting up the dead." "Or by artificially animating them with electricity." " You mean galvanism?" " Charlatanism." "Mmm." "How long have you had your condition?" "Several years now, on and off." "Are you treating it?" "Mercury?" "That will send you mad before the syphilis does." "I have a natural remedy." "Experimental but promising." "Derived from bread mould..." "I'm not here to discuss my ailment." "As you wish." "LORD HERVEY:" "Cave baestiam." ""Beware the Beast."" "The monks who ran this place kept a menagerie here." "I use it as a hospice." "She has a tumour." "The surgeons would take a knife to it." "And your method?" "Using natural remedies to ease her agony." "But you can't cure her?" "No more can they." "There's very little we can do that nature can't, Mr Marlott." "This one might interest you." "(GRUNTING)" "(GASPING)" "LORD HERVEY:" "Syphilis." "Tertiary phase." "(GRUNTING CONTINUES)" "Shh." "There, there." "Shh, it's all right." "It's all right, it's all right." "(GROANING)" "Good." "Shh." "Yeah, it's all right." " Good, shh." "(GROANING)" "You often get these fits in the final stages." "Your treatment didn't work then?" "Too late in this case." "And in mine?" "Maybe not." "Though, you might want to act quickly, Mr Marlott." "If Sir Robert's Anatomy Act passes, I shall be forbidden from charging for my practice and have to shut down." "How much do you require for the girl's accommodation?" "As much as you think it worth." "I'll make provision with Lady Hervey if I may." "I take it then that you're satisfied with our level of care?" "My thanks to you and Lady Hervey." "I must get back to London." "(HORSE WHINNIES)" "(GROANING)" "MARY:" "People like myself and Mr Blake create things that are strange and uncanny, where men may find themselves reflected." "Sometimes people like yourself, mistakenly come to us when strange and uncanny things happen to them," "rather than looking in the mirror and facing what is strange and uncanny in themselves." "(EXCLAIMS)" "(CHURCH BELL TOLLING) -(BABY CRYING)" "PASTOR:" "To you, gentle Father, we humbly entrust this child, so precious in your sight." "Welcome her into your presence, where there is no sorrow nor pain," "but the fullness of peace and joy, with you forever and ever." "(SOBBING)" "(INDISTINCT CHATTER)" "You missed a bit." "Long way from home, ain't you?" "PRITTY:" "Ugh." "Saints preserve us." "At least my goods is warm." "(CHUCKLES)" "That's what I wanted to talk to you about, warm goods." "Do you remember what you told me?" "No." "Will three kings help you remember?" "Five maybe." "PRITTY:" "The murderer you're looking for, Mr Marlott," " I think I've found a way to get to him." " How?" "A pure gatherer." "Edward Barns." "He says he can set up a meet with him tonight 10:00, at the Fortune of War." "Billy, the Child Catcher?" "That's my guess." "What reason did you give?" "Trade, of course." "I said you was a surgeon." "It'll cost ya." " How much?" " Ten guineas." "How do I know he'll deliver?" "Well, you don't, but it's the best I've got." " Lock him up." " My pleasure." "Oi." "Oi, now look here, Mr Marlott." "I done what you asked." "I've got family." "I'm sure they'll survive another night without ya." "And Nightingale, when you've done, come back and see me." "I may have use for you after all." "Yes, sir." "WOMAN:" "She's gone." "Mrs Shelley?" "When?" "Yesterday." "Her and the boy." "Did she say where?" "WOMAN:" "Not so much as a fare thee well." "Any idea how long?" " Sometime though by the looks of it." " Why's that?" "Two trunks." "Big ones." "Obliged." "Milady says you may bring the boy's things around to the servants' entrance." "But quickly, before Lord Shelley returns." "I don't want to stay here, Mama." "I told you." "I have important business to attend to." "You must stay here with your grandparents." "What business?" "It concerns my book." "And the gentleman that came to call." "You must leave." "Now!" "Is your book more important than me?" "Nothing is more important than you." "But it has caused great misery in this world." "And I must make sure it doesn't cause any more." "Great misery indeed." "Thomas." "Our family name brought into disgrace." "Brilliant young lives snuffed out." "What next for your accursed masterpiece I wonder?" "Thank you for taking Percy in." "I shall lea..." "MARY:" "Before this I was not unacquainted with the more obvious laws of electricity." "On this occasion, a man of great research in natural philosophy was with us, and excited by this catastrophe, he entered on the explanation of a theory which he had formed on the subject of electricity and galvanism," "which was at once new and astonishing to me." "(DOOR KNOCKING)" " Sir William." " I took the liberty of acquiring your address from Bow Street." "You called on me while I was away." "Yes, sir." "Thank you." "What was it exactly you wanted to speak to me about?" "The people who supply you with subjects for dissection, the resurrectionists," "I believe they may be the link I need to track down whoever made that thing." "But surely these children were murdered, not resurrected." "Uh, it seems there are resurrectionists who murder, sir." "We've all heard these rumours." "You should speak to my porter Pirkis about such things." "He deals with that sort of thing." "Yes, I already did, sir." "Frankenstein?" "Yes, sir." "Yes, sir." "Do you know it?" "I've heard of it." "Arrant nonsense by all accounts." "Why'?" "It contains references to galvanism, sir." "Galvanism?" "Yes, sir." "Do you know much about it?" "Not my subject, I'm afraid." "But I very much doubt you'll find anything of value in a book like this." "What's your interest?" "Curiosity, sir." "I attended a lecture on the subject given by your cousin." "Garnet?" "Yes, he has his idiosyncrasies." "But surely you've no time now for such idleness, given the urgency of your investigations?" "Well, as it happens, I intend to make an arrest very soon, sir." "Tonight, in fact." "Billy Oates, a man who abducts children." "Someone who could have made that monstrosity?" "Or supplied whoever did." "Well, I won't keep you then." "Yes." "Thank you for calling, sir." "We're all fighting to the same end." "The book, sir?" "Oh, I'll show myself out." "Thank you." "Goodbye." "(CLOCK CHIMING)" "Do you like them?" " I was only looking." " Go ahead." "They're pretty" "They do wonders." "Like what?" "Stop you going blind." "Put you to sleep." "Help you breathe." "Almost anything if you know how." "Is there one for getting rid of babies?" "Is that what you want?" "Yes." "I have promised Mr Marlott that I will look after you." "It's not his though, is it?" "Give it to the parish, it's as good as dead." "I've seen it happen." "It might as well be finished now." "It'll be kinder that way." "Please, help me." "Have you found her?" "No." "But I know who took her." "I'll bring him in." "When'?" "Tonight." "Smile." "You're meeting a friend." "(DOOR OPENS)" "(INDISTINCT CHATTER)" "Mr Marlott, Mr Barkis." "Delighted." "But I'm not here to speak to Mr Barkis." "Where's my man?" "In the tunnels." "What?" "That's what I'm to tell you." "Said he'd know." "Do you?" "Show me." "PRITTY:" "This is where we keep the goods." "(SNIFFS)" "Will Murray." "He's doing well for himself." "Here you are." " Barkis?" " Don't bother me none." "I smell worse every working day." "PRITTY:" "This goes down the tunnel under the market." "It's how they used to transport the bodies from here to the hospital." "Is that where he is?" "Well, that's what I was told." "Ugh." "You know the way?" "Well, I've been down there, but... (CLEARS THROAT)" "When we get back." "I'd like it now, if you don't mind." "Here." " The balance when I return." " PRITTY:" "If we return." "Look, we don't know who's down there." "Or what." " We'll be all on our own." " We'll have each other." "After you." "Go on." "He's a gentleman, ain't he?" "So what do you say?" "How do, sir." " Too, many, questions." "(GIRL WHIMPERS)" "A young girl has come to me for protection and I need somewhere to place her." "DANIEL:" "I've promised Mr Marlott that I will look after you." "FLORA:" "It's not his though, is it?" "Please help me." "SIR WILLIAM:" "Frankenstein." "It contains references to galvanism, sir." "Do you know much about it?" "Not my subject I'm afraid." "What brings you here, Mr Marlott?" "MARLOTT:" "A crime I'm investigating." " MARY:" "The missing girl?" " Yes, and others." "MARY:" "Pack some clothes." "We are leaving immediately." "(GASPS)" "I'll find the killers for you." "I swear." "So why didn't you?" "I'm scared of them." "PRITTY:" "The man you're looking for, Mr Marlott." "I think I've found a way to get to him." "Billy, the Child Catcher." "That's my guess." "Is that where he is?" "(LOUD THUDDING)" "(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)" " See, he ain't down 'ere." " Just keep going." "PRITTY:" "Look, that's it, we're the only ones down 'ere." "(RETCHES)" "MARLOTT:" "No, we're not." "MRS BISHOP:" "Oh, he don't like our perfume." " Why don't you show yourself?" " Oi..." "No orders from you sawbones." "We do the carving down 'ere." "All right." "(GRUNTS)" "Take off them gloves." "Workman's fingers." "He ain't no surgeon." "Then what's he want with a corpse?" "(GASPS)" "He asked you a question." "PRITTY:" "Company." "That's why it's needed fresh." "(MRS BISHOP LAUGHS)" "Company?" "(SCOFFS)" "(CHUCKLING)" "Boy or girl?" "Girl, of course." "No offence, I'm sure." "How old?" "16 or less." "MRS BISHOP:" "Thirty guineas." "Up front." "Thirty-five guineas." "Twenty up front." "The rest when you deliver." "On one condition." "I get to choose." "He's lying." "It's a trick, Ma." "It's not a trick." "Thirty-five guineas." "For the girl of my choice." "Someone in mind 'ave ya?" "Not yet." "No." "But I'll know her type when I see her." "Too risky." "Gut him now and be done with it." "The surgeons are doing you out of business." "But I know, I know others who want what I want." "You do right by me and your trade's secure." "Nine o'clock tomorrow night, at the Fortune." "(EXHALES)" "NIGHTINGALE: (STUTTERING) So no sign of Billy then." "No." "Maybe he ain't the one we're looking for." "Billy took Alice." "That much we know." "Just because he wasn't down there doesn't mean he's not doing business with them." "He may have been supplying them with children." "So, Billy stole them and they stitched the pieces together." "It's possible." "They deal in corpses, and I dare say they're not scruple about how they use them." "Either that, or they're both working for someone else." "You've..." "You've cut yourself, sir." "Eh?" "That was on her hands." " God help us." " No, it's not blood..." "It's like paint." "The pure gatherer?" "Where is he?" "Someone lit out after you went in." "It must have been him, cutting his losses." "Well, where is he?" "How do I find him?" " Why?" " Why?" "If he can lead us to them, we don't have to go through with this." "(CHUCKLES NERVOUSLY) He ain't gonna peach." "Not on that mob." "He sells down the tanner's yard." "Borough." "Somewhere that stinks worse than they do." "Maybe that's how he knows 'em." "What?" "They live there?" "Or somewhere else the smell of death goes undetected." "You're a death dealer Mr Pritty." "Think." "Where would a crew like that go to ground?" "Makes no odds to me, cos I ain't looking for 'em no-how." "All right, we'll wait for them to come looking for you then." "And they will, once they realise we're not buyers for real." "Or ye can meet me here with them tomorrow night." " And do what?" " Catch them in the act." "(SCOFFS) What you think they just going to walk in 'ere and carve someone up." "Thirty-five guineas is too much to pass up, even for that lot." "So we will need a girl as bait." "And 20 guineas." "Who's got that kind of coin?" " You wouldn't..." " I will." "If you don't find them first." "Or get your shit-dealer friend to help us do likewise." "If you want to keep your savings, you'll find Barkis." "Before tomorrow night." "(THUNDER RUMBLING)" "(HORSE NEIGHS)" "Please let me stay here with you." "Do you know the trouble I went to on your behalf?" "He gave me this for you." "(THUNDER RUMBLES)" "DANIEL:" "Dear Mr Marlott." "The girl lost her child and would not be persuaded to stay." "She asks to lodge with you." "Please join us for lunch today at 1:00 and we can discuss further." "Yours, Daniel Hervey." "It was an accident?" "Please don't throw me out, sir." "I feel safe here." "(GASPS)" "Oh, Agnes." "Forgive me." "Has anyone seen Barkis, the paddy." "MAN:" "Who?" "He walks with a stoop." "There's a farthing in it for ya if I can find him." "(ALL SHOUTING)" " I've seen him, Mister." " GIRL:" "And me." "Where?" "When?" " He was here yesterday." " He comes every week." "Do you know where he lives?" "Don't know, Mister." "If it's fresh you want I can get you bucket loads." "(ALL CHUCKLING)" "(CLATTERING IN DISTANCE)" "(THUDDING)" "Sir?" "Sir?" "(GASPS)" "(CHUCKLES)" "(BREATHING HEAVILY)" "Hello, girl." "Billy." "What do you want?" "To see you, settled nice and snug." "How did you find me?" "Magic." "Did he take it yet?" "Or did you sell it to him?" "What?" "Your little thing." "Go away, Bill." "Leave me be." "(LAUGHS)" "That's harsh, innit, eh?" "After all our days together." "Very well." "You be that way." "(SOBBING) Why can't you just leave me be?" "Cos you're mine and I still got use for ya." "Now..." "Not a word of this, you hear?" "(SOFTLY) Yeah." "If I get wind if you set out." "I'll be back and I'll slit you up." "All the way down to you know where." "(SOBBING)" "(SCOFFS)" "(CHUCKLES)" "(CONTINUES SOBBING) -(KNIFE CLATTERS)" "Mr Marlott for Lord Hervey." "Mr Marlott, my Lord." "Thank you for coming." "Bentley, this is Mr Marlott..." "Yes we, er, we met." "Please." "I won't stay to dine." "But I'd like to thank you for your invitation." "At least sit with us for a while." "Lloris, take Mr Marlott's hat and gloves." "Sir..." "How is the girl?" "Weary, after what happened." "Mr Marlott has taken a charitable interest in a young girl who was with child." " Mmm-hmm." " Sadly she miscarried last night." "DANIEL:" "There was nothing I could have done, I'm afraid." "It was her clear intention the child not be born and the body answered to the will." "I have seen it many times." "WARBURTON:" "Was she unmarried?" "LADY HERVEY:" "I'm afraid so." "Ah, well, then it was an act of Providence." "Or a blessing in disguise." "LADY HERVEY:" "I don't believe that Daniel." ""Suffer the little children, and forbid them not to come unto me..."" ""For such is the kingdom of Heaven."" "DANIEL:" "Our earthly realm is less benign however." "Whatever her prospects, they would have been bleaker still with a bastard." "Harsh words." "And unbecoming in mixed company." "DANIEL:" "Maybe so." "True, nonetheless." "You're leaving us, Mr Marlott?" "Forgive me." "My Lord, may I talk to you in private, for a moment?" "Of course." "Excuse us." "I am truly sorry about the girl." "But she would not be persuaded to stay." "And it's against my principles to act against the will of a patient." "It's not what I wish to talk about, my Lord." "Your condition." "No, my Lord." "Galvanism." "Galvanism?" "What of it?" "You said it was Sir William's speciality." "He wrote his doctoral thesis on the subject." "I've read it." "Why'?" "When we spoke together about it he, he denied it." "He might well." "It was highly controversial." "In what way?" "Oh, the galvanists believed they'd found the source of all life." " And had they?" " No." "They'd discovered bio-electrical currents in the human anatomy." "But their claim caused outrage in some quarters as you might imagine." "The likes of Sir Bentley, for instance." "And yourself." "My objections are scientific, not religious." "But why your interest?" "Can you tell me more?" "I'm afraid not." "But my thanks all the same." "And for what you tried to do for the girl." "Well, then, perhaps you'll allow me to examine your hand?" "How long have you been taking mercury?" "Almost a week now." "It brings hallucinations, as you know." "But then, so does the disease." "You're fortunate, it hasn't invaded the central nervous system yet." "My mould treatment tastes foul." "And I don't understand how it works yet, but it hardly matters." "Three drops, three times a day." "When it runs out I'll give you more, if need be." "You won't mention this?" "I treat all of my patients in absolute confidence." "Nor my other business?" "You have my word." "Will you re-join us?" "No, no thank you." "I'm sorry to hear it." "I'll have Lloris bring your hat and gloves." "Mr Marlott." "I wanted to say goodbye." "Thank you." "I hope you won't take my brother's words amiss." "He speaks his mind, My Lady." "It's one of the qualities I love most in him." "But it makes him enemies." "He's no politician, like Bentley." "Nor I, my lady." "(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)" "(MAN LAUGHING)" "Your letter. (SIGHS)" ""Boz," funny name." "Nom de plume." "Pen name." "Simple and memorable." "What'll you have sir?" "None of that piss." "Stale please, darling." "So, what's this about?" "A story I was hoping you might confirm." "That the runners are being wound up, and Sir Robert drawing up plans for a professional police force." "That's confirmation, I take it." "You can take that how you like." "I've heard he already has a man in your office." "Marlott!" "First name?" "Judas for all I know." "Tell me about him..." "PRITTY:" "I've asked every tanner and skin trader in the Borough." "Barkis ain't been there all day." "And I've been east as far as Bethnal and north to Somerstown." "Time to get your money out of the bank before it closes." "Without Barkis we've got no choice." "We'll need three runners." "Armed." "NIGHTINGALE:" "And a girl?" "Well, Flora's back." "We'll use her." "Back?" "(BREATHING H HEAVILY)" " But, sir, she's with child." " Not any more." " Since when?" " Last night." "How?" "Erm, she miscarried, I'm told." "(STAMMERS) But there's girls aplenty on the streets that we can use..." "But there's no time." "She's ours." "She's here." "We'll use her." "Fetch her from my lodgings." "And prime her on the way." "You, with me." "Sorry but I can't be of service on this occasion, Mr Marlott." "All my men are occupied tonight." "Three runners." "Surely you can spare that for the Home Secretary's sake." "There's nothing I wouldn't spare for the sake of that man, if only it were in my power." "And who has the power here more than you?" "You tell me, Mr Marlott." "Sir Robert will hear of this." "Of that I have no doubt." "Flora?" "Flora?" "(FLORA GASPS)" "Why didn't you answer me?" " What's this for?" "(WHIMPERS)" "FLORA:" "I was..." "I..." "I was scared." "Of what?" "I thought I heard someone." "I was wrong." "What happened?" "Nothing." "I thought I heard a noise." "I told you." "The child I mean." " I lost it." " How?" "I just lost it." "You're lying." "You never wanted it in the first place." "He helped you get rid of it, didn't he?" " Didn't he?" " What's it to you?" "That child's fate could have been yours or mine." "Better if it had been." " My boss wants to see you." "(GRUNTS)" "What does Mr Marlott want?" "I don't like it, but here it is." "He's out to catch someone and you're his bait." "He's to pick you out from a crowd at Smithfields like you're his fancy." "Whoever comes to take you away, I'm to follow and make an arrest." "For a tup?" "They don't plan to tup you, Flora." "They plan to kill you." "Wish you'd stayed in that hospital now, don't you?" "Where are the others?" "Ah, it's just the three of us." "And this." "Forrester has them otherwise engaged." "I won't let you do it sir." "I mean, just us against God knows who." "And look at her." "She can barely stand." "Why don't we ask her?" "Who is it I'm baiting?" "Billy." "And whoever he's passing children onto." "Just yesterday, she was with child herself." "FLORA:" "And now I ain't." "I'm ready." "(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)" "They ain't comin'." "Maybe not in person." "But they'll show their hand somehow." "PRITTY:" "You can sit here as long as you like, but I'm going home." "MARLOTT:" "You stay where you are." "What takes your fancy, sir?" "Not you." "What about you, sir?" "A girl under 16, maybe?" "Who sent you?" "Someone who said you'd pay a pretty penny." "(COINS CLINKING)" "Let's find you an angel, then." "I'll have her." "(SIGHS) My friend wants to take us to a party." "Where are we going?" "Oxford Arms." "Room under the name of Sheppard." "Be there." " Hmm." " Let's get you ready then." "(SOFTLY) Come on, sir." "(GRUNTS)" "(GRUNTS)" "(GRUNTS AND GROANS)" "(PANTING)" "(KNOCKS AT DOOR)" " ASA:" "Seth." "Seth, they're here." "SETH:" "No tail?" "(WHIMPERS) -(GRUNTS)" "(YELLS)" "(SOBBING)" "Gentleman paid?" "Please..." " Well, then." " No!" "No..." "Please!" "For pity's sake." "Please, no!" "No!" " Please, no!" "(GRUNTS)" "Please, no!" "No!" "Please!" "No!" "Please, no!" "Please, no!" "Please!" "No!" "(SCREAMS) -(SETH SHOUTS)" "(BANGING ON DOOR)" "FLORA:" "Please, no!" "(DOOR OPENS)" " The child catcher." " Has he got my money?" "Get me some rope." "Where have they taken her?" "(CHUCKLES)" "He ain't talking." "(GRUNTS)" "Where?" "He said where?" "Brick dust." "That's what was on her hands." "Red brick dust." "Brick kilns." "Nova Scotia Gardens." "If you want to see your money again, you'll keep guard of him." " Oh, I will." "{SNEERS)" "Don't say a word." "(G ROANS)" "Where is she?" "Huh?" "Where's Flora?" "Tell me where she is or I'll shoot." "MRS BISHOP:" "Take him down." "(BREATHING HEAVILY)" "Go on!" "He ain't got it in him." "(MRS BISHOP SCREAMS)" "Put your weapons down!" "I'll shoot her where she stands." "(SOBBING)" "Where's the girl?" "(NIGHTINGALE COUGHS)" "Has she not woke?" "You go with her to the hospital." "I'll search this godforsaken place." "For what?" "Alice." "And the other children." "(G ROANS)" "(SOFTLY) God have mercy on us all." "A family of murderers that live in the brick fields." "They call themselves the Bishops." "London is full of murderers, Mr Marlott." "What makes these ones special?" "They killed in order to sell to the surgery schools, sir." "Their method was gas and fumes from the nearby kiln." "My guess is that it kept the bodies unmarked so they could go for a higher price." "Have you found proof positive linking them to that thing?" "Not yet, sir." "Murder yes." "But not of children." "The runners are still searching the site." "The Bishops are in the cells awaiting questioning." "Along with a kidnapper who, I believe, was in league with them." "He tried to kill me last night." "Then why are you here and not there?" "Well, I felt I should let you know immediately, sir." "If word gets out that murder was committed on behalf of the surgery schools..." "My instruction was to find a culprit and inform me only." "We now have a potential scandal on our hands which threatens to do exactly what that monstrous object you found was designed to bring about." "Create outrage among the general population directed towards the surgery schools." "God help us when Warburton and the newspapers get hold of this." "You could silence them, sir." "Too late." "We might silence the newspapers." "But the ballad sellers will accomplish the task for them." "It might yet play to our advantage, sir." "The existence of monsters like this makes passing the act even more imperative." "Murder, Hope!" "Sanctioned by the surgery schools." "Without their knowledge." "It matters not." "When word of this gets out, Mr Marlott, heads will most certainly roll." "Yours may very well be one of them." "You asked me to find people with means and motive to sabotage your act, sir." "That I have done." "Your task is not accomplished yet." "I suggest you find the evidence you need to make your case." "Yes, sir." "How did you know to find me in Cloth Fair last night?" "Who told you I'd be there?" "Was it the Bishops?" "(SCOFFS)" "It's too late for you, Billy." "I know you took Alice." "Flora told me." "That makes you the first link in the chain." "Was it for the Bishops or for someone else?" "Hey, what did you do with her?" "Did you kill her?" "Did they?" "Where are her remains, Billy?" "Where's the rest of her?" "Where is she?" "(SINGING) "Oranges and lemons"" "Say the bells of St Clements" ""You owe me five farthings"" "Say the bells of St Martin's" ""When will you pay me"" "Say the bells of Old Bailey" ""When I grow rich"" "Say the bells of Shoreditch" "(LAUGHS)" "You'll be singing differently when the noose comes down." "And I'll be there watching." "You sell to the surgeons?" "To the porters." "Did they know where the bodies came from?" "They didn't ask and didn't care." "But they knew." "You rob graves too?" "Sometimes you'd come across one in the fields." "But they sold for more if they were in good fettle." "No marks." "Is that why the brick ovens?" "It's how they wanted them." "And Billy supplied you with the children?" "What children?" "Who's Billy?" "Billy, Billy Oates." "The child catcher." "I don't know no Billy." "There's nothing more to be gained by lying." "You may as well go to your maker with a clear conscience." "Where are the remains?" "Where did you bury them?" "I'm telling you." "I don't know no Billy and I ain't murdered no children." "I've birthed babes of me own, 12." "You killed two last night, remember?" "Yeah, but children go for more, don't they?" "Why would you scruple at that?" "The strays in Smithfields, they talk of a monster hunting them at night." "That was Billy wasn't it?" "I'll say this and then I'll say no more." "Many men have tried to make me take rule." "Those men are cold in their graves." "Our trade was killing." "Don't ask me how many, I couldn't tell you." "Ask them who's bought from me." "I won't deny it and I'll swing for it." "But I never took rule from no man." "And I never killed no children." "(SINGING) "Oranges and lemons"" "Say the bells of St Clements" ""You owe me five farthings" -(GASPS)" " Say the bells of St Martin's" " Alice." ""When will you pay me"" "Say the bells of Old Bailey" "Was it Billy?" "Or the Bishops?" " Or was it someone else?" ""When I grow rich"" "Say the bells of Shoreditch" "Garnet?" "Sir William?" "Both together?" ""When will that be?" say the bells of Stepney" "Who was it, Alice?" ""I'm sure I don't know"" "Tell me, Alice!" " Says the great bell at Bow" " Who was it, tell me!" "Sir?" "How's Flora?" "She breathes." "(SIGHS) Nothing else." "I hope it was worth it, sir." "Billy says nothing." "Mrs Bishop says she knows nothing of Billy." "And she denies killing children." "She would." "Why?" "She faces the gallows anyway." "There's no profit in it." "Except the pleasure of foiling you, sir." "There is another way Billy could have found me at Smithfields last night." "Flora." "No." "No sir, she was never out of our sight." "And besides." "She was terrified of him." "I think she knows something." "I want you there when she wakes." "I want you to hear it." "Happily." "If she does." "I'm sorry, Joseph." "Excuse me, sir." "Are you Herrick?" "The gentleman inside said you might help me." "Boz." "I write for the Chronicle." "What do you want?" "Mr Marlott said you'd worked on a case together." "We worked on many." "The Frankenstein case?" "What's Frankenstein?" "A story about a madman who pieces together the bodies of the dead." "He said I should speak to you and you'd tell me more..." "Nothing to say." "Don't know what you're talking about." "I can tell you what you need to know..." "BOZ:" "The finding of river corpses or "floaters" as they are colloquially known, whether of natural or unnatural origin, is not an unusual phenomenon in the working life of the officers of Wapping's River Police." "But the discovery last week, of a most singular example of that watery species has caused no little consternation, even amongst those stalwarts of public service." "For unlike its more ordinary brethren, this particular example appears to have been derived not from one, but from numerous victims, stitched together in an apparent attempt at surgical reconstruction, reminiscent of that notorious, some would say blasphemous text," "Mrs Shelley's Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus." "All of which raises the question," ""Why, on the eve of the Anatomy Act," ""has the disclosure of this monstrous artefact" ""been suppressed for over a week?"" "And what public interest is being served by denying Londoners the knowledge of a diabolical surgeon in their midst acting in apparent imitation of Mary Shelley's infamous madman," "Victor Frankenstein?" "Mr Marlott, formerly of Wapping, currently of Bow Street, may have answers to some or all of these questions." "The authoress appears to have fled, whereabouts unknown." "Mrs Hogg." "I have thought of James, many times." "You must think very little of me, however." "You helped drive my son to suicide." "Exploited in your fiction." "Now this." "I only meant to honour James in my book." "I was very young when he died." "We knew not what we were doing." "William Chester knew though." "And he was no stripling." "Yes, indeed." "Then I shall tell you what I told him." "I burned everything of James' when he died." "His papers and diaries, even his clothes." "His very scent brought me to grief." "The laboratory?" "Untouched, until yesterday." "Yesterday?" "When Sir William came to call." "I don't wish to see inside." "Leave the key with the front gate when you go." "Oh, of course." "Thank you." "Forget the dead." "The past." "Yet there are ghosts that may take revenge for it..." "JAMES:" "We're about to take a step that will alter the course of natural philosophy forever." "To examine the courses of life, we must first recourse to death." "(GASPS)" "SIR WILLIAM:" "Frankenstein?" "It contains references to galvanism, sir." "Do you know much about it?" "Not my subject I'm afraid." "What brings you here, Mr Marlott?" "MARLOTT:" "A crime I'm investigating." "The Little Girl Lost." "In a rose pink dress." "I know that picture." "He's out to catch someone and you're his bait." "FLORA"." "For a tup?" "NIGHTINGALE:" "They don't plan to tup you, Flora." "They plan to kill you." "(MUFFLED SCREAMING)" "(GRUNTS)" "(GUN FIRING)" "(MRS BISHOP GASPS)" "(GUN FIRING) -(GASPS)" "MARLOTT:" "How's Flora?" "NIGHTINGALE:" "She breathes." "Nothing else." "MARLOTT:" "A family of murderers, they call themselves the Bishops." "They killed in order to sell to the surgery schools, sir." "We now have a potential scandal on our hands which threatens to do exactly what that monstrous object you found was designed to bring about." "God help us when Warburton and the newspapers get hold of this." "BOZ:" "Why, on the eve of the Anatomy Act, has the disclosure of this monstrous artefact been suppressed?" "Denying Londoners the knowledge of a diabolical surgeon in their midst, acting in apparent imitation of Mary Shelley's infamous madman," "Victor Frankenstein." "(DOOR OPENS)" "(MARY LAUGHING)" "Ah." "You're sure?" "I won't think any the less of you." "I feel as though I'm standing at the edge of the world." "The household's asleep." "William." "(MARY SIGHS)" "To the unflinching eye of the intellectual soul." "(GLASSES CLINKING)" "You're the poet, Shelley." "Give us some words." "We're about to take a step that will alter the course of natural philosophy forever." "What words could possibly suffice?" "James." "Is she to stay?" "She's as committed as any man." "(EXHALES)" "The honour is yours." "To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death." "(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)" "(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)" "(CROWD JEERING)" "Ingrates." "(WOMAN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY) -(BANGING ON CARRIAGE)" "If it wasn't for us, they'd all be wallowing in scrofula." "Mind your tongue, Garnet." "And smile." "When will you learn?" "At times like this, appearances aren't merely important." "They're everything." "Get the nurses and orderlies to man the gates if need be." "I won't have my hospital overrun." "PIRKIS:" "Yes, sir." "You're on ward round this morning." "I have urgent business to attend to." "Whatever you say, Cousin." "You?" "Here?" "How dare you?" "I told you I never wanted to see you again." "Get out." "Not before you tell me why you went back to Hogg's laboratory." "(RINGING BELL)" " Pirkis." " I'll reveal what you did there." " What we did." "I have less to lose.." "Sir?" "Yes." "Thank you, Pirkis." "Two glasses and my finest port." "Mrs Shelley and I are going to toast the future of medicine." "Yes, sir." "Straight away." "You ask me why I went back." "Ask yourself instead why you've never left." "Mocking my achievements in your wretched novel." "Dragging my past endlessly into the limelight." "You've seen this, no doubt." "Twelve years it took me to dissociate myself from you." "Now this." "On the eve of the Anatomy Act, my greatest triumph." "The Anatomy Act." "A free supply of corpses to do with as you wish." "It is you." "(CHOKING)" "You literary wretch." "(GASPING)" "(MOANS)" "Your wine, sir." "I'm drinking alone, apparently." "Thank you, sister." "There's another patient in here, sir." "Flora." " Get out." " Sir." "(LOCKS DOOR)" "(BELL GONGS)" "HOPE:" "Mr Marlott." "Sir Robert instructs me to tell you he is occupied at present." "And what about this?" "The Frankenstein Murders." "It's history, Mr Marlott." "Like yourself." "Pack your bags and get back to Wapping." "Mr Marlott." "Sir Robert has known about this all along, hasn't he?" "I'm not at liberty to say." "Oh, come, Mr Marlott, the time for coyness is past." "Who would place power into the surgeons' hands after this?" "Don't berate him, Bentley." "None of this is his doing." "No." "You are right, my dear." "He only answers to his master's voice." "Well then, a gift, from me to him." "An emergency vote to declare the Anatomy Act dead." "What better way to celebrate our engagement?" "I apologise for Sir Bentley's rudeness." "He doesn't know you as I do." "Come to my house in one hour." "Thank you for coming." "What is it that you wish to talk to me about?" "When we met earlier," "Sir Bentley mentioned our engagement..." " Congratulations, my lady." " Please, Mr Marlott." "He is money to us and I am status to him." "Nothing more." "You would pledge yourself in a loveless marriage?" "For my brother's work." "Yes." "What I've concealed from him is my intention to disappoint him should the Act fail to pass, and my brother allowed to continue his work." "Something I now have reason to hope, thanks to the recent scandals implicating the surgeons." "But I know Sir Robert well." "He will stop at nothing to get his own way." "(BREATHING HEAVILY) Therefore," "I have asked you here to beg you to help me." "Do not let him succeed." "You should know, my Lady, Sir Robert wants nothing more to do with me." "I've been removed from the case." "Then all hope is truly lost." "I have a confession of my own to make, my Lady." "That thing you read about." "The Frankenstein Murders was the very reason Sir Robert hired me." "My investigations have led me to suspect all who oppose the Anatomy Act." " Your brother included." " My brother?" "Responsible for that..." "Listen to me." "Please listen to me." "If Sir Robert's wrong, then the madman who made it could very well have been a surgeon." "Sir William Chester." "Someone without any regard for human suffering." "But I swear to you, whoever it is," "I'll find him." "Should he be the highest in the land," "I'll find him." "Then I was right." "You are a man of God." "If it's your position that concerns you..." "No, it's not that." "Forgive me." "Forgive me." "All things might be possible in time." "But time is not with us." "And my adversaries are powerful." "Then I will wait." "And pray for your success." "For bringing them to justice." "Who are you?" "Joseph Nightingale, sir." " Bow Street." " What do you want?" "The patient is a witness." "I've been told to sit with her until she wakes." "Out of the question." "I won't have you jeopardising her welfare." "Well, will she recover?" "Out at once." "Go!" "You have no authority here." "This patient is under my care now." "My Little Girl Lost has been found." "(KNOCKING ON DOOR) -(DOOR OPENING)" "It's about Flora, sir." "I was..." "Close the door, please." "I need a word in private." "I need you to withdraw a pistol for me." "In your name." " Why?" " I'm not employed here any more." "My investigation is beginning to step on a few powerful toes." "So what now?" "The investigation goes on." "In private." "With me?" "Yeah, if you agree." "I'll get that pistol." "MARY:" "This newspaper article, Mr Marlott." "This is where your missing girls have gone to." "Is it not?" "Why did you not tell me?" "I couldn't." "If I'd known more I might have said more." "Now we have both been defamed." "Then get a lawyer." "I have other business to attend to." "I know who you're looking for, Mr Marlott." "I'm listening." "I was 17 and in love with my husband and with science too." "That much you know." "We were visited in Oxford by Percy's friend," "James Hogg." "And he..." "He introduced us to his mentor, William Chester, and his..." "Pursuit." "(CHOKING)" "(MECHANICAL WHIRRING)" "(ELECTRICITY SURGING)" "Again." "(ELECTRICITY SURGING)" "MARY:" "Wretches, we four." "(SOBBING)" "We thought we could conquer death." "But we found to our dismay that death had conquered us." "William banished us to our rooms but sleep didn't come easily." "At dawn we were roused by Mrs Hogg's screams." "A scalpel had been placed in James' hand." "His wrists cut." "Expertly" "A verdict of suicide was infinitely better than one of murder." "For all of us." "A young mind driven to distraction by dark science." "Why didn't you tell me this before?" "How could I be sure?" "Either someone was tracing our steps." "Or..." "William Chester himself had returned to his..." "Great obsession." "Creating life from death?" "Like your Victor Frankenstein?" "He truly thought such a thing was possible?" "Still does, if my surmise is correct." "Today, I confronted him and he attacked me." "Where was this?" "The Hospital." "I..." "I called on him first at Greenwich but there was no answer." "Greenwich?" "Their old family home." "Where we first knew one another." "Years ago." "Do you admit purchasing bodies from this woman?" "I admit nothing." "Liar." "He knows me well." "Let's try again." "We buy things from many people." "I've told you." "I can't know them all." "Your masters will let you hang to protect themselves." "Does that please you?" "Even if I did buy goods from them, it don't make me responsible for how they come by them." "Yeah?" "That's for the law to decide." "Right..." "I'll ask you again." "Did you or did you not buy corpses from that woman?" "It's possible." "Adults?" "Children?" "Adults, maybe." "You know, kids is rare." "I told you." "Then how come your masters came by so many?" "What makes you think they did?" "Sir William himself said there were eight children that made up that composite." "All dead within a fortnight of each other." "What, you..." "You think that he created that thing?" "Well, if he did, it makes you an accessory." "So save yourself." "Tell me everything you know." "I've done so already." "I don't know what more to say." "We'll try this another way." "Does he ever require you to deliver bodies to Greenwich?" "Why Greenwich?" "Because that poor creature floated to Bugsby's Marshes from somewhere near Greenwich." "The family home of Sir William Chester." "Sir William lives in Hampstead." "Garnet has the house in Greenwich now, his cousin." "(BELL RINGING)" "(HORSE NEIGHING)" "(CLOCK CHIMING)" "(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)" "GARNET:" "What do you think you are doing?" "Taking her far away from you." "Where she'll be safe." "On whose authority?" "The law's." "And God's." "I am her doctor, damn you." "You will leave her be." "Orderlies!" "Somebody, help!" "Shall I tell them that you drugged her and raped her?" "Go ahead." "No one will believe you." "The mature of The Little Girl Lost, it was yours, wasn't it?" "You gave it to her, to tempt her from Billy." "Is there a law against giving a girl a present?" "You've proof of nothing." "It's proof that you knew Billy." "And that's enough." "What other business did you do with him?" "How many other children did you purchase?" "This is outrageous!" "Many, I'd wager." "Some for pleasure." "Some for dissection." "Stop him." "(GUN COCKING)" "It was him." "He's the one who tricked me." "Look, it means nothing." "There's no law against what I did to her." "Do you hear me?" " Stop him." "Stop him now!" " Get out of my way." "Move!" "It's all right." "It's all right now." "You're a dead man, do you hear me, damn you!" "You need to get strong." "I don't deserve to." "Why would you say that?" "I killed my Child." "I led Alice to her death." "I deserve to die." "All life is precious, Flora." "Yours too." "If you've been brought back, well, there's a reason for it." "You've been given another chance." "Take it." "(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)" "Stay here and guard her." "With your life, if need be." "Where are you going?" "It's past midnight." "Garnet knows I'm onto him now." "I need proof of his guilt." "Fast." "What proof is there?" "Billy Oates did business with Garnet." "The next link in the chain." "I need Billy's confession." "It's my only chance." "Then God help you." "MARLOTT:" "I know Garnet bartered with you for Flora." "What other business did you do with him?" "Did you sell Alice to him?" "Who does this code of silence serve, Billy?" "Only your masters, who'll gladly watch you, hang to save themselves." "You help me convict them, it'll go well for you with the court." "You may even find your sentence commuted to transportation." "Billy don't peach." "Not for no one." "Death holds no terrors for me." "You know Garnet cheated you of Flora's virginity, don't you?" "That's right, Billy." "She's no virgin." "After you bilked him on the price he found her in the market and drugged her." "Took her for free." "Laughing at you." "(CHUCKLES)" " You lie." "It's the truth." "She was with child." "She had it aborted." "The girl you were saving for a price went to that bastard for nothing." "And now you'll hang to save his skin." "How does that make you feel?" "Transportation, you say?" "MARLOTT: "I Billy Oates, this day of the First of April 1827," ""do hereby confess that I provided numerous unwanted children" ""from the streets of Smithfield to Garnet Chester," ""of St Bartholomew's, to do with as he wished," ""with no concern for their safety or anything else except my own profit."" "Sign it, Billy." "What's going on?" "Dawn raid, sir." " Where?" " No idea." "Special order of the Home Secretary." "He's in there now." " Peel?" " His man." "I am assured that Warburton will be there when you arrive." "(DOOR OPENS)" "Why are you still here?" "To get this." "A written confession describing the supply of children from the streets of Smithfield's to the surgeons at St Bartholomew's." "You were removed from this case yesterday." "Yeah, and today, I have this." "I suggest you take a copy to Sir Robert, immediately." "Unless you want me to take the other to our friend at The Morning Chronicle." "You have your instructions." "SIR ROBERT:" "You've been very busy, Mr Marlott." "My initial surmise was right, sir." "That corpse child I found was not an act of political sabotage, as you assumed, but the work of a madman." "Garnet Chester." "And those murderers you found in the East End?" "Ah, the Bishops are murderers, sir, but not the ones we're looking for." "They deny killing children and I believe them." "This is the man who provided them, Billy Oates." "He sold them to Garnet Chester, who stitched them together." "I'd like to have your permission to arrest him, sir." "Thank you, Mr Marlott." "You have done quite enough." "I'll take care of this personally." "But what about Sir William?" "This doesn't touch him." "His hospital?" "His cousin?" "No man is his brother's keeper or his cousin's." "I imagine he'll be every bit as shocked by this as I am." "Go and rest now." "You've earned it." "And when you wake, we'll..." "Talk about your future." "(BLOWS WHISTLE)" "(MAN EXCLAIMS)" "(SCREAMING)" "Round 'em up!" "(SCREAMING CONTINUES)" "Hand's off me, you brute." " Get off me." " FORRESTER:" "I'm sorry, ladies." "Change of venue." "MAN:" "Richard, Richard." "(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)" " MAN 1:" "I was simply having..." " MAN 2:" "I haven't done anything wrong!" "MAN:" "I beg you." "Please don't tell my wife." "FORRESTER:" "Get up the bloody stairs." "(SCREAMING)" "Get out, get out." "Go on." "SIR BENTLEY:" "This has all been a terrible misunderstanding." "SIR ROBERT:" "I believe you are acquainted with this young man, Bentley." "What scandalous business is this?" "Scandal is the last thing any of us want, Bentley." "Please." "What's this?" "It's a calendar." "How can you tell?" "Twelve pictures." "Twelve months." "And it contains the seasons." "Look, green leaves, red leaves, leaves falling and leaves gone." "Simple." "(SIGHS)" "(SCREAMS)" " NIGHTINGALE:" "Sir." "You'd best come quick, sir." "(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)" "Sir William found him like this, this morning." "Suicide." "As clear an admission of guilt as any confession." "MARY:" "The scalpel had been placed in James' hand." "His wrists cut expertly." "Thank you for coming so quickly." " Of course." " We don't have long." "Suicide?" "That's what I need you to determine." "What do you think?" "LORD HERVEY:" "It was murder." "If he'd died from blood loss there would have been less of it." "Much less." "I think he was killed another way." "The wrists were cut afterwards to make it look like suicide." "But why?" "Garnet murdered, disguised as suicide, makes him look like the guilty one." "Just what is it you think they've been up to?" "Well, you read that story in the paper." "The body stitched together from different corpses." "Galvanism?" "Well, it'll play into our hands all the same." "Jemima tells me we're on the eve of victory." "An emergency vote on the Anatomy Act tomorrow." "That means my work can go on." "You still have to answer for Flora." "It's a criminal act to rob an unborn child of life, my Lord." "At the very least, your practise will be closed." "You yourself, subject to prosecution." "Is that what you want?" "I want to know how you justify it." "I believe her existence would have been blighted by the birth of that child, as did she." "She would have died homeless and starving, and..." "A vagrant or a prostitute, along with her unloved offspring." "You call that life." "I call it suffering." "Does Lady Hervey know?" "There is much about my work that I keep from her." "Though she would do everything to support you in it." "It is true." "Her heart is filled with love for me." "This however, will surely break it." "I would not be held responsible for that." "Then, you'll forbear from telling her?" "For the while." "If your God exists, I believe he will cherish you for it." "MARLOTT:" "Your treatment didn't work then." "LORD HERVEY:" "Too late in this case." "MARLOTT"." "And in mine?" "LORD HERVEY:" "Maybe not." "Though you might want to act quickly, Mr Marlott." "Honourable members!" "Honourable members." "Let us bring this emergency meeting to order." "The motion before us is that," ""This House would forbear the passing of any Act" ""which would licence the surgeons with greater power."" "Pray silence for the Honourable member, Sir Bentley Warburton, imposing." "MAN:" "Hear!" "Mr Speaker." "Honourable members." "After much consideration, and in the light of recent developments," "I regret to inform the House," "I am withdrawing this motion." "(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)" "Mr Speaker." "(SHOUTING CONTINUES)" "Mr Speaker." "The events of the last week have shocked us all." "Firstly, the discovery of a gang of body snatchers rumoured to have been engaged in the business of procuring corpses by acts of murder." "Secondly, the emergence in the press of a story of dubious origin, implicating the surgeons in a grotesque act of defilement lifted straight from the pages of popular fiction." "And most recently, the suicide of Mr Garnet Chester, surgeon of St Bartholomew's, in what appears to be a gesture of despair, after being uncovered as the source and culprit of one or more of these terrible crimes." "Never has the need for reform in the realm of public medicine been more pressing." "MEN:" "Hear, hear!" "I, therefore, commend Sir Bentley on his stoical rejection of partisan interests in the name of the common good." "MAN:" "Hear, hear." "I would also like to commend the fearless work and daring of Mr John Marlott, of Bow Street." "(MEN APPLAUDING)" "Mr John Marlott of Bow Street, whom I will be recommending as advisor to my special committee on the formation of the new Metropolitan Police." "(APPLAUSE)" "In light of these tragic events, it is our conviction that no further delay should be brooked in the passage of the Anatomy Act." "Let us once and for all banish this trade in bodies." "Let reason and regulation banish fear and scandal from our streets and hospitals." "To which end, I propose an immediate vote on the Anatomy Act as an alternative motion for this House today." "Thank you, Mr Speaker." "(APPLAUSE)" "SPEAKER:" "The motion before the House is the immediate passage of the Anatomy Act." "(CHURCH BELL TOLLING)" "(DOORBELL RINGS)" "John Marlott for Lord and Lady Hervey." "My Lord and Lady are not in residence." "(DOOR OPENS)" "SIR BENTLEY:" "Come along, my dear..." "Your office." "Sir Robert would like your proposal at the end of the week." "SIR ROBERT:" "This city, Mr Marlott, dragged kicking and screaming like a raucous infant, towards a better future." "Do well by me, and you will be assured a part in it." "(FLORA SINGING) Whoso beset him round" "With dismal stories" "Do but themselves confound" "His strength the more is" "No lion can him fright" "No foes shall stay his might" "He'll with a giant fight" "Shall be a pilgrim" "(CLEARS THROAT) Sir?" "I would like it if Flora..." "Flora and I would like it, if she would move in with me." "As your maid?" "No, sir." "We wish to be married." "We're both of us without family and we feel that we belong together." "We very much like your blessing, sir." "Well, you have it." "(BOTH CHUCKLING)" "Thank you, sir." "But properly." "With church and marriage bands." "Until then, she stays here." "You agree?" "(EXHALES)" "NIGHTINGALE:" "Thank you, sir." "(CHUCKLES) I'd like to buy us all a drink." "(CHUCKLES)" "You two go." "I can't." "It's a big occasion, sir." "We'd appreciate it." " I have work to do." " NIGHTINGALE:" "Tonight?" "(CHUCKLING) Come on now, sir." "You can put your work off for once." "I can't." "In fact, I have to leave now." "Where to at this time, sir?" "Greenwich." "(STAMMERS) Why Greenwich?" "Garnet Chester's house." "I missed something last time." "But the case is closed." "He was guilty." "What are you looking for?" "Alice." "Proof she was there." "And what makes you think you missed it last time?" "Either that creature was made there or it was kept there." "It found its way to the river by accident, through a sluice or a sewer I'd wager." "A cellar perhaps?" "Probably." "Look, I'm coming with you." "MARLOTT:" "No sluice." "No sewer." "Nothing." "Perhaps you were wrong, sir." "Perhaps it came into the water from somewhere else." "I measured the tides." "It came from here, in Greenwich." "I'm sure of it." "So, someone disposed of it." "But why take the risk of it being discovered?" "I don't believe they did." "Sir." "Look at the distance from here to the river." "Do you really think it just fell out of a cart and rolled down there by accident?" "It did get there by accident." "But not that way." "I don't follow, sir." "It moved, Nightingale." "Sir William and Garnet were working together to resurrect the dead." "And they succeeded." "It crawled there." "And I know who can help me prove it." " Dover Stage?" " Yes." "You're leaving London?" "I asked you a question, Mrs Shelley." "I'm leaving England, not that it's any of your affair." "But you have unfinished business here." "Go inside." "Do as I say please, Percy." "I have told you everything I know." "What more do you want?" "Sir William Chester walks free." "A murderer twice over." "Twice?" "His own cousin now." "Garnet." "Killed him, made it to look like suicide." " Just like Hogg." " So what do you expect me to do about it?" "You tell the world what you told me." "Sir William Chester has returned to galvanism." "He thinks he can conquer death." "He'll sacrifice anyone." "His madness is no longer my concern." "You have a duty to say what you know." "Let the dead bury the dead." "What if they won't stay buried?" "What do you mean?" "Where you once failed, he now succeeds." "The dead live, Mrs Shelley." "I don't believe you." "You must." "This nightmare is your creation." "It's not mine any more." "It's yours." "(COACH DRIVER URGING)" "(HORSE NEIGHS)" " JOEY:" "A monster." " MARLOTT:" "A monster?" "What nonsense is this?" "He comes at night, takes the children." "MARLOTT:" "I 'm looking for a girl named Alice." "BLAKE:" "To find her you have to know the truth of the beast." "We wish to be married." "We very much like your blessing." "Well, you have it." "(BOTH CHUCKLING)" "Thank you, sir." "MARLOTT:" "The remains of seven or eight children have been found." "Freshly dismembered, mutilated and rearranged." "NIGHTINGALE:" "Perhaps it came into the water from somewhere else." "I measured the tides." "It came from here, in Greenwich." "MARLOTT:" "Sir William and Garnet were working together to resurrect the dead." "It did get there by accident." "But not that way." "It moved, Nightingale." "(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)" "(THUNDER RUMBLING)" "(SNIFFLING)" "Been here all evening?" "Every blasted second of it." "MARLOTT:" "Sir William at work still?" "NIGHTINGALE:" "Aye, but what of it?" "Well, they won't be holding anatomy classes at this time of night." "Go and rest." "Sooner or later he'll give himself away." "And when he does, I'm going to be here." "I'll find you at Bow Street tomorrow." "(BELL TOLLING IN DISTANCE)" "(HORSE WHINNYING)" " Evening." " Evening, Home Secretary." "(INDISTINCT CHATTER)" "Our vigilance has paid off." "The Home Secretary himself came to call last night at 10:00." "It confirms my worst fears." " Why?" " Well, he knows what Sir William is up to." "I think he has done all along." "And this monstrosity reaches to the very heart of our government." "We need to gain access to Sir William's house." "In Hampstead." "I can't help you any more, sir." "I'm sorry." "Forrester's sure to find out, and I need to keep my job." "Well, I'll guarantee you a new one." "You'll be my right hand." "Why do you wear those gloves, sir?" "I know what it is." "I'm sorry." "I've been given a cure." "By Daniel Hervey." "Forgive me, sir, but I would like permission to take Flora back to my lodgings." "No, I told you." "When you're married, not before." "With respect, sir." "We discussed it last night." "She wants to come back now." "And I've given you my decision." "I'm thinking of you, Nightingale." "And I'm thinking of her, sir." "What do you mean?" "Her safety, sir." "I'll need that gun too, sir, if I may." "It's in my name." "Here." "(GUN CLICKING)" "Sir?" "The answer's no." "I spoke to Joseph earlier and gave him my reasons." "I'm thankful to you." "We both are." "But I know my own mind, sir." "I won't be confined." "You'll do as I say." "You're still my witness." "And this is where you're safe." "(GUN CLICKS)" "If I'm so safe here, then how did Billy find me?" "Billy found you?" "You never told me." "I was scared." "He threatened me." "So you've been lying to me." "You're lying to me now, aren't you?" "No, I ain't." "When you came to Bow Street and asked me to look after you." "It was Billy that sent you, wasn't it?" " So you could spy on me." " That's not true." "I swear it." "What are you doing?" "Get off me." "I won't let you take advantage of Nightingale, too." "What are you doing?" "You're mad!" "I ain't lying." "We love each other." "Then why did you insist on coming back from the hospital that time?" "You'd just lost a child." "Anyone else would have been glad of a place there." "But not you." "You had instructions from Billy to come back here, didn't you?" "What are you talking about?" ""Dear Mr Marlott," ""The girl lost her child and would not be persuaded to stay." ""She asks if she can lodge with you."" "That's what he says?" "He lied." " Why would he?" " I don't know." "He said I'd be better off with you." "Ask him yourself if you don't believe me." "You ask me to choose your word over his?" "I begged him to let me stay." "He wouldn't." "He made his servant bring me back, I bled all the way," "I could barely stand." " Lloris?" " I don't know his name." "The monster." "What did you call him?" "What difference does it make?" "I ain't lying'." "Lloris, the monster?" "Is it possible?" "(EXHALES SHARPLY)" "That thing crawled to the river and floated to Bugsby Marshes." "Either from Greenwich or the other side of the river." "Mittram Abbey." "Hervey's hospital." "I've been looking in the wrong place." "What thing?" "If that's where he took Alice and the others, it would explain why he didn't want you there." "He couldn't kill you without drawing attention to himself." "So he sent you back here, from Billy to Lloris to Hervey." "Hervey." "The last link in the chain." "So you believe me now?" "You're staying here till I find out." "What are you doing?" "No!" "Get off of me!" "Let me out." "Let me out!" "(DOOR BANGING)" "Mister, please!" "Let me out!" "(BREATHING HEAVILY)" " What do you want?" " To speak to you." "We have nothing to discuss." "Let me speak and you'll understand." "But not out here." "Inside." "Please." "Forgive my intrusion." "Just say what you have to and leave." "You came to me once because you thought my soul was in peril." "I wish to return the favour." "The marriage is planned, and I intend to go through with it." "It's not Sir Bentley I wish to talk to you about." "It's Daniel." "What new accusation is this?" "Tell me what you know about his research." "I thought this malign speculation was at an end?" "Sir Robert has had his way with us." "What further humiliation do you require?" "I fear Daniel may be steeped in blood." "In ways you can't even begin to imagine." "Just leave." "Now." "Hear me out." "He's an abortionist." "Flora's child was killed, not miscarried." " By his hand." " No." "I don't believe you." "This marriage you are embarked upon." "Not only will it put an end to your own hopes of happiness, it will fund evil such as this." "And others I dare not name." "What manner of evil?" "This research of his." "Where does he practise it?" "What evil, I said?" "Has he talked to you about raising the dead?" "I fear for your sanity, Mr Marlott, and for my safety." "Now will you get out now?" "On one condition." "That If I find proof, you'll turn from this marriage." "Not for my sake but for your own." " Promise me." "(GASPS)" " Promise me." " Anything, if you will go." "Thank you." "Forgive me." "(EXHALES)" "Strong current today." "Aye, and against us." "Where do you drift to when it's like this?" "East." "Cross-river." "On account of the bend." "Bugsby Marshes?" "Could be." "(BELL DINGING)" "(DOORKNOB RATTLING)" "(BIRDS SCATTERING AWAY)" "(DOORKNOB AND CHAIN RATTLE)" "(BIRDS CAWING)" "(DOOR RATTLES)" "(GIRL WHIMPERS)" "LLORIS:" "Be still." "Don't fret." "I promised I'd... (GUN CLICKS)" "Stand aside." "Alice." "(GRUNTS AND GROANS)" "Run!" "Alice, run." "(GRUNTING)" "(PANTING)" "(FOOTSTEPS FLEEING)" "(DOOR SLAMMING)" "(BIRDS CAWING)" "(DOOR OPENING)" "LORD HERVEY:" "Careful, Lloris." "(GRUNTING)" "LORD HERVEY:" "Bind him." "(GRUNTING)" "What have you done with her?" "With who?" "Alice." "Lloris?" "I don't know what he's talking about." "The butcher's girl." "From Smithfield." "(GRUNTS)" " What of her?" "I kept her, my Lord." "Here." "Kept her?" "Why?" "I wanted to save one, my Lord." "Just one." "Do you know what you've done?" "I'm sorry, my Lord." "I'll fetch her back." "Bring Mr Marlott to the Tower first." "Tie him in." "He'll kill her like the others when he finds her." "You know he will." "Let me go." "Let me go, and I'll help you save her." "You're a good man, or you wouldn't have done it." "I'll see you get your reward." " Shut up." "(GRUNTS)" "LORD HERVEY:" "Hold his head back." "Oh!" "(GAGGING)" "Hold him steady." "(PANTING)" "No matter." "In seconds he'll be asleep." "Now go and find the girl." "(BELL TOLLING)" "(HORSE GALLOPING AND WHINNYING)" "(G ROANS)" "Cave" "Baestiam." "Beware the Beast." "(GASPS) on, God." "(BREATHING SHAKILY)" "(POUNDING ON DOOR)" "NIGHTINGALE:" "Flora, Flora." "(KNIFE CLANGING)" "MARLOTT:" "No, I..." "(CRYING)" "SIR ROBERT:" "This is a situation of no little embarrassment for me, Mr Marlott." "My newly appointed commissioner." "Up to his elbows in innocent blood." "I can explain if you'll let me." "Then start with that thing on your hand." "What is it?" "Syphilis." "I contracted it during the Peninsular Campaign." "How advanced is it?" "I don't know." "I can't say." "Then let me tell you." "It is late secondary stage." "Accompanied by dementia." "Daniel Hervey has been to see me." "He explained your condition." "Hervey?" "He tells me he has been treating you." "It was him who did this." "He murdered the girl." "Those children." "That is what he told me you would say." "You must listen to me, sir." "I'm not a murderer!" "You were found with her at your lodgings, Marlott." "Because he arranged it that way." " Why?" " I told you." "It was him who made that corpse child." "He was stealing children from the streets." "But the Frankenstein murders have been solved, Marlott." "You solved them." "We already have a culprit." "Garnet Chester." "The confession I secured from Billy Oates was a lie." "Billy was supplying children for Hervey, not the surgeons." "That thing, that creature, he created from them," "it lived." "Long enough to crawl from Hervey's laboratory down to the river." "Come, come, Mr Marlott." "I saw that thing, too." "Hervey's work involves the reanimation of dead matter." "You really believe this to be true?" "It was foretold." " Foretold?" " William Blake." "The Beast with a man's face." "Hervey." "Him?" "Here?" "A most elaborate delusion, Hervey." "You were quite right." "Though not unprecedented at this stage." "The patient misconstrues his doctor as the source of all his agony." "(CHAINS RATTLING)" " Damn you, Hervey!" "Damn you!" "(BREATHING HEAVILY)" "I would like to continue his treatment on a charitable basis." "Have someone qualified certify him legally insane, and it would save us both the embarrassment of a public trial." "That is a generous offer." "Thank you, Hervey, but, uh..." "I think the law needs to take its course." "I will make arrangements for a trial in camera here in Bow Street." "No public gallery and no journalists." "MARLOTT:" "There's a child." "His manservant kept her on his estate but she escaped." "She may still be alive." "If you can find her, she can corroborate my story." " Her name?" " Alice Evans." "And where might we find her?" "Not in his hearing." "Over here and I'll tell you." "I would advise against that." "Sir?" "I'm sorry, Marlott." "Tell us what happened on the morning of Tuesday, the 21st of April." "I went to his lodgings to go and fetch Flora." "The girl, sir." "Why'?" "We were to be married." "She lodged with him, but he didn't want her to leave." "I was worried for her, so I insisted." "Why were you worried?" "His behaviour, sir." "What Of it?" "He was deranged, sir." "BARRISTER:" "What happened then?" "There was no answer at the door." "I could see someone through the window." "I became anxious for the girl's safety." "So I open the door." "And that's..." "That's when I saw it." "Saw what?" "(BREATH ES DEEPLY)" "She..." "She was lying there, sir." "With her throat cut." "And he was there, standing in front of her." "Blood all over him." "And the murder weapon in his hand." "No more questions, Your Honour." "Thank you." "Mr Nightingale, you may step down." "BARRISTER:" "No further witnesses, Your Honour." "No witnesses for the defence, Your Honour." "Do you wish to submit any mitigating evidence?" "The accused has been diagnosed with advanced venereal disease, Your Honour." "And is clearly not in full possession of his moral and mental faculties." "We therefore ask for dismissal of all charges on medical grounds." "JUDGE:" "Thank you, Mr Cusworth." "Your request for humane dismissal is denied." "Since no mitigating evidence has been submitted and no witnesses for the defence brought forward, you have no choice but to find the defendant guilty as charged." "I will therefore proceed directly to sentencing." "John Marlott." "You have been found guilty of the charge of wilful murder and are to be taken from this courtroom to a place of execution, where you shall be hanged by the neck until dead." "(GAVEL BANGING)" "(CROWD JEERING)" "(BELL TOLLING)" "(JEERING CONTINUES)" "You got five minutes." "Obliged." "(DOOR LOCKING)" "(WATER TRICKLING)" "I was told no visitors." "I'm leaving the newspaper business, Mr Marlott." "Going freelance with a book of sketches." "Thought perhaps this visit might form the basis for one of them." "A glimpse into the wretched soul of the condemned the eve before he shuffles off his mortal coil." "I'm innocent." "And can prove it." "Please, Mr Marlott." "This is painful enough as it is." "No, it's true." "A better story than the one you have planned." "A deranged Lord intent on creating life from dead matter." " I beg your pardon?" " The Frankenstein Murders." "Daniel Hervey is the culprit." "Not Garnet Chester." "Not Sir William." "Hervey." "The story is yours if you can find the one person who can prove it." "Who?" "Alice Evans, a 10-year-old girl, thought murdered." "I watched her run free from her place of confinement at Hervey's hospital." "Her family live in Lewkenor Lane." "Her father is a Smithfield butcher." "Hear my prayer, oh, Lord." "And let my cry come onto thee." "For my days are consumed like smoke." "My heart is smitten and withered like grass." "I want to be with you again." "AGNES"." "Patience." "You will be." "(DOOR UNLOCKING)" "You can leave us." "Why have you come here?" "I have been struggling to come to terms with the terrible things you have said and done, Mr Marlott." "Daniel has told me of your condition." "How it deranges the senses." "I needed to find it within myself to forgive you." "And to see you one last time." "Your brother is mad." " Murderer and a blasphemer." " No." "He's a genius." "He has sacrificed your happiness for his own ends." "What brother would ask that of you?" "What hold does he have over you?" "Tell me and I can help you break his spell." "Come to the light." "Help me." "You don't understand us, Mr Marlott." "We are not like others." "Listen to me." "If your brother succeeds in what he's doing, it means not just my damnation but the entire world's." "A world with no God." "You of all people must understand that." "(BREATHING SHAKILY)" "If you let me go to my death now, without speaking, knowing what I have told you, then you are as guilty of your brother's crimes as if you had done them yourself." "I cannot betray him." "I will pray for your poor sinner's soul, Mr Marlott." "And ask in turn you do the same for mine." "You let me out." "(DOOR OPENING)" "He is the Alpha and the Omega." "Will you confess your sins before Him?" "I am guilty of much, Father." "But not of those sins of which I stand accused." "Repent and turn to God so that he may wipe your slate clean before it is too late." "I cannot perjure myself before God." "The prisoner has refused confession and is to die unshriven." "(DOOR CLOSING AND LOCKING)" "CHAPLAIN:" "William bishop." "Arnold Samson." "John Marlott." "Hilary Bishop." "Jonah Hart." "You are being condemned to hang this day," "April 30th, 1827." "For the several crimes of murder, murder, murder, rape and theft." "Wait." "Wait." "CHAPLAIN:" "You have been adjudged by the laws of this country unworthy any longer to live." "That no further good to mankind can be expected from you." "Only the example of your death, may God have mercy on your souls." "(BELL TOLLING)" "(CROWD MURMURING SOFTLY)" "(CROWD GASP)" "(ROPES CREAKING)" "LORD HERVEY:" "He lives." "(CHUCKLES) He lives." "(EXHALES)" "Look." "See, you're cured." "You are the next step." "An existence where there is no suffering." "Because there is no death." "(GASPING)" "(SOBBING)" "At the very least, make sure he drinks." "Let me show you where you were born." "Perhaps you were expecting electricity." "But the keys to life lie deeper than that, much deeper." "Inside us." "Not around." "My teacher, Johann Dippel, he hated the surgeons as much as I did." "He wanted to comprehend life." "So I studied under him." "Birth, gestation." "Generation." "When I terminated that poor girl's child," "I was harvesting raw material for my work." "The substance that brought you back from the grave came from her foetus." "And thousands of others like it." "It was in that tincture I gave you." "That was your first encounter." "My first creatures were children." "Like the one you found." "I wanted them to have the chance to grow." "But they couldn't survive the trauma I had inflicted upon them." "Not for long, anyway." "Something else was needed." "Something stronger." "I won't pretend I wasn't unsettled when I saw how Jemima loved you." "Whatever qualities she saw in you must surely have been virtuous ones." "Then, as you came closer to uncovering my secret, I knew she was right." "That's when the idea came to me." "To make you the one." "My Adam." "(GRUNTING)" "LORD HERVEY:" "Don't hurt him." "Don't hurt him." "(BIRDS CAWING)" "I feared something like this when your message arrived." "What's happened?" "I'm quite all right, I promise." "I strained myself during one of my experiments." "It's nothing." "Really?" "I wanted to give you your wedding gift." "It couldn't wait till tomorrow?" "Why not?" "You'll understand when you see it." "He lives." "You rescued him?" "From the gallows?" "No." "Then what?" "From the grave." "My creation." "An end to death." "No." "(MURMURING)" "Sister..." "Oh, my God." "(STAMMERING) No, no, no... (SCREAMING) I will not look upon him." "Jemima." "(CRYING)" " Take him away." "Away!" "(BAWLING)" "(LADY HERVEY WAILING)" "(FOOTSTEPS)" "Leave us." "It is not safe." "If you want my help, you'll do as I ask." "Daniel tells me that you refuse to eat." "That you wish to die." "That will not stop him." "There will be another one after you." "And others after that." "Do you remember what you told me when I visited you in the cell?" "(SNIFFLES)" "That if Daniel succeeded, then we would be in a world without God?" "And I would be as guilty for it as he?" "Well, he has." "And I am." "Think, then, what awaits us now in the hereafter." "Heaven is surely closed to us both." "In which case, we must make this stale world our Heaven." "If you will agree to live in it, then I will help make it so." "It will be my life's work." "And my penance." "Please." "On one condition..." "Do this for me." "For me." "(ORGAN MUSIC PLAYING)" "(MUSIC CONTINUES)" "(GASPS)"