"Catherine Urwin, we are calling upon you." "Your daughter Irene and your son Matthew are here." "Catherine Urwin, we are calling upon you." "Catherine?" "Are you there?" "Catherine?" "(CROCKERY CLATTERS) (TICKING)" "Whatever you do, do not break the circle." "Look at me." "Look at me." "(GASPS)" "(CRIES)" "(SIGHS)" "I'm afraid that whatever presence is in your home may well mean you and your family harm." "You can help us?" "They say you are an expert in such things." "Please." "If it's money that's an issue, we have savings." "I'll clear the room of his influence." "Until then, no-one must enter." "Am I understood?" "Yes.Thank you." "The spirit has departed." "Thank you." "Thank you so much." "(MAN SHOUTS OFFSCREEN) The latest on Spanish flu..." "Evening News." "Latest edition Spanish flu." "Mr Price." "You helped me contact my brother last month." "Ah, yes, yes." "Good to see you again." "You said he told you that he was at peace and that he'd want me to be at peace too." "Mmm, and he would." "Thank you." "See, I didn't understand what that meant at the time... ..but I understand now what it means to be at peace." "(GUNSHOT)" "All right, Miss." "Does she know where she is?" "Oh, my God!" "(BAND PLAYS JERUSALEM)" "(MAN) Have a care, eh?" "Someone do something." "Quick!" "(WHIMPERS)" "(SCREAMS)" "(KNOCK AT DOOR)" "Ah!" "Sir Charles." "Would you mind telling me why you're here?" "There are whispers Chamberlain plans to sink the coalition." "An election may be even as soon as next year." "We need a fresh face to lead the campaign, a new leader - Edward Goodwin." "Member of parliament, Finchley by-election?" "He's intelligent, personable, the common touch without actually being common." "The kind of man who can capture the hearts and minds of the public." "Three days ago his wife, Grace, was found naked and incoherent in the street." "Why, what had happened to her?" "She'd been troubled by something in your area of expertise, shall we say.And you've come here to ask me to look into it." "You were building up quite a reputation for this kind of thing." "Was." "Past tense." "Yes." "Yes." "The unpleasantness." "I had heard about that." "Right outside your front door." "That trade has stopped, Sir Charles." "I'm afraid..." "you've had a wasted journey." "There are those in the party who feel that Edward's reputation needs to be protected... ..and that the incarceration of hiswife is the only viable solution." "You'd have her committed to an asylum?" "No." "I want her to be helped, Mr Price." "What she needs is someone with a particular set of skills." "What she needs, Mr Price,... ..is you." "Sir Charles." "A lot of you are concerned about the future, about your jobs." "And believe me, we are all feeling the pinch." "But I want to reassure you, the Unemployment Insurance Act will be there to help the working man!" "(APPLAUSE)" "Never forget we are all in this together." "Thank you." "Mr Price, isn't it?" "Vernon Wall, Daily Gazette." "Didn't take you for political." "Unless the market's haunted and you're just waiting your turn." "Got 'em eating out of his hands." "They're all the same - promise you the world, then step all over you first chance they get." "Mr Wall." "Mr Price." "Good day." "Good day." "Mr Price, I presume.Mr Goodwin." "After you.Thank you." "Had any problems been reported before you moved in?" "I don't know, the house stood empty for many years and, before that, it had been a workhouse." "If I may enquire, Mr Price, what exactly is your methodology?" "I admit to being something of a sceptic about this kind of thing." "My expertise lies in the field of what they call psychical research, the scientific approach to the study of the preternatural - spiritualism, hauntings, apparitions." "So, in essence, you hunt ghosts?" "You have your doubts and that's quite understandable." "It was a week or so after we had moved in." "I'd wake up, struggling for breath." "Like the air had being taken from me." "'And then the noises started - scrapes, scratching." "'Grace!" "'" "Sudden crashes and bangs." "Sometimes I could hear someone calling my name even though I knew the house to be empty." "It feels as though there is someone else here." "Watching me." "I see things in the shadows." "You must think me very foolish." "Not at all." "There are times when I look at such shadows twice myself just to make sure." "Thank you." "So on the day of the incident when you were found in the street." "What happened before then?" "I, erm..." "I had been bathing." "And there were the noises and I was outside..." "It was like there was something forcing me away from the house." "Then there were these people." "I had fallen." "I don't know how I got there." "(BIRDSONG)" "It's a Border Fancy Canary, a songbird." "I bought it for Grace." "They're quite the fashion nowadays." "Mrs Goodwin?" "Is there something the matter?" "No, it's just..." "Well, they don't like to sing alone." "They only sing if there's someone else in the room with them." "Is there anybody else in the house?" "Who's there?" "(BIRDSONG CONTINUES)" "(BIRD SINGS SWEETLY)" "(CROW CAWS)" "So you have spoken to my wife." "You have heard our bird sing." "What happens now?" "Well, I'll look into the history of the house, its structure, the land." "Then tomorrow evening I'll set up my equipment." "Equipment?" "Audio and visual recording and devices to measure atmospheric or magnetic disturbances." "Do you believe you can find out what is ailing my wife?" "I believe I can rule out certain possibilities." "There was a hotel room in Manchester whose proprietor believed to be haunted." "Guests were complaining of strange noises, terrifying visions, physical revulsions." "A faulty gas pipe was leaking toxic fumes." "There is a logical explanation at the heart of these things." "Though it seems to me your reputation was gained by usually claiming the opposite." "Tomorrow then." "I'm afraid I must retire now to prepare for a small gathering." "Even with the country in disarray, party politics requires an endless parade of glad-handing." "Our housemaid Sarah will show you out." "How long have you worked here?" "One month now." "They needed a housemaid and I needed a job." "And they moved in two months ago." "So, who was taking care of them before that?" "Nobody." "I imagine that's why they needed a housemaid." "And have you experienced anything strange in your time here?" "How about Mrs Goodwin's behaviour?" "She's been very good to me." "They both have." "Sir." "(MURMURS) # Girls and boys Come out to play" "# The moon doth shine as bright as day #" "My mother always used to sing me that one before bed." "Does she still stay in Hastings?" "Sometimes I wish we'd never moved here." "Though I suppose we had to." "It will be better." "It will be." "You should see where I live." "I imagine it's not that different from where I used to stay." "(MUSIC PLAYS)" "Well, as far as I'm concerned, it's an unwelcome compromise - a halfway house to home rule which will satisfy neither the Unionists nor the Nationalists." "Darling." "Are you quite sure you should be up?" "I feel much better now." "Really." "(PEOPLE CHATTER)" "(CREAKING)" "Mam?" "Kettle's on, Sarah." "(KETTLE WHISTLES)" "Where's the money?" "Everyone says they're wonderful." "Please tell me you've not spent it all." "The tickets were selling out, Sarah." "They were selling out." "Bought one for you as well." "There are bills to pay." "Monsieur and Madame Lutrec." "They're from France." "(PEOPLE CHATTER / GLASSES CHINK)" "(PIANO MUSIC PLAYS)" "She seems brighter." "Hmm." "Perhaps the presence of Mr Price did the trick." "A lot of eyes on you now, Edward." "A lot of expectations." "A lot of time and money has been spent pushing you up the ladder." "Make us proud." "(TICKING)" "(ECHOING) 'Harry!" "'" "(TICKING SPEEDS UP)" "(SCREAMS)" "'Help Me.'" "'(GONG CRASHES)' 'Run!" "Run!" "'" "As fast as you can!" "You only have until the gong sounds again to hide and then I'm coming." "Ready or not!" "(PEOPLE CHATTER EXCITEDLY)" "(WOMEN GIGGLE)" "(GONG CHIMES IN THE DISTANCE)" "(KNOCKING)" "(KNOCKING)" "(KNOCKING)" "(KNOCKING)" "(SCREAMING)" "Excuse me, Charles." "See the hinges are a little loose, which may explain how it opened so easily on its own." "Have you been drinking, Mr Price?" "It's after five." "Have you consulted a physician?" "No." "I have the greatest respect for the medical profession but, er,..." "I know how this story ends - a spell of rest in a sanatorium for Grace." "Those places aren't for healing." "They're for containment." "Out of sight, out of mind." "I won't let that happen to my wife." "Whatever troubles her, I believe it comes from outside not within." "(BELL CHIMES)" "That's impossible." "The cords have been cut long before we moved in here." "Perhaps it would be better if I stayed the night in case of any further disturbance." "You're very dedicated, Mr Price." "Just so we understand each other, you do know why you're here?" "To find out what is causing my wife these terrors and ensure she can remain by my side." "Whatever other interests you have in the case..." "I don't have other interests." "I am a politician, Mr Price." "I am familiar with the concept of self-promotion." "Are you also familiar with the concept of helping people?" "Yes." "We wear masks, Mr Price." "In our daily lives, our jobs, presenting an image of ourselves while the truth is hidden somewhere below." "But Grace is pure." "Please remember that." "(SCREAMS)" "(CRYING)" "Cora?" "Corabelle?" "Corabelle?" "(WAILS EERILIY)" "Mr Price." "What's happened?" "I must insist you do not remove the writing until I've photographed it." "Absolutely not." "What if Grace were to see them?" "How do you think it'd affect her?" "Do you recognise the handwriting?" "Sarah, would you leave us for a moment, please?" "Are you suggesting my wife is responsible for this?" "No, I am saying that it's not unusual... ..for people to act up whether through depression, or seeking attention." "I might as easily ask if you recognise this handwriting." "Nevertheless, I would like to speak to her." "She has been disturbed enough." "Please remember that my wife is the victim in this and act accordingly." "(BIRD SINGS)" "Mrs Goodwin." "Do you think it sings because it's happy?" "Or because it's scared?" "I don't..." "I don't know anything about birds, I'm afraid." "Its little heart beats so fast." "I believe it's afraid." "Are you sure you should be up and about?" "The master said you were to have your rest." "He's scared I'll see the words on the floor." "I heard them talking." "Voices carry in this house." "Ma'am, I know it's the wrong time to ask and it's Mr Goodwin's decision but it would mean a lot if you could have a word with him." "It's my mother." "She had an accident yesterday and I was hoping for an advance on my wages." "Oh, that's awful." "Is she alright?" "What happened?" "I'm sorry, there was no accident." "We're just struggling for money and..." "You thought you'd play on my sympathies." "Yes." "Well, I can ask Edward." "But he'll say no." "I can't take this." "You already have." "(CREAKING)" "(BUZZING)" "(GASPS)" "You're light on your feet." "Mr Goodwin said I was to check if you need anything." "You seem at pains to point out you've been instructed to help and it wasn't your choice." "I'm fine." "The fruit is attracting vermin." "It needs to be cleaned out and traps set." "(GASPS)" "I thought I saw someone outside." "There's no foot prints but there is some compaction in the soil here see." "You see?" "What did he look like?" "It was very quick." "Then concentrate, for God's sake." "I'm sorry." "I think maybe..." "maybe I was mistaken, sir." "All things considered, I think it would be best if I stayed home with Grace today." "Well, then, may I borrow your driver?" "I have some research to do in town." "I have no regular driver." "The party provides me with one when needed." "Sarah can assist you." "A moment please while I fetch my bag." "It's possible someone is deliberately targeting your family." "Can you think of anyone who wishes you any ill will?" "I am a politician, Mr Price." "You should speak to the police." "Who would leak it to the press." "No." "What if something else is going on here, something you can't explain?" "I don't believe in ghosts, Mr Goodwin." "Neither do I." "Have you considered the possibility we might be wrong and something evil is in the house?" "(BABY CRYING)" "(CRYING CONTINUES)" "(CRYING GROWS LOUDER)" "(GASPS)" "(SCREAMS) Shh." "I don't know what's happening to me." "I'm..." "I'm seeing things and hearing things." "Maybe they're right." "Maybe I do need a doctor." "Maybe I should be locked away.No." "No, this will pass." "I promise." "I don't know if you're aware but the Goodwins' house was previously a workhouse." "So I'm looking at the original plans to see if it was constructed over any sewers or pipes perhaps." "How does one become an expert in matters like this?" "Erm, study and practical experience." "There is a solid scientific grounding in psychical research as well." "Sorry, I think maybe you misunderstood me." "I meant, how does one come to a place in life when you try and convince others you're an expert?" "What is the nature of your problem with me?" "I know your type." "You think I'm a fraud." "I think you see profit to be made from others' misfortune." "My apologises." "Forgive me for speaking out of turn." "I'm genuinely interested in what you have to say." "I'd lose my job if I told you what I genuinely thought.Is this personal?" "Go with my mother to the Woolwich Hippodrome tonight." "See that desperate crowd throwing away money they can ill afford and then ask me if it's personal." "If you want to help Mrs Goodwin, leave her be." "Edward fears what will happen if he seeks help." "His party are only interested in protecting his image." "So, whether you like it or not, Miss Grey, I may be the only chance of honest help that she has." "Then I hope you're as good as you think you are." "Records for St Jude's run up to 1890 but the workhouse closed in 1902." "That's 12 years of files that just happen to be missing." "It does say that most of the staff transferred to the Brockwell Institute." "Maybe you could check with them." "What did or didn't happen in the house 20 years ago has absolutely no bearing on Mrs Goodwin's situation today." "I am looking at the structure of the house." "Thank you for the suggestion." "Thank you." "I'll need you to wait in the car." "Although your driving skills have been appreciated." "Thank you." "It's amazing what us women can do when we put our tiny minds to work." "It was an important vote." "You should have been there, Edward." "It's just one day." "Sometimes just one day is all the opposition needs to bring you down." "One day." "One vote." "One errant wife." "You sent Mr Price to help." "I sent Mr Price as insurance in case we needed what our American cousins call a patsy - someone to take the blame for all this unpleasantness." "Sir Charles." "I thought I heard your voice." "Edward gave our housemaid the rest of the day off." "Trying to win votes, even at home." "How are you feeling, my dear?" "Well, I'm not used to a house like this, to high society." "I have a lot to learn." "I understand that." "There shall be no more foolishness." "(CHANTING)" "(EXOTIC CHANTING CONTINUES)" "(CHANTS)" "(CRUNCHING)" "(CONTINUES CHANTING)" "They have been trying for a baby for years now." "Apparently I'm their last resort." "Yeah, quite the last resort you are." "(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)" "Albert Ogoro at your service." "One where you rip the head off a defenceless animal?" "(LAUGHS) Now, did I do that or was that just what your eyes led you to believe?" "The chicken happily tucks her head under her wing." "I palm the decoy, reveal it to the audience as it were..." "The fake blood, mumbo jumbo..." "You're deceiving them, taking their money while lying to their faces." "That's much better(!" ") I prefer to see it as giving hope." "If I have to play the not-so-noble savage to do so, so be it!" "The lady does have a point, Albert." "Harry, it was you who taught me that trick." "I'm here to see if you can test these fragments for me for copper arsenite pigments." "Those ones there and then..." "And the granules?" "Unknown." "I'm hoping you can change that for me." "It might take a day or two." "I can't promise you anything." "Perhaps you could tear the head off a chicken." "See if that helps." "(LAUGHS)" "Harry, I like her." "I like you." "You can come back any time.I'll be waiting in the car, Mr Price." "(CLEARS THROAT) No, no." "She's, erm..." "She's a housemaid up at old St Jude's workhouse." "There's a wife of a Liberal MP who's seeing and hearing things." "Just as well they've called in the reputable Mr Price, then?" "Thing is, Albert, if I'm unable to see what's behind it, then they're planning to send her to an asylum." "I see." "Then we'll have to make sure that doesn't happen." "Right?" "I can't tell you how much that meant, seeing you up and about, talking to Sir Charles like that, the sunlight in your hair." "It was an act." "It wasn't really me." "I wasn't there." "It was." "It was you, the old you." "They want me to challenge for the leadership of the Liberal Party." "And then if an election is called..." "Maybe it's best if you just let me go, Eddie.No." "What if I can't be the wife you want, the wife you need?" "Listen to me." "In sickness or health, better or worse..." "We will get through this, Grace." "This is our fresh start." "Or maybe we just deserve everything we get." "(GASPS)" "No." "Very kind of you to escort me home, Mr Wall." "The higher-ups in Edward's party are getting nervous about this situation at the house." "Be careful." "Oh, you're concerned for me." "Way I see it, we can help each other." "Back when St Jude's was still a workhouse, something happened to the porter there." "It's a trade." "(CHUCKLES)" "Tell me what you've been doing up at the house and I'll share my research with you." "Edward might be leader of the country one day." "It's in the public's interest to know." "Careful using the phrase, "Public interest", Vernon." "Especially considering your past." "What was all that up at the house the other day?" "Hm?" "Creeping around, looking through the windows?" "I'm a journalist, not some creeper." "Yeah, like you're making such a great difference there, Harry!" "(FRENCH ACCENT) We are all haunted in some way, yes?" "But there is no need to be scared." "He is watching over you." "He says there is something he left behind,... ..something you like to look at." "Yes?" "That reminds you of him?" "And he says something about a hobby,... ..something,..." "something he liked to do." "He sometimes liked to play the accordion.Ah!" "That is what was confusing me." "Because he is not speaking, he is,...maybe, singing?" "Yeah, he really liked to sing." "And there was a song he sang for you more than others." "Where The River Shannon Flows." "He is singing it for you now." "(SOBS)" "He loves and misses you very much." "(AUDIENCE MURMURS)" "(APPLAUSE)" "There is another voice coming through." "Can you hear a name, Madame Lutrec?" "(MUTTERS) William." "It's William." "I can hear a man." "He's looking for someone." "His name starts with a G." "Or perhaps it's a..." "It's an H but you were close." "Very close." "I'm part of the show." "Excuse me, sir." "Sir!" "The H is standing for Harry." "Please, monsieur, if you could stay in the audience!" "I'm sorry." "Excuse me." "Excuse me." "Agh!" "Wait..." "Wait!" "I can hear you." "Yes." "I have somebody with me." "His name is..." "James." "Does anybody know a James?" "He says he's looking for his mother." "Is that you?" "He says he's not been gone too long." "Maybe two, three years." "Three, three years, yes." "Three years." "He says..." "He says he's sorry for..." "for never coming home." "Does that sound right?" "Yeah?" "He says he thanks you for your prayers." "And that he knows things have been difficult." "Er..." "Speak up." "He's saying something about money..." "Is that right?" "You've been struggling?" "Well, then, I am sorry." "I really am." "Because the money that you spent coming here tonight, it was a waste for each and every one of you." "What I'm doing right now, what they've been doing all night, is nothing more than a trick." "I started with the name James as it's the most popular in the country so I was certain somebody in this audience would have a friend or relative by that name." "Statistics again told me that many of you, sadly, lost family in the war." "This woman's cross tells me she's religious and who could blame her for praying for a loved one?" "I'm trying to show you that by playing the percentages, making sweeping open-ended statements, they are charlatans preying on credulity, making a fat living from the bereaved!" "(AUDIENCE SHOUTS) It's a con!" "They don't want to help you!" "Monsieur, what is the meaning of this?" "No chance of an encore, then?" "Vite, vite!" "(COCKNEY ACCENT) In my business, you learn how to read people - the little signs and tells they have." "You're angry." "You're trying to hide it but..." "You've lost someone, ain't ya?" "It's not me you're angry at." "It's something you did or didn't do." "I'm getting warm, ain't I?" "Someone close..." "A brother, a sister,..." "..a wife?" "Is that it?" "Was there a lucky lady somewhere?" "It's not broken." "It feels broken." "No, it feels bruised, which it is." "Badly." "(CLINKING) Excuse me!" "Ice is essential for the whisky." "It's also essential for reducing swelling." "Next few days, you should place a wash cloth soaked in warm water over the area several times a day to help the healing." "How come you know all this?" "I drove an ambulance during the war." "I didn't know that." "Why would you?" "You miss it." "Now, Mr Price, us gentlewomen aren't allowed the luxury of missing such things." "We are to do as we're told, accept our position in life and keep our pretty little mouths shut." "Can't imagine you doing that." "I couldn't imagine you throwing a punch but here we are." "Well, that's what you get for trying to help people." "Turned out tremendously well(!" ")" "Sure your mother's all right getting home on her own?" "Oh, I'm sure." "She wasn't best pleased when she found out I knew the man that "Ruined the show for everybody"." "You're the one that should worry, living in this gloomy old house all alone." "Yeah, well, that's the thing." "Sometimes late at night, in the dark," "I wonder if I really am alone." "What happened to your wife?" "I lost her." "(KNOCK AT DOOR)" "That'll be Albert." "Night has fallen." "It is time... ..to go to work." "'Folding Brownie camera." "Automatic focusing lock.'" "And I've added a modification of my own - a mercury thermometer." "Should the temperature in the room fall below a certain threshold, the magnesium and potassium connect setting off the camera." "Weights in the leg and a finely-tuned spirit level mean that any movement will cause a similar reaction." "Sound recording, courtesy of the Volta Graphophone Company." "There's one here and there is one downstairs." "And we have a galvanometer, alongside a thermograph." "Essentially, I'm looking to see if there are any changes in environments - temperature, magnetic field, electrical disturbance." "It wasn't a look of scepticism, Mr Price." "I'm impressed." "Didn't expect you to have such devices." "I've always been fascinated by science." "My father was a chemist." "Studied it myself for a while but I could never match up to him." "My path lay elsewhere." "But surely a true scientific survey requires controlled conditions." "Indeed, which is why my associate, Mr Ogoro, is ensuring all of the windows and doors are locked." "He will dust the floor with some powder so that anybody passing through will leave a trail." "I must ask you and your wife to stay in your quarters until the morning." "That way the house will be sealed off and untouched." "My associate and I will remain in the drawing room." "Do you really think there'll be another disturbance tonight?" "Well, I think whatever is happening, it seems to be escalating." "So we need to be ready for whatever the night will bring." "It's really not necessary for you to be here." "I'm aware of that." "But I want to make sure Mrs Goodwin gets the best help possible." "She's keeping an eye on you, Harry." "I'm not sure that's wise." "Did you want to play or did you want to teach?" "Oh!" "I'm not sure that's wise." "Don't feel bad." "I grew up watching my parents play after dinner every night." "My mother says she always used let my father win." ""The king of my heart"." "She can be so horrifically sentimental." "Your father was in the war?" "What regiment?" "10th Battalion, East Yorkshire." "They made it to Beaumont-Hamel..." "I think part of my mother stayed there with him..." "It's like she's waiting for some final word, some sign, some way to say goodbye." "Either way, Mr Price, checkmate is checkmate." "(LOUD POP)" "Cameras have been triggered." "(SCREAMS INCOHERENTLY)" "Does she have any history of sleepwalking?" "No." "I've heard, upon being woken, such people react with shock, but..." "I can help you find a sympathetic doctor, one who won't judge her." "She's not ill." "(PIANO PLAYING IRRATICALLY)" "Look after my wife, please." "Wait!" "Mr Price?" "You said you were conducting a scientific survey so I presume you have a scientific explanation for what is going on in my house." "I need to check my equipment and collect the evidence." "You are stalling, Mr Price." "That's a very interesting turn of phrase, seeing as though I need to speak to your wife properly." "You think she's in a fit condition to discuss such matters tonight?" "Tomorrow, then." "Very well." "This must be yours, then." "Look, Harry..." "I was trying to help you." "By planting the device in the piano without telling me?" "What happens if you can't find a logical explanation for all Grace has been experiencing?" "Harry.She'll more than likely end up in an asylum." "But I can not let that happen, Albert." "I know that." "Harry, I know that more than anyone but you're running out of time." "Arsenic pigmentation in the wallpaper leading to thallium poisoning?" "No." "The paint and wallpaper samples came up clean." "Whilst I haven't finished testing, it does not look good." "What, so, you want me just to lie to them?" "Hm?" "Manufacture some haunting?" "Yes." "Give them their ghost and save the girl." "That would be lying." "And she'd still be suffering." "I'm worried for you." "Thank you." "Don't worry about me." "Worry about her." "You see that, too, don't you?" "Looks like she's holding someone's hand.Question is whose hand?" "Who does she think is there with her?" "Miss Grey!" "Sarah." "Freddie Wallace." "Ah, typical!" "Old Harry forgot to mention me, right?" "I suppose he must have." "I'm his assistant." "Been away for a few weeks, Blackpool, bit of a dead end but them's the breaks." "Harry mentioned you could bring me up to speed with Edward Goodwin." "And why doesn't he do it himself?" "Because he's the great Harry Price, isn't he?" "It feels stupid to admit it now but when that siren was going, my foot down on the pedal..." "Felt like you were part of something bigger." "That what you did mattered." "Believe me, I get it." "I never thought I'd end up running around after someone like Harry." "What do you make of this paranormal stuff anyway?" "You really think he can help Mr Goodwin's wife?" "I think he believes in what he's doing." "Least I hope he does." "That's your polite way of saying he's making it up as he goes along." "Did he ever talk to you about that thing that happened with that soldier fella?" "You know." "Sorry, Freddie, what was it you were doing in Bournemouth again?" "Oh, Harry had me checking out some rumour, things going bump in the night." "Waste of my time, you know." "Well, I know you said it was Blackpool earlier, not Bournemouth." "All the same, isn't it?" "Who are you really?" "It's nothing personal." "Just doing my job." "Hey!" "Wait!" "(TICKING)" "Try to concentrate on the sound of the metronome." "Before you moved to this house, did you ever hear any strange noises or voices?" "You moved to a new city." "Got no friends or family." "A husband busy at work." "Perhaps some part of you..." "is seeking attention." "No." "I want to be forgotten." "Last night you got up out of your bed and you walked through the house in the dark." "Do you remember where you were going?" "I don't know." "I don't remember." "In some of the photographs,... ..it almost looks as if you're holding someone's hand." "Did you think someone was there with you?" "(WHISPERS) He wants me to leave." "Who wants you to leave?" "It's a child." "A little boy." "He won't leave me alone." "You need to understand he is not real." "He is a figment of your imagination." "When was the last time you saw him?" "Mrs Goodwin?" "He's..." "He's standing right behind you." "(CHIMING) (GASPS)" "None of this is your fault." "You have no idea." "Mr Price." "I have just received a preview of tomorrow's headlines." ""Liberal MP And The Haunted House."" ""In associating so closely with a man such as psychical researcher Harry Price, the Honourable Gentlemen's judgment both at home and in parliament surely must be called into question."" ""Even his own housemaid was of the opinion that Mr Price is nothing more than an opportunistic charlatan."" "This man is the future leader of our party and you have made a mockery of him." "Sir Charles..." "I can't keep everything out of the press." "Edward's career almost collapsed once before and I worked damned hard to keep it back on track." "Please!" "You knew exactly what I was when you hired me." "Somebody to blame if it all went wrong." "I wanted you to help my wife." "Mr Price, I think it would be best if you leave this house and don't come back." "If you truly want to help your wife, then you need to seek genuine medical help for her." "All right?" "Mr Price, leave." "Leave." "(SOBBING) Sarah..." "Same again, Sally." "She lost her job." "I don't care what you write about me but she didn't deserve that." "I was only following the story - politicians, ghosts, frantic females and fraudsters." "Shame I couldn't tie in that soldier who blew his brains out on your doorstep." "But his family have been through enough, without your lurid headlines." "I'm not a monster." "I have standards." "I get it." "You're trying to work your way back up the ladder." "Don't..." "No, no." "It cannot be easy for you." "You revealed confidential troop locations during the war." "You put hundreds of lives at risk." "It would be difficult to sink any lower." "Since when do you care about a housemaid losing her job?" "Miss Grey said I needed to look further into the past." "She might have had a point." "During your research, did you find any reason why Edward Goodwin would move to London?" "He's their golden boy, polishing him up for the next election." "But Sir Charles said that his career had almost collapsed once before, that he'd had to battle to save it." "Now, I've never read that in your paper or in any paper in fact." "Sir Charles has got influence, could have hushed it up." "So, why don't you go straight to the source?" "Hastings, in Sussex, his ex-constituency." "See if you can find any reason why Edward Goodwin would need a fresh start." "And if you need me, you can find me...here." "I'm not your lapdog, Harry." "What makes you think I wanna help you?" "Erm, because you know there's a story here and we both know, as soon as I leave, you're going to pick up that piece of paper cos you can't help yourself." "We need that money." "It's wrong of them." "I'll find something soon." "Adelina Riviera is coming to the Holborn Empire next month." "They say she's a marvel." "Doesn't just talk to the spirits, they knock on the floors and the walls as well." "Isn't that something?" "She might be the one to help us." "(KNOCK AT DOOR)" "I never called you a fraud." "Well,..." "I, sort of, did but that journalist, he twisted my words.It's fine." "Cos I am a fraud." "At least I used to be." "Oh." "Not in the beginning." "The psychical research, the equipment, that was genuine." "I was good at what I did." "I would turn the extraordinary into the mundane." "Until this one time I decided to give them what they wanted - you know, a real-life haunting." "It's terrible but I enjoyed it." "Felt like a conjurer, you know, putting on this fantastical show." "So, what's changed?" "Well, it was wrong." "And it had consequences that I will never be able to make up for." "Because when people go to a magician, they expect to be tricked." "But when they would come to me asking for help..." "Well, there's nobody to help Mrs Goodwin now." "There's us." "I think it was made quite clear we're not welcome." "And you're one to let that stop you, are you?" "Come on, then." "Excellent." "So, where we going?" "There is one member of workhouse staff still here - the porter." "Leonard Thornton." "How did you know?" "There was an incident when the workhouse closed - an attempted suicide." "Why?" "Are we gonna disturb his shift?" "No, he's not working." "He lives here now." "What I tried to do to myself wasn't to do with the workhouse closing." "It was about what happened before." "So, what did happen before?" "Nine o'clock every night, I'd lock the gates." "I'd take the keys to the master." "Now, he was a good man." "Hard but fair." "He knew you had to keep folks in order." "You've got beautiful hair..." "Golden.Reminds me of my daughter." "There's no records of those final years." "If you can help us at all,..." "please?" "See, it was winter." "Spent the mornings shovelling snow." "By the evening, it had fallen again." "I was taking the keys back to the master." "There'd been some trouble." "A boy." "Didn't care for the rules." "They were down in the cellar." "The master was..." "He was just trying to teach him a lesson." "Deaths weren't uncommon, but a drowning like that..." "The board didn't want no scandal." "And I stood there... ..and I watched." "He was only a child..." "..and I watched." "Can't..." "Can't even remember the boy's name." "I can't..." "I can't remember." "A child dies in that house then Mrs Goodwin claims the same thing is trying to drive her out." "It has to mean something." "It means the mind is easily suggestible." "She's probably heard the story before." "You think she's imagining everything?" "Not consciously." "If I tell you whatever you do, do not think of white elephants, what are you thinking about?" "Elephants." "Exactly." "There is this neurologist in Vienna who believes ghosts are nothing more than a manifestation of our fears." "So, rather than being forced out, she wants to leave?" "Did she ever say anything to you about being unhappy in her marriage?" "Even if she was, what difference would it make?" "She's a wife." "That practically makes her his property." "I think she's lonely, I think she misses her home.Sorry." "Please don't touch my equipment." "Is this how the bells rang out on their own?" "When I looked at the ventilation at the house, the chimneys, the windows, the pipes," "I built a model in order to test a hypothesis based on the storm that evening." "(BELLS RING) See?" "An answer for everything." "Well, no, no, far from it." "There's three main questions - why her, why here at this house and why now?" "The bangs and crashes." "The writing on the floor." "The sightings." "And the face at the window." "I know you saw something, despite what you said to Mr Goodwin." "I shouldn't have let him treat you like that." "I have a sketch of it." "I'd like to see that." "Thank you." "I need to...just pop out and check something with Albert." "I could stay here and finish putting together the timeline." "I understand you're not used to having guests but, don't worry, I won't touch anything... much." "You don't have any pictures of her." "Your wife." "I'm sorry, it just seems strange to me." "She was, er,...ill." "You know, not, er..." "And it was an illness that the doctors couldn't easily understand." "You know, it wasn't so much of a physical thing, more of a..." "And her family intervened and she was committed against her will." "And, er, I did everything I could." "I could have done more." "I could have done more." "But I don't need photographs because I think about her... ..all the time." "White elephants, Miss Grey." "'I've spoken with your doctor.'" "All we need now is your signature." "We can make this story work for you - how Mr Price tricked you, the pressure and difficulties of working with a sick wife and how you stood by her, a testament to your dedication." "I can't." "You can." "The doctors have already signed the certificate." "All it needs is your name." "Your wife will be looked after." "You can save your career." "I hereby offer my resignation." "Edward - Grace means everything to me." "I will not lose her." "It's an organic compound, urea, an evaporate of the urine." "It's primarily used as a fertilizer." "So, how much of that would you need to take care of a large garden?" "I'd say maybe 20 to 30 pounds." "No, this was a small bottle." "Think it belonged to the previous owners?" "Seems relatively new." "No sign of degradation." "Where did you find it?" "In the cellar at St Jude's." "Anything else odd or out of place there?" "Yes." "Right, let me see..." "There was..." "Photographs." "Furniture." "Rats." "(MUTTERS) Tall, dark..." "Apples!" "Apples." "There was a large tub of rotting apples." "Maybe be a month or two old." "I'd expect that in a farmhouse but the home of a politician?" "Let's say, then, it was by design, that it wasn't by chance." "For what reason would somebody keep rotting apples?" "That was a genuine question because I've got no idea." "Oh, right, er..." "OK." "Well..." "Let's see, er... rotting apples." "Fermenting apples makes it easier to isolate and extract the ester." "We've got ester and urea." "What could combine the two?" "Now, that is interesting." "It would take some skill, a great deal of skill, but you could fashion some kind of crude barbiturate." "(PHONE RINGS)" "Ogoro Pharmaceuticals.I need to speak to Mr Price." "Please." ""Yes." Harry, I want exclusive rights to this story." "You might have been onto something." "I just got back from Hastings." ""Don't touch anything, Miss Grey."" "(HISS AND CRACKLE)" "(GRACE) "Who are you..?"" ""So alone..."" ""Did you come from the roses?"" ""So alone..."" ""Did you come from under the roses?"" "(BIRD SINGS)" "I just want to say goodbye." "I'm sorry." "I'm sorry." "(GASPS)" "There I was digging around in Hastings." "Managed to track down Ada Donovan, lovely old dear, housekeeper for Edward and Grace." "What, she was happy to speak to the press, was she?" "Not initially." "I've got charm." "She opens up, saying she's worried about her nephew Garnett, how he's come to London to try and see Grace.Why?" "That I'm not so sure about." "I thought you had charm." "She seemed scared, like he might be getting into trouble." "So, being the concerned citizen that I am," "I said I'd check on him." "You're a wonderful human being." "Said he was staying at these barges." "We'll take it from here." "Thank you." "Oi!" "This is my scoop, Harry." "You'll get your story." "All right?" "Lot of folk here got reasons for not wanting to be found." "Have to respect that." "We wouldn't be asking if it wasn't important." "Where are you from?" "Bethnal Green." "Excuse me." "Excuse me." "Can I have a word, please?" "Mr Donovan." "Oi, oi!" "Harry!" "Stop!" "Help!" "I can't swim." "Help me!" "I can't swim." "That's it." "I thought he'd sent ya." "He's warned me to stay away from her before." "Had some folk make sure I understood.Mr Goodwin?" "Nah." "Not the monkey." "The other fella." "The organ grinder." "Sir Charles Harwood?" "Why did they warn you to stay away from Grace?" "Mr Donovan." "Grace is in quiet considerable trouble." "You've been at the house, haven't you?" "Looking through windows, trying the doors?" "Yeah, I've seen her." "Almost got in as well and then that stupid bird started singing." "(BIRD SINGS)" "I've known Grace for years." "She was that kind of girl, you know, walk into a room, everyone looked." "She was so lonely she even got my aunt a job as their maid." "Which is how come I ended up at the house sometimes." "Things happened." "And did Edward know?" "He came home early and found us together." "But why come back now?" "Creeping about the house." "Why not just leave it be?" "I had to see for myself." "See what for yourself?" "Be nearly two months old now." "I just wanted to see our baby." "Mrs Goodwin?" "Can I help you?" "I'm terribly sorry, Mr Goodwin." "I just left some things here." "You thought you'd just waltz in unannounced." "I didn't want to disturb you or Mrs Goodwin." "Not after what happened." "How is she?" "Grace is away just now, visiting her mother." "It's for the best." "I think it'd be better if you left now as well, don't you?" "Yes, sir." "I'm sorry." "(LOUD THUD)" "You forgot something." "It was in your book." "It's a very good likeness." "You have talent." "Do you know I fight... ..every day for people like you, Sarah." "I say you deserve the vote." "Equality." "But maybe I am wrong." "Maybe you all do just need..." "to remember your place." "I suppose you both laughed about it, didn't you?" "Poor little Edward, blind to what was going on under his very nose, in his own home, his own bed." "I'm sorry but I don't know what you're talking about.You're a liar!" "You're a liar just like her." "Take your hands off me." "Promising to be a good wife and then opening her legs to another man, carrying his offspring." "She deserved to lose it." "She deserved to lose it." "It was God's will that we should have a fresh start.Stop it." "But you helped her!" "You brought him here." "Here to my house!" "Didn't you?" "!" "'Grace, come down here!" "'" "'Grace?" "Grace, let me in.'" "'Let me in.'" "(THUDS)" "'LET ME IN!" "'" "'GRACE!" "'" "GRACE!" "Agh!" "(GASPS)" "Sarah?" "Sarah?" "You started to feed your wife crude homemade barbiturates in order to keep her in a state of drugged-up compliance." "Chemical build-up caused her to have breathing problems, caused her to lose her child." "You should have taken her to the doctor." "They'd have known..." "They would have known what I did to her." "So instead your wife had to suffer the effects of psychosis due to sudden withdrawal from the drug." "The sleepwalking, blackouts, manic behaviour, aural and visual hallucinations, ghosts, as it were." "Why are you telling me this?" "Because you asked me to deliver a scientific appraisal of your situation." "And now my work is done." "I've lost everything." "I loved her." "You didn't love her." "You wanted her." "There's a difference." "(DOOR CLANGS)" "Thank you." "This belongs to you." "He says thank you for always letting him win." "He says that it's time to start living again." "It's time to let him go." "I thought you were finished with all that." "One last performance, as it were." "How's Grace?" "She's been through a lot." "At least she was able to give her child a proper burial." "The things she experienced in that house..." "A chemical reaction due to Edward's attempts to control her." "Of course." "A scientific explanation for everything." "Have you got a new job yet?" "Erm, a scullery maid over at Belgrave Square." "It's not exciting or glamorous but it's better than nothing." "You?" "Yeah, phone started ringing again." "I think I'd forgotten what a weird and wonderful world it was out there." "You know, I actually would like to thank you for reminding me of that." "If you were thinking about changing career, then I could use your help." "I'll think about it." "You'll think about it?" "Yes." "Good day, Mr Price." "subtitles by Deluxe"