1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,220 This programme/film contains some strong language 2 00:00:03,260 --> 00:00:08,137 and some scenes which some viewers may find upsetting. 3 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:00,639 Forgive me, Father... 4 00:03:04,237 --> 00:03:05,436 ..for I have indeed sinned. 5 00:04:41,942 --> 00:04:43,342 Behold! 6 00:04:43,383 --> 00:04:44,982 A witness! 7 00:04:45,023 --> 00:04:49,380 Took the cursed Bonaparte and threw a rope around his neck 8 00:04:49,423 --> 00:04:51,662 Threw a rope around his neck... 9 00:04:53,183 --> 00:04:54,182 Behold! 10 00:04:55,384 --> 00:04:57,463 A good man! 11 00:04:59,264 --> 00:05:01,422 Behold! A man of his calling! 12 00:05:02,624 --> 00:05:06,502 Behold, a witness to God's deep love for us all. 13 00:05:37,627 --> 00:05:40,465 Mrs Geary, I do not wish to be indelicate, 14 00:05:40,507 --> 00:05:43,985 but did you pay the grave-diggers the extra shilling? 15 00:05:44,027 --> 00:05:48,705 What extra shilling? To bury your father deeper in the ground. 16 00:05:48,748 --> 00:05:52,146 Resurrectionists pay extra to be buried two feet deeper than 17 00:05:52,188 --> 00:05:53,627 the rest. 18 00:05:53,668 --> 00:05:56,026 That way, the grave-robbers can't dig down to their meat 19 00:05:56,068 --> 00:05:57,268 before the sun comes up. 20 00:05:57,308 --> 00:05:59,946 My wife has no business with the grave-diggers. 21 00:06:02,148 --> 00:06:05,346 Her father will rest at the regular depth. 22 00:06:14,830 --> 00:06:17,388 Dear God. 23 00:06:17,429 --> 00:06:19,228 There walks a dead man. 24 00:06:21,990 --> 00:06:23,269 Who is that? 25 00:06:23,310 --> 00:06:25,269 Is hell opened up? 26 00:06:27,790 --> 00:06:30,789 Dear Lord Almighty, is that your brother? 27 00:06:44,231 --> 00:06:47,309 Before we begin, may we bow our heads in prayer? 28 00:06:48,432 --> 00:06:52,749 Our Father, which art in heaven, 29 00:06:52,792 --> 00:06:54,871 hallowed be thy name. 30 00:06:54,912 --> 00:06:57,750 Thy kingdom come... 31 00:06:57,792 --> 00:07:02,030 ..thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 32 00:07:02,073 --> 00:07:04,911 Give us this day our daily bread... 33 00:07:14,514 --> 00:07:18,112 For as much as it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy 34 00:07:18,154 --> 00:07:22,032 to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother, here departed, 35 00:07:22,075 --> 00:07:24,673 we therefore commit his body to the ground. 36 00:07:24,714 --> 00:07:26,873 Earth to earth... 37 00:07:26,915 --> 00:07:30,273 ..ashes to ashes, dust to dust. 38 00:07:30,315 --> 00:07:33,753 In sure and certain hope of the Resurrection. 39 00:07:37,235 --> 00:07:39,274 We will change our vile body... 40 00:07:42,636 --> 00:07:44,955 ..according to the mighty working 41 00:07:44,996 --> 00:07:48,634 whereby he is able to subdue all things to himself. 42 00:08:08,958 --> 00:08:10,517 'Sir?' 43 00:08:10,558 --> 00:08:11,917 Mr Delaney, is it? 44 00:08:13,199 --> 00:08:14,438 Sir? 45 00:08:15,918 --> 00:08:18,756 James Delaney, is it? Who are you? 46 00:08:21,799 --> 00:08:23,958 They said you were dead. I am. 47 00:08:25,159 --> 00:08:27,517 Such a shallow grave they dug for my father. 48 00:08:27,559 --> 00:08:29,518 Are you short of a couple of shillings? 49 00:08:29,559 --> 00:08:31,838 He was buried to the depth of my love. 50 00:08:33,239 --> 00:08:34,678 Last years, he disgraced me. 51 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:36,879 Disgrace? 52 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:39,559 Hm. 53 00:08:43,161 --> 00:08:46,239 Were those Negro words he said over the grave? 54 00:08:47,801 --> 00:08:50,799 Madness comes out through the umbilical cord. 55 00:08:50,841 --> 00:08:54,959 The pox in Africa goes directly to the brain via these... these worms. 56 00:08:55,001 --> 00:08:56,560 They... They crawl through your veins. 57 00:08:56,601 --> 00:08:58,840 Where is he? He went to piss. 58 00:09:02,402 --> 00:09:05,600 Any business with him will be conducted in my presence. 59 00:09:05,642 --> 00:09:08,560 See, I have the advantage, I have read the will. 60 00:09:09,922 --> 00:09:10,962 Meaning what? 61 00:09:11,003 --> 00:09:13,441 Meaning I need to piss and need no-one to hold my cock. 62 00:09:13,482 --> 00:09:16,401 Begging the lady's pardon. 63 00:09:59,806 --> 00:10:04,244 How came you to know that your father was dead? 64 00:10:04,287 --> 00:10:06,965 I heard he was sick and I boarded a ship. 65 00:10:07,007 --> 00:10:10,645 Yes, he was sick from madness. 66 00:10:10,687 --> 00:10:12,166 Hear that? 67 00:10:13,727 --> 00:10:15,486 Bile and bitterness. 68 00:10:15,527 --> 00:10:19,285 Not a single tear from anyone at the graveside. 69 00:10:23,808 --> 00:10:26,406 I didn't hear any piss at the leather. 70 00:10:26,448 --> 00:10:31,245 Perhaps you had no need, or perhaps you came out here... with a purpose? 71 00:10:31,288 --> 00:10:32,927 James... 72 00:10:32,968 --> 00:10:36,646 Who are you? I'm Thoyt, your father's lawyer. 73 00:10:36,689 --> 00:10:38,728 Smallpox butchered me down to the bone 74 00:10:38,769 --> 00:10:42,847 and, yes, I have other business than pissing. 75 00:10:42,890 --> 00:10:46,568 You know, in all of London, only your father believed you were still alive. 76 00:10:46,610 --> 00:10:48,928 It was a symptom of his madness. 77 00:10:48,970 --> 00:10:53,088 But he would talk to you, stand on the north bank of the river 78 00:10:53,130 --> 00:10:55,688 and call out to you on the other side. 79 00:10:55,730 --> 00:10:57,969 Yes, I know, I heard him calling. 80 00:10:59,610 --> 00:11:00,929 I'll speak plainly. 81 00:11:00,970 --> 00:11:03,529 Your father drew up a will of which I am executor. 82 00:11:03,571 --> 00:11:05,570 In it, you are his only heir. 83 00:11:05,611 --> 00:11:10,128 But, James, if you came home expecting fortune, there is none. 84 00:11:10,171 --> 00:11:12,730 The only legacy is a poisoned chalice. 85 00:11:14,412 --> 00:11:16,930 Talk to me of poison. 86 00:11:18,732 --> 00:11:23,889 Well, it's a small... strip of coastline, directly on the other 87 00:11:23,932 --> 00:11:27,331 side of the world, which your father held by treaty with the Nootka tribe. 88 00:11:27,372 --> 00:11:29,491 A wasteland. 89 00:11:29,533 --> 00:11:33,251 If America were a pig facing England, 90 00:11:33,293 --> 00:11:35,492 it is right at the pig's arse. 91 00:11:35,533 --> 00:11:38,291 Just rocks and Indians. 92 00:11:38,333 --> 00:11:43,210 The land in your father's will is not only useless, 93 00:11:43,253 --> 00:11:46,092 it is dangerous to any who owns it. 94 00:11:46,134 --> 00:11:48,013 They're my rocks now. 95 00:11:49,935 --> 00:11:51,934 James... 96 00:11:51,975 --> 00:11:57,012 I can arrange the immediate transfer of this particular asset. 97 00:12:07,816 --> 00:12:10,654 I'll send you a formal proposition in writing. 98 00:12:36,097 --> 00:12:38,256 Good day, sir. 99 00:12:38,298 --> 00:12:41,017 These girls arriving are all whores. 100 00:12:42,779 --> 00:12:46,377 They attend the funeral of a widower because they know there'll be lots of old men. 101 00:12:46,419 --> 00:12:51,376 And that animal from Africa is here to pick at an old man's bones, too. 102 00:12:51,419 --> 00:12:54,177 Perhaps we should let Thoyt deal with the matter. 103 00:12:55,819 --> 00:12:57,538 Let's call our carriage. 104 00:13:13,500 --> 00:13:16,499 One thing Africa did not cure... 105 00:13:16,541 --> 00:13:18,779 is that I still love you. 106 00:13:24,822 --> 00:13:29,379 And if you are ever short of two shillings, please do not 107 00:13:29,421 --> 00:13:34,498 hesitate to ask, as Africa also served me incredibly well. 108 00:13:37,022 --> 00:13:41,379 Well, then you will have no need for legacies now, will you? 109 00:13:41,422 --> 00:13:43,022 We were just leaving. 110 00:13:45,943 --> 00:13:47,102 Hm. 111 00:14:25,186 --> 00:14:27,984 So, gentlemen, let's begin. 112 00:14:28,026 --> 00:14:31,224 A clerk will record every word that's said, 113 00:14:31,266 --> 00:14:34,065 except when a fellow raises his hand. 114 00:14:34,107 --> 00:14:39,104 Words from a raised hand... will not... 115 00:14:39,147 --> 00:14:40,786 enter the record. 116 00:14:42,067 --> 00:14:46,744 Now... the issue today is old man Delaney. 117 00:14:46,787 --> 00:14:49,986 May he rot in hell. 118 00:14:50,028 --> 00:14:53,825 The death of that mad old bastard was welcome 119 00:14:53,868 --> 00:15:00,265 and, as we thought at the time, beneficial for the honourable East India. 120 00:15:00,309 --> 00:15:02,388 But things have changed. 121 00:15:04,109 --> 00:15:06,787 Mr Thoyt, welcome. 122 00:15:06,829 --> 00:15:08,828 Give us the bad news. 123 00:15:08,869 --> 00:15:14,306 As the late Mr Delaney's lawyer, I attended the funeral, 124 00:15:14,350 --> 00:15:16,389 and a ghost appeared - 125 00:15:16,430 --> 00:15:19,548 a son we all thought dead in Africa. 126 00:15:19,590 --> 00:15:21,669 James Keziah Delaney. 127 00:15:24,670 --> 00:15:27,468 Mr Wilton, I asked you to do some digging. 128 00:15:27,510 --> 00:15:31,628 Which I have done, sir, and most entertaining it has been. 129 00:15:31,671 --> 00:15:35,229 In temperament, he takes after his mad mother. 130 00:15:35,271 --> 00:15:37,230 She was committed as a resident of Bedlam. 131 00:15:37,272 --> 00:15:39,391 Just stick to what we know about the boy. 132 00:15:39,432 --> 00:15:43,989 So, at the age of 11, his exhausted father and new bride put his son in 133 00:15:44,032 --> 00:15:49,789 as a cadet at the East India Company military seminary in Woolwich, the year of our Lord 1798. 134 00:15:49,833 --> 00:15:53,950 Delaney's son was a... company boy? 135 00:15:53,992 --> 00:15:57,470 And, Sir Stuart, odd to relate, 136 00:15:57,513 --> 00:16:00,152 the records show he was once in your own regiment. 137 00:16:00,193 --> 00:16:01,752 Well... 138 00:16:01,793 --> 00:16:05,511 I commanded so many of the little bastards, I forget. 139 00:16:05,554 --> 00:16:08,512 There is a copy of his attendance record and the year-end report. 140 00:16:08,554 --> 00:16:10,673 Yeah, year end record too. 141 00:16:10,714 --> 00:16:12,633 My God! 142 00:16:12,674 --> 00:16:15,752 Corporal James Keziah Delaney. 143 00:16:15,794 --> 00:16:19,112 "Exceptional. Exceptional. Exceptional." 144 00:16:19,154 --> 00:16:23,032 "Musket, shipcraft, leadership. Exceptional." 145 00:16:23,075 --> 00:16:27,232 But, sir, then along came the year of our Lord 1800. 146 00:16:27,275 --> 00:16:29,074 Exceptional in different ways. 147 00:16:29,115 --> 00:16:32,274 I would guess that confidence allowed his true savage nature 148 00:16:32,316 --> 00:16:34,114 and mother's madness to emerge. 149 00:16:34,155 --> 00:16:36,514 The necks he broke always belonged to officers. 150 00:16:36,556 --> 00:16:39,155 And then there is the setting ablaze of 151 00:16:39,196 --> 00:16:43,873 a Navy boat in an experiment with oil and mashed potatoes while drunk. 152 00:16:43,916 --> 00:16:46,474 And a fight with a bear in Chancery Lane, 153 00:16:46,516 --> 00:16:50,794 a rebellion against the cooks for bad custard, started by him, 154 00:16:50,837 --> 00:16:54,195 and he raved about fortunes and hidden treasures. 155 00:16:54,237 --> 00:16:57,275 He tried to recruit other boys to go down the river to India, 156 00:16:57,317 --> 00:17:00,755 to trade with Red Indians, to take gold from the Aztecs. 157 00:17:00,797 --> 00:17:05,155 And more necks, more whores and more custard. And finally... 158 00:17:05,198 --> 00:17:07,636 I am almost exhausted in the telling of it. 159 00:17:07,678 --> 00:17:11,077 Finally, in the year of our Lord 1802, 160 00:17:11,119 --> 00:17:13,597 he took himself off to Africa. 161 00:17:16,039 --> 00:17:19,117 Well, now he is returned. 162 00:17:19,159 --> 00:17:22,917 And Delaney's will leaves him everything. 163 00:17:22,959 --> 00:17:24,478 Including Nootka. 164 00:17:26,360 --> 00:17:30,278 Do we have a copy of the Nootka Sound treaty yet? 165 00:17:30,320 --> 00:17:34,677 Where perhaps our lawyers could pick it apart? 166 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:38,158 It's yet to surface, Sir Stuart. And... 167 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:41,358 I believe only the original exists. 168 00:17:42,681 --> 00:17:48,357 So, our lengthy negotiations with the daughter were in vain. 169 00:17:55,002 --> 00:18:00,199 If the will has not been read and Nootka is so strategic to us, 170 00:18:00,242 --> 00:18:02,320 why don't we just... burn it? 171 00:18:03,642 --> 00:18:10,558 Even if I did, the son would have natural priority over the daughter, 172 00:18:10,603 --> 00:18:13,081 according to God's law. 173 00:18:13,123 --> 00:18:17,521 And his return was purposely in a public way. 174 00:18:17,563 --> 00:18:21,361 Hardly the action of a savage. 175 00:18:21,404 --> 00:18:24,402 Thank you, Mr Thoyt, you may leave us. 176 00:18:32,924 --> 00:18:38,761 Mr Pettifer, I hope the report from the Africa desk is as thorough 177 00:18:38,805 --> 00:18:42,163 as the one from Mr Wilton in the records office. 178 00:18:45,045 --> 00:18:47,164 According to charter records, 179 00:18:47,205 --> 00:18:50,603 he went to Cabinda aboard a ship called Cornwallis, 180 00:18:50,646 --> 00:18:54,684 then boarded a ship called the Influence, bound for Antigua. 181 00:18:55,886 --> 00:18:57,845 It was a slave ship. 182 00:18:57,886 --> 00:19:04,242 It sank off the Gold Coast, and it was assumed Delaney was dead. 183 00:19:04,286 --> 00:19:06,645 Then the... rumours began. 184 00:19:09,327 --> 00:19:14,604 There have been rumours about James Keziah Delaney these past ten years 185 00:19:14,647 --> 00:19:20,924 but in the file I have put only the facts, sir, not the rumours. 186 00:19:23,168 --> 00:19:24,967 What are the rumours? 187 00:19:25,009 --> 00:19:30,685 Awful, and unnatural, and, I'm sure, untrue. 188 00:19:32,448 --> 00:19:36,126 What... fucking... rumours? 189 00:20:55,415 --> 00:20:56,615 Right. 190 00:21:25,297 --> 00:21:27,776 Who's there? This pistol is loaded. 191 00:21:32,658 --> 00:21:34,137 My God. 192 00:21:34,178 --> 00:21:38,816 Perhaps by ship and by carriage. Hm? Come here. 193 00:21:38,859 --> 00:21:40,578 Ahh! 194 00:21:41,979 --> 00:21:45,497 Where's your propriety, Brace? Servant and master? Get off me. 195 00:21:47,339 --> 00:21:49,218 Begging your pardon, sir. What, why? 196 00:21:49,259 --> 00:21:51,977 Begging your pardon, but what the hell are you doing here? 197 00:21:52,019 --> 00:21:53,778 Oh, no, there will be no pardon for you 198 00:21:53,819 --> 00:21:55,898 because you are the captain of the mutineers. 199 00:21:57,139 --> 00:22:01,777 And you will hang. For being a pirate, you vagabond! 200 00:22:01,820 --> 00:22:03,019 How's the leg? 201 00:22:03,060 --> 00:22:08,017 I broke my left knee swinging from a tree, being an ape for you. 202 00:22:09,260 --> 00:22:10,820 You needed a brother. Still do. 203 00:22:12,581 --> 00:22:16,458 But a broken down, bent, buckled old butler will have to be sufficient. 204 00:22:16,501 --> 00:22:17,980 You look the same. 205 00:22:19,821 --> 00:22:21,021 I'm not. 206 00:22:24,702 --> 00:22:27,540 Not tea, brandy. 207 00:22:29,902 --> 00:22:32,020 Two glasses. 208 00:22:32,062 --> 00:22:33,182 Sir? 209 00:22:33,222 --> 00:22:34,461 Fetch two glasses. 210 00:22:35,622 --> 00:22:39,380 They should have invited you. To the wake, at least. 211 00:22:39,422 --> 00:22:42,620 Serving stew in the backroom, to hell with that. 212 00:22:42,663 --> 00:22:46,661 In all of this dirty city, there is no-one that I can trust, 213 00:22:46,703 --> 00:22:47,783 do you understand? 214 00:22:47,824 --> 00:22:49,543 Apart from you. 215 00:23:00,944 --> 00:23:02,103 Ah! 216 00:23:03,385 --> 00:23:07,063 You can spare me the old maiden splutter, Brace. I know that you 217 00:23:07,105 --> 00:23:11,982 polish off at least half a bottle of Delaney Company Brandy every night. Hm? 218 00:23:21,026 --> 00:23:22,145 James... 219 00:23:23,986 --> 00:23:26,505 You could have written to your father just once. 220 00:23:26,547 --> 00:23:29,145 In the end, he was calling for you. 221 00:23:29,186 --> 00:23:30,225 I know. 222 00:23:31,907 --> 00:23:34,545 I'd say, "Come on, come in." 223 00:23:34,587 --> 00:23:37,825 "Before the tide gets your shoes." 224 00:23:37,867 --> 00:23:41,145 And he would light these fires on the shore, 225 00:23:41,187 --> 00:23:42,986 call out your name and talk to you. 226 00:23:45,668 --> 00:23:47,387 Is that grief, James? 227 00:23:48,668 --> 00:23:49,827 Is what grief? 228 00:23:52,949 --> 00:23:58,745 And all the while, these gulls hovered around picking at him. 229 00:23:58,788 --> 00:24:01,627 Gulls only come if there is meat. 230 00:24:01,669 --> 00:24:04,307 Oh, aye, meat there was. 231 00:24:05,430 --> 00:24:08,068 Men of affairs, they call themselves. 232 00:24:08,109 --> 00:24:10,748 Don't you want to know what it is they wanted, these gulls? 233 00:24:10,789 --> 00:24:12,389 I know already. 234 00:24:13,270 --> 00:24:15,229 I doubt that. 235 00:24:17,270 --> 00:24:20,708 A base of land called Nootka Sound. 236 00:24:22,551 --> 00:24:24,430 Nootka was my mother's tribe. 237 00:24:26,271 --> 00:24:28,549 No. No, no, James. 238 00:24:28,590 --> 00:24:31,469 Your mother came from Naples. 239 00:24:31,511 --> 00:24:34,709 He bought some land and he bought a wife. 240 00:24:36,191 --> 00:24:38,590 And he bought them both for gunpowder. 241 00:24:42,272 --> 00:24:45,670 He told me never to speak to you of buying her. 242 00:24:47,032 --> 00:24:48,831 And yet he told me everything. 243 00:24:50,713 --> 00:24:52,112 When? 244 00:24:52,153 --> 00:24:53,912 When he lit his fires on the foreshore. 245 00:24:58,953 --> 00:25:01,792 Nothing you could tell me about that man would surprise me. 246 00:25:01,834 --> 00:25:06,751 He was half human at the end and he would squat right here and 247 00:25:06,794 --> 00:25:10,112 make deals with ghosts in the flames. 248 00:25:11,354 --> 00:25:13,513 And he would speak in a language that was like... 249 00:25:13,554 --> 00:25:15,593 It was like ravens fighting. 250 00:25:20,755 --> 00:25:24,073 And he would talk to you, James. 251 00:25:24,115 --> 00:25:25,474 And he would talk to Anna. 252 00:25:27,755 --> 00:25:28,754 Salish. 253 00:25:35,156 --> 00:25:37,234 My mother's name was Salish. 254 00:25:38,676 --> 00:25:42,194 You know things only he and I knew. 255 00:25:42,237 --> 00:25:43,676 Yeah. 256 00:25:46,316 --> 00:25:49,435 And it's best we never talk of her when we've had brandy. 257 00:25:55,037 --> 00:25:58,236 See, when you live alone with a madman, you... 258 00:25:58,278 --> 00:26:03,594 you become half mad yourself. But here's the thing, James. 259 00:26:03,637 --> 00:26:05,716 This Nootka Sound is a curse. 260 00:26:05,758 --> 00:26:08,996 It will bring the King and Empire down upon your head. 261 00:26:09,999 --> 00:26:14,756 Please don't talk to me of sense, Brace, because if it is you, 262 00:26:14,799 --> 00:26:16,118 I might believe it. 263 00:26:19,599 --> 00:26:22,958 And I have sworn to do very foolish things. 264 00:27:51,046 --> 00:27:54,644 If you're looking for money, those accounts are ten years old. 265 00:27:58,566 --> 00:28:01,685 Where are my father's inventories and his shipping logs? 266 00:28:03,847 --> 00:28:04,927 He burnt them all. 267 00:28:06,848 --> 00:28:10,086 The only reason these accounts survived was because I hid them 268 00:28:10,128 --> 00:28:12,047 in case the taxman came knocking. 269 00:28:13,808 --> 00:28:15,846 That was delivered at 6am this morning 270 00:28:15,887 --> 00:28:18,166 by a servant of Mr Robert Thoyt. 271 00:28:20,168 --> 00:28:23,006 Thoyt has been trying to buy the Delaney Shipping Company 272 00:28:23,048 --> 00:28:24,887 from your father for three years. 273 00:28:24,928 --> 00:28:27,047 Each time, your da would go into the street, 274 00:28:27,089 --> 00:28:30,407 scoop up some horse shite and package it up by way of reply. 275 00:28:33,569 --> 00:28:37,487 I imagine the envelope contains a financial offer. 276 00:28:38,769 --> 00:28:39,889 I imagine it does. 277 00:28:39,930 --> 00:28:41,729 Do you have any horse shit on you? 278 00:28:47,770 --> 00:28:51,728 Listen, the accounts told me that we have a leasehold of 50 years 279 00:28:51,770 --> 00:28:54,888 on the offices in West India docks, 32 years left to run. 280 00:28:56,291 --> 00:28:59,449 Your father hadnae been up there in eight years, sir. 281 00:28:59,491 --> 00:29:01,250 They're all locked up. 282 00:29:01,291 --> 00:29:02,570 Then I will need the key. 283 00:30:01,096 --> 00:30:02,495 Oi! 284 00:30:02,536 --> 00:30:04,735 What are you doing with the door? 285 00:30:04,776 --> 00:30:07,454 You want a bush, you come through me. 286 00:30:07,496 --> 00:30:09,335 That is private property. 287 00:30:09,376 --> 00:30:13,014 Helga, it's so good to see that you're still working - 288 00:30:13,057 --> 00:30:14,576 even still alive. 289 00:30:14,617 --> 00:30:18,015 You know that I lay with you when I was just a little boy. 290 00:30:18,057 --> 00:30:21,735 Where did you get the key? This key? This is my father's key. 291 00:30:21,777 --> 00:30:24,735 Horace Delaney. Mmm? 292 00:30:26,857 --> 00:30:28,496 Shit. 293 00:30:28,537 --> 00:30:29,697 Yes, shit. 294 00:30:30,978 --> 00:30:33,297 Your father stopped coming. It was empty. 295 00:30:33,339 --> 00:30:36,137 It was wasted, so close to the docks. 296 00:30:39,499 --> 00:30:40,938 You want tea? 297 00:30:40,978 --> 00:30:42,018 No. 298 00:30:44,459 --> 00:30:45,818 Do you want to fuck? 299 00:30:45,859 --> 00:30:48,498 No, I want my family offices back. Oh, God. 300 00:30:51,059 --> 00:30:52,419 How much do you make here? 301 00:30:55,900 --> 00:30:59,418 With the workers in the yard and the boats that moor at the wharf... 302 00:31:00,540 --> 00:31:02,259 ..we make £10 a day. 303 00:31:02,300 --> 00:31:05,418 I can give you five and whatever you like. 304 00:31:05,460 --> 00:31:08,579 Boys, girls, suck, fuck... 305 00:31:10,101 --> 00:31:12,859 You have two hours to get out. 306 00:31:12,901 --> 00:31:14,340 You say I took your cherry. 307 00:31:16,701 --> 00:31:17,700 Mm-hmm. 308 00:31:21,541 --> 00:31:23,660 Where have you been, little boy? 309 00:31:23,702 --> 00:31:25,461 I have been in the world.Oh. 310 00:31:28,102 --> 00:31:31,660 I have girls, but I also have men. 311 00:31:33,462 --> 00:31:35,061 They're not very good men. 312 00:31:35,102 --> 00:31:36,422 You understand? Mm-hmm. 313 00:31:38,103 --> 00:31:39,942 They have rocks for hearts. 314 00:31:39,983 --> 00:31:42,381 They have knives and ropes. 315 00:31:42,423 --> 00:31:43,783 If you have any sense... 316 00:31:47,903 --> 00:31:51,381 People who do not know me soon come to understand 317 00:31:51,424 --> 00:31:53,023 that I do not have any sense. 318 00:31:55,344 --> 00:31:57,383 Now, please do not misunderstand the situation. 319 00:31:57,425 --> 00:32:00,863 You send me 12 men, I will return you 12 sets of testicles 320 00:32:00,905 --> 00:32:04,903 in a bag, and we can watch your little whores devour them together, 321 00:32:04,945 --> 00:32:08,662 before I chop off your trotters and boil them. 322 00:32:13,865 --> 00:32:14,865 Two hours. 323 00:32:16,346 --> 00:32:17,745 You... 324 00:32:17,786 --> 00:32:19,905 I remember you. 325 00:32:19,946 --> 00:32:22,585 I remember you. Heard the stories. 326 00:32:24,866 --> 00:32:27,425 If I give you a girl, I will never see her again. 327 00:32:29,147 --> 00:32:30,266 You heard right. 328 00:32:32,067 --> 00:32:33,067 Be punctual. 329 00:32:52,429 --> 00:32:55,667 They've brought the carriage up. Yes. I'm coming. 330 00:33:17,750 --> 00:33:20,309 You're not imploring him to relinquish his deed, 331 00:33:20,351 --> 00:33:24,229 you're insisting that, for his own welfare, he submit his claim to you. 332 00:33:26,031 --> 00:33:29,788 Implore is a more feminine word. 333 00:33:32,271 --> 00:33:34,110 And why must you be a woman to him? 334 00:33:37,912 --> 00:33:42,029 The offer of £50 should be conditional on him leaving England. 335 00:33:42,072 --> 00:33:43,791 Why? 336 00:33:43,832 --> 00:33:46,951 Because if he does not leave England, I will kill him. 337 00:33:46,993 --> 00:33:48,312 Why? 338 00:33:54,713 --> 00:33:56,112 That is a very good question. 339 00:33:59,394 --> 00:34:02,912 Why would I feel that way about him, after meeting him only once? 340 00:34:05,113 --> 00:34:07,752 The son of the same father as the woman I love... 341 00:34:11,515 --> 00:34:14,113 Why does a soldier know that a nigger bowing low 342 00:34:14,154 --> 00:34:16,633 has a dagger in his shoe and is reaching for it? 343 00:34:20,835 --> 00:34:23,834 Delaney is nothing more than a nigger now. 344 00:34:23,876 --> 00:34:25,235 You know that, don't you? 345 00:34:28,515 --> 00:34:32,313 I have talked with seasoned merchants who could barely 346 00:34:32,356 --> 00:34:34,555 bring themselves to repeat these stories. 347 00:34:37,957 --> 00:34:39,356 Among Christian soldiers, 348 00:34:39,396 --> 00:34:43,993 it's customary to bury the bodies of your fallen enemy 349 00:34:44,036 --> 00:34:48,274 and shoo away the dogs and crows that come for the carrion. 350 00:34:51,237 --> 00:34:52,996 Not kneel down beside them. 351 00:35:06,439 --> 00:35:08,557 Try again, 352 00:35:08,598 --> 00:35:12,036 this time reflecting the disgust you naturally feel 353 00:35:12,078 --> 00:35:13,638 now you know the truth. 354 00:35:22,599 --> 00:35:23,599 Hmm? 355 00:35:39,921 --> 00:35:43,718 The dogs here live off the flesh from suicides 356 00:35:43,761 --> 00:35:45,600 jumping off Blackfriars Bridge. 357 00:35:46,962 --> 00:35:49,840 Never known one go tamely to a man's hand. 358 00:35:51,442 --> 00:35:54,121 Must be some witchcraft you picked up somewhere. 359 00:35:57,723 --> 00:35:58,922 What do you want? 360 00:36:01,003 --> 00:36:05,120 You think your father's kid feeds himself. 361 00:36:05,162 --> 00:36:08,241 I heard you done a lot of evil over there. 362 00:36:08,284 --> 00:36:12,121 Now it's time for you to do some bleeding good among your own. 363 00:36:12,163 --> 00:36:17,121 Me and my wife have looked after that boy for ten years 364 00:36:17,163 --> 00:36:20,602 with not one penny from you and nothing but threats 365 00:36:20,644 --> 00:36:23,722 from the mad old bastard you just put in the ground. 366 00:36:23,764 --> 00:36:26,962 Now you're back, I want payment. 367 00:36:27,005 --> 00:36:31,442 If it wasn't for us, that kid would be sucking cocks in St Giles. 368 00:36:36,885 --> 00:36:39,484 Mr Ibbotson, I've been meaning to pay you a visit. 369 00:36:39,526 --> 00:36:40,965 Bullshit. 370 00:36:41,005 --> 00:36:44,963 You're a liar just like your father. You're a Delaney. 371 00:36:45,006 --> 00:36:46,845 Tell you what... 372 00:36:46,886 --> 00:36:49,244 You get me an address, 373 00:36:49,286 --> 00:36:52,365 and I will get you payment in the form of a banker's draft. 374 00:36:53,847 --> 00:36:55,486 How much? Enough. 375 00:36:59,526 --> 00:37:00,606 Good day. 376 00:37:03,687 --> 00:37:06,166 You don't even ask how your own blood fares. 377 00:37:59,611 --> 00:38:04,129 If you don't approve of me steadying my nerves with Madeira, 378 00:38:04,172 --> 00:38:06,251 then perhaps you should consult the directory of 379 00:38:06,292 --> 00:38:09,370 the Royal College of Physicians, see you know many others of them 380 00:38:09,412 --> 00:38:11,491 will agree to carry out this kind of work. 381 00:38:11,533 --> 00:38:15,450 I intend to mix the contents of his stomach with potassium oxide, 382 00:38:15,492 --> 00:38:17,931 calcium oxide and nitric acid. 383 00:38:22,733 --> 00:38:26,051 I'll know in 20 minutes. Come back when the church bell chimes. 384 00:38:52,096 --> 00:38:54,294 You did this. 385 00:38:54,335 --> 00:38:55,974 You will pay for this.No. 386 00:39:05,376 --> 00:39:08,774 No, because I have no fear to feed you with. 387 00:39:10,897 --> 00:39:13,495 No fear to give you and I will prove it. 388 00:39:13,536 --> 00:39:18,813 Sing for me like you once did as the river caught your tongue. 389 00:39:18,857 --> 00:39:21,376 Ee neem sea wo ha ha. 390 00:39:21,417 --> 00:39:22,456 Suicide. 391 00:39:24,738 --> 00:39:27,137 That will teach you not to steal, won't it? 392 00:39:28,778 --> 00:39:31,336 Ee neem sea wo ha ha. 393 00:39:31,378 --> 00:39:33,457 Ee neem sea wo ha. 394 00:39:36,898 --> 00:39:39,737 You're not here. You are not here. 395 00:39:39,779 --> 00:39:42,937 I have no fear for you and I have no guilt for you. 396 00:39:48,660 --> 00:39:51,498 I did as others did and as others had me do, 397 00:39:51,540 --> 00:39:53,339 and we are all owned, 398 00:39:53,380 --> 00:39:55,379 and we have all owned others... 399 00:39:58,420 --> 00:40:01,898 ..so don't you dare stand there and judge me. 400 00:40:04,900 --> 00:40:08,618 Today, I have work to do. 401 00:40:35,503 --> 00:40:39,860 The horizontal chamber contains the gas from the stomach contents. 402 00:40:44,104 --> 00:40:45,104 Now... 403 00:40:46,424 --> 00:40:47,663 ..the moment of truth. 404 00:40:56,384 --> 00:41:01,821 As you see, the flame has formed a reflective surface on the glass, 405 00:41:01,865 --> 00:41:03,824 what is known as an arsenic mirror. 406 00:41:06,146 --> 00:41:07,825 Your father was poisoned. 407 00:41:10,545 --> 00:41:13,104 From the density of the mirror, 408 00:41:13,146 --> 00:41:17,223 I would say heavy doses over a short period, 409 00:41:17,266 --> 00:41:21,144 and, yes, it would have affected his mind in the later stages. 410 00:41:24,546 --> 00:41:26,265 You want him reburied? 411 00:41:26,307 --> 00:41:29,825 Yes, and sewn back up into one piece. 412 00:41:29,867 --> 00:41:32,346 I would recommend they dig a bit deeper this time. 413 00:41:34,987 --> 00:41:37,546 If this body is used for any other purpose, 414 00:41:37,588 --> 00:41:40,426 I will find you and I will kill you. 415 00:41:40,468 --> 00:41:42,787 You tell every member of your profession... 416 00:41:45,069 --> 00:41:46,867 (..I know things about the dead. 417 00:41:51,709 --> 00:41:55,467 Do you want any words said over him when we put him back? 418 00:41:55,509 --> 00:41:56,828 No-one is listening. 419 00:42:37,272 --> 00:42:39,031 He's meeting with the East India. 420 00:42:42,232 --> 00:42:45,190 Apparently, they're happy to deal with the devil 421 00:42:45,232 --> 00:42:46,632 and leave us penniless. 422 00:42:48,993 --> 00:42:51,232 The letter, it seemed, did no good. 423 00:42:51,273 --> 00:42:53,312 He was never one to be told. 424 00:42:55,394 --> 00:43:00,031 Well, we have legal rights, and it's time that savage was made aware. 425 00:43:00,074 --> 00:43:02,712 I know he's your brother but... Half-brother. 426 00:43:06,115 --> 00:43:07,914 ..he leaves me no choice. 427 00:43:19,956 --> 00:43:21,515 I'm going out.Good. 428 00:43:21,556 --> 00:43:24,794 I'm tired of these empty threats you keep bandying around. 429 00:43:28,516 --> 00:43:29,515 Empty? 430 00:43:31,756 --> 00:43:33,755 I'm your husband and you are my wife. 431 00:43:35,597 --> 00:43:38,995 And I will protect our interests by whatever means necessary. 432 00:43:40,757 --> 00:43:42,636 And as for him, 433 00:43:42,677 --> 00:43:44,956 well, he should have stayed where he belongs, 434 00:43:44,997 --> 00:43:48,635 in the jungle, dancing naked and screwing wild pigs, 435 00:43:48,677 --> 00:43:50,396 and his slaves in their chains. 436 00:43:54,478 --> 00:43:56,637 He will leave soon. 437 00:43:56,678 --> 00:43:59,316 You're quite right, he doesn't belong in this world. 438 00:44:38,801 --> 00:44:40,880 I decided to bring it in person. 439 00:44:46,122 --> 00:44:51,359 Now, this is for the past, the present and the future. 440 00:44:58,203 --> 00:44:59,482 Take me to the boy. 441 00:45:00,962 --> 00:45:02,761 I want to see if you're lying to me or not. 442 00:45:02,803 --> 00:45:04,602 Yes, sir, Mr Delaney. 443 00:45:16,444 --> 00:45:18,403 Do you want to talk with him? 444 00:45:18,444 --> 00:45:21,843 No, I'm not a fit man to be around children. 445 00:45:26,765 --> 00:45:30,363 Fate can be hard, so you put money aside for his future in case 446 00:45:30,405 --> 00:45:34,842 he grows up to be rash, like me. 447 00:45:36,845 --> 00:45:38,484 Will you wish to see him again? 448 00:45:40,446 --> 00:45:43,045 No. Not ever. 449 00:46:41,490 --> 00:46:45,048 John Pettifer, East India Company, Africa desk. 450 00:46:47,170 --> 00:46:48,849 James Delaney. 451 00:46:48,891 --> 00:46:51,250 Benjamin Wilton, records, 452 00:46:51,291 --> 00:46:54,329 Abraham Appleby, our delegate from Christ, 453 00:46:54,371 --> 00:46:57,289 and this is Sir Stuart Strange, 454 00:46:57,331 --> 00:47:00,250 Chairman of the Honourable East India Company 455 00:47:00,292 --> 00:47:02,770 across the surface of the entire Earth. 456 00:47:05,212 --> 00:47:06,651 You don't remember me. 457 00:47:08,892 --> 00:47:10,651 One remembers those one looks up to 458 00:47:10,693 --> 00:47:13,371 more readily than those you look down upon. 459 00:47:13,412 --> 00:47:15,011 I believe you were a cadet. 460 00:47:15,052 --> 00:47:17,011 Yes, you were my commander. 461 00:47:17,053 --> 00:47:22,690 Oh, well, blame brandy and old age, hmm? 462 00:47:22,733 --> 00:47:24,292 Please, sit. 463 00:47:33,774 --> 00:47:35,893 Brandy? No. 464 00:47:38,134 --> 00:47:40,613 To begin, may I offer our sincere...? 465 00:47:40,655 --> 00:47:44,613 Please understand - hypocrisy I hate most. 466 00:47:46,535 --> 00:47:47,615 Indeed. 467 00:47:47,655 --> 00:47:49,934 Let us not pretend... No, do not pretend. 468 00:47:51,416 --> 00:47:55,373 I wonder if Mr Appleby might be allowed to finish a sentence? 469 00:47:57,976 --> 00:47:59,695 We are told that in your father's will, 470 00:47:59,736 --> 00:48:04,613 you were bequeathed a piece of territory which lies just here. 471 00:48:05,897 --> 00:48:06,936 Mm-hmm. 472 00:48:08,857 --> 00:48:12,135 As you will see, the small piece of land your father bought off 473 00:48:12,177 --> 00:48:16,654 the Indians is now by virtue of geography a point of contention 474 00:48:16,697 --> 00:48:20,575 between His Majesty's Government and the cursed United States. 475 00:48:25,538 --> 00:48:26,978 So... 476 00:48:29,898 --> 00:48:31,177 Hmm? 477 00:48:31,218 --> 00:48:34,896 Ah, Mr Delaney, you've been in Africa for a number of years, 478 00:48:34,939 --> 00:48:39,057 so you may be unaware that Britain and the United States 479 00:48:39,099 --> 00:48:41,257 are currently at war. 480 00:48:41,299 --> 00:48:42,779 I know. 481 00:48:42,820 --> 00:48:46,218 Ah, well, you will understand, then, that private ownership of 482 00:48:46,260 --> 00:48:49,138 the Nootka Sound landing ground represents an opportunity 483 00:48:49,180 --> 00:48:51,459 for our enemies who dispute its sovereignty 484 00:48:51,500 --> 00:48:54,738 when the time comes to draw the border. 485 00:48:54,780 --> 00:48:56,059 I know. 486 00:48:57,620 --> 00:48:59,579 Yes, I know. I also know that 487 00:48:59,620 --> 00:49:02,259 the British and American Government are 488 00:49:02,301 --> 00:49:05,259 preparing to begin their secret peace talks in Ghent, 489 00:49:05,301 --> 00:49:06,900 aren't they? 490 00:49:06,941 --> 00:49:11,938 And negotiators are preparing depositions to draw 491 00:49:11,981 --> 00:49:15,739 the Canadian-American border for when the current hostilities end. 492 00:49:15,782 --> 00:49:18,500 And because of the strategical position of Nootka Sound, 493 00:49:18,542 --> 00:49:21,221 whoever owns it has legal entitlement 494 00:49:21,262 --> 00:49:24,780 to the entire island of Vancouver, 495 00:49:24,823 --> 00:49:25,822 which is... 496 00:49:27,182 --> 00:49:28,981 Well, Which is the gateway to... 497 00:49:30,582 --> 00:49:31,582 ..to China. 498 00:49:34,343 --> 00:49:35,343 Hmm? 499 00:49:38,543 --> 00:49:40,782 So this... 500 00:49:42,064 --> 00:49:45,782 This small piece of land that my father, erm, 501 00:49:45,824 --> 00:49:48,143 bought for beads, 502 00:49:48,184 --> 00:49:50,503 bless him, and gunpowder, 503 00:49:50,544 --> 00:49:52,703 some 30 years ago, 504 00:49:52,745 --> 00:49:57,062 actually will be very, very valuable to the Crown 505 00:49:57,104 --> 00:49:59,743 and to the East India, 506 00:49:59,785 --> 00:50:03,543 but also incredibly valuable to the Americans. 507 00:50:03,586 --> 00:50:07,264 Mr Delaney, as a British subject, 508 00:50:07,306 --> 00:50:10,904 you owe a debt of loyalty to your King and country. 509 00:50:13,746 --> 00:50:16,305 If patriotism is not in your motivation, 510 00:50:16,347 --> 00:50:18,545 perhaps money can be. 511 00:50:20,426 --> 00:50:22,665 Before your unexpected return, 512 00:50:22,707 --> 00:50:25,945 we had agreed a figure with your half-sister. 513 00:50:25,987 --> 00:50:28,586 Her husband drove a particularly hard bargain. 514 00:50:29,707 --> 00:50:32,505 I'm sorry, no. Nootka Sound is not for sale. 515 00:50:34,267 --> 00:50:35,267 Open the envelope. 516 00:50:36,828 --> 00:50:37,827 Are you deaf? 517 00:50:38,988 --> 00:50:41,586 Oh, Mr Delaney... Mr Delaney, perhaps... 518 00:50:41,628 --> 00:50:44,826 The Leviathan of the Seas, is it? 519 00:50:44,868 --> 00:50:46,707 The terrible shadow? 520 00:50:48,148 --> 00:50:52,466 The beast with a million eyes and a million ears? 521 00:50:52,509 --> 00:50:53,548 Conquest? 522 00:50:54,589 --> 00:50:55,788 Rape? 523 00:50:57,189 --> 00:50:58,189 Plunder? 524 00:50:59,629 --> 00:51:01,708 I studied your methods in your school. 525 00:51:03,630 --> 00:51:09,067 And I do know the evil that you do because I was once part of it. 526 00:51:20,071 --> 00:51:22,430 Are you sure you won't take a brandy? Yes. 527 00:51:22,471 --> 00:51:25,589 Please take a moment to consider the consequences of your refusal... 528 00:51:25,631 --> 00:51:29,109 What consequences? What consequences? 529 00:51:29,151 --> 00:51:30,710 Perhaps we should adjourn. 530 00:51:30,751 --> 00:51:31,751 Mr Delaney... 531 00:51:33,232 --> 00:51:36,750 I'll give you one last chance to behave 532 00:51:36,792 --> 00:51:37,032 like a loyal subject of His Majesty and the lawful crown of England. 533 00:51:37,073 --> 00:51:41,550 Like a loyal subject of His Majesty and the lawful crown of England. 534 00:51:43,393 --> 00:51:45,952 Sell this land for a reasonable price. 535 00:51:53,913 --> 00:51:55,232 Hmm... 536 00:51:59,794 --> 00:52:00,793 Please. 537 00:52:02,674 --> 00:52:07,352 The balance of your father's mind was, well, unstable... 538 00:52:08,675 --> 00:52:12,113 ..but you have no such excuse. 539 00:52:12,155 --> 00:52:14,633 Now, why don't you just open the fucking envelope? 540 00:52:19,716 --> 00:52:20,715 Mmm? 541 00:52:31,436 --> 00:52:32,435 Hmm... 542 00:52:41,997 --> 00:52:43,276 Good day. 543 00:52:55,838 --> 00:52:57,157 Well... 544 00:52:59,639 --> 00:53:03,357 The son is as unstable as the father. 545 00:53:05,559 --> 00:53:08,117 Perhaps the rumours about him are true. 546 00:53:09,319 --> 00:53:13,717 I'd hoped to settle this matter in a modern way, 547 00:53:13,760 --> 00:53:15,199 but that's not going to be possible. 548 00:53:19,560 --> 00:53:20,719 He's all yours. 549 00:53:38,361 --> 00:53:41,519 'Dear James, the letter I sent to you this morning was written 550 00:53:41,561 --> 00:53:45,199 'under the supervision of my husband, 551 00:53:45,242 --> 00:53:47,641 'to whom I am happily married. 552 00:53:52,322 --> 00:53:55,160 'It is more than ten years since you went away, 553 00:53:55,202 --> 00:53:58,441 'and at the time I was grateful that you had decided to leave England, 554 00:53:58,483 --> 00:53:59,882 'for both of our sakes. 555 00:54:03,764 --> 00:54:07,401 'Whatever happens with this business of inheritance, 556 00:54:07,443 --> 00:54:10,961 'and no matter if it results in a dispute, 557 00:54:11,003 --> 00:54:16,720 'I hope I can trust you to keep the secrets of the past buried, 558 00:54:16,764 --> 00:54:19,323 'buried in a deeper grave.'