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<i>Oh, hurry up,
Mr. Dickens!</i>

2
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<i>Come on, Dickens!</i>

3
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<i>Come on, Charlie!</i>

4
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<i>We want Charles!</i>

5
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<i>I want to see Charles!</i>

6
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<i>My Dear Forster,</i>

7
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<i>how can I give you
the faintest notion</i>

8
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<i>of my reception here
in America?</i>

9
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Five minutes.

10
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Five minutes.

11
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<i>Of the crowds that
pour in and out the whole day,</i>

12
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<i>of the people that line
the streets when I go out.</i>

13
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Places, please. Places!

14
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Hello, Charlie.

15
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<i>Of the balls, dinners,
speeches,</i>

16
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<i>parties,
assemblies without end.</i>

17
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<i>There never was a king
or emperor</i>

18
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<i>upon the Earth so cheered.</i>

19
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Tonight,

20
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live on stage...
Ready?

21
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The great magician
of our time...

22
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Ready.
Whose wand is a book!

23
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The Shakespeare of the novel.

24
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The people's author.

25
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The great and marvelous Boz!

26
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Ladies and gentlemen,
Mr. Charles Dickens!

27
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Thank you!

28
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Thank you!

29
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Hey there, Boz!

30
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Dear friends! Dear friends!

31
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You have welcomed me
to your country

32
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with such open arms
that I fear I...

33
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Oh!

34
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<i>Americans are friendly,</i>

35
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<i>earnest, hospitable,</i>

36
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<i>kind, frank, accomplished,
warmhearted, fervent</i>

37
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<i>and enthusiastic.</i>

38
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<i>I can't wait to get home.</i>

39
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Mrs. Fisk,

40
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I have told you repeatedly

41
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not to disturb me
when I am working.

42
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Oh, I beg your pardon, sir.

43
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Only, Mr. Forster is here.

44
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Oh, Forster... Yes, of course.

45
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As you can see, Mr. Forster,

46
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we're having all-new
wallpaper put in, French,

47
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new doors, new door knocker,

48
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new roller blinds
for the windows,

49
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new bookcases in the library,

50
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a new chandelier, all chosen
by Charles, of course.

51
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And the staircase
is to be painted green.

52
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Though, not too dull a green,
<i>Signor</i> Mazzini.

53
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You know how Charles is.

54
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Only the best for Mr. Dickens.

55
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Yes.

56
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Mr. Forster,
if you'll allow me,

57
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how do things stand
between you and Miss Wigmore?

58
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Oh, splendid, Mrs. Dickens.

59
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In fact, I intend to
ask her to bestow upon me

60
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the greatest happiness
a man can ever know.

61
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Well, to marry me.

62
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Oh!

63
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Oh, I'm very glad
to hear that.

64
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Forster!
Forster, Forster,

65
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Forster. So sorry.

66
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I completely
lost track of the time.

67
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Shall we?
Charles.

68
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You need to pay
<i>Signor</i> Mazzini...

69
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Hmm?
...for the parlor mantle.

70
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How much?
£75.

71
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£75? What's it made of, gold?

72
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Carrara marble, <i>Signore.</i>
Finest quality.

73
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No gentleman
would accept less.

74
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No. Well, quite.

75
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Well, I will have
the money for you

76
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when I return,
<i>Signor</i> Mazzini.

77
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Good day, Mrs. Dickens.

78
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Good day, Mr. Forster.

79
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Ah! Come in!

80
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Goodbye, little strangers!

81
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Bye!

82
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Say goodbye to Mr. Forster,
children!

83
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Bye!

84
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I'll hail us a cab.

85
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What? No, it's a waste
of money. We'll walk.

86
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It's damned expensive
being a gentleman.

87
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Forster, this meeting...

88
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Aye! I know my job.

89
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Good. And the money?

90
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Leave the publishers to me.

91
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Good.

92
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Slow down!

93
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What's the hurry?

94
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Charles bloody Dickens, huh?

95
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The best-selling bloody author

96
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in the history
of English bloody literature.

97
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Three of his books
you have published

98
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in the last year and a half.

99
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Three.

100
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So, where's the money?

101
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Mr. Forster, like you,
we are as puzzled

102
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as the Egyptians in their fog.

103
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- How's that?
- Martin Chuzzlewit,

104
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a masterpiece of the
picaresque genre, and yet...

105
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<i>Barnaby Rudge,</i>
a fine book,

106
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an important subject,

107
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but, alas...

108
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And the travel book,
<i>American Notes...</i>

109
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Perhaps a little too candid
for our American cousins.

110
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No joke. I heard they were

111
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burning copies of it
in the street.

112
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Well, they're mad as snakes,
the Yanks.

113
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But what about
this £50-a-month

114
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you're withholding
from his royalties?

115
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What is the explanation
for that?

116
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You may remember
that when Mr. Dickens

117
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approached us about
the tour to America,

118
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we were pleased to provide him
with an interest-free loan.

119
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With the provision that,
in the unlikely case of

120
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profits being inadequate
to certain repayments...

121
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What? So, he's had
a couple of flops?

122
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Ah, well, who hasn't, huh?

123
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Your publishing house wouldn't
exist without this man.

124
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What about an advance?

125
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On?
A new book.

126
00:08:02,108 --> 00:08:03,693
You have a new book in mind?

127
00:08:05,945 --> 00:08:07,989
Yes, of course he does.

128
00:08:08,072 --> 00:08:09,824
Well, in that case,

129
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I mean, we'd obviously
love to consider it.

130
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Consider?

131
00:08:13,077 --> 00:08:14,245
That is to say
if we like it.

132
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If?

133
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I'm sure that we will.

134
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Gentlemen, I bid you good day.

135
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Mr. Forster, please,

136
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we had no intention
of causing offense.

137
00:08:26,132 --> 00:08:27,675
Well, he's in a fettle now.

138
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I'll give him a day
to calm down.

139
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And then, it's most awkward...

140
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He was in last week,
in some difficulty...

141
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Again.

142
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No, no, that's not possible.
He's in the countryside.

143
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He's under strict instructions
to remain there.

144
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What is it this time?

145
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"I need money immediately

146
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"or productive
of fatal consequences,

147
00:09:00,041 --> 00:09:02,585
"I beseech you
to do the needful..."

148
00:09:03,044 --> 00:09:05,087
He's been offering
Mr. Dickens' autographs

149
00:09:05,171 --> 00:09:07,089
for sale in the newspapers.

150
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How much did you give him?

151
00:09:13,387 --> 00:09:14,680
45, all told.

152
00:09:15,806 --> 00:09:16,849
45?

153
00:09:18,893 --> 00:09:21,395
Well, I'll pay it all back.

154
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But not a word of this
to Charles, do you hear?

155
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"What's the secret," they say.

156
00:09:40,539 --> 00:09:42,500
"What's the..." There is
no secret. I sit down...

157
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Charles.
What are you doing here?

158
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I'm hiding from Thackeray.

159
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They absolutely come
pouring out of me...

160
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He'll no doubt
want to commiserate me

161
00:09:52,802 --> 00:09:53,844
on my <i>Chuzzlewit</i> reviews.

162
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Which he will quote by heart.

163
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Come on.

164
00:10:07,692 --> 00:10:11,112
I'm clammin'
for some scran.

165
00:10:11,195 --> 00:10:12,238
Where's Robertson?

166
00:10:12,321 --> 00:10:13,447
Why do we come here, hmm?

167
00:10:13,531 --> 00:10:14,907
The service is terrible.

168
00:10:14,991 --> 00:10:17,410
The food is inedible.
The fees keep going up.

169
00:10:18,035 --> 00:10:19,245
It's full of...

170
00:10:24,083 --> 00:10:25,126
Gentlemen?

171
00:10:25,501 --> 00:10:26,752
You're not Robertson.

172
00:10:26,836 --> 00:10:28,921
The name is Marley, sir.

173
00:10:29,839 --> 00:10:31,674
Marley? Marley with an "E"?

174
00:10:31,966 --> 00:10:32,967
Yes, sir.

175
00:10:33,050 --> 00:10:34,135
Hmm.

176
00:10:34,885 --> 00:10:37,513
Oh, don't worry.
He collects names.

177
00:10:37,596 --> 00:10:40,099
I will have some oysters
and a bottle of champagne.

178
00:10:40,182 --> 00:10:41,517
Very good, sir.

179
00:10:43,060 --> 00:10:44,270
Champagne?

180
00:10:44,353 --> 00:10:46,522
- We're celebrating.
- Celebrating?

181
00:10:46,605 --> 00:10:49,483
Hello, Thackeray.
How are you?

182
00:10:49,567 --> 00:10:50,609
Tolerable.

183
00:10:50,693 --> 00:10:51,902
I thank ye.

184
00:10:51,986 --> 00:10:53,029
Charles, I must say

185
00:10:53,112 --> 00:10:54,905
I am relieved to see you
out and about.

186
00:10:55,364 --> 00:10:56,449
"Relieved"?

187
00:10:56,532 --> 00:10:58,326
You know,
after those vile things

188
00:10:58,409 --> 00:10:59,618
they wrote about <i>Chuzzlewit.</i>

189
00:10:59,702 --> 00:11:01,203
I won't even
call them reviews.

190
00:11:02,371 --> 00:11:04,540
No matter. I never read them.
Quite right.

191
00:11:04,623 --> 00:11:07,543
Scandalous what one is allowed
to print nowadays.

192
00:11:16,135 --> 00:11:17,303
Go on. What did they say?

193
00:11:17,386 --> 00:11:20,181
"Dull, vapid and vulgar...

194
00:11:20,848 --> 00:11:22,308
"Not a single character

195
00:11:22,391 --> 00:11:25,770
"capable of exciting
the reader's sympathies."

196
00:11:25,853 --> 00:11:27,646
I certainly didn't think
it was vulgar.

197
00:11:29,690 --> 00:11:30,941
Oh, look. There's Macready.

198
00:11:31,025 --> 00:11:32,234
Poor thing. His <i>Macbeth</i>

199
00:11:32,318 --> 00:11:34,320
was absolutely shredded
in <i>The Times.</i>

200
00:11:34,403 --> 00:11:36,113
I must go and give him
my condolences.

201
00:11:40,826 --> 00:11:42,370
I'm sick of London.

202
00:11:42,661 --> 00:11:44,205
It's over-crowded,
overpriced...

203
00:11:44,288 --> 00:11:45,539
You love this town.

204
00:11:45,623 --> 00:11:46,791
No place for a man
without money,

205
00:11:46,874 --> 00:11:48,334
not to mention
the bloody fog.

206
00:11:48,417 --> 00:11:49,418
But it's your inspiration.

207
00:11:49,502 --> 00:11:50,753
It's your...
What do you call it?

208
00:11:50,836 --> 00:11:52,129
Your magic lantern.

209
00:11:58,260 --> 00:11:59,303
Well, I tell you,
Forster,

210
00:11:59,387 --> 00:12:00,388
my lamp's gone out.

211
00:12:00,471 --> 00:12:02,056
I've run out of ideas.

212
00:12:02,139 --> 00:12:04,100
I feel old.

213
00:12:07,186 --> 00:12:08,396
Old? You're a puppy.

214
00:12:10,064 --> 00:12:12,942
You're exhausted, that's all.
Too many speeches.

215
00:12:13,025 --> 00:12:15,236
I've got another one tomorrow
for the Children's Refuge.

216
00:12:15,319 --> 00:12:16,904
Well, you have
to learn to say no.

217
00:12:16,987 --> 00:12:19,365
How can I say no,
if I can be useful?

218
00:12:19,448 --> 00:12:21,075
If I can lighten
the burden of another?

219
00:12:21,158 --> 00:12:22,159
Well, you have to,

220
00:12:22,243 --> 00:12:23,661
what with your new commission
to think about.

221
00:12:23,744 --> 00:12:25,037
Forster,
I just told you that...

222
00:12:25,121 --> 00:12:26,664
Sorry, new commission?

223
00:12:26,747 --> 00:12:28,916
It's from Chapman and Hall,
for your new book.

224
00:12:28,999 --> 00:12:31,127
I've told them you'll have
the first chapter done

225
00:12:31,210 --> 00:12:32,253
by the end of the year.

226
00:12:32,336 --> 00:12:33,337
You like a deadline.

227
00:12:35,005 --> 00:12:36,340
Do you mind telling me
what it's about?

228
00:12:36,424 --> 00:12:37,883
I'll leave that up to you.

229
00:13:30,561 --> 00:13:33,564
...and on Christmas Eve,
they say,

230
00:13:33,647 --> 00:13:35,649
the fairy mounds open wide,

231
00:13:35,733 --> 00:13:38,652
and the fire spirits
pour into the night,

232
00:13:38,736 --> 00:13:41,405
and then, the Lord of the Dead

233
00:13:41,489 --> 00:13:44,658
leads all of the spirits
into a Wild Hunt.

234
00:13:44,742 --> 00:13:46,243
And he calls to them...

235
00:14:10,017 --> 00:14:11,227
Do we have a new housemaid?

236
00:14:11,519 --> 00:14:13,187
What? Oh.

237
00:14:13,521 --> 00:14:14,939
Yes. Tara.

238
00:14:15,022 --> 00:14:16,232
She's Irish.

239
00:14:16,690 --> 00:14:18,442
Charley adores her.

240
00:14:22,947 --> 00:14:24,406
What are you doing?

241
00:14:25,574 --> 00:14:27,910
It was only a stub.
There's another hour in that.

242
00:14:27,993 --> 00:14:29,995
Oh, really, Charles?
If you carry on like this,

243
00:14:30,079 --> 00:14:31,163
we'll end up
in the poor house.

244
00:14:31,247 --> 00:14:33,082
You are funny.
I'm not joking.

245
00:14:33,499 --> 00:14:34,583
Charles!

246
00:14:34,959 --> 00:14:37,711
You give money to every
and any beggar in the street.

247
00:14:38,087 --> 00:14:39,505
You insist we move
to a bigger house,

248
00:14:39,588 --> 00:14:41,715
and order in all new fixtures,

249
00:14:42,091 --> 00:14:43,634
and then you complain
about a new candle.

250
00:14:43,717 --> 00:14:44,885
Debt is an ogre, Kate.

251
00:14:44,969 --> 00:14:47,263
If you're not careful,
it can eat you up.

252
00:14:49,723 --> 00:14:51,433
Are we in trouble?

253
00:14:51,517 --> 00:14:52,935
No, of course not.

254
00:14:54,228 --> 00:14:55,563
Then what?

255
00:14:56,730 --> 00:14:57,898
Nothing.

256
00:14:58,983 --> 00:15:00,484
I'm just sick of writing

257
00:15:00,568 --> 00:15:02,611
tooth and nail for bread,
that's all.

258
00:15:03,612 --> 00:15:04,780
Hmm.

259
00:15:04,947 --> 00:15:06,323
I should have
become a journalist.

260
00:15:06,407 --> 00:15:08,867
You hate the press.
Or a lawyer.

261
00:15:08,951 --> 00:15:12,329
"The law is an ass."
I believe you wrote that.

262
00:15:12,413 --> 00:15:15,332
A hairdresser then.
In the Burlington Arcade.

263
00:15:16,417 --> 00:15:18,502
Do you know what I should
have liked to be?

264
00:15:18,586 --> 00:15:20,462
An explorer.

265
00:15:20,546 --> 00:15:23,882
Paddling a canoe somewhere
in the wilds of Canada.

266
00:15:23,966 --> 00:15:26,885
In a pair
of buckskin breeches.

267
00:15:26,969 --> 00:15:28,679
All on my own.

268
00:15:28,762 --> 00:15:30,848
No nappies to change.

269
00:15:36,437 --> 00:15:38,022
By the way, dear...

270
00:15:39,106 --> 00:15:40,983
I saw the doctor today.

271
00:15:46,572 --> 00:15:48,699
Not another little stranger?

272
00:15:48,782 --> 00:15:50,701
Are you pleased?

273
00:15:50,784 --> 00:15:52,202
Well, of course.

274
00:15:56,040 --> 00:15:58,167
Well, that's splendid.
Yes.

275
00:16:10,888 --> 00:16:13,932
I am a necromancer.

276
00:16:16,518 --> 00:16:17,936
Behold.

277
00:16:34,536 --> 00:16:35,537
And now...

278
00:16:50,386 --> 00:16:52,054
Charlie...

279
00:16:52,137 --> 00:16:54,306
Charlie, it's all right.

280
00:16:54,556 --> 00:16:55,891
I'm here.

281
00:17:13,992 --> 00:17:16,495
Mistress Chickenstalker!

282
00:17:17,246 --> 00:17:18,330
Mistress Chickenstalker,

283
00:17:18,414 --> 00:17:19,665
what has happened
to your pinny?

284
00:17:19,748 --> 00:17:21,667
You look as if you've been
caught in a cyclone.

285
00:17:21,750 --> 00:17:23,001
That's much better.

286
00:17:23,210 --> 00:17:26,505
Master Corporal Skittles, sir.
On your feet, sir!

287
00:17:33,512 --> 00:17:36,849
Ah. Lucifer Box.

288
00:17:38,142 --> 00:17:39,226
Would you do me the honor?

289
00:17:41,603 --> 00:17:42,646
Good.

290
00:17:43,105 --> 00:17:47,359
Ah, the Snodgering Blee,
we meet at last.

291
00:17:47,985 --> 00:17:48,986
What's this?

292
00:17:49,486 --> 00:17:52,823
You have forgotten
to wash behind your ear.

293
00:17:52,906 --> 00:17:54,074
Cor!

294
00:17:54,408 --> 00:17:55,868
Now you must be...

295
00:17:55,951 --> 00:17:57,578
Don't, don't, don't,
don't tell me.

296
00:17:58,579 --> 00:18:00,080
Who is that?
Tara.

297
00:18:00,164 --> 00:18:02,249
Tara! Of course.

298
00:18:02,332 --> 00:18:04,334
I see you've made a conquest.

299
00:18:04,418 --> 00:18:07,129
What was that wonderful story
I overheard you telling

300
00:18:07,212 --> 00:18:09,715
about fairy mounds
and the fire spirits?

301
00:18:09,798 --> 00:18:12,885
Only a story my gran
used to tell us, sir,

302
00:18:12,968 --> 00:18:14,553
back home in Ireland.

303
00:18:14,636 --> 00:18:16,722
She used to say that,
on Christmas Eve,

304
00:18:16,805 --> 00:18:20,058
the veils between this world
and the next thin out.

305
00:18:20,142 --> 00:18:22,352
And that's when the spirits
cross over

306
00:18:22,436 --> 00:18:24,188
and walk among us.

307
00:18:25,355 --> 00:18:26,690
Do they indeed?

308
00:18:28,108 --> 00:18:29,568
Well, well, well.

309
00:18:30,444 --> 00:18:31,945
Christmas Eve.

310
00:18:40,579 --> 00:18:42,456
Thank you so much
for coming.

311
00:18:42,539 --> 00:18:44,583
Such an interesting speech.

312
00:18:44,666 --> 00:18:46,001
Thank you very much.

313
00:18:46,543 --> 00:18:47,795
Your hat, sir.

314
00:18:47,878 --> 00:18:48,921
Thank you.

315
00:18:49,004 --> 00:18:51,632
Oh, Mr. Dickens, it's such
an honor to meet you.

316
00:18:51,715 --> 00:18:53,175
We just adore your books.

317
00:18:53,258 --> 00:18:55,219
No, we don't.
Well, I love them.

318
00:18:55,302 --> 00:18:57,387
Nonsense.
You just like a good cry.

319
00:18:58,055 --> 00:19:00,682
What is it you particularly
object to in my books?

320
00:19:00,766 --> 00:19:03,894
Pickpockets, streetwalkers,
charity boys.

321
00:19:03,977 --> 00:19:05,813
Those people
don't belong in books.

322
00:19:05,896 --> 00:19:07,856
"Those people"?
You mean, the poor?

323
00:19:07,940 --> 00:19:09,691
Look here, Mr. Dickens.

324
00:19:09,775 --> 00:19:10,901
I'm a self-made man.

325
00:19:10,984 --> 00:19:12,820
Pulled myself up
by my own bootstraps.

326
00:19:12,903 --> 00:19:14,571
Never asked for anything
from anyone

327
00:19:14,655 --> 00:19:16,406
that I wasn't willing
to pay for.

328
00:19:16,490 --> 00:19:17,658
Really?

329
00:19:17,741 --> 00:19:19,451
No help from anyone?
None.

330
00:19:19,535 --> 00:19:20,828
Well, Papa did give us

331
00:19:20,911 --> 00:19:23,914
a very small cotton mill
when we were married.

332
00:19:26,041 --> 00:19:28,836
What do you suggest we do
with "those people", hmm?

333
00:19:28,919 --> 00:19:30,337
Are there no workhouses?

334
00:19:33,006 --> 00:19:34,007
Do you know how many people

335
00:19:34,091 --> 00:19:35,217
would rather die
than go there?

336
00:19:35,300 --> 00:19:36,760
Then they had better do it

337
00:19:36,844 --> 00:19:39,555
and reduce
the surplus population.

338
00:19:44,893 --> 00:19:46,854
Can you spare
a farthing, please?

339
00:19:56,488 --> 00:19:57,948
Care to buy, sir?

340
00:19:58,490 --> 00:19:59,992
Hard workers.

341
00:20:02,786 --> 00:20:04,037
Fit any chimney.

342
00:20:04,621 --> 00:20:05,831
You f...

343
00:20:13,714 --> 00:20:15,549
Quickly!
Come on, in here.

344
00:20:18,760 --> 00:20:20,554
Down here, now!

345
00:20:22,890 --> 00:20:24,266
- Come on!
- No!

346
00:20:33,901 --> 00:20:37,070
I lift mine eyes
unto the hills

347
00:20:37,154 --> 00:20:38,697
from whence cometh my help.

348
00:20:40,157 --> 00:20:42,826
My help cometh
even from the Lord

349
00:20:42,951 --> 00:20:45,203
who hath made
heaven and earth...

350
00:20:45,287 --> 00:20:46,288
All right. All right,

351
00:20:46,371 --> 00:20:47,623
I'm not paying you
by the hour.

352
00:20:47,915 --> 00:20:49,082
Skip to the end.

353
00:20:49,166 --> 00:20:50,542
Rest eternal,
grant to him, O Lord,

354
00:20:50,626 --> 00:20:52,044
and let light perpetual shine
upon him.

355
00:20:52,127 --> 00:20:53,462
- Yeah, amen. Amen.
- Amen.

356
00:20:54,129 --> 00:20:55,589
Shame, isn't it?

357
00:20:56,048 --> 00:20:57,633
All that money
and no one here to mourn him.

358
00:20:57,716 --> 00:20:59,092
Except Old Scratch there.

359
00:20:59,426 --> 00:21:01,678
Who's that?
His business partner.

360
00:21:01,970 --> 00:21:04,097
The meanest cur on two legs,
so they say.

361
00:21:04,181 --> 00:21:06,642
Aye, right. Come on.

362
00:21:46,765 --> 00:21:47,975
Humbug.

363
00:21:58,026 --> 00:21:59,236
"Humbug."

364
00:22:02,823 --> 00:22:04,950
"Are there no workhouses?

365
00:22:05,033 --> 00:22:06,326
"Then they had better do it

366
00:22:06,410 --> 00:22:08,537
"and decrease
the surplus population.

367
00:22:09,913 --> 00:22:12,874
"Old Scratch.
All that money. Shame."

368
00:22:14,584 --> 00:22:15,961
Good evening, sir.

369
00:22:17,254 --> 00:22:18,380
Yes, it is, Mrs. Fisk.

370
00:22:19,506 --> 00:22:20,674
- Charles?
- Humbug!

371
00:22:20,757 --> 00:22:23,593
Humbug! Humbug!

372
00:22:30,726 --> 00:22:33,186
<i>It's about a businessman
or a factory owner. A miser.</i>

373
00:22:33,603 --> 00:22:34,855
<i>His partner dies.</i>

374
00:22:35,188 --> 00:22:38,191
<i>He doesn't shed a tear.
He thinks only of the money.</i>

375
00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:39,735
<i>And on Christmas Eve...</i>

376
00:22:39,818 --> 00:22:43,321
On Christmas Eve,
he meets some kind of... Of...

377
00:22:43,405 --> 00:22:47,075
Of supernatural guides,
or spirits, possibly,

378
00:22:47,159 --> 00:22:48,618
who, in the course
of one night,

379
00:22:48,702 --> 00:22:52,914
teach him what a miserable,
loathsome, selfish toad he is.

380
00:22:53,248 --> 00:22:55,333
It's a short book.
Short and sharp.

381
00:22:56,126 --> 00:22:57,419
A hammer blow to the heart

382
00:22:57,502 --> 00:23:00,213
of this smug,
self-satisfied age.

383
00:23:06,178 --> 00:23:07,179
It's a comedy.

384
00:23:07,262 --> 00:23:08,305
Ah. Ah-ha!

385
00:23:08,388 --> 00:23:09,389
Brilliant.

386
00:23:11,975 --> 00:23:12,976
Does it have a title?

387
00:23:13,226 --> 00:23:14,478
Yes.

388
00:23:14,644 --> 00:23:16,563
<i>Humbug: A Miser's Lament.</i>

389
00:23:20,025 --> 00:23:22,360
<i>A Christmas Ghost Story,
Christmas Song...</i>

390
00:23:22,569 --> 00:23:23,820
<i>Christmas Ballad,</i>
something like that.

391
00:23:23,904 --> 00:23:27,407
Intriguing, really.
Just one question.

392
00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:29,534
Why Christmas?

393
00:23:30,702 --> 00:23:31,703
Well, why not?

394
00:23:31,787 --> 00:23:33,288
Does anybody
really celebrate it anymore,

395
00:23:33,371 --> 00:23:34,372
apart from our clerk,

396
00:23:34,456 --> 00:23:36,083
who never misses
an opportunity

397
00:23:36,166 --> 00:23:38,126
to take a day off with pay?

398
00:23:38,335 --> 00:23:39,753
More or less
an opportunity

399
00:23:39,836 --> 00:23:41,088
for picking a man's pocket

400
00:23:41,171 --> 00:23:43,423
every 25th of December.

401
00:23:43,507 --> 00:23:46,051
What we mean to say,
Mr. Dickens, is

402
00:23:46,134 --> 00:23:49,054
not much of a market
for Christmas books... What?

403
00:23:53,934 --> 00:23:55,936
It is a Christmas book
because Christmas is,

404
00:23:56,019 --> 00:23:58,396
or ought to be,
the one time of year

405
00:23:58,688 --> 00:24:02,484
when men and women
open their shut-up hearts

406
00:24:02,567 --> 00:24:03,735
and think of the people
below them

407
00:24:03,819 --> 00:24:06,321
as if they really were fellow
passengers to the grave,

408
00:24:06,404 --> 00:24:08,406
and not another race
of creatures altogether.

409
00:24:08,490 --> 00:24:10,617
We are already
halfway through October.

410
00:24:10,700 --> 00:24:11,827
Even if you had
already written it,

411
00:24:11,910 --> 00:24:13,703
we couldn't possibly
get it illustrated,

412
00:24:13,787 --> 00:24:15,122
typeset, printed and bound,

413
00:24:15,205 --> 00:24:19,292
advertised and distributed
to shops in only six weeks.

414
00:24:21,962 --> 00:24:23,004
Well...

415
00:24:24,005 --> 00:24:25,674
Thank you for your opinion,
gentlemen.

416
00:24:25,757 --> 00:24:27,008
Mr. Dickens!

417
00:24:31,179 --> 00:24:32,973
Pull it up now.
That's it.

418
00:24:33,056 --> 00:24:35,642
Scaly-headed vultures.

419
00:24:35,725 --> 00:24:36,935
Money-grubbing,

420
00:24:37,018 --> 00:24:39,104
scum-sucking...
But, Charles...

421
00:24:39,187 --> 00:24:40,438
I'll do it myself.
What?

422
00:24:41,064 --> 00:24:43,358
I'll do it myself. I'll pay
for it myself, all of it.

423
00:24:43,441 --> 00:24:45,443
Illustrations, everything.
I'll distribute it myself.

424
00:24:45,652 --> 00:24:47,279
My dear Charles,
this is madness.

425
00:24:47,529 --> 00:24:48,905
Think of your finances, huh?

426
00:24:49,489 --> 00:24:50,824
Come on, we'll go back,
we'll renegotiate.

427
00:24:50,907 --> 00:24:52,993
No shame in it.
It's just business.

428
00:24:53,577 --> 00:24:56,121
Why throw everything away
for a minor holiday?

429
00:24:56,204 --> 00:24:57,539
I've never felt so strongly

430
00:24:57,622 --> 00:24:59,499
about anything
in my life, John.

431
00:24:59,583 --> 00:25:01,209
You can help me or not.
As you wish.

432
00:25:01,334 --> 00:25:03,044
Well, where are you off to?
Going to raise some capital.

433
00:25:03,128 --> 00:25:04,129
Eh?

434
00:25:04,212 --> 00:25:05,255
One thing I've learned
from my father,

435
00:25:05,338 --> 00:25:07,924
people will believe anything
if you're properly dressed.

436
00:25:08,008 --> 00:25:10,719
Mr. Trabb!
Your finest cravats!

437
00:25:18,643 --> 00:25:19,895
Ah.

438
00:25:20,645 --> 00:25:22,480
Nothing like the air
of the metropolis

439
00:25:22,564 --> 00:25:24,816
to put color in your cheeks,
eh, Mother?

440
00:25:36,203 --> 00:25:37,245
There you are, sir.

441
00:25:37,329 --> 00:25:40,081
Best quality.
A1 condition.

442
00:25:40,165 --> 00:25:42,292
And look inside.

443
00:25:42,375 --> 00:25:44,544
Autographed by the author.

444
00:25:46,755 --> 00:25:49,299
"To Papa. Love, Charles."

445
00:25:52,219 --> 00:25:53,303
Five bob.

446
00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:57,140
'Allo, old dog.

447
00:25:59,935 --> 00:26:02,896
Perhaps we could, um,
strike a bargain.

448
00:26:03,188 --> 00:26:05,482
'Allo.
Good with children, is it?

449
00:26:14,449 --> 00:26:15,575
Too much?

450
00:26:17,410 --> 00:26:20,956
Mr. Dickens
and Mr. Forster.

451
00:26:21,039 --> 00:26:22,415
How do you?

452
00:26:23,250 --> 00:26:25,627
Very well, thank you,
Mr. Haddock.

453
00:26:26,419 --> 00:26:28,046
Mittens...

454
00:26:29,714 --> 00:26:31,716
You are a bad boy.

455
00:26:40,976 --> 00:26:44,229
Now, how may I
be of service to you?

456
00:26:44,437 --> 00:26:45,981
Well, sir, you see,
it's about the loan.

457
00:26:46,064 --> 00:26:48,942
There was something I wanted
to tell you. What was it?

458
00:26:50,777 --> 00:26:52,570
Yeah, it was some
rather good news,

459
00:26:52,654 --> 00:26:54,155
if I recall correctly.

460
00:26:54,239 --> 00:26:55,282
What, uh...

461
00:26:55,949 --> 00:26:57,117
Ah!

462
00:26:59,744 --> 00:27:00,829
Biscuit?

463
00:27:01,454 --> 00:27:02,539
Well...

464
00:27:02,998 --> 00:27:03,999
Thank you.

465
00:27:08,420 --> 00:27:09,421
Hmm.

466
00:27:10,630 --> 00:27:11,673
Ah.

467
00:27:11,756 --> 00:27:14,050
Uh... Yes...

468
00:27:14,134 --> 00:27:16,011
Now what was I, uh... What...

469
00:27:16,886 --> 00:27:20,265
Uh, you said something
about good news?

470
00:27:20,473 --> 00:27:22,183
Possibly about the lawsuit?

471
00:27:22,267 --> 00:27:24,644
The lawsuit...

472
00:27:24,978 --> 00:27:26,604
Yes,
the copyright infringement.

473
00:27:26,688 --> 00:27:27,856
Yeah, <i>Oliver Twisted.</i>

474
00:27:28,106 --> 00:27:29,649
"As re-originated
from the original."

475
00:27:29,733 --> 00:27:30,984
Yes! Ah! I have it here.

476
00:27:32,193 --> 00:27:33,445
Uh...

477
00:27:33,528 --> 00:27:34,946
Oh, yes.

478
00:27:35,739 --> 00:27:37,365
Good news indeed.

479
00:27:37,991 --> 00:27:38,992
We won.

480
00:27:39,534 --> 00:27:41,745
The fine was set at £2,200.

481
00:27:41,953 --> 00:27:43,955
£2,200...

482
00:27:44,039 --> 00:27:46,708
The bad news is
the defendants have no money.

483
00:27:46,791 --> 00:27:48,918
Ha.
Bankrupt.

484
00:27:49,753 --> 00:27:51,755
Disappointing, I know.

485
00:27:54,132 --> 00:27:55,258
But we'll have them arrested,

486
00:27:55,342 --> 00:27:56,760
throw them
in a debtor's prison.

487
00:27:56,843 --> 00:27:58,011
No! No, no, no.

488
00:27:58,970 --> 00:28:00,221
No?

489
00:28:01,264 --> 00:28:02,640
As you wish.

490
00:28:03,850 --> 00:28:07,228
In the meantime,
if you would be so good...

491
00:28:15,987 --> 00:28:17,655
Here's my bill.

492
00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:24,412
No rush.

493
00:28:24,496 --> 00:28:26,373
Next week will be fine.

494
00:28:26,456 --> 00:28:27,791
Hmm.

495
00:28:27,874 --> 00:28:28,875
Tell you what.

496
00:28:28,958 --> 00:28:32,295
Why don't we defer this
until January?

497
00:28:32,379 --> 00:28:33,463
And while we're at it,

498
00:28:33,546 --> 00:28:35,548
perhaps you might
add a little bit more.

499
00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:37,217
I'll make it worth your while.

500
00:28:37,300 --> 00:28:38,426
More?

501
00:28:41,346 --> 00:28:43,515
You wish to borrow more?

502
00:28:46,184 --> 00:28:48,019
Not very much, just...

503
00:28:49,104 --> 00:28:50,814
£300.

504
00:28:50,897 --> 00:28:52,107
'Til January.

505
00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:55,068
I think we can
increase your loan at,

506
00:28:55,151 --> 00:28:58,196
shall we say, 25%?

507
00:28:58,780 --> 00:28:59,781
God's teeth!

508
00:29:01,491 --> 00:29:02,534
Thank you.

509
00:29:06,996 --> 00:29:09,165
Charles. Charles.

510
00:29:09,833 --> 00:29:11,668
Are you all right?
Yeah.

511
00:29:12,043 --> 00:29:13,086
Never better.

512
00:29:13,378 --> 00:29:15,630
Now, find me an illustrator.

513
00:29:22,470 --> 00:29:26,724
He was a tight-fisted,
"hand at the grindstone,"

514
00:29:26,808 --> 00:29:30,186
Old Scratch.

515
00:29:32,605 --> 00:29:35,316
Scrounger...

516
00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:40,029
He was
a covetous old sinner...

517
00:29:40,113 --> 00:29:41,448
Or a...

518
00:29:42,824 --> 00:29:44,284
Name!

519
00:29:45,535 --> 00:29:48,455
Screwpull... Scrabbly...

520
00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:50,206
Name!

521
00:29:50,832 --> 00:29:52,333
Well, go on. He won't bite.

522
00:29:52,417 --> 00:29:53,835
Screwpull...

523
00:30:15,857 --> 00:30:17,150
Scrimple!

524
00:30:17,233 --> 00:30:18,651
What... You're...

525
00:30:18,860 --> 00:30:19,861
What are you doing in here?

526
00:30:19,944 --> 00:30:21,821
I've just come
to see to the fire, sir.

527
00:30:21,905 --> 00:30:24,449
I'm not to be interrupted
under any circumstances!

528
00:30:24,532 --> 00:30:26,201
Do you hear?
I beg your pardon, sir.

529
00:30:26,284 --> 00:30:28,495
It won't happen again.

530
00:30:28,578 --> 00:30:29,704
Wait. What's that
in your pocket?

531
00:30:37,629 --> 00:30:40,673
<i>"Varney the Vampire
or, The Feast of Blood."</i>

532
00:30:40,882 --> 00:30:42,550
You won't tell Mrs. Fisk,
will ya?

533
00:30:42,634 --> 00:30:44,010
She'll think I was shirkin'.

534
00:30:44,969 --> 00:30:46,721
Where did you learn to read?

535
00:30:46,804 --> 00:30:47,889
My mum taught me.

536
00:30:48,681 --> 00:30:51,100
But then she died and I had
to go to the Grubber.

537
00:30:53,228 --> 00:30:54,270
The workhouse?

538
00:30:59,234 --> 00:31:01,611
Is it any good?
Well, yes, sir.

539
00:31:02,403 --> 00:31:03,404
Thrilling.

540
00:31:05,073 --> 00:31:06,908
Tell you what,

541
00:31:07,116 --> 00:31:08,409
I'll make you a trade.

542
00:31:11,704 --> 00:31:14,249
<i>Varney the Vampire</i> for...

543
00:31:14,749 --> 00:31:15,917
Where is it?

544
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:18,461
Ah!

545
00:31:21,130 --> 00:31:23,132
<i>Aladdin and His Magic Lamp.</i>

546
00:31:23,216 --> 00:31:24,759
Oh, my.
Yeah.

547
00:31:25,009 --> 00:31:26,219
Read it. Let me know
what you think.

548
00:31:27,220 --> 00:31:28,429
Thank you, sir.

549
00:31:38,898 --> 00:31:40,275
Who is Scrimple?

550
00:31:40,525 --> 00:31:41,901
Hmm? Scrimple?

551
00:31:42,485 --> 00:31:44,028
When I came in,
you were saying...

552
00:31:44,112 --> 00:31:48,241
Oh, it's just a name
for a story I'm concocting.

553
00:31:48,449 --> 00:31:50,702
Get the name right
and then if you're lucky,

554
00:31:50,785 --> 00:31:52,495
the character will appear.

555
00:31:53,621 --> 00:31:54,622
Hmm.

556
00:31:55,790 --> 00:31:57,083
He's not here yet.

557
00:31:59,168 --> 00:32:01,921
Scrantish?

558
00:32:03,548 --> 00:32:06,342
S-c-rarmer...

559
00:32:08,303 --> 00:32:09,345
Come on.

560
00:32:09,429 --> 00:32:12,265
S-c-runge.

561
00:32:12,807 --> 00:32:15,977
Ah, come on.
Come on, you old sinner!

562
00:32:18,354 --> 00:32:19,689
Scrooge!

563
00:32:21,149 --> 00:32:22,900
Shut the window!

564
00:32:23,067 --> 00:32:24,861
Do you think
I'm made of money?

565
00:32:25,153 --> 00:32:26,696
Mr. Scrooge.

566
00:32:27,614 --> 00:32:29,365
How delightful
to meet you, sir.

567
00:32:29,574 --> 00:32:30,742
Sorry, I can't say the same.

568
00:32:31,326 --> 00:32:32,410
Come now.
Don't be standoffish.

569
00:32:32,493 --> 00:32:33,494
We ought to be friends.

570
00:32:33,578 --> 00:32:35,038
Don't have friends.
Don't need 'em.

571
00:32:35,663 --> 00:32:36,789
Huh. Naturally.

572
00:32:37,665 --> 00:32:38,708
I know. Let's play a game.

573
00:32:38,791 --> 00:32:41,085
Don't like games.
Humor me.

574
00:32:41,502 --> 00:32:44,047
What do you think of
when I say the word

575
00:32:45,340 --> 00:32:46,883
"darkness"?
Cheap.

576
00:32:48,217 --> 00:32:50,261
"Love."
Swindle.

577
00:32:51,804 --> 00:32:53,973
"Money."
Security.

578
00:32:55,475 --> 00:32:57,310
"Children."
Useless.

579
00:32:58,144 --> 00:32:59,937
"Workhouse."
Useful.

580
00:33:03,524 --> 00:33:04,817
"Christmas."

581
00:33:07,820 --> 00:33:09,155
"Christmas"?

582
00:33:10,490 --> 00:33:11,658
That's right.

583
00:33:15,953 --> 00:33:18,539
Help! Help!
Get it away!

584
00:33:20,958 --> 00:33:22,293
God!

585
00:33:22,669 --> 00:33:23,878
What is going on?

586
00:33:23,961 --> 00:33:25,588
Get it away, the filthy thing.

587
00:33:25,672 --> 00:33:26,798
Come on, Grip, old chap.

588
00:33:26,881 --> 00:33:28,049
Back in the cage.

589
00:33:28,132 --> 00:33:29,884
Father?
Ah.

590
00:33:29,967 --> 00:33:31,969
Charles. Good day.
What are you doing here?

591
00:33:32,053 --> 00:33:33,721
Well, we were
in the neighborhood,

592
00:33:33,805 --> 00:33:35,556
and we thought we'd drop by

593
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:36,766
with a present
for the children.

594
00:33:36,849 --> 00:33:38,851
His name is Grip.
He talks!

595
00:33:39,102 --> 00:33:40,144
Can we keep him?

596
00:33:40,228 --> 00:33:41,312
'Ello, old girl.

597
00:33:41,396 --> 00:33:42,605
It's bad luck,
a bird in the house.

598
00:33:42,689 --> 00:33:43,940
It means death.

599
00:33:44,023 --> 00:33:45,566
'Allo!
Father, in here.

600
00:33:45,650 --> 00:33:47,944
Of course.

601
00:33:50,405 --> 00:33:51,447
Charles?

602
00:33:52,532 --> 00:33:53,574
Charles?

603
00:33:53,658 --> 00:33:55,785
What are you doing
back in London?

604
00:33:57,787 --> 00:33:58,955
My dear Charles.

605
00:33:59,038 --> 00:34:01,374
I will not disguise from you
that this is not the ardor

606
00:34:01,457 --> 00:34:03,042
with which a loving father
might be expected...

607
00:34:03,126 --> 00:34:05,002
You are supposed
to be in Devon.

608
00:34:05,086 --> 00:34:07,380
Banishment!

609
00:34:07,463 --> 00:34:10,258
Be merciful, say "death,"

610
00:34:10,550 --> 00:34:13,428
for exile has more terror
in its look.

611
00:34:14,303 --> 00:34:17,181
Father, we had an agreement.

612
00:34:18,766 --> 00:34:20,309
I bought you a house.

613
00:34:20,935 --> 00:34:22,603
I gave you an allowance.

614
00:34:22,687 --> 00:34:25,648
For which I am very grateful.

615
00:34:26,065 --> 00:34:28,651
As for me, I'm happy
wherever the weather.

616
00:34:28,735 --> 00:34:32,113
But your mother is of
a more delicate sensibility.

617
00:34:33,990 --> 00:34:36,951
Charles, the mere sight
of cows

618
00:34:37,034 --> 00:34:39,537
causes her
actual physical pain.

619
00:34:40,580 --> 00:34:41,998
Father...

620
00:34:42,331 --> 00:34:45,418
And I have research to do
in the London Library.

621
00:34:48,045 --> 00:34:49,547
"Research"?
Yeah.

622
00:34:51,257 --> 00:34:52,592
Yeah.

623
00:34:52,842 --> 00:34:54,719
I have a commission
from <i>The Spectator</i>

624
00:34:55,553 --> 00:34:58,014
to write a feature
on the Bank Charter Act.

625
00:34:59,474 --> 00:35:01,267
The editor was very impressed

626
00:35:01,350 --> 00:35:04,020
with my series
on Marine Insurance.

627
00:35:04,312 --> 00:35:05,521
Good for you, Father.

628
00:35:05,980 --> 00:35:08,566
I do hope that you and Mother
will stay here with us.

629
00:35:08,649 --> 00:35:09,984
The children and I
will so enjoy

630
00:35:10,067 --> 00:35:12,153
having some company
in the evenings.

631
00:35:19,535 --> 00:35:21,496
<i>The Spectator.</i>
Well, that's, um...

632
00:35:22,413 --> 00:35:24,791
That's most impressive.
Hmm.

633
00:35:26,292 --> 00:35:28,961
Thank you, dear boy.

634
00:35:29,545 --> 00:35:33,216
Oh, by the way, you couldn't
lend me a tenner, could you?

635
00:35:33,299 --> 00:35:36,052
That blighter took
my last farthing for the cage.

636
00:35:36,135 --> 00:35:37,553
Huh?

637
00:35:42,642 --> 00:35:44,352
It was the bird, sir.
It flew upstairs.

638
00:35:44,769 --> 00:35:46,312
Oh. Um...

639
00:35:46,646 --> 00:35:48,648
I'll see that
it's all cleared up.

640
00:35:50,149 --> 00:35:52,568
Please, can we keep him?
Well, I...

641
00:35:53,027 --> 00:35:54,153
Um...

642
00:35:56,697 --> 00:35:58,658
Come on, Walter.

643
00:36:03,538 --> 00:36:07,458
"This is not the ardor
with which a loving father..."

644
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:11,963
Humbug!

645
00:36:13,172 --> 00:36:14,298
What is?

646
00:36:14,382 --> 00:36:16,300
Christmas. Huh.

647
00:36:18,553 --> 00:36:19,554
What about it?

648
00:36:19,637 --> 00:36:21,722
Well, what is it,
but an excuse

649
00:36:21,806 --> 00:36:23,224
for picking a man's pocket

650
00:36:23,307 --> 00:36:25,434
every 25th of December?

651
00:36:27,395 --> 00:36:28,688
Yes. Keep going.

652
00:36:29,230 --> 00:36:32,108
A time for paying bills
without money.

653
00:36:32,191 --> 00:36:34,277
A time for finding yourself
a year older

654
00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:36,404
and not an hour richer.

655
00:36:36,571 --> 00:36:39,198
If I could work my will,

656
00:36:39,282 --> 00:36:40,491
every idiot who goes about

657
00:36:40,575 --> 00:36:41,784
with "Merry Christmas"
on his lips

658
00:36:41,868 --> 00:36:43,744
should be boiled
in his own plum pudding

659
00:36:43,828 --> 00:36:46,163
and buried
with a stake of holly

660
00:36:46,247 --> 00:36:48,666
through his heart! He should.

661
00:36:48,749 --> 00:36:50,042
Oh, Mr. Scrooge, you and I

662
00:36:50,126 --> 00:36:52,044
are going to do
wonderful things together.

663
00:36:52,795 --> 00:36:54,589
"Oh, but he was a tight-fisted

664
00:36:54,672 --> 00:36:57,592
""hand at the grindstone'
Scrooge."

665
00:36:57,675 --> 00:37:00,469
A squeezing, wrenching,

666
00:37:00,553 --> 00:37:02,597
grasping,

667
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:06,893
scraping, clutching,
covetous old sinner.

668
00:37:08,978 --> 00:37:10,229
Charles?

669
00:37:13,816 --> 00:37:15,109
Hard at work?

670
00:37:15,192 --> 00:37:16,944
What can I help you with,
Father?

671
00:37:17,194 --> 00:37:19,030
Well, I was wondering
if we might have

672
00:37:19,113 --> 00:37:21,657
an extra candlestick
for our room?

673
00:37:21,741 --> 00:37:23,200
Of course.
Oh.

674
00:37:23,284 --> 00:37:24,493
Cigars.

675
00:37:25,286 --> 00:37:26,704
Oh, yes...

676
00:37:27,496 --> 00:37:29,040
I must confess,
I have acquired

677
00:37:29,123 --> 00:37:31,542
an irrepressible habit

678
00:37:31,626 --> 00:37:34,045
of smoking whilst I write.

679
00:37:34,503 --> 00:37:36,964
Dreadful habit,
I know, but, oh, yeah...

680
00:37:38,841 --> 00:37:40,009
Thank you.

681
00:37:44,013 --> 00:37:46,474
Hmm. Going well?

682
00:37:46,724 --> 00:37:48,142
Oh.

683
00:37:49,393 --> 00:37:50,561
I won't detain you.

684
00:38:06,285 --> 00:38:08,329
Don't do that. Don't do it...

685
00:38:08,579 --> 00:38:09,580
Why not?

686
00:38:10,873 --> 00:38:11,916
Too late.

687
00:38:14,085 --> 00:38:15,294
Who is it?

688
00:38:15,836 --> 00:38:16,879
Who is it?

689
00:38:18,214 --> 00:38:19,423
Bunsby?

690
00:38:21,842 --> 00:38:23,135
Clennam?

691
00:38:24,470 --> 00:38:25,471
Heep?

692
00:38:26,681 --> 00:38:27,682
Hexam?

693
00:38:27,765 --> 00:38:29,517
Oh, stop, stop!
Magwitch?

694
00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:30,768
No...

695
00:38:32,311 --> 00:38:33,354
Marley!

696
00:38:41,862 --> 00:38:43,197
Is that you?

697
00:38:43,781 --> 00:38:45,449
Jacob?
You know him?

698
00:38:45,741 --> 00:38:46,951
Yeah, my business partner.

699
00:38:47,034 --> 00:38:49,578
Last time I saw him,
he was dead as a doornail.

700
00:38:49,662 --> 00:38:51,747
How do you, Jacob?

701
00:38:52,164 --> 00:38:54,083
Business, business.

702
00:38:54,792 --> 00:38:57,545
Mankind was my business.

703
00:38:57,837 --> 00:39:00,381
The common welfare
was my business.

704
00:39:01,757 --> 00:39:05,970
Charity, mercy...

705
00:39:07,221 --> 00:39:11,308
Forbearance and benevolence
were all my business.

706
00:39:11,475 --> 00:39:13,185
He was never one
for a straight answer.

707
00:39:13,269 --> 00:39:15,563
And yet I practiced
none of them!

708
00:39:17,356 --> 00:39:19,150
Come in. Come in, please.

709
00:39:43,049 --> 00:39:44,967
You are fettered.

710
00:39:45,885 --> 00:39:46,886
Why?

711
00:39:47,678 --> 00:39:50,848
I wear the chain
I forged in life.

712
00:39:54,060 --> 00:39:55,644
I made it...

713
00:39:57,271 --> 00:40:02,193
Link by link, yard by yard.

714
00:40:03,986 --> 00:40:07,656
And of my own free will,
I girded it about me.

715
00:40:08,908 --> 00:40:13,120
Of my own free will,
I wore it.

716
00:40:22,713 --> 00:40:24,340
Do you know
the weight and length

717
00:40:24,423 --> 00:40:26,509
of the chain
you bear yourself?

718
00:40:28,969 --> 00:40:30,179
You mean him, surely.

719
00:40:35,226 --> 00:40:36,894
You, Charlie.

720
00:40:39,230 --> 00:40:42,274
Your chains, all around you.

721
00:40:44,026 --> 00:40:45,736
Past and present...

722
00:40:48,531 --> 00:40:50,032
And what is to come.

723
00:40:54,870 --> 00:40:57,206
Hail to thee, blithe turkey.

724
00:40:57,915 --> 00:41:00,042
Whose exquisite odors

725
00:41:00,209 --> 00:41:03,546
now perfume
the circumambient air.

726
00:41:05,089 --> 00:41:07,800
And let this day be fragrant

727
00:41:07,883 --> 00:41:11,220
with the love
we bear one another.

728
00:41:11,303 --> 00:41:14,431
And may God bless us,
everyone.

729
00:41:14,515 --> 00:41:15,850
Every one.

730
00:41:21,355 --> 00:41:23,357
Mr. John Dickens?

731
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:26,402
You're under arrest
for a debt of £42.

732
00:41:26,485 --> 00:41:27,486
Father!
Charlie...

733
00:41:27,570 --> 00:41:29,071
Father, tell them to stop!

734
00:41:30,906 --> 00:41:32,533
Take everything
that shines, boys.

735
00:41:32,616 --> 00:41:34,743
It's all right, Charlie.

736
00:41:34,827 --> 00:41:37,663
Tell them to stop, Father!
It's all right.

737
00:41:37,746 --> 00:41:40,207
Please, Charlie, don't worry.

738
00:41:54,471 --> 00:41:56,473
What about Leech
for the illustrations?

739
00:41:56,557 --> 00:41:57,558
What, Leech?

740
00:41:57,641 --> 00:42:00,144
Well, he's so prickly and he's
by no means the cheapest.

741
00:42:00,311 --> 00:42:01,604
I don't want
the cheapest.

742
00:42:01,687 --> 00:42:03,814
Oh, Charles,
for God's sake, slow down.

743
00:42:03,898 --> 00:42:05,065
You move at railway speed.

744
00:42:05,149 --> 00:42:06,567
I don't want
the cheapest, I want the best.

745
00:42:06,650 --> 00:42:07,651
And so
it's going well, then?

746
00:42:07,735 --> 00:42:08,736
What?
The book.

747
00:42:08,819 --> 00:42:10,404
Oh, it's brilliant. It's the
best thing I've ever written.

748
00:42:10,487 --> 00:42:11,697
What's the...
I've got 11 pages.

749
00:42:11,780 --> 00:42:12,781
Eleven?

750
00:42:12,865 --> 00:42:14,450
Well, if it weren't for
the constant interruptions...

751
00:42:14,533 --> 00:42:16,035
You know, we've got my father
staying with us.

752
00:42:16,118 --> 00:42:18,204
Indeed. He could not have come
at a worse time.

753
00:42:18,287 --> 00:42:19,413
Oh.

754
00:42:19,955 --> 00:42:21,248
Miss Wigmore.

755
00:42:26,462 --> 00:42:28,505
Come. Come along.

756
00:42:34,136 --> 00:42:35,387
Who was that?

757
00:42:35,971 --> 00:42:37,556
Charlotte.
Who?

758
00:42:38,265 --> 00:42:39,767
My fiancée. I told you.

759
00:42:39,934 --> 00:42:41,852
Fiancée?

760
00:42:41,936 --> 00:42:43,312
She's a canny lass,
is she not?

761
00:42:43,395 --> 00:42:45,231
Indeed. Most amiable.

762
00:42:45,314 --> 00:42:46,440
"Amiable"?

763
00:42:47,274 --> 00:42:50,069
Why, man,
she's an angel, a sylph.

764
00:42:50,152 --> 00:42:51,946
She's a goddess on a...

765
00:42:52,905 --> 00:42:54,406
Whatever is the matter?

766
00:42:55,574 --> 00:42:58,494
Oh, Charlotte and I have come
to a parting of the ways.

767
00:42:58,577 --> 00:42:59,870
I thought you said
you were engaged.

768
00:42:59,954 --> 00:43:00,955
Ah, we were.

769
00:43:01,038 --> 00:43:02,665
But then her father had
no intention

770
00:43:02,748 --> 00:43:04,458
for her to marry
the son of a butcher.

771
00:43:06,502 --> 00:43:07,544
Here.

772
00:43:11,966 --> 00:43:13,634
Perhaps it's for the best, eh?

773
00:43:14,051 --> 00:43:15,552
The life matrimonial...

774
00:43:15,636 --> 00:43:16,929
It's not for everyone,
old stick.

775
00:43:18,514 --> 00:43:20,099
Aye... Aye, no doubt.

776
00:43:21,308 --> 00:43:22,977
So... Leech?

777
00:43:24,103 --> 00:43:25,312
That's the ticket.

778
00:43:25,479 --> 00:43:26,814
Four wood cuts, four etchings.

779
00:43:26,897 --> 00:43:28,232
The cover in red.
Hand-colored.

780
00:43:28,315 --> 00:43:31,151
The title in rustic
spectral writing.

781
00:43:31,235 --> 00:43:32,278
The end papers to be green

782
00:43:32,361 --> 00:43:33,529
and all three edges
to be gilded.

783
00:43:33,612 --> 00:43:35,823
Gilded? It'll cost you.

784
00:43:36,448 --> 00:43:38,200
Well, it must be exquisite.

785
00:43:38,284 --> 00:43:39,410
That's why we came to you.

786
00:43:39,493 --> 00:43:43,122
You'll have to sell every copy
to make your money back.

787
00:43:43,205 --> 00:43:45,040
That is my intention.

788
00:43:45,249 --> 00:43:46,250
You brought the manuscript?

789
00:43:48,043 --> 00:43:49,670
I'll have something for you
in a week.

790
00:43:49,837 --> 00:43:51,213
A week?
Hmm.

791
00:43:51,297 --> 00:43:54,049
That leaves only four weeks
to do all the illustrations

792
00:43:54,133 --> 00:43:56,176
and get it to the printer
in time for Christmas.

793
00:43:58,929 --> 00:43:59,930
Can you do it?

794
00:44:00,014 --> 00:44:02,182
Mr. Dickens,
I'm not a hired hand.

795
00:44:02,641 --> 00:44:04,643
I am an artist.

796
00:44:05,769 --> 00:44:07,813
What you are asking
is impossible.

797
00:44:08,939 --> 00:44:11,233
Impossible
for an ordinary man,

798
00:44:11,317 --> 00:44:13,652
but you are no ordinary man,
Mr. Leech.

799
00:44:14,737 --> 00:44:16,280
You are a genius.

800
00:44:20,117 --> 00:44:21,118
£50.

801
00:44:21,702 --> 00:44:23,370
Paid in advance!

802
00:44:23,662 --> 00:44:25,372
Plus, more for the plates.

803
00:44:31,712 --> 00:44:32,796
Done.

804
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:34,840
Thank you, Mr. Leech.

805
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:39,386
Look, Charles, I don't want
to be the voice of doom,

806
00:44:39,470 --> 00:44:42,056
but before we lay out money
for illustrations,

807
00:44:42,139 --> 00:44:43,891
we should consider
what happens if you...

808
00:44:43,974 --> 00:44:45,351
If you don't finish on time.

809
00:44:46,226 --> 00:44:47,978
I will finish on time.

810
00:44:49,355 --> 00:44:50,522
Quite.

811
00:44:54,318 --> 00:44:55,819
Mr. Dickens.

812
00:44:55,903 --> 00:44:57,321
I fix the chandelier.

813
00:44:57,404 --> 00:44:58,697
See?
Yes. Good.

814
00:44:58,781 --> 00:45:00,866
<i>Grazie, Signor</i> Mazzini.

815
00:45:00,949 --> 00:45:03,744
Is no problem.
Only 12 guineas extra.

816
00:45:05,913 --> 00:45:07,206
12...

817
00:45:09,124 --> 00:45:10,793
I thought my father was off
to the British Library.

818
00:45:10,876 --> 00:45:12,086
Your sister's here, sir.

819
00:45:12,169 --> 00:45:14,254
Come from Manchester
with her little boy.

820
00:45:14,338 --> 00:45:15,339
Ah.

821
00:45:16,256 --> 00:45:18,133
My dear sister!

822
00:45:18,217 --> 00:45:20,427
Charlie.

823
00:45:21,220 --> 00:45:24,598
Henry, how are you?
Very well, grace be to God.

824
00:45:24,681 --> 00:45:26,392
This cannot be
young Master Henry.

825
00:45:26,725 --> 00:45:29,311
I barely recognize you.
How old are you now?

826
00:45:29,395 --> 00:45:31,438
Nine, if you please, sir.
Nine?

827
00:45:31,772 --> 00:45:32,940
I shall soon
run out of fingers.

828
00:45:39,571 --> 00:45:40,572
Excuse me, sir.

829
00:45:40,697 --> 00:45:42,741
The children are having
their tea in the dining room.

830
00:45:44,076 --> 00:45:45,953
Come on, then, young 'un. Up!

831
00:45:51,250 --> 00:45:52,793
Mind your head.

832
00:45:53,961 --> 00:45:55,879
There goes my heart.

833
00:45:56,004 --> 00:45:58,215
What did the doctor say?

834
00:45:58,298 --> 00:46:00,050
He says
we have to wait and see.

835
00:46:00,884 --> 00:46:02,469
Won't you let us help?

836
00:46:02,553 --> 00:46:03,804
We'll manage.
At least until

837
00:46:03,887 --> 00:46:05,264
Henry finds a new position.

838
00:46:05,347 --> 00:46:07,808
Something will come up.
I'm sure of it.

839
00:46:07,891 --> 00:46:09,643
You sound just like Father.

840
00:46:10,227 --> 00:46:12,688
How is the old reprobate?

841
00:46:12,771 --> 00:46:15,065
"This morning I had
25 shillings in my hand,

842
00:46:15,149 --> 00:46:16,692
"and now,
observe the vacancy."

843
00:46:16,775 --> 00:46:19,236
He means no harm.
It's not enough.

844
00:46:19,319 --> 00:46:22,322
He bobs around like a cork
on the surface of life.

845
00:46:22,406 --> 00:46:24,700
Not a thought for the future.
Oh, Charlie...

846
00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:27,327
Let it go, can't you?

847
00:46:27,786 --> 00:46:29,496
Okay,
come on, me hearties,

848
00:46:29,580 --> 00:46:31,331
me landlubbers, me lovelies!

849
00:46:31,415 --> 00:46:33,792
Oh!
Oh! Up we go...

850
00:46:33,876 --> 00:46:36,962
Landlubbers,
come aboard my ship.

851
00:46:37,045 --> 00:46:39,339
Here we go. Let's set sail!

852
00:46:39,423 --> 00:46:41,300
Brail your capstan bar!

853
00:46:41,383 --> 00:46:42,843
Come here, Walter.

854
00:46:44,094 --> 00:46:45,679
No one is useless
in this world...

855
00:46:45,762 --> 00:46:48,140
...who lightens the burden
of another. I know.

856
00:46:49,016 --> 00:46:51,977
For all his faults,
you won't find a kinder man.

857
00:46:52,060 --> 00:46:53,228
Hmm.

858
00:46:53,479 --> 00:46:56,023
How long he is growing up
to be one.

859
00:46:59,276 --> 00:47:02,070
Here we go, full sail ahead!

860
00:47:11,538 --> 00:47:12,748
Why are you here?

861
00:47:13,081 --> 00:47:16,585
You'd better come and see
who's just turned up.

862
00:47:22,716 --> 00:47:23,967
Charles?

863
00:47:26,303 --> 00:47:29,056
Just a bit of indigestion.
Go back to sleep.

864
00:47:48,659 --> 00:47:50,702
Tell him who you are.

865
00:47:51,161 --> 00:47:53,956
I am
the Ghost of Christmas Past.

866
00:47:57,501 --> 00:47:58,710
Follow.

867
00:47:59,127 --> 00:48:00,796
Not bloody likely.

868
00:48:01,380 --> 00:48:02,422
Why not?

869
00:48:02,506 --> 00:48:04,716
Mucking around in the past?
What's the point?

870
00:48:05,384 --> 00:48:06,385
You might learn something.

871
00:48:06,468 --> 00:48:08,762
Well, I already know
everything I need to know.

872
00:48:08,845 --> 00:48:10,264
Well, uh...

873
00:48:10,514 --> 00:48:12,516
Take him, why don't you?
Me?

874
00:48:12,599 --> 00:48:14,059
Yeah,
if you're so keen.

875
00:48:14,142 --> 00:48:16,478
It's not about me!
Well, you're the author.

876
00:48:17,563 --> 00:48:18,814
Aren't you?

877
00:48:22,943 --> 00:48:24,486
Follow.

878
00:48:26,154 --> 00:48:28,031
Don't cry.

879
00:48:28,365 --> 00:48:29,741
We'll be back
when the debt's paid.

880
00:48:29,825 --> 00:48:31,743
But why can't I stay with you?

881
00:48:31,827 --> 00:48:33,787
You're a big boy, Charlie.

882
00:48:33,996 --> 00:48:35,914
You're the breadwinner now.

883
00:48:35,998 --> 00:48:37,124
You'll see.

884
00:48:37,207 --> 00:48:38,875
It'll be an adventure.

885
00:48:39,459 --> 00:48:42,087
You'll hardly think of us
at all.

886
00:48:43,797 --> 00:48:46,091
Time to go.

887
00:48:46,174 --> 00:48:48,385
Now, sir, enough of that.

888
00:48:48,468 --> 00:48:49,678
Stand up tall.

889
00:48:49,761 --> 00:48:51,972
Blood of iron, heart of ice.

890
00:48:52,055 --> 00:48:53,932
Huh?

891
00:48:55,142 --> 00:48:59,229
And remember, you're the son
of John Dickens!

892
00:48:59,396 --> 00:49:00,772
A gentleman!

893
00:49:01,106 --> 00:49:03,317
You be sure
and tell them that!

894
00:49:14,703 --> 00:49:16,038
Come on, then!

895
00:49:17,998 --> 00:49:20,626
Blood of iron, heart of ice.

896
00:49:28,717 --> 00:49:30,886
Good morning.
What?

897
00:49:31,219 --> 00:49:33,263
You were tossing and turning
all night, you know?

898
00:49:33,347 --> 00:49:35,015
Yeah. Bad dreams.

899
00:49:36,099 --> 00:49:37,476
What about?

900
00:49:38,435 --> 00:49:39,686
I don't know.

901
00:49:40,437 --> 00:49:41,521
Shadows.

902
00:49:42,773 --> 00:49:44,232
Well...

903
00:49:44,316 --> 00:49:46,526
A little daylight
will cure you.

904
00:49:48,070 --> 00:49:51,198
Shall we ask Mr. Punch
where the baby's daddy's gone?

905
00:49:51,281 --> 00:49:52,658
I bet he knows.

906
00:49:54,826 --> 00:49:56,286
Where's he gone, Mr. Punch?

907
00:49:58,872 --> 00:50:00,916
Off to prison? Oh-ho!

908
00:50:00,999 --> 00:50:03,627
Come on. We're wasting time.
Let's get to work.

909
00:50:04,252 --> 00:50:05,629
I am working.

910
00:50:05,712 --> 00:50:08,840
Here?
Yeah, gathering inspiration.

911
00:50:08,924 --> 00:50:10,676
Gathering what?

912
00:50:10,759 --> 00:50:12,469
What do you see
when you look around?

913
00:50:12,552 --> 00:50:14,680
Well, it's a market,
you idiot.

914
00:50:15,180 --> 00:50:16,848
- What else?
- Pies!

915
00:50:16,932 --> 00:50:20,143
Hot pies!
Eel, beef or mutton pies!

916
00:50:20,227 --> 00:50:21,311
Buyers and sellers.

917
00:50:21,395 --> 00:50:22,729
What else?

918
00:50:24,439 --> 00:50:26,191
...never say die.
Have a look, sir.

919
00:50:26,692 --> 00:50:28,985
Thieves and ruffians...

920
00:50:29,069 --> 00:50:30,612
...murder, gentlemen!

921
00:50:30,696 --> 00:50:33,240
Oh! Oh!

922
00:50:33,323 --> 00:50:35,909
Clear the way!
Clear the way, lads!

923
00:50:35,992 --> 00:50:38,704
Mr. Fezziwig!

924
00:50:44,918 --> 00:50:46,586
Life, Mr. Scrooge!

925
00:50:46,670 --> 00:50:47,713
It's London!

926
00:50:47,921 --> 00:50:49,923
The great theater
of the world. It's all here.

927
00:50:50,006 --> 00:50:51,550
Bah. Humbug!

928
00:50:51,633 --> 00:50:54,636
I'm a man of facts,
of calculations.

929
00:50:54,720 --> 00:50:56,888
Realities, not fantasy...

930
00:50:56,972 --> 00:50:58,515
What the devil's that?

931
00:50:59,725 --> 00:51:00,976
Here you go, sir.

932
00:51:10,819 --> 00:51:11,820
Must go.

933
00:51:11,903 --> 00:51:13,029
Where to?

934
00:51:13,113 --> 00:51:14,406
It's time to write.

935
00:51:23,707 --> 00:51:25,500
Come along.
Good night, children!

936
00:51:25,709 --> 00:51:27,961
Bye! Shoo!

937
00:51:33,550 --> 00:51:36,678
Well, it looks as though
Charles won't be joining us.

938
00:51:36,887 --> 00:51:38,889
Again.
We may as well start.

939
00:51:38,972 --> 00:51:40,056
Oh.

940
00:51:40,140 --> 00:51:41,808
Ah, the parties.

941
00:51:41,892 --> 00:51:43,852
We used to keep such hours.

942
00:51:43,935 --> 00:51:46,772
Balls, dinners, champagne.

943
00:51:46,855 --> 00:51:49,024
First-rate capon, Mrs. Fisk.

944
00:51:49,107 --> 00:51:51,610
Oh, thank you, sir.
I'll let the cook know.

945
00:51:51,818 --> 00:51:54,279
And the chairs had turned legs

946
00:51:54,362 --> 00:51:57,491
with green squabs
to match the curtains.

947
00:51:57,574 --> 00:51:58,867
What was that story, Mother?

948
00:51:59,075 --> 00:52:01,036
Oh, uh,
I was just telling Kate

949
00:52:01,119 --> 00:52:03,246
about the dining room set
we used to have.

950
00:52:03,705 --> 00:52:06,750
Rosewood.
In the most approved taste.

951
00:52:07,125 --> 00:52:09,044
Do you mean the one we pawned?

952
00:52:09,336 --> 00:52:11,838
- Oh.
MRS. - Charles.

953
00:52:11,922 --> 00:52:14,674
You are a satirical monster.

954
00:52:15,133 --> 00:52:16,218
Is that a joke, Charles?

955
00:52:16,301 --> 00:52:17,636
Not a very amusing one.

956
00:52:17,719 --> 00:52:19,095
Is that a new waistcoat,
Father?

957
00:52:19,513 --> 00:52:21,556
What? Uh... Oh. Yes.

958
00:52:21,640 --> 00:52:24,184
It's Persian crimson.
A little more expensive.

959
00:52:24,267 --> 00:52:25,602
But, as I always say,

960
00:52:25,685 --> 00:52:28,939
people will believe anything
if you are properly dressed.

961
00:52:30,565 --> 00:52:31,566
Kate, will you ask Tara

962
00:52:31,650 --> 00:52:32,859
to bring a tray up
with something on it.

963
00:52:32,943 --> 00:52:35,821
I'll bring it up.
No. I need Tara to do it.

964
00:52:35,904 --> 00:52:37,531
Uh, I'll get her, sir.

965
00:52:37,614 --> 00:52:38,657
Tara!

966
00:52:38,740 --> 00:52:41,326
That's
the spirit, my boy. Hmm?

967
00:52:41,451 --> 00:52:44,663
Procrastination is the thief
of time, eh, Charles?

968
00:52:45,372 --> 00:52:46,957
Collar him!

969
00:52:51,670 --> 00:52:53,380
We must not disturb the poet

970
00:52:53,463 --> 00:52:55,966
when the divine frenzy
is upon him.

971
00:52:56,132 --> 00:52:58,635
Hmm.

972
00:53:09,354 --> 00:53:10,897
Know the place?

973
00:53:14,025 --> 00:53:15,944
Was I apprenticed here?

974
00:53:17,612 --> 00:53:19,531
Clear the way, lads!
Clear the way!

975
00:53:19,614 --> 00:53:21,157
It's Friday night!

976
00:53:21,241 --> 00:53:23,326
Why, it's old Fezziwig!

977
00:53:36,548 --> 00:53:37,716
Who is it?

978
00:53:37,799 --> 00:53:40,594
It's Tara, sir.
With your dinner.

979
00:53:47,434 --> 00:53:49,102
Tara. Come in. Come in.

980
00:53:50,896 --> 00:53:51,980
Close the door.

981
00:53:55,108 --> 00:53:56,902
Sit. I want to
read you something.

982
00:53:56,985 --> 00:53:59,195
Oh. Oh, I... I don't think
Mrs. Fisk would...

983
00:53:59,279 --> 00:54:01,781
Eh! Skittleshins to Mrs. Fisk.

984
00:54:01,865 --> 00:54:02,991
Come. Sit.

985
00:54:06,703 --> 00:54:08,496
Now, since you like
ghost stories,

986
00:54:08,580 --> 00:54:11,207
see if this can rival
<i>Varney the Vampire.</i>

987
00:54:15,003 --> 00:54:19,466
"...cherry-cheeked apples,
juicy oranges, luscious pears,

988
00:54:19,549 --> 00:54:22,677
"immense twelfth-cakes,
and seething bowls of punch,

989
00:54:22,761 --> 00:54:26,056
"that made the chamber dim
with their delicious steam.

990
00:54:26,139 --> 00:54:28,224
"In easy state,
upon this couch,

991
00:54:28,308 --> 00:54:30,310
"there sat a jolly Giant..."

992
00:54:30,393 --> 00:54:33,146
The second ghost!
The second ghost.

993
00:54:37,025 --> 00:54:40,946
I am the Ghost
of Christmas Present.

994
00:54:41,529 --> 00:54:44,324
These are the gifts
of abundance,

995
00:54:44,407 --> 00:54:47,494
of goodwill,
and of generosity.

996
00:54:47,577 --> 00:54:49,037
Uh-huh. Uh...

997
00:54:49,329 --> 00:54:50,497
Of course,
you wouldn't understand

998
00:54:50,580 --> 00:54:52,332
much about that, would you?

999
00:54:52,415 --> 00:54:54,250
Unlike these good people.

1000
00:54:56,711 --> 00:54:57,879
My dear Mrs. Cratchit,

1001
00:54:57,963 --> 00:54:59,798
you have outdone
yourself this year.

1002
00:54:59,881 --> 00:55:01,925
Oh, everyone pitched in.
Even Tim.

1003
00:55:02,008 --> 00:55:03,510
I set the table.

1004
00:55:03,593 --> 00:55:04,594
Yes, you did.

1005
00:55:07,389 --> 00:55:09,808
I didn't know
Cratchit had a crippled son.

1006
00:55:09,891 --> 00:55:11,351
Didn't you ever think to ask?

1007
00:55:11,434 --> 00:55:13,979
A Merry Christmas to us all,
my dears.

1008
00:55:14,062 --> 00:55:15,063
And may God bless us.

1009
00:55:15,438 --> 00:55:17,357
God bless us, everyone.

1010
00:55:18,733 --> 00:55:19,776
He's my clerk.

1011
00:55:19,901 --> 00:55:22,112
I don't pay him to tell me
about his personal life.

1012
00:55:22,195 --> 00:55:24,739
You hardly pay him at all.
Fifteen shillings a week.

1013
00:55:24,823 --> 00:55:27,701
For a man with a family?
Not to mention a sick child.

1014
00:55:31,621 --> 00:55:32,706
That's the market rate.

1015
00:55:34,958 --> 00:55:37,127
Do you really believe

1016
00:55:37,210 --> 00:55:38,378
that every inch of existence

1017
00:55:38,461 --> 00:55:40,505
is a bargain
across the counter?

1018
00:55:41,047 --> 00:55:43,008
Observe this family.
They don't have much,

1019
00:55:43,383 --> 00:55:46,845
but they're happy, grateful,
contented with their lot.

1020
00:55:47,137 --> 00:55:51,141
Whereas you are miserable
and content with nothing.

1021
00:55:51,307 --> 00:55:53,101
Never heard such folly.

1022
00:55:57,897 --> 00:55:59,983
Heed well what I've said.

1023
00:56:01,359 --> 00:56:02,402
Farewell.

1024
00:56:02,485 --> 00:56:04,279
<i>And... Intermission!</i>

1025
00:56:04,362 --> 00:56:05,447
Oh!

1026
00:56:06,656 --> 00:56:08,116
Thrilling performance.

1027
00:56:08,575 --> 00:56:09,784
That's very kind, thank you.

1028
00:56:09,868 --> 00:56:12,662
And that is as far
as I've got.

1029
00:56:18,501 --> 00:56:19,502
Tara?
Hmm?

1030
00:56:21,671 --> 00:56:23,006
How do you do that, sir?

1031
00:56:23,089 --> 00:56:24,340
Do what?

1032
00:56:24,424 --> 00:56:26,301
Make a world come alive.

1033
00:56:26,384 --> 00:56:29,137
I could almost see
and hear them people.

1034
00:56:31,014 --> 00:56:33,266
Especially that Tiny Tim.

1035
00:56:33,850 --> 00:56:34,976
Poor mite.

1036
00:56:44,694 --> 00:56:46,946
A word in your ear.

1037
00:56:47,614 --> 00:56:49,032
About what?

1038
00:56:49,115 --> 00:56:50,116
The scene.

1039
00:56:50,992 --> 00:56:52,494
It's very one-sided.

1040
00:56:52,577 --> 00:56:54,662
What? One-sided?

1041
00:56:54,746 --> 00:56:55,997
Well, my character doesn't

1042
00:56:56,081 --> 00:56:57,665
get to explain
his side of things.

1043
00:56:59,584 --> 00:57:02,253
So, I've taken the liberty
of writing a short speech...

1044
00:57:02,337 --> 00:57:03,922
No.
Something about

1045
00:57:04,005 --> 00:57:05,673
the rational self-interest

1046
00:57:05,757 --> 00:57:07,592
and the natural tendencies
of free markets...

1047
00:57:07,675 --> 00:57:10,428
No. No. And no.

1048
00:57:12,055 --> 00:57:14,015
Well, what sort of book
is this, anyway?

1049
00:57:15,391 --> 00:57:16,851
No! It's too...

1050
00:57:16,935 --> 00:57:18,353
It's too gloomy.

1051
00:57:18,436 --> 00:57:20,730
The Ghost of Christmas Present
should be wonderful.

1052
00:57:20,980 --> 00:57:22,524
Warm, jolly!

1053
00:57:23,191 --> 00:57:24,943
Jolly?
Yes!

1054
00:57:25,026 --> 00:57:27,403
A jolly ghost?
That's it.

1055
00:57:39,541 --> 00:57:41,459
What's this?
Find another artist.

1056
00:57:41,543 --> 00:57:43,294
We don't want another artist.

1057
00:57:43,378 --> 00:57:47,590
A jolly Christmas ghost?
What does that mean?

1058
00:57:48,049 --> 00:57:50,885
I can't draw
what I don't understand!

1059
00:57:51,344 --> 00:57:55,223
Well, it is everything
that's best about Christmas.

1060
00:57:55,515 --> 00:58:00,311
He's the soul of kindness
and generosity. He's...

1061
00:58:01,479 --> 00:58:02,939
Well, he's Forster.

1062
00:58:03,523 --> 00:58:04,524
Eh?

1063
00:58:05,150 --> 00:58:06,442
With a beard.

1064
00:58:12,157 --> 00:58:13,199
Come on, jolly.

1065
00:58:55,158 --> 00:58:58,036
In shops by Christmas?

1066
00:58:58,286 --> 00:58:59,829
That'll be a miracle.

1067
00:58:59,913 --> 00:59:01,414
Go away.

1068
00:59:01,497 --> 00:59:03,791
Three flops in a row.

1069
00:59:03,875 --> 00:59:06,002
Up to your eyeballs in debt.

1070
00:59:07,003 --> 00:59:09,214
I'd think you'd be glad
of some advice.

1071
00:59:09,297 --> 00:59:11,966
So, you've had a few flops,
what of it?

1072
00:59:12,050 --> 00:59:13,801
You're still young.

1073
00:59:13,885 --> 00:59:15,136
It's not as if
you're an old man.

1074
00:59:15,220 --> 00:59:17,013
You've still got
lots of time to be...

1075
00:59:43,998 --> 00:59:45,124
Are we in the presence

1076
00:59:45,208 --> 00:59:47,001
of the Ghost of Christmas
Yet to Come?

1077
00:59:49,712 --> 00:59:51,297
Why doesn't he speak?
Shh!

1078
00:59:56,344 --> 00:59:57,887
You are here to show us
the shadows

1079
00:59:57,971 --> 00:59:59,555
of the things
that have not been,

1080
01:00:01,099 --> 01:00:04,894
but will happen, in the time
before us. Is that so?

1081
01:00:16,572 --> 01:00:18,241
Where does it want us to go?

1082
01:00:18,992 --> 01:00:20,368
I think I know.

1083
01:00:24,163 --> 01:00:26,833
I have a bad feeling
about this. I...

1084
01:00:33,673 --> 01:00:36,968
<i>And then they entered
poor Bob Cratchit's house</i>

1085
01:00:37,051 --> 01:00:39,387
<i>and found the mother and
the children round the fire.</i>

1086
01:00:44,559 --> 01:00:45,852
It's okay. It's okay.

1087
01:00:45,935 --> 01:00:47,437
<i>Then Bob
came in the door.</i>

1088
01:00:56,279 --> 01:00:57,864
You went today then, Robert?

1089
01:00:58,573 --> 01:00:59,991
To the cemetery?

1090
01:01:02,160 --> 01:01:03,244
Yes, my dear.

1091
01:01:04,370 --> 01:01:05,955
I wish you could have gone

1092
01:01:06,039 --> 01:01:08,207
to see how green
a place it is.

1093
01:01:09,000 --> 01:01:10,710
But you'll see it often.

1094
01:01:12,045 --> 01:01:15,715
I promised him that I would
take a walk there on a Sunday.

1095
01:01:21,512 --> 01:01:22,597
My little child.

1096
01:01:27,352 --> 01:01:29,062
My little...
Little child.

1097
01:01:29,145 --> 01:01:30,355
No!
Uh...

1098
01:01:30,438 --> 01:01:32,231
Rude!
Is Tiny Tim dead?

1099
01:01:32,315 --> 01:01:33,941
Well, of course he is,
imbecile.

1100
01:01:35,902 --> 01:01:37,111
He was very ill.

1101
01:01:37,195 --> 01:01:38,821
You can't save
every child in London.

1102
01:01:39,364 --> 01:01:41,532
And the family has no money
for a doctor.

1103
01:01:41,657 --> 01:01:43,659
Then Scrooge must save him!

1104
01:01:43,743 --> 01:01:44,911
Me?

1105
01:01:46,204 --> 01:01:47,246
But he wouldn't...
Why?

1106
01:01:47,330 --> 01:01:49,123
Well, he's...
He's too selfish.

1107
01:01:49,207 --> 01:01:50,333
He can change.

1108
01:01:50,416 --> 01:01:51,751
There's good in him somewhere.

1109
01:01:51,834 --> 01:01:53,795
I know it!
People don't change.

1110
01:01:56,672 --> 01:01:59,133
He's been this way
for a long time.

1111
01:01:59,217 --> 01:02:01,177
I'm not sure he can change.

1112
01:02:01,260 --> 01:02:03,846
Of course he can.
He's not a monster!

1113
01:02:05,765 --> 01:02:07,100
I thought this was
a ghost story,

1114
01:02:07,183 --> 01:02:08,184
not a fairy tale.

1115
01:02:08,267 --> 01:02:11,270
He wouldn't let Tiny Tim die,
Mr. Dickens.

1116
01:02:12,188 --> 01:02:14,023
He has a heart, doesn't he?

1117
01:02:15,149 --> 01:02:17,276
It would be too wicked...

1118
01:02:19,362 --> 01:02:20,822
Even for him!

1119
01:03:04,365 --> 01:03:08,202
'Tis now the very
witching time of night!

1120
01:03:08,286 --> 01:03:09,287
Hush.

1121
01:03:09,370 --> 01:03:11,789
When graveyards
yawn and hell...

1122
01:03:11,873 --> 01:03:14,876
Ah-ha, Shakespeare.

1123
01:03:15,126 --> 01:03:16,919
There's a man
who could write.

1124
01:03:17,128 --> 01:03:19,338
I doubt he ever had
a blockage.

1125
01:03:20,631 --> 01:03:23,968
Self-preservation,
first law of nature.

1126
01:03:24,051 --> 01:03:25,344
And that's just a fact.

1127
01:03:28,431 --> 01:03:30,516
Oh, hush...
Oh!

1128
01:03:30,600 --> 01:03:32,435
Charles! Good evening.

1129
01:03:32,518 --> 01:03:34,145
We'll get him
straight into bed, Charles.

1130
01:03:34,812 --> 01:03:36,022
We were
up the river to Kew,

1131
01:03:36,105 --> 01:03:37,899
and I think perhaps
it was too long a day.

1132
01:03:37,982 --> 01:03:39,942
Kew...
Kew?

1133
01:03:40,860 --> 01:03:42,153
What about
your newspaper article?

1134
01:03:42,653 --> 01:03:44,655
Article?
Yes, the one you're writing.

1135
01:03:45,323 --> 01:03:46,365
It's been over a month.

1136
01:03:46,741 --> 01:03:48,743
Oh!

1137
01:03:48,826 --> 01:03:50,495
Oh, eh... Ooh!

1138
01:03:51,370 --> 01:03:52,663
No, they, um...

1139
01:03:52,747 --> 01:03:57,585
The editor felt that, um,
due to pecuniary complications

1140
01:03:57,668 --> 01:03:59,629
of a most complicated nature,

1141
01:03:59,712 --> 01:04:02,131
he felt he could not
proceed with the commission.

1142
01:04:02,215 --> 01:04:04,217
So, no newspaper article.

1143
01:04:04,300 --> 01:04:05,343
No.

1144
01:04:05,426 --> 01:04:08,262
However, I rejoice in saying

1145
01:04:08,346 --> 01:04:11,432
I have every hope
something will turn up.

1146
01:04:11,516 --> 01:04:13,643
I think it's time you went
back to Devon, Father.

1147
01:04:15,937 --> 01:04:18,356
Indeed.
As soon as possible.

1148
01:04:22,318 --> 01:04:23,819
Of course, dear boy.

1149
01:04:24,695 --> 01:04:27,490
We shall catch
the afternoon train tomorrow.

1150
01:04:30,493 --> 01:04:31,577
No...

1151
01:04:32,662 --> 01:04:34,497
I can manage from here.

1152
01:04:35,623 --> 01:04:37,083
Thank you.

1153
01:04:38,167 --> 01:04:39,377
Good night, Charles.

1154
01:04:43,881 --> 01:04:45,424
Ride on!

1155
01:04:45,508 --> 01:04:51,097
Ride on, over all obstacles
and win the race!

1156
01:04:52,265 --> 01:04:54,058
Don't be unkind, Charlie.

1157
01:04:54,767 --> 01:04:56,310
You don't know
what he's been through.

1158
01:04:56,394 --> 01:04:58,938
He feels it all, you know?

1159
01:04:59,021 --> 01:05:03,109
He would never tell you,
but he feels it all.

1160
01:05:22,628 --> 01:05:23,879
That's it.

1161
01:05:23,963 --> 01:05:26,299
Blood of iron, heart of ice.

1162
01:05:27,133 --> 01:05:29,802
Now perhaps we can finish
this little book.

1163
01:05:35,182 --> 01:05:38,102
"Are these the shadows
of the things that will be,

1164
01:05:38,185 --> 01:05:40,896
"or are they shadows of things
that may be only?"

1165
01:05:44,900 --> 01:05:46,652
That is as far as I've got.

1166
01:05:48,529 --> 01:05:49,947
It's brilliant.

1167
01:05:50,948 --> 01:05:53,534
Are you pulling my leg?
No. No, of course not.

1168
01:05:53,618 --> 01:05:55,036
Well, now...

1169
01:05:56,245 --> 01:05:57,788
That's encouraging.

1170
01:05:59,040 --> 01:06:01,959
My... My one criticism...

1171
01:06:02,043 --> 01:06:03,336
Yes?

1172
01:06:03,419 --> 01:06:04,629
Tiny Tim.

1173
01:06:04,712 --> 01:06:05,713
Go on.

1174
01:06:05,796 --> 01:06:06,881
Are you really
going to let him die?

1175
01:06:06,964 --> 01:06:08,841
Not you as well.

1176
01:06:08,924 --> 01:06:11,927
It's a Christmas book.
Shouldn't it be hopeful?

1177
01:06:12,011 --> 01:06:14,055
I mean, isn't that what
Christmas is all about?

1178
01:06:14,138 --> 01:06:15,556
The hope that in the end,

1179
01:06:15,640 --> 01:06:17,600
our better natures
will prevail?

1180
01:06:18,934 --> 01:06:20,770
You were the one who persuaded
me to kill off Little Nell.

1181
01:06:20,853 --> 01:06:22,063
Yeah. Well,
I stand by that decision.

1182
01:06:22,146 --> 01:06:23,606
John, my readers
implored me...

1183
01:06:23,689 --> 01:06:24,690
But this is different.

1184
01:06:24,774 --> 01:06:27,610
If Tiny Tim dies,
then what's the point?

1185
01:06:30,112 --> 01:06:31,489
Thank you, John...
You're welcome.

1186
01:06:31,572 --> 01:06:34,075
For reminding me why I never
ask your opinion on my work.

1187
01:06:34,158 --> 01:06:36,285
Your services
are no longer required.

1188
01:06:36,369 --> 01:06:37,953
You... You cannot sack me.

1189
01:06:38,037 --> 01:06:40,873
Why not?
Because I don't work for you.

1190
01:06:40,956 --> 01:06:43,125
I do what I do as a friend.

1191
01:06:43,709 --> 01:06:45,336
John, please leave.

1192
01:06:47,463 --> 01:06:48,798
See you on Friday.

1193
01:06:49,590 --> 01:06:51,717
Last chapter's due
at the printers.

1194
01:07:02,019 --> 01:07:03,020
Right. Let's run it again,

1195
01:07:03,104 --> 01:07:04,605
from the scene
with Scrooge's debtors.

1196
01:07:04,689 --> 01:07:07,024
What's the point?
The point?

1197
01:07:07,108 --> 01:07:09,068
We keep stopping
at the same place.

1198
01:07:09,151 --> 01:07:10,528
Yes, because I'm working out
the ending.

1199
01:07:10,611 --> 01:07:12,029
Admit it, you're blocked!

1200
01:07:12,405 --> 01:07:14,115
I am not blocked.

1201
01:07:14,198 --> 01:07:15,449
Now, if you take my advice...

1202
01:07:16,659 --> 01:07:17,952
I'm the author here.

1203
01:07:18,035 --> 01:07:19,036
Allegedly.

1204
01:07:21,706 --> 01:07:22,998
I'm going out.

1205
01:07:26,669 --> 01:07:27,795
Alone!

1206
01:07:28,087 --> 01:07:29,255
Oh.

1207
01:07:37,722 --> 01:07:39,557
Forster! I need your help.

1208
01:07:39,640 --> 01:07:40,891
What is it? The children?

1209
01:07:40,975 --> 01:07:42,393
No. The children are fine.

1210
01:07:43,477 --> 01:07:44,603
What's this?

1211
01:07:45,229 --> 01:07:47,273
Candle/scandal...
Flirt/hurt...

1212
01:07:47,356 --> 01:07:48,774
Charlotte/Poor heart.

1213
01:07:48,858 --> 01:07:50,443
What is it, a poem?

1214
01:07:50,526 --> 01:07:52,236
That's atrocious.
What has got into you?

1215
01:07:53,738 --> 01:07:55,197
You look terrible.

1216
01:07:55,281 --> 01:07:56,574
What's the matter?
It's the book.

1217
01:07:56,657 --> 01:07:57,658
I'm struggling with

1218
01:07:57,742 --> 01:07:58,826
- one of the characters.
- Yoo-hoo!

1219
01:07:59,910 --> 01:08:01,579
Yoo-hoo! Ah!

1220
01:08:05,583 --> 01:08:06,834
Quite a few of them, actually.

1221
01:08:06,917 --> 01:08:08,377
What exactly is the problem?

1222
01:08:08,461 --> 01:08:09,712
The problem is,

1223
01:08:09,795 --> 01:08:12,047
could a man as mean-spirited
as Scrooge,

1224
01:08:12,131 --> 01:08:13,924
as evil as Scrooge...

1225
01:08:14,008 --> 01:08:16,802
Could he become
a different person overnight?

1226
01:08:17,386 --> 01:08:18,929
What is so evil about him?

1227
01:08:20,097 --> 01:08:21,098
Well, he's a miser.

1228
01:08:21,182 --> 01:08:23,225
Well, that doesn't make him
evil. It just makes him cheap.

1229
01:08:23,309 --> 01:08:24,435
He worships money.

1230
01:08:24,518 --> 01:08:25,936
It's the only thing
that matters to him.

1231
01:08:26,020 --> 01:08:27,021
Why?

1232
01:08:29,482 --> 01:08:31,025
He... He has nothing else.

1233
01:08:32,026 --> 01:08:33,569
No friends? No family?

1234
01:08:36,864 --> 01:08:38,240
No one he trusts.

1235
01:08:39,074 --> 01:08:40,117
Why?

1236
01:08:40,534 --> 01:08:42,119
Because he's afraid.

1237
01:08:44,705 --> 01:08:45,998
Of?

1238
01:08:50,503 --> 01:08:51,837
Being found out.

1239
01:08:51,921 --> 01:08:53,047
Hello, chaps.

1240
01:08:54,048 --> 01:08:55,382
Thackeray.

1241
01:08:56,300 --> 01:08:57,885
Charles, I haven't seen

1242
01:08:57,968 --> 01:09:00,304
anything of yours
in print for ages.

1243
01:09:00,387 --> 01:09:02,473
Don't tell me you've had
a blockage!

1244
01:09:03,390 --> 01:09:05,768
Not in the least. I'm neck and
heels into a Christmas book.

1245
01:09:05,851 --> 01:09:07,186
What the deuce is that?

1246
01:09:08,312 --> 01:09:10,147
A story about Christmas.

1247
01:09:10,231 --> 01:09:11,357
For Christmas.

1248
01:09:11,440 --> 01:09:13,067
A story about...

1249
01:09:16,111 --> 01:09:19,156
How amusing.
Well, best of luck with it.

1250
01:09:19,824 --> 01:09:21,575
Oh, did you hear,
my last book

1251
01:09:21,659 --> 01:09:23,661
has come out
in a Railway edition.

1252
01:09:23,744 --> 01:09:26,413
Sold 10,000 copies,
in a week.

1253
01:09:27,373 --> 01:09:28,749
"There's gold
in them thar hills,"

1254
01:09:28,833 --> 01:09:30,709
as your American friends
would say.

1255
01:09:35,172 --> 01:09:36,215
Come on.

1256
01:09:36,298 --> 01:09:39,051
Let's go somewhere else,
get a real drink.

1257
01:09:46,725 --> 01:09:48,185
<i>She's a big lass</i>

1258
01:09:48,269 --> 01:09:49,562
<i>An' a bonny lass</i>

1259
01:09:49,645 --> 01:09:51,063
<i>An' she likes her beer</i>

1260
01:09:51,146 --> 01:09:53,065
<i>An' I call her
Cushie Butterfield</i>

1261
01:09:53,148 --> 01:09:55,734
<i>An' I wish she was here</i>

1262
01:09:56,610 --> 01:09:57,653
Well...

1263
01:09:57,736 --> 01:09:59,530
What language is that?
That's Geordie, man.

1264
01:09:59,613 --> 01:10:01,532
We're gods.

1265
01:10:04,118 --> 01:10:05,286
Where are we?

1266
01:10:05,369 --> 01:10:08,080
- Oh. It's Hungerford Stairs.
- Oy, smell the river!

1267
01:10:12,084 --> 01:10:13,377
What's that?

1268
01:10:14,086 --> 01:10:15,546
It's a graveyard.

1269
01:10:15,629 --> 01:10:17,715
Ah, it's the old
Warren's Factory.

1270
01:10:17,798 --> 01:10:19,341
They moved from there
years ago.

1271
01:10:19,425 --> 01:10:21,176
I wonder they've not
pulled it down yet.

1272
01:10:21,260 --> 01:10:23,429
Yeah. Or burned it down.

1273
01:10:24,263 --> 01:10:25,848
Might do it myself one day.

1274
01:10:25,931 --> 01:10:28,475
Why? What have you got
against boot blacking?

1275
01:10:29,351 --> 01:10:30,769
Charles.

1276
01:10:31,353 --> 01:10:32,605
What is it?

1277
01:10:34,440 --> 01:10:36,775
I just have
this recurring nightmare.

1278
01:10:36,859 --> 01:10:38,360
Oh, nightmares, aye.

1279
01:10:39,069 --> 01:10:41,447
I've got one where I'm being
chased by a giant badger.

1280
01:10:44,450 --> 01:10:45,743
What's yours?

1281
01:10:48,829 --> 01:10:50,623
Never mind.

1282
01:10:51,290 --> 01:10:53,042
Well, come on.
It's time to go home.

1283
01:10:53,125 --> 01:10:54,126
I'll see you at the printers.

1284
01:10:54,209 --> 01:10:56,253
Friday morning, 9:00.
I can't.

1285
01:10:56,337 --> 01:10:57,838
Well, why not?

1286
01:11:00,007 --> 01:11:01,258
It's the book...

1287
01:11:03,093 --> 01:11:04,219
I can't... The...

1288
01:11:04,303 --> 01:11:06,639
The characters won't do
what I want.

1289
01:11:10,142 --> 01:11:11,852
And I'm afraid.

1290
01:11:11,936 --> 01:11:13,187
Of what?

1291
01:11:14,063 --> 01:11:17,274
If I can't finish it,
I'll never write again.

1292
01:11:17,358 --> 01:11:20,569
Oh, come on, marra, come on.
Have some sleep, hear?

1293
01:11:20,653 --> 01:11:21,779
I can't.

1294
01:11:23,697 --> 01:11:26,367
The wrong fire
is burning in my head.

1295
01:11:27,117 --> 01:11:28,619
Oh. Don't be daft.

1296
01:11:28,702 --> 01:11:29,870
Now, come on, your wife
will be worried sick.

1297
01:11:29,954 --> 01:11:31,705
Who? Kate?
She doesn't understand me.

1298
01:11:31,789 --> 01:11:33,415
Oh, I've got news for you,
Charles.

1299
01:11:33,499 --> 01:11:35,084
None of us understand you.

1300
01:11:35,167 --> 01:11:36,669
You're...
You're a freak of nature.

1301
01:11:37,336 --> 01:11:39,922
I'm exhausted spending
two hours in your company.

1302
01:11:40,714 --> 01:11:42,299
Come on, go home.
It's cold tonight, yeah?

1303
01:11:43,092 --> 01:11:44,593
I'll see you Friday.

1304
01:11:45,511 --> 01:11:47,221
<i>Oh, she's a big lass</i>

1305
01:11:47,304 --> 01:11:49,848
<i>An' a bonny lass
An' she likes her beer</i>

1306
01:12:01,986 --> 01:12:02,987
Here.

1307
01:12:03,737 --> 01:12:04,822
Bye.

1308
01:12:11,453 --> 01:12:13,122
Put that one over there!

1309
01:12:20,004 --> 01:12:21,130
Boys!

1310
01:12:22,006 --> 01:12:24,216
This here is Charlie Dickens.

1311
01:12:25,259 --> 01:12:27,011
And what was it you was
just telling me, lad?

1312
01:12:27,094 --> 01:12:28,345
About your dad?

1313
01:12:35,227 --> 01:12:36,979
My father is a gentleman.

1314
01:12:38,772 --> 01:12:39,898
Where is he, then?

1315
01:12:39,982 --> 01:12:41,233
Dining with the Queen?

1316
01:12:41,316 --> 01:12:43,152
I 'eard he's been sent
to prison.

1317
01:12:43,235 --> 01:12:45,195
Hush, you lot!
Get back to work!

1318
01:12:45,279 --> 01:12:46,447
Master Dickens...

1319
01:12:47,823 --> 01:12:49,241
No shirkin' here!

1320
01:12:52,703 --> 01:12:54,371
You're no
better than us, cocker.

1321
01:12:54,455 --> 01:12:56,331
And you'd best learn that.

1322
01:13:29,990 --> 01:13:31,366
You, what are you doing?

1323
01:13:32,826 --> 01:13:34,578
Hello, Charlie, old boy.

1324
01:13:34,661 --> 01:13:36,663
Father?
What are you doing here?

1325
01:13:36,997 --> 01:13:38,540
Oh, I had some business

1326
01:13:38,624 --> 01:13:40,501
that I had to attend to,
so I thought...

1327
01:13:40,584 --> 01:13:41,585
You just left town.

1328
01:13:41,668 --> 01:13:43,253
What business
could you possibly have?

1329
01:13:43,337 --> 01:13:45,422
What's that?

1330
01:13:48,884 --> 01:13:50,094
You're going to sell this?

1331
01:13:51,178 --> 01:13:52,805
Well, it's no good to you,
is it?

1332
01:13:53,931 --> 01:13:55,599
Is that what
you've been doing?

1333
01:13:55,682 --> 01:13:57,101
Going through the rubbish
like a tramp?

1334
01:13:57,184 --> 01:13:58,644
Selling bits
and pieces of me.

1335
01:13:58,727 --> 01:14:00,229
Is this your business?

1336
01:14:02,356 --> 01:14:04,066
Aren't you ashamed?
What?

1337
01:14:05,150 --> 01:14:07,861
I bought you a house,
I gave you an allowance.

1338
01:14:08,654 --> 01:14:10,697
What more
can you possibly need?

1339
01:14:10,781 --> 01:14:13,158
Need? Oh.

1340
01:14:13,242 --> 01:14:14,827
Reason not the need.

1341
01:14:15,244 --> 01:14:17,204
You see me here, you gods...
No. No.

1342
01:14:17,287 --> 01:14:19,915
No. No. Shh! Stop it!
A poor old man!

1343
01:14:20,415 --> 01:14:24,628
Charlie, you don't know
what it's like to be poor.

1344
01:14:25,295 --> 01:14:26,296
To be nothing.

1345
01:14:26,380 --> 01:14:28,423
At 11 years old
I was made to know.

1346
01:14:29,174 --> 01:14:31,635
Working 12 hours a day,

1347
01:14:31,718 --> 01:14:35,931
going hungry, alone,
and afraid,

1348
01:14:36,014 --> 01:14:37,474
because your father,

1349
01:14:37,558 --> 01:14:39,226
who is supposed
to care for you,

1350
01:14:39,309 --> 01:14:41,145
is so utterly thriftless!

1351
01:14:41,228 --> 01:14:42,437
No, please.

1352
01:14:42,521 --> 01:14:43,605
I beg you.

1353
01:14:43,689 --> 01:14:45,274
No, you are not
the victim here.

1354
01:14:45,357 --> 01:14:46,525
This is about me
and your family

1355
01:14:46,608 --> 01:14:48,110
and all of us who've lived
their whole lives

1356
01:14:48,193 --> 01:14:49,903
in the shadow
of your recklessness.

1357
01:14:54,491 --> 01:14:55,534
Go away.

1358
01:14:55,617 --> 01:14:57,870
I am sickened
at the sight of you.

1359
01:14:59,037 --> 01:15:02,207
You are nothing, but a drag
and chain upon my life.

1360
01:15:02,332 --> 01:15:03,584
I owe you nothing.

1361
01:15:03,667 --> 01:15:05,752
Go!
Charlie...

1362
01:15:35,574 --> 01:15:37,367
- Who's that, then?
- Nobody.

1363
01:15:37,576 --> 01:15:38,952
The author.

1364
01:15:39,036 --> 01:15:41,496
No wonder he looks
so depressed.

1365
01:15:46,668 --> 01:15:48,795
Right. That's enough.
Back to work.

1366
01:15:48,879 --> 01:15:50,839
God bless us, everyone.

1367
01:15:50,923 --> 01:15:52,758
Why are you
so miserable?

1368
01:15:52,841 --> 01:15:53,842
What else can I be,

1369
01:15:53,926 --> 01:15:55,427
when I live in such a world
of fools as this?

1370
01:15:55,510 --> 01:15:56,762
A mean-spirited,

1371
01:15:56,845 --> 01:15:58,263
- cynical...
- Oh, yes?

1372
01:15:58,347 --> 01:16:00,015
Well, you look
in the mirror sometime.

1373
01:16:00,098 --> 01:16:01,850
"Is that a new candle, Kate?"

1374
01:16:01,934 --> 01:16:04,228
"Your services
are no longer required."

1375
01:16:04,311 --> 01:16:05,604
Well, hypocrite.

1376
01:16:09,816 --> 01:16:11,360
- What?
- Pardon me, sir.

1377
01:16:11,443 --> 01:16:12,819
Mrs. Dickens just wanted
me to ask...

1378
01:16:12,903 --> 01:16:14,279
This is intolerable.
Mrs. Fisk!

1379
01:16:15,072 --> 01:16:16,406
Mrs. Fisk!

1380
01:16:16,865 --> 01:16:17,866
Yes, sir?

1381
01:16:17,950 --> 01:16:19,368
Take this child away from here

1382
01:16:19,451 --> 01:16:21,036
and see that she never
disturbs me ever again!

1383
01:16:21,161 --> 01:16:22,162
Do you hear?

1384
01:16:22,955 --> 01:16:24,748
Yes, sir.
Come with me, girl.

1385
01:16:27,084 --> 01:16:29,920
Oh, yes! Banish her!
Banish them all!

1386
01:16:30,003 --> 01:16:32,923
Quiet!
Humanity's great benefactor.

1387
01:16:33,006 --> 01:16:34,341
- Humbug!
- Shut it!

1388
01:16:34,424 --> 01:16:36,760
Or I'll make you bald
with bad teeth.

1389
01:16:36,843 --> 01:16:39,263
Oh, yeah, go ahead.
It won't change a thing.

1390
01:16:39,596 --> 01:16:41,890
You still won't have
an ending.

1391
01:16:47,479 --> 01:16:48,563
This is ridiculous.

1392
01:16:49,856 --> 01:16:52,359
You're all being ridiculous!

1393
01:16:59,283 --> 01:17:00,575
Come on out!

1394
01:17:00,659 --> 01:17:02,077
If you be a man!

1395
01:17:03,328 --> 01:17:05,747
Come on then, coward!

1396
01:17:05,831 --> 01:17:07,207
Fight me!

1397
01:17:07,291 --> 01:17:09,293
You miserable fool!

1398
01:17:09,835 --> 01:17:12,129
Fight me!

1399
01:17:13,130 --> 01:17:14,298
Come on!

1400
01:18:00,844 --> 01:18:02,220
Tara...

1401
01:18:03,221 --> 01:18:04,348
Tara?

1402
01:18:07,184 --> 01:18:08,477
Has anybody seen Tara?

1403
01:18:08,560 --> 01:18:09,644
She's gone.

1404
01:18:10,020 --> 01:18:11,980
You asked Mrs. Fisk
to send her away.

1405
01:18:12,272 --> 01:18:15,108
Well, go and search for her.
Find her.

1406
01:18:15,442 --> 01:18:17,194
Rehire her at once!

1407
01:18:17,277 --> 01:18:18,862
An Irish orphan in London?

1408
01:18:19,404 --> 01:18:22,657
That would be like looking
for a needle in a haystack.

1409
01:18:23,575 --> 01:18:26,495
Come on, out.
Come on, Jenny, off you go.

1410
01:18:26,578 --> 01:18:28,372
Quick sticks. That's it.

1411
01:18:30,332 --> 01:18:31,875
Why didn't you stop her?

1412
01:18:31,958 --> 01:18:33,877
How was I to know
you didn't mean it?

1413
01:18:33,960 --> 01:18:35,670
You said...
I say a lot of things

1414
01:18:35,754 --> 01:18:38,048
that are nonsense
when I'm working.

1415
01:18:38,131 --> 01:18:39,174
Charles...

1416
01:18:39,257 --> 01:18:42,094
You know how ideas
take possession of me.

1417
01:18:42,177 --> 01:18:43,845
You knew what I was like
when you married me.

1418
01:18:44,304 --> 01:18:46,515
Yes. I did.

1419
01:18:48,350 --> 01:18:49,935
But you have no idea

1420
01:18:50,018 --> 01:18:51,728
what it's like
to live with you.

1421
01:18:53,146 --> 01:18:56,733
Always walking on eggshells,
trying to guess your mood,

1422
01:18:57,067 --> 01:18:58,360
to know which of your commands

1423
01:18:58,443 --> 01:19:00,195
are a whim
and which are in earnest.

1424
01:19:01,863 --> 01:19:03,824
You know, sometimes I...

1425
01:19:05,409 --> 01:19:08,620
I feel your characters
matter more to you

1426
01:19:08,703 --> 01:19:10,956
than your own flesh and blood.

1427
01:19:19,214 --> 01:19:20,424
Well, I am who I am.

1428
01:19:22,050 --> 01:19:23,635
And who is that?

1429
01:19:24,803 --> 01:19:27,055
It's as if
there are two of you.

1430
01:19:27,139 --> 01:19:31,351
One who is kind and gentle.
And a secret self,

1431
01:19:32,060 --> 01:19:34,896
that no one is allowed
to know or question.

1432
01:20:54,893 --> 01:20:57,270
<i>This here is Charlie Dickens.</i>

1433
01:20:57,938 --> 01:20:59,523
<i>What was it
you was telling me, lad?</i>

1434
01:20:59,606 --> 01:21:00,815
<i>About your dad?</i>

1435
01:21:02,859 --> 01:21:05,362
<i>My father is a gentleman.</i>

1436
01:21:06,780 --> 01:21:08,949
<i>Where is he, then?
Dining with the Queen?</i>

1437
01:21:09,491 --> 01:21:11,034
<i>I 'eard he's been
sent to prison.</i>

1438
01:21:11,326 --> 01:21:12,327
<i>Hush, you lot!</i>

1439
01:21:12,410 --> 01:21:14,371
<i>Where's your manners?
Get back to work!</i>

1440
01:21:14,955 --> 01:21:16,540
<i>Master Dickens...</i>

1441
01:21:16,623 --> 01:21:19,459
<i>Got a present
for the young gentleman...</i>

1442
01:21:19,543 --> 01:21:22,295
<i>Seeing as it's Christmas.</i>

1443
01:21:32,806 --> 01:21:34,641
Blood of iron, heart of ice.

1444
01:21:34,724 --> 01:21:36,810
<i>You're no
better than us, cocker.</i>

1445
01:21:43,483 --> 01:21:45,026
Hello, Charlie.

1446
01:21:46,069 --> 01:21:49,322
So, this is
your miserable secret.

1447
01:21:50,073 --> 01:21:51,449
The famous author,

1448
01:21:51,533 --> 01:21:54,244
the inimitable
Charles Dickens,

1449
01:21:54,494 --> 01:21:58,290
was once
a scabby little factory boy.

1450
01:21:59,291 --> 01:22:00,500
Leave me be.

1451
01:22:00,584 --> 01:22:04,629
A common bit of riffraff,
a squalid wretch...

1452
01:22:04,713 --> 01:22:06,298
No use to anyone!

1453
01:22:20,020 --> 01:22:21,146
Look for yourself.

1454
01:22:21,229 --> 01:22:22,897
What do you see, huh?

1455
01:22:22,981 --> 01:22:26,985
A nothing. A nobody.
A debtor's son.

1456
01:22:27,068 --> 01:22:29,654
Who could ever care for you?

1457
01:22:31,906 --> 01:22:33,533
Certainly not your father.

1458
01:22:33,617 --> 01:22:35,869
He abandoned you.

1459
01:22:36,119 --> 01:22:37,162
Enough of that.

1460
01:22:37,621 --> 01:22:40,707
Stand up tall.
Blood of iron, heart of ice.

1461
01:22:41,625 --> 01:22:44,002
He failed you
again and again.

1462
01:22:50,216 --> 01:22:51,843
You said so yourself.

1463
01:22:51,926 --> 01:22:55,055
Nothing but a drag and chain
upon your life.

1464
01:22:56,973 --> 01:22:58,266
Who are you?

1465
01:22:58,350 --> 01:22:59,351
Huh?

1466
01:23:00,810 --> 01:23:02,479
You know me, Charlie.

1467
01:23:03,813 --> 01:23:05,190
I'm hunger.

1468
01:23:05,690 --> 01:23:06,983
I'm cold.

1469
01:23:07,984 --> 01:23:09,527
I'm darkness...

1470
01:23:11,446 --> 01:23:13,948
I'm a shadow on your thoughts,

1471
01:23:14,032 --> 01:23:16,701
the crack in your heart,

1472
01:23:17,869 --> 01:23:20,830
and the stain
upon your soul...

1473
01:23:22,624 --> 01:23:25,919
And I will never,
ever leave you.

1474
01:23:28,463 --> 01:23:31,341
Go away.
Why? We're having such fun.

1475
01:23:33,134 --> 01:23:34,678
People don't change, Charlie.

1476
01:23:34,761 --> 01:23:35,887
Look around you.

1477
01:23:35,970 --> 01:23:38,390
You're still the same
scabby boy.

1478
01:23:39,015 --> 01:23:41,309
Useless,
just like your father.

1479
01:23:44,270 --> 01:23:45,313
No...

1480
01:23:47,941 --> 01:23:49,651
"No one is useless
in this world

1481
01:23:49,734 --> 01:23:52,153
"who lightens the burden
of another."

1482
01:23:53,655 --> 01:23:55,657
My father taught me that.

1483
01:24:07,335 --> 01:24:09,421
Whose grave is that?

1484
01:24:11,798 --> 01:24:13,133
There's no name on it.

1485
01:24:13,216 --> 01:24:14,926
Well, why should there be?

1486
01:24:16,386 --> 01:24:18,096
The man to whom
this grave belongs

1487
01:24:18,179 --> 01:24:20,598
never made himself
useful to anyone but himself.

1488
01:24:21,808 --> 01:24:23,184
No friends.

1489
01:24:23,768 --> 01:24:25,311
No family.

1490
01:24:26,813 --> 01:24:29,649
Never felt love or joy.

1491
01:24:31,192 --> 01:24:33,737
Never took
any kind of pleasure in life.

1492
01:24:42,620 --> 01:24:44,539
And now it's too late.

1493
01:24:45,457 --> 01:24:48,209
It's time, Mr. Scrooge.

1494
01:24:49,627 --> 01:24:51,212
We've come to the end.

1495
01:25:19,407 --> 01:25:21,117
I don't want to die.

1496
01:25:23,411 --> 01:25:24,829
Not like this...

1497
01:25:25,497 --> 01:25:29,626
Alone, unloved, forgotten.

1498
01:25:31,920 --> 01:25:33,338
It's too late.

1499
01:25:33,755 --> 01:25:36,257
It's never too late.
It's never...

1500
01:25:36,424 --> 01:25:38,510
It's never too late.

1501
01:25:45,183 --> 01:25:48,394
I will honor Christmas
in my heart

1502
01:25:48,478 --> 01:25:50,605
and try to keep it
all the year.

1503
01:25:50,688 --> 01:25:54,108
I will live in the Past,
the Present and the Future.

1504
01:25:54,192 --> 01:25:57,779
The spirits of all three
will strive within me.

1505
01:25:57,862 --> 01:26:01,533
I will not shut out
the lessons that they teach.

1506
01:26:04,285 --> 01:26:06,663
Please. I beg you.

1507
01:26:09,707 --> 01:26:15,880
Let me do some good
before I die.

1508
01:26:23,638 --> 01:26:25,765
So we come
to the final chapter.

1509
01:26:29,853 --> 01:26:32,981
Oh, I told you we'd do great
things together, Mr. Scrooge.

1510
01:26:58,715 --> 01:27:00,383
<i>Stave V.</i>

1511
01:27:02,343 --> 01:27:04,053
<i>The End of It.</i>

1512
01:27:07,348 --> 01:27:09,475
<i>Yes! And the bedpost
was his own.</i>

1513
01:27:09,559 --> 01:27:12,061
<i>The bed was his own,
the room was his own.</i>

1514
01:27:13,605 --> 01:27:14,939
<i>Best and happiest of all,</i>

1515
01:27:15,023 --> 01:27:16,399
<i>the time before him
was his own,</i>

1516
01:27:16,482 --> 01:27:18,276
<i>to make amends in!</i>

1517
01:27:19,777 --> 01:27:21,404
<i>Scrooge was better
than his word.</i>

1518
01:27:21,654 --> 01:27:23,865
<i>He did it all,
and infinitely more.</i>

1519
01:27:24,115 --> 01:27:26,910
<i>And to Tiny Tim,
who did not die,</i>

1520
01:27:27,327 --> 01:27:28,912
<i>he was a second father.</i>

1521
01:27:29,871 --> 01:27:35,543
<i>And so, as Tiny Tim observed,
"God bless us, every one!"</i>

1522
01:27:38,504 --> 01:27:39,505
<i>The End.</i>

1523
01:27:42,508 --> 01:27:43,885
The End.

1524
01:27:51,768 --> 01:27:53,102
Charles?
What?

1525
01:27:53,436 --> 01:27:54,520
There is someone here
to see you.

1526
01:27:54,604 --> 01:27:55,605
Not now, Kate, please.

1527
01:27:55,688 --> 01:27:57,106
I have to get this to
the printer by 9:00.

1528
01:28:07,075 --> 01:28:08,159
Tara.

1529
01:28:09,410 --> 01:28:11,079
Thank you for the loan.

1530
01:28:11,162 --> 01:28:12,330
Oh.

1531
01:28:14,165 --> 01:28:15,500
Well, thank you.

1532
01:28:18,378 --> 01:28:19,504
It's good, isn't it?

1533
01:28:22,507 --> 01:28:23,967
Yes, sir.

1534
01:28:24,050 --> 01:28:25,510
It was fizzing.

1535
01:28:25,843 --> 01:28:27,720
"Fizzing"?

1536
01:28:27,804 --> 01:28:29,472
That's delightful.

1537
01:28:31,516 --> 01:28:32,600
Tara...

1538
01:28:35,687 --> 01:28:37,397
I am very sorry
that I sent you away.

1539
01:28:37,480 --> 01:28:39,774
That was a mistake,
and I was...

1540
01:28:43,611 --> 01:28:46,823
And you were right about
Tiny Tim. He doesn't die.

1541
01:28:47,031 --> 01:28:49,701
Scrooge helps him
to get better.

1542
01:28:49,867 --> 01:28:52,537
And does he help Scrooge
get better, too?

1543
01:28:55,748 --> 01:28:56,833
Yes.

1544
01:28:57,875 --> 01:28:59,043
Yes, he does.

1545
01:29:04,924 --> 01:29:06,050
Where did that come from?

1546
01:29:06,634 --> 01:29:08,720
A gift. For the children.

1547
01:29:09,804 --> 01:29:10,972
From your father.

1548
01:29:11,514 --> 01:29:12,890
My father was here?

1549
01:29:13,391 --> 01:29:16,394
You can still catch him, if...

1550
01:29:16,769 --> 01:29:17,770
Oh!

1551
01:29:20,940 --> 01:29:22,358
Kate...

1552
01:29:25,403 --> 01:29:27,905
I know.
You don't deserve me.

1553
01:29:28,072 --> 01:29:29,115
Go.

1554
01:29:29,741 --> 01:29:30,783
Go.

1555
01:29:35,455 --> 01:29:37,665
- Cab!
- Whoa!

1556
01:29:38,791 --> 01:29:41,627
Paddington Station!
As fast as you can!

1557
01:29:41,711 --> 01:29:42,795
Oy! Oy!

1558
01:29:47,091 --> 01:29:48,384
Whoa!

1559
01:29:48,468 --> 01:29:49,469
Turn around!

1560
01:29:49,969 --> 01:29:51,429
And wait for me here!

1561
01:29:51,512 --> 01:29:53,973
Oy! Stop!

1562
01:29:54,057 --> 01:29:56,100
Stop! Police!
Wait!

1563
01:29:57,060 --> 01:29:59,270
Wait, wait, please! Where do
you think you're going?

1564
01:29:59,353 --> 01:30:01,606
What?
Oh, please, dear.

1565
01:30:01,689 --> 01:30:02,815
Don't make a scene.

1566
01:30:02,899 --> 01:30:04,942
We're going away.
No, you're not. Please.

1567
01:30:05,026 --> 01:30:07,153
Police! Get out of the way!

1568
01:30:07,653 --> 01:30:08,863
Clear the way! Let me through!

1569
01:30:09,322 --> 01:30:11,616
- Oh. What have I done now?
- No, it's...

1570
01:30:12,575 --> 01:30:14,702
It's what you haven't done.
What do you mean?

1571
01:30:15,703 --> 01:30:17,705
Well, who's going
to carve the turkey?

1572
01:30:17,789 --> 01:30:20,291
And who's going to
make the Christmas pudding?

1573
01:30:20,374 --> 01:30:21,751
It won't be the same
without you.

1574
01:30:21,834 --> 01:30:23,586
The pudding!

1575
01:30:23,669 --> 01:30:26,547
The secret is to warm
the treacle first.

1576
01:30:26,631 --> 01:30:27,840
There, you are.

1577
01:30:27,924 --> 01:30:30,885
You see, my dear? I told you
something would turn up.

1578
01:30:31,719 --> 01:30:33,888
Oh, my son. Oh...

1579
01:30:35,264 --> 01:30:36,474
Gotcha!

1580
01:30:38,059 --> 01:30:39,936
You're that Charles Dickens,
aren't you?

1581
01:30:40,019 --> 01:30:41,479
Uh, guilty.

1582
01:30:41,562 --> 01:30:44,065
That last one<i>. Chuzzlewit.</i>

1583
01:30:44,148 --> 01:30:45,358
Wept like a baby, I did.

1584
01:30:46,651 --> 01:30:48,319
Well, that's nice.
That's very kind.

1585
01:30:48,402 --> 01:30:49,403
What's your name, Constable?

1586
01:30:49,487 --> 01:30:51,697
My name? Copperfield, sir.

1587
01:30:52,865 --> 01:30:54,158
Copperfield.

1588
01:30:54,867 --> 01:30:56,244
Any chance of a new book soon?

1589
01:30:56,327 --> 01:30:58,955
New book.
New book!

1590
01:31:01,332 --> 01:31:02,542
New book. Bye.

1591
01:31:03,042 --> 01:31:04,544
Merry Christmas!

1592
01:31:05,920 --> 01:31:07,922
I'm his father.

1593
01:31:10,967 --> 01:31:13,386
Shoe Lane!
As fast as you can go!

1594
01:31:21,894 --> 01:31:23,646
Charles! Where have you been?
It's all right. I've got it!

1595
01:31:23,729 --> 01:31:25,690
Mr. Grub! Mr. Grub.

1596
01:31:26,190 --> 01:31:28,651
We're here. I have it.

1597
01:31:28,734 --> 01:31:31,070
I have the ending.
He can finish it now.

1598
01:31:32,155 --> 01:31:33,156
It's too late.

1599
01:31:34,073 --> 01:31:35,158
- What?
- Oh, come on.

1600
01:31:35,241 --> 01:31:36,659
You've already printed
the other four chapters

1601
01:31:36,742 --> 01:31:37,743
and it's just one more.

1602
01:31:37,827 --> 01:31:39,245
You can get the whole book
finished today.

1603
01:31:44,917 --> 01:31:46,294
I can't guarantee anything.

1604
01:31:46,377 --> 01:31:48,462
Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Grub!

1605
01:31:48,546 --> 01:31:50,339
Thank you.

1606
01:31:51,174 --> 01:31:53,259
I didn't say I could do it.

1607
01:32:07,064 --> 01:32:08,441
Well, I'll see what I can do.

1608
01:32:19,911 --> 01:32:21,954
Oh, come on, man.
Don't prolong the agony.

1609
01:33:12,171 --> 01:33:13,881
It's exactly
as I'd imagined it.

1610
01:33:20,346 --> 01:33:21,472
Hello, gents.

1611
01:33:21,555 --> 01:33:24,350
Extraordinary weather,
isn't it? Looks like snow.

1612
01:33:24,433 --> 01:33:25,893
Hello, Thackeray.

1613
01:33:25,977 --> 01:33:28,062
Oh. What's this I have?

1614
01:33:28,145 --> 01:33:29,146
Yes.

1615
01:33:29,230 --> 01:33:30,940
It's a proof copy
of your new book.

1616
01:33:31,524 --> 01:33:33,901
I'm going to review it
for <i>The Spectator.</i>

1617
01:33:34,527 --> 01:33:37,488
I'm told you wrote it
in only six weeks, Charles.

1618
01:33:37,571 --> 01:33:39,615
What a prodigy you are.

1619
01:33:45,371 --> 01:33:47,665
Did you bring
that all the way from Italy?

1620
01:33:47,748 --> 01:33:49,250
<i>Sì. Venezia.</i>

1621
01:33:50,167 --> 01:33:51,168
And now...

1622
01:33:51,627 --> 01:33:57,300
And now, the beautiful mermaid
floats through the sea.

1623
01:34:10,104 --> 01:34:11,355
'Allo, old girl!

1624
01:34:11,439 --> 01:34:12,773
Oh.

1625
01:34:14,191 --> 01:34:16,777
Oh, my goodness.
That is beautiful.

1626
01:34:16,861 --> 01:34:19,405
Isn't it? The Germans
call it a Tannenbaum.

1627
01:34:19,488 --> 01:34:20,990
It's a tree for Christmas.

1628
01:34:21,073 --> 01:34:22,325
A Christmas tree, I suppose.

1629
01:34:22,408 --> 01:34:23,909
Now the royal family
have got one,

1630
01:34:23,993 --> 01:34:26,037
it'll be all the rage.

1631
01:34:28,039 --> 01:34:29,248
Hello!
Miss Wigmore!

1632
01:34:29,332 --> 01:34:30,374
Ah!

1633
01:34:30,750 --> 01:34:32,335
Papa had a change of heart!

1634
01:34:33,336 --> 01:34:34,712
Ha-ha!

1635
01:34:34,795 --> 01:34:36,839
Oh, I'm so pleased!
Congratulations.

1636
01:34:36,922 --> 01:34:39,091
Charles, I think you're going
to want to hear this.

1637
01:34:39,175 --> 01:34:40,176
It's by Thackeray.

1638
01:34:40,259 --> 01:34:41,761
Not now...
No, please,

1639
01:34:41,844 --> 01:34:43,429
everyone, gather 'round.

1640
01:34:52,646 --> 01:34:54,815
"It was a blessed inspiration

1641
01:34:54,899 --> 01:34:58,986
"that put such a book into
the head of Charles Dickens.

1642
01:35:00,946 --> 01:35:03,324
"A happy inspiration
of the heart,

1643
01:35:03,449 --> 01:35:05,785
"that warms every page.

1644
01:35:06,869 --> 01:35:09,080
"It is impossible to read

1645
01:35:09,163 --> 01:35:12,333
"without a glowing bosom
and burning cheeks,

1646
01:35:12,917 --> 01:35:17,797
"between love
and shame of our kind."

1647
01:35:17,880 --> 01:35:20,216
Aw...
Bravo, Charles.

1648
01:35:22,968 --> 01:35:24,678
Well, uh...

1649
01:35:24,762 --> 01:35:26,514
Ladies and gentlemen,
boys and girls...

1650
01:35:31,310 --> 01:35:33,104
And those on the way.

1651
01:35:34,772 --> 01:35:36,357
A toast...

1652
01:35:36,440 --> 01:35:38,234
I wish you all many,

1653
01:35:39,235 --> 01:35:42,780
many happy Christmases
and friendships,

1654
01:35:42,863 --> 01:35:44,240
and great accumulation

1655
01:35:44,323 --> 01:35:46,659
of cheerful recollections

1656
01:35:46,867 --> 01:35:48,577
and heaven
at last for all of us.

1657
01:35:49,412 --> 01:35:50,746
In the season of hope,

1658
01:35:50,830 --> 01:35:53,916
we will shut out nothing
from our firesides

1659
01:35:54,708 --> 01:35:57,253
and everyone will be welcome.

1660
01:36:05,386 --> 01:36:08,139
<i>Welcome what has been
and what is...</i>

1661
01:36:10,724 --> 01:36:12,351
<i>And what we hope may be,</i>

1662
01:36:12,435 --> 01:36:15,187
<i>to this shelter underneath
the holly.</i>

1663
01:36:21,777 --> 01:36:25,197
Merry, merry Christmas
to one and all.

1664
01:36:25,448 --> 01:36:27,950
Merry Christmas!