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(WIND WHISTLING)

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♪ ♪

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You skinflint old bastard.

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♪ ♪

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(GROWLS)

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(GRUNTS)

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(EXCLAIMS)

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Oh, can they not read?

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The inscription clearly states

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"rest in peace".

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Why am I not allowed any peace?

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- Synced & corrected by<font color="#E83286"> MementMori </font>-
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(BELLS RINGING)

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(CHILDREN CLAMORING)

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HOOPER: Well, if I don't
see you before Christmas,

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do have a very merry one.

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MAN 2: And you, too. Oh,
we may call after dinner.

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HOOPER: Oh, please do. Bring everyone.

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You know you're more than welcome.

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- Merry Christmas.
- Mr. Cratchit?

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Mr. Bob?

26
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Will you come tomorrow?

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I'm afraid I can't tomorrow... work.

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Work, my love?

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- Tomorrow?
- Dad.

30
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- You forgot this.
- I'm not a "this," silly.

31
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No, I didn't forget old Timmy.
I saw he was offering

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an extra prayer and I let him be.

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For our poor cat that died.

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Rest in peace.

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Rest in peace, my eye.

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- He's chasing mice around St. Peter's feet.
- (LAUGHS)

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Tomorrow's Christmas Eve.

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You promised this year
you'd stand up to him.

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Come on, Cratchit, it'll
be a fine do tomorrow.

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Children in charge...

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blind man's buff and all that.

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Bring the whole tribe.

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- I'm sorry. I'm afraid...
- MARY: I'm afraid

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my husband works for a man
with an ice pick for a heart.

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Ah, of course, you toil for
Old Scratch, don't you?

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Huh. My condolences.

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Oh, well. So be it. Merry Christmas,

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- Cratchit tribe.
- (CHILDREN CLAMORING)

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- Excuse me.
- So be it.

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Year after year.

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Belinda?

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Come on, you'll get wet
and catch your death.

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Ooh.

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It's nearly Christmas, Mama.

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Yes.

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- _
- ♪ ♪

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(HORSE NEIGHING)

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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

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(DOG BARKING)

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Rag!

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Rag bone!

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Any old iron or rag!

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Rag bone!

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Any old iron and rag!

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(CHURCH BELLS RINGING)

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(BELL TOLLING)

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Late.

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(CLATTERING)

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One.

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Two.

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Three.

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Four.

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There.

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Beyond reasonable.

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Oh.

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The smudge is from the fourth lump.

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I have no doubt.

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The smudge is from kindness.

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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

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(BELLS JINGLE)

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Morning, Mr. Scrooge.

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And Merry Christmas to
you, too, Mr. Scrooge.

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I have left an important document

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to be copied three times
before day's end.

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One for London, one for
Birmingham, one for Manchester.

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Three, not four, sir?

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What?

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Today appears to be a
day for four, not three.

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Ah, you mean the extra
lump of coal I gave you.

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Well, curse the fourth.

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Curse gestures.

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Just make three copies of the ledger.

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And should there be no blots,

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no smudges, no stains, you may go home.

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At 4:00.

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Mr. Scrooge, I-I thought
we had agreed that today,

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on account of the day
it is, I could go home

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at 3:00.

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I give you an extra lump of coal...

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... then straightaway you
want to snip an extra hour

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off the day... three becomes four,

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four becomes three.

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I don't care for your
revolutionary mathematics.

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This is not Paris.

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It's frozen, sir.

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What is?

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My ink.

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I'll have to thaw it on the fire.

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No, that will waste time.

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You can use mine.

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Ah, lovely.

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A sort of Christmas present, is it, sir?

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Oh, please.

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If it were a Christmas present
I would have wrapped it

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in ribbons and bows to artificially

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increase your anticipation.

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And you would tear it open and gasp

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and say, "Oh, my lord, a bottle of ink.

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This is exactly what
I've always wanted."

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And I would shrug and
smile and tell you that

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of all the ink bottles in all the world,

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this is the one ink bottle

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I wanted you to have on this

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most holy and sacred of days.

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- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
- Behold.

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One day of the year.

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They all grin and greet each
other when every other day

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they walk by with their
faces in their collars.

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You know, it makes me very sad

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to see all the lies

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that come as surely as the snow

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at this time of year.

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How many Merry Christmases are meant

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and how many are lies?

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To pretend on one day of the year

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that the human beast

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is not the human beast.

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That it is possible

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we can all be transformed.

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But if it were so...

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if it were possible

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for so many mortals

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to look at the calendar and transform

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from wolf to lamb...

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then why not every day?

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Instead of one day good, the rest bad,

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why not have everyone
grinning at each other all year

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and have one day in the
year when we're all beasts

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and we pass each other by?

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Why not turn it around?

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Yes, sir.

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Yes, you could call
that day of beastliness

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Scrooge Day.

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In honor of its inventor.

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Yes. Why not?

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It would be the one day
where everyone is free

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to tell all those around them

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exactly what they really think of them.

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Well, I think every clerk in England

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would report for work on that day, sir.

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In order that they could
tell their employer

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the awful truth of what
is in their hearts.

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- Yes.
- Ah.

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The truth without ribbons and bows.

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What do you say?

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I say, sir,

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in all my ten years of
working here you've never

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bothered to explain
your philosophy before.

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I'm quite flattered, sir, that today

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of all days you should
share the machinery

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of your great logic

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with a mere clerk.

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It isn't logic, Cratchit.

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Well, then, sir, what is it?

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Mind out for the word "litigation."

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You have a habit of spelling it wrongly.

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I spelt it wrongly once.

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Five years ago.

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MAN (IN DISTANCE): Any old iron and rag!

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Rag bone!

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Any old iron and rag!

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Rag bone!

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Rag bone!

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Any old iron and rag!

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- Every third day.
- Rag bone!

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Punctual at ten minutes
past 7:00 for the past

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199 days, with a seven-day hiatus

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July 4 to 11, when, no doubt,

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he and his horse were in Margate

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- or somewhere atrocious.
- Rag bone!

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- Any old iron and rag!
- Two...

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Oh, no ink.

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- Any old iron or rag!
- Three calls,

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15 steps of the horse,
five turns of the wheel.

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I need a pencil.

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WOMAN (IN DISTANCE): Chestnuts!

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Roasted chestnuts!

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Oh, what?

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A new voice?

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MAN: Any old iron and rag!

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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

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Four calls, 21 steps of the hoof,

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- nine turns of the wheels.
- Chestnuts!

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Hot off the coals!

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Two from the chestnut woman.

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Oh, damn it.

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(BELL RINGING IN DISTANCE)

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MAN: Any old iron and rag!

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Five calls.

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- WOMAN: Chestnuts!
- 27 steps of the horse,

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11 turns of the wheel.

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Fresh, new, fresh from Regents Park!

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- Any old iron or rag!
- Three from chestnut woman.

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- Five and 27...
- (BOTH CONTINUE CLAMORING)

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eleven...

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rag and bone. Now please pass by.

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- Both of you, please pass by.
- (VOICES AND BELL GROW LOUDER)

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00:13:47,490 --> 00:13:50,200
- (MUTTERING)
- (VOICES CONTINUE SOFTLY IN DISTANCE)

219
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WOMAN (IN DISTANCE):
Chestnuts! Warm chestnuts!

220
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Yes. Ah, that's an eight.

221
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(CONTINUES MUTTERING)

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CHILDREN (IN DISTANCE):
♪ <i>Joy to the world</i> ♪

223
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♪ <i>The Lord is come</i> ♪

224
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How am I supposed to work

225
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- with all this fucking noise?
- ♪<i> Let earth receive</i> ♪

226
00:14:08,470 --> 00:14:10,179
♪ <i>Her King</i> ♪

227
00:14:10,180 --> 00:14:12,599
- Yes, I hear you.
- ♪<i> Let every heart</i> ♪

228
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- Four.
- ♪<i> Prepare Him room</i> ♪

229
00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:17,359
♪ <i>And heaven and nature sing... ♪</i>

230
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Five. Yes?

231
00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:22,440
Rag and bone man's passing.

232
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He wants to know if we have
any rags or bone or iron.

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None.

234
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He is just begging a
Christmas box. (STAMMERS)

235
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- Six.
- Sir.

236
00:14:34,110 --> 00:14:37,580
Are you all right? You
don't seem yourself today.

237
00:14:37,590 --> 00:14:39,629
Well, I am myself, always.

238
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Please get on with your work.

239
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♪ <i>Repeat the sounding joy</i> ♪

240
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- (SCROOGE SIGHS)
- ♪<i> Repeat, repeat</i> ♪

241
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♪ <i>The sounding joy</i> ♪

242
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♪ <i>Far as the curse is found</i> ♪

243
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♪ <i>Far as the curse is found</i> ♪

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♪ <i>Far as, far as</i> ♪

245
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♪ <i>The curse is found</i> ♪

246
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♪ <i>He rules the world</i> ♪

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♪ <i>With truth and grace</i> ♪

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♪ <i>And makes the nations... ♪</i>

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Last night...

250
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I had a dream of

251
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chains and furnaces and...

252
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♪ <i>And wonders of His love... ♪</i>

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... and I realized,

254
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when I am alone and I talk out loud...

255
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it is still you I am talking to.

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(CLOCK TICKING)

257
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As if you are not completely gone.

258
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But I was at your burial.

259
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And I am rational.

260
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I placed the coins on your eyes. I...

261
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I saw your coffin lowered.

262
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So I have no explanation why
I speak out loud to you.

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(BANGING ON WINDOW)

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Any old iron and rag!

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You miserable bastard.

266
00:16:13,830 --> 00:16:17,230
Six rag and bone.

267
00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:20,990
Oh, Jacob.

268
00:16:23,370 --> 00:16:27,650
Imagine, at least where
you are, it's quiet.

269
00:16:35,190 --> 00:16:38,480
Oh, fate.

270
00:16:38,490 --> 00:16:40,860
Oh, spirits of life and death.

271
00:16:40,870 --> 00:16:44,500
Whoever is in charge in
this ill-begotten universe,

272
00:16:44,510 --> 00:16:47,120
I'm begging you to free me

273
00:16:47,130 --> 00:16:48,880
from this consciousness.

274
00:16:52,270 --> 00:16:53,759
Let me rest.

275
00:16:53,760 --> 00:16:57,090
Give me darkness.

276
00:16:59,810 --> 00:17:03,200
I know my sins were many,

277
00:17:03,210 --> 00:17:07,270
but I have repented and
repented and repented.

278
00:17:12,020 --> 00:17:16,070
Tell me what I must do to make amends...

279
00:17:18,860 --> 00:17:20,510
... and I will do it.

280
00:17:23,270 --> 00:17:26,379
Please.

281
00:17:26,380 --> 00:17:29,300
(BELL RINGING LOUDLY)

282
00:17:30,490 --> 00:17:33,090
_

283
00:17:41,080 --> 00:17:42,980
(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)

284
00:17:45,610 --> 00:17:46,860
(SCREAMS)

285
00:17:48,900 --> 00:17:50,280
(SHRIEKING)

286
00:17:52,230 --> 00:17:55,900
Aah!

287
00:17:57,780 --> 00:17:59,720
(GRUNTS)

288
00:18:03,710 --> 00:18:07,250
(WHIMPERING)

289
00:18:09,910 --> 00:18:11,009
Oh, Lord.

290
00:18:11,010 --> 00:18:14,170
Please tell me this is not hell.

291
00:18:14,180 --> 00:18:15,970
Not quite, pilgrim.

292
00:18:16,930 --> 00:18:20,059
I have money. Two
pennies. They're yours.

293
00:18:20,060 --> 00:18:22,370
Please, let me go.

294
00:18:28,070 --> 00:18:30,350
I... I know you.

295
00:18:30,360 --> 00:18:31,810
Aye.

296
00:18:33,570 --> 00:18:35,610
You do.

297
00:18:38,530 --> 00:18:42,700
I died like a horse of exhaustion

298
00:18:42,710 --> 00:18:44,240
in one of your workshops.

299
00:18:49,450 --> 00:18:52,420
So many men, women,

300
00:18:52,430 --> 00:18:55,080
and children died

301
00:18:55,090 --> 00:18:58,160
at your penny-pinching hands,

302
00:18:58,170 --> 00:19:01,680
and each one I've forged
into a link in the chain.

303
00:19:03,630 --> 00:19:06,520
The chain you must now wear, Mr. Marley.

304
00:19:09,520 --> 00:19:11,380
What reason?

305
00:19:11,390 --> 00:19:13,300
I've been dead a year. Why now?

306
00:19:13,310 --> 00:19:15,359
You rang the bell.

307
00:19:15,360 --> 00:19:17,779
You offered penance.

308
00:19:17,780 --> 00:19:20,800
And since your call was answered...

309
00:19:20,810 --> 00:19:24,869
(LAUGHING)

310
00:19:24,870 --> 00:19:28,440
I'd wager the spirits have
a little job for you.

311
00:19:28,450 --> 00:19:30,420
(LAUGHING)

312
00:19:41,050 --> 00:19:44,390
(SCREAMING)

313
00:19:59,740 --> 00:20:00,990
(GRUNTS)

314
00:20:05,910 --> 00:20:08,210
(WHISPERING, INDISTINCT VOICES)

315
00:20:17,530 --> 00:20:21,330
GHOSTLY VOICE (ECHOING): Marley. Marley.

316
00:20:24,040 --> 00:20:26,769
Marley. Marley.

317
00:20:26,770 --> 00:20:28,660
(WHISPERING CONTINUES)

318
00:20:33,230 --> 00:20:35,110
(HIGH-PITCHED SQUEAL)

319
00:20:45,540 --> 00:20:48,270
(GRUNTING)

320
00:20:59,430 --> 00:21:01,660
(GRUNTS)

321
00:21:11,390 --> 00:21:13,540
(WHISPERING CONTINUES)

322
00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:39,460
(CLOCK TICKING)

323
00:21:44,590 --> 00:21:48,639
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

324
00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:51,320
Done, Mr. Scrooge.

325
00:21:51,330 --> 00:21:52,810
Finished.

326
00:21:56,600 --> 00:21:58,820
You already proofed the first two, sir.

327
00:21:58,830 --> 00:22:00,980
Just checking again, Cratchit.

328
00:22:00,990 --> 00:22:03,310
The light grows dim.

329
00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:06,470
I sense you are angry with me.

330
00:22:07,830 --> 00:22:09,030
Why do you say that?

331
00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:12,200
Because everything on this
page is perfect, precise...

332
00:22:12,210 --> 00:22:14,070
immaculate, you might say.

333
00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:19,380
You got it all right to spite
me, to... to show me.

334
00:22:19,390 --> 00:22:20,540
No, sir. No.

335
00:22:20,550 --> 00:22:24,640
To, uh, to afford you the possibility
that-that since all the work

336
00:22:24,650 --> 00:22:27,090
is done correctly and
early I might leave early

337
00:22:27,100 --> 00:22:28,790
and spend the rest of
the day with my family.

338
00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:31,120
Your anger made you work quickly

339
00:22:31,130 --> 00:22:32,979
but perfectly. You didn't stop to think

340
00:22:32,980 --> 00:22:35,940
that working quickly and
perfectly also suits me...

341
00:22:35,950 --> 00:22:40,370
the object of your hatred...
down to the ground.

342
00:22:47,510 --> 00:22:51,740
I don't hate you, sir.

343
00:22:51,750 --> 00:22:52,880
(SIGHS)

344
00:22:52,890 --> 00:22:55,210
I'm not accustomed to talking
about these matters with you.

345
00:22:56,990 --> 00:22:58,310
I ask you again:

346
00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:01,080
is everything all right with you?

347
00:23:01,090 --> 00:23:04,170
Christmas, it seems,

348
00:23:04,180 --> 00:23:06,320
inspires such emotion.

349
00:23:06,330 --> 00:23:11,219
Good and, evidently, bad.

350
00:23:11,220 --> 00:23:14,890
I feel your eyes burning into me.

351
00:23:16,810 --> 00:23:18,769
Imagine you were a violent man.

352
00:23:18,770 --> 00:23:22,149
Imagine your pen were a dagger.

353
00:23:22,150 --> 00:23:25,029
Imagine I were found dead

354
00:23:25,030 --> 00:23:27,980
on Christmas morning.

355
00:23:27,990 --> 00:23:31,200
The murder could be laid, too,

356
00:23:31,210 --> 00:23:33,490
at the door of the spirit
of Christmas, yes?

357
00:23:33,500 --> 00:23:35,120
Mr. Scrooge.

358
00:23:35,130 --> 00:23:38,750
Mr. Scrooge, it's now
eight minutes past 3:00.

359
00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:40,860
My work is complete.

360
00:23:40,870 --> 00:23:42,629
If we're back to logic,
then logic suggests

361
00:23:42,630 --> 00:23:46,060
that my sitting in there
idle for no reason...

362
00:23:46,070 --> 00:23:47,170
that's the anomaly.

363
00:23:47,180 --> 00:23:49,980
MONGER (IN DISTANCE):
Here it is! Where's the great...

364
00:23:49,990 --> 00:23:51,099
A letter of complaint

365
00:23:51,100 --> 00:23:54,340
to the Lord Mayor regarding
persistent noise

366
00:23:54,350 --> 00:23:57,059
caused by costermongers,
Gypsies, street musicians,

367
00:23:57,060 --> 00:24:00,920
rag and bone men,
various other gutter runners.

368
00:24:00,930 --> 00:24:02,400
I want this letter written out

369
00:24:02,410 --> 00:24:05,319
in duplicate and put in
with the last post today.

370
00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:07,489
It contains very precise mathematics

371
00:24:07,490 --> 00:24:10,120
pertaining to the quantity and
frequency of the intrusions.

372
00:24:10,130 --> 00:24:12,070
Please be sure to get
the numbers correct.

373
00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:15,020
I took great pains over them.

374
00:24:15,030 --> 00:24:18,270
Oh. Great pain.

375
00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:20,079
Yes, I can see that.

376
00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:23,709
It is not I in curious mood
today, Cratchit, it is you.

377
00:24:23,710 --> 00:24:25,980
As if you're suddenly careless

378
00:24:25,990 --> 00:24:27,470
- of your situation.
- No, sir.

379
00:24:28,750 --> 00:24:32,179
No, I'm not careless
of my situation, sir.

380
00:24:32,180 --> 00:24:34,680
I know my situation. I have two children

381
00:24:34,690 --> 00:24:36,590
and a wife to take care of at a time

382
00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:38,410
of high unemployment.

383
00:24:38,420 --> 00:24:41,340
One of my children is very sick, sir,

384
00:24:41,350 --> 00:24:44,700
and his treatment costs
money. I know, sir,

385
00:24:44,710 --> 00:24:47,990
I know the narrowness of my situation.

386
00:24:50,130 --> 00:24:52,570
And so do you.

387
00:24:57,810 --> 00:25:00,749
- So do you.
- Two copies

388
00:25:00,750 --> 00:25:03,210
of that letter should take
you nicely up to 4:00.

389
00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:07,670
We'll see.

390
00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:16,930
<i>MARLEY (IN DISTANCE): Hello?</i>

391
00:25:22,530 --> 00:25:24,020
Hello?

392
00:25:34,380 --> 00:25:36,870
Why am I here?

393
00:25:39,150 --> 00:25:42,970
I was told the spirits
have a job for me.

394
00:25:44,650 --> 00:25:46,520
What spirits?

395
00:25:46,530 --> 00:25:49,130
What job?

396
00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:54,450
(FIRE WHOOSHING, CRACKLING)

397
00:25:54,460 --> 00:25:55,840
Ah.

398
00:25:55,850 --> 00:25:59,719
Warmth, at least.

399
00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:01,900
And explanation.

400
00:26:01,910 --> 00:26:05,790
And perhaps salvation.

401
00:26:12,570 --> 00:26:15,050
<i>(HORSE NEIGHS)</i>

402
00:26:19,090 --> 00:26:21,240
Oh, God.

403
00:26:26,860 --> 00:26:29,850
Hello, old friend.

404
00:26:29,860 --> 00:26:33,170
(LAUGHS)

405
00:26:33,180 --> 00:26:38,620
Six times we won the
Epsom Derby together.

406
00:26:38,630 --> 00:26:40,809
GHOSTLY VOICES (ECHOING):
Marley. Marley.

407
00:26:40,810 --> 00:26:42,470
Marley. Marley. Marley.

408
00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:43,849
- Marley.
- Marley. Marley.

409
00:26:43,850 --> 00:26:45,979
- (CHILD LAUGHS IN DISTANCE)
- Marley. Marley.

410
00:26:45,980 --> 00:26:48,850
(GRUNTING)

411
00:26:48,860 --> 00:26:51,440
Hello?

412
00:26:55,740 --> 00:26:57,940
Hello?

413
00:27:03,830 --> 00:27:06,170
Hello?

414
00:27:08,420 --> 00:27:10,999
Hello! Hello?

415
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,669
Yeah, I saw someone

416
00:27:13,670 --> 00:27:17,010
tending this fire. Where are you?

417
00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:22,639
Hello?

418
00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:24,640
I'm... Aah!

419
00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:32,780
<i>(HORSE NEIGHS)</i>

420
00:27:36,830 --> 00:27:39,560
I have no idea who you are,

421
00:27:39,570 --> 00:27:42,710
but why on earth did you
just burn my rocking horse?

422
00:27:45,750 --> 00:27:48,060
Because you're next.

423
00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:55,360
On the fires I burn memories

424
00:27:55,370 --> 00:27:56,760
and old affections.

425
00:27:58,780 --> 00:28:03,170
I am the Ghost of Christmas Past.

426
00:28:03,180 --> 00:28:05,930
Here to smoke out redemption.

427
00:28:08,060 --> 00:28:10,480
You have lingered in purgatory

428
00:28:10,490 --> 00:28:12,229
for your many sins.

429
00:28:12,230 --> 00:28:16,239
If it turns out you can be redeemed,

430
00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:21,020
I will rake you out of the flames

431
00:28:21,030 --> 00:28:23,400
and blow you cool

432
00:28:23,410 --> 00:28:27,740
and deliver you to everlasting

433
00:28:27,750 --> 00:28:31,850
and eternal... peace.

434
00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:38,080
Understood. Peace is indeed what I seek.

435
00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:42,180
If you want peace...

436
00:28:44,390 --> 00:28:46,390
... there is a price.

437
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:48,849
And the price is

438
00:28:48,850 --> 00:28:50,890
repentance.

439
00:28:50,900 --> 00:28:54,220
Uh, if this is about repentance,

440
00:28:54,230 --> 00:28:57,069
then I've already repented.
I rang the bell.

441
00:28:57,070 --> 00:28:59,660
Rang as a consequence

442
00:28:59,670 --> 00:29:02,370
of my declared repentance,
and the blacksmith...

443
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:06,700
I don't care.

444
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:13,570
You are not here for your sins alone.

445
00:29:14,660 --> 00:29:17,160
(GHOSTLY VOICES CLAMOR)

446
00:29:17,170 --> 00:29:19,320
Your fate is bound

447
00:29:19,330 --> 00:29:23,120
to the soul of Ebenezer Scrooge.

448
00:29:23,130 --> 00:29:29,670
It is with him that you profaned
the spirit of humanity.

449
00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:34,620
Together, you will repay.

450
00:29:34,630 --> 00:29:38,529
And together... and only together...

451
00:29:38,530 --> 00:29:41,560
can you repent.

452
00:29:41,570 --> 00:29:43,880
So you're saying that

453
00:29:43,890 --> 00:29:49,079
I should forever be
held in purgatory un...

454
00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:51,740
until my friend

455
00:29:51,750 --> 00:29:54,670
has also repented?

456
00:29:56,130 --> 00:29:57,490
(SHARP EXHALE)

457
00:29:57,500 --> 00:29:59,630
(MUTTERING)

458
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:02,350
Then, if you would, throw
another year on the fire.

459
00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:04,960
Bring me a blanket and a pillow
if such things are allowed,

460
00:30:04,970 --> 00:30:06,500
because I am without doubt

461
00:30:06,510 --> 00:30:09,940
stuck here for fucking ever.

462
00:30:09,950 --> 00:30:14,160
Because that man, that...

463
00:30:14,170 --> 00:30:16,210
object in the shape of a man,

464
00:30:16,220 --> 00:30:20,260
that-that thing with
black ink in his veins

465
00:30:20,270 --> 00:30:25,320
is 94% gravel and rubble,

466
00:30:25,330 --> 00:30:28,989
and the rest is his stupid hair.

467
00:30:28,990 --> 00:30:31,560
And I know for certain

468
00:30:31,570 --> 00:30:34,450
that he will never repent.

469
00:30:36,830 --> 00:30:40,900
Before this Christmas is ash,

470
00:30:40,910 --> 00:30:44,700
I must search the heart
of Ebenezer Scrooge

471
00:30:44,710 --> 00:30:47,180
and see if there is a
tender place there.

472
00:30:49,590 --> 00:30:53,430
Your fate depends upon it.

473
00:30:57,020 --> 00:31:00,270
(INDISTINCT CLAMORING)

474
00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:08,960
- (DOOR OPENS, BELL JINGLES)
- FRED: Afternoon.

475
00:31:11,370 --> 00:31:12,620
Uncle Ebenezer.

476
00:31:16,130 --> 00:31:17,900
(PANTING)

477
00:31:17,910 --> 00:31:20,360
I ran in case you might
be closing early.

478
00:31:20,370 --> 00:31:22,950
No. Still many things to do.

479
00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:26,500
You seem out of breath.

480
00:31:26,510 --> 00:31:28,900
That's 'cause I ran to catch you.

481
00:31:28,910 --> 00:31:30,940
And to invite you to dinner tomorrow.

482
00:31:30,950 --> 00:31:33,350
Oh. What's tomorrow?

483
00:31:36,270 --> 00:31:37,980
It's a birthday tomorrow.

484
00:31:47,150 --> 00:31:48,990
It's, uh...

485
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:53,020
our Lord Jesus Christ's birthday.

486
00:31:53,030 --> 00:31:56,660
Now, I know you don't
believe in Christmas.

487
00:31:56,670 --> 00:31:59,440
But you believe in him, don't you?

488
00:31:59,450 --> 00:32:02,290
No. Nor do I believe

489
00:32:02,300 --> 00:32:05,629
in Ali Baba or the magic
genie of the lamp.

490
00:32:05,630 --> 00:32:09,540
Besides, which liar told you
that tomorrow was his birthday?

491
00:32:09,550 --> 00:32:11,219
It's in the Bible.

492
00:32:11,220 --> 00:32:13,650
Another deceit. There
is no mention of a date

493
00:32:13,660 --> 00:32:16,140
in that book or in any other.

494
00:32:16,150 --> 00:32:19,360
And as for those images
I see on church walls

495
00:32:19,370 --> 00:32:23,160
of three wise men on camels
walking in the snow,

496
00:32:23,170 --> 00:32:25,229
there's no record of it being winter,

497
00:32:25,230 --> 00:32:27,990
and no record of there ever
being snow in Palestine.

498
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,920
Indeed, riding camels in the snow

499
00:32:30,930 --> 00:32:33,989
is the very embodiment of
the absurdity and the lies

500
00:32:33,990 --> 00:32:37,119
which have continued to beget
more lies down the centuries,

501
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:40,180
during the days now marked 24 and 25.

502
00:32:40,190 --> 00:32:42,140
You believe in fig pudding.

503
00:32:42,150 --> 00:32:44,040
And there will be fig pudding.

504
00:32:44,050 --> 00:32:46,839
And there will be fig
pudding, too, in January.

505
00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:50,010
Would you come in January?

506
00:32:50,020 --> 00:32:51,620
No.

507
00:32:51,630 --> 00:32:54,390
(INDISTINCT CHATTER, CHILDREN SHOUT)

508
00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:58,420
Uncle, before she died,

509
00:32:58,430 --> 00:33:01,020
my mother said to me, "Fred...

510
00:33:03,830 --> 00:33:07,850
"... you must forgive
my brother Ebenezer.

511
00:33:07,860 --> 00:33:09,850
"He's just in pain.

512
00:33:09,860 --> 00:33:14,210
A very old pain."

513
00:33:22,020 --> 00:33:24,170
Very well.

514
00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:28,260
I'll get to my point.

515
00:33:30,010 --> 00:33:32,000
Every year, I come here,

516
00:33:32,010 --> 00:33:34,400
and I invite you to dine

517
00:33:34,410 --> 00:33:37,130
with myself and my wife and my children

518
00:33:37,140 --> 00:33:39,990
whom you've never even set eyes upon.

519
00:33:41,530 --> 00:33:44,019
This is the last time I'll
make such an invitation.

520
00:33:44,020 --> 00:33:46,500
Upon my wife's insistence,

521
00:33:46,510 --> 00:33:48,770
I will do this no more.

522
00:33:48,780 --> 00:33:51,070
Good. Save you getting
all out of breath.

523
00:34:00,230 --> 00:34:02,290
Uncle.

524
00:34:04,750 --> 00:34:07,390
Yeah, I will say it because
I know it hurts you.

525
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:12,800
Merry Christmas, Uncle Ebenezer.

526
00:34:15,540 --> 00:34:18,390
I doubt I'll ever see you
again on this earth.

527
00:34:35,660 --> 00:34:37,850
(DOOR OPENS, BELL JINGLES)

528
00:34:37,860 --> 00:34:40,010
(DOOR CLOSES)

529
00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:44,950
<i>MARLEY (IN DISTANCE): Ebenezer.</i>

530
00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:50,750
<i>Ebenezer.</i>

531
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:51,840
(WIND GUSTS)

532
00:35:17,620 --> 00:35:19,530
(WATER SPLASHES)

533
00:35:39,260 --> 00:35:43,270
1831 and 1837.

534
00:35:44,910 --> 00:35:47,269
The exact same dates as the coins I put

535
00:35:47,270 --> 00:35:49,760
on your eyes when
you lay in your coffin.

536
00:35:49,770 --> 00:35:53,189
I always look at the dates.

537
00:35:53,190 --> 00:35:55,189
They interest me.

538
00:35:55,190 --> 00:35:58,100
How come these same coins are here?

539
00:35:58,110 --> 00:35:59,600
Why now?

540
00:35:59,610 --> 00:36:01,060
(COINS THUD)

541
00:36:04,450 --> 00:36:08,100
CHILDREN: ♪ <i>When they
are both full-grown</i> ♪

542
00:36:08,110 --> 00:36:10,919
♪ <i>Of all trees that are in the wood</i> ♪

543
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:14,350
♪ <i>The holly bears the crown</i> ♪

544
00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:17,180
♪ <i>Oh, the rising of the sun</i> ♪

545
00:36:17,190 --> 00:36:20,040
♪ <i>And the running of the deer</i> ♪

546
00:36:20,050 --> 00:36:21,520
♪ <i>The playing of... ♪</i>

547
00:36:21,530 --> 00:36:22,740
Do you want me to add them to your list

548
00:36:22,750 --> 00:36:25,760
of intrusive voices, sir?

549
00:36:25,770 --> 00:36:29,110
♪ <i>The holly bears a blossom</i> ♪

550
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:30,140
♪ <i>As white as lily flower</i> ♪

551
00:36:30,150 --> 00:36:33,500
Do it, Mr. Scrooge.

552
00:36:33,510 --> 00:36:35,120
Give them the coins.

553
00:36:35,130 --> 00:36:37,930
♪ <i>To be our dear Savior.</i> ♪

554
00:36:38,910 --> 00:36:41,160
Merry Christmas, sir.

555
00:36:43,050 --> 00:36:45,450
Go away.

556
00:36:49,070 --> 00:36:51,750
♪ ♪

557
00:37:08,330 --> 00:37:10,020
Done, sir.

558
00:37:10,030 --> 00:37:12,580
Finished. 40 minutes left.

559
00:37:12,590 --> 00:37:14,560
I assume you have something
else for me to fill the time.

560
00:37:14,570 --> 00:37:15,860
Go home.

561
00:37:17,830 --> 00:37:20,530
- Home?
- Home.

562
00:37:28,500 --> 00:37:30,370
(SIGHS)

563
00:37:40,250 --> 00:37:42,770
Rag...

564
00:37:42,780 --> 00:37:44,660
and bone.

565
00:37:46,850 --> 00:37:50,510
All it is and can be.

566
00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:53,230
(PAPER RUSTLING)

567
00:38:05,740 --> 00:38:07,390
♪ ♪

568
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:10,660
(CLOCK TICKING)

569
00:38:13,500 --> 00:38:18,920
_

570
00:38:22,790 --> 00:38:24,610
Clock.

571
00:38:24,620 --> 00:38:28,140
I know it's 20 past 3:00,
but please strike 4:00.

572
00:38:28,150 --> 00:38:29,889
How?

573
00:38:29,890 --> 00:38:33,220
I don't know. I will not
leave my office early

574
00:38:33,230 --> 00:38:35,600
and bow down to this absurd season.

575
00:38:37,030 --> 00:38:40,610
But please say it's
4:00 and set me free.

576
00:38:41,970 --> 00:38:45,290
Lie to me, and I'll believe you.

577
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:55,880
(CLOCK CHIMING)

578
00:39:06,090 --> 00:39:08,470
(BELL TOLLING)

579
00:39:22,230 --> 00:39:24,400
- ♪
♪
- (LAUGHTER, INDISTINCT CHATTER)

580
00:39:27,580 --> 00:39:29,320
(CHILDREN LAUGHING)

581
00:39:29,330 --> 00:39:31,159
Hands... two!

582
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:33,570
(LAUGHING)

583
00:39:33,580 --> 00:39:37,350
(CHATTER, MUSIC CONTINUE IN DISTANCE)

584
00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:39,680
- Dad?
- Mm-hmm?

585
00:39:39,690 --> 00:39:42,680
Do I have to do my exercise today?

586
00:39:42,690 --> 00:39:44,690
I-It's Christmas Eve.

587
00:39:44,700 --> 00:39:47,380
No days off, Tim.

588
00:39:47,390 --> 00:39:49,330
You're worse than old Scrooge.

589
00:39:49,340 --> 00:39:52,130
(LAUGHS)

590
00:39:52,140 --> 00:39:55,240
If it's exercise you want me to do,

591
00:39:55,250 --> 00:39:57,300
why not let me go skating

592
00:39:57,310 --> 00:39:59,220
on the pond beyond the yard?

593
00:39:59,230 --> 00:40:01,980
- I can borrow Belinda's skates.
- Ah.

594
00:40:01,990 --> 00:40:06,200
So you skate before you can
walk before you can run.

595
00:40:06,210 --> 00:40:09,520
Besides, Belinda's skates are broken.

596
00:40:09,530 --> 00:40:11,820
- (DOOR OPENS)
- (MARY CHUCKLES)

597
00:40:11,830 --> 00:40:13,530
- Hi, darling.
- (SIGHS)

598
00:40:13,540 --> 00:40:17,039
- What did you get?
- We got a big fat goose.

599
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:18,370
Wait, wait, wait. Two more minutes.

600
00:40:18,380 --> 00:40:19,920
Mwah. Grumpy Daddy.

601
00:40:19,930 --> 00:40:20,950
- (CHUCKLING)
- Yeah.

602
00:40:22,590 --> 00:40:24,980
Hey.

603
00:40:24,990 --> 00:40:26,759
When did you get home?

604
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:29,130
Bugger let me go about 40 minutes early.

605
00:40:29,140 --> 00:40:32,640
- Very strange mood.
- It's Christmas.

606
00:40:32,650 --> 00:40:34,559
Let's not talk about him.

607
00:40:34,560 --> 00:40:36,760
Not even once.

608
00:40:36,770 --> 00:40:41,480
You seem to despise him
even more than I do.

609
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:49,650
(DOOR OPENS)

610
00:40:49,660 --> 00:40:51,910
(DOOR CLOSES)

611
00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:59,360
Also, while you were...

612
00:40:59,370 --> 00:41:01,940
while you were gone, Tim
wrote his Christmas letter

613
00:41:01,950 --> 00:41:04,120
to your cousin Jack. (SNIFFS)

614
00:41:04,130 --> 00:41:06,030
Here's what he wrote.

615
00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:09,140
"Dear Mr. Levitt, I hope you're well

616
00:41:09,150 --> 00:41:10,950
and that there's lots of
snow there in America... "

617
00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:15,500
Darling, after seven years...

618
00:41:15,510 --> 00:41:18,010
... there's no need for Tim
to keep on writing letters

619
00:41:18,020 --> 00:41:21,950
of thanks to America every
single Christmas for eternity.

620
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:24,180
And why?

621
00:41:24,190 --> 00:41:26,569
He did save Tim's life. Um...

622
00:41:26,570 --> 00:41:29,250
(SIGHS) Very well.

623
00:41:30,530 --> 00:41:32,520
I'll go and post it.

624
00:41:32,530 --> 00:41:35,700
I'll catch the last post.

625
00:41:35,710 --> 00:41:37,760
We'll, um...

626
00:41:37,770 --> 00:41:43,079
We'll all... come with you.

627
00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:45,210
Uh, the air will do us all some good.

628
00:41:46,750 --> 00:41:48,960
Very well.

629
00:41:48,970 --> 00:41:50,500
We'll all go.

630
00:41:50,510 --> 00:41:51,660
Tim.

631
00:41:51,670 --> 00:41:53,580
- Yes!
- (CHUCKLES)

632
00:41:53,590 --> 00:41:55,640
Belinda.

633
00:41:58,390 --> 00:42:00,670
("I SAW THREE SHIPS" PLAYING)

634
00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:02,640
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

635
00:42:16,260 --> 00:42:17,619
HOOPER: Ah, Mr. Scrooge.

636
00:42:17,620 --> 00:42:18,950
Sir, do you have any

637
00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:20,650
spare change for an excellent cause?

638
00:42:20,660 --> 00:42:23,120
(SIGHS) And what cause might that be?

639
00:42:23,130 --> 00:42:25,750
Oh, it's for the welfare
of the poor and destitute

640
00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:28,040
who suffer greatly at this time of year.

641
00:42:28,050 --> 00:42:30,250
Hundreds of thousands
in this city are in want

642
00:42:30,260 --> 00:42:31,570
of common comforts.

643
00:42:31,580 --> 00:42:32,700
Are there no prisons?

644
00:42:32,710 --> 00:42:35,660
- Oh, plenty of prisons.
- And the Union workhouses...

645
00:42:35,670 --> 00:42:37,020
are they still in operation?

646
00:42:37,030 --> 00:42:38,920
THWAITES: I wish I could
say they were not.

647
00:42:38,930 --> 00:42:40,720
The treadmill and the poor law.

648
00:42:40,730 --> 00:42:44,270
Uncommonly busy since
the financial collapse.

649
00:42:44,280 --> 00:42:47,010
But some would rather die than go there.

650
00:42:47,020 --> 00:42:49,070
Then let them die.

651
00:42:51,070 --> 00:42:55,160
HOOPER: All we're asking for,
sir, are a couple of penny coins.

652
00:42:55,170 --> 00:42:58,450
Do you not have two penny
coins in your pocket?

653
00:43:04,670 --> 00:43:06,380
Bah.

654
00:43:06,390 --> 00:43:08,250
Humbug.

655
00:43:18,050 --> 00:43:22,270
(INDISTINCT CHATTER, CHEERING, LAUGHING)

656
00:43:25,830 --> 00:43:28,510
Thank you.

657
00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:30,870
- GIRL: Whoa!
- GIRL 2: Belinda!

658
00:43:33,410 --> 00:43:36,640
Now, I'm not sure if we've spelt
your cousin's name correctly.

659
00:43:36,650 --> 00:43:38,440
Mary, is it...

660
00:43:38,450 --> 00:43:41,530
is it Levitt with two Ts or one?

661
00:43:41,540 --> 00:43:44,990
It... it's spelt with two Ts.

662
00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:46,770
- You all right?
- Mm-hmm.

663
00:43:46,780 --> 00:43:50,080
- There's Belinda.
- Oh. You needs skates, eh?

664
00:43:50,090 --> 00:43:51,840
BOB: I swear last year
you said it was spelt

665
00:43:51,850 --> 00:43:53,800
with one "T."

666
00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:57,820
My cousin is now an American.

667
00:43:57,830 --> 00:44:01,790
They don't care for Ts.
They drink coffee.

668
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:03,310
(LAUGHS SOFTLY)

669
00:44:04,970 --> 00:44:06,700
MAN: Merry Christmas.

670
00:44:06,710 --> 00:44:08,950
- Oh, Merry Christmas.
- Merry Christmas.

671
00:44:12,070 --> 00:44:14,660
This cousin whose name
changes every year,

672
00:44:14,670 --> 00:44:16,800
you never mentioned
before Tim became sick.

673
00:44:16,810 --> 00:44:18,200
The children are happy here.

674
00:44:18,210 --> 00:44:19,739
Stay with them. I'll post the letter

675
00:44:19,740 --> 00:44:21,200
and I'll come back.

676
00:44:32,230 --> 00:44:34,250
- You all right, mister?
- Yeah.

677
00:44:39,970 --> 00:44:45,180
♪ ♪

678
00:45:01,990 --> 00:45:06,530
♪ ♪

679
00:45:17,970 --> 00:45:20,120
(EXHALES)

680
00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:34,150
(DOG BARKS IN DISTANCE)

681
00:45:53,710 --> 00:45:58,200
_

682
00:46:00,690 --> 00:46:03,000
(HORSE WHINNIES)

683
00:46:18,450 --> 00:46:19,990
Who left you here?

684
00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:21,700
(WHISPERING IN DISTANCE)

685
00:46:47,470 --> 00:46:49,570
- (GASPS)
- (HORSE NEIGHS)

686
00:46:55,900 --> 00:46:58,590
(GATE SQUEAKS)

687
00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:12,790
♪ ♪

688
00:47:22,490 --> 00:47:24,010
Marley?

689
00:47:53,390 --> 00:47:55,410
(KEYS JINGLING)

690
00:47:59,710 --> 00:48:01,410
(LOCK CLICKS)

691
00:48:14,580 --> 00:48:16,890
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

692
00:48:45,640 --> 00:48:47,630
(FIRE CRACKLING)

693
00:48:58,070 --> 00:48:59,410
(THUMP IN DISTANCE)

694
00:48:59,420 --> 00:49:02,520
(DOOR CREAKS)

695
00:49:14,620 --> 00:49:16,820
(PLATE CLATTERS SOFTLY)

696
00:49:34,550 --> 00:49:37,970
(HORSE WHINNIES)

697
00:49:41,700 --> 00:49:43,690
(WHISPER IN DISTANCE)

698
00:49:57,580 --> 00:50:00,290
(LOCK CLICKS)

699
00:50:07,880 --> 00:50:10,070
(GRUNTING)

700
00:50:21,670 --> 00:50:25,480
(THREE LOUD THUMPS)

701
00:50:38,370 --> 00:50:43,030
(CLOCK TICKING)

702
00:50:47,050 --> 00:50:48,120
(CREAK)

703
00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:09,820
(FLOORBOARDS CREAKING)

704
00:51:19,790 --> 00:51:22,120
(WIND WHISTLING)

705
00:51:34,070 --> 00:51:38,970
♪ ♪

706
00:51:55,070 --> 00:51:59,490
♪ ♪

707
00:52:21,150 --> 00:52:22,970
(GURGLING NEARBY)

708
00:52:46,730 --> 00:52:49,190
(BONES CRACK)

709
00:52:53,410 --> 00:52:55,540
Apologies, old friend.

710
00:52:55,550 --> 00:52:59,330
I'm... not quite sure
how these things work.

711
00:52:59,340 --> 00:53:01,800
I first formed as your door knocker,

712
00:53:01,810 --> 00:53:03,349
and you knocked off my chin.

713
00:53:03,350 --> 00:53:06,120
Seems fine now.

714
00:53:06,130 --> 00:53:09,290
I understand this must come as a shock.

715
00:53:09,300 --> 00:53:10,660
No.

716
00:53:10,670 --> 00:53:12,660
No, because this-this is not real.

717
00:53:12,670 --> 00:53:13,769
This is not real.

718
00:53:13,770 --> 00:53:16,220
(GRUNTS) There's much I have to tell you

719
00:53:16,230 --> 00:53:17,399
about what is real

720
00:53:17,400 --> 00:53:19,450
and what is not real.

721
00:53:20,530 --> 00:53:22,390
Reality's a decision.

722
00:53:22,400 --> 00:53:25,330
I've learned that.

723
00:53:26,310 --> 00:53:28,289
I've been sent by a spirit.

724
00:53:28,290 --> 00:53:30,619
A spirit who doesn't care,

725
00:53:30,620 --> 00:53:32,829
and I imagine would relish
our failure, but...

726
00:53:32,830 --> 00:53:34,850
is obliged to seem to try to help.

727
00:53:34,860 --> 00:53:37,080
I didn't eat today.

728
00:53:37,090 --> 00:53:39,660
This is the result of light-headedness

729
00:53:39,670 --> 00:53:41,480
caused by hunger.

730
00:53:41,490 --> 00:53:45,480
I am... asleep in this armchair.

731
00:53:52,950 --> 00:53:55,480
Have you forgotten, Ebenezer?

732
00:53:57,940 --> 00:53:59,230
I'm already dead.

733
00:53:59,240 --> 00:54:01,069
You can't kill me.

734
00:54:01,070 --> 00:54:02,569
And if you were to hit me

735
00:54:02,570 --> 00:54:04,500
with that thing then
I'll just be very messy

736
00:54:04,510 --> 00:54:06,740
for the rest of our conversation.

737
00:54:06,750 --> 00:54:09,880
And we have much to discuss.

738
00:54:09,890 --> 00:54:11,210
(POKER CLATTERS)

739
00:54:12,370 --> 00:54:14,999
Now, I... don't understand it all,

740
00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:18,129
but you threw a blanket over a pair

741
00:54:18,130 --> 00:54:22,290
of cold, black horses... I believe
that means there is hope.

742
00:54:23,370 --> 00:54:25,180
Hope of what?

743
00:54:26,670 --> 00:54:28,130
No need for me to explain.

744
00:54:28,140 --> 00:54:29,389
You'll meet them soon enough.

745
00:54:29,390 --> 00:54:30,850
Meet who?

746
00:54:32,180 --> 00:54:34,519
The spirits.

747
00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:36,040
I've met one,

748
00:54:36,050 --> 00:54:38,109
but I'm told there are three.

749
00:54:38,110 --> 00:54:40,750
I have no plans to meet anyone. I'm...

750
00:54:40,760 --> 00:54:43,029
I-I want to be alone.

751
00:54:43,030 --> 00:54:47,369
And yet it is Christmas, Ebenezer.

752
00:54:47,370 --> 00:54:49,120
Christmas.

753
00:54:51,580 --> 00:54:53,329
Very well.

754
00:54:53,330 --> 00:54:54,990
Go out there.

755
00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:57,000
(LOUD EXPLOSION)

756
00:54:57,010 --> 00:54:59,800
They've laid on a little show for you.

757
00:55:02,960 --> 00:55:05,200
- (INDISTINCT SHOUTING)
- (NEIGHS)

758
00:55:05,210 --> 00:55:07,460
(BELL CLANGING)

759
00:55:10,690 --> 00:55:13,930
(SCREAMING)

760
00:55:16,850 --> 00:55:18,740
(NEIGHING)

761
00:55:23,450 --> 00:55:25,820
(COUGHING)

762
00:55:26,910 --> 00:55:29,990
(WAILING, CRYING)

763
00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:34,290
(WOMAN SCREAMING)

764
00:55:36,880 --> 00:55:38,870
It was you.

765
00:55:38,880 --> 00:55:40,629
Gas was reported.

766
00:55:40,630 --> 00:55:44,240
To save money, you refused
to dig out the pipes.

767
00:55:44,250 --> 00:55:47,780
- You did this. You.
- (SCREAMING)

768
00:55:47,790 --> 00:55:50,000
You cut us to the bone.

769
00:55:52,460 --> 00:55:54,770
(WOMAN SHRIEKING)

770
00:56:03,940 --> 00:56:07,940
MARLEY: Remember Morris and Thompson?

771
00:56:07,950 --> 00:56:10,480
Our factory in Birmingham which
we purchased for pennies,

772
00:56:10,490 --> 00:56:13,620
and we cut their cloth
according to our meanness.

773
00:56:13,630 --> 00:56:15,740
The consequences of one's actions

774
00:56:15,750 --> 00:56:18,840
always ends up on one's own doorstep.

775
00:56:18,850 --> 00:56:22,990
How righteous and scolding
we were at the inquest.

776
00:56:23,000 --> 00:56:24,000
Remember?

777
00:56:24,010 --> 00:56:27,580
Idleness, drunkenness,

778
00:56:27,590 --> 00:56:30,260
a lack of common sense on
the part of the workforce...

779
00:56:30,270 --> 00:56:33,240
we blamed them all...
and got the all clear

780
00:56:33,250 --> 00:56:36,270
from a judge whose palm
I crossed with silver.

781
00:56:40,940 --> 00:56:44,890
Look at these chains, Ebenezer.

782
00:56:44,900 --> 00:56:48,529
This isn't a fucking game. Look.

783
00:56:48,530 --> 00:56:52,780
Each link is a man or woman or child

784
00:56:52,790 --> 00:56:55,080
who died in our workshops

785
00:56:55,090 --> 00:56:56,280
in London,

786
00:56:56,290 --> 00:56:59,120
Birmingham, Manchester,

787
00:56:59,130 --> 00:57:01,950
- Bombay, Batavia...
- Wait. Wait.

788
00:57:01,960 --> 00:57:03,300
- They were subcontracts.
- Mauritius,

789
00:57:03,310 --> 00:57:04,709
- Bay of Honduras...
- Enough.

790
00:57:04,710 --> 00:57:06,300
No, it was never enough.

791
00:57:07,840 --> 00:57:10,400
Not for you or for me.

792
00:57:10,410 --> 00:57:12,090
And for what?

793
00:57:12,100 --> 00:57:15,349
What was the purpose of
our gross accumulation?

794
00:57:15,350 --> 00:57:17,290
For this...

795
00:57:19,080 --> 00:57:20,729
... we vandalized the world.

796
00:57:20,730 --> 00:57:24,170
Whatever you are, I should like
you to leave my home, now.

797
00:57:24,180 --> 00:57:27,899
Oh, when your time comes,
there'll be chains for you, too.

798
00:57:27,900 --> 00:57:32,240
And your fate will be to wander
the earth with the great weight

799
00:57:32,250 --> 00:57:34,230
of your past on your shoulders.

800
00:57:34,240 --> 00:57:36,570
Unless I repent, yes?

801
00:57:36,580 --> 00:57:38,289
"Humbug," I will say.

802
00:57:38,290 --> 00:57:40,350
"Repent what?," I will say.

803
00:57:40,360 --> 00:57:45,360
The spirit I met has no
concern for your soul.

804
00:57:45,370 --> 00:57:46,709
Or mine.

805
00:57:46,710 --> 00:57:49,419
I want salvation.

806
00:57:49,420 --> 00:57:51,510
But in truth, it is up to you.

807
00:57:52,740 --> 00:57:54,360
Bah.

808
00:57:59,950 --> 00:58:02,760
Ebenezer Scrooge,

809
00:58:02,770 --> 00:58:04,809
the first of three spirits
will come tonight

810
00:58:04,810 --> 00:58:06,950
when the clock strikes midnight.

811
00:58:06,960 --> 00:58:10,690
The next will come the next
night at the same hour.

812
00:58:10,700 --> 00:58:14,659
And the third will come
the following night.

813
00:58:14,660 --> 00:58:16,080
Also at midnight.

814
00:58:17,660 --> 00:58:19,620
Prepare ye.

815
00:58:30,760 --> 00:58:35,270
A reality so readily banished
is not much of a reality.

816
00:58:44,260 --> 00:58:47,019
A piece of undigested beef.

817
00:58:47,020 --> 00:58:49,780
A lump of uncooked potato.

818
00:58:57,290 --> 00:59:00,040
Humbug!

819
00:59:03,750 --> 00:59:05,770
(CLOCK BELL TOLLING)

820
00:59:07,130 --> 00:59:08,500
Two.

821
00:59:10,090 --> 00:59:13,750
(TOLLING CONTINUES)

822
00:59:13,760 --> 00:59:18,170
(TOWER BELL TOLLING IN DISTANCE)

823
00:59:18,180 --> 00:59:22,599
(BELLS TOLLING)

824
00:59:22,600 --> 00:59:25,360
(CLOCK BELL CONTINUES TOLLING)

825
00:59:25,370 --> 00:59:27,570
Nine.

826
00:59:27,580 --> 00:59:30,420
Ten.

827
00:59:30,430 --> 00:59:32,100
Eleven.

828
00:59:32,110 --> 00:59:34,100
(TOLLING STOPS)

829
00:59:34,110 --> 00:59:36,630
One hour to go.

830
00:59:38,110 --> 00:59:40,400
Then it will begin.

831
00:59:41,830 --> 00:59:44,630
Reason against fancy.

832
00:59:47,320 --> 00:59:50,210
We will know the winner by morning.

833
01:00:06,130 --> 01:00:12,650
_

834
01:00:13,830 --> 01:00:16,930
(CHAINS RATTLING)

835
01:00:27,310 --> 01:00:28,920
(GRUNTS)

836
01:00:40,770 --> 01:00:42,460
Well?

837
01:00:42,470 --> 01:00:44,630
Well, I did as you asked.

838
01:00:44,640 --> 01:00:46,180
I called on Ebenezer and I...

839
01:00:46,190 --> 01:00:48,750
I told him he'd be visited
by three spirits.

840
01:00:48,760 --> 01:00:50,899
I urged him... no, I pleaded with him...

841
01:00:50,900 --> 01:00:53,220
to hear what the spirits had to say.

842
01:00:53,230 --> 01:00:56,820
And he replied but one
word. I'll spell it for you.

843
01:00:56,830 --> 01:01:00,860
H-U-M-B-U-G.

844
01:01:00,870 --> 01:01:03,740
- Oh...
- And he settled into his chair,

845
01:01:03,750 --> 01:01:05,449
and then... Oh, f...

846
01:01:05,450 --> 01:01:09,240
What's the point?

847
01:01:09,250 --> 01:01:12,700
The only way anyone could
ever soften Scrooge's heart

848
01:01:12,710 --> 01:01:15,890
would be with a mincing knife
and a cup of warm gravy

849
01:01:15,900 --> 01:01:18,490
to make some kind of unpleasant pudding.

850
01:01:19,630 --> 01:01:23,340
Let's face it, I'm stuck here forever.

851
01:01:26,070 --> 01:01:28,630
And what do you care, anyway, eh?

852
01:01:28,640 --> 01:01:30,820
To you, we're just numbers on a list

853
01:01:30,830 --> 01:01:33,730
in your celestial inventory.

854
01:01:35,440 --> 01:01:37,770
Nevertheless,

855
01:01:37,780 --> 01:01:40,270
having observed this...

856
01:01:40,280 --> 01:01:42,570
Ebenezer Scrooge,

857
01:01:42,580 --> 01:01:45,830
I relish a challenge.

858
01:01:51,620 --> 01:01:56,379
I'll show him his most
treasured memories

859
01:01:56,380 --> 01:01:59,839
and tortured nightmares.

860
01:01:59,840 --> 01:02:03,220
And like the many thousand
souls before him,

861
01:02:03,230 --> 01:02:05,810
he will beg forgiveness.

862
01:02:08,310 --> 01:02:11,960
♪ <i>In Dublin's fair city</i> ♪

863
01:02:11,970 --> 01:02:13,340
♪ <i>Where the girls</i> ♪

864
01:02:13,350 --> 01:02:15,940
♪ <i>Are so pretty</i> ♪

865
01:02:15,950 --> 01:02:18,440
♪ <i>I once set my eyes</i> ♪

866
01:02:18,450 --> 01:02:22,080
♪ <i>On sweet Molly Malone</i> ♪

867
01:02:22,090 --> 01:02:25,580
♪ <i>As she wheeled her wheelbarrow</i> ♪

868
01:02:25,590 --> 01:02:29,340
♪ <i>In the streets broad and narrow.</i> ♪

869
01:02:30,700 --> 01:02:32,480
BOB: Why are you awake, my love?

870
01:02:32,490 --> 01:02:34,700
(FIDDLING, INDISTINCT CHATTER OUTSIDE)

871
01:02:34,710 --> 01:02:36,280
I'm excited.

872
01:02:38,300 --> 01:02:40,490
It will soon be Christmas.

873
01:02:45,910 --> 01:02:48,090
Mary.

874
01:02:50,710 --> 01:02:52,480
Is there something you want to tell me?

875
01:02:57,090 --> 01:02:58,810
Hey.

876
01:03:07,450 --> 01:03:10,040
If the money you received was not sent

877
01:03:10,050 --> 01:03:13,330
by some mysterious cousin in America...

878
01:03:15,410 --> 01:03:17,420
... who did send it?

879
01:03:19,530 --> 01:03:21,050
Why?

880
01:03:23,760 --> 01:03:27,270
Let Christmas be, Bob, please.

881
01:03:28,820 --> 01:03:30,970
Just let Christmas be.

882
01:03:32,520 --> 01:03:34,180
- (CHURCH BELL RINGING)
- (PEOPLE CHEERING)

883
01:03:34,190 --> 01:03:36,490
Listen.

884
01:03:38,670 --> 01:03:41,180
It's almost here.

885
01:03:43,830 --> 01:03:46,130
(BELL TOLLING)

886
01:03:46,140 --> 01:03:49,660
And when Christmas is done...

887
01:03:49,670 --> 01:03:51,820
you'll tell me who.

888
01:04:00,040 --> 01:04:03,169
(BELL TOLLING)

889
01:04:03,170 --> 01:04:05,300
(WOMAN LAUGHING)

890
01:04:08,590 --> 01:04:10,420
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

891
01:04:10,430 --> 01:04:14,020
(BELL CONTINUES TOLLING)

892
01:04:24,070 --> 01:04:26,930
(FLOORBOARDS CREAKING)

893
01:04:30,950 --> 01:04:34,830
(CLOCK TICKING)

894
01:04:51,070 --> 01:04:54,600
Come, Spirit, change me. Try.

895
01:04:55,770 --> 01:04:57,060
(BELL TINKLING)

896
01:05:01,150 --> 01:05:03,870
Is that you, Spirit?

897
01:05:03,880 --> 01:05:06,610
Do ghosts have bells attached to them?

898
01:05:09,410 --> 01:05:11,600
(TINKLING CONTINUES)

899
01:05:22,040 --> 01:05:24,150
(SQUEAKING)

900
01:05:33,610 --> 01:05:35,520
Erasmus?

901
01:05:37,280 --> 01:05:38,970
Erasmus, is th...

902
01:05:38,980 --> 01:05:41,730
Is that you?

903
01:05:42,980 --> 01:05:45,010
It is you.

904
01:05:45,020 --> 01:05:47,780
Oh.

905
01:05:47,790 --> 01:05:52,420
The best Christmas present I ever had.

906
01:05:52,430 --> 01:05:54,880
Oh... oh.

907
01:05:54,890 --> 01:05:57,120
Still with the... the ribbon and bell

908
01:05:57,130 --> 01:05:59,290
my sister put around your neck.

909
01:05:59,300 --> 01:06:01,020
Oh.

910
01:06:06,290 --> 01:06:10,420
So you are the spirit I was promised.

911
01:06:12,110 --> 01:06:14,340
And the lesson I am meant to learn

912
01:06:14,350 --> 01:06:17,040
by your miraculous appearance

913
01:06:17,050 --> 01:06:21,020
is that even a small rodent...
reviled, trapped,

914
01:06:21,030 --> 01:06:23,510
poisoned every other day of the year...

915
01:06:23,520 --> 01:06:25,580
can, on Christmas day...

916
01:06:25,590 --> 01:06:29,740
with the addition of a bit
of silk and gold leaf...

917
01:06:29,750 --> 01:06:32,390
become a precious
gift for a small child,

918
01:06:32,400 --> 01:06:34,370
as you were for me.

919
01:06:36,070 --> 01:06:39,539
Well, little spirit,

920
01:06:39,540 --> 01:06:42,430
if you think my heart would melt

921
01:06:42,440 --> 01:06:44,380
on the warmth of your memory,

922
01:06:44,390 --> 01:06:47,040
you have no idea what
you are up against.

923
01:06:47,880 --> 01:06:49,900
- (SQUEAKS)
- Oh!

924
01:06:51,630 --> 01:06:54,610
So...

925
01:06:54,620 --> 01:06:57,680
the grand visitation is over.

926
01:06:57,690 --> 01:07:00,450
Time for a celebration.

927
01:07:00,460 --> 01:07:03,350
A rat wrapped in a ribbon

928
01:07:03,360 --> 01:07:05,880
is no match for reason.

929
01:07:09,000 --> 01:07:13,390
(FLOORBOARDS CREAK IN DISTANCE)

930
01:07:13,400 --> 01:07:18,730
(CLOCK TICKING)

931
01:07:42,470 --> 01:07:46,360
MAN (IN DISTANCE):
♪ <i>In Dublin's fair city</i> ♪

932
01:07:46,370 --> 01:07:50,200
♪ <i>Where the girls are so pretty</i> ♪

933
01:07:50,210 --> 01:07:54,140
♪ <i>I first set my eyes</i> ♪

934
01:07:54,150 --> 01:07:57,610
- ♪<i> On sweet Molly Malone</i> ♪
- No.

935
01:07:57,620 --> 01:07:59,320
Please, not you.

936
01:07:59,330 --> 01:08:01,840
♪ <i>She wheeled a wheelbarrow</i> ♪

937
01:08:01,850 --> 01:08:03,920
♪ <i>Through the streets</i> ♪

938
01:08:03,930 --> 01:08:06,500
♪ <i>Broad and narrow</i> ♪

939
01:08:06,510 --> 01:08:09,280
- ♪<i> Crying cockles</i> ♪
- You are dead.

940
01:08:09,290 --> 01:08:11,129
- ♪<i> And mussels</i> ♪
- We buried you.

941
01:08:11,130 --> 01:08:13,690
♪ <i>Alive</i> ♪

942
01:08:13,700 --> 01:08:16,560
♪ <i>Alive, oh</i> ♪

943
01:08:16,570 --> 01:08:18,860
- No, not alive.
- ♪<i> Alive</i> ♪

944
01:08:18,870 --> 01:08:21,900
- Please, not this.
- ♪<i> Alive, oh</i> ♪

945
01:08:21,910 --> 01:08:23,700
♪ <i>Alive</i> ♪

946
01:08:23,710 --> 01:08:26,020
♪ <i>Alive, oh... ♪</i>

947
01:08:27,740 --> 01:08:29,899
Alive.

948
01:08:29,900 --> 01:08:31,940
- Alive, oh.
- (DOORKNOB RATTLING)

949
01:08:33,320 --> 01:08:36,320
(POUNDING, RATTLING)

950
01:09:02,110 --> 01:09:04,670
(CLOCK TICKING)

951
01:09:29,400 --> 01:09:30,870
Ebenezer?

952
01:09:33,480 --> 01:09:36,630
Aye, awake, are ye?

953
01:09:40,420 --> 01:09:42,470
Ebenezer.

954
01:09:45,140 --> 01:09:47,670
Ebenezer?!

955
01:09:51,100 --> 01:09:54,520
Your little prayers on
my behalf were no use.

956
01:09:55,560 --> 01:09:58,590
They did me this afternoon.

957
01:09:58,600 --> 01:10:01,690
Over tea and biscuits.

958
01:10:01,700 --> 01:10:04,619
Did me up proper.

959
01:10:04,620 --> 01:10:07,870
They took the lot, every fucking thing!

960
01:10:07,880 --> 01:10:10,900
They covered my ass with tallow,

961
01:10:10,910 --> 01:10:13,100
and set it alight, like a cat.

962
01:10:13,110 --> 01:10:15,080
(WHISPERING): Spirit,
if this is your doing,

963
01:10:15,090 --> 01:10:17,120
please make him go away.

964
01:10:17,130 --> 01:10:20,339
What did ye say?

965
01:10:20,340 --> 01:10:23,780
Please don't make it that he can see me.

966
01:10:23,790 --> 01:10:26,050
Oh, I can see ye.

967
01:10:32,490 --> 01:10:35,309
I can see ye.

968
01:10:35,310 --> 01:10:37,350
- I see ye, boy.
- (GASPS)

969
01:10:37,360 --> 01:10:39,189
- What did ye say?!
- Please...

970
01:10:39,190 --> 01:10:40,850
not this night.

971
01:10:40,860 --> 01:10:42,690
What night?

972
01:10:42,700 --> 01:10:45,840
The... the night you
were declared bankrupt.

973
01:10:45,850 --> 01:10:49,270
What, you're sorry for me, are ye?

974
01:10:49,280 --> 01:10:51,200
He's fucking sorry.

975
01:10:51,210 --> 01:10:54,079
Yeah, well, you know this, you
know that everyone out there...

976
01:10:54,080 --> 01:10:56,520
every man, every woman...

977
01:10:56,530 --> 01:11:00,209
they're all beasts who care only,

978
01:11:00,210 --> 01:11:01,890
only for themselves.

979
01:11:01,900 --> 01:11:03,580
Because that is what a human is.

980
01:11:03,590 --> 01:11:06,310
It's an inward-looking thing only.

981
01:11:07,680 --> 01:11:11,090
This whole world is cock fighting cock,

982
01:11:11,100 --> 01:11:13,729
bear fighting dog,

983
01:11:13,730 --> 01:11:16,300
hands in your pockets,
fingers up your ass.

984
01:11:16,310 --> 01:11:19,520
They're trying to take
your very kidneys from ye.

985
01:11:19,530 --> 01:11:21,899
- You learn that from this night.
- I know that, Father.

986
01:11:21,900 --> 01:11:23,440
That I know.

987
01:11:23,450 --> 01:11:29,620
There is no virtue.

988
01:11:29,630 --> 01:11:32,610
Look upon me.

989
01:11:32,620 --> 01:11:34,030
Everything took.

990
01:11:34,040 --> 01:11:36,960
No mercy shown.

991
01:11:38,530 --> 01:11:40,740
I only just made it across the Thames

992
01:11:40,750 --> 01:11:42,870
without giving myself up to it.

993
01:11:42,880 --> 01:11:46,380
But I continued because I have
you and your useless fucking

994
01:11:46,390 --> 01:11:48,719
frozen-up mother to keep.

995
01:11:48,720 --> 01:11:52,559
And your sister to keep, too,
and a scrubber maid and a sweep.

996
01:11:52,560 --> 01:11:55,740
And now, by the devilment
of fucking Christmas,

997
01:11:55,750 --> 01:11:58,820
the latest addition to
my list of dependents,

998
01:11:58,830 --> 01:12:03,510
a little white mouse.

999
01:12:03,520 --> 01:12:07,480
Whose reason for existence under my roof

1000
01:12:07,490 --> 01:12:09,570
is yet to be explained to me.

1001
01:12:09,580 --> 01:12:11,220
I can explain the mouse, Father.

1002
01:12:11,230 --> 01:12:12,579
It was a Christmas gift from Lottie.

1003
01:12:12,580 --> 01:12:16,920
There are no gifts!
A gift is just a debt,

1004
01:12:16,930 --> 01:12:18,700
unwritten but implied.

1005
01:12:18,710 --> 01:12:21,760
And this gift has a golden
bell around his neck.

1006
01:12:21,770 --> 01:12:25,210
Now, you tell me, what
good is gold to a mouse?

1007
01:12:25,220 --> 01:12:27,790
The bell wasn't real gold.

1008
01:12:27,800 --> 01:12:30,200
(STAMMERS) Lottie took it from a toy.

1009
01:12:30,210 --> 01:12:32,440
It-it was gilt and worth only pennies.

1010
01:12:32,450 --> 01:12:35,220
Yet, still...

1011
01:12:35,230 --> 01:12:39,310
that mouse, with his bell,

1012
01:12:39,320 --> 01:12:41,420
is richer than I.

1013
01:12:41,430 --> 01:12:44,520
You could have taken that bell.

1014
01:12:44,530 --> 01:12:47,590
Just cut the ribbon. You could have...

1015
01:12:47,600 --> 01:12:50,360
you could have done it without
causing any harm to him.

1016
01:12:50,370 --> 01:12:52,870
Harm to vermin?

1017
01:12:52,880 --> 01:12:54,860
Learn... this...

1018
01:12:54,870 --> 01:12:56,770
lesson!

1019
01:12:56,780 --> 01:13:01,830
Feed only that which
might someday feed you!

1020
01:13:01,840 --> 01:13:03,540
Where is this mouse and its bell?

1021
01:13:03,550 --> 01:13:05,140
Not this.

1022
01:13:05,150 --> 01:13:07,040
Not this. Not a repeat of this.

1023
01:13:07,050 --> 01:13:10,860
Why not this, Ebenezer Scrooge,

1024
01:13:10,870 --> 01:13:14,950
when you've relived it a thousand times?

1025
01:13:19,030 --> 01:13:20,810
(SQUEAKING)

1026
01:13:30,670 --> 01:13:35,650
<i>Learn this lesson!</i>

1027
01:13:35,660 --> 01:13:39,000
To warn me against
unprofitable affections.

1028
01:13:41,580 --> 01:13:44,380
SPIRIT: A lesson you learned well.

1029
01:13:44,390 --> 01:13:48,800
And I am here to make you unlearn it.

1030
01:14:10,160 --> 01:14:12,820
You are the spirit Marley told me about,

1031
01:14:12,830 --> 01:14:14,319
the one who doesn't even care.

1032
01:14:14,320 --> 01:14:16,190
(SHORT CHUCKLE)

1033
01:14:16,200 --> 01:14:19,530
Ah, I am the canvas.

1034
01:14:19,540 --> 01:14:21,660
It is you who paints the pictures.

1035
01:14:21,670 --> 01:14:24,129
I don't care for riddles.

1036
01:14:24,130 --> 01:14:26,660
I am done. Your point is made.

1037
01:14:26,670 --> 01:14:28,390
If it makes any difference,

1038
01:14:28,400 --> 01:14:31,070
your visit has opened an old
wound barely ever healed.

1039
01:14:31,080 --> 01:14:33,070
Congratulations.

1040
01:14:33,080 --> 01:14:36,000
Now, if you don't mind,
I should like to sleep.

1041
01:14:36,010 --> 01:14:38,420
You will not get down on your knees

1042
01:14:38,430 --> 01:14:41,020
and beg me for absolution?

1043
01:14:42,350 --> 01:14:43,560
No.

1044
01:14:45,060 --> 01:14:48,060
I am quite careless of myself.

1045
01:14:48,070 --> 01:14:51,060
I count myself to sleep
each night the same.

1046
01:14:51,070 --> 01:14:53,400
One day, the count will end. So...

1047
01:14:53,410 --> 01:14:58,480
I have had men claw at my robes.

1048
01:14:58,490 --> 01:15:02,540
Women soak my sleeves with their tears.

1049
01:15:02,550 --> 01:15:05,039
Well, perhaps you should
claim a new robe against tax

1050
01:15:05,040 --> 01:15:07,170
as a legitimate expense.

1051
01:15:08,590 --> 01:15:11,910
Tonight, you will not sleep,

1052
01:15:11,920 --> 01:15:14,270
Ebenezer Scrooge.

1053
01:15:14,280 --> 01:15:17,810
I will not allow it.

1054
01:15:22,830 --> 01:15:28,930
This is not a game of reason
against fancy, Ebenezer.

1055
01:15:28,940 --> 01:15:34,360
I will put hot tweezers to your soul

1056
01:15:34,370 --> 01:15:36,450
- and remove the splinters.
- <i>(MARY CRYING)</i>

1057
01:15:38,030 --> 01:15:42,520
I am going to take you on a long journey

1058
01:15:42,530 --> 01:15:45,180
measured not in yards and miles

1059
01:15:45,190 --> 01:15:48,300
but in days and years.

1060
01:15:48,310 --> 01:15:51,490
<i>MARY: Surely, I am forgiven. (SOBS)</i>

1061
01:15:51,500 --> 01:15:53,480
I don't want to go anywhere.

1062
01:15:54,770 --> 01:15:56,420
You have no choice

1063
01:15:56,430 --> 01:16:00,040
but to come with me, Ebenezer.

1064
01:16:00,050 --> 01:16:02,210
<i>(CHILDREN LAUGHING)</i>

1065
01:16:02,220 --> 01:16:07,180
Come... with a Ghost
of Christmas Past...

1066
01:16:07,190 --> 01:16:08,850
<i>(LAUGHING CONTINUES)</i>

1067
01:16:08,860 --> 01:16:12,110
... who feels your heart beating.

1068
01:16:15,050 --> 01:16:16,360
<i>(CHILDREN CLAMORING)</i>

1069
01:16:20,120 --> 01:16:22,200
(CHILDREN LAUGHING, SQUEALING)

1070
01:16:29,070 --> 01:16:31,380
(LAUGHING)

1071
01:16:43,750 --> 01:16:48,100
I have formulated a rational
explanation for this.

1072
01:16:48,110 --> 01:16:51,360
The sherry I drank in front of the fire

1073
01:16:51,370 --> 01:16:54,690
from the decanter which has
been half-full these six months.

1074
01:16:54,700 --> 01:16:57,160
The maid who I dismissed for idleness

1075
01:16:57,170 --> 01:16:59,020
must have slipped laudanum into it.

1076
01:16:59,030 --> 01:17:00,700
I haven't touched a drop of the sherry

1077
01:17:00,710 --> 01:17:02,260
since she left until now.

1078
01:17:02,270 --> 01:17:04,220
There.

1079
01:17:04,230 --> 01:17:06,300
That is what all of this is.

1080
01:17:06,310 --> 01:17:08,860
Laudanum slipped into my wine

1081
01:17:08,870 --> 01:17:10,750
by a vengeful maid.

1082
01:17:12,380 --> 01:17:14,540
You-you are an opiate.

1083
01:17:14,550 --> 01:17:16,509
- Now, come on.
- WOMAN: William.

1084
01:17:16,510 --> 01:17:18,700
- MAN: Time to go.
- WOMAN: Come on.

1085
01:17:18,710 --> 01:17:21,240
- (CHILDREN CONTINUE CLAMORING)
- I know those boys.

1086
01:17:21,250 --> 01:17:22,680
MAN: Time to go, children.

1087
01:17:22,690 --> 01:17:23,920
SCROOGE: Jasper.

1088
01:17:23,930 --> 01:17:26,310
And-and Wellington.

1089
01:17:28,030 --> 01:17:29,900
And poor Horace, who...

1090
01:17:29,910 --> 01:17:32,450
who died of consumption.

1091
01:17:32,460 --> 01:17:34,250
Poor Horace.

1092
01:17:35,610 --> 01:17:36,649
Walk on.

1093
01:17:36,650 --> 01:17:38,859
SPIRIT: We are now in a time

1094
01:17:38,860 --> 01:17:42,270
before poor Horace was struck down.

1095
01:17:42,280 --> 01:17:48,270
Your memory shapes me
according to what time we're in.

1096
01:17:48,280 --> 01:17:50,270
Same spirit.

1097
01:17:50,280 --> 01:17:52,040
(YOUNGER VOICE): Different Christmas.

1098
01:17:53,850 --> 01:17:55,880
At this time in your life,

1099
01:17:55,890 --> 01:17:59,110
I was your only friend.

1100
01:17:59,120 --> 01:18:01,550
Behold.

1101
01:18:01,560 --> 01:18:04,020
I swear, there was
never a time in my life

1102
01:18:04,030 --> 01:18:07,099
when I had a friend who looked
even remotely like you.

1103
01:18:07,100 --> 01:18:09,390
Look again.

1104
01:18:12,190 --> 01:18:14,439
My God.

1105
01:18:14,440 --> 01:18:16,670
- You are Ali Baba.
- Yes!

1106
01:18:16,680 --> 01:18:19,380
How many nights you
spend reading my stories

1107
01:18:19,390 --> 01:18:23,300
under cover by candlelight,
over and over,

1108
01:18:23,310 --> 01:18:25,619
to escape from the pain of these years?

1109
01:18:25,620 --> 01:18:27,380
The shame.

1110
01:18:27,390 --> 01:18:28,490
You are an illustration.

1111
01:18:28,500 --> 01:18:29,610
Correct.

1112
01:18:29,620 --> 01:18:31,960
That is to say, in truth,

1113
01:18:31,970 --> 01:18:34,370
you, too, are also opium.

1114
01:18:34,380 --> 01:18:36,660
Have you ever ridden a camel before?

1115
01:18:36,670 --> 01:18:39,589
(CAMEL GRUNTING)

1116
01:18:39,590 --> 01:18:42,880
No. No, I've never
ridden a camel before.

1117
01:18:42,890 --> 01:18:44,920
Nor have I ever had a
conversation with a picture

1118
01:18:44,930 --> 01:18:46,540
from a picture book.

1119
01:18:46,550 --> 01:18:48,429
Well, today you are doing both.

1120
01:18:48,430 --> 01:18:50,390
Come.

1121
01:18:52,640 --> 01:18:54,100
Come where?

1122
01:19:02,670 --> 01:19:03,819
I know this place.

1123
01:19:03,820 --> 01:19:05,700
Indeed you do.

1124
01:19:05,710 --> 01:19:07,410
The Black Bridge Boarding School.

1125
01:19:09,160 --> 01:19:12,240
I do not wish to come.

1126
01:19:12,250 --> 01:19:15,420
- Why?
- (CAMEL GRUNTING)

1127
01:19:15,430 --> 01:19:17,100
I vowed I would never set foot

1128
01:19:17,110 --> 01:19:18,959
inside Black Bridge School ever again.

1129
01:19:18,960 --> 01:19:21,490
And yet you step back
inside it every night.

1130
01:19:21,500 --> 01:19:22,540
In your dreams.

1131
01:19:22,550 --> 01:19:25,300
Your nightmares.

1132
01:19:25,310 --> 01:19:26,540
You know so much.

1133
01:19:26,550 --> 01:19:28,000
Everything.

1134
01:19:28,010 --> 01:19:31,640
Spirits can know everything
except the outcome.

1135
01:19:31,650 --> 01:19:33,060
Come with me.

1136
01:19:34,770 --> 01:19:35,770
Morphine.

1137
01:19:35,780 --> 01:19:38,939
Actually, his name is
Valentine, but you know that.

1138
01:19:38,940 --> 01:19:40,630
As an 11-year-old child,

1139
01:19:40,640 --> 01:19:41,899
you escaped from hell on his back

1140
01:19:41,900 --> 01:19:44,449
- many, many times.
- (VALENTINE GRUNTS)

1141
01:19:44,450 --> 01:19:47,060
What good will it do for me to go back?

1142
01:19:47,070 --> 01:19:50,280
If you come back with me now,

1143
01:19:50,290 --> 01:19:53,830
you may never have to go back
into your nightmare ever again.

1144
01:19:57,490 --> 01:20:00,470
And if the camel and I
are merely poppy fumes,

1145
01:20:00,480 --> 01:20:02,709
what harm can it do?

1146
01:20:02,710 --> 01:20:04,460
Come.

1147
01:20:06,730 --> 01:20:09,100
The day is drawing to a close.

1148
01:20:09,110 --> 01:20:11,719
You are in the dormitory
reading your book,

1149
01:20:11,720 --> 01:20:14,309
lost in<i> The Arabian Nights.</i>

1150
01:20:14,310 --> 01:20:17,520
You are 11 years old. You are alone.

1151
01:20:17,530 --> 01:20:19,550
Come and see.

1152
01:20:48,310 --> 01:20:51,090
Why do we not leave footprints?

1153
01:20:51,100 --> 01:20:54,520
We are not here.

1154
01:20:54,530 --> 01:20:57,400
What you see happened a long time ago.

1155
01:20:57,410 --> 01:21:00,399
- On a particular day.
- What particular day?

1156
01:21:00,400 --> 01:21:03,080
Come, you will see.

1157
01:21:05,470 --> 01:21:07,279
Who will be there on this day?

1158
01:21:07,280 --> 01:21:10,940
ALI BABA: You and one other.

1159
01:21:10,950 --> 01:21:12,280
(VALENTINE GRUNTS)

1160
01:21:12,290 --> 01:21:14,400
Be brave, Ebenezer.

1161
01:21:16,200 --> 01:21:19,700
You have Ali Baba and
Valentine at your side.

1162
01:21:36,870 --> 01:21:39,530
The other children have gone
home for Christmas, yes?

1163
01:21:39,540 --> 01:21:41,500
Yes. You saw them leave.

1164
01:21:41,510 --> 01:21:43,430
I was the only child
who had to board here

1165
01:21:43,440 --> 01:21:44,939
over the Christmas holidays,

1166
01:21:44,940 --> 01:21:47,990
- because my father said...
- What did he say?

1167
01:21:49,650 --> 01:21:52,620
One year, he said there was
pestilence in our street.

1168
01:21:52,630 --> 01:21:55,280
Another, the house was flooded.

1169
01:21:55,290 --> 01:21:57,870
Another, there was no
room in the new house.

1170
01:21:59,630 --> 01:22:02,169
Always, I had to stay here.

1171
01:22:02,170 --> 01:22:05,280
(DOOR OPENS, SHUTS)

1172
01:22:13,970 --> 01:22:16,390
I know that man.

1173
01:22:19,890 --> 01:22:21,430
(GRUNTS)

1174
01:22:21,440 --> 01:22:23,380
ALI BABA: Ebenezer,

1175
01:22:23,390 --> 01:22:24,979
- you cannot hurt him.
- (LOCK CLICKS)

1176
01:22:24,980 --> 01:22:26,920
- (DOOR OPENS)
- He's in the past.

1177
01:22:26,930 --> 01:22:30,109
- But I see him.
- Always you see him.

1178
01:22:30,110 --> 01:22:32,040
(DOOR CLOSES)

1179
01:22:32,050 --> 01:22:34,080
Ever since those days,

1180
01:22:34,090 --> 01:22:36,590
you see him when you close your eyes.

1181
01:22:37,850 --> 01:22:42,340
The great Ali Baba seeks
to enter your past.

1182
01:22:42,350 --> 01:22:44,959
Enter the den of the 40 thieves.

1183
01:22:44,960 --> 01:22:48,630
Can you remember the magical
password from the book?

1184
01:22:48,640 --> 01:22:51,800
Of course I remember the magic
password. "Open sesame."

1185
01:22:51,810 --> 01:22:54,380
I warned you, Ebenezer Scrooge,

1186
01:22:54,390 --> 01:22:56,900
this is not a game.

1187
01:22:56,910 --> 01:22:58,259
Come.

1188
01:22:58,260 --> 01:23:01,639
Into the truth.

1189
01:23:01,640 --> 01:23:05,570
Open sesame.

1190
01:23:09,660 --> 01:23:11,150
(WIND WHISTLING)

1191
01:23:23,750 --> 01:23:28,880
Ebenezer, look upon yourself.

1192
01:23:28,890 --> 01:23:31,419
What would you say to him if you could?

1193
01:23:31,420 --> 01:23:35,070
Spirit, I should like to go home now.

1194
01:23:38,510 --> 01:23:40,260
That is exactly what he would say to me.

1195
01:23:40,270 --> 01:23:42,470
"I should like to go home now."

1196
01:23:42,480 --> 01:23:45,270
That was all I wanted then,

1197
01:23:45,280 --> 01:23:48,500
to be with my mother and sister.

1198
01:23:48,510 --> 01:23:50,980
Watch.

1199
01:24:04,330 --> 01:24:05,620
Ebenezer.

1200
01:24:07,790 --> 01:24:09,150
Ebenezer.

1201
01:24:10,790 --> 01:24:13,629
Ebenezer.

1202
01:24:13,630 --> 01:24:16,429
It is I.

1203
01:24:16,430 --> 01:24:19,340
(CRICKETS CHIRPING)

1204
01:24:19,350 --> 01:24:22,260
Good Lord. He can see you.

1205
01:24:22,270 --> 01:24:24,860
Just for a moment.

1206
01:24:24,870 --> 01:24:28,649
Sometimes children...
they can see spirits.

1207
01:24:28,650 --> 01:24:30,479
Children that need to see.

1208
01:24:30,480 --> 01:24:33,140
I remember this.

1209
01:24:33,150 --> 01:24:35,350
I remember this very moment.

1210
01:24:36,990 --> 01:24:39,600
In the stories,

1211
01:24:39,610 --> 01:24:42,700
Ali Baba always could do anything.

1212
01:24:42,710 --> 01:24:44,960
I was praying to him to save me

1213
01:24:44,970 --> 01:24:47,209
and come and take me from this place.

1214
01:24:47,210 --> 01:24:50,310
And I swear, just for one moment,

1215
01:24:50,320 --> 01:24:51,879
I looked up and I saw him,

1216
01:24:51,880 --> 01:24:55,010
just where you're standing.

1217
01:25:03,570 --> 01:25:05,400
I...

1218
01:25:05,410 --> 01:25:07,820
I thought he could save anyone.

1219
01:25:29,710 --> 01:25:32,200
So...

1220
01:25:32,210 --> 01:25:34,500
it's just you and I here for
Christmas again, Scrooge.

1221
01:25:36,200 --> 01:25:38,799
Hmm?

1222
01:25:38,800 --> 01:25:41,060
Well, don't worry.

1223
01:25:41,070 --> 01:25:44,429
Course I won't expect you to
sleep in here on your own.

1224
01:25:44,430 --> 01:25:47,809
You'll be with me.

1225
01:25:47,810 --> 01:25:50,390
Just like last year.

1226
01:25:50,400 --> 01:25:51,849
Hmm?

1227
01:25:51,850 --> 01:25:54,720
Come on, get your things.

1228
01:25:54,730 --> 01:25:56,850
Come on. (CHUCKLES)

1229
01:25:58,320 --> 01:26:00,680
Enough. I should like to go home now.

1230
01:26:00,690 --> 01:26:01,940
Not yet. Wait.

1231
01:26:01,950 --> 01:26:04,770
- Come on, boy. Chop chop.
- (HORSE NEIGHING IN DISTANCE)

1232
01:26:04,780 --> 01:26:08,080
ALI BABA: Because this
is the happy year.

1233
01:26:12,250 --> 01:26:14,230
- (HOOFBEATS CLOMPING)
- MAN: Whoa.

1234
01:26:14,240 --> 01:26:16,000
(HORSE NEIGHS)

1235
01:26:16,010 --> 01:26:17,960
(CARRIAGE DOOR OPENS)

1236
01:26:22,890 --> 01:26:23,969
Goodness.

1237
01:26:23,970 --> 01:26:25,639
Yes, I know.

1238
01:26:25,640 --> 01:26:26,929
Uh...

1239
01:26:26,930 --> 01:26:29,210
who is it?

1240
01:26:29,220 --> 01:26:32,080
YOUNG EBENEZER: It's my sister, Lottie.

1241
01:26:32,090 --> 01:26:33,939
What the hell does she want?

1242
01:26:33,940 --> 01:26:36,300
I show you this not to torture you

1243
01:26:36,310 --> 01:26:38,779
but to enlighten you. Look.

1244
01:26:38,780 --> 01:26:40,320
(DOOR OPENS)

1245
01:26:40,330 --> 01:26:43,569
- Lottie!
- She cannot hear you, Ebenezer.

1246
01:26:43,570 --> 01:26:45,620
You are here only to watch and learn.

1247
01:26:46,850 --> 01:26:49,300
Ebby tells me you are his sister.

1248
01:26:49,310 --> 01:26:50,369
What do you want?

1249
01:26:50,370 --> 01:26:52,249
I've come to take my brother home.

1250
01:26:52,250 --> 01:26:54,870
What are you talking about?

1251
01:26:54,880 --> 01:26:57,749
Ebenezer spends Christmas with me.

1252
01:26:57,750 --> 01:27:01,000
Not anymore. Things have changed.

1253
01:27:01,010 --> 01:27:04,080
Uh, your father and I have a
long-standing arrangement

1254
01:27:04,090 --> 01:27:06,469
to keep Ebenezer here.

1255
01:27:06,470 --> 01:27:08,099
Hmm.

1256
01:27:08,100 --> 01:27:11,019
- (CHUCKLES)
- Ebby, go and wait outside.

1257
01:27:11,020 --> 01:27:12,860
- There's a carriage.
- No.

1258
01:27:12,870 --> 01:27:14,019
LOTTIE: Ebby,

1259
01:27:14,020 --> 01:27:16,269
our father has left us.

1260
01:27:16,270 --> 01:27:18,160
At last.

1261
01:27:18,170 --> 01:27:21,640
Mother said you are to go home.

1262
01:27:21,650 --> 01:27:23,420
Go on. Run ahead.

1263
01:27:23,430 --> 01:27:24,990
Now for the part you do not know.

1264
01:27:26,620 --> 01:27:29,920
No. Scrooge, stop.
I order you to come back.

1265
01:27:29,930 --> 01:27:31,630
- Stop!
- (GRUNTING)

1266
01:27:31,640 --> 01:27:33,999
- (SHRIEKS)
- (HEADMASTER SCREAMS)

1267
01:27:34,000 --> 01:27:36,820
Your help is not needed. Watch.

1268
01:27:36,830 --> 01:27:38,900
(GASPS)

1269
01:27:38,910 --> 01:27:41,340
LOTTIE: Our father made my brother

1270
01:27:41,350 --> 01:27:43,420
stay here at Christmas

1271
01:27:43,430 --> 01:27:47,500
in return for you waiving school fees.

1272
01:27:47,510 --> 01:27:51,780
But I and my mother have finally

1273
01:27:51,790 --> 01:27:53,790
managed to be rid of him.

1274
01:27:53,800 --> 01:27:57,240
And your little... arrangement

1275
01:27:57,250 --> 01:27:59,890
regarding my brother is over.

1276
01:28:01,910 --> 01:28:03,899
My brother will never

1277
01:28:03,900 --> 01:28:07,199
return to this school ever again.

1278
01:28:07,200 --> 01:28:11,119
And if you try to follow...

1279
01:28:11,120 --> 01:28:14,159
- I will shoot you.
- (GUN COCKS)

1280
01:28:14,160 --> 01:28:17,780
And, in my defense, have my brother

1281
01:28:17,790 --> 01:28:21,050
tell the parish everything.

1282
01:28:26,350 --> 01:28:28,400
Lottie, like a highwayman.

1283
01:28:28,410 --> 01:28:30,219
She pulled a fucking gun. It's...

1284
01:28:30,220 --> 01:28:31,900
She rescued me.

1285
01:28:31,910 --> 01:28:34,130
A Christmas miracle.

1286
01:28:34,140 --> 01:28:39,920
<i>An act of love without
the need for thanks.</i>

1287
01:28:39,930 --> 01:28:41,970
<i>A gift which was not given</i>

1288
01:28:41,980 --> 01:28:44,100
<i>as a debt implied.</i>

1289
01:28:45,390 --> 01:28:46,710
Come.

1290
01:28:46,720 --> 01:28:48,650
Mother's bought a goose for us to pluck.

1291
01:28:48,660 --> 01:28:51,119
<i>ALI BABA: But you never saw her bravery.</i>

1292
01:28:51,120 --> 01:28:54,750
<i>Never felt the warmth of
her selfless compassion.</i>

1293
01:28:54,760 --> 01:28:56,980
- DRIVER: Go on, then. Get up.
- (WHIP CRACKS)

1294
01:28:56,990 --> 01:28:59,140
(HORSE NEIGHS)

1295
01:28:59,150 --> 01:29:01,460
She always told me I had
to leave the school

1296
01:29:01,470 --> 01:29:03,209
because we couldn't afford the fees.

1297
01:29:03,210 --> 01:29:05,560
You never told a living soul

1298
01:29:05,570 --> 01:29:08,030
about what happened at this school.

1299
01:29:08,040 --> 01:29:09,900
But your sister knew.

1300
01:29:09,910 --> 01:29:11,670
She could not bear the thought

1301
01:29:11,680 --> 01:29:15,900
of you spending another
Christmas in hell.

1302
01:29:15,910 --> 01:29:19,599
Forget ribbons and bells.

1303
01:29:19,600 --> 01:29:22,360
That is the spirit of Christmas.

1304
01:29:24,850 --> 01:29:29,770
But you were numb to her,
lost to all affection.

1305
01:29:29,780 --> 01:29:31,650
You went home

1306
01:29:31,660 --> 01:29:33,520
(ECHOING): and had no more need...

1307
01:29:33,530 --> 01:29:37,620
for Ali Baba and Valentine.

1308
01:30:07,530 --> 01:30:09,320
I never went home.

1309
01:30:12,410 --> 01:30:15,060
The boy who left never returned.

1310
01:30:18,370 --> 01:30:22,960
I counted myself the most
hard-done-by creature on Earth.

1311
01:30:28,930 --> 01:30:32,310
Just yesterday...

1312
01:30:32,320 --> 01:30:36,060
Lottie's son came to
invite me to dinner.

1313
01:30:36,070 --> 01:30:38,620
And even he told me

1314
01:30:38,630 --> 01:30:41,490
Lottie had always warned him

1315
01:30:41,500 --> 01:30:43,300
to be patient with me

1316
01:30:43,310 --> 01:30:46,610
because of a... a very old pain.

1317
01:30:52,530 --> 01:30:55,970
But S-Spirit, consider this.

1318
01:30:55,980 --> 01:30:57,530
This is proof.

1319
01:30:57,540 --> 01:31:00,570
Proof? Of what?

1320
01:31:00,580 --> 01:31:03,140
What happened to me
here at this school...

1321
01:31:03,150 --> 01:31:04,770
this-this excuses me.

1322
01:31:04,780 --> 01:31:06,270
This explains me.

1323
01:31:06,280 --> 01:31:08,290
And because it's all in the past,

1324
01:31:08,300 --> 01:31:10,339
nothing can be done to remedy it.

1325
01:31:10,340 --> 01:31:12,490
(CHUCKLES)

1326
01:31:12,500 --> 01:31:16,340
So, we require more than a mincing knife

1327
01:31:16,350 --> 01:31:19,760
and warm gravy to soften your heart.

1328
01:31:19,770 --> 01:31:22,600
You only see what your
father did to you,

1329
01:31:22,610 --> 01:31:25,230
not what your sister did<i> for</i> you.

1330
01:31:26,310 --> 01:31:30,640
Let us go deeper.

1331
01:31:30,650 --> 01:31:32,060
(GASPS)

1332
01:31:40,050 --> 01:31:44,290
(METAL CLANGING, POUNDING)

1333
01:31:48,220 --> 01:31:50,210
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

1334
01:31:50,220 --> 01:31:51,950
(GRUNTING)

1335
01:31:51,960 --> 01:31:54,680
(HORSE NEIGHS)

1336
01:31:59,360 --> 01:32:01,430
(COUGHING)

1337
01:32:06,900 --> 01:32:08,019
Behold.

1338
01:32:08,020 --> 01:32:11,420
The Scrooge and Marley
anthracite coal mine

1339
01:32:11,430 --> 01:32:13,540
in the country of Wales.

1340
01:32:13,550 --> 01:32:16,069
One of your later commercial ventures,

1341
01:32:16,070 --> 01:32:18,949
after you and Mr. Marley
met at the corn exchange.

1342
01:32:18,950 --> 01:32:21,369
Both buying up bankrupt businesses

1343
01:32:21,370 --> 01:32:23,120
from men like your father.

1344
01:32:26,720 --> 01:32:30,120
And this was one of your
most profitable ventures.

1345
01:32:30,130 --> 01:32:34,350
- (HORSE WHEEZING)
- (HACKING COUGH)

1346
01:32:34,360 --> 01:32:36,310
Poor thing.

1347
01:32:37,530 --> 01:32:41,190
"He is pure air and fire."

1348
01:32:41,200 --> 01:32:44,420
Evidently, when William Shakespeare
wrote that about a horse,

1349
01:32:44,430 --> 01:32:46,980
he'd never seen one put down a coal pit.

1350
01:32:46,990 --> 01:32:49,800
Not much is pure down here.

1351
01:32:49,810 --> 01:32:52,080
SCROOGE: I remember
when we bought the mine,

1352
01:32:52,090 --> 01:32:55,320
I tried not to think about the horses.

1353
01:32:56,450 --> 01:32:58,690
(GROANING)

1354
01:32:58,700 --> 01:33:01,040
You made this place
profitable by cutting down

1355
01:33:01,050 --> 01:33:03,700
on the excessive use of oak timbers.

1356
01:33:03,710 --> 01:33:05,539
Before you and Marley bought the mine,

1357
01:33:05,540 --> 01:33:08,160
they had used timber
quite extravagantly...

1358
01:33:08,170 --> 01:33:10,329
- to support the roof.
- (RUMBLING, CREAKING)

1359
01:33:10,330 --> 01:33:12,089
- (WHISTLE BLOWING)
- (ALL SCREAMING, SHOUTING)

1360
01:33:12,090 --> 01:33:14,130
BOY: Collapse!

1361
01:33:22,100 --> 01:33:24,599
(GRUNTS) Get up, lad! Quick!

1362
01:33:24,600 --> 01:33:28,090
No harm can come to us
because we're not here.

1363
01:33:28,100 --> 01:33:30,430
But they are not so lucky.

1364
01:33:30,440 --> 01:33:31,900
(SHOUTING, SCREAMING CONTINUING)

1365
01:33:31,910 --> 01:33:35,359
Recall. This was midnight
on Christmas Eve.

1366
01:33:35,360 --> 01:33:38,480
And this the Christmas
gift for 27 men and women

1367
01:33:38,490 --> 01:33:40,450
and boys and multiple ponies.

1368
01:33:42,030 --> 01:33:45,140
You tried not to think about the horses,

1369
01:33:45,150 --> 01:33:48,249
but did you ever think
about the human souls?

1370
01:33:48,250 --> 01:33:50,119
Pull us up!

1371
01:33:50,120 --> 01:33:52,459
In the name of God!

1372
01:33:52,460 --> 01:33:54,960
Pull us up!

1373
01:33:54,970 --> 01:33:57,460
In the name of God,
the timbers won't hold!

1374
01:33:57,470 --> 01:33:59,210
Save us!

1375
01:33:59,220 --> 01:34:00,509
Save us! Pull us up!

1376
01:34:00,510 --> 01:34:03,220
- Save us!
- MINER: The only thing you didn't count

1377
01:34:03,230 --> 01:34:06,260
- were the victims.
- Save us! Pull us up! Save us!

1378
01:34:06,270 --> 01:34:08,179
- (RUMBLING)
- (ALL SCREAMING)

1379
01:34:08,180 --> 01:34:11,400
MINER: They were lost in your darkness.

1380
01:34:17,530 --> 01:34:20,570
(SCROOGE PANTING)

1381
01:34:20,580 --> 01:34:23,160
Spirit, where... where are we?

1382
01:34:23,170 --> 01:34:24,440
Is this hell?

1383
01:34:24,450 --> 01:34:25,500
SPIRIT: No.

1384
01:34:25,510 --> 01:34:28,220
We are now back in your 30th year,

1385
01:34:28,230 --> 01:34:29,830
Ebenezer Scrooge.

1386
01:34:31,110 --> 01:34:34,690
And business is booming.

1387
01:34:36,480 --> 01:34:38,630
Come.

1388
01:34:40,880 --> 01:34:43,910
Come quick, or we'll miss it.

1389
01:34:43,920 --> 01:34:47,480
I-I would just like to explain
the Christmas mine collapse

1390
01:34:47,490 --> 01:34:50,140
and its causes, which aren't at
all how you characterized them.

1391
01:34:50,150 --> 01:34:53,090
There is no time for explanations.

1392
01:34:53,100 --> 01:34:54,920
Yes, yes, it's Christmas Eve again.

1393
01:34:54,930 --> 01:34:57,660
And yet they will all be
working until long after dark.

1394
01:34:57,670 --> 01:34:59,570
But come, Ebenezer.

1395
01:35:01,110 --> 01:35:03,190
I fear something awful awaits.

1396
01:35:03,200 --> 01:35:05,600
BUSINESSMAN: No. Something magical.

1397
01:35:05,610 --> 01:35:07,270
Something wonderful.

1398
01:35:07,280 --> 01:35:10,490
Profit, Ebenezer. Pure profit.

1399
01:35:14,630 --> 01:35:18,220
Look, Scrooge, there you are.

1400
01:35:18,230 --> 01:35:20,339
You and Marley in your prime.

1401
01:35:20,340 --> 01:35:23,570
This was the moment
when it all really began.

1402
01:35:25,090 --> 01:35:27,000
My father's barely cold in his grave

1403
01:35:27,010 --> 01:35:28,460
and already you're here with business?

1404
01:35:28,470 --> 01:35:30,300
MARLEY: Well, your father looks down

1405
01:35:30,310 --> 01:35:32,309
from heaven and urges
you to listen to us.

1406
01:35:32,310 --> 01:35:36,479
SCROOGE: Your father was
fond of gambling on horses.

1407
01:35:36,480 --> 01:35:38,979
Fond of it, but poor at it.

1408
01:35:38,980 --> 01:35:42,239
MARLEY: And we can't all choose
the winner at the Epsom Derby.

1409
01:35:42,240 --> 01:35:44,029
MILL OWNER: We didn't
know how much he'd lost

1410
01:35:44,030 --> 01:35:46,500
until his last breath.

1411
01:35:47,490 --> 01:35:52,160
Look, grief blinds you, slows you.

1412
01:35:52,170 --> 01:35:54,660
And we're here to help you.

1413
01:35:54,670 --> 01:35:56,370
We're familiar with some of the people

1414
01:35:56,380 --> 01:35:58,620
of his secret acquaintance
and we're in a position

1415
01:35:58,630 --> 01:36:01,500
to purchase your
father's gambling debts.

1416
01:36:01,510 --> 01:36:05,050
Owed to a turf accountant
in Halifax, name of Dagger.

1417
01:36:12,770 --> 01:36:14,639
Why would you do that?

1418
01:36:14,640 --> 01:36:16,140
YOUNG SCROOGE: I'm afraid the price

1419
01:36:16,150 --> 01:36:17,979
of slow horses are
the least of his legacy.

1420
01:36:17,980 --> 01:36:19,180
Put that back.

1421
01:36:19,190 --> 01:36:21,399
Accounts not worth the
paper they're written on.

1422
01:36:21,400 --> 01:36:24,680
Money due to the government revenue

1423
01:36:24,690 --> 01:36:29,200
spent instead on some nag with
the same name as his mistress.

1424
01:36:29,210 --> 01:36:30,620
MILL OWNER: How dare you?

1425
01:36:31,730 --> 01:36:36,120
Secrets, debts, mistresses...

1426
01:36:38,500 --> 01:36:41,360
... revenue men who
bring pistols and chains.

1427
01:36:41,370 --> 01:36:44,060
They can't chain a ghost, young man.

1428
01:36:44,070 --> 01:36:45,549
It will be you

1429
01:36:45,550 --> 01:36:48,010
they throw into the lockup.

1430
01:36:51,710 --> 01:36:54,389
(SCOFFS) You wish to buy one loom?

1431
01:36:54,390 --> 01:36:57,640
No. The whole mill.

1432
01:36:58,610 --> 01:37:01,300
Well, I think you missed off a zero.

1433
01:37:01,310 --> 01:37:04,510
Zero means nothing, so
we missed off nothing.

1434
01:37:04,520 --> 01:37:06,490
Sit down.

1435
01:37:08,860 --> 01:37:10,210
(SCOFFS QUIETLY)

1436
01:37:12,500 --> 01:37:15,620
Now, we'll deal with Dagger.

1437
01:37:15,630 --> 01:37:18,200
We also have friends at the
revenue who will overlook

1438
01:37:18,210 --> 01:37:20,220
your inherited liability,

1439
01:37:20,230 --> 01:37:23,590
in return for a healthy
bribe, of course.

1440
01:37:24,680 --> 01:37:26,900
The mill itself is worth ten times that.

1441
01:37:26,910 --> 01:37:28,980
The mill is healthy, but
you have no liquidity.

1442
01:37:28,990 --> 01:37:33,000
You need money now.
Without us, it will be a race

1443
01:37:33,010 --> 01:37:35,200
between Dagger's cutthroats

1444
01:37:35,210 --> 01:37:36,720
and the revenue's militiamen.

1445
01:37:36,730 --> 01:37:39,240
MARLEY: And please know
that your father's reputation

1446
01:37:39,250 --> 01:37:41,440
as a pious, Christian family man

1447
01:37:41,450 --> 01:37:43,689
- will be safe in our hands.
- (SIGHS)

1448
01:37:43,690 --> 01:37:46,350
We'll even put up a plaque. There.

1449
01:37:46,360 --> 01:37:47,880
Above your head.

1450
01:37:47,890 --> 01:37:51,380
MARLEY: So your father
can rest in peace.

1451
01:37:51,390 --> 01:37:53,330
Now...

1452
01:37:53,340 --> 01:37:54,360
(CLEARS THROAT)

1453
01:37:54,370 --> 01:37:56,220
... do we have a deal?

1454
01:37:56,230 --> 01:37:57,950
BUSINESSMAN: You bought this cotton mill

1455
01:37:57,960 --> 01:38:00,360
in Dewsbury for £800,

1456
01:38:00,370 --> 01:38:02,820
then promptly sold it four days later

1457
01:38:02,830 --> 01:38:06,839
for £8,000 to be demolished
and broken up for parts.

1458
01:38:06,840 --> 01:38:10,080
You had discovered that
tragedy for the many

1459
01:38:10,090 --> 01:38:13,110
is opportunity for the few.

1460
01:38:13,120 --> 01:38:17,190
500 jobs lost and a profit of £7,200

1461
01:38:17,200 --> 01:38:21,349
in just four days,
for doing precisely...

1462
01:38:21,350 --> 01:38:24,059
nothing.

1463
01:38:24,060 --> 01:38:26,640
You and Marley would become celebrated

1464
01:38:26,650 --> 01:38:29,280
for deals like the splendid
bit of opportunism

1465
01:38:29,290 --> 01:38:31,029
you just witnessed.

1466
01:38:31,030 --> 01:38:32,530
It was business.

1467
01:38:32,540 --> 01:38:34,240
I cannot be blamed for doing business.

1468
01:38:34,250 --> 01:38:36,100
You cannot be blamed for building

1469
01:38:36,110 --> 01:38:38,000
your beautiful temple to profit

1470
01:38:38,010 --> 01:38:42,940
because profit means more and
more and wonderful more.

1471
01:38:42,950 --> 01:38:45,620
And you were very considerate.
You didn't tell the workers

1472
01:38:45,630 --> 01:38:48,220
they had all lost their
jobs until Boxing Day.

1473
01:38:48,230 --> 01:38:51,580
Why do you mock me with
false glory in your voice?

1474
01:38:51,590 --> 01:38:54,040
I am a spirit. I am what you make me,

1475
01:38:54,050 --> 01:38:56,360
and your glory was real.

1476
01:38:56,370 --> 01:38:58,760
Real cash, hard currency.

1477
01:38:58,770 --> 01:39:01,430
Was it so wrong to make a profit?

1478
01:39:01,440 --> 01:39:03,440
To use that profit to make more profit?

1479
01:39:03,450 --> 01:39:04,930
No, nothing wrong at all.

1480
01:39:04,940 --> 01:39:08,479
And every penny you made is
still there inside your head.

1481
01:39:08,480 --> 01:39:10,500
Behold.

1482
01:39:10,510 --> 01:39:13,360
Each loom shows another profitable year

1483
01:39:13,370 --> 01:39:16,659
for the unstoppable Messrs.
Scrooge and Marley.

1484
01:39:16,660 --> 01:39:20,110
That is your fourth year of trading.

1485
01:39:20,120 --> 01:39:22,440
What was your net income that year?

1486
01:39:22,450 --> 01:39:26,240
Year four? Net income: £665,

1487
01:39:26,250 --> 01:39:29,320
seven shillings and sixpence.

1488
01:39:29,330 --> 01:39:31,629
This is year eight!

1489
01:39:31,630 --> 01:39:33,259
Total expenditure?

1490
01:39:33,260 --> 01:39:35,460
Expenditure, year eight:

1491
01:39:35,470 --> 01:39:39,340
£4,871 and 19 shillings,

1492
01:39:39,350 --> 01:39:41,620
mostly the acquisition of Denmon & Sons

1493
01:39:41,630 --> 01:39:43,960
and a wire factory of Birmingham.

1494
01:39:43,970 --> 01:39:47,300
This year. Your tenth year.

1495
01:39:47,310 --> 01:39:48,350
Ah.

1496
01:39:48,360 --> 01:39:50,380
An excellent year.

1497
01:39:50,390 --> 01:39:53,609
A move into spice and
indigo in the Moluccas.

1498
01:39:53,610 --> 01:39:57,770
Income: £9,970 and sevenpence.

1499
01:39:57,780 --> 01:40:00,220
- Expenditure...
- All in your head.

1500
01:40:00,230 --> 01:40:03,400
What a mind you have.
You counted yourself

1501
01:40:03,410 --> 01:40:06,180
the most hard-done-by boy in the world,

1502
01:40:06,190 --> 01:40:09,740
and you counted and counted.

1503
01:40:09,750 --> 01:40:11,450
Wherever you looked,

1504
01:40:11,460 --> 01:40:14,470
you didn't see people,
you saw pounds and pennies.

1505
01:40:14,480 --> 01:40:17,340
The weakness of others spun into wealth.

1506
01:40:17,350 --> 01:40:20,520
Your accounts were your new Ali Baba,

1507
01:40:20,530 --> 01:40:23,060
profit your new Valentine.

1508
01:40:23,070 --> 01:40:26,540
Ah, I forgot. You are mocking me.

1509
01:40:29,440 --> 01:40:32,250
I have done no more
and no less in my life

1510
01:40:32,260 --> 01:40:35,140
than many an illustrious businessman.

1511
01:40:35,150 --> 01:40:36,570
Your life?

1512
01:40:40,600 --> 01:40:44,070
Did you say your life?

1513
01:40:44,080 --> 01:40:46,670
Come and see your life.

1514
01:40:59,850 --> 01:41:03,640
(DRUMROLL PLAYING)

1515
01:41:07,130 --> 01:41:08,519
Behold.

1516
01:41:08,520 --> 01:41:09,769
(DRUMROLL ENDS WITH FANFARE)

1517
01:41:09,770 --> 01:41:12,540
Your life beyond the counting machines.

1518
01:41:12,550 --> 01:41:14,030
(DISTANT APPLAUSE, WHISTLING)

1519
01:41:18,700 --> 01:41:20,570
SCROOGE: Elizabeth.

1520
01:41:22,620 --> 01:41:27,090
The days she waited and waited.

1521
01:41:27,100 --> 01:41:29,990
I was kept late at the exchange.

1522
01:41:32,910 --> 01:41:34,190
Who are they?

1523
01:41:34,200 --> 01:41:37,060
They are the children

1524
01:41:37,070 --> 01:41:41,470
you would have had with Elizabeth.

1525
01:41:45,280 --> 01:41:48,519
And there you are,

1526
01:41:48,520 --> 01:41:51,500
the father you never were,

1527
01:41:51,510 --> 01:41:54,510
being a merry-go-round for the children

1528
01:41:54,520 --> 01:41:57,210
you never had.

1529
01:41:59,660 --> 01:42:02,310
Behold.

1530
01:42:02,320 --> 01:42:04,620
A Christmas past that never was

1531
01:42:04,630 --> 01:42:08,329
and never will be.

1532
01:42:08,330 --> 01:42:10,289
"Humbug.

1533
01:42:10,290 --> 01:42:13,879
"How many Merry Christmases are meant

1534
01:42:13,880 --> 01:42:17,129
"and how many are lies?

1535
01:42:17,130 --> 01:42:20,200
"To pretend on one day each year

1536
01:42:20,210 --> 01:42:22,820
"that the human beast

1537
01:42:22,830 --> 01:42:26,460
is not a human beast."

1538
01:42:26,470 --> 01:42:33,250
Do you see any beasts
up there, Ebenezer?

1539
01:42:38,940 --> 01:42:41,239
<i>(CHILDREN CLAMORING IN DISTANCE)</i>

1540
01:42:41,240 --> 01:42:43,949
<i>(BELL TINKLES)</i>

1541
01:42:43,950 --> 01:42:47,870
I would have called the children...

1542
01:42:47,880 --> 01:42:50,000
Jacob.

1543
01:42:50,010 --> 01:42:51,990
Lottie.

1544
01:42:52,000 --> 01:42:53,749
And neither would have
been sent away to school.

1545
01:42:53,750 --> 01:42:56,460
They would have come
home safe every night.

1546
01:43:00,050 --> 01:43:02,710
Children who were never born

1547
01:43:02,720 --> 01:43:05,340
bring emotion you never had.

1548
01:43:05,350 --> 01:43:07,400
Not even for the children

1549
01:43:07,410 --> 01:43:11,120
of people you knew intimately.

1550
01:43:11,130 --> 01:43:13,220
I told you...

1551
01:43:13,230 --> 01:43:16,790
... my business is the
intimate inspection

1552
01:43:16,800 --> 01:43:20,430
of your heart and of your soul.

1553
01:43:20,440 --> 01:43:23,600
So, come now,

1554
01:43:23,610 --> 01:43:27,829
and we will witness how your blindness

1555
01:43:27,830 --> 01:43:31,360
finally gave rise to the abominable.

1556
01:43:31,370 --> 01:43:36,700
To something you did
seven Christmases ago.

1557
01:43:36,710 --> 01:43:38,350
Seven?

1558
01:43:38,360 --> 01:43:40,680
Come, Ebenezer,

1559
01:43:40,690 --> 01:43:44,790
and look upon the evil that you did.

1560
01:43:44,800 --> 01:43:48,929
An evil that was not even for profit.

1561
01:43:48,930 --> 01:43:51,180
(SCREAMING)

1562
01:43:54,560 --> 01:43:56,950
Dear God. No man should be here.

1563
01:43:56,960 --> 01:43:59,700
We are not men, and we are not here.

1564
01:43:59,710 --> 01:44:01,670
And yet we witness

1565
01:44:01,680 --> 01:44:04,950
- where this awful thing began.
- (SCREAMING, GRUNTING)

1566
01:44:09,410 --> 01:44:11,239
WOMAN: Your baby is born!

1567
01:44:11,240 --> 01:44:12,870
(PANTING)

1568
01:44:15,120 --> 01:44:17,209
Is it a boy or is it a girl?

1569
01:44:17,210 --> 01:44:18,959
- Boy.
- MARY: Oh. Does he breathe?

1570
01:44:18,960 --> 01:44:20,800
WOMAN: He breathes.

1571
01:44:20,810 --> 01:44:22,550
MARY: Is he whole?

1572
01:44:25,010 --> 01:44:27,889
- (BABY CRYING)
- Martha.

1573
01:44:27,890 --> 01:44:29,849
Martha, is he whole?

1574
01:44:29,850 --> 01:44:32,930
Martha, is he whole?!

1575
01:44:35,030 --> 01:44:37,849
And in this,

1576
01:44:37,850 --> 01:44:41,600
this moment, do you
remember what you did?

1577
01:44:43,290 --> 01:44:45,680
No.

1578
01:44:45,690 --> 01:44:48,220
SPIRIT: You looked upon the suffering,

1579
01:44:48,230 --> 01:44:50,720
not of faceless strangers,

1580
01:44:50,730 --> 01:44:54,220
but of people you've known for years.

1581
01:44:54,230 --> 01:44:57,420
And in their anguish,

1582
01:44:57,430 --> 01:45:00,620
you would see only one thing:

1583
01:45:00,630 --> 01:45:02,890
opportunity.

1584
01:45:05,240 --> 01:45:09,040
Come with me to Christmas Eve

1585
01:45:09,050 --> 01:45:11,560
seven Christmases ago.

1586
01:45:13,120 --> 01:45:15,220
When the clock is striking

1587
01:45:15,230 --> 01:45:17,760
- one, two...
- (CLOCK CHIMING)

1588
01:45:17,770 --> 01:45:21,240
<i>three... </i>

1589
01:45:21,250 --> 01:45:24,340
Four, five, six.

1590
01:45:24,350 --> 01:45:25,740
CRIER: 6:00 in the morning,

1591
01:45:25,750 --> 01:45:28,650
and all is snowbound and iced.

1592
01:45:30,470 --> 01:45:32,620
(KNOCKING)

1593
01:45:33,770 --> 01:45:35,920
Cratchit an hour early?

1594
01:45:52,510 --> 01:45:54,510
Mrs. Cratchit.

1595
01:45:54,520 --> 01:45:57,050
May I come in?

1596
01:45:57,060 --> 01:46:00,900
May I speak with you in
confidence, Mr. Scrooge?

1597
01:46:02,560 --> 01:46:05,280
Yes, I always have
time for early risers.

1598
01:46:09,550 --> 01:46:12,840
Is your husband ill? Are
you here to make excuses?

1599
01:46:12,850 --> 01:46:15,400
No. My husband will
be reporting for work

1600
01:46:15,410 --> 01:46:17,199
in one hour, as usual.

1601
01:46:17,200 --> 01:46:20,160
Though to work on Christmas Eve
is not so usual. (CHUCKLES)

1602
01:46:20,170 --> 01:46:23,300
Oh, at Scrooge and Marley, it is usual.

1603
01:46:25,470 --> 01:46:27,930
What do you want at this hour?

1604
01:46:29,860 --> 01:46:32,080
As I think you know...

1605
01:46:32,090 --> 01:46:35,560
two years ago, I gave
birth to a boy, Tim.

1606
01:46:37,030 --> 01:46:41,300
And as I also think you know, he was...

1607
01:46:41,310 --> 01:46:43,340
... born with imperfections.

1608
01:46:43,350 --> 01:46:44,510
Yes.

1609
01:46:44,520 --> 01:46:49,110
Perhaps too much rich food
in your diet, Mrs. Cratchit.

1610
01:46:51,030 --> 01:46:53,510
This cold and the smoke in this city...

1611
01:46:53,520 --> 01:46:55,780
it does not suit a boy so tender.

1612
01:46:57,290 --> 01:46:59,190
He has fluid on his lungs.

1613
01:46:59,200 --> 01:47:01,450
A surgeon has told us

1614
01:47:01,460 --> 01:47:04,050
that he requires an operation,

1615
01:47:04,060 --> 01:47:06,210
thoracic draining...

1616
01:47:08,230 --> 01:47:09,860
... or he will die.

1617
01:47:09,870 --> 01:47:13,280
Now, the-the cost of the operation

1618
01:47:13,290 --> 01:47:14,889
i-is far beyond our means.

1619
01:47:14,890 --> 01:47:19,260
It's very complex, in three stages.

1620
01:47:19,270 --> 01:47:21,390
How much?

1621
01:47:23,950 --> 01:47:25,769
T-Ten, ten and ten.

1622
01:47:25,770 --> 01:47:27,700
£30.

1623
01:47:27,710 --> 01:47:30,300
You can't sell your house?

1624
01:47:30,310 --> 01:47:32,609
The house is rented.

1625
01:47:32,610 --> 01:47:34,659
You have no rich relative?

1626
01:47:34,660 --> 01:47:37,420
Mr. Scrooge, my husband

1627
01:47:37,430 --> 01:47:40,150
is too proud to ask you himself.

1628
01:47:40,160 --> 01:47:46,290
But I weigh my pride against
my baby's life, and...

1629
01:47:46,300 --> 01:47:49,090
... the scales break with the imbalance.

1630
01:47:50,540 --> 01:47:52,170
You are a poet.

1631
01:47:53,810 --> 01:47:57,380
I am a mother...

1632
01:47:57,390 --> 01:48:00,360
... in desperate need.

1633
01:48:00,370 --> 01:48:02,330
And I came here

1634
01:48:02,340 --> 01:48:05,380
without my husband's
permission or knowledge...

1635
01:48:05,390 --> 01:48:08,470
to ask you, Mr. Scrooge, for a loan.

1636
01:48:12,560 --> 01:48:15,380
Where does your husband think you are?

1637
01:48:15,390 --> 01:48:17,610
What lie did you tell?

1638
01:48:20,230 --> 01:48:24,640
Well, uh... I told him that I
would queue for the best goose.

1639
01:48:24,650 --> 01:48:27,040
Ah. You can afford a goose,

1640
01:48:27,050 --> 01:48:29,840
but you still want a loan.

1641
01:48:29,850 --> 01:48:32,860
You could deduct a certain
amount from my husband's wages

1642
01:48:32,870 --> 01:48:35,700
each week. I th-I think we could
survive on two shillings less.

1643
01:48:35,710 --> 01:48:39,000
- And over...
- Shh. Let me see...

1644
01:48:39,010 --> 01:48:41,440
two shillings per week.

1645
01:48:41,450 --> 01:48:44,880
Two by 52, that's 104
shillings per year.

1646
01:48:44,890 --> 01:48:47,189
That is five pounds, four shillings.

1647
01:48:47,190 --> 01:48:50,080
Five pounds, four shillings
per year times six

1648
01:48:50,090 --> 01:48:52,310
is £31, four shillings.

1649
01:48:52,320 --> 01:48:56,470
So, if your husband were
to continue to work for me,

1650
01:48:56,480 --> 01:48:58,770
he would pay his debt in six years

1651
01:48:58,780 --> 01:49:00,570
and provide an interest dividend

1652
01:49:00,580 --> 01:49:02,579
of one pound, four shillings.

1653
01:49:02,580 --> 01:49:05,079
- Mr. Scrooge...
- That's an interest rate of four percent.

1654
01:49:05,080 --> 01:49:09,620
Which, on a six-year
investment, is uncompetitive.

1655
01:49:09,630 --> 01:49:11,400
Especially since it depends

1656
01:49:11,410 --> 01:49:13,540
on a guarantee of six years of service

1657
01:49:13,550 --> 01:49:16,300
when, as we know, life is filled with...

1658
01:49:16,310 --> 01:49:19,170
uh, misfortune and unexpected hazards

1659
01:49:19,180 --> 01:49:23,230
which may render him unable
to fulfill his obligation.

1660
01:49:26,450 --> 01:49:30,320
Mr. Scrooge, I th-I think
we might be able to survive

1661
01:49:30,330 --> 01:49:32,060
on less per week.

1662
01:49:32,070 --> 01:49:34,200
If you were to sacrifice absurd things

1663
01:49:34,210 --> 01:49:36,610
like goose at Christmas, yes, perhaps.

1664
01:49:38,640 --> 01:49:40,200
Mr. Scrooge...

1665
01:49:42,210 --> 01:49:44,330
... there is no one else.

1666
01:49:53,720 --> 01:49:57,100
Mrs. Cratchit, in my safe, at present,

1667
01:49:57,110 --> 01:50:00,400
I have £537 and 15 shillings.

1668
01:50:00,410 --> 01:50:02,790
Pure profit. Pure.

1669
01:50:02,800 --> 01:50:05,310
Just behind that iron door.

1670
01:50:06,890 --> 01:50:09,590
- (DRAWER CLOSES)
- Which opens

1671
01:50:09,600 --> 01:50:12,030
with the turn of this key.

1672
01:50:13,840 --> 01:50:17,150
And the words "open sesame."

1673
01:50:24,530 --> 01:50:26,060
What would you do, Mrs. Cratchit,

1674
01:50:26,070 --> 01:50:27,380
to have me open that door

1675
01:50:27,390 --> 01:50:30,619
and hand you £30?

1676
01:50:30,620 --> 01:50:33,750
Not as a loan, but as a gift.

1677
01:50:38,090 --> 01:50:39,990
I know, Mrs. Cratchit,

1678
01:50:40,000 --> 01:50:44,599
you are a faithful,
virtuous and honest woman.

1679
01:50:44,600 --> 01:50:47,960
But I am curious as
to the extent of that

1680
01:50:47,970 --> 01:50:51,040
honesty and faithfulness.

1681
01:50:51,050 --> 01:50:52,090
(EXHALES)

1682
01:50:52,100 --> 01:50:55,430
The price of it, I mean.

1683
01:50:58,050 --> 01:50:59,440
(SAFE DOOR CLOSES)

1684
01:50:59,450 --> 01:51:01,570
I do not understand what
you mean, Mr. Scrooge.

1685
01:51:13,330 --> 01:51:16,650
Ten, ten and ten.

1686
01:51:20,540 --> 01:51:23,179
I am a man of reason.

1687
01:51:23,180 --> 01:51:27,040
A scientist. I... I like
to conduct experiments

1688
01:51:27,050 --> 01:51:30,040
regarding the human condition.

1689
01:51:30,050 --> 01:51:33,920
Regarding virtue and vice.

1690
01:51:33,930 --> 01:51:37,820
Experiments to determine if every aspect

1691
01:51:37,830 --> 01:51:40,020
of the human soul can be
converted into currency,

1692
01:51:40,030 --> 01:51:43,440
and if so, what is the exchange rate.

1693
01:51:43,450 --> 01:51:48,080
For love, for example, or compassion.

1694
01:51:51,400 --> 01:51:52,869
Mrs. Cratchit, please,

1695
01:51:52,870 --> 01:51:55,539
take ten now,

1696
01:51:55,540 --> 01:51:58,539
then think up another lie
to tell your husband,

1697
01:51:58,540 --> 01:52:02,040
and come to my apartment on
Christmas Day at 4:00 p.m.

1698
01:52:02,050 --> 01:52:04,340
When you are at my apartment,

1699
01:52:04,350 --> 01:52:06,969
if you do exactly what
I tell you to do...

1700
01:52:06,970 --> 01:52:09,720
everything I tell you to do...
I'll give you the rest.

1701
01:52:10,760 --> 01:52:12,810
As a gift.

1702
01:52:25,600 --> 01:52:29,420
Christmas... Christmas Day
itself would be difficult.

1703
01:52:29,430 --> 01:52:31,920
Christmas Day is a day like any other.

1704
01:52:31,930 --> 01:52:34,540
Meet me at my apartment at
4:00 p.m. Do we have a deal?

1705
01:52:40,050 --> 01:52:41,630
Yes.

1706
01:52:45,010 --> 01:52:46,540
(SNIFFLES)

1707
01:52:55,850 --> 01:52:58,230
(DOOR OPENS, CLOSES)

1708
01:53:07,010 --> 01:53:10,489
SPIRIT: This is not a game,

1709
01:53:10,490 --> 01:53:14,870
Ebenezer Scrooge.

1710
01:53:25,420 --> 01:53:31,870
_

1711
01:53:40,310 --> 01:53:45,280
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
- (PEOPLE LAUGHING, SINGING)

1712
01:54:03,120 --> 01:54:04,710
Spare a penny for the poor, madam,

1713
01:54:04,720 --> 01:54:07,350
on this fine Christmas Day.

1714
01:54:07,360 --> 01:54:10,100
And so it came to pass

1715
01:54:10,110 --> 01:54:12,880
that on this Christmas Day

1716
01:54:12,890 --> 01:54:14,900
seven years ago...

1717
01:54:14,910 --> 01:54:17,120
Why do I feel the cold?

1718
01:54:17,130 --> 01:54:19,790
Why do I feel the cold
if I am only here in spirit

1719
01:54:19,800 --> 01:54:22,190
and not here in body?

1720
01:54:23,930 --> 01:54:27,819
The cold that you are
feeling comes from within,

1721
01:54:27,820 --> 01:54:30,500
from inside your soul.

1722
01:54:30,510 --> 01:54:32,500
Before this moment,

1723
01:54:32,510 --> 01:54:35,449
you couldn't feel it, but now you can.

1724
01:54:35,450 --> 01:54:39,380
Then if I am to become a
compassionate and tender person,

1725
01:54:39,390 --> 01:54:41,180
I will need thicker socks.

1726
01:54:41,190 --> 01:54:44,080
When real feeling returns,

1727
01:54:44,090 --> 01:54:47,520
pins and needles will begin.
Needles in your heart.

1728
01:54:47,530 --> 01:54:50,690
Pins to hold up pictures from your past.

1729
01:54:50,700 --> 01:54:54,640
Come. Follow poor Mary to her destiny

1730
01:54:54,650 --> 01:54:57,360
and witness what you did.

1731
01:54:57,370 --> 01:54:59,099
And remember,

1732
01:54:59,100 --> 01:55:02,800
this is not about you, Ebenezer Scrooge,

1733
01:55:02,810 --> 01:55:05,480
it is about her.

1734
01:55:08,280 --> 01:55:10,250
WOMAN: Merry Christmas to you, madam.

1735
01:55:27,030 --> 01:55:30,010
(CLOCK TICKING)

1736
01:55:41,350 --> 01:55:45,770
♪ ♪

1737
01:56:01,130 --> 01:56:04,230
Dear God, forgive me.

1738
01:56:04,240 --> 01:56:06,919
Dear, dear Bob, forgive me.

1739
01:56:06,920 --> 01:56:09,460
Children, forgive me.

1740
01:56:09,470 --> 01:56:11,620
Jesus, turn your head.

1741
01:56:18,680 --> 01:56:20,520
(LOCK CLICKS)

1742
01:56:29,230 --> 01:56:31,690
Come in.

1743
01:56:33,800 --> 01:56:36,250
I do not need to witness this.

1744
01:56:37,370 --> 01:56:39,240
I do not need to be here.

1745
01:56:41,410 --> 01:56:45,530
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

1746
01:56:49,150 --> 01:56:52,050
- Drink?
- No. Please...

1747
01:56:53,480 --> 01:56:56,640
... let's get this thing done.

1748
01:56:56,650 --> 01:57:00,130
I said I'd be back for...

1749
01:57:01,230 --> 01:57:02,460
For what?

1750
01:57:02,470 --> 01:57:06,300
For the pouring of the
brandy on the pudding.

1751
01:57:06,310 --> 01:57:09,600
Ah. A perfect Christmas tradition.

1752
01:57:09,610 --> 01:57:12,380
Pour perfectly good brandy
onto an already-cooked

1753
01:57:12,390 --> 01:57:14,569
pudding and set fire to it.

1754
01:57:14,570 --> 01:57:17,989
Thus burning the pudding
and wasting the brandy.

1755
01:57:17,990 --> 01:57:21,370
To the moment.

1756
01:57:21,380 --> 01:57:25,199
And what is the moment?
I need to be clear.

1757
01:57:25,200 --> 01:57:28,000
Our arrangement.

1758
01:57:31,090 --> 01:57:32,709
I need to be clear.

1759
01:57:32,710 --> 01:57:35,680
You will...

1760
01:57:35,690 --> 01:57:38,790
give me money if...

1761
01:57:38,800 --> 01:57:43,880
I allow you to do what you want.

1762
01:57:46,750 --> 01:57:51,760
And what do I want?

1763
01:57:51,770 --> 01:57:55,040
I need to be clear.

1764
01:57:55,050 --> 01:57:56,859
I have to say it out loud?

1765
01:57:56,860 --> 01:57:58,900
Yes.

1766
01:58:02,410 --> 01:58:06,180
I imagine...

1767
01:58:06,190 --> 01:58:08,160
intercourse.

1768
01:58:11,260 --> 01:58:12,920
To be clear...

1769
01:58:12,930 --> 01:58:16,140
you are willing to have
intercourse with me

1770
01:58:16,150 --> 01:58:19,680
in return for the £20 cash
I have put on the fireplace,

1771
01:58:19,690 --> 01:58:21,130
along with the ten I put down

1772
01:58:21,140 --> 01:58:24,600
as a deposit on your virtue.

1773
01:58:24,610 --> 01:58:25,890
In the name of God.

1774
01:58:27,130 --> 01:58:28,600
You would do it in the name of God?

1775
01:58:28,610 --> 01:58:30,740
For my son.

1776
01:58:30,750 --> 01:58:33,479
- As you know...
- Yes.

1777
01:58:33,480 --> 01:58:35,780
Yes, I know.

1778
01:58:37,390 --> 01:58:39,040
Please.

1779
01:58:40,860 --> 01:58:42,970
My family are all waiting.

1780
01:59:02,590 --> 01:59:05,050
(MARY SNIFFLES)

1781
01:59:08,420 --> 01:59:11,880
I do this only for the life of my child.

1782
01:59:14,420 --> 01:59:15,910
(SNIFFLES)

1783
01:59:18,730 --> 01:59:20,600
In truth, your reason for needing

1784
01:59:20,610 --> 01:59:22,360
the money is not part of my experiment,

1785
01:59:22,370 --> 01:59:24,160
and therefore not of interest to me.

1786
01:59:25,670 --> 01:59:27,190
Everyone has their own reasons

1787
01:59:27,200 --> 01:59:29,579
for wanting and needing money.

1788
01:59:29,580 --> 01:59:31,860
That is not the issue.

1789
01:59:31,870 --> 01:59:34,999
My experiment is about currency.

1790
01:59:35,000 --> 01:59:37,760
It is about finding out the extent

1791
01:59:37,770 --> 01:59:41,610
of the things a good person
will do in return for money

1792
01:59:41,620 --> 01:59:44,640
and how much each bad thing would cost.

1793
01:59:46,530 --> 01:59:48,639
Thereby establishing a...

1794
01:59:48,640 --> 01:59:52,140
kind of exchange rate,
a human exchange rate.

1795
01:59:54,830 --> 01:59:58,060
Similar to the exchange rate
on the commodity market.

1796
01:59:58,070 --> 02:00:02,640
Except now...

1797
02:00:02,650 --> 02:00:03,960
it is your virtue.

1798
02:00:03,970 --> 02:00:05,430
(SNIFFLES)

1799
02:00:05,440 --> 02:00:07,990
Your virtue up for auction.

1800
02:00:09,970 --> 02:00:12,040
And with it, any doubt in my mind

1801
02:00:12,050 --> 02:00:14,910
about human nature.

1802
02:00:18,130 --> 02:00:19,550
Going...

1803
02:00:20,590 --> 02:00:23,220
... going...

1804
02:00:24,510 --> 02:00:26,140
(SNIFFLES)

1805
02:00:29,970 --> 02:00:32,070
... gone.

1806
02:00:40,360 --> 02:00:43,950
(CRYING SOFTLY)

1807
02:00:57,120 --> 02:00:59,370
(SNIFFLES)

1808
02:01:04,170 --> 02:01:06,430
I have no interest in
you, Mary Cratchit.

1809
02:01:07,870 --> 02:01:10,810
Nor in anyone in this way anymore.

1810
02:01:12,470 --> 02:01:14,360
The intercourse I sought

1811
02:01:14,370 --> 02:01:17,230
was purely of the intellectual kind.

1812
02:01:20,550 --> 02:01:23,609
You are a devoted wife,

1813
02:01:23,610 --> 02:01:26,230
a loving mother,

1814
02:01:26,240 --> 02:01:29,170
and yet, on Christmas Day,

1815
02:01:29,180 --> 02:01:31,529
you are prepared to run across town

1816
02:01:31,530 --> 02:01:34,380
in the snow

1817
02:01:34,390 --> 02:01:37,000
and break every solemn vow

1818
02:01:37,010 --> 02:01:39,490
and commandment

1819
02:01:39,500 --> 02:01:43,090
in return for money.

1820
02:01:48,540 --> 02:01:49,840
(SNIFFLES)

1821
02:01:52,340 --> 02:01:54,670
Take it.

1822
02:01:54,680 --> 02:01:57,550
You've already given me what I want.

1823
02:01:59,220 --> 02:02:00,760
Proof.

1824
02:02:10,700 --> 02:02:13,030
Merry Christmas.

1825
02:02:39,230 --> 02:02:41,350
Never speak of this.

1826
02:02:48,130 --> 02:02:50,280
I will never tell your husband.

1827
02:02:52,910 --> 02:02:54,220
But if he should ever tell you

1828
02:02:54,230 --> 02:02:55,949
he is thinking of leaving my employment,

1829
02:02:55,950 --> 02:02:58,380
the truth might slip.

1830
02:02:58,390 --> 02:03:02,270
So I will count on you
to urge caution to him

1831
02:03:02,280 --> 02:03:04,080
as he considers his future career.

1832
02:03:04,090 --> 02:03:08,150
I value your husband very highly.

1833
02:03:11,070 --> 02:03:14,800
Now go and burn your figgy pudding.

1834
02:03:28,400 --> 02:03:29,990
I will.

1835
02:03:32,950 --> 02:03:35,570
And I will say a prayer.

1836
02:03:38,620 --> 02:03:42,209
That someday...

1837
02:03:42,210 --> 02:03:45,480
some power of justice

1838
02:03:45,490 --> 02:03:49,150
will grab you by the throat

1839
02:03:49,160 --> 02:03:55,719
and drag you to a true, bright mirror

1840
02:03:55,720 --> 02:03:57,860
that you might see the truth

1841
02:03:57,870 --> 02:04:00,710
in your reflection.

1842
02:04:01,910 --> 02:04:04,220
And that the truth

1843
02:04:04,230 --> 02:04:07,510
will be known to the world.

1844
02:04:12,750 --> 02:04:16,480
I am a woman,

1845
02:04:16,490 --> 02:04:20,200
and I have the power to
summon such spirits.

1846
02:04:23,330 --> 02:04:25,610
And I fucking will.

1847
02:04:47,650 --> 02:04:51,480
♪ ♪

1848
02:04:53,420 --> 02:04:55,360
(DOOR CLOSES)

1849
02:05:02,690 --> 02:05:04,610
Humbug.

1850
02:05:15,800 --> 02:05:16,940
Is it true?

1851
02:05:16,950 --> 02:05:20,080
(DOOR OPENS, CLOSES)

1852
02:05:20,090 --> 02:05:21,620
Was it Mary Cratchit who summoned you

1853
02:05:21,630 --> 02:05:23,679
- to take me by the throat?
- (CHUCKLES)

1854
02:05:23,680 --> 02:05:26,430
Behold.

1855
02:05:28,510 --> 02:05:31,030
Even yet.

1856
02:05:32,190 --> 02:05:34,960
No pins, mm?

1857
02:05:34,970 --> 02:05:37,440
No needles.

1858
02:05:38,710 --> 02:05:41,650
(CHUCKLES)

1859
02:05:41,660 --> 02:05:43,909
Oh, fuck.

1860
02:05:43,910 --> 02:05:46,990
What care I about another?

1861
02:05:47,000 --> 02:05:49,190
Just-just remember,

1862
02:05:49,200 --> 02:05:52,760
the-the money I gave to Mary Cratchit

1863
02:05:52,770 --> 02:05:54,420
was used to save her son's life,

1864
02:05:54,430 --> 02:05:58,060
and-and Tim lives still,
so if you view virtue

1865
02:05:58,070 --> 02:06:00,180
purely through the consequence of action

1866
02:06:00,190 --> 02:06:02,600
rather than the motivation
for the said action,

1867
02:06:02,610 --> 02:06:05,220
we have just witnessed my
former self doing a good thing.

1868
02:06:07,390 --> 02:06:09,059
Bravo.

1869
02:06:09,060 --> 02:06:12,109
You are a rock.

1870
02:06:12,110 --> 02:06:14,550
A pile of rubble.

1871
02:06:14,560 --> 02:06:16,029
A heart lost,

1872
02:06:16,030 --> 02:06:18,900
never to be found.

1873
02:06:22,390 --> 02:06:25,020
The sun measures my allocation.

1874
02:06:26,890 --> 02:06:29,020
My time with you is done.

1875
02:06:31,670 --> 02:06:34,860
- So-so I am forgiven?
- How many times must you be told?!

1876
02:06:34,870 --> 02:06:37,459
It's not about your forgiveness!

1877
02:06:37,460 --> 02:06:39,259
Well, what is it, then?

1878
02:06:39,260 --> 02:06:42,089
How am I supposed to find
what I'm meant to find,

1879
02:06:42,090 --> 02:06:45,009
or feel what you want me to feel
if-if I don't know what it is?

1880
02:06:45,010 --> 02:06:47,350
It is now midday.

1881
02:06:47,360 --> 02:06:49,080
The second spirit will come

1882
02:06:49,090 --> 02:06:51,640
when the clock strikes midnight.

1883
02:06:51,650 --> 02:06:56,390
The second spirit will search
the blizzard for your heart.

1884
02:06:56,400 --> 02:06:59,819
And if it only finds rocks and ice,

1885
02:06:59,820 --> 02:07:03,300
- Ebenezer Scrooge be damned!
- Wait. Wait.

1886
02:07:03,310 --> 02:07:04,989
Wait, tell me what to expect.

1887
02:07:04,990 --> 02:07:07,640
(ECHOING): No, tell me
what is expected of me.

1888
02:07:07,650 --> 02:07:09,080
My-my thoughts are my own,

1889
02:07:09,090 --> 02:07:11,660
but my soul is beyond my control.

1890
02:07:11,670 --> 02:07:14,940
Spirit, tell me how to change it!

1891
02:07:22,930 --> 02:07:24,469
Spirit.

1892
02:07:24,470 --> 02:07:26,750
Is there hope?

1893
02:07:28,890 --> 02:07:31,760
Has he changed?

1894
02:07:31,770 --> 02:07:33,020
Spirit, speak.

1895
02:07:35,250 --> 02:07:37,300
Oh, please tell me the work you've done

1896
02:07:37,310 --> 02:07:38,520
has managed to change him.

1897
02:07:38,530 --> 02:07:42,200
I can't stay here for eternity.

1898
02:07:45,070 --> 02:07:47,990
(INDISTINCT WHISPERS ECHOING)

1899
02:08:05,400 --> 02:08:07,590
They're sending you.

1900
02:08:33,030 --> 02:08:36,040
SCROOGE: Merry Christmas.

1901
02:08:36,050 --> 02:08:38,629
Merry Christmas, one and all.

1902
02:08:38,630 --> 02:08:40,890
Many benefits.

1903
02:08:40,900 --> 02:08:43,130
Prosper.

1904
02:08:43,140 --> 02:08:47,000
I mean you prosper, not me.

1905
02:08:47,010 --> 02:08:50,300
Seasons tidings, et cetera, et cet...

1906
02:08:54,290 --> 02:08:56,370
(SIGHS)

1907
02:08:58,860 --> 02:09:01,740
Merry Christmas, one and all.

1908
02:09:05,700 --> 02:09:08,420
And on and on it goes.

1909
02:09:08,430 --> 02:09:12,090
Empty, false and forced.

1910
02:09:12,100 --> 02:09:15,890
Year upon year, endlessly.

1911
02:09:18,980 --> 02:09:21,130
- WOMAN: Ebby.
- (GASPS)

1912
02:09:24,920 --> 02:09:27,030
Spirit?

1913
02:09:31,490 --> 02:09:33,140
Spirit?

1914
02:09:36,440 --> 02:09:38,439
WOMAN: Ebby, go wait outside.

1915
02:09:38,440 --> 02:09:41,689
Our father has left us.

1916
02:09:41,690 --> 02:09:43,860
At last.

1917
02:09:57,870 --> 02:09:59,620
Lottie.

1918
02:10:04,550 --> 02:10:07,839
You paid for my funeral, yet here I am.

1919
02:10:07,840 --> 02:10:10,180
The Ghost of Christmas Present.

1920
02:10:10,190 --> 02:10:13,240
A present unknown to you.

1921
02:10:13,250 --> 02:10:16,310
Unknown to almost everyone
till they're made to look.

1922
02:10:21,550 --> 02:10:23,610
Come.

1923
02:10:24,910 --> 02:10:26,540
Come on.

1924
02:10:26,550 --> 02:10:28,920
Lottie, i-if I'd known
what you did for me

1925
02:10:28,930 --> 02:10:30,840
all those years ago, I would've
shown more understanding.

1926
02:10:30,850 --> 02:10:34,080
I will show and you will learn.

1927
02:10:34,090 --> 02:10:36,289
And hopefully...

1928
02:10:36,290 --> 02:10:38,110
you will soon begin to feel.

1929
02:10:38,120 --> 02:10:39,659
So you need to wrap up.

1930
02:10:39,660 --> 02:10:42,210
You may recall that when I was alive,

1931
02:10:42,220 --> 02:10:43,539
I was quite the scientist.

1932
02:10:43,540 --> 02:10:45,750
Well, I still am.

1933
02:10:45,760 --> 02:10:49,549
What I will show you is
in the name of science.

1934
02:10:49,550 --> 02:10:51,380
You like experiments, don't you?

1935
02:10:51,390 --> 02:10:53,009
(INDISTINCT CHATTER,
LAUGHING IN DISTANCE)

1936
02:10:53,010 --> 02:10:55,759
Any scientific study of human
society will illustrate

1937
02:10:55,760 --> 02:10:58,380
the success of that
society is dependent upon

1938
02:10:58,390 --> 02:10:59,599
the function of the collective.

1939
02:10:59,600 --> 02:11:01,840
And the function of the
collective is dependent on

1940
02:11:01,850 --> 02:11:03,100
various discrete factors.

1941
02:11:03,110 --> 02:11:04,420
You know, Lottie, I once remarked

1942
02:11:04,430 --> 02:11:06,479
that you were the
brightest person I knew.

1943
02:11:06,480 --> 02:11:07,859
Hmm.

1944
02:11:07,860 --> 02:11:09,710
Later, I remarked that you were also

1945
02:11:09,720 --> 02:11:12,040
a bit of a show-off about it.

1946
02:11:16,160 --> 02:11:17,740
LOTTIE: Now just pay attention.

1947
02:11:18,810 --> 02:11:20,720
Our first case study.

1948
02:11:20,730 --> 02:11:22,539
It is Christmas morning.

1949
02:11:22,540 --> 02:11:25,380
Not past, not future,

1950
02:11:25,390 --> 02:11:28,140
but here and now.

1951
02:11:28,150 --> 02:11:30,930
Not an easy time for Bob and Mary.

1952
02:11:30,940 --> 02:11:34,220
Not much surplus for
gifts for the children.

1953
02:11:34,230 --> 02:11:36,760
Bob has taken Belinda's old ice skates

1954
02:11:36,770 --> 02:11:39,060
and he's mending them so that
she can skate on the pond

1955
02:11:39,070 --> 02:11:41,300
on Christmas Day, as she loves to do.

1956
02:11:41,310 --> 02:11:44,480
Mary's writing out a story
that she was told as a child.

1957
02:11:44,490 --> 02:11:46,810
- From memory.
- (SOFT CLATTERING)

1958
02:11:46,820 --> 02:11:49,540
She has an excellent memory.

1959
02:11:52,860 --> 02:11:54,850
The story of Icarus.

1960
02:11:54,860 --> 02:11:57,180
She's illustrating it for Tim

1961
02:11:57,190 --> 02:11:59,079
so that she can give it to him.

1962
02:11:59,080 --> 02:12:02,300
And they have no money for books.

1963
02:12:02,310 --> 02:12:03,840
- Almost time.
- LOTTIE: Tim will value this book

1964
02:12:03,850 --> 02:12:06,329
- more than any bought in a shop.
- Almost done.

1965
02:12:06,330 --> 02:12:08,260
And if you're worried about the ink,

1966
02:12:08,270 --> 02:12:11,960
Bob offered to steal her
some from your supply...

1967
02:12:11,970 --> 02:12:14,970
but she refused.

1968
02:12:14,980 --> 02:12:17,040
She didn't want anything in the house

1969
02:12:17,050 --> 02:12:19,480
that had even been touched
by Ebenezer Scrooge.

1970
02:12:19,490 --> 02:12:21,040
- TIM: It's Christmas!
- (MARY GASPS)

1971
02:12:21,050 --> 02:12:23,010
BOB: Ho-ho, Merry Christmas.

1972
02:12:23,020 --> 02:12:24,710
- MARY: Merry Christmas.
- TIM: Merry Christmas.

1973
02:12:24,720 --> 02:12:26,820
- Hey, mister. You sleep all right?
- MARY: Oh...

1974
02:12:26,830 --> 02:12:27,920
- Merry Christmas.
- MARY: Happy Christmas.

1975
02:12:27,930 --> 02:12:30,109
Is this an experiment to see if you can

1976
02:12:30,110 --> 02:12:32,240
- wring blood from my heart?
- MARY: Presents.

1977
02:12:32,250 --> 02:12:34,949
No. No, I show you this
scene to comfort you.

1978
02:12:34,950 --> 02:12:36,360
- MARY: Did you sleep?
- TIM: Yeah.

1979
02:12:36,370 --> 02:12:38,119
MARY: Did you? No?

1980
02:12:38,120 --> 02:12:41,699
They have no money. But listen.

1981
02:12:41,700 --> 02:12:43,300
- That's for you, Belinda.
- Thank you.

1982
02:12:43,310 --> 02:12:44,570
This is for you.

1983
02:12:44,580 --> 02:12:45,869
Yeah, oh, that one's for you too, Tim.

1984
02:12:45,870 --> 02:12:49,380
What they lack in money
they make up for with love.

1985
02:12:50,910 --> 02:12:53,040
Fruit and nuts. Yes!

1986
02:12:53,050 --> 02:12:54,259
To share, Belinda.

1987
02:12:54,260 --> 02:12:55,640
Don't you see the science of it?

1988
02:12:55,650 --> 02:12:58,080
TIM: Biscuits. Thank you.

1989
02:12:58,090 --> 02:13:00,180
Love makes them mend and draw

1990
02:13:00,190 --> 02:13:02,599
and write, make do.

1991
02:13:02,600 --> 02:13:06,260
- My ice skates. Good as new.
- LOTTIE: Without love,

1992
02:13:06,270 --> 02:13:09,500
they would demand more money
for new skates and real books.

1993
02:13:09,510 --> 02:13:11,019
Every Bob Cratchit in England

1994
02:13:11,020 --> 02:13:13,190
survives half on money...

1995
02:13:14,450 --> 02:13:17,160
- ... and half on love.
- MARY: You gonna go out on them today?

1996
02:13:17,170 --> 02:13:18,930
- BELINDA: Yes.
- MARY: Yes?

1997
02:13:18,940 --> 02:13:21,700
This book is beautiful.

1998
02:13:21,710 --> 02:13:23,770
Be careful... it might
still be a bit wet.

1999
02:13:23,780 --> 02:13:25,210
- Okay.
- Okay.

2000
02:13:27,590 --> 02:13:30,289
- BELINDA: Thank you so much for these.
- BOB: You are welcome.

2001
02:13:30,290 --> 02:13:32,840
<i>ALI BABA (ECHOING): Ebenezer.</i>

2002
02:13:32,850 --> 02:13:34,709
<i>It is I.</i>

2003
02:13:34,710 --> 02:13:37,180
MARY: Your dad was up all night.

2004
02:13:37,190 --> 02:13:39,340
(CHUCKLES)

2005
02:13:42,300 --> 02:13:44,260
LOTTIE: So it is love.

2006
02:13:44,270 --> 02:13:47,680
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
- Love that saves the system

2007
02:13:47,690 --> 02:13:48,730
from revolution.

2008
02:13:48,740 --> 02:13:50,720
(BOB AND MARY LAUGHING)

2009
02:13:50,730 --> 02:13:53,830
A scientific and economic reason

2010
02:13:53,840 --> 02:13:56,040
for you to embrace it, Ebenezer.

2011
02:13:56,050 --> 02:13:58,370
See the value of it.

2012
02:13:58,380 --> 02:14:01,170
- You're mocking me.
- You mock yourself,

2013
02:14:01,180 --> 02:14:05,120
putting a value to things
that have no price.

2014
02:14:08,390 --> 02:14:12,120
How many candles are
there under the tree?

2015
02:14:12,130 --> 02:14:15,090
And bells. How many bells?

2016
02:14:15,100 --> 02:14:18,490
And presents for the children...
how many were there?

2017
02:14:18,500 --> 02:14:22,320
- You didn't count.
- CAROLERS: ♪ <i>O, come all ye faithful</i> ♪

2018
02:14:22,330 --> 02:14:23,960
- ♪<i> Joyful</i> ♪
- You stared for a long time,

2019
02:14:23,970 --> 02:14:26,540
- but you didn't count.
- ♪<i> And triumphant</i> ♪

2020
02:14:26,550 --> 02:14:29,070
- Before, you always counted everything.
- ♪<i> O, come ye</i> ♪

2021
02:14:29,080 --> 02:14:32,640
- This time, you looked.
- ♪<i> Oh, come ye to Bethlehem</i> ♪

2022
02:14:32,650 --> 02:14:34,440
(CHURCH BELLS RINGING)

2023
02:14:34,450 --> 02:14:36,580
- Is that a good thing?
- ♪<i> Come and</i> ♪

2024
02:14:36,590 --> 02:14:39,220
- Is that... progress?
- ♪<i> Behold Him</i> ♪

2025
02:14:39,230 --> 02:14:42,050
- You tell me.
- ♪<i> Born the King of Angels</i> ♪

2026
02:14:42,060 --> 02:14:43,180
SCROOGE: I thought you were supposed

2027
02:14:43,190 --> 02:14:44,500
- to know it all.
- ♪<i> Oh, come, let us</i> ♪

2028
02:14:44,510 --> 02:14:46,820
- LOTTIE: Oh, do you smell that, Ebby?
- ♪<i> Adore Him... ♪</i>

2029
02:14:46,830 --> 02:14:48,250
- (LAUGHING)
- The day passes quickly.

2030
02:14:48,260 --> 02:14:49,640
Already it's dinnertime.

2031
02:14:49,650 --> 02:14:50,660
MARY: It's a pleasure to have you here.

2032
02:14:50,670 --> 02:14:52,290
LOTTIE: Mm, and there's goose.

2033
02:14:52,300 --> 02:14:54,780
Mary. As a lonely widow,

2034
02:14:54,790 --> 02:14:56,420
I had a dozen invitations to dinner,

2035
02:14:56,430 --> 02:14:58,540
and I'm mightily glad that
I chose to accept yours.

2036
02:14:58,550 --> 02:15:01,100
- Never a finer goose was seen.
- (SONG ENDS, CAROLERS CHEERING)

2037
02:15:01,110 --> 02:15:02,219
TIM: And so cheap.

2038
02:15:02,220 --> 02:15:04,849
It had a broken leg or a
leg shorter than the other

2039
02:15:04,850 --> 02:15:06,559
- or something.
- BOB (LAUGHING): Tim...

2040
02:15:06,560 --> 02:15:08,320
- (LAUGHTER)
- MARY: Bob, you carve.

2041
02:15:08,330 --> 02:15:10,740
After dinner, I'm going skating.

2042
02:15:10,750 --> 02:15:12,390
I want to come.

2043
02:15:12,400 --> 02:15:14,120
You can't hardly walk.
How will you skate?

2044
02:15:14,130 --> 02:15:17,020
- Belinda, please.
- TIM: I will skate someday.

2045
02:15:17,030 --> 02:15:20,960
MARY: You will. But if you read my book,

2046
02:15:20,970 --> 02:15:22,440
you will learn how to fly.

2047
02:15:22,450 --> 02:15:23,780
(MARTHA LAUGHS)

2048
02:15:23,790 --> 02:15:25,420
BELINDA: Will we have
figgy pudding this year?

2049
02:15:25,430 --> 02:15:26,960
Eat your dinner first, Belinda.

2050
02:15:26,970 --> 02:15:28,300
MARY: Of course we'll
have figgy pudding.

2051
02:15:28,310 --> 02:15:29,320
It's already in the copper.

2052
02:15:29,330 --> 02:15:31,600
And will we pour brandy
on it and set light to it?

2053
02:15:31,610 --> 02:15:33,910
Yes, but you'll have the
bit without the brandy.

2054
02:15:33,920 --> 02:15:35,620
BELINDA: Wasn't there
a year where Mum had

2055
02:15:35,630 --> 02:15:37,640
to go out and missed the
brandy being poured?

2056
02:15:37,650 --> 02:15:38,919
When was that?

2057
02:15:38,920 --> 02:15:40,300
MARTHA: Really? That's a shame.

2058
02:15:40,310 --> 02:15:42,009
BELINDA: Come on, Dad, I'm starving.

2059
02:15:42,010 --> 02:15:43,549
TIM: Yeah, me, too.

2060
02:15:43,550 --> 02:15:45,389
- MARY: Tim.
- Thank you.

2061
02:15:45,390 --> 02:15:46,849
MARTHA: Mm, would you look at that.

2062
02:15:46,850 --> 02:15:50,020
- Did you help Belinda, Tim?
- BELINDA: I plucked the goose.

2063
02:15:51,100 --> 02:15:54,650
(DOOR OPENS, CLOSES)

2064
02:15:56,770 --> 02:16:00,020
The absence of money
a family can survive.

2065
02:16:00,030 --> 02:16:03,280
The absence of truthfulness they cannot.

2066
02:16:03,290 --> 02:16:05,850
- BOB: Mary.
- I'm fine. Please go and carve.

2067
02:16:05,860 --> 02:16:06,860
We said we'd discuss the source

2068
02:16:06,870 --> 02:16:08,230
- of the money after...
- How? How?

2069
02:16:11,980 --> 02:16:14,860
It's as though the whole issue

2070
02:16:14,870 --> 02:16:17,500
is somehow with us in this house.

2071
02:16:24,850 --> 02:16:26,810
I need to tell you, Bob.

2072
02:16:30,490 --> 02:16:32,190
- I want to tell you the truth.
- Please, not now...

2073
02:16:32,200 --> 02:16:33,729
- No, I can't stand...
- BELINDA: Mum,

2074
02:16:33,730 --> 02:16:35,439
Martha's trying to carve
and she's making...

2075
02:16:35,440 --> 02:16:37,439
Go, Belinda.

2076
02:16:37,440 --> 02:16:38,960
BELINDA: Hurry up.

2077
02:16:38,970 --> 02:16:41,190
TIM: Come on, Dad. Come on, Mom.

2078
02:16:47,170 --> 02:16:49,910
I want to tell you...

2079
02:16:49,920 --> 02:16:52,950
where I got the money
for Tim's operation.

2080
02:17:08,550 --> 02:17:11,710
SCROOGE: It's as if she can see me.

2081
02:17:13,730 --> 02:17:17,189
Sometimes, in high emotions,
they can see spirits.

2082
02:17:17,190 --> 02:17:20,060
Mary, if you want to tell
me the truth here and now,

2083
02:17:20,070 --> 02:17:22,770
please, go ahead and do it.

2084
02:17:22,780 --> 02:17:24,930
And before the goose goes cold.

2085
02:17:29,390 --> 02:17:31,290
The truth is...

2086
02:17:33,330 --> 02:17:35,290
... there is no rich cousin in America.

2087
02:17:36,730 --> 02:17:38,510
I made him up.

2088
02:17:40,250 --> 02:17:44,340
That Christmas Day, I...

2089
02:17:46,720 --> 02:17:48,810
I...

2090
02:17:52,970 --> 02:17:55,830
I went...

2091
02:17:58,520 --> 02:18:00,399
to Margaret Henderson.

2092
02:18:00,400 --> 02:18:02,570
Lady Henderson.

2093
02:18:04,210 --> 02:18:05,319
You remember her.

2094
02:18:05,320 --> 02:18:07,360
The one who lost her mind.

2095
02:18:11,570 --> 02:18:13,400
I remembered when I worked for her,

2096
02:18:13,410 --> 02:18:16,320
she had so many diamonds
that she never wore.

2097
02:18:16,330 --> 02:18:19,670
I asked if I could have
a pair of her earrings.

2098
02:18:23,770 --> 02:18:26,140
- Why is she lying?
- To spare the day.

2099
02:18:26,150 --> 02:18:28,670
- What?
- To spare her loving husband.

2100
02:18:28,680 --> 02:18:32,790
MARY: She was old and
she was confused, and...

2101
02:18:32,800 --> 02:18:36,460
for all she knew,
I might as well have been

2102
02:18:36,470 --> 02:18:38,280
asking for a ginger biscuit.

2103
02:18:38,290 --> 02:18:41,230
She said, "Yes, take them."

2104
02:18:42,650 --> 02:18:45,320
I took the diamonds from her jewelry box

2105
02:18:45,330 --> 02:18:46,910
and I sold them.

2106
02:18:48,600 --> 02:18:51,590
So, there.

2107
02:18:52,970 --> 02:18:55,660
Here I stand before you,

2108
02:18:55,670 --> 02:18:59,160
your wife the jewelry thief.

2109
02:19:02,590 --> 02:19:05,430
That is how I got the money.

2110
02:19:14,550 --> 02:19:16,720
(SNIFFLES)

2111
02:19:18,390 --> 02:19:20,480
Sweetheart, this moment of truth

2112
02:19:20,490 --> 02:19:23,490
is the best Christmas
present I've ever had.

2113
02:19:29,150 --> 02:19:31,500
- I have something to tell you.
- (SNIFFLES)

2114
02:19:31,510 --> 02:19:33,560
All of you.

2115
02:19:34,670 --> 02:19:36,120
Come.

2116
02:19:43,210 --> 02:19:46,000
Everyone, I have some news.

2117
02:19:49,410 --> 02:19:51,370
Uh...

2118
02:19:51,380 --> 02:19:55,170
Cratchit tribe, one and all,

2119
02:19:55,180 --> 02:19:56,480
your father has something to tell you.

2120
02:19:56,490 --> 02:19:57,740
MARY: Bob, let's eat first.

2121
02:19:57,750 --> 02:20:00,219
No, this news will help
with our digestions.

2122
02:20:00,220 --> 02:20:02,430
- What news?
- BELINDA: Can we eat while we listen?

2123
02:20:02,440 --> 02:20:03,689
MARTHA: Hush, Belinda.

2124
02:20:03,690 --> 02:20:06,380
I, uh...

2125
02:20:06,390 --> 02:20:09,750
I wish to announce I've made a decision.

2126
02:20:09,760 --> 02:20:13,030
About my career.

2127
02:20:14,370 --> 02:20:16,290
I've decided that, uh,

2128
02:20:16,300 --> 02:20:18,100
Monday morning,

2129
02:20:18,110 --> 02:20:20,300
December 26... that's tomorrow...

2130
02:20:20,310 --> 02:20:23,070
I'm gonna go into the
office, I'm gonna hand in

2131
02:20:23,080 --> 02:20:27,280
my resignation notice to that
old skinflint Ebenezer Scrooge.

2132
02:20:27,290 --> 02:20:28,440
- (TIM LAUGHS)
- BELINDA: Yes!

2133
02:20:28,450 --> 02:20:29,839
Mary, don't be alarmed.

2134
02:20:29,840 --> 02:20:32,680
I've received an alternative
offer, you see,

2135
02:20:32,690 --> 02:20:35,440
by Mr. Thwaites,
of Thwaites and Langley.

2136
02:20:35,450 --> 02:20:37,220
He was quite disgusted
by some of the things

2137
02:20:37,230 --> 02:20:39,600
Scrooge said to him on the street.

2138
02:20:39,610 --> 02:20:42,010
He sent me an offer.

2139
02:20:42,020 --> 02:20:44,800
And, uh, the best part is, uh,

2140
02:20:44,810 --> 02:20:49,770
my, uh, my Christmas gift
to the whole family.

2141
02:20:49,780 --> 02:20:52,690
In my new position, I will be receiving

2142
02:20:52,700 --> 02:20:55,400
two extra shillings every week.

2143
02:20:55,410 --> 02:20:58,060
- Two shillings?
- So, next year there will be

2144
02:20:58,070 --> 02:21:00,159
brand-new ice skates for you, Belinda,

2145
02:21:00,160 --> 02:21:02,220
and there will be real
wings for you, Tim.

2146
02:21:02,230 --> 02:21:04,280
- (LAUGHS)
- BELINDA: Dad, thank you!

2147
02:21:04,290 --> 02:21:06,140
- TIM: Thank you, Dad.
- BOB: You're welcome.

2148
02:21:06,150 --> 02:21:08,780
Bob, congratulations. Well done.

2149
02:21:08,790 --> 02:21:11,450
- Thank you. Thank you. All right.
- TIM: Well done.

2150
02:21:11,460 --> 02:21:12,920
(KIDS AND MARTHA LAUGH)

2151
02:21:15,930 --> 02:21:18,220
BOB: Mary.

2152
02:21:20,650 --> 02:21:22,679
You of all people hate Scrooge.

2153
02:21:22,680 --> 02:21:26,440
And when I leave we'll be free of him.

2154
02:21:28,060 --> 02:21:30,390
We will never be free of him.

2155
02:21:30,400 --> 02:21:33,310
- What do you mean?
- MARY: Enough.

2156
02:21:36,620 --> 02:21:39,070
We will get Christmas done, Bob.

2157
02:21:39,080 --> 02:21:41,480
- Then we must speak again.
- Mary...

2158
02:21:41,490 --> 02:21:42,829
- (POUNDS TABLE)
- MARY: We will get Christmas

2159
02:21:42,830 --> 02:21:44,790
done!

2160
02:22:09,580 --> 02:22:12,420
(SIGHS) There.

2161
02:22:12,430 --> 02:22:14,200
A happy family

2162
02:22:14,210 --> 02:22:16,609
silenced by your experiment.

2163
02:22:16,610 --> 02:22:19,740
I want her to know that
if Bob Cratchit resigns,

2164
02:22:19,750 --> 02:22:21,440
I will say nothing about what happened.

2165
02:22:21,450 --> 02:22:22,660
I-I want to tell her that right now.

2166
02:22:22,670 --> 02:22:23,989
LOTTIE: No. She already
feels your presence.

2167
02:22:23,990 --> 02:22:25,520
We need to leave.

2168
02:22:25,530 --> 02:22:27,210
MARY: Get out of my house.

2169
02:22:28,660 --> 02:22:30,750
Get out of my house.

2170
02:22:33,170 --> 02:22:37,000
Get out of my house!

2171
02:22:41,410 --> 02:22:45,099
<i>LOTTIE: And behold, Ebenezer,</i>

2172
02:22:45,100 --> 02:22:48,389
<i>the bruised and broken
body of Christmas Day.</i>

2173
02:22:48,390 --> 02:22:52,270
- Seen with your own eyes.
- (CHOIR SINGING IN DISTANCE)

2174
02:22:56,590 --> 02:22:58,100
Now listen.

2175
02:22:58,110 --> 02:23:02,680
This very Christmas morning...

2176
02:23:02,690 --> 02:23:04,970
... in a valley far away...

2177
02:23:06,530 --> 02:23:08,720
... they are singing.

2178
02:23:29,890 --> 02:23:32,280
Where are we?

2179
02:23:32,290 --> 02:23:35,190
A Christmas Day memorial service

2180
02:23:35,200 --> 02:23:37,180
for those who lost their lives

2181
02:23:37,190 --> 02:23:40,510
in your great Trechloddfa pit disaster.

2182
02:23:59,830 --> 02:24:02,380
What do you see?

2183
02:24:07,370 --> 02:24:09,090
What am I meant to see?

2184
02:24:09,100 --> 02:24:12,000
No tears. Nor self-pity.

2185
02:24:12,010 --> 02:24:14,690
You see men and women
and children united.

2186
02:24:18,520 --> 02:24:23,280
♪ ♪

2187
02:24:24,450 --> 02:24:25,739
<i>(WHISTLE BLOWS)</i>

2188
02:24:25,740 --> 02:24:28,240
- ♪
♪
- (DISTANT SCREAMING, SHOUTING)

2189
02:24:31,910 --> 02:24:35,630
(BOY SINGING A SOLO)

2190
02:24:40,590 --> 02:24:42,260
- (DISTORTED SHOUTING)
- (HORSE NEIGHING)

2191
02:24:47,930 --> 02:24:49,429
They harbor no hatred?

2192
02:24:49,430 --> 02:24:51,020
LOTTIE: There's some hatred.

2193
02:24:52,310 --> 02:24:54,460
That boy.

2194
02:24:56,340 --> 02:25:00,120
He takes a train to London
every Christmas Eve

2195
02:25:00,130 --> 02:25:04,109
to pay his respects at
Jacob Marley's grave.

2196
02:25:04,110 --> 02:25:07,870
<i>He lost his father and two
brothers to your economies.</i>

2197
02:25:14,210 --> 02:25:16,300
My goodness.

2198
02:25:16,310 --> 02:25:19,960
The feelings you instill
are terribly strong.

2199
02:25:28,390 --> 02:25:30,840
Given my time again,

2200
02:25:30,850 --> 02:25:33,220
I would not reduce
expenditure on timber.

2201
02:25:43,110 --> 02:25:45,700
Given the time again,

2202
02:25:45,710 --> 02:25:49,029
I would not be myself.

2203
02:25:49,030 --> 02:25:52,320
There.

2204
02:25:52,330 --> 02:25:54,560
The first pin.

2205
02:25:54,570 --> 02:25:57,320
The first needle.

2206
02:26:08,050 --> 02:26:11,160
"Erected in memory of
the 17 brave ponies

2207
02:26:11,170 --> 02:26:12,780
"who perished in the earth

2208
02:26:12,790 --> 02:26:15,270
one Christmas Day in the morning."

2209
02:26:25,690 --> 02:26:28,240
Do you remember Flash?

2210
02:26:28,250 --> 02:26:31,670
The black horse I rode to
school before I was sent away.

2211
02:26:32,990 --> 02:26:35,100
Yes.

2212
02:26:35,110 --> 02:26:38,260
And then when I went
away, Father sold him.

2213
02:26:40,740 --> 02:26:43,420
Just as when I was a boy...

2214
02:26:44,810 --> 02:26:46,960
... he sold me.

2215
02:26:55,350 --> 02:26:57,800
Ebenezer,

2216
02:26:57,810 --> 02:26:59,980
my time with you is almost done.

2217
02:27:01,130 --> 02:27:02,690
Please speak of it.

2218
02:27:04,830 --> 02:27:06,980
I just...

2219
02:27:10,140 --> 02:27:13,120
I am feeling regret.

2220
02:27:15,840 --> 02:27:17,950
It comes to me like a...

2221
02:27:17,960 --> 02:27:20,670
like a...

2222
02:27:20,680 --> 02:27:23,530
like a lump in my throat.

2223
02:27:23,540 --> 02:27:25,990
A lump of rock in my throat.

2224
02:27:28,010 --> 02:27:29,540
Regret.

2225
02:27:31,790 --> 02:27:33,390
That is a start, isn't it?

2226
02:27:38,130 --> 02:27:40,280
I should have thanked you...

2227
02:27:42,110 --> 02:27:44,800
... for taking me out of that school,

2228
02:27:44,810 --> 02:27:48,400
where I now know I was part of a bargain

2229
02:27:48,410 --> 02:27:51,040
done between a schoolmaster

2230
02:27:51,050 --> 02:27:53,840
and our father.

2231
02:27:53,850 --> 02:27:56,650
My father.

2232
02:27:56,660 --> 02:27:59,390
My own father.

2233
02:28:01,090 --> 02:28:02,280
(STAMMERS)

2234
02:28:02,290 --> 02:28:04,920
There.

2235
02:28:04,930 --> 02:28:07,090
Said out loud.

2236
02:28:11,330 --> 02:28:14,860
If saying it conquered
it, I would shout it.

2237
02:28:14,870 --> 02:28:17,510
It doesn't.

2238
02:28:22,950 --> 02:28:24,500
Lottie, I sh...

2239
02:28:24,510 --> 02:28:27,940
I should have loved you.

2240
02:28:32,350 --> 02:28:34,680
But I want you, in all the world,

2241
02:28:34,690 --> 02:28:37,910
to understand...

2242
02:28:37,920 --> 02:28:40,030
it was too late.

2243
02:28:41,490 --> 02:28:46,500
You came with your carriage and your gun

2244
02:28:46,510 --> 02:28:48,320
too late.

2245
02:28:53,740 --> 02:28:57,180
That is what I will say as my defense.

2246
02:29:06,450 --> 02:29:08,360
LOTTIE: Ebenezer...

2247
02:29:09,990 --> 02:29:12,770
... when the next spirit comes...

2248
02:29:14,330 --> 02:29:17,050
... please don't offer him excuses.

2249
02:29:18,780 --> 02:29:21,760
He is the terrible one.

2250
02:29:21,770 --> 02:29:25,290
The unknown one.

2251
02:29:27,040 --> 02:29:29,660
And the one who decides.

2252
02:29:33,710 --> 02:29:36,110
He has no interest in the past.

2253
02:29:36,120 --> 02:29:39,009
- Lottie...
- Only what lies ahead.

2254
02:29:39,010 --> 02:29:41,110
Go back inside. He'll be waiting.

2255
02:29:41,120 --> 02:29:43,480
Lottie...

2256
02:29:43,490 --> 02:29:44,810
Goodbye, dear brother.

2257
02:29:50,790 --> 02:29:53,170
I couldn't love you.

2258
02:30:21,680 --> 02:30:26,470
♪ ♪

2259
02:30:33,080 --> 02:30:36,170
So...

2260
02:30:36,180 --> 02:30:38,030
this is the future.

2261
02:30:55,750 --> 02:30:59,090
(DEEP, INDISTINCT WHISPER)

2262
02:31:04,830 --> 02:31:06,560
Spirit?

2263
02:31:10,810 --> 02:31:13,450
(WHISPERING, INDISTINCT VOICES)

2264
02:31:27,870 --> 02:31:31,170
♪ ♪

2265
02:31:58,100 --> 02:31:59,440
(BELL TOLLING)

2266
02:32:02,950 --> 02:32:05,069
When the bell tolls, the spirit comes.

2267
02:32:05,070 --> 02:32:07,660
Yes, I understand.

2268
02:32:09,630 --> 02:32:11,290
And I am ready.

2269
02:32:32,230 --> 02:32:34,520
I understand

2270
02:32:34,530 --> 02:32:37,440
you are the Spirit of Christmas Future,

2271
02:32:37,450 --> 02:32:39,340
and because we can
never know the future,

2272
02:32:39,350 --> 02:32:42,290
you are not allowed to speak.

2273
02:32:52,190 --> 02:32:56,230
(HEART BEATING)

2274
02:32:58,290 --> 02:33:02,210
Yes. I do have a heart.

2275
02:33:04,230 --> 02:33:08,300
I am ready for whatever
you wish to show me.

2276
02:33:11,970 --> 02:33:14,060
(HOOFBEATS CLOMPING)

2277
02:33:23,410 --> 02:33:26,210
My office.

2278
02:33:28,010 --> 02:33:30,900
Goodness, look at all the coal.

2279
02:33:30,910 --> 02:33:33,420
I must be out of town.

2280
02:33:33,430 --> 02:33:36,110
Still looks... looks the same.

2281
02:33:36,120 --> 02:33:38,720
It's not too far in the future.
What year is this?

2282
02:33:38,730 --> 02:33:40,790
(INDISTINCT CHATTER OUTSIDE)

2283
02:33:54,310 --> 02:33:57,980
"Dear Mr. Scrooge,
this letter is to inform you

2284
02:33:57,990 --> 02:34:01,400
that I am as of this day
offering my resignation."

2285
02:34:03,220 --> 02:34:05,230
S-So he's doing it, he's resigning.

2286
02:34:05,240 --> 02:34:08,359
"Before I leave,

2287
02:34:08,360 --> 02:34:11,159
"I wanted you to know that
you are the most unpleasant,

2288
02:34:11,160 --> 02:34:12,739
- devious, inhuman... "
- (DOOR OPENS)

2289
02:34:12,740 --> 02:34:14,230
BELINDA: Dad.

2290
02:34:14,240 --> 02:34:15,940
Come. It's Tim.

2291
02:34:15,950 --> 02:34:17,820
- There's been an accident.
- BOB: When? How?

2292
02:34:17,830 --> 02:34:19,419
BELINDA: He went-he went to the pond.

2293
02:34:19,420 --> 02:34:21,330
He borrowed my ice skates,

2294
02:34:21,340 --> 02:34:23,420
- but he didn't tell anyone.
- (THUMPING)

2295
02:34:23,430 --> 02:34:25,220
Nobody was with him.

2296
02:34:29,300 --> 02:34:31,889
BOB: All right, come on.

2297
02:34:31,890 --> 02:34:33,179
Come on.

2298
02:34:33,180 --> 02:34:35,389
(DOOR OPENS)

2299
02:34:35,390 --> 02:34:36,860
(DOOR CLOSES)

2300
02:34:38,890 --> 02:34:40,230
(GASPS)

2301
02:34:42,980 --> 02:34:45,190
(MUFFLED SHOUTING)

2302
02:34:59,830 --> 02:35:03,380
(MUFFLED SHOUTING CONTINUES)

2303
02:35:17,470 --> 02:35:22,010
♪ ♪

2304
02:35:30,700 --> 02:35:32,190
Wait.

2305
02:35:32,200 --> 02:35:35,500
My sister said it is you who decides.

2306
02:35:35,510 --> 02:35:37,070
Are you deciding now?

2307
02:35:37,080 --> 02:35:38,800
Is it in your power to change things?

2308
02:35:38,810 --> 02:35:40,000
Because if it is...

2309
02:35:42,750 --> 02:35:44,879
Me?

2310
02:35:44,880 --> 02:35:47,300
I can change things? How?

2311
02:35:48,820 --> 02:35:51,370
You mean if I had my time again.

2312
02:35:51,380 --> 02:35:53,179
We-Well, then, give it to me.

2313
02:35:53,180 --> 02:35:55,420
I know I don't deserve a second chance,

2314
02:35:55,430 --> 02:35:57,810
but I understand now
what it is I must...

2315
02:36:15,450 --> 02:36:19,530
(WHISPERING, INDISTINCT VOICES)

2316
02:36:19,540 --> 02:36:22,210
Tim, you'll catch your death.

2317
02:36:26,790 --> 02:36:29,380
Or is it death that has caught you?

2318
02:36:31,190 --> 02:36:32,630
Is he dead?

2319
02:36:40,300 --> 02:36:42,350
Between life and death.

2320
02:36:49,270 --> 02:36:51,760
Tim. Tim!

2321
02:36:51,770 --> 02:36:53,310
If you can hear me, you must live!

2322
02:36:53,320 --> 02:36:55,739
You must stay away,
Tim, for your mother!

2323
02:36:55,740 --> 02:36:58,909
We're here, little man. Stay with us.

2324
02:36:58,910 --> 02:37:01,039
(GRUNTS)

2325
02:37:01,040 --> 02:37:02,500
I don't care about the rules.

2326
02:37:06,500 --> 02:37:08,629
We're here, little man.

2327
02:37:08,630 --> 02:37:10,200
<i>No, no, no, no.</i>

2328
02:37:10,210 --> 02:37:12,500
No, no, no, don't...
don't leave us, Tim.

2329
02:37:12,510 --> 02:37:15,630
- <i>Tim, no... </i>(CRYING)
- (ICE CRACKING)

2330
02:37:20,610 --> 02:37:22,220
(GROANS)

2331
02:37:25,480 --> 02:37:27,660
(SQUEAKING)

2332
02:37:43,410 --> 02:37:48,490
♪ ♪

2333
02:37:58,510 --> 02:38:02,100
My... self.

2334
02:38:08,690 --> 02:38:10,859
What year is this? What year do I die?

2335
02:38:10,860 --> 02:38:14,070
(CLOCK TICKING)

2336
02:38:16,400 --> 02:38:20,700
(CAROLERS SINGING OUTSIDE)

2337
02:38:20,710 --> 02:38:23,160
But it is Christmas.

2338
02:38:25,170 --> 02:38:29,330
No mourners, just worldly goods.

2339
02:38:31,550 --> 02:38:34,190
Well, actually, Spirit, I don't care.

2340
02:38:35,880 --> 02:38:38,030
I don't care what will become of me.

2341
02:38:41,090 --> 02:38:43,470
I only care about one thing.

2342
02:39:00,610 --> 02:39:02,620
(SPLASHING)

2343
02:39:24,890 --> 02:39:26,530
Bravo.

2344
02:39:28,390 --> 02:39:31,340
Bravo.

2345
02:39:31,350 --> 02:39:33,370
I know my fate.

2346
02:39:34,790 --> 02:39:37,090
And you know my question.

2347
02:39:40,310 --> 02:39:42,700
What happened to Tim Cratchit?

2348
02:39:44,020 --> 02:39:49,570
(FOOTSTEPS IN DISTANCE)

2349
02:39:58,460 --> 02:40:00,650
(SHORT EXHALE)

2350
02:40:06,410 --> 02:40:08,890
(STOOL SQUEAKS)

2351
02:40:14,710 --> 02:40:18,430
No matter what, nothing sinks them.

2352
02:40:18,440 --> 02:40:21,780
Not even death.

2353
02:40:21,790 --> 02:40:25,140
Nothing makes them question
because they have...

2354
02:40:46,380 --> 02:40:52,470
Spirit, I need to know why.

2355
02:40:52,480 --> 02:40:56,290
What was the reason for all of this?

2356
02:40:58,090 --> 02:41:01,380
Why did you spirits come to me?

2357
02:41:01,390 --> 02:41:04,650
Why did you show me all of this?

2358
02:41:05,960 --> 02:41:08,030
What purpose?

2359
02:41:09,400 --> 02:41:12,330
(CHAINS CLINK)

2360
02:41:19,710 --> 02:41:22,459
I'm not sure what the
reason is, Ebenezer,

2361
02:41:22,460 --> 02:41:25,170
but I know the purpose.

2362
02:41:25,180 --> 02:41:28,300
It's all to do with redemption

2363
02:41:28,310 --> 02:41:30,470
and our joint liability.

2364
02:41:35,260 --> 02:41:38,420
All three spirits have done their work.

2365
02:41:38,430 --> 02:41:42,610
I asked them to let me have a final try.

2366
02:41:48,310 --> 02:41:51,460
We were so, so wrong.

2367
02:41:56,780 --> 02:41:58,709
Admit that,

2368
02:41:58,710 --> 02:42:01,120
at least.

2369
02:42:01,130 --> 02:42:04,210
No.

2370
02:42:04,220 --> 02:42:06,250
No, I refuse.

2371
02:42:06,260 --> 02:42:10,090
I refuse to change.

2372
02:42:11,200 --> 02:42:12,620
All their efforts were for nothing,

2373
02:42:12,630 --> 02:42:16,580
because I refuse redemption.

2374
02:42:16,590 --> 02:42:19,480
What in God's name, Ebenezer, why?

2375
02:42:21,610 --> 02:42:23,280
This fate...

2376
02:42:23,290 --> 02:42:27,300
this piss-covered, second-class grave...

2377
02:42:27,310 --> 02:42:29,199
is exactly what I deserve.

2378
02:42:29,200 --> 02:42:31,449
And if redemption

2379
02:42:31,450 --> 02:42:34,680
were to result in some
kind of forgiveness,

2380
02:42:34,690 --> 02:42:37,210
I do not want it.

2381
02:42:37,220 --> 02:42:40,160
Because I would find a way to justify

2382
02:42:40,170 --> 02:42:43,790
everything I have done
according to the consequence.

2383
02:42:43,800 --> 02:42:46,630
'Cause that's who I am.

2384
02:42:52,070 --> 02:42:54,220
The only thing...

2385
02:43:00,280 --> 02:43:03,750
The only thing I want the spirits to do,

2386
02:43:03,760 --> 02:43:06,560
the only change I want them to make...

2387
02:43:12,720 --> 02:43:15,510
... is to spare the life of him.

2388
02:43:18,690 --> 02:43:21,500
(WHISPERING, INDISTINCT VOICES)

2389
02:43:37,560 --> 02:43:41,050
♪ ♪

2390
02:43:51,790 --> 02:43:55,240
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

2391
02:43:57,410 --> 02:43:58,740
(GRUNTS)

2392
02:43:58,750 --> 02:44:01,960
WOMAN: Oh, you poor man. You all right?

2393
02:44:06,370 --> 02:44:09,000
I am more than all right.

2394
02:44:09,010 --> 02:44:11,230
I can feel.

2395
02:44:11,240 --> 02:44:13,509
And I can feel that I can feel.

2396
02:44:13,510 --> 02:44:16,310
- (GRUNTING)
- Feel what?

2397
02:44:16,320 --> 02:44:19,180
At the moment, a pain in my ass.

2398
02:44:19,190 --> 02:44:21,610
Oh, ouch. Yes.

2399
02:44:21,620 --> 02:44:24,479
I was meaning to sprinkle
this on the ice earlier.

2400
02:44:24,480 --> 02:44:28,720
What with it being Christmas, I forgot.

2401
02:44:28,730 --> 02:44:32,050
Yes. Yes.

2402
02:44:34,070 --> 02:44:36,279
Everything in life is a lesson

2403
02:44:36,280 --> 02:44:38,200
if you care to learn.

2404
02:44:38,210 --> 02:44:40,699
The sprinkling of gravel on ice

2405
02:44:40,700 --> 02:44:43,340
is an action taken by a person

2406
02:44:43,350 --> 02:44:44,919
for the benefit of others

2407
02:44:44,920 --> 02:44:47,870
without expectation of any reward

2408
02:44:47,880 --> 02:44:50,410
of any kind.

2409
02:44:50,420 --> 02:44:53,940
A whole new philosophy on human nature

2410
02:44:53,950 --> 02:44:56,509
encapsulated in a handful of gravel.

2411
02:44:56,510 --> 02:44:58,139
Did you hit your head?

2412
02:44:58,140 --> 02:45:00,170
Forgive me.

2413
02:45:03,290 --> 02:45:05,970
- Merry Christmas, sir.
- It is.

2414
02:45:05,980 --> 02:45:08,640
- It is, yes.
- Merry Christmas, sir.

2415
02:45:08,650 --> 02:45:10,840
Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas to you.

2416
02:45:10,850 --> 02:45:12,620
Merry Christmas.

2417
02:45:15,510 --> 02:45:17,870
Merry Christmas.

2418
02:45:39,770 --> 02:45:41,760
This I will do.

2419
02:45:41,770 --> 02:45:45,010
This I will gladly do.

2420
02:45:58,200 --> 02:46:01,870
No one will skate here this Christmas!

2421
02:46:10,630 --> 02:46:14,049
Mary. As a lonely widow,

2422
02:46:14,050 --> 02:46:16,759
I had a dozen invitations to
dinner and I'm mighty glad

2423
02:46:16,760 --> 02:46:20,300
that I chose to accept yours.
Never a finer goose was seen.

2424
02:46:20,310 --> 02:46:21,599
And so cheap.

2425
02:46:21,600 --> 02:46:23,530
It had a broken leg

2426
02:46:23,540 --> 02:46:25,860
or a leg shorter than
the other or something.

2427
02:46:25,870 --> 02:46:27,480
- BOB (LAUGHING): Tim.
- (LAUGHTER)

2428
02:46:27,490 --> 02:46:28,900
Bob, you carve.

2429
02:46:30,050 --> 02:46:31,850
BELINDA: I'm going skating.

2430
02:46:31,860 --> 02:46:33,220
- TIM: I want to come.
- (SHARPENING KNIFE)

2431
02:46:33,230 --> 02:46:34,300
BELINDA: You can't hardly walk.

2432
02:46:34,310 --> 02:46:36,500
- How will you skate?
- BOB: Belinda, please.

2433
02:46:36,510 --> 02:46:38,950
- TIM: I want to skate someday.
- (BOB STOPS SHARPENING)

2434
02:46:40,510 --> 02:46:42,580
- Expecting company, Martha?
- (RESUMES SHARPENING)

2435
02:46:42,590 --> 02:46:44,159
I wouldn't presume.

2436
02:46:44,160 --> 02:46:46,660
(ALL CHUCKLE)

2437
02:46:49,370 --> 02:46:50,860
Good God.

2438
02:46:50,870 --> 02:46:52,820
Yes, I know, unwanted presumption,

2439
02:46:52,830 --> 02:46:54,190
- but on this day...
- What are you doing here?

2440
02:46:54,200 --> 02:46:56,919
But this day, this I must do.

2441
02:46:56,920 --> 02:46:58,879
- I have three things I need to say.
- Get out of my house.

2442
02:46:58,880 --> 02:47:01,420
- One, two, three, and-and then I will go.
- BOB: Leave.

2443
02:47:01,430 --> 02:47:03,400
- I said leave.
- Item number one... Item number one

2444
02:47:03,410 --> 02:47:05,820
is I know you're planning to hand
in your resignation tomorrow.

2445
02:47:05,830 --> 02:47:07,059
Bob, what's he talking about?

2446
02:47:07,060 --> 02:47:09,939
SCROOGE: I want you to know
that you leave with my blessing.

2447
02:47:09,940 --> 02:47:11,769
Yes, blessing.

2448
02:47:11,770 --> 02:47:13,519
How'd you know I'm planning
on handing in my resignation?

2449
02:47:13,520 --> 02:47:15,899
(STAMMERS) I-I just know.
And you are retiring

2450
02:47:15,900 --> 02:47:19,490
at a very appropriate time
because, tomorrow morning,

2451
02:47:19,500 --> 02:47:22,020
I am closing the company down.

2452
02:47:22,030 --> 02:47:24,409
- You need to leave my house.
- SCROOGE: Scrooge and Marley

2453
02:47:24,410 --> 02:47:27,530
will trade no more in this world,

2454
02:47:27,540 --> 02:47:30,540
and as a gesture of good will,

2455
02:47:30,550 --> 02:47:32,640
my final item of company
business is to...

2456
02:47:32,650 --> 02:47:33,749
You need to leave my house.

2457
02:47:33,750 --> 02:47:38,419
... is to draw up a check for £500,

2458
02:47:38,420 --> 02:47:40,379
made payable to you,

2459
02:47:40,380 --> 02:47:42,610
by way of thanks for your service.

2460
02:47:42,620 --> 02:47:45,210
So, new ice skates for you, Belinda,

2461
02:47:45,220 --> 02:47:47,630
and-and more books for you, Tim.

2462
02:47:47,640 --> 02:47:49,389
BELINDA: Mum, how's he know

2463
02:47:49,390 --> 02:47:51,580
- about my ice skates?
- SCROOGE: I know these things

2464
02:47:51,590 --> 02:47:53,180
because I've been shown them by spirits.

2465
02:47:53,190 --> 02:47:55,320
This is item number two, by the way.

2466
02:47:55,330 --> 02:47:59,480
I have been visited by spirits
who were summoned by someone

2467
02:47:59,490 --> 02:48:02,140
to grab me by the throat and drag me

2468
02:48:02,150 --> 02:48:04,779
to a bright mirror so that
I might see the truth.

2469
02:48:04,780 --> 02:48:06,529
Mr. Scrooge, have you been drinking?

2470
02:48:06,530 --> 02:48:08,220
Not yet, but later I will.

2471
02:48:08,230 --> 02:48:10,700
I-I will drink a toast. Indeed.

2472
02:48:10,710 --> 02:48:13,160
To fathers and mothers

2473
02:48:13,170 --> 02:48:16,499
and-and children and-and
whoever you are.

2474
02:48:16,500 --> 02:48:19,500
At home, together for Christmas.

2475
02:48:19,510 --> 02:48:22,799
Item number three, regarding children.

2476
02:48:22,800 --> 02:48:24,080
Item three.

2477
02:48:24,090 --> 02:48:27,060
Belinda, the pond where
you love to go skating

2478
02:48:27,070 --> 02:48:28,509
is no longer in use.

2479
02:48:28,510 --> 02:48:30,890
It has been rendered unusable.

2480
02:48:30,900 --> 02:48:32,790
Tim, you will not go skating.

2481
02:48:32,800 --> 02:48:34,059
You will stay at home,

2482
02:48:34,060 --> 02:48:36,190
you will read your book,

2483
02:48:36,200 --> 02:48:38,900
and you will learn to fly instead.

2484
02:48:41,210 --> 02:48:43,660
(CHUCKLES) Is this what happens

2485
02:48:43,670 --> 02:48:45,199
when someone drinks laudanum?

2486
02:48:45,200 --> 02:48:47,800
(CHUCKLES) No. No, this is what happens

2487
02:48:47,810 --> 02:48:50,040
when someone finally understands...

2488
02:48:51,410 --> 02:48:56,450
... is made to understand...

2489
02:48:56,460 --> 02:48:59,330
... what it is to be human.

2490
02:49:03,730 --> 02:49:05,180
That is all.

2491
02:49:06,640 --> 02:49:08,599
Thank you.

2492
02:49:08,600 --> 02:49:11,850
The-the check will be delivered by hand.

2493
02:49:22,110 --> 02:49:23,860
Merry Christmas.

2494
02:49:27,490 --> 02:49:29,239
Merry Christmas.

2495
02:49:29,240 --> 02:49:30,329
I'll show you out.

2496
02:49:30,330 --> 02:49:32,750
- BOB: Mary.
- It's fine.

2497
02:49:43,310 --> 02:49:45,540
I do not know what's happened to you,

2498
02:49:45,550 --> 02:49:49,090
and I don't care.

2499
02:49:49,100 --> 02:49:52,570
Your £500 will be welcome,

2500
02:49:52,580 --> 02:49:54,769
but it will not buy forgiveness.

2501
02:49:54,770 --> 02:49:56,870
Nor shall forgiveness ever be earned

2502
02:49:56,880 --> 02:49:59,470
or expected or wanted.

2503
02:49:59,480 --> 02:50:02,000
My business now is the future.

2504
02:50:02,010 --> 02:50:05,030
I will just be the best I can be.

2505
02:50:09,830 --> 02:50:11,369
For the spirits

2506
02:50:11,370 --> 02:50:16,360
and the bright light and the mirror,

2507
02:50:16,370 --> 02:50:17,750
I thank you.

2508
02:50:38,910 --> 02:50:41,470
Sleep well, Jacob.

2509
02:50:46,460 --> 02:50:48,460
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

2510
02:50:48,470 --> 02:50:50,110
MAN: What I don't understand

2511
02:50:50,120 --> 02:50:52,060
is why there would be
camels in the snow.

2512
02:50:52,070 --> 02:50:56,039
(CHATTER CONTINUING)

2513
02:50:56,040 --> 02:50:58,540
- CHILD: Merry Christmas!
- CHILD 2: Merry Christmas!

2514
02:50:58,550 --> 02:51:00,430
Teach us to do that.

2515
02:51:13,220 --> 02:51:16,120
Spirits.

2516
02:51:16,130 --> 02:51:20,240
Past, present and future.

2517
02:51:20,250 --> 02:51:23,650
There is still much to do.

2518
02:51:27,270 --> 02:51:32,270
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