[playful music playing]
[horse neighs in distance]
[horse snorts]
Stand and deliver!
[gun shots]
[horses whinnying]
Whoa!
[people screaming]
[groans, screaming]
[grunting]
[screaming]
Get out!
I said get out!
[noble lady shrieks]
Oh, careful, careful, we don't want to upset the ladies.
Lordy, no.
We don't want to frighten them
- into telling us where their jewelry... - [highwayman] Over here!
...and that is hid.
We want them to tell us of their own volition.
- Define volition, Algernon. - [Algernon] Sorry, boss?
The power of the will to do things voluntarily.
You'll have to excuse the mathematicians, madam.
With their heads crammed so full of algebra and geometry,
they forget their manners.
So what's gonna happen now is
Algernon and Chumley here are going to furtle through your things
whilst I entertain you all with my effortless charm
- and cheery banter. - [Algernon] Hey, boss, he's got a knife.
[whimpers]
Don't try anything on with me, sunshine,
because you won't live to tell the tale, if you do.
[grunts]
[panting]
All right.
[playful music playing]
[horse snorts]
[clanks]
[Chumley] Hands.
[sighs]
Boss!
[boss] What's all this, lad?
[horse snorts]
I'll deal with this. You go and acquit yourself venerably.
- [grunts] - Nice threads.
I can see myself parading around in them boots.
In your own time.
[sighs]
[horses neighing]
- You're... - What?
...not a man.
And?
[sighs]
Is that gold?
- Is what gold? - That ring on your finger.
Oh. Oh, yeah.
I think you might need to donate that to the cause.
I don't think you heard me, lady,
- I said-- - No, I heard you.
I was just ignoring you.
Little word of warning, you don't want to mess with me.
[both laughing]
Oh, I like you. No, I do. You're my kind of woman.
Oh.
Sadly,
- business has to come before pleasure. - Right.
[grunts]
Now, do like you're told.
[gasps]
[creaking]
[suspenseful music playing]
[breathing heavily]
[scoffs]
[action music playing]
[grunts]
[screaming]
[horse neighs]
[dramatic music playing]
[noble lady shrieks]
[grunting]
[screams]
[Algernon growls]
[grunts]
Go on.
[grunting]
[screams]
[gun clicks]
[boss panting]
[exclaims]
[panting]
[dramatic music continues]
[groans]
[squeals in pain]
[grunts]
[grunting]
[gasps]
You all right?
[panting]
[noble ladies cheering]
[theme music playing]
- [horse snorts] - [goat bleats]
[indistinct chatter]
[metal clanking]
[indistinct chatter continues]
Hello.
- [bystander] Oh, my God. - What?
[indistinct chatter]
- [child 1 laughing] - [child 2] Come on. Over here.
- [child 1 laughs] - Kick it.
Come on. Over here. Go on.
Come on.
- You're all right. - [child] Have it.
[yelps]
Sorry, mister.
[bystanders murmuring]
[sighs]
- What is this? - Pig's bladder.
Ugh.
Did something happen here?
Thomas Blancheford kicking up a rumpus.
[indistinct chatter]
[overlapping chatter]
[dramatic music playing]
[chattering fades]
[whispers] Oh, my God.
Which one of you two is George?
Go fetch your daddy.
Dad! Shop.
[George's dad] Oh, you serve him, girl.
You know where the sherbet lives.
She don't want no sherbet. She wants you.
She?
Hi, Dad.
[gentle music playing]
[overlapping chatter]
Roxy! Where's Roxy? Roxy.
- Your Nell's back! - What?
Nell. Your Nell. She's back.
Nell's dead.
I'm widowed.
[Nell] Captain Jackson, he's dead. He died.
He was blasted in half at the Battle of Blenheim.
[George's dad] And you with him.
That's what we heard.
[Nell] Oh.
I wondered why everyone was looking at me funny.
So, the thing is, I was kind of wondering if I could stay here... for a few nights.
Well, I thought you didn't want anything else to do with us dead legs.
Hmm?
Those were the last words out of your mouth
before you walked through that door with your swanky captain.
[Nell] Yeah, well...
I've grown up a lot since then.
[door slams]
[Roxy] Nell?
[dog barking]
- Nelly! - [Nell laughs]
[barking continues]
- [Nell] Let me see you. - Oh.
Look at you.
And don't call me Nelly.
[laughs]
[Nell] All right. All right.
[Roxy chuckles]
[Nell] What is this?
Pa wouldn't pay for a proper one.
So we made that.
You wound him up good when you left.
Do you mind if I pull it up?
Only it's giving me the creeps.
[George] Go ahead, Nelly.
Nell. Sorry.
[grunts]
Let's go.
[Nell] So why is Lord Blancheford kicking up a rumpus, then?
It isn't Lord Blancheford.
- 'Tis his son. - Thomas.
- Do you remember him? - No.
- Well, he grew up. - Mean and stupid.
[Roxy] This is his idea of fun.
So why doesn't anyone do anything?
'Cause we're all his tenants.
Or will be when anything happens to his old man.
[villager] Roxy, all my neighbors are on the warpath.
Roxanne, you better shake yourself.
Well, you tell her my long lost sister's home from the dead.
I did. She said it can't happen.
- Ahoy, Nelly. - All right.
- [Roxy] I better go. - Yeah.
- I'm on me last warning. - Come here.
- You must go sweet talk Pa. - I will.
Worst thing about Thomas is he's got the hots for Roxy.
- Yeah? - And he comes in the tavern, drunk,
saying things, and Dad daren't do nothing.
Oh.
[soft music playing]
[grunts]
[groans]
See to me horse, boy.
Are you hungry?
[in deep voice] Yeah, let's eat hay.
[in normal voice] Let's get you some hay.
Has he been whooping you again?
[in deep voice] "Yeah, but I got my own back.
I threw him off, twice."
[in normal voice] Nice.
[door opening]
[servant] Sire.
[Thomas] Afternoon.
[Lord Blancheford] This morning, Thomas,
my steward received a delegation from the village
with an extraordinary story that you had shot a man's horse.
It was an accident.
[Lord Blancheford] They said you were drunk,
that you rode up and down the street, terrorizing people.
That horse was Nathan Halliday's living.
Do you understand nothing about these people's lives?
I'm their magistrate. They come to me for justice.
One day, God help them, they'll come to you.
[Thomas chortles quietly]
Are you laughing at me?
[breathes heavily]
Certainly not.
[snorts]
[Thomas clears throat]
I'm stopping your allowance.
- What? - [Lord Blancheford] Until such a time
as I can trust you to behave properly.
Don't make me disinherit you.
And Lord knows it's tempting
because your sister would be a thousand times more reliable.
Grow up.
For heaven's sake. For everyone's sake.
And until then, stay out of the village.
[indistinct chatter]
Is it true you wouldn't pay for a proper headstone for me?
She can sleep in the shed with the donkey.
- One night only. You tell her. - One night?
You broke my heart, lady.
You won't do it twice.
Right. One night.
[sighs]
- [door slams] - [George's dad] All right!
You can stay
in the house.
But you're working.
When didn't I?
You can get some proper clothes on.
I haven't got a dress.
Well, look in the cupboard, on the landing.
I kept all Elizabeth's things after she died.
Hmm?
I think maybe he would have forked out for a headstone for you.
Only I don't think he liked thinking about you dead.
[soft music playing]
[object clanks]
[Nell] Thank you.
You look just like your mother.
[giggles]
Come here.
[indistinct chatter]
[dance music playing]
[laughing]
[villagers cheering]
Help yourselves! Dive in!
It ain't every day a man's daughter is back home from the dead!
It's a miracle, Sam Trotter!
[patron laughs]
Hey, George, George.
Go get Nelly, girl. Everyone's dying for a glimpse.
Go, go, go, go.
[Sam] She'll be down.
[cheering]
That looks good. Let's see it from the front.
[sighs deeply]
You look so good, Nell.
- [Nell] Yeah? - Yeah. Is it comfortable?
No. What's all this about?
[Nell groans]
- Do you miss him? Captain Jackson? - [George] Nell! Nell!
Dad wants you downstairs now.
Everybody wants to see you with their own eyes.
Everyone wants to hear about the war.
Where's your sword?
I do miss him a bit.
Except...
I don't think he's left me,
even if he is dead.
It's like today, I got held up by these highwaymen.
- You didn't. - And one of them hit me. I did.
And it's like...
I don't know, something happens to me...
inside, and...
you should see me.
I'm untouchable.
[gun shots in distance]
That'll be him.
Thomas.
- [Thomas wooting] - [indistinct cheering]
- [Buckleigh] Yeah. - [Thomas' friend] Buckleigh, you buffoon.
[Thomas] Get over here.
[laughing]
- Yeah. - [horse neighs]
[Thomas' friend] A head start.
[gunshots continue]
[Thomas] Come on, boy.
[suspenseful music playing]
Celebrating something, Trotter?
[Sam] No.
Oh.
Where's your daughter?
Which one, sir?
I'd like to see her.
I'd like her to serve me.
And Trotter...
[clicks tongue]
Trotter.
I'm not asking you.
I'm telling you.
[Buckleigh laughing]
- Well, I'll see if I can find her. - [Thomas] Why don't you?
[sniffles]
What's the matter, Halliday?
You look like a man whose horse has been shot.
[Thomas' friends laughing]
- What's this? - That's my eldest, Nell.
Hello. Aren't you dead?
- Were you after something? - I wanted the other one.
The other one isn't coming.
She doesn't like you.
She doesn't like the way you look at her and the things you say to her.
And guess what.
[both chuckle]
Neither do I.
I think I'd like you to leave now.
Take your little idiots with you.
[scoffs]
I...
[inhales sharply]
Thank you.
[grunting]
[clamoring]
[indistinct chatter]
[Thomas] Hey, hey, hey. You.
You might have made the mistake of assuming
that I wouldn't hurt a woman.
- [grunting] - [laughing]
- Wait. - But now you know better.
[Thomas' friends exclaim]
[laughter]
- [Buckleigh] Get in there. Get there. - [Sam] Nell! No!
- Nell! - Get her!
- Stay back! - Knock him off...
- [Thomas] Where are you going? - [Sam] Don't you touch her!
- [Roxy] Nell. - [Thomas] You're a big girl.
- [Sam] No, no, not you! - [Roxy] Nell!
Hey, stop it! Let her go!
- [Thomas] You made me do this to you. - [Roxy] Nell.
[Thomas] You made me do this.
I thought she said she was untouchable.
[Nell grunts]
- [Roxy shrieks] - [George] Nell! Nell!
[Roxy] Stop it, please!
[gasps]
[Thomas exclaims]
[Thomas growls]
- [George] That's enough! - [Roxy] Stop it.
Get up, Nell! Quickly! Get up.
[Nell coughing, gasping]
[Roxy] Nell!
Run, Nell! Run, quickly! Nell!
[bystander] No! Oh, my God!
[George] Dad, tell him!
- Oh, my God. Stop! - Leave her!
- Please! - Leave her!
- Ooh, ah! - [grunts]
[clamoring, laughing]
[Roxy] Please, stop!
Leave her!
[indistinct chatter]
[dramatic music playing]
[Thomas grunts]
[crowd gasping]
Whoa!
[grunting]
[gasps]
[Nell grunts]
[villagers exclaiming]
[Thomas grunting]
[Roxy] Come on, Nelly!
[grunts]
[groans]
[villagers clamoring]
[Thomas grunting]
[gasps]
[Roxy] Come on, Nelly.
[panting]
- Come on, Nell! - You got anything else?
[chuckling]
[groans]
[villagers cheering]
[laughter]
- [bystander 1] Well done, Nell. - [bystander 2] Yes, Nelly!
What about you?
[both gasp]
[villagers laugh]
[people clamoring, cheering]
[George] Yes, Nelly Jackson!
[gasps]
[grunts]
[all cheering]
Drinks on the house. One night only.
[laughs]
[cheering]
- Did you see that? - What?
That... light.
That speck of something floating above Nell's...
[dance music playing]
[all cheering]
[voice whispers] Nell.
- Nelly. - [Nell grunts]
Nelly Jackson!
[grunts softly]
Don't, don't scream. You need to look up.
Oh, I've been racking my brains
trying to work out the best way of introducing myself
without giving you a shock, Nelly Jackson.
Frankly, there isn't one.
Of course, it isn't absolutely necessary that I should introduce myself.
But in your case,
I had a sneaking suspicion it might crop up sooner rather than later.
[whimsical music playing]
So three things.
One, I'm on your side. Two, that is not loaded.
And three,
it won't have any effect on me even if it was,
for I am non-corporeal.
What do you mean you're on my side?
Look at me.
[gasps]
[creaking]
[gasps]
[pants]
I protect you.
[breathes heavily]
- Why? - Who knows?
The more immediate point is this.
I can only protect you, Nelly Jackson.
I will not take part in random acts of violence.
- What are you talking about? - Like this evening.
What? He's a bully.
He's an arrogant lout, and he hurts people.
- But he didn't start anything. You did. - No, he was gonna.
- Oh, it ain't the point. - No. Hang on.
You mean you let him whoop me about and you could have stopped it?
- I did stop it. - [Nell] Not sooner!
Like when he was grinding my face in the mud!
[knocking on door]
[George] Nell, it's me, George. You all right?
Who sent you? Where are you from? Look at you.
- What are you dressed as? - [knocking]
[George] Nell?
Now, don't move.
- All right. - [Nell] You just wait right there.
What's your name?
- I mean, do you got one? - Yeah. Billy. Billy Blind.
I'll catch you later.
But wait.
Are you watching me all the time?
Oh, God, are you watching me when I'm, you know, on the...
- doing the necessary? - [George] Nell!
Yeah?
- Who're you talking to? - Myself.
- Are you all right? - Yeah, yeah, just heard a noise, so...
It must have been the mice under the floorboards.
That was brilliant, what you did earlier.
Yeah, yeah. Thanks. Yeah.
- Will you teach me how to-- - Yeah. Sure. Maybe.
No, no. Don't know.
[chuckles]
- Night. - Night, night.
Night, night, night.
[door clanks]
[Nell whispers] Billy?
Billy Blind!
Billy?
Billy Blind?
[gentle music playing]
[indistinct chatter]
Poynton.
Thomas. Good heavens. What are you doing here?
Oh, my. That's a nasty bruise.
I went to your house, but your servant said you were here.
Do you have a minute or two?
If it is just a minute or two.
The debate went on and on.
And Her Majesty has such a capacity for it,
she will hear all sides.
Was that her?
[Earl of Poynton] Hmm.
Do you not like her?
- What can I do for you? - So, just lately,
things have been difficult, and I have no one to talk to.
And I know you're very busy.
Tell me what's upsetting you, Thomas.
I have debts my father knows nothing about.
[scoffs]
Debts I can only settle when I come into my inheritance.
At least because he's...
stopped my allowance.
Ah.
You once told me...
that a man can sell his soul to darkness.
And in return, get anything, everything he desires.
And that you...
are a person who can intercede in such matters.
I want my estate, Poynton. I want everything...
now.
That's a big decision, Thomas.
But if it's truly what you want, you must prove to me that you...
have what it takes.
How?
[indistinct chatter]
[soft thud]
[thuds]
[Sam] Ah.
Well, the place ain't been this tidy in years.
I'm never gonna make anything of myself just sat here.
What do you got in mind?
You won't like it.
So you're gonna take the Queen's shilling?
How?
I thought you have to be a fellow.
[Nell] No, I've seen loads of women join the army.
Disguise themselves as fellas and you go out and about.
You see the world, you meet people, and then...
you know, blow them up.
You'll write this time.
So we know where you are and you're not dead.
I can't write.
Well, find someone that can.
You can't read.
[Roxy] George can.
Vicar taught her. She can read better than him.
[George] Nice meeting you, Nelly.
Nell.
And you, kid.
[Ashrumbs snorts]
Come on, Ashrumbs.
[uplifting music playing]
At least she ain't dead no more.
Yeah.
[clicks tongue] Go.
[mellow music playing]
[knocking on door]
[clicks tongue]
Pa?
[knocking on door]
[music halts]
[Lord Blancheford] I've sent the gamekeeper
and the groundsman down to the village with the body.
I've told them to tell his children that he was shot poaching.
What were you playing at?
Thomas just wanted to frighten him and teach him a lesson, we didn't--
We didn't know his heart was gonna burst.
You realize that by covering up the truth,
I make myself just as guilty as you?
Jamie, Buckleigh, go home.
Do not speak about this to anyone, ever. If you do, you'll hang.
I never want to set eyes on either of you again.
You turn my stomach.
[dramatic music playing]
[door opens]
Um, I'm sorry to be knocking on your door,
and you don't know me, but I work for Lord Blancheford.
And...
And?
Your father wasn't shot poaching.
He was beaten up by Master Thomas and his stupid friends.
They came here during the night, and they took him.
And it all went too far. And now they're trying to cover it up.
How do you know?
Because I overheard the gamekeeper and the groundsman talking.
Lord Blancheford's given them money to stick to the story and keep quiet.
I shouldn't be telling you this,
only, I've, I don't know.
I've seen you in the village once or twice--
- [Roxy] Is that your horse? - [gentleman] Oh, no.
Well, yes. Well, it is one of Lord Blancheford's.
What's your name?
Rasselas.
Where would you go, Mr. Rasselas, if you were to take the Queen's shilling?
[upbeat music playing]
[indistinct chatter]
[guard] Really, whose fault?
[Nell] You don't know who you're dealing with. You won't...
- Get off me, I said! Get off me! - [guard] Get out!
Stupid witch!
- [Nell] So I'm a woman! And what? - [door closes]
I could bang your heads together!
[laughing]
[both laughing]
Sorry, but that's the funniest thing I've seen all week.
I know you.
[grunts] Charles Devereux, madam.
Toff. Bon viveur. Total waste of space.
But a great admirer of beauty...
in whatever form it chooses to throw itself up in.
- Oh. - Sorry, I shouldn't have laughed.
That's so noble, wanting to sign up Queen and country.
Wouldn't catch me doing it. Not in a month of Sundays.
I couldn't give a tinker's toot who sits on the Spanish throne.
Why should I? Why should any of us?
Let him get on with it, that's what I say.
Still, on the other hand, nice to be a world player, eh?
Nice to dabble in events.
March of progress, balance of power, blah, la, la.
Can I buy you a drink?
[sighs]
You're Isambard Tulley.
[gasps]
Lord, I should hope not. He's got a 20-pound reward on his head.
Yeah.
[indistinct chatter]
[horse snorts]
[coughs]
[Charles] America, Nell Jackson.
The New World.
That's what you want to do.
That's what you're cut out for. I can smell it.
An adventurous spirit like you, there are great fortunes to be made.
Lord, yes. Mahogany, hemp, cotton...
[coughs] ...tobacco.
That would be my plan.
That's what I'd be doing if I was in your boots, mate. I can tell you...
[Nell] Sorry, do you mind if I just...
[indistinct chatter]
- What are you doing here? - Nell, Pa is dead.
- They said he was shot poaching but-- - [George] It's lies!
Mr. Rasselas told us.
- This is Mr. Rasselas. - It was Thomas Blancheford.
- Uh, but how? - He came in the night. He took him.
No, I won't let him. I won't let him get away with it.
Take my horse, Nell. You can get there quicker.
[breathes heavily]
[dramatic music playing]
[Thomas] He's nothing. A no one.
He runs the local tavern. [snickers]
I ran him out of town under cover of darkness, and then...
I killed him.
For no good reason.
Just because I could.
[chuckles]
Destroying a man like that is interesting, Thomas.
But it's hardly the stuff that great reputations are made of.
If you want everything now,
assuming, of course, you still do...
[Earl of Poynton] Pay attention, Thomas.
- [whisper voice] Kill. Kill. - All you have to do is listen.
You see, Thomas,
in this life, the world helps those who help themselves.
And this world needs men capable of extraordinary things.
[liquid trickling]
What stands between you and your estate? Hmm?
[bottle thuds]
Did you kill the wrong person?
My father.
You want me to kill my own father?
No. I don't want anything.
[Earl of Poynton chuckles]
Oh, no. It's you that wants things.
And sometimes the answer to a problem
is far more prosaic and obvious
than it might at first appear.
[scoffs]
[Nell] You're right.
Those bullets went in after he was dead.
How do you know?
Because I've dressed more wounds and corpses
than you've had hot dinners, sunbeam.
There's no blood loss.
That means his heart had stopped pumping before they shot him.
The gunpowder, this was done at point-blank range.
That is not how you shoot someone poaching.
- What are we gonna do? - I can't breathe in here.
I gotta go.
You won't let on I said anything, will 'ya?
[door opens]
- Thank you for helping us. - [door closes]
[dramatic music playing]
[sighs] There's evil in the ether, Nelly Jackson.
- I'm so sorry. - This is all my fault,
and it wouldn't have happened if I hadn't waded in
and beaten that Thomas up.
I need to go there
- and I need to look in-- - Go through the proper channels.
What? Sorry, who are you?
Why are you here?
You need a magistrate.
He's our magistrate, Lord Blancheford. And he's the one covering it up.
Well, it'll be interesting to see what he's got to say then, won't it?
- Offer him a loophole. - A what?
Tell him your concern there's been a cover-up.
But you know he personally would never be involved in anything so tawdry.
Look what charging in did last time.
- No-- - [Billy] It's justice that you want
and for that, you need a magistrate.
You start anything rash, I'm not helping you, Nelly Jackson.
[stammers]
[sighs]
[knocking on door]
[door opens]
Sam Trotter's children are here.
They're asking to see you.
Hmm.
[pensive music playing]
I'm sorry about your father.
He was a good tenant,
but he knew as well as anyone the penalties for--
My father would sooner cut his own hand off than steal from you.
- I'm afraid the fact remains. - He was shot after he was dead.
- He was shot at point-blank range. - Yeah, look,
- I know you don't want to hear this-- - Hey, your Thomas killed him.
Him and his stupid friends and now you're trying to cover it up.
Well, not you. Obviously.
We know that you wouldn't involve yourself in anything so...
tawdry.
[Nell] But someone has.
You're upset,
you're letting your imaginations run away with you.
But you won't achieve anything by fabricating your own version of events.
If you force me to find another magistrate, I will.
Then it'll be your word against mine.
You were overheard making arrangements with your gamekeeper.
Overheard by whom?
You paid him and one of your men to do your dirty work.
I'd like to offer you the tenancy of the Talbot.
- What? - [Lord Blancheford] And in return,
I want to hear no more wild allegations about my son.
Think about it.
I have no desire to make you homeless.
Any of you.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Nell] If we accept it, that means we're accepting the lie.
That Dad's a thief, a poacher.
But he wouldn't care about that.
- He would care about us losing the Talbot. - They're smearing his name.
The Talbot is just a pub.
It's our home.
It's Pa's pub.
I don't want to go, Nell.
All right.
Really?
We'll take the tenancy.
What about the army?
It'll wait, till you don't need me no more.
I'll stick around until then.
[melancholic music playing]
[horse galloping]
[Thomas] Halliday?
What are you doing?
Coming to see your father, sir.
What about?
The tenancy to Talbot. Might seem a bit previous,
but, well, if it's available, I'd like to discuss terms.
No, I've offered the tenancy to Nell Jackson.
You'll have to tell Halliday to go away.
- And has she accepted it? - Not yet,
but I hope she will when she's calmed down.
Because then, Thomas, she might let matters drop.
And let me tell you why.
They know. They know what really happened.
Oh, let them go.
If it's not been accepted, let them go.
Surely it's better this way.
Halliday's reliable enough. He knows what he's doing.
Since when were you interested in furthering a good man's cause?
I've been unworthy of you.
I've humiliated you and I've allowed myself to be influenced
by the wrong people.
And I'm sorry.
I want to put all this behind me--
So not content with turning them into orphans.
[Thomas' sister] You're going to make them homeless now as well?
[sighs] Don't say that.
[sighs deeply]
Out of sight, out of mind.
It's tempting.
They're young and strong.
They'll find other paths to follow.
[door closes]
[indistinct chatter]
[knocking on door]
- What? - I'm acting on behalf of Lord Blancheford,
serving you notice to quit the property.
What are you on about? He offered me the tenancy yesterday.
You've got until midday to take what's yours.
- Midday? - Are you dumb?
- I said he offered me the tenancy! - Anything left here after that,
- I'll be clearing out for you. - Yeah?
I'd get packing.
What are we gonna do?
I know what I'm gonna do.
What?
[tense music playing]
- [Nell] Get out of the way! Where is he? - [servant] You can't go in there!
- Come back! - [Nell] Oy.
I want a word with you.
- [Mrs. Belgrave] I couldn't stop her, sir. - It's all right, Mrs. Belgrave.
I didn't hear from you.
- I assumed you didn't want the tenancy. - [Nell] Liar.
You can get away with anything, can't you?
Even murder.
Your father was caught poaching.
Just stop saying that...
[gun clicks]
...because we all know it's not true.
I know you're probably gonna get away with it.
Murdering my father and branding him a criminal.
The most honest man ever
just to cover up what this lout had been up to.
I know you're gonna get away with it because your sort, they always do.
But you'll understand if I'm a bit upset!
What can I do to persuade you to put that down?
- [Nell] The truth. - [grunts]
All right.
[grunts]
Look, I'll give you the tenancy.
I'll give you whatever, 10 pounds, 20.
You can't trust her.
You think she's gonna walk out of here
and not tell everyone you just tried to pay her off?
You think I'd accept any amount of money to shut up about the fact
that this useless pile of ribbons killed my father?
- I don't think so. - You idiot.
I've been an idiot trying to protect you.
- You're going to face justice. - No. What? No!
I won't be dragged down and humiliated by you anymore.
You're going to face the consequences of what you've done.
No!
It wasn't loaded.
This is.
[gun clicks]
[Nell] Oh, go on then.
Have a go.
See what good it does you.
- [gun shots] - [grunts]
[thuds]
[sobbing] No, no.
- [Thomas] Oh, no. - [whimpers]
[Thomas] You fiend.
You horror.
You foul-accursed minister of hell.
She killed him! She shot him!
She murdered my father! Murder!
- Murder! - [Nell] Liar!
You are a liar.
You're the one who came here tooled up, making threats.
Now you've got an empty pistol in your pocket.
[grunting]
[screams, grunts]
[shouting in distance]
[grunts]
[guard] Make way!
You'll hang for this.
- No, I won't hang. - [squeals]
She saw what happened. You saw what happened, Ms. Sofia.
You saw what happened.
- You'll tell the truth. - She murdered Lord Blancheford!
No, I didn't! I didn't. It was him!
No, it was him. It was him. He killed his own father!
[gasps]
[dramatic music playing]
[gasps]
[clatters]
[thuds]
Rasselas, I didn't do it. Do you believe me?
You believe me?
- [Nell] You believe me, come on. - Do something.
What's going on?
[Thomas] Stop her!
[gasps]
Get off me.
Please.
Get after her!
She's saying she didn't do it.
[door clanks]
Who did it?
Sofia!
[whimpers]
She did.
I don't believe you.
What are you doing?
Rasselas!
[door closes]
[Mrs. Belgrave whimpers]
[sobs]
Well, take one of the horses and fetch a magistrate!
Quickly!
[upbeat music playing]
[Nell] George, Roxy, get out here now!
- [Rasselas] Roxy! - George, Roxy,
get out here now, we're leaving!
- What's going on? - [Nell] Come on!
- We need our stuff. - Forget your stuff, I said now!
[Nell] Come on. Let's go, quickly.
- Hurry up! Rasselas, go! - [Rasselas] Roxy, come on. Up you get.
[Nell] Come on, Roxy.
[Nell exclaims]
[upbeat music continues]
[George] What's happened?
Where are we going?
I'll tell you when we get there.
[screams]
[closing theme music playing]