The Man Who Invented Christmas

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[people chattering]

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[young woman]
Oh, hurry up, Mr. Dickens!

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[man]
Hey, I paid 50 cents for this!

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- Come on, Dickens!
- [man 2] Come on, Charley!

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[chattering continues]

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[man 3]
We want Charles!

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[man 4]
I want to see Charles!

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[man 5]
Where is Dickens?

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- [chattering continues]
- [crowd clapping impatiently]

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[Charles's voice]
<i>My dear Forster,</i>

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<i>how can I give you
the faintest notion</i>

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<i>of my reception
here in America?</i>

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- [knocking]
- [man] Five minutes. Five minutes.

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<i>Of the crowds that pour
in and out the whole day,</i>

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<i>of the people that line the
streets when I go out.</i>

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[crowd chanting,
indistinct]

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[man]
Places, please. Places!

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Hello, Charley.

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<i>Of the balls, dinners,</i>

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<i>speeches, parties,
assemblies without end.</i>

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<i>There never was a king or emperor
upon the earth so cheered.</i>

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[orchestra playing fanfare]

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[man]
Tonight, live on stage...

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Ready?

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- [man] the great magician of our time...
- Ready.

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[man]
whose wand is a book!

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The Shakespeare
of the novel.

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The people's author.

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- The great and marvelous Boz!
- [audience cheering]

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Ladies and gentlemen,

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Mr. Charles Dickens!

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- [orchestra continues playing]
- Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!

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Thank you! Thank you!

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[man] Look, it's him!
It's really him!

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[laughing]

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- [man] Hey there, Boz!
- [woman] Whoo!

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Dear friends! Dear friends!

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You have welcomed me to your country
with such open arms that I fear I...

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Ohh!

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- [orchestra continues playing]
- [cheering continues]

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[orchestra fades]

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[Charles's voice]
<i>Americans are friendly,</i>

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<i>earnest, hospitable,</i>

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<i>kind, frank, accomplished,</i>

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<i>warm-hearted, fervent,</i>

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<i>and... enthusiastic.</i>

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<i>I can't wait to get home.</i>

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- [bell tolling]
- [dog barking]

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[hoofbeats
on cobblestone]

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[horse whinnies]

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- [bird wings fluttering]
- [exhales]

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[sighs]

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[discordant notes]

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- [single chord]
- [knocking on door]

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- [exhales]
- [discordant notes]

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Mrs. Fisk,
I have told you repeatedly

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not to disturb me
when I am working.

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[discordant notes]

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Oh, I beg your pardon, sir.
Only, Mr. Forster is here.

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Forster.
Yes, of course.

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As you can see,
Mr. Forster,

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we're having all-new
wallpaper put in, French,

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new doors,
new door knocker,

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new roller blinds
for the windows,

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new bookcases in the
library, a new chandelier,

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all chosen by Charles,
of course.

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And the staircase is
to be painted green.

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- Though not too dull a green, Signor Mazzini.
- <i>Ma certo. Sì, capisce.</i>

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- [chuckles]
- You know how Charles is.

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- Only the best for Mr. Dickens.
- Yes. [chuckles]

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Mr. Forster,
if you'll allow me,

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how do things stand between
you and Miss Wigmore?

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Oh, splendid,
Mrs. Dickens.

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In fact, I intend
to ask her to bestow upon me

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the greatest happiness
a man can ever know.

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- [clears throat]
- Well, to marry me.

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Oh!

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Oh, I'm very glad
to hear that.

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Forster! Forster, Forster, Forster.
So sorry!

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I completely lost track
of the time.

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- Shall we?
- Charles.

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- You need to pay Signor Mazzini.
- Hmm?

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For the parlor mantle.

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- How much?
- Seventy-five pounds.

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Seventy-five?
What's it made of, gold?

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Carrara marble, Signor.
Finest quality.

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No gentleman
would accept less.

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No? Well, quite.
[clears throat]

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Well, I will have the money for you
when I return, Signor Mazzini.

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Good day, Mrs. Dickens.

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Good day, Mr. Forster.

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[Mazzini chattering
in Italian]

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Ah! Come in!
[laughs]

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Good-bye,
little strangers!

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[children] Bye!

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- Say good-bye to Mr. Forster, children!
- Bye!

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- I'll hail us a cab.
- What? No, it's a waste of money. We'll walk.

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It's damned expensive
being a gentleman.

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Forster,
this meeting...

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- Aye! I know my job.
- Good.

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- And the money?
- Leave the publishers to me.

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Good.

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Slow down!
What's the hurry?

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[Forster] Charles
Bloody Dickens, huh?

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The best-selling bloody author in the
history of English bloody literature.

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Three of his books you have published
in the last year and a half. Three!

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So where's the money?

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Mr. Forster, like you, we are as
puzzled as the Egyptians in their fog.

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- [Forster] How's that?
- <i>Martin Chuzzlewit.</i>

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A masterpiece of the
picaresque genre, and yet...

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<i>Barnaby Rudge.</i> A fine book.
An important subject.

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But, alas...

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And the travel book,
<i>American Notes.</i>

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Perhaps a little too candid
for our American cousins.

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No joke. I heard they were burning
copies of it in the streets.

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[object slams
on table]

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Well, they're mad as snakes,
the Yanks.

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But what about this 50 pound a month
you're withholding from his royalties?

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What is the explanation
for that?

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You may remember that when Mr. Dickens
approached us about the tour to America,

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we were pleased to provide him
with an interest-free loan.

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With the provision that, in
the unlikely case of profits

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being inadequate
to certain repayments...

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What? So he's had a couple of flops?
Well, who hasn't? Huh?

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Your publishing house
wouldn't exist without this man.

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What about an advance?

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- On?
- A new book.

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You have a new book
in mind?

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Yes.
Of course he does.

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Well, in that case, I mean we'd
obviously love to consider it.

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- Consider?
- That is to say, if we like it.

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- If?
- I'm sure that we will.

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Gentlemen,
I bid you good day.

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Mr. Forster, please, we had no
intention of causing offense.

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Well,
he's in a fettle now.

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I'll give him a day
to calm down.

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And then...
It's most awkward.

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<i>He</i> was in last week,

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in some difficulty.

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Again.

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No, that's not possible.
He's in the countryside.

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He's under strict
instructions to remain there.

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What is it this time?

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"I need money immediately or
productive of fatal consequences,

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I beseech you
to do the needful..."

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He's been offering Mr. Dickens's
autographs for sale in the newspapers.

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- How much did you give him?
- Forty-five, all told.

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Forty-five?

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Well,
I'll pay it all back.

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But not a word of this
to Charles, do you hear?

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[men chattering, laughing]

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- [chattering, laughing continue]
- [exhales]

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"What's the secret?"
they say.

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There is no secret.
I sit down...

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- Charles. What are you doing here?
- I'm hiding from Thackeray.

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They absolutely
come pouring out of me.

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He'll no doubt want to commiserate
me on my <i>Chuzzlewit</i> reviews,

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which he will quote
by heart.

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Come on.

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[sighs] I am clammin' for some scran.
Where's Robertson?

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Why do we come here,
hmm?

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The service is terrible. The food is
inedible. The fees keep going up.

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It's full of...

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[groans]

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Gentlemen.

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You're not Robertson.

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The name is Marley, sir.

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- Marley? Marley with an "E"?
- Yes, sir.

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Hmm.

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Uh, oh, don't worry.
He collects names.

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We'll have some oysters
and a bottle of champagne.

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Very good, sir.

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- Champagne?
- We're celebrating.

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- Celebrating?
- Hello, Thackeray. [sighs]

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- How are you?
- Tolerable.

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I thank ye.

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Charles, I must say I am relieved
to see you out and about.

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Relieved?

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You know, after those vile things
they wrote about <i>Chuzzlewit.</i>

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I won't even
call them reviews.

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- No matter. I never read them.
- Quite right.

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Scandalous what one is
allowed to print nowadays.

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Go on.
What did they say?

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"Dull, vapid, and vulgar.

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Not a single character capable of
exciting the reader's sympathies."

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I certainly didn't think
it was vulgar.

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Oh, look.
There's Macready.

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Poor thing. His <i>Macbeth</i> was
absolutely shredded in the <i>Times.</i>

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I must go and give him
my condolences.

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I'm sick of London.

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It's overcrowded,
overpriced...

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- You love this town.
- No place for a man without money.

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Not to mention
the bloody fog.

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But it's your inspiration, your
what-do-you-call-it... your magic lamp.

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[muttering, grunting]

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I tell you, Forster,
my lamp's gone out.

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I've run out of ideas.

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- [Marley grunting]
- I feel old.

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- [cork pops]
- [Marley exhales]

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Old?
You're a puppy.

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You're exhausted, that's all.
Too many speeches.

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I've got another one tomorrow
for the Children's Refuge.

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Well, you have to learn
to say no.

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How can I say no if I can be useful, if
I can lighten the burden of another?

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Well, you have to, what with your
new commission to think about.

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Forster, I just told you that...
Sorry. New commission?

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It's from Chapman and Hall,
for your new book.

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I've told them you'll have the first
chapter done by the end of the year.

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You like a deadline.

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- Do you mind telling me what it's about?
- I'll leave that up to you.

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- [footsteps]
- [woman laughing, faint]

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[woman hooting loudly]

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[hooting]

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[hooting]

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[woman] And on Christmas
Eve, they say,

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the fairy mounds open wide

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and the fire spirits
pour into the night.

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And then
the Lord of the Dead

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leads all of the spirits
into a wild hunt.

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And he calls to them...

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[loud hooting]

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[children giggling]

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- Do we have a new housemaid?
- What?

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Uh, yes. Tara.

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She's Irish.
Charley adores her.

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What are you doing?

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- It was only a stub.
- Another hour in that.

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- Oh, really, Charles.
- If you carry on like this, we'll end up in the poor house.

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- You're funny.
- I'm not joking.

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Charles!

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You give money to every and
any beggar in the street.

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You insist we move to a bigger house
and order in all new fixtures,

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and then you complain
about a new candle.

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Debt is an ogre, Kate. If you're
not careful, it can eat you up.

236
00:14:50,779 --> 00:14:52,780
Are we in trouble?

237
00:14:52,782 --> 00:14:55,049
No, of course not.

238
00:14:55,051 --> 00:14:56,686
Then what?

239
00:14:57,653 --> 00:14:59,887
Nothing.

240
00:14:59,889 --> 00:15:03,125
I'm just sick of writing tooth
and nail for bread, that's all.

241
00:15:04,293 --> 00:15:05,993
Hmm.

242
00:15:05,995 --> 00:15:08,896
- Should've become a journalist.
- You hate the press.

243
00:15:08,898 --> 00:15:11,198
- Or a lawyer.
- "The law is an ass."

244
00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:13,267
I believe you wrote that.

245
00:15:13,269 --> 00:15:15,905
A hairdresser, then,
in the Burlington Arcade.

246
00:15:17,306 --> 00:15:19,607
Do you know what
I should have liked to be?

247
00:15:19,609 --> 00:15:21,642
An explorer,

248
00:15:21,644 --> 00:15:24,877
paddling a canoe somewhere
in the wilds of Canada

249
00:15:24,879 --> 00:15:27,714
in a pair
of buckskin breeches,

250
00:15:27,716 --> 00:15:29,782
all on my own.

251
00:15:29,784 --> 00:15:31,288
No nappies to change.

252
00:15:37,192 --> 00:15:38,727
By the way, dear,

253
00:15:39,861 --> 00:15:41,932
I-I saw the doctor today.

254
00:15:47,736 --> 00:15:49,637
Not another...
little stranger.

255
00:15:49,639 --> 00:15:51,738
Are you pleased?

256
00:15:51,740 --> 00:15:53,706
Well, of course.

257
00:15:53,708 --> 00:15:55,044
[laughs]

258
00:15:56,879 --> 00:15:58,748
- Well, that's splendid.
- Yes.

259
00:16:11,860 --> 00:16:15,764
I am a necromancer.

260
00:16:17,133 --> 00:16:18,868
Behold.

261
00:16:23,371 --> 00:16:25,307
[all gasping]

262
00:16:35,317 --> 00:16:37,751
- And now...
- [gasping]

263
00:16:37,753 --> 00:16:40,956
[man making
eerie whistling sounds]

264
00:16:44,159 --> 00:16:46,093
[gasps]

265
00:16:46,095 --> 00:16:48,898
[man hooting, cackling]

266
00:16:50,331 --> 00:16:53,099
- [moaning]
- [chuckling] Charley.

267
00:16:53,101 --> 00:16:55,969
Charley,
it's all right.

268
00:16:55,971 --> 00:16:57,905
- I'm here.
- [gasps]

269
00:16:57,907 --> 00:17:01,711
- [bell tolling]
- [hoofbeats on cobblestone]

270
00:17:13,722 --> 00:17:15,221
[rapid footsteps]

271
00:17:15,223 --> 00:17:18,191
Mistress Chickenstalker!

272
00:17:18,193 --> 00:17:20,728
Mistress Chickenstalker, what
has happened to your pinnie?

273
00:17:20,730 --> 00:17:22,729
You look as if you've
been caught in a cyclone.

274
00:17:22,731 --> 00:17:24,331
That's much better.

275
00:17:24,333 --> 00:17:27,137
Master Corporal Skittles, sir.
On your feet, sir!

276
00:17:31,973 --> 00:17:34,208
[laughing]

277
00:17:34,210 --> 00:17:37,413
Ah, Lucifer Box.

278
00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:41,317
- Would you do me the honor?
- [laughing]

279
00:17:42,384 --> 00:17:44,117
Good.

280
00:17:44,119 --> 00:17:48,221
Ah, the Snodgering Blee.
We meet at last.

281
00:17:48,223 --> 00:17:50,056
What's this?

282
00:17:50,058 --> 00:17:53,026
You have forgotten
to wash behind your ear.

283
00:17:53,028 --> 00:17:55,362
[laughing]
Cor!

284
00:17:55,364 --> 00:17:58,201
Now you must be...
Don't... Don't tell me.

285
00:17:59,367 --> 00:18:01,034
- [whispers] Who is that?
- Tara.

286
00:18:01,036 --> 00:18:03,237
Tara. Of course.

287
00:18:03,239 --> 00:18:05,439
- I see you've made a conquest.
- [chuckles]

288
00:18:05,441 --> 00:18:07,940
What was that wonderful story
I overheard you telling

289
00:18:07,942 --> 00:18:11,411
about fairy mounds
and the fire spirits?

290
00:18:11,413 --> 00:18:15,882
Only a story my gran used to tell
us, sir, back home in Ireland.

291
00:18:15,884 --> 00:18:17,985
She used to say
that on Christmas Eve

292
00:18:17,987 --> 00:18:21,220
the veils between this world
and the next thin out,

293
00:18:21,222 --> 00:18:24,894
and that's when the spirits
cross over and walk among us.

294
00:18:26,194 --> 00:18:27,797
Do they indeed?

295
00:18:29,030 --> 00:18:31,364
Well, well, well.

296
00:18:31,366 --> 00:18:33,001
Christmas Eve.

297
00:18:34,569 --> 00:18:39,075
[applause]

298
00:18:41,442 --> 00:18:43,943
Thank you so much
for coming.

299
00:18:43,945 --> 00:18:46,815
- It was such an interesting speech.
- Thank you very much.

300
00:18:47,817 --> 00:18:50,083
- Your hat, sir.
- Thank you.

301
00:18:50,085 --> 00:18:52,885
Oh, Mr. Dickens, it's such
an honor to meet you.

302
00:18:52,887 --> 00:18:55,389
- We just adore your books.
- No, we don't.

303
00:18:55,391 --> 00:18:59,026
- Well, <i>I</i> love them.
- Nonsense. You just like a good cry.

304
00:18:59,028 --> 00:19:02,062
What is it you particularly
object to in my books?

305
00:19:02,064 --> 00:19:05,097
Pickpockets, streetwalkers,
charity boys.

306
00:19:05,099 --> 00:19:07,100
Those people
don't belong in books.

307
00:19:07,102 --> 00:19:09,135
"Those people"?
You mean, the poor?

308
00:19:09,137 --> 00:19:12,005
Look here, Mr. Dickens.
I'm a self-made man.

309
00:19:12,007 --> 00:19:14,274
Pulled myself up
by my own bootstraps.

310
00:19:14,276 --> 00:19:17,844
Never asked for anything from anyone
that I wasn't willing to pay for.

311
00:19:17,846 --> 00:19:20,913
- Really? No help from anyone?
- None.

312
00:19:20,915 --> 00:19:24,788
Well, Papa did give us a very small
cotton mill when we were married.

313
00:19:27,189 --> 00:19:29,922
What do you suggest we do
with "those people"? Hmm?

314
00:19:29,924 --> 00:19:31,126
Are there no workhouses?

315
00:19:33,863 --> 00:19:36,263
Do you know how many people
would rather die than go there?

316
00:19:36,265 --> 00:19:38,065
Then they'd
better do it

317
00:19:38,067 --> 00:19:40,303
and reduce
the surplus population.

318
00:19:45,941 --> 00:19:47,576
[man] Can you spare
a bob, please?

319
00:19:57,353 --> 00:20:00,557
Care to buy, sir?
Hard workers.

320
00:20:03,659 --> 00:20:05,124
Fit any chimney.

321
00:20:05,126 --> 00:20:07,196
- You f...
- [whinnies]

322
00:20:14,435 --> 00:20:16,338
Quick!
Come on! In here!

323
00:20:19,909 --> 00:20:21,845
- Down here now!
- [child cries out]

324
00:20:23,979 --> 00:20:25,459
- [man] Come on!
- [child screams] No!

325
00:20:35,190 --> 00:20:38,225
[man] I lift mine eyes
unto the hills

326
00:20:38,227 --> 00:20:41,094
from whence cometh
my help.

327
00:20:41,096 --> 00:20:44,297
My help cometh
even from the Lord,

328
00:20:44,299 --> 00:20:46,533
who hath made
heaven and earth...

329
00:20:46,535 --> 00:20:50,437
All right, all right. I'm not paying
you by the hour. Skip to the end.

330
00:20:50,439 --> 00:20:53,206
[man, rapidly] Rest eternal, grant to him, O
Lord. Let light perpetual shine upon him.

331
00:20:53,208 --> 00:20:55,107
- Amen. Amen.
- Amen.

332
00:20:55,109 --> 00:20:57,009
Shame, innit?

333
00:20:57,011 --> 00:21:00,247
All that money and no one here to
mourn him except Old Scratch there.

334
00:21:00,249 --> 00:21:03,150
- Who's that?
- His business partner.

335
00:21:03,152 --> 00:21:05,952
The meanest cur on two legs,
so they say.

336
00:21:05,954 --> 00:21:07,890
Aye, right.
Come on.

337
00:21:45,227 --> 00:21:48,464
Ah... humbug.

338
00:21:58,507 --> 00:21:59,642
"Humbug."

339
00:22:03,545 --> 00:22:06,013
"Are there no workhouses?

340
00:22:06,015 --> 00:22:07,447
Well, then they'd
better do it

341
00:22:07,449 --> 00:22:09,649
and decrease
the surplus population."

342
00:22:09,651 --> 00:22:13,423
[chuckling] "Old Scratch.
All that money. Shame."

343
00:22:15,423 --> 00:22:17,790
Good evening, sir.

344
00:22:17,792 --> 00:22:19,127
Yes, it is,
Mrs. Fisk.

345
00:22:20,528 --> 00:22:22,528
- Charles?
- [shouting] Humbug! Humbug!

346
00:22:22,530 --> 00:22:25,134
Humbug! Ha-ha!

347
00:22:31,773 --> 00:22:35,074
[Charles's voice] <i>It's about a businessman.
Or a factory owner. A miser.</i>

348
00:22:35,076 --> 00:22:39,179
<i>His partner dies. He doesn't shed a tear.
Thinks only of the money.</i>

349
00:22:39,181 --> 00:22:40,713
<i>And on
Christmas Eve...</i>

350
00:22:40,715 --> 00:22:44,351
On Christmas Eve,
he meets some kind of... of...

351
00:22:44,353 --> 00:22:48,154
of supernatural guides,
or spirits, possibly,

352
00:22:48,156 --> 00:22:50,257
who in the course
of one night

353
00:22:50,259 --> 00:22:53,794
teach him what a miserable,
loathsome, selfish toad he is.

354
00:22:53,796 --> 00:22:56,065
It's a short book.
Short and sharp.

355
00:22:57,199 --> 00:22:58,498
A hammer blow
to the heart

356
00:22:58,500 --> 00:23:01,069
of this smug,
self-satisfied age.

357
00:23:07,342 --> 00:23:09,375
- It's a comedy.
- [laughing]

358
00:23:09,377 --> 00:23:12,312
- Brilliant.
- [laughing continues]

359
00:23:12,314 --> 00:23:14,780
- Does it have a title?
- Yes.

360
00:23:14,782 --> 00:23:17,352
[clears throat]
<i>Humbug: A Miser's Lament.</i>

361
00:23:20,689 --> 00:23:23,190
<i>A Christmas Ghost Story...
Christmas Song...</i>

362
00:23:23,192 --> 00:23:24,824
<i>Christmas Ballad.</i>
Something like that.

363
00:23:24,826 --> 00:23:28,828
Intriguing, really.
Ah, just one question.

364
00:23:28,830 --> 00:23:30,198
Why Christmas?

365
00:23:32,134 --> 00:23:34,534
- Well, why not?
- Does anybody really celebrate it anymore?

366
00:23:34,536 --> 00:23:37,170
Apart from our clerk, who
never misses an opportunity

367
00:23:37,172 --> 00:23:39,639
to take a day off...
with pay.

368
00:23:39,641 --> 00:23:43,776
More or less an opportunity for picking
a man's pocket every 25th of December.

369
00:23:43,778 --> 00:23:47,213
- [chuckles]
- What we mean to say, Mr. Dickens, is,

370
00:23:47,215 --> 00:23:49,751
not much of a market
for Christmas books, what?

371
00:23:55,190 --> 00:23:59,625
It is a Christmas book because Christmas
is, or ought to be, the one time of year

372
00:23:59,627 --> 00:24:03,563
when men and women
open their shut-up hearts

373
00:24:03,565 --> 00:24:07,467
and think of people below them as if they
really were fellow passengers to the grave

374
00:24:07,469 --> 00:24:09,568
and not another race
of creatures altogether.

375
00:24:09,570 --> 00:24:11,837
We are already
halfway through October.

376
00:24:11,839 --> 00:24:15,174
Even if you had already written it, we
couldn't possibly get it illustrated,

377
00:24:15,176 --> 00:24:18,344
typeset, printed and bound,
advertised and distributed to shops

378
00:24:18,346 --> 00:24:19,816
in only six weeks.

379
00:24:22,483 --> 00:24:23,586
Well...

380
00:24:24,752 --> 00:24:26,585
thank you
for your opinion.

381
00:24:26,587 --> 00:24:27,690
Mr. Dickens!

382
00:24:31,593 --> 00:24:34,527
Tie it off now.
That's it.

383
00:24:34,529 --> 00:24:38,864
Scaly-headed vultures.
Money-grubbing, scum-sucking...

384
00:24:38,866 --> 00:24:41,567
- But, Charles...
- I'll do it myself.

385
00:24:41,569 --> 00:24:44,504
- What?
- I'll pay for it myself... all of it.

386
00:24:44,506 --> 00:24:46,672
Illustrations, everything.
I'll distribute it myself.

387
00:24:46,674 --> 00:24:50,209
But, Charles, this is madness.
Think of your finances, huh?

388
00:24:50,211 --> 00:24:52,379
Come on. We'll go back.
We'll renegotiate.

389
00:24:52,381 --> 00:24:54,280
No shame in it.
It's just business.

390
00:24:54,282 --> 00:24:57,449
Why throw everything away
for a minor holiday?

391
00:24:57,451 --> 00:25:00,353
No, I've never felt so strongly
about anything in my life, John.

392
00:25:00,355 --> 00:25:02,455
You can help me or not,
as you wish.

393
00:25:02,457 --> 00:25:04,824
- Where are you off to?
- Going to raise some capital.

394
00:25:04,826 --> 00:25:06,593
One thing I've learned
from my father...

395
00:25:06,595 --> 00:25:08,961
people will believe anything
if you're properly dressed.

396
00:25:08,963 --> 00:25:11,698
[Charles] Mr. Trabb!
Your finest cravats!

397
00:25:11,700 --> 00:25:13,903
[whistle blows]

398
00:25:19,607 --> 00:25:21,674
Ah.

399
00:25:21,676 --> 00:25:23,776
Nothing like the air
of the metropolis

400
00:25:23,778 --> 00:25:26,313
to put color in your cheeks,
eh, Mother?

401
00:25:26,315 --> 00:25:27,680
[inhales, exhales]

402
00:25:27,682 --> 00:25:29,251
[laughs]

403
00:25:33,989 --> 00:25:37,224
[squawking]

404
00:25:37,226 --> 00:25:40,994
There you are, sir. Best quality.
A-1 condition.

405
00:25:40,996 --> 00:25:43,263
And look inside.

406
00:25:43,265 --> 00:25:45,334
Autographed
by the author.

407
00:25:47,536 --> 00:25:50,539
"To Papa. Love, Charles."

408
00:25:53,008 --> 00:25:55,644
- Five bob.
- [scoffs, chuckles]

409
00:25:56,644 --> 00:26:00,546
Hello, old dog.
[squawks]

410
00:26:00,548 --> 00:26:04,017
Perhaps we could,
um, strike a bargain.

411
00:26:04,019 --> 00:26:06,923
- [raven] Hello.
- Good with children, is it?

412
00:26:15,263 --> 00:26:16,565
Too much?

413
00:26:18,532 --> 00:26:21,934
Aha! Mr. Dickens
and Mr. Forster.

414
00:26:21,936 --> 00:26:24,270
How do you?

415
00:26:24,272 --> 00:26:26,408
Very well, thank you,
Mr. Haddock.

416
00:26:27,476 --> 00:26:28,874
Mittens.

417
00:26:28,876 --> 00:26:30,576
[purring]

418
00:26:30,578 --> 00:26:33,380
You are a bad boy.

419
00:26:33,382 --> 00:26:35,681
[growling]

420
00:26:35,683 --> 00:26:38,320
- [Mittens yowls]
- [Haddock exhales, chuckles]

421
00:26:39,820 --> 00:26:42,021
[cracking]

422
00:26:42,023 --> 00:26:44,990
Now, how may I be
of service to you?

423
00:26:44,992 --> 00:26:47,459
Well, sir,
it's about the loan.

424
00:26:47,461 --> 00:26:50,398
There was something I wanted to tell you.
What was it?

425
00:26:51,799 --> 00:26:55,035
It was some rather good news,
if I recall correctly.

426
00:26:55,037 --> 00:26:56,670
What, uh...

427
00:26:56,672 --> 00:26:57,839
Ah.

428
00:27:00,409 --> 00:27:01,674
Biscuit?

429
00:27:01,676 --> 00:27:04,713
Well... thank you.

430
00:27:08,916 --> 00:27:10,019
Mmm.

431
00:27:11,586 --> 00:27:14,988
Ah! Uh, yes.

432
00:27:14,990 --> 00:27:17,590
Now, what was I, uh...
What...

433
00:27:17,592 --> 00:27:21,026
Uh, you said something
about good news?

434
00:27:21,028 --> 00:27:23,063
Possibly
about the lawsuit?

435
00:27:23,065 --> 00:27:25,731
Ah, the lawsuit.

436
00:27:25,733 --> 00:27:27,901
Yes, the copyright
infringement.

437
00:27:27,903 --> 00:27:30,636
<i>Oliver Twisted.</i> "As re-originated
from the original."

438
00:27:30,638 --> 00:27:33,038
Yes! Ha!
I have it here.

439
00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:35,644
Uh... Ah, yes.

440
00:27:36,644 --> 00:27:39,978
Good news indeed.
We won.

441
00:27:39,980 --> 00:27:42,882
The fine was set
at £2,200.

442
00:27:42,884 --> 00:27:45,117
2,200!

443
00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:47,720
The bad news is,
the defendants have no money.

444
00:27:47,722 --> 00:27:49,625
- Ah.
- Bankrupt.

445
00:27:50,726 --> 00:27:52,728
Disappointing, I know.

446
00:27:55,463 --> 00:27:58,030
But we'll have them arrested,
throw them into debtor's prison.

447
00:27:58,032 --> 00:27:59,599
No. No, no.

448
00:27:59,601 --> 00:28:00,803
No?

449
00:28:02,371 --> 00:28:03,806
As you wish.

450
00:28:04,705 --> 00:28:06,940
In the meantime,

451
00:28:06,942 --> 00:28:09,077
if you would be
so good...

452
00:28:16,718 --> 00:28:18,321
here's my bill.

453
00:28:24,125 --> 00:28:27,427
No rush.
Next week will be fine.

454
00:28:27,429 --> 00:28:28,995
Hmm.

455
00:28:28,997 --> 00:28:33,600
Tell you what. Why don't we
defer this until... January?

456
00:28:33,602 --> 00:28:36,469
And while we're at it, perhaps
you might add a little bit more.

457
00:28:36,471 --> 00:28:38,171
I'll make it
worth your while.

458
00:28:38,173 --> 00:28:39,674
More?

459
00:28:42,176 --> 00:28:44,413
You wish to borrow more?

460
00:28:47,048 --> 00:28:48,683
Not very much.
Just...

461
00:28:50,085 --> 00:28:53,486
£300...
till January.

462
00:28:53,488 --> 00:28:55,889
I think we can
increase your loan

463
00:28:55,891 --> 00:28:59,159
at, shall we say,
25 percent?

464
00:28:59,161 --> 00:29:00,696
God's teeth!

465
00:29:02,196 --> 00:29:03,465
Thank you.

466
00:29:07,836 --> 00:29:09,739
Charles.
Charles.

467
00:29:10,939 --> 00:29:12,838
- Are you all right?
- Yeah.

468
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:14,606
Never better.

469
00:29:14,608 --> 00:29:16,745
Now find me
an illustrator.

470
00:29:23,117 --> 00:29:27,786
He was a tight-fisted,
hand to the grindstone

471
00:29:27,788 --> 00:29:31,557
old... Scratch.

472
00:29:31,559 --> 00:29:33,660
[grumbles]

473
00:29:33,662 --> 00:29:35,597
Scrounger.

474
00:29:36,565 --> 00:29:37,732
He was a...

475
00:29:39,134 --> 00:29:42,137
covetous old sinner.
[grumbling]

476
00:29:44,038 --> 00:29:45,604
- Name!
- [giggling]

477
00:29:45,606 --> 00:29:47,006
Shh.

478
00:29:47,008 --> 00:29:49,642
Screwpull! Scrabbly.

479
00:29:49,644 --> 00:29:51,978
Name! Ah!

480
00:29:51,980 --> 00:29:53,846
[whispering] Well, go on.
He won't bite.

481
00:29:53,848 --> 00:29:56,149
Screwpull.

482
00:29:56,151 --> 00:29:59,219
[muttering, grunting]

483
00:29:59,221 --> 00:30:00,689
- [loud thump]
- Aah!

484
00:30:04,025 --> 00:30:05,494
[knocking]

485
00:30:16,938 --> 00:30:17,871
- Scrimple!
- [screams]

486
00:30:17,873 --> 00:30:19,138
Aah!

487
00:30:19,140 --> 00:30:21,274
You're... What are you
doing in here?

488
00:30:21,276 --> 00:30:23,575
I've just come to see
to the fire, sir.

489
00:30:23,577 --> 00:30:26,578
I'm not to be interrupted under
<i>any</i> circumstances! Do you hear?

490
00:30:26,580 --> 00:30:29,681
I beg your pardon, sir.
It won't happen again.

491
00:30:29,683 --> 00:30:31,619
Wait. What's that
in your pocket?

492
00:30:38,692 --> 00:30:42,094
<i>Varney the Vampire,
or The Feast of Blood.</i>

493
00:30:42,096 --> 00:30:45,998
You won't tell Mrs. Fisk, will ya?
She'll think I was shirkin'.

494
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:48,636
- Where did you learn to read?
- My mum taught me.

495
00:30:49,671 --> 00:30:51,069
But then she died

496
00:30:51,071 --> 00:30:53,074
and I had to go
to the Grubber.

497
00:30:54,576 --> 00:30:56,812
The workhouse?

498
00:31:00,048 --> 00:31:03,551
- Is it any good?
- Well, yes, sir. Thrilling.

499
00:31:05,987 --> 00:31:08,990
Tell you what.
I'll make you a trade.

500
00:31:12,693 --> 00:31:15,161
<i>Varney the Vampire</i>
for...

501
00:31:15,163 --> 00:31:16,895
Uh, where is it?

502
00:31:16,897 --> 00:31:19,567
[humming] Ah!

503
00:31:22,069 --> 00:31:24,170
<i>Aladdin
and His Magic Lamp.</i>

504
00:31:24,172 --> 00:31:26,038
Oh, my.

505
00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:28,240
Read it.
Let me know what you think.

506
00:31:28,242 --> 00:31:30,144
Thank you, sir.

507
00:31:31,145 --> 00:31:33,912
[clock chiming]

508
00:31:33,914 --> 00:31:35,283
Hmm.

509
00:31:39,788 --> 00:31:41,621
Who is Scrimple?

510
00:31:41,623 --> 00:31:43,021
Hmm? Scrimple?

511
00:31:43,023 --> 00:31:45,924
- When I come in, you were saying...
- Oh!

512
00:31:45,926 --> 00:31:49,761
It's just a name
for a story I'm concocting.

513
00:31:49,763 --> 00:31:53,269
Get the name right and then, if you're
lucky, the character will appear.

514
00:31:54,935 --> 00:31:56,736
Hmm.

515
00:31:56,738 --> 00:31:57,972
He's not here yet.

516
00:31:59,974 --> 00:32:02,877
Scrantish?

517
00:32:04,945 --> 00:32:07,148
Scrarmer.

518
00:32:09,049 --> 00:32:10,382
- [snapping fingers]
- Come on.

519
00:32:10,384 --> 00:32:13,686
[rolling "R"]
Scrunge.

520
00:32:13,688 --> 00:32:15,622
Aw, come on!

521
00:32:15,624 --> 00:32:17,026
Come on,
you old sinner!

522
00:32:19,326 --> 00:32:20,996
Scrooge!

523
00:32:22,696 --> 00:32:26,132
Shut the window! Do you
think I'm made of money?

524
00:32:26,134 --> 00:32:28,634
Mr. Scrooge.

525
00:32:28,636 --> 00:32:32,037
- How delightful to meet you, sir.
- Sorry I can't say the same.

526
00:32:32,039 --> 00:32:34,774
Come now. Don't be standoffish.
We ought to be friends.

527
00:32:34,776 --> 00:32:36,742
- Don't have friends. Don't need 'em.
- Ah.

528
00:32:36,744 --> 00:32:38,878
Naturally.

529
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:40,747
- I know. Let's play a game.
- Don't like games.

530
00:32:40,749 --> 00:32:42,748
Well, humor me.

531
00:32:42,750 --> 00:32:46,919
What do you think of when I
say the word... "darkness"?

532
00:32:46,921 --> 00:32:48,190
Cheap.

533
00:32:49,223 --> 00:32:51,125
- Love.
- Swindle.

534
00:32:52,794 --> 00:32:54,830
- Money.
- Security.

535
00:32:56,397 --> 00:32:58,965
- Children.
- Useless.

536
00:32:58,967 --> 00:33:01,070
- Workhouse.
- Useful.

537
00:33:04,172 --> 00:33:05,307
Christmas.

538
00:33:08,676 --> 00:33:10,111
Christmas?

539
00:33:11,413 --> 00:33:12,847
That's right.

540
00:33:17,117 --> 00:33:19,786
- [Mrs. Fisk] Help! Help! Get it away!
- [children squealing, chattering]

541
00:33:19,788 --> 00:33:21,754
- [groans]
- [Mrs. Fisk] Away!

542
00:33:21,756 --> 00:33:23,422
[grunts]

543
00:33:23,424 --> 00:33:25,091
- [screams]
- What is going on?

544
00:33:25,093 --> 00:33:26,992
Get it away,
the filthy thing.

545
00:33:26,994 --> 00:33:29,194
Come on, Grip, old chap.
Back in the cage.

546
00:33:29,196 --> 00:33:31,130
- Father?
- Ah. Charles.

547
00:33:31,132 --> 00:33:32,998
- Good day.
- What are you doing here?

548
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:35,101
Well, we were
in the neighborhood

549
00:33:35,103 --> 00:33:38,203
and we thought we'd drop by with
a present for the children.

550
00:33:38,205 --> 00:33:40,273
[Charley] His name is Grip.
He talks!

551
00:33:40,275 --> 00:33:42,808
- Can we keep him?
- [Grip] Hello, old girl.

552
00:33:42,810 --> 00:33:45,077
It's bad luck, a bird in the house.
It means death.

553
00:33:45,079 --> 00:33:46,813
- Hello!
- Father, in here.

554
00:33:46,815 --> 00:33:48,717
- [squawking]
- Of course.

555
00:33:51,352 --> 00:33:54,319
Charles? Charles?

556
00:33:54,321 --> 00:33:56,988
What are you doing
back in London?

557
00:33:56,990 --> 00:33:59,491
[sighs]
My dear Charles.

558
00:33:59,493 --> 00:34:02,394
I will not disguise from you
that this is not the ardor

559
00:34:02,396 --> 00:34:04,396
with which a loving father
might be expected...

560
00:34:04,398 --> 00:34:07,100
- You are supposed to be in Devon.
- [scoffs]

561
00:34:07,102 --> 00:34:08,334
Banishment!

562
00:34:08,336 --> 00:34:11,503
Be merciful
and say "death,"

563
00:34:11,505 --> 00:34:14,143
for exile has more
terror in its look.

564
00:34:15,342 --> 00:34:18,244
Father,
we had an agreement.

565
00:34:18,246 --> 00:34:19,945
Hmm?

566
00:34:19,947 --> 00:34:21,780
I bought you a house.

567
00:34:21,782 --> 00:34:24,016
I gave you an allowance.

568
00:34:24,018 --> 00:34:26,818
For which
I am very grateful.

569
00:34:26,820 --> 00:34:29,889
As for me, I'm happy
wherever the weather.

570
00:34:29,891 --> 00:34:33,762
But your mother is of
a more delicate sensibility.

571
00:34:34,795 --> 00:34:37,963
Charles,
the mere sight of cows

572
00:34:37,965 --> 00:34:40,234
causes her
actual physical pain.

573
00:34:41,402 --> 00:34:43,436
Father.

574
00:34:43,438 --> 00:34:46,340
And I have research to do
in the London Library.

575
00:34:49,010 --> 00:34:50,713
- Research?
- Oh, yes.

576
00:34:52,045 --> 00:34:53,945
Yeah.

577
00:34:53,947 --> 00:34:56,816
I have a commission
from <i>The Spectator</i>

578
00:34:56,818 --> 00:34:59,421
to write a feature
on the Bank Charter Act.

579
00:35:00,454 --> 00:35:02,487
The editor
was very impressed

580
00:35:02,489 --> 00:35:05,391
with my series
on marine insurance.

581
00:35:05,393 --> 00:35:09,929
Good for you, Father. I do hope that
you and Mother will stay here with us.

582
00:35:09,931 --> 00:35:13,068
The children and I will so enjoy
having some company in the evenings.

583
00:35:20,108 --> 00:35:22,277
<i>The Spectator.</i>
Well, that's, um...

584
00:35:23,478 --> 00:35:25,481
That's most impressive.

585
00:35:27,414 --> 00:35:29,817
[chuckles]
Thank you, dear boy.

586
00:35:30,451 --> 00:35:32,150
Oh, by the way,

587
00:35:32,152 --> 00:35:34,420
you couldn't lend me
a tenner, could you?

588
00:35:34,422 --> 00:35:37,123
That blighter took my last
farthing for the cage.

589
00:35:37,125 --> 00:35:38,360
- [wings fluttering]
- [gasps]

590
00:35:42,429 --> 00:35:45,331
- [squawk]
- It was the bird, sir. It flew upstairs.

591
00:35:45,333 --> 00:35:50,302
Oh, um, I'll see
that it's all cleared up.

592
00:35:50,304 --> 00:35:53,005
- [squawking]
- Please, can we keep him?

593
00:35:53,007 --> 00:35:54,842
Well, I, um...

594
00:35:57,512 --> 00:35:59,481
[laughs]
Come on, Walter.

595
00:36:02,449 --> 00:36:04,483
[sighs]

596
00:36:04,485 --> 00:36:07,523
"This is not the ardor
with which a loving father..."

597
00:36:08,389 --> 00:36:10,159
[sighs]

598
00:36:11,893 --> 00:36:12,994
[Scrooge]
Humbug!

599
00:36:14,161 --> 00:36:16,497
- What is?
- Christmas.

600
00:36:19,434 --> 00:36:21,032
What about it?

601
00:36:21,034 --> 00:36:23,101
Well, what is it
but an excuse

602
00:36:23,103 --> 00:36:26,541
for picking a man's pocket
every 25th of December?

603
00:36:28,376 --> 00:36:30,242
Yes. Keep going.

604
00:36:30,244 --> 00:36:33,445
A time for paying bills
without money.

605
00:36:33,447 --> 00:36:36,481
A time for finding yourself a year
older and not an hour richer.

606
00:36:36,483 --> 00:36:38,383
[chuckles]

607
00:36:38,385 --> 00:36:40,552
If I could work my will,

608
00:36:40,554 --> 00:36:43,121
every idiot who goes about with
"Merry Christmas" on his lips

609
00:36:43,123 --> 00:36:45,291
should be boiled
in his own plum pudding

610
00:36:45,293 --> 00:36:49,061
and <i>buried</i> with a stake of holly
through his heart, he should.

611
00:36:49,063 --> 00:36:53,999
[laughs] Oh, Mr. Scrooge, you and I are
going to do wonderful things together.

612
00:36:54,001 --> 00:36:58,670
Oh, but he was a tight-fisted
hand at the grindstone, Scrooge.

613
00:36:58,672 --> 00:37:01,574
A squeezing, wrenching,

614
00:37:01,576 --> 00:37:05,211
grasping, scraping,

615
00:37:05,213 --> 00:37:08,014
clutching,
covetous old sinner.

616
00:37:08,016 --> 00:37:10,016
[knocking]

617
00:37:10,018 --> 00:37:11,353
[Mr. Dickens]
Charles?

618
00:37:14,588 --> 00:37:16,389
Hard at work?

619
00:37:16,391 --> 00:37:18,557
What can I help
you with, Father?

620
00:37:18,559 --> 00:37:22,461
Well, I was wondering if we might have
an extra candlestick for our room.

621
00:37:22,463 --> 00:37:24,429
- Of course.
- Oh!

622
00:37:24,431 --> 00:37:27,368
Cigars. Oh, yes.

623
00:37:28,469 --> 00:37:30,403
I must confess,

624
00:37:30,405 --> 00:37:35,273
I have acquired an irrepressible
habit of smoking whilst I write.

625
00:37:35,275 --> 00:37:36,708
Dreadful habit, I know,
but...

626
00:37:36,710 --> 00:37:38,613
Oh, yes.
[chuckles]

627
00:37:39,947 --> 00:37:41,215
Thank you.

628
00:37:44,952 --> 00:37:46,485
Hmm. Going well?

629
00:37:46,487 --> 00:37:48,990
[sniffs]
Oh. [laughs]

630
00:37:50,324 --> 00:37:52,326
I won't detain you.

631
00:38:07,240 --> 00:38:09,508
Don't do that.
D-Don't.

632
00:38:09,510 --> 00:38:11,543
- Why not?
- [man groans]

633
00:38:11,545 --> 00:38:13,112
[sighs]
Too late.

634
00:38:13,114 --> 00:38:15,347
[dragging, thumping]

635
00:38:15,349 --> 00:38:16,615
Who is it?

636
00:38:16,617 --> 00:38:18,120
Who is it?

637
00:38:19,554 --> 00:38:20,987
- Bunsby?
- [thumping continues]

638
00:38:20,989 --> 00:38:22,621
[groaning continues]

639
00:38:22,623 --> 00:38:23,692
Clennam?

640
00:38:25,693 --> 00:38:28,427
- Heep? Hexam?
- [thumping, chains clanking]

641
00:38:28,429 --> 00:38:30,195
- Oh, stop, stop!
- Magwitch?

642
00:38:30,197 --> 00:38:31,299
No.

643
00:38:32,599 --> 00:38:33,701
Marley.

644
00:38:36,771 --> 00:38:39,604
[screaming]

645
00:38:39,606 --> 00:38:41,175
[groans]

646
00:38:42,643 --> 00:38:45,577
Is that you, Jacob?

647
00:38:45,579 --> 00:38:47,746
- You know him?
- My business partner.

648
00:38:47,748 --> 00:38:50,516
Last time I saw him
he was dead as a doornail.

649
00:38:50,518 --> 00:38:53,219
How do you, Jacob?

650
00:38:53,221 --> 00:38:55,755
[Marley]
Business, business.

651
00:38:55,757 --> 00:38:58,724
Mankind was my business.

652
00:38:58,726 --> 00:39:01,296
The common welfare
was my business.

653
00:39:02,663 --> 00:39:04,132
Charity...

654
00:39:05,365 --> 00:39:06,568
mercy...

655
00:39:08,235 --> 00:39:10,135
forbearance,
and benevolence

656
00:39:10,137 --> 00:39:12,371
were all my business.

657
00:39:12,373 --> 00:39:15,240
He was never one
for a straight answer.

658
00:39:15,242 --> 00:39:17,309
And yet I practiced
none of them!

659
00:39:17,311 --> 00:39:19,077
Come in.

660
00:39:19,079 --> 00:39:20,414
Come in, please.

661
00:39:25,318 --> 00:39:27,588
[groaning]

662
00:39:39,666 --> 00:39:41,603
[gasps, sighs]

663
00:39:43,838 --> 00:39:47,175
You are fettered.
Why?

664
00:39:48,643 --> 00:39:51,612
I wear the chain
I forged in life.

665
00:39:54,849 --> 00:39:56,284
I made it...

666
00:39:58,286 --> 00:39:59,653
link by link,

667
00:40:01,222 --> 00:40:03,191
yard by yard.

668
00:40:04,759 --> 00:40:08,463
And of my own free will,
I girded it about me.

669
00:40:09,730 --> 00:40:12,530
Of my own free will,

670
00:40:12,532 --> 00:40:14,432
I wore it.

671
00:40:14,434 --> 00:40:18,373
[wheezing groan]

672
00:40:23,710 --> 00:40:27,415
Do you know the weight and length
of the chain you bear yourself?

673
00:40:29,550 --> 00:40:30,818
You mean him,
surely.

674
00:40:33,353 --> 00:40:35,156
Mm-mmm.

675
00:40:36,257 --> 00:40:37,659
You, Charley.

676
00:40:40,260 --> 00:40:43,130
Your chains,
all around you.

677
00:40:44,865 --> 00:40:47,335
Past and present...

678
00:40:49,137 --> 00:40:50,572
and what is to come.

679
00:40:52,472 --> 00:40:55,407
[screams]

680
00:40:55,409 --> 00:40:58,776
Hail to thee,
blithe turkey,

681
00:40:58,778 --> 00:41:01,246
whose exquisite odors

682
00:41:01,248 --> 00:41:04,349
now perfume
the circumambient air.

683
00:41:04,351 --> 00:41:05,918
[inhales]

684
00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:08,720
And let this day
be fragrant

685
00:41:08,722 --> 00:41:12,258
with the love
we bear one another.

686
00:41:12,260 --> 00:41:15,360
And may God bless us,
every one.

687
00:41:15,362 --> 00:41:17,396
Every one.

688
00:41:17,398 --> 00:41:19,166
[clapping]

689
00:41:22,269 --> 00:41:24,403
Mr. John Dickens.

690
00:41:24,405 --> 00:41:27,373
You're under arrest
for a debt of 42 pounds.

691
00:41:27,375 --> 00:41:28,606
- Father!
- Charley.

692
00:41:28,608 --> 00:41:30,744
Father,
tell them to stop!

693
00:41:31,878 --> 00:41:33,445
Take everything
that shines, boys.

694
00:41:33,447 --> 00:41:35,748
It's all right, Charley.

695
00:41:35,750 --> 00:41:38,617
- Tell them to stop, Father!
- It's all right.

696
00:41:38,619 --> 00:41:40,822
Please, Charley,
don't worry.

697
00:41:42,389 --> 00:41:43,858
- [gasps]
- [accordion squawks]

698
00:41:46,860 --> 00:41:50,132
[clock chiming]

699
00:41:51,298 --> 00:41:53,869
[children shouting,
chattering]

700
00:41:55,503 --> 00:41:57,936
[Charles] What about Leech
for the illustrations?

701
00:41:57,938 --> 00:41:59,637
[Forster] Leech?
He's so prickly.

702
00:41:59,639 --> 00:42:02,541
- And he's by no means the cheapest.
- I don't want the cheapest.

703
00:42:02,543 --> 00:42:05,778
Oh, Charles, for God's sake, slow down.
You move at railway speed.

704
00:42:05,780 --> 00:42:07,746
I don't want the cheapest.
I want the best.

705
00:42:07,748 --> 00:42:09,347
- It's going well then?
- What?

706
00:42:09,349 --> 00:42:11,749
- The book.
- It's brilliant. Best thing I've ever written.

707
00:42:11,751 --> 00:42:13,385
- What, so you...
- I've got 11 pages.

708
00:42:13,387 --> 00:42:15,787
- Eleven?
- Well, if it weren't for constant interruptions.

709
00:42:15,789 --> 00:42:18,990
We've got my father staying with us. He
could not have come at a worse time.

710
00:42:18,992 --> 00:42:20,492
Oh.

711
00:42:20,494 --> 00:42:21,896
Miss Wigmore.

712
00:42:24,297 --> 00:42:25,764
Ah.

713
00:42:25,766 --> 00:42:28,434
- [sighs]
- Come.

714
00:42:28,436 --> 00:42:29,668
Come along.

715
00:42:29,670 --> 00:42:32,374
[woman chattering,
indistinct]

716
00:42:34,909 --> 00:42:36,809
Who was that?

717
00:42:36,811 --> 00:42:38,811
- Charlotte.
- Who?

718
00:42:38,813 --> 00:42:40,778
My fiancée.
I told you.

719
00:42:40,780 --> 00:42:42,947
[chuckles]
Fiancée?

720
00:42:42,949 --> 00:42:46,318
- She's a canny lass, is she not?
- Indeed. Most amiable.

721
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:48,287
Amiable?

722
00:42:48,289 --> 00:42:51,257
Why, man, she's an
angel, a sylph.

723
00:42:51,259 --> 00:42:53,726
[sobbing]
She's a goddess on a...

724
00:42:53,728 --> 00:42:56,528
Whatever is the matter?

725
00:42:56,530 --> 00:42:59,597
Charlotte and I have come
to a parting of the ways.

726
00:42:59,599 --> 00:43:02,034
- I thought you said you were engaged.
- We were.

727
00:43:02,036 --> 00:43:05,273
But then her father had no intention
for her to marry the son of a butcher.

728
00:43:07,275 --> 00:43:08,643
Here.

729
00:43:09,777 --> 00:43:11,213
- [sniffs]
- [sighs]

730
00:43:12,780 --> 00:43:14,947
Perhaps
it's for the best, eh?

731
00:43:14,949 --> 00:43:17,686
The life matrimonial, it's
not for everyone, old stick.

732
00:43:19,387 --> 00:43:21,222
Aye. Aye, no doubt.

733
00:43:22,422 --> 00:43:23,824
So... Leech.

734
00:43:24,791 --> 00:43:26,358
That's the ticket.

735
00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:27,825
Four wood cuts,
four etchings.

736
00:43:27,827 --> 00:43:29,394
The cover in red.
Hand-colored.

737
00:43:29,396 --> 00:43:32,298
The title in rustic,
spectral writing.

738
00:43:32,300 --> 00:43:34,432
The end papers to be green and
all three edges to be gilded.

739
00:43:34,434 --> 00:43:37,536
Gilded?
It'll cost you.

740
00:43:37,538 --> 00:43:40,539
Well, it must be exquisite.
That's why we came to you.

741
00:43:40,541 --> 00:43:43,976
You'll have to sell every
copy to make your money back.

742
00:43:43,978 --> 00:43:46,345
That is my intention.

743
00:43:46,347 --> 00:43:48,780
You brought
the manuscript?

744
00:43:48,782 --> 00:43:50,648
[stammers] I'll have
something for you in a week.

745
00:43:50,650 --> 00:43:52,450
- A week?
- Mmm.

746
00:43:52,452 --> 00:43:54,820
That leaves only four weeks
to do all the illustrations

747
00:43:54,822 --> 00:43:56,891
and get it to the printer
in time for Christmas.

748
00:43:59,693 --> 00:44:02,927
- Can you do it?
- Mr. Dickens, I'm not a hired hand.

749
00:44:02,929 --> 00:44:05,466
I am an artist.

750
00:44:06,766 --> 00:44:08,602
What you are asking
is impossible.

751
00:44:09,836 --> 00:44:12,338
Impossible
for an ordinary man.

752
00:44:12,340 --> 00:44:14,742
But you are no ordinary man,
Mr. Leech.

753
00:44:15,543 --> 00:44:16,878
You are a genius.

754
00:44:20,681 --> 00:44:21,715
Fifty pounds.

755
00:44:22,650 --> 00:44:24,483
Paid in advance.

756
00:44:24,485 --> 00:44:27,021
Plus more
for the plates.

757
00:44:32,659 --> 00:44:35,062
Done.
Thank you, Mr. Leech.

758
00:44:37,731 --> 00:44:40,566
Look, Charles, I don't want
to be the voice of doom,

759
00:44:40,568 --> 00:44:42,934
but before we lay out
money for illustrations,

760
00:44:42,936 --> 00:44:46,373
we should consider what happens
if you don't finish on time.

761
00:44:47,141 --> 00:44:49,010
I <i>will</i> finish on time.

762
00:44:50,378 --> 00:44:51,846
Quite.

763
00:44:55,483 --> 00:44:58,516
Mr. Dickens. I fix the chandelier.
See?

764
00:44:58,518 --> 00:45:01,487
Yes. Good.
<i>Grazie,</i> Signor Mazzini.

765
00:45:01,489 --> 00:45:03,021
Is no problem.

766
00:45:03,023 --> 00:45:06,023
Only 12 guineas extra.
[clears throat]

767
00:45:06,025 --> 00:45:08,494
Wh... Tw...

768
00:45:08,496 --> 00:45:11,829
- [Mr. Dickens laughing]
- I thought my father was off to the British Library.

769
00:45:11,831 --> 00:45:14,833
Your sister's here, sir. Come from
Manchester with her little boy.

770
00:45:14,835 --> 00:45:15,936
Ah.

771
00:45:17,405 --> 00:45:19,938
- My dear sister! Ha-ha!
- Charley.

772
00:45:19,940 --> 00:45:22,141
[both laugh]

773
00:45:22,143 --> 00:45:23,742
Henry, how are you?

774
00:45:23,744 --> 00:45:25,878
Very well,
grace be to God.

775
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:28,914
This cannot be young Master Henry.
I barely recognize you.

776
00:45:28,916 --> 00:45:31,483
- How old are you now?
- Nine, if you please, sir.

777
00:45:31,485 --> 00:45:33,918
Nine? I shall soon
run out of fingers.

778
00:45:33,920 --> 00:45:36,957
- [laughs]
- [Henry coughing]

779
00:45:39,793 --> 00:45:41,693
Excuse me, sir.

780
00:45:41,695 --> 00:45:44,829
The children are having their
tea in the dining room.

781
00:45:44,831 --> 00:45:46,701
Come on then, young 'un.
Up!

782
00:45:52,072 --> 00:45:53,575
Mind your head.

783
00:45:54,842 --> 00:45:56,874
There goes my heart.

784
00:45:56,876 --> 00:45:59,010
What did
the doctor say?

785
00:45:59,012 --> 00:46:00,848
He says we have to
wait and see.

786
00:46:01,849 --> 00:46:03,715
Won't you
let us help?

787
00:46:03,717 --> 00:46:06,552
- We'll manage.
- At least until Henry finds a new position.

788
00:46:06,554 --> 00:46:08,854
Something will come up.
I'm sure of it.

789
00:46:08,856 --> 00:46:11,190
You sound
just like Father.

790
00:46:11,192 --> 00:46:13,925
- How is the old reprobate?
- [sighs]

791
00:46:13,927 --> 00:46:17,662
"This morning I had 25 shillings in my
hand. And now, observe the vacancy."

792
00:46:17,664 --> 00:46:19,630
He means no harm.

793
00:46:19,632 --> 00:46:23,501
It's not enough. He bobs around
like a cork on the surface of life.

794
00:46:23,503 --> 00:46:25,670
- Not a thought for the future.
- Oh, Charley.

795
00:46:25,672 --> 00:46:28,507
Let it go, can't you?

796
00:46:28,509 --> 00:46:32,478
[Mr. Dickens] Come on, me army!
Me landlubbers, me lovelies!

797
00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:36,248
Oh! Up we go.
Ha-ha! Me landlubbers!

798
00:46:36,250 --> 00:46:40,586
Come aboard my ship!
Here we go! Let's set sail!

799
00:46:40,588 --> 00:46:43,921
Brail your capstan bar!
Come here, Walter.

800
00:46:43,923 --> 00:46:46,825
- Brail your capstan bar!
- No one is useless in this world...

801
00:46:46,827 --> 00:46:49,961
Who lightens the burden
of another. I know.

802
00:46:49,963 --> 00:46:54,199
- For all his faults, you won't find a kinder man.
- [grumbles]

803
00:46:54,201 --> 00:46:56,934
How long he is
growing up to be one.

804
00:46:56,936 --> 00:47:00,171
[Mr. Dickens
continues shouting]

805
00:47:00,173 --> 00:47:02,811
Here we go!
Full sail ahead!

806
00:47:11,952 --> 00:47:13,719
[whispering]
Why are you here?

807
00:47:13,721 --> 00:47:17,224
You'd better come and see
who's just turned up.

808
00:47:23,597 --> 00:47:24,932
Charles?

809
00:47:27,268 --> 00:47:29,967
Just a bit of indigestion.
Go back to sleep.

810
00:47:29,969 --> 00:47:31,472
Mmm.

811
00:47:49,722 --> 00:47:52,124
Tell him who you are.

812
00:47:52,126 --> 00:47:54,963
I am the Ghost
of Christmas Past.

813
00:47:58,097 --> 00:47:59,831
Follow.

814
00:47:59,833 --> 00:48:02,833
Not bloody likely.

815
00:48:02,835 --> 00:48:06,137
- Why not?
- Mucking around in the past? What's the point?

816
00:48:06,139 --> 00:48:07,905
You might learn something.

817
00:48:07,907 --> 00:48:10,775
Well, I already know
everything I need to know.

818
00:48:10,777 --> 00:48:13,744
- Uh, take him, why don't you?
- Me?

819
00:48:13,746 --> 00:48:16,315
- Yes, if you're so keen.
- It's not about me!

820
00:48:16,317 --> 00:48:19,253
Well, you're the author,
aren't you?

821
00:48:23,657 --> 00:48:24,992
Follow.

822
00:48:26,893 --> 00:48:30,996
Don't cry. We'll be back
when the debt's paid.

823
00:48:30,998 --> 00:48:35,099
- Why can't I stay with you?
- You're a big boy, Charley.

824
00:48:35,101 --> 00:48:37,034
You're the breadwinner now.

825
00:48:37,036 --> 00:48:40,738
You'll see.
It'll be an adventure.

826
00:48:40,740 --> 00:48:42,911
- You'll hardly think of us at all.
- [sobbing quietly]

827
00:48:44,811 --> 00:48:47,179
- [banging on wagon]
- [man] Time to go!

828
00:48:47,181 --> 00:48:49,213
Now, sir,
enough of that.

829
00:48:49,215 --> 00:48:51,083
Stand up tall.

830
00:48:51,085 --> 00:48:53,050
Blood of iron,
heart of ice.

831
00:48:53,052 --> 00:48:55,086
- Huh?
- [whip cracks]

832
00:48:55,088 --> 00:48:57,025
- [horse whinnies]
- And remember!

833
00:48:58,257 --> 00:49:00,358
You're the son
of John Dickens!

834
00:49:00,360 --> 00:49:02,159
A gentleman!

835
00:49:02,161 --> 00:49:04,164
You be sure
and tell them that!

836
00:49:15,675 --> 00:49:16,777
Well, come on then!

837
00:49:18,846 --> 00:49:20,778
Blood of iron,

838
00:49:20,780 --> 00:49:22,182
heart of ice.

839
00:49:27,186 --> 00:49:29,420
[gasps]

840
00:49:29,422 --> 00:49:32,157
- Good morning.
- What? Oh.

841
00:49:32,159 --> 00:49:34,392
You were tossing and turning
all night, you know.

842
00:49:34,394 --> 00:49:36,130
Yes. Bad dreams.

843
00:49:37,030 --> 00:49:39,331
What about?

844
00:49:39,333 --> 00:49:42,202
I don't know. Shadows.

845
00:49:43,836 --> 00:49:45,269
Well...

846
00:49:45,271 --> 00:49:47,371
a little daylight
will cure you.

847
00:49:47,373 --> 00:49:49,206
[cackling]
Now, Constable,

848
00:49:49,208 --> 00:49:52,043
shall we ask Mr. Punch where
the baby's daddy's gone?

849
00:49:52,045 --> 00:49:53,845
I bet he knows.

850
00:49:53,847 --> 00:49:57,349
- Oh! Where's the baby's daddy gone?
- Where's he gone, Mr. Punch?

851
00:49:57,351 --> 00:49:59,885
[Mr. Punch] Daddy's off to prison!
[cackling]

852
00:49:59,887 --> 00:50:02,019
[Judy]
Off to prison? Oh-ho!

853
00:50:02,021 --> 00:50:05,057
Come on. We're wasting time.
Let's get to work.

854
00:50:05,059 --> 00:50:06,891
I <i>am</i> working.

855
00:50:06,893 --> 00:50:09,927
- Here?
- Yes. Gathering inspiration.

856
00:50:09,929 --> 00:50:12,097
[chuckling]
Gathering what?

857
00:50:12,099 --> 00:50:16,200
- What do you see when you look around?
- Well, it's a market, you idiot.

858
00:50:16,202 --> 00:50:17,969
What else?

859
00:50:17,971 --> 00:50:21,238
Hot pies!
Eel, beef or mutton pies!

860
00:50:21,240 --> 00:50:23,378
- Buyers and sellers.
- What else?

861
00:50:25,244 --> 00:50:27,445
Never say die.
Have a look, sir.

862
00:50:27,447 --> 00:50:29,046
[Scrooge]
Thieves and ruffians.

863
00:50:29,048 --> 00:50:31,749
Highly interesting murder,
gentlemen!

864
00:50:31,751 --> 00:50:34,286
[man] Hold! Hold!

865
00:50:34,288 --> 00:50:36,987
Clear the way!
Clear the way, lads!

866
00:50:36,989 --> 00:50:38,990
- [laughing]
- Mr. Fezziwig!

867
00:50:38,992 --> 00:50:41,863
- [laughing]
- [fiddle playing]

868
00:50:45,965 --> 00:50:47,798
Life, Mr. Scrooge.

869
00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:50,168
It's London. The great
theater of the world.

870
00:50:50,170 --> 00:50:52,436
- It's all here.
- Bah. Humbug!

871
00:50:52,438 --> 00:50:55,507
I'm a man of facts,
of calculations.

872
00:50:55,509 --> 00:50:57,943
Realities, not fancy.

873
00:50:57,945 --> 00:50:59,447
What the devil is that?

874
00:51:00,748 --> 00:51:02,016
Here you go, sir.

875
00:51:11,492 --> 00:51:13,992
- Must go.
- Where to?

876
00:51:13,994 --> 00:51:15,229
It's time to write.

877
00:51:16,463 --> 00:51:19,400
- [laughing]
- [fiddle continues playing]

878
00:51:24,204 --> 00:51:26,470
- Come along.
- Good night, children!

879
00:51:26,472 --> 00:51:29,143
Bye! Shoo!
[laughs]

880
00:51:31,478 --> 00:51:33,047
[exhales]

881
00:51:34,782 --> 00:51:38,550
Well, looks as though Charles
won't be joining us. Again.

882
00:51:38,552 --> 00:51:40,519
- We may as well start.
- Oh.

883
00:51:40,521 --> 00:51:42,787
Ah, the parties.

884
00:51:42,789 --> 00:51:44,923
We used to keep such hours.

885
00:51:44,925 --> 00:51:47,858
Balls, dinners, champagne.

886
00:51:47,860 --> 00:51:50,028
First-rate capon,
Mrs. Fisk.

887
00:51:50,030 --> 00:51:52,798
Oh, thank you, sir.
I'll let the cook know.

888
00:51:52,800 --> 00:51:55,333
And the chairs
had turned legs,

889
00:51:55,335 --> 00:51:58,135
with green squabs
to match the curtains.

890
00:51:58,137 --> 00:52:00,005
What was that story,
Mother?

891
00:52:00,007 --> 00:52:04,075
Oh, I was just telling Kate about the
dining room set we used to have.

892
00:52:04,077 --> 00:52:07,512
Rosewood.
In the most approved taste.

893
00:52:07,514 --> 00:52:09,914
You mean the one
we pawned?

894
00:52:09,916 --> 00:52:11,449
Oh! [laughs]

895
00:52:11,451 --> 00:52:16,086
Charles! [laughs]
You are a satirical monster.

896
00:52:16,088 --> 00:52:18,255
- Is that a joke, Charles?
- Not a very amusing one.

897
00:52:18,257 --> 00:52:20,025
Is that a new waistcoat,
Father?

898
00:52:20,027 --> 00:52:25,229
What? Oh, yes. It's Persian crimson.
A little more expensive.

899
00:52:25,231 --> 00:52:28,532
But as I always say, people
will believe anything

900
00:52:28,534 --> 00:52:30,467
if you are properly dressed.

901
00:52:30,469 --> 00:52:33,905
Kate, will you ask Tara to bring
a tray up with something on it?

902
00:52:33,907 --> 00:52:36,842
- I'll bring it up.
- No. I need Tara to do it.

903
00:52:36,844 --> 00:52:39,577
I'll get her, sir.
Tara!

904
00:52:39,579 --> 00:52:42,414
[Mr. Dickens] That's the
spirit, my boy. Hmm?

905
00:52:42,416 --> 00:52:45,983
Procrastination is the thief of
time, eh, Charles? [chuckling]

906
00:52:45,985 --> 00:52:47,954
Collar him!

907
00:52:52,458 --> 00:52:54,291
We must not
disturb the poet

908
00:52:54,293 --> 00:52:56,628
when the divine frenzy
is upon him.

909
00:52:56,630 --> 00:52:58,630
[chuckles]

910
00:52:58,632 --> 00:53:00,534
Hmm.

911
00:53:10,210 --> 00:53:12,146
Know the place?

912
00:53:14,981 --> 00:53:17,018
Was I apprenticed here?

913
00:53:18,652 --> 00:53:22,519
Clear the way, lads! Clear the way.
It's Friday night.

914
00:53:22,521 --> 00:53:25,990
- Why, it's old Fezziwig.
- [fiddle: jig]

915
00:53:25,992 --> 00:53:27,594
[laughing]

916
00:53:31,331 --> 00:53:33,334
- [knocking]
- [fiddle stops]

917
00:53:34,434 --> 00:53:36,070
[sighs]

918
00:53:37,271 --> 00:53:39,271
Who is it?

919
00:53:39,273 --> 00:53:41,309
It's Tara, sir,
with your dinner.

920
00:53:48,315 --> 00:53:50,050
Tara.
Come in. Come in.

921
00:53:51,918 --> 00:53:53,621
Close the door.

922
00:53:56,123 --> 00:53:57,988
Sit. I want to
read you something.

923
00:53:57,990 --> 00:53:59,990
Oh... Oh, I... I don't think Mrs.
Fisk would...

924
00:53:59,992 --> 00:54:02,693
Ah! Skittleshins
to Mrs. Fisk.

925
00:54:02,695 --> 00:54:04,628
Come. Sit.

926
00:54:04,630 --> 00:54:07,565
[humming]

927
00:54:07,567 --> 00:54:09,700
Now, since you
like ghost stories,

928
00:54:09,702 --> 00:54:12,505
see if this can rival
<i>Varney the Vampire.</i>

929
00:54:15,275 --> 00:54:17,409
[Charles]
"With cherry-cheeked apples,

930
00:54:17,411 --> 00:54:20,679
juicy oranges,
luscious pears,

931
00:54:20,681 --> 00:54:23,715
immense Twelfth cakes
and seething bowls of punch

932
00:54:23,717 --> 00:54:27,184
that made the chamber dim
with their delicious steam.

933
00:54:27,186 --> 00:54:31,322
In easy state, upon this couch,
there sat a jolly giant..."

934
00:54:31,324 --> 00:54:33,590
- The second ghost.
- The second ghost.

935
00:54:33,592 --> 00:54:36,529
[laughter]

936
00:54:39,132 --> 00:54:42,032
I am the Ghost
of Christmas Present.

937
00:54:42,034 --> 00:54:46,737
These are the gifts
of abundance, goodwill,

938
00:54:46,739 --> 00:54:48,405
and of generosity.

939
00:54:48,407 --> 00:54:50,240
Uh-huh.

940
00:54:50,242 --> 00:54:53,345
Of course, you wouldn't understand
much about that, would you?

941
00:54:53,347 --> 00:54:55,082
Unlike these good people.

942
00:54:57,617 --> 00:55:00,719
My dear Mrs. Cratchit, you have
outdone yourself this year.

943
00:55:00,721 --> 00:55:03,054
Oh, everyone pitched in.
Even Tim.

944
00:55:03,056 --> 00:55:05,358
- I set the table.
- [laughing] Yes, you did.

945
00:55:08,027 --> 00:55:10,662
I didn't know Cratchit
had a crippled son.

946
00:55:10,664 --> 00:55:12,363
Didn't you ever think
to ask?

947
00:55:12,365 --> 00:55:15,266
A merry Christmas
to us all, my dears.

948
00:55:15,268 --> 00:55:18,139
- And may God bless us.
- God bless us, every one.

949
00:55:20,039 --> 00:55:23,240
He's my clerk. I don't pay him to
tell me about his personal life.

950
00:55:23,242 --> 00:55:25,642
- You hardly pay him at all.
- Fifteen shillings a week.

951
00:55:25,644 --> 00:55:28,545
For a man with a family,
not to mention a sick child?

952
00:55:28,547 --> 00:55:31,017
[coughing]

953
00:55:32,485 --> 00:55:34,454
That's the market rate.

954
00:55:36,123 --> 00:55:39,090
Do you really believe
that every inch of existence

955
00:55:39,092 --> 00:55:41,492
is a bargain
across the counter?

956
00:55:41,494 --> 00:55:43,494
Observe this family.

957
00:55:43,496 --> 00:55:48,099
They don't have much, but they're happy,
grateful, contented with their lot.

958
00:55:48,101 --> 00:55:52,237
Whereas you are miserable
and content with nothing.

959
00:55:52,239 --> 00:55:54,738
Never heard such folly.

960
00:55:54,740 --> 00:55:57,677
[bell tolls]

961
00:55:58,811 --> 00:56:01,315
Heed well what I've said.

962
00:56:02,416 --> 00:56:04,182
Farewell.

963
00:56:04,184 --> 00:56:06,187
[Charles]
And... intermission!

964
00:56:07,820 --> 00:56:10,789
- Thrilling performance.
- That's very kind. Thank you.

965
00:56:10,791 --> 00:56:13,995
And that is as far
as I've got.

966
00:56:19,365 --> 00:56:20,831
- Tara.
- Hmm?

967
00:56:20,833 --> 00:56:22,666
[chuckles]

968
00:56:22,668 --> 00:56:25,403
- How do you do that, sir?
- Do what?

969
00:56:25,405 --> 00:56:27,572
Make a world come alive.

970
00:56:27,574 --> 00:56:30,211
I could almost see
and hear them people.

971
00:56:31,844 --> 00:56:34,311
Especially that Tiny Tim.

972
00:56:34,313 --> 00:56:35,782
Poor mite.

973
00:56:45,759 --> 00:56:48,492
Um... [clears throat]
A word in your ear.

974
00:56:48,494 --> 00:56:52,130
- About what?
- The scene.

975
00:56:52,132 --> 00:56:55,867
- It's very one-sided.
- What? One-sided?

976
00:56:55,869 --> 00:56:58,506
Well, my character doesn't get
to explain his side of things.

977
00:57:00,773 --> 00:57:03,708
- So I've taken the liberty of writing a short speech.
- No.

978
00:57:03,710 --> 00:57:06,778
- Something about the rational self-interest...
- [sighs]

979
00:57:06,780 --> 00:57:08,780
and the natural tendencies
of free markets...

980
00:57:08,782 --> 00:57:11,318
No. No. And no.

981
00:57:13,286 --> 00:57:15,153
Well, what sort of book
is this anyway?

982
00:57:15,155 --> 00:57:16,487
[angry grunt]

983
00:57:16,489 --> 00:57:19,624
No! It's too... Ew.
It's too gloomy.

984
00:57:19,626 --> 00:57:21,793
The Ghost of Christmas
Present should be wonderful.

985
00:57:21,795 --> 00:57:23,862
Warm, jolly!

986
00:57:23,864 --> 00:57:25,796
- Jolly?
- Yes!

987
00:57:25,798 --> 00:57:27,632
A jolly ghost?

988
00:57:27,634 --> 00:57:29,135
That's it.

989
00:57:39,846 --> 00:57:42,313
- What's this?
- Find another artist.

990
00:57:42,315 --> 00:57:44,315
We don't want
another artist.

991
00:57:44,317 --> 00:57:48,586
A jolly Christmas ghost?
What's that mean?

992
00:57:48,588 --> 00:57:52,490
I can't draw
what I don't understand.

993
00:57:52,492 --> 00:57:56,360
Well, it is everything
that's best about Christmas.

994
00:57:56,362 --> 00:58:01,167
He's the soul of kindness
and generosity. He's...

995
00:58:02,434 --> 00:58:04,369
Well, he's Forster.

996
00:58:04,371 --> 00:58:05,936
Eh?

997
00:58:05,938 --> 00:58:08,208
With a beard.

998
00:58:12,512 --> 00:58:13,847
Come on. Jolly.

999
00:58:41,942 --> 00:58:44,878
[women shouting]

1000
00:58:55,922 --> 00:58:58,856
In shops by Christmas?

1001
00:58:58,858 --> 00:59:00,657
That'll be a miracle.

1002
00:59:00,659 --> 00:59:02,594
Go away.

1003
00:59:02,596 --> 00:59:06,766
Three flops in a row.
Up to your eyeballs in debt.

1004
00:59:08,268 --> 00:59:10,534
I'd think you'd be glad
of some advice.

1005
00:59:10,536 --> 00:59:13,237
So, you've had a few flops.
What of it?

1006
00:59:13,239 --> 00:59:16,340
You're still young. It's not
as if you're an old man.

1007
00:59:16,342 --> 00:59:18,378
- [groans]
- You've still got lots of time to be...

1008
00:59:35,527 --> 00:59:37,297
[bell tolls]

1009
00:59:39,532 --> 00:59:41,268
[bell tolls]

1010
00:59:43,637 --> 00:59:45,403
[bell tolls]

1011
00:59:45,405 --> 00:59:48,539
Are we in the presence of the
Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come?

1012
00:59:48,541 --> 00:59:51,409
[rumbling]

1013
00:59:51,411 --> 00:59:53,280
- Why doesn't he speak?
- Shh!

1014
00:59:57,583 --> 01:00:01,985
You are here to show us the shadows
of the things that have not been,

1015
01:00:01,987 --> 01:00:04,389
but will happen,
in the time before us.

1016
01:00:04,391 --> 01:00:05,693
Is that so?

1017
01:00:17,603 --> 01:00:19,336
[Scrooge] Where does
it want us to go?

1018
01:00:19,338 --> 01:00:21,241
I think I know.

1019
01:00:25,311 --> 01:00:27,981
I have a bad feeling
about this. I...

1020
01:00:34,788 --> 01:00:38,389
[Charles] And then they entered
poor Bob Cratchit's house

1021
01:00:38,391 --> 01:00:40,791
and found the mother and the
children round the fire.

1022
01:00:40,793 --> 01:00:43,864
[quiet sobbing]

1023
01:00:45,532 --> 01:00:46,831
It's okay.
It's okay.

1024
01:00:46,833 --> 01:00:48,735
Then Bob came in the door.

1025
01:00:51,471 --> 01:00:52,706
[door closes]

1026
01:00:57,110 --> 01:00:58,809
You went today then,
Robert?

1027
01:00:58,811 --> 01:01:01,047
To the cemetery?

1028
01:01:02,414 --> 01:01:04,449
Yes, my dear.

1029
01:01:04,451 --> 01:01:09,820
I wish you could have gone
to see how green a place it is.

1030
01:01:09,822 --> 01:01:11,988
But you'll see it often.

1031
01:01:11,990 --> 01:01:16,764
I promised him that I would
take a walk there on a Sunday.

1032
01:01:18,998 --> 01:01:20,567
[sobbing resumes]

1033
01:01:22,469 --> 01:01:24,371
My little child.

1034
01:01:28,474 --> 01:01:30,007
- My little, little child.
- "...little child."

1035
01:01:30,009 --> 01:01:32,008
- No!
- Uh, rude!

1036
01:01:32,010 --> 01:01:34,748
- Is Tiny Tim dead?
- Well, of course he is. Imbecile.

1037
01:01:36,583 --> 01:01:38,115
He was very ill.

1038
01:01:38,117 --> 01:01:39,883
You can't save
every child in London.

1039
01:01:39,885 --> 01:01:42,519
And the family
has no money for a doctor.

1040
01:01:42,521 --> 01:01:44,554
Then Scrooge must save him!

1041
01:01:44,556 --> 01:01:45,591
Me?

1042
01:01:47,059 --> 01:01:48,793
- But he wouldn't...
- Why?

1043
01:01:48,795 --> 01:01:51,461
- Well, he's too selfish.
- He can change.

1044
01:01:51,463 --> 01:01:53,530
There's good in him somewhere,
I know it!

1045
01:01:53,532 --> 01:01:55,768
People don't change.

1046
01:01:57,737 --> 01:02:00,104
He's been this way
for a long time.

1047
01:02:00,106 --> 01:02:02,407
I'm not sure
he can change.

1048
01:02:02,409 --> 01:02:05,112
Of course he can.
He's not a monster.

1049
01:02:07,012 --> 01:02:09,479
I thought this was a ghost
story, not a fairy tale.

1050
01:02:09,481 --> 01:02:13,016
He wouldn't let Tiny Tim die,
Mr. Dickens.

1051
01:02:13,018 --> 01:02:15,853
He has a heart,
doesn't he?

1052
01:02:15,855 --> 01:02:18,057
It would be
too wicked...

1053
01:02:20,025 --> 01:02:21,961
even for him.

1054
01:02:44,083 --> 01:02:46,987
[pen tapping on inkwell]

1055
01:03:05,170 --> 01:03:09,740
[Mr. Dickens] 'Tis now the
very witching time of night...

1056
01:03:09,742 --> 01:03:10,941
[Mrs. Dickens] Hush!

1057
01:03:10,943 --> 01:03:13,144
when graveyards
yawn and hell...

1058
01:03:13,146 --> 01:03:15,947
Aha, Shakespeare.
[chuckles]

1059
01:03:15,949 --> 01:03:18,081
There's a man
who could write.

1060
01:03:18,083 --> 01:03:21,651
I doubt he ever
had a blockage.

1061
01:03:21,653 --> 01:03:24,722
Self-preservation...
first law of nature.

1062
01:03:24,724 --> 01:03:26,026
And that's
just a fact.

1063
01:03:27,260 --> 01:03:28,925
[laughing]

1064
01:03:28,927 --> 01:03:30,728
Oh, hush.

1065
01:03:30,730 --> 01:03:33,164
Oh, Charles! Good evening.

1066
01:03:33,166 --> 01:03:35,199
We'll get him straight
into bed, Charles.

1067
01:03:35,201 --> 01:03:39,036
We were up the river to Kew, and I
think perhaps it was too long a day.

1068
01:03:39,038 --> 01:03:42,005
- Kew.
- Kew?

1069
01:03:42,007 --> 01:03:44,608
- What about your newspaper article?
- Article?

1070
01:03:44,610 --> 01:03:47,177
Yes, the one you're writing.
It's been over a month.

1071
01:03:47,179 --> 01:03:49,579
Oh! [laughs]

1072
01:03:49,581 --> 01:03:51,516
Oh, ho! Oh!

1073
01:03:51,518 --> 01:03:53,818
No, the, um...

1074
01:03:53,820 --> 01:03:58,588
The editor felt that due
to pecuniary complications

1075
01:03:58,590 --> 01:04:00,791
of a most complicated
nature,

1076
01:04:00,793 --> 01:04:03,793
he felt he could not proceed
with the commission.

1077
01:04:03,795 --> 01:04:05,595
So, no newspaper article.

1078
01:04:05,597 --> 01:04:09,233
No. However,
I rejoice in saying

1079
01:04:09,235 --> 01:04:12,637
I have every hope
something will turn up.

1080
01:04:12,639 --> 01:04:15,541
I think it's time you went
back to Devon, Father.

1081
01:04:16,876 --> 01:04:19,213
- Indeed.
- As soon as possible.

1082
01:04:23,181 --> 01:04:25,749
Of course, dear boy.

1083
01:04:25,751 --> 01:04:28,188
We shall catch the
afternoon train tomorrow.

1084
01:04:31,791 --> 01:04:33,624
No, sweet.

1085
01:04:33,626 --> 01:04:35,496
I can manage
from here.

1086
01:04:36,329 --> 01:04:37,865
Thank you.

1087
01:04:39,231 --> 01:04:41,201
Good night, Charles.

1088
01:04:44,804 --> 01:04:48,204
Ride on, ride on,

1089
01:04:48,206 --> 01:04:50,575
over all obstacles

1090
01:04:50,577 --> 01:04:52,842
and win the race.

1091
01:04:52,844 --> 01:04:55,211
Don't be unkind,
Charley.

1092
01:04:55,213 --> 01:04:57,280
You don't know
what he's been through.

1093
01:04:57,282 --> 01:05:00,184
He feels it all,
you know.

1094
01:05:00,186 --> 01:05:04,124
He would never tell you,
but he feels it all.

1095
01:05:12,331 --> 01:05:14,268
[door closes]

1096
01:05:23,742 --> 01:05:28,179
That's it. Blood of
iron, heart of ice.

1097
01:05:28,181 --> 01:05:30,717
Now perhaps we can finish
this little book.

1098
01:05:35,855 --> 01:05:39,289
"Are these the shadows
of the things that will be,

1099
01:05:39,291 --> 01:05:42,328
or are they shadows of the
things that may be only?"

1100
01:05:46,032 --> 01:05:47,901
That is as far
as I've got.

1101
01:05:49,702 --> 01:05:52,003
It's brilliant.

1102
01:05:52,005 --> 01:05:54,738
- Are you pulling my leg?
- No. No, of course not.

1103
01:05:54,740 --> 01:05:58,177
Well, now...
that's encouraging.

1104
01:06:00,179 --> 01:06:02,880
My... My one criticism...

1105
01:06:02,882 --> 01:06:04,414
Yes?

1106
01:06:04,416 --> 01:06:07,150
- Tiny Tim.
- Go on.

1107
01:06:07,152 --> 01:06:10,021
- Are you really going to let him die?
- Aw, not you as well.

1108
01:06:10,023 --> 01:06:13,190
It's a Christmas book.
Shouldn't it be hopeful?

1109
01:06:13,192 --> 01:06:15,325
I mean, isn't that what... what...
what Christmas is all about?

1110
01:06:15,327 --> 01:06:19,429
The hope that in the end, our
better natures will prevail?

1111
01:06:19,431 --> 01:06:22,133
You were the one who persuaded
me to kill off Little Nell.

1112
01:06:22,135 --> 01:06:23,767
Yeah. Well, I stand by
that decision.

1113
01:06:23,769 --> 01:06:25,369
John, my readers
implored me...

1114
01:06:25,371 --> 01:06:29,242
But this is different. If Tiny
Tim dies, then what's the point?

1115
01:06:31,210 --> 01:06:32,842
- Thank you, John.
- You're welcome.

1116
01:06:32,844 --> 01:06:35,679
For reminding me why I never
ask your opinion on my work.

1117
01:06:35,681 --> 01:06:38,014
Your services
are no longer required.

1118
01:06:38,016 --> 01:06:39,950
- You cannot sack me.
- Why not?

1119
01:06:39,952 --> 01:06:43,019
Because I don't work for you.
I do what I do as a friend.

1120
01:06:43,021 --> 01:06:44,822
[door opens]

1121
01:06:44,824 --> 01:06:47,124
John, please leave.

1122
01:06:47,126 --> 01:06:50,760
[sighs]
See you on Friday.

1123
01:06:50,762 --> 01:06:53,366
Last chapter's due
at the printers.

1124
01:07:03,009 --> 01:07:05,976
Right. Let's run it again from the
scene with Scrooge's debtors.

1125
01:07:05,978 --> 01:07:07,878
- Oh, what's the point?
- The point?

1126
01:07:07,880 --> 01:07:09,713
We keep stopping
at the same place.

1127
01:07:09,715 --> 01:07:12,182
Yes, because
I'm working out the ending.

1128
01:07:12,184 --> 01:07:14,851
- Admit it, you're blocked!
- I'm not blocked.

1129
01:07:14,853 --> 01:07:16,122
Now, if you take
my advice...

1130
01:07:17,824 --> 01:07:19,990
- I'm the author here.
- Allegedly.

1131
01:07:19,992 --> 01:07:22,492
[all chuckling]

1132
01:07:22,494 --> 01:07:24,197
I'm going out.

1133
01:07:27,500 --> 01:07:30,103
- Alone!
- [woman] Aw.

1134
01:07:31,771 --> 01:07:34,840
[chattering, laughing]

1135
01:07:38,911 --> 01:07:40,744
Forster.
I need your help.

1136
01:07:40,746 --> 01:07:43,416
- What is it? The children?
- No. The children are fine.

1137
01:07:44,449 --> 01:07:46,249
What's this?

1138
01:07:46,251 --> 01:07:50,186
"Candle-scandal, flirt-hurt,
Charlotte-poor heart."

1139
01:07:50,188 --> 01:07:53,025
Is that a poem? That's atrocious.
What has got into you?

1140
01:07:54,827 --> 01:07:57,327
You look terrible.
What's the matter?

1141
01:07:57,329 --> 01:07:59,829
It's the book. I'm struggling
with one of the characters.

1142
01:07:59,831 --> 01:08:02,768
Whoo-hoo! Ah!

1143
01:08:06,873 --> 01:08:09,773
- Quite a few of them, actually.
- What exactly is the problem?

1144
01:08:09,775 --> 01:08:15,146
The problem is, could a man as mean-spirited
as Scrooge, as evil as Scrooge...

1145
01:08:15,148 --> 01:08:18,348
Could he become a different
person overnight?

1146
01:08:18,350 --> 01:08:21,152
What is so evil about him?

1147
01:08:21,154 --> 01:08:23,254
- Well, he's a miser.
- Well, that doesn't make him evil.

1148
01:08:23,256 --> 01:08:25,790
- It just makes him cheap.
- He worships money.

1149
01:08:25,792 --> 01:08:27,894
- It's the only thing that matters to him.
- Why?

1150
01:08:30,328 --> 01:08:32,897
He has nothing else.

1151
01:08:32,899 --> 01:08:34,801
No friends? No family?

1152
01:08:37,837 --> 01:08:39,870
No one he trusts.

1153
01:08:39,872 --> 01:08:41,472
Why?

1154
01:08:41,474 --> 01:08:44,211
Because he's afraid.

1155
01:08:45,511 --> 01:08:47,010
Of?

1156
01:08:47,012 --> 01:08:48,347
[sighs]

1157
01:08:51,384 --> 01:08:53,217
Being found out.

1158
01:08:53,219 --> 01:08:57,254
- Hello, chaps.
- Thackeray.

1159
01:08:57,256 --> 01:09:01,357
Charles, I haven't seen anything
of yours in print for ages.

1160
01:09:01,359 --> 01:09:03,593
Don't tell me
you've had a blockage.

1161
01:09:03,595 --> 01:09:06,996
Not in the least. I'm neck and
heels into a Christmas book.

1162
01:09:06,998 --> 01:09:10,968
- What the deuce is that?
- A story about Christmas.

1163
01:09:10,970 --> 01:09:12,570
For Christmas.

1164
01:09:12,572 --> 01:09:15,873
A story... about...?
[wheezing laugh]

1165
01:09:15,875 --> 01:09:18,008
[chuckling]
How amusing.

1166
01:09:18,010 --> 01:09:20,343
Well, best of luck with it.

1167
01:09:20,345 --> 01:09:25,148
Oh, dear, my last book has
come out in a Railway edition.

1168
01:09:25,150 --> 01:09:27,483
Sold 10,000 copies,
in a week.

1169
01:09:27,485 --> 01:09:30,019
"There's gold
in them thar hills,"

1170
01:09:30,021 --> 01:09:31,524
as your American friends
would say.

1171
01:09:36,362 --> 01:09:39,865
Come on. Let's go somewhere
else, get a real drink.

1172
01:09:45,904 --> 01:09:48,004
[men laughing]

1173
01:09:48,006 --> 01:09:52,409
She's a big lass, and a bonny
lass, and she likes her beer.

1174
01:09:52,411 --> 01:09:57,647
And I call her Cushie Butterfield,
and I wish she was here.

1175
01:09:57,649 --> 01:09:59,950
[laughs]
What language is that?

1176
01:09:59,952 --> 01:10:02,055
That's Geordie, man.
We're gods.

1177
01:10:05,091 --> 01:10:07,391
- Where are we?
- Oh, it's Hungerford Stairs.

1178
01:10:07,393 --> 01:10:08,895
Oi, I smell the river.

1179
01:10:12,899 --> 01:10:14,932
What's that?

1180
01:10:14,934 --> 01:10:16,599
It's a graveyard.

1181
01:10:16,601 --> 01:10:20,336
Ah, it's the old Warren's Factory.
They moved from there years ago.

1182
01:10:20,338 --> 01:10:22,339
I wonder they've not
pulled it down yet.

1183
01:10:22,341 --> 01:10:25,142
Yeah.
Or burnt it down.

1184
01:10:25,144 --> 01:10:27,111
Might do it myself
one day.

1185
01:10:27,113 --> 01:10:29,382
Why? What have you got
against boot blacking?

1186
01:10:30,115 --> 01:10:31,451
Charles.

1187
01:10:32,284 --> 01:10:33,586
What is it?

1188
01:10:35,154 --> 01:10:37,588
I just have
this recurring nightmare.

1189
01:10:37,590 --> 01:10:40,089
Oh, nightmares, aye.

1190
01:10:40,091 --> 01:10:42,660
I've got one where I'm being
chased by a giant badger.

1191
01:10:42,662 --> 01:10:44,364
[snorts, laughs]

1192
01:10:45,430 --> 01:10:46,932
What's yours?

1193
01:10:49,601 --> 01:10:52,001
Never mind.

1194
01:10:52,003 --> 01:10:54,338
Well, come on.
It's time to go home.

1195
01:10:54,340 --> 01:10:56,540
I'll see you at the printers.
Friday morning, nine o'clock.

1196
01:10:56,542 --> 01:10:58,411
- I can't.
- Well, why not?

1197
01:11:00,947 --> 01:11:04,214
It's the book.

1198
01:11:04,216 --> 01:11:07,253
I can't... The characters
won't do what I want.

1199
01:11:11,056 --> 01:11:12,690
And I'm afraid.

1200
01:11:12,692 --> 01:11:15,159
Of what?

1201
01:11:15,161 --> 01:11:18,361
If I can't finish it,
I'll never write again.

1202
01:11:18,363 --> 01:11:21,598
Oh, come on, man, come on.
Have some sleep, hear?

1203
01:11:21,600 --> 01:11:23,136
I can't.

1204
01:11:24,670 --> 01:11:28,272
The wrong fire
is burning in my head.

1205
01:11:28,274 --> 01:11:31,040
Oh, don't be daft. Now, come on,
your wife will be worried sick.

1206
01:11:31,042 --> 01:11:32,977
Who? Kate?
She doesn't understand me.

1207
01:11:32,979 --> 01:11:36,245
I've got news for you, Charles.
None of us understand you.

1208
01:11:36,247 --> 01:11:38,549
You're...
You're a freak of nature.

1209
01:11:38,551 --> 01:11:41,652
I'm exhausted spending
two hours in your company.

1210
01:11:41,654 --> 01:11:44,220
Come on, go home.
It's cold tonight, yeah?

1211
01:11:44,222 --> 01:11:47,057
I'll see you Friday.

1212
01:11:47,059 --> 01:11:50,760
<i>♪ Oh, she's a big lass And a bonny
lass And she likes her beer ♪</i>

1213
01:11:50,762 --> 01:11:53,097
[singing continues, faint]

1214
01:11:53,099 --> 01:11:57,003
[horn blows]

1215
01:12:03,175 --> 01:12:05,278
Here. Bye.

1216
01:12:12,551 --> 01:12:14,454
Put that one over there!

1217
01:12:21,092 --> 01:12:23,160
Boys!

1218
01:12:23,162 --> 01:12:26,562
This here
is Charley Dickens.

1219
01:12:26,564 --> 01:12:29,201
And what was you just telling me, lad?
About your dad?

1220
01:12:36,341 --> 01:12:38,107
My father
is a gentleman.

1221
01:12:38,109 --> 01:12:41,178
- [laughing]
- Where is he then?

1222
01:12:41,180 --> 01:12:44,380
- Dining with the queen?
- I heard he's been sent to prison.

1223
01:12:44,382 --> 01:12:46,383
Hush, you lot.
Get back to work!

1224
01:12:46,385 --> 01:12:47,385
Master Dickens.

1225
01:12:48,820 --> 01:12:50,756
No shirkin' here.

1226
01:12:54,159 --> 01:12:57,229
You're no better than us, cocker,
and you'd best learn that.

1227
01:13:31,162 --> 01:13:33,563
You.
What are you doing?

1228
01:13:33,565 --> 01:13:35,799
Hello, Charley, old boy.

1229
01:13:35,801 --> 01:13:38,201
Father?
What are you doing here?

1230
01:13:38,203 --> 01:13:41,871
Oh, I had some business that I had
to attend to, so I thought...

1231
01:13:41,873 --> 01:13:44,741
You just left town. What business
could you possibly have?

1232
01:13:44,743 --> 01:13:46,579
- Oh, I... [chuckles]
- What's that?

1233
01:13:49,614 --> 01:13:51,117
You're going
to sell this?

1234
01:13:52,451 --> 01:13:54,518
Well, it's no good to you,
is it?

1235
01:13:54,520 --> 01:13:56,820
Is that what
you've been doing?

1236
01:13:56,822 --> 01:13:59,755
Going through the rubbish like a
tramp, selling bits and pieces of me.

1237
01:13:59,757 --> 01:14:02,692
Is this your business?

1238
01:14:02,694 --> 01:14:06,196
- Aren't you ashamed?
- What?

1239
01:14:06,198 --> 01:14:09,732
I bought you a house.
I gave you an allowance.

1240
01:14:09,734 --> 01:14:11,835
What more can you
possibly need?

1241
01:14:11,837 --> 01:14:16,240
Need?
Oh, reason not the need.

1242
01:14:16,242 --> 01:14:19,175
- [shouting] You see me here, you gods?
- No. No. Shh. No.

1243
01:14:19,177 --> 01:14:21,711
- A poor old man!
- No! Shh! Stop it.

1244
01:14:21,713 --> 01:14:27,617
Charley, you don't know what it's
like to be poor, to be nothing.

1245
01:14:27,619 --> 01:14:30,320
At 11 years old
I was made to know.

1246
01:14:30,322 --> 01:14:32,889
Working 12 hours a day,

1247
01:14:32,891 --> 01:14:37,427
going hungry,
alone and afraid

1248
01:14:37,429 --> 01:14:40,464
because your father, who is
supposed to care for you,

1249
01:14:40,466 --> 01:14:42,532
is so utterly
thriftless!

1250
01:14:42,534 --> 01:14:44,634
No, please. [crying]
I beg you.

1251
01:14:44,636 --> 01:14:46,702
No, you are not
the victim here.

1252
01:14:46,704 --> 01:14:48,738
This is about me and your
family and all of us

1253
01:14:48,740 --> 01:14:52,209
who've lived our whole lives in
the shadow of your recklessness.

1254
01:14:52,211 --> 01:14:55,312
Charley...
[crying continues]

1255
01:14:55,314 --> 01:14:59,549
Go away. I am sickened
at the sight of you.

1256
01:14:59,551 --> 01:15:03,219
You are nothing but a drag
and chain upon my life.

1257
01:15:03,221 --> 01:15:05,589
I owe you nothing. Go!

1258
01:15:05,591 --> 01:15:06,893
Ah, Charley.

1259
01:15:13,399 --> 01:15:14,734
[sobs]

1260
01:15:32,952 --> 01:15:34,487
[door closes]

1261
01:15:36,689 --> 01:15:38,455
- [woman] Who's that then?
- [Scrooge] Nobody.

1262
01:15:38,457 --> 01:15:40,257
- The author.
- Huh.

1263
01:15:40,259 --> 01:15:42,261
No wonder he looks
so depressed.

1264
01:15:47,699 --> 01:15:49,900
Right. That's enough.
Back to work.

1265
01:15:49,902 --> 01:15:52,001
God bless us,
every one.

1266
01:15:52,003 --> 01:15:54,338
Why are you so miserable?

1267
01:15:54,340 --> 01:15:57,273
What else can I be, when I live
in such a world of fools as this?

1268
01:15:57,275 --> 01:15:59,543
- You mean-spirited, cynical...
- Oh, yes?

1269
01:15:59,545 --> 01:16:01,544
Well, you look
in the mirror sometime.

1270
01:16:01,546 --> 01:16:03,379
"Is that a new candle, Kate?"

1271
01:16:03,381 --> 01:16:05,415
"Your services
are no longer required."

1272
01:16:05,417 --> 01:16:08,684
- Ah, a hypocrite.
- [knocking]

1273
01:16:08,686 --> 01:16:10,620
[grunts]

1274
01:16:10,622 --> 01:16:12,421
- What?
- Pardon me, sir.

1275
01:16:12,423 --> 01:16:14,391
- Mrs. Dickens just wanted me to ask...
- This is intolerable.

1276
01:16:14,393 --> 01:16:18,894
- Mrs. Fisk! Mrs. Fisk!
- Yes, sir?

1277
01:16:18,896 --> 01:16:22,734
Take this child away from here and see that she
never disturbs me ever again. Do you hear?

1278
01:16:23,969 --> 01:16:26,471
Yes, sir.
Come with me, girl.

1279
01:16:27,905 --> 01:16:30,906
Oh, yes. Banish her.
Banish them all.

1280
01:16:30,908 --> 01:16:33,643
- Quiet!
- Humanity's great benefactor.

1281
01:16:33,645 --> 01:16:35,379
- Humbug!
- Shut it.

1282
01:16:35,381 --> 01:16:37,848
Or I'll make you bald,
with bad teeth.

1283
01:16:37,850 --> 01:16:40,616
Oh, yeah, go ahead.
It won't change a thing.

1284
01:16:40,618 --> 01:16:42,688
You still won't have an ending.

1285
01:16:48,426 --> 01:16:50,693
This is ridiculous.

1286
01:16:50,695 --> 01:16:52,966
You're all being ridiculous.

1287
01:16:57,302 --> 01:16:59,238
[shouting]

1288
01:17:00,506 --> 01:17:03,973
[angry shout]
If you be a man!

1289
01:17:03,975 --> 01:17:06,677
Come on then, coward!

1290
01:17:06,679 --> 01:17:08,512
Fight me!

1291
01:17:08,514 --> 01:17:10,714
You miserable old fool!

1292
01:17:10,716 --> 01:17:13,620
Fight me! Come on!

1293
01:18:01,699 --> 01:18:03,099
Tara.

1294
01:18:03,101 --> 01:18:05,305
- [door closes]
- Tara!

1295
01:18:07,939 --> 01:18:09,805
Has anybody seen Tara?

1296
01:18:09,807 --> 01:18:12,808
- She's gone.
- You asked Mrs. Fisk to send her away.

1297
01:18:12,810 --> 01:18:15,911
Well, go and search for her.
Find her.

1298
01:18:15,913 --> 01:18:18,482
Rehire her at once.

1299
01:18:18,484 --> 01:18:23,786
An Irish orphan in London? That would be
like looking for a needle in a haystack.

1300
01:18:23,788 --> 01:18:27,523
Come on, out. Come on,
children, off you go.

1301
01:18:27,525 --> 01:18:29,561
Quick sticks.
That's it.

1302
01:18:31,462 --> 01:18:33,129
Why didn't you
stop her?

1303
01:18:33,131 --> 01:18:35,766
How was I to know you didn't mean it?
You said...

1304
01:18:35,768 --> 01:18:39,402
I say a lot of things that are
nonsense when I'm working.

1305
01:18:39,404 --> 01:18:43,173
- Charles...
- You know how ideas take possession of me.

1306
01:18:43,175 --> 01:18:47,579
- You knew what I was like when you married me.
- Yes. I did.

1307
01:18:49,480 --> 01:18:52,818
But you have no idea
what it's like to live with you.

1308
01:18:54,118 --> 01:18:55,951
Always walking
on eggshells,

1309
01:18:55,953 --> 01:18:57,853
trying to guess your mood,

1310
01:18:57,855 --> 01:19:00,859
to know which of your commands are
a whim and which are in earnest.

1311
01:19:02,860 --> 01:19:04,730
You know, sometimes I...

1312
01:19:06,564 --> 01:19:09,598
I feel your characters
matter more to you

1313
01:19:09,600 --> 01:19:11,703
than your own flesh and blood.

1314
01:19:19,778 --> 01:19:21,114
I am who I am.

1315
01:19:23,047 --> 01:19:25,581
And who is that?

1316
01:19:25,583 --> 01:19:28,018
It's as if
there are two of you.

1317
01:19:28,020 --> 01:19:30,920
One who's kind and gentle,

1318
01:19:30,922 --> 01:19:33,190
and a secret self

1319
01:19:33,192 --> 01:19:35,927
that no one is allowed
to know or question.

1320
01:20:54,273 --> 01:20:56,039
[coughing]

1321
01:20:56,041 --> 01:20:58,141
[man] <i>This here
is Charley Dickens.</i>

1322
01:20:58,143 --> 01:21:01,680
<i>What was it you was telling me,
lad, about your dad?</i>

1323
01:21:03,681 --> 01:21:06,016
[young Charles]
<i>My father is a gentleman.</i>

1324
01:21:06,018 --> 01:21:07,918
[boys laughing]

1325
01:21:07,920 --> 01:21:10,620
[boy] <i>Where is he then?
Dining with the queen?</i>

1326
01:21:10,622 --> 01:21:12,621
[boy 2] <i>I heard he's
been sent to prison!</i>

1327
01:21:12,623 --> 01:21:15,825
[man] <i>Hush, you lot! Where's your manners?
Get back to work.</i>

1328
01:21:15,827 --> 01:21:17,760
<i>Master Dickens.</i>

1329
01:21:17,762 --> 01:21:20,229
[boy 3] <i>Got a present
for the young gentleman,</i>

1330
01:21:20,231 --> 01:21:22,935
<i>seeing as it's Christmas.</i>

1331
01:21:24,036 --> 01:21:27,840
[boys laughing]

1332
01:21:28,774 --> 01:21:30,977
[young Charles crying]

1333
01:21:33,145 --> 01:21:35,678
Blood of iron,
heart of ice.

1334
01:21:35,680 --> 01:21:37,282
[boy] <i>You're no better
than us, cocker!</i>

1335
01:21:44,221 --> 01:21:46,889
Hello, Charley.

1336
01:21:46,891 --> 01:21:51,061
So, this is
your miserable secret.

1337
01:21:51,063 --> 01:21:55,365
The famous author,
the inimitable Charles Dickens,

1338
01:21:55,367 --> 01:21:59,969
was once a scabby
little factory boy.

1339
01:21:59,971 --> 01:22:01,705
Leave me be.

1340
01:22:01,707 --> 01:22:05,642
A common bit of riffraff,
a squalid wretch.

1341
01:22:05,644 --> 01:22:08,247
No use to anyone!

1342
01:22:09,847 --> 01:22:11,050
[angry shouting]

1343
01:22:14,252 --> 01:22:15,955
[angry shout]

1344
01:22:20,024 --> 01:22:23,893
[chuckling] Look for yourself.
What do you see, huh?

1345
01:22:23,895 --> 01:22:27,964
A nothing. A nobody.
A debtor's son.

1346
01:22:27,966 --> 01:22:30,202
Who could ever care
for you?

1347
01:22:32,871 --> 01:22:36,805
Certainly not your father.
He abandoned you. [laughing]

1348
01:22:36,807 --> 01:22:39,776
Enough of that.
Stand up tall.

1349
01:22:39,778 --> 01:22:41,314
Blood of iron,
heart of ice.

1350
01:22:42,847 --> 01:22:44,750
[Scrooge]
He failed you again and again.

1351
01:22:47,019 --> 01:22:48,019
Oh!

1352
01:22:51,055 --> 01:22:52,888
You said so yourself.

1353
01:22:52,890 --> 01:22:56,795
Nothing but a drag and chain
upon your life.

1354
01:22:58,162 --> 01:22:59,764
Who are you? Huh?

1355
01:23:01,800 --> 01:23:03,336
You know me, Charley.

1356
01:23:04,770 --> 01:23:08,838
I'm hunger. I'm cold.

1357
01:23:08,840 --> 01:23:10,775
I'm darkness.

1358
01:23:12,444 --> 01:23:17,350
I'm the shadow on your thoughts,
the crack in your heart,

1359
01:23:18,850 --> 01:23:22,154
and the stain upon your soul.

1360
01:23:23,755 --> 01:23:26,891
And I will never,
ever leave you.

1361
01:23:29,293 --> 01:23:30,860
Go away.

1362
01:23:30,862 --> 01:23:32,965
Why? We're having such fun.

1363
01:23:33,998 --> 01:23:35,831
People don't change, Charley.

1364
01:23:35,833 --> 01:23:40,035
Look around you. You're
still the same scabby boy.

1365
01:23:40,037 --> 01:23:42,707
Useless,
just like your father.

1366
01:23:45,342 --> 01:23:46,878
No.

1367
01:23:49,146 --> 01:23:52,851
"No one is useless in this world who
lightens the burden of another."

1368
01:23:54,786 --> 01:23:57,155
My father
taught me that.

1369
01:23:58,957 --> 01:24:01,861
- [rumbling]
- [laughing]

1370
01:24:08,265 --> 01:24:10,135
Which grave is that?

1371
01:24:12,970 --> 01:24:15,273
- There's no name on it.
- Well, why should there be?

1372
01:24:17,175 --> 01:24:19,308
The man to whom
this grave belongs

1373
01:24:19,310 --> 01:24:21,279
never made himself useful
to anyone but himself.

1374
01:24:22,747 --> 01:24:24,513
No friends.

1375
01:24:24,515 --> 01:24:26,051
No family.

1376
01:24:27,752 --> 01:24:30,689
Never felt love or joy.

1377
01:24:32,224 --> 01:24:34,694
Never took any kind
of pleasure in life.

1378
01:24:43,033 --> 01:24:45,304
And now it's too late.

1379
01:24:46,771 --> 01:24:49,207
It's time, Mr. Scrooge.

1380
01:24:50,307 --> 01:24:52,310
We've come to the end.

1381
01:25:20,372 --> 01:25:23,109
I don't want to die.

1382
01:25:24,376 --> 01:25:26,375
Not like this...

1383
01:25:26,377 --> 01:25:29,178
alone,

1384
01:25:29,180 --> 01:25:31,082
unloved, forgotten.

1385
01:25:32,050 --> 01:25:34,349
It's too late.

1386
01:25:34,351 --> 01:25:36,419
No, it's never too late.

1387
01:25:36,421 --> 01:25:39,291
It's never...
It's never too late.

1388
01:25:41,259 --> 01:25:43,863
[rumbling]

1389
01:25:46,264 --> 01:25:49,464
I will honor Christmas
in my heart

1390
01:25:49,466 --> 01:25:51,934
and try to keep it
all the year.

1391
01:25:51,936 --> 01:25:55,205
I will live in the past,
the present, and the future.

1392
01:25:55,207 --> 01:25:58,974
The spirits of all three
will strive within me.

1393
01:25:58,976 --> 01:26:03,248
I will not shut out
the lessons that they teach.

1394
01:26:04,882 --> 01:26:07,485
Oh, please. I beg you.

1395
01:26:10,855 --> 01:26:13,958
Let me do some good...

1396
01:26:15,961 --> 01:26:18,361
before I die.

1397
01:26:18,363 --> 01:26:19,865
[rumbling stops]

1398
01:26:24,402 --> 01:26:26,538
So we come
to the final chapter.

1399
01:26:30,942 --> 01:26:33,912
Oh, I told you we'd do great
things together, Mr. Scrooge.

1400
01:26:35,546 --> 01:26:39,449
[bell tolling]

1401
01:26:39,451 --> 01:26:42,354
[gasping, laughing]

1402
01:26:45,623 --> 01:26:47,926
[laughing continues]

1403
01:26:56,333 --> 01:26:58,103
[pen tapping on inkwell]

1404
01:26:59,970 --> 01:27:02,006
<i>Stave five.</i>

1405
01:27:03,408 --> 01:27:05,211
<i>"The End of It."</i>

1406
01:27:08,212 --> 01:27:10,679
<i>Yes. And the bedpost
was his own,</i>

1407
01:27:10,681 --> 01:27:15,117
<i>the bed was his own,
the room was his own.</i>

1408
01:27:15,119 --> 01:27:18,858
<i>Best and happiest of all, the time before
him was his own to make amends in.</i>

1409
01:27:20,926 --> 01:27:22,558
<i>Scrooge was better
than his word.</i>

1410
01:27:22,560 --> 01:27:25,294
<i>He did it all
and infinitely more.</i>

1411
01:27:25,296 --> 01:27:28,263
<i>And to Tiny Tim,
who did not die,</i>

1412
01:27:28,265 --> 01:27:30,666
<i>he was a second father.</i>

1413
01:27:30,668 --> 01:27:33,436
<i>And so,
as Tiny Tim observed,</i>

1414
01:27:33,438 --> 01:27:36,208
<i>"God bless us, every one."</i>

1415
01:27:39,411 --> 01:27:40,945
<i>The end.</i>

1416
01:27:43,480 --> 01:27:44,617
The end.

1417
01:27:52,524 --> 01:27:54,389
- Charles?
- What?

1418
01:27:54,391 --> 01:27:56,558
- There is someone here to see you.
- Not now, Kate, please.

1419
01:27:56,560 --> 01:27:59,230
I have to get this to the
printer by nine o'clock.

1420
01:28:07,706 --> 01:28:09,240
Tara.

1421
01:28:10,274 --> 01:28:11,643
Thank you for the loan.

1422
01:28:15,180 --> 01:28:16,548
Well, thank you.

1423
01:28:18,716 --> 01:28:20,184
It's good, isn't it?

1424
01:28:22,052 --> 01:28:26,522
Oh, yes, sir.
It was fizzing.

1425
01:28:26,524 --> 01:28:29,662
Fizzing? [laughs]
That's delightful.

1426
01:28:32,262 --> 01:28:33,631
Tara.

1427
01:28:36,667 --> 01:28:39,535
I am very sorry that I sent you away.
That was a mistake.

1428
01:28:39,537 --> 01:28:41,106
And I was...

1429
01:28:44,309 --> 01:28:46,209
And you were right
about Tiny Tim.

1430
01:28:46,211 --> 01:28:48,076
He doesn't die.

1431
01:28:48,078 --> 01:28:50,679
Scrooge helps him
to get better.

1432
01:28:50,681 --> 01:28:53,318
And does he help Scrooge
get better too?

1433
01:28:56,453 --> 01:28:58,620
Yes.

1434
01:28:58,622 --> 01:29:01,326
Yes, he does.
[chuckling]

1435
01:29:06,030 --> 01:29:08,563
- Where did that come from?
- A gift.

1436
01:29:08,565 --> 01:29:11,701
For the children.
From your father.

1437
01:29:11,703 --> 01:29:13,635
My father was here?

1438
01:29:13,637 --> 01:29:17,173
You can still catch him, if...

1439
01:29:17,175 --> 01:29:18,510
Oh!

1440
01:29:21,345 --> 01:29:23,147
Kate.

1441
01:29:26,384 --> 01:29:28,683
I know.
You don't deserve me.

1442
01:29:28,685 --> 01:29:31,055
Go. Go.
[chuckling]

1443
01:29:36,261 --> 01:29:38,197
- Cab!
- Whoa!

1444
01:29:39,663 --> 01:29:41,630
- Paddington Station!
- Right-o, governor.

1445
01:29:41,632 --> 01:29:44,002
- As fast as you can!
- Oi! Oi!

1446
01:29:48,105 --> 01:29:49,504
- Whoa!
- [whinnying]

1447
01:29:49,506 --> 01:29:52,375
Turn it around.
And wait for me here!

1448
01:29:52,377 --> 01:29:54,343
- Oi! Stop!
- [whistle blows]

1449
01:29:54,345 --> 01:29:56,144
- Hey!
- Stop! Police!

1450
01:29:56,146 --> 01:29:58,080
Wait!

1451
01:29:58,082 --> 01:30:00,482
Wait, wait, please! Where
do you think you're going?

1452
01:30:00,484 --> 01:30:02,652
- What?
- Oh, please, dear.

1453
01:30:02,654 --> 01:30:06,822
- Don't make a scene. We're going away.
- No, you're not. Please.

1454
01:30:06,824 --> 01:30:09,692
Police! Get out of my way! Clear the way!
Let me through!

1455
01:30:09,694 --> 01:30:12,160
Oh.
What have I done now?

1456
01:30:12,162 --> 01:30:14,597
No, it's...
it's what you haven't done.

1457
01:30:14,599 --> 01:30:18,701
- What do you mean?
- Well, who's going to carve the turkey?

1458
01:30:18,703 --> 01:30:21,403
And who's going to make
the Christmas pudding?

1459
01:30:21,405 --> 01:30:23,438
It won't be the same
without you.

1460
01:30:23,440 --> 01:30:27,643
The pudding! The secret is
to warm the treacle first.

1461
01:30:27,645 --> 01:30:29,812
There, you...
You see, my dear?

1462
01:30:29,814 --> 01:30:32,581
I told you something
would turn up.

1463
01:30:32,583 --> 01:30:35,119
Oh, my son. Oh.

1464
01:30:36,453 --> 01:30:37,789
Gotcha!

1465
01:30:39,323 --> 01:30:41,257
You're that Charles
Dickens, aren't you?

1466
01:30:41,259 --> 01:30:42,458
Uh, guilty.

1467
01:30:42,460 --> 01:30:45,160
That last one.
<i>Chuzzlewit.</i>

1468
01:30:45,162 --> 01:30:47,796
Wept like a baby, I did.

1469
01:30:47,798 --> 01:30:50,433
Well, that's... That's very kind.
What's your name, Constable?

1470
01:30:50,435 --> 01:30:52,805
My name?
Copperfield, sir.

1471
01:30:53,837 --> 01:30:55,737
Copperfield.

1472
01:30:55,739 --> 01:30:57,807
Any chance
of a new book soon?

1473
01:30:57,809 --> 01:30:59,677
New book. New book!

1474
01:31:00,878 --> 01:31:03,812
Wait. New book.

1475
01:31:03,814 --> 01:31:05,317
Merry Christmas!

1476
01:31:06,751 --> 01:31:09,188
I'm his father.

1477
01:31:10,622 --> 01:31:12,354
[man]
Santa bells for sale!

1478
01:31:12,356 --> 01:31:15,327
Shoe Lane!
As fast as you can go.

1479
01:31:22,533 --> 01:31:24,634
- Charles, where have you been?
- It's all right. I've got it!

1480
01:31:24,636 --> 01:31:28,403
Mr. Grub!
Mr. Grub. We're here.

1481
01:31:28,405 --> 01:31:31,810
I have it. I have the ending.
You can finish it now.

1482
01:31:33,444 --> 01:31:35,577
- It's too late.
- What?

1483
01:31:35,579 --> 01:31:38,748
Oh, come on. You've already printed the other
four chapters, and it's just one more.

1484
01:31:38,750 --> 01:31:41,185
Get the whole book
finished today.

1485
01:31:46,256 --> 01:31:49,491
- I can't guarantee anything.
- Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Grub!

1486
01:31:49,493 --> 01:31:51,295
[laughs] Thank you.

1487
01:31:52,462 --> 01:31:54,233
I didn't say
I could do it.

1488
01:32:08,246 --> 01:32:10,582
Well, I'll see
what I can do.

1489
01:32:14,886 --> 01:32:16,488
[chattering]

1490
01:32:21,359 --> 01:32:23,629
Oh, come on, man.
Don't prolong the agony.

1491
01:32:48,386 --> 01:32:50,522
[chuckling]

1492
01:32:54,626 --> 01:32:56,528
[spine cracking]

1493
01:33:13,011 --> 01:33:14,713
It's exactly
as I'd imagined it.

1494
01:33:16,780 --> 01:33:18,583
[sighs]

1495
01:33:20,417 --> 01:33:23,652
Hello, gents. Extraordinary
weather, isn't it?

1496
01:33:23,654 --> 01:33:25,588
Looks like snow.

1497
01:33:25,590 --> 01:33:28,958
- Hello, Thackeray.
- Oh, what's this I have?

1498
01:33:28,960 --> 01:33:31,861
Yes. It's a proof copy
of your new book.

1499
01:33:31,863 --> 01:33:35,498
I'm going to review it
for <i>The Spectator.</i>

1500
01:33:35,500 --> 01:33:38,834
I'm told you wrote it
in only six weeks, Charles.

1501
01:33:38,836 --> 01:33:40,838
What a prodigy you are.

1502
01:33:46,377 --> 01:33:48,643
Did you bring that
all the way from Italy?

1503
01:33:48,645 --> 01:33:49,981
<i>Sì. Venezia.</i>

1504
01:33:51,048 --> 01:33:52,947
And now...

1505
01:33:52,949 --> 01:33:58,086
And now the beautiful mermaid
floats through the sea.

1506
01:33:58,088 --> 01:34:01,859
- Wooo!
- [singing, faint]

1507
01:34:11,469 --> 01:34:13,639
Hello, old girl!
[squawks]

1508
01:34:15,372 --> 01:34:17,940
Oh, my goodness.
That is beautiful.

1509
01:34:17,942 --> 01:34:20,576
Isn't it? The Germans
call it a Tannenbaum.

1510
01:34:20,578 --> 01:34:23,446
It's a tree for Christmas.
A Christmas tree, I suppose.

1511
01:34:23,448 --> 01:34:26,081
Now the royal family have got
one, it'll be all the rage.

1512
01:34:26,083 --> 01:34:27,618
[door closes]

1513
01:34:28,953 --> 01:34:31,387
- Hello.
- Miss Wigmore!

1514
01:34:31,389 --> 01:34:32,990
Papa had
a change of heart.

1515
01:34:34,591 --> 01:34:37,893
So he did. Oh, I'm so pleased!
Congratulations.

1516
01:34:37,895 --> 01:34:40,396
Charles, uh, I think you're
going to want to hear this.

1517
01:34:40,398 --> 01:34:41,897
- It's by Thackeray.
- Not now.

1518
01:34:41,899 --> 01:34:44,036
No, please.
Everyone, gather round.

1519
01:34:53,677 --> 01:34:56,010
"It was a blessed inspiration

1520
01:34:56,012 --> 01:35:00,915
that put such a book into
the head of Charles Dickens.

1521
01:35:00,917 --> 01:35:04,387
A happy inspiration
of the heart

1522
01:35:04,389 --> 01:35:07,889
that warms every page.

1523
01:35:07,891 --> 01:35:13,728
It is impossible to read without a
glowing bosom and burning cheeks,

1524
01:35:13,730 --> 01:35:18,701
between love and shame
of our kind."

1525
01:35:18,703 --> 01:35:20,463
- [woman] Aw.
- [Mr. Dickens] Bravo, Charles.

1526
01:35:23,841 --> 01:35:25,775
Well, uh... [chuckles]

1527
01:35:25,777 --> 01:35:29,081
- Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls.
- [laughing]

1528
01:35:31,716 --> 01:35:33,952
And those on the way.

1529
01:35:35,752 --> 01:35:37,553
A toast.

1530
01:35:37,555 --> 01:35:42,525
I wish you all many,
many happy Christmases

1531
01:35:42,527 --> 01:35:47,862
and friendships, and great
accumulation of cheerful recollections

1532
01:35:47,864 --> 01:35:50,499
and heaven at last
for all of us.

1533
01:35:50,501 --> 01:35:54,573
In the season of hope, we will shut
out nothing from our firesides

1534
01:35:55,640 --> 01:35:57,843
and everyone
will be welcome.

1535
01:36:00,211 --> 01:36:01,713
[squawks]

1536
01:36:04,815 --> 01:36:06,449
[squawks]

1537
01:36:06,451 --> 01:36:10,154
Welcome what has been
and what is

1538
01:36:11,756 --> 01:36:13,923
and what we hope may be,

1539
01:36:13,925 --> 01:36:15,924
to this shelter
underneath the holly.

1540
01:36:15,926 --> 01:36:18,660
[laughing]

1541
01:36:18,662 --> 01:36:19,997
[squawking]

1542
01:36:22,934 --> 01:36:26,235
Merry, merry Christmas
to one and all.

1543
01:36:26,237 --> 01:36:28,739
[all] Merry Christmas!

1544
01:36:38,748 --> 01:36:40,749
[squawking]

1545
01:36:40,751 --> 01:36:44,122
[chattering]

1546
01:36:53,997 --> 01:36:55,900
[giggling]

1547
01:36:57,268 --> 01:36:58,804
Thank you.

1548
01:37:20,024 --> 01:37:21,793
[horse whinnies]

1549
01:37:54,246 --> 01:37:59,246
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