Doctor Thorne (2016–…): Season 1, Episode 4 - Episode #1.4 - full transcript

hello

and welcome to the fourth and final

chapter of our adaptation of trollop's

Dr Thorne

this story of love family money jealousy

and power all that more

I'm Julian fellows and thank you for

joining me

we last left our characters in a

difficult situation

Louis Mary and Frank are trapped in a



vicious love triangle tossed about by

The Tempest of Louie's rage this cannot

hope to end well for everyone concerned

as for the greshams it remains for the

redoubtable lady Arabella to save the

estate if anyone can

see what happens

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thank you

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sir Louis scattered and Dr Thorne

form you are the best fellow breathing I

have hardly deserved this thank you I

don't hurry your hellos to the doctor Mr



Gresham I am only a baronet after all

we are honored to have you here this

evening I was curious

we have never met before but

I've often read your name in my accounts

good evening Lady Antebellum I hope I

find you well

allow me to introduce

good evening my lady how do you do

tolerably well thank you sir Louis

I should have paid a call on you sooner

but I've been in London

was your leadership in London this

season

not this year

circumstances have kept us at home now I

am very sorry

to be short of funds must be so

distressing for a person like your

ladyship let's hope things are mending

for both our sex

do you hunt sir Louis

it depends what I'm hunting for

I gather you and your sister are both

unmarried Miss Gresham

well my sister is engaged to Mr Oriel

but I suppose I am I can see I shall

have to watch out

watch out for what

an unmarried girl in pursuit of a rich

baronet

we've needed you to Louis to shake us up

in our country ways

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horse carriage I mean

I was delighted with the way you whipped

him up around the corner

a good looking country out here yes very

no I hardly know which I like best you

know this or or my own place of boxhall

Hill

do you have the advantage here in trees

but as to the house you'd hardly know

the place now lady Arabella if you

haven't seen it since my Governor bought

it now how much do you think he spent

well guess my lady

I never guess

I'll tell you because I like to be

precise

because 22 419 pounds four Shillings and

eight Pence it's a tidy son

hey my lady isn't it a tidy sub

maybe Arabella

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it certainly is

tidy some

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you know you persons have the luck you

get the Beauty and the money too not too

much of the last one in this case

oh Mr Gresham

he's been a fool

these

muddled his Matters Most uncommonly

now what do you think he owes me

well have a guess give me a son

I must go

well the person seems a bit peaky

and maybe he's not too sure about

marrying your sister

anybody's got his own money doesn't he

yeah she's sure of a bubble too he he

has more than his bad living yes

absolutely

enough to survive the radicals when they

shut the church down

no land though

I suppose

there's nothing

like land

is why

nothing like dirty Acres

but while I've got your ear

squire

don't let's get bogged down in lawyers

by Mr gazeby here I beg your pardon no I

I only mean that we're all tattered now

squat I have you down in my books then

they're on a hundred thousand pounds

will you hold your tongue sir

I'll hold my tongue

don't tell me to hold my tongue

I am not the fool you think me doctor

who are you Mr Gresham but I know what I

mode and I know when I can call it in

and down to the last penny perhaps we

should join the ladies

nope he cannot join the lady he's not in

the state the rest of you go I'll wait

for the fly and take salute I'm always

happy to see the ladies please apologize

to Lady Arabella what's the matter with

her well I think I'll go through no sir

you will stay here what right do you

speak to me in such a tone it's

aggression please go to the others

I knew what he was and I am heartily

ashamed for bringing him here Thorne we

will wait for the fly together

and don't worry I've seen a Tipsy man

before tonight

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fetch the man Jonah he's in the yard

I'm not in the yard

Amia ready and willing to help me master

what's happened to you I've been

attacked by your servant

and you've not heard the last of it

whenever mind that now take your master

upstairs and put him to bed

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come on

what an evening

has Miss Mary gone up

long since doctor

but I have a complaint

Bridget

come forward hello Mr Stacker

have you been waiting for me charity we

have

only we cannot abide that Jonah in this

house for one more minute or Bridget

will hand in a notice whatever's

happened

I would not say what's happened

exactly

only that it resulted in Bridget's tears

and Thomas's anger

you can go to the end when he comes down

we'll send from tomorrow

very good doctor but Thomas must manage

to Louis in the morning

and I don't envy him

you should get started the train will be

in at three o'clock take Beatrice with

you how can Aunt de corsi help Frank's

Mind Is Made Up he won't be talked out

of her now I agree with you there is no

further point in talking to Frank

then why is she coming

and I entertain my sister-in-law

lady de corsi is full of ideas isn't she

just

and doesn't she like to share them

perhaps we ought to set her on sului

oh

don't speak speak that man's name in my

presence

where is he now boxhall Hill

Beatrice says he never went back to

London after that frightful dinner how

does she know

Mary Thorne told her there's another

name I had rather not hear spoken

honestly mama what were the thorns and

all the scattered would you like to talk

in a dumb show if you keep this up

have you ordered the carriage

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quite what you can do

I may be useful you never know what

about you alexandrine you're going to be

useful too my cousin is making a mistake

but I have not much to add to it

when is Frank coming back from Cambridge

later today he's finished there

now I understand the urgency

I gather sir Lewis catch and came to

dinner last month indeed it was not

reassuring you talking to the loss of

the estate is the only thing against

Frank's marriage isn't it

there is a doctor's Ward with a question

mark over her birth I shouldn't care if

she had Millions to her name she would

still not be worthy of gresham's group

you have read too many novels I know

Augusta does not agree well but I could

do when you engage yourself to Mr

Moffett

but for me it was no cause for

celebration when you thought Frank would

marry Miss Dunstable with her oil of

leavening when she matched an

improvement on this thought she would

have saved the estate this ain't worth

the loss of Honor

Yes dear it is

ah here we are

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I don't know what to say to him it's in

such a rage against the greshams master

Frank in particular he rants Raves and

drinks worse than ever I'm sorry to hear

it

he can harm the greshams if he's a mind

too

fear he has

he's in

some money and it's to begin the day

after his birthday

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do we know the cause of his father to be

rid of us when he has no need of the

money that's where I feel some

responsibility

I encourage Mary to stay at boxhall Hill

when she'd been dismissed from this

house I fear it allowed salui to to fall

in love with her he's quite as

passionate in his desire to make her his

wife as lady Arabella was to be rid of

her

then the fault is shared

we were the ones who made the village

uncomfortable for poor Mary and now we

are to have our Just Desserts

how he must hate us well certainly his

anger against Frank is very great what's

this

oh my boy you arrive at a Melancholy

hour it would seem that on the very day

of Sir Louis saskatchard's birthday he

will call in the debt

um what has that to do with me if he

wants his money back what am I to do

with that it is not quite so simple he's

in love with my niece

I cannot blame him he thought his offer

would be irresistible and now the chance

to render his rival penniless and

landless is equally compelling

I see

then clearly I must call on Sir Louis

gatchard

I don't believe there'd be anything to

gain why doctor

you say yourself that he's in love with

Mary and if any man living can

understand that it is me

if you insist then I'll go with you

but I do not share your optimism

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the counters to call C and the lady

Arabella Gresham

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your uncle not at home child

he sent a message

he has gone to boxhall Hill

it is just as well since it is to you we

wish to speak

you know how fond we are of you

can we not put an end to this ill

feeling it all depends on one thing you

know one thing only Miss Thorne do you

consider yourself engaged to my nephew

yes I do

let me ask you this do you seriously

imagine you and he can ever be husband

and wife

yes so you are set on holding poor Frank

to a word

casually given

but now as binding as Hoops of Steel

and this family must lose its home and

position

and Frank is to Forfeit the future that

he has been brought up to enjoy

and I suppose you dare call that

love

we both know Frank thinks he is on a

bound to throw away his future

only you can give him back what his life

might have been

by withdrawing from the field

you know what I say is true

is the woman who prevents a man from

ruining himself the one who truly loves

him

or the woman who holds on to him through

thick and thin cost what it may

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you come here without an invitation

I invited them

at least I'm always pleased to see them

both it's my fault

I wanted to come

why

because I cannot bear to be the cause of

my family's ruin

you're not the cause

your father's debts are called

you would not treat him with such harsh

measures where not

say it

Master Frank is only trying to say it

makes your decision may have something

to do with the fact that he is marrying

my niece

huh

well why shouldn't he marry your niece

oh any other girl who's not afraid of

life with a beggar

I don't see why we must fall out

it's not

and she takes the nothing that you offer

her over there that everything that I

laid at her feet

don't appreciate

you okay you took her for Lewis so

Islands

you unnatural woman

who prefers this this wolf cover of your

own child

indeed I do not and you Dr Thorne my

guardian who was so very anxious to

guide me but who couldn't control the

snare on your face when I when I told

you of my plans

I didn't sneak

I did not think he would suit

to take the knees

of a Country Doctor

and make her the equal of any lady in

the county not suit I'm sure Mary was

very conscious of the honor you paid her

what

she and I

we've grown up together

we've known each other since we were

children well you've not known me

not any of you

there's no Gresham Hawthorne who would

call themselves a friend of Louis

scatchford

so Louis there is no man living

who understands more clearly the pain

you're feeling no no no no pity no pity

I forbid it I will not let you

perfect my horse right you are sir yo

come back you're in no state to all of

the Leicester

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I want you not to stop me

no look what you've made me do oh

I don't get a proper answer

gods

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mama is back from her errand without the

Causey but they are still very

tight-lipped about it I don't at all

know why we were sent for

I thought the question of Frank and Miss

Thorne was settled

I cannot help you my Ma has been most

mysterious no doubt we'll find out soon

enough

I might as well just say it

Mr Gables asked me to marry him

what he came to me yesterday evening

before dinner

he told me he felt the warmest love the

most profound admiration and the deepest

respect

hey indeed and he was quite honest he

owned that his ambition was to Ally

himself with a family above his own rank

as a way of advancing himself

he wishes to enter Parliament

does he

I never thought Mr gaseby was in need of

a wife

I never thought that before this moment

I think we should be happy

and were he to enter Parliament there'd

be no end of things for me to do

interesting things worthy things

it would be a full life

I'm sure it would although

I would not have thought the wife of a

politician condemned to watch him

scramble at the greasy Pearl much to be

envied

so you do not approve

Augusta think

do you honestly believe Papa would

receive an estate agent for a nephew

Lord of course he's always been very

kind to me and he is fond of you but

there are limits for a man used to the

etiquette of the Court

even because Mr gazeby works for his

living

say he's an honorable man and so he is

but so is Mr scraggs the butcher or the

man who cleans the billiard room they're

clearly not dishonorable does that mean

they're fit to dine at the high table

so I must refuse him my dear I did not

agree with Mr Moffat but he at least

possessed a large Fortune

what have we here

I know what I must do

thank you alexandrina

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take holes from The Stables right to my

house tell Mary what's happened

I'll bring lady's cash at home with me

in the carriage and then I'll send it on

to Gresham Springs well she wanted to

leave to Louis

he will not be so Louis then but only a

shell of what he once was

you think there's no hope there's none

whatsoever

his lung was punctured in the fall

is struggle will symbiosis

sad death to enter sad life

I wonder if his words were true hell in

my duty

you did your best

we scheduled was damaged Beyond repair

before you laid eyes on him even though

I should have done more I could have

done more

doctor come quickly go tell Mary

talk to Tom

rest salute I beg you

huh

will you do something for me

I'll do anything you ask

only that

please tell me stone

I I hope I didn't offend her

she thought

I didn't mean to be offensive

if I misjudged it was not deliberate

please don't talk anymore

save your strength

but for what

the thought

what

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Mary will have your room done in no time

how proud of you must be ever I Am

Legend

before you go up

I want to take advantage of our absence

to talk about something which may be

painful

I'm in so much pain now a little more

will make no difference

very well

I hope you can forgive me

but

do you know the next heir to Sir Roger's

Fortune

no sir Roger never told me

you know his sister Anne had a daughter

before she left England

of course I knew

she wanted me to have her but that was

before I went to nurse Master Frank and

I was struggling to feed myself and

Louis

do you know what happened to the baby

she died

so I'm told sriracha

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how did you get this

and this is the show

oh I gave the medal to Anne's child the

look

I am scattered

give my baby daughter Mary

into the charge of her late father's

brother

Dr Thomas Thorne of gresham's pray

but that was

me

I'm the man that gave the child shelter

sir Roger and Sir Louis heiress

is Mary song

Perry

Perry Oh but

the Rogers knew it yes

he knew she was his niece he gave her

his Blessing

where is my uncle please let's say no

more

dear lady scattered home so happy to see

you here everything's ready if you'd

like to go upstairs Janet will take you

and I'll be in to say good night

cue my dear

thank you

if you'd like to come this way

was it very terrible

I bought him no ill will

may he rest in peace

and now we must do everything we can for

his mother

uncle

I had two visitors

while you were away

from Lady Arabella Gresham and Lady

decorsi

the Countess decorsi in this house

heavens

I've decided to give Frank up

what

please don't argue with me

I was persuaded I was being selfish and

holding on to him

my dear

lady Arabella and Lady decorsi are a

parent snobbish selfish old crowns

that may be true

but that does not make everything they

say untrue

when will you tell him

I told him this afternoon

while you sent him with news of celery

how did he take it

he refused to accept it

but that will pass

and he will be free to do his duty

I doubt that

won't change

I think you will

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I'll take a new look at things tomorrow

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so so Louis is dead and we are cast a

drift again

but I pity him

that's not my only reason for coming

here this morning

lady Arabella and her sister-in-law paid

a call on Mary yesterday

oh dear

before I tell you the substance of their

conversation it is not hard to guess

maybe not but will you answer me one

thing what is your real objection to the

union of Frank and Mary

simple what would they live on

so if that difficulty were got over you

would not refuse your consent because of

Mary's birth

I do not believe that I am entitled to

refuse my consent anyway but if you are

asking then no you did not after all

objective is Dunstable there is no point

in pretending that money does not wash

away many sins

well then I am happy to tell you

that Mary's sins are washed quite clean

what the hundred thousand pounds owing

on the Gresham don't remind me belongs

to Mary Thorne

so does boxhall Hill and much much else

besides I would say that her Fortune

is approaching half a million pounds

and understand what you're telling me

Mary is now in possession of Sir Roger

scattered's money she is

her mother

was Sir Roger's sister

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you must tell lady Arabella say I sent

you in to treat her and then tell her

the news

I will

this is very surprising

Mr Gresham asked me to look in and see

how you are

please do not trouble yourself I'm sure

you have more than enough to concern

yourself with Lady Arabella is very

tired

I spoke to Mary before I came out

oh yes

she's taken your advice and given Frank

up

she has

really

then Dr Thorne we have no further need

to quarrel

thank you for this news thank you

what a sensible girl

she is a credit to you

I confess I am sad then not to marry

maybe but Mary's Good Sense has taken

her to the right decision

no I'm sad because

I should have liked greshamsbury to be

saved

I do not understand you

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[Laughter]

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think

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ah

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a

to me to you

and sketch it was your mother

you are sir Roger's niece and salute's

first cousin

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Box Hill and Russian spree and

lent him oversights

plenty

does Frank know

I've told the Squadron lady Arabella so

he'll know by now

a carrot has arrived doctor not sooner

than I was expecting

I suppose lady Arabella is eager to make

amends how shall I face that you don't

have to see her at all

oh yes I do

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dear dear Mary

how do you do lady Arabella

my child my Frank's own bride

can you forgive me my anxiety over my

son

lady Arabella but I know how it is you

judged me that I fought like a tigress

protecting her Cubs but would you not

fight to defend your child from the

storm very possibly

shall I Rend my garments and throw

myself down into the dust to show you my

remorse

you would stop your gushing for a moment

I believe Mary is entitled to a word on

the subject

but I wish to harsh my dear Frank is

quite right

Mary we have behaved very badly towards

you in the past and there is no need for

you to pretend otherwise that's all over

now

I will not criticize a mother for loving

her son

but I hope you will not criticize me for

loving him too

of course now that we are no longer

engaged

what

we broke it off after you begged me to

do so

oh no

that was

before Frank what do you use king of I

order you to marry this charming girl

you order me to marry Mary remember

as I always would have if only

circumstances have been different which

they now so happily are quiet Belle you

have got off lightly

let us leave Mary and Frank to settle

things between them I'll see you out

I didn't understand are they not to

marry

will you follow your mother's orders

very willingly

infield and out

I had intended to go away

to help you forget me

I would never have worked

I should have pursued you to the ends of

the Earth

now I won't have to

no

now you won't have to

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excellent wedding breakfast lady

Arabella

we wanted to do things properly on this

happiest of days and so you did

a lovely merry looks

a vision of Youth and beauty

oh thank you

right we expect to see you both at

Coursey Castle the moment you come back

from your wedding Journey we shall be

there uncle

and they have a wedding of their own to

celebrate who's getting married

you Bulldog no alexandrina she is to

marry Mr Gatsby

in December

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I hope you don't regret your chance to

enter on the arm of the grooms

certainly not Dr Thorne

happy where I am

when will you return to America

you think I should be done with my

husband hunting then

is it hunting or drag hunting

what do you mean

with you as the lure

I sense plenty of excitement in the

chase but

no chance of a kill at the end of it

well you prefer to catch your Quarry Dr

Thorne

I prefer a proper resolution Miss

Dunstable yes

I hope you won't hold that against me

on the contrary Dr Thorne

fight on the contrary

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here's a happy ending for you Dr Thorne

and a number of Happy Endings just as

you like and I'm glad of it

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now what do you say we take a turn

around the floor ourselves Mr

I should be delighted Dr Thorne

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thank you

well like Anthony trollope and Dr Thorne

himself I love a happy ending even if it

comes at the cost of the death of a lost

man the pathetic Louis Skagit

so movingly rendered by trollop at the

last

in our world money often seems to hold

the strongest power over Human Action

but for trollope love is the most

powerful Agent of Change

let's hope that for most of us

in some way at least

that might prove to be true

thank you for joining me

goodbye

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