Garrow's Law (2009–…): Season 2, Episode 3 - Episode #2.3 - full transcript

Mary! What are you about? To the
mistress, Sir. She wants her clothes.

You obey only my orders,
do you understand?

You cannot take this lightly.
They mean to ruin you!

You many announce me to my husband.

Your business? I wish to see my son.

You may not. You cast her out!
I have lost my wife! To you!

I think, sir, an opportunity now
presents itself.

You are to testify in court that
they did hotly embrace.

And now your husband's imaginings
will be presumed as fact.

And we shall be ruined for it.

The Royal Hospital for Seamen,
latterly known as
the Greenwich Hospital,



is, by your kind duty and patronage,

a charity for
our brave seamen and their families.

It is my privilege,
as First Lord of the Admiralty,

to preside over
this most worthy institution.

We shall provide for the relief
and support of those who,

for reason of age, wounds or other
disabilities,

shall be incapable of
further service at sea.

And, unable to maintain themselves,

we shall provide
accommodation and sustenance.

This is the promise of our charter,

of your avowal to the great
tradition of the British navy.

BANGING

NOISE INTENSIFIES

I drink to you.



SHOUTING AND BANGING

Who began this?

I make no complaint.

I did, sir.

This food belongs on the floor,
for a dog to forage there. Why so?

We have eaten horse before,
Captain Baillie,

when we were desperate sailors at war
and in need of provision.

We would not expect to
do so in our sanctuary.

LAUGHTER

He promised me unearthly sexual
pleasure and to get me with child.

Not personally?

Through the advent of his
'celestial bed'.

I would be cured
and no longer barren.

The 'celestial bed'. He named it so?

Mmm. He prescribed
'daily electrifications'.

RAUCOUS LAUGHTER

And while you and your
husband lay on the bed,
what was Dr Graham doing?

In the next room,
cranking up a machine.
LAUGHTER

This machine to produce 'electrical
or concocted fire', which he said
would heighten and prolong...

venereal congress.

And did the apparatus have
any immediate effect?

It made my hair stand up.

GALES OF LAUGHTER

Mr Garrow, your witness.

Your age, Madam?

45.

And you've been married how long?

Five years. And never with child?

No. And does your
menstrual blood still flow?

My lord, we are not here to examine
the physiology of the prosecutrix.

My lord, I merely wish to
ascertain the unlikelihood
of any conception here.

The real offence of deception
has been carried out by Mrs
Cumberland herself, on herself.

My learned friend is very ungallant.

I wish to temper the jury's sympathy
with some reality.

Perhaps my learned friend produces
his own lightning bolt
at the critical moment.

Mr Silvester, a warning.

As a way to explain his want of
sympathy, my lord, and the enmity
he does provoke elsewhere.

You will act for your client here,
not a Drury Lane satire.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

No more...

questions, Mr Garrow?

They complain of a deficiency
of sheets and shirts, and,
as a consequence, some find

they sleep on a bare mattress,
and the nurses required to wash
their remaining shirts threadbare.

There is a discrepancy of 95 yards of
linen but it has not been embezzled.

I sought not to suggest...
It has been more as a...

saving to the hospital.

But is that not strange reasoning?

By which you mean? The purse of the
hospital should have no greater
interest than that of the seamen,

and these savings are being made
through their regulated allowances.

There is more? If not, Captain,
we have other business to attend to.

They say the beer is sour and mixed
with water, unfit to drink.

I hope their appeals do not appear
sour by being conveyed through
this old Lieutenant Governor.

Also in need of rectification is the
meat that has been served lately.

It is not to their liking?

It is unfit.

It is of dubious provenance.

It is horse.

That would be...highly irregular.
Indeed, Sir.

All of these complaints
will be looked into.

I hope the council understand that I
bring these informations in hope
of reformation, and not reproach.

Then you will leave us
with these informations.

You overstepped your mark. The
courtroom is an adversarial place.

You have seen to that,
you did invent it. Is the biter bit?

You will use my situation
outside this court to win a case?

You really think you can keep
your situation private?

Garrow,
by the time you come to trial,

every print shop and newspaper
will be full to the brim
with its sensation.

And my insults will
pale by comparison.

Mr Southouse?

Do we have the fact of adultery?

We have the evidence
that will conclude it.

And an amount that will reflect
the dishonour of it?

A sum against Garrow that
will humiliate him for it?

He will never make good this debt.

Ten... thousand... pounds.

That is monstrous.

Damages are aptly named.

Or perhaps in your case you will
not so much be damaged as decimated.

Is not now the time for reassurance?

Yes. Do you have any for yourself?

You may not take my place from me!

I have not the means to look after
my family!

I will see Captain Baillie! Smith!

Captain Baillie!

They say you've been a busy fellow.
Unruly.

Have disturbed the good peace
and governance of the hospital.

They would not listen to you!
The discipline of the house is
presided over by the council.

They make all decisions,
I can do nothing. What is your duty
here, Captain?

To watch over the internal economy
and see the revenues not perverted.

And to watch over us? Yes.

Yet you are ignored and supplanted.

So you fail in all this. You do fail
in your duty to all the men.

And now we are to
wander the streets!

He has agreed to see me. You have
hopes of your husband's mercy?

I cannot think him altogether cruel.

I cannot. He'll never allow
you to be Samuel's mother.

If he will see me,
then he may allow me to see my son.

I wish to express my concerns at
the conduct of the hospital council.

Well?

They are...improperly trusted
with the care of the accounts.

They direct the offices
of the hospital and by
successive encroachments

have taken upon themselves
the governance of the house.

So why do you not petition them?

I have made an appeal, but
I fear they are deaf to every
expostulation or complaint,

however reasonable
or regularly urged.

So they ignored your appeal?
They do not yet respond to it.

Oh, do they not?

Well, then is it not a little
early for you to judge it?

They have already thrown out
a seaman who made complaint.

In the interests of
discipline, no doubt.

Let me speak plainly, Sir.

How may I make a persuasive appeal
when they are the subject
of the appeals I make?

They engage the contractors, and in
any investigation they will report
of themselves and to themselves.

They will? I do not think you
should presume so.
I think you should wait, sir.

Does he make the Admiralty
the subject of any complaint?

If he comes to the Admiralty seeking
redress, that is unlikely, I think.

Are you deprived of sleep?

I'm out of sorts, I apologise.

I see you're installed with
your new companion again.

At least you have the consolation
of knowing that you are not bereft
of company yourself.

Arthur...

I understand that any rights
of visitation are
purely at your discretion.

Then you will understand that also
at the discretion of Sir Arthur
is to educate the child or not,

to remove it to the country
with a wet nurse or not,

to have an entire and untrammelled
control over the child's fate.

Well, I hope that his
fate will include a relationship
with his mother.

Mr Farmer...

THEY WHISPER

May we no longer speak to each other?

I will go further than most men
will allow a wife such as you.

You will?

You may not see Samuel,
but you may write to him.

Where you may express
your sentiments to him.

It is more than I'm
obliged to, Sarah.

You will not humiliate me!

I am wronged, you cannot be!

Farmer, why do I contest and protect
so fiercely that which is not mine?

Sir, in law... and that which in
my heart I do not care to keep?!

Sir, you cannot entertain
the thought of letting
Lady Sarah have the child back.

She must be seen and punished
as an adulteress. Therefore,
you cannot contemplate any act

that would show her forgiveness
or acceptance, that would make
your dishonour appear less.

Because the jury in the
trial against Garrow would
then award you less.

Having examined these complaints, we
find they appear generally malicious

and void of foundation... Gentlemen,
I am no malicious informer...

..and tending to disturb the peace
and good government of the hospital.

But, sirs, I only conceived of
it as the duty of my office to
disclose any fraud or abuse to you.

We have laid a copy of our
findings before the Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty.

At sea, I would always place the
interests of my men above my own,
and on land I merely do the same.

It is submitted to their lordships
that it is expedient for the peace,
quiet, and regular conducting of

the business of the hospital
that you be removed from your
employment as Lieutenant Governor.

I will not prostrate myself
before you to keep my position.

But I must inform you
that I shall write to

the General Court of Governors
to make the facts known in print.

Gentleman, this is a libel,
a libel on you all.

But further than that it
criminates you, accuses you of
fraud and pecuniary abuses.

My lord, will you also make an
affidavit? Well, I am not named.

I am not criminated against.

But, my lord, every great and
good Governor that lays eyes on this

will be minded to ask a
question or two of you.

Every political contemporary,
friend or foe.

And that is why you must not
allow this a moment's credit.

That is why you must prosecute
for malicious libel.

I may write.

Do you think you have
sacrificed your son for me?

I have lost Samuel
because of my husband.

I only hope...

he does not teach him to despise me.

Perhaps he will come to accept him
as his true heir and at least
have regard for him in that way.

And therefore you.

You think to console me, Will.

You see it is artificially beaten
to defraud the men of their just
allowance of broth and pease soup.

This is the plainest way to show
the abuses I wrote of.

When you did petition the
Admiralty, was it Sandwich himself
you spoke with there?

No, it was the Assistant Secretary,
Sir Arthur Hill.

Sirs, I am a poor individual,
no fortune and unconnected.

I am in an unequal contest
between myself and those
officers that govern.

Yes, yes, you are. And your removal
was agreed by the Admiralty?

The whole weight of the Ministry
thrown into the
unequal balance against me.

This will be a high privilege.
To repel and expose so
odious a prosecution.

In truth, I only wish the
reinstatement of my position.

Beware. Beware of what, Mr Southouse?

What it is that draws you
to this case.

Injustice always exerts
its influence upon me.

I mean do not come
upon this personally.

Come upon it as a man of the law!

You wish to see me?

We wish to visit you, sir.

I don't know you. But are well
acquainted with Captain Baillie.

He is known to every man here.

He recommended you
as a good source of enquiry.

You are mistaken, sir, I am content.

Is it not true that you were
turned out of your cabin

accommodation to make room for the
enlarging of officer's apartments?

I make no complaint about that.
You can't deny it?

Where do you reside now, sir?

In... In the infirmary.

But you are not sick?
I have a bed there.

Are you content? I am fortunate!

It should not be the
fate of any man who has served
his country so well as you.

25 year.

You served in the Seven Year War?

And Valcour Island last.
The American War of Independence.

Sir? You recognise it?

You think after 25 years' service
this be your just reward?

To be deprived of soup?

To lose your shelter?

How can the Officers of
this House behave so to
their own fellow seamen?

They are not seamen, sir.

They are land men.

Land men are simply those who
have never been at sea in
the service of the Navy.

These Officers of the Hospital,
these land men, they were
appointed by the Admiralty?

Indeed, sir.

Do you know why?

I've never been a man to
question the Admiralty.

Until now?

I shall make enquiry.

Jailer?

If I am found guilty,
I face imprisonment or fine.

That will not happen,
Captain Baillie.

Even if I am found not guilty,
I do not think they will return me
to my post at the hospital.

No.

Then I will gladly take a
commission to captain a ship again.

I do not think they
will be that forgiving.

Then they shall complete my ruin
whatever will happen?

We shall win.

And we shall shame them.

I know it is not easy to
languish here the while.

Mr Garrow...

I would rather any cannon ball
come upon me than this.

It is good fortune to have a
healthy child when so many
succumb at such an early age.

We must pray for the welfare
of our children.

Lest they die.

It is your own son you talk of, sir?

You're confounded?

As if I wish its death or
think to commission its murder.

I merely wish it not, is all.

I merely wish it with its
wretched mother!

And as I have explained,
for our case, that would be an
outcome worse than any murder.

And so Garrow's offspring will
inherit my estate, my title!

Why should I go to court for
my honour when I shall be
dishonoured within a generation?!

The Hospital being administered
as a charity, its officers a matter
of public record. And?

Mr Cooke, Secretary,
resident of Huntingdon.

Mr Ibbotson, Steward,
native of the same.

Reverend Lee, Chaplain, again
of Huntingdon.

Mr Critchely, Auditor...
Of Huntingdon?

Every man in office at the Greenwich
Hospital is from the very same town.

What sense is there in this
when Greenwich is such a
very long way from there?

And such a very long way from here.

You will identify yourself, sir!

John Southouse, London Attorney.

And should I identify you
as a gamekeeper, sir?

I am land steward here
and attorney in Huntingdon.

That is a novel way
to go about the law.

Do your clients give you some
difficulty? Your business here?

I merely seek to understand why
Huntingdon men seem to be universally
employed at the Greenwich Hospital?

You trespass here, sir. This is the
hospital's land? No longer.

It has been sold? To who, sir?

It has not been sold.

Then whose gift?

I think an answer
may do you no good at all.

Very well.

You have no need of your gun,
unless you mistake me for partridge.

In previous years the hospital's
landed estates furnished the hospital
with one third of its revenue.

?21,000, enough to keep the
seamen in complete comfort.

Then why are they not?
Because the land has been given away.

And the revenue no longer flows
in such amounts to the hospital.

You think the owners of the hospital
to be the beneficiaries?

I know it to be so!
I have seen the records.

How does ownership
of the land benefit them?

It has enabled the officers
of Greenwich to become
freeholders in Huntingdon.

And freeholders may vote.

The paternity of Samuel is a lie.

You find it hard to endure,
but it is presumed in law.

Unless you were away at sea or can
prove impotency. Neither apply. No.

But there is another way...

To establish that
Garrow bastardised your issue.

Well?
A signed affidavit from Lady Sarah,

attesting to that fact.

She'd never agree.

A mother who can be reunited with
her child, despite her adultery?

That may not present
such a great difficulty to her.

Samuel the prize for her confession?

And as a result, the jury minded
to award the maximum penalty -

against Garrow.

Well, draft it!

Will any of the seaman
speak in my defence?

Many may wish to
but none will dare to.

Can we not persuade these men,
so fearful of keeping their
meagre settlement to speak out?

Some of these men have lost their
wits and limbs on bloody decks when
their country required it of them.

But now they are seamen on dry
land and they are vulnerable.

Beholden to their
country's charity, not to me.

Charles Smith,
he was dismissed from this place.

He would therefore have more
cause than most to speak out.

If I take you to him, I will
be regarded as his accomplice!

Mr Boycott! You may still
hide behind your silence.

You have business with me here?

Is it not your business to hide
around a corner and watch me?

This business is somewhat
more formal, Lady Sarah.

This is drawn up for your signature,
it is also a document

that demonstrates Sir Arthur's
generous and liberal outlook.

Custody of Samuel shall
reside with yourself...

if you shall admit his illegitimacy
and that the child imposed upon your
husband is the child of Mr Garrow.

CHILDREN CRY AND COUGH

We are to be returned, Robert?

I'm afraid not.

Then what useful
purpose brings you here?

You have some remedy
for my poor daughter?

Captain Baillie is in Newgate
for what he has spoke on
behalf of you all.

If you will bear witness for him,

it may be hoped that only injustice
is banished from the Hospital Gate.

Your courage is required once more.

Mr Farmer, you have played a very
good game.

It was required of him,
Lord Melville.

When I instructed him I am
certain he did not think me to
become quite so troublesome.

I must admit I had hoped that
Lady Sarah's signature had been
immediately forthcoming.

She will need to seek
Garrow's permission.

And that I suspect is where their
difficulties will really begin.

As Garrow defends Captain
Baillie tomorrow, we must look
forward to his distraction.

His distraction tomorrow,
his reputation very soon.

We shall have some peace in our
society when we have
brought about his silence.

I think it may be Lady Sarah
first to strike him dumb!

When you learned of my pregnancy,
you did offer to
bring the child up as your own.

There is no similarity here. But if
you can own the child as your own...

It is a fiction! It is a lie!
I know!

But for the sake of my son
I would bear any lie!

And you think I can
bear it as easily?

Will? Yes, Mr Southouse?

We have business at Newgate.

Why don't you attend it?

It is the trial of
Captain Baillie tomorrow.

Well, then I will
attend it tomorrow.

I understand what this
reunion would mean to you.

But I would deprive myself of the
means to defend the suit against me.

If you sign this affidavit,
it becomes evidence in
court of my treachery.

That is why the child
is being offered to you!

You take Samuel and I am damned and
ruined. How else would you wish it?

That I lose my son forever?

So that you may
confound my husband...

I will not submit to those
who will conspire against me.

And if I submit for the sake of
my son, you will never forgive me?

I would be broken because
you had struck such a bargain.

I do not think I could live
peacefully with you after that.

So I must lose you? If you will
have your son at any price, yes!

If you will allow your husband
still to manipulate and abuse you,
then yes, it must be so.

I am deprived of my child,

so I have no pride in this.
I am allowed none.

You have too much, Will!

Is it pride
to wish to be true to myself?

Or to wish that you would
be true to me?

Very well.

Sign the affidavit.

I will resign myself to my fate,
with you and at my trial.

It seems you did not fail
in your duty to us after all

and I commend you,
Captain Baillie sir.

Myself, I do not wish to be thrown
out, but nor can I keep quiet.

And if it were possible
all the men would assemble
at the Old Bailey for you.

Then I may face the jury proudly.

To paternity.

Really, Hill?

Most certainly. To paternity, I say.

To paternity. To paternity.

KNOCKING

Enter.

If you'll excuse me.

Hill?

I must a...

I must take my leave of you.

MUFFLED: Argh!
BANGING

ANGUISHED SHOUTS AND BANGING

Sir?

This humour will burst through
your veins, if you persist in it.

I have been wronged.

But the wrong was
to have been undone.

Lady Sarah - she's thwarted you?

SNORTING LAUGH

It seems to be the...

Seems to be the role of all women
to thwart and betray me!

Or am I just so...

so poor in judgement
of the company I keep?

The company you keep?

Do you understand the responsibility
that I bear to my name?

The duty that is expected of me?

And if my wife did fail me,
then I should still prevail.

But it seems not.

I am this time

cuckolded by fate, by the sick
joke that nature did create.

This time!

Sir, it appears you have
not been honest with me

in how you have spent your time.

I no longer drink to paternity.

Garrow will mitigate
your claim to nothing.

You must speak very
frankly with me now

or Garrow will win...

..and you will face the ruin
of your own reputation.

Even now, she may be arrived
in the nursery,

throwing kisses upon her son.

Even now, Hill may be smiling

at her signature on the affidavit,

glad at the bargain he has struck
that will expose my iniquity.

You know that my loyalty has always
been to you and not to Lady Sarah.

Therefore... Therefore... ..you
must separate yourself from her.

Make a public disavowal.

Abandon her?

The trial will go better for you.

If the jury think she be of less
value, for being thrown aside?

You will not escape unpunished
for this, but I do not just speak
to how you may mitigate that.

I speak that you do not incur
further punishment.

You attend to my heart?

If you will not.

Look what you have come to.

When I was down in my cups, you
did not entertain it, but kindly so.

I only wish to repay that.

Will. What?

She will choose her son over you.
Hmm.

You are unhappy
and she has made you so.

She asks more of you
than you ever ask of her.

She gave up her reputation.
For me.

But you must do justice to your own -
in court!

You are not even mindful of the duty
you owe Captain Baillie this night.

Captain Thomas Baillie,
you are indicted with maliciously

intending to deprive
the plaintiffs of their good name...

You may not wish to sit so
conspicuously alongside me.

By which you mean, Buller?

You may have no business
with the case today, but I'm afraid
the case may have business with you.

..concerning the government of the
Greenwich Hospital and abuses in the
administration of the charity there.

You look unwell, Garrow. Pale.

Are you fit for this trial?

I worry that you may not be able
to perform your duty here today.

I shall do my duty at your expense.

I express concern for your welfare,
yet you insult me.

But, if I were having
to lavish a bounteous award

of ?10,000 on my lover's husband,

that would not sit well
with me, either.

Did you sleep?

Not a wink.

Why did you recommend Captain
Baillie be removed from office?

He undermined the governance
of the hospital,

thought his own authority
diminished by it.

And upon his removal, did then
furnish the governors with his
complaints and allegations? He did.

A man who so disturbed the peace
that his removal be warranted.

Upon that removal, compounds
his malice with the circulation
of his grievances? Exactly so.

Since when was vengeance a virtue?

LOUD MURMURING

It confirmed
our previous judgement of him.

A man whose only real
cause was not the seamen,
but his own removal from office?

LOUD MURMURING

Tell me,

how much is good ox beef?

34 shillings.

And the flesh of rams?

12 shillings. And mutton?

30 shillings. And was complaint
ever made that the butcher

you contracted with was supplying
horse, instead of good ox beef?

The complaint was investigated.
Are the seaman still eating it?

We...have spoken to the butcher.

Answer the question.
Are the men still being cheated
of their meat allowance?

We merely thought to make a saving.
For whose benefit?

Did the butcher supply horse
and charge 34 shillings
for the price of good ox beef?

I am not the auditor.

The butcher that you contracted
with - from which town? Huntingdon.

And the supplier of deficient linen?
The same.

By which, I mean Huntingdon,
but admit to no deficiency.

And the sour beer conveyed in
rotten pipes and mixed with water?

My lord... Simply tell
the court who is the brewer.

My lord, it is not unnatural to wish
to do business with men one is
previously acquainted with.

It is a very convenient arrangement.
But I shall not be criminated by it.

You deny the facts,
as written by Captain Baillie?

When he seeks to divine the facts
as criminal, yes.

So you do not deny the facts?

Or perhaps you think

that the fact of the neglect
of duty not criminal?

Or that if you do not
actively promote abuses,
the winking at them is not criminal?

I put it to you that you and all
your countrymen of Huntingdon

are acquainted with unblushing
opportunities for self-enrichment.

And yet you have the effrontery
to come here as a prosecutor,

to turn the table on the defendant
and stifle the necessary enquiry
into the subject of his complaints!

My lord, my learned friend
seeks to bully the witness
into confession of conspiracy.

I will have this conspiracy out.

I will not allow a man's life
to be destroyed by a witch hunt!

My lord,

I fear my learned friend
speaks of his own misfortunes
outside of this court.

LAUGHTER

Does Mr Garrow defend
Captain Baillie or himself?

LAUGHTER

You have another witness,
Mr Silvester?

My lord, I call on Sir Arthur Hill,

Assistant Secretary
to the Admiralty. Sir Arthur Hill.

You believe he had, before the
results of any investigation,

decided in advance to calumniate
and decry the hospital council
and those officers within it?

He did calumniate
and decry those officers
in conversations with myself,

as enquiries were being made
by them. And had begun
to demonstrate his malice? Yes.

And once removed from office,
circulates his thoughts in a book.

It's another demonstration
of his vice.

LOUD MURMURING

Sir Arthur, why do you think Captain
Baillie came to the Admiralty?

To petition the Earl of Sandwich.

And finding him unavailable,
did petition you?

I am Assistant Secretary.

Having appealed to the Council,
without effect,

and having been equally
unsuccessful with yourself,
do you think it unreasonable

for the prisoner to attract the
attention of the general governors?

Well, if you publish
malicious falsehoods,
then that is unreasonable.

And subject to the laws of libel.

Do not tell me of the law.

Why should I not?

I understand what it is to seek
redress for grievous assaults

and injury upon one's
character and reputation!

ASSEMBLY EGG HIM ON

And I understand the distress
caused by charges brought
without foundation.

ASSEMBLY: Hear, hear.

This book, it was not published,
it was not printed for sale,

but for the commodious distribution
among the persons

who are called upon upon, in duty,
to examine its contents -
the governors.

Mr Garrow,

a question to the witness,
not a point of law.

Very well, may I quote the
charter of the hospital to you?

"No officer shall be employed in
this hospital but seafaring men,
or such as have lost their limbs

"or been otherwise disabled
in the sea service."

Is Captain Cooke a seafaring man?

No. No, he's a land man, he has
never been in the sea service,
yet he is in office, like yourself.

He does not know one end of a ship
from the other, like yourself.

Mr Garrow! My lord,
if Mr Garrow insists that all those

who hold office at the Greenwich
Hospital be seamen, then perhaps all
the managers of Bedlam be lunatics?

LAUGHTER

It appears this hospital charter
has been infringed, does it not?

Changed, in fact.

Who changed it?

I...

I cannot say. "Cannot say"?

You are, by your own admission,
Assistant Secretary.

Are you not about your duty there?

My lord, you're a
General Governor of this
esteemed charity, are you not?

Did you know the charter
of the hospital had been altered,

to allow land men
from the town of Huntingdon
to be appointed to office?

No.

No, I did not.

Sir Arthur, do you know the Land
Steward who runs the hospital's
Huntingdon Estate? Of course not.

But you are acquainted
with his master, of course,

the Earl of Sandwich.
He is also your master, is he not?

He is the First Lord
of the Admiralty. Indeed.

The Land Steward is a very busy man.
He creates 40 shilling freeholds
on the hospital estate

and hands them over freely
to those who his master calculates
as being most useful.

LOUD MURMURING

Do you actually have any more
questions for me? Yes, Mr Garrow!

Most certainly.

What does a freehold bestow,
Sir Arthur? The right to vote.

And which borough does the Earl
represent in parliament?

Cambridgeshire. Yes, Cambridgeshire.

Containing within it
the town of Huntingdon.

I put it to you the charter
of the hospital was changed...

..to make him the sole and
uncontrolled ruler of this charity.

This hospital, his own private
fiefdom and a treasury to plunder.

I put it to you that this allows
the Earl to place his voters
and partisans there.

LOUD MURMURING

My lord, we are here to determine
the conduct of Captain Baillie.

Mr Garrow...

I put it to you that the governors
of Greenwich Hospital have been
given free rein to enrich themselves

for the political services they have
provided for the Earl of Sandwich -
namely, by voting for him,

namely, by being given portions
of the hospital's land in order
to vote for him! Mr Garrow!

The Earl of Sandwich is not before
the court. No, my lord.

He has sent
this pale subordinate here.

LAUGHTER

He has placed Sir Arthur and the
prosecutors in front of battle

and hopes to escape under their
mercy, under their shelter.

Yet I will drag him to light
who is the dark mover behind
this scene of iniquity.

I assert that the Earl of Sandwich
has but one route to escape
out of this business without

pollution and disgrace. And that
is by publicly disavowing the acts
of the prosecutors

and the restoration of Captain
Baillie to his command,
if he is found innocent here.

I did warn you. My lord,

my learned friend seeks to prescribe
the moral requirements of others

when his own morality
is far from settled.

LOUD MURMURING

Withdraw.

I merely make the point that
your business here is the law

and dangerous for one, such as you,
to speak of pollution and disgrace.

LAUGHTER

Are you finished, Mr Garrow?

Yes, my lord.

Thank you, Sir Arthur.

You may step down.

I am not yet finished with you.

Mr Boycott?

What did you think Captain Baillie's
duties were as Lieutenant Governor?

To see that our settling days
were spent in comfort and peace.

And how did he perform this duty,
in your estimation?

A captain to his men.
He only wished, as on board a ship,
that our provision be ample.

And took pain to make sure
those provisions were not
misapplied or perverted?

You cannot countenance further
on the Captain?

There was a warning to me,
that if I should keep company
with Captain Baillie,

or correspond with him, that
would be an end to my preferment.

A warning? A warning to you by whom?

Very well.

Your preferment, Mr Boycott,
by which you mean

your shelter at the hospital,
asylum for your infirmity,
taken away?

I have never before made complaint.

Of course not.

Complaints are not allowed to drown
out the riot and mirth

of luxurious land men, who have
only ever fought in the battles
of the borough of Huntingdon.

You are not here to address your own
grievances and denounce your enemies!

Your cause is Baillie himself.
I did warn you of this.

But do I not excite distrust
of the prosecution case?
Make hollow their evidence?

This trial is about the character
and motivation of Captain Baillie

and the seamen
suffering at the hospital. Very well.

You must find a theme to stir
the hearts of the jury -
all English hearts.

It is not enough just to curdle
blood, you must make it quicken.
Very well.

But confess at least you
did enjoy my going to war.

Sir Arthur,
holed beneath the water line.

But, all the more
determined to repay you doubly.

He has removed me from Sarah.
I am already repaid.

But the fate of this case
still hangs in the balance. Mmm.

There is no signature.

I will not sign what isn't true.

Then you, for ever, forfeit Samuel.

A man such as you will not speak
so familiar of my son's name to me.

A man who talks of forfeit,
as if this were a game of cards.

Lady Sarah, should I apologise
that I do not attend you...

..more delicately?

Or do you object
that it is a mere lawyer

who will speak the truth to you?

I understand the truth very well...

..and I am reconciled to what
I must leave behind.

You...plan some...escape,

some...elopement with Garrow?

Mr Garrow has yet a trial to face.

But at least it will not be
prejudiced by concocted evidence
that Samuel is illegitimate.

You will not be able to load
the suit with that grievance.

I find the wife of every plaintiff
thinks me venal and corrupt,

but it is their own corruption
that I investigate.

Or perhaps, it is BECAUSE
I investigate it.

I have never laid with Mr Garrow.

And I will gladly
sign THAT affidavit.

I would not eat the horse.

I wished to shame the kitchen
with it.

By refusing to be cheated,
you had simply shown the ardour
of a British sailor?

And for that, you and your family
were despatched without ceremony,
into the street? Into a workhouse?

I was...dismissed.

My lord, what has any of this to do
with the character of the prisoner?

My lord, a moment.

Mr Smith, did Captain Baillie
witness the manner of your
turning out? Most guiltily.

Guilty and aggrieved
that a man such as you,

who had fought in the naval battles
of Frederica, Grenada,

Cape St. Vincent, even the war
of the Austrian succession,

warned out in the service of his country

and then thrown out.

- Mr. Garrow, where is all this leading?
- Mr. Smith...

Did not capitain Baillie act

so that men like you
would not be failed again?

That our brave seamen,
These nation's heroes,

do not continue to be ill fed
ill cloughted and ill used?

To avoid that his younger counterparts
wounded in battle may

look forward at Greenwich as a retreat,

to find the gates of it
blocked with corruption,

while attempted to seas no more?

Capitain Baillie wishes no more,
that we'll not loose the navy,

that we'll not forfeit
british sea power,

by the cinical political
actions of the admiralty.

Is not the caracter of capitain Baillie
one of a true patriot,

who shows his love of his country
by insisting on his duty?

I would be obliged if you
would fetch a coach to Dover.

EXCITED CHATTER

How do you find the prisoner
charged with this indictment?
Guilty or not guilty?

Not guilty.

CHEERING

Release the prisoner.
Captain Baillie, you may step down.

Court shall rise.

I have always found you
more convincing as a gentleman
than a barrister.

Today, I find you neither.

Captain Baillie.

Then my career is not ended,
Sandwich cannot refuse me!

I'm sure you will not remain
without employment. But you
yourself asked for my restoration.

Is it not now proved here
that I am worthy of whatever
duty they will bestow on me?

Yes, yes, it is proven.

Some rum with your witnesses,
I think, to savour the judgement!

Your oratory has the Old Bailey
enthralled, Mr Garrow.

That you must be silent
at your own trial is a sadness.

What business do you have with me?

I may be against you,
but I do admire you.

Like you, I am...

..in this world, but not of it.

And soon,
you may not even be in it...

..and far more alone
than you did think.

Why do you affect pity for my sake?

I do not affect it.

Lady Sarah leaves for France...

..and I think
to show you pity for that.

Pardon me. Pardon me!

Who is it?

Sarah, you have signed the affidavit
to be reunited with Samuel?
No, I would not.

Then why do you go? Why would you
flee into exile and not tell me?

For fear that you would care too
much, or too little. "Too little"?

Too little and I would not
have come immediately.
You wished to say goodbye.

I know what I wished for.

I would not betray you,
even in the cause of my son.

But neither can I come to you
and be happy, because I have
lost him, in your cause.

Therefore, I leave for Calais.
You betray me more if you run.

It is hardly a place
to go willingly.

But I may live economically
there, anonymously.

And as I am in law, no-one now and
do not exist, that suits me well!

If you go you, will be simply
be owning your disgrace.

But if you stay...

..you will own your love.

And Sarah,
some loves must have a defence.

If there be evidence for such love.

You shall not be deprived
of either of the loves you have.
We shall ensure it.