Fingersmith (2005) s01e03 Episode Script

Ever since the wedding night
she's made up these stories.
Take my baby Susan,
and bring her up yourself, Mrs Sucksby.
So I gave her the baby that I was holding.
Her name is Maud!
My name is Ethel.
My name is
You must believe me!
Susan!
Susan!
I believe you,
Thank you!
That's a lot of comfort, Mrs Rivers.
Miss Wilson believes
there are creatures on the moon.
Damn you!
I told you that in strict confidence!
I'm not Maud Rivers,
I'm Susan Smith!
There you are, back with us.
I hope you don't oppose this sherry;
miss Lilly, sherry in a ladies chamber
I could never agree to it but,
a bit of honest brandy is a bracer.
She's got a good mouth for spirits.
I know you are lying
No, you haven't heard anything yet, Maud.
I'm an orphan.
My mother was mad.
Your poor old mother
preferred the madhouse to shame.
She went mad when they put her in there.
I'll say..
I knew then I was mad
only the maddest who's brains rove heated
were given the plunge.
I'm her husband, she'll do as I tell her!
Leave it to me, gentleman.
We'll do it my way.
She'll do it, believe me.
Well,
I always say brandy is the best sleeping draft
Here.
If Marianne wasn't my mother
then who was?
God alone knows, dear.
I took foundlings you see,
I have the goodness of my heart
and you was one of them.
This!
It's Sues mother.
Then,
how do I have a fortune?
Sit down.
Marianne took pity on you,
a poor foundling
came to a lonely old place like Briar.
There was plenty for both she said.
Poor woman might have needed it,
wouldn't change her mind.
She left half to you
and half to her own daughter Susan.
in one months time.
And you planned to get all of it?
Oh no no, it's Mrs Sucksbys scheme.
She gets the major share,
I get a mere three thousand pounds.
Did Sue know what you've planned?
No dear.
You're not any villains, you're fools!
I wont sign anything and Susan's in no position to.
No, you're right.
Sue, or should I say your poor mistress
my wife Mrs Rivers
is in no condition to sign for her, is she?
I'll be forced to sign for her.
Thanks to your help.
What have I done?
Damn you, I told you to keep away from me!
Leave her!
And what do you want with me?
You want me to be Sue.
Oh, she's sharp Mr Ibbs.
I don't believe you.
It's because I'm nothing.
I don't even know my name.
After I've signed
you're planning to kill me, don't you?
No dear.
You're one of us now.
And you're a lady.
You'll be my companion.
Because I need a real lady like you
to show me how to become one.
You are ridiculous.
You should both be in the mad house.
Pass me off as Sue?
Mr Ibbs will tell the lawyer he's know you all his life.
She is your legal guardian.
The doctors knows you was a maid,
you have no friends in London,
no money, no name even.
You, as you say, are nothing.
And you will do as I say.
I will tell the lawyer.
How you plotted to swindle an innocent girl?
Are you truly so wicked?
So vile?
That is vile!
Poverty.
You think life is hard with money?
Well, you should try it without.
It is one month before your twenty-first birthday
one week of barely living
will help you make up your mind.
Two weeks after the plunge
I was prepared to be anyone they wanted me to be.
Only the thought of Mrs Sucksby kept me going.
Mrs Sucksby used to say
people ain't never interested in the truth, Sue.
But in what they want to hear.
I am Mrs Maud Rivers.
This is truly remarkable.
I've got you to thank, doctor.
You've looked after me so well.
You would like to see Mr Rivers?
I need to see him,
oh, my poor husband,
and my maid.
What..
Who has put up with so much.
How I long to see them both again!
And so you shall.
Dr Graves
A little test, Mrs Rivers.
Please write your name.
I think it begins with a different letter,
doesn't it?
Remarkable!
the delusion even extends to her motor functions,
it is there we will break her.
Once your own writing comes back to you,
your husband will be here to sign you out.
Rivers?
He has to sign me out?
Rivers?
I thought about Sue every day,
as Mrs Sucksby stroke off the days
to my twenty first birthday.
If only I could escape and get to Sue.
What do you think?
Oh my lord, Mrs S!
I won't be long, dear.
We have to see the lawyer in a few days time.
And I must make the appointment.
I'm Susan.
Maud Rivers.
I am Maud Rivers.
There you are, Mrs?..
Rivers.
Well done.
Maud..
The vipers used to be Sues job.
Did you like her?
Sue?
She turned out bad, didn't she?
I don't know. I miss her sometimes.
She was fun.
We used to have a good laugh.
Here, you do it.
What is it?
I don't feel very well.
You never do!
Is that what they call
a ladies constitution?
I suppose it must.
Ahh!
I need to go to the privy.
I don't want to bother you.
It's no bother, madam.
It will be if you're not here when Mrs S gets back.
Dainty, I'm really not well.
Come out then.
It's my time of the
You must get something.
From the top drawer in the bedroom.
Caught you without, has it?
It rushes!
I can't leave you.
Open the door.
The men might come.
But Mrs Sucksby told me not to leave you.
Well, what will she say if I swoon?
If I..
Maud?
Please.
Top drawer you say?
Left hand side.
Where are you? Oh!
Help!
Please help me!
What's happened?
I need to go to a hotel.
Come on.
Rotner Street!
O dear, just look at you!
Such pretty little feet.
And such finely turned ankles.
Let me go.
Now, now.
Help!
Don't be silly.
Help!
I'm only trying to..
Ahh!
Don't think that I wasn't only trying to help you!
I walked through the night.
Running away if anyone approached me.
My thin slippers tore,
and my feet were cut and bleeding
before I found what I was looking for.
The only street that I had heard of in London.
The one my uncles books came from.
Miss! Miss!
You can't go in there!
Mr Halltree!
Maud!
Please help me.
What are you doing here?
You were always saying..
That was at Briar
before what happened.
You mustn't come here.
You came through the shop,
did the police see you?
I won't faint. I promise you.
Your feet!
Good god!
Mrs Rivers!
You have a visitor.
Are you here today or not?
Don't you recognize him?
We didn't know each other from Adam.
Then,
it was the little boot boy from Briar.
It was that look what saved me.
He recognized me! He knew who I was.
And I knew what I must do in that instant.
Oh Charles!
Charles, how wonderful to see you!
Don't say who I am, and don't go.
Oh Miss!
I'm not Miss Lilly anymore.
You're..
This is a mad house, ain't it?
Do you know who I am?
It's Miss Smith, ain't it?
Bless you!
Miss Smith who's..
I told you, you mustn't call that here!
That was Briar, Charles..
Mr Lilly had a stroke after what happened.
I'm so sorry to hear that.
Gave me the creeps, he did.
Mr Wader Stuart beat me so much I ran away.
I've got no job, no character.
I wanted to find Mr Rivers
who was so kind to me also.
He said I polished his boots
better than anyone else in the whole world.
And my auntie told me that Mrs Rivers was living here
and I thought this was a grand house.
Your auntie?
Mrs Cream.
Where Mr and Mrs Rivers
stayed after their wedding.
Five minutes to tea ladies!
Do you want to see Mr Rivers?
More than anything.
So do I.
And Mrs Rivers.
Ladies, ladies, ladies!
Have you money?
Five shillings and..
Locksmith.
Get one inch black key. And a file.
ONE INCH BLACK KEY!
Bring it when you next visit.
And I do hope Mr Lilly approves.
I must go in file now.
Do come again soon, Charles.
Thank you.
Rivers keeps you without shoes?
So I should not have run away.
You cannot run away from your husband.
There is someone here
who's done a great run too.
I must save her!
I thought if I can stay at your house..
My house?
That is impossible, my dear.
I have wife and children.
I see.
Not now!
Rivers is entirely to blame.
Having taken you he might at least have kept you clothes.
He saw what you were.
And what am I?
Mr Halltree?
Ah, Thomas.
Really, you must not.
You seem to forget.
I've seen much worse at Briar.
Whip your backside until the blood runs down your..
Second part down wrong font.
They set it in Clarandon,
and the rest is in Garamond I think.
You're right, so it is.
I could work here for you.
Impossible.
Please.
You have been kind. I think you are kind.
I beg you, if you could find me some room, at a hotel.
Anywhere.
It's out of the question.
Out there the streets was foul,
it was the last place I wanted to go.
But I had nowhere else.
Mrs Sucksby!
Nobody say a word, but a word.
Find gentleman, tell him she's been found.
Mr Ibbs, kettle.
Oh my!
Dear girl, come on. Come in!
Come in get warm.
Get gentleman! Be quick!
Come here.
I knew you'd come home.
Please don't touch me, stifle me, smother me..
pretend to love me.
Pretend?
When..
Sues mother came here..
People will tell you that I had a baby
of my own which died.
At least that's the story around here.
Nobody questioned it.
Babies do die in Lant Street in particular.
Many of time I've sat here
thinking how I last held you
when you was a few days old.
Imagining how you'd grown.
Your eyes.
The shape of your nose I'd pictured exact.
The paleness of the skin
and the hair.. the hair I..
I always thought would be fairer.
Dear girl.
My own.. My own dear girl.
To have you back after all these years.
Ladies, ladies!
Remember, meet me at the wall and don't be late.
Of all the burglars' mate God could have sent me
Charles was the worse by a long chalk.
Here we are, people do want to get to sleep.
She said your hands are like poor jobes.
I never!
That makes it swell or what?
I never!
I has never!
After all my kindness, Betty.
I never, nurse Bacon.
She did!
Oh God help us, look at what you've done now!
And my flesh's blazing.
I'll put the cream on your hands, nurse Bacon.
I'll do it, I will.
It's a small key.
Shut up Betty!
You'll hurt, Mrs Wittshire, if you sing another bleeding verse!..
Where are you hurrying?
Pee!
Charles, Charles, Charles!
You said two o'clock!
Come on!
Bleeding country side! Ever so malice.
What kept me going
was the thought of Mrs Sucksbys face
when I turned up at Lant Street.
And then I thought of Maud where ever she was.
I must go on Miss,
or your luck will desert you..
A journey of the heart.
Oh Sue forgive me!
Stay here.
Miss. Come back Miss!
Hello?
Hoy, you there! Stop, thief!
What are you doing?
Come back here!
What's going on?
Turn around.
You took them clothes without asking.
I had to, didn't I?
Would you rather I got picked up?
And never saw Mr Rivers again?
Don't look at me like that.
I've never done anything
like that before in my life.
Don't you think I feel terrible?
Stealing from poor people like that?
Oh damn her! Damn her!
I don't suppose you want a piece of this pie, then?
Charles?
There are times in this life when we have to
do things that we don't want to do.
I'll ask Mr Rivers to go back to that cottage
and pay back every penny
for the things we've taken and more.
Will you?
Yeah, that's just the sort of thing
that Mr Rivers would do.
Here.
Can't believe that in a few days time
you will be twenty one years old.
I'll make myself a cup..
Oh thank you. Thank you dear.
Who was my father?
Mr Ibbs?
No dear.
Your father was a sailor
lost at sea, well,
lost to me dear.
Smell it!
Smell it, Miss?
London! Oh the rotten horrible stink of it.
Miss Smith?
I ain't Miss Smith.
I ain't Miss bleeding Rivers.
I'm Susan Trinder!
I thought you said that we were
going to see Mr Rivers?
This is horrible!
This isn't horrible, the country is horrible.
This is where I live.
Tommy Joslin.
Conindrent , always need a good poke.
Go on, get in.
What is it?
Miss Trinder, what is it?
Don't cry, Miss.
There.
Happy birthday!
Did you take that from the cottage?
Why did you take it?
Why?
It's because that's what I am.
You are kind, you're a ladies maid.
I'm a finger smith, you stupid idiot!
A thief!
Well I don't want to be a thief.
I want to be with Mr Rivers.
You said you promised.
Mr Rivers?
Mr Rivers is the biggest breed unhung!
Mr Rivers,
Mr Rivers got me put in a mad house.
Happy birthday Maud!
And to our absent friend Sue,
might the day bring good fortune to us all.
Leave her alone, can't you?
Stop beating her.
Get out.
I will order madam's carriage.
Dear Mrs Sucksby,
gentleman and that.. bitch has cheated me
and put me in the mad house.
Send a signal with this boy and help me.
Go on, remember what you've got selling.
Wait, wait. Put..
I love you, as I always will, like a daughter.
Half a sovereign, son.
No, it's got to be for works.
I'll open it up, hang on.
She took it.
Mrs Sucksby?
Miss Maud.
And she gave me this.
She's mocking me.
What is it? The two of hearts?
I'll mock her.
Well, he gave me a pound for the watch.
Come on.
Look who's here.
Mrs Sucksby, visitor.
Someone who's fingersmithing
cutlery and jewellery!
Is that what you've told him?
That I stole your jewellery?
You've got some bleeding cheek!
You nearly broke Mrs Sucksbys heart!
Give me the knife!
I've got no argue with you John,
or you Dainty.
Sue, dear, you ain't yourself.
I ain't Mrs Sucksby,
not after what they did to me.
Sue, leave now.
You'd like me to do that, wouldn't you?
Before the gentleman gets back.
You don't know what's really happened.
I know you've got my clothes.
Even got my bleeding bangles!
Why? Isn't your fortune enough?
Isn't what you did to me enough?
Please go!
You put me in the mad house.
You planned to put me there!
I wish I had!
To cheat me, to kill me!
I will, I will kill you!
You old cow! You've been down on me
ever since the day I was born!
Touch me again and you'll know it.
I never, I never
I never believed you took off with the jewellery.
I went along with the others
because they'd thought me
a sentimental old fool,
But I knew deep down..
Give me the knife.
Did you?
I did, I did!
I thought no, not my Sue.
You brought me up as your own daughter.
I thought I'd never see you again.
But I had a man out looking for you.
I knew you would!
Sue!
Your carriage awaits.
Hello Charles.
My boots have never been the same.
Sue?
She's just told me what you've done to her.
So you'd better go.
You found me out, I'm a villain Charles.
Honest to god, Mr Rivers, I never meant to.
Get out.
Don't let him go.
He'll only go to Dr Christie!
Stay, stay.
Stay, stay.
There, there. You're alright now.
Oh damn it, tell the poor bitch
how we used her.
Richard don't say any more.
Oh my dear wife.
Have you no feelings at all?
Not that I know of.
But I know you have.
Damn it Maud, what does it matter to you?
You're a fully fledged villain now,
you don't have to care
about either of them!
Gentleman, enough!
Now I see the resembles.
No, you see nothing. Nothing.
Why did I never suspect it?
No wonder you kicked and cursed
and she let you.
Oh, this is rich!
Did you know Mr Ibbs?
No he knows nothing.
Stop it. Stop it!
Grace?
My heart!
Your heart?
You have a heart Mrs Sucksby?
Feel it here!
No, I should get your daughter to do that.
She hit me.
Get me a surgeon!
No surgeons!
Charlie?
Murder, murder! Help, help me!
Stop the boy!
He's gone.
Who did this?
She's done it. I saw her.
Wait.. What happened was the knife
was on the table..
Maud started to say something else.
But nobody heard her.
I've done it.
Lord knows I'm sorry for it right now.
But I've done it.
And these girls, they're innocent girls
who have never hurt no one.
Maud said she'd killed him.
But nobody believed her.
Because she was a lady.
And a lunatic.
But a draper's son.
Frederick Bunt.
The papers said he had been
brutally cut down in his manhood.
And girls put his picture next to
their heart.
I didn't see Maud before she disappeared.
Good job.
Or I had probably ended up with Mrs Sucksby.
Mrs Sucksby was so game
when the judge put on the black cap,
and sentenced her to death.
She always looked behind me.
As if she was expecting someone else
to be with me.
But I wanted her for myself.
Quite alone.
That's good.
Just you and me as it used to be.
Oh Mrs Sucksby!
How shall I do without you?
Better dear girl.
How can you say that?
Watch me tomorrow.
Don't cover your eyes.
And Sue,
should you ever hear hard things
of me when I'm gone,
think back too.
We had a collection.
It's not very much but..
Thank you.
How is she?
Dainty..
Thanks Tommy.
A lady to see you.
She won't give me her name.
No one will listen to me.
You must tell them.
If you only came to say that,
then go.
I've done what I've done
and that's the end of it.
You must tell them I killed him.
No.
I was wrong to send you away.
And I was wrong to do that
to a girl like Sue,
a jewel.
I hope she never finds out.
I will never tell her.
I came to see you as well as..
Did you?
Of course I did.
Oh dear.
Mother, mother.
I wish..
Never mind.
Just is.
Mrs Sucksbys daughter, isn't it?
Sue.. Sue?
S - U..
I, Marianne Lilly of Briar Court
sound of mind though feeble of body
commit my infant daughter Susan
to the guardianship of Mrs Grace Sucksby.
In exchange for which
Mrs Sucksby commits into my care
her dear daughter Maud.
Get some water Dainty!
Quite a shock is it, Sue?
I should says so , Tommy.
I should say so.
Look at me, Sue.
Come here.
I heard that Mr Lilly had died.
And so I returned to Briar,
to see if I could find something
to show me where Maud had gone.
Have you come to kill me?
No Maud!
How could I harm you?
I know everything.
No, you know nothing.
You don't know me at all.
How delicious was the glow on
her ivory shoulders,
as I forced her back on the couch.
I scarcely knew what I was about
everything now was in active recursion.
Tongues, lips, bellies, thighs,
arms, legs, bottom.
Every part in a voluptuous motion..
Are they all like that?
Every single one.
I'm at it myself now.
I must earn a living some how.
I'm not the good, sweet girl
you thought I was.
This is what I am.
I know you must hate me.
I don't hate you.
I'm..
I'm so sorry for what
I did to you, Sue!
I'm sorry..
True to us both then.
I found this in her dress.
Someone read it out to me.
The money is yours.
Did you know who my mother was
from the very beginning?
No. Not till I got to London.
And Mrs Sucksby never wanted
you to find out.
She loved you.
She did, Sue.
She said how wrong she was to turned
a jewel like you..
A jewel?
Turn a girl like you into a common place girl.
I killed her.
I pleaded with Mrs Sucksby to tell the truth
but all she would say was
that she had done it and
and that was the end to it.
I know.
What a mess you're making
of yourself, ay?
What does it say?
They're full of words saying..
How I want you.
How..
I love you.