Great Expectations (2023) s01e06 Episode Script

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What I want is something you have
Something that is mine,
but which was given to you.
(SCREAMING)
Mr. Jaggers, may I welcome you
to the world of marine commerce
with open arms.
We will ensure that only Drummle signs
the insurance papers for the ship.
He will be tried for complicity.
We will turn your £5,000 into £50,000.
We will use my money?
We are not using your money.
We are investing it.
For surety, I will match it
from my own pocket.
PIP: I love you, Estella.
ESTELLA: Miss Havisham
has made it very clear
if I refuse to marry him,
she will disinherit me.
You see, the thing is,
Pip is in love with me.
But he must stop.
He must.
If he comes back here,
you should go to him.
Why do you even care about him?
Estella, no!
Estella, no!
I'm your father.
When the sun comes up,
you tell your mama,
I come with news about
the man who broke her heart.
But I will only give it to her
if she changes her clothes.
JOE: I lit it for poor Pip.
In my dreams, I see trouble
for him all around.
I don't want you in the Exchange Hall
because I don't want any of
my acquaintances to see.
This is who I am now, Joe.
Compeyson and Magwitch
will still be fighting each
other 1,000 years from now.
Why?
JAGGERS: Molly was Magwitch's wife.
Molly was also the secret lover
of the irresistible Compeyson.
It was Molly who divided
the two accomplices
and condemned them to an eternal battle.
I will give you this.
First, you should explain who
it might be I would be firing at.
WEMMICK: I think you already know who.
Usually, Mr. Jaggers
is as reliable as my old cannon.
Lately, since you arrived,
sometimes Mr. Jaggers misfires.
JAGGERS: Give me the gun.
Leave the boy alone.
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
(KNOCKING AT DOOR)
Mm.
(KNOCKING AT DOOR)
Joe.
Who the hell is out
on a night like this?
(POUNDING ON DOOR)
I was on the river.
I was forced ashore by the storm.
I need shelter.
Come in.
A shark got me.
I was in Australia.
Do you have a room for the night?
There's only two bedrooms in this house.
- Both occupied.
- One occupied, one waiting.
(CHUCKLES)
Waiting for what?
Our boy.
- Our boy, Pip.
- Pip.
Curious name.
Any day he might return.
Pip Why wouldn't your Pip
want to return?
Nice, out of the way place like this.
SARA: There's a tavern. They have rooms.
JOE: The Three Jolly Bargemen.
It's just across the way.
Then I will go there.
And I will sincerely hope
that your boy Pip
returns home to you very soon.
Good night to you, blacksmith.
(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
(DOOR OPENS)
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
(DOOR CLOSES)
(SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)
RUNNER: Excuse me.
Oh, do you not knock?
- Do you not knock?
- RUNNER: Pardon me, sir.
I'll bring this from the Lloyd's
coffee house post room.
A message from Swanage Lighthouse.
(CLEARS THROAT)
(MUMBLES)
Oh, fuck.
- (FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
- (DOOR OPENS)
(PANTING)
So let me guess what the message says.
Dorget's ship, which we indemnified
to the sum of £10,000
was sunk in last night's storm.
Yes. Indeed, it was.
Excellent.
How is it excellent?
It is excellent
because somehow, Mr. Wemmick,
I will turn this terrible eventuality
to my personal advantage.
Yes, Mr. Jaggers.
You see, there is no such thing
as misfortune.
Only unfortunate fools who do
not have the imagination to
(GLASS SHATTERS)
Fuck!
Unfortunate fools
without the imagination
to reconfigure the machinations of fate.
Hmm.
Get a new mirror.
Send someone out
for eels and sheep trotters.
And give Pip the news.
(SIGHS)
He will be on the river.
(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
WEMMICK: Pip!
Pip Gargery!
Come ashore!
I need to speak to you!
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
- (DOOR OPENS)
- What is it that is so urgent?
Goodness.
The world has invited itself inside.
We will need to fetch someone.
A man. God help us!
A man with a saw.
Mama, this is not what is so urgent.
And there's a man already here.
- Did you call someone?
- No.
Storm that blew the tree down
blew him here.
He's a man you know.
The men I know do not cut timber
and they're not here.
Well, a man you know is here.
A man named Magwitch.
Magwitch.
In the storm, he told me about myself,
and a little about why I'm here.
- Is he alone?
- He is alone.
But he says he has news about another.
We should pick up the broken glass.
News about a man named Compeyson.
Between the storm ending
and the sun rising,
- I've decided many things
- We really should call someone
to cut the tree
and to pick up the broken glass.
The world should not invite itself in.
I've decided
that I will not marry Herbert Pocket,
and I will not marry Mr. Drummle.
And you
will not try to make me.
(BLOWS)
And we will not continue
as we have always done.
Magwitch, my father,
says today is the day
when everything changes.
(GASPS)
And you will change.
He will not speak
to a broken-hearted bride.
(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
What’s so urgent Mr. Wemmick?
(MUMBLES)
Last night, the mighty storm
blew us great misfortune, Pip.
The ship we indemnified, it was lost.
Captain Dorget's ship was blown
onto the rocks at Swanage.
All hands lost, all cargo lost.
Then that is very sad for the crew.
Very sad, yes.
PIP: And for their loved ones.
And very sad for Drummle and Co.
No, not very sad.
For, for Drummle and Co,
it is only quite sad.
For you and Mr. Jaggers, it is very sad.
If you recall, as part of the plan
to put yourself in the majority
in the event of Drummle's arrest,
80 % of the indemnity
was offered by Mr. Jaggers
and by yourself.
But the ship went down
without illegal cargo.
So the insurance is valid, Pip.
Mr. Wemmick, I have been rather
vague for the last few weeks.
Remind me.
How much of my fortune
did I invest in this enterprise?
All of it, Pip.
Eh Every penny.
Of course.
Estella said it always ends the same way
for gentlemen like myself.
Hanging from one of the bridges
of London,
with stones in your pocket
instead of coins.
No, no, no. No.
Do not let me hear you say such things.
- (SCOFFS)
- (MUMBLES)
(STUTTERS) You came to London
and you thought
You thought it was a tame dog
but it's a It's a fox.
- London is a fox, you see.
- Mr. Wemmick,
do you think you could leave me
alone for a little while?
Down the river, not 40 miles east,
there is a loving family with a
perfectly respectable business.
In the end, Pip, you would be
happier at the forge
than what you would be
at the counting house.
(SCOFFS)
ESTELLA: Miss Havisham
will be down momentarily.
Do you call her Miss Havisham
or Mama?
You were born a workman,
so you think physical work
is what fathers do?
I wish I was a workman.
No.
I wish it was anything
other than who I was.
Now I see her in your eyes.
You see who in my eyes?
(DOOR OPENS)
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
MISS HAVISHAM: I thought
I would bring fuel.
You are much changed.
As are you.
Estella tells me that 21 years,
three months and four days
after he failed to appear at the altar
you have information
about the devil
portrayed in this picture.
I haven't uttered his name in 21 years.
Compeyson
There
What news do you have
of this man, Mr. Magwitch?
All those years ago,
we were put aboard the same ship
to Australia.
He cheated me too.
I pursued him across
the entire cursed continent.
I managed to do this much to him.
MISS HAVISHAM: But he's alive.
Yeah, he's alive and back in England.
He is the other reason
I came from Australia.
I came for love of you
and hatred of him.
(FIRE CRACKLING)
I came back to find him and kill him.
But I will need your help.
(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
(BREATH TREMBLING)
(FOOTSTEPS SCAMPERING)
WEMMICK: Pip.
Pip!
- (MAN 1 SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)
- MAN 2: What the devil?!?
(SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)
MAN 3: Excuse me.
(PANTING)
Is this you reporting for work?
(PANTS)
I found Pip
And then I lost him.
I looked along the banks
all the way to Deptford.
(STUTTERS) Uh, but there
are only, uh, gulls,
and, and children and oysters and
(INHALES) What I mean to say is
I'm afraid I'm almost certain
that the news of Pip
is anything but excellent.
The Thames has claimed another life.
Thank you, Wemmick.
I will personally inform the family.
MISS HAVISHAM: This could all
have been his.
Everything could have been his.
Why did he not come to the altar?
(SIGHS)
It was for no reason involving you.
- Why?
- Because of his curly hair,
his black clothes,
his white pocket handkerchief.
In short, Miss Havisham, because
Compeyson was born a gentleman.
And gentlemen do whatever suits them.
They steal and lie and then brag
and have statues built of themselves.
They've built an empire on it.
He didn't appear that day because
Because something more suitable came up.
I know Compeyson
as well as I know myself.
So you know he will come for this?
Oh, he will come for the gold.
And he will come for you.
How strong are you?
MISS HAVISHAM: I am stronger than you.
I'm stronger than this house.
I am stronger than fire.
(GRUNTING)
(PANTING)
Pip!
CAPTAIN: Boy, wake up.
Tea,
and rum.
Get the river out of your bones.
(MAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)
No.
Tea then.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(PANTING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Isle of Dogs.
- You heading east?
- Yes.
To the convict dock at Gravesend.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
Convict dock at Gravesend.
Of course.
It is kind of God
to lay on a boat to take me
to my inevitable destination.
While I'm here, Miss Havisham
wants to make use of me.
Getting rid of everything old.
You said you saw someone in my eyes.
I saw your mother
in your eyes.
I don't need to lie about her.
She's from Kentucky, America.
She escaped from her chain.
She's alive?
When I was put on trial,
she was taken into service by my lawyer,
Mr. Jaggers.
When I go to London,
I'll see her.
You'll see her too.
That is to say
It's my wish,
when my business here is done
I hope you might come with me to London.
Like father and daughter?
Yes.
No.
I'm afraid everything changed today.
Except my heart.
(FOOTSTEPS RECEDING)
(CHILDREN CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY)
Joe?
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(INHALES, EXHALES)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Mr. Jaggers.
I was passing.
I have business with Miss Havisham.
Up town.
Can I take a drink of beer?
It was a difficult night.
(MAN LAUGHING IN DISTANCE)
I've never seen you drink beer.
I never do.
So, here you are.
You've decided to carry on living.
What makes you think
I considered not living?
It was Wemmick who cut the rope.
(INHALES)
Where will you live?
Here.
I will live here.
Joe's knees are gone, so
I will become Joe.
Are you all right, Mr. Jaggers?
You don't seem to be yourself.
I don't think I am.
Not right now, anyway.
I'm wondering which parts of me
are still there from before
and which are not.
Beer, by the way, is utterly disgusting.
That's more like it, Mr. Jaggers.
Yes.
But you
You should stay with beer.
I resolved beer, not rum.
And from pipes, only tobacco.
Beer is a good thing morally.
Personally I wouldn't wash
my fucking feet in it.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
But I hope you will never go
to Limehouse ever again.
Never.
Well, you know where I am.
Back in the Bailey
and you're back at the bellows.
As if it all never happened.
Not quite.
I now understand
why the only people from London
who ever come here
are already dead.
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATION)
Give me rum
and cloves.
I need to wash away a foul taste.
Give me the bottle.
Last time you were here,
you left with Pip Gargery.
How is he?
He has decided to return home.
To this rat hole.
Poor fucker.
(SIGHS)
MRS. GIBBONS: You still owe me
four shillings for last night.
COMPEYSON: Thank you
for your hospitality.
MRS. GIBBONS: If you're leaving
for London,
the storm's closed all the roads.
COMPEYSON: I shall be paying
for the pleasure
of your company for one more night.
- (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
But of course.
Who else could you belong to?
(HORSE WHINNIES)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Pip.
(CHILDREN CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY)
I shod your horse, Biddy.
You shod it?
PIP: How did I get everything
so completely wrong?
I'm going to become
who I was meant to be.
Beers, not rum.
Tobacco, not opium.
Biddy, not Estella.
The lesser of two options.
(STUTTERS) No, I'm sorry, Biddy.
That's not what I mean.
I mean, I chose to come back.
To see you.
Sorry.
I just, just came to return your horse.
Have you changed, Pip?
Or are you still
the center of the universe?
How could I not have changed?
I've changed.
I am a Chartist now, Pip.
I've joined the Chartist movement.
Women are very welcome.
We're trying to change the world
so I'd be a little busy
to be put in your kitchen
with your beer and your tobacco.
I don't even have a kitchen.
It's my sister's home.
But you're very welcome in it, Biddy.
Pip?
Let me guess.
You're running to the schoolhouse
to tell Biddy's father his horse
has been stolen from the shop.
I was in church. Praying.
I got back and the horse was gone.
The horse hasn't been stolen.
I nailed a full set of shoes on
and delivered it.
(EXHALES)
Come. Sara will burst into flames.
- Good flames or bad flames?
- (CHUCKLES)
Impossible to predict, Pip.
(BOTH CHUCKLE)
SARA: There will be regulations
and divisions.
You will start as a regular apprentice.
It'll be one for you and four for Joe.
Then, after a year,
it'll be three for you and two for Joe.
And after two years,
three for you, three for Joe.
That's six.
Three and three is six. Yes, I know.
PIP: No.
I mean, you started off
dividing five of whatever it is
between Joe and I.
And then you said we would each
have three of whatever it is.
That's six.
JOE: Pip's first day, uh,
why don't we stow talk of money
and talk about something else, eh?
Last night's storm, Pip,
how was it in London?
I don't care to talk about
the consequences of the storm, Joe.
Hmm. Brought new words.
Well, the storm last night
brought us a big fright.
- Didn't it, Sara?
- It did.
A man standing there in that doorway
in a big hat, running with water,
and with a scar
running all down his face
and he comes in
saying his boat had tipped up.
- What did he want?
- Lodging. (CHUCKLES)
I told him, the only room we had
was your room,
and I said, I couldn't rent it
because you might return home.
He got quite interested
when we said you might return.
Kept using your name.
Pip this, Pip that.
And where did he go?
JOE: I sent him
to the The Jolly Bargemen.
And with the road's closed,
he will be there yet I imagine.
Pip, where are you going?
(DOOR OPENS)
(DOOR CLOSES)
(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
(DOORBELL RINGING)
Mr. Jaggers?
(DOORBELL RINGING)
Mr. Jaggers, he's here.
(DOORBELL RINGS)
MAGWITCH: Who goes there?
Pip.
Pip Gargery.
Pip Gargery.
I know that voice.
I thought you were dead.
Not yet.
Come.
- We must get out of sight.
- You've got a key?
Many things have changed, Pip.
Go.
JAGGERS: We will find him in the village
and send him to hell.
We have resolved, Magwitch and I.
We'll go to him before he gets
the chance to come to us.
Then I will finish him myself.
MAGWITCH: I told you, Mr. Jaggers.
It'll be I who does tonight's work.
(HORSE WHINNIES)
- Here.
- Uh, Mr. Magwitch,
the boy has turned his back
on the sporting life of a gentleman,
and settled at the station
God meant for him.
PIP: What he means, Mr. Magwitch,
is that the fortune you left for me,
I wasted.
(HORSE WHINNIES)
Mr. Jaggers has told me your story.
He was very gentle with your reputation.
You spent my fortune on a ticket
for a grand journey
which led back to the place
from where you came.
I've been on a similar journey, Pip.
We're both back
where we're destined to be.
Mr. Magwitch,
many nights at 4:00 a.m.
I have rehearsed
all of the questions I have for you.
There's no time for answers, Pip.
I once brought you bread
and a metal file,
and in return you changed my life.
For better or worse?
ESTELLA: Powder and shot
Um
Enough to ensure that justice is done.
Mr. Jaggers, we must fly.
I'll stay here at Satis
and guard the ladies.
It's the ladies who will guard you, Pip.
(HORSE WHINNIES)
(HORSE TROTS)
Estella, when I came back here
to the village,
it was with the firm intention
of never coming to your door ever again.
And here I am on my first night.
But it is not love that brings me.
Do you feel love?
Yes.
Stubborn love
Like a mule.
Because to be clear,
I do not love you.
Why are you telling me?
Mama and I have discussed
this matter like scientists.
We agree that her life is proof
that love is as poisonous as mercury.
We've burnt so much
of significance today.
To burn a simple log is quite funny.
I do love you, Estella.
- Good.
- How is it good?
In a relationship,
whoever loves the most, loses.
Whoever loves least, wins.
- Wins what?
- In a marriage,
to be the one who doesn't love at all
is to be in the best possible position.
If you are to be married,
it is best to be indifferent.
What marriage are you talking about?
It's all been decided, Pip.
Mama agrees
I should marry someone who loves me,
whom I do not love.
(MEN LAUGHING)
You get him to come outside,
I'll blow him to hell.
(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
(MEN CONTINUE LAUGHING)
Mount up!
He's gone!
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
Oh, God.
What do you want?
I came to say sorry.
To say sorry to you in person.
- I behaved appallingly.
- "Sorry."
I was a different man
- If I had my time again
- Time has gone.
- I've been punished.
- Not enough.
Never a day has gone by
- You're ugly now.
- I'm glad.
This scar
(CHUCKLES) Keeps me out of trouble.
I stay in my room and repent.
Tonight I lay in my damp room
and wondered
Wondered what?
How you would be when you saw me again.
What do you want?
I am honest these days.
I need money, Amelia.
- No one calls me that.
- Amelia.
I need money.
I wouldn't lie to you. I don't lie.
I need gold.
I recall, uh, you have gold
from China here.
Payment for opium from years ago.
Gold doesn't age as we do.
I wondered
Do I even need this pistol
just to take a handful of coins
just to get to London
and set me up in lodgings?
Where perhaps
you could come and visit me someday.
I came at last, Amelia.
This thing you always wanted
has finally happened.
Yes.
Yes, you came just as I'd recovered.
Yes. Yes.
I haven't felt anything
with my body since.
My gun is loaded.
But the question is,
will I need it to make you help me?
No.
No, you will not need it.
Miss Havisham's ring.
It's mine now.
(GUN COCKING)
Oh, my dear.
Isn't even loaded.
(BREATH TREMBLING)
(GUN COCKING)
But I can assure you this one is.
(INHALES) I had hoped
I wouldn't need this.
It seems that I do.
Unlock the safe
and give me what I came for.
Give me the fucking key!
Loaded gun or happiness?
Loaded gun, I think.
(GASPS)
Locked in a box I spent year after year.
It's against nature.
Just as a woman
rotting in a house untouched
is worthless.
It is against nature.
(COINS JINGLING)
MISS HAVISHAM: I burnt your portrait.
Now I'm going to burn you.
COMPEYSON: Now, look what
madness I abandoned at the altar.
MISS HAVISHAM: Which will win?
Greed or self-preservation?
(COINS JINGLING)
(COUGHING)
(GASPS)
(COUGHING)
He's here, not in the village.
He has a gun.
- He has just the one, yes?
- Just one that's loaded.
Stay here.
(COMPEYSON COUGHING)
(HORSE NEIGHING)
(GUNSHOT)
- (GUNSHOT)
- (GROANING)
- (GUNSHOT)
- MAGWITCH: He's mine!
(GRUNTING)
Go!
(GRUNTS)
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
(COUGHING)
(PANTING)
MAGWITCH: (SHUSHES) It's me, Magwitch.
You should stay here.
(GLASS BREAKING)
(SCREAMING)
(MAGWITCH GRUNTING)
(MAGWITCH GROANS, GRUNTS)
(BOTH GRUNTING)
- (GUNSHOTS)
- (GROANS)
(SCREAMING)
Magwitch?
- (SCREAMING)
- (PIP GRUNTING)
(PANTS)
You, boy.
This, for me to pass.
Go to hell!
Very well, very well.
(GRUNTING)
(GRUNTING)
(GUNSHOT)
(THUD)
(PANTING)
I think your education is complete, Pip.
(FIRE CRACKLING)
(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)
Satis.
Enough.
ESTELLA: Pip?
You, uh
You didn't complete your proposal.
You said you are immune to love.
What you need
is someone who is your equal.
A fellow exile from the human race.
(BELL TOLLING)
(ALL CHEERING)
(PEOPLE CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY)
(FOLK MUSIC PLAYING)
(GIGGLES)
Magis magisque satis est.
And do you know what that means?
- It means more than enough.
- Hmm.
(MUSIC FADES OUT)
(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)