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Someone help us!
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Giddap!
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- It's the fourth floor, upstairs.
- Yes, sir.
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Come on.
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No!
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Not my daughter! Mercy!
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Give us room.
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Stay there. Come on.
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Not her!
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- Break it down.
- Yes, sir.
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Baltimore Police!
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Give me some light.
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Oh, no.
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- It's empty.
- That's impossible.
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We heard a door lock.
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Damn it, the window!
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It's nailed shut.
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Dear God.
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Phylum Chordata...
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Subphylum Vertebrata.
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With kittens...
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The ways of God in nature,
as in providence, are not our ways.
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Lovely to see you all again.
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Hello, Reagan. Did you miss me?
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I'm naturally delighted
to be back in Baltimore,
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but in all honesty
I'm feeling a bit under the weather.
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However, it has been said that
what brandy cannot cure has no cure.
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So what say you to a snifter
for an old, ailing friend?
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I'm sorry. What?
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Nothing.
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I can assume, then,
that you're out of brandy?
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- We've got many bottles back there.
- So it's a question of finances.
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I don't mean to shock you, Poe,
but we haven't seen you in a while.
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Last time you were here,
well, things got rather ugly.
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Been back in town only a few days
to find quite shockingly,
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I seem to have exhausted
any sort of credit I once had.
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Fine, fine. If it's money you want...
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Try not to shit yourself.
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That's real.
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Spot these sailors a round, too,
on me.
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Christ, man, now what?
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That'll just about
cover the last tab.
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Are you really gonna be this cruel?
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The "Patriot" is publishing a review
tomorrow. I'll be flush by dawn.
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If the paper publishes
anything you write,
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you come back tomorrow,
I'll buy you the shot.
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Tomorrow?
Tomorrow I might be dead.
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Or you might be.
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- I'll risk it.
- How's this?
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I get a drink for any man here
who recognises me
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or one of my poems.
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Better get to the door
before I split your head open.
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My head is already split open,
you overgrown mouth-breather.
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So show me some respect
or I'll give you a personal tour.
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I'm an internationally lauded poet.
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That's why you've got no money.
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- I am Poe.
- That's what I said.
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Not poor, mouth-breather! Poe!
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Poe! Edgar Allan Poe!
Does it ring a bell?!
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No.
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A drink to any man in this room
who can finish this line!
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"Quoth the Raven..."
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- Piss off!
- By IP Daley!
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I repeat: "Quoth the Raven"!
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- "Nevermore!"
- Hah! Hah!
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It is a very favourite poem.
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- Vive la France!
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Slobs!
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Philistines!
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You wouldn't recognise
an authentic American literary voice
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if it hissed in one ear
and slithered out the other.
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We know it hurts to pick
your teeth up with broke fingers.
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Is that your imagination's limit,
you mental oyster?
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I can conjure a multitude
of more exquisite torments.
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Your eyeballs dissolving
in a teaspoon of lye!
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Your tongue torn from your throat
with a blacksmith's tongs!
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An enema of boiling tar!
A testicle impaled on a kebab skewer!
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Get out, you shit!
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Slowly. Here.
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Put her down.
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She's just a girl.
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What kind of monster would do this?
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Katherine LaForte, 36.
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Her daughter Anna, 12.
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She was strangled.
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She's so young.
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He was a large man.
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By the extent of his grip, over eight
inches from thumb to forefinger.
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You agree someone
locked the door from the inside?
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Absolutely. We heard the door lock
as we arrived.
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And by the time you broke down
the door, the murderer was gone.
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Not a trace.
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The window was closed
when you came into the room?
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Not just closed, nailed shut.
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Tell me, how does such a large man
escape so quickly
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from a room in which the door
has been locked from the inside...
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and the window nailed shut?
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I'm not sure, but the mayor
wants results this time, Inspector.
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Question the neighbours.
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I want a list of all the men
who visited these premises.
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Yes, sir.
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A lock... triggered by a spring.
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But the nail had...
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Cut, mid-shaft.
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I checked the window ten times
and never found a spring.
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I wouldn't have found it either
except...
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What is it?
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This crime is familiar to me.
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Giddap!
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Whoa!
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Not again, Mr Poe.
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Christ.
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Good morning, Percy.
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Contrary to precedent, Captain
Hamilton, I've no intention...
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..of asking for money.
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What do you want, Poe?
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I've come back to town
for your daughter.
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- Over my dead body.
- Is that an option?
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Poe, please.
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You know I find you as revolting
as some of your stupid stories.
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Some, but not all.
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You look lovely today.
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Get out, Poe,
before I shoot you where you sit.
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And risk splattering blood and brains
over your daughter's fine silk dress?
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- Out.
- Is an invitation...
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...to the costume ball
out of the question?
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- Father, don't.
- Sorry, Charles.
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- See you at the track.
- See you, Edgar.
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Giddap!
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Another abject humiliation.
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Please! Mercy!
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I have children!
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Why are you doing this? Why?!
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I'm only a critic!
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- Aaaaarghhh!
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Good morning. "Baltimore Patriot."
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Mr Poe! Your clothes.
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Just beating the mudslingers to it.
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Fortitude, Ivan, fortitude.
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I'm afraid you might need
more than this, Mr Poe.
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- Why?
- It's a crime, a terrible crime.
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Out with it, man. What is it?
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Did that marsupial of an editor
dare to change my review again?
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I told him not to touch it.
I told him, Mr Poe.
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Where's my review? Where is it?
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What has he done?
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He said there was no more room
in the layout.
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No more room? No more room?
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Pray tell, what fine twat
did he deem more worthy?
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Longfellow!
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Longfellow?!
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Longfellow!
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Where is it?
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- Where is what?
- The trash bin.
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That is where all this brain-sucking,
soul-warping fish wrap should be put!
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That's lovely, Eddy.
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A real show of adjectival fireworks
from the great Poe himself.
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Not only do you refuse
to print my review of Longfellow,
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but you run
his third-rate poem instead!
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- People like Longfellow.
- Editors like you tell them to.
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Have you no soul, Henry?
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Does the artistic enrichment
of your readers mean nothing to you?
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Artistic enrichment?
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You've got some gall, barging
into my office and lecturing me
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when ail you do
is criticise others' work!
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Not true. Not true at all.
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You called Emerson
a "sad, festering literary whore".
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Because he is precisely that.
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Is honesty now a vice, or do you
prefer that jaded hack, Griswold,
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fawning over some steaming mound
of hackneyed tripe?
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- Doesn't think much of YOUR stuff.
- He's an intellectual nonentity.
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He's a buffoon, which is probably why
he's so at home here with you.
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Aw, you're out of control.
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I'm broke.
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Then try writing
another "Tell-Tale Heart".
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People love blood. They love death.
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If I couldn't churn out a "Tell-Tale
Heart" or a "Pit and the Pendulum“,
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I'd indenture
my very soul to the devil.
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You've got to publish my review.
I'm desperate.
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I need stories. Gripping stories.
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I've got nothing left.
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I've used up all my tricks.
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Try laying off the liquor and
tinctures. It's rotting your brain.
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I only drink occasionally,
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to be social,
to alleviate my shyness.
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And the tinctures
are purely therapeutic.
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A slight palliative against the chill
of an orphan's despair.
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- Write me something I can sell.
- You're a real bastard, Henry.
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Why are you doing this?!
Why?!
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What have I done?!
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Please!
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No!
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Aargh!
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Agh! Argh!
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Aaaargh!
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AAARGHH!
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Consider, Carl, if you will,
the human heart.
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This small chamber,
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a vacancy,
where gases are wed to fluids
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and all the secrets and mysteries
of our species are hidden.
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Write another "Tell-Tale Heart".
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You think you're so clever,
don't you?
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Miss Hamilton.
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"The angels,"
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"not half so happy in heaven,"
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"Went envying her and me"
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"Yes - that was the reason,"
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"as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea,"
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"That the wind
came out of the clouds by night"
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"Chilling and killing
my Annabel Lee."
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Continue.
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"But our love...
it was stronger by far than the love"
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"Of those who were older than we"
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"Of many far wiser than we"
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"And neither the angels
in heaven above,"
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"Nor the demons
down under the sea,"
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"Can ever dissever my soul
from the soul"
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"Of the beautiful Annabel Lee."
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Do you like it?
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I think that it is the most romantic
thing I've ever read.
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So, I had to hear about your stunt
all afternoon.
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I wanted to see if I could get that
vein on the side of his neck
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- to finally explode.
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I think Father has begun to suspect.
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Yes, and I consider it my duty
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to wrestle you away
from that gun-toting Philistine.
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And into the arms of you,
of all people?
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- Who better?
- Then why antagonise him?
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I can't help it.
I despise people who despise me.
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Edgar, we need to talk.
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- What is Carl eating?
- A heart.
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- A human heart?
- Mm-hm.
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- How in heaven did you come by it?
- An admirer works at the morgue.
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I was searching for inspiration.
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So tell me again exactly...
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how much... money you made
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from your self-proclaimed
world-famous poem about that bird?
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Raven. $9. But did I mention
that it's world-famous?
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Edgar... Edgar.
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We can't go on like this.
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Emily, what do you want?
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I want you to get up off your knees
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unless you intend to use
that position for another purpose.
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The imagination reels
with possibilities.
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But what did you have in mind
specifically?
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A proposal.
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- You mean marriage?
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It's not such a horrible thought.
People still do it from time to time.
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- Really? When?
- When they're in love, I suppose.
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If I were in love with that person,
would I think about her all the time?
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Most likely.
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And would I spend
every waking moment
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desiring to smother the other
with affection?
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It has been described as such.
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Emily, you are my greatest
- and only - inspiration.
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Emily Hamilton,
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will you be my wife?
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Yes.
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I love you.
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You ridiculous man.
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Now, what do we do about
your dear, dear, gun-toting father?
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I've been thinking about that.
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We'll tell him at my birthday ball,
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in front of all of Baltimore.
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If I were a better man,
I'd forbid it.
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But you're not.
- I know.
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I found some possibilities
for you, Inspector.
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All are gruesome, if you ask me.
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"A careful search soon
brought to light the hidden spring."
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"I pressed it,
and, satisfied with the discovery,"
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"forbore to upraise the sash."
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That's it.
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Edgar Allan Poe.
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Find the Raven, never flitting
still is sitting, still is sitting
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On that pallid bust of Pallas
just above my chamber door;
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And his eyes have all the seeming
of a demon's that is dreaming,
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And the lamp-light o'er him steaming
throws his shadow on the floor;
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My soul from out that shadow
that lies floating on the floor
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Shall be lifted...
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nevermore.
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Who's next?
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It's called
"The Butterfly and the Bee".
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An exquisite title, Mrs Bradley.
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"The butterfly to her brother bee
did sing a song of spring."
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'"Come, listen to my ode of thee,
thou honey-making thing..."
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Stop, please.
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It's terrible. I suspected it was.
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"Thou honey-making thing"?
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- I attempted to rhyme the lyric.
- You've succeeded.
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The juxtaposition
of the beauty of nature
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with the whores
of our recently mechanized society,
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reducing brother bee to nothing more
than a "honey-making thing",
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a meaningless cog
bound for destruction
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within the machine of nature.
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It's brilliant, Mrs Bradley!
It's terrifying, but it's brilliant.
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I'm so sorry to interrupt.
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- Someone's here to see you.
- Excellent. Who?
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Mr Poe?
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Barbarian with a badge.
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What's going on?
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- Why is hair attracted to a magnet?
- What?
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Soot is merely carbon residue
from coal and wood.
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Am I under arrest?
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I'm Detective Fields.
Please, sit down, Mr Poe.
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Yes, the infamous Detective Fields.
Am I under arrest?
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No. Not as yet.
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Then I'd rather stand.
It makes it easier to leave.
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I am...
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I'm a reader of your work.
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I admit my admirers have gone
to great lengths to meet me.
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I didn't say I was an admirer.
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And yet you read them.
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The night before last a girl
and her mother were found murdered,
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the daughter lodged in a chimney,
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the mother's head nearly severed
with a straight razor.
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The killer fled through a window
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in which a lock was feigned
with a nail sawn in half.
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Does any of this
sound familiar to you, Mr Poe?
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But you're talking about my story.
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A work of fiction.
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I'm afraid I'm not.
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According to various witnesses,
you were seen drunk two nights ago
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in a tavern near the harbour.
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What time did you leave?
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I don't remember.
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My leaving was... involuntary.
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Do you actually think
that I murdered these people?
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May I see your hand?
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Which one?
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Either will do.
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Perhaps with the aid of accomplices
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such a scenario
might be conceivable,
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however improbable.
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Yet what cannot be disputed
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is the fact that your imagination
has inspired a horrendous crime.
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Am I to be charged, then?
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Is imagination now a felony?
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- Come!
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Inspector, can I have a word?
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This is Henry Maddux,
editor of the "Baltimore Patriot".
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He was brought in
to identify the body.
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His name is... I mean, was...
Gris... Griswold.
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- Ludwig Griswold.
- He worked for you?
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- Freelance writer.
- What things did he write?
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Some poetry. Mostly criticism.
You know, the easy stuff.
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Did he have a relationship
with Edgar Allan Poe?
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Of course. They hated each other.
Had a vicious feud a year ago.
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Sold a lot of papers.
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- How long have you known Mr Poe?
- Edgar? Well, the past ten years.
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You published his story,
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue".
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He wrote that several years back
in Philadelphia.
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I reprinted it
a couple of times here.
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People love the gory ones.
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So they do.
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Edgar isn't a suspect,
is he, Inspector?
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At this point everyone is a suspect,
Mr Maddux.
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Forgive me.
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I know there is a darkness
to Edgar, but...
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they're all up in here.
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Every woman he's ever loved
has died in his arms.
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I believe that God gave him a spark
of genius and quenched it in misery.
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But as far as something like this...
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The only thing he's ever killed
is a bottle of brandy.
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Thank you for your time, sir.
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This may come
as a shock to you, Mr Poe,
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but we are in dire need
of your unwholesome expertise.
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I really hadn't imagined
the counterweight to be... so large.
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We have reason to believe
you knew the victim.
28:52.126 --> 28:54.216
- Really?
- If you would?
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I don't believe I know him.
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Then perhaps
this will jar your memory.
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"Never has
the perfunctoriness of plot"
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"been so mechanized and twisted
by soulless contrivance..."
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- Griswold.
- So you do know him.
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Yes.
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We traded barbs, as in words
not actual weapons of any sort
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as writers do to sell
a few newspapers.
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"The Pit and the Pendulum",
when was it published?
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'42. "Tales of Ratiocination."
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Are there other stories
in the collection?
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- Many.
- Specifically about murder?
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I'm afraid so.
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As unfortunate as this is,
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you may be uniquely qualified
to cast light on our killer.
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There is logic
underlying these deaths.
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Do you think this comes
from a logical mind?
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A man who carves
a human being in half
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doesn't come from a place of logic.
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- Then from where?
- Mental disease. Obsession.
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Passion.
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I believe the killer is taunting us.
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He wants us to know
he's gonna strike again.
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What do you make of this?
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- It was covering the victim's face.
- "The Masque of the Red Death."
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What is it?
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The quote from the story mentions
Prospero, a character I created
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to symbolise man's arrogance even
when confronted with certain death.
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Prospero hosts a costume ball
where Death comes in disguise.
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Charles Hamilton is hosting
a ball tomorrow night at the museum.
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"And one by one
dropped the revellers"
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"in the blood-bedewed halls
of their revel, "
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If "The Masque of the Red Death"
is his next intended story,
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we must use this opportunity
to capture this man at your ball.
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Too harsh. I want something older.
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"And Darkness and Decay..."
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Six cases should be enough.
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"And Darkness and Decay
and the Red Death"
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"held illimitable dominion over all."
31:14.727 --> 31:18.357
So this gentleman dresses up
like a... what? Like a...
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The figure was shrouded “head to foot
in the habiliments of the grave“.
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Like a corpse, or a skeleton?
31:25.363 --> 31:28.913
Then, at the stroke of midnight,
he comes in and kills everybody?
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Poe is a damn viper.
I ordered him away from Emily.
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- Now he's trying to...
- Sir...
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The similarities
are too coincidental.
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I'm asking you again.
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Allow me to have my men scattered
about your ball, in costume,
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so we can hopefully
catch this monster.
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I'll hire extra security myself,
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but I will not have this turned into
a policeman's ball.
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Understood?
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I've seen the effects
of this man's determination.
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If he has chosen your gathering to...
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You will not destroy an evening
Baltimore looks forward to each year.
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Then I insist my officers be present.
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Fine. Just make sure
they scrape the shit off their boots.
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Who was Prospero?
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He was the host of the ball.
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And the first to die.
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CHOPIN'S "NOCTURNE")
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She's so wonderfully full of life.
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- I've been reading...
- What's he doing here?
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- He's with me. We were just leaving.
- Captain.
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Just proving how easy it is
to penetrate the breach.
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I presume the police are here
to keep me out.
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Mr Fields, if Mr Poe
is a part of your investigation...
33:24.982 --> 33:28.402
Mr Poe has a unique perspective
on aspects of this crime.
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Why? Is the killer an alcoholic,
an opium addict and atheist?
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An atheist?
You misconstrue me, sir.
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Poe, you stay away from my daughter.
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Father, I've decided to change
my costume for the ball tomorrow.
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No.
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Mr Fields, I'm happy to indulge
your request for security,
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but if I see him tomorrow night,
you'll have to protect him from me.
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Why do we need security?
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My writing has become
the inspiration to an actual killer.
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Quite gruesome, really.
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If I'd known my work had
a morbid effect on people,
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I'd have devoted more time
to eroticism.
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You're a vile little man.
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As I said, we were just leaving.
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- Yes.
- Percy, show this man to the door.
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Mrs Bradley, could you join me
in the other room?
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What is going on?
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Emily.
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We should reconsider
our announcement.
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- Why? Are you backing out?
- No, never.
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If your father sees me there,
he may have me shot.
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And a depraved killer
may be on the guest list.
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It's a bit much for one night,
don't you think?
34:29.422 --> 34:31.512
I think it sounds thrilling.
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Does it? Why?
34:33.426 --> 34:38.436
How else should Edgar Allan Poe
commit himself to eternal love
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other than under threat of death?
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The Grim Reaper. A ghost.
The Headless Horseman, if you like.
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He should be easy to spot.
35:05.374 --> 35:08.174
Elderidge, take some of these men
and patrol the back.
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Sir.
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You must be selling a lot of
newspapers. Two murders in a week.
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Circulation has indeed improved,
despite unfortunate events.
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Time for a piss.
35:46.832 --> 35:49.712
- May I have this dance?
- Father.
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Not now.
35:53.464 --> 35:57.844
I'm not sure what's troubling you,
but your future happiness
35:58.010 --> 36:00.610
means more to me
than I could possibly describe.
36:00.763 --> 36:05.263
I really hope you feel that way
at the end of the evening.
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Whatever this is about,
I need you to be more social.
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It is an important gathering
for me and for us.
36:11.315 --> 36:13.985
Father, I know what's expected.
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Excuse me! Please.
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Please, step aside.
37:10.499 --> 37:12.009
Step aside!
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Fields' men aren't causing
any trouble?
37:51.123 --> 37:52.593
No, sir.
37:54.376 --> 37:56.846
What of Poe? Any sign of him?
37:57.004 --> 37:58.594
Not so far.
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A glass of wine, sir?
38:22.780 --> 38:25.040
You look just stunning, my dear.
38:30.079 --> 38:31.549
Nevermore.
38:35.084 --> 38:39.684
"..Can ever dissever my soul
from the soul"
38:39.839 --> 38:42.719
"Of the..."
I'm sorry, I'm waiting for someone.
38:42.883 --> 38:47.013
"Of the beautiful Annabel... Lee."
39:28.220 --> 39:30.900
You dance passionately, sir.
39:31.056 --> 39:34.106
If I could, I would dance with you
throughout time.
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- I love you, Edgar.
- And I you.
39:38.355 --> 39:41.275
- You really are a reckless girl...
39:41.442 --> 39:44.242
...to dance with a stranger
with a mask,
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with a murderer in our midst.
39:49.158 --> 39:51.958
- Speaking of which...
39:52.119 --> 39:54.219
- Courage, Edgar.
39:59.418 --> 40:01.928
- It's happening! This way.
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Oh, Edgar!
40:04.798 --> 40:06.178
Emily!
40:14.558 --> 40:15.938
Agh!
40:16.101 --> 40:18.221
He told me you'd ordered it
for the party.
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- Who? Who ordered it?
- I'm supposed to deliver this.
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My daughter. He has her.
40:26.487 --> 40:28.907
- Percy! Seal off this building!
- Find her!
40:29.073 --> 40:31.793
- Come on!
40:40.209 --> 40:43.309
"I challenge the brilliant
detective mind of Edgar Allan Poe."
40:43.462 --> 40:46.382
"A game of wits
with Emily's life in the balance."
40:46.548 --> 40:49.678
"You will immortalise for the
exquisite pleasure of your readers"
40:49.843 --> 40:53.933
“this, your very own
'Descent into the Maelstrom',"
40:54.098 --> 40:58.068
"which shall appear in serial form
in the 'Baltimore Patriot'."
40:58.227 --> 41:00.647
"Know that I will kill again,
and on that new corpse"
41:00.813 --> 41:04.153
"I will leave you clues
that will lead to Emily."
41:04.316 --> 41:06.866
"If I do not read a vivid
accounting of this convergence"
41:07.027 --> 41:10.877
"of fact and fiction,
then dear Emily will die."
41:11.031 --> 41:14.121
"Your only hope
is to imagine a way to save her."
41:14.284 --> 41:17.004
"I dare you to try to conceive
of the painstaking care"
41:17.162 --> 41:18.912
"I have taken to secure her"
41:19.081 --> 41:23.051
"and the elegant means
leading inexorably to her end."
41:23.210 --> 41:26.510
"Are you up to the task, Mr Poe?"
41:26.672 --> 41:28.542
"Are you even capable of imagining"
41:28.716 --> 41:31.096
"the means to save
your beloved's life?"
41:31.260 --> 41:34.990
"Or shall this tale end
as all your stories do,"
41:35.139 --> 41:39.739
"with Madness, Sin and Horror
the soul of the plot?"
41:41.103 --> 41:43.403
Your men are right. I've killed her.
41:43.564 --> 41:46.034
We must assume
Miss Hamilton is still alive.
41:46.191 --> 41:50.441
Why must we assume that? Because
it's more convenient to do so?
41:50.612 --> 41:52.982
Why am I to blame?
41:53.157 --> 41:55.657
Where were all these officers
last night?!
41:55.826 --> 41:57.996
Where were you?!
41:58.162 --> 41:59.782
He told you he was coming!
41:59.955 --> 42:01.705
Mr Poe, listen to me.
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This killer is methodical.
42:04.126 --> 42:06.716
He will keep her alive
to keep you involved.
42:06.879 --> 42:10.009
It's part of his game and that's
the logic that will trap him.
42:10.174 --> 42:12.924
It's the facts of this case
that give us the advantage.
42:13.093 --> 42:16.893
Did you tell your people to
familiarise themselves with my face?
42:17.056 --> 42:20.056
They'll see it every hour
till my daughter is returned to me.
42:20.225 --> 42:21.605
Mr Hamilton, I'm very sorry.
42:21.769 --> 42:24.649
As well you should be!
She was taken under your watch.
42:24.813 --> 42:27.943
- Sir, if you would please...
- What the hell is HE doing here?
42:29.318 --> 42:31.318
- Bastard!
- Hey!
42:33.489 --> 42:36.709
Arrest him. It's his fault.
42:36.867 --> 42:39.917
There is plenty of fault
to be passed around.
42:40.079 --> 42:43.549
I'm sure you understand
what I mean by that, Mr Hamilton.
42:43.707 --> 42:48.967
Mr Poe here is our only connection
to the man who has your daughter.
42:49.129 --> 42:51.179
I suggest you remember that.
42:59.765 --> 43:02.015
Out of the way.
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We will reconvene in two hours.
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Until then, I want every street
in Baltimore manned. Understood?
43:11.485 --> 43:13.155
Yes, sir.
43:19.451 --> 43:21.951
Lord help my poor soul.
43:32.422 --> 43:33.842
Oh. Oh, Lord.
43:39.721 --> 43:42.691
Wait. No. No...
43:42.850 --> 43:46.730
Wait... Please...
43:46.895 --> 43:49.525
- Help! Let me out!
43:49.690 --> 43:51.070
Let me out of here!
43:51.233 --> 43:55.573
- No, stop! Stop!
43:59.867 --> 44:02.217
Shut it, Emily,
44:02.369 --> 44:05.249
or I'll shut it for you.
44:07.416 --> 44:08.886
OK.
44:12.421 --> 44:15.541
OK. I'm sorry.
44:18.343 --> 44:20.843
- Sorry.
44:31.231 --> 44:34.101
The human body is to be revered.
44:34.276 --> 44:37.116
We must at all times be respectful
44:37.279 --> 44:43.459
and remember that a cadaver
is more than a mere learning tool.
44:43.619 --> 44:45.629
We shall examine the lungs.
44:45.787 --> 44:49.337
This man is an alleged victim
of consumption.
44:53.462 --> 44:56.262
Professor? What is it?
44:58.342 --> 45:00.012
Dear God.
45:21.323 --> 45:24.573
She could be a prostitute,
the way she's painted up.
45:27.287 --> 45:28.877
Did you open this?
45:30.332 --> 45:32.832
Were your hands clean?
45:33.001 --> 45:36.971
Yes. I don't believe
I left that smudge, Inspector.
45:38.090 --> 45:41.270
She must have fought him
or scratched him.
45:41.426 --> 45:43.096
She didn't fight him.
45:44.596 --> 45:48.446
There are no wounds on her wrists.
It can't be her blood, Inspector.
45:48.600 --> 45:50.780
He came at her from behind.
45:51.979 --> 45:54.079
Strangled.
45:56.066 --> 45:58.616
Another of your stories?
45:58.777 --> 46:03.077
Mr Poe, I asked
is this another of your stories?
46:04.324 --> 46:06.744
"The Mystery of Marie Roget."
46:10.580 --> 46:12.510
It's a sailing knot.
46:12.666 --> 46:15.386
It's a bowline knot, to be exact.
46:15.544 --> 46:17.134
Just as it was in the story.
46:17.296 --> 46:20.176
All right. Then what of it?
46:20.340 --> 46:22.220
Who was she?
46:22.384 --> 46:26.634
She was a girl...
who worked in the stores in Paris
46:26.805 --> 46:29.225
near the Quais.
46:29.391 --> 46:33.441
She drowned. There was no mention
of blood on her hands.
46:33.603 --> 46:35.853
He added that detail.
46:38.483 --> 46:41.283
You must write it now. Every detail.
46:41.445 --> 46:44.825
The knot, her dress, her hands.
46:46.616 --> 46:49.336
Her eyes. Her end.
46:54.875 --> 46:57.755
Her smile portended nothing.
46:57.919 --> 47:02.549
Her innocence was the first part
of her soul to die.
47:02.716 --> 47:07.226
And while it happened,
he stood still,
47:07.387 --> 47:11.517
watching to fully enjoy
the dreadful metamorphosis
47:11.683 --> 47:14.653
from a life full of hope
47:14.811 --> 47:16.901
to death without purpose.
47:27.324 --> 47:28.794
Mr Poe.
47:29.993 --> 47:32.833
I've been, erm...
47:32.996 --> 47:36.166
I'm sorry to disturb you but...
47:36.333 --> 47:38.423
I was a little concerned
about your...
47:38.585 --> 47:40.965
- My progress?
- Yes.
47:42.005 --> 47:47.015
I feel as if I've gone from author
to character in one of my tales.
47:47.177 --> 47:50.897
As trapped and bedevilled as any of
the hapless bastards I ever created.
47:51.973 --> 47:53.513
I can appreciate that.
48:02.317 --> 48:05.867
Regardless of what
you think of me, Fields,
48:06.029 --> 48:08.879
I am a master of my art,
48:09.032 --> 48:11.372
and I will not fail her.
48:12.536 --> 48:15.006
I know that.
48:19.292 --> 48:23.092
Look, I... I think I was overly harsh
with you the other day,
48:23.255 --> 48:26.595
and for that I'd like to apologise.
48:35.851 --> 48:39.731
My wife was singing at the piano
when she first coughed up blood.
48:40.981 --> 48:46.701
I prepared myself for the worst,
but Virginia seemed to recover,
48:46.862 --> 48:48.952
and foolishly I succumbed to hope.
48:52.659 --> 48:56.259
But by year's end
the blood came again...
48:56.413 --> 48:57.783
and again.
48:57.956 --> 49:00.426
Great effusions of blood.
49:00.584 --> 49:06.184
Raging fevers, her sheets spattered
with crimson, drenched with sweat.
49:06.339 --> 49:08.689
I often thought I could hear
the sound of darkness
49:08.842 --> 49:12.222
as it stole across the horizon
rushing towards me.
49:12.929 --> 49:14.609
But here I...
49:16.433 --> 49:21.313
I was overwhelmed
by a sorrow so poignant,
49:21.480 --> 49:26.490
when she finally died I felt
in all candour a great release.
49:26.651 --> 49:28.691
But it was supplanted by the return
49:28.862 --> 49:33.282
of that dark and morbid melancholy
that followed me like a black dog...
49:35.577 --> 49:37.247
all my life...
49:40.123 --> 49:41.963
until I met Emily.
49:47.422 --> 49:49.972
Time is running out, Inspector.
49:50.133 --> 49:53.683
Do you really believe
she's still alive?
49:55.931 --> 49:57.801
I'm sure of it.
50:47.983 --> 50:49.853
Magnificent.
50:50.026 --> 50:51.656
Poe, you have done it again.
50:51.820 --> 50:55.500
The invention is... breath-taking.
50:55.657 --> 51:00.537
The line of truth and fiction
has never been so...
51:00.704 --> 51:02.454
So...
51:02.622 --> 51:04.622
I'm not sure about your headline.
51:04.791 --> 51:06.911
Henry, you will not change one word.
51:07.085 --> 51:09.175
Fine. Ivan? Ivan...
51:11.506 --> 51:13.346
Reset page one immediately.
51:20.599 --> 51:25.449
..melancholy that's followed me
like a black dog all my life...
51:25.604 --> 51:27.524
I love you, Edgar.
51:34.321 --> 51:36.411
Fields!
51:36.573 --> 51:39.373
- The blood, Poe, it's fake!
- The blood?
51:39.534 --> 51:43.624
The prostitute. She's no prostitute.
It's stage blood. She's an actress.
51:43.788 --> 51:46.298
- The blood on the hands. "Macbeth."
- Exactly.
51:49.586 --> 51:53.136
Poe's like the hangman, the bastard,
making money off the dead.
51:53.298 --> 51:56.978
Get your paper!
About a serial killer on the loose!
51:57.135 --> 52:00.055
Cantrell is at the theatre.
All the exits are secured.
52:00.221 --> 52:02.971
The Imperial, I'm assuming.
My mother's playhouse.
52:03.141 --> 52:05.011
The victim was still in her costume,
52:05.185 --> 52:08.405
which suggests she was abducted
directly from the theatre.
52:14.152 --> 52:15.692
We'll find her.
52:17.197 --> 52:20.827
I would gladly give my life for hers,
Mr Fields.
52:22.827 --> 52:25.047
I know you would.
52:39.135 --> 52:41.435
Out, damned spot. Out, I say!
52:41.596 --> 52:43.936
One, two...
52:46.810 --> 52:49.240
...then, 'tis time to do it!
52:51.564 --> 52:53.404
Hell is murky!
52:54.901 --> 52:56.271
Who are you?
52:56.444 --> 52:59.034
Police. I have a warrant
to search these premises.
52:59.197 --> 53:00.667
What for? There's a show on!
53:00.824 --> 53:03.704
- Bring all stagehands now.
- They have to man the ropes.
53:03.868 --> 53:07.048
First Lady Macbeth takes a powder,
and now you bastards...
53:08.331 --> 53:09.791
Ten seconds.
53:16.005 --> 53:18.505
Put out your hands.
53:22.721 --> 53:26.191
Ladies and gentlemen,
the play will resume shortly.
53:26.349 --> 53:27.979
Please take your seats.
53:29.602 --> 53:31.942
You, step forth.
Take off the gloves.
53:32.105 --> 53:34.945
- Is this your entire crew?
- Yes.
53:35.108 --> 53:36.908
- Are you sure?
- I am.
53:37.068 --> 53:39.868
- Count them again.
53:40.029 --> 53:42.039
What are you doin?!
53:42.198 --> 53:44.548
We've got seven minutes
before the act change.
53:44.701 --> 53:46.791
- You, where are you from?
- Liverpool.
53:46.953 --> 53:49.833
Got three days' shore leave
to make extra scratch.
53:49.998 --> 53:52.428
- So if you don't mind, please...
- Read it.
53:55.128 --> 53:57.598
It's "Macbeth". I know the play.
53:57.756 --> 53:59.926
- Someone's missing.
- Who?
54:00.091 --> 54:01.551
- Maurice.
- Where is he?
54:01.718 --> 54:05.148
I don't know, but nobody's allowed
to leave until the show is over.
54:05.305 --> 54:06.975
He's here.
54:07.140 --> 54:09.440
If any of them try to leave,
shoot them.
54:09.601 --> 54:11.271
Yes, sir.
54:37.003 --> 54:38.973
...put on your nightgown...
55:11.037 --> 55:13.967
You there, come out. Show yourself.
55:24.467 --> 55:25.937
Stop!
55:26.636 --> 55:28.106
Show yourself!
55:29.097 --> 55:30.477
I will kill you!
55:35.728 --> 55:37.408
I have a pistol aimed on you.
55:37.564 --> 55:40.904
Come out now. Put your hands
where I can see them or I will fire.
55:56.124 --> 55:58.374
Don't shoot me!
I'm in the play!
56:00.253 --> 56:03.173
You're all right.
You stay here, OK?
56:08.636 --> 56:10.806
- What happened?
- My pistol, I lost it.
56:10.972 --> 56:12.562
- I saw him.
- Damn it.
56:12.724 --> 56:14.814
- Seal the doors! He's here!
- Yes, sir!
56:14.976 --> 56:17.066
The missing stagehand,
what was his name?
56:17.228 --> 56:18.608
Maurice.
56:18.771 --> 56:20.691
Hey! Where do the crew
keep their things?
56:20.857 --> 56:22.327
We have lockers downstairs.
56:34.120 --> 56:36.220
Here. Poe!
56:38.833 --> 56:40.803
Fields, up here.
56:56.559 --> 56:58.359
What is that?
56:58.519 --> 57:00.619
Looks like a piece of fish.
57:01.731 --> 57:03.401
That is a human tongue.
57:05.610 --> 57:07.490
What does it mean?
57:09.322 --> 57:13.072
Wait. Yes. "The Facts
in the Case of M Valdemar."
57:13.242 --> 57:15.912
A man's suspended
between life and death by mesmerism.
57:16.079 --> 57:19.759
A living corpse who can only speak
via the vibrations of his tongue.
57:19.916 --> 57:21.296
It's a bit of burlesque.
57:21.459 --> 57:22.839
But the tongue wasn't severed.
57:23.002 --> 57:26.472
Mr Poe! Sir,
there's been an accident.
57:27.298 --> 57:28.768
Put your backs into it!
57:31.260 --> 57:33.730
Come on! Keep it going!
We're gonna need more!
57:33.888 --> 57:36.518
The fire's not going
to put itself out! Come on!
57:36.683 --> 57:39.403
Jack, get all those people
back from the building!
57:39.560 --> 57:42.990
Please, step back! Move back!
It's not safe. Get back, sir.
57:43.147 --> 57:45.367
Everybody, get back!
57:47.819 --> 57:49.699
A damnation on earth.
57:49.862 --> 57:56.112
Hell's brimstone his food,
consumed from birth, in solitude.
57:57.537 --> 58:00.257
Let's go, men! Move it, move it!
58:03.751 --> 58:08.421
The windows were shattered first.
I don't think it was an accident.
58:10.675 --> 58:12.055
I'm certain you're correct.
58:12.218 --> 58:14.938
- Sir, we also found this.
58:15.096 --> 58:19.106
I'll take it if it's not yours.
He's stuck with us since we got here.
58:19.267 --> 58:22.197
I can tell from the sound
of his voice he's mine.
58:23.688 --> 58:25.988
Thank you, Officer.
59:47.563 --> 59:50.063
Why are you doing this to me?
59:54.695 --> 59:56.995
Please let me out.
59:57.782 --> 01:00:00.402
I can't.
01:00:02.203 --> 01:00:04.003
Yes, you can.
01:00:04.163 --> 01:00:06.503
You can.
01:00:06.666 --> 01:00:09.636
Please.
01:00:09.794 --> 01:00:11.264
I'm so cold.
01:00:22.807 --> 01:00:24.687
Why are you doing it?
01:00:30.731 --> 01:00:34.151
Please don't let me die in here.
01:00:38.030 --> 01:00:39.580
Miss Hamilton...
01:01:13.774 --> 01:01:15.824
No! No! No!
01:01:59.695 --> 01:02:01.075
Mr Poe.
01:02:02.865 --> 01:02:04.835
I'm afraid I found myself
without lodgings.
01:02:04.992 --> 01:02:07.212
Yes, I heard.
01:02:07.370 --> 01:02:09.500
I don't mean to impose.
01:02:09.664 --> 01:02:13.214
Oh, yes, of course.
Forgive me, please. Come in.
01:02:14.418 --> 01:02:18.048
It appears to Baltimore I've become
one of the very demons I conceived.
01:02:18.214 --> 01:02:21.094
- The fire was intentional.
- Yes, I heard.
01:02:21.259 --> 01:02:23.559
The town is angry.
The mayor wants results.
01:02:23.719 --> 01:02:26.569
Another set of unsolved murders?
Is that it?
01:02:35.898 --> 01:02:39.248
He was inches away.
If I hadn't dropped my weapon...
01:02:40.319 --> 01:02:42.539
Perhaps.
01:02:42.697 --> 01:02:45.377
But we have made some headway.
01:02:45.533 --> 01:02:50.623
According to theatre records, the
sailor's name is Maurice Robichaux.
01:02:50.788 --> 01:02:52.838
Does that mean anything to you?
01:02:52.999 --> 01:02:55.099
No.
01:02:55.251 --> 01:02:58.001
Cantrell and I made some inquiries
at the docks.
01:02:58.170 --> 01:03:01.640
He was signed on to a trading vessel
which made port five days ago.
01:03:01.799 --> 01:03:03.229
The start of the murders.
01:03:03.384 --> 01:03:06.104
And, like many sailors,
he took employment in the theatre,
01:03:06.262 --> 01:03:08.352
working the backstage riggings.
01:03:08.514 --> 01:03:10.984
But, as we know,
he wasn't there today.
01:03:11.142 --> 01:03:13.732
Everything down to our entrance
was prearranged.
01:03:13.894 --> 01:03:16.734
Look, it may be arduous,
01:03:16.897 --> 01:03:20.747
but I've learned, in order
to find a needle in a haystack,
01:03:20.901 --> 01:03:22.741
you have to go through the hay.
01:03:22.903 --> 01:03:26.403
- These ship's records I think...
- Ship's records?
01:03:26.574 --> 01:03:29.954
I must remind you, Mr Poe,
every detail here is essential.
01:03:30.119 --> 01:03:36.129
Tell me, are you not piqued
by your abject failure
01:03:36.292 --> 01:03:38.162
to ferret out this assassin?
01:03:38.336 --> 01:03:41.506
Your reputation is at stake.
Look at me.
01:03:44.842 --> 01:03:46.512
Four people are dead!
01:03:46.677 --> 01:03:49.477
An angel breaks on the rack
of some depraved beast,
01:03:49.638 --> 01:03:54.358
but this clerk squints over his
eyeshades at ledgers and timetables!
01:03:54.518 --> 01:03:56.488
Is this a fucking joke?!
01:03:56.645 --> 01:03:58.115
What else should we do?!
01:03:58.272 --> 01:04:01.692
Run around all of Baltimore
screaming out her name?!
01:04:28.052 --> 01:04:30.642
Now, please, think.
01:04:31.722 --> 01:04:34.272
Start with the sailor.
01:04:34.433 --> 01:04:36.933
Have you ever written
anything about a sailor?
01:04:37.103 --> 01:04:38.473
No.
01:04:44.902 --> 01:04:46.902
Did you speak with the ship captain?
01:04:47.071 --> 01:04:48.991
- I did.
- And?
01:04:49.156 --> 01:04:52.786
Robichaux was a valued crewman.
Well liked.
01:04:52.952 --> 01:04:54.792
Had a family back home.
01:04:54.954 --> 01:04:57.924
- Where?
- In France.
01:04:58.082 --> 01:05:00.172
Nimes.
01:05:00.334 --> 01:05:02.214
- Anything?
- No.
01:05:02.378 --> 01:05:04.928
Yes. Possibly. Who knows?
01:05:05.089 --> 01:05:11.849
You see, what I keep asking myself
is... why Baltimore?
01:05:12.930 --> 01:05:15.690
The Fortunato had docked
in ports around the world.
01:05:15.850 --> 01:05:17.700
- The what?
- All over the world.
01:05:17.852 --> 01:05:20.732
- The name of the ship, say it again.
- Fortunato.
01:05:22.690 --> 01:05:26.490
"The thousand injuries of Fortunato
I had borne as I best could."
01:05:26.652 --> 01:05:28.022
What is that?
01:05:28.195 --> 01:05:30.945
The first sentence of
"The Cask of Amontillado".
01:05:31.115 --> 01:05:33.835
- Go on.
- A story I wrote about revenge.
01:05:33.993 --> 01:05:37.993
A man kills his rival by walling him
up. Fortunato is entombed alive.
01:05:38.164 --> 01:05:40.464
- Where?
- In the catacombs of a palazzo.
01:05:40.624 --> 01:05:43.844
- The story is set in Italy.
- There are no catacombs here.
01:05:44.003 --> 01:05:47.673
No, but there are tunnels
underneath the city.
01:05:48.549 --> 01:05:49.929
Tunnels?
01:05:50.092 --> 01:05:51.712
The waterworks.
01:05:53.804 --> 01:05:57.644
You are looking for anything that
would indicate recently laid masonry.
01:05:57.808 --> 01:05:59.188
We will be timing this.
01:05:59.351 --> 01:06:02.941
I will blow my whistle as such...
01:06:03.105 --> 01:06:06.445
We will then shout her name in unison
from all areas of the tunnels.
01:06:06.609 --> 01:06:08.709
Emily!
01:06:10.696 --> 01:06:13.496
There'll be a pause
often seconds of absolute silence
01:06:13.657 --> 01:06:15.957
when we will listen
for the smallest sound.
01:06:16.118 --> 01:06:18.968
Anything to indicate movement
from behind the walls.
01:06:19.121 --> 01:06:21.961
If an officer detects something,
he will blow his whistle
01:06:22.124 --> 01:06:24.504
and we will examine the wall
at that point.
01:06:24.668 --> 01:06:26.768
- Are we clear?
- Yes, sir.
01:06:26.921 --> 01:06:28.791
Then move out.
01:07:00.204 --> 01:07:01.584
Emily!
01:07:01.747 --> 01:07:04.497
Emily!
01:07:05.876 --> 01:07:07.426
Emily!
01:07:07.586 --> 01:07:09.756
- Shh!
01:07:35.197 --> 01:07:37.077
Emily!
01:07:42.246 --> 01:07:45.166
- Emily!
01:07:48.502 --> 01:07:50.172
EMILY!
01:07:54.550 --> 01:07:56.650
Over here.
They're down here.
01:07:56.802 --> 01:07:59.642
The mortar's a different colour.
Look.
01:08:03.350 --> 01:08:04.820
Hold that.
01:08:05.978 --> 01:08:08.078
Here. Stand back.
01:08:15.863 --> 01:08:17.403
What is it? Do you have hen?
01:08:21.827 --> 01:08:24.457
- Give me that.
- What is it, Inspector?
01:08:28.167 --> 01:08:30.267
- Keep digging.
- Yes, sir.
01:09:25.974 --> 01:09:27.524
Halt!
01:09:40.823 --> 01:09:42.443
Aaarghhh!
01:09:51.500 --> 01:09:55.230
- Get the doctor.
01:10:07.266 --> 01:10:09.186
"Do not bemoan the sailor's life."
01:10:09.351 --> 01:10:12.061
"He was always sure to die anyway."
01:10:12.229 --> 01:10:16.079
"But his demise did serve a purpose
of leaving you clues."
01:10:16.233 --> 01:10:18.533
"Godspeed, Poe.
Emily weakens by the hour,"
01:10:18.694 --> 01:10:20.664
"both physically and spiritually."
01:10:21.655 --> 01:10:23.075
I will kill him.
01:10:23.240 --> 01:10:27.920
No matter how this ends,
I will kill this perversion of a man.
01:10:28.078 --> 01:10:31.298
"Godspeed"?
Even his prose is barbaric.
01:10:31.457 --> 01:10:33.177
Why dress him up like Miss Hamilton?
01:10:33.333 --> 01:10:35.633
For the thrill of watching me suffer.
01:10:39.381 --> 01:10:41.341
Here, John. Bring the light closer.
01:10:41.508 --> 01:10:43.308
I think I've found something.
01:10:45.637 --> 01:10:47.437
What is that?
01:10:47.598 --> 01:10:49.228
Help me turn him over.
01:10:55.481 --> 01:10:58.401
I think we've found
our missing sailor.
01:11:02.696 --> 01:11:04.166
It's a sextant.
01:11:04.323 --> 01:11:06.793
Natural choice for a seaman,
I suppose.
01:11:06.950 --> 01:11:08.920
My brother, he went to sea.
01:11:09.077 --> 01:11:11.577
A lot of men,
they get these in the Orient.
01:11:11.747 --> 01:11:16.507
This notch in the flesh is fresh.
It's still clotted.
01:11:16.668 --> 01:11:18.638
The killer did this.
01:11:18.796 --> 01:11:21.386
Think it was part of the struggle?
01:11:21.548 --> 01:11:24.598
- Too deliberate.
- It's a latitudinal co-ordinate.
01:11:24.760 --> 01:11:27.190
If you mark the angle of the sun
at its highest point
01:11:27.346 --> 01:11:29.316
it shows you how far you are
from the equator.
01:11:29.473 --> 01:11:31.343
It's useless without longitude.
01:11:32.935 --> 01:11:36.315
Even in the army
they teach basic navigation.
01:11:36.480 --> 01:11:38.200
I went to West Point.
01:11:38.357 --> 01:11:40.077
I was expelled, don't worry.
01:11:40.234 --> 01:11:41.824
Fields, look there.
01:11:45.322 --> 01:11:46.942
Get me a scalpel.
01:11:48.951 --> 01:11:50.821
Here.
01:12:08.428 --> 01:12:11.688
His tongue has been removed.
01:12:13.392 --> 01:12:15.062
And this...
01:12:15.227 --> 01:12:16.697
has replaced it.
01:12:17.729 --> 01:12:19.199
What's it for?
01:12:19.356 --> 01:12:21.076
Longitude.
01:12:21.233 --> 01:12:23.203
Pen and paper.
01:12:23.360 --> 01:12:25.370
He's giving us a location.
01:12:29.116 --> 01:12:32.966
- Open up! Open the door!
01:12:33.120 --> 01:12:34.590
Where's Hamilton?
01:12:34.746 --> 01:12:36.666
- Hamilton!
- What's happened?
01:12:36.832 --> 01:12:39.712
We need your navigational maps
and celestial almanacs.
01:12:39.877 --> 01:12:42.807
- Why?
- He gave us the location of Emily.
01:12:45.424 --> 01:12:47.264
This watch is mine.
01:12:47.426 --> 01:12:49.556
I thought I'd lost it.
01:12:49.720 --> 01:12:51.520
- The kilter left this?
- On the dead sailor.
01:12:51.680 --> 01:12:54.110
- In, to be more exact.
- The utter gall.
01:12:54.266 --> 01:12:56.436
Along with
the latitudinal co-ordinates.
01:12:58.478 --> 01:12:59.858
Incredible.
01:13:00.022 --> 01:13:04.112
Forgive me. I have no background
in navigational techniques.
01:13:04.276 --> 01:13:06.746
To plot an exact position,
you need three things:
01:13:06.904 --> 01:13:10.494
a sextant, an accurate chronometer
and a celestial almanac.
01:13:13.285 --> 01:13:16.705
The almanac tells the exact time
at which the sun hits its zenith.
01:13:16.872 --> 01:13:18.462
- Exact noon.
- Shall I bring more?
01:13:18.624 --> 01:13:20.924
Leave it! Please.
01:13:21.084 --> 01:13:23.424
It's all right, Percy. Get another.
01:13:25.589 --> 01:13:28.809
If your watch is set to Greenwich
Mean Time, you can calculate
01:13:28.967 --> 01:13:31.317
how far east or west
of Greenwich, London you are.
01:13:31.470 --> 01:13:35.200
Twelve... twenty-seven.
Twenty-eight, rather.
01:13:35.349 --> 01:13:37.649
- Which one, damn it?
- Twenty-eight.
01:13:37.809 --> 01:13:39.659
- Twelve twenty-eight, right?
- Yes.
01:13:39.811 --> 01:13:43.401
Longitude is a measure of time
east or west.
01:13:43.565 --> 01:13:47.485
Latitude, distance from the equator.
That's north or south.
01:13:47.653 --> 01:13:49.373
Seventeen degrees north.
01:13:51.865 --> 01:13:54.285
The West Indies? It can't be.
01:13:54.451 --> 01:13:58.041
He couldn't have
transported her that far.
01:13:58.205 --> 01:14:00.375
Here. St Croix.
01:14:01.416 --> 01:14:05.216
That's impossible. The Danish
West Indies is a two-week journey.
01:14:05.379 --> 01:14:08.099
It's not an island, St Croix.
01:14:08.256 --> 01:14:10.506
Holy Cross.
01:14:10.676 --> 01:14:12.056
Holy Cross!
01:14:12.219 --> 01:14:14.599
Holy Cross Church.
That's our parish.
01:14:20.268 --> 01:14:21.818
Giddap!
01:14:37.703 --> 01:14:39.953
Cantrell, you and the others
around back.
01:14:40.122 --> 01:14:42.962
Spread out. If need be, break
a window. We must get inside!
01:14:43.125 --> 01:14:45.625
- Emily!
- Come on!
01:15:03.437 --> 01:15:04.817
Emily!
01:15:24.583 --> 01:15:25.953
North-west corner!
01:15:33.133 --> 01:15:34.603
John!
01:15:38.430 --> 01:15:40.860
- Don't move, John.
01:15:41.016 --> 01:15:43.236
- Argh!
01:15:43.393 --> 01:15:44.933
He's over here!
01:15:47.022 --> 01:15:48.982
There! Black horse!
01:15:52.569 --> 01:15:54.039
Steady.
01:15:56.865 --> 01:15:58.835
- Fields?
- Get him!
01:15:58.992 --> 01:16:01.792
Find him, Edgar! Go!
01:17:21.741 --> 01:17:24.531
- Your name!
01:17:24.703 --> 01:17:26.873
You coward!
01:17:35.213 --> 01:17:36.833
Who are you?!
01:18:26.556 --> 01:18:28.856
Poe!
01:18:29.935 --> 01:18:32.275
Poe!
01:18:39.569 --> 01:18:42.419
The killer escaped.
01:18:42.572 --> 01:18:44.492
My horse is gone.
01:18:50.789 --> 01:18:53.759
What about Fields? He was shot.
01:18:53.917 --> 01:18:55.547
He's at Doc Clements'.
01:18:55.710 --> 01:18:58.010
What of you?
01:18:58.171 --> 01:19:00.711
The paper goes to press
in three hours.
01:19:00.882 --> 01:19:05.012
There was an empty grave.
It had Emily's name on it.
01:19:05.178 --> 01:19:08.108
That was his clue.
That's why he sent us there.
01:19:09.015 --> 01:19:12.265
Perhaps, or to kill again.
01:19:13.979 --> 01:19:16.829
I'm sorry, Poe. This is my fault.
01:19:16.982 --> 01:19:19.482
I should never have gene ahead
with the hall.
01:19:19.651 --> 01:19:21.991
These were my stories.
01:19:22.153 --> 01:19:25.493
Your daughter's love for me
is the reason another man's dead.
01:19:25.657 --> 01:19:27.037
Go to Doc Clements.
01:19:27.200 --> 01:19:29.080
I have one more story to write.
01:19:35.583 --> 01:19:37.423
Edgar.
01:19:37.585 --> 01:19:40.085
For today, she's still alive.
01:19:50.473 --> 01:19:52.473
Doctor, let me go!
01:19:52.642 --> 01:19:55.772
Let me go!
We're running out of time!
01:19:55.937 --> 01:19:58.237
For God's sake,
a bullet is in your chest!
01:19:58.398 --> 01:20:01.448
Lie down and let me do my job
before you bleed to death.
01:20:01.609 --> 01:20:03.959
The son of a bitch
is gonna kill her today.
01:20:04.112 --> 01:20:06.952
So you cut the bullet out
and you patch me up now!
01:20:07.115 --> 01:20:10.745
There's a bottle of whiskey
in the kitchen. Bring it here.
01:20:13.371 --> 01:20:15.291
- What the hell is that?
- A magnet.
01:20:15.457 --> 01:20:17.557
To find the bullet to cut it out.
01:20:17.709 --> 01:20:22.179
Soak that pillowcase in the whiskey,
and give him the rest. He'll need it.
01:20:38.021 --> 01:20:39.521
The gossamer white of bone
01:20:39.689 --> 01:20:43.039
was now visible beneath
the tattered meat of her fingertips,
01:20:43.193 --> 01:20:46.943
as Emily clawed madly
at the wooden slats of her coffin,
01:20:47.113 --> 01:20:49.833
a desperate, drowning animal.
01:20:51.659 --> 01:20:55.789
The dirt rose around her,
the inescapable sand of an hourglass,
01:20:55.955 --> 01:20:57.505
as her final breath of air
01:20:57.665 --> 01:21:01.965
slipped her into the twilight
of consciousness until.
01:22:38.057 --> 01:22:41.027
He knew now that all hope was lost.
01:22:41.186 --> 01:22:45.566
He had failed his beloved, and
there was one last thing left to do.
01:22:45.732 --> 01:22:47.732
One last act.
01:22:51.779 --> 01:22:56.579
"A final desperate plea:
one life offered for another's."
01:22:56.743 --> 01:22:59.123
Oh, Mr Poe, no... No, you can't!
01:22:59.287 --> 01:23:01.707
- Set the print, Ivan.
- But, sir...
01:23:01.873 --> 01:23:03.843
Do it!
01:23:04.000 --> 01:23:06.220
You can't take it as your fault,
Mr Poe.
01:23:06.377 --> 01:23:08.297
Is there someone else you'd blame?
01:23:08.463 --> 01:23:10.513
It's the killer who's to blame, sir.
01:23:10.673 --> 01:23:13.173
- Let me read that.
- Sir, I need to...
01:23:16.054 --> 01:23:20.904
"Poe could feel the poison
already feeding on his blood,"
01:23:21.059 --> 01:23:23.489
"as the maggots were soon to do."
01:23:23.645 --> 01:23:25.445
Jesus, Edgar...
01:23:25.605 --> 01:23:28.945
- Making enough money, Henry?!
- Mr Poe, don't! Mr Poe!
01:23:29.108 --> 01:23:30.578
Will it sell?!
01:23:30.735 --> 01:23:32.615
- Will it?!
- Mr Poe!
01:23:32.779 --> 01:23:34.209
You madman!
01:23:34.364 --> 01:23:37.494
I'll have you thrown in jail,
you damned animal!
01:23:37.659 --> 01:23:40.539
I'll send you to hell! Huh?! Hell!
01:23:40.703 --> 01:23:43.333
Mr Poe, don't. It's not worth it.
01:24:11.693 --> 01:24:13.563
Clements!
01:24:54.694 --> 01:24:58.864
I'm sorry, Mr Poe. I fell asleep
waiting for you and the inspector.
01:24:59.032 --> 01:25:01.832
- What time is it?
- Just past six, sir.
01:25:01.993 --> 01:25:04.083
The paper's here for you.
01:25:06.289 --> 01:25:09.969
Rather remarkable seeing that
people are stealing others' papers.
01:25:10.126 --> 01:25:12.626
They can't print enough,
with the election today
01:25:12.795 --> 01:25:15.385
and this horrible killing
they keep writing about.
01:25:16.799 --> 01:25:19.269
Here's something else for you,
Mr Poe.
01:25:26.184 --> 01:25:30.524
"It is a masterpiece, Mr Poe.
An epitaph worthy of your gifts."
01:25:31.773 --> 01:25:35.993
- When did this come?
- I don't know, but before the paper.
01:25:36.152 --> 01:25:38.772
- How do you know that?
- It was under the paper.
01:25:38.946 --> 01:25:41.036
Impossible.
Look at the streaks in the ink.
01:25:41.199 --> 01:25:43.579
- I don't understand.
- It's been rained on.
01:25:43.743 --> 01:25:48.293
- It rained last night before dawn.
- But the newspaper is bone dry.
01:25:48.456 --> 01:25:50.546
I'm not sure what...
01:25:50.708 --> 01:25:54.558
The paper was delivered later,
after it stopped raining.
01:25:54.712 --> 01:25:58.682
This note was written in response
to what I wrote in this newspaper.
01:25:58.841 --> 01:26:02.761
He delivered the note
before the paper.
01:26:02.929 --> 01:26:05.309
So he knew the story in advance.
01:26:07.975 --> 01:26:10.695
He'd already read it.
01:26:16.859 --> 01:26:18.739
Where's my gun?!
01:26:25.326 --> 01:26:26.876
Damn it.
01:26:44.637 --> 01:26:46.737
The ink.
01:26:55.314 --> 01:26:56.864
It's printing ink.
01:26:59.902 --> 01:27:02.322
The "Patriot".
01:27:08.911 --> 01:27:12.131
Henry, you're gonna tell me
where she is.
01:27:12.290 --> 01:27:14.090
- Henry!
01:27:16.002 --> 01:27:18.752
Tell me, where is sh...?
01:27:43.821 --> 01:27:45.781
Ivan.
01:27:52.580 --> 01:27:54.430
Surprised?
01:27:56.584 --> 01:27:58.464
Where is she?
01:27:58.628 --> 01:28:00.888
Dying.
01:28:01.047 --> 01:28:03.217
More quickly than I expected.
01:28:03.382 --> 01:28:06.512
So I had to speed things along
and deliver the morning edition
01:28:06.677 --> 01:28:09.427
so you could finally realise
it had to be...
01:28:09.597 --> 01:28:12.697
none other than your humble
typesetter and biggest fan.
01:28:16.354 --> 01:28:17.824
A drink?
01:28:22.109 --> 01:28:25.709
You don't know how I've looked
forward to this moment, sir.
01:28:25.863 --> 01:28:27.703
To sit here like this,
01:28:27.865 --> 01:28:29.455
no more masks,
01:28:29.617 --> 01:28:31.087
artist to artist.
01:28:31.244 --> 01:28:33.084
Artist to artist.
01:28:33.246 --> 01:28:36.746
Though I admit,
as I read your final chapter,
01:28:36.916 --> 01:28:39.296
I felt more muse than artist.
01:28:43.965 --> 01:28:45.515
You're mad.
01:28:48.469 --> 01:28:51.319
Really, Mr Poe?
01:28:51.472 --> 01:28:53.692
You're one to talk.
01:28:54.809 --> 01:28:59.279
Where is Emily?
01:28:59.438 --> 01:29:02.068
Just like that?
01:29:02.233 --> 01:29:07.033
No probing the devious twists
and turns of man's darkest motives?
01:29:07.196 --> 01:29:10.036
No prying into the mysteries
of his conscience?
01:29:10.199 --> 01:29:11.829
So very unlike you, Mr Poe.
01:29:12.368 --> 01:29:14.498
Where is she?!
01:29:14.662 --> 01:29:16.532
Ow!
01:29:17.832 --> 01:29:22.172
A rather disappointing denouement,
I have to say.
01:29:22.336 --> 01:29:24.926
But that's life, isn't it?
01:29:25.089 --> 01:29:27.809
So much less satisfying than fiction.
01:29:27.967 --> 01:29:30.347
It's time this story comes to an end.
01:29:31.345 --> 01:29:33.435
Very well.
01:29:33.598 --> 01:29:35.898
Give me the gun.
01:29:37.518 --> 01:29:40.988
You've come this far, Mr Poe.
Are you really gonna back out now?
01:29:42.481 --> 01:29:46.651
You know what happens next.
You wrote it, after all.
01:29:46.819 --> 01:29:50.449
You either pull that trigger
and kill me and young Miss Emily
01:29:50.615 --> 01:29:52.865
or you give me the gun.
01:29:53.868 --> 01:29:55.468
She will live.
01:29:55.620 --> 01:29:58.720
That was your solution, right?
01:30:10.718 --> 01:30:13.228
I have to admit, I don't cry easily,
01:30:13.387 --> 01:30:17.647
but you had me bawling like a baby.
01:30:17.808 --> 01:30:19.988
And I've always had a fancy
for poisons.
01:30:20.144 --> 01:30:21.774
That's how I done my dad.
01:30:21.938 --> 01:30:24.658
The idea of drinking something
that will kill you
01:30:24.815 --> 01:30:27.115
but having time to carry on
a conversation
01:30:27.276 --> 01:30:31.656
is, as they say, fraught
with dramatic possibilities, right?
01:30:31.822 --> 01:30:34.792
Listen to me.
Talking about dramatic possibilities
01:30:34.951 --> 01:30:37.991
with one of the greatest writers
of our time.
01:30:38.162 --> 01:30:42.882
I must say, it has been a profound
honour working with you, sir.
01:30:43.459 --> 01:30:45.589
Working with me?
01:30:45.753 --> 01:30:48.753
I know they're your ideas.
I'm just borrowing.
01:30:48.923 --> 01:30:51.593
Except for Valdemar's tongue.
That was me.
01:30:51.759 --> 01:30:54.769
- Quite a subtle metaphor, I thought.
- Subtle?
01:30:54.929 --> 01:30:56.809
It made no sense at all.
01:30:56.973 --> 01:31:00.443
Even in the end,
I'm confronted by a plagiarist
01:31:00.601 --> 01:31:04.071
without even the originality
to invent themselves.
01:31:04.230 --> 01:31:05.830
I've concocted you.
01:31:05.982 --> 01:31:09.202
I couldn't agree more.
01:31:09.360 --> 01:31:12.080
I am your crowning achievement.
01:31:12.238 --> 01:31:14.748
Your masterpiece.
01:31:14.907 --> 01:31:18.757
In whose world do we each exist
right now, Edgar?
01:31:18.911 --> 01:31:21.201
Mine, or yours?
01:31:22.623 --> 01:31:24.923
I don't really know the answer.
01:31:25.918 --> 01:31:28.388
It's quite brilliant.
01:31:29.380 --> 01:31:31.890
Well... go on, sir.
01:31:36.887 --> 01:31:38.517
Bottoms up.
01:31:45.479 --> 01:31:46.949
I need a carriage now!
01:31:47.106 --> 01:31:48.656
- Inspector!
- I need a carriage.
01:31:48.816 --> 01:31:51.236
And send a messenger
to Charles Hamilton's house.
01:31:51.402 --> 01:31:54.242
Tell him to get to
the "Baltimore Patriot". Do it!
01:32:05.624 --> 01:32:10.254
So it has been written:
I will die today.
01:32:12.590 --> 01:32:15.470
A hole of mouldering earth awaits.
01:32:15.634 --> 01:32:20.304
It is a just end to a man
consumed by death his entire life.
01:32:20.473 --> 01:32:23.853
Emily, take this kiss upon thy brow.
01:32:24.018 --> 01:32:26.948
Really good stuff, sir.
01:32:27.104 --> 01:32:28.694
A poet to the end.
01:32:30.608 --> 01:32:32.908
I suppose this bit
is for Miss Hamilton.
01:32:34.111 --> 01:32:35.651
Where is she?
01:32:36.947 --> 01:32:39.667
- Where is she?
- I tell you, Mr Poe,
01:32:39.825 --> 01:32:43.375
I used to live for your stories,
just live for them.
01:32:43.537 --> 01:32:45.957
When you stopped writing...
01:32:47.708 --> 01:32:49.888
I guess I went a little nuts.
01:32:50.044 --> 01:32:53.214
But I kept on believing,
even when you closed me out.
01:32:53.380 --> 01:32:55.140
I still believed in your vision,
01:32:55.299 --> 01:32:57.729
in a future where people
would stand in lines
01:32:57.885 --> 01:33:02.685
to see the kind of things that
only people like you and I could see.
01:33:02.848 --> 01:33:05.698
I knew you had one more in you, sir.
01:33:08.646 --> 01:33:11.026
No one will ever forget you.
01:33:16.737 --> 01:33:18.577
Have you ever been to France?
01:33:18.739 --> 01:33:21.839
There's a young writer over there -
Jules Verne.
01:33:21.992 --> 01:33:24.082
- You heard of him?
- What?
01:33:24.245 --> 01:33:25.745
Paris...
01:33:26.747 --> 01:33:29.047
He really reminds me of you, sir.
01:33:29.208 --> 01:33:32.258
Where is she? You owe me!
Where is she?!
01:33:32.419 --> 01:33:35.099
"Anything was better than this agony."
01:33:35.256 --> 01:33:38.606
"Anything was more tolerable
than this derision."
01:33:38.759 --> 01:33:42.559
"I could bear those hypocritical
smiles no longer."
01:33:42.721 --> 01:33:44.971
"The Tell-Tale Heart."
01:33:45.141 --> 01:33:48.011
She's here... She's here.
01:33:48.185 --> 01:33:50.605
- Carriage for Mr Reynolds!
01:33:50.771 --> 01:33:54.111
On my way in just a moment!
01:33:54.275 --> 01:33:56.495
Goodbye, Mr Poe.
01:33:58.612 --> 01:34:01.202
I've enjoyed our time together.
01:34:03.075 --> 01:34:04.545
Reynolds...
01:34:13.294 --> 01:34:14.674
Almost...
01:35:04.136 --> 01:35:05.856
Emily!
01:35:16.440 --> 01:35:18.700
Emily?
01:35:18.859 --> 01:35:20.959
Answer me.
01:35:22.821 --> 01:35:25.941
Emily! Please, answer me!
01:35:36.085 --> 01:35:38.055
Oh, my God.
01:36:04.947 --> 01:36:06.577
Emily...
01:37:07.384 --> 01:37:09.764
Emily... Emily...
01:37:24.318 --> 01:37:26.498
Emily.
01:37:26.653 --> 01:37:31.903
Open your eyes.
01:37:32.076 --> 01:37:34.416
Emily, open your eyes.
01:37:35.913 --> 01:37:37.883
Yeah.
01:37:42.628 --> 01:37:44.728
Oh, yeah.
01:37:44.880 --> 01:37:47.890
Is it really you?
01:37:49.968 --> 01:37:52.938
- I love you.
- I love you.
01:37:56.225 --> 01:37:58.275
I'm here.
01:37:58.435 --> 01:38:00.815
I came for you.
01:38:02.856 --> 01:38:05.196
Okay.
01:38:11.615 --> 01:38:13.665
Stay awake.
01:38:13.826 --> 01:38:16.206
I have you, always.
01:38:17.413 --> 01:38:19.503
We're going home.
01:38:19.665 --> 01:38:23.005
- You did mean it?
- Mean what?
01:38:23.168 --> 01:38:25.548
When you said you would marry me.
01:38:25.712 --> 01:38:27.832
In this life and the next.
01:38:32.010 --> 01:38:34.520
Clear the way! Clear the way!
01:38:34.680 --> 01:38:36.440
What's wrong with you? Make way!
01:38:36.598 --> 01:38:38.978
- Where's Poe?
- He was here a moment ago.
01:38:39.143 --> 01:38:40.733
Poe!
01:38:40.894 --> 01:38:42.944
Hurry!
01:38:46.358 --> 01:38:48.988
Where is Edgar? Where is Edgar?
01:38:49.153 --> 01:38:50.993
Now, be careful.
01:38:51.155 --> 01:38:52.625
Go, go, go!
01:39:16.722 --> 01:39:18.142
Sir?
01:39:18.307 --> 01:39:20.307
You are Edgar Poe, correct?
01:39:22.644 --> 01:39:24.274
I am.
01:39:25.439 --> 01:39:27.239
For a few more minutes, anyway.
01:39:27.399 --> 01:39:30.619
Are you all right?
You look a little the worse for wear.
01:39:30.777 --> 01:39:32.827
Is there someone I can call for you?
01:39:34.239 --> 01:39:37.089
- Reynolds.
- You want me to find Reynolds?
01:39:37.242 --> 01:39:39.242
Does he have a first name?
01:39:39.411 --> 01:39:41.001
No.
01:39:42.164 --> 01:39:46.964
Tell Fields...
his last name is Reynolds.
01:39:47.127 --> 01:39:50.557
I'm sorry, sir,
you're not making much sense.
01:39:55.677 --> 01:39:57.977
Tell Fields.
01:40:05.020 --> 01:40:07.320
The Lord help my poor soul.
01:40:47.813 --> 01:40:49.983
Mr Fields?
01:40:50.148 --> 01:40:52.658
- I'm Dr John Morgan.
- Doctor.
01:40:53.694 --> 01:40:56.864
- Do you have a cause of death?
- I'm sorry, I don't.
01:40:57.030 --> 01:40:58.910
I have a few ideas but...
01:40:59.074 --> 01:41:02.374
As you know, he was brought in
in a very deranged state.
01:41:02.536 --> 01:41:04.506
I'm told he was ranting.
01:41:04.663 --> 01:41:06.133
Yes.
01:41:06.290 --> 01:41:10.890
He kept going on and on about telling
you that your last name is Reynolds.
01:41:11.044 --> 01:41:13.594
Is that helpful, or just gibberish?
01:41:13.755 --> 01:41:15.595
Maybe both.
01:41:18.051 --> 01:41:21.471
Well, thank you for your help,
Doctor.
01:41:21.638 --> 01:41:24.358
I'd be interested in hearing
your final analysis.
01:41:29.104 --> 01:41:32.354
Take this kiss upon thy brow,
01:41:32.524 --> 01:41:38.034
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow
01:41:38.196 --> 01:41:44.046
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream.
01:41:44.202 --> 01:41:49.672
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
01:41:57.466 --> 01:42:00.596
Mr Reynolds, please follow me
to your carriage.
01:42:28.497 --> 01:42:30.847
Merci pour votre aide.
01:42:34.378 --> 01:42:36.228
Hello, Ivan.
01:42:45.263 --> 01:42:49.433
“BURN MY SHADOW"
BY UNKLE)