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THIS IS A TRUE STORY

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[man on wireless]
The artist Louis Wain

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made the cat his own.

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He invented a cat style,

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a cat society,

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a whole cat world.

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Cats that do not look and live
like Louis Wain cats

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are ashamed of themselves.

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But that is not
what is important.

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What is important is that
Louis Wain devoted his life

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to making all our lives happier,

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and cattier.

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In doing so, he undoubtedly
raised up the cat in society

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and he changed our world
for the better.

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[female narrator] Aside from
its bizarre social prejudices

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and the fact that everything
stank of shit,

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Victorian England was also
a land of innovation

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and scientific discovery.

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Many of the world's finest minds

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were digging deep
into the nature of electricity,

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to harness its power
for practical use.

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But for the young Louis Wain,
electricity was something else,

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something so extraordinary
and strange

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that the human mind was barely
able even to comprehend it.

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A mysterious, elemental force
that on occasion,

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he could feel
shimmering in the ether,

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and the key to all
of life's most profound

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and alarming secrets.

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[thunder crashes]

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THE ELECTRICAL LIFE
OF LOUIS WAIN

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[train hooter blares]

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1881

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ANDOVER ANNUAL COUNTRY SHOW

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[train attendant] Please keep
your animals under control.

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Sorry. Uh, thank... thank you.

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Thank you.

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Ooh. Are you an illustrator?

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Yes, I do illustrations
for money.

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I'm also working on several
patents at the moment.

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[chuckles]

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You've just come from
the country show, I take it?

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Mmm.

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You're very muddy. Did you get
into a fight or something?

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Uh, no, I was attacked
by a one-and-a-half-ton bull.

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Oh. That was you, was it?

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Yes, I heard about that.

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How much would you charge
for a drawing of Cleopatra?

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Oh, I... I don't really
draw people.

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Oh, no, sorry. Cleopatra.

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Mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm.
[laughs]

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Ah. Well, that
you can have for free.

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[gasps] That's awfully kind.

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My sister usually takes her,
but she's unwell,

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so it's up to me today.

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Thought it might cheer her up.

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Dan Rider, by the way.

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Hello.

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Yes. Good.

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[man] Find his weak spot,
but just don't show him yours.

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Move. Think.

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[laughter]

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All right, Wain, that's enough.

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You'll be late for your
meetings, you daft apeth.

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Just allow me to have
one more crack at him, sir.

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The Bendigo Shuffle.
Come on. Here we are.

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Left to right, or right
to left. Ha, ha, ha, ha.

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I'm so sorry. Sorry.

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I received word
of your foolish antics

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at the country show.

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A whole raft of complaints

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about an odd fellow
being dangerous,

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climbing nonchalantly
into the Longhorn's pen

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and standing not three yards

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from the largest
and most ferocious animal

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on the entire site.

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I wanted to get
a closer look at him,

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and, well, he didn't have
a very good sense of humour,

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- put it that way.
- Thank you.

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Not renowned for their
sense of humour,

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- are they, really, bulls?
- Aren't they?

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Every time I commission you
to illustrate a story for us,

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you manage to create
some kind of ridiculous chaos.

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Why were you throwing peanuts
at a bull?

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I heard they like peanuts
and that it calms them down,

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but it didn't work.

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The trouble with these
show cows, huge egos.

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It's a good job you can draw,
Mr Wain,

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or we would have parted ways
some time ago.

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And don't think
I haven't noticed

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the state of your visage.

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Oh, this wasn't from the bull,
Sir William.

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I've just come from a boxing
class with the great Jem Mace.

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- Boxing?
- Mmm.

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So when did you draw this?

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On the train. From memory.

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- All of them?
- Mm-hmm.

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So, how fast
do you work exactly?

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Oh. I'll just show you...

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Hmm.

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[hums]

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I'll be frank with you, Mr Wain.

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One of our speediest and most
prolific staff illustrators

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has been poached
by a rival publication.

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Do you think you'd be up to it?

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Well, yes, obviously. I mean...

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Well, I don't find this work,
um, very taxing, Sir William.

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I do it to pay the bills

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and to provide
for the five hungry

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and precocious sisters
that I live with.

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Until they get married,
of course.

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As a matter of fact,

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I find the whole thing
rather inconvenient.

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I don't think
you quite understand me.

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On the basis of the speed
and quality of your work,

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and with the proviso
that you can curb

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your more imbecilic behaviour,

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I am offering you
a permanent position

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on the staff of the
Illustrated London News.

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That's very kind of you,
but I can't.

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I have several
electric patents to finish

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and, in fact, I'm rather late

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for a meeting with Henry Wood,
the celebrated composer.

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- Henry Wood?
- I've written an opera.

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This is not an opera, Mr Wain.

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By conventional standards,
it barely qualifies as music.

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And this is not a plot.

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It's just some of your thoughts.

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I applaud your enthusiasm,

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but you have to master
the basics of harmony first.

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I... I've invented
my own harmonies.

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Yes, and that could be
part of the problem.

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If it's any consolation,

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I thought the little drawing
you did on the cover sheet

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was rather charming.

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[Louis humming]

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[narrator] In the 18 months
since his father had died,

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Louis had nominally become
the head of the household.

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He was entirely unfit

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to shoulder these new
worldly responsibilities,

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but as the oldest and malest
of the six Wain siblings,

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it had unfortunately
become his duty.

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- [girl] Evening, Louis.
- Yes, good evening.

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- [girls] Evening!
- [woman] Louis!

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Yes, hello. How are you?

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- [woman 2] Ooh, are you back?
- Yes, I'm back, Josephine.

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Of course I'm back.
What do you mean?

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Louis, did you meet an eligible

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young lady of means
in Hampshire?

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No, I did not, but I did meet
some goats, some geese

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and a rather cantankerous bull.

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[Josephine] That's no use.

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You can't marry a goat, can you?

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[narrator] Far better suited

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would have been his beloved
sister Caroline,

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who had become frustrated
by their rather whimsical

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and bohemian mother

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and stepped up at a young age

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to take charge
as the family's matriarch.

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Have you been boxing again?

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[Louis] I told you, Caroline,
he barely charges me

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because I gave him
that drawing of Bendigo.

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Louis, will you practise
quadrilles with me after supper?

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Ah, you've come
to murder me at last.

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- Felicie, defend me, quick.
- En garde!

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Don't! We have to talk
about finances.

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How was your meeting with
Sir William? Is he satisfied?

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Sir William is, if anything,
overly satisfied.

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He has offered me the position
of staff illustrator.

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Now, I really do need
to get to my room.

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[Josephine] Oh, my goodness!
Did you say staff illustrator?

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Yes, staff illustrator,
but I did not accept it.

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I beg your very pardon? Why?

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We already have twice as many
outgoings as you have wages

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and we've just hired
a governess.

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I told you to keep that room
for my secondary projects.

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Besides, I can teach them.
I'm perfectly qualified

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in all the relevant subjects.

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No, you can't! You need
to be out there working!

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Quite right. You need to be
out there working, Louis.

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[Louis] Governess!
I'm afraid we do not require

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- your services at present.
- Louis!

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[Louis] Sorry for any
inconvenience.

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Governess? Governess?

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Do not go into
that woman's room.

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Governess?

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Where are you?

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[Josephine] Is she not in there?

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[Louis] Where... Where are you?

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[Caroline] Shh.

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Governess? Is that you in there?

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Miss Richardson,
if you are in the wardrobe,

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we shall be most displeased.

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There's no need
to be frightened,

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but I am going to
have to open the door.

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Oh, for fuck's sake.

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[Louis] After a count of three.

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Three, two, one.

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Right, yes. No, I can see how...

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I mean, as
first impressions go...

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How do you do, Mr Wain?

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Miss Richardson,
get out of the wardrobe.

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Yes, of course. Would you like
to know my name, Mr Wain?

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So you don't have
to keep shouting "governess."

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I believe your mother's napping.
Not very thoughtful, is it?

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Miss Richardson,
why were you in the wardrobe?

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It helps me to concentrate
to be in a confined space.

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And with Shakespeare,
I know it inside out already,

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so I block out the world
and play it through in my head.

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That's all very nice, but the
thing is I was just saying,

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I am perfectly well versed
in mathematics and chemistry...

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You shan't be needing
my services, then.

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- I'll be on my way.
- No.

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Miss Richardson,
he's just being an ass.

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I'm actually relieved
not to have to get up

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at 4:30 every morning
to prepare lessons.

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And I was a bit worried
about the ancient Greek.

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Homer's use
of the metrical ictus

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does make it rather hard.

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All those feminine caesuras.

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I have no doubt
they'll be much better off

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in your accomplished hands.

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I was just thinking,
I promised myself to submit

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my steady cycle patent
before the end of the month,

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if I'm teaching my sisters
the feminine senoras...

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- Caesuras.
- Exactly that.

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I won't have time.

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So you'd like me to stay?

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My poor husband William
was thrown out

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by his family in Staffordshire.

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- They were all Protestant.
- Leek.

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The town's called Leek,
Miss Richardson.

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- Isn't that funny?
- That's hilarious.

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[northern accent]
They talk like this up there.

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[Mrs Wain] He wanted
to be a Catholic,

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but his father wouldn't let him,
and so he just ran away.

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- He was a Cathoholic.
- Shush, Marie.

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- How did you meet him?
- I thought it was funny.

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Through the church.

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I designed tapestries for the...

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Ooh. You're getting heavy.
For the church

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and he came from a silk family.

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He was a draper.

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And my own father...

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- I'm French, you see.
- [laughter]

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smuggled himself to England

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by disguising himself
as a woman.

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We're a family
of mischief-makers,

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Miss Richardson.

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We may as well have been called
the Shenanigans.

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You'll have your hands full
with these three.

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And as for you two,
high time you found

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some nice husbands
of your own, don't you think?

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[Caroline] We will, Mother,
in time.

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[Josephine] Well,
I was given quite the look

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from a hatted man
with a moustache on the bus.

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Absolutely enormous moustache

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and a very prominent brow.

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Yes, it was very prominent.

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It was like a dome.
But, um, it...

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Well, it was quite the glance.

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It was embarrassing.

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- Did he seem wealthy, Josephine?
- Mother.

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[Felicie] Josephine's
going to marry a man

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- with a big moustache.
- [laughter]

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[Marie] Caroline,
he might have a brother.

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[floorboards creak]

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[footsteps]

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[knocking]

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Miss Caroline.

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[giggles]

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Is everything to your
satisfaction, Miss Richardson?

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Very much so.

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Why do you ask?

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Oh, no.
Just, I was going to say,

00:14:33.051 --> 00:14:34.676
if the room
wasn't to your liking,

00:14:34.759 --> 00:14:37.967
I would be perfectly happy
for you to swap with me.

00:14:38.051 --> 00:14:41.051
That won't be necessary.
I'm very comfortable.

00:14:41.134 --> 00:14:46.176
Of course, but I wouldn't
want you to feel... ill at ease.

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Sharing the floor...

00:14:50.593 --> 00:14:51.800
with a man.

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Why would that make me
feel ill at ease?

00:14:59.384 --> 00:15:00.884
Very well.

00:15:00.967 --> 00:15:03.343
Please keep
all of your belongings in order.

00:15:03.426 --> 00:15:05.384
You are here
as an example to my sisters.

00:15:05.468 --> 00:15:09.259
Of course. You're very good
with them, by the way.

00:15:09.343 --> 00:15:12.134
It must be exhausting,
having to be the grown-up.

00:15:12.217 --> 00:15:14.884
Well, I am a grown-up,
so it's not exhausting.

00:15:20.716 --> 00:15:22.716
Why are you holding a rock?

00:15:22.799 --> 00:15:24.425
I travel a lot,

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so I like to bring a few rocks
with me from Shrewsbury,

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where I grew up.
Helps me to feel at home.

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Why don't you have this one?

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Sleep well...

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Miss Richardson.

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- Morning.
- Morning.

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[narrator] Louis had learnt
to control the chaos in his mind

00:16:05.799 --> 00:16:07.550
by always moving

00:16:07.634 --> 00:16:10.008
and for many years
had been quite content

00:16:10.091 --> 00:16:12.008
frantically pursuing
his various interests,

00:16:12.091 --> 00:16:15.342
as failed art teacher,
failed musician,

00:16:15.425 --> 00:16:18.841
aspiring inventor,
enthusiastic polyhobbyist,

00:16:18.925 --> 00:16:20.883
and, of course,
part-time illustrator.

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But the one thing
he had never considered,

00:16:24.966 --> 00:16:28.008
in spite of constant pressure to
find an eligible young spouse,

00:16:28.091 --> 00:16:29.841
was the possibility

00:16:29.925 --> 00:16:32.592
of ever leading
any kind of romantic life.

00:16:34.216 --> 00:16:38.216
And so, as a strange, tingly
feeling crackled in his breast

00:16:38.300 --> 00:16:40.342
and sparkled through this loins,

00:16:40.425 --> 00:16:43.383
I think it would be fair to say
that the innocent Mr Wain

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didn't really know
what the hell was going on.

00:16:49.258 --> 00:16:52.508
He had an inkling, of course.
But how could he be sure

00:16:52.592 --> 00:16:55.840
that these feelings
would be reciprocated?

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What of the unsightly harelip

00:16:57.633 --> 00:17:01.215
that he so sproutily disguised
with his careful moustache?

00:17:01.299 --> 00:17:02.840
Upon closer scrutiny,

00:17:02.924 --> 00:17:05.633
she would surely notice
this unfortunate deformity

00:17:05.715 --> 00:17:06.882
and run a mile.

00:17:08.591 --> 00:17:11.882
Or perhaps, she would not be
so impressed to discover

00:17:11.965 --> 00:17:14.840
that in spite
of the rather playful exterior,

00:17:14.924 --> 00:17:17.591
his mind was a dark,
screaming hurricane

00:17:17.674 --> 00:17:20.924
of crippling anxieties
and recurring nightmares.

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Not to mention, of course,
the gossiping neighbours

00:17:27.965 --> 00:17:30.882
who would all consider it
ghastly for a lowly governess

00:17:30.965 --> 00:17:34.715
to be engaging in these
bourgeois games of courtship.

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Emily Richardson's slightly
unconventional attitude

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to her employer's privacy

00:17:38.965 --> 00:17:40.507
had already caught the eye

00:17:40.591 --> 00:17:42.591
of nosy-posy Mrs Du Frayne,

00:17:42.674 --> 00:17:44.299
who was, by all accounts,

00:17:44.382 --> 00:17:47.549
the blabberiest mouth
this side of the River Thames.

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Suffice it to say,

00:17:51.798 --> 00:17:53.549
there were a great
many obstacles

00:17:53.633 --> 00:17:56.757
that stood in the way
of Louis and Emily.

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And in a different world,
he might well have decided

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not to disturb Sir William
Ingram's daily splosh

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at the Turkish baths
in Islington.

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Ah. Good morning, Mr Wain.

00:18:07.049 --> 00:18:08.924
Good morning, Sir William.

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Don't often see you in here.

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I've come to speak to you.

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- Have you got a moment?
- Yes, of course, Louis.

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Just let me finish
my morning exercises.

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Yes, of course.

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Actually, I might do some laps
myself now that I'm here.

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Careful! Careful, Louis.

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Oh! Louis?

00:18:48.089 --> 00:18:50.423
So you've come
to your senses, young man.

00:18:51.923 --> 00:18:53.964
Why the sudden change of heart?

00:18:54.048 --> 00:18:58.214
Well, we've hired a governess
to teach my younger sisters.

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- A governess?
- Mmm.

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Ah, and you don't want her
dashing off to some other family

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because you can't pay her.

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[Louis] Something
like that, yes.

00:19:06.714 --> 00:19:08.756
Well, I'll start you off
on poverty wages,

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as is standard,
but they will be regular.

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And I'm afraid we can't pay you
for holidays

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or expenses at the moment.

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Will those terms be
to your satisfaction, Mr Wain?

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Good.

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[Emily and girls]
Tap, tap. Advance.

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- Advance.
- Tap, tap.

00:19:29.506 --> 00:19:31.214
- Tap, tap. Advance.
- Advance. Okay.

00:19:31.298 --> 00:19:32.548
En garde!

00:19:32.632 --> 00:19:34.214
- En garde!
- En garde!

00:19:34.298 --> 00:19:36.506
Caroline, can I show you
how I do fencing?

00:19:36.590 --> 00:19:38.256
Not right now.

00:19:38.340 --> 00:19:41.131
- En garde.
- Please be civilised, girls.

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[Emily] Mrs Wain, would you
accompany us on the piano?

00:19:43.590 --> 00:19:45.923
[Mrs Wain] I would love to
accompany you on the piano.

00:19:46.006 --> 00:19:48.256
[Emily] Let's show them
what we've been practising.

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Every penny-counting rogue
in London knows that trick.

00:19:50.797 --> 00:19:53.232
- You're not supposed to say yes.
- Did you not bargain with him?

00:19:53.256 --> 00:19:55.107
- Have I taught you nothing?
- I'm happy with it, Herb.

00:19:55.131 --> 00:19:56.851
Actually, I really ought
to be getting back.

00:19:56.923 --> 00:19:58.797
I have to start work
on my steady cycle patent.

00:19:58.881 --> 00:20:00.797
Forget that.
Nobody understands what it is.

00:20:00.881 --> 00:20:04.214
Don't be such a fucking drip.
If you're happy, you're happy.

00:20:04.298 --> 00:20:07.256
I mean, you've been swindled,
so I don't understand that.

00:20:07.340 --> 00:20:09.838
Let's have some fun. I haven't
seen you for three weeks.

00:20:09.922 --> 00:20:12.464
You've been spending too much
time with your weird sisters.

00:20:12.547 --> 00:20:15.130
You are staff illustrator
for the top newspaper in London.

00:20:15.213 --> 00:20:16.755
All you need now
is the loving touch

00:20:16.838 --> 00:20:18.547
of a well-bosomed aristocrat.

00:20:18.631 --> 00:20:20.880
That's the thing about
Phil May, the saucy fiend.

00:20:20.963 --> 00:20:23.963
Always hosting a skulk
of wealthy young vixens.

00:20:24.047 --> 00:20:26.672
We can't celebrate
your success without you.

00:20:26.755 --> 00:20:28.672
There'll be dancing
later, perhaps?

00:20:28.755 --> 00:20:31.088
There will be if you're here,
I know that much.

00:20:32.255 --> 00:20:33.547
- I'm in.
- Come on.

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- Shh!
- [gasps]

00:21:31.213 --> 00:21:32.796
[whispers] Be quiet.

00:21:32.880 --> 00:21:35.422
[whispers] Oh. I was so quiet.

00:21:35.505 --> 00:21:37.297
Marie is having a nightmare.

00:21:37.380 --> 00:21:38.672
Oh.

00:21:40.297 --> 00:21:41.838
You're drunk.

00:21:43.005 --> 00:21:46.087
Perhaps a little.
I've been celebrating.

00:21:47.421 --> 00:21:49.171
I accepted the job...

00:21:49.254 --> 00:21:50.879
with Sir William.

00:21:50.962 --> 00:21:51.962
Good.

00:21:52.879 --> 00:21:54.254
Now go to bed.

00:21:54.338 --> 00:21:56.421
[Marie] Caroline.
I can feel prickles.

00:21:56.504 --> 00:21:58.046
- It's okay.
- I'm scared.

00:21:58.129 --> 00:22:01.171
- I'm here. I'm here.
- I'm scared, Caroline.

00:22:01.254 --> 00:22:03.671
[Caroline] It's all right.
It's just our silly brother

00:22:03.754 --> 00:22:05.879
trampling up the stairs.

00:22:05.962 --> 00:22:08.421
- Shh.
- [Louis mumbles]

00:22:08.504 --> 00:22:12.379
Try to think of a meadow
or a breeze.

00:22:12.463 --> 00:22:15.254
Keep calm, Marie, keep calm.

00:22:15.338 --> 00:22:16.837
Breathe.

00:22:18.546 --> 00:22:20.087
[Emily humming]

00:22:20.171 --> 00:22:21.795
Uh, good evening.

00:22:21.879 --> 00:22:24.004
- No.
- What?

00:22:24.087 --> 00:22:26.504
- Go away. Go away.
- Yes. What? Why?

00:22:26.588 --> 00:22:28.212
- What do you mean, why?
- I don't...

00:22:28.296 --> 00:22:30.004
Yes, of course. Yes, sorry.

00:22:31.212 --> 00:22:33.129
What are you doing, Mr Wain?

00:22:33.212 --> 00:22:34.795
- I don't understand.
- Get out!

00:22:34.879 --> 00:22:37.212
Right, yes, of course.
Sorry. I apologise.

00:22:37.296 --> 00:22:39.879
I am under your employ, Mr Wain,
but I do not expect

00:22:39.962 --> 00:22:42.129
to have to tolerate you
barging in here after hours

00:22:42.212 --> 00:22:44.087
while I'm...

00:22:44.171 --> 00:22:46.296
Well, it doesn't matter
what I was doing, does it?

00:22:46.379 --> 00:22:47.879
[whispering]
Yes. Sorry. Of course.

00:22:47.962 --> 00:22:49.546
It's just I have so many sisters

00:22:49.630 --> 00:22:51.421
that sometimes I forget
that it's...

00:22:51.504 --> 00:22:52.837
Were you painting something?

00:22:52.921 --> 00:22:54.671
That's none of your business,
Mr Wain.

00:22:56.004 --> 00:22:58.129
But, yes, if you must know.

00:22:59.754 --> 00:23:02.296
I've got a drawing lesson
with the girls tomorrow,

00:23:02.379 --> 00:23:04.463
and all you Wains
are such accomplished artists

00:23:04.546 --> 00:23:07.087
that I rather thought I could do
with a bit of preparation.

00:23:07.171 --> 00:23:08.296
I see.

00:23:09.962 --> 00:23:11.962
Well, I was, um...

00:23:12.046 --> 00:23:14.338
Well, I just wanted to
invite you to the theatre.

00:23:14.421 --> 00:23:15.546
THE TEMPEST

00:23:15.630 --> 00:23:17.463
As an educational trip,

00:23:17.546 --> 00:23:19.588
with Felicie, Claire and Marie.

00:23:21.212 --> 00:23:23.503
I'm so sorry again, Miss
Richardson. I do apologise.

00:23:23.587 --> 00:23:25.295
I'm terribly embarrassed.

00:23:25.378 --> 00:23:27.920
It's just I was excited
to share the idea with you

00:23:28.003 --> 00:23:30.462
and I just don't want you to
think you have to be cooped up

00:23:30.545 --> 00:23:33.545
in this house all the time,
that's all.

00:23:43.003 --> 00:23:45.253
I think it sounds
like a rather splendid idea.

00:23:48.337 --> 00:23:50.753
Please just knock the next time
that you wish to see me.

00:23:50.836 --> 00:23:51.961
Of course.

00:24:00.629 --> 00:24:02.587
- Is something funny, Mr Wain?
- Not at all.

00:24:03.587 --> 00:24:04.753
Not at all.

00:24:08.545 --> 00:24:09.587
Good night, Emily.

00:24:10.836 --> 00:24:12.045
Good night, Mr Wain.

00:24:19.420 --> 00:24:20.545
Miss Richardson?

00:24:23.878 --> 00:24:25.337
Yes?

00:24:25.420 --> 00:24:28.045
When it comes to drawing,

00:24:28.128 --> 00:24:30.711
there's only really one rule
you ever need to teach.

00:24:32.503 --> 00:24:34.003
It's to look.

00:25:12.919 --> 00:25:13.919
[sighs]

00:25:14.002 --> 00:25:15.669
[boy sobbing]

00:25:21.502 --> 00:25:24.127
Mummy! Daddy! Help me!

00:25:24.210 --> 00:25:26.586
I'm drowning! I'm drowning!

00:25:29.085 --> 00:25:30.710
[screams]

00:25:40.252 --> 00:25:42.085
[screaming]

00:25:48.461 --> 00:25:51.544
You're so ugly! Ugly!

00:25:51.628 --> 00:25:54.461
You don't belong here!
You don't belong anywhere!

00:26:04.544 --> 00:26:06.710
[Felicie] It's magic.

00:26:06.793 --> 00:26:09.085
What a clever bugger
Mr Newton was.

00:26:09.169 --> 00:26:11.127
[Emily] Uh, language,
please, Felicie.

00:26:11.210 --> 00:26:14.377
- [Felicie] A clever sausage?
- Sausage I will accept,

00:26:14.461 --> 00:26:16.419
although I fear
it rather fails to capture

00:26:16.502 --> 00:26:18.127
the spirit of Newton's genius.

00:26:18.210 --> 00:26:20.252
[Marie] I'm a genius.

00:26:20.336 --> 00:26:22.877
If you work hard and continue
with your studies, Marie,

00:26:22.960 --> 00:26:25.002
perhaps one day, you will be.

00:26:25.085 --> 00:26:26.710
[girls] Thank you,
Miss Richardson.

00:26:26.793 --> 00:26:28.877
You're very welcome. Thank you.

00:26:28.960 --> 00:26:31.085
Quiet on the stairs,
please, girls.

00:26:32.461 --> 00:26:35.792
[Marie growls]
Crumpets, biscuits, cake!

00:26:51.126 --> 00:26:52.376
[knocking]

00:26:52.460 --> 00:26:53.627
Ooh. Come in.

00:26:53.709 --> 00:26:55.418
[door opens]

00:26:55.501 --> 00:26:56.792
[Louis] Good morning.

00:26:57.460 --> 00:26:58.543
Morning.

00:27:00.335 --> 00:27:01.792
How was your lesson?

00:27:02.668 --> 00:27:04.418
It was very good, thank you.

00:27:04.501 --> 00:27:06.959
Turns out that your sisters
don't need my help with drawing,

00:27:07.043 --> 00:27:08.751
so we tried something
else instead.

00:27:08.834 --> 00:27:10.168
Good. That's good.

00:27:13.751 --> 00:27:15.460
I hereby atone
for my drunken imposition

00:27:15.543 --> 00:27:17.293
by presenting myself
to you naked.

00:27:17.376 --> 00:27:19.460
Please don't present yourself
to me naked, Mr Wain.

00:27:19.543 --> 00:27:21.543
I might consider that
to be a secondary imposition,

00:27:21.627 --> 00:27:23.043
arguably greater than the first.

00:27:24.126 --> 00:27:26.543
But you cannot have failed
to observe

00:27:26.627 --> 00:27:29.126
that I have quite
a profound harelip.

00:27:30.501 --> 00:27:33.585
Yes. What of it, Mr Wain?

00:27:36.709 --> 00:27:38.251
Sorry. Have I made a mistake?

00:27:39.460 --> 00:27:41.001
No, I think you look
very handsome.

00:27:44.001 --> 00:27:45.251
So, uh...

00:27:46.251 --> 00:27:47.627
Well, am I forgiven?

00:27:48.751 --> 00:27:50.876
Why do you need me
to forgive you, Mr Wain?

00:27:58.585 --> 00:28:03.043
When do you think we might
make our trip to the theatre?

00:28:04.376 --> 00:28:07.792
For the, uh, for the education
of the girls, of course.

00:28:07.876 --> 00:28:08.918
Of course.

00:28:10.708 --> 00:28:13.125
Well, I'll just consult
my diary.

00:28:13.208 --> 00:28:15.250
Excellent. Well, I shall
look forward to it.

00:28:17.875 --> 00:28:19.334
Thank you.

00:28:21.917 --> 00:28:23.667
I appreciate the gesture.

00:28:29.958 --> 00:28:32.500
[Caroline] But, Mother, we have
not yet settled our accounts

00:28:32.584 --> 00:28:34.125
with the coal merchant
and the butcher.

00:28:34.208 --> 00:28:35.542
He should have
consulted me first.

00:28:35.626 --> 00:28:37.167
Boring. [Blows raspberry]

00:28:37.250 --> 00:28:39.626
We cannot let him out
looking like this.

00:28:39.708 --> 00:28:42.459
Why you've committed
this most wanton

00:28:42.542 --> 00:28:45.750
and violent act of self-harm,
I do not know.

00:28:45.833 --> 00:28:47.875
How will he ever
meet a woman of fortune?

00:28:47.958 --> 00:28:50.917
Caroline, he's had a shave,
that's all.

00:28:51.000 --> 00:28:53.584
Marie, darling,
where have you gone?

00:28:53.667 --> 00:28:55.750
[Josephine] Well, I think
we should all go.

00:28:55.833 --> 00:28:57.417
Make an evening of it.

00:28:57.500 --> 00:28:59.220
[Caroline] Josephine,
we at least must stay.

00:28:59.292 --> 00:29:01.417
- Marie?
- [Marie whimpers]

00:29:02.708 --> 00:29:03.917
[Marie] Don't come in.

00:29:04.875 --> 00:29:06.708
[Emily] Marie, what's happened?

00:29:06.791 --> 00:29:08.292
[Marie sobs]

00:29:12.292 --> 00:29:14.833
Oh, it's all right.

00:29:14.917 --> 00:29:18.292
It's all right.
It's perfectly natural.

00:29:21.250 --> 00:29:25.208
If anything, it's a good thing.
It means you're a woman.

00:29:25.292 --> 00:29:28.708
Well, I should like to go
not so much for the play

00:29:28.791 --> 00:29:31.042
but for the handsome
young bachelors in the crowd.

00:29:31.125 --> 00:29:32.584
We can practise our flirtations.

00:29:32.667 --> 00:29:34.791
I should like to go
because I should like to go.

00:29:34.875 --> 00:29:36.417
If you change your mind,
Caroline,

00:29:36.500 --> 00:29:38.083
you're more than welcome
to join us.

00:29:38.167 --> 00:29:39.958
I think it fair to say
that Miss Richardson

00:29:40.042 --> 00:29:41.708
has had a positive effect
on this family

00:29:41.791 --> 00:29:43.125
and we should show
our gratitude.

00:29:43.208 --> 00:29:44.584
I'm a woman!

00:29:44.667 --> 00:29:46.000
[Josephine] Hurray!

00:29:47.207 --> 00:29:48.790
Sorry, everyone.
Bit of a situation,

00:29:48.874 --> 00:29:51.041
but everything's under control.

00:29:56.082 --> 00:29:57.207
Oh.

00:30:13.874 --> 00:30:15.874
That's the governess
I was telling you about.

00:30:15.957 --> 00:30:18.625
- Oh.
- For the Wains.

00:30:18.707 --> 00:30:22.041
- Uh, you look very...
- No, thank you. So do you.

00:30:22.124 --> 00:30:23.707
- Thank you.
- Thank you. Shall we...

00:30:23.790 --> 00:30:26.957
- Yes, let's...
- Yes, let's sit down. Good.

00:30:28.082 --> 00:30:29.832
Is this...
Is this your first time?

00:30:29.916 --> 00:30:31.707
- Yes, it is, it is.
- Okay.

00:30:31.790 --> 00:30:34.707
- It's exciting.
- Good.

00:30:37.041 --> 00:30:38.041
Ooh.

00:30:38.916 --> 00:30:41.166
- Here.
- Thank you.

00:30:44.957 --> 00:30:47.666
- [howling wind, thudding]
- [crunching]

00:30:50.790 --> 00:30:52.707
[man] Boatswain!

00:30:54.082 --> 00:30:56.832
[boatswain] Here, master!
What cheer?

00:30:56.916 --> 00:30:59.707
[master] Good, speak
to the mariners.

00:30:59.790 --> 00:31:04.166
Fall to't, yarely,
or we run ourselves aground:

00:31:04.249 --> 00:31:08.082
Bestir, bestir.

00:31:10.166 --> 00:31:12.207
[boatswain] Heigh, my hearts!

00:31:12.291 --> 00:31:15.790
Cheerly, cheerly, my hearts!

00:31:15.874 --> 00:31:17.499
Yare, yare!

00:31:17.583 --> 00:31:18.832
Take in the topsail.

00:31:18.916 --> 00:31:20.874
[mariners] Topsail!

00:31:20.957 --> 00:31:23.207
[boatswain]
Tend to the master's whistle.

00:31:24.415 --> 00:31:26.665
[young Louis]
Mummy! Daddy! Help me!

00:31:26.748 --> 00:31:30.040
I'm drowning! I'm drowning!

00:31:30.123 --> 00:31:34.081
Help me! I'm drowning! Please!

00:31:34.165 --> 00:31:36.831
Help me! I'm drowning!

00:31:45.665 --> 00:31:49.290
Um... this is the
gentlemen's toilet.

00:31:49.373 --> 00:31:51.040
Yes. Sorry.

00:31:52.540 --> 00:31:53.540
I...

00:31:55.290 --> 00:31:59.290
I was worried that you might be
distressed about something.

00:31:59.373 --> 00:32:02.165
No, no. Just a funny turn,
that's all.

00:32:02.956 --> 00:32:04.332
Right, yes.

00:32:04.415 --> 00:32:07.665
No, I thought it might have, um,

00:32:07.748 --> 00:32:09.748
might have reminded you
of something.

00:32:13.624 --> 00:32:16.956
Something you found frightening
as a child, perhaps,

00:32:17.040 --> 00:32:18.748
like a recurring nightmare.

00:32:18.831 --> 00:32:21.956
Like "The Sea
Full Of Big Ships."

00:32:22.040 --> 00:32:25.665
I might have accidentally
looked in your journal.

00:32:27.624 --> 00:32:29.206
Well, that... that was nosy.

00:32:29.290 --> 00:32:30.789
I'm afraid it's one
of my many flaws.

00:32:30.873 --> 00:32:33.040
- Nosiness?
- I'm very nosy, yes.

00:32:33.123 --> 00:32:35.624
It's partly why I chose
to become a governess.

00:32:35.706 --> 00:32:37.789
Did you find it horrifying?

00:32:37.873 --> 00:32:41.373
All those dark
and disturbing visions?

00:32:41.457 --> 00:32:45.290
No. I found it quite reassuring,
to be honest.

00:32:46.998 --> 00:32:48.748
I tend to have nightmares about

00:32:48.831 --> 00:32:50.998
not being able
to get out of places.

00:32:51.081 --> 00:32:52.665
I once spent an entire dream

00:32:52.748 --> 00:32:54.248
stuck in a
very complicated barn.

00:32:55.789 --> 00:32:58.081
Well, thank God you didn't
get stuck in that wardrobe.

00:32:59.123 --> 00:33:00.247
Yeah, thank God.

00:33:04.372 --> 00:33:06.497
Thank God I had you
to let me out of it.

00:33:18.456 --> 00:33:19.623
[toilet flushes]

00:33:21.372 --> 00:33:22.414
[door opens]

00:33:27.331 --> 00:33:29.414
[turns tap, water runs]

00:33:49.080 --> 00:33:50.289
[turns tap]

00:34:00.080 --> 00:34:01.456
Good God!

00:34:01.539 --> 00:34:03.456
It definitely did happen
in the toilet.

00:34:04.539 --> 00:34:06.289
- [Marie] Oh, hello.
- [Felicie] Hello.

00:34:06.372 --> 00:34:08.705
Well, if it isn't
my favourite family,

00:34:08.788 --> 00:34:11.872
the Wains. Hello, girls.
How are you, Louis?

00:34:11.955 --> 00:34:15.414
Very well, thank you,
Mrs Du Frayne. Um, how are you?

00:34:15.497 --> 00:34:18.914
Quite well. Terrific eulogy
at your father's funeral.

00:34:18.997 --> 00:34:21.414
Thank you. You say that
every time I see you.

00:34:21.497 --> 00:34:24.456
And you must be
the famous Emily Richardson.

00:34:24.539 --> 00:34:26.664
- Nice to meet you.
- We were just remarking

00:34:26.747 --> 00:34:28.955
that we don't often see
governesses at the theatre.

00:34:29.039 --> 00:34:30.623
Was it your first time?

00:34:31.788 --> 00:34:34.539
I hear you got a little
bit confused...

00:34:35.539 --> 00:34:37.704
about the lavatories.

00:34:37.787 --> 00:34:39.413
[all laugh]

00:34:39.496 --> 00:34:40.954
[forced laugh]

00:34:43.829 --> 00:34:45.663
Yes, confused.

00:34:46.829 --> 00:34:48.246
Quite charming.

00:34:59.913 --> 00:35:02.163
[Caroline] You are clearly
an intelligent woman,

00:35:02.246 --> 00:35:04.038
Miss Richardson,

00:35:04.121 --> 00:35:07.038
and we've been impressed
by your teaching.

00:35:07.121 --> 00:35:09.954
But there are certain aspects
of your behaviour,

00:35:11.204 --> 00:35:13.204
and certain aspects

00:35:13.288 --> 00:35:15.288
of the behaviour
that you encourage

00:35:15.371 --> 00:35:17.455
in my ridiculous brother

00:35:19.121 --> 00:35:22.954
that we simply cannot tolerate.

00:35:23.038 --> 00:35:25.829
This evening was intended
to be an educational event.

00:35:25.913 --> 00:35:27.746
Yet now, thanks to you,

00:35:27.829 --> 00:35:29.787
this family
is the talk of the town.

00:35:29.871 --> 00:35:31.371
And not in a good way.

00:35:34.204 --> 00:35:37.038
You have three days
to get your affairs in order.

00:35:50.455 --> 00:35:51.829
[door opens]

00:35:56.163 --> 00:35:58.246
I just wanted to thank you,
Mr Wain,

00:35:59.787 --> 00:36:01.622
for a very pleasant evening.

00:36:01.704 --> 00:36:03.204
I had a very nice time.

00:36:06.996 --> 00:36:08.663
I've taught
of countless adventures

00:36:08.746 --> 00:36:10.496
from the safety of a schoolroom.

00:36:12.371 --> 00:36:16.703
But it was exciting
to be taken on one for once.

00:36:29.995 --> 00:36:32.245
I... I like your shawl,
by the way.

00:36:34.495 --> 00:36:36.870
Thank you. It was my mother's.

00:36:40.828 --> 00:36:42.037
It's blue.

00:36:44.078 --> 00:36:46.162
Yep. It's blue.

00:36:53.245 --> 00:36:54.537
Goodbye, Louis.

00:37:10.537 --> 00:37:13.370
I don't care, I don't care,
I don't care what people think.

00:37:20.953 --> 00:37:22.120
Nor do I.

00:37:24.454 --> 00:37:25.953
- Mmm! Close the door.
- What?

00:37:26.037 --> 00:37:28.745
Close the door. Ooh. Ooh.

00:37:28.828 --> 00:37:30.495
[giggles]

00:37:30.579 --> 00:37:32.459
- [Louis] What happened?
- I fell over my dress.

00:37:32.537 --> 00:37:34.179
- [Louis] I'm sorry.
- It's not your fault.

00:37:34.203 --> 00:37:35.412
Sit down.

00:37:39.786 --> 00:37:41.870
[narrator]
As this peculiar romance

00:37:41.953 --> 00:37:43.953
blossomed clumsily into flower,

00:37:44.037 --> 00:37:45.995
the discrepancy
in their social standing

00:37:46.078 --> 00:37:48.621
became the cause
of great controversy.

00:37:48.703 --> 00:37:51.202
One neighbour,
it was widely rumoured,

00:37:51.286 --> 00:37:55.036
vomited immediately upon
hearing news of their courtship.

00:37:55.119 --> 00:37:58.369
For the coupling of a gentleman
with a lady of the servile class

00:37:58.453 --> 00:38:00.785
was considered
nothing short of revolting.

00:38:00.869 --> 00:38:02.578
Not to mention

00:38:02.661 --> 00:38:04.911
that the undeniably
charming Miss Richardson

00:38:04.994 --> 00:38:07.536
was, by the standards
of the day,

00:38:07.620 --> 00:38:09.661
positively geriatric.

00:38:14.578 --> 00:38:17.827
But Louis cared little for
these foolish preconceptions,

00:38:17.911 --> 00:38:21.036
and in January of the year 1884,

00:38:21.119 --> 00:38:24.036
he asked Emily
for her hand in marriage.

00:38:27.494 --> 00:38:31.578
1884

00:38:34.161 --> 00:38:36.077
Trim the bottom.
Trim the bottom.

00:38:46.911 --> 00:38:49.453
- [coughs] It's dusty.
- It's a bit dusty.

00:38:49.536 --> 00:38:53.661
MRS W WAIN
ONE POUND, TEN SHILLINGS

00:38:56.994 --> 00:38:59.161
[narrator] The weeks
turned to months,

00:38:59.244 --> 00:39:01.369
and in spite of the newly
fractious relationship

00:39:01.453 --> 00:39:03.161
with his sisters,

00:39:03.244 --> 00:39:05.077
Louis quietly continued
in his endeavours

00:39:05.161 --> 00:39:06.785
to support them.

00:39:06.869 --> 00:39:09.119
Every week, he would
post a modest cheque

00:39:09.202 --> 00:39:10.620
to his dear mother,

00:39:10.702 --> 00:39:13.036
and even began to take on
private commissions

00:39:13.119 --> 00:39:14.994
as a dog portraitist,

00:39:15.077 --> 00:39:18.244
visiting dukes and duchesses,
lords and ladies,

00:39:18.328 --> 00:39:21.036
and their pampered
canine friends.

00:39:21.119 --> 00:39:24.827
At the same time,
he continued with his work

00:39:24.911 --> 00:39:27.868
covering general news
and various agricultural shows

00:39:27.951 --> 00:39:29.619
for Sir William.

00:39:29.701 --> 00:39:32.993
And thus for six
precious months,

00:39:33.076 --> 00:39:36.160
Louis and Emily
lived a perfectly normal,

00:39:36.243 --> 00:39:39.868
if societally unconscionable
married life.

00:40:06.660 --> 00:40:09.619
I gather you're an
educated woman, Mrs Wain.

00:40:11.452 --> 00:40:13.577
Yes, Doctor. I was a governess.

00:40:15.701 --> 00:40:17.701
I... I see.

00:40:18.452 --> 00:40:19.951
Well, in that case,

00:40:20.035 --> 00:40:22.035
I trust you will
understand me when I say...

00:40:23.784 --> 00:40:25.784
you have terminal
cancer of the breast.

00:40:31.368 --> 00:40:32.577
Yes, Doctor.

00:40:41.619 --> 00:40:42.826
[sighs]

00:40:49.660 --> 00:40:51.743
Just when I was starting
to enjoy it.

00:41:04.492 --> 00:41:06.117
[kitten meows]

00:41:06.200 --> 00:41:07.492
What was that?

00:41:08.075 --> 00:41:09.409
Strange.

00:41:09.492 --> 00:41:10.992
[meowing]

00:41:15.950 --> 00:41:17.451
[meowing continues]

00:41:19.159 --> 00:41:20.742
[thunder rumbles]

00:41:20.825 --> 00:41:22.200
[meowing continues]

00:41:24.200 --> 00:41:26.117
Oh, Louis, look.

00:41:27.492 --> 00:41:29.034
Hello there, little thing.

00:41:30.618 --> 00:41:32.783
- Hello.
- Hello there, cat.

00:41:32.867 --> 00:41:37.783
[Emily] You're soaking wet.
You poor little thing.

00:41:37.867 --> 00:41:40.326
Why don't you
come in the warm with us?

00:41:40.409 --> 00:41:42.742
Yeah? Hello.

00:41:42.825 --> 00:41:45.117
We'll take care of you.
Won't we, Louis?

00:41:45.825 --> 00:41:47.700
Yes, we will.

00:41:47.783 --> 00:41:50.742
Hello. Hello.

00:41:51.451 --> 00:41:52.783
Ooh.

00:41:52.867 --> 00:41:53.992
[meows]

00:41:55.783 --> 00:41:58.742
[Emily] It's all right.
It's all right.

00:41:59.867 --> 00:42:02.451
Rain. It's just raining.

00:42:07.576 --> 00:42:08.992
[thunder rumbles]

00:42:12.909 --> 00:42:14.783
- [Emily] Who's that?
- [meows]

00:42:14.867 --> 00:42:16.034
It's Louis.

00:42:17.367 --> 00:42:19.284
Got another
little towel for you.

00:42:21.075 --> 00:42:23.700
- That's better, isn't it?
- See?

00:42:23.783 --> 00:42:24.992
That's better.

00:42:26.659 --> 00:42:28.825
- That's better.
- [meows]

00:42:28.909 --> 00:42:31.117
- Hello.
- Hello.

00:42:31.200 --> 00:42:32.825
- Hello.
- Hello.

00:42:34.409 --> 00:42:35.618
[laughs]

00:42:35.700 --> 00:42:37.159
Hello.

00:42:37.242 --> 00:42:38.991
Where do you think you're going?

00:42:40.325 --> 00:42:42.491
What would you like
to be called?

00:42:42.575 --> 00:42:44.158
[Louis] Percy?

00:42:44.241 --> 00:42:46.741
- I quite like Percy.
- Paul?

00:42:46.824 --> 00:42:48.116
Not Paul.

00:42:48.908 --> 00:42:49.991
Peter?

00:42:50.533 --> 00:42:51.575
Peter.

00:42:52.741 --> 00:42:54.158
- Peter.
- Peter.

00:42:58.949 --> 00:43:00.824
[laughter]

00:43:08.241 --> 00:43:11.575
[man] It's sure to be a quick
kerfuffle when Bendigo's here

00:43:11.658 --> 00:43:13.824
with the Bendigo Shuffle!

00:43:15.658 --> 00:43:16.991
Curious little fellow, isn't he?

00:43:17.074 --> 00:43:18.533
Yes, but he's electric, Herb.

00:43:18.617 --> 00:43:20.866
Look how his fancy
all adore him.

00:43:20.949 --> 00:43:22.325
Half his opponent's size,

00:43:22.408 --> 00:43:25.699
yet he knows how to harness
the electricity of the crowd.

00:43:25.782 --> 00:43:27.617
Are you talking
about the photographers?

00:43:27.699 --> 00:43:30.866
Look properly, Herb.
The electricity.

00:43:30.949 --> 00:43:32.699
Finally, I'm starting
to understand it.

00:43:32.782 --> 00:43:35.408
[Herb] Is everything
all right at home?

00:43:35.491 --> 00:43:38.158
- With Emily, I mean?
- Oh, yes, of course.

00:43:38.241 --> 00:43:40.116
We have a new friend.
He's called Peter.

00:43:40.199 --> 00:43:42.658
- Peter?
- He's a cat. We have a cat now.

00:43:42.741 --> 00:43:45.450
- For mousing, you mean?
- No, Herb, as a pet.

00:43:45.533 --> 00:43:47.199
Okay, Louis,
I'm worried about you.

00:43:47.283 --> 00:43:50.408
- Why?
- You have a cat as a pet.

00:43:51.741 --> 00:43:53.491
Do you know the true meaning
of the phrase,

00:43:53.575 --> 00:43:56.658
"There's no time
like the present," Herb?

00:43:56.741 --> 00:43:59.741
It's that there isn't.
It's too fleeting.

00:43:59.824 --> 00:44:01.741
In fact, I have a hypothesis

00:44:01.824 --> 00:44:03.866
that electricity is what
pushes us through time.

00:44:03.949 --> 00:44:05.908
We turn the past into the future

00:44:05.991 --> 00:44:07.991
with the power
of our electricity.

00:44:08.074 --> 00:44:10.408
But that process
is entirely reversible.

00:44:10.491 --> 00:44:12.658
Remembering the past
is no different

00:44:12.741 --> 00:44:14.241
from imagining the future.

00:44:14.325 --> 00:44:16.907
And neither is different
to life itself.

00:44:16.990 --> 00:44:19.115
I can remember Emily
in the future

00:44:19.198 --> 00:44:20.657
and she will be there.

00:44:21.740 --> 00:44:23.574
Do you see
what I'm saying, Herb?

00:44:25.073 --> 00:44:26.907
Do you see what I'm saying?

00:44:28.449 --> 00:44:30.073
[cheering]

00:44:33.781 --> 00:44:38.574
[crowd] Bendigo! Bendigo!
Bendigo! Bendigo!

00:44:38.657 --> 00:44:42.865
Bendigo! Bendigo! Bendigo!

00:44:42.948 --> 00:44:45.157
[Louis] But these don't capture
the spirit of the fight,

00:44:45.240 --> 00:44:46.490
Sir William.

00:44:46.574 --> 00:44:48.698
[Sir William] Yes, they do.

00:44:48.781 --> 00:44:51.198
That's why they're in vogue.

00:44:51.282 --> 00:44:55.823
They're fast, they're cheap
and they're 100% accurate.

00:44:55.907 --> 00:44:57.740
But where is the electricity?

00:45:03.073 --> 00:45:06.449
Louis, I hear your wife
is very sick.

00:45:07.907 --> 00:45:11.657
I know that you continue to
support your mother and sisters,

00:45:11.740 --> 00:45:14.073
which is admirable, Louis,
so I'm...

00:45:14.157 --> 00:45:16.282
I'm sorry to have to say this.

00:45:16.365 --> 00:45:18.282
But it may be
that I cannot use you

00:45:18.365 --> 00:45:20.990
quite as much as I would like
for the time being.

00:45:21.073 --> 00:45:23.157
I have to get
our finances in order,

00:45:23.240 --> 00:45:26.948
and that means making
difficult, practical decisions.

00:45:27.032 --> 00:45:31.032
But my advice to you is this:

00:45:32.532 --> 00:45:35.907
Spend the time that you gain
with your wife,

00:45:36.865 --> 00:45:39.073
because when she is gone...

00:45:45.073 --> 00:45:46.365
it will hurt.

00:45:51.822 --> 00:45:53.573
These are precious weeks, Louis.

00:45:55.114 --> 00:45:56.448
Do you understand?

00:46:21.197 --> 00:46:23.197
- [Louis] Come on, Peter.
- [Emily] Come on, Peter.

00:46:23.281 --> 00:46:25.239
[Emily] Up the stairs. Come on.

00:46:25.323 --> 00:46:27.132
- [Louis] I think he's coming.
- [Emily] Peter.

00:46:27.156 --> 00:46:28.864
- Peter?
- [gasps]

00:46:29.697 --> 00:46:31.489
[Emily] Good boy.

00:46:32.364 --> 00:46:33.906
Good boy.

00:46:35.697 --> 00:46:37.239
Good boy.

00:46:39.197 --> 00:46:40.739
Well done, Peter.

00:46:40.822 --> 00:46:43.197
- Well done, Peter.
- Well done.

00:47:10.739 --> 00:47:13.531
Let's go for a walk. Yes.

00:47:17.697 --> 00:47:18.864
[meows]

00:47:24.156 --> 00:47:25.906
- After you.
- Thank you.

00:47:33.238 --> 00:47:35.988
[Louis] I think
Peter likes the oak trees.

00:47:36.071 --> 00:47:37.779
[Emily] Mm-hmm.

00:47:37.863 --> 00:47:41.238
- They're amazing, aren't they?
- [Louis] Mmm.

00:47:41.322 --> 00:47:43.530
They live for a thousand years.

00:47:44.988 --> 00:47:46.488
Three hundred years to grow.

00:47:47.363 --> 00:47:48.946
Three hundred years to live.

00:47:49.779 --> 00:47:51.488
Three hundred years to die.

00:47:53.821 --> 00:47:55.572
- [Louis] Oh, that'll do.
- [laughs]

00:47:55.655 --> 00:47:58.655
[Louis] It looks lovely.
Peter likes it now.

00:47:59.614 --> 00:48:02.113
- Don't you, Peter?
- [meows]

00:48:25.071 --> 00:48:26.572
[Louis] Electricity.

00:48:28.488 --> 00:48:30.946
I feel electricity.

00:48:33.779 --> 00:48:35.113
Can you feel it?

00:48:45.738 --> 00:48:47.238
This is our place.

00:48:49.946 --> 00:48:51.696
This is where I'll be, Louis.

00:48:52.905 --> 00:48:54.530
When you need me.

00:49:14.195 --> 00:49:16.195
[Louis, in high voice]
Stuffed mouse for lunch,

00:49:16.279 --> 00:49:17.737
Mrs Wain?

00:49:19.737 --> 00:49:21.820
No, thank you, Peter.

00:49:21.904 --> 00:49:24.654
I'm not partial to mouse,
personally.

00:49:25.487 --> 00:49:28.112
[Louis] Sparrow pie?

00:49:28.195 --> 00:49:29.695
[sighs]

00:49:29.778 --> 00:49:32.070
I don't care for sparrow either,
truth be told.

00:49:32.154 --> 00:49:34.778
- It's a bit gristly.
- Oh.

00:49:34.862 --> 00:49:38.112
- Perhaps a slice of...
- Oh, could you stop it, please?

00:49:40.070 --> 00:49:42.695
I don't have an appetite today.
I'm a bit tired.

00:49:44.778 --> 00:49:45.820
What's the matter?

00:49:48.321 --> 00:49:50.070
I have cancer, Louis.

00:49:51.613 --> 00:49:53.279
I'm in quite a lot of pain.

00:50:00.154 --> 00:50:01.446
[Louis] Ready?

00:50:01.529 --> 00:50:03.778
That depends on what
you're about to show me.

00:50:03.862 --> 00:50:05.195
[Louis] Ta-da!

00:50:07.195 --> 00:50:09.321
Oh, Louis. [Chuckles]

00:50:11.029 --> 00:50:13.945
When did you do all this?
Has Sir William seen these?

00:50:14.029 --> 00:50:16.362
Sir William hasn't seen these.
These are for you, Emily.

00:50:16.446 --> 00:50:18.195
- Well, you must show him.
- Why?

00:50:18.279 --> 00:50:21.029
Sir William doesn't care
for Peter, does he, now?

00:50:21.112 --> 00:50:23.279
And besides, I shall be...

00:50:24.862 --> 00:50:29.237
I shall be spending more time
with you while you're still...

00:50:29.321 --> 00:50:31.029
I'm the one who's ill, Louis.

00:50:32.237 --> 00:50:34.070
Don't you start wallowing
in it too.

00:50:39.695 --> 00:50:41.111
[Louis] Sir William!

00:50:44.486 --> 00:50:47.069
Sir William! Whoo-oo!

00:50:51.236 --> 00:50:52.528
Sir William!

00:50:56.111 --> 00:50:58.320
[Emily] Whoo-oo! Sir William!

00:51:01.278 --> 00:51:03.445
[Louis] Whoo-oo! Sir William!

00:51:03.528 --> 00:51:04.653
[man] Excuse me.

00:51:06.194 --> 00:51:07.570
Excuse me, sir.

00:51:07.653 --> 00:51:08.903
- Oi!
- Whoo!

00:51:08.986 --> 00:51:11.486
Oi! Stop!

00:51:13.153 --> 00:51:14.653
- Oi!
- [laughs]

00:51:14.736 --> 00:51:17.153
This club's for gentlemen only!

00:51:17.236 --> 00:51:19.861
[Emily laughs and screams]

00:51:22.694 --> 00:51:26.194
I'm sorry she wasn't allowed in,
old boy. I did try.

00:51:27.694 --> 00:51:30.944
[Louis] It wasn't a very
convincing disguise, was it?

00:51:31.028 --> 00:51:32.278
[Louis chuckles]

00:51:34.028 --> 00:51:36.278
[Sir William]
She should be at home resting.

00:51:40.986 --> 00:51:42.486
[Louis] It was her idea.

00:51:47.153 --> 00:51:48.612
CATTY MEWS

00:51:48.694 --> 00:51:49.819
[Sir William] Hmm.

00:51:49.903 --> 00:51:50.903
MILK

00:51:53.653 --> 00:51:56.612
Very sorry if we've wasted
your time, Sir William.

00:52:01.653 --> 00:52:02.861
Yes.

00:52:07.777 --> 00:52:12.153
I have two pages earmarked
in the Christmas edition.

00:52:12.236 --> 00:52:14.861
Reserved for a bit
of festive frivolity.

00:52:14.944 --> 00:52:17.360
Something to raise the spirits
of our readers.

00:52:18.611 --> 00:52:21.818
I'd like you to fill them
with cats.

00:52:22.818 --> 00:52:25.776
With... cats?

00:52:27.611 --> 00:52:30.444
Yes. With cats.

00:52:32.444 --> 00:52:34.485
Don't you think perhaps
a spread of silly dogs

00:52:34.569 --> 00:52:36.319
would be more appealing
for your readership?

00:52:36.402 --> 00:52:37.985
I've seen dogs before.

00:52:38.068 --> 00:52:43.193
And you capture
something of the cat, Louis.

00:52:43.277 --> 00:52:46.402
Perhaps because you yourself
are a bit of a renegade.

00:52:46.485 --> 00:52:48.943
An outcast, dare I say.

00:52:51.360 --> 00:52:57.110
How you've managed to conjure
images of such delight

00:52:57.860 --> 00:53:00.027
at such a dark time...

00:53:01.860 --> 00:53:03.360
I don't know.

00:53:13.818 --> 00:53:15.860
[children laughing]

00:53:19.277 --> 00:53:20.444
Merry Christmas.

00:53:25.235 --> 00:53:27.485
[boy] Illustrated London News!

00:53:28.943 --> 00:53:31.152
Illustrated London News!

00:53:53.068 --> 00:53:54.692
[Emily] Throughout history,

00:53:54.775 --> 00:53:57.901
cats have been worshipped
as mystical gods

00:53:59.526 --> 00:54:03.276
and maligned as the evil allies
of witchery and sin.

00:54:05.568 --> 00:54:08.817
But I think you're the
first person ever to see

00:54:08.901 --> 00:54:11.568
that they are
in fact ridiculous.

00:54:13.942 --> 00:54:16.276
They're silly and cuddly.

00:54:18.067 --> 00:54:19.318
And lonely.

00:54:20.651 --> 00:54:22.318
And frightened and brave.

00:54:24.192 --> 00:54:25.443
Like us.

00:54:30.276 --> 00:54:32.401
One day, I don't think
it'll be so peculiar

00:54:32.484 --> 00:54:34.692
to have a cat in the house
as a little pet.

00:54:45.026 --> 00:54:47.651
What's going on in that
funny little head of yours?

00:55:00.109 --> 00:55:01.401
Sometimes...

00:55:06.026 --> 00:55:08.318
I think about the day
you won't be here...

00:55:11.401 --> 00:55:12.568
and...

00:55:16.359 --> 00:55:17.942
I have to say, Emily,

00:55:18.026 --> 00:55:20.109
I find it intolerably
difficult to imagine.

00:55:26.026 --> 00:55:27.859
I will be so very alone.

00:55:30.941 --> 00:55:32.691
You'll be all right, Louis.

00:55:34.358 --> 00:55:35.691
You'll have Peter.

00:55:42.858 --> 00:55:46.483
This time with you, Emily...

00:55:51.358 --> 00:55:54.483
playing with Peter in the
evening, sitting by the fire...

00:55:58.400 --> 00:56:00.983
these have been the best days
of my entire life.

00:56:05.442 --> 00:56:07.983
I don't know why it is
that I find it so very difficult

00:56:08.066 --> 00:56:11.900
just being here
on this earth, but...

00:56:13.733 --> 00:56:15.733
I can say with absolute
certainty

00:56:15.816 --> 00:56:19.983
that you have made it
much, much better.

00:56:24.900 --> 00:56:26.858
You make the world beautiful...

00:56:30.191 --> 00:56:32.691
and warm and kind.

00:56:37.983 --> 00:56:41.233
I just wanted to say thank you
for that before it's too late.

00:56:46.816 --> 00:56:49.317
I don't make
the world beautiful, Louis.

00:56:52.317 --> 00:56:53.941
The world is beautiful.

00:56:56.650 --> 00:56:58.733
And you've helped me
to see that too.

00:57:03.525 --> 00:57:04.858
Just remember...

00:57:07.357 --> 00:57:10.274
hmm, however hard things get...

00:57:12.940 --> 00:57:15.357
however much you feel
like you're struggling...

00:57:18.649 --> 00:57:20.773
the world is full of beauty.

00:57:24.357 --> 00:57:26.649
And it's up to you
to capture it, Louis.

00:57:28.649 --> 00:57:29.815
To look.

00:57:32.815 --> 00:57:35.524
And to share it
with as many people as you can.

00:57:40.857 --> 00:57:42.357
You are a prism.

00:57:44.649 --> 00:57:47.232
Through which
that beam of life refracts.

00:59:35.523 --> 00:59:37.772
[clattering]

00:59:37.856 --> 00:59:40.315
[humming]

01:00:00.814 --> 01:00:02.772
Here we are.

01:00:02.856 --> 01:00:07.231
A special New Year's breakfast
for you today, Mrs Wain.

01:00:07.315 --> 01:00:09.106
Don't worry, Peter.

01:00:09.189 --> 01:00:11.064
Yes, I haven't forgotten
about your eggs.

01:00:35.564 --> 01:00:37.647
[strikes match repeatedly]

01:00:37.730 --> 01:00:39.188
[meowing]

01:01:36.938 --> 01:01:38.105
Thank you.

01:02:05.854 --> 01:02:07.687
1891

01:02:07.770 --> 01:02:11.646
Louis Wain special
in the Illustrated London News!

01:02:11.729 --> 01:02:15.271
Come and get it!
Illustrated London News!

01:02:15.354 --> 01:02:17.229
[narrator]
In the years following,

01:02:17.313 --> 01:02:19.521
Louis buried
the pain of his grief

01:02:19.605 --> 01:02:22.770
under a quite extraordinary
quantity of cat pictures.

01:02:25.187 --> 01:02:27.187
Almost without realising,

01:02:27.271 --> 01:02:29.687
he had achieved
an alarming degree of success

01:02:29.770 --> 01:02:32.062
and completely altered
the public's attitude

01:02:32.146 --> 01:02:33.729
towards the humble cat.

01:02:33.812 --> 01:02:36.313
[woman] Look! There he is!
Louis Wain!

01:02:42.229 --> 01:02:45.354
Your cats have won you
many fans, Wain.

01:02:45.438 --> 01:02:47.062
Congratulations.

01:02:47.146 --> 01:02:49.937
He says thank you,
but go easy on the sherry.

01:02:50.021 --> 01:02:52.605
You don't mind if I work
for other people, do you?

01:02:52.687 --> 01:02:54.563
[laughs] That's the cheek

01:02:54.646 --> 01:02:57.021
that's catapulted you
to fame, my boy.

01:02:57.104 --> 01:02:59.729
Oh, we've had a telegram
from Miss Judith Shenton

01:02:59.812 --> 01:03:01.479
of the National Cat Club.

01:03:01.563 --> 01:03:03.313
They're having
a kind of cat competition

01:03:03.396 --> 01:03:04.937
and would like you to judge it.

01:03:05.021 --> 01:03:06.729
[Judith]
It's so wonderful to meet

01:03:06.812 --> 01:03:08.563
a kindred spirit, Mr Wain.

01:03:08.646 --> 01:03:11.896
I've heard even gentry
are keeping cats as pets now.

01:03:11.979 --> 01:03:14.187
- Hmm.
- And so handsome too.

01:03:14.271 --> 01:03:17.271
I'm just astonished at your
level of knowledge, I really am.

01:03:17.354 --> 01:03:20.605
Although I must admit, I don't
fully understand your theory

01:03:20.687 --> 01:03:22.605
about cats preferring
to face north.

01:03:22.687 --> 01:03:24.979
Cats will always prefer
to face and walk north,

01:03:25.062 --> 01:03:26.687
especially along a wall,
you will notice.

01:03:26.770 --> 01:03:28.396
Their whiskers act as antennae,

01:03:28.479 --> 01:03:30.605
attracted to the positive poles
of the earth.

01:03:30.687 --> 01:03:32.186
The tabby's markings are defined

01:03:32.270 --> 01:03:34.186
by the electricity
of their feline heritage.

01:03:34.270 --> 01:03:35.895
This particular animal
might have had

01:03:35.978 --> 01:03:38.395
a great-grandmother
that was struck by lightning,

01:03:38.478 --> 01:03:40.686
so defined are the markings
by the jaggedy lines.

01:03:40.769 --> 01:03:43.895
- Fascinating.
- Electricity. From the head.

01:03:43.978 --> 01:03:46.478
Right down the body to the tail.

01:03:46.562 --> 01:03:48.520
Cats are excellent
conductors of electricity.

01:03:48.604 --> 01:03:50.061
Their features
are already changing

01:03:50.145 --> 01:03:52.065
as they become more domesticated
and intelligent.

01:03:52.103 --> 01:03:53.745
Their eyes will become larger,
their heads bigger

01:03:53.769 --> 01:03:55.145
as their brains grow in size.

01:03:55.228 --> 01:03:56.562
They will turn blue.

01:03:56.645 --> 01:03:58.645
Eventually, they will stand
on their own hind legs

01:03:58.728 --> 01:04:00.368
and communicate to us
in our own language.

01:04:00.437 --> 01:04:03.186
Gosh. I'd no idea
it was so complicated.

01:04:03.270 --> 01:04:04.978
Did you say
that they would turn blue?

01:04:05.061 --> 01:04:07.811
- Yes. Of course.
- Wow.

01:04:07.895 --> 01:04:10.395
Well, Mr Wain, thanks to you,

01:04:10.478 --> 01:04:12.604
us cat people
are out of the shadows

01:04:12.686 --> 01:04:15.103
and finally able to celebrate
in the open

01:04:15.186 --> 01:04:16.936
with our feline children.

01:04:17.020 --> 01:04:18.353
I'd like to thank you.

01:04:18.437 --> 01:04:19.811
Oh, sorry.

01:04:19.895 --> 01:04:21.478
Yep. Arm in.

01:04:23.103 --> 01:04:26.103
The new president
of the National Cat Club.

01:04:26.186 --> 01:04:27.520
Is that what it says?

01:04:28.562 --> 01:04:32.312
NATIONAL CAT CLUB
DEPTFORD LONDON

01:04:46.686 --> 01:04:49.006
I assumed you'd been spending
it all on frivolous luxuries.

01:04:49.061 --> 01:04:50.538
'Cause you've forgotten
about your family.

01:04:50.562 --> 01:04:52.728
Yet here you are
living in squalor and chaos!

01:04:52.811 --> 01:04:55.395
- Don't shout, Caroline!
- I am not shouting, Claire!

01:04:55.478 --> 01:04:57.186
I'm explaining
to him with force.

01:04:57.270 --> 01:05:00.061
There's a cadaver now.
It's eating a hawk.

01:05:00.145 --> 01:05:01.645
[Caroline]
Where has it all gone?

01:05:01.728 --> 01:05:04.145
[Josephine] We're in huge
amounts of debt.

01:05:04.228 --> 01:05:06.103
It's really starting to affect
Mother's health.

01:05:06.186 --> 01:05:08.852
- Where has it all gone?
- I didn't copyright the images.

01:05:09.852 --> 01:05:11.269
Oh, my God.

01:05:13.311 --> 01:05:15.519
- Oh, my God, help us, please.
- What does that mean?

01:05:15.603 --> 01:05:17.810
It means people have been
reprinting his pictures

01:05:17.894 --> 01:05:19.935
all over the country
and he hasn't seen a penny.

01:05:20.019 --> 01:05:22.311
Which explains why he is living
rather like a pig.

01:05:22.394 --> 01:05:24.144
The stench is quite unbearable.

01:05:24.227 --> 01:05:26.453
Some of the originals I have
exchanged in place of money.

01:05:26.477 --> 01:05:28.185
So, in fact, they've become

01:05:28.269 --> 01:05:30.060
a sort of currency
in themselves.

01:05:30.144 --> 01:05:32.935
I gave the barber, well,
a handful of dancing cats,

01:05:33.019 --> 01:05:35.185
and now I have free haircuts
for the rest of my life.

01:05:35.269 --> 01:05:36.852
You're not a child, Louis!

01:05:38.060 --> 01:05:39.561
You're the man.

01:05:42.269 --> 01:05:43.561
You're a man.

01:05:45.644 --> 01:05:47.727
Our parents worked hard
for our reputation.

01:05:47.810 --> 01:05:50.102
They worked hard to build
a fortune for their children,

01:05:50.185 --> 01:05:54.685
and you have squandered it
on wretched cats!

01:05:54.768 --> 01:05:58.060
And on a wilful, doomed,
tainted romance.

01:05:58.144 --> 01:06:00.685
You've destroyed our family
with your selfishness

01:06:00.768 --> 01:06:03.185
and you continue
with your childish delusions

01:06:03.269 --> 01:06:05.019
which conspire
to keep us all in penury.

01:06:05.102 --> 01:06:07.852
The indignity that we've
suffered at your hands, Louis.

01:06:07.935 --> 01:06:10.352
- I didn't do it on purpose.
- You didn't do what on purpose?

01:06:10.436 --> 01:06:12.269
You didn't get married
on purpose?

01:06:12.352 --> 01:06:13.810
[Louis mumbles]

01:06:17.352 --> 01:06:18.436
[sighs]

01:06:24.477 --> 01:06:26.810
No one told me I needed
to copyright the images.

01:06:26.894 --> 01:06:28.977
What about Sir William?
He should have advised you.

01:06:29.060 --> 01:06:31.019
I haven't seen Sir William
for some time now.

01:06:31.102 --> 01:06:33.727
- I am working for other people.
- We don't have any money, Louis.

01:06:33.810 --> 01:06:35.519
And poor Marie...

01:06:40.852 --> 01:06:41.935
What?

01:06:43.269 --> 01:06:44.269
What?

01:06:45.059 --> 01:06:46.351
Just tell him.

01:06:49.101 --> 01:06:50.476
What has happened?

01:06:55.310 --> 01:06:57.059
[Marie] They hate me, Louis.

01:06:57.143 --> 01:06:59.018
They're plotting.
They're going to murder me.

01:06:59.101 --> 01:07:01.560
- We're not going to murder you.
- Liar!

01:07:01.643 --> 01:07:04.643
They're going to throw me out
because I had relations.

01:07:04.726 --> 01:07:06.934
I had relations
in the graveyard.

01:07:07.893 --> 01:07:09.268
And we laughed.

01:07:11.184 --> 01:07:14.184
They're just jealous
because I saw heaven.

01:07:14.268 --> 01:07:16.976
And that's why I've got
the leprosy as punishment.

01:07:17.893 --> 01:07:19.518
They're all spinsters.

01:07:19.602 --> 01:07:23.101
They say it's your fault.
Because of Miss Richardson.

01:07:24.351 --> 01:07:26.393
But it's because they're ugly

01:07:26.476 --> 01:07:28.809
and they lie
and plot and scheme.

01:07:28.893 --> 01:07:31.809
Marie, why don't you
come and stay with me?

01:07:31.893 --> 01:07:35.268
- And you can play with the cats.
- No, no, no, no, not cats.

01:07:35.351 --> 01:07:37.435
They're poisonous
and they've got diseases.

01:07:37.518 --> 01:07:39.643
And I've already got leprosy.

01:07:39.726 --> 01:07:42.310
Get it off me, Louis!
Get it off me!

01:07:42.393 --> 01:07:46.268
Get it off me! Get it off me!
[sobs]

01:07:46.351 --> 01:07:48.602
[Felicie] It's going to be okay.
We're all here for you.

01:07:48.684 --> 01:07:51.143
[narrator] After a local
doctor's tentative diagnosis

01:07:51.226 --> 01:07:52.934
of schizophrenia,

01:07:53.018 --> 01:07:55.393
the Wain family had done
everything they could

01:07:55.476 --> 01:07:57.184
for poor Marie.

01:07:57.268 --> 01:07:59.518
But Louis was at a loss,

01:07:59.602 --> 01:08:02.226
and so he went to an old friend
for advice.

01:08:02.310 --> 01:08:04.767
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS

01:08:04.851 --> 01:08:06.767
[Sir William]
I have a series of properties

01:08:06.851 --> 01:08:08.809
in the village
of Westgate-on-Sea.

01:08:08.893 --> 01:08:10.476
They're quite habitable

01:08:10.560 --> 01:08:12.893
and you're welcome to stay there
for as long as you like,

01:08:12.976 --> 01:08:15.393
at a reduced rate,
on one condition.

01:08:16.893 --> 01:08:20.767
- You take your family with you.
- I...

01:08:20.851 --> 01:08:22.559
I couldn't possibly,
Sir William.

01:08:23.975 --> 01:08:26.183
Especially after I've been
so callously unloyal.

01:08:28.892 --> 01:08:32.225
I have plenty of illustrators
on my books, Mr Wain.

01:08:32.309 --> 01:08:35.933
- Don't flatter yourself.
- Why, then, Sir William?

01:08:39.142 --> 01:08:43.058
Because in spite of your
rather irregular temperament

01:08:43.142 --> 01:08:46.725
and nigglingly peculiar foibles,

01:08:46.808 --> 01:08:49.142
in this occasionally
bleak world,

01:08:49.225 --> 01:08:52.058
you have shown a resilience
that I admire.

01:08:52.142 --> 01:08:54.017
And if you must know,

01:08:54.100 --> 01:08:56.683
you've brought me rather a lot
of cheer with your pictures.

01:08:56.766 --> 01:08:58.058
Of cats?

01:08:59.017 --> 01:09:00.350
[Sir William] Mmm.

01:09:00.434 --> 01:09:02.350
But they're not just cats,
are they?

01:09:04.058 --> 01:09:06.142
You are a brave soul, Louis,

01:09:06.225 --> 01:09:08.100
but you can't do all this
on your own.

01:09:08.183 --> 01:09:11.808
It sounds to me like Marie
needs a change of scenery.

01:09:11.892 --> 01:09:15.267
Fresh clothes,
proper food, brisk walks.

01:09:21.392 --> 01:09:23.766
- Thank you. Just in there.
- Yes, sir.

01:09:23.850 --> 01:09:26.559
- [sisters] Louis!
- Hello! Hello! Hello!

01:09:26.642 --> 01:09:30.100
- It's wonderful, Louis.
- Welcome to Bendigo Lodge.

01:09:30.183 --> 01:09:31.601
BENDIGO LODGE

01:09:34.267 --> 01:09:36.142
Caroline, welcome.

01:09:36.225 --> 01:09:37.766
Louis, it's lovely.

01:09:39.517 --> 01:09:41.892
Welcome to Bendigo Lodge,
Mother.

01:09:41.975 --> 01:09:43.701
- [Claire] Ooh, Bendigo.
- [Felicie] Bendigo.

01:09:43.725 --> 01:09:44.975
It's perfect.

01:09:59.057 --> 01:10:01.724
[breathes deeply]

01:10:01.807 --> 01:10:05.765
[all] Bless us, oh, Lord,
for these, thy gifts,

01:10:05.849 --> 01:10:08.807
which we are about to receive
from thy bounty...

01:10:08.891 --> 01:10:11.641
Well done, Peter.
You show them how to eat.

01:10:11.724 --> 01:10:14.558
Very good manners. Nina, try
and slow down a little bit.

01:10:14.641 --> 01:10:16.807
You're terribly tiny to be
eating that much so quickly.

01:10:16.891 --> 01:10:18.308
Pass me your plate.

01:10:21.141 --> 01:10:22.600
Felicie, plate.

01:10:23.433 --> 01:10:26.182
That's it. Well done.

01:10:28.266 --> 01:10:30.099
We could go and walk tomorrow,

01:10:30.182 --> 01:10:32.765
wear our nice clothes
and smile at men.

01:10:32.849 --> 01:10:34.891
- [Claire] They'll run away.
- [Felicie] Run away?

01:10:34.974 --> 01:10:37.016
I don't want to run away.
We just got here.

01:10:37.099 --> 01:10:39.349
[Josephine] So what
are we looking for, then?

01:10:39.433 --> 01:10:41.349
- [Mrs Wain] A writer.
- [Josephine] Oh, no.

01:10:41.433 --> 01:10:43.474
[Mrs Wain]
Who writes for the newspaper.

01:10:43.558 --> 01:10:45.433
[Felicie] No. A doctor.

01:10:45.516 --> 01:10:47.516
[Josephine]
I would like dark hair.

01:10:47.600 --> 01:10:49.182
- [Claire] Dark hair.
- [Felicie] Blond.

01:10:49.266 --> 01:10:51.433
[Mrs Wain]
Oh, no. Untrustworthy.

01:10:51.516 --> 01:10:53.558
[excited chatter]

01:10:53.641 --> 01:10:55.974
[squealing]

01:10:56.057 --> 01:10:59.682
[Claire] Give me the pillow,
Josephine!

01:11:04.266 --> 01:11:07.099
[Louis] I think for you still
it's better beside your legs.

01:11:07.182 --> 01:11:08.433
[Felicie] That was good.

01:11:08.516 --> 01:11:10.558
[Louis] Triumph.
I get another go.

01:11:11.765 --> 01:11:13.600
- [Caroline] Shall we shell?
- [Louis groans]

01:11:15.099 --> 01:11:16.974
[meowing]

01:11:17.057 --> 01:11:18.765
- Some plates.
- Bravo.

01:11:18.849 --> 01:11:20.932
- They're a little fancy.
- Ooh.

01:11:21.016 --> 01:11:23.141
Yes, don't drop them, please.

01:11:23.224 --> 01:11:25.516
Felicie, did you see
a better knife than this?

01:11:25.600 --> 01:11:28.266
- [Felicie] Why?
- 'Cause this one's dreadful.

01:11:28.349 --> 01:11:30.141
[Felicie] All right.

01:11:30.224 --> 01:11:31.807
[Caroline] Or a sharpener.

01:11:33.308 --> 01:11:35.223
[Felicie] I'll go
and get the pie.

01:12:12.181 --> 01:12:15.056
IN NURSERYLAND WITH LOUIS WAIN

01:12:15.140 --> 01:12:17.140
THE LOUIS WAIN NURSERY BOOK

01:12:18.681 --> 01:12:20.764
DADDY CAT LOUIS WAIN

01:12:43.848 --> 01:12:45.348
[Peter meows] Louis?

01:12:49.473 --> 01:12:52.140
[Louis] It's all right.
Not long now, Peter.

01:12:54.140 --> 01:12:56.848
[Peter meows]
Where are we going?

01:12:56.931 --> 01:12:59.557
[throbbing electrical drone]

01:13:04.515 --> 01:13:06.599
[Peter meows]
Where are we going?

01:13:08.515 --> 01:13:10.389
[Mrs Wain] I think
we should stop quite soon.

01:13:10.472 --> 01:13:13.014
- [Josephine] Are you tired?
- [Mrs Wain] I'm quite tired.

01:13:20.055 --> 01:13:21.680
[Mrs Wain] Louis?

01:13:21.763 --> 01:13:22.930
- Lunch.
- Come.

01:13:23.014 --> 01:13:24.598
- Come and eat.
- Come.

01:13:26.722 --> 01:13:29.598
[Marie] I think he's trying
to divert the electricity.

01:13:29.680 --> 01:13:31.889
[Mrs Wain] Oh, that again.

01:13:31.972 --> 01:13:36.805
[squealing, laughing]

01:13:46.763 --> 01:13:48.431
[Marie] I'm scared, Louis.

01:13:53.014 --> 01:13:54.264
[Louis] Me too.

01:13:58.805 --> 01:13:59.972
[meows]

01:14:00.055 --> 01:14:01.347
[sobbing]

01:14:01.431 --> 01:14:03.514
1900

01:14:03.598 --> 01:14:06.556
[Marie] Get off me! Get off me!

01:14:06.639 --> 01:14:08.472
No, I said, get off!

01:14:09.389 --> 01:14:11.097
Let go of me!

01:14:11.180 --> 01:14:13.264
[narrator] His sisters
went several years more

01:14:13.347 --> 01:14:15.972
without finding a single suitor,

01:14:16.055 --> 01:14:18.930
and in spite of Sir William's
cheery prognosis,

01:14:19.014 --> 01:14:21.556
Marie's condition
did not improve.

01:14:21.639 --> 01:14:23.639
- Dr Elphick.
- Miss Wain.

01:14:26.889 --> 01:14:30.222
After the catastrophic marriage
of their only son,

01:14:30.306 --> 01:14:32.389
the fact that one
of their number

01:14:32.472 --> 01:14:35.264
was now officially
a raving lunatic

01:14:35.347 --> 01:14:38.722
did nothing to help
the family's social status.

01:14:38.805 --> 01:14:40.930
- Thank you, Doctor.
- All the best.

01:14:46.306 --> 01:14:51.138
[narrator] And then, his great
teacher and best friend,

01:14:51.221 --> 01:14:54.638
his dear old Peter, passed away.

01:15:06.179 --> 01:15:09.096
Like a frenzied bat
in a burning oven,

01:15:09.179 --> 01:15:12.679
Louis' heart was a screaming,
flapping mess.

01:15:12.762 --> 01:15:15.597
He wept without ceasing
for several years,

01:15:15.679 --> 01:15:17.597
but at the same time,

01:15:17.679 --> 01:15:21.179
he was overtaken by an
extraordinary new discovery,

01:15:22.430 --> 01:15:24.597
that the more intensely
he suffered,

01:15:24.679 --> 01:15:27.430
the more beautiful
his work became.

01:15:27.513 --> 01:15:29.804
He realised
that the memories he still held

01:15:29.888 --> 01:15:32.804
of his dear wife, Emily,
and darling Peter

01:15:32.888 --> 01:15:34.721
had become powerful conductors

01:15:34.804 --> 01:15:38.305
of that mysterious electricity
in the atmosphere

01:15:38.388 --> 01:15:41.179
that he had so far
been unable to harness.

01:15:42.804 --> 01:15:44.597
[thunder crashes]

01:16:17.762 --> 01:16:20.846
[panting]

01:16:40.678 --> 01:16:42.387
[thunder crashes]

01:16:45.387 --> 01:16:47.012
- Mr Wain?
- [Louis] Hmm?

01:16:47.095 --> 01:16:49.178
Are you aware of the reason
I've been summoned?

01:16:49.262 --> 01:16:50.720
I assume it's to inform us

01:16:50.803 --> 01:16:52.637
on how Marie is doing
in the asylum.

01:16:52.720 --> 01:16:55.345
That or to conduct a study on
the neural evolution of my cats.

01:16:55.429 --> 01:16:58.470
Bridget's already halfway
to talking. Aren't you, Bridget?

01:16:58.554 --> 01:17:02.012
I'm afraid not, Mr Wain.
Although since you ask,

01:17:02.095 --> 01:17:04.137
Marie seems to be
coping much better of late.

01:17:04.220 --> 01:17:05.761
[Louis] I'm very glad
to hear it.

01:17:05.845 --> 01:17:07.596
I have been working
on a psychiatric patent

01:17:07.678 --> 01:17:09.304
that I meant to show you.

01:17:09.387 --> 01:17:11.761
- It's for an electric suit.
- An electric suit?

01:17:11.845 --> 01:17:13.845
Full body suit.
Made of copper and silken steel.

01:17:13.928 --> 01:17:15.845
Attached to a large
mechanical motor

01:17:15.928 --> 01:17:17.512
that transmits
a positive current

01:17:17.596 --> 01:17:19.512
through the nervous system
and into the brain,

01:17:19.596 --> 01:17:21.280
thus curing the patient
of all harmful thoughts

01:17:21.304 --> 01:17:22.887
and eradicating
their lunacies entirely.

01:17:22.970 --> 01:17:24.637
Would you care
to take a look at it?

01:17:24.720 --> 01:17:27.220
- No, thank you, Mr Wain.
- That's a shame.

01:17:27.304 --> 01:17:28.928
I think there's
a very high chance

01:17:29.012 --> 01:17:31.220
that it could cure Marie
entirely of her sickness.

01:17:33.345 --> 01:17:35.304
I've been called here, Mr Wain,

01:17:35.387 --> 01:17:38.345
because your sister Caroline
is concerned for your health.

01:17:38.429 --> 01:17:40.887
My health? Why would she be
concerned about my health?

01:17:40.970 --> 01:17:43.220
It's not just Caroline
who is concerned, Louis.

01:17:43.304 --> 01:17:45.095
I understand you're
planning a trip, Mr Wain?

01:17:45.178 --> 01:17:46.845
Indeed. I have sent

01:17:46.928 --> 01:17:48.928
some colourful missives
to several publications,

01:17:49.012 --> 01:17:50.429
including some new examples.

01:17:50.512 --> 01:17:52.637
More electrically
influenced samplings.

01:17:52.720 --> 01:17:55.678
I'm happy to say
the great William Hearst

01:17:55.761 --> 01:17:58.387
of the New York American
has offered me a full-time post

01:17:58.470 --> 01:18:00.386
as their cartoonist
at a considerable fee.

01:18:00.469 --> 01:18:03.219
Why do you have to go
to New York? It's too far.

01:18:03.303 --> 01:18:04.844
Over 3,000 miles.

01:18:04.927 --> 01:18:06.844
Because, as you are
all so keen to remind me,

01:18:06.927 --> 01:18:08.469
we are lacking in funds
at the minute.

01:18:08.553 --> 01:18:10.927
This is not our house.
We are in debt.

01:18:11.011 --> 01:18:12.553
And for a variety of reasons

01:18:12.636 --> 01:18:14.303
that we are very well
acquainted with,

01:18:14.386 --> 01:18:17.802
my work is currently
of little value on these shores.

01:18:17.886 --> 01:18:19.844
What's more,
the people of America

01:18:19.927 --> 01:18:22.303
are light years behind
in their attitude towards cats.

01:18:22.386 --> 01:18:24.070
I assume you've been reading
about Roosevelt

01:18:24.094 --> 01:18:26.237
and his Gentlemen's Agreement
with the people of Japan.

01:18:26.261 --> 01:18:27.612
Japanese children
will now be taught

01:18:27.636 --> 01:18:29.516
in the same school
as their American compatriots

01:18:29.595 --> 01:18:31.275
and their immigrant parents
can freely roam

01:18:31.303 --> 01:18:33.344
in the streets of America,
but can their cats?

01:18:33.428 --> 01:18:35.677
I have helped this country
a great deal in this regard.

01:18:35.760 --> 01:18:37.469
Now I must help
the cats of America.

01:18:37.553 --> 01:18:39.677
For better or worse,
Dr Elphick, I am a prism

01:18:39.760 --> 01:18:41.844
and a transformative funnel
for negative electricity.

01:18:41.927 --> 01:18:43.177
In these tumultuous times,

01:18:43.261 --> 01:18:44.941
I want to make the people
of America smile.

01:18:44.969 --> 01:18:46.571
I've never seen an American
smile in my life.

01:18:46.595 --> 01:18:47.927
You have never seen an American.

01:18:48.011 --> 01:18:49.219
It's time to change that.

01:18:49.303 --> 01:18:50.636
The only reason
that you are here

01:18:50.719 --> 01:18:52.136
is my sister has summoned you

01:18:52.219 --> 01:18:53.636
because she is extremely jealous

01:18:53.719 --> 01:18:55.386
and has been
since I was 12 years old

01:18:55.469 --> 01:18:58.052
and will do anything to prevent
me reaching my full potential.

01:18:59.844 --> 01:19:03.719
Mr Wain, there is no question
that you are delusional.

01:19:03.802 --> 01:19:05.469
But mere delusions of grandeur

01:19:05.553 --> 01:19:07.844
are not sufficient reason
to commit you to hospital.

01:19:07.927 --> 01:19:11.386
I would quite strongly advise
against your trip to New York.

01:19:11.469 --> 01:19:13.261
I'd suggest you stay here
to rest,

01:19:13.344 --> 01:19:15.011
gain a little perspective

01:19:15.094 --> 01:19:17.553
before you proceed to the
next chapter of your life.

01:19:17.636 --> 01:19:19.261
But ultimately,
the choice is yours.

01:19:35.636 --> 01:19:38.635
[Mrs Wain] You can run away
from your family, Louis.

01:19:40.468 --> 01:19:42.718
You cannot run away
from your grief.

01:19:45.552 --> 01:19:47.343
It trails you.

01:19:48.759 --> 01:19:51.093
Like a violent shadow.

01:19:59.635 --> 01:20:04.218
1907

01:20:14.843 --> 01:20:16.759
You, sir, you seem
like the kind of man

01:20:16.843 --> 01:20:18.468
who wants to keep up
with the times.

01:20:18.552 --> 01:20:20.176
The New York Times.

01:20:47.843 --> 01:20:49.385
[man] Chateau Guiraud. Hurry up.

01:20:49.468 --> 01:20:50.552
Yes, sir, yes.

01:20:50.635 --> 01:20:52.552
[narrator] Upon arriving
in New York,

01:20:52.635 --> 01:20:55.218
Louis was immediately struck
by a palpable difference

01:20:55.302 --> 01:20:57.968
in the material content
of the atmosphere.

01:20:58.051 --> 01:21:00.552
It was clear
that this was a city

01:21:00.635 --> 01:21:03.176
with an enormous surfeit
of electrical energy.

01:21:03.260 --> 01:21:04.926
Get those drinks
to table nine now.

01:21:05.010 --> 01:21:06.010
Yes, sir.

01:21:07.302 --> 01:21:09.759
Every cat fancier knows
puss loves nothing more

01:21:09.843 --> 01:21:11.718
than to sit
on a piece of brown paper.

01:21:11.801 --> 01:21:14.800
Cats are aware of the dangers
of electrical rheumatism,

01:21:14.884 --> 01:21:17.217
and of course if you ever need
to punish a cat,

01:21:17.301 --> 01:21:19.925
you could just crumple the paper
to make the sound of thunder.

01:21:20.009 --> 01:21:22.551
- Do cats get rheumatism?
- Yes, of course, Miss Simmonds.

01:21:22.634 --> 01:21:27.050
Mr Wain, we have been showing
your cat pictures to our staff.

01:21:27.134 --> 01:21:29.509
They've been laughing.
They've been smiling.

01:21:29.593 --> 01:21:31.509
Tell him, Alicia.
Tell him I'm not lying.

01:21:31.593 --> 01:21:34.509
One of our typists, she took
some your pictures to her kids

01:21:34.593 --> 01:21:36.842
and she said that
they were running about

01:21:36.925 --> 01:21:39.467
on their hands and knees,
pretending to be cats.

01:21:39.551 --> 01:21:42.217
Pretending to be cats! How cute!

01:21:42.301 --> 01:21:45.301
[Alicia] And asking to have cats
for their birthday.

01:21:45.384 --> 01:21:47.758
We're gonna get you out there.
You're a personality.

01:21:47.842 --> 01:21:51.884
Wouldn't you say, Alicia, honey?
You're Mr Cat.

01:21:51.967 --> 01:21:53.675
- You're Cat Man.
- [Alicia] Cat Man.

01:21:53.758 --> 01:21:56.092
- He's Cat Man.
- Cat Man.

01:21:56.175 --> 01:21:58.551
[Alicia] I think that has
a certain ring to it.

01:21:59.925 --> 01:22:02.384
But I like Louis Wain.

01:22:03.467 --> 01:22:05.593
I think that has
a certain ring to it too.

01:22:06.717 --> 01:22:08.342
[meowing]

01:22:08.426 --> 01:22:10.342
Can I ask you a question,
Mr Wain?

01:22:11.384 --> 01:22:12.842
Why cats?

01:22:15.009 --> 01:22:17.426
[static on radio]

01:22:30.675 --> 01:22:32.758
[Emily] Just remember,

01:22:32.842 --> 01:22:34.675
however hard things get,

01:22:34.758 --> 01:22:37.384
however much you feel
like you're struggling...

01:22:38.509 --> 01:22:40.842
the world is full of beauty.

01:22:42.426 --> 01:22:44.675
And it's up to you
to capture it, Louis.

01:22:45.967 --> 01:22:47.842
To look.

01:22:47.925 --> 01:22:50.841
And to share it
with as many people as you can.

01:22:50.924 --> 01:22:54.550
[distorted meowing]

01:22:56.174 --> 01:22:57.174
[gasps]

01:22:59.799 --> 01:23:02.049
[breathes heavily]

01:23:04.841 --> 01:23:06.383
You all right, Mr Wain?

01:23:07.799 --> 01:23:10.383
[Louis] Her whispers come
in the leafy tickle of the wind,

01:23:10.466 --> 01:23:14.592
or the wet crackle
of the electric rain.

01:23:14.674 --> 01:23:16.841
And at night, I turn the dial
of the wireless,

01:23:16.924 --> 01:23:19.508
hoping to catch clues
in the atmospheric electricity

01:23:19.592 --> 01:23:21.341
that comes from the afterlife.

01:23:21.425 --> 01:23:24.300
How to continue
with this crusade?

01:23:24.383 --> 01:23:27.341
For it was Emily
who first taught me

01:23:27.425 --> 01:23:29.216
the true nature of cats.

01:23:30.341 --> 01:23:31.966
The true value of cats.

01:23:32.049 --> 01:23:33.633
It is only
through understanding cats,

01:23:33.716 --> 01:23:35.466
how they are misunderstood
and mistreated,

01:23:35.550 --> 01:23:37.633
for no other reason
than simple blind prejudice,

01:23:37.716 --> 01:23:40.466
that I came to understand
human beings.

01:23:41.799 --> 01:23:45.008
How we are all corrupted
by a foul form of electricity.

01:23:45.091 --> 01:23:47.049
And it is only through the work

01:23:47.133 --> 01:23:49.174
of those who have
the transformative gift

01:23:49.258 --> 01:23:51.799
that we can defeat it.

01:23:51.883 --> 01:23:55.466
Without change, we are
a fallen species with no future,

01:23:55.550 --> 01:23:58.883
an animal whose only instinct
is to destroy!

01:24:00.008 --> 01:24:01.757
[Caroline] Dear Louis.

01:24:01.841 --> 01:24:05.841
After a long and valiant
struggle with the influenza,

01:24:05.924 --> 01:24:09.133
our mother passed away
at 11:36 this morning.

01:24:09.216 --> 01:24:10.216
[knock on door]

01:24:11.633 --> 01:24:15.341
Even in her dying weeks,
she lived at her own rhythm,

01:24:15.425 --> 01:24:17.883
and regaled us
with stories about our father

01:24:17.966 --> 01:24:20.425
and their time together
as young lovers in London.

01:24:21.757 --> 01:24:25.382
She spoke of how dearly
she had missed you

01:24:25.465 --> 01:24:27.923
but understood
that you had gone on your trip

01:24:28.007 --> 01:24:30.591
for the good of the family.

01:24:30.673 --> 01:24:33.507
I hadn't shared with her
the truth about our finances.

01:24:35.382 --> 01:24:38.424
But, Louis,
I'm writing to you now

01:24:38.507 --> 01:24:40.798
because I want you to come home.

01:24:42.424 --> 01:24:44.382
I know we've had
our differences,

01:24:44.465 --> 01:24:46.090
but we're getting old.

01:24:46.173 --> 01:24:48.007
[thunder crashes]

01:24:48.090 --> 01:24:51.632
And you've been too far away
for too long.

01:24:51.715 --> 01:24:53.382
Meow. Ha, ha, ha.

01:24:53.465 --> 01:24:55.798
Your sister, Caroline.

01:24:55.882 --> 01:24:57.382
It's funny. It's funny.

01:25:02.257 --> 01:25:03.882
[ship creaks]

01:25:05.591 --> 01:25:06.840
[waves crash]

01:25:11.132 --> 01:25:13.340
[thunder crashes]

01:25:24.090 --> 01:25:26.132
Hello?

01:25:26.215 --> 01:25:28.673
Let me out!

01:25:28.756 --> 01:25:30.923
It's not safe!

01:25:47.048 --> 01:25:49.965
Help! We're... We're sinking!
We're sinking!

01:25:50.048 --> 01:25:52.173
Help me, please!

01:25:52.257 --> 01:25:57.257
Please, help me!
Help me! Help me!

01:25:57.340 --> 01:25:59.465
Please! Please!

01:25:59.549 --> 01:26:01.632
Mummy! Daddy!

01:26:01.714 --> 01:26:06.006
Help me! Help me! Help me!

01:26:06.089 --> 01:26:08.089
Help me!

01:26:20.506 --> 01:26:21.590
Just remember...

01:26:25.214 --> 01:26:27.214
[inaudible]

01:26:36.423 --> 01:26:38.089
Just remember...

01:26:39.089 --> 01:26:40.714
[Louis] Mummy!

01:26:42.214 --> 01:26:43.631
Daddy!

01:26:46.423 --> 01:26:50.464
Help me! Please!

01:26:52.131 --> 01:26:55.672
I'm drowning!

01:26:56.590 --> 01:26:58.423
[sobbing]

01:27:06.590 --> 01:27:11.672
1914

01:27:27.590 --> 01:27:29.006
[cat meows]

01:27:35.755 --> 01:27:36.964
[meows]

01:27:41.088 --> 01:27:43.171
[narrator]
You would be excused for hoping

01:27:43.255 --> 01:27:47.130
that this is where Mr Wain's
fortunes would change.

01:27:47.213 --> 01:27:51.171
But, alas, a few years
after the death of his mother,

01:27:51.255 --> 01:27:55.088
poor Marie was also taken
by the dreaded influenza.

01:27:56.963 --> 01:27:59.589
While the creaking heart
of his friend and mentor,

01:27:59.671 --> 01:28:01.796
the generous Sir William Ingram,

01:28:01.880 --> 01:28:04.338
finally gave in to his gout.

01:28:05.547 --> 01:28:07.422
Louis had continued to display

01:28:07.505 --> 01:28:09.713
a woeful lack
of financial acumen,

01:28:09.796 --> 01:28:11.754
and the family sank ever deeper

01:28:11.838 --> 01:28:13.796
in the quicksand of their debts.

01:28:16.589 --> 01:28:18.630
[horn blares]

01:28:18.713 --> 01:28:21.130
And then,
when attempting one day

01:28:21.213 --> 01:28:23.171
to dismount
from a moving omnibus,

01:28:23.255 --> 01:28:26.505
he fell head first
into a profound coma

01:28:26.589 --> 01:28:30.171
and saw a vision
of the year 1999.

01:28:45.380 --> 01:28:48.380
To everyone's surprise,
his lucky futurist cats

01:28:48.463 --> 01:28:50.213
were a great success

01:28:50.297 --> 01:28:53.422
and orders were made
all across Europe.

01:28:53.505 --> 01:28:55.005
But, at the same time,

01:28:55.088 --> 01:28:57.297
negative electricity
around the globe

01:28:57.380 --> 01:28:59.422
had risen to a critical level

01:28:59.505 --> 01:29:02.338
and military tensions
blistered into a state of war.

01:29:05.921 --> 01:29:08.589
He had worked tirelessly
for several months,

01:29:08.671 --> 01:29:11.088
but almost all of his cargo
was destroyed

01:29:11.171 --> 01:29:13.963
by a German U-boat
in the North Sea.

01:29:14.046 --> 01:29:15.962
[newsreader] A number
of British cargo ships

01:29:16.045 --> 01:29:17.962
have been sunk
by German submarines,

01:29:18.045 --> 01:29:20.004
leaving thousands of pounds
worth of merchandise

01:29:20.087 --> 01:29:22.629
to rest at the bottom
of the North Sea.

01:29:22.712 --> 01:29:24.753
Initial reports imply
that these vessels

01:29:24.837 --> 01:29:26.670
were caught in a crossfire...

01:29:37.170 --> 01:29:40.170
[electrical buzz]

01:29:56.546 --> 01:29:57.795
[meowing]

01:29:59.379 --> 01:30:00.462
Louis?

01:30:04.629 --> 01:30:06.670
Caroline would like to see you.

01:30:06.753 --> 01:30:08.546
[meowing]

01:30:14.296 --> 01:30:17.129
[Caroline] Louis, sit down.

01:30:32.212 --> 01:30:35.087
[sobbing]

01:30:36.837 --> 01:30:38.546
I want you to know that...

01:30:46.879 --> 01:30:49.462
I want you to know
that I'm very proud of you.

01:30:51.128 --> 01:30:53.711
[sobbing]

01:31:02.628 --> 01:31:05.253
[sobbing continues]

01:31:08.378 --> 01:31:10.669
[Josephine] Shh. Shh.

01:31:14.711 --> 01:31:17.044
[Josephine] Enough!
Louis, enough!

01:31:17.128 --> 01:31:19.461
[sisters shouting]

01:31:20.169 --> 01:31:21.295
[Claire] Louis!

01:31:21.378 --> 01:31:22.420
[meows]

01:31:22.503 --> 01:31:24.044
[shouting continues]

01:31:24.128 --> 01:31:26.086
[Louis shouts]

01:31:26.169 --> 01:31:28.086
Stop it, Louis, please!
Calm down!

01:31:28.169 --> 01:31:31.295
Louis! Louis! Louis! Stop it!

01:31:34.336 --> 01:31:37.711
[Emily] Cats have been
worshipped as mystical gods

01:31:39.461 --> 01:31:43.044
and maligned as the evil allies
of witchery and sin.

01:31:45.461 --> 01:31:48.711
But I think you're
the first person ever to see

01:31:48.794 --> 01:31:51.378
that they are
in fact ridiculous.

01:31:53.628 --> 01:31:56.378
They're silly and cuddly.

01:31:57.794 --> 01:31:59.086
And lonely.

01:32:00.295 --> 01:32:02.378
Frightened and brave.

01:32:03.794 --> 01:32:05.378
Like us.

01:32:07.211 --> 01:32:10.253
[shouting continues]

01:32:13.086 --> 01:32:15.836
What's going on in that
funny little head of yours?

01:33:26.419 --> 01:33:27.918
[Louis] Much better.

01:33:29.460 --> 01:33:31.544
You make the world beautiful.

01:33:33.127 --> 01:33:35.627
And warm. And kind.

01:33:37.294 --> 01:33:40.460
I just wanted to say thank you
for that before it's too late.

01:33:43.168 --> 01:33:45.960
[Emily] I don't make
the world beautiful, Louis.

01:33:48.793 --> 01:33:50.377
The world is beautiful.

01:33:53.127 --> 01:33:55.252
And you've helped me
to see that too.

01:34:01.710 --> 01:34:06.585
[woman] I'll take you to
what we call the paupers' ward.

01:34:06.667 --> 01:34:10.585
For, um... Well,
for obvious reasons.

01:34:10.667 --> 01:34:13.585
I assure you, the patients
are taken care of

01:34:13.667 --> 01:34:15.667
in a perfectly
professional manner.

01:34:15.750 --> 01:34:17.251
1925

01:34:17.334 --> 01:34:20.543
I hope you will report
favourably

01:34:20.626 --> 01:34:22.834
back to the committee
you volunteer for?

01:34:22.917 --> 01:34:26.042
I'm here to assess the welfare
of your patients, Dr Cooke,

01:34:26.126 --> 01:34:27.792
and the running
of your hospital.

01:34:27.876 --> 01:34:30.334
Not just on behalf
of my fellow committee members

01:34:30.418 --> 01:34:32.334
but on behalf of the government.

01:34:32.418 --> 01:34:35.167
So I shall report back

01:34:35.251 --> 01:34:38.501
- according to what I find.
- Indeed.

01:34:38.585 --> 01:34:41.543
What is the average length
of stay here at Springfield?

01:34:41.626 --> 01:34:45.667
Have you had much success
with turning patients out?

01:34:45.750 --> 01:34:47.792
We have had some successes.

01:34:47.876 --> 01:34:50.167
But it depends partly
on the patient's willingness

01:34:50.251 --> 01:34:51.876
to cooperate.

01:34:51.959 --> 01:34:54.376
And as you can imagine,
Mr Rider,

01:34:54.459 --> 01:34:57.251
that varies widely
from person to person.

01:34:58.959 --> 01:35:00.626
[Rider] Louis Wain.

01:35:00.709 --> 01:35:05.376
Yes. This is Mr Louis Wain.

01:35:06.750 --> 01:35:10.042
You might remember his rather
charming cat pictures

01:35:10.126 --> 01:35:12.959
from all those years ago.

01:35:15.626 --> 01:35:17.376
How are you, Mr Wain?

01:35:21.626 --> 01:35:24.418
It's, uh... It's me.

01:35:26.543 --> 01:35:30.042
Dan Rider. We met on the train
back from Andover.

01:35:30.126 --> 01:35:34.418
I had my...
my sister's Pomeranian with me.

01:35:35.585 --> 01:35:36.876
Cleopatra.

01:35:39.376 --> 01:35:40.749
Cleopatra?

01:35:40.833 --> 01:35:41.916
Yes.

01:35:50.417 --> 01:35:52.584
I'd no idea you were
a patient here, Mr Wain.

01:35:52.666 --> 01:35:55.000
He is, I'm afraid, quite insane.

01:35:55.083 --> 01:35:57.875
Uh, but we do our best
to look after him.

01:35:59.125 --> 01:36:02.458
Very sad, isn't it, Mr Rider?

01:36:02.542 --> 01:36:04.542
He seems almost entirely

01:36:04.625 --> 01:36:06.625
to have lost a handle
on his craft.

01:36:13.749 --> 01:36:15.584
Do you like it here, Mr Wain?

01:36:19.083 --> 01:36:20.749
There are no cats.

01:36:23.166 --> 01:36:26.791
I cannot see... outside.

01:36:29.833 --> 01:36:32.666
Oh. That must be
rather difficult

01:36:32.749 --> 01:36:35.542
for someone like you, Mr Wain,

01:36:35.625 --> 01:36:38.833
who's spent his entire life
examining the world,

01:36:38.916 --> 01:36:42.666
suddenly not to see it.

01:36:50.916 --> 01:36:52.166
[sighs]

01:36:55.458 --> 01:36:57.250
[whimpers]

01:37:02.417 --> 01:37:03.791
[Louis moans]

01:37:08.083 --> 01:37:10.250
I have failed.

01:37:13.666 --> 01:37:14.833
I've...

01:37:17.082 --> 01:37:21.915
I have failed her, Mr Rider.

01:37:23.457 --> 01:37:25.665
I don't think you have failed,
Mr Wain...

01:37:26.624 --> 01:37:28.374
from what you have been saying.

01:37:33.541 --> 01:37:36.291
Why do you think
Emily wanted you

01:37:36.374 --> 01:37:38.665
to keep painting pictures,
Mr Wain?

01:37:41.457 --> 01:37:43.457
To help people.

01:37:46.040 --> 01:37:47.541
To show them.

01:37:48.332 --> 01:37:50.291
Perhaps.

01:37:50.374 --> 01:37:52.583
And there's no doubt
that you've done that.

01:37:53.832 --> 01:37:56.665
But I have a rather
different theory.

01:38:01.790 --> 01:38:05.624
I think she wanted you
to keep painting

01:38:08.291 --> 01:38:10.124
so you would not be alone.

01:38:19.832 --> 01:38:24.832
When you paint, Mr Wain,
you connect with other people

01:38:24.915 --> 01:38:27.583
and you give them
a piece of yourself,

01:38:27.665 --> 01:38:32.957
but... they are also
connecting with you.

01:38:35.541 --> 01:38:39.499
And that electricity
that you describe...

01:38:42.665 --> 01:38:44.957
that you felt
in the presence of Emily,

01:38:46.583 --> 01:38:48.748
I'd call that love, Mr Wain.

01:38:54.373 --> 01:38:56.081
And that is still here.

01:39:13.290 --> 01:39:15.498
[narrator] With the help
of the Wain sisters,

01:39:15.582 --> 01:39:18.290
the plucky Mr Rider
decided to start a fund

01:39:18.373 --> 01:39:19.998
in support of Louis

01:39:20.081 --> 01:39:22.039
and to raise enough money
to move him

01:39:22.123 --> 01:39:24.706
to a much more comfortable
hospital in the countryside,

01:39:24.789 --> 01:39:26.540
where they allowed
their patients

01:39:26.623 --> 01:39:28.331
to keep cats for comfort.

01:39:29.498 --> 01:39:31.498
They were joined
by Wain enthusiasts

01:39:31.582 --> 01:39:33.039
up and down the country

01:39:33.123 --> 01:39:34.831
and even received the help

01:39:34.914 --> 01:39:36.914
of some more influential fans,

01:39:36.998 --> 01:39:39.706
like the renowned
author HG Wells,

01:39:39.789 --> 01:39:41.623
who made a national plea

01:39:41.706 --> 01:39:44.039
on behalf
of the Louis Wain fund.

01:39:44.123 --> 01:39:48.290
[HG Wells] The artist Louis Wain
made the cat his own.

01:39:48.373 --> 01:39:51.206
He invented a cat style.

01:39:51.290 --> 01:39:53.248
A cat society.

01:39:53.331 --> 01:39:56.623
A whole cat world.

01:39:56.706 --> 01:40:00.290
Cats that do not look and live
like Louis Wain cats

01:40:00.373 --> 01:40:02.706
are ashamed of themselves.

01:40:02.789 --> 01:40:04.331
But now,

01:40:05.789 --> 01:40:09.290
as he approaches
the end of his own life,

01:40:09.373 --> 01:40:13.206
Mr Wain and his sisters
desperately require

01:40:13.290 --> 01:40:15.789
the most generous help
of cat lovers

01:40:15.873 --> 01:40:18.831
and right-thinking
people everywhere.

01:40:18.914 --> 01:40:23.331
CONTRIBUTE TO THE
LOUIS WAIN FUND

01:40:24.290 --> 01:40:26.248
[narrator] For Louis Wain,

01:40:26.331 --> 01:40:28.873
electricity was not just
something that we use

01:40:28.956 --> 01:40:32.539
to make toast or to power
a bulb in the bathroom.

01:40:32.622 --> 01:40:34.455
It was something bigger,

01:40:34.539 --> 01:40:36.955
something so extraordinary
and strange

01:40:37.038 --> 01:40:40.455
that the human mind was barely
able even to comprehend it.

01:40:41.788 --> 01:40:45.414
A mysterious elemental force
that on occasion,

01:40:45.497 --> 01:40:48.497
he could feel shimmering
in the ether,

01:40:48.581 --> 01:40:51.289
and the key to all
of life's most profound

01:40:51.372 --> 01:40:53.372
and alarming secrets.

01:44:07.953 --> 01:45:09.287
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