1 00:00:34,869 --> 00:00:37,663 -Charles Darnay. The nephew. -He's gone. 2 00:00:39,248 --> 00:00:40,249 Where? 3 00:00:50,593 --> 00:00:52,219 I buried my memories. 4 00:05:03,137 --> 00:05:07,057 National Assembly Decree - All aristocrats who abandon France 5 00:05:07,141 --> 00:05:10,894 shall be put to death upon their return. 6 00:05:11,228 --> 00:05:12,312 Next. 7 00:05:15,065 --> 00:05:17,234 -Name? -Charles Darnay. 8 00:05:24,825 --> 00:05:26,910 Seize him. 9 00:05:27,411 --> 00:05:28,454 What's happening? 10 00:05:29,038 --> 00:05:30,080 What is this? 11 00:05:30,372 --> 00:05:34,668 Charles Darnay, I arrest you for crimes against the Revolution. 12 00:05:34,877 --> 00:05:36,545 -What crimes? -Move. 13 00:05:36,628 --> 00:05:38,505 I haven't commited any crimes, this is a mistake. 14 00:10:26,918 --> 00:10:29,129 Where are you taking me? 15 00:10:30,464 --> 00:10:32,674 You cannot hold me here without charge. 16 00:10:42,684 --> 00:10:45,145 At least tell me my accuser's name. 17 00:10:47,314 --> 00:10:48,565 Who accuses me? 18 00:10:51,318 --> 00:10:52,694 Monsieur Charles? 19 00:10:55,322 --> 00:10:56,490 Théophile. 20 00:11:01,536 --> 00:11:02,579 You're alive. 21 00:11:02,662 --> 00:11:05,332 Monsieur Charles. What are you doing here? 22 00:11:06,875 --> 00:11:09,169 I came direct from London as soon as I received your letter. 23 00:11:09,836 --> 00:11:13,006 Letter? I sent no letter. 24 00:11:19,179 --> 00:11:20,847 Sit down, sit down. 25 00:12:14,568 --> 00:12:17,821 Citizens, prepare your papers. 26 00:12:18,196 --> 00:12:20,699 Enemies of the Republic will be arrested. 27 00:14:48,597 --> 00:14:50,056 Are you finished with this one? 28 00:14:59,858 --> 00:15:00,900 Thank you. 29 00:15:08,783 --> 00:15:09,784 Thérèse? 30 00:15:13,955 --> 00:15:16,041 For a moment, I thought… 31 00:15:17,584 --> 00:15:20,503 Another bottle for our friend here, on the house. 32 00:15:20,879 --> 00:15:22,631 What are you waiting for? 33 00:15:26,718 --> 00:15:28,386 What are you making, madame? 34 00:15:31,556 --> 00:15:33,183 A shroud. 35 00:15:34,059 --> 00:15:35,685 We all make shrouds now. 36 00:15:38,521 --> 00:15:39,856 Will there be anything else? 37 00:18:41,830 --> 00:18:45,083 -Here. Eat. -You have mine. 38 00:18:46,459 --> 00:18:50,338 Don't worry about me. I've got a side of beef roasting in the oven. 39 00:18:53,132 --> 00:18:56,970 You remember the banquets your father and uncle would throw? 40 00:18:57,804 --> 00:19:03,184 Whole gilded birds. Fish poached in champagne. 41 00:19:08,898 --> 00:19:10,316 Rest. 42 00:19:13,695 --> 00:19:16,281 I'm going to get you out of here. 43 00:19:18,283 --> 00:19:21,619 If they don't acquit you, we'll escape. 44 00:19:23,162 --> 00:19:25,540 But you won't be punished for my family's crimes. 45 00:20:43,701 --> 00:20:45,286 Move. Back to your cell. 46 00:24:41,689 --> 00:24:42,899 Silence. 47 00:24:44,901 --> 00:24:46,777 Silence! 48 00:24:50,114 --> 00:24:52,366 Charles Darnay to the bar. 49 00:25:10,927 --> 00:25:11,969 My love. 50 00:25:14,222 --> 00:25:15,348 Charles Darnay. 51 00:25:15,514 --> 00:25:18,768 You have attempted to hide your true identity. 52 00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:21,938 Your name is, in fact, Evremonde. 53 00:25:25,233 --> 00:25:26,275 Silence. 54 00:25:29,946 --> 00:25:31,072 Silence! 55 00:25:33,032 --> 00:25:34,533 Following your uncle's death… 56 00:25:34,617 --> 00:25:38,412 you inherited the title of Marquis d'Evremonde. 57 00:25:39,247 --> 00:25:40,748 As an aristocrat… 58 00:25:41,207 --> 00:25:42,291 and an emigrant… 59 00:25:42,667 --> 00:25:46,254 your life now lies in the hands of the Republic. 60 00:25:56,931 --> 00:25:58,975 What do you have to say in your defence? 61 00:26:02,561 --> 00:26:08,150 Only that I renounced my name and title ten years ago. 62 00:26:09,986 --> 00:26:11,487 They shamed me then. 63 00:26:12,613 --> 00:26:13,906 They shame me now. 64 00:26:14,490 --> 00:26:16,867 Do you have a witness who can vouch for this? 65 00:26:19,996 --> 00:26:21,455 Not any more. 66 00:26:23,207 --> 00:26:24,709 He died yesterday. In my arms. 67 00:26:28,296 --> 00:26:30,089 I am no traitor. 68 00:26:30,756 --> 00:26:32,174 I am no traitor! 69 00:26:33,301 --> 00:26:37,555 I rejected the privilege of my birthright years ago. 70 00:26:38,639 --> 00:26:41,183 I have always believed in freedom. 71 00:26:41,809 --> 00:26:43,811 The rights of all men. 72 00:26:45,646 --> 00:26:49,608 And I fought alongside our American brothers. 73 00:26:49,692 --> 00:26:52,194 From the beginning of their own revolution… 74 00:26:53,612 --> 00:26:55,781 ..and long before the armies of France. 75 00:26:58,617 --> 00:27:01,620 And our Revolution? Do you believe in that? 76 00:27:03,247 --> 00:27:04,540 I did believe. 77 00:27:05,166 --> 00:27:06,584 I yearned for it. 78 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:09,003 And now? 79 00:27:16,552 --> 00:27:18,346 Now I cannot say. 80 00:27:27,688 --> 00:27:31,734 Is there anyone here who will speak on the prisoner's behalf? 81 00:27:33,652 --> 00:27:34,945 Yes. 82 00:27:35,905 --> 00:27:36,906 I will. 83 00:27:45,664 --> 00:27:48,167 My name is Alexandre Manette. 84 00:27:48,751 --> 00:27:53,172 Some of you may know me as the doctor who escaped La Bastille. 85 00:27:59,929 --> 00:28:02,723 Charles Darnay aided me in that attempt. 86 00:28:05,184 --> 00:28:07,937 I too was unjustly taken prisoner. 87 00:28:08,771 --> 00:28:10,898 Ripped from the arms of those I love. 88 00:28:12,775 --> 00:28:15,528 But my old pain has given me a power. 89 00:28:19,490 --> 00:28:20,950 Charles Darnay… 90 00:28:21,700 --> 00:28:23,661 ..is a loyal son of France. 91 00:28:27,540 --> 00:28:29,542 He is also my own son-in-law. 92 00:28:36,590 --> 00:28:38,676 If this Tribunal has any regard for me… 93 00:28:39,301 --> 00:28:41,303 ..or for my history, then release him. 94 00:28:44,557 --> 00:28:46,475 I beseech you. 95 00:28:56,735 --> 00:28:58,696 Who denounces this prisoner? 96 00:29:03,325 --> 00:29:04,994 Who denounces this prisoner? 97 00:29:06,078 --> 00:29:08,414 Alexandre Manette himself. 98 00:29:16,505 --> 00:29:19,842 I took these papers from La Bastille the day it fell. 99 00:29:20,634 --> 00:29:23,262 North Tower. Cell One Hundred and Five. 100 00:29:24,513 --> 00:29:26,765 Doctor Manette's own cell. 101 00:29:36,275 --> 00:29:37,943 I, Alexandre Manette, 102 00:29:38,027 --> 00:29:41,947 write these pages in the last month of the tenth year of my captivity. 103 00:29:43,824 --> 00:29:49,914 My mind begins to fail me, but I will set down a record of the crimes… 104 00:29:50,789 --> 00:29:53,709 which brought me to this desolate prison. 105 00:29:59,548 --> 00:30:03,928 One night, late in December of 1764, 106 00:30:04,011 --> 00:30:06,347 I was stopped as I returned home. 107 00:30:09,850 --> 00:30:12,603 It was the Marquis d'Evremonde and his brother. 108 00:30:18,150 --> 00:30:21,111 They forced me to accompany them to their mansion. 109 00:30:22,112 --> 00:30:24,782 There I found a sight so piteous… 110 00:30:25,616 --> 00:30:29,912 ..that even after all these years, it still horrifies me to recall. 111 00:30:31,205 --> 00:30:32,623 A young girl. 112 00:30:33,791 --> 00:30:35,251 In peasant's rags. 113 00:30:35,918 --> 00:30:37,836 Bound to the bed by her hands and feet. 114 00:30:38,462 --> 00:30:42,258 A silk scarf forced into her mouth to stifle her cries. 115 00:30:43,968 --> 00:30:48,264 She had been abused with such savagery, that she was already close to death. 116 00:30:51,475 --> 00:30:54,144 I did everything I could to save her. 117 00:30:54,645 --> 00:30:56,480 But it was not enough. 118 00:31:00,359 --> 00:31:04,238 As the last breath rattled out of this poor innocent… 119 00:31:04,321 --> 00:31:07,449 the Marquis held out a purse to me… 120 00:31:07,533 --> 00:31:10,369 ..to buy my silence. 121 00:31:12,162 --> 00:31:14,832 But I could not bring myself to take it. 122 00:31:17,251 --> 00:31:19,545 I returned home in turmoil. 123 00:31:19,837 --> 00:31:27,511 Wrote two letters. The first, to my dear friend, Jarvis Lorry of Tellson's Bank… 124 00:31:29,013 --> 00:31:38,272 ..asking him to aid me and my daughter in escaping Paris that night. 125 00:31:44,570 --> 00:31:51,035 The other I sent to the Minister of Justice, 126 00:31:51,118 --> 00:31:54,788 listing the crimes of which I had been both victim and witness. 127 00:31:58,709 --> 00:32:00,711 I knew the risk I was taking. 128 00:32:00,794 --> 00:32:02,588 But I could not stay silent. 129 00:32:05,549 --> 00:32:09,219 But the Evremondes came for me sooner than I thought. 130 00:32:10,471 --> 00:32:15,601 I have been a wretched prisoner ever since that night. 131 00:32:24,109 --> 00:32:26,612 Is that all, citizen? 132 00:32:32,868 --> 00:32:34,119 Almost. 133 00:32:38,582 --> 00:32:40,876 Perhaps the good Doctor Manette… 134 00:32:41,919 --> 00:32:43,587 ..should read this last part himself. 135 00:32:43,712 --> 00:32:45,381 This man has commited no crime, he does not deserve… 136 00:32:45,464 --> 00:32:47,758 He came here to speak. 137 00:32:47,841 --> 00:32:49,426 To give his testimony. 138 00:32:49,510 --> 00:32:51,053 Let him finish it. 139 00:32:51,804 --> 00:32:52,805 No. 140 00:32:53,639 --> 00:32:56,642 Citizen Manette, you will read! 141 00:33:17,162 --> 00:33:18,163 I… 142 00:33:21,291 --> 00:33:23,001 Alexandre Manette… 143 00:33:26,004 --> 00:33:30,426 Do swear that all I have written is exactly as it happened. 144 00:33:33,971 --> 00:33:35,097 I denounce… 145 00:33:37,266 --> 00:33:39,184 Please, I'm begging you… 146 00:33:39,435 --> 00:33:40,477 Read. 147 00:33:48,193 --> 00:33:51,780 I denounce the Evremondes to the last of their name. 148 00:33:53,031 --> 00:33:54,700 I curse them… 149 00:33:56,326 --> 00:33:57,911 Continue. 150 00:33:59,621 --> 00:34:02,207 And I mark this cross of blood upon them. 151 00:34:13,260 --> 00:34:16,889 Condemned by his father-in-law's own hand. 152 00:34:24,353 --> 00:34:25,773 Why are you doing all this? 153 00:34:27,024 --> 00:34:29,275 The girl they killed. She was my sister. 154 00:34:33,947 --> 00:34:36,742 I was there. Hidden. 155 00:34:38,494 --> 00:34:39,995 I saw everything. 156 00:34:40,746 --> 00:34:42,748 Heard everything. Every second. 157 00:34:45,333 --> 00:34:46,918 What they did to her. 158 00:34:48,670 --> 00:34:51,632 His father. His uncle. 159 00:34:54,176 --> 00:35:00,307 The Evremondes and their kind are the true enemies of France. 160 00:35:01,141 --> 00:35:07,523 Today I demand justice. I demand vengeance. For my sister. 161 00:35:07,606 --> 00:35:10,901 For all those who have suffered. 162 00:35:11,902 --> 00:35:14,947 Death to all enemies of the Republic. 163 00:35:15,197 --> 00:35:16,824 Death! 164 00:35:17,616 --> 00:35:23,247 Death! Death! Death! 165 00:35:23,330 --> 00:35:26,500 Charles Evremonde, called Darnay. 166 00:35:26,583 --> 00:35:29,503 You are found guilty. You are sentenced to die. 167 00:35:42,891 --> 00:35:43,934 I love you. 168 00:35:44,852 --> 00:35:45,894 I love you. 169 00:38:21,425 --> 00:38:22,634 Why did you never say anything? 170 00:38:23,427 --> 00:38:25,971 What they did to your sister. Why did you never tell me? 171 00:38:26,054 --> 00:38:27,514 What would you have done? 172 00:38:28,056 --> 00:38:29,182 I don't know. 173 00:38:30,058 --> 00:38:31,727 I would have been there. 174 00:38:32,102 --> 00:38:34,271 I would have listened. I could have helped you. 175 00:38:35,105 --> 00:38:37,399 You were too busy saving everyone else. 176 00:38:38,191 --> 00:38:40,527 Anyone who walked through the door. 177 00:38:42,696 --> 00:38:44,072 Do you resent me for that? 178 00:38:44,364 --> 00:38:45,949 I don't feel anything for you any more. 179 00:38:46,867 --> 00:38:47,909 You're lying. 180 00:38:48,869 --> 00:38:50,245 Careful, citizen. 181 00:38:50,328 --> 00:38:53,623 Thirty years I spent growing soft, wrapped inside your weakness. 182 00:38:53,707 --> 00:38:55,083 But no more. 183 00:38:56,501 --> 00:38:58,545 The Evremondes, the enemies of France, 184 00:38:58,628 --> 00:39:00,630 will understand what it means when a life is worth nothing. 185 00:39:00,922 --> 00:39:03,508 Understand what? This butchery you call justice? 186 00:39:03,592 --> 00:39:05,052 As we suffered, so will they. 187 00:39:05,135 --> 00:39:07,304 The Manettes, they're the only family I've ever had. 188 00:39:08,472 --> 00:39:09,514 Do you understand that? 189 00:39:09,973 --> 00:39:11,016 When does it end? 190 00:39:11,308 --> 00:39:13,894 Tell the wind and fire when to stop, not me. 191 00:39:18,148 --> 00:39:20,317 I don't understand why we did all this. 192 00:39:30,077 --> 00:39:31,328 The woman I loved. 193 00:39:32,496 --> 00:39:33,955 She is gone. 194 00:47:28,805 --> 00:47:32,517 Fifty two souls go to meet Madame Guillotine. 195 00:48:01,921 --> 00:48:03,798 He was in quite a state. 196 00:48:07,635 --> 00:48:10,013 Could barely get the words out. 197 00:48:13,016 --> 00:48:17,103 He came here to beg. Pleaded with me to spare your husband. 198 00:48:18,104 --> 00:48:19,397 Take his life instead. 199 00:48:23,735 --> 00:48:26,404 When he realised it was hopeless, he collapsed. 200 00:48:29,490 --> 00:48:31,075 You know what this is? 201 00:48:32,994 --> 00:48:36,623 It was to be a gift. A scarf for a little girl, Juliette. 202 00:48:36,873 --> 00:48:39,417 But the Evremondes cut her down too. 203 00:48:40,126 --> 00:48:41,794 You see these names. 204 00:48:44,964 --> 00:48:48,217 All nobles who paid for what they did. 205 00:48:49,636 --> 00:48:52,472 And here, down here… 206 00:48:54,682 --> 00:48:57,310 This is where I'll write the name of the child in your belly. 207 00:49:01,064 --> 00:49:02,982 I knew the moment I saw you. 208 00:49:09,656 --> 00:49:11,407 Your father's own words. 209 00:49:11,949 --> 00:49:13,910 A blood curse on all Evremondes. 210 00:49:18,164 --> 00:49:20,458 To the last of their name. 211 00:49:26,381 --> 00:49:28,383 I beg you. 212 00:50:03,543 --> 00:50:06,170 Thérèse, we're going to be late. 213 00:50:12,719 --> 00:50:14,887 Thérèse, where are you? 214 00:56:30,596 --> 00:56:32,348 Ready the condemned. 215 00:57:14,598 --> 00:57:15,641 Thank you. 216 00:57:15,850 --> 00:57:17,184 Good luck, Charles. 217 00:58:26,086 --> 00:58:28,380 It is time, Evremonde. 218 00:58:38,224 --> 00:58:42,978 Hurry, citizens, the executions begin at the stroke of noon. 219 00:58:43,187 --> 00:58:45,773 Hurry, citizens. 220 01:02:54,062 --> 01:02:55,105 Come on! 221 01:02:55,731 --> 01:02:57,733 Spread out. We have to find them. 222 01:03:01,111 --> 01:03:02,654 They can't have got far. 223 01:03:13,790 --> 01:03:16,502 Citizen Charles Evremonde!