The Frankenstein Chronicles

Marlott finally pieces together the movements at the hospital, but the number of suspects continue to plague his mind. Robert Peel meets with William Chester. Marlott gets authorization to use a pistol.

We need to gain access to Sir William's house in Hampstead.

You'll do as I say. You're still my witness.

What are you talking about?

So you believe me now?

This marriage you are embarked upon,

I'll fetch her back.

No matter. In seconds he'll be asleep.

I can explain if you'll let me.

I told you, it was him who made that corpse child.

The beast with a man's face. Hervey.

but, er, I think the law needs to take its course.

I'm sorry, Marlott.

and is clearly not in full possession

to a place of execution

the eve before he shuffles off his mortal coil.

and let my cry come unto Thee.

Daniel has told me of your condition,

a world without God. You must understand that.

You have been adjudged by the laws of this country

(WEEPS)

I strained myself during an experiment. It's nothing.

No.

Leave us.

That if Daniel succeeded we would be in a world without God

Boz publishes a newspaper article about the murders which causes a public outcry and infuriates Peel on the eve of the Anatomy Act. Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, follows her own line of enquiry into the medical practice of Sir William Chester, uncovering secrets from the past. Marlott decides to go back to Greenwich where it all began - is there something he is missing? MORE -LESS

To examine the causes of life,

On the eve of the Anatomy Act, my greatest triumph.

Who would place power into the surgeon's hands after this?

He is... money to us and I am status to him.

Then all hope is truly lost.

I need a word in private.

Now we have both been defamed. Then get a lawyer.

We thought we could conquer death,

or William Chester himself had returned to his...

Liar! He knows me well. Let's try again.

If he did, it makes you an accessory. So save yourself.

I am her doctor, damn you. You will leave her be.

Yours, too.

The next link in the chain. I need Billy's confession.

"with no concern for their safety or anything else,

That corpse child I found was not an act of political sabotage, as you assumed,

I imagine he'll be every bit as shocked by this as I am.

Stay where you are!

Scandal is the last thing any of us want, Bentley.

If he'd died from blood loss, there would have been less of it, much less.

It's a criminal act to rob an unborn child of life, my lord.

is that this House would forbear the passing of any Act

Mr. Speaker.

of one or more of these terrible crimes.

it is our conviction that no further delay should be brooked

Sir Robert would like your proposal at the end of the week.

I would like it if Flora...

A cellar, perhaps? Probably.

Marlott takes a terrified Pritty on their assignation to meet the men who kill for money – they find themselves in the tunnels under Smithfield market, which run from the Fortune of War pub to St Bart's Hospital. Flora has returned to Marlott's lodgings, but now she is back Marlott intends to use her as bait for the murderous gang, much against Nightingale's wishes. MORE -LESS

They deal in corpses. I dare say they are not scrupled about how they use them.

They live there? Or somewhere else the smell of death goes undetected.

"Pease join us today for lunch at one and we can discuss further."

There was nothing I could have done. I'm afraid.

Of course

He wrote his doctoral thesis on the subject. I read it.

And for what you tried to do for the girl.

You won't mention this?

He isn't a politician like Bentley.

That's confirmation, I take it. You can take that how you like.

She miscarried, I am told.

Flora!

You're lying.

- I'll search this godforsaken place. - For what?

Call themselves the Bishops.

which will do what that monstrous object you found

♪ Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St Clement's ♪

But they sold for more if in good fettle.

I'll say this and then I'll say no more.

♪ Say the bells of Shoreditch... ♪

And she denies killing children.

"this particular example appears to have been derived not from one

"may have answers to some or all of these questions.

Having escaped the clutches of Billy Oates, Flora throws herself on Marlott's mercy. Believing her to be a key witness to Alice's disappearance, he brings her to his lodgings for safety. As the investigation continues, Marlott travels to Kentish Town to interrogate Mary Shelley. The connection between her monster and the child corpse cannot be a mere coincidence… MORE -LESS

I'll look after you for the time being.

Poet, seducer, traitor...

I take it you've come to bring me Mr Blake's work.

Yes. And others, too.

Tyranny and oppression? Or the laws of God?

If you're seeking to understand my nightmares,

Bring it back when it starts getting tight. I'll put a panel in the sides.

That print of the lost girl I had up on my wall.

She's with child.

♪ Then fancies fly away ♪

What now, sir?

- Why's it taking so long? - Sorry, sir. It's a large amount of coin.

Fat lot of good you'll do them at the end of a rope.

It's hereditary.

- Sir Robert? - And Sir William.

I'm not here to discuss my ailment.

The surgeons would take a knife to it.

Your treatment didn't work, then.

Sometimes, people like yourself

- Will three kings help you remember? - Five? Maybe.

I told you... I have important business to attend to.

The people who supply you with subjects for dissection, the resurrectionists.

Curiosity, sir. I attended a lecture on the subject.

- I was only looking. - Go ahead.

After his discovery on the banks of the Thames, Inspector Marlott visits the house of artist and printmaker William Blake, who is on his deathbed. Later, Marlott confers with Nightingale, a local policeman who has been keeping watch on The Fortune of War, a public house where body snatchers are known to gather. The pair create a plan to capture a person of interest who may be able to aid them with their investigation. MORE -LESS

When she first came to me.

of a man.

- How do you know? - There was a set-to with the carter.

Nothing wrong?

And a month after that to Will Murray.

- Scum like that. - Even maggots come in shapes and sizes.

Strange.

You know what Sir Robert's legislation entails?

When it is the wealthy who are to profit.

but please you must understand that Sir Robert is my employer.

Where is he?

but the prospect of a world without God.'

If we saw something suspect, we'd be off down the beak and no error.

We now have the opportunity to observe it functioning...

In times of old,

I will take this petition to the Home Secretary in person.

May I read?

- You're a runner? - Not exactly.

Sir Bentley Warburton? A fellow parliamentarian?

These are dangerous paths you are treading, Mr Marlott.

How do you find a man without plan or motive?

The police apprehend a gang of opium smugglers on the banks of the Thames, but as he stands at the water's edge, Inspector John Marlott makes a shocking discovery. The body of a dead child is washed up on the shore, but further examination of the corpse reveals a grotesque state of mutilation. Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel orders Marlott to lead the investigation, while details of the investigation must remain confidential. MORE -LESS

No idea.

I understand we have you to thank for this memorable gathering, Mr...?

That is quite enough for one lunch time. Hope, my carriage.

God takes his rest on the seventh day, but not the Home Secretary.

Legislation is going through parliament as we speak.

He gets his corpses from the anatomy classes. Subjects, we call them.

I'm just a hospital porter.

Yes, someone out to prevent the anatomy act.

- Do subjects ever move? - Move?

- Where do you come from? - Round here mostly.

Now, are we to tell them, after their lives of hardship

I shoud like to invoke peer's privilege to address the house.

Mr Evans?

Then find her.

- What do you know about resurrectionists? - Body snatchers?

- missing children. - The butcher's daughter?

You had this before?

When the dead will awake and sit at Christ's right hand.

He's a gentleman, isn't he?

- A rag shop. - Which one?