- Did you bring it?
- I got it in here.
Quickly,
Shh!
What you bring me?
Joseph Baker.
Richard Wilkens.
- Matthew Hopkins.
- Daniel Hopkins.
- Daniel Poole.
- Jacob Pope.
- William Bridges.
- Adam Town.
- Jacob Poole.
- Michael Pope.
Betty?
Ruth.
Make a spell
on Joseph Baker, Tituba.
Make him love me.
Make Daniel Poole my husband.
- Bring me Adam Town.
- I want Jacob Poole to love me forever.
Abby, who do you want?
- She wants John Proctor.
- Get her John Proctor again, Tituba.
No, Abby.
That be a bad thing!
Abby, no!
It's the minister!
Come away! He'll see us!
I can't move! Abby, I can't move!
Help me! Help me!
No! No! I can't move!
Help me, please!
I can't move!
Oh, help me!
No! No! No! No!
Help! No!
Dress the child
and come to my study.
Betty.
Betty!
Betty?
if it please,
Mrs. Griggs...
Reverend Parris asks that the doctor
come at once. Betty's gone sick.
- She can't wake.
- Can't she?
The doctor's gone to the Putnams'.
Their Ruth can't wake either.
I fear there be no medicines for this.
I have seen nothing
like it before.
There be no fever...
nor wound...
and yet she sleeps.
Oh, dear Lord.
My Betty is the same.
- The same?
- Only her eyes are closed.
It's the devil, isn't it?
The devil has taken
hold of them.
Oh, Goody Putnam,
I know not-
Doctor, I beg you. She is my last, my only.
I cannot lose her.
I shall do all I can, Goody Putnam...
but this may be a sickness
beyond my art.
Thomas!
I beg you.
We cannot leap to witchcraft for the cause
of this. - Don't you understand it, sir?
There are hurtful, vengeful spirits
laying hands on these children.
Let you take hold here.
Let no one charge you.
Declare it yourself.
Not yet.
I need time.
I must think.
I must pray.
Yes. I agree with
Reverend Parris.
Good day to you, sir.
She still sleeps, then, Doctor?
- She flies, you know.
- Flies?
- Aye.
- Oh, come now, man.
- George Collins seen it with his own eyes.
- Seen what?
The minister' Daughter going over...
Uncle, perhaps you ought to go down
and tell the people to-
What shall I tell them?
That my daughter and my niece...
I discovered dancing
like heathen in the forest?
We did dance...
and let me be whipped
if I must be...
but they are talking
of witchcraft.
Betty's not witched!
Were you conjuring spirits
in the forest?
- I want the truth now.
- We never conjured spirits.
Now hear me, child.
You must know that there is a faction
in this church...
- sworn to drive me from my pulpit.
- I know that, sir.
And they will destroy me now
if my own house...
turns out to be the center
of some obscene practice.
Now, I saw someone naked
running through the trees.
- No one was-
- Don't lie to me! I saw it!
- 'Twere only sport, Uncle.
- You call this sport? She cannot wake!
Now, give me upright answer now.
Your name in the town is entirely white.
Is it not?
There be no blush
about my name, sir.
Why did Goody Proctor
discharge you from her service?
Because I refused
to be her sl*ve.
I have heard said
that John Proctor...
John Proctor and you...
My name is good in the village!
Elizabeth Proctor's
an envious, gossiping liar!
Mr. Parris They're asking
for you. You must come down, sir.
Betty, my sweet, wake up.
Wake up, Betty.
Betty.
Now, stop this!
I know you hear me.
Wake up now!
Betty!
John! Giles and Martha are here!
All right.
- Boys.
- Come on.
You got to come with me
to the village, John.
Mr. Parris, God help us, has summoned a
meeting of the society.
- What for?
- What for?
Why has that man
ever called a meeting...
except for his own benefit?
I'm explaining it, Martha.
Sorry not to have noticed.
They are saying his daughter Betty
has been witched.
- Witched?
- Aye. She sleeps and can't be waked...
and the Putnam girl
too, they say.
What do you know of this
silliness, Mary Warren? - Nothing.
I smell mischief here.
You must come with me, John.
Folk will be looking
to your judgment.
- How can they not wake up?
- God knows.
- You go right ahead, Giles. I'll be along.
- Right.
- I'll see you soon, Elizabeth.
- Good-bye, Martha.
There are still
flowers in the field.
You might cut some.
It's winter in here yet.
Aye, I'll cut some flowers.
Hurry! Hurry, we'll be late!
Wait for me!
I'll race you to the meeting house!
Get up, now. Get up.
Give a penny. Give a penny.
I know the devil.
Goody Osborne, you have
no permission to beg here.
I'll wait for you.
I fear this.
Fear it? Why?
Let us quiet our hearts.
You are all aware of the rumors...
of that spirit come
among us out of hell-
That hateful enemy of God
and all Christian people, the devil.
Now, I have invited...
the Reverend John Hale
of Beverly to come to Salem.
He has-
He has delved deeply
into all demonic arts...
and will surely go
to the bottom of this.
You may recall
in Beverly last year...
they believed
they had a witch...
until Mr. Hale
examined her...
and decided she was
innocent to witchcraft.
But it-it may well be
that in Salem...
he will find signs of Lucifer,
and if so...
you may be sure
he will hunt him down.
Let us turn our hearts...
to Psalm 73...
"sure God is good
to Israel. "
You will stop this now!
Betty!
What will we do?
The whole country's talking witchcraft!
She means to tell.
We've got to tell,
or they'll be calling us witches!
Witchery's a hanging error...
like they done
in Boston two year ago.
You'll only be whipped for trying
to conjure the boys and the dancing.
Now, listen to me, Betty dear.
I've talked to your papa,
and I've told him everything...
so there's nothing
to be feared anymore.
I want my mama.
Your mama's dead and buried!
I'll fly to her!
Let me fly!
Stop it! Betty, come here!
Mama! No! Mama!
Why are you doing this?
I've told him.
He knows now.
You drank blood, Abby.
You didn't tell him that!
You never say that again!
You drank a charm
to k*ll John Proctor's wife.
No, Abby.
You drank a charm
to k*ll Goody Proctor!
Shut up!
Is she going to die?
Now, look, you-
all of you.
We danced.
That is all.
And mark this-
Let anyone breathe a word...
or the edge of a word
about the other things...
and I will come to you in the black
of some terrible night...
and I will bring with me a pointy
reckoning that will shudder you...
and you know I can do it.
I saw Indians smash my dear parent's head
on the pillow next to mine...
and I have seen some
reddish work done at night...
and I can make you wish
you never saw the sun go down.
- Mama!
- No, Betty!
Mama!
Mama! Mama!
- Mama!
- Keep still, you little devil!
Betty! Oh, Betty!
It's when she heard the psalm.
She run straight for the window.
"Mark it for a sign, Mr. Parris".
My mother told me that.
There is hard sickness here, Giles Corey.
So please to keep the quiet.
I've not said a word.
Nobody can testify I've said a word.
Rebecca, I fear we're lost.
She cannot bear to hear the Lord's name.
That's a notorious sign
of witchcraft afoot, Rebecca.
Mama. Mama.
What have you done?
Goody Nurse,
will you go to our Ruth...
and see if you can wake her?
I think she'll wake
when she tires of it.
I am 26 times a grandma.
They can run you bowlegged
in their silly seasons.
So you've sent for Reverend Hale
of Beverly, Mr. Parris?
Only to satisfy all that the devil's
not among us.
- Mr. Proctor.
- Ah, John, come help us.
We are all at sea.
Why did you not call for a meeting
before you decided to look for devils?
Man cannot pick his teeth without
some sort of meeting in this society.
I'm sick of meetings.
Society will not be a bag to swing around
your head, Mr. Putnam.
Peace! Peace!
Dear friends-Mr. Parris,
I think you'd best send...
Reverend Hale back
as soon as he come.
This will set us all to arguing again
in the society.
Let us rather blame ourselves
than the devil.
Blame ourselves?
How can we blame ourselves?
I'm one of nine sons.
The Putnam seed have
peopled this province.
And we have but one
child left of eight.
Goody Ann, we can only go to God
for the cause of that.
God? You think it be
God's work...
that you have never lost a child or
grandchild either and I bury all but one?
And who will give us leave to decide what is
God's work, Goody Putnam, and what is not?
God never spoke in my ear. I can't think
of anyone else He done the favor.
Your pardon, Rebecca.
Aye.
Is this your mischief, huh?
I hear the child goes
flying through the air.
Oh, she never flew.
We were dancing in the woods.
My uncle leaped in on us.
She took fright is all.
You'll be clapped in the stocks
before you are 20.
Oh, John.
Give me a soft word.
No, Abby.
That's done with.
- I am waiting for you every night.
- You cannot.
I never gave you hope
to wait for me.
I have something better than hope,
I think.
Child-
How do you call me child?
Wipe it out of mind-
you must.
I'll not be coming for you more.
You're surely sporting with me.
You know me better.
I know how you sweated like a stallion
whenever I'd come near you.
I saw your face
when she put me out.
You loved me then,
and you do now.
Abby, I may think of you softly
from time to time...
but I will cut off my hand before
I reach for you again.
We never touched.
Aye...
but we did.
Oh, I marvel how a strong
man may let such a sickly wife-
Speak not.
You'll speak nothing of Elizabeth.
She is blackening my name in the village,
telling lies about me.
She's a cold, sniveling woman,
and you bend to her.
You look for whipping.
I look for John Proctor,
who put knowledge in my heart.
I never knew
what pretense Salem was...
with its Christian women
and their covenanted men...
and all of
their boiling and lust.
And now you bid me
go dead to all you taught me?
I know you, John Proctor.
You love me.
Whatever sin it is,
you love me yet.
- Give the man some peace.
- That's Mr. Hale, John.
I know who it is.
- Can I help you?
- Why, thank you.
Heavy books.
Well, they must be.
They're weighted with authority.
I'm John Proctor,
Mr. Hale.
You have afflicted children?
My children
are as healthy as bull calves, sir...
like all the other children
in this village.
Where is my wood?
My contract provides I be supplied
with all of my firewood.
There are wheels within
wheels here, Mr. Hale.
I hope you'll not forget that.
That £6 is part of my salary, Mr. Corey.
Salary is £60 plus £6 for...
I am not some preaching farmer
with a book under his arm.
I am a graduate
of Harvard College.
I am well instructed
in arithmetic!
I cannot fathom you people!
I can never offer
one proposition...
but I face a howling riot
of argument!
I've often wondered if
the devil be in it somewhere.
Welcome to Salem.
Mr. Hale! Oh.
Oh, good to see you!
Oh, well, I see you've
come well prepared.
This is Thomas Putnam.
How do you do, sir?
Allow me, sir.
This is my wife, Goody Ann.
Will you come to our Ruth? Her soul
seems flown away. Will you come to her?
Aye. I'll come
directly.
And you must be Rebecca Nurse...
- and Mr. Nurse.
- You know me?
No, but you look as such
a good soul should.
All of us in Beverly
have heard of your great charities.
There is prodigious danger
in seeking loose spirits.
I fear it.
- Francis.
- Mr. Hale.
I go to God for you, sir.
I hope you do not mean that we go
to Satan here.
I wish I knew.
I hear you be
a sensible man, Mr. Hale.
Hope you'll leave
some of it in Salem.
Our child cannot wake, sir.
She lies as though dead.
And this one cannot bear the Lord's name.
- Aye.
- That's a sure sign of witchcraft afloat.
No, no, Mr. Putnam.
We must not look to superstition in this.
The marks of the devil
are as definite as stone.
What book is that?
What's there, sir?
Here is all the invisible world.
In these books, the devil stands
stripped of all his brute disguises.
Here are all
your familiar spirits...
your incubi and succubi.
Your witches that go by land,
by air, and by sea.
Have no fear now.
We shall find him out
if he has come among us.
I mean to crush him utterly
if he has shown his face.
Here is my niece, Abigail.
I'd like to examine your Ruth
before I say more.
Mr. Hale!
I've always wanted
to ask a learned man.
What signifies the reading
of strange books?
Many a night, I've waked
and found her in a corner...
reading of a book,
and not the Bible either.
- Who's that?
- Martha, my wife.
I'm not saying the devil's touched her,
but mark this-
Last night I tried and tried,
could not say my prayers.
Then, she close her book
and walked out of the house...
and suddenly, mark this,
I could pray again.
The stoppage
of prayer-
- We'll discuss that.
- Mr. Hale.
Was there no warning of this affliction?
Do you recall any disturbance
before it struck?
Any unusual behavior?
Mr. Hale.
Mr. Parris.
I did discover my niece...
with a number of her friends...
dancing in the forest.
You permit dancing?
No. No.
'Twas secret.
Mr. Parris's sl*ve
has knowledge of conjuring, sir.
Now, that may not be true.
Abigail, you must tell me
about this dancing.
Common dancing
is all it is, sir.
Tell me, child, when you are dancing,
is there a fire?
Why...
There was a fire.
They were boiling something.
- Lentils and beans.
- Was anything moving in the pot?
That jumped in.
We never put that in.
What jumped in?
I must see these other girls.
Who are they?
I want their names.
Someone called the devil in that forest.
Who was it led you
to dance around the fire?
You can save yourselves
if you tell me who it was.
Was there one among you
who drank from the kettle?
Was there perhaps
a casting of spells?
Was there?
Not I!
It wasn't me!
I swear it!
These two children
may be dying! Who?
Tituba.
I knew it!
- Tituba!
- Come out here! Now!
She made me do it!
- She made Betty do it!
- Tituba no do bad thing!
- She made me drink blood!
- You drank blood?
My babies' blood!
You m*rder*d my babies, Tituba!
I want their names!
Who are they?
Why can the girls not wake?
Did you send your spirit
out to silence them?
- I love me Betty.
- Let's hang her!
- Hang up the witch!
- No! No, not Tituba.
You've conjured her
to be silent, have you not?
She-She
begged me conjure.
She begged me make charm.
She lies!
She sends her spirit
into me in church.
- She makes me laugh at prayer.
- She have often laughed at prayer.
She comes into me when I sleep.
She makes me dream corruptions.
Why you say bad thing, Abby?
Some nights I wake...
and I find myself standing naked
in the open doorway...
without a stitch on my body,
and she makes me do that...
singing her damn
Barbados songs, tempting me!
Tituba, when did you
compact with the devil?
- Tell me!
- I don't.
I don't compact with the devil.
Either you must stop...
Or I will
b*at you to your death!
No! No! No! No!
I did! I tell him!
I tell him.
I tell him.
I, I don't desire...
I don't desire to work for him!
Then you saw him?
You poor woman.
He has you by the throat
this very moment, doesn't he?
Now, Tituba, I'm going to
break his grip on both of you.
I'm going to pry open
the hands of Lucifer!
You would be a good Christian
woman once again, would you not?
- Aye, sir, a good Christian woman.
- You do still love God?
I love Him with all my being.
Now, in God's Holy Name,
and to His Glory...
- Glory, my dear, sweet Jesus.
- Open yourself.
Receive his cleansing light within you.
Do you want that?
I want that light.
Save me, Mr. Hale.
I will... if you open
your heart to me.
Now, when the devil comes to you,
does he bring other people?
- Sarah Good. Does he bring Goody Good?
- Are they men or women?
Uh... I couldn't see.
It was black dark. - You saw
him.. Why couldn't you see others?
They was always talking
and running around and carrying on, sir.
- Out of Salem? Salem witches?
- Aye, I believe so! Yes, sir!
I will protect you.
You know the devil can never overcome
a minister, do you not?
I know that, sir.
Tituba, God put you in our hands
to help cleanse this village.
You are God's eyes.
Now, face God and speak utterly.
Who came to you with the devil?
Two? Three? Four?
Was Sarah Good with him-
or Osborne?
Their names!
Their names!
How many time he bid me
k*ll you, Mr. Parris!
- k*ll me? - "Rise up, Tituba,
and cut that man throat. "
That's what him tell me!
I said, "No, devil.
I don't hate that man. "
Him say, "Tituba,
you work for me.
"I make you free.
"I give you
pretty dress to wear.
"And I put you
way up high in the air...
and you go flying
back home to Barbados. "
And I say,
"No, devil. You lie. "
And then...
him come to me...
one stormy night...
and him say, "Tituba, look.
I has... white people
belong to me. "
And I look...
I look...
and there was Sarah Good.
I knew it!
Oh, bless you, Tituba.
Aye.
And Goody Osborne.
- I knew it!
- Oh.
They were midwives
to me three times...
and my babies shriveled
in their hands!
I want to open my soul!
I want the light of God.
I want the sweet love of Jesus.
I did dance with the devil!
I saw him!
I wrote in his book!
I go back to Jesus.
I kiss His hand.
I saw Sarah Good with the devil!
I saw Goody Osborne
with the devil!
I saw Bridget Bishop
with the devil!
I saw Goody Howe with the devil!
I saw Goody Barrow with the devil!
I saw Goody Good with the devil!
I saw Goody Osborne
with the devil!
Hallelujah!
Glory be to God!
It is broken! They are free!
Where's the Marshal?
Arrest Sarah Osborne!
Sarah Good in the jail.
Would you believe a court would ever
bother to jail that silly old turtle?
John! Giles! News from the village!
There were six more
accused today!
More mischief here, Giles.
The town's gone wild, I think.
And now they've
sent to Boston...
for the Deputy Governor
to come and take charge.
Ah, that's Danforth.
He'll bring some sense to it.
That's good news.
Judge Hathorne condemned 14 more people
to the jail last night. - Fourteen?
And promised hanging
if they don't confess.
- Confess? To what?
- Be Witching the children.
Abigail Williams suffers
most of all, he says.
Save my cider.
I'll go home now, tell Martha.
I'm thinking if the crop
comes good...
I'll buy Joseph Ward's heifer.
How would that please you?
Fine. It would.
I mean to please you, Elizabeth.
It would be well
if you went to Salem.
Abigail told you it had not to do
with witchcraft.
Did she not?
They say Ezekiel Cheever
is clerk of the court now.
Can you not tell him?
God forbid you keep that
from the court, John.
It's a wonder
they do believe her.
But they do.
Mary Warren says that
where Abigail walks...
the crowds part
like the sea for Israel.
I think you must go at once.
I would go tonight John.
- Will you?
- I will think on it.
You cannot-
I said, I will think on it.
How will I prove
what she told me, Elizabeth?
We were alone together.
I have no proof of what she said.
You were alone with her?
For a moment, alone, aye.
Then it is not as you told me.
For a moment is all.
There were others close by.
- Do as you wish then.
- Woman!
I'll not have
your suspicion anymore!
Now, John, if it were not Abigail
that you must go to hurt...
would you falter now?
I think not.
You will not judge me more, Elizabeth.
I forgot Abigail.
And I?
Spare me. You forget nothing
and forgive nothing.
In the seven months
since she has gone...
I have not moved from there to there
without I think to please you...
but an everlasting funeral
still marches around your heart.
John, you are not open with me.
- You saw her with a crowd, you said.
- I plead my honesty no more.
- John, I am only-
- No more!
I should have rode you down when first
you told me your suspicion...
but I wilted, and like
a Christian, I confessed.
But you're not God, Elizabeth!
Let you look
for some goodness in me.
And judge me not.
The magistrate sits in your heart
that judges you.
I never thought you
but a good man, John...
only somewhat bewildered.
Oh, Elizabeth.
Your justice would freeze beer.
- Judge Hathorne.
- Judge Danforth.
- Judge Sewall.
- Sir.
- Mr. Parris.
- Your Honor. - Mr. Parris.
Mr. Hale. -Judge. - Mr. Hale.
The selectmen.
Thomas Putnam.
The afflicted girls, sir.
I assure you, gentlemen...
that His Majesty's government
is now determined...
that the devil shall not rule...
over one single inch
of Massachusetts.
And if, indeed,
he has come, here...
in Salem, is where
we shall dig him out.
Provided every precaution
be taken to guard against...
the testimony
of distracted persons...
and, of course, the mad.
Indeed Judge Sewall.
Bring in Sarah Osborne!
Now, Sarah Osborne,
here is Sarah Good...
who has confessed to witchcraft
and therefore will not hang.
I bid you, follow her example.
She testifies that when the devil came
to her, you were in his company.
There he stood,
big as life, him and her...
and Osborne writing her name in his book
with her own red blood!
Your Honors...
I never see the devil
in my life.
But I can dance as fast backwards
as I can forwards!
Sit down, I tell you. Sit!
Sit her down!
Let go of me!
You must stop your funning.
You must give up your stories.
You bring me to harm.
Do you hear me?
You bring me to harm.
Oh! Stop hurting me,
Goody Osborne!
Help me, judge Danforth!
What are you doing
to these girls?
What do you mumble
to make them so sick?
I was only-only
saying my Commandments.
I hope I may say
my Commandments.
Pray, let her recite
her Commandments.
Your Grace, I may only say
my Commandments outdoor.
There are ten Commandments.
Do you know any?
You have lied to the court.
I say, you have lied to the court.
Have you not?
I'm innocent to witch.
The devil knows that!
"Then Nebuchadnezzar the King
was astonished...
"and rose up in haste
and spake and...
"said unto his counselors...
'Did not we cast three men bound
into the midst of the fire-J...
She's been to the court.
Get out of my garden, you filthy beast!
Whose goat is this?
Take your hands off my goat, woman!
And curb your wicked tongue!
Take your goat!
Get out of my garden!
The devil take you all!
All of you be damned!
Mary Sibber, you are arrested
on suspicion of witchcraft.
Any compact you have made
with the devil you must now confess.
This man is full of spite!
I am no witch!
His goats were eating my food!
These girls are mad!
I warned you once before, Proctor!
That's my lumber!
You're in my bounds!
My land's always run up through the
forest, and I haven't sold any, Putnam.
It is clear in my grandfather's will.
My land-
Your grandfather damn near willed away
my north pasture!
But he knew I'd break his arm
if he tried it. Go on!
Good morning! Morning, Mr. Putnam!
Order!
Now, Ruth Putnam, when did you
last see Mr. Jacobs?
He come to me two night past...
when I was abed.
Ruth, you are mistaken.
You know me.
I am Mr. Jacobs, your neighbor.
I have 600 acres next to theirs.
She has known me all her life.
He come through my window.
Then he lay down upon me.
I could not take breath.
His body crush heavy upon me...
and he say in my ear...
"Ruth Putnam, I will have your life
if you testify against me in court. "
What say you to this charge,
Mr. Jacobs?
But... Your Honor...
I must have these sticks
to walk with.
How may I come through a window?
But you could have sent out your spirit
through a window, could you not?
But how may my spirit
go out of my body?
There's a black man,
whispering at his shoulder.
Ruth Putnam has informed me
that there is a black man...
whispering in your ear
at this very instant.
He's there.
He's whispering. I see him!
I see-I see him.
A black man. The devil is here!
How dare you mock them,
Martha Corey!
What else are fools good for?
How do you dare go to Salem again
when I forbade you?
- Stay where you are!
- No! Don't hurt me!
I beg thee, hurt me not!
Get in the house.
Go on!
Aah!
I made a gift for you today,
Goody Proctor.
Well, thank you.
'Tis a fair poppet.
We must all love each other now.
Go on in.
What ails you, child?
Oh, Mr. Jacobs
will hang!
- Hang?
- Aye, and Goody Osborne too.
The Deputy Governor
will permit it?
He must...
but not Sarah Good.
She will only sit
in jail some time...
for Sarah Good
confessed, you see?
I am amazed you do not see...
the weighty work we do.
The devil is loose
in Salem, Mr. Proctor.
We must discover
where he's hiding.
So I'll be gone
every day for some time.
I am an official
of the court now.
I'll thrash the devil
out of you.
No! Aah!
I saved her life tonight!
I am accused?
You were somewhat mentioned...
but I told the court
I never seen no sign...
you ever sent your spirit out to hurt
no one, and they dismissed it.
Who accused me?
I am bound by law.
I cannot tell.
Go to bed, Mary.
I'll not be ordered
to bed no more, Mr. Proctor.
I am eighteen and a woman...
however single.
If you wish to sit up,
then sit up.
I wish to go to bed.
- Good night then.
- Good night.
The noose is up.
There will be no noose.
Abigail wants me dead John.
You know it.
Thank you, my dear.
God bless you, child.
I come to tell you to think on what
to do to save yourself.
Say you are blind to spirits,
you cannot see them anymore...
and you will never
cry witchery again.
I know you must speak so, John.
I understand...
but my spirit's
changed entirely.
I suffer now.
It's the truth, John, look!
The bite your wife gave me
is not yet healed.
- My wife?
- Saturday she come into my bed...
in the middle of the night
and bited my breast.
My wife has not left the house
this month.
Why must she leave the house
to send her spirit on me?
Don't George Jacobs come jabbing at me
with his walking sticks?
Feel the lumps he give me
only last night.
Oh-
Ah!
George Jacobs is
locked up in the jail.
And thank God he is!
They're going to hang him,
you know.
- And he prays. He prays in jail
- May he not pray?
Then t*rture me at night while he's
praying in the jail like a hypocrite!
And they all are! And thank God I have
the power to cleanse the town of them!
- Hear me.
- Aah!
If you cry words
against my wife...
it will be the end of you.
I will not have her condemned!
I am but God's finger John.
If He would condemn Elizabeth...
- she will be condemned.
- You know me.
If she is condemned,
it will be the end of you.
Samuel, I believe you are sometimes...
not entirely content with us.
Am I correct?
I must tell you, Thomas...
I had not expected so much
of our evidence...
to come from children.
Had you?
I had not,
but you cannot doubt...
the children are
painfully att*cked.
No. I see that
plainly.
Recall the Gospel, Samuel.
"From the mouths of babes shall
come the truth. "
Aye. Aye.
But it is also
this Putnam woman.
I wonder if losing
her children...
has not distracted her mind.
And Mr. Putnam-
I learn he's in constant disputation...
with his neighbors
over his boundaries...
and then there are some who tell me
he's not honest.
Dear friend...
no court can wait
for saints to provide evidence.
I shall be scrupulously just.
Surely you will rest on that.
I never doubted that, Thomas.
Whoa.
- Mr. Hale.
- Proctor.
Evening to you, sir.
You are
Good-wife Proctor?
Aye, sir.
Elizabeth.
I know not if you're aware...
your wife's name is mentioned
in the court.
Our Mary Warren told us.
We're entirely amazed.
I am a stranger here,
as you know...
and I find it hard
to draw clear opinion...
of them that are accused...
so I go tonight
from house to house.
I come now from
Rebecca Nurse's house.
Rebecca's charged?
Well, God forbid that
such a one be charged...
but she is mentioned somewhat.
Mr. Hale...
I hope that you
will never believe...
that Rebecca trafficked
with the devil.
Goody Proctor,
this is a strange time.
None can any longer doubt...
that powers of darkness
are attacking this village.
We have no knowledge
in that line, Mr. Hale.
I thought, sir...
to put some questions as to
the Christian character of this house...
if you'll permit me.
We have no fear of questions, sir.
Come in.
In the Book of Record Mr. Parris keeps...
I note that you are come
to Sabbath meeting...
but 26 time in 17 month.
Sit down, Mr. Hale.
I'll be straight with you.
No minister before Parris ever demanded
the deed to the house we lend him.
Since we built the meetinghouse,
there were pewter candlesticks...
upon the pulpit...
But Mr. Parris came, week after week.
Preached nothing but golden candlesticks
until he had them.
I'll not deny it, sir.
When I look to heaven...
and see my money glaring at his elbows,
it hurt my prayer, sir.
It hurt my prayer.
And your children...
How comes it the last is not baptized?
I like it not that Mr. Parris lay
his hand upon my baby.
I'll not conceal it.
I see no light of God in that man.
The man's ordained.
Therefore, the light of God is in him.
What is your suspicion, Mr. Hale?
I nailed the roof upon the church.
- I hung the door.
- That's a good sign.
Maybe we are too hard
on Parris...
but sure we never loved
the devil here.
Do you know your Commandments,
Elizabeth?
I surely do.
I'm covenanted, sir.
There be no mark
upon my Christian life.
And you, mister?
Aye, I am sure I do.
Let you repeat them,
if you will.
My Commandments?
Aye.
"Thou shall not k*ll.
Thou shall not steal.
"Thou shall not covet
thy neighbors' goods...
"nor make unto thee
any graven image.
"Thou shall not take the name
of the Lord in vain.
"Thou shall have
no other Gods before me.
"Thou shall remember the Sabbath Day
and keep it holy.
"Thou shall honor
thy father and mother.
Thou shall not bear
false witness. "
"Thou shall not make unto thee-
- You said that twice.
- I know.
- Adultery, John.
- Aye.
Aye, you see,
between the two of us...
we do know them all-
I think it be a small fault.
Theology, sir...
is a fortress.
No cr*ck in a fortress
may be accounted small.
I bid you both good night then.
Mr. Hale!
Mr. Hale...
I know the children's sickness
had naught to do with witchcraft.
What's that?
Mr. Parris-he discovered them
sporting in the woods.
They were startled
and took sick.
- Who told you this?
- Abigail Williams.
Abigail Williams told you it had naught
to do with witchcraft?
- She told me the night you came, sir.
- Why did you keep this?
I never knew till tonight the world
has gone mad with all this nonsense.
Mister, I have myself examined Tituba,
Sarah Good, and 26 others...
who have confessed to dealing
with the devil-they've confessed it!
And why not, when they must hang
for denying it?
- You ever thought of that?
- I have a rumor you do not believe...
there are witches in the world-
is that true?
Well, the Bible speaks
of witches, so-
Sir, I am a good woman.
I know it.
If you believe that I may only do
good work in the world...
and yet be secretly
bound to Satan...
then I must tell you,
I do not believe it.
- You bewilder him.
- But you do believe there are witches?
If he think I am one,
then I say there are none.
You surely do not fly
against the Gospels.
Question Abigail Williams
about the Gospels, not myself!
John! John!
They've taken
my Martha and Rebecca!
Taken Rebecca?
On what charge?
For the supernatural m*rder
of Goody Putnam's babies!
Rebecca Nurse have m*rder*d children?
Are you still believing this?
Remember, until an hour
before the devil fell...
God thought him
beautiful in heaven.
I never harmed no one!
No! Never!
I never harmed no one!
Dear Rebecca!
We'll soon have you free, Martha.
Pity Cheever, not us.
He's the one going to hell.
Good evening to you,
Proctor. All.
Cheever.
- I have a warrant for your wife.
- I know nothing of this!
Who charged her?
Why, Abigail Williams
charged her.
For what crime?
On what proof?
I like not to search
a man's house...
but by law, I must enter.
Will you hand me any poppets
that your wife may keep here?
I have kept no poppets
since I were a girl.
Oh. This is Mary's.
Mary, come down here. Mary!
I had my doubts, Proctor,
but this is calamity.
- You see it, sir. 'Tis a needle.
- What signifies a needle?
The Williams girl, Abigail, today at
the tavern, she fall to the floor...
with a needle stuck
two inches into her belly...
and she testified
your wife's spirit pushed it in!
Mary, tell how this poppet came
to be in my house.
- What poppet's that, sir?
- This poppet. This poppet!
I made that in court and give it
to Goody Proctor yesterday.
Mary, a needle's been discovered
inside that poppet.
- I meant no harm by it, sir.
- You stuck it in yourself?
For safekeeping.
I must have forgot to take it out.
Child, you are quite certain this be
your natural memory?
No one might be conjuring you
to say this?
No, sir. I am entirely myself.
Let you ask Abby.
Abby sat beside me
when I made it.
That girl is m*rder.
She must be ripped out of the world!
You heard that, Herrick.
"Ripped out of the world. "
- Out of my house!
- Now, Proctor...
And you with them!
You are a broken minister.
I promise you,
if she is innocent-
if she is innocent?
Why is there never wonder
if Parris be innocent?
Or Putnam?
Or Abigail?
Are the accusers
always holy now?
Were they born this morning
as pure as God's fingers?
I'll tell you what's
walking Salem-vengeance.
The little crazy children are jangling
the keys of the kingdom...
and common vengeance
writes the law!
I'll not give my wife
to vengeance!
John. John..
I think I must go with them.
Mary, there is bread enough
for the morning.
You will bake in the afternoon.
Heed your father.
Help him.
- Yes, Mother.
- Yes, Mother.
- I'll bring you home soon.
- Aye, John, bring me soon.
Be good, my boys
I will fall like an ocean
on that court.
Fear nothing, Elizabeth.
Let go.
Joseph, let go.
Let go Joseph.
I will fear nothing.
How can you do this? She has children!
Don't you touch her!
God will never forgive you!
- You'll not chain her!
- Get your hands off her!
- I'll k*ll you!
- In God's name, John...
let me stand to my duty-
I must chain them all!
Giles, look to those poor
children! Help them, Giles!
You are coming with me
to the court tomorrow.
You will tell the court
how that poppet come here...
and who stuck the needle in.
I cannot charge
m*rder on Abigail.
She'll charge lechery
on you, Mr. Proctor.
- My wife will not die for me.
- I cannot do it.
Goodness will not
die for me, Mary.
I will bring your guts into your mouth,
but she will not die for me!
You will tell the court what you know!
Make your peace with it!
- I can't do it!
- Peace!
I can't do it!
They'll turn on me!
Now hell and heaven
grapple on our backs...
and all our old pretense
is ripped away.
Aye, and God's
icy wind will blow.
Now, Martha Corey,
how did you know beforehand...
that Goody Worford's pigs were to die
the night of your visit to her?
As you know well,
Mr. Hathorne...
I have kept pigs all my life...
and pigs that is not fed properly
is very likely to die!
I had suspicions.
Suspicions? You predicted the pigs
would die, Martha Corey.
How came you to know that?
Mr. Hathorne, I am
innocent to a witch!
I know not what a witch is.
If you know not
what a witch is...
how do you know you are not one?
- Excellency.
- Beware that man.
We have evidence for the court.
The girls are frauds!
Mary Warren has come back
to tell the truth.
She's a liar!
- Who is this man?
- Giles Corey, and a more contentious-
I'm old enough to answer!
I am Giles Corey.
I have written a deposition...
which will open up
your eyes, sir.
This is John Proctor.
He has 300 acres.
And Francis Nurse-
500 acres.
The court is in recess!
Your Excellency...
I never called my wife a witch.
I only said she were reading
strange books.
We mean no disrespect, sir.
Disrespect? This is
disruption, mister!
This is the highest court of the supreme
government of the province.
Do you know it?
Who is this man?
His wife's Rebecca Nurse,
that were condemned this morning.
Nurse...
indeed.
I have only good report
of your character, sir.
I am amazed to find you
in this uproar.
Excellency, we have proof for your eyes.
The girls are frauds.
Mary Warren...
we were told you were sick.
What are you about here?
She has been striving
with her soul, Mr. Parris...
and she would speak
with His Excellency.
Beware this man! This man is set
and bound to destroy my ministry.
Judge Sewall,
I think you must hear this child.
We must do nothing but what justice
bids us do, Mr. Hale.
What would you tell us,
Mary Warren?
She never saw no spirits, sir...
and she will swear to you...
that none of the other girls
ever saw them neither.
And you intend to spread this lie in
open court before the whole village?
We were sure His Excellency
would welcome the truth...
as we can prove it, sir.
Have you ever seen
the devil, Mr. Proctor?
No.
And there is no desire
lurking in your heart...
to undermine
these investigations?
No, sir.
I come only to save...
my innocent wife and my friends.
What do you make of this?
God help me, I cannot say...
but I'm sure the child
must be heard, Thomas...
or it will surely spread
that you silenced her.
Is this the one?
Aye, she's the one.
Your wife, Mr. Proctor,
sent me a claim...
that she is pregnant now.
There be no sign of it.
We have examined her body.
But if she says she is pregnant,
she must be.
That woman will never lie,
Mr. Danforth.
- She will not?
- Never, sir. Never.
You say you have
no other purpose...
than to safeguard her.
Very well.
The law forbids harm
to the innocent child.
So if I tell you now
that your wife will be safe...
until she has delivered...
will you drop this charge?
She is saved,
at least this year...
and a year is long.
Your purpose is
accomplished, mister.
Or is your design somewhat...
larger?
These are my friends.
Their wives are all-
There you have it!
He comes to overthrow the court!
- Sir, I am no lawyer. - The pure in
heart need no lawyers, Mr. Proctor.
Proceed as you will...
and quickly.
This is a sort of testament signed
by 91 people...
and if you will
notice, they declare...
they've known our wives
over many years...
never seen no sign they had dealings
with the devil!
This is a clear att*ck
upon the court.
Is every defense an att*ck
upon the court?
All innocent and Christian people
are happy for the courts in Salem.
These are gloomy for it.
I think you must
wish to know why.
Mr. Cheever, have warrants
drawn for all of these-
Arrest for examination.
These are God-fearing men.
I have brought trouble
on these people.
Not if they are of
good conscience, Mr. Nurse.
You misunderstand, sir.
A person is either with this court
or against it.
There be no road between.
This is a new time...
a precise time.
We live no longer
in the dusky afternoon...
when evil mixed
itself with good...
and befuddled the world.
Now, by God's grace...
the good folk and the evil
entirely separate.
I hope you will find
your place with us.
Mr. Herrick...
find Mr. Putnam...
and bring him here to me.
This is-
very well phrased.
You have no legal training?
I have the best, sir.
I am 33 time in court in my life...
and always plaintiff too.
You know, your father
tried a case of mine once.
Might be 35 year ago, I think.
Did he?
He never spoke to you of it?
No. I'm afraid
I cannot recall it.
Well, that's strange.
He give me £5 damages.
Did he? Well done.
Mr. Putnam.
We have an accusation
by Mr. Corey against you.
He states that you prompted
your daughter to cry witchery...
upon George Jacobs
so that you might buy up...
his forfeited land.
It is a lie.
This man is k*lling his neighbors
for their land.
- But where is your proof?
- My proof is there.
The day his daughter
cried out on Jacobs...
he was heard to say
he bid her do it.
I have it from an honest man...
who was there when he said it.
And the name of this man?
Why...
I cannot give you his name.
Then I shall have no choice...
but to arrest you for contempt of court.
Do you know that?
This is a hearing.
You cannot clap me for contempt
of a hearing.
Oh?
It is a proper lawyer.
Very well.
Mr. Corey...
the court is now in session.
Oh, my God.
No!
Your Honor, if what he says is true...
why will he not tell us
this man's name?
Excellency, it is understandable
that he conceals the man's name.
There is prodigious fear of this court
in the country.
No uncorrupted man may fear this court.
None.
Giles Corey, you are
under arrest in contempt.
Now decide.
Either you give me the man's name
who accuses Mr. Putnam...
or you will sit in jail until you
be forced to answer our questions.
- Mr. Proctor...
- I'll cut your throat, Putnam!
Remove him.
Fear them all, John!
He means to hang us all!
Have no fear, Giles!
This will bring you home!
Mary Warren's deposition, sir.
She swears upon
her immortal soul...
she lied
and her friends lie now.
They never saw Satan,
and no witch ever hurt them.
That is the truth, sir.
Excellency, clearly this goes...
to the heart of the matter.
In God's name, sir, a claim so weighty
cannot be argued by a farmer.
Send him home
and let him return...
- with a lawyer.
- Now, look you, sir-
I have signed 17 death warrants!
This argument you must let lawyers
present to you!
For a man of such
terrible learning...
you are most bewildered,
Mr. Hale.
Do forgive me.
I have been
42 year at the bar...
and were I called
to defend these people...
I promise you,
I should be confounded.
Consider now.
In an ordinary crime,
witnesses are called...
to prove guilt or innocence...
but witchcraft
is an invisible crime.
Therefore, who may witness it?
The witch, of course,
and the victim.
Now, we cannot expect the witch
to accuse herself, can we?
Therefore, we may only rely
upon her victims...
and the children
certainly testify.
Therefore, what is left
for a lawyer to bring out?
But this one claims...
the girls are not truthful.
But that is precisely
what I am about to consider.
What more may you ask of me?
Mr. Herrick,
bring the children here.
I should like to question Mary.
Will you be silent?
Enter.
Children...
the Bible...
damns all liars.
Your friend Mary Warren...
has given us
a deposition stating...
that she never
saw familiar spirits...
and was never att*cked...
by any manifest of the devil.
She claims, as well, that you never saw
these things either...
and that you are all pretending.
Now, it may be that Satan
has conquered Mary...
and sent her here today...
to distract our sacred purpose.
If so...
her neck will break for it.
But if she speak true...
I bid you all confess
your pretense now...
for a quick confession
will go easier with you.
Abigail Williams.
- Is there any truth in this?
- No, sir.
The poppet that were discovered
in the Proctor house-
She claims she made it
in the court...
and that you saw her stick the needle
into it for safekeeping.
That is a lie, sir.
Did you see
Goody Proctor's spirit...
and did she s*ab you
as you have charged?
Goody Proctor sent her spirit,
and it stabbed me.
If she is lying, it can only mean...
she would see your wife hanged.
She would wish that, sir.
This child would
m*rder your wife?
It is not a child!
Mary, tell the Governor how she led you
to dance in the woods.
This man is blackening my name
since I came to Salem!
- What is this dancing?
- Mr. Parris discovered them himself...
in the dead of night,
and they have danced there naked.
Naked?
When I first arrived from Beverly,
Mr. Parris told me that.
I did not say they were naked!
But she have danced?
Aye.
Mary Warren.
If you will permit me,
Excellency.
Mary...
in the court, you would faint...
when people accused of witchery
sent their spirit out to choke you.
It were pretense, sir.
But your skin
turned icy and pale.
They are all
marvelous pretenders.
Then can she pretend
to faint now?
Why not? if it were all pretense,
pretend now.
Come.
Turn cold, Mary.
Faint.
I cannot faint now.
Can you not pretend it?
I have no sense of it now.
Why? What is lacking now?
Is it that we have
no afflicting spirit loose...
but at the trials,
there were some?
I never saw no spirits!
Then faint by your own will.
Come. Do it.
I can't.
Are you protecting
Satan? Confess!
You did see attacking spirits!
No! I only thought I saw them,
but I did not!
Your Honor, I heard
the other girls screaming...
and you-you seemed
to believe them...
and then the whole world
cried, "Spirits! Spirits!"
And I...
Come, Mary.
Child.
I must ask you
to search your heart.
Is it possible the spirits you have seen
may be illusion only?
- Some sort of-
- Why, this is a base question.
I only ask you to consider.
What shall I consider? Have I seen
my blood running out of my flesh...
or have I not?
Is this my reward
for risking my life...
to be mistrusted and questioned
and denied?
Oh, my child.
I do not mistrust.
Beware, Mr. Danforth.
Do you think yourself so mighty
the devil may not turn your wits?
What say you?
Satan is no respecter of persons,
Mr. Danforth.
He may corrupt anyone!
Oh!
I feel the power of hell
in this room.
Oh, Abby, no.
A wind.
A cold wind.
Your Honor, I freeze.
They're pretending.
She's cold as ice, Your Honor.
Mary, stop this wind!
- Do you witch her?
- No.
- Take back your spirit.
- Let me go! I cannot do it!
Oh, Heavenly Father,
take away this torment!
Whore!
How do you call heaven?
Proctor! For God's sakes, man!
- Here's a whore, Mr. Danforth!
- He lies!
She'll s*ab me with a scream,
but she is a whore!
This will not pass.
You will prove this.
I have known her, sir!
I have known her.
in what time? What place?
In the proper place,
where my beasts are bedded!
My wife, my dear, good wife...
saw her for what she is...
and put her out
on the high road...
and being what she is-
a lump of vanity-
she thinks to dance with me...
on my wife's grave,
and well she might.
God help me!
I lusted!
For this is
a whore's vengeance now.
I place myself
entirely in your hands.
Do you deny every scrap
and speck of this?
If I must answer
that question...
I will leave
and never come back...
and I will tell the world
that Satan has won Salem!
Your Honor...
what man will cast away
his good name?
What look do you give me?
I will not have such look!
You will not leave this room.
Mr. Parris, go to the jail...
and bring Goodwife Proctor here.
Excellency, this is all a snare.
Bring her.
Now...
we shall touch
the bottom of this swamp.
Your wife, Mr. Proctor,
you say is an honest woman.
In her life, sir,
she have never lied.
And when she put this girl
out of your house...
she put her out for a harlot...
and knew of her a harlot?
Aye, sir, she knew
her for a harlot.
If she tell me, child,
it were for harlotry...
may God spread His mercy on you.
Halt!
Turn your back.
Turn your back.
Do likewise.
No one may speak...
or gesture aye or nay.
Mr. Cheever...
report this testimony
in all exactness.
Enter.
You will look at me only,
Goody Proctor...
in my eyes only.
We are informed
that at one time...
you dismissed your servant,
Abigail Williams.
Why? For what cause?
Need not look at your husband.
The answer is in your memory.
Why did you dismiss
Abigail Williams?
She dissatisfied me...
and my husband.
In what way dissatisfied you?
She were...
Look at me.
Was she slovenly?
Lazy?
What was it?
Your Honor...
My husband...
is a good and righteous man.
He's never drunk or wasting his time
at the shovel board...
but I were a long time sick
last year...
and I thought I saw him turning from me,
and this girl...
Look at me.
Aye, sir.
What of Abigail Williams?
I came to think he fancied her.
And so one night,
I lost my wits, I think...
and put her out
on the high road.
And did he indeed turn from you?
He...
To your own knowledge...
has John Proctor committed
the crime of lechery?
Answer my question.
is your husband an adulterer?
No, sir.
- Remove her.
- Elizabeth, I've confessed it.
- Oh, God.
- This should stop now!
She spoke nothing of lechery.
It is a natural lie to tell!
Judge Danforth, I cannot shut my
conscience to it. I believe this man!
Private vengeancy is working through
this testimony!
By my oath to heaven,
this girl is false!
Aah!
What is it?
What's there?
It's on the beam, beneath the rafter.
Why do you come, yellow bird?
But you cannot want
to tear my face!
Envy is a deadly sin, Mary!
Oh, this is a black art,
to change your shape!
- Abby, I'm here!
- No, Mary, don't come down!
- I'm not hurting her!
- Why does she see you up there?
- She sees nothing!
- She sees nothing!
- Have you compacted with the devil?
- Never. Never!
- Never! Never!
- Never! Never!
- Why must they repeat you?
- They're sporting!
- They're sporting!
- They're sporting!
- Abby, stop it.
- Abby, stop it!
Stop it!
Stop it!
Stop it!
Stop it!
What brought you to this turnabout,
Mary Warren? Has the devil got to you?
God damns ail liars, Mary.
Have you made compact with the devil
to destroy this investigation?
Hold to the truth!
What brought this change in you?
You have made compact with the devil,
have you not?
She's spreading her wings!
She's coming down!
Look out! She's coming down!
Put an end to this now!
I'm telling you, sir!
I know this girl!
She's entirely false!
They'll run into the sea!
Stop! Stop them!
Get your hands off me!
Don't touch me!
You're the devil's man!
I go your way no more!
I love God.
He bid you do the devil's work?
He come at me by night to sign.
Sign what?
The devil's book?
He come with a book?
My name! He want my name! "I'll m*rder
you," he says, "if my wife hangs. "
"We must go and overthrow
the court, " he says.
No! I go your way
no more!
- This girl's gone wild!
- I love God.
I bless God!
Oh, Abby.
John Proctor!
I have seen your power!
You are combined
with Antichrist!
You will not deny it!
Excellency,
this man-
I'll hear nothing
from you, Mr. Hale!
Will you confess yourself
befouled with hell?
Or do you keep
that black allegiance yet?
What say you?
I say you are pulling
heaven down...
and raising up a whore!
I say God is dead!
Do you hear him?
Do you hear him?
John Proctor, you're dead!
I quit this court!
For having committed
the crime of witchcraft...
Rebecca Nurse, George Jacobs...
Mary Easty, John Willard...
Martha Corey, Elizabeth Howe...
John Proctor, Elizabeth Proctor...
Mary Sibber, Hannah Bellows...
Bridget Bishop,
and Sarah Osborne...
are from this church,
with all its blessings...
and every hope of heaven,
hereby excommunicate.
No!
No!
No! I'm innocent!
I'm innocent. Oh!
I am no witch!
You'll all burn in hell!
Uhh! Ah!
Purge your contempt...
and give us the name of the man
that accused Putnam.
You will say it, Corey.
Speak, man!
We cannot relent!
What say you, Corey?
More... weight.
Lay on.
You are commanded
by the court. Lay on!
Aah!
I cannot sleep, sir.
A woman comes to my bed
every night now...
and tears at my eyes.
Can you make out who she may be?
I believe she be
Reverend John Hale's wife, sir.
You must be mistaken, my child.
The wife of a minister
is not likely-
Satan may reach anyone, sir.
Why then, absolutely no one...
in the world is safe-
Is that your meaning?
You are mistaken, child.
You understand me?
The Williams girl.
Come away from her.
God forgive you, Abigail Williams.
I beseech you, Thomas.
It must end... now.
It has struck
the people very hard...
that so many will not confess.
There's a faction here, Thomas,
feeding on that noose.
They're sick of hanging.
I tell you, Samuel,
I shall not rest...
until every inch
of this province...
belongs again to God.
Quickly,
I've got it.
They mean to take you
this morning.
There's a ship in Boston harbor.
It's bound for the Barbados.
I have money for the guard.
I never dreamed
any of this for you.
I wanted you was all.
Listen to me, John.
I have money.
We could see tomorrow
on the ocean.
The jailer will let you go.
Let me call him.
I must board ship, John.
Will you not speak?
It's not on a ship
we'll meet again, Abigail...
but in hell.
- Vanished?
- She's run off with £31.
Ha! I am penniless.
Mr. Parris...
you are a...
brainless man!
Excellency, hear me.
I beg you.
Let us postpone
more hangings for a time.
Now, these three that
must die this morning...
John Proctor, Rebecca Nurse,
Martha Corey-
They have great weight
yet in the town.
Now, if you let them
stand upon the scaffold...
and send up
some innocent prayer...
then they will wake
a vengeance on you.
Then Proctor must confess.
Now.
He must confess.
Please give me some water.
Where are you going with her?
Where are you taking her?
Pray, be at your ease.
We come not for your life.
We-
Mr. Hale.
John is marked
to hang this morning.
I have no connection
with the court, Goody Proctor.
I come to save
your husband's life.
Do you understand me?
We must help John give them
the lie they demand.
It is no lie.
You cannot speak of lies.
It is a lie.
They're innocent.
I tell you, woman...
life is God's
most precious gift.
No principle,
however glorious...
may justify the taking of it.
Will you plead with him?
Let him give his lie.
It may be that God
damns a liar less...
than he that throws away
his life for pride.
I think that may be
the devil's argument.
Are you stone?
He will die with the morning...
but if he will confess...
you shall both
be at home tomorrow.
I promise nothing...
but let me speak with him alone.
The child?
It grows.
Oh-
No word of the boys.
They're well.
Rebecca's Francis keeps them.
But you have not seen them.
I have not.
They come for my life now.
I'm thinking
I will confess, Elizabeth.
What say you
if I give them that?
If I confess?
I cannot judge you, John.
What would you have me do?
As you will, I would have it.
Oh, I want you living, John.
That's sure.
How can I mount
the scaffold like a saint?
I'm not that man.
'Tis a pretense.
My honesty's broke.
Nothing's spoiled giving them this lie
that were not...
rotten long before.
And yet you've not
confessed till now.
It's only spite keeps me silent.
It's hard to give a lie to dogs.
I would have
your forgiveness, Elizabeth.
It is not for me
to give, John...
if you will not pardon yourself.
It is not my soul, John.
It is yours.
Only be sure that...
whatever you will do
it is a good man does it.
I have sins of my own to count.
It needs a cold wife
to prompt lechery.
Oh, enough.
Enough.
It's better that you should know me.
You take my sins upon you.
No. I take my own.
I take my own.
John...
I counted myself so plain...
so poorly made that no honest love
could come to me.
Suspicion kissed you when I did.
I never knew how I should say
my love.
It were a cold house I kept.
Oh, my love.
Oh, my love.
Forgive me.
I never knew such goodness in the world.
Shh, shh.
Oh, John, forgive me.
My love.
Oh, forgive me.
Forgive me.
Oh, shh.
Forgive me.
I want my life!
God be praised!
This is God's work!
Bring out the condemned!
Rebecca Nurse, Martha Corey!
Why must it be written?
Why, for the good instruction
of the village...
this we shall post
upon the church door.
Ah... John.
Courage, man.
Your good example may bring them
to God as well.
Hear this!
Goody Nurse.
Now, Mr. Proctor...
did you bind yourself
to the devil's service?
John...
Oh, John, not you.
I did.
Now, woman, you see...
it profit nothing to keep
this conspiracy any further.
Will you confess yourself
with him?
It is a lie!
It is a lie!
How may I damn myself?
God send his mercy on you, John.
Now...
Mr. Proctor...
when the devil
appeared to you...
did you see Rebecca Nurse
in his company?
No.
Did you see her sister,
Mary Easty, with the devil?
No, I did not.
Did you ever see Giles Corey
with the devil or his wife...
I did not see them.
Did you ever see anyone
with the devil?
No, I did not.
Let him sign it, Excellency.
It is enough he confess himself.
It is a weighty name, sir. It will strike
the village that Proctor confessed.
Let him sign and be done
with it, for God's sake! Thomas!
If you please, Mr...
No, no. You have seen me sign it.
You have no need of this.
- Proctor, the village must have proof!
- Damn the village!
Is there no good penitence
but it be public?
God does not need my name nailed
to the church.
God knows how black my sins are!
Now, look you, Proctor...
How may I teach my sons to walk like men
in the world if I sold my friends?
You have not sold your...
I blacken all of them when I nail this
to the church...
and they have hanged
for silence.
I must have good
and legal proof...
that you have confessed
to witchcraft, Proctor.
You are the high courts.
Your word is good enough.
Tell them Proctor broke to his knees
and wept like a woman.
But...
- my-my name I cannot sign.
- Why?
Do you mean to deny this confession
when you are free?
I mean to deny nothing.
Then explain to me
why you will not-
Because it is my name!
Because I cannot have
another in my life!
Because I lie
and sign myself to lies!
Because I am not worth the dust
on the feet of them you have hanged.
I have given you my soul.
Leave me my name!
Is that document a lie?
If it is, I will not accept it.
You will give me your honest confession
in my hand...
or I cannot keep you
from the rope.
Which way do you go, mister?
Marshal.
Man, you will hang.
You cannot.
I can, and there's your first marvel,
that I can.
Give them no tear.
Show one and now show a stoney heart,
and sink them with it!
Who weeps for these...
weeps for corruption.
Take them.
Proctor.
Proctor...
Go to him.
There is time yet.
Proctor!
Proctor!
in the name of God, confess!
Confess.
Will you plead with him?
Be his helper.
Go to him.
Take his shame away!
He have his goodness now.
God forbid I take it from him.
God bless you, Rebecca!
God bless you, Proctor!
God bless you, Rebecca.
You're a good man, John Proctor.
You're a good man.
Our Father...
which art in heaven...
hallowed be Thy name.
Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done...
in earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day
our daily bread...
and forgive us our trespasses...
as we forgive them
that trespass against us.
Lead us not into temptation...
but deliver us from evil-
- For Thine is the kingdom, the power,
and the glory... -
Forever and ever...
Crucible, The (1996)
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