01x03 - Episode 3

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No, no.

Not the red room.

Not the red room.

I won't be wicked.

No.

Not the red room, no.

No, don't take me to the red
room.



Jane Eyre.

She's not part of the
family.

Miss Eyre?

You have not grown tall.

How is Mrs. Reed?

Mrs. Reed?

Oh, you mean mama.

She's extremely unwell.

I doubt you can see her tonight.

If you would just
step upstairs and tell
her I have come,

I would be much obliged to you.

She has asked for me to come.

I would not like to keep her
waiting.

Missus, is awake.

I told her that you're here.



Who are you?

I am Jane Eyre.

How are you, aunt?

You are not Jane Eyre.

I have had such trouble with
that child.

She was mad, a fiend.

I sent her away to Lowood

where the fever broke out and
many died.

But she didn't die.

I wish she had.



Why do you hate Jane Eyre so?

I hated her mother.

She was my husband's favorite
sister.

When she died, he cried like a
baby.

And he insisted on sending for
the child,

sickly, whining thing.

It wailed in its cradle all
night long,

and Reed doted on it, the fool.

Even in his last illness he
called for it

rather than his own children.



Where's John?

He always wants money.

He's a fine boy and he loves me,

but I don't know where to get
the money.

Where's John?

Where's John?

She knows well enough he's
gone

that's why she'll never leave
this bed.

Where's John?
Ssh, ssh.

She doesn't mean it, Miss
Jane, half what she says.

It's all right, Bessie, I
don't mind.

No, really I don't.

You used to get upset, more
than upset.

But you've grown into such
a confident young woman

who could have known it?

I suppose you have
friends now to confide in,

so your troubles don't plague
you so much that must be it?



Yes, I do have a friend.

Someone who when I talk to them,

they understand everything I
say.

They would laugh if I
told them about Mrs. Reed.

They are so in tune with me.

They know my thoughts
before I even think them,

certainly before I put them
into words.

I always said you'd do well.

I'm pleased that when you leave
here,

you can go home to such people.

My friend is to be married
soon it's almost certain.

But she will not live far
away maybe you can visit?

Yes, of course.

That may be so.




Eshton here says that
swallow there heads south

at the merest shiver of winter.

Travels all the way to the
most southern tip of Africa

and then comes back here
to this precise spot.

And I say how do you know?

As they all look exactly the
same.

Why would they come back here

and not stay where it is warm?

It is in their nature.

It is what they must do.

They must come home.

What do you think, Edward?



Is there a problem?

Not at all I was just taking
a stroll

through the hall before dinner.

And did you like what you saw?

Naturally.

It could of course do
with a little management,

a few new furnishings here and
there.

And you think you'd
like to take all this on?

What do you really want,
Blanche?




Who is that?

It is I, Aunt Reed, Jane Eyre.

You asked to see me.

Yes, I did.

I am very ill, you know.

I need to ease my mind before I
die.

I have done you wrong twice,
Jane Eyre.

One, was to break the
promise I made to my husband

to bring you up as my own child.

You know that.

Go to my dressing table.

Open it.

Take out and read the
letter you find there.

Madam, will you have the
goodness to send me the address

of my niece, Jane Eyre.



I wish her to join me in
Madeira.

Fortune has blessed me and as
I'm unmarried and childless,

I wish to adopt her

and bequeath to her all I have
when I die.

I am, madam, sincerely yours,
John Eyre.

But this was written three
years ago.

Why did you never tell me I
had an uncle who was alive?

Because I hated you too much.

I could not forgive you.

Forgive me--
For your conduct.

I take you on and you
treat me with contempt.

You talked to me like a vile,
wild animal.

Forgive me my passionate
nature.

I was a child, aunt.

Let us forgive each other now.

I could not forget.

I took my revenge.

I wrote to your uncle.

I told him Jane Eyre was dead.

That she had died of a
fever at Lowood School.

See,

I have my revenge.

Now you may have yours.

You can tell him of my
falsehood.

I will be dead by morning so I
don't care.



Please water.

Quick.




I forgive you, Aunt Reed.

Whether you wish it or not
I do truly forgive you.



Whoa.

Take my trunk on up to
Thornfield, would you?

Won't you ride Miss you've
had a very long journey?

No.

I'm nearly home.

It is my favorite walk.



There you are.

You're back.

Ungrateful thing, I give
you leave for a week

and you're gone a whole month.

I want my money back,

since you've had me so
little in your thoughts.

I said I would be gone
for as long as I was needed.

And I was.

And you still owe me wages.

Come, let's get you home.

Adele will scream and shout
bienvenue.

Thank you for your great
kindness.

I'm strangely glad to
get back again to you,

and wherever you are is my home,

is my true home.



Are you going?

See, Eshton,

our swallow has come home.

Eshton is using my coach to
pursue some unusual twins.

Yes, one a Belgian has
been in sort of a deep sleep

for some eight months and
he has been woken by a twin

now living in Toulouse by the
way

that he never even knew existed.

It's amazing.

What you don't think it
possible that

two minds can be so in tune that

they communicate across the
country

and call out to each other
across space and time?

You are one of the world's
most curious people, Eshton.

And you are one of the
most cynical, Rochester.

Nonsense.

I'm the most romantic person I
know.

Be off with you.

Miss Eyre, Miss Eyre.
Amazing minds await

your magnifying glass.

Miss Eyre.

Oh, Jane, you're back.

Miss Eyre, Miss Eyre.

At last the governess has
returned from her travels.

Can't you teach that child
something

so she won't be under our feet?

It's just such a pity
we can't stay for longer.

But it's the Warreners'
summer ball next week.

Well, Blanche and I won't be
there.

We will be occupied with
a more important event

I am certain.



Don't worry you'll see her
again soon.

Ingram Park is a short journey
for an enthusiastic rider.

Indeed.

Safe journey.



Ah, there you are.

Is Adele in bed?

You're back to our routine very
quickly.

Now that all our house guests
are gone,

it is like it has always been.

What's that?

It is a book I used to read
as a child,

my escape book.

I used to imagine that one day
I could go anywhere I wanted.

I took it with me to Lowood.

And now?

Now, I think it can go here
very well.

Now, Miss Eyre.

If we're very lucky, we
might see some dragonflies.

Did I ever tell you of my
travels

in the Blue Mountains of
Mongolia?

And you can tell me of
your travels in the black

and gloomy forests of
your childhood memories.

So the vain, facetious cousin
Georgiana,

found a mate within days
of your aunt's funeral?

So it seems.

And what of the nun?

I believe Eliza will
settle in her French convent

never to return to worldly
pleasures.

I give her but a few years
to become Mother Superior.

So you returned to
Gateshead half knowing

that you wouldn't find the old
lady repentant or forgiving

or in the least bit
pleased to see Jane Eyre

and this is how things
transpired.

And yet Jane Eyre doesn't
seem to be troubled

that she has no family,

no-one in the world outside of
Thornfield

who wishes her well.

No.

I have no family to speak of.

But I hear you have been
making plans of your own.

I assume Miss Blanches'
departure from Thornfield

is only temporary.

I mean as Adeles' governess it
is my duty

to help you decide on a
suitable school.

Yes.

Yes, indeed and we mustn't
forget that

when I do finally
relinquish my bachelor ways

we must find you a suitable
position.

What do you think of Ireland?

We don't have to worry about
that now.

Not for a good while yet.

Oh, look, look.

See the emerald wings.

Come.




Monsieur Rochester, I
want you to tell me about

the Caribbean Islands again.

Sophie has taught me a song.



All right, incorrigible one.

You must imagine a restaurant.

No, lets say, a meeting place

where many respectable people
come here

at night to socialize.



You must imagine brilliant reds
and pinks,

the most exotic perfumed
flowers,

delightful, passionate music.

The women are of course very
beautiful.

They wear bright silks,

ambers, sapphires, emeralds.

They are very seductive.

But they are also mysterious,

tantalizing,

dangerous.

♪ La ♪

♪ La, la, la ♪

♪ La ♪

Stop that noise,

or I'll send you to school in
the morning.

You're like a wild animal.

The Caribbean is not as
beautiful as it seems, Adele.



I came back to escape.

♪ Hmm, hmm, hmm ♪

Summer's been with us forever
this year.

I can't remember when it stayed
so long.

And Mr Rochester has stayed
with it.

He has never been here at
Thornfield

for this length of time.

He found something to
keep him from his travels.

Mind you,

I think there must have
been a little disagreement.

Really?
Well,

Ingram Park is not very far away

not for an ardent suitor.

Yet he has not saddled a
horse for several weeks.

He spends his evenings
either talking to you

or prowling the lower gardens
like a bear the gardener says.

Of course, he's got the
household
business to worry about.

What do you mean?

Well, he'll be wanting to
find us suitable positions

for after the wedding.

Oh, no, he will take
care over that I'm sure.

I told you he's a good master.

Thornfield is pleasant in
the summer, isn't it, Jane?

Yes, sir.

You've become attached to the
place?

Yes, sir.

And you'll be sad to leave?

Yes.

Must I leave, sir?

Must I leave Thornfield?
Yes, I'm sorry,

but I'm afraid you must.

You're to be married?

Exactly.

Precisely.

As you with your usual acuteness

have already predicted when I
do marry,

Adele must go to school and
you must find a new situation.

Yes, sir, I will advertise
immediately.

No, you won't.

I already found you a place.

Ireland is a long way away,
sir.

From Thornfield it is a
long way away from you, sir.

We've been good
friends haven't we, Jane?

It's difficult to part from a
friend

and know you will never meet
them again.

And you and I it's like we're
a pair of Eshton's twins,

bound together in some
unworldly way

sharing a spirit we're so alike.

When we are parted when you
leave me,

I believe that bond will snap
and I will bleed inwardly.

But you'll forget me after a
while.

I would never forget you.

How can you imagine that?

What do you think I am?

Oh, I wish I'd never been born.

I wish I'd never come here.

I wish I'd never grown to love
Thornfield.

I love Thornfield.

I love it because I
have lived a full life.

I have not been trampled on.

I have been treated as an equal.

You have treated me as an equal.

You are the best person I know.

And I cannot bear the thought
of having to leave you.

Must you leave me, Jane?

Of course I must
because you have a wife.

What do you mean?

Blanche Ingram, of course.

You are as good as married.

You promised her.

I have not promised Blanche
anything.

To someone who is inferior to
you.

Someone who you have no
sympathy with.

Of course I must go.

Do you think that I'm a machine?

That I can bear it?

Do you think because I'm poor,
plain, obscure and little,

that I have no heart,

that I'm without soul?

I have as much heart as
you and as much soul.

And if God had given me
some beauty and wealth,

I would make it as hard
for you to leave me

as it is now for me to leave
you.

You will not leave me, Jane.

Let me go.

Jane, don't struggle so.

I'm a free person and
I'll go and do as I please.

Yes, yes, yes you will.

You will decide your own
destiny.

Jane, I offer you my hand, my
heart, and all my possessions.

You laugh at me.
No, no.

Jane, I want you to live with me

to pass through life as my
second self,

my best earthly companion.

Jane, have you no faith in me?

None whatsoever.
You doubt me?

Absolutely.

Jane, you know I don't love
Blanche.

I love you like my own flesh.



Jane, say that you will marry
me.

Say it quickly.

Jane, do you accept me?

Are you in earnest?

I can hardly believe you.

I swear.

Then, sir--
Call me by my name.

Call me Edward.

Then, Edward, I will marry
you.



God forgive me.

And let no man meddle with me.



I aim to keep her.

There is no one to meddle.

I have no family to interfere.

No.



Run and take off those wet
things.



Good night.

Good night, my darling.






I feel so astonished.

I hardly know what to
say to you, Miss Eyre.

Mr. Rochester came in here
about five minutes ago

to tell me that he had
asked you to marry him.

God, this cannot be true.

But why?

I'm sorry to offend you
Jane but you are so young.

You know nothing of men.

I have noticed that Mr.
Rochester

seemed to make you a favorite.

But I thought--
That I was

too monstrous to love?

No.

I meant I thought you too level
headed,

too sensible a young woman
to be so overwhelmed.

Overwhelmed?

Well, are you overwhelmed?

I believe the good woman
thought I'd forgotten my
station.

And you yours.

Little does she know
that I am the servant

and you the mistress.

I'm sorry.

I know that look.

She thinks I do not know
myself.

And that you are doing as all
men must.

Jane, she doesn't know us.

All the same, sir.

Sir when did I become sir
again?

Last night you stood before the
heavens

and pronounced yourself my
equal.

That's the Jane I want to
marry to share my life.

Will you dine with me tonight?

No, sir.
Edward.

You promised to call me Edward.

Until we marry, if we marry--

In one month, one short month,

you'll be Mrs. Rochester
or I'll be damned.

Then until that morning I
will call you Mr Rochester.

That is halfway between Edward
and Sir.

I'll continue to teach Adele.

We will go on as before.

Then it will be seen that
this idea, this marriage

is a sensible proposition.

I'm not interested in
pleasing Mrs. Fairfax.

But for you

for you, I will obey.

Now, hurry up and get your
bonnet or we'll be late.

For what?

We're going to town.



No.

I'll send her to school yet.

Will I go without
Mademoiselle?

Absolutely sans Mademoiselle.

I'm gonna take Mademoiselle
away to Europe first

where I will take her
to all the grand palaces

and present her to all
the kings and queens.

You cannot do that
because she has no jewels.

She will have.

In London there's a very
special box filled with jewels.

I will send for them immediately

and Mademoiselle will be
covered in them

from head to toe while she
teaches you mathematics.

And when Madame, as she will be
then,

when Madame is tired of
all these kings and queens,

I will take her to a villa
whitewashed and secluded

on the edge of the emerald
Mediterranean.



You will really be going
the minute after the wedding?

Yes.

You will stay the night
at the grand London hotel

and then take the steam boat to
France?

Yes.

I wish I could go with you.

You must stay here.

But don't worry, Mr Rochester...

We will pick out a good school
for you.

They will hit me and starve
me.

No.

I promise I won't let that
happen.




Go.

Who is there?

Who is it?

George, what time did your
master say he'd be home?

Don't worry, Miss.

He has been away one night
already.

He will not stay away another.



So I'm only gone for 24
hours and I return to this.

Can't do without me, clearly.

Is anything wrong?

It was not Sophie.

It was not Mrs. Fairfax.

It was not even Grace Poole.

But you were dreaming.

I had been dreaming but then I
awoke.

Thank God nothing worse
happened.

Thank God you're safe.

It was not Grace Poole.

Who else could it have been?

I was not dreaming.

And the rest of your dream?

Is Thornfield a neglected ruin?

Have I left you without so much
as a word?

No.

So.

Put it down to your anxieties.

Your natural anxieties

about the new life you are
about to enter.

Yesterday I was very
busy and happy packing.

I was not worried about the
future.

I think it a glorious thing to
have

the hope of living with
you because I love you.

It was a fine day yesterday.

Look.

The storm has gone.




At last there you are.

How could I have thought that
gaudy veil

would have suited you better?

Is John getting the carriage
ready?

The luggage bought down?

Yes, sir.

Yes, sir.
Good.

Have it strapped and
ready on the carriage.

We're leaving the moment
we return from the church.

Yes, sir.




I'm sorry, Jane.

Are you ready?

I require and charge you both

as ye will answer at the
dreadful day of judgment

when the secrets of all
hearts shall be disclosed

that if either of you know any
impediment

why ye may not lawfully
be joined in matrimony

ye do now confess it.

Be ye well assured that so
many as are coupled together

otherwise than God's word doth
allow

are not joined together by God

neither is their matrimony
lawful.

The marriage cannot go on.

I declare the existence of an
impediment.

Proceed.

I said, proceed.

I cannot proceed without
some investigation.

Perhaps it might be
got over, explained away?

I hardly think so.

It is insuperable.

Mr. Rochester has a wife now
living.

Who are you?

My name is Briggs, a
solicitor.

You would thrust on me a wife?

I would remind
you of her existence, sir

which the law recognizes if you
do not.

I have no wife.

Edward Fairfax Rochester
of Thornfield Hall

was married to Bertha
Antoinetta Mason

at San Benedictus Church
in Spanish Town, Jamaica

on the 18th day of March, 1825.

If that is a genuine
document it doesn't prove

that the woman mentioned
there is still living.

She was living three months
ago.

I have a witness to the fact.

What have you to say?

What have you to say?

Gentlemen, this is a place of
God.

My sister is living at
Thornfield Hall.

I saw her there last June.

Impossible.

I'm an old resident to
this neighborhood, sir,

and I've never heard of a Mrs.
Rochester at Thornfield Hall.

No, by God.

I took care that none would.



Enough.

That is enough?

Clear the church there
will be no wedding today.

Before you go, however

I bid you come up to the house.

I have someone I wish you to
meet.



Do you remember this room, Mason

where you almost lost your life?



Morning, Mrs. Poole.

How's your charge this morning?

A little touchy, sir.

We're having some breakfast
but she's calm now.

Be very careful, sir.

Aren't I always,
Grace?

We'd better leave.

Why, Richard?

Why are you frightened?

Ladies and gentlemen, may
I introduce you to my wife?



Puta.

Puta.

Puta.



Just leave, quickly, sir.

She will be calm again.

I will handle her, sir.

That was my wife.

As some of you know my
father was a greedy man

who wanted to preserve his
estate

by marrying his younger son off
to a wife

who would bring him a rich
dowry.

I was sent to the Caribbean
where

knowing my predilection
for dark, handsome women

I was tricked by Mason and his
father

into pursuing his sister Bertha

who was as beautiful
as the glittering stars

and just as tantalizing.

I was married before I knew it,

before I had met the mother

who was I found out later
at that time and had been

for many years incarcerated
in a mental asylum.

And that insanity ran through
the family

like a black river of disease.

It was but half a day before I
realized

what manner of wife I'd been
tricked into.



It was but a few weeks
before the full extent

of her illness was made clear
to me,


Bertha, calm down.

An illness which has grown

in violence and foulness
at an ever increasing pace.

Then serves him right for his
wickedness my father died.

And my brother straight behind,
so I...

I inherited everything anyway.

The Rochester fortune intact.

I brought her back with me to
England

intending to make Thornfield
a comfortable prison for her

and for me.

I have another house hidden
away.

I could've kept her there

where the damp inclement air

might have rid me of her burden.

I could have done that and
no one would have blamed me.



But I left her here with Grace

while I traveled the
world trying to forget

the horrors at home.

Until one day

one day this girl appeared
who knew nothing of this

this girl

who stands so quiet and
grave at the mouth of hell

this girl

who is all quietness

and sanity and innocence.



Do you wonder why I wanted her?

Why I risked the wrath of God
to get her?

And now I must ask you to leave.

I must see to my wife.




Jane.

Jane.

Forgive me.

I couldn't tell you.

I knew you'd never stay.

Jane, come away with me.

We'll go and live together in
that

whitewashed villa away from
everyone.

You have no family to care,

to interfere with us.




Jane.



Jane, can you hear me?

Jane.