Great Expectations
(BBC,
1999)
Author: Charles Dickens
Director: Julian Jarrold
PART ONE
Ext. THE MARSHES. DAY
(a boy happens to meet an escaped convict)
Pip:
Mummy! Mummy!
INT. JOE GARGERY'S HOUSE. DAY
Mrs. Joe:
Hang it right main, hang it right.
Where have you been? What I've got before me
when you go for your leisure. You tell me
directly what you've been doing!
Joe Gargery:
Mrs. Joe:
Well?
Or I'd have you out of that corner if you was
50 Pips, and he was 500 Gargerys.
Pip:
I... I've been down to hear the carols.
Mrs. Joe:
Carols, is it?
Perhaps if I weren't a blacksmith's wife and a
slave with an apron never off, only should I been
to hear the carols. But too busy am I bringing
you up by hand. Why do I do it?
Pip:
I don't know, sister.
Mrs. Joe:
'I don't!' Was it I brought me this being your
mother? This house, this apron and him. That's
all.
Joe:
I hope you sang your heart out, old chap.
Pip:
I gave it out, Joe.
EXT. THE MARSHES. DAY
Magwitch:
I'm hungry, boy. I'm hungry.
Pip:
Please, sir! Please, sir!
Magwitch:
Nice fat cheeks though, I'd munch them, eh?
What is your name, boy.
Pip:
Pip...
Magwitch:
What? Come on, give it mouth!
Pip:
Pip. Pip, sir. Pip! Pip!
INT. JOE'S HOUSE. DAWN
(Pip fills up a bottle from the tar-water jug.)
(Pip goes to the marshes)
EXT. CHURCHYARD. DAWN
Magwitch:
Well, boy? What's in the bottle, boy?
Pip:
Brandy, sir.
Magwitch:
I need to eat to live.
You have no one with you?
Pip:
I brought no one with me, sir.
Magwitch:
Nor give no one the office to follow you?
Pip:
No! Oh, no, sir.
Magwitch:
Pip, is it?
Pip:
Yes, sir.
Magwitch:
I am hunted and condemned to death, Pip.
They'll come for me.
Pip:
I'm glad you enjoy it.
Magwitch:
Did you speak?
Pip:
I said I was glad you enjoyed that.
Magwitch:
Well... thank you, my boy. I do.
(they hear a cannon in the distance)
Magwitch:
Another out there.
Pip:
Since last night. Did you hear then?
Magwitch:
Compeyson must be out.
Pip:
Excuse me, sir?
Magwitch:
Compeyson is out.
I'll put him down like a bloodhound.
Curse this bloody iron on my leg. Give me
that file, boy.
Pip.
Merry Christmas.
INT. DINNER AT JOE'S HOUSE. NIGHT
(Mr. Wopsle, the clerk at church, is invited)
Wopsle:
And for which may the Lord, may he make us truly,
truly grateful. Amen.
Mrs. Joe:
You hear that? You be grateful.
Pumblechook:
Especially, dear boy, to them which brought you
up by hand.
Wopsle:
Why is it that the young are never grateful?
Pumblechook:
Naturally vicious.
Mrs. Joe:
True.
Wopsle:
I must say anyone looking for a moral for the
young will not find it in today's sermon.
Pumblechook:
No, indeed.
Wopsle:
Indeed we felt as much it was well chosen.
Now, if I'd be in the position to enter into a
fit subject...
Pumblechook:
Look at pork alone. There's a subject.
If you want a subject, look at pork.
Wopsle:
True, sir. Many a moral for the young might be
deduced from the text.
Mrs. Joe:
You listen to this!
Wopsle:
Swine were the companions of the prodigal.
The gluttony of swine is put before us as an
example to the young.
Pumblechook:
(to Pip) Think what
for. If you'd been
had been born such,
be? You would have
shillings.
Mrs. Joe:
Have a little brandy, uncle.
Pumblechook:
Yes, ma'am.
(cont'd)
Disposed... And then Dunstable the butcher
would have come up to you as you lay in your
straw and he would have whipped you under his
left arm and shed your blood with a penknife
with his right. No bringing up by hand then.
Not a bit of it.
you've got to be grateful
born a Squeaker... if you
what would your destination
been disposed of for a few
(springs to his feet, turning round several
times in an appalling whooping-cough dance,
and rushes out at the door)
Mrs. Joe:
Uncle... Uncle, what is it?
Are you all right, uncle?
Pumblechook:
Tar!
Mrs. Joe:
Tar? Why, how ever could Tar come there?
(her eyes falls on Pip)
(knocks at the door)
Sergeant:
Here you are. Come on, look sharp!
(cont'd):
Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen, but I am on
a chase for Queen and country and I want the
blacksmith.
Mrs. Joe:
Joe!
Sergeant:
The lock of one of them goes wrong and the
coupling don't act pretty. They are in the
marshes still. We will try to get clear of
them before dusk.
Mrs. Joe:
Would you care for a little brandy, sergeant?
Pumblechook:
Wine, I think, Mum.
Joe:
Afterwards, sergeant, I rather thought that
perhaps... Well, some of us may have the
inclination to come down with the soldiers
and see what comes of this hunt.
Sergeant:
No objections here.
Joe:
Mrs. Joe don't mind we'll see those villains
caught, Pip?
EXT. THE MARSHES. DAY
Sergeant:
Come on! There!
Surrender! Arrest him!
Magwitch:
I took him! I give him up to you!
Sergeant:
There's nothing to be particular about.
Handcuffs there!
Magwitch:
I took him and he knows it. That's enough
for me.
Convict 2:
Take notice, sergeant, this man tried to
murder me.
Magwitch:
I dragged him back here. He's a gentleman,
if you plese, this villain. And now, the Hulks
has got its gentleman back again, through me.
Convict 2:
I should have been a dead man if you had not
come up.
Magwitch:
He's a born liar and he'll die a liar.
Look at his face, isn't it written there?
Let him cast those eyes on me. I defy him
to do it. That's how he looked when we were
tried together. He never looked at me.
Convict 2:
Not much to look at.
Magwitch:
You!
Sergeant:
Stop it!
Convict 2:
I told you he would murder me if he could!
Sergeant:
Enough of this!
Company! March!
(they travelled for an hour or so)
Magwitch:
Look, I took some wittles off, up at the
village, where the church stands.
Sergeant:
You mean stole?
Magwitch:
From the blacksmith's.
It was some broken wittles... and a dram of
liquor and a pie.
I'm sorry you missed such articles.
Especially the pie.
Sergeant:
Come on!
(they put the convicts in a prison-ship)
Joe:
How does he know I was the blacksmith?
INT. JOE'S HOUSE. NIGHT
(Pip sees the boat going up in flames)
Joe:
Come on, old chap. It's only a dream that's
taken all of you.
Pip:
It was real, Joe.
Joe:
Always seem so.
But this is a true fear, Pip. Me hold in your
hand and you're safe and sound and warm in
your bed. Look like them poor creatures.
No comfort for them tonight, don't you reckon.
INT. JOE'S HOUSE. DAY
(Pip is writing a letter to Joe on his slate)
Joe:
What a scholar you are, old chap. Ain't you?
Pip:
I should like to be.
Joe:
Why, here's a J and a O equal to anything!
Pip:
But read the rest, Joe.
Joe:
The rest, eh, Pip?
Why, here's three Js and three Os... and three
J-O... Why Joes, in it, Pip!
Pip:
My dear Joe, I hope you're quite well and I hope
I shall soon be able for the teach you, Joe, and
then we shall be so glad when I am apprentice to
you, Joe what lurks, believe me.
Joe:
Astonishing! You are a scholar.
Pip:
How do you spell Gargery, Joe?
Joe:
I don't spell it at all, Pip.
Pip:
But supposing you did?
Joe:
It can't be supposed.
Pip:
Didn't you ever go to school, Joe, when you
were as little as me?
Joe:
No, Pip. But you teach me, are you, chap?
Mrs. Joe:
Well... if this boy ain't grateful this day,
he never will be.
Joe:
Get him ready, Mum.
(Mrs. Joe washes Pip's body very carefully)
Mrs. Joe:
Well? What are you staring at?
This boy's fortunes may be made today if she
favours him. You better make certain she
favours you.
EXT. MISS HAVISHAM'S MANOR HOUSE. DAY
(Uncle Pumblechook takes Pip to Miss Havisham's)
Pumblechook:
Get off, boy.
Boy, let your behaviour here be a credit to
them which brought you up by hand.
Estella:
What name?
Pumblechook:
Pumblechook.
Estella:
Quite right.
(opens the gate)
Pumblechook:
This is Pip.
Estella:
This is Pip, is it? Come in, Pip.
Oh, did you wish to see Miss Havisham?
Pumblechook:
If Miss Havisham wished to see me.
Estella:
Which is what she didn't.
(pushes back Pumblechook)
Pumblechook:
Remember, Pip.
Credit, nothing but credit.
Estella:
Don't loiter, boy!
Pip:
After you, Miss.
Estella:
Don't be ridiculous, boy.
I'm not going in. Go on!
(Miss Havisham wears a bridal dress, and her
clock stopped at 20 minutes to 9)
Miss Havisham:
Who are you?
Pip:
Pip, ma'am.
Miss Havisham:
Pip?
Pip:
Mr. Pumblechook's boy.
Miss Havisham:
Sometimes I have sick fancies, Pip.
I have a sick fancy that I want to see some
play. So...
So, please... Play! Play! Play!
Pip:
(romps about)
Miss Havisham:
No... No. Are you afraid of me?
Pip:
I'm afraid of my not pleasing you.
I should get into trouble with my sister if
you would not favour me.
Miss Havisham:
Fetch Estella.
Pip:
She...?
Miss Havisham:
Fetch her.
(Estella and Pip sit down to cards)
Estella:
Beggar again.
Pip:
Two jacks. Now we have to go to war.
Estella:
He calls the knaves jacks.
How coarse his hands are. And what thick
boots.
Miss Havisham:
You say nothing of her. What do you think
of her? Tell me in my ear.
Pip:
(whispers in her ear)
Miss Havisham:
He thinks you are very proud and insulting
and very pretty.
(to Pip) Anything else?
Pip:
I think I should like to go home now.
Miss Havisham:
And never see her again?
Though she is so pretty?
Pip:
I'm not sure that I shouldn't like to see
her again, but I should like to go home now.
Miss Havisham:
Come back after six days, you hear?
Pip:
Yes, ma'am.
Miss Havisham:
Estella, take him down. Give him something
to eat. Let him roam around.
(putting the tray down on the ground she turns
back into the house. Pip kicks it hard)
Pip:
(hitting the
"Hammer boys
With a thump
Beat it out,
With a clink
wall, he sings)
round -- Old Clem!
and a sound -- Old Clem!
beat it out -- Old Clem!
for the stout -- Old Clem!"
Estella:
Why don't you so cry again?
Pip:
Because I don't want to.
Estella:
Yes, you do.
INT. JOE'S HOUSE. DAY
Mrs. Joe:
Pretty well? Look on your answers!
Pretty well? What you mean by pretty well?
Pip:
I mean... pretty well.
(Mrs. Joe hits him on the head)
Pumblechook:
Don't lose your temper with him, mum.
Leave this to me.
Boy... What like is Miss Havisham?
Pip:
Very tall and dark.
Mrs. Joe:
Is she, uncle?
Pumblechook:
Good. We are beginning to hold our own, I
think, mum.
Mrs. Joe:
You know so well how to deal with him, uncle.
Pumblechook:
Now, boy... What was she doing of when you
went in today?
Pip:
She was sitting in a black velvet coach.
Yes, and Miss Estella, that's her niece I think
handed her in cake and wine at the coach-window
on a gold plate. And we all had cake and wine
on gold plates. And I got up behind the coach
to eat mine, because she told me to. There
were four dogs there fighting for veal cutlets
out of a silver basket.
Mrs. Joe:
Can this be true, uncle?
Pumblechook:
The boy was there to play.
Mrs. Joe:
And this coach... What can the boy mean?
Did you ever see her in it?
Pumblechook:
Many times, mum.
And what did you play at, boy?
Pip:
We played with flags.
Mrs. Joe:
Flags?
Pip:
Yes. Estella waved a blue flag, and I waved
a red one.
Joe:
Astonishing! What lucks, eh, Pip?
Mrs. Joe:
But will it make his fortune, uncle?
Pumblechook:
There are plans for him, mum.
I am sure of that. Property or his binding
to a gentle trade... Promising, mum, highly
promising.
Joe:
Come, Pip, at least there was dogs?
There are no veal cutlets, at least there was
dogs?
Pip:
No, Joe.
Joe:
A puppy? Come... and no flags neither, Pip?
Old chap, this won't do. Where do you expect
to go to?
Pip:
But I couldn't speak how she really was, Joe.
It would be... corse.
Joe:
Eh?
Pip:
Why did you teach me to call knaves jacks?
Joe:
Look, Pip... Lies is lies.
Pip:
But I have to go back there, Joe.
I have to go back there in six days' time.
What would I do when she looks at my boots again?
EXT. AT MISS HAVISHAM'S. DAY
Miss Havisham:
(to Estella) Your own one day. And you will
use them well.
She grow prettier and prettier, Pip?
Pip:
And prettier.
Estella:
As for you, there is no improvement.
Miss Havisham:
Pretty said, my beauty.
Estella:
Pip sings a very pretty song. Don't you, Pip?
Perhaps he can entertain us with that. I
have heard you the first time you came here.
Perhaps you could beat the tact. Well, Pip?
Pip:
It's a song from a forge, ma'am.
Miss Havisham:
Well then. Sing it.
Pip:
"Hammer boys round -- Old Clem!
With a thump and a sound -- Old Clem!
Beat it out, beat it out -- Old Clem!
With a clink for the stout -- Old Clem!"
Blow the fire, blow the fire -- Old Clem!
Miss Havisham:
Come on, join us. Come.
Pip:
"Roaring dryer, soaring higher -- Old Clem!
Estella:
"Hammer boys round -- Old Clem!
With a thump... "
But I'm not supposed to join in. Neither of
us. I thought we were supposed to laugh. I
do not understand this! It is a blacksmith's
song. It is a song to use with your coarse
clumsy hands.
(Estella rushes out of the room)
EXT. A HUT IN THE MARSHES. DAY
(Pip asks Biddy to impart her learning to him)
Pip:
She's always let me
Sometimes she talks
Sometimes she tells
hates me. I admire
know I'm low.
to me. Sometimes not.
me very directly that she
her dreadfully.
Biddy:
Pip...
Pip:
Well, it's a good likeness, isn't it?
Biddy:
Of what, Pip?
Pip:
The design for a buckle, of course.
Biddy:
You are a willing pupil, Pip, most of the time
and very particular... most of the time but
today look again Pip and you'll see it's a
letter D you copied.
INT. AT MISS HAVISHAM'S. DAY
Jaggers:
I'm sure she is object of all your love and
duty but I'm instructed to tell you to come
tomorrow.
Camilla:
And will we be able to see her and inquire
about her then?
Jaggers:
Oh, she does not say that. She does say to
come back again.
Camilla:
We are only wishing to be informed about her
health. Indeed, until we are our own health
is undermined.
Jaggers:
I'm sure Miss Havisham wishes you a speedy
recovery.
(to Pip)
Ah, this is the boy Miss Havisham sends for.
I have pretty large experience of boys, and
you are a bad set of fellows. Now, mind you
behave yourself.
Estella:
(to Pip) Come on, she is waiting for you.
Camilla:
My dear!
Estella:
You are to come this way today.
You are to go in there. Don't open the door
that are down the corridor.
Pip:
You asked a favour of me?
Estella:
It is an instruction.
Miss Havisham:
You saw my relatives downstairs?
Today is my birthday.
Pip:
Many happy returns...
Miss Havisham:
I don't suffer it to be spoken of.
Come. Walk me.
What do you think that is?
Pip:
I can't guess what it is, ma'am.
Miss Havisham:
The great cake. A bride-cake. Mine.
It was brought here a long time ago. On my
birthday. Oh, my coming of age. You see
this? It's from him.
Pip:
Him, ma'am?
Miss Havisham:
I received it 20 to nine. Read it.
Wheel me around this table.
INT. JOE'S HOUSE. DAY
Mrs. Joe:
And... did she look in favour on the way you
pushed her around?
Pip:
She wishes me to take her further next time.
Onto the landing.
Mrs. Joe:
Uncle?
Pumblechook:
Promising, mum, highly promising.
INT. AT MISS HAVISHAM'S. DAY
(Pip pushes Miss Havisham in the wheelchair)
Miss Havisham:
What do you know, Pip?
Pip:
Sorry, ma'am?
Miss Havisham:
In your learning.
Pip:
Not nearly as much as I should like, ma'am.
Not nearly as much.
Miss Havisham:
And what are you to be?
Pip:
I believe I am to be apprentice to Joe, ma'am.
Estella:
The blacksmith.
Pip:
But I'm a very well pupil and keen to learn
everything.
Miss Havisham:
You mean something else?
EXT. JOE'S HOUSE. DAY
(Joe is putting horseshoes on a horse)
Mrs. Joe:
Oh, boy, back from the society you go.
Pip:
Joe!
Mrs. Joe:
You playes well today, are you?
Pip:
Joe! She wishes you to come there.
Mrs. Joe:
She wishes us to come there.
There's a plan she has for him.
It must be. Or she plans to give him the way
she wishes to favour him after all the visit
to his main there.
Pip:
It's only Joe she wishes to see.
Mrs. Joe:
He's to go up town on his own? Him?
Pip:
I think it would be best to go to in your
Sunday clothes, Joe.
Joe:
My hat and whole?
Mrs. Joe:
There more company I might think for.
Where do I go?
Joe:
This is important business then...
Mrs. Joe:
When is it to go there?
Pip:
Soon. She knows nothing of times.
Mrs. Joe:
You'll go tomorrow.
(Joe nods)
Joe:
Well, Pip, bring the foil.
INT. AT MISS HAVISHAM'S. DAY
Camilla:
(seeing Pip and Joe)
This will not do.
Miss Havisham:
You have raised the boy with the intention of
taking him for your apprentice. Is that so,
Mr. Gargery?
Joe:
That was long be looked forward to between us.
Yes, Pip?
Miss Havisham:
Does he like the trade?
Joe:
(to Pip) You know it were looked forward to
betwixt us.
It is a wish of his own heart, ma'am.
Begging your pardon, ma'am.
Is it what's to happen then?
Miss Havisham:
It's time.
Joe:
It's a business open to black and soot and such
like. But Pip makes no objections to that.
And now he can help me keep the pot boiling,
so to speak.
Miss Havisham:
Pip is on the premium here. Five-and-twenty
guineas. Take it to your master, Pip.
Estella, show Mr. Gargery way.
Pip, stay behind.
So, Pip... there's a change going on.
And Estella will soon be gone.
Pip:
Where?
Miss Havisham:
Abroad. To be educated for a lady.
Out of reach. How do you feel about that?
Pip:
I wish her well.
Miss Havisham:
Don't you think that you're losing her?
Pip:
I might come again?
Miss Havisham:
No. Gargery is your master now.
You have no more attachments here.
Do you? You're free to go.
(Pip goes out of the manor house)
Herbert:
Hello, young fellow. Who let you in?
Pip:
It does not matter who let me in. I was
sent for and now I'm leaving.
Herbert:
Didn't she take a fancy to you then?
Pip:
Who?
Herbert:
Miss Havisham. I'm on trial too.
My father is her cousin.
Pip:
I have no more business in this house.
Excuse me.
Herbert:
Oh, yes, you do. Come fight.
Pip:
Fight?
Herbert:
Come to the ground. Break the rules and you
go through the preliminaries.
Herbert:
(doing physical exercises)
One! Two! Three! Four!
Five! Six! Seven! Eight! Hang on.
(gives Pip a slap on the cheek)
Herbert:
You must have a reason. I've given you one.
(at the window Estella is looking at them)
(Pip dashes for the boy)
Herbert:
That means you won.
Pip:
Can I help you?
Herbert:
No, no. That's quite all right.
Pip:
Good afternoon.
Herbert:
Same to you.
Estella:
You may kiss me if you like.
(Pip gives a kiss to her)
Estella:
Goodbye.
INT. JOE'S HOUSE. DAY
Mrs. Joe:
You're to be his master? You?
I cannot believe that is to be is fortune.
She must... she must want something within.
There must be something!
Joe:
(pointing the guineas)
You're holding it.
Mrs. Joe:
So his fortune is to be mine.
Tied to a blacksmith.
Well, there is progress for us all!
EXT. THE TOWN HALL. DAY
Pumblechook:
The boy is to be bound, bound out of hand.
Mrs. Joe:
Come, boy. And now we'll have a dinner over
25 guineas.
Pumblechook:
Joseph, your apprentice.
Joe:
That's been so looked forward to betwixt.
Eh, Pip?
Pumblechook:
(reads the indentures)
"The said apprentice shall faithfully serve his
master, and shall not waste the goods of his
said master, nor apprend himself from his said
master service day or night unlawfully but in
offerings as a faithful servant he shall behave
himself."
INT. THE FORGE. DAY
Orlick:
Now your master mean to set fire, don't him?
Must say a prayer to the devil to get it going.
You look close for the devil lives in it.
Little piece of hell in the flames.
Joe:
What do you want here, Orlick?
Orlick:
A job, Mr. Gargery.
Joe:
A job?
(to Pip) Right, Pip?
Go to it.
Right, Pip.
(Several years passed)
(Pip is striking the red-hot iron)
Orlick:
(sings)
"Hammer boys
With a thump
Beat it out,
With a clink
round -- Old Clem!
and a sound -- Old Clem!
beat it out -- Old Clem!
for the stout -- Old Clem!"
EXT. THE HUT IN THE MARSHES. DAY
Biddy:
You certainly turned yourself to it, Pip.
Pip:
When I come in to the forge, anyone can see
me turning to it in earnest.
(cont'd)
Biddy... I want to be a gentleman.
Biddy:
Oh, I wouldn't if I was you.
Pip:
I want to lead a different sort of life.
Biddy:
Don't you think you're happy as you are?
Pip:
Don't be absurd.
Biddy:
I didn't mean to be. I only want you to do well.
Pip:
I used to want that too.
Now I have to be a gentleman. I could try to
settle down, to accompany Joe, to keep company
with you even.
Biddy:
Even?
As I am not over-particular myself?
Pip:
See how I'm going on?
Biddy:
I'm glad you give me your confidence.
Pip:
I shall always tell you everything, Biddy.
Biddy:
Till you are a gentleman.
Orlick:
Hello. Where are you two going?
Pip:
Home. Where else should we be going?
Orlick:
Well then, I'll see you home.
Biddy:
You will have to tell him again.
Pip:
We don't need seeing home.
Orlick:
Let Biddy speak.
Biddy:
Pip, I'm afraid he likes me.
Pip:
But he's always loved you, Biddy.
Biddy:
Oh, he begins to dance at me whenever he
catches my eye. But it makes no difference
to you, does it?
INT. THE FORGE. DAY
Joe:
She's done the handsome thing for you, Pip,
but when Miss Havisham done the handsome thing
for you, she called me back to say that were all.
Pip:
But Joe...!
Joe:
All, Pip!
Pip:
Since the day of my being bound I have never
thanked Miss Havisham or asked after her, or
shown that I remember her.
Today is her birthday, Joe! The day which...
Joe:
Very well, then. But no more trips after this
one.
Orlick:
Sure you're not going to favour only one of us
then?
Joe:
And what do you mean to say?
Orlick:
If young Pip has a half-holiday, do the same for
Old Orlick.
Joe:
What'll you do with a half-holiday if you get one?
Orlick:
Oh, what'll he do with that? I just want get out
of that forge presently. I'll do as much with
half-holiday as him.
Joe:
Why? Pip's going up town.
Orlick:
Well then, Old Orlick's going up town. Tain't
only one can go up town?
Pip:
I'm going up town to set this house. I'm paying
a visit to Havisham.
Orlick:
And I may wish to call on Biddy!
Pip:
You shall not!
Orlick:
Well, some and their up town then.
Now master, come! No favouring in this shop.
Be a man.
(draws out a red-hot bar)
Joe:
No more talk till you calm yourself.
Orlick:
Now, master.
Joe:
You stick to your work as well as most men.
Half-holiday for all.
Mrs. Joe :
Fool! You are a rich man to waste wages on a
great idle hulker like him? I wish I was his
master.
Orlick:
You'd be everyone's master if you could.
Joe:
Let her alone.
Mrs. Joe:
I'm a match for rogues like you.
Orlick:
You're a foul shrew, Mother Gargery.
Mrs. Joe:
What did you say?
Joe:
Let her alone!
Mrs. Joe:
What name did he give me?
Orlick:
Shrew! And there's more too.
Mrs. Joe:
To hear him. And you swore to defend me!
Don't stand by!
(Joe strikes Orlick a blow in the face)
Joe:
Your work's done here. Come for your wages
tomorrow.
Mrs. Joe:
See the trouble you've caused?
We lose a journeyman and all cause you have
fancy to go up town and can't make an end on
it. Where's your invitation? There's being
no more. She's made them done it. It's as
you was.
EXT. AT MISS HAVISHAM'S. DAY
Sarah:
I attend to Miss Havisham now.
Miss Havisham:
I hope you want nothing. You'll get nothing.
Pip:
No, indeed, Miss Havisham. I only wanted you to　know that I am doing very well in my apprenticeship
and am always much obliged to you.
Miss Havisham:
And Estella?
Pip:
Ma'am?
Miss Havisham:
Do you wish to inquire about her?
Prettier than ever. Admired by all who see her.
Pip:
I'm glad.
(Pip is about to leave)
Miss Havisham:
Do you like your trade?
So you object to the black and the soot after
all?
Pip:
I hate it. I want no more of any of it.
Miss Havisham:
But you are bound, Pip.
Pip:
Yes.
Miss Havisham:
Goodbye.
INT. JOE'S HOUSE
(Pip finds Mrs. Joe lying on the floor)
Pip:
Sister? Sister! Sister!
(finding a convict's leg-iron) His?
Oh... no!
Oh, no, I'm sorry!
Oh! I'm sorry!
Pip:
Whoever is guilty they will find him, Joe!
Joe:
I did nothing, Pip.
Absolutely nothing. I just wanted to... the
surrender seems like.
Pip:
Him! Him!
This is a man who last had a quarrel with her.
He lost his job for it too.
Orlick:
She quarrelled with
ten thousand times.
town all evening in
Joe seen me at Blue
everyone around here too
Anyways, I've been about
different companies, even
Boar. There's nothing
against me.
Pip:
You are in need of information. I saw an
occasion to help.
(Biddy visits Joe's house)
Biddy:
Truly an orphan now, Pip.
Pip:
Mr. Wopsle might have come this way of living
and Mrs. Joe was in great need of you, Biddy.
As we are.
Joe:
Welcome to our establishmnet, Biddy.
INT. THE FORGE. DAY
Joe:
Come, Pip, go to it!
Jaggers:
Joe... Joseph Gargery? My name is Jaggers and
I'm a lawyer in London. I have unusual business
to transact with you. Concerning this young man.
You do not object to cancel his indentures at
his request and for his own good? You would
not want anything for so doing?
Joe:
Lord forbid that I should.
Jaggers:
Is that no?
Joe:
Yes, it is.
Jaggers:
Really?
Very well. Recollect the admission you have
made and do not try to go from it presently.
I am instructed to communicate to him that he
will come into a handsome property. Further,
that is the desire of the present possessor of
that property that he be immediately removed
from his present sphere of life and from this
place and be brought up as a gentleman. In a
word, as a young fellow of great expectations.
Joe:
May we ask who is this liberal benefactor?
Jaggers:
No. Not only is it a profound secret, but more
importantly it is a binding condition that you
do not inquire. Accepted by you?
Joe:
I have no objection.
Jaggers:
I should take not! I am empowered to mention
that it is the intention of this person to
reveal their identity at first hand by word
of mouth to yourself. In the meantime you
will please consider me your guardian.
Pip:
Thank you.
Jaggers:
I'm paid for my services, or I shouldn't render
them. Now, when will you come to London?
You should have some new clothes to come in.
Shall I leave you 20 guineas? ... Well,
Joseph Gargery, you look dumbfoundered.
Joe:
I am!
Jaggers:
Now, it's understood that you want nothing for
yourself but what if it was in my instructions
to make you a present as compensation?
Joe:
Compensation as for what?
Jaggers:
The loss of his services.
Joe:
You think money can make compensation for the
loss of him? The child -- what come to the
forge -- and ever the best of friends?
(gets angry and leaves his seat)
Pip:
I should go to London directly.
INT. JOE'S HOUSE. DAY
Biddy:
What a gentle figure, Pip.
Joe:
This change come so uncommonly quick, Pip.
Hard to get to mine mind.
Biddy:
Pip has hardly believed to get in his.
Pip:
Daydreams, Biddy.
Joe:
Come true, Pip.
INT. MISS HAVISHAM'S. DAY
Miss Havisham:
Well, this is a gay figure, Pip.
Pip:
I have come into such good fortune since I saw
you last, Miss Havisham. And I am so grateful
for it, Miss Havisham!
Miss Havisham:
I have seen Jaggers. I know about it.
So, you go tomorrow?
Pip:
Yes, Miss Havisham. And I thought you would
kindly not mind my taking leave of you.
Miss Havisham:
And you are adopted by a rich person whose
name is not revealed?
Pip:
Yes, Miss Havisham.
Miss Havisham:
And you are to be tutored by Mr. Matthew Pocket,
a cousin of mine and of Sarah here.
Pip:
In Hammersmith, ma'am.
Miss Havisham:
You may go now, Sarah.
Pip:
I... often wonder of... the whereabouts of...
Estella, and how she might look upon me now.
Miss Havisham:
She will think you fit company, Pip. She will
appreciate the change in you. And see you very
differently. Good luck, Pip.
INT. JOE'S HOUSE. DAY
(they are having dinner)
Joe:
I'll follow you down there.
Pip:
No, Joe. I'll say goodbye now.
Joe:
There you are in your suit.
Biddy:
Goodbye, Pip. Good luck.
Joe:
I did not expect this day look me in the face,
Pip, but... take my hand. As firm as my own.
EXT. TRIP TO LONDON. DAY
(Pip is a passenger on a stage coach)
Man:
Don't know you. Don't know you.
On my soul, don't know you.
(Orlick is gazing at the coach)
EXT. LONDON. DAY
(Pip is welcomed by Mr. Wemmick, who is Mr.
Jaggers's clerk)
Pip:
I've never been in London before.
You are an acquaint, Mr. Wemmick?
Wemmick:
I was new once. Rum to think of now.
And the other ways of it now.
(cont'd)
Them the ways of it. Four of them to be killed
tomorrow. In a row.
(cont'd)
You are a lucky man, Mr. Pip. You have these
services already.
Clients:
(to Jaggers) Mr... Mr, please... Please.
Woman:
Sir, my bill, sir.
Jaggers:
Now, I tell you once and for all, your bill
is in good hands, but if you keep bothering
me about it, it may flip through my fingers.
Have you paid Wemmick?
Woman:
Yes, sir. Every farthing.
Jaggers:
Then mind it doesn't give it back.
(Wemmick blocks the clients)
Jaggers:
Mr Pip, how much did the coachman want from
Cross Keys?
Pip:
A shilling.
Jaggers:
You think it's rather fair sum?
Pip:
I don't know.
Jaggers:
Exactly. Come on.
INT. JAGGERS'S OFFICE. DAY
Jaggers:
There's a bill been sent for your accommodation
at Barnard's Inn. Mr. Pocket's rooms, not you
tutor, mind. His son. You'll find Mr. Pocket
senior in Hammersmith, and you'll find your
credit good in these places, Mr. Pip. And if
you're out running the constable with it, I'll
pull you up. Naturally your allowance. There.
Pip:
It's a very liberal one.
Jaggers:
I'm sure you still manage go wrong somehow.
Pip:
Who are those, Mr. Jaggers?
Jaggers:
Clients of mine after they were taken down from
the gallows. They went wrong.
(Pip leaves the office)
Woman:
(from the first floor) Slop!
EXT. BARNARD'S INN. DAY
Herbert:
Mr. Pip? Mr. Herbert arriving any minute now.
The fact is, I have been out on your account.
I can't shake hands but we'll remedy once we're
inside.
(cont'd)
Please, come in. Allow me to lead the way.
I'm rather bare here but I hope you'll make
out tolerably well. Your bedroom furniture
is hired for the occasion. But I trust it
will answer the purpose. Not what you have
in mind, I'm sure, but I have my own bread
to earn.
(cont'd)
My father hasn't anything to give me and I
shouldn't be willing to take it if he had.
As to our table, you won't find that bad. It
will be supplied from the local coffee-house
and that the Jagger's instructions at your
expense. So we'll dine well, share these
chambers alone together and we shan't fight.
At least I hope not.
(Herbert makes a fighting pose)
Pip:
You!
Herbert:
You forgive me for having knocked you about so.
(cont'd)
The marriage day was fixed, the wedding dresses
were bought, the wedding tour was planned out
and the wedding guests invited. The day came
that the bridegroom having already extracted
great sums of money from Miss Havisham, did not.
He wrote her a letter.
Pip:
Which she received 20 minutes to 9.
Herbert:
And she has never since looked upon the light
of day. My father tried to tell her he was a
bad lad. Receiving this advice she ordered my
father out of the house.
Pip:
And when I saw you there...
Herbert:
I too had been sent for. But I came out as
badly as my father. If I hadn't, perhaps I
should have been provided for.
Pip:
And Estella was adopted by Miss Havisham?
Herbert:
To take revenge on all the male sex.
Adventure you've been on receiving and
during your visits there.
Pip:
She's been abroad. I haven't seen her.
Herbert:
Pip, may I mention that in London it is not
a custom to put a knife in the mouth for fear
of accidents and that the spoon is not used
over hand but under. That is to get into
your mouth better. And save good of attitudes
for opening oysters in the part of the right
elbow.
Oh, dear me, I'm late again. Beg your pardon?
The proposal of a toast, Pip. To your good
fortune and your future in London.
Pip:
To my future in London.
EXT. HAMMERSMITH. DAY
Pocket:
I can educate you well enough for your destiny
to hold your own with your contemporaries.
Pip:
My contemporaries?
Herbert:
Other young men in prosper circumstances.
Pip:
I know you are the cousin to Miss Havisham.
Pocket:
My ties to her are no more than natural and
never will be. Now, as to my ties to you, Pip,
which will be much more to the point. I will
not say I can make you a gentleman. No man
that is a true gentleman at heart is ever a
gentleman in manner. No varnish can hide the
grain of the wood.
INT. HAMMERSMITH. DAY
Pocket:
Your fellow students: Mr. Startop.
Mr. Drummle.
Startop:
Mr. Pip.
Pip:
How do you do.
Startop:
You know the trouble with this book, Mr. Pocket?
It weighs too much. It's as much as one can do
to pick the thing up.
Herbert:
Well, business awaits.
Pocket:
He's to the counting house. To report himself.
Pip:
The counting house?
Herbert:
I look about me, Pip.
I'm in a counting house and I look about me
to begin insuring ships to employ my capital
to swoop tremendous opportunities.
Tremendous. Goodbye.
Pocket:
I was never quite decided whether to mount to
the woolsack or roof myself in with the mitre.
Chancellor or bishop. It was a mere question
of time.
INT. HAMMERSMITH. DAY
Pocket:
You find the recognition of Odisseus by his
father uninvolving, Mr. Drummle?
Drummle:
A clear reading of it might be more successful.
Pocket:
Oh, I doubt it.
EXT. AT THE RIVER. DAY
(Drummle is rowing a boat, and so is Pip)
Drummle:
Your style becomes more elegant, Mr. Pip.
Pip:
Oh, I'm rest right now in strength to be adept.
I'm engaged in some practical tuition.
Drummle:
Not all of reliance you should lose alltogether.
Your instructor tells me you have an arm of the
blacksmith. He intended it as a compliment.
INT. BARNARD'S INN. DAY
Boy:
Good day, sir.
Pip:
I can find him a little to do.
Herbert:
I dare say you have to find a great deal to eat.
INT. MR. JAGGERS'S OFFICE. DAY
Pip:
I'm making myself at home at Barnard's Inn,
Mr. Jaggers with furniture of one or two little
things. These things, however, are not so small
in price...
Jaggers:
Come, I ask you once? 50 pounds?
Pip:
Not nearly so much.
Jaggers:
5 pounds then.
Let's get to it. Two times five. Three.
Four times five.
(he touches a bell)
Jaggers:
Wemmick!
Take Mr. Pip's written orders and give him
20 pounds.
(to Pip) I see you're getting on. I told
you you would.
Wemmick:
The man trap is sprang and click!
Your call in it.
EXT. WEMMICK'S HOUSE. DAY
Wemmick:
You don't object to an aged parent?
Pip:
No.
Do you always make you way home on foot?
Wemmick:
Oh, yes.
Pip:
It's some distance.
Wemmick:
Walworth is some distance from the desk which
I have had my legs under all day.
Pip:
Still, it's quite a stretch.
Wemmick:
Oh, yes.
Quite a stretch.
(after crossing the bridge he hoists up a flag)
Wemmick:
And now... we are here.
Wemmick:
(holding a pig)
You can raise a good salad from the garden to
go with that.
(They come in Wemmick's house)
Wemmick:
All communication now cut off.
Wemmick:
(to his father) How are you today, Aged?
This is Mr. Pip! Come for supper!
(the Aged nods)
Wemmick:
Just nod away at him, Mr. Pip.
That works best.
A very good lady named Miss Skiffins, attends
him while I'm at work.
Pip:
And Mr. Jaggers knows nothing or never seen
the Aged?
Wemmick:
Never heard of him. The office is one thing,
the private life another.
Now I will tell you what I have for supper,
Mr. Pip. I have got... a stewed steak and a
cold roast fowl from the cookshop.
The master of the shop is a jury man of some
cases there and we let him down easy.
Pip:
Do you often receive... gifts?
Wemmick:
(laughing) Oh, yes. I always take them.
Condemned men, jury men, Jagger's clients.
Their property, Pip.
They may not be worse much, but after all
they're portable. And property.
I don't signify it to you with your brilliant
outlook but... As to myself my guiding star
always is: get hold of portable property.
(cont'd)
My cabinet of curiosities, Pip.
Of a felonious nature.
The very pen used in the Attlee forgery case.
This raises from two celebrated murder cases.
A lock of the victim's hair, found on one of
the villains.
And this letter here, look, reporting to be
the confession of a condemned man. But I know
for a fact it is all lies. He never even did
it.
Now, it is curiosity, don't you think?
Pip:
And Jaggers was involved in all these cases?
Wemmick:
I give it world of credit.
Pip:
What allow to make him and me so alike?
Wemmick:
You don't mean you should.
It's not personal. It's professional.
Only professional. But except this invitation
to dinner, you know it tomorrow. And when you
dine you'll see he harbours a curiosity all of
his very own.
Look at his housekeeper.
Pip:
What shall I see?
Wemmick:
A wild beast tamed. Keep your eye on it.
INT. DINNER AT MR. JAGGERS'S. NIGHT
Drummle:
Their poor home with abreast to one another
and converse from boat to boat like mates.
Startop:
You cannot hear our conversations because you
are always too far behind us.
Drummle:
I choose to keep my distance from you both.
I find I enjoy the river far more that way.
Jaggers:
So, you would consider yourself the master
in strength and skill of these two gentlemen?
Drummle:
That is not a consideration that needs much
thought.
Jaggers:
And what say you two?
Startop:
His superiority is purely in his imagination.
Drummle:
This superiority is here in the flesh.
Look!
Startop:
Come, Mr. Pip, unroll your sleeves and put
him to shame.
Herbert:
Pip would rather shame him on the Thames, I
think.
(suddenly Mr. Jaggers grips the housekeepe by
the hand)
Jaggers:
If you talk of strength... I'll show you a wrist.
Molly:
Master...
Jaggers:
Molly, let them see your wrist.
Molly:
Please...
Jaggers:
Let them see them both.
Show them. Come on. There's power here.
Very few men have the power of wrist this
woman has. It's remarkable what mere force
of grip is in these hands. I have never seen
stronger, man or woman's... than these.
That'll do, Molly.
(cont'd)
It's half past nine, gentlemen.
Time to break up. Pip, stay a while.
Mr. Drummle, I drink to you.
Molly:
(to Pip) Pardon me, sir, I understand you're
acquainted with Satis House.
Pip:
Yes. With Miss Havisham.
Although I'd like to consider myself more than
merely acquainted.
Jaggers:
Your two friends are set off back to Hammersmith
on either side of the road.
Pip:
I'm sorry if things got disagreeable.
Jaggers:
Nonsense.
I like the Drummle fellow there.
There are two sorts in life, Pip. Beechers
and cringers. He's a beecher. There's no
doubt about that. Excellent.
This arrived before. (hands Pip a letter)
EXT. MRS. JOE'S FUNERAL
Pip:
What are the reasons of her death, Joe?
Joe:
Her state just got slowly worse, see lay down
on the bed. And she spoke, Pip. Actually spoke.
"Joe," she said, and wants pardon and wants Pip.
Pardon, Pip?
(at the grave)
Pip:
I suppose it will be difficult for you to
remain in the house now, Biddy.
Biddy:
Oh, I can't do so, Mr. Pip.
I'm going to Mrs. Hubble tomorrow.
Pip:
How are you going to live?
If you want any money...
Biddy:
I'll tell you how I'm going to live, Mr. Pip.
I'm trying to get a place of mistress in the
new school nearly finished here.
Pip:
You are one of those, Biddy, who makes the
best of every change. You've proven in every
circumstances.
Biddy:
I'm not as handsomely as you.
Pip:
I'm not goint to leave poor Joe alone.
Don't you hear me, Biddy?
Biddy:
Yes, Mr. Pip.
Pip:
Not to mention your calling me "Mr. Pip",
which appears to me in bad taste, Biddy.
What do you mean?
I made a remark respecting my coming down
here often to see Joe which you have
received with the marked silence. Have
the goodness, Biddy, to tell me why.
Biddy:
I trust you found the Blue Boar where you
come to enjoy your stay. It's so much more
suitable for your needs.
Pip:
Goodbye, dear Joe.
Joe:
You're not coming back to the house?
Pip:
No... Joe.
Miss Havisham knows I'm here. She sent a
letter to the... Blue Boar. She wishes to
see me and I must go there. She extends her
sympathies, Joe.
Joe:
I wonder what business she has with you.
Pip:
I wonder too.
I shall see you soon, Joe.
Biddy.
Biddy:
Goodbye, Pip.
EXT. AT MISS HAVISHAM'S
Orlick:
Yes?
Pip:
How did you come here?
Orlick:
On my legs.
As more changes than yours, young master.
Come in. Come in. It's opposed to my orders
to hold the gate open. This is loaded.
Pip:
I'm expected, I believe.
Orlick:
Yes.
Here I am.
Miss Havisham:
Come in, Pip.
(Pip kisses her hand)
Miss Havisham:
As if I were a queen.
I wished you to come to see me.
But who would you wish to see?
Call for her, Pip.
Pip:
Who, Miss Havisham?
Miss Havisham:
She's here. Call for her.
Estella. Call for her.
Call!
Pip:
Estella? Estella? Estella!
Miss Havisham:
Do you admire her?
Then you must love her.
Love her. Love her.
PART TWO
EXT. THE INN YARD. DAY
(Estella is standing in the Inn Yard)
(Molly is looking at her from afar)
Pip:
I... sent for a carriage.
Estella:
To Richmond.
And I'm to give you my purse, and you are to
pay my charges out of it that's settled too.
Pip:
And what else is settled for us?
(they are in the carriage)
Estella:
This lady with whom I'm going to live at great
expense has the power of taking me about and
showing people to me and me to people.
Pip:
I suppose you would be glad of variety and
admiration.
Estella:
I'm already glad of admiration, Pip.
Estella:
What place is that?
Pip:
I'm not sure... I think it's Newgate prison.
Estella:
Are you familiar with it?
Pip:
As a building, not the wretches inside it.
And Orlick was removed by Jaggers now.
Estella:
Who?
Pip:
The porter of Satis House.
Estella:
Go on.
Pip:
He wasn't the right man for this post, you
understand?
Estella:
You arranged his removal?
How do you thrive at Hammersmith?
Pip:
Mr. Pocket is an admirable man.
Estella:
Quite disinterested and independent, I hear.
I like that class of men.
INT. CONCERT IN RICHMOND. NIGHT
Estella:
Do you remember the last spectacle you and I
attended together, Pip?
Rendition of "Old Clement", I think at that
time it was I who was the vocalist.
Pip and I had a kind of growing up together,
didn't we Pip?
Pip:
Why do you talk of me as if I were your
brother or something?
Estella:
You notice that I call these gentlemen by
their title. Mr. Drummle, there, for example.
Only you do I call by name, Pip. Only you.
INT. AT THE TAILOR'S. DAY
Trabb:
Thank you, sir.
It's generous 18. Oh, if I may, sir.
There is number 3, 5 and 8.
Now, this article...
Pip:
Let me save you the trouble. I will take
all of them.
INT. DINNER AT HAMMERSMITH. NIGHT
Pocket:
Apologies from Mrs Pocket for not attendance.
She seems to have problem with a baby in a
pair of nutcrackers.
Camilla:
How is dear Miss Havisham, Estella?
Estella:
Still as dear.
Camilla:
And here's Matthew, never coming near to see
how she is.
Sarah:
Whilst others with no natural ties whatsoever
always seem to be mixing.
Estella:
In fact, Sarah, I'm to write to Miss Havisham
regularly to let her know how I feel.
She especially wishes to know how Pip and I
use each other. She will be especially glad
to know that I'm dining here tonight.
Pocket:
She will?
Estella:
She still recognizes in you, Mr. Pocket, a
man above small jealousies and spites.
EXT. IN FRONT OF THE HOUSE. NIGHT
(the relatives walk towards the carriage)
Camilla:
Hurry up now, come on.
Sarah:
I have never been so insulted in my life.
Did you hear?
Pip:
You made them look ridiculous.
Estella:
Hardly an exertion.
Pip, you may set your heart at rest that
those people will never in hundred years
pay regard to Miss Havisham.
And there is my hand upon it.
(Pip kisses her hand)
Estella:
(laughing) You ridiculous boy.
Pip:
I have no intention of being ridiculous.
Estella:
You should have asked before you touched the
hand.
Pip:
If I ask, may I kiss your cheek as once did?
Estella:
Yes. If you like.
INT. A CLUB CALLED THE FINCHES OF THE GROVE. NIGHT
(the members dine at a hotel in Covent Garden)
Chairman:
Gentlemen, may the present promotion of good
feeling ever predominant among the Finches of
the Grove.
All:
Finches of the Grove!
Marvellous.
Pip:
Herbert, we're dining very expensively tonight.
In my confidence in my own resources it might
be on my expense.
Herbert:
Not the bit of it. You don't have to look
about me. Not when I have capital in mind's
eyes.
Chairman:
Gentlemen, as you know, it is the solemn duty
of this society for members to toast the lady
of their acquaintance. Tonight that duty
falls to Mr. Bentley Drummle.
Drummle:
Gentlemen. In the presence of this company,
I pledge myself to... Estella.
All:
To Estella!
Pip:
Estella who?
Drummle:
Never mind.
Pip:
Estella of where? You're bound to say of
where.
Drummle:
Of Richmond, gentlemen.
And... and... her peerless beauty.
To Estella.
All:
To Estella!
Pip:
In my view, it is impudence on the part of
this Finch to come down to this grove and
propose of a lady of whom he knows nothing.
Drummle:
What you mean by that?
Pip:
You know where I am to be found.
Herbert:
Pip!
Chairman:
Order, order!
I'm calling this grove to order.
This must be settled. This grove is the court
of honour and we must settle it.
INT. RICHMOND. DAY
Pip:
He pledges himself to you.
Estella:
Pip, we've been in company together as you know.
We've been introduced.
Pip:
But acquainted?
Estella, will you please turn to me?
Estella:
I'm writing to Miss Havisham.
Pip:
Oh, how you use me?
I'm sure you find it easy to describe.
INT. THE FINCHES OF THE GROVE. NIGHT
(a letter is passed from hand to hand)
Chairman:
This is an avow, in the lady's hand, that she
has had the honour of dancing with Mr. Drummle,
on several occasions.
Pip:
This is indeed her hand.
I... very much regret that I spoke so heatedly.
And spoke more rudely to one of my hosts than
was polite. I naturally repudiate the idea
that I am to be found.
INT. BALL. NIGHT
(Drummle and Estella are dancing)
Pip:
(to Estella) May I?
Pip:
You know he's despised, don't you?
Estella:
Well?
Pip:
You know he's a devil in and out.
Deficient, ill-tempered, lowering, stupid.
Estella:
Indeed?
Why is it that it seems to be your manners
which are attracting critique?
Pip:
Because the way you let them hover around you
makes me wretched. He has nothing to recommend
him but money.
Estella:
This is making you foolish, Pip.
Pip:
Then stop throwing your attractions away on
boor.
Estella:
I can bear it.
Pip:
Don't be so proud, Estella.
Estella:
Proud? In your last breath you reproach me
for stooping to a boor. Moths and those sorts
of creatures hover around the lighted candle.
Can the candle help it?
Pip:
I've seen the looks and smiles you give them
this very night. And of the kind... of the
kind I thought were only given to me.
Estella:
I do not bestow my tenderness anywhere, Pip.
I gave you a warning.
Herbert:
Pip, you seem to have forgotten my advice on
the subject of the wine glass. You really
have been found to conscience emptied.
Now let us try to leave this company with some
resemblance to the manner in which we joined
it. We can walk straight I remember and with
some control of our head.
Gentleman:
Estella, I must speak with you...
Herbert:
Pip. Excuse me.
Gentleman 2:
Excuse me, sir.
Drummle:
Good evening. A fellow should know you don't
get drunk at balls. And if he was born to know
it, your father should have taught you to do it.
Pip:
Have no worries, sir. No one usurp for your
position.
Drummle:
What did he say?
Pip:
Stay the lowest in the crowd, Drummle!
INT. BARNARD'S INN. DAY
(a boy brings a letter to Pip)
Pip:
Letter from Jaggers, now.
Herbert:
They are mounting up, Pip.
Upon my life, they are mounting up.
Pip:
(to the boy) Get out! Go stare elsewhere!
Herbert:
How is your head?
Pip:
Let the bailiffs come, they'll find Estella
already in house possession. She holds
everything that is of value to me.
Herbert:
Could you... could you not detach yourself
from her?
Pip:
Impossible.
Herbert:
Think of her bringing up and think of Miss
Havisham. Think of what she is herself.
Pip:
I know it.
Herbert:
So you can't detach yourself...
Pip:
No!
(at the window Pip looks down at a group of
debt collectors)
Herbert:
I find that I was thwarted in the matters of
my heart.
Pip:
May I ask who it is?
Herbert:
Name of Clara.
Pip:
Lives in London?
Herbert:
Yes. And the moment I realize capital, I
intend to marry her. But you can't marry
while they are looking about you.
Pip:
As for myself, Herbert, I find I am looking
behind me.
EXT. IN THE STREET. NIGHT
(Someone is following Pip)
INT. MR. JAGGERS'S OFFICE.
Pip:
I find I'm in the books of every tradesman in
London, Mr. Wemmick. Now I find them lying
in wait.
Wemmick:
You shouldn't let such events disturb you,
Mr. Pip. Now when you got Mr. Jaggers'
attentions to look forward too.
Pip:
I expect he's going to tell me how wrong I've
gone.
(Jaggers appears)
Jaggers:
Now, my young friend, I'm going to have a word
or two with you. Your name occurs pretty often
in Wemmick's cashbook. You are in debt of course.
Now I don't ask you what you owe because you
don't know. As to what you're living at the
rate of, I dare say you don't know that either.
I thought so.
(cont'd)
Now, take this piece of paper, unfold it and
tell me what it is.
Pip:
It's a banknote for 500 pounds.
Jaggers:
That is a banknote for 500 pounds.
Today you come of age. That is a present to
you on this day in earnest of your expectations
from your benefactor. You will draw from
Wemmick 125 pounds per quarter.
(to the next room) Wemmick?
(cont'd)
Until the donor of the whole appears.
Wemmick:
Congratulations, Mr. Pip.
Jaggers:
Yes. That day we must call you Mr. Pip.
Congratulations, Mr. Pip.
Pip:
I must thank my benefactor.
Jaggers:
When that person discloses you will thank this
person for settling your affairs. I am a mere
agent. And when that person discloses my part
in this business will cease.
Pip:
And in this business am I designed for Estella?
Jaggers:
I have nothing else to say.
INT. BARNARD'S INN. NIGHT
Herbert:
One of the name of Clarriker, a shiping broker
is showing extraordinary inclination towards me
and I'm to work in his office next week.
Pip:
That's mighty news, Herbert. Congratulations.
Herbert:
And never stop looking about me. The strangest
thing is the opportunity came to me.
Pip:
It's well deserved.
Herbert:
I have written to my father to confound him
with the news, and now I should visit Clara
and tell her to start to look to the future.
She shows such tenderness towards me, Pip.
Pip:
Well deserved.
Herbert:
To tomorrow.
(Herbert leaves, and Wemmick appears)
Pip:
Mr. Wemmick.
(Wemmick hands a paper to Pip)
Pip:
Thank you for arranging it, Mr. Wemmick.
Wemmick:
I still say it, serve a friend with money you
know no the end of it.
Pip:
Yes, I know your view, never invest in portable
property in a friend but I still want to help
him make the beginning.
Now absolutely certain is how is to be done
without Herbert's knowledge or suspicion.
Wemmick:
He'll be no more aware of his benefactor than
you yourself are.
(Pip writes his signature to a paper)
Wemmick:
He's off to make a marriage proposal by this.
Good night, Mr. Pip.
INT. GARDEN-COURT. NIGHT
Pip:
Who are you?
(a man claps his hand over Pip's mouth)
Man:
Hush.
I was sentenced for life, do you understand?
It's death to come back. If found I am sure
to be hanged, do you understand?
Pip:
I understand. I understand your desperation.
Man:
Pip... you don't understand what I risked for
you. Eh?
Pip:
Me? Me? What are you to me?
Man:
You're the child who acted noble to me... and
I have never forgot it, Pip.
Pip:
You?
Man:
Abel Magwitch. Convict then.
(giggling) And since... a sheep-farmer...
stock-breeder who came to wonderful wealth, Pip.
Pip:
Look, I'm glad you have recovered yourself but...
I cannot renew that chance intercourse, for our
ways are different ways now.
Magwitch:
Oh, no, they're not!
I asked Wemmick for your address.
Pip:
You know Wemmick?
Magwitch:
I instruct his master. Jaggers.
You have been chosen to... subside to some
property. Are you not? May I ask whose
property?
Pip:
I don't know.
Magwitch:
I do.
(giggling) Look at your fine linen.
And the ring set round with rubies.
That's a gentleman's. Yes, Pip... dear boy.
It's me who's done this. I made a gentleman
on you.
Pip:
There wasn't no one else?
Magwitch:
Who else should there be?
Pip:
It should be...
Magwitch:
I swore that time, sure as ever I earned a
guinea, that guinea should go to you.
I swore since, sure as I ever speculated and
got rich, you should get rich. I lived rough,
that you should live smooth. And you do!
And my pleasure to see you do it. Best of all,
Pip! Best of any one of them! From the judge
in his wig to the colonist of the dust. I'll
show them a better gentleman than all of them
put together.
Pip:
No!
Magwitch:
I looked forward so distant, Pip.
From so far.
(Magwitch is at a table eating, when...)
Pip:
Herbert, I think.
Magwitch:
Take it in right hand.
Lord strike you dead on the spot if you speak
in any way or soever... Kiss it.
Pip:
Do, Herbert, as he wishes it.
Magwitch:
Now you're on oath you know, Pip's comrade.
Herbert:
Have I the pleasure of meeting Mr. Joe Gargery
then? You are not as Pip describes you.
Magwitch:
I'm not in the business of fashioning old shoes.
I make gentlemen, don't I, Pip? I own one
brought up in London, gentlemen.
Herbert:
Pip?
Pip:
When I was a boy, Mr. Magwitch found himself
caught in the manacle. Now I find it made
him rose into my flesh.
(Magwitch sleeps on Pip's bed)
Pip:
If I never take another penny from him, think
how much I owe him already.
Herbert:
And you intend to take no further benefits
from him?
Pip:
Oh, how can I?
Herbert:
But your debts, Pip?
Pip:
If I choose to renounce my patron, that is a
matter of me, Herbert. Why do you seek to give
me this advice?
Herbert:
I seek to give you this advice as a friend.
You may look and him and feel quite unable to
accept any expenses he comes to lavish you
with, but think how he may react to that.
Pip:
What do you mean?
Herbert:
Well... think of this.
He comes here at the risk of his own life,
for the realization of his fixed idea...
yourself. In the moment of this realization,
after all his toil and waiting, you cut the
ground from under his feet, destroy his idea,
and make his gains worthless to him.
And that kind of disappointment do you see
nothing that he might do.
Pip:
My reputation is ruined if I accept his money
and ruined if I don't.
Herbert:
That's his power of you.
But only as long as he remains in England.
Pip:
But how I am supposed to get him out of the
country?
Herbert:
If you want to induce him to go, you will have
to go with him.
Pip:
Go where? Go for a soldier in east of India?
Don't be absurd. Wherever I go with him, I
can't prevent his coming back.
Herbert:
The danger of his recklessness is here and now
and Newgate is the next street.
The first thing you must do is to get him out
of here. Find a lodging house for him.
Pip:
Yes. And as for the rest, you are right.
I have to extricate myself. Extricate myself
from him.
INT. BARNARD'S INN. NIGHT
Pip:
I'm going back to Kent tonight.
Some business there with Miss Havisham.
Herbert:
You will be back to tend your business here?
Pip:
Oh, yes.
Herbert:
Clara. A new tenant for your house.
Magwitch:
Miss.
Pip:
You best not loiter, Abel.
Magwitch:
We will blast them all one day, eh, Pip?
We will blast them all, eh?
(to Herbert) Pip's gentleman.
Herbert:
Pip, this is my dear girl Clara.
Pip:
Now I see why have you looked so favourably
to the future.
Clara:
I think it was with some excitement too.
Pip:
Herbert, I have to leave to Kent.
Goodbye.
Herbert:
Goodbye.
EXT. AT MISS HAVISHAM'S. DAY
Miss Havisham:
What wind blows you here?
Pip:
When I set off from the coach, I had one
purpose only. And now I find I have other
business too.
Miss Havisham:
Well, speak.
Pip:
These past
harbouring
fact. And
You let me
Miss Havisham:
Yes. I let you go on.
Pip:
Was that kind?
Miss Havisham:
Who am I for god's sake that I should be kind?
Pip:
I have found out who my patron is.
It is not a fortunate discovery, and is not
likely ever to enrich me in reputation, station,
fortune, anything. But I think I have since
made the worst discovery.
... I've just seen Drummle.
Estella:
I'm going to marry him.
Miss Havisham:
(surprised) Why not tell me?
And not inform me? You ingrate!
Estella:
I plan to presently. It is the reason for this
visit but it is my own act and that is something
long overdue.
Miss Havisham:
You cold cold heart.
Estella:
Do you reproach me for being cold?
I learned your lessons. I am what you have
made me.
Miss Havisham:
So proud!
Estella:
Who taught me to be proud?
Who told me that the daylight would blind me
that I should not go near to now? Cannot!
I have never been unfaithful to you all your
schooling. I have never shown any weakness
that I can charge myself with.
Miss Havisham:
It would be weakness to return respect?
To return love?
few years it seems I have been
a delusion. More than one, in
you encouraged them. Fueled them.
go on.
Estella:
Love?
(Estella leaves)
Pip:
Estella?
You know I love you.
You cannot give yourself away to that mean
and stupid brute.
Estella:
I shall do well enough. So shall my husband.
Pip:
You're supposed to marry for love, Estella.
Not as an act of will.
Estella:
Mr. Drummle knows I take nothing to the marriage.
He does not mind it. He will not feel it.
Pip:
And so that's you choose him?
Estella:
Who should I go to, Pip?
The man who would expect marriage to me to be
a blessing. Who would expect feeling, who would
expect love?
Pip:
And so the man who loves you is to be rejected
by you.
Estella:
Man who loves me will no longer be disappointed
by me, tormented by me.
Pip:
I will always be tormented by you.
Estella:
Nonsense. It will pass in a week.
Pip:
To the last hour of my life!
Estella:
No, I cannot comprehend it.
I cannot comprehend. I have a heart to be
stabbed in a shooting, Pip. Nothing more.
I did try to warn you of this.
EXT. JOE'S HOUSE. DAY
Pip:
Can I help you there, Joe?
Joe:
Pip. Pip standing large as life in the forge
door? Why? This is astonishing, old chap!
Pip:
Oh, how are you, Joe?
Joe:
Well, I'm astonished.
What brings you here?
Pip:
I had business at Satis House.
Joe:
You could send me a word, Pip, for I am a
reader now, thanks to Biddy.
Pip:
I wasn't expected.
In fact, it's been difficult to make any plans
lately, Joe.
Come, Joe. Let's beat it out.
Joe:
No, Pip. I don't think that'll be fit now.
Do you? Not any more, old chap.
EXT. GARDEN-COURT. NIGHT
NIGHT-PORTER:
(to Pip) Sir? Sir?
The messanger of this said you would be most
kind if you read it by my lantern.
"Mr. Pip, don't go home."
INT. WEMMICK'S HOUSE. DAY
Wemmick:
You have my note?
Never leave documentary evidence if you can
help it.
Now... The disappearance of a certain person
from the colonies has provoked some conjecture
amongst the fraternity of which he was a member.
And your chambers are being watched.
Pip:
Who by?
Wemmick:
You have somewhere to go tonight?
Pip:
Yes.
Wemmick:
Then I advise you not to break cover from it
during daylight. Confine all movements to the
darkness.
Pip:
Now it is my turn to shun the daylight.
Wemmick:
I beg your pardon?
Pip:
It's nothing.
Wemmick:
Go for foreign air, Mr. Pip, but await the
things slacken. I hope he's not caught...
for your sake. For if convicted, all his
possessions will be forfeited to the Crown
and you...
Pip:
No longer a gentleman.
Wemmick:
There is the danger unless you avail yourself
of all this portable property now.
Miss Skiffins has come to visit. I hope he's
not caught. The fortunes of two people should
be bound together for the good.
Eh, Mr. Pip?
INT. BARNARD'S INN. NIGHT
Magwitch:
Why should I fly off like a bird that took
flight? If the danger would be 50 times greater.
I shall still have come to you.
Pip:
But you know your capture would mean death.
Death by the rope, you said.
Magwitch:
I can disguise myself.
Pip:
Oh, Lord...
Magwitch:
All these things can be bought.
A powder... spectacles... black clothes.
Pip:
It will not work.
Magwitch:
It will not work... because you do not want it
to work. You just want me gone.
Pip:
I shall go with you.
Magwitch:
And leave me somewhere.
I've been left before. I've been tricked
before.
You remember my enemy, Compeyson, out on the
marshes? I stood alongside him in the dock.
I watched how they looked on me and light on
him because he was a gentleman. So you don't
go telling me you'll go along with me!
Pip:
I am trying to help you. I am in this with
you.
Magwitch:
Unluckily! Compeyson was involved with me.
Till he used lies to divide himself from me.
And left me guilty.
Pip:
I am not your fellow convict.
Magwitch:
No. You're more to me than any son.
I said that to you as someone... who lost a
child once. And I should like you to think
of me as your second father.
Pip:
Abel...
My chambers are being watched. You have
enemies in London.
Magwitch:
Who told you this?
Pip:
Wemmick. He knows.
Magwitch:
Is it Compeyson?
Pip:
I don't know. But you must rely on Wemmick's
judgment.
Magwitch:
And I must rely on your good faith.
INT. MR. JAGGERS'S OFFICE. NIGHT
Pip:
You know he is in great danger.
Jaggers:
I cautioned him that presenting himself in this
country would be an act of felony.
Pip:
And that he would be hanged?
Jaggers:
That it would render him liable to the extreme
penalty of the law.
Pip:
Do you have any advice to impart on the planning
of his escape?
Jaggers:
I wish to hear no more of that.
Pip:
My chambers are being watched. If he was
caught...
Jaggers:
I am not responsible for that.
Pip:
What's your responsibility towards your client?
You are after all his agent.
Jaggers:
You will kindly inform him there is still a
balance outstanding.
(cont'd)
So, Pip. Our friend Drummle has played his cards.
Pip:
Yes. Estella has now married him.
Jaggers:
And
(to
are
So.
was on honeymoon in Paris.
the housekeeper) Molly, Molly, how slow you
today.
Here is to Mrs. Bentley Drummle.
(Molly drops a dish)
Molly:
I'm... very sorry, master. I'll go...
Jaggers:
See to it afterwards. Go.
Well, let's try the toast again, shall we?
Pip:
Mr. Jaggers, I'm afraid I will have to take
my leave of you early.
Thank you for your hospitality.
EXT. OUTSIDE THE OFFICE. NIGHT
Wemmick:
Oh, what a man he is!
I find it's best to screw yourself up when
dining with him.
Pip:
Now I'm very screwed up.
Wemmick, you remember you called this housekeeper
a wild beast tamed...
Wemmick:
I did.
Pip:
How did Mr. Jaggers tamed her?
Wemmick:
It's his business.
You ask me my Walworth capacity?
Pip:
Of course.
Wemmick:
Twenty or more years ago she was tried at the
Old Bailey for murder and acquitted. Jaggers
was for her.
Pip:
Who was murdered?
Wemmick:
Another woman. Strangled.
You have seen those wrists.
Pip:
Jaggers made a spectacle of them.
Wemmick:
The housekeeper who was married over the
broomstick to a tramping man. She was said
a perfect fury in point of jealousy, so jealous
she gave up a young child after acquittal to
revenge herself upon unfaithful husband.
Pip:
The child adopted by whom?
Wemmick:
I don't know of it, Mr. Pip.
Anyway, Jaggers was not too many for the jury
raised a technicality and they gave in.
Pip:
You know the sex of the child?
Wemmick:
Said it's been a girl.
EXT. DRUMMLE'S HOUSE. NIGHT
Maid:
I'm afraid Mrs. Drummle does not wish to
receive visitors at this moment.
Pip:
But you told her my name?
Maid:
Yes, sir.
INT. AT MISS HAVISHAM'S. DAY
(the manor house appears to be ruins)
Miss Havisham:
Is it real?
Pip:
Do you feel the heat of this flame, Miss
Havisham? Then it is real.
Whose child was Estella?
You don't know or you don't want to say?
I know her mother. I know the story of her
mother. Her name is Molly and she is Jaggers'
housekeeper. He brought the child of her
broken marriage here to you. Why?
Miss Havisham:
I told him I wanted a little girl to rear
in love. And he was charged with arranging
it.
Pip:
And Jaggers saving her from the life of what?
Punishment? Neglect? Crime? And for the want
of nourishment? No longer to be deprived and
be devil? So he brings her to a place more
blighted than she could never grown up
naturally.
Miss Havisham:
I meant to save her from misery like my own.
Pip:
But instead she was taught it.
Miss Havisham:
I'm sorry. Look what I've done to you.
Pip:
An apology may be enough for me. To compare
to Estella, I am easily recompensed.
Miss Havisham:
Yes. Yes. Mr. Jaggers informs me that you
are someone of a benefactor to Herbert Pocket,
but are unable to complete the services.
Pip:
He freely told you my business?
Miss Havisham:
I wished to know it.
Pip:
Why?
Miss Havisham:
How much is required to complete the service?
Pip:
900 pounds.
Miss Havisham:
This is my imperative for you to receive that
money. And to yourself...
Pip:
Who I am for God's sake that I should be kind?
Your words to me on the delusions I have been
harbouring all these years. And now your own
have come to pass. Do you know how Estella
feels?
Miss Havisham:
She's in Mayfair.
Pip:
You are a stranger now, but I have seen her
lately. And I can report to you that she is
used most cruelly by Mr. Bentley Drummle.
That she breaks no men's hearts, only her own.
That she reeks no revenge on men, but is
herself the subject of her own husband's
disrespect and cowardice as you were, Miss
Havisham. As you were.
Miss Havisham:
No. It can't be true.
Pip:
The lessons went wrong, Miss Havisham.
She feels nothing as you wished. Except
she also feels nothing for herself.
The creature you hoped to nurture is gone
and lost to you. The woman who now so
resembles you is also lost to you. You
have nothing.
Miss Havisham:
What... would you have me do?
(Pip leaves)
Miss Havisham:
Pip? Pip?
(a great flaming light springs up)
(Miss Havisham is in a mass of flames)
Pip:
Help me! Help me!
Estella!
EXT. NEAR JOE'S HOUSE. DAY
Pip:
What do you want?
Orlick:
I only want to ask after Miss Havisham.
One of her servants gave it out she was burned
all over.
Pip:
She is lucky to survive.
Orlick:
I heard you played your part anyways.
Pip:
You're in my way.
Orlick:
And you are always in my way. Ever since
you was a child. But you goes out of my way
this present day. I know no more of you.
You're dead.
Pip:
What have I done to you?
Orlick:
Everything. You cost me my place in the house.
Pip:
I could let you stay there.
Orlick:
You cost me my living.
And now it would be enough, without more.
Pip:
What more?
Orlick:
You come between me and the woman I liked.
Pip:
Biddy?
Orlick:
You gave Orlick a bad name to her.
Pip:
You gave it to yourself.
You did yourself harm.
Orlick:
No! How dare you?
At the forge it was Orlick who was bullied
while you was favoured. And when I complained
then I was paid off there.
And you went up town to see your Miss Havisham.
Still, I came back. Oh, I came back, allright?
Pip:
You killed my sister.
Orlick:
Your doing. You did for her.
And now you're a gentleman and I can barely
earn a living.
Pip:
I am as wretched and hopeless as you would
never be.
Orlick:
You're a liar.
This is some... pleading. But Orlick won't
listen to it.
Pip:
My benefactor is a convict. A convict to die
hard from the rope. So I have a fortune which
can never enrich me. The woman I love is married
to someone else and I have no idea what is to
become of me. I'm already done for, Orlick.
I've nothing left except my life. And so I
would gladly let you take it. Take it.
Orlick:
You... enemy!
Pip:
Will you let me go? You could show mercy to me.
Orlick:
Aye. As to a poor beast.
You pray well to drive me out of this country.
Now you are to be out, though. You're not to
be favoured any more!
You are my equal now and I am yours, except
that I am more than yours because I let you
go. Yes. I am higher than you now, young
villain. I am higher than you!
INT. AT THE CHURCH. DAY
(the flock are singing hymns)
Pip:
I don't know why I did not see the likeness
before between Estella and her mother.
Molly, your housekeeper.
Jaggers:
So you think you know some of Estella's history,
Pip?
Pip:
I think I know it all. I know her father too.
(they come out of the church)
Pip:
Magwitch makes no claim here. He has absolutely
no knowledge of her existence. But I know
Molly harboured enough jealousy to kill another
woman for him and enough malice to deprive him
of his daughter too.
Jaggers:
I should remind you we still attend Miss
Havisham's funeral.
Pip:
Miss Havisham who had a fancy to bring up a
child, then engage to your services.
Miss Havisham to whom you sent Estella to be
saved once you deprived her of her natural
mother.
Jaggers:
Molly was facing the gallows. If you saw
the children I see daily... If you saw what
happened to them...
Pip:
I saw what happened to Estella.
Jaggers:
And whom are you certain to reveal the secret?
Estella is now married for money. Do you wish
to drag her back to disgrace after an escape
of 20 years?
Pip:
She is married to Drummle. I hardly call that
a redemption, her saving.
(Biddy comes up to them. Jaggers leaves)
Biddy:
We used to share those confidences, Pip.
Pip:
Which?
Biddy:
When you were troubled or unhappy.
Pip:
Am I now?
You know Miss Havisham was not my patron,
Biddy.
Biddy:
I have heard it.
Pip:
I cannot tell you the rest. Not yet.
Biddy:
I forgive you.
EXT. AT THE GRAVE. DAY
(the bell of the church is ringing)
Pip:
Drummle did not accompany you today?
Estella:
Mr. Drummle is with his horse today riding
hard in the country.
Pip:
He treats you well, I hope.
Estella:
He whips his horse. I'm spared in comparison.
Pip:
Estella...
Estella:
No, it's of no matter, Pip.
Only warm-blooded creatures feel pain.
Pip:
Estella, I found I'm more attached to you
than I could ever imagined.
Must wish me good fortune.
EXT. ON THE THAMES. NIGHT
Pip:
Where is he?
Herbert:
A few weeks ago you could not stand aside, Pip.
Now you cannot wait for him.
(Magwitch appears)
Herbert:
The day after tomorrow there are two steamers
coming off London. One for Hamburg, one for
Rotterdam. We raw out, hail the first and
do not get on board until we have a chance.
Magwitch:
We?
Pip:
I'm coming with you.
Magwitch:
Dear boy.
Pip:
There's nothing to keep me in London.
I have no idea what is to follow our going.
I have no idea what is to become of us.
Magwitch:
Then stick by me, dear boy. I'm used to such.
Pip:
Abel...
You look like the uncertain prince of Denmark.
Magwitch:
Thank you, dear boy.
EXT. ON THE THAMES. DAY
(Pip reads a book in Greek aloud)
Pip:
You want to know what it means?
Magwitch:
No, no.
Main thing is the foreign language.
You read me a foreign language, dear boy.
Pip:
Abel.
You spoke of having a child once.
Mind if I ask you the particulars?
Magwitch:
A daughter.
Her mother took her away.
Gave her up for adoption.
I've never seen her since.
I never shall.
I do wonder what have become of her.
I do wonder everyday.
(a guard boat stops to gaze at them but after
a while it leaves)
Pip:
You cold?
Magwitch:
I've been colder.
Herbert:
What was that?
Pip:
It's a boat yonder.
Magwitch:
We're being followed.
Herbert:
Pull in there.
Pip:
Hurry.
(the boat passes by)
Herbert:
That looks a comfortable home.
EXT. RIVERBANK. DAY
(the three wake up with a start)
Magwitch:
It looks like they're customs officers.
Look. There's no thought of us.
You're shivering, dear boy.
(they push a boat off)
(a steamer comes up)
Herbert:
Goodbye, sir.
Magwitch:
Goodbye.
Herbert:
Goodbye, Pip.
Pip:
Goodbye, Herbert.
Herbert:
Good luck.
Pip:
You ready?
Magwitch:
Trust me, dear boy.
Herbert:
Pip.
Police:
You have to
His name is
I apprehend
I call upon
with him.
Magwitch:
Compeyson. Take him down with me.
return the fugitive back.
Abel Magwitch.
that man.
him to surrender and you two
(Magwitch jumps on Compeyson)
(the steamer is on them)
Pip:
Abel!
(Pip dives into the river and saves Magwitch)
Herbert:
Pip!
INT. THE COURT. DAY
Judge:
But in a fatal moment, you clinged to those
propensities and passions the holds of which
so long rendered him a scourge to society.
He has left his heaven of rest and repentance
and come back to the country where he was
proscribed. The appointed punishment for his
return to the land which had cast him out
being death.
Pip:
He came here for my sake!
Judge:
His case being this aggravated case, he must
prepare himself to die.
Pip:
He came here for my sake!
INT. GARDEN-COURT. DAY
Herbert:
Have you thought about what you are to do?
Pip:
No.
Herbert:
In this branch-house of our, Pip, we must have
a... a...
Pip:
A clerk?
Herbert:
A clerk. And I hope it is not at all unlikely
that he may expand into a partner as I have.
Pip:
Perhaps you can leave the question open for
a while.
Herbert:
Of course.
Of course there are other priorities first
to look up to. Remember me to him.
Pip:
I shall. I hope you'll find Cairo agreeable.
Herbert:
I cannot put this off, Pip.
Pip:
Nor should you. Now go.
Herbert:
You will look after Clara while I have gone
off?
When I come back she and I will walk quietly
to the nearest church.
EXT. NEWGATE. DAY
Wemmick:
How is he?
Pip:
Less and less.
He's removed now to the infirmary.
Wemmick:
So bad job.
And I assure you I mean to cut off for long
time the sacrifice of so much portable property!
Pip:
Dear me! And the owner of such property?
Wemmick:
I know you are rather out of sorts, Mr. Pip,
but I hope you will remember the match for
the walk we agreed upon today. You can still
manage it, I hope.
(Pip and Wemmick are walking together)
Wemmick:
It will surely occupy you an hour or so.
I have taken a holiday today. I have not
done such a thing in last 12 months.
Halloa!
Halloa!
Halloa!
wedding.
INT. NEWGATE. DAY
Here's a church. Let's go in.
It's some gloves. Let's put them on.
Here's Miss Skiffins. Let's have a
Halloa! Here's a ring.
Pip:
Westminster Abbey was the scene, Abel.
My very good friend and one or two baronets
were the best men.
Gentlemen of the congregation including me,
all dressed alike. Black dress coat, silk
white necktie. These white gloves which I
bring you as a keepsake.
Magwitch:
I always knew you could be a gentleman.
Without me.
Pip:
I... I occupied one of the front pews, Abel.
And after the ecclesiastical splendor and
court service, we were entertained to a
wonderful breakfast and a military band.
And the wedding cake was nine feet high and
a foot deep. And such presents were displayed!
Rugs from Persia, the finest gold clocks.
Exquisite jewellery.
... Are you in great pain?
Magwitch:
I don't complain, but...
(Pip recites a poem in Greek)
Pip:
Would you let me give you something of what
it means?
"So he found his father alone
in a terraced vineyard,
taking about the plant.
He was clothed in filthy doublet,
patched and obscene.
Now, when Odiseus saw his father
thus wasted with age
and in great grief of heart,
he stood still beneath a tall pear tree
and let fall a tear."
He had returned to his own country, Abel.
You are my father now. And I love you.
(to the officer) He barely breathes now.
Officer:
Then you may not go yet.
Pip:
His daughter is a Lady, you know.
She is married to an heir but one to a baronet.
I know her very well. He did not know her at
all.
INT. GARDEN-COURT. DAY
(to underlet his rooms Pip puts bills up in
the windows)
(Pip is sleeping)
(two men appears)
Pip:
Are you real?
Officer:
Well, we come from the door.
Pip:
What do you want? I don't know you.
Officer:
Well, sir. This is a matter you'll soon arrange
on doing, sir. You're arrested.
Pip:
What is the debt?
Officer:
L123,156. A tailor's account, I think.
Pip:
What is to be done?
Officer:
You better come to my house.
I keep a very nice house.
(the other officer puts handcuffs on Pip)
INT. PRISON. DAY
Officer:
Let see your face. Up.
Pip:
This is where I've got to, Joe.
Joe:
The news reported me before the letter.
I said to Biddy that you might be... amongst
strangers.
Pip:
They are not so strange, Joe.
Joe:
Biddy's word were, 'Go to him, without loss
of time.'
Officer:
Your receipt. The debt of the costs.
Pip:
You paid them all.
Joe:
I have saved, Pip.
And it was better spared on you than anyone.
EXT. THE VILLAGE. DAY
Biddy:
Start to wipe your slates, please, everybody.
That's it. I know you've just done that.
That's all for today. Thank you very much.
You may now leave. Quietly on the way out.
See you tomorrow.
Pip:
I have tried to talk to Joe about my true
benefactor. He tells me not to pass...
Biddy:
Unnecessary subjects.
Pip:
I thought it might be you who advised him.
Biddy:
I considered it might be painful to you.
Pip:
Always such tact.
And sweet kindness.
Biddy:
What should you do now?
Pip:
Try some different occupation hereabouts.
Or go to Cairo.
Biddy:
Such a distant place.
Pip:
An opportunity awaits for me there.
Biddy:
But you cannot decide?
Pip:
It all rests with you, Biddy.
Until I know your answer.
I think you wants like me very well.
And even when my heart strayed away from you,
it was quieter and better with you than it has
ever been since.
Biddy:
Pip.
Pip:
And if you could like me only half as well
once more, if you could take me with all the
disappointments on my head, I should hope I
am a little worthier of you now than I was.
So please, Biddy. Tell me if you will go
through the world with me. Make it a better
world for me as I would try to make it a
better world for you.
Biddy:
Joe. They shall be very well.
While I advised him not to speak of some
subjects to you, I hoped he would speak to
you of this one.
Joe:
Our wedding day. Biddy has agreed to marry
me. Astonishing, eh?
Biddy:
It's to be a simple ceremony. Joe had been
saving for it but there were more urgent
expenses to be attended to.
Pip:
You shall make each other as happy as you
deserve to be. You are the best people in
the world.
EXT. AT MISS HAVISHAM'S. DAY
(Pip climbs up the front gate)
Maid:
Now, then...
Pip:
I'm Pip. Come to play.
Maid:
What do you want?
Pip:
To look around the place and then perhaps
raze it to the ground. Save it exactly the
trouble of pulling it down.
Maid:
This house is lived in.
(the maid gestures at the upstairs window)
(Estella is standing)
Estella:
Miss Havisham left the house to me.
And thus I'm now separated from Mr Drummle...
Pip:
You came home.
Estella:
There.
That's done. A letter to Mr. Jaggers in the
matter of my separation.
Pip:
He advises you?
Estella:
There is the benefit of continuity.
Pip:
You wish continuity?
Estella:
You see, I have made many changes in the way
of decoration, Pip.
Pip:
You know I must look for a trade now.
Estella:
I have heard it.
Pip:
I have no idea how I shall go on in the world.
And you, Estella?
Estella:
Oh, I shall do well enough.
Pip:
Alone? Here?
Still mindful of her lessons?
Or is the greater difference between your face
that you received and maintenent payments for
the man who used you so cruelly?
And shall the Pockets visit you on your birthday?
And shall a boy from the village be sent to
entertain you and divert you from your solitude?
Tell me you are as happy as I had been, Estella.
Tell me that Drummle made you suffer and you
are suffering still. Tell me.
(she is moved to tears)
Pip:
Now you know what my heart has been.
(they kiss each other)
Estella:
No... No. We cannot do this.
Pip:
No.
... I should go.
Estella:
Go where?
Do we have to part again simply because we
cannot... act on our love for each other?
Do we have to be deprived of our company too?
(they begin to play cards)
Pip:
Now, is there a knave or a jack?
For I wish not to be laughed at.
Estella:
Call it what you will.
Pip:
Oh, I shall.
Estella:
When you visit me next, you should send word
if you intend to come. Otherwise I may be out.
Or simply too busy.
Pip:
It's impossible to say when I shall next be
here. I have to work for a living.
(Estella laughs)
THE END