01x05 - Episode 5

[bunniefuu]

[Peggy] Welcome to West

London Boxing Club.

Prove to me your mettle in the ring, and

I'll introduce you to the right people.

The judges have awarded the

contest to Mr Hezekiah Moscow.

Yes! Yes!

I rising in this world.

If you men have a score to

settle, do it within the rules.

[Peggy] I believe you've got what

it takes to fight for me out West.

And that's where

Hezekiah will be.

Tell me what Mary Carr

want with Hezekiah.

She want a f*ck.

We are f*cking on.

Robbing the Queen and the

Chinese Emperor is risky enough,

but it's the Elephant

Boys that I really fear.

My participation in Mary's

criminal scheme tonight,

it's about a certain

species of closure.

Your Excellency, I

humbly present this gift.

[jeweller] This is a

royal silver collection,

finest in the land.

I challenge you to

a contest right now.

- Let's fight.

- [clamouring]

Now.

- [screams]

- [minister grunts]

[Esme] Here he is, the

man with our fortune.

[chuckles]

[Mary] All right, Charlie,

is that our silver?

If you can call it that.

It wasn't melting properly in the

furnace. Most of it wasn't melting at all.

Your silver just burned.

Yeah, because it's not

real f*cking silver.

What are you going on about?

[Eliza] It's silver-plated.

[sighs] I can't believe this.

So was this all a waste of time?

Biggest gamble we've ever taken.

- Yeah, and we've f*ck all to show for it.

- Apart from the one dead body.

We're gonna hang for it, and that's if

the Elephant Boys don't get to us first.

f*ck.

Indigo Jeremy's gonna be

f*cking furious, and Jane

Don't you dare mention her name!

Have you any idea what

you've gotten us into?

No, I don't! I

don't know, Eliza,

why don't you tell me because

you are f*cking dying to.

Go on, go on.

Actually, no, why don't you take the

lead because you crave it so much?

You've finished us,

Mary, and you know it.

Well, I'm not like you, Eliza.

I see solutions where

you see problems,

so shut your f*cking

mouth and let me think.

I can't believe it.

Mary come with your money yet?

Wanti wanti, nuh

getti getti. Relax.

[scoffs] You

telling me to relax,

the man whose eyes has been wide

like a potoo since the robbery.

Why you talk so loud?

When you gonna admit

you get conned?

How long now since

you hear from Mary?

[scoffs]

Esme come here later, you know.

Can ask her about your money.

[messenger] Hezekiah Moscow! I've

been sent by the Earl of Lonsdale!

Is who that now?

That is business, brother.

Come.

[door opens]

Good morning, milady.

These came for you this morning.

I'll read them in time.

I saw you leaving with

them, the thieves.

I must admit, apart from the m*rder, I

was impressed by how cunning it all was.

But now they're

coming for you all.

Why are you telling me all this?

To give you a chance to run.

You've brought shame and death on my

home, and for that you will hang, girl.

But it won't be

on my conscience.

Now you get out of my sight. I

never want to lay eyes on you again.

[bell dings]

[sighs]

Thank you for seeing me.

What's so urgent we had

to meet in this sh*thole?

[pedestrians chattering]

Oh, madam,

I wondered if you knew where I might find

the proprietor of this establishment,

a Mr Lao Lam, is it?

Oh, uh, Lao is indisposed,

but you can speak with me.

Ah, a shame.

I'd have liked to speak

with Mr Lao personally,

but you will certainly

do, Mary Carr.

I have been itching to meet the woman

who's been masquerading as Lady Farnley

a woman who died in

Ceylon six months ago.

Please, if you don't mind releasing the

hilt of that dagger beneath your dress.

I'm well aware of how

the Forty Elephants work.

Since you walked to this building,

Miss Carr, you passed seven men,

all in disguise, all with orders

to blow this building sky-high

should I fail to walk out of

it in the next five minutes.

What do you want with me?

I am looking for Lao

and as of now, so are you.

The Crown have endeavoured to

cover up the heist for now.

- The silver's of little value.

- You mean fake.

What matters now

is bringing to the gallows the

m*rder*r of a foreign dignitary.

It would be very easy for me

to pin both the stolen silver

and this m*rder on

you and your girls.

You think you've

got me, don't ya?

Yes.

I do hope to hear

from you soon, Mary.

[Treacle] Mary's resurfaced.

Charlie told me she's in trouble.

I should go and find her.

No. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

You focus on the here

and now, the West End.

Get in there and prove that we

Goodsons deserve to be here.

Whatever business Mary has got herself

into, let her f*cking deal with it.

Is Peggy a fool, or is he

just trying to taunt me?

[Earl] Pleased to

meet you. Follow me.

It's just a meeting, Sugar.

It's a f*cking farce.

Come on.

[Treacle] Come on, Sugar!

- [bell dings]

- Watch your body, Jem.

Now jump on him! Jump on him!

[spectators clamour]

No, back, back! He's done.

That's it, Sugar.

Tonight's contest between

Henry Goodson and Jem Cummings

- has been awarded to Henry Goodson

- [Treacle] Come on!

[ring announcer] by virtue

of a first round knockout.

- [sparse applause]

- [whistling]

- [spectator] beastly.

- [referee] Right. You all right, mate?

f*ck off.

May I introduce my companion?

This is John Douglas, the

ninth Marquess of Queensberry,

patron of the West

London Boxing Club,

and he's a champion of the new

school of boxing in the West End.

So this is the famous African who

put you on your arse, Lonsdale, huh?

Yeah, well, Hezekiah's

Jamaican. [scoffs]

Just why are we here?

Because I wish to sharpen my axe against

the trees in your garden, my lords,

with the aim of taking

down the biggest tree

of them all.

[inhales sharply] Funny.

- Buster Williams?

- [chuckles]

World championship bout

with the Brooklyn Gent.

- That's what you're proposing?

- Yes.

You have promise, Hezekiah,

but this, this is madness.

Americans are the best fighters

in the world, and of that stock,

Buster Williams is

the best of the lot.

Then it should be

a good fight, no?

That's if he even agrees to fight

a Black, which is highly unlikely.

Look, I want to beat the whole

world with your backing, sir.

And if I wasting my time, tell me

now and that'll be the end of it.

But I will find a way

into your West End rings,

and I will perform sweet

science on this Brooklyn Gent.

To fight the Brooklyn

Gent, you need attention,

so you make more noise in the

ring, even more noise in the press.

We'd need to move

quickly, set up fights.

Your first could be in,

I don't know, three days?

That's a good way

to go about it.

But what about money?

[Earl] That'd be a formality.

Coin is, uh, guaranteed

with my backing,

and brokers will fund the bouts

if Queensberry approaches them.

[breathes deeply]

Do you truly believe you

can be World Champion?

[chuckles]

I have never believed

in anything more.

[Alec] There.

[Alec] Come on, Hezekiah!

Eh, you think you can

beat buckra man like that?

Three nights is all you have, and

your opponent won't be slapping you.

- You understand?

- Yeah, man, we go again.

- You need fi calm down.

- Don't tell me fi calm down, come.

Me can't teach you now

when you like this!

You have all the

talent in the world!

But without the

discipline, you is nothing!

Don't waste my time, Hezekiah.

Me done give up

everything for you.

[panting]

Yo, Alec.

- I mean

- Just leave it, man.

No, you're right.

Me sorry.

Hezekiah,

me don't waan you fi be sorry.

I waan you fi be great.

It's opportunities like dis we used

to dream 'bout for real ya know.

Me always knew you

would end up there.

Me just never think me

would have to stand aside.

We stand side by side,

brother, and we always will.

It's not Hezekiah or Alec,

it's Hezekiah and Alec.

Always, huh?

And them will see

that, you hear me?

- [pedestrians chattering]

- [horse neighs]

My eyes must be

playing tricks on me.

[chuckles]

Mary, is that you?

Now where the hell you been?

Keeping a low profile to

keep the law off my scent.

You promise him

£200. Where it deh?

We have a problem.

[sucks teeth]

Mr Lao.

Yeah, I know what him do.

[Mary] Then you'll know the

whole world is after him.

Police, spies,

the very monarchy.

They're willing to turn a blind

eye to our heist if we give him up.

Have you seen him?

No.

I know you have loyalties to

him, but if you know something,

Hezekiah, I need you to tell me.

I don't know anything.

[Mary] There's still

enough time to save him.

If you tell me now,

we can help him together.

Mary, I haven't seen the man.

Pray I find him before they do.

[sighs]

Look pon you, man.

Dem soon hear about

you back home,

and dem a gonna shout "Hezekiah Moscow"

from the top of the Blue Mountains.

Dem gonna shout yours, too. Hmm?

Me nuh really want

talk 'bout that.

Me just want you and Esme

fi see me fight properly.

[Earl] Good day! Good day!

Are you ready?

Ta-da!

[laughs]

[Hezekiah] Wah this? A

jungle background that?

[Earl] Yes, and the

press will eat it up.

I really wanted to, you know,

capture the essence of Hezekiah.

Capture the what?

Hey, no worry. I will do

my talking in the ring.

- [photographer speaks indistinctly]

- [Earl] It's this jungle essence.

[photographer, Earl

speaking indistinctly]

When you're ready, sir.

One, two, three, four, five.

[Alec] That's it, that's it!

That's it! That's it!

- [shushes]

- Move from here.

[crowd gasps]

[laughs] Come on, Zulu, you

haven't landed one punch on me yet.

I heard them call you

the Transvaal boar,

but you're more ugly than

any pig I've ever seen.

Gentlemen, silence.

I came here to tame lions,

and they gave me a wild boar.

Well, I miss the taste of jerk

pork, so come now, Sir Boar!

[referee] Back, back, hey!

One, two, three, four,

five, six, seven,

eight, nine, ten.

Remember this day,

and spread the word that

Hezekiah Moscow is here to stay.

- I like it!

- [spectators cheer]

- [bell dings]

- [referee] Fighters ready?

Come together.

Touch gloves. Fight.

- Gwaan!

- Oh!

[spectators applauding]

[cheering]

One, two, three,

- four, five

- [bell dings]

six, seven

- [bell dings]

- [shouts]

[bell dings]

[Earl] Yes!

Sugar!

Pleasure as always.

You said if I came up West,

I'd have Hezekiah on a platter,

so why am I still out

here in the f*cking cold

on a Thursday while

he's doing this?

[clicks tongue]

Sugar, I'm gonna

be honest with you.

There's been a whole change of plan

with the you versus Hezekiah thing.

We all agree that it would be

best for all of us, for now,

to keep you and Hezekiah apart.

Influential men are now invested

in Hezekiah's continued successes

in our rings.

Having you injure him,

perhaps even k*ll him,

well, they can't have that.

Don't worry. You'll continue to

be well paid for your fights.

Treacle understands, and

I'm sure you do as well,

being the sensible

man that you are.

[Sugar breathing heavily]

[breathes deeply]

[exclaiming]

[spectator] Come on, Billy

boy! Finish off the b*stard!

[spectators cheer]

One, two,

three, four

- Sugar, get up. Get up.

- [referee] five,

six, seven

[grunts]

- [referee] eight

- [Treacle] Sugar, what are you doing?

nine.

Oi!

- [groans]

- [spectators clamour]

[referee] Whoa, whoa,

whoa, whoa, whoa, stop!

Get off him!

Don't you ever touch

me. Do you understand?

Get an usher!

Someone get an usher!

[screams]

[referee] No, no, no, no, no!

Break it up!

- [skin tearing]

- [Billy screaming]

Sugar!

[screaming continues]

Get out! Get out.

Get out, Sugar. Get out now!

Get onto the street

where you belong.

I don't ever want to see you

here again, you little rat!

Get out of here now!

Get out of here!

Lunatic!

Doctor!

Give him space, give him space!

[footsteps approaching]

[door opens]

So the stories of you taking over The

Green Dolphin are true then, I see.

Sleeping here with the

scum of the East End.

What the hell are

you doing here?

You should watch

your tone with me.

I'm the only ally you

have left in the world.

I warned you, Mary,

and so did your girls.

Eliza, she asked to see me.

Sharp thinker that one. I always

said she had brains to be Queen.

Look at me when

I'm talking to ya.

There will be consequences.

You know that, don't you?

You've damaged our reputation,

and now the Elephant Boys want

to bring you back to heel.

I don't need you here

telling me the obvious.

You should be dropping to your knees

and thanking me for even being here.

You know what Indigo

is capable of.

Fall in line, surrender your

power to them and come home,

or they will retaliate

and punish you.

I see the c*ck coward, Indigo Jeremy,

has turned you into his messenger.

This is a warning from me, Mary!

Things were fine as they were!

- My ambition is to make

- Ambition?

Is that what you call it?

No, child, this is stupidity.

[sniffles]

[sniffles]

You know, I thought

I taught you well,

but you truly are your

father's daughter, aren't you?

He turned everything

he touched to ash too.

There he is

in those eyes.

Failure in one,

disappointment in the other.

Me and him dared to dream

and that's why you hate us.

Hate you?

[sighs]

What makes you think

I have time for that?

[door closes]

Hezekiah.

I hear that you may

have some bars for me.

Will I be disappointed?

Here.

I trust this will be enough to

purchase your continued silence

and Mr Lao's protection?

Mmm, oh, for sure.

Take me to him.

Mr Lao?

Hezekiah.

[sighs] Are you well?

I live

for how long remains to be seen.

How long do you plan

on keeping me here?

Do you think the world

will forget what I did?

No, the world won't

forget what you did.

But I won't let them

take you either.

We all carry sin.

Atonement is the tonic for sins.

And if they hang you, what

atonement is that, hmm?

You believe you deserve death,

but I've tasted death, Mr Lao,

and I can tell you that

life is much sweeter.

So let me help you to live.

[vendor shouting]

Hey. What's that say?

"Treacle Goodson takes

the West End", sir.

Treacle?

Not Sugar?

You sure?

Esme?

Wah this?

Mary's told us to be on guard and

watch for strange men tonight.

Mary? Is she here?

Yeah, Queen's in her quarters.

Go to her, Hezekiah. I'll take good

care of this one while you're gone.

Did you miss me?

- How you look so sweet?

- [chuckles]

Mary?

What's going on?

Who's coming here tonight?

Hez, if you know

where Lao is, tell me.

Look, why we cyaan just

leave the man alone, hmm?

You know him as well as I, Mary, and

I know you can see he's not a bad man.

What I know is that the police are being

aided by agents of the Crown to find him.

What I know is that

the Elephant Boys

are trying to tear down

everything I have built.

And what I know, Hezekiah, is that

tomorrow I miss the deadline to find Lao,

and for that, there

will be punishment.

- What are you going to do with that?

- Why are you here?

'Cause you shouldn't be alone.

Whatever is coming, right?

Who Whoever, I want

to be by your side.

Why? Why? Why do you fight for

people who are nothing to ya?

Why?

I never knew

kindness in this city

till I met Mr Lao

and I never knew strength

till I met you.

As long as I'm here,

you don't have to be scared.

I see you, Mary.

There's nothing to see.

[chuckles]

Well, I see you're

a dreamer like me.

I see that you waan more than

the world says you can have.

There's nothing you can show

me that can scare me away.

[spectators clamouring]

[contender retches]

Yes! Go on, Sugar!

Sugar f*cking Goodson,

ladies and gentlemen!

Reforged and reborn from his trials

in the fires of the West End.

Where is he?

Where's my brother?

The f*cking Judas.

Everyone here, hear

this and hear it good.

For the crime of

betraying his brother,

Treacle Goodson will

be barred from this pub

for the rest of

his f*cking life.

Charlie.

[spectators murmuring]

[cheering]

[spectators chanting]

Sugar! Sugar! Sugar!

[breathes shakily]

That will never happen again.

I dropped my guard,

and you can't protect

me from what's coming,

so I need to protect myself.

Where you going?

Out. I need to think.

Is this Jack Mac's?

No, man, it's freshly

brewed gin. [scoffs]

A gift.

[door opens, closes]

This is it. Be ready, boys.

Cover all the sides.

Down there.

[officer] Don't move!

- Oh, come here!

- [Lao] All right.

[officer] Come on!

Lao Lam

I'm so pleased to

finally meet you.

Take him.

[officer] Come on then, move.

Keep walking.

[knocks on door]

[Mary] Sugar, it's me.

You gonna let me in?

I'll, uh, make this

quick. I see you're busy.

I need to know I

have your support.

Why?

I have angered

the Elephant g*ng,

and the rumblings are they

wish to make an example of me.

And you need me to save you,

Mary Carr?

You've always had my support,

but you'd have my total

protection if you marry me.

It would make sense.

With the union of

Goodson and Carr,

you you'd be

forever protected.

No one would threaten you

if you wielded my name,

not even Indigo Jeremy.

And in time, one day

we could raise a family.

There are plenty of lost little

souls out there that need a home.

No.

Is there someone else?

- No.

- Don't lie to me.

I saw him last

night in your room.

It's him, isn't it, between us?

Do you have feelings

for that man?

- No.

- I don't believe ya.

Well, I can't tell

you what to believe.

You need me, Mary.

I can be more than just help.

I promise I can be more.

I thought you were

unable to love.

But the truth is, you're

just unable to love me.

[sniffles]

No protection for you here,

not for you or your Elephants.

See yourself out.

[sighs]

You'd better know what ya do with

this English woman, you hear me?

Don't worry about me, man.

If I don't, who will?

What you think, though?

Look good?

I think the bear would

like his skin back.

It's not bear, it's fox.

Oh.

You shouldn't wear

animal skin, you know?

An obeah man once told me that

the soul still live in them,

and one morning you just

[shouts] wake up

[normal] with the urge to run

on all fours and lick your ba*ls.

- [chuckles]

- And don't say me never warn you.

- You funny.

- Mmm.

Esme get it for me.

I'm meeting her after

your fight later.

Well, I tink you should

wear it to this

next week.

Hezekiah,

- is this

- And

I tink you should

invite Esme too.

You see, there's plenty, plenty room pon

the Blue Mountains for the two of us.

You ready for tonight?

Dis is for the trophy.

The man you're fighting fight

Buster to a stalemate once.

Well, there'll be no

stalemate tonight.

Hmm?

One will stand

the other will fall.

[concierge] Do you have your

tickets? Enjoy the fight.

My money is on the,

uh, heavyset

One, two [grunts]

No, it won't take long.

It was the seventh

[spectators cheering]

This is the clincher.

Hezekiah Moscow.

Step back, step back.

Ladies and gentlemen, I invite you all

to join us for tonight's exciting finale.

In this corner, we have, undefeated

in his last six contests,

Mr Arcadius Montclair.

- You good?

- Yeah, man.

And returning to us after a

series of impressive victories,

culminating in his latest

defeat over Jack Caesar,

fighting for our prestigious

club trophy, Mr Hezekiah Moscow!

Come on! Come on!

Seconds out!

Round one.

I've heard I've been barred from my

manor and wanted to see the truth.

Get 'em out, Punch.

Get 'em all out.

I had nothing to do with this.

Right, everyone out. Come

on. Pub's closed. Out.

Come on. I've got

you. Get out now.

You, up now! Let's go, come on,

come on. Put that down and get out!

Come on. Lively.

Johnny, get 'em out!

Hear him out, Sugar.

You've got some f*cking nerve.

And you've got no brain.

It was my chance,

my chance to get

rid of Hezekiah.

The only f*cking

reason I went up West.

But you took that

away from me, Treacle.

No, no, no, no, no.

- No, you.

- No.

I saved your life,

you f*cking idiot.

No, Sugar, come on.

Just listen to me for once.

You've let obsession ruin ya.

If I'd allowed you to fight

Hezekiah on the West End,

you'd have disgraced

yourself, win or lose

You don't know what

you're talking about.

Just move on from this

petty grudge please.

Sugar, please, I'm begging ya.

Boxing is changing

and you're not.

The West End was

the clever option.

You're getting old.

I want the name Goodson

to mean something,

but it won't if you keep on

acting the way you're acting

Look, he doesn't get

to just walk in here

and take everything I've

built, and neither do you.

Look, I protect this community,

and if I don't fight and

k*ll, then others will think

they can just come in here and

steal everything I've built as well.

And no one gets to take from

me and live, Treacle. No one.

Not you and especially

not f*cking him.

He's already taken it all, and

you're just too blind to see.

Hezekiah is making his

name on the biggest stages

while you're in here,

fighting drunk chancers,

still believing it makes

you a righteous man, yeah?

- Yeah.

- And you're angry,

you're angry at me for taking

your place in the ring.

Well, Hezekiah's taken it

all, and you just let him.

All you've got left is this dump

of a pub and your silly pride.

And as for Mary [stammers]

Yeah, f*ck it, I'll say it.

No wonder she's not

interested in ya.

[Treacle screaming]

[straining]

Stop!

Yes! Yes! Yes! [laughs]

[Sugar sobbing]

[referee] by

virtue of a knockout!

Next up, the Americans!

Come on!

It was two rounds. It's

a left and a right.

The champion, everyone.

Hezekiah Moscow.

[pedestrian] Hezekiah Moscow?

Who the f*ck waan fi know?

[grunts]

- [grunting]

- [pedestrian shouting]

[knife pierces]

Queensberry's intermediaries have been

liaising with Buster Williams' camp

on a stopover from Ireland.

They brought terms to his

trainer. It's one Jerry Knox.

And?

It was hard to get Buster to

fight someone like you, Hezekiah,

without certain concessions,

but convinced him, we have.

You have your fight.

Yes. [laughs]

[Peggy] He arrives in Liverpool

in little over a fortnight.

Will you be ready by then?

Oh, yes.

[chuckles]

Whoo!

[child] Mary Carr?

This is a gift to you

from the Elephant Boys.

On this knife is the

blood of your boxer.

Indigo Jeremy sends his regards.

[breathing shakily]

[sobbing]

[sobbing]

Esme. Esme. Shh, come

on. It's all right.

[sobbing]

Hey, wah happened?

Where's Alec?

Esme? Where's Alec?

He was attacked tonight.

Esme?

[panting]

[Esme] Someone stabbed him.

[stammers] I tried.

I tried but

[inhales deeply] the

blood was everywhere.

I couldn't He

squeezed my hand.

[sobbing]

I'm so sorry.

No.