Dodger

Well, Dawkins, have you finally learned your lesson?

Yes, master.

I'll never try to escape again.

Can I have my cards back?

Thanks.

The Jack of Hearts is missing.

No, it isn't.

Hang on, it's under your hat.

See?

How did you do that?

I'll show you for penny.

No, you won't.

MACHINES CLACK LOUDLY

Stop the machines!

MACHINES STOP WORKING

This is what a week in the hole looks like.

Let that be a lesson to any of you who attempt to run away

from my mill ever again.

Remember, I own you.

You are my property.

And Dawkins here is proof that there is no escape.

BOY GRUNTS

HE CHUCKLES

Get under there and collect any cotton wastage!

Watch him.

Boy!

Dawkins!

Dawkins!

Get back here.

Dawkins!

I smell you, Dawkins.

Dawkins.

Don't you dare.

You'll never survive the fall.

Dawkins!

INDISTINCT SHOUTING

Oi, break it up, break it up,

or I'll wallop you, get out of it.

You're barred, you're barred and you're barred.

Oi, what are you doing?

No begging on my doorstep, it's bad for business.

Is it done?

It's done.

Who was the hangman?

Was it Bowhouse?

Yeah.

Did Ruben see you? Did he know you were there for him?

This is your fault. You should have gone back for him.

The place was swarming with coppers, I told you that.

There weren't no way out.

I'm sorry, all right.

We've taken an 'it.

Ruben's dead, Tom's in the nick.

I've only got you two, it's not enough to survive.

We need building up again.

I'll need fresh blood.

I'll need a new one.

Yes, you find that boy.

You sniff him out.

DOGS BARK

MAN CALLS OUT

DAWKINS GRUNTS AND GROANS

I'm on to you.

No.

MAN GRUNTS

Uh!

You scared the living breakfast out of me.

Oh, I'll have that.

Come on! DOGS BARK

That's the end of the scent.

DAWKINS!

Get off me.

What are you doing?

Saving your legs.

Well, what idiot put out there? That could have took my foot off.

You shouldn't have been poaching, then, should you?

I wasn't poaching.

I swear on my life.

What's poaching?

If you're not a poacher, what are you?

My name's Jack, I'm from the cotton mill.

I'm running away.

Well, you'd better get out of here before my master finds you,

or he'll nab you for himself and you'll be toiling on this farm forever.

And you don't want that.

Yeah.

Right.

Thanks.

What's wrong with you?

Nothing, I'm good as gold.

Look at your feet, they're ripped to ribbons.

Where are your boots?

First rule of factory floor, no clog irons.

They can cause a spark if they hit metal,

and cotton dust can catch fire.

Charley.

Where are you? It's him. Hide.

Charley.

Hey, why aren't you at your post, you maggot?

A murder of crows could have eaten half my cobs, you lazy lummox.

I thought I heard a poacher, master.

You're here to scare the birds, not the poachers.

Now get back to your post before I peg your feet to the ground.

Yes, master, sorry, master. Will do.

TWIG CRACKS

What was that?

Woodpecker!

Right.

Thanks.

Still, can't hang around here gassing.

You're not going nowhere with trotters like that.

You'll get gangrene.

What's gangrene?

Your whole foot rots up, goes green, like snot, then drops off.

Mrs Grundles got it when she stepped on a rusty nail in the barn.

Don't get seen to in time.

What happened?

They chopped it off.

DAWKINS GRUNTS

All right.

Come on.

You'll be safe here for tonight.

I'll see if I can rustle up some grub and bandages.

Might not be for a bit.

We'll have to wait till they're all at kip.

Stay there and don't move, cos if he finds you,

I'll be the one to blame and we'll both be dead.

Oh, Fagin, I've done it.

I have found THE perfect boy.

OK, who is he?

HONKS

Come on.

This is... What's your name?

Nibbs.

We found him wandering the streets.

Are you having a laugh? He ain't even on solids.

Nah, he's brilliant, look. Show him your begging face.

See.

We ain't beggars. We work.

Put him back where you found him.

He's no good.

Here, Nibbs...

..have a parsnip.

Can't even catch.

THEY SING RAUCOUSLY # And if one green bottle

# Should accidentally fall

# There'll be... #

Oh, erm...

What number comes before three again?

Easy, one.

Aha, see, Aggie, our son is a mathematical genius.

# And if one green bottle should acc... #

No, that's not it.

There's a number between one and three.

Yeah, one.

I need some more moonshine.

Ah, with your moonshine, here.

Get this down your neck, Aggie.

This is Grundles' home distilled whisky.

80% proof.

It'll knock your noggin off.

I've done my day's work.

Oh, it's you.

You're late.

Right, there's some potato peeling soup for you in the scullery.

But first of all, you've to clean that kitchen,

the walls and the ceiling,

and your master's underwear needs boiling again.

He's had another little accident in them this morning.

Sh!

Well, hurry up, then.

# And if one green bottle

# Should accidentally fall

# There'll be no green bottles

# Hanging on that wall. #

BELCHES LOUDLY

That's my mum.

HE GRUNTS

GRUNTS

Can't sleep?

Do you want to see a card trick?

Here we go.

Three cards.

Keep your eye on the Queen.

Miss Piptree.

I don't want to go tomorrow.

Don't forget me.

SNORES

SNORES

Get up, get up. We haven't got much time.

Come on, get scraps, quick.

What's in this?

You don't want to know.

These are for you, too, they're about your size.

Clog irons!

Ah-ah!

Before you put them on, give us your feet.

What for?

You've got bits of glass and things in your foot,

you need to get them out.