:05:02
If the change you see in me,
from so long ago, does not move you...
:05:05
It does not.
:05:06
...then let the knowledge that I am
as helpless and destitute as a child.
:05:10
- Any man can earn his bread.
- How?
:05:14
Would you show me the means?
:05:16
I did, once.
:05:19
Not again.
:05:20
It's 20 years and 5 months
since you and I fell out.
:05:24
Do you remember the cause?
:05:26
You claimed part of the profits
of some of my business...
:05:29
alleging that you had brought it to me.
When I refused you...
:05:32
you threatened to reveal some...
What was it you said?
:05:35
Hold I'd gained over you in your absence.
:05:37
Rifling through my files, I suspect.
:05:40
So I had you arrested
for an advance you had not repaid.
:05:43
£30. That's all I owed you.
:05:46
Indeed, it was more.
:05:48
There was the interest.
:05:51
Seven years I have been gone,
under the most crushing conditions...
:05:55
to return as you see me now,
ready to renew my offer...
:05:58
but on terms much easier for you
than before.
:06:02
You will want this information.
I want only to eat and drink.
:06:07
Is that all?
:06:09
It depends on you whether that's all or not.
:06:14
Are you threatening now to tell others...
:06:17
of whatever you learned
when you were my clerk?
:06:21
To be plain with you, Mr. Brooker...
:06:24
the world already knows
what sort of man I am...
:06:28
and I do not grow poorer.
:06:31
- You cannot stain a black coat.
- That's not what I meant.
:06:35
Are those of your own name dear to you?
If they are...
:06:38
They are not.
:06:39
- But...
- But nothing.
:06:40
If we meet again...
:06:41
and you so much as notice me
with one begging gesture...
:06:44
you shall see the inside of a jail once more.
:06:49
That is my answer to your trash.
:06:56
Mother...
:06:58
this is Smike.
:06:59
- How do you do, Mr. Pike?
- No, Mother, "Smike," with an "S."