You couldn't have picked
something more difficult.
- You said you're the bloody best.
- And I am.
But that's the devil's own crib.
I've watched it three days. Look there.
You have to get past those crushers,
then up those stairs in plain sight.
Then into that crib. Anybody can see you.
Bloody silly.
Invitation to prison, that place is.
What's your pogue up there?
Two Chubb keys in that green cupboard.
What might they be, them keys?
Two keys that I happen to want.
We're partners, aren't we?
If you're trying to say
that you don't trust me completely...
I don't trust you at all.
Good.
We've been gulling banksmen,
now we're in a railway station.
What's in a station? Trains is in a...
Mother of God!
You're after the Crimean g...
Trying to rob a moving train -
it can't be done.
Why not?
- It hasn't been done, has it?
- No.
Crimean gold. Mother of God.
That's Ј25,000, isn't it?
A big shipment, isn't it? 25,000 quid.
- Mother of God!
- Are you ready to go in?
Am I... Yes.
Where's the chavy?
There.
He's your son.
I don't have no son.
Louisa says he's your son.
She wouldn't know. Is that him?
He's not my son.
He's too ugly to be my son.
So what's the sweetener?
A guinea.
Well, if he is my son, he'll be worth it.
Are we ready?
- Oh, Geoffrey! I've been robbed.
- Stop thief! Stop that boy.
Somebody stop him.
Police! Stop that boy.
Stop thief! Stop that boy.
I've got him!
- Stop that boy. He's a thief.
- What's going on?
Oh, I'm sorry.
Take that!
Are you all right?
Under. After him.
Get off!
Oh, my dear chap.
Awfully sorry. Are you all right?
Gotcha!
Well done. And thank you, gentlemen.
Damn thieves. They're everywhere.
- Did you wax them?
- Not a prayer. Not a bloody prayer.
Never crack that crib.
- Not in daylight.
- I said it was impossible.
What about night?
I've marked this crib
for three nights running.
There's a jack at the top of the stairs
all night long.
He talks to the constable making his
rounds - but he doesn't leave his post.
Then at two o'clock
he takes his tightener.
And right at 2.30 he goes off
to relieve himself from his bottle of beer.
And that's when I time him.
I time him from when he goes off
to when he comes back.
And it's been the same - three nights
running. A very regular bloke, is this jack.
75 seconds.
It's a coopered ken.
You say you're the fastest screwsman
in the country. Well, here's a challenge.
Challenge? 75 seconds for two keys?
It's nigh impossible.
What if a snakesman comes over the roof
and cracks it from the inside?
What snakesman's to break that drum?
Nobody good enough is out.
The best is Clean Willy and he's in.
- Where's he in?
- Newgate Prison.
And there's no escaping that.
Only Willy can climb that.
Shame he's in Newgate.
No, guv, don't cut me. I'm goin'.
Hello, dearie. Comin' in for a good time?
You won't be sorry.
What's it to be, guv?
Bit of a tickle for you?
You dab it up with Clean Willy
the snakesman, right?
I did. He's in Newgate now.
You visit?
I do now and again.
I visits as his sister, see?
There's another of those
if you can downy him a message.
What's it to be?
- Tell Willy to break at the next topping.
- There's no breaks from Newgate.
Tell him he breaks at the next topping
or he's not Clean Willy.
Tell him to go to the house
where he first met John Simms.
John Simms.
Are you John Simms?
Oh, my! I think I'm going to die.
Fine day for a hanging.
Do you really think he'll make it?
- Did you bring the trimmings?
- It's all here.
- Medicine?
- Everything.
- Do you want some cold chicken?
- No.
Willy's the best snakesman there is -
but he can't get out of there.
Dearly beloved,
wonder not if the world hate you.
We know that we have passed from death
to life because we love the brethren.
He that loveth not abideth in death.
Whosoever hateth his brother
is a murderer.
And you know that no murderer
hath eternal life abiding in himself.
In this we