1:03:01
- Leave me alone.
- Notary Hardenbrook.
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Leave me alone!
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As soon as you show me the last Will
and testament of old man Van Garrett.
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The Will leaves everything
to his son.
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Who died with him!
So the estate passes to the next of kin.
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Naturally.
All legal and above board.
1:03:19
Sir?
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I'm a dead man.
No, no.
1:03:27
Van Garrett's seal...
broken!
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Seems Van Garrett made a new Will
just before he died.
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Naming...
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Widow Winship?
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And here, look.
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- A marriage certificate.
- Aha!
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Old Van Garrett
secretly married the widow.
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Left everything to her
and her unborn child.
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So the new Will stood between
the Van Garrett fortune...
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and the person who would have
otherwise inherited everything.
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It's true. But we four were
drawn in against our Will!
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- Your Will?
- He means--
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Of course.
The four town elders.
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Now I see what parts
you had to play.
1:04:13
Reverend Steenwyck knew the secret
because he performed the marriage.
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Dr. Lancaster attended
the pregnant woman.
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Magistrate Philipse
gave protection of the law.
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And Notary Hardenbrook concealed
the documents,
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which had been entrusted by Van Garrett
to his faithful servant.
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The four conspirators
drawn into the plot.
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We did not know
it was a murdering plot.
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But I have not finished,
sir.
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First, the Van Garretts,
father and son, slain by a horseman...
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raised from the grave
to chop heads!
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Now, up pops a widow with a claim
on the fortune. Off with her head!
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But murder begets murder.
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It was the servant,
Jonathan Masbath.
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The night father and son
quarreled over the new Will,
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Jonathan Masbath was summoned
upstairs to bear witness.