Dr. Manette: (on knees to Darnay) Please forgive me! I meant no harm! Please, I am sorry!
Darnay: “No, no! What have you done...that you should kneel to us! We know now, what a struggle you made of old. We know now, what you have underwent when you suspected my descent, and when you knew it. We know now, the nayural antipathy you strove against, and conquered, for her dear sake. We thank you with all our hearts, and all our love and duty. Heaven be with you!” (A Tale of Two Cities )
Reporter: Seems as though Darnay is displaying his good character by not blaming Dr. Manette for his death.
(Darney is pulled away to his cell)
Dr. Manette, Dr. Manette, may I speak with you a moment.
Dr. Manette: (walks to reporter mournfully)
Reporter: Why were you apologizing just a moment ago to Darnay, who is sentenced to execution?
Dr. Manette: 36 years ago, Darnay’s father and uncle, the Evremonde twins, as you know, raped a young girl and murdered her husband.
(reporter and doctor pause and scene is acted out slowly and silently)
I was ordered to come and care for the girl and her brother before they died, and knowing the twins were criminals responsible for the atrocities, I wrote a letter to the Minister explaining what they had done. The next day, Darnay’s mother (one of the twin’s wives) kindly came to my door, wondering if I knew where the rape victims sister was, because she had apparently been hidden where the Evremondes could not find her.
Reporter: So you suspect that the brother’s were aware you knew they were guilty?
Dr. Manettet: Most certainly. Unfortunately, I did not know where the girl was, and they next day I was taken and imprisoned in the Bastille under the Evremondes’ orders.
Reporter: How, then, are you associated with Darnay’s execution tomorrow morning?
Dr. Manette: It was my account written in the Bastille of the murders that was found and used to implicate Darnay’s father and uncle.
Reporter: Here at the scene is also Darnay’s child and close family friend, lawyer Sydney Carton.
(camera moves to Lucie and Sydney)
Lucie: (speaking to Sydney) Please, Please, can’t you do something to save my father?
Sydney: (bends down and kisses her on the head) A life you love...